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BY TOM VANDEN BROOK
USA Today
Months after deadline for evaluation, military transgender policies unchanged
BY DAN L AMOTHE
The Washington Post
M
onths before Defense
Secretary Ash Carter
said the Pentagon
would take steps toward allowing transgender people to serve
openly in the military, Army Staff Sgt.
Patricia King last year became who she
believes is the first openly transgender
member of the infantry. And while official Pentagon policy still forbids openly
transgender personnel, her commanders
have been supportive, she said. King even
purchased a female dress service uniform, anticipating that she would be able
to wear it soon.
‘ If there was consensus
on it, yeah, we would have
done it. But obviously
there are different views
from different officials in
the services.
’
Peter Levine
Pentagon’s acting personnel chief
“I made a decision that owning that uniform was important to me, and I believe
that our leadership is going to do the right
thing,” she said.
But four months after a deadline Carter
set for a working group to finish evaluating the issue, transgender servicemembers are still waiting. Officials say
disagreements remain in the Defense
Department about how to move forward,
suggesting that the Pentagon isn’t close to
wrapping up the review, let alone instituting any changes.
Peter Levine, who recently took over as
the Pentagon’s acting personnel chief, said
that Carter remains committed to pursuing the change but added that it will likely
take “months, but not large numbers of
months” more to finalize details.
“If there was consensus on it, yeah, we
would have done it,” Levine said. “But obviously there are different views from different officials in the services.”
SEE TRANSITION ON PAGE 5
Army Sgt. Shane Ortega shaves at home at Wheeler Army Air Field in Wahiawa, Hawaii. Ortega, a transgender man who was
forced to buy a women’s dress uniform for a meeting about transgender policy issues, said that the levels of discrimination
and ignorance in the military about transgender people are huge.
K ENT NISHIMURA /For The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Citations for
two Navy Crosses and more than
100 Silver Stars awarded secretly
to Navy SEALs and a Marine for
“extraordinary heroism” in the
past 15 years reflect the fierce
battles fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to records
obtained by USA Today.
The Navy decorated the Marine
for saving the lives of civilians
in Benghazi in September 2012.
Several SEALs earned theirs for
intense combat in Ramadi, others
for rescuing hostages in Afghanistan. The Navy also honored the
“American Sniper,” the late SEAL
Chris Kyle.
Almost one in five of the military’s most prestigious honors
have been awarded privately since
America went to war in 2001 because the missions were classified.
The Medal of Honor is the highest
award, followed by service crosses
and the Silver Star. In February,
the Pentagon announced plans to
review more than 1,000 of the nation’s top awards bestowed since
9/11 to determine if they should be
upgraded.
SEE MEDALS ON PAGE 6
Almost one in five
of the military’s most
prestigious honors
in all the services
have been awarded
privately since
America went to war
in 2001 because
the missions were
classified.
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“Those spouses out there,
they didn’t sign on the
dotted line, but they
signed a contract of the
heart.”
— Col. Lorna Mahlock, commander
of Marine Air Control Group 18,
on the contributions of Marines’
spouses who were able to become
Marines for a day during the unit’s
second annual Spouses Warrior Day
on Friday
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BEIJING — China on Monday
said landlocked Afghanistan has
expressed support for Beijing’s
stance on the South China Sea
dispute, the latest country from
outside the region to line up behind China’s calls for bilateral
talks on the issue.
The Foreign Ministry said
Afghanistan Chief Executive
Abdullah Abdullah made the
statement in a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing that also touched on security
cooperation along their border in
China’s volatile western region of
Xinjiang.
“Our Afghan counterparts expressed their gratitude for China’s
long-term support over the years,
and also said they support China’s
position on the South China Sea
issue and support China’s efforts
to resolve the South China Sea
issue through bilateral channels
and through peaceful means such
as negotiation and consultation,”
the deputy director general of the
ministry’s department of Asian
Affairs, Hou Yanqi, told reporters
following the talks.
Hou said Li also expressed
China’s willingness to help with
Afghanistan’s national reconciliation process, to provide assistance for projects including the
construction of low-cost housing
and to boost imports of Afghan
agricultural projects.
China has been seeking support
from friendly nations for its bilateral approach to settling South
China Sea territorial disputes,
largely to counter efforts by the
U.S., the Philippines and others
to challenge China’s claim to virtually the entire sea and its creation of new islands out of coral
reefs. Russia so far has been the
most prominent nation to publicly
endorse China’s position.
China has refused to participate
in international arbitration on the
matter brought by the Philippines
and has undermined efforts to
K IM KYUNG -HOON /AP
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, rear right, and Afghanistan Chief
Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah, rear left, applaud Monday
as Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, left, and Chinese
Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchange documents during a signing
ceremony at the Great Hall of the People.
approach the issue multilaterally
through the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Hou said Abdullah pledged Afghanistan’s support for China in
its fight against extremist groups
blamed for attacks in Xinjiang
and elsewhere in the country.
Beijing has long provided
Kabul with financial support, and
Chinese companies have invested
in Afghan mining projects that
hope to exploit the country’s estimated $3 trillion in mineral and
petrochemical deposits.
Beijing’s state-run China Metallurgical Group struck a $3 billion
deal in 2008 to develop a mining
town at Mes Aynak with power
generators, road and rail links,
and smelting facilities. Workers
built a residential compound, but
were pulled out because of security concerns. President Ashraf
Ghani’s government says it is determined to finish that project.
The sector is badly hampered
by a lack of expertise in exploration, extraction and processing,
along with inadequate infrastructure and the country’s chronic
insecurity. A bitter feud between
Abdullah and Ghani also has
hobbled the Kabul government,
leaving interim ministers in critical positions while the U.S. ally
struggles to confront lawlessness,
corruption and the Taliban’s resilient and perhaps expanding
insurgency.
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Navy NCO guilty in Japan sex assault case
BY ERIK SLAVIN
Stars and Stripes
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — A
senior chief petty officer was sentenced to
179 days in the brig after a military jury
convicted him Friday of sexually assaulting a woman in an off-base residence.
Khoi Pham, a culinary specialist assigned to Naval Supply Fleet Logistics Center Yokosuka, also received a dishonorable
discharge and a reduction in grade to E-3
following his conviction for sexual assault
and making false official statements.
The assault took place in February 2015,
Timothy Bilecki, Pham’s civilian defense
counsel, said during a phone interview
Monday.
The victim is a proprietor in an area
known as the Honch, a collection of bars
and clubs across the street from Yokosuka
Naval Base.
Pham and the victim had been drinking
that night when they saw each other in The
Honch, and Pham walked the woman to
her nearby home, Bilecki said.
Navy prosecutors argued during the trial
last week that Pham, who is married, had
sexual intercourse with the woman while
she was too drunk to consent, according to
Bilecki.
The defense argued that the accuser had
only three or four beers and consented to
sex acts, but that intercourse never took
place.
The government submitted physical evidence that found Pham’s sperm on a vaginal swab. However, Bilecki disputed U.S.
Naval Hospital Yokosuka’s handling of the
DNA evidence, arguing that the hospital
used broken equipment that could have resulted in contaminated swabs.
Bilecki said the defense was surprised by
the verdict, and that it intends to appeal.
“We don’t believe the evidence showed
that [she] was too intoxicated to provide
consent,” Bilecki said.
Navy officials stood by the verdict on
Monday.
“A jury of military members heard the
arguments, saw the evidence and found
him guilty of the charges,” Naval Forces
Japan spokesman Cmdr. Ron Flanders
said.
A dishonorable discharge is now an automatic consequence of a conviction under
Article 120, which guides Uniform Code of
Military Justice procedures for rape and
other sex crimes, Bilecki added.
As part of the discharge, Pham would be
reduced in grade to E-1 after serving his
sentence if further appeals fail.
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US, S. Korea, Japan plan
joint anti-missile exercise
BY K IM GAMEL
Stars and Stripes
SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S., South
Korea and Japan will hold their first joint
anti-missile exercises next month to better
counter the threat from North Korea, the
Defense Ministry here said Monday.
It was the latest sign that worries over
the North’s nuclear weapons program are
pushing the allies closer together. China
urged restraint, calling on all parties to
remain calm.
Tensions spiked this year since the North
staged its fourth nuclear test and fired a
long-range rocket, moves that prompted a
new round of tougher U.N. economic sanctions. Despite the punishing measures,
Pyongyang attempted several other missile
launches, including one from a submarine.
The trilateral defensive drills will take
place about June 28 on the sidelines of Rim
of the Pacific, or RIMPAC, international
naval exercises in Hawaii, said South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense. The exercises will focus on detecting and tracking
missiles, not interception, although ships
equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile
defense system will be involved, said a
ministry official who spoke on condition of
anonymity.
U.S. Forces Korea did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
The planned drills stem from a 2014
intelligence-sharing pact among the three
countries, the official said. The U.S., South
Korea and Japan also agreed last month
during trilateral talks in Seoul to strengthen cooperation on implementing sanctions
against the North.
North Korea’s traditional ally, China,
signed onto the U.N. sanctions but also opposed talks between Washington and Seoul
about deploying a sophisticated U.S. missile defense system in the South.
“The situation on the Korean peninsula
is still sensitive and complex,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said
Monday in Beijing, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. “We hope that
all parties will remain cool-headed and refrain from taking actions that may escalate
tensions.”
About 28,500 U.S. servicemembers are
stationed in South Korea, and the two allies regularly conduct joint training. The
North sees the drills as rehearsals for an
invasion.
On Monday, North Korea accused South
Korean authorities of trying to improve
A HN YOUNG -JOON /AP
A mock Scud-B missile of North Korea, right, and other South Korean mock missiles
are displayed Monday at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea.
their ability to stage a surprise pre-emptive
attack against its nuclear and missile facilities with, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
“The South Korean authorities should
drop a foolish daydream and stop at once
reckless provocations to escalate the tension and ignite a nuclear war,” it said, quoting a commentary in the Rodung Sinmun
newspaper.
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Navy could resume port calls to New Zealand this year
BY SETH ROBSON
Stars and Stripes
The U.S. Navy appears close to
resolving a three-decade dispute
with New Zealand over a ban on
port calls by ships carrying nuclear weapons.
The Royal New Zealand Navy
has invited the U.S. to send a ship
to its anniversary celebrations in
November, Secretary of the Navy
Ray Mabus said in a statement
Monday.
The Navy hasn’t visited New
Zealand since a left-wing government refused a port call request
by the guided-missile destroyer
USS Buchanan in 1985 on grounds
that the U.S. would neither confirm nor deny whether its vessels
carried nuclear weapons.
Mabus, on his third visit to the
Antipodes to meet with military
and civilian officials, said the U.S.
is considering the offer but gave
no timetable for a decision.
“Our bilateral military cooperation with New Zealand is strong,
and we continue to partner in humanitarian assistance, disaster
relief and peacekeeping support
operations,” he said.
The rift between the allies has
been long-lasting — New Zealand was left out of a free trade
agreement between the U.S. and
Australia in 2004 — but in recent
years there have been signs of
rapprochement.
New Zealand law requires the
prime minister to be satisfied visiting ships aren’t carrying nuclear arms.
The Navy removed nuclear
weapons from its surface ships
after the Cold War, but continues
a policy of neither confirming
nor denying its vessels’ nuclear
capabilities.
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
The USS Buchanan visits Sydney in 1985. The guided-missile
destroyer was refused a port call request by New Zealand that year
over the nation’s concern about the presence nuclear weapons.
New Zealand Prime Minister
John Key, a neighbor and golfpartner of President Barrack
Obama in Hawaii, told the New
Zealand Herald newspaper last
week he could be satisfied, depending on the type of vessel the
U.S. opted to send if it accepted
the invitation.
New Zealand is part of the
“Five Eyes” signals intelligencesharing group with the U.S.,
Britain, Australia and Canada,
and hosts U.S. Air Force planes
en route to Antarctica. The New
Zealand Defence Force has sent
troops to Afghanistan, and Kiwi
soldiers are in Iraq training locals to take on the Islamic State.
Marines restarted training in
New Zealand after a ban on joint
exercises was lifted by the U.S. in
2010, and Kiwi ships have docked
in Hawaii during the past two
Rim of the Pacific exercises.
“Our relationship with New
Zealand, across the board, continues to grow, and we discuss
and cooperate on a wide range
of issues at the highest levels,”
Mabus said.
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PHOTOS
BY
M ATTHEW M. BURKE /Stars and Stripes
Marine Corps spouses Yun Smith, left, and Jena Haycock take aim Friday in an Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Training simulator at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in
Okinawa, Japan, during the second annual Marine Air Control Group 18 Spouses Warrior Day.
Spouses train like Marines for day in Okinawa
BY M ATTHEW M. BURKE
Stars and Stripes
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION
FUTENMA, Okinawa — The MV-22 Osprey seamlessly switched from helicopter
to airplane mode as it zipped over the picturesque Okinawan coast toward the sea.
Infrared images danced, and gauge needles rose and fell.
Moments later, a Navy amphibious assault ship steamed into view. Switching back to helicopter mode, the Osprey
smoothly approached and made an uneventful landing on the deck.
Lisa Aguilera smiled as she exited the
cockpit and approached her fellow Marine
Corps spouses. The Los Angeles native
— wife of Marine Sgt. Obed Aguilera —
had some help making the tricky landing
from an actual Osprey pilot sitting behind
the other set of controls, but not bad for
her first time in Marine Corps Air Station
Futenma’s MV-22 Osprey simulator.
Aguilera was one of 41 Marine spouses taking part in the second Marine Air
Control Group 18 Spouses Warrior Day
on Friday. Spouses from five MACG-18
squadrons became Marines for a day to
gain a better understanding of what their
Marines go through. They donned their
spouses’ flak jackets and Kevlar, traveled in a Marine 7-ton vehicle, ate Meals,
Ready to Eat and participated in a long list
of activities — some fun, like the simulators; some cringe-worthy, like donning
hazardous material suits in the scorching
Okinawan heat.
“This has definitely given me some insight into what they go through — how
heavy their gear is,” Aguilera said. “This
Marine spouses wearing flak jackets and Kevlar arrive for training Friday at Marine
Corps Air Station Futenma in the back of a Marine Corps 7-ton vehicle.
was a great experience. I’m very happy we
got to do this.”
The event — put on by the unit’s family resource officers — has quickly grown
in popularity, with participation doubling
from its inaugural run last year.
The day began early, with a lesson in
Marine Corps martial arts. They went
through a grueling obstacle course and
donned hazmat suits, called Mission Oriented Protective Posture gear, that protect
against chemical, biological, radiological
or nuclear attacks.
When they were done, they sat down for
a lunch of MREs. Designed for function,
the rations have improved significantly
over the years and can sit for long periods
of time without going bad, but gourmet
they are not.
“Those MREs,” Aguilera said. “They’re
horrible.”
The spouses were sweaty and a bit tired
by the time they reached the base’s simulators first a CH-53E Super Stallion and
then the Osprey.
Like the Osprey simulator, the Super
Stallion trainer featured the interior of
the bird, complete with all the sticks, controls and gauges. A single screen wrapped
around the front of the aircraft, and Okinawa came to life courtesy of four overlapping projectors. Computers in another
room could add adverse weather conditions, change the time of day or night and
add ships to land on.
Marine Super Stallion pilot Capt. Ryan
McGonigle said one of the ways to teach
people to fly the heavy-lift helicopter is to
put them cold in the simulator to get accustomed to the controls and the way everything works. McGonigle assisted the
spouses as they “flew” around the southern Japanese island.
“I have more appreciation for what a day
is like for them,” said Marine spouse Alicia
Cleaver. “This is a fantastic opportunity for
spouses to walk in their Marines’ boots.”
For the final event of the day, the spouses
picked up rifles and pistols and took some
shots in Indoor Simulated Marksmanship
Training, which uses video screens to
replicate the range. Some had never shot
pistols, and others struggled with the simulators’ realistic recoil.
“Those spouses out there, they didn’t
sign on the dotted line, but they signed
a contract of the heart,” said MACG-18
commander Col. Lorna Mahlock. “What
they do is not easy. This gives them some
context. It also serves as a way to connect
[them].”
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MILITARY
US return to Philippines
stirs some mixed feelings
BY EMILY R AUHALA
The Washington Post
SUBIC BAY, Philippines —There’s a
taunt that hangs over this former U.S.
naval base, looming over kids who look a
little different, shadowing single moms:
“Left by the ship.”
The term is used to shame the offspring
of U.S. servicemen and local women, to tell
them that they don’t belong here. That they
were left behind.
Nearly 25 years ago, Philippine lawmakers expelled the U.S. warships that had
docked here for almost a century, vowing
to “unchain” the country from its colonial
past, promising a fresh start. The American flag was lowered. Ships set sail. But
the U.S. legacy lived on.
For decades, tens of thousands of children of U.S. military men and Filipinas,
known as Filipino Amerasians, have been
fighting not to be forgotten.
In 1982, Congress passed the Amerasian
Immigration Act allowing the children of
U.S. soldiers and Asian women in Vietnam,
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and South Korea
to immigrate. Filipinos were excluded.
In the 1990s, abandoned children tried to
sue the U.S. government, seeking $68 million for 8,600 minors ignored by fathers
serving with the Navy and Marines. When
that did not work, the community backed a
bill extending the Amerasian Act to include
the Philippines and Japan — to no avail.
Now China’s claims to most of the South
China Sea put the Philippines back at the
heart of U.S. strategy in Asia. A new defense pact will see the U.S. military build
facilities at five Philippine bases, and more
ships will be stopping by Subic Bay.
Their return is renewing questions about
what the United States owes Filipino Am-
erasians — and stoking worries there will
be more neglected children when the ships
leave harbor once again.
“Why would we welcome them back?”
asked Brenda Moreno, 49, a Filipino Amerasian who was all but abandoned when
she was a child. “They will just create new
babies that they will not support.”
During the height of the Vietnam War,
Subic Bay harbored dozens of U.S. ships,
and some 30,000 Filipinos worked at the
base. Thousands of others made their living
in the city that surrounds it, Olongapo.
Young women from across the Philippines moved to find work in the wartime
boomtown, finding jobs on base, or work
in the lines of “girly bars” that served as a
gateway to the commercial sex trade.
It was during that era that Moreno’s
mother, who worked in a bar, became
pregnant. Moreno knows very little about
her parents except that her Filipina mother gave her up when she was young. She
told Moreno that her father was a black
serviceman.
Moreno was mocked for looking different from other children, teased for her dark
skin and curly hair. “I wanted to change my
blood,” she said. “I thought if I could change
my blood, I might be accepted as Filipino.”
Enrico Dungca, a photographer based in
New York, grew up in Angeles City, outside
Clark Air Base, in the late 1970s and early
1980s, and remembers his Amerasian
neighbors being called “bye, bye, Daddy,”
“half-dollar” or “souvenir.”
A disproportionate number of Filipino
Amerasians live on the margins of the margins, enduring high rates of poverty and ill
health, even by Philippine standards. Often
abandoned as infants or raised by young
single mothers, many have struggled to
find their feet as adults.
JES A ZNAR /For The Washington Post
Brenda Moreno, a Filipina Amerasian who was all but abandoned when she was a
child, questions why her country should welcome the return of U.S. servicemembers.
Moreno returned to Subic at 23 to find
work and entered the sex trade. She found
a sense of purpose volunteering at a sexworker-led rights group, Buklod, but never
gave up hope of connecting with her father.
That quest is a touchstone for many here
who treasure even the smallest fragments
of information — a name, military branch
or faded picture. Some are simply curious
about where they came from. Others are
looking for a lifeline or a way out.
Online message boards and Facebook
groups such as “Amerasian Children Looking For Their American GI Fathers” are
full of young Filipinos seeking information
about fathers they never met. Occasionally,
a former military man posts requests for
information about the woman and child he
left behind.
Those who locate their fathers don’t always get the welcome or recognition they
crave. To be eligible for U.S. citizenship,
the Philippine-born children of Americans
must get paternity certifications by the
time they turn 18. Those separated from
their fathers when the base closed in 1992
are no longer eligible.
When Washington and Manila started
talking about the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, many advocates for
Filipino Amerasians saw an opportunity.
So far, though, there has been no talk of a
deal.
Many people in Subic and Olongapo
welcome the cash that comes with visiting
ships, but some are wary of the U.S. return.
Alma Bulawan, president of Buklod, the
rights group, said they are bracing for a
rise in abandoned and neglected kids.
In her decades in Subic, she has seen an
endless stream of ship and sailors. The one
constant: “They leave.”
Transition: Transgender servicemembers in limbo as DOD decides policy
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Levine added: “We’re going to
work through that ... and we’re
going to do it expeditiously so that
we can do it in this administration. But it’s important that we
not only do it but do it right.”
The military is already in the
middle of a historic transition
allowing women to serve in all
combat roles. And the DOD is
grappling with transgender rights
as the issue has gained attention
in other parts of the country.
The Pentagon’s decades-old
policy considers transgender
people to be sexual deviants, allowing the military to discharge
them. The services — and later,
Carter — decided last year to
move that discharge authority to
higher levels in the military, making it more difficult to force out
transgender people. The lack of a
new policy, however, continues to
create complicated situations for
transgender servicemembers.
In one case, Army Sgt. Shane
Ortega, a transgender man, was
required last summer to go to a
uniform shop where he was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii with a senior enlisted soldier
to obtain a female dress uniform
in order to meet Army officials at
the Pentagon to discuss transgen-
‘ We’re going to work through (a policy on
transgender servicemembers) ... and we’re
going to do it expeditiously. ... But it’s
important that we not only do it but do it
right.
’
Peter Levine
acting personnel chief at the Defense Department
der policy concerns, according to
Ortega and Army officials.
Ortega said the incident showed
a “lack of leadership and a lack
of human compassion” and demonstrated the level of discrimination and ignorance in the military
about transgender people.
“I had to go through this experience at a public time ... and try on
this uniform in a public space and
basically be humiliated because
everyone in the space is going to
go, ‘Why is this male soldier trying on this female uniform?’ ”
Wayne Hall, an Army spokesman, said that service policy
dictated that “the appropriate
uniform” for Ortega was the
female dress uniform because
he enlisted as a woman in 2009.
Ortega and Hall said the requirement was eventually dropped and
that Ortega was allowed to wear
a more unisex camouflage utility
uniform to the meeting.
The Palm Center, an independent think tank that researches
issues of sexuality, has assessed
that there are about 12,800
transgender servicemembers in
the military. That’s down from
15,500 due to reductions in the
overall size of the military in recent years, said Aaron Belkin, the
center’s director.
Dozens of transgender servicemembers have come out to their
units, but the Pentagon hasn’t
released directives for genderspecific issues such as uniforms,
grooming and bathroom usage.
The services, for example, have
some dress uniforms that include
skirts. They also allow different
hair lengths for men and women
and have different physical fitness requirements for them. For
example, the Marine Corps requires pull-ups for men but not
for women. The Army requires
push-ups instead of pull-ups but
fewer for women.
Some transgender servicemembers also have had transfers
to new units put on hold while the
Pentagon sorts out its plan. They
are also waiting to see how the
military will address health care
coverage. The Pentagon does not
currently cover hormone treatment for gender dysphoria, the
medical term for wanting to transition genders, but it published a
notice in the Federal Register in
February that it is considering
covering nonsurgical care.
Another issue that remains unsettled is how long the Defense
Department would require for
transgender people to wait after
transitioning before being allowed
to join the military, according to
a defense official who spoke on
the condition of anonymity. The
Army and Marine Corps advocated requiring 24 months, while the
Navy and Air Force thought 12
were sufficient. The former undersecretary for personnel, perhaps trying to negotiate the land
services down, recommended
requiring a six-month wait, the
defense official said.
It’s unclear if the military has
resolved whether to help pay the
cost of surgery for transgender
servicemembers who request it.
Carter, speaking to Air Force
Academy cadets Thursday, said
the only barriers that should prevent someone from serving are
“practical issues that we can’t
work through,” and he predicted
that the Pentagon will soon wrap
up its work on the change.
A transgender airman, Staff
Sgt. Logan Ireland, said, “You’ve
got to look at the bigger picture
in the military. We have bigger
issues and world problems going
on. It will change, and we’ll have
full gender inclusion.”
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Medals: Advocate for review says
it’s about ‘keeping faith with troops’
FROM FRONT PAGE
PHOTOS
BY
M ASSOUD HOSSAINI /AP
Above: Participants march in a massive anti-government protest in Kabul, Afghanistan,
on Monday, demanding the rerouting of a planned power line. Below: Security forces
try to maintain order at the demonstration.
Kabul locked down for
massive demonstration
BY K ARIM SHARIFI
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Tens of thousands of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazaras
marched on Monday through downtown
Kabul, demanding the government reroute
a planned power line through their povertystricken province so they can get more access to electricity.
The massive protest reflected widespread
dismay with the administration of President
Ashraf Ghani.
Concerns that the protest could turn violent prompted the police to block off roads
leading into the city’s central commercial
district. Stacked shipping containers prevented the marchers from reaching the
presidential palace.
A November rally by Hazaras protesting
the beheadings of members of their minority by militants had turned violent.
Most of Kabul’s shops were shuttered as
armed police fanned out. Authorities restricted the protest organizers to a specific
route that would bypass the palace.
The rally passed without major incidents,
but the protest underscored the political
crisis facing Afghanistan as Ghani becomes increasingly isolated amid a stalled
economy, rising unemployment, and an escalating Taliban insurgency, now in its 15th
year.
Since taking office in 2014, Ghani has
made little progress in keeping promises to
bring peace and prosperity to the country.
