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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2016
Turkish PM
says Russia
could join US
at Incirlik hub
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BY JOHN VANDIVER
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STUTTGART, Germany —
Could U.S. warplanes soon be
sharing the runway at Turkey’s
Incirlik Air Base with Russian
bombers?
That’s up to Moscow, according
to a top Turkish official, whose
comments on possibly opening
the strategic Turkish facility to
Russian personnel comes ahead
of a damage control visit by U.S.
Vice President Joe Biden on
Wednesday.
When asked on Saturday
whether Russia could use Incirlik
for airstrikes against the Islamic
State group in Syria, Turkish
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim
answered in the affirmative.
“If necessary, the Incirlik base
can be used (by the Russians),”
Yildirim told reporters.
The prospect of opening Incirlik to Russia, a move that would
likely infuriate NATO allies,
would put the U.S. military in the
awkward position of working and
possibly living side by side with
an adversary. In addition to being
home to about 2,500 U.S. troops,
Incirlik also houses about 50 U.S.
nuclear weapons, according to
various watchdog groups.
For Russia, Incirlik is unlikely
to offer much tactical value, since
its fighter-bombers and attack
helicopters already operate from
bases in Syria closer to the actual
battlefields, and Yildirim made
clear that Moscow hadn’t requested use of the air base. Still,
a move into Incirlik could offer
Russia an opportunity to chip at
NATO unity.
Whether Yildirim was serious
about the Incirlik offer to Moscow
or floating the idea as a sign of leverage against the United States
isn’t clear. But what has become
apparent in recent weeks is that
inside Turkey, where conspiracies abound about the U.S. having
covertly backed the attempted
July coup attempt, there is growing frustration with Washington.
SEE INCIRLIK ON PAGE 5
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shakes hands with Louis Dorfman, who gave his Purple Heart to Trump during
a campaign rally on Aug. 2 in Ashburn, Va. Trump saying he “always wanted” a Purple Heart rubbed some veterans the wrong way,
but others are sticking by him because they would like to elect a president from outside the foreign policy establishment.
Why many veterans are sticking with Trump despite controversial comments
BY THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF
AND DAN L AMOTHE
The Washington Post
E
van McAllister was 23 years old
when he fought in the Iraqi city
of Ramadi in 2006. He killed men
and buried friends. Eight years
later, he watched the same city fall to the
Islamic State group.
To McAllister, a former Marine staff sergeant and scout sniper instructor, the war he
fought was a harebrained mission planned
by Republicans, rubber-stamped by Democrats and, in the end, lost to al-Qaida’s brutal
successor. The foreign policy establishment
of both parties got his friends killed for no
reason, he said, so come Election Day, he is
voting for the man he believes answers to
neither Democrats nor Republicans: Donald Trump.
“Most veterans . . . they see their country
lost to the corrupt,” he said. “And Trump
comes along all of a sudden and calls out the
corrupt on both sides of the aisle.”
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“He told us he would
swallow the knives along
with a glass of water. He
had no explanation for
why he did it. Just an
urge.”
— Dr. Jatinder Malhotra, who assisted
in a five-hour operation to remove 40
knives from the stomach of police
constable in Northern India who was
suffering from a psychiatric disorder
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PACIFIC
N. Korea accused of planting mines
BY K IM GAMEL
Stars and Stripes
SEOUL, South Korea — The
U.S.-led United Nations Command
on Tuesday accused the North
Korean army of planting land
mines near a landmark bridge
in the heavily militarized border
that divides the peninsula.
South Korean officials said the
mines were laid last week on the
northern side of the Bridge of No
Return, which spans the military
demarcation line near the truce
village of Panmunjom, according
to the Yonhap news agency.
The report comes amid height-
ened tensions after the South
confirmed that a high-level North
Korean diplomat had defected,
prompting concern that Pyongyang would take action to prevent
others from fleeing the isolated
country.
The U.S. and South Korea also
began their annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises on Monday, prompting a wave of anger
from Pyongyang.
The United Nations Command
said it was “aware of the Korean
People’s Army activity in vicinity of the Bridge of No Return in
Panmunjom, but will not speculate as to why the KPA is taking
these actions.”
The statement warned that devices or munitions near the bridge
jeopardize the safety of people on
both sides, including thousands of
schoolchildren and other visitors
who participate in educational
tours.
“United Nations Command
strongly condemns any KPA action that jeopardizes the safety
of all personnel in the DMZ,” it
said.
Yonhap reported that it was
the first time North Korea was
seen planting mines in Panmunjom since the 1953 armistice that
ended the three-year war, al-
though there are explosives elsewhere in the 2.5-mile-wide buffer
zone. Two South Korean soldiers
were maimed last August by alleged North Korean mine blasts.
The peninsula has been on
high alert for months since North
Korea conducted its fourth underground nuclear test in January, followed by a series of
missile tests despite a new round
of toughened U.N. sanctions.
The Bridge of No Return was
used for prisoner exchanges at
the end of the Korean War.
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US-S. Korea war games are underway
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
The commander of I Corps and
about 400 personnel from Joint
Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., are
heading to the Korean peninsula
to take part in U.S.-South Korean
war games that kicked off this
week.
“I will be forward, and we’ll
roughly have a task organization
under us that will support the
entire [South Korean] operation
as part of this yearly exercise,”
Lt. Gen. Stephen Lanza said
Monday.
About 25,000 U.S. and 50,000
South Korean personnel are participating in the drills, which elicit the ire — and hyperbole — of
the North Korean regime. The
Korean People’s Army issued a
statement Monday saying that
“the slightest sign of aggression”
would result in “a heap of ashes
through Korean-style preemptive
nuclear strike.”
I Corps has already deployed
early-entry and tactical command posts in Korea, Lanza said.
The I Corps task organization
will have elements of the 25th Division, the 3rd Infantry Division
and the 1st Canadian Division.
Specifics about how the nearly
two-week exercise, much of which
will be computer-simulated, are
hard to come by.
“I think what I can share with
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South Korean firefighters wearing protective gears move during an
anti-terrorism drill in the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise at Yoido
Subway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday.
you … it’s obviously a tactical operation for us with operational and
strategic significance,” Lanza said.
“There will obviously be a general
scheme of maneuver against some
type of action that forces us into
some kind of response.
“As I’ve said before, it’s not related to any real-world or current
event, but it really is a readiness
exercise to train our forces and
build our interoperability and the
partnership of the [South Korea]U.S. alliance.”
The exercise strengthens I
Corps’ expeditionary capabilities
and ability to deploy its command
post forward into a theater, Lanza
said.
Because of the complexity of
both Korean terrain and operating with a large South Korean
force, the exercise helps I Corps
ready itself for global and Pacific
operations, he said.
That outcome dovetails with the
updated theater guidance issued
Aug. 12 by Adm. Harry Harris,
leader of U.S. Pacific Command,
which lists “be ready to fight to-
night” as a priority.
“I think the Corps has a significant role to play as an operational headquarters for PACOM
in the future,” Lanza said. “I see
perhaps some of the operations
becoming more joint. I see them
leveraging our partners, both
guard and reserve.”
I Corps shifted its mission to
the Pacific in 2012 as part of the
Obama administration’s “Pacific
pivot,” which is intended to refocus the nation’s priorities away
from Afghanistan and Iraq to the
Asian region.
I Corps has played a role in increasing the Army’s presence in
the region through Pacific Pathways, an initiative under which
units of deployed U.S. soldiers
remain in theater for two or three
sequential exercises. One leg of
Pacific Pathways in September
will include Japan and Malaysia,
with the next involving Thailand, Cambodia, Korea and the
Philippines.
Soldiers at Joint Base LewisMcChord will also be involved in
the Yama Sakura exercise with
Japan in December and the Yudh
Abhyas exercise in India in early
2017.
“I don’t see our requirements
lessening,” Lanza said. “I see
our requirements continuing to
grow.”
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2 Marines honored
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BY M ATTHEW M. BURKE
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A woman living at Yokota Air Base, Japan, waits for a ride Tuesday after the base commander ordered
that western Tokyo air base housing towers be evacuated.
Typhoon displaces 300 US
military families in Japan
BY A ARON K IDD
AND JAMES K IMBER
Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan —
More than 300 families living at a
western Tokyo air base were displaced Tuesday after a typhoon
caused flooding that knocked out
power and water service to their
homes.
Buildings 4300, 4301, 4302,
4303 and 4305 on Yokota Air
Base’s east side lost electricity
after Mindulle — the first typhoon
to roar ashore in the metropolitan
area in 16 years — made landfall
Monday afternoon south of Tokyo.
The storm triggered floods, disrupted travel and kept some U.S.
military bases, including Yokota,
on lockdown before being downgraded to a tropical depression
Tuesday morning.
Yokota received just under 10
inches of rain — 4 more inches
than expected — in about eight
hours, an official said.
“We don’t have an exact time
frame on when power will be
restored,” Capt. Mark Lazane,
374th Airlift Wing public affairs
officer, said in an email to Stars
and Stripes. “It depends on the
amount of damage done to the
electrical system, and that won’t
be known until the systems are
dried out.”
Safety was the main reason
for the evacuation, said Col. Neil
Richardson, the 374th Airlift
Wing vice commander.
“No power and no water in any
of the facilities also means we
have no fire-detection capability,
so we determined it was unsafe to
keep them in there,” he said.
The installation commanderdirected evacuation asked the
affected residents to report to a
processing line at Yokota’s Enlisted Club on Tuesday afternoon
to receive keys to their temporary
quarters.
The American Red Cross distributes free bottled water and
nonperishable food to families on Tuesday.
“Expect to have at least a cot
and hot water,” said a statement
posted to Yokota’s Facebook
page. “Some rooms may or may
not have cooking or cold storage
equipment.”
Evacuees were asked to bring
72 hours’ worth of linens, towels, toiletries and comfort items.
They were also asked to bring entertainment, such as laptops and
cellphones.
“The lodging has power, but
does not have internet,” the statement said.
“Most of them will go into contingency lodging,” Richardson
said. “We have some people, based
on medical necessity or need, that
will move into the Kanto Lodge as
well, but we have the capability
here with all of the other towers
that still have power on the south
side of the base.”
Some residents were also given
the option of staying in an offbase hotel, reimbursable up to
$140 per night.
The evacuation is for comfort
and hygiene, an official said during a briefing to affected residents. The towers will remain
open 24 hours a day, and families
will be allowed to come and go as
needed.
Yokota’s 374th Civil Engineer
Squadron is working around the
clock to fix the problem, Richardson said.
“They got all the water out of
the basements, the drive-in areas,
out of the docks, and now they’re
working on the power piece,” he
said. “And that’s going to come
around slowly. The objective is to
get everybody back into a home
as quickly as possible.”
For property loss claims, Air
Force personnel must contact Yokota’s legal office, an official said.
Other servicemembers can make
claims through their service’s
legal office. Civilian employees
must go through their personal
insurance company.
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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa
— On the evening of April 16, Marine Cpl. Ian Burnham and Lance
Cpl. Luis Rosas were off duty and
returning to base when they witnessed a serious car crash.
The Okinawa, Japan-based Marines from the 3rd Maintenance
Battalion reacted quickly, helping the injured from their vehicles
to safety. When one of the cars
caught fire, the Marines cleared
the scene and risked their own
safety to calmly extinguish the
flames.
The two were honored for their
actions Aug. 16 in a ceremony at
the Urasoe police station.
“We’re extremely proud of our
Marines and what they did back
in April,” said Lt. Col. Dane Salm,
3rd Maintenance Battalion commander, who attended the ceremony. “This is what we expect from
our Marines. It just happened to
be these two in that position this
time. … These two are phenomenal Marines, and they continue
to do phenomenal things for the
Marine Corps.”
According to accounts given
by Burnham, Rosas and Urasoe
police, the pair was returning to
base at about 9:30 p.m. on April
16. As they walked down Route
58, Okinawa’s main thoroughfare
in the Makiminato district of Urasoe, they observed one car doing a
U-turn and another pulling out of
a convenience-store parking lot.
“They T-boned each other,” said
Burnham, 24, of Spokane, Wash.,
after the ceremony.
One of the passengers complained of a neck injury, but no one
was seriously hurt. Burnham and
Rosas pulled the injured person
to the side of the road. They then
discovered that the other vehicle
was on fire.
Police officials said panic set in
among the driver of the flaming
vehicle and the spectators who
had gathered. They moved close
to the burning vehicle but didn’t
know what to do.
Rosas, 20, of Wilmington, Calif.,
said he motioned for everyone to
get back.
Two employees of a nearby
store carried fire extinguishers
out to the scene but did not know
how to operate them, police said.
Burnham and Rosas took control and put out the fire. Police arrived a short while later.
Urasoe police Chief Eikatsu
Sakihara said the Marines’ acts
should not be dismissed as business as usual. One month later, on
the same road and near the scene
of the April 16 crash, the same
thing happened. That time, a car
exploded, totaling the vehicle and
seriously damaging the road.
“It was a very courageous act,”
Sakihara said of the Marines’ actions after the Aug. 16 ceremony.
“We are very grateful.”
During the ceremony, which
took place in Sakihara’s office,
Burnham and Rosas stood at attention opposite prefectural police officials. They were presented with
framed letters of appreciation,
and an edict was read describing
their courageous actions. The pair
then joined Sakihara and his staff
in a long bow to one another, a sign
of deep respect.
The Marines then met the press,
clearly uneasy with the attention
they were getting.
“It’s all well and good,” Burnham said of the honor. “I’m just
glad we could help the people
out.”
Stars and Stripes reporter Chiyomi
Sumida contributed to this report.
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Bronze Star recipient pleads
guilty to stealing identities
BY SCOTT DAUGHERTY
The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot
NORFOLK, Va. — A 19-year
Navy veteran and Bronze Star
recipient pleaded guilty Monday
to stealing the identities of two
subordinates to secure fraudulent
loans.
Senior Chief Petty Officer Clayton Pressley III, 41, of Chesapeake, Va., is set to be sentenced
Jan. 12 in U.S. District Court in
Norfolk, Va. He faces up to 30
years in prison on one count of
bank fraud plus a mandatory two
years for one count of aggravated
identity theft.
According to a statement of
facts filed with the plea agreement, Pressley stole “identification documents” belonging to at
least two sailors under his command. He subsequently applied
for and received two loans totaling
$14,000 in the name of one sailor
and $10,000 in the name of the
other. He used the proceeds for
his own benefit, court documents
said.
Pressley received his Bronze
Star in January 2007, according to
a copy of the citation. He received
it “for exceptionally meritorious
service during Operation Iraqi
Freedom.”
“His outstanding dedication to
duty during combat operations in
Iraq contributed to the overwhelming success of the command’s mission,” the citation said.
In an interview in May, Pressley said that while the citation references his entire tour of duty in
Iraq, he believed he received the
medal for his efforts one day pulling some of his comrades from a
Stryker vehicle that had been hit
by a bomb. He said he did it while
under fire.
Since October 2014, Pressley
has been assigned to Explosive
Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit
6 at joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story in Virginia
Beach, Va.
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Islamic State struggles to keep
grip as it loses ground in Iraq
GI killed by IED
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BY BALINT SZLANKO
Associated Press
DIBAGA CAMP, Iraq — As the
Islamic State group loses ground
in Iraq, the militants are showing
strains in their rule over areas
they still control, growing more
brutal, killing deserters and relying on younger and younger
recruits, according to residents
who fled battleground territories.
The accounts point to the difficulties the extremist group
faces as Iraqi forces, backed by
the United States, prepare for an
assault on Mosul, the largest city
still in the militants’ hands. For
months, Iraqi troops, militias and
Kurdish fighters have been clawing back territory town by town,
making their way toward the
northern city.
In the latest areas recaptured,
Iraqi troops over the past month
took a clump of villages near a
key military base south of Mosul
that they plan to use as a hub for
the assault. Residents of the communities, which lie strung along
bends in the Tigris River, say that
in the preceding weeks, the militants ruling them had seemed to
be scrambling to keep control.
In Qayara, which is the main
town in the area and remains
in Islamic State hands, beheadings and extrajudicial killings
that previously were occasional
became commonplace in a hunt
for spies and deserters, said Jarjis Muhammad Hajaj, who was
among thousands of residents
who fled fighting in the area and
now live in the Dibaga Camp for
displaced people in Kurdish-run
territory. Hajaj said the group’s
fighters appeared increasingly
nervous as they watched news of
Islamic State losses elsewhere.
Their ranks also appeared to
turn more to younger, less experienced men. At one point, al-
BY TARA COPP
CHAD GARLAND
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Civilians who recently fled territory formerly controlled by Islamic
State militants get off a truck at the Dibaga Camp for displaced
people in Hajj Ali, northern Iraq, on Aug. 17.
most all the militants guarding
the streets were teenagers, he
said. That, Hajaj said, was when
he thought: “They’re collapsing.
They’re finished.”
Fighters as young as 13 or 14
were patrolling in the village of
Awsaja on the other side of the
river, said one resident, who asked
to be identified by his nickname
Abu Saleh for fear of reprisals
against his family in areas still
under Islamic State rule. He said
the militants killed seven people
for trying to flee the village, displaying their bodies on a bridge
as an example to others.
As Iraqi troops moved on Awsaja, the militants seemed confused
on how to respond.
At one point, some Islamic State
fighters decided to retreat and ordered all the residents to come
with them as human shields, Abu
Saleh said. That prompted an argument with others in the group
who were remaining in the vil-
lage to fight and wanted the residents to stay for their protection,
said the 50-year-old psychologist,
who fled with other residents and
is now also in Dibaga Camp. Iraqi
forces succeeded in retaking
Awsaja in mid-July.
U.S. and Iraqi officials say
the final assault on Mosul is still
weeks away as forces fight to retake territory around the city.
The towns and villages around
Qayara recaptured from the Islamic State group are still too
close to the front lines and too
rife with booby-traps and explosives for residents to return.
When Iraqi forces retook the
area, many Islamic State fighters
changed into civilian clothes and
disappeared into the desert.
Hajaj, the Qayara resident, said
people in the area will never allow
them to regain a foothold.
“Now we know who they are,
we will never let them return,” he
said.
DOD disputes US has created
de facto no-fly zone over Syria
BY TARA COPP
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Monday the United
States has not created a de facto
no-fly zone in northern Syria despite back-to-back incidents in
which jets were scrambled to protect troops on the ground.
“Our warning to the Syrians
is the same we’ve had for some
time,” Pentagon press secretary
Peter Cook said. “They would be
advised not to fly where our forces are operating.”
On Friday, two U.S. F-22 Raptors responded to two Syrian
Su-24 Fencers that approached
the city of Hassakeh, where U.S.
forces have been on the ground
training Syrian Kurdish and
Arab forces fighting the Islamic
State group. That incident followed one on Thursday when two
U.S. aircraft responded to Syrian
jets conducting airstrikes around
Hassakeh.
In both instances, the United
States tried to warn the Syrians
by relaying a message through
the Russians that the planes were
threatening U.S. or U.S.-protected forces, Cook said.
“We’re going to defend our
forces on the ground, absolutely,”
he said.
However, Cook said the overhead protection does not mean
the United States has established
a no-fly zone over the city.
Providing air support for ground
troops in Syria is complicated for
the United States because some
of its allies are also targets of the
Syrian government.
Several of the moderate Syrian
rebels partnered with the United
States to fight the Islamic State
group are also targets of airstrikes conducted by President
Bashar Assad’s regime.
“We will continue to support
our coalition forces and our partnered operations on the ground in
Syria,” Cook said. “… We’ve been
clear … from the start,” the forces
that are fighting the Islamic State
group “will enjoy the support of
the United States.”
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WASHINGTON — An American servicemember was killed
and one other was injured Tuesday just a day after the U.S. said
it sent troops to aid Afghan forces
in its fight against the Taliban in
southern Afghanistan.
About 100 additional U.S. troops
were dispatched to Lashkar Gah,
the capital city of Helmand province, to help Afghan police secure
the city from Taliban forces surrounding it.
Six Afghans were also injured,
according to a statement from
Resolute Support, the NATO-led
mission in Afghanistan.
“On behalf of all of U.S. ForcesAfghanistan, as well as Resolute
Support, our deepest sympathies
go out to the families and friends
of those involved,” said Gen. John
W. Nicholson, commander of U.S.
forces in Afghanistan and Resolute Support. “We are deeply saddened by this loss, but remain
committed to helping our Afghan
partners provide a brighter future for themselves and their
children.”
The U.S. forces were on a foot
patrol with Afghan troops near
Lashkar Gah when they hit an
improvised explosive device, according to Col. Michael Lawhorn,
the Kabul-based spokesman for
Operation Inherent Resolve.
The identity of the killed servicemember was being withheld
pending notification to the family.
The servicemember was not part
of the 100 troops sent to Lashkar
Gah, Lawhorn said.
The servicemember is the
third American to die in Afghanistan this year, and the second in
Helmand.
Staff Sgt. Christopher A. Wilbur, 36, of Granite City, Ill., died
Aug. 12 in Kandahar from a noncombat-related injury. The cause
of death was not released and the
Pentagon said at the time that the
incident was under investigation.
In January, Army Staff Sgt.
Matthew Q. McClintock, 30, a
Special Forces engineer originally from Albuquerque, N.M., was
killed in a firefight in the Marjah
district of Helmand province.
Since U.S. Forces in Afghanistan formally ended its combat
mission in December 2014, 23
U.S. servicemembers have died
in Afghanistan and 118 have been
wounded, according to the Defense Department.
There are now about 700 U.S.
forces in and around Lashkar
Gah, Lawhorn said. The forces
are conducting train, advise and
assist missions with the Afghan
army and police forces. They are
based at Camp Shorab with the
Afghan army, Lawhorn said.
Omar Zwak, spokesman for the
provincial governor in Helmand,
said U.S. forces have been carrying out operations with Afghans
in the Chah Anjir area of Nad-eAli district and the Babaji area,
which is close to Lashkar Gah.
However, Zwak said he did not
know whether it was in either of
these areas where the IED blast
occurred.
An investigation is being conducted to determine the exact
circumstances of the event, according to the Resolute Support
statement.
In February, the Army deployed
a battalion-sized unit to help train
and advise Afghan units facing a
particularly virulent uprising in
the province. Helmand’s annual
$3 billion opium crop produces
most of the world’s heroin and is
used to fund the insurgency. Its
population is mainly Pashtun, the
ethnic group from which the Taliban derive most of their support,
and the province borders Kandahar, where the Taliban’s government was based from 1996 until
the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
Helmand has been the site of
some of the most intense fighting
in the 15-year war in Afghanistan. Nearly 1,000 foreign troops
have died fighting to secure the
province since 2001.
The insurgents have stepped
up attacks in other parts of the
country as well, taking advantage
of the warm weather to wage war
against the government in Kabul,
Afghanistan’s capital.
The Taliban’s goal is to take a
major urban center, Brig. Gen.
Charles Cleveland, a Resolute
Support spokesman, told reporters Monday. The Taliban will continue to “do their best” to threaten
the provincial capitals in Kunduz
and Helmand, he said.
Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this
report.
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US commander skeptical about Russia, Syria
BY LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The top
U.S. commander for the fight
against the Islamic State group
said Monday that he is skeptical
of any additional military cooperation with Russia in Syria.
In addition, he said he believes
he can get the mission done without it, outlining new plans to accelerate the pace and scope of the
U.S.-led coalition operations to
retake the key Islamic State-held
cities of Raqqa and Mosul within
the next year.
In a wide-ranging telephone
interview from Baghdad, Lt. Gen.
Stephen Townsend said any decision to cooperate with Moscow is
one for the Obama administration
to make.
But, “as a soldier, I’m fairly skeptical of the Russians,”
Townsend told The Associated
Press. “I’m not sure how much
I’m inclined to believe that we
can cooperate with them.”
