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Kabul police station is home
of rusting monument to years
of terrorism and bloodshed
BY M ICHAEL E. M ILLER
The Washington Post
KABUL — To understand the terror the Taliban
has wreaked upon Afghanistan, head to the outskirts of the capital, down a lane of shin-deep mud,
through mounds of garbage picked over by sheep
and street urchins, over a putrid moat and past
armed guards.
There you will find Shahrak police
station — the final resting place for
the wrecks that carried Kabul’s
car bombs.
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Wreckage from a suicide
bomber’s car sits atop other
scrap in the Shahrak police
station on the outskirts of Kabul.
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Courts confront sexual activity by HIV-positive troops
BY M ICHAEL DOYLE
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Gavin B. Atchak’s commanding officer at Seymour Johnson Air
Force Base in North Carolina ordered him
to avoid unprotected sex after Atchak tested
positive for HIV in 2011.
The officer also directed Atchak, an enlisted man in the Air Force security forces,
to inform future sex partners that he carried
the virus that can cause AIDS.
Atchak disobeyed and engaged in unprotected oral and anal sex with fellow airmen.
At a subsequent court-martial, he pleaded
guilty to aggravated assault. Then the ground
shifted.
Now Atchak and others, including a former
South Carolina-based airman, are caught
amid changing times, as military prosecutors and defense lawyers sort through the
evolving legal guidelines applicable to sexual
activity among HIV-positive troops.
While 34 states have adopted criminal laws
related to exposure to HIV, Congress has not
done the same for the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Next month, the nation’s highest military
court will review Atchak’s case. And this
week, the Air Force’s top appeals court will
review a separate court-martial conviction
involving an HIV-positive airman from South
Carolina’s Shaw Air Force Base named Adolphus A. Young III.
The Atchak and Young cases differ in several respects. Both, though, represent fallout
from a groundbreaking 2015 decision by the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
that involved an HIV-positive enlisted man at
McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan.,
named David Gutierrez.
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US exercises freedom to sail in S. China Sea
Associated Press
BANGKOK — A U.S. warship
sailed near a disputed island in
the South China Sea on Saturday
to exercise the United States’ freedom to navigate in international
waters, a defense official said.
The destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur sailed within 12 nautical miles
of Triton Island, in the Paracels
chain, without notifying the three
claimants to the surrounding seas
beforehand, according to Defense
Department spokesman Mark
Wright in Washington.
China, Taiwan and Vietnam
have claims in the Paracels and require prior notice from ships transiting in nearby waters. Wright
said the claimants’ attempts to
restrict navigational rights by requiring prior notice are inconsistent with international law.
Wright reiterated that while insisting on freedom of navigation,
the United States took no posi-
tion on the competing territorial
claims to natural islands in the
South China Sea.
In October, another U.S. warship sailed among the disputed
Spratly Islands near Subi Reef,
where China has built an artificial
island.
U.S. officials said after that operation that such ship movements
would be regular in the future.
China protested the October
sail-by strongly. It had no im-
mediate comment on Saturday’s
movements.
China says virtually the entire
South China Sea and its islands,
reefs and atolls are its sovereign
territory, although five other regional governments have overlapping claims.
The area has some of the world’s
busiest shipping lanes, and U.S.
officials say ensuring freedom of
navigation there is in U.S. national
interests.
Soldier killed in Iraq rollover accident ID’d
Stars and Stripes
The Defense Department has
identified a soldier who died
Thursday in a rollover accident
in Iraq.
Sgt. Joseph F. Stifter, 30, from
Glendale, Calif., died after his
armored Humvee was involved
in a rollover accident at al-Asad
Airbase in Anbar province, the
Defense Department said in a
statement.
The
incident
is
under
investigation.
Stifter was
assigned
to
the 1st Battalion, 7th Field
Artillery
Regiment,
1st Infantry
Division out
of Fort Riley,
Kan.
Stifter
He is survived by his
wife and daughter, The Topeka
Capital-Journal reported, citing
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.
“Sgt. Stifter was an exceptional
soldier and leader in our battalion,” said Col. Miles Brown,
commander of the 2nd ABCT,
according to local media reports.
“We are deeply saddened by the
loss of a member of the ‘Dagger’
family.”
Stifter joined the Army in May
2011 and deployed to Iraq in October, KSNT News reported.
“Sergeant Stifter bravely answered the call to serve our
country, and we will forever be
indebted to him for his service
and sacrifice on our behalf,” The
Capital-Journal quoted Moran as
saying.
Stifter was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.led coalition fighting the Islamic
State group in Iraq and Syria.
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Courts: Results of cases to shape military legal landscape, individual fates
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“Gutierrez was pivotal for HIVpositive servicemembers as it is
the first case to begin to accept,
small as it may be, the truth surrounding HIV risk, transmission
and exposure,” Ken Pinkela, military and federal projects director
for the SERO Project, a network of
people with HIV and their allies,
said Thursday.
The results of these follow-up
cases will, in turn, shape the military legal landscape as well as
individual fates for years to come.
Pinkela, a former Army lieutenant
colonel and a combat veteran, already had his aggravated as-sault
conviction reversed last November
because of the Gutierrez ruling.
Up until the decision in United States v. Gutierrez, military
courts had determined that AIDS’
presumed lethality meant an
HIV-positive individual could be
convicted of aggravated assault
simply for not telling partners of
their viral status.
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appellate judges concluded that
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for HIV Law and Policy, said of
the Gutierrez decision Thursday.
“The court acknowledged that
HIV transmission is pretty highly
unlikely for a number of acts.”
“We’re challenging what Guti-
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errez actually means,” said Air
Force Capt. Michael Schrama, an
appellate attorney for Atchak and
Young.
The ruling occurred after
Atchak had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in 2013 but before
the Air Force Court of Criminal
Appeals reviewed his case. Citing
the intervening Gutierrez decision, the Air Force appellate panel
last August dismissed Atchak’s
aggravated assault charges.
The Air Force panel noted that
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention says, “HIV transmission through oral sex has been
documented, but rare,” while the
risk of transmission from unprotected anal sex is estimated at 1
in 200.
“A risk of ‘almost zero’ or a risk
that is only ‘remotely possible’ is
not sufficient to sustain an aggravated assault conviction,” the Air
Force court reasoned.
The decision cut Atchak’s prison sentence to eight months from
36. The government appealed,
hoping for a conviction on lesser
charges of assault consummated
by a battery.
The notion of assault consummated by a battery is also at the
heart of the case involving Young,
which will be heard Tuesday by
the Air Force appeals court.
A staff sergeant while based
at Shaw, Young acknowledged in
2014 engaging in unprotected oral
sex and protected anal sex with
men to whom he had not divulged
being diagnosed as HIV-positive
in 2007. He has been receiving
medical treatment.
Government attorneys argued
in their brief that “the only question to be asked” is whether Young
had engaged in sexual relations
without first informing his partners of his HIV-positive status.
Since he did not, the government
concludes, his partners could not
knowingly consent, which means
the sexual touching amounted to
battery.
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Navy officer gets 3
years behind bars
in bribery scandal
BY CRAIG WHITLOCK
The Washington Post
TRACY BURTON /Special to Stars and Stripes
Army Spc. Brandon Garrison, shown with his wife, Lily, has been called a “compulsive liar” by his
supervisor in Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.
Untruthful vet’s service dog reclaimed
BY TRAVIS J. TRITTEN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — A Kansas
City, Kan., military charity has
reclaimed a service dog it donated to a veteran after he lied
about trying to save a fellow
soldier’s life in Afghanistan.
The group Food Industry
Serving Heroes took the Boykin
spaniel from Brandon Garrison
earlier this month after threatening legal action.
A Stars and Stripes investigation in September detailed
how Garrison, a former Army
specialist hailed as a hero in
Kansas, lied for years to Sgt.
Christopher Wilson’s mother
about being at her son’s side
when he died on the battlefield.
“In light of everything we’ve
discovered, this dog never
should have been given to [Garrison],” said Paul Chapa, a
founder of the nonprofit group.
In 2007, Wilson was deployed
to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division and was manning
a firebase when he was struck
and killed by recoilless rifle
fire in a Taliban attack. Garrison, 29, was not holding Wilson
as he died, despite the story he
told the sergeant’s mother, and
was instead in the main sleeping tent at the nearby Korengal
Outpost, where he spent his deployment inside the wire as a
vehicle parts clerk.
Chapa said his group started
an effort last fall to reclaim
‘
In light of everything we’ve discovered,
this dog never should have been given
to [Brandon Garrison].
’
WASHINGTON — A Navy officer was sentenced Friday to more
than three years in federal prison
in a sex-for-secrets scandal that
shows few signs of fading away.
Lt. Cmdr. Todd Dale Malaki was
given a 40-month prison sentence
by U.S. District Court Judge Janis
Sammartino in federal court in
San Diego after he pleaded guilty
to a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery.
In a plea agreement signed last
year, Malaki admitted to delivering classified documents on more
than a dozen occasions to a foreign
defense contractor in exchange
for a night out with a prostitute
at a Malaysian karaoke club, envelopes of cash and hotel stays in
Asia and the South Pacific. All
told, the value of the bribes was
estimated at $15,000.
Malaki is the second member
of the Navy this month to receive
a prison sentence in the epic corruption case, which has slowly unfolded since the first targets were
arrested in September 2013. On
Jan. 21, Daniel Layug, a petty officer first class, was sentenced to
27 months behind bars for leaking military secrets to the defense
contractor, Glenn Defense Marine
Asia, in exchange for cash and
electronic gadgets.
Seven other defendants — including three Navy officers and
a senior agent from the Naval
Criminal Investigative Service
— have pleaded guilty and are
awaiting sentencing. Charges are
pending against a senior Pentagon civilian official and a former
Navy contracting official living in
Singapore.
Meantime, more than 100 other
people remain under investigation
for potential criminal, financial or
ethical violations.
Among them: two admirals in
charge of Navy intelligence. Three
other admirals have also received
official censures from the Navy
for dining at extravagant banquets
and accepting other gifts from
Leonard Glenn Francis, or “Fat
Leonard,” a Malaysian citizen and
the boss of Glenn Defense Marine
Asia.
For nearly a quarter-century,
the company did a rich business
with the Navy by providing fuel,
water and supplies for its vessels
at ports throughout Asia.
According to his plea agreement, Malaki started feeding sensitive material to Francis in 2006,
when the sailor was a supply officer and logistics planner for the
Navy’s 7th Fleet, based in Japan.
At first, the documents show,
Malaki gave Francis proprietary
information revealing the prices
charged by his competitors so he
could get a leg up in bidding for
future Navy contracts. Later, he
handed over classified documents
detailing planned Navy ship movements throughout Asia.
Paul Chapa
founder of the military charity Food Industry Service Heroes
the dog, named Ralfie. Service
dogs are costly, and the charity
pays about $7,000 to $8,000 for
each one, he said.
At first, the charity contacted
Garrison with a letter stating it
wanted to give Ralfie to a more
deserving veteran. Then, an attorney met with the former soldier earlier this month.
“It took us reaching out to an
attorney and the attorney taking the case pro bono. … He
(Garrison) relented and said,
‘Yeah, come and get the dog,’ ”
Chapa said.
A Marine in California is now
in line to become Ralfie’s new
owner. He will fly to Kansas
City to work with Ralfie before
talking him home, Chapa said.
Garrison could not immediately be reached for this story.
He told Stars and Stripes in August that the lie about Wilson’s
death felt real to him and that
the Army should not have sent
him to the Korengal Valley because he had emotional issues.
In Kansas, Garrison was
known as a combat veteran who
walks with a cane and has been
diagnosed with post-traumat-
ic stress disorder, traumatic
brain injury and other health
problems that he claims are
related to burn-pit exposure.
Along with the service dog, he
received a donated home based
on his status as an honorably
discharged veteran.
He supplied a Department
of Veterans Affairs document
showing he is rated as 70 percent disabled for anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress
disorder with depression, and
he has a 10 percent disability
rating for “residuals of traumatic brain injury.”
The Army determined PTSD
and a borderline personality disorder made him unfit for
duty following his Afghanistan
deployment in 2007.
But Garrison’s fellow 10th
Mountain Division soldiers,
who were outraged by his lie
about Wilson, said he was a
lackluster soldier who embellished his combat injuries. His
supervisor in Korengal Valley
called him a “compulsive liar.”
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Short prison sentences for 2
linked to Navy silencer deal
BY M ATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Even
in the Byzantine world of government contracting, this particular
deal stood out: $1.7 million to build
350 untraceable assault-rifle silencers for the Navy, awarded on a
no-bid basis to a race-car mechanic whose brother happened to be a
naval official pushing the deal.
Now, two men who helped engineer the deal have been sentenced to prison, albeit for terms
far shorter than prosecutors had
sought.
Mark Landersman, of Temecula, Calif., the mechanic who
received the no-bid contract, was
sentenced to 60 days in prison
Friday at U.S. District Court in
Alexandria, Va. Ex-naval intelligence officer Lee Hall, of Sterling,
Va., who was convicted of theft of
government money for pushing
the contract through, received six
months.
Hall’s boss at the Navy was
Landersman’s brother, David
Landersman. He faces separate
charges and hasn’t gone to trial.
Prosecutors
sought
prison
terms of four to five years. The defendants asked for no time.
Trial testimony indicated Landersman was paid $1.7 million for
silencers that cost only $10,000
to build. Tests showed that the
silencers actually enhanced light
and sound when weapons were
fired.
The two argued that the silencers were needed for a classified project. But the defense was
unable to convince U.S. District
Judge Leonie Brinkema, who convicted the two in 2014 at a bench
trial. Brinkema said that if there
were really a need for untraceable
silencers, she couldn’t understand
why the boxes, after they were delivered, sat in an office for months
unclaimed.
“This is a case with a high-level
government official, in a very sensitive position, who allowed almost
$2 million of government money
to be wasted,” she said before sentencing Hall.
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Metal: Officials concerned over uptick in suicide attacks
FROM FRONT PAGE
Here lie the charred husks of more than
a dozen vehicles. Like exhibits in a macabre
museum, the ruined cars recall the violence
that has consumed the city in recent years.
To one side sits the skeleton of a Taliban
truck bomb that targeted the Afghan parliament. Nearby, a suicide bomber’s scorched
turban slowly fades in the sunlight.
Years of pain are piled up at Shahrak.
“We are used to it by now,” said police
officer Miragha Gulbahari, holding the
turban up for a reporter to see. “We have
seen a lot of terrible things.”
Afghans are hoping the terror ends soon.
On Jan. 18, officials from Afghanistan,
Pakistan, China and the United States met
for the second time to plan a tentative peace
process. Afterward, the four countries said
in a statement that they had “made progress on a road map toward initiating peace
talks with Taliban groups.”
But Shahrak stands as a stark reminder
of how far Afghanistan has to go and how
hard it will be to strike a deal with the
Taliban.
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AND A DAM G OLDMAN
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BY
MICHAEL E. MILLER /The Washington Post
A vehicle, destroyed when its driver detonated his suicide vest near the Kabul airport
on Jan. 4, now sits in Shahrak police station on the outskirts of Kabul.
Security ‘deteriorating’
In contrast to several cities overrun by
the Islamists in 2015, Kabul has remained
firmly under government control since the
Taliban fled in 2001. Yet a glance around
this vehicular graveyard shows that even
the capital is now well within the Taliban’s
deadly reach.
“This one happened about a week ago,”
said a young police officer, pointing to a
shredded white Toyota Corolla. The driver
had detonated his suicide vest on Jan. 4
near the Kabul airport but managed to kill
only himself. A few hours later in almost
exactly the same spot, a powerful Taliban
truck bomb proved deadlier, killing one
bystander, injuring dozens, shattering concrete blast walls and leaving a 15-foot crater in the road.
The double blasts brought the week’s
tally of car bombs to four, including another Taliban attack near the airport and
a Taliban siege of an upscale restaurant
frequented by foreigners and Afghan officials. Authorities said the string of attacks
was both seasonal and a “negotiating tactic” ahead of peace talks.
“Whenever the summer is gone, we have
a decrease in attacks in the provinces, and
then the cities become the target,” said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi.
“And whenever you hear about peace talks,
you also see an increase in attacks.”
But the recent uptick in suicide attacks
in Kabul has left officials and analysts
concerned.
“We have witnessed far more suicide
attacks than in the past,” said Atiqullah
Amarkhail, a retired general who is now
a security analyst in Kabul. “The security
situation is deteriorating.”
Sediqqi said having four car-bomb attacks in one week was “worrying.”
“Imagine how they get ready for this,
how they prepare themselves for this, how
they assemble all these explosives in a
truck and bring them,” he said.
Sediqqi, whose ministry presides over
local and national police, said car bombs
continue to stump his officers.
“There is a big possibility that they make
these bombs in some areas surrounding
Kabul,” he said, “but we do not know exactly where they come from or how they
get here.”
Wherever they come from, many of the
DOD won’t
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Petraeus
in scandal
Police officer Miragha Gulbahari picks up
a rocket-propelled grenade Jan. 13 from
inside a charred minivan the Taliban used
to target the Afghan parliament building
last year in the Shahrak police station on
the outskirts of Kabu.
cars eventually end up here in Shahrak.
So, too, do the vehicles that were on the
streets near the explosions.
“If the car bomb goes off inside the city,
they bring the wreckage here so it doesn’t
disturb people,” Gulbahari said. “If it happens outside the city, they just throw it on
the side of the road.”
Inured to bloodshed
Bystanders lucky enough to survive suicide bombings sometimes come to Shahrak to claim their damaged cars, he said.
A blue delivery truck with its windows
shattered and back blown off awaited its
owner, a scorched load of charcoal still visible inside.
Cars belonging to the suicide bombers
normally arrive in much worse shape. The
twisted mounds of metal look more like
avant-garde sculptures than automobiles,
but they are stained with blood.
“Sometimes, when the cars arrive here,
they still have human bits inside, usually
belonging to the suicide bombers,” said
Gulbahari, a veteran traffic officer with
a thick mustache and blunt delivery. “In
Afghanistan, police officers have to be like
doctors. We don’t get affected by the bloodshed anymore.”
In addition to the wreckage from car
bombs, the station’s sprawling grounds
also store thousands of vehicles towed after
traffic accidents or for infractions. In fact,
so many vehicles have suddenly disap-
peared only to end up impounded here that
Kabul residents have wryly given Shahrak
the nickname “Guantanamo.”
Gulbahari gave a reporter a tour of the
torched debris. He began with the Corolla
that detonated near the airport, then pointed to an unrecognizable chunk of metal: the
remnants of a car bomb that had targeted
Shukria Barakzai, an outspoken member
of parliament who ran a secret school for
girls during the Taliban’s reign. Three civilians died in the November 2014 blast,
and Barakzai survived “only by magic,”
she told The Washington Post at the time.
Gulbahari stopped next to two charred
cars, one stacked atop the other. The one
on the bottom was damaged by a suicide
attack last year, he said. The one on the top
exploded near Shahrak several months ago
after someone attached a magnetic bomb
to its underbelly, killing the driver.
The tour ended with a grisly finale: a
minivan burned down to a brown metallic shell. Last summer, the Taliban loaded
the van with explosives and drove it toward
the Afghan parliament building. When security forces shot at the attackers, the van
exploded, rattling parliament and sending
politicians scrambling for cover. After the
blast, Taliban gunmen broke into the building but were killed by guards.
Even that powerful explosion was not
the worst Gulbahari has seen, he said. The
most devastating car bomb was used in
a 2013 attack on the Supreme Court that
killed 17 people and wounded at least 39.
Shahrak captures the strange limbo in
which Kabul residents now live. Like peace
talks, the front lines in the conflict with the
Taliban are still far away. Yet the Islamists
nonetheless are able to sow uncertainty in
the capital, periodically puncturing everyday life with frightening suicide attacks.
A mix of anxiety and resignation washed
over Najib Ullah, 25, as he stood in Shahrak’s muck-filled lot. The taxi driver had
come here to retrieve his red Corolla station wagon only to discover it was boxed in
by an abandoned bus.
As he waited for help, his eyes fell on the
mangled wreckage of the airport bombing. Ullah had often passed the smoldering
aftermath of car bombs while driving passengers on the highway, but he had never
seen one so close up.
“Everywhere we go,” he said, “we have
to be careful.”
The Washington Post
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has decided not to impose any further punishment on David Petraeus, the former CIA
director and retired Army general who
was forced to resign in a sex-and-secrets
scandal in 2012.
In a brief letter sent Friday to the leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon reported that Carter had
agreed with the Army’s recommendation
not to discipline Petraeus.
“Given the Army’s review, Secretary
Carter considers this matter closed,” Stephen C. Hedger, the assistant secretary
of defense for legislative affairs, wrote in
the three-sentence letter, obtained by The
Washington Post.
The Pentagon letter was addressed
to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen.
Jack Reed, D-R.I., the chairman and the
top Democrat, respectively, of the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
In a public letter of their own on Jan. 20,
the senators had urged Carter to let the Petraeus matter lie and to allow him to keep
the four-star rank he had earned during
his long career in the Army.
After a lengthy investigation by the FBI
that disgraced the onetime military hero,
Petraeus pleaded guilty in April in federal
court in North Carolina to a misdemeanor
charge of mishandling classified materials. He received two years of probation and
a $100,000 fine.
Petraeus’ civilian sentence, however, did
not necessarily exempt him from further
punishment at the hands of the military.
Although he retired from the Army in 2011
to take the top job at the CIA, under the
Uniform Code of Military Justice, he still
could have faced discipline for his actions.
Under military law, Carter could have
imposed a range of disciplinary measures,
from issuing a nonbinding letter of concern about Petraeus’ actions to demoting
him from his current rank as a retired
four-star general.
Petraeus’ attorney, David Kendell, declined to comment Saturday on the outcome of the case.
As part of Petraeus’ plea deal with the
Justice Department, he admitted in a
signed statement that he had committed
wrongdoing while he was still in the Army
before he retired in 2011 to take charge of
the CIA.
Specifically, Petraeus acknowledged
providing eight notebooks that contained
highly classified material to his biographer,
Paula Broadwell, in the waning days of his
Army career. Petraeus also has admitted
to having an affair with Broadwell.
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WAR ON TERRORISM
SCENES THAT ‘HAUNT THE SOUL’
Hunger grips millions
across the Mideast
BY ZEINA K ARAM
Associated Press
BEIRUT
n a Middle East torn apart
by war and conflict, fighters
are increasingly using food
as a weapon of war.
Millions of people across countries like Syria, Yemen and Iraq
are gripped by hunger, struggling
to survive with little help from
the outside world. Children suffer
from severe malnutrition, their
parents often having to beg or sell
possessions to get basic commodities including water, medicine and
fuel.
The biggest humanitarian catastrophe by far is Syria, where
a ruinous five-year civil war has
killed a quarter of a million people
and displaced half the population. All sides in the conflict have
used punishing blockades to force
submission and surrender from
the other side — a tactic that has
proved effective, particularly for
government forces seeking to pacify opposition-held areas around
the capital, Damascus.
Humanitarian teams who recently entered a besieged Syrian
town witnessed scenes that “haunt
the soul,” said Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon. He accused both the
government of President Bashar
Assad and the rebels fighting to
oust him of using starvation as a
weapon, calling it a war crime.
Although sieges are an accepted military practice that are often
carried out by forces seeking to
avoid intense urban conflict, the
conduct of forces carrying them
out and their behavior toward civilian populations are regulated
by international humanitarian
law.
The U.N. and aid agencies have
struggled with funding shortages
and growing impediments to the
delivery of humanitarian assistance despite Security Council
resolutions insisting on the unconditional delivery of aid across
front lines.
In Yemen, the Arab world’s
most impoverished nation, nearly
half of the country’s 22 provinces
are ranked as one step away from
famine conditions.
Here’s a look at major areas in
the Middle East under siege or
suffering starvation:
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H ANI MOHAMMED/AP
A doctor touches a malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center in a hospital in Sanaa,
Yemen. In the Arab world’s most impoverished nation, nearly half of the country’s 22 provinces are
ranked as one step away from famine.
K ARIM K ADIM /AP
A displaced girl waits for donated food at the al-Takia camp
in Baghdad.
Syria
The United Nations estimates
that more than 400,000 people
are besieged in 15 communities
across Syria, roughly half of them
in areas controlled by the Islamic
State group. In 2014, the U.N. was
able to deliver food to about 5 percent of people in besieged areas,
while today estimates show the
organization is reaching less than
1 percent.
In 2015, the World Food Program was forced to reduce the
size of the food rations it provides
to families inside Syria by up to
25 percent because of a funding
shortfall. The agency says it has
A LICE M ARTINS/AP
A Syrian boy walks in the
Kawergosk refugee camp
in northern Iraq carrying a
plate with boiled potatoes.
to raise $25 million every week to
meet the basic food needs of people
affected by the Syrian conflict.