Instead, his administration seems to lurch
from one crisis to another.
The U.S. Embassy closed its consular
section and warned Americans to limit
their movement within Kabul, cautioning in
an emergency message that “even demon-
strations intended to be peaceful can turn
confrontational and escalate into violence.”
Other embassies, the U.N. compounds and
nongovernment organizations were also
locked down.
The blockade frustrated Muhammad
Yaqoob, 40, who was trying to get his pregnant wife to hospital. “My wife is sick, and
I am trying to reach the hospital, but I can’t
because everywhere they have blocked the
roads,” he said.
Daud Naji, a protest leader, said the Hazaras were demanding access to a planned
multimillion-dollar regional electricity
line. The so-called TUTAP line is backed
by the Asian Development Bank with the
involvement of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The
original plan routed the line through Bamiyan province, in the central highlands,
where most of the country’s Hazaras live.
But that route was changed in 2013 by the
previous Afghan government.
Leaders of Monday’s rally say the rerouting is evidence of bias against the Hazara
minority, which accounts for up to 15 percent of Afghanistan’s estimated 30 millionstrong population. They are considered the
poorest of the country’s ethnic groups and
often complain of discrimination.
Bamiyan is poverty stricken, though it is
largely peaceful and has potential as a tourist destination. Hazaras, most of whom are
Shiite Muslims, were especially persecuted
during the extremist Sunni Taliban 19962001 regime.
Afghanistan is desperately short of power,
with less than 40 percent of the population
connected to the national grid, according to
the World Bank. Almost 75 percent of electricity is imported.
The secret Navy Crosses and Silver Stars
are among those under review, along with a
similar number issued for the Army’s classified commando missions
“Awards and medals have a sacred role
in military culture,” said Brad Carson, the
Pentagon’s former civilian chief for personnel who advocated for the review. “They
are a small ribbon symbolizing enormous
sacrifice. It is important that we recognize
servicemembers for their heroism.
“And after 15 years of war, it is appropriate to review awards to make sure we applied the criteria correctly and uniformly.
That’s especially true when so many missions were necessarily classified and
awards given quietly. That’s why we pushed
this review. It is about keeping faith with
the troops.”
The citations that accompanied the two
Navy Crosses and 112 Silver Stars begin as
form letters under letterhead from the secretary of the Navy. The Pentagon withheld
names to protect the servicemember and
his family, and deletes details that could affect national security.
“The President of the United States takes
pleasure in presenting the NAVY CROSS
or SILVER STAR to …” The rank of the
SEAL or Marine follows, but the names are
redacted in the documents. For those killed
in action, the president “takes pride” in
awarding the medal.
Next, in less than a page, come astounding feats of bravery, selflessness and will.
Two Navy Crosses, second only to the
Medal of Honor, are among the Navy documents. The first, on Aug. 9, 2009, a Navy
SEAL, his name blacked out like others in
the report, was leading a small unit when
their base came “under an intense coordinated attack” in Afghanistan. A sniper
wounded the unit’s medic, and the SEAL
braved direct gunfire to drag the man to
safety.
At the same time, a rocket-propelled grenade smashed through the wall of the unit’s
arsenal, sparking a major fire. “With a catastrophic explosion imminent,” the SEAL
evacuated the base. He then ran repeatedly
into the arsenal to haul out crates of explosives to uncover the “smoldering and undetonated warhead, which he removed with his
bare hands.” He left the compound, making
several trips to dump explosives in a nearby
river, all the while being shot at.
“His repeated heroic actions and decisive leadership, under fire, saved the lives
of United States soldiers and several Afghan elders and prevented the sole hardened structure in the village from being
breached,” the citation reads.
Missing from the citations is any mention
of SEAL Team 6 and its mission into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011.
President Barack Obama did provide the
commandos with the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor for a military unit.
The Navy did not rule out the possibility
that individual medals were awarded.
Benghazi
The most tersely worded citation accompanied the only other Navy Cross, awarded
to a Marine gunnery sergeant. His heroism
on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, came amid
the chaos and controversy that surrounds
the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other
Americans.
It’s possible, through the citation and congressional reports on Benghazi, to sketch
out his actions that night. The citation refers
to his actions “in support of Overseas Contingency Operations in Sept. 2012” but does
not say where. The Navy has acknowledged
that it did award a Navy Cross to the Marine
for his actions that night.
A House intelligence committee report
on Benghazi refers to a two-person detachment of military personnel and other security personnel who flew from Tripoli that
night to rescue Americans. They arrived at
the besieged compound, and within 11 minutes were under attack by mortars, rocketpropelled grenades and small-arms fire.
The attack killed two and severely wounded
two others. The Marine helped treat the
wounded, repel attackers and organize the
evacuation.
Ramadi
In 2006, U.S. troops and al-Qaida terrorists scratched and clawed in brutal streetby-street fighting in Ramadi, in western
Iraq. “It was pretty intense urban combat,”
Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland recalled
in an interview.
The SEALs, MacFarland said, would
venture deep behind enemy lines, setting
up “hide sites” where
small teams would
await inevitable attacks
Awards
on the outposts. Setand
ting up a hide site was
relatively simple, he
medals
said. Getting out, once
have a
discovered, often by
children sent as scouts,
sacred
could be deadly.
role in
On Sept. 29, an insurgent threw a gremilitary
nade on the roof where
culture.
Michael Monsoor and
Brad Carson two fellow SEALs had
Pentagon’s set up to protect anformer civilian other unit. Monsoor,
chief for who had a clear exit,
personnel chose instead to leap on
the grenade, sacrificing his life for those of
his colleagues, according to the citation for
the Medal of Honor awarded to him posthumously. The lieutenant, who fought through
“heavy enemy fire” to retrieve Monsoor and
his wounded SEALs, was awarded a Silver
Star in secret for the mission.
In all, from spring to fall in 2006, SEALs
earned at least 14 Silver Stars.
Monsoor’s fellow SEAL, Chris Kyle, no
doubt fired fewer rounds. But the secret Silver Star citation that belongs to him shows
that in Ramadi from April 24 to Aug. 27,
2006, “he personally accounted for 91 confirmed enemy fighters killed and dozens
more probably killed or wounded.”
“Chris Kyle, among them, racked up
some pretty heavy-duty numbers there,”
MacFarland said.
‘
’
Hostage rescue
In February, Obama awarded another
SEAL, Senior Chief Petty Officer Edward
Byers, the Medal of Honor for his acts of
courage in shielding an American doctor from his Taliban captors while bullets
zipped through the hideout. It was a rare
public acknowledgement of SEALs’ heroism, made even more unusual in that Byers
belonged to SEAL Team 6.
The details of the night of Dec. 8, 2012,
were sketched out in the citation for Byers:
Taliban gunmen cut down the lead SEAL
in the team that assaulted the compound,
Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas Checque,
mortally wounding him. Byers followed
Checque, tackled one of Dr. Dilip Joseph’s
captors and held another with his bare
hands, allowing another SEAL to kill the
militant. Byers then leaped atop Joseph to
protect him from gunfire.
Their names remain secret, but the citations reveal that three teammates of Byers
and Cheque received Silver Stars for their
“bold initiative, undaunted courage, and
complete dedication to duty.”
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US, others want to arm Libyan government
BY
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Associated Press
VIENNA — The United States and other
world powers say they are ready to supply
Libya’s internationally recognized government with weapons to counter the Islamic
State and other militant groups gaining
footholds in its lawless regions.
The world powers aim to push for exemptions to a U.N. arms embargo imposed
on Libya to keep lethal arms away from Islamic extremists and rival militias vying
for power. In a communique obtained by
The Associated Press, the U.S., four other
permanent U.N. Security Council members
and the more than 15 other nations participating in the talks say they are “ready to
respond to the Libyan government’s requests for training and equipping” government forces.
“The Government of National Accord
has voiced its intention to submit appropriate arms embargo exemption requests to
the UN Libya Sanctions Committee to procure necessary lethal arms and materiel
to counter UN-designated terrorist groups
and to combat Da’esh throughout the country,” said the communique, using an alternate name for the Islamic State. “We will
fully support these efforts while continuing to reinforce the UN arms embargo.”
The communique was to be issued at the
end of the Libya talks Monday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and top officials
from more than 20 other nations have been
conferring on ways to strengthen Libya’s
fledgling government. The aim is to give
the internationally recognized administration more muscle in fighting Islamic State
radicals and to end its rivalry with a group
to the east claiming legitimacy.
Before the meeting, however, German
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
warned against undue optimism.
“The key question is whether Libya remains a place where terrorism, criminal
human smuggling and instability continues to expand, or if we are able, together
with the government of national unity to
recover stability,” he told reporters ahead
of the meeting. “That, at present, is an open
question.”
The challenges are daunting.
Libya descended into chaos after the toppling and death of Moammar Gaddafi five
years ago and soon turned into a battleground of rival militias battling for powers. More recently, the power vacuum has
allowed Islamic State radicals to expand
their presence, giving them a potential
base in a country separated from Europe
only by a relatively small stretch of the
Mediterranean Sea.
Also worrying for Europe is the potential threat of a mass influx of refugees
amassing in Libya, now that the earlier
route from Turkey into Greece has been
essentially shut down.
In Libya, meanwhile, the U.N.established presidency council on Monday effectively gave the go-ahead for 18
government ministers to start work, even
though they have not received backing
from the parliament.
US envoy: ‘Perverse
caliphate’ shrinking
BY SAM MCNEIL
Associated Press
AP
Iraqi firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a natural gas plant in Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad, that was
attacked by the Islamic State group Sunday.
Islamic State attacks kill 29 across Iraq
BY SINAN SALAHEDDIN
AND SUSANNAH GEORGE
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — The Islamic
State group launched a coordinated assault Sunday on a natural
gas plant north of Baghdad that
killed at least 14 people, while a
string of other bomb attacks in or
close to the capital killed 15 others, Iraqi officials said.
The dawn attack on the gas
plant began with a suicide car
bombing at the facility’s main
gate in the town of Taji, 12 miles
north of Baghdad. Several suicide
bombers and militants then broke
into the plant and clashed with security forces. The dead included
six civilians and eight security
forces; 27 troops were wounded.
The Islamic State-affiliated
Aamaq news agency credited a
group of “caliphate soldiers” for
the attack.
Closed-circuit television images showed as an explosion hit
inside the facility. As flames engulfed the facility and nearby
palm trees, pedestrians were
seen running for cover.
A crowd gathered to watch as
thick, black smoke rose above the
plant, sections of which were left
in ruins. The top of one of the gas-
processing units was blown off.
In a statement, Deputy Oil
Minister Hamid Younis said
firefighters managed to control
and extinguish the fire. He said
technicians were examining the
damage. Hours after the attack,
passers-by inspecting the damage posed for cellphone photos in
front of the ruined complex.
Elsewhere, four separate bomb
attacks left another 15 people
dead and 46 wounded in the fifth
straight day of Islamic Stateclaimed attacks in and around the
Iraqi capital. Since Wednesday,
more than 140 people have been
killed in a spate of bombings in
Baghdad and elsewhere.
The wave of attacks comes as
Iraqi ground forces have achieved
a number of key territorial victories against the extremist group.
In the past month, the Islamic
State has lost a swath of key territory along a supply route in Iraq’s
vast western Anbar province that
the extremists had used to ferry
fighters and supplies between
Iraq and Syria. After losing territory along the Euphrates River
valley, that line has been cut,
according to Iraqi and coalition
officials.
As the Islamic State militants
are pushed back along front lines,
the group is increasingly turning
to insurgency-style terrorist attacks to detract from their losses,
the officials said.
However, despite battlefield successes against the Islamic State,
Iraq’s political leadership is in
disarray as a deepening political
crisis has gridlocked government.
Parliament has not met for more
than two weeks after supporters of
influential Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr stormed Baghdad’s highly
fortified Green Zone. The breach
followed repeated delays to government reform legislation that
lawmakers claimed would fight
Iraq’s entrenched corruption.
“It’s possible that some of the
political unrest in Baghdad has
led (the Islamic State group) to
think that they can somehow stir
up more chaos than usual,” said
Nathaniel Rabkin, managing editor of Inside Iraqi Politics, a political risk assessment newsletter.
“ISIS hopes that somehow if
they just keep up the pressure,
the Iraqi government will at best
collapse or at least become incapable of pursuing a cohesive
approach” to fighting the extremists, Rabkin said, using an alternative acronym for Islamic State.
AMMAN, Jordan — The
Obama administration’s diplomatic point man in the fight
against the Islamic State group
said Sunday that the extremists
have been losing control over territory and that “this perverse caliphate is shrinking.”
Brett McGurk, presidential
envoy to a 66-member antiIslamic State coalition, also told a
news conference that the tide has
turned in the ideological battle
against the extremists.
He described a round-the-clock
anti-Islamic State propaganda
campaign involving companies
such as Facebook and YouTube
and the governments of Jordan,
Malaysia and the United Arab
Emirates.
“For every pro-Daesh Twitter
handle, there are now six calling out its lies and countering its
message,” McGurk said, referring to the Islamic State group by
its Arabic acronym.
U.S. officials said earlier this
year that the military had ramped
up cyberoperations against the
group.
The officials said at the time
that operations include efforts
by U.S. Cyber Command at Fort
Meade, Md., to prevent the group
from using the Internet and social media to communicate and
distribute propaganda aimed at
attracting and inspiring recruits.
In his news conference, McGurk singled out Jordan as an
example of what he called Washington’s “sustainable strategy” of
eschewing boots on the ground
for local, regional and Islamic
forces against Islamic State.
He said Jordan has been
conducting weekly airstrikes
against Islamic State targets
and is involved in intelligencegathering and anti-Islamic State
propaganda.
The Islamic State has suffered
recent military setbacks and lost
territory in both Iraq and Syria.
McGurk said the group is on
the defensive and that “this perverse caliphate is shrinking.”
But as Islamic State militants
are pushed back along front lines,
the group is increasingly turning to insurgency-style terrorist
attacks to keep pressure on the
Iraqi government. Such attacks
have left more than 100 dead in
the past week,
While the Islamic State group
is losing ground in Iraq and Syria,
its global affiliates appear to have
grown in strength in countries
like Libya.
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Schools offer guidance on transgender issues
BY LISA LEFF
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — From
locker rooms and sex education
classes to dress codes and overnight field trips, many U.S. public
schools already are balancing the
civil rights of transgender students
with any concerns that classmates,
parents and community members
might have.
The Education Department
is drawing on those practices to
guide other schools as they work to
comply with the Obama administration’s directive that transitioning children be treated consistent
with their gender identity.
That has been the policy since
2013 of the Arcadia Unified School
District in Southern California.
As part of a settlement with the
federal departments of Justice
and Education that became the
foundation for the national mandate issued Friday, students may
use the bathroom, locker room or
wilderness cabin that corresponds
with their recognized gender outside school, Superintendent David
Vannasdall said.
“This is absolutely not about a
student on a day-to-day basis saying, ‘Today I’m a boy, tomorrow
I’m a girl.’ That has never happened,” Vannasdall said.
“By the time these students are
at a point where they are asking
for our help, they are presenting
in all areas of their life as that
gender.”
The administration had warned
schools before Friday that deny-
ing transgender students access to
the correct facilities and activities
was illegal under its interpretation
of federal sex discrimination laws.
But the new guidance, for the first
time, offers advice for accommodating the privacy needs of nontransgender youngsters.
Citing guidelines adopted by
Washington, New York, the District of Columbia and Atherton
High School in Louisville, Ky.,
the Education Department said
schools could erect privacy curtains in changing areas, permit
all students to make use of singlestall restrooms or work out other
case-by-case arrangements as
long as the burden doesn’t rest exclusively on transgender students.
At least 13 states and the District of Columbia prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender
identity in schools.
Hundreds of school districts,
from Anchorage, Alaska, and Tucson, Ariz., to Fairfax County, Va.,
and Chicago, have adopted protections for transgender students.
Top court is
punting on
birth control
BY M ARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
DANICA C OTO/AP
Jose Hernandez, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, sets up signs outside an event where the Democratic presidential candidate was
scheduled to speak in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday.
Sanders in Puerto Rico amid crisis
BY DANICA COTO
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned
of a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico on
Monday, calling on the U.S. government to support a restructuring of debt in the territory.
Addressing a crowd in San Juan ahead of
the state’s June 5 primary, Sanders called
upon the U.S. Federal Reserve to authorize
emergency loans and to use its authority to
allow for a restructuring. The Vermont senator also said hedge funds that hold a significant portion of the island’s $70 billion public
debt should take what he called a “massive”
haircut as the island continues to default on
multimillion-dollar bond payments.
“They cannot have it all…It is morally unacceptable that billionaire hedge fund manag-
ers have been calling for even more austerity
in Puerto Rico,” he said. “The people of Puerto Rico should not be forced to suffer even
more.”
The island is mired in a decade-long economic crisis and smothered by a public debt
load that the governor has said is unpayable
and needs restructuring.
Sanders said he would alleviate Puerto
Rico’s economic woes in part by rebuilding
local infrastructure to create jobs and would
establish a clean economy by harnessing the
island’s solar and wind resources. He also
called for an independent audit of Puerto
Rico’s debt and said that if any of the debt
violated the island’s constitution, it should be
immediately set aside.
He rejected a proposal by Congress to create a fiscal oversight board to help Puerto Rico
manage its debt, calling it anti-democratic.
“When you establish a federal control board
that says these unelected officials have the
power to make major, major decisions impacting millions of people and they are accountable to nobody … that’s wrong,” he said to
deafening applause.
Sanders said he also would create a clear,
binding referendum to give Puerto Ricans
the chance to determine the island’s political
future.
Some 250 people crowded into Sanders’ first
event, including former Puerto Rico governor
Anibal Acevedo Vila and other supporters
who expressed frustration with Puerto Rico’s
economic situation.
“I never thought the crisis would reach
this level,” said Maria Oliveras, 63, a nutritionist with Puerto Rico’s education department, who added that she found Sanders very
promising.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court rid itself Monday of
a knotty dispute between faithbased groups and the Obama administration over birth control
by asking lower courts to take
another look at the issue in a
search for a compromise.
The justices issued an unsigned, unanimous opinion in a
case over the arrangement devised by the administration to
spare faith-based groups from
having to pay for birth control
for women covered under their
health plans.
The major confrontation over
an element of the Affordable Care
Act ended with a whimper and
with no resolution of the issue the
court undertook to decide.
“The court expresses no view
on the merits of the cases,” the
justices wrote.
The matter almost certainly
would not return to the Supreme
Court until after the 2016 presidential election.
The outcome suggests the
court lacked a majority for a significant ruling and is perhaps
another example of how the justices have been affected by the
death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
In the short term, the government can take steps to make
sure that women covered by the
groups’ health plans have access
to cost-free contraceptives. At
the same time, the groups won’t
face fines for refusing to comply with administration rules
for objecting to paying for birth
control.
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Dems: Benghazi chair omits lawyer’s comments
BY M ATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House Benghazi
committee’s Republican chairman is ignoring statements by his own former lawyer indicating that the U.S. military acted
properly on the night of the deadly Sept. 11,
2012, attacks in Libya, the panel’s Democrats said.
Reps. Elijah Cummings and Adam Smith
said Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., omitted the
lawyer’s comments when he fired back at
the Defense Department for criticizing the
GOP-led investigation into the attacks that
killed four Americans.
Gowdy’s actions, coupled with delays
that have pushed the 2-year-old inquiry
into the heat of the 2016 presidential race,
“have damaged the credibility of the Select
Committee beyond repair,” Cummings and
Smith wrote Sunday in a letter to Gowdy.
Cummings, D-Md., is the senior Democrat on the Benghazi panel; Smith, DWash., is the senior Democrat on the
House Armed Services Committee. He
also serves on the select Benghazi panel.
The criticism by the two Democrats is
the latest volley in an escalating electionyear fight over the Benghazi panel’s actions — or inaction. The panel, created in
May 2014, has not conducted a public hearing since October, when former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton testified.
Democrats call the panel a thinly veiled
excuse for Republicans to criticize Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic
Senators
moving
legislation
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — In a political year notable for its rancor, the
Senate is finding a bit of harmony
in its spending work.
Last week, senators on a 90-to8 vote passed the chamber’s first
spending bill of the year, and this
week the Senate is set to quickly
consider a package of two bills that
would provide spending for veterans, transportation, housing and
military constructions agencies.
A bipartisan deal on funds to
combat the spread of the Zika
virus is set for a vote Tuesday.
Senate Democrats have cautiously embraced the sudden outbreak of bipartisanship, but their
support for spending bills is contingent on Republicans avoiding
any politically motivated “poison
pill” amendments.
The progress in the Senate
doesn’t mean Congress will be unable to avoid having to once again
pass a stop-gap spending bill
to keep the government funded
past Sept. 30. The Senate is also
unlikely to pass all 12 individual
bills, but even completing work on
a handful would mark a stark contrast with the past few years.
Troubles in the House also mean
Congress will likely be forced to
again assemble a large year-end
spending bill. That approach receives critics
presidential nomination. Republicans say
the Obama administration has failed to
produce needed documents or interview
subjects.
U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was
among those who died during the twin assaults nearly four years ago. Previous investigations blamed management failures
at the State Department for a lack of security at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, an issue that has dogged Clinton.
Matt Wolking, a spokesman for the Benghazi committee, called the Democrats’ letter “dishonest” and a waste of time, adding:
“Democrats’ false attacks on legitimate
congressional oversight are proof they’re
nervous about the new information committee investigators have uncovered.”
Cummings and Smith cite comments by
retired Army Lt. Gen. Dana Chipman, who
served as chief counsel for Republicans on
the Benghazi panel from August 2014 until
January.
Chipman “repeatedly commended the
military’s actions on the night of the attacks during closed interviews with Defense Department officials,” Cummings
and Smith wrote.
Chipman, a former judge advocate general for the Army, attended a closed-door
interview with former Defense Secretary
Leon Panetta on Jan. 8.
Chipman told Panetta he was “worried”
that U.S. officials were caught by surprise
during the Benghazi raids, which occurred
on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Still,
Chipman told Panetta: “Nothing could
have affected what occurred in Benghazi,”
IBRAHIM A LAGURI /AP
A man looks at documents at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept.
12, 2012, the day after an attack that killed four Americans.
Cummings and Smith wrote.
The letter from the Democrats comes
after Gowdy sent a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter complaining that a top
Pentagon official had intentionally mischaracterized the House inquiry.
Gowdy said comments by Stephen C.
Hedger, assistant secretary of defense for
legislative affairs, were “riddled with fac-
tual inaccuracies” and did “a disservice to
the public” and employees at the Defense
Department.
Hedger, in an April 28 letter to Gowdy,
expressed frustration with the Benghazi
panel, citing a “crescendo” of costly, duplicative and unnecessary requests, including
a few based on claims made on Facebook
or talk radio.
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In US first, cancer patient in
Mass. gets penis transplant
Associated Press
BOSTON — A cancer patient
has received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday.
Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas
Manning, of Halifax, Mass., received the transplanted penis in
a 15-hour procedure last week.
The organ was transplanted from
a deceased donor.
The New York Times first reported the transplant Monday.
Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, who helped
lead the surgical team, told the
newspaper that normal urination
should be possible for Manning,
64, in a few weeks, with sexual
function possible in weeks to
months.
“We’re cautiously optimistic,”
said Cetrulo, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, adding, “It’s
uncharted waters for us.”
The Times reported that most
of Manning’s penis was removed
amid a battle with an aggressive and potentially fatal penile
cancer.
Manning said he experienced
hardly any pain during and after
the procedure. One serious com-
plication came the day after the
surgery when he was rushed to
the operating room after beginning to hemorrhage. He said his
recovery has been smoother since,
but he still wasn’t ready to take a
close look at the transplant.
Manning, who is single and was
not involved with anyone when
the cancer was discovered, said
the amputation made new relationships impossible.
The donor penis came from
the New England Organ Bank,
which told the newspaper that the
donor’s family wished to remain
anonymous.
SAM RILEY, C OURTESY
OF
M ASSACHUSETTS G ENERAL HOSPITAL /AP
Thomas Manning gives a thumbs-up after being asked how he was
feeling following the first penis transplant in the United States.
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Citizen-scientists:
Uncle Sam wants
you to fight Zika
BY JENNIFER K AY
Associated Press
SUE OGROCKI /AP
Jennifer Parrott, a certified nurse practitioner, works at the Oklahoma Health Sciences Emergency
Department in Oklahoma City on Friday. After initial resistance, Republican leaders in Oklahoma are
moving toward a Medicaid expansion to entice federal dollars under the Affordable Care Act.
In surprising turnabout, Okla.
officials eye Medicaid expansion
BY SEAN MURPHY
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Despite
bitter resistance in Oklahoma
for years to President Barack
Obama’s health care overhaul,
Republican leaders in this conservative state are now confronting something that alarms them
even more: a $1.3 billion hole in
the budget that threatens to do
widespread damage to the state’s
health care system.
So, in what would be the grandest about-face among rightwardleaning states, Oklahoma is now
moving toward a plan to expand
its Medicaid program to bring in
billions of federal dollars from the
Affordable Care Act.
“We’re to the point where the
provider rates are going to be cut
so much that providers won’t be
able to survive, particularly the
nursing homes,” said Republican
state Rep. Doug Cox, referring to
possible cuts in state funds for indigent care that could cause hospitals and nursing homes to close.
