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Invisible scars
Afghans hesitant to talk of mental health after years of war
BY LYNNE O’DONNELL AND K ARIM SHARIFI
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Soheila Hashemi has hardly slept since a suicide bomber
targeted a rally in the Afghan capital last month, killing more than 80 people and
wounding scores in the deadliest attack in Kabul since the war with the Taliban
began 15 years ago.
She is tormented by feelings of guilt for surviving the carnage and for
encouraging fellow Hazaras to come to the protest that called for an
end to discrimination against their community, Afghanistan’s
poorest ethnic and religious minority.
SEE HEALTH ON PAGE 4
An Afghan patient is seen on a bed, with her father at her
side, at the mental health and drug addicts’ hospital in
Kabul, Afghanistan. Experts say the vast majority
of the Afghan population suffers from
some form of post-traumatic
stress disorder.
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Jets scramble after Syrians bomb near US troops
BY COREY DICKSTEIN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — U.S. special operators were near Hassakeh on Thursday
when Syrian bombers attacked the Kurdish-controlled city, a Pentagon spokesman
said.
The United States issued a stern warning
to President Bashar Assad’s government
after two of its SU-24 bombers conducted
airstrikes on the Syrian city, which is controlled by Kurdish People’s Protection Unit
forces, or YPG, said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis,
a Pentagon spokesman.
More so, the United States, which is allied with the YPG in the fight against the
Islamic State group, scrambled aircraft
into the area to protect U.S.-coalition forces, he said.
“We will ensure [American and coalition
troops’] safety, and the Syrian regime would
be well advised not to do things that put them
at risk,” Davis said Friday. “This is counterproductive and undermines the claims by
Russia and the regime that they’re serious
about combating terrorism in Syria.”
None of the U.S. or coalition troops were
injured or otherwise impacted Thursday
by the Syrian airstrikes, Davis said.
The United States has the “inherent
right” to protect its troops, Davis said. He
added that the coalition would take “what-
ever action is necessary to protect coalition forces on the ground.”
There are about 300 U.S. special operators and support troops on the ground in
Syria, where they are serving as trainers
and advisers for the local partner forces
fighting the Islamic State group. The local
partners, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, are largely comprised of YPG
fighters and the Syrian Arab Coalition.
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“If it quacks like a duck,
it’s a duck. If a cash
payment is contingent on
a hostage release, it’s a
ransom. The truth matters,
and the president owes
the American people an
explanation.”
— Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., reacting to the administration’s acknowledgement that a $400 million cash
payment to Iran seven months ago
was contingent on the release of a
group of American prisoners
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Sling load training in Kuwait
Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, reach up with a sling load loop to a Chinook helicopter during training in
sling-load movement on Aug. 11 at Camp Buehring, Kuwait.
Miss USA reports to
Fort Meade for training
This week, Miss USA traded in
her crown for fatigues.
Deshauna Barber, who represented the District of Columbia, is
an Army Reserve officer and IT
analyst for the U.S. Department of
Commerce. She returned to Fort
George G. Meade for her required
training.
“… I am so happy to still do that
as your #MissUSA,” she wrote in
one of her Instagram posts. Photos she posted included helping
soldiers with maintenance checks
on a Humvee. She’ll report back to
the post in 30 days for her monthly
training.
During the Miss USA pageant
in June, she quickly became a favorite on social media when she
addressed the issue of women
in combat during the interview
portion.
“As a woman in the United
States Army, I think it was an
amazing job by our government to
allow women to integrate to every
branch of the military,” she said.
“We are just as tough as men. …”
$750M Fort Detrick
lawsuit dismissed
Sailor charged with
attempted murder, rape
Nonmilitary families can
live at Fort Hood, Texas
FREDERICK, Md. — A federal judge has dismissed a $750
million class-action lawsuit alleging the Army’s reckless handling
of chemical and biological toxins
caused death and illness among
people living near Fort Detrick in
Frederick, Md.
The Frederick News-Post reported that U.S. District Judge
Catherine Blake filed the dismissal notice Thursday in Baltimore.
She ruled that the plaintiffs
had not met a threshold requirement of proving the Army lacked
discretion over how to dispose of
hazardous waste.
The plaintiffs had argued that
executive orders signed by President Richard Nixon mandated
rules for handling hazardous
waste at federal facilities. Blake
likened the executive orders to
policy guidelines that did not remove the Army’s discretion.
NORFOLK, Va. — A sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS
George H.W. Bush was arraigned
in military court Monday on
charges he raped and attempted
to murder a fellow sailor in Portsmouth, Va., by holding a pillow
over her face, strangling her with
his hands and banging her head
against the floor.
Prosecutors said Seaman Recruit Xavier Johnson sexually assaulted the woman in September
after she was unconscious.
Johnson also is charged with
assaulting a civilian woman in
Norfolk, Va., in April.
Prosecutors have charged him
with aggravated assault by means
likely to cause death or grievous
bodily harm for wrapping his
hands around the civilian’s neck
on April 13, and then for holding
a comforter over her face to suffocate her on April 27.
FORT HOOD, Texas — For the
first time ever, the Army is making rental housing available at
Fort Hood, Texas, to people not
affiliated with the military.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that a shrinking
military population has left housing vacancies at the post, which
in 2001 became the first military
post to turn over its housing operation to a private contractor.
The firm manages homes and
townhomes, with rents starting
at $995 a month, for about 5,500
military families.
The company’s project director,
Mack Quinney, said Fort Hood is
the latest of nearly three dozen
military installations to make
housing available for nonmilitary
families.
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DOD repays $1B F-35 subsidy to Lockheed
BY M AX B. BAKER
Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram
The Defense Department is repaying a
massive subsidy Lockheed Martin pumped
into the F-35 Lightning II program earlier
this year to keep the mile-long Fort Worth
assembly line moving.
Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed’s executive
vice president for aeronautics, said Thursday the company has received money that
has “significantly improved” its cash position. While no one at either the Pentagon or
Lockheed is confirming the amount, credible sources say it is close to $1 billion.
In reporting its second-quarter earnings in July, Lockheed executives said that
while overall profits were up, it was paying
$1 billion to prevent a disruption in the F-35
program. They also said Lockheed would
not sustain that level of self-funding.
The payment came as the Pentagon and
Lockheed continue negotiating contracts
for the next 149 fighters. The company had
hoped to reach a deal by mid-year but has
been unable to do so, Carvalho said following a speech to the Fort Worth Chamber of
Commerce.
“We were providing a certain amount of
subsidy to the line while we were seeing
if we could get the negotiations finished,”
Carvalho said. “We’ve received that, and
that has significantly improved the situation on the cash.”
Pentagon officials, while big supporters
of the jet fighter, have expressed some concerns about software problems with the F35, which has been described as a flying
computer. They have also been keeping a
close eye on bringing the overall program
costs down.
“The money was released to keep the
production line going as we continue to
negotiate a fair deal for the F-35,” said
Joe DellaVedova, spokesman for the Pentagon’s F-35 program. “We want to make
sure our international partners and U.S.
services get the best deal.”
The Pentagon approved the money
through what is known as an undefinitized
contract action, which allows a contractor to begin work while payment details
are worked out. This procedure has been
used in the past to pay for the F-35’s
development.
The F-35 program, at $379 billion, is the
most expensive weapons system in Pentagon history. It has been troubled, and
Lockheed has been working to smooth the
transition to full production.
Lockheed is in the midst of a $1.2 billion
upgrade of its Fort Worth plant as it ramps
up F-35 production. The company has said
it plans to hire up to an additional 1,500
employees by the end of next year — 1,000
assembly-line workers and an additional
500 supervisors and support staff, Carvalho said.
The company addressed concerns raised
about the software on the Air Force version
of the F-35 earlier this year, describing the
software now as “rock solid,” Carvalho
said.
“We feel good about getting all of that
finished, delivering the full avionics and
the mission systems, and ultimately supporting full operational capacity of the airplane,” he said.
Navy shows off
new technology
BY JULIA BERGMAN
The Day, New London, Conn.
NEWPORT, Conn. — Some of
the latest innovations in undersea technology were on display
here Thursday, including an unmanned aerial vehicle that can
be launched from a submarine or
from an unmanned underwater
vehicle.
The Naval Undersea Warfare
Center in Newport on Thursday
wrapped up its second annual
naval technology exercise, which
brings together representatives
from industry, academia and the
Navy’s laboratories.
Demonstrated
technologies
ranged from cutting-edge research to products that have
already been acquired by the
Navy.
Take the Blackwing, a 20-inchlong, 4-pound unmanned aircraft
that folds up into a 3-inch-wide
canister. Once the canister is
launched from a submarine, for
example, and hits the surface, the
Blackwing comes out and opens
its wings. Its flight time is about
an hour.
The Navy is set to acquire 150
Blackwings to be used on its attack and guided missile submarines and unmanned underwater
vehicles.
Developed
by
AeroVironment, the Blackwing is designed
primarily for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
missions.
The Blackwing embodies what
Navy officials mean when they
talk about developing “longer
arms” for submarines to increase
their capabilities.
“The submarine force has
wanted flying-periscope capability, if you want to think about
it that way, for a long time,” said
Jeffrey G. Morrison, a program
officer with the Office of Naval
Research.
The Navy will begin installing
the software on submarines in
2019, and every submarine from
that point on will have it “as part
of its baseline, so they can use it
when they need to,” Morrison
said.
The technology was derived
from the Switchblade, which
AeroVironment officials call “a
weapons system.” The Switchblade, which is designed to take
out small targets without causing
a lot of collateral damage, is being
used by the Army and Marine
Corps. About 1,500 Switchblades
have been produced.
There are various possibilities
for how the technology could be
used in the future.
The Senate’s version of the 2017
defense budget includes $127 million for undersea warfare technologies, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy,
D-Conn., noted in addressing
Thursday’s crowd. That’s $7 million more than what President
Barack Obama requested in his
budget.
The Senate and House, which
are in recess, still need to work
out the differences between their
two defense bills and vote on a finalized version.
Murphy cited two recent experiences that underscore the relevance of the technology being
shown Thursday.
On a trip aboard the USS Hartford to the Arctic this spring,
Murphy “saw firsthand all of the
new capabilities that we will need
as we head into a decade, as we
head into a quarter century in
which the Arctic is going to be up
for grabs, in which there is going
to be more navigation.”
Earlier in the summer, Murphy
went on a congressional visit to
Asia, where he talked “nonstop”
with officials in Japan, the Philippines and Korea about “the
activity of the Chinese to try to
build and take control of enough
territory in the South China Sea,
to be able to cast a detection
net for U.S. submarines that is
unprecedented.”
ERIK VERDUZCO, L AS VEGAS REVIEW -JOURNAL /AP
Nellis Air Force Base military police block the road at the intersection of North Las Vegas Boulevard and
North Hollywood Boulevard after an aircraft crash near the area Thursday in Las Vegas.
Pilot has minor injuries after training crash
BY M ICHELLE R INDELS AND SALLY HO
Associated Press
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A veteran pilot has
been released from the hospital after he was hurt
when a fighter jet went down after completing an
exercise with a military weapons school at an Air
Force base near Las Vegas, officials say.
The pilot had just finished a combat training exercise when he ejected Thursday as he was returning to Nellis Air Force Base, Draken International’s
Scott Poteet said. The exercise typically lasts about
an hour and a half.
By Thursday afternoon, the pilot had already
been treated for minor injuries and released from
the hospital. The company declined to identify him
but said he is not from the Las Vegas area.
The man, who has more than two decades of fighter pilot experience, was alone in an A-4 Skyhawk jet
opposite Nellis’ weapons school trainees. The fixed
wing single-engine aircraft was built in 1970. This
fighter jet model was used by the military in the
Vietnam era as a subsonic fighter-bomber aircraft
with a top speed of more than 670 miles per hour.
A base spokesman said the crash involving the civilian contractor aircraft happened about 7:40 a.m.
Thursday on public land adjacent to the base.
Draken is based in Lakeland, Fla. Draken pi-
lots are civilian contractors who role-play with the
trainees by pretending to be enemy pilots. Poteet
said the six-month weapons school is akin to “getting your Ph.D. in flying,” with a focus on honing
combat skills.
The jet in Thursday’s crash was a two-seater and
had no ammunition on board. Nothing was hit on
the ground and no one else was injured. There have
been no reports of damage to any facilities.
The other aircraft involved in the training landed
safely.
The 57th Wing manages all flying operations at
Nellis, about 15 miles northeast of downtown Las
Vegas.
The wing supports the Air Force warfare testand-evaluation activities, runs a graduate-level U.S.
Air Force weapons school and serves as home to the
Thunderbirds air demonstration team. Since 1975,
the base has hosted periodic “red flag” and “green
flag” training exercises involving military air units
from U.S. allies in mock battles over the vast Nevada Test and Training Range.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian
Gregor says the agency was notified that a military
aircraft was involved in the crash.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman
Keith Holloway said he had no immediate information about his agency’s involvement.
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Airstrikes: US reaction swift after Syria bombs near troops
FROM FRONT PAGE
Davis declined to say how close American troops were to the areas bombed.
He said it is a Pentagon policy not to provide the specific location of U.S. troops in
Syria.
Tensions have escalated between the
YPG and pro-Assad forces around Hassakeh in recent days after clashes initially
broke out Tuesday.
At least 16 people have been killed in
the fighting, including six women and children, according to the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights, a Britain-based activist
organization.
It was not clear Friday whether any people were killed in the airstrikes.
The YPG have been among the most
effective fighters the United States was
worked with in its fight against the Islamic
State group. Though there are no Islamic
State fighters around Hassakeh, the YPG
trains in the area, preparing for future
operations against the terrorist group, including the upcoming attack of Raqqa.
It is not the first time Syrian forces and
Kurdish forces have clashed around Hassakeh during the more than 5-year-old
civil war in the country, but it appears to
be a substantial escalation of Assad’s military actions against the Kurds.
“This is very unusual,” Davis said.
“We’ve not seen the regime take this kind
of action against the YPG before.”
Davis did not say whether the Pentagon
has concerns that the fighting between the
YPG and the Syrian regime could slow the
progress that the Syrian Democratic Forces have made against the Islamic State
group in recent months.
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Health: Many Afghans
struggle with mental
impact of years of war
FROM FRONT PAGE
Hashemi says she needs “professional help” but with the
dearth of psychologists in the
war-ravaged country, she feels
there really isn’t anyone she can
turn to.
“I encouraged people to attend
the demonstration and yet I wasn’t
there when the explosions happened,” said the 23-year-old university student. Many of her close
friends were killed or wounded in
the July 23 bombing.
Hashemi had already left the
rally when the bomber struck. As
the explosion shook Kabul, she
ran back to Demazang Square,
only to faint at the horrific scene
of dead bodies, scattered body
parts and pools of blood.
For days afterward, she was
quick to lose her temper and felt
herself becoming aggressive for
no reason. Even if she found a
psychologist, Hashemi believes
she’d be branded as “crazy” for
admitting to psychological and
emotional problems after the
attack.
After almost 40 years of conflict and crisis, experts say the
majority of the Afghan population suffers from some form of
post-traumatic stress disorder,
yet arcane societal attitudes on
mental health are holding back
many from seeking help.
Hundreds of psychologists have
been trained over the past decade to work at clinics across the
country, many funded by foreign
donors — but the stigma associated with “being crazy” remains
a barrier.
Hashemi says she has been
able to use social media to express some of her feelings. She
said others who went through
similar experiences wrote back,
encouraging her to “talk it out.”
It’s the simplest solution, she said,
in a country where “if you ask a
person to visit a psychiatrist, they
will get angry and tell you they
are not crazy.”
With all the wars, violence has
become embedded in the fabric of
Afghan society.
The Soviet invasion of 1979 lasted for 10 years, followed by three
years of war against the installed
communist authorities. Then
came a civil war in which warlords destroyed much of Kabul.
An estimated 80,000 people were
killed in the city between 1992
and 1996.
The Taliban ruled for five
years — a time when women were
stoned to death for disobeying
their strict version of Islamic law,
or Shariah, and severed hands of
alleged criminals were hung up
in bazaars. The 2001 U.S.-led invasion ousted their brutal regime
but also marked the start of a 15year Taliban insurgency.
Now,
new
players
have
emerged, such as Afghanistan’s
branch of the Islamic State group,
which claimed responsibility for
the July attack on the Hazara
protest. Unlike most Afghans who
are Sunni, the Hazaras are Shiites and Islamic State militants
regard them as apostates.
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan, which began tracking Afghan civilian casualty figures in
2009, says almost 23,000 civilians
have been killed by the war and
another 41,000 have been wounded. In a population of around 30
million, that means very few have
been unaffected by the violence
in one way or another.
Khalil Rahman Sarwary, who
teaches psychology at Kabul University, says war “has the most
destructive effect on human behavior, conduct and life.” His
research, he says, has found that
up to 75 percent of Afghan people
suffer “from stress and other psychological pressures because of
the war and insecurity.”
“Around 25 to 30 percent of
Afghans have very high stress,
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An Afghan mental health doctor, center, talks with patients last month in the Mental Health and Drug
Addicts’ Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
anxiety and other psychological
issues — the toll is getting higher
day by day,” Sarwary said.
Also, ancient superstitions
prevail, with many across Afghanistan still attributing mental
illnesses to being possessed by demons. An afflicted person can be
locked up in a cage or left chained
at a shrine for days on end.
Families often call in mullahs
when they think a loved one has
become “possessed by a djinn”
— a mythical spirit in Islam, similar to an angel, which can take
human or animal form and influence behavior for either good or
bad.
Many of the hundreds of counselors who were trained by a variety of organizations — with the
aim to have at least two to each
of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces —
have left the profession to return
to their hometowns, said Fareshta
Qudees, managing director of the
International Psychological Organization in Afghanistan.
Qudees says there are plans
to train 250 more in the coming
months. Around 200 clinics nationwide provide counseling —
though most treat drug addicts,
whose numbers are rising in the
country responsible for producing most of the world’s heroin.
“The Afghan society is still
very traditional and mental health
problems are a taboo subject,”
said Khetab Kakar, director of
the Mental Health and Drug Addicts’ Hospital in Kabul’s western
suburb of Kart-e-Sei.
“Psychology is new to Afghanistan,” Kakar said. “If a person becomes sick, they will be advised
against going to a doctor, rather
than to a shrine or a mullah.” But
there are signs modern psychology is making inroads, especially
among women, who are among
the hardest hit by the fallout of
war in this male-dominated society, their suffering compounded
by discrimination, widespread
restrictions on their movement
and domestic violence.
Zia Jan, 45, says she has ben-
efited from counseling she received at Medica Afghanistan, a
nonprofit, nongovernmental organization helping traumatized
women across Afghanistan.
After the Taliban killed her
son, wounded her husband and
burned her uncle alive, Zia Jan
sank into a deep depression. Her
family decided she had been possessed by a djinn.
“People started saying I had a
djinn, my family took me to the
mullah a few times, and he said I
had a djinn,” she said. The mullah
even performed an exorcism, but
she only got worse.
After years of torment, she finally found her way to Medica
Afghanistan.
Psychologist Yalda Ahmad said
Jan was unable to talk when her
treatment began: “She could only
cry.”
Now, after eight years of regular sessions, Jan says she feels
she is finally able to cope with the
memories, though they will “always burn” in her mind.
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Crews make major
gains against
California wildfire
BY CHRISTOPHER WEBER
AND CHRISTINE A RMARIO
Associated Press
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. —
Lisa Gregory has kept a close eye
on the weather since fleeing her
home in the woods as a wildfire
advanced in Southern California.
She doesn’t know when she can
return or whether her house was
still standing.
The uncertainty “is an awful
feeling,” Gregory said as she
lounged in a lawn chair under
a tree outside an evacuation
center.
Firefighters made major gains
Thursday against the wildfire that
broke out Tuesday in the mountains and desert 60 miles east of
Los Angeles. Driven by wind, the
fire chewed through tall grasses
and drought-parched shrubs,
torching an unknown number of
homes and vehicles.
The blaze, covering nearly 58
square miles, was 26 percent contained by early Friday, and plans
were in the works to begin demobilizing some of the nearly 1,600
firefighters by afternoon.
“Crews really buttoned up
some areas. But the possibility is
still there for explosive growth,”
fire spokesman Brad Pitassi
said.
That concern was especially focused on an area southeast of the
mountain town of Wrightwood
where old-growth brush and
trees haven’t burned in 70 years,
fire behavior analyst Brendan Ripley said.
Elsewhere, the fire’s growth
was limited because the land had
become a moonscape.
“The fire burned so intensely
that there’s no fuels left for it to
move again,” Pitassi said.
A small number of evacuees
have been allowed to return
home, but Pitassi could not say
when all evacuations would be
lifted. Some 82,000 residents
were under evacuation orders at
the height of the fire.
Long-awaited damage assessments were expected to be released Friday afternoon, he said.
Charmy Hartinger said it has
been a “roller coaster” since she
got off work and realized she
couldn’t go home. After staying
in a hotel with her sister, she arrived at the evacuation center to
join her neighbor.
“I just want to know if I have a
house,” she said.
Meanwhile, a new fire broke
out in rural Santa Barbara County, quickly surging to about 600
acres and prompting the evacuation of a pair of campgrounds.
In the southern Sierra Nevada,
another blaze feeding on dense
timber in Sequoia National Forest exploded to nearly 15 square
DAVID PARDO, THE (VICTORVILLE, CALIF.) DAILY PRESS/AP
A San Bernardino County Fire Department firefighter watches a helitanker make a water drop on a
wildfire, seen from Cajon Boulevard in Devore, Calif., on Thursday.
miles. Tiny hamlets in Kern and
Tulare counties were evacuated.
During five years of drought,
California’s wildlands have seen
a continuous streak of destructive and sometimes deadly fires.
No deaths have been reported in
the latest fire, but crews assessing property damage were using
cadaver dogs during searches.
The dry vegetation is like firewood, said fire information officer Sean Collins.
“It burns that much quicker,
that much hotter. The rate of travel is extremely fast,” he said.
Wildfires across the country in
recent years have grown more ferocious and expensive to fight.
Last year’s fire season set a
record with more than 15,625
square miles of land charred. It
was also the costliest on record
with $2.1 billion spent to fight
fires from Alaska to Florida.
Experts have blamed several
factors including rising temperatures that more quickly dry out
forests and vegetation. Decades
of aggressively knocking down
small fires also have led to the
buildup of flammable fuel. On top
of that, more people are moving
into fire-prone regions, complicating firefighting efforts.
The Southern California fire
unleashed its initial fury on a
semi-rural landscape dotted
with small ranches and homes in
Cajon Pass and on the edge of the
Mojave Desert before climbing
the mountains.
Travel was returning to normal
in the pass — a major corridor for
trucking, rail and commuter traffic — after Interstate 15 was fully
reopened.
In mountains north of San
Francisco, a 6-square-mile blaze
was 55 percent contained after
destroying at least 268 structures, including 175 homes and
eight businesses in the workingclass community of Lower Lake.
The equipment manager, or “armorer,” of the U.S. Olympic fencing team, was among those who
lost their homes. Matthew Porter
was in Rio with the medal-winning
team when the house burned.
A divided city unites in the face of deadly flooding
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — It’s
been a long, hot summer of pain
and grief in Louisiana, its capital
city engulfed by a string of tragedies that began with the killing of
a black man at the hands of police.
Then there followed the retaliatory slayings of three officers and
now days of deadly floods.
Baton Rouge, the unassuming
neighbor to hard-partying New
Orleans of Mardi Gras fame, is
enduring its latest turmoil with
the catastrophic flooding. But
stricken residents of the Baton
Rouge area say they’ve seen
people pull together — white and
black, officers and civilians — in
ways that give optimism as the
high water begins to recede.
Anger. Sorrow. Vengeful glee.
Guilt. Terrence Carter has experienced it all during Baton Rouge’s
summer of tribulation. On Thursday, as he walked through the
murky water on the floor of his
home, Carter said he was experiencing, of all things, hope.
The tragedies began July 7
with the shooting death of a black
man at the hands of two white po-
lice officers, followed by the July
17 ambush killings of three officers by a black man, and now, the
rains that inundated thousands of
homes and businesses. There’ve
been more than a dozen deaths.
“A couple of weeks ago, it
seems like everybody was pulling apart. Now it’s no black and
white thing. Everybody’s just got
to help everybody to come out of
this,” Carter said.
Carter, who is black, knew Alton
Sterling, the black man killed outside a Baton Rouge convenience
store after a struggle on the
pavement. Angered by Sterling’s
death, the soft-spoken Carter protested at police headquarters. He
confesses he was initially happy
when he first heard about the
deadly assault on the officers by
an attacker who was then fatally
shot.
Then he felt guilty about the officer deaths: “Their families lost
them. They had kids who’ll be
growing up without a father.”
Then came the rains, which
sent 4 feet of water into his home.
The stench is overpowering and
the task ahead daunting.
One sure sign of how the city
has unified has been the “Cajun
Navy,” a corps of regular citizens
who have gone out on boats to
rescue people stranded in their
houses. One of those rescuers was
Sterling’s aunt, Sandra.
When floodwaters began rising near her Baton Rouge home
on Aug. 13, she stayed to help her
neighbors get out, first by school
bus, then by boat. Sterling estimates she and others helped more
than 200 people reach dry ground
last weekend.
While pushing for justice for
the nephew she helped raise,
Sterling also has helped lead the
calls for peace in the grief-stricken city. “I couldn’t save his life,
but I can probably save a lot more
now. That’s what really motivated me to go out,” Sterling said
Thursday.
Flood waters are largely receding across southern Louisiana.
But at least 13 people have died,
and authorities are going door
to door looking for more. Over
85,000 people have registered for
federal disaster assistance, more
than 30,000 have been rescued,
and an estimated 40,000 homes
have been damaged.
The anti-police rhetoric seems
to have quieted somewhat, as officers once viewed with suspicion
are now often the ones risking
their lives to rescue people. They
are also struggling with flooding
of their own. Roughly 20 percent
of East Baton Rouge’s sheriff’s
deputies have been driven from
their homes.
Capt. Darryl Armentor, whose
team of deputies has rescued
countless people in recent days,
said he hasn’t had time to fully
process this summer’s events or
express the toll they have taken
on police and other emergency
workers.
“There’s no time for stress now.
We just work,” he said. “It hasn’t
stopped.”
For Armentor, the pain has
been personal. He knows the parents of one of the officers involved
in Sterling’s shooting. He knew
the sheriff’s deputy killed in the
ambush and the one who was
critically wounded. And then the
flooding left half a foot of water in
his house.
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Trump: ‘I do regret’ some campaign comments
BY JILL COLVIN
STEVE PEOPLES
AND
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a
highly uncharacteristic move
aimed at resetting his struggling
campaign, Donald Trump has
said for the first time that he regrets some of the caustic comments he’s made that may have
caused people pain.
“Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude
of issues, you don’t choose the right
words or you say the wrong thing.
I have done that,” the GOP nominee said, reading from prepared
text, at a rally in Charlotte, N.C.,
Thursday night. “And believe it or
not, I regret it — and I do regret it
— particularly where it may have
caused personal pain.”
Trump didn’t specify what comments he was referring to, but he
added that, “Too much is at stake
for us to be consumed with these
issues.”
It was a rare admission for a
man who has said he prefers “not
to regret anything,” and it underscores the dire situation in which
he finds himself. With just 80 days
left until the election, Trump is
trailing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in preference polls
of most key battleground states.
At the same time, party leaders
have conceded they may divert
resources away from the presidential contest in favor of vulnerable Senate and House candidates
if things don’t improve.
The remarks came a day after
Trump announced that he was
overhauling his campaign operation, bringing in a new chief
executive and appointing a new
campaign manager. In addition, campaign chairman Paul
Manafort resigned Friday following revelations about his work for
a pro-Russian political party in
Ukraine.
Rarely do presidential campaigns wait to advertise, or undergo such leadership tumult, at such
a late stage of the general election.
Yet Trump has struggled badly
in recent weeks to offer voters a
consistent message, overshadowing formal policy speeches with a
steady stream of self-created controversies, including a public feud
with an American Muslim family
whose son was killed while serving in the U.S. military in Iraq.
Trump’s decision to tap Stephen
Bannon, a combative conservative media executive, as his new
campaign chief suggested to some
that he might continue the divisive
rhetoric that has angered minorities and alienated large swaths of
voters.
