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‘Buddy’ system
Kids have a blast during special softball game at Ramstein
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Ramstein’s James Lucas,
left, pitches while his
buddy, Nicholas Waller,
and Master Sgt. Ronald
Denisi watch during the
adaptive sports softball
game at Ramstein Air
Base on Monday.
MICHAEL B. K ELLER
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Trump, Clinton eager to engage each other after Indiana
BY THOMAS BEAUMONT
AND JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
Republican
presidential candidate
Donald Trump
LA PORTE, Ind. — On the eve of
Indiana’s primary, Donald Trump and
Hillary Clinton are looking past their
struggling rivals and directly at each
other, previewing the caustic, one-onone race that seems inevitable if they
sew up the Republican and Democratic
presidential nominations.
Trump made clear Monday that he
will have more to say about his accusation that Clinton is playing gender politics. “We’re making a list of the many,
many times where it’s all about her being
a woman,” he said.
“I haven’t started on Hillary yet,” he
told CNN, although actually he’s been
trashing her record for quite some time.
Clinton told thousands at an NAACP
dinner in Detroit on Sunday that President Barack Obama’s legacy can’t be
allowed to “fall into Donald Trump’s
hands” and be consumed by “these voices of hatred.” She cited Trump’s “insidious” part in the birther movement that
questioned Obama’s citizenship.
But if they’re itching to engage in full
measure, they still have party rivals to
dispatch, and Trump’s next challenge
is to beat back Sen. Ted Cruz in Indiana
on Tuesday. He’s got further to go to win
the prize than does Clinton in her contest
with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Trump is exuding confidence, telling a
cheering crowd Sunday in Terre Haute,
Ind.: “If we win here, it’s over, OK?”
Not quite, as the New York real estate mogul can’t win enough delegates
Tuesday to clinch the Republican nomination. After his wins in five states last
week, though, Trump no longer needs
to win a majority of the remaining delegates in coming races to lock up the GOP
nomination.
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Democratic
presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton
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“We are not the rapists.
We are not the criminals
you are talking about. And
we are quite good for this
country.”
— Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a
spokesman for the Coalition for
Humane Immigrant Rights of
Los Angeles, on remarks about
immigrants by leading Republican
presidential contender
Donald Trump
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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Schwarzenegger lauds troops in Kuwait
Green-energy
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A television project on climate
change brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to two of the hottest U.S.
military posts on earth, where
the Terminator took some time
out for the troops.
“I think it is really unbelievable
and so fantastic that the military
is now thinking about making
some of the bases green,” Schwarzenegger told troops during a twoday tour of bases in Kuwait. “But
while I am filming, I also want
to visit the troops. I want to say,
‘Hi,’ to them, I want to tell them,
‘Thank you, thank you, thank you’
for the great work they’re doing
protecting our country.”
On Wednesday and Thursday,
the film star and former California governor visited Camp Buehring, a key staging area for U.S.
troops in Kuwait, and U.S. Army
Central’s Camp Arifjan.
Green-energy efforts at the
bases will be part of an episode
of “Years of Living Dangerously,”
a National Geographic television
series and Internet project focused on climate change.
Schwarzenegger is an executive producer of the series, along
with “Titanic” director James
Cameron. Movie stars such as
Matt Damon and Jessica Alba
also are part of the project, which
explores different aspects of climate change.
During the film shoot in Kuwait, U.S. Army Central showcased a range of efforts to become
more energy-efficient in the Persian Gulf monarchy, where the
blistering heat means heavy airconditioning usage.
“The USARCENT operational
energy program showcased initiatives to conserve energy and resources, including installing solar
power light towers, implementing
solar panels and modular energy
efficient structures,” Col. Wayne
Marotto, a U.S. Army Central
C HRISTOPHER PROWS/Courtesy of the U.S. Army
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger observes the Oath of Enlistment ceremony of
Spc. James Berg, a wheeled-vehicle mechanic with Company B, 299th Brigade Support Battalion, at
Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on Saturday.
‘ I want to say, ‘Hi,’
to them, I want to
tell them, ‘Thank
you, thank you,
thank you’ for the
great work they’re
doing protecting our
country.
’
Arnold Schwarzenegger
YOUTOY M ARTIN /Courtesy of the U.S. Army
Schwarzenegger speaks about green energy Thursday with
soldiers stationed at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. Schwarzenegger was in
Kuwait to film a National Geographic documentary, “Years of Living
Dangerously,” focused on climate change.
spokesman, said in a statement.
During his tour, Schwarzenegger spoke with officers and noncommissioned officers about
leadership development, drawing
on his experience as governor of
California.
The film star also took part
in one soldier’s re-enlistment
ceremony.
“I re-enlisted for two more
years of active-duty service, and
he was a part of the ceremony,”
said Spc. James Berg, a mechanic
with 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division,
in an Army statement. “He helped
hold the flag and congratulated
me on making the choice to further serve my country.”
Besides lauding troops, Schwarzenegger gave high marks to the
chow halls.
“We’re having a great time, I
am trying out all of the different
vehicles, driving around in these
monster trucks, and having some
food, delicious food, by the way,
on the base,” he was quoted as
saying in the statement.
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Additional delays likely
in Marines’ relocation
BY M ATTHEW M. BURKE
Stars and Stripes
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A man protests against the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station
Futenma in this undated photo. The relocation’s fate rests with talks
expected to wrap up in June between Japan and Okinawan Gov.
Takeshi Onaga.
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa
— The Japanese government is
removing floats meant to block
seaborne protesters from the construction area of a new runway
into Oura Bay, a sign that further
delays can be expected in Marine
Corps Air Station Futenma’s relocation to Camp Schwab.
The move, which began Saturday, is mostly symbolic because
the area remains off-limits, a
spokesman with the Ministry of
Defense’s Okinawa Defense Bureau told Stars and Stripes.
Both the Japanese and U.S.
governments remain committed
to the relocation plan. A small but
enthusiastic protest movement
remains equally committed to
blocking the move.
Removing the buoys could take
weeks, and they will likely need
to be reinstalled if and when the
work in Okinawa’s remote north
commences.
The restricted zone around
the construction site was set up
in June 2014, and the floats were
Stars and Stripes
To mark the fifth anniversary
of the raid in Pakistan that left
Osama bin Laden dead, the CIA
on Sunday tweeted the operation
“as if it were happening today.”
Five years ago, after nearly a
decade of searching for the man
who was believed to have ordered
the attacks of 9/11 and others, intelligence officials tracked the
al-Qaida leader to a high-walled
compound in Abbottabad, 35 miles
from Pakistan’s capital.
President Barack Obama ordered the operation to get bin
Laden, dead or alive, in late April
2011. The terrorist leader ended up
dead as a result of the raid, which
sent 79 American commandos
into Pakistan in the early morning
hours of May 2, 2011. At the time
of the raid, it was early in the afternoon of May 1 in Washington.
“Daring #UBLRaid was an IC
team effort & in close collaboration with our military partners,”
said one CIA Twitter post, using
an abbreviation for the intelligence
community. It was the last in a series of updates sent throughout the
afternoon and evening on Sunday.
The posts used the hashtag
#UBLRaid, which is based on
the intelligence agency’s spelling
of bin Laden’s name, and closely
tracked the reported timeline of
the raid. Some tweets included
overhead imagery, diagrams of
bin Laden’s compound and pho-
tos from the situation room where
U.S. officials watched the operation unfold in real time.
“Success of mission was culmination of years of complex, thorough & highly advanced intel ops
& analyses led by CIA w support
of IC,” said one of the early messages Sunday afternoon.
In another tweet, the agency
said the SEAL team trained on a
life-sized replica of the Abbottabad
compound, with walls that could
be moved
to prepare
them
for
Daring
“any inter#UBLRaid
nal layout
they might
was an IC
team effort encounter.”
At 3:39
& in close
p.m. Suncollaboration day, the
CIA tweetwith our
ed that bin
Laden had
military
been found
partners.
on the third
CIA floor of the
Twitter post building
and killed.
Over the
next two hours, tweets reported
that the SEAL team collected materials for intelligence analysis,
destroyed one helicopter that had
been downed in the raid and returned to Afghanistan.
The anniversary comes as tensions between Afghanistan and
Pakistan are strained in the wake
of last month’s massive suicide
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Associated Press
R AHIMULLAH YOUSAFZAI /AP
Osama Bin Laden speaks to reporters in the mountains of Helmand
province in southern Afghanistan on Dec. 24, 1998.
bombing in Kabul that left nearly 70 people dead and hundreds
wounded. Afghan officials have
suggested that the attack was plotted in Pakistan. Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani and U.S. officials
have called on Islamabad to crack
down on the Taliban and other
groups in Pakistan’s border areas.
Monday morning in Afghanistan, Interior Ministry spokesman
Sediq Sediqqi tweeted about the
anniversary of bin Laden’s death
while repeating the accusation
that Pakistan harbors terrorists.
“Five years ago on this day,
Usama Bin Ladin was killed in a
US operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, but many others still enjoy
safe heavens (sic),” Sediqqi wrote.
The CIA Twitter account, which
has more than 1.3 million followers, did not exist at the time of the
raid. But although the CIA wasn’t
tweeting the event in May 2011,
others were. A Pakistani man
named Sohaib Athar, who goes
by the Twitter handle @reallyvirtual, noted signs of the raid.
“Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event),”
he wrote at the time in a tweet that
now has been shared more than
4,300 times and favorited by more
than 3,800 users.
Early Monday morning in Pakistan, Athar weighed in on the
CIA’s simulated live-tweeting.
“Congratulations on the death
anniversary of BL to you and your
family from CIA,” Athar wrote in
Urdu, using an abbreviation for
bin Laden. He added in English,
that’s “what @CIA seems to have
been tweeting last night.”
Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this
report.
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Twitter: @chadgarland
Hospital ship Mercy to participate in humanitarian exercise
Stars and Stripes
The hospital ship USNS Mercy
will participate in the Navy’s
largest annual humanitarian aid
and relief preparedness mission
in Southeast Asia beginning May
11.
The Navy’s 11th Pacific Partnership exercise will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, the
Philippines and Vietnam, a Navy
statement said.
The program of disaster drills,
community health aid and civil
projects will be commanded by
Destroyer Squadron 23 staff,
along with officers from Australia and New Zealand.
More than 600 military and
civilian personnel from the U.S.,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
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Iran slams
US presence
in the Gulf
CIA marks bin Laden
anniversary with tweets
BY CHAD GARLAND
installed that August. After an
agreement to re-enter negotiations
in March, a request was made by
the prefectural government to remove the floats.
The relocation’s fate now rests
with ongoing talks between the
Japanese government and antibase Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga.
Those negotiations — which were
suggested by an arbiter in March
and are seen as a last chance before courts decide the outcome —
are expected to wrap up by June.
the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and
Japan will take part.
Japan will lead a mission to
Palau, the statement said.
About half of the mission personnel are from the U.S., including doctors, engineers and
surface warfare officers, said
Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Arlo
Abrahamson. They will work
alongside civilian mariners and
others from nongovernment and
charitable groups.
Pacific Partnership’s growth
stemmed from the USNS Mercy’s
relief mission following the 2004
tsunami that devastated parts of
Southeast Asia, Navy officials
said Monday.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Supreme Leader criticized the U.S.
presence in the Persian Gulf region on Monday, saying American
forces should go back to the Bay of
Pigs, state media reported.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told
a group of teachers Monday that
American military drills in the region were proof of U.S. arrogance.
“They sit together, scheme and
say that Iran must not hold war
games in the Persian Gulf. What
a foolish remark! They come here
from the other side of the globe
and stage war games. What are
you doing here? Go back to the
Bay of Pigs. Go and hold exercises
there. What are you doing in the
Persian Gulf? The Persian Gulf is
our home,” Khamenei said.
State TV broadcast part of his
speech. His remarks were an apparent reference to the 1961 failed
invasion of Cuba by 1,500 CIAtrained exiles. Muslims also view
pigs as unclean animals, as the
Quran prohibits followers of Islam
from eating pork.
Khamenei also urged education
officials to add other languages to
their foreign language programs,
saying limiting the curricula to
English was a mistake.
“The language of science is not
English alone. Insisting on promotion of English alone is unhealthy,”
said Khamenei. “Other languages
like Spanish, French, German and
Eastern languages are the languages of science, too.”
Khamenei also reiterated his
criticism about the conspicuous
spending habits of Iran’s increasingly prominent wealthy upper
class, saying the government
needed to regulate consumption
patterns.
Khamenei has the final say on
all state matters in Iran. Despite
last summer’s landmark deal between Iran and the world powers,
he has remained publicly suspicious of Western intentions toward
Iran.
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‘Everyone wins’
in kids’ special
softball game
BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — James Lucas did it all
in the softball game against
his peers Monday. He whipped
around the bases, threw a few
pitches and hit the ball.
But the big smile on his face
suggests that the best thing
happened after the game: His
“buddy” gave him a piggyback
ride and he earned a shiny, gold
medal that he plans to put in his
room.
Lucas, a seventh-grader at
Ramstein Middle School, was
one of about 20 students from
Ramstein and Kaiserslautern
middle and high schools to play a
special game of softball Monday
at Donnelly Park on Ramstein.
The event was part of Kaiserslautern Military Community Adaptive Sports, a program
designed to give students with
moderate-to-severe learning disabilities opportunities to play
team sports.
The program originated several years ago to fill the void left
when the German-American Special Olympics in the RhinelandPfalz was disbanded because of
lack of funding. A Ramstein master sergeant with a special-needs
child started the adaptive sports
program, and the KMC 1st Four
— a private organization on base
for junior enlisted airmen — took
over after the master sergeant
moved, said Airman 1st Class Allison Malaska, a KMC 1st Four
‘ The kids love it.
It’s their day to
shine.
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Wanda Castillo
special education teacher at
Kaiserslautern High School
PHOTOS
member.
“We have medals, we have people come out and cheer; it’s a good
day for the kids just to feel like
this is all about them,” she said.
The athletes played for about
an hour. They each had a “buddy”
with them in the field and while at
BY
MICHAEL B. K ELLER /Stars and Stripes
Ramstein’s James Lucas swings at the ball Monday during the adaptive sports softball game at Ramstein
Air Base in Germany.
bat, courtesy of the European Guzzlers, a local softball team with active-duty and civilian players.
The game was played with few
rules, no score-keeping and modi-
Kaiserslautern’s Johnny Karaca gets a high five after scoring during
Monday’s softball game at Ramstein Air Base.
fied equipment. The bat was foam
and the ball squishy, both good
things because bats went flying
a few times and a ball landed on
someone’s head. Everyone took
several turns at the plate, and foul
balls counted as hits. Students ran
the bases with much encouragement from their buddies.
“It was a blast,” said Josh Davis,
a Ramstein High School senior. “I
got to meet one of my best friends
over here,” he added, patting
the arm of his buddy, Tech. Sgt.
Robby Harrison.
“This guy’s a gamer, and he
loves the same music as I do,”
Davis said, rattling off hip-hop,
R&B, dance/electronic “and a
little bit of country.”
Special-needs students sometimes play sports at school,
whether in gym class or at school
recess, said Brianna Phillips,
a special education teacher at
Ramstein Middle School. The
other kids “celebrate them,” she
said, but adaptive sports levels
the playing field.
“Everyone wins, everyone gets
a turn to hit, everyone scores, everyone gets a medal,” she said. “I
think that the kids can feel like it’s
a competitive game in the sense
of, ‘Oh, let me score a run’ or ‘I’m
doing this for my team.’ ”
The kids will get another chance
to earn a medal in June, when
local organizers take their first
crack at bringing back the Special Olympics to Kaiserslautern.
About 75 athletes from Department of Defense Education Activity Europe schools in Germany
are slated to participate in the
June 3 games at the Ramstein
Southside Fitness Center, said
Wanda Castillo, a special education teacher at Kaiserslautern
High School.
“The kids love it. It’s their day
to shine,” she said of adaptive
sports and Special Olympics. “It
gives them an opportunity to get
out and show their stuff and have
a good time.”
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Headstone fixes errors for MOH recipient
BY JAMES K IMBER
Stars and Stripes
A Canadian-born sailor was remembered during a ceremony in
Washington last week, more than
140 years after a heroic deed for
which he received America’s highest military medal — an honor that
was omitted on his headstone.
Medal of Honor recipient Joseph
B. Noil, who moved from Nova Scotia to New York and joined the U.S.
Navy during the Civil War, was
honored with a new headstone Friday during a ceremony at St. Elizabeths Hospital Cemetery attended
by family members, veterans and
representatives from the Canadian
Embassy.
Noil’s original memorial also misspelled his name.
Historians from the Medal of
Honor Historical Society investigated Noil’s case and corrected the
oversight that was “likely because
of a clerical error on his death certificate,” a Navy statement said.
The day after Christmas 1872,
while serving aboard the USS Powhatan near Norfolk, Va., Noil jumped
into the frigid Atlantic Ocean to
save shipmate J.C. Walton from
drowning.
After hearing the man overboard
cry, Noil “ran on deck, took the end
of a rope, went overboard, under the
bow, and caught Mr. Walton, who
was then in the water, and held him
until he was hauled into the boat
sent to his rescue,” the ship’s commander wrote in a memo published
Jan. 11, 1873, in the Army and Navy
Journal.
“The weather was bitter cold, and
had been sleeting, and it was blowing a gale from the northwest at the
time. Mr. Walton, when brought on
board, was almost insensible, and
would have perished but for the
noble conduct of Noil, as he was
sinking at the time he was rescued,”
the memo said.
Noil, who retired with the rank of
captain in hold in 1881 after being
hospitalized with a “paralysis” diagnosis, died the following year, the
statement said.
“Your shipmate is not simply
someone who happens to serve with
you,” Vice Adm. Robin Braun, chief
of Naval Reserve, said at the ceremony. “He or she is someone who
you know that you can trust and
count on to stand by you in good
times and bad and who will forever
have your back.
“So by … rededicating his headstone, we are not only correcting
a wrong, we are highlighting and
reinforcing the eternal bond which
exists between shipmates past, present, and those yet to come.”
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Tammi Lambert, front left, District of Columbia executive
director of the Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs, and Tanya
Royster, front right, director of the Department of Behavioral
Health, unveil the headstone of Medal of Honor recipient
Joseph B. Noil during a ceremony Friday at St. Elizabeths
Hospital Cemetery in Washington.
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DOD: US plans in Iraq still on track Turkey
describes
BY TARA COPP
attacks on
militants
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has no
plans to heighten security or move U.S. troops
in Baghdad after protesters loyal to Shiite
Muslim leader Moqtada al-Sadr breached the
Green Zone over the weekend to demand political reform, Capt. Jeff Davis said Monday.
Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday
stormed the city’s Green Zone, a large protected swath of land that includes the U.S. and other
embassies and the Iraq government’s ministries and parliament, to protest Iraqi Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi. On al-Sadr’s orders,
protesters peacefully left the zone Sunday.
Despite the incursion, Davis said no changes
are planned for U.S. troops deployed in Baghdad, and the U.S. Embassy was not at risk.
“They did not seem to be interested in us,
and there was no indication that they were
going anywhere near the embassy or where the
international missions are there,” he said Monday at the Pentagon. “This is really focused on
the parliament building.”
Still, the Green Zone security breach was the
first since it was established shortly after U.S.
forces took control of Baghdad in 2003. And the
protest comes days after the United States had
negotiated sending additional forces, attack
helicopters and long-range ground artillery to
contribute to the Iraqi army’s preparation to
retake Mosul from the Islamic State group.
The protesters seek the ouster of Abadi
over their frustrations in his inability to overhaul his Cabinet and how Iraq’s parliament
is selected, which al-Sadr’s forces and Abadi
blame for contributing to the country’s political corruption.
The State Department would determine
when the embassy would need to be evacuated
or whether security changes are necessary,
Davis said. So far, there has been no impact on
the U.S. military’s operations against the Islamic State group in Iraq, he said.
Davis said the United States remains committed to supporting the Iraqi prime minister.
“We remain absolutely committed to the
sovereignty of Iraq … and the democratically
elected government that Abadi represents,”
he said. The escalating protests over Abadi’s
Cabinet and the parliamentary structure “is
domestic politics … we don’t see that as being
a fundamental threat to the stable government
of Iraq.”
Associated Press
K ARIM K ADIM /AP
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr leave Baghdad’s highly fortified Green Zone on
Sunday as anti-government protesters temporarily ended their demonstration in the capital.
Protesters get rare glimpse of Green Zone
The Washington Post
BAGHDAD — For some it was their first
glimpse of the center of their capital, and
on Sunday a 24-hour sit-in inside Baghdad’s
Green Zone by protesters demanding reform
turned into something of a sightseeing tour.
The 4-square-mile fortified area, home to
ministries, government buildings and embassies, has been closed to the public since the
U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
In it are some of the city’s most iconic landmarks, surrounded by manicured lawns and
gardens.
After supporters of the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr breached its boundaries by bursting into parliament Saturday, Iraqis were
allowed to mill in and out on Sunday without
having the normally required passes.
They stopped to snap selfies under the giant
crossed swords that form the Hands of Victory monument, built by Saddam Hussein in
commemoration of the Iran-Iraq war. Two
young boys took pictures of each other next to
bushes of white flowers.
“It’s very different to outside,” said Mohammed Qassim, 11, as he sat with his father and a
group of demonstrators in the shade of a tree.
“It’s so clean,” he marveled.
The Green Zone has been off limits all his
life.
Abbas Jabbar Halachi, 40, showed photos
of what it looked like after he had stormed
into parliament. He was lying on the floor, his
hands under his head, grinning.
“I lay down and took a rest because it was
the first time we’ve felt this kind of air-conditioning,” he said. “The cold air was everywhere, coming from all directions.”
Afghan troops told to resist Pakistani incursions
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
KABUL, Afghanistan — Security forces have been instructed
to respond strongly to Pakistani
incursions along the country’s
eastern border, an Afghan defense official said Monday in the
wake of reports that Pakistan’s
military had fired dozens of rockets into eastern Nangarhar province last week.
“Our clear message is that
Pakistan should not and must
not interfere in Afghan affairs,”
Brig. Gen. Dawlat Waziri, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said
at a press briefing in the Kabul
headquarters of NATO’s Resolute
Support Mission.
Afghanistan has a long history
of repelling invasion attempts,
and any new efforts would similarly fail, he said.
Last week’s cross-border shelling killed an Afghan border
guard, according to Pajhwok Afghan News. The news agency reported that on Sunday protesters
in the provincial capital of Jalalabad called on the Afghan government and the United Nations to
prevent future attacks.
The shelling comes amid Kabul’s growing frustration with
Islamabad’s counterterrorism efforts and suspicions that Pakistan
is giving the Taliban support and
safe haven.
The Afghan Foreign Affairs
Ministry said in a statement that
it had summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to express concerns
over the cross-border attack and
call on Pakistan to end the incursions. The ministry also said the
ambassador expressed grief over
the incident.
Clashes along the two countries’
shared 1,400-mile border, known
as the Durand Line, have been
reported for many years. In many
cases, each country blames the
other for instigating the violence.
Media in Pakistan have reported that last week’s shelling came
days after Afghanistan forces
launched a mortar attack on a
Pakistani security checkpoint.
Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland,
chief of communications for the
U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan,
said he was aware of the ongoing
border disputes. He said the problem needs a “regional solution”
and stressed the need to end the
disputes before they escalate.
“If it’s not contained, it does
have the potential to become negative for all involved,” he said.
Asked what role the NATO coalition would have in the matter,
Cleveland said it was hard to say
and would depend on a number of
conditions.
“We never want tensions across
the Durand Line,” Sediq Sediqqi,
Interior Ministry spokesman, said
at Monday’s press briefing. He
called the attacks a “breach of international law.”
Sediqqi also called on Pakistan to fight terrorism within its
borders. He said the country has
strong intelligence and knows the
whereabouts of terrorist leaders.
Relations between Afghanistan
and Pakistan have grown increasingly strained since Pakistan
failed to persuade the Taliban to
join peace talks slated for March.
Those four-party talks, aimed at
ending the 15-year Afghan war,
are being organized by Afghanistan, the United States, Pakistan
and China.
A complex suicide bombing
in Kabul last month that killed
nearly 70 people and left hundreds
wounded has further exacerbated
tensions.
Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this
report.
[email protected]
Twitter: @chadgarland
ISTANBUL — The Turkish
military said Monday that artillery shelling and drone attacks
by the U.S.-led coalition have
struck Islamic State positions
in Syria and killed a total of 63
militants.
The
state-owned
Anadolu
Agency said the strikes took out
multiple rocket launchers and
gun positions.
Four drones deployed from Incirlik Air Base, a launching point
for U.S.-led coalition forces in
southern Turkey, took part in the
operation and killed 29 militants.
The airstrikes were informed
by intelligence gathered by the
Turkish army, the private Dogan
News Agency reported.
The remaining 34 Islamic State
fighters were “neutralized” by
rocket fire and artillery shelling
from Turkey, according to the
Anadolu Agency.