Despite furious opposition by
conservative groups, Republican
Gov. Mary Fallin and some GOP
legislative leaders are pushing the
plan, and support appears to be
growing in the overwhelmingly
Republican Legislature. Details
have not been ironed out.
Obama called on states to expand their Medicaid insurance
for low-income residents as part
of the 2014 provision of the health
care overhaul designed to shrink
the population of uninsured
Americans. Most Democratic-led
states did so, along with a handful
of GOP states.
But in Oklahoma, even with 20
percent of its population on Medicaid, it’s been no way, no how.
Until now.
A bust in the oil patch has decimated state revenues, compounded by years of income tax cuts
and growing corporate subsidies
intended to make the state more
business-friendly.
Oklahoma’s Medicaid agency
has warned doctors and other
health care providers of cuts of
up to 25 percent in what
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the
state
pays under
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colossal
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in
system in
Oklahoma,”
Oklahoma. warned
Craig Jones Craig Jones,
presiOklahoma Hospital the
Association dent of the
Oklahoma
Hospital Association, which represents more
than 135 hospitals and health care
systems in the state. “We have
doctors turning away patients. We
have people with mental illnesses
who are going without treatment.
Hospitals are closing, and this is
only going to get worse this summer if the Legislature does not act
immediately to turn this around.”
In the poverty-wracked southeastern corner of the state, where
96 percent of babies in the McCurtain Memorial Hospital are born
to Medicaid patients, most health
care would end, said hospital CEO
‘
’
Jahni Tapley.
“A 25 percent cut to Medicaid
would not put my hospital in jeopardy, because we are already in
jeopardy,” Tapley said. “A 25 percent cut would shutter our doors
for good, leaving 33,000 people
without access to health care.”
Nursing homes have been warning residents that they may be
closing. Asked where she would
go if the Beadles Nursing Home
in the small town of Alva closes,
Jeanie Yohn, 89, said: “I just can’t
imagine.”
Under the proposal, which
would be funded in part with a
$1.50-per-pack tax on cigarettes,
Oklahoma would shift 175,000
people from its Medicaid rolls onto
the federal health exchange created by the Affordable Care Act.
That would make room for adding to Medicaid roughly the same
number of working poor who are
currently uninsured. Participants
would pay nominal premiums and
copays.
The move, by increasing the
number of uninsured people covered, would allow the state to
tap into the extra money offered
under the federal law. Beginning
in 2017, the federal government
would cover 95 percent of the
state’s Medicaid costs, decreasing
to 90 percent of the share in 2020.
Fallin, a former congresswoman who voted against Obama’s
health plan when it came before
the House, argues that the plan
doesn’t amount to expanding
Medicaid because the program’s
rolls don’t grow. Rather, she said,
it “transitions 175,000 Medicaid
enrollees to the private insurance
market.”
MIAMI — The mosquitoes
that can spread Zika are already
buzzing among us. The U.S. government could use some help figuring out exactly where.
No experience is necessary for
what the Department of Agriculture envisions as a nationwide
experiment in citizen-science.
Teenagers already have proven
themselves up to the task in tryouts involving a small number of
high school students and science
teachers.
Now it’s time for the Invasive
Mosquito Project to scale up
and fast, because Zika has been
linked to serious birth defects and
health officials are preparing for
the possibility of small outbreaks
in the United States. But there’s
little money in government budgets to track its spread.
“We don’t have a lot of data —
good, solid data,” said John-Paul
Mutebi, an entomologist with the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
What the USDA is proposing
is the kind of population survey
not seen in the continental United
States since World War II, when
the country eradicated mosquitoborne viruses. In a 1945 film,
the U.S. government encouraged
schoolkids and Scout troops to do
their part in keeping their neighborhoods free from dengue and
yellow fever.
Volunteers now are needed to
collect mosquito eggs in their
communities and upload the data
to populate an online map, which
in turn will provide real-time information about hot spots to help
researchers and mosquito controllers respond.
Some local surveys have been
revived as dengue fever and other
viruses creep back into the country, carried in the blood of travelers and transmitted through
mosquito bites.
But that data hasn’t been centralized, and the gaps are clear to
CDC researchers, whose national maps only roughly show the
possible spread of two diseasecarrying mosquitoes.
The CDC’s maps are based
on historical reports, recent research and surveys sent in February to mosquito control districts
nationwide, but evidence remains
thin for habitat estimates. They
suspect that Aedes aegypti could
carry Zika well beyond the Southeast during the summer, and the
more cold-hardy Asian tiger mos-
quito could be biting into the Midwest and Northeast.
Both species are capable of
spreading Zika, but experts have
considered the Asian tiger less of
a threat for triggering outbreaks
than the Aedes aegypti.
The Invasive Mosquito Project
is coordinated by Kansas-based
USDA entomologist Lee Cohnstaedt, who has explored crowdsourcing as a budget-conscious
way to sample mosquito populations and cites research supporting volunteers’ capabilities for
collecting large-scale data. Now
he’s pinning his hopes for consistent data collection on students
needing to do their homework,
year after year.
He’s thinking big: Participation from a fifth of U.S. schools.
Adapting lesson plans for middle
schools, Scout troops and gardening clubs. Making mosquito surveys as common as public bird
counts for conservation groups.
Turning classroom routines
into a life-long habit of mosquito
vigilance.
Since high school biology
teacher Noah Busch incorporated
the USDA project into his lesson
plans, his students in Manhattan,
Kan., have made the connection
between news reports about Zika
and the mosquito traps they set
near tires or backyard swimming
pools.
“I had more parents afraid of
this project than any of my students,” said Busch, who teaches
protocols for avoiding bites. “The
parents were thinking we were
attracting mosquitoes. No, the
mosquitoes are already there.”
The equipment is nothing more
than brown paper towels and
dark-colored plastic party cups.
Students insert the paper into the
cups, fill the cups two-thirds of
the way with water and place the
cups around their homes. After
about a week, they dry the towels
and examine them for eggs, which
look like tiny specks of dirt.
Classes verify their findings
with the USDA, local researchers
or mosquito control officials before uploading their results to the
project’s website, which is part of
a new central database for all federal citizen-science activities.
In the past, Cohnstaedt could
spend $150 or more per night to
send one employee to trap mosquitoes. Crowdsourcing that effort has “saved a bunch” of money
and “collected better data than
we could have working alone,” he
said in an email.
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Philippine leader is
set to offer Cabinet
posts to insurgents
BY TERESA CEROJANO
Associated Press
NG H AN G UAN /AP
Vendors unfurl a banner from 1969 depicting former Chinese leader Mao Zedong as he “inspects the
great army of the Cultural Revolution” and the slogan “Navigating the seas depends on the helmsman”
at a curio market in Beijing, China, on Monday.
China ignores anniversary
of its Cultural Revolution
BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
BEIJING — Exactly 50 years
ago, China embarked on what
was formally known as the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution,
a decade of tumult launched by
Mao Zedong to revive communist goals and enforce a radical
egalitarianism. The milestone
was largely ignored Monday in
the Chinese media, reflecting
continuing sensitivities about a
period that was later declared a
“catastrophe.”
Authorities have generally suppressed discussion of the violent
events, now a couple of generations removed from the lives of
young Chinese focused on pursuing their own interests in an increasingly capitalistic society.
On May 16, 1966, the ruling
Communist Party’s Politburo met
to purge a quartet of top officials
who had fallen out of favor with
Mao. It also produced a document
announcing the start of the decadelong Cultural Revolution to
pursue class warfare and enlist
the population in mass political
movements.
The start of the Cultural Revolution was not widely known or
understood at the time, but soon
took on an agenda characterized
by extreme violence, leading to
the downfall of leading officials,
factional battles, mass rallies and
the exile of educated youths to the
countryside. It wound up severely
threatening the Communist Party’s legitimacy to rule.
Despite the party’s formal repudiation of the movement five
years after it ended, vestiges of
the Cultural Revolution continue
to echo in China’s authoritarian
political system, the intolerance
of dissent and uncritical support
for the leadership, said veteran
journalist Gao Yu, who was a university student in 1966.
Gao said her initial enthusiasm
for the Cultural Revolution faded
after fanatical young Red Guards
raided her home and accused her
father, a former ranking party
cadre, of disloyalty to Mao. The
violence of the era was impossible
to avoid, she said.
“I saw so many respected
teachers in universities and high
schools get beaten up,” Gao said.
“The movement wasn’t
so much a
The
high-promovement file political
struggle as
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imuniversity student being
prisoned on a
state secrets
charge related to her publicizing
a party document about ideological controls.
Gao and others say cynicism
in Chinese society still lingers
from the Cultural Revolution,
when students were called on to
denounce authority figures, including teachers and even parents. Traditional morals and
philosophy were attacked and
Buddhist temples were defaced
and destroyed.
No official events were held
to commemorate Monday’s anniversary, although neo-Maoists
have been staging private commemorations. Many are motivated by nostalgia for a simpler
time and alienated by a growing
wealth gap brought about by the
government’s pursuit of market
economics and abandonment of
‘
’
the former command economy
that provided jobs and welfare
to its citizens, even amid widespread poverty.
Newspapers monitored in Beijing provided virtually no coverage of the anniversary apart
from small articles mentioning
demand for antiques dating from
the era.
Egged on by vague pronouncements from Mao, students and
young workers clutching their
leader’s famed “Little Red Book”
of sayings formed rival Red
Guard factions starting in 1966
that battled each other over ideological purity, sometimes using
heavy weapons taken from the
military. Few sought to oppose
them given Mao’s approval and
the popularity of slogans such as
“to revolt is justified” and “revolution is not a crime.”
Rising violence later compelled
party leaders to send in the People’s Liberation Army to reassert control as many government
functions were suspended and
long-standing party leaders sent
to work in farms and factories
or detained in makeshift jails.
To put a stop to the violence and
chaos, millions of students were
dispatched to the countryside to
live and work with the peasantry,
among them current President
Xi Jinping, who lived in a cave
dwelling for several years in his
family’s ancestral province of
Sha’anxi.
Much of the country was on a
wartime footing during the period, with Mao growing increasingly feeble and tense relations
with former ally the Soviet Union
breaking out into border clashes.
Radicals allied with the so-called
“Gang of Four,” consisting of
Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, and her
confederates, battled with those
representing the party’s old
guard, who were desperate to end
the chaos in the economy, schools
and government institutions.
MANILA, Philippines — Presumptive Philippine Presidentelect Rodrigo Duterte said Monday
he will reimpose the death penalty, offer Cabinet posts to communist rebels, and move to amend the
constitution to give more power to
the provinces, in some of his first
policy pronouncements since winning last week’s election based on
an unofficial count.
In his first nationally televised
news conference since the May
9 vote, Duterte also said he will
launch a major military offensive
to destroy Abu Sayyaf extremists
on southern Jolo Island.
The announcements, a sharp
departure from current government policy, reflect his brash
campaign pledge to end crime and
corruption in the impoverished
nation in three to six months. Police officials have said the plan is
undoable, and that crime remains
prevalent in Davao city, where
Duterte has served as mayor for
more than 22 years.
The military has been fighting a
decadeslong Marxist insurgency
in the countryside.
Duterte said he would likely offer
the Cabinet posts of environment
and natural resources, agrarian
reform, social welfare, and labor
to the communist rebels.
“They are the most vigilant
group in the Philippines about
labor so they would get it,” Duterte
said.
The move would likely be
strongly opposed by big business
and industry.
Duterte said he would ask Congress to reimpose the death penalty, which has been suspended
since 2006 in the face of staunch
opposition from the dominant
Roman Catholic church.
Duterte also plans to switch to a
federal form of government, aiming to give more power and resources to regions, including the
country’s south, where Davao city
is located.
OFFICE OF THE CITY MAYOR, DAVAO CITY/AP
Presumptive Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, shown
during a courtesy meeting Monday with Japanese Ambassador
Kazuhide Isihikawa, has announced several planned departures from
his country’s previous policies.
British exit from EU seen
as threat to credit ratings
Associated Press
LONDON — A leading credit
ratings agency warned Monday
that a British exit from the European Union could eventually lead
it to downgrade the ratings of EU
countries as well as Britain.
In a report, Fitch Ratings said
a vote for so-called Brexit in the
referendum on June 23 would
weigh on the economies of other
EU countries and increase political risks in Europe.
Fitch has already said that a
vote for Brexit would trigger a
review of Britain’s AA+ rating —
code for a potential downgrade.
Though it said no such action
would be triggered automatically for the remaining 27 countries of the EU, it warned that
“negative actions would become
more likely in the medium term
if the economic impact were severe or significant political risks
materialized.”
The big political worry identified by Fitch is that a British
departure from the EU would
create a precedent for such a
move, possibly boosting the appeal of anti-EU or other populist
parties. The precedent could be
even more significant if Britain
were to thrive outside the EU,
Fitch added.
Fitch also noted that a vote for
Brexit could precipitate Scotland
leaving Britain, which might intensify secessionist pressures
in other parts of the EU, such as
Catalonia in Spain.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Officials warn about
buffalo after goring
STATE
SD CUSTER
PARK — Custer State
Park officials are repeating warn-
THE CENSUS
$76K
The amount the state of Arizona has paid to settle a claim by a Tempe councilman who was injured
when a university mascot hopped onto his back. Arizona State University mascot Sparky jumped onto
David Schapira after a September football game. The councilman was recovering from back surgery and
was posing for photos on the football field sideline. Schapira initially sought $120,000.
ings about approaching the park’s
bison after a woman was gored
last week when she approached
a bull.
Visitor services coordinator
Craig Puglsey told KELO television that bison can appear to be
docile, but they’re six feet high at
the shoulder, weigh up to 2,000
pounds and can move faster than
a horse.
The woman was hospitalized with serious but not lifethreatening injuries.
Pugsley said that people are
guests in the wildlife’s home and
need to respect the animals and
give them proper distance. Officials suggest about 100 yards for
visitors in their vehicles, and 200
to 300 feet for visitors on foot.
Officials: Squirrel
dispute spurs shooting
BOULDER — InvesCO
tigators say a dispute
about feeding squirrels led a Boulder man to shoot his neighbor.
Jon Marc Barbour, 59, was arrested Thursday after calling 911
to report shooting his neighbor,
Jeffrey Browning, 46, in the rear.
The Daily Camera reported
neighbors have objected to Barbour and his wife’s feeding squirrels peanuts because they were
worried about diseases and children with nut allergies. Investigators said they left fliers on
mailboxes explaining their view
but Browning took them down.
The two men got into an argument while Browning was walking his dog. Barbour told deputies
that Browning hit him in the
head and that he shot him as they
were on the ground, struggling.
Browning said he was shot as he
was walking away.
Gator foot an unlucky
charm for driver
PALM BEACH
FL WEST
— Hanging an alligator
foot from a dashboard apparently
is not a good luck charm.
A Florida driver learned that
the hard way when he was recently stopped in a Palm Beach
County wildlife management area
by two Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers who
were checking for permits.
The commission said in a news
release the officers noticed alligator parts scattered throughout
the truck, including a foot sticking out of the dashboard.
After first denying it, the driver admitted that he had killed
the gator a few days earlier, out
of season and without a permit.
He was cited. His name was not
released.
Attorney arrested after
shooting outside bar
OKLAHOMA CITY
— An Oklahoma City
attorney who shot and killed a
former client nearly a year ago
was arrested in connection with a
shooting outside a bar.
OK
R AY C OONEY, THE (PORTLAND, IND.) C OMMERCIAL REVIEW/AP
Running for the fallen
Matt Bowman, left front, and Donald Gillespie, right front, lead the pack of runners in Indiana’s Run for the Fallen on Friday in Fort Wayne.
The effort concluded its first day with a ceremony at Freedom Park in Portland. The run, which honors those who have lost their lives in
military service, continued from Portland to Anderson on Saturday, and then to Indianapolis on Sunday.
Police said Jay Silvernail, 49,
was arrested early Friday for assault with a deadly weapon after a
man was shot outside Groovy’s in
northwest Oklahoma City.
The man’s name wasn’t released. Police said he was hospitalized in serious condition.
Sgt. Gary Knight said the shooting followed a fight.
A woman who was with Silvernail said Silvernail was trying
to stop people from taking a female friend from the bar. Marsha
Weaver said she believes the female friend had been drugged.
In June 2015, Silvernail shot
and killed former client David
Scott Smith when Smith attacked
him. Prosecutors ruled that
shooting was in self-defense and
no charges were filed.
Principal on leave over
student-shaming poster
The Farmington Daily Times
reported that district officials
put Principal J. Kaibah Begay on
leave Wednesday.
Central Consolidated School
District spokesman James Preminger said the administration
learned the previous day that Tse
Bit’a’I Middle School had put up
a poster in a hallway identifying
100 students who wouldn’t be promoted. The school has more than
480 students between the sixth
and eighth grades.
Preminger said Friday that
interim Superintendent Colleen
Bowman issued an apology, calling the poster an “ill-conceived
attempt” to motivate students.
Begay could not be reached for
comment.
near the popular Craggy Gardens
area about 40 miles northeast of
Asheville.
A woman who called 911 identified herself as a caregiver for
the 64-year-old woman found
bound. The caller said she was
receiving texts from the woman,
whom authorities found and took
to a hospital.
Park officials think it was an
isolated incident and visitor facilities in the area remain open.
A Park Service release describes the suspect as a white
man about 50, with graying hair
and a partial beard.
Description released of
man who bound hiker
NEW HAVEN — The
FBI and Yale University are teaming up to offer a summer camp for teens interested in
fighting crime.
The Future Law Enforcement
Youth Academy will take place
beginning July 24 on the Yale
campus.
The weeklong program will include 26 Connecticut high school
students. They will be trained in
— The
NC ASHEVILLE
FARMINGTON
National Park Service
NM
— A Shiprock mid- has released a description of a
dle school principal was placed man thought to have bound a
on leave for allegedly displaying a poster listing students who
wouldn’t be graduating to the
next grade.
woman to a tree along the Blue
Ridge Parkway.
Local media outlets reported
a woman was found Thursday
FBI, Yale to offer teens
crime-fighting camp
CT
law enforcement cybertechnology and will participate in practical exercises in investigative
forensics.
The teens will live in Yale
residential colleges for the week
and be chaperoned by law enforcement officers and FBI
employees.
Runaway bull leads
police on slow chase
ARLINGTON — A bull
led police in the Dallas
suburb of Arlington on a slowspeed chase through city streets
before a rancher on horseback
helped officers wrangle the bull
and return it to its owner.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
reported that police ended up tailing the bull for almost four hours.
As the bull trotted along residential streets, it would occasionally
stop to eat grass.
Officers said the bull never
acted aggressively, and they
warned traffic and pedestrians
as it roamed the streets.
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Psychology behind bathroom anxiety
BY NICK H ASLAM
S
igmund Freud didn’t think much of
American public restrooms. During
his 1909 visit to the United States, he
grumbled that they lacked the refinement of European conveniences — when he
could find one at all. Writing to a German
friend years later, Freud’s lasting bitterness
was obvious: “Is it not sad that we are materially dependent on these savages?”
It’s not surprising that a latrine could
provoke such strong feelings. We’re seeing
a version of those tensions play out today.
Last week, the White House ordered schools
to provide transgender students with bathrooms and locker rooms that match their
gender identity. Meanwhile, lawmakers in
states such as South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia are trying
to legislate which bathrooms transgender
people can use, arguing that they should
stick to facilities that match their birth certificate sex.
Proponents argue that the laws are about
privacy and public safety. “I think it’s just
inappropriate,” Republican North Carolina
state Sen. David Curtis said of trans people
choosing a facility based on their gender
identity. “We have rules in our society, and
that’s just one of the rules.”
Conservative blogger Matt Walsh put it
more bluntly: “If you have a daughter in
public school, you should certainly be concerned that boys now have a ‘civil right’ to
follow your daughter into the locker room or
the bathroom.”
These fears reflect both the vulnerability
we feel in bathrooms and our expectation
that these spaces are, and should be, strictly
divided by sex. That’s nothing new. Public
restrooms have always been riddled with
anxiety and conflict. They’ve been sites of
panic over contagious diseases, scandalous
revelations about lewd behavior and political struggles over “potty parity” between
men and women. The current controversy
is only the latest saga.
One reason public restrooms provoke
such strong reactions: They’re hotbeds of
anxiety already. They’re places where private behavior becomes shared, where taboo
subjects cannot be escaped, where intimate
body parts are exposed. We’re taught from
an early age that excretion should be secret,
spoken of euphemistically, if at all. (Bathroom shame ran so high in the 1950s that
CBS refused to air the pilot for “Leave It
to Beaver” until the show was scrubbed of
a shot of a closed toilet bowl.) As the psychologist Erik Erikson argued, childhood
toilet accidents humiliate us, making us
feel defective and infantile. In public facilities, then, we are violating something we
learned early and deeply. Of course we feel
awkward, embarrassed or vulnerable.
To understand how deeply that anxiety
runs, look at how many people are unable to
even use public bathrooms. A surprisingly
large proportion of us — as high as 15 percent, according to some studies — suffer an
aversion to public urination or defecation.
For some, it’s so bad that sufferers remain
housebound; others carefully plan their
days around their excretory schedule. One
person was so overwhelmed by his fruitless
attempt to use a urinal that he blacked out
and crashed to the tiles.
Milder forms of bashful bladder are also
common. In a 1976 investigation, researchers observed how long men stood at a urinal
before urinating. It depended, they found,
on the proximity of a fellow user. The closer
the peer, the longer the wait.
Public restrooms also force us to confront
the disgusting reality of others. Psychological studies have shown that people find
their own fecal smells less offensive than
those of others. People exposed to these
smells — one study employed fart spray, a
G ERRY BROOME /AP
Signage is seen outside a restroom at the 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C. North
Carolina is in a legal battle over a state law that requires transgender people to use
the public restrooms matching the sex on their birth certificates.
staple of pranksters — were harsher in their
moral judgments. Gut feelings of revulsion
turn into a primal rejection that can be
transferred to other people in the vicinity.
Public lavatories are places where disgust
is rife and people are primed to distrust one
another.
The fight over trans bathrooms is also
explained by another tenet of bathroom
psychology. Public restrooms, segregated
by gender, make people highly aware of the
sexual divide. To see this at work, look at
toilet graffiti, known among scholars as “latrinalia.” Men’s toilet scribblings are often
graphic and tend to be sexual, aggressive,
insulting and bigoted. Women’s tend to be
longer, and more grammatical, romantic
and supportive. Virtually unique to female
restrooms is the tradition of extended exchanges of sisterly advice and encouragement. Sisterhood has its limits, though, as
one well-punctuated Texas graffito reveals:
“Keep him, Donna, you whore.”
Things get particularly interesting when
gender and emotion intersect. Women are
socialized to be more shame-prone than
men, more mindful of being physically
modest and substantially more likely to feel
disgust. In bathroom settings, those tendencies translate into a greater concern with
being overheard and “over-smelled.” The
former worry can be remedied by a Japanese invention, marketed to women, that
generates white noise to conceal shameful
sounds.
These gender differences are exacerbated by a strong cultural double standard
that renders femininity incompatible with
excretion. “Women are supposed to be nonpoopers,” in the words of one male participant interviewed for a study tastefully titled
“Fecal Matters.” This sentiment is beautifully satirized in Jonathan Swift’s poem
“The Lady’s Dressing Room,” in which a
young suitor is aghast at the discovery that
his beloved Celia has used a chamber pot.
He recoils with horror: “Oh! Celia, Celia,
Celia s---!”
Despite our enlightened modern attitudes toward gender equality, women are
still judged more severely for violations of
the ideal of purity than men. In one study,
a female experimenter who excused herself
to use the bathroom was evaluated more
negatively than one who excused herself
to get some paperwork. No such difference
was found for a male experimenter.
Even our presidential politics are not
immune from such concerns. During a
commercial break at a Democratic debate
in December, Hillary Clinton stepped offstage to use the bathroom. Donald Trump,
speaking at a rally a few days later, told
supporters: “I know where she went — it’s
disgusting, I don’t want to talk about it. No,
it’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting.” It makes sense, then, that the idea of a
man in a women’s restroom would provoke
a strong reaction. Women don’t want to expose their bodily functions to men, ever.
These tensions have played out in all kinds
of ways. When President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order prohibiting
racial discrimination in bathrooms, white
female government workers staged a mass
protest, fretting that they might catch venereal diseases if forced to share toilets with
black women. One of the key talking points
against the Equal Rights Amendment was
that it might lead to co-ed bathrooms. “Do
you want the sexes fully integrated like the
races?” one hysterical pamphlet asked.
When California, in 2013, passed a law
allowing trans students to choose which
school bathroom to use, Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly responded by pulling
his 13-year-old son from public school.
Of course, it’s possible that Republican
politicians are using these “bathroom bills”
to wage a bigger battle against trans rights.
If so, they’ve chosen a clever battleground,
one that highlights our vulnerabilities and
tweaks our belief that transgender people
somehow unsettle the natural biological restroom divide.
The first factor rests on the anxiety that
pervades public restrooms: Exaggerated
fears and invented dangers are its predictable products. The second is largely due
to the salience of gender-segregated restrooms. The idea that bathrooms are single-sex is so ingrained that any shift in the
social order makes us nervous.
By focusing our basic fears and making
the gender divide so conspicuous, bathrooms are lightning rods for the sorts of
hysteria we are now witnessing. Freud
wouldn’t have been at all surprised.
Nick Haslam, a professor of psychology and
head of the Melbourne School of Psychological
Sciences at the University of Melbourne, wrote
this for The Washington Post.