Townsend’s comments on Russia reflect a broader U.S. military
reluctance to work more closely
with Moscow on operations in
Syria, despite requests from Russia to the U.S. to join forces against
the Islamic
State group
in Syria. The
U.S. is reluctant to cooperate
with
Moscow
because of
its alliance
with President Bashar
Assad; the
Townsend
U.S. is backing rebels who are fighting the
Islamic State but who are also in
Assad’s sights.
Last week, U.S. aircraft scrambled twice to protect American
commandos because Syrian government warplanes were bombing nearby.
The U.S. routinely speaks to
the Russians in order to ensure
safe flight operations over Syria
and to prevent collisions. In the
wake of the Syrian incidents, the
U.S. sent its warning message to
Syria through the Russians, who
have an ongoing, closer relationship with the Syrians.
Townsend, who took command
on Sunday, also said he plans to
step up the military operations in
Iraq.
“We’re going to strike more tar-
gets; we’re going to strike them at
a faster tempo,” said Townsend,
explaining that he wants to give
the Iraqi forces the time and
space to reset and prepare to retake the northern city of Mosul.
As part of that, he said he also
will increase the training and
equipping of Iraqi forces, including a new effort to provide combat training to Iraqi police.
The police, he said, will likely
face fighting as they follow Army
forces into the cities and try to
maintain control of the area and
provide security for the citizens
living there.”
Incirlik: Post-coup Turkey’s status remains a question mark for US
FROM FRONT PAGE
In the aftermath of the attempted mutiny by elements of
the Turkish military, U.S. officials
have publicly backed the government of President Recep Tayyip
Erodgan but have also voiced
concern about a sweeping purge
in Turkey that has resulted in the
detention of thousands of military
officers, academics and political
opposition figures.
Such criticisms from America
and its NATO allies have prompted a furious response from Erdogan’s supporters, including from
pro-government news outlets that
have interpreted such criticisms
as a sure sign of U.S. sympathy for
the mutineers.
The Obama administration
has firmly rejected such charges.
Still, Ankara also has lashed out
at Washington, which it accuses
of foot-dragging on a demand that
Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who lives
in Pennsylvania, be extradited in
connection with Turkish allegations he masterminded the coup
plot, which Gulen has denied.
The U.S. has sought to reassure
Turkey of its political and military
standing inside NATO, and two of
the U.S. military’s top generals
have made recent visits to Ankara. On Monday, U.S. European
Command Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti praised Turkey, saying it has
a unique standing within the military alliance.
“It sits at the crossroads of the
many challenges we face in Europe, from the refugee crisis to
terrorism to human trafficking,”
Scaparrotti said in a statement
after his Monday stop in Ankara
for talks. “We are thankful for
their leadership and contributions
in each of these areas, and for access they have granted us to their
bases, which are critical to our
operations.”
Still, Turkey has sought closer
ties with Russia since the coup,
patching up a relationship with
Moscow that was deeply damaged
after Turkey shot down a Russian
bomber around its southern border in November.
At the time, Russian took a
tough stance, severing many diplomatic and economic ties. Since
then, Turkey has apologized for
the incident, with Erdogan making a formal visit to Russia to meet
President Vladimir Putin earlier
this month.
With relations on the mend,
there could be an opportunity for
Moscow to play Turkey off the
West in an attempt to sow divisions in institutions such as NATO
and the European Union, some
analysts warn.
“Will Russia’s long game of undermining the EU’s cohesion, the
U.S. status as the major superpower, or the role of NATO find fertile
ground in post-coup Turkey? One
hypothesis is that Russia may go
for a long-term game-changing
move and lure Turkey away from
the West as part of a broader geopolitical reconfiguration,” wrote
Marc Pierini, a scholar with the
Carnegie Europe think tank
and former EU ambassador to
Turkey.
For the U.S. and its NATO allies,
Incirlik during the past year has
emerged as a primary hub for airstrikes against the Islamic State
group in Syria and Iraq.
It also has been a place of
upheaval.
In March, EUCOM ordered
military family members off the
post, where dependents have been
a presence for decades amid security concerns. The move forced
schools to close and likely marked
the end of Incirlik as an accompanied tour destination for the Air
Force for the foreseeable future.
Some experts have questioned
the long-term viability of Incirlik
as a hub for U.S. Air Force personnel, given the political tensions
with Ankara.
The Washington-based Stimson Center also has said the U.S.
should consider moving its nuclear weapons out of Turkey, citing
possible security concerns in the
wake of the attempted coup, which
resulted in power being cut off
at the base for nearly a week as
Turkish authorities sought to regain control. The U.S. was forced
to rely on generators to carry out
its mission.
“Whether the US could have
maintained control of the weapons
in the event of a protracted civil
conflict in Turkey is an unanswerable question,” said the Stimson
report, which examined various
ways to reform the U.S. nuclear
program.
EUCOM, which as a matter of
policy doesn’t comment on locations of nuclear weapons, nonetheless said that during the attempted
coup no U.S. personnel or assets
were ever threatened.
“We do not discuss the location of strategic assets,” said
EUCOM spokesman Capt. Danny
Hernandez.
“Broadly, we continue to take
appropriate security steps to
maintain the safety and security
of our personnel, our civilian and
military personnel, their families
and facilities.”
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Air Force seeks
to reduce duties
required of airmen
BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
KAISERSLAUTERN,
Germany — Extra duties such as
managing records, maintaining
web pages and assisting others
with filing taxes will no longer
be required of airmen as the Air
Force looks to cut some of the additional responsibilities laid on
its members on top of mission
requirements.
The service announced that it
will eliminate, reassign or consolidate 29 of 61 additional Air
Force duties — tasks assigned to
airmen that aren’t part of their
unit’s primary mission. The effort is aimed at easing the burden
on servicemembers faced with
increased operational demands
at a time when the force is smaller than it has ever been, officials
said.
“We have heard your concern
and frustration on the issue of
additional duties that compete
with accomplishing our primary
Air Force missions,” Secretary
of the Air Force Deborah Lee
James and Gen. Dave Goldfein,
Air Force chief of staff, said in a
memo last week.
In meeting with airmen at
installations around the world,
James and Goldfein said that
they “have heard consistently
that additional duties assigned at
the unit-level affect our ability to
focus on core mission, which in
turn impacts our readiness.”
After reviewing 61 of the duties assigned by Air Force instruction, the service decided to
eliminate outright seven of them:
destruction officer, functional
area records manager, records
custodian, self-aid and buddy
care monitor/instructor, unit public affairs representative, unit
tax representative, and web page
maintainer.
A number of others will be reduced, with commanders having the discretion to determine
whether the duty is required.
For example, the Air Force is
eliminating a requirement that
all units have a top-secret control officer, an airman trained
to manage top-secret material.
Since only a limited number of
Air Force organizations handle a
large volume of such items, commanders now have the authority
to determine which units need to
maintain this function.
Other extra duties, such as
awards/recognition
program
manager and government pur-
Soldier
killed in
car crash
identified
Stars and Stripes
C HAD C. STROHMEYER /Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force
A medical dummy is used to explain the importance of self-aid buddy
care in October 2013 at Yokota Air Base, Japan.The Air Force is
eliminating a requirement that all units have a trained instructor in
self-aid buddy care as part of a major overhaul of duty requirements.
chase card approving official,
will be shifted to support staffs,
which help commanders manage administrative, personnel
and other functions. Goldfein and
James said in the memo that a
task force will continue to keep
tabs on excessive demands placed
on airmen’s time. Next up is a review of computer-based training
requirements, including their effect on the most stressed career
fields.
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany
— U.S. Army officials have identified the lone casualty of Saturday’s
fatal car crash near Tanzfleck as
Sgt. Andrea M. Rasmussen.
“The leaders and the soldiers of
the 2nd Cavalry
Regiment would
like to extend
our sincere
condolences
to the family
and friends
of Sgt. Andrea
Rasmussen,”
regimental
spokesman
Rasmussen
Maj.
Neil
Penttila said. “Her sudden loss
has come as a shock to those who
have had the honor of serving with
her.”
Rasmussen, a career soldier
with the Vilseck-based unit, lost
control of her vehicle while traveling around midnight on a stretch
of road between Kaltenbrunn and
Tanzfleck. Emergency personnel
were called in but Rasmussen was
pronounced dead at the scene, according to German police reports.
She was 30 years old. Rasmussen earned a number of awards
during her service, including an
Army Commendation Medal
Attorneys argue over impact of McCain remarks on Bergdahl’s trial
BY COREY DICKSTEIN
Stars and Stripes
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Accused deserter
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s court-martial should
not be dismissed because Sen. John McCain asserted he would hold a congressional hearing if the soldier is not punished,
prosecutors told a military judge Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Bergdahl’s attorneys
asked Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance to drop
the desertion and misbehavior before the
enemy charges against their client because
the threat by McCain, R-Ariz., constituted
unlawful command influence, which violates Bergdahl’s right to due process.
But Army Maj. Justin C. Oshana, the lead
prosecutor in the court-martial, argued
the defense attorney’s motion is irrelevant
because McCain is not part of the chain of
command and no judge has ever thrown out
a case because of congressional meddling.
“In the 227 years that Congress has existed in its present form, no case has been
dismissed for … unlawful congressional
influence,” Oshana said. “Defense council
is attempting to create … a new form of unlawful command influence.”
Oshana’s comments came Tuesday on
the second day of a pre-trial hearing ahead
of Bergdahl’s general court-martial, which
is scheduled to begin in February.
The hearing will continue into a third day
when the four-star general in charge of the
case will take the stand Wednesday to answer questions about some 100 letters from
the public that he had destroyed.
Nance ruled Monday that Gen. Robert
Abrams, the chief of Army Forces Command, must testify about those letters that
came to light in a separate defense motion
filed this month that sought to remove him
as the convening authority in the case. On
Tuesday, Bergdahl’s lead attorney, civilian
Eugene R. Fidell, said Oshana’s argument
about McCain’s comments missed the point.
No judge has ever dismissed charges based
on congressional meddling because it has
never before been necessary, he argued.
“Until last October, no retired person
subject to the [Uniform Code of Military
Justice], who was elected to congress, had
ever had the chutzpah to do what Sen. McCain did in this instance,” Fidell said.
As a retired Navy officer, McCain remains subject to the UCMJ. McCain served
more than 20 years in the Navy, including
more than five years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
As the chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, McCain wields substantial power to influence the committee,
which has oversight over broad military issues. The committee, among other things,
confirms nominees to top civilian and uniformed Pentagon jobs.
Though it is unlikely Nance will dismiss the case altogether — the judge said
Tuesday he would make a ruling “as soon
as possible” — experts have said McCain’s
statement does cause some concerns. For
example, Abrams, as the convening authority, and other Army officials could see McCain’s assertion as a threat he would hold
up promotions if Berghdahl is not found
guilty and sent to prison, said Eric Carpenter, an assistant law professor at Florida International University and a former Army
defense attorney and prosecutor.
Abrams, in an affidavit submitted to the
court Friday, said he was not influenced by
any outside sources in his decision in December to send Bergdahl’s case to a felonylevel, general court-martial. That decision
went against the recommendations of the
officer who oversaw a preliminary hearing
in September 2015 that the case be sent to
a misdemeanor-level court and the soldier
should not be imprisoned.
On Wednesday, Abrams could be asked
to testify about any potential influence McCain’s comments had on his decision when
he takes the stand.
Bergdahl, 30, has admitted to Army investigators he walked off his post in eastern
Afghanistan in 2009. He has insisted he had
no intention of deserting the Army. Instead,
he said he wanted to cause a disturbance
that would place him in front of military
brass to file complaints about his chain of
command.
He was captured by Taliban fighters
within hours of leaving Observation Post
Mest and spent five years in captivity in
Pakistan before he was released to special
operations forces in May 2014 in a controversial swap for five senior Taliban leaders
who had been held at the detention facility
at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Bergdahl remains on active duty in a desk
job at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas. He
was arraigned on charges of “misbehavior
before the enemy by endangering the safety
of a command, unit or place” and “desertion
with intent to shirk important or hazardous
duty” in December. He has yet to enter a
plea.
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Trump: Many veterans dissatisfied with political status quo
FROM FRONT PAGE
Trump can seem an unlikely candidate to
be embraced by veterans. He received five
draft deferments during the Vietnam War.
Last summer, he attacked Sen. John McCain, saying the Arizona Republican was
“not a war hero” because he had been captured in Vietnam. More recently, Trump
attacked the parents of Capt. Humayun
Khan, a U.S. soldier and Muslim who was
killed in Iraq, after Khan’s father spoke at
the Democratic National Convention with
his wife standing by his side.
And he has drawn almost universal condemnation from national security experts
who have served under Republican and
Democratic administrations and who say
Trump is unfit to be commander in chief of
U.S. armed forces.
But among many of the people who have
actually fought in this country’s wars,
particularly on the front lines of Iraq and
Afghanistan, Trump offers a refreshing
alternative to 15 years of seemingly endless conflict marked by uncertain goals,
fleeting victories and constant personal
sacrifice, according to interviews with dozens of veterans who remain unfazed by the
Republican candidate’s recent behavior or
falling poll numbers.
On Monday, Trump vowed in a speech to
end “our current strategy of nation-building
and regime change,” a reference to policies
pursued by the Bush and Obama administrations in the Middle East.
“I think there’s a pretty sour taste in a lot
of guys’ mouths about Iraq and about what
happened there,” said Jim Webb Jr., a Marine veteran, Trump supporter, son of former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., and one of
McAllister’s platoon mates. “You pour time
and effort and blood into something, and
you see it p--- away, and you think, ‘How did
I spend my twenties?’
“There’s a mentality that they don’t want
to see more of that,” he said, adding that he
worried that a Hillary Clinton presidency
would result in “continued adventurism,”
given her record supporting interventions
in Iraq and Libya.
Two national polls since the Democratic
convention show Trump leading Clinton
among military veterans — by 14 points in a
Fox News poll and 11 points in a McClatchyMarist poll. By comparison, Clinton shows
a 10-point to 15-point margin among all
registered voters in both surveys.
Trump’s foreign policy ideas can be difficult to pin down. He insists that he opposed
the war in Iraq, but audio clips from interviews show that he supported the invasion.
G ERALD HERBERT/AP
Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump greets U.S. Army veteran Mike
Hanke at the Milwaukee County War
Memorial Center in Wisconsin last week.
He has questioned U.S. participation in
NATO but on Monday pledged to support
the alliance because it had recently formed
a counterterrorism division. He has vowed
to work with anyone to defeat the Islamic
State group, stating that the United States
would have to fight aggressively to win. At
the same time, he has rejected the idea of
nation-building, a hallmark of past strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At a recent Trump rally in Wilmington,
N.C., just 30 minutes from the back gate of
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, David
Buzzard, a 26-year-old former Army specialist, said the Republican real estate magnate was not his “ideal candidate.”
But he is also wary of Clinton, who he
says too readily backs military intervention as a solution in the Middle East and
seems untrustworthy, based on her handling of emails while she was secretary of
state and possible conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and the State
Department.
“I’d rather have an a--- in the office who
doesn’t have a filter than a pandering, corrupt hawk who has special interests in mind
rather than the American public,” said
Buzzard, who has the light outline of a scar
under his left eye, the faint evidence of a
roadside bomb that hit his patrol in 2011 in
Afghanistan’s Wardak province.
This month, Trump made a quip about
how he had “always wanted” to get a Purple
Heart after an Army veteran offered him
his. With two of those medals to his name,
Buzzard shrugged off Trump’s comments,
sayings his words had been taken out of
context.
Former Marine Andrew Delrossi said he
recoiled when he heard that Trump “always
wanted” the Purple Heart.
“There was probably some Marine sitting there in Walter Reed missing his legs
and his testicles watching that on the news,”
Delrossi said. “And that’s the first time I
got mad at Donald Trump. For him to say
a comment like that put a bad taste in my
mouth.”
A former infantryman with deployments
to Iraq and Afghanistan, Delrossi started
a wounded-veterans nonprofit called New
England’s Wounded Veterans, which received $75,000 from the candidate this year
but only after some delay.
In lieu of participating in one of the Republican primary debates this year, Trump
opted to raise money for veterans organizations and claimed that he had contributed
$1 million of $6 million he said was raised.
The majority of Trump’s personal donations
to the fundraiser were not distributed until
he was pressured by reporters.
Still, Delrossi said, he is voting for Trump
and sees him as the “average Joe.”
“Donald Trump is the father at the end
of the table. He is the guy at the Christmas
party saying we gotta do more for our vets
and screw ISIS,” said Delrossi, who now
works as a Boston-area police officer. “He’s
like our own dad almost.”
Delrossi admits that his affection for
Trump is not entirely rational. “It’s almost
one of those things where it’s like where
your heart says Donald Trump and your
brain says Hillary Clinton,” he said.
Trump’s frequent calls to fix the Department of Veterans Affairs have resonated
with veterans, although several said they
are waiting to hear more specifics. The
candidate in July released a 10-point plan to
improve the department, calling for changes that include firing “corrupt and incompetent VA executives who let our veterans
down,” boosting funding for job-placement
services and improving mental health care
services, but details are slim.
“Vets aren’t being taken care of like they
should be no matter which way you try to
twist it,” said Kaylea Schneider, a former
Marine staff sergeant, who said she does
not agree with everything Trump says but
appreciates his views on the military and
foreign policy.
Trump’s perceived patriotism and calls
for a fiercer response to the Islamic State
and other groups have drawn support from
veterans frustrated with the rules of engagement under which the U.S. military operates, several veterans said. The specifics
of those rules are classified but are broadly
understood to outline circumstances under
which U.S. troops can attack enemy fighters
in an effort to prevent civilian casualties.
“When you send our guys — my brothersin-arms, my sisters-in-arms — into a combat zone, we need to go to win, not to play
nice with the populace,” said former Army
Pfc. Chris Richardson, who drove convoys
in Iraq’s Diyala province in 2008 and 2009
and attended Trump’s recent rally in Fayetteville, N.C., in a leather vest adorned
with an Iraq War veteran patch. “If they
shoot at us, we need to be able to shoot back
and trust that we’re not going to be charged
with a crime when we get back stateside.”
Trump’s rhetoric has not won over everyone. Brandon Friedman, a former Army
captain who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and later served in the Obama administration, pointed to a litany of remarks
made by the candidate that disparaged the
military and veterans. He also pointed to
Trump’s lack of support for the post-9/11 GI
Bill, and Trump’s claims that the U.S. military “doesn’t win anymore.”
“When I see veterans saying things like,
‘He’s proud of the military,’ I don’t think
they’re paying attention to the words coming out of his mouth,” said Friedman, who
plans to vote for Clinton. “It’s amazing to
me that he’s been actively hostile to the veterans community and still retains so much
support.”
Some veterans have decided that neither
candidate suits them.
Former Marine Gunnery Sgt. Emir
Hadzic said he used to back Trump, but
his support waned after he heard the candidate’s comments about Mexicans and
Muslims. Hadzic, who just left the Marines
after spending eight deployments overseas,
said he plans to write in a name or vote for a
third-party candidate in November.
“My friends say, ‘You gotta pick Hillary
or Trump, man; you need to pick the lesser
of two evils,’ ” Hadzic said. “And I say, ‘I’m
not voting for either, because I don’t vote for
evil.’ ”
For Webb, writing in a candidate or voting “out of protest,” is not an option. For all
of Trump’s perceived flaws, Webb said, he
thinks he is the strongest candidate.
“He is bringing a comprehensive re-examination of how we conduct business,”
Webb said. “Whether it’s on taxes or it’s how
we’re involved in the world, it’s very sorely
needed.”
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Clinton: Attacks
on her physical
fitness ‘wacky’
Fellow Republicans
wait for Trump cash
BY CHAD DAY
JULIE BYKOWICZ
AND
Associated Press
BY LISA LERER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Hillary Clinton is pushing
back against charges that she’s physically unfit for
the White House.
The Democratic presidential candidate said the
accusations are part of a “wacky strategy” by GOP
rival Donald Trump and an “alternative reality”
that’s not focused on the kinds of issues that are
most important to voters.
“I do feel sometimes like this campaign has entered into an alternative universe,” she said in an
appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” taped
Monday afternoon. “I have to step into the alternative reality and, you know, answer questions about,
am I alive, how much longer will I be alive, and the
like.”
Clinton said she doesn’t question Trump’s health
— she believes he’s “healthy as a horse.”
“This has become one of their themes,” she said.
“Make sure I’m alive.”
The comments marked the first time Clinton has
addressed debunked rumors about her health, which
have been encouraged by Trump and his backers.
Much of the speculation stems from a concussion
Clinton sustained in December 2012 after fainting,
an episode her doctor has attributed to a stomach
virus and dehydration.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani urged
CAROLYN K ASTER /AP
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
talks with Jimmy Kimmel during a break in the
taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday.
voters to “go online and put down ‘Hillary Clinton
illness,’ ” in an interview with Fox News on Sunday, saying the next morning that she “looks sick.”
Trump has questioned her stamina at campaign rallies and speeches, saying in a foreign policy address
earlier this month that she “lacks the mental and
physical stamina to take on ISIS”.
Meanwhile, Clinton expressed little concern Monday about the planned release of 15,000 additional
State Department emails that went previously undisclosed during an FBI investigation into her use of
a private server as secretary of state. The messages
could become public in mid-October, just weeks before Election Day.
“My emails are so boring,” she told Kimmel.
“We’ve already released 30,000 plus, so what’s a few
more?”
When asked about her preparations for the three
debates with Trump, Clinton said she’s taking the
match-up seriously but is getting ready for “wacky
stuff.”
WASHINGTON — Donald
Trump portrays himself as an
indispensable cash resource for
fellow Republicans up and down
the ballot.
But while Trump is pulling
in donor checks, an Associated
Press review of campaign finance
filings shows most of his fellow
Republicans are still waiting for
their cut. The 2016 presidential
nominee has a lot of work to do to
if he wants to match the amount
of financial aid Mitt Romney gave
to his party four years ago.
“Typically you see the nominee lift everyone up,” said Chris
Schrimpf, a spokesman for Ohio
Gov. John Kasich, one of Trump’s
defeated primary rivals.
The state features a critical
Senate race this year, but Trump
has all but ignored the Ohio state
party. “This time, if anything, everyone else is carrying his water,”
Schrimpf said.
In July, the Republican National Committee received $18.1
million from joint fundraising
efforts with Trump. But some
$3 million covered postage for
Trump-centered fundraising so-
licitations, and the national party
transferred $4.5 million into convention and legal proceedings
accounts, leaving at most $10.6
million that could be used to help
Republicans — including Trump
— win elections this fall, filings
show.
At this time four years ago,
Mitt Romney’s joint fundraising
account transferred about $25
million to the RNC.
RNC chairman Reince Priebus
defends Trump as a strong fundraising partner for Republicans. Trump has made the same
argument.
“I’m the one that’s raising the
money, and other people are
getting to use the money that I
raised,” Trump said in an Aug. 11
interview with Fox News, adding
that he is “raising a lot of money
for the Republican Party.”
The Trump campaign said that
as of Aug. 1 his victory accounts
contained $37 million to be disbursed to his campaign, the RNC
and other partners. Trump’s national finance chairman Steven
Mnuchin said it was a strategic
decision not to transfer the money
right away.
The Trump Victory Committee
hadn’t transferred money to any
of his state allies as of July 31.
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La. in recovery mode, but it will be a slog
BY M ELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — Storm victims
spill out of the waiting rooms, some clutching water-stained documents, others with
the long stare of those stricken by disaster,
each with a story of personal tragedy about
the Louisiana flood’s devastation to their
homes and their lives.
The line for the makeshift Federal
Emergency Management Agency recovery
center started to gather before the facility
opened Monday at a substance abuse treatment site run by a local Baptist church.
Traffic has been steady ever since.
