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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2016
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2 years of airstrikes against Islamic State group have
redrawn Iraqi map but left destruction, displacement
BY SUSANNAH GEORGE
Associated Press
MAKHMOUR, Iraq — Two years ago, the U.S.led coalition launched the first airstrikes on the
Islamic State group, ushering in a deeper phase of
intervention that dramatically changed the fight
against the militant group in Iraq. Since then, more
than 9,400 coalition airstrikes have allowed Iraqi
forces to slowly claw back cities, towns, supply
lines and infrastructure.
But the fight — which continues to be largely waged
from the air — has also leveled entire neighborhoods,
displaced millions and redrawn the Iraqi map.
The U.S.-led coalition estimates that since the airstrikes began on Aug. 8, 2014, the Islamic State group
has lost more than 40 percent of the territory it once held
in Iraq. But while coalition airstrikes paved the way for
Kurdish and Iraqi ground forces to retake territory, in
many cases the result is a ruined prize.
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A family house lies in ruins
in Ramadi, Iraq, on March 20,
weeks after the city was retaken
from the Islamic State group.
Inset: A militant is seen
during airstrikes on an
Islamic State group convoy
in an aerial image made
from undated video released
by Iraq’s Ministry of Defense
on July 2.
AP photos
US: More military transparency needed in South China Sea
AND
BY GERRY SHIH
CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
QINGDAO, China — The response
from Beijing and others to an arbitration panel’s ruling invalidating China’s vast South China Sea maritime
claims has brought no surprises, but
much more military transparency
is needed to reduce tensions in the
Swift
region, the commander of the U.S.
Pacific Fleet said Tuesday.
Adm. Scott Swift also criticized
China-Russia joint naval exercises
planned next month in the South
China Sea, saying the choice of location was not conducive to “increasing the stability within the region.”
He also said any decision by China
to declare an air defense identification zone over the strategic water
body would be “very destabilizing
from a military perspective.”
Swift was visiting the northern
Chinese port of Qingdao as part of
efforts to build trust and understanding between the navies, now locked in
a protracted competition for primacy
in East Asia, where the U.S. has traditionally been the dominant power.
Attention has been fixed on the
South China Sea since the July 12
ruling by The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration in a case
brought by the Philippines. China
refused to participate in the case or
recognize the ruling, and strongly
criticized the U.S. for encouraging
its ally to pursue the matter.
Since then, Beijing has launched
air patrols over the South China Sea,
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MILITARY
Neller: Corps needs to be ‘reshaped’
BY COREY DICKSTEIN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — The U.S.
Marine Corps will adjust its force
structure in the near future as it
identifies gaps in capability and
technology that it could face in a
battle with a modern enemy, Marine Corps Commandant Gen.
Robert Neller said Tuesday.
The Corps in recent years has
made adjustments to the way
it trains and equips Marines to
prepare them to fight a nearpeer adversary, Neller said at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan Washington think tank. Additional
adjustments, including to the way
front-line units are structured,
will be necessary for the Marine
Corps to be prepared to face a
rival with similar capabilities,
such as Russia or China.
“We are going to reshape this
Marine Corps,” he said. “We aren’t
going to stay exactly the same because I don’t think we can. The
threats and the capabilities out
there are changing too fast, and
‘ We aren’t going to stay exactly the same
because I don’t think we can.
’
Gen. Robert Neller
Marine Corps commandant
we have to be able to survive on
the modern battlefield.”
The Marine Corps must expand its capabilities in cyber and
electronic warfare, he said, but it
also must increase its abilities to
counter threats it has not faced on
the battlefield since World War II,
such as defending against aerial
bombardment or advanced artillery systems.
The Corps has incorporated
enemy unmanned aerial systems
into training at Twentynine Palms,
Calif., where it has equipped the
opposing force with small drones
to gather intelligence on the unit
undergoing training. Other changes Marines could soon see, he said,
have not been decided.
Neller used the Marine Corps’
24 infantry battalions as an example of an organization that will
undergo some changes. There are
no plans to cut any of those units,
he said, but the Corps is studying
how they are organized to determine which capabilities need to be
expanded or added and which others should be cut or eliminated.
“What’s inside those individual
infantry battalions is going to be
a little bit different,” Neller said.
“Not fundamentally different, but
I’m not ready yet to say what exactly that is going to look like.”
For example, he said, the Marines might add an assistant squad
leader to infantry squads who
would be in charge of flying and
managing the unit’s small reconnaissance drones.
They are also considering how
to incorporate cyber warriors into
a maneuver battalion and whether
they can afford to scale back an
aspect like counterimprovised explosive device capabilities to make
room for the changes.
“How do you make this all fit?
We’re in the process of determining all that,” he said.
The adjustments are being made
under the assumption that the
Corps will not grow. The service
will reach its post-9/11 drawdown
bottom line of 182,000 Marines in
the coming months, he said. At the
heights of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Corps had 202,000
Marines.
“It would be great if we had
the resources to have 190,000
Marines, but we’re not assuming
that,” Neller said. “So, we’re going
to operate on the assumption we’re
going to have 182,000 Marines,
because that’s what we’ve been
resourced for.”
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assistance
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BEIRUT — The United States
on Tuesday delivered $50 million
worth of military assistance to
Lebanon’s army to help it battle
Muslim extremists near the border with Syria.
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon
Elizabeth H. Richard told reporters at Beirut’s port that the latest
assistance is in “an entire ship full
of military equipment.”
A U.S. Embassy statement said
the shipment includes 50 armored
Humvees, 40 Howitzers and over
1,000 tons of ammunition.
The U.S. has been speeding up
delivery of ammunition to help
Lebanon’s military combat jihadi groups near the border with
Syria.
BILAL HUSSEIN /AP
A Lebanese army soldier stands guard above artillery pieces that were unloaded from a ship at the
Beirut port on Tuesday.
“This year alone, we provided
over $221 million in equipment
and training to the Lebanese security forces,” Richard said. “I’d
also like to point out that Leba-
non is the fifth-largest recipient
of United States foreign military
financing in the world.”
In March, Washington delivered three Huey II helicopters,
raising to 10 the number of such
U.S.-made aircraft in Lebanon’s
fleet. Washington has provided
more than $1 billion in military
assistance to Lebanon since 2006.
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MILITARY
Turkey pushes
hard for US to
extradite cleric
Associated Press
PHOTOS
BY
JESSICA BIDWELL /Stars and Stripes
Organizers of a World Breastfeeding Week event on Okinawa hope to foster peer support for a practice
they say is important for babies’ health.
Event puts
spotlight
on nursing
mothers
BY JESSICA BIDWELL
Stars and Stripes
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa
— Women on Okinawa, including
U.S. military moms, brought their
babies beachside for a mass public
breast-feeding event aimed at raising awareness for the practice.
The Global Big Latch On, part of
World Breastfeeding Week, takes
place worldwide the first week of
August to promote breast-feeding
and women and children’s health.
The event’s organizers hope
getting women to breast-feed together will foster a sense of community and peer support.
“The breast-feeding community has helped me through all
my doubts about the lactation process,” said Hollie Mcelmurray, a
military mom who attended Saturday’s gathering at Sunabe Baba
Beach near Kadena Air Base.
It’s important for women to be
successful at breast-feeding, said
Melanie Scherer, another participant. Pressure from people who
don’t like public breast-feeding
can make some mothers feel like
quitting, she said.
“That’s not how it should be,”
Scherer said. “You’re feeding your
baby; you’re doing what nature intended, and I think it’s important
Oklahoma’s chief of the
boat is relieved of duty
The USS Oklahoma City’s chief
of the boat was relieved of duty late
last month — the second time this
year the vessel has lost a superior.
Master Chief Machinist’s Mate
Joseph H. Decker III was re-
Women on Okinawa attend the Global Big Latch On, a public breastfeeding event.
to spread the awareness and show
people that it’s OK to feed your
baby when and where, however
you have to do it.”
Breast-feeding is the ideal
source of sustenance for infants,
providing the complete nutritional
and hydration requirements that
a child needs, the World Health
Organization says. The agency
recommends breast-feeding exclusively for the first six months
of a baby’s life and continuing
to breast-feed for two years, or
as long as the mother and child
prefer.
Last year, the Army became
the last service to formally adopt
a breast-feeding policy, setting
up rules and private areas where
mothers can express milk and giving them time off work to do it.
Since July of last year, Tricare
has covered all costs associated
with breast-feeding. That includes
a breast pump, supplies and lacta-
tion counseling — things mothers
need if they want to breast-feed
their babies and work outside the
home.
But it wasn’t always this way.
Scherer said breast-feeding her
first baby without such coverage
was challenging, expensive and
stressful.
“When I had my first child,
Tricare did not cover any type
of breast-feeding supplies, and I
failed at breast-feeding my baby,”
she said. “I feel guilty about that;
I only made it five weeks because
I didn’t have the supplies or support that I needed … I am now at
seven months exclusively breastfeeding my second child because
of Tricare’s help.”
The U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa lactation consultant said Saturday’s event was not affiliated with
the hospital or the U.S. military.
moved from his position on the
Guam-based Los Angeles-class
submarine on July 27 because of
a “pattern of ineffective leadership,” a Navy statement said.
Decker, who had served on the
fast-attack submarine since April
of last year, has been temporarily
reassigned to Submarine Squadron 15 at Polaris Point, Naval Base
Guam. He will be replaced by Senior Chief Fire Control Technician
Brandon Kyle Edmiston.
In January, Oklahoma City
Cmdr. Mike Conner was relieved
for unspecified reasons. He
was replaced by Cmdr. Patrick
Friedman.
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From staff reports
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s
justice minister said Tuesday the
United States would be sacrificing its alliance with Turkey to “a
terrorist” if it were to refuse to
extradite a U.S.-based Muslim
cleric who the government says is
behind the July 15 failed coup.
Bekir Bozdag also told the staterun Anadolu Agency that antiAmerican sentiment in Turkey is
reaching “its peak” over the issue
of cleric Fethullah Gulen’s return,
and risks turning into hatred.
Turkey has branded Gulen’s
movement a terrorist organization
and wants him returned to Turkey to face trial. Washington has
said it would need evidence of the
cleric’s involvement, and says the
regular extradition process must
be allowed to take its course.
Gulen, who lives in self-imposed
exile in Pennsylvania, has denied
involvement in the violent coup
attempt that left more than 270
people dead.
“If (the United States) does not
return him, it will have sacrificed
Turkey to a terrorist,” Bozdag
said. “The United States is a great
state and I believe will do what is
expected from a great state.”
Bozdag said Turkish authorities
are still investigating who, after
Gulen, was the number 2 suspect
in the coup plot.
In his weekly address to legis-
lators of his ruling party, Prime
Minister Binali Yildirim on
Tuesday vowed to bring Gulen to
justice.
“That terrorist head will come to
Turkey and be brought to account.
That man who ordered the bombing of Turkey and the parliament,
who pointed Turkey’s armaments
toward the Turkish people will
get the punishment he deserves,”
Yildirim said.
The government has launched
a sweeping crackdown targeting
Gulen’s followers in the aftermath
of the coup.
Bozdag said Turkey has formally arrested 16,000 suspects pending trial, with 6,000 others still
being questioned. At least 7,668
other people are under investigation but not detained, he said.
In addition, tens of thousands
of people with suspected links
to Gulen have been suspended
or dismissed from their jobs in
the judiciary, media, education,
health care, military and local
government.
The purges continued Tuesday,
with Turkey’s government-run
Directorate of Religious Affairs
announcing it had dismissed some
2,560 more employees suspected
of ties to the Gulen movement,
raising the number of people
ousted from the agency since the
failed coup to 3,672.
S. Korean woman arrested
after dead newborn found
BY YOO KYONG CHANG
AND K IM GAMEL
Stars and Stripes
SEOUL, South Korea — A
South Korean woman was arrested this weekend for allegedly
leaving her dead newborn in a
motel bathroom after she had sex
with a U.S. servicemember, police said.
The 32-year-old woman, who
was seven months pregnant, and
her friend met two U.S. servicemembers at a nightclub in Seoul
on Saturday, then spent the night
with them at a motel, police said
Tuesday.
According to the police account, the woman’s water broke
while she was having sex with
one of the servicemembers, but
she told him it was her period and
sent him to a convenience store to
buy sanitary pads. She then gave
birth and left the baby wrapped
in a towel in the bathroom.
Police were called to the motel
Sunday afternoon after a maid
found the baby, which was dead,
while the woman and the U.S.
servicemember were having
lunch with the other couple in another room.
Police questioned the two servicemembers but released them
after determining they had nothing to do with the baby’s death.
A senior police official said the
Americans were no longer part of
the investigation.
The woman initially claimed
the baby died while she was rinsing it off after the birth, but the
National Forensic Service determined the baby suffocated, the
senior police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the probe is ongoing.
The woman, a kindergarten
teacher, told police that the father
of her baby was a U.S. soldier who
had returned to the United States,
but that could not be confirmed.
U.S. Forces in Korea said it
would not comment on an ongoing investigation.
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WAR ON TERRORISM
DOD: Militants
down to 350
fighters in Sirte
BY TARA COPP
Stars and Stripes
M AYA A LLERUZZO/AP
Iraqi policemen ride a motorbike in central Ramadi, Iraq, in March, a few weeks after fierce battles
between Islamic State militants and Iraqi security forces for control of the city.
Landscape: Scars of airwar remain vivid
FROM FRONT PAGE
The first coalition strikes were
spurred by an Islamic State push
from Mosul a few weeks after the
group’s initial rampage across
Iraq.
Makhmour base was just one
of a number of front-line positions
overrun in early August 2014,
bringing Islamic State fighters
within just 19 miles of Irbil, the
capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region.
“Daesh was moving into this
town and we were withdrawing up into the mountains,” said
Ayoub Khaylani, a Peshmerga
soldier who was at Makhmour
base with his unit just before the
Islamic State group’s initial attack
on Mahkmour. Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State
group.
After three days of airstrikes,
the Islamic State advance on Irbil
was slowed and Kurdish forces
retook the base. Two years later,
the fight against the Islamic State
group has moved west across the
Tigris River into Nineveh province and Makhmour has transitioned from an active front line to
a sleepy support position.
“If it weren’t for the strikes
and the heavy artillery (given
to the Iraqi army by the coalition), we would still be up in the
mountains,” Khaylani said, sitting
in a small air conditioned room
hunched over his mobile phone on
an overstuffed sofa.
“I will not allow the United
States to be dragged into fighting
another war in Iraq,” President
Barack Obama said when he announced the authorization for airstrikes in Iraq in 2014. “American
combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq.”
On Friday, the Pentagon announced about 400 U.S. soldiers
will deploy south of Mosul to
Qayarah airbase to aid in the op-
eration to retake Iraq’s secondlargest city. They are among the
560 additional troops that Obama
approved for the Iraq mission last
month. The Pentagon says there
are about 3,800 U.S. forces currently in Iraq, not including hundreds who are on temporary duty
and not included in the official
count.
As the push to retake Mosul
ramps up, the scars from two
years of costly victories remain
vivid.
Sinjar, the small mostly Yazidi
town north of Mosul, was retaken
by Kurdish forces nine months
ago, but it still lies in ruins. While
Sinjar is technically “liberated”
the majority of its residents still
live in tented camps for the displaced scattered throughout Iraq’s
north.
The Pentagon claims 55 civilians have been killed in Iraq and
Syria since the air war against the
Islamic State group was launched.
However, human rights and humanitarian aid groups insist that
number is vastly underestimated.
Airwars, a project tracking airstrikes targeting the Islamic State
group, estimates that at least 1,568
civilians have likely died in coalition actions.
For Iraq’s Kurdish peshmerga
forces, pushing back the militants
also has meant strengthening
their hold on disputed territory.
Closely supported with coalition
training, intelligence sharing and
airstrikes, Kurdish forces have
taken hundreds of towns and villages from the Islamic State group
that were previously claimed by
both the Kurdish regional government and Iraq’s central government in Baghdad.
Amnesty International accused
peshmerga forces of deliberately
destroying thousands of homes in
Arab villages taken back from the
Islamic State in an effort to prevent Arab residents from returning to the territory, according to a
report this year.
Mosul residents who fled to
Irbil in summer 2014 celebrated
the first coalition airstrikes on
extremist militants, hoping the
stepped-up intervention would
quickly repel the militants and
allow civilians to return home.
Now, makeshift tents in church
gardens and half-finished buildings have been replaced with neat
rows of caravans on the outskirts
of town that resemble fledgling
neighborhoods more than temporary shelters.
Across Iraq, more than 3.2 million Iraqis remain displaced from
their homes, according to information gathered by the International
Organization for Migration.
Kindi Hameed Majid, 30, fled
Mosul with his wife in the summer
of 2014. The young couple thought
they would only be gone a few
days. Now more than two years
later, he is still in Irbil and says he
doubts he will ever return.
Even if Mosul is retaken by Iraqi
forces, he said he worries the city
will never be secure enough to be
inhabitable again. “We see the future as dark and unknown.”
WASHINGTON — Only about
350 Islamic State fighters remain
in the all-but-abandoned Libyan
coastal city of Sirte as the United
States finished its eighth day of
airstrikes there, U.S. defense officials said Tuesday.
The United States, as part of
Operation Odyssey Dawn, began
targeting Islamic State vehicles
and fighting positions Aug. 1.
Since then, unmanned aircraft
launching from undisclosed locations and Marine AV-8B Harrier jets taking off from the
nearby USS Wasp, an amphibious
assault warship, have conducted
28 strikes against the terrorist
group, according to U.S. Africa
Command and defense officials
who spoke on the condition of not
being named.
More than half of the strikes
have been conducted from unmanned aircraft, one of the defense officials said.
Sirte, once a city of 80,000
people, has about 1,000 residents
remaining, the defense official
said. Islamic State militants there
totaled up to 1,000 fighters at one
time. But their numbers have
dwindled as well and many of
them have moved outside Sirte to
the south or blended back into the
civilian population, the official
said.
Since the airstrikes began last
week, U.S. and Libyan forces
have worked together to identify
targets and allow pro-government forces to retake parts of
southeast Sirte.
“A small number of U.S. forces
have gone in and out of Libya to
exchange information with local
forces, and they will continue to
do so as we strengthen the fight
against [the Islamic State group]
and other terrorist organizations.
These personnel will not be engaged in fighting [the Islamic
State group,]” said Henrietta
Levin, a defense spokesperson.
With the support of the airstrikes, Libyan forces have been
able to retake most of the al-Dollar district in Sirte, near the same
conference center where the
final surrender of forces loyal to
Moammar Gadhafi took place in
fall 2011.
Civil war has raged in Libya
since that time. In 2015, Islamic
State fighters took control of
Sirte.
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3 US troops wounded
BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN
Stars and Stripes
Three U.S. soldiers were
wounded in Afghanistan Monday
evening when a suicide bomber
detonated a vehicle packed with
explosives in eastern Nangarhar
province.
The soldiers suffered minor injuries, NATO’s Resolute Support
mission said. They were conducting a force-protection patrol at
the time of the incident.
NATO didn’t disclose the names
of the soldiers or where they were
taken for treatment.
Attaullah Khogyani, spokes-
man for Nangarhar’s governor,
said the suicide bomber struck a
military convoy in Surkh Rod district near Jalalabad.
He said a U.S. military vehicle
was damaged.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast in a statement
posted on the group’s website.
Last month, five American servicemembers were wounded in
Nangarhar, where U.S. forces are
helping the Afghan military fight
the Taliban and the Islamic State
group. Their injuries were not
life-threatening.
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PACIFIC
Transparency: China’s
actions lead to uncertainty
FROM FRONT PAGE
R ALPH SCOTT/Missile Defense Agency
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptor is launched during a test in 2013.
China backlash over missile
shield puts North Asia on edge
BY TING SHI
Bloomberg News
HONG KONG — South Korean
President Park Geun Hye has
discovered first hand the feeling
of getting the cold shoulder from
China.
Under the fluent Mandarin
speaker’s watch, South Korea had
seen improved ties with China,
drawn together in part by concern
about Japan’s wartime past and
the military ambitions of Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe. Park was
the only leader of a U.S. ally to attend a military parade in China
last year for the 70th anniversary
of the end of World War II.
Now, relations that were hailed
by both countries as the best in
history have soured, and Park
may get a frosty reception in
China next month for the Group
of 20 summit. The reason: Her
agreement to deploy a U.S. missile
shield on Korean soil.
While South Korea says the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
system would be aimed at prickly
neighbor North Korea, which has
been busy of late test-firing missiles, China has reacted angrily,
saying the shield could be applied
to it. Russia has also opposed it
being stationed in Asia.
The tensions, which could
crimp Chinese tourism to South
Korea and even the appetite for
that country’s K-pop music, could
also go some way to resetting the
geopolitical landscape in North
Asia. South Korea may move
back toward the U.S., and that in
turn could bring South Korea and
Japan closer. China, meantime,
finds itself potentially in North
Korea’s corner.
“The THAAD deployment is
a symbol of the new Cold War,”
said Shi Yongming, an associate
research fellow who specializes
in Korean studies at the Foreign
Ministry-run China Institute of
International Studies in Beijing.
“It marks a watershed moment in
the relations between China and
South Korea. The strategic trust is
now broken. The power dynamic
in Northeast Asia has fundamentally shifted, towards a profound
deterioration.”
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang
Yi has described the THAAD
plan as an “out-and-out strategic” move, underscoring Beijing’s
perception the deployment is a
U.S. plan to contain China in the
region. South Korea’s willingness
to share information with Japan
that’s collected from THAAD has
compounded that view.
The system is “purely defensive,” U.S. State Department
spokesman John Kirby said at
a briefing last month. “There
should be no reason for China or
any other nation to be concerned
about this in terms of any offensive capabilities.” Kirby said the
U.S. had offered to share details of
the system with Chinese officials,
who never took up the offer.
One consequence of the tensions over THAAD could be an
arms race in North Asia, with
both China and Russia moving
to develop more sophisticated
weaponry. The deployment may
also play into the hands of North
Korea, allowing leader Kim Jong
Un to shore up ties with China,
its only major ally. South Korea is
already facing an economic backlash even though THAAD may not
be operational on its soil until the
end of next year. The Korea International Trade Association has
identified 26 measures in place by
China that hurt its members. Sales
to China declined about 9 percent
in July. It accounts for about a
quarter of South Korea’s exports
and is its biggest trading partner.
For both Xi and Park, the cooling of ties could cost them political capital. Xi picked Seoul over
Pyongyang for his first high-profile state visit to the peninsula.
Park, meanwhile, had leaned on
China to help her rein in North
Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
“It’s China’s inability to restrain
North Korea and unwillingness to
give South Korea meaningful security guarantees that has shown
the limits of what South Korea can
expect from China,” said Phillip
Saunders, director of the Center
for the Study of Chinese Military
Affairs at the U.S. National Defense University.
Xi and Kim — who have yet to
meet — exchanged congratulatory messages in May and July
on key party occasions. North Korean exports to China of natural
resources not subject to United
Nations sanctions rose more than
50 percent in the first half of the
year, according to South Korea’s
Yonhap News Agency. Kim Dongyup, an analyst at the Institute for
Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam
University in South Korea, said
the bickering over THAAD “is
happiness to North Korea.”
China’s foreign ministry, which
has said THAAD’s powerful radars threaten its national security,
has warned about taking “necessary measures to safeguard” its
interests. “The THAAD system
far exceeds the defense needs
of the Korean Peninsula, it will
directly harm China’s strategic
security interests and disrupt the
regional strategic balance,” according to Zhu Haiquan, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in
Washington.
The Defense Ministry confirmed on July 28 it was pressing
ahead with anti-missile system
tests. China’s military has multiple options to respond, according to Yue Gang, a retired colonel.
To prevent THAAD “foreshadowing a Northeast Asian version of NATO,” China could jam
THAAD’s radar or boost the density of its missile deployment to
overwhelm it, he said.
Still, China will need to take
care to avoid pulling away too far
from South Korea.
said it would consider declaring
an air defense zone and vowed
to continue work on man-made
islands created from piling sand
atop coral reefs in the highly contested Spratly group.
New satellite photos show work
proceeding on what seem to be
two-dozen hardened concrete airplane hangars on the islands suitable for housing Chinese air force
planes, including strategic bombers and inflight refuelers.
The photos were collected and
studied by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a
Washington-based think tank, and
reported in The New York Times.
They show construction work on
man-made islands at Fiery Cross,
Subi and Mischief reefs.
China has said the new islands
are primarily to assist fishermen
and other causes, as well as to
reinforce its sovereignty claims.
China also says that the islands
should be able to defend themselves, and that it is entitled to
build whatever structures it wishes on them.
Meanwhile, Japan protested
Tuesday over a marked increase
in the number of Chinese coast
guard and fishing vessels in waters near disputed islands in the
East China Sea.
Swift said the responses of all
parties to the arbitration ruling
had been consistent with their
long-held positions and it was unclear what, if any, recent Chinese
actions had been taken specifically in response.
“I think it’s a mistake to take
them individually and not look at
them as a collective. And you have
to look at it as an extension of an
arc,” Swift said.
Such judgments were made
more difficult by a lack of transparency about intentions, he said,
repeating a frequent U.S. criticism
of China’s secretive military.
“The uncertainty in the region
is because of the lack of transparency and exactly where it is that
arc is going. And that arc is de-
fined by multiple data points,” he
said.
Swift cited two examples: The
still unexplained cancellation by
China of a visit by the aircraft carrier USS Stennis earlier this year,
and the reason for the construction of the new aircraft hangars.
“That increases the angst and
uncertainty, that lack of transparency, and that is generally destabilizing as opposed to a stabilizing
action,” Swift said.
The admiral said he was confident the U.S. Navy would continue to sail close to China’s artificial
islands in what are called freedom of navigation missions to
reinforce the stipulations of the
United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea, although he
said such decisions are made in
Washington. China deeply resents
such cruises, greeting them with
threats and harassment.
Swift also criticized the
planned China-Russia drills,
saying, “There are other places
those exercises could have been
conducted.”
“So I think that is a matter
of concern and something that
should be considered from the
perspective of actions that are not
increasing the stability within the
region,” he said.
Also Tuesday, Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos said
in Hong Kong that he wants to
focus on points of common interest with China such as tourism
and commercial fishing as part
of efforts to smooth relations with
Beijing roiled by the South China
Sea dispute.
Current Philippine President
Rodrigo Duterte has asked the
88-year-old Ramos to act as his
special envoy to pave the way for
talks with Beijing.
While the Chinese government
has yet to formally comment on
Ramos’ mission, the official Xinhua News Agency said in an editorial Tuesday that it “brings a whiff
of hope that the two countries will
return to bilateral negotiations
over the issue.”
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Trump promises to ‘jump-start’ US economics
BY JILL COLVIN
JOSH LEDERMAN
AND
Associated Press
DETROIT — Promising to
“jump-start America” to a new
era of prosperity, Donald Trump
announced a revamped economic
plan Monday aimed at revitalizing a stagnant U.S. economy
by cutting taxes for workers and
businesses.
He assailed Hillary Clinton as
a candidate who would merely
extend a Democratic period of old
ideas and weakness.
Trying to move past recent
stumbles, Trump proposed a sim-
plified three-bracket income tax
system that hewed closely to what
House Republicans have recommended, the latest indication the
GOP presidential nominee is
working to put infighting with his
party’s leaders behind him.
In a shift from the plan he proposed during the primary season,
he increased the tax rate that the
highest-earning Americans would
pay.
With few exceptions, Trump
provided more of a philosophical
basis for an economic plan than a
series of specifics.
He did spell out proposed tax
brackets and called for greater
child care deductions for families.
As he called for urgent change
away from Democratic policies, he
envisioned a nation refocused on
manufacturing at home and wary
of trade deals abroad — a country
bearing little resemblance to the
globally focused economy of recent years.
“Americanism, not globalism,
will be our new credo,” he said in
his address at the Detroit Economic Club. “Our country will reach
amazing new heights — maybe
heights never attained before.”
Delivering his speech from a
teleprompter, Trump was interrupted repeatedly by protesters
who stood on chairs and shouted at
him before being pulled out of the
room by security guards. He did
not react harshly as he often has
in the past, either quietly thanking the guards or simply powering
ahead in his speech.
Only days ago, Trump triggered
panic within the GOP when he declined to endorse House Speaker
Paul Ryan’s re-election or that of
other leading Republicans.
He sought to put the dust-up
to bed Friday by finally backing
those candidates while also trying
to move past other controversies,
like his verbal attacks on a Muslim-American family whose son
died fighting in Iraq.
Republicans inside and outside
of Trump’s campaign have implored him to shift the conversation back to Clinton’s perceived
shortcomings.
On Monday, he obliged, accusing her of jilting American
workers and coming up short on
promises to constituents.
“The one common feature of
every Hillary Clinton idea is
that it punishes you for working
and doing business in the United
States,” Trump said. He said he
wants to “jump-start America”
and added, “It won’t even be that
hard.”
Candidate
seeks to
quell GOP
pushback
Clinton pans
rival’s plan
as beneficial
only to rich
Associated Press
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Hillary
Clinton offered a simple reply to
Donald Trump’s economic address Monday: “Don’t let a friend
vote Trump.”
At a rally in St. Petersburg,
Fla., Clinton said the plans
Trump outlined earlier in Detroit
would push the country back into
recession, warning that they benefit the rich and do little to create
jobs or boost the economy.
“His tax plans would give
super big tax breaks to large corporations and the really wealthy,”
Clinton said, characterizing the
proposals, which include substantial tax cuts, as “trickle-down
economics.”
“You know that old saying: Fool
me once, shame on you, fool me
twice, shame on me,” she said.
Clinton countered with her own
economic proposals, saying she
wants to invest in public works
projects and more educational
opportunities and will tax top
earners to pay for her plans. She
is expected to speak to the Detroit
Economic Club on Thursday.
“I have said throughout this
campaign I am not going to raise
the taxes on the middle class, but
with your help, we are going to
raise it on the wealthy,” Clinton
said.
At a rally later in the day in
Kissimmee, Fla., Clinton continued her criticism, saying Trump
“hasn’t offered any plans on infrastructure besides building a
wall and having Mexico pay for
it.” She also stressed her commitment to small businesses,
asking, “Would you rather have a
president who says you’re fired or
you’re hired?”
Earlier Monday, Clinton toured
a brewery as a way of highlighting her commitment to small
businesses. She planned to campaign in Miami Tuesday, as part
of a two-day tour through battleground Florida, home of 29 electoral votes.
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald
Trump is seeking to quell concerns he lacks the discipline or
policy know-how to make a competent president, even as the list of
fellow Republicans deeming him
unfit for the Oval Office grows.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a
moderate long wary of Trump,
became the latest Republican to
announce her intent not to vote for
her party’s nominee. Days after
rebuking Trump for insinuating
Somali refugees in Maine were
dangerous, Collins said late Monday she’d thought “long and hard”
about whether she was obligated
to support the GOP nominee and
decided she could not.
“With the passage of time, I have
become increasingly dismayed by
his constant stream of cruel comments and his inability to admit
error or apologize,” Collins wrote
in a Washington Post op-ed.
Collins wrote that she supports
neither party’s nominee, although
previously she’s said she’s open to
voting for Hillary Clinton.
The defection of a respected
senator added to a chorus of GOP
voices insisting they can’t back
Trump. Some 50 Republican former national security officials
signed an open letter calling
Trump the most reckless candidate in history, prompting a counterattack from Trump, who said
the signers share blame with Clinton for making the world “a mess”
and fueling the Islamic State
group’s formation.
The renewed focus on GOP discord was not the theme Trump
hoped to emphasize, especially as
fresh polls appear to show Clinton
widening her lead. But Trump
suggested Tuesday there would be
no dramatic change of strategy to
regain control of the race.
“I think it’s just, you know,
steadiness,” Trump told Fox Business. “And it’s just doing what I’m
doing.”
BY CATHERINE LUCEY
Associated Press
PAUL SANCYA /AP
Tongue-lashing at Trump event
Zack W., left, listens to Maurice Hardwick at a protest while Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump delivered an economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit on Monday.
Pulse shooter’s father sits behind Clinton at rally
The Washington Post
Seddique Mateen, the father
of the suspect in the June mass
shooting at an Orlando nightclub,
secured a prime seat at a rally for
Hillary Clinton on Monday outside the Florida city.
For 25 minutes, Mateen sat right
behind the Democratic nominee
for president as she remembered
the victims of the Pulse nightclub
shooting and laid out her policies.
Mateen’s presence was first
noted by WPTV reporter Tory
Dunnan, who was initially rebuffed for an interview but then
was surprised to find Mateen
holding a pro-Clinton sign and
asking to talk to the press.
“Clinton is good for the United
States, versus Donald Trump,”
Mateen said in broken English.
“I was invited by the Democratic
Party; I’m a member.” Asked
about his son, Omar Mateen, who
killed 49 people in one of the biggest massacres in American history, Mateen said he wished “that
my son joined the army and fought
ISIS,” or the Islamic State group,
instead.
Clinton’s campaign was apparently unaware of Mateen’s presence at the rally, much less the 25
minutes he spent sharing a frame
with the nominee.
“The rally was a 3,000-person,
open-door event for the public,”
a Clinton campaign official said.
“This individual wasn’t invited as
a guest, and the campaign was unaware of his attendance until after
the event.”
Mateen has spent years, and
some of his own money, attempting to become better known. He
paid to air a news and commentary show in Afghanistan, where
he declared a fringe campaign for
president and offered support for
the Taliban.
After WPTV broke the news of
Mateen’s rally attendance, several conservative pundits urged
Republican nominee Donald
Trump to make it an issue in the
campaign.
“Donald Trump might be the
luckiest son-of-a-gun to ever run
for president,” wrote the National
Review’s Jim Geraghty. “If he
can’t make some noise over this
and make up five points quick, he
should just close up shop and let
Pence-Cruz handle it from here.”
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BY STEPHANIE A KIN
CQ-Roll Call
PHOTOS
BY
BRIAN HILL , (A RLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL .) DAILY HERALD/AP
Re-enactors move through the forest last month during the 2/327th Vietnam Re-enactment Group’s first “Return to the A Shau: A Vietnam
Living History Event” at Camp Big Timber, in Elgin, Ill.
Re-enactors seek to
honor Vietnam vets
BY ROBERT SANCHEZ
(Arlington Heights, Ill.) Daily Herald
ELGIN, Ill. — The Vietnam
War battle re-enactment began
without warning.
About 20 men dressed as Vietnam-era U.S. soldiers were walking through the dense woods
when the sound of gunshots
erupted from somewhere in front
of them. As the scenario unfolds,
it’s hard to tell who is shooting
at what. There’s yelling, chaos
and the repeated noise of blanks
being fired.
By the end of the mock battle,
the Americans are victorious, but
find the enemy was just a small
number of North Vietnamese
Army and Viet Cong soldiers.
“That’s how it would be. The
Viet Cong would use hit-and-run
tactics,” said Rick Pennington,
spokesman for the July 23rd
weekend’s “Return to the A Shau:
A Vietnam Living History Event”
at Camp Big Timber near Elgin.
For Vietnam veteran Patrick
Mitchell, it’s a far cry from the
re-enactments he’s accustomed
to seeing.
“I’ve been to Civil War re-enactments. I’ve been to World War
II re-enactments,” said Mitchell,
67, of Elgin. “But this is more up
my alley.”
The event, organized by 2/327th
Vietnam Re-Enactment Group included an encampment showing
what life was like for the Americans who fought in Vietnam.
Larry May, who served in the
Army during Vietnam, said he
was impressed by the displays
showcasing uniforms, weapons,
and gear used during the war.
“This heat reminds me of being
there,” said May, 71. “It’s been 51
years. But it’s nice that they’re
honoring the Vietnam veterans.
That hasn’t happened in a long
time.”
Veterans line up to view re-enactors move through the forest.
Pennington said the goal of
the event is to educate the public
about the sacrifices made during
the war.
“These guys were the first war
generation to not come home to
a hero’s welcome,” Pennington
said. “I think it’s a shame.”
Steve Zahareas of Schaumburg,
one of the re-enactors, said the
time has come for Vietnam veterans to get the recognition they
deserve.
“All the Vietnam soldiers did
was what their fathers and their
uncles did before them in World
War II and Korea,” Zahareas
said.
Vietnam veteran Richard Wistar said he enjoyed the event because it gave him the opportunity
to meet others who fought in the
war.
“This is the first time in 46
years that I was able to talk about
it to somebody,” said Wistar, 70,
of Gilberts. “It makes you feel
like you came home.”
WASHINGTON — The families of two Americans killed in
the 2012 attacks on the diplomatic
mission in Benghazi have filed a
federal wrongful death lawsuit
against Hillary Clinton, claiming
that she was responsible because
of her use of a private email server while she was head of the State
Department, according to media
reports.
The lawsuit filed by Patricia
Smith and Charles Woods, the
parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, also claims that
Clinton defamed the families in
her public statements.
“The Benghazi attack was directly and proximately caused,
at a minimum by defendant Clinton’s ‘extreme carelessness’ in
handling confidential and classified information,” the lawsuit alleges, according to NBC News.
Smith was an information management officer and Woods was a
security officer in Libya.
Both families have been publicly critical of Clinton. Smith
was a featured speaker at the
Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where she said
she blamed Clinton for her son’s
death. Woods has appeared on
cable news shows, saying on CNN
last week that Clinton had proved
“incapable” of protecting Americans in Benghazi.
They are represented by Larry
Klayman of Judicial Watch, a
conservative organization that
has been critical of Clinton and
sought her emails from her private server during her tenure as
secretary of state, according to
media reports.
Clinton campaign spokesman
Nick Merrill told NBC News that
the claims in the lawsuit have already been subjected to intense
scrutiny.
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Miami neighborhood home
to artists, tourists and Zika
BY DAVID FISCHER
Associated Press
MIAMI — On any given day,
a visitor to Miami’s Wynwood
neighborhood might see a hipster
pecking at a vintage typewriter
outside a coffee shop, or a young
professional enjoying roasted
duck carnitas at a fusion restaurant next door.
Two blocks away, a family from
the Midwest, Latin America or
Europe might be exploring the
graffiti murals of the Wynwood
Walls or wandering into an art
gallery. At night, couples line
up around the block to get into a
trendy tavern.
The recent announcement that
16 people have been infected with
the Zika virus by mosquitoes in the
Wynwood area has scared away
some visitors. Federal health officials last week warned pregnant
women to avoid the neighborhood
and a 1-square-mile area around
it. But many remain undaunted.
“Everything here has a very
modern vibe, a modern feel,” said
Danny Perez, 25, who sometimes
comes to Wynwood from South
Miami to work. Pointing out a
nearby organic juice and food
place next to a letterpress store,
he said, “These are niche markets
that you don’t find everywhere in
Miami.”
Just north of downtown Miami,
Wynwood once was a garment
and warehouse district but went
into decline in the 1970s. Artists
began setting up shop around the
turn of the century, and galleries
soon began opening in the decaying buildings and empty lots.
Business owners started hosting
an Art Walk one night a month,
giving locals and curious tourists
a chance to see and be seen.
The art created inside the buildings began spreading to the neighborhood’s exterior walls, and the
annual Art Basel show that later
came to Miami gave those works
an international stage.
“I feel like I’m in Disneyland
for the art world,” said Jonathan
Yubi, 31, who came down to Miami
from Orlando, Fla., last week to
pick up copies of his fledgling art
publication, Artborne Magazine,
from a printer. He used the trip
as an excuse to check out Wyn-
wood for the first time.
Courtney Clark, 28, has been
working at one of the area’s retail
stores for about a year. She didn’t
seem worried about Zika as she
ate outside Thursday afternoon.
“I have a little bracelet with
mosquito repellent on it,” Clark
said. “But other than that, I’m not
pregnant or looking to get pregnant anytime soon.”
While unafraid herself, she has
noticed a drop in visitors.
“There are definitely fewer
people around,” Clark said. “It
will probably stay like that for the
next couple weeks or so until we
get out of the news.”
Paul Villard, 23, said he thought
about not showing up at the Wynwood restaurant where he works,
but he ultimately decided to go.
“You can’t really let that stuff
interfere with life,” Villard said,
but acknowledged that pregnant
women should probably stay away
for a while.
Until now, the only known Zika
cases in the United States were
in people who had recently traveled to Latin America and the
Caribbean.
A LAN DIAZ /AP
Tourists on Friday visit the Wynwood Walls in the Wynwood area of
Miami, where warnings about Zika carried by mosquitoes has scared
away some visitors.
Zika, a mild disease for most,
can lead to severe brain-related
birth defects if women are infected during pregnancy.
Health officials announced Aug.
1 that Zika had turned up in Wynwood. They clarified last week that
the actual infections were limited
to a 500-square-foot residential
area north of the art district, and
that area has since been bombarded with insecticides.
They have urged women of
child-bearing years to avoid the
area and for pregnant women
there to be tested.
Florida’s Health Department
has said there’s no evidence of
mosquitoes transmitting Zika
elsewhere in Miami.
Health and dollars are both on
the line as the Zika scare collides
with Wynwood’s art and tourism
boom.
Joel “Smiley” Atkinson, 47,
said he’s seen many neighboring
businesses move out over the five
years he’s worked at LBK Shoes
Corp. Property values have skyrocketed in the area, and many
longtime residents and businesses can’t afford to stay.
“It’s a bad thing for some people, and it’s a good thing for other
people,” Atkinson said. “For the
art people, maybe it’s good. For
the people doing business, that’s
bad.”
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Study: Unsafe levels
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affects 6M Americans
Wildfire
surges in
Southern
California
Associated Press
CRESTLINE, Calif. — A Southern California wildfire has surged
in size and put thousands of homes
in potential peril.
Smoke plumes roiling from
flaming ridges of the San Bernardino Mountains blew all the
way across the Mojave Desert to
Las Vegas as the blaze forced the
evacuation of hundreds of homes
Monday.
Firefighters aided by 16 aircraft
battled flames that spread across
nearly 10 square miles on the
northern side of the rugged mountain range east of Los Angeles.
People in some 375 homes were
ordered to evacuate, authorities
said.
Residents of about 5,000 more
were advised that they may want
to evacuate, the San Bernardino
County Sheriff’s Office said.
Helicopters sucked loads of
water from nearby Silverwood
Lake to douse flames leaping
across slopes. Air tankers swooped
low to paint the dry vegetation
with pink fire retardant.
The fire, which erupted for an
unknown reason Sunday, was just
6 percent contained.
The Washington Post
JAMES Q UIGG, THE (VICTORVILLE, CALIF.) DAILY PRESS/AP
A jet tanker drops retardant on a wildfire Monday along Highway
173 in Hesperia, Calif.
Across the Mojave, officials in
southern Nevada issued an air
quality advisory because of smoke
from the fire more than 200 miles
away.
The Clark County Department
of Air Quality said the air was
unhealthy for sensitive groups,
including young children, senior
citizens and people with respiratory problems and cardiac
disease.
Like some of the state’s other
fires this summer, the blaze
burned near a popular recreation
area. But Silverwood Lake’s waters had been closed to swimming,
fishing and boating since Aug. 4
because of an algae bloom.
On the central coast, meanwhile, California’s biggest fire
expanded to more than 95 square
miles north of scenic Big Sur.
An army of more than 5,000 firefighters and an air force of tankers
and helicopters made progress,
however, surrounding 50 percent
of the 18-day-old blaze.
Drinking water supplies serving
more than 6 million Americans
contain unsafe levels of a widely
used class of industrial chemicals linked to potentially serious
health problems, according to a
new study from Harvard University researchers.
The chemicals — known as
polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs — have
been used for decades in a range of
industrial and commercial products, including nonstick coatings
on pans, food wrappers, water-repellent clothing and firefighting
foam. Long-term exposure has
been linked to increased risks of
kidney cancer, thyroid problems,
high cholesterol and hormone disruption, among other issues.
“Virtually all Americans are
exposed to these compounds,”
said Xindi Hu, the study’s lead
author. “They never break down.
Once they are released into the
environment, they are there.”
As part of the study, which was
published Tuesday in Environmental Science & Technology
Letters, the researchers examined concentrations of six types of
PFAS chemicals in drinking water
supplies around the country. The
data came from more than 36,000
samples collected by the Environmental Protection Agency between 2013 and 2015.
They also looked at sites where
the chemicals are commonly
found — industrial plants, military bases and civilian airports
and wastewater treatment plants.
What they found: 194 of 4,864
water supplies across nearly three
dozen states had detectable levels
of the chemicals. Sixty-six of those
water supplies, serving about 6
million people, had at least one
sample that exceeded the EPA’s
recommended safety limit of 70
parts per trillion for two types of
chemicals — perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic
acid.
The federal government does not
currently regulate PFAS chemicals. But they are on the EPA’s list
of “unregulated contaminants”
that the agency monitors.
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‘Pokemon
Go’ player
is killed
in Calif.
Survivor,
rescuer
from 9/11
reunited
Associated Press
BY COLBY ITKOWITZ
The Washington Post
It’s been nearly 15 years since their lives
were thrust together for a few chaotic moments
outside the Pentagon on 9/11.
Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell never got to thank
the man who held his leaky IV line and tried
to keep him conscious as he lay on a gurney,
parts of his body and half his face burned beyond recognition. Col. Rob Maness never knew
if the severely wounded man he’d helped had
survived.
That is, until their paths crossed again at a
political convention.
In 2001, Birdwell worked at the Pentagon
and, on the morning of Sept. 11, was in an office with two colleagues watching the live footage of the Twin Towers burning. At 9:35 he
stepped out to go to the bathroom.
Less than 10 minutes later, as Birdwell left
the bathroom, American Airlines Flight 77
barreled into the side of the building, the nose
of the aircraft less than 20 yards from where
Birdwell stood. He was engulfed in flames,
parts of his polyester Army pants melted to his
skin, his arms were skinned, and he collapsed
with blood and black soot caked to his charred
body.
Minutes later, he was being carried out
of the building and a medic on site quickly
hooked him up to an IV. That’s when Maness,
who worked for the Air Force, showed up and
was instructed to hold Birdwell’s IV line, which
was leaking, and to try to keep the fading man
awake. Maness asked his first name. They
prayed together.
Maness told him he’d be OK, though it was a
promise that he didn’t know for years that he’d
actually kept.
The Washington Post
Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell shows his cast to Marion Jordan and physical therapist Kristen
Dammen at Washington Hospital Center burn unit. Birdwell was badly burned while working
at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Courtesy of Rob Maness
Rob Maness, left, who rendered aid to
Birdwell, center, on Sept. 11, were reunited
by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, right, at
the Republican National Convention.
Birdwell was eventually taken to the hospital where he’d spend 26 days in intensive care.
More than 60 percent of his body was severely
burned, and he’d have 39 operations during his
excruciating recovery, which took about four
years, he said.
Maness spent the rest of Sept. 11 surrounded
by the blood and carnage, helping the wounded
get to the triage area or to a spot where they
could be transported to a hospital.
Both men are in politics now, Birdwell a state
senator in Texas and Maness a candidate for
the open U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana. They
were both in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention.
Maness requested a meeting with former
Texas Gov. Rick Perry to ask advice for running in a statewide election. Perry wanted to
introduce him to another veteran who had also
been in the Pentagon on 9/11. He had his aides
track down Birdwell.
Within minutes of trading stories from that
terrible day, the men realized who the other
was. They were describing the same location,
the same injuries, the same broken IV line.
“We had a really big hug that had the gravity
and emotion of two comrades in arms,” Birdwell said.
Birdwell started a nonprofit, Face the Fire
Ministries, that supports burn victims and
wounded servicemen and servicewomen. Maness helped found an advocacy organization to
prevent veteran suicides. Both say their shared
politics, passions and past will ensure they now
stay in each other’s lives.
“Rob played a part in me being able to do
those things and that’s pretty special,” Birdwell said. “It’s a whale of a fraternity with one
hell of an initiation.”
Wanted: Drug-free expert to oversee medical pot rules
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio is looking for
an expert in growing marijuana who must
adhere to its drug-free workplace policy as
the state implements a new medical marijuana law.
Cleveland.com reported the new hire by
the Ohio Department of Commerce would
help write rules for medical marijuana
cultivators.
The chosen contractor would be held to
Ohio’s drug-free workplace policy, which
currently doesn’t allow for medical marijuana use.
A Commerce Department spokesman
couldn’t say Friday whether the contractor’s employees would have to clear a pre-
employment drug test.
The contractor would research best practices and recommend how they would work
with Ohio’s patient needs in the new Ohio
Medical Marijuana Control Program.
The job was posted last week. The state is
accepting applications through Wednesday.
The department has budgeted $50,000 for
the work.
SAN FRANCISCO — A 20year-old man was shot to death
while playing “Pokemon Go” at a
tourist attraction along San Francisco’s waterfront, authorities and
a family friend said.
An unknown assailant shot
Calvin Riley on Saturday night
at Aquatic Park near Ghiradelli
Square, the U.S. Park Police said
Sunday. A family friend called it a
random attack.
Riley was playing the hit mobile
game with a friend when someone
shot him from behind and took off,
John Kirby told KGO-TV.
“From what we know, there
was no confrontation,” Kirby said.
“There was nothing said back and
forth. It was just senseless, just
came up and shot in the back and
ran away for nothing.”
Kirby said Riley and his friend
had noticed someone watching
them from the top of a hill that
overlooks the park, but it was dark
and they were mostly looking at
their cellphones.
National Park Service spokesman Lynn Cullivan said investigators believe there are witnesses to
the attack because it happened in
the bustling Fisherman’s Wharf
area. They are seeking tips.
Sgt. Robert Jansing, a detective
with the U.S. Park Police, said the
gunman did not take any of Riley’s
belongings or try to rob him.
Riley graduated from high
school in San Mateo and pitched
for the baseball team at San Joaquin Delta College.
“It’s a huge loss to everyone,”
the school’s head coach, Reed
Peters, told KGO-TV. “He was a
great kid, a great competitor.”
It’s unclear whether the attack
had anything to do with “Pokemon
Go,” which has become a national
sensation this summer as legions
of fans visit real-world landmarks
in a hunt for digital creatures.
But the game’s popularity has
created unintended consequences
in everyday life.
Property owners complain of
players trespassing or damaging
their grounds, and scores of players have been injured or robbed as
they stare at their phones and try
to track cartoon monsters.
Law enforcement officials have
warned about the game’s possible
dangers, saying players can become engrossed in it and tune out
their surroundings.
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Kan. boy suffered
fatal neck injury
on tall water slide
BY JIM SUHR
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas water slide billed as the world’s
tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how
a state lawmaker’s young son died
of a neck injury while riding it.
Details remained murky about
what happened Sunday to Caleb
Thomas Schwab, 10, on the 168foot-tall “Verruckt” — German
for “insane” — that since its debut
two years ago has been the top
draw at Schlitterbahn Waterpark
in Kansas City, Kan.
Kansas City police issued a
statement late Monday afternoon
saying Caleb suffered a fatal neck
injury at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday
while he was riding the slide with
two women, neither of whom was
related to him. They suffered
minor facial injuries and were
treated at an area hospital, police
said.
Emergency responders arrived
to find the boy dead in a pool at the
end of the ride, according to the
statement, which offered no further details.
In a statement Monday afternoon, Schlitterbahn said it was
“deeply and intensely saddened
for the Schwab family and all who
were impacted by the tragic accident.” The park was tentatively
scheduled to reopen Wednesday,
but “Verruckt is closed,” according to the statement.
Officer Cameron Morgan, a
police spokesman, said no police
report about the incident was
available. He said investigators
were treating Caleb’s death as a
“civil matter” rather than a criminal one and referred additional
questions to the park.
Schlitterbahn
spokeswoman
Winter Prosapio declined interview requests Monday but told reporters on Sunday that Caleb had
been at the park with family members, adding that “we honestly
don’t know what’s happened.”
It wasn’t immediately clear
whether results of an autopsy
Monday on Caleb would be publicly released or, if so, how soon, said
Margaret Studyvin, of the Wyandotte County coroner’s office.
On the water slide, which is certified by Guinness World Records
as the world’s tallest, riders sit in
multiperson rafts during “the ultimate in water slide thrills,” subjecting “adventure seekers” to a
“jaw dropping” 17-story drop, the
park’s website says. Passengers
then are “blasted back up a second
massive hill and then sent down
yet another gut wrenching 50 foot
drop,” the website adds.
Each rider must be at least 54
inches tall, and the group’s weight
is limited to a total of 400 to 550
pounds.
Poll: Young favor LGBT rights
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
Young
people in America overwhelmingly support LGBT rights when it
comes to policies on employment,
health care and adoption, according to a new survey.
The GenForward survey of
Americans ages 18-30 found that
support for those policies has increased over the past two years,
especially among young whites.
But relatively few of these young
adults consider rights for people
who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender to be among the top
issues facing the country.
According to the findings, 92
percent of young adults support
HIV and AIDs prevention; 90 percent support equal employment;
and 80 percent support LGBT
adoption. Broad majorities support training police on transgender issues, government support
for organizations for LGBT youth
and insurance coverage for transgender health issues.
GenForward is a survey by the
Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public
Affairs Research.