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Danson returns
to NBC schedule
Fox slate includes
drama based on
‘Lethal Weapon’
BY DAVID BAUDER
BY DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press
Associated Press
Ted Danson returns to NBC’s Thursday nights this fall,
part of a conservative scheduling strategy announced
Sunday for a network that is holding off much of its new
material for other times in the year.
NBC also reached a last-minute deal with producers of
the popular comedy “The Carmichael Show” to bring it
back for a 13-episode third season, although it’s not immediately clear when the comedy starring Jerrod Carmichael will return, since it was not on the fall schedule
announced earlier in the day.
Danson, the memorable barkeep in “Cheers” on NBC
more than two decades ago, will star in “The Good Place.”
He plays Kristen Bell’s guide to the afterlife in a comedy
produced by Michael Schur, whose credits include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Parks and Recreation.”
The network is doing some schedule shuffling, moving the sophomore thriller “Blindspot” from Monday to
Wednesday, the drama “Chicago Med” from Tuesday to
Thursday and “The Blacklist” back an hour to 10 p.m. on
Thursday nights.
Of the 12 new series NBC plans to introduce next season, only three are on the fall schedule. Besides “The Good
Place,” the other two are the dramas “Timeless,” about a
criminal who steals a secret time machine with the goal
of destroying America by changing its past, and “This is
Us,” a drama-comedy starring Mandy Moore about three
strangers whose lives intersect in odd ways.
Among the shows NBC plans to roll out later in the year
are “Chicago Justice,” the fourth in Dick Wolf’s series of
Chicago dramas, a spinoff of “The Blacklist,” a remake
of the movie “Taken,” a “Wizard of Oz” reimagining, a
comedy based on Marlon Wayans’ life and another comedy that will return John Lithgow to NBC’s schedule. Also
returning later is Steve Harvey’s kids’ show “Little Big
Shots” and “Celebrity Apprentice” with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which won’t be on the air until the electoral fate
of the show’s original host, Donald Trump, is known.
The strategy illustrates the changing nature of TV, when
new shows premiere year-round.
NBC will take advantage of the attention it gets with coverage of the Summer Olympics in August by airing an episode of the comedy “Superstore” during the Games, and
when they conclude in late August will air a new reality
show that follows Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry
Bradshaw and George Foreman on a trip across Asia.
NBC said it is still discussing whether one of its highprofile pilots, a remake of the movie “Cruel Intentions”
starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, will find a place on its
schedule.
EVAN AGOSTINI, INVISION /AP
Ted Danson, who starred on NBC’s “Cheers” more than
two decades ago, will return to the network this fall in
the comedy “The Good Place.”
Fox’s fall schedule will feel like a trip to the multiplex,
with its two new dramas being remakes of the popular
movies “Lethal Weapon” and “The Exorcist” and a onetime new version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
booked for Halloween week.
The network unveiled its first season schedule in a decade and a half without “American Idol,” announcing a
total of 11 new series. They include a short run of a familiar Fox franchise, “24: Legacy,” which will premiere
in February directly after Fox’s broadcast of the Super
Bowl.
“Lethal Weapon,” which will air on Wednesday nights
prior to Fox’s most popular show, “Empire,” stars Clayne
Crawford and Damon Wayans Sr. as the crime-fighting
duo Riggs and Murtaugh. “The Exorcist” will air on Fridays, the story centered around two priests trying to cure
a family of demonic possession.
Actress Laverne Cox is featured as Dr. Frank-n-Furter
in the new version of “Rocky Horror.” Tim Curry, featured
in the 1975 original movie, will appear as narrator.
As is becoming typical in television, fall is no longer the
sole premiere season. Fox will sprinkle new series throughout the year, and promised that more than 90 percent of its
schedule next season will be original programming.
“Empire” creator Lee Daniels is making a new musicbased series, “Star,” which will take over the “Empire”
time slot when the established show goes on a midseason
hiatus. Queen Latifah and Benjamin Bratt are featured
in “Star,” which follows three singers trying to make it in
show biz.
The drama “Pitch” is about the first woman trying to
make it Major League Baseball, and its premiere will coincide with the start of the next baseball season.
Fox is bringing back “Prison Break” for a short-run
event series. Network executives also said the stars and
creator of “The X-Files” are on board to make more episodes, but they won’t be ready for the upcoming season.
Midseason comedies include “The Mick,” with Kaitlin
Olson starring as a young hustler, and “Making History,”
a time-travel story about three friends from different
centuries.
The reality series “Kicking & Screaming” will pair
survivalists with nature-phobic partners in a competition
Walden described as “ ‘Simple Life’ meets ‘The Amazing
Race.’ ”
“Bones” will begin its final season on Fox next year. Fox
also defended the renewal of “Sleepy Hollow” for a fourth
season despite some unusual criticism from fans who wondered whether it was worth bringing the show back after
one of its two lead characters, Abbie Mills, was killed off.
‘Captain America’ again tops weekend box office
Associated Press
It was “Captain America’s” weekend at
the box office once again by a large margin, but even with $72.6 million in earnings, the superhero pic left room for other
newcomers like “Money Monster,” “The
Darkness” and “The Lobster” to play, according to comScore estimates Sunday.
“Captain America: Civil War” dropped
59 percent in its second weekend in theaters, in line with the second weekend
showings of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and
“Iron Man 3.” While it’s on the higher end
of second weekend falls in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Disney and Marvel
film is still performing phenomenally well.
In just two weeks, it has earned $295.9
million in North America, passing the total
domestic grosses of “Captain America:
Winter Soldier” film by over $35 million.
Disney’s “The Jungle Book” remained
in second place with $17.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $311.8 million after
five weekends in theaters.
Meanwhile, Sony’s R-rated George Clooney and Julia Roberts financial thriller
“Money Monster” got off to a healthy thirdplace start with $15 million, beating expectations in its first weekend in theaters after
premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film cost $27 million to produce.
The Blumhouse release label BH Tilt
also opened the micro budget horror film
“The Darkness” for the Friday the 13th
weekend. The film, which stars Kevin
Bacon, brought in $5.2 million from only
1,755 screens to take fourth place.
“rather than stay stuck due to unhealthy
coping mechanisms.”
The 26-year-old also sought treatment
for the condition in October.
Panettiere’s daughter with boxer Wladimir Klitschko, Kaya, was born in December 2014.
The tweet came on the day ABC announced that it had canceled Panettiere’s
country music drama, “Nashville,” after
four seasons.
‘Nashville’ star Panettiere
getting help for depression
Actors James McAvoy and AnneMarie Duff are ending their nearly 10year marriage. The couple released a joint
statement Friday announcing their divorce
and commitment to co-parenting their 5year-old son. McAvoy, 37, stars in X-Men:
Apocalypse, opening later this month.
Duff, 45, starred in the original U.K. version of Shameless.
The family of comedian Joan Rivers,
who died in 2014 just days after undergo-
Hayden Panettiere said she’s taking
time to “reflect holistically” on her health
and life amid her battle with postpartum
depression.
In a message posted on Twitter on May
12, Panettiere said depression “has impacted every aspect” of her life. She said
she’s taking time to reflect on the issue
Other news
ing a routine endoscopy at a New York City
clinic, has settled a medical malpractice
lawsuit against the facility, the family’s
attorneys said Thursday but declined to
specify the amount of the settlement.
Writer Katherine Dunn, who was
famous for her 1989 novel “Geek Love,”
died of complications from lung cancer at
her Portland, Ore., home May 11. She was
70. “Geek Love” told the story of a house
full of circus sideshow performers. It was
a finalist for the National Book Award and
became a best-seller.
In a report on a Saturday dispute at
the Loews Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta police
say that actor Wendell Pierce became
upset by a conversation about politics, then
followed a group of people to their hotel
room, tried to get inside and hit a woman
in the head. Jail records show Pierce was
charged with simple battery and released
on $1,000 bond. Pierce is known for his TV
roles as Detective William “Bunk” Moreland on “The Wire” and Antoine Batiste on
“Treme.”
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SHIFTING GEARS
An American icon at 75
Despite quality
concerns, Jeep
sees record growth
BY CASEY WILLIAMS
Chicago Tribune
In the past 75 years, wars have
been fought with Jeep and they’ve
been fought over Jeep. The original four-wheel-drive utility vehicle took GIs across Europe in
WWII, then was domesticated for
sun and toil after the war. It provoked mergers between automakers and has become the brightest
star in the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles family.
Jeep sold 1.2 million units last
year for 22 percent growth globally and 25 percent domestically.
Latin America experienced the
largest Jeep growth, 135 percent.
That’s not the entire hillside.
According to Automotive News,
Jeep increased its load as the
best-selling brand within FCA.
It totals more than Dodge and
Chrysler combined. Acknowledging truth, FCA will drop the
Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart to
expand Jeep production.
Even though the American icon
is waving its flag across continents
buying into the SUV craze that
Jeep helped initiate so long ago,
the history of Jeep is a global one.
It all started with one simple
little vehicle.
The bugle called in July 1940
for a light reconnaissance vehicle that could carry 600 pounds,
run 50 mph, have four-wheel
drive and ground clearance of
6.25 inches. American Bantam
answered. Concerned American
Bantam couldn’t meet demand
to deliver a prototype in under
two months, the Army also gave
contracts to Willys-Overland and
Ford. More than 650,000 units
were built during World War II.
Willys wasted no time rolling
out a “Civilian Jeep” in 1945. It
had a four-cylinder engine and
solid axles, but was dressed with
brighter colors and nicer seats for
the mass market.
The larger CJ-5 (1955-83) and
even larger CJ-7 (1976-87) hit
streets and trails until surpassed
by the Wrangler, which replaced
the CJ series in 1987.
Along the way, Jeep launched
pickups such as the Gladiator
(1963-87), a civil servant Dispatcher for the U.S. Postal Service and more luxurious models
like the sporty Jeepster (1948-51)
and the first true luxury SUV: the
Wagoneer (1963-91).
During the 1980s, Jeep thrived
on suburb-ready SUVs such as
the four-door Cherokee, which
combined sedan comfort with allroad capability. Baby boomers
loved them enough for Chrysler
The original Jeep, a 1941 Jeep Willys
MA produced by Willys-Overland,
earned the War Department’s contract
with a bid price of just $738.74 per
unit, according to jeepcollection.com.
Photos courtesy of Jeep
The CJ-5, introduced in 1954.
to launch the Grand Cherokee in
1993.
Jeep endured through successive owners, many of whom
consumed entire automakers to
snag the profit-generating brand.
Willys-Overland sold Jeep to ship
builder Henry J. Kaiser in 1953.
Jeep became part of American
Motors in 1970, was purchased
by Chrysler in 1987, and has been
controlled by DaimlerChrysler,
Cerberus Capital and now FCA.
Under FCA, smaller crossovers
such as today’s Renegade and
Cherokee have elevated Jeep to
new heights.
Sales are strong despite quality
issues that have placed it near the
bottom of J.D. Power’s Vehicle De-
The 1973 CJ-5.
pendability Study. The study highlights real-world experiences of
consumers reporting defects after
three years of ownership. Issues
have ranged from infotainment
confusion to transmission failure.
In 2013, Jeep was fourth from
the bottom with 178 defects per
100 vehicles. It placed third from
bottom with 197 defects in 2015,
but improved to 181 for the recent
2016 report.
There’s something about Jeep
that bonds enthusiasts.
“It’s the people you meet,”
said Pearse Umlauf, vice president of Jeep Jamboree USA.
“And the ability to go places
normal vehicles can’t. There’s a
camaraderie.”
The 1994 Jeep Wrangler.
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Nintendo is eyeing movie business
EXCHANGE RATES
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BY YURI K AGEYAMA
Associated Press
TOKYO — Japanese video game
maker Nintendo Co. is eyeing the
movie business for growth.
Company spokesman Makoto
Wakae said Monday details are
undecided, but the work might be
a theater release or a DVD.
Nintendo, which makes the Wii
U home console and Nintendo
3DS hand-held machine, has licensed its game characters in the
past, but it is now thinking about
making its own film content.
It won’t become a full-fledged
film studio, but filmmaking is an
area it has chosen for future investment of proceeds from selling
its stake in the Seattle Mariners,
planned for later this year, according to Kyoto-based Nintendo.
The Japanese daily newspaper
Asahi reported Monday that Nintendo’s work might be 3-D animation. It said Nintendo is in talks
with various film companies on a
possible partnership.
SHIZUO K AMBAYASHI /AP
Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. is considering whether to
jump into the movie business as an opportunity for growth.
Wakae said an announcement
will be made, but even the details
of the Mariners sale have not yet
been announced.
Nintendo has seen its growth
stagnate in recent years amid
competition from smartphones
and other devices, and films
could revive interest in its franchise, which also includes “The
Legend of Zelda.”
Nintendo reported a $216 million loss for January-March, bigger than the loss it reported the
previous year. For the fiscal year
that ended March 31, it earned
$148 million, down 61 percent
from the previous fiscal year.
Recent Wii U sales have lagged
those of rivals Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Corp.’s
Xbox One, including during the
key year-end holiday shopping
season.
After years of scoffing at the
threat from smartphones, Nintendo did an about face last year
and entered an alliance with
Japanese mobile game company
DeNA Co. to develop games for
mobile devices.
It also said its new game platform codenamed NX will be
launched globally next March.
In April, Nintendo of America
said it’s selling its majority stake
in the Seattle Mariners to a group
of minority owners led by new
chairman and CEO John Stanton.
Nintendo is selling all but 10
percent of its stake in the franchise and the regional sports
network ROOT Sports. The deal
is subject to approval by Major
League Baseball.
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WEATHER OUTLOOK
TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
TUESDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
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Kabul
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Baghdad
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Seoul
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Kandahar
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Kuwait
City
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Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
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Bahrain
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Brussels
65/49
Lajes,
Azores
67/61
Doha
99/85
Riyadh
107/80
Osan
83/55
Ramstein
60/41
Stuttgart
62/43
Iwakuni
78/58
Sasebo
81/61
Guam
88/78
Pápa
61/44
Aviano/
Vicenza
68/49
Naples
66/55
Morón
85/59
Sigonella
79/51
Rota
78/61
Djibouti
99/88
Tokyo
75/61
Busan
77/56
Okinawa
78/72
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2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
76/60
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City
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Akron, Ohio
Albany, N.Y.
Albuquerque
Allentown, Pa.
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
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Baton Rouge
Billings
Birmingham
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Boise
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Bridgeport
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Caribou, Maine
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Columbus, Ga.
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AUDI, Q5 Quattro Premium Plus
2.0T Tiptronic, 2012 $21000.00
Excellent condition, FSH, Midnight Blue Metallic, Black Leather Seats, Panorama Sunroof,
Power Tailgate, Xenon Lights,
Audi Music Interface, Bang &
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Wheels included
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Autos for Sale
- Japan
146
Nissan,
Skyline,
2007
$9500.00 Fun, sporty, reliable
and low-mileage sedan (43,500
miles). Have all maintenance
records since I purchased the
car in Dec 2010 from an
off-base dealer. GPS navigation
equipped with ETC, Bluetooth
hands-free calling/playing music, music box music storage on
hard drive, power seats, dual air
zone A/C, push button start,
backup camera, passenger side
mirror camera to avoid curb
checks, turn signal markers on
side mirrors, heated side mirrors,
traction
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Autos for Sale
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148
Cadillac, Escalade Hybrid,
2009 $29500.00 In Excellent
Condition, No accidents or repair of any kind. All service is
done at Cadillac dealership.
email:
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BMW, 525i, 2007 $12000.00
Immaculate US Specs loaded
with goodies. 1st and only
owner of the car and have
performed all maintenance myself during my ownership. The
car has never been in an
accident and is in mint condition.
Contact me [email protected] for
details and info on the car and
all the babying it has received.
The car in currently in Geneva
Switzerland and we can probably work something out getting
the car to your destination.
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Chevrolet, Corvette, 2004,
Commemorative Ed, 29,500
miles, Exc. Cond., LeMans Blue,
New Michelin Pilot Sport Runflat Tires, New brakes and
rotors, 4 sp. Auto, Comfort
Access, Leather, Cruise, Power
Everything, Dual Airbags, Moon
RoofTarga , HUD, Bose CD,
ABS, Traction Contrl, Active
Handling, Dual Climate, Sport
Exhaust. Loud and fast. $21,500
obo.
Write
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Porsche, Cayman S, 2008
$27000.00 US Spec. 2nd owner.
German Porsche dealer maintained. Power windows, seats,
mirrors, door locks. 6 CD
changer. Extra rims with winter
tires. Excellent condition! Great
fun car!
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Toyota , Corolla S, 2003
$2500.00 Well maintained and
great condition inside and out.
US specs, 4 cyl engine, 5 speed
manual transmission. Power
windows, locks and side mirrors.. Cruise, air, Pioneer stereo.
Currently has winter tires on it
and come with a set of summer
tires on aluminum sport rims.
Passed inspection 28 April 2016
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made
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Excellent
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Jaguar, XF, 2010 $20000.00
Looking for a Good home for an
Outstanding Friend that can't
come to the States. Priced to
sell due to my approaching
PCS. If I could take this car to
the States, it would not be for
sale. 3.0 Diesel. Autobahn driving up to 50 MPG. 137000
kilometers (about 82000 miles)
Excellent car with all the extras.
Dealer maintained--all services
conducted on time. Currently
parked on Panzer Kaserne. If
interested, please call: cell:
0179-1307193
or
email
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Jeep,
Compass,
2011
$10500.00 Parked at the Grafenwoehr lemon lot. Located in
front of the food court. 2011
Jeep
Compass
in
Great
Condition! US Spec. Price: US $
10,500 Milage: 62,000 Transmission: Manual Exterior: Silver
Interior: Black Options: Manual
Transmission 5 Seats Seat
Covers Floor Protective Mats
Roof Rails Alloy Wheels GREAT
CONDITION! Features: ABS AM
FM Satellite Radio CD Player
AUX Port Power Windows
Cruise Control Power Door
Locks Great Condition Great for
City usage but also very comfy!
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Autos for Sale
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142
Sunlight RV, T-57, 2014
$39500.00 Super cool RV for
the best way to see Europe.
Like new. Only 6 meters long
but has everything you need.
Kitchen, bathroom with shower,
heater, Awning, 4 place bike
rack, GPS, Sleeps 3, 130 hp
Diesel, back up camera, and
lots more. Already registered in
US system. Euro spec. Easy to
drive. Solar battery charging
system. Off grid camping no
problem. 015121203021
Toyota , RAV 4 limited, 2006
$7900.00 passed inspection last
week, price negotiable, Automatic, great, dependable SUV!
Well maintained, regular oil
changes, etc.2.4L 4-cyl. 4-speed
Automatic,
cruise
control.
driver-side power seat, all-wheel
drive, 147k miles 011-49-711-1
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VW, Golf, 1.4 gasoline, 4-door,
manual, 2010 $8500.00 4-door
hatchback, German spec, 1.4
gasoline, 85K Km, manual
transmission, full dealer service
record with recent service, TUV
2017, dual zone AC, winter
package (heated seats, mirrors,
windshield wiper fluid), summer
tires with extra set of winter tires
and rims, power windows, mirrors, locks, keyless entry. Very
reliable and easy to park.
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Autos for Sale
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Mercedes-Benz, C300 4MATIC
Sport, 2010 $15000.00 US
Spec; Well-maintained; Mechanically sound, runs & drives great;
Newer 8k miles Michelin Pilot
Sport AS tires; Weathertech
floor liners; $15,000 obo; Call
Gene at +32 (0)477 92 1117
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Motorcycles
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Honda,
CB500F,
2014
$4400.00 Bike is in excellent
stock condition and has been
well maintained. It is US spec
and has passed inspection
registered in Germany. It is a
solid, reliable bike that is easy to
maneuver and is great on back
roads as well as on the
autobahn. This bike has never
been down or taken to a track.
The odometer can be configured
to show kilometers or miles.
Please give me a call if
interested in taking a look.
Pictures provided on request.
Selling for family reasons. jeffre
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Trucks
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HONDA,
ODYSSEY,
2002
$1500.00 Looking to get rid of
vehicle due to transmission
problems. If anyone is looking
for a vehicle for parts or an
enthusiast who does transmission repair, I'm willing to part
with the vehicle for a below
market value cost. Only serious
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Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo,
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Camper,
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$29000.00 Metallic Blue, sleeps
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SCOREBOARD
Auto racing
Sports
on AFN
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Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
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Golf
The Players Championship
Sunday
At TPC Sawgrass
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Purse: $10.5 million
Yardage: 7,215; Par: 72
Final
Jason Day, $1,890,000 63-66-73-71—273 -15
K. Chappell, $1,134,000 71-67-70-69—277 -11
Ken Duke, $504,000
74-67-65-72—278 -10
Colt Knost, $504,000
72-63-74-69—278 -10
Matt Kuchar, $504,000 71-67-72-68—278 -10
J. Thomas, $504,000
70-68-75-65—278 -10
H.Matsuyama, $338,625 68-71-67-73—279 -9
F. Molinari, $338,625
66-69-72-72—279 -9
Daniel Berger, $283,500 66-72-73-69—280 -8
Alex Cejka, $283,500
67-67-72-74—280 -8
G. McDowell, $283,500 72-70-69-69—280 -8
Retief Goosen, $212,625 70-68-70-73—281 -7
Rory McIlroy, $212,625 72-64-75-70—281 -7
Bryce Molder, $212,625 70-68-72-71—281 -7
Adam Scott, $212,625 73-65-75-68—281 -7
Shane Lowry, $168,000 65-68-78-71—282 -6
C. Tringale, $168,000
65-69-75-73—282 -6
Boo Weekley, $168,000 66-69-78-69—282 -6
Jonas Blixt, $131,775
67-67-75-74—283 -5
Jerry Kelly, $131,775
67-68-77-71—283 -5
Russell Knox, $131,775 68-67-80-68—283 -5
Justin Rose, $131,775 65-74-78-66—283 -5
Paul Casey, $93,450
68-72-76-68—284 -4
Si Woo Kim, $93,450
68-70-72-74—284 -4
Ryan Palmer, $93,450 67-70-75-72—284 -4
Scott Piercy, $93,450
70-68-75-71—284 -4
D. Summerhys, $93,450 69-71-71-73—284 -4
David Hearn, $68,325
71-71-72-71—285 -3
J.J. Henry, $68,325
70-69-74-72—285 -3
Billy Horschel, $68,325 68-70-75-72—285 -3
Dustin Johnson, $68,325 70-70-77-68—285 -3
L. Oosthuizen, $68,325 72-67-74-72—285 -3
Vijay Singh, $68,325
70-70-73-72—285 -3
G. Woodland, $68,325 67-68-76-74—285 -3
Keegan Bradley, $52,894 72-67-76-71—286 -2
Jim Furyk, $52,894
71-70-75-70—286 -2
Brooks Koepka, $52,894 66-70-77-73—286 -2
Danny Lee, $52,894
67-71-72-76—286 -2
Chad Campbell, $44,100 68-71-78-70—287 -1
Jon Curran, $44,100
70-71-79-67—287 -1
Adam Hadwin, $44,100 70-70-74-73—287 -1
Martin Kaymer, $44,100 68-72-76-71—287 -1
K.J. Choi, $33,670
73-68-73-74—288 E
Bill Haas, $33,670
65-73-77-73—288 E
James Hahn, $33,670
67-73-79-69—288 E
Soren Kjeldsen, $33,670 72-70-74-72—288 E
William McGirt, $33,670 72-65-76-75—288 E
Bubba Watson, $33,670 69-71-74-74—288 E
Zac Blair, $25,914
71-70-73-75—289 +1
Jason Dufner, $25,914 70-66-80-73—289 +1
M. Hoffmann, $25,914 69-73-75-72—289 +1
F. Jacobson, $25,914
70-69-78-72—289 +1
B. Wiesberger, $25,914 71-67-78-73—289 +1
Sergio Garcia, $24,150 72-66-77-75—290 +2
Brian Harman, $24,150 69-70-77-74—290 +2
Zach Johnson, $24,150 67-69-80-74—290 +2
B. de Jonge, $23,100
71-67-76-77—291 +3
Branden Grace, $23,100 72-70-78-71—291 +3
Ian Poulter, $23,100
69-68-79-75—291 +3
Brendan Steele, $23,100 65-76-74-76—291 +3
H. Swafford, $23,100
66-73-77-75—291 +3
H. Varner III, $23,100
73-66-78-74—291 +3
J. Vegas, $23,100
67-71-79-74—291 +3
Ernie Els, $21,735
66-73-78-75—292 +4
M. Leishman, $21,735 70-72-75-75—292 +4
J. Lovemark, $21,735
71-71-79-71—292 +4
Sean O’Hair, $21,735
70-67-76-79—292 +4
Kyle Reifers, $21,735
71-70-76-75—292 +4
J. Wagner, $21,735
70-71-77-74—292 +4
C. Villegas, $21,000
71-71-78-73—293 +5
S. Wheatcroft, $20,790 68-74-79-73—294 +6
Shawn Stefani, $20,475 74-68-80-73—295 +7
Will Wilcox, $20,475
68-71-82-74—295 +7
Fabian Gomez, $20,055 73-69-79-75—296 +8
K. Streelman, $20,055 72-70-80-74—296 +8
Patton Kizzire, $19,740 71-70-82-77—300 +12
Pro basketball
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
New York
2
0 1.000
Atlanta
1
0 1.000
Chicago
1
0 1.000
Connecticut
0
1 .000
Indiana
0
1 .000
Washington
0
1 .000
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Pct
Los Angeles
1
0 1.000
Minnesota
1
0 1.000
Dallas
1
1 .500
Phoenix
0
1 .000
San Antonio
0
1 .000
Seattle
0
1 .000
Saturday’s games
Dallas 90, Indiana 79
New York 87, Washington 76
Minnesota 95, Phoenix 76
Chicago 93, Connecticut 70
Atlanta 73, San Antonio 63
Sunday’s games
New York 79, Dallas 71
Los Angeles 96, Seattle 66
Monday’s games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s games
No games scheduled
GB
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College baseball
AAA 400
Sunday’s scores
NASCAR Sprint Cup
Sunday
At Dover International Speedway
Dover, Del.