Edward Shaw, 62, has been staying at
a local Motel 6 since last week’s flooding
inundated the house he was renting, the
water rising to the top of the front door. He
lost his furniture and his car, and hasn’t
heard from his landlord about when the
house might be repaired.
FEMA started covering his motel costs
Sunday, though he’s not sure for how long.
“I hope to God FEMA give me enough so
I can start all over again,” Shaw said.
And if that doesn’t happen? “You just
keep on praying,” he said.
The long, hard slog of recovery is underway across south Louisiana after a storm
that began Aug. 12 dumped as much as 2
feet of rain in some areas over 48 hours,
causing catastrophic flooding.
At least 13 deaths have been attributed to
the flooding, and more than 60,000 homes
were damaged by the storm, which has
been described as the worst disaster since
HEATHER ROUSSEAU, THE ROANOKE (VA .) TIMES/AP
Brittany Hyler, foster coordinator with Angels of Assisi, holds Lil Mama at the shelter in
Roanoke, Va., on Monday. The shelter took in 38 dogs from flood-ravaged Louisiana.
Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
President Barack Obama planned to
visit the area Tuesday.
In hard-hit neighborhoods, people spent
their weekend gutting homes in brutal
heat, ripping out water-logged carpet and
flooring, stripping out walls and insulation
and sifting through personal belongings to
determine if anything was salvageable.
At least $110 million in agriculture was
damaged by the storm, a figure likely to
grow, according to the an estimate released
Monday by the LSU AgCenter.
Flood insurance adjusters were on the
ground, assessing property damage.
Roy Wright, FEMA’s deputy associate
administrator for insurance, said more
than 25,000 claims already have been filed
with the National Flood Insurance Program and $15 million in advance payments
had been distributed to homeowners to
help people begin repairs.
Large numbers of flood-damaged homes
weren’t covered with flood insurance.
Ariana Galindo, a Spanish teacher from
Baton Rouge, is one of the many residents
who didn’t live in a designated flood zone
that required flood insurance coverage, so
she never bought it. Galindo’s home was
hit with 2 feet of water, and she and her
husband were staying temporarily at her
aunt’s house.
“I lost everything, and I just called my
homeowners’ insurance and they told me
that they don’t cover anything because the
insurance that I’m paying for doesn’t cover
flood,” Galindo said Monday, waiting in
the FEMA assistance center. “I need some
help to repair my house.”
Five such recovery centers had opened
so far — and more were planned — operating seven days a week. About 110,000
people across south Louisiana already had
registered for federal disaster assistance.
FEMA aid, however, isn’t expected to be
enough.
“This is really the first step in your recovery process,” said FEMA spokeswoman Renee Bafalis. “We can’t get you back
to where you were before the storm, but we
can help you get to a safe, secure and sanitary environment.”
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Kan. asks court to
exclude voters over
citizenship proof
BY COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated Press
DENVER — Kansas is asking
a federal appeals court to keep
thousands of people who haven’t
yet provided the documents to
prove they are U.S. citizens from
voting in November’s election.
Judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver
are set to hear arguments Tuesday in the legal fight over how the
state enforces its proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters who
register at motor vehicle offices.
Since 1993, states must allow
people to register to vote when
they apply for or renew their driver’s licenses. The so-called motorvoter law says people can be asked
for only “minimal information”
when registering to vote, allowing them to simply affirm they are
citizens.
A federal judge in May temporarily blocked Kansas from disenfranchising about 18,000 who
registered to vote at motor vehicle
offices without providing citizenship paperwork such as birth certificates or naturalization papers.
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson
ordered the state to register them
for federal elections until the case,
one of at least four the state is facing over its law, is decided at trial.
The state has said that ruling could
affect as many as 50,000 potential
voters by the November elections.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris
Kobach wants the appeals court to
overturn her preliminary order.
In the appeal, Kobach, a national leader in Republican voting requirement efforts, argued that the
motor-voter law doesn’t bar states
from asking for proof of citizenship and that it doesn’t make sense
to hold people who register to vote
elsewhere in the state to a higher
standard than those who apply to
register at motor vehicle offices.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of the
League of Women Voters and
people whose registrations were
held up because the state said they
were incomplete.
Kobach has championed the
documentation requirement as a
way to prevent noncitizens from
voting, particularly immigrants
who are in the U.S. illegally. Critics contend the requirement suppresses turnout.
Robinson said evidence in the
case shows only three instances in
Kansas where noncitizens voted
in a federal election between 1995
and 2013, and about 14 noncitizens
attempted to register during that
time. Robinson said the number
of people disenfranchised outweighed the harm of those cases.
While people getting new licenses are asked to show proof
that they are in the country legally, the ACLU says clerks in motor
vehicle offices don’t always tell
people seeking license renewals
that they need to provide documents proving their U.S. citizenship to register to vote and that
many leave the motor vehicle office mistakenly believing they are
registered. Some of the people the
ACLU represents said they later
got postcards notifying them that
they had to provide proof of citizenship, but one man went to the
polls on Election Day only to find
out he wasn’t registered.
The so-called motor-voter law says people
can be asked for only “minimal information”
when registering to vote, allowing them to
simply affirm they are citizens.
ELLIOT SPAGAT/AP
Rosalind Alexander-Kasparik cares for her fiance, David Rector, on Friday in San Diego. Rector is
seeking to use new legislation to have his voting rights restored five years after a judge ruled that a
traumatic brain injury disqualified him from casting a ballot.
Restored rights are sought for
disabled voters in California
BY ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — As the November presidential
election neared, it looked like David Rector would
once again be unable to vote. Five years ago, a judge
ruled that a traumatic brain injury disqualified
him.
Then the 66-year-old former NPR producer
learned about a California law that makes it easier
for people with developmental disabilities to keep
and regain the right to vote. The law, which took effect Jan. 1, protects that right if they can express a
desire to vote.
On Tuesday, Rector will seek to have his voting
rights restored, and advocates representing him
and others who have been disqualified will file a
complaint with the U.S. Justice Department asking
that California be required to notify them of the new
law in time for the Nov. 8 ballot.
All but about a dozen states have some type of law
limiting voting rights for individuals based on competence. Advocates say how those laws are enforced
varies widely — not just by state but by county and
judge.
Under California’s new law, seniors and others
with disabilities that are assigned conservators to
manage their financial and other affairs keep the
right to vote unless a court finds “clear and convinc-
ing evidence” that they can’t express a desire to exercise it.
Thomas Coleman, legal director of the Spectrum
Institute, which is filing the complaint on Rector’s
behalf, said he anticipates the law will provide voting protections in conservatorship cases going forward. The challenge, he said, is getting the word
out.
Rector moved to San Diego from Washington,
D.C., in July 2008 to join his fiancee, Rosalind Alexander-Kasparik. He registered to vote almost immediately, even before getting a new driver’s license.
Eight months later, Rector clutched his chest and
fell to his knees while reading a newspaper at breakfast, stricken by a tear in his aorta. After two days in
the hospital, he had a severe brain trauma that left
him unable to speak or use his arms and legs.
Today, he uses a wheelchair to move around and
can write with limited use of his right thumb. He
communicates with electronic devices, using his
thumb or eye-tracking software to indicate what he
wants.
Rector voted in 2010, telling his fiancee of his
opinions on a flurry of state ballot measures. At a
hearing the following year to appoint AlexanderKasparik his conservator, Rector cried out after a
judge checked a box that said he could no longer
vote.
Ramen has become a black-market currency in prisons
BY A MY B. WANG
The Washington Post
Instant ramen is delicious, easy
to cook, ludicrously cheap and
surprisingly nonperishable.
For all those reasons and more,
the noodles are taking over tobacco as the preferred underground
currency inmates use in prisons,
according to a new study by Michael Gibson-Light, a doctoral
candidate in the University of
Arizona School of Sociology.
“Prisoners are so unhappy with
the quality and quantity of prison
food that they receive that they
have begun relying on ramen
noodles — a cheap, durable food
product — as a form of money in
the underground economy,” Gibson-Light said in a news release
Monday. “Because it is cheap,
tasty and rich in calories, ramen
has become so valuable that it
is used to exchange for other
goods.”
Over a year, Gibson-Light interviewed 60 male inmates and
staff members in an unnamed
state-run facility as part of a larger investigation into how prisoners were responding to declining
prison services. He labeled what
he found “punitive frugality”
— that is, as corrections budgets
shrink, the cost of care is shifting
onto prisoners and their support
networks.
Enter the humble ramen brick.
Inmates often used instant
ramen packs to barter for other
food items, clothes, hygiene products and even services, GibsonLight observed. At times, he said,
he saw prisoners put down ramen
packs, or “soups,” as literal bargaining chips during card games.
According to the study, one inmate put it succinctly, “Soup is
money in here.”
Gibson-Light said he noted that
the move away from a “luxury”
currency such as cigarettes oc-
curred even though the prison
had not banned smoking or tobacco products. Rather, he wrote
that inmates told him they were
receiving food deemed “inedible
or too little to sustain them for a
day.”
Gibson-Light is presenting
his research at the American
Sociological Association’s annual conference in Seattle this
week, according to a university
spokesperson.
The ramen study should not
be a surprise to anyone who has
spent time in prison, said Gustavo “Goose” Alvarez, co-author
of “Prison Ramen: Recipes and
Stories from Behind Bars.”
His book, published in November, recounts his experiences
in prison over two separate sentences, one in the mid-’90s and
another from 2006 to 2013.
He quickly learned how critical
ramen was to the inmate economy, and over the years he devised ways to jazz up the instant
noodles.
“It’s gold. It’s literally gold,” Alvarez told The Washington Post.
“People will actually — and I
hate to say this but — they’ll kill
for it, believe it or not.”
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GOP to query firms that ran Clinton’s server
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republicans
stepped up their attacks Monday on former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
email server and pointed to newly
released messages to allege that
foreign donors to the Democratic
presidential nominee’s family
charity got preferential treatment
from her department.
Congressional Republicans issued subpoenas to three technology companies that either made
or serviced the server located in
the basement of Clinton’s New
York home. The subpoenas were
issued Monday by House Science,
Space and Technology Chairman
Lamar Smith, of Texas, with the
support of Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, of
Wisconsin.
In a joint statement, Smith and
Johnson said the move was necessary after the three companies —
Platte River Networks, Datto Inc.
and SECNAP Network Security
Corp. — declined to voluntarily
answer questions to determine
whether Clinton’s private server
met government standards for
record-keeping and security.
The subpoenas were among
several developments Monday
that showed a new GOP emphasis
on Clinton’s emails after the FBI
recently closed its yearlong probe
into whether she and her aides
mishandled sensitive government
information that flowed through
her server. The FBI recommended against criminal charges.
The State Department is now
reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered
as part of the FBI investigation.
Lawyers for the department told
U.S. District Court Judge James
E. Boasberg on Monday that they
anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new
emails in mid-October, raising
the prospect that new messages
sent or received by Clinton could
become public just before November’s election.
Boasberg is overseeing production of the emails as part of a federal public-records lawsuit filed
by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch. Representing the State Department,
Justice Department lawyer Lisa
Olson told the judge that officials
do not yet know how many of the
emails are work-related, rather
than personal.
Clinton, who was secretary
of state from 2009 to 2013, had
claimed she deleted only per-
sonal emails prior to returning
more than 55,000 pages of her
work-related messages to the
State Department last year. The
department has publicly released
most of those emails, although
some have been withheld because they contain information
considered sensitive to national
security.
The thousands of previously
undisclosed Clinton emails obtained by the FBI came from
the accounts of other people she
communicated with or were recovered through the bureau’s
forensic examination of her old
server.
Clinton campaign spokesman
Brian Fallon reiterated Monday that Clinton provided all the
work-related emails she had “in
her possession” when the State
Department asked for copies in
2014. “If the State Department
determines any of them to be
work-related, then obviously we
support those documents being
released publicly as well,” he
said.
Olson said the department earlier this month received seven
discs containing “tens of thousands” of emails Clinton sent or
received during her tenure as the
nation’s top diplomat. The first
disc, labeled by the FBI as containing nonclassified emails not
previously disclosed by Clinton,
contains about 14,900 documents,
she said.
She said it was “extremely ambitious” for the agency to complete
its review and begin releasing the
first batches of emails to Judicial
Watch by Oct. 14, given the volume of messages.
Man held in 5 Alabama slayings
BY JAY R EEVES
Associated Press
JASON HOEKEMA , THE BROWNSVILLE (TEXAS) HERALD/AP
A wrecker crew prepares to flip over a Ford Bronco that was
involved in an April accident in Brownsville, Texas.
US traffic fatalities rise 9
percent in 1st half of 2016
BY JOAN LOWY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Traffic fatalities were up 9 percent in the
first six months of this year compared with the same period last
year, continuing a surge in deaths
that began two years ago as the
economy improved and travel
picked up, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday
by the National Safety Council.
An estimated 19,100 people
were killed on U.S. roads from
January through June, said the
council, a congressionally chartered nonprofit that gets its data
from state authorities. That’s 18
percent more than two years ago
at the six-month mark. About 2.2
million people also were seriously injured in the first half of this
year.
The council estimates the cost
of those deaths and injuries at
about $205 billion.
At that rate, annual deaths
could exceed 40,000 fatalities
this year for the first time in nine
years, the council said. More
than 35,000 people were killed
on U.S. roads last year, making it
the deadliest driving year since
2008, when more than 37,000
were killed.
“Our complacency is killing
us,” said Deborah A.P. Hersman,
the safety council’s president and
CEO. “Americans should demand
change to prioritize safety actions
and protect ourselves from one of
the leading causes of preventable
death.”
U.S. drivers have also put in a
record 1.58 trillion miles on the
road in the first half of this year,
a 3.3 percent increase over the
same period in 2015, the Federal
Highway Administration said
this week.
States with the biggest increases since the upward trend began
in late 2014 include Vermont, up
82 percent; Oregon, 70 percent;
New Hampshire, 61 percent;
Idaho, 46 percent; Florida, 43
percent; Iowa, 37 percent; Georgia, 34 percent; Indiana, 33 percent; California, 31 percent; and
Wisconsin, 29 percent.
CITRONELLE, Ala. — Under
arrest and shackled following the
slaying of five friends in a rural
home, a Mississippi man professed
his love for the estranged girlfriend whose family and friends
were massacred, and he blamed
the killings on drugs.
Speaking with reporters as he
was escorted to jail by deputies
in Mobile, Ala., Derrick Dearman
said Monday that he was on methamphetamine when he went to the
house, located at the end of a deadend dirt road.
“Drugs (were) making me think
things that’s not really there,” said
Dearman, 27, hanging his head
and dressed in a bright-yellow jail
uniform.
After the killings, authorities
said, Dearman abducted estranged
girlfriend Laneta Lester, who had
sought refuge at the house, and a
child of two of the victims. Dearman said he spared their lives because “I came down and realized
what was really going on.”
“(I) turned myself in because I
was sober and knew what was the
right thing to do,” Dearman said.
In videotaped comments broadcast on Mobile-area television,
Dearman expressed his love for
Lester and apologized “to all the
family members.” Dearman, saying all the victims were friends,
added, “Don’t do drugs.” He said
he doesn’t deserve to live.
A man who said his family provided a home for Dearman and
Lester earlier
this
year
near
Leakesville,
Miss., said
Dearman
was
often
on methamphetamines
and
physically abused
Lester during walks in
Dearman
the woods in
rural southeast Mississippi.
“He was taking her out there
and beating the crap out of her,”
said Charlie Passarelli Jr., who
said he had known Dearman for
years. Passarelli said he suspected Lester was either buying or
selling drugs before he and Lester
moved out in late spring.
The slayings left three men
Prince likely had drugs illegally
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — The disclosure that some pills found at
Prince’s Paisley Park home and
studio were counterfeit and contained the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl strongly suggests the
pills came to the superstar musician illegally.
But exactly how Prince obtained the drugs is still unknown,
four months after he collapsed
in an elevator on April 21 and
died of an accidental fentanyl
overdose. Authorities have so far
revealed little about their investigation, saying it’s active and moving forward.
Former prosecutors and defense attorneys who are familiar
with drug investigations say it’s
likely someone will be prosecuted, whether or not Prince knew
he was consuming illegal drugs.
“They will not say it was just
Prince’s fault and let it go at that,”
said Phil Turner, a former federal
prosecutor in Chicago now in private practice.
An official close to the investigation told The Associated Press
on Sunday that some of the pills
found at Paisley Park were falsely labeled as a common generic
painkiller similar to Vicodin, but
they actually contained fentanyl.
and two women dead, including a
pregnant woman and her unborn
child.
A teenager who said she was
related to all five victims by marriage or blood shook her head and
fought back tears as she described
her anguish over the slayings.
“They were really good people.
They’d call and check on you, ask
if you want to come down and
eat,” said Madison McDaniel, 17,
who lives near the scene of the
violence.
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Boko Haram’s
leader reported
killed – again
BY M ICHELLE FAUL
Associated Press
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s
military said Tuesday it believes
an airstrike has “fatally wounded” Boko Haram leader Abubakar
Shekau, but there was no way to
confirm yet another claim of the
death of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist leader.
A statement does not say how
the military got the information
but identifies other commanders
as “confirmed dead” in an air raid
on Friday.
Nigerian security forces have
at least three times in the past
declared that they have killed or
fatally wounded Shekau, only to
have him resurface in video and
audio recordings. The military
has said in the past that Boko
Haram was using look-alike fighters to impersonate the supposedly
dead leader.
The strikes came in “the most
unprecedented and spectacular
air raid” carried out by the Nigerian Air Force while Shekau was
praying on Friday, Islam’s holy
day, at Taye village in the extremists’ Sambisa Forest holdout
in northeast Nigeria, according
to the statement signed by army
spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka
Usman.
“Those Boko Haram terrorist commanders confirmed dead
include Abubakar Mubi, Malam
Nuhu and Malam Hamman,
amongst others. While their leader, so-called ‘Abubakar Shekau,’
is believed to be fatally wounded
on his shoulders. Several other
terrorists were also wounded,” he
said.
The statement comes as U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry is
to meet in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital,
with President Muhammadu Buhari, on a visit to discuss Islamic
extremism and regional security.
Kerry, speaking Tuesday morning in northern Sokoto city, made
no reference to the army’s report.
Shekau started the uprising
in 2009 that has killed 20,000
people, driven more than 2.2 million from their homes, and spread
across Nigeria’s borders. It has
been marked by deadly attacks
and suicide bombings at schools,
mosques and marketplaces and
mass abductions including nearly 300 schoolgirls taken from a
remote school in northeastern
Chibok town in April 2014. Dozens
escaped but 218 remain missing.
A video showing dozens of the
girls last Sunday said Shekau is
willing to negotiate a prisoner
swap for detained Boko Haram
commanders. Buhari is under
increasing pressure to rescue or
negotiate the girls’ release, but
his spokesman has said officials
are wary since previous negotiations failed because officials were
duped into talks with the wrong
people.
Boko Haram appears to be fractured by a leadership struggle as
the Islamic State group announced
it had a new leader. Shekau has insisted he is still in charge. He had
pledged the group’s allegiance to
the Islamic State group last year
— giving the Islamic State its first
franchise in sub-Saharan Africa.
Boko Haram — which means
“Western education is forbidden
— resurfaced as a deadly force
under Shekau, who took over after
a military raid on the group’s compound in Maiduguri, the biggest
city in the northeast, killed some
700 people and captured leader
Mohammed Yusuf was assassinated in police custody.
SCHALK
From The Associated Press
ZUYDAM /AP
Shark expert: Great whites off
South Africa becoming extinct
BY R ENEE GRAHAM
Associated Press
GANSBAAI, South Africa — On
the edge of a boat off this coastal
village, Michael Rutzen stubs
his cigarette into a soda can and
stares pensively out to sea.
He has free-dived with great
white sharks for nearly 20 years,
and he has never known it to be
this difficult to find them.
Extensive research by Rutzen
and his marine biologist partner,
Sara Andreotti, has found that
great whites off the South African
coast are rapidly heading for extinction. The area long has been
one of the world’s best places to
see the sharks, which also live off
Australia, the United States and
Japan.
Streams of fish blood and oil
trail in the water behind other
cage-diving boats nearby. Rutzen
phones one of his spotters, who
has been searching for hours.
“Nothing here, let’s move on,”
Rutzen tells his crew.
Flow of kids to US is unabated
UNITED NATIONS — Thousands of
children trying to escape gang violence
and poverty in Central America have
made their way to the United States this
year — and there is no sign that the flow is
letting up, the U.N. children’s agency said
in a report released late Monday.
In the first six months of 2016, UNICEF
said almost 26,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the U.S. border
along with 29,700 people traveling as a family, mostly mothers and young children.
Most are from El Salvador, Guatemala
and Honduras, three countries with some
of the world’s highest murder and poverty
rates, UNICEF said.
The United States pressured Mexico to
step up detentions of migrants after the
number of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S. border soared to more than
44,500 in the first six months of 2014.
VAN
A great white shark tries to bite a fish head being trolled though the water as researchers chum the
ocean looking for sharks off Gansbaai, South Africa, on Aug. 11. Research by a shark expert has found
that great whites off the South African coast are rapidly heading for extinction.
Rutzen started free-diving with
the sharks in 1998 to show they are
not the monstrous creatures they
are portrayed to be. He has built a
successful business in Gansbaai’s
shark diving industry, which has
prided itself on almost guaranteed
interactions with great whites
and has boomed in the past two
decades.
His clients have included Halle
Berry, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, the
king of Jordan and Prince Harry.
But while it once was not unusual to see 15 to 20 great white sharks
per trip, Rutzen now counts himself lucky if he sees one or two.
Andreotti, who works with Rutzen to photograph and take DNA
samples from sharks, estimates
there are 333 breeding animals
left in the area. For a healthy,
growing population there needs
to be at least 500, she said. The
sharks here have not been known
to breed with sharks from other
parts of the world.
“The great white sharks on the
South African coast are heading
for extinction,” Andreotti said.
“That has massive implications for
the ocean’s ecology. White sharks
are top predators. They are much
like lions. If you take top predators
out of the environment, the rest of
the environment will collapse.”
Conservation group WWF has
warned that the number of great
whites is decreasing worldwide.
The White Shark Research
Group, a team of scientists studying all major areas where the
sharks gather off South Africa, believes the study done in Gansbaai
needs further research. The study
assumes that Gansbaai “represents the entire South African
white shark population. However,
we are not convinced that this is
true,” said Alison Kock, a member
of the research group.
She said it is possible that the
total population has been underestimated, but she agrees that the
sharks are low in number and vulnerable to humans’ impact.
Man in India swallows 40 knives
Associated Press
PRABHJOT G ILL /AP
Dr. Jatinder Malhotra, right, displays the
40 knives that were surgically removed
from the stomach of police constable
Surjeet Singh, as he recuperates in a
hospital in Amritsar, India, on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI — Doctors in northern
India have surgically removed 40 knives
from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them over the past two months, one
of the physicians said Tuesday.
The 42-year-old man is recovering in a
hospital in Punjab state after undergoing
surgery Friday in which doctors removed
the knives — some folded and some with
exposed blades up to 7 inches long.
Dr. Jatinder Malhotra, who assisted during the five-hour operation, said the man,
who works as a police constable, was apparently suffering from a psychiatric disorder
and is now being counseled.
Malhotra said he had never before heard
of a case of a person swallowing knives.
“In my 20-year career, and in all the medical literature that we checked, there has
never been a case like this one, where a person has swallowed not one, but 40 knives,”
said Malhotra, a critical care doctor at the
Corporate Hospital in Amritsar.
The man told doctors that he could not
explain his urge to swallow knives. “He told
us he would swallow the knives along with
a glass of water,” Malhotra said. “He had no
explanation for why he did it. Just an urge.”
The man, who has not been identified,
had come to the hospital two weeks ago
complaining of severe pain in his abdomen.