Some of the hardest hit blockaded areas in Syria are:
Madaya, a town northeast of
Damascus with a population of
40,000, has been besieged by government and allied militiamen for
months and gained international
attention after harrowing pictures
emerged showing emaciated children. Doctors Without Borders
says 28 people have died of starvation in Madaya since September.
Two convoys of humanitarian aid
were delivered to the town a little
over a week ago. Aid workers who
entered described seeing skeletal
figures; children who could barely
talk or walk, and parents who gave
their kids sleeping pills to calm
their hunger.
Fouaa and Kfarya, two Shiite
villages in the northern province
of Idlib with a combined population of around 20,000, have been
blockaded by rebels for more than
a year. Pro-government fighters
recently evacuated from the villages describe desperate conditions there with scarce food and
medicine, saying some residents
are eating grass to survive and
undergoing surgery without anesthesia. Aid convoys entered the
villages simultaneously with the
aid to Madaya after monthslong
negotiations between the government and armed groups.
Deir el-Zour has an estimated
200,000 people living in its government-held parts who are besieged
by the Islamic State group. The
U.N. says most of the residents are
women and children facing sharply deteriorating conditions due to
the ban on all commercial or humanitarian access, as well as the
inability of residents to move outside of the city. While government
stocks continue to provide bread,
there are severe shortages of food,
medicine and basic commodities. Opposition activists say they
have documented the death of 27
people from malnutrition. Water
is available only once a week for a
few hours.
Yemen
The humanitarian situation has
dramatically deteriorated nearly
300 days after the Saudi-led coalition began its air campaign aimed
at driving Yemen’s Shiite rebels
from cities under their control.
Coalition naval ships are blockading traffic in Yemen’s ports,
and rebels are besieging several
areas, particularly the southern
city of Taiz.
Some 14.4 million Yemenis,
more than half of the population,
are food-insecure, an increase of
12 percent in the last eight months,
the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture
Organization said Thursday. In
late December, the WFP said 7.8
million of Yemen’s 24 million peo-
ple are in even more dire condition, “facing life-threatening rates
of acute malnutrition.” It said 10
of the country’s 22 provinces are
in “the grip of severe food insecurity” at the “emergency” level,
one step short of famine on the
agency’s five-level scale of food
security.
In Taiz, with a population of
about 250,000, residents have been
going hungry for weeks, the WFP
said. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen,
Jamie McGoldrick, said recently
that basic services in Taiz are
scarce, including access to water
and fuel.
The severe shortage of food,
fuel and medicine across Yemen
led to an increase in the number
of children suffering from malnutrition, while the destruction of
health facilities treating them led
to deaths.
Some 3 million children under 5
years old require services to treat
or prevent malnutrition, according
to a UNICEF report on Jan. 13.
Iraq
Massive population shifts in
Iraq due to violence has made it
more difficult for millions of people to access food, medicine and
safe drinking water. More than 3
million Iraqis are displaced within the country by violence and
instability.
“They’ve lost their livelihoods,
their jobs, and hunger and the inability to purchase food is a reality in their everyday life,” said
Marwa Awad, with the WFP. In
total, 8.2 million Iraqis are in need
of humanitarian assistance: food,
water, shelter or medicine, she
said.
Ongoing violence in many of
Iraq’s provinces that are also
home to people who have been uprooted by conflict is of the greatest
concern, Awad said. In Anbar, Ninevah and Salahuddin, the price
of food has risen by as much as
38 percent in the last month, and
in some cases, the Iraqi government has had to airlift families
out of towns and villages besieged
by fighting between Iraqi government forces and Islamic State
group fighters.
In Ramadi, families who had
been held by Islamic State fighters as human shields said they
survived for days on just rice and
flour.
While conflict in Iraq hasn’t led
to cases of starvation, Awad said
the WFP has seen an increase in
cases of malnutrition as people eat
less to conserve the little food they
do have.
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22 Clinton emails
are ‘top secret’
BY BRADLEY K LAPPER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration has confirmed
for the first time that Hillary
Clinton’s home server contained
closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails that
contained material requiring one
of the highest levels of classification. The revelation came three
days before Clinton competes in
the Iowa presidential caucuses.
State Department officials also
said the agency’s Diplomatic Security, and Intelligence and Research bureaus are investigating
if any of the information was classified at the time of transmission,
going to the heart of Clinton’s defense of her email practices.
The department published its
latest batch of emails from her
time as secretary of state Friday.
But The Associated Press
learned ahead of the release
that seven email chains would
be withheld in full for containing “top secret” information. The
37 pages include messages a key
intelligence official recently said
concerned “special access programs” — highly restricted, classified material that could point to
confidential sources or clandestine programs like drone strikes.
“The documents are being upgraded at the request of the intelligence community because they
contain a category of top secret
information,” State Department
spokesman John Kirby told the
AP, calling the withholding of documents in full “not unusual.” That
means they won’t be published
online with others being released,
even with blacked-out boxes.
Department officials wouldn’t
describe the substance of the
emails, or say if Clinton sent any.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, insists she
never sent or received information on her personal email account
that was classified at the time.
No emails released so far were
marked classified, but reviewers
previously designated more than
1,000 messages at lower classification levels. Friday’s will be the
first at top secret level.
Even if Clinton didn’t write or
forward the messages, she still
would have been required to report any classification slippages
she recognized in emails she received. But without classification
markings, that might have been
difficult, especially if the information was publicly available.
“We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of
these emails,” Clinton campaign
spokesman Brian Fallon said.
“Since first providing her emails
to the State Department more
than one year ago, Hillary Clinton has urged that they be made
available to the public. We feel no
differently today.”
Fallon said the documents originated in the State Department’s
unclassified system before they
ever reached Clinton, and “in at
least one case, the emails appear
to involve information from a
published news article.”
“This appears to be overclassification run amok,” Fallon said.
Kirby said the State Department was focused, as part of a
Freedom of Information Act
review of Clinton’s emails, on
“whether they need to be classified today.” Past classification
questions, he said, “are being,
and will be, handled separately
by the State Department.”
Department responses for
classification infractions could
include counseling, warnings or
other action, officials said. They
wouldn’t say if Clinton or senior
aides who’ve since left government could face penalties.
Separately, Kirby said the department withheld eight email
chains, totaling 18 messages, between President Barack Obama
and Clinton. These are remaining confidential “to protect the
president’s ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel,”
and will be released eventually
like other presidential records.
The emails have been a Clinton
campaign issue since 10 months
ago, when the AP discovered
her exclusive use of a homebrew
email server in the basement
of her family’s New York home.
A NDREW H ARNIK /AP
The Obama administration confirmed that the server used by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
shown at a Friday campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa, contained classified information.
Doing so wasn’t expressly forbidden. Clinton first called it a matter
of convenience, then a mistake.
In March, Clinton and the State
Department said no business
conducted in the emails included top-secret matters. Both said
her account was never hacked or
compromised, which security experts assess as unlikely.
Clinton and the department
claimed the vast majority of her
emails were preserved properly
for archiving because she corresponded mainly with government
accounts. They’ve backtracked
from that claim in recent months.
The special access programs
emails surfaced last week, when
I. Charles McCullough, lead auditor for U.S. intelligence agencies,
told Congress he found some in
Clinton’s account.
Kirby confirmed the “deniedin-full emails” are among those
McCullough cited. He said one
was among those McCullough
identified last summer as possibly
containing top secret information.
The AP reported in August that
one focused on a forwarded news
article about the CIA’s classified
U.S. drone program. The other
concerned North Korean nuclear
weapons programs, according to
officials.
At the time, several officials
from different agencies suggested
the disagreement over the drone
emails reflected a tendency to
overclassify material, and a lack
of consistent classification poli-
cies across government.
The FBI also is looking into
Clinton’s email setup, but has
said nothing about the nature of
its probe. Independent experts
say it’s unlikely Clinton will be
charged with wrongdoing, based
on details that have surfaced so
far and the lack of indications she
intended to break laws.
Legal questions aside, it’s the
potential political costs that probably more concern Clinton. She
has struggled in surveys measuring perceived trustworthiness and
any investigation, buoyed by evidence of top secret material coursing through her account, could
negate a main selling point for her
becoming commander in chief:
her national security resume.
A look at federal cases handling classified information
BY ERIC T UCKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — News that Hillary Clinton’s home email server contained top-secret
messages brings renewed attention to the security of her mail system and to the regulations that control classified information.
The disclosure could expose her to more
serious legal problems.
FBI Director James Comey, whose agency is looking into the setup of the server, has
said only that the investigation is being conducted without regard for politics.
Stephen Vladeck, an American University law professor and national security law
expert, said it would be a stretch, based on
what’s now known, to think Clinton could be
charged under any existing statute.
When the Justice Department does pursue a case, it often relies on a statute that
bars the unlawful removal and retention
of classified documents. That low-level
charge, meant for cases in which defendants improperly hold onto information that
they know to be classified, carries a fine and
maximum yearlong prison sentence.
Much more serious is another statute that
makes it illegal to knowingly disclose classified information to someone who’s not authorized to receive it.
Investigators invariably take into account
questions of knowledge, damage to national
security, who sent, received or stored the
information and whether the material was
classified at the time of transmission.
Some examples of past cases concerning
classified information:
David Petraeus
Sandy Berger
The best-known recent prosecution involves former CIA Director David Petraeus,
who pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor count of unlawful removal and retention of classified materials. He was given
two years’ probation.
The retired four-star Army general admitted that he loaned his biographer, Paula
Broadwell, with whom he was having an
affair, eight binders containing highly classified information regarding war strategy,
intelligence capabilities and identities of
covert officers. Petraeus kept the binders
in an unlocked desk drawer at his home, instead of a secure facility that’s required for
handling classified material.
The Petraeus plea deal makes clear that
he knew the information he provided was
classified.
Berger was the national security adviser during Clinton’s second term, but after
leaving office found himself in trouble for
destroying classified documents.
Berger, who died in December at age 70,
pleaded guilty in 2005 to illegally sneaking classified documents from the National
Archives by stuffing papers in his suit. He
later destroyed some of them in his office
and lied about it. The materials related to
terror threats in the United States during
the 2000 millennium celebration.
He avoided prison time but lost access to
classified material for three years.
A judge fined him $50,000, higher than
the amount recommended by prosecutors.
John Deutch
The director of the Central Intelligence
Agency from May 1995 until December
1996, Deutch came under DOJ investigation after his resignation when classified
material was found on his home computer.
An internal CIA investigation found that
he stored and processed hundreds of files
of highly classified material on unprotected
home computers that he and family members also used to connect to the Internet.
Deutch apologized for his actions and was
pardoned by President Bill Clinton before
the DOJ could file a misdemeanor plea deal
for mishandling government secrets.
Bryan Nishimura
Nishimura, a former Naval reservist in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008 and a regional
engineer for the U.S. military, was investigated for downloading and storing classified
information on personal electronic devices.
Prosecutors say he carried the materials
with him off-base in Afghanistan and took
classified Army records to his home in Folsom, Calif., after his deployment ended.
His lawyer, William Portanova, said his
client never intended to break the law but
was a “pack rat” who thought nothing of
warehousing Army records at home alongside personal belongings.
A judge fined him $7,500, and he was ordered to surrender his security clearance.
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US, its politics in flux
as 2016 voting begins
BY JULIE PACE
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — First there was
the promise of political change in Barack
Obama’s historic 2008 election. Then the
pledge to upend Washington’s ways after
the 2010 tea party wave.
But for some Americans, the change and
disruption have come too slowly, or failed
altogether. On the eve of the first contest
on the 2016 presidential election calendar,
these voters are pushing for bolder, more
uncompromising action, with an intensity
that has shaken both the
ANALYSIS Republican and Democratic establishments.
Candidates
named
Bush and Clinton — members of America’s
elite political families — and others with
deep ties to party leadership have been
unexpectedly challenged by a billionaire
businessman-turned-reality television star,
a young senator loathed by GOP leaders
and an unabashed democratic socialist.
“A lot of people feel like the status quo is
a machine that’s grinding them down,” said
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. “They are
gravitating toward candidates that are disruptive and promising massive change.”
Indeed, the campaigns of Republicans
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, as well as
Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders,
have been fueled for months by anger,
frustration and anxiety over an economic
and national security landscape that is undeniably in flux — and a political system
some voters believe is unwilling or unable
to meet new challenges.
Wages have barely budged and the costs
for housing, education and health care are
soaring. The country is more racially and
ethnically diverse than at any point in its
history, with census data projecting white
Americans will make up less than half the
population by mid-century. New terrorist
threats emanating from the Middle East
feel both confusing and very close to home.
Monday’s Iowa caucuses will offer the
first hard evidence of whether the outsider
candidates can turn the energy around
their campaigns into votes. On the Republican side, Trump and Cruz have been battling for supremacy in Iowa. Sanders has
been cutting into Democratic front-runner
Hillary Clinton’s lead.
Sanders, an independent senator from
Vermont who caucuses with Democrats on
Capitol Hill, has spent years railing against
the influence of wealthy and corporate interests on American politics. Yet even he
said he’s surprised by what’s happening.
“My gut told me that this message would
resonate with the American people, but to
be honest with you, it has resonated stronger and faster than I thought it would,”
Sanders told The Associated Press.
Americans’ worries about the country’s
trajectory are not new. For years, surveys
have shown a large majority of Americans
say the country is headed in the wrong
direction.
But that sentiment now appears to be
disproportionately driven by frustration
with politics and the political system, especially among Republicans.
A recent Associated Press-GfK poll
showed that among the 74 percent of Americans with a negative view of the country’s
direction, 51 percent of Republicans and
38 percent of Democrats listed at least one
political reason for their negative outlook
— far more than listed an economic or foreign policy-related reason.
No candidate has tapped into the public’s
disillusionment with politics better than
Trump.
The real estate mogul’s comments about
Mexicans, Muslims and women are seen by
his supporters as a welcome change from
most candidates’ careful political correctness. He’s also eschewed most of the trappings of modern presidential campaigns,
including super political action committees
and other high-dollar fundraising, which
has only strengthened his appeal with voters who distrust career politicians.
“It’s harder and harder to believe in an
establishment guy who’s so polished,” said
Wayne Magoon, 72, from Exeter, N.H.,
who described himself as a lifelong Republican. “I don’t vote for establishment guys
who are too glossy.”
Cruz has tapped into a similar antiestablishment sentiment. Despite being in
the Senate, Cruz is loathed by most GOP
leaders and has aligned himself with Republicans who believe party elites made
lofty promises to win the House in 2010 and
NICKI KOHL , (DUBUQUE, IOWA ) TELEGRAPH HERALD/AP
Attendees show their support for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie
Sanders, I-Vt., during a campaign stop Friday in Dubuque, Iowa.
the Senate in 2014, then ignored the will of
the voters who drove those victories.
There’s still uncertainty in some Republican circles about whether Trump
can turn his legion of fans into voters, or
whether Cruz can overcome a wall of opposition from party leaders eager to block
his path to the nomination.
Yet there’s just as much uncertainty
about what it will take to top them.
After all, a combined $129 million in
television and radio advertising by the campaigns and outside groups backing more
mainstream candidates — Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie — hasn’t put any of them in
position to win Iowa or New Hampshire.
The majority of the money — about $112
million— has come from super PACs,
like the Bush-aligned Right to Rise USA,
and dark money groups, like the Rubiosupporting Conservative Solutions Project, according to data from the Campaign
Media Analysis Group of Kantar Media.
It’s not just Republicans grappling with a
disillusioned electorate.
Clinton entered the Democratic race with
all of the institutional advantages: broad
support within her party’s leadership, a
robust donor network and a sophisticated
campaign operation. Most Democrats who
were seen as potentially tough challengers decided against a run, including Vice
President Joe Biden.
But Clinton allies say the front-runner
was caught off guard by Sanders’ appeal in
the early-voting states, where he’s drawing
large crowds with his calls for economic
equality.
“He reminds me of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt,” said Mike Ray, 67, of Clinton, Iowa. “He’s for the people, not for the
corporations.”
At the heart of the fight between Clinton
and Sanders is how much the government
should do to ease economic burdens for the
middle class.
With U.S. workers hampered by $1.3
trillion in student debt, Sanders wants to
make tuition at public colleges and universities free. Clinton wants to lessen the burden of the student loan repayment system
and to create incentives for institutions to
lower costs.
With prescription drug costs soaring
11.4 percent in 2014 — more than five
times faster than growth in average hourly
wages — Clinton wants to cap out-of-pocket drug costs at $250 per month. Sanders
wants to change to a single-payer health
care system that he says would lower overall health care costs, even including the tax
hike to help pay for the program.
McCaskill, the Missouri senator, says
Sanders is running on “promises that in
his gut he’s got to know can’t be kept.”
The Republican establishment makes the
same argument about Trump’s proposals
to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border
or block all Muslims from entering the U.S.
as a way to combat terrorism.
But all that matters is whether voters
believe the candidates’ plans can fly — or
whether that factors into their vote at all.
Soon, they’ll have their say.
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1 escaped inmate caught, 2 sought in N. Calif.
BY GILLIAN FLACCUS AND A MY TAXIN
Associated Press
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The first major
break in the hunt for three dangerous jail
inmates came exactly a week after their
escape, when one of them walked up to
a Southern California auto shop where
a friend works, had her call police and
stood and smoked a cigarette until he was
arrested.
He then told investigators that a day earlier he had been in Northern California
with the other two inmates before breaking off to turn himself in, setting off a statewide search, authorities said.
Bac Duong, 43, is in custody and is cooperating with authorities, Orange County
sheriff’s spokesman Jeff Hallock said Friday. His two former companions, Jonathan
Tieu, 20, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, are believed to be in San Jose and driving a van
that the men stole a day after their escape.
They may be on their way to Fresno, Hallock said.
“If they are watching, we want them to
understand that we are pressing forward,
and we are coming after them,” Hallock
said at a news conference, addressing the
escapees directly for the first time. “We
will take you back into custody.”
Duong was taken into custody in Santa
Ana, where the trio made their brazen escape Jan. 22 from the maximum-security
facility, authorities said.
It’s not clear how he got back to Southern
California from San Jose, but early Friday,
Duong contacted a woman he knew at the
auto electric repair shop just a few miles
away from the jail, authorities and witnesses said.
Lee Tran, whose family owns Auto Electric Rebuilders, said Duong came to the
shop looking for Tran’s sister, Theresa, and
told her that he wanted to surrender.
“He was scared for his life, pretty much,”
Tran said. “That’s why he asked one of our
people to turn him in.”
Tran said his sister called 911, and Duong
stayed outside until authorities came.
“She was crying her head off,” said
Trach Tran, her father, who was also there.
“Everybody was scared.”
Lee Tran said his sister’s boyfriend
knows Duong, and federal authorities had
come by to speak with her earlier this week
because she might have visited Duong in
jail.
Shortly after the late-morning arrest, a
team of well-armed officers in protective
vests swarmed the business.
Tieu and Nayeri are believed to be still
together in a white utility van the fugitives
stole a day after the escape, and they could
be headed to Fresno, where there may be
an associate who can help them, Hallock
said.
The three men all had been awaiting trial
for separate violent crimes at the Central
Men’s Jail. They were held in a dormitory
with about 65 other men in the jail about 30
miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Prosecutors use Ore.
refuge occupiers’ own
words against them
BY TERRENCE PETTY
AND STEVEN D UBOIS
Associated Press
ROB G RIFFITH /AP
World Marathon Challenge winners Becca Pizzi, left, from Belmont, Mass., and Daniel Cartica, from
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., hold an American flag Saturday after the seventh and final leg of the World
Marathon Challenge in Sydney, Australia.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The main
leaders of the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge
have been denied pretrial release
as prosecutors used their own
words on social media and videos
against them to argue that they
were a danger to the community.
Ammon Bundy, the principal
leader of the group that seized
the Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge nearly a month ago, and
others used the platforms to summon armed recruits to join their
takeover of the refuge.
Court documents against the
11 occupiers under arrest show
that FBI agents have scrutinized
social media postings, interviews
and online talk shows that were
broadcast during the standoff
that began Jan. 2
Bundy and several other jailed
leaders appeared Friday in federal court in Portland, where a
judge denied their release. U.S.
Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman said Bundy, brother Ryan
Bundy and Ryan Payne pose a
danger to the community, and she
is concerned they would not follow orders to return to Oregon for
criminal proceedings.
The only woman arrested so
far in the standoff at an Oregon
wildlife refuge, Shawna Cox, will
be allowed to go home while her
case makes its way through the
court system. But Beckerman
said that won’t happen until after
the armed occupation ends.
Four holdouts continued to occupy the refuge in the snowy high
country near Burns, and they
posted a YouTube video Friday
demanding pardons for everyone
involved in the occupation.
2 from US join elite marathon club:
7 races in 7 days on 7 continents Flint residents warned
BY WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press
BOSTON — Two American endurance athletes have redefined
the meaning of the term “globetrotter” by running seven marathons in seven days on all seven
continents.
And they both did it in worldrecord time.
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Daniel Cartica, of Chicago, and Becca
Pizzi, of Belmont, Mass., won the
World Marathon Challenge on
Friday — the first U.S. competitors to sweep the strength-sapping event.
Cartica and Pizzi, a day care
center operator, finished with a
beachfront marathon in Sydney.
They and 13 others began Jan. 23
with a marathon in Antarctica,
where the subzero temperatures
caused Pizzi’s iPod to freeze and
burst.
In between, on consecutive
days, they ran 26.2 miles in Chile,
Miami, Spain, Morocco and the
United Arab Emirates. Cartica
averaged about 3 hours, 33 minutes per marathon, with an event
best of 3:12:46 in Chile. Pizzi averaged well under 4 hours; her
fastest was 3:41:20 in Miami.
They now join a club more elite
than those who have voyaged into
space or scaled Mount Everest.
“We just made history,” Pizzi
told The Associated Press. “I believed in myself since the moment
I signed up for it. I went for it and
got it done. When you believe in
yourself, anything is possible.”
Competitors squeezed the
seven marathons in a span of 168
hours — 59 of those spent trying
to recover aboard the charter
flight that shuttled them 23,560
miles to all the continents.
Along the way, they had to cope
with extreme cold and heat as
well as wildly varying running
surfaces: snow in Antarctica,
sand in the Sahara.
Cartica, 27, who grew up in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., dedicated his
run to the four Marines and sailor
killed in July when a gunman attacked a U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Pizzi, 35, was the first woman
across the finish line in all seven
races.
Her highs? “Antarctica and
running on glaciers. It was absolutely stunning.”
Her lows? “Antarctica and the
cold. It was my favorite place and
my least favorite place.”
The 15 competitors gained a
huge following on social media.
Pizzi said they were all going
back through thousands of emails
and messages from well-wishers
ahead of a celebratory lunch at
the Sydney Opera House.
“We’re not going to set our
alarms,” she said. “And we’re not
going to run tomorrow.”
of lead above filter grade
BY M IKE HOUSEHOLDER
AND JEFF K AROUB
Associated Press
FLINT, Mich. — Federal officials warned Flint residents
Friday that water samples from
more than two dozen locations
have higher lead levels than can
be treated by filters that have
been widely distributed to deal
with the city’s contamination
crisis, underscoring the need for
all residents to have their water
tested.
Dr. Nicole Lurie of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services said the lead levels in
some Flint locations have exceeded 150 parts per billion, which is
the level for which water filters
are graded. In one case, it was
in the thousands. She said people
with levels over 150 ppb were
being notified and their water
was being retested.
“We aren’t completely sure
why” the readings are so high,
Lurie said. “It could be the way
the samples were collected. …
We’ll be doing more testing this
whole weekend and early next
week to figure out why and exactly what that means.”
Tests began in the last week
of December, and 26 sites out of
about 4,000 showed the higher
levels. The water was tested by officials before it got to filters, and
Lurie stressed that the results do
not mean officials think there’s a
problem with the filters.
Officials stressed that pregnant
women and children younger than
6 at the sites with the elevated
lead levels should only drink and
prepare food with bottled water.
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Detroit bar
lets patrons
toss dwarfs
Treasure
hunter
missing
BY BILL L AITNER
Detroit Free Press
DETROIT — Having a beer,
ogling nudity and tossing a dwarf
are among the choices featured at
a strip club in Detroit called the
Toy Chest.
The topless bar’s spokeswoman, Alissa Katzman, said it’s all
in fun with a dwarf who’s a paid
professional, wears a helmet and
gets harmlessly pitched by participants onto air mattresses.
A $10 cover charge gets patrons
inside, and $5 gets them in the
dwarf-tossing contest, Katzman
said. Longest pitch wins you a
trophy.
More than 3,400 people have
signed an online petition — at
www.change.org — objecting to
the event promoted on the bar’s
marquee.
“If this were puppy tossing or
kitten tossing, people would be all
over it,” said
Denise Wood,
50, of FowlerIf this
ville. Wood
heads
the
were
Motor
City
Chapter
of
puppy
People
tossing Little
of America,
Californiaor kitten abased
group
tossing, that stands
up for short
people
folks. She and
would be her husband
adopted their
all over son, 10, who’s
a dwarf, and
it.
she worries
Denise Wood that people
Little People who see the
of America bar’s activity will think
it’s OK to try
dwarf tossing elsewhere.
“What’s to prevent kids from
doing this to someone at school?”
Wood said, adding: “I just don’t
know why people think it’s OK
to toss a person. I know this guy
agreed to it, but when you dangle
a carrot in front of people, they’ll
do all kinds of things.”
The bar, whose sign also promises “sizzling topless entertainment,” is known for hosting
unusual entertainment, including fire-breathers, boxers, sports
personalities and live bands, although “we don’t believe in having porn stars — we’re not that
kind of club,” Katzman said.
“There’s nothing illegal about
this,” Katzman emphasized.
In Michigan, she’s right. Authorities banned dwarf tossing in
Florida in 1989 and in New York
state in 1990, according to the Little People of America’s website.
“It’s unsafe. People with
dwarfism have a vulnerable spinal canal,” said Leah Smith, the
group’s national spokeswoman,
in Philadelphia. There are more
than 200 types of dwarfism, with
an average height of 4 feet, she
said.
“I’m positive, if the person who
is doing this told his doctors, they
would not be impressed,” she
said.
BY SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
Associated Press
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G ERRY BROOME /AP
Workers with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals photograph and examine
a dog that is being treated in a warehouse with hundreds of other rescued animals about an hour
southwest of Raleigh, N.C., on Friday.
ASPCA seizes near-record
600 animals from shelter
BY M ARTHA WAGGONER
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — One of the
largest rescues of pets in the history of the American Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is being carried out in North
Carolina, where 600 or more dogs,
cats, horses and other animals
have been seized from a no-kill
shelter.
About 300 dogs and puppies
were already being cared for in
two 40,000-square-foot warehouses opened by the ASPCA. The rest
were being moved there, cared
for by a total of 140 veterinarians,
staffers and volunteers.
Some had untreated injuries and
illnesses, and investigators found
dozens of carcasses on the 122acre site, said Tim Rickey, ASPCA
vice president of field investigations and response department.
Once the animals were moved
and placed in clean kennels with
shavings and raised beds, they
seemed much happier, ASPCA
shelter Director Ehren Melius
said.
“They were ecstatic,” he said.
“Our goal is to make each day better for them than the day before.”
The animals had been held at
The Haven-Friends for Life, a
private shelter in Raeford that
last had a license from the state
in June 2015. It’s managed by Ste-
‘
Our goal is to make each day better for
them than the day before.
phen Joseph and Linden Spear,
who appeared in court Thursday
on animal cruelty charges. Their
attorney didn’t return a message
left by The Associated Press.
An inspection by the state Agriculture Department in September
found many deficiencies, including inadequate water and medical
care.
After investigations following
complaints in June and again Monday, and the Spears’ failure to correct shortcomings found during
last year’s inspections, the veterinarian who leads the Agriculture
Department’s animal welfare section denied their application to be
a legal animal shelter and warned
Tuesday of thousands of dollars in
fines if operations continued.
Nancy Moore, who is allowing
the couple to stay at her Southern
Pines home, said she has supported the Haven with donations
for the past 10 years and visited
regularly. She described the shelter as a well-maintained operation
that has adopted out thousands of
well-cared-for dogs and cats over
’
Ehren Melius
ASPCA shelter director
the years.
“I think they have provided a
tremendous service in terms of
the community, and certainly for
animals. I would say they have
dedicated their lives to basically
taking care of them,” Moore said
Friday.
Four of the rescued dogs were
being treated for respiratory illnesses in a sick room, including
a puppy that slept in a tiny ball at
the back of her kennel. Some were
taken to specialists for treatment
of injuries, such as a broken leg,
or illnesses, ASPCA officials said.
One dog suffering from kidney
failure was euthanized.
The majority were in the ASPCA’s warehouses located about
an hour southwest of Raleigh,
grouped in pods that attempted to
follow how they were grouped at
the Haven. One pure white dog sat
on a bed at the edge of his kennel,
legs crossed in a genteel manner.
In another kennel, a light-colored
pit bull mix was jumping excitedly. Others slept or watched visitors
nervously. All had clean water and
food and were getting checkups.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An
antiquities dealer who inspired
tens of thousands to search the
Rocky Mountains for $2 million
in hidden treasure now leads an
increasingly desperate mission to
find one of his fans.
Forrest Fenn has been flying
out in chartered helicopters or
planes, searching remote stretches of the upper Rio Grande for
any sign of Randy Bilyeu, 54, now
missing in the wild for more than
three frigid weeks. Fellow treasure hunters also are searching
for Bilyeu, who was last seen on
Jan. 5 while trying to solve Fenn’s
mystery.
“Every time we go out and don’t
find Randy, it’s discouraging,
but we’re not going to give up,”
Fenn told The Associated Press.
“There are still places out there
that I want
to look.”
Fenn, 85,
an eccentric from
Santa Fe,
N.M., has
inspired
a cult following
since
his
announcement several years ago that he
stashed a small bronze chest containing nearly $2 million in gold,
jewelry and artifacts somewhere
in the Rockies. He dropped clues
to its whereabouts in a cryptic
poem in his self-published memoir, “The Thrill of the Chase.”
The hidden treasure has inspired thousands to search in
vain through remote corners of
New Mexico, Yellowstone National Park and elsewhere in the
mountains. Treasure hunters
share their experiences on blogs
and brainstorm about the clues.
The mystery has been featured
by national media, igniting even
more interest.
Fenn gets about 120 emails
a day from people looking for
his 40-pound box, and believes
65,000 people have searched for
the stash, some using family vacations to venture into the woods.
“The hope of finding the treasure is one thing, of course, but
there’s a sense of adventure when
you get out in the mountains and
in the sunshine and the fresh air,”
Fenn explained. “One of my motives was to get the kids off the
couch and away from the game
machine.”
But the search can be risky:
Some have forded swollen creeks
in Yellowstone and were rescued by rangers. A Texas woman
spent a worrisome night in the
New Mexico woods after being
caught in the dark. Others have
been cited for digging on public
land, and federal managers have
warned treasure hunters not to
damage archaeological or biological resources.
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33 migrants die as boat sinks off Turkey coast
BY SUZAN FRASER
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — A boat smuggling
migrants to Greece slammed into rocks off
the Turkish coast Saturday and capsized,
killing at least 33 people, including five
children, as the choppy Aegean Sea continued to claim asylum-seekers’ lives this
month at an appalling pace, officials said.
Coast guard officials said they rescued 75
people from the 56-foot-long vessel but government officials said they suspected more
were trapped inside the sunken vessel and
the death toll was likely to rise. Video foot-
age on the Turkish shoreline showed police
walking among bodies of several dead as
they washed ashore, among them a toddler
lying on his back in navy blue clothing.
The International Organization for Migration says drowning deaths are running
at four times the rate of 2015, when many
thousands daily sought to enter the European Union via Turkey by reaching one of
more than a dozen offshore Greek islands,
particularly nearby Lesbos.
Saturday’s deaths take the drowning
total for January above 250, whereas the
agency recorded 805 drowning deaths
on Turkey-to-Greece smuggling routes
throughout 2015.
A Turkish government official said he
expects rescue workers to find more dead
who were trapped inside the wreckage of
the boat, which sank shortly after departing
from the Aegean resort of Ayvacik, barely
5 miles north of the Lesbos coastline.
Saim Eskioglu, deputy governor for the
coastal Canakkale province that includes
Ayvacik, said the boat “hit rocks soon
after it left the coast and, unfortunately, it
sank.”
“We believe there are more dead bodies inside the boat,” he told CNN-Turk
television.
Ayvacik’s mayor, Mehmet Unal Sahin,
said most of the migrants were Syrians.
The state-run Anadolu Agency said the
boat also bore natives of Afghanistan and
Myanmar.
In a statement, the Turkish coast guard
said it dispatched three boats, a team of
divers and a helicopter after receiving
calls for help. The coast guard said its rescue teams recovered 33 bodies and were
continuing to search.
A private Turkish news agency, Dogan,
said police arrested a Turkish man suspected of being the smuggler who organized Saturday’s disastrous sea crossing.
New fad: Thais treat ‘child
angel’ dolls like progeny
BY GRANT PECK
Associated Press
G UO XULEI /Xinhua/AP
A miner is lifted from a collapsed mine Friday in Pingyi, in eastern China’s Shandong Province.
4 Chinese miners rescued after
36 days trapped underground
BY LOUISE WATT
Associated Press
BEIJING — Rescuers in eastern China pulled out four miners
who had spent 36 days trapped underground in a collapsed mine.
The gypsum mine in Shandong
province collapsed on Christmas
Day, killing one and leaving 17
missing, including the four survivors. In the days that followed,
rescuers detected the four more
than 660 feet below the surface.
On Friday, state broadcaster
CCTV showed a miner being
pulled out, surrounded by cheer-
ing rescuers in helmets and news
crews. Medical staff rushed another miner along hospital corridors on a stretcher with his eyes
covered.
Rescuers brought out the workers through two access tunnels
they had drilled, and the first
miner was pulled out in a capsule,
the official Xinhua News Agency
reported.
The collapse on Dec. 25 was
so violent it registered as a seismic event registering magnitude
4. Five days later, infrared cameras detected the four miners,
weak with hunger, waving their
hands. The miners told rescuers
they were in underground passages that were intact, and rescuers began slowly drilling a route
to save them. They sent food and
clothes to the men through four
small tunnels they drilled.
Eleven other people in the mine
at the time of the collapse made it
to safety or were rescued earlier.
Two days after the collapse, the
owner of the mine, Ma Congbo,
jumped into a well and drowned in
an apparent suicide. Four top officials in Pingyi county, where the
mine is located, have been fired.
BANGKOK — Mix one part
superstition, two parts fashion,
a dab of celebrity idolatry and a
heap of media frenzy, and what
do you get? “Child angel” dolls,
the latest craze in Thailand.
The dolls occupy a niche somewhere between Buddhist amulets,
beloved by gamblers, gangsters
and policemen for their reputed
magical protective powers, and
Furby toys, adored by children
for their cuteness.
The adults who own them affirm that “child angel” dolls will
bring you good luck, especially if
you treat them like your own living progeny, taking them on trips,
treating them to meals and praying together at the temple.
While “luk thep” dolls, as they
are known in Thai, previously
drew only mild notice beyond
the circle of their devoted collectors, attention skyrocketed this
past week after a leaked memo
from budget airline Thai Smile
instructed staff to treat the dolls
like human passengers — provided, of course, their seats were
paid for.
The airline noted the creepiness factor, suggesting the dolls
be seated out of sight as much as
possible.
In short order, several restaurants
announced
similar
doll-friendly policies. Police,
meanwhile, warned the dolls
could be used to smuggle drugs
and busted one with 200 hidden
methamphetamine tablets.
The dolls have been specially
blessed by some Buddhist monks,
who apply sacral markings to
them, as they might with a new
car or house.
The dolls, mostly imports, cost
anything from a few dozen to a few
hundred dollars, with the blessings available on a similar sliding scale. Some are customized
by sellers, and owners invariably
gussy them up, with jewelry and
other accessories, in anticipation
of, or thanks for, good fortune.
SAKCHAI L ALIT/AP
An employee of a clothing store eats lunch Friday next to a “child
angel” doll in Bangkok, Thailand.
Brazil leader vows to win war against Zika-carrying mosquito
Associated Press
SAO PAULO — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday
announced a nationwide attack
on the mosquito that spreads the
Zika virus, vowing to “win this
war” against the insect that researchers in have linked to a rare
birth defect.
Rousseff said an operation
to eliminate breeding areas for
the Aedes aegypti mosquito has
begun at all installations run by
the armed forces and at all federal educational, health and other
facilities.
She called on the rest of soci-
ety to join in eliminating areas of
standing water, which can include
things as small as a discarded
food container.
“The government, churches,
football teams, labor unions …
everyone must do their part to
eliminate the breeding grounds,”
she said. “We will win this war.”
Later Friday, the White House
said Rousseff and President
Barack Obama discussed their
concerns about the spread of
the Zika virus in a telephone
conversation.
It said the leaders agreed on
the importance of working together to spearhead research and
to speed development of vaccines
and other technologies to control
the mosquito-borne virus.
Brazilian researchers have
linked Zika to a seemingly sudden upsurge in cases of microcephaly, in which children are
born with abnormally small
heads.
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Students accused of
taking bus on joyride
PENSACOLA — Three
FL
students are accused of
taking a school bus on a three-
THE CENSUS
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The number of years it took a man to return a book to a Holland, Mich., library. In a letter to the Herrick
library, the man said he checked out the book about World War II in 1967 while he was a college student,
and it had been stored in a truck that had only recently been opened. He included a $100 donation on
what would be a “tremendous fine.” The library declined to reveal the man’s name or the book title.
hour joyride in Pensacola.
Pensacola police said the children found the bus outside a school
with its door open and a key in the
ignition Wednesday night.
Detective Christopher Forehand
said the kids drove the bus around
town, briefly driving on Interstate
10. They ended up near the Pensacola Naval Air Station. Someone
called police after seeing the bus
swerving and hitting curbs.
Escambia County School District Deputy Superintendent
Norm Ross told the Pensacola
News Journal there was minimal damage to the bus. The kids
— two 11-year-olds and a 14-yearold — weren’t injured.
Inert grenade prompts
evacuation of school
PITTSBURGH — Authorities said an inert
grenade prompted the evacuation of an elementary school in
Pittsburgh.
The grenade was a family relic
that was brought into Pittsburgh
West Liberty K-5 Thursday
morning. Authorities evacuated
the school around 9:40 a.m. as the
bomb squad removed the grenade
and determined it wasn’t active.
PA
Man accidentally shoots
self at car dealership
CAPE GIRARDEAU
MO
— Police in southeast
Missouri’s Cape Girardeau said
they’re investigating the case of
a man who accidentally shot himself while showing off a handgun
at a car dealership.
The (Cape Girardeau) Southeast
Missourian reported that the man
was taken to a hospital after the
shooting about 5 p.m. Wednesday.
His medical status was not immediately clear Friday.
Police spokesman Adam Glueck
said police will submit findings of
their investigation to the county
prosecutor for review.
Three stolen vintage
banjos are recovered
RALEIGH — Three
NC
vintage banjos valued
at over $16,000 were recovered by
a North Carolina music shop after
they turned up at an auction house
the same day they were stolen.
Ed Lowe of Lowe Vintage Instrument Co. said the banjos were
stolen Wednesday while his son
helped another customer. Lowe
believes the customer was in cahoots with the thief.
The most valuable is a 1930sera blue Gibson RB-11 valued at
$8,995, Lowe said.
Also stolen were a 1930s wood
grain Gibson TB-2 valued at
$5,495, and a 1960s wood grain
Fender Artist, valued at $1,595.
The thieves sold the banjos to
an auction house in Greensboro,
which then called Lowe to find out
if he wanted to purchase them.
Police got a lead when a customer leaving a nearby barber shop
became suspicious when he saw
JACOB H AMILTON, THE SAGINAW (MICH.) NEWS/AP
Snow Wars
Gordon Oberman uses a saw to shape the corners of Darth Vader’s helmet during Zehnders’ Snowfest Wednesday in Frankenmuth, Mich.
a man running with three banjos
under his arms and was able to
get a license plate number.
Official says ballot
selfies will foster fraud
LINCOLN — NebrasNE
ka’s secretary of state
said a bill letting voters snap and
share photos of their ballots will
harm the voting process.
A spokesman for Secretary of
State John Gale testified against
the bill during a legislative hearing Thursday.
The bill’s sponsor, state Sen.
Adam Morfeld, said “ballot selfies” are a form of free speech and
encourage people to vote.
Deputy Secretary of Elections
Neal Erickson said unregulated
selfies would create an atmosphere
“ripe for electioneering” by those
who wish to influence others.
Under current law, Nebraska
voters can’t show their marked
ballots to others. Those who violate
the law risk being charged with a
misdemeanor and fined $100.
Stolen sulcata tortoise
returned to pet store
FL
CLEARWATER — A
rare tortoise has been
returned to a Clearwater pet
store, more than a month after
police said surveillance footage
showed a Largo woman stealing
the palm-sized animal.
Police said Nicole Perry, 41,
was arrested Wednesday and
faces a charge of retail theft.
Perry allegedly put the sulcata
tortoise, valued at $300, into her
purse on Dec. 23 and walked out
of the store.
Authorities said a tip led them
to Perry’s home, where they found
the tortoise. The animal was returned to the store later that day.
Gay veteran receives
honorable discharge
COLUMBUS — An 82year-old Ohio veteran
received an honorable discharge
a half century after the Army
kicked him out for being gay.
Donald Hallman requested a
reversal of his 1955 “undesirably” discharge after President
Barack Obama repealed “Don’t
Ask Don’t Tell” in 2010.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio
Democrat, helped Hallman obtain
the update. Brown said an estimated 100,000 Americans have
been discharged from the military
because of their sexual orientation
since World War II.
Brown co-sponsored legisla-
OH
tion to help servicemembers
discharged due to their sexual
orientation correct their military
records and receive benefits.
Hallman served from 1953 to
1955.
Zoo celebrates gorilla’s
31st birthday with party
PHILADELPHIA —
The Philadelphia Zoo
PA
threw a 31st birthday party for
Motuba the gorilla that included
songs, presents and a cake made
of his favorite foods, which he
didn’t get a chance to eat.
That’s because one of his female housemates snatched the
cake and took it up to a high perch,
where she ate it herself.
Motuba’s birthday was Saturday, but the festivities were pushed
back due to the snowstorm.
Officials said Western lowland
gorillas like Motuba can live as
long as 50 years, but typically live
around 34 years. They are listed
as critically endangered species.
Woman sentenced in
bugged diaper bag case
SALT LAKE CITY —
UT
A woman who pleaded
guilty to bugging a diaper bag to
monitor conversations between
her ex-husband and their children was sentenced to home confinement and probation.
The Standard-Examiner of
Ogden reported that a lawyer for
Teri Anne Smith, 38, will appeal
the case after her sentencing.
Attorney Rebecca Skordas said
Smith recorded the conversations
because she thought one of her
children was in danger of abuse.
Judge Robert Dale sentenced
Smith to 90 days of home confinement and three years’ probation.
Police recover another
load of stolen cheese
MARSHFIELD — For
the second time in a
week, Wisconsin police recovered
a stolen load of cheese worth tens
of thousands of dollars.
Marshfield Police Lt. Darren
Larson said 41,000 pounds of
parmesan cheese worth $90,000
was stolen from a Marshfield distributor Jan. 15. A semi picked up
the cheese that day, but it never
reached its destination in Illinois.
Larson said investigators received a tip Thursday that the
cheese was likely in Grand Chute.
Police in Grand Chute found the
entire shipment intact. It had
already been unloaded into a
warehouse.
WI
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B
orn in 1821 in South Carolina,
James Longstreet graduated from
West Point in 1842 and served
with distinction in the Mexican
War. As the officer corps split along sectional lines, he joined the Confederacy in
1861, eventually rising to join Gen. Robert
E. Lee’s inner circle.
But it was after Appomattox that Longstreet truly distinguished himself — as the
rare ex-Rebel to accept the South’s defeat,
and its consequences. He urged fellow
white Southerners to support the federal
government and help rebuild their region
on the basis of greater racial equality. He
joined Abraham Lincoln’s Republican
Party.
In the 1870s, he commanded a biracial
state militia loyal to Louisiana’s Reconstruction government, aggravating an old
war wound while fighting alongside his
troops against violent white supremacists
in the streets of New Orleans.
Today, this illustrious American is famous only to Civil War buffs. He remains
obscure, even as the country struggles
anew with the legacy of the Civil War and
Reconstruction — from the removal of the
Confederate battle flag at South Carolina’s
state capitol, to the recent flap over Hillary Clinton’s remark implying Lincoln’s
successors were too “rancorous” toward
the defeated South.
Yet ending Longstreet’s obscurity, and
properly honoring him, can and should be
a part of the discussion. Indeed, it’s hard
to imagine a full and fair reckoning with
the past in which such a personality gets no
more than a footnote.
The historical-reckoning hot spot at the
moment is New Orleans, where the Democratic mayor, Mitch Landrieu, and the
City Council have decided to remove four
monuments on public property honoring
Confederates or, in one case, Reconstruction-era white supremacists.
On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled
against various groups trying to preserve
We should repopulate cityscapes with underappreciated
Civil War figures such as Longstreet, whose service during
Reconstruction has never properly been recognized.
the monuments, which include a 12-foot
statue of Lee, atop a 60-foot Doric column,
that has towered over a downtown traffic
circle since 1884.
This is not uncomplicated; a case can be
made that such statuary has been around
so long that it has itself acquired educational value in the great outdoor museum
that is the Crescent City.
Yet Landrieu emotionally, and accurately, argued that the Lee statue and the
others had been built not as historical landmarks, but as ideological devices. They
were integral to past efforts by Southern
white supremacists to “put the ‘lost cause’
of the Confederacy on a pedestal.”
Nor were Southern apologetics confined
to the South; by the middle of the 20th
century, mainstream academic consensus
held that Reconstruction had been a misguided project that collapsed due not to
white Southern resistance, often violent,
but to a purportedly vindictive and extreme federal government led by “radical”
Republicans.
This is the tale that high school textbooks
still told until historians revised it during
the civil rights movement — and which
Clinton, probably unthinkingly, fished out
of her 68-year-old memory. Under fire
from journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates and others, her team issued a follow-up statement
more reflective of historical truth and, the
campaign said, her own beliefs.
Longstreet played a key part in the Lost
Cause myth — as villain. White ex-Confederates could never forgive his postwar racial and political treason, so they set about
tarnishing his wartime military record.
In particular, they scapegoated Longstreet for the Rebel defeat at Gettysburg,
though the true story was complex and
included the fact that Longstreet warned
Lee, in vain, not to attempt the disastrous
Pickett’s Charge.
Longstreet had to be smeared so Lee
could occupy his pedestal — metaphorically and, in New Orleans and elsewhere,
literally. As it happens, one monument
that the city proposes to remove celebrates
the very same white supremacist uprising
against which Longstreet commanded African-American militia on Sept. 14, 1874.
Ostracized by former comrades, Longstreet died in 1904 in Gainesville, Ga.; the
large block on his grave there was the only
monument to him until supporters managed to get a modest equestrian statue
installed at the Gettysburg battlefield in
1998, along with plaques recording his
Confederate military service (not his postwar activity in New Orleans).
If New Orleans, and the country, wants
to correct the balance of honor in public
spaces, it will have to do more than subtract Lee and company. We should also
repopulate cityscapes with underappreciated Civil War-era figures such as Longstreet, whose Reconstruction-era service
has never properly been recognized.
Here’s a thought: If and when New Orleans does take Robert E. Lee off that pedestal, it should put a statue of Longstreet
on it.
The James Longstreet Monument would
not only help make certain specific points
about what really happened in the 19th
century, it would also prompt reflection on
broader truths.
Longstreet risked his life for the worst
cause Americans ever espoused, then for
the best one. In short, he epitomized this
nation’s saving grace, and humanity’s: the
capacity to learn from our mistakes, and to
change.
Charles Lane is a member of The Washington
Post’s editorial board.
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Votes still matter despite all the political drama
BY A RTHUR I. CYR
Special to Stars and Stripes
“W
e have met the enemy
and he is us.”
That is an appropriate statement to sum up
our wild Republican presidential race to
date, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin’s extremely bizarre rhetoric in endorsing Donald Trump on Jan. 19.
The ironic statement is from the durable comic strip “Pogo” by cartoonist
Walt Kelly, widely syndicated in newspapers from the late 1940s into the 1970s.
He paraphrased the famous declaration by
Adm. William Hazard Perry — “We have
met the enemy and they are ours” — after
the U.S. Navy won a great strategic victory
over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
in 1813.
Sharp political and social commentary
characterized “Pogo,” in a manner emulated in “Doonesbury” by Garry Trudeau.
Kelly first used a version of the “enemy”
statement to refer to the anti-communist
fears and hysteria of the 1950s, and later
to highlight growing public awareness and
concern about environmental pollution.