Lap length: 1 mile
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (10) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 400.
2. (23) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400.
3. (13) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400.
4. (11) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 400.
5. (9) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 400.
6. (14) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 400.
7. (6) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400.
8. (18) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 400.
9. (7) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 400.
10. (25) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 400.
11. (19) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 400.
12. (32) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 400.
13. (31) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 400.
14. (5) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, 400.
15. (1) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 399.
16. (8) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 398.
17. (27) David Ragan, Toyota, 397.
18. (30) Chris Buescher, Ford, 396.
19. (35) Landon Cassill, Ford, 396.
20. (28) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet,
396.
21. (24) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,
395.
22. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 391.
23. (20) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
391.
24. (17) Brian Scott, Ford, 390.
25. (21) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,
387.
26. (26) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 374.
27. (36) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, Vibration, 364.
28. (4) Carl Edwards, Toyota, Accident,
359.
29. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, Accident,
355.
30. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota, Accident,
354.
31. (15) Aric Almirola, Ford, Accident,
354.
32. (2) Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet,
Accident, 354.
33. (12) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 345.
34. (34) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, Suspension, 342.
35. (39) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 334.
36. (40) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 331.
37. (37) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, Accident, 223.
38. (38) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, Accident, 204.
39. (33) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, Accident, 139.
40. (29) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, Accident, 116.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner:
109.348 mph.
Time of Race: 03 Hrs, 39 Mins, 29 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 0.187 Seconds.
Caution Flags: 12 for 65 laps.
Lead Changes: 19 among 10 drivers.
Lap Leaders: K. Harvick 1-42; C. Edwards 43-46; K. Harvick 47-120; C. Edwards 121-130; M. Kenseth 131; C. Edwards 132-143; M. Truex Jr 144-173; K.
Harvick 174; G. Biffle 175-180; K. Larson
181-214; J. Logano 215; D. Hamlin 216-230;
B. Keselowski 231-279; K. Larson 280-289;
J. Logano 290; K. Larson 291-331; M. Truex
Jr 332-348; C. Edwards 349; J. Johnson
350-353; M. Kenseth 354-400.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times
Lead, Laps Led): K. Harvick 3 times for
117 laps; K. Larson 3 times for 85 laps; B.
Keselowski 1 time for 49 laps; M. Kenseth
2 times for 48 laps; M. Truex Jr 2 times for
47 laps; C. Edwards 4 times for 27 laps; D.
Hamlin 1 time for 15 laps; G. Biffle 1 time
for 6 laps; J. Johnson 1 time for 4 laps; J.
Logano 2 times for 2 laps.
Top 16 in Points: K. Harvick, 418; Kyle
Busch, 397; Kurt Busch, 386; C. Edwards,
381; J. Johnson, 370; B. Keselowski, 368;
C. Elliott, 341; J. Logano, 340; M. Truex Jr,
336; A. Dillon, 315; D. Earnhardt Jr, 314; M.
Kenseth, 313; D. Hamlin, 308; J. Mcmurray, 296; Blaney, 288; K. Kahne, 286.
EAST
Boston College 9, Niagara 3
Bryant 9, CCSU 3
Canisius 13, Quinnipiac 5
Delaware 6, Towson 1
Fairfield 8, Monmouth (N.J.) 4
Keystone 17, Immaculata 7
LIU Brooklyn 8-2, Fairleigh Dickinson
7-17, 1st game 8 innings
Manhattan 7, St. Peter’s 2
Marist 4, Rider 1
UConn 3, UCF 0
UMass 6, Rhode Island 3
Union (N.Y.) 8, RPI 6
SOUTH
Belmont 7, Tennessee Tech 1
Clemson 17, Georgia Southern 4
Florida St. 4, Duke 3
Furman 3, VMI 1
Georgia Tech 5, Virginia 4
High Point 11, Campbell 1 Liberty 14,
Radford 8 LSU 10, Tennessee 7
Marshall 5, W. Kentucky 2
Miami 8, Pittsburgh 4
Morehead St. 14, Jacksonville St. 5
N. Kentucky 8-12, Youngstown St. 7-8
Old Dominion 6, Middle Tennessee 2
South Florida 6, East Carolina 5
Thomas More 4, Washington & Jefferson 3
UT Martin 10, E. Illinois 5
MIDWEST
Augustana (Ill.) 10, Illinois Wesleyan 1
California 15, Northwestern 3
Cent. Missouri 16, Washburn 8
E. Michigan 3, N. Illinois 2
Indiana 4, Illinois 1
Indianapolis 7, William Jewell 2
Kent St. 10, Bowling Green 1
Nebraska 8, Penn St. 1
SE Missouri 9, Stephen F. Austin 5
Valparaiso 3, Oakland 2
SOUTHWEST
Nevada 13, New Mexico 9
FAR WEST
Arizona St. 5, Arizona 1
Texas Rio Grande Valley 4, Utah Valley 2
Utah 8, Stanford 3
Boxing
Fight schedule
May 17
Black Bear Casino, Carlton, Minn.,
Murat Gassiev vs. Jordan Snimmell, 12,
cruiserweights; Cornelius White vs.
Marcus Oliveira, 10, heavyweights; Al
Sands vs. Andres Taylor, 10, super welterweights.
May 20
At Paris, Youri Kayembre Kalenga vs.
Yunier Dorticos, 12, for the vacant WBA
World cruiserweight title.
May 21
At Moscow, Denis Ledebev vs. Victor
Emilio Ramirez, 12, for the IBF and WBA
Super World cruiserweight titles; Felix
Valera vs. Dmitri Bivol, 12, for Valera’s
WBA World light heavyweight title; Deontay Wilder vs. Alexander Povetkin,
12, for Wilder’s WBC World heavyweight
title. Umar Salamov vs. Bob Ajisafe, 12,
light heavyweights.
At Glasgow, Scotland, Michele Di
Rocco vs. Ricky Burns, 12, for the vacant
WBA World junior welterweight title.
At The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas,
Jermall Charlo vs. Austin Trout, 12, for
Charlo’s IBF super welterweight title; Erislandy Lara vs. Vanes Martirosyan, 12,
for the vacant WBA Super World super
welterweight title and Lara’s IBO World
super welterweight title; Jermell Charlo
vs. John Jackson, 12, for the vacant WBC
super welterweight title.
May 25
At Beijing, Amnat Ruenroeng vs. John
Reil Casimero, 12, for Ruenroeng’s IBF
flyweight title.
Deals
Sunday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned INF
Luis Sardinas to Tacoma (PCL). Recalled
OF Shawn O’Malley from Tacoma.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Designated RHP
Danny Farquhar for assignment. Recalled
SS Taylor Motter from Durham (IL). Sent
RHP Brad Boxberger to Charlotte (FSL)
for a rehab assignment.
TEXAS RANGERS — Sent OF Shin-Soo
Choo to Round Rock (PCL) for a rehab assignment.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed LHP
Brett Cecil on the 15-day DL. Selected the
contract of RHP Dustin Antolin from Buffalo (IL). Sent LHP Aaron Loup to Dunedin
(FSL) for a rehab assignment.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed
OF David Peralta on the 15-day DL. Designated RHP Cody Hall for assignment.
Selected the contract of OF Michael
Bourn from Mobile (SL). Sent RHP Josh
Collmenter to Reno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.
CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms
with RHP Alex Sanabia on a minor league
contract.
CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP Jon
Moscot to Louisville (IL) for a rehab assignment.
MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned RHPs
Kendry Flores and Nick Wittgren to New
Orleans (PCL). Recalled LHP Jarlin Garcia
from Jacksonville (SL).
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP
A.J. Schugel to Indianapolis (IL). Reinstated LHP Cory Luebke from the 15-day
DL.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHP
Leonel Campos to El Paso (PCL). Recalled
RHP Tayron Guerrero from El Paso.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled
OF Matt den Dekker from Syracuse (IL).
FOOTBALL
National Football League
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Announced
the retirement of RB Jarryd Hayne.
Pro soccer
Tennis
MLS
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF
Montreal
4 3 4 16 18
New York City FC 4 3 4 16 17
Philadelphia
4 3 3 15 14
Toronto FC
4 4 2 14 13
D.C. United
3 4 4 13 13
New England
2 3 7 13 15
Orlando City
2 3 5 11 17
New York
3 7 1 10 13
Columbus
2 4 4 10 12
Chicago
1 4 4
7
8
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF
Colorado
7 2 3 24 15
FC Dallas
7 4 2 23 19
Vancouver
6 5 2 20 20
Los Angeles
5 1 4 19 24
San Jose
5 3 3 18 15
Real Salt Lake
5 3 2 17 14
Sporting KC
5 6 2 17 13
Seattle
4 5 1 13 12
Portland
3 6 3 12 17
Houston
3 6 2 11 18
Note: Three points for victory,
point for tie.
Sunday’s games
Houston 1, Real Salt Lake 0
Sporting KC 2, Orlando City 1
New York City FC 2, Portland 1
Wednesday’s games
New York City FC at Toronto FC
Chicago at New York
Friday’s games
Philadelphia at D.C. United
Italian Open
GA
16
16
11
11
13
20
16
20
15
12
GA
9
19
20
12
14
14
14
10
22
19
one
Sunday
New York City FC 2, Timbers 1
New York City FC
1 1—2
Portland
0 1—1
First half—1, New York City FC, David
Villa 11 (RJ Allen, 12th minute).
Second half—2, Portland, Fanendo Adi
11 (Darlington Nagbe, 55th); 3, Thomas
McNamara 10 (Andrea Pirlo, 65th);
Goalies—New York City FC, Josh Saunders; Portland, Jake Gleeson.
Yellow Cards—RJ Allen, New York City
FC, 24th; Ben Zemanski, Portland, 38th;
Josh Saunders, New York City FC, 87th.
Sporting KC 2,
Orlando City SC 1
Orlando City
0 1—1
Sporting KC
0 2—2
Second half—1, Orlando City, Jimmy
Medranda 5 (67th minute); 2, Sporting
KC, Dominic Dwyer 11 (Jacob Peterson,
Benny Feilhaber), 74th; 3, Sporting KC,
Jacob Peterson 1(Roger Espinoza, Saad
Abdul-Salaam, 79th).
Goalies—Orlando City, Joe Bendik;
Sporting KC, Tim Meilia.
Yellow
Cards—Jimmy
Medranda,
Sporting KC, 49th; Nuno Coelho, Sporting
KC, 84th.
A—19,080 (21,000)
Dynamo 1, Real Salt Lake 0
Real Salt Lake
0 0—0
Houston
0 1—1
Second half—1, Houston, Giles Barnes
9 (Joe Willis), 65th minute.
Goalies—Real Salt Lake, Jeff Attinella;
Houston, Joe Willis.
Yellow Cards—Alex, Houston, 31st;
Tony Beltran, Real Salt Lake, 81st.
A—17,943 (22,039)
NWSL
W L T Pts GF GA
Washington
4 0 1 13
7 1
Chicago
3 1 1 10
4 3
Orlando
3 2 0
9
7 4
Portland
2 0 3
9
5 3
Houston
2 2 1
7
6 6
Sky Blue FC
2 2 1
7
5 5
Seattle
2 2 1
7
6 5
Western New York 2 3 0
6
3 6
FC Kansas City
0 3 2
2
2 5
Boston
0 5 0
0
0 7
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Saturday’s games
Washington 1, Houston 0
Orlando 1, Western New York 0
Portland 1, Seattle 1
Friday, May 20
Orlando at Houston
Saturday, May 21
Western New York at Sky Blue FC
Portland at Washington
AP sportlight
May 17
1875 — Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby by one-quarter length over
Volcano. The day marks the opening
of Churchill Downs with an estimated
10,000 spectators witnessing the first
Derby. Aristides is ridden and trained by
African Americans Oliver Lewis and Ansel Williamson, respectively.
1881 — James Rowe Sr., age 24, becomes the youngest trainer to saddle
a Kentucky Derby winner after Hindoo
takes the seventh Derby. Hindoo, regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of
his era, retires in 1882 with 30 wins, three
seconds and two thirds in 35 starts.
1925 — Tris Speaker of the Cleveland
Indians collects his 3,000th career hit off
Tom Zachry in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators.
1970 — Hank Aaron gets an infield
single off Cincinnati’s Wayne Simpson
for his 3,000th hit.
1979 — Dave Kingman of the Cubs hits
three home runs and Mike Schmidt of
the Phillies hit two, as Philadelphia beats
Chicago 23-22 in 10 innings at Wrigley
Field. The game includes 11 home runs,
50 hits and 109 at-bats.
1983 — The New York Islanders beat
the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 to win their
fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.
1998 — David Wells pitches the 13th
perfect game in modern major league
history as the New York Yankees beat
the Minnesota Twins 4-0.
2003 — Funny Cide runs away from the
field on the turn for home and finishes
with a near-record 9-length victory in
the Preakness. The gelding’s victory is
second to Survivor’s 10-length victory in
the first Preakness, in 1873.
2014 — The Houston Rockets advance
to the Western Conference finals for the
first time in 18 years after overcoming a
3-1 series deficit to eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers with a 113-100 victory. It’s
the ninth time in NBA history that a team
has overcome a 3-1 series deficit to win
a playoff series.
Sunday
At Foro Italico
Rome
Purse: Men, $4.28 million (WT1000);
Women, $2.74 million (Premier)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Championship
Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Novak
Djokovic (1), Serbia, 6-3, 6-3.
Women
Championship
Serena Williams (1), United States,
def. Madison Keys, United States, 7-6 (5),
6-3.
Doubles
Men
Championship
Bob and Mike Bryan (5), United States,
def. Vasek Pospisil, Canada, and Jack
Sock (8), United States, 2-6, 6-3, 10-7.
Women
Championship
Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (7), Russia,
6-1, 6-7 (5), 10-3.
Strasbourg International
Sunday
At Centre Sportif de Hautepierre
Strasbourg, France
Purse: $226,750 (Intl.)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Jil Belen Teichmann, Switzerland, def.
Kurumi Nara, Japan, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1.
Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, def. Xu Yi-Fan,
China, 6-3, 6-1.
Alison Riske, United States, def. Alize
Lim, France, 6-0, 7-5.
Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, def. Alize
Cornet (9), France, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Kristina Mladenovic (4), France, def.
Madison Brengle, United States, 6-4, 2-6,
7-5.
Doubles
First Round
Maria Irigoyen, Argentina, and Liang
Chen (3), China, def. Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-1.
Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa
Parra Santonja (1), Spain, def. Irina Ramialison and Constance Sibille, France, 6-2,
6-2.
Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, def.
Alona Fomina, Ukraine, and Prarthana
Thombare, India, 6-2, 6-0.
Lenka Kuncikova and Karolina Stuchla, Czech Republic, def. Kateryna Bondarenko and Olga Savchuk (4), Ukraine, 6-2,
2-6, 10-5.
Georgina Garcia Perez, Spain, and Eva
Wacanno, Netherlands, def. Xu Yi-Fan
and Zhang Shuai, China, 6-4, 6-1.
Nice Cote d’Azur Open
Sunday
At The Nice Lawn Tennis Club
Nice, France
Purse: $525,700 (WT250)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, def. Denis Kudla, United States,
6-3, 6-2.
Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Robin
Haase, Netherlands, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4.
Nuremburg Cup
Sunday
At Tennis-Club 1.FC Nuernberg
Nuremberg, Germany
Purse: $226,750 (Intl).
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Irina Falconi, United States, def. Katharina Gerlach, Germany, 6-0, 6-3.
Lesia Tsurenko (4), Ukraine, def. Mira
Antonitsch, Austria, 7-5, 6-1.
Nicole Gibbs, United States, def.
Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, 6-4,
6-3.
Doubles
First Round
Annika Beck and Anna-Lena Friedsam,
Germany, def. Katharina Hobgarski and
Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 10-5.
Natela Dzalamidze and Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, def. Nao Hibino, Japan,
and Laura Pigossi, Brazil, 6-2, 6-3.
Carolin Daniels, Germany, and Lidziya
Marozava, Belarus, def. Tara Moore, Britain, and Conny Perrin, Switzerland, 6-2,
7-6 (4).
Chan Chin-wei, Taiwan, and Demi
Schuurs, Netherlands, def. Vera Dushevina, Russia, and Anastasia Rodionova
(4), Australia, 3-6, 6-3, 10-4.
Geneva Open
Sunday
At Tennis Club de Geneve Eaux-Vives
Geneva
Purse: $566,700 (WT250)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, def. Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.
Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, def. Dudi
Sela, Israel, 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles
First Round
Julian Knowle, Austria, and Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Aliaksandr Bury,
Belarus, and Igor Zelenay, Slovakia, 7-6
(2), 6-2.
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SOCCER/AUTO RACING
Fake bomb causes
Man United match
to be postponed
Associated Press
capacity stadium in northern
England were initially evacuMANCHESTER, England — A
ated before the scheduled kickoff
security blunder at Manchester
time. As military personnel arUnited prevented the Premier
rived, the remaining fans and the
League completing the season on
players were ordered to leave the
Sunday, with a fake bomb spotvenue.
ted inside Old Trafford only disThe security blunder is likely to
covered to have been left from
add to the uneasiness about safea terror exercise long after the
ty in sports stadiums in Europe
game against Bournemouth was
following last year’s Paris atpostponed.
tacks when the Stade
Police conducted a
de France was one of
controlled
explosion
the venues targeted by
It
is
and later said that the
suicide bombers.
“incredibly lifelike exoutrageous
Following the evacplosive device” had not
uation, the Premier
this
situation
been cleared by secusaid in a statearose and a League
rity contractors from a
ment, “It is always the
toilet inside England’s
full inquiry is last resort to abandon
second biggest soccer
one of our fixtures
required ...
stadium after the secuand while we apolority exercise.
Tony Lloyd gize for the inconve“It is outrageous this
Police and crime nience caused to fans,
situation arose and a
commissioner in we are sure, in the cirfull inquiry is required
Manchester cumstances, they will
to urgently find out
appreciate the need to
how this happened, why
do so.”
it happened and who will be held
The league said that “when it
accountable,” said Tony Lloyd, comes to matters of security, it is
the police and crime commis- obviously right that Manchester
sioner in Manchester.
United and the Premier League
The 380th and last game of an place the safety of supporters and
unpredictable season will now employees foremost.”
be played Tuesday night in ManIt is the first Premier League
chester. The last round of games match to be postponed because of
was scheduled to be played simul- a bomb threat. An exhibition soctaneously, with spots in European cer game between Germany and
competition still at stake. But the Netherlands was canceled in
United now knows it cannot real- November after police said they
istically qualify for the Champi- received a bomb threat. No exploons League after crosstown rival sives were immediately found.
Manchester City effectively seThe most high-profile British
cured fourth place on Sunday.
sporting event to be postponed
With United’s priority now beat- in similar circumstances was
ing Crystal Palace in Saturday’s the Grand National horse race in
FA Cup final, Bournemouth could Liverpool in 1997. On that occahave a better chance to climb up sion, an IRA bomb threat forced
to 15th place with a win on Tues- the evacuation of Aintree race
day and collect more than $1.5 course, where about 60,000 spectators were attending. The race
million in extra prize money.
Two stands in United’s 75,000- was staged two days later.
‘
’
M ARTIN RICKETT, PA/AP
A police sniffer dog and handler check an empty Old Trafford
stadium after Sunday’s final match of the season between
Manchester United and AFC Bournemouth was postponed due to
a suspect package being found inside the stadium. The package
turned out to be a device left behind after a training exercise.
PHOTOS
BY
NICK WASS/AP
Matt Kenseth celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race on Sunday at
Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del. It was his first victory of the season.
Kenseth snaps winless skid
Edges Larson in
accident-filled
race at Dover
BY DAN GELSTON
Associated Press
DOVER, Del. — Matt Kenseth
used some of his veteran experience to edge Kyle Larson and
surge to victory Sunday in the
accident-strewn NASCAR race at
Dover International Speedway.
“He was all over me,” Kenseth said. “If he would have snuck
inside, it would have been over,”
Kenseth said of Larson, 21 years
his junior.
Kenseth snapped a 17-race
winless streak skid with his 37th
career victory — and denied Larson his first Sprint Cup victory.
Larson made Kenseth work for
the victory that secured him a
spot in the Chase.
But it was third-place finisher
Chase Elliott that may have cost
Larson as much as Kenseth’s
late-race maneuvering. Elliott,
the second-generation rookie who
replaced Jeff Gordon in the No.
24, made an aggressive run and
briefly passed Larson for second.
Their battle took enough steam
out of Larson’s push that Kenseth
was able to create a needed gap
and become the fourth Joe Gibbs
Racing driver to win in 2016.
Larson matched his career-best
finish for owner Chip Ganassi. Elliott had the top finish of his first
season at Hendrick Motorsports.
Larson refused to bump Kenseth out of his path over the final
thrilling laps and wanted a clean
pass in the No. 42 to earn the
win.
“It doesn’t even seem right that
he hasn’t won yet,” Kenseth said.
“He’s got a bunch of victories in
front of him, for sure. He’s a really, really clean, hard racer, and
The car of Kyle Busch (18) is plowed into by Greg Biffle during
Sunday’s Sprint Cup series race at Dover International Speedway.
a fast learner.”
The 44-year-old Kenseth is
older than the combined ages of
Elliott, 20, and the 23-year-old
Larson.
The 2003 Cup champion, Kenseth led the Daytona 500 headed
into the final lap before JGR
teammate Denny Hamlin took
the checkered flag, setting the
stage for an 0-for-11 start.
“That is probably the longest
streak I can remember being on
without having any real good finishes,” Kenseth said.
Kenseth, Larson and Elliott
avoided the fate of many as Jimmie Johnson triggered a late-race
crash that eliminated several
contenders.
He started a pileup straight out
of the Talladega Superspeedway
highlight reel that knocked out
a slew of drivers who raced up
front all race and brought it to a
halt with less than 50 laps left.
Johnson, a 10-time winner at
Dover, failed to jump off the restart because of a faulty transmission in the No. 48. The six-time
champion could not shift the
Chevy into third gear and 18 cars
— stacked and off at full speed
— were collected in the melee.
He was leading in the outside
lane as he closed in on the startfinish line. Martin Truex Jr.
nailed the 48 from behind.
“In my career, I’ve never had
a transmission do that to me,”
Johnson said.
Truex, Kevin Harvick, Dale
Earnhardt Jr., and Kyle Busch
were among the drivers that
had their cars piled up on the
concrete.
Truex led 47 laps and seemed
poised to earn his first win of the
season.
Busch, the reigning series
champion, knew there was nowhere for the 18 to go but into the
pile.
“Wait for me, I’m coming,” he
said.
The race was stopped for 11
minutes, 22 seconds — and quickly had another caution shortly
after it resumed. Carl Edwards
suffered a brutal blow when the
No. 19 slammed nose first into an
inside wall. Larson made contact
with Edwards and shot the JGR
driver into the wall.
Kasey Kahne was fourth and
Kurt Busch fifth. The race ended
with only 14 drivers on the lead
lap.
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Beltran hits HR No. 400
BY BEN WALKER
Associated Press
K ATHY WILLENS/AP
Yankees designated hitter Carlos Beltran hits a two-run, home run
against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday. It was Beltran’s 400th
career home run. The Yankees won 7-5.
NEW YORK — More than a
week after they wobbled back to
the Bronx in last place, Chase
Headley, Carlos Beltran and their
New York teammates whooshed
out of Yankee Stadium looking
way more potent.
Headley lined a pinch-hit double to break a seventh-inning tie,
Beltran launched his 400th career home run and the Yankees
wrapped up a successful homestand by beating the Chicago
White Sox 7-5 Sunday.
The Yankees overcame a hiccup by reliever Dellin Betances to
finish a much-needed 7-3 against
the AL Central-leading White
Sox, World Series champion Kansas City and eternal rival Boston.
“It really shows we’re capable
of winning against good teams,”
Beltran said.
The Yankees also have their
vaunted bullpen set up exactly
the way they envisioned.
After Betances recovered to escape his own jam, Andrew Miller
pitched a perfect eighth and Arol-
dis Chapman closed for his third
save.
“Obviously, it’s a big homestand for the whole team,” Headley said. “I think we’re playing
the way we’re capable of.”
The White Sox have dropped
four of five overall, and lost for the
13th time in their last 15 games at
Yankee Stadium.
“We’re just going to enjoy the
off day on Monday, that’s realistically what we’re looking at right
now,” said Adam Eaton, who homered and squeezed home a run.
“We had a long trip, Texas and
here, and so when we get home to
Chicago, I’m sure we’re all really
going to enjoy family and take a
nice relaxing day with family, so
we’re excited about that,” he said.
A day after striking out all four
batters he faced, Betances (1-2)
was shaky. He took over in the
seventh with a 5-4 lead, but Jose
Abreu and Todd Frazier greeted
him with singles and Melky Cabrera hit a tying double. Betances
recovered to retire the next three
batters.