Instead, a new Trump emerged
on Thursday: a less combative,
more inclusive candidate who said
he was running to be the “voice
for every forgotten part of this
country that has been waiting and
hoping for a better future” and
for those who “don’t hear anyone
speaking for them.”
The changes appear to be more
than cosmetic. Earlier Thursday,
Trump moved to invest nearly
$5 million in battleground state
advertising to address daunting
challenges in the states that will
make or break his White House
ambitions.
Trump also made a last-minute scheduling change, scrapping
a planned event in New York in
order to travel with his running
mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence,
to tour the flood damage in Louisiana on Friday morning.
When he arrived in East Baton
Rouge Parish, his motorcade drove
through hard-hit communities.
People who were still mucking out
their homes, in some instances,
came out to wave at the motorcade
with gloved hands dirty from their
house-gutting work.
Clinton’s charity to limit
donations if she’s elected
BY K EN THOMAS
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The charitable
foundation led by former President Bill Clinton will no longer
accept foreign and corporate
donations if Hillary Clinton is
elected president, and it will hold
its final annual Clinton Global
Initiative meeting in September
regardless of the outcome of the
November election.
Bill Clinton announced the
changes to the foundation in a
staff meeting on Thursday, saying he and daughter, Chelsea
Clinton, would be remiss if they
didn’t plan for the possibility
of Hillary Clinton winning the
White House.
The former president said the
foundation would continue its
work but refocus its efforts in a
process that will take up to a year
to complete. Ahead of celebrating
his 70th birthday on Friday, Clinton said he would resign from the
board and would accept contributions only from U.S. citizens and
independent charities if his wife
was elected president.
Amid criticism of cronyism
from Republicans, the changes
aimed to address how the Clinton Foundation would function
in the event of another Clinton
presidency and push back against
Donald Trump’s critique that the
sprawling foundation had created
conflict of interests and allowed
foreign governments to peddle
influence with Hillary Clinton.
Under the changes, the foundation would no longer take money
from any foreign entity, government, foreign or domestic corporations or corporate charities. A
Clinton spokesman said the former president will also refrain
from delivering paid speeches
until the November election and
will no longer give paid speeches
if Hillary Clinton is elected.
At the staff meeting, Clinton
said he and his daughter did not
face any external pressure to
make the changes but wanted to
avoid any potential issues or second-guessing for Hillary Clinton
should she move into the White
House.
Republicans said the changes
fell short and urged the Clinton
Foundation to immediately stop
receiving foreign donations. Republican National Committee
Chairman Reince Priebus said
the foundation “should immediately cease accepting foreign donations and return every penny
ever taken from other countries,
several of which have atrocious
human rights records and ties to
terrorism.”
Priebus said the foundation’s
continued acceptance of foreign
donations during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was
a “massive, ongoing conflict of
interest that gets bigger by the
day.”
M ARY A LTAFFER /AP
An employee of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation removes a statue of a naked
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday in New York’s Union Square.
Nude Trump statues pop up in several cities
Associated Press
NEW YORK — It’s Donald
Trump like you’ve never seen him
before.
Life-sized naked statues of the
Republican presidential nominee
greeted passers-by in New York,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Cleveland on Thursday.
They are the brainchild of an
activist collective called INDECLINE, which has spoken out
against Trump before.
In a statement, the collective
said the hope is that Trump, the
former host of “The Apprentice”
reality TV series, “is never installed in the most powerful political and military position in the
world.”
The statues were created by an
artist in Cleveland. They are of a
stern-faced Trump with his hands
folded over a bulging belly. Some
parts of male genitalia are visible, while others seemingly are
missing.
Trump’s campaign declined to
comment on the statues.
A statue in New York’s Union
Square quickly drew the attention
of people, many of whom posed
for photographs with it, before it
was removed by the city’s parks
department.
“NYC Parks stands firmly
against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how
small,” parks spokesman Sam
Biederman joked.
Clinton, Trump agree to square off at ‘commander-in-chief’ forum
BY JOHN WAGNER
The Washington Post
Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump are scheduled to appear on
the same stage early next month
at a “commander-in-chief forum”
devoted to national security, military affairs and veterans’ issues.
The Democratic and Republican
presidential nominees will appear
back to back Sept. 7 in New York at
an event sponsored by the Iraq and
Afghanistan Veterans of America
and broadcast live in prime time
on NBC and MSNBC, the sponsors announced Thursday.
Preparedness to be commander
in chief has become a major issue
in the presidential race, with Clinton and Trump questioning the
other’s fitness.
On Monday, in a speech about
fighting the Islamic State group,
Trump said Clinton “lacks the
mental and physical stamina to
take on ISIS and all of the many
adversaries we face.”
ISIS is an alternate acronym for
the militant group.
Clinton, meanwhile, has touted
the endorsements of a growing
number of Republican military
and national security figures who
question Trump’s temperament
and knowledge of international
affairs.
The joint forum is scheduled
ahead of the three more traditional debates between the two
major-party candidates, the first
of which is scheduled for Sept. 26.
Forum organizers said Clinton
and Trump will field questions
from NBC News personnel as well
as an audience comprised mainly
of military veterans and active
servicemembers.
Paul Rieckhoff, founder and
chief executive officer of the veteran’s group sponsoring the forum,
said it would “ensure that America’s next commander in chief, at
least for one night, addresses our
nation’s moral obligation to support and empower its 22 million
veterans, our servicemembers
and our military families.”
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Scientists
seek people
willing to
suffer Zika
Administration to
phase out some
private prison use
BY L AURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Wanted: Volunteers willing to be infected with
the Zika virus for science.
It may sound bizarre, but researchers are planning just such a
study — this winter, when mosquitoes aren’t biting — to help speed
development of much-needed Zika
vaccines.
The quest for a vaccine began
less than a year ago as Brazil’s
massive outbreak revealed that
Zika, once dismissed as a nuisance virus, can harm a fetus’
brain if a woman is infected during pregnancy.
Now, researchers in the United
States have begun safety testing of
two vaccine candidates, and more
experimental shots are poised
to enter that preliminary testing
soon. Any that seem promising
will have to be tested in thousands
of people in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean that are
hard hit by the mosquito-borne
virus — the only way to prove if
an experimental vaccine really
protects.
Even if all goes well, a vaccine
wouldn’t be available for general
use any time soon.
But a different kind of research
also can offer clues for vaccine
development. It’s called a human
challenge study, when healthy —
and nonpregnant — people agree
to be injected deliberately with a
virus, mimicking natural infection, while scientists track how
their bodies react.
The first question is even more
basic: How much of the virus does
it take to infect someone?
If government regulators agree,
researchers could find out by injecting paid volunteers with different amounts of lab-grown Zika
virus as early as December in a
Baltimore hospital. That information will help the researchers
later, when they’re ready to test an
experimental Zika vaccine.
“We’re looking at these human
challenge protocols not only as an
important step in vaccine development but as a means to learn
more about Zika,” said Dr. Anna
Durbin, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
who is leading the work. “We can
look at things that you just can’t
do in someone who’s naturally
infected.”
Two so-called DNA vaccines
have begun preliminary safety
testing, one made by the National
Institutes of Health and the other
by Pennsylvania-based Inovio
Pharmaceuticals.
They mark a new kind of technology. Traditionally, vaccines
are made using a dead or weakened virus to train the body’s immune system to recognize that
infection and fight it off. DNA
vaccines may be easier to make.
Scientists used a circular piece of
DNA, called a “plasmid,” to carry
genes that prompt the body itself
to produce certain Zika virus
proteins, alerting the immune
system.
BY EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press
C OURTESY
OF
THE N ATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF
A LLERGY
AND
INFECTIOUS DISEASES/AP
A healthy volunteer receives the Zika virus investigational DNA
vaccine as part of an early stage trial to test the vaccine’s safety and
immunogenicity.
Fla. governor says
Zika in South Beach
BY JENNIFER K AY
Associated Press
MIAMI — South Beach
has been identified as second
site of Zika transmission by
mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, Florida’s governor said
Friday.
But Gov. Rick Scott said the
state does not plan to advise
people to stay away from the
beaches, nightclubs and pedestrian thoroughfares that
form the heart of South Florida’s travel industry.
Five cases of Zika have been
connected to Miami Beach,
bringing the state’s caseload
to 36 infections not related to
travel outside the U.S., Scott
said.
“We believe these cases
were from mosquitoes,” said
Florida Department of Health
spokeswoman Mara Gambineri in an email to The Associated Press.
Two patients are MiamiDade County residents, and
three are tourists, including one man and two women,
Scott said. The tourists are
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in animals.
The phase 1 studies in dozens
of people will check for safety and
whether the vaccinations rev up
human immunity enough to justify further tests.
“We are right now in a race
of time to get the best vaccine,”
said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director
of NIH’s National Institute of Al-
residents of New York, Texas
and Taiwan.
“We believe we have a new
area where local transmissions are occurring in Miami
Beach,” Scott said. He described the area on the narrow
island city as just under 1.5
miles between 8th and 28th
streets.
Another infection zone was
previously identified across
a roughly 1-square-mile area
encompassing Miami’s Wynwood arts district. The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention has advised
pregnant women to avoid the
entire neighborhood.
CDC officials did not immediately respond Friday to
questions about whether their
travel advisory, the agency’s
first for pregnant women within the continental U.S., would
be expanded.
Additional infections outside
Wynwood and Miami Beach
also are being investigated.
Health officials have said one
case of Zika does not determine
whether an area is declared a
site of active transmission.
lergy and Infectious Diseases.
Multiple candidates are important as there’s no way to predict
which kind will work best. The
DNA vaccines simply were ready
for human testing first.
In October, safety tests are set
to begin using the more traditional killed-virus vaccine, developed
by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration is phasing out its
use of some private prisons, affecting thousands of federal inmates and immediately sending
shares of the two publicly traded
prison operators plunging.
In a memo Thursday to the Bureau of Prisons, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told the
bureau to start reducing “and
ultimately ending” the Justice
Department’s use of private prisons. The announcement follows
a recent Justice Department
audit that found that the private
facilities have more safety and
security problems than government-run ones.
The Obama administration
says the declining federal prison
population justifies the decision
to eventually close privately run
prisons.
The federal prison population
— now at 193,299 — has been
dropping due to changes in federal sentencing policies over the
past three years. Private prisons
hold about 22,100 of these inmates, or 12 percent of the total
prison population, the Justice
Department said.
The policy change does not
cover private prisons used by
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which holds up to
34,000 immigrants awaiting
deportation.
“Private prisons served an
important role during a difficult
period, but time has shown that
they compare poorly to our own
Bureau facilities,” Yates wrote in
a memo to the acting director of
the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
As private prison contracts
come to an end, the bureau is not
to renew the contract, or it should
at least “substantially” reduce its
scope, Yates wrote.
She did not specify a timeline
for when all federal inmates
would be in government-owned
facilities.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said
the U.S. should move away from
using private facilities to house
inmates.
On Thursday, she tweeted:
“Glad to see that the Justice Department is ending the use of
private prisons. This is the right
step forward.”
The Clinton campaign has said
it no longer accepts contributions
from private prison interests,
and if it receives such a contribution, it will donate that money
to charity.
The private prison industry is
a major contributor to Repub-
lican political campaigns, particularly in recent years. GOP
presidential candidate Donald
Trump has said he supports the
use of private prisons.
The private prisons on the
chopping block are operated by
three companies — Corrections
Corporation of America, GEO
Group Inc., and Management
and Training Corporation.
After
the
announcement
Thursday, Corrections Corp.
stock dropped $13.22, or 48.6
percent, to $14, and GEO Group
tumbled $13.80, or 42.7 percent,
to $18.49. Both companies get
about half
their
revenue from
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the federal
prisons
government.
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preceded
the Justice
Department’s decision.
The federal government started to rely on private prisons in
the late 1990s due to overcrowding. Many of the federal prison
inmates held in private facilities
are foreign nationals who are
being held on immigration offenses, the audit said.
Immigration and human rights
advocates have long-complained
about the conditions in privately
run prisons.
Amnesty International on
Thursday urged states to follow
suit. Some states, such as Kentucky, already have.
Before Thursday, the Bureau
of Prisons had been working
toward the goal of phasing out
private prison contracts when,
three weeks ago, it did not renew
a contract for 1,200 beds, Yates
said.
Thursday’s policy change also
included direction to change a
current solicitation for a private
prison contract, cutting the maximum number of beds required
by 66 percent.
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2 buses
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Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — Two commuter buses collided in New Jersey’s largest city Friday morning,
pushing one of the vehicles onto
its side, killing one of the drivers and critically injuring seven
other people, authorities said.
The person killed in the Newark crash was the driver of a New
Jersey Transit bus that had no
passengers when it slammed into
the side of another NJ Transit bus
that was carrying about 20 passengers around 6 a.m.
Mayor Ras Baraka said 19 people were injured, including seven
critically.
“We’re praying for all of those
in the hospital,” he said.
Investigators are trying to determine if the driver who died
ran a red light, Baraka said.
Video from news helicopters
showed the two tangled buses
came to rest on a median.
The bus that was struck
was on its side, its frame bent
Associated Press
BOB SCIARRINO, NJ A DVANCE MEDIA /AP
Emergency crews respond to an accident involving two commuter buses in Newark, N.J., on Friday.
Investigators are trying to determine if one commuter bus ran a red light and broadsided another, killing
a driver and injuring several.
and the other bus lodged in its
undercarriage.
Firefighters could be seen
pulling passengers through a
side window and loading them
onto waiting stretchers and into
ambulances.
The crash occurred at Raymond Boulevard and Broad Street
as the bus without passengers
began its route between Newark
and Dunellen; the other bus was
traveling between Irvington and
Clifton, NJ Transit spokeswoman
Nancy Snyder said.
The Essex County prosecutor
is investigating the crash.
Ore. state fair will
feature live pot plants
BY GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. — Nine living
marijuana plants will be displayed
at the Oregon State Fair in a first
of its kind event for the United
States starting next Friday.
The exhibit of the non-flowering, immature plants brings pot
cultivation more into the agricultural mainstream less than two
years after Oregon voters legalized recreational marijuana. The
Oregon Cannabis Business Council, which organized the exhibit,
says it’s the first time live cannabis will be shown at a state fair
anywhere in the U.S.
The group last year had an
informational booth about marijuana at the fair and there were
no complaints — a key factor
in allowing them to go one step
further and offer live plants for
viewing this year, said Dan Cox,
spokesman for the Oregon State
Fair.
The specimens were selected
by judges at a competition last
weekend who chose three winners each in the sativa, indica and
hybrid categories.
The entire exhibit will be
housed in a translucent tent and
extra security will be on hand
to check identification so only
people 21 and over can enter, Cox
said.
None of the plants are allowed
have buds, which are more potent
than the leaves.
That’s because the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which
will regulate the recreational
marijuana business, is still finalizing regulations for the nascent
industry and it’s currently illegal
to transport a flowering plant,
said Donald Morse, director of
the Oregon Cannabis Business
Council.
Those regulations and a li-
G ILLIAN FLACCUS/AP
Judges rate marijuana plants at the Oregon Cannabis Grower’s
Fair marijuana plant competition last Saturday in Salem, Ore. Nine
winners will be on display at the Oregon State Fair between Aug. 26
and Sept. 5.
censing process for recreational
producers are expected by 2017.
The industry hopes to have plants
with buds at the fair next summer, Morse said.
The event has raised some eyebrows, but Cox said the Oregon
State Fair has always played a role
in displaying the latest and sometimes controversial fads in agriculture and state culture. Nearly
20 years ago, he said, the fair had
an exhibit on tattoo body art that
caused a similar sensation.
EPA audit: US fails to study ethanol requirement’s impact
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has failed to study as legally required the
impact of requiring ethanol in gasoline and
ensuring that new regulations intended to address one problem do not actually make other
problems worse, the Environmental Protection
Agency inspector general said Thursday.
The conclusion in the new audit confirmed
findings of an Associated Press investigation
in November 2013. The AP said the administration never conducted studies to determine
whether air and water quality benefits from
adding corn-based ethanol to gasoline. Such
reports to Congress were required every three
years under the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007. The AP investigation described the ethanol era as far more damaging
to the environment than the government predicted. As farmers rushed to find new places to
plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres of
conservation land, polluted water supplies and
destroyed habitat.
The EPA agreed with the inspector general’s
findings that it had failed to produce studies as
legally required. It said it will produce the first
report — on the impacts of biofuels — by December 2017, and investigate whether ethanol
requirements made other environmental problems worse by September 2024. That will be 17
years after Congress passed a law requiring oil
companies to blend billions of gallons of ethanol into their gasoline.
President George W. Bush signed the law,
but it fell to President Barack Obama to implement it.
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration is facing a storm
of Republican criticism after
acknowledging that a $400 million cash payment to Iran seven
months ago was contingent on the
release of a group of American
prisoners.
Thursday’s explanation was the
first time the U.S. had so clearly
linked the two events, which critics have painted as a hostage-ransom arrangement.
State Department spokesman
John Kirby has said the negotiations to return the Iranian money
from a 1970s account to buy U.S.
military equipment were conducted separately from talks to
free four U.S. citizens in Iran. But
he recently noted the U.S. withheld the delivery of the cash as
leverage until Iran permitted the
Americans to leave the country.
Kirby said Friday on MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe” program that the
U.S. offers “no apologies.”
“First of all, this was Iran’s
money, OK? It was money that
they were going to get back anyway,” he said. “The second thing
that was going on here ... was that
there was a team working to get
our American citizens back. That
was a separate track. And it’s true
that with the nuclear deal done
these two tracks were kind of converging and coming together, and
we took full advantage of that. We
make no apologies for that.”
Kirby added that “there isn’t a
lot of trust with Iran, so it would
have been foolish and imprudent,
in our view, to go ahead and settle the cash payment ... when we
didn’t have our Americans back.”
The hostage release and cash
transfer occurred Jan. 17, fueling suspicions from Republican
lawmakers and accusations from
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump of a quid pro quo that
undermined America’s longstanding opposition to ransom
payments. Several members of
Congress immediately pounced
on Thursday’s shift.
“If it quacks like a duck, it’s a
duck. If a cash payment is contingent on a hostage release, it’s
a ransom. The truth matters and
the president owes the American
people an explanation,” Sen. Ben
Sasse, R-Neb., said.
Kirby spoke a day after The
Wall Street Journal reported new
details of the crisscrossing planes
on that day. Earlier this month,
after the revelation the U.S. delivered the money in pallets of cash,
the administration flatly denied
any connection between the payment and the prisoners.
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students more
likely to be
heavy drinkers
Big-eyed
squid looks
more toy
than animal
Scientists scanning the
ocean floor off Calif.
spotted the cephalopod
BY A LINA H ARTOUNIAN
Associated Press
A team of scientists and technicians scanning the rocky ocean floor off Southern
California couldn’t contain their excitement
when they spotted a bright purple, googlyeyed stubby squid.
They let out a collective “whoa” on video
posted on the Exploration Vessel Nautilus’
Facebook page as a camera on a remoteoperated vehicle came across the iridescent
cephalopod with giant round eyes.
Then the jokes started. “He has weird
eyes!” said one enthusiastic observer. “Get
close! Get close!” urges another.
One suggested it resembled a child’s
dropped toy, and another said the creature’s
eyes appeared to be painted on.
“It looks so fake,” said one member of the
Nautilus’ team.
BY CHRISTOPHER INGRAHAM
The Washington Post
OET, N AUTILUSLIVE /AP
Researchers captured video of a stubby squid on the ocean floor near Channel Islands
National Park west of Los Angeles, Calif. The cephalopod is closely related to a cuttlefish.
The creature looks like a cross between a
squid and an octopus but is closely related to
a cuttlefish, according to the Nautilus Live
website.
The find could be more than just
bemusing.
“In addition to the googly-eyed cuteness,
there is one thing biologically interesting
about this observation,” said cephalopod
expert Mike Vecchione of the Smithsonian
Institution. The creature could be a new species, he wrote in an email to the expedition.
It was spotted at nearly 3,000 feet deep,
which is unusual but not unheard of. But,
on top of that, the stubby squid didn’t have
chromatophores, cells that allow it to change
color, as members of its species do, Vecchione said.
Scientists likely won’t get to study the creature because this particular stubby squid remains deep in the ocean, out of their reach.
‘ (T)o come across
something adorable like
(the cephalopod) — it’s a
real treat.
’
Susan Poulton
Spokeswoman for Exploration Vessel Nautilus
The Nautilus team is part of a four-month
Ocean Exploration Trust expedition to map underwater fault zones from Canada to California
and understand ecosystems around them.
The team spends hours scanning the barren ocean-scape, “then to come across something adorable like that — it’s a real treat,”
Exploration Vessel Nautilus spokeswoman
Susan Poulton said.
Old steel mill will soon be largest vertical farm
BY TED SHAFFREY
Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — Stacks of
leafy greens are sprouting inside
an old brewery in New Jersey.
“What we do is we trick it,” said
David Rosenberg, co-founder and
chief executive officer of AeroFarms. “We get it thinking that, if
plants could think: ‘All right, this
is a good environment, it’s time to
grow now.’ ”
AeroFarms is one of several
companies creating new ways to
grow indoors year-round to solve
problems like the drought out
West, frost in the South or other
unfavorable conditions affecting
farmers. The company is building what an industry group says
is the world’s largest commercial
vertical farm at an old steel mill
in New Jersey’s largest city.
It will contain 12 layers of
growth on 3½ acres, producing 2
million pounds of food per year.
Production is set to begin next
month.
“We want to help alleviate food
deserts, which is a real problem
in the United States and around
the world,” Rosenberg said. “So
here, there are areas of Newark
that are underprivileged; there
is not enough economic development, aren’t enough supermarkets. We put this farm in one of
MEL EVANS/AP
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a March gathering at
AeroFarms, which is turning an old steel mill in New Jersey into the
world’s largest indoor vertical farm.
those areas.”
The farm will be open to community members who want to buy
the produce. It also plans to sell
the food at local grocery stores.
Critics say the artificial lighting in vertical farms takes up a
significant amount of energy that
in turn creates carbon emissions.
“If we did decide we were going
to grow all of our nation’s vegetable crop in the vertical farming
systems, the amount of space required, by my calculation, would
be tens of thousands of Empire
State Buildings,” said Stan Cox,
the research coordinator at
The Land Institute, a nonprofit
group that advocates sustainable
agriculture.
“Instead of using free sunlight
as we’ve always done to produce
food, vertical farms are using
light that has to be generated by a
power plant somewhere, by electricity from a power plant somewhere, which is an unnecessary
use of fuel and generation of carbon emissions.”
Cox said that instead of moving food production into cities,
the country’s 350 million acres of
farmland need to be made more
sustainable.
But some growers feel agriculture must change to meet the
future.
“We are at a major crisis here
for our global food system,” said
Marc Oshima, a co-founder
and chief marketing officer for
AeroFarms. “We have an increasing population that by the
year 2050 we need to feed 9 billion people. We have increasing
urbanization.”
Rosenberg also pointed out the
speeded-up process.
“We grow a plant in about 16
days, what otherwise takes 30
days in the field,” he said.
The United States’ full-time college students are more likely to be
heavy drinkers than young adults
who aren’t enrolled in college, according to a new federal report.
But they’re no more likely to experiment with other drugs, including marijuana, than other people
their age. And college students are
far less likely to smoke cigarettes
than other young adults.
Those findings come from the
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration,
using data from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and
Health. The survey found that
roughly 59.8 percent of full-time
college students ages 18 to 22
drank at least monthly, compared
to 51.5 percent of young adults
not in college. More strikingly,
while only 17.9 percent of college
students smoked cigarettes in
the past month, a whopping 32.6
percent of young adults not in college were past-month cigarette
smokers.
Full-time students were more
likely than nonstudents to perceive a “great risk of harm”
from heavy cigarette use (72.5
percent versus 62.7 percent) and
daily binge drinking (63.9 percent versus 55.3 percent). But the
perceived risk of harm in regular marijuana use was about the
same in both groups — 17.9 percent among college students, 16.7
percent among nonstudents.
Public health researchers have
traditionally maintained that attitudes among teens and young
adults about the risk of using various substances predict the actual
use of those substances. “Youths
who perceive high risk of harm
are less likely to use drugs than
youths who perceive low risk of
harm,” as the SAMHSA report’s
authors put it.
But researchers are finding
more and more that this seemingly ironclad relationship doesn’t
always hold true. In the SAMHSA study, college kids were more
likely than nonstudents to say
that binge drinking is risky, but
they were also more likely to do
it anyway.
Other recent studies have
shown that teenagers have become less likely to use marijuana
over the past decade. But over the
same period, they’ve also become
less likely to say that there’s a
great risk of harm with frequent
marijuana use.
Among the college students
in the SAMHSA study, attitudes
toward marijuana use have seen
the biggest shift in the past decade. In 2004, 37.5 percent of
full-time college students saw
“great risk” in using marijuana
regularly. By 2014, that number
had fallen by more than half, to
17.9 percent. Attitudes about the
risk of drinking, smoking cigarettes or doing other drugs have
remained fairly static over the
same time period.
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Ukraine documents
show payments for
Trump’s chairman
BY NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Once-secret accounting documents of Ukraine’s
pro-Kremlin party were released
Friday, purporting to show payments of $12.7 million earmarked
for Paul Manafort, who resigned
from his job as Donald Trump’s
campaign chairman following
the revelations.
Manafort’s resignation comes
a day after The Associated Press
reported that confidential emails
from his firm contradicted his
claims that he had never lobbied
on behalf of Ukrainian political
figures in the U.S.
The AP found that Manafort
helped Ukraine’s Party of Regions secretly route at least $2.2
million to two Washington lobbying firms. Manafort told Yahoo
News that the AP’s account was
wrong.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which was set
up in 2014 to deal with high-profile corruption cases, is studying
the so-called black ledgers of the
Party of Regions which investigators believe are essentially logs of
under-the-table cash payments
that the party made to various
individuals.
The bureau on Friday released
19 pages of the logs which contain 22 line-item entries where
Manafort is listed as the ultimate
recipient of funds totaling $12.7
million. The bureau said, however, that it cannot prove that
Manafort actually received the
money because other people including a prominent Party of the
Regions deputy signed for him in
those entries.
Handwritten notes in a column describe what the payments
were used for with entries such
as: “Payment for Manafort’s
services,” “contract payment to
Manafort” dated between November 2011 and October 2012.
Manafort and business associ-
ate Rick Gates, another top strategist in Trump’s campaign, were
working in 2012 on behalf of the
political party of Ukraine’s thenpresident, Viktor Yanukovych.
People with direct knowledge
of Gates’ work told the AP that,
during the period when Gates
and Manafort were consultants to
Yanukovych’s Party of Regions,
Gates was also helping steer the
advocacy work done by a proYanukovych nonprofit that hired
a pair of Washington lobbying
firms.
The nonprofit, the newly created European Centre for a Modern
Ukraine, was governed by a board
that initially included parliament
members from Yanukovych’s
party. The nonprofit subsequently paid at least $2.2 million to the
lobbying firms to advocate positions generally in line with those
of Yanukovych’s government.
Two co-founders of the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine,
Yevhen Geller and Vitaly Kolyuzhny, both former members of
parliament, are listed in the released documents as recipients of
funds on Manafort’s behalf.
Serhiy Leshchenko, a former
investigative journalist turned
lawmaker, on Friday published
several pages from the ledgers
in an article in the respectable
Ukrainska Pravda newspaper.
When asked if he has evidence
that Manafort actually received
the money that had been earmarked for him, Leshchenko said
only investigators can prove that
if they question the people named
in the ledgers. Leshchenko said
Manafort had worked in Ukraine
for several years and that the entries in the ledgers are the only
explanation of how he could have
been paid.
Some Ukrainian politicians
who have been mentioned in entries released earlier this year
have confirmed to local media
that the books are genuine.
MICHEL EULER /AP
Paris resettling migrants
A bulldozer cleans away a makeshift camp in Paris on Friday. Authorities there have evacuated thousands
of migrants from makeshift camps in recent months and sent them to temporary shelters around the
region as officials try to find a more lasting solution to the ongoing migrant crisis.