“In an endoscopy, we saw a big mass
in his abdominal area,” Malhotra said by
phone.
“We initially thought it was a tumor or
some cancerous growth. But it was like
nothing we doctors had seen before.”
A team of two surgeons, two critical care
physicians and an anesthetist conducted
the surgery.
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OPINION
Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher
Lt. Col. Michael C. Bailey, Europe commander
Lt. Col. Brian Choate, Pacific commander
Harry Eley, Europe Business Operations
Terry M. Wegner, Pacific Business Operations
American Jews detached as they aid
BY M ARK OPPENHEIMER
Los Angeles Times
EDITORIAL
Terry Leonard, Editor
[email protected]
Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor
[email protected]
Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content
[email protected]
Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation
[email protected]
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A
coalition of groups active in the
Black Lives Matter movement recently published a platform filled
with demands. Most were important, like an end to mass incarceration. A
few were silly, like low-interest loans to
promote food co-ops. And one included
a passage seemingly designed to enrage
Jews. By way of discussing foreign aid, it
claims that Israel is “complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian
people.”
However badly Israel treats Palestinians, it has never committed genocide.
Former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote in the Boston Globe that this
calumny “can be explained in no other
way than blatant hatred of Jews and their
state.” I don’t quite agree. For many, hyperbole about Israel is less about heartfelt
belief than simply following the crowd, and
hating on Israel is chic right now.
Already, however, some Jews I know are
using that anti-Semitic paragraph to justify
a blanket rejection of the issues that matter to African-Americans. “Why should
we care about them when they don’t care
about us?” they ask. These voices pop up
mainly on Facebook and in private emails,
and they are often couched as rejections
only of Black Lives Matter, but without any
real interest in alternative organizations.
However phrased, this is a troubling
line of thought, for several reasons. First,
no platform can speak for an entire movement. Second, while political alliances may
be built on superficial quid pro quos, moral
reasoning is not. We are obliged to care
about justice for all groups, even if some
leader of some group has insulted us. (For
that matter, we should care about entities
that cannot reciprocate at all: the environment, children, animals.)
But the major issue I see is that many
Jews who will use this as an excuse to reject Black Lives Matter aren’t too interested in African-American issues, anyway.
Despite our history of social action, Jews
have become increasingly detached from
the needs of oppressed people, of all races.
It’s not just that there’s no rabbi or Jewish
theologian identified with social justice, as
Abraham Joshua Heschel was during the
Civil Rights era. Nor is the problem simply
that many Jewish leaders interested in social justice, like Bernie Sanders, are fairly
distant from their religious roots. This isn’t
a problem that could be solved by more visible spokespeople — it’s in all of us.
For most of Jewish history, we were relatively poor. But in the U.S. today, only ethnic
Indians rival Jews for household income
or education levels. With rising affluence,
Jews left urban centers, where they knew
people of many ethnicities, for suburbs.
Our synagogues followed, and every major
American city has a synagogue — often
many — that abandoned an old, downtown
building for a new suburban campus.
Meanwhile, we send our children to private schools in large numbers. Especially
the very religious: Orthodox Jews, eager
to pass on religious knowledge, almost
never send their children to public schools,
where they would meet members of other
ethnic groups.
As a result, although Jews retain a theoretical cultural and religious commitment
to helping those less fortunate, we are less
likely than ever to know the people who
need help. And given our standards of living, we are unlikely to comprehend, viscerally, the material desperation that many of
our fellow Americans feel. …
Solidarity thus becomes an impossibility,
especially when there is very little moral
ambition, and almost no prophetic vision,
among American Jews today.
When I think about religious groups that
offer genuine solidarity to other communities, I think of Amistad Catholic Worker, a
community in a poor part of New Haven,
Conn., my hometown. They eat and pray
together and generally try “to blur the distinction between the people who are serving and those being served,” as they put it.
They also participate in antiwar protests
and boycotts of businesses that mistreat
their workers. Or I think of the Simple Way
in Philadelphia, a Christian intentional
community that plants gardens and feeds
the hungry. Like Amistad, they live among
the people they are trying to help.
Are there Jewish equivalents? Some.
There is Beth Am, a synagogue in Baltimore’s Reservoir Hill that’s forging genuine relationships with African-American
neighbors. There are organizations like
Bend the Arc, which works for voting
rights and economic justice, and the Orthodox group Uri L’Tzedek. Numerous
rabbis urge their congregants to do more,
care more, and sacrifice more.
But in general, we write checks from our
affluent enclaves, vote Democratic, and
call it a day. We worry about the safety of
Israel, and Jews in anti-Semitic Europe,
but have basically given up creating structural change in America. That doesn’t
excuse ugly anti-Semitism in Black Lives
Matter, but it makes us poor messengers
for a better way.
Mark Oppenheimer is a contributing writer to the
Los Angeles Times’ opinion section.
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PR made a big announcement in
the middle of last week: It is ending its users’ ability to offer comments at the bottom of each story
posted on its site.
“We’ve reached the point where we’ve
realized that there are other, better ways
to achieve the same kind of community
discussion around the issues we raise
in our journalism,” Scott Montgomery,
NPR’s managing editor of digital news,
explained.
This is terrific news. And all other major
media organizations should follow NPR’s
lead.
No, I am not anti-First Amendment. And,
no, I am not so thin-skinned that I can’t
take criticism. Neither am I so arrogant as
to believe that I have the right way of looking at everything in the political world.
But I do hate the comments sections
of media websites. Or, more accurately, I
have grown to hate them.
When I started this blog in 2006, I spent
lots of time thinking about the comments
section — and nurturing it. I would regularly go into the comments to interact (or
try to interact) with readers. I incentivized
and deputized regular commenters to keep
order. Then I gave up. Because none of the
tactics or strategies we tried had any real
effect on the quality of the dialogue. No
matter what the original post was about,
a handful of the loudest — or most committed — voices in the room hijacked the
comments thread to push their own agendas. Anyone trying to urge the conversation back to the topic at hand — or even
something approximating the topic at hand
— was shouted down and shamed.
It was the opposite of the community I
was trying to build. Instead of providing a
place where political junkies could trade
thoughts, ideas and jokes about the political scene, the comments section turned
into a town in which the loudest and most
obnoxious guy appoints himself mayor.
What I also came to realize — thanks to
the rise of software that allowed real-time
quantitative analysis of who was reading
what — was that the number of people commenting was minuscule compared with the
overall audience for the blog. It was like my
freshman year of college. I assumed everyone was going out every night and getting
drunk because the people who were doing
that were SO DAMN LOUD about it. Only
later did I realize that the loud, party-allthe-time crowd was a minority and that
there were lots of people who rolled their
eyes at them.
NPR found the same thing. These stats
are telling: In July, NPR.org recorded
nearly 33 million unique users and 491,000
comments. But those comments came
from just 19,400 commenters, according to
Montgomery. That’s 0.06 percent of users
who are commenting, a number that has
stayed steady through 2016, he added.
Numbers like that make clear that comments sections aren’t fostering conversation — they’re killing it. A very small group
of people are dominating every conversation, making it more difficult for someone
who may be, say, an expert on a particular
topic to offer their opinion for fear of being
berated for trying to break into the club.
The rise of social media platforms such
as Twitter and Facebook — as well as more
niche question/answer sites such as Quora
— have made comments sections increasingly obsolete, as well. No, not everyone
has a Twitter account or Facebook page,
but (1) they will soon, and (2) accessing
conversation around a particular topic or
story is far easier on these social platforms
than trying to navigate the still-clunky
comments sections of most media outlets.
The best-case scenario for retaining
comments is providing real-time moderation of them to keep the conversation as
close to the topic and as far from being
mean-spirited as possible. But even that is
impractical for two main reasons. First, it’s
cost-prohibitive. No media outlet can afford
to have staffers monitor every piece of content — or even half, or even a 10th — that
gets posted every day. Second, monitoring
comments brings its own problems. Who
is the monitor? How do they decide what
comments are good and which are bad?
Does being partisan make a comment bad?
Why? And so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
I’ll be the first to admit that rooting for
comments sections to die seems and feels,
at first glance, profoundly undemocratic.
But that’s because you are probably thinking of your platonic vision of comments
sections — in which someone you have
never met before offers up a great, on-topic
article you missed, you strike up a friendship, connect offline and become the best
of friends forever. Which never happens.
What the comments section actually is
in this supercharged partisan media environment is a mud pit where the only rule is
that there are no rules. And, by definition,
when fighting in a mud pit, no one comes
out clean.
So, good on you, NPR, for taking a stand
against comments sections. I hope everyone in the media space follows your lead. It
would help make online conversation great
— or maybe just less worse — again.
Chris Cillizza is a political reporter for The
Washington Post and anchors the Fix blog.
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Trump owes a debt to ill-informed voters
BY MONICA PRASAD
Special to the Los Angeles Times
F
or several years now, two colleagues and I have been interviewing white working-class voters in
the Midwest about their political
beliefs. Our interviews suggest a strategy
for defeating Donald Trump.
The biggest surprise was what the
word “conservative” means to these voters. Before we conducted this study, we
thought the word “conservative” referred
to a worldview that favors traditional attitudes and behavior, and opposes social
change. In economic terms, we thought
“conservative” meant lower taxes and less
regulation.
But that’s not what the self-identified
conservatives among our interviewees believe. Over and over again, they told us that
“conservative” means paying one’s bills
and staying out of debt. We were surprised
by the strength of the passion expressed on
this point. For our respondents, a conservative is someone who is frugal and avoids
debt. A liberal, by contrast, borrows and
goes into debt.
Our interviewees associate these patterns with conservatives and liberals at
both the individual and governmental
level, and they vote for Republicans because Republicans are more likely to talk
about avoiding debt as a moral issue for individual families and for the country.
In the words of one interviewee, “Democrats are liberal. I’m conservative so that
has a bearing on my thinking. I was always taught if you don’t have the dollar,
you don’t buy. Look at the trillions that our
government is in debt, our nation, and they
continue to spend, spend, spend.”
The white working class is the constituency most likely to vote for Trump. An
NBC/Wall Street Journal survey has him
leading Hillary Clinton among non-college-
Ads in Midwestern swing
states featuring the real
people whom Donald
Trump has stiffed could
well prove effective.
educated whites 49-36 percent, a larger
lead than among any other demographic.
But given how these voters perceive
debt, that support may be more fragile
than we think. As a businessman, Trump
is known for not paying his debts to small
vendors, who for the most part cannot afford to challenge his actions in court. He
has repeatedly and intentionally failed to
pay dishwashers, waiters, plumbers and
even his own lawyers.
Over the last three decades, Trump was
involved in more than 3,000 lawsuits, including cases where he drove small family
firms out of business. Trump says he does
not pay when the work does not meet his
standards. If that is true, it means Trump
is disastrously bad at choosing people who
will do good work, which makes one wonder how he would go about hiring staff
once in political office.
But everything indicates that Trump is
lying on this point, and that refusing to pay
his debts is simply a business strategy.
To many readers, not paying debts will
seem like just one in the long string of
Trump’s transgressions — what’s a few unpaid bills compared with saying he would
ban Muslims from entering the country,
or jokingly inviting Russia to meddle in
American elections, or criticizing the family of a fallen soldier?
But white working-class voters in the
Midwest may not see it that way. To them,
paying what you owe is one of the central
aspects of their identity as moral human
beings. Ads in Midwestern swing states
featuring the real people whom Trump has
stiffed — working-class people, exactly the
ones whom these voters can identify with
— could well prove effective.
Clinton’s overall lead is so large at this
point that she may be tempted to take it
for granted. But attempts to turn Trump’s
core supporters against him could influence down-ballot races as well.
Trump will claim that he behaves no differently from other successful businessmen (the answer to those who say Trump is
successful: Sure, until his next bankruptcy). But refusing to pay your debts is not
standard practice in construction or any
other industry in America. The stories of
the people who lost their small businesses
because of Trump would resonate emotion-
ally, because they are a window into the
nominee’s values, and to how he would run
the country: He would accumulate debt
and threaten not to repay America’s creditors. In a word, he would turn the United
States into a “liberal” country, as our interviewees understand that term.
My colleague Steve Hoffman asked one
of our respondents what single lesson she
learned from her parents that influences
how she sees the world now.
Her immediate response was the three
words that should be the cornerstone for
any anti-Trump efforts in the Midwest:
“Pay your bills.”
Monica Prasad is professor of sociology and
faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research
at Northwestern University. This column draws
on material from a recent article in Politics and
Society.
Why terrorists’ names and faces should be published
BY NOAH FELDMAN
Bloomberg View
M
ajor media outlets in France
have recently decided not to
publish the names and faces
of terrorists so as not to glorify them and encourage copycats. On the
surface, this might seem like reasonable
self-imposed discretion in the interests of
national security. But it’s actually self-censorship — and it’s dangerous. It reflects a
subtly mistaken conception of why jihadis
are prepared to die for their cause, and it
risks dehumanizing an enemy that is dangerous precisely because its adherents are
humans with identifiable motives.
The French daily Le Monde, the Catholic
newspaper La Croix and a French affiliate
of CNN called BFM-TV expressly connected their decisions to the recent spate of
attacks in France. Le Monde said the goal
was to prevent “posthumous glorification”
of the terrorists.
The core idea seems to be that terrorists
are publicity seekers. According to this theory, they want their names and faces to appear in the news media after their deaths,
thus giving meaning to their actions and
perhaps inspiring others. One U.S.-based
commentator has even argued that there’s
a scientific basis for the decision, because
mirror neurons that enable empathy are
triggered by faces. Denying access to terrorists’ faces is therefore supposed to stop
would-be terrorists from feeling empathy
with those who have already taken action.
If the French media are actually trying to
reduce future instances of terrorism, that’s
a laudable goal — but they’re barking up
the wrong tree by withholding names and
faces. The news media should be particularly careful when they’re trying to deny
the public access to important aspects of a
major national and international story. An
instinct or symbolic gesture are not reason
enough. A strong argument is required.
The notion that denying posthumous glorification will reduce terrorism is based on
a confused and confusing view of contemporary jihadis. What attracts some young
Muslims, mostly men, to martyrdom is
precisely the desire to subsume their identities into a greater, divinely inspired cause
— that of the Muslim ummah, or community, as a whole.
It’s true that today’s Western-raised
Muslim terrorists have often felt marginalized and irrelevant in the societies where
they live. But unlike young people who
might seek to overcome irrelevance by becoming celebrities, the jihadis are embracing anonymity through loyalty to a broader
cause. There is little evidence that they
imagine their individual names will live on
after them.
The jihadis certainly do want to be agents
of their fate, not passive subjects. But they
intend to affect the course of world history
by sacrificing their individual selves and
lives “in the path of God,” as the Arabic
phrase goes.
It’s dangerous to imagine
that your enemy is
motivated by the same
things you are.
The crucial point is that Western observers, including the French media,
keep wanting to impose a contemporary
Facebook-style cultural framework on the
terrorists’ actions. Western consumerist
society is suffused with the desire to be famous and recognized.
It’s a cardinal error to think that jihadis
share that goal. The posthumous glory
they seek comes from God, and from the
knowledge that they’ve given their lives for
something greater than they are.
And it’s dangerous to imagine that your
enemy is motivated by the same things you
are. Specifically, it will be more difficult
to prevent future jihadism if we think that
all we need to do is block martyrs from becoming celebrities.
There’s a second problem with the
French media’s self-censorship: It dehumanizes the jihadi enemy. Why, after all,
does the media publish names and pictures
of criminals in the first place? It’s not absolutely essential that the public or even
policy makers know the individual details
in every story.
The reason is human interest. We pay
more attention to a story if we know it’s
about a specific human being with a face
and a name.
Refiguring jihadis as faceless masses
would be a serious mistake, both tactically
and morally. It’s appealing to pretend that
killers don’t have individuality, and that
they don’t grow up among ordinary peaceful citizens. But it’s false.
Imagine coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing if we didn’t know the names
or faces of the Tsarnaev brothers. That
would have discouraged us from trying to
understand their struggles with immigration — or the highly normalized teenage
years of the younger brother, Dzhokhar.
Knowing that the enemy is human is
also necessary to fighting ethically. It’s
important to remember that visually and
demographically, Western-raised jihadis
are not much different from their peaceful
peers, Muslim and non-Muslim. The hard
work of figuring out who is a threat before
an attack without discrimination requires
keeping in mind the particularity of jihadis
who resort to violence.
The no-faces, no-names rule isn’t being
adopted by all the French media. That’s a
good thing, as it allows an experiment to
see whether it has any effect on violence. I
predict there won’t be. Then the media can
go back to doing what it does best: reporting the news, not censoring it.
Noah Feldman, a Bloomberg View columnist, is a
professor of constitutional and international law
at Harvard.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Bear spray used on
infant, four others
MD CUMBERLAND
— Police said a 7month-old boy and four others
THE CENSUS
30
The approximate number of vehicles involved in a Bartow County, Ga., pileup that sent several people
to the hospital with minor injuries. The Georgia Department of Transportation told news agencies that the
accident happened Sunday afternoon and that 13 people were reported injured and taken to the hospital.
Transportation officials said the accident resulted in an oil spill that required major cleanup.
are OK after they were sprayed
with bear repellent in a western
Maryland home.
Authorities were holding Daniel Woolard, 28, of Cumberland,
on $750,000 bond Monday. He’s
charged with assaulting five people with the pepper spray.
Sgt. Korey Rounds said
Woolard was visiting the home
Sunday when he came to believe
he was being set up for an attack
by a man who was coming over.
Rounds said Woolard locked
himself in a room and then came
out and sprayed everyone there,
including three women, a man
and the baby. The sergeant said
the man whom Woolard feared
would harm him never showed
up. Rounds said all the victims
were treated and released.
Nearly 20 hogs get
reprieve from slaughter
ESCANABA — Nearly
MI
20 hogs that were destined for slaughter had a few hours
of freedom at the Upper Peninsula
State Fair.
The Daily Press in Escanaba
said someone released the hogs
from their pens Saturday night
or early Sunday. Some had minor
injuries.
Escanaba police are investigating. Swine superintendent Stephanie Bruno said the vandal “had
no business messing around with
hogs.” She said all were transported to a slaughterhouse Sunday as
planned.
Man pleads not guilty
in mounted bear case
TULSA — A businessOK
man charged with illegally storing a mounted polar bear
at an Oklahoma airport hangar
has pleaded not guilty.
The Tulsa World reported that
Bryan Adair, 62, has been charged
with larceny of lost property, possession of an endangered species
and possession of prohibited wildlife. Adair entered his plea Friday
and is free on bond.
Game wardens confiscated the
stuffed bear from the Jones Riverside Airport in Tulsa on Aug.
4. The bear was legally hunted in
1969 in Alaska, and then brought
to Oklahoma.
The hunter died decades ago,
and the bear was stored in his
brother’s airport hangar. Oklahoma state Game Warden Carlos
Gomez said the bear ended up in
Adair’s hangar. A criminal filing
alleges Adair took the polar bear
without the consent of the hunter’s
wife, Nancy Gilstrap Barber.
Police: Man lying on the
roadway run over, killed
HAYTI
HEIGHTS
MO
— A southeast Missouri man is dead after being run
over by a car while lying in the
roadway.
The Missouri State Highway
Patrol said Eldon Green, 47, of
Hayti Heights, was struck just
before 9 p.m. Sunday. The patrol
said Green was lying in the street
DANIEL LIN, (H ARRISONBURG, VA .) DAILY NEWS -RECORD/AP
A winning moment
Leon Kelley, 1, of Staunton, Va., high-fives game operator Edwin Vanover, of Hollywood, Fla., after winning a prize on the Rockingham
County Fair’s midway in Harrisonburg, Va., on Saturday night.
when a car driven by a 26-yearold woman struck him. It wasn’t
clear why Green was in the street.
He was taken to a hospital where
he later died.
The driver of the car was treated for minor injuries.
Woman with knife robs
nun, steals rosaries
QUINCY — Police
MA
said a Massachusetts
woman robbed a nun at knifepoint and got away with her rosary beads.
Quincy police said a sister at the
Daughters of Mary of Nazareth
convent was in civilian clothing
Sunday afternoon when a woman
holding a knife approached her
and tried to take a small satchel
from her hand.
Police said the nun opened the
satchel to show she didn’t have
any money, so the woman took
the beads instead.
Police said the nun noticed
another woman nearby acting
as a lookout. Vanessa Young was
scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges including assault
with a dangerous weapon.
Crystal Young is accused of
being the lookout. She is charged
with armed robbery and accessory after the fact.
Judge to consider future
of doctor’s gun stash
LITTLE ROCK — A
judge has canceled a
bench trial to decide what should
happen to nearly 100 firearms
seized from an Arkansas doctor
who was convicted in a bombing
that nearly killed the head of the
Arkansas State Medical Board.
Chief U.S. District Judge Brian
Miller said he will instead consider written briefs regarding
the guns owned by Dr. Randeep
Mann, who is serving a life sentence for the 2009 bombing at Dr.
Trent Pierce’s house.
AK
Miller will decide whether the
94 guns should be turned over to
the federal government or sold to
collectors, with proceeds going to
Mann’s wife, Pierce, or both.
According to the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, the weapons
at issue are one shotgun, 83 machine guns, eight silencers and
two receivers.
Authorities examine
bone found by dog
HARRISON — AuthoriMI
ties in central Michigan
are examining a human leg bone
that was found by a dog.
TV station WNEM said Clare
County sheriff’s deputies were
called Friday after the dog returned home with the bone south
of Harrison.
The bone came from a woman’s
body. A cadaver dog from the state
police searched the area but didn’t
find anything. The bone will be
tested to determine its age.
Inquiry into deaths of
13 bald eagles ending
FEDERALSBURG
MD
— Federal wildlife officials say they’re ending their investigation into who is responsible
for killing 13 bald eagles found
dead on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
earlier this year.
The Baltimore Sun reported
that Neil Mendelsohn, of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, said in
a statement that officials intend
to close the case “in the near future” because of a lack of evidence
linking anyone to the crime. Mendelsohn said in the statement Friday that the eagles discovered in
Federalsburg in February were
poisoned. Necropsy results had
previously ruled out disease.
A man searching for shed deer
antlers discovered four of the dead
eagles. Officials searched the farm
and found nine more carcasses.
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‘GMA’ host Robach
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Q&A: Miranda Lambert
‘I’ve built a career
from being honest’
BY ROGER CATLIN
Special to the Washington Post
I
t has been two years since country star Miranda Lambert’s last
album, “Platinum,” and a year
since she announced her very
public split with Blake Shelton.
That’s the more important milestone, according to the tabloids that
have doggedly followed their marital strife. Back on tour, Lambert,
32, is alternating her summer stops
between big stadium events topped
by Kenny Chesney and her own
headlining dates in still-pretty-big
amphitheaters.
We caught up with Lambert in
Chicago (“I had to think about it for
a second,” she said). She spoke about
adjusting her performance for stage
size, the persistence of vinyl, the
death this year of Merle Haggard,
and what she intended with “Vice,”
the first single from her forthcoming
album that’s being taken as a definitive post-breakup statement.
How are you adjusting to playing
shows in huge stadiums and amphitheaters that are merely big?
I sort of kept my stage set scaled
back in general because I knew I’d
be going back and forth. And I had
a huge set on the “Platinum” tour,
so I just figured we’d do something
different.
What are you trying to put across
in “Vice”?
Just, I guess, make a strong emotion and putting it out there. That’s
not something new for me as an artist. I’ve done that in every record
I’ve ever made. But I got a little bit
more time, a little bit more reflection and a little more honesty on this
one. Because I had a time in my life
that wasn’t my favorite. And I’m not
afraid to share it.
I just need time to process it and
go through every part of it, and I
learned about every part of it. To me,
life — and not only my life, everybody
has a life, and maybe there are several — sometimes you run through it
a little more than you should, some
times of your life. But I feel like it’s
pretty honest; it’s a pretty straightforward lyric about that.