Matt Albers (1-2) set down the
first two batters in the New York
seventh. Didi Gregorius then
walked and Headley, batting
for Ronald Torreyes, doubled to
center.
Headley was stuck in a seasonlong slump before going 7-for-20,
including his first extra-base hits
of the year, in seven games since
his 32nd birthday.
Beltran’s two-run drive in the
sixth put the Yankees ahead 5-4.
He became the 54th big leaguer
to reach 400 home runs, with
Mickey Mantle, Eddie Murray and Chipper Jones the other
switch-hitters to do it.
Beltran connected from the
right side, immediately after lefty
Zach Duke took over for lefty
reliever Dan Jennings. Beltran
joined Carlos Delgado and Juan
Gonzalez as players born in Puerto Rico to hit at least 400 homers.
“Just to be next to them, it motivates me to finish my career
strong,” Beltran said.
Beltran said he’s felt “double
responsibility” over the years to
properly represent his teams and
his homeland. Hitting No. 400
“means a lot to me and my family
and Puerto Rico,” he said.
Roundup
Valencia powers Oakland with three home runs
Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When Danny
Valencia came to the plate with a runner
on in the ninth, the Oakland Athletics were
one confident bunch.
“It wasn’t ‘Let’s hope he hits another
one.’ It was ‘He’s hitting another one right
here,’ ” catcher Stephen Vogt said.
Sure enough, Vogt and company were
right.
Valencia’s third home run of the day lifted Oakland to a 7-6 victory over the Tampa
Bay Rays on Sunday. Valencia’s final homer
— his fifth of the season, with each of them
coming in the weekend series — came on
the first pitch from Steve Geltz (0-2).
“I felt pretty good in the whole series, really,” said Valencia, who had been limited
for much of the spring by a strained left
hamstring. “I got some good pitches to hit
and I didn’t miss ‘em. It’s just one of those
days, one of those experiences. I’ve never
done that before.”
John Axford (3-1) pitched an inning for
the win and Ryan Madson got three outs on
four pitches for his 10th save.
Brandon Guyer went deep twice for the
Rays in a game that featured seven home
runs. Tampa Bay third baseman Evan
Longoria also connected for his seventh
homer.
Guyer homered in each of the first two
innings off Sonny Gray. The second homer,
Guyer’s fourth of the season, came with
two men on base after a two-out error on
second baseman Tyler Ladendorf.
Gray pitched 5 2 ⁄3 innings and was
charged with six runs, three earned, and
six hits, including three homers.
“We had a few things not go our way
and I just wasn’t able to pick it up when I
needed to,” said Gray, who is 0-3 in his last
four starts.
Rays starter Matt Moore gave up four
runs and seven hits in five innings, striking
out three. He yielded Valencia’s first two
homers, and the third one kept Moore from
winning for the first time in five starts.
“I definitely felt like I still had a lot of
work left to go,” Moore said. “I felt better
than the four runs I gave up.”
Valencia joined Lorenzo Cain, Aaron
Hill and Andrew McCutchen as the only
major league players with three-homer
games this season. Valencia is batting .405
during his 10-game hitting streak, which is
one game short of his career high.
Red Sox 10, Astros 9: Xander Bogaerts
hit a three-run homer and Ryan Hanigan
had three singles and drove in four to lead
host Boston.
It was the seventh win in eight games for
the Red Sox, and completed a 6-1 homestand in which they score 73 runs.
Pirates 2, Cubs 1: Starling Marte singled with one out in the seventh inning to
end Jon Lester’s no-hit bid, then scored on
Jung Ho Kang’s double to put Gerrit Cole
and host Pittsburgh ahead to stay.
Kang added an eighth-inning home run
to help the Pirates beat the major leagueleading Cubs for the first time in six tries
this season.
Cardinals 5, Dodgers 2: Matt Carpenter
homered for the fifth time in eight games,
Yadier Molina had a tiebreaking two-run
double in the top of the seventh inning and
St. Louis beat host Los Angeles to avoid
being swept in the three-game series.
Molina pinch hit for starting pitcher
Mike Leake and put the Cardinals up 3-1
when he lined reliever Joe Blanton’s pitch
into the left field corner with two outs.
Marlins 5, Nationals 1: Jose Fernandez
struck out 11 over seven innings and drove
in two runs during a three-run sixth to
help Miami defeat host Washington.
Giancarlo Stanton hit his 11th home
run as Miami salvaged a four-game split.
He also survived an outfield collision
with Marcell Ozuna that led to Ryan Zimmerman’s inside-the-park home run for
Washington.
Giants 2, Diamondbacks 1: Manager
Bruce Bochy successfully challenged to
get a game-ending double play after Brandon Crawford singled in a run in the ninth
inning and visiting San Francisco completed a four-game sweep.
Bochy challenged that Rickie Weeks was
safe at first base on what turned out to be a
4-6-3 double play. If the call had stood, the
tying run would have scored from third.
Rockies 4, Mets 3: Pinch-hitter Ryan
Raburn came through with a go-ahead,
two-run homer in the seventh inning that
carried host Colorado past New York for a
three-game sweep.
Tyler Chatwood (5-3) pitched seven solid
innings and Carlos Gonzalez also homered
for the Rockies, who swept the Mets for the
first time since April 2013.
Tigers 6, Orioles 5: J.D. Martinez and
Miguel Cabrera homered on consecutive
pitches in the eighth inning, and visiting
Detroit ended Baltimore’s seven-game
winning streak.
The home runs came against Darren
O’Day, who fanned the first two batters in
the eighth with Baltimore up 5-4. O’Day
(2-1) thought he struck out the side when
Martinez checked his swing with two
strikes, but first base umpire Mark Wegner ruled the batter did not go around.
Angels 3, Mariners 0: Hector Santiago
pitched eight innings of two-hit ball and
Daniel Nava’s two-run, two-out single in
the eighth inning gave visiting Los Angeles
the cushion it needed to complete a threegame sweep.
Santiago was dominant, outpitching Seattle ace Felix Hernandez (3-3). Santiago
allowed just two hits overall.
Reds 9, Phillies 4: Eugenio Suarez hit
a three-run homer, Jay Bruce went 3-for-3
and visiting Cincinnati rebounded from a
difficult loss.
Dan Straily (2-1) pitched five scoreless
innings as last-place Cincinnati won for the
third time in 16 road games this season.
Royals 4, Braves 2 (13): Kendrys Mo-
MIKE CARLSON /AP
The Athletics’ Danny Valencia celebrates
a 7-6 win over the Rays on Sunday.
Valencia hit three home runs in the game.
rales hit a walk-off two-run homer with
two out in the 13th inning and host Kansas
City overcame a rare blown save by Wade
Davis to defeat Atlanta.
Alcides Escobar, who had four hits to
match his career high, singled before Morales’ blast off Jason Grilli.
Brewers 3, Padres 2: Chris Carter hit
a towering solo homer and a tiebreaking
RBI double, breaking out of a long slump
and leading host Milwaukee to a victory.
Carter was mired in an 0-for-23 slide
before he belted a 443-foot homer off the
scoreboard in center field in the third.
Twins 5, Indians 1: Tyler Duffey pitched
seven scoreless innings, Eddie Rosario
drove in three runs and Minnesota won its
first road series of the season.
Duffey (1-2) allowed six hits and struck
out six, giving the Twins back-to-back wins
for only the third time this year.
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MLB SCOREBOARD
American League
East Division
W
L
23
13
24
14
19
20
16
19
16
20
Central Division
Chicago
24
14
Cleveland
17
17
Kansas City
18
19
Detroit
16
21
Minnesota
10
26
West Division
Texas
22
16
Seattle
21
16
Los Angeles
16
21
Oakland
16
22
Houston
15
24
Baltimore
Boston
Toronto
Tampa Bay
New York
Royals 4, Braves 2 (13)
Pct
.639
.632
.487
.457
.444
GB
—
—
5A
6A
7
.632
.500
.486
.432
.278
—
5
5A
7A
13
.579
.568
.432
.421
.385
—
A
5A
6
7A
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Washington
23
15
.605
—
Philadelphia
22
16
.579
1
New York
21
16
.568
1A
Miami
20
17
.541
2A
Atlanta
9
27
.250
13
Central Division
Chicago
27
9
.750
—
Pittsburgh
19
17
.528
8
St. Louis
20
18
.526
8
Milwaukee
16
22
.421
12
Cincinnati
15
22
.405
12A
West Division
San Francisco
22
18
.550
—
Los Angeles
20
18
.526
1
Colorado
19
18
.514
1A
San Diego
17
22
.436
4A
Arizona
17
23
.425
5
Sunday’s games
N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 5
Minnesota 5, Cleveland 1
Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 6
Detroit 6, Baltimore 5
Boston 10, Houston 9
Kansas City 4, Atlanta 2, 13 innings
Texas 7, Toronto 6
L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 0
Cincinnati 9, Philadelphia 4
Miami 5, Washington 1
Milwaukee 3, San Diego 2
Pittsburgh 2, Chicago Cubs 1
Colorado 4, N.Y. Mets 3
San Francisco 2, Arizona 1
St. Louis 5, L.A. Dodgers 2
Monday’s games
Cincinnati at Cleveland
Boston at Kansas City
Tampa Bay at Toronto
Minnesota at Detroit
N.Y. Yankees at Arizona
Texas at Oakland
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers
Atlanta at Pittsburgh
Miami at Philadelphia
Tuesday’s games
Cincinnati (Simon 1-3) at Cleveland
(Salazar 3-2)
Seattle (Miley 3-2) at Baltimore (Wilson 2-1)
Tampa Bay (Archer 2-4) at Toronto
(Stroman 4-0)
Minnesota (Hughes 1-6) at Detroit
(Pelfrey 0-4)
Houston (Keuchel 2-5) at Chicago
White Sox (Rodon 1-4)
Boston (Price 5-1) at Kansas City (Kennedy 4-3)
N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 3-2) at Arizona
(Greinke 3-3)
Texas (Hamels 4-0) at Oakland (Alvarez 0-0)
L.A. Angels (Weaver 3-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 5-1)
Atlanta (Blair 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Nicasio 3-3)
Miami (Chen 3-1) at Philadelphia
(Velasquez 4-1)
Washington (Scherzer 4-2) at N.Y.
Mets (Syndergaard 3-2)
Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 2-2) at Milwaukee (Anderson 1-5)
Colorado (Rusin 1-1) at St. Louis (Garcia 3-2)
San Francisco (Bumgarner 4-2) at San
Diego (Rea 3-1)
Sunday
Rangers 7, Blue Jays 6
Toronto
Texas
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Pillar cf
4 1 2 2 Odor 2b
4 1 1 0
Dnldson 3b 4 1 0 0 Alberto 2b 0 0 0 0
A.Burns 3b 0 0 0 0 Desmond cf 4 1 2 4
Butista rf
3 0 1 3 Mazara rf 4 0 2 0
Carrera rf
0 0 0 0 Beltre 3b
4 1 1 1
Encrncn dh 3 1 1 0 Fielder dh 2 0 0 0
Smoak 1b
5 0 1 0 Stbbs pr-dh 0 0 0 0
Tlwtzki ss
5 2 3 0 Mreland 1b 4 1 1 0
Sunders lf
5 0 2 1 Andrus ss 3 0 1 0
Ru.Mrtn c
4 1 1 0 Rua lf
2 2 0 0
Barney 2b
4 0 1 0 Holaday c 2 1 1 1
Totals
37 6 12 6 Totals
29 7 9 6
Toronto
010 004 100—6
Texas
001 011 40x—7
E—Odor (4). DP—Toronto 2, Texas 2.
LOB—Toronto 11, Texas 5. 2B—Pillar (12),
Bautista (11), Encarnacion (9), Tulowitzki
(4), Desmond (10), Moreland (8), Holaday
(3). HR—Desmond (5), Beltre (6). SB—Pillar 2 (4), Bautista (1), Rua (2). SF—Pillar
(1). S—Holaday (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Toronto
Sanchez
6C
7
6
6
4 6
Chavez L,0-1 BS,1
B
2
1
1
0 0
Girodo
B
0
0
0
0 0
Osuna
C
0
0
0
1 0
Texas
Ramos
4B
7
1
1
2 4
Faulkner
C
1
2
0
0 0
Wilhelmsen BS,2
1
4
3
3
2 1
Bush W,1-0
1B
0
0
0
0 1
Diekman H,10
C
0
0
0
0 0
Dyson S,2-3
1
0
0
0
0 0
Faulkner pitched to 2 batters in the
6th Wilhelmsen pitched to 3 batters in
the 7th Chavez pitched to 1 batter in the
8th HBP—by Wilhelmsen (Encarnacion),
by Bush (Bautista), by Chavez (Fielder).
T—3:29. A—41,327 (48,114).
Atlanta
Kansas City
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Mrkakis dh 5 0 1 0 A.Escbr ss 6 2 4 1
G.Bckhm 3b 3 0 0 0 Gordon lf 5 0 1 0
Brgnac ph-3b 2 0 1 0 Hosmer 1b 6 0 2 1
Freeman 1b 6 0 1 0 K.Mrles dh 6 1 1 2
Flowers c
6 0 1 0 S.Perez c
5 0 1 0
Frnceur rf
6 0 1 0 Cthbert 3b 5 0 0 0
Incarte lf
5 1 1 0 Orlando rf 5 0 1 0
C.d’Arn 2b
5 1 2 0 Infante 2b 5 0 1 0
M.Smith cf 5 0 1 1 J.Dyson cf 4 1 1 0
D.Cstro ss
2 0 0 0
K.Jhnsn ph 1 0 0 0
Aybar pr-ss 2 0 1 1
Totals
48 2 10 2 Totals
47 4 12 4
Atlanta
000 000 002 000 0—2
Kansas City
100 000 010 000 2—4
E—Moylan (1). LOB—Atlanta 12, Kansas City 7. 2B—C.d’Arnaud (2), A.Escobar
(4), Gordon (5), Hosmer (8), J.Dyson (4).
HR—K.Morales (5). SB—A.Escobar (8).
S—M.Smith (3), J.Dyson (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
Wisler
7B
8
2
2
0 7
Cervenka
B
1
0
0
0 1
Norris
2
1
0
0
0 1
Krol
B
0
0
0
0 0
Vizcaino
2
0
0
0
0 1
O’Flaherty L,0-3
C
1
1
1
0 1
Grilli
0
1
1
1
0 0
Kansas City
Duffy
3
1
0
0
2 5
Moylan
1
0
0
0
0 2
Flynn
1
0
0
0
0 1
Hochevar H,5
1
2
0
0
0 2
Soria H,5
1
1
0
0
0 0
Herrera H,8
1
1
0
0
0 1
Davis BS,1
1
3
2
2
1 1
Alexander
3
1
0
0
0 4
Wang W,2-0
1
1
0
0
1 1
Moylan pitched to 1 batter in the 5th
HBP—by Krol (Gordon). WP—Cervenka.
T—4:16. A—33,861 (37,903).
Giants 2, Diamondbacks 1
San Francisco
ab
Span cf
4
Panik 2b
3
Pence rf
4
Belt 1b
3
B.Crwfr ss 4
Pagan lf
3
Gllspie 3b
2
Casilla p
0
Brown c
4
M.Cain p
2
G.Blnco ph 1
Ja.Lpez p
0
Strckln p
0
Matt.Df 3b 0
Arizona
ab r h bi
Segura 2b 4 0 0 0
Owings ss 4 0 0 0
Ja.Lamb 3b 3 1 1 0
Gsseln ph-3b 0 0 0 0
Gldschm 1b 2 0 0 1
W.Cstll c
4 0 1 0
Hrrmann cf 3 0 1 0
Tomas lf
3 0 0 0
Ahmed pr 0 0 0 0
Drury rf
4 0 4 0
R.D L R p
1 0 1 0
Clppard p 0 0 0 0
Bourn ph
0 0 0 0
Hudson p 0 0 0 0
Ziegler p
0 0 0 0
R.Weeks ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
30 2 4 2 Totals
29 1 8 1
San Francisco
001 000 001—2
Arizona
000 100 000—1
E—M.Cain (1). DP—San Francisco 4,
Arizona 1. LOB—San Francisco 6, Arizona 8. 2B—Ja.Lamb (12). HR—Brown (4).
SF—Goldschmidt (3). S—R.De La Rosa
(3), Bourn (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
San Francisco
Cain
7
7
1
1
2 5
Lopez
0
0
0
0
1 0
Strickland W,2-0
1
0
0
0
0 0
Casilla S,9-12
1
1
0
0
1 1
Arizona
De La Rosa
6C
1
1
1
4 7
Clippard
B
0
0
0
0 1
Hudson
1
0
0
0
0 0
Ziegler L,1-2
1
3
1
1
0 0
Ja.Lopez pitched to 1 batter in the 8th
WP—Cain, De La Rosa. T—3:00. A—25,007
(48,633).
r
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Reds 9, Phillies 4
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
T.Holt cf
4 1 1 1 O.Hrrra cf 4 1 1 0
E.Sarez 3b 6 1 3 3 C.Hrnnd 2b 4 1 0 0
Votto 1b
5 0 0 0 Franco 3b 5 0 3 3
Phllips 2b
5 0 1 0 Howard 1b 3 0 0 0
Bruce rf
3 3 3 0 Murray p
0 0 0 0
Duvall lf
4 2 3 1 A.Blnco ph 1 0 0 0
D Jesus ss
4 1 1 0 Araujo p
0 0 0 0
Brnhart c
4 1 1 1 Ruiz c
5 1 2 0
Straily p
1 0 0 1 Galvis ss
5 0 2 0
Pacheco ph 1 0 0 0 T.Gddel lf 4 0 1 0
Delabar p
0 0 0 0 Morgan p 1 0 0 0
B.Wood p
0 0 0 0 Obrhltz p 1 0 1 0
Peraza ph
1 0 0 0 Brrss ph-1b 3 0 1 0
Ohlndrf p
0 0 0 0 Lough rf
3 1 1 1
Cozart ph
1 0 1 2
Hayes p
0 0 0 0
Cngrani p
0 0 0 0
Totals
39 9 14 9 Totals
39 4 12 4
Cincinnati
020 500 002—9
Philadelphia
000 002 011—4
E—Howard (5), Ruiz (1), E.Suarez (7).
DP—Philadelphia 2. LOB—Cincinnati 10,
Philadelphia 16. 2B—Bruce (7), Duvall
(12), Franco (7). HR—E.Suarez (7). SB—
Duvall (1). S—C.Hernandez (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cincinnati
Straily W,2-1
5
6
0
0
3 6
Delabar
1
1
2
2
2 1
Wood
1
0
0
0
0 1
Ohlendorf
1
2
1
1
1 0
Hayes
B
3
1
1
1 1
Cingrani S,3-5
C
0
0
0
0 1
Philadelphia
Morgan L,1-1
3C
8
7
7
2 1
Oberholtzer
2B
2
0
0
1 2
Murray
2
1
0
0
1 2
Araujo
1
3
2
2
2 1
PB—Ruiz. T—3:52. A—27,869 (43,651).
Red Sox 10, Astros 9
Houston
Boston
ab r h bi
Betts rf
4 2 2 1
Pedroia 2b 4 1 1 0
Bgaerts ss 4 1 1 3
T.Shaw 1b 5 0 0 0
Hn.Rmr dh 5 1 3 1
Brdly J cf
5 0 1 0
Rtledge 3b 4 3 3 0
B.Holt lf
4 0 0 0
Chris.Y lf
0 0 0 0
Hanigan c 4 2 3 4
Totals
37 9 8 8 Totals
39 10 14 9
Houston
031 023 000— 9
Boston
242 000 20x—10
E—O’Sullivan (1), Bogaerts (1), Rutledge
(2), Neshek (1), J.Castro (3). LOB—Houston
7, Boston 8. 2B—Col.Rasmus (6), Valbuena
(8), Han.Ramirez 2 (9), Rutledge (5). 3B—
Betts (3). HR—Correa (7), Valbuena (2),
Bogaerts (4). SB—Altuve 2 (15), C.Gomez
(5), Betts (8), Pedroia (2), Rutledge (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
Devenski
2
5
6
6
2 1
Fiers
4
6
2
2
1 1
Feldman L,2-3 BS,1 1
3
2
2
0 1
Neshek
1
0
0
0
0 1
Boston
O’Sullivan
4B
5
6
5
2 3
Ross Jr.
C
1
1
0
2 2
Hembree W,2-0 BS,1 2
2
2
2
1 1
Tazawa H,8
1
0
0
0
0 2
Kimbrel S,10-11
1
0
0
0
0 2
Ross Jr. pitched to 1 batter in the 6th
HBP—by Ross Jr. (Gomez). T—3:40. A—
35,736 (37,499).
Altuve 2b
Sprnger rf
Correa ss
Col.Rsm lf
White 1b
Vlbuena 3b
C.Gomez cf
Tucker dh
J.Cstro c
ab
5
5
5
5
3
5
3
4
2
r
2
1
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
h
1
1
1
2
1
2
0
0
0
bi
0
0
1
1
1
5
0
0
0
Angels 3, Mariners 0
Los Angeles
Seattle
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Y.Escbr 3b 5 0 1 0 Aoki lf
3 0 0 0
Calhoun rf 2 1 1 1 K.Marte ss 4 0 0 0
Trout cf
4 1 2 0 Cano 2b
3 0 0 0
Pujols dh
4 0 0 0 N.Cruz dh 2 0 0 0
Nava lf
4 0 1 2 Innetta c
3 0 1 0
S.Rbnsn pr-lf 0 0 0 0 K.Sager 3b 3 0 0 0
Cron 1b
4 0 0 0 D.Lee 1b
3 0 0 0
Ge.Soto c
4 0 2 0 Gterrez rf 3 0 0 0
Gvtella 2b
3 1 2 0 O’Mlley cf 3 0 1 0
B.Ryan ss
0 0 0 0
G.Petit ss-2b 4 0 0 0
Totals
34 3 9 3 Totals
27 0 2 0
Los Angeles
000 010 020—3
Seattle
000 000 000—0
DP—Los Angeles 1, Seattle 1. LOB—Los
Angeles 7, Seattle 3. 2B—Giavotella (4).
CS—Aoki (6). S—B.Ryan (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Santiago W,3-2
8
2
0
0
1 5
Smith S,4-5
1
0
0
0
0 2
Seattle
Hernandez L,3-3
7B
7
3
3
2 9
Vincent
C
1
0
0
0 1
Montgomery
1
1
0
0
0 2
HBP—by Santiago (Aoki), by Santiago
(Cruz). T—2:55. A—40,852 (47,476).
Twins 5, Indians 1
Minnesota
Cleveland
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Mauer dh
4 0 0 0 C.Sntna 1b 5 0 1 0
E.Nunez ss 3 0 0 0 Kipnis 2b
4 1 2 1
Sano 3b
3 0 0 0 Lindor ss
3 0 0 0
Park 1b
4 2 2 0 Napoli dh 4 0 0 0
Os.Arca rf
4 0 0 0 Jo.Rmrz lf 4 0 2 0
Mstrnni rf
0 0 0 0 Uribe 3b
4 0 0 0
J.Plnco 2b
4 2 2 1 Naquin cf 4 0 1 0
E.Rsrio lf
4 1 2 3 Gimenez c 4 0 1 0
Centeno c
4 0 2 1 M.Mrtnz rf 4 0 2 0
Da.Sntn cf 4 0 0 0
Totals
34 5 8 5 Totals
36 1 9 1
Minnesota
020 000 102—5
Cleveland
000 000 010—1
DP—Cleveland 1. LOB—Minnesota 4,
Cleveland 9. 2B—Park (5), E.Rosario (4),
Centeno (2). HR—J.Polanco (1), Kipnis (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Minnesota
Duffey W,1-2
7
6
0
0
1 6
May H,2
1
1
1
1
0 1
Jepsen
1
2
0
0
0 2
Cleveland
Bauer L,3-1
6C
5
3
3
2 8
Chamberlain
1B
0
0
0
0 4
Manship
1
3
2
2
0 1
WP—Duffey. PB—Gimenez. T—2:39.
A—13,236 (38,000).
Rockies 4, Mets 3
New York
Colorado
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
De Aza rf
4 0 0 0 Blckmon cf 3 0 0 0
A.Cbrra ss 4 0 1 0 Story ss
4 0 1 0
Cnforto lf
3 0 1 1 Arenado 3b 4 0 0 0
Lgares ph-cf 1 0 1 0 Parra lf
4 0 0 0
Cspdes cf-lf 3 1 1 1 Ca.Gnzl rf 3 2 2 1
Duda 1b
4 0 0 0 Mar.Ryn 1b 4 0 0 0
N.Wlker 2b 3 0 0 0 LMahieu 2b 2 1 1 1
Plwecki c
4 0 1 0 Garneau c 3 0 0 0
Cmpbell 3b 3 1 2 0 Chtwood p 2 0 1 0
deGrom p
2 1 1 1 Raburn ph 1 1 1 2
Hndrson p 0 0 0 0 Logan p
0 0 0 0
Blevins p
0 0 0 0 McGee p
0 0 0 0
Familia p
0 0 0 0
D.Wrght ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
32 3 8 3 Totals
30 4 6 4
New York
012 000 000—3
Colorado
010 001 20x—4
DP—Colorado 3. LOB—New York 6, Colorado 5. 2B—Lagares (3), Campbell (1),
Ca.Gonzalez (8). 3B—Story (4). HR—Cespedes (12), Ca.Gonzalez (5), Raburn (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
New York
deGrom
6B
4
3
3
3 3
Henderson L,0-2 BS,1 C
2
1
1
0 1
Blevins
C
0
0
0
0 1
Familia
B
0
0
0
0 0
Colorado
Chatwood W,5-3
7
6
3
3
3 4
Logan H,8
1
1
0
0
0 1
McGee S,12-14
1
1
0
0
0 0
WP—deGrom.