Greeks rescue migrants from islet
Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s
coast guard rescued dozens of
migrants Friday whose boat ran
aground on a deserted islet off
the coast of southwestern Greece,
hundreds of miles from the usual
entry point of migrants into the
European Union nation.
The boat, carrying about 70
people, ran aground overnight on
the tiny islet of Sapientza, off the
southwestern tip of the Peloponnese, the coast guard said. The
vast majority of migrants reach
Greece’s eastern Aegean islands
a few miles from the Turkish
coast.
Coast guard vessels picked up
the migrants Friday morning,
ferrying them to the mainland,
Associated Press
BERLIN — Security officials
from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc
are proposing a ban on wearing
the burqa and other face-covering veils in schools, courts, while
driving and in other situations.
Interior Minister Thomas de
Maiziere told reporters Friday
after meetings with his state
counterparts from the conservative Union bloc that full face coverings are “not part of our open
society” and that officials “urge
everyone to show their faces.”
De Maiziere acknowledged
constitutional problems with a
blanket burqa ban and said the
proposal seeks to prohibit face
coverings only when “showing
the face has a function.”
He pointed out that Germany
already bans the wearing of any
kind of face covering at demonstrations, such as masks meant to
hide protesters’ identities.
The proposal still faces several
legislative hurdles.
over 58,000.
Last year, Greece was the main
point of entry into the EU for hundreds of thousands seeking better
lives in northern and central European countries. A deal between
the EU and Turkey reached in
March, combined with Balkan
border closures to migrants, has
led to a dramatic drop in the number of arrivals.
Those now arriving on Greek
islands from Turkey face deportation back to Turkey unless they
successfully apply for asylum in
Greece. While the deal has limited the flow, people still arrive,
and about 11,000 are stranded on
a handful of eastern Aegean islands, most housed in overcrowded detention camps.
Father: Son jailed for explosives is innocent
Associated Press
Germany: Conservatives
push partial face veil ban
where they were to be registered.
It was not immediately clear what
type of boat they had been on,
where they had set sail from or
where they had been sailing to.
Separately, government figures
showed 261 migrants or refugees
arrived on Greek islands in the 24
hours from Thursday morning to
Friday morning — a jump compared to recent figures, which
had ranged from a few dozen to
about 150 per day.
Of those who arrived in the last
24 hours, the vast majority — 139
people — reached the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos. The rest
arrived on Chios, Samos, Leros
and Karpathos.
The new arrivals brought the
official count of refugees and migrants stranded in Greece to just
WARSAW, Poland — Ahead of
a visit last month to Poland by
the pope, with security extremely
high, Polish police arrested an
Iraqi man for possessing “trace
amounts” of an explosive. A
month later, the man is still in a
Polish prison, and his father is appealing for his release, insisting
that his son is innocent and that
the suspicious material was nothing more than a bit of paint on his
suitcase.
“He is a good man, athletic
and artistic. He is not even religious. He is not seeking to harm
anyone,” Ahmed Al-Haboubi said
of his son, Sinan Al-Haboubi, in
an interview in Cairo. “He is a
peaceful guy.”
Sinan Al-Haboubi, 48, was ar-
rested July 21 in the central Polish
city of Lodz on charges of possessing explosives, a crime that
carries a prison sentence ranging
from six months to eight years.
A spokeswoman for prosecutors,
Ewa Bialik, said this week that
Al-Haboubi had “trace amounts
of organic chemical compounds.”
The country’s Internal Security Agency, which handles matters
of terrorism, is involved in the investigation, and authorities have
refused to give more details about
the case, which they are treating
as highly classified.
The father, once a government minister who fled Saddam
Hussein’s takeover of the country
in the 1970s, said that chemical
came from a bit of paint on his
son’s luggage.
“His suitcase hit the wall, and
it scratched some paint onto it.
They analyzed it as if it had traces
of something, I think something
that is from the production of the
paint,” he told the AP. “This cannot be evidence.”
The arrest came as Polish security officials were on high alert
following a string of extremist attacks in Western Europe and as
the country imposed tight security ahead of a visit by Pope Francis to Krakow from July 27-31.
Two others, a Tunisian and
an Algerian, were also arrested
in that period. Justice Minister
Zbigniew Ziobro said they were
all treated as “possible terrorist
threats.” The Tunisian and Algerian have since been released
without charge.
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AND
AP
A security officer stands at the entrance to the Long Tan Cross in Ba Ria city, Vietnam, on Thursday.
Some Australian veterans
blocked from war memorial
Associated Press
VUNG TAU, Vietnam — Under pressure from
Australia, Vietnam lifted a sudden ban on veterans
who had traveled to the country to mark the 50th
anniversary of Australia’s most costly battle of the
Vietnam War, but officials prevented hundreds from
paying their respects at a monument to Australian
casualties, Australia’s prime minister said Friday.
About 1,500 Australian and New Zealand veterans
and their families traveled to Vietnam to commemorate the anniversary on Thursday of the Battle of Long
Tan at a cross marking the site where 18 Australian
soldiers and hundreds of North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong troops died on a rubber plantation on Aug. 18,
1966, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.
Turnbull said he spoke to his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc for an hour on Wednesday
night to persuade the Vietnamese government to lift
a ban on all commemorations announced that day.
But officials at the memorial turned away all but
700 veterans, Turnbull said.
“We respect the right of the Vietnamese govern-
ment to determine what ceremonies and observances
are held in their country, but to change the rules literally the day before was very unreasonable,” he said.
Veterans’ Affairs Minister Dan Tehan said Vietnam had informed Australia of the ban late Tuesday.
Tehan on Wednesday called that “a kick in the
guts.” He told reporters the veto reflected “deep sensitivities” within Vietnam and was not a response to
problems in the bilateral relationship.
Turnbull said the rules for next year’s commemoration would be agreed to with Vietnam “very, very
clearly and very publicly so there is absolutely no
possibility for any misunderstanding.”
During the battle, 105 Australian soldiers and
three New Zealanders survived a rain-drenched,
three-hour battle by driving off wave after wave of
attacks by more than 2,000 enemy troops.
On Thursday, hundreds of veterans and their families gathered in the Australian capital to mark the
anniversary at the Australian War Memorial.
Australia deployed more than 60,000 military
personnel to Vietnam between 1962 and 1973; 521
were killed.
Experts define new MH370 search zone
BY ROD MCGUIRK
Associated Press
CANBERRA, Australia — Experts hunting for the missing
Malaysian airliner are attempting to define a new search area
by studying where in the Indian
Ocean the first piece of wreckage
recovered from the lost Boeing
777 — a wing flap — most likely
drifted from after the disaster
that claimed 239 lives, the new
leader of the search said.
Officials are planning the
next phase of the deep-sea sonar
search for Malaysia Airlines
Flight 370 in case the current
two-year search of 46,000 square
miles turns up nothing, said Australian Transport Safety Bureau
chief commissioner Greg Hood.
A new search would require a
new funding commitment, with
Malaysia, Australia and China
agreeing in July that the $160
million search will be suspended once the current stretch of
ocean southwest of Australia is
exhausted unless new evidence
emerges pinpointing a specific
location.
Further analysis of the wing
fragment known as a flaperon
found on Reunion Island off the
African coast in July 2015 will
hopefully help narrow a possible
next search area.
Six replicas of the flaperon will
be sent to Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization’s oceanography department in the island
state of Tasmania where scientists
will determine if it is the wind or
the currents that affect how they
drift, Hood said. This will enable
more accurate drift modeling.
If more money becomes available, the Australian bureau,
which is conducting the search
on Malaysia’s behalf, plans to fit
the flaperons with satellite beacons and set them adrift at different points in the southern Indian
Ocean around March 8 next year
and track their movements.
Barnacles found on the flaperon and a wing flap that washed
up on Tanzania in June are being
analyzed for clues to the latitudes
they might have come from.
Peter Foley, the bureau’s director of Flight 370 search op-
erations since the outset, said the
enhanced drift modeling would
hopefully narrow the next search
area to a band of 5 degrees of latitude, or 340 miles.
Some critics argue that the international working group that
defined the current search area
made a crucial mistake by concluding the most likely scenario
was that no one was at the controls
when the plane hit the ocean.
Foley said his bureau’s analysts
were working on the flap to ascertain whether it was deployed
when the plane hit the water. They
will test their hypothesis with the
Boeing accident investigation
team to validate their findings.
Recent analysis of the final
satellite signals also suggest the
plane was descending at a rate of
between 12,000 feet and 20,000
feet a minute before it crashed.
A rate of 2,000 feet a minute
would be typical of a controlled
descent.
Less than 4,000 square miles of
seabed, which is outside the original 23,000-square-mile high-priority search zone, remain to be
searched.
BY LULU OROZCO
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Federal police killed at least 22 people on a
ranch last year, then moved bodies and planted guns to corroborate the official account that the
deaths happened in a gunbattle,
Mexico’s human rights commission said Thursday.
One police officer was killed in
the confrontation in the state of
Michoacan on May 22, 2015. The
government has said the dead
were drug cartel suspects who
were hiding out on the ranch.
The National Human Rights
Commission said there were also
two cases of torture and four more
deaths caused by excessive force.
It said it could not establish satisfactorily the circumstances of 15
others who were shot to death.
Mexico’s national security commissioner, Renato Sales, who oversees the federal police, denied the
accusations during a news conference held before the rights commission had finished its own.
Sales said federal police ordered
the suspects to drop their weapons
but were answered with gunfire.
The lopsided death toll had led
to suspicions that officers might
have arbitrarily killed people during the operation against suspected members of the Jalisco New
Generation Cartel.
Federal police had said they
encountered a truck and took fire
from its passengers before being
led to the ranch.
The commission’s report said
the government did not produce
evidence supporting that account,
and it said witness statements
suggested 41 federal police had
sneaked onto the ranch as early
as 6 a.m. Officers started their assault at least an hour earlier than
they maintained in reporting on
the incident, the commission said.
According to the report, after
the federal police officer was shot,
police called for backup. Fiftyfour more federal police officers
arrived along with a helicopter.
The helicopter fired some 4,000
rounds at the ranch house and a
nearby warehouse.
Thirteen of the 22 people the
commission said were killed had
been shot in the back, it said.
Eighteen of the victims were
found barefoot and one just in his
underpants, leading the commission to conclude most were asleep
when police arrived. The commission said 40 civilians were killed
by bullets, one died in the fire and
one was run over.
The government had initially
refused to release autopsy reports
on those killed. The commission
criticized the autopsies performed
by the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office as being sloppy and
incomplete and said the morgue
turned over the wrong body to one
family.
Court: UN has immunity
from cholera lawsuit
BY DAVID MCFADDEN
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A
U.S. federal appeals court has upheld the United Nations’ immunity
from a damage claim filed on behalf of 5,000 cholera victims who
blame the U.N. for an epidemic of
the deadly disease in Haiti.
In a decision issued Thursday,
the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York affirmed a
lower court’s January 2015 dismissal of the lawsuit.
The ruling came shortly after
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan
Haq referred to the United Nations’ “own involvement” in the
introduction of cholera to Haiti,
which led to the worst outbreak of
the disease in recent history.
It was a significant statement
because the U.N. has for years
kept silent about allegations its
peacekeepers introduced cholera
to Haiti. It has answered lawsuits
on behalf of victims filed in U.S.
courts by claiming immunity.
Haq said in a statement that the
U.N. needs to do “much more”
to end the suffering of those affected and pledged that “a significantly new set of U.N. actions”
will be presented publicly within
the next two months.
But Haq reiterated that the
U.N.’s legal position in claiming
immunity hasn’t changed.
Since its introduction to Haiti in
October 2010, cholera has killed
over 9,300 Haitians and sickened
over 800,000. It showed up some
10 months after a devastating
earthquake in the south of Haiti.
The waterborne disease is now
considered “endemic” in Haiti,
meaning it’s an illness that occurs regularly.
Researchers say there is ample
scientific evidence the disease
was introduced to Haiti’s biggest
river by inadequately treated
sewage from a base of U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal.
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Trump’s NATO demand is nothing new
BY JAMES JAY CARAFANO
Tribune News Service
Donald Trump wants NATO members to
pay their fair share into the transatlantic
alliance, and that idea is nothing new.
Since the end of the Cold War, every
American administration has made the
same demand.
And it’s still a bipartisan stance. Leaders and candidates in both parties - from
Bernie Sanders to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, RTenn. - have called for NATO members to
put more skin in the mutual defense game.
Some of our allies have done just that. In
particular, the leaders of Central European
countries who most intensely feel the pressures of Russian adventurism, know they
need to shoulder their share of the load.
At the 2006 Riga Summit, NATO heads
of state agreed that European members of
the alliance should spend at least 2 percent
of gross domestic product on defense.
Estonia has met that commitment, and
others are working in that direction. In
fact, in 2015, 19 NATO members halted
what had become a pattern of cuts to defense spending, and 16 of those nations actually increased spending.
The 2 percent pledge makes sense. A
sustained commitment to maintaining
armed forces over time makes for a better,
more cost-effective defense. Whipping the
size of defense forces up and down like a
thermostat is what drives a lot of the inefficiencies for maintaining sufficient ships,
planes and troops to reassure allies and
deter potential enemies.
GDP works as a general measure of obligation much in the way families set aside
a portion of their income for housing, savings and other vital expenses - ensuring
that essentials are paid for first and that
the family can live within its budget.
Were the U.S. to field all the forces needed to protect U.S. vital interests in key regions of the world, doing so would require
about 4 percent of U.S. GDP, year in and
year out.
The American economy is roughly the
same as Europe’s. And U.S. defense com-
NATO
NATO members gather for a meeting in June. Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump jarred many members of NATO earlier this year when he suggested the
alliance was obsolete and his administration might not honor U.S. commitments to it.
mitments to NATO plus Asia and the Middle East are twice as big.
For America, 4 percent is not unreasonable. Half that, 2 percent for Europe,
sounds about right as a rough, baseline
measure.
And there is a need for NATO to be a capable force. The stronger NATO is, the less
tempting it is for Russia to meddle in transatlantic affairs, the better the transatlantic
community can respond emergencies arising from an unsettled Middle East, and the
better the alliance can deal with emerging
threats like cyber warfare and transnational terrorism.
What jarred many in Washington and
other capitals was how Republican presidential candidate Trump suggested he
would push other NATO nations to fulfill
their burden-sharing commitments by
making U.S. commitments contingent on
theirs.
But campaign rhetoric is not always a
reliable guide to what an administration
might actually do in office. And certainly
there are other ways by which the U.S.
could help its NATO allies up their game,
such as:
-Boost the transatlantic economy. This
will help us and our allies afford the defense we need. Reaching a U.S.-U.K. free
trade agreement would be a huge benefit;
the two countries account for about 80 percent of NATO’s capabilities.
-Lead by example. Let’s be honest: U.S.
military power is what makes NATO a
military force to be reckoned with. It does
countries no good to build up their capability unless they have a strong, confident
U.S. military to partner with. Washington
should build back to having four U.S. brigades permanently forward-deployed in
Europe.
-Make NATO a strong political alliance.
With the European Union unraveling,
NATO is the only coherent political-military voice that can shepherd peace and
security in a part of the world where peace
and security is important to the U.S.
NATO needs to get better. And America
needs a better NATO.
James Jay Carafano directs research on foreign
policy and defense issues as vice president of the
Heritage Foundation.
Trump’s NATO demand shows ignorance
BY JANE LEFTWICH CURRY
Tribune News Service
D
onald Trump’s verbal attacks
on American NATO allies that
are “not paying their part” have
served to showcase his ignorance
of NATO’s structure and the real problems
threatening American security.
The Republican presidential candidate’s
confidence in Vladimir Putin, Russia’s increasingly powerful and aggressive leader,
and his warnings he won’t protect certain
NATO members have already endangered
the homeland and reduced America’s global credibility.
For better or worse, NATO plays a major
role in protecting the U.S. against a host
of threats ranging from the Islamic State
group to aggressive nations like Russia.
And not all those threats are military
ones, as Russian and North Korean hacking
of American internet traffic has shown.
Nor do our allies’ contributions to the alliance come only in the form of the “cash
transactions” by which Trump measures
things. The tiny Baltic states Trump says
aren’t paying their share are on the geopolitical frontline of Russian aggression and
have already been targets of hacking and
border incursions. They are the buffers.
The countries of Eastern Europe as well
as our allies in Western Europe not only
host NATO troops — many of whom are
Americans — but have also contributed
their own troops to our fights in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Their actions have
made them targets.
Whatever Trump claims, neither the
new nor the old entrants to NATO are freeriders. All of them pay into the NATO budget, even if some have fallen short of the
recommended minimum of 2 percent of
gross domestic product.
All members maintain military forces
tooled to fit Western models and have
fought alongside us when needed.
For new entrants from what was once
communist Eastern Europe, this has meant
having to chuck their old Soviet arms and
battle plans and invest their scarce resources, with our help, to make their militaries compatible with NATO forces.
These nations guard their own borders,
a number of which abut Russia, and have
stood ready to contribute to mutual causes,
as they instantly did after the terrorist
attacks in New York and Washington on
9/11.
Sadly, NATO has not been outdated by
the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the
rise of international terrorism and Russia’s
Putin, with whom Trump says he sees eyeto-eye, NATO is as necessary today as it
was in 1949.
The new threats are not as simple as the
old. Russia, like the old Soviet Union that
collapsed around it, is even more transparent and aggressive in its desires to expand
power.
The engagement of Russian forces in
Eastern Ukraine and Russia’s blatant takeover of Crimea in 2014 — the first shift of
European borders since Hitler’s invasion
of the Sudetenland — was undeniable proof
of its determination to expand.
The shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines flight by a Russian missile is even
more proof that there are dangers we can’t
ignore or fight ourselves.
Not only is Trump frighteningly wrong
on the worth of little countries in Europe
but he also fails to understand the very
meaning of the term “alliance” and the
very real threats in the world.
Rather than talk about building a wall
to keep out what he regards as “dangerous
refugees,” he should talk about strengthening the alliances we have, which protect
our interests and those of other democracies working with us against dictators and
terrorists.
Jane Leftwich Curry of Santa Clara University is
a political science professor with an expertise in
Eastern European politics.
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Troubling case of attorney general who lied
BY NOAH FELDMAN
Bloomberg View
I
t’s never the wrongdoing — it’s the
lying about it. Pennsylvania Attorney
General Kathleen Kane, who announced her resignation Tuesday in
the face of a possible 14-year sentence for
her conviction on perjury charges, proves
the truth of that adage for public corruption
cases. Leaking grand jury proceedings to
embarrass a political rival would not have
gotten her sent to prison. But lying about it
under oath could and will.
How could a state’s top law enforcement
official be so dumb? Why are perjury charges so serious? And why don’t people, even
lawyers, realize it?
The answer goes back to the origins of the
legal system. To put it bluntly, the truth of
testimony under oath is the single most important component of legal justice. Whether
at trial or at depositions, most factual statements most of the time aren’t easily verifiable or disproven. Unless we can treat truth
as the default option, the entire justice system — civil as well as criminal — becomes
little more than a charade.
For roughly 3,000 years, almost all legal
systems — Babylonian, Roman, Jewish,
Christian, Islamic, what have you — shared
a single solution to making people tell the
truth: the oath. The
idea is simple. If you
swear by a god or God
you believe in, you
won’t lie — because
you’ll be afraid of
punishment.
In a world where it
was and remains difficult to check veracity, the sincere oath is
a spectacular ploy to
Kane
ensure that justice is
done. An oath-based
system assumes that people lie frequently
in daily life. But when it really matters that
they tell the truth, they will tell the truth,
provided they are put under oath.
Sometime in the 17th or 18th century, the
oath system began to break down, as more
and more people stopped believing that God
would punish them for lying. Observers at
the time noticed the change, and were profoundly worried about the consequences for
justice. George Washington put it this way
in his Farewell Address: “Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if
the sense of religious obligation desert the
oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?”
But the legal system couldn’t just give up
on its most basic presumption. And it hadn’t
gotten that much easier to prove that statements are true or false.
Convicting liars of perjury and sentencing them to harsh prison terms was the
answer. It’s a distant second best to divine
enforcement. In fact, punishing perjury is
simply the desperate attempt of the legal
system to make do without religious faith.
But you can see why it’s so important
— and why an attorney general who commits perjury is especially devastating to the
credibility of the justice system.
That leaves the question of why people,
including law enforcement officials, perjure
themselves anyway. One reason is that they
know how hard it is to get caught. But more
fundamental to the crime of perjury is that
today, lying under oath may not feel that different from lying in ordinary life.
The eventuality that George Washington
feared has come to pass. An oath no longer
creates a sense of awe and terror for most
people.
That’s probably especially true for lawyers, who spend a lot of time around people
who are swearing things under oath that
may or may not be true.
Kane’s case demonstrated a real disrespect for the sanctity of oaths. One instance
of her perjury involved her statement to the
grand jury that she did not sign a “secrecy
oath” or promise that she would not publicly
reveal the contents of past grand jury investigations to which she became privy in her
job. In fact, Kane had signed such an oath
— and she had also violated it by leaking
grand jury information.
In other words, Kane lied under oath to
the grand jury about having taken a different oath that she also broke.
The first one probably would not have
gotten her convicted. Technically it’s a
crime to violate a secrecy oath and leak information. But it isn’t a crime of the same
order as lying to the grand jury. The first
oath violation compromises grand jury secrecy. But the second oath violation, lying to
the grand jury, undercuts the justice system
as a whole.
The psychology of lying to cover up past
wrongdoing is familiar enough — just think
of Bill Clinton lying under oath about his
relationship with Monica Lewinsky. But
it’s the blurring of ordinary lies with false
testimony that’s the source of public disasters like the Kane case. It’s been a couple
of hundred years since the legal system lost
the “sense of religious obligation” that powered witness credibility. We’re still limping
along without a very satisfactory solution.
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg View columnist.
GOP faithful beware: The alt-right just took over
BY BEN SHAPIRO
Special to The Washington Post
O
n Wednesday, Donald Trump’s
campaign announced Breitbart
News chairman Stephen Bannon
as its new CEO — shocking no
one in the conservative world.
Conservatives joked openly for months
about “Trumpbart” and the transformation of Breitbart.com into, essentially,
Bannon.com, but it was still something of
a surprise that Trump would so publicly
embrace Bannon, a man who helped transform a mainstream conservative website into a cesspool of the alt-right. It also
comes as a surprise — or at least it should
— that the Republican National Committee appears ready to go right along with
the Bannon-Breitbart-Trump takeover of
the party, even as the Trump campaign’s
latest move means RNC Chairman Reince
Priebus now sits, effectively, side by side
with alt-right Trump fans.
The takeover, now a virtual fait accompli, represents the dangerous seizure of the
conservative movement by the alt-right.
Constitutional conservatives can’t stand
the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of
limited government, God-given rights and
personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or
ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right,
by contrast, believe in a creed-free, racebased nationalism, insisting, among other
things, that birth on American soil confers
superiority. The alt-right sees limitedgovernment constitutionalism as passe. It
holds that only nationalist populism on the
basis of shared tribal identity can save the
country. It’s a movement shot through with
racism and anti-Semitism.
Trump himself has flirted with the altright for months, from taking his sweet
time distancing himself from former Ku
Klux Klan leader David Duke, to failing
to condemn alt-right anti-Semitic attacks
on journalists. The alt-right association
came into focus after I left the site in early
March — I worked there as an editor for
four years — with the elevation of alt-right
cult hero Milo Yiannopoulos to a position
of prominence.
I’d heard, of course, that some of Breitbart’s comment sections had been occupied over previous months by a motley
collection of white supremacists and antiSemites (I generally never check the comments). I’d certainly felt their online wrath,
accused by alt-righters of being an antiTrump “cuck” — accusations that came
with memes of gas chambers and “shekelmeister” cartoons that could have come
directly from Der Stürmer. Such material flowed into my inbox and Twitter feed.
That flow escalated dramatically after I
declared that I would not support Trump,
and it escalated again after I left Breitbart
over its attempts to smear its own reporter,
Michelle Fields, in order to shield thenTrump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski against charges that he’d yanked
her by the arm at a campaign event.
But it wasn’t until March 29 that Breitbart’s full embrace of the alt-right became
clear. That’s the day the site featured Yiannopoulos’ lengthy piece glorifying the
alt-right. Yiannopoulos had already given
interviews in which he stated that “Jews
run the banks” and “Jews run the media,”
dismissing anti-Semitic memes as merely
“mischievous, dissident, trolly.” He wrote,
along with co-author Allum Bokhari, this
insane sentence: “There are many things
that separate the alternative right from oldschool racist skinheads (to whom they are
often idiotically compared), but one thing
stands out above all else: intelligence.”
And this is the cast of characters, and
their enablers, to whom Trump has turned.
Bannon is known, among other things, for
his Sarah Palin documentary, “The Undefeated,” and his relationship with conservative patrons Rebekah and Robert
Mercer. But he’s also the guy who ushered
along the twisted turn at Breitbart.
If Republicans aren’t careful, he’ll inflict similar damage on their party now
that he’s the top man running their standard-bearer’s campaign. If they don’t
know it yet, the alt-right surely does. As
one of its own, Richard Spencer, explained:
“Breitbart has elective affinities with the
alt-right, and the alt-right has clearly influ-
enced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has
acted as a ‘gateway’ to alt-right ideas and
writers.” There’s now a path for this same
kind of thinking to infiltrate the GOP.
None of this was Andrew Breitbart’s
vision. He despised what he declared the
dishonest, unspoken cooperation between
the Democratic Party and major media
outlets. In his memoir, “Righteous Indignation,” he wrote: “The left wins because
it controls the narrative. The narrative is
controlled by the media. The left is the
media. Narrative is everything. I call it the
Democrat-Media Complex — and I am at
war to gain back control of the American
narrative.” Andrew knew Trump wasn’t a
conservative, and he despised racism — he
routinely bragged about helping to integrate his fraternity at Tulane University,
and was personally heartbroken over the
accusations of racism directed at him after
the Shirley Sherrod story.
But Breitbart News has become everything Andrew hated: a party organ; a
pathetic cog in the Trump-Media Complex and a gathering place for white
nationalists.
What does this mean for Trump’s
campaign?
It means that like Breitbart, Trump will
continue to tacitly embrace the alt-right,
hoping, presumably, that adherents of its
worldview will propel his campaign in the
same way it has boosted Breitbart’s traffic
by millions of monthly page views. Trump
lives in a Breitbart fantasy world, and he’s
now invited Bannon to personally decorate
that world for him. The GOP establishment,
too weak and cowardly to oust Trump earlier, risks displacing the true, constitutional
conservatives for whom the party has been
a natural political home, and now it looks
prepared to ride the Trump train, next to
alt-righters, all the way into the electoral
ravine.
Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire
and author of several books including “Bullies:
How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation
Silences Americans.”
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
US flags ordered off
New York fire trucks
POUGHKEEPSIE —
NY
Fire commissioners in
upstate New York have ordered
THE CENSUS
100K
The amount of money, in cash, stolen from a woman’s car. Priscilla Myco, 32, and her 10year-old son were driving from Pennsylvania to Oregon, where Myco is starting a new job,
when they stopped in St. Louis and visited the City Museum. When they returned to her car,
a window was smashed and a computer, clothes, jewelry and the money were gone.
a department to take American
flags off its trucks, sparking a
heated online debate.
The Poughkeepsie Journal reported the flags were removed
Tuesday from the Arlington Fire
District trucks in Poughkeepsie
following Monday’s order.
Arlington Fire Commissioners
Board Chairman Jim Beretta told
the newspaper a majority of the
board saw the flags as a “liability
during normal operations for our
people and other motorists.”
The newspaper said some online commenters are outraged by
the decision. Others believe the
mounted flags violated U.S. flag
code.
Cemetery cancels car
show following criticism
ROSEVILLE — A
MN
Roseville cemetery
canceled plans for a hot rod car
show following public criticism
that the burial grounds aren’t the
proper place for such an event.
The Roselawn Cemetery’s
board of directors said it decided
not to hold this weekend’s “Rods
and Stones” show because of
negative feedback. The board
said the car show was an effort to
“make cemeteries less intimidating and forbidding.”
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported board members said they
never intended anything disrespectful or disruptive. It plans
to host an open house to discuss
ideas for appropriate ways to connect with the community.