Pogo the opossum was the egalitarian, reflective and wise leader of a highly diverse
group of colorful, generally good-hearted,
frequently nutty Okefenokee Swamp animals. Individually and collectively, they
often represented major controversies of
the day.
Vicious demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin, was portrayed as “Simple J. Malarkey,” an armed
wildcat who disrupted the generally peaceful animals. This was in 1953, when considerable courage was needed publicly
to criticize the controversial — but at the
time popular and powerful — politician.
When The Providence Bulletin threatened to cancel the strip if Malarkey was
not removed, Kelly portrayed the character
with a bag over his head and underscored
obvious analogy to the Ku Klux Klan.
McCarthy generally did not engage publicly in the gross, highly personal insults
of people that have become Trump’s stock
in trade. That contrast reflects how coarse
collectively we have become.
Up until a few decades ago, the vulgarity and simple-mindedness of what is today
called “reality” television prevented such
programming on major media. Now, reality TV has become mainstream, and reality TV personalities Palin and Trump are
prominent in our presidential politics — at
least so far.
Keep in mind that for all the media
melodrama, Americans have not yet actually started to vote. The first election is not
the activist-driven Iowa caucuses, but the
New Hampshire presidential primary, to
be held this year on Feb. 9.
New Hampshire is where Gov. John
Kasich is surging, and could possibly win.
Now in his second term as Ohio chief executive, he served nine terms in the U.S.
House of Representatives, including tenure
on the powerful Armed Services Committee. Kasich is serious, focused and gaining
ground.
National defense is the most central and
crucial responsibility of the U.S. president.
Palin’s 2008 patron and running mate was
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a long-time
prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
McCain, denigrated by Trump for being
captured, was not mentioned during Palin’s endorsement statements.
When McCarthy attacked the U.S. Army,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower saw his
opportunity to strike. He guided selection
of Army defense counsel Joseph Welch,
a brilliant and shrewd advocate, a lethal
Boston lawyer clothed as old-fashioned
gentleman. The televised Army hearings
began McCarthy’s political destruction.
Television unavoidably helps define
our lives, but in elections ultimately what
counts are the votes. In 2016, FDR’s advice
from a far more difficult and dangerous
time continues to resonate:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself.”
Arthur I. Cyr is Clausen Distinguished Professor
at Carthage College and author of “After the Cold
War.”
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OPINION
Cruz, Rubio want to inspire voters, but …
BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY
Bloomberg View
T
ed Cruz and Marco Rubio, the two
candidates who are putting up
the biggest fight against Donald
Trump’s surprise surge in Iowa,
aren’t supposed to have much in common.
One is a hard-line right-wing maverick
with a gift for alienating people; the other
is an apple-polishing establishment candidate. Yet there’s something they share: an
inability to get people to raise their posters
in the air.
According to an Iowa State University/
WHO-HD poll released last Wednesday,
Cruz was the front-runner among prospective Iowa caucus-goers. Trump was second, and Rubio claimed fourth place with
effectively as much support as Ben Carson
in third place. I saw both Rubio and Cruz
in action on Monday and Tuesday, and I
came away doubting that either of them
could be a big winner, even if they do well
in the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
I heard Rubio at a Des Moines auditorium, where about 200 people gathered to
see him. His Iowa campaign is sedate compared with those of most of his major rivals.
Before he came onstage, his campaign
staff went around offering Rubio signs to
the audience, careful not to distribute any
in the middle so as not to obscure the senator from the TV cameras. They had trouble
finding takers. There were some placards
left over when they were done, though
some people reconsidered and took them,
probably to spare the volunteers some
embarrassment.
Then Rubio gave his speech, and not a
single one of these signs went up in the air,
though the audience applauded politely.
Cruz’s Iowa blitz is nothing like Rubio’s.
It’s a mad, all-or-nothing dash through the
state’s small towns, backed by a flurry of
TV and radio ads. I caught up with Cruz in
a barn in Osceola. It was freezing inside,
and about 30 people — and almost as many
reporters — sat on bales of hay and rickety
benches, their breath visible as they talked
PAUL SANCYA /AP
A NDREW H ARNIK /AP
Republican presidential candidate Ted
Cruz talks with an audience member
Wednesday in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Republican presidential candidate Marco
Rubio greets the audience after speaking
in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday.
quietly, expecting the candidate’s bus to
roll up. This was the first of seven such
stops scheduled for Tuesday.
When volunteers came in carrying
“TrusTed” posters, hands reached out for
them: These were big fans of Cruz. Yet I
didn’t see a single sign go up as he made
his impassioned speech about the battles
he has fought for the conservative cause.
Both Rubio and Cruz are accomplished
public speakers, talking in punchy, forceful, rounded sentences, making their case
clearly and passionately. They speak as
lawyers would, playing to a full courtroom,
grabbing attention from the first second
and never letting up; that’s what they are,
of course — lawyers.
On the campaign trail, their talking
points sound similar, too: conservative
staples such as religion, the condemnation
of gay marriage and abortion, an assertive
foreign policy, tighter regulation of immigration, no to the Common Core curriculum, support for the Second Amendment.
Both promise to rescind President Barack
Obama’s executive orders on their first day
in office, and get a big hand for that. Both
slam Democrats for building up a big, intrusive, incompetent government.
The differences are mostly those of
style. Rubio is earnest, humorless, prone to
long stories about his poor childhood in an
immigrant neighborhood and his gratitude
toward the country that gave his family a
home and him a chance at a bright political
future. Cruz is full of malicious fun. “They
had a blizzard in Washington, closed down
the government,” he said, grinning in that
freezing barn. “Praise the Lord,” came a
voice from the back of the room, and everyone, including the candidate, laughed.
“It was so cold I actually saw a Democrat
with his hands in his own pockets,” Cruz
continued.
Where Rubio sounds idealistic, selling a
bright future for an exceptionalist America, Cruz is all about a war for the conservative values he says are being eroded, a
crusade in which every day counts, everyone is a soldier, and the biggest question
is, “Where were you when the battle was
fought?”
Though their backers agree with them
on the values and the vision, they fail to
show the enthusiasm I have seen for other
candidates — Trump, Bernie Sanders and
even, to an extent, Hillary Clinton. And I
can see why.
Neither Rubio nor Cruz projects power
and independence the way those three do.
Rubio admitted early on that he used
proceeds from his memoir, “The American Son” (“Now available in paperback,”
he said), to help pay off $100,000 in student
debt. That somewhat devalued his stories
of a poor childhood: This method of debt
reduction can hardly resonate with most
young professionals, even if they haven’t
heard of the questions that have dogged
Rubio since he received an $800,000 advance for the book.
Cruz sounded so stringent, forbidding
and lawyerly, despite his attempts at downto-earth humor, that one couldn’t completely disregard Trump’s criticism of the
Texas senator as “a nasty guy” whom nobody likes. Add to that the ubiquitous attack ads about him that mention his wife’s
work for Goldman Sachs and the loan he
received from the bank to fund his Senate
campaign.
Unlike Trump, Cruz and Rubio may be
true conservatives. But also unlike the
rule-breaking billionaire, they don’t come
off as people who can afford to do and say
anything they please — an ability that
lends Trump his powerful crowd appeal.
They try too hard, and they fail to connect
on a human level.
Though both appear poised to post strong
results in Iowa — with Cruz perhaps winning the state’s nomination — they don’t
appear to be the kind of candidates who
can carry the Republicans to a nationwide win. In his speech in the barn, Cruz
wistfully recalled Ronald Reagan’s 1980
victory, against all the odds and the establishment’s wishes. But without Reagan’s
easy charm, he isn’t likely destined to repeat that history.
Leonid Bershidsky, a Bloomberg View contributor,
is a Berlin-based writer.
Quiet consensus against Palestinian democracy
BY ELI L AKE
Bloomberg View
It’s rare these days to find anything that
Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, the U.S.
and Israel agree on. And yet when it comes
to elections there is a quiet consensus
against Palestinians choosing their leaders.
The last time they did was 10 years ago,
on Jan. 25, 2006: elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council. Since then, Palestinian politics have been stuck, while much
of the Arab world convulsed in revolution.
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is today in the 11th year
of a four- year term. Hamas has ruled Gaza
since taking the strip by force in 2007.
It’s understandable why the ruling parties in Gaza and the West Bank would oppose new elections. Neither Hamas nor
Abbas’s Fatah are popular these days, and
both regimes have consolidated their power
since the late 2000s. “The main motive of
Abbas is to keep himself in power as long
as he can,” Avi Dichter, a former head of
Israel’s internal security service, told me.
“He is holding the three main jobs. He is
president of the Palestinian Authority. He
is practically the head of the parliament because the Palestinian parliament hasn’t met
for years, and he is the leader of the PLO.”
But to understand why the U.S. and Israe-
li leadership are content with this political
sclerosis, it’s worth going back to George
W. Bush. Inspired by the former Soviet dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky, Bush declared in his 2005 inaugural
address that the era of the U.S. supporting dictatorships for the sake of stability
was over. Instead, Bush said he would be
supporting democratic reforms, even for
strong men allied with the U.S. As Bush
saw it, dictatorship breeds terrorism.
The 2006 Palestinian legislative elections were supposed to be the end of this
game, at least for the Palestinians. Bush
pressured Abbas to allow Hamas to participate in the elections, even though Abbas
was also supposed to be keeping the group
at bay. But when Hamas — which rejects
a two-state solution — ended up winning
enough seats to form a majority, Bush’s
new policy initiative crashed and burned.
Abbas refused to seat the new legislature,
where his party would be in the minority.
By June 2007, Hamas kicked the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza, and Palestinian
politics have been frozen ever since.
After the Hamas victory, Bush focused
on reviving the peace process. “The working assumption of the early Bush administration was that a democratic Palestinian
society would be more receptive to peace
with Israel, but the legislative elections that
Hamas won upended that equation entire-
ly,” Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar
at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, told me. “It was replaced by an equally
dogmatic assumption that democratic processes are an impediment to peace.”
Obama has acted on this dogmatic assumption himself. His diplomats do not
press Abbas to hold elections. Instead,
Obama has focused on reviving peace negotiations. “I think essentially the Bush and
Obama problems are the same. Everyone
wants a comprehensive final status agreement and no one wants to play what they see
as small ball,” Elliott Abrams, who served
as deputy national security adviser under
George W. Bush, told me. Small ball means
building the institutions and civil society
Palestinians will need for statehood.
The man most associated with this institution-building approach, former Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad, was pushed aside
by Abbas in 2013 over the objections of
Secretary of State John Kerry. He caught
the political blame when Europe and the
U.S. cut the subsidy for the Palestinian Authority in response to Abbas’s decision to
seek U.N. recognition of Palestine.
In the end, Kerry moved on. He wanted a
new peace process, and for that, he needed
Abbas more than Fayyad. Despite meetings
and negotiations, Kerry’s peace initiative
failed just as surely as the previous ones.
But what if Abbas and Netanyahu had
reached an agreement this time? Could the
once-elected Abbas, persuade his people to
accept peace? By all outward accounts, the
failed promise of the peace process of the
1990s and the continued Israeli occupation
has radicalized Palestinians.
Abbas understands the mood of his people. So, like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, Abbas plays a double game. He works
behind the scenes with the Israel Defense
Forces to keep order in the West Bank. But
he also gives speeches that pretend these
knife wielding Palestinians are victims of
Israeli police brutality.
This state of affairs is not sustainable.
Abbas, who is 80, has groomed no successor. This means a power struggle is likely
when Abbas is gone. In a worst-case scenario, the weakened Palestinian Authority
could collapse.
Democratic societies don’t have this kind
of problem. They have an automatic process
by which the citizens choose a successor to
the chief executive. It’s called an election.
Ten years ago, the U.S. president thought
the Palestinians should give this approach
a try. Then he changed his mind after the
results came in. Since then, America and
Israel have pursued peace at the expense
of democracy. And the Palestinians have
achieved neither.
Eli Lake is a Bloomberg View columnist writing
about politics and foreign affairs.
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Facebook to crack down on gun sales
BY BRANDON BAILEY
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook
announced a new policy Friday
barring private individuals from
advertising or selling firearms on
the world’s largest social network.
The new policy applies also to
Instagram, Facebook’s photosharing service. It comes after
gun control groups have long complained that Facebook and other
online sites are frequently used by
unlicensed sellers and buyers not
legally eligible to buy firearms.
Facebook “was unfortunately
and unwittingly serving as an
online platform for dangerous
people to get guns,” said Shannon
Watts of Moms Demand Action
for Gun Sense in America, a group
that launched a public campaign
to convince the social network to
change its policies two years ago.
Watts said her group has found
numerous cases of felons and minors who were able to buy guns
on the site, including two cases in
which the buyers used the guns
to slay others. The National Rifle
Association did not respond to a
request for comment.
Facebook had announced some
restrictions on gun sales and advertising in 2014, saying it would
block minors from seeing posts
that advertised guns. But the social network did not ban private
sales at that time.
Licensed gun retailers can promote their businesses on Facebook but aren’t allowed to accept
orders or make sales on the site.
A Facebook Inc. spokeswoman
said the new policy arose from the
company’s review of its rules.
“Over the last two years, more
and more people have been using
Facebook to discover products and
to buy and sell things to one another,” Monika Bickert, who oversees
Facebook product policies, said in
a statement. “We are continuing
to develop, test, and launch new
products to make this experience
even better for people and are updating our regulated goods poli-
cies to reflect this evolution.”
Watts, however, said her group
had urged Facebook to take stiffer measures.
“They were very, very open
to our thoughts on policy and to
the research we have been compiling,” Watts said. “I think they
definitely saw this was an issue,
but an incredibly complicated
issue. I think that’s why it’s taken
two years.”
Facebook, which is based in
Menlo Park, Calif., cited the need
to balance free expression with
public safety when it announced
the 2014 policy change in a blog
post. At the time, some gun-control advocates complained Facebook didn’t go further, while news
reports quoted a spokesman for
the National Rifle Association
who declared victory over what he
called a campaign to stifle constitutionally protected speech.
The latest policy drew praise
Friday from Everytown for Gun
Safety, a group formed by the
merger of Watts’s organization
with another group started by
former New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, and from a leader of
the Brady Campaign and Center
to Prevent Gun Violence.
“It is simply too easy for virtually anyone to buy any gun they
want online without a Brady
background check,” said Dan
Gross, the Brady group’s president. “Facebook just took an important step in addressing that
challenge and we call on others to
follow suit.”
MARKET WATCH
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (Feb. 1) ............................ $1.1203
Dollar buys (Feb. 1)...........................€0.8926
British pound (Feb. 1) .......................... $1.47
Japanese yen (Feb. 1) ........................ 116.00
South Korean won (Feb. 1) ............1,175.00
Commercial rates
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Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.4005
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Egypt (Pound) ...................................... 7.8301
Euro ........................................ $1.0829/0.9234
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South Korea (Won) ......................... 1,209.84
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Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 35.71
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(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.31
30-year bond ........................................... 2.75
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ENTERTAINMENT
Poking fun
BY JOSH ROTTENBERG
Los Angeles Times
A
s an actor, writer and producer, Marlon Wayans
has parodied everything from horror movies to
inner-city dramas to dance-competition films.
But he insists he doesn’t go out looking for subjects to spoof. They have a way of finding him.
“I think if you go looking for something to parody, it’s
not going to be genuine,” Wayans, 43, said on a recent
afternoon. “Something has to hit you, and once you start
putting your pen to pad, it’s just joke after joke after joke
— and before you know it, you have a movie.”
A few years ago, curious about what the housewife-flustering fuss was all about, Wayans picked up a copy of E.L.
James’ runaway erotic bestseller, “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
The Harlequin-romance-meets-S&M novel about a billionaire who draws an innocent young ingenue
into his sexually kinky world instantly struck
him as ripe for mockery — exactly the sort
of thing that could be transmographied,
Wayans-style, into an over-the-top spoof
movie.
“Sex and comedy go hand in
hand,” Wayans said. “Sex is something everybody does, and every
comedian has five to 20 minutes
of sex material. It was just a fun
place to explore.”
Now in theaters, “Fifty
Shades of Black” follows the
rough formula of earlier Wayans parody films like “Scary
Movie,” “Dance Flick” and
“A Haunted House,” taking ostensibly serious material and heightening its
inherent sillier aspects,
then putting it into a
blender with over-thetop slapstick, topical pop
culture gags and unexpected cameos. (Suffice
to say, after this film fans
of the “The Brady Bunch”
may never look at Florence
Henderson quite the same
way again.)
Wayans, who steps into
the pervy businessman role
opposite Kali Hawk, is clearly
hoping to draft off the massive
success of the “Fifty Shades of
Grey” book and last year’s bigscreen adaptation, which earned
more than $500 million at the global box office. But the ultimate aim,
he said, was to make a film that
would work whether you love
“Fifty Shades of Grey,” hate it
or are indifferent to it.
“I want the
movie to
Marlon Wayans revels
in parody of ‘Fifty Shades’
be funny to anybody who watches it,” said Wayans, who
also watched erotic thrillers like “9 ½ Weeks” and “Indecent Proposal” for inspiration while working on the script
with his writing and producing partner, Rick Alvarez. “I
never really try to bash a movie when I send it up. It’s not
about pointing fingers at a movie — it’s a celebration as
well because (the original) was such a phenomenon.”
The spoof movie has long occupied its own unique place
in the cinematic ecosystem, a kind of comedic remora that
rides along the back of the leviathan blockbusters. Though
spoofs are not the kind of movies that tend to get showered
with critical plaudits and awards, writer-director Jim
Abrahams — who, along with Jerry and David Zucker,
co-wrote such exemplars of the genre as “Airplane!” and
“The Naked Gun” — believes they have a valuable, court
jester-like role to play within Hollywood.
“The ultimate target of spoof is to allow
us all to laugh at things that we tend to take
seriously,” Abrahams said. “I think it’s
a very healthy kind of humor when
done right.” He laughed. “It’s
always tough to have these discussions. The whole idea is
not to take things seriously
— and here we are taking
it seriously.”
Spoof movies have
existed for almost as
long as there have been
movies to spoof — in
the silent era, Stan Laurel was cracking up audiences with parodies
like “Mud and Sand”
and “Dr. Pyckle and
Mr. Pride.” But Wayans — along with
Jason
Friedberg
and Aaron Seltzer,
who have codirected such spoof films
as “Date Movie,”
“Meet the Spartans”
and “The Starving
Games” — grew up in
what was, in retrospect,
their golden age.
The ’70s and ’80s saw
an explosion of spoof movies and genre send-ups, from
“The Kentucky Fried Movie”
to “Monty Python and the
Holy Grail” to Mel Brooks classics like “Blazing Saddles” and
“Young Frankenstein,” many
of which were embraced not
just by audiences but by
critics as well.
“My brothers took
me to ‘Airplane!’ when
I was like 8,” said
Wayans, whose first
big-screen
appearance was
in his older
brother
Keenen
Ivory
O PEN ROAD FILMS/AP
Kali Hawk and Marlon Wayans star in “Fifty Shades of
Black.” Wayans says the book his spoof is based on,
“Fifty Shades of Grey,” struck him as ripe for mockery.
Wayans’ 1988 blaxploitation spoof “I’m Gonna Git You
Sucka.” “It stuck in my head: ‘These are the kinds of movies I like going to: They make statements, but they’re subtle and yet loud. It’s just silly and broad and physical.’ ”
Into the late ’90s and early 2000s, the parody genre was
still going strong; 2000’s “Scary Movie,” also directed by
Keenen Ivory Wayans, pulled in $278 million worldwide
and went on to spawn four sequels. In recent years, though,
the spoof movie has lost some of its earlier luster and boxoffice potency as the Internet has created an endless glut
of parody of wildly varying quality readily available at a
click or a swipe. Type “Fifty Shades of Grey parody” into
the YouTube search bar and you’ll find seemingly no end
of videos: “Fifty Shades of Gay,” “Fifty Shades of Bae,”
“Fifty Shades of Broke,” “Fifty Shades of Frozen.” There’s
a FunnyOrDie video featuring Selena Gomez called “Fifty
Shades of Blue.” There’s “Fifty Shades” with Barbie dolls
and “Fifty Shades” with Legos.
“Right now parody is a struggle,” said Wayans. “A lot of
parody can come out that spoils the taste of the audience.
It’s the same with stand-up: Everybody is going to have
some version of the joke.”
That said, spoof movies continue to be a viable proposition on the big screen — provided the budgets are kept in
check. “If you spend a ton of money on a movie like this,
you’re going to lose your shirt,” said Paul Dergarabedian,
senior media analyst at the box-office tracking firm Rentrak. “Nobody is looking for Academy Award nominations
out of any of these movies. But they’re obviously making
enough of a profit to make it worthwhile. At the end of
the day, scoff all you want at these movies, but if the film
makes money — if it ends up making a $10 or $20 million
profit — then the filmmakers are laughing all the way to
the bank.”
“Fifty Shades of Black” was financed by IM Global at a
production cost of less than $5 million and is being distributed by Open Road Films, which also released Wayans’
2013 found-footage-horror parody “A Haunted House”
and its 2014 sequel.
The enormous popularity of “Fifty Shades” clearly provides a certain built-in level of insurance. Even with that
firm grounding, there is one particular “Fifty Shades” audience member who might go into the movie with a somewhat less amused attitude: the book’s author.
Wayans, who plans to take a break from parody next
to explore other comedic avenues, says he met James recently at the Chateau Marmont. Over drinks, he tried to
ease any worries she might have about “Fifty Shades of
Black.”
“She was like, ‘Am I going to be upset at your movie?’”
Wayans said. “I said, ‘Look, mockery is the best form of
flattery.’ ”
Marlon Wayans co-wrote and stars in “Fifty
Shades of Black.” “I want the movie to
be funny to anybody who watches it,”
said Wayans. “I never really try to bash
a movie when I send it up. It’s not
about pointing fingers at a movie — it’s
a celebration as well because (the
original) was such a phenomenon.”
John Sal angsang, Invision/AP
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MUSIC
NEW ALBUMS
Panic! at the Disco
Death of a Bachelor
(Fueled by Ramen)
When Billy Joel was honored
by the Kennedy Center in 2013,
Panic! at the Disco’s Brendon
Urie was there to perform and
offer congratulations. It seemed
like an odd pairing, considering
Panic! was best known for amping up its emo leanings so much
that it could battle for space on
pop radio. Urie’s new album,
“Death of a Bachelor,” puts his
love of The Piano Man in the mix,
along with a bit of Sinatra, shoutouts to various Beach Boys, and
a lot of Fall Out Boy-ish rock and
danceable hip-hop.
These stretches don’t mean
Panic! has abandoned its trademark combinations. Current
single “Don’t Threaten Me With a
Good Time” combines a hip-hop
groove with over-the-top vocals
and a sample of The B-52s’ “Rock
Lobster” with spectacular results.
It fits nicely with the previous single “Victorious,” featuring gang
vocals and tongue-twisting lyrics
delivered at breakneck speed.
With “Death of a Bachelor,”
Urie seems determined to graduate from being one of the leaders
of his genre to being one of the
leaders of pop. Mission accomplished.
— Glenn Gamboa
Newsday
LASTING LEGACY
Glenn Frey’s influence lives on in artists
like Father John Misty and Jenny Lewis
BY AUGUST BROWN
Los Angeles Times
I
t’s never been fashionable to cite the
Eagles as an influence.
The band, whose guitarist and
vocalist Glenn Frey died on Jan. 18,
was not just one of the most popular and
commercially dominant bands to come
out of L.A.’s ’70s country-rock scene (or
any other scene). They embodied just
about everything that the avant-garde
was out to destroy.
Saccharine vocal beauty and clean-cut
technical proficiency; a combination of
faux mysticism with a thin veneer of cynicism; and drug-fueled decadence with a
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Eleanor Friedberger
New View (Frenchkiss Records)
Perhaps the most unexpected
aspect of Eleanor Friedberger’s
flourishing solo career is that
her work no longer requires the
context of the Fiery Furnaces,
the band she shares with brother
Matthew. Having released nine
albums between 2003 and 2009,
the Fiery Furnaces were a dominant reference point for whatever
departures each sibling took after
that group went on hiatus in 2011.
Yes, the album contains a couple
of specific callbacks, but overall,
“New View” can be appreciated
entirely apart from the Fiery
Furnaces’ discography and on its
own terms.
— Thomas Britt
PopMatters.com
reputation for being insufferable jerks
and coldblooded businessmen in person:
The Eagles had it all.
Punk, metal and alt-country were supposed to vanquish all that. “The Big Lebowski” may have summed it up best with
The Dude’s classic, unprintable complaint
against them.
But over the last decade of L.A. folk and
rock music, there’s been a renewed streak
of appreciation for the Eagles’ virtues.
Frey had a precision-honed attention to
song structure and melody, and an unmatched ear for how vocal harmony can
take a dark sentiment and make it feel incandescent.