T—2:32.
A—36,901
(50,398).
Cardinals 5, Dodgers 2
St. Louis
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Crpnter 3b 3 1 1 1 Utley 2b
4 0 0 0
Pscotty rf
3 0 1 1 C.Sager ss 4 2 2 2
Hlliday 1b
4 0 0 0 J.Trner 3b 4 0 1 0
J.Brxtn p
0 0 0 0 Ad.Gnzl 1b 1 0 0 0
Segrist p
0 0 0 0 Grandal c 4 0 0 0
Rsnthal p
0 0 0 0 Kndrick lf 4 0 1 0
Grichuk cf
4 1 1 0 Puig rf
3 0 0 0
A.Diaz ss
3 0 1 1 Pderson cf 3 0 0 0
Hzlbker lf
4 1 1 0 Lbrtore p 0 0 0 0
Wong 2b
4 0 1 0 A.Wood p 2 0 1 0
Fryer c
2 0 0 0 Coleman p 0 0 0 0
Moss ph-1b 1 1 0 0 Howell p
0 0 0 0
Leake p
2 0 0 0 Blanton p 0 0 0 0
Molina ph-c 2 1 1 2 E.Hrnnd cf 1 0 0 0
Totals
32 5 7 5 Totals
30 2 5 2
St. Louis
001 000 310—5
Los Angeles
001 000 010—2
E—Carpenter (6). DP—St. Louis 2, Los
Angeles 1. LOB—St. Louis 5, Los Angeles
4. 2B—Grichuk (5), Molina (12). HR—Carpenter (8), C.Seager 2 (6). CS—Utley (1).
SF—A.Diaz (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
St. Louis
Leake W,2-3
6
4
1
1
2 3
Broxton H,4
1
0
0
0
0 0
Siegrist
1
1
1
1
0 1
Rosenthal S,7-8
1
0
0
0
1 1
Los Angeles
Wood
6
3
1
1
1 5
Coleman
B
0
0
0
0 0
Howell L,1-1
B
1
1
1
0 0
Blanton
C
3
3
3
0 1
Liberatore
1C
0
0
0
0 2
HBP—by Wood (Piscotty). WP—Blanton. T—3:00. A—51,350 (56,000).
Marlins 5, Nationals 1
Miami
Washington
ab r h bi
Revere cf-lf 4 0 0 0
Rendon 3b 4 0 1 0
D.Mrphy ph 1 0 0 0
Harper rf
3 0 0 0
Zmmrman 1b 4 1 2 1
C.Rbnsn lf 3 0 0 0
Y.Petit p
0 0 0 0
Heisey ph 1 0 0 0
Treinen p 0 0 0 0
W.Ramos c 4 0 1 0
Espnosa ss 4 0 2 0
Drew 2b
2 0 0 0
J.Ross p
2 0 1 0
O.Perez p 0 0 0 0
M.Tylor cf 2 0 0 0
Totals
33 5 9 3 Totals
34 1 7 1
Miami
002 003 000—5
Washington
000 100 000—1
E—Revere (1), Drew (1), Stanton (1).
DP—Washington 1. LOB—Miami 6, Washington 10. 2B—Espinosa (3). HR—Stanton
(11), Zimmerman (4). S—Fernandez 2 (3),
I.Suzuki (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Miami
Fernandez W,5-2
7
4
1
1
3 11
Phelps
1
2
0
0
0 3
Barraclough
0
1
0
0
1 0
Ramos S,11-11
1
0
0
0
0 1
Washington
Ross L,3-3
5C
7
5
3
1 3
Perez
B
0
0
0
0 0
Petit
2
1
0
0
0 1
Treinen
1
1
0
0
0 1
Barraclough pitched to 2 batters in
the 9th T—3:03. A—36,786 (41,418).
Detrich 2b
Prado 3b
Yelich lf
Stanton rf
Bour 1b
Rojas 1b
Ozuna cf
Ralmuto c
Hchvrra ss
Frnndez p
Phelps p
I.Szuki ph
Brrclgh p
A.Ramos p
ab
4
5
4
4
4
0
4
4
3
1
0
0
0
0
r
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
3
2
1
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
Tigers 6, Orioles 5
Detroit
Baltimore
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Kinsler 2b
4 2 2 1 Rickard rf 4 1 1 0
J..Mrtn rf
4 1 2 1 M.Mchdo ss 5 1 1 2
Mi.Cbrr 1b 5 1 2 2 A.Jones cf 4 1 2 1
V.Mrtnz dh 4 0 0 0 C.Davis 1b 2 1 0 0
Cstllns 3b
4 0 1 0 Trumbo dh 3 0 0 0
An.Rmne 3b 0 0 0 0 Schoop 2b 4 0 2 2
J.Upton cf-lf 4 2 2 0 P.Alvrz 3b 3 0 0 0
Moya lf
4 0 3 1 Flherty 3b 1 0 0 0
J.Iglss ss
1 0 0 0 Reimold lf 4 0 1 0
J.McCnn c
5 0 1 1 C.Jseph c 3 1 0 0
Aviles ss
3 0 0 0 Wieters ph-c 1 0 0 0
Sltlmcc ph 1 0 0 0
Gose cf
0 0 0 0
Totals
39 6 13 6 Totals
34 5 7 5
Detroit
110 110 020—6
Baltimore
300 020 000—5
E—Aviles (2). DP—Detroit 1, Baltimore
1. LOB—Detroit 11, Baltimore 7. 2B—Kinsler (8), Castellanos (8), J.Upton (9), Moya
(2), A.Jones (6). 3B—Moya (1). HR—Kinsler (7), J..Martinez (6), Mi.Cabrera (6),
M.Machado (11). SB—Reimold (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Detroit
Fulmer
4B
5
5
4
3 6
Saupold W,1-0
2C
2
0
0
2 4
Wilson H,4
1
0
0
0
0 1
Rodriguez S,9-10
1
0
0
0
0 1
Baltimore
Gausman
5
10
4
4
2 1
Givens H,6
2
1
0
0
1 3
O’Day L,2-1 BS,2
C
2
2
2
1 2
Bundy
1B
0
0
0
0 2
HBP—by Gausman (Kinsler). T—3:38.
A—37,890 (45,971).
Yankees 7, White Sox 5
Chicago
Eaton rf
A.Jcksn cf
Abreu 1b
Frazier 3b
Me.Cbrr lf
Lawrie 2b
Av.Grca dh
Avila c
Sladino ss
ab
4
5
5
4
4
3
4
4
4
r
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
h
1
1
1
2
2
0
3
0
2
bi
2
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
Totals
37 5 12 5
Chicago
New York
New York
ab r h bi
Ellsbry cf 4 2 1 0
Gardner lf 4 1 3 0
Beltran dh 3 2 1 3
Tixeira 1b 4 0 1 0
B.McCnn c 4 1 2 1
S.Cstro 2b 5 0 1 1
Ackley rf
1 0 0 1
A.Hicks rf 2 0 0 0
Grgrius ss 3 1 0 0
Trreyes 3b 3 0 0 0
Hdley ph-3b 1 0 1 1
Totals
34 7 10 7
011 200 100—5
102 002 11x—7
E—Lawrie (4), Avila (2). LOB—Chicago
9, New York 11. 2B—Me.Cabrera 2 (7),
Av.Garcia (6), Teixeira (3), Headley (1).
HR—Eaton (2), Beltran (8), B.McCann (5).
SB—Av.Garcia (1), Gardner 2 (7). CS—Saladino (2). SF—Beltran (3). S—Eaton (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Gonzalez
4C
5
3
3
5 1
Jennings
1
0
1
0
0 0
Duke BS,2
B
2
1
1
0 1
Albers L,1-2
1
2
1
1
1 0
Jones
1
1
1
1
0 1
New York
Tanaka
5
8
4
4
3 7
Yates
1
1
0
0
0 1
Betances W,1-2 BS,1 1
3
1
1
0 2
Miller H,2
1
0
0
0
0 2
Chapman S,3-3
1
0
0
0
0 0
HBP—by Gonzalez (McCann). WP—
Gonzalez. T—3:36. A—41,979 (49,642).
Pirates 2, Cubs 1
Pittsburgh
Chicago
ab r h bi
Fowler cf
3 1 1 0
Heyward rf 4 0 1 0
Bryant lf
4 0 0 0
Rizzo 1b
3 0 0 1
Zobrist 2b 4 0 1 0
Russell ss 3 0 1 0
J.Baez 3b
3 0 0 0
D.Ross c
2 0 0 0
L Stlla ph
1 0 0 0
H.Rndon p 0 0 0 0
T.Wood p
0 0 0 0
Grimm p
0 0 0 0
Lester p
2 0 0 0
Warren p
0 0 0 0
Strop p
0 0 0 0
Mntro ph-c 1 0 0 0
Totals
32 2 5 2 Totals
30 1 4 1
Pittsburgh
000 000 101—2
Chicago
000 000 001—1
LOB—Pittsburgh 9, Chicago 4. 2B—
Kang (2), Fowler (14), Zobrist (6). HR—
Kang (4). SB—S.Marte (12), Heyward (5).
SF—Rizzo (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Pittsburgh
Cole W,4-3
8
3
0
0
0 7
Melancon S,11-12
1
1
1
1
1 0
Chicago
Lester L,4-2
6C
2
1
1
2 9
Warren
B
0
0
0
1 0
Strop
1
1
0
0
0 1
Rondon
B
2
1
1
1 1
Wood
B
0
0
0
0 0
Grimm
B
0
0
0
1 1
T—2:55. A—40,814 (41,072).
ab
Mercer ss
4
McCtchn cf 5
Freese 1b
3
S.Marte lf
4
Crvelli c
3
Kang 3b
4
Hrrison 2b 3
S.Rdrgz rf
2
G.Plnco ph-rf 0
G.Cole p
3
Joyce ph
1
Mlancon p 0
r
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
1
0
0
1
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
Brewers 3, Padres 2
San Diego
Milwaukee
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jnkwski cf 4 1 2 0 Villar ss
5 0 1 0
De.Nrrs c
3 0 0 1 Gennett 2b 4 0 0 0
Rodney p
0 0 0 0 Lucroy c
4 2 2 1
Kemp rf
4 0 0 0 Carter 1b 4 1 3 2
Wallace 1b 4 1 2 1 Nwnhuis cf 3 0 0 0
M.Upton lf 4 0 1 0 D.Sntn ph-rf 1 0 0 0
A.Rmrez ss 4 0 1 0 Presley lf 4 0 1 0
Pirela 2b
4 0 0 0 H.Perez 3b 4 0 2 0
Rosales 3b 3 0 0 0 R.Flres rf-cf 3 0 1 0
C.Vrgas p
1 0 0 0 Davies p
2 0 1 0
H.Snchz ph 1 0 0 0 Boyer p
0 0 0 0
Qcknbsh p 0 0 0 0 Blazek p
0 0 0 0
Buchter p
0 0 0 0 Walsh ph
1 0 0 0
Bthncrt ph-c 1 0 1 0 Jffress p
0 0 0 0
Totals
33 2 7 2 Totals
35 3 11 3
San Diego
000 100 100—2
Milwaukee
001 010 10x—3
LOB—San Diego 5, Milwaukee 10. 2B—
A.Ramirez (6), Villar (10), Carter (11),
H.Perez (1), R.Flores (3). 3B—Jankowski
(1). HR—Wallace (3), Lucroy (5), Carter
(11). SF—De.Norris (1). S—Davies (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
San Diego
Vargas
5
8
2
2
0 7
Quackenbush L,1-2 1
3
1
1
1 1
Buchter
1
0
0
0
0 2
Rodney
1
0
0
0
0 2
Milwaukee
Davies
6B
3
2
2
0 6
Boyer W,1-0
C
1
0
0
0 0
Blazek H,7
1
2
0
0
0 0
Jeffress S,10-10
1
1
0
0
0 1
Quackenbush pitched to 2 batters in
the 7th WP—Quackenbush. T—2:46. A—
26,306 (41,900).
Athletics 7, Rays 6
Oakland
Tampa Bay
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Crisp cf-lf
5 1 3 1 Guyer rf
4 2 2 5
B.Burns rf-cf 5 1 1 0 B.Mller ss 4 0 0 0
Vlencia 3b 5 3 3 5 Lngoria 3b 4 1 2 1
K.Davis lf
5 0 0 0 C.Dckrs lf 4 0 0 0
Madson p
0 0 0 0 De.Jnnn lf 0 0 0 0
B.Btler dh
3 0 1 0 Sza Jr. dh
3 0 0 0
Rddck dh-rf 1 0 1 0 Mrrison 1b 4 0 0 0
Vogt c
4 0 0 0 Pearce 2b 3 2 0 0
Semien ss
2 0 1 0 Krmaier cf 4 0 1 0
Alonso 1b
4 1 1 0 Conger c
3 1 1 0
Ldndorf 2b 2 0 0 0 Casali c
1 0 0 0
Coghln ph-2b 2 1 1 1
Totals
38 7 12 7 Totals
34 6 6 6
Oakland
100 030 102—7
Tampa Bay
130 110 000—6
E—Ladendorf (1). LOB—Oakland 6,
Tampa Bay 4. 2B—Crisp (6), B.Burns (4),
Longoria (12), Kiermaier (8). HR—Valencia 3 (5), Coghlan (5), Guyer 2 (4), Longoria (7). CS—Semien (1). SF—Guyer (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Oakland
Gray
5C
6
6
3
2 4
Dull
1B
0
0
0
0 4
Axford W,3-1
1
0
0
0
0 1
Madson S,10-10
1
0
0
0
0 0
Tampa Bay
Moore
5
7
4
4
1 3
Ramirez H,4
2
2
1
1
0 2
Colome H,1
1
1
0
0
1 2
Cedeno H,6
C
1
1
1
0 0
Geltz L,0-2 BS,1
B
1
1
1
0 1
WP—Gray, Ramirez. T—3:05. A—19,545
(31,042).
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The Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers brawl during the eighth inning of Sunday’s baseball game in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers won 7-6.
Feud: Lingering resentments manifest in benches-clearing brawl
FROM BACK PAGE
“I didn’t want to sit here and
drink too much wine,” Gibbons
said. “Ya got to go out there. I’m
sure the league will say something
about that but it’s kind of the manager’s responsibility.”
Bautista, who was kept out of
most of the melee by a bear hug
from Texas veteran Adrian Beltre,
was ejected as a result of the brawl.
Same for Odor — who shoved Bautista before punching him — along
with Toronto’s Josh Donaldson
and Texas bench coach Steve
Buechele.
After the field was finally cleared,
Blue Jays reliever Jesse Chavez hit
Prince Fielder with the next pitch
when the game resumed. He was
ejected automatically because of
the warning issued after Bush hit
Bautista.
Blue Jays bench coach Demarlo
Hale also was tossed because of
Chavez’s pitch because he was filling in for Gibbons.
Toronto first base coach Tim
Leiper was ejected in the third inning in a separate dispute before
Gibbons was tossed.
“I think it was just two hard-
nosed baseball teams that play the
game hard,” said Texas manager
Jeff Banister, who exchanged words
with Gibbons as the field was being
cleared. “They like their club. We
like our club. I take offense to everybody that thinks this is a game
that shouldn’t be played hard, that
it shouldn’t be played with emotion
and intensity.”
Odor wasn’t available to reporters after the game.
Ian Desmond greeted Chavez (01) with a three-run homer with two
outs in the seventh, giving Texas
a 7-6 lead with a drive to the seats
above the tall wall in left field.
Bautista’s brawl-triggering slide
forced Odor to throw wildly to first
on an attempted double play on
a grounder by Justin Smoak, but
Texas was awarded an inning-ending double play on the Chase Utley
rule.
Sam Dyson, who gave up Bautista’s memorable homer in last year’s
playoffs, pitched a perfect ninth for
his second save.
Bautista gave Toronto a 5-2 lead
with a three-run double in the
sixth. Troy Tulowitzki had three
hits and scored two runs.
‘ I take offense
to everybody
that thinks this
is a game that
shouldn’t be
played hard,
that it shouldn’t
be played with
emotion and
intensity.
’
Jeff Banister
Rangers manager
Far East tournament scoreboard
C OKO M AGBY/Special to Stars and Stripes
Edgren’s Isaiah Robinson and Daegu’s Daniel Musselwhite challenge
for the ball on Monday at the Far East Division II tournament.
Division I softball
Monday at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan
Kubasaki 4, Kinnick 3
Kadena 10, American School In Japan 1
Seoul American 12, Kubasaki 0
Kadena 6, Kinnick 0
Seoul American 5, ASIJ 3
Tuesday’s games
Seoul American vs. Kadena, 8 a.m.
Kubasaki vs. ASIJ, 9:50 a.m.
Kinnick vs. Seoul American, 11:40 a.m.
Kadena vs. Kubasaki, 1:30 p.m.
ASIJ vs. Kinnick, 3:20 p.m.
Division II softball
Monday at Yokota Air Base, Japan
Pool A
Edgren 18, Humphreys 0
Yokota 26, Perry 2
Yokota 19, Humphreys 0
Edgren 30, Perry 0
Pool B
Daegu 9, King 4
Zama 13, Osan 8
Zama 15, King 10
Osan 20, Daegu 15
Tuesday’s games
Zama vs. Daegu, 8 a.m.
Edgren vs. Yokota, 8 a.m.
King vs. Osan, 10:30 a.m.
Humphreys vs. Perry, 10:30 a.m.
Single-elimination playoffs
Tuesday’s games
Matchups TBD
Division II baseball
Monday at Osan Air Base, South Korea
Double-elimination
Yokota 10, Humphreys 2
Zama 17, Osan 2
Daegu 13, Edgren 12
Perry 12, King 0
Yokota 11, Zama 1
Perry 16, Daegu 2
Tuesday’s games
Humphreys vs. Osan, 8 a.m.
Edgren vs. King, 10 a.m.
Yokota vs. Perry, noon
Humphreys-Osan winner vs. Daegu, 2
p.m.
Edgren-King winner vs. Zama, 4 p.m.
Teams TBD, 7 p.m.
Boys Division I soccer
Monday at Camp Foster, Okinawa
Kadena 5, Kinnick 1
Kubasaki 5, Seoul American 1
Kadena 2, Christian Academy Japan 2
Kubasaki 7, Kinnick 0
CAJ 3, Seoul American 2
Tuesday’s matches
Kubasaki vs. Kadena, 9 a.m.
CAJ vs. Kinnick, 11 a.m.
Seoul vs. Kadena, 1 p.m.
Kubasaki vs. CAJ, 3 p.m.
Seoul vs. Kinnick, 5 p.m.
Girls Division I soccer
Monday at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa
Pool A
Kubasaki 3, Seoul American 1
Kinnick 3, CAJ 0
Kinnick 1, Kubasaki 0
Seoul American 2, CAJ 0
Pool B
Kadena 2, ASIJ 1
ASIJ 7, Seisen 3
Tuesday’s matches
Kubasaki vs. CAJ, 9 a.m.
Kadena vs. Seisen, 10:30 a.m.
Kinnick vs. Seoul, 12:30 p.m.
Single-elimination playoffs
Matchups TBD
Boys Division II soccer
Monday at Misawa Air Base, Japan
Group A
Daegu 4, King 0
Daegu 3, Edgren 1
Edgren 5, King 1
Group B
Okinawa Christian 7, Humphreys 1
Perry 7, Humphreys 0
Perry 1, Okinawa Christian 0
Group C
Zama 6, Osan 3
Yokota 4, Osan 0
Yokota 0, Zama 0
Tuesday’s matches (teams regrouped)
Group A
Daegu vs. Zama, 7:30 a.m.
Daegu vs. Perry, 11:05 a.m.
Perry vs. Zama, 2:40 p.m.
Group B
Edgren vs. Yokota, 8:45 a.m.
Edgren vs. Okinawa Christian, 12:15
p.m.
Okinawa Christian vs. Yokota, 3:50 p.m.
Group C
King vs. Osan, 9:55 a.m.
King vs. Humphreys, 1:30 p.m.
Humphreys vs. Osan, 5 p.m.
Girls Division II soccer
Monday at Kuga Field, Iwakuni
Pool A
Perry 3, Edgren 0
Sacred Heart 1, Humphreys 0
Perry 4, Yokota 0
Edgren 0, Humphreys 0
Sacred Heart 2, Yokota 0
Pool B
Osan 2, Zama 0
Daegu 1, King 1
Osan 5, Daegu 0
Tuesday’s matches
Perry vs. Humphreys, 9:30 a.m.
Zama vs. King, 9:30 a.m.
Sacred Heart vs. Edgren, 11:30 a.m.
Zama vs. Daegu, 12:30 p.m.
Yokota vs. Humphreys, 1:30 p.m.
Osan vs. King, 2:30 p.m.
Perry vs. Sacred Heart, 3:30 p.m.
Yokota vs. Edgren, 5:30 p.m.
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Briefly
Tiger: Still no return date
Associated Press
LYNNE SLADKY/AP
Jason Day holds The Players Championship trophy Sunday,
becoming the tournament’s first wire-to-wire winner in 16 years.
Wire-to-wire win
for Day at Players
BY DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.
— Jason Day wanted to win The
Players Championship so badly
that he wasn’t going to let anything stop him.
Not the super slick greens that
nearly derailed him Saturday.
Not the three muffed chips that
turned potential birdie into a
unsettling bogey as he made the
turn Sunday. And certainly not
the best field in golf.
With another command performance, Day put his stamp on
No. 1 in the world by never letting
anyone closer than two shots in
the final round, playing bogeyfree on the back nine of the TPC
Sawgrass for the fourth straight
day and closing with a 1-under 71
for a wire-to-wire victory.
It was his seventh title in the
last 10 months.
And the 28-year-old Australian
wants to win a lot more.
“I want to be to be able to be
looked back on and know that
‘he was one of the greats in the
game.’ If I have the opportunity to
do that, I’m going to try my best,”
Day said after his four-shot victory. “And I have the opportunity
to do that right now, try and work
has hard as I can to really leave
my footprint in this game.
“I’m very motivated to win as
much as I can right now.”
He stomped his way all over
everyone at The Players Championship, even though he had a few
nervous moments.
Day made bogey on No. 6, had
to make a 15-foot par putt on the
next hole and really looked out
of sorts from just 40 feet right of
the green on the par-5 ninth. He
muffed three straight chips and
had to make a 6-foot putt just to
escape with bogey, dropping his
lead to two shots.
“If I walk away with a double
bogey there, I let everyone (back)
in the field,” he said. “I was right
there next to the green in two
and felt like an amateur chopping
my way to the pin. That putt was
probably the most crucial putt of
this tournament for me.”
Two 15-foot birdies over the
next three holes restored his
margin and sent him on his way.
The last hurdle was finding land
on the island-green 17th, and he
cleared the water with about 10
feet to spare.
Day’s seven victories dating to
the Canadian Open include the
PGA Championship, The Players, a World Golf Championship
and a pair of FedEx Cup events,
all some of the strongest fields in
golf. He became the first wire-towire winner in 16 years at Sawgrass, and he joined Tiger Woods,
Johnny Miller and Tom Watson
as the only players to go wireto-wire twice in the same season
dating to 1970.
Day finished at 15-under 273
and earned $1.89 million, the
richest payoff in golf.
Kevin Chappell, who finished
one shot behind Day at Bay Hill,
was 5 under over his final 10
holes for a 69. He picked up a consolation check of $1,134,000 and
moves just outside the top 30 in
the world, giving him a spot in the
next two majors.
“That’s getting a little old,”
Chappell said of his two runnerup finishes to Day. “I’m not sure
what Jason’s scrambling stats
were, but they were much better
than mine on the week.”
Day got up-and-down 85 percent of the time this week, best at
Sawgrass.
He now has won 10 times on
the PGA Tour — only Rory McIlroy with 11 has won more among
players in their 20s.
“It’s no coincidence he’s No.
1 in the world,” Justin Thomas
said after closing with a Sunday-best 65 to tie for third. “He
drives it extremely far, extremely
straight. He hits it to the moon,
so he can access pins that most
people can’t. His short game is ridiculous. I think I’ve pretty much
covered it all there when it comes
to the golf.”
Day is the third No. 1 player to
win The Players Championship,
joining Greg Norman (1994) and
Woods (2001 and 2013).
Thomas, who started 11 shots
behind, stuck around Sawgrass
to see if 10-under 278 would have
a chance. He wound up tied for
third with Matt Kuchar (68), Colt
Knost (69) and Ken Duke (72).
BETHESDA, Md. — Tiger
Woods grimaced as he took three
warmup swings after sitting in
a chair for 30 minutes on a cool,
blustery Monday morning at
Congressional talking about his
upcoming tournament. Hitting a
ceremonial shot from a forward
tee on the par-3 10th hole, he
chunked his first attempt into the
pond short of the green.
He asked for another ball. That
one splashed, too. With officials
from his foundation egging him
on, he tried one more time. The
last one cleared the pond, but not
by enough. It landed on a steep
bank and rolled down into the
water.
His efforts at Congressional
— home to the Quicken Loans National, which he hosts and which
benefits his foundation — put to
rest most of the lingering questions about whether he’ll be ready
to return to competitive golf anytime soon.
“I have been practicing at
home, and I’m progressing nicely.
I’m hoping to play,” Woods said.
“That’s the overriding question I
keep hearing: When are you coming back, when are you playing? I
get it all the time. If I knew, I’d tell,
you, because it’d be fun to know.”
Woods, who underwent two
back surgeries last fall, said he’s
getting stronger and hitting the
ball better. The tournament at
Congressional will be played
June 23-26, the week after the
U.S. Open, and it certainly appears that Woods will attend only
in a noncompetitive role.
Woods, 40, hasn’t played since
last August, and he’s fallen outside the top 500 in the world
ranking. He said he’s been playing friendly rounds at Medalist,
his home club in Florida, but he
can’t spend nearly as much time
practicing as he used to.
“Everything about my game
is coming around. Now it’s just a
matter of being consistent with it,”
Woods said. “And then being able
to do that not only at home against
the boys at Medalist and trying to
take their cash, but trying to come
out here and doing it against the
best players in the world is a completely different deal.”
general manager Kevin Pritchard
from their days in Portland.
Bird announced May 5 that
Vogel would not be retained after
his contract expired and that he
believed the Pacers needed to
hear a different voice in the locker room. Bird found his man just
a few seats down the bench from
Vogel.
Indiana has been to the playoffs in five of the last six seasons,
reached the 2013 and 2014 Eastern Conference finals and came
within one win this season of advancing to the conference semifinals for the fourth time in five
years.
In other NBA news:
Toronto Raptors center
Jonas Valanciunas will not play
in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Cleveland
Cavaliers because of an injured
right ankle. Coach Dwane Casey
said Monday that Valanciunas is
receiving treatment on the ankle
he injured in Game 3 in the second
round against Miami. Casey said
“it’s going to be very difficult” for
Valanciunas to play Game 2.
The Philadelphia 76ers have
become the first team in the NBA
to put a sponsorship logo on player uniforms, striking a deal with
ticket broker StubHub for a spot
on one of the hottest pieces of real
estate available in sports.
StubHub will have its logo appear on the front left of the jersey
in 2017-18 for the start of a threeyear trial period. The patches will
appear opposite Nike’s logo, and
measure about 2½-by-2½ inches.
Coe won’t speculate on
Russian track fate
RIO DE JANEIRO — Sebastian Coe, the head of the world
governing body of athletics, visited the track for the Rio de Janeiro
Olympics on Sunday but declined
to speculate if Russia will be allowed to compete there.
A powerhouse in the sport, Russia was suspended by the IAAF
in November following a WADA
panel report that found statesponsored cheating.
An Olympics without Russia in
track and field would be an embarrassing blow, raising doubts
about doping in other sports.
Coe has appointed a task force
to examine the charges against
Russia. He said the task force
would report back on June 17, just
weeks before the Olympics open
on Aug. 5.
Titans release
QB Mettenberger
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The
Tennessee Titans have waived
quarterback Zach Mettenberger,
making space to sign four players
who earned jobs after trying out
during rookie minicamp.
Mettenberger, a sixth-round
draft pick out of LSU in 2014, is
0-10 in his career as a starter.
The Titans didn’t need him after
bringing in Matt Cassel to back
up Marcus Mariota. They also
have Alex Tanney on the roster.
Povetkin refutes
failed doping test
MOSCOW — Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin denied taking meldonium Monday
after a failed doping test caused
his fight against WBC champion
Deontay Wilder to be postponed.
Povetkin tested positive for meldonium last month and the WBC
ruled Sunday that his bout with
Wilder, which had been scheduled
for Saturday in Moscow, would be
delayed for an investigation.
“I’m clean. I haven’t taken anything or consumed anything, so
I’ve got nothing to fear,” Povetkin
said, adding he only took meldonium before it was banned at the
start of the year.
Povetkin said he has no plans
to look for another bout against a
different opponent.
“I’m getting ready for this fight
and we’re not looking at anything
else,” the Russian boxer said.
“Now they’ll announce a new
date for the fight and we’ll get
ready for that.”
Wilder’s team has said the fight
could be canceled altogether, but
the Russian camp said it is likely
to be rescheduled.
Pacers make assistant
McMillan head coach
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers promoted assistant
Nate McMillan to head coach on
Monday, ending the search for
Frank Vogel’s replacement after
less than two weeks.
McMillan spent 12 seasons
as the head coach in Seattle and
Portland, going 478-452 in the
regular season and 14-20 in the
playoffs.
He was hired by Vogel in 2013
and spent the past three seasons
with the Pacers, where he developed relationships with the players and president of basketball
operations Larry Bird. McMillan
already had a bond with Pacers
A LEX BRANDON /AP
Tiger Woods stretches before hitting three ceremonial golf balls
Monday at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.
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Elliott, Blues edge Sharks to open West finals
BY R.B. FALLSTROM
Scoreboard
Associtaed Press
ST. LOUIS — Once again, Brian
Elliott was the star of the show.
His latest performance gave his
St. Louis Blues teammates plenty
of comfort knowing he had their
back.
“When your goalie is your
best player, it gives you a great
chance of winning, and that was
the case,” captain David Backes
said after the Blues opened their
first Western Conference final in
15 years with a tense 2-1 victory
over San Jose on Sunday night.
“It was that way for the first
two rounds,” Backes added, “and
nothing’s changed in Game 1 of
the third round.”
Backes opened the scoring and
Jori Lehtera had the go-ahead
goal in the second period on a
spinning shot that Martin Jones
could not handle.
“I just got the puck and closed
my eyes and shot it, that’s about
it,” Lehtera said. “Just keep it
simple.”
Said Jones: “Not much to it, just
found a hole. I’ll make that save
next time.”
Tomas Hertl scored on a firstperiod deflection for the Sharks,
who outshot St. Louis 32-23 but
couldn’t quite solve Elliott.
Among those he frustrated was
captain Joe Pavelski, who had
seven shots and had perhaps the
best chance in the third period
on a one-timer near the midway
mark. Pavelski and Elliott were
roommates at Wisconsin.
“I’m going to blame that one
on the stick,” Pavelski said. “No,
I have to find a way to put that
in regardless of what goes on. I
thought it was going in.”
Blues coach Ken Hitchcock
Second round
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Islanders 1
N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 3
Tampa Bay 4, NY Islanders 1
Tampa Bay 5, NY Islanders 4, OT
Tampa Bay 2, NY Islanders 1, OT
Tampa Bay 4, NY Islanders 0
Pittsburgh 4, Washington 2
Washington 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT
Pittsburgh 2, Washington 1
Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2
Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2, OT
Washington 3, Pittsburgh 1
Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3, OT
WESTERN CONFERENCE
St. Louis 4, Dallas 3
Dallas 2, St. Louis 1
St. Louis 4, Dallas 3, OT
St. Louis 6, Dallas 1
Dallas 3, St. Louis 2, OT
St. Louis 4, Dallas 1
Dallas 3, St. Louis 2
St. Louis 6, Dallas 1
San Jose 4, Nashville 3
San Jose 5, Nashville 2
San Jose 3, Nashville 2
Nashville 4, San Jose 1
Nashville 4, San Jose 3, 3OT
San Jose 5, Nashville 1
Nashville 4, San Jose 3, OT
San Jose 5, Nashville 0
Conference finals
JEFF ROBERSON /AP
Blues goalie Brian Elliott, right, makes the save as Sharks center Patrick Marleau (12) and the Blues
defenseman Colton Parayko battle for the puck during the third period of Sunday’s Game 1 of the
Western Conference finals in St. Louis. The Blues won 2-1.
thought his team was fortunate
to survive the last 2:29 after the
Sharks pulled Jones.
“I thought we did a great job.
We kept it in the zone,” Hitchcock
said sarcastically. “Are you kidding me? We couldn’t get it out.”
The Sharks were the best road
team in the NHL in the regular season at 28-10-3, but have
dropped four in a row on the road
in these playoffs, including all
three in the second round against
Nashville. They had seven goals
in three road losses to the Predators and were 0-for-3 on the power
play, which had been a major plus.
San Jose had been converting on
33 percent of its power plays in
the postseason.
“They were hot in the last series,” Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo said. “We stepped up to
the challenge.’”
The Blues made good on their
first chance with home-ice advantage in the playoffs, although
they’re just 4-4 at the Scottrade
Center heading into Game 2 on
Tuesday night.
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Tampa Bay 1, Pittsburgh 0
Tampa Bay 3, Pittsburgh 1
Monday: at Pittsburgh
Wednesday: at Tampa Bay
Friday, May 20: at Tampa Bay
x-Sunday, May 22: at Pittsburgh
x-Tuesday, May 24: at Tampa Bay
x-Thursday, May 26: at Pittsburgh
WESTERN CONFERENCE
St. Louis 1, San Jose 0
Sunday: St. Louis 2, San Jose 1
Tuesday: at St. Louis
Thursday: at San Jose
Saturday, May 21: at San Jose
x-Monday, May 23: at St. Louis
x-Wednesday, May 25: at San Jose
x-Friday, May 27: at St. Louis
Sunday
Blues 2, Sharks 1
San Jose
1 0 0—1
St. Louis
1 1 0—2
First Period—1, St. Louis, Backes 7
(Shattenkirk, Schwartz), 15:04 (pp). 2,
San Jose, Hertl 3 (Pavelski, Burns, 15:38.
Second Period—3, St. Louis, Lehtera
2, 9:15.
Shots on Goal—San Jose 8-16-8—32.
St. Louis 11-5-7—23.
Power-play opportunities—San Jose 0
of 3; St. Louis 1 of 2.
Goalies—San Jose, Jones 8-5 (23 shots21 saves). St. Louis, Elliott 9-6 (32-31).
A—19,483 (19,150). T—2:42.
Bishop’s injury not serious,
but status still day-to-day
BY WILL GRAVES
Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper did not rule
it out as the Lightning were trying to take a
2-0 lead with them back to Florida.
PITTSBURGH — Ben Bishop’s mind
“He’s getting better with each day, and
raced as the Tampa Bay Lightning goalie it’s encouraging to say,” Cooper said.
writhed in pain on the ice after awkwardly
The fact it’s even up for discussion is remarkable considering Bishop’s
twisting his left leg in Game 1 of
obvious distress after he twisted
the Eastern Conference finals
the leg while trying to scramble
Friday night.
It’s
back into position 12:25 into the
The internal “what ifs” ran the
funny how first period of Tampa Bay’s evengamut. What if the leg was bro3-1 victory in Game 1. The
ken? What if his season over?
much you tual
pain was so acute Bishop figured
“It’s funny how much you can
can think
he’d been slashed even though
think about in such a short amount
there wasn’t a Penguin within a
about
of time,” Bishop said Sunday.
stick length of him at the time.
The one thought that didn’t
in such
He left the game on a stretcher
even occur to Bishop was whether
and when doctors removed his
a short
backup Andrei Vasilevskiy could
pads to get a closer look, Bishop
step in and do the job.
amount of was half expecting to see bone
“I think the guys in the room, I
sticking out.
time.
know myself, we have full confiThe damage turned out to be
dence in him,” Bishop said. “He’s
Ben Bishop far less serious. The leg is struca great young goalie. He’s got a
Lightning goalie turally intact and Bishop manfuture.”
aged to spend a little informal
And, it seems, a present too.
time on the ice before Sunday’s
While Bishop’s initial fears were allayed practice, though he was long gone by the
when tests came back negative, it’s still time the 21-year-old Vasilevskiy and the
uncertain when he’ll return or if he’ll be rest of the Lightning went to work.
back at all during the playoffs. Having
Pressed into his first extended playing
him in the lineup for Game 2 on Monday time in more than a month, Vasilevskiy
night seemed like a long shot at best even if turned aside 25 of the 26 shots he faced,
Associated Press
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Lightning goalie Ben Bishop is carted off the ice after being injured during Game 1
against the Penguins in the Eastern Conference finals Friday. Though Bishop thought
the worst, his injury was not serious. It’s still uncertain when he’ll return to action.
aided by a defense that did an excellent job
of pushing Pittsburgh’s potent offense to
the perimeter.
Filling in capably has kind of become a
thing for Vasilevskiy, who stepped in for
an injured Bishop in Game 2 of the 2015
Stanley Cup Finals and became the first
goaltender to earn a win in relief during a
Cup Final in more than 80 years.
The Penguins were hoping they could do
a better job of testing how far Vasilevskiy
has come in Game 2 than they did in the
occasionally choppy opener. Pittsburgh
generated 35 shots overall but most of
them came from well outside the crease.
The Lightning controlled play long enough
after Bishop went down for Vasilevskiy to
get comfortable. Once he did, Tampa Bay’s
lead was never in danger.
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Raptors advance to East finals
BY I AN H ARRISON
Associated Press
FRANK G UNN, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
The Raptors’ Patrick Patterson,
right, rebounds in front of the
Heat’s Luol Deng, during the
first half Sunday in Toronto. The
Raptors won 116-89.
Scoreboard
Conference semifinals
EASTERN CONFERENCE
(Best-of-7)
Cleveland 4, Atlanta 0
Cleveland 104, Atlanta 93
Cleveland 123, Atlanta 98
Cleveland 121, Atlanta 108
Cleveland 100, Atlanta 99
Toronto 4, Miami 3
Miami 102, Toronto 96, OT
Toronto 96, Miami 92, OT
Toronto 95, Miami 91
Miami 94, Toronto 87, OT
Toronto 99, Miami 91
Miami 103, Toronto 91
Sunday: Toronto 116, Miami 89
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Oklahoma City 4, San Antonio 2
San Antonio 124, Oklahoma City 92
Oklahoma City 98, San Antonio 97
San Antonio 100, Oklahoma City 96
Oklahoma City 111, San Antonio 97
Oklahoma City 95, San Antonio 91
Oklahoma City 113, San Antonio 99
Golden State 4, Portland 1
Golden State 118, Portland 106
Golden State 110, Portland 99
Portland 120, Golden State 108
Golden State 132, Portland 125, OT
Golden State 125, Portland 121
Conference finals
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland vs. Toronto
Tuesday: at Cleveland
Thursday: at Cleveland
Saturday: at Toronto
Monday, May 23: at Toronto
x-Wednesday, May 25: at Cleveland
x-Friday, May 27: at Toronto
x-Sunday, May 29: at Cleveland
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Oklahoma City vs. Golden State
Monday: at Golden State
Wednesday: at Golden State
Sunday, May 22: at Oklahoma City
Tuesday, May 24: at Oklahoma City
x-Thursday, May 26: at Golden State
x-Saturday, May 28: at Oklahoma City
x-Monday, May 30: at Golden State
Sunday
Raptors 116, Heat 89
MIAMI — Winslow 3-8 6-8 14, Deng 4-9
4-4 12, J.Johnson 6-9 0-0 13, Dragic 6-17
4-5 16, Wade 6-13 2-4 16, Do.Wright 1-2 00 2, McRoberts 4-7 2-2 10, Haslem 0-0 0-0
0, Green 0-1 0-0 0, Richardson 1-3 0-0 3,
T.Johnson 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 32-72 18-23 89.
TORONTO — Carroll 4-5 4-4 14, Patterson 2-8 7-7 11, Biyombo 6-8 5-12 17, Lowry
11-20 8-11 35, DeRozan 12-29 4-7 28, Ross
3-5 0-0 8, J.Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Thompson
0-0 0-0 0, Nogueira 1-1 0-0 2, De.Wright
0-0 0-0 0, Joseph 0-8 1-2 1, Powell 0-1 0-0
0. Totals 39-85 29-43 116.
Miami
24 23 31 11— 89
Toronto
25 28 33 30—116
Three-point
goals—Miami
7-25
(Winslow 2-3, Wade 2-4, T.Johnson 1-2,
J.Johnson 1-3, Richardson 1-3, Green 01, McRoberts 0-1, Deng 0-3, Dragic 0-5),
Toronto 9-20 (Lowry 5-7, Carroll 2-2, Ross
2-4, DeRozan 0-1, Joseph 0-1, Powell 0-1,
Patterson 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 30 (Winslow 8), Toronto
50 (Biyombo 16). Assists—Miami 16
(Dragic 7), Toronto 17 (Lowry 9). Total
Fouls—Miami 29, Toronto 23. A—20,257
(19,800).
TORONTO — Toronto fans
chanted ‘We Want Cleveland!’ in
the final seconds. They got it.
Kyle Lowry scored 35 points,
DeMar DeRozan had 28 and the
Raptors beat the Miami Heat
116-89 in Game 7 on Sunday to
advance to the conference finals
for the first time in franchise
history.
Bismack Biyombo added 17
points and 16 rebounds for the
Raptors. They’ll open the Eastern
Conference finals in Cleveland
against LeBron James and the
Cavaliers on Tuesday night.
“It’s great to hear the home
crowd,” DeRozan said. “This organization deserves it, this country deserves it, to see them get
to the next step, somewhere they
haven’t been. But we’re not done
yet.”
After struggling for much of
the playoffs, Lowry and DeRozan were in top form for Game 7.
Lowry made 11 of 20 shots, including five of seven from three-point
range, and DeRozan connected
on 12 of 29 attempts. Lowry had
nine assists and seven rebounds,
DeRozan had eight rebounds.
“We never doubted Kyle and
DeMar,” Raptors coach Dwane
Casey said. “They’re our All
Stars and they both played like
it tonight. They both stepped up
and carried us.”
DeMarre Carroll scored 14
points, and Patrick Patterson had
11 to help the Raptors become the
15th team in NBA history to win
two Game 7s in one postseason.
Toronto beat Indiana in the first
round.
Now the Raptors get ready for
FRANK G UNN, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
The Raptors’ DeMar DeRozan, right, and Kyle Lowry celebrate
during the second half of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference
semifinals against the Miami Heat on Sunday. Toronto won 116-89.
the Cavaliers, who swept Detroit
in the first round and have been
resting since May 8, when they
capped a second-round sweep of
Atlanta.
“I think this group is hungry,”
Casey said about his team. “Never
say never.”
Casey declined to say whether
center Jonas Valanciunas, who
sprained his right ankle in Game
3 against the Heat, would be
available against Cleveland.
“He’s still limping around but
he’s doing therapy 24-7 so we’ll
see,” Casey said.
Scouting booklets for the
Cleveland series were sitting on
the chair of each Raptors player
inside their locker room less than
an hour after the game.
“We know we’ve got a tough
task ahead,” Lowry said. “It’s
always a challenge going against
those guys.”
Dwyane Wade and Goran
Dragic each scored 16 points for
the Heat. Miami was denied the
opportunity to renew acquaintances with former teammate
James in the conference finals.
“We fought tooth and nail to try
to get to that goal of getting to the
Eastern Conference finals,” Wade
said. “We came up obviously one
game short of that. For myself and
a lot of guys on this team, there’s
not always another season, so
you want to take advantage of the
opportunities.”
Miami hadn’t lost a Game 7
since the first round at Atlanta
in 2009. They won their past four
Game 7s, all at home. Miami was
seeking to join the Los Angeles
Lakers and Boston Celtics as the
only teams to win five straight
Game 7s.
Instead, the Heat were left to
wonder what might have been
after losing Chris Bosh at the AllStar break for the second straight
year, then losing center Hassan
Whiteside to a sprained right
knee in Game 3 against Toronto.
“Hopefully, going forward this
organization is not snakebitten
like we’ve been the last two years,
losing key players,” Wade said.
Joe Johnson and Justise Winslow scored 13 points, and Luol
Deng had 12 for the Heat. After
rallying to beat Charlotte in the
first round, Miami fell short in
its bid to become the first team to
erase 3-2 deficits in consecutive
series.
The Raptors improved to 3-6
when they had a chance to eliminate their opponent, and won for
the first time in 14 tries in a playoff
game that started before 4 p.m.
Leading 86-78 to begin the
fourth, Toronto stretched its lead
to 16 on a dunk by Biyombo and
back-to-back three-pointers by
Carroll and Terrence Ross, making it 96-80 at 9:41.
Patterson made a layup and,
following Lowry’s steal on Dragic, added a pair of free throws that
gave the Raptors a 102-82 lead at
7:30, all but sealing Miami’s fate.
“Their most aggressive, most
energetic burst was at the beginning of that fourth quarter and
they put it away,” Heat coach
Erik Spoelstra said. “They wore
us down.”
The Raptors didn’t let up, and
a three by Lowry at 3:23 made it
111-86.
T-wolves’ Towns unanimous top rookie
BY DAVE CAMPBELL
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is the
unanimous winner of the NBA Rookie of the
Year award.
The league made the announcement Monday, giving the Wolves back-to-back honorees
after forward Andrew Wiggins won the Eddie
Gottlieb Trophy last season. The 7-foot Towns
received all 130 first-place votes from a panel
of sports writers and broadcasters in the United States and Canada, joining Damian Lillard
(2013), Blake Griffin (2011), David Robinson
(1990) and Ralph Sampson (1984) as recent
unanimous winners.
New York’s Kristaps Porzingis finished second, and Denver’s Nikola Jokic was third.
The first pick out of Kentucky in the 2015
draft, Towns ranked eighth in the NBA in
rebounds and field-goal percentage and produced the best debut for a big man since Tim
Duncan in 1998. The 20-year-old Towns averaged 18.1 points, 10.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks,
helping the Timberwolves win 13 more games
than the season before.
The Wolves became the first team with
back-to-back winners of the award since Bob
McAdoo and Ernie DiGregorio with the Buffalo Braves in 1973 and 1974.
Towns was the only rookie to start all 82
games. He was named Western Conference
rookie of the month in all six months the
award was handed out.
Displaying the polish and poise of a veteran
from the earliest stages of his career, Towns
showed an elite ability to pass, rebound and
score from both the paint and the three-point
line, making him the quintessential big man
for the modern era and giving the Timberwolves hope they’ve finally found the star
needed to carry them out of the cellar. With
Towns, Wiggins, Zach LaVine, Ricky Rubio,
Gorgui Dieng and Shabazz Muhammad to be
coached next season by Tom Thibodeau, the
Wolves believe they have the ingredients to
finally end a 12-season playoff drought.
Towns had 28 points and 14 rebounds in
the second game of the season, a victory over
Denver. While many rookies hit a wall in the
middle of the long, grueling schedule, Towns
only improved as the season went on. He averaged 21.3 points on 55 percent shooting and
11.7 rebounds over the final 31 games.
“People who know me know I’m never satisfied. I’ve never felt like I’ve had a good game,”
Towns said last month. “It’s hard to get me
to even say I played good. That’s just in me.
I’m just never satisfied. A lot of my friends
get annoyed by it. I’m never happy about anything, playing-wise. I always think there’s
things I messed up on, things I should’ve done
differently.”
Towns plans to donate the Kia he receives
A NN HEISENFELT/AP
Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns
was announced as the unanimous choice for
Rookie of the Year award on Monday.
for the honor to the Leukemia Lymphoma
Society in honor of former Timberwolves executive and coach Flip Saunders, who died in
October after a battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and his two grandparents who died from
cancer as well.
The trophy is named for Gottlieb, one of the
NBA’s founders. He coached the Philadelphia
Warriors to the league’s first championship in
1946-47.
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The Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose
Bautista, left, gets hit by the
Rangers’ Rougned Odor during
the eighth inning of Sunday’s
game in Arlington, Texas.
RICHARD W. RODRIGUEZ /AP
Bautista, Jays fall to Rangers as simmering feud boils over
BY SCHUYLER DIXON
Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas
ose Bautista slid hard into second
base, stood up and found himself
face-to-face with Texas’ Rougned
Odor.
Next thing the Toronto slugger knew, he
was rattled by a punch to the jaw that sent
his batting helmet and sunglasses flying.
A feud simmering since Bautista’s bat
flip in last year’s AL Division Series boiled
over into a wild brawl that ultimately triggered six of the eight ejections in the Blue
Jays’ 7-6 loss on Sunday.
“I was pretty surprised,” Bautista said.
“I mean, obviously, that’s the only reason
that he got me and he got me pretty good,
so I have to give him that. It takes a little
bit bigger man to knock me down.”
Perhaps it’s a good thing the Rangers
J
and Blue Jays have played for the final
time this season. As for the playoffs, well,
that would be interesting.
Texas is headed to Oakland, and the Blue
Jays back home to Toronto, the site of last
year’s emotional meeting in the playoffs.
That’s when Bautista capped a wild seventh inning with a clutch three-run homer
and the monumental bat flip that angered
Texas.
This time, Bautista was upset by getting
hit by an eighth-inning pitch from 30-yearold Texas rookie Matt Bush (1-0), who got
his first major league win two days after
his debut — and 12 years after he was the
No. 1 overall pick in the draft.
Toronto manager John Gibbons, who
was ejected in the third inning over an argument about balls and strikes, came back
to the field for the brawl.
He suggested the Rangers were finally
‘ It was ugly and unfortunate. To me, it
was gutless. The other 29 teams, they
come at you right away, but to wait
until the end, it just sort of tells
you something.
’
John Gibbons
Toronto Blue Jays manager
retaliating for Bautista’s bat flip in the
eighth inning of the last of seven games
between the teams this season. Texas beat
Toronto in a series for the first time since
2012, but the Blue Jays had a 4-3 edge for
the season.
“It was ugly and unfortunate,” Gibbons
said. “To me, it was gutless. The other 29
teams, they come at you right away, but to
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wait until the end, it just sort of tells you
something. Everybody is going to say, ‘Oh,
it was a one-run game. The ball got away.’
That ain’t going to fly.”
Crew chief Dale Scott told a pool reporter that Gibbons’ return “will be in the report and Major League Baseball will take
care of it.”
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