Teacher’s aide cleared
of Rubik’s Cube assault
LOWELL — A teachMA
ing assistant and basketball coach at a Massachusetts
middle school has been acquitted
of charges that he threw a Rubik’s
Cube at a student.
A judge said Wednesday there
was no evidence Matthew Fraser
intentionally threw the Rubik’s
Cube at the 14-year-old boy and
found him not guilty of a charge
of assault with a dangerous
weapon.
The Sun reported that witnesses testified that the paraprofessional at Lowell’s Sullivan Middle
School argued with the student in
January the day after he felt the
teen’s unsportsmanlike behavior cost the school a basketball
game.
Witnesses said Fraser “spiked”
the puzzle into the floor, but the
student was already far down the
hallway, and it did not hit him.
Man jailed for killing
friend over sandwich
BUFFALO — A New
NY
York man who fatally
shot a friend for eating his leftover
sandwich has been sentenced to
22 years in prison.
The Erie County District
Attorney’s Office said Marcus
Gottsche, 34, was sentenced
Wednesday in the death of Jas-
RICHARD VOGEL /AP
All the world’s a stage
Contemporary dance company Invertigo Dance Theatre performs inside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion seating area at the Los Angeles Music
Center. The Music Center’s “Moves After Dark” features performances in a variety of nontraditional performance spaces.
mine Armour, 28, of Buffalo.
Prosecutors said Gottsche and
Armour spent a night drinking
in February 2011 before returning to his home where a fight
started after she began eating his
sandwich.
Gottsche shot Armour in the
back as she tried to flee.
He was convicted of murder
in December 2011, but the verdict was vacated last year when a
court ruled he was denied effective legal representation.
Gottsche pleaded guilty to firstdegree manslaughter in June.
Woman tries to spring
man from police car
ALBUQUERQUE
NM
— A New Mexico
woman is facing charges after police said she tried to free her boyfriend from a patrol car by trying
to crash into it.
KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported Tommianne Patten, 26,
chased an Albuquerque patrol
car on Monday following her
boyfriend’s arrest for domestic
violence.
According to police, Patten
drove up behind the police car
and tried to ram it.
Authorities said the officer
tried to flee Patten, but she pulled
up alongside him and tried to
crash into him again.
Police said Patten later crashed
into an unmarked police vehicle
with an officer inside at Albuquerque police headquarters.
She faces aggravated assault
on a peace officer with a deadly
weapon charge.
Green chile peels
causing messy roads
ALBUQUERQUE —
It’s harvest time for
New Mexico’s green chile. And
some residents said peels from
the state’s staple crop are creating a hot mess.
KOAT-TV in Albuquerque reported that some trucks transporting green chile are dropping
peels in Albuquerque’s South Valley. Residents said the peels are
sloshing and spilling out of the
trucks and onto roads.
Drivers said one intersection is
covered in green chile.
Andres Garcia said the wet
peels are dangerous. He told
KOAT-TV he recently had to hit
his brakes at a stop sign because
his truck kept sliding.
The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s
Office said it is a misdemeanor
crime for any truck to spill loads.
NM
Farm creates ‘Super
Mario Bros.’ corn maze
NEWARK VALLEY —
NY
The images of Mario,
Luigi and friends have been
carved into the fields of an upstate
New York farm as part of a corn
maze based on Nintendo’s “Super
Mario Bros.” game series.
ABC News reported it’s the
latest installment of an annual
themed maze at the Stoughton
Farm in Newark Valley.
An aerial photo of the 8-acre
maze clearly shows Mario, Luigi
and fellow Mario Bros. characters Princess Peach, Toad and
Yoshi carved into the cornfield.
Stoughton said he created the
maze based on a design by a Utah
company. He said creating the
maze usually takes a few weeks
and involves “a lot of math.”
Winds whip up
firenados from field fire
CORNELIUS — A
OR
small fire on an Oregon farmer’s field whipped up
several firenados — tornados
comprised of flames and smoke.
The smoky twisters cropped up
in the field after a piece of farming equipment on Friday sparked
the fire, which ultimately burned
about 7 acres.
Cornelius Fire Department
spokesman Matt Johnston said
erratic winds contributed to the
flaming phenomenon. He said the
fire sucks in oxygen to fuel itself,
and the heat rises, causing the
spinning column of flames and
smoke.
Johnston filmed one in an adjacent field that swirled for about
two minutes and shot up about
200 feet.
While Oregon has had a tame
wildfire season so far, Johnston
said three days of expected tripledigit heat has crews worried.
Man charged with
driving buggy drunk
ROSSITER — State
police have charged an
18-year-old Pennsylvania Amish
man with driving his buggy while
drunk, with two friends on its
roof.
Police have also cited Robert
Miller, of Punxsutawney, and four
friends, who ranged in age from
20 to 16, with underage drinking.
State police announced the
charges on Wednesday, though
they stem from an incident July
8 in Canoe Township, Indiana
County.
That’s when police stopped the
buggy-surfing men.
Police said all five had been
drinking and had alcoholic beverages with them.
In Pennsylvania, it’s illegal to
drive if one’s blood-alcohol content is 0.08 percent or greater. But
for underage drinkers the threshold is just 0.02 percent.
Online court records don’t list
attorneys for the suspects.
PA
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ENTERTAINMENT
KOJI SASAHARA /AP
A poster of “Shin Godzilla,” or “New Godzilla,” is displayed July 30 under the monster’s head at a movie theater in Tokyo. The movie heads to other countries later this year.
Godzilla’s back
BY YURI K AGEYAMA
Associated Press
G
odzilla is back in its homeland of Japan after a
12-year absence, still breathing fire and mercilessly stomping everything in its way. The Associated Press noted four ways the new film “Shin
Godzilla,” or “New Godzilla,” breaks from its
past, and other ways it is reassuringly familiar. It’s now showing in theaters in Japan and will go to the U.S. and other countries later this year.
What’s different
• The Americans: Japan’s most important ally sends scientists and other
advisers, their participation depicted at
times as a nuisance. A Japanese-American special envoy, played impudently by
Satomi Ishihara, asks where the nearest Zara store is, but mainly mediates
between Japan and the U.S., which is
worried Godzilla might reach its shores.
She resists a U.S. proposal to nuke
Godzilla. Given that the 2014 Hollywood
Godzilla helped Toho film studio decide
to revive the series it originated, the U.S.
has proved a true ally for Godzilla’s silverscreen survival.
• The man behind the monster:
Godzilla is not a man wearing a rubber
suit, like in the 1954 original. Toho used
motion-capture technology based on the
movements of Mansai Nomura, an actor in
traditional Kyogen theater whose casting
was a secret until opening day. The center
of gravity is kept low during Kyogen
moves, similar to Noh dance, except that
Kyogen specializes in comedy. Nomura
said he was honored to be chosen for the
role, stressing that he hoped to communicate the spiritual and the ghostly in
Godzilla.
• The 2011 Fukushima disaster:
Godzilla is no longer a result of nuclear
testing. Instead, the monster recalls the
March 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear
disaster that devastated northeastern
Japan. In the film, people measure the
radiation around them and share information on social media, as they did five years
Movie breaks new ground while retaining
hallmarks of beloved Japanese monster
ago. News conferences and meetings are
filled with confusion and jargon, and government officials on screen even use the
same word that was used to describe how
unprepared Japan had been for the tsunami, “soteigai,” or “beyond expectations.”
Scenes of people fleeing from torrents of
water, and later huddled in gymnasiums,
bring back heartbreaking memories of the
2011 disaster.
• Defending itself: Post-World War II
Japan has repeatedly stressed it will abide
by pacifism. When Godzilla crashes onto
its shores, Japan debates how far it can go
in defending itself. That reflects a modern
debate over using Japan’s military beyond
its self-defense role. Bureaucrats try their
best to find Japanese-based solutions,
treating Godzilla as a crisis requiring
military might and vowing the nation can
be rebuilt from scratch — as it was after
World War II. The original monster symbolized the tragedy of nuclear power and,
through it, the ability of humankind to
destroy itself. Now the threat we perceive
could be anything, but is almost certainly
a horror we brought on ourselves.
What’s familiar
• The monster: Godzilla at first looks
like a snake or an eel slithering through
the cityscape. Nearly an hour into the
movie, it stands upright like the Godzilla
we know, with protruding scales lining its
back and a giant tail lashing uncontrol-
Godzilla online
“Shin Godzilla” trailers:
tinyurl.com/ht98ud9
tinyurl.com/gl3929n
Japanese site for the “Shin Godzilla” movie: shin-godzilla.jp
lably. As it was, with the way the 1954
original was scripted, Godzilla is more
about our anticipation, the nightmare
that reflects our deepest fears. The new
Godzilla glows red as though embers electrified by atomic power flicker beneath its
jagged skin.
• The destruction: The new film is
inspired by the storyline of the 1954 original, more than the rest of Toho’s 28-film
series that had Godzilla battling oversized
moths, evil robots and other fantastic
creatures. It smashes the same landmarks
as all the other Godzillas, such as Tokyo
Station, the Parliament building and the
Wako department store with the clock
tower. And all that the masses of people
can do is run from it in sheer terror.
• The sounds: That same eerie screech,
created by scratching contrabass strings,
is heard. And this film pays homage to the
original music. When the credits roll, it’s
the same composition by Akira Ifukube
that plays, a fitting ending for the Japanese comeback Godzilla.
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VIDEO GAMES
‘No Man’s Sky’
Photos courtesy of Hello Games
‘No Man’s Sky’
Overall grade:
BY M ICHAEL S. DARNELL
Stars and Stripes
T
he first few hours of Hello Games’ “No Man’s
Sky” are among this year’s best video gaming moments. The rest of the game is among the year’s
biggest disappointments. This dichotomy is in the
very DNA of what is ultimately an ambitious, but flawed,
experiment.
“No Man’s Sky” was billed as a true galaxy exploration
simulator. Sean Murray, Hello Games’ lead designer, tantalized audiences with promises of an in-game universe as
vast as the real one and worlds as varied as the ones we’ve
only seen in science fiction.
Promotional videos showed vast worlds inhabited by
alien animals roaming vast, colorful landscapes. Players
would be able to leap into their spaceship, launch from
one world and fly seamlessly to the next, where only the
unknown would be guaranteed to be found.
The final game delivered on some of those promises, and
failed on others.
The universe of “No Man’s Sky” really is as vast as was
promised. The galaxy is nearly infinite, but feels truly
endless. My greatest fear when picking up the final game
would be that the seamless space flight shown in trailers would be a trick of carefully edited videos, and I’d be
greeted with a parade of loading screens.
That fear turned out to be unfounded. It is absolutely
possible to fly from one planet to the next with nary an
overt loading screen to be found. Sure, some of the longer
warp-speed jumps are disguising asset rendering, but it’s
cleverly done and so the illusion remains intact.
That element of “No Man’s Sky” never quite got old for
me. The dream of seamless space exploration has been one
held by gamers for decades. While games such as “Elite:
Dangerous Horizons” have done a great job emulating planetary exploration, none has nailed the feel of flying from
surface to space and back again quite like “No Man’s Sky.”
However, that’s about the only thing the game does perfectly. Every other element of the “No Man’s Sky” experience ranges from mediocre to outright bad.
Murray and Co. were purposely coy when asked about
the meat of the game’s interactive elements. The glasshalf-full types said it’s because Hello Games wanted to
cultivate an air of mystery about the title. Cynics said it
was because there probably wouldn’t be much interaction
to be found. Sadly, it seems the cynics were right.
The game opens with you having to mine resources to
fix your broken spaceship. To do so, you’ll shoot various
rocks and plants with your all-purpose mining tool/laser
pistol. Once the necessary resources are gathered, you’ll
blast off to the next planet to see what adventures lie upon
its rocky surface.
And then you’ll shoot various rocks with your all-purpose mining tool/laser pistol. If you’re lucky, the planet
will be packed with radiation/toxic chemicals, and you’ll
have to watch a meter fill up.
If this sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the survival
game template that has become the de facto game design
over the past few years. “No Man’s Sky” isn’t even a particularly great entry into the genre either, thanks to some
poor design decisions that hamper the crucial first hours.
Your inventory slots are severely limited in the beginning, making the early hours of the game a frustrating tennis match between actually playing the game and trying to
manage an inventory screen.
You can gather infinite resources, but there is precious
little to do with them. There is no base- or ship-building,
though some of those elements have been promised as
future DLC. Even a bare-bones ability to create a meaningful impact on a planet would have created some sense
of purpose behind the endless resource gathering.
As it stands, you gather resources so you can increase
your capability to gather more resources. It’s a gameplay
loop that becomes frustratingly boring very quickly. By
the fourth of fifth hour of playing, you’ve felt like you’ve
done all there is to do in “No Man’s Sky.”
The same goes with the galactic exploration element,
ostensibly the game’s selling point.
When you land on a planet for the first time, you’re likely
going to be in awe with the size of it. Even flying in your
spaceship, it will take actual hours to fly around the entire
thing. The alien lifeforms, at first, are unique and interesting to look at. Then you fly to another planet and see
the same things you saw at the first world, with maybe a
palette swap to differentiate them.
The promotional videos showed massive alien dinosaurs
eating foliage from towering trees. The reality of the game
is seeing the same lizard cow you saw two planets ago, but
this time with an added dorsal fin. And neither of them are
doing anything that presents any illusion of life.
That’s a shame because the galaxy feels so infinite, so
massive. It calls out to be explored. But the fun is sucked
right out of the game with the realization that no matter
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where you go, or what you do, you’ll still be forced to shoot
rocks with a laser gun and stare at similar-looking flora
and fauna.
Some of the elements Hello Games introduced to break
up this monotony don’t really work all that well, either.
Planets, locations and alien lifeforms, once discovered by
players, can be named. It’s fun at first to name a hideous,
deformed creature after your grade-school math teacher,
for instance, but it becomes dull very quickly.
While traveling around, you might come across monoliths that offer up some basic text choices. The mysterious
structures will ask you various questions. Correct answers
will result in upgrades and better relations with one of
three of the native alien races to be found in “No Man’s
Sky.”
The lizard-like Gek, robotic Korvax and militant
Vy’Keen can be found at space stations or planet-side
bases. There are some dialogue options when dealing with
them, but interaction is basically limited to buying, selling or giving them resources. It’s pretty disappointing to
discover an alien robot on an undiscovered planet and find
out it’s just another vendor.
The central purpose of “No Man’s Sky” is to find the
center of the universe. At its core, it’s a game about exploration. But the fun of exploration is the discovery of the
new, the odd, the interesting. Everything unique about
“No Man’s Sky” can be found within the first few hours of
gameplay.
That being said, there remains something special about
hopping into a spaceship and flying, without loading
screen, to another planet. For those first few hours, before
the illusion of a living universe is irrevocably shattered,
“No Man’s Sky” is an incredible game. It’s my hope that
with future updates, the rest of the game will be able to
live up to that early-game promise.
As it is right now, though, it’s a very shallow experience. Hello Games shot for the moon with “No Man’s Sky.”
While they didn’t quite make it out of orbit, they provided
us with an incredible view of the stars. Maybe if we’re
lucky, they’ll one day bring us the rest of the way there.
Grade: C
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (reviewed)
Online: no-mans-sky.com
[email protected]
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A tale of ‘bravado
... and ignorance’
‘War Dogs’ director Todd Phillips thrives on
movies ‘about guys making bad decisions’
BY JOHN A NDERSON
Newsday
J
onah Hill was sitting in a restaurant recently when two young
men approached him, introduced
themselves as South African arms
dealers, and said, “We can’t wait to see
your movie.”
“They gave me a fist bump,” Hill recalled, slightly chagrined. “I didn’t want
a fist bump. I got this a lot with ‘The Wolf
of Wall Street,’ too, a lot of kind of bro-ey
stock market people. They don’t see that
I’m not displaying full support, you know
what I mean?”
In other words, just because something
is the subject of a movie doesn’t mean
it’s OK, which is certainly true of “War
Dogs,” starring Hill
and Miles Teller. The
fact-based dramatic
comedy is about two
young Miami Beach
entrepreneurs and
their multimilliondollar career as
proxy gun runners
for the U.S. government. It really
happened, as first
recounted by
Phillips
Guy Lawson in
a 2011 Rolling Stone story. Which
naturally makes it a much better
film.
“Sometimes you read an article
and say ‘This feels like a movie,’ ”
said director Todd Phillips. “And
then you unwind it a little and say,
‘This was meant to be an article.’
The more we looked at Guy’s
article, it just became more and
more of a movie.”
In the early 2000s, using a
shell company called AEY,
Efraim Diveroli (Hill) and
David Packouz (Teller) used a
Bush-administration procurement loophole to sell weapons to foreign governments,
eventually landing a $300 million contract to help arm the
Afghan military. What happens
to them, ultimately, is the stuff
of John LeCarre, broken bromance and Buster Keaton.
Movies about eager underdogs making illicit fortunes
are delicious, of course. “I love
those kinds of movies, too,” said
Phillips, though he agreed that
there’s always going to be some
kind of payback — though not
always via the U.S. government.
“They did do something illegal:
They repackaged the ammo and sold it as
something else,” Phillips said of Diveroli
and Packouz: As part of their weapons
business, the partners locate 100 million
rounds of ammunition in Romania, but
then find out it was all made in China
— which renders it illegal to send to
Afghanistan as U.S. aid. So they unwisely
improvise. Which makes them, among
other things, fodder for Phillips.
“I like making movies about guys making bad decisions,” he said, “because bad
decisions usually lead to mayhem and
I like documenting
mayhem. Even in
‘The Hangover,’
they make bad
decisions, but
in those movies
it brings them
together. In
‘Old School,’
which I did,
it also brings
them together.
In this movie, it
pulls them apart,
primarily because
of greed. But it’s
WARNERS BROS./AP
Miles Teller, left, and Jonah Hill star in “War Dogs,” a fact-based film about two gun runners.
interesting, the effect that has on people.”
“This is really a millennial story in a lot
of ways,” said Lawson, whose 2015 book,
“Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners
from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History,” expanded
on his magazine article. The internet,
he said, gave the young men access to
information in a way
that would have
been unheard
of years ago.
“They got
themselves
into places
that a
generation before
they never
would gotten. ... They don’t respect boundaries in the way prior generations did.”
“They didn’t have as much to lose,” said
Teller, whose character is the conscience
of the movie. He said their youth gave the
pair an edge. “They had bravado ... and
ignorance.”
Lawson added that he was pleased at
how much journalism is in the movie.
“There are a lot of important issues
being brought to the world about America’s role in proliferating weapons, the lack
of responsibility of people in authority
in this country: The torture program is,
of course, the fault of Abu Ghraib prison
guards; the NSA surveillance is Edward
Snowden’s fault; and the proliferation of
weapons is these kids’ fault. It’s ridiculous.
There are never any consequences, never
any lessons learned.”
Phillips, whose forte is, of course,
comedy, said that to leave politics out of
the film would not only have been hard
to do but “probably a disservice
to this story.” A reporter had
asked him whether he was
concerned that the movie
would “spawn copycats”
— inspire young people
to go into the arms
trade. He said she misread the message.
“It’s an indictment
of the government and
the lack of checks and
balances at the Pentagon,” Phillips said.
“Bradley Cooper
(playing a longtime
arms dealer) says in
the movie, ‘The government wants to look
the other way. Don’t
give them a reason not
to.’ That’s the whole
movie.”
There’s also acting, of
course, and a good deal
of comedy, much of it
courtesy of Hill, who must
have gained 60 pounds to
play Diveroli, but has since
dropped it.
“He was going for a Jewish
Tony Soprano, and by that I
mean swagger and confidence,” said Phillips. “I’ve
never met Efraim; I’m not
sure he has the swagger Jonah has, certainly
not that laugh. Certain
actors find their characters through wardrobe
or hair or the way a
character walks. Jonah
came to me and said, ‘I think I
figured out this guy’s laugh.’ And it
was dead on.”
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HEALTH & FITNESS
BY M IKE PLUNKETT
The Washington Post
D
uring the extreme
winter of 2009-10,
Gary McNamee relied
on his treadmill to
train for the Boston Marathon.
McNamee lives in Hopkinton,
Mass., where the race starts, but
the weather stymied his attempts
to go out for a long run.
“I’m in my basement thinking,
‘Jeez, the course is right up the
road. I can go out there and film
it and watch it while I was on the
treadmill,’ ” McNamee said.
So he did — and realized that
he could market a video simulation of the famed course to other
runners.
Thus he began Outside Interactive, a company that, along
with others, is merging fitness
with high-definition virtual
technology.
Runners log in to the Outside
Interactive app and pay for videos of routes, which they watch
on their iPad or Android tablet or
on an HD television. While running, they can manually select
the pace or sync their tracking
device to the app. The video will
speed up and slow down as the
runners change speed. In a bit of
surreality, the crowds and fellow
racers in the video will run and
cheer in proportion to the speed
of the real runners.
Taking it a stride further,
RunSocial, a company based in
Singapore that launched its running app last year, uses augmented reality technology, where the
app overlays the runner’s virtual
presence via an avatar with a
video of a real-world route (a la
Pokemon Go). The avatar’s speed
is determined by the company’s
TreadTracker foot pod or can be
set manually.
“We had this idea of a mixedreality concept, where basically
we wanted to run real-world
routes but didn’t want computer
graphics, but also would love to
see others in these routes while
we run,” said Marc Hardy,
RunSocial’s co-founder and chief
executive.
Hardy, who describes himself as a regular runner, saw an
opportunity for treadmill users
who struggle with boredom and
motivation to enhance their running experience.
Although RunSocial’s main
products are virtual running
apps for indoors, Hardy said the
company is focusing more on the
sociability factor. Both the virtual running app and RunSocial
GPS, an outdoor tracking system
that the company just launched,
feature ways for participants to
race one another, complete with
a countdown clock and a leader
board.
“Everybody, everywhere can
run together, virtually,” Hardy
said.
Both Outside Interactive and
RunSocial offer what McNamee
calls the “holy grail” — the ability to sync with smart treadmills
to adjust the incline levels to
match the flat and hilly sections
of each of the recorded courses.
Some real-life races are working with Outside Interactive
and RunSocial to expand and
RunSocial users
can watch avatars
of themselves
run real-world
routes, such as
the Swiss Alps.
Courtesy of Run Social
Bringing the outside in
Running apps blur line between virtual reality, real life
enhance their own efforts.
This year, RunSocial launched
a digital version of the Prague
Marathon and also offered a digital version of the Virgin Money
London Marathon for a second
year. The digital London Marathon featured astronaut Tim
Peake, who ran the course on a
treadmill aboard the Interna-
tional Space Station. Hardy said
RunSocial is looking to make
inroads in the U.S. market with
future partnerships and more
U.S.-based video routes.
In 2015, Outside Interactive collaborated with the New
Balance Falmouth Road Race,
a seven-mile course on Cape
Cod, Mass. Jennifer Edwards,
Falmouth’s general manager,
said the race organizers were
hesitant at first when they heard
McNamee’s pitch but saw the
opportunity to give those who
couldn’t run the live race — because of scheduling or geography
— a chance to participate.
Edwards said Falmouth’s
goal was “not to add to the race
day experience but add another
opportunity to be a part of the
experience.”
Edwards said 40 finishers
completed the virtual race,
which was held at the same
time as the actual race. Each
was given a bib and a finisher’s
certificate, as well as guaranteed entry to the 2016 Falmouth.
Edwards said the field included
competitors from as far away as
California, Florida, Texas and
Oregon.
It also included Kara Salvagno,
a longtime Connecticut resident
who relocated to Scottsdale,
Ariz., last year. She has competed in the Falmouth Road Race
almost every year since 1993.
“I thought, ‘This is fabulous!
I have so many friends who still
run the race, but I can’t do it this
year,” she said.
Salvagno said she made the
virtual run a full event. She
asked her home gym to open at 6
a.m. so she could start racing at
the same time the race began on
Cape Cod.
She also FaceTimed with a
friend who was running seven
miles at their favorite running
spot in Connecticut at the same
time Salvagno ran the virtual
Falmouth.
“It was a waltz down memory
lane, really,” Salvagno said. “We
just laughed the entire time. It
didn’t feel like we were running.”
Outside Interactive and RunSocial hope that interest eventually will match the opportunity,
especially in generating revenue.
“Can you imagine in the future
a million people literally running, walking or crawling the
virtual Boston Marathon on a
global scale? I mean, it’s kind of a
mind-blower,” McNamee said.
For now, McNamee and Hardy
said their goal is to find pioneers
who are technologically savvy
and receptive to the concept.
Although questions remain
about the value of virtual racing,
McNamee said that the app isn’t
meant to replace an actual race.
He added that some experience
of racing is better than no experience at all.
Hardy said that although he is
invested in what the next level of
virtual technology will bring, he
is more intrigued by the shifting
definitions of shared experiences.
“When you’re doing an event,
you’re not having a chat with
everyone, right? But you are
sharing an experience together,
and that’s more motivating than
a regular run on your own. That
doesn’t mean you want to talk to
everyone, but you’re still sharing an experience together, and
that’s interesting.”
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No apologies
Emmy nominee Zimmer says her
‘UnReal’ character gets the job done
BY YVONNE VILLARREAL/Los Angeles Times
P
lease don’t ask Constance Zimmer to go to your viewing
party for “The Bachelor.” She’ll spend the whole time
texting.
The actress fiercely plays gruff executive producer
Quinn King in Lifetime’s “UnReal,” a drama about the making of a popular reality dating show that is infused with cutting commentary on the genre. So when a friend invited her to
a “Bachelor” viewing party after the first season of “UnReal”
wrapped, yes, she was game to go boldly into Bachelor Nation.
Then fiction met reality.
“It’s almost really anxious for me,” Zimmer said, “because I
watch it like Quinn. I can’t even really watch it as Constance.”
Zimmer spent most of the hour texting Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, the former “Bachelor” producer who created “UnReal” with
Marti Noxon, about how eerily the fictional show matched the
reality series.
“My worlds were colliding and I just, I couldn’t,” Zimmer said.
“It was too much.”
The first season of “UnReal” drew modest ratings, bringing in
an average of 1.3 million viewers per episode when DVR viewing
is factored in, according to Nielsen. While the average is dwarfed
by the nearly double-digit numbers the actual “Bachelor” can
pull in, the acclaim and Twitter chatter it has amassed have
helped Lifetime shed its image as the Mom channel.
The series also marks a re-branding of Zimmer as a leading woman after years playing side characters on series such
as “Entourage,” “House of Cards” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” It’s
a switch that has been embraced, with Zimmer now up for an
Emmy in September.
Whom do you relate to more:
Quinn or Rachel (Shiri Appleby)?
You know, it’s so interesting. I
relate more, weirdly enough, to Jay
on the show.
To Jay?
Because Jay (Jeffrey BowyerChapman) is the one who is really,
really struggling with the part of
his job that really makes him feel
horrible. Rachel and Quinn have
built up kind of a lot of armor that
they don’t see it anymore. It’s just
their job. Whereas Jay, I think, is
really — and especially in the new
season — you’ll see him really
struggling with, “Wait a minute, I’m
trying to have a message and follow
through with it, without getting
swallowed up by the medium.”
Who is Quinn to you?
Quinn, to me, is a challenge every
day to make sure that I’m representing not a likable character, but a
relatable character that is doing the
job that is sometimes mostly a man’s
job, but showing that I can do it all,
and I can be in high heels and dresses, and be just as damn good, and
not having to apologize for it, and
not feeling like anything’s wrong
with it. I’m getting the job done.
Have you ever looked at some
of her lines and been like, “I don’t
know if I can say this?”
Oh, all the time. Quinn is really
the first character that I can’t even
do in rehearsing. I can’t embody
her until they say, “Action,” and I
have no other choice. Because then
I don’t question it, and I don’t look at
it from the outside and think, “Wow,
this is really mean, how can I make
it sweeter?” I don’t. I take all the
filters off of it and I just have to go
for it. And I think it’s why I had no
idea that Quinn was funny, no clue,
until I watched it with an audience and I said, “Wow, that line
was actually pretty funny.”
Do you think you’re going
to get some more response
from (“The Bachelor” host)
Chris Harrison or any of the
other folks involved with “The
Bachelor”?
I hope so. I mean, by the
way, there are so many people
in reality television that come
up to us at panels and talk
to us on social media, and
they say, “I think you should
change the name of the show
to ‘Real.’ ”
Constance Zimmer plays Quinn on “UnReal.”