The Associated Press was unable to immediately verify the
reported casualties.
The offensive started Sunday
when four rockets fired from
Syria hit the Turkish border
town of Kilis and wounded eight
people.
The wider province of Kilis
borders territory contested by
Islamic State militants, anti-government Syrian rebels and Kurdish factions.
The Turkish army typically responds to fire from Syria in line
with its rules of engagement.
In the past year, Turkey has
also witnessed suicide bombings
linked to the Islamic State group
as well as attacks linked to Kurdish militants.
The latest came Sunday, when
a car bomb detonated outside a
police station in the southern city
of Gaziantep, near Syria.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility for that attack
but anti-terrorism units raided 20
Gaziantep addresses overnight in
search for suspects.
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Fear of Trump
drives immigrants
to become citizens
BY SERGIO BUSTOS
Associated Press
MIAMI — On a recent Saturday morning in South Florida,
Edgar Ospina stood in a long line
of immigrants to take the first
step to become an American.
Ospina, 50, has spent almost
half his life in the U.S. after emigrating from Colombia, becoming
eligible for citizenship in 1990. But
with Donald Trump becoming a
more likely presidential nominee
by the day, Ospina decided to wait
no more, rushing the paperwork
required to become a citizen.
“Trump is dividing us as a
country,” said Ospina, owner of a
small flooring and kitchen remodeling company. “He’s so negative
about immigrants. We’ve got to
speak up.”
Nationwide, immigrants like
Ospina are among tens of thousands applying for naturalization
in a year when immigration has
taken center stage in the presidential campaign, especially in
the race for the GOP nomination.
Trump, the GOP front-runner,
has pledged to deport the estimated 11 million people living in
the U.S. illegally. He’s also vowed
to bar Muslims from entering the
country and has threatened to cut
off remittances that Mexican immigrants in the U.S. send back
home. And he’s called for building a border wall — among other
proposals to deal with unlawful
immigration, saying the federal
government has failed to protect
the border from people and drugs
illegally entering the country.
That rhetoric, immigrant advocates and lawmakers say, is driving many foreign-born residents
to seek citizenship.
“There is fear of a Trump
presidency,” said Maria Ponce, of
iAmerica Action, a Washingtonbased immigrant-rights group
teaming up with other organizations to help those seeking citizenship — part of a campaign called
“Stand Up To Hate.” They’ve
sponsored naturalization workshops across the country.
Nationwide, naturalization ap-
plications are up 14 percent in the
last six months of 2015 compared
with the same period in 2014, according to the government.
The pool of future U.S. citizens
is large. Nearly 9 million legal
permanent residents, or greencard holders, are eligible to become Americans. Of those, about
4 million are Hispanic.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.,
was featured in a public service
announcement encouraging immigrants to become citizens so
they can vote in November. He
mocked Trump’s slogan, suggesting it was really “Make America
Hate Again.”
“We’ve seen it in the past and
we are seeing it again many times
over this year,” he said. “When
immigrant communities feel they
are under attack, they react with
a large number of eligible immigrants becoming citizens and a
large number of eligible citizens
becoming voters.”
Erica Bernal, of the National
Association of Latino Elected Officials, said the tenor of the presidential campaign is galvanizing
Latino immigrants. She said
today’s movement is reminiscent
of the 1990s, when Latinos in
California rose up against Proposition 187, which sought to deny
government services to those
in the state illegally. The courts
overturned it.
Her group and several local
ones in Los Angeles recently
launched a regional campaign to
encourage Latino immigrants to
become citizens. About 775,000
legal immigrants in the L.A. area
are eligible for citizenship.
To qualify, immigrants must
have been in the country five
years, complete a 21-page application, get fingerprinted, pass a
civics and English exam and pay
almost $700 in fees.
Ivan Parro, citizenship coordinator with the Florida Immigrant
Coalition, said immigrants laugh
when he asks why they want to
become Americans.
“ ‘You know why,’ they say, ‘I
want to vote against racism and
hate,’ ” said Parro.
BOB WELLINSKI, THE L A PORTE (IND.) HERALD -A RGUS/AP
Backing Cruz
Members of the audience show their support Sunday for Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted
Cruz, of Texas, during a campaign rally in La Porte, Ind.
Outside groups and supporters
are Trump’s convention Plan B
BY JULIE BYKOWICZ
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Donald
Trump has a Plan B if he’s faced
with a contested convention, and it
involves the sort of outside groups
that he’s called “corrupt.”
While the billionaire businessman might lock up the Republican presidential nomination in
the next five weeks of voting, he
and his allies are simultaneously
undertaking a parallel effort in
case he falls short.
Outside groups, including one
led by longtime Trump political ally Roger Stone, and a loose
collection of colorful supporters
such as “Bikers for Trump” are
organizing ahead of the July convention in Cleveland.
They’re soliciting money to pay
for their transportation and housing, and they’re already trying to
influence the mood of the convention with a social media campaign
saying anything short of a Trump
nomination would be “stealing.”
“Our principal focus right now
is Cleveland,” Stone said of his
group, called Stop the Steal. “We
want to bring as large a contingent as possible to demonstrate
the breadth of Trump’s appeal so
that the party can see graphically
what they’re going to lose if they
hijack the nomination from him.”
Stop the Steal and other groups
are gaining steam even though
Trump has insisted he wants no
donor help for his bid.
Last week, Trump’s lawyers
sent the Federal Election Commission a letter renewing the
campaign’s disavowal of groups
using his “name, image, likeness,
or slogans in connection with soliciting contributions.”
Trump set the stage for what
the outside groups are doing by
making provocative comments
about the complex way Republicans pick a nominee — “rigged,”
he calls it. Voters weigh in, but
each state has its own rules about
what delegates go to the convention and how they must vote on
a presidential candidate while
they’re there.
The Stone-led Cleveland coalition includes We Will Walk, Bikers for Trump, Citizens for Trump
and Women for Trump. Stone said
the goal is to bring thousands to
march peacefully in the streets.
The public relations offensive
is a counterpart to GOP rival Ted
Cruz’s carefully crafted, laborintensive strategy of recruiting
friendly delegates in hopes he
can win if Trump falls short on
the first ballot of voting.
This weekend in Arizona, Cruz
won another strategic victory
over Trump, getting numerous
friendly delegates elected to head
to Cleveland while the Trump
backers appeared to be virtually
shut out. Those delegates are required to first vote for Trump at
the convention because he won
the state, but they could later
switch their votes to Cruz.
Engage: Trump says Cruz and Kasich are ‘hanging on by their fingertips’
FROM FRONT PAGE
Cruz has no such cushion. Already
eliminated from reaching 1,237 delegates
needed to win the nomination outright, he
desperately needs a victory in Indiana to
keep Trump from that number and press
ahead with his strategy of claiming the
nomination at a contested convention in
Cleveland this summer.
“This whole long, wild ride of an election
has all culminated with the entire country
with its eyes fixed on the state of Indiana,”
Cruz said Sunday at a late-night rally.
“The people of this great state, I believe
the country is depending on you to pull us
back from the brink.”
The importance of Indiana for Cruz became evident even before he and fellow
underdog John Kasich formed an alliance
of sorts, with the Ohio governor agreeing
to pull his advertising money from Indiana
in exchange for Cruz doing the same in Oregon and New Mexico.
That strategy, which appeared to unravel
even as it was announced, can’t help either
man with the tens of thousands of Indiana
voters who had already cast ballots. Early
voting began in Indiana three weeks be-
fore they hatched their plan.
It also risks alienating those who have
yet to vote, said veteran Indiana Republican pollster Christine Matthews. She
said she believes many have continued to
vote for Kasich in Indianapolis and in the
wealthy suburbs north of the city.
“Indiana voters don’t like the idea of a
political pact, or being told how to vote,”
Matthews said.
Trump went after Cruz on Sunday, suggesting evangelical conservatives have
“fallen out of love with him” and mocked
his decision to announce former GOP
presidential candidate Carly Fiorina as his
running mate.
“They’re like hanging by their fingertips,” he said, mimicking Cruz and Kasich.
“Don’t let me fall! Don’t let me fall!”
Trump let on that he’s eager to move on
to a likely general election race against
Clinton.
He said the end game of the primary
battle with Cruz is “wasting time” that he
could be spending raising money for Republicans running for the Senate.
“It would be nice to have the Republican
Party come together,” Trump told supporters in Fort Wayne. “With that being said, I
think I’ll win anyway.”
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Senators don’t want veto power on NSC head
BY K AROUN DEMIRJIAN
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Senators
aren’t too keen on a House Republican proposal to give them a
say in who the president appoints
as the head of the National Security Council, which the GOP and
several former defense secretaries complain has ballooned out of
control.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, is expected to
propose a measure to winnow the
size of the White House’s security
apparatus and subject its chief
to Senate confirmation when the
annual defense authorization bill
hits the floor later this month.
Senate Republicans and Democrats are concerned about the
size of the NSC staff and what
they argue is the outsize clout
wielded by the powerful team in-
side the White House. But neither
they nor Senate Democrats want
to change the way the national security adviser is picked.
“I’ve watched as the State Department and secretary of state
is marginalized because he’s out
[of] the building,” said Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
Corker favors shrinking the
NSC and believes the secretary of
state should have “much greater
clout” than has been the case.
“But the confirmation issue,”
Corker said, “I have to think
about, because in some ways
you’re elevating the position …
then you’re creating a competing
position to the secretary of state,
so it has the opposite effect.”
“I don’t know about that (confirmation) part of it,” said Sen.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Armed Services Committee. “But I support shrinking
the number [of members of the
NSC] because it’s grown exponentially, and it’s basically the de
facto Department of Defense.”
The NSC’s size has been climbing. Under President George
H.W. Bush, the NSC had 50 members; under Bill Clinton, it grew
to about 100, and under George
W. Bush, to about 200. The NSC’s
present size is estimated at about
400, though the administration
argues that current national security adviser Susan Rice has
reduced the staff by about 10
percent.
The changes, if they take place,
will not apply to Rice, whose term
ends when Obama leaves office in
January 2017.
Former defense secretaries
have pointed to that trend and
accused the NSC of “micromanaging” defense policy. But while
the increase in the council has
spanned both Republican and
at different times, the national
security adviser has either been
central and influential — Henry
Kissinger, for example — or a
lesser player,” said Sen. Chris
Coons, D-Del., a member of the
Foreign Relations Committee.
“You can’t, from the Senate, micromanage how the next administration will choose to allocate its
resources in terms of people, and
staffing, and the prioritization.”
Coons and several other Democrats raised sharp concerns about
how practical it is to debut another confirmation process when
so many other executive branch
nominations are stalled.
“We’ve politicized everything
so bad I would never want to hold
up the security of our nation or
someone that’s critically needed for that post,” said Sen. Joe
Manchin III, D-W.Va., a member
of the Senate Armed Services
Committee.
Brothers charged in death
of parents reportedly then
went to anime convention
Historic
NY church
damaged
by fire
The Washington Post
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A historic
church in New York City was partially destroyed in a raging fire
just hours after its Orthodox worshippers celebrated Easter.
The fire that started at 7 p.m.
Sunday at the Serbian Orthodox
Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan sent plumes of smoke billowing into the city’s skyline.
The fire was largely extinguished three hours later, but
firefighters had to beat back
small pockets of flames. Authorities didn’t disclose the cause of
the fire, which destroyed the
church’s roof.
Fire officials said the church’s
caretaker ran inside the Gothic
Revival-style building to try to
put out the blaze but suffered
minor smoke inhalation and had
to be rescued.
The fire broke out on the same
day Orthodox Christians around
the world celebrated Easter. The
church website listed services on
Sunday morning and an Easter
luncheon at 1 p.m.
“I was just inside that building
three hours ago,” a heartbroken
Dex Pipovic told PIX11 News.
He said he had been going to the
church for seven years.
Alex Velic, 31, the caretaker’s
stepson, told the Daily News he
lives next door. He said he smelled
smoke and came outside and saw
the church on fire.
“Once the fire caught the wood
there was flames coming out of
the top of the church,” Velic said.
“That’s when people were going
crazy. I’m in shock. I don’t know
what to say. It’s sad.”
Father Djokan Majstorovic, the
church’s priest, struggled to get to
Democratic
administrations,
Democrats are less worried than
Republicans.
“I’m not sure what the critique
is or whether it’s partisan, this
vague assertion that the White
House micromanages too much,”
said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who
sits on both the Foreign Relations
and Armed Services committees.
The NSC was established during the Truman administration
under a congressional charter to
coordinate foreign and military
policy decisions that crossed
over various departments and
required decisions by the president. The first national security
adviser came along a few years
later, under President Dwight D.
Eisenhower. Ever since, the job
has been filled like other senior
adviser positions in the president’s executive office — without
Senate confirmation.
“In different administrations
K ATHY WILLENS/AP
Firefighters battle a fire in the historic Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of
St. Sava on Sunday in New York. The church, which was built in the
early 1850s, was designated a New York City landmark in 1968.
the fire scene blocked off by firefighters. “I feel like I’m in a nightmare right now,” he said.
City Council member Corey
Johnson called for a full investigation into the cause of the fire.
“This is a huge loss for the
community,” he said. “In addition to being a place of worship,
this historic building was a New
York City landmark, treasured
by the people” living in the
neighborhood.
The church was designed by
architect Richard M. Upjohn and
was built in the early 1850s. One
of its earlier congregants was
novelist Edith Wharton. She was
married in the church in 1885.
The Serbian Orthodox Church
purchased the building from the
Episcopal Diocese in New York
in 1943. The building was designated a city landmark in 1968.
On Friday, prosecutors charged
Hasib bin Golamrabbi, 22, and
his brother, Omar Golamrabbi,
17, each with two counts of homicide in the murder of their parents, Golam, 59, and Shamima
Rabbi, 57.
The couple’s bodies were found
April 24 in their San Jose, Calif.,
home, which had been vandalized and covered with cryptic
notes. Scrawled all over the walls
in black ink were messages including, “Sorry, my first kill was
clumsy” and “Take care of your
brother, or he’s next.”
“Golam and Shamima Rabbi
were murdered inside their home
by their two sons on Saturday,
April 23,” Deputy District Attorney Matt Braker said in a press
conference Friday, reported
KPIX. “Golam was shot more
than a dozen times. Shamima was
shot once in the head.”
The two were arrested Wednesday — Hasib in Tracy, Calif., and
Omar in San Jose, where he’s
been charged as an adult.
According to police, Hasib allegedly shot Golam, his father,
more than a dozen times before
shooting his mother one time in
the head, according to ABC7. The
brothers appeared in court Friday, where they both pleaded not
guilty. Hasib wore a yellow jumpsuit, which the Mercury News
reported is traditionally worn by
inmates in the psychiatric ward.
After both parents were dead,
the brothers allegedly drove to
the Kraken Con convention — an
anime convention in Oakland,
Calif. — where police say they
were seen “behaving normally,”
according to the Mercury News.
According to police documents,
the cryptic messages written
on the home’s walls were in two
different handwriting styles,
and the characteristics of one
style matched writing found in
Omar’s personal notebooks, suggesting the teen was responsible
for writing some of them, ABC7
reported.
No motive has been released,
but anonymous sources told NBC
that the parents were at ends with
Hasib because they did not approve of his sexual orientation.
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Migrant kids prevented
from enrolling in school
BY GARANCE BURKE
AND A DRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Candelario Jimon Alonzo came to the
U.S. dreaming of becoming something more than what seemed
possible along the rutted roads
of his hometown in Guatemala’s
highlands. This was his chance:
He could earn a U.S. high school
education and eventually become
a teacher.
Instead, the 16-year-old spends
most days alone in the tumbledown Memphis house where he
lives with his uncle, leaving only
occasionally to play soccer and to
pick up what English he can from
his friends.
Local school officials have kept
Jimon out of the classroom since
he tried to enroll in January. Attorneys say Jimon and at least a
dozen other migrant youths fleeing violence in Central America
have been blocked from going to
Memphis high schools because
officials contend the teens lacked
transcripts or were too old to
graduate on time.
The Associated Press has found
that in at least 35 districts in 14
states, hundreds of unaccompanied minors from El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras have
been discouraged from enrolling
in schools or pressured into what
advocates and attorneys argue
are separate-but-unequal alternative programs — essentially an
academic dead end, and one that
can violate federal law.
Instead of enrolling Jimon and
the other minors in high school,
their cash-strapped district routed them to an adult school in East
Memphis that offered English
classes a few hours per week. But
before Jimon could even register, the state shut the GED and
English-language programs over
concerns that few students were
graduating, effectively ending his
chances for a formal education.
“I really wanted to study math
and English when I got here,”
said Jimon, who grew up speaking Spanish and the indigenous
language Quiche. He is in the process of applying for permission to
stay in the country permanently.
Shelby County Schools spokeswoman Natalia Powers said her
sprawling district had a policy
that allowed students 16 and older
to choose to enroll in a GED program, and that once the program
closed students could continue
studying in a “similar” program
at a local nonprofit. But attorneys
and advocates said their clients
weren’t given the choice to attend
a mainstream high school, and
that the Memphis nonprofit did
not teach English.
America’s schools remain one
of the few government institutions
where migrant youths are guaranteed services, but the federal government has extended little money
or oversight to monitor whether
that happens, in part because
schools are locally governed.
Since fall 2013, the federal government has placed nearly 104,000
unaccompanied minors with adult
sponsors in communities nationwide, where they are expected
to attend school while they seek
legal status in immigration court.
Months later, during the dramatic
surge of illegal crossings at the
border, the Education and Justice
departments issued joint guidance
reminding districts that a 1982
Supreme Court ruling established
that states cannot deny children a
free public education, regardless
of immigration status.
For students learning English, guidance says school districts must provide appropriate
language-assistance services so
students can participate equally
in the standard instructional program within a reasonable period
of time.
Districts found to have broken
the law can be forced to change
their enrollment policies, but
making that happen is not easy.
To start, few migrant children
understand their rights.
Students and their advocates
can sue districts or file complaints
with the Education or Justice departments, but investigations are
backlogged and typically result
in civil sanctions, said Lisa Carmona, senior attorney with the
nonprofit Southern Poverty Law
Center.
In Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey,
New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina, social workers and attorneys told The Associated Press
that migrant students have been
barred from enrolling, kept out
of class for months due or routed
to reform schools and adult programs. The full extent of how the
Central American minors are
faring in schools is unknown because the government does not
release data on counties where
fewer than 50 minors have been
placed, which means information
was not provided for about 25,000
of the migrants.
Spokeswomen for the Education and Justice departments
would not say how many of the
nation’s roughly 14,000 school
districts have been investigated
for such failures.
BETTINA H ANSEN, THE SEATTLE TIMES/AP
Protesters push the line that Seattle police set up at the start of a march during the annual May Day
Anti-Capitalist demonstration and march Sunday in Seattle.
May Day marchers take to
Seattle streets; 7 arrested
BY CHRISTOPHER WEBER AND CHRIS GRYGIEL
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Seattle police used pepper spray
Sunday evening to disperse black-clad anti-capitalist protesters who authorities say threw rocks,
flares, bricks and Molotov cocktails at officers during a rowdy May Day gathering.
At least seven people were arrested. Authorities
said two officers were hurt — one treated at the
scene for a head laceration. Details about the other
officer’s injury weren’t immediately available.
The clashes in Seattle followed a peaceful march
in the city earlier in the day by advocates for workers and immigrants, just one of several events in cities nationwide Sunday to call for better wages for
workers, an end to deportations and support for an
Obama administration plan to give work permits to
immigrants in the country illegally whose children
are American citizens.
Hundreds of May Day marchers chanting slogans and carrying signs — and at least one Donald
Trump pinata — took to the streets of Los Angeles.
“We want them to hear our voices, to know that we
are here and that we want a better life, with jobs,”
said Norberto Guiterrez, 46, an immigrant from
Mexico who joined families, union members and
students who marched through downtown.
Demonstrators repeatedly called out Donald
Trump for his remarks about immigrants, workers
and women. The leading Republican presidential
contender has called for a wall on the border with
Mexico and chided Democratic hopeful Hillary
Clinton for playing the so-called “woman card.”
“In addition to fighting for workers’ rights, we are
fighting for our dignity this time around, our selfrespect,” said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesman
DAVID C RANE, L OS A NGELES DAILY NEWS/AP
Hundreds of May Day marchers chanting slogans
and carrying signs take to the streets of Los
Angeles on Sunday.
for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of
Los Angeles.
“We can certainly encourage folks to look at what
they’re watching, what they’re hearing and have
them represent themselves and their families —
whether they can vote or not — and say, ‘We are not
the rapists. We are not the criminals you are talking about. And we are quite good for this country,’ ”
Cabrera said.
Around the world, union members have traditionally marched on May 1 for workers’ rights. In
the United States, the annual events have become
a rallying point for immigrants and their supporters since massive demonstrations in 2006 against a
proposed immigration enforcement bill.
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Playground
concussions
on the rise
Drugged-driving loophole
seen in many states’ laws
BY LINDSEY TANNER
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Playground concussions are on the rise, according to a new government study,
and monkey bars and swings are
most often involved.
Most injuries studied were mild,
but all concussions are potentially
serious, and the researchers say
the trend raises public health and
safety concerns.
The federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention study examined national 2001-13 data on
playground injuries to kids aged
14 and younger who received
emergency room treatment. Of
almost 215,000 kids on average
treated yearly, almost 10 percent
— about 21,000 annually — had
traumatic brain injuries including concussions. Only nonfatal
injuries were included.
Here are some key findings,
published online Monday in
Pediatrics:
Climbing rate. In 2005, 23
out of 100,000 kids had traumatic
brain injuries, a rate that jumped
to 48 out of 100,000 in 2013. The
rate declined in the previous
years but increased steadily after
that. By 2013, the annual total
was almost 30,000 kids treated
for these brain injuries.
The rise may mean parents are
becoming increasingly aware of
the potential seriousness of concussions and the need for treatment. It’s also possible more kids
are using playground equipment,
the researchers said.
The injuries. Only 3 percent
of kids with concussions were
hospitalized or transferred elsewhere for additional treatment;
95 percent were sent home after
ER treatment. Half of the head
injuries were in kids ages 5 to 9,
and injuries were more common
in boys. Symptoms weren’t listed,
but signs of concussions after
a blow to the head can include
headaches, dizziness, confusion,
nausea and vomiting.
Concussion basics. Concussions are a type of traumatic
brain injury typically resulting
from a blow to the head that jostles the brain and temporarily
disrupts brain function. Symptoms can last days or weeks, and
while most kids completely recover, repeated blows to the head
have been linked to brain damage
— most notably in some retired
NFL players.
Tips. Playground equipment
most commonly involved in concussions included monkey bars
and swings. The study lacked
details on how kids got hurt, but
many concussions result from
falls, and the researchers’ recommendations include using
soft ground surfaces including
wood chips or sand rather than
concrete.
The researchers said adult supervision is key to helping prevent these injuries. They also
recommend checking to make
sure playground equipment is in
good condition.
BY M ICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
Courtesy of the New York Police Department
Packets of synthetic marijuana known as
K-2 are on display in New York after being
seized in Brooklyn.
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Kristian Roggio, 18, was
riding in a friend’s car when another driver careened across a Brooklyn street in New York,
colliding head-on and killing her. That driver
had inhaled aerosol dust cleaner moments before to get high, and prosecutors say he was
impaired enough to be charged with vehicular
manslaughter.
But New York’s top court threw out the case,
ruling the chemical composition of the dust
cleaner wasn’t on the state’s list of banned substances — a requirement under the law — and
that he couldn’t be charged under a statute
meant for drunken driving.
That ruling nine years ago highlights a loophole that still exists in New York and a dozen
other states that base intoxicated driving not
on a police officer’s observation of impairment
but on a specific list of banned substances 34
pages long.
Such laws were intended to give a scientific
basis to drugged-driving charges. But some
law enforcement officials say they have failed
to keep up with the boom in designer drugs
— such as synthetic marijuana known as K-2
— and homemade concoctions that are chemically distinct from traditional narcotics, which
is leading them to push for a change in New
York’s law. They say that even though laws
have been passed making it unlawful to sell
or possess synthetic drugs, drugged-driving
laws haven’t caught up with the rise in those
narcotics.
“If we can’t define the chemical and it’s not
on the list, we can’t prosecute you,” said Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.
“It is really frustrating for us in law enforcement, especially as these chemical drugs become more and more popular with our kids.
We’re basically fighting drugged driving with
one hand tied behind our back.”
Experts say synthetic and homemade drugs
impair a user’s cognitive and motor skills just
like their recognized illegal counterparts.
Although state banned lists are occasionally
updated, that’s not happening fast enough to
keep up with the black-market chemists who
are continually making slight changes in their
compounds to stay one step ahead of the law.