In the past two years, support
has increased from 69 percent to
84 percent among young whites for
policies such as allowing gays and
lesbians to legally adopt children.
Support for employment equality
for LGBT individuals rose from
84 percent to 92 percent. The poll
also suggests support for allowing
adoption by gays and lesbians has
increased among Hispanics.
The poll of 1,940 adults age 1830 was conducted July 9-20 using
a sample drawn from the probability-based GenForward panel,
which is designed to be representative of the U.S. young adult population. The margin of sampling
error for all respondents is plus or
minus 3.8 percentage points.
O.J. E ARLY, THE G REENEVILLE (TENN.) SUN /AP
Members of the Greeneville Fire Department help people off the Ferris wheel at the Greene County Fair
in Greeneville, Tenn., on Monday.
1 suffers head injury in Ferris wheel fall
Associated Press
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — Police said one of three people who
fell from a Ferris wheel during a
county fair in Tennessee suffered
a head injury and remains hospitalized in serious condition.
Greeneville police Capt. Tim
Davis said during a news conference that the other two were
responsive and answering questions after falling 30 to 45 feet
Monday night. He had said earlier
all three were alert and responsive, but said Tuesday morning
he had received new information.
A second person also remained
hospitalized.
Davis said the three fell when
the car flipped over. The oldest
was a 16-year-old girl.
Asked about reports that the
car was rocking before it flipped,
Davis said police have not been
able to confirm that but they are
still interviewing people.
Officials said fair rides were
closed Tuesday and won’t reopen
until a third-party inspection is
complete.
‘Text neck’ on rise among high school athletes
BY L AURA NIGHTENGALE
(Peoria, Ill.) Journal Star
PEORIA, Ill. — For athletes
turning out for fall sports this
week, that pain in the neck or
shoulder could be related to an offthe-field activity.
“I have never seen so many kids
with neck pain before (than) in the
last two years. Before that, I could
probably see one, and it was probably because he got his bell rung
in football,” physical therapist
Zach Kirkpatrick said. “But now,
I just start seeing these chronic
neck pain, teenage kids. Clearly
something is going on here that we
need to address.”
Kirkpatrick is referring to the
phenomenon of “text neck,” characterized by a forward-slumped
neck, rounded shoulders and tight
chest muscles.
The downward-facing posture
that most of us assume when using
our phones can cause undue strain
on vertebrae, ligaments of the cervical spine and muscles and “sets
your neck up for failure.”
For some patients, that could
manifest as chronic neck pain or
headaches. For others, symptoms
might not be obvious until something like hitting a three-point
stance on the football field or taking an overhead swing at a volleyball aggravates an underlying
problem.
Kirkpatrick, facility manager
at Athletico Physical Therapy
in East Peoria, Ill., said he most
often treats overhead athletes, in
particular, for problems caused
by poor posture that affects their
athletic performance.
“They’re texting their girlfriend
or whatever all the time or playing
some sort of game on their phone
when they’re not playing baseball,
and they really don’t think about
how their head and neck position
really will affect their ability to
throw and how that leads to more
strain through the shoulders,”
Kirkpatrick said.
Also, the problems associated
with “text neck” could lead to
more serious injuries.
Take your deep neck flexors, for
example. The small muscles help
stabilize the head. If they’re tired
and overworked from looking
down at a cellphone, they aren’t
working as well as they should be
to protect your head and neck during a tackle.
Not just teens are susceptible
to “text neck.” While the symptoms are traditionally much more
prevalent in an older population,
Kirkpatrick said it’s become increasingly common in adults
who spend a lot of time at the
computer.
Holding your phone a little higher could help prevent the onset of
“text neck.” Same goes for your
computer screen.
Kirkpatrick suggests taking a
break every 30 minutes to do a
few stretches of the neck, chest
and shoulders.
“This is something a high school
kid can do throughout class several times a day. They’re fortunate
enough to get up and walk around
a little bit between classes, and
that’s a good time to think about
hitting those exercises.”
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Official: 14
civilians in
Yemen killed
in airstrike
Victims
of attack
in Quetta
mourned
Associated Press
BY A BDUL SATTAR
Associated Press
QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistani lawyers on Tuesday mourned colleagues slain in a shocking
suicide bombing the previous day
at a hospital in the southwestern
city of Quetta that killed 70 people,
mostly lawyers.
The attack, which stunned the
judicial community, also underscored concerns that militants in
Pakistan are still capable of striking in the heart of the country’s
cities and towns — despite government claims of dismantling
various terrorism networks.
The Pakistani bar association called for lawyers to boycott
courts in an unusual strike against
the attack.
Schools and markets were
closed in Quetta, also in protest over the attack, which was
claimed by a breakaway faction of
the Pakistani Taliban, the Jamaatul-Ahrar militant group.
In Islamabad, lawyers lined
up outside the Supreme Court
under tight security to offer funeral prayers for those killed in
Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan
province.
“Those who even did not spare
the hospital and carried out the
suicide attack cannot be called humans,” senior attorney Mohammad Ashraf said as he stood with
colleagues outside a Quetta court
building. “We request that the
government tracks down and punishes all those who killed innocent
lawyers and other people.”
Another lawyer, Rehmatullah
Khan, said he was missing his
friends and colleagues. “We used
to sit with them here. … Now, they
are gone.”
At a Quetta market, Mohammad Saleem, a resident of the city,
said everyone was still in a state
of shock. “People are scared and
they ask for how long the violence
will continue,” he said.
Monday’s attack came as lawyers converged at a Quetta hospital after the body of a prominent
colleague — Bilal Kasi, the president of the Baluchistan Bar Association — was taken there after
he was shot and killed by gunmen
just hours earlier.
A suicide bomber detonated his
explosives’ vest amid the gathering, and survivors later described
scenes of panic as the blast ripped
through the emergency room.
In a statement, Ahsanullah
Ahsan, spokesman for the Jamaatul-Ahrar militant group, said its
fighters killed Kasi and also dozens of lawyers gathered at the
government-run Civil Hospital to
mourn for their colleague.
JONATHAN SHENFIELD/AP
Stephen Hallam, managing director of pork pie makers Dickinson and Morris, works in their
kitchens in Melton Mowbray, England.
Pork pie problem: UK food
traditions losing EU support
SANAA, Yemen — A Yemeni
factory official and two medics
said a Saudi-led airstrike killed
14 civilians working an overnight
shift in the capital, Sanaa.
They said the airstrikes, which
continued into Tuesday, targeted
Yemen’s Shiite rebels, but one of
them hit a food factory, the alAqil compound.
The official and the medics
spoke on condition of anonymity
for fear of retribution.
The heavy bombardment came
on the heels of failed U.N. peace
talks in Kuwait between Yemen’s
internationally recognized government and the country’s Shiite
rebels, known as Houthis.
Rebel spokesman Mohammed
Abdel-Salam said the Saudi-led
coalition has closed the airspace
over Sanaa, preventing the rebel
delegation’s plane from reaching
the capital.
Since the start of the two-year
war, the Saudi-led coalition has
been in control of the airspace
over neighboring Yemen.
BY JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
BUILTH WELLS, Wales — Welsh farmers like
Rees Roberts, who has 1,000 acres with sheep,
cattle and crops, can expect to earn a premium
on their meats thanks to a certificate of regional
authenticity.
But that marker of distinction — the same kind
that ensures champagne can only come from the
French region of the same name — is granted by
the European Union and is now at risk after Britain voted to leave the 28-country bloc.
The certificates, of which there are 73 across
Britain for goods like Stilton cheese and Melton
Mowbray pork pies, not only help farmers earn
more but also shape rural communities’ identities. Add to that the loss of $3.97 billion in EU
subsidies for U.K. farmers, potential new tariffs
and fears that agriculture will not be prioritized
in trade talks with the EU, and the decision to
leave the 28-nation bloc promises to be painful.
“The voters weren’t thinking it through,” said
Roberts, 65, as he discussed the uncertainty with
fellow farmers at a fair in the village of Builth
Wells.
For Welsh farmers, EU membership cushioned
against tough times. Sheep flocks have fallen in
size by 20 percent since a 1999 peak, while farmers’ real annual average incomes have tumbled
nearly a third since 2003, to the equivalent of
$29,250, according to government figures. The
potential loss of preferential trade with Europe
has left Wales rushing to export its lamb and beef
to the United States, with the government submitting a 1,000-page proposal to the U.S. Agriculture
Department last month ahead of upcoming trade
talks in April.
The move was driven in part by concerns that
negotiations over the next two years on Britain
departing the EU will prioritize London banking
jobs while downplaying the needs of those in the
hinterlands without the posh salaries.
“There are many concerns of how influential
agriculture will be in these negotiations, both
in terms of trade and direct financial support,
when compared to the powerful sectors such as
financial services,” said Dai Davies, chairman of
Welsh meat promoter Hybu Cig Cymru.
Davies was at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth
Wells — among the largest agricultural fairs in
Europe — to listen to farmers’ concerns and an-
Indian activist
ends 16-year
hunger strike
Associated Press
K IRSTY WIGGLESWORTH /AP
A butcher hangs meat at Rhonda Meats Ltd. at
Smithfield Market in London.
swer their questions. A sense of seriousness and
urgency dominated the mood, despite the sheepshearing contests, food stalls and a folk rendition
of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”
Even though Wales is a net beneficiary of EU
support, it voted to leave the EU by 53 percent to
47 percent, a fact that reflects the complexities of
global trade.
Many people in rural Britain, including Wales,
are against the EU because the open borders required by membership challenges their sense of
national identity. In some voters’ minds, globalization is synonymous with regulations, immigrants and the loss of jobs to low-cost countries in
Eastern Europe or China. Those emotions come
even though the union also had carved out markets for goods linked to Britain’s heritage.
IMPHAL, India — One of
India’s most prominent political
activists ended a 16-year hunger
strike Tuesday, licking honey
from her hand and declaring, “I
will never forget this moment.”
Irom Sharmila had been forcefed through a tube in her nose and
held by police since November
2000, when she began her fast to
protest a draconian security law
that gives immense power to security forces in the northeastern
state of Manipur.
Earlier Tuesday, a judge had
granted her bail after she assured
him that she planned to end her
fast. Hours later, she appeared at
a news conference, the nose tube
already removed, and tasted the
honey.
She said she plans to run in the
next Manipur state elections, in
early 2017, to fight to have the security act struck down.
“I need power to remove this
act,” said Sharmila, 44. “I am the
real embodiment of revolution.”
Asked how she felt to finally eat,
she said “I will never forget this
moment.”
She began her fast days after 10
civilians were killed by paramilitary soldiers in Manipur, which
has long been plagued by uprisings
by ethnic separatist militants and
violent government crackdowns.
She was charged with attempting suicide, a crime in India, allowing officials to force-feed her.
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N
ormally I’m no fan of the sillyseason stuff, and you know exactly what I’m talking about.
I’d rather know what a political candidate thinks about the federal debt
than whether his wife is a looker. I’d rather
have some understanding of what another
candidate will do to lower the unemployment rate than whether her husband is still
playing around on the side. These are the
somewhat boring, yet nonetheless crucial
issues that face us in an election year.
Still, the silly stuff is amusing, and if
you’re having a particularly long and
stressful day, it’s enjoyable to plunge into
the sticky, sordid little pool of sound bites
and non-news.
For example, that thing about Donald
Trump yelling at a baby was good for a
chuckle. We all know he was joking, but
some of us will pretend he eats children for
breakfast because it advances our partisan
narrative.
And that whole dust-up when Hillary
Clinton said, “What difference does it
make?” in front of the Bengazi panel last
year? We all knew she wasn’t a callous
witch who brushed off the deaths of four
Americans as if they were bits of dandruff
on her pantsuit lapel. But it makes for great
talking points on the cable news shows, so
we run with it.
Those silly-season things, along with
the fabricated scandal of a reporter who
was manhandled by a Trump operative
and the attacks on Megyn Kelly (who can
defend herself quite well), are an insult to
the voter’s intelligence. Unfortunately, the
voters have shown that they deserve to be
insulted, particularly this year, with their
“Entertainment Tonight” tastes. It’s a bit
ironic to have so many people complaining about the way the media focus on the
irrelevancies when these are exactly the
things that drive the ratings. Chicken/egg?
Perhaps, but I think it’s more egg (public)/
chicken (media, which want the public to
pay attention).
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visa procedures for a professional model.
Usually, models are given permission to
work under what is known as an H-1B
visa, which is good for up to three years at
a time. This would have obviated the need
to travel back and forth to Slovenia every
few months to “stay legal,” as Melania has
been quoted as saying.
The most plausible explanation for what
Melania did appears to be coming into
and out of the country — legally, mind you
— on a tourist visa. There are tourist visas
for pleasure, and tourist visas for business, but neither of those visas allows you
to work. Yes, there are tiny exceptions, but
you don’t want to hear about them because
(1) your eyes will glaze over and (2) none of
them applies to sexy Slovenian models.
Melania was never, it appears, illegally
present in the country. She did not slip
across any border that will be sealed if her
husband gets to build his wall. She walked
in, head held high. But if she came in with
the intention of working, and had only that
tourist visa, she could be charged with
visa fraud. And that is a big no-no if your
husband is accusing lots of other people of
being murderers, rapists and terrorists.
Her ex-agent swears that he obtained
an H1-B for Melania before she ever modeled for money, and that she was just “confused” when she made those statements
about going in and out of the country to
“stay legal.”
But until we see the paperwork, which is
as readily available as Trump’s tax returns,
there will be a cloud over Melania Trump.
So that is why this story is not part of
the “silly season.” Donald Trump’s unfortunate commentaries about illegal aliens
made this story a relevant one, and it unfortunately dragged his wife into a situation that will make her homage to Michelle
Obama at the Republican National Convention seem tame in comparison.
Moral of the story: Not everything that
seems silly really is. Now, can we talk about
Hillary’s horrendous taste in pantsuits?
Christine Flowers is a lawyer and a columnist for
the Philadelphia Daily News.
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Of course, one man’s
“silly” is another’s
“important,” and depending upon whom
you are supporting in
the presidential election, that could all be
relative. And speaking of relative, or
relatives, I normally
don’t like to talk about
them when it comes
M. Trump
to politics. That’s because they, generally, do not choose to be
thrust into the public spotlight when their
husband, wife, mother, daughter, sibling or
former step-cousin, once removed, decides
to throw his or her hat in the ring.
With Clinton, that’s, of course, a different story, because her most visible relative
was himself a politician who did the sort of
thing men often do whenever they have the
opportunity, but who rarely get that opportunity in the Oval Office.
Now, up until a short while ago, I strongly believed that Trump’s better half fell
into that general category of “off-limits,”
because Melania never thrust herself into
the public spotlight. OK, she did, but that
spotlight had less to do with elections and
more to do with something that rhymes
with elections. Something Hillary’s husband could appreciate.
I was someone who basically said the
racy photos Melania had posed for over
two decades ago were a personal matter,
between her and several million subscribers to the racy gentleman’s magazine in
which they appeared. But seriously, it had
nothing to do with Trump’s candidacy.
Now, however, there is a suggestion that
Melania shot those photos when she was
working as a model in the United States but
before she actually had permission to work
in the United States. It’s still only speculation at this point, because her original visa
documents haven’t been made available to
the public, but Melania’s description of having to return to her native Slovenia “every
few months” to get her “papers stamped”
is not consistent with what I know to be the
Bloomberg View
A
lot of Americans are doing work
on the side these days. This isn’t
apparent in the monthly employment data, which showed only 4.6
percent of workers holding multiple jobs
in June, down from more than 6 percent
in the mid-1990s. But evidence has been
emerging in dribs and drabs from other
sources. Here’s a new drib, courtesy of the
Federal Reserve Board’s “Report on the
Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households
in 2015,” which came out in May but hasn’t
gotten a whole lot of attention:
“Twenty-two percent of employed adults
indicate that they are either working multiple jobs, doing informal work for pay in
addition to their main job, or both.”
Of those, half (11 percent of employed
adults), reported doing informal work,
which the Fed survey described to respondents as work for pay that isn’t a formal
job and “may include activities like selling
items you make at flea markets or online;
freelance work through companies like
Uber, Care.com, or Airbnb; or providing
services for others like paid child care or
yard work.” Of those who didn’t have a formal job (and weren’t either students or retirees), 27 percent reported doing informal
work.
The monthly jobs survey administered by
the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor
Statistics doesn’t specifically ask about this
kind of “gig” work. Neither, for that matter,
does the survey of “Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements” that
the BLS is planning to resurrect next year
after a 12-year hiatus (and that economists
Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger commissioned a smaller version of last year). That
survey focuses on independent contractors,
on-call workers, temps and the like, but
isn’t really set up to capture things like selling stuff at a flea market or renting out your
apartment on Airbnb.
The new Fed survey doesn’t show whether informal work is on the rise — although
others have looked at the number of 1099MISC nonemployee-compensation forms
filed with the Internal Revenue Service
through the years and concluded that it is.
What the Fed does offer is a fascinating
breakdown of the incomes and educational backgrounds of those who do informal
work. Having a low income means you’re
more likely to do informal work, which
isn’t surprising. But being more educated
also means you’re more likely to do informal work.
Steve King, of Emergent Research, who
tipped me off to the Fed survey, wrote in
an email that this was consistent with the
results of a survey of on-demand-economy
(ODE in the following passage) workers
that he designed for Intuit last year:
“Part of this is age. Younger people are
more educated on average than older and
the ODE workforce skews young. Those
aged 19-34 make up 38% of the ODE workforce and about 30% of the U.S. population.
But this only explains part of it.
“We think the other issue is many of the
jobs available in the ODE require skills.
Marketplaces like Fiverr, Upwork, Hourly
Nerd, etc. are all skills based. Not surprisingly, the folks working via these sites have
higher education levels than average.
“But even things like Uber, Lyft, Task
Rabbit and especially sites like Etsy and
Airbnb require good online skills. We think
this leads to higher education levels.”
Another way of looking at the Fed’s
income-education breakdown, though,
is that the on-demand or gig or sharing
economy is being powered in large part
by highly educated people who can’t get
steady jobs that pay well. Last year, freelance journalist Monica Potts wrote a long
lament for the Washington Monthly subtitled “How the ‘sharing economy’ allows
Millennials to cope with downward mobility, and also makes them poorer.” I found
it affecting, but wasn’t convinced that it
applied to more than a few liberal-artscollege graduates in a few coastal cities.
Now I’m starting to think it might be bigger than that.
Justin Fox is a Bloomberg View columnist .
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Olympic distraction arrives just in time
BY DICK M EYER
Scripps Washington Bureau
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hank God for the Summer Olympics. They have never come at a
better time.
What could possibly be a better
prescription for our tired, election-fried
nation than spending a couple weeks obsessed with beach volleyball, badminton,
pole vaulting and the modern pentathlon?
Absolutely nothing. If I could spend all two
weeks doing nothing but watching Olympic
sports, I would.
The Olympics this year are a heavensent opportunity to indulge in distraction
and moral uplift, both of which we desperately need. So go ahead and indulge.
In this modern age, we are a mediasoaked people, with big screens on our wall
and tiny screens in our paws. Personally, I
think this will drive our species to robotic
despondence in a few short decades, but
that’s another story.
Right now, we are drowning from a multimedia hose spraying constant updates of
this dreadful, demoralizing and infinite
election. We deserve a break today and the
easiest way to get it is to massively change
the channel.
What would happen if we, the voters,
took our eyes off this two-year marketing
marathon for two weeks? Nothing. If a tree
falls in a forest and no one hears it, it still
falls. Or something like that. Whatever.
Maybe Donald Trump will do something
way crazier or offensive than he’s ever done
before. That’s very possible, but so what?
It’s hard to imagine what’s left for him to
do that would convince his opponents that
he’s sane, decent and fit for office or convince his ardent backers that he’s insane,
indecent and unfit for office. And if he does
pull off something so mega-yuuuge, we’ll
have plenty time to ponder it after the last
A LESSANDRA TARANTINO/AP
Dancers perform Sunday before the start of the women’s team archery competition at
the Sambadrome venue during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
gold medal is awarded.
Maybe Trump will drop out — take his
toys and go back to his tower. Then the 168
members of the Republican National Committee will meet somewhere and pick a
new nominee. Maybe it will be Paul Ryan
or Mitt Romney or even Vladimir Putin,
Trump’s choice. Whatever. You can read
about it during breaks in women’s gymnastics and still have more than two months to
ponder your vote.
Maybe Trump’s opposition research
team or Russian hackers will unearth some
angle to a Hillary Clinton scandal that 25
years of digging has missed. Maybe her
untrustworthy rating will actually exceed
100 percent. Maybe she’ll crash in the polls
and retreat to a spa for a month. Whatever.
We the voters will still have weeks and
weeks and tweets and tweets to sort it all
out, after the Olympic closing ceremony.
But most likely, nothing truly consequential will happen, the whole political-warming climate will cool down and the air will
freshen a tad and this whole calamity will
feel less calamitous — for a blessed while
at least.
I know there are some people who are
truly excited and inspired by Hillary Clinton and her quest, people who are loving
this campaign. And I know there are people
who truly think Donald Trump is a gutsy
maverick and not another political BS artist and they are loving this campaign. But
I haven’t met very many. Even fans of the
two candidates are grossed out by the big
picture.
This campaign has been the opposite of
uplifting.
What better tonic could there be than
rooting for someone or some team with
crazy, silly abandon for a couple days? Especially if you choose an athlete to support
randomly, with no prior attachment and
therefore little risk of heartbreak when
they don’t medal.
The randomness is part of the fun. My
planned random interest this year is going
to be men’s crew. I am going to pull for the
Americans in the men’s double scull, but
I intend to become a maven on the pairs
from New Zealand and Slovenia.
I intend to judge and award points on
every gymnastic and diving event, men’s
and women’s, and become irate when inexperienced, nationalistic judges disagree
with my objective, expert judgments.
I vow to renounce my lifelong commitment to mocking and besmirching every
single corny, “up close and personal profile.” I will be uplifted by every Bulgarian
weightlifter and totally in sync with every
synchronized swimmer.
If I knew how to change my ringtone — I
think that’s what it’s called — to the Olympic theme song, I would.
I hope the television ratings for the
Olympics set new records, too. I hope the
cable news ratings and news websites’ traffic plummets to glorious lows. I hope Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump disappear
from human consciousness for a couple of
weeks, replaced by fencing, table tennis
and women’s kayaking.
I will be uplifted, damn it.
Dick Meyer is chief Washington correspondent for
the Scripps Washington Bureau and DecodeDC .
Gap year can offer life-changing opportunities
BY R EBECCA S. FAHRLANDER
The Philadelphia Inquirer
T
aking a break between high school
and university — a gap year — has
been trending in recent years.
Prince William famously took a
gap year to travel and volunteer for worthy
causes. More recently, Malia Obama decided to postpone entering university for
a year.
The gap year offers an opportunity to
make a transition between two stages of a
young life — taking a break from formal
education and substituting the informal
learning from travel and work in the socalled real world.
A few decades back, when it was not
quite as common as it is today, I took my
gap year. Actually, I took two. An honors
student, I certainly was academically prepared to go straight to college. However,
I felt I needed a break. Also, unlike many
teenagers, I had no work experience. I
was not sure what I wanted to do with this
seemingly endless road of life, and thus
took time off to work in a large corporation and do a bit of travel.
In many ways, it was a rational transition from classes to this environment.
This corporate world required some of the
same qualities as school, including persistence, punctuality and math, reading and
social skills. I also spent most of the first
half-year taking training and classes, ap-
It was also easy to see that college afforded better
opportunities in general for more interesting and
autonomous work.
titude tests and learning from others.
As I look back now, I realize that I
learned many valuable lessons from that
experience.
First, I learned enough about myself
to begin to sort out what I wanted to do.
I realized I was not suited to a business
career. I was good at the work I did, but
I could not envision spending a lifetime
of days in that environment. I wanted to
use my mind and creativity more, and to
make a difference in the world. I wanted
to have control over what, where and how
I did my life’s work, not be so stifled by
bureaucratic rules.
Second, it was during my gap years that
I began to travel and to learn I could go
anywhere. Of course, I had traveled with
my family before this, but during my gap
years I planned trips and traveled by myself or with a friend.
I planned a couple of trips to California, taking in the counter culture of San
Francisco and the celebrity glow of LA.
This was the start of my lifelong love of
the Golden State.
A trip with coworkers to Las Vegas left
me with an impression of how lives can
take the wrong path. Being underage (and
thus barred from casinos) and totally uninterested in the main activities the city is
known for, I spent much of my time there
observing people as well as attending concerts and shows. I found the city to be as
sad as it was glamorous — a place where
people found themselves stranded due to
bad choices they had made.
From these trips, I realized that I wanted to travel more throughout the world.
I also learned that travel itself was not
enough; that being happy with what one
was doing 52 weeks a year was central to
a happy life.
I learned about hierarchies and, perhaps
ironically, the importance of education.
The people with higher-level positions,
which usually required more education,
were clearly treated with more deference.
It was also easy to see that college afforded better opportunities in general for
more interesting and autonomous work.
It was also in my gap years that I learned
the reality of women’s inequality in work
and society. Even as a child, I had questioned the limitations placed on women.
But as a worker myself, I learned about
the daily reality of being treated differently as a woman.
For example, although I had scored far
higher on a computer aptitude/IT training program test than the young man who
sat next to me in my department, he was
called into the training class well before I
was. Indeed, my gap years were over and
I left for college before being called up for
that program.
Perhaps most important, I learned that
human potential must not be wasted;
that each of us must strive to do the most
with his time and talents; that it was up
to each of us to take the initiative rather
than wait for someone else to recognize
one’s strengths and talents. I could not
wait around for someone to invite me
into a certain life. I had to make that life
myself.
Thus, by the end of my gap years, I had
an appreciation of the university experience and what a difference it could make
in my life. As my second summer of work
drew to a close, I gave notice and entered
college, eager to embrace the experience,
do my best and make up for lost time.
I pushed through my undergraduate
degree in two years and nine months, my
gap years behind me but informing my
path ahead.
Rebecca S. Fahrlander is an adjunct professor
of psychology and sociology at the University
of Nebraska Omaha. She wrote this for The
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Man killed in fire was
smoking, on oxygen
ST. PAUL — AuthoriMN
ties have identified a
St. Paul man who died in a weekend house fire.
Neighbors called in the fire
early Saturday morning as they
saw smoke coming out of the
man’s home. Firefighters extinguished a fire in the basement
and found a man dead in a living
room chair. They found no other
victims.
The man was identified Monday as Michael Cyril Buckley, 64.
St. Paul Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard said the fire was caused by
smoking while using an oxygen
tank.
Neighbors said Buckley lived
alone and appeared to have health
issues that might have impaired
his ability to move.
THE CENSUS
The approximate number of miles traveled by a 25-pound pet tortoise during a day on the loose in Oklahoma.
Becca Funa, of Yukon, just west of Oklahoma City, said her tortoise, Desta, is remarkably fast, and “you can’t exactly put a collar on him.” This was the tortoise’s second escape from home. Funa said Desta spends most days in
her backyard. She told Oklahoma City television station KWTV that she noticed Desta was missing on Friday. On
Saturday, a woman found the tortoise at Yukon City Park, and Funa was reunited with her pet later that night. Funa
said she suspects Desta got out through an open gate in the yard.
1
Banning coffee while
driving? Not so fast
TRENTON — Drivers
NJ
who drink coffee behind
the wheel don’t need to worry
about getting a ticket in New Jersey anytime soon.
The sponsor of a bill targeting
distracted driving said his measure doesn’t specifically cite coffee, despite recent news reports
focusing on the beverage.
Democratic
Assemblyman
John Wisniewski said the legislation is aimed at discouraging
distracted driving and that he
cannot imagine that a police officer would pull anyone over for
drinking coffee.
Current law already prohibits
texting or talking without a handsfree device. The new legislation is
broader and would bar distracted
driving generally. Wisniewski
says he sponsored the bill to avoid
the need for new legislation every
time technology changes.
Giraffe born at zoo,
meets older brother
ROYAL OAK — A 5foot-tall baby is a new
resident of the Detroit Zoo.
The zoo, in Royal Oak, said the
female giraffe was born outdoors
Saturday at the giraffe habitat
to Kivuli, age 7, following a 14month gestation. Animal care
staff said she took her first steps
within a half-hour of her birth
and nursed throughout the night.
The father of the yet-to-benamed calf is Jabari, 8. This is
the pair’s second offspring in two
years; Mpenzi was born at the zoo
in 2014.
Scott Carter, the Detroit Zoological Society chief life sciences
officer, said in a statement that
the calf “has been spending time
with mom and is curious about
big brother Mpenzi.” The calf
weighs 166 pounds. Fully grown,
she can be 18 feet tall and up to
2,600 pounds.
MI
Robbery? No, thanks.
Clerk, customers refuse
ANDERSON — It
SC
seems the clerk and
customers at a South Carolina tobacco store simply refused to be
robbed.
JIM C OLE /AP
Doing it old school
Teams of oxen help pull the Orleans County Grammar School in Brownington, Vt., on Monday. More than 1,000 people showed up to watch
the teams move the building, which was built in 1823, with the help of a modern-day motor.
Anderson County sheriff’s
Capt. Garland Major told local
news outlets that a man entered
the Tobacco Jungle shop Sunday
evening wielding a gun and demanding money. No one listened
to the would-be robber, and he
left with nothing.
Major said the clerk wrestled
with the man, who then turned
his attention to store customers.
They also refused to give him
money.
Major said video footage
showed the man wielding a “musket-style” handgun — something
that appeared to be a cross between a pirate gun and a sawedoff shotgun.
Police said the man is thought
to have driven off in a car parked
near the store.
ticed the object looked like bone,
he called in the experts.
Utah State University sent
someone to inspect the find and
determined it was a 3½-foot tusk
of a Columbian mammoth.
Members of that species were
12 to 15 feet tall, and the university said they likely roamed the
grasslands of Lake Bonneville.
Both Utah State University and
Brigham Young University took a
piece of the tusk for carbon dating. It could be anywhere from
12,000 to 15,000 years old.
Man digs on property,
finds mammoth tusk
arrest last week. Police said he
attempted to trade drugs for sex
in a sting operation.
City officials said in a news release Monday that Silverthorne’s
resignation will be effective as of
noon Thursday. The City Council
has scheduled a special meeting
Tuesday night.
Silverthorne was arrested
Thursday on drug distribution
charges. Police said they received
PRESTON — An Idaho
ID
man stumbled upon a
rare find while digging in a gravel pit on his property.
Kasey Keller, of Preston, told
KIFI-TV that at first he thought
he’d found a plastic pipe, then
petrified wood. But when he no-
Mayor to resign after
drugs, sex sting arrest
FAIRFAX — Fairfax
VA
Mayor R. Scott Silverthorne is resigning after his
a tip that Silverthorne was using
a dating website to set up sexual
encounters with other men in exchange for drugs.
Police said Silverthorne gave
an undercover detective two
grams of methamphetamine outside a Tysons Corner hotel before
his arrest.
Candy that sickened 19
at party contained THC
FRANCISCO —
CA SAN
San Francisco health
officials suspect the gummy candies that sickened 19 people at a
birthday party contained edible
marijuana.
Final lab results weren’t available Monday, but officials say
some of the hospitalized patients
tested positive for THC, the
main psychoactive ingredient in
marijuana.
Thirteen of the patients were 18
or younger. The youngest was 6.
They were hospitalized Saturday, and all had been discharged
by Monday morning.
The patients’ symptoms were
consistent with the effects of edible cannabis, including rapid
heart rate, high blood pressure,
dilated pupils, dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea, lethargy and
confusion.
San Francisco’s health officer,
Dr. Tomas Aragon said officials
don’t know where the candies
came from.
Missing toddler pops
out of soybean field
DUNCOMBE — Authorities said a missing
3-year-old was found alongside
a farm field near his Webster
County home.
Volunteers
joined
county
emergency response teams for a
search after the boy was reported
missing about 3 p.m. Sunday.
The Messenger reported that
two drones and people on horses
combed the property near Duncombe, along with searchers on
foot.
To the relief of searchers, at
about 6 p.m. the boy popped out
of a soybean field that hadn’t yet
been covered. It’s unclear whether he suffered any injury.
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Pharoah,
Killam not
returning
to ‘SNL’
Other Fox news
Associated Press
“Saturday Night Live” cast
member Taran Killam said he
“was never given a reason why”
he was being let go after six seasons on the NBC program.
Killam and fellow cast member Jay Pharoah won’t be back
when “SNL” returns this fall for
its 42nd season, the network said
Monday.
Killam told Uproxx in an interview published Monday that he
was planning on making the upcoming season of “SNL” his final
one before being told that his contract wasn’t being picked up.
“I was never given a reason
why, really. I can assume until
the cows come home,” he said.
Killam speculated that the production schedule of a film he’s
directing and starring in, “Why
We’re Killing Gunther,” may
have played a part because two
months of post-production work
on the movie would have coincided with “SNL’s” production
schedule. Whatever the reason
for his departure, Killam said he
has “no gripes” about his time as
part of the comedy institution.
Killam performed several celebrity impressions on the show,
including Brad Pitt and Donald
Trump — although the Trump
role went to “SNL” announcer
and former star Darrell Hammond during the past season.
Pharoah also was on the program for six seasons and had
the coveted role of impersonating President Barack Obama. He
was also known for his send-ups
of Kanye West, Jay Z, Shaquille
O’Neal and others.
Other news
Spotify said “The Girl from
Ipanema” was streamed more
than 40,000 times a day, a 1,200
percent rise for the track, after
the Olympics kicked off Friday
night in Rio de Janeiro. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen walked
onstage during the opening ceremony while the Grammy-winning song from 1964 played.
Led Zeppelin won the copyright war over its creation of
“Stairway to Heaven,” but it lost
its battle Monday to recoup nearly $800,000 in defense fees. A
Los Angeles federal jury in June
found that guitarist Jimmy Page
and singer Robert Plant did not
lift the introduction of “Stairway”
from an obscure instrumental
written by the late Randy Wolfe,
founder of the band Spirit.
NSYNC got back together, at
least for a night. The boy band’s
former frontman, Justin Timberlake, posted a picture on Instagram of himself alongside fellow
NSYNC members Joey Fatone,
Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick
and J.C. Chasez. Timberlake
noted in the caption that they
were celebrating Chasez’s 40th
birthday. NSYNC went on hiatus
in 2002.
FOX /AP
Significant talks are underway with “The X-Files” stars Gillian Anderson, right, and Duchovny, left, and
creator Chris Carter for more of the drama series, Fox’s entertainment president said Monday.
‘X-Files’ might return
Associated Press
Significant talks are underway
with “The X-Files” stars Gillian
Anderson and David Duchovny
and creator Chris Carter for more
of the drama series, Fox’s entertainment president said.
“Schedules are hard, but we
are working hard to get this done
and we would love to get another
season out soon,” programming
chief David Madden told a TV
critics meeting in Beverly Hills,
Calif., on Monday.
Fox touted the 16 million viewers who watched each of the six
episodes that brought the 19932002 sci-fi series back to this
year.
But what about the mixed reviews it got, reporters asked Madden and Dana Walden, chairman
and CEO of Fox Television Group.
Because the series had been off
the air for so long, it faced the
challenge of filling in its larger
“mythology” and fast-forwarding the characters’ lives, Walden
said.
“Going forward, there won’t be
the same obligation to reset the
series,” she said.
Walden disputed the characterization of how the show was received, saying it earned glowing
reviews as well as negative ones.
The chatter on Fox’s social media
platforms was overwhelmingly
positive, she added.
“I think that there was some
very strong work throughout the
season, and we look forward to
more,” Madden said, defending
Carter and his production team.
Creator says
‘Pitch’ isn’t just
baseball show
Associated Press
An upcoming Fox drama about the first woman
to play Major League Baseball is not merely about
baseball, said its co-creator and co-executive producer, Dan Fogelman.
“It’s a show that takes place in the world of baseball,” he said. “It’s about this young woman coming
of age with the lens of the world watching her.”
Fogelman doesn’t believe the series is based in
folklore either, but more a precursor to when women
do play pro sports with men.
“I think this is going to happen in modern lifetime.
The human anatomy makes it a challenge,” he said.
“It’s addressed in the pilot. I think the right young
woman is going to come along.”
Fox also draws upon the network’s partnership
with the real MLB when it is time to play ball to
keep the games looking as realistic as possible.
Series lead Kylie Bunbury spent 2½ months
learning to pitch prior to filming, and her efforts
have paid off.
“The girl can pitch now,” said another co-executive producer, Paris Barclay. “Now she’s pitching
and she’s got a little heat and she’s got great form.”
RICHARD SHOTWELL , INVISION /AP
Kylie Bunbury spent 2½ months learning how
to pitch for her role in the upcoming Fox drama,
“Pitch,” about the first woman to play Major
League Baseball.
“The Simpsons” is doubling
down with an hourlong episode
in January, the first time the
half-hour animated series has expanded to a full hour. Al Jean, executive producer of the series that
revels in daring humor, included
a political shot in announcing the
episode. “I just pray it won’t be
the last thing people see before
a Trump inauguration,” Jean
said in a statement. The airdate
for the episode, titled “The Great
Phatsby,” a play on the classic
“The Great Gatsby,” was not announced. “The Simpsons” begins
its 28th season on Sept. 25, and
will reach its 600-episode milestone Oct. 16.
An upcoming Sunday night
in September will be Amy Schumer night. The comedian will voice
characters on “The Simpsons,”
“Bob’s Burgers” and “Family
Guy” on the episodes airing Sept.
25. In each show, she plays someone different. Fox said Schumer
has already recorded her appearances and completed them in one
session. Network chairman Dana
Walden said the idea was to have
the same actor bring a “connective tissue throughout the night.”
Worlds are colliding on
the network as Andy Samberg’s
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” character
Jake is about to meet Jess from
“New Girl,” played by Zooey Deschanel. Characters from “New
Girl” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
will cross over in back-to-back
episodes airing Oct. 11. The only
plot detail revealed is that the
“New Girl” gang will head to New
York, where they meet the crew
from the “Nine-Nine” precinct.
This isn’t the first combo event
for the network. Last season,
“Bones” and “Sleepy Hollow”
also crossed over to ratings success. “New Girl” premieres its
sixth season and “Brooklyn NineNine” debuts season four Sept.
20.
After two seasons of teasing
viewers, Mariah Carey has set a
date to guest star on “Empire.”
Carey will appear on the Oct. 5
episode. She will play a superstar singer named Kitty, who collaborates with Jussie Smollett’s
character, Jamal Lyon, on a new
song. Lyon has a creative block
until Kitty helps him deal with
some personal issues to make
the song work. “Mariah loves
the show” and has long made a
point of sharing her passion for
it when they have met at events,
said Dana Walden, chairman and
CEO of the Fox Television Group.
Other guest stars confirmed for
season three, which debuts Sept.
21, include actor Taye Diggs and
rapper French Montana.
Viewers might pay a lot of attention to what Taraji P. Henson
wears as Cookie on “Empire,”
but guess who doesn’t? Taraji P.
Henson. “It’s not my job,” Henson said Monday. That’s not to say
that some outfits have caused her
to have colorful commentary. “I
remember one outfit I looked like
I had aluminum foil on,” another
time “a sushi roll,” and then there
was a time she wore what resembled “fur noodles.” But, in the
end, she’s fine with what’s picked
for her. “I’m not the costumer. I
tell them bring it to me, I’ll put it
on and make it work.”
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Gold medal gadgetry
Olympics offer showcase for tech such as VR, payments ring
BY M AE A NDERSON
AND RYAN NAKASHIMA
Associated Press
B
esides dazzling feats of athleticism, dazzling new technologies will be on display at the
Olympics.
About 217 million viewers in the U.S.
alone tuned in to the London Olympics four years ago, making it the most
watched TV event in history. The television audience is expected to increase
for the Rio Olympics, which formally
opened Friday. Others will tune in online
or watch the games in person in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
That makes the Olympics an excellent
showcase for new and emerging technologies. Such brands as Visa and Samsung
are taking the opportunity to show off
their wares.
Visa’s
payment ring
Visa, a 30-year Olympics sponsor, is running
the payment systems at
the Olympics. Visa is
equipping about 4,000
payment terminals at
souvenir shops, concession stands and
other Olympic venues with a wireless
technology called
near-field-com-
munication, or NFC.
Visa planned to give payment rings to
59 athletes to wear. With a tap on an NFC
payment terminal, they can charge their
Visa accounts. Giving the ring to Olympic athletes like swimmer Missy Franklin and decathlete Ashton Eaton lets Visa
test the technology while garnering buzz
as athletes tweet about them and wear
them around the Olympic village.
Samsung’s special edition
Galaxy S7
Samsung, another Olympic sponsor, delivered a special Olympic Games
edition of its Galaxy S7 Edge phone to
12,500 Olympians. The phone is branded
with the Olympic rings and has Olympics-themed wallpapers loaded on the device. The company also made 2,016 of the
Olympic phones for the public to buy in
selected countries, including Brazil, the
U.S. and South Korea.
One feature Samsung expected to make
a splash: The phones come with a flag
app, which athletes were encouraged to
hold up as they walked together by country during the opening ceremonies.
NBC gets into VR,
Getty goes 360
Some viewers will get to see virtualreality content, along with 360-degree
video and images. NBC, which has television and online rights in the U.S., plans 85
hours of VR coverage through the NBC
Sports app on Samsung’s Gear VR headset. VR events will include opening and
closing ceremonies, men’s basketball,
gymnastics and track and field. They will
typically be shown on a one-day delay.
Getty, the Olympics’ official photography agency, launched a virtual-reality
division in June to focus on 360-degree
images. Getty shot some 360-degree images at the London Olympics in 2012, but
this time every Getty photographer will
have a 360-degree camera.
“We are only on the cusp of what will
be a tectonic plate shift in VR,” Getty
CEO Dawn Airey said.
High-tech coverage
NBC owner Comcast Corp. is showcasing its X1 set-top box, giving its customers a way to search for live coverage and
replays by country, athlete and sport.
It’s also integrating voice search into the
system, allowing viewers to get the latest medal count by speaking, “How is the
USA doing?” Comcast is also offering a
way to zip to gold medal event
highlights and restart events
that have already begun.
The X1 is one way Comcast is trying to help
viewers sort through
some 6,000 hours of
Olympics coverage. If
it boosts audiences
for the Olympics,
it’ll also help Comcast recoup some of
the $4.4 billion that
NBC paid for U.S.
broadcast rights
over six years.
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Delta’s ongoing woes: More flights canceled
Associated Press
DALLAS — Delta’s travails,
and those of its customers, move
into day two with the airline canceling nearly 250 flights.
The cancellations Tuesday follow about 1,000 canceled flights
Monday and almost 3,000 delayed
flights after an outage at its Atlanta headquarters initiated a global
meltdown of its booking and communications systems.
The airline was back online
after a number of hours Monday,
but the outages were so widespread that it is still dealing with
the ripple effects a day later.
The airline posted a video apology by CEO Ed Bastian. And it
offered refunds and $200 in travel
vouchers to people whose flights
were canceled or delayed at least
three hours.
Delta’s challenge on Tuesday
was to find enough seats on planes
during the busy summer vacation season to accommodate the
tens of thousands of passengers
whose flights were scrubbed. Last
month, the average Delta flight
was 87 percent full.
For passengers, hardship from
the early Monday morning meltdown was compounded by the fact
that Delta’s flight-status updates
weren’t working either. Instead
of being able to stay home, many
passengers only learned about the
flight problems when they arrived
at the airport.
“By the time I showed up at the
gate the employees were already
disgruntled, and it was really difficult to get anybody to speak to
me or get any information,” said
Ashley Roache, whose flight from
Lexington, Ky., to New York’s
LaGuardia Airport was delayed.
“The company could have done
a better job of explaining ... what
was happening.”
Delta
spokesman
Trebor
Banstetter said that after a power
outage at the company’s Atlanta
headquarters, some key systems
and network equipment did not
switch over to backup systems.
He said the airline’s investigation
into the cause of the outage was
continuing but said there were no
indications of hacking.
A spokesman for Georgia Power
said that the company believes a
failure of Delta equipment caused
the airline’s power outage. He said
no other customers lost power.
Delta declined to comment on the
power company’s report.
Flights that were already in the
air when the outage occurred continued to their destinations, but
flights on the ground remained
there.
Delta Air Lines Inc. ranks as
the third-largest in the world by
number of passengers carried,
with 138.8 million travelers last
year, according to industry group
IATA. It was narrowly beaten
only by American Airlines and
Southwest Airlines, with all of
them flying mostly within the
United States.
Airlines depend on huge, overlapping and complicated systems
to operate flights, schedule crews
and run ticketing, boarding, airport kiosks, websites and mobile
phone apps. Even brief outages
can snarl traffic and cause long
delays.
That has afflicted airlines in
the U.S. and abroad.
Last month, Southwest Airlines
canceled more than 2,000 flights
over four days after an outage
that it blamed on a faulty network
router.
United Airlines suffered a series of massive IT meltdowns after
combining its technology systems
with those of merger partner Continental Airlines.
Lines for British Airways at
some airports have grown longer as the carrier updates its
systems.
MARKET WATCH
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (Aug. 10) .........................$1.1368
Dollar buys (Aug. 10) ........................€0.8797
British pound (Aug. 10)........................ $1.33
Japanese yen (Aug. 10) .....................100.00
South Korean won (Aug. 10) ........ 1,080.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound .....................................$1.2963
Canada (Dollar) ................................... 1.3124
China (Yuan) ........................................6.6619
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6986
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8802
Euro ........................................ $1.1103/0.9007
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7573
Hungary (Forint) ................................. 279.72
Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.8174
Japan (Yen)........................................... 101.97
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3020
Norway (Krone) ................................... 8.4197
Philippines (Peso).................................46.84
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.84
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7504
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3461
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,102.04
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9828
Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 34.92
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.9728
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ...........................................0.305
30-year bond ........................................... 2.31
WEATHER OUTLOOK
WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC
WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
80/67
Kabul
94/66
Baghdad
116/85
Kuwait
City
118/91
Riyadh
111/84
Seoul
95/76
Kandahar
104/75
Bahrain
112/91
Brussels
62/47
Lajes,
Azores
76/68
Doha
113/90
Ramstein
65/42
Stuttgart
63/47
Iwakuni
96/77
Sasebo
97/79
Guam
85/78
Pápa
63/49
Aviano/
Vicenza
72/57
Naples
84/71
Morón
98/71
Sigonella
95/70
Rota
88/72
Djibouti
102/83
Tokyo
85/74
Osan
94/74 Busan
93/77
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
67/56
Okinawa
88/80
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
89/74
WEDNESDAY’s US temperatures
City
Hi
Abilene, Texas
100
Akron, Ohio
87
Albany, N.Y.
80
Albuquerque
85
Allentown, Pa.
85
Amarillo
92
Anchorage
64
Asheville
80
Atlanta
84
Atlantic City
88
Austin
101
Baltimore
90
Baton Rouge
88
Billings
83
Birmingham
88
Bismarck
85
Boise
82
Boston
82
Bridgeport
83
Brownsville
98
Buffalo
86
Burlington, Vt.
87
Caribou, Maine
83
Casper
90
Charleston, S.C.
89
Charleston, W.Va. 89
Charlotte, N.C.
87
Lo
78
72
67
68
71
69
52
69
73
74
77
74
76
59
75
64
54
70
73
81
73
69
52
55
77
72
73
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Chattanooga
91
Cheyenne
87
Chicago
89
Cincinnati
87
Cleveland
89
Colorado Springs 88
Columbia, S.C.
90
Columbus, Ga.
86
Columbus, Ohio
88
Concord, N.H.
84
Corpus Christi
97
Dallas-Ft Worth 101
Dayton
87
Daytona Beach
90
Denver
89
Des Moines
92
Detroit
91
Duluth
71
El Paso
91
Elkins
85
Erie
84
Eugene
84
Evansville
89
Fairbanks
67
Fargo
84
Flagstaff
72
Flint
93
Fort Smith
98
74
59
70
73
73
59
75
74
73
62
80
80
71
75
63
69
71
62
72
68
73
53
72
53
64
52
67
77
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Fort Wayne
Fresno
Goodland
Grand Junction
Grand Rapids
Great Falls
Green Bay
Greensboro, N.C.
Harrisburg
Hartford Spgfld
Helena
Honolulu
Houston
Huntsville
Indianapolis
Jackson, Miss.
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Key West
Knoxville
Lake Charles
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
91
95
96
84
92
74
88
85
89
83
77
89
96
88
90
91
90
59
92
90
93
93
92
98
88
94
94
80
69
65
68
66
66
49
66
72
72
66
51
75
78
71
73
76
75
52
73
84
73
78
67
80
72
73
77
65
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Clr
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Louisville
Lubbock
Macon
Madison
Medford
Memphis
Miami Beach
Midland-Odessa
Milwaukee
Mpls-St Paul
Missoula
Mobile
Montgomery
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark
Norfolk, Va.
North Platte
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Paducah
Pendleton
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
89
96
86
88
88
94
90
99
86
90
73
86
88
91
85
85
87
88
94
98
93
92
91
83
90
88
96
86
74
73
73
67
58
78
80
77
70
71
49
76
76
74
77
73
73
75
67
75
73
74
72
54
71
73
84
72
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Pocatello
83
Portland, Maine
82
Portland, Ore.
81
Providence
81
Pueblo
96
Raleigh-Durham
88
Rapid City
95
Reno
89
Richmond
90
Roanoke
84
Rochester
88
Rockford
90
Sacramento
94
St Louis
94
St Petersburg
90
St Thomas
89
Salem, Ore.
85
Salt Lake City
91
San Angelo
102
San Antonio
100
San Diego
74
San Francisco
71
San Jose
82
San Juan, P.R.
90
Santa Fe
83
St Ste Marie
80
Savannah
89
Seattle
74
50
62
59
68
63
73
67
53
73
70
74
66
61
75
78
79
57
67
77
78
66
56
58
79
59
65
75
57
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Shreveport
96
Sioux City
95
Sioux Falls
93
South Bend
91
Spokane
78
Springfield, Ill.
90
Springfield, Mo.
91
Syracuse
85
Tallahassee
85
Tampa
89
Toledo
91
Topeka
95
Tucson
89
Tulsa
98
Tupelo
93
Waco
101
Washington, D.C. 91
W. Palm Beach
90
Wichita
95
Wichita Falls
101
Wilkes-Barre
83
Wilmington, Del. 88
Yakima
84
Youngstown
87
77
72
72
66
54
70
73
70
76
76
70
74
79
78
75
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77
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55
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National temperature extremes
Hi: Mon., 117, Death Valley, Calif.
Lo: Mon., 29, Denio, Nev.
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
Deals
Monday’s transactions
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
BASEBALL — Suspended San Francisco
OF Chuckie Jones (San Jose-CAL) 100
games, without pay, following a third
positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
American League
MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned OF Byron Buxton to Rochester (IL). Reinstated
3B Trevor Plouffe from the 15-day DL.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent SS Ketel
Marte to Tacoma (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Optioned RHPs Taijuan Walker
and Cody Martin and 2B Luis Sardinas to
Tacoma (PCL). Recalled 1B Mike Freeman
from Tacoma. Added RHP Arquimedes
Caminero to the 25-man roster.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed OF
Kevin Pillar on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF
Darrell Ceciliani from Buffalo (IL).
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned
RHP Evan Marshall to Reno (PCL).
ATLANTA BRAVES — Claimed RHP
Chaz Roe off waivers from Baltimore.
Transferred RHP Williams Perez to the
60-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP
Madison Younginer from Gwinnett (IL).
Designated 1B Brandon Snyder for assignment.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned
RHP David Goforth to Colorado Springs
(PCL). Placed RHP Junior Guerra on the
15-day DL. Recalled RHP Rob Scahill and
RHP Wily Peralta from Colorado Springs.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent LHP
Josh Osich to Richmond (EL) for a rehab
assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP
Cesar Gonzalez on a minor league contract.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Tony
Wroten, F Troy Williams and G/Fs Wayne
Selden Jr. and D.J. Stephens.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
ATLANTA FALCONS — Announced the
retirement of WR Lance Moore.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived DL
Kyle Rose. Signed DL Chigbo Anunoby.
DETROIT LIONS — Waived WR Damian
Copeland. Signed WR Alex Chisum.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived-injured
CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu. Signed CB Al LouisJean.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Released WR
Hakeem Nicks. Removed OT Terron Armstead from the PUP list. Signed LS Chris
Highland.
NEW YORK JETS — Waived-injured DL
Julien Obioha. Placed WR Chris King on
the reserve/did-not-report list. Removed
RB Khiry Robinson from the PUP list.
Signed WR Anthony Kelly and DL Christo
Bilukidi.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed
OL Kelvin Palmer.
COLLEGE
BARTON — Named Kyle Walthall
men’s and women’s assistant swimming
coach.
CLAYTON STATE — Named Ciaran
Lane graduate assistant coach for cross
country and track and field.
EDGEWOOD — Named Chaia Huff
women’s basketball coach.
HOFSTRA — Named Kevin Barry senior
director for athletic development, Andrea Murphy director for athletic development and Shaun Rutherford assistant
director of athletic development/special
events.
NOTRE DAME — Named Maggie Smith
women’s assistant lacrosse coach.
SAN DIEGO STATE — Announced
the resignation of athletic director Jim
Sterk.
ST. SCHOLASTICA — Named Maria
Stuber men’s and women’s nordic ski
coach.
SHAW — Named Chris Outlaw assistant trainer.
WAGNER — Named Katherine Sweeney women’s assistant lacrosse coach.
Tennis
World TeamTennis
W
L Pct. GB
San Diego
6
2 .714 —
Orange County
5
2 .750
½
Philadelphia
4
4 .500 2
Washington
3
4 .429 2½
Springfield
2
5 .286 3½
New York
2
5 .286 3½
Sunday’s matches
San Diego 22, Springfield 19, EP
Orange County 23, Philadelphia 17
Monday’s matches
New York 21, Washington 19
San Diego 23, Philadelphia 15, EP
Tuesday’s matches
Washington at New York
Springfield at Orange County
Pro basketball
Pro soccer
WNBA
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
New York
18
8 .692 —
Atlanta
13
12 .520
4½
Indiana
12
12 .500
5
Chicago
11
13 .458
6
Washington
9
15 .375
8
Connecticut
8
16 .333
9
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
x-Los Angeles
21
3 .875 —
x-Minnesota
21
4 .840
½
Phoenix
10
14 .417 11
Seattle
9
15 .375 12
Dallas
9
16 .360 12½
San Antonio
5
18 .217 15½
x-clinched a playoff spot
Note: Olympic break; season resumes
August 26.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
New York City FC 10 7 7 37 40 40
Toronto FC
10 7 6 36 33 24
New York
9 9 6 33 40 32
Montreal
8 5 9 33 37 31
Philadelphia
8 8 7 31 38 37
New England
6 9 8 26 29 40
Orlando City
5 6 11 26 36 39
D.C. United
5 8 9 24 22 28
Columbus
3 8 10 19 26 35
Chicago
4 11 6 18 20 30
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
13 6 5 44 37 31
Colorado
11 3 8 41 26 19
Real Salt Lake
10 7 7 37 35 34
Los Angeles
9 3 10 37 37 22
Sporting KC10
11 4 34 28 28
Portland
8 8 8 32 36 34
Vancouver
8 10 6 30 33 39
San Jose
6 6 10 28 23 24
Seattle
7 12 3 24 24 29
Houston
4 10 8 20 24 28
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Wednesday, Aug. 3
Toronto FC 1, Real Salt Lake 0
Friday, Aug. 5
New York City FC 0, San Jose 0, tie
Saturday, Aug. 6
Philadelphia 2, D.C. United 2, tie
Montreal 1, Houston 0
Toronto FC 4, New England 1
Colorado 2, Vancouver 0
Real Salt Lake 3, Chicago 1
Sunday, Aug. 7
Portland 3, Sporting Kansas City 0
Seattle 3, Orlando City 1
New York 2, Los Angeles 2, tie
Friday’s game
San Jose at Vancouver
Saturday’s games
Montreal at New York
Portland at D.C. United
New York City FC at Columbus
Philadelphia at New England
Sporting Kansas City at FC Dallas
Toronto FC at Houston
Colorado at Los Angeles
Sunday’s games
Orlando City at Chicago
Real Salt Lake at Seattle
Pro football
NFL preseason
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
Buffalo
Miami
New England
N.Y. Jets
W
0
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
0
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.000
.000
.000
.000
PF PA
00 00
00 00
00 00
00 00
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Tennessee
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
.000
.000
00
00
00
00
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
0
0
0
0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
.000
.000
.000
.000
00 000
00 00
00 00
00 000
Denver
Kansas City
Oakland
San Diego
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
.000
.000
00
00
00
00
Dallas
N.Y. Giants
Philadelphia
Washington
W
0
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
0
T
0
0
0
0
Pct PF PA
.000 00 00
.000 00 00
.000 000 00
.000 00 00
Atlanta
Carolina
New Orleans
Tampa Bay
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
.000
.000
Chicago
Detroit
Green Bay
Minnesota
0
0
0
0
South
North
West
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
South
North
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
West
00
00
00
00
00 00
00 00
00 000
00 00
.000 00
.000 00
.000 000
.000 000
Arizona
0 0 0
.000
Los Angeles
0 0 0
.000
San Francisco 0 0 0
.000
Seattle
0 0 0
.000
Sunday, Aug. 7
Green Bay vs. Indianapolis at
Ohio, ccd., field conditions
Thursday’s games
Washington at Atlanta
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia
Carolina at Baltimore
New Orleans at New England
Jacksonville at New York Jets
Denver at Chicago
Friday’s games
Miami at New York Giants
Detroit at Pittsburgh
Minnesota at Cincinnati
Cleveland at Green Bay
Oakland at Arizona
Saturday’s games
Seattle at Kansas City
Indianapolis at Buffalo
Dallas at Los Angeles
San Diego at Tennessee
Sunday, Aug. 14
Houston at San Francisco
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
Canton,
AP sportlight
Aug. 10
1900 — The first Davis Cup is held with
the United States beating Britain, 3-0.
1938 — McLin Hanover, driven by
Henry Thomas, wins the Hambletonian
Stakes in straight heats.
1949 — Ezzard Charles knocks out Gus
Lesnovich in the eighth round at Yankee
Stadium in his first world heavyweight
title defense.
1949 — Miss Tilly, driven by Fred Egan,
wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight
heats.
1975 — Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA
Championship for the fourth time with a
two-stroke victory over Bruce Crampton
and Tom Weiskopf.
1980 — Jack Nicklaus wins his fifth
PGA Championship with a record score
of 274, seven strokes ahead of Andy
Bean.
1995 — Gwen Torrence, the 100-meter
champion at the World Championships,
wins the 200 meters, then is disqualified
for running out of her lane.
1995 — Michael Bradley, a third-year
pro without a tour victory, shoots a record-tying 63 in his first PGA round to
lead the PGA Championship.
2007 — Tiger Woods matches the major championship record with a 63 in the
PGA Championship. Woods misses a
15-foot birdie putt on the final hole that
would have given him the record.
2008 — In Beijing, Michael Phelps begins his long march toward eight gold
medals by winning the 400-meter individual medley in 4:03.84 — smashing his
own world record.
NWSL
W L T Pts GF GA
Portland
8 2 5 29 20 12
Washington
9 3 2 29 22 12
Western New York 8 5 2 26 29 18
Chicago
7 4 4 25 14 13
Sky Blue FC
6 5 4 22 18 20
Seattle
5 5 5 20 18 14
Orlando
6 9 0 18 14 19
FC Kansas City
4 7 4 16 11 14
Houston
3 7 3 12 13 15
Boston
2 11 1
7
7 29
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Saturday, Aug. 6
FC Kansas City 1, Western New York 0
Houston 1, Chicago 1, tie
Seattle 5, Portland 2
Sunday, Aug. 7
Washington 3, Sky Blue FC 1
Boston 1, Orlando 0
Thursday, Aug. 18
Washington at Houston
Boxing
Fight schedule
Aug. 12
At Turning Stone Resort Casino, Verona, N.Y., Miguel Flores vs. Ryan Kielczweski, 10, featherweights; Bryant Perrella vs. Yordenis Ugas, 10, welterweights.
Aug. 13
At Rosarito Convention Center, Rosarito, Mexico, Antonio Margarito vs. Ramon
Alvarez, 10, junior middleweights.
Aug. 19
Rhinos Stadium, Rochester, N.Y., Jarrell
Miller vs. Fred Kassi, 10, heavyweights;
Nikolay Potapov vs. Antonio Nieves, 10,
bantamweights; Bakhtiyar Eyubov vs.
Karim Mayfield, 10, welterweights.
Aug. 21
At Ford Amphitheater, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Errol Spence Jr. vs. Leonard Bundu, 12,
welterweights.
Aug. 23
At Sands Bethlehem (Pa.) Event Center, Caleb Plant vs. Juan De Angel, 10,
middleweights.
Aug. 27
At Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif., Robert Guerrero vs. David Peralta, 12, welterweights; Alfredo Angulo vs. Freddy Hernandez, 10, super middleweights; Terrell
Gausha vs. Steve Martinez, 10, junior
middleweights.
Aug. 31
At Tokyo, Kohei Kono vs. Luis Concepcion, 12, for Kono’s WBA World super flyweight title; Ryoichi Taguchi vs. Ryo Miyazaki, 12, for Taguchi’s WBA World light
flyweight title.
Sept. 3
At Cavite, Philippines, McJoe Arroyo
vs. Jerwin Ancajas, 12, for Arroyo’s IBF
super flyweight title.
Sept. 9
At Santander Arena, Reading, Pa., Roberet Easter Jr. vs. Richard Commey, 12,
for vacant IBF lightweight title; Daniel Jacobs vs. Sergio Mora, 12, for Jacobs’ WBA
World middleweight title.
Sept. 10
At O2 Arena, London, Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook, 12, for Golovkin’s
WBC-IBO-IBF middleweight titles; Johnriel Casimero vs. Charlie Edwards, 12,
for Casimero’s IBF flyweight title; Lee
Haskins vs. Stuart Hall, 12, for Haskins’
IBF bantamweight title.
Golf
World rankings
Through Aug. 7
1. Jason Day
2. Dustin Johnson
3. Jordan Spieth
4. Rory McIlroy
5. Henrik Stenson
6. Bubba Watson
7. Adam Scott
8. Rickie Fowler
9. Danny Willett
10. Branden Grace
11. Sergio Garcia
12. Justin Rose
13. Phil Mickelson
14. Patrick Reed
15. Brooks Koepka
16. Louis Oosthuizen
17. Jimmy Walker
18. Russell Knox
19. Hideki Matsuyama
20. Matt Kuchar
21. J.B. Holmes
22. Zach Johnson
23. Jim Furyk
24. Brandt Snedeker
25. Charl Schwartzel
26. Chris Wood
27. Scott Piercy
28. Paul Casey
29. Rafa Cabrera Bello
30. Kevin Kisner
31. Justin Thomas
32. Shane Lowry
33. Bill Haas
34. Kevin Na
35. Byeong-Hun An
36. Kevin Chappell
37. Daniel Berger
38. Andy Sullivan
39. Emiliano Grillo
40. Alex Noren
41. William McGirt
42. Lee Westwood
43. Thongchai Jaidee
44. Soren Kjeldsen
45. Danny Lee
46. Marc Leishman
47. Charley Hoffman
48. Matthew Fitzpatrick
49. K.T. Kim
50. Martin Kaymer
51. Tyrrell Hatton
52. David Lingmerth
53. Daniel Summerhays
54. Jason Dufner
55. Francesco Molinari
56. Gary Woodland
57. Harris English
58. Bernd Wiesberger
59. Ryan Moore
60. Kiradech Aphibarnrat
61. Webb Simpson
62. James Hahn
63. Robert Streb
64. Thomas Pieters
65. Hideto Tanihara
66. Joost Luiten
67. Chris Kirk
68. Thorbjorn Olesen
69. Anirban Lahiri
70. Smylie Kaufman
71. Jaco Van Zyl
72. Ryan Palmer
73. Billy Horschel
74. Brendan Steele
75. Jeunghun Wang
AUS 14.23
USA 11.20
USA 10.48
NIR 9.05
SWE 9.01
USA 6.77
AUS 6.42
USA 6.40
ENG 5.98
SAF 5.55
ESP 5.47
ENG 5.27
USA 5.17
USA 4.85
USA 4.53
SAF 4.49
USA 4.48
SCO 4.40
JPN 4.38
USA 4.31
USA 4.27
USA 3.98
USA 3.94
USA 3.73
SAF 3.73
ENG 3.50
USA 3.41
ENG 3.38
ESP 3.34
USA 3.30
USA 3.23
IRL 3.18
USA 3.17
USA 3.14
KOR 3.13
USA 3.12
USA 3.09
ENG 3.07
ARG 3.06
SWE 3.03
USA 2.96
ENG 2.94
THA 2.92
DEN 2.83
NZL 2.83
AUS 2.82
USA 2.79
ENG 2.77
KOR 2.71
GER 2.68
ENG 2.66
SWE 2.61
USA 2.51
USA 2.43
ITA 2.37
USA 2.35
USA 2.34
AUT 2.28
USA 2.26
THA 2.23
USA 2.20
USA 2.19
USA 2.06
BEL 2.03
JPN 2.02
NED 2.02
USA 2.01
DEN 1.97
IND 1.97
USA 1.97
SAF 1.94
USA 1.94
USA 1.91
USA 1.89
KOR 1.86
PGA Tour statistics
Through Aug. 7
Scoring Average
1, Phil Mickelson, 69.192. 2, Dustin
Johnson, 69.238. 3, Jason Day, 69.294.
4, Jordan Spieth, 69.407. 5, Adam Scott,
69.526. 6, Brooks Koepka, 69.575. 7, Henrik
Stenson, 69.670. 8, Matt Kuchar, 69.682. 9,
Rory McIlroy, 69.695. 10, Charl Schwartzel, 69.725.
Driving Distance
1, Dustin Johnson, 313.9. 2, J.B. Holmes, 313.2. 3, Tony Finau, 312.6. 4, Bubba
Watson, 309.9. 5, Gary Woodland, 307.9.
6, Andrew Loupe, 307.8. 7, Jason Kokrak,
307.4. 8, Luke List, 306.9. 9, Hudson Swafford, 306.8. 10, 2 tied with 304.9.
Driving Accuracy Percentage
1, Colt Knost, 73.97%. 2 (tie), Jerry
Kelly and Thomas Aiken, 71.38%. 4,
Darron Stiles, 70.62%. 5, Justin Hicks,
70.50%. 6, Brian Stuard, 70.39%. 7, Henrik
Stenson, 69.82%. 8, Zac Blair, 69.38%. 9,
Soren Kjeldsen, 68.57%. 10, Jason Bohn,
68.53%.
Greens in Regulation Percentage
1, Henrik Stenson, 72.63%. 2, Lucas
Glover, 71.72%. 3, Russell Knox, 70.47%.
4, Jhonattan Vegas, 70.13%. 5, Sergio
Garcia, 69.90%. 6, Paul Casey, 69.73%. 7,
Patrick Rodgers, 69.56%. 8, Thomas Aiken, 69.54%. 9, Jason Dufner, 69.51%. 10,
Keegan Bradley, 69.37%.
Total Driving
1, Keegan Bradley, 74. 2, Emiliano
Grillo, 80. 3, Rory McIlroy, 81. 4, Hudson
Swafford, 82. 5, Lucas Glover, 88. 6, Henrik Stenson, 98. 7, Russell Henley, 101. 8
(tie), Thomas Aiken and Paul Casey, 103.
10, Brendan Steele, 107.
Shots Gained-Putting
1, Jason Day, 1.072. 2, Steve Stricker,
.828. 3, Jamie Donaldson, .784. 4, Phil
Mickelson, .756. 5, Jordan Spieth, .739. 6,
Harris English, .690. 7, Aaron Baddeley,
.666. 8, Daniel Summerhays, .637. 9, Martin Piller, .610. 10, 2 tied with .586.
Birdie Average
1, Rory McIlroy, 4.41. 2, Dustin Johnson, 4.38. 3, Jordan Spieth, 4.35. 4, Henrik
Stenson, 4.22. 5, Hideki Matsuyama, 4.16.
6, Jason Day, 4.14. 7, Brooks Koepka, 4.12.
8, Phil Mickelson, 4.10. 9, J.B. Holmes,
4.09. 10, Robert Garrigus, 4.00.
Eagles (Holes per)
1, Ben Martin, 92.6. 2, Jason Day, 93.3. 3
(tie), Dustin Johnson and Kevin Chappell,
99.0. 5, Morgan Hoffmann, 99.8. 6, Chez
Reavie, 100.3. 7, D.H. Lee, 102.0. 8, Adam
Scott, 108.0. 9, Patrick Rodgers, 112.5. 10,
Jerry Kelly, 115.2.
Sand Save Percentage
1, Sean O’Hair, 64.71%. 2, Jon Curran, 61.76%. 3, Jonas Blixt, 61.19%. 4,
Jason Day, 61.11%. 5 (tie), Phil Mickelson and Brendon Todd, 60.71%. 7, John
Huh, 60.50%. 8, David Toms, 60.49%. 9,
Aaron Baddeley, 60.15%. 10, Dicky Pride,
60.00%.
All-Around Ranking
1, Henrik Stenson, 237. 2, Rory McIlroy,
274. 3, Brooks Koepka, 277. 4, Jason Day,
279. 5, Dustin Johnson, 343. 6, Phil Mickelson, 355. 7, Sergio Garcia, 359. 8, Adam
Scott, 386. 9, Rickie Fowler, 408. 10, Justin
Rose, 416.
PGA Tour FedEx Cup leaders
Through Aug. 7
Rank Player
Points YTD Money
1. Jason Day
2,735
$7,562,028
2. Dustin Johnson
2,701
$7,210,435
3. Adam Scott
2,063
$5,126,406
4. Russell Knox
2,001
$4,455,211
5. Jordan Spieth
1,965
$4,809,170
6. Brandt Snedeker
1,555
$3,265,011
7. Phil Mickelson
1,532
$3,645,759
8. Patrick Reed
1,531
$3,486,384
9. Justin Thomas
1,512
$3,561,845
10. Kevin Kisner
1,423
$3,066,248
11. Kevin Chappell
1,422
$3,472,720
12. Kevin Na
1,389
$2,945,366
13. Henrik Stenson
1,387
$3,365,923
14. William McGirt
1,360
$3,319,597
15. Jimmy Walker
1,352
$3,271,771
16. Matt Kuchar
1,349
$3,271,732
17. Brooks Koepka
1,348
$3,240,841
18. Sergio Garcia
1,306
$3,155,365
19. Hideki Matsuyama
1,305
$3,331,635
20. Daniel Berger
1,254
$2,846,469
21. Bubba Watson
1,235
$3,020,497
22. Jason Dufner
1,229
$2,436,265
23. Branden Grace
1,187
$2,801,396
24. Smylie Kaufman
1,181
$2,424,647
25. Charl Schwartzel
1,127
$2,357,153
26. Jhonattan Vegas
1,119
$2,149,558
27. Emiliano Grillo
1,109
$2,316,033
28. Charley Hoffman
1,087
$2,175,607
29. Rickie Fowler
1,087
$2,361,380
30. Bill Haas
1,085
$2,281,173
31. Scott Piercy
1,071
$2,735,421
32. Graeme McDowell
1,049
$2,376,580
33. Harris English
1,010
$1,926,938
34. Rory McIlroy
973
$2,655,615
35. Daniel Summerhays
963
$2,028,628
36. J.B. Holmes
956
$2,431,877
37. Charles Howell III
931
$1,888,171
38. Fabian Gomez
924
$1,875,871
39. Jim Herman
923
$1,909,752
40. Gary Woodland
907
$1,624,572
41. Si Woo Kim
882
$1,628,974
42. James Hahn
878
$1,991,502
43. Aaron Baddeley
874
$1,609,215
44. Jamie Lovemark
870
$1,781,077
45. Tony Finau
864
$1,537,378
46. David Lingmerth
859
$1,827,318
47. Jon Curran
840
$1,845,412
48. Justin Rose
829
$1,955,591
49. Kyle Reifers
821
$1,470,940
50. Colt Knost
803
$1,594,587
51. Zach Johnson
799
$1,624,304
52. Brendan Steele
791
$1,481,948
53. Louis Oosthuizen
769
$1,967,329
54. Marc Leishman
765
$1,524,160
55. Roberto Castro
759
$1,641,658
56. Alex Cejka
754
$1,566,308
57. Patton Kizzire
744
$1,455,660
58. Ryan Palmer
731
$1,251,274
59. Chris Kirk
727
$1,491,828
60. Vaughn Taylor
726
$1,546,684
61. Jason Kokrak
721
$1,329,334
62. Ryan Moore
719
$1,576,469
63. Paul Casey
710
$1,596,340
64. K.J. Choi
705
$1,328,448
65. Danny Lee
699
$1,405,722
66. Patrick Rodgers
698
$1,234,965
67. Kevin Streelman
692
$1,473,120
68. Danny Willett
691
$1,938,132
69. Freddie Jacobson
680
$1,326,444
70. Billy Hurley III
676
$1,486,145
71. Webb Simpson
665
$1,417,811
72. Brian Stuard
658
$1,506,878
73. Jason Bohn
654
$1,343,191
74. Bryce Molder
652
$1,333,707
75. Jerry Kelly
648
$1,237,771
76. Spencer Levin
644
$1,161,097
77. Harold Varner III
643
$1,265,844
78. Chez Reavie
630
$1,041,744
79. Chad Campbell
621
$1,060,497
80. Russell Henley
620
$1,191,747
81. Ricky Barnes
618
$944,518
82. Brian Harman
607
$1,003,388
83. Billy Horschel
601
$1,187,531
84. Martin Laird
599
$1,098,170
85. David Hearn
599
$933,589
86. Shane Lowry
588
$1,565,276
87. Vijay Singh
586
$1,190,700
88. Hudson Swafford
581
$833,913
89. John Senden
577
$944,621
90. Steve Stricker
565
$1,323,671
91. Scott Brown
556
$1,003,069
92. Robert Streb
556
$958,867
93. Tyrone Van Aswegen 550
$995,882
94. Francesco Molinari
550
$1,083,155
95. Luke Donald
549
$955,996
96. Lucas Glover
543
$886,517
97. Zac Blair
541
$876,605
98. Cameron Tringale
539
$1,064,066
99. Jonas Blixt
538
$1,071,421
100. Adam Hadwin
532
$874,762
101. Peter Malnati
528
$1,230,590
102. Jim Furyk
523
$1,355,269
103. John Huh
514
$922,394
104. Boo Weekley
509
$967,881
105. Mark Hubbard
503
$642,942
106. Ben Crane
500
$607,892
107. Anirban Lahiri
494
$835,171
108. Sean O’Hair
492
$702,838
109. Derek Fathauer
491
$853,210
110. Graham DeLaet
487
$893,002
111. Andrew Loupe
483
$1,005,676
112. Michael Kim
477
$641,208
113. Keegan Bradley
476
$819,525
114. Troy Merritt
468
$901,251
115. Luke List
468
$740,297
116. Robert Garrigus
467
$933,154
117. Brett Stegmaier
466
$896,874
118. David Toms
455
$774,522
119. Seung-Yul Noh
454
$661,711
120. Nick Taylor
441
$628,756
121. Ben Martin
441
$624,515
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MLB
7 hits for
Crawford
Associated Press
MIAMI — Brandon Crawford
was a big hit Monday night. Seven
of them, to be exact.
Crawford became the first
major leaguer in 41 years to get
seven hits in a game, finally putting the San Francisco Giants
ahead to stay with an RBI single
in the 14th inning of an 8-7 victory over the Miami Marlins.
“A great performance,” said Giants bench coach Ron Wotus, who
filled in as manager after Bruce
Bochy was hospitalized with an
illness.
“Bochy picked a heck of a day
to take off.”
The previous player to get seven
hits in a game was Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Rennie Stennett on
Sept. 16, 1975, at the Chicago Cubs.
He did it in nine innings, the only
big leaguer to accomplish that feat
since after 1900.
“It doesn’t happen very often
that you get eight at-bats in a
game so I figured it didn’t happen
a whole lot, but you don’t think
about stuff like that when you’re
playing,” Crawford said.
The San Francisco shortstop,
who entered in a 6-for-36 slide,
raised his batting average 13
points to .278. He tripled, doubled
and had five singles in eight atbats, tying the NL record for hits
in a game.
“I got a couple to drop in and
squeak past and then I hit a few
balls hard, too, that found holes,”
Crawford said. “I felt good.”
The seven hits set a franchise
mark.
“It’s crazy to me,” Crawford
said. “The history of the Giants
with all of the great players that
have come through, you would
think that somebody pushed
across seven hits in one day, but
it’s pretty crazy to be in pretty
small company.”
Crawford’s hits came off six
different pitchers.
“What do you have to do to get
that guy out? I don’t know,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
“We didn’t figure it out today.
He’s a tough out right now and
obviously, when you’re getting
seven hits, you’re feeling pretty
good about yourself. So I’m sure
this whole series, it’s not going to
be fun trying to get him out.”
The only major league player
besides Stennett to get seven hits
in a nine-inning game was Wilbert Robinson for the old Baltimore Orioles of the National
League in 1892.
Johnny Burnett holds the major
league mark for an extra-inning
game with nine hits for Cleveland
in a 1932 contest that lasted 18
innings.
George Kontos (3-2) pitched
two scoreless innings to earn the
victory.
The game took 5 hours, 34 minutes — the longest of the season
for both teams.
“Exhausting,” Crawford said.
“I’m tired right now.”
Scoreboard
American League
East Division
W
L
63
48
64
49
60
50
56
55
45
66
Central Division
Cleveland
62
47
Detroit
61
51
Kansas City
53
58
Chicago
53
58
Minnesota
46
66
West Division
Texas
66
47
Seattle
58
53
Houston
57
55
Los Angeles
49
62
Oakland
49
63
Baltimore
Toronto
Boston
New York
Tampa Bay
Mariners 3, Tigers 0
Pct
.568
.566
.545
.505
.405
GB
—
—
2A
7
18
.569
.545
.477
.477
.411
—
2A
10
10
17A
.584
.523
.509
.441
.438
—
7
8A
16
16A
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Washington
66
45
.595
—
Miami
59
53
.527
7A
New York
57
54
.514
9
Philadelphia
52
62
.456
15A
Atlanta
42
70
.375
24A
Central Division
Chicago
69
41
.627
—
St. Louis
59
53
.527
11
Pittsburgh
55
54
.505
13A
Milwaukee
49
61
.445
20
Cincinnati
45
66
.405
24A
West Division
San Francisco
64
48
.571
—
Los Angeles
63
49
.563
1
Colorado
55
57
.491
9
San Diego
48
63
.432
15A
Arizona
45
66
.405
18A
Mondays games
Toronto 7, Tampa Bay 5
Minnesota 3, Houston 1
Texas 4, Colorado 3
Oakland 3, Baltimore 2
Seattle 3, Detroit 0
San Francisco 8, Miami 7, 14 innings
Atlanta 4, Milwaukee 3, 12 innings
St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4
L.A. Dodgers 9, Philadelphia 4
Tuesday’s games
Texas at Colorado
Cleveland at Washington
Tampa Bay at Toronto
N.Y. Yankees at Boston
L.A. Angels at Chicago Cubs
Houston at Minnesota
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City
Baltimore at Oakland
Detroit at Seattle
San Diego at Pittsburgh
Arizona at N.Y. Mets
San Francisco at Miami
Atlanta at Milwaukee
Cincinnati at St. Louis
Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers
Wednesday’s games
Cleveland (Clevinger 0-1) at Washington (Gonzalez 7-9)
Tampa Bay (Snell 3-4) at Toronto
(Happ 15-3)
N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 9-8) at Boston
(Pomeranz 8-9)
Colorado (De La Rosa 7-7) at Texas
(Perez 7-8)
L.A. Angels (Nolasco 4-8) at Chicago
Cubs (Hammel 11-5)
Houston (Keuchel 7-11) at Minnesota
(Santana 5-9)
Chicago White Sox (Quintana 9-8) at
Kansas City (Kennedy 6-9)
Baltimore (Gallardo 4-3) at Oakland
Detroit (Verlander 12-6) at Seattle
(Hernandez 6-4)
San Francisco (Samardzija 9-8) at Miami (Phelps 5-5)
Philadelphia (Hellickson 9-7) at L.A.
Dodgers (Kazmir 9-5)
San Diego (Jackson 2-2) at Pittsburgh
(Vogelsong 1-1)
Arizona (Ray 5-11) at N.Y. Mets (Colon
10-6)
Cincinnati (DeSclafani 6-0) at St. Louis
(Garcia 8-8)
Atlanta (De La Cruz 0-4) at Milwaukee
(Anderson 6-10)
Monday
Dodgers 9, Phillies 4
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
C.Hrnnd 2b 5 0 1 0 Utley 2b
4 1 1 1
Altherr rf
4 1 0 0 C.Sager ss 4 2 2 2
Franco 3b
4 1 1 0 Ju.Trnr 3b 4 1 1 0
T.Jseph 1b 4 1 1 1 Reddick rf 3 1 1 0
Rupp c
3 0 2 1 Ad.Gnzl 1b 4 1 2 1
O.Hrrra cf
4 0 0 0 Grandal c 3 3 2 1
T.Gddel lf
3 0 1 0 Pderson cf 4 0 2 3
Paredes ph-lf1 0 0 0 Segedin lf 2 0 0 1
Galvis ss
4 0 0 0 Fields p
0 0 0 0
Eflin p
2 1 2 0 P.Baez p
0 0 0 0
S.Gnzlz p
0 0 0 0 Kndrick ph 1 0 0 0
Asche ph
1 0 0 0 Ravin p
0 0 0 0
Mariot p
0 0 0 0 Urias p
2 0 0 0
Lu.Grca p
0 0 0 0 Howell p
0 0 0 0
Fthrstn ph 1 0 0 0 E.Hrnnd ph-lf2 0 0 0
Totals
36 4 8 2 Totals
33 9 11 9
Philadelphia
003 000 010—4
Los Angeles
511 000 11x—9
E—Urias (1). DP—Philadelphia 1. LOB—
Philadelphia 7, Los Angeles 3.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Philadelphia
Eflin L,3-6
3
7
7
7
2 0
Gonzalez
3
1
0
0
0 1
Mariot
1
1
1
1
0 2
Garcia
1
2
1
1
0 1
Los Angeles
Urias W,3-2
5
5
3
1
2 2
Howell
1
0
0
0
0 1
Fields
1
0
0
0
0 1
Baez
1
2
1
1
0 1
Ravin
1
1
0
0
0 2
T—2:50. A—48,370 (56,000).
Detroit
Seattle
ab r h bi
Aoki lf
4 1 1 0
S.Smith rf 3 0 0 0
Heredia rf 1 0 1 1
Cano 2b
4 0 0 0
N.Cruz dh 3 1 2 0
K.Sager 3b 3 1 1 1
Lind 1b
3 0 0 0
L.Mrtin cf 2 0 1 0
Zunino c
3 0 1 1
M.Frman ss 3 0 0 0
Totals
31 0 5 0 Totals
29 3 7 3
Detroit
000 000 000—0
Seattle
020 000 01x—3
DP—Detroit 2, Seattle 1. LOB—Detroit
5, Seattle 3.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Detroit
Fulmer L,9-4
7
5
2
2
1 6
Lowe
C
2
1
1
0 2
Ryan
B
0
0
0
0 0
Seattle
Iwakuma W,14-7
7
5
0
0
1 8
Caminero H,4
1
0
0
0
0 0
Diaz S,6-60
1
0
0
0
0 0
T—2:30. A—20,002 (47,476).
ab
Kinsler 2b
3
Collins cf
4
Mi.Cbrr 1b 4
V.Mrtnz dh 4
J..Mrtn rf
4
J.Upton lf
3
McGehee 3b 3
Sltlmcc c
3
J.Iglss ss
3
r
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
bi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Cardinals 5, Reds 4
Cincinnati
St. Louis
ab r h bi
Crpnter 2b 5 0 2 2
Hzlbker pr 0 1 0 0
Pscotty rf 5 1 2 1
Hlliday lf
4 0 0 0
Leake pr
0 0 0 0
Moss 1b
4 0 0 1
Molina c
3 1 1 1
J.Prlta ss
4 0 2 0
Gyorko 3b 4 0 1 0
Pham cf
2 1 1 0
Wacha p
0 0 0 0
G.Grcia ph 1 0 0 0
Bowman p 0 0 0 0
M.Adams ph 1 0 0 0
Duke p
0 0 0 0
Maness p 0 0 0 0
Wong ph
0 1 0 0
Totals
34 4 8 4 Totals
33 5 9 5
Cincinnati
031 000 000—4
St. Louis
000 000 005—5
E—Duvall (4). DP—Cincinnati 2, St.
Louis 1. LOB—Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 10.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cincinnati
Reed
6
4
0
0
1 4
Diaz
B
1
0
0
1 0
Wood H,9
1C
1
0
0
0 2
Cingrani L,2-5
C
3
5
5
2 0
Ohlendorf BS,4
0
0
0
0
1 0
St. Louis
Wacha
5
6
4
4
4 3
Bowman
2
1
0
0
1 2
Duke
1
1
0
0
0 2
Maness W,3-2
1
0
0
0
0 0
HBP—by Cingrani (Wong), by Ohlendorf (Molina). WP—Diaz. T—3:10. A—
40,616 (43,975).
Hmilton cf
Cozart ss
Votto 1b
Duvall lf
Phllips 2b
Schbler rf
E.Sarez 3b
Brnhart c
C.Reed p
J.Diaz p
B.Wood p
Cngrani p
Ohlndrf p
ab
4
5
5
2
3
4
4
3
3
0
1
0
0
r
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
1
2
1
0
1
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
bi
0
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Twins 3, Astros 1
Houston
Minnesota
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
T.Kemp dh 3 1 0 0 Dozier 2b
4 0 0 0
Bregman 3b 4 0 1 0 Mauer 1b 4 0 1 0
Sprnger rf
4 0 1 1 Kepler rf
3 0 0 0
Correa ss
4 0 1 0 Sano dh
4 0 1 0
Gattis c
4 0 0 0 Plouffe 3b 4 0 1 0
Ma.Gnzl 2b 3 0 1 0 E.Rsrio cf 4 1 3 0
A..Reed 1b 2 0 0 0 J.Plnco ss 4 1 2 0
C.Gomez cf 3 0 0 0 Centeno c 3 1 1 1
Mrsnick lf
3 0 0 0 Da.Sntn lf 3 0 2 1
Totals
30 1 4 1 Totals
33 3 11 2
Houston
000 001 000—1
Minnesota
000 030 00x—3
E—C.Gomez (1). DP—Minnesota 1.
LOB—Houston 4, Minnesota 7.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
McHugh L,7-10
7
10
3
3
1 6
Hoyt
1
1
0
0
0 1
Minnesota
Duffey W,8-8
6
4
1
1
1 8
Rogers H,7
1
0
0
0
1 0
Pressly H,10
1
0
0
0
0 0
Kintzler S,11-111
1
0
0
0
0 1
WP—Duffey.
T—2:18.
A—20,978
(39,021).
Athletics 3, Orioles 2
Baltimore
ab
A.Jones cf
4
Kim lf
4
M.Mchdo 3b 3
C.Davis 1b
4
Trumbo rf
4
P.Alvrz dh
4
Wieters c
4
Schoop 2b 3
J.Hardy ss
3
Oakland
r
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
h
3
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
bi
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
ab r h bi
Crisp cf
3 0 1 0
Muncy 2b 4 0 0 0
Ldndorf 2b 0 0 0 0
Vogt c
3 2 2 2
K.Davis lf 4 0 1 0
Vlencia rf 4 0 0 0
Eibner rf
0 0 0 0
Alonso 1b 4 0 1 0
B.Btler dh 4 0 2 1
Semien ss 3 0 0 0
Healy 3b
2 1 0 0
Totals
33 2 7 2 Totals
31 3 7 3
Baltimore
001 000 010—2
Oakland
000 101 10x—3
LOB—Baltimore 5, Oakland 7.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Baltimore
Gausman L,3-10
6
6
2
2
2 6
Ondrusek
1
1
1
1
1 0
O’Day
1
0
0
0
0 1
Oakland
Graveman W,9-7
7
6
1
1
0 4
Dull H,10
1
1
1
1
0 1
Madson S,24-29
1
0
0
0
0 2
WP—Gausman.
T—2:29.
A—10,407
(37,090).
WILFREDO LEE /AP
The Giants’ Brandon Crawford watches the ball as he hits a triple
during the 13th inning Monday in Miami. Crawford became the first
major league player in 41 years to get seven hits in a game.
Giants 8, Marlins 7 (14)
San Francisco
Miami
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Span cf
7 3 3 0 D.Grdon 2b 7 2 3 0
Pagan lf
7 1 2 0 Prado 3b
4 3 2 2
Belt 1b
6 2 1 2 Dunn p
0 0 0 0
Posey c
6 1 2 2 McGowan p 1 0 0 0
Crwford ss 8 1 7 2 Mathis c
0 0 0 0
Pence rf
7 0 1 1 Yelich lf
6 2 3 4
Panik 2b
2 0 0 0 Stanton rf 6 0 1 1
E.Nunez 3b 6 0 1 0 Ozuna cf
5 0 0 0
Cueto p
2 0 1 0 Ralmuto c 6 0 1 0
G.Blnco ph 1 0 0 0 Cashner p 0 0 0 0
Peavy p
0 0 0 0 Detrich 1b 3 0 1 0
Gllspie ph
1 0 0 0 Rojas 1b-3b 3 0 0 0
W.Smith p
0 0 0 0 Hchvrra ss 6 0 0 0
Law p
0 0 0 0 Frnndez p 2 0 1 0
Romo p
0 0 0 0 I.Szuki ph 1 0 0 0
Adranza ph 1 0 0 0 Crvenka p 0 0 0 0
Strckln p
0 0 0 0 Wttgren p 0 0 0 0
Brown ph
1 0 0 0 Ellngtn p
0 0 0 0
Casilla p
0 0 0 0 Brrclgh p
0 0 0 0
Bmgrner ph 1 0 0 0 Rodney p 0 0 0 0
Kontos p
0 0 0 0 CJhsn ph-1b 2 0 1 0
Totals
56 8 18 7 Totals
52 7 13 7
San Francisco
000 010 510 000 01—8
Miami
000 230 200 000 00—7
E—Fernandez (1). DP—San Francisco 2,
Miami 1. LOB—San Francisco 18, Miami 6.
San Francisco
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cueto
5
6
5
5
1 5
Peavy
1
1
0
0
0 1
Smith BS,6
0
3
2
2
0 0
Law
1
0
0
0
0 1
Romo
1
1
0
0
0 0
Strickland
2
1
0
0
0 1
Casilla
2
1
0
0
0 2
Kontos W,4-2
2
0
0
0
1 2
Miami
Fernandez
6
6
1
1
2 6
Cervenka
0
3
3
3
0 0
Wittgren BS,2
B
3
2
2
0 0
Ellington
C
0
0
0
0 0
Barraclough BS,3
1
1
1
1
2 3
Rodney
1
0
0
0
1 0
Dunn
1
1
0
0
1 1
McGowan L,1-4
3C
3
1
1
5 2
Cashner
B
1
0
0
0 0
Cervenka pitched to 3 batters in the
7th W.Smith pitched to 3 batters in the
7th Dunn pitched to 2 batters in the 11th
HBP—by Cueto (Ozuna). WP—Ellington.
T—5:34. A—22,806 (36,742).
Blue Jays 7, Rays 5
Tampa Bay
Toronto
ab r h bi
Travis 2b
5 2 4 1
Butista rf 4 0 2 3
Dnldson 3b 5 0 1 0
Encrncn 1b 5 1 3 3
Sunders dh 2 0 1 0
Tlwtzki ss 3 1 0 0
Ccliani lf
3 0 0 0
Ru.Mrtn ph-c1 1 0 0
M.Upton cf 4 0 1 0
Thole c
2 1 0 0
Smoak ph 1 0 0 0
Barney pr-lf 0 1 0 0
Totals
34 5 9 5 Totals
35 7 12 7
Tampa Bay
000 220 001—5
Toronto
200 200 30x—7
DP—Tampa Bay 1, Toronto 2. LOB—
Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 12.
Tampa Bay
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Odorizzi
5B
8
4
4
3 4
Boxberger
C
0
0
0
0 1
Cedeno L,3-5
0
0
2
2
2 0
Floro
1
2
1
1
1 2
Farquhar
1
2
0
0
0 0
Toronto
Dickey
4B
6
4
4
3 3
Biagini
1C
1
0
0
0 0
Benoit W,3-1
1
1
0
0
1 1
Grilli H,13
1
0
0
0
0 1
Osuna S,26-262
1
1
1
1
0 2
Frsythe 2b
Krmaier cf
Lngoria 3b
B.Mller 1b
Mahtook rf
Frnklin lf
Sza Jr. dh
T.Bckhm ss
B.Wlson c
C.Dckrs ph
ab
4
5
3
4
3
4
3
4
3
1
r
2
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
3
1
0
2
1
0
1
1
0
0
bi
1
0
0
2
1
0
0
1
0
0
Cedeno pitched to 2 batters in the
7th HBP—by Odorizzi (Thole), by Dickey (Longoria). WP—Dickey, Odorizzi.
PB—Thole 2, Wilson. T—3:13. A—43,812
(49,282).
Braves 4, Brewers 3 (12)
Atlanta
Milwaukee
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Incarte cf
5 0 1 0 Villar 3b
5 0 1 0
Aybar ss
5 0 1 0 Or.Arca ss 5 0 1 0
F.Frman 1b 5 1 1 0 Braun lf
4 0 2 0
M.Kemp lf
4 1 2 1 Gennett 2b 5 0 0 0
Mrkakis rf
5 1 2 1 H.Prez rf-1b 5 1 1 0
Ad.Grca 3b 4 0 0 0 Carter 1b 3 1 0 0
G.Bckhm 2b 4 0 0 1 C.Trres p
0 0 0 0
Przynsk c
5 1 2 1 Boyer p
0 0 0 0
Whalen p
2 0 1 0 Wilkins ph 1 0 0 0
Pterson ph 1 0 0 0 K.Brxtn cf 5 0 2 1
Jose.Rm p
0 0 0 0 Mldnado c 5 1 1 2
Ma.Cbrr p
0 0 0 0 Davies p
2 0 0 0
Frnceur ph 1 0 0 0 Knebel p
0 0 0 0
Cunniff p
0 0 0 0 Nwnhuis ph 1 0 0 0
C.d’Arn ph 1 0 0 0 Thrnbrg p 0 0 0 0
J.Jhnsn p
0 0 0 0 R.Flres rf
2 0 0 0
Totals
42 4 10 4 Totals
43 3 8 3
Atlanta
010 110 000 001—4
Milwaukee
010 020 000 000—3
E—K.Broxton (4). DP—Atlanta 1, Milwaukee 4. LOB—Atlanta 5, Milwaukee 6.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
Whalen
6
5
3
3
1 7
Ramirez
2
1
0
0
1 3
Cabrera
1
0
0
0
0 1
Cunniff W,2-0
2
1
0
0
0 2
Johnson S,10-12
1
1
0
0
0 2
Milwaukee
Davies
7
8
3
3
0 3
Knebel
1
1
0
0
0 1
Thornburg
1
0
0
0
0 2
Torres L,2-3
2
1
1
1
2 1
Boyer
1
0
0
0
0 0
C.Torres pitched to 4 batters in the
12th T—3:31. A—20,976 (41,900).
Rangers 4, Rockies 3
Texas
Colorado
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Choo rf
3 0 1 0 Blckmon cf 3 1 2 1
Desmond cf 4 0 0 0 LMahieu 2b 3 0 0 0
Lucroy c
4 0 0 0 Arenado 3b 4 1 2 2
Beltre 3b
3 1 2 1 Ca.Gnzl rf 0 0 0 0
Odor 2b
4 1 1 0 Parra ph-rf 4 0 1 0
Profar 1b-lf 3 1 0 0 Mar.Ryn 1b 3 0 0 0
Andrus ss
3 1 1 2 Raburn lf
3 0 1 0
Hamels p
2 0 0 0 Dahl lf
1 0 1 0
Claudio p
0 0 0 0 Hundley c 4 0 0 0
Rua ph
0 0 0 0 Adames ss 4 1 1 0
Mrelnd ph-1b 2 0 1 1 Ty.Andr p 3 0 0 0
DShelds lf
2 0 0 0 Ottvino p 0 0 0 0
Beltran ph 0 0 0 0 Estevez p 0 0 0 0
Kela p
0 0 0 0 Logan p
0 0 0 0
Mazara ph 1 0 0 0
Diekman p 0 0 0 0
Totals
31 4 6 4 Totals
32 3 8 3
Texas
000 000 103—4
Colorado
001 100 010—3
DP—Texas 1, Colorado 1. LOB—Texas
5, Colorado 5.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Texas
Hamels
6
6
2
2
1 6
Claudio
1
0
0
0
0 2
Kela W,4-1
1
1
1
1
1 0
Diekman S,4-40
1
1
0
0
0 1
Colorado
Anderson
7
2
1
1
3 5
Ottavino H,5
1
1
0
0
1 1
Estevez L,2-8 BS,6
B
2
3
3
1 0
Logan
C
1
0
0
0 1
WP—Anderson. T—3:04. A—31,768
(50,398).
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Molina starts, finishes rally to stun Reds
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ST. LOUIS — Never has a 94 mile-perhour fastball to the ribs felt so good for
Yadier Molina as it did Monday night.
Molina started and ended a five-run rally
in the ninth inning as the St. Louis Cardinals stunned the Cincinnati Reds 5-4. He
was hit by a pitch from Ross Ohlendorf
with the bases loaded to drive home the
winning run. Instead of wincing, Molina
pumped his fist and slid into first base.
“He walked by me and said we have
lots of ice,” manager Mike Matheny said.
“So he wasn’t concerned about being hit
there.”
Molina singled to start the inning against
Reds closer Tony Cingrani. Matt Carpenter drove in two runs with a single, Stephen
Piscotty singled home another and Matt
Holliday walked to load the bases before
Cingrani (2-4) was lifted for Ohlendorf,
who walked Brandon Moss to tie it before
hitting Molina.
“You can have the good approach, you
can do all the things you want to, you can
hit the ball hard, but it takes a little luck
sometimes and you’ve got to get the pitches
to do it with,” Moss said. “And in the ninth
inning we got a lot of pitches to do it with.”
The comeback erased what had been
a night of offensive futility for St. Louis
through the first eight innings, as the Cardinals entered the last inning 0-for-11 with
runners in scoring position.
“You trust in each other and that was
one of those next men up,” Matheny said.
“There was nobody with that huge home
run. It was just one right after the other
whether it’s a hit batsman, whether it’s
walks or whether it’s a big hit. Play the
game, good things can happen.”
Seth Maness (2-2) pitched a perfect ninth
to earn the win.
Cardinals starter Michael Wacha struggled to settle in as seven of the first 12 batters he faced reached base. Zack Cozart’s
double eluded the outstretched glove of
Holliday in left field and went off the wall
to give the Reds a 2-0 lead in the second.
Cozart, who had two hits, scored when
Joey Votto followed with a triple.
“Just command early on, especially in
the first and second inning I was kind of
just all over the place,” Wacha said. “I felt
like I was able to settle in and throw some
good pitches down in the zone.”
The rally spoiled what had the makings
of Cody Reed’s first major league win.
Reed’s six scoreless innings dropped the
Reds starters’ ERA to 2.84 over the last 11
games.
“It’s miserable,” Reds manager Bryan
Price said. “It’s a miserable feeling but
we’ve just got to come back tomorrow and
win the game and get this feeling out of our
BILLY HURST/AP
The Cardinals’ Yadier Molina, left, celebrates a 5-4 walk-off victory over the Reds after being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
system.”
Mariners 3, Tigers 0: Hisashi Iwakuma
threw seven shutout innings for his seventh
win in his last eight starts, Mike Zunino
and Kyle Seager both had RBI singles off
Michael Fulmer in the second inning and
host Seattle beat Detroit.
Seattle won its fourth straight and
moved within 2 ½ games of Detroit and
Boston for the second wild card in the
American League thanks to another gem
from Iwakuma (13-7). The right-hander
allowed five hits and struck out eight,
running his streak of scoreless innings
at Safeco Field to 21 1/3.
Blue Jays 7, Rays 5: Devon Travis had
a career-high four hits, including the goahead single in the seventh inning, and
host Toronto beat Tampa Bay.
Edwin Encarnacion hit his 299th career
home run as the Blue Jays snapped a threegame losing streak against the Rays.
Encarnacion and Jose Bautista both had
three RBIs as Toronto scored more than
four runs for the first time since a 9-1 win
over Baltimore on July 30.
Dodgers 9, Phillies 4: Corey Seager
homered twice and Chase Utley and Yas-
mani Grandal also went deep for host Los
Angeles.
Seager has 21 homers, breaking Hanley
Ramirez’s record for homers by a Dodgers
shortstop. He’s also the eighth L.A. rookie
with 20 or more homers in a season.
Athletics 3, Orioles 2: Kendall Graveman pitched seven strong innings, Billy
Butler hit a tiebreaking single in the sixth
and host Oakland beat Baltimore despite
another home run from slugger Manny
Machado.
Machado, who hit home runs in his first
three at-bats Sunday, belted his 26th home
run of the season with two outs in the
eighth.
It wasn’t enough to prevent the Orioles
from losing and falling into a first-place tie
with Toronto in the AL East.
Twins 3, Astros 1: Tyler Duffey pitched
six effective innings and host Minnesota
took advantage of two misplays by Houston
center fielder Carlos Gomez in a three-run
fifth.
Gomez, the former Twins outfielder,
let Jorge Polanco’s single skip by him for
a two-base error that allowed one run to
score. Then he lost a fly ball off Juan Cen-
teno’s bat, turning it into an RBI triple.
Danny Santana followed with a runscoring single, and Minnesota won for the
seventh time in nine games.
Rangers 4, Rockies 3: Elvis Andrus
hit a two-run single, Mitch Moreland delivered a tiebreaking double and Texas
scored three times in the ninth inning to
beat host Colorado.
The AL West leader had a double steal
before Andrus’ single tied it 3-all. Moreland sent Andrus home with a double before he was thrown out stretching at third.
Carlos Estevez (2-7) got his fifth blown
save in the ninth.
Braves 4, Brewers 3 (12): Matt Kemp
scored from third base after Keon Broxton
dropped Gordon Beckham’s sacrifice fly
in the 12th inning, and Atlanta beat host
Milwaukee.
With the bases loaded and nobody out,
Broxton dropped a drive to deep center
field for an error.
Kemp drew a walk from Carlos Torres
(2-2) to start the 12th and went to third on a
ground-rule double by Nick Markakis.
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Chargers, Bosa still at odds
Former Ohio State DL only unsigned player from this year’s draft
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego
Chargers had their seventh training camp practice on Monday and
once again it didn’t include Joey
Bosa.
Bosa, the third overall pick, remains in a contract dispute with
the Chargers.
“I’m worried about the guys
that are here,” coach Mike McCoy
said.
It’s believed the sticking points
between the parties is when Bosa’s $17 million bonus is distributed and offset language in case
he signed another contract if released by the Chargers.
The former Ohio State star is
the only unsigned player from
this year’s draft.
Chargers general manager
Tom Telesco wasn’t available for
comment, according to a team
spokesman.
Todd France, one of Bosa’s representatives at CAA Sports, didn’t
return a message.
McCoy said, in general terms,
players skipping camp can fall
behind.
“Any time you don’t practice
and you’re not in meetings ... it
comes down to playing with one
another and becoming a team,” he
said. “If you are new in a system
it is more important to be here.
“You got to get in football
shape. The offseason in shorts
and T-shirts? That’s not football.
You got to get your pads on. You
got to work the bumps and bruises out.”
The Chargers open the preseason against the Tennessee
Titans on Saturday. Bosa, a passrushing defensive end, is unlikely
to play.
The rhetoric accelerated on
Sunday when Cheryl Bosa, Joey’s
mother, posted a remark toward
the Chargers on Facebook. In a
reply to someone frustrated by
the impasse, she wrote:
“It bums me out for him so
much. Wish we pulled an Eli
Manning on draft day.”
Eli’s father, Archie, met with
then-Chargers
coach
Marty
Schottenheimer and general
manager A.J. Smith, requesting
they not select his son with the
2004 draft’s No. 1 pick.
Smith snubbed the elder Manning and took Eli Manning. Smith
then traded him to the New York
Giants for a package which included Philip Rivers.
Manning has won two Super
Bowls with the Giants.
The Chargers haven’t won a
Super Bowl and have missed the
playoffs in five of the past six
years.
Bosa was selected to help turn
around the Chargers.
“We all know how Joey loves
the game and he will come back
in great shape,” McCoy said.
“Football shape, no. It will take
some time. We’ll see about that
when he gets here.”
In other NFL news:
The Minnesota Vikings
have agreed to terms on a fouryear contract extension with long
snapper Kevin McDermott.
The deal, first reported by the
NFL Network, runs through the
2020 season with a maximum
value of $4 million. Coach Mike
Zimmer confirmed the agreement Monday.
McDermott is entering his
second season with the Vikings,
after unseating last year veteran
Cullen Loeffler, who then was
the longest-tenured player on the
team.
The Indianapolis Colts will
be without starting defensive end
Kendall Langford for three to four
weeks after having arthroscopic
surgery on his injured knee.
Coach Chuck Pagano made the
announcement when the team returned to Anderson University on
Tuesday.
Pagano said Langford hurt his
knee in practice last week, was
sent back to Indianapolis for an
MRI and doctors found a congenital defect. Pagano did not say
which knee was injured, but Pa-
Briefly
US Hockey Hall
announces inductees
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
— Longtime high school coach
Bill Belisle, forward Craig Jan-
“The Jacksonville Jaguars organization is deeply saddened by
the passing of former offensive
line coach George Yarno and our
condolences are with his wife,
Cindy, his daughter, Adrianne
and his sons, Josh and George,”
the team said in a statement.
“Yarno had courageously battled
stage IV cancer for nearly three
years.”
Stars and Stripes
A-Rod’s ticket value
soars for last game
NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez’ value has suddenly soared
— at least when it comes to ticket
prices.
Despite his .204 batting average this year, baseball fans are
suddenly willing to pay four times
the normal price to see A-Rod play
the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday.
It’s the 41-year-old designated hitter’s last game with the
Yankees.
According to TiqIQ, a resale
ticket data collector, the average list price of a ticket is $305
— compared to $75 before A-Rod
tearfully announced Sunday that
he was retiring from the team.
StubHub was offering top seats
for $9,500. But a “nosebleed”
bleacher seat could still be had for
$48
gano remains hopeful that Langford will be ready for the Sept. 11
season opener against Detroit.
Former NFL player and
coach George Yarno has died
after a lengthy battle with stomach cancer. He was 58.
The Jacksonville Jaguars,
the last team Yarno worked for,
made the announcement Monday
night.
McKinney will head
DODEA Pacific sports
Pogba to Man U
in record transfer
MANCHESTER, England —
Emerging from the shadows, Paul
Pogba — a red devil emblazoned
on the side of his head — removed
his hood, looked straight into the
camera and uttered the words
Manchester United fans had been
waiting to hear: “I’m back.”
With that 26-second video
teaser released by United early
Tuesday, the France midfielder
became the world’s most expensive footballer at around $116
million and England’s biggest
club made another statement of
intent during its latest offseason
of heavy spending that moved
close to $200 million.
This was the new Man United at
work: Breaking the world transfer
record; announcing the signing
after midnight local time to suit
foreign audiences; a series of glitzy
videos included one with a grime
artist where Pogba produces some
impressive dance moves.
Pogba was a promising 19year-old when he left United to
join Juventus after his contract
expired, having only made seven
appearances as a substitute.
KYLE ROBERTSON, C OLUMBUS DISPATCH /TNS
Ohio State defensive lineman Joey Bosa leaves the field after being
ejected for a hit on Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer during
the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1. Bosa, the third overall pick, remains in a
contract dispute with the San Diego Chargers.
DAVID VINCENT/AP
Paul Pogba was signed by
Manchester United for around
$116 million.
ney and the 1996 World Cup of
Hockey team are this year’s inductees into the U.S. Hockey Hall
of Fame, USA Hockey Executive
Director Dave Ogrean announced
Monday.
The 86-year-old Belisle has
won 32 state championships in
41 seasons at Mount St. Charles
Academy in Woonsocket, R.I.,
Janney is the leader in assists
per game among U.S.-born players
and was one of the top playmakers
of his era. He had 563 assists and
751 points in 760 games.
The 1996 World Cup of Hockey
team was chosen on the 20th anniversary of its title in the inaugural event.
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa
— Tom McKinney, a coach with
14 years of experience at the middle- and high-school levels and
whose teams won six Far East
cross country titles was selected
as DODEA Pacific athletics coordinator, DODEA announced
Monday in a news release.
McKinney, 45, of Chamberlain, S.D., has taught and coached
at Seoul American and Kadena
since entering the DODEA system in 2001. In addition to coaching championship teams in two
sports, McKinney has also directed Far East soccer tournaments
since 2007.
He will now oversee the overall DODEA Pacific athletics program, featuring competition in
Japan, Korea, Okinawa and Guam
districts, with 13 high schools in
14 sports and end-of-season Far
East tournaments.
McKinney is a career educator
with more than 15 years of teaching physical education, health
and science. He holds a bachelor’s
degree in health, physical education and recreation from South
Dakota State and a master’s in
adaptive physical education from
Nebraska.
Courtesy of DODEA-Pacific public affairs
DODEA-Pacific athletics
coordinator Tom McKinney.
After two years of teaching
and coaching at Seoul American,
McKinney transferred to Kadena
and built a Far East cross country
power.
His Panthers won six overall
Far East Division I banners and
crowned seven individual race
champions. He also coached the
Panthers to the 2006 D-I soccer
tournament title, and served from
time to time as Kadena athletics
director.
McKinney takes over for Don
Hobbs, a former Kubasaki boys
basketball coach who held the
DODEA Pacific athletics coordinator position from September
2003 until his retirement July 1.
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Men’s basketball
Sloppy US cruises
after rough start
BY TOM WITHERS
Associated Press
BERNAT A RMANGUE /AP
Brazil’s Robert Scheidt sails during the second race of the men’s Laser competition Monday in Rio.
Smooth sailing for regatta opener
BY BERNIE WILSON
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Sailing, not the dirty water,
was finally the focus on troubled Guanabara Bay
during a spectacular start to the Olympic regatta on
Monday.
Windsurfers sped across the waves toward Flamengo Beach in a fresh breeze, against the imposing backdrop of Sugarloaf Mountain. Christ the
Redeemer, Rio’s highest and most magnificent
landmark, was obscured by fog.
Across the bay, 43-year-old Robert Scheidt won
the second race in the Laser class after finishing
a disappointing 23rd in the opener. He’s trying to
become the first Olympic sailor and first Brazilian
to win six Olympic medals. He owns two golds, two
silvers and a bronze. He’s seventh overall.
“This is like perfect conditions. You can’t get
better than this. And the views are amazing,” said
American windsurfer Pedro Pascual of Miami.
Guanabara Bay seemed to pass the sniff test, at
least on the surface.
The courses appeared clear of trash. Organizers
have sent a helicopter over the bay every morning
searching for rubbish. If any is spotted, boats are sent
to scoop it up. Barriers have been put across rivers to
try to stem the flow of garbage into the bay.
Under the waves, things are different.
An independent study by The Associated Press
has shown high levels of viruses and sometimes
bacteria from human sewage in the water.
“We’re not really concerned about that,” Pascual
said. “We’ve been here for a while training and we
haven’t had an issue. I’m just focused on racing.
There’s been days when it rains you can see stuff
floating around, but it’s like everywhere else, I
guess. It’s a bay.”
American Paige Railey, who finished second in
the second Laser Radial race and is seventh overall,
said the water was “great, totally fine. Warm, clean.
We were happy. I really want to give hats off to Brazil. I came here in 2007 for the Pan Ams and they’ve
done a magnificent job of cleaning up the water and
there are really no problems. I’d jump off the boat
and go swimming if I could.”
Charlie Buckingham of Newport Beach, Calif.,
making his Olympic debut in the Laser class, said
the water “was great. No trash. It was warm. Splashes felt good.”
Conditions could change if it rains.
“There always have been problems here, Spanish
windsurfer Ivan Pastor said. “It’s a very large bay.
There is a lot of current, rivers flowing into it and
we’ve seen quite frequently a lot of trash floating;
plastic, which is the worst.”
RIO DE JANEIRO — Red,
white and blasé for one quarter,
the U.S. Olympic team woke up
and won with ease.
Shaking off a sluggish, sloppy
start and maybe some Brazilian boredom, the Americans regrouped in the second quarter
and romped over Venezuela 11369 on Monday, taking another step
toward a possible third straight
gold medal.
Kevin Durant scored 16 points
and Carmelo Anthony 14 for
the U.S. squad, which may have
grown a touch overconfident
following a 57-point blowout of
China in its tournament opener.
The Americans were tied at
18 after one quarter, but stopped
turning the ball over and fouling, unleashed their defense and
outscored Venezuela 30-8 in the
second period. They cruised from
there, improving to 82-1 under
coach Mike Krzyzewski and reminding everyone it’s going to
take a special performance for
40 minutes to deny them another
Olympic title.
“Everything’s not going to be
easy,” Durant said. “We know
that, even with this great team.”
It was similar to the meeting
between the teams in Chicago on
July 29, when the U.S. shot poorly
and still won by 35 on its pre-Rio
exhibition tour. Maybe this was
a reminder that no team can be
taken lightly — and there is little margin for error — once the
Olympic flame is ignited.
“Once we settled down, made
our adjustments to the way they
were calling the game, the way
that Venezuela wanted to play
the game, that second quarter
we picked it up defensively and
turned it around,” Anthony said.
The Americans continue pool
play on Wednesday against unbeaten Australia. The Aussies,
featuring five NBA players, four
of them league champions, improved to 2-0 on Monday with an
impressive 95-80 win over Serbia.
Australia has never won an Olympic medal in men’s basketball, but
Krzyzewski knows the team from
Down Under will be up for the
Americans.
“I don’t think they’ve gone
back to their boat or apartment or
wherever they’re staying thinking they can’t beat us,” the coach
said. “They feel like they can beat
us and we understand that.”
Anthony, the four-team Olympian and two-time gold medalist
playing in his record 25th game
for the United States, provided a
much-needed spark in the second
quarter.
With the Americans leading
just 28-22 and looking anything
but golden, Anthony came across
the lane and stripped the ball
away from Venezuelan center
Gregory Echenique and passed it
to Kyrie Irving. Anthony followed
Irving up the floor, accepted a
feed on the wing and knocked
down a three-pointer that lifted
some of the pressure — and fog
— off Team USA.
“That changed the game,” said
Paul George, who led the U.S. with
20 points. “Melo made that three
and it gave us all confidence.”
Anthony moved past Michael
Jordan on the career scoring list
and now only trails LeBron James
and David Robinson for the most
points by an American Olympian.
Medals roundup
US men take silver in 10-meter synchro diving
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — China easily won
its second gold medal in diving at the Rio
Olympics, dominating the men’s 10-meter
synchronized event while showing the rest
of the world how to barely make a splash.
Chen Aisen and Lin Yue totaled 496.98
points on Monday, cruising to victory by
39.87 points.
American teammates David Boudia and
Steele Johnson took silver at 457.11. Tom
Daley and Daniel Goodfellow of Britain
rallied to claim bronze in 445.45.
China is aiming to sweep the eight diving
events in Rio de Janeiro for the first time
in the Olympics. A day earlier, the Chinese
won the women’s 3-meter synchro title.
Chen and Lin were especially impressive on their final two dives, totaling the
most points of any team in both rounds.
Boudia and Johnson controlled second
place throughout, leaving only the bronze
medal up for grabs. Four years ago in London, Boudia earned bronze in platform
synchro with a different partner and gold
in the individual 10-meter competition.
“One of every color,” Boudia said. “I’ve
never felt so content and so calm. You’re
at the Olympic Games with millions of
people watching you, so it’s a pretty good
feeling.”
Johnson, a 20-year-old diver at Indiana
University, was clearly thrilled with winning a medal in his Olympic debut. In 2009,
Johnson struck his head on the platform
and was saved from bleeding out by his
coach, who jumped in the pool and held his
head together. He received 33 stitches and
a tube in his head to drain the chlorine.
Fencing: Russia’s Yana Egorian scored
the final two points to stun teammate Sofya
Velikaya 15-14 and win the gold medal in
women’s sabre fencing, the first such meeting between two Russians in 20 years.
Egorian’s winning last touch left Velika-
ya, a two-time world champion, with backto-back silver medals in the Olympics.
Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan took bronze.
Judo: From the favela to the top of the
podium, Rafaela Silva earned Brazil’s first
gold medal. Silva, the country’s first female world champion in judo, won the 57kilogram division.
The 24-year-old Silva beat Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia. The women’s bronze
medals went to Kaori Matsumoto of Japan
— the defending Olympic champion — and
Telma Monteiro of Portugal.
Shooting: Croatia’s Josip Glasnovic captured gold in men’s trap after defeating
Italy’s Giovanni Pellielo in final match that
went to a shoot-off.
Glasnovic and Pellielo each hit 13 of 15
targets in the gold-medal match and were
on the mark with their first three in the
shoot-off.
Great Britain’s Edward Ling hit 13 of
15 targets to beat David Kostelecky of the
Czech Republic in the bronze medal match
for his first medal in three Olympics.
Italy’s Niccolo Campriani earned gold in
men’s 10-meter air rifle after taking silver
in London four years ago.
Campriani had 206.1 points to finish 1.5
ahead of silver medalist Serhiy Kulish of
Ukraine. Russia’s Vladimir Maslennikov
won the bronze.
Weightlifting: World record holder Chen
Lijun pulled out of the men’s 62-kilogram
class because of leg cramps, which opened
the class for Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera of Colombia to win gold. Mosquera
lifted 142 kilograms in snatch, 176 in clean
and jerk.Eko Yuli Irawan of Indonesia won
silver and Farkhad Kharki of Kazakhstan
won bronze in his Olympic debut.
Sukanya Srisurat and Pimsiri Sirikaew
gave Thailand its first gold and silver medals in an Olympic event by going 1-2 in the
women’s 58-kilogram class. Kuo HsingChun of Taiwan won bronze.
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US women’s eight shines
BY K ARL R ITTER
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — After a day off due
to gusty winds, Olympic rowers got back in
their boats Monday with the outstanding
U.S. women’s eight making a strong debut
in Rio.
On calm water with barely a breeze on
Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, the Americans
qualified for Saturday’s final in 6 minutes,
6.34 seconds, a whopping eight seconds
ahead of the Netherlands.
“It was good to get a race under our
belts,” said Meghan Musnicki, one of two
rowers remaining from the U.S. eight that
won gold in London 2012. “This is the first
time we’ve raced in this lineup.”
Britain won the second heat in 6:09.52
and is lining up as the strongest candidate
to smash the dynasty of the Americans,
who’ve won 10 consecutive world and
Olympic titles in the event.
“It’s definitely achievable and we all
believe that we can do it, and that’s what
you really need in a race like this,” said
Karen Bennett, who rows in seat No. 7 in
the British boat. “What better place to beat
them than the Olympics to really make a
statement.”
The Brits held off New Zealand and Canada, coxed by 56-year-old Lesley Thompson-Willie, who is participating in her
eighth Olympics.
Britain also secured a spot in the final of
the men’s eight, winning its heat in 5:34.23
while defending Olympic champion Germany won the other heat, four seconds
slower.
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning nearly saw their four-year winning streak end in
the women’s pair as Hedvig Rasmussen and
Anne Andersen of Denmark led the race
until the final stretch. The British pair won
by just two-tenths of a second and advanced
to the semifinals, along with the Danes.
A NDRE PENNER /AP
The United States’ women’s eight competes in a heat on Monday.
A Serbian pair that capsized in choppy
waters Saturday stayed in their boats this
time as they qualified for the semis in a
repechage.
Vladislav Yakovlev of Kazakhstan was
less fortunate as he flipped in the single
sculls after just 200 meters. Yakovlev
climbed back into his boat and finished the
race almost five minutes behind the Algerian winner.
The first medal races in the Olympic regatta are set for Wednesday.
Scoreboard
Medals table
Through Monday, Aug. 8
40 of 306 total medal events
Nation
G S B Tot
United States
5 7 7
19
China
5 3 5
13
Japan
3 0 7
10
Russia
2 5 3
10
Italy
3 4 2
9
Australia
4 0 3
7
South Korea
2 2 1
5
Thailand
2 1 1
4
Britain
1 1 2
4
Canada
0 1 3
4
Hungary
3 0 0
3
Taiwan
1 0 2
3
Kazakhstan
0 1 2
3
Brazil
1 1 0
2
Sweden
1 1 0
2
Belgium
1 0 1
2
Indonesia
0 2 0
2
New Zealand
0 2 0
2
South Africa
0 2 0
2
Ukraine
0 1 1
2
Uzbekistan
0 0 2
2
Argentina
1 0 0
1
Colombia
1 0 0
1
Croatia
1 0 0
1
Kosovo
1 0 0
1
Netherlands
1 0 0
1
Vietnam
1 0 0
1
Azerbaijan
0 1 0
1
Denmark
0 1 0
1
France
0 1 0
1
Mongolia
0 1 0
1
North Korea
0 1 0
1
Philippines
0 1 0
1
Georgia
0 0 1
1
Greece
0 0 1
1
Poland
0 0 1
1
Portugal
0 0 1
1
Spain
0 0 1
1
Monday’s medalists
DIVING
Men’s Synchronized 10-meter Platform
GOLD—China (Lin Yue; Chen Aisen)
SILVER—United States (David Boudia;
Steele Johnson)
BRONZE—Britain (Thomas Daley; Daniel Goodfellow)
FENCING
Women’s Sabre
GOLD—Yana Egorian, Russia
SILVER—Sofya Velikaya, Russia
BRONZE—Olga Kharlan, Ukraine
GYMNASTICS (ARTISTIC)
Men’s Team
GOLD—Japan (Ryohei Kato; Yusuke
Tanaka; Koji Yamamuro; Kenzo Shirai;
Kohei Uchimura)
SILVER—Russia (Denis Abliazin; Nikolai Kuksenkov; Ivan Stretovich; David Belyavskiy; Nikita Nagornyy)
BRONZE—China (Liu Yang; Lin Chaopan; Zhang Chenglong; Deng Shudi; You
Hao)
JUDO
Men’s -73kg
GOLD—Shohei Ono, Japan
SILVER—Rustam Orujov, Azerbaijan
BRONZE—Lasha
Shavdatuashvili,
Georgia
BRONZE—Dirk van Tichelt, Belgium
Women’s -57kg
GOLD—Rafaela Silva, Brazil
SILVER—Sumiya Dorjsuren, Mongolia
BRONZE—Telma Monteiro, Portugal
BRONZE—Kaori Matsumoto, Japan
RUGBY
Women
GOLD—Australia (Nicole Beck, Evania
Pelite, Chloe Dalton, Amy Turner, Shannon Parry, Emilee Cherry, Emma Tonegato, Ellia Green, Charlotte Caslick, Alicia
Quirk, Gemma Etheridge).
SILVER—New Zealand (Shakira Baker,
Terina Te Tamaki, Theresa Fitzpatrick,
Portia Woodman, Tyla Nathan-Wong,
Gayle Broughton, Niall Williams, Kayla
McAlister, Kelly Brazier, Ruby Tui, Huriana Manuel).
BRONZE—Canada
(Brittany
Benn,
Kelly Russell, Jennifer Kish, Charity Williams, Karen Paquin, Bianca Farella,
Natasha Watcham-Roy, Megan Lukan,
Hannah Darling, Ashley Steacy, Ghislaine
Landry).
SHOOTING
Men’s 10-Meter Air Rifle
GOLD—Niccolo Campriani, Italy
SILVER—Serhiy Kulish, Ukraine
BRONZE—Vladimir Maslennikov, Russia
Men’s Trap
GOLD—Josip Glasnovic, Croatia
SILVER—Giovanni Pellielo, Italy
BRONZE—Edward Ling, Britain
SWIMMING
Men’s 200 Freestyle
GOLD—Sun Yang, China
SILVER—Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos,
South Africa
BRONZE—Conor Dwyer, United States
Men’s 100 Backstroke
GOLD—Ryan Murphy, United States
SILVER—Xu Jiayu, China
BRONZE—David
Plummer,
United
States
Women’s 100 Backstroke
GOLD—Katinka Hosszu, Hungary
SILVER—Kathleen Baker, United States
BRONZE—Kylie Masse, Canada
BRONZE—Yuanhui Fu, China
Women’s 100 Breaststroke
GOLD—Lillia King, United States
SILVER—Yulia Efimova, Russia
BRONZE—Catherine
Meili,
United
States
WEIGHTLIFTING
Men’s 62kg
GOLD—Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera, Colombia
SILVER—Eko Yuli Irawan, Indonesia
BRONZE—Farkhad Kharki, Kazakhstan
Women’s 58kg
GOLD—Sukanya Srisurat, Thailand
SILVER—Pimsiri Sirikaew, Thailand
BRONZE—Kuo Hsing-Chun, Taiwan
Monday’s scores
BASKETBALL
Men
Australia 95, Serbia 80
United States 113, Venezuela 69
France 88, China 60
Women
United States 103, Spain 63
Canada 71, Serbia 67
Japan 82, Brazil 66
China 101, Senegal 64
FIELD HOCKEY
Men
Germany 2, India 1
Argentina 3, Canada 1
Women
United States 2, Australia 1
Germany 2, New Zealand 1
Netherlands 4, South Korea 0
Britain 3, India 0
China 2, Spain 0
Argentina 4, Japan 0
RUGBY
Women
11th Place
Kenya 22, Colombia 10
Ninth Place
Brazil 33, Japan 5
Placing 5-8
France 24, Spain 12
United States 12, Fiji 7 Semifinals
Australia 17, Canada 5
New Zealand 25, Britain 7
Seventh Place
Spain 21, Fiji 0
Fifth Place
United States 19, France 5
Bronze Medal
Canada 33, Britain 10
Gold Medal
Australia 24, New Zealand 17
TEAM HANDBALL
Women
Sweden 31, South Korea 28
Russia 26, France 25
Norway 27, Spain 24
Brazil 26, Romania 13
Netherlands 26, Argentina 18
Angola 27, Montenegro 25
VOLLEYBALL
Women
China 3, Italy 0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-16)
Japan 3, Cameroon 0 (25-20, 25-15, 2517)
United States 3, Netherlands 2 (18-25,
25-18, 21-25, 25-20, 15-8)
Serbia 3, Puerto Rico 0 (29-27, 25-18,
25-20)
Russia 3, South Korea 1 (25-23, 23-25,
25-23, 25-14)
Brazil 3, Argentina 0 (25-16, 25-19, 2511)
WATER POLO
Men
Serbia 9, Greece 9
Italy 11, France 8
Spain 10, United States 9
Australia 9, Hungary 9
Brazil 16, Japan 8
Croatia 8, Montenegro 7
Monday’s results
DIVING
Men’s Synchronised 10m Platform
Final
1. China (Lin Yue; Chen Aisen), 496.98.
2. United States (David Boudia; Steele
Johnson), 457.11.
3. Britain (Thomas Daley; Daniel Goodfellow), 444.45.
4. Germany (Patrick Hausding; Sascha
Klein), 438.42.
5. Mexico (Ivan Garcia; German Sanchez), 423.30.
6. Ukraine (Maksym Dolgov; Oleksandr Gorshkovozov), 421.98.
7. Russia (Viktor Minibaev; Nikita Shleikher), 417.57.
8. Brazil (Hugo Parisi; Jackson Rondinelli), 368.52.
FENCING
Women’s Sabre Individual
Quarterfinals
Sofya Velikaya, Russia, def. Cecilia
Berder, France, 15-10.
Manon Brunet, France, def. Azza Besbes, Tunisia, 15-14.
Yana Egorian, Russia, def. Ekaterina
Dyachenko, Russia, 15-10.
Olga Kharlan, Ukraine, def. Loreta Gulotta, Italy, 15-4.
Semifinal 1
Sofya Velikaya, Russia, def. Manon
Brunet, France, 15-14.
Semifinal 2
Yana Egorian, Russia, def. Olga Kharlan, Ukraine, 15-9.
Bronze Medal
Olga Kharlan, Ukraine, def. Manon
Brunet, France, 15-10.
Gold Medal
Yana Egorian, Russia, def. Sofya Velikaya, Russia, 15-14.
GYMNASTICS (ARTISTIC)
Men’s Team Final
1. Japan (Ryohei Kato; Yusuke Tanaka; Koji Yamamuro; Kenzo Shirai; Kohei
Uchimura), 274.094.
2. Russia (Denis Abliazin; Nikolai Kuksenkov; Ivan Stretovich; David Belyavskiy; Nikita Nagornyy), 271.453.
3. China (Yang Liu; Chaopan Lin;
Chenglong Zhang; Shudi Deng; Hao You),
271.122.
4. Britain (Brinn Bevan; Kristian Thomas; Nile Wilson; Louis Smith; Max Whitlock), 269.752.
5. United States (Christopher Brooks;
Danell Leyva; Alexander Naddour; Jacob
Dalton; Samuel Mikulak), 268.560.
6. Brazil (Arthur Zanetti; Diego Hypolito; Sergio Sasaki; Arthur Mariano; Francisco Barretto Junior), 263.728.
7. Germany (Andreas Bretschneider;
Fabian Hambuechen; Andreas Toba; Lukas Dauser; Marcel Nguyen), 261.275.
8. Ukraine (Vladyslav Hryko; Oleg
Verniaiev; Igor Radivilov; Maksym Semiankiv; Andrii Sienichkin), 202.078.
JUDO
Men -73 kg
Quarterfinals
Dirk van Tichelt, Belgium, def. Denis
Iartcev, Russia, Yuko, De-ashi-barai, 5:00.
Shohei Ono, Japan, def. Lasha Shavdatuashvili, Georgia, Wazari, Koshi-guruma, 5:00.
Rustam Orujov, Azerbaijan, def. Miklos
Ungvari, Hungary, Wazari, Undetermined
Nage-waza, 5:00.
Sagi Muki, Israel, def. Nicholas Delpopolo, United States, Ippon, Osoto-gari,
3:51.
Repechage
Lasha Shavdatuashvili, Georgia, def.
Denis Iartcev, Russia, Ippon, 4:44.
Miklos Ungvari, Hungary, def. Nicholas Delpopolo, United States, Penalty,
Non-Combativity, 5:00.
Semifinals
Shohei Ono, Japan, def. Dirk van
Tichelt, Belgium, Ippon, Tomoe-nage,
3:57.
Rustam Orujov, Azerbaijan, def. Sagi
Muki, Israel, Yuko, Osoto-gari, 5:00.
Bronze Medal A
Lasha Shavdatuashvili, Georgia, def.
Sagi Muki, Israel, Ippon, Kosoto-gake,
3:16.
Bronze Medal B
Dirk van Tichelt, Belgium, def. Miklos
Ungvari, Hungary, Ippon, Ude-hishigijuji-gatame, 1:49.
Gold Medal
Shohei Ono, Japan, def. Rustam Orujov, Azerbaijan, Ippon, Ko-uchi-makikomi, 3:15.
Women -57 kg
Quarterfinals
Sumiya Dorjsuren, Mongolia, def.
Telma Monteiro, Portugal, Penalty, HoldTrouser-Leg, 1:56.
Kaori Matsumoto, Japan, def. Automne
Pavia, France, Wazari, Sode-tsurikomigoshi, 4:00.
Rafaela Silva, Brazil, def. Hedvig Karakas, Hungary, Wazari, Tani-otoshi, 3:59.
Corina Caprioriu, Romania, def. ChenLing Lien, Taiwan, Ippon, De-ashi-barai,
0:37.
Repechage
Telma Monteiro, Portugal, def. Automne Pavia, France, Ippon, Ude-hishigijuji-gatame, 1:01.
Chen-Ling Lien, Taiwan, def. Hedvig
Karakas, Hungary, Yuko, Uchi-mata, 4:00.
Semifinals
Sumiya Dorjsuren, Mongolia, def. Kaori Matsumoto, Japan, Ippon, Seoi-nage,
0:24.
Rafaela Silva, Brazil, def. Corina Caprioriu, Romania, Wazari, Osoto-gari, 4:00.
Bronze Medal A
Telma Monteiro, Portugal, def. Corina
Caprioriu, Romania, Yuko, Tomoe-nage,
4:00.
Bronze Medal B
Kaori Matsumoto, Japan, def. ChenLing Lien, Taiwan, Yuko, Ko-uchi-makikomi, 4:00.
Gold Medal
Rafaela Silva, Brazil, def. Sumiya Dorjsuren, Mongolia, Wazari, Sumi-otoshi,
4:00.
SHOOTING
Men’s 10m Air Rifle
Finals
1. Niccolo Campriani, Italy, 206.1.
2. Serhiy Kulish, Ukraine, 204.6.
3. Vladimir Maslennikov, Russia, 184.2.
4. Abhinav Bindra, India, 163.8.
5. Peter Sidi, Hungary, 142.7.
6. Illia Charheika, Belarus, 121.6.
7. Petar Gorsa, Croatia, 101.0.
8. Oleh Tsarkov, Ukraine, 79.7.
Men’s Trap
Semifinals
1. Josip Glasnovic, Croatia, 15 (QG).
2. Giovanni Pellielo, Italy, 14 (QG).
3. David Kostelecky, Czech Republic,
13 (QB).
4. Edward Ling, Britain, 12 (QB).
5. Ahmed Kamar, Egypt, 12.
6. Massimo Fabbrizi, Italy, 11.
Bronze Medal Match
Edward Ling, Britain, def. David Kostelecky, Czech Republic, 13-9.
Gold Medal Match
Josip Glasnovic, Croatia, def. Giovanni
Pellielo, Italy, 13-13 (4-3 remarks).
SWIMMING
Men
200m Freestyle
Final
1. Yang Sun, China, 1:44.65.
2. Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos, South
Africa, 1:45.20.
3. Conor Dwyer, United States, 1:45.23.
4. James Guy, Britain, 1:45.49.
5. Francis Haas, United States, 1:45.58.
6. Paul Biedermann, Germany, 1:45.84.
7. Kosuke Hagino, Japan, 1:45.90.
8.
Aleksandr
Krasnykh,
Russia,
1:45.91.
100m Backstroke Final
1. Ryan Murphy, United States, 51.97.
2. Jiayu Xu, China, 52.31.
3. David Plummer, United States,
52.40.
4. Mitchell Larkin, Australia, 52.43.
5. Camille Lacourt, France, 52.70.
6. Evgeny Rylov, Russia, 52.74.
7. Ryosuke Irie, Japan, 53.42.
8. Robert Glinta, Romania, 53.50.
Women
100m Breaststroke
Final
1. Lillia King, United States, 1:04.93.
2. Yulia Efimova, Russia, 1:05.50.
3. Catherine Meili, United States,
1:05.69.
4. Jinglin Shi, China, 1:06.37.
5. Rachel Nicol, Canada, 1:06.68.
6. Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir, Iceland,
1:07.18.
7. Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania, 1:07.32.
8. Alia Atkinson, Jamaica, 1:08.10.
100m Backstroke
Final
1. Katinka Hosszu, Hungary, 58.45.
2. Kathleen Baker, United States,
58.75.
3. Kylie Masse, Canada, 58.76.
3. Yuanhui Fu, China, 58.76.
5. Mie Nielsen, Denmark, 58.80.
6. Olivia Smoliga, United States, 58.95.
7. Emily Seebohm, Australia, 59.19.
8. Madison Wilson, Australia, 59.23.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Men’s 62kg Group A Final
1. Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera,
Colombia (142-176), 318 kg.-701 pounds.
2. Eko Yuli Irawan, Indonesia (142-170),
312 kg.-687 pounds.
3. Farkhad Kharki, Kazakhstan (135170), 305 kg.-672 pounds.
4. Yoichi Itokazu, Japan (133-169), 302
kg.-665 pounds.
5. Ahmed Saad, Egypt (133-161), 294
kg.-648 pounds.
6. Morea Baru, Papua New Guinea
(126-164), 290 kg.-639 pounds.
7. Muhamad Hasbi, Indonesia (130160), 290 kg.-639 pounds.
8. Myeongmok Han, South Korea (130150), 280 kg.-617 pounds.
9. Lijun Chen, China, DNF.
Women’s 58kg Group A Final
1. Sukanya Srisurat, Thailand (110130), 240 kg.-529 pounds.
2. Pimsiri Sirikaew, Thailand (102-130),
232 kg.-511 pounds.
3. Hsing-Chun Kuo, Taiwan (102-129),
231 kg.-509 pounds.
4. Maria Alexandra Escobar Guerrero,
Ecuador (100-123), 223 kg.-491 pounds.
5. Mikiko Andoh, Japan (94-124), 218
kg.-480 pounds.
6. Yuderqui Maridalia Contreras, Dominican Republic (100-117), 217 kg.-478
pounds.
7. Lina Marcela Rivas Ordonez, Colombia (96-120), 216 kg.-476 pounds.
8. Monica Patricia Dominguez Lara,
Mexico (96-115), 211 kg.-465 pounds.
9. Yusleidy Mariana Figueroa Roldan,
Venezuela (85-116), 201 kg.-443 pounds.
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Women’s rugby
Aussies win 1st gold
BY JOHN P YE
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — The first Olympic
rugby gold medal in 92 years has gone to a
group of Australian women that includes
a mechanic, an elite former sprinter and
a 21-year-old newcomer who has traveled
around Rio de Janeiro carrying an inflatable kangaroo.
Australia absorbed an expected early
battering from New Zealand and conceded
an early try before responding with four
consecutive tries to win the women’s rugby
sevens final 24-17 on Monday.
“It was a typical trans-Tasman battle,”
Australia co-captain Shannon Parry said,
referring to the intense sporting rivalry
between her country and neighboring New
Zealand. “Very excited, very elated with
what we’ve achieved.”
The sevens world series-winning Australian women extended their streak to
five straight wins against 2013 World Cup
winner New Zealand, quite a change in fortune in the broader rugby context.
Australia’s men’s team, the Wallabies,
have struggled against New Zealand’s famous All Blacks for more than a decade
in the traditional 15-a-side game. The All
Blacks have not only retained the Bledisloe Cup, they’ve also won two World Cups
— beating Australia in the final last year.
The women’s sevens team usurped New
Zealand in the rankings, winning the
world series for the first time last season.
The Australian Rugby Union put them on
contracts, set up an academy for sevens
and allowed them to train as professional
athletes.
“When I started the game, women’s
rugby in Australia wasn’t very big,” Parry
said. “It was very much a minority sport.
“To think, eight years down the track, I’m
an Olympian, I play rugby as a full-time job.
I just think how far the game has gone.”
Rugby is back in the Olympics for the
first time since 1924, but in the condensed
sevens format and with women competing for the first time. Canada beat Britain
33-10 for bronze, avenging a 22-0 loss the
previous day at the end of the pool stage.
The United States beat France 19-5, after
a come-from-behind 12-7 win over Fiji, to
secure fifth place.
It was all going New Zealand’s way when
Kayla McAlister scored the first try, but
the Australians rallied with tries from
THEMBA H ADEBE /AP
Australia’s Evania Pelite, right, scores a try as New Zealand’s Kelly Brazier, chases
during the women’s rugby sevens gold medal match Monday. Australia won 24-17.
Emma Tonegato and Evania Pelite before
halftime.
Tonegato’s early equalizer was contentious as she crashed over near the corner
flag, but referee Alhambra Nievas awarded the try after checking with both assistant referees.
A yellow card for New Zealand star Portia Woodman resulted in a significant momentum swing for the Australians.
Pelite ran on to a long, floating pass
from Alicia Quirk and scored out wide
on the stroke of halftime, moments after
For US cyclists, fourth
place feels like curse
Harrington happy
to make golf field
BY DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Padraig
Harrington was a strong voice in
golf’s bid to become an Olympic
sport for the first time in more
than a century.
And then golf’s image took a hit
as players began dropping out,
and the Irishman went quiet.
He desperately wanted golf to
succeed, and that meant unified
support from the top players. But
as they began pulling out — particularly Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland — it became personal.
Without players withdrawing, he
wouldn’t have a chance to play.
“I was wearing two hats when
it came to this,” Harrington said.
“Obviously, I want golf to be a success in the Olympics, but I clearly
wanted to go. So I wasn’t jumping
up and down saying, ‘Guys, you
should all go.’ I was staying out of
it. Because it is a dream of mine.”
It became a reality when Harrington arrived in Rio de Janeiro
on Monday and the draw was announced for the 72-hole competition that starts Thursday and
concludes with the first medals
awarded since 1904 in St. Louis.
Harrington will be part of the
second group out, along with
Italy’s Matteo Manassero and
Danny Lee of New Zealand.
Golf began its bid process in
April 2008, about the time Harrington soared to his greatest
heights. He repeated as British
Open champion, and then won the
PGA Championship to become
the first European to win back-toback majors in the modern lineup
of Grand Slam events.
Harrington joined the biggest
names in golf — Tiger Woods,
Phil Mickelson, Annika Sorenstam — in a strong pitch to the IOC
to put golf back in the program.
But when the Rio Games rolled
around, Harrington was nowhere
close to qualifying because of
three Irish golfers well ahead of
him in the world ranking.
And then McIlroy pulled out,
citing the Zika virus. Graeme
McDowell withdrew because
his wife is due with their second
child and he didn’t want to be out
of the country. Shane Lowry also
withdrew. And now Harrington,
the most famous of all Irish golfers, is at the Olympics.
He hadn’t even met the other
Irish qualifier, Seamus Powers,
who plays on the Web.com Tour.
But he is thrilled to have him as
a teammate.
Why are the Olympics so important? Why would a three-time
major champion care more about
gold than the silver claret jug or
Wanamaker Trophy?
That dates to his teenage years,
when Harrington was starting to
blossom in golf and was invited
to three or four banquets each
winter that honor the best sporting achievements in Ireland and
feature the heroes of Irish sport
over the years.
“Every sports awards I went
to from 15 years of age, the first
man they called out was a guy
named Ronnie Delany, who won
the 1,500 gold medal in 1956,”
he said. “Every sports award.
That’s how big a deal it is. I sat
there and looked up and this guy
... who is this guy? It’s a huge deal
in Ireland.”
Harrington can recite the Irish
Woodman was sin-binned for a deliberate
knock-on.
When Ellia Green and Charlotte Caslick
scored to lift Australia’s lead to 24-5, the
final was as good as won. New Zealand cut
the margin with a second try for McAlister
and another for Woodman, her 10th of the
tournament.
“It’s an international fact that New Zealand and Aussie are just really good at competing against each other,” Woodman said.
“They love it, and rugby’s in our genes, and
we knew they were going to bring it.”
BY DAVE SKRETTA
Associated Press
TONY G UTIERREZ /AP
Padraig Harrington was a strong
voice in golf’s bid to become an
Olympic sport for the first time
in more than a century, but it
took a number of withdrawals
for him to get into the Rio field.
history in the Olympics, from
Delany’s gold medal in Melbourne
to Pat O’Callaghan’s two golds in
boxing in 1928 and 1932, Bob Tisdall in the 1932 Olympics for the
400-meter hurdles, even Jack Butler Yeats winning a silver in mixed
painting, when art competitions
were part of the Games.
He even chose to sacrifice his
standing on the PGA Tour. Harrington played the Travelers
Championship in Connecticut,
failing in his bid to move into
the top 125 in the FedEx Cup.
There are two events remaining,
but he’ll be in Rio — playing one
week, watching the next.
“I normally come back and
would play, but I think so much of
the Olympics, I’m going to take a
week’s holiday and go to a number
of events,” Harrington said. “It’s
an opportunity of a lifetime to really have a great week’s holiday
the second week. The first week
will be all business but hopefully
the second week we’ll have a good
week.”
RIO DE JANEIRO — One
long-held truism of the Olympics
is there are no medals for fourth
place, only the crushing disappointment of coming oh-so-close
to a life-changing step up the
podium.
If there were, the U.S. road cycling team would feel much better about the Summer Games.
There have been six road cycling events the past two Olympics, including the men’s and
women’s road races over the
weekend. Three times the Americans have finished fourth, including the stirring and heartbreaking
finish by Mara Abbott along Copacabana Beach on Sunday.
After animating the race on
the final climb of Vista Chinesa,
and sweeping into the lead when
Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten crashed hard on the descent,
Abbott tried in vain to hold onto
a slim advantage against three
strong riders working together to
catch her.
They reached her within sight
of the finish line.
“I knew it was probably going
to come down to the wire,” Abbott said later. “I just didn’t know
which side.”
The two-man squad of Taylor
Phinney and Brent Bookwalter
hardly had aspirations in their
race Saturday. The course suited
neither and Phinney pulled out
midway through to save himself
for the time trial, though Bookwalter still finished 16th in what
he considered a positive result.
Still, it left the Americans ruing
their misfortunes.
‘ It feels awful. ’
Mara Abbott
US cyclist who finished fourth in Rio
women’s road race
At the London Games four years
ago, Phinney was beaten by Alexander Kristoff in a sprint to the
finish at Buckingham Palace for
bronze. Four days later, he posted
the fourth-fastest mark in the time
trial at Hampton Court Palace to
again finish just off the podium.
That in part is why Phinney, a
cycling world champion, skipped
the Tour de France and spent the
past six weeks training specifically for Wednesday’s time trial.
“It was a tough decision to pull
out (Saturday) but I ultimately
came to the conclusion that I’m
here to win a medal in the time
trial,” he said. “I’m not just here
for the Olympic experience.”
The U.S. road team hasn’t
struck out entirely.
Kristin Armstrong won the past
two Olympic time trials, and came
out of retirement to chase a third.
The American women’s road
team was favored to win gold, but
mostly because of the world’s topranked rider, Megan Guarnier,
and world hour-record holder Evelyn Stevens. Yet the hard course
with its brutal ascents was tailored perfectly for Abbott, one of
the sport’s strongest climbers.
It proved to be another gutpunch for the U.S. team.
“It feels awful,” Abbott said,
“but at the same time, you’re supported by a team that’s worked so
hard to help you win. We had a really amazing team here.”
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Boxing
USA’s Hernandez
stuns Russian star
BY GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
JULIO C ORTEZ /AP
American Chris Brooks performs on the parallel bars during the artistic gymnastics men’s team final
Monday in Rio de Janeiro. The team finished in fifth place, just as it did in London in 2012.
Déjà vu for American men
In a repeat of London, gymnastics team stumbles into 5th place
BY K RISTIE R IEKEN
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — It
was 2012 all over again for the
Americans on Monday in the Rio
Games.
Just as in London, they followed a great performance in the
preliminaries of the team competition with a terrible start to the
finals and finished fifth.
“In a lot of ways, these guys
performed better than I feel we
did in London,” coach Mark Wiliams said. “We fought through
everything and there’s no giving
up. Gymnastics is hard and there
are a lot of good teams out there
on the men’s side.”
Four years ago things went
wrong when they started on the
pommel horse and two of them
fell. On Monday it was the floor
exercise that put the team in a big
hole early with both Alex Naddour
and Sam Mikulak stepping out of
bounds during their routines.
“It’s obviously tough whenever
you start from behind, but that’s
kind of the Team USA motto to
never give up, never quit, fight
until the end,” Chris Brooks said.
“So we just tried to rally together
and get the ball rolling.”
They were able to do that, turning in solid performances on the
rings, vault and parallel bars to
put them within striking distance
of a medal. Only the horizontal
bar was left and Danell Leyva
knew he had to be aggressive to
give the team a chance.
Instead of sticking his routine,
he missed a connection, leaving
the Americans in fifth place once
more.
“We started it off a little rough
but we were picking it up toward
the end,” Leyva said. “I was the
one who messed it up at the end.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Nico Hernandez realized the enormous
odds he faced when he stepped
in the ring with Russia’s Vasilii
Egorov, the second-seeded light
flyweight in the Olympic boxing
tournament.
Those odds were nothing that
a fighter from Wichita couldn’t
overcome with a little help from
an Irish coach.
Hernandez pulled off one of the
biggest upsets of the Olympics’
first three days on Monday night
with a unanimous decision over
Egorov, the European champion
and runner-up at last year’s world
championships.
“I knew he was one of the top
seeds, and I knew I wasn’t expected to win,” said Hernandez,
a 20-year-old former cross-country runner who trains back home
in Kansas with his father, Lewis.
“It feels great. This is definitely a
booster for me, for my confidence.
I knew I could do it. I just had to
be on my top game tonight.”
Hernandez
flawlessly
executed a game plan put together
by veteran amateur coach Billy
Walsh, who has been in charge
of the U.S. program since late
last year. Walsh predicted Egorov would throw a high volume of
wild punches, and he instructed
Hernandez to block the big shots
before countering with his own
combinations and body shots.
For almost every moment of the
three-round fight, Hernandez did
what Walsh asked. He slowed in
the third round against Egorov’s
increasingly desperate onslaught,
but still won 29-28 on all three
cards.
“You can have all the skills or
all the plans in the world, but if
‘You can have all the
skills or all the plans
in the world, but if this
guy doesn’t implement
it, it looks like a
disaster. Nico followed
all of the plans, and he
was brilliant.
’
Billy Walsh
Hernandez’s coach
this guy doesn’t implement it, it
looks like a disaster,” Walsh said.
“Today and in his first fight, Nico
followed all of the plans, and he
was brilliant. He got the rewards,
and now we’re in the top eight.”
Hernandez has won two fights
in the first three days of the
Olympic tournament, putting
him one win away from a medal.
He fights Ecuador’s Carlos Quipo
on Wednesday, with the winner
guaranteed at least a bronze.
That’s remarkable progress for
a fighter who wasn’t among most
prognosticators’ medal picks
— and for a team that was widely
expected to struggle again in Rio
after the U.S. men left London
with no medals for the first time.
Hernandez has been steadily
improving in the year since he
lost in the first round of the world
championships in Qatar to Brendan Irvine, the Irish boxer who
was then coached by Walsh.
“We devised a plan to beat
him then, but when we came in
(to the U.S. team), very quickly
he learned and adapted,” Walsh
said. “We’ve built a relationship,
and we’ve got confidence in each
other.”
D MITRI L OVETSKY/AP
The USA’s Danell Leyva is checked by a team official after falling
while performing on the horizontal bar.
I just slipped on the bar. I really
tried grabbing on and holding on
as much as I could but my grip
was off, like it was not on the bar,
and that’s why it slipped off.”
It was a day that illustrated the
rapidly increasing gap between
the U.S. men’s and women’s teams.
While the women are overwhelming favorites to win their second
straight team gold, the men have
slipped to the middle of the pack
after winning team medals in
2004 and 2008. Williams watched
the American women dominate
the field in qualifying on Sunday
night and hoped it would give his
group a boost.
“Looking at the results obviously they’re doing the right
things and they looked fantastic
last night,” Williams said. “That
was one of the best gymnastics
meets I’ve ever watched. We’ve
got to come out and be on fire as
well.”
The gymnasts weren’t really
interested in comparing what
happened in London to Monday’s
performance. But Leyva summed
up the feelings of most of the guys
rather succinctly.
“It feels equally bad,” he said.
Despite the disappointing finish
the men were happy with their effort and looked forward to better
results in the individual events.
“Even though we didn’t get the
placement that we wanted it was
fun. We had fun down there,”
Brooks said. “We were supporting each other. We were competing with everything we had.
It’s gymnastics — sometimes it
doesn’t go your way, sometimes
you need a little bit of luck. But I
had a great time.”
Naddour completely agreed
with his teammate and had a
smile on his face as he described
the day.
“Fifth in the world,” he said.
“It’s still pretty good.”
FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP
The United States’ Nico Miguel Hernandez, left, fights Russia’s
Vasilii Egorov during a men’s light flyweight 49-kg match Monday.
Hernandez fights Ecudador’s Carlos Quipo on Wednesday.
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Americans add to haul
with huge night at pool
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
Associated Press
MICHAEL SOHN /AP
The United States’ Ryan Murphy shows off his gold medal after the
men’s 100-meter backstroke Monday in Rio de Janeiro.
RIO DE JANEIRO — This one will surely be seen
as a victory for clean athletes over the dopers.
No doubt, that was Lilly King’s take.
The feisty American stared down Yulia Efimova,
a swimmer at the center of Russia’s doping scandal,
and then beat her in the pool Monday night.
King could hardly contain her satisfaction at capturing gold in the 100-meter breaststroke — especially given who was in the next lane.
“It just proves you can compete clean and still
come out on top with all the hard work you put in
behind the scenes, behind the meet, at practice and
weight sessions,” the 19-year-old Indiana University
student said giddily. “There is a way to become the
best and do it the right way.”
Efimova arrived in Rio as one of the symbols of
the massive Russian doping operation, an athlete
who had already served a 16-month suspension and
tested positive again this year for the now-banned
substance meldonium.
Efimova was initially banned from the Olympics,
but that decision was overturned on appeal. King
took umbrage at Efimova’s No. 1 finger wag during
the semifinals, and the bad blood carried over to the
final.
After glaring at Efimova in the ready room and
giving her a look of disdain on deck, King led all
the way to take the gold in 1 minute, 4.93 seconds.
Efimova settled for the silver, more than a half-second behind. The bronze went to another American,
Katie Meili.
King’s victory highlighted another big night for
the Americans, who also extended their domination
in the men’s 100 backstroke with Ryan Murphy’s
victory and wound up with six medals in all.
Murphy was fourth at the turn, but rallied on the
return lap to give the Americans their sixth straight
gold medal in the 100 back. Their last loss came at
the 1992 Barcelona Games.
M ARTIN MEISSNER /AP
Defending gold medalist Missy Franklin failed to
qualify for the final of the women’s 200-meter
freestyle, finishing last in her semifinal.
For good measure, David Plummer — a 30-yearold Olympic rookie — claimed the bronze.
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu became the first twotime gold medalist at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, adding the women’s 100 backstroke title to her
world-record victory in the 400 individual medley.
The silver went to American Kathleen Baker.
In another result sure to stir the doping debate,
China’s Sun Yang captured gold in the men’s 200
free. Two years ago, he served a three-month suspension for taking a banned stimulant.
Conor Dwyer took the bronze, adding to the U.S.
medal haul.
Even on a red, white and blue night at the pool,
Missy Franklin endured another stunning disappointment. The darling of the London Games failed
to qualify for the final of the 200 freestyle, extending a mystifying loss of form since turning pro last
summer.
Franklin finished last in her semifinal heat with
only the 13th-fastest time among 16 swimmers.
Good: King backed up her criticism of Efimova by beating her
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that it was spontaneous, and seemed to
come straight from the heart.
And then she backed it up with a swim
for the gold. An Olympic record swim for
the gold, just to put an exclamation point
on the night.
“I do think it’s a victory for clean sport
to show you can do it after competing clean
all your life,” King said.
That Efimova was even swimming in
the lane next to King was puzzling to begin
with. She was one of seven Russian swimmers originally banned after the International Olympic Committee ruled that past
Russian dopers could not compete.
Yet there she was in the pool, trying
desperately to overcome King’s early lead.
There she was on the medal stand, with the
silver medal hanging around her neck.
She was a double juicer, banned for 16
months after testing positive for an anabolic steroid in 2013 and for meldonium in
March of this year. Yet somehow international swimming officials found a way to
let her compete.
King didn’t think that was right. Neither
did another swimmer who has won more
Olympic medals than anyone while competing clean.
Michael Phelps has seen the same kind of
thing. He has had the same kind of doubts.
And he applauded King as much for
LEE JIN - MAN /AP
The United States’ Lilly King, left, and Russia’s Yulia Efimova compete in the final of
the women’s 100-meter breaststroke Monday at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
what she did speaking out as what she did
in the pool.
“I think you’re going to probably see a
lot of people speaking out more,” Phelps
said. “I think she’s right. I think something
needs to be done. It’s kind of sad today in
sports in general, not just in swimming,
there are people who are testing positive
who are allowed back in the sport and multiple times. It kind of breaks what sport is
meant to be and that’s what pisses me off.”
King didn’t just call Efimova out, she
stared her down before the two took to the
blocks for their race. Things were just as
icy afterward, as Efimova stood alone with
her silver medal with no congratulations
from King or her teammate, bronze medalist Katie Meili.
“If she was wishing to be congratulated, I
apologize. She had a fantastic swim,” King
said at a press conference afterward where
Efimova tried to defend herself against the
doping charges.
If the IOC hadn’t bowed down to the Russians to begin with last month, there would
have been no such drama. While the Russian track and field team was banned from
the games, most of the country’s other
athletes were allowed to attend, including
some who have had positive doping tests.
That didn’t sit well with King, who
doesn’t compromise on the issue. Asked
if U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin should be on
the team after two drug suspensions, she
didn’t back off.
“Do I think people who have been caught
for doping offenses should be on the team?
No I don’t,” she said. “It should be set in
stone. There should be no bouncing back
and forth.”
Simple words, spoken from the heart.
King is not only a clean athlete, but now an
Olympic champion.
And that’s something to wag a finger
about.
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IT’S GOOD TO BE
KING
Gold medal is a win
for all clean athletes
BY TIM DAHLBERG
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO
wagging finger. A stunning
swim.
And with that, a win for clean
athletes everywhere in an Olympics where no one is sure the playing field
is really level.
Yes, Lilly King is quite a swimmer. The
gold medal hanging around her neck Monday night was evidence enough of that.
But the brash 19-year-old from Indiana
was much more than that on an electric
night at the Olympic pool, where she held
off Russian Yulia Efimova in a 100-meter
breaststroke showdown that was loaded
with overtones of a new doping Cold War.
A day after calling Efimova out for doping, she backed up her words with a spectacular performance in the pool. In doing
so she showed more courage in 100 meters
than Olympic officials have shown in the
last 100 days.
“I basically said what everybody thinks,”
King said.
The day before she had wagged her finger from just off the pool deck to a televised shot of Efimova celebrating her win
in a semifinal heat. On national TV she explained what she was thinking — and she
did it in no uncertain words.
On the eve of the biggest race of her life,
King wasn’t afraid to take a stand.
“You just got caught for drug cheating.
I’m not a fan,” King said.
It was a bold statement, the kind you
never hear from athletes in the heat of
competition. What made it even better was
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Above: The United States’ Lilly King celebrates winning the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke Monday at the
Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Inset: Russia’s Yulia Efimova was reduced to tears after settling for the silver medal.
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