Frey’s style yielded plenty of local conCourtesy of Sub Pop Records
The Eagles, from left, Joe Walsh,
Timothy B. Schmidt, Glenn Frey and Don
Henley. As a founding member of the
Eagles, Frey was responsible for some of
the biggest songs of the 1970s.
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E AGLES A RCHIVES/Showtime
temporary influence, most obviously seen
in the many groups that orbit producer
Jonathan Wilson’s songwriting roundtable
and jam sessions. From there, the magichour acoustic guitars and high-lonesome
harmonies of an act like Dawes found its
footing, and they became one of L.A.’s
preeminent folk-rock acts.
Jenny Lewis, a favorite daughter of the
L.A. rock scene, has a deep streak of affection for commercial ’70s country-rock
and its smooth-pop cousins. The Eagles
are likely no exception. She’s one of our
finest songwriters today, and a rare one
capable of dramatic, exacting harmony
arrangements that recall Frey and Henley as much as her beloved Patsy Cline.
Josh Tillman’s Father John Misty is a
caricature of an over-coked ’70s folk-rock
burnout, and while he plays the role for
yuks, he plays his songs for real. His lyrics handle L.A. doom with a light touch,
and his arch humor is often tempered
with earned sadness and a growing virtuosity behind the microphone. His gentler
old band, Fleet Foxes, might have claimed
a more direct sonic lineage to the Eagles.
But no one better embodies the tetchy,
self-indulgent romance of Glenn Frey like
Father John Misty.
There are scores more Los Angeles acts
that claim those signifiers as a starting
point. But for a band once so reviled by
progressive young acts, to then prove so
durable in influence, it means that Frey,
for all his faults or gaucheness over the
years, stood on very solid ground as songwriter. And Frey lived above Echo Park
Lake next to Jackson Browne when they
wrote “Take It Easy” — try beating that
backstory for credibility today.
The smooth country-rock sound of the
Eagles can be heard in the music of Jenny
Lewis, far left, and Josh Tillman, left.
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MUSIC
BY R ANDALL ROBERTS
Los Angeles Times
H
ere’s a subjective rundown of five
of the most popular services available in America, based on the experiences of one full-time listener.
Spotify
$9.99 per month; $14.99 family plan, or free ad-supported version;
Grade: B+
Pros: Premium service offers noticeably better fidelity than
Apple Music. The industry leader, Spotify has an excellent
interface that encourages interaction, playlist creation and
sharing. Because of its scope and user base, the service offers
infinite avenues of discovery. You can rest easily, for example,
knowing that Spotify in Estonia lists Motorhead’s “Overkill”
as one of its most popular songs (along with Tanel Padar &
the Sun & Sobrad’s “Kergotamine”).
Cons: Last year, a number of prominent artists (including Taylor Swift) and advocates criticized Spotify’s free tier
as unfair to creators. Like Apple Music, Spotify’s editorial
tastes and recommendations lean toward corporate-funded
labels at the expense of the little guy.
Apple Music
$9.99 per month; $14.99 family plan; Grade: B-
Grading
the
streams
The pros and cons
of 5 popular services,
from Spotify to Tidal
Pros: Apple Music’s interface is characteristically
clear and intuitive. Easy to navigate, it affords numerous avenues to discovery: a powerful search
engine, new release and charts pages, a portal to
online radio (including in-house station Beats
One and NPR), a feed featuring updated info on
acts and curators of note and access to personal
playlists and catalogs.
Cons: From a fidelity perspective, the platform sounds inferior to Spotify and Tidal. Also,
because it’s a mostly closed system, playlist sharing
among friends is difficult. The company earned
users’ ire last year during the transition from
iTunes to Apple Music. Many lost files and data.
Slacker
$3.99 basic per month, $9.99 premium, or free
ad-supported version; Grade: B-
Pros: For some reason — perhaps its name? —
Slacker’s demographic skews young. Chances are, your
kid would prefer to use Slacker — or YouTube — in a
pinch. Boasting hundreds of curated stations and infinitely programmable, it works best as a Pandora-style
radio service. Premium service allows Spotify-style ondemand listening.
Cons: Thin on data, charts and editorial information,
Slacker’s minimally designed interface opts for sleekness
over substance. Its main page recommends a station called “Get
Warm & Cozy: Coffee House,” featuring, you guessed it, Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Hozier and Jason Mraz. The new “Artists to Watch 2016” playlist seems
occupied more by supermodels than musicians.
Pandora
$4.99 per month, or free ad-supported version; Grade: C+
Pros: Smart algorithms take the work out of picking music. Hundreds of
stations allow mix-and-match opportunity. The simple platform encourages
voting on songs and sounds, which it uses to further define preferences.
Cons: The basic service is designed for the basic user. There’s virtually
no visible information on new releases, charts or data, but buried within
its metadata is information that skillfully picks good stuff. The most
you’ll learn about your new favorite song is who made it.
Tidal
$9.99 per month, or $19.99 for hi-fi lossless quality; Grade: C
Pros: Exclusive content, concerts, videos and playlists by
investors Jay Z, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Beyonce, Arcade Fire
and others. Marketed as the most “artist-friendly” service,
Tidal’s best trait is its fidelity, which it claims is CD quality.
In side-by-side listening comparisons, Tidal does indeed
offer the best sound, but Spotify sounds almost as good
for $10 less.
Cons: Tidal’s app is tough to navigate, none of your
friends use the service, and it’s the same price as
Spotify Premium. It’s useful mostly to those with
an expense account that allows a $19.99 writeoff, most of whom swear by its fidelity. Its playlists offer little in the way of surprise, and
those who are desperate to hear that Tidal
exclusive Rihanna remix can find it on
YouTube for way cheaper.
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BOOKS
BY NICOLE BRODEUR
The Seattle Times
W
hen Elizabeth Strout was in
second grade, there was a boy,
very poor, with no friends and
dirt behind his ears.
“Our teacher said to him, ‘You are not so
hard up that you can’t afford a bar of soap,’
and he turned deep red,” the author told
me. “That child has stayed with me.”
The title character of her slim new novel,
“My Name is Lucy Barton,” is an homage to
that boy, “to these very rural families who
are outcasts because they are poor,” Strout
said. “Every town has one, and probably a
lot more now.”
Strout’s latest narrator grew up in a remote and stark Illinois town, where she
lived in a cramped and
cold garage beside her
great uncle’s house
with her parents,
brother and sister.
Lucy stayed warm
by staying in school
long after classes
ended, doing homework and reading until
the janitor nudged her
out.
“Lonely was the
first flavor I had tasted
in my life, and it was always there,” Lucy
says, “hidden inside the crevices of my
mouth, reminding me.”
Her studies allowed her to avoid the dysfunction at home, and it would propel her
out, and away, never to return: A full scholarship to a Chicago university; marriage
to a well-to-do classmate; two daughters, a
writing career and a life in New York City.
But when Lucy ends up in the hospital
with an infection, her husband flies her
mother out — her first airplane trip — to
keep her company.
They connect the usual way: gossip about
the town and the people Lucy escaped long
ago, but can’t shake from her being.
In the pauses and allusions, the brief
laughs and quiet smiles shared by mother
and daughter, Strout captures the ragged
and silken threads of love. The push and
pull between mothers and daughters and
the things we learn to live with, or around.
It’s familiar ground for Strout, who made
her mark with another mother-daughter
novel, “Amy and Isabelle,” in 2000; and
whose 2008 book, “Olive Kitteridge,” won
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was made
into an HBO miniseries starring Frances
McDormand that won four Emmys.
Strout spoke by phone from her home on
Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where she
A complicated
relationship
‘Lucy Barton’ vividly
evokes the enduring
power of the motherdaughter bond
Elizabeth Strout
Courtesy of Leonardo Cendamo
was stretched on her couch and mourning
David Bowie. (“I just turned 60 the other
day and I am like, ‘Oh, God!’ But he went
out his way. So yea for him.”)
There’s a lot of Lucy Barton in her, Strout
said. She grew up in rural Maine, went to
college, got a law degree, married and lives
in the big city as a writer.
“Honestly and truly, every character I
wrote, they are all me in some way,” she
said. “They have to be, because I am the
only person I know. That’s the truth of it.”
As a child, Strout realized that she would
never see the world, except through her
own eyes.
“I was so frustrated with that,” she said.
“And so as I began to read, I remember
thinking, ‘Oh, I have had that thought.’
Books have always made me realize, ‘Oh,
this is what it’s like to be another person.’
“I write because I have always wanted
to be another person, but I make it up from
what I have observed closely about other
people.”
Strout has made her mark with those
close observations, and for putting to the
page what people don’t usually say in public.
She changes gears, somewhat, in “Lucy
Barton,” in which the characters speak in
veiled ways about clear dysfunction, like
a quick slideshow: Lucy, locked inside a
truck, screaming. Her adult brother, reading children’s books and sleeping in a
neighbor’s barn.
Her character makes passing mention
of “the Thing,” when her father — a World
War II veteran scarred by an experience
in Germany — becomes “very anxious and
not in control of himself.”
Her mother, who doesn’t sleep much,
says she can catnap, calling it something
“you learn to do when you don’t feel safe.”
Readers can fill in the blanks, Strout
said.
“I have always believed that everyone
will bring their own story to whatever
book they are reading,” she said. “But this
book, particularly, I was aware that this
was more porous than my others, and that
leaves more room for people to bring their
own experience.
“I don’t want to press anybody’s face into
things, either,” she said. “I just don’t want
to be that kind of writer. People can do
that, and they do it beautifully. I am more
interested in the essence of people.”
Laced with melancholy, ‘Thomas Murphy’ is a joyous ode to language
BY DAN CRYER
Newsday
A
novel about a curmudgeonly
Irish-American poet on the verge
of fading into the abyss of Alzheimer’s? Sounds like a recipe
for caricature, right? Stir in the obligatory
affection for Jameson’s, the renunciation
of middle-class conformity, the adoration
of language, and you’ve got the mix just
where the lazy reader wants it.
But Roger Rosenblatt is no lazy writer,
and he’ll cotton to no readers of that ilk.
Rosenblatt first rose to prominence as the
sculptor of beautifully crafted essays for
Time, back when it was a real magazine,
and then went on to produce a stream of
novels and nonfiction. As a college teacher,
at Harvard and Stony Brook, he has introduced several generations of students to
modern poetry and Irish literature. Most
recently, his books “Making Toast” and
“Kayak Morning” mourned the death of
his 38-year-old daughter, while “The Boy
Detective,” a memoir, plumbed the mysteries of memory.
Into “Thomas Murphy,” his new novel,
Rosenblatt has poured all of this experience. Though laced with melancholy, it’s
written with giant
helpings of joie de
vivre, as if its eponymous hero were racing
to pack in a lifetime’s
worth of rapture into
the days he has left.
Murph, as he calls
himself, lives alone
in the legendary Belnord, a mammoth
apartment building,
complete with courtyard, on New York’s Upper West Side. But
his thoughts take him just as often to Inishmaan, the Irish isle of his boyhood. So
his present is filled to overflowing with the
past, both streaming ceaselessly into each
other.
From the past looms Oona, the wife who
gave as lovingly and fiercely as she got. In
the present, Murph’s love reaches out to
embrace his daughter Maire and 4-yearold grandson William.
The novel proceeds, somewhat arbitrarily, via a series of first-person vignettes,
ruminations, memories and fantasies.
Rosenblatt charges most of this narrative
with panache, though some episodes do
suffer from being faux Irish or faux “poetic.” Many are winningly odd and musical,
offbeat hymns marching to an unorthodox
drummer.
Murph offers himself as our wry, impertinent, ornery guide into the dilemmas of
aging. He’s not about to go gentle into that
night of unknowing. Maire tries to herd him
into a neurologist’s office. (Unbeknownst to
Murph, she’s about to jump to London for a
high-powered job and hopes to get him help
before leaving.) When he finally succumbs
to her pleas, he can’t help being uppity, poking fun at brain scans and memory-testing
questionnaires.
The story’s weakest element takes place,
for all the reader knows, inside Murph’s
head. A plot about a young woman revitalizing an older man is such a cliche that one
wonders why the author has resorted to it.
In this case, Sarah is the blind wife of a
stranger who approaches Murph in a bar
with a request: You’re the poet, so please
explain to my wife that I’m dying. I just
don’t have the words for it. At first, Murph
refuses, but then gets drawn in against his
will, ends up meeting her and finds himself
falling in love. She’s Oona reincarnated, he
tells himself, in justification. Whether it occurs inside the character’s head or not, this
reader just wishes the author had nudged
Murph in another direction.
Rosenblatt does make Murph into a
credible bon vivant, punster, ironist and,
what’s hardest of all, poet. He concocts a
Murphy poem that’s actually pretty good.
But it’s his musings on the art of making
poems that resonate most with me.
Murph is the kind of word-drunk man
who loves to string together lines from favorite poems, reciting them as one grand
Joycean mash-up, the sound of the accumulated words “senseless, illogical, beautiful.”
“Thomas Murphy” is a joyous ode to language as it gropes to give voice to the ineffable. It’s got the rock-to-daisy ratio just
about right.
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GADGETS & CHARTS
GADGET WATCH
Speaker sounds great from every angle
BY GREGG ELLMAN
Tribune News Service
T
AP
Def Leppard became the first artist to debut a new music video through
the “Guitar Hero” video game on Wednesday.
Def Leppard debuts video
through ‘Guitar Hero’ game
BY DERRIK J. L ANG
Associated Press
Def Leppard is pouring some
video into “Guitar Hero.”
The rock band is the first artist
ever to debut a new music video
through the long-running video
game series.
The music video for “Dangerous” from the band’s recently released self-titled album premiered
Wednesday on “Guitar Hero Live,”
the latest edition of the Activision
rhythm game franchise.
“It seems like everything has
been done, and MTV doesn’t really
exist anymore, so it’s cool there’s
another medium to represent the
song now,” said Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen in an interview.
“Guitar Hero Live,” the first new
entry in the series in five years,
introduced live actors, a new guitar-shaped controller and the online music video network “GHTV,”
which allows players to strum
along to tunes as music videos or
live performances are streamed in
the background. “GHTV” currently includes more than 300 songs.
“I think music videos became
painful for a while,” said Collen,
who’s been with the veteran British
rock band since 1982. “You had to
do them. They cost so much money.
It was very corporate. This is cool
ACTIVISION PUBLISHING INC./AP
Def Leppard performs
“Dangerous” in a scene from the
video game “Guitar Hero Live.”
because it goes back to being artistic.”
“GHTV” will also add music
videos for Def Leppard hits “Let’s
Go” and “Rock of Ages.” Other videos being added to the service this
week include The Strokes’ “You
Only Live Once” and Miles Kane’s
“Don’t Forget Who You Are.”
Def Leppard, also known for
such songs as “Pour Some Sugar
on Me” and “Photograph,” is currently on tour in the U.S.
he portable Bluetooth speaker market
is so good and so crowded, sometimes it
seems that there isn’t room for another
quality product. The Mass Fidelity Core
system proves this premise wrong.
Right out of the box the setup took seconds to
get a head-turning sound from the internal 120
watts of digital power.
After pairing and cranking up the speaker, I
agree with Mass Fidelity’s statement, “The Core
produces a huge multi-dimensional sound image
that’s like listening to a pair of separated highend speakers.” This allows the sound to be consistent from any angle of the speaker, which you
don’t see very often.
They have packed inside of the handheld or
desktop speaker (6-by-6-by-4 inches) five custom-designed speaker drivers with a downwardfiring woofer.
They have combined the hardware with Acoustic Holography technology, which is new technology to me. That translates to big sound from the
small speaker.
Bass is my favorite, but not a head-banging
amount. The Core delivers the right amount to
enhance the sound, not distract you from it.
If you want a complete multi-room system, you
can connect up to eight Cores without needing
Wi-Fi or any other network. It creates its own
network whether you use the speakers together
or independently.
The internal battery will give you about 12
hours before a charge is needed. There’s also
a USB port for charging your device, auxiliary
input for a wired connection and an optical input
for a cable/satellite box, Roku or Apple TV.
Online: massfidelity.com; $599
The Fizzics draft beer system has me now
thinking about my house as a home brewery,
among its other purposes.
Fizzics isn’t really a home brew system, but
the concept is to take any beer and put it on tap.
I set it up and put a low-end beer in the Fizzics, then had a friend over who is much more of
a beer drinker than me.
The system works with any carbonated beer (can or bottle), which
you place inside a canister of the
system and insert a plastic tube.
Your beer is now ready to dispense
through the tap system.
There’s no need for any COS or
nitro cartridges. All you need is
the Fizzics, a beer and a glass.
The Fizzics draft beer system
allows you to take any beer
and put it on tap.
FIZZICS/TNS
M ASS FIDELITY/TNS
The Mass Fidelity Core system produces sound
that’s consistent from all directions.
I told my friend about the system, and that I
wanted an honest answer on what he thought
after I pulled the lever forward and poured a
beer into a chilled mug. After the glass was past
halfway full, you pull the lever backwards to create a great foam head, which is critical to any tap
beer lover.
After a few sips and some pondering, I asked
what he thought, and his honest answer was “I
don’t think this is a top-shelf beer, but it’s definitely not a low-end, either.” He was quite surprised
when I showed him what he was drinking.
I personally loved the concept of an inexpensive system to pour draft beer. I’m not a big beer
drinker, but I would surely enjoy it more if I used
this system on the rare occasions that I drink.
It works off of 4 AA batteries (not included),
which should last for more than 100 pours of a
12-ounce beer.
Online: fizzics.com; $169.99
The Reachcase (r79x) is designed to extend the
signal for an iPhone 6/6s and iPhone 6/6s plus.
Its well-built rugged case protects your phone
and is certified with drop-test protection, which
exceeds military drop standards.
What makes it more than another case is
that it automatically extends your smartphone’s internal antenna.
Specifically, the case has an internal multi-patented, micro-thin
antenna that automatically couples
with your phone to expand and extend your antenna, resulting in clearer conversations and fewer dropped
calls.
Just put the case on your phone, and
the back-sided antenna slides out.
It’s not certified by Apple, but the
company states that an independent
third-party lab has validated that the
case does improve the phone’s internal antenna.
Online: reachcase.com; $59.99
ITUNES MUSIC
SPOTIFY MUSIC ITUNES MOVIES VIDEO GAMES
The top 10 songs and albums
on iTunes ending Jan. 21:
Spotify’s Top 10 most streamed tracks
from Jan. 15-21:
The top 10 movies on iTunes
for the week ending Jan. 24:
Game Informer ranks the Top 10
Wii U games for January:
The top paid iPhone apps
for the week ending Jan. 24:
1. “Love Yourself,” Justin Bieber
2. “Stressed Out,” twenty one pilots
3. “My House,” Flo Rida
4. “Hello,” Adele
5. “Sorry,” Justin Bieber
6. “Roses” (feat. ROZES), The Chainsmokers
7. “Me, Myself & I,” G-Eazy & Bebe
Rexha
8. “One Call Away,” Charlie Puth
9. “Die a Happy Man,” Thomas Rhett
10. Hands To Myself, Selena Gomez
1. “Love Yourself,” Justin Bieber
2. “Sorry,” Justin Bieber
3. “Stressed Out,” twenty one pilots
4. “Me, Myself & I,” G-Eazy & Bebe
Rexha
5. “Roses” (feat. ROZES), The Chainsmokers
6. “Jumpman,” Drake, Future
7. “Don’t,” Bryson Tiller
8. “What Do You Mean?”, Justin Bieber
9. “Hello,” Adele
10. “White Iverson,” Post Malone
1. “The Intern”
2. “The Martian”
3. “Straight Outta
Compton” (Unrated Director’s
Cut)
4. “Spectre”
5. “Everest”
6. “Sicario”
7. “Hotel Transylvania 2”
8. “The End of the Tour”
9. “Trainwreck”
10. “Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs” (1937)
1. “Super Mario Maker,” Nintendo
2. “Yoshi’s Woolly World,” Nintendo
3. “Splatoon,” Nintendo
4. “Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows,” Yacht Club Games
5. “Lego Dimensions,” Warner Bros.
6. “Minecraft: Wii U Edition,” Mojang
7. “Xenoblade Chronicles X,” Nintendo
8. “Fast Racing Neo,” Shin’en
9. “Guitar Hero Live,” Activision
10. “Skylanders: SuperChargers,”
Activision
1. Minecraft: Pocket Edition
2. Face Swap Live — Switch faces with
friends & photos in live video
3. Heads Up!
4. Exploding Kittens — The Official
Game
5. Geometry Dash
6. Lifeline: Silent Night
7. Facetune
8. Themeable
9. Plague Inc.
10. Akinator the Genie
— Compiled by TNS
— Compiled by AP
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
Pro football
NFL playoffs
Pro Bowl
Sunday, Jan. 31
At Honolulu
Team Rice vs. Team Irvin
Super Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 7
At Santa Clara, Calif.
Denver vs. Carolina
Pro Bowl rosters
Sunday, Jan. 31
At Aloha Stadium
Honolulu
TEAM IRVIN
Coach: Winston Moss, Green Bay
Offense
Quarterbacks: Russell Wilson, Seattle; Jameis Winston, Tampa Bay; Teddy
Bridgewater, Minnesota.
Running backs: Devonta Freeman,
Atlanta; Todd Gurley, St. Louis; Latavius
Murray, Oakland.
Wide receivers: Julio Jones, Atlanta;
A.J. Green, Cincinnati; DeAndre Hopkins,
Houston; Allen Robinson, Jacksonville.
Tight ends: Tyler Eifert, Cincinnati;
Delanie Walker, Tennessee.
Fullback: Patrick DiMarco, Atlanta.
Tackles: Andrew Whitworth, Cincinnati; Tyron Smith, Dallas; Branden Albert, Miami.
Guards: Marshal Yanda, Baltimore;
Zack Martin, Dallas; David DeCastro,
Pittsburgh.
Centers: Alex Mack, Cleveland; Travis
Frederick, Dallas.
Defense
Co-captain: Darren Woodson.
Defensive ends: Ezekiel Ansah, Detroit; Michael Bennett, Seattle; Carlos
Dunlap, Cincinnati.
Defensive tackles: Jurrell Casey, Tennessee; Calais Campbell, Arizona; Geno
Atkins, Cincinnati.
Outside linebackers: Anthony Barr,
Minnesota; Lavonte David, Tampa Bay;
Sean Lee, Dallas.
Inside linebackers: Derrick Johnson,
Kansas City; NaVorro Bowman, San Francisco.
Cornerbacks: Richard Sherman, Seattle; Desmond Trufant, Atlanta; Adam
Jones, Cincinnati; Dominque RodgersCromartie, New York Giants.
Safeties: Reshad Jones, Miami; Malcolm Jenkins, Philadelphia; Harrison
Smith, Minnesota.
Special teams
Punter: Sam Koch, Baltimore.
Placekicker: Dan Bailey, Dallas.
Return specialist: Darren Sproles,
Philadelphia.
Special-teamer: Justin Bethel, Arizona.
Long-snapper: Jon Weeks, Houston.
TEAM RICE
Coach: Andy Reid, Kansas City
Offense
Quarterbacks: Eli Manning, New York
Giants; Derek Carr, Oakland; Tyrod Talor,
Buffalo.
Running backs: Adrian Peterson, Minnesota; Doug Martin, Tampa Bay, Chris
Ivory, N.Y. Jets.
Wide receivers: Odell Beckham, Jr.,
New York Giants; Jarvis Landry, Miami;
Amari Cooper, Oakland; T.Y. Hilton, Indianapolis.
Tight ends: Travis Kelce, Kansas City;
Gary Barnidge, Cleveland.
Fullback: John Kuhn, Green Bay.
Tackles: Joe Thomas, Cleveland; Joe
Staley, San Francisco; Kyle Long, Chicago.
Guards: Josh Sitton, Green Bay; Logan
Mankins, Tampa Bay; Richie Incognito,
Buffalo.
Centers: Eric Wood, Buffalo; Nick Mangold, New York Jets.
Defense
Co-captain: Eric Davis.
Defensive ends: Khalil Mack, Oakland;
Everson Griffen, Minnesota; Cameron
Jordan, New Orleans.
Defensive tackles: Gerald McCoy,
Tampa Bay; Aaron Donald, St. Louis;
Fletcher Cox, Philadelphia.
Outside linebackers: Tamba Hali, Kansas City; Julius Peppers, Green Bay; Elvis
Dumervil, Baltimore.
Inside linebackers: Bobby Wagner, Seattle; Clay Matthews, Green Bay.
Cornerbacks: Marcus Peters, Kansas
City; Vontae Davis, Indianapolis, Brent
Grimes, Miami; Jason Verrett, San Diego.