Do people assume all of your
songs are autobiographical?
No. Not all of them are. But if I’m
going to share something about who
I am and what I’m going through, I’d
rather just say it. I don’t want to hide
from it. I’ve built a career from being
honest. Why change that now?
Do the song’s references to vinyl
— from the needle-drop sound that
begins it to the mention of 33, 45
and 78 — confuse any listeners in
a digital age?
Well, it’s interesting. Actually,
somebody texted me the other day
and asked me, what were those numbers? And I was like, “Oh, my gosh.”
I listened to vinyl. I grew up listening
to vinyl with my dad — I stole half of
his collection over the years. I have
a music room set up in my house
where I listen to records and always
buy one when I see it. So I never even
thought that people wouldn’t know
what those numbers were.
Was there a particular song that
you had in mind when you say,
“When it hurts this good, you gotta
play it twice”?
It depends on what the mood is.
I’m a woman, so those change a lot.
There are times when you hear a
song enough and you just want to feel
it. Even if it hurts, you’re like, “Play it
again. I want to cry some more. Play
it again.” And there’s a lot of those
for me. But I would say I’m always
drawn to Merle Haggard songs for
sure. But when I was in a dark day, I
listened to John Moreland for my favorite artist. I would just play his record, his whole record, over and over
and over and over. It was so good. It
was like, “I’m going to see an artist
who I know is going to hurt me.” And
I would get so excited about it.
Did you ever meet Merle
Haggard?
Yes. I met him and his family
— such a special moment for me to
sit at the table and have dinner with
him and his family and Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. It doesn’t
even sound real that I’m saying that.
But it was for the Kennedy Center
Honors a couple of years back, and
I got to sing with Kris Kristofferson
to honor Merle Haggard. I would say
that was probably the top highlight of
my career so far.
Were you aware of his health
problems before he died?
No. I was really devastated. I’m
not over it. I don’t think I will be for a
long time. But I’ve got almost everything he’s ever done on vinyl and on
my iPod and my Spotify list and Pandora. And I feel that if any artist’s
music can live on forever, it’s his. It
still sounds like the first time I heard
it every time I listen.
It sounds like something changed
for you on “Vice.” It sounds more
mature or knowing. What was your
approach?
Yeah. Something did change even
since I put “Platinum” out: I’m two
years older — well, three years older
from the writing for “Platinum” —
and a lot more miles and a lot more
emotions have happened since then.
I feel like, the main approach was
not to overthink it, just let the songs
do the talking. I don’t need to have
too much production. The songs I
brought to the table this time were a
step up for me. I grew as a songwriter. I grew as a woman. So I wanted
that to be the lead and not let anything cover that up.
What’s it like having won seven
straight Academy of Country Music
female vocalist of the year awards?
It’s encouragement, I guess, but
it’s also a responsibility. Because I
want to grow, and I want to know that
I’m getting better, and I’m becoming
a better songwriter and becoming a
better artist and entertainer. But I
feel like while it’s great to have those
accolades and that reassurance, it’s
also terrifying.
Because you have to live up to
it now?
Exactly.
“Good Morning America” coanchor Amy Robach apologized
for saying “colored people” on
Monday’s broadcast of the ABC
program.
Her use of the term sparked
criticism on social media. “Offensive,” tweeted one viewer. Another said Robach “gets a pass this
time” but vowed to ditch “GMA”
for a rival morning program if it
happened again.
During a segment on diversity
in Hollywood, Robach, who was
substituting for Robin Roberts,
noted recent criticism for casting
white actors “in what one might
assume should be a role reserved
for colored people.”
After the broadcast, Robach
released a statement explaining
she had meant to say “people of
color.”
She called the incident “a mistake” and “not at all a reflection
of how I feel or speak in my everyday life.”
The words used to describe
African-Americans have evolved
over time from words like Negro,
colored, Afro-American to the
current black, African-American
and people of color, said Deborah E. McDowell, director of the
University of Virginia’s Carter G.
Woodson Institute for AfricanAmerican and African Studies.
“We no longer use the term colored people, although once upon
a time that was a term in use,”
McDowell said. “Now the preferred usage is people of color if
you are speaking about people of
color broadly. If you are referring
specifically to African-Americans, people will frequently
be specific and refer to us as
African-Americans.”
Other news
M ARC N ADER /Special to the Washington Post
Ang Lee’s 3-D, high-framerate drama “Billy Lynn’s Long
Halftime Walk” will premiere
Oct. 14 at the New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center’s Film Society announced Monday. The film,
adapted from Ben Fountain’s
novel, is about an American war
hero being celebrated on a victory tour at an NFL game. Lee shot
it at a 120-frame rate, far faster
than the usual 24 frames per second. Peter Jackson experimented
with a 48-frame rate in “The Hobbit” trilogy.
“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill is among those lending his
support to a terminally ill fan
who wants to see “Rogue One: A
Star Wars Story” before he dies.
Hamill backed a social media
campaign launched last week by
hospice worker Amy Duncan asking for the “Star Wars” spin-off to
be screened for 36-year-old illustrator Neil Hanvey from Oldham,
England.
Aretha Franklin is canceling some upcoming concerts to
rest up. Franklin is canceling two
performances at New York City’s
Radio City Music Hall: She’ll skip
“Tony Bennett Celebrates 90” on
Sept. 15 and a solo show on Sept.
23. The Queen of Soul said she
should be back on the road in November. She canceled a show in
Las Vegas last year because of
exhaustion.
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WIRED WORLD
Fingerprint scanning goes cutting-edge
Integrated Biometrics making a mark with high-tech verification system
BY DANIEL J. GROSS
(Spartanburg, S.C.) Herald-Journal
I
t sounds almost like a science-fiction
movie: a future where you gain access to a room or pay for your groceries with a simple fingerprint scan.
As the emphasis on verifying identities
grows in areas such as policing, immigration, voting and travel, a tech company based in Spartanburg, S.C., says it’s
paving the way for cutting-edge fingerprint scanning, particularly in challenging environments.
Integrated Biometrics produces fingerprint scanners for manufacturers and
database providers in governments and
commercial markets using its light emitting sensor film.
The patented film is durable, light and
efficient, and can be used anywhere with
little setup, allowing for portable FBIcertified fingerprint scanners to be used
anywhere.
“This is a game-changer for the industry,” said Lauren Satilli, the company’s
marketing director.
The company produced its latest device, Kojak, earlier this year. It’s the
company’s first 10-print roll scanner, as
opposed to single-finger scanners.
Formed in 2002, Integrated Biometrics focused on research and development in its first years. It has focused
more on sales and marketing in recent
years, and company leaders expect
continued growth as more partners are
added that produce devices that use
the patented technology, which contains an electro-luminescent film with
phosphorus.
“Our partners around the world are
building devices with our units in them.
Our secret sauce is this film on the top,”
said Dave Gerulski, vice president of
sales and marketing. “We’ve got all these
different partners that make different
devices that are out selling to markets.”
Integrated Biometrics’ fingerprint
scanning devices use a patented film
that allows for portable FBI-certified
fingerprint scanners to be used
anywhere.
A LEX HICKS JR.,
(SPARTANBURG, S.C.) HERALD -JOURNAL /AP
The lightweight fingerprint scanners are now being used in the field for
criminal investigations, death cases, airport security, immigration enforcement,
voter registration and health care across
the world, Santilli said.
The technology allows the fingerprint
scanners to work in daylight and in remote locations. Optical scanners, in contrast, are heavy, require coverings and
need more manpower to operate.
The Kojak weighs 1.6 pounds, can be
powered from a smartphone and can scan
10 fingers in less than 10 seconds, Santilli
said. Once fingerprints are scanned, the
device automatically syncs to whatever
software and database are linked to it.
The company currently is working
in Africa on a national project to
better identify citizens in smaller, rural areas. It’s also working with partners to put the
sensors in 44,000 portable
tablets for voting and voter
registration.
In Japan, an Integrated Biometrics device
is used by police officers with handheld
scanners to allow for
faster, more efficient
identification of suspects apprehended
in the field.
In the U.S.,
Immigration
and
Customs
Enforcement
agents use the
portable scanners to better
identify immigrants. There
have
been
cases where
early identification saved
someone from
being falsely detained after agents determined the person in custody wasn’t the
person they were looking for, Gerulki
said.
The devices have also helped coroner’s
offices identify people faster in death investigations and thereby notify next of
kin sooner.
“It’s quicker than to do the old-school
ink and paper, especially if you have a
body that’s deteriorated,”
Santilli said.
Gerulski expects use of the devices
will expand to smaller law enforcement
departments and other local groups as
more partners create products.
The company is doubling in size now,
Gerulski said, and he said the fingerprinting industry likely will grow exponentially. He expects credit card companies
will soon integrate fingerprint verification, too.
“There’s also a company out there
that builds devices and is selling
it to resorts, so when you go
out to the beach and sit
on a chair and order
a drink, instead of
carrying cash or
an ID or anything, it’s just,
‘boom,’ ” he
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Pfizer to pay $14B for Medivation
BY CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON
The Washington Post
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer
announced Monday that it has
agreed to acquire Medivation in
a $14 billion deal that would add
a blockbuster drug to its cancer
pipeline.
Medivation, a San Francisco
biopharmaceutical company, has
been highly sought after in recent months. Its flagship product,
Xtandi, is a prostate cancer treatment that generated $2.2 billion
in sales over the past four quarters and has been projected to be
one of the top 10 cancer drugs in
2021. Xtandi, which is being codeveloped and marketed by Medivation and Astellas Pharma,
has also generated criticism for
its high price.
Pfizer executives said the acquisition would help Pfizer accelerate its revenue growth and
bring strategic growth to its cancer business.
“With this acquisition, we are
expanding and stamping our
footprint on one of the highest
growth therapeutic areas in the
biopharmaceutical industry, and
we are strategically building a
leadership position in oncology
with flagship products,” said Ian
Read, chairman and chief executive of Pfizer.
Medivation also has a promising experimental breast cancer drug called talazoparib
and an immuno-oncology drug
called pidilizumab in late-stage
development.
Ben Gomes-Casseres, a professor at Brandeis International
Business School who studies the
strategy of business combinations, said that the deal was in
sharp contrast to the proposed
Pfizer merger with Allergan.
That deal collapsed in April after
a Department of the Treasury
rule change stripped the deal of
many of its tax benefits.
“It is a rifle-shot approach to
finding assets that can help them
grow — as compared to a big
merger that may have many components, and it’s not clear where
the growth will come from,”
Gomes-Casseres said. “I think
big pharma has been finding out
that they’re better off doing more
smaller or medium-sized deals
than the huge mergers of five to
10 years ago.”
Albert Bourla, group president
of Pfizer Innovative Health, outlined on the call how Xtandi would
fit into Pfizer’s oncology portfolio, pointing out that the acquisition will add to its breast cancer
treatment, Ibrance, to give Pfizer
two drugs projected to be top-10
cancer products in 2021.
“We see a lot of parallels between prostate and breast cancer,” Bourla said. “Both diseases
are comprised of advanced-stage
patients currently treated by our
medicines, Xtandi and Ibrance,
with both having the potential to
expand into large, earlier-stage
disease populations.”
In a research note issued shortly before the deal was official,
Credit Suisse analysts wrote that
Pfizer’s large cancer sales force
and experience in urology could
help fuel sales growth for Xtandi.
They also noted that the experimental breast cancer drug it is
acquiring could allow the company to explore drug combinations
in various cancers.
A subsidiary of Pfizer will
make the offer to buy Medivation
for $81.50 a share, and the deal is
expected to close in the third or
fourth quarter of this year.
MARKET WATCH
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (Aug. 24) .........................$1.1640
Dollar buys (Aug. 24)........................€0.8591
British pound (Aug. 24) ....................... $1.35
Japanese yen (Aug. 24) .......................98.00
South Korean won (Aug. 24) .........1,089.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound .....................................$1.3180
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.2924
China (Yuan) ........................................6.6401
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.5724
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8767
Euro ........................................ $1.1324/0.8831
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7535
Hungary (Forint) .................................273.84
Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.7693
Japan (Yen)........................................... 100.13
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3013
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.1996
Philippines (Peso).................................46.37
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.80
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7505
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3506
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,116.96
Switzerland (Franc)............................ 0.9617
Thailand (Baht) .....................................34.59
Turkey (Lira) ......................................... 2.9371
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.28
30-year bond ........................................... 2.24
WEATHER OUTLOOK
WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC
WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
81/72
Kabul
89/63
Baghdad
118/85
Kuwait
City
107/83
Riyadh
111/85
Seoul
92/77
Kandahar
102/69
Bahrain
109/90
Brussels
83/62
Lajes,
Azores
74/65
Doha
103/91
Ramstein
82/57
Stuttgart
81/55
Iwakuni
94/78
Sasebo
92/78
Guam
86/78
Pápa
80/58
Aviano/
Vicenza
79/62
Naples
87/69
Morón
102/72
Sigonella
86/66
Rota
92/72
Djibouti
110/90
Tokyo
86/78
Osan
95/77 Busan
88/76
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
84/64
Okinawa
89/79
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
93/71
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
on AFN
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Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
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Youth baseball
Little League World Series
At South Williamsport, Pa.
UNITED STATES
GREAT LAKES, Bowling Green, Ky.; MIDATLANTIC, Endwell, N. Y.; MIDWEST, Johnston, Iowa; NEW ENGLAND, Warwick, R.
I.; NORTHWEST, Bend, Ore.; SOUTHEAST,
Goodlettsville, Tenn.; SOUTHWEST, San
Antonio; WEST, Chula Vista, Calif.
INTERNATIONAL
ASIA-PACIFIC, Seoul, South Korea;
AUSTRALIA, Sydney; CANADA, Vancouver,
B.C.; CARIBBEAN, Willemstad, Curacao;
EUROPE AFRICA, Emilia, Italy; JAPAN, Tokyo; LATIN AMERICAN, Aguadulce, Panama; MEXICO, Nuevo Leo.
Double Elimination
Thursday, Aug. 18
Aguadulce, Panama 10, Nuevo Leo,
Mexico 2
Endwell, N.Y. 7, Warwick R.I. 2
Sydney 3, Emilia, Italy 1
Goodlettsville, Tenn. 3, Bend, Ore. 2
Friday, Aug. 19
Vancouver 10, Tokyo 4
Johnston, Iowa 5, Chula Vista, Calif. 1
Seoul, South Korea 3, Willemstad, Curacao 0
Bowling Green, Ky. 11, San Antonio 1,
5 innings
Saturday, Aug. 20
Nuevo Leo, Mexico 12, Emilia, Italy 7,
Emilia eliminated
Warwick R.I. 8, Bend, Ore. 0, Bend
eliminated
Willemstad, Curacao 2, Tokyo 1, Tokyo
eliminated
Chula Vista, Calif. 5, San Antonio 0,
San Antonio eliminated
Sunday, Aug. 21
All games, ppd., rain.
Monday, Aug. 22
Consolation: Bend, Ore. 6, Emilia, Italy
2
Aguadulce, Panama 3, Sydney 2
Endwell, N.Y. 3, Goodlettsville, Tenn. 1
Seoul, South Korea 10, Vancouver, B.C.
0, 5 innings
Bowling Green, Ky. 14, Johnston, Iowa
4
Tuesday, Aug. 23
Consolation: Tokyo vs. San Antonio
Game 17: Vancouver, B.C. vs. Nuevo
Leo, Mexico
Game 18: Johnston, Iowa vs. Warwick,
R.I.
Game 19: Sydney vs. Willemstad, Curacao
Game 20: Goodlettsville, Tenn. vs. Chula Vista, Calif.
Wednesday, Aug. 24
Game 21: Game 17 winner vs. Game 19
winner
Game 22: Game 18 winner vs. Game 20
winner
Game 23: Aguadulce, Panama vs.
Seoul, South Korea
Game 24: Endwell, N.Y. vs. Bowling
Green, Ky.
Thursday, Aug. 25
Game 25: Game 21 winner vs. Game
23 loser
Game 26: Game 22 winner vs. Game
24 loser
Saturday, Aug. 27
International Championship
Game 27: Game 23 winner vs. Game 25
winner
United States Championship
Game 28: Game 24 winner vs. Game 26
winner
Sunday, Aug. 28
At Lamade Stadium
Third Place
Game 29: Loser Game 27 vs. Loser
Game 28
World Championship
Game 30: Winner Game 27 vs. Winner
Game 28
AP sportlight
Aug. 24
1904 — Holcombe Ward wins the
men’s singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association singles title.
1908 — Tommy Burns knocks out Bill
Squires in the 13th round at Sydney, Australia, to retain the world heavyweight
title.
1925 — Helen Wills, 19, wins her third
straight U.S. Lawn Tennis Association
singles title with a 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 victory
over Kathleen McKane. An hour later,
Wills teams up with Mary K. Browne to
win the doubles title.
1929 — Helen Wills wins her sixth U.S.
Lawn Tennis Association singles title by
defeating Helen Hull Jacobs.
1963 — The Little League World Series
in Williamsport, Pa. is covered by ABC’s
Wide World of Sports for the first time.
1963 — Don Schollander becomes the
first swimmer to break the two-minute
barrier in the 200-meter freestyle with a
1:58.4 time in a meet at Osaka, Japan.
1963 — John Pennel breaks the 17-foot
barrier in the pole vault with a 17-0 vault
in a meet at Miami.
Pro soccer
Pro football
Tennis
MLS
NFL preseason
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
New York City FC 11 7 8 41 44 43
Toronto FC
11 7 7 40 37 26
New York
10 9 7 37 45 35
Philadelphia
9 9 7 34 43 40
Montreal
8 7 9 33 38 37
D.C. United
6 8 10 28 26 30
Orlando City
5 6 13 28 38 41
New England
6 11 8 26 29 46
Columbus
4 8 11 23 31 38
Chicago
5 11 7 22 25 32
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
13 7 6 45 39 34
Colorado
11 3 10 43 27 20
Real Salt Lake
11 8 7 40 37 36
Sporting KC
11 11 5 38 32 30
Los Angeles
9 4 11 38 38 24
Portland
8 10 8 32 37 39
San Jose
7 7 10 31 26 27
Seattle
9 12 3 30 29 31
Vancouver
8 12 6 30 34 43
Houston
5 10 9 24 27 30
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday, Aug. 19
Houston 2, San Jose 1
Saturday, Aug. 20
New York City FC 1, Los Angeles 0
Toronto FC 3, Philadelphia 1
Chicago 3, Montreal 0
Columbus 2, New England 0
Orlando City 0, Colorado 0, tie
Real Salt Lake 1, FC Dallas 0
Sporting Kansas City 2, Vancouver 0
Sunday, Aug. 21
New York 2, D.C. United 2, tie
Seattle 3, Portland 1
Wednesday’s games
D.C. United at Montreal
Philadelphia at Columbus
Toronto FC at Orlando City
Los Angeles at Chicago
Seattle at Houston
New England at San Jose
Friday’s game
Colorado at Real Salt Lake
Saturday’s games
Chicago at D.C. United
Sporting Kansas City at Philadelphia
Montreal at Toronto FC
San Jose at Columbus
FC Dallas at Houston
Vancouver at Los Angeles
Sunday’s games
New England at New York
Seattle at Portland
New York City FC at Orlando City
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
NWSL
W L T Pts GF
Washington
10 3 2 31 24
Portland
8 2 5 29 20
Western New York 8 5 2 26 29
Chicago
7 4 4 25 14
Sky Blue FC
6 5 4 22 18
Seattle
5 5 5 20 18
Orlando
6 9 0 18 14
FC Kansas City
4 7 4 16 11
Houston
3 8 3 12 14
Boston
2 11 1
7
7
Note: Three points for victory,
point for tie.
Friday’s game
Orlando at Washington
Saturday’s games
Seattle at Portland
Western New York at Houston
Sky BLue FC at Chicago
Sunday’s game
FC Kansas City at Boston
GA
13
12
18
13
20
14
19
14
17
29
one
New England
Buffalo
Miami
N.Y. Jets
W
2
1
1
1
L
0
1
1
1
T
Pct
0 1.000
0
.500
0
.500
0
.500
PF PA
57 44
39 19
41 51
35 35
Houston
Indianapolis
Tennessee
Jacksonville
2
1
1
0
0
1
1
2
0 1.000
0
.500
0
.500
0
.000
40
37
43
34
22
37
36
44
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
2
1
0
0
0 0 1.000
1 0
.500
2 0
.000
2 0
.000
41
46
17
24
37
31
47
41
Denver
Oakland
San Diego
Kansas City
1
1
1
0
1 0
1 0
1 0
2 0
46
43
29
36
31
30
30
38
Philadelphia
Dallas
Washington
N.Y. Giants
W
2
1
1
0
L
0
1
1
2
T
Pct
0 1.000
0
.500
0
.500
0
.000
PF PA
34
9
65 42
39 41
10 48
Atlanta
Carolina
Tampa Bay
New Orleans
2
1
1
0
0
1
1
2
0 1.000
0
.500
0
.500
0
.000
47
45
36
31
30
38
38
50
Green Bay
Minnesota
Detroit
Chicago
2
2
1
0
0 0 1.000
0 0 1.000
1 0
.500
2 0
.000
37
35
44
22
23
27
47
45
South
North
West
.500
.500
.500
.000
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
South
North
West
Los Angeles
2 0 0 1.000 49
San Francisco 1 1 0
.500 44
Seattle
1 1 0
.500 28
Arizona
0 2 0
.000 13
Thursday, Aug. 18
Philadelphia 17, Pittsburgh 0
Cincinnati 30, Detroit 14
Atlanta 24, Cleveland 13
New England 23, Chicago 22
Green Bay 20, Oakland 12
Minnesota 18, Seattle 11
Friday, Aug. 19
Washington 22, N.Y. Jets 18
Dallas 41, Miami 14
San Diego 19, Arizona 3
Saturday, Aug. 20
Carolina 26, Tennessee 16
Buffalo 21, N.Y. Giants 0
Baltimore 19, Indianapolis 18
Tampa Bay 27, Jacksonville 21
Houston 16, New Orleans 9
San Francisco 31, Denver 24
Los Angeles 21, Kansas City 20
Thursday’s games
Atlanta vs. Miami at Orlando, Fla.
Dallas at Seattle
Friday’s games
New England at Carolina
Buffalo at Washington
Pittsburgh at New Orleans
Cleveland at Tampa Bay
Green Bay at San Francisco
Saturday’s games
Kansas City at Chicago
Detroit at Baltimore
Philadelphia at Indianapolis
New York Giants at New York Jets
Tennessee at Oakland
Los Angeles at Denver
Sunday’s games
San Diego at Minnesota
Arizona at Houston
Cincinnati at Jacksonville
44
48
34
50
Golf
Ryder Cup points
At Hazeltine National Golf Club
Chaska, Minn.
Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2016
Through Aug. 21
x-clinched
United States
1. x-Dustin Johnson
11,860.361
2. x-Jordan Spieth
11,179.143
3. x-Phil Mickelson
5,764.936
4. x-Jimmy Walker
5,337.662
5. x-Brooks Koepka
4,873.630
6. Brandt Snedeker
4,410.915
7. Zach Johnson
4,337.973
8. Patrick Reed
4,180.371
9. J.B. Holmes
4,149.716
10. Bubba Watson
4,055.311
11. Matt Kuchar
4,017.455
12. Rickie Fowler
3,814.612
13. Scott Piercy
3,284.119
14. Bill Haas
3,329.755
15. Jim Furyk
3,003.102
Europe
European Points
1. x-Rory McIlroy
4,171,716.36
2. x-Danny Willett
4,059,360.67
3. x-Henrik Stenson
3,554,055.09
4. x-Chris Wood
2,593,023.46
5. Andy Sullivan
2,472,016.00
6. Matthew Fitzpatrick
2,289,796.46
7. Rafa Cabrera-Bello
2,191,913.62
8. Soren Kjeldsen
1,806,144.54
9. Tyrrell Hatton
1,688,068.41
10. Victor Dubuisson
1,675,632.53
World Points
1. Henrik Stenson
380.31
2. Rory McIlroy
319.97
3. Danny Willett
271.99
4. x-Sergio Garcia
207.95
5. x-Rafa Cabrera-Bello
179.42
6. x-Justin Rose
173.09
7. Chris Wood
163.06
8. x-Andy Sullivan
153.80
9. x-Matthew Fitzpatrick
153.58
10. Russell Knox
141.22
Please note that that each of Europe’s
nine automatic selections have also
been clinched:
1. Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland)
2. Danny Willett (England)
3. Henrik Stenson (Sweden)
4. Chris Wood (England)
5. Sergio Garcia (Spain)
6. Rafa Cabrera Bello (Spain)
7. Justin Rose (England)
8. Andy Sullivan (England)
9. Matthew Fitzpatrick (England)
PGA Tour FedEx Cup Leaders
Through Aug. 21
Rank Player
Points YTD Money
1. Jason Day
2,735
$7,562,028
2. Dustin Johnson
2,701
$7,210,435
3. Adam Scott
2,063
$5,126,406
4. Russell Knox
2,001
$4,455,211
5. Jordan Spieth
1,965
$4,809,170
6. Brandt Snedeker
1,717
$3,589,811
7. Patrick Reed
1,575
$3,532,050
8. Phil Mickelson
1,532
$3,645,759
9. Kevin Na
1,529
$3,204,566
10. Justin Thomas
1,512
$3,561,845
11. Kevin Kisner
1,491
$3,200,648
12. Hideki Matsuyama
1,468
$3,656,435
13. Kevin Chappell
1,422
$3,472,720
14. Henrik Stenson
1,387
$3,365,923
15. Si Woo Kim
1,382
$2,636,974
16. William McGirt
1,360
$3,319,597
17. Jimmy Walker
1,352
$3,271,771
18. Matt Kuchar
1,349
$3,271,732
19. Brooks Koepka
1,348
$3,240,841
20. Sergio Garcia
1,306
$3,155,365
21. Jason Dufner
1,273
$2,481,930
22. Daniel Berger
1,254
$2,846,469
23. Ryan Moore
1,235
$2,453,433
24. Bubba Watson
1,235
$3,020,497
25. Branden Grace
1,187
$2,801,396
26. Smylie Kaufman
1,181
$2,424,647
27. Graeme McDowell
1,142
$2,566,420
28. Rickie Fowler
1,131
$2,407,045
29. Bill Haas
1,129
$2,326,838
30. Charl Schwartzel
1,127
$2,357,153
31. Jhonattan Vegas
1,119
$2,149,558
32. Emiliano Grillo
1,109
$2,316,033
33. Charley Hoffman
1,087
$2,175,607
34. Scott Piercy
1,077
$2,747,181
35. Harris English
1,032
$1,941,914
36. Rory McIlroy
973
$2,655,615
37. Daniel Summerhays
963
$2,028,628
College football
Winston-Salem Open
AP Top 25 schedule
A U.S. Open Series event
Monday
At The Wake Forest Tennis Center
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Purse: $639,255 (WT250)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Donald Young, United States, def.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, 6-4, 6-1.
Kyle Edmund, Britain, def. Rajeev Ram,
United States, 7-5, 7-6 (5).
Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, def. James
Duckworth, Australia, 7-6 (8), 1-6, 6-3.
Aljaz Bedene, Britain, def. James McGee, Ireland, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. Tim
van Rijthoven, Netherlands, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Taylor Fritz, United States, def. Frances Tiafoe, United States, 6-1, 6-4.
Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, def. Radu Albot,
Moldova, 6-2, 6-4.
Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic,
6-4, 1-6, 6-1.
Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, def.
Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, 6-0, 6-2.
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, def.
Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 76 (0), 6-1.
John Millman, Australia, def. Yoshihito
Nishioka, Japan, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Second Round
Stephane Robert, France, def. Federico
Delbonis (13), Argentina, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Richard Gasquet (1), France, def. Daniel Evans, Britain, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
Andrey Kuzmetsov (12), Russia, def.
Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, walkover.
Doubles
First Round
Marin Draganja, Croatia, and Dominic
Inglot, Britain, def. Wesley Koolhof and
Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, 4-6, 63, 10-4.
Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Michael Venus (2), New Zealand, def. Guillermo
Duran, Argentina, and David Marrero,
Spain, 6-0, 7-5.
Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Nenad Zimonjic (1), Serbia, def. Nicolas Monroe
and Donald Young, United States, 2-6, 7-6
(5), 10-7.
Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Santiago
Gonzalez, Mexico, def. Eric Butorac and
Scott Lipsky (4), United States, 6-7 (5),
6-4, 10-3.
Thursday, Sept. 1
No. 9 Tennessee vs. Appalachian
State
No. 19 Louisville vs. Charlotte
Friday, Sept. 2
No. 8 Stanford vs. Kansas State
No. 12 Michigan State vs. Furman
No. 23 Baylor vs. Northwestern State
Saturday, Sept. 3
No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 20 Southern Cal
at Arlington, Texas
No. 2 Clemson at Auburn
No. 3 Oklahoma at No. 15 Houston
No. 5 LSU vs. Wisconsin at Green Bay,
Wis.
No. 6 Ohio State vs. Bowling Green
No. 7 Michigan vs. Hawaii
No. 13 TCU vs. South Dakota State
No. 14 Washington vs. Rutgers
No. 16 UCLA at Texas A&M
No. 17 Iowa vs. Miami (Ohio)
No. 18 Georgia vs. No. 22 North Carolina at Atlanta
No. 21 Oklahoma State vs. SE Louisiana
No. 24 Oregon vs. UC Davis
No. 25 Florida vs. UMass
Sunday, Sept. 4
No. 10 Notre Dame at Texas
Monday, Sept. 5
No. 4 Florida State vs. No. 11 Mississippi at Orlando, Fla.
Connecticut Open
A U.S. Open Series event
Monday
At The Connecticut Tennis Center at
Yale
New Haven, Conn.
Purse: $695,900 (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
First Round
Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, def. Nicole Gibbs, United States, 7-5, 6-0.
Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Camila
Giorgi, Italy, 6-1, 6-4.
Caroline Garcia, France, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-1, 6-4.
Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, def. Kiki
Bertens, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4.
Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, def. Annika Beck, Germany, 6-2, 6-1.
Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 7-5, 6-2.
Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Maria
Sakkari, Greece, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2.
Ana Konjuh, Croatia, def. Karla Day,
United States, 6-0, 6-3.
Petra Kvitova (6), Czech Republic, def.
Louisa Chirico, United States, 1-6, 6-1, 63.
Doubles
First Round
Darija Jurak, Croatia, and Anastasia
Rodionova, Australia, def. Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, and Xenia Knoll, Switzerland, 7-5, 6-4.
Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, and
Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, def. Liang Chen, China, and Alicja Rosolska,
Poland, 6-2, 6-3.
Timea Babos, Hungary, and Yaroslava
Shvedova (1), Kazakhstan, def. Klaudia
Jans-Ignacik, Poland, and Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8.
World TeamTennis
Finals
Friday, August 26
At Forest Hills Stadium
Forest Hills, N.Y.
Orange County vs. San Diego
Pro basketball
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
New York
18
8 .692
Atlanta
13
12 .520
Indiana
12
12 .500
Chicago
11
13 .458
Washington
9
15 .375
Connecticut
8
16 .333
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
Los Angeles
21
3 .875
Minnesota
21
4 .840
Phoenix
10
14 .417
Seattle
9
15 .375
Dallas
9
16 .360
San Antonio
5
18 .217
Sunday’s games
No games scheduled
Monday’s games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s games
No games scheduled
Wednesday’s games
No games scheduled
GB
—
4½
5
6
8
9
GB
—
½
11
12
12½
15½
Deals
Monday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned C
Caleb Joseph to Norfolk (IL). Reinstated
C Matt Wieters from paternity leave.
Sent LHP Brian Duensing to the GCL Orioles for a rehab assignment.
BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned LHP
Henry Owens to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated OF Chris Young from the 15-day DL.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Sent C Alex
Avila to Charlotte (IL) for a rehab assignment.
DETROIT TIGERS — Released RHP
Bobby Parnell. Sent SS Jose Iglesias to
Toledo (IL) for a rehab assignment.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to
terms with OF Jake Wakamatsu on a minor league contract.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms
with RHP Confesor Lara on a minor
league contract.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Fined DH Billy
Butler and INF Danny Valencia undisclosed amounts for a clubhouse fight
last week.
TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Nick
Martinez to Round Rock (PCL). Agreed
to purchase a controlling interest in Kinston (Carolina).
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Released SS Mike
Aviles. Sent RHP Williams Perez to the
GCL Braves for a rehab assignment.
CINCINNATI REDS — Extended their
player development contract with Billings (Pioneer) through the 2018 season.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP
Scott Oberg on the 15-day DL, retroactive
to Saturday. Recalled RHP Carlos Estevez
from Albuquerque (PCL).
MIAMI MARLINS — Assigned LHP Chris
Narveson outright to New Orleans (PCL).
NEW YORK METS — Placed LHP Steven Matz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
Aug. 15. Recalled RHP Robert Gsellman
from Las Vegas (PCL).
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to
terms with INF David Freese on a twoyear contract through the 2018 season.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed OF Jabari
Blash on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
Friday. Recalled INF Luis Sardinas from
El Paso (PCL).
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed
RHP Stephen Strasburg on the 15-day DL,
retroactive to Sunday. Recalled RHP A.J.
Cole from Syracuse (IL).
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Signed G Jason
Terry.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
DENVER BRONCOS — Waived OL Sam
Carlson. Signed DL Henry Melton.
DETROIT LIONS — Released WR Andre
Caldwell from reserve/injured.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released G
Matt Rotheram and LS Jesse Schmitt.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed CB
Antonio Cromartie, WR Justin Berger.
Wiaved WRs Marcus Leak and Andrew
Opoku.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Removed LB
Tamba Hali from the PUP list.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released
TE Bear Pascoe, S Cedric Thompson and
DB V’Angelo Bentley.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived PK Tom
Obarski. Signed PK Randy Bullock.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed LB
Stephen Tulloch.
SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed TE
Jeff Cumberland on injured reserve. Added CB Mike Lee to the active roster.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived
LB Cassanova McKinzy. Waived/injured
OT Kelby Johnson. Signed OT Kyler Kerbyson.
COLLEGE
NCAA — Placed Campbell University
on probation for one year for improper
academic certification of 34 athletes in
10 sports over a five-year period.
EAST TENNESSEE STATE — Dismissed
freshman G Shemar Johnson from the
men’s basketball team.
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OLYMPICS
USA Basketball entering time of transition
With Krzyzewski out,
Popovich stepping in
to continue success
BY BRIAN M AHONEY
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Mike Krzyzewski
is heading out, Gregg Popovich is coming
in and maybe LeBron James would even
come back.
It’s a time of transition for both the U.S.
Olympic team and international basketball
and it starts, as usual, with the Americans
on top.
The U.S. won its third straight gold medal
Sunday, beating Serbia 96-66 in the final
game for Krzyzewski, who led the program
for a decade and
became the first
coach to win three
It’s been
Olympic gold medals. He also guided
a joy. I’ve
the Americans to a
been so
pair of world chamlucky to
pionships, an 88-1
record and from
have been
the bottom back to
given this
the top.
“It’s been a joy,”
opportunity.
Mike Krzyzewski Krzyzewski said.
“I’ve been so lucky
USA basketball
to have been given
head coach this opportunity.”
Now it goes to
Popovich, the other coach Jerry Colangelo
considered before choosing Krzyzewski
after taking control of USA Basketball
in 2005. Like Krzyzewski, a graduate of
the U.S. Military Academy, Popovich is a
military man who attended the Air Force
Academy and has built one of sports’ most
successful organizations while winning
five championships with the San Antonio
Spurs.
Krzyzewski has used the military as
an inspiration for USA Basketball, referring to playing for the team as service and
sacrifice, and Popovich should be an ideal
choice to continue that relationship.
“You have the best guy in the world
who’s going to coach the team now and that
says a lot for the program that’s been developed,” Krzyzewski said.
It was in perhaps its worst shape ever
when he took over, coming off a bronzemedal finish in the 2004 Olympics and an
even poorer finish two years earlier in the
world basketball championship.
The Americans lost their first tournament under Krzyzewski, the 2006 worlds,
but haven’t dropped even a game since.
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PHOTOS
BY
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ABOVE , AND
DANNY JOHNSTON,
BELOW/AP
United States head coach Mike Krzyzewski, above, shouts from the sidelines during the men’s gold medal game against Serbia at
the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. It was the final game for Krzyzewski, who led the program for a decade and
became the first coach to win three Olympic gold medals. He will be suceeded by San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, below.
Some things to watch as they try to stay
on top:
Lebron in Japan?: James passed on a
fourth Olympics after leading Cleveland
to the NBA championship, but may not be
done wearing the red, white and blue. The
U.S. career leader in scoring before Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant passed
him during this tournament, James told
ESPN that he hasn’t retired from international play and was leaving the door open
for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Stars align?: Besides James, players
such as NBA MVP Stephen Curry and AllStars and former Olympians Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Chris Paul all
withdrew from consideration for the Rio
roster. Perhaps some or all of them would
be interested in playing for the respected
Popovich, who could perhaps even per-
suade his own star with the Spurs, Kawhi
Leonard, to play after also pulling out.
First, the minor leaguers: Before Popovich coaches James or any other NBA
stars, the Americans will likely call upon
the minor leaguers to get them there.
FIBA, basketball’s world governing
body, is introducing a new qualification
system similar to the one in soccer, where
teams will play home and road games
against regional opponents to qualify for
the 2019 Basketball World Cup in China.
That tournament will then serve to qualify
teams for Tokyo.
The U.S. doesn’t know yet who its opponents will be, but some games will take
place during the NBA season, ruling out
Popovich and the world’s best players. They
will likely use NBA Development League
players until the A-team is available.
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OLYMPICS
Games say goodbye to Rio, hello to Asia
A look ahead to South Korea, Japan, China
BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
BEIJING
or the Olympics, it’s so-long Rio,
hello Asia.
The next three Olympics are
headed for relatively calmer ports
of call in South Korea, Japan and China
following the organizational drama surrounding the 2014 Winter Olympics in
Russia and the just completed Summer
Games in Brazil, although challenges remain, especially when it comes to finances
and generating enthusiasm among home
audiences. A look ahead to the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea,
the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and
the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. All three
countries have hosted the Olympics before
and enjoy a shared reputation for prosperity and a deft hand at organizing major
events.
F
Pyeongchang 2018
Pyeongchang, a sleepy ski resort town
on South Korea’s mountainous east, is the
smallest of the Asian hosts, and hopes to use
the 2018 Winter Games to position itself as
a major Asian winter sports destination.
However, preparations for Pyeongchang
2018 have been noticeably less smooth than
when South Korea’s capital Seoul hosted
the Summer Games in 1988. Organizers
struggle with construction delays, local
conflicts over venue construction and difficulties attracting domestic sponsorships.
Such problems were easily avoided 30
years ago when the country’s then-military
dictatorship steamrolled any opposition.
Even so, six new competition venues
are about 80 percent complete, and a new
high-speed rail line, designed to link the
country’s main gateway of Incheon airport
with Pyeongchang in 90 minutes, will be
up and running by January 2018.
Despite a slow start, organizers say 90
percent of the domestic sponsorship target
of $760 million will be met at the end of the
year, when another round of test events
will begin at Olympic venues.
Excitement for the games has been tempered by concerns over the enormous costs
involved, both for preparing and staging
the Games and for maintaining the new
facilities that might find little use once the
party leaves town.
Gangwon province, which governs Pyeongchang and drove the efforts to win
the Games, has quarreled with the central government over who should pay the
Olympic bills, which are now estimated
at nearly $12 billion. The government has
been eager to save money, but failed to convince Pyeongchang organizers and area
residents to move some competitions and
the opening and closing ceremonies to existing stadiums in other cities.
Generating buzz is also a challenge because South Korea doesn’t have a large
footing in winter sports.
Optimists say the Olympics will bring
much-needed infrastructure to one of
South Korea’s less-developed regions,
which could become a winter sports destination for Asian tourists.
Tokyo 2020
Tokyo was clearly the most reassuring
choice when it was selected over Istanbul
and Madrid in 2013 for the 2020 Summer
Games. Japan’s capital city even billed itself as a “safe pair of hands” at a time of
global unrest and economic turmoil.
Spain was still wrestling with the aftershocks of the previous decade’s financial
crisis, and Turkey, with political unrest
and the effects of the conflict in neighboring Syria. Also weighing on the minds of
International Olympic Committee members were mounting concerns about construction delays in Rio, and security and
astronomical cost overruns for the 2014
Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
The IOC opted to play it safe and go with
a rich country with strong corporate sponsor support.
That doesn’t mean there haven’t been
major hiccups. Last summer, spiraling
construction costs drove the government
to scrap a futuristic plan by the late worldrenowned architect Zaha Hadid for the
main Olympic Stadium, raising concerns
a new design might not be ready in time.
Then the logo chosen for the Tokyo Games
was ditched after plagiarism allegations.
Tokyo has the advantage of being a city
that is in most senses already complete.
There’s no mad rush to build subway lines,
or, as for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, elevated highways to unsnarl traffic. It’s also one
of the safest major cities in the world.
Ballooning costs remain an issue: Japa-
LEE JIN - MAN /AP
Performers dance near the sculptures for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics during its
unveiling ceremony in December 2015 in front of Seoul City Hall.
nese media in December put the figure
at about $18 billion, although organizers
have not confirmed that. Newly elected
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has pledged to
rein in costs, writing in a recent newspaper column that her team must become
world-class cost accountants so that the
Olympics don’t hobble future generations
with debt and mar Tokyo’s skyline with
white elephants.
And then there’s the heat. Tokyo in August is famously hot and humid, similar to
Washington, D.C., and organizers are busy
devising ways to keep athletes and fans
cool. The 1964 Tokyo Games were held in
October.
Beijing 2022
Handing the 2022 Winter Olympics to
China’s capital Beijing was arguably one of
the IOC’s most pragmatic decisions.
When the time came to vote, the pool of
candidates had been reduced to just two:
Beijing and Almaty, the capital of the landlocked Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan,
which had never hosted an event on such a
scale and whose dependence on hydrocarbon exports was a worry.
Beijing, meanwhile, could skate on its
record of hosting the highly praised 2008
Summer Olympics that equipped it with
almost all the facilities needed to stage the
indoor events for the Winter Games, such
as ice hockey and figure skating.
The Beijing Games have not been without their controversies, chief among them
the lack of steep mountains and natural
snowfall in the area directly surrounding the typically bone-dry capital. That
has required organizers to locate some of
the skiing events in the adjacent province
of Hebei, with travel eased by new highspeed rail links.
Beijing’s heavy winter air pollution is
also a concern, although city planners say
the closure of factories and retirement of
smoke-spewing vehicles will help. And
while China’s ruling Communist Party
continues to silence its opponents and
repress Tibetans and other minorities,
human rights doesn’t appear to be a major
factor in the run-up to the games, just as
they were mostly cast aside during the
2008 events.
Although China doesn’t have much of a
Winter Olympics tradition, games organizers have touted the games as a driving
force for public participation in hockey,
skiing and other winter sports.
Associated Press reporters Kim Tong-hyung in
Seoul, South Korea, Ken Moritsugu in Tokyo and
sports writer Stephen Wilson in Rio de Janeiro
contributed to this report.
Explaining Super Mario’s global appeal
Associated Press
YU N AKAJIMA , KYODO NEWS/AP
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe appears as the Nintendo game
character Super Mario during the
closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.
NEW YORK — Take that, Pokemon.
On Sunday, the Japanese prime minister
turned up at the Olympics closing ceremonies to promote the 2020 Tokyo games
dressed up as Mario , the eponymous hero
of the popular video game series created
in 1985.
Who is Mario and how did he come by
his global appeal? Here’s a closer look.
Why Super Mario? Japanese animation
and game characters from Hello Kitty to Pac Man
also made appearances in the closing ceremonies. But none of them may have the global reach
of Super Mario, the game franchise that was a hit
when Nintendo’s video game system and Game
Boy burst onto the scene in the 1980s.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance as
Super Mario was a crowd-pleasing reminder of
how much the game helped spur on the videogame revolution in the U.S. and globally. Abe
emerged from a green pipe in a big red Super
Mario cap and costume, holding a glowing red
ball kicked to him by famed manga soccer star
Captain Tsubasa.
How did Super Mario’s appearance
come about? Tokyo 2020 organizers said in
a statement that the Super Mario idea came up
during a brainstorming session. Staff at Nintendo
would say only that the government asked to
borrow the character for the show.
Mario’s backstory: The franchise began
in 1981, when Donkey Kong debuted as an arcade game. Donkey Kong soon became the hottest selling arcade game in the business. In that
game, a character called “Jumpman,” similar to
Mario, tried to save a damsel from a big ape.
Super Mario came along four years later, packaged with the Nintendo Entertainment System,
popularizing the side-scrolling videogame format.
Mario’s first job was carpentry, but later he became a plumber, and in many games he travels up
and down in a world of underground pipes. In his
book “Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the
World,” David Sheff wrote that Mario was named
after Nintendo’s U.S. landlord, who was demanding back rent from the company’s fledgling U.S.
arm. Nintendo doesn’t confirm or deny the story.
By the numbers: There are more than
100 games ranging from Donkey Kong to Super
Mario Kart, in which Mario is the primary character, and many more in which he makes appearances. Super Mario is the best-selling video
franchise of all time, with more than 300 million
units sold as of 2015, according to Nintendo.
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Ridley headlines talent-rich Tide receivers
BY JOHN ZENOR
Green (Kentucky) with 94 catches for 1,038 yards.
Dieter spoke to Mullaney before transferring to Alabama and
is hoping to leave with the same
prize: A national title.
“We have probably some of
the best receivers in the country
— Calvin, ArDarius, Cam (Sims),
Rob,” Dieter said. “Our depth is
just crazy to me, to come in here
and see what kind of talent these
guys have and how hard they
work every single day and how
committed they are to the process has been a joy to see.”
Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Calvin
Ridley doesn’t want to brag on
Alabama’s receiving corps too
much.
Sure, it’s a group full of talented, mostly experienced playmakers — especially counting
tight end O.J. Howard — on an
offense where the quarterbacks
are still duking it out for the starting job and there’s no established
tailback.
The biggest star of the group
nevertheless mixes confidence
with a dollop of humble brag.
“As a group of receivers, we’re
really good,” Ridley said. “I don’t
want to boost our ego up but we’ve
got some good guys on this team
who can make a lot of plays.”
Maybe Cooper Bateman, Blake
Barnett or freshman Jalen Hurts
will seamlessly grab the quarterback job. Bo Scarbrough and Damien Harris certainly have the
pedigree to become the Crimson
Tide’s latest accomplished backfield duo.
All that’s still getting sorted out,
but offensive coordinator Lane
Kiffin certainly has the widest
array of experienced receiving
options of his ‘Bama tenure.
It starts with Ridley, who had
one of the most prolific seasons
by a freshman receiver in major
college football. His 89 catches
and 1,045 yards topped Julio
Jones and Amari Cooper to set
Alabama freshman marks. He
had the second-most catches for
a freshman in major college foot-
Alabama still has a deep group
even after sophomore Daylon
Charlot transferred to Kansas
over the summer and Chris Black
moved on to Missouri. Freshmen
Trevon Diggs and T.J. Simmons
join the mix, along with Dieter.
“It’s one of the best receiving
corps we’ve ever had if not the
best,” Tide safety Eddie Jackson
said. “Hands down.
“Those guys come in and they
challenge us every day. We challenge them back. They love competition. They don’t shy away
from it.”
LM O TERO/AP
Alabama’s Calvin Ridley makes a touchdown catch against Michigan
State during the second half of last year’s college football semifinal
playoff game. Whoever emerges as Alabama’s quarterback will have
targets galore, starting with Ridley and tight end O.J. Howard.
ball history and set a Southeastern Conference record.
Ridley didn’t even start until
Robert Foster went down with a
season-ending shoulder injury in
the third game, and now a healthy
Foster returns.
“I think he would have had a
great season if he hadn’t gotten
hurt,” Kiffin said. “Very special
skill set as far as speed and ability to get on top of the coverage
downfield and if he’s healthy I
think he’ll really have another
one, too. He’ll play well and help
the guys around him.”
Then there’s deep threat Ar-
Darius Stewart, who had 700 receiving yards last season.
Howard wasn’t targeted frequently during the regular season
but was the offensive MVP of the
national championship game. His
208 yards against Clemson was
the most by an Alabama player in
a bowl game and a national title
game record.
Richard Mullaney is the only
significant receiver gone from
last season, and he was replaced
by another graduate transfer.
Gehrig Dieter joins the Tide after
earning second-team All-MAC
honors last season with Bowling
VASHA HUNT, AL.COM /AP
Alabama tight end O.J. Howard towels off during the team’s practice
earlier this month in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
QB Lunt wants to deliver bowl game for Illinois
BY DAVID M ERCER
Associated Press
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Wes Lunt’s 2013
decision to transfer to Illinois from Oklahoma State was just the kind of news an Illini
team coming off a two-win season needed.
The strong-armed Illinois native had
led his high school to two state titles before heading south and becoming the first
freshman to start as the Cowboys’ quarterback in decades.
Three years later, Lunt’s Illini career
has included about as many wins as losses, multiple games lost to injury, two head
coaches fired in a swirl of turmoil that had
nothing to do with the senior quarterback,
and a single bowl game appearance. That is
far short of what Lunt had in mind when he
came home and leaves a lot undone as he
starts his final season at Illinois.
“You know, I had high expectations coming in, just wanted to make a bowl game
every year,” Lunt said. “And not having
that last year is the biggest thing.”
But Lunt has the faith of his latest coach,
Lovie Smith. And Lunt is still very much on
the radars of NFL teams.
“I think he may be one of the most undervalued players in the country this year,”
said Gil Brandt, the longtime NFL talent
guru who ranks him among the top three
quarterbacks in the Big Ten. “I think the
guy can be just as good as (Iowa quarterback) C.J. Beathard. I think that a lot of
(scouts) will be finding their way down to
Champaign.”
In a sport often characterized by loud
H ANNAH FOSLIEN /AP
Illinois’ quarterback Wes Lunt passes against Minnesota in a Nov. 21 game in
Minneapolis. Lunt’s Illini career has included about as many wins as losses. But he has
the faith of his latest coach, Lovie Smith.
intensity and playing a position where ego
and even brash self-confidence are prized,
Lunt said his football demeanor has been
defined by calm at least since he was in
high school in Rochester, a small town just
east of Springfield.
There, he caught himself yelling on the
field at a friend and teammate — nothing
particularly bad, just the player’s name.
But Lunt says that was enough.
“I was like, ‘Man, I should not have done
that,’” he said. “I do yell, and I think there’s
a time and place to do it. You know, I don’t
like to be seen doing it and look like a lunatic or all crazy.”
His calm has helped at Illinois, where little has gone as planned the past few years.
Lunt spent a season on the bench after
his transfer. The following year, as he had
at Oklahoma State, he lost his job after an
injury. That was 2014, when Reilly O’Toole
replaced Lunt and led the Illini to a bowl
game.
Last season, Lunt was again healthy. But
what happened off the field was anything
but. The head coach, Tim Beckman, was
fired a week before the opening game amid
allegations of player mistreatment. And his
replacement, Bill Cubit, was fired in March
to make way for Smith.
“He’s been through a lot,” Smith said of
Lunt. “Think about playing for four head
coaches. He can adjust. We like him being
in charge.”
Smith has made a point of saying he’s
watched very little film of last season’s Illini. Given the circumstances, he wanted to
give players a chance to prove themselves
outside of that turmoil.
But Smith says he has watched film from
Illinois’ 14-13 comeback win over Nebraska, with Lunt in mind.
“I saw enough on Wes, really, right
there,” Smith said.
Lunt engineered a pair of fourth-quarter
touchdown drives and the Illini were, for a
moment, 1-0 in the Big Ten.
But Illinois lost six of its next seven. That
left Lunt a clear-cut goal for this season, he
said. Get to a bowl game.
He’ll be trying to get there in a new offense that Smith says will lean on the run
and with no proven go-to receivers on the
roster. But the offense will be closer to the
pro-style offenses that Brandt and others
think Lunt might someday lead than Illinois has been running.
Just where Lunt will be a few years out,
whether he’ll see his name on an NFL roster, the quarterback isn’t sure.
“I don’t know,” he said. “I think a lot of it
kind of depends on this year.”
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Briefly
McGregor receives
injury suspension
following UFC 202
Associated Press
AP photos
Tennessee running backs Alvin Kamara, left, and Jalen Hurd have different styles, but they generate
similarly productive results for the No. 9 Volunteers.
Vols’ dynamic duo
RB tandem of Hurd, Kamara lead Tennessee’s rushing attack
BY STEVE M EGARGEE
Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee running backs
Jalen Hurd and Alvin Kamara have notable contrasts on and off the field.
Kamara’s the flashier player, whether he’s showing off his fashion sense during the team’s pregame
walks into Neyland Stadium or showcasing his speed
once he’s in the game. Hurd comes across as more
serious in interviews and more physical with a ball
in his hands. Hurd, at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, is 6
inches taller and 25 pounds heavier than Kamara.
Those different styles produce similarly productive results. After teaming
up to rush for 1,986 yards
and 19 touchdowns last year,
I wouldn’t
Hurd and Kamara will try to
say we
prove they’re one of college
have similar football’s top running back
when No. 9 Tennespersonalities, tandems
see opens the season Sept.
but kind of
1 by hosting Appalachian
State.
opposites
“Me and Alvin have alattract.
ways clicked,” Hurd said. “I
Jalen Hurd wouldn’t say we have similar
Tennessee RB personalities, but kind of opposites attract.”
Only once in school history have two Tennessee players rushed for 1,000
yards in the same season. Gerald Riggs Jr. ran for
1,107 yards and Cedric Houston ran for 1,005 yards
in 2004.
Hurd and Kamara have a chance to match that
feat. Hurd rushed for 1,288 yards and 12 touchdowns last season. Kamara ran for 698 yards and
seven scores.
“We’re just as cool as two peas in a pod, I guess,”
Kamara said.
They’ve answered any concerns about how these
two former five-star recruits would coexist. Kamara
describes a dynamic in which each pushes the other
to get better.
Running backs coach Robert Gillespie said Hurd
improved his pass-catching skills after witnessing the receiving ability of Kamara, who caught
34 passes for 291 yards and three touchdowns last
season. Kamara said he spent the offseason making
himself a better pass protector because he wasn’t as
effective as Hurd in that aspect of the game.
“Both of those guys respect each other,” Gillespie
said. “They understand they need each other to be
‘
’
successful. The biggest thing is this: they realize
they need each other to win. Winning is the ultimate
goal for us. We don’t care about accolades, rushing
yards and stats.”
Some individual achievements remain well within
reach.
For instance, Hurd has 2,187 yards rushing
through his first two seasons. That puts him 891
yards shy of the school record held by Travis Henry,
who played at Tennessee from 1997-2000. Hurd
doesn’t bother downplaying what it would mean to
become the most prolific rusher at a program that
has produced the likes of Arian Foster and Jamal
Lewis.
“I know a lot about the history of running backs
here,” Hurd said. “To go after that record and possibly get it is even amazing to think about.”
For his part, Kamara has emerged as a team leader at Tennessee while making the most of his second
chance with a Southeastern Conference program.
Kamara began his college career at Alabama and
was suspended twice while redshirting his lone season with the Crimson Tide. After spending one year
at Hutchinson (Kansas) Community College, Kamara transferred to Tennessee and has made such
an impression that he was selected as one of four
team captains this year.
The Volunteers need big efforts from both Hurd
and Kamara as Tennessee pursues its first Southeastern Conference title since its 1998 national
championship.
They won’t be asked to carry Tennessee’s rushing
attack on their own. Quarterback Joshua Dobbs has
run for 1,160 yards over the last two seasons. Offensive coordinator Mike DeBord says sophomore John
Kelly has performed well in the preseason, which
could add some depth to Tennessee’s backfield.
But they’re the main cogs in a rushing attack that
must lead an offense that doesn’t feature a consistent passing game. Tennessee coach Butch Jones
praises the approach Hurd and Kamara have shown
in the preseason while reminding them to work on
conditioning and finishing runs.
“The mark of a great back is can you do it over
and over and over and over again?” Jones said.
They’ll try to show they can do just that, with each
back benefiting from the other’s presence.
“We’re real tight,” Kamara said. “That helps when
it comes to game day and it comes to practice. When
I look at him, I know he’s going to give his all, and he
knows I’m going to give my all.
“It all goes hand in hand.”
LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor has received a medical
suspension of up to six months
following his five-round victory
over Nate Diaz at UFC 202.
McGregor outpointed Diaz in
a bloody, tiring slugfest Saturday
and came out with issues in his
foot and ankle, including a possible fracture, and also said after
the fight that his shin was sore
from landing so many kicks. He
hobbled into his post-fight press
conference on crutches and needed assistance walking out.
The medical suspensions aren’t
uncommon. McGregor can have
his waived if he is cleared by an
orthopedic doctor. Otherwise,
he’s unable to train with contact
until Oct. 5 and is suspended
from fighting until Oct. 20, when
he can be re-evaluated.
Diaz came out of the fight
with his face bloodied and swollen but was only issued a 30-day
suspension.
McGregor and Diaz both called
for a third match between the
pair, though UFC has insisted
that McGregor first drop down to
defend his featherweight title.
Ex-USC, Raiders QB
Marinovich arrested
IRVINE, Calif. — Former USC
and Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich was
arrested after being found naked
with marijuana and possibly
methamphetamine in a stranger’s
backyard in Southern California.
Irvine Police Cmdr. Mike Hallinan said Monday that Marinovich was arrested Friday night
after a call saying a naked man
was on a hiking trail near homes.
The officers found him in a backyard holding a brown bag containing marijuana and a substance
that appeared to be meth but police are awaiting lab results.
Marinovich, 47, was a star quarterback at USC and the Raiders’
first-round draft pick in 1991, but
drug problems drove him from
the NFL after two seasons.
Power wins IndyCar
race, closes points gap
LONG POND, Pa. — Will
Power continued his late-season
surge, holding Mikhail Aleshin at
bay after a final restart and won
the IndyCar race at Pocono Raceway on Monday.
It was the fourth win of the season for Power, 29th of his career
and cut the lead of Team Penske
teammate Simon Pagenaud to 20
points in the standings with three
races remaining in the season.
After crashing late, Pagenaud
finished 18th in the 500-mile
race, which was postponed a day
by rain.
Court confirms Russia
ban from Paralympics
GENEVA — Russia is banned
from the Paralympic Games as
punishment for a state-backed
doping program, after losing an
appeal at sport’s highest court.
The Court of Arbitration for
Sport announced its urgent verdict Tuesday to dismiss the Russian Paralympic Committee’s
appeal against exclusion from the
Sept. 7-18 games in Rio de Janeiro. A hearing was held in Rio on
Monday.
The court said its judges ruled
that the International Paralympic
Committee “did not violate any
procedural rule” in banning the
Russian team two weeks ago.
Cowboys’ Bryant out
after concussion
FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant will
miss the next preseason game
after sustaining a concussion in
practice.
Coach Jason Garrett said Tuesday that Bryant was hurt a day
earlier when the receiver’s head
hit the shoulder pads of safety
Barry Church. Garrett said Bryant was held out of the rest of that
practice and will not play Thursday night at Seattle.
Garrett said Bryant seemed
“much better” Tuesday, and the
coach doesn’t think there is a
long-term concern.
In other NFL news:
Buffalo Bills receiver Marquise Goodwin is being evaluated
for a possible concussion sustained
during practice on Tuesday.
Coach Rex Ryan would only
say Goodwin was placed in the
NFL’s concussion protocol, which
makes it unlikely he will play
in Buffalo’s preseason game at
Washington on Friday.
Dantonio: O’Connor is
Michigan St.’s No. 1 QB
EAST LANSING, Mich. —
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio has named fifth-year senior
Tyler O’Connor the team’s No. 1
quarterback.
O’Connor had been the favorite
throughout fall camp to succeed
Connor Cook as the starter, but
the coach had held off on saying
anything definitive.
In other college news:
Chris Laviano will be the
starting quarterback for Rutgers.
First-year coach Chris Ash announced the decision on Monday,
less than two weeks before the
season opener at Washington.
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Morris, who had 2,888 yards his
first two seasons compared to
1,825 the past two. “Whatever
it is, whether it’s two plays, 100
plays, it really doesn’t matter.
I have to make the most of each
one. And that’s what I’m doing.”
Garrett isn’t ready to say Elliott will play on Thursday night,
but did say the 21-year-old made
it through practice Monday with
no issues. Elliott wasn’t available
in the locker room when it was
open to reporters.
“It’s important for all players
to practice and get their work in.
That’s what we would like for everybody on our team regardless if
they’re a first-year player or have
played for 15 years,” Garrett said.
“He’s done a really good job with
his rehab getting himself back,
staying engaged with the team.”
Dunbar’s been doing that since
last October, when he tore two
ligaments and the patellar tendon
in his left knee while returning a
kickoff at New Orleans. The loss
of his versatility was an underrated reason the offense struggled
while also missing quarterback
Tony Romo (twice-broken collarbone) and receiver Dez Bryant
(broken foot).
While he’s a ways from being
cleared to play in a game, Dunbar is doing individual work at
practice.
“We had to be very deliberate
in saying, let’s keep him out,”
Garrett said. “Now we feel like
it’s the right time to bring him
back. We’re excited to have him
back. He’s an awfully good football player.”
Rams’ Gaines making most of return
Once McFadden comes back,
who knows how many carries
there will be for him coming off
his second career 1,000-yard
season?
“I think a lot of people made a
big deal about, we have so many
running backs,” coach Jason Garrett said. “You can never have
that many running backs. We’ve
found that out in the past.”
Like last year, when the Cowboys were fortunate to land a
productive McFadden after letting 2014 NFL rushing champion DeMarco Murray go to NFC
East rival Philadelphia in free
agency. And Dallas didn’t just
hand the ball to the fourth overall pick from 2008, instead letting
Murray’s backup, Joseph Randle,
have the lead job for six games.
When Randle injured his back
and McFadden grabbed the lead
role, Dallas had a carousel of
backups after releasing Randle.
The Cowboys were lucky McFadden made it through relatively
healthy for one of the few times in
his career.
That’s where Morris comes
in. A two-time Pro Bowl pick in
Washington, he’s the likely No.
2 behind Elliott for the regularseason opener Sept. 11 at home
against the New York Giants.
The Cowboys, who drafted another running back in the sixth
round in Eastern Michigan’s Darius Jackson, essentially declared
Elliott the starter by being ultra
conservative with his hamstring
in camp.
“I don’t know my role,” said
Associated Press
agent addition Coty Sensabaugh competing for the
vacancy at corner.
IRVINE, Calif. — Cornerback E.J. Gaines said
The resulting uncertainty has been evident so
early in training camp that the Los Angeles Rams
far in the preseason. Cowboys rookie quarterback
could have the best secondary in the league, even
Dak Prescott was 10-for-12 for 139 yards and two
after losing starting cornerback Janoris Jenkins
touchdowns starting in place of Tony Romo in the
and safety Rodney McLeod in free agency.
That certainly has not been the case through the opener.
And Kansas City’s Alex Smith went 9-for-12 for
Rams’ first two preseason games, but the addition of
137 yards and one touchdown last week. Both quarGaines to the first unit could mark a turnterbacks took advantage of open receivers.
ing point toward that goal.
Joyner and Sensabaugh were unable to
Working extensively with the starters
He went make plays on the scoring throws.
Monday, Gaines was able to build on his
The defense hasn’t allowed a point in the
out and
productive outing against the Kansas City
half so far — allowing the Rams to
Chiefs on Saturday. Gaines played most of
made some second
stage second-half rallies to win both prethe second quarter with the second unit
really
season games — but has yet to intercept
and finished with four tackles.
a pass.
“It felt good, man. It was exciting to get
big-time
“Is the glass half-full or is it half-empty?
out there,” Gaines said.
tackles,
Well I’d rather see no points given up in
A pulled hamstring limited Gaines’ acwhich was the first half than I would the second half
tivity during the first few weeks of pracbecause your starters are playing in the
tice at UC Irvine. His return to game
kind of
first half.
action Saturday nearly a year after he sufreminiscent “Too many big plays, too many explosive
fered a season-ending Lisfranc fracture in
his foot was nearly derailed by a sprained
of the E.J. plays. Not enough plays on third down,
not enough turnovers by our standards,”
ankle, but Gaines felt as if he could go after
we had
Fisher said.
participating in pregame warmups.
“We need to get better. The corner posia couple
“E.J.’s first time back, I was really
pleased with what we saw out of E.J.,”
years ago. tion still is up in the air, the other side, be
it Lamarcus or Coty or E.J.”
coach Jeff Fisher said. “He went out and
Jeff
Fisher
Gaines didn’t try to deflect the critimade some really big-time tackles, which
Rams coach, cism aimed at the secondary. When asked
was kind of reminiscent of the E.J. we had
commenting how much better they can be, Gaines said:
a couple years ago.”
on the play “Man, a million times better than we have
Gaines, who had 70 tackles and two
of Rams CB
interceptions as a rookie in 2014, was exE.J. Gaines shown in the preseason so far.”
The focus for the secondary this week
pected to start opposite Jenkins last season. Trumaine Johnson replaced the injured Gaines will be on starting fast, Gaines said, while he is still
and had a team-high seven interceptions, leading trying to adjust to the speed of the game.
“You can’t really simulate that out here on the
the Rams to use their franchise tag on him.
Jenkins signed with the New York Giants, leav- practice field, but getting out there in the preseason
ing Gaines, nickel back Lamarcus Joyner and free- will do me good,” Gaines said.
While Cowboys running back Lance Dunbar has been cleared
medically following major knee surgery last year, he’s still a ways
from being cleared to play in a game.
G ARY C ORONADO, L OS A NGELES TIMES/TNS
E.J. Gaines has joined the Rams’ first-team secondary after an impressive performance against the
Chiefs in Saturday’s preseason game. Gaines has been recovering from a pulled hamstring.
Glad to be back
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MLB
A’s fine
Butler,
Valencia
for fight
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — The
Athletics fined Billy Butler and
Danny Valencia on Monday after
they were involved in a clubhouse
fight last week that led to Butler
being placed on the seven-day
concussion list.
“There was an altercation in the
clubhouse, we’re aware of it, both
players have been disciplined and
fined and we’re moving past it,”
Oakland general manager David
Forst said. “That’s it. From the
organization’s standpoint, it’s resolved and we’re moving past it.”
The San Francisco Chronicle
reported Monday that Butler
and Valencia began fighting over
comments Butler made to an
equipment representative prior
to a game Friday at the Chicago
White Sox. During the exchange,
Valencia hit Butler in the temple
before teammates stepped in to
end the altercation.
Butler sat out the series in Chicago with headaches and nausea.
Forst said Oakland — among
the worst teams in the American
League — would not suspend the
players.
“This is not the first time guys
have gotten into a fight in the clubhouse,” Forst said. “Unfortunately, when you’re having the kind of
season that we’re having, it’s a big
story. If we were winning, it would
be colorful, but we’re not.”
Forst was asked if he considered it colorful for one player to
injure another. He quietly replied
“I don’t know.”
Butler was seen by A’s medical
staff over the weekend but was
not in the clubhouse when Oakland began a three-game homestand with the Indians on Monday.
Cleveland won 1-0 behind a solo
homer by Carlos Santana.
Valencia did not start and
struck out as a pinch-hitter in the
ninth inning.
A’s manager Bob Melvin addressed the team without Valencia and Butler present on Sunday.
Melvin said he stands by the decision to fine and not suspend the
players.
“You’re not always going to get
along great, but I expect us to be
fine going forward,” Melvin said.
“I think this is the easiest way to
move forward.”
Proud papa: A’s shortstop
Marcus Semien was not with the
team after leaving to be with his
wife for the birth of their child. It
marked only the fourth game this
season that Semien hasn’t been in
the starting lineup.
Scoreboard
American League
East Division
W
L
70
54
70
54
68
56
63
61
52
71
Central Division
Cleveland
72
51
Detroit
65
59
Kansas City
64
60
Chicago
59
64
Minnesota
49
75
West Division
Texas
73
52
Seattle
67
57
Houston
65
60
Oakland
53
72
Los Angeles
52
72
Toronto
Boston
Baltimore
New York
Tampa Bay
Orioles 4, Nationals 3
Pct
.565
.565
.548
.508
.423
GB
—
—
2
7
17A
.585
.524
.516
.480
.395
—
7A
8A
13
23A
.584
.540
.520
.424
.419
—
5A
8
20
20A
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Washington
73
51
.589
—
Miami
65
59
.524
8
New York
62
62
.500
11
Philadelphia
58
67
.464
15A
Atlanta
45
80
.360
28A
Central Division
Chicago
79
45
.637
—
St. Louis
66
57
.537
12A
Pittsburgh
62
60
.508
16
Milwaukee
54
70
.435
25
Cincinnati
53
71
.427
26
West Division
Los Angeles
69
55
.556
—
San Francisco
68
56
.548
1
Colorado
60
65
.480
9A
San Diego
53
72
.424
16A
Arizona
52
73
.416
17A
Sunday’s games
Detroit 10, Boston 5
Cleveland 3, Toronto 2
Tampa Bay 8, Texas 4
Houston 5, Baltimore 3
Chicago White Sox 4, Oakland 2
Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1
L.A. Angels 2, N.Y. Yankees 0
L.A. Dodgers 4, Cincinnati 0
Atlanta 7, Washington 6, 10 innings
Miami 3, Pittsburgh 2
St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 0
Colorado 11, Chicago Cubs 4
Milwaukee 7, Seattle 6
San Diego 9, Arizona 1
N.Y. Mets 2, San Francisco 0
Monday’s games
Baltimore 4, Washington 3
Houston 3, Pittsburgh 1
Boston 6, Tampa Bay 2
Cleveland 1, Oakland 0
Seattle 7, N.Y. Yankees 5
L.A. Dodgers 18, Cincinnati 9
Milwaukee 4, Colorado 2
Arizona 9, Atlanta 8
Chicago Cubs 5, San Diego 1
Tuesday’s games
L.A. Angels at Toronto
Boston at Tampa Bay
Texas at Cincinnati
Detroit at Minnesota
Philadelphia at Chicago White Sox
Cleveland at Oakland
N.Y. Yankees at Seattle
Houston at Pittsburgh
Washington at Baltimore
Kansas City at Miami
Colorado at Milwaukee
N.Y. Mets at St. Louis
Atlanta at Arizona
Chicago Cubs at San Diego
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers
Wednesday’s games
Cleveland (Bauer 9-5) at Oakland
(Graveman 9-8)
N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 10-4) at Seattle
(LeBlanc 3-0)
L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 7-13) at Toronto (Estrada 7-5)
Boston (Porcello 17-3) at Tampa Bay
(Andriese 6-5)
Detroit (Boyd 4-2) at Minnesota (Duffey 8-9)
Houston (McHugh 7-10) at Pittsburgh
(Cole 7-8)
Colorado (Anderson 4-4) at Milwaukee (Davies 9-6)
Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 11-7) at San
Diego (Clemens 2-2)
Baltimore (Miley 7-10) at Washington
(Roark 13-6)
Kansas City (Gee 5-6) at Miami (Fernandez 12-7)
Texas (Darvish 4-3) at Cincinnati
(Adleman 2-1)
Philadelphia (Eickhoff 8-12) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 3-8)
N.Y. Mets (deGrom 7-6) at St. Louis
(Martinez 11-7)
Atlanta (Teheran 3-9) at Arizona (Greinke 11-4)
San Francisco (Cueto 14-3) at L.A.
Dodgers (Hill 9-3)
Monday
Cubs 5, Padres 1
Chicago
Fowler cf
Bryant lf
Rizzo 1b
Zobrist 2b
Russell ss
Heyward rf
J.Baez 3b
D.Ross c
Lester p
Grimm p
Szczur ph
T.Wood p
Edwards p
Totals
Chicago
San Diego
ab
3
5
5
4
4
4
3
3
2
0
1
0
0
34
r h
1 0
1 1
1 4
0 1
1 1
1 1
0 2
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
5 11
bi
0
1
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
San Diego
ab r h bi
Jnkwski cf 4 0 1 0
A.Rmrez ss 3 0 1 0
Myers 1b
3 0 0 0
A.Dckrs lf 4 1 1 0
Bthncrt c 4 0 1 0
Kvlehan rf 4 0 0 0
Rosales 3b 2 0 0 0
Hessler p 0 0 0 0
Schimpf ph-3b 2 0 0 0
Srdinas 2b 3 0 1 0
E.Jcksn p
0 0 0 0
Wallace 3b 2 0 1 0
J.Dmngz p 0 0 0 0
Totals
31 1 6 0
011 030 000—5
000 000 100—1
ROSS D. FRANKLIN /AP
The Diamondbacks’ Paul Goldschmidt, right, arrives at home plate
as the team celebrates his walk-off home run against the Braves
during the ninth inning Monday in Phoenix. Arizona won 9-8.
E—Heyward (1). DP—San Diego 2.
LOB—Chicago 9, San Diego 6. 2B—Rizzo
(37), A.Ramirez (19). HR—Bryant (32),
Russell (18), Heyward (6). SB—J.Baez (11),
Jankowski (27), Myers (22), Sardinas (2).
CS—Jankowski (8), Myers (5). SF—Russell (5). S—Lester (8), E.Jackson (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Lester W,14-4
6
5
1
1
2 8
Grimm
1
0
0
0
0 3
Wood
1
1
0
0
0 0
Edwards
1
0
0
0
0 3
San Diego
Jackson L,3-4
5
7
5
5
4 2
Hessler
2
3
0
0
1 0
Dominguez
2
1
0
0
0 0
Lester pitched to 2 batters in the 7th
WP—Grimm. T—3:19. A—31,707 (42,302).
Mariners 7, Yankees 5
New York
Seattle
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Gardner lf
4 0 1 0 Aoki lf
2 0 0 0
Ellsbry cf
4 1 1 0 Heredia lf 1 0 0 0
G.Snchz c
4 2 3 3 S.Smith rf 3 0 1 0
Grgrius ss
4 0 1 0 O’Mlley rf 0 0 0 0
S.Cstro 2b
4 2 2 2 Cano 2b
4 2 3 0
B.McCnn dh 2 0 0 0 N.Cruz dh 4 2 1 1
Judge rf
4 0 0 0 K.Sager 3b 3 2 2 3
Headley 3b 4 0 1 0 Lind 1b
4 0 1 0
Trreyes pr
0 0 0 0 Zunino c
4 1 1 3
Austin 1b
3 0 0 0 L.Mrtin cf 3 0 0 0
Tixeira ph
1 0 0 0 K.Marte ss 3 0 1 0
Totals
34 5 9 5 Totals
31 7 10 7
New York
110 003 000—5
Seattle
000 303 01x—7
DP—New York 2, Seattle 2. LOB—New
York 5, Seattle 3. 2B—S.Smith (12). HR—
G.Sanchez 2 (8), S.Castro 2 (17), N.Cruz
(32), K.Seager (24), Zunino (9). CS—
O’Malley (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
New York
Pineda
5B
7
5
5
2 6
Layne H,4
B
0
0
0
0 0
Swarzak L,1-2 BS,1
1
1
1
1
1 2
Yates
1B
2
1
1
0 1
Seattle
Martin
5C
7
5
5
2 5
Vincent W,3-3
1
0
0
0
0 1
Nuno H,11
B
1
0
0
0 0
Cishek H,2
1
0
0
0
0 1
Diaz S,10-10
1
1
0
0
1 1
T—2:56. A—24,384 (47,476).
Diamondbacks 9, Braves 8
Atlanta
Arizona
ab r h bi
Segura 2b 5 2 3 0
Bourn cf
5 2 3 1
Gldschm 1b 4 2 3 2
Ja.Lamb 3b 4 0 0 0
Tomas rf
3 2 1 2
Cstillo c
4 1 2 3
Haniger lf 3 0 1 0
Hudson p 0 0 0 0
Weeks ph 1 0 1 0
Barrett p
0 0 0 0
Burgos p
0 0 0 0
Owings ss 4 0 1 1
Godley p
2 0 0 0
Delgado p 0 0 0 0
Hthaway p 0 0 0 0
Drury lf
2 0 1 0
Totals
36 8 12 8 Totals
37 9 16 9
Atlanta
320 020 001—8
Arizona
013 000 401—9
DP—Atlanta 1. LOB—Atlanta 8, Arizona 6. 2B—F.Freeman (32), Markakis
(31), Segura 2 (33), Castillo 2 (19). 3B—Inciarte (4). HR—Ad.Garcia (10), F.Freeman
2 (26), Goldschmidt (19), Tomas (26).
SF—C.d’Arnaud (2), Goldschmidt (6).
S—Foltynewicz (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
Foltynewicz
6
9
4
4
0 7
Vizcaino BS,4
C
4
4
4
1 1
Younginer IV
B
1
0
0
0 0
Gant L,1-3
1
2
1
1
0 1
Arizona
Godley
5
9
7
7
3 3
Delgado
1
0
0
0
0 2
Hathaway
C
1
0
0
0 1
Hudson
B
0
0
0
0 0
Barrett H,5
1
0
0
0
2 2
Burgos W,1-1 BS,3
1
2
1
1
0 1
WP—Barrett 2, Gant. T—3:18. A—15,789
(48,633).
Incarte cf
Ad.Grca 3b
F.Frman 1b
M.Kemp lf
Mrkakis rf
Flowers c
C.d’Arn 2b
Swanson ss
Fltynwc p
Vzcaino p
Yngnr I p
Pterson ph
Gant p
ab
4
5
4
3
5
5
3
4
2
0
0
1
0
r
2
1
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
2
1
3
1
3
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
bi
0
2
3
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Indians 1, Athletics 0
Oakland
ab r h bi
Crisp dh
4 0 1 0
Smlnski cf 4 0 1 0
Vogt c
3 0 0 0
Vlencia ph 1 0 0 0
K.Davis lf 4 0 0 0
Alonso 1b 3 0 0 0
Healy 3b
3 0 2 0
Eibner rf
3 0 0 0
Muncy 2b 3 0 0 0
Pinder ss
3 0 0 0
Totals
33 1 7 1 Totals
31 0 4 0
Cleveland
000 000 010—1
Oakland
000 000 000—0
E—Kipnis (8). LOB—Cleveland 6, Oakland 4. 2B—Kipnis (28), Chisenhall (21),
Crisp (24). HR—C.Santana (27). CS—Naquin (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cleveland
Carrasco W,9-6
8
4
0
0
0 9
Miller S,11-13
1
0
0
0
0 3
Oakland
Triggs
6
3
0
0
1 6
Hendriks
1
2
0
0
0 2
Dull L,5-4
1
2
1
1
0 1
Madson
1
0
0
0
0 0
T—2:29. A—10,114 (37,090).
Washington
Baltimore
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
T.Trner cf
4 1 0 0 A.Jones cf 4 0 0 0
Werth dh
3 0 0 0 Kim lf
3 0 0 0
D.Mrphy 2b 3 0 2 1 M.Mchdo 3b 4 1 1 0
Harper rf
3 0 0 0 C.Davis 1b 3 1 1 1
W.Ramos c 3 0 0 0 Trumbo rf 2 1 1 2
Rendon 3b 3 1 1 1 P.Alvrz dh 3 0 0 0
Zmmrman 1b 4 0 1 0 Wieters c 3 0 0 0
Espnosa ss 4 1 1 1 Schoop 2b 3 1 1 1
Revere lf
3 0 0 0 J.Hardy ss 3 0 1 0
Heisey ph
1 0 0 0
Totals
31 3 5 3 Totals
28 4 5 4
Washington
100 100 100—3
Baltimore
001 300 00x—4
DP—Washington 1, Baltimore 1. LOB—
Washington 7, Baltimore 3. 2B—D.Murphy
(36), Zimmerman (15), M.Machado (37),
C.Davis (18). HR—Rendon (16), Espinosa
(19), Trumbo (38), Schoop (20). SB—
T.Turner (14).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Washington
Cole L,0-1
7
5
4
4
2 8
Glover
1
0
0
0
1 1
Baltimore
Bundy W,7-4
6
3
2
2
4 4
Givens H,9
1
1
1
1
0 2
Hart H,1
B
1
0
0
0 0
Brach H,20
C
0
0
0
1 1
Britton S,38-38
1
0
0
0
0 2
HBP—by Bundy (Ramos). WP—Brach.
T—2:31. A—31,660 (45,971).
Cleveland
C.Sntna 1b
Kipnis 2b
Lindor ss
Napoli dh
Jose.Rm 3b
Chsnhll rf
Naquin cf
A.Almnt lf
R.Perez c
ab
3
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
r
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
1
1
1
1
0
2
1
0
0
bi
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Red Sox 6, Rays 2
Boston
Tampa Bay
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Pedroia 2b 4 1 1 0 Frsythe 2b 3 0 1 0
Bgaerts ss 4 2 2 2 Krmaier cf 4 1 1 0
Ortiz dh
4 0 2 0 Lngoria 3b 4 1 1 2
Betts rf
5 1 1 0 B.Mller 1b 4 0 0 0
Han.Rmr 1b 3 1 1 1 M.Duffy ss 3 0 1 0
Leon c
4 1 1 1 T.Bckhm dh 3 0 1 0
Chris.Y lf
2 0 1 1 C.Dckrs ph-dh 1 0 0 0
Brdly J pr-cf 1 0 0 0 Sza Jr. rf
3 0 0 0
A.Hill 3b
3 0 0 0 Mahtook lf 3 0 0 0
Bnntndi cf-lf 3 0 0 1 Maile c
3 0 0 0
Totals
33 6 9 6 Totals
31 2 5 2
Boston
000 200 103—6
Tampa Bay
000 000 002—2
E—Farquhar (1). DP—Tampa Bay 1.
LOB—Boston 10, Tampa Bay 4. 2B—Ortiz
(40), Han.Ramirez (25), Chris.Young (13).
HR—Bogaerts (15), Longoria (29). SB—
Betts (20). CS—Forsythe (3). SF—Han.
Ramirez (4), Benintendi (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Boston
Price W,12-8
8
2
0
0
2 8
Barnes
1
3
2
2
0 2
Tampa Bay
Snell L,4-6
3C
4
2
2
5 3
Ramirez
1B
0
0
0
2 2
Jepsen
2
2
1
1
0 0
Romero
1
0
0
0
1 1
Farquhar
1
3
3
1
0 1
WP—Barnes.
T—3:13.
A—13,576
(31,042).
Brewers 4, Rockies 2
Colorado
Milwaukee
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Dahl cf
4 2 2 0 Villar 3b
3 1 1 0
LMahieu 2b 4 0 1 1 K.Brxtn cf 3 0 0 0
Ca.Gnzl rf
4 0 0 0 Braun lf
4 1 1 1
Arenado 3b 3 0 2 0 Gennett 2b 3 1 0 0
Parra lf
3 0 0 0 Carter 1b 2 1 1 1
Hundley c
4 0 0 0 Nwnhuis rf 3 0 1 2
Dsclso ss-1b 4 0 1 0 Arcia ss
4 0 0 0
Paulsen 1b 3 0 0 0 Mldnado c 3 0 0 0
Lyles p
0 0 0 0 Nelson p
1 0 0 0
Raburn ph 1 0 0 0 Do.Sntn ph 0 0 0 0
Bettis p
2 0 1 0 C.Trres p
0 0 0 0
Adames ss 1 0 0 0 Knebel p
0 0 0 0
Blckmon ph 1 0 0 0 Thrnbrg p 0 0 0 0
Totals
34 2 7 1 Totals
26 4 4 4
Colorado
100 010 000—2
Milwaukee
301 000 00x—4
E—Hundley (5), Descalso (5). DP—Colorado 3. LOB—Colorado 7, Milwaukee
6. 2B—Arenado (28), Descalso (7). HR—
Carter (30). SB—Dahl 2 (3), Villar 2 (50).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Colorado
Bettis L,10-7
5
4
4
3
7 3
Lyles
3
0
0
0
1 1
Milwaukee
Nelson W,7-13
6
7
2
2
0 4
Torres H,10
1
0
0
0
0 0
Knebel H,6
1
0
0
0
1 0
Thornburg S,5-9
1
0
0
0
0 2
HBP—by Nelson (Parra). WP—Nelson.
T—2:54. A—20,458 (41,900).
Astros 3, Pirates 1
Houston
Pittsburgh
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Sprnger rf
4 0 0 0 Hrrison 2b 4 0 0 0
Bregman 3b 4 1 1 1 S.Marte lf 4 0 0 0
Altuve 2b
4 0 1 0 McCtchn cf 4 0 0 0
Correa ss
4 0 0 0 G.Plnco rf 4 1 2 0
A..Reed 1b 2 1 0 0 Freese 3b 3 0 1 0
Ma.Gnzl pr-1b 1 0 0 0 Bell 1b
3 0 1 0
T.Hrnnd lf
3 1 1 2 Crvelli c
3 0 1 0
J.Cstro c
3 0 1 0 Mercer ss 3 0 0 0
Mrsnick cf 3 0 1 0 Taillon p
2 0 0 0
Fister p
2 0 0 0 Joyce ph
1 0 0 0
Gurriel ph
1 0 0 0 N.Feliz p
0 0 0 0
Harris p
0 0 0 0
Giles p
0 0 0 0
Totals
31 3 5 3 Totals
31 1 5 0
Houston
000 020 001—3
Pittsburgh
000 000 001—1
E—Bell (1), Bregman (2), Fister (2). DP—
Pittsburgh 2. LOB—Houston 2, Pittsburgh
4. 2B—J.Castro (15), G.Polanco 2 (29), Bell
(1). HR—Bregman (4), T.Hernandez (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
Fister W,12-8
7
3
0
0
1 6
Harris H,18
1
0
0
0
0 1
Giles S,4-7
1
2
1
0
0 2
Pittsburgh
Taillon L,3-3
8
4
2
2
1 8
Feliz
1
1
1
1
0 0
PB—Cervelli.
T—2:17.
A—24,017
(38,362).
Dodgers 18, Reds 9
Los Angeles
Cincinnati
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Utley 2b
5 4 3 0 Hmilton cf 5 2 1 0
C.Sager ss 5 3 4 3 Peraza ss 6 3 4 0
Ad.Gnzl 1b 6 3 3 8 Votto 1b
6 2 3 4
Grandal c
6 1 2 1 Duvall lf
4 2 2 2
Pderson cf 5 2 1 0 Phllips 2b 4 0 0 0
Kndrick lf
5 2 3 0 Renda 2b
1 0 0 0
Toles rf
5 1 2 4 Schbler rf 4 0 3 2
Segedin 3b 3 1 1 2 E.Sarez 3b 3 0 0 0
Howell p
1 0 0 0 B.Wood p 0 0 0 0
B.Nrris p
0 0 0 0 Lrenzen p 0 0 0 0
Fields p
0 0 0 0 T.Holt ph-p 1 0 0 0
Kazmir p
2 0 1 0 Brnhart c 4 0 1 1
Chavez p
0 0 0 0 Bailey p
0 0 0 0
Reddick ph 1 0 0 0 Jos.Smt p 1 0 0 0
Dayton p
0 0 0 0 J.Diaz p
1 0 0 0
P.Baez p
0 0 0 0 D Jesus 3b 1 0 0 0
E.Hrnnd 3b 2 1 1 0
Totals
46 18 21 18 Totals
41 9 14 9
Los Angeles
402 060 420—18
Cincinnati
103 102 011— 9
E—E.Hernandez (1). LOB—Los Angeles
7, Cincinnati 14. 2B—Peraza 2 (2), Votto
(24), Duvall (24), Schebler (7). 3B—Votto (2), Duvall (4). HR—C.Seager (22),
Ad.Gonzalez 3 (15), Grandal (21), Toles
(1), Segedin (1). SF—Toles (1), Segedin
(2), Duvall (6).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Kazmir
2C
6
4
4
3 1
Chavez W,2-2
1B
2
1
1
0 1
Dayton
1
0
0
0
1 0
Baez
C
2
2
2
2 0
Howell
1B
0
0
0
1 1
Norris
C
2
1
1
1 0
Fields
1B
2
1
1
0 1
Cincinnati
Bailey L,2-2
2B
9
6
6
1 0
Smith
2
5
5
5
1 2
Diaz
2
1
3
3
2 2
Wood
C
3
2
2
0 2
Lorenzen
1
3
2
2
0 1
T—4:02. A—15,690 (42,319).
Calendar
Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40
players.
October TBA — World Series starts,
city of AL champion.
November TBA — Deadline for teams
to make qualifying offers to their eligible
former players who became free agents,
fifth day after World Series.
November TBA — Deadline for free
agents to accept qualifying offers, 12th
day after World Series.
Nov. 7-10 — General managers’ meetings, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Nov. 16-17 — Owners meetings, Chicago.
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Orioles use long ball to beat Nationals
Trumbo, Schoop go
deep for Baltimore
BY DAVID GINSBURG
Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Two rookie pitchers
with plenty of hope for the future could
end up playing big roles this year for the
Orioles and Nationals.
Dylan Bundy threw six innings of six-hit
ball, Mark Trumbo hit his major leagueleading 38th home run and Baltimore beat
Washington 4-3 Monday night in a matchup between neighboring contenders.
Jonathan Schoop also homered for the
Orioles, who had lost five of their previous
six games — all at home. The victory lifted
Baltimore within two games of first-place
Toronto and Boston in the AL East.
Bundy (7-4) gave up two runs, walked
four and struck out four. The 23-year-old
is 5-3 with a 3.56 ERA in eight games since
joining the starting rotation on July 17.
“It’s just a tribute to Dylan and the people who have worked with him,” Orioles
manager Buck Showalter said. “And most
of all, Dylan. Good pitchers are easy to
handle. Just get out of their way.”
The Orioles did all their scoring against
A.J. Cole (0-1) in his season debut. Cole was
recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to replace
scheduled starter Stephen Strasburg, who
was placed on the 15-day disabled list with
right elbow soreness.
Anthony Rendon and Danny Espinosa
homered for the NL East-leading Nationals
and Daniel Murphy had his 48th multihit
game.
NICK WASS/AP
The Orioles’ Mark Trumbo, right, celebrates his two-run home run with Chris Davis during Monday’s game in Baltimore.
Roundup
Price helps Red Sox move into tie atop AL East
Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — David Price
limited his old team to two hits in eight
scoreless innings, helping the Boston Red
Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Monday night to move into a tie for first place
in the AL East.
Price (12-8) walked two, struck out
eight and didn’t allow a runner past first
base while extending Tampa Bay’s scoring drought against Boston to 25 innings
dating to a series at Fenway Park before
the All-Star break. Evan Longoria stopped
the streak with a two-run homer off Matt
Barnes in the ninth.
Blake Snell (4-6) allowed two runs
and needed 94 pitches to get through 3 2 ⁄3
innings.
The victory was the ninth in 11 games
for the Red Sox and lifted them into a tie
with Toronto, which was idle Monday.
Dodgers 18, Reds 9: Adrian Gonzalez hit three of visiting Los Angeles’ seven
homers — driving in a career-high eight
runs — and rookie Corey Seager had a
noteworthy homer as well.
The NL West leaders enjoyed their biggest home run splurge in 10 years. They’ve
won 10 of their last 12 games against
Cincinnati.
Indians 1, Athletics 0: Carlos Carrasco
(9-6) and Andrew Miller combined on a
four-hitter, Carlos Santana homered in the
eighth inning and visiting Cleveland beat
Oakland.
C HRIS O’MEARA /AP
Red Sox starting pitcher David Price delivers a pitch during the first inning of
Monday’s game against the Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla. Boston won the game, 6-2.
Carrasco was masterful while limiting
the A’s to four hits over eight innings. The
right-hander had nine strikeouts, retired
the side in order five times and allowed
only one runner to reach second base.
Cubs 5, Padres 1: Kris Bryant, Addison
Russell and Jason Heyward all homered to
back Jon Lester’s (14-4) strong outing for
visiting Chicago.
Bryant’s solo shot in the fifth inning
was his 32nd of the year, tying him with
Colorado’s Nolan Arenado for the National
League lead.
Mariners 7, Yankees 5: Mike Zunino
and Kyle Seager each hit a three-run
homer and Nelson Cruz added a solo shot
as host Seattle rallied to beat New York.
The Yankees got two homers apiece from
rookie catcher Gary Sanchez and Starlin
Castro, but three of them were solo shots.
Astros 3, Pirates 1: Doug Fister (128) pitched seven scoreless innings of
three-hit ball, Teoscar Hernandez hit a
two-run homer and visiting Houston beat
Pittsburgh.
Hernandez connected off fellow rookie
Jameson Taillon (3-3) in the fifth inning
after A.J. Reed’s leadoff walk.
Diamondbacks 9, Braves 8: Paul Goldschmidt hit a solo homer in the ninth inning to lift host Arizona over Atlanta.
Goldschmidt hit his 19th homer off John
Gant (1-3) deep into the left-field seats to
lead off the inning, helping Arizona overcome a five-run deficit and a two-homer
night from Freddie Freeman.
Brewers 4, Rockies 2: Chris Carter
homered and Jimmy Nelson (7-13) won
for the first time in seven starts for host
Milwaukee.
Nelson gave up two runs and seven hits
in six innings.
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DEPTH
NFL
Cowboys running
back Ezekiel Elliott is
expected to make his
long-awaited debut in
Thursday’s preseason
game against the
Seahawks in Seattle.
Ryan Kang/AP
Cowboys loaded
at running back
BY SCHUYLER DIXON
Associated Press
FRISCO, Texas
allas rookie Ezekiel Elliott appears set for his
preseason debut at Seattle after the running
back taken fourth overall by the Cowboys
missed most of training camp with a
hamstring injury.
Lance Dunbar was cleared medically this week
following major knee surgery last year, and free
agent Alfred Morris is shaping up as a solid insurance policy.
The Dallas running game looks deep behind one of the NFL’s best offensive lines,
and that’s without a mention of last year’s
leading rusher, Darren McFadden. He’s
been out nearly three months after breaking
an elbow in a household accident.
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RON JENKINS/AP
Cowboys running back Alfred Morris, left, escapes a tackle attempt by the
Dolphins’ Andre Branch on his way to the end zone during Friday’s preaseason
game in Arlington, Texas. Morris is in his first season with Dallas.
No. 1 Alabama has deep receiving corps
Popovich ready to take Team USA reins
College football, Page 27
Olympics, Page 25