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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2016
Volume 74, No. 189 ©SS 2016
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew
low over South Korea on Sunday,
a clear show of force from the
United States as a Cold War-style
standoff deepened between its ally
Seoul and North Korea following
Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test.
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US military flies B-52 bomber over South Korea as standoff deepens
BY PAUL A LEXANDER
Stars and Stripes
North Korea’s fourth nuclear test has
quickly escalated into the most high-profile
standoff with the belligerent, brainwashed
country in three years.
The U.S. flew a B-52 bomber, which is
capable of carrying nuclear weapons, from
Guam for a low-level flight in the vicinity of
Osan, South Korea, on Sunday, accompanied
by South Korean F-15 and U.S. F-16 fighter
jets. It later returned to base. The show
of force, four days after North Korea announced it had conducted its fourth nuclear
test, echoed a similar flight the last time the
North carried out an underground nuclear
blast in 2013.
“This was a demonstration of the ironclad
U.S. commitment to our allies in South Korea,
in Japan, and to the defense of the American
homeland,” Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the
commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said
in a statement.
THAAD system
located on Guam
could be effective
against missiles
from North Korea
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Private contractor regains Army’s child care program
BY LISA R EIN
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The government will turn over the management of a program that helps
Army families pay for private
child care back to a private contractor after a federal agency
bungled the job for a year, officials said Wednesday.
Child Care Aware of America,
which ran the Army Fee Assistance program from 2004 to 2014
before the Army canceled the
contract to save money and gave
responsibility for it to the General Services Administration, will
start accepting applications on
Feb. 22, said witnesses who testified at a congressional hearing.
The program helps eligible ser-
vicemembers pay for child care
in the private sector when there is
no care available on base. Nearly
13,000 families participate in the
Army’s program, growing from
just 200 families during the past
12 years.
Child Care Aware of America
runs similar subsidy programs
for the Air Force, the Marine
Corps and the Navy.
But the Army was promised
it could save about $4 million by
transferring management of the
program to the GSA, so it made
the change in early 2014.
The problems started soon afterward and were disclosed by
the GSA’s inspector general in
September: thousands of unprocessed applications, unanswered
phone calls from families, deleted
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voice mails from worried families
and unpaid invoices.
The GSA took up to seven months
to process some subsidy applications, an audit report found. Army
families reported that during the
long waits, they considered having
a spouse quit a job or school so that
one parent could stay home with
their children.
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MILITARY
Program:
Repair of demand
backlog wiped out
expected savings
“The American military
saved Germany from
the Nazis. They forget
so quickly what the
Americans have done for
us.”
— Hans-Peter Wild, who was
a child in Heidelberg, Germany,
during World War II and later
developed the fruit drink Capri
Sun, on his gift of $16.5 million
to the Marine Corps Scholarship
Foundation
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Vegas. Dias lived at a homeless shelter before moving into Veteran’s Village, a former motel in
downtown Las Vegas that was renovated to provide housing for veterans. Dias will sit in first lady
Michelle Obama’s visitor box during the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.
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WASHINGTON — A formerly homeless veteran from Las Vegas will sit in first lady Michelle
Obama’s visitor box during the State of the Union
address Tuesday night.
Cynthia Dias, 64, served during the Vietnam
War on a hospital ship as a registered nurse and
attributed her years of homelessness to post-traumatic stress disorder.
About a year ago, Dias said, she was able to
move from a homeless shelter for women and
children into a former motel in downtown Las
Vegas that was renovated through private donations to provide 122 units of housing for veterans.
While staying in Veterans Village, residents like
Dias get access to health care, job training and
counseling.
The Obama administration is highlighting a
challenge that the first lady and Jill Biden, the
vice president’s wife, issued for local leaders to
do more to end veteran homelessness in 2015.
Las Vegas responded to the call, and city leaders say they have enough services and programs
in place to house every homeless veteran.
Dias said she’s in shock from Obama’s invitation and hopes people will think about her sur-
vival when they see her.
“I survived and I’m thriving here at Veterans
Village,” Dias said.
“For me, it’s been a heaven-sent gift to be
among other veterans who are suffering from
PTSD,” she said. “The camaraderie that veterans have for one another, it’s better medication
than the anti-depressants.”
The founder of Veterans Village, Arnold Stalk,
said it’s important to get veterans off the street
first and into a stable environment. Once that
happens, it’s easier to provide the health care
and other support they’ll need to live in a home
permanently.
Dias will join two other Obama guests, early
supporters who President Barack Obama said
provided inspiration to his campaign.
Edith Childs, of Greenwood, S.C., met the president at a rally in her state in June 2007. Obama
credits her with coining the “Fired up! Ready to
go!” call-and-response that became a rallying
cry for both of his White House bids.
Another guest, Earl Smith, was head of security at an Austin hotel when he met Obama in
February 2008. He gave Obama a military patch
he had carried with him for 40 years; Obama carried it with him for the rest of the campaign.
The backlog, first revealed by the
inspector general’s office early last
year, gained public attention after reporting by Washington’s NBC affiliate,
NBC4.
The program worked this way: Child
care providers send monthly invoices
to GSA for each child, and the agency
pays its part of the cost once it verifies
the information it receives from families and providers. Families have to pay
all child care costs up front while they
wait for approval.
Inadequate staffing and technology
to accept and process applications for
subsidies was quickly overwhelmed
by the demand from families, officials
said. The GSA had to sink another $4.4
million into handling the backlog, wiping out any savings it had promised to
the Army.
GSA officials said at Wednesday’s
hearing before a panel of the House
Oversight and Government Reform
Committee that they have whittled
down the backlog from 26,000 requests
for service to about 1,500.
GSA Inspector General Carol F.
Ochoa also noted a significant drop in
complaints about the program since the
agency started paying the backlogged
invoices.
GSA’s chief financial officer, Gerard
Badorrek, said it is “now responding to
most phone calls and emails within 24
hours, reviewing family requests for
enrollment changes within days and
completing these family requests, in
most cases, within a few weeks.”
But the federal mismanagement
was so serious that the Army decided
to turn administration of the program
back to the contractor.
The Army apologized for poorly
managing the initial transition and
failing to ensure the GSA could handle
the increased workload and administration of the program.
“We deeply regret the hardships and
inconvenience we caused our families
and are doing everything possible to
regain their confidence and ensure
mission readiness for our families,”
Stephanie Hoehne, director of family
and morale, welfare and recreation at
the Army Installation Management
Command, told lawmakers.
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Guam anti-missile
unit’s main focus
is N. Korean threat
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE
BASE, Guam — The nickname
for the anti-ballistic missile task
force stationed here doesn’t leave
much doubt from what direction
the threat is expected to come.
“We’re the Musudan Manglers,” Lt. Col. Jefferey Slown said
during a recent tour of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
unit, or THAAD, he commands.
Musudan is one of the names
for the intermediate-range ballistic missiles possessed by North
Korea, which potentially have
the range to carry a nuclear warhead as far as the Philippines and
Guam.
“That’s what we concentrate
heavily on,” he said. “I’m not
going to say it’s only North Korea.
We can protect against any threat
that may come into Guam.”
Even though some Pacific nations have felt threatened by China’s expanding navy and claims
of sovereignty over disputed islands, it’s North Korea that poses
the imminent threat from intercontinental ballistic missiles.
North Korea’s unpredictable and
sometimes paranoid leadership
announced Wednesday that it had
successfully tested a hydrogen
bomb.
Nuclear experts are still assessing that claim, but the underground explosion is the latest
reminder that there’s a lot at
stake.
“The THAAD missile battery
is first and foremost a protection
against a North Korean missile
launch, which is the most realistic scenario one could imagine,” Patrick M. Cronin, senior
director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center
for a New American Security, a
Washington-based think tank,
said during an interview before
the North Korean test.
“North Korea could miscalculate; there could be an accident;
they could be desperate — for any
one of those reasons they could
well fire something out at Guam
— especially if we were part of an
intervention force to keep peace
or order, however good our intentions were,” Cronin said.
The U.S. flew a B-52 from
Guam to Osan, South Korea,
on Sunday, in a show of force to
Pyongyang.
The Guam THAAD battery is
also important because it could
be deployed relatively quickly to
South Korea.
“If there is a further provocation or set of provocations that
are sufficient to warrant the need
for a stronger demonstration of
force, upgrading our missile defense coverage in Korea would
be one of the easiest ways to demonstrate resolve without actually
doing something provocative to
create the war we’re trying to
prevent,” Cronin said.
The U.S. has been keen to bring
THAAD to South Korea, but the
government there has been unwilling to do so, given the objec-
Provided by the U.S. Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from a battery on Wake Island
during flight operational test in November. The THAAD system successfully intercepted two air-launched
ballistic missile targets during the test.
tions by China and North Korea,
and possibly Russia. The latest
test might change that diplomatic
calculation.
No decisions had been made
on the potential deployment of
THAAD to South Korea as of Friday, said Navy Cmdr. Bill Urban,
a Pentagon spokesman.
THAAD was part of a complex,
$230 million test in November on
Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean, where it simultaneously
destroyed targets simulating
short- and medium-range ballistic
missiles that had been launched
by a C-17 transport plane.
The THAAD system is designed
to shoot down short-, mediumand intermediate-range ballistic
missiles during their “terminal”
phase, meaning the point where
they re-enter the lower atmosphere after traveling in space.
They don’t carry a warhead,
but destroy missiles by simply
smashing into them. The destructive collision reduces the chances
of a missile’s warhead exploding,
but radioactive and chemical contaminants could be released.
Slown described a THAAD in-
terceptor as a “fist.”
“It’s really a bullet against a
bullet, way out in space,” he said.
There’s a lot behind that fist.
About 110 soldiers operate the
communications,
supercomputers and radar equipment in
24-hour shifts at Site Armadillo
— so-named because the location
resembles that creature on certain radar images. Those soldiers
are deployed here for one year
from Fort Bliss, Texas, without
their families.
Another roughly 75 soldiers
make up the security force, and
10 more are with the signal detachment. They’re deployed from
Hawaii, and their mission is part
of the expeditionary-style Pacific
Pathways that’s intended to keep
soldiers out in the field for lengthy
periods.
The Hawaii soldiers rotate
every 135 to 180 days.
“As I tell folks all the time,”
Slown said, “I might not have
quantity, but I have quality.”
Task Force Talon is in the process of establishing a permanent
facility at Site Armadillo, which
would allow the 110 THAAD sol-
diers to formally PCS to Andersen Air Force Base here with their
families.
Site Armadillo feels remote because it is. It’s in a jungle clearing
miles from the main Andersen
base, and the roar of a massive
generator that could light a small
town envelops all. The site is
bounded by the densely wooded
Conservation Area No. 50 on one
side.
“The only thing that we know
lives in there are two pigs, Pork
Chop and Bacon Bit,” Slown said
of the pair named by soldiers.
“They’re pro-Army, yes sir.”
Despite the seclusion, Slown
waxed lyrical about Task Force
Talon’s future as a permanent
station.
“Even though we might have
temporary soldiers out here, and
our site may be temporary, we
have a vision; we want soldiers
to believe that this is the best
place to be,” Slown said. “We say
that because we think we’re the
Army’s and the air defense artillery’s assignment of choice.”
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Force: Analysts predicting N. Korea may soon test nuclear-capable rocket
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“North Korea’s nuclear test is
a blatant violation of its international obligations,” Harris said.
“U.S. joint military forces in the
Indo-Asia-Pacific will continue to
work with all of our regional allies and partners to maintain stability and security.”
U.S. officials called the 2013
crisis the most intense — and
dangerous — period on the peninsula in decades, with the North
threatening to turn Seoul and
major U.S. cities, including Washington, into seas of fire. South
Korean troops already are on the
highest alert, and both sides have
resumed blasting propaganda on
loudspeakers across the Demilitarized Zone.
The North’s claim Wednesday
that it tested a hydrogen bomb,
which is potentially much more
powerful than its previous plutonium or enriched-uranium
weapons, has dramatically raised
the stakes in the rocky effort to
convince Pyongyang to end its
A HN YOUNG -JOON /AP
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flies over Osan Air Base in
Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Sunday. The B-52 was joined by
South Korean F-15 and U.S. F-16 fighters and returned to its base
on Guam after the flight, the U.S. military said.
nuclear program. Experts have
strongly questioned Pyongyang’s
boast, which North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un repeated Sunday.
“It is the legitimate right of a
sovereign state and a fair action
that nobody can criticize,” the
North’s Korean Central News
Agency quoted Kim as saying
during a tour of the Armed Forces Ministry.
Despite its repeated threats,
the North is claiming that it is
building bombs — and missiles
to carry them as far as the U.S.
mainland — solely as a self-
defense measure, saying the
downfalls of Iraq’s Saddam Hussain and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi were due to dropping their
pursuit of nuclear weapons.
“History proves that powerful nuclear deterrence serves as
the strongest treasured sword
for frustrating outsiders’ aggression,” a KCNA editorial said
Friday, adding that the “law of
the jungle” prevails in the global
landscape, with only the strongest surviving.
The last time the U.S. sent a
nuclear-capable bomber over the
area, the crisis steadily fizzled.
But given how fast this standoff
has developed, that seems unlikely. Analysts are predicting the
North may soon test a revamped
version of a rocket it successfully
tested in December 2012.
The remodeled rocket was
shown off during a recent parade
of military hardware, and experts
said it appeared better designed
to survive re-entry into the atmosphere and to deliver a nuclear
warhead.
Another possibility is a smallscale attack. The North previously has shelled a South Korean
island near its maritime border
and has sunk a South Korean
naval ship.
It’s unclear why the North has
acted now. It has a history of using
brinksmanship to wring aid and
concessions from the West but
has not been making demands recently other than to be accepted
as a nuclear state, which the U.S.
has said it will never do.
Kim reportedly has not been
able to completely consolidate
power since taking over following
his father’s death, and he has carried out bloody purges of top officials as a clear warning against
any would-be challengers to his
rule.
The test also could be linked to
Kim’s birthday last Friday, and
the first ruling workers’ party
congress planned for May.
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Video: Vet’s killer
laughed while
decapitating body
BY JEREMIAH DOBRUCK
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Daniel Wozniak told police that he laughed
as he cut the head off the man he
had shot to death a day earlier.
“I was actually smiling and
laughing,” Wozniak said in a videotaped interview with detectives
that was shown last month in Orange County Superior Court.
When one investigator asked
why he laughed, Wozniak replied:
“I don’t know. I reached a point
where I couldn’t even believe I
was doing this.”
Prosecutors highlighted that
and other gruesome scenarios
Thursday as they closed their case
against Wozniak, 31, a community
theater actor from Costa Mesa.
Jurors convicted Wozniak on
Dec. 16 of two counts of murder
for the slayings of Army veteran
Sam Herr, 26, and Herr’s friend
Juri “Julie” Kibuishi, 23, in 2010.
This week, the same jurors
heard evidence in the penalty
phase of the trial, in which prosecutors tried to convince them
that Wozniak deserves a death
sentence.
Wozniak’s defense team is expected to finish presenting its
closing argument Monday, after
which jurors will start deliberating Wozniak’s fate.
If they choose to spare him the
death penalty, Wozniak would
receive life in prison without
parole.
Prosecutors last month presented evidence that Wozniak
shot Herr to death in a Los Alamitos theater on May 21, 2010, and
then tried to cover it up. Wozniak
used Herr’s phone to lure Kibuishi to Herr’s apartment, where
Wozniak shot her twice in the
head. The next day, prosecutors
said, Wozniak ripped the pants
off Kibuishi’s body and propped
her remains against Herr’s bed to
make it seem as though Herr had
raped and killed her and fled.
Wozniak then returned to the
theater, where he dismembered
Herr’s body with an ax and a saw
before tossing some of the pieces
into a Long Beach park, according to detectives’ testimony and
Wozniak’s videotaped confession.
“That’s as ruthless as a murder gets,” prosecutor Matt
Murphy said Thursday. “It’s as
cold-blooded as a murder gets.
It’s as unnecessary as a murder
gets.”
According to Murphy, Wozniak killed Herr so he could steal
Herr’s ATM card to get access
to about $62,000 Herr had saved
from his Army service.
“This is the most base, vile motive of all. It’s money,” Murphy
said. “And in our case, it gets even
worse because the next question
is, what does he need the money
for?”
Wozniak was scheduled to
marry his fiancee, Rachel Buffett,
about a week after the killings,
but he was broke and needed cash
to fund his honeymoon, Murphy
said.
“This was as cold as cold gets
for the worst reasons of the worst
reasons,” Murphy said. “Not just
for money, but for money so he
can go on a trip.”
A RMANDO G ONZALES/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus signs a graphic representation of the future fleet replenishment oiler
USNS John Lewis after naming the ship in honor of U.S. Rep John Lewis, D-Ga., a civil rights movement
hero.
New Navy ship named after lawmaker
BY A LEX GANGITANO
CQ-Roll Call
WASHINGTON — Rep. John
Lewis, D-Ga., has seen a lot in his
time, but on Wednesday he added
something brand new: a Navy
ship named after him. “I was
deeply moved today,” he said.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus
named the first ship of the next
generation of fleet replenishment
oilers USNS John Lewis. Other
ships in the class will be named
after fellow civil right activists.
“A few weeks ago, the secretary of the Navy called the office
and set up an appointment and I
greeted him and met with him,”
Lewis said.
“He starts talking about naming ships and we started talking
about the civil rights movement,
what happened in the Deep South.
He went onto say, ‘Congressman,
I have this idea: I want to name a
ship in your honor.’ ”
Lewis responded that he didn’t
know a ship could be named after
a current member of Congress
and “Mabus said, ‘I’m the Secretary of the Navy and I can do it;
please let us do it.’ I teared up, I
really cried, and he teared up,” he
recalled.
The ship-naming ceremony
was in the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday. The
Georgia congressman repeated
what he said at the ceremony.
“When I was growing up in rural
Alabama, I never learned to swim
because we couldn’t go to the
public swimming facilities; now it
is amazing to have a big ship that
will be able to travel all around
the world named after you,” he
said.
The ship will be operated by
Military Sealift Command and
will provide underway replenishment of fuel and stores to Navy
ships at sea, the Defense Department said in a statement. It also
will provide jet fuel for aircraft.
A contract will be given this
summer and construction is expected to start in 2018.
The other ships have not been
named yet.
In June, the Navy christened a
ship after former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.,
who survived the 2011 Tucson
supermarket
shooting.
Former presidents Ronald Reagan,
Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush
and Gerald R. Ford also have
ships named after them.
Navy releases video of ‘provocative’ Iranian rocket fire
BY JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The
U.S. Navy on Saturday released footage it
said showed Iranian Revolutionary Guard
vessels firing rockets near warships and
commercial traffic in the strategic Strait
of Hormuz late last month, a move raising
tensions between the two nations despite
the recent nuclear deal.
The Navy said it released the footage in
response to a Freedom of Information Act
request, though it also comes as U.S. ally
Saudi Arabia has cut ties to the Islamic
Republic following attacks on diplomatic
posts there after the kingdom’s execution
of a Shiite cleric.
The 45 seconds of black-and-white footage from Dec. 26, which the Navy said was
shot from a Seahawk helicopter, shows
what appears to be an oil tanker passing by.
A flash appears on the left side of the video,
which after zooming in shows small boats
the Navy said were Iranians firing rockets.
The Navy has said the USS Harry S.
Truman aircraft carrier, the USS Bulkeley destroyer and a French frigate were
nearby at the time, as well as commercial
vessels.
There was no immediate reaction in
Tehran to the video’s release. Previously,
Gen. Ramezan Sharif, a Revolutionary
Guard spokesman, said his forces didn’t
carry out any drills there at that time and
called the American comments “psycho-
logical warfare.”
Military vessels taking part in the war
against the Islamic State group in Iraq and
Syria also pass through the strait, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman.
The U.S. Navy previously said Iran gave 23
minutes’ warning over maritime radio before opening fire with unguided rockets.
The Strait of Hormuz is only about 21
miles wide at its narrowest point. Ships
traversing the chokepoint have even less
room to maneuver. The shipping lane in
either direction is only 2 miles wide, with a
2-mile buffer zone between them.
The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet is based in
nearby Bahrain, on the southern coast of
the Gulf. It conducts anti-piracy patrols in
the greater Gulf and serves as a regional
counterbalance to Iran.
U.S. and Iranian forces clashed in the
Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s, during the
Iran-Iraq war. On April 18, 1988, the U.S.
attacked two Iranian oil rigs and sank or
damaged six Iranian vessels, including
two naval frigates, in Operation Praying
Mantis. That came after the near-sinking
of the missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts by an Iranian mine.
A few months later, in July 1988, the USS
Vincennes in the strait mistook an Iran
Air flight heading to Dubai for an attacking fighter jet, shooting down the plane and
killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard.
The shoot-down of the jet came shortly after
the U.S. vessel reported coming under fire
from Iranian speedboats.
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Family fires vet’s ashes
out of guns at range
HURRICANE, Utah — A
Vietnam War veteran literally
went out with a bang on Saturday, Utah’s St. George Spectrum
newspaper reported.
The son of Walter “Jim” Hosey,
of LaVerkin, Utah, loaded a total
of 50 shotgun shells with his father’s ashes and fired them off
at the Southern Utah Shooting
Sports Park in Hurricane with
the help of relatives and friends.
“I think he got a kick out of
that,” said his son, Clint Hosey.
The newspaper reported that
Walter Hosey, who often visited
the sports park, died on Jan. 2.
Spilsbury funeral director
Mark Heiner called the firing of
the shells “a fitting tribute to the
way he lived.”
Defendant sentenced in
killing of Marine’s wife
VISTA, Calif. — A member of a
sadomasochistic sex triangle has
been sentenced for killing a Marine’s wife who was kidnapped
near a Southern California base.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
said Jessica Lopez, 28, was given
two consecutive life terms Friday.
She’s the last of three defendants who were convicted of kidnapping, torturing and killing
Brittany Killgore in 2012.
Prosecutors
say
Killgore
had innocently befriended the
three while her husband was in
Afghanistan.
Authorities said the trio lured
her from her apartment near
Camp Pendleton, then abducted
and killed her while fulfilling a
sadistic fantasy.
US Army tests icing on
helos at Mich. airport
MARQUETTE, Mich. — Helicopters have been flying over
the Marquette, Mich., area as a
nearby airport serves as a winter
icing test area for the U.S. Army.
Sawyer International Airport
Manager Duane DuRay said the
Army has sent a team to test a
Korean Aerospace Industries
helicopter’s ability to operate in
frigid temperatures and icing
conditions.
The Mining Journal reported
that the Army’s CH-47D Chinook
helicopter leads the operation as
it covers icing spray on the helicopter being tested. An additional
aircraft hangs by to monitor conditions throughout the flight.
Tail cone of military
aircraft lands in Miss.
PEARL, Miss. — The tail cone
of a Mississippi Army National
Guard aircraft fell off during a
training mission, landing in the
yard of a home in Pearl.
Officials said no one on the
ground was injured, and the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III landed
safely at the airport in Jackson.
Lt. Col. Christian Patterson, of
the Mississippi Army National
Guard, said in a news release that
the plane lost its tail cone about 7
p.m. Wednesday.
A witness, Wynita Smith, told
WLBT-TV that the tail cone first
hit the street and bounced into a
yard.
From The Associated Press
Courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps
Sgt. Jeremy P. Sears, left, a range coach with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., gives advice
to a Marine during a live-fire training exercise in 2012. Sears committed suicide in October 2014.
Report: VA botched care of
Marine who killed himself
BY JEANETTE STEELE
The San Diego Union-Tribune
An internal investigation by the
Department of Veterans Affairs
has found that the San Diego VA
system botched its care of former
Camp Pendleton Marine Jeremy
P. Sears, who killed himself at an
Oceanside, Calif., gun range in
October 2014.
Since Sears’ suicide at age 35,
his family, friends and some veterans advocates have questioned
how the VA handled his case. The
combat veteran waited 16 months
to hear that he would receive no
disability pay after serving multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan
and being diagnosed with a brain
injury.
Critics said the VA’s medical
and benefits divisions let Sears
fall through the cracks and that
more could have been done to save
his life.
The investigation by the VA’s
own inspector general provides an
official measure of confirmation.
It’s another black mark against the
VA, a sprawling agency that has
been under fire in recent years for
a massive national claims backlog
followed by whistleblowers exposing that administrators concealed
long waits for medical care, in
some cases to pocket performance
bonuses.
Sears’ story has attracted attention at the highest levels. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, of
California, along with VA Secretary Bob McDonald, requested a
review after her office learned of
the suicide from coverage in The
San Diego Union-Tribune. Her
office planned to highlight the report this past weekend.
The investigation’s conclusions
show the VA is “still too often falling short in its mission,” said Rep.
Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of
the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
The report reveals that San
Diego VA doctors continued to
prescribe a narcotic painkiller —
hydrocodone, commonly known as
Vicodin — for 22 months without
any oversight, even though studies
warn
that
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guidelines
call for one
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pain therapy and during regular
installments afterward.
Also, Sears told VA screeners about being near two roadside bombs when they detonated
— and once losing consciousness
— but physicians never gave him
a follow-up plan for treatment of
traumatic brain injury, or TBI.
Research has drawn a link between TBI and suicide.
“If the patient had regular follow-up with his [primary care
physician], the provider may have
identified signs and symptoms of
[post-traumatic stress disorder]
‘
’
and depression, and the need for
follow-up of TBI and post-traumatic headaches,” the investigation said.
Additionally, Sears emailed his
VA doctor in the months before his
death to say he wanted to “wean
off” hydrocodone, an opium-based
drug that can be habit-forming.
According to the investigation,
his physician never followed up
with him — even though patients
on this medication are told not to
stop on their own for fear of withdrawal symptoms.
Overall, the VA inspector general’s analysis said the San Diego
VA erred in several ways during
the nearly two years Sears was
under its care. That office issued
five recommendations in response
to those mistakes, including two
designed to have impact at the national level.
Sears’ widow, Tami Sears, said
the report feels like vindication
of her sense that the VA fumbled
her husband’s care. “I do feel they
are admitting it, and I hope in the
future they change some of their
policies and procedures like they
are saying,” said Sears, who returned to the Chicago area after
her husband’s suicide.
“I just hope so many more veterans are going to be affected by
this in a positive way,” she said.
Jeff Gering, director of the VA’s
San Diego health care system
while Sears was a patient there,
said he had “significant concerns” about the investigation’s
conclusions.
He noted, among other points,
that Sears canceled seven medical
appointments — during which his
primary care doctor could have
taken the steps indicated in the
report.
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MILITARY
Ohio Guard members
deploying to Guam
Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan —
More than 200 National Guardsmen from Ohio are heading to
Guam this month to support a
“theater security package” for
U.S. Pacific Command.
The 112th Fighter Squadron
from Toledo Air National Guard
Base will deploy to Andersen Air
Force Base — where it will be
known as the 112th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron — to take
over the theater security package mission from the 125th EFS
out of Kadena Air Base, Japan,
an Air Force statement said.
“The Air Force routinely deploys fighter aircraft to the region to provide PACOM and
Pacific Air Forces with theater
security packages, which help
maintain a deterrent against
threats to regional security and
stability,” the statement said.
The 125th EFS will redeploy to
Tulsa Air National Guard Base,
Okla., but 12 of the squadron’s
F-16 Fighting Falcons will move
to Guam for the 112th EFS to
operate.
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EVELYN HOCKSTEIN /For The Washington Post
Georgetown University senior Ben Brooks is one of the students benefiting from the donation to the
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.
Capri Sun head gives $16.5M
to Marine scholarship fund
BY T. R EES SHAPIRO
The Washington Post
Before he developed and marketed the citrus fruit beverage
known to the world today as Capri
Sun, Hans-Peter Wild was a child
in Heidelberg, Germany, during
World War II who always remembered the generosity of the U.S.
troops stationed in his father’s
factory.
The Americans handed out
chocolate and chewing gum, and
those simple gestures, along with
the Allies’ victory that liberated
Germany from Adolf Hitler’s
rule, stayed with the boy.
Wild, who became a billionaire,
said he believes that Germany
owes a tremendous debt to U.S.
troops, whose sacrifice brought
prosperity and peace.
“The American military saved
Germany from the Nazis,” Wild
said. “They forget so quickly what
the Americans have done for us.”
As an expression of his continuing gratitude, Wild has given
$16.5 million to the Marine Corps
Scholarship Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in
Alexandria, Va., that provides
educational financial support for
the children of Marine and Navy
veterans. Wild’s gift, the largest
ever for the foundation, will benefit 3,000 scholarship recipients
during the coming decade, said
President Margaret Davis.
Since its inception in 1962, the
foundation has provided more
than 35,000 scholarships. The
recipients of Wild’s scholarships
are eligible for $1,500 to $10,000
in need-based aid, Davis said.
Wild’s fortunes rose in 1974,
when he introduced Capri Sun,
the popular citrus-flavor drink
now sold in 100 countries. About
7 billion of the drink’s trademark
silver pouches are sold annually
worldwide, according to a Forbes
profile of Wild.
Wild’s scholarships will probably benefit about 200 students
during the 2015-16 school year,
Davis said.
One is Ben Brooks, a senior in
the school for foreign service at
Georgetown University, whose
father served in aviation for the
Marines aboard aircraft carriers.
Brooks studies Chinese and works
with court-involved youths in a
mentorship program. Brooks said
that financial assistance from the
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has given him the freedom
to focus on academics and other
volunteer opportunities, inspired
“mostly because of values my dad
instilled in me.”
Alaska sergeant getting medal for rescue
Stars and Stripes
An Army staff sergeant serving in Alaska was set to receive
the highest honor a soldier can
be awarded for an act of valor in
a noncombat situation during a
ceremony Friday.
Joshaua J. Schneiderman, with
the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat
Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry
Division, was to be awarded the
Soldier’s Medal at the Joint Base
Elmendorf-Richardson Frontier
Theater for his actions in saving a
fisherman from drowning in the
Copper River on June 14, 2014,
according to an Army statement.
Schneiderman, his family and
coworkers were at Copper River
dip-netting sockeye salmon from
the fast-flowing, frigid waters.
After seeing another angler
being swept downriver, Schneiderman ran to his truck to get
a life vest, raced back to the river
and tossed it to the man. He then
jumped into the river and, with
his waders filling with water,
fought the current to grab the
man and pull him to shore, the
statement said.
The Soldier’s Medal, created
by an act of Congress in 1926, is
awarded for distinguished heroism not involving conflict with an
enemy. The performance must
have involved personal hazard or
danger and the voluntary risk of
life.
From staff reports
BILL DODGE /Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
The Military Sealift Command Expeditionary Fast-Transport Vessel
USNS Spearhead departs Joint Expeditionary Base Little CreekFort Story, Virginia Beach, Va., on Dec. 30. The Spearhead arrived
Thursday in the in U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations to support
the international collaborative capacity-building program Africa
Partnership Station and associated exercises.
Navy catamaran arrives in
Rota for Africa deployment
Stars and Stripes
NAPLES, Italy — One of the Navy’s high-speed catamarans has
arrived in Spain for a four-month
deployment to African waters.
The USNS Spearhead is a
first-in-class Expeditionary Fast
Transport Vessel, a 2,500-ton
aluminum catamaran designed
to move people and cargo quickly
between foreign shores. The Navy
has received four of a planned 10
catamarans to date.
Lightweight, with a shallow
draft and a 20,000-square-foot
mission bay, the ships are considered ideal for noncombat roles,
such as logistics, evacuations and
moving small Marine units onto
accessible shores. They’ve been
deployed in recent years for exer-
cises or training with countries in
Africa and South America.
The current deployment to
Africa is the third for the catamaran in the past three years.
As with prior deployments, the
Spearhead will work with African nations in the Gulf of Guinea
and will participate in an annual
Navy exercise known as Obangame Express.
Navy commanders in Naples
expect a catamaran to be stationed full time in Europe later
this year.
The ship, previously known as the
Joint High-Speed Vessel, is crewed
by civilian mariners. An embarked
military detachment includes sailors and Coast Guardsmen.
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Trump
goads
Cruz on
eligibility
BY SCOTT BAUER
AND JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
WAUKON, Iowa — Businessman Donald Trump goaded fellow
Republican front-runner, Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz, over his eligibility to be president and professed
bafflement that he’s not beating
him in Iowa polls.
The race is intensifying with
just over three weeks remaining
before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses
lead off the state-by-state nominating contests. Trump leads
Cruz by double digits in national
polls, but the Texas senator leads
in some Iowa polls, which could
give Cruz a boost heading into the
Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary.
With Trump in Iowa for the
first time in the new year, Iowans
were seeing a sharp contrast between the grinding Iowa campaign of Cruz — whose five stops
Saturday complete a six-day, 28event bus tour — and the splashy
mega-rallies that have become
Trump’s brand. Both have attracted overflow crowds.
The Texas senator and the billionaire have been quietly circling one another as they work to
win over voters. The feud escalat-
Woman led out of Trump
rally waits for answers
BY TOM FOREMAN JR.
Associated Press
PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP
Mandy Benz wears boots emblazoned with stars and stripes at
a town hall meeting featuring Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday at Praise
Community Church in Mason City, Iowa.
ed Saturday as Trump lashed out
at Cruz on multiple fronts before
a packed auditorium in Iowa.
“The polls are essentially tied.
I don’t get it,” Trump said in the
first of several references to Cruz.
And he again questioned
whether the Canadian-born Cruz
was eligible to be president.
Cruz, who has long maintained
there is no issue with his Canadian birth since his mother was
a U.S. citizen, repeated Saturday
that “the laws and facts are quite
straightforward.” The Constitution says only a “natural born
citizen” may be president. Legal
scholars generally agree the description covers foreign-born
children of U.S. parents.
“I like Donald Trump, I respect
Donald Trump. He’s welcome to
toss whatever attacks he wants,”
Cruz told reporters.
Cruz has not taken on Trump
directly, hoping to attract Trump
supporters should the political
newcomer’s campaign implode.
Cruz chalked up Trump’s com-
ments to the political “silly season” and said it’s a nonissue.
But he appeared to offer a
counterpunch on Friday, when he
suggested Trump wasn’t devoting the time and energy to wooing
Iowa voters that history shows are
needed to win.
“I believe the only way to compete and win in the state of Iowa
is to come and spend the time
asking the voters for their support. Looking them in the eye,”
Cruz told supporters.
Trump typically holds a single
major rally, then departs. Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said earlier in the week
that Trump has a series of stops
planned for the next three weeks
leading to the caucuses, including
multiple overnight stays.
Yet the usually confident
Trump also acknowledged he
might not ultimately win the
state’s caucuses.
“If I don’t make it, I’m going to
love you folks just as much,” he
said.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rose
Hamid attended one of Donald
Trump’s rallies in silent protest
over some of his statements, but by
the time the South Carolina event
was over, the Muslim woman said
she had been heckled by people in
the crowd and escorted away by
security guards. Now she’s awaiting a response from the Republican front-runner.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a call to
the campaign of the GOP contender to apologize over Hamid’s
treatment Friday night. Hamid
said by Saturday afternoon she
hadn’t received any response.
“I would like to hear what
Trump has to say about it,” she
told The Associated Press by
phone. “I’d like to hear because
if they say that it was because
we were disrupting things, then I
would like him to show evidence
of where the disruption came, because the disruption didn’t come
from me. It came from his followers because they saw me.”
Trump didn’t address the incident on Saturday during two campaign rallies in Iowa. At the first
rally in Ottumwa, he defended his
proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country.
He said his call had drawn attention to radical Islamic terrorism,
which he described as “a very
deep-seated problem that we have
in this country and throughout the
world.’” He made similar comments in Clear Lake, Iowa.
Besides seeking an apology,
CAIR National Executive Director
Nihad Awad called on Trump to
meet with American Muslim lead-
ers to help stem the anti-Muslim
sentiment they said is being produced by his rhetoric and that of
other GOP presidential hopefuls.
Hamid, a Charlotte-based
flight attendant, said she joined
thousands of others at Friday’s
Trump rally at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. She said
there were no problems as she
waited in line to enter. In fact, she
said, one woman told her she was
glad to see her at the rally.
“I didn’t get a bad vibe from
anyone,” she said. “The people I
made personal contact with were
very pleasant.”
Hamid said the mood shifted
once the rally began, adding that
the spotlight began to shift to her.
“My intention was to stand up
when he said something that was
offensive, not just for Muslims but
for anyone,” she said.
When Hamid stood up, she said
people around her began to chant
“Trump, Trump, Trump.” She
said organizers told the audience
that if they saw anyone attempting to disrupt his speech, they
were to begin chanting to point
where the protester was located.
People behind her began chanting, she said, and Trump soon
acknowledged the chant. At that
point, Hamid said she and a fellow
protester were asked to leave.
Then, she said, came the verbal
taunts from the audience.
“There was a guy who was saying ‘Do you have a bomb? Do you
have a bomb?’ This is an older
man,” Hamid said. “And I said
‘No, do you have a bomb?’” She
said another man yelled at her to
get out. Hamid said security officials didn’t touch her as they led
her out, adding “I was glad that
nobody got physical and did anything scary.”
Error on tax returns complicates health insurance subsidies for some
BY R ICARDO A LONSO -ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — About 1.4
million households that got financial help for health insurance
under President Barack Obama’s
law failed to properly account for
it on their tax returns last year,
putting their subsidies at risk if
they want to keep coverage.
The preliminary figures were
released by the IRS on Friday afternoon, a time when the government often reports unfavorable
developments. A spokeswoman
for the Department of Health and
Human Services doubted there
will be a major impact. HHS believes most of the people affected
no longer have coverage through
the health law.
It’s a potential complication as
the Obama administration strives
to increase enrollment in the face
of rising premiums and skeptical
consumers. Tax issues highlight
the difficulties for the people the
law is intended to serve.
The law provides tax credits
to help people pay premiums for
private insurance. Nationally,
that aid is averaging around $290
a month, roughly three-fourths
of the typical premium. By funneling assistance through the
income tax system, Democrats
were able to call the overhaul the
largest middle-class tax cut for
health care in history. But they
also spliced together health insurance and taxes. Confusion has
been the result for many.
Consumers can receive the tax
credits in advance if they qualify.
But when they file taxes the following year, they must account for
the subsidies. People who fail to
do that cannot get subsidies paid
to them in advance the following
year. Without financial assistance,
health insurance premiums are
unaffordable for many low- and
moderate-income people.
The IRS said the more than 1.4
million households that failed to
properly account for their 2014
tax credits include:
About 316,000 households that
got tax credits in advance but did
not file any return at all last year.
Before the health care law, many
low-income people were not required to file taxes. Now they must
do so if they got a subsidy.
Some 976,000 households that
got tax credits and filed 2014 re-
turns but omitted a new form that
is the key to accounting for their
subsidies. Called Form 8962, it
was introduced for the 2015 tax
filing season.
About 147,000 households
that had requested extensions to
file their 2014 taxes but never followed through.
The consumers with tax issues
represent about 30 percent of the
4.6 million households that had tax
credits provided on their behalf.
Friday night, a Treasury Department spokeswoman said that
for this year, the IRS will flag
only people who do not file a return at all to have their tax cred-
its turned off.
Starting early last summer, the
IRS launched a large-scale effort
to reach taxpayers who had potential health law issues. Results
have been mixed.
Under the law, virtually all
Americans are required to have
insurance, and the uninsured face
fines if they can afford coverage.
The Treasury said that compliance was simple for about threefourths of taxpayers: All they had
to do was check a box.
But nearly 8 million uninsured
individuals and families paid
penalties averaging about $210
each. Of those, about 313,000
were low-income people legally
exempt from the coverage requirement. They will be able to
get their money refunded by filing an amended return.
The Obama administration said
last week that 11.3 million people
have enrolled for 2016 coverage
with three weeks still left in the
sign-up season. But a major independent survey showed that
progress reducing the number of
uninsured Americans under the
law stalled last year.
Administration officials do not
believe tax problems will have
a major impact on this year’s
enrollment.
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Jon Stewart joins NYC in honoring 9/11 responder
BY VERENA DOBNIK
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jon Stewart
says he was only a “wingman”
to a cancer-stricken Sept. 11
firefighter who helped stage a
last-ditch congressional fight to
secure future health care for first
responders.
An impassioned former “Daily
Show” host joined New York
Mayor Bill de Blasio at city hall
to honor retired firefighter Ray
Pfeifer with a key to the city.
“The key to the city is a symbol of trust, and I think that if you
gave it to me, you’d go to sleep,
I’d steal the Chrysler Building,”
joked the newly bearded comedian, standing in blue jeans before uniformed firefighters, their
families, elected officials and
even a dog whose father had been
a 9/11 search dog.
“I love this man,” Stewart
said, embracing Pfeifer, who
spent months digging through
the World Trade Center debris
searching for fellow firefighters’
remains.
“I was Ray’s wingman on our
trips down to D.C.,” said Stewart,
adding that various responder ac-
C RAIG RUTTLE /AP
Comedian Jon Stewart, center right, applauds retired New York City firefighter and Sept. 11 first
responder Ray Pfeifer after Pfeifer was given the key to the city at New York’s City Hall on Saturday.
tivists’ “ability to withstand having to fight for a thing that they
never should have been down
there to fight for in the first place
… raised my spirits and my hope
for the future in a way that noth-
ing else could.”
Pfeifer, 57, a Long Island resident with stage-four cancer, rose
from his wheelchair to say that the
legislation passed by Congress
last month extends health care to
tens of thousands of first responders “still dying from terrorism …
still sick from terrorism.”
“I was a very small part,” Pfeifer added. “I was just a poster boy.”
But “we got something done. … It
was hard-fought. We dealt with
people that didn’t really get it.”
He and Stewart were part of a
group that walked miles through
the halls of power challenging
lawmakers to vote for the federal
act that extends health monitoring and treatment for 9/11 first
responders across the nation
until 2090.
Stewart used the “Daily Show”
to highlight the issue, and when
he retired as host, he made sure
politicians who balked at supporting the bill were named in
the media.
“My job there was to have a
camera and embarrass people,”
he told Saturday’s gathering.
De Blasio responded, “Jon,
thank you for all you did in this
fight.”
Gas leak drives residents from LA homes
BY BRIAN M ELLEY
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Laura Gideon and her family endured the
sickening stench from an out-ofcontrol natural gas leak for about
a month before they could no longer tolerate the nausea, headaches
and nosebleeds.
After she went to the emergency room in November vomiting and with a severe migraine,
Gideon, her husband and their
two children abandoned the only
home they’d ever known together
in the upscale Los Angeles suburb
of Porter Ranch.
They moved in with her parents
about 10 miles away to await a fix
that could still be months away.
“We’re in mourning now,” she
said. “We didn’t ever want to leave.
We were in a nice gated community. We were safe, you know, supposedly good schools. This wasn’t
our plan.”
Thousands of her neighbors
have voluntarily followed suit
in an exodus from an invisible
threat that wafts occasionally and
doesn’t sicken everyone in its path,
though it continues to spew enormous amounts of climate-changing methane.
The leak has cost the utility $50
million so far and is expected to
balloon as the company tries a
tricky fix to plug a well deep un-
derground while also shelling out
compensation for exasperated
residents and fighting dozens of
lawsuits.
Gov. Jerry Brown declared an
emergency last week for the prolonged blowout that requires the
utility to cover the costs and instructs state regulators to protect
ratepayers.
The well is one of 115 in the
Santa Susana Mountains where
Southern California Gas Co. stores
natural gas in a vacant oil field
about 1½ miles underground. It is
the largest natural gas storage facility west of the Mississippi River
and can provide energy to all of
Southern California for a month.
BRIAN MELLEY/AP
A neighborhood in the upscale community of Porter Ranch, a section
of Los Angeles, has been largely evacuated because of a natural gas
leak from a Southern California Gas Co. storage facility.
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Powerball jackpot
likely to hit $1.3B
for next drawing
BY M ARGERY BECK
Associated Press
No ticket matched all six Powerball numbers following the
drawing for a record jackpot of
nearly $950 million, lottery officials said early Sunday, boosting the expected payout for the
next drawing to a whopping $1.3
billion.
The winning numbers — disclosed live on television and
online Saturday night — were
16-19-32-34-57 and the Powerball number 13. All six numbers
must be correct to win, although
the first five can be in any order.
The odds to win the largest lottery prize in U.S. history were 1
in 292.2 million.
Officials with the Multi-State
Lottery Association, which runs
the Powerball game, said they
expected about 75 percent of the
possible number combinations
would have been bought for Sat-
urday night’s drawing.
Since Nov. 4, the Powerball
jackpot has
grown from
The odds
$40 milto win the its
lion starting
largest
point as no
one has won
lottery
the jackpot.
prize in
Such a huge
U.S. history jackpot was
just what ofwere 1
ficials with
in 292.2
the
MultiState Lottery
million.
Association,
which runs
the Powerball game, hoped for
last fall when they changed the
odds of matching all the Powerball numbers, from about one in
175 million to one in 292.2 million. By making it harder to win
a jackpot, the tougher odds made
the ever-larger prizes inevitable.
The U.S. saw sales of $277 million on Friday alone and more
A LEX BRANDON /AP
Samir Akhter, owner of Penn Branch Liquor, exchanges money for Powerball tickets Saturday in
Washington. Officials said early Sunday that no one won the record jackpot of nearly $950 million.
than $400 million were expected Saturday, according to Gary
Grief, the executive director of
the Texas Lottery.
The record jackpot lured an unprecedented frenzy of purchases.
Anndrea Smith, 30, said Saturday
that she already had spent more
than she usually does on Powerball tickets.
“I bought four yesterday, and
I usually never buy any,” said
Smith, manager of Bucky’s gas
station and convenience store in
Omaha, Neb. She’s not alone, saying the store sold “about $5,000
worth of tickets yesterday. Usually on a Friday, we might sell
$1,200 worth.”
Powerball is played in 44 states
as well as the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and
Puerto Rico. The next Powerball
drawing is Wednesday.
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Drug lord’s capture has surprise twist
BY E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
AND K ATHERINE CORCORAN
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — The capture
of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo”
Guzman took a surprise, Hollywood twist when a Mexican official said security forces located
the world’s most-wanted trafficker
thanks to a secret interview with
actor Sean Penn.
Penn’s interview with Guzman,
who has twice escaped from Mexican maximum security prisons,
appeared late Saturday on the website of Rolling Stone magazine. It
was purportedly held at an undisclosed hideout in northern Mexico
in late 2015, several months before
Guzman’s recapture Friday in Los
Mochis, Sinaloa, after six months
on the run.
In the interview, Guzman defends his work as the head of the
world’s biggest drug-trafficking
organization. When asked if he is
to blame for high addiction rates,
he responds: “No, that is false, because the day I don’t exist, it’s not
going to decrease in any way at all.
Drug trafficking? That’s false.”
In the article, Penn describes
taking elaborate security measures ahead of the clandestine
meeting. But apparently they were
not enough.
A Mexican federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was
not permitted to comment on the
issue, told The Associated Press
that it was the Penn interview
that led authorities to Guzman in
a rural part of Durango state in
October.
Authorities who later raided the
area decided not to open fire on
Guzman because he was with two
women and a child. He escaped,
but they were able to later track
him to a house in Los Mochis,
where Mexican marines nabbed
him after a shootout that left five
people dead.
The official said the meeting between Penn and Guzman was held
in Tamazula, a community in Durango state that neighbors Sinaloa,
home of Guzman’s drug cartel.
On Friday, Mexican Attorney
General Arely Gomez said Guzman’s contact with actors and producers for a possible film about
him helped give law enforcement
a lead on tracking and capturing
the world’s most notorious drug
kingpin.
In the Rolling Stone article,
Penn wrote that Guzman was interested in having a movie filmed
on his life. He said Guzman wanted Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who facilitated the meeting
between the men, involved in the
project.
“He was interested in seeing
the story of his life told on film,
but would entrust its telling only
to Kate,” wrote Penn, who appears
in a photo posted with the interview shaking hands with Guzman,
whose face is uncovered
Earlier Saturday, a federal law
enforcement official said Mexico
is willing to extradite Guzman to
the United States, a sharp reversal
from the official position after his
last capture in 2014.
“Mexico is ready. There are
Powder discovery halts
some flights in Sweden
HELSINKI — Swedish airport
officials say they closed the departure lounge at Skavsta Airport
and halted outgoing flights after a
suspicious powder was found in a
passenger’s hand luggage.
Airport spokesman Joakim
Lindholm said parts of the checkin area and baggage hall of the
departure terminal were evacuated, delaying at least three
flights by more than two hours
while a bomb squad checked the
suspect bag.
Lindholm said Sunday that arrivals were not affected.
Local media said the suspicious
powder was found in a woman’s
handbag at the small Skavsta
Airport, 60 miles southwest of the
capital, Stockholm.
Pope welcomes 26
babies into church
AP photos
Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, right, is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting
helicopter at a federal hangar in Mexico City on Friday.
VATICAN CITY — Some slept,
some squirmed, some smiled and
some screamed. And a few were
named Francesco or Francesca.
Pope Francis welcomed 13
boys and 13 girls into the Catholic Church on Sunday during the
annual ceremony that marks the
day in the liturgical calendar
when Jesus was baptized.
Gurgles and wails nearly
drowned out the organ and choir,
echoing off the stone floors and
frescoed walls of the Sistine
Chapel.
In his off-the-cuff and deliberately brief homily, Francis urged
the parents to teach their children
the faith. And as he has done in
previous years, he told the mothers to go ahead and nurse their
hungry babes.
Rights group says 162
civilians killed in Turkey
Above: Federal Police patrol the perimeter of the Altiplano
maximum-security prison in Almoloya, west of Mexico City, where
Guzman is being held, on Saturday. Right: Actor Sean Penn speaks
to young entrepreneurs during an October IMF and World Bank
annual meeting in Lima, Peru.
plans to cooperate with the U.S.,”
said the Mexican official, who
spoke on condition anonymity
because he wasn’t authorized to
comment.
He cautioned that there could
be a lengthy wait before U.S.
prosecutors get their hands on
Guzman.“You have to go through
the judicial process, and the defense has its elements, too,” he
said.
Top officials in the party of
President Enrique Pena Nieto
also floated the idea of extradition,
which they had flatly ruled out
before Guzman’s embarrassing
escape from Mexico’s top maximum-security prison on July 11.
But even if Mexican officials
agree, Guzman’s attorney, Juan
Pablo Badillo, told the Milenio
newspaper that the defense already has filed six motions to challenge extradition requests.
“They can challenge the judge,
challenge the probable cause,
challenge the procedure,” said
Juan Masini, former Department
of Justice attache at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. “That’s why it
can take a long time. They won’t
challenge everything at once …
they can drip, drip — milk it that
way.”
Guzman faces drug-trafficking
charges in several U.S. states, and
American officials hoped to extradite him
after he was
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Then Guzman escaped through
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an elaborate tunnel dug into Mexico’s most secure lock-up in July,
thoroughly embarrassing Pena
Nieto’s administration.
He also had escaped a similar
maximum-security facility in 2001
while serving a 20-year sentence.