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Uber to offer self-driving cars in Pa.
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BY JUSTIN PRITCHARD
AND TOM K RISHER
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — The option to hail a ride in a self-driving car, which was science fiction
just a few years ago, will soon be
available to Uber users in Pittsburgh, the first time the technology has been offered to the general
public.
Within weeks, the company
announced Thursday, customers will be able to opt into a test
program and summon an autonomous Ford Fusion. But since
the technology has not been perfected, the cars will come with
human backup drivers to handle
any unexpected situations.
Although other companies, including Google, are testing selfdriving cars on public roads, none
offers rides to regular people. As
an enticement, the autonomous
rides will be free, the company
said.
Uber, which has a self-driving
research lab in Pittsburgh, has
no immediate plans to deploy autonomous cars in other cities. But
in an interview with The Associated Press, CEO Travis Kalanick
said development of the vehicles
is paramount for the San Francisco company, which has grown
exponentially after starting seven
years ago.
“We’ve got to be laser-focused
on getting this to market because
it’s not a side project for us,” he
said. “This is everything. This is
all the marbles for Uber.”
Without drivers, the cost of
hailing a ride will be cheaper
than owning a car, changing the
way we all get around, Kalanick
has said.
By using human backup drivers, Uber is basically testing the
technology and taking people
along for the ride, said Bryant
Walker Smith, a University of
South Carolina professor who
studies self-driving technology.
“Part of this is marketing in
the sense that they’re going to be
doing continued research and de-
velopment of these systems,” he
said.
Uber also announced that it
was acquiring a startup called
Otto that has focused on developing self-driving big rigs and
is stocked with big talent in the
still-small world of self-driving
technology, including Anthony
Levandowski, one of the field’s
pioneers. Kalanick said the acquisition signals Uber’s intent to
get into the movement of goods
and freight.
In another deal, the company
announced a $300 million alliance
with Volvo to supply vehicles and
technology. The announcements
may push it ahead of its prime
competitor, Lyft, which earlier
this year took a $500 million investment from General Motors.
Those arrangements are part
of a flurry of deals between
Silicon Valley tech companies,
traditional automakers and ridehailing companies as they vie for
autonomous car leadership.
Google has been testing self-
driving cars on public roads since
2009 but has never offered largescale rides to the public.
Uber’s move to haul passengers with autonomous vehicles is
not surprising, given the company’s history of pushing into gray
areas with little or no regulation,
Walker Smith said.
Local laws in Pittsburgh may
require a driver behind the wheel,
but Pennsylvania has no laws governing autonomous cars and their
role in ride-hailing, he said.
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89/79
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American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
89/71
Saturday’s US temperatures
City
Abilene, Texas
Akron, Ohio
Albany, N.Y.
Albuquerque
Allentown, Pa.
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Billings
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Bridgeport
Brownsville
Buffalo
Burlington, Vt.
Caribou, Maine
Casper
Charleston, S.C.
Charleston, W.Va.
Charlotte, N.C.
Hi
88
85
89
82
88
78
67
82
89
84
89
89
90
75
88
70
91
84
86
94
86
90
79
73
95
85
89
Lo
72
67
61
63
65
60
52
68
73
71
75
72
75
49
74
50
63
68
70
79
70
62
53
40
77
68
73
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Chattanooga
87
Cheyenne
66
Chicago
79
Cincinnati
83
Cleveland
86
Colorado Springs 69
Columbia, S.C.
94
Columbus, Ga.
91
Columbus, Ohio
85
Concord, N.H.
87
Corpus Christi
93
Dallas-Ft Worth
85
Dayton
83
Daytona Beach
92
Denver
75
Des Moines
74
Detroit
85
Duluth
64
El Paso
93
Elkins
81
Erie
85
Eugene
101
Evansville
83
Fairbanks
65
Fargo
69
Flagstaff
76
Flint
83
Fort Smith
84
72
39
71
70
69
49
75
74
70
58
79
75
70
74
48
63
71
56
74
66
71
57
71
51
52
48
69
72
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Fort Wayne
82
Fresno
100
Goodland
75
Grand Junction
90
Grand Rapids
82
Great Falls
81
Green Bay
74
Greensboro, N.C. 86
Harrisburg
87
Hartford Spgfld
87
Helena
82
Honolulu
89
Houston
92
Huntsville
87
Indianapolis
79
Jackson, Miss.
90
Jacksonville
94
Juneau
61
Kansas City
76
Key West
90
Knoxville
85
Lake Charles
90
Lansing
83
Las Vegas
101
Lexington
83
Lincoln
76
Little Rock
85
Los Angeles
85
68
69
51
60
70
46
65
72
69
65
47
76
76
72
71
75
74
50
66
80
70
77
70
81
70
64
74
62
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Clr
Louisville
84
Lubbock
82
Macon
92
Madison
75
Medford
107
Memphis
86
Miami Beach
89
Midland-Odessa 89
Milwaukee
78
Mpls-St Paul
69
Missoula
86
Mobile
91
Montgomery
92
Nashville
87
New Orleans
91
New York City
87
Newark
88
Norfolk, Va.
86
North Platte
74
Oklahoma City
82
Omaha
76
Orlando
93
Paducah
83
Pendleton
95
Peoria
78
Philadelphia
90
Phoenix
103
Pittsburgh
83
71
65
74
67
68
73
79
70
70
62
46
74
75
73
78
73
73
77
51
69
63
76
72
57
70
74
82
68
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Pocatello
84
Portland, Maine
82
Portland, Ore.
100
Providence
84
Pueblo
76
Raleigh-Durham
89
Rapid City
70
Reno
96
Richmond
89
Roanoke
85
Rochester
90
Rockford
76
Sacramento
92
St Louis
82
St Petersburg
90
St Thomas
91
Salem, Ore.
103
Salt Lake City
88
San Angelo
89
San Antonio
89
San Diego
77
San Francisco
71
San Jose
83
Santa Fe
76
St Ste Marie
75
Savannah
95
Seattle
96
Shreveport
89
46
61
64
67
53
73
46
62
75
68
66
68
61
72
80
80
60
64
72
76
67
56
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55
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63
76
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Sioux City
Sioux Falls
South Bend
Spokane
Springfield, Ill.
Springfield, Mo.
Syracuse
Tallahassee
Tampa
Toledo
Topeka
Tucson
Tulsa
Tupelo
Waco
Washington
W. Palm Beach
Wichita
Wichita Falls
Wilkes-Barre
Wilmington, Del.
Yakima
Youngstown
74
71
81
90
80
78
90
93
91
85
77
95
84
87
88
90
91
78
87
88
87
95
85
58
56
69
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78
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National temperature extremes
Hi: Thu., 117, Death Valley, Calif.
Lo: Thu., 32, Dillon, Colo.
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SCOREBOARD
College football
Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
Pro basketball
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
New York
18
8 .692 —
Atlanta
13
12 .520
4½
Indiana
12
12 .500
5
Chicago
11
13 .458
6
Washington
9
15 .375
8
Connecticut
8
16 .333
9
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
x-Los Angeles
21
3 .875 —
x-Minnesota
21
4 .840
½
Phoenix
10
14 .417 11
Seattle
9
15 .375 12
Dallas
9
16 .360 12½
San Antonio
5
18 .217 15½
x-clinched a playoff spot
Note: Olympic break; season resumes
Aug. 26.
Golf
Wyndham Championship
PGA Tour
Thursday
At Sedgefield CC
Greensboro, N.C.
Purse: $5.6 million
Yardage: 7,127; Par: 70 (35-35)
First Round
Rafa Cabrera Bello
32-31—63
Kevin Na
32-31—63
Derek Fathauer
32-33—65
Danny Lee
31-34—65
Luke Donald
34-31—65
Peter Malnati
34-31—65
Brandt Snedeker
32-33—65
Shawn Stefani
33-33—66
Patrick Reed
34-32—66
Hideki Matsuyama
33-33—66
Jim Furyk
32-34—66
Johnson Wagner
31-35—66
Andres Gonzales
34-32—66
Dicky Pride
33-33—66
Greg Chalmers
31-35—66
Troy Merritt
35-31—66
Bill Haas
32-34—66
Billy Horschel
33-33—66
Brett Stegmaier
32-34—66
Sam Saunders
32-34—66
Andrew Landry
32-34—66
Greg Owen
33-34—67
Luke List
35-32—67
Scott Langley
33-34—67
Robert Garrigus
35-32—67
Rickie Fowler
32-35—67
Sung Kang
35-32—67
Scott Pinckney
34-33—67
Luke Guthrie
33-34—67
Lee McCoy
33-34—67
Kelly Kraft
34-33—67
Martin Laird
33-34—67
Brendon de Jonge
33-34—67
Jerry Kelly
35-32—67
Bud Cauley
33-34—67
Robert Streb
35-32—67
Brian Stuard
34-33—67
Russell Henley
35-32—67
Patton Kizzire
35-32—67
Blayne Barber
33-34—67
Scott Brown
35-33—68
Steve Wheatcroft
33-35—68
Tom Gillis
33-35—68
Darron Stiles
31-37—68
Graeme McDowell
36-32—68
J.B. Holmes
36-32—68
Chris Kirk
34-34—68
Chesson Hadley
35-33—68
Michael Thompson
32-36—68
Spencer Levin
33-35—68
Lucas Lee
32-36—68
Tyrrell Hatton
36-32—68
Ryan Moore
34-34—68
Si Woo Kim
34-34—68
Bryce Molder
33-35—68
Steve Marino
35-33—68
Thomas Aiken
34-34—68
Tim Herron
35-34—69
Kyle Stanley
35-34—69
Adam Hadwin
33-36—69
Sean O’Hair
32-37—69
Brian Harman
34-35—69
Mark Wilson
35-34—69
Tim Wilkinson
33-36—69
Lucas Glover
34-35—69
Rod Pampling
36-33—69
Chad Campbell
33-36—69
Brice Garnett
36-33—69
Alex Prugh
33-36—69
Michael Kim
35-34—69
Freddie Jacobson
34-35—69
Jonas Blixt
34-35—69
Carlos Ortiz
35-34—69
Chris Stroud
32-37—69
Jarrod Lyle
34-36—70
Kevin Kisner
36-34—70
Stewart Cink
35-35—70
Scott Piercy
36-34—70
Keegan Bradley
35-35—70
Webb Simpson
33-37—70
Chez Reavie
36-34—70
D.A. Points
33-37—70
Morgan Hoffmann
33-37—70
Miguel Angel Carballo
36-34—70
Adam Hart
37-33—70
Wesley Bryan
36-34—70
Jon Rahm
36-34—70
Pro football
Amway Top 25
The preseason Amway Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes
in parentheses, 2015 records, total
points based on 25 points for first place
through one point for 25th, and previous
ranking:
Record
Pts Pvs
1. Alabama (55)
14-1 1585
1
2. Clemson (7)
14-1 1524
2
3. Oklahoma
11-2 1398
5
4. Florida State (1)
10-3 1351
14
5. Ohio State
12-1 1321
4
6. LSU
9-3 1241
17
7. Stanford
12-2 1149
3
8. Michigan
10-3 1062
11
9. Notre Dame
10-3 1034
12
10. Tennessee (1)
9-4
960
23
11. Michigan State
12-2
901
6
12. Mississippi
10-3
792
9
13. Houston
13-1
668
8
14. TCU
11-2
649
7
15. Iowa
12-2
579
10
16. Georgia
10-3
525
24
17. Southern Cal
8-6
468 NR
18. Washington
7-6
454 NR
19. Oklahoma State
10-3
426
19
20. North Carolina
11-3
422
15
21. Baylor
10-3
383
13
22. Oregon
9-4
361
20
23. Louisville
8-5
331 NR
24. UCLA
8-5
296 NR
25. Florida
10-4
245
25
Others receiving votes: Miami (Fla.)
120; Wisconsin 82; Boise State 73; Utah
73; Washington State 47; Texas A&M 37;
Arkansas 34; Texas 34; Northwestern 31;
Navy 30; Mississippi State 19; San Diego
State 18; Auburn 17; Nebraska 17; Western Kentucky 11; Pittsburgh 8; Brigham
Young 6; Appalachian State 4; Duke 3;
Arizona 2; Marshall 2; South Florida 2;
Toledo 2; Indiana 1; Memphis 1; Northern
Illinois 1.
Pro soccer
MLS
-7
-7
-5
-5
-5
-5
-5
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
New York City FC 10 7 8 38 43 43
Toronto FC
10 7 7 37 34 25
New York
10 9 6 36 43 33
Philadelphia
9 8 7 34 42 37
Montreal
8 6 9 33 38 34
D.C. United
6 8 9 27 24 28
Orlando City
5 6 12 27 38 41
New England
6 10 8 26 29 44
Columbus
3 8 11 20 29 38
Chicago
4 11 7 19 22 32
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
13 6 6 45 39 33
Colorado
11 3 9 42 27 20
Los Angeles
9 3 11 38 38 23
Real Salt Lake
10 8 7 37 36 36
Sporting KC
10 11 5 35 30 30
Portland
8 9 8 32 36 36
San Jose
7 6 10 31 25 25
Vancouver
8 11 6 30 34 41
Seattle
8 12 3 27 26 30
Houston
4 10 9 21 25 29
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday’s game
Houston at San Jose
Saturday’s games
Los Angeles at New York City FC
Toronto FC at Philadelphia
Chicago at Montreal
Columbus at New England
Orlando City at Colorado
FC Dallas at Real Salt Lake
Vancouver at Sporting Kansas City
Sunday’s game
New York at D.C. United
Wednesday, August 24
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, August 26
Colorado at Real Salt Lake
Saturday, August 27
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, August 28
New England at New York
Seattle at Portland
New York City FC at Orlando City
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.
Sunday, July 31
Washington 3, Sky Blue FC 1
Boston 1, Orlando 0
Thursday’s game
Washington 2, Houston 1
Friday, August 26
Orlando at Washington
Saturday, August 27
Seattle at Portland
Western New York at Houston
Sky BLue FC at Chicago
Sunday, August 28
FC Kansas City at Boston
Tennis
NFL preseason
GA
13
12
18
13
20
14
19
14
17
29
one
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Pct
Miami
1 0 0 1.000
N.Y. Jets
1 0 0 1.000
New England
2 0 0 1.000
Buffalo
0 1 0
.000
South
Tennessee
1 0 0 1.000
Houston
1 0 0 1.000
Indianapolis
1 0 0 1.000
Jacksonville
0 1 0
.000
North
Baltimore
1 0 0 1.000
Cincinnati
1 1 0
.500
Pittsburgh
0 2 0
.000
Cleveland
0 2 0
.000
West
Denver
1 0 0 1.000
Oakland
1 1 0
.500
San Diego
0 1 0
.000
Kansas City
0 1 0
.000
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Pct
Philadelphia
2 0 0 1.000
N.Y. Giants
0 1 0
.000
Washington
0 1 0
.000
Dallas
0 1 0
.000
South
Atlanta
2 0 0 1.000
Tampa Bay
0 1 0
.000
New Orleans
0 1 0
.000
Carolina
0 1 0
.000
North
Minnesota
2 0 0 1.000
Green Bay
2 0 0 1.000
Detroit
1 1 0
.500
Chicago
0 2 0
.000
West
Los Angeles
1 0 0 1.000
Seattle
1 1 0
.500
San Francisco 0 1 0
.000
Arizona
0 1 0
.000
Thursday’s games
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’s games
N.Y. Jets at Washington
Miami at Dallas
Arizona at San Diego
Saturday’s games
Carolina at Tennessee
N.Y. Giants at Buffalo
Baltimore at Indianapolis
Tampa Bay at Jacksonville
New Orleans at Houston
San Francisco at Denver
Kansas City at Los Angeles
Western & Southern Open
PF PA
27 10
17 13
57 44
18 19
27
24
19
13
10
13
18
17
22
46
17
24
19
31
47
41
22
43
10
16
0
30
27
17
PF PA
34
9
10 27
17 23
24 28
47
9
22
19
30
17
34
22
35
37
44
22
27
23
47
45
28
28
13
10
24
34
24
31
Deals
Thursday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Reinstated 1B
Hanley Ramirez from the bereavement
list. Optioned INF Marco Hernandez to
Pawtucket (IL).
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Activated RHP
Danny Salazar from the 15-day DL.
National League
NEW YORK METS — Activated OF Justin Ruggiano from the 15-day DL. Otioned
RHP Gabriel Ynoa to Las Vegas (PCL).
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed RHP
Matt Cain on the 15-day DL. Activated
RHP Cory Gearrin from the 15-day DL.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled
RHP A.J. Cole from Syracuse (IL). Optioned OF Brian Goodwin to Syracuse.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed OT
Willie Smith. Waived/injured FB Devon
Johnson.
HOUSTON TEXANS — Activated LB
Brennan Scarlett from the active/nonfootball injury list.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated CB
Xavien Howard from the PUP list.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived CB Matt
Smalley.
WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived/injured T Kevin Bowen.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to
terms with D John Gilmour.
MOTOR SPORTS
NASCAR
HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS —Signed
William Bryon to a multiyear driver
agreement and will drive for JR Motorsports in the Xfinity series next season.
COLLEGE
GEORGETOWN — Announced junior
basketball F Paul White will transfer.
HOFSTRA — Named Laura Cummings
men’s and women’s assistant cross
country coach
MINNESOTA — Named Keith Jordan
acting linebackers coach.
MISSISSIPPI — Announced RB Jordan
Wilkins has been ruled ineligible for the
upcoming regular season because he
has not met NCAA standards for progress toward a degree.
NEW JERSEY CITY — Named Brendan
Guzman men’s assistant soccer coach.
SHENANDOAH — Named Maddie Taghon women’s assistant lacrosse coach.
TENNESSEE — Announced the retirement of athletic director Dave Hart, effective next summer.
TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY — Named
Sonia Hahn women’s tennis coach.
THIEL — Named Devante Sims cornerbacks coach.
A U.S. Open Series event
Thursday
At The Lindner Family Tennis Center
Mason, Ohio
Purse: Men, $4.36 million (Masters
1000); Women, $2.5 million (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Third Round
Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, def. Stan
Wawrinka (2), Switzerland, 6-4, 6-4.
Steve Johnson, United States, def. JoWilfried Tsonga (7), France, 6-3, 7-6 (6).
Borna Coric, Croatia, def. Rafael Nadal
(3), Spain, 6-1, 6-3.
Bernard Tomic, Australia, def. Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5).
Milos Raonic (4), Canada, def. Yuichi
Sugita, Japan, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.
Andy Murray (1), Britain, def. Kevin
Anderson, South Africa, 6-3, 6-2.
Marin Cilic (12), Croatia, def.Tomas
Berdych (6), Czech Republic, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Women
Third Round
Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, def.
Misaki Doi, Japan, 7-5, 6-3.
Simona Halep (3), Romania, def. Daria
Gavrilova, Australia, 6-1, 6-2.
Carla Suarez Navarro (9), Spain, def.
Roberta Vinci (6), Italy, 6-1, 7-5.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (7), Russia, def.
Timea Bacsinszky (12), Switzerland, 6-2,
3-6, 6-2.
Angelique Kerber (2), Germany, def.
Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, 7-6
(5), 6-4.
Timea Babos, Hungary, def. Dominika
Cibulkova (8), Slovakia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Garbine Muguruza (4), Spain, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (16), Russia, 7-5,
6-1.
Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland, def.
Johanna Konta (10), Britain, 6-7 (1), 6-4,
6-0.
Doubles
Men
First Round
Bernard Tomic, Australia, and Viktor
Troicki, Serbia, def. Steve Johnson and
Sam Querrey, United States, walkover.
Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,
France, def. Henri Kontinen, Finland, and
John Peers, Australia, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4).
Second Round
Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and
Horia Tecau (5), Romania, def. Dominic
Inglot, Britain, and Marcin Matkowski,
Poland, 6-3, 4-6, 10-8.
Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil (6),
Canada, def. Eric Butorac and Taylor
Fritz, United States, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 10-5.
Jamie Murray, Britain, and Bruno
Soares (3), Brazil, def. Pablo Cuevas,
Uruguay, and Marcel Granollers, Spain,
6-3, 6-4.
Treat Huey, Philippines, and Max
Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (7), Romania, 7-6
(3), 6-4.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas
Mahut (1), France, vs. Brian Baker and
Ryan Harrison, United States, 6-4, 6-7 (7),
10-2.
Boxing
Fight schedule
Aug. 21
At Ford Amphitheater, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Errol Spence Jr. vs. Leonard Bundu, 12,
welterweights.
Aug. 23
At Sands Bethlehem (Pa.) Event Center, Caleb Plant vs. Juan De Angel, 10,
middleweights.
Aug. 27
At Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif., Robert Guerrero vs. David Peralta, 12, welterweights; Alfredo Angulo vs. Freddy Hernandez, 10, super middleweights; Terrell
Gausha vs. Steve Martinez, 10, junior
middleweights.
Aug. 31
At Tokyo, Kohei Kono vs. Luis Concepcion, 12, for Kono’s WBA World super flyweight title; Ryoichi Taguchi vs. Ryo Miyazaki, 12, for Taguchi’s WBA World light
flyweight title.
Sept. 3
At Cavite, Philippines, McJoe Arroyo
vs. Jerwin Ancajas, 12, for Arroyo’s IBF
super flyweight title.
Sept. 9
At Santander Arena, Reading, Pa., Roberet Easter Jr. vs. Richard Commey, 12,
for vacant IBF lightweight title; Daniel Jacobs vs. Sergio Mora, 12, for Jacobs’ WBA
World middleweight title.
Sept. 10
At O2 Arena, London, Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook, 12, for Golovkin’s
WBC-IBO-IBF middleweight titles; Johnriel Casimero vs. Charlie Edwards, 12,
for Casimero’s IBF flyweight title; Lee
Haskins vs. Stuart Hall, 12, for Haskins’
IBF bantamweight title.
At the Forum, Inglewood, Calif., Carlos Cuadras vs. Roman Gonzalez, 12,
for Cuadras’ WBC World junior bantamweight title.
Sept. 16
At Osaka, Japan, Shinsuke Yamanaka
vs. Anselmo Moreno, 12, for Yamanaka’s
WBC World bantamweight title; Hugo
Ruiz vs. Hozumi Hasegawa, 12, for Ruiz’s
WBC World super bantamweight title.
Sept. 17
At AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas,
Liam Smith vs. Saul Alvarez, 12, for
Smith’s WBO junior middleweight title.
Sept. 24
At Manchester, England, Anthony
Crolla vs. Jorge Linares, 12, for Crolla’s
WBA World lightweight title.
Raven Klaasen, South Africia, and Rajeev Ram (8), United States, def. Milos
Raonic, Canada, and Nenad Zimonjic,
Seerbia, walkover.
Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo,
Brazil, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, and
Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 6-3, 7-5.
Women
First Round
Raquel Atawo and Abigail Spears (6),
United States, def. Gabriela Dabrowski,
Canada, and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 10-7.
Christina McHale and Maria Sanchez,
United States, def. Lauren Davis and
Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 7-5,
6-2.
Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato, Japan, def.
Daria Gavrilova, Australia, and Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 6-4, 7-6 (2).
Sania Mirza, India, and Barbora Strycova (7), Czech Republic, def. Darija Jurak, Croatia, and Anastasia Rodionova,
Australia, 6-2, 6-3.
Second Round
Martina Hingis, Slovakia, and Coco
Vandeweghe (4), United States, def. Kiki
Bertens, Netherlands, and Johanna Larsson, Sweden, walkover.
Vania King, United States, and Monica
Niculescu, def. Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic (1), France, 3-6, 6-2, 104.
Sara Errani, Italy, and Carla Suarez
Navarro, Spain, def. Xu Yifan and Zheng
Saisai (8), China, 6-4, 6-2.
Julia Goerges, Germany, and Karolina
Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Anna-Lena
Groenefeld, Italy, and Kveta Peschke,
Czech Republic, 6-7 (9), 7-5, 10-8.
Sara Errani, Italy, and Carla Suarez
Navarro, Spain, def. Xu Yifan and Zheng
Saisai (8), China, 6-4, 6-2.
Timea Babos, Hungary, and Yaroslava
Shvedova (3), Kazakhstan, def. Anabel
Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra
Santonja, Spain, 6-2, 6-0.
Chan Hao-ching and Yung-jan (2), Taiwan, def. Maria Irigoyen, Argentina, and
Oksana Kalashnikova, Georgia, 6-0, 1-6,
10-7.
World Team Tennis
W
L
Pct. GB
x-San Diego
8
4
.667 —
y-Orange County
8
4
.667 —
Philadelphia
7
5
.583 1
Washington
7
5
.583 1
Springfield
4
8
.333 4
New York
2
10
.167 6
x-1 seed in Finals
y-2 seed in Finals
Friday, Aug. 12
San Diego 24, New York 16
Philadelphia 21, Orange County 18
Washington 21, Springfield 20
Saturday, Aug. 13
Philadelphia 25, San Diego 9
Washington 25, Orange County 19, EP
Springfield 22, New York 19, EP
WTT Finals
Friday, August 26
At Forest Hills Stadium
Forest Hills, N.Y.
Orange County vs. San Diego
AP sportlight
Aug. 20
1931 — Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen B. Whitingstall 6-4, 6-1 to capture
the women’s title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis
Association championship.
1944 — Robert Hamilton upsets Byron
Nelson in the final round 1 up to win the
PGA championship.
1960 — Holland’s Hairos II, driven by
Willem Geersen, wins the second International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway by a
half-length over Italy’s Crevacore. A record crowd of 54,861 watches the race.
2000 — Tiger Woods wins the PGA
Championship in a playoff over Bob May,
becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one
year. He’s the first player to repeat as
PGA champion since Denny Shute in
1937.
2003 — The United States wins the
women’s overall team gold medal at the
World Gymnastics Championships, the
first gold in history for the Americans
— men or women — at the biggest international event this side of the Olympics.
Romania takes the silver medal and Australia wins bronze.
2004 — Michael Phelps matches Mark
Spitz’s record of four individual gold
medals in the Olympic pool with a stirring comeback in the 100-meter butterfly, then removes himself from further
competition at the games. Phelps nips
teammate Ian Crocker at the wall by
four-hundredths of a second to win his
fifth gold medal. Shortly after winning
his seventh medal of these Olympics,
Phelps gives up his spot in the medley
relay to Crocker.
2006 — Tiger Woods wins the PGA
Championship closing with a 4-under
68 for a five-shot victory over Shaun
Micheel and his 12th career major. He
became the first player to win the PGA
Championship twice on the same course,
having beaten Sergio Garcia by one shot
at Medinah in 1999.
2008 — In Beijing, Usain Bolt of Jamaica breaks the world record in the 200 meter race, winning in 19.30 seconds. Bolt is
the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984, to
sweep the 100 and 200 gold medals at an
Olympics. Bolt is the first man to break
the world marks in both sprints at an
Olympics — a feat that neither Lewis nor
Jesse Owens accomplished. He beat the
record of 19.32 set by Michael Johnson at
the 1996 Atlanta Games.
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SPORTS BRIEFS/NFL
Briefly
Harrison willing
to talk about PEDs
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh
Steelers linebacker James Harrison is willing to meet with the
NFL to discuss an alleged link to
performance-enhancing drugs
— but only five days after a
deadline the league has imposed
while threatening him and three
other players with indefinite
suspensions.
NFL Players Association attorney Heather McPhee sent a letter
to the NFL on Thursday, accusing
it of trying to “bully and publicly
shame” Harrison without offering evidence beyond a brief mention in a television interview last
year that was recanted by the
accuser.
“When it came down to it, (if)
I got the suspension, the bigger
outcome wasn’t really worth it,”
Harrison said after the Steelers’
17-0 home exhibition loss to Philadelphia on Thursday night. “I
wouldn’t be on the team, it would
hurt the team, it would hurt my
teammates and coaches, so it was
easier to do the interview.”
Green Bay’s Clay Matthews
and Julius Peppers, and freeagent Mike Neal also were threatened with suspensions. It was not
immediately known if a similar
meeting was being proposed by
the union.
“I’m just glad the process is
moving forward,” Green Bay
coach Mike McCarthy said after
the Packers’ 20-12 home victory
over Oakland on Thursday night.
“As already has been stated, as
an organization, we support Clay
and Julius. And we’re looking
to get this resolved as soon as
possible.”
The league’s deadline for cooperation from the four players
is Aug. 25. McPhee’s letter says
Harrison would meet with the
NFL at 5 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the
team’s facility, and would only
discuss the portion of the AlJazeera interview that mentioned
the 14-year veteran.
In the report, Charlie Sly, who
worked as an intern at an antiaging clinic, made claims of PED
use against several athletes, including the four linebackers. Sly
later recanted his claims.
Source: NBA All-Star
Game going to Big Easy
NEW ORLEANS — A person
familiar with the decision tells
The Associated Press that the
NBA has decided to hold the 2017
All-Star Game in New Orleans.
The person spoke to the AP on
condition of anonymity Friday
because the decision hasn’t been
announced. New Orleans replaces Charlotte, which was set to host
the game until the NBA decided
last month that it wouldn’t hold
its marquee, mid-season event in
North Carolina because of a state
law that limits anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay
and transgender people.
Unlike several other Southern
states, Louisiana has not been
swept up in legislative efforts to
pass laws similar to that in North
Carolina — a fact Gov. John Bel
Edwards has touted while lobbying the NBA to bring its All-Star
weekend to New Orleans for a
third time.
Florida names Del Rio
starting QB for opener
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — After
attending three colleges in three
years, quarterback Luke Del Rio
is finally getting a chance to be
the guy.
Florida coach Jim McElwain
named Del Rio his starter for
the Sept. 3 season opener against
UMass on Thursday, giving the
college journeyman the nod over
Purdue graduate transfer Austin
Appleby.
“Luke is going to work as the
starter the rest of camp and start
in the season opener barring any
unforeseen development,” McElwain said. “Our other quarterbacks remain in the plans and are
ready to move forward and help
the Gators any way they can.”
Del Rio will be the team’s ninth
starting quarterback since Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow
left school in 2010, following John
Brantley, Jeff Driskel, Jacoby
Brissett, Trey Burton, Tyler Murphy, Skyler Mornhinweg, Treon
Harris and Will Grier. Now, the
Gators are counting on Del Rio
to revive an offense that had been
mostly stagnant since Tebow’s
tenure.
In other college football news:
Tennessee offensive tackle
Chance Hall has had arthroscopic knee surgery and is expected to
miss four to six weeks.
Volunteers coach Butch Jones
announced Hall’s injury and gave
the potential timetable for his return Thursday.
Hall started Tennessee’s final
five games at right tackle last season and had been competing for a
starting role at that spot again this
season. Hall, Brett Kendrick and
Drew Richmond were shaping up
as the three main contenders for
the two starting tackle slots.
Nebraska reserve quarterback A.J. Bush has left the program having never appeared in a
game in two seasons.
The third-year sophomore
from Alpharetta, Ga., had been
competing in preseason practice
with freshman Patrick O’Brien
for the No. 3 job behind Tommy
Armstrong Jr. and Ryker Fyfe.
Nebraska receivers coach
Keith Williams was suspended
without pay until Aug. 31 and
won’t be allowed to coach or attend the first four games after
his arrest on suspicion of thirdoffense drunken driving last
weekend.
Coach Mike Riley made the announcement on Friday. Williams
apologized for his actions and will
enter counseling.
DON WRIGHT/AP
Eagles defensive back Aaron Grymes, left, intercepts a pass in front of Steelers wide receiver Sammie
Coates during the first half of Thursday’s preseason game in Pittsburgh.
NFL roundup
Turnovers hurt Steelers
in shutout loss to Eagles
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Landry Jones threw four interceptions and the
Philadelphia Eagles capitalized.
Nolan Carroll’s 38-yard interception return for a
score was the lone touchdown of the first half, helping the Eagles to a 17-0 victory Thursday night.
The Eagles’ defense has nine takeaways in six
quarters. Pittsburgh, which suffered its previous
preseason shutout in 2014, has one offensive touchdown in two games.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was held
out for the second straight week along with running
backs Le’Veon Bell and DeAngelo Williams and
wide receiver Antonio Brown.
Sam Bradford led Philadelphia’s offense to a
field goal late in the first half, giving the Eagles a
10-0 lead at the break. He finished 14-for-19 for 115
yards.
Jones had a dismal half for Pittsburgh, going 12for-20 for 111 yards with four interceptions. The
first was Carroll’s 38-yarder for a score.
Chase Daniel opened the second half, leading
the Eagles on a 15-play, 87-yard touchdown drive.
A 23-yard pass to Paul Turner helped set up Kenjon Barner’s 5-yard touchdown run, making it 17-0.
Daniel finished 10-for-16 for 82 yards.
Bengals 30, Lions 14: Jeremy Hill ran for a 9yard touchdown on his team’s first possession, and
visiting Cincinnati went on to beat Detroit.
Hill hurt his left hand in Cincinnati’s preseason
opener last week, but he had three carries for 16
yards against the Lions and also caught a pass.
Former Cincinnati wide receiver Marvin Jones,
signed by the Lions in the offseason, had four catches for 65 yards against his former team. Detroit’s
Matthew Stafford was 8-for-11 for 113 yards, but the
Lions went without a touchdown until the final minute of the game.
Falcons 24, Browns 13: Robert Griffin III threw
two touchdown passes in the first half in his home
debut with his new team in Cleveland’s exhibition
loss to Atlanta.
Griffin found wide receiver Terrelle Pryor streaking down the right sideline on Cleveland’s second
drive of the game for a 50-yard scoring strike. Griffin connected with tight end Gary Barnridge for a
22-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter.
Griffin, who signed with the Browns (0-2) after
being released by Washington, was 6-for-8 for 96
yards in four series. The 2011 Heisman Trophy winner also gained 36 yards on three carries, including
a 22-yarder.
Patriots 23, Bears 22: Tom Brady sat out his
second straight preseason game, while the guy that
will replace him at the start of the regular season
continued to make progress.
Brady did not go through pregame warmups and
never made it to the field for host New England’s win
over Chicago.
Brady had been expected to make his debut after
missing last week’s game to attend memorial services for a family member.
Packers 20, Raiders 12: Eddie Lacy’s powerful
running early on helped propel host Green Bay past
Oakland.
Lacy had nine carries for 45 yards, capped by a
1-yard touchdown dive on third-and-goal, to highlight a 14-play, 74-yard drive to start the game as the
Packers again played without quarterback Aaron
Rodgers.
The night was over at that point for Lacy, who
made coach Mike McCarthy happy in the offseason
by slimming down after the coach was critical of the
lead back’s playing weight at the end of last season.
Vikings 18, Seahawks 11: Marcus Sherels intercepted Trevone Boykin’s pass and returned it
53 yards for a touchdown with 1:23 left and visiting
Minnesota beat Seattle.
With Boykin trying to lead Seattle to another
late comeback for a second straight week, Sherels
stepped in front of his pass intended for E.Z. Nwachukwu and went untouched for the deciding score.
Boykin got Seattle to the Minnesota 5 in the closing seconds, before taking a sack and was unable to
connect with Antwan Goodley in the end zone on the
final play.
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MLB
Orioles
wallop
Astros
BY DAVID GINSBURG
Associated Press
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles waited a long time
to put on a power display like this
one, and they relished every hit.
J.J. Hardy and Chris Davis
each hit two of Baltimore’s six
home runs, Hyun Soo Kim had
a career-high four hits and the
Orioles beat rookie Joe Musgrove
and the skidding Houston Astros
13-5 on Thursday night.
Mark Trumbo and Manny
Machado also homered to help the
Orioles improve to 40-19 at home
and climb into a second-place tie
with Boston in the AL East. The
13 runs matched a season high,
set June 1 against Boston.
The Orioles had scored three
runs or fewer in 20 of 32 games
since the All-Star break, so this
amounted to a slugfest of major
proportions.
“I think there was a lot of frustration there,” manager Buck
Showalter said. “I don’t know if
frustration is the right word, but
(they wanted to) get back to what
we’re capable of doing.”
Trumbo set the tone in the first
inning with his major leagueleading 35th home run, a threerun shot to left against Musgrove,
who looked every bit like a 23year-old rookie making his third
major league start.
“They’re a fastball-hitting
team. I like to throw fastballs,” the
right-hander said. “I didn’t locate
pitches very well. Got behind.”
And, for a change, the Orioles
took full advantage.
“Seems like a while now, we
weren’t getting many mistakes,”
Showalter said. “And when we
were, we weren’t as consistent
with making them pay as we were
tonight.”
Musgrove (1-1) gave up eight
runs and 11 hits — including
three homers — over 5 1 ⁄3 innings.
“It was really just pitch execution,” manager A.J. Hinch said.
Picked by Toronto in the supplemental first round of the 2011
draft, Musgrove began his big
league career with a flourish —
allowing only three runs in 19 1 ⁄3
innings. But this encounter lifted
his ERA from 1.47 to 4.18.
Alex Bregman and A.J. Reed
homered for the Astros. They
have lost five straight.
After watching his pitching
staff yield 12 runs and 17 hits over
the first seven innings, Hinch
called upon infielder Tyler White
to pitch the eighth. White gave up
one hit: Davis’ second homer of
the game, the third in two nights.
“They just continue to come at
you,” Hinch said. “This is how
they score. We didn’t keep them
in the ballpark the entire night.”
Scoreboard
American League
East Division
W
L
69
52
67
53
67
53
61
59
50
69
Central Division
Cleveland
69
50
Detroit
64
57
Kansas City
61
60
Chicago
57
63
Minnesota
49
72
West Division
Texas
72
50
Seattle
64
56
Houston
61
60
Oakland
52
69
Los Angeles
51
70
Toronto
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Tampa Bay
Cubs 9, Brewers 6
Pct GB
.570 —
.558 1A
.558 1A
.508 7A
.420 18
.580 —
.529 6
.504 9
.475 12A
.405 21
.590
.533
.504
.430
.421
—
7
10A
19A
20A
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct GB
Washington
71
49
.592 —
Miami
62
59
.512 9A
New York
60
61
.496 11A
Philadelphia
57
65
.467 15
Atlanta
44
77
.364 27A
Central Division
Chicago
77
43
.642 —
St. Louis
64
56
.533 13
Pittsburgh
62
56
.525 14
Milwaukee
52
68
.433 25
Cincinnati
51
69
.425 26
West Division
Los Angeles
67
53
.558 —
San Francisco
67
54
.554
A
Colorado
58
63
.479 9A
San Diego
51
70
.421 16A
Arizona
50
71
.413 17A
Thursday’s games
Detroit 4, Boston 3
Baltimore 13, Houston 5
Cleveland 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Kansas City 8, Minnesota 1
L.A. Angels 6, Seattle 4
Chicago Cubs 9, Milwaukee 6
Philadelphia 5, L.A. Dodgers 4
Cincinnati 5, Miami 4
Washington 8, Atlanta 2
San Diego 9, Arizona 8
San Francisco 10, N.Y. Mets 7
Friday’s games
Houston at Baltimore
Boston at Detroit
Texas at Tampa Bay
Toronto at Cleveland
Oakland at Chicago White Sox
Minnesota at Kansas City
N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels
Miami at Pittsburgh
St. Louis at Philadelphia
L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati
Washington at Atlanta
Chicago Cubs at Colorado
Milwaukee at Seattle
N.Y. Mets at San Francisco
Arizona at San Diego
Saturday’s games
Texas (Griffin 5-2) at Tampa Bay
(Odorizzi 7-5)
Houston (Fiers 8-6) at Baltimore (Tillman 15-4)
Boston (Pomeranz 9-9) at Detroit (Norris 1-1)
Oakland (Neal 2-2) at Chicago White
Sox (Sale 14-6)
Toronto (Sanchez 12-2) at Cleveland
(Tomlin 11-6)
Minnesota (Santiago 10-7) at Kansas
City (Kennedy 7-9)
N.Y. Yankees (Cessa 2-0) at L.A. Angels
(Nolasco 4-10)
N.Y. Mets (Colon 10-7) at San Francisco (Moore 7-9)
Miami (Phelps 6-6) at Pittsburgh (Kuhl
3-0)
St. Louis (Weaver 0-0) at Philadelphia
(Hellickson 9-7)
L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 0-1) at Cincinnati (Finnegan 7-9)
Washington (Scherzer 12-7) at Atlanta
(Jenkins 2-3)
Chicago Cubs (Montgomery 4-5) at
Colorado
Arizona (Ray 6-11) at San Diego (Richard 0-2)
Milwaukee (Guerra 7-3) at Seattle
(Hernandez 7-4)
Thursday
Tigers 4, Red Sox 3
Boston
Detroit
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
A.Hill 3b-2b 3 0 1 0 Kinsler 2b 4 1 1 0
Ortiz ph
1 0 1 0 Aybar ss
4 1 2 0
Pedroia pr 0 0 0 0 Mi.Cbrr 1b 3 0 2 1
Bgaerts ss 5 1 1 0 Collins pr-lf 0 0 0 0
Betts rf
5 1 2 0 V.Mrtnz dh 4 0 1 1
Han.Rmr 1b 3 0 2 1 J.Upton pr-dh 0 1 0 0
Brdly J cf
4 0 0 0 J..Mrtn rf
3 1 1 0
Leon dh
3 1 1 1 McGehee 3b 4 0 1 0
Holaday c
4 0 0 0 Sltlmcc c
3 0 0 1
Marrero 2b 2 0 0 0 An.Rmne cf-1b 3 0 1 1
T.Shaw ph-3b 1 0 0 0 Presley lf-cf 4 0 1 0
B.Holt pr
0 0 0 0
Bnntndi lf
4 0 1 0
Totals
35 3 9 2 Totals
32 4 10 4
Boston
000 100 020—3
Detroit
010 000 03x—4
DP—Boston 1, Detroit 1. LOB—Boston
9, Detroit 8. 2B—Aybar (15). HR—Leon (7).
SF—Saltalamacchia (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Boston
Buchholz
6
6
1
1
0 3
Ross Jr.
1
0
0
0
0 0
Tazawa L,2-2
0
3
3
3
0 0
Ziegler BS,6
1
1
0
0
2 1
Detroit
Boyd
6
5
1
1
2 4
Wilson
1
3
2
2
0 1
Wilson W,3-4
1
0
0
0
1 1
Rodriguez S,34-37
1
1
0
0
1 0
A.Wilson pitched to 3 batters in the
8th Tazawa pitched to 3 batters in the 8th
HBP—by Buchholz (Cabrera). WP—Wilson. T—3:23. A—34,649 (41,681).
Milwaukee
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Villar ss
4 0 1 1 Szczur cf-lf 4 2 2 0
Gennett 2b 5 0 1 0 Bryant 3b 5 4 5 5
Braun lf
5 0 0 0 Rizzo 1b
5 1 2 1
H.Perez 3b 4 2 2 1 Zobrist rf 4 1 0 1
Carter 1b
3 2 0 0 Russell ss 4 0 2 1
Nwnhuis cf 5 2 2 3 Soler lf
4 0 0 0
Mldnado c 4 0 0 0 Grimm p
0 0 0 0
R.Flres rf
2 0 0 1 A.Chpmn p 0 0 0 0
Davies p
0 0 0 0 Cntrras c 4 0 1 1
Or.Arca ph 0 0 0 0 J.Baez 2b
4 1 2 0
Scahill p
0 0 0 0 Arrieta p
3 0 0 0
K.Brxtn ph 0 0 0 0 Patton p
0 0 0 0
Boyer p
0 0 0 0 Fowler cf
1 0 0 0
C.Trres p
0 0 0 0
Pina ph
0 0 0 0
Knebel p
0 0 0 0
Totals
32 6 6 6 Totals
38 9 14 9
Milwaukee
000 302 010—6
Chicago
203 201 01x—9
LOB—Milwaukee 9, Chicago 7. 2B—
Gennett (20), Nieuwenhuis (18), Szczur
(8), Bryant (29), Rizzo 2 (36), Contreras
(8). HR—H.Perez (11), Nieuwenhuis (11),
Bryant 2 (30). SB—H.Perez (22).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Milwaukee
Davies L,9-6
4
10
7
7
1 4
Scahill
1
1
0
0
0 1
Boyer
1
1
1
1
0 1
Torres
1
0
0
0
0 0
Knebel
1
2
1
1
1 0
Chicago
Arrieta W,15-5
5C
3
5
5
7 3
Patton H,1
2
1
1
1
3 0
Grimm H,7
B
1
0
0
0 0
Chapman S,27-29
1
1
0
0
0 2
PB—Contreras 2. T—3:21. A—41,407
(41,072).
Padres 9, Diamondbacks 8
Arizona
San Diego
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Segura 2b
4 2 2 2 Jnkwski cf 5 3 4 0
Bourn cf
5 0 1 1 Myers 1b
4 2 2 1
Gldschm 1b 4 2 1 0 Solarte 3b 4 2 2 1
Ja.Lamb 3b 3 1 1 0 A.Dckrs lf 4 1 1 4
Tomas rf
4 1 1 0 Schimpf 2b 3 0 1 0
Cstillo c
5 0 3 2 Bthncrt rf 5 0 2 2
Shipley pr
0 0 0 0 Blash rf
0 0 0 0
Haniger lf
5 0 3 2 De.Nrrs c
4 0 0 0
Owings ss
5 1 2 0 Noonan ss 3 0 0 0
Bradley p
2 0 0 0 A.Rmrez ph-ss 1 0 0 0
Hudson p
0 0 0 0 Clemens p 1 0 0 0
Gsselin ph 1 0 0 0 J.Dmngz p 0 0 0 0
Edw.Esc p
0 0 0 0 E.Jcksn ph 0 1 0 0
Weeks ph
0 1 0 0 Hand p
0 0 0 0
Barrett p
0 0 0 0 Buchter p 0 0 0 0
Burgos p
0 0 0 0 Wallace ph 1 0 0 0
Drury ph
1 0 0 0 Maurer p
0 0 0 0
Totals
39 8 14 7 Totals
35 9 12 8
Arizona
200 012 111—8
San Diego
104 001 03x—9
E—Schimpf (5), Segura (7). DP—Arizona 1, San Diego 1. LOB—Arizona 10,
San Diego 9. 2B—Segura (31), Haniger
(2), Jankowski (9), A.Dickerson (9). 3B—
Owings (7). HR—Segura (11). SB—Goldschmidt (18), Weeks (4), Jankowski (26).
CS—Bourn (5), Jankowski (7). S—Segura
(3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Arizona
Bradley
4C
7
5
4
3 2
Hudson
B
0
0
0
0 0
Escobar
2
2
1
0
1 2
Barrett L,1-1 H,4
C
2
3
3
1 1
Burgos BS,1
B
1
0
0
1 1
San Diego
Clemens
5
8
3
3
3 3
Dominguez BS,1
1
2
2
2
0 0
Hand BS,5
1
2
1
1
0 1
Buchter W,3-0
1
1
1
1
1 1
Maurer S,6-10
1
1
1
0
1 0
HBP—by Escobar (Myers). WP—Clemens, Bradley. PB—Castillo. T—3:49. A—
32,103 (42,302).
Phillies 5, Dodgers 4
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Utley 2b
4 1 1 0 O.Hrrra cf 4 0 0 0
C.Sager ss 4 1 2 0 Galvis ss
5 1 1 0
Ju.Trnr 3b
3 1 2 3 Franco 3b 4 1 2 2
Reddick rf
4 0 0 0 Howard 1b 3 1 1 1
Ad.Gnzl 1b 4 0 1 0 Rupp c
3 1 1 0
Grandal c
4 1 1 1 Paredes lf 4 0 0 0
Pderson cf 4 0 0 0 Neris p
0 0 0 0
Kndrick lf
3 0 0 0 Gomez p
0 0 0 0
Strplng p
2 0 0 0 Altherr rf-lf 4 1 2 1
Segedin ph 1 0 0 0 Fthrstn 2b 4 0 1 1
Fien p
0 0 0 0 Eckhoff p 2 0 0 0
Dayton p
0 0 0 0 T.Gddel ph 0 0 0 0
Blanton p
0 0 0 0 Mariot p
0 0 0 0
Fields p
0 0 0 0 Bourjos rf 1 0 1 0
E.Hrnnd ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
34 4 7 4 Totals
34 5 9 5
Los Angeles
300 100 000—4
Philadelphia
010 200 20x—5
E—Utley (4). LOB—Los Angeles 5,
Philadelphia
9.
2B—Ju.Turner
(27),
Ad.Gonzalez (24), Franco (17), Featherston (1), Bourjos (17). HR—Ju.Turner (23),
Grandal (20), Franco (22), Howard (19).
SB—Altherr (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Stripling
5
6
3
2
2 5
Fien H,6
C
0
0
0
1 1
Dayton L,0-1 BS,2
C
2
2
2
0 1
Blanton
C
0
0
0
0 1
Fields
1
1
0
0
1 1
Philadelphia
Eickhoff
6
7
4
4
2 8
Mariot W,1-0
1
0
0
0
0 0
Neris H,24
1
0
0
0
0 1
Gomez S,32-35
1
0
0
0
0 0
WP—Eickhoff.
T—2:54.
A—29,187
(43,651).
Reds 5, Marlins 4
Miami
Cincinnati
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
D.Grdon 2b 4 0 1 0 Hmilton cf 4 1 1 0
Prado 3b
4 1 2 2 D Jesus ss 4 0 1 0
Yelich lf
4 0 0 0 Votto 1b
2 1 0 0
Ozuna cf
4 1 1 2 Phllips 2b 4 1 1 0
I.Szuki rf
4 0 2 0 E.Sarez 3b 4 0 1 1
C.Jhnsn 1b 4 0 1 0 Schbler rf 4 1 1 0
Mathis c
3 1 0 0 R.Cbrra c
4 1 2 3
Ralmuto ph 1 0 0 0 T.Holt lf
3 0 1 0
Hchvrra ss 3 1 1 0 B.Wood p 0 0 0 0
Frnndez p
1 0 0 0 R.Iglss p
0 0 0 0
Andino ph
1 0 0 0 Straily p
2 0 0 0
Ellngtn p
0 0 0 0 J.Diaz p
0 0 0 0
Detrich ph 1 0 0 0 Renda lf
0 0 0 0
McGowan p 0 0 0 0
Brrclgh p
0 0 0 0
Rojas ph
1 0 0 0
Totals
35 4 8 4 Totals
31 5 8 4
Miami
000 002 200—4
Cincinnati
032 000 00x—5
E—Phillips (11), J.Diaz (1), D.Gordon
(5), Ozuna (5). DP—Miami 1, Cincinnati 2.
LOB—Miami 5, Cincinnati 5. 2B—E.Suarez
(16). HR—Ozuna (22), R.Cabrera (1). SB—
Hamilton (52), Votto (8).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Miami
Fernandez L,12-7
4
7
5
5
1 6
Ellington
2
1
0
0
0 3
McGowan
1
0
0
0
2 1
Barraclough
1
0
0
0
0 2
Cincinnati
Straily W,9-6
6
6
2
2
0 7
Diaz H,3
C
1
2
0
1 1
Wood H,10
1B
1
0
0
0 1
Iglesias S,2-2
1
0
0
0
0 1
WP—Fernandez. T—2:40. A—14,108
(42,319).
Nationals 8, Braves 2
Washington
ab
T.Trner cf
4
Werth lf
4
Heisey ph-lf 1
D.Mrphy 2b 4
Harper rf
3
Rendon 3b 3
C.Rbnsn 1b 4
Espnosa ss 3
P.Svrno c
4
R.Lopez p
1
Difo ph
1
Kelley p
0
Mlancon p 0
Atlanta
r
1
1
0
1
2
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
h
1
2
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
bi
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
ab r h bi
Incarte cf 5 0 0 0
Ad.Grca 3b 4 0 1 0
F.Frman 1b 4 1 1 0
M.Kemp lf 4 1 2 1
Mrkakis rf 3 0 1 1
Flowers c 3 0 1 0
Recker ph-c 1 0 0 0
Pterson 2b 2 0 0 0
Swanson ss 4 0 0 0
Whalen p 2 0 0 0
Jose.Rm p 0 0 0 0
G.Bckhm ph 0 0 0 0
Vzcaino p 0 0 0 0
Ma.Cbrr p 0 0 0 0
J.Jhnsn p
0 0 0 0
C.d’Arn ph 1 0 1 0
Totals
32 8 6 5 Totals
33 2 7 2
Washington
200 010 050—8
Atlanta
000 101 000—2
E—M.Kemp (1), Peterson (10), Espinosa (10). LOB—Washington 8, Atlanta 8.
2B—Werth (25), P.Severino (1), F.Freeman
(30), M.Kemp (30). SB—T.Turner (13). SF—
T.Turner (2), Markakis (8). S—R.Lopez 2
(2), Peterson (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Washington
Lopez W,2-1
7
4
2
1
2 11
Kelley
1
2
0
0
0 2
Melancon
1
1
0
0
0 1
Atlanta
Whalen L,1-2
6
3
3
1
3 6
Ramirez
1
0
0
0
0 0
Vizcaino
0
1
4
3
2 0
Cabrera
1
1
1
0
1 0
Johnson
1
1
0
0
1 1
Vizcaino pitched to 4 batters in the 8th
HBP—by Vizcaino (Rendon). WP—Lopez.
PB—Flowers, Severino. T—3:32. A—24,099
(49,586).
Royals 8, Twins 1
Minnesota
Kansas City
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Dozier 2b
4 1 1 1 Orlando cf 4 0 0 0
J.Plnco ss
4 0 1 0 Cthbert 3b 4 2 3 0
Mauer dh
4 0 0 0 L.Cain rf
3 1 1 0
Plouffe 1b
4 0 0 0 Hosmer 1b 4 2 1 1
Kepler rf
4 0 1 0 Morales dh 3 1 1 1
Sano 3b
3 0 0 0 S.Perez c
3 1 0 1
E.Rsrio cf
2 0 1 0 A.Grdon lf 4 1 1 4
K.Szuki c
3 0 1 0 A.Escbr ss 2 0 0 0
Grssman lf 3 0 0 0 Mondesi 2b 3 0 0 0
Totals
31 1 5 1 Totals
30 8 7 7
Minnesota
100 000 000—1
Kansas City
000 500 03x—8
E—E.Rosario (4). DP—Minnesota 1,
Kansas City 1. LOB—Minnesota 4, Kansas
City 2. 2B—Cuthbert (20), Morales (17).
HR—Dozier (27), A.Gordon (11). SB—Kepler (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Minnesota
Duffey L,8-9
3C
2
5
5
3 4
Tonkin
1B
1
0
0
0 1
Dean
3
4
3
3
0 3
Kansas City
Gee W,5-6
7
5
1
1
1 7
Young
2
0
0
0
0 2
HBP—by Duffey (Perez). T—2:15. A—
30,599 (37,903).
Orioles 13, Astros 5
Houston
Sprnger rf
T.Hrnnd rf
Bregman 3b
Altuve 2b
T.Kemp 2b
Correa ss
Ma.Gnzl lf
Gattis dh
A..Reed 1b
Mrsnick cf
J.Cstro c
ab
4
0
4
4
0
4
4
3
4
4
3
r
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
2
1
0
0
h
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
bi
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
3
0
0
Totals
34 5 7 5
Houston
Baltimore
Baltimore
ab r h bi
A.Jones cf 3 1 1 1
Reimold ph-cf 1 0 1 0
Kim lf
5 2 4 1
M.Mchdo 3b 5 2 2 3
C.Davis 1b 5 2 2 2
C.Jseph c 0 0 0 0
Trumbo rf 4 1 1 3
P.Alvrz dh 5 0 2 0
Wieters c 4 0 0 0
Pearce 1b 0 0 0 0
Schoop 2b 4 2 2 0
J.Hardy ss 4 3 3 3
Flherty ss 0 0 0 0
Totals
40 13 18 13
010 101 200— 5
320 205 01x—13
E—M.Machado (8). DP—Houston 1.
LOB—Houston 3, Baltimore 5. 2B—Altuve
(34), M.Machado (35), J.Hardy (19). 3B—
Kim (1). HR—Bregman (2), A..Reed (3),
M.Machado (27), C.Davis 2 (27), Trumbo
(35), J.Hardy 2 (7). SF—A.Jones (7).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
Musgrove L,1-1
5B 11
8
8
1 2
Hoyt
C
5
4
4
0 0
Gregerson
1
1
0
0
0 3
White
1
1
1
1
0 0
Baltimore
Gausman W,4-10
6C
7
5
4
1 8
Givens
1B
0
0
0
0 2
Hart
1
0
0
0
0 1
T—2:40. A—20,288 (45,971).
Indians 5, White Sox 4
Chicago
Cleveland
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Eaton rf-cf 3 1 1 0 Ra.Dvis cf 4 0 2 1
Sladino 2b 3 1 0 0 Kipnis 2b
4 0 2 0
Me.Cbrr lf
3 0 0 0 Lindor ss
4 0 1 1
Abreu 1b
3 1 1 0 Napoli 1b 3 1 0 0
Morneau dh 4 0 1 3 C.Sntna dh 3 1 2 0
T.Frzer 3b
4 0 0 0 Jose.Rm 3b 4 0 2 2
Ti.Andr ss
4 1 1 0 Guyer lf
2 0 0 0
Shuck cf
2 0 0 0 Chsnhll ph-rf 2 0 0 0
Coats ph-rf 1 0 1 0 A.Almnt rf-lf 4 2 2 0
Narvaez c
3 0 1 1 R.Perez c 3 1 1 0
D.Nvrro ph-c 1 0 0 0 Naquin ph 0 0 0 1
Totals
31 4 6 4 Totals
33 5 12 5
Chicago
300 000 100—4
Cleveland
000 011 111—5
E—Abreu (7). DP—Chicago 4, Cleveland 1. LOB—Chicago 5, Cleveland 6. 2B—
Morneau (8), Ti.Anderson (14), Coats
(2), Ra.Davis (18), Kipnis (27), C.Santana
(21), A.Almonte 2 (11). SF—Naquin (2).
S—Shuck (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Rodon
6
8
2
2
0 5
Beck H,2
C
2
1
1
0 1
Jones BS,8
1B
1
1
1
1 2
Turner L,1-2
B
1
1
0
0 0
Cleveland
Salazar
1
1
3
3
3 1
Crockett
1
0
0
0
0 1
Clevinger
4
2
1
1
1 4
Otero
2
2
0
0
0 0
Miller W,7-1
1
1
0
0
0 2
Clevinger pitched to 1 batter in the 7th
HBP—by Rodon (Santana). WP—Jones.
PB—Navarro. T—3:00. A—12,982 (38,000).
Angels 6, Mariners 4
Seattle
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
Y.Escbr 3b 4 2 3 0
Calhoun rf 4 0 0 0
Trout cf
2 2 0 0
Pujols dh
4 0 1 2
A.Smmns ss 4 1 1 1
Buss lf
4 0 1 0
Pnnngtn 2b 3 0 1 0
J.Marte ph 1 0 1 1
G.Petit 2b 0 0 0 0
Bandy c
4 1 1 1
Choi 1b
3 0 1 0
Totals
34 4 8 4 Totals
33 6 10 5
Seattle
100 001 002—4
Los Angeles
200 010 03x—6
E—K.Seager (15). DP—Seattle 1, Los
Angeles 1. LOB—Seattle 5, Los Angeles
5. 2B—Aoki (14), S.Smith (11), Y.Escobar
(25), Pujols (14). HR—Cano (27), N.Cruz
(31), Zunino (7), Bandy (8).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Seattle
Iwakuma L,14-8
7
6
3
2
1 2
Vincent
C
3
3
3
1 1
Nuno
B
1
0
0
0 0
Los Angeles
Shoemaker W,7-13
7
5
2
2
2 5
Alvarez
0
1
0
0
0 0
Valdez H,2
1
0
0
0
0 1
Salas
1
2
2
2
0 0
J.Alvarez pitched to 1 batter in the 8th
T—2:58. A—37,721 (43,250).
ab
Aoki lf
4
S.Smith rf
3
Gterrez ph-rf 1
Cano 2b
4
N.Cruz dh
4
K.Sager 3b 4
Lind 1b
4
Zunino c
3
L.Mrtin cf
3
O’Mlley ss
4
r
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
h
1
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
bi
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
0
0
Giants 10, Mets 7
New York
San Francisco
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
J.Reyes ss
5 0 1 0 Span cf
4 0 3 0
T.Rvera 2b 5 1 2 0 Pagan lf
4 1 1 0
Bruce rf
5 0 1 0 Belt 1b
5 0 0 0
W.Flres 1b
3 1 1 0 Posey c
5 1 2 2
Loney ph
1 0 0 0 Crwford ss 4 2 3 0
T.d’Arn c
4 2 2 0 Pence rf
5 2 2 1
Rggiano cf 5 2 3 4 E.Nunez 3b 4 2 4 3
K.Jhnsn 3b 3 0 1 0 Panik 2b
3 0 1 2
T.Kelly lf
3 1 2 2 Bmgrner p 3 1 1 2
Robles p
0 0 0 0 Gearrin p 0 0 0 0
Edgin p
0 0 0 0 W.Smith p 0 0 0 0
Ad.Reed p
0 0 0 0 Law p
0 0 0 0
deGrom p
2 0 0 0 Ja.Lpez p
0 0 0 0
R.Rvera ph 1 0 0 1 Romo p
0 0 0 0
Blevins p
0 0 0 0 Gllspie ph 0 1 0 0
De Aza lf
1 0 0 0 Casilla p
0 0 0 0
Totals
38 7 13 7 Totals
37 10 17 10
New York
000 403 000— 7
San Francisco
000 530 02x—10
DP—New York 2, San Francisco 2.
LOB—New York 8, San Francisco 8. 2B—
Span (18), Posey (27), Panik (14). 3B—
T.Kelly (1), E.Nunez (4). HR—Ruggiano
(1), Bumgarner (3). SB—E.Nunez (30).
S—Span (6).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
New York
deGrom L,7-6
5
13
8
8
1 5
Blevins
1B
2
0
0
0 2
Robles
1
1
2
2
2 0
Edgin
B
0
0
0
0 1
Reed
B
1
0
0
1 0
San Francisco
Bumgarner W,12-7
5
6
4
4
3 6
Gearrin
B
2
2
2
0 0
Smith H,14
1
2
1
1
0 1
Law H,10
C
2
0
0
1 1
Lopez H,12
B
0
0
0
0 0
Romo H,9
C
0
0
0
0 2
Casilla S,28-34
1
1
0
0
0 1
T—3:30. A—41,517 (41,915).
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MLB
Cubs sweep Brewers
Bryant goes 5-for-5 with two home runs
BY M IKE CRANSTON
Associated Press
C HARLES REX A RBOGAST/AP
The Cubs’ Kris Bryant hits a home run off Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Blaine
Boyer during the sixth inning of Thursday’s game in Chicago. The Cubs won 9-6.
CHICAGO — Kris Bryant came to the
plate in the eighth inning a triple shy of the
cycle. The Cubs slugger was trying for a
little more.
“My last at-bat I was thinking home
run,” Bryant said. “There aren’t too many
games you can hit three home runs.”
Bryant settled for an RBI single to cap a
5-for-5 day with two homers, a double and
five RBIs. He helped Chicago overcome a
career-high seven walks by Jake Arrieta to
beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-6 Thursday
for a four-game sweep.
“I don’t feel like this too often,” Bryant
said, “This was just one of those days when
I was really locked in.”
Bryant tied Colorado’s Nolan Arenado
for the NL lead with 30 home runs.
And as the Cubs won for the 18th time in
21 games and improved the best record in
the majors to 77-43, the only controversy in
their jovial clubhouse is whether Bryant or
teammate Anthony Rizzo is the better NL
MVP candidate.
Two days after a circus catch of a foul
ball, Rizzo doubled twice off Zach Davies
(9-6). Rizzo has driven in 86 runs and Bryant 78.
“(Rizzo) always jokes around me saying when Miguel Cabrera won the Triple
Crown, Prince Fielder was hitting behind
him,” Bryant said. “So he always tells me
I’m his Prince. I can’t say enough about
having him behind me.”
Chicago’s ace welcomed Bryant’s big
day with the wind blowing out. The Cubs
led 5-0 when Arrieta (15-5) issued a pair of
two-out walks in the fourth. Kirk Nieuwenhuis followed with a three-run homer.
Hernan Perez hit a solo homer in the
sixth off Arrieta, who allowed four runs
and three hits in 5 2 ⁄3 innings.
Aroldis Chapman worked the ninth for
his seventh save with the Cubs.
“I put myself in a tough situation,” Arrieta said. “The first three (innings) were
good. It kind of got away from me there,
but we had a big day out of the offense.”
Bryant singled and scored in the first,
hit a two-run homer in the third and had
an RBI double in the fourth off Davies.
Bryant hit a solo homer off Blaine Boyer
in the sixth and added an RBI single in the
eighth off Corey Knebel for his second career five-hit game.
Bryant, who hit 26 homers while winning
the NL Rookie of the Year in 2015, had his
third multihomer game of the season.
Davies allowed a season-high seven
earned runs and 10 hits in four innings.
The Brewers got left fielder Ryan Braun
back after he banged up his left knee and
ankle chasing a foul ball Tuesday. But
Braun went 0-for-5 and couldn’t come up
with Addison Russell’s fly that drifted to
the wall and was ruled a single in Chicago’s three-run third.
Milwaukee was outscored 23-8 in the series and fell to 0-6 at Wrigley Field, while
Bryant helped the Cubs move 34 games
over .500 for the first time since Sept.
2008.
Roundup
Bumgarner homers as Giants rally to beat Mets
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Madison
Bumgarner had stymied the New
York Mets over the years with his
pitching. This time, the Giants’
ace turned the tables and delivered the big blow with his bat.
At this point, manager Bruce
Bochy’s ballclub will take a win
however it comes.
Bumgarner hit a go-ahead tworun homer off Jacob deGrom in
the fourth inning — moments
after giving up a grand slam
— and San Francisco came back
from four runs down to beat the
Mets 10-7 on Thursday night.
Bumgarner, who narrowly
missed a home run in his first atbat, hit a 2-2 pitch into the stands
in left field to cap a five-run inning when the Giants batted
around. It was Bumgarner’s third
home run this season and the 14th
of his career.
“I don’t know if anybody’s ever
going to say they’re comfortable
against (deGrom) but for whatever reason I was seeing the ball
a little better today,” Bumgarner
said. “With the RBI situations I’ve
had the last few games, I wanted
to shorten up and just try to make
contact.”
The highly anticipated matchup
between pitchers with two of the
five lowest ERAs in the majors
wound up being a slugfest.
ERIC RISBERG /AP
Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, rear, is greeted at home plate by Eduardo Nunez after hitting a tworun home run off New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom during the fourth inning of Thursday’s
game in San Francisco.
San Francisco and New York
combined for 17 runs and 30 hits.
“I didn’t see that kind of game
coming,” Bochy said.
Royals 8, Twins 1: Alex Gordon hit a grand slam and Dillon Gee pitched seven strong
innings as host Kansas City beat
Minnesota.
The defending champion Royals have won five straight and
eight of nine to move above .500
for the first time since July 22.
Starting pitchers have a 1.61 ERA
in the five-game winning streak,
allowing 23 hits and six earned
runs in 33 2 ⁄3 innings, while striking out 27 and walking seven.
Angels 6, Mariners 4: Japanese pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma’s
quest for four straight wins came
unstuck as he and visiting Seattle
lost to Los Angeles.
Tigers 4, Red Sox 3: Second
baseman Ian Kinsler caught a
line drive by Mookie Betts for the
final out with runners on second
and third to ensure host Detroit
snapped Boston’s six-game winning streak.
Phillies 5, Dodgers 4: Maikel
Franco hit a go-ahead two-run
home run in the seventh inning to
help Philadelphia hold off visiting
Los Angeles.
Indians 5, White Sox 4: manager Terry Francona put up a
pinch-hitter in the middle of an
at-bat and the strategy paid off
when Tyler Naquin lofted a gameending sacrifice fly in the ninth
inning that lifted host Cleveland
past Chicago.
Reds 5, Marlins 4: Ramon Cabrera hit a three-run homer and
Dan Straily continued his secondhalf surge as host Cincinnati beat
Miami for its eighth victory in 10
series since the All-Star break.
Nationals 8, Braves 2: Rookie
Reynaldo Lopez struck out 11 and
Jayson Werth reached safely in
his 46th straight game as visiting
Washington pulled away to beat
Atlanta.
Padres 9, Diamondbacks 8:
Rookie Alex Dickerson’s two-out,
three-run double in the eighth inning lifted host San Diego.
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OLYMPICS
Men’s shot put
It’s 1-2
finish
for US
BY PAT GRAHAM
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — One
came from a family filled with
top-notch throwers. The other
learned from his mom by using
any heavy object that felt something like a shot put.
Both paths led to the same
place — an Olympic medal.
Ryan Crouser captured gold
with an Olympic-record throw
of 22.52 meters Thursday night
to hold off U.S. teammate and favorite Joe Kovacs in the shot put
final. It’s the first time since 1996
the U.S. has finished 1-2 in the
event and gives the Americans 25
medals in track and field in Rio,
including nine gold.
“You’re never happy to get second. It’s a bittersweet feeling,”
said Kovacs, whose top throw was
21.78. “But it’s setting in on this
walk down that I’m still bringing
a silver medal to the U.S., and the
gold is coming to Ryan.”
It’s not a stretch to say that
throwing runs in Crouser’s family. His father, Mitch, was an alternate on the 1984 Olympic team
in the discus. His uncle, Brian,
competed in the javelin at the
’88 and ’92 Olympics. And then
there’s his cousin Sam, a javelin
thrower who just so happens to be
his roommate in Rio.
“It’s definitely a family affair
and they were all standing in the
stands behind the shot put and
were all wearing ‘Team Crouser’
uniforms,” said Crouser, who is
from Gresham, Ore. “It was pretty cool to be able to do that in the
Olympics.”
Then there’s Kovacs, who is
self-made in the shot put.
With a big help from mom, of
course.
His dad died when he was 7
years old and his mother took on
many roles, including his coach.
She would go to practice with
him, absorb what the coach was
telling him and then instruct
him on what to do the rest of the
week.
“Had to do whatever she said,”
Kovacs chuckled. “She was the
one who told me to keep my elbow
up and push the ball flat.”
In high school, Kovacs threw
the shot put as a way to stay in
shape for football. He would practice in the parking lot and use
whatever was heaviest, including
a broken weight set. And when
he threw the discus — an event
he dabbled in — now that was
an adventure. He used to skip it
through a nearby road.
Scoreboard
Medals table
Through Thursday, Aug. 18
242 of 306 total medal events
Nation
G S B Tot
United States
35 33 32 100
China
20 16 22 58
Britain
22 21 13 56
Russia
12 15 17 44
Japan
12 6 18 36
France
8 12 14 34
Germany
13 8 11 32
Australia
7 10 10 27
Italy
8 10 6 24
South Korea
7 3 8 18
Canada
4 3 11 18
Netherlands
8 4 4 16
Brazil
5 5 5 15
New Zealand
4 8 3 15
Kazakhstan
3 5 7 15
Hungary
7 3 4 14
Denmark
1 6 6 13
Spain
5 2 3 10
Azerbaijan
0 4 6 10
Thursday’s medalists
ATHLETICS
Men’s 200
GOLD—Usain Bolt, Jamaica
SILVER—Andre de Grasse, Canada
BRONZE—Christophe Lemaitre, France
Men’s 400 Hurdles
GOLD—Kerron Clement, United States
SILVER—Boniface Mucheru Tumuti, Kenya
BRONZE—Yasmani Copello, Turkey
Men’s Shot Put
GOLD—Ryan Crouser, United States
SILVER—Joe Kovacs, United States
BRONZE—Tomas Walsh, New Zealand
Men’s Decathlon
GOLD—Ashton Eaton, United States
SILVER—Kevin Mayer, France
BRONZE—Damian Warner, Canada
Women’s 400 Hurdles
GOLD—Dalilah
Muhammad,
United
States
SILVER—Sara Slott Petersen, Denmark
BRONZE—Ashley Spencer, United States
Women’s Javelin Throw
GOLD—Sara Kolak, Croatia
SILVER—Sunette Viljoen, South Africa
BRONZE—Barbora Spotakova, Czech Republic
BADMINTON
Women’s Doubles
GOLD—Japan (Misaki Matsutomo, Ayaka
Takahashi)
SILVER—Denmark (Christinna Pedersen,
Kamilla Rytter juhl)
BRONZE—South Korea (Jung Kyung Eun,
Shin Seung Chan)
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Men
GOLD—Brazil (Alison Cerutti, Bruno Oscar Schmidt).
SILVER—Italy (Daniele Lupo, Paolo Nicolai).
BRONZE—Netherlands (Alexander Brouwer, Robert Meeuwsen).
BOXING
Men’s 81kg
Mens Light Heavy (81kg)
GOLD—Julio Cesar la Cruz, Cuba
SILVER—Adilbek Niyazymbetov, Kazakhstan
BRONZE—Mathieu Albert Daniel Bauderlique, France
BRONZE—Joshua Buatsi, Britain
CANOE-KAYAK (SPRINT)
Men’s C-1 200
GOLD—Iurii Cheban, Ukraine
SILVER—Valentin Demyanenko, Azerbaijan
BRONZE—Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos,
Brazil
Men’s K-2 200
GOLD—Spain (Saul Craviotto, Cristian
Toro)
SILVER—Britain (Liam Heath, Jon Schofield)
BRONZE—Lithuania (Aurimas Lankas, Edvinas Ramanauskas)
Men’s K-2 1000
GOLD—Germany (Max Rendschmidt,
Marcus Gross)
SILVER—Serbia (Marko Tomicevic, Milenko Zoric)
BRONZE—Australia (Ken Wallace, Lachlan Tame)
Women’s K-1 500
GOLD—Danuta Kozak, Hungary
SILVER—Emma Jorgensen, Denmark
BRONZE—Lisa Carrington, New Zealand
DIVING
Women’s 10-meter Platform
GOLD—Ren Qian, China
SILVER—Si Yajie, China
BRONZE—Meaghan Benfeito, Canada
FIELD HOCKEY
Men
GOLD—Argentina (Juan Vivaldi, Gonzalo
Peillat, Juan Gilardi, Pedro Ibarra, Facundo
Callioni, Lucas Rey, Matias Paredes, Joaquin
Menini, Lucas Vila, Luca Masso, Ignacio Ortiz, Juan Lopez, Juan Saladino, Isidoro Ibarra,
Matias Rey, Manuel Brunet, Agustin Mazzilli,
Lucas Rossi)
SILVER—Belgium (Arthur van Doren, JohnJohn Dohmen, Florent Van Aubel, Sebastien
Dockier, Cedric Charlier, Gauthier Boccard,
Emmanuel Stockbroekx, Thomas Briels, Felix
Denayer, Vincent Vanasch, Simon Gougnard,
Loick Luypaert, Tom Boon, Jerome Truyens,
Elliot van Strydonck, Tanguy Cosyns)
BRONZE—Germany
(Nicolas
Jacobi,
Mathias Muller, Linus Butt, Martin Haner,
Moritz Trompertz, Mats Grambusch, Christopher Wesley, Timm Herzbruch, Tobias
Hauke, Tom Grambusch, Christopher Ruhr,
Martin Zwicker, Moritz Furste, Florian Fuchs,
Timur Oruz, Niklas Wellen)
SAILING
Men’s 49er
GOLD—New Zealand (Peter Burling, Blair
Tuke)
SILVER—Australia (Nathan Outteridge,
Iain Jensen)
BRONZE—Germany (Erik Heil, Thomas
Ploessel)
Women’s 49er FX
GOLD—Brazil (Kahena Kunze, Martine
Grael)
SILVER—New Zealand (Alex Maloney,
Molly Meech)
BRONZE—Denmark (Katja Steen SalskovIversen, Jena Hansen)
Men’s 470
GOLD—Croatia (Sime Fantela, Igor Marenic)
SILVER—Australia (Mathew Belcher, Will
Ryan)
BRONZE—Greece (Panagiotis Mantis,
Pavlos Kagialis)
Women’s 470
GOLD—Britain (Saskia Clark, Hannah
Mills)
SILVER—New Zealand (Jo Aleh, Polly
Powrie)
BRONZE—France (Helene Defrance, Camille Lecointre)
TAEKWONDO
Men’s 68kg
GOLD—Ahmad Abughaush, Jordan
SILVER—Alexey Denisenko, Russia
BRONZE—Joel Gonzalez Bonilla, Spain
BRONZE—Lee Daehoon, South Korea
Women’s 57kg
GOLD—Jade Jones, Britain.
SILVER—Eva Calvo Gomez, Spain.
BRONZE—Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin, Iran
BRONZE—Hedaya Wahba, Egypt
TRIATHLON
Men
GOLD—Brownlee Alistair, Britain
SILVER—Brownlee Jonathan, Britain
BRONZE—Schoeman Henri, South Africa
WRESTLING (FREESTYLE)
Women’s 53kg
Women’s Freestyle 53 kg
GOLD—Helen Louise Maroulis, United
States
SILVER—Saori Yoshida, Japan
BRONZE—Natalya Sinishin, Azerbaijan
BRONZE—Sofia Magdalena Mattsson,
Sweden
Women’s 63kg
GOLD—Risako Kawai, Japan
SILVER—Maryia Mamashuk, Belarus
BRONZE—Yekaterina Larionova, Kazakhstan
BRONZE—Monika Ewa Michalik, Poland
Women’s 75kg
GOLD—Erica Elizabeth Wiebe, Canada
SILVER—Guzel Manyurova, Kazakhstan
BRONZE—Zhang Fengliu, China
BRONZE—Ekaterina Bukina, Russia
Thursday’s scores
BASKETBALL
Women
Semifinals
Spain 68, Serbia 54
United States 86, France 67
FIELD HOCKEY
Men
Bronze Medal
Germany 1, Netherlands 1, Germany wins
4-3 shootout
Gold Medal
Argentina 4, Belgium 2
TEAM HANDBALL
Women
Semifinals
France 24, Netherlands 23
Russia 38, Norway 37
VOLLEYBALL
Women
Semifinals
Serbia 3, United States 2 (20-25, 25-17, 2521, 16-25, 15-13)
China 3, Netherlands 1, (27-25, 23-25, 2927, 25-23)
WATER POLO
Men
5-8 Classification
Hungary 13, Brazil 4
Greece 9, Spain 7
Semifinals
Croatia 12, Montenegro 8
Serbia 10, Italy 8
Thursday’s results
ATHLETICS
Men
200
Final
1. Usain Bolt, Jamaica, 19.78.
2. Andre de Grasse, Canada, 20.02.
3. Christophe Lemaitre, France, 20.12.
4. Adam Gemili, Britain, 20.12.
5. Churandy Martina, Netherlands, 20.13.
6. Lashawn Merritt, United States, 20.19.
7. Alonso Edward, Panama, 20.23.
8. Ramil Guliyev, Turkey, 20.43.
400 Hurdles
Final
1. Kerron Clement, United States, 47.73.
2. Boniface Mucheru Tumuti, Kenya,
47.78.
3. Yasmani Copello, Turkey, 47.92.
4. Thomas Barr, Ireland, 47.97.
5. Annsert Whyte, Jamaica, 48.07.
6. Rasmus Magi, Estonia, 48.40.
7. Haron Koech, Kenya, 49.09.
8. Javier Culson, Puerto Rico, DQ.
Shot Put
Final
1. Ryan Crouser, United States, (22.52),
73-10 1-2.
2. Joe Kovacs, United States, (21.78), 71-5
1-2.
3. Tomas Walsh, New Zealand, (21.36),
70-1.
4. Franck Elemba, Congo, (21.20), 69-6 34.
5. Darlan Romani, Brazil, (21.02), 68-11 12.
6. Tomasz Majewski, Poland, (20.72), 6711 3-4.
7. David Storl, Germany, (20.64), 67-8 1-2.
8. O’dayne Richards, Jamaica, (20.64), 678 1-2.
Decathlon
Final Standings
1. Ashton Eaton, United States, 8893
points
2. Kevin Mayer, France, 8834
3. Damian Warner, Canada, 8666
4. Kai Kazmirek, Germany, 8580
5. Larbi Bourrada, Algeria, 8521
6. Leonel Suarez, Cuba, 8460
7. Zach Ziemek, United States, 8392
8. Thomas van der Plaetsen, Belgium,
8332
Other Americans
11. Jeremy Taiwo, United States, 8300
Women
400 Hurdles
Final
1. Dalilah Muhammad, United States,
53.13.
2. Sara Slott Petersen, Denmark, 53.55.
3. Ashley Spencer, United States, 53.72.
4. Zuzana Hejnova, Czech Republic, 53.92.
5. Ristananna Tracey, Jamaica, 54.15.
6. Leah Nugent, Jamaica, 54.45.
7. Janieve Russell, Jamaica, 54.56.
8. Eilidh Doyle, Britain, 54.61.
Javelin Throw
Final
1. Sara Kolak, Croatia, (66.18), 217-1 1-2.
2. Sunette Viljoen, South Africa, (64.92),
212-12.
3. Barbora Spotakova, Czech Republic,
(64.80), 212-7 1-4.
4. Maria Andrejczyk, Poland, (64.78), 2126 1-2.
5. Tatsiana Khaladovich, Belarus, (64.60),
211-11 1-4.
6. Kathryn Mitchell, Australia, (64.36), 2111 3-4.
7. Lyu Huihui China, (64.04), 210-1 1-4.
8. Christina Obergfoll, Germany, (62.92),
206-5 1-4.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Men
Bronze Medal
Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, def. Konstantin Semenov
and Viacheslav Krasilnikov, Russia, 23-21,
22-20.
Gold Medal
Cerutti Alison and Oscar Schmidt Bruno,
Brasil def. Nicolai Paolo and Lupo Daniele,
Italy, 21-19, 21-17.
BOXING
Men’s Bantam (56kg)
Semifinals
Shakur Stevenson, United States, def.
Vladimir Nikitin, Russia, walkover.
Robeisy Ramirez, Cuba, def. Murodjon
Akhmadaliev, Uzbekistan, 3-0.
Men’s Middle (75kg)
Semifinals
Arlen Lopez, Cuba, def. Kamran Shakhsuvarly, Azerbaijan, 3-0.
Bektemir Melikuziev, Uzbekistan, def. Misael Uziel Rodriguez, Mexico, 3-0.
Men’s Light Heavy (81kg)
Gold Medal
Julio Cesar la Cruz, Cuba, def. Adilbek Niyazymbetov, Kazakhstan, 3-0.
Women’s Fly (48-51kg)
Semifinals
Nicola Adams, Britain, def. Cancan Ren,
China, 3-0.
Sarah Ourahmoune, France, def. Ingrit
Lorena Valencia Victoria, Colombia, 2-0.
DIVING
Women’s 10-Meter Platform
Final
1. Qian Ren, China, 439.25.
2. Yajie Si, China, 419.40.
3. Meaghan Benfeito, Canada, 389.20.
4. Paola Espinosa, Mexico, 377.10.
5. Melissa Wu, Australia, 368.30.
6. Roseline Filion, Canada, 367.95.
7. Un Hyang Kim, North Korea, 357.90.
8. Minami Itahashi, Japan, 356.60.
9. Nur Dhabitah Sabri, Malaysia, 338.00.
10. Jessica Parratto, United States,
334.60.
SAILING
Men’s 470
Final
1. Croatia (Sime Fantela, Igor Marenic), (1,
2, 4, 1, 3, 3, 4, 8, 6, 3, 16), 43
2. Australia (Mathew Belcher, Will Ryan),
(8, 1, 3, 3, 2, 8, 10, 7, 1, 7, 18), 58
3. Greece (Panagiotis Mantis, Pavlos Kagialis), (9, 3, 1, 5, 13, 9, 5, 2, 2, 2, 20), 58
4. United States (Stuart McNay, Dave
Hughes), (10, 7, 8, 13, 4, 7, 6, 1, 11, 14, 4), 71
5. Britain (Luke Patience, Chris Grube),
(21, 5, 5, 6, 1, UFD, 20, 4, 3, 4, 6), 75
6. Sweden (Anton Dahlberg, Fredrik Bergstrom), (22, 8, 2, 4, 8, UFD, 1, 5, 8, 11, 10), 79
7. France (Sofian Bouvet, Jeremie Mion),
(6, 6, 10, 2, 6, 6, 14, 9, 20, 22, 8), 87
8. Austria (Matthias Schmid, Florian
Reichstaedter), (3, 9, 6, 9, 16, 2, 13, 14, 17, 1,
14), 87
Men’s 49er
Final
1. New Zealand (Peter Burling, Blair Tuke),
(1, 1, 5, 2, 7, 6, 2, 3, 1, 3, 5, 4, 2), 35
2. Australia (Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen), (13, 8, 2, 5, 10, 12, 4, 5, 8, 2, 7, 7, 8), 78
3. Germany (Erik Heil, Thomas Ploessel),
(6, 3, 1, 3, 4, 13, 14, 4, 5, 10, 4, 18, 16), 83
4. Denmark (Jonas Warrer, Christian Peter
Lubeck), (8, 9, DSQ, 15, 1, 5, 6, 13, 14, 18, 1,
2, 6), 98
5. France (Julien d’Ortoli, Noe Delpech),
(20, 12, 16, 12, 2, 9, 1, 1, 3, 17, 9, 14, 4), 100
6. Britain (Dylan Fletcher-Scott, Alain
Sign), (15, 10, 7, 20, 14, 4, 5, 6, 9, 1, 6, 3, 20),
100
7. Argentina (Yago Lange, Klaus Lange),
(11, 7, 6, 16, 12, 16, DSQ, 2, 2, 11, 3, 11, 14),
111
8. Poland (Lukasz Przybytek, Pawel
Kolodzinski), (2, 13, 9, 9, 5, RDG, 18, 11, 7, 16,
18, 9, 10), 118.3
Also
19. United States (Thomas Barrows, Joe
Morris), (18, 19, 14, 14, DSQ, 11, 16, 16, 11, 6,
13, 17), 155
Women’s 470
Final
1. Britain (Hannah Mills, Saskia Clark), (4,
7, 1, 6, 1, 8, 1, 3, 2, 3, 16), 44
2. New Zealand (Jo Aleh, Polly Powrie),
(DSQ, 1, 4, 1, 12, UFD, 3, 1, 1, 4, 6), 54
3. France (Camille Lecointre, Helene Defrance), (6, 18, 2, 3, 4, 13, 7, 7, 6, 2, 12), 62
4. Netherlands (Afrodite Zegers, Anneloes
van Veen), (15, 2, 8, 8, 14, 4, 11, 2, 3, 7, 4), 63
5. Japan (Ai Kondo Yoshida, Miho Yoshioka), (1, 4, 3, 7, 19, 9, 12, 4, 11, 1, 14), 66
6. Slovenia (Tina Mrak, Veronika Macarol),
(2, 6, 5, 4, DSQ, 12, 4, DSQ, 5, 6, 2), 67
7. United States (Annie Haeger, Briana
Provancha), (7, 3, 10, 2, 5, 5, 2, 8, 8, 9, 20), 69
8. Brazil (Fernanda Oliveira, Ana Luiza
Barbachan), (5, 5, 13, 10, 2, UFD, 9, 6, 13, 5,
8), 76
Woemn’s 49er FX
Final
1. Brazil (Martine Grael, Kahena Kunze),
(9, 1, 1, 10, 2, 6, 3, 3, 11, 2, 7, 2, 2), 48
2. New Zealand (Alex Maloney, Molly
Meech), (6, 5, 4, 4, 5, 1, 6, 12, 3, 3, 5, 5, 4), 51
3. Denmark (Jena Hansen, Katja Steen Salskov-Iversen), (UFD, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 9, 16, 2, 1,
2, 4, 8), 54
4. Spain (Tamara Echegoyen Dominguez,
Berta Betanzos Moro), (4, 13, 3, 1, 11, 5, 4, 1,
1, 5, 10, 1, 14), 60
5. Italy (Giulia Conti, Francesca Clapcich),
(3, 7, 7, 6, 10, 8, 15, 13, 5, 6, 4, 7, 6), 82
6. France (Sarah Steyaert, Aude Compan),
(1, 9, 10, 12, 12, 13, 1, 9, 4, 16, 1, 3, 10), 85
7. Netherlands (Annemiek Bekkering, Annette Duetz), (UFD, 10, 12, 3, 8, 3, 5, 7, 13, 11,
3, 10, 12), 97
8. Britain (Charlotte Dobson, Sophie Ainsworth), (2, 11, 5, 8, 7, 10, 2, 5, 9, 15, 14, 8,
20), 101
Also
10. United States (Paris Henken, Helena
Scutt), (13, 16, 14, 5, 1, 4, 11, 8, 8, 12, 12, 6,
18), 112
TRIATHLON
Men
Final
1. Alistair Brownlee, Britain, 1:45:01.
2. Jonathan Brownlee, Britain, 1:45:07.
3. Henri Schoeman, South Africa, 1:45:43.
4. Richard Murray, South Africa, 1:45:50.
5. Joao Pereira, Portugal, 1:45:52.
6. Marten van Riel, Belgium, 1:46:03.
7. Vincent Luis, France, 1:46:12.
8. Mario Mola, Spain, 1:46:26.
U.S. Finishers
23. Joe Maloy, United States, 1:48:30.
29. Ben Kanute, United States, 1:48:59.
37. Greg Billington, United States, 1:52:04.
WRESTLING (FREESTYLE)
Women
53 kg
Quarterfinals
Saori Yoshida, Japan, def. Isabelle Sambou, Senegal, 9-0.
Betzabeth Angelica Arguello Villegas,
Venezuela, def. Maria Prevolaraki, Greece,
6-3.
Sofia Magdalena Mattsson, Sweden, def.
Katarzyna Krawczyk, Poland, 10-3.
Helen Louise Maroulis, United States, def.
Myong Suk Jong, North Korea, 7-4.
Semifinals
Saori Yoshida, Japan, def. Betzabeth Angelica Arguello Villegas, Venezuela, 6-0.
Helen Louise Maroulis, United States, def.
Sofia Magdalena Mattsson, Sweden, 8-0.
Repechage Round 1
Xuechun Zhong, China, def. Yuliia Khavaldzhy Blahinya, Ukraine, 11-1.
Repechage Round 2
Natalya Sinishin, Azerbaijan, def. Isabelle
Sambou, Senegal, 4-0.
Xuechun Zhong, China, def. Myong Suk
Jong, North Korea, 5-5.
Bronze Medal Matches
Natalya Sinishin, Azerbaijan, def. Betzabeth Angelica Arguello Villegas, Venezuela,
2-1.
Sofia Magdalena Mattsson, Sweden, def.
Xuechun Zhong, China, 6-0.
Gold Medal
Helen Louise Maroulis, United States, def.
Saori Yoshida, Japan, 4-1.
63 kg
Quarterfinals
Elena Sergey Pirozhkova, United States,
def. Battsetseg Soronzonbold, Mongolia, 3-2.
Maryia Mamashuk, Belarus, def. Henna
Katarina Johansson, Sweden, 7-2.
Risako Kawai, Japan, def. Anastasija Grigorjeva, Latvia, 8-2.
Inna Trazhukova, Russia, def. Rui Xu,
China, 5-4.
Semifinals
Maryia Mamashuk, Belarus, def. Elena
Sergey Pirozhkova, United States, 3-2.
Risako Kawai, Japan, def. Inna Trazhukova, Russia, 10-0.
Repechage
Yekaterina Larionova, Kazakhstan, def.
Henna Katarina Johansson, Sweden, 4-1.
Monika Ewa Michalik, Poland, def. Anastasija Grigorjeva, Latvia, 5-2.
Bronze Medal Matches
Yekaterina Larionova, Kazakhstan, def.
Elena Sergey Pirozhkova, United States, 4-3.
Monika Ewa Michalik, Poland, def. Inna
Trazhukova, Russia, 6-3.
Gold Medal
Risako Kawai, Japan, def. Maryia Mamashuk, Belarus, 6-0.
75 kg
Quarterfinals
Vasilisa Marzaliuk, Belarus, def. Adeline
Maria Gray, United States, 4-1.
Erica Elizabeth Wiebe, Canada, def. Fengliu Zhang, China, 5-2.
Guzel Manyurova, Kazakhstan, def. Annabel Laure Ali, Cameroon, 8-6.
Ekaterina Bukina, Russia, def. Aline da
Silva Ferreira, Brazil, 4-3.
Semifinals
Erica Elizabeth Wiebe, Canada, def. Vasilisa Marzaliuk, Belarus, 3-0.
Guzel Manyurova, Kazakhstan, def. Ekaterina Bukina, Russia, 6-8.
Repechage
Fengliu Zhang, China, def. Maria Selmaier,
Germany, 10-0.
Annabel Laure Ali, Cameroon, def. Zsanett
Nemeth, Hungary, 5-2.
Bronze Medal Matches
Fengliu Zhang, China, def. Vasilisa Marzaliuk, Belarus, 8-4.
Ekaterina Bukina, Russia, def. Annabel
Laure Ali, Cameroon, 5-3.
Gold Medal
Erica Elizabeth Wiebe, Canada, def. Guzel
Manyurova, Kazakhstan, 6-0.
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OLYMPICS
Medals roundup
Clement wins
gold in 400
hurdles for US
Associated Press
JAE C. HONG /AP
The United States’ Ashton Eaton celebrates winning the decathlon gold at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.
Eaton defends decathlon title
American’s second consecutive gold equals Olympic record
BY R AF CASERT
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Deep in the second
day of the decathlon, a rare hint of vulnerability from Ashton Eaton gave his rivals an
unlikely glimmer of hope.
The man known as the world’s greatest allround athlete had failed twice at a low height
in the pole vault and faced a final attempt
in the scorching afternoon sun at the Olympic Stadium on Thursday. His wife, Brianne
Theisen-Eaton, who had already won Olympic
heptathlon bronze for Canada, was looking on
anxiously, doubting there could be any crack
in his composure.
An unlikely chance for his rivals to finally
beat him?
Forget it.
“That was the moment I thought ... your
whole life has been about this,” Eaton said.
“Getting ready for this. What are you going
to do?”
His third attempt at 4.90 meters was perfection, and he went on to clear 5.20 and to make
sure his invincibility in the 10-event competition would continue.
If there was any further doubt about his
mettle, the javelin throw did away with that,
too. After a bad first throw, he crept closer to
the top mark of main challenger Kevin Mayer
of France and made sure the concluding
1,500 meters was only a race for the Olympic
record.
With a final thrust across the line he tied the
mark of 8,893 points the Czech Roman Sebrle
had set at the 2004 Athens Games. One second
either way would have made the difference.
He went into the competition aiming to beat
M ATT DUNHAM /AP
Ashton Eaton competes in men’s decathlon
pole vault on Thursday.
his world record, but expecting such a feat
each time he competes just shows the mindset of the 28-year-old American. His inability
to produce a record on demand showed he is
merely human.
Grimacing in pain for the lactic acid building in his legs, Eaton immediately went over
to congratulate silver medalist Mayer.
“To be so close to a world-record holder, a
man so gentle and humble, that already was
exceptional,” Mayer said.
Eaton remained unbeaten in major competitions since he was left with silver at the 2011
world championships. And a second straight
Olympic title puts him among only a few of the
greats. Asked whether that put him in exclusive company, he said: “The decathlon is exclusive company.”
And even if it’s true that the decathlon requires traits of self-centered focus, Eaton remains a U.S. Olympic team member first and
foremost.
So when Kerron Clement was running
the 400-meter hurdles final as the decathletes were competing in the discus throw, he
couldn’t hold himself back when his roommate took gold and crumbled to the ground in
exhaustion.
He ran over onto the track and put his hands
on Clement’s back with heartfelt congratulations. “I felt somebody,” Clement said. “I was
on the ground, exhausted.”
For long, it has been Eaton’s knack to be
better in giving than receiving.
Sometimes it can turn against him.
During the heptathlon competition, he sat in
the stands with a Canadian cap, showing support for his wife. Some accused him of being
un-American and were critical.
It stung. After all, this is a proud athlete
who already had the national anthem play at
five major global championships.
“Have I not represented USA well? Yet u demand more. Ur respect is hard earned,” Eaton
tweeted, defending himself and his wife. “I
support the country that produced my wife.”
RIO DE JANEIRO — Kerron
Clement cleared a space in his
trophy case and wrote a little note
on what would occupy that spot
next: “Gold Medal, 2016.”
The American 400-meter hurdler was that confident.
So confident, in fact, that his
mom, Claudette, packed the
family’s own American flag and
brought it to Rio de Janeiro. You
know, just for this moment when
he actually won gold.
“I knew I was going to win,” said
Clement, who finished in 47.73
seconds and held off Boniface
Mucheru Tumuti of Kenya by 0.05
seconds. “I came out here with
one mindset: Get a gold medal.”
When he returns home to
Gainesville, Florida, he won’t
have to worry about finding a spot
for Olympic gold medal No. 2 — he
made the room for it in January.
This gold will pair nicely with the
one he earned at the 2008 Beijing
Games as part of the 4x400 relay
team. He also earned a silver in
Beijing in the 400 hurdles.
Women’s 400-meter hurdles:
Dalilah Muhammad of the United States went out hard and held
on strong to win the women’s 400meter hurdles gold medal in 53.13
seconds.
European champion Sara Slott
Peterson of Denmark took silver
in 53.55 on Thursday, and the
United States picked up another
bronze medal with Ashley Spencer storming home to finish third
in personal best 53.72.
Men’s beach volleyball: Alison
and Bruno stood on the top step
of the Olympic podium, holding
back tears as the booming voices
of the Carioca singing the Brazilian national anthem rose above
the waves crashing against Copacabana beach.
“In front of our people. In the
best spot for this sport,” Bruno
said after the reigning world
champions beat Italy in straight
sets in the beach volleyball gold
medal match on Thursday night.
“This is a magical feeling.”
Women’s indoor volleyball:
Leaning over, hands on her knees
and cheering at every chance,
injured U.S. star Foluke Akinradewo could only watch. The
top-ranked Americans had fought
back to force a fifth set against
Serbia before falling short —
short of the gold-medal goal that
had driven her and others back
to the national team for one more
Olympic cycle.
Serbia’s players cried in triumph after the biggest win in their
program’s history. They reached
the Rio de Janeiro championship,
guaranteeing the country’s first
women’s volleyball medal after
a 20-25, 25-17, 25-21, 16-25, 15-13
victory.
Serbia plays Saturday night
against China, a four-set winner over the Netherlands. China
needed six set points to take the
opening frame on the way to a
hard-fought 27-25, 23-25, 29-27,
25-23.
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OLYMPICS
Lochte apologizes
for lack of candor
US swimmer accepts
responsibilty for role
in gas station incident
BY PETER PRENGAMAN,
M AURICIO SAVARESE
LUIS A NDRES H ENAO
AND
Associated Press
REBECCA BLACKWELL /AP
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt leads the field in the men’s 200-meter final on Thursday at the Summer Olympics
in Rio de Janeiro. Bolt won his third consecutive gold medal in the race.
Wins: Bolt comes up short of world record
FROM BACK PAGE
Way up ahead, Bolt gave every ounce of effort —
no hot-dogging or celebrating early as was his wont
in some of his best 100s — his arms pumping hard,
face twisted with pain and effort as he hugged the
left edge of his lane and approached the line.
He glanced to his left to check out the clock. The
time came up: 19.78. Not even the fastest 200 run
of the season. When Bolt saw it, the reaction looked
more like that of someone who’d lost than won.
“All I wanted to do was win the 200 meters one
time,” he said, dismissing the notion he was disappointed. “So, to be eight-time gold medalist is shocking. Just proves I’ve worked hard.”
As always, the after-party was great.
With chants of “Usain Bolt, Usain Bolt” ringing out across a mostly full stadium, Bolt paraded
around the track with his Jamaican flag while Bob
Marley’s “One Love” blared in the background. The
once-in-a-lifetime sprinter dropped to his knees and
kissed the track before giving his iconic “To The
World” pose.
His record in his favorite race still stands, though,
at 19.19. He set it in 2009 at the world championships
in Berlin, breaking the mark he’d set the year before
(19.30) when he burst into the Olympics in Beijing.
In the run-up to Rio, Bolt had even suggested he
could break the 19-second barrier — who will ever
do that now? — in the race he has always called his
baby. It’s the sprint he worked on from the very beginning. His coach wanted him to double in the 400,
but that went out the window when he set his first
world record in the 100 meters about two months
before the Beijing Games.
So, the 100 was his hobby, the 200 was his day job,
and when he started talking about goals for these
Games, he said immortality was the main one.
“What else can I do to the world to prove I am
the greatest? I’m trying to be one of the greatest.
Be among Ali and Pele,” Bolt said after the race. “I
hope after these games, I will be in that bracket.”
He’s there already.
“He’s a championship man, he’s an unbelievable
guy,” Lemaitre said. “And he has nothing to prove
now.”
But, oh, how that 200 record beckoned.
Why didn’t it happen?
There was a hamstring injury that forced him
out of his national championship and reshuffled the
schedule in the lead-up to the Olympics, though he
looked no worse for wear in capturing the 100 four
nights earlier.
There was that lightest coating of rain that glis-
DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP
Usain Bolt reacts to his final time of 19.78
seconds, .59 short of his own world record.
tened off the track, though there has long been debate about whether a bit of moisture can help or hurt
with speed.
There was the semifinal the night before, when de
Grasse quite brazenly made Bolt work all the way to
the line to capture the win. “Thanks to de Grasse in
the semifinals, I was tired,” Bolt said.
And, of course, he isn’t 21 anymore.
De Grasse is, and after the act he put on the night
before, it was clear he had it coming. He got it. But
his silver-medal finish — .10 ahead of Lemaitre —
goes well with the bronze he took in the 100 and may
pronounce him as the next great sprinter once Bolt
leaves the scene.
In the lead-up to the Olympics, Bolt insisted the
time is approaching. He plans to compete at the
world championships in London next summer, and
has said that will be it.
But first, Friday night, and a chance to make it
three sweeps over three Olympics, the likes of which
we may never see again.
“I’ve proven to the world I’m the greatest,” he
said. “I really put Jamaica on the map. I’ve really
got people taking a look at where the talent is coming from. I’ve done all I can do.”
RIO DE JANEIRO — U.S
Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte
has apologized for his behavior
surrounding a late-night incident
at a Rio de Janeiro gas station,
saying he should have been more
“careful and candid” about how
he described what happened.
Lochte said in a lengthy post
on Instagram Friday that he was
apologizing for his role in taking
the focus away from other Olympic athletes.
“This was a situation that could
and should have been avoided,”
Lochte said. “I accept responsibility for my role in this happening and have learned some
valuable lessons.”
The 12-time gold medalist reiterated his view that a stranger
pointed a gun at him and demanded money to let him leave. Lochte
had called it a robbery; Brazilian
police said he and three other
swimmers vandalized a gas station bathroom after a night of
partying and were confronted by
armed security guards.
“Regardless of the behavior of
anyone else that night, I should
have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and
for that am sorry,” Lochte said.
Lochte, who was silent about the
situation after he returned to the
United States earlier this week,
said he wanted to wait to share his
thoughts until the legal situation
was addressed and his teammates
were allowed to come home.
Two of the other swimmers,
Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger,
were on their way Friday after
being held in Brazil to testify. The
fourth swimmer, Jimmy Feigen,
made a deal with a judge to make
a $10,800 payment and be allowed
to leave the country later Friday,
his lawyer said.
“We accept and appreciate his
apology,” said Mario Andrada,
spokesman for the local organizers of the Rio Games.
The drama surrounding the
alleged robbery — and the everchanging descriptions of it by the
swimmers — has shocked and
deeply angered Brazilians, who
said it cast a false negative shadow on their city and their Olympics during an enormous moment.
The saga also dominated Olympic
headlines, overshadowing worthy
accomplishments of athletes who
trained for years just to get to
Rio and set records during their
performances. The situation was
an enormous embarrassment for
the U.S. Olympic team, which has
dominated in the medal count.
“There has already been too
much said and too many valuable
resources dedicated to what hap-
MICHAEL SOHN /AP
The United States’ Ryan Lochte
apologized for his role in a latenight incident at a Rio de Janeiro
gas station in a lengthy post on
Instagram on Friday.
pened last weekend, so I hope we
spend our time celebrating the
great stories and performances
of these games,” Lochte said.
Rapid developments early Friday came hours after police announced that Lochte and three of
his teammates had not been held
at gunpoint, as Lochte claimed.
Instead, Brazilian police said the
men vandalized the bathroom
while intoxicated, were questioned by guards, then paid for
the damage and left.
“No robbery was committed
against these athletes. They were
not victims of the crimes they
claimed,” Civil Police Chief Fernando Veloso said.
As Bentz and Conger flew
home Thursday night, their attorney insisted they were witnesses
only and had nothing to do with
Lochte’s story.
“They did not make any untruthful testimony. They did not
lie in their statements,” lawyer
Sergio Riera told The Associated
Press.
A lawyer for the fourth swimmer, James Feigen, said early
Friday that the athlete planned
to donate 35,000 Brazilian reals
($10,800) to an “institution” and
leave the country later in the
day. Attorney Breno Melaragno
said under the agreement, Feigen
will make the donation, get his
passport back and depart. Melaragno did not specify where the
money will go, but his use of the
term “institution” can be taken
to mean a charity. He said that
under Brazilian law, a donation
can be made to avoid criminal
prosecution for minor offenses,
but did not say what charge was
being contemplated.
The case may not be settled
even though police appear mostly
finished with their probe. Authorities are considering charges
of falsely reporting a crime and
destruction of property, both of
which can carry up to six months
in jail or a fine, police said.
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Women’s wrestling
Maroulis
wins US’
first gold
BY CLIFF BRUNT
Associated Press
M ATT SLOCUM /AP
The United States’ Tianna Bartoletta, right, gives the baton to teammate Allyson Felix during a women’s 4x100-meter relay rerun
Thursday’s night in Rio de Janeiro. The U.S. dropped the baton in the morning preliminary heat, but was awarded a rerun after
successfully filing a protest that a Brazilian runner in the lane next to Felix had interfered with the handoff of the baton.
Women’s track and field
Doing it all over again
American relay team qualifies for final after rerun
BY EDDIE PELLS
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — All by themselves
on the massive track, the four U.S. women
took their positions in Lane 2.
Tianna Bartoletta kneeled into the
blocks and waited for the starter’s pistol. It
sounded and away she went — alone — in a
first-of-its-kind Olympic relay race against
the clock.
The Americans won that contest Thursday night to earn their spot in the final
eight of the 4x100.
As is the case with so many relays the
U.S. has run over the years, this was anything but routine.
“Our coach told us before we went out
there, ‘It’s just like practice, just the whole
world will be watching,’ ” said English
Gardner.
Returning to the track 7 ½ hours after
they left, the team of Bartoletta, Allyson
Felix, Gardner and Morolake Akinosun
finished in a time of 41.77 seconds to bump
China out of the last spot in the final.
The rerun of their preliminary heat
came about after Felix, running in the
second position, got jostled by a Brazilian,
stumbled and tried, unsuccessfully, to flip
the baton ahead to Gardner.
The stick fell, and after being disquali-
M ARTIN MEISSNER /AP
The United States 4x100-meter relay
team of, from left, English Gardner,
Morolake Akinosun, Tianna Bartoletta,
and Allyson Felix leave the track after
being disqualified from a morning heat.
fied, the Americans lodged a successful
protest.
But unlike some races, in which an additional runner could simply be added to the
final, relays are limited to eight teams because there are only eight lanes that wrap
completely around the track. So, the judges
brought the Americans back to run in the
same lane, in the same order, in what USA
Track and Field said was the first rerun of
its kind in Olympic history.
Their only goal was to beat China’s
eighth-place time of 42.70 seconds, and
that was no problem for a team that had
two members — Bartoletta and Felix —
who were on the team that set the world record (40.82 seconds) at the London Games
in 2012.
The exchanges were smooth, and a few
moments after Akinosun crossed the line
in a time that not only beat China’s, but was
the best that any team had run all day, the
four runners huddled for a quick hug.
Earlier, in more-conventional news, the
U.S. men’s team coasted through the preliminaries, winning its heat in 37.65 seconds. Jamaica’s relay team also made it
through, finishing second in its heat without Usain Bolt, who was resting up for the
200-meter final later in the evening.
It puts Jamaica, and Bolt, in position for
a third straight title in the sprint relay.
RIO DE JANEIRO — It took a moment
for Helen Maroulis’ accomplishment to
sink in.
The American defeated Japan’s Saori
Yoshida 4-1 in the 53-kilogram freestyle
final to win the first-ever gold medal for a
United States women’s wrestler and derail
Yoshida’s quest for a fourth straight gold.
It evoked memories of American GrecoRoman wrestler Rulon Gardner’s victory
over three-time gold medalist Aleksandr
Karelin at the 2000 Olympics.
Maroulis celebrated Thursday’s win by
leaping into coach Valentin Kalika’s arms,
then running around the mat in a circle
and gripping the United States flag with
both hands while it was draped over her
back.
“At the end of it, I was like, ‘Really, I just
did this?’ ” she said. “Like, oh my gosh!’”
Yoshida was trying to become the second
woman to ever win four Olympic gold medals in a single event across four Summer
Games, and the second wrestler to win four
Olympic golds. Yoshida’s teammate, Kaori
Icho, accomplished the feats Wednesday
by winning the 58 kilogram gold.
“It’s an honor to wrestle Yoshida,” Maroulis said. “For someone to win three
gold medals and come back and risk that
and accept that challenge to win a fourth
— that’s another four years of work, dedication, of giving your life to the sport.”
Yoshida made no excuses after the match
when asked why she lost.
“Just that the opponent is stronger than
me,” she said. “I should have attacked
sooner and faster, but the opponent was
stronger than me.”
A dream matchup in the women’s wrestling 75 kilogram freestyle category was
ruined when the United States’ Adeline
Gray and Brazil’s Aline da Silva Ferreira
both lost in the quarterfinals.
Gray, the heavily favored three-time
world champion, lost to Vasilisa Marzaliuk
of Belarus 3-1 on Thursday.
Brazil’s crowd was fired up for da Silva
Ferreira, a silver medalist from the 2014
World Championships, but she fell behind
early and lost to Russia’s Ekaterina Bukina
4-3.
R YAN REMIORZ, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
The United States’ Helen Maroulis
celebrates Thursday after beating Japan’s
Saori Yoshida for the gold medal in the
53-kg division of women’s freestyle
wrestling in Rio de Janeiro.
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Immortality
Once-in-a-lifetime Jamaican sprinter Bolt
wins unprecedented third straight 200 gold
BY EDDIE PELLS
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO
sain Bolt tilted his head backward and
screamed. He plaintively raised his palms to
the sky, tugged hard on his shirt, then angrily
ripped the No. 6 sticker off his right hip.
It had the look of an unthinkable loss in the Olympic
200 meters.
But there’s only one opponent that can really beat
Bolt: Time.
The Jamaican superstar romped in what he says is
likely his last Olympic individual race Thursday night,
but finished in 19.78 seconds, .59 short of his own world
record — the one he said he really wanted to break.
U
‘ I’ve proven to the world I’m the
greatest. I really put Jamaica on
the map. ... I’ve done all I can do.
’
Usain Bolt
after winning his third consecutive gold medal
in the 200 meters, bringing his all-time gold medal count to 8
“I wanted to run a faster time,” said the sprinter, who
turns 30 on the night of the closing ceremony. “I knew it
was going to be hard to break the world record, because
I could tell by my legs. When I came off the corner, my
legs decided, ‘Listen, we’re not going to go any faster.’”
Hard to argue with a win, though, and Bolt has Olympic gold medal No. 8, and a third straight 200 title to go
with the same trifecta in the 100. His run for gold No. 9
comes Friday in the 4x100 relays.
All good stuff. But that expression as he crossed the
finish line told the real story.
Bolt was leading before those legs on his 6-foot-5
frame had even powered him through the first curve.
The field chased him through a thin mist that started
about 30 minutes before the race. Andre de Grasse of
Canada finished .24 behind and Christophe Lemaitre of
France squeaked out bronze by .003 over Adam Gemili
of Britain. You could’ve driven a truck through the gap
between first and second place.
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Jamaica’s Usain Bolt
celebrates winning the
gold medal in the men’s
200-meter final on
Thursday at the Summer
Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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