Safeties: Eric Berry, Kansas City; Mike
Adams, Indianapolis; Charles Woodson,
Oakland.
Special teams
Punter: Johnny Hekker, St. Louis.
Placekicker: Josh Brown, New York Giants.
Return specialist: Tyler Lockett, Seattle.
Special-teamer: Cedric Peerman, Cincinnati.
Long-snapper: Morgan Cox, Baltimore.
College basketball
Deals
Friday’s men’s scores
EAST
Carnegie-Mellon 85, NYU 80
Columbia 77, Dartmouth 60
Cornell 77, Harvard 65
Fairfield 84, Canisius 77
Iona 70, Manhattan 56
Princeton 83, Brown 59
Skidmore 61, Hobart 58
Yale 81, Penn 58
SOUTH
Barton 77, Limestone 70
Birmingham-Southern 70, Rhodes 59
Kentucky Christian 100, Johnson
(Tenn.) 83
Methodist 91, Maryville (Tenn.) 76
Mount Olive 91, North Greenville 83
VCU 79, Davidson 69
MIDWEST
Concordia (St.P.) 98, Minn. St.-Moorhead 97, 2OT
Crown (Minn.) 91, North Central
(Minn.) 87
IUPUI 69, W. Illinois 67
Milwaukee 95, Green Bay 94
Minn. St.-Mankato 119, Northern St.
(SD) 115, 2OT
N. Kentucky 91, Detroit 83
Northland 61, Wis.-Superior 58
Northwestern (Minn.) 78, Minn.-Morris 67
Oakland 89, Wright St. 63
Ohio 72, Kent St. 61
Sioux Falls 95, Minn. Duluth 73
St. Cloud St. 103, SW Minnesota St. 94
Upper Iowa 72, Minn.-Crookston 62
Winona St. 84, Bemidji St. 77
EXHIBITION
St. Scholastica 81, Finlandia 74
Friday’s women’s scores
EAST
Dartmouth 76, Columbia 73, OT
Drexel 67, Hofstra 64
Elon 56, Northeastern 54
Georgetown 82, Providence 51
Harvard 65, Cornell 56, OT
NYU 75, Carnegie-Mellon 74
Penn 68, Yale 49
Princeton 72, Brown 53
SOUTH
Coll. of Charleston 55, William & Mary 51
Erskine 65, Pfeiffer 56
James Madison 75, Delaware 55
Kentucky Christian 92, Cincinnati-Clermont 59
King (Tenn.) 82, Converse 56
Limestone 74, Barton 65
Maryville (Tenn.) 56, Methodist 46
Mount Olive 72, North Greenville 58
Rhodes 62, Birmingham-Southern 57
UNC Wilmington 53, Towson 51
MIDWEST
Creighton 53, Villanova 48
Crown (Minn.) 58, North Central
(Minn.) 55
Drake 76, Bradley 64
Illinois St. 64, Evansville 57
Loyola of Chicago 64, N. Iowa 60
Marquette 67, St. John’s 64
Minn. St. (Moorhead) 77, Concordia
(St.P) 59
Minn.-Crookston 74, Upper Iowa 65
Northwestern (Minn.) 62, Minn.-Morris 46
S. Illinois 76, Indiana St. 64
Seton Hall 83, DePaul 74
Sioux Falls 82, Minn. Duluth 53
St. Cloud St. 78, SW Minnesota St. 53
St. Scholastica 78, Finlandia 50
Winona St. 65, Bemidji St. 56
Wis.-Superior 66, Northland 45
Xavier 55, Butler 47
FAR WEST
California 74, Washington St. 71
Oregon St. 71, Arizona 43
Southern Cal 70, Utah 59
UCLA 82, Colorado 64
EXHIBITION
Northern St. (SD) 74, Minn. St. (Mankato) 61
Golf
Farmers Insurance
PGA Tour
Friday
San Diego
Purse: $5 million
s-Torrey Pines, South Course:
Yardage: 7,698; Par: 72 (36-36)
n-Torrey Pines, North Course:
Yardage: 7,052; Par: 72 (36-36)
Second Round
Gary Woodland
68n-67s—135
K.J. Choi
68s-67n—135
Dustin Johnson
70s-66n—136
Martin Laird
69s-68n—137
Scott Brown
66s-71n—137
Billy Horschel
67n-70s—137
Freddie Jacobson
69s-69n—138
Kevin Streelman
69s-69n—138
Si Woo Kim
70n-68s—138
Chad Campbell
72s-66n—138
J.B. Holmes
70n-68s—138
John Huh
69n-69s—138
Rob Oppenheim
67n-71s—138
Brian Harman
69s-70n—139
Ben Crane
71s-68n—139
Derek Fathauer
74s-65n—139
Michael Kim
70n-69s—139
Jim Herman
69n-71s—140
Angel Cabrera
70n-70s—140
Smylie Kaufman
69s-71n—140
Jimmy Walker
69s-71n—140
Brendan Steele
68n-72s—140
Patton Kizzire
67n-73s—140
Paul Dunne
69s-71n—140
Bud Cauley
71s-69n—140
Bronson Burgoon
72s-68n—140
Michael Thompson
70n-71s—141
Steve Marino
69n-72s—141
J.J. Henry
70n-71s—141
Chesson Hadley
68s-73n—141
Adam Hadwin
71n-70s—141
Jhonattan Vegas
72s-69n—141
Charles Howell III
70n-71s—141
Hudson Swafford
70s-71n—141
Scott Stallings
68n-73s—141
Ollie Schniederjans
69n-72s—141
Andrew Loupe
66n-75s—141
Erik Compton
71s-71n—142
Tony Finau
71s-71n—142
Shane Lowry
71n-71s—142
James Hahn
73s-69n—142
Martin Piller
70n-72s—142
Hiroshi Iwata
69n-73s—142
Shane Bertsch
75s-67n—142
Aaron Baddeley
73s-69n—142
Robert Garrigus
70s-72n—142
Jason Kokrak
75s-67n—142
Greg Owen
73s-69n—142
Harris English
70n-72s—142
Patrick Reed
69n-73s—142
Hunter Mahan
72s-70n—142
Scott Piercy
73s-69n—142
Kyle Stanley
69s-73n—142
Jason Gore
70s-72n—142
Kelly Kraft
70n-72s—142
Brandon Hagy
71n-71s—142
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Pure Silk-Bahamas Classic
LPGA Tour
Friday
At Ocean Club Golf Course
Paradise Island, Bahamas
Purse: $1.4 million
Yardage: 6,625; Par: 73
Second Round
Megan Khang
70-68—138
Haru Nomura
68-70—138
Charley Hull
68-70—138
Sei Young Kim
71-68—139
Anna Nordqvist
70-69—139
Min Seo Kwak
69-70—139
Catriona Matthew
68-71—139
Hyo Joo Kim
70-70—140
Paula Creamer
68-72—140
Stacy Lewis
73-68—141
Brittany Lincicome
70-71—141
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-8
-7
-7
-7
-7
-6
-6
-5
-5
Alison Lee
Cristie Kerr
Austin Ernst
Kim Kaufman
Giulia Sergas
Moriya Jutanugarn
Laetitia Beck
Mika Miyazato
Lexi Thompson
Minjee Lee
Maude-Aimee Leblanc
Juli Inkster
Gaby Lopez
Brooke M. Henderson
Azahara Munoz
Pornanong Phatlum
Ilhee Lee
Jennifer Johnson
Kelly W Shon
Tiffany Joh
Jane Park
Hee Young Park
Ha Na Jang
Cydney Clanton
Brittany Altomare
Kelly Tan
Jennifer Song
Ryann O’Toole
Brittany Lang
Mo Martin
Mi Hyang Lee
Paula Reto
Chella Choi
P.K. Kongkraphan
Thidapa Suwannapura
Ai Miyazato
Mina Harigae
Giulia Molinaro
Julieta Granada
Angela Stanford
Lee Lopez
Simin Feng
Morgan Pressel
Lizette Salas
Jessica Korda
Carlota Ciganda
68-73—141 -5
77-65—142 -4
73-69—142 -4
73-69—142 -4
72-70—142 -4
71-71—142 -4
70-72—142 -4
68-74—142 -4
74-69—143 -3
73-70—143 -3
73-70—143 -3
72-71—143 -3
71-72—143 -3
71-72—143 -3
71-72—143 -3
71-72—143 -3
71-72—143 -3
69-74—143 -3
73-71—144 -2
73-71—144 -2
72-72—144 -2
72-72—144 -2
72-72—144 -2
71-73—144 -2
71-73—144 -2
71-73—144 -2
75-70—145 -1
74-71—145 -1
73-72—145 -1
73-72—145 -1
72-73—145 -1
71-74—145 -1
71-74—145 -1
70-75—145 -1
76-70—146 E
75-71—146 E
74-72—146 E
74-72—146 E
74-72—146 E
73-73—146 E
73-73—146 E
73-73—146 E
72-74—146 E
72-74—146 E
72-74—146 E
76-71—147 +1
Qatar Masters
PGA European Tour
Friday
At Doha Golf Club
Doha, Qatar
Purse: $2.5 million
Yardage: 7,400; Par: 72
Third Round
a-amateur
Paul Lawrie, Scotland
67-66-70—203
Branden Grace, South Africa 70-67-68—205
Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark
67-69-69—205
Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Spain
67-68-71—206
Tommy Fleetwood, England
67-69-70—206
Andrew Johnston, England
66-69-72—207
Gregory Bourdy, France
67-68-72—207
Pelle Edberg, Sweden
67-69-71—207
Lee Slatterym, England
69-69-69—207
Johan Carlsson, Sweden
69-67-72—208
Bernd Wiesberger, Austria
68-70-70—208
Bradley Dredge, Wales
71-67-70—208
Richard Bland, England
72-69-67—208
Ricardo Gouveia, Portugal
67-71-70—208
Gregory Havret, France
71-67-70—208
Pablo Larrazabal, Spain
65-72-72—209
Robert Rock, England
68-70-71—209
Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa 65-73-71—209
Jorge Campillo, Spain
69-68-73—210
George Coetzee, South Africa 67-70-73—210
Sergio Garcia, Spain
70-66-74—210
Mikko Ilonen, Finland
71-68-71—210
Ernie Els, South Africa
68-70-72—210
Tyrrell Hatton, England
71-70-69—210
Also
Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand
68-72-71—211
Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark
70-69-75—214
Thomas Pieters, Belgium
75-68-71—214
K. Aphibarnrat, Thailand
69-73-72—214
a-B. Dechambreau, United States 73-70-74—217
David Lipsky, United States
71-72-76—219
Friday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Assigned OF
Joey Terdoslavich outright to Norfolk
(IL).
BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms
with LHP Robbie Ross on a one-year contract.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to
terms with RHP Ian Kennedy on a fiveyear contract. Designated RHP Louis
Coleman for assignment.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Assigned LHP
Logan Darnell outright to Rochester (IL).
TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms
with LHP Jake Diekman on a one-year
contract and with RHP Steve Johnson on
a minor league contract.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to
terms with INF Maicer Izturis on a minor
league contract.
National League
CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms
with RHPs Stephen Fife, Brandon Gomes,
Jean Machi, Jonathan Pettibone and
Drew Rucinski; LHPs Luis Cruz and
Jack Leathersich; INFs Jesus Guzman,
Munenori Kawasaki and Kristopher Negron; OF Juan Perez; and C Tim Federowicz on minor league contracts.
NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms
with 2B Neil Walker on a one-year contract.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Claimed
LHP Bobby LaFromboise off waivers from
the L.A. Angels.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled F Montrezl Harrell and G/F K.J. McDaniels from
Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).
NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Thanasis Antetokounmpo to a 10-day contract.
PHOENIX SUNS — Signed G Jordan
McRae to a 10-day contract.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
DETROIT LIONS — Named Michael
McCarthy quality control-offensive line
coach, Harold Nash Jr. strength and conditioning coach and Matt Harriss vice
president of football operations.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed TE Travis Kelce to a contract extension.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to
terms with OT Lane Johnson on a sixyear contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned D
Mason Geersten from San Antonio (AHL)
to Fort Wayne (ECHL).
MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned D
Dalton Thrower from St. John’s (AHL) to
Brampton (ECHL).
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled G Ken
Appleby from Adirondack (ECHL) to Albany (AHL).
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Assigned
D Harrison Ruopo from Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton (AHL) to Wheeling (ECHL).
SAN JOSE SHARKS — Assigned F Nikita
Jevpalovs from San Jose (AHL) to Allen
(ECHL).
SOCCER
Major League Soccer
NEW YORK RED BULLS — Re-signed G
Kyle Reynish. Signed D Connor Lade to a
multi-year contract.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Agreed to
transfer F Krisztian Nemeth to Al-Gharafa SC in Qatar.
COLLEGE
BOISE STATE — Named Zak Hill quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator. Promoted offensive line coach
Scott Huff to co-offensive coordinator
and wide receivers coach Junior Adams
to passing game coordinator.
LIMESTONE — Named Jordan Manning assistant track and field coach for
jumps.
MICHIGAN — Named Warde Manuel
athletic director and signed him to a
five-year contract.
NORTH CAROLINA — Named Chad
Scott tight ends/hybrids coach. Announced women’s basketball coach
Sylvia Hatchell will serve a one-game
suspension by the school and an additional game by the NCAA for for making
contact with an official Sunday’s game
and women’s assistant basketball coach
Tracey Williams-Johnson will be suspended for one game by the NCAA for
the same incident.
NOTRE DAME — Agreed to terms with
football coach Brian Kelly on a six-year
contract.
SHENANDOAH — Named Jimmy Bowman assistant softball coach and Maddie Taghon women’s assistant lacrosse
coach.
THIEL — Named Tim Heffernan offensive line coach and run game/recruiting
coordinator.
AP sportlight
Jan. 31
1941 — Joe Louis knocks out Red Burman in the fifth round at Madison Square
Garden to retain the world heavyweight
title.
1950 — High school pitcher Paul Pettit signs with the Pirates for a record
$100,000. To do so, Pittsburgh has to purchase his contract from a film producer
who had signed Pettit to an exclusive
contract as an athlete/actor.
2004 — Justine Henin-Hardenne wins
her third Grand Slam title and extends
her dominance in major finals against
countrywoman Kim Clijsters with a 6-3,
4-6, 6-3 win in the Australian Open women’s title match.
College hockey
Friday’s scores
EAST
Bentley 4, Sacred Heart 2
Boston U. 4, Merrimack 0
RPI 4, Brown 3
Hobart 7, Utica 3
Castleton 3, Norwich 1
Air Force 3, Canisius 2
Clarkson 2, Cornell 1, OT
Quinnipiac 7, Dartmouth 5
Harvard 4, Princeton 1
Mercyhurst 3, American International 1
Army 4, Niagara 2
Providence 3, New Hampshire 1
Holy Cross 2, RIT 2, OT
St. Lawrence 4, Colgate 2
Maine 5, UMass 2
UMass-Lowell 4, Arizona St. 1
Union (N.Y.) 2, Yale 1
MIDWEST
St. Scholastica 5, Aurora 1
Michigan Tech 4, Bowling Green 4, OT
Miami (Ohio) 3, Denver 1
N. Michigan 4, Minn.-Duluth 3
Boston College 4, Notre Dame 0
Michigan St. 4, Ohio St. 2
North Dakota 2, W. Michigan 0
Wisconsin 4, Alaska 3
FAR WEST
Colorado College 5, Neb.-Omaha 1
Pro hockey
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida
49 29 15 5 63 135 108
Tampa Bay
49 27 18 4 58 130 117
Detroit
49 25 16 8 58 122 124
Boston
49 26 18 5 57 147 131
Montreal
50 24 22 4 52 136 134
Ottawa
50 23 21 6 52 139 155
Buffalo
50 20 26 4 44 114 136
Toronto
48 17 22 9 43 114 134
Metropolitan Division
Washington 47 35 8 4 74 158 104
N.Y. Rangers 49 27 17 5 59 142 129
N.Y. Islanders 47 25 16 6 56 130 118
Pittsburgh
48 24 17 7 55 121 120
New Jersey
50 25 20 5 55 114 118
Carolina
51 23 20 8 54 123 135
Philadelphia 47 21 18 8 50 109 127
Columbus
51 19 27 5 43 133 163
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago
53 33 16 4 70 147 122
Dallas
50 31 14 5 67 162 133
St. Louis
52 28 16 8 64 129 128
Colorado
52 27 22 3 57 143 142
Nashville
50 24 18 8 56 129 131
Minnesota
49 23 17 9 55 121 115
Winnipeg
49 22 24 3 47 126 140
Pacific Division
Los Angeles 49 30 16 3 63 129 113
San Jose
48 26 18 4 56 142 129
Arizona
49 24 20 5 53 131 146
Anaheim
47 22 18 7 51 101 111
Vancouver
50 20 19 11 51 122 139
Calgary
48 21 24 3 45 126 146
Edmonton
50 19 26 5 43 122 149
Note: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
Friday’s games
No games scheduled
Saturday’s games
No games scheduled
Sunday’s games
Team Metropolitan vs. Team Atlantic
Team Pacific vs. Team Central
All-Stars East vs. All-Stars West
Monday’s games
No games scheduled
Tuesday, Feb. 2
Toronto at Boston
N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey
Minnesota at N.Y. Islanders
Montreal at Philadelphia
Ottawa at Pittsburgh
Florida at Washington
St. Louis at Nashville
Dallas at Winnipeg
Chicago at Colorado
Columbus at Edmonton
Los Angeles at Arizona
San Jose at Anaheim
Wednesday, Feb. 3
Buffalo at Montreal
Detroit at Tampa Bay
Carolina at Calgary
NHL scoring leaders
Through Jan. 27
GP
53
50
50
50
48
47
50
49
48
48
50
53
44
Patrick Kane, Chi
Jamie Benn, Dal
Tyler Seguin, Dal
Erik Karlsson, Ott
Joe Pavelski, SJ
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Was
Taylor Hall, Edm
Blake Wheeler, Wpg
Evgeni Malkin, Pit
Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy
Vladimir Tarasenko, StL
Artemi Panarin, Chi
Nicklas Backstrom, Was
2 tied with 44 pts.
G
30
28
25
11
25
15
18
13
23
20
25
17
16
A PTS
43 73
30 58
28 53
41 52
24 49
34 49
30 48
35 48
24 47
27 47
21 46
29 46
29 45
NHL calendar
Jan. 28 — CHL/NHL Top Prospects
Game at Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jan. 28-Feb. 1 — NHL All-Star break.
Jan. 30 — All-Star skills competition at
Nashville, Tenn.
Jan. 31 — All-Star Game at Nashville,
Tenn.
Feb. 29 — Trade deadline, 3 p.m. EST.
March 2 — Deadline for national associations to announce minimum 16-player
rosters for 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
March 14-16 — General managers
meetings, Boca Raton, Fla.
April 9 — Final day of regular season.
April 13 — Playoffs begin.
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Roundup
Spieth closer to lead after frustrating day
Associated Press
SINGAPORE — Jordan Spieth inched
closer to the top of the leaderboard after
a long and frustrating day for the American at the weather-hit Singapore Open on
Saturday.
Despite not playing his best in the sweltering humidity of Southeast Asia, the topranked Spieth kept himself in contention
by ending the third day just three shots off
the pace at the Sentosa Golf Club.
With tournament organizers forced to
play catch-up after the first two days were
interrupted by tropical storms, Spieth was
on the course just after dawn to finish off
his second round. After a 2-under 70, he
was back out there when the sun went
down in the evening, sitting at 6-under par
for the tournament, with his ball marked
on the 17th green.
Spieth ended the day three strokes behind South Korea’s Song Young-han, who
was 9 under after completing 13 holes, and
two behind China’s Liang Wen-chong, who
finished just in time to grab the clubhouse
lead at 8 under and a sleep-in on Sunday.
Japan’s Shintaro Kobayashi and South
Africa’s Keith Horne, playing in the final
group with Song, were both at 7 under, and
among 15 players needing to return to the
course at daybreak on Sunday to finish
their third rounds.
Spieth played a total of 28 holes on Saturday with mixed fortune, making six birdies
and five bogeys in an inconsistent display.
“This has happened before, it is not unusual,” Spieth said of his long day. “You
have delays where you have to come out
and be prepared to play a lot of golf the
next day and you hope that that day you
are on rhythm.”
The 22-year-old Spieth had struggled to
get his distances right on the first two days
but found his range on Saturday, only to be
let down by his putting and driving.
He uncharacteristically missed a handful of short putts, including a three-footer
for par on the 18th in the second round,
and another from the same distance in the
afternoon, swiping his putter in the air in
irritation.
He also had problems off the tee, routinely missing the fairways and finding
WONG M AYE-E/AP
Jordan Spieth plays a shot on the 18th hole during the second round of the SMBC
Singapore Open at Sentosa Golf Club’s Serapong Course on Saturday in Singapore.
the rough, but produced a few moments
of brilliance to stay in the hunt, including
two up-and-downs from greenside bunkers and a superb approach at the seventh
for birdie, which brought a wry smile and
a celebratory fist-bump from his manager
Jay Danzi, who was carrying his bags in
the absence of Spieth’s regular caddie.
Song had the luxury of taking Saturday
morning off after he finished his second
round before Friday afternoon’s foul weather and the South Korean briefly threatened
to open up a bigger gap when he got to 11
under before coming back to the field with
two late bogeys. Horne got himself into a
share of the lead but also slid back when
he made a double bogey on the ninth after
hooking his drive out of bounds.
PGA Tour: Phil Mickelson was expecting to post a low score on the North Course
at Torrey Pines and go into the weekend
with a chance to win the Farmers Insurance Open. By closing with three straight
bogeys, he’s going home after missing the
cut in San Diego.
Mickelson at least was in good company. Defending champion Jason Day, No. 2
in the world, also missed the cut. And it
looked as though Rickie Fowler would join
them.
Gary Woodland powered his way to a
5-under 67 on the South Course and had a
share of the lead with K.J. Choi, who shot
67 on the North. Choi has not won in five
years on the PGA Tour.
Dustin Johnson had a 66 on the North
and was one shot back.
European Tour: At Doha, Qatar, Branden Grace successfully defended his Qatar
Masters title on Saturday, becoming the
first player to do so since the tournament
began in 1998.
The South African shot a 3-under 69 on
another wind-swept day at Doha Golf Club
to win the second leg of the European Tour’s
so-called “Desert Swing” by two shots over
Spain’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello (70) and Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen (71).
Grace shot an overall 14-under 274 for
his seventh European Tour title.
LPGA Tour: At Paradise Island, Bahamas, Megan Khang shot a 5-under 68 in
windy conditions Friday for a share of the
lead in the season-opening Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic, her first event as an
LPGA Tour member.
The 18-year-old Khang eagled the par5 fourth hole and had four birdies and a
bogey to match England’s Charley Hull
and Japan’s Haru Nomura at 8-under 138
at the Ocean Club. Khang, from Rockland,
Mass., tied for sixth at Q-school in December to earn a tour card.
Hull and Nomura each shot 70.
Defending champion Sei Young Kim
was a stroke back along with Anna Nordqvist, 46-year-old Catriona Matthew and
Min Seo Kwak. Kim shot 68, Nordqvist 69,
Kwak 70, and Matthew 71.
Briefly
Rivers: Griffin ‘feels awful’ about punching incident
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The Los
Angeles Clippers have completed their investigation into Blake
Griffin’s punch-out of a team staff
member and are awaiting the results of the NBA’s inquiry, which
could come early next week.
Griffin wasn’t at Friday night’s
game against the Lakers and
neither was assistant equipment
manager Matias Testi, whom the
star forward punched at a Toronto restaurant on Jan. 23. Griffin
broke his right shooting hand and
will be out another four-to-six
weeks after not playing since Dec.
26 because of a different injury.
A team spokesman said the
NBA is likely to announce its
findings early next week.
“I’m satisfied I know what hap-
pened,” coach Doc Rivers said
before the Clippers hosted the
Lakers.
Rivers didn’t shed any light
on what led to the altercation between Griffin and Testi, who are
friends. Rivers said the two men
have since been in touch, but he
didn’t know what was said.
Earlier in the week, Rivers had
said alcohol wasn’t involved. But
he backtracked Friday.
“Did guys have a drink? I’m
sure they did,” he said.
Rivers didn’t indicate whether
Griffin will be punished by the
Clippers.
Rivers said he’s spoken to Griffin, adding, “He feels awful. We’ve
all done some dumb things in our
lives. You got to forgive people. We
built Richard Nixon a library.”
Packers QB Rodgers
says he had surgery
Carew on mend, eyeing
Twins spring training
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Packers
quarterback Aaron Rodgers says
he had knee surgery days after
Green Bay was eliminated from
the playoffs, a report says.
Rodgers told ESPN.com on Friday night that he was “doing well”
and “recovering on schedule.”
A Packers spokesman told The
Associated Press that he didn’t
have any injury information.
The Packers lost to Arizona 2620 in the divisional round on Jan.
16. Rodgers pulled out of the Pro
Bowl later that week, citing an
unspecified injury.
In college at California, Rodgers had surgery to repair a torn
left ACL.
MINNEAPOLIS — Rod Carew
is about four months removed
from a massive heart attack that
nearly killed him. The 70-yearold Hall of Famer has to carry a
battery-powered device with him
to keep his heart on track.
He remains adamant that he
will be at spring training with
the Minnesota Twins as a guest
instructor next month. The man
who won seven American League
batting titles spoke Saturday at the
team’s annual winter fan festival.
He broke down in tears as he
described the grueling recovery
from surgery. He’s awaiting a
transplant, a process he’s hoping
to start in the spring.
A LEX BRANDON /AP
Packers quarterback Aaron
Rodgers told ESPN.com on
Friday that he was “doing well”
after undergoing knee surgery.
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Scott takes time
to enjoy moment
called him to suggest he back out
BY TERESA M. WALKER
of the game, an idea he rejected
Associated Press
much to the delight of his fellow
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — John All-Stars.
Scott sat back in his chair and
The last two weeks have been
took a cell phone photo of all the a whirlwind for Scott. He was
reporters crowded around him traded Jan. 15 to Montreal, which
once the questions finally ended.
promptly ordered him to its AHL
It was a big moment
affiliate in Canada’s
for a big man, and it alversion of the Far East.
most didn’t happen. So
I think
The league also had to
the journeyman enforcit’s a good decide what to do with
er who admits he’s an
him, since no one had
thing
for
odd fit for an NHL Allreally expected a 6-footStar Game is soaking up
the game. 8 bruiser with just five
every precious moment
goals over 285 games in
It’s
gotten
before heading back to
eight seasons to make an
a lot of
Newfoundland, where he
All-Star roster.
is toiling in the minors.
Scott didn’t just make
publicity.
“It’s
definitely
the roster: Fans flocked
It’s gotten online and voted him
strange,” Scott said Friday at one of the more
captain of the Pacific Dia lot of
unusual media days for
vision, taking advantage
people
the NHL’s showcase
of the NHL’s willingness
excited to to give them the ability
event. “You go in the
locker room everyone’s
watch the to turn at least one pogot the NHL logo on their
sition into a popularity
game, so contest. The same thing
helmet. They threw the
NHL logo on mine. It’s
you never happened a year ago as
definitely always like,
Latvian fans helped send
know.
‘You’re not in the NHL
Sabres forward Zemgus
John Scott Girgensons to the Allanymore.’ So it’s neat,
though like I’m not used
Pacific Division Star Game.
captain
to this and all this scrum
Of course, Girgensons
and stuff. I’m going to
isn’t a tough guy like
enjoy it while I’m here and go Scott, who may very well look a
back to the real world.”
bit out of place when the league
He is going to enjoy it with a shows off its frantic 3-on-3 format
blessing from NHL Commission- during Sunday’s game.
er Gary Bettman, too. The two
Scott expects the NHL to
had a talk Thursday night.
change the fan vote for the All“And he’s more than welcome Star Game to keep someone like
to be here,” Bettman told The As- himself from ever being picked
sociated Press. “We’re happy he’s again.
here. The fans spoke, and we’re
“They should do something if
happy to reflect their will.”
they don’t want this to happen
Scott said he was glad to hear again,” Scott said. “I think it’s a
that from Bettman because there good thing for the game. It’s gotwas a time he really wasn’t sure ten a lot of publicity. It’s gotten a
the league felt that way. He wrote lot of people excited to watch the
in The Players Tribune this week game, so you never know. It could
that someone from the league be a good thing.”
‘
A LAN DIAZ /AP
Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad (5) is congratulated by teammates after scoring a goal against
Chicago last week in Sunrise, Fla. On a team with a soon-to-be 44-year-old in Jaromir Jagr, along with a
slew of late thirtysomethings, Ekblad, 19, is showing that the future might be now for Florida.
Wise beyond his years
At 19, Panthers’ Ekblad is headed to his second All-Star game
BY TIM R EYNOLDS
Associated Press
SUNRISE, Fla. — Aaron Ekblad bought a PlayStation 4 console a few months ago, hardly
an uncommon purchase for a
19-year-old.
Except in his case, the games
sit around and collect dust.
“Haven’t used it once,” Ekblad
said. “Big waste of money.”
That sums up Ekblad. The kid
has no desire to act like a kid.
He’s a teenager until Feb. 7, but
the Florida defenseman’s maturity belies his years. Whether it’s
the reluctance to talk about himself, the beard that he seems to be
able to grow overnight, or being
selected twice already for the
NHL All-Star Game — the first
teen with that distinction in more
than 30 years — Ekblad seems
both grown-up and gearing up for
superstardom.
“Never. No. Not at all. Nothing,” Panthers coach Gerard Gallant said, when asked if anything
about Ekblad reminds him of a
19-year-old’s behavior. “Off the
ice, on the ice, he’s a really mature kid. He’s obviously been a
big kid all his life and a mature
kid all his life. That’s why he was
an exceptional player in the OHL
and all that. Maybe he’s not 19, I
don’t know. He might be 23.”
The Panthers are perhaps the
feel-good story in the NHL so far
this season, holding the No. 2 spot
in the Eastern Conference heading into Sunday’s All-Star Game
in Nashville and primed for what
would be their second playoff trip
in 15 seasons.
And even though he won’t say
so, Ekblad is a huge reason why.
“Obviously, he’s an elite, elite
player,” Campbell said. “And he’s
going to make us a better team.”
Of late, he’s made them an un-
beatable team. For more than
a month, when Ekblad plays,
the Panthers win — 15 straight
times and counting going into the
break. The last time the Panthers
lost with him in the lineup was
Dec. 12. To put that in perspective, nearly 300 players around
the NHL have been part of 10
losses since the last time Ekblad
was part of one.
Here’s an example of Ekblad’s
humility: When told how rare it
is for a 19-year-old to be going
to his second All-Star Game, he
shrugged it off. Ekblad went to
the game last year by accident, a
late addition because Colorado’s
Erik Johnson was forced to bow
out because of injury and he just
happened to be there already for
a skills competition.
“I didn’t deserve it,” Ekblad
said.
Maybe, maybe not.
Ekblad had four assists in the
game, and even though the AllStar Game in hockey is about as
defense-optional an affair as its
NBA counterpart, he more than
proved that he could hang with
the sport’s biggest stars.
“He came back not different,
but a very confident young man,”
Panthers general manager Dale
Tallon said. “It helped him. It
didn’t hurt him.”
Tallon — a defenseman who
logged 642 games in the NHL
after being taken No. 2 overall
in the 1970 draft — likes to say it
takes defensemen 300 games at
the NHL level to start really figuring things out.
Ekblad has played in 126, and
has proven himself as an exception to Tallon’s theory.
“Denis Potvin, Bobby Orr,
those types of players, they just
get it,” Tallon said. “That’s why
he was first overall. In juniors,
you could see the poise he has on
Did you know
Going into the
All-Star break, the
Panthers have
won 15 straight
times when Aaron
Ekblad plays. The last time
Florida lost with him in the
lineup was Dec. 12.
SOURCE: Associated Press
the ice and the ability to play offensively and defensively.”
Lofty praise, being compared
to Potvin and Orr. And it’s not just
Tallon doing that.
An obvious comparison others make about Ekblad and his
potential is longtime Detroit star
defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom, a
former teammate of Gallant. Lidstrom is idolized by Ekblad, who
grew up in Windsor, Ontario —
just across the Detroit River from
the city where Lidstrom played
for the Red Wings for 20 years.
Ekblad wants to win a Norris
Trophy, given to the NHL’s top
defenseman, one day. For now,
he’s only fixating on being one of
the first to show up for work and
one of the last to get off the ice
every day.
If that means his PS4 keeps
collecting dust, so be it.
“The most important thing to
remember is I’m not 30 years old
yet,” Ekblad said. “Still got to take
things a day at a time and work
as hard as I can. I want to be a
great player, so I’ll keep working
on it. ... I was raised to always be
humble and never think you have
succeeded. I really haven’t done
anything in my life yet. That’s
just how I feel.”
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M ARK HUMPHREY/AP
John Scott answers questions Friday during the NHL All-Star Game
media day in Nashville, Tenn. Scott was elected as captain of the
Pacific Division, though Arizona traded him to Montreal and he is
now at the Canadiens’ AHL affiliate in Newfoundland.
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NBA
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W
L
31
15
27
21
23
26
12
35
7 40
Southeast Division
Atlanta
27
21
Miami
26
21
Charlotte
22 25
Washington
20
24
Orlando
20 25
Central Division
Cleveland
33
12
Chicago
26
19
Detroit
25
22
Indiana
24
22
Milwaukee
20 29
Toronto
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Pct
.674
.563
.469
.255
.149
GB
—
5
9½
19½
24½
.563
.553
.468
.455
.444
—
.733
.578
.532
.522
.408
—
7
9
9½
15
½
4½
5
5½
Western Conference
JULIE JACOBSON /AP
Phoenix Suns guard Jordan McRae, left, is fouled while shooting
against Knicks forward Lance Thomas on Friday in New York.
Roundup
Melo leads Knicks
to win over Suns
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony had 19 points, 10 rebounds
and eight assists in his return
from a two-game absence, and
the New York Knicks snapped a
four-game losing streak with a
102-84 victory over the Phoenix
Suns on Friday night.
Kristaps Porzingis also rejoined the lineup with seven
points and seven rebounds, and
the Knicks sent the Suns to their
13th straight road loss.
Anthony had sat out with soreness in his surgically repaired left
knee, and Porzingis missed his
first game of the season Thursday
with an upper respiratory illness.
Rookie Devin Booker scored
21 points for the Suns, who fell to
4-21 on the road. Their last road
victory was Dec. 7 in Chicago.
Cavaliers 114, Pistons 106:
Kevin Love scored 19 of his 29
points in the first half, Kyrie Irving had 28 points and visiting
Cleveland rolled to another highscoring win.
The Cavaliers have won three
straight since losing to Chicago in
Tyronn Lue’s first game as Cleveland’s coach, scoring at least 114
points in each win.
Thunder 116, Rockets 108:
Russell Westbrook’s sixth tripledouble of the season helped host
Oklahoma City defeat Houston.
Westbrook
finished
with
26 points, 14 assists and 10
rebounds.
It was the 25th triple-double of
his career.
Celtics 113, Magic 94: Kelly
Olynyk and Marcus Smart scored
16 points apiece as host Boston
won a season-high fifth straight
game, beating slumping Orlando.
Jae Crowder and Evan Turner
each added 15 points, and Isaiah
Thomas had 14 points and eight
assists in just 27 minutes.
Heat 107, Bucks 103: Dwyane Wade scored 24 points and
hit a long jumper with 44.5 seconds left, and Miami won its third
straight road game by beating
Milwaukee.
Mavericks 91, Nets 79:
Chandler Parsons had 19 points
and a season-high 10 rebounds
while Deron Williams struggled
in his first game against his former team and host Dallas beat
Brooklyn.
Jazz 103, Timberwolves 90:
Rodney Hood scored 22 points,
Derrick Favors had 20 in his return to the starting lineup and
Utah beat visiting Minnesota to
win consecutive games for the
first time in nearly three weeks.
Clippers 105, Lakers 93:
Chris Paul scored 27 points and
the Los Angeles Clippers beat the
Lakers for their franchise-record
ninth straight victory over their
Staples Center co-tenant.
Trail Blazers 109, Hornets
91: Damian Lillard scored 22
points and Allen Crabbe added
20 off the bench to help host Portland top Charlotte.
Southwest Division
W
L Pct
San Antonio
39
7 .848
Memphis
27
20 .574
Dallas
27 22 .551
Houston
25
24 .510
New Orleans
17
28 .378
Northwest Division
Oklahoma City
36
13 .735
Portland
22
26 .458
Utah
21 25 .457
Denver
18 29 .383
Minnesota
14 34 .292
Pacific Division
Golden State
42
4 .913
L.A. Clippers
31
16 .660
Sacramento
20
26 .435
Phoenix
14 34 .292
L.A. Lakers
9 40 .184
Friday’s games
Boston 113, Orlando 94
Cleveland 114, Detroit 106
New York 102, Phoenix 84
Miami 107, Milwaukee 103
Oklahoma City 116, Houston 108
Dallas 91, Brooklyn 79
Utah 103, Minnesota 90
Portland 109, Charlotte 91
L.A. Clippers 105, L.A. Lakers 93
Saturday’s games
Golden State at Philadelphia
Detroit at Toronto
Brooklyn at New Orleans
Denver at Indiana
Sacramento at Memphis
Washington at Houston
San Antonio at Cleveland
Sunday’s games
Chicago at L.A. Clippers
Atlanta at Miami
Boston at Orlando
Phoenix at Dallas
Golden State at New York
Minnesota at Portland
Charlotte at L.A. Lakers
GB
—
12½
13½
15½
21½
—
13½
13½
17
21½
—
11½
22
29
34½
Friday
Heat 107, Bucks 103
MIAMI — Deng 5-11 4-4 16, Bosh 5-11
8-9 20, Stoudemire 6-9 0-0 12, Dragic 5-8
1-2 12, Wade 7-13 10-13 24, Winslow 2-5 22 6, McRoberts 1-3 0-0 2, Udrih 2-4 0-0 5,
Green 4-10 1-2 10. Totals 37-74 26-32 107.
MILWAUKEE — Antetokounmpo 11-17
6-7 28, Parker 7-13 3-3 17, Monroe 7-14
10-11 24, Carter-Williams 4-9 1-2 9, Middleton 2-13 5-5 9, Plumlee 4-6 0-0 8, Bayless 0-4 0-0 0, Ennis 0-0 0-0 0, Vaughn 3-4
0-0 8. Totals 38-80 25-28 103.
Miami
33 22 26 26—107
Milwaukee
28 20 35 20—103
Three-Point Goals—Miami 7-18 (Deng
2-4, Bosh 2-5, Udrih 1-2, Dragic 1-2,
Green 1-4, Winslow 0-1), Milwaukee 2-12
(Vaughn 2-3, Carter-Williams 0-1, Antetokounmpo 0-2, Bayless 0-3, Middleton 03). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami
42 (Stoudemire 8), Milwaukee 46 (CarterWilliams 8). Assists—Miami 27 (Dragic
8), Milwaukee 18 (Carter-Williams, Antetokounmpo 6). Total Fouls—Miami 23,
Milwaukee 20. A—17,846 (18,717).
Clippers 105, Lakers 93
Minnesota
29 26 14 21— 90
Utah
27 29 26 21—103
Three-Point Goals—Minnesota 2-10
(Towns 1-2, Muhammad 1-4, Prince 01, Bjelica 0-1, Rubio 0-2), Utah 10-25
(Burke 4-10, Hood 2-6, Booker 1-1, Neto
1-1, Ingles 1-2, Hayward 1-4, Withey 0-1).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Minnesota 43 (Dieng 15), Utah 44 (Gobert 12).
Assists—Minnesota 17 (Rubio 8), Utah 24
(Neto 6). Total Fouls—Minnesota 13, Utah
21.
Technicals—Minnesota defensive
three second. A—18,850 (19,911).
Trail Blazers 109, Hornets 91
CHARLOTTE — Kidd-Gilchrist 5-8 3-6
13, Williams 8-14 0-3 20, Hawes 2-6 0-0
5, Walker 4-13 4-4 14, Batum 1-11 0-0 3,
Kaminsky 1-4 0-0 2, Hairston 0-2 0-0 0,
Daniels 2-2 0-0 5, Hansbrough 2-5 8-10 12,
Roberts 6-15 4-5 17. Totals 31-80 19-28 91.
PORTLAND — Aminu 7-13 2-2 17, Vonleh
3-6 0-0 6, Plumlee 6-10 1-1 13, Lillard 9-19 25 22, McCollum 7-16 2-2 17, Crabbe 7-15 4-4
20, Leonard 4-6 0-0 9, Davis 1-1 1-2 3, Henderson 1-6 0-0 2. Totals 45-92 12-16 109.
Charlotte
25 20 24 22— 91
Portland
21 29 33 26—109
Three-Point Goals—Charlotte 10-29
(Williams 4-7, Walker 2-6, Daniels 1-1,
Hawes 1-3, Roberts 1-4, Batum 1-4, Hairston 0-1, Kaminsky 0-3), Portland 7-20 (Lillard 2-5, Crabbe 2-6, Aminu 1-2, McCollum
1-3, Leonard 1-3, Vonleh 0-1). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—Charlotte 52 (Hansbrough 14), Portland 57 (Plumlee, Aminu
12). Assists—Charlotte 17 (Batum 8), Portland 24 (Lillard 6). Total Fouls—Charlotte
12, Portland 21. A—19,393 (19,980).
Mavericks 91, Nets 79
BROOKLYN — Johnson 3-8 7-7 13, Young
4-13 3-4 11, Lopez 10-21 8-11 28, Sloan 511 1-1 13, Ellington 5-11 0-0 12, Bargnani
1-4 0-0 2, Bogdanovic 0-4 0-0 0, Larkin 0-5
0-0 0, Karasev 0-1 0-0 0, Robinson 0-0 0-0
0, Brown 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-78 19-23 79.
DALLAS — Parsons 8-15 0-0 19, Nowitzki 6-13 0-0 12, Pachulia 6-10 4-6 16, Williams 3-14 1-1 8, Matthews 1-4 0-0 2, Felton 4-7 1-2 9, Barea 5-10 0-2 13, Villanueva
1-3 0-0 3, Anderson 1-1 0-0 2, Mejri 2-3 3-4
7, Powell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-80 9-15 91.
Brooklyn
18 21 16 24—79
Dallas
25 26 20 20—91
Three-Point
Goals—Brooklyn
4-20
(Sloan 2-5, Ellington 2-6, Larkin 0-2, Bogdanovic 0-3, Johnson 0-4), Dallas 8-21
(Barea 3-3, Parsons 3-7, Villanueva 1-2,
Williams 1-5, Matthews 0-2, Nowitzki 0-2).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Brooklyn
48 (Lopez 12), Dallas 55 (Pachulia 12). Assists—Brooklyn 13 (Johnson, Sloan 4), Dallas 22 (Williams 6). Total Fouls—Brooklyn
14, Dallas 17. Technicals—Johnson, Dallas
defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls—
Bargnani. A—20,409 (19,200).
Celtics 113, Magic 94
ORLANDO — Harris 3-12 2-2 10, Gordon
3-9 4-4 12, Vucevic 4-11 6-6 14, Payton 611 0-0 12, Oladipo 2-6 7-9 11, Fournier 3-7
2-4 8, Frye 1-1 0-0 2, Napier 5-8 0-2 13, Hezonja 1-2 0-0 2, Smith 3-6 0-0 6, Dedmon
1-2 0-0 2, Appling 0-1 0-0 0, Nicholson 0-3
2-2 2. Totals 32-79 23-29 94.
BOSTON — Crowder 6-11 0-0 15, Johnson 2-3 1-2 5, Sullinger 5-10 1-1 11, Thomas 5-14 4-4 14, Bradley 3-9 0-0 6, Turner
5-7 5-5 15, Smart 5-9 3-5 16, Olynyk 7-12
1-2 16, Jerebko 4-4 2-2 13, Young 0-2 0-0
0, Zeller 1-4 0-0 2, Hunter 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
43-86 17-21 113.
Orlando
22 28 27 17— 94
Boston
26 32 28 27—113
Three-Point Goals—Orlando 7-20 (Napier 3-6, Harris 2-4, Gordon 2-4, Nicholson 0-1, Appling 0-1, Fournier 0-2, Oladipo 0-2), Boston 10-24 (Jerebko 3-3, Smart
3-5, Crowder 3-6, Olynyk 1-2, Hunter 0-1,
Thomas 0-3, Bradley 0-4). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—Orlando 48 (Gordon
9), Boston 52 (Sullinger 11). Assists—Orlando 17 (Vucevic 4), Boston 28 (Turner,
Thomas 8). Total Fouls—Orlando 18, Boston 20. A—17,729 (18,624).
Cavaliers 114, Pistons 106
CLEVELAND — James 7-16 6-7 20, Love
9-19 6-6 29, Thompson 3-5 5-5 11, Irving
11-19 6-7 28, Smith 2-10 0-0 6, Mozgov 5-6
2-2 12, Dellavedova 1-4 2-2 5, Shumpert
1-2 0-0 3, Jefferson 0-2 0-0 0, Cunningham 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 3983 27-29 114.
DETROIT — Morris 4-10 5-5 14, Ilyasova
4-10 2-2 11, Drummond 9-14 2-8 20, Jackson 6-16 3-3 15, Caldwell-Pope 7-15 3-3
19, Tolliver 2-5 2-2 8, Johnson 6-10 2-3 15,
Jennings 0-2 0-0 0, Baynes 2-2 0-0 4, Anthony 0-0 0-0 0, Hilliard 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
40-84 19-26 106.
Cleveland
33 33 30 18—114
Detroit
27 31 20 28—106
Three-Point Goals—Cleveland 9-23
(Love 5-7, Smith 2-6, Dellavedova 1-1,
Shumpert 1-2, James 0-2, Jefferson 0-2,
Irving 0-3), Detroit 7-23 (Caldwell-Pope
2-4, Tolliver 2-5, Johnson 1-1, Ilyasova 14, Morris 1-4, Jennings 0-2, Jackson 0-3).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland
54 (Thompson 14), Detroit 43 (Drummond 8). Assists—Cleveland 20 (James
8), Detroit 20 (Jackson 6). Total Fouls—
Cleveland 25, Detroit 24. Technicals—
Cleveland defensive three second, Detroit defensive three second. A—21,012
(22,076).
Knicks 102, Suns 84
PHOENIX — Len 3-5 0-1 6, Tucker 4-8
1-2 9, Chandler 1-2 0-0 2, Goodwin 3-15
0-0 6, Booker 8-15 2-3 21, Weems 2-3 0-0
6, Teletovic 2-7 0-0 4, McRae 4-9 3-4 12,
Warren 5-9 1-2 12, Morris 3-9 0-0 6, Leuer
0-3 0-0 0. Totals 35-85 7-12 84.
NEW YORK — Anthony 5-14 7-7 19,
Porzingis 3-8 1-2 7, Lopez 5-8 3-4 13, Galloway 4-9 1-2 11, Afflalo 6-13 3-3 17, Grant
2-7 0-0 4, Thomas 3-4 2-2 8, Amundson
0-0 0-0 0, Williams 2-6 6-6 10, Vujacic 3-9
0-0 7, O’Quinn 2-5 0-0 4, Antetokounmpo
1-1 0-0 2. Totals 36-84 23-26 102.
Phoenix
16 24 21 23— 84
New York
26 32 27 17—102
Three-Point
Goals—Phoenix
7-26
(Booker 3-6, Weems 2-3, McRae 1-2, Warren 1-2, Tucker 0-1, Leuer 0-1, Goodwin
0-3, Morris 0-3, Teletovic 0-5), New York
7-20 (Anthony 2-3, Galloway 2-5, Afflalo
2-6, Vujacic 1-3, Williams 0-1, Porzingis
0-1, O’Quinn 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Phoenix 50 (Chandler 12), New
York 56 (Anthony 10). Assists—Phoenix
20 (McRae, Tucker 4), New York 24 (Anthony 8). Total Fouls—Phoenix 19, New
York 18. Technicals—Goodwin. A—19,812
(19,763).
Thunder 116, Rockets 108
HOUSTON — Ariza 3-12 0-0 8, Brewer
7-15 3-4 17, Howard 2-6 4-15 8, Beverley
3-12 1-2 9, Harden 8-22 15-17 33, Smith 4-9
0-0 10, Capela 5-7 2-3 12, Lawson 2-4 0-0
5, Thornton 1-5 0-0 2, Jones 1-3 2-2 4. Totals 36-95 27-43 108.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Durant 11-18 99 33, Ibaka 1-7 0-0 2, Adams 1-3 3-4 5,
Westbrook 9-21 7-10 26, Waiters 6-9 2-2
16, Singler 1-5 1-1 3, Kanter 9-16 4-4 22,
Augustin 1-2 0-0 3, Morrow 2-5 0-0 6. Totals 41-86 26-30 116.
Houston
29 29 25 25—108
Oklahoma City
22 33 34 27—116
Three-Point
Goals—Houston
9-39
(Smith 2-4, Harden 2-7, Beverley 2-7, Ariza 2-9, Lawson 1-2, Jones 0-2, Thornton 03, Brewer 0-5), Oklahoma City 8-19 (Morrow 2-4, Waiters 2-4, Durant 2-5, Augustin
1-1, Westbrook 1-2, Singler 0-1, Ibaka 02). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Houston 60 (Howard 8), Oklahoma City 64
(Durant 12). Assists—Houston 23 (Harden 7), Oklahoma City 23 (Westbrook 14).
Total Fouls—Houston 21, Oklahoma City
29. Technicals—Howard 2, Houston defensive three second, Waiters. Ejected—
Howard. A—18,203 (18,203).
L.A. LAKERS — Brown 1-5 2-2 5, Randle
9-16 4-4 23, Hibbert 5-12 2-4 12, Clarkson
7-16 3-3 17, Williams 2-6 7-10 11, Russell
3-10 0-0 8, Nance Jr. 2-2 0-0 4, Bass 4-7 00 8, Young 1-4 2-2 5. Totals 34-78 20-25 93.
L.A. CLIPPERS — Mbah a Moute 0-2
0-0 0, Johnson 4-10 1-2 9, Jordan 2-3 2-4
6, Paul 11-18 2-2 27, Redick 2-10 2-3 7,
Aldrich 1-1 4-6 6, Crawford 5-13 4-4 15,
Rivers 8-14 0-1 17, Prigioni 0-1 0-0 0, Stephenson 6-7 2-2 16, Ayres 0-0 0-0 0, Wilcox 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 40-81 17-24 105.
L.A. Lakers
29 20 22 22— 93
L.A. Clippers
28 26 24 27—105
Three-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 5-13
(Russell 2-3, Randle 1-1, Young 1-3, Brown
1-3, Clarkson 0-3), L.A. Clippers 8-26 (Paul
3-6, Stephenson 2-2, Crawford 1-3, Rivers
1-4, Redick 1-6, Prigioni 0-1, Johnson 0-4).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 54 (Randle 14), L.A. Clippers 43 (Jordan
17). Assists—L.A. Lakers 19 (Russell 5), L.A.
Clippers 20 (Paul 7). Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 21, L.A. Clippers 19. A—19,495 (19,060).
Jazz 103, Timberwolves 90
MINNESOTA — Prince 0-3 0-0 0, Dieng
7-12 6-9 20, Towns 13-17 5-5 32, Rubio 0-6
3-4 3, Wiggins 2-11 1-2 5, Muhammad 4-10
2-4 11, LaVine 9-12 1-2 19, Bjelica 0-3 0-0
0, Pekovic 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-75 18-26 90.
UTAH — Hayward 4-9 3-3 12, Favors
9-16 2-3 20, Gobert 6-8 2-4 14, Neto 3-5
2-2 9, Hood 8-16 4-4 22, Johnson 0-0 0-0
0, Booker 5-7 0-0 11, Burke 4-11 0-0 12,
Withey 0-1 0-0 0, Ingles 1-2 0-0 3, Lyles 0-1
0-0 0. Totals 40-76 13-16 103.
SUE OGROCKI /AP
Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, right, is defended by Houston
Rockets guard Patrick Beverley in Oklahoma City on Friday.
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Bradley freshman forward Dwayne
Lautier-Ogunleye, left, from London,
drives around Loyola defenders
during a game in Chicago on Jan. 13.
N AM Y. HUH /AP
Did you know
Bradley
is tied for the
15th most
international
players. New
Mexico State has the
most with nine.
SOURCE: Associated Press
Looking abroad
Rebuilding Bradley turns to foreign players
BY JAY COHEN
Associated Press
PEORIA, Ill.
ractice is no problem.
Luuk van Bree, Callum
Barker, Dwayne LautierOgunleye and Joel Okafor are used to the training that
goes along with playing hoops at
a high level.
The most challenging aspect of
college ball for Bradley’s international freshmen is learning how
to compete, and it’s a constant
point of emphasis for coach Brian
Wardle.
“Make everything competitive. Shooting drills, free-throw
drills, rebounding drills, everything’s competitive,” Wardle
said. “There’s a winner or loser.
Mano a mano, and you got to be
the more aggressive player and
make the play. So you just try to
teach them how to, just, constantly, [in] everything they do have
that game speed and aggressive,
competitive mindset.”
There is a lot of teaching going
on these days at the small private school that last made it to
the NCAA Tournament in 2006.
P
Wardle replaced Geno Ford after
Bradley went 9-24 last season,
and the former Wisconsin-Green
Bay coach filled out his 14-man
roster for his new program with
a whopping 10 newcomers — including nine true freshmen from
five different countries.
Okafor was born in Lagos, Nigeria, but played high school ball
in Indiana. Barker, who is from
the Australian island state of Tasmania, had a year of prep school
in Massachusetts before coming
to Bradley.
But this is the first extended
time in the United States for van
Bree, a native of Venray, Netherlands, and Lautier-Ogunleye, who
is from London.
“It was a lot of, like, small
things, like I feel like people apologize for everything here, a lot,”
van Bree said. “Stuff like that.
And people say thank you for everything and, like, you don’t use
your knife and fork when you eat.
... Minor stuff. There’s nothing
really major that’s different.”
Van Bree, Barker, LautierOgunleye and Okafor are part of
a steady rise in international players for the top rung of men’s col-
lege basketball, from 376 for the
2010-11 season to 506 Division
I players this year with a listed
hometown outside of the U.S. and
at least one appearance for their
school this season, according to
STATS.
Bradley is tied for the 15th
most international players in the
country. New Mexico State leads
the way with nine, followed by
Canisius and St. John’s with six
apiece, and then a large group
with five, including Harvard, Oregon State and South Carolina.
Lautier-Ogunleye, van Bree
and Barker are among the leading scorers and rebounders for
the Braves, who are 3-19 and 1-8
in the Missouri Valley Conference. While the losses have piled
up in a hurry, they remain optimistic about where the program
is headed.
“Starting young, it’s tough because we have the growing pains
of learning everything from the
start,” Lautier-Ogunleye said.
“But I believe it’ll be beneficial
in the long term just because we
would have all experienced everything from the beginning and
then we’ll see the end result.”
N AM Y. HUH /AP
Forward Luuk van Bree, right, of the Netherlands, is one of five
freshmen from overseas on Brian Wardle’s Bradley squad.
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AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Champion: Kerber first
German champ since Graf
FROM BACK PAGE
RICK R YCROFT/AP
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic has won five consecutive Australian Open men’s singles titles. He goes for
No. 6 on Sunday when he faces Britain’s Andy Murray in the final.
A tale of 2 streaks
Djokovic wants to add to one; Murray to end one
BY JUSTIN BERGMAN
Associated Press
MELBOURNE,
Australia
— Based on records alone, Novak
Djokovic would appear to be the
favorite in the Australian Open
final against Andy Murray. After
all, Djokovic is a perfect 5-0 in
his previous finals at Melbourne
Park, while Murray is 0-4, with
three losses to the top-ranked
Serbian player.
Djokovic knows the dangers of
being overconfident, however, as
he chases his 11th overall Grand
Slam title, which would put him
in a tie with Bjorn Borg and Rod
Laver for fifth on the career list.
He would also equal Roy Emerson’s record of six Australian
Open titles.
“When I hear predictions that
are positive, of course, it does flatter and add to your confidence,”
he said Saturday at Melbourne
Park.
“But you can’t get carried away
with that, if you know what I
mean. It also imposes a great obstacle mentally in a way because
you need to deliver. You need to
be able to win and try to make
this prediction true.”
Djokovic has been in this situation before. He was also favored
to win his first French Open title
last year, riding a 28-match winning streak into the final as the
top seed, but was upset by eighthseeded Stan Wawrinka, who had
A ARON FAVILA /AP
Britain’s Andy Murray is 0-4
in the men’s singles final, with
three losses to Novak Djokovic.
only beaten him three times in 20
previous matches.
Djokovic is also facing an opponent in Murray who is determined to break through after
coming up short so many times
at the Australian Open and add
a third Grand Slam trophy to his
2012 U.S. Open and 2013 Wimbledon titles. This will be Murray’s
ninth major final, but he only has
those two trophies to show for it.
“(I’ve) been in the situation
before where (I) haven’t won
specific tournaments, like Roland Garros, for example, against
players like (Rafael) Nadal who
were dominating there,” Djokovic said.
He added, “I understand the
kind of desire and will to win
that is present. But, you know,
of course, I don’t underestimate
him. No question about it.”
Murray isn’t dwelling on the
past, either. To him, he has every
opportunity to beat Djokovic on
Sunday if he’s playing his best
tennis.
“I don’t think many people are
expecting me to win,” he said
after his semifinal win over Milos
Raonic on Friday night. “But the
previous disappointments, it’s
one tennis match. Doesn’t matter what’s happened in the past,
really.”
Both players have moved
through the draw without too
much difficulty, though each has
survived one grueling five-setter
— Djokovic against Gilles Simon
in the fourth round, and Murray
against Raonic in the semifinals.
Mixed experience: In the mixed
doubles final on Sunday, the new
pairing of Coco Vandeweghe
and Horia Tecau will take on the
fifth-seeded team, Elena Vesnina
and Bruno Soares. Vandeweghe
is the only novice in the group,
playing mixed doubles in a Grand
Slam for only the second time in
her career.
Soares is a two-time mixed
doubles Grand Slam champion,
Tecau has one trophy and Vesnina has been in three finals.
“My whole life I was working
really hard and now I’m here
and I can say I’m a Grand Slam
champion,” said Kerber, who had
only reached the semifinals twice
at the majors and hadn’t been
beyond the quarterfinals since
Wimbledon in 2012. “It sounds
really crazy and unbelievable.”
She is the first German woman
to win the Australian title since
Graf in 1994, and is projected to
rise to No. 2 in the rankings next
week.
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel was quick to respond,
saying “It was fascinating to see
how courageously and with such
nerves of steel how you prevailed
against arguably the best player
in the world.”
And other congratulatory messages poured in.
“My phone is exploding right
now,” Kerber said. “It’s so good
also for German tennis. After
Steffi, now somebody won a
Grand Slam.”
It took her 33 majors to win the
title — sixth on the list for longest
waits that is topped by 2015 U.S.
Open champion Flavia Pennetta’s
49.
Williams admitted previously
she became nervous and was
stalled for a while trying to get
to 18 major titles, to equal Chris
Evert and Martina Navratilova’s
career marks in second place in
the Open era. For three majors,
Williams didn’t reach the quarterfinals, but when she finally
won her 18th, it triggered a roll of
four straight major titles.
She’s been stuck on 21 since
Wimbledon.
Williams won the Australian
Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles last year before losing
to Roberta Vinci in the U.S. Open
semifinals.
After being so close to a calendar-year Grand Slam in 2015,
she has no chance to push for that
honor in 2016 after losing the sea-
Scoreboard
Saturday
At Melbourne Park
Melbourne, Australia
Purse: $30.18 million (Grand Slam)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Women
Championship
Angelique Kerber (7), Germany, def.
Serena Williams (1), United States, 6-4,
3-6, 6-4.
Doubles
Men
Championship
Jamie Murray, Britain, and Bruno
Soares (7), Brazil, def. Daniel Nestor,
Canada, and Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5.
son’s first major.
Despite a rash of uncharacteristic unforced errors, Williams
pushed Kerber all the way. She
had never lost a major final that
went three sets, and she had only
lost to three players — twice to
her sister Venus (U.S. Open 2001,
Wimbledon 2008), and once each
to Maria Sharapova (Wimbledon
2004) and Sam Stosur (U.S. Open
2011) .
Kerber had a chance to serve
for the match at 5-3 in the third
but couldn’t hold. Williams had
a chance to level but dropped
her serve, too. It finished when
she hit a forehand volley long on
championship point, her 46th unforced error.
Kerber dropped her racket on
the court and lay flat on her back
as Williams walked around the
net to embrace her.
“She had an attitude that I
think a lot of people can learn
from — to always stay positive
and never give up,” Williams
said. “If I couldn’t win, I’m happy
she did.”
Kerber credited Williams with
being an inspiration to a generation of players.
“You created history, you are
a champion, you are a really an
unbelievably great person,” Kerber said. “So congratulations for
everything you did already.”
RICK R YCROFT/AP
Serena Williams wipes the sweat from her face Saturday during the
women’s singles final against Germany’s Angelique Kerber at the
Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia. Kerber won in three sets.
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Seattle’s
Bennett
does it all
BY K ALANI TAKASE
Associated Press
KAHUKU, Hawaii — Michael Bennett
did his best imitation of Deion Sanders on
Friday.
Bennett, a Seattle Seahawks defense end
and member of Team Rice for Sunday’s
Pro Bowl, did a little bit of everything at
Friday’s 45-minute practice session on Oahu’s north shore.
In addition to his duties on the defensive
line, Bennett lined up at wide receiver for
one play during the 7-on-7 portion of practice. He caught a short pass from Tampa
Bay quarterback Jameis Winston in front
of Atlanta cornerback Desmond Trufant.
Bennett later lined up next to Philadelphia’s Darren Sproles as dual punt returners during special teams drills and was the
recipient of a reverse from the latter on one
return.
“I got to play a little on offense and defense, special teams, so I feel like Deion
today. I feel like a real weapon,” said Bennett, who will be playing in his first Pro
Bowl on Sunday.
NFC North rivals team up: Green Bay
Packers fullback John Kuhn has an unusual teammate this week: Adrian Peterson of
the rival Minnesota Vikings.
“Every time you come out to one of these
things it’s just great (because) you battle
against these guys all year long, everybody is playmaker, everybody is the guys
that you prepare for when you play against
them and now they’re all on your team and
it’s just great to have all these great players in one spot,” said Kuhn, who gave some
insight into a conversation he had with Peterson prior to Thursday’s first practice.
“I know he has one speed, so I already
told him, ‘I am getting out of your way. I’m
going to let you be the man.’ He’s a great
back, a great talent and I’m excited to be in
front of him.”
Quote of the day: Team Rice cornerback
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie on playing
against his New York Giants teammates
quarterback Eli Manning, wide receiver
Odell Beckham and kicker Josh Brown, all
of whom are on Team Irvin.
“If I get a chance to line up against those
guys I want to get a pick off Eli, I want to
frustrate Odell and I want to block one of
Josh’s kicks.”
M ARCO G ARCIA /AP
NFL Hall of Famer and Pro Bowl captain
Michael Irvin hugs Seahawks defensive
end Michael Bennett, right, during
practice Thursday in Kahuku, Hawaii.
K.C. A LFRED, SAN DIEGO UNION -TRIBUNE /TNS
Chargers fans let their feelings be known during a 30-14 victory over the Dolphins at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego on Dec. 20.
Chargers stay put for now
Team will play in San Diego this year, but could still move
BY BERNIE WILSON
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Chargers Chairman
Dean Spanos said Friday that the team will
play in San Diego in 2016, and he’ll work
with politicians and the business community to try to resolve a long, bitter fight over
a new stadium.
Spanos’ statement was posted on the
team website shortly after the UnionTribune reported that the Chargers had
agreed in principle to join the Los Angeles Rams in a stadium expected to open in
Inglewood in 2019.
It also came shortly after Spanos invited
Mayor Kevin Faulconer and County Supervisor Ron Roberts to his La Jolla home
for an afternoon meeting.
“I am committed to looking at this with
a fresh perspective and new sense of possibility,” Spanos’ statement said.
A spokesman for Faulconer said Mark
Fabiani, who has led the Chargers’ stadium push for 15 years, was not at the meeting. It wasn’t immediately clear if Fabiani,
who has attacked Faulconer’s proposals for
the last year, will be involved when negotiations resume.
Spanos’ announcement was a relief to
fans who feared the Chargers would leave
their home of 55 seasons and join the Rams
in Los Angeles in the fall.
K.C. A LFRED, SAN DIEGO UNION -TRIBUNE /TNS
Chargers owner Dean Spanos has drawn
the ire of fans with talk of relocating the
team to a new stadium in Los Angeles.
Spanos said he hoped the Chargers
would remain in San Diego “for the long
term in a new stadium.”
“I have met with Mayor Faulconer and
Supervisor Roberts and I look forward to
working closely with them and the business community to resolve our stadium dilemma,” Spanos said. “We have an option
and an agreement with the Los Angeles
Rams to go to Inglewood in the next year,
but my focus is on San Diego.
“This has been our home for 55 years,
and I want to keep the team here and provide the world-class stadium experience
you deserve. Everyone on both sides of the
table in San Diego must now determine the
best next steps and how to deploy the additional resources provided by the NFL.”
Spanos’ announcement came more than
two weeks after NFL owners voted to approve Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s plans
to build a stadium in Inglewood, near Los
Angeles. A competing proposal by Spanos
and Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis to
build a stadium in Carson was defeated.
While the owners gave Spanos the option
to relocate to Los Angeles, the league said
the Chargers and Raiders would each get
an additional $100 million to try to get new
stadium deals in their home markets. That
money is in addition to a $200 million loan
from the league available to each team.
“We are very supportive of the decision
by Dean Spanos to continue his efforts in
San Diego and work with local leaders to
develop a permanent stadium solution,”
Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a
statement. “NFL ownership has committed
$300 million to assist in the cost of building
a new stadium in San Diego. I have pledged
the league’s full support in helping Dean to
fulfill his goal.”
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Carolina coveted Manning
heading into ’98 NFL Draft
Colts wouldn’t bite on Panthers’ proposed trade
BY STEVE R EED
Associated Press
JOE M AHONEY/AP
Denver Broncos safeties Darian Stewart, left, and T.J. Ward, right,
both have pledged they will be healthy enough to play next Sunday
in Super Bowl 50.
Broncos’ safeties
say they’ll return
BY PAT GRAHAM
Associated Press
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — T.J.
Ward’s Super Bowl guarantee
doesn’t exactly possess the same
sort of sizzle as Joe Namath once
promising — and delivering — a
win.
For the Denver Broncos,
though, the strong safety’s guarantee just might make the difference in one.
Ward vowed he would play
a week from Sunday despite a
tender ankle. Even more, free
safety Darian Stewart pledged
to be back, too, after spraining
the MCL in his right knee during a win over New England in
the AFC title game. Their health
is the biggest question mark for
Denver heading into Super Bowl
50 against Carolina.
Ask them, and there’s really no
uncertainty at all.
“Without a doubt in my mind,
I’m playing,” Stewart said.
Ward was just as adamant:
“Anytime you get an opportunity
to play in this game, and you can
run a little bit, I’m guaranteeing
you’re going to be out there.”
Especially since this is basically a homecoming for Ward. He
went to high school in Concord,
Calif., which is about 60 miles
away from Levi’s Stadium.
“There’s something about
where you come from — the
air, the grass, the sounds — that
brings up memories,” Ward said.
“Sometimes, I’ll be somewhere
away from home and smell that
grass and it reminds me of playing Pop Warner. This is going
to take me back of when I was
dreaming of this moment.”
Only, now it’s a reality.
But trying to bring down Panthers quarterback Cam Newton
may prove to be a nightmare.
These two safeties could prove
instrumental in containing Newton, who’s 6-foot-5, 245 pounds
and does just about everything
well.
“He’s probably at all times
one of the top-10 biggest players
on the field,” Ward said. “He’s a
talented dude. He’s got a big arm.
He can run. Did he win MVP yet?
Well, he’s probably going to win
the MVP. He won the Heisman.
He’s a rare breed of athlete.”
That’s why Ward needs to be
at 100 percent — or close to it,
anyway — for this top-ranked
defense. He could also see some
time covering Greg Olsen, a tight
end who “works well within that
offense,” Ward explained. “He
has great hands. He runs good
routes. He seems to be a smart
player.”
Stewart banged up his knee
midway through the third quarter, while Ward left early in the
fourth. Ward and Stewart have
yet to practice this week and are
listed as questionable on the injury report.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If the Carolina Panthers
had their way, maybe Peyton Manning would be
playing for them — not against them — in the Super
Bowl.
When Manning was coming out for the 1998 draft,
the Panthers approached Indianapolis Colts general
manager Bill Polian with a megadeal offer.
It included trading fourth-year quarterback Kerry
Collins and multiple draft picks, including their
first-round selection that year, for the right to
take Manning with the No. 1 overall selection.
Carolina was hoping Polian, who had
drafted Collins just three years before while
working as the GM for the Panthers, would
pull the trigger on the deal.
Problem was, Polian wouldn’t even consider the offer.
“Bill was dead set against it,” said Dom
Capers, Carolina’s head coach at the time
who was also given control of personnel decisions when Polian left the team after the
1997 season.
“He was set on keeping the pick. You never
know on those kinds of things — but sometimes
you have to try.”
Polian said he had his heart sett on drafting
Manning.
“There wasn’t anything they could
give us that was going to replace
Peyton Manning,” Polian said.
Capers, now the defensive coordinator with the Green Bay
Packers, said he was “blown
away” after meeting
Manning at the NFL
scouting
combine
in Indianapolis in
February 1998.
Manning
walked into the
interview with
a yellow notepad, sat down
and
started
asking Capers
questions.
“He left the
room and I sat
there in amazement,” Capers said.
“It was like he was interviewing me for an
hour. He was incredibly professional, focused
and you just knew right then he was going to be
a player.”
Apparently, so did Polian.
The Colts at the time already had running back
Marshall Faulk, wide receiver Marvin Harrison
and offensive tackle Tarik Glenn on the roster and
Polian felt all they needed was a quarterback.
He liked Manning over Collins, whom he selected with the fifth overall pick in 1995.
“We liked Kerry, but we didn’t feel like it was a
fair return,” Polian said. “We felt Peyton had so
much potential. Honestly, there was nothing anybody could have offered us that would have made
us decide to move the pick.”
Said Capers: “Bill knew what he had with the
No. 1 pick in Peyton. We tried. We talked with
Bill, but Bill just wasn’t going to do it. He thought
Denver quarterback Peyton Manning
practices at the team’s headquarters on
Thursday. The Broncos will face the Carolina
Panthers in Super Bowl 50 next Sunday.
DAVID Z ALUBOWSKI /AP
Peyton was going to be something special — and he
proved him right.”
Manning is likely a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
The five-time league MVP will be playing in his
fourth Super Bowl when the Denver Broncos meet
the Panthers on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, Calif.
“He’s going to go down if not the greatest, one of
the greatest quarterbacks to ever play this game,”
Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis said.
Said Capers: “If you took one of the top five offensive coordinators and put him under center that is
what it would be like. He’s so cerebral.”
Not long after Polian selected Manning
over Ryan Leaf with the No. 1 pick,
the Colts and Panthers organizations
headed in two different directions.
The Colts became a mainstay in
the playoffs, reaching the postseason 11 of the next 13 seasons under
Manning and won the Super Bowl
after the 2006 season.
The Panthers went five seasons before even making the
playoffs.
Capers laughed when asked if
the deal for Manning had gone
through if his tenure in
Carolina might have
been longer.
“You never
know,” Capers said.
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AUSTRALIAN OPEN
First-time
champion
Germany’s Angelique Kerber
plays a forehand to Serena
Williams of the United States
during the women’s singles
final Saturday at the Australian
Open in Melbourne, Australia.
PHOTOS
BY
A ARON FAVILA /AP
Kerber shocks Serena
to finally take home a
major crown
BY JOHN P YE
‘ Everyone
the overwhelming favorite to continue
that streak against Kerber, who joked
she was “one leg in the plane to GermaMELBOURNE, Australia — Serena
ny” when she faced match point in her
Williams put up both hands after a sendfirst-round win over Misaki Doi.
ing a forehand long and high over the
“I mean, every time I walk in this
baseline in the first set. She wanted nothroom, everyone expects me to win every
ing to do with yet another unforced error
single match, every single day of my
in her Australian Open final against Anlife,” Williams said in her post-match
gelique Kerber.
news conference. “As much as I would
For the second time in as many malike to be a robot, I’m not. I try to.”
jors, nerves got to Williams as she tried
The 28-year-old Kerber used acute anto equal Steffi Graf’s Open-era record of
gles to keep Williams guessing, tossed in
two drop shots for a crucial break in the
22 Grand Slam singles titles.
long sixth game of the third set, and conNo. 7-seeded Kerber had never played
Serena Williams tinually tried to pass the 21-time major
in a major final and had lost five of her
after losing final winner or forced errors at the net.
six previous career meetings with Wilto Angelique Kerber
And she had five service breaks — two
liams, but she responded with a stunning
6-4, 3-6, 6-4 upset win over the six-time Australian in the first set, and three in the third — against the
top-ranked Williams, who hadn’t dropped a set in
Open champion.
Williams had won the title every previous time the previous six rounds.
she’d reached the final at Melbourne Park, and was SEE CHAMPION ON PAGE 29
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expects me
to win every
single match,
every single
day of my life.
As much as I
would like to
be a robot,
I’m not.
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