Lore said he hid in a laundry cart,
though many dispute that version.
He spent 13 years on the lam.
Gomez said one of Guzman’s
key tunnel-builders led officials to
the neighborhood in Los Mochis
that authorities had been watching
for a month. The team noticed a lot
of activity at the house Wednesday and the arrival of a car early
Thursday morning. Authorities
were able to determine that Guzman was inside the house.
The marines were met with
gunfire as they closed in.
Gomez said Guzman and his
security chief, Ivan Gastelum,
aka “El Cholo Ivan,” were able to
flee via storm drains and escape
through a manhole cover to the
street, where they commandeered
getaway cars. Marines climbed
into the drains in pursuit. They
closed in on the two men based on
reports of stolen vehicles, and they
were arrested on a highway.
ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish human rights group said as
many as 162 civilians have died
since August, caught up in the increased fighting between government forces and Kurdish rebels
in urban districts.
The Turkish Human Rights
Foundation said late Saturday
that 32 children, 29 women and
24 elderly people were among civilians killed in districts where
authorities have imposed 24-hour
curfews as they battle militants
linked to the Kurdistan Workers’
Party, or PKK.
Italy: US woman found
slain in Florence flat
ROME — An American woman,
her neck bruised and scratched,
was found slain in her apartment
in Florence on Saturday, Italian
police said.
A police spokeswoman, Maddalena Carosi, said the woman
has been identified as Ashley
Olsen, 35, and had been living in
Florence for some time. Florence
prosecutors have opened a murder investigation.
Police won’t comment on Italian news reports that the woman
had been strangled until an autopsy can be performed, but they
did confirm Olsen had scratch
marks and bruises on her neck.
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French president,
rock star honor
2015 attack victims
Associated Press
PARIS — French President
Francois Hollande and other dignitaries held a special ceremony
Sunday to honor all those killed
in Islamic extremist violence
around Paris in 2015 — a year
when the European way of life
was targeted time and again with
deadly consequences.
At least one attacker is at
large, and France’s top security
official acknowledged Sunday
that authorities don’t know his
whereabouts. The country is
under a state of emergency after
attacks Nov. 13, and a police station was attacked Thursday by
a man whose background is still
unclear.
Hollande and Paris Mayor
Anne Hidalgo unveiled a plaque
Sunday in memory of victims
targeted at newspaper Charlie
Hebdo, a kosher market, a rock
concert, cafes, a stadium and
elsewhere.
The ceremony took place at
Place de la Republique, a plaza
that has become a symbol of Parisians’ solidarity since the attacks,
which began Jan. 7, 2015.
French rocker and national
icon Johnny Hallyday joined the
army choir in a special, somber
musical performance.
The violence left some 150 victims dead, and several attackers
were also killed.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called for national unity
and insisted the government is
doing all it can to protect France.
Many questions remain about
the Nov. 13 attacks, including how
many people were involved and
may still be at large.
Cazeneuve said on i-Tele television Sunday that “We don’t
know where Salah Abdeslam is,”
referring to a fugitive gunman.
Abdeslam crossed into Belgium
Nov. 14 and Belgian authorities
believe he hid out in a Brussels
area apartment used to make
bombs for the Paris attacks before moving on.
JUERGEN SCHWARZ /AP
Participants in a flash mob demonstrate against racism and sexism Saturday in Cologne, Germany.
Women’s rights activists, far-right demonstrators and left-wing counterdemonstrators all took to the
streets in the aftermath of a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies blamed largely on
foreigners.
Germany: Authorities must
probe Cologne assault links
Associated Press
MICHEL EULER /AP
French President Francois Hollande, center, lays a wreath of flowers
as Prime Minister Manuel Valls, right, looks on Sunday during a
ceremony to honor the victims of the Islamic extremist attacks at
Place de la Republique in Paris.
BERLIN — Authorities need
to quickly determine whether a
string of New Year’s Eve sexual
assaults and robberies in Cologne
blamed largely on foreigners may
be linked to similar offenses in
other cities, Germany’s justice
minister said in comments published Sunday.
Authorities and witnesses say
the attackers were among about
1,000 men gathered at Cologne’s
central train station, some of
whom broke off into small groups
that groped and robbed women.
“If such a horde gathers in order
to commit crimes, that appears in
some form to be planned,” Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the
newspaper Bild. “Nobody can tell
me that this was not coordinated
or prepared.”
The attacks are still being investigated, but police have said
their focus is on suspects of primarily North African origin,
which has put pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government and its open-door policy to
asylum seekers. Nearly 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany in 2015 alone.
She announced a proposal Saturday that would make it easier
to deport migrants who commit
crimes, which still needs parliamentary approval.
Police in Hamburg are also
investigating similar sexual assaults and thefts in the St. Pauli
district, which occurred on a
smaller scale in the northern city
on New Year’s Eve. Authorities
in Sweden and Finland are also
investigating similar incidents in
their countries.
“All connections must be carefully checked,” Maas said. “There
is a suspicion that a particular
date was chosen with expected
crowds. That would then be a new
dimension.”
Cologne police are investigating 379 criminal complaints filed
with them, about 40 percent of
which involve allegations of sexual offenses.
So far, of 31 suspects detained
by police for questioning, 18 were
asylum-seekers but there were
also two Germans, an American
and others, and none of them was
accused specifically of committing sexual assaults.
Spain’s Princess Cristina faces historic tax fraud trial
BY A LAN CLENDENNING
Associated Press
MADRID — Visits to the palm-dotted
Mediterranean island of Mallorca for
Spain’s Princess Cristina used to mean
luxurious stays at the seaside Marivent
Palace — but the sister of King Felipe VI
won’t get anywhere near the royal family’s
official summer residence in a trip this
week.
Instead, the 50-year-old princess and
her husband are set to face anti-monarchy
protesters and hordes of media Monday as
they enter a makeshift courtroom and she
makes history in front of millions of Spanish TV viewers as the first royal family
member to face criminal charges since the
monarchy was restored in 1975.
Following the tax fraud trial expected
to last six months, the
princess could face up
to eight years in prison if a three-member
panel of judges agrees
the couple abused a
real estate consulting firm described
in court papers as a
“front company” to
bankroll a lavish lifeCristina
style — including parties at their modernist
Barcelona mansion, salsa dancing classes
and vacations at expensive hotels.
Cristina and her husband, Olympic
handball
medalist-turned-businessman
Inaki Urdangarin, will sit in the dock
alongside 16 others in the case centering
on allegations that Urdangarin used his
Duke of Palma title to embezzle about 6
million euros ($6.5 million) in public contracts through the Noos Institute. It was
the nonprofit foundation he set up with a
business partner to broker seminars and
sports events as a tourism lure.
The alleged scheming involved some
events that never happened or were billed
at unusually high rates at the height of
Spain’s economic boom before the onset of
the financial crisis in 2008. Some money
went to the Aizoon real estate company
that paid for personal expenses for the
couple — a perk they should have declared
as an income to tax authorities but allegedly didn’t.
The suspects stand accused of being
“greedy in a time when it wasn’t seen as
being that bad,” said Ana Romero, the royalty reporter for the El Espanol digital pub-
lication. “There was a lot of money around,
and it’s a country where connections are
very important.”
The princess and her husband are not
expected to utter a word during the first
few days of the trial as judges read out
the 89 alleged crimes committed by the
suspects, and lawyers including Cristina’s
make arguments aimed at having their clients removed from the case.
She denied knowledge of her husband’s
activities during a 2014 closed-door court
appearance and a prosecutor recommended she should be fined, but a judge decided
Cristina could be charged with tax fraud in
2007 and 2008 because Spanish law allows
groups to file charges when state prosecutors don’t. Her case was driven forward by
the anti-corruption group Manos Limpias
(Clean Hands).
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Iran’s ‘Walls of
Kindness’ aid
needy in winter
BY A LI A KBAR DAREINI
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — As a brutal
winter set in across Iran, anonymous philanthropists throughout the country painted “Walls
of Kindness” and installed rows
of hooks, inviting passers-by to
leave warm clothes if they could
spare them or take clothes if they
need them.
The unique variation on the
take-a-penny, leave-a-penny jar
provides winter clothes to the
homeless while sparing them the
shame that can come from having to beg for help. Pictures of the
brightly painted walls have been
circulated on social media, helping to spread the initiative.
Dozens of walls have popped
up across Iran, and at least one
philanthropist has taken things a
step further, setting up a refrigerator outdoors and inviting people
to leave or take food.
“This signifies compassion toward one another,” Mehrangiz
Tavassoli said after hanging a
wool sweater on a wall in central
Tehran. “In the past, I did not
know what to do with donations.
Now, those who need can take
what they want.”
Tehran has a homeless population of around 15,000 people, a
third of them women, according
to government figures. Winters
can be brutally cold, with snowstorms sweeping in from the surrounding mountains. This year
has been particularly icy, with
temperatures frequently dropping to below freezing.
“The Wall of Kindness is a
beautiful gesture,” Saghar Maliani said as she left a long women’s
coat. “It keeps those who are in
need from begging at the doors of
homes. This way, their reputation
is not harmed.”
Mohammad Javad Lakzaie,
a university student, said many
Iranians have suffered from the
international sanctions imposed
on Tehran over its nuclear program, which are set to be lifted
soon under a landmark agreement with world powers reached
last year.
“Some people have very low
salaries and cannot make ends
meet,” he said as he left a shirt
on the wall. “There are also some
PHOTOS
BY
VAHID SALEMI /AP
An Iranian man puts clothes on hangers at an outdoor charity wall created by anonymous philanthropists
in downtown Tehran, Iran, on Thursday. Passers-by are invited to leave warm clothes if they can spare
them or take clothes if they need them.
students who are not relying on
anyone financially and are really
in need, but at the same time do
not feel comfortable asking others for help because they think
their dignity will be ruined.”
In a wealthy neighborhood in
northern Tehran, residents have
left out coats, trousers, socks,
sweaters, hats and even bags.
Downtown, near a park frequented by homeless people and drug
addicts, someone set up a refrigerator and a kiosk filled with
blankets, shoes and books.
“Food for your body,” reads a
sign on the refrigerator. “Food
for your soul,” is written above
the books.
Iranian men hang clothes on a “Wall of Kindness” in downtown
Tehran, Iran.
Egyptian Parliament convenes for first session in 3 years
BY H AMZA H ENDAWI
Associated Press
CAIRO — Egypt’s first legislature in
more than three years, a 596-seat chamber packed with supporters of President
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, held its inaugural
session Sunday, signaling the completion
of a political road map announced after the
2013 military overthrow of an elected Islamist president.
The assembly, elected in November and
December, is the first elected chamber
since el-Sissi, as military chief, led the
ouster of President Mohammed Morsi following mass protests against the Islamist
leader and his Muslim Brotherhood. The
new parliament replaces one dominated
by Islamists that was dissolved by a court
ruling in June 2012.
The new chamber’s first task will be to
ratify some 300 presidential decrees issued by el-Sissi since taking office in June
2014 and interim president Adly Mansour
before him. Under the constitution, these
decrees must be ratified within 15 days
starting from the date of the inaugural session. Failure to do so will result in the automatic repeal of the laws.
The decrees include a law severely restricting street demonstrations and a terrorism law that curbs press freedoms and
gives police sweeping powers.
Sunday’s session was mostly a procedural one, with lawmakers taking their oaths.
The chamber is also expected to elect a
speaker and two deputies. Some of the law-
L OBNA TAREK , EL -SHOROUK NEWSPAPER /AP
Members of Egypt’s Parliament attend the inaugural session, the first to convene in
three years, in Cairo on Sunday.
makers, in a show of patriotism, held red,
black and white Egyptian flags as they
took the oath.
After Morsi’s overthrow, El-Sissi announced three steps to take Egypt back
to democratic rule: the adoption of a new
constitution and presidential and parlia-
mentary elections.
But the process has unfolded against
the backdrop of a harsh crackdown on Islamists and other dissidents that has seen
thousands jailed. The Muslim Brotherhood, which swept every election following
the 2011 uprising that toppled President
Hosni Mubarak, is officially branded a terrorist group.
Turnout for last year’s parliamentary
elections was around 30 percent, and most
of those elected to the assembly support
the president.
On Sunday, el-Sissi vowed to support
the chamber and respect the separation of
powers, according to a statement issued by
his office. Under the constitution adopted
in 2014, perhaps Egypt’s most liberal, the
legislature has the right to impeach the
president and sack the prime minister, albeit under strict conditions.
A pro-el-Sissi coalition in parliament,
called “Supporting Egypt,” enjoys the
support of at least 300 lawmakers. It is designed to ensure continued support for the
president and thwart any attempt to hinder
his policies.
El-Sissi, who is expected to address the
chamber later this month, has since his
election in 2014 been focused on restoring
security and reviving the nation’s ailing
economy.
Egypt is grappling with an increasingly
potent Islamist insurgency centered in
the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula,
which claimed the downing of a Russian
passenger plane over Sinai in October that
killed all 224 people on board and led to
widespread flight cancellations, dealing a
major blow to the vital tourism industry.
Egypt’s economy is barely staying afloat,
with its local currency, the pound, under
pressure, tourism battered from years of
turmoil and inflation at nearly 11 percent.
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Radio vulnerabilities not widespread
BY TOM K RISHER
Associated Press
DETROIT — U.S. safety regulators have determined that only
Fiat Chrysler radios have a security flaw that allowed friendly
hackers to take control of a Jeep
last year.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in
documents posted online Saturday that it’s ending a five-month
investigation into the vulnerabilities of automotive radios.
The agency also said last
summer’s recall of 1.4 million
Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and Ram
vehicles closed the opening that
allowed hackers to remotely take
over a Jeep Cherokee.
The hack by security experts
Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek
touched off the investigation in
July and raised fears that millions of cars and trucks could be
vulnerable. They were able to
change the Cherokee’s speed and
control the brakes, radio, windshield wipers and transmission
PRNEWSFOTO/FCA US LLC
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said a
vulnerability that allowed two hackers to remotely take over a Jeep
Cherokee in July affected radios only in Fiat Chrysler vehicles.
through the Uconnect infotainment system.
The hackers informed Fiat
Chrysler of their findings and detailed them at a cyber conference,
triggering the investigation.
But the fear of widespread
vulnerability to hackers appears
to be unfounded. NHTSA investigators said in documents that
similar radios made by Harman
International went to Volkswagen,
Audi and Bentley, but that those
vehicles have safety systems that
would stop hackers.
“Based on a thorough review
of technical information supplied
during the course of this investigation, there does not appear to
be a reason to suspect that the
infotainment head units Harman
supplied to other vehicle manufacturers contain the vulnerabilities identified by FCA,” the
NHTSA said in the documents.
In addition, the agency said
Sprint, Fiat Chrysler’s wireless
provider, blocked access to a
radio communications port that
was unintentionally left open.
The FCA recall also included
software changes that thwarted
hackers, the agency said.
“Third-party security evaluation and regression testing identified vulnerabilities that were
either remedied by Sprint or
through updates to the FCA Uconnect software,” the agency said.
NHTSA also checked 30 consumer complaints to the company
and the agency but could not confirm that hackers caused any of
the reported problems.
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (Jan. 11) .......................... $1.1148
Dollar buys (Jan. 11) .........................€0.8970
British pound (Jan. 11)......................... $1.49
Japanese yen (Jan. 11) ......................115.00
South Korean won (Jan. 11) ..........1,165.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3765
British pound ..................................... $1.4519
Canada (Dollar) ................................... 1.4135
China (Yuan) ........................................6.5973
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.8426
Egypt (Pound) ...................................... 7.8326
Euro .........................................$1.0927/0.9172
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7649
Hungary (Forint) .................................290.23
Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.9251
Japan (Yen)............................................117.67
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3039
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.8805
Philippines (Peso)................................. 47.27
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 4.00
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7538
Singapore (Dollar) .............................. 1.4424
South Korea (Won) ......................... 1,208.53
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9959
Thailand (Baht) .....................................36.39
Turkey (Lira) ......................................... 3.0155
(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 ............................................. 0.19
30-year bond ........................................... 2.91
WEATHER OUTLOOK
MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
MONDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
30/23
Kabul
46/32
Baghdad
63/39
Seoul
31/16
Kandahar
69/41
Kuwait
City
67/44
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
44/39
Bahrain
69/60
Brussels
46/42
Lajes,
Azores
55/53
Doha
73/59
Riyadh
65/46
Osan
31/16
Ramstein
44/35
Stuttgart
48/42
Iwakuni
52/38
Sasebo
50/39
Guam
84/76
Pápa
36/30
Aviano/
Vicenza
44/37
Naples
64/56
Morón
62/53
Sigonella
73/46
Rota
64/58
Djibouti
85/75
Tokyo
50/36
Busan
45/25
Okinawa
71/61
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
65/56
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Heavy Metal
Four superheavy elements to
be added to the periodic table
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
BY
Kosuke Morita, of the RIKEN
Nishina Center for AcceleratorBased Science, is part of a
team of Japanese scientists
that has met the criteria for
naming a new element, the
synthetic highly radioactive
element 113.
BEV SCHILLING /Stars and Stripes
KYODO NEWS/AP
BY DEBORAH NETBURN
Los Angeles Times
T
he periodic table is about to get a little bit
longer, thanks to the addition of four superheavy elements.
The discoveries of elements 113, 115, 117
and 118 were confirmed last week by the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The
group vets the man-made elements seeking a permanent spot on the chart that adorns chemistry classrooms
around the world.
The new elements are known as superheavy elements
because the nuclei of their atoms are so enormous. Element 118, for example, is the heaviest element to date,
with 118 protons alongside 176 neutrons.
Elements of this size are not routinely found in nature, and it can take years to make them in specialized
laboratories.
“Probably the only other place where they might exist
in a short period of time could be a supernova, where you
have so much energy and so many particles that are really heavily concentrated,” said Dawn Shaughnessy, the
principal investigator for the Heavy Element Group at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore,
Calif., which had a hand in three of the discoveries.
Superheavy elements are also highly unstable, existing for just a fraction of a second before they begin to
decay.
Scientists never observe these elements directly.
Rather, they know they briefly existed because they are
able to measure their decay products.
The heaviest known elements are made by smashing
two particles together and hoping they will stick. It’s
a probability game with extremely long
odds.
Scientists first create a target out of a
carefully chosen atom with a particular number of protons and neutrons
— a process that can take months.
Then they purify it and bombard it
with another specialized atom that
they think has the best chance of
recombining with the target.
“It’s really hard to smash two
things together and get them to
stick,” Shaughnessy said. “There
is so much positive charge — they
want to repel each other.”
It takes several months to try this
smashing experiment roughly 10 quintillion times (10 followed by 18 zeros). If
just one of those attempts works, the experiment is considered a success.
“And we’re not always successful,” she said.
At most, it will work about three times in 10 quintillion tries, she said.
There are only a few laboratories around the world
equipped to do this work. The experiments generate
so much data that supercomputers are required to sift
through it all and search for the telltale signs of a successful smashup.
Elements 115, 117 and 118 were created in Dubna,
Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Scientists from Lawrence Livermore worked on all three
discoveries, and the consortium that created element 117
also included researchers from the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in Tennessee and the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas.
The international chemisThe
try body credited a Japanese
group with the discovery of
heaviest known
element 113. Led by Kosuke Morita, of RIKEN,
elements are made
Japan’s largest comprehensive research instiby smashing two partution, they are the first
Asian scientists to find a
ticles together and hopnew element.
Morita and his team
ing they will stick. It’s
spent
several
years
searching for conclusive
a probability game
proof of element 113. During that time, whenever
with extremely
Morita visited a Japanese
shrine, he gave an offering of
long odds.
113 yen.
“It’s not really a question of
whether I believed it or not,” Morita
told Asian Scientist Magazine. “The reason I did it is that I wanted to know that I had done
everything humanly possible to get credit for the discovery of the element.”
Until now, these elements have been known by the generic Latin names ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium. Their confirmation paves the way
for them to get permanent names. Traditionally, that
honor falls to the researchers who first found them.
The team from Lawrence Livermore and their Russian
colleagues had previously named element 116 Livermorium, in honor of the Northern California lab. No word
on what 115, 117 and 118 might be called.
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Hitler manifesto
‘Mein Kampf’ on
sale in Germany
BY M ICHAEL FAULHABER
AND GEIR MOULSON
Associated Press
PHOTOS
BY
FRANCOIS MORI /AP
Paris canal cleanup
Above: Onlookers watch from bridges over
the Canal Saint-Martin as the canal is drained
for maintenance and cleaning Friday in Paris.
Popular with Parisians and visitors alike for its
arched bridges, locks and trendy surrounding
neighborhood, Paris’ Canal Saint-Martin is being
emptied for the first time in 14 years. The canal
was completed in 1825 on the orders of Napoleon
Bonaparte, who wanted to reinforce the city’s
supply of drinking water.
Right: Municipal workers remove a bicycle from
the canal. At the last cleaning, 40 tons of waste
— mud, sludge and trash — was removed and
treated, including at least one car.
Below: A municipal worker walks in the canal,
which will be closed until the beginning of April,
according to the Paris mayor’s office.
Thailand targets buses over road deaths
BY NATTASUDA A NUSONADISAI
Associated Press
BANGKOK — Thailand will
install GPS systems in public
buses to monitor reckless driving and will ban the registration
of new double-decker buses in an
attempt to curb traffic accidents
and road fatalities, the transport
minister said.
The New Year’s holiday, also
known in Thailand as the “Seven
Dangerous Days,” ended with the
highest number of road deaths in
five years. Motorcycle and car
accidents left 380 people dead
from Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, despite a
crackdown on drunken drivers
by the country’s ruling junta that
led to thousands of vehicles being
impounded.
Thailand has the secondhighest traffic fatality rate in the
world, according to a 2013 survey done for the World Health
Organization.
In response to the recent increase, Prime Minister Prayuth
Chan-ocha ordered the Transport
Ministry on Tuesday to enforce
the new measures before the next
expected seasonal surge.
The measures include banning new operating licenses for
new double-decker buses, said
Transport Minister Arkhom
Termpittayapaisith.
Road safety groups repeatedly
have called for stricter standards
on double-decker buses, saying
the buses are improperly built
without regard to engineering
safety and should be barred from
hilly, winding roads where many
accidents occur.
Prayuth also instructed the
ministry to strictly enforce a tilt
test for all buses over 12.5 feet
in height, whereby the buses are
placed on a 30-degree slope to
measure whether they would tip
over on a road.
All public buses also will be
required to install GPS technology so drivers’ speed and location
can be monitored, the minister
said. The Bangkok Post reported
that the GPS-equipped buses will
be linked to the Department of
Land Transport and tracked at
all times.
MUNICH — An annotated edition of “Mein Kampf,” the first
version of Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto to be published in
Germany since the end of World
War II, went on sale Friday — a
volume that many hope will help
demystify the book and will debunk the Nazi leader’s writing.
The Munich-based Institute
for Contemporary History has
worked for several years on the
plain-covered volume, officially
titled “Hitler, Mein Kampf: A
Critical Edition.” It launched the
book days after the copyright of
the German-language original
expired at the end of 2015 — 70
years after Hitler’s death.
Over the years, Bavaria’s state
finance ministry had used its
copyright on the book to prevent
the publication of new editions.
The book wasn’t actually banned
in Germany, though, and could
be found online, in secondhand
bookshops and in libraries.
The new edition “sets out as
far as possible Hitler’s sources,
which were deeply rooted in the
German racist tradition of the
late 19th century,” said the Munich institute’s director, Andreas
Wirsching. “This edition exposes
the false information spread by
Hitler, his downright lies and his
many half-truths, which aimed at
a pure propaganda effect.”
“At a time when the well-known
formulae of far-right xenophobia are threatening to become …
socially acceptable again in Europe, it is necessary to research
and critically present the appalling driving forces of National
Socialism and its deadly racism,”
Wirsching said.
Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf”
— “My Struggle” — after he was
jailed following the failed 1923
coup attempt known as the Beer
Hall Putsch. The rambling tome
set out Hitler’s ultranationalist,
anti-Semitic and anti-communist
ideology, which would culminate
in the Holocaust and a war of conquest in Europe.
Millions of copies were printed
after the Nazis took power in 1933,
and it was published after the war
in several other countries.
German authorities have made
clear that they won’t tolerate any
new editions without commentary, though none is known to
be in the works, with incitement
laws likely to be used against any
such publications. They are, however, broadly supportive of the
annotated edition — priced at 59
euros ($64).
“I think one shouldn’t pretend
the book doesn’t exist,” Education Minister Johanna Wanka told
n-tv television. “Such taboos can
sometimes be counterproductive.
It’s important that people who
want to debunk this book have the
appropriate material.”
Ian Kershaw, a Briton who is
a leading biographer of Hitler,
joined Friday’s book presentation
and said it was “high time for a rigorously academic edition of ‘Mein
Kampf’ ” to be made available.
“For years, I have considered
the lifting of the ban on publication long overdue,” Kershaw said.
“Censorship is almost always
pointless in the long term in a free
society, and only contributes to
creating a negative myth, making
a forbidden text more mysterious
and awakening an inevitable fascination with the inaccessible.”
Germany’s main Jewish group,
the Central Council of Jews, said
it has no objections to the critical
edition but strongly supports ongoing efforts to prevent any new
“Mein Kampf” without annotations. Its president, Josef Schuster,
said he hopes the critical edition
will “contribute to debunking
Hitler’s inhuman ideology and
counteracting anti-Semitism.”
M ATTHIAS SCHRADER /AP
A clerk places copies of “Hitler, Mein Kampf: A Critical Edition” in a
bookstore Friday in Munich, Germany.
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Crash spurs man’s 2nd
DUI charge in week
RENO — Police said a
NV
Reno man was arrested for the second time in a week
on suspicion of driving under the
influence after he crashed a vehicle with two children inside into a
7-Eleven.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reported that Andre Dawson, 44,
was being held on bail at Washoe
County jail on eight charges, including child abuse and driving
with a suspended license.
According to police, officers
found a vehicle had crashed
through the convenience store
about 10:40 p.m. Thursday. There
were no injuries.
Police said Dawson showed
signs of being intoxicated and
was arrested. Two children, ages
9 and 10, were with him and were
released to a family member.
Dawson previously was arrested Jan. 2 on suspicion of driving
under the influence.
THE CENSUS
The number of attacks
on property with a BB
gun reported by the
Yuma Police Department over a little more
than a month. The department said in
a statement Friday the attacks, which
took place from Dec. 5 to Jan. 6, damaged the windows of vehicles, homes
and businesses. The shootings have
caused about $24,240 in damage,
police said. The department said surveillance cameras have shown a white,
older-model four-door sedan with multiple suspects in the area at the time of
the attacks.
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Guide dog attacked
by 3 other dogs
people who shoot real animals out
of season or illegally.
Thursday, a district judge
dropped most of the charges
against the men, including hunting from a vehicle and possessing marijuana. The men pleaded
guilty to one charge each of spotlighting the deer.
Thomson said Robo-Deer sustained “minor injuries.”
BRADENTON — The
future of a Tampa Bay
area man’s guide dog is uncertain
after she was attacked by a group
of other dogs.
The Bradenton Herald reported
that Richard Draper, who is legally blind, was out walking with his
guide dog, Andie, on Jan. 4 when
witnesses said three pit bulls attacked the yellow Lab. A neighbor
walking his own golden retriever
saw the attack and attempted to
help Draper and Andie get away.
An Animal Services officer
responded and cited the attacking dogs’ owner with dog at large
causing injury.
Andie was given to Draper 2½
years ago by the nonprofit organization Southeastern Guide Dogs.
She suffered puncture wounds in
the attack, and it’s unclear if she’ll
recover enough to work again as
Draper’s guide.
FL
Man burns home, self
trying to kill bedbugs
MI
Man gets 20 years for
masquerading as doctor
PAUL A IKEN, (BOULDER, C OLO.) DAILY CAMERA /AP
SAN FRANCISCO — A Creatures great and small
CA
San Francisco man
who pretended to be a doctor and
illegally performed cosmetic procedures has been sentenced to 20
years in prison.
The San Francisco Chronicle
reported Carlos Guzmangarza
was sentenced Friday for impersonating a physician.
Prosecutors said he had a
phony clinic in the Mission District and performed illegal operations, such as liposuction, on at
least nine women, some of whom
he also is accused of sexually
assaulting.
One patient said she was
charged $3,000 for a liposuction
that led to infection and required
corrective surgery.
Authorities said that in another
case, Guzmangarza injected an
unknown substance into the face
of an acne sufferer, making the
problem worse.
Prosecutors said he preyed
on immigrants from Central
America. He was convicted in
October of 33 felonies and eight
misdemeanors.
DETROIT — A man
trying to kill bedbugs
set himself and his apartment on
fire.
The Detroit Free Press reported that four units in the Midtown building were destroyed by
flames and about two dozen others suffered water damage.
A city official said that the man
sprayed himself and his sofa with
rubbing alcohol about 4:30 a.m.
Jan. 3 and lit a cigarette.
Mayor’s office spokesman Dan
Austin said the sofa and the man’s
body caught fire when he tried to
burn one of the bedbugs.
The newspaper reported that
the man escaped the blaze, but
suffered severe burns.
Vivienne Palmer takes rescue dogs Blue, left, and Chiquita for a walk in snowy Boulder, Colo.
Police warn people to
stay with warming cars
Rescuers work 5 hours
to retrieve injured hiker
a nearby hospital for treatment of
what authorities said were serious
but not life-threatening injuries.
CHICAGO — As the
weather gets colder, Chicago Police are warning people
not to help car thieves by starting vehicles and then getting out
while they are warming.
In a news release, police said
they have seen a number of
thefts of running vehicles left
unattended.
People often start their cars
and then go back inside their
homes while the vehicles warm
up. Police say that people should
stay with their vehicles and as
they wait for the cars to warm up
they should be aware of their surroundings and report any suspicious activity. They also say that
if people see their cars being stolen, they should call police but not
pursue the suspects.
JAFFREY — New
Hampshire
rescue
crews worked well into the night
to get an injured hiker off the
summit of Mount Monadnock.
Officials said two hikers notified them that they had had found
Cheves Walling, 69, of Ringe,
injured on the Pumpelly Trail
just below the summit Friday
afternoon.
New Hampshire Fish and
Game conservation officers and
members of the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team reached
Walling at 5:30 p.m. and began
bringing him down over steep
and icy terrain.
They reached park headquarters at 10:30 p.m. Friday — more
than nine hours after Walling was
injured in a fall. He was taken to
‘Robo-Deer’ aids in
arrest of illegal hunters
IL
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LEONARDTOWN
— Two hunters in
were arrested after
they unknowingly shot a “RoboDeer” belonging to the Maryland
Natural Resources Police.
The Washington Post reported
that in October, David Few, 21,
and Brian Stitley, 24, directed
flashlights at Robo-Deer and then
shot the dummy with crossbows
from a road in Leonardtown.
Soon after, officers walked up to
the men in their truck.
Police spokeswoman Candy
Thomson said the department
has three animals: Robo-Deer,
Robo-Bear and Robo-Turkey. The
robo-animals help the police stop
MD
Maryland
Food harvest program
breaks donation record
ORONO — The UniME
versity
of
Maine
Cooperative Extension says it
distributed more food through
its Maine Harvest for Hunger in
2015 than in any year in the program’s 15-year history.
The university said the program donated more than 318,000
pounds of food to 188 distribution
sites and to individuals. The program organizes farmers, businesses, gardeners, schools and
civic groups to donate food.
The university said Maine has
the lowest rate of food security in
New England. It also said almost
500 volunteers spent more than
5,000 hours on the donation work
in 2015.
From wire reports
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‘Bridge of Spies,’ ‘Carol’ lead
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NETFLIX /AP
Steven Avery, right, appears in the Netflix original documentary series “Making a Murderer.” The show highlights the story of
Avery, who was convicted for the murder of Teresa Halbach. The series has caused a stir on social media.
Q&A: A look at Netflix’s documentary
‘Making a Murderer’
BY GREG MOORE AND CARRIE A NTLFINGER
Associated Press
T
he 10-part Netflix documentary series “Making
a Murderer,” which casts doubt on the legal process in the case of convicted killers Steven Avery
and his then-teenage nephew Brendan Dassey,
has prompted celebrities to armchair sleuths to
flood online message boards and Twitter feeds.
So what’s the big deal?
Avery made national headlines in 2003
when he was released after spending nearly two decades behind bars after being
wrongfully convicted of rape. Two years
later, Avery and Dassey were charged with
killing Halbach, who visited the Avery
family salvage yard to take photos of a
minivan on Halloween. Her bones and belongings were found burned near Avery’s
trailer. Both were convicted and sentenced
to life terms, but only Dassey is eligible for
parole — in 2048.
Why has the documentary been so
popular?
Its release was impeccably timed. It was
released before Christmas, while much of
the nation was on holiday break and had
time to delve into a 10-hour series. Also,
it comes on the heels of the popular podcast “Serial,” which lays out a complex
legal case and has generated intense social
media participation.
What exactly is in the documentary?
The documentary strongly suggests the
possibility that Manitowoc County sheriff’s
deputies planted evidence against Avery,
including a key found in his bedroom
and blood found in the victim’s vehicle.
But Sheriff Robert Hermann denied that
last week. “They did not plant evidence,”
Authorities involved with the Wisconsin case are saying
the series is slanted and omits crucial facts that led to Avery
and Dassey being found guilty in the death of photographer
Teresa Halbach.
The filmmakers, meanwhile, are standing by their work
that spans nearly a decade and largely concentrates on the
defense and perspective of Avery and Dassey’s relatives. The
rush of attention has left many wondering: How did we get
here? And what’s next?
Hermann said. “I trust them 100 percent.
Quite frankly, I think justice was served in
this case.” He said he watched the series,
and added: “I call it a film. It’s missing a lot
of important pieces of evidence.”
Why do authorities say it’s biased?
The series spends much of its time detailing the perspective of Avery and Dassey family members. The case’s special
prosecutor, Ken Kratz, refused to comment to The Associated Press, but he has
told other media outlets that the documentary ignores the majority of the physical
evidence. The omissions include the fact
that Avery’s DNA was found on the hood
latch on Halbach’s SUV, which was hidden
on the salvage lot. Kratz has also said a
bullet fired from Avery’s gun was found in
his garage with Halbach’s DNA on it.
What do the filmmakers say?
Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos have
stood by their work. They said in an email
to the AP through Netflix representatives
that critics who might say they intentionally omitted or underplayed key evidence to
make the series more entertaining or tragic
are wrong. “Those accusations are untrue
and unfounded,” the statement said.
There’s an online petition seeking a
pardon — could it work?
It seems unlikely for a lot of reasons. For
one thing, the request posted on Change.
org started by petitioning President Barack
Obama, who has no such authority in this
type of case, since it’s not a federal matter. The petition, which lists nearly 280,000
digital signatures, recently was rewritten
to include Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and
remove the word “presidential” from the
text of the appeal. Walker spokeswoman
Laurel Patrick said Tuesday in an email to
the AP that the governor hasn’t watched the
series and that “early in his administration,
Gov. Walker made the decision not to issue
pardons. Those who feel they have been
wrongly convicted can seek to have their
convictions overturned by a higher court.”
What about the victims?
Halbach’s brother Mike Halbach has
declined comment since releasing a statement from the family before the documentary became public. “Having just passed
the 10-year anniversary of the death of our
daughter and sister, Teresa, we are saddened to learn that individuals and corporations continue to create entertainment and
to seek profit from our loss,” the statement
read. “We continue to hope that the story of
Teresa’s life brings goodness to the world.”
The victim from the 1985 rape case has
declined comment.
Cold War thriller “Bridge of Spies” and
lush lesbian romance “Carol” lead nominations for the British Academy Film Awards,
while Eddie Redmayne has a chance to win
a second straight best-actor prize with his
role as a transgender artist in “The Danish
Girl.”
“Bridge of Spies” and “Carol” each have
nine nominations for Britain’s equivalent of
the Oscars, including best picture. Survival
saga “The Revenant” has eight, and dystopian thrill ride “Mad Max: Fury Road” has
seven.
“The Danish Girl” received five nominations Friday, including acting nods for Redmayne and co-star Alicia Vikander. Last
year Redmayne won the same prize — and
an Oscar — for the Stephen Hawking biopic
“The Theory of Everything.”
Swedish rising star Vikander also received a supporting-actress nomination
for sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina.” Vikander
called both films “such gifts of projects for
me” and said she was extremely grateful to
be nominated.
The other best actor contenders are
Bryan Cranston for Red Scare drama
“Trumbo”; Leonardo DiCaprio for “The
Revenant”; Matt Damon for space adventure “The Martian”; and Michael Fassbender for computing biopic “Steve Jobs.”
In the best-actress category, Vikander
is up against Brie Larson for mother-son
drama “Room”; Cate Blanchett for “Carol”;
Maggie Smith for Alan Bennett adaptation
“The Lady in the Van”; and Saoirse Ronan
for Irish emigrant tale “Brooklyn.”
Winners of the British trophies, known
as BAFTAs, will be decided by 6,500 members of the British film academy and announced Feb. 14.
The best-picture nominees are “The Big
Short”; “Bridge of Spies”; “Carol”; “The Revenant”; and newspaper drama “Spotlight.”
The separate category of best British film
pits “The Danish Girl” against “Ex Machina”; “Brooklyn”; Amy Winehouse documentary “Amy”; marriage drama “45 Years”;
and quirky sci-fi fable “The Lobster.”
Pat Harrington, Jr., a hit
sitcom’s handyman, dies
Pat Harrington, Jr., an actor-comedian
who won fame as the cocky handyman on
“One Day at a Time,” has died, according
to manager Phil Brock.
Harrington, who played apartment
super Dwayne Schneider on the CBS sitcom, died Wednesday at age 86 in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer’s
disease.
“One Day at a Time” starred Bonnie
Franklin as the divorced mother of two
teenage daughters who returns with them
to her hometown of Indianapolis to begin
life anew as a single woman. The apartment’s superintendent, Schneider, soon
became a family pal and a viewer favorite. The hit series aired from 1975 to 1984
and won Harrington an Emmy. His other
credits include the sitcom “Make Room
for Daddy,” “The Love Boat” and “Hot in
Cleveland.”
TV news
TNT is ending the crime drama “Rizzoli & Isles” after its seventh season this
summer. The procedural starring Angie
Harmon and Sasha Alexander has been
one of TNT’s most popular programs.
The 1950s-era comic book series
“Tales From the Crypt” is being given another life on the TNT network. TNT said
Thursday it was launching a new block of
horror programming that will be curated
by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Its
centerpiece will be new “Tales” stories
produced by Shyamalan and his business
partner, Ashwin Rajan.
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N. Korea can’t be slowed by sanctions
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fter Kim Jong Un’s latest nuclear
provocation, the U.S. has vowed
to press for stringent new trade
and financial sanctions against
North Korea. When it comes to further
isolating the Hermit Kingdom, however,
there’s good news and bad news. The truth
is that sanctions haven’t and aren’t likely
to work. The good news is that the bad
news isn’t so bad: Truly effective sanctions
would probably make the problem posed
by North Korea worse.
The inefficiency of sanctions should be
clear by now. The first set of the international sanctions on North Korea was levied
by the United Nations in 2006, after the
regime’s first nuclear test. They were further strengthened after subsequent tests
in 2009 and 2013. The measures, however, have failed to have any impact on the
North Korean economy. To the contrary,
the clampdown roughly coincided with the
beginning of North Korea’s economic recovery, which had started few years earlier but became noticeable in 2006-07. Since
then the country has enjoyed a resumption
of economic growth — around 1.5 percent
annually, if you believe the pessimists, or 4
percent according to optimists.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. North
Korea has one of the world’s lowest tradeto-GDP ratios. More than three-quarters
of its trade is with China, a country that,
despite being skeptical of and even hostile to the regime’s nuclear ambitions, is
unlikely ever to support economic sanctions wholeheartedly. (When it comes to
restricting the flow of military-related
imports and exports, the Chinese are far
more trustworthy.)
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the outside world wants. In most countries,
sanctions work indirectly. They make life
more difficult, so people begin to exercise
pressure on the government, demanding a
change in the policies that drew sanctions
in the first place. In a democracy, citizens
vote for opposition; in more authoritarian
regimes, they start rallies or even rebellions. Neither is possible in North Korea.
In an isolated and carefully controlled
state without any civil society, the pressure
required to spark an uprising would have
to be appallingly strong. In the late 1990s,
a massive famine killed some half-million North Koreans, about 2 percent of the
population, yet produced no riots or open
discontent, let alone a rebellion. North Korean commoners died quietly.
Things are a little different now. People
appear to be a bit less afraid of the government, better informed and organized.
Nonetheless, the “rebellion threshold” is
still very high. No revolution is likely to
occur unless a few hundred thousand North
Koreans starve to death. That’s a prospect
even cynical diplomats should think twice
before embracing.
Last but not least, one shouldn’t forget
that a revolution, should it happen, would
plunge a nuclear country into the state
of anarchy — the first such case in the
world’s history. It’s quite possible that a
collapsing nuclear North Korea would be
more dangerous to the world than a stable
North Korea, working hard to improve its
nuclear arsenal. Fortunately, the last piece
of good news is that the Chinese would
probably sabotage any new sanctions well
before matters reached that point.
Andrei Lankov is a professor of history at
Kookmin University in Seoul and the author of
“The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the
Failed Stalinist Utopia.”
Couch shows us failed parenting personified
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Some proponents of additional sanctions
argue they’ll at least deprive the North
Korean elite of luxury goods, thus making
them restive. Kim, they say, needs to keep
his subordinates happy by showering them
with gifts and money, lest they defect and
replace him with another, more generous
ruler.
This indeed might have been the case
with dictators in 1960s South America or
Africa, but not in today’s North Korea. Of
course, giveaways are appreciated. But the
Pyongyang elite have never forgotten that
they live in a divided country whose southern half is far, far richer and highly attractive to common citizens. Any outbreak of
instability is likely to result not in a change
at the top, but in a massive disintegration
of the system. The North would almost certainly be absorbed by the more prosperous
South Korea, as happened to East Germany 26 years ago.
If that happens, the current elite would
have no future and might be even held
responsible for committing human rights
abuses. Given the choice, they’d surely
rather live without a few luxuries. Most
of these people know little of Benjamin
Franklin (even though they like his portraits on $100 bills). But his famous dictum
about hanging together — “or assuredly we
shall all hang separately” — determines
their politics.
For the sake of argument, let’s assume
the Chinese agree to reduce trade with
North Korea dramatically, while the U.S.
introduces strict financial sanctions, blocking the country from the international finance system. Under those circumstances,
the North Korean economy is indeed likely
to deteriorate.
However, it’s an open question whether
even that will produce the political results
BY CYNTHIA M. A LLEN
Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram
T
here was nothing surprising in
the news that Ethan Couch sits
in a Mexican detention facility while lawyers quarrel over his
extradition.
Few can forget the trail of devastation
left by the Fort Worth, Texas, teen, who
decided one evening in 2013, with a bloodalcohol level three times the adult legal
limit, to go on a joyride in a truck piled full
of friends.
Couch killed four people that night and
critically injured two others.
He was 16.
His youth was presumably a factor in
Judge Jean Hudson Boyd’s confounding
decision to send him to treatment and put
him on probation.
But it was the testimony of a psychologist, who argued that Couch was himself a
victim of wealthy parents that had “strongly enabled” his irresponsible acts and led
him to feel “there was no rational link between behavior and consequences,” that
stretched the limits of credulity.
Because authorities found Couch in Mexico with his mother, Tonya, one might conclude his suspected probation violation (a
video emerged showing Couch at a drinking party) and subsequent flight across the
border (where some reports suggest the
now 18-year-old was seen “very drunk” at
a strip club) were just the latest abuses by
his mom.
To call Couch a victim, particularly
after what appears to be a brazen attempt
to avoid further punishment, is insulting
to those whose lives he destroyed. Still, it’s
hard to consider Couch’s circumstances
without regarding how similar — albeit far
more extreme — he is to many in his generation. I refer specifically to the coddling
by his mother.
The helicopter parenting phenomenon —
the obsession with excessively protecting
one’s child from any physical or emotional
harm, managing their every activity while
seeking to ensure their success — has been
a subject of criticism and debate for some
time, and for good reason.
While many children suffer because they
grow up in homes with one or absentee or
indifferent parents, the opposite can also
be damaging. Helicopter parenting is generally viewed as an “overparenting” problem. Children can become so dependent
on their caregiver they never learn even
the most basic elements of taking care of
themselves. As they age, they become paralyzed when faced with major decisions or
even moderate adversity.
Others absorb their parents’ obsession
with success, fearing failure so desperately that any modest misstep could send
them into an emotional tailspin.
These children may never learn how to
become adults, and they may never learn
how to accept responsibility.
On college campuses, the number of students with mental and emotional health
problems has swelled. According to a September article in Psychology Today, university faculty and staff are overwhelmed
with the increased fragility of students,
many of whom “are increasingly seeking
help for, and apparently having emotional
crises over, problems of everyday life,” like
a disagreement with a roommate or receiving a “C” on a term paper.
In “Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges,” author Peter
Gray describes how students also increasingly blame the faculty for low grades, for
poor instruction or inadequate guidance,
instead of internalizing lessons and learning from them.
Without the crutch of a hovering guardian there to shield and protect, some young
people enter adulthood lacking not only the
skills to achieve but the ethics needed to
resolve problems and the perspective obtained through failure alone. In extreme
cases, they may arrive at adulthood with
no work ethic or moral compass.
But as one critic posits, helicopter parenting may not be the problem. It’s “really a symptom of underparenting,” writes
Ashley Bateman in the online magazine
The Federalist.
Indeed, Bateman argues that parents
who spend most of their waking hours
separated from their children might overcompensate by increasing their parenting
“intensity.”
It stands to reason that what parents
cannot provide with regular engagement,
they will seek to provide elsewhere, whether it be completing their child’s homework,
pulling strings to guarantee acceptance
to their chosen college or driving them to
Mexico to avoid arrest.
Ethan Couch is no victim. He’s an example, however extreme, of what failed
parenting looks like.
Cynthia M. Allen is a Fort Worth Star-Telegram
columnist .
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DOD’s latest missing missile lands in Cuba
BY TOBIN H ARSHAW
Bloomberg View
N
obody has ever bragged about
Pentagon efficiency, but even so
it’s been an embarrassing stretch
for anyone trying to defend the
Defense Department’s logistics lapses and
profligate ways.
Last month, the investigative news group
ProPublica itemized $17 billion in U.S.
projects in Afghanistan that the military’s
special investigator general considers
questionable or wasted. A Politico exposé
revealed that, according to the Government Accountability Office, half of the
Pentagon Defense Logistics Agency’s $14
billion inventory is obsolete or useless. In
March, The Washington Post revealed that
the military had lost track of $500 million
in arms shipped to Yemen, some of which
were apparently stolen by the son of the
former president.
And on a smaller but equally disturbing
scale, The Wall Street Journal reported
Thursday that an unarmed Hellfire missile used in a NATO training exercise in
Spain last year was inadvertently shipped
to Cuba. It’s unclear whether the cause was
foul play or just incompetence on the part
of the commercial freight shipper, but the
fact that a piece of advanced military technology ended up in a nation under heavy
U.S. sanctions is a clear warning that
something is vastly awry.
It’s almost understandable that, in the fog
of war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, we
would see immense waste and confusion.
But less forgivable lapses like the Hellfire
are shockingly common. A State Department official told The Journal that, “Misshipments happen all the time because of
the amount and volume of defense trade.”
How often is “all the time”? Here are a
few egregious recent cases that happen to
have become public.
FedEx’ed anthrax. Last year, a Pentagon lab in Utah inadvertently shipped live
anthrax spores via FedEx to government
and commercial labs in at least 17 states
and three foreign countries. The ensuing
investigation by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention revealed a similar
concern: A military base in Maryland may
have mislabeled and shipped samples of
the bacteria that cause bubonic plague.
Very covert drones. In September 2013,
either in Afghanistan or on the way back to
the U.S., an Army contractor lost track of
several RQ-20 surveillance drones, worth
$500,000 each. They eventually turned up
in Texas after being lost for 249 days.
Mail fail. Last year, a truckload of letters
bound for American servicemembers in
the U.K. and Eastern Europe was hijacked
near a Chicago airport.
Where’s my car? In 2014, military families filed suit against a Pentagon contractor
responsible for shipping 27,000 personal
vehicles belonging to troops returning
from foreign postings, claiming that 70
It’s been an embarrassing
stretch for anyone trying
to defend the Defense
Department’s logistics
lapses and profligate ways.
percent of their cars were either missing
or returned late. The Army’s Transportation Command had to start looking for the
vehicles after the private firm, which was
paid $305 million, could not locate many of
them in its tracking system.
Noses for nukes. The Defense Logistics
Agency in 2006 accidentally sent to Taiwan four nose cones containing electrical
fuses for nuclear intercontinental ballistic
missiles.
Warheads wing it. A B-52 crew in 2007
unknowingly flew for three hours over
several states with six armed nuclear warheads mounted over the wings. An ensuing
classified Pentagon report stated that the
Air Force could not account for hundreds
of components of its nuclear arsenal, according to the Financial Times.
Billion-dollar boondoggle. Between
2005 and 2012, the Air Force attempted to
build a new logistics management system
called the Expeditionary Combat Support
System, which was canceled in large part
because of problems adapting commercial
software to keep track of military parts
and equipment.
Nuclear wrench. In 2014 it was reported
that because of a shortage of wrenches
needed to install nuclear warheads on the
nation’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles, technicians at three bases
were using FedEx to ship them to each
other. Fortunately, none of the shipments
went astray.
Such incidents, along with more traditional fraud and waste, have led Washington lawmakers to introduce several “audit
the Pentagon” bills each year since 2012,
although none has made it to the House or
Senate floor. The Defense Department has
invested billions in new accounting software in recent years to little avail.
Given the Pentagon’s vast scale and almost incomprehensible logistics challenges, some of this is to be expected. And, as
anybody who searched in vain under the
Christmas tree for their remote-control
“Star Wars” BB-8 droid knows, UPS and
FedEx also have their foibles.
Still, the House and Senate armed services committees are aiming to revise the
1986 Goldwater-Nichols military reforms
this year to overhaul contracting, promotion policies and interservice cooperation.
Lawmakers should add transportation and
logistics to that list, before the Castros end
up with more Hellfires.
Tobin Harshaw writes editorials on national
security, military affairs and education.
VA ‘presumption’ regulation could help Camp Lejeune vets
BY TOM PHILPOTT
T
he Department of Veterans Affairs
expects up to 15,000 seriously
ill veterans who served at Camp
Lejeune, N.C., before 1988, when
base drinking water was contaminated, to
be helped by a faster-track compensation
process proposed last month.
But the promised acceleration in VA disability awards can’t begin until the proposed
regulation becomes final, which could take
at least another year to complete, VA officials said in a phone interview Tuesday.
In this case, time is money. Every month
that passes before a final regulation takes
effect is a month of compensation lost to ailing veterans of an older generation, most of
them Marines.
VA Secretary Bob McDonald announced
in mid-December that eight medical conditions afflicting vets who served at Lejeune
from Aug. 1, 1953, through Dec. 31, 1987,
are to be presumed the result of exposure to
carcinogens and other harmful chemicals
that fouled base water systems.
The proposed “presumptive” diseases
are: kidney cancer, liver cancer, nonHodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, multiple
myeloma, scleroderma, Parkinson’s disease and aplastic anemia/myelodysplastic
syndromes.
Making ailments presumptive moves
compensation awards nearer to automatic.
Diagnosed veterans still must file claims
but they need only to show they served at
Camp Lejeune during the 34-year span for
a necessary length of time. A minimum of
30 days is likely although officials won’t
confirm that until a proposed regulation is
published, which is expected by mid-2016.
Without presumption, claims are adjudicated more slowly, with each claimant having to show a nexus between their disease
and their service.
The Department of the Navy estimates
that 900,000 active-duty and reserve component personnel were assigned to Camp
MILITARY UPDATE
Lejeune while water was being contaminated by nearby storage tanks and a dry
cleaning business. Roughly 500,000 of these
veterans are believed still alive.
Based on the prevalence of such illnesses
in a population of that size, the VA estimates
fewer than 15,000 vets will qualify for compensation under the proposed regulation.
Also, 5,000 survivors of deceased veterans
are expected to qualify for death benefits
due to these presumptive illnesses.
Three senators rightly claim some credit
for this. Last July, Sen. Johnny Isakson,
R-Ga., chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs
Committee, and Sens. Richard Burr and
Thom Tillis, Republicans of North Carolina, met with McDonald and the director
of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Work by the ATSDR has confirmed harmful levels of exposure at Camp
Lejeune to trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, vinyl chloride and benzene.
After listening to senators and reviewing
the science, McDonald that day told participants he wanted to create a list of presumptive illnesses linked to long-ago service at
Camp Lejeune to speed the claim process.
Brad Flohr, senior adviser for compensation services at the Veteran Benefits
Administration, attended the meeting.
When asked, Flohr advised McDonald and
senators that a regulation establishing new
presumptive ailments typically takes two
years to produce. McDonald said that was
too long. So the VA is striving to compress
the process by six months or more. It did
so once before, in 2009, when then-Secretary Eric Shinseki added heart disease,
Parkinson’s and B-cell leukemia to the VA
list of illnesses presumed caused by Agent
Orange exposure in Vietnam, Flohr said.
“The secretary has pledged we will do
the same with this,” Flohr said.
Since January 2011 more than 20,000 veterans have filed claims citing environmental hazards at Camp Lejeune. Of the 13,213
veterans given decisions through November last year, only 864, or 6.5 percent, were
granted compensation for illnesses tied to
having served at Camp Lejeune.
Almost 8,000 of these veterans already
are receiving VA compensation for other
service-connected conditions. So many
Camp Lejeune claims have been denied,
Flohr said, because ailments claimed are
not linked to the pollutants.
“Over 90 percent of claim issues are conditions that have nothing at all to do with
the contaminants in the water,” Flohr said.
“They claim hearing loss. They claim tinnitus. They have some idea they should file
a claim for anything they have.”
What has angered veterans and lawmakers, however, is the number of claims
rejected for conditions linked to Camp
Lejeune’s water. Burr complained that the
VA was making “ridiculous” use of available science.
The VA has tracked claim outcomes for
six of the eight diseases on the proposed
presumptive list. Of 2,039 claims filed so
far, only 311, or 15 percent, have been approved. When the proposed regulation takes
effect, the approval rate for these conditions
should jump toward 100 percent.
Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine Corps
master sergeant who has led the fight for
compensation and care of those exposed
to poisons at Camp Lejeune, criticized the
proposed list of presumptive illnesses for
excluding bladder cancer. The ATSDR
gave the VA a report last October, he said,
that found “sufficient evidence” water at
Lejeune caused a higher incidence of bladder cancer, just as it found evidence of causation for kidney and liver cancer.
Perhaps it’s no coincidence, Ensminger
asserted, that among cancer claims filed by
Camp Lejeune vets, bladder cancer leads
all others with 885 cases.
But Dr. Ralph L. Erickson, director of
Pre-9/11-era Post-Deployment Health for
the Veterans Health Administration, said
the VA is obligated to look at more than
ATSDR findings to decide on presumption.
He noted two recent mortality studies that
“failed to identify an increased risk of bladder cancer mortality” in Marines or in civilians at Camp Lejeune during the period
of contamination. One found Camp Lejeune
Marines were 23 percent less likely to die
of bladder cancer than Marines never assigned there, Erickson added.
Erickson, a physician trained in preventive medicine and public health over a 32year active-duty Army career, came to the
VA two years ago. After the July meeting,
he led a VA technical work group that recommended the list of presumptive diseases
for McDonald. The group, he said, “felt that
the weight of the evidence was not sufficiently strong to recommend a presumption
for bladder cancer at this time,” but more
research is needed.
“Our secretary wanted his proposal for
these new presumptions to be well-rooted
in evidence,” Erickson said.
The VA concurred on much of what the
ATSDR reported, he said. But with a few
ailments the VA had “a professional difference of opinion as to the strength of the
data.”
More information for Camp Lejeune veterans and survivors is online at www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/camp-lejeune/.
The VA continues to review Camp Lejeune
claims. However, for claims that would be
denied under current regulations, decisions
are being stayed until new regulations are
made final.
Send comments to Military Update, P.O. Box 231111,
Centreville, VA, 20120, email [email protected] or
Twitter: Tom Philpott @Military_Update.
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SCOREBOARD
College basketball
Sports
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Saturday’s men’s scores
EAST
Albany (NY) 69, Vermont 57
Army 73, Loyola (Md.) 59
Boston U. 68, Lafayette 47
Brown 69, Daniel Webster 43
Bryant 82, Mount St. Mary’s 79, 2OT
Bucknell 98, Holy Cross 71
Caldwell 73, Wilmington (Del.) 67
Columbia 96, Cent. Pennsylvania 68
Concordia (N.Y.) 84, Chestnut Hill 83
Creighton 82, Seton Hall 67
Dickinson 82, Washington (Md.) 63
Dominican (NY) 76, Georgian Court 62
Drexel 61, Coll. of Charleston 54
Endicott 71, W. New England 57
Fairfield 69, Rider 64
Fairleigh Dickinson 92, CCSU 73
Fisher 69, Hobart 64
George Washington 91, Duquesne 64
Georgetown 74, DePaul 63
Goldey Beacom 68, Post (Conn.) 61
Green Mountain 74, Castleton 57
Hartwick 96, Stevens Tech 72
Harvard 77, Dartmouth 70
Iona 90, Marist 80
La Salle 61, Dayton 57
Lehigh 65, American U. 50
Monmouth (NJ) 88, Quinnipiac 74
NYU 69, Brandeis 57
Navy 71, Colgate 68, OT
Nebraska 90, Rutgers 56
New Hampshire 58, Binghamton 43
Niagara 55, Manhattan 53
North Carolina 84, Syracuse 73
Old Westbury 79, Mount St. Mary (NY)
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Tennis
Chennai Open
Saturday
At SDAT Tennis Stadium
Chennai, India
Purse: $458,400 (WT250)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Semifinals
Stan Wawrinka (1), Switzerland, def.
Benoit Paire (3), France, 6-3, 6-4.
Borna Coric (8), Croatia, def. Aljaz Bedene, Britain, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-3.
Sunday
Finals
Stan Wawrinka (1), Switzerland, def.
Borna Coric (8), Croatia, 6-3, 7-5.
62
Qatar Open
Saturday
At The Khalifa International Tennis
& Squash Complex
Doha, Qatar
Purse: $1.190 million (WT250)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Championship
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Rafael
Nadal (2), Spain, 6-1, 6-2.
Princeton 73, Penn 71, OT
Purchase 63, Farmingdale 55
Ramapo 70, Stockton 64
Rutgers-Newark 78, Will. Paterson 65
SC-Upstate 80, NJIT 78
St. Bonaventure 88, UMass 77
St. Francis (Pa.) 72, LIU Brooklyn 65
St. Francis Brooklyn 56, Robert Morris
49
St. Peter’s 70, Canisius 53
Stony Brook 86, Mass.-Lowell 59
Susquehanna 91, Merchant Marine 72
Temple 78, East Carolina 60
UConn 81, Memphis 78
UMBC 89, Maine 76
UNC Wilmington 85, Delaware 67
Wagner 76, Sacred Heart 59
West Virginia 77, Oklahoma St. 60
SOUTH
Alabama A&M 85, Ark.-Pine Bluff 70
Alabama St. 75, MVSU 74, OT
Appalachian St. 76, Texas St. 56
Asbury 66, Brescia 51
Barton 77, Limestone 74
Belmont 85, E. Illinois 59
Benedict 84, LeMoyne-Owen 70
Berea 87, Ohio Mid-Western 65
Bryan 101, Montreat 80
Cumberlands 71, Lindsey Wilson 56
Davidson 81, George Mason 75
Delta St. 72, Lee 68
Duke 82, Virginia Tech 58
E. Kentucky 88, SE Missouri 69
ETSU 86, UNC Greensboro 83
Elizabeth City St. 81, Johnson C. Smith
Brisbane International
Sunday
At Queensland Tennis Centre
Brisbane, Australia
Purse: Men, $404,780 (WT250); Women,
$885,500 (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Finals
Milos Raonic (4), Canada, def. Roger
Federer (1), Switzerland, 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles
Henri Kontinen, Finland, and John
Peers (2), Australia, def. James Duckworth, Australia, and Chris Guccione,
Australia, 7-6 (4), 6-1.
Hobart International
Sunday
At The Domain Tennis Centre
Hobart, Australia
Purse: $250,000 (Intl.)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Camila Giorgi (2), Italy, def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1.
Alize Cornet (7), France, def. Denisa
Allertova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-5.
Alison Van Uytvanck (8), Belgium, def.
Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 6-2, 7-6 (5).
Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, def.
Maddison Inglis, Australia, 6-4, 6-3.
Apia International
Sunday
At Olympic Park Tennis Centre
Sydney
Purse: Men, $404,780 (WT250); Women,
$687,900 (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Women
First Round
Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 7-6 (6), 6-2.
Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def.
Tammi Patterson, Australia, 6-2, 6-0.
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, Slovakia,
def. Timea Bacsinszky (6), Switzerland,
1-6, 6-1, 6-3.
Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, def. CoCo
Vandeweghe, United States, 6-3, 6-4.
Caroline Garcia, France, def. Kristina
Mladenovic, France, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Karolina Pliskova (5), Czech Republic,
def. Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-2.
Golf
Tournament of Champions
PGA Tour
Saturday
At Kapalua Resort,
The Plantation Course
Kapalua, Hawaii
Purse: $5.9 million
Yardage: 7,452; Par 73
Third Round
Jordan Spieth
66-64-65—195
Brooks Koepka
69-68-63—200
Patrick Reed
65-69-67—201
Brandt Snedeker
67-72-65—204
Fabian Gomez
68-66-70—204
Jimmy Walker
70-71-64—205
Steven Bowditch
69-67-69—205
Rickie Fowler
69-67-69—205
Kevin Kisner
69-65-71—205
Peter Malnati
71-66-69—206
Danny Lee
67-68-71—206
David Lingmerth
71-71-66—208
Dustin Johnson
73-67-68—208
Padraig Harrington
70-68-70—208
Bill Haas
71-69-70—210
Smylie Kaufman
70-69-71—210
Bubba Watson
69-68-73—210
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Erskine 72, Pfeiffer 64
Fayetteville St. 72, Virginia Union 70
Florida 68, LSU 62
Florida Gulf Coast 82, Stetson 53
Francis Marion 64, Armstrong St. 63
Furman 70, Chattanooga 55
Gardner-Webb 83, Radford 61
Georgia Southern 93, Troy 88, OT
Georgia St. 70, South Alabama 55
Georgia Tech 68, Virginia 64
Hampden-Sydney 65, Shenandoah 42
Hampton 75, Bethune-Cookman 70
High Point 82, Presbyterian 66
Hofstra 80, Elon 76
Howard 72, Coppin St. 63
Jackson St. 80, Alcorn St. 71, OT
James Madison 73, Towson 59
Kennesaw St. 102, Lipscomb 86
Kentucky 77, Alabama 61
Kentucky St. 74, Clark Atlanta 73
Lane 74, Fort Valley St. 65
Liberty 55, Campbell 52
Life 82, St. Catharine 78
Lincoln Memorial 86, Queens (NC) 76
Longwood 76, Coastal Carolina 61
Louisiana Tech 93, Charlotte 90, OT
Marshall 99, FIU 81
Maryville (Tenn.) 84, LaGrange 60
Mercer 91, The Citadel 80
Miami 72, Florida St. 59
Middle Tennessee 79, UTSA 71
Mississippi 72, Georgia 71
Morehead St. 64, UT Martin 58
Morgan St. 63, Delaware St. 58
Murray St. 69, Jacksonville St. 54
Nicholls St. 63, Abilene Christian 62
Norfolk St. 77, Florida A&M 56
N. Alabama 82, Christian Brothers 64
North Florida 83, Jacksonville 68
Pikeville 86, Cumberland (Tenn.) 78
Randolph 62, Randolph-Macon 59
SC State 91, NC Central 75
Savannah St. 75, NC A&T 68
South Carolina 69, Vanderbilt 65
Southern Miss. 73, Old Dominion 71
Southern U. 66, Grambling St. 61
Spring Hill 85, Albany (Ga.) 62
Tenn. Wesleyan 99, St. Andrews 90
Tennessee St. 63, SIU-Edwardsville 60
Tennessee Tech 72, Austin Peay 66
Texas A&M 92, Tennessee 88
Texas A&M-CC 77, McNeese St. 68
Thomas More 101, Washington & Jefferson 66
Transylvania 80, Defiance 71
UAB 87, UTEP 80
UNC Asheville 83, Charleston Southern
73
Union (Ky.) 74, Bluefield 63
W. Carolina 73, VMI 52
W. Kentucky 86, FAU 82, OT
William & Mary 78, Northeastern 60
Wofford 69, Samford 64
Wright St. 60, N. Kentucky 46
MIDWEST
Albion 65, Calvin 60
Aquinas 80, Michigan-Dearborn 53
Augsburg 80, Carleton 68
Augustana (SD) 101, Minn. St.-Mankato
91
Baylor 94, Iowa St. 89
Bethany Lutheran 78, North Central
(Minn.) 75
CS Bakersfield 83, UMKC 72
Cent. Michigan 79, Bowling Green 67
Columbia (Mo.) 87, Williams Baptist 57
Concordia (Ill.) 88, Marian (Wis.) 74
Concordia (Mich.) 86, Marygrove 69
Concordia (Moor.) 83, St. John’s (Minn.)
65
Concordia (St.P.) 69, Wayne (Neb.) 64
Davenport 90, Cornerstone 84
Evansville 67, Bradley 35
Grand View 100, Central Methodist 95,
2OT
Gustavus 85, Hamline 70
Hope 79, Olivet 64
IUPUI 67, W. Illinois 60
Indiana St. 77, Illinois St. 65
Indiana-East 89, Ohio Christian 63
Lawrence Tech 58, Northwestrn Ohio 55
Madonna 97, Indiana Tech 89
Marquette 81, St. John’s 75
Maryland 63, Wisconsin 60
Milwaukee 65, Cleveland St. 62
Minn. Duluth 92, Bemidji St. 83
Minn. St.-Moorhead 97, Minot St. 89
Minn.-Morris 104, Northland 66
Missouri 76, Auburn 61
Missouri St. 56, Loyola of Chicago 54
Monmouth (Ill.) 68, Lawrence 63
Morningside 71, Doane 70
N. Illinois 80, E. Michigan 63
N. Iowa 77, Drake 44
Nebraska-Omaha 79, South Dakota 73
Northern St. (SD) 94, Mary 70
Northwestern 77, Minnesota 52
Northwestern (Minn.) 97, Martin Luther
71
Ohio 79, Ball St. 73
Peru St. 109, Missouri Valley 86
Pittsburgh 86, Notre Dame 82
Ripon 100, Grinnell 89
Saginaw Valley St. 77, Wayne (Mich.) 69
Seattle 66, Chicago St. 50
Siena Heights 66, Lourdes 64
St. Cloud St. 80, Minn.-Crookston 79
St. Olaf 85, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 80
St. Scholastica 67, Wis.-Superior 55
St. Thomas (Minn.) 69, Bethel (Minn.)
66
Toledo 84, Miami (Ohio) 76
Upper Iowa 81, Sioux Falls 68
Wichita St. 83, S. Illinois 58
Winona St. 77, SW Minnesota St. 69
Wis.-La Crosse 71, Wis.-Eau Claire 51
Wis.-Oshkosh 86, Wis.-Platteville 81
Wis.-Parkside 84, Drury 67
Wis.-River Falls 73, Wis.-Stout 67
Wis.-Whitewater 69, Wis.-Stevens Pt.
63
Youngstown St. 103, Green Bay 93
SOUTHWEST
Arkansas 82, Mississippi St. 68
Arkansas St. 71, Louisiana-Lafayette 69
Cent. Arkansas 93, Lamar 76
Houston Baptist 77, SE Louisiana 58
Incarnate Word 70, Northwestern St. 56
Kansas 69, Texas Tech 59
Lubbock Christian 65, Oklahoma Christian 58
North Texas 85, Rice 74
Oklahoma 86, Kansas St. 76
Oral Roberts 66, N. Dakota St. 65
Sam Houston St. 73, New Orleans 70
TCU 58, Texas 57
Texas Southern 64, Prairie View 38
UALR 58, Louisiana-Monroe 57
FAR WEST
BYU 102, San Francisco 92
Boise St. 81, Fresno St. 70
CS Northridge 85, Cal St.-Fullerton 75
Coll. of Idaho 87, Warner Pacific 76
Colorado St. 85, San Jose St. 84, OT
E. Oregon 86, Multnomah Bible 73
E. Washington 74, Idaho 60
Gonzaga 85, Portland 74
Grand Canyon 79, New Mexico St. 75
Hawaii 65, UC Santa Barbara 57
IPFW 65, Denver 64
Long Beach St. 59, UC Davis 47
Montana 77, Sacramento St. 58
N. Arizona 73, S. Utah 63
NW Christian 89, Evergreen St. 85
Nevada 86, Air Force 63
New Mexico 77, Utah St. 59
North Dakota 84, Idaho St. 76
Oregon St. 77, California 71
Saturday’s transactions
BASEBALL
National League
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Selected the
contract of LHP Ryan Buchter from El
Paso (PCL).
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Designated
RHP Cody Hall for assignment.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed WR R.J.
Harris to a reserve/future contract.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Named Adam
Gase coach.
Saturday’s women’s scores
EAST
Albany (NY) 72, Vermont 43
American U. 59, Lehigh 55
Army 70, Loyola (Md.) 37
Binghamton 51, New Hampshire 50
Bryant 82, Wagner 71
Bucknell 58, Holy Cross 51
Caldwell 93, Wilmington (Del.) 85
Castleton 86, Green Mountain 35
Chestnut Hill 69, Concordia (NY) 61
Dickinson 65, Washington (Md.) 43
Dominican (NY) 68, Georgian Court 56
Endicott 59, W. New England 52
Farmingdale 86, Purchase St. 59
Harvard 56, Dartmouth 43
Lafayette 71, Boston U. 56
Maine 65, UMBC 55
Mount St. Mary’s 54, CCSU 48
NYU 57, Brandeis 46
Navy 51, Colgate 41
Penn 50, Princeton 48
Robert Morris 62, St. Francis Brooklyn
53
SC-Upstate 58, NJIT 41
Sacred Heart 72, Fairleigh Dickinson 61
St. Elizabeth 96, Wilson 57
St. Francis (Pa.) 84, LIU Brooklyn 75
St. John’s 71, Seton Hall 69
Stevens Tech 62, Hartwick 45
Stockton 63, Ramapo 49
Stony Brook 64, Mass.-Lowell 50
West Virginia 79, Texas Tech 57
SOUTH
Alabama A&M 78, Ark.-Pine Bluff 70
Alabama St. 100, MVSU 50
Appalachian St. 90, Texas St. 71
Austin Peay 91, Tennessee Tech 75
Belmont 89, E. Illinois 61
Benedict 96, LeMoyne-Owen 45
Brescia 83, Asbury 80
Bridgewater (Va.) 78, Emory & Henry 75
Bryan 83, Montreat 56
Campbell 73, Longwood 56
Charlotte 63, Louisiana Tech 58
Chattanooga 56, Furman 50
Clayton St. 73, North Georgia 71
Coppin St. 83, Howard 67
Delta St. 76, Lee 50
E. Kentucky 56, SE Missouri 55
ETSU 70, Wofford 54
Florida A&M 83, Norfolk St. 67
Florida Gulf Coast 61, Stetson 48
Francis Marion 60, Armstrong St. 47
Gardner-Webb 82, High Point 70
Hampton 60, Bethune-Cookman 45
Indiana-Southeast 76, Midway 36
Jackson St. 73, Alcorn St. 66
Jacksonville 73, North Florida 39
Jacksonville St. 74, Murray St. 71
JKennesaw St. 55, Lipscomb 54
Kentucky Christian 60, Welch 50
Kentucky St. 77, Clark Atlanta 73
Lees-McRae 78, Southern Wesleyan 77
Limestone 95, Barton 33
Lincoln (Pa.) 72, St. Augustine’s 46
Lincoln Memorial 80, Queens (NC) 66
Lindsey Wilson 61, Cumberlands 51
Loyola NO 73, Coastal Georgia 69
Marshall 65, FIU 58
Maryville (Tenn.) 60, LaGrange 49
McNeese St. 72, Texas A&M-CC 51
Mercer 92, W. Carolina 88, OT
Morgan St. 56, Delaware St. 49
NC A&T 69, Savannah St. 59
Newberry 61, Tusculum 48
N. Alabama 40, Christian Brothers 38
Old Dominion 53, Southern Miss. 45
Pikeville 73, Cumberland (Tenn.) 70
Presbyterian 60, Liberty 42
Radford 66, Winthrop 44
Rhode Island 57, Richmond 50
SC State 58, NC Central 51
Samford 57, UNC-Greensboro 52
Shaw 79, Bowie St. 49
South Alabama 60, Georgia St. 52
Southern U. 80, Grambling St. 68
Tenn. Wesleyan 67, St. Andrews 57
Tennessee St. 73, SIU-Edwardsville 61
Thomas More 103, Wash. & Jeff. 56
Transylvania 84, Defiance 63
Troy 81, Georgia Southern 66
UNC Asheville 58, Charleston Southern
50
UT Martin 85, Morehead St. 67
Union (Ky.) 58, Bluefield 48
Virginia Union 102, Fayetteville St. 47
W. Kentucky 81, FAU 62
MIDWEST
Adrian 71, St. Mary’s (Ind.) 58
Aquinas 73, Michigan-Dearborn 60
Augsburg 57, Carleton 31
Ball St. 66, Miami (Ohio) 41
Bethany Lutheran 70, North Central
(Minn.) 52
Bethel (Minn.) 80, St. Thomas (Minn.) 60
Buffalo 77, Kent St. 66
Calvin 79, Olivet 77
Cent. Michigan 97, Akron 77
Columbia (Mo.) 80, Williams Baptist 59
Concordia (Ill.) 75, Marian (Wis.) 63
Concordia (Mich.) 86, Marygrove 47
Concordia (Wis.) 77, Alverno 62
Crown (Minn.) 82, Finlandia 64
Davenport 83, Cornerstone 57
Detroit 89, Ill.-Chicago 80
Drury 54, Wis.-Parkside 48
E. Michigan 87, N. Illinois 80, OT
Grand View 79, Central Methodist 75
Green Bay 68, Youngstown St. 60
Grinnell 59, Ripon 53
Gustavus 81, Hamline 71
IUPUI 68, W. Illinois 60
Indiana-East 74, Ohio Christian 53
Iowa St. 65, Kansas 49
Kalamazoo 73, Alma 69
Lawrence Tech 73, Northwestrn Ohio 63
Macalester 64, St. Catherine 55
Madonna 82, Indiana Tech 71
Marantha Baptist 72, Crossroads 21
Marian (Ind.) 48, Spring Arbor 32
Milwaukee 62, Cleveland St. 46
Minn. Duluth 63, Bemidji St. 55
Minn. St. (Moorhead) 73, Minot St. 55
Minn.-Crookston 70, St. Cloud St. 52
Minn.-Morris 70, Northland 50
Monmouth (Ill.) 68, Lawrence 49
Morningside 81, Doane 64
North Dakota 45, Idaho St. 42
Northern St. (SD) 73, Mary 70
Northwestern (Minn.) 80, Martin Luther
67
Ohio 72, Bowling Green 57
Oral Roberts 52, N. Dakota St. 42
Saginaw Valley St. 80, Wayne (Mich.) 62
Siena Heights 53, Lourdes 49
Sioux Falls 84, Upper Iowa 63
South Dakota 82, Nebraska-Omaha 76
St. Benedict 64, Concordia (Moor.) 44
St. Mary’s (Minn.) 57, St. Olaf 46
Toledo 80, W. Michigan 73
Valparaiso 81, Oakland 66
Wayne (Neb.) 78, Concordia (St.P) 68
William Penn 44, Evangel 36
Winona St. 57, SW Minnesota St. 42
Wis.-Eau Claire 75, Wis.-LaCrosse 45
Wis.-Oshkosh 83, Wis.-Platteville 51
Wis.-Stevens Pt. 63, Wis.-Whitewater
56
Wis.-Superior 87, St. Scholastica 72
Wright St. 66, N. Kentucky 61
SOUTHWEST
Arkansas St. 83, Louisiana-Lafayette 56
Baylor 72, TCU 55
Houston Baptist 64, SE Louisiana 56
Lubbock Christian 100, Oklahoma
Christian 61
Middle Tennessee 74, UTSA 63
Northwestern St. 53, Incarnate Word 48
Sam Houston St. 64, New Orleans 52
Texas 78, Oklahoma St. 48
Texas Rio Grande Valley 61, Utah Valley 48
Texas Southern 72, Prairie View 65
UALR 56, Louisiana-Monroe 44
FAR WEST
BYU 66, San Francisco 57
Cal Poly 72, UC Irvine 54
Colorado St. 76, San Jose St. 54
Denver 53, IPFW 50, OT
E. Washington 74, Idaho 66
Fresno St. 62, Boise St. 57
Gonzaga 71, Portland 63
Long Beach St. 82, Cal St.-Fullerton 61
Loyola Marymount 63, Pacific 60
Montana St. 106, Portland St. 59
N. Arizona 57, S. Utah 47
N. Colorado 65, Weber St. 63
Nevada 68, Air Force 57
New Mexico St. 60, Grand Canyon 58
Sacramento St. 83, Montana 75, OT
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 88, Pepperdine 72
San Diego 70, Santa Clara 58
Seattle 59, Chicago St. 45
UC Davis 60, Hawaii 58
UC Riverside 83, UC Santa Barbara 53
UMKC 56, CS Bakersfield 40
UNLV 66, Wyoming 37
Utah St. 72, New Mexico 56
EXHIBITION
Augustana (SD) 87, Minn. St. (Mankato) 73
College football
Bowl Glance
Monday, Jan. 11
College Football Championship Game
Glendale, Ariz.
Clemson (14-0) vs. Alabama (13-1)
FCS playoffs
Championship
Saturday, Jan. 9
At Toyota Stadium
Frisco, Texas
North Dakota State 37, Jacksonville
State 10
College hockey
Deals
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Oregon Tech 73, Walla Walla 37
Pacific 60, Loyola Marymount 58
Pepperdine 67, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 64
Portland St. 77, Montana St. 70
Santa Clara 65, San Diego 53
Southern Cal 103, Arizona 101, 4OT
UC Irvine 84, UC Riverside 68
UCLA 81, Arizona St. 74
Utah Valley 98, Texas Rio Grande Valley 65
Washington 99, Washington St. 95, OT
Weber St. 85, N. Colorado 68
Wyoming 59, UNLV 57
EXHIBITION
Corban 85, Northwest U. 70
Finlandia 84, Crown (Minn.) 82
Maranatha Baptist 89, Crossroads 86
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed DE
Phillip Hunt to a reserve/future contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Jiri
Tlusty on injured reserve. Recalled F Joseph Blandisi from Albany (AHL).
ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled G Niklas
Lundstrom from Elmira (ECHL) to Chicago (AHL).
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled
F Brian Hart from Greenville (ECHL) to
Syracuse (AHL).
Saturday’s scores
EAST
Sacred Heart 4, Army 1
Mercyhurst 3, Niagara 2
RIT 4, Canisius 3
Buffalo St. 3, Utica 1
Robert Morris 5, Bentley 0
Minnesota 7, Penn St. 1
Castleton St. 5, S. Maine 1
Cornell 5, Merrimack 2
Colgate 5, Maine 1
Northeastern 4, St. Lawrence 2
Quinnipiac 5, Harvard 4, OT
Boston College 4, Providence 4, OT
Boston U. 7, UMass 2
SOUTH
Ala.-Huntsville 3, Alaska 1
MIDWEST
Michigan 6, Michigan St. 3
Ohio St. 4, Wisconsin 4, OT
Notre Dame 3, W. Michigan 3, OT
Minn.-Duluth 5, Miami (Ohio) 2
Colorado College 5, St. Cloud St. 2
Denver 4, Neb.-Omaha 3
St. Scholastica 7, Finlandia 0
Lake Superior St. 1, Bowling Green 0, OT
Minn. St. (Mankato) 3, N. Michigan 1
FAR WEST
Air Force 5, American International 1
EXHIBITION
North Dakota 4, U.S. U-18 1
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Nets fire Hollins,
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Southern California guard Julian Jacobs tries to shoot over Arizona’s Allonzo Trier, Kadeem Allen, and
Kaleb Tarczewski on Saturday in Los Angeles. Southern California won it in a fourth overtime 103-101.
Top 25 roundup
USC tops No. 7 Arizona in 4OT
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Elijah
Stewart scored a career-high 27
points, including the go-ahead
free throws with 22 seconds left
in the fourth overtime, and Southern California beat No. 7 Arizona
103-101 on Saturday night to improve to 11-0 at home.
Arizona’s Gabe York dribbled
around as the clock wound down
and lost the ball before the Wildcats recovered only to see Kadeem Allen’s three-point attempt
fall short at the buzzer.
Julian Jacobs added 18 points,
and Jordan McLaughlin and
Nikola Jovanovic had 17 each for
the Trojans (14-3, 3-1 Pac-12).
They hung in and hung on after
blowing a 12-point lead with 5½
minutes to go in regulation.
Allonzo Trier scored 25 points
and York added 21 for the Wildcats (13-3, 1-2).
No. 1 Kansas 69, Texas Tech
59: Frank Mason scored 17
points, Perry Ellis had 15 points
and visiting Kansas (14-1, 3-0
Big 12) earned its 13th straight
victory.
No. 2 Oklahoma 86, Kansas
State 76: Buddy Hield scored 31
points to help host Oklahoma (131, 2-1 Big 12).
Hield followed last week’s 46point effort in a triple-overtime
loss at No. 1 Kansas by making 11
of 14 shots, including six of eight
three-pointers. It was his eighth
straight game with at least 20
points and his sixth this season
with at least 30.
No. 3 Maryland 63, Wisconsin 60: Melo Trimble hit a long
three-pointer with 1.2 seconds
left to lift visiting Maryland.
Trimble finished with 21 points
on 9-for-17 shooting in a game in
which the Terrapins (15-1, 4-0
Big Ten) lost an eight-point lead
with about 7 minutes to go.
Georgia Tech 68, No. 4 Virginia 64: Quinton Stephens, Adam
Smith and Nick Jacobs each
scored 16 points and host Georgia
Tech upset Virginia.
No. 6 North Carolina 84, Syracuse 73: Isaiah Hicks scored 21
points and visiting North Carolina (15-2, 4-0 ACC) ruined Jim
Boeheim’s return to the bench.
Boeheim was back with the Orange after serving a nine-game
suspension for NCAA violations.
No. 9 Kentucky 77, Alabama
61: Alex Poythress scored a
career-high 25 points and had
seven rebounds to help visititing
Kentucky (12-3, 2-1 Southeastern
Conference) rebound from an 8567 loss to LSU on Tuesday night.
No. 12 Miami 72, Florida
State 59: Sheldon McClellan
scored 20 of his 21 points in the
second half and host Miami (131, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference)
beat Florida State for its seventh
straight victory.
Baylor 94, No. 13 Iowa State
89: Johnathan Motley had a career-high 27 points and added 13
rebounds to help visiting Baylor
upset Iowa State, handing the Cyclones (12-3, 1-2) their first home
loss of the season.
No. 14 Duke 82, Virginia Tech
58: Marshall Plumlee scored a
career-high 21 points to help host
Duke (14-2, 3-0 Atlantic Coast
Conference) beat Virginia Tech.
No. 17 West Virginia 77, Oklahoma State 60: Jevon Carter
scored 16 points and Jonathan
Holton added 15 points and nine
rebounds for host West Virginia
14-1, 3-0 Big 12).
No. 21 Texas A&M 92, Tennessee 88: Jalen Jones scored
27 points and made a tiebreaking
basket with 1:28 left, helping visiting Texas A&M (13-2, 3-0) erase
a 13-point, second-half deficit for
its sixth straight victory.
No. 22 South Carolina 69,
Vanderbilt 65: Sindarius Thornwell had 19 points and eight rebounds and host South Carolina
(15-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) remained undefeated.
No. 23 UConn 81, Memphis
78: Sterling Gibbs scored 26
points and host UConn (11-4, 2-1
American Athletic Conference)
held off Memphis.
No. 24 Pittsburgh 86, Notre
Dame 82: Michael Young scored
a season-high 26 points for visiting Pittsburgh.
La Salle 61, No. 25 Dayton 57:
Jordan Price had 17 points and
Amar Stukes added 13 for host La
Salle (5-8, 1-2 Atlantic-10).
NEW YORK — The Brooklyn
Nets fired coach Lionel Hollins
and reassigned general manager
Billy King on Sunday in the midst
of their worst season since moving from New Jersey.
The Nets said assistant Tony
Brown will serve as the interim
head coach, and the GM position
will remain open until a replacement is hired.
The Nets have lost four in a row
overall and nine straight at home,
where attendance has dwindled
at the $1 billion Barclays Center.
The Nets had made the playoffs
every year since relocating for
the 2012-13 season, but they are
10-27, better only than the leagueworst Philadelphia 76ers.
King had been GM since 2010,
orchestrating a number of highprofile moves that led to just one
playoff series victory. Hollins was
in his second season as coach.
“It’s clear from our current
state of affairs that we need
new leadership,” owner Mikhail
Prokhorov said in a statement.
“With the right basketball management and coach in place, we
are going to create a winning culture and identity and give Brooklyn a team that it can be proud of
and enjoy watching.”
Vonn wins second race
of the weekend
ALTENMARKT-ZAUCHENSEE, Austria — Lindsey Vonn won
a women’s World Cup super-G on
Sunday for her second victory in
as many days.
The American timed 1 minute,
12.75 seconds on the Kaelberloch
course to beat overall World Cup
leader Lara Gut of Switzerland by
0.70. Cornelia Huetter of Austria
came 1.25 back in third.
Vonn trailed Gut by 158 points
coming into this weekend’s races
but has reduced her deficit to 38
after also winning Saturday’s
two-run downhill here, which
Gut failed to finish.
In other skiing news:
Henrik
Kristoffersen
won another duel with Marcel
Hirscher in a World Cup slalom
on Sunday to extend his lead in
the standings.
The Norwegian edged Austrian
Hirscher by .06 seconds as they
finished 1-2 for the fourth straight
World Cup slalom this season.
Spieth takes five-shot
lead into final round
KAPALUA, Hawaii — Sharp
as ever in the first PGA Tour
event of the year, Jordan Spieth
capped off the third round Saturday with a 10-foot eagle putt for
an 8-under 65. He had a five-shot
lead over Brooks Koepka going
into the final day at the Hyundai
Tournament of Champions.
Spieth ran off four straight
birdies on the front nine to keep
control, then showed off an exquisite short game on the back nine.
Koepka, despite failing to birdie two of the par 5s, had a careerbest 63 and at one point got within
one shot of Spieth. But the world’s
No. 1 player holed a 50-foot birdie
putt, hit a daring flop shot behind
the 15th green to set up birdie and
finished with the eagle.
Spieth was at 24-under 195.
Wentz leads ND State
to 5th straigh FCS title
FRISCO, Texas — Carson
Wentz got one more game as
North Dakota State’s quarterback
before the NFL Draft — and another FCS title.
A potential first-round pick,
Carson threw for a touchdown
and ran for two more scores in
his first game since breaking
his right wrist in mid-October,
and the Bison won their unprecedented fifth consecutive FCS
championship with a 37-10 victory Saturday over top-seeded
Jacksonville State.
Five days after a CT scan
showed his wrist was completely
healed, Wentz was 16-for-29 for
197 yards with two interceptions.
He accounted for two touchdowns
in an 86-second span early in the
second quarter.
The Bison (13-2) won their 20th
consecutive playoff game, including all five times they have made
the trip from Fargo to Frisco for
the title game at a professional
soccer stadium. Fans clad in
green and gold made up a majority of the stadium-record crowd
of 21,836.
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Roundup
Warriors handle Kings
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Even
though this was a road game, the
crowd enthusiastically cheered
for the visiting Golden State Warriors — a common occurrence
this season.
Stephen Curry made eight
three-pointers and scored 38
points, Draymond Green added
25 and the Warriors defeated
the Sacramento Kings 128-116
on Saturday night for their sixth
consecutive victory.
The Warriors (35-2) broke loose
for 36 points in the third quarter
and built a 12-point lead. Curry
had 14 in the fourth to hold off the
Kings and complete an unbeaten
three-game road trip.
It probably felt like a home
game to the Warriors, off to the
best start in NBA history. A boisterous Golden State rooting section cheered the team’s every
basket and even chanted “MVP!
MVP!” when Curry was shooting
free throws.
Sacramento is about 80 miles
northeast of Golden State’s home
in Oakland.
“This was definitely a Warriors
crowd. It’s been that way on this
road trip,” forward Brandon Rush
said. “Our fans are everywhere.”
The Kings certainly noticed
and naturally weren’t too happy
about a sellout crowd of 17,317
cheering more for the Warriors.
Golden State swept the four-game
season series and has beaten Sacramento 12 straight times.
“About 10 years ago it was Sacramento in Warriors’ country (at
the Oakland Coliseum). So it is
what it is,” Kings forward Rudy
Gay said. “They are a great basketball team now. I guess all the
Warriors fans that are in Sacramento are riding the bandwagon
just like everybody else.”
Curry didn’t disappoint his fan
club. He made 12 of 21 shots, including 8 of 14 three-pointers. He
also had 11 assists, six rebounds
and was at his best in the fourth
quarter when the Kings rallied.
“Steph was making his jumper.
And when he does, he’s tough to
stop,” teammate Andrew Bogut
said.
Klay Thompson scored 15
points, Andre Iguodala had 13
and Rush added 11 for the Warriors. Golden State shot 56 percent and outrebounded the Kings
48-34.
Green hit five threes and
grabbed nine rebounds. The
Warriors shot 19-for-37 on threepointers, hitting 12 in the opening
half — the most the Kings have
allowed in a half all season.
DeMarcus Cousins had 21 of
his 33 points in the first half and
added 10 rebounds for the Kings.
Clippers 97, Hornets 83:
Chris Paul had 25 points and
seven assists, and host Los Angeles Clippers extended its winning
streak to eight games.
DeAndre Jordan, making a
push for his first career All-Star
selection, had 19 rebounds. It was
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W
L
24
15
19
17
18
20
10
27
4
35
Southeast Division
Atlanta
23
15
Miami
22
15
Orlando
20
18
Charlotte
17
19
Washington
16
19
Central Division
Cleveland
25
9
Chicago
22
13
Indiana
21
15
Detroit
21
16
Milwaukee
15 23
Toronto
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Pistons 103, Nets 89
Pct
.615
.528
.474
.270
.103
GB
—
3½
5½
13
20
.605
.595
.526
.472
.457
—
.735
.629
.583
.568
.395
—
3½
5
5½
12
½
3
5
5½
Western Conference
Southwest Division
W
L Pct GB
San Antonio
32
6 .842 —
Dallas
21
16 .568 10½
Memphis
20
18 .526 12
Houston
18
19 .486 13½
New Orleans
11
24 .314 19½
Northwest Division
Oklahoma City
26
11 .703 —
Utah
16
20 .444
9½
Portland
15
24 .385 12
Denver
13
24 .351 13
Minnesota
12 25 .324 14
Pacific Division
Golden State
35
2 .946 —
L.A. Clippers
24
13 .649 11
Sacramento
15
22 .405 20
Phoenix
13
26 .333 23
L.A. Lakers
8 30 .211 27½
Friday’s games
Toronto 97, Washington 88
Orlando 83, Brooklyn 77
Cleveland 125, Minnesota 99
Indiana 91, New Orleans 86
Milwaukee 96, Dallas 95
Memphis 91, Denver 84
San Antonio 100, New York 99
Miami 103, Phoenix 95
Golden State 128, Portland 108
Oklahoma City 117, L.A. Lakers 113
Saturday’s games
L.A. Clippers 97, Charlotte 83
Atlanta 120, Chicago 105
Washington 105, Orlando 99
Toronto 108, Philadelphia 95
Detroit 103, Brooklyn 89
Utah 98, Miami 83
Golden State 128, Sacramento 116
Sunday’s games
New Orleans at L.A. Clippers
Dallas at Minnesota
Boston at Memphis
Cleveland at Philadelphia
Indiana at Houston
Milwaukee at New York
Charlotte at Denver
Oklahoma City at Portland
Utah at L.A. Lakers
Monday’s games
San Antonio at Brooklyn
Washington at Chicago
Miami at Golden State
RICH PEDRONCELLI /AP
Kings guard Seth Curry, right, drives to the basket against his
brother, Warriors guard Stephen Curry on Saturday in Sacramento,
Calif. The Warriors won 128-116.
the 11th straight game in double
digits for the franchise’s career
rebounding leader. He led the
NBA in rebounding the previous
two seasons.
Hawks 120, Bulls 105: Al
Horford scored a season-high 33
points and had 10 rebounds, Paul
Millsap added 18 points and host
Atlanta beat Chicago.
Jimmy Butler scored 14 of his
27 points in the third quarter for
Chicago, and Nikola Mirotic had
24 points. The Bulls had won six
straight.
Raptors 108, 76ers 95: Kyle
Lowry scored 10 of his 25 points
in the fourth quarter and DeMar
DeRozan added 19 to lead Toronto over host Philadelphia.
Jonas Valanciunas had 17 points
for the Atlantic Division leaders, who will go for their fourth
straight win when they wrap up
a six-game road trip against Orlando on Thursday in London.
Ish Smith scored a career-high
28 points and rookie Jahlil Okafor had 19 for Philadelphia, which
dropped to 4-35. The 76ers have
lost 11 straight games to Toronto.
Pistons 103, Nets 89: Andre
Drummond had 23 points and 11
rebounds, and host Detroit pulled
away at the beginning of the
fourth quarter to beat Brooklyn
for their third straight victory.
Reggie Jackson had 23 points
and eight assists for Detroit, and
Ersan Ilyasova added 19 points
and 13 rebounds. The Pistons
played without forward Marcus
Morris, who sat out with left knee
tendinitis.
Wizards 105, Magic 99: John
Wall had 24 points and 10 assists
to help Washington defeat host Orlando for the 12th straight time.
The victory ended a three-game
losing streak for the Wizards, who
got double-figure scoring from
all five starters and reserve Gary
Neal. Otto Porter, Jared Dudley
and Neal each scored 16 points,
Marcin Gortat had 12 points and
10 rebounds, and Garrett Temple
added 11 points.
Jazz 98, Heat 83: Gordon
Hayward scored a season-high
34 points and host Utah ended a
three-game losing streak.
Hayward came out of the locker room after a passive first half
and scored 18 points in the third
quarter, including nine in a row to
give the Jazz a 68-60 lead.
Saturday
Warriors 128, Kings 116
GOLDEN STATE — Rush 4-6 0-0 11, Green
8-12 4-6 25, Bogut 1-5 0-0 2, St.Curry 12-21
6-7 38, K.Thompson 7-17 0-0 15, Iguodala
6-10 0-1 13, Ezeli 4-5 0-0 8, Livingston 3-3
0-0 6, Barnes 4-7 1-1 10, Clark 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 49-87 11-15 128.
SACRAMENTO — Gay 9-16 3-5 23, Acy
3-4 3-3 9, Cousins 12-27 7-9 33, Rondo 2-8
0-0 4, McLemore 2-4 2-3 6, Collison 5-10
5-5 16, Belinelli 5-14 0-0 13, Koufos 1-3 0-0
2, Cauley-Stein 4-6 2-4 10, Se.Curry 0-0 0-0
0. Totals 43-92 22-29 116.
Golden State
26 34 36 32—128
Sacramento
27 31 26 32—116
Three-point goals—Golden State 1937 (St.Curry 8-14, Green 5-6, Rush 3-5,
Barnes 1-1, Iguodala 1-4, K.Thompson
1-7), Sacramento 8-23 (Belinelli 3-7, Gay
2-3, Cousins 2-6, Collison 1-2, McLemore
0-2, Rondo 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Golden State 54 (Bogut 11),
Sacramento 44 (Cousins 10). Assists—
Golden State 35 (St.Curry 11), Sacramento 27 (Rondo 12). Total Fouls—Golden
State 25, Sacramento 22. Technicals—
Green, Cousins. Flagrant Fouls—Green.
A—17,317 (17,317).
Raptors 108, 76ers 95
TORONTO — Johnson 2-5 1-1 5, Scola
1-5 0-0 2, Valanciunas 7-10 3-5 17, Lowry
10-17 4-5 25, DeRozan 9-17 1-2 19, Ross 610 3-4 16, Patterson 3-5 2-2 11, Joseph 1-4
7-8 9, Biyombo 1-1 0-0 2, Powell 1-1 0-0 2,
Wright 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-75 21-27 108.
PHILADELPHIA — Grant 1-3 1-2 3, Noel
1-4 2-4 4, Okafor 9-15 1-2 19, Smith 12-22
2-4 28, Stauskas 1-4 0-0 3, Thompson 3-9
0-0 8, Sampson 1-3 0-2 2, Covington 2-5 00 6, McConnell 2-6 0-0 5, Canaan 2-3 0-0 6,
Landry 5-6 0-0 11. Totals 39-80 6-14 95.
Toronto
25 32 18 33—108
Philadelphia
26 18 25 26— 95
Three-point goals—Toronto 5-17 (Patterson 3-4, Lowry 1-4, Ross 1-4, Johnson
0-1, Joseph 0-1, Scola 0-1, DeRozan 0-2),
Philadelphia 11-17 (Smith 2-2, Canaan 22, Covington 2-3, Thompson 2-4, Landry
1-1, McConnell 1-1, Stauskas 1-3, Grant
0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Toronto 46 (Valanciunas 9), Philadelphia
43 (Noel 8). Assists—Toronto 19 (Lowry,
DeRozan 5), Philadelphia 26 (McConnell
8). Total Fouls—Toronto 16, Philadelphia
23. A—14,100 (20,318).
BROOKLYN — J.Johnson 6-10 0-0 14,
Young 6-14 0-0 12, Lopez 8-11 3-3 19, Larkin 3-8 2-2 8, Brown 1-4 0-0 2, Sloan 5-8 3-4
15, Bogdanovic 0-5 0-0 0, Ellington 1-7 0-1
3, Reed 3-5 0-0 6, Karasev 0-0 0-0 0, Robinson 4-6 0-0 8, Bargnani 1-4 0-0 2. Totals
38-82 8-10 89.
DETROIT — S.Johnson 4-13 0-0 8, Ilyasova 8-18 1-3 19, Drummond 11-15 1-3 23,
Jackson 10-17 0-0 23, Caldwell-Pope 2-8
1-1 5, Hilliard 3-5 1-1 8, Jennings 0-3 0-0 0,
Tolliver 3-6 2-3 10, Baynes 2-7 3-3 7. Totals
43-92 9-14 103.
Brooklyn
23 23 20 23— 89
Detroit
33 23 16 31—103
Three-point
goals—Brooklyn
5-9
(J.Johnson 2-2, Sloan 2-3, Ellington 1-2,
Bogdanovic 0-1, Young 0-1), Detroit 8-27
(Jackson 3-4, Tolliver 2-5, Ilyasova 2-5,
Hilliard 1-2, Jennings 0-2, Caldwell-Pope
0-4, S.Johnson 0-5). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Brooklyn 43 (Young 9), Detroit 57 (Ilyasova 13). Assists—Brooklyn
24 (Sloan 10), Detroit 23 (Jackson 8). Total Fouls—Brooklyn 17, Detroit 12. Technicals—Jackson. A—16,406 (22,076).
Wizards 105, Magic 99
WASHINGTON — Porter 6-9 2-2 16, Dudley 6-11 0-0 16, Gortat 5-9 2-4 12, Wall 1017 1-1 24, Temple 5-8 0-0 11, Oubre Jr. 0-0
0-0 0, Sessions 1-4 3-3 5, Neal 7-13 0-0 16,
Gooden 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 42-76 8-10 105.
ORLANDO — Harris 4-9 3-4 11, Frye 5-6
1-2 12, Vucevic 10-17 3-4 23, Oladipo 5-12
5-6 17, Fournier 5-10 0-0 11, Gordon 4-7 12 10, Hezonja 2-3 3-4 7, Napier 0-3 0-0 0,
Smith 3-7 2-2 8, Nicholson 0-0 0-0 0, Dedmon 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-74 18-24 99.
Washington
27 33 25 20—105
Orlando
17 32 21 29— 99
Three-point goals—Washington 13-23
(Dudley 4-6, Wall 3-6, Neal 2-2, Porter 24, Temple 1-2, Gooden 1-3), Orlando 5-13
(Oladipo 2-4, Frye 1-1, Fournier 1-2, Gordon 1-2, Harris 0-2, Napier 0-2). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—Washington 32
(Gortat 10), Orlando 46 (Gordon 10). Assists—Washington 29 (Wall 10), Orlando
22 (Vucevic, Oladipo 5). Total Fouls—
Washington 24, Orlando 12. Flagrant
Fouls—Vucevic. A—18,058 (18,500).
Hawks 120, Bulls 105
CHICAGO — Mirotic 8-17 3-4 24, Gibson
4-5 2-2 10, Gasol 4-10 2-3 10, Rose 5-15 7-8
17, Butler 8-17 10-12 27, Portis 0-3 0-0 0,
Snell 3-6 0-0 7, Brooks 0-2 0-0 0, McDermott 3-5 0-0 6, Moore 0-2 2-2 2, Bairstow
1-1 0-0 2. Totals 36-83 26-31 105.
ATLANTA — Bazemore 3-9 2-2 9, Millsap 8-16 2-2 18, Horford 15-21 2-2 33,
Teague 5-9 1-2 12, Korver 5-8 0-0 13, Schroder 5-11 1-1 13, Splitter 1-6 2-2 4, Hardaway Jr. 1-4 0-0 2, Scott 6-7 0-0 14, Holiday
0-1 0-2 0, Muscala 0-0 2-2 2, Mack 0-2 0-0
0. Totals 49-94 12-15 120.
Chicago
19 32 32 22—105
Atlanta
30 34 25 31—120
Three-point
goals—Chicago
7-18
(Mirotic 5-9, Butler 1-3, Snell 1-3, McDermott 0-1, Brooks 0-1, Portis 0-1), Atlanta
10-24 (Korver 3-6, Scott 2-3, Schroder
2-3, Teague 1-1, Bazemore 1-2, Horford
1-3, Splitter 0-1, Mack 0-1, Hardaway
Jr. 0-2, Millsap 0-2). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Chicago 54 (Mirotic 10), Atlanta 46 (Horford 10). Assists—Chicago
16 (Gasol, Rose 5), Atlanta 33 (Schroder
8). Total Fouls—Chicago 13, Atlanta 22.
A—19,010 (18,729).
Clippers 97, Hornets 83
CHARLOTTE — Hairston 1-4 0-0 2, Williams 3-12 0-0 7, Zeller 2-7 2-4 6, Walker
4-16 3-5 11, Lin 9-16 5-6 26, Kaminsky 1-6
2-2 4, Lamb 8-14 0-0 18, Hawes 2-5 2-2 7,
Roberts 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 31-84 14-19 83.
L.A. CLIPPERS — Pierce 2-10 0-0 4,
Mbah a Moute 1-2 2-2 4, Jordan 4-10 3-4
11, Paul 11-19 0-0 25, Redick 6-10 2-2 17,
Crawford 9-20 0-0 19, Johnson 1-7 0-0 3,
Prigioni 0-0 0-0 0, Rivers 2-7 2-2 6, Aldrich
4-6 0-0 8. Totals 40-91 9-10 97.
Charlotte
18 28 18 19—83
L.A. Clippers
27 16 27 27—97
Three-point goals—Charlotte 7-23
(Lin 3-4, Lamb 2-4, Hawes 1-2, Williams
1-7, Hairston 0-1, Kaminsky 0-1, Walker
0-4), L.A. Clippers 8-31 (Redick 3-5, Paul
3-5, Johnson 1-5, Crawford 1-7, Rivers
0-1, Pierce 0-8). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 60 (Lamb, Zeller 13),
L.A. Clippers 50 (Jordan 19). Assists—
Charlotte 14 (Lin 4), L.A. Clippers 19 (Paul
7). Total Fouls—Charlotte 16, L.A. Clippers 19. A—19,060 (19,060).
Jazz 98, Heat 83
MIAMI — Deng 2-6 1-1 5, Bosh 11-16
0-1 24, Whiteside 4-8 2-6 10, Dragic 6-11
2-2 16, Wade 3-17 2-5 8, Green 6-13 0-0 13,
Winslow 0-4 0-0 0, Udrih 2-6 0-0 5, Stoudemire 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 34-82 9-17 83.
UTAH — Hayward 14-22 4-10 34, Lyles
1-5 0-0 3, Gobert 3-3 3-4 9, Neto 5-10 2-2
13, C.Johnson 6-9 0-0 14, Withey 4-5 0-0
8, Ingles 2-7 0-0 6, Booker 0-2 0-0 0, Burke
4-8 2-2 11. Totals 39-71 11-18 98.
Miami
29 20 19 15—83
Utah
19 26 27 26—98
Three-point goals—Miami 6-19 (Dragic
2-3, Bosh 2-6, Udrih 1-2, Green 1-6, Deng 01, Winslow 0-1), Utah 9-20 (C.Johnson 2-3,
Ingles 2-4, Hayward 2-6, Lyles 1-2, Burke
1-2, Neto 1-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 48 (Whiteside 11), Utah
47 (Lyles 10). Assists—Miami 14 (Wade,
Udrih 4), Utah 19 (Neto 5). Total Fouls—
Miami 16, Utah 16. Technicals—Utah defensive three second. A—19,911 (19,911).
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HIGH SCHOOL: DODDS PACIFIC
NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE WEEKEND
Humphreys shows promise in weekend set
Blackhawks boys
earn first basketball
victory over Falcons
Stars and Stripes
Ronald Merriwether won four DODDS Europe championships in his nearly two decades
of coaching in Germany, and he had faith in his
Humphreys boys basketball team’s ability to compete for similar honors when he took the Blackhawks’ helm this season.
So far, so good. With two victories over the
weekend — including Humphreys’
first win over Seoul American in
the school’s three-year history – the
Blackhawks improved to 4-1, level
in the loss column with the leagueleading Falcons (6-1) and second-place Seoul Foreign (5-1).
“My intent was to have my team on that level,”
Merriwether said Saturday after his Blackhawks
won on the road 60-24 at Daegu. That came less
than 18 hours after the win over the Falcons, 5948 at home.
Nate Hellams led the Blackhawks in each game
with 15 points, and Bashr Edmonds chipped in
with 13 in each contest. Hellams also had 12
rebounds and blocked four shots against Seoul
American.
The game at Daegu was key, Merriwether said,
because “once you become successful, you have
to work harder to keep that level. That’s the new
challenge, and we responded well.”
The Blackhawks’ only loss came Dec. 9 at
home 53-40 against Seoul Foreign; since then,
Humphreys has won three straight. The rematch
with the Crusaders comes in the regular-season
finale Feb. 3 at Seoul Foreign.
Whether their seminal weekend will translate
into championships down the road is “too soon to
say,” Merriwether said.
“I feel good about our chances, but there are a
lot of factors,” he said. “The potential is there, but
you have to have a lot of things on your side.”
Daegu: DeAndre Rosalie led the way with 19
points as the Warriors began the
weekend victoriously, surviving a
tight battle with the Cougars 42-40.
Joone Abaya added 11 points for
the home team.
Osan: Basketball may be the least favorite of
the three sports she plays for Osan,
senior Andrea Carandang says. But
her scoring total Wednesday belied
that; she had 24 points to pace the
Cougars past the Falcons 51-21.
JINNA YU/Special to Stars and Stripes
Humphreys defenders Malik Dampier and Bashr Edmonds sandwich Daegu ballhandler
DeAndre Rosalie. The Blackhawks won 60-24 and are 4-1.
Seoul American: Krista Bradley
netted a team-leading 13 points as
the Falcons girls rebounded from a
30-point loss to Osan with a 39-29
triumph at Humphreys.
Guam: Robert Kranz hit the gamewinning shot with two seconds left as
the Panthers pulled out a 46-44 win
over Okkodo on Sunday in the boys
basketball preseason tournament.
Kadena: In their return to Kinnick’s “Beast”
wrestling tournament for the first time
since winning it in 2010, the Panthers
placed third, with 43 points, behind
champion St. Mary’s (53) and host
Kinnick (49). Dominic Santanelli was
Kadena’s lone champion at 168 pounds.
Kubasaki: Caleb Sablan won at 215 pounds
as the Dragons placed fifth in the
“Beast” with 31 team points. … In
the school’s first game against visiting Jakarta International, Matt Ashley had 20 points to lead four players
in double figures in a 75-58 Kubasaki win.
Edgren: Jackson Edmonds (135 pounds) and
Patrick Sledge (180) captured titles,
helping the Eagles to the highest
finish among Division II teams at
“Beast.” … Kamius White posted a
double-double of 22 points and 10
rebounds as Edgren edged reigning Far East D-II
champion Yokota 83-79 in the second of a twogame weekend series.
Zama: Despite Ally Chiarenza being hampered
by illness, the Trojans girls continued
their strong pace, sweeping Matthew C. Perry 43-24 and 58-46 behind Ti’Ara Carroll (20.5 points) and
freshman Destiny Thomas (10.5
points, 9.5 rebounds).
Perry: Likewise, the Samurai boys kept their
early run going, sweeping the rebuilding Trojans 83-52 and 65-43.
Tyson Moore led the way, averaging 17.5 points, and Garrett Macias
averaged 11.5 rebounds in the two
games.
Kinnick: It wasn’t easy, but the Red Devils
managed to escape Sasebo Naval
Base with a sweep of E.J. King.
Tarik Deadmon shot “lights out,”
Cobras coach Scott Jarrard said,
scoring 26 points as Kinnick outlasted King 67-66 in overtime on Saturday. The
Devils won 63-48 on Friday.
King: Newcomers Chad Hinmon and Dyson
Robinson shined for the Cobras
despite the two defeats. Robinson
averaged 16.5 points and Hinmon
16. The Cobras’ next big test, along
with Perry, comes Jan. 23-24 in the
Western Japan Athletic Association Tournament
at Senri Osaka.
Yokota: Freshman Kaliah Henderson has gone on a roll since the
start of the new year, averaging 20.3
points in three Panthers victories,
including a sweep at Edgren.
— Dave Ornauer
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NHL
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts
Florida
41 25 12 4 54
Detroit
41 21 13 7 49
Montreal
43 23 17 3 49
Boston
40 21 14 5 47
Tampa Bay
42 21 17 4 46
Ottawa
42 20 16 6 46
Toronto
40 16 17 7 39
Buffalo
41 15 22 4 34
Metropolitan Division
Washington
41 31 7 3 65
N.Y. Rangers
41 22 14 5 49
N.Y. Islanders
42 22 15 5 49
Pittsburgh
41 20 16 5 45
New Jersey
42 20 17 5 45
Philadelphia
40 18 15 7 43
Carolina
43 18 18 7 43
Columbus
43 15 24 4 34
M ARY A LTAFFER /AP
Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, right, skates with the puck
against Rangers right wing Jayson Megna during third-period action
Saturday in New York. Washington won 4-3 in overtime.
Roundup
Ovechkin’s 499th
boosts Caps in OT
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Alexander
Ovechkin scored his second goal
of the game and the 499th of his
career at 1:25 of overtime and the
Washington Capitals rallied to
beat the New York Rangers 4-3
on Saturday.
Nicklas Backstrom forced
overtime by sliding the rebound
of Justin Williams’ shot under
Henrik Lundqvist with 5.7 seconds left in regulation.
Braden Holtby prevented the
Rangers from winning just seconds before Ovechkin scored. The
Washington goaltender stopped
Rick Nash in close and then
combined with defenseman Nate
Schmidt to stop Derek Stephan on
the rebound attempt.
Ovechkin got the puck, skated
the length of the ice on the left
side before cutting across the
middle and beating Lundqvist.
Ovechkin will try to reach the
500-goal milestone on Sunday at
home against Ottawa.
Williams also scored for the
Capitals and Holtby made 23
saves.
Viktor Stalberg, Kevin Hayes
and Oscar Lindberg scored for
the Rangers.
Blues 2, Kings 1 (SO): Alex
Pietrangelo tied it in the second
period and Troy Brouwer got
the deciding goal in the seventh
round of the shootout to help St.
Louis beat host Los Angeles.
Brian Elliott made 26 saves as
the Blues snapped a five-game
losing streak.
Senators 2, Bruins 1 (OT):
Mark Stone scored 4:22 into overtime to lift Ottawa past visiting
Boston.
Stone was able to put in his own
rebound over a sprawling Tuuka
Rask after being stopped the first
time on a wraparound attempt.
Hurricanes 4, Blue Jackets 3
(OT): Jordan Staal scored in overtime to help visiting Carolina recover after giving up a three-goal
lead.
Cam Ward made 21 saves and
the Hurricanes swept the homeand-home series.
Lightning 3, Canucks 2 (OT):
Nikita Kucherov scored 3:50 into
overtime to lift visiting Tampa
Bay.
After an end-to-end 3-on-3
extra period, Kucherov finished it
on a breakaway against Canucks
goalie Jacob Markstrom for his
16th of the season.
Penguins 3, Canadiens 1:
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33
shots, Bryan Rust scored his first
goal of the season to put Pittsburgh ahead in the second period, and the Penguins beat host
Montreal.
Flyers 4, Islanders 0: Steve
Mason stopped 20 shots for his
third shutout of the season, and
the 29th of his career, and led
host Philadelphia over New York.
Wild 2, Stars 1: Devan Dubnyk
made 34 saves, Thomas Vanek
scored and visiting Minnesota
beat Dallas.
Dallas didn’t score until Jamie
Benn got his 25th goal with 3:13
left in the third.
Sharks 7, Maple Leafs 0:
Brent Burns started a four-goal,
second-period outburst with a
highlight-reel move and Matt
Nieto scored a short-handed goal
following a botched Toronto line
change in host San Jose’s most
lopsided shutout since 2001.
Coyotes 4, Predators 0: Rookie goalie Louis Domingue got his
sixth win in eight starts and Tobias Rieder had two goals and an
assist to lead host Arizona.
GF
114
103
122
123
107
118
104
93
GA
88
107
107
108
102
124
112
113
132
121
114
97
95
91
102
109
89
109
107
100
101
108
118
139
Sharks 7, Maple Leafs 0
Senators 2, Bruins 1 (OT)
Toronto
0 0 0—0
San Jose
0 4 3—7
Second Period—1, San Jose, Burns 17
(Martin, Pavelski), 4:18. 2, San Jose, Nieto
5 (Wingels, Burns), 8:09 (sh). 3, San Jose,
Pavelski 21 (Hertl, Thornton), 15:33. 4, San
Jose, Hertl 5 (Braun, Thornton), 17:29.
Third Period—5, San Jose, Karlsson 5
(Tierney, Braun), 4:10. 6, San Jose, Donskoi 5 (Wingels, Vlasic), 9:38. 7, San Jose,
Hertl 6 (Braun, Vlasic), 11:22.
Shots on Goal—Toronto 12-9-7—28.
San Jose 7-12-12—31.
Power-play opportunities—Toronto 0
of 3; San Jose 0 of 4.
Goalies—Toronto, Bernier 6-11-3 (31
shots-24 saves). San Jose, Jones 17-13-2
(28-28).
A—17,281 (17,562). T—2:26.
Boston
0 1 0 0—1
Ottawa
1 0 0 1—2
First Period—1, Ottawa, Zibanejad 8
(Karlsson, Michalek), 13:28.
Second Period—2, Boston, Pastrnak 3
(Chara, Bergeron), :41.
Overtime—3, Ottawa, Stone 11 (Karlsson, Turris), 4:22.
Shots on Goal—Boston 10-11-11-2—34.
Ottawa 16-9-9-6—40.
Power-play opportunities—Boston 0
of 1; Ottawa 0 of 2.
Goalies—Boston, Rask 14-11-4 (40
shots-38 saves). Ottawa, Anderson 1712-4 (34-33).
A—19,125 (19,153). T—2:38.
Western Conference
Coyotes 4, Predators 0
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
44 29 11 4 62 149 116
43 26 13 4 56 120 101
45 24 14 7 55 111 112
41 22 11 8 52 110 97
42 21 18 3 45 122 117
42 19 16 7 45 107 115
41 19 19 3 41 109 117
Pacific Division
Los Angeles
41 26 12 3 55 108 90
Arizona
41 21 16 4 46 116 125
Vancouver
42 16 16 10 42 102 118
Anaheim
40 17 16 7 41 77 97
San Jose
39 19 18 2 40 109 108
Calgary
40 19 19 2 40 105 124
Edmonton
42 17 22 3 37 104 125
Note: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
Friday’s games
Anaheim 4, St. Louis 3, SO
Boston 4, New Jersey 1
Carolina 4, Columbus 1
Chicago 3, Buffalo 1
Colorado 5, Nashville 3
Tampa Bay 3, Edmonton 2
Saturday’s games
St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 1, SO
Washington 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, OT
Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 0
Pittsburgh 3, Montreal 1
Ottawa 2, Boston 1, OT
Carolina 4, Columbus 3, OT
San Jose 7, Toronto 0
Minnesota 2, Dallas 1
Arizona 4, Nashville 0
Tampa Bay 3, Vancouver 2, OT
Sunday’s games
Buffalo at Winnipeg
Ottawa at Washington
Colorado at Chicago
New Jersey at Minnesota
Detroit at Anaheim
Florida at Edmonton
Monday’s games
Boston at N.Y. Rangers
San Jose at Calgary
Florida at Vancouver
Detroit at Los Angeles
Nashville
0 0 0—0
Arizona
0 1 3—4
Second Period—1, Arizona, Vermette 6
(Doan, Rieder), 3:35 (pp).
Third Period—2, Arizona, Rieder 9
(Hanzal), :55. 3, Arizona, Rieder 10 (Ekman-Larsson, Vermette), 17:37 (en). 4,
Arizona, Duclair 12, 19:46.
Missed Penalty Shot—Duclair, Ari, 2:13
first.
Shots on Goal—Nashville 14-5-7—26.
Arizona 11-9-9—29.
Power-play opportunities—Nashville
0 of 3; Arizona 1 of 2.
Goalies—Nashville, Hutton 3-2-1 (28
shots-25 saves). Arizona, Domingue 6-22 (26-26).
A—12,345 (17,125). T—2:27.
Dallas
Chicago
St. Louis
Minnesota
Colorado
Nashville
Winnipeg
Saturday
Blues 2, Kings 1 (SO)
St. Louis
0 1 0 0—2
Los Angeles
0 1 0 0—1
St. Louis won shootout 2-1
Second Period—1, Los Angeles, Kopitar
11 (Lucic), 9:54. 2, St. Louis, Pietrangelo 3
(Tarasenko, Lehtera), 12:33.
Shootout—St. Louis 2 (Steen G,
Tarasenko NG, Lehtera NG, Fabbri NG,
Shattenkirk NG, Jaskin NG, Brouwer G),
Los Angeles 1 (Kopitar NG, Carter NG,
Gaborik G, Toffoli NG, Pearson NG, Brown
NG, Lecavalier NG).
Shots on Goal—St. Louis 3-4-6-3—16.
Los Angeles 7-9-9-2—27.
Power-play opportunities—St. Louis 0
of 2; Los Angeles 0 of 4.
Goalies—St. Louis, Elliott 6-4-4 (27
shots-26 saves). Los Angeles, Quick 239-2 (16-15).
A—18,413 (18,230). T—2:47.
Wild 2, Stars 1
Minnesota
0 2 0—2
Dallas
0 0 1—1
Second Period—1, Minnesota, Carter 4
(Haula, Stoll), 3:34. 2, Minnesota, Vanek
13 (Coyle), 11:20.
Third Period—3, Dallas, Ja.Benn 25
(Sharp, Spezza), 16:47 (pp).
Shots on Goal—Minnesota 6-15-4—25.
Dallas 11-8-16—35.
Power-play opportunities—Minnesota
0 of 1; Dallas 1 of 2.
Goalies—Minnesota, Dubnyk 18-11-4
(35 shots-34 saves). Dallas, Niemi 16-8-4
(25-23).
A—18,532 (18,532). T—2:34.
Hurricanes 4,
Blue Jackets 3 (OT)
Carolina
1 2 0 1—4
Columbus
0 1 2 0—3
First Period—1, Carolina, Nestrasil 5
(Lindholm, Hanifin), 10:09 (pp).
Second Period—2, Carolina, Versteeg
6 (E.Staal, Faulk), 1:27. 3, Carolina, Liles
3 (Nordstrom, J.Staal), 7:32. 4, Columbus,
Atkinson 13, 15:28 (sh).
Third Period—5, Columbus, Wennberg
4 (Saad, Savard), 4:23. 6, Columbus, Anderson 1 (Rychel, Dubinsky), 11:54.
Overtime—7, Carolina, J.Staal 10
(Slavin), 2:45.
Shots on Goal—Carolina 10-10-7-3—30.
Columbus 5-10-8-1—24.
Power-play opportunities—Carolina 1
of 4; Columbus 0 of 2.
Goalies—Carolina, Ward 13-11-4 (24
shots-21 saves). Columbus, Korpisalo 14-1 (30-26).
A—1 (18,144). T—2:36.
Capitals 4, Rangers 3 (OT)
Washington
1 1 1 1—4
N.Y. Rangers
0 0 3 0—3
First Period—1, Washington, Ovechkin
23, 19:45 (pp).
Second Period—2, Washington, Williams 12 (Schmidt), 3:56.
Third Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Lindberg 11 (D.Moore, McDonagh), 5:54. 4, N.Y.
Rangers, Hayes 7 (McDonagh, Brassard),
9:48. 5, N.Y. Rangers, Stalberg 6 (Yandle,
Hayes), 13:11. 6, Washington, Backstrom
13 (Williams, Niskanen), 19:54.
Overtime—7, Washington, Ovechkin
24 (Schmidt), 1:25.
Shots on Goal—Washington 8-8-141—31. N.Y. Rangers 8-10-7-1—26.
Power-play opportunities—Washington 1 of 3; N.Y. Rangers 0 of 3.
Goalies—Washington, Holtby 27-4-2
(26 shots-23 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 18-11-4 (31-27).
A—18,006 (18,006). T—2:35.
Flyers 4, Islanders 0
N.Y. Islanders
0 0 0—0
Philadelphia
0 2 2—4
Second Period—1, Philadelphia, Raffl
6 (Couturier, Read), 1:27. 2, Philadelphia,
Medvedev 3 (Read, Del Zotto), 8:33.
Third Period—3, Philadelphia, Read 6
(Streit, Laughton), 10:58. 4, Philadelphia,
Couturier 9 (Gudas, Raffl), 15:14.
Shots on Goal—N.Y. Islanders 2-8-10—
20. Philadelphia 11-10-10—31.
Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Islanders 0 of 3; Philadelphia 0 of 5.
Goalies—N.Y. Islanders, Halak 10-8-3
(31 shots-27 saves). Philadelphia, Mason
9-10-5 (20-20).
A—19,874 (19,537). T—2:25.
Scoring leaders
Through Jan. 9
GP
43
44
44
42
43
42
Patrick Kane, Chi
Jamie Benn, Dal
Tyler Seguin, Dal
Erik Karlsson, Ott
Vladimir Tarasenko, StL
Taylor Hall, Edm
3 tied with 40 pts.
G
23
25
24
9
24
16
A PTS
37
60
28
53
27
51
36
45
20
44
25
41
Calendar
Jan. 12 — USHL/NHL Top Prospects
Game at Omaha, Neb.
Jan. 28 — CHL/NHL Top Prospects
Game at Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jan. 28-Feb. 1 — NHL All-Star break.
Jan. 30 — All-Star skills competition at
Nashville, Tenn.
Jan. 31 — All-Star Game at Nashville,
Tenn.
Lightning 3, Canucks 2 (OT)
Tampa Bay
1 0 1 1—3
Vancouver
1 0 1 0—2
First Period—1, Tampa Bay, Killorn 7
(Kucherov, Namestnikov), 3:41. 2, Vancouver, Baertschi 7 (Horvat, Weber),
15:24 (pp).
Third Period—3, Tampa Bay, Filppula
5 (Stralman, Callahan), 12:20. 4, Vancouver, Horvat 6 (Hutton, Biega), 17:10.
Overtime—5, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 16
(Namestnikov, Stralman), 3:51.
Shots on Goal—Tampa Bay 6-9-17-3—
35. Vancouver 8-7-5-3—23.
Power-play
opportunities—Tampa
Bay 0 of 4; Vancouver 1 of 2.
Goalies—Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 5-40 (23 shots-21 saves). Vancouver, Markstrom 5-5-4 (35-32).
A—18,335 (18,910). T—2:37.
Penguins 3, Canadiens 1
Pittsburgh
0 2 1—3
Montreal
0 1 0—1
Second Period—1, Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 9 (Kessel, Malkin), 7:18 (pp). 2,
Montreal, Subban 2 (Markov, Plekanec),
10:39. 3, Pittsburgh, Rust 1 (Bonino, Dumoulin), 14:12.
Third Period—4, Pittsburgh, Fehr 5,
19:50 (en-sh).
Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 12-12-8—
32. Montreal 5-12-17—34.
Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh
1 of 4; Montreal 0 of 4.
Goalies—Pittsburgh, Fleury 15-11-3
(34 shots-33 saves). Montreal, Condon
12-10-3 (31-29).
A—21,288 (21,287). T—2:34.
G ERRY BROOME /AP
Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward, right, defends against the Blue
Jackets’ Jared Boll during Saturday’s game in Raleigh, N.C. Carolina
won 4-3 in overtime.
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Scoreboard
Playoffs
Wild-card Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 9
Kansas City 30, Houston 0
Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16
Sunday, Jan. 10
Seattle (10-6) at Minnesota (11-5)
Green Bay (10-6) at Washington (9-7)
Divisional Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 16
Kansas City (12-5) at New England
(12-4)
Minnesota, Washington or Green Bay
at Arizona (13-3)
Sunday, Jan. 17
Seattle, Green Bay or Washington at
Carolina (15-1)
Pittsburgh (11-6) at Denver (12-4)
Saturday
Steelers 18, Bengals 16
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
0
6
9
3—18
0
0
0 16—16
Second Quarter
Pit—FG Boswell 39, 2:27.
Pit—FG Boswell 30, :33.
Third Quarter
Pit—FG Boswell 34, 10:09.
Pit—Bryant 10 pass from Roethlisberger (pass failed), 5:02.
Fourth Quarter
Cin—Hill 1 run (Nugent kick), 13:57.
Cin—FG Nugent 36, 5:12.
Cin—Green 25 pass from McCarron
(run failed), 1:50.
Pit—FG Boswell 35, :14.
A—63,257.
Pit
Cin
First downs
21
19
Total Net Yards
369
279
Rushes-yards
29-167
24-91
Passing
202
188
Punt Returns
2-8
2-34
Kickoff Returns
1-16
2-50
Interceptions Ret.
1-35
1-0
Comp-Att-Int
20-36-1
23-41-1
Sacked-Yards Lost
4-38
3-24
Punts
7-41.9
6-42.5
Fumbles-Lost
2-1
5-3
Penalties-Yards
10-142
8-79
Time of Possession
30:37
29:23
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing—Pittsburgh, Todman 11-65,
Toussaint 17-58, Bryant 1-44. Cincinnati,
Hill 12-50, Bernard 6-28, McCarron 5-9,
Burkhead 1-4.
Passing—Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger
18-31-0-229, L.Jones 2-5-1-11. Cincinnati,
McCarron 23-41-1-212.
Receiving—Pittsburgh, Brown 7-119,
Bryant 5-29, Toussaint 4-60, Wheaton
2-23, Miller 2-9. Cincinnati, Green 5-71,
Eifert 5-58, M.Jones 4-32, Hill 3-27, Sanu
3-17, Bernard 2-2, Burkhead 1-5.
Missed field goals—None.
Chiefs 30, Texans 0
Kansas City
Houston
7
6
7 10—30
0
0
0
0— 0
First Quarter
KC—Davis 106 kickoff return (Santos
kick), 14:49.
Second Quarter
KC—FG Santos 49, 12:50.
KC—FG Santos 49, 7:06.
Third Quarter
KC—Conley 9 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), 4:35.
Fourth Quarter
KC—Ware 5 run (Santos kick), 14:56.
KC—FG Santos 33, 3:59.
A—71,800.
KC
Hou
First downs
18
14
Total Net Yards
314
226
Rushes-yards
37-141
25-114
Passing
173
112
Punt Returns
4-34
0-0
Kickoff Returns
1-106
0-0
Interceptions Ret.
4-35
1-0
Comp-Att-Int
17-22-1
15-34-4
Sacked-Yards Lost
3-17
3-24
Punts
4-45.3
5-45.6
Fumbles-Lost
0-0
2-1
Penalties-Yards
5-52
4-29
Time of Possession
34:25
25:35
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing—Kansas City, Ware 16-67,
A.Smith 5-27, West 8-26, Davis 4-12,
A.Wilson 2-11, Daniel 2-(minus 2). Houston, Blue 17-99, Grimes 4-15, Prosch 1-2,
Hunt 1-0, Hoyer 1-(minus 1), Watt 1-(minus 1).
Passing—Kansas City, A.Smith 17-221-190. Houston, Hoyer 15-34-4-136.
Receiving—Kansas City, Kelce 8-128,
Maclin 3-29, A.Wilson 2-9, Conley 1-9,
West 1-9, Hammond Jr. 1-3, Sherman 13. Houston, Hopkins 6-69, Griffin 3-29,
Grimes 2-12, Strong 1-17, Shorts III 1-5,
Washington 1-3, Fiedorowicz 1-1.
Missed field goals—None.
Calendar
Jan. 16-17 — AFC and NFC divisional
playoffs.
Jan. 24 — AFC and NFC championship
games.
Jan. 31 — Pro Bowl at Honolulu.
Feb. 7 — Super Bowl at Santa Clara,
Calif.
Feb. 23-29 — NFL Combine, Lucas Oil
Stadium, Indianapolis.
March 7 — Deadline for clubs to designate franchise or transition players, 4
p.m. EST.
March 9 — Trading period and free
agency for 2016 begins, 4 p.m. EST.
March 20-23 — Annual league meeting, Boca Raton, Fla.
April 22 — Deadline for restricted free
agents to sign offer sheets.
April 28-30 — NFL Draft, Chicago.
Steelers pull out improbable win
On verge of victory, Bengals
implode when tempers flare
BY WILL GRAVES
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Ben Roethlisberger
couldn’t throw. Antonio Brown couldn’t stand
without help.
And in the end, it didn’t matter. The Pittsburgh Steelers are heading to Denver after
the Cincinnati Bengals did what they always
seem to do this time of year: they imploded.
Spectacularly.
Chris Boswell kicked a 35-yard field goal
with 14 seconds remaining as Pittsburgh
somehow pulled out an 18-16 victory in an —
really, just pick whatever synonym for “ugly”
that works — AFC wild-card game Saturday
night.
Pittsburgh (11-6) moved into field goal position thanks to consecutive 15-yard penalties
on the Bengals, one on linebacker Vontaze
Burfict and another on cornerback Adam
Jones. Burfict dropped his shoulder and hit a
defenseless Brown in the helmet as the All-Pro
receiver came across the middle, and Jones
lost his cool after getting into it with Steelers
assistant coach Joey Porter when Porter came
onto the field as Brown was being tended to by
trainers.
Boswell drilled his fourth field goal of the
game on the next snap to give the Steelers
their first playoff victory since the 2010 AFC
championship.
“We won the game, that’s all that matters,”
Roethlisberger said.
Pittsburgh bolted off the field without so
much as shaking hands while the Bengals
vented their frustration after easily the most
painful of their eighth straight postseason
losses. Jones took to Instagram calling out
Porter, a post Jones later deleted.
Cincinnati might want to do the same after
somehow losing despite rallying from a 15point deficit to have the lead and the in Pittsburgh territory and the lead with 1:30 to go.
Then the Bengals turned into ... the
Bengals.
Hill was stripped of the ball by Ryan
Shazier while trying to run out the clock. The
Steelers recovered at the Pittsburgh 9 and
Roethlisberger and his aching right shoulder
returned for a last-gasp drive. Unable to pass
with any real authority, he still managed to
get the Steelers near midfield with 22 seconds
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The Steelers’ Martavis Bryant makes a 10-yard touchdown reception while upside down
during Saturday’s AFC wild-card playoff game against the Bengals. Pittsburgh won 18-16.
to go when he threw high to Brown in Cincinnati territory.
“It’s hard to put into words,” said Hill.
“Words don’t do anything at this point. It’s on
me. I take full blame for it.”
He had plenty of help from two of his volatile teammates, both with a history of questionable decision-making.
Burfict, whose sack of Roethlisberger sent
the quarterback to the locker room, lowered
his shoulder as Brown landed. The linebacker
earned a personal foul. Jones compounded
the problem when he lost his cool while jawing with Porter, easily putting Boswell within
field goal range after Cincinnati’s eighth —
and final — flag of a ghastly night that ended
with an unthinkable collapse.
“We destructed on ourselves,” Bengals
coach Marvin Lewis said.
Roethlisberger finished 18-for-31 for 229
yards and a touchdown in rainy conditions.
Jordan Todman and Fitzgerald Toussaint
combined for 123 yards rushing filling in for
injured DeAngelo Williams. Brown caught
seven passes for 119 yards but was also diagnosed with a concussion.
AJ McCarron put together an improbable
comeback after Martavis Bryant’s somersaulting touchdown grab gave the Steelers a 15-0
lead heading into the final quarter.
Cincinnati (12-5) had seized momentum
completely, something that seemed near impossible after running back Gio Bernard
was knocked unconscious by Shazier and
fumbled late in the third quarter, a hit that
seemed to ratchet up a game that was already
contentious.
“It was a really emotional game, I’m not
surprised,” Shazier said. “They seen the dam
breaking and their emotions got to them.”
Chiefs shut out Texans to get shot at Patriots
BY K RISTIE R IEKEN
Associated Press
HOUSTON — After 22 years
without a playoff victory, the Kansas City Chiefs were determined
not to give up the lead this time.
The Chiefs had enough points
to win after jumping ahead 7-0 in
the first 11 seconds, and they used
relentless pressure, five turnovers and a ball-control offense
to dominate the Houston Texans
30-0 in the wild-card round of the
NFL playoffs on Saturday.
They were especially cognizant
of not letting up after blowing a
28-point lead in a loss to the Colts
in their last playoff appearance in
2013.
“What happened to us a couple
years ago, everybody remembers
that even the coaches included, so
our entire mentality is about fin-
ishing,” quarterback Alex Smith
said. “The mentality doesn’t
change.”
They finished off the Texans
early, and they had the hometown
fans booing by the second quarter. Texans quarterback Brian
Hoyer had the worst game of his
career with four interceptions
and a fumble.
Houston’s defense kept the
Texans close in the first half, but
J.J. Watt left with an injury in the
third quarter, Jadeveon Clowney
never even put on his jersey and
the Chiefs were able to close the
game out in the second half.
The Chiefs extended their
NFL-best winning streak to 11
games and will face New England
on Saturday.
“We wanted to come in and dominate,” Chiefs safety Eric Berry
said. “Right now we are locked in
and ready for next week.”
On the opening kickoff, Knile
Davis got three good blocks
around the 10-yard line and then
simply outran the rest of the defenders for the 106-yard kickoff
return score, the second-longest
kickoff return TD in postseason
history.
“It was a huge deal, man. It set
the tempo,” Davis said. “It quieted everybody, kind of made everybody relax.”
The defense took over after
that, forcing Hoyer into a fumble
and a three of his career-high
four interceptions before halftime to help the Chiefs (12-5) take
a 13-0 lead.
“I made some bad decisions
that really hurt the team,” Hoyer
said.
Houston coach Bill O’Brien
said he never considered bench-
ing Hoyer, but backup Brandon
Weeden told a different story,
saying he was warming up late in
the game.
“We had talked about me going
in there with Brian,” Weeden
said. “Brian wanted to finish the
thing out. I don’t blame him.”
Smith threw a touchdown pass
late in the third and Spencer
Ware added a 5-yard TD run on
the first play of the fourth quarter
to make it 27-0.
Travis Kelce, who also had
more than 100 yards receiving in
the first meeting with the Texans
this year, had another big day,
finishing with eight receptions
for 128 yards.
The victory breaks a streak of
eight straight playoff losses by
the Chiefs and is their first postseason win since beating the Oilers in Houston on Jan. 16, 1994.
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Last Tigers-Tide
clash launched
Alabama dynasty
BY R ALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press
The plan was for a Clemson
coming out party.
The Tigers had finished strong
in 2007 and entered the 2008
season with a Top 10 ranking. It
seemed like the perfect time for
the Tigers to take on a marquee
Southeastern Conference opponent at an NFL stadium in a nationally televised game.
Turns out it was Nick Saban
and Alabama that made the statement in the Georgia Dome.
Coming off a 7-6 season, the
Crimson Tide crushed No. 9
Clemson 34-10 and Nick Saban’s
Alabama dynasty was born.
“I didn’t expect that type of
outcome,” said former Alabama
quarterback and current ESPN
and SEC Network analyst Greg
McElroy. “Most people didn’t expect that type of outcome. When
Coach Saban was able to come to
us after the game and say, ‘Look
at the hard work you put in and
look at the fruits of your labor,’
that allowed us to really have
a perspective that we can beat
anybody we played if we do what
we’re supposed to do in the week
leading up.”
Alabama went on to play for the
SEC championship that season
and the Tide has done nothing
but contend for national championships since. The loss led to
changes at Clemson that ended
up putting the Tigers on the path
to playing for a national championship seven years later.
Saban and the Tide try to make
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No. 1 Clemson (14-0)
vs. No. 2 Alabama (13-1)
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it four titles in nine seasons Monday night in Glendale, Ariz., when
they face No. 1 Clemson (14-0)
again, this time in the College
Football Playoff title game.
Saban came to Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
with great fanfare after a short
stint with the Miami Dolphins.
Alabama had spent years trying
to recreate the Bear Bryant era
with only scattered success.
The 10 years directly before
Saban was hired were particularly frustrating. Only twice did
Alabama win more than seven
games, and four times the Tide
finished with a losing record.
The Tide went through five head
coaches.
Saban’s first year was not much
to get excited about. The Tide
went 7-6, with a four-game losing streak to end the regular season that included a home lose to
Louisiana-Monroe.
McElroy said some of the upperclassmen in 2007 were not
quite ready to do the work the
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Alabama coach Nick Saban reacts after a first quarter Leigh Tiffin field goal against Clemson during their
football game in Atlanta on Aug. 30, 2008. At right is Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson (14).
Alabama defeated Clemson 34-10. The Tide will try to make it four titles in nine seasons Monday night
when they face No. 1 Clemson again, this time in the College Football Playoff title game.
new coach demanded.
“The talent to a certain extent
wasn’t overwhelming, but let’s be
honest, Nick Saban is demanding,” McElroy said. “To the point
where it can wear you out from
time to time. The thing that’s fun,
what makes it fun is you win.”
McElroy said the true turning point for the program was
Alabama’s 30-27 victory against
Colorado in the Independence
Bowl to end ‘07.
Then came Clemson and a
dominant performance. Alabama
outgained the Tigers more than
2-to-1 and did not allow an offensive touchdown.
While that last meeting be-
tween the Tigers and Tide was
just the beginning for Alabama,
it was the beginning of the end
for then-Clemson coach Tommy
Bowden.
By midseason, Bowden was out
and wide receivers coach Dabo
Swinney was elevated to run the
program.
In a sense, that game was the
start of something big for the Tigers, too. In nine and a half seasons under Bobby Bowden’s son,
the Tigers had become so synonymous with inconsistency the
term ‘Clemsoning’ was coined to
describe a disappointing and unexpected loss.
Under Swinney, Clemson has
won at least 10 games each of the
last five seasons. The charismatic
coach has improved recruiting,
helping lure 5-star prospects like
quarterback Deshaun Watson and
receiver Sammy Watkins away
from SEC schools, installed an
up-tempo spread offense and has
taken a top-to-bottom approach
to building the program similar
to Saban’s.
Seven years since the last Alabama-Clemson game, both programs are as strong as they have
ever been. On Monday night at
the University of Phoenix Stadium, either Alabama adds to its
dynasty or Clemson culminates
its climb to the top.
Veteran LBs keep Clemson defense formidable
BY PETE I ACOBELLI
Associated Press
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson’s defense
looked ready to take a big step backward
after losing eight starters from its No. 1
unit. Coordinator Brent Venables knew,
though, his few returnees such as linebackers Ben Boulware and B.J. Goodson, would
have a huge say in keeping the defense
playing at a national championship level.
Goodson leads the team with 146 tackles
with Boulware right behind at 132. They’ve
combined for nine sacks and four interceptions — and becoming the hard hitting soul
of the nation’s No. 1 team. The Tigers (14-0)
face No. 2 Alabama for the national championship on Monday night in Arizona.
Safe to say, Clemson would not have
come this far without the consistent play of
its linebackers.
“It has helped a lot,” Venables said.
The Tigers led the country in defense
last year, allowing 260 yards a game. They
were powered by a fiercesome front four
led by defensive end and first-round NFL
draft pick Vic Beasley. Clemson also lost
linebacker Stephone Anthony, a first-round
pick of the New Orleans Saints.
“We knew we had a good first group,”
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “We
knew we’d have to get some of the young
guys to grow up.”
That task fell to Boulware and Goodson.
“We obviously lost a lot of guys on the
front and the back end,” Boulware said.
But “I knew the leadership and the maturity of the guys we have now. So I think it
was more outside of Clemson who thought
there was going to be a drop off. We knew
from the get-go that we’d be fine.”
Goodson is a 6-foot-1, 250-pound fifthyear senior who showed his big play potential last year with three recovered fumbles
as a part-time starter. He remained around
the ball at his middle linebacker spot, collecting two more fumbles this year to go
with his two interceptions.
Before defensive tackle Carlos Watkins
stopped Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer on a two-point conversion to
preserve Clemson’s 24-22 win last October,
Goodson had an interception and pounced
on a fumble to halt two fourth-quarter
drives by the Fighting Irish.
“I call him Mr. Everything because he
does everything,” Clemson defensive end
Shaq Lawson said.
If Goodson is poised and in position,
Boulware is a frenetic player who’s volume
always goes up to 11. He’s had seven pass
breakups, the most of Clemson’s linebackers. He’s also usually around the ball, blitzing past opposing lineman to get near the
quarterback.
Boulware had 11 tackles and a sack in
Clemson’s 37-17 win over No. 4 Oklahoma
at the Orange Bowl to advance to the title
game.
“We just got to showcase our talents,”
Goodson said. “That’s what we’re witnessing right now.”
Clemson’s defense has steadily molded
itself into a formidable group. The Tigers
ended the season ranked seventh nationally in the Football Bowl Subdivision and
have provided the perfect complement to
an offense that has struck for 500 or more
yards in 10 straight games.
Have there been lapses? Certainly.
Clemson saw an 18-point lead shrink to
37-32 in a win over rival South Carolina to
close the regular season, then a week later
in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game
had a 19-point lead over North Carolina
dwindle to 45-37 in the final period.
Boulware said Venables, in his fourth
season guiding Clemson’s defense, worked
hard to correct the errors over the nearly
four-week break between the ACC championship and the Orange Bowl. The results
were obvious, Boulware said.
Clemson held Oklahoma to a season-low
67 yards rushing after the Sooners had run
for 232 or more yards in each of their previous seven games.
Alabama presents another challenge with
Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry in
the backfield and quarterback Jake Coker
directing a potent passing attack.
“We’ll be ready to compete,” Goodson
said. “It’ll be fun.”
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It is indeed. Ask Auburn, Michigan State,
Notre Dame, LSU and just about anybody
else who’s had to try since Saban’s run of
domination began in 2008, his second season in Tuscaloosa.
Look beyond the question of whether
Saban can bring a fourth national title back
to Tuscaloosa in Monday night’s game with
Clemson. The more notable topic might be,
when will this annual run of title contention end already? That may depend on how
much longer the 64-year-old Saban sticks
around.
It’s been two years since he won a national championship, after all. It only seems
like an eternity for a program that had
collected three of four through 2012 while
going 97-12 over the last eight seasons, easily the most wins in the FBS during that
span. Boise State is second with 90.
Saban does have the task each season of
battling the big heads and stamping down
any sense of entitlement among his players.
Sometimes, he’s more successful — like
this season — than others.
“Whatever has been accomplished in the
past certainly doesn’t have anything to do
with what the future holds,” Saban said.
“The future is really in front of our team
and our players all the time.”
He sticks to his famed “Process” — a
blend of fundamentals, focus and psychology covering everything from recruiting
to offseason conditioning. It’s worked for
three national titles at Alabama and the
2003 crown at LSU.
With a win over the Tigers, Saban could
join fellow Alabama icon Bear Bryant as
the only major college coach to win five national titles.
Offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin was
on the staff of two national championship
teams under Pete Carroll at Southern California, so he has an idea of what it takes even
if he so far hasn’t been able to translate that
as a head coach at USC or Tennessee.
“You can’t compete all the time like this
without a system, without a process, whatever that is,” Kiffin said. “Pete Carroll
used to say that anyone can do it one time,
but if you’re going to have a championship
program you have to do it again and again
and again. That’s the real sign.
“Here we’re in the middle of a dynasty
because of the process with different players and different coaches. He’s had a number of coaching changes. It all goes back to
coach Saban and his philosophy, and the
players buy into it.”
The latest coaching change comes with
defensive coordinator Kirby Smart leaving to take over the Georgia program after
the championship game. Saban has already
hired Jeremy Pruitt.
The far bigger talent defection comes on
the field.
Once again, the Tide will likely lose a
number of high NFL draft picks early, potentially including juniors like Heisman
Trophy winner Derrick Henry and defensive linemen A’Shawn Robinson and Jonathan Allen.
No problem, really. The backups at all
three positions include former five-star recruits for a program that has won six of the
last eight national recruiting titles according to Rivals.com.
“If there’s a catnip for recruits, it’s winning national championships,” said Mike
Farrell, national recruiting director for Rivals. “You can be consistent in recruiting
five- and four-star athletes to the program
if you’re in the discussion every year as a
national championship contender.
“And Nick Saban is that guy. A down year
is a two-loss season.”
ROB SCHUMACHER, THE A RIZONA REPUBLIC/AP
University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. is seen decorated on Friday for the college football championship game on Monday
between Clemson and Alabama.
Deciding factors
Championship matchups that will decide Alabama-Clemson showdown
BY R ALPH D. RUSSO
The Associated Press
N
o. 1 Clemson and No. 2 Alabama
only have one loss between them
this season. So asking opposing
coaches how to beat the Tigers
and Crimson Tide is a difficult question.
There are two things everyone can agree
upon about the College Football Playoff
national championship on Monday night in
Glendale, Ariz:
Beating Alabama’s defense will take a
special performance.
Clemson’s Deshaun Watson is capable
of such a performance.
Here’s a look at some of the key matchups that will help determine which team
wins the national championship.
Matchup
Clemson QB Deshaun Watson
vs.
Alabama OLB/DEs
Dillon Lee, Denzel Devall,
Ryan Anderson, and Tim Williams
The Heisman Trophy finalist is the type
of dual threat that can flummox even the
best defenses, and
his mobility will be
crucial to breaking
down the seemingly
impenetrable
wall
that is Alabama’s
front seven. Trying to
move Alabama’s big
and sturdy linemen
such as All-America
A’Shawn Robinson,
Jarran Reed and
Watson
Jonathan Allen off the
line scrimmage consistently is just not happening.
“The more you can spread them out the
better opportunity you have of creating a
seam in the defense to run the ball,” Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said.
Don’t expect a ton of north-south power
running by Clemson. The Tigers are more
likely to attack at the edges of Alabama’s
defense.
“You’ve got to have some imagination
and some smoke-and-mirror mentality for
sure,” said Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze,
whose team handed Alabama its only loss
this season.
There are two ways to do that: Before
the snap with receivers and backs going in
motion and formations that draw defend-
ers away from the
ball and toward the
sideline. Or, after the
snap with option or
packaged plays that
allow the quarterback
to react to a defense
and either run, hand
off, or pass.
“Anything
that
maybe can distract a
Anderson
defensive end or one
of those linebackers
just for a moment,
because the reality is double-teams, their
down front guys are so good, the doubleteams very seldom even get off of them
and get to another guy unless there is
something that freezes them for a second,”
Freeze said.
As the games have become more important for Clemson, Watson has been used
as a ball carrier more. He has surpassed
20 carries in each of the last three games,
including a season-high 24 for a seasonbest 145 yards in the Orange Bowl victory
against Oklahoma.
“Most defenses out there are not designed to stop a guy like Deshaun Watson
and what he can do on his own,” said Cole
Cubelic, former Auburn offensive lineman
who now works as an analyst for ESPN and
hosts a radio show in Huntsville, Alabama.
“(Clemson) cannot be afraid to let that kid
get hit. You need him to be dynamic.”
Clemson will also need Watson’s wheels
to escape an Alabama pass rush that has
registered 50 sacks.
Matchup
Alabama RB Derrick Henry
vs.
Clemson LBs Ben Boulware,
B.J. Goodson and
S Jayron Kearse
After going away from its Heisman Trophy winner to beat Michigan State, expect Kiffin to lean on
Henry in the national
championship game.
Clemson would be
better off in a highscoring game, with
lots of possessions for
its up-tempo offense.
Alabama wants to
avoid that.
“Ball control. ManHenry
age field position. Put
your defense in as many good spots as you
can,” Cubelic said.
The Tigers also have a talented and
tough defensive line, led by defensive end
Shaq Lawson. Plus, their top-notch corners
allow Venables to get safeties, like the 220pound Kearse, involved in stopping the
run.
“The traditional running game against
them is very hard,” Clawson said. “They
give you very few run-friendly boxes.”
Clemson has been susceptible to long
runs. The Tigers have allowed 22 runs of
20-plus yards, tied for 83rd in FBS. Those
are often the result of over pursuing, sloppy tackling and taking bad angles. The Tigers can’t let a 5-yard run by Henry turn
into a 35-yarder.
Matchup
Alabama WR Calvin Ridley
vs.
Clemson CB Mackensie Alexander
The freshman Ridley is Alabama’s
next great receiver, following Julio Jones
and Amari Cooper.
Against
Michigan
State, the Tide took
advantage of a secondary that had no
match for Ridley
(eight catches for
138 yards and two
touchdowns).
Alexander doesn’t
get quite as much
publicity as some
of the nation’s other
Alexander
shutdown
corners,
but make no mistake:
He is as talented as any of them.
“He’s good enough to say let’s not mess
with it on that side,” said former Syracuse
coach Scott Shafer, who is now the defensive coordinator at Maryland.
That explains why Alexander had no interceptions this season. The other corner,
Cordrea Tankersley, led the team with five
picks and is no slouch, either. Tigers defensive coordinator Brent Venables leans on
his cover guys.
“You’re going to have to win against
man coverage,” Wake Forest coach Dave
Clawson said.
Alabama offensive coordinator Lane
Kiffin is excellent at creating advantageous matchups for play-makers. It will be
interesting to see if Kiffin attempts to get
Ridley away from Alexander.
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Tide keeps
a rollin’
Saban, Alabama
showing no signs
of slowing down
Alabama head coach Nick Saban
has the chance to win his fourth
national championship since
taking over the Crimson Tide
in 2007 when No. 2
Alabama faces off with
No. 1 Clemson on
Monday night.
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BY JOHN ZENOR
Associated Press
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
he five-star recruits keep rolling into Alabama, replenishing
the roster every time the NFL
prospects funnel out.
Sounds simple, right? Alabama’s formula for success goes way beyond that revolving door of talent but it’s a pretty good
starting point. Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide show no signs of slowing down either on the field or on the recruiting trail
in a program where anything short of a
national title is all but treated as a failure.
“They just have outstanding players
and they’re supremely coached,” said
Gene Stallings, who coached Alabama to
the 1992 national championship. “That’s a
tough combination to beat.”
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Heisman Trophy-winning running back
Derrick Henry works through drills during
practice on Monday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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