“Every kid with access to the Internet has
access to unregulated designer synthetic drugs
that are largely unknown to law enforcement,”
said Brendan Ahern, a New York attorney
and former vehicular crimes prosecutor who
has trained police officers and prosecutors on
drugged driving. “There are certainly cases
that are occurring routinely with drugs that
law enforcement has the inability to detect.”
Thirteen states in the U.S., including Minnesota, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Ohio, rely
at least partially on a list of specifically banned
substances. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have more expansive definitions of the word “drug.”
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Solar plane starts next leg of world trip
Associated Press
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A
solar-powered airplane took off
from California for Arizona early
Monday to continue its journey
around the world using only energy from the sun.
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse
2 flew from Mountain View south
of San Francisco shortly after 5
a.m. Monday for an expected 16hour trip to Phoenix.
Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg
was at the helm of the plane that
began circumnavigating the
globe last year.
Borschberg’s co-pilot, Bertrand
Piccard, also of Switzerland, made
the three-day trip from Hawaii to
the heart of Silicon Valley, where
he landed last week.
The Solar Impulse 2’s wings,
which stretch wider than those of
a Boeing 747, are equipped with
17,000 solar cells that power propellers and charge batteries. It
runs on stored energy at night.
After Phoenix, the plane will
make two more stops in the United
States before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Europe or northern
Africa, according to the website
documenting the journey.
The two legs to cross the Pacific were the riskiest part of the
plane’s travels because of the lack
of emergency landing sites.
“We have demonstrated it is
feasible to fly many days, many
nights, that the technology works,
said Borschberg, 63, who piloted
the plane during a five-day trip
from Japan to Hawaii.
The crew had to stay in Oahu
for nine months after the plane’s
battery system sustained heat
damage on its trip from Japan.
The single-seat aircraft began
its voyage in March 2015 from
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and made stops in Oman,
Myanmar, China and Japan.
The layovers give the pilots a
chance to swap places and engage
with local communities along the
way.
NOAH BERGER /AP
Solar Impulse 2 flies over San Francisco on April 23 at the end of its
journey over the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii.
Teachers’ sick-out shuts nearly all Detroit public schools
Associated Press
DETROIT — Nearly all of Detroit’s public schools were closed Monday after the
teachers union urged members to call out
sick following a weekend announcement
that the district wouldn’t be able to pay its
teachers starting this summer.
District
spokeswoman
Michelle
Zdrodowski said in an email Monday morning that 94 of the district’s 97 schools would
be closed for the day. About 46,000 students
are enrolled in the district’s schools.
The move by the Detroit Federation of
Teachers was announced Sunday, a day
after Detroit Public Schools’ transition manager said the district would have no money
to continue paying teachers this summer
without further funding from the state.
“Unfortunately, by refusing to guarantee
that we will be paid for our work, DPS is
effectively locking our members out of the
classrooms,” Detroit Federation of Teachers interim President Ivy Bailey said.
In March, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into
law emergency funding that is keeping the
district operating through the end of the
school year as the state Legislature considers a $720 million restructuring plan that
would pay off the district’s enormous debt.
Former bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes,
who was appointed this year to oversee the
district, also said Saturday that DPS would
be unable to fund summer school or special
education programs after June 30.
“I understand the frustration and anger
that our teachers feel,” Rhodes said. “I am,
however, confident that the Legislature will
support the request that will guarantee that
teachers will receive the pay that is owed to
them.”
Teacher strikes are illegal under Michigan law. Sick-outs earlier this year caused
tens of thousands of students to miss class.
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Asian elephants perform for the final time in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday in Providence, R.I.
Ringling Bros. elephants give final performance
BY M ICHELLE R. SMITH
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The curtain
fell a final time for elephants performing
at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
Circus as the circus ended a practice that
enthralled audiences for two centuries but
became caught between animal-rights activists’ concerns and Americans’ shifting
views.
Six Asian elephants danced, balanced
on each others’ backs and sat on their hind
legs during their last show in Providence,
R.I., on Sunday.
“This is a very emotional time for us,”
Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson told
the crowd as the performance came to an
end.
He called elephants beloved members of
the circus family and thanked the animals
for more than 100 years of service.
“We love our girls. Thank you so much
for so many years of joy,” he said as the elephants left the ring for a final time. “That’s
history tonight there, ladies and gentlemen, true American icons.”
Elephants have been used in the circus
in America for more than 200 years. In the
early 1800s, Hackaliah Bailey added the
elephant “Old Bet” to his circus. P.T. Barnum added the African elephant he named
“Jumbo” to “The Greatest Show on Earth”
in 1882.
“We came to say farewell to the elephants,” said Sheila Oliver, of East Providence, who brought her daughter, Lilliana,
4. “This is her first circus and, unfortunately, it’s their last one.”
Five elephants also performed earlier
Sunday in a Ringling Bros. show in Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
The Providence show opened with the
national anthem. An elephant carried
a performer holding an American flag,
then stood at attention as the song ended.
A few minutes later, six elephants entered
the ring, each holding the tail of the one in
front of her.
After Sunday’s performance, the animals will live at Ringling’s 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City,
Fla., said Alana Feld, executive vice president of Feld Entertainment, which owns
the circus. Its herd of 40 Asian elephants,
the largest in North America, will continue
a breeding program and will be used in a
pediatric cancer research project.
C HRIS O’MEARA /AP
Elephants Mike, right, and Angelica walk in their pen at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum
& Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City, Fla., in March 2015.
The Humane Society says more than a
dozen circuses in the United States continue to use elephants. But none tours as
widely or is as well-known as Ringling
Bros.
It’s also getting more difficult for circuses to tour with elephants. Dozens of cities
have banned the use of bullhooks — used
to train elephants — and some states are
considering such legislation.
Before Sunday’s show, about half a dozen
protesters stood outside, including one
wearing a lion costume, to protest Ringling’s use of animals.
The change at Ringling signifies a shift
in Americans’ understanding of elephants,
said Ronald B. Tobias, author of the 2013
book “Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America.” People no longer see
elephants as circus performers, he said,
“but sentient animals that are capable of a
full range of human emotions.”
Attitudes are shifting about other animals as well. Sea World has announced
it will end live orca shows and breeding.
Ringling will continue to use animals, Feld
said. Sunday’s show included horses, lions,
tigers, dogs, pigs and other animals.
The Humane Society has called for an
end to the breeding program at Ringling’s
Florida center and for the company to retire its elephants to one of two accredited
sanctuaries, one in California and one in
Tennessee, both of which have more than
2,000 acres of land.
Feld said they have the most successful breeding program in North America
and have determined they can accommodate the elephants in the space they have.
In 2014, Feld Entertainment won more
than $25 million in settlements from animal-rights groups, including the Humane
Society, over unproven allegations of mistreated elephants.
An announcer told the crowd before
Sunday’s performance in Providence about
BILL SIKES/AP
An Asian elephant performs Sunday for
during the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Circus.
the cancer project. Cancer is less common
in elephants than humans, and their cells
contain 20 copies of a major cancer-suppressing gene, compared with just one
copy in humans.
A researcher at the University of Utah
is working with Ringling to study the elephants’ blood cells.
Tobias said as attitudes have changed,
people are more interested in seeing elephants in a natural habitat such as a sanctuary rather than in a circus or zoo.
“I think people will get a lot more satisfaction out of elephants living their real
lives than to see them performing as
clowns,” Tobias said. “It’s kind of a new
age in our understanding and sympathy
and empathy toward elephants.”
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Wildfires sweep
through mountain
forests in India
BY BISWAJEET BANERJEE
Associated Press
LUCKNOW, India — Massive
wildfires that have killed at least
seven people in recent weeks
were burning through pine forests in the mountains of northern
India on Monday, including parts
of two tiger reserves.
With dense, black smoke billowing in the skies for miles, authorities were urging villagers to
be on alert and tourists to avoid
traveling to the Himalayan foothills, popular during the summer
for their cooler temperatures.
Dozens of fires were spreading
unpredictably in the states of Uttarakhand and neighboring Himachal Pradesh, officials said.
“We are struggling to bring the
situation under control,” forest
officer Bhanu Prasad Gupta said
in the state of Uttarakhand.
After state firefighters were
unable for months to put out the
fires, the Indian government sent
air force helicopters over the
weekend to drop water onto blazes covering nearly 8 square miles
of pine forests.
After areas were soaked from
above, groups of villagers fanned
out into the steaming jungle
forests and used green-leafed
branches to beat out the embers
still glowing on the ground.
The thick smoke and remote,
mountainous terrain were making the job difficult for some 9,000
firefighters, army soldiers and
forest guards deployed to battle
the flames, Gupta said. Nearby
villages were asked to stay on
alert, but none has yet been asked
to evacuate. Authorities set up 84
monitoring centers to receive reports of new fire outbreaks.
Hundreds of tourists have abandoned plans to visit the popular
hill towns of Ranikhet, Almora
and Pauri after smoke reduced
visibility on steep mountainous
roads. During the scorching summer, hill resorts in Uttarakhand
are a favorite weekend getaway
for people in New Delhi, 250
miles to the south.
While forest fires are not uncommon in the dense forests of
the Himalayan foothills, there
were more fires than usual this
year and they were unusually intense, according to forest department official Ujjawal Kishan.
The fires began early in February, after a particularly dry
winter and two years of poor
monsoon rains, and raged out of
control last week as summer temperatures soared.
The fires were worsening the
already high air pollution over
northern India.
Heat sends Cambodian pupils home
Assoicated press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia
— Cambodia has shortened the
school day by one hour to help
students cope with a heat wave
that has pushed temperatures as
high as 107.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Education
Minister
Hang
Chuon Naron signed the rule into
effect Monday, and it will remain
in place until the cooling rains
begin. The rainy season normally
starts in late May but could begin
later this year, he said.
Most schools in Cambodia, like
elsewhere in the region, have no
air conditioning. The new rule
deducts 30 minutes from the beginning and end of each school
day, said Ros Lina, the ministry
spokesman. The next long break
for Cambodian students will be
from August to October.
School authorities throughout
Cambodia also were ordered to
be aware of heat-related illnesses,
such as heat stroke, and to advise
students to drink more water.
Countries across Southeast
Asia are enduring a heat wave
that scientists say is triggered by
El Nino, a warming of parts of
the Pacific Ocean that changes
weather worldwide and tends to
push up global temperatures. El
Nino has also been blamed for
causing the worst drought in decades across the region.
PATRICK FARRELL , THE MIAMI HERALD/AP
A woman from Cuba waves as the Adonia passenger ship leaves port Sunday in Miami en route to Cuba.
US cruise docks in Cuba for
1st time in nearly 40 years
BY M ICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press
HAVANA — The first U.S.
cruise ship in nearly 40 years
crossed the Florida Straits from
Miami and docked in Havana on
Monday, restarting commercial
travel on waters that served as a
stage for a half-century of Cold
War hostility.
Carnival Cruise Line’s gleaming white 704-passenger Adonia
became the first U.S. cruise ship
in Havana since President Jimmy
Carter eliminated virtually all restrictions of U.S. travel to Cuba in
the late 1970s. Travel limits were
restored after Carter left office,
and U.S. cruises to Cuba became
possible again only after Presidents Barack Obama and Raul
Castro declared detente on Dec.
17, 2014.
The Adonia’s arrival is the first
step toward a future in which
thousands of ships a year could
cross the Florida Straits, long
closed to most U.S.-Cuba traffic
due to tensions that once brought
the world to the brink of nuclear
war. The straits were blocked by
the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and tens of thousands
of Cubans have fled across them
to Florida on homemade rafts
— with untold thousands dying in
the process.
The number of Cubans trying
to cross the straits is at its highest
point in eight years, and cruises
and merchant ships regularly
rescue rafters.
The Adonia is one of Carnival’s
smaller ships — roughly half the
size of some larger European vessels that already dock in Havana
— but U.S. cruises are expected
to bring Cuba tens of millions of
dollars in badly needed foreign
hard currency if traffic increases
as expected. More than a dozen
lines have announced plans to
run U.S.-Cuba cruises, and if all
actually begin operations Cuba
could earn more than $80 million
a year, the U.S.-Cuba Trade and
Economic Council said in a report Monday.
Most of the money goes directly
to the Cuban government, council
head John Kavulich said. He estimated that the cruise companies
pay the government $500,000 per
cruise, while passengers spend
about $100 per person in each
city they visit.
Carnival said the Adonia will
cruise twice a month from Miami
to Havana, where it will start a
$1,800-per-person seven-day circuit of Cuba, with stops in the cities of Cienfuegos and Santiago de
Cuba. The trips include onboard
workshops on Cuban history and
culture and tours of the cities that
make them qualify as “people-topeople” educational travel, avoiding a ban on pure tourism that
remains part of U.S. law.
Optional activities for the
Adonia’s passengers include a
walking tour of Old Havana’s colonial plazas and a $219-per-person trip to the Tropicana cabaret
in a classic car.
Before the 1959 Cuban revolution, cruise ships regularly traveled from the U.S. to Cuba, with
elegant Caribbean cruises departing from New York and $42
overnight weekend jaunts leaving
twice a week from Miami, said
Michael L. Grace, an amateur
cruise ship historian.
New York cruises featured
dressy dinners, movies, dancing
and betting on “horse races” in
which stewards dragged wooden
horses around a ballroom track
according to rolls of dice that
determined how many feet each
could move per turn.
Iran urges nuclear weapons-free Korean peninsula
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani on
Monday pushed for a Korean
peninsula free of nuclear weapons, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Rouhani met with visiting
South Korean President Park
Geun-hye and said Iran seeks a
world free of weapons of mass
destruction, “especially nuclear”
weapons.
“Our demand is a world free of
weapons of mass destruction, especially freeing the Korean peninsula and the Middle East from
destructive weapons,” he said.
Park said she has asked for
Iran’s help in implementing U.N.
Security Council resolutions calling for the nuclear disarmament
of the Korean peninsula.
The remarks were aimed at
North Korea, which has been hit
with tough U.N. sanctions over its
nuclear weapons program. North
Korea has conducted four nuclear bomb tests and tested a longrange rocket earlier this year.
Park arrived in Tehran on Sunday for the first visit by a South
Korean president to Iran since
1962.
Rouhani said both sides agreed
to increase their bilateral trade
from the current $6 billion per
year to $18 billion in the coming
years. They also signed a number of agreements in the fields
of oil and gas, railroads, tourism
and technology, and agreed to reestablish direct flights between
Tehran and Seoul.
Iran has been seeking to reintegrate into the global economic
system since nuclear-related
sanctions were lifted in January
under a landmark deal with world
powers.
Energy-hungry South Korea,
the world’s fifth-largest importer
of crude oil, used to be one of the
biggest buyers of Iranian oil before the sanctions were imposed.
Iran said it has raised its oil and
gas condensate exports to South
Korea to 400,000 barrels per day,
a fourfold increase since the nuclear deal was implemented.
South Korea and Iran established diplomatic ties in 1962 but
their heads of states have never
held bilateral talks.
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Italian’s death
in Egypt has
become more
mysterious
BY M AGGIE M ICHAEL
AND SAM M AGDY
Associated Press
JAMEY K EATEN
FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press
GENEVA — Was it a blip or a
breakthrough?
Scientists around the globe are
revved up with excitement as the
world’s biggest atom smasher
— best known for revealing the
Higgs boson four years ago —
starts whirring again to churn out
data that may confirm cautious
hints of an entirely new particle.
Such a discovery would all but
upend the most basic understanding of physics, experts say.
The European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN by its
French-language acronym, has in
recent months given more oomph
to the machinery in a 17-mile
underground circuit along the
French-Swiss border known as the
Large Hadron Collider. In a surprise development in December,
two separate LHC detectors each
turned up faint signs that could
indicate a new particle, and since
then theorizing has run amok.
“It’s a hint at a possible discovery,” said theoretical physicist
Csaba Csaki, who isn’t involved
in the experiments. “If this is really true, then it would possibly be
the most exciting thing that I have
seen in particle physics in my career — more exciting than the discovery of the Higgs itself.”
The Large Hadron Collider, or
LHC, reopened on March 25 to
prepare for a restart in early May.
CERN scientists are doing safety
tests and scrubbing clean the pipes
before slamming together large
bundles of particles in hopes of
producing enough data to clear up
that mystery. Firm answers aren’t
expected for weeks, if not until an
August conference of physicists in
Chicago known as ICHEP.
On Friday, the LHC was temporarily immobilized by a weasel,
which invaded a transformer that
helps power the machine and set
off an electrical outage. CERN
said it was one of a few small
glitches that will delay by a few
days plans to start the data collection at the $4.4 billion collider.
The 2012 confirmation of the
Higgs boson culminated a theory
first floated decades earlier. The
“Higgs” rounded out the Standard
Model of physics, which aims to
explain how the universe is structured at the infinitesimal level.
The LHC’s Atlas and Compact
Muon Solenoid particle detectors
in December turned up preliminary readings that suggested a
particle not accounted for by the
Standard Model might exist at
750 giga-electron volts. This mystery particle would be nearly four
times more massive than the top
quark, the most massive particle
in the model, and six times more
massive than the Higgs, CERN officials say.
JASON DIEDRICHS, C OURTESY
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The word HELP is spelled out with fern fronds as seen by Amalgamated Helicopters chief pilot
Jason Diedrichs as he hovers over Tararua Forest Park near Wellington, on New Zealand’s North
Island, on Saturday.
NC mother, daughter survive 5
days in New Zealand wilderness
BY NICK PERRY
Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — An American exchange
student and her mother were
rescued over the weekend in the
New Zealand wilderness, where
they were lost for five days after
setting off on a day hike. A helicopter pilot spotted the large
“help” signs they had made
from fern fronds.
Rachel Lloyd, 22, is recovering in Wellington Hospital with
her mother, Carolyn Lloyd, by
her side. The pair recounted
their ordeal to The Associated
Press.
Day one. Carolyn Lloyd, 47,
of Charlotte, N.C., was visiting
her daughter, and Rachel was
eager to show her some highlights of New Zealand. They took
a day hike in the expansive Tararua Forest Park. It was close to
where Rachel was completing
a semester abroad at Massey
University in Palmerston North
after finishing most of a double
degree at North Carolina State
University in Raleigh.
They left April 26, with Rachel’s backpack filled with some
water, trail mix and other snacks.
They followed orange markers
up a trail for about three hours
to a summit, where they enjoyed
sunny weather and spectacular views. But as they set off to
complete the circular trail, they
couldn’t locate any more orange
markers and started following
some blue markers down a hill.
They figured it was a continuation of the trail but later learned
it was probably a track for pest
monitoring.
“It got very steep, very jungley,” Rachel said. “The markers
completely stopped after about
20 minutes, but it was so steep
it was physically impossible to
climb back up.”
Rachel said they continued
descending until they got stuck
on a tiny ledge atop a 600-foot
waterfall. As it got dark, they
straddled a tree and lay atop one
another to keep warm.
Day two. Carolyn opened a
package of cheese, only to have
it tumble over the waterfall. The
pair forged ahead by scaling
NICK PERRY/AP
Carolyn Lloyd, left, of Charlotte, N.C., hugs her daughter,
Rachel, who is recovering at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand.
down the cliff next to the waterfall. “There would be one tiny
little rock or one tiny shrub, and
we’d swing to the next thing,”
Rachel said.
Once down, they followed a
stream, figuring it would lead
eventually to civilization. But
they were forced to keep switching sides, and Rachel fell headfirst into the icy water, hitting
her head on a rock.
Carolyn piggybacked her
daughter at times as they continued their journey. They made
camp that night in a grassy
clearing. The temperatures fell
close to freezing. “At this point
it, was very scary,” Rachel said.
Day three. Their cellphones
died. They’d had reception at
the summit but hadn’t been able
to get service since they’d gotten
lost. They had tried to conserve
the batteries by switching off
data and apps. Now they had no
way to contact anybody, and nobody yet knew they were missing. Unknown to them, Carolyn’s
husband, Barry, had been sending messages urging them to get
in touch, but he hadn’t yet raised
the alarm.
The pair kept following the
stream, but it became deep and
unpassable. They turned back
and found a flat area with some
sun and decided to stay put.
Rachel said her health was
failing and she was losing her
vision and hearing. They were
rationing what little food they
had left, eating as little as three
peanuts at a time and drinking
fresh water from the streams.
Day four. Carolyn came
up with the idea of making the
“help” signs. She made one in
a creek bed and another in a
clearing, using dead fern fronds,
sticks and stones to make letters
about 6 feet long.
“I was like a zombie, very
dizzy, disorientated and cold in
my wet clothes,” Rachel said.
She thought she was going to
die and began relaying her last
wishes to her momd.
By this time, authorities knew
something was wrong and sent
search teams into the forest.
Day five. Jason Diedrichs,
chief pilot for Amalgamated Helicopters, said police asked him
Saturday morning to try to find
the missing women. He didn’t
know all the details, but knew
that after four nights missing, it
could well be a mission to haul
out bodies.
After 30 minutes of searching,
about noon, he spotted a “help”
sign in a riverbed. As he circled
overhead, he spotted the second
“help” sign in a small clearing
and saw the two women waving.
He said Carolyn seemed OK,
but Rachel was clearly weak and
exhausted. She was later admitted to Wellington Hospital for
hypothermia and undernourishment. She said Monday she
expected to stay there a couple
of more days.
CAIRO — It was a brutal killing
that became an international incident: An Italian graduate student
disappeared from the streets of
the Egyptian capital in January,
his body discovered days later
dumped by a roadside, tortured to
death.
The death of Guilio Regeni, 28,
quickly poisoned ties between
Egypt and Italy, where suspicions
were high that Egyptian police
— who have long been accused of
using torture and secret detentions
— snatched Regeni and killed him.
Egyptian officials — as high up as
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in
a national address — have denied
any police role, but in the months
since the slayings, the Italian government has increased the pressure for answers.
Then in March came a surprise
twist. Egyptian police announced
they had killed a gang of five Egyptian men they said specialized in
kidnapping and robbing foreigners, and while searching the gang
leader’s sister’s home, they came
upon Regeni’s passport. Government media proclaimed that Regeni’s killers had been found.
The claim was immediately
dismissed by Italian officials as
not credible, with some Italian
media calling it an outright coverup. Even the editor-in-chief of
Egypt’s top government newspaper, Al-Ahram, wrote that Egyptian authorities had to get serious
about uncovering the truth and
that such “naive stories” about
Regeni’s death were only hurting
the country.
Now accounts from witnesses
and family members interviewed
by The Associated Press raise further questions about the official
version of the March 24 shooting
in a wealthy suburban enclave outside Cairo. The Interior Ministry
said security forces hunting for
the gang stopped their minibus,
and the men opened fire on them,
prompting a gunbattle in which all
five were killed.
But witnesses say the men were
unarmed and tried to flee as police
fired on them, and that afterward
police confiscated footage from
security cameras near the scene.
The men’s relatives say they were
house painters merely heading to
a job in the suburb of Tagammu
al-Khamis when they were killed.
“I am accusing the Interior
Ministry of trying to cover up
their wrong deeds by killing my
family,” said Rasha Tareq Saad,
whose husband, brother and father were among those killed. “I
want my family’s rights.”
The AP spoke to six witnesses
in Tagammu al-Khamis, as well
as six relatives and lawyers of the
slain men. No video footage from
the shooting has emerged, so their
accounts could not be independently verified. A number of other
family members have been arrested, and their lawyers say they
have not been allowed to see investigators’ reports on the shooting.
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Obama seeing success in only half of Syria
BY DOYLE MCM ANUS
Los Angeles Times
P
resident Barack Obama is pursuing two different strategies in two
halves of Syria. One is working;
the other is not.
He’s making progress in eastern Syria,
where the United States is leading an expanding military campaign against the Islamic State group.
American airstrikes and efforts on the
ground have taken a visible toll on the terrorist group. Its territory has shrunk, its finances are a mess, its recruitment numbers
are down. U.S. Special Forces are training
Syrian rebels with the aim of capturing
Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa — maybe
even before Obama leaves office.
Last week, after years of resisting intervention in Syria’s civil war, Obama announced that he’s sending an additional
250 U.S. troops to eastern Syria, on top of
50 who arrived last year.
His rationale: Those troops are part of
the campaign against Islamic State, a direct threat to the United States, not the
civil war against Syrian President Bashar
Assad. Officially, those 300 U.S. troops
aren’t on a combat mission; they’re coordinating local forces, collecting intelligence
and finding targets for airstrikes. But they
include special operations teams capable
of killing or capturing Islamic State leaders — and some have already done so.
In western Syria, the more populous half
of the country, it’s a different story.
Since 2011, the president has been saying that Assad must cede power to a transition government including the rebels who
are fighting to overthrow him. Relying on
diplomacy rather than force, Secretary of
State John Kerry has worked doggedly to
cajole the warring factions into a ceasefire and open peace negotiations.
For a while, it looked as if Kerry had
Syria’s two wars are very
different from each other. A
strategy that makes sense
in one half of the country
may not in the other.
succeeded. In February, Assad agreed to
a “cessation of hostilities,” and for almost
two months many Syrians enjoyed a respite from war.
But each time peace talks got underway
in Geneva, Assad’s forces launched attacks
on civilian areas — prompting opposition
delegates to walk out in protest, as Assad
knew they would. Some rebel units violated the truce as well, but on a smaller scale.
Naturally, each side blamed the other for
the breakdowns.
Kerry expected Russia, Assad’s most
important ally, to help enforce the ceasefires and keep the negotiations on track.
That didn’t happen; instead, Russia continued its airstrikes in Syria — in some cases,
attacking rebel units trained and equipped
by the CIA.
Last week, Assad’s air force bombed
rebel positions and civilian targets including two hospitals in Syria’s largest city,
Aleppo. His army is surrounding the city,
the last major urban area held partly by
rebel forces. If Assad takes Aleppo, the
war in western Syria will largely be over,
and the government will have won. (A partial cease-fire was announced Friday, but
it covers only two small areas and doesn’t
include Aleppo.)
So what’s Plan B? Officially, there isn’t
one. Obama has rejected every alternative
he’s been presented.
“The problem with any Plan B that does
not involve a political settlement is that
it means more fighting, potentially for
years,” he said last month.
That’s true. But it’s also a straw man;
the whole point of a Plan B would be to
increase pressure on Assad to agree to a
political settlement.
Here’s one version of that kind of Plan B,
long discussed by U.S. and Arab officials:
Supply Syrian rebels with anti-aircraft
missiles, so they can defend themselves
against airstrikes.
That raises the danger that a portable
anti-aircraft missile could fall into the
hands of a terrorist group. So intelligence
agencies have discussed installing devices
that would disable the missiles if they were
taken out of a designated area.
And there are other options between
passivity and a ground invasion: more
weapons, increased training and intelligence-sharing, a “safe zone” for refugees.
Syria’s two wars are very different from
each other. A strategy that makes sense
in one half of the country may not in the
other.
Still, it’s worth noticing that in eastern
Syria, Obama has found a way to put U.S.
troops on the ground without stepping onto
the slippery slope he has always feared. He
has made it clear that there won’t be a U.S.
invasion or occupation — even though the
enemy, the Islamic State group, is considered a direct threat.
In western Syria, Obama has long
claimed he has only two choices: either minimal involvement or a full-scale
ground invasion. His experience in eastern
Syria, where his “light footprint” strategy
is showing results, refutes that argument.
Diplomacy without force isn’t helping
Obama achieve his goal of a political settlement; that dream is slipping away even
as Syrian civilians are being massacred.
It’s time for Obama to choose a Plan B —
whether he likes it or not.
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BY DAVID IGNATIUS
Washington Post Writers Group
WADI MASHAR, Iraq
rom a sandbagged hilltop outpost
here, you can see the front line
of the Islamic State group in the
muddy brown houses of Al-Nasr, a
village on the next ridgeline, about a mile
and a half west. The Iraqi army was supposed to have captured this target a month
ago. But the offensive was repelled.
The battle for Mosul, about 35 miles
north, must begin with the seizure of such
Islamic State positions along the Tigris
River. But the Iraqi army isn’t ready to
take a small, well-fortified village like AlNasr. So it’s hard to imagine that Mosul itself can be cleared by the end of the year,
as the Obama administration has hoped.
The staging area for the Mosul battle is
Makhmour, a few miles south of here. An
Iraqi army division has set up its headquarters there, alongside Kurdish peshmerga fighters. U.S. combat advisers are
in Makhmour, too, although they weren’t
visible Thursday.
“I have limited forces,” said Maj. Gen.
Najim Abed al-Jabouri, the Iraqi commander for the Mosul offensive. He now
has about 5,000 troops, but he said he needs
a force six times larger and an attack plan
that hits Mosul from all sides. The recent
political chaos in Baghdad has hurt army
morale and made planning more difficult,
he said. “We try to move toward the correct way, but the corruption in Iraq is very
deep.”
U.S. airpower helped the Iraqis capture
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the nearby village of Mahana last week.
The Iraqis were able to walk in, virtually
unopposed. “We are a team, always,” said
Jabouri of the growing U.S. forces in Iraq.
The “day after” in Mosul may be an
even bigger problem than the assault itself.
Gen. Najat Ali, the commander of Kurdish forces in Makhmour, says a political
agreement is needed now on governing
the big, multiethnic city once the Islamic
State is driven out. “We are afraid, after
we liberate Mosul, how we will rule,” he
said. He was dressed in the baggy trousers
and tunic that are the traditional Kurdish
uniform.
The Kurds are probably the toughest
fighters in Iraq, and they’ve had the best
success so far against the Islamic State.
But they are desperately short of heavy
weapons and ammunition, as I discovered
during my brief visit to their front lines.
At the Kurdish hilltop observation post at
Wadi Mashar, for example, Lt. Col. Taher
Argushi said his forces are hit almost daily
with rocket and mortar fire from Al-Nasr,
and were attacked last year by mustard
gas. But Kurds here have no heavy artillery or rockets, no chemical-weapons suits,
and they lack enough ammunition to fire
back regularly at the extremists.
Asked if the Kurds’ partners in the Iraqi
army are good fighters, Argushi answered
that with the Iraqis’ limited progress, despite having abundant weapons, ammunition and U.S. air support, “you must say
‘not good.’ ”
“The Iraqi regular army, trust me, they
are not in a position to do this alone,” cautioned Masrour Barzani, the national secu-
rity adviser and intelligence chief for the
Kurdistan Regional Government, speaking at his headquarters in Irbil. He said
the Makhmour area must be cleared soon
by the Iraqi army — so that Mosul is surrounded from the south, as well as from
the areas north, east and west of the city
already captured by Kurdish forces.
Barzani worries about slow preparation,
on both the military and political fronts:
“We asked for a plan for taking Mosul.
The Iraqi army doesn’t have a plan yet, or
they’re not sharing it with us,” he said.
While Kurdish forces are committed to
the Mosul campaign, Barzani said they
can’t take the lead in Arab areas. He also
stressed the future difficulty of governing a diverse city that has Arabs, Kurds
and Turkmen; Sunni and Shiite Muslims;
Christians and Yazidis. “There has to be a
political agreement so that all the elements
of Mosul will be happy and able to live
there,” he said.
Some Iraqi officials talk hopefully of
an uprising among the local population in
Mosul to expel the Islamic State. “This is
wishful thinking,” said Barzani. He explained that Mosul’s residents won’t stick
their necks out unless they are certain the
offensive will succeed.
A dramatic sign of the Obama administration’s stake in this fight came with
Vice President Joe Biden’s surprise visit
to Baghdad on Thursday. The attack on
Mosul will be the decisive moment in this
U.S.-backed campaign, but the evidence
from the battlefront suggests that a successful assault is still many months away.
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Man killed in crash
stole 3 vehicles in a day
BINGHAM
COUNTY
ID
— The Bingham County
Sheriff’s office says a man killed
$116K
The value of heroin Border Patrol agents allege a woman was carrying when she was
arrested at a Tucson, Ariz.-area checkpoint. Brisseth Karina Gallardo-Ruiz, 22, who is a
U.S. citizen, was a passenger in a vehicle held in a secondary inspection area. Agents say
they located two packages of heroin on her body that had a total weight of 7 pounds.
in accident last week was driving
a stolen truck, and that it was the
third vehicle he had stolen that
day.
KIFI-TV reported that Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland said James Barry, 33 stole a
Ford truck Thursday with a cattle
trailer attached to it. He then abandoned the truck to steal a second
truck. After not getting very far,
Barry got stuck in a sandbar and
stole a 2007 Dodge Ram truck.
Rowland said Barry wrecked
the third stolen truck and later
succumbed to his injuries.
The sheriff said Rowland had
several warrants in California
and had been arrested several
times in Bonneville County.
Bloodhound is newest
member of K-9 unit
SPOKANE — A 14WA
month-old bloodhound
named Daisy is the newest member of the Spokane police department’s K-9 unit. She was brought
into the department to track missing children and vulnerable adults
with her handler, Sgt. Jason Reynolds, who supervises the unit.
The Spokesman-Review reported bloodhounds are often considered the dog breed with the best
sense of smell. She will not be replacing patrol dogs, who are usually German Shepherds or Malinois
dogs and come from Germany and
get their own training.
Daisy is a rescue who came to
the department by way of California last month. As an Americanborn dog, she’ll be one of the few
on the force who can understand
English commands.
Daisy will be in training for
several more months, but she’s
certified to work as a tracker and
could be called out the next time
the department is looking for a
missing person.
Therapy dogs to return
for school’s finals week
STORRS — The University of Connecticut
is providing its students with
therapy dogs to help relieve the
stress of final exams.
The dogs were to be available
this week for petting at the school’s
Homer Babbidge Library.
The program, named “Paws
to Relax,” began in spring 2010
when a library staff member suggested that puppies might help
students cope with stress during
finals week.
Registered therapy dogs from
multiple organizations including
Cold Noses, Warm Hearts; Allen’s Angels; and Tails of Joy are
taking part in the program.
The school says it is keeping the
dogs in a space that won’t affect
students with allergies who also
could need to use the library.
CT
5 on fishing trip are
rescued as boat sinks
ALEXANDRIA
—
Authorities say five
people were rescued after their
MN
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Smart subject
Nolan Daynorowicz gives his report on Albert Einstein during the “Packed With History: A Living Museum” at Trinity Academy in
Shenandoah, Pa., on Friday.
boat sank in Lake Carlos in western Minnesota.
The Douglas County sheriff’s
office got a 911 call early Sunday
from a boater saying their boat
sank near the mouth of the Long
Prairie River.
All five people aboard were accounted for, but they had to stand
on a platform on the bow in about
three feet of water.
The 18-year-old who was operating the boat said the five were
bow-fishing when he slowed the
throttle, causing the bow to dip
and to take on water. The boat
sank in about five feet of water.
A sheriff’s deputy contacted
a resident near the lake, and the
resident and two deputies used a
boat to rescue the boaters.
Miss Indian World
crowned at powwow
ALBUQUERQUE
NM
— An Arizona State
University law student has been
crowned Miss Indian World.
Pageant officials said Danielle Ta’Sheena Finn, 25, was
announced the winner Saturday night at the 33rd Annual
Gathering of Nations at the University of New Mexico arena in
Albuquerque.
Finn, of Porcupine, N.D., and
a member of the Standing Rock
Sioux tribe, was chosen from
among 24 Native American
women from different tribes and
traditions.
As Miss Indian World, Finn
will travel around the world to native and indigenous communities
for a year.
Attaching weapons to
drones could be felony
HARTFORD — Those
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who attach weapons to
drones in Connecticut could soon
face a serious criminal penalty.
A wide-ranging bill that cleared
the House of Representatives on a
131-14 vote Friday creates a new
class C felony for using weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles,
punishable by up to 10 years in
prison.
A similar proposal died last
year due to inaction. The debate
was reignited this year after a
college student in Clinton posted
videos online of a drone-mounted
handgun firing rounds into the
woods and a flying flamethrower lighting up a spit-roasting
Thanksgiving turkey.
The bill, which now awaits
Senate action, also creates a new
crime for launching or landing a
drone near a correctional facility.
The bill also allows law enforcement to use drones in certain
circumstances.
Hiker fires on possibly
rabid attacking skunk
SIERRA VISTA — CoAZ
chise County sheriff’s
officials said a skunk that attacked
a hiker is being tested for rabies.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carol
Capas said the incident happened
Saturday afternoon in Brown
Canyon in southern Arizona.
According to Capas, two women
were hiking when the skunk
started to follow them. The skunk
then jumped onto one of them.
The woman being attacked was
armed and fired several shots at
the animal. A third person then
shot the skunk, causing it to let go
of the woman.
Capas said the woman went to
a Sierra Vista hospital for evaluation and possible treatment.
University giving Boone
home to park system
NEW MELLE — A
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university that owned
the 2-century-old house in suburban St. Louis that once was the
home of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone is donating the property
to the county’s park system.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
reported Lindenwood University has run the limestone-walled
house as a tourism attraction and
educational site since 1988.
St. Charles County Executive
Steve Ehlmann and Lindenwood
President Michael Shonrock announced Friday the school is donating the home, the adjoining
66-acre historic village and more
than 200 surrounding acres to the
county. All of the property will be
called Lindenwood Park.
Cardboard boxes given
to poor as baby beds
SEATTLE — King
County health officials
are distributing special cardboard boxes for babies to sleep in.
The program is aimed at reducing infant deaths.
KING-TV reported the boxes
are being given to low-income
parents who do not have a crib
and have to share a full-size bed
with their newborn
Baby bed boxes have been used
for decades in Finland. They are
designed to reduce infant deaths
by helping to prevent suffocation.
They also help babies maintain a
healthy body temperature while
they sleep.
The county has distributed
about 20 of 118 boxes it purchased
earlier this year with a $4,600
grant from the King County Office of Equity and Social Justice.
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It’s back, baby
Amy Grant’s ’90s hit gets new life from Tori Kelly
BY K RISTIN M. H ALL
Associated Press
A
pop classic from the early ’90s,
Amy Grant’s hit “Baby Baby” is
getting a reboot 25 years later
thanks to Grammy-nominated
singer Tori Kelly.
A new version of the song featuring original vocals from Grant and new vocals from
the “Should’ve Been Us” singer was released
April 29 digitally as the 1991 No. 1 song is
being remade for a new generation.
“At least those of us who enjoyed the first
run of it, we hear this version that Tori Kelly
does and it just brings back all the best memories where that song was the backdrop,” said
Grant during an interview from her Nashville home.
Grant was already a well-known Grammywinning gospel singer before she crossed over
to pop. She is now one of Christian music’s
most successful musicians, with six platinum
and three multiplatinum albums and 10 Top
40 pop songs.
“I was always trying to find a unique way
to express a lifestyle of faith without being
preachy,” Grant said.
“Baby Baby,” cowritten with Keith
Thomas and inspired
by Grant’s daughter
Millie, made her the
first Christian pop artist to have a No. 1 song.
Her album “Heart in
Motion” was certified
platinum five times.
The song eventually beTori Kelly
came a worldwide hit,
reaching top 10 charts in several other countries as well. In Nashville, she was mobbed
by screaming teenagers and it became a fan
favorite at her live shows.
“That song came out at a time when it just
fit so comfortably in everybody’s playlists,”
Grant said.
The new version adds an R&B rhythm and
beat over Kelly’s vocal range, which Grant
said impressed her immediately when she
saw Kelly sing in the studio.
“For Tori to be joining me on this song and
then taking it to where it always wanted to go,
to me that’s fantastic,” Grant said.
A new version of Amy Grant’s hit song “Baby Baby,” featuring original vocals from Grant
(left) and new vocals from Tori Kelly, was released digitally on April 29.
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‘Jungle Book’ still No. 1 movie
From wire services
For the third consecutive week, Disney’s
“The Jungle Book” bested all others at the
box office, pushing its worldwide gross to almost $700 million.
The studio’s retelling of the classic Rudyard Kipling story pulled in an estimated
$42.4 million in the U.S. and Canada.
The $175 million live-action and computer-generated production, directed by Jon Favreau, has made $252.1 million domestically
and $684.8 million worldwide.
Disney’s strong run at the box office is
expected to continue next week as its latest
Marvel Studios picture, “Captain America:
Civil War,” hits American theaters. It already has grossed an impressive $200.2 million from international markets.
The company’s other 2016 blockbuster,
“Zootopia,” finished in the No. 6 spot domestically in its ninth week and raised its global
gross to about $932 million.
“The Huntsman: Winter’s War” had a lessthan-stellar debut with just $9.4 million over
the weekend, good enough for second place.
Made for $115 million, “Huntsman” has
grossed about $34 million domestically and
$131 million worldwide.
“Keanu” ($9.4 million, third place), “Mother’s Day” ($8.3 million, fourth place) and
“Ratchet & Clank” ($4.8 million, seventh
place) debuted to unspectacular results.
Ripa, Strahan share
Daytime Emmy award
The team of Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan is going out on top with Emmy gold.
The “Live with Kelly and Michael” duo
won the Daytime Emmy Award for best entertainment talk show host on Sunday, capping a tumultuous two weeks that began with
Strahan’s announced departure for “Good
Morning America” and Ripa’s reaction.
Neither Ripa or Strahan showed up at the
non-televised ceremony in Los Angeles to
claim the award, their second consecutive
one in the category.
CBS’ “The Talk” won the award for best
entertainment talk show, while ABC’s “The
Chew” received the informative talk show
trophy. Syndicated series “Extra” got the
best entertainment news program award.
ABC’s “General Hospital” was the big
winner with five trophies — best drama series, a best directing team award and awards
for lead actor Tyler Christopher, supporting
actor Sean Blakemore and younger actor in a
drama Bryan Craig.
Other news
Principal photography on “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” has been further delayed to allow star Dylan O’Brien more time
to recover from injuries he suffered during
the shoot in mid-March. O’Brien, 24, stars
in the dystopian sci-fi franchise based on author James Dashner’s novels. He was filming
the third and final installment in the series
in British Columbia when he was injured.
Fox did not comment on whether or not the
delay would impact the film’s planned February 2017 release.
Hawaii selected eight businesses Friday
to open medical marijuana dispensaries —
but not one owned by Woody Harrelson. The
actor was among nearly 60 Hawaii residents
who applied in January to open the state’s
first medical marijuana dispensaries.
Will Ferrell is not pursuing a film
project about President Ronald Reagan, a
spokesman for the actor said April 29. The
actor had read and considered the script for
“Reagan” but had never committed to developing or starring in the comedic film, which
had prompted a strong family backlash. The
script for “Reagan” had been described in a
Variety report as a political satire about the
president falling into dementia at the start of
his second term.
Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Joanna
LGBT inclusion
in films leveling
off, study finds
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Backed by Black
The cast of Broadway’s new musical
“School of Rock” got the endorsement
Sunday of someone they’ve desperately wanted to impress for months
— Jack Black (above right). Black saw
a matinee with his son and went backstage to high-five cast members and
pose for pictures. He embraced Alex
Brightman (pictured with Black), the
actor who plays Dewey — his old role.
“It was so good. There were so many
times I went, ‘I could not have done
it that well,’ ” he said, surrounded by
thrilled kids. “You made me laugh. You
made he cry. You made me rock.” The
stage version stays close to the plot of
the Jack Black-led 2003 film, in which
a wannabe rocker enlists his fifthgrade students to form a rock group.
— From The Associated Press
Coles is working on a “no-nonsense” guide
to sex and intimacy. Harper, an imprint of
HarperCollins Publishers, announced that
it plans to release a book by Coles in 2018.
The book currently is untitled. According
to Harper, Coles will offer advice for how
to find “sustaining love” when all the rules
have changed.
Hollywood films remained
static in their inclusiveness of
LGBT characters in 2015, but the
racial diversity of those characters fell dramatically, according
to the findings of GLAAD’s annual study.
In a survey released Monday
by the advocacy group, 17.5 percent of last year’s films from the
seven major studios contained
characters who were lesbian, gay,
bisexual or transgender.
Though unchanged in total percentage from last year, the racial
diversity of the LGBT characters
has plummeted. Last year, 32.1
percent of the LGBT characters
portrayed in the 126 films were
people of color. This year, it’s
down to 25.5 percent.
The revelation comes at a time
of increased scrutiny around the
inclusion of people of color in Hollywood films, following a second
year of all-white Oscar nominees
in the acting categories and a
damning USC report about the
“whitewashed” industry.
Many times, too, the LGBT
characters are used solely as a
punchline targets, said GLAAD’s
President and CEO Sarah Kate
Ellis.
“Hollywood’s films lag far behind any other form of media
when it comes to portrayals of
LGBT characters,” Ellis said.
“The film industry must embrace
new and inclusive stories if it
wants to remain competitive and
relevant.”
From The Associated Press
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Fiat 500e is cool but cramped
BY CHARLES FLEMING
Los Angeles Times
H ARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR C O./TNS
The Harley-Davidson Roadster
Harley-Davidson
adds Roadster
to Sportster line
BY CHARLES FLEMING
Los Angeles Times
Seeking to capitalize on the
urban custom movement sweeping the street bike scene, Harley-Davidson has added a new
Sportster-style motorcycle to its
lineup.
The Roadster, a 1200-cc VTwin, features new suspension,
drag-style handlebars and a
chopped rear fender. Harley says
this new addition to its Dark Custom division is designed in a “garage-built custom style” meant to
evoke a 1960s spirit.
“The Roadster is a mash-up of
styling genres, but the intent was
to build a rider’s motorcycle, a
Sportster that’s lean and powerful and connects the rider to the
road,” the company’s director of
styling, Brad Richards, said in
announcing the new bike,
Harley, which with around 50
percent of all heavyweight U.S.
motorcycle sales is by far the
industry leader, has made several new bike announcements
recently. They are part of the
massive motorcycle company’s
stated plan to broaden its reach
beyond its loyal but aging traditional customer, and to find new
riders in women, Latinos, blacks
and Asian-Americans.
This more urban-looking bike
is aimed right at them. Sitting
relatively low at 30 inches, and at
a relatively light 568 pounds, the
Roadster’s lowered bars, blackedout power train and cast aluminum wheels — 19-inch front and
18-inch rear — are meant to appeal to a city rider who wants to
look good blasting to the local bar
or cafe.
The bike will include custom
graphics and will come in solid
colors Vivid Black, Black Denim,
Velocity Red Sunglow, and in a
Billet Silver/Vivid Black two-tone
with a Burgundy pinstripe. ABS
is not stock, but can be had as an
option.
The Roadsters will start at
$11,199 — a little above the Sportster starting MSRP of $10,899,
about the same as the Forty-Eight,
and a little below the Superlow’s
$11,799.
The Roadster is the company’s
second big reveal in the last two
months.
Despite the growing appeal of
the Tesla Models S and X, and
excitement about a coming 200mile-range Chevy Bolt, plug-in
electric vehicles still account for
a scant fraction of U.S. auto sales.
Though March marked the biggest electric vehicle sales month
in history, according to industry publication InsideEVs, those
sales accounted for far less than 1
percent of all new vehicle sales —
if you don’t count plug-in hybrids
that also have gasoline engines
under the hood.
So pity the poor Fiat 500e,
which placed eighth on InsideEVs
sales chart and had its fair share
of recalls in its first couple of
years.
That’s not necessarily a reflection of the electric sedan’s appeal. Still a “compliance” vehicle,
manufactured and sold by Fiat
Chrysler largely to meet emissions standards, the 500e is sold
domestically only in Oregon and
California.
And it’s actually a pretty cool
car.
Like almost all electric-motor
cars, the 500e is zippy and quick.
With no valves, pistons, cams,
flywheels or clutches to push, the
battery-powered motor sends all
its juice directly to the wheels.
With a claimed 111 horsepower
and 147 pound-feet of torque, the
500e rips away from red lights
and hops up hills with ease — and,
being electric, does it silently and
with no vibration.
The 500e’s chassis is short and
square, so the car feels planted
and nimble on the ground. It corners pretty well and doesn’t tip up
on sharp turns.
On the highway, the little car
still feels pretty solid, though in a
tornado it would probably be one
of the first things airborne.
Because it’s so small, it’s easy
to park, even in spaces that would
be too tight for a full-size car.
Around town or on the highway, it gets pretty good mileage.
The EPA-estimated range on this
electric is 103 miles on the highway and 121 miles around town.
Owners I’ve spoken with tell
me they average about 90 miles
between charges. As for me, a
leadfoot who lives at the top of a
series of steep hills, I seemed to
be getting a little less than that.
But even at the low end, a single
“tank” full of electricity in the
500e easily bought me an entire
week of commuting.
A full recharge requires about
eight hours on a household plug,
or half that long on a 240-volt system. The EPA estimates the average owner will save $6,000 in fuel
costs, over five years, compared
with driving the average gasoline-powered vehicle.
The Fiat 500
A.J. MUELLER, FIAT/TNS
The 500e looks pert and perky
too. The shape and color of a
throat lozenge, it comes in an
array of tropical tones that seem
more suited to a line of kitchen
appliances or frozen desserts.
You can have one in Luce Blu, Celeste Blu or Electric Orange TriCoat Pearl. (The electric version
can’t be had in the Olive Green or
Modern Pearl Yellow available on
other Fiat 500s.)
On the inside, the design theme
is old-school minimalist. The
dashboard is made of a hard plastic that shines like painted metal
— just like in the Fiat 500s from
the 1960s, or the VW bugs of that
era. The dash is simple and uncluttered, featuring a push-button
gear selector, a cluster of climate
control knobs and very little else.
The leatherette bucket seats are
heated, but only adjust manually.
There are very few options — a
power sunroof is among them —
so any upgrades to the sound system or navigation systems would
be strictly aftermarket affairs.
For a small car, the 500s all
offer fair legroom and headroom
in the driver and passenger seats,
though anyone over 6-foot-2 will
have to stow the Stetson.
There’s considerably less space,
in all dimensions, in the backseat.
You could probably fit two fullsize adults back there, but you
might have trouble getting them
out.
As for the trunk, that might
cramp your style too. There’s
room for your tennis togs or a
picnic basket or an overnight bag.
But forget about carrying the
golf clubs unless your collection
is limited to a single niblick or
mashie. But the trunk does contain the 500e’s 6-6kW on-board
2016 Fiat 500e
Quick take: A perky plug-in for city
slickers.
Highs: Quick, quiet and fun to
drive.
Lows: Cute, but cramped for fullsize folks.
Vehicle type: Two-door, fourpassenger sedan.
Base price: $32,795.
Price as tested: $34,890.
Powertrain: 83 kWh electric motor.
Transmission: Single-speed
automatic.
Horsepower: 111.
Torque: 147 pound-feet.
Zero to 60 mph: 9.1 seconds.
EPA fuel economy rating: 121
mpg city/103 highway/ 112
combined.
Recharge time: 120v 24 hrs;
240v 6hrs.
TNS
charging module, which with the
use of a Level 2 fast charger is
said to be capable of bringing the
electric charge from empty to full
in less than four hours.
Other aspects of the ergonomics proved challenging. I bumped
into the armrest every time I
plugged in the seat belt, and finally elected to fold it up and forget
about it. No matter how I adjusted
the seat and the steering wheel,
I couldn’t see the ignition switch
and had to fumble blindly with
the key when I started the car.
Fiat Chrysler has pushed the
500e with a clever ad campaign
— “Single and in the fast lane,”
one spot said. And the company,
mindful of potential owners’
range anxiety, initially offered to
throw in 10 days of free rental car
use for trips longer than the car’s
range. (That offer was discontinued, Fiat says, because so few
people took advantage of it.)
The electric Fiat has received
some bad press, mainly because
of recalls for coolant leaks, transmission issues, a faulty drive
shaft and some battery pack software problems. In fairness, those
occurred early on for the 500e, a
vehicle that was released in 2013
and is Fiat Chrysler’s first allelectric car.
Sales have also suffered, as all
electric car sales have, from stable gas prices and from what EV
boosters complain is a general indifference at the dealership level,
where salespeople don’t tend to
push electric cars and service departments may not be as experienced servicing them.
The plug-in electric models are
also pricier than their nonelectric
siblings. Although the most basic
gasoline-powered Fiat 500 starts
at less than $18,000, the lowest 500e MSRP is $32,795. The
one I tested went out the door at
$34,890.
Federal and state tax incentives and other rebates take some
of the sting out of that. According
to Fiat, I could qualify for up to
$14,000 in incentives, bringing
the MSRP below $20,000. And
there’s that $6,000 in gas savings.
Fiat has also been offering some
very aggressive lease rates in
its effort to get more people into
these cars.
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McDonald’s testing new McNuggets
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (May 3) ............................ $1.1792
Dollar buys (May 3) ......................... €0.8480
British pound (May 3) .......................... $1.50
Japanese yen (May 3) ........................104.00
South Korean won (May 3) ............ 1,111.00
Commercial rates
Associated Press
NEW YORK — McDonald’s wants to take
some of the mystery ingredients out of Chicken McNuggets.
The world’s biggest hamburger chain says
it is testing a preservative-free version of
Chicken McNuggets, which have practically
become synonymous with hyper-processed
foods since they were introduced in the
1980s. The company says it began testing the
new recipe in about 140 stores in Oregon and
Washington in March.
It’s the latest move by McDonald’s to try
and step up quality perceptions about its food
as it works to turn around its business, which
has lost customers in recent years. The company has conceded that it failed to keep up
with changing tastes and that it is looking at
improving core menu items.
Last week, it also said it is testing a version
of its Big Mac that comes with bigger patties.
McDonald’s did not provide details on what
exactly is different about the new McNugget
recipe, but said it is “simpler” and “parents can
feel good” about it. Becca Hary, a McDonald’s
representative, noted that McNuggets are currently fried in oil that contains TBHQ, which is
considered an artificial preservative.
M ARK DUNCAN /AP
McDonald’s is testing a version of its
Chicken McNuggets with no preservatives as
it tries to revive its U.S. business.
The test reflects the sensitivities parents of
young children in particular might have about
food ingredients. McDonald’s has long marketed to families with its Happy Meals and
Ronald McDonald mascot.
The McNugget test was first reported by
Crain’s Chicago Business.
As people pay closer attention to food labels, companies across the food and beverage
industry have tweaked recipes to remove ingredients that may sound unappetizing.
Last year, for instance, McDonald’s tweaked
its grilled chicken recipe to remove ingredients people might not recognize. That change
removed maltodextrin, which McDonald’s
said was used to increase browning. Sodium
phosphates, which McDonald’s said was to
keep chicken moist, were replaced with vegetable starch.
Chicken McNuggets are delivered to stores
frozen and currently contain a long list of
ingredients, according to the McDonald’s
website, including sodium phosphates. McDonald’s said the McNugget recipe it is testing does not have sodium phosphates.
The fast-food chain said it is getting feedback from customers with the McNugget test
and did not say when it planned to launch the
new recipe nationally.
Last week, McDonald’s said sales rose 5.4
percent at established U.S. locations during
the first three months of the year. The company did not say how much of that came from
an uptick in customer visits. The results were
boosted at least in part by higher pricing and
the shuttering of underperforming stores.
McDonald’s Corp., based in Oak Brook, Ill.,
has more than 14,000 locations in the U.S.
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Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8812
Euro ........................................ $1.1519/0.8681
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7593
Hungary (Forint) .................................269.84
Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.7458
Japan (Yen)...........................................106.63
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3008
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.0485
Philippines (Peso)................................. 47.03
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.80
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7502
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3420
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,140.49
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9553
Thailand (Baht) .....................................34.86
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.7949
(Military exchange rates are those
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nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
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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
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Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.20
30-year bond ........................................... 2.66
WEATHER OUTLOOK
TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
TUESDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
71/55
Kabul
77/53
Baghdad
103/74
Seoul
64/53
Kandahar
87/63
Kuwait
City
101/75
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
57/39
Bahrain
95/81
Brussels
62/45
Lajes,
Azores
64/56
Doha
99/82
Riyadh
103/76
Osan
62/52
Ramstein
66/44
Stuttgart
67/45
Iwakuni
70/56
Sasebo
69/59
Guam
88/78
Pápa
67/51
Aviano/
Vicenza
68/48
Naples
62/54
Morón
85/57
Sigonella
62/47
Rota
79/57
Djibouti
92/81
Tokyo
71/64
Busan
73/53
Okinawa
80/68
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
75/56
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Hi: Sun., 96, Mcallen, Texas
Lo: Sun., 14, Leadville, Colo.
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Motorcycles
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Sports
on AFN
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Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
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Tennis
Madrid Open
Sunday
At Caja Magica
Madrid, Spain
Purse: Men, $5.5 million, (WT1000);
Women, $6 million (Premier)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Men
First Round
Fernando Verdasco, Spain, def. Juan
Monaco, Argentina, 7-5, 7-6 (3).
Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, def. Steve
Johnson, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3).
Women
First Round
Dominika Cibulkova, Russia, def. Angieszka Radwanska (1), Poland, 6-4, 6-7
(3), 6-3.
Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, def.
Angelique Kerber (2), Germany, 6-4, 6-2.
Garbine Muguruza (3), Spain, def. Anna
Karolina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 6-2, 7-5.
Victoria Azarenka (4), Belarus, def.
Laura Robson, Britain, 6-4, 6-2.
Petra Kvitova (5), Czech Republic, def.
Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, 6-3, 6-2.
Simona Halep (6), Romania, def. Misaki Doi, Japan, 6-0, 6-3.
Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, def. Roberta Vinci (7), Italy, 6-4, 6-2.
Carla Suarez Navarro (8), Spain, def.
Timea Babos, Hungary, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Laura Siegemund, Germany, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (9), Russia, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.
Timea Bacsinszky (10), Switzerland,
def. Andrea Petkovic, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.
Lucie Safarova (11), Czech Republic,
def. Coco Vandeweghe, United States, 7-6
(4), 6-1.
Karolina Pliskova (13), Czech Republic,
def. Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, 6-2,
6-1.
Ana Ivanovic (14), Serbia, def. Katerina
Siniakova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
Madison Keys, United States, def. Alison Riske, United States, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Patricia Maria Tig, Romania, def. Daria
Kasatkina, Russia, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 7-5, 6-0.
Louisa Chirico, United States, def.
Monica Niculescu, Romania, 7-5, 6-1.
Sabine Lisicki, Germany, def. Monica
Puig, Puerto Rico, 6-1, 6-3.
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def.
Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-2, 6-3.
Sorana Cirstea, Romania, def. Jelena
Jankovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-3.
Samantha Stosur, Australia, def. Sara
Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 6-1, 6-3.
Daria Gavrilova, Australia, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 7-5, 6-4.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia,
def. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-1.
Caroline Garcia, France, def. Johanna
Konta, Britain, 6-4, 2-1, retired.
Karin Knapp, Italy, def. Margarita Gasparyan, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, def. Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
Istanbul Open
Sunday
At Koza World of Sports
Istanbul
Purse: $542,250 (WT250)
Singles
Championship
Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, def.
Grigor Dimitrov (2), Bulgaria, 6-7 (5), 7-6
(4), 6-0.
Doubles
Championship
Flavio Cipolla, Italy, and Dudi Sela,
Israel, def. Andres Molteni and Diego
Schwartzman, Argentina, 6-3, 5-7, 10-7.
Estoril Open
Sunday
At Clube de Tenis do Estori
Cascais, Portugal
Purse: $520,000 (WT250)
Singles
Championship
Nicolas Almagro, Spain, def. Pablo Carreno Busta (8), Spain, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5), 6-3.
Doubles
Championship
Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky (4), United States, def. Lukasz Kubot and Marcin
Matkowski (1), Poland, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8.
Auto racing
GEICO 500
NASCAR Sprint Cup
Sunday
At Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega, Ala.
Lap length: 2.66 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (7) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 188 laps,
45 points.
2. (17) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 188, 40.
3. (2) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 188, 38.
4. (30) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,
188, 37.
5. (1) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 188, 37.
6. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 188,
35.
7. (34) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 188,
34.
8. (18) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 188, 33.
9. (19) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 188, 32.
10. (13) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 188, 32.
11. (32) Landon Cassill, Ford, 188, 30.
12. (33) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 188,
30.
13. (12) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 188,
28.
14. (28) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
188, 28.
15. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 188,
27.
16. (6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 188,
25.
17. (39) David Gilliland, Ford, 188, 24.
18. (36) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 188, 24.
19. (26) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 188, 23.
20. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 188, 21.
21. (31) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet,
188, 20.
22. (5) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 182,
19.
23. (4) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, accident,
180, 19.
24. (37) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, accident, 180, 18.
25. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, accident,
180, 17.
26. (10) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, accident, 180, 15.
27. (23) Aric Almirola, Ford, accident,
180, 15.
28. (15) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 173,
14.
29. (24) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 173,
13.
30. (21) Brian Scott, Ford, 172, 11.
31. (8) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 170, 11.
32. (25) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 168,
9.
33. (20) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 166,
8.
34. (40) David Ragan, Toyota, engine,
151, 8.
35. (9) Carl Edwards, Toyota, accident,
109, 6.
36. (35) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, engine, 98, 5.
37. (27) Chris Buescher, Ford, accident,
95, 4.
38. (38) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, accident, 94, 3.
39. (11) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, accident, 82, 2.
40. (3) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,
accident, 63, 1.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner:
140.046 mph.
Time of Race: 3 hours, 34 minutes, 15
seconds.
Margin of Victory: Under Caution.
Caution Flags: 10 for 41 laps.
Lead Changes: 37 among 17 drivers.
Lap Leaders: C.Elliott 1-13; M.Kenseth
14-28;
C.Elliott
29-38;
M.Waltrip
39; Ky.Busch 40-51; A.Almirola 52;
A.Allmendinger
53;
D.Ragan
5455; M.Waltrip 56; M.Kenseth 57-71;
B.Keselowski
72-82;
D.Hamlin
83;
B.Keselowski
84;
D.Hamlin
85-88;
B.Keselowski 89-96; D.Patrick 97-99;
K.Harvick 100-102; C.Elliott 103-106;
K.Harvick 107-108; T.Bayne 109-115;
K.Harvick 116-117; T.Bayne 118; K.Harvick
119-120; T.Bayne 121-128; B.Labonte 129;
R.Newman 130; C.Whitt 131; T.Bayne
132-135; K.Larson 136-137; T.Bayne 138;
K.Larson 139-145; M.Kenseth 146-152;
B.Labonte 153; M.Kenseth 154-155;
T.Bayne 156; B.Keselowski 157-165;
J.Logano 166-171; B.Keselowski 172-188.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,
Laps Led): B.Keselowski, 5 times for
46 laps; M.Kenseth, 4 times for 39 laps;
C.Elliott, 3 times for 27 laps; T.Bayne, 6
times for 22 laps; Ky.Busch, 1 time for
12 laps; K.Harvick, 4 times for 9 laps;
K.Larson, 2 times for 9 laps; J.Logano,
1 time for 6 laps; D.Hamlin, 2 times
for 5 laps; D.Patrick, 1 time for 3 laps;
M.Waltrip, 2 times for 2 laps; B.Labonte,
2 times for 2 laps; D.Ragan, 1 time for 2
laps; A.Allmendinger, 1 time for 1 lap;
C.Whitt, 1 time for 1 lap; A.Almirola, 1
time for 1 lap; R.Newman, 1 time for 1
lap.
Soccer
Wins: Ky.Busch, 2; C.Edwards, 2;
J.Johnson, 2; B.Keselowski, 2; D.Hamlin,
1; K.Harvick, 1.
Top 16 in Points: 1. K.Harvick, 351;
2. Ky.Busch, 342; 3. C.Edwards, 337;
4. J.Johnson, 329; 5. J.Logano, 316; 6.
Ku.Busch, 312; 7. B.Keselowski, 300; 8.
D.Earnhardt Jr., 279; 9. M.Truex Jr., 274;
10. A.Dillon, 272; 11. C.Elliott, 271; 12.
D.Hamlin, 269; 13. J.McMurray, 261; 14.
A.Allmendinger, 232; 15. M.Kenseth, 231;
16. T.Bayne, 228.
NASCAR Driver Rating Formula
A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.
The formula combines the following
categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While
on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under
Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, LeadLap Finish.
Russian Grand Prix
Formula One
Sunday
At Sochi Autodrom circuit
Sochi, Russia
Lap length: 3.63 miles
1. Nico Rosberg, Germany, Mercedes,
53 laps, 1:32:41.997, 124.574 mph.
2. Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes,
53, 1:33:07.019.
3. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari, 53,
1:33:13.995.
4. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Williams,
53, 1:33:32.214.
5. Felipe Massa, Brazil, Williams, 53,
1:33:56.424.
6. Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren,
52, +1 lap.
7. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Renault, 52, +1 lap.
8. Romain Grosjean, France, Haas, 52,
+1 lap.
9. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India,
52, +1 lap.
10. Jenson Button, England, McLaren,
52, +1 lap.
11. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red
Bull, 52, +1 lap.
12. Carlos Sainz Jr., Spain, Toro Rosso,
52, +1 lap.
13. Jolyon Palmer, England, Renault,
52, +1 lap.
14. Marcus Ericsson, Sweden, Sauber,
52, +1 lap.
15. Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Red Bull, 52,
+1 lap.
16. Felipe Nasr, Brazil, Sauber, 52, +1
lap.
17. Esteban Gutierrez, Mexico, Haas,
52, +1 lap.
18. Pascal Wehrlein, Germany, Manor,
51, +2 laps.
Not Classified
19. Max Verstappen, Netherlands,
Toro Rosso, 33, Retired.
20. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari,
0, .
21. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Force
India, 0, Retired.
22. Rio Haryanto, Indonesia, Manor, 0,
Retired.
Drivers Standings
(After 4 of 21 races)
1. Nico Rosberg, Germany, Mercedes,
100 points.
2. Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes,
57.
3. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari, 43.
4. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red Bull,
36.
5. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari,
33.
6. Felipe Massa, Brazil, Williams, 32.
7. Romain Grosjean, France, Haas, 22.
8. Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Red Bull, 21.
9. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Williams,
19.
10. Max Verstappen, Netherlands,
Toro Rosso, 13.
11. Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren,
8.
12. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Renault, 6.
13. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Force
India, 6.
14. Carlos Sainz Jr., Spain, Toro Rosso,
4.
15. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India,
2.
16. Jenson Button, England, McLaren,
1.
17.
Stoffel
Vandoorne,
Belgium,
McLaren, 1.
Constructors Standings
1. Mercedes, 157 points.
2. Ferrari, 76.
3. Red Bull, 57.
4. Williams, 51.
5. Haas, 22.
6. Toro Rosso, 17.
7. McLaren, 10.
8. Force India, 8.
9. Renault, 6.
Golf
MLS
Zurich Classic
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal
4 3 2 14 13 11
Philadelphia
4 3 1 13 11
8
Toronto FC
3 3 2 11
9
7
Orlando City
2 2 4 10 15 13
D.C. United
2 3 4 10 11 11
New York City FC 2 3 4 10 13 15
New England
1 2 7 10 11 16
New York
3 6 0
9 12 17
Columbus
2 4 2
8
7 10
Chicago
1 2 4
7
7
8
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Colorado
5 2 2 17 12
8
Real Salt Lake
5 1 2 17 14 12
FC Dallas
5 3 2 17 15 17
Los Angeles
4 1 3 15 18
8
San Jose
4 2 3 15 12 11
Sporting KC
4 4 2 14 11 10
Portland
3 3 3 12 14 16
Vancouver
3 5 2 11 12 15
Seattle
3 4 1 10
8 10
Houston
1 5 2
5 14 16
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday, April 29
New York 4, FC Dallas 0
Saturday, April 30
Montreal 2, Colorado 2, tie
New York City FC 3, Vancouver 2
Philadelphia 1, San Jose 1, tie
Seattle 1, Columbus 0
Chicago 1, D.C. United 1, tie
New England 2, Orlando City 2, tie
Real Salt Lake 2, Houston 1
Sunday’s games
Portland 2, Toronto FC 1
Sporting Kansas City 1, Los Angeles
1, tie
Friday’s games
New York at Orlando City
Saturday’s games
Portland at Vancouver
Montreal at Columbus
FC Dallas at Toronto FC
Sporting Kansas City at Houston
Real Salt Lake at Colorado
San Jose at Seattle
Sunday, May 8
New England at Los Angeles
New York City FC at D.C. United
PGA Tour
Sunday
At TPC Louisiana
Avondale, La.
Purse: $7 million
Yardage: 7,341; Par: 72
Third round suspended by rain.
Tournament shortened to 54 holes,
to be completed Monday.
Leaderboard
Score Thru
1. Brian Stuard
-13
5
1. Jhonattan Vegas
-13
5
3. Bobby Wyatt
-12
9
4. Jamie Lovemark
-11
5
5. Charley Hoffman
-10
14
5. Scott Stallings
-10
14
5. Chris Kirk
-10
9
5. Jason Day
-10
8
5. Charles Howell III
-10
6
10. Stuart Appleby
-9
13
10. Bryce Molder
-9
10
10. John Senden
-9
8
10. Byeong-Hun An
-9
6
14. David Hearn
-8
13
14. Ryan Ruffels
-8
11
14. Will Wilcox
-8
11
14. Chris Stroud
-8
10
14. Seung-yul Noh
-8
7
14. Patton Kizzire
-8
7
14. Thomas Aiken
-8
7
14. Chad Collins
-8
6
14. Harold Varner III
-8
6
14. Daniel Berger
-8
6
Sunday
Galaxy 1, Sporting KC 1
Los Angeles
1 0—1
Sporting KC
1 0—1
First half—1, Sporting Kansas City,
Davis 2 (Zusi, Besler), 30th minute. 2, Los
Angeles, Dos Santos 4 (Zardes), 42nd.
Goalies—Los Angeles, Brian Rowe;
Sporting Kansas City, Tim Melia.
Yellow Cards—Cole, Los Angeles,
69th; Opara, Sporting Kansas City, 82nd;
Villarreal, Los Angeles, 90th+.
Timbers 2, Toronto FC 1
Toronto FC
1 0—1
Portland
1 1—2
First half—1, Portland, Adi 7 (Valeri,
Mattocks), 17th minute. 2, Toronto FC,
Johnson 1 (Giovinco), 40th.
Second half—3, Portland, Valeri 2,
74th.
Goalies—Toronto FC, Clint Irwin; Portland, Jake Gleeson.
Yellow Cards—Perquis, Toronto FC,
57th; Ridgewell, Portland, 62nd; Asprilla,
Portland, 82nd.
A—21,144 (20,000)
NWSL
W L T Pts GF GA
Washington
3 0 0
9
6
1
Portland
2 0 1
7
4
2
Seattle
2 1 0
6
5
2
Chicago
2 1 0
6
3
3
Houston
1 1 1
4
4
4
Sky Blue FC
1 1 1
4
3
3
Orlando
1 2 0
3
4
4
Western New York 1 2 0
3
1
4
FC Kansas City
0 2 1
1
1
3
Boston
0 3 0
0
0
5
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday, April 29
Washington 3, Western New York 0
Houston 0, Sky Blue FC 0, tie
Sunday’s games
Portland 1, Boston 0
Chicago 1, Orlando 0
Seattle 1, FC Kansas City 0
Saturday’s games
Chicago at Boston
Western New York at Sky Blue FC
Portland at Washington
Houston at FC Kansas City
Sunday, May 8
Seattle at Orlando
College baseball
BMW Open
Sunday’s scores
Sunday
At MTTC Iphitos
Munich
Purse: $520,000 (WT250)
Singles
Championship
Philipp Kohlschreiber (4), Germany,
def. Dominic Thiem (3), Austria, 7-6 (7),
4-6, 7-6 (4).
Doubles
Championship
Henri Kontinen, Finland, and John
Peers (3), Australia, def. Juan Sebastian
Cabal and Robert Farah (2), Colombia, 63, 3-6, 10-7.
EAST
Boston College 4, Virginia Tech 1
Bryant 3, Sacred Heart 0
Holy Cross 6, Lafayette 5
Navy 15, Bucknell 0
Susquehanna 13, Elizabethtown 3
UMBC 6, Stony Brook 3
Virginia 9, Pittsburgh 1
W. New England 15-5, Salve Regina 124, 2nd game 8 innings
SOUTH
Belmont 9, Jacksonville St. 7
Catawba 4, Carson-Newman 2
Duke 2, NC State 1
ETSU 13, VMI 7
Florida St. 11, Clemson 2
Georgia Southern 4, Louisiana-Monroe 1
Georgia Tech 9-4, Coastal Carolina 8-2
Limestone 18, Mount Olive 11
Miami 12, Florida A&M 7
Memphis 3, UConn 2, 7 innings, rain
Mount Olive 8, Belmont Abbey 6
Mount Olive 10, Pfeiffer 5
Randolph-Macon 6, Hampden-Sydney
5
Truett-McConnell 7-0, St. Andrews 1-6
Southern Miss. 4, FAU 3
Stetson 4, Jacksonville 3
UNCW 18, Hofstra 4
MIDWEST
Cent. Michigan 3, E. Michigan 2
Indiana 7, Northwestern 6
Iowa 2, Kansas St. 1
Kent St. 4, Miami (Ohio) 3
Minnesota 14, Illinois 6
Missouri 8, Tennessee 3
N. Illinois 6, Bowling Green 0
Ohio 8-9, Notre Dame 5-1
Ohio St. 5, Purdue 1
S. Illinois 4, Wichita St. 1
Saint Louis 12, Davidson 2
St. Scholastica 2, Carleton 1
Xavier 4, Butler 1
SOUTHWEST
Arizona St. 1, New Mexico 0
FAR WEST
Fresno St. 4, Air Force 2
Seattle 6, Texas Rio Grande Valley 4
Volunteers of America
Texas Shootout
LPGA Tour
Sunday
At Las Colinas CC
Irving, Texas
Purse: $1.3 million
Yardage:—6,462; Par:—71
Final
a-amateur
Jenny Shin, $195,000
68-70-65-67—270
Amy Yang, $90,231
68-68-65-71—272
Mi Jung Hur, $90,231
66-69-66-71—272
Gerina Piller, $90,231
67-65-67-73—272
Shanshan Feng, $53,472 72-69-65-68—274
A. Jutanugarn, $43,749 69-66-69-72—276
Na Yeon Choi, $32,515 74-67-68-68—277
Eun-Hee Ji, $32,515
67-66-71-73—277
Sei Young Kim, $32,515 68-67-68-74—277
Mirim Lee, $24,413
70-71-67-70—278
Cristie Kerr, $24,413
72-67-69-70—278
Karine Icher, $24,413
71-67-70-70—278
In Gee Chun, $20,005
69-73-70-67—279
S. Jane Smith, $20,005 72-71-67-69—279
J. Concolino, $20,005
69-70-69-71—279
A. Stanford, $16,895
70-71-69-70—280
Candie Kung, $16,895 71-67-71-71—280
Charley Hull, $16,895
71-69-68-72—280
Gaby Lopez, $14,648
72-71-70-68—281
Stacy Lewis, $14,648
74-70-67-70—281
B. M. Henderson, $14,648 69-68-73-71—281
So Yeon Ryu, $14,648 67-73-68-73—281
A. Simon, $12,163
71-69-71-71—282
Nannette Hill, $12,163 70-68-73-71—282
Paula Reto, $12,163
73-69-68-72—282
Marina Alex, $12,163
70-72-68-72—282
Belen Mozo, $12,163
70-69-71-72—282
Dori Carter, $12,163
71-69-69-73—282
Simin Feng, $10,176
71-70-70-72—283
a-Cheyenne Knight
70-69-72-72—283
C. Ciganda, $10,176
69-72-69-73—283
C. Matthew, $10,176
68-70-68-77—283
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-7
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Deals
Sunday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated
RHP David Robertson from the bereavement list. Optioned RHP Tommy Kahnle
to Charlotte (IL).
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Recalled RHP
A.J. Achter from Salt Lake (IL). Placed OF
Craig Gentry on 15-day DL, retroactive
to April 26. Transferred LHP C.J. Wilson
to the 60-day DL. Selected the contract
of OF Shane Robinson from Salt Lake.
Optioned RHP Matt Shoemaker to Salt
Lake.
TEXAS RANGERS — Sent RHP Yu Darvish on injury rehab assignment to Frisco (TL).
National League
CINCINNATI REDS — Selected the contract of RHP Tim Adleman from Louisville
(IL). Transferred C Kyle Skipworth to the
60-day DL. Placed RHP Raisel Iglesias on
the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 26.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Activated C Wilson Ramos from the bereavement list. Optioned C Pedro Severino to
Syracuse.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
CHICAGO BEARS — Released S Antrel
Rolle and G Matt Slauson.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Agreed
to terms with TE Braedon Bowman, OT
Rashod Hill, WR Jamal Robinson, OT
Pearce Slater, QB Max Wittek, CB Briean
Boddy-Calhoun, CB Mike Hilton, PK Jaden
Oberkrom and S Jarrod Wilson.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NHL — Suspended Washington D
Brooks Orpik for three games for interference against Pittsburgh D Olli Maatta
durning a game on April 30.
SOCCER
Major League Soccer
FC DALLAS — Loaned D Moises Hernandez to Rayo OKC (NASL) for the remainder of the 2016 season.
NEW YORK RED BULLS — Loaned D
Gideon Baah to New York Red Bulls II
(USL).
COLLEGE
NORTHERN COLORADO — Named Jeff
Linder men’s basketball coach.
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AUTO RACING
Crazy: Keselowski picks up fourth win
of career at Talladega Superspeedway
FROM BACK PAGE
Keselowski said that’s just part
of restrictor-plate racing at the
2.66-mile superspeedway.
“Racing has always been that
balance of daredevils and chess
players, this has always been
more of a daredevil-type track,”
said Keselowski.
Chris Buescher’s car flipped
three times in an early crash,
and Matt Kenseth was turned
upside down in the waning laps.
In Kenseth’s accident, Patrick hit
hard into an energy-absorbing
wall that that seemed to buckle
upon impact. She appeared shaken after the hit and hustled out of
her burning car.
“I have a pretty decent bruise
on my arm and my foot, and my
head feels like I hit a wall at 200,”
she said. “My chest hurts when I
breathe.”
There were 21- and 12-car accidents in the final 28 laps. And,
as Keselowski crossed the finish
line, another wreck in the back of
the pack punctuated the sloppy
day. NASCAR’s box score showed
35 of the 40 cars were involved in
some sort of accident.
Only 21 of the 40 cars finished
on the lead lap, and 12 cars were
ruled out of the race.
Second-place finisher Kyle
Busch said he looked in his rearview mirror at one point and only
saw four cars without some sort
of damage
“I hate it. I’d much rather be
at home,” said Busch, the reigning Sprint Cup Series champion.
“I’ve got a win. I don’t need to be
here.”
Austin Dillon finished third
and said he enjoyed the race, even
though it was nerve-racking. Dillon was in his own horrific crash
at Daytona last July and said the
style of racing at restrictor-plate
tracks creates an atmosphere of
danger.
“We all have to do it. I don’t
know how many really love it,”
Dillon said. “I know our moms,
wives and girlfriends don’t like
it. We don’t like to be part of
crashes. If people are cheering
for crashes, man, it’s not a good
thing.”
Other incidents in Sunday’s
race:
Typical Talladega: Not every
driver was alarmed at all the
accidents.
Jamie McMurray, one of the
better plate races in the series, thought Sunday was pretty
typical.
“Everyone is pretty calm until
we get to halfway because we all
want to get to halfway, and then
it got a little bit wild after that,”
he said. “But it’s just plate racing.
When you look back at all of these
restrictor plate races, you have a
lot of wrecks that just don’t happen. And today we had a lot of
wrecks, and they happened.”
Amelia is destroyed: Defending race winner Dale Earnhardt
Jr. brought his favorite car,
named “Amelia” to Talladega
in search of his first win of the
season. But he wrecked on lap 50
PAVEL G OLOVKIN /AP
German Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg, center, celebrates with his
team after winning the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi
Autodrom racetrack in Sochi, Russia on Sunday.
BRYNN A NDERSON /AP
Brad Keselowski holds up the Geico 500 trophy after winning
Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.
JOHN BAZEMORE /AP
Flames trail from the car of Dale
Earnhardt Jr. after he wrecked
on Sunday in Talladega, Ala.
and had to go to the garage. He
eventually returned to the track,
and his steering wheel mysteriously came off in his hand. He
had to steer the car himself with
his hand on the steering column
as he put the wheel back on. Then
he was collected in a wreck with
Carl Edwards. He finished last.
“Hell, I’m going home. I’m
done,” he said. “I think we need
to park the car for a while, too.”
Edwards ends streak: Edwards was seeking his third
consecutive victory, but came up
short when he suddenly crashed
his Toyota.
“Something just let go there,”
he said. “We had something torn
up there, drove down into turn
one and I just felt the right front
fall down and that was it. You’re
kind of just along for the ride.”
Edwards scored back-to-back
wins at Bristol and Richmond —
where he bumped Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch out of
his way on the last lap — and was
hoping to make it three straight
with a Talladega win.
He instead finished 39th.
Stewart’s short day: Tony
Stewart turned his car over to Ty
Dillon on the first caution of the
race.
Stewart drove the first 52
laps before getting out as a precautionary measure. He just
returned last week from a back
injury that sidelined him the first
eight races of the season.
Dillon drove the car to a sixthplace finish, which gets credited
to Stewart.
What’s next: A Saturday night
race next week at Kansas Speedway. Jimmie Johnson won the
race a year ago, and Joey Logano was victorious at Kansas last
fall.
Rosberg extends
streak in Russia
Hamilton trails German driver by
43 points after 2nd-place finish
BY JAMES ELLINGWORTH
Associated Press
SOCHI, Russia — Nico Rosberg cruised to victory in the
Russian Grand Prix on Sunday
as his title rival and teammate
Lewis Hamilton dodged crashes
and battled through the pack for
second.
Rosberg has won all four of this
season’s races — seven in a row
including victories from last season — and has a hefty 43-point
lead over Hamilton in the title
race.
“It’s been an awesome weekend, the car has been fantastic.
Very, very happy, thanks to everybody,” Rosberg said, but played
down his championship lead.
“Lewis is going to come back of
course. He’s on it and as motivated as ever. So, early days.”
Pole position and the unbeatable pace of the Mercedes meant
Rosberg faced little competition as he won by 25 seconds
from Hamilton, who had to fight
through the field after starting
10th due to a technical failure in
qualifying.
Already up to fifth after an in-
cident-packed first lap in which
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel crashed
out, Hamilton passed both Williams cars and the other Ferrari
of Kimi Raikkonen to take and
hold second.
Hamilton had been closing in
on Rosberg in the second half of
the race, but backed off after the
team warned him of a water-pressure problem. Whether he could
have caught Rosberg was doubtful — the German demonstrated
he could produce blistering pace
when needed with a fast lap just
before the end.
“The car felt good. At that time,
I was lapping a little quicker than
Nico, I was chewing away at [his
lead],” said Hamilton, adding he
had no idea how serious the problem with his car was. “At that
point was when I had to back off
and I was a second slower.”
Raikkonen was third, 6.9 seconds behind Hamilton. Following another race in which Ferrari
was far behind Mercedes, the
Finn said the result was “not exactly what we want, we want to
win races.” Raikkonen is third in
the standings, 57 points behind
Rosberg.
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Scherzer, homers help
Nats sweep Cardinals
BY JOE H ARRIS
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Max Scherzer
always makes sure to eat some
toasted ravioli when he comes
back to Missouri.
After he pitched seven strong
innings Sunday to beat his hometown team for the first time,
maybe Scherzer should have the
St. Louis specialty more often.
“That’s the best I’ve seen Max
this year,” Washington Nationals
manager Dusty Baker said after
his team completed a three-game
sweep of the Cardinals with a 6-1
victory. “Sharp with the breaking
ball, good velocity. . It was Max’s
day. Max kept us in the game until
our offense did something.”
Clint Robinson and Danny
Espinosa hit back-to-back home
runs, providing the power for
Washington on a day when NL
MVP Bryce Harper struck out all
four times up.
Scherzer (3-1), who grew up
in suburban St. Louis, struck out
nine and scattered four singles.
He didn’t allow a runner past
first base, earning his first win
in five career starts against the
Cardinals.
“I instantly could feel like I was
on top of the ball and anytime I
needed it the fastball was down at
the knees,” Scherzer said. “That’s
when I’m at my best. When I can
throw the fastball early in the
counts and throw strikes in and
away, it just sets up all my stuff.”
By finishing the weekend
sweep, the Nationals emphatically ended years of frustration at
Busch Stadium. It was their first
series win in St. Louis since May
2007. Washington improved to
17-7 overall, the best start in club
history through 24 games.
The Cardinals have lost four
straight and dropped to 5-7 at
home this season. St. Louis went
55-26 at home in 2015.
Carlos Martinez (4-1) needed
only 63 pitches to get through his
first five innings but was charged
with four runs and seven hits in
6 2/3 innings. He walked none and
struck out eight, including Harper three times.
Martinez left the Cardinals
briefly late last week to address
a personal matter. The 24-yearold right-hander is the subject of
a civil lawsuit filed against him
by a woman in West Palm Beach,
Florida, near the team’s spring
training site in Jupiter.
The lawsuit filed in Miami
seeks more than $1.5 million and
accuses the pitcher of a negligent
transmission of a sexually transmitted disease. It seeks actual
and special damages along with
mental anguish and exemplary
damages. It also seeks punitive
damages because of outrageous
actions.
Martinez’s attorney has said
the claims are false. The pitcher
mostly avoided the issue after the
game.
“I’m pretty sure I am healthy
and I’m pretty sure I’m feeling
good and I’m pretty sure I know
who I am and at the same time,
this is not part of the job,” Martinez said through a translator.
“That’s for my lawyer and agent
to take care of.”
Matt den Dekker snapped Martinez’s 16-inning scoreless streak
with a single in the sixth to score
Jose Lobaton, breaking a scoreless tie.
Associated Press
BOSTON — Alex Rodriguez
had already driven in four runs
against David Price with a homer
and a double.
So when the New York Yankees’ designated hitter came up
again with the game tied in the
seventh inning, Red Sox manager
John Farrell wanted to have a
chat with his ace.
“David’s not going to say he
doesn’t want to face anyone,” Farrell said Sunday night after Price
retired Rodriguez and picked up
the win in Boston’s 8-7 victory
over the Yankees.
“That was a pivotal moment,”
Farrell added. “He’s a big-time
performer, despite some of tonight’s outcomes.”
Price got Rodriguez on
Kershaw fans 14,
knocks in only run
to halt Dodgers’ skid
BY JOE R ESNICK
Associated Press
JEFF ROBERSON /AP
Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws during the sixth
inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, on Sunday.
Red Sox sweep Yankees in
first meeting of the season
BY JIMMY GOLEN
M ARK J TERRILL /AP
Clayton Kershaw hits an RBI-single as San Diego Padres starter
Drew Pomeranz, pitches and catcher Derek Norris, right, watches
during the third inning of a baseball game, Sunday.
a groundout, and Christian
Vazquez hit a two-run homer over
the Green Monster in the bottom
of the inning to break a 6-all tie as
the Red Sox completed a threegame sweep of their archrivals.
Dustin Pedroia and Xander
Bogaerts each had three hits and
Travis Shaw homered for Boston,
which has won seven of eight to
move into first place in the AL
East.
Rodriguez homered for the
third time in four games and
added a two-run double for the
Yankees, who have lost a seasonhigh five in a row.
“It is frustrating, no question about it,” Rodriguez said.
“We expect better things from
ourselves.”
Price (4-0) earned the win despite allowing six runs and eight
hits in seven innings. He gave up
Rodriguez’s 692nd career homer
in the third and then a two-run
double in the fifth.
“He’s tough, he’s got 3,000plus hits,” Price said. “For them
to stick with me then, I definitely
appreciate it.”
Craig Kimbrel pitched the
ninth for his eighth save.
Dellin Betances relieved Ivan
Nova (1-1) with one on and two
outs in the seventh, but Vazquez
hit the first pitch over the leftfield wall for his first homer of
the year, and just the second of
his major league career.
“I pretty much lost these
games; I’ll take the responsibility
on myself,” said Betances, who
gave up a tiebreaking homer to
David Ortiz on Friday night. “It’s
tough. We put up a lot of runs and
I tried to come in and do my job.
Unfortunately, I didn’t.”
LOS ANGELES — The Los
Angeles Dodgers desperately
needed a stopper to end their sixgame losing streak. Up stepped
Clayton Kershaw, with his arm
and bat.
Kershaw pitched a three-hitter, struck out 14 and also singled
home the only run, leading the
Dodgers over the San Diego Padres 1-0 on Sunday.
The three-time NL Cy Young
Award winner improved to 53-25
in his 120 career starts following
a Dodgers loss, and the team is
77-43 in those games.
“You’d be lying if you said that
you didn’t want to be the guy to
end the streak. So it definitely
feels good to be a part of that,”
Kershaw said.
“We definitely needed a win,
there’s no doubt about it. Finishing the game is great — something you take a little pride in, for
sure,” he said.
Kershaw (3-1) pitched his 13th
shutout and 22nd complete game
in 248 career starts. The lefty
walked none and retired the first
14 batters.
Kershaw’s single in the third
inning off Drew Pomeranz (22) was one of three hits the Padres lefty allowed through seven
innings.
Kershaw set the tone by striking out his first four batters on 16
pitches.
“It’s always great to get off to
a good start like that,” he said.
“Sometimes in a day game here,
I know some guys complain about
being able to see the ball. So I’m
sure that played into it a little bit,
‘ You definitely
knew he was on his
game.
’
A.J. Ellis
Dodgers catchers on Kershaw
too — guys swinging through
fastballs and things like that. But
nonetheless, I’ll take it.”
Kershaw is 6-0 with an 0.98
ERA in his last nine starts against
the Padres. The 2014 NL MVP
threw seven innings of one-hit
ball at San Diego on opening day
in a 15-0 victory.
“You definitely knew he was on
his game. He was so locked in and
so dominant, he was extremely
tough to square up,” catcher A.J.
Ellis said.
The Dodgers have shut out San
Diego in four of their six meetings this season, and the Padres
have been blanked seven times
overall. This game took just 2
hours, 7 minutes.
The Padres got their first baserunner with two outs in the fifth
when Alexei Ramirez singled
inside first base. Ramirez was
thrown out by right fielder Yasiel
Puig when he tried to stretch it
into a double.
San Diego’s only other hits were
back-to-back singles with one out
in the seventh by Wil Myers and
Matt Kemp, putting runners at
the corners. But Kershaw struck
out Melvin Upton Jr. and retired
Derek Norris on a flyball with his
81st pitch.
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MLB SCOREBOARD
American League
East Division
W
L
15
10
14
10
12
14
11
13
8
15
Central Division
Chicago
18
8
Detroit
14
10
Kansas City
13
11
Cleveland
10
12
Minnesota
7
18
West Division
Texas
14
11
Seattle
13
11
Oakland
13
13
Los Angeles
12
13
Houston
8
17
Boston
Baltimore
Toronto
Tampa Bay
New York
Red Sox 8, Yankees 7
Pct
.600
.583
.462
.458
.348
GB
—
A
3A
3A
6
.692
.583
.542
.455
.280
—
3
4
6
10A
.560
.542
.500
.480
.320
—
A
1A
2
6
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct GB
Washington
17
7
.708 —
New York
15
8
.652
1A
Philadelphia
15
10
.600
2A
Miami
12
12
.500
5
Atlanta
6
18
.250 11
Central Division
Chicago
17
6
.739 —
Pittsburgh
15
10
.600
3
St. Louis
12
13
.480
6
Cincinnati
10
15
.400
8
Milwaukee
9
15
.375
8A
West Division
Los Angeles
13
13
.500 —
San Francisco
13
13
.500 —
Colorado
12
12
.500 —
Arizona
12
15
.444
1A
San Diego
9
16
.360
3A
Sunday’s games
Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 1
Chicago White Sox 7, Baltimore 1
Detroit 6, Minnesota 5
Philadelphia 2, Cleveland 1
L.A. Angels 9, Texas 6
Houston 2, Oakland 1
Kansas City 4, Seattle 1
Boston 8, N.Y. Yankees 7
San Francisco 6, N.Y. Mets 1
Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 5, 11 innings
Milwaukee 14, Miami 5
Washington 6, St. Louis 1
Atlanta 4, Chicago Cubs 3, 10 innings
Colorado 6, Arizona 3
L.A. Dodgers 1, San Diego 0
Monday’s games
Texas at Toronto
L.A. Angels at Milwaukee
Minnesota at Houston
Washington at Kansas City
Seattle at Oakland
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets
San Francisco at Cincinnati
Philadelphia at St. Louis
Colorado at San Diego
Tuesday’s games
Detroit (Verlander 2-2) at Cleveland
(Tomlin 3-0)
N.Y. Yankees (Severino 0-3) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-1)
Texas (Perez 1-2) at Toronto (Estrada
1-2)
L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-2) at Tampa
Bay (Moore 1-2)
Boston (Wright 2-2) at Chicago White
Sox (Quintana 3-1)
L.A. Angels (Tropeano 1-0) at Milwaukee (Guerra 0-0)
Minnesota (Meyer 0-0) at Houston
(McHugh 2-3)
Washington (Roark 2-2) at Kansas City
(Young 1-4)
Seattle (Iwakuma 0-3) at Oakland
(Gray 3-2)
Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 5-0) at Pittsburgh (Niese 3-0)
Arizona (Corbin 1-3) at Miami (Nicolino 1-0)
Atlanta (Foltynewicz 0-0) at N.Y. Mets
(Harvey 2-3)
San Francisco (Samardzija 3-1) at Cincinnati (Moscot 0-2)
Philadelphia (Nola 1-2) at St. Louis
(Wacha 2-1)
Colorado (Butler 0-0) at San Diego
(Cashner 1-2)
Sunday
Brewers 14, Marlins 5
Miami
Milwaukee
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
I.Szuki lf
5 1 1 0 Do.Sntn rf 5 1 2 2
Prado 3b
5 1 3 1 Villar ss
5 2 3 1
C.Jhnsn 3b 0 0 0 0 Y.Rvera ss 0 0 0 0
Detrich 2b
4 1 3 2 Braun lf
5 2 3 2
Breslow p
0 0 0 0 Jffress p
0 0 0 0
Stanton rf
4 0 1 1 Carter 1b 5 3 3 3
Gllspie rf
0 0 0 0 Nwnhuis cf 5 3 3 2
Bour 1b
5 0 2 0 Walsh 3b
2 1 0 0
Ozuna cf
5 1 1 1 H.Perez 3b 1 0 1 0
Ralmuto c
5 0 3 0 A.Hill 2b
4 1 2 0
Hchvrra ss 4 1 1 0 Mldnado c 4 1 1 2
Koehler p
1 0 0 0 W.Prlta p
2 0 0 1
Ege p
1 0 1 0 Boyer p
0 0 0 0
Urena p
0 0 0 0 R.Flres ph 1 0 0 0
Yelich ph
1 0 0 0 Goforth p 0 0 0 0
B.Mrris p
0 0 0 0 Presley lf 0 0 0 0
Rojas 2b
0 0 0 0
Totals
40 5 16 5 Totals
39 14 18 13
Miami
001 031 000— 5
Milwaukee
207 200 03x—14
E—Gillespie (1). DP—Miami 1, Milwaukee 2. LOB—Miami 11, Milwaukee 6.
2B—I.Suzuki (2), Realmuto (5), Villar 2
(6), Carter (10), Nieuwenhuis (3). 3B—Dietrich (2). HR—Ozuna (4), Do.Santana (3),
Carter 2 (7). SB—Villar (6), Nieuwenhuis
(2). SF—W.Peralta (1). S—Urena (1).
Miami
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Koehler L,2-3
2B
8
8
8
2 0
Ege
1C
6
3
3
1 1
Urena
2
0
0
0
0 2
Morris
1B
2
2
2
0 2
Breslow
C
2
1
0
0 0
Milwaukee
Peralta W,2-3
5C 13
5
5
1 0
Boyer
1B
2
0
0
0 0
Goforth
1
0
0
0
1 0
Jeffress
1
1
0
0
0 0
HBP—by Ege (Walsh). T—3:21. A—
28,181 (41,900).
New York
Boston
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Ellsbry cf
4 2 2 1 Betts rf
5 1 1 0
Gardner lf
3 1 0 0 Pedroia 2b 5 1 3 0
A.Rdrgz dh 4 2 2 4 Bgaerts ss 5 1 3 1
Tixeira 1b
4 0 1 1 Ortiz dh
4 1 1 0
S.Cstro 2b
4 1 2 0 Han.Rmr 1b 4 1 1 2
Headley 3b 4 0 1 0 T.Shaw 3b 4 1 2 2
A.Hicks rf
3 0 0 0 B.Holt lf
3 1 1 1
McCnn ph-c 0 0 0 0 Vazquez c 4 1 1 2
Trreyes ss
3 1 1 0 Brdly J cf
3 0 1 0
Beltran ph-rf 1 0 0 0
Au.Rmne c 2 0 0 0
Grgrius ss
1 0 0 0
Totals
33 7 9 6 Totals
37 8 14 8
New York
003 030 010—7
Boston
103 020 20x—8
E—Eovaldi (1), A.Hicks (1). DP—Boston
1. LOB—New York 4, Boston 8. 2B—Ellsbury 2 (6), A.Rodriguez (3), S.Castro
(5), Bogaerts (10). HR—A.Rodriguez (5),
T.Shaw (3), Vazquez (1). SB—Bradley Jr.
(2). S—Gardner (1), Au.Romine (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
New York
Eovaldi
5
10
6
6
3 3
Nova L,1-1
1C
2
1
1
0 0
Betances
B
1
1
1
0 0
Miller
1
1
0
0
0 1
Boston
Price W,4-0
7
8
6
6
1 3
Uehara H,8
1
1
1
1
1 2
Kimbrel S,8-9
1
0
0
0
0 2
Eovaldi pitched to 1 batter in the 6th
HBP—by Price (Ellsbury). WP—Eovaldi,
Uehara. T—3:17. A—34,279 (37,499).
Rockies 6, Diamondbacks 3
Colorado
Arizona
ab r h bi
Gsselin 2b 5 0 2 0
Drury 3b
5 2 3 1
Gldschm 1b 3 0 0 0
D.Prlta rf
4 1 1 0
W.Cstll ph 1 0 0 0
Tomas lf
4 0 2 1
Clppard p 0 0 0 0
Burgos p
0 0 0 0
Hrrmann c 4 0 2 1
Owings cf 4 0 0 0
Ahmed ss 4 0 0 0
S.Mller p
1 0 0 0
Barrett p
0 0 0 0
Ja.Lamb ph 1 0 0 0
Delgado p 0 0 0 0
Chafin p
0 0 0 0
Weeks ph-lf 2 0 1 0
Totals
34 6 7 6 Totals
38 3 11 3
Colorado
000 310 200—6
Arizona
100 002 000—3
E—Parra (3). LOB—Colorado 6, Arizona
10. HR—Arenado (11), Parra (3), Drury
(5). SB—Blackmon (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Colorado
Bettis W,3-1
6
9
3
3
0 4
Miller H,1
B
1
0
0
1 1
Logan H,4
B
0
0
0
0 1
Estevez H,1
B
0
0
0
0 1
Qualls H,2
1
0
0
0
0 0
McGee S,6-7
1
1
0
0
1 1
Arizona
Miller L,0-3
3C
4
3
3
4 3
Barrett
1B
1
1
1
0 1
Delgado
1B
2
2
2
1 2
Chafin
C
0
0
0
0 1
Clippard
1
0
0
0
0 0
Burgos
1
0
0
0
0 0
Bettis pitched to 1 batter in the
7th PB—Herrmann. T—3:23. A—25,458
(48,633).
Blckmon cf
Story ss
Ca.Gnzl rf
Arenado 3b
Parra lf
LMahieu 2b
Paulsen 1b
Wolters c
Bettis p
J.Mller p
Logan p
Estevez p
Adames ph
Qualls p
McGee p
ab
3
5
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
r
0
0
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
0
2
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
bi
1
0
0
3
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dodgers 1, Padres 0
San Diego
Los Angeles
ab
Puig rf
4
E.Hrnnd lf 3
Ad.Gnzl 1b 3
J.Trner 3b 3
Kndrick 2b 3
Thmpson cf 3
C.Sager ss 3
Ellis c
1
Kershaw p 3
ab r h bi
r h bi
Jay cf
4 0 0 0
0 0 0
Myers 1b
4 0 1 0
0 0 0
Kemp rf
3 0 1 0
0 0 0
M.Upton lf 3 0 0 0
0 0 0
De.Nrrs c
3 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 1 0
A.Rmrez ss 3 0 1 0
Rosals 3b-2b 3 0 0 0
0 0 0
J.Weeks 2b 2 0 0 0
1 1 0
Bthncrt ph 1 0 0 0
0 1 1
Hand p
0 0 0 0
Qcknbsh p 0 0 0 0
Pmeranz p 2 0 0 0
Wallace 3b 1 0 0 0
Totals
29 0 3 0 Totals
26 1 3 1
San Diego
000 000 000—0
Los Angeles
001 000 00x—1
E—Rosales (4). DP—San Diego 1. LOB—
San Diego 2, Los Angeles 3. 2B—Thompson (4), Ellis (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
San Diego
Pomeranz L,2-3
7
3
1
1
0 5
Hand
C
0
0
0
1 2
Quackenbush
B
0
0
0
0 0
Los Angeles
Kershaw W,3-1
9
3
0
0
0 14
T—2:07. A—49,271 (56,000).
Royals 4, Mariners 1
Kansas City
Seattle
ab r h bi
K.Marte ss 4 0 1 0
S.Smith lf 3 1 2 0
Mntgmry p 0 0 0 0
Clvnger ph 1 0 0 0
Cano dh-2b 4 0 2 0
N.Cruz rf
3 0 0 0
Lind 1b
2 0 0 0
D.Lee ph-1b 2 0 0 0
K.Sager 3b 4 0 1 0
Innetta c
4 0 1 1
L.Mrtin cf 4 0 0 0
Srdinas 2b 1 0 0 0
Aoki ph-lf 2 0 1 0
Totals
37 4 11 3 Totals
34 1 8 1
Kansas City
011 010 010—4
Seattle
000 001 000—1
E—K.Marte (4). LOB—Kansas City 8,
Seattle 10. 2B—A.Escobar (2), K.Seager
(4). HR—Hosmer (4). SB—L.Cain (3),
A.Gordon (2). CS—A.Escobar (1).
A.Escbr ss
Mstakas 3b
L.Cain cf
Hosmer 1b
K.Mrles dh
A.Grdon lf
S.Perez c
Infante 2b
J.Dyson rf
ab
5
5
5
4
4
3
4
4
3
r
1
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
h
3
0
2
2
0
1
2
1
0
bi
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Kansas City
Kennedy W,3-2
5
4
1
1
2 6
Duffy H,1
1
1
0
0
0 2
Soria H,4
1
1
0
0
1 0
Herrera H,6
1
1
0
0
0 1
Davis S,8-8
1
1
0
0
0 1
Seattle
Walker L,2-1
5
7
3
2
0 4
Zych
1
0
0
0
0 3
Peralta
1
1
0
0
0 2
Nuno
1
2
1
1
0 2
Montgomery
1
1
0
0
0 1
Kennedy pitched to 3 batters in the
6th HBP—by Walker (Gordon), by Kennedy (Sardinas), by Montgomery (Dyson).
T—3:14. A—37,053 (47,476).
Astros 2, Athletics 1
Houston
Oakland
ab r h bi
Burns cf
4 0 0 0
Lowrie 2b 4 0 1 0
Reddick rf 4 0 1 0
K.Davis lf 4 0 1 0
Vogt c
4 0 1 0
Ldndorf pr 0 0 0 0
Phegley c 0 0 0 0
Crisp dh
4 0 1 0
Coghlan 3b 4 1 1 0
Alonso 1b 3 0 1 0
Semien ss 4 0 1 1
Totals
27 2 2 2 Totals
35 1 8 1
Houston
101 000 000—2
Oakland
000 000 100—1
DP—Oakland 1. LOB—Houston 7, Oakland 8. 2B—Lowrie (5). HR—Altuve (7).
SB—Ma.Gonzalez (2). SF—Col.Rasmus (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
Fister W,2-3
6C
7
1
1
1 5
Sipp H,3
C
0
0
0
0 0
Harris H,4
C
1
0
0
0 0
Gregerson S,5-5
1
0
0
0
0 1
Oakland
Hill L,3-3
6
2
2
2
5 4
Hendriks
1
0
0
0
1 1
Rodriguez
1B
0
0
0
1 1
Rzepczynski
C
0
0
0
1 2
T—2:50. A—24,135 (37,090).
Altuve 2b
Sprnger rf
Correa ss
Col.Rsm cf
Gattis dh
White 1b
Tucker lf
Ma.Gnzl 3b
J.Cstro c
ab
3
4
2
3
2
4
4
2
3
r
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
h
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
bi
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Angels 9, Rangers 6
Los Angeles
Texas
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Y.Escbr 3b 2 1 1 1 Odor 2b
5 1 3 0
Calhoun rf 4 1 3 2 Mazara rf 5 0 1 1
Trout cf
5 1 1 2 Beltre 3b
3 1 2 1
Pujols dh
4 0 1 0 Fielder dh 5 1 1 0
Cron 1b
5 1 3 2 Desmond lf 4 2 2 1
Ge.Soto c
5 1 2 1 Mreland 1b 4 0 1 1
A.Smmns ss 5 0 0 0 Andrus ss 4 0 1 0
S.Rbnsn lf
4 3 2 1 Holaday c 4 0 0 0
Pnnngtn 2b 4 1 2 0 DShelds cf 4 1 2 2
Totals
38 9 15 9 Totals
38 6 13 6
Los Angeles
001 031 031—9
Texas
010 300 002—6
E—Richards (2). DP—Los Angeles 1,
Texas 2. LOB—Los Angeles 9, Texas 8.
2B—Trout (6), Beltre (8), Desmond (4),
Moreland (7). HR—Ge.Soto (3). SB—Calhoun (1), Desmond (5), DeShields (3).
CS—Odor (1). SF—Y.Escobar (1), Beltre
(2). S—Pennington (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Richards
4
6
4
1
1 4
Mahle W,1-0
1
1
0
0
0 1
Morin H,4
1
0
0
0
0 0
Alvarez H,6
B
1
0
0
0 0
Salas H,5
1C
2
0
0
0 2
Smith
1
3
2
2
0 1
Texas
Hamels
5
7
4
4
4 4
Wilhelmsen L,1-2
1
2
1
1
0 0
Dyson
1
0
0
0
0 1
Diekman
C
3
3
3
1 1
Claudio
1B
3
1
1
0 0
WP—Diekman. PB—Soto. T—3:33. A—
39,401 (48,114).
Tigers 6, Twins 5
Detroit
Minnesota
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Kinsler 2b
5 0 0 0 Da.Sntn cf 5 0 1 0
J..Mrtn rf
5 0 1 0 Dozier 2b
4 1 0 0
Mi.Cbrr 1b 5 0 1 0 Mauer 1b 5 2 3 1
V.Mrtnz dh 4 2 3 0 Sano 3b
4 2 3 0
ARmne pr-dh 0 0 0 0 Park dh
3 0 1 1
J.Upton lf
4 2 3 0 Os.Arca rf 4 0 2 2
Cstllns 3b
3 1 1 4 Edu.Esc ss 4 0 1 0
Aviles 3b
0 0 0 0 K.Szuki c
2 0 0 1
Sltlmcc c
4 0 2 1 E.Rsrio lf
4 0 0 0
Gose cf
4 1 1 0
J.Iglss ss
4 0 2 1
Totals
38 6 14 6 Totals
35 5 11 5
Detroit
010 013 010—6
Minnesota
200 030 000—5
DP—Minnesota 1. LOB—Detroit 6,
Minnesota 8. 2B—V.Martinez (10), Saltalamacchia (4), Mauer (6), Sano 2 (6).
3B—Gose (1). HR—Castellanos (4). SB—
J.Upton (1), J.Iglesias (3), Da.Santana
(3). SF—Castellanos (3), K.Suzuki (2).
S—K.Suzuki (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Detroit
Pelfrey
4
8
5
5
3 3
Ryan
B
1
0
0
0 1
Wilson
1C
0
0
0
0 0
Lowe W,1-0
1
0
0
0
0 0
Wilson H,8
1
1
0
0
0 1
Rodriguez S,7-8
1
1
0
0
0 0
Minnesota
Nolasco
5C
8
5
5
0 4
Abad
B
1
0
0
0 1
May
1
1
0
0
0 2
Pressly L,1-2
1
3
1
1
0 1
Jepsen
1
1
0
0
0 0
Pelfrey pitched to 4 batters in the 5th
T—3:33. A—24,749 (39,021).
Braves 4, Cubs 3 (10)
Atlanta
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Mrkakis rf
2 1 0 1 Fowler cf
5 1 2 0
Aybar ss
3 0 0 0 Heyward rf 5 0 0 1
Vzcaino p
0 0 0 0 Bryant lf
4 0 1 1
Stubbs ph
1 0 0 0 Rizzo 1b
4 0 1 0
Grilli p
0 0 0 0 Zobrist 2b 3 1 0 0
F.Frman 1b 3 0 0 0 L Stlla 3b
3 0 0 0
Ad.Grca lf
3 0 0 1 Russell ss 4 0 1 1
Frnceur lf
0 0 0 0 Fdrwicz c 4 0 0 0
K.Jhnsn 2b 4 1 1 1 Lackey p
2 0 0 0
Flowers c
4 0 0 0 Szczur ph 1 1 1 0
Pterson 3b 3 0 0 1 T.Wood p
0 0 0 0
Teheran p
3 0 0 0 Grimm p
0 0 0 0
J.Jhnsn p
0 0 0 0 Soler ph
1 0 0 0
Crvenka p
0 0 0 0 H.Rndon p 0 0 0 0
D.Cstro ss
1 1 1 0
M.Smith cf 4 1 3 0
Totals
31 4 5 4 Totals
36 3 6 3
Atlanta
000 012 000 1—4
Chicago
000 000 021 0—3
E—Russell (3), Vizcaino (1). DP—Chicago 1. LOB—Atlanta 4, Chicago 7. 2B—
K.Johnson (3), M.Smith (6), Fowler (10).
SB—M.Smith (3), Fowler (3), Rizzo (2).
SF—Markakis (1), Peterson (1). S—Aybar
(2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
Teheran
7
2
0
0
1 9
Johnson H,5
B
2
2
2
0 0
Cervenka H,3
B
0
0
0
0 0
Vizcaino W,1-0 BS,1 1B
2
1
0
1 2
Grilli S,2-4
1
0
0
0
1 1
Chicago
Lackey
8
3
3
2
2 2
Wood
C
0
0
0
1 0
Grimm
B
0
0
0
0 0
Rondon L,0-1
1
2
1
1
0 2
HBP—by Teheran (La Stella). WP—
Grimm. T—3:04. A—40,164 (41,072).
Nationals 6, Cardinals 1
Washington
ab
dn Dkkr cf
3
Taylor ph-cf 2
Rendon 3b 5
Harper rf
4
D.Mrphy 2b 4
Werth lf
4
C.Rbnsn 1b 4
Espnosa ss 4
Lobaton c
4
Schrzer p
2
Rivero p
0
Heisey ph
1
Treinen p
0
St. Louis
ab r h bi
Crpnter 3b 4 0 2 0
Pscotty rf 4 0 0 0
Hlliday lf
3 0 1 0
Hzlbker ph 1 0 0 0
Moss 1b
4 1 1 1
Molina c
3 0 0 0
MAdams ph 1 0 1 0
Grichuk cf 4 0 0 0
Wong 2b
3 0 1 0
Lyons p
0 0 0 0
A.Diaz ss
3 0 0 0
C.Mrtnz p 2 0 0 0
Segrist p
0 0 0 0
Oh p
0 0 0 0
Gyorko 2b 1 0 0 0
Totals
37 6 11 6 Totals
33 1 6 1
Washington
000 001 311—6
St. Louis
000 000 001—1
LOB—Washington 5, St. Louis 5.
2B—Rendon (5), D.Murphy (8). HR—
C.Robinson (1), Espinosa (2), Heisey (3),
Moss (6). S—Scherzer (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Washington
Scherzer W,3-1
7
4
0
0
0 9
Rivero
1
0
0
0
0 1
Treinen
1
2
1
1
0 2
St. Louis
Martinez L,4-1
6C
7
4
4
0 8
Siegrist
B
0
0
0
0 1
Oh
C
2
1
1
0 1
Lyons
1B
2
1
1
0 1
T—2:47. A—42,933 (43,975).
r
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
h
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
2
0
1
0
bi
1
0
0
0
1
0
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
White Sox 7, Orioles 1
Chicago
Baltimore
ab r h bi
Rickard rf 4 0 1 0
Mchdo 3b-ss4 0 2 0
Trumbo dh 5 0 1 0
A.Jones cf 4 0 1 0
C.Davis 1b 4 1 1 0
J.Hardy ss 1 0 0 0
P.Alvrz 3b 2 0 0 0
Reimold lf 4 0 1 1
Schoop 2b 4 0 1 0
Joseph c
2 0 0 0
Totals
37 7 13 7 Totals
34 1 8 1
Chicago
000 150 001—7
Baltimore
000 001 000—1
DP—Chicago 1, Baltimore 1. LOB—Chicago 12, Baltimore 12. 2B—Lawrie (8),
A.Jackson 2 (7). HR—Lawrie (4). SF—
D.Navarro (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Sale W,6-0
5B
5
1
1
4 6
Petricka
B
1
0
0
1 1
Albers
1
1
0
0
0 1
Duke
1B
0
0
0
0 2
Robertson
1
1
0
0
1 1
Baltimore
Jimenez L,1-3
4C
7
6
6
4 3
Worley
3B
4
0
0
1 5
Matusz
1
2
1
1
1 0
HBP—by Jimenez (Eaton), by Jimenez
(Frazier). WP—Jimenez, Petricka. T—3:07.
A—28,803 (45,971).
Eaton rf
C.Snchz ss
Abreu 1b
Frazier 3b
Me.Cbrr lf
Lawrie 2b
Sands dh
D.Nvrro c
A.Jcksn cf
ab
5
4
4
4
4
3
4
4
5
r
0
1
0
1
2
1
0
1
1
h
0
0
2
0
3
3
2
1
2
bi
0
1
1
0
1
1
2
1
0
Giants 6, Mets 1
San Francisco
ab
Span cf
4
Pagan lf
3
Law p
0
Ja.Lpez p
0
Gearrin p
0
Osich p
0
Casilla p
0
Matt.Df 3b 4
Posey c
4
Belt 1b
3
Pence rf
4
B.Crwfr ss 4
Tmlnson 2b 3
Bmgrner p 3
G.Blnco lf
1
New York
r
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
1
0
1
0
0
h
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
2
1
0
0
0
bi
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
3
0
0
0
0
Totals
33 6 8 6
San Francisco
New York
ab r h bi
Lagares rf 4 1 2 0
D.Wrght 3b 4 0 2 1
Cnforto lf 5 0 0 0
Cspedes cf 4 0 1 0
N.Wlker 2b 4 0 2 0
W.Flres ss 4 0 1 0
Plwecki c 4 0 1 0
Cmpbell 1b 2 0 1 0
Duda ph-1b 1 0 0 0
Syndrgr p 2 0 0 0
Robles p
0 0 0 0
A.Cbrra ph 1 0 0 0
Bstardo p 0 0 0 0
Verrett p
0 0 0 0
Grndrsn ph 1 0 0 0
Blevins p
0 0 0 0
Totals
36 1 10 1
000 301 110—6
000 000 100—1
DP—San Francisco 1, New York 1.
LOB—San Francisco 3, New York 12. 2B—
Lagares (2), Cespedes (4). HR—Posey
(4), Pence (5). SB—Matt.Duffy 2 (2),
B.Crawford (1), Tomlinson (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
San Francisco
Bumgarner W,3-2
6
6
0
0
3 7
Law
0
2
1
1
0 0
Lopez
B
0
0
0
0 0
Gearrin
1
2
0
0
0 0
Osich
C
0
0
0
0 1
Casilla
1
0
0
0
1 1
New York
Syndergaard L,2-1
5C
5
4
4
2 6
Robles
B
1
0
0
0 0
Bastardo
1
1
1
1
1 0
Verrett
1
1
1
1
0 1
Blevins
1
0
0
0
0 1
Law pitched to 2 batters in the 7th
T—3:19. A—39,077 (41,922).
Blue Jays 5, Rays 1
Toronto
Tampa Bay
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Sunders lf
2 1 0 0 Frsythe 2b 4 0 1 0
Dnldson 3b 3 2 1 1 B.Mller ss 3 0 0 0
Butista dh 3 0 0 0 Lngoria 3b 4 1 2 1
Encrncn 1b 4 0 0 1 C.Dckrs dh 3 0 0 0
Smoak 1b
0 0 0 0 Sza Jr. rf
4 0 0 0
Tlwtzki ss
4 1 1 3 Mrrison 1b 4 0 0 0
Pillar cf
4 0 1 0 Guyer lf
3 0 0 0
Carrera rf
3 0 1 0 Krmaier cf 3 0 0 0
Ru.Mrtn c
3 0 0 0 Conger c
3 0 1 0
Goins 2b
2 0 0 0
Barney ph-2b 1 1 1 0
Totals
29 5 5 5 Totals
31 1 4 1
Toronto
000 100 004—5
Tampa Bay
000 001 000—1
E—Odorizzi (2). DP—Tampa Bay 1.
LOB—Toronto 1, Tampa Bay 5. 2B—Barney
(1). HR—Donaldson (9), Tulowitzki (5),
Longoria (5). CS—Pillar (1), Carrera (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Toronto
Stroman W,4-0
8
3
1
1
2 9
Osuna
1
1
0
0
0 2
Tampa Bay
Odorizzi
7
2
1
1
2 6
Ramirez
1
0
0
0
0 1
Cedeno L,2-1
0
1
2
2
1 0
Colome
C
2
2
2
1 1
Webb
B
0
0
0
0 0
Cedeno pitched to 2 batters in the 9th
T—2:34. A—27,217 (31,042).
Phillies 2, Indians 1
Cleveland
Philadelphia
ab r h bi
O.Hrrra cf 3 0 0 0
Galvis ss
3 0 1 1
Franco 3b 3 0 0 0
D.Hrnnd p 0 0 0 0
Lough lf
0 0 0 0
Howard 1b 3 0 0 0
Rupp c
3 0 1 0
Ruf lf
3 0 0 0
Neris p
0 0 0 0
C.Hrnnd 2b 2 0 0 0
Vlsquez p 1 1 0 0
A.Blnco 3b 1 0 1 0
Bourjos rf 3 1 1 0
Totals
29 1 4 1 Totals
25 2 4 1
Cleveland
000 000 001—1
Philadelphia
002 000 00x—2
E—C.Hernandez 2 (2). DP—Cleveland 2, Philadelphia 2. LOB—Cleveland
5, Philadelphia 1. 3B—A.Blanco (1).
HR—C.Santana (4). CS—Jo.Ramirez (1),
A.Blanco (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cleveland
Salazar L,2-2
7
3
2
2
2 8
Manship
1
1
0
0
0 0
Philadelphia
Velasquez W,4-1
6
2
0
0
4 6
Hernandez H,7
2
1
0
0
0 2
Neris S,1-1
1
1
1
1
0 1
T—2:40. A—23,809 (43,651).
Jo.Rmrz 3b
Kipnis 2b
Lindor ss
C.Sntna 1b
Gomes c
Naquin cf
Ra.Dvis lf
Chsnhll rf
Salazar p
Byrd ph
Manship p
ab
2
4
3
3
4
4
3
3
2
1
0
r
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Reds 6, Pirates 5 (11)
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Cozart ss
3 1 0 0 Jaso 1b
6 1 1 1
T.Holt pr
0 1 0 0 McCtchn cf 4 1 1 0
D Jesus ss
2 0 0 0 Hrrison 2b 5 0 1 0
B.Hmltn cf 4 1 1 0 S.Marte lf 5 1 2 1
Votto 1b
4 1 1 1 G.Plnco rf 3 1 2 1
Phllips 2b
4 0 0 0 S.Rdrgz 3b 5 1 1 1
Bruce rf
3 0 1 2 Mercer ss 4 0 0 0
Ohlndrf p
0 0 0 0 Stewart c 4 0 0 0
Fnnegan ph 1 0 0 0 Locke p
2 0 0 0
B.Wood p
0 0 0 0 Joyce ph
1 0 1 1
Suarez 3b
5 1 1 0 J.Hghes p 0 0 0 0
Duvall lf-rf 5 1 1 0 Cminero p 0 0 0 0
Brnhart c
4 0 1 0 J.Rgers ph 1 0 0 0
Adleman p 3 0 0 0 Vglsong p 0 0 0 0
Cngrani p
0 0 0 0 Freese ph 1 0 0 0
Cotham p
0 0 0 0
Schbler lf
2 0 2 2
Totals
40 6 8 5 Totals
41 5 9 5
Cincinnati
000 003 011 01—6
Pittsburgh
000 010 211 00—5
E—G.Polanco (1), S.Rodriguez (1),
Stewart (1), Locke (1). DP—Pittsburgh
2. LOB—Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 8.
2B—B.Hamilton (5), Bruce (4), Barnhart (4), Schebler 2 (5). 3B—Suarez (1),
S.Rodriguez (1). HR—Jaso (2), G.Polanco
(3). SB—B.Hamilton (5), Votto (1), Harrison (5). CS—T.Holt (2). S—B.Hamilton (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cincinnati
Adleman
6
3
2
2
2 6
Cingrani H,5
B
1
1
1
1 1
Cotham BS,1
1
3
1
1
0 1
Ohlendorf
1C
1
1
1
0 2
Wood W,3-0
2
1
0
0
0 2
Pittsburgh
Locke
7
4
3
3
1 6
Hughes
1
0
1
0
1 0
Caminero
1
2
1
1
0 1
Vogelsong L,1-1
2
2
1
1
1 0
Adleman pitched to 1 batter in the 7th
T—3:42. A—28,755 (38,362).
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Briefly
Study finds football
concussions, return
to play vary by age
Associated Press
SETH WENIG /AP
The Giants’ Madison Bumgarner pitches during the second inning of Sunday’s game against the Mets in
New York. Bumgarner stretched his scoreless streak at the Mets to 18 innings in San Francisco’s 6-1 win.
Roundup
Giants halt Mets’ streak
Associated Press
NEW YORK — When Madison Bumgarner pitches at Citi Field, he gets World Series-type results.
Bumgarner pitched through rain to extend his
scoreless streak at the Mets to 18 innings, Hunter
Pence homered and drove in three runs, and the
San Francisco Giants ran at will against Noah Syndergaard in a 6-1 victory Sunday that stopped New
York’s eight-game winning streak.
“It is a fun place to pitch in,” said Bumgarner, the
2014 World Series MVP.
Bumgarner (3-2) is 4-0 with a 0.62 ERA at Citi
Field and has the longest shutout streak by an opposing pitcher in the ballpark’s eight-season history.
After adjusting his mechanics, he gave up six hits
in six innings, struck out seven and walked three,
lowering his ERA from 3.64 to 3.03.
“It didn’t feel like I was 100 percent where I’d like
to be, but it was really close,” he said.
He escaped a second-and-third, two-out jam in
the third when Neil Walker popped out and threw
a called third strike to his final batter, Asbrubal Cabrera, with the bases loaded in the sixth. His fastball
had averaged 91 mph coming in, down from 93 mph
last April, but he reached 92 mph at times against
the Mets.
“You can’t ask much more than six shutout innings,” catcher Buster Posey said.
One start after allowing five steals against Cincinnati, Syndergaard (2-1) gave up three more, and
the stolen bases got him into trouble. Runners have
swiped 12 bases in 13 attempts against Syndergaard this year, the most in the majors, according
to STATS.
White Sox 7, Orioles 1: Chris Sale took a shutout
into the sixth inning and Brett Lawrie homered for
the third straight day as visiting Chicago beat Baltimore for a split of the four-game series.
Jerry Sands had two RBIs for the White Sox, who
took control with a five-run fifth inning against Ubaldo Jimenez (1-3).
Rockies 6, Diamondbacks 3: Nolan Arenado hit
his major league-leading 11th home run and Gerardo Parra also connected as Colorado beat host
Arizona for a three-game sweep.
Chad Bettis (3-1) got the win after allowing three
runs on nine hits in six innings. Jake McGee worked
the ninth for his sixth save.
Brewers 14, Marlins 5: Chris Carter went 3for-5 with two homers and three RBIs to lead Milwaukee’s season-high 18-hit barrage as the Brewers
beat visiting Miami to snap the Marlins’ seven-game
winning streak.
Jonathan Villar also went 3-for-5, with two doubles and two runs scored for the Brewers, who
ended a four-game losing streak in a game that saw
the teams combine for 34 hits.
Blue Jays 5, Rays 1: Marcus Stroman allowed
one run in eight innings on his 25th birthday while
Troy Tulowitzki hit a three-run homer during a
four-run ninth as visiting Toronto beat Tampa Bay.
Reds 6, Pirates 5 (11): Scott Schebler hit an RBI
double in the 11th inning as Cincinnati snapped a
six-game skid that also ended host Pittsburgh’s sixgame winning streak.
Eugenio Suarez led off the Reds’ 11th with a triple
past diving left fielder Starling Marte and scored on
Schebler’s hit off Ryan Vogelsong (1-1).
Phillies 2, Indians 1: Vince Velasquez tossed
two-hit ball over six innings as host Philadelphia
beat Cleveland for its sixth straight win.
Freddy Galvis had an RBI single a day after driving in three runs in a 4-3 win, helping the surprising Phillies win for the 15th time in 21 games since
starting 0-4.
Astros 2, Athletics 1: Jose Altuve homered leading off a game for the fourth time this season — one
of just two hits by Houston — as the Astros beat host
Oakland to avoid a series sweep.
Doug Fister (2-3) gave up one run over 6 2 ⁄3 innings
to end his three-game losing streak.
Tigers 6, Twins 5: Jarrod Saltalamacchia doubled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and
Nick Castellanos hit a three-run homer as Detroit
beat host Minnesota for its fifth straight victory.
Saltalamacchia’s drive to left field off reliever
Ryan Pressly (1-2) allowed Justin Upton to score
from first.
Braves 4, Cubs 3 (10): Daniel Castro singled and
scored on Nick Markakis’ sacrifice fly in the 10th
inning as short-handed Atlanta picked up a rare victory by beating major league-leading host Chicago.
Jason Grilli pitched a scoreless 10th for his second save and the Braves won for just the sixth time
in 24 games despite blowing a 3-0 lead after Julio
Teheran threw seven scoreless innings.
Angels 9, Rangers 6: Kole Calhoun got three
hits and drove in two runs as visiting Los Angeles
avoided a series sweep, beating Texas and ending
the Rangers’ four-game winning streak.
Shane Robinson got two hits, scored three times
and drove in a run after being called up from the
minors by the Angels earlier in the day.
Royals 4, Mariners 1: Eric Hosmer homered and
Ian Kennedy took a shutout into the sixth inning
as Kansas City ended a long scoreless streak and a
five-game skid with a victory over host Seattle.
CHICAGO — Younger football
players are more likely to return
to the field less than a day after
suffering concussions than those
in high school and college, according to a new study.
Only 10 percent of young players with concussions resumed
football that soon, but the results
are concerning and suggest a
need for more sidelines medical
supervision and better recognition of concussion symptoms in
children, said sports injury researcher Zachary Kerr, the lead
author. He directs an injury surveillance program at Datalys
Center for Sports Injury Research
and Prevention, Inc., an independent group in Indianapolis.
“Younger kids may struggle to
describe” their symptoms, and
health effects from concussions
may not show up right away, Kerr
said, citing possible explanations
for the study findings.
Much of the attention on sports
concussions has focused on professional football and in college,
but there’s a need for more prevention efforts and research at
all levels including among the
youngest players, Kerr said.
The study also found differences in concussion symptoms
depending on players’ age, offering guidance for parents, doctors
and coaches in assessing injured
players.
The NCAA and USA Football,
the national governing body for
amateur football, helped pay for
the study, published Monday in
JAMA Pediatrics.
The researchers say it’s the
first study to compare concussion
symptoms and return-to-play
times at all three levels.
Bears release safety
Rolle, guard Slauson
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The
Chicago Bears released safety
Antrel Rolle and left guard Matt
Slauson on Sunday after sending
strong signals in the draft that
the veterans’ days with the team
were numbered.
Rolle, a three-time Pro Bowl
pick, has 26 interceptions and 71
pass breakups over 11 seasons.
But after starring with the Arizona Cardinals and New York Giants, his lone year in Chicago was
a disappointing one.
Although he was valued for
his leadership, he struggled to
stay on the field because of knee
and ankle injuries after signing a
three-year deal.
Slauson, who made 12 starts at
left guard and four at center last
season, is out after three years in
Chicago. He has appeared in 88
games with 85 starts over seven
seasons with the New York Jets
(2009-12) and Bears (2013-15).
Pulisic, Morris, Miazga
on initial Copa roster
CHICAGO — Christian Pulisic, a 17-year-old midfielder
who has scored twice for Borussia Dortmund in the past month,
was among 40 players selected by
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann for
his preliminary Copa America
roster.
Matt Miazga, a 20-year-old
defender who made his Chelsea
debut on April 2, also was included Sunday along with Jordan
Morris, a 21-year-old forward
who left Stanford in the middle
of his junior year to sign with the
Seattle Sounders, and 20-yearold goalkeeper Ethan Horvath,
who started for the U.S. team that
failed to qualify for this year’s
Olympics.
Klinsmann must trim the list to
his final 23 by May 20. The U.S.
can make changes because of
injuries up until a day before its
opener on June 3.
In other soccer news:
Diego Valeri scored on a free
kick in the 74th minute to give the
Portland Timbers a 2-1 victory
over Toronto FC on Sunday.
The winning goal, which gave
Portland a three-match undefeated streak and snapped Toronto’s
three-game run without a loss,
came on Valeri’s birthday.
Giovani dos Santos scored
to help Los Angeles tie Sporting
Kansas City and extend its unbeaten streak to six games.
Shin wins in Texas for
first LPGA event title
IRVING, Texas — Jenny Shin
won the Volunteers of America
Texas Shootout on Sunday for her
first LPGA Tour victory, pulling
away for a two-stroke victory at
Las Colinas.
Making her 135th tour start,
Shin, 23, closed with a 4-under 67
to finish at 14-under 270.
Third-round leader Gerina
Piller birdied the final hole for
a 73 to tie for second with South
Koreans Amy Yang and Mi Jung
Hur. Yang and Hur each shot 71.
In other golf news:
Jhonattan Vegas birdied two
of five holes he was able to play
in the rain-delayed third round
of the Zurich Classic, giving him
a share of the lead with Brian
Stuard.
Tournament officials shortened
the event to 54 holes for the Monday finish.
Vegas made birdie putts from
beyond 7 feet on the first two
holes to reach 13 under, then
parred three straight before
steady rain, accompanied by intermittent thunder, forced organizers to clear the water-logged
TPC Louisiana after little more
than two hours of play.
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NHL PLAYOFFS
Late goal
boosts
Sharks
Scoreboard
Second round
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
SECOND ROUND
EASTERN CONFERENCE
N.Y. Islanders 1, Tampa Bay 1
N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 3
Tampa Bay 4, NY Islanders 1
Tuesday: at NY Islanders
Friday: at NY Islanders
Sunday, May 8: at Tampa Bay
x-Tuesday, May 10: at NY Islanders
x-Thursday, May 12: at Tampa Bay
Washington 1, Pittsburgh 1
Washington 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT
Pittsburgh 2, Washington 1
Monday: at Pittsburgh
Wednesday: at Pittsburgh
Saturday, May 7: at Washington
x-Tuesday, May 10: at Pittsburgh
x-Thursday, May 12: at Washington
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Dallas 1, St. Louis 1
Dallas 2, St. Louis 1
Sunday: St. Louis 4, Dallas 3
Tuesday: at St. Louis
Thursday: at St. Louis
x-Saturday, May 7: at Dallas
x-Monday, May 9: at St. Louis
x-Wednesday, May 11: at Dallas
San Jose 2, Nashville 0
San Jose 5, Nashville 2
Sunday: San Jose 3, Nashville 2
Tuesday: at Nashville
Thursday: at Nashville
x-Saturday, May 7: at San Jose
x-Monday, May 9: at Nashville
x-Thursday, May 12: at San Jose
BY JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
Sunday
Sharks 3, Predators 2
Nashville
0 0 2—2
San Jose
0 1 2—3
Second Period—1, San Jose, Couture 4
(Pavelski, Burns), 18:36 (pp).
Third Period—2, Nashville, Ekholm
3 (Wilson, Josi), 12:56. 3, San Jose, Pavelski 6 (Nieto, Thornton), 17:20. 4, San
Jose, Thornton 2 (Couture, Pavelski),
19:04 (en). 5, Nashville, Johansen 3 (Josi,
Fisher), 19:56.
Shots on Goal—Nashville 10-16-13—39.
San Jose 7-10-8—25.
Power-play opportunities—Nashville
0 of 3; San Jose 1 of 2.
Goalies—Nashville, Rinne 4-5-0 (24
shots-22 saves). San Jose, Jones 6-1-0
(39-37).
A—17,562 (17,562). T—2:34.
Blues 4, Stars 3 (OT)
St. Louis
3 0 0 1—4
Dallas
1 0 2 0—3
First Period—1, Dallas, Goligoski 3 (Ja.
Benn, Eakin), 3:36. 2, St. Louis, Berglund
2 (Fabbri, Backes), 4:11. 3, St. Louis, Edmundson 1 (Brouwer, Upshall), 7:02. 4, St.
Louis, Brouwer 2 (Shattenkirk, Fabbri),
18:40 (pp).
Third Period—5, Dallas, Janmark 1
(Eakin, Sceviour), 4:35. 6, Dallas, Ja.Benn
5 (Eakin, Russell), 17:24.
Overtime—7, St. Louis, Backes 3
(Steen, Shattenkirk), 10:58 (pp).
Shots on Goal—St. Louis 5-10-2-8—25.
Dallas 10-6-13-5—34.
Power-play opportunities—St. Louis 2
of 5; Dallas 0 of 4.
Goalies—St. Louis, Elliott 5-4-0 (34
shots-31 saves). Dallas, Lehtonen (5-2),
Niemi 1-2-0 (0:00 second, 20-19).
A—18,889 (18,532). T—3:05.
Playoff scoring leaders
Through May 1
GP G A PTS
8 5 7
12
8 6 5
11
7 2 9
11
7 6 4
10
7 4 6
10
7 4 6
10
7 6 3
9
8 4 5
9
6 3 6
9
Jamie Benn, Dal
John Tavares, NYI
Brent Burns, SJ
Joe Pavelski, SJ
Logan Couture, SJ
Tyler Johnson, TB
Nikita Kucherov, TB
Jason Spezza, Dal
Evgeni Malkin, Pit
4 tied with 8 pts.
LM O TERO/AP
Blues David Backes and Jaden Schwartz celebrate Backes’ overtime goal that beat Stars goalie Antti
Niemi, center, to end Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals Sunday in Dallas. St. Louis won 4-3.
Backes’ OT tally ties series
BY STEPHEN H AWKINS
Associated Press
DALLAS — David Backes gave the St. Louis
Blues a big gift on his 32nd birthday, with another
overtime goal to go home even.
What a serenade of “Happy Birthday” for the
Blues captain from his teammates after Backes
scored off a rebound during a power play 10:58 into
overtime of Game 2 on Sunday for a 4-3 victory over
the Dallas Stars.
“I want to know what they did with the money
their parents gave them for voice lessons,” Backes
said with a smile.
After blowing a two-goal lead while getting outshot 13-2 in the third period, the Blues took advantage of their second power-play chance in overtime.
Backes followed up Alexander Steen’s shot 17 seconds after Antoine Roussel was called for interference, his third penalty in the game.
“The thing that impressed me more than anything was the way we played in the overtime. Outstanding,” coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We went into
attack mode and stayed on it the whole time.”
Instead of a 0-2 hole, the Blues go home 1-1 in the
best-of-seven series matching the Western Conference’s top two teams. Game 3 is Tuesday night, with
Game 4 also in St. Louis on Thursday before the series returns to Dallas for Game 5 on Saturday.
When Roussel was asked if the overtime penalty
was the right call, he responded, “I don’t know. They
have a tough job. It’s not easy to be a ref out there.”
Roussel slammed his stick when exiting the penalty box after Backes scored to end the game.
“He was trying to stay onside,” Stars coach Lindy
Ruff said, referring to it as a tough penalty. “It
doesn’t matter whether I like the call or don’t like
the call. ... We looked like we were going to get an
odd-numbered rush and they got a couple hooks on
(Stars rookie Radek Faksa) him just before going
through the middle of the ice, which I was frustrated
with.”
Antti Niemi had stopped 19 consecutive shots
since relieving Kari Lehtonen after the first period
until Backes scored.
Blues goalie Brian Elliott had 31 saves, including
big shots by Jason Spezza and Stars captain Jamie
Benn about a minute apart in overtime.
Backes is only the second player in Blues history
with two overtime goals in the same postseason,
having scored the OT winner in the opener of the
Blues’ first-round series against Chicago.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Nashville Predators frustrated Joe
Pavelski and San Jose’s top line
for much of the night, forcing
turnovers, blocking shots and limiting chances.
That all changed with one big
shift late in the game that put the
Sharks in control of their secondround series.
Pavelski scored the tiebreaking goal with 2:40 left in regulation and Martin Jones stopped 37
shots to lead San Jose to a 3-2 victory over the Predators on Sunday
night and a 2-0 series lead.
“I don’t think it was our line’s
best game, by any means,” Pavelski said. “Our last shift, you take
a look, there’s three minutes left,
it’s tied, you hope for a chance.”
He got one and San Jose’s
captain delivered just as he always seems to do in the biggest
moments.
Joe Thornton started the sequence by sending a cross-ice
pass to Matt Nieto, whose initial
shot was stopped by Pekka Rinne.
But Pavelski knocked the rebound
in for his sixth goal of the playoffs
to give the Sharks a lead they
wouldn’t relinquish.
The Sharks scored first following an odd penalty late in the
second period. Nashville defenseman Roman Josi tried to rush off
the ice after a bad line change to
avoid a too many men penalty, but
jumped into the Sharks bench because he couldn’t reach his own in
time.
That move shocked the San Jose
players but didn’t avoid the penalty and the Sharks made Nashville
pay for the mistake. Early on the
ensuing power play, Brent Burns
fired a point shot on net that Rinne
stopped with his pads. But Sharks
forward Logan Couture jumped
on the rebound and knocked it in
with 1:24 left in the penalty for his
third goal of the series.
Late hit costs Caps’ Orpik three games
BY STEPHEN WHYNO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Washington Capitals defenseman Brooks Orpik was suspended three
games for his late hit to the head of Pittsburgh
Penguins defenseman Olli Maatta.
Orpik will miss Game 3 Monday, Game 4
Wednesday and Game 5 Saturday. He’d be eligible to return if the series gets to Game 6 on
May 10.
Orpik hit Maatta in the head after the puck
was gone four minutes into Game 2 Saturday
and was given a two-minute minor penalty for
interference. After a hearing with the NHL’s
department of player safety, the punishment
was far more severe.
Director of player safety Patrick Burke said
Sunday in the video announcing the suspension
that “this hit is forceful, unacceptably high and
excessively late.” Orpik waiting a full second
after Maatta released the puck for a shot and
his “significant head contact” contributed to
the suspension, as did Maatta’s injury.
“No player should reasonably expect to be hit
at this time and in this manner,” Burke said.
The 21-year-old Finn has a concussion history dating to his time playing junior hockey.
Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan expressed
his displeasure with the hit after his team’s 2-1
victory in Game 2 Saturday night.
“I thought it was a late hit,” Sullivan said. “I
thought it was a target to his head. I think it’s
the type of hit that everyone in hockey is trying
to remove from the game.”
Orpik didn’t have a rap sheet with the NHL
but does have a reputation for playing on the
edge. While the Capitals did not make Orpik
available to speak to reporters after the game,
coach Barry Trotz said he spoke with the defenseman about the hit.
Trotz relayed that Orpik thought the puck
was coming back to Orpik and that he didn’t
intend to hit Maatta like that.
With Orpik suspended, the Capitals are
without their most physical defenseman and a
top penalty-killer. Orpik missed three games
of the first-round series against the Philadelphia Flyers after he was concussed on a legal
hit from Ryan White on April 18.
The Capitals could turn back to Russian defenseman Dmitry Orlov, who was a healthy
scratch in Game 2 after a defensive miscue led
to a Penguins goal in Game 1, or to big Mike
Weber, a Pittsburgh native they acquired at the
trade deadline from the Buffalo Sabres.
TONY AVELAR /AP
Sharks center Joe Pavelski
celebrates after scoring a
third-period goal against the
Predators on Sunday in San
Jose, Calif. The Sharks won 3-2.
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Warriors whip Blazers
Thompson, Green again lead way for Curry-less cast
BY JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — From the
opening tip, Klay Thompson shot
lights-out and even heaved one in
from way out in Stephen Curry
territory.
Draymond
Green
began yapping from the start
while doing his thing to make
plays every which way, calling on
his teammates to bring an edge
on defense.
With Curry sidelined because
of a sprained right knee, Green
and Thompson took charge again.
Their supporting cast came
through in the clutch, too.
Thompson scored 37 points in
another brilliant performance
as his fellow “Splash Brother”
watched injured, and the Golden
State Warriors dominated once
more without their MVP to beat
the Portland Trail Blazers 118106 Sunday in the opener of the
Western Conference semifinals.
“Everything has to be racheted up,” said Green, who posted
his second career postseason
triple-double with 23 points, 13
rebounds and 11 assists for the
defending champions. “I just told
the guys that we’ve got to come
out with a defensive mindset.”
The offense happened on its
own, with all five starters scoring
in double figures.
Thompson hit seven more
three-pointers to become the first
player in NBA history to make
at least seven threes in three
straight playoff games.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven
series is Tuesday night at Oracle
Arena.
Golden State reserve Anderson
‘ Our guys have an understanding of what
we are trying to accomplish, how we have
to play without Steph.
’
Varejao and Portland’s Gerald
Henderson were ejected late in
the third quarter after receiving
their second technical fouls. Both
were hit with a technical at the
3:29 mark of the third when Varejao tripped Henderson after they
collided and the Portland guard
jumped up, pointing a finger at
his opponent’s face. They kept
jawing a few minutes later and
were tossed with 15.1 seconds left
in the period.
Thompson hit a Curry-esque
30-foot three-pointer in the opening minutes followed by another
jumper to put Golden State up
10-2, and the Warriors ran with
it from there. Thompson scored
18 of his points in the first quarter on 7-for-10 shooting with four
threes as Golden State built a 3717 lead.
Damian Lillard had another
slow start back home in the Bay
Area, missing 11 of his first
13 shots before finishing with
30 points — 10 on free throws.
Thompson had the tough chore of
stopping him.
Shaun Livingston added 12
points and six assists after scoring 16 in each of his first-round
starts in place of Curry.
The MVP injured his MCL
when he slipped on a wet spot just
before halftime of a Game 4 win
Steve Kerr
Warriors coach
at Houston in the first round last
Sunday. He said Friday he hoped
to do some shooting within a day
or two, and that happened Saturday. He still will have to test the
knee by putting pressure on it
and planting on it when he shoots,
then in some 5-on-5 scrimmages.
The Warriors had 38 and 30
assists their previous two games
— including six quarters without
Curry — by generating the kind
of snappy ball movement coach
Steve Kerr called for without
Curry’s playmaking. Then 27
more assists Sunday.
“They are an elite team either way, and they showed that
tonight,” said Lillard, his voice
hoarse because of a chest cold.
“We’ve just got to understand
they’re a good first-quarter team.
We’ve got to be better from the
start of the game.”
Curry emerged on the bench
midway through the second
quarter and received big cheers
during a timeout. He was far less
animated this time after picking
up teammate Ian Clark during
Wednesday’s elimination of the
Houston Rockets. His knee told
him that was a bad idea, but he
did resume light shooting Saturday in hopes of playing Game 3.
“We just got into a good groove
Games 4 and 5 against Houston
M ARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ /AP
Warriors guard Klay Thompson reacts after a three-pointer against
the Trail Blazers during Game 1 of a second-round playoff series in
Oakland, Calif., on Sunday. Thompson hit seven threes in the victory.
and that carried over,” Kerr said.
“Our guys have an understanding
of what we are trying to accomplish, how we have to play without
Steph.”
On Sunday, Portland looked
tired at times after eliminating
the injury-plagued Los Angeles Clippers in six games Friday
night before traveling to the Bay
Area on Saturday.
The Blazers began the game 1for-9 and missed their initial five
three-point attempts.
Broncos find QB without overpaying
BY A RNIE STAPLETON
Associated Press
DAVID Z ALUBOWSKI /AP
Broncos draft pick quarterback Paxton
Lynch, left, holds a jersey with team
general manager John Elway as Lynch
is introduced on Friday at the team’s
headquarters. Denver traded up to select
Lynch in the first round.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway
leaned against a wall outside the team
meeting room adorned with images from
the Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl season
and declared, “The plan is to keep picking
at the bottom of the round — and there is
no Plan B!”
That last part was a playful nod to Peyton Manning’s arrival in 2012 when Denver’s general manager explained he had no
fallback plan at quarterback.
For much of the last four years, he didn’t
need one.
Then, Brock Osweiler’s exit in free agency 48 hours after Manning’s retirement
two months ago left Elway scrambling like
he did when he guided the Broncos’ fortunes from the line of scrimmage and not
the front office.
Elway took some vicious hits, too, as the
team’s fan base and media corps dissected
and debated his prolonged search for Manning’s long-term successor.
Elway’s patience paid off as he emerged
from draft weekend with his presumed
long-term answer in Paxton Lynch, a
restocked roster and the financial flex-
ibility to re-sign stars Von Miller, Emmanuel Sanders and Brandon Marshall in the
months ahead.
“Those three are the ones,” he’d love to
ink to long-term deals, starting with Miller, the Super Bowl MVP, Elway said at the
end of what he deemed was a terrific draft
weekend for the Broncos.
Beginning with Osweiler’s high price
tag, Elway steadfastly refused to overpay
for a quarterback, passing on the high demands of the 49ers for Colin Kaepernick
and the Eagles for Sam Bradford.
Instead, he grabbed Manning’s heir
in the draft in Lynch, the mobile Memphis quarterback who’s the crown jewel
of a 2016 class loaded with promise and
projects.
With a big frame and strong arm, Lynch
is tailor-made for Gary Kubiak’s offense,
but he could use some seasoning and
Elway has been saying all spring he’d be
fine going with Mark Sanchez under center when the Broncos begin defense of
their title against Carolina on Sept. 8.
“Because he’s been in playoffs, he’s been
in championship games,” Elway said. “He’s
proven he can do that. He hasn’t done it in
a while. I don’t know that he’s ever been
in a great offensive system that takes ad-
vantage of what he can do. And I can’t tell
you I’ve gone and studied him when he was
with the Jets. I know with the Eagles last
year ... he played OK when he did play. He
made a couple of mistakes.
“So, I think sometimes you get quarterbacks in the right situations, you get the
right people around him, then you have a
chance to take advantage of what they can
do.”
Elway doesn’t plan on bringing in another veteran quarterback anytime soon
because the Broncos need Sanchez, Lynch
and Trevor Siemian to get plenty of snaps.
So, Sanchez continues to inch closer to
being a full-time starter for the first time
since 2012.
At $5 million this season, he’s also a big
bargain.
So is Lynch, who will get slightly more
than $9 million over four years — less than
the $11.9 million Kaepernick is slated to
earn in 2016 alone and about half of what
Bradford’s salary calls for this upcoming
season.
Osweiler’s deal with the Texans was for
$72 million over four years with a whopping $37 million guaranteed for a player
who’s started just seven more games in the
NFL than Lynch has.
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NBA PLAYOFFS
Scoreboard
First round
BEST OF SEVEN
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland 4, Detroit 0
Toronto 4, Indiana 3
Indiana 100, Toronto 90
Sunday: Toronto 89, Indiana 84
Miami 4 Charlotte 3
Miami 123, Charlotte 91
Charlotte 96, Miami 80
Sunday: Miami 106, Charlotte 73
Atlanta 4, Boston 2
Atlanta 102, Boston 101
Boston 111, Atlanta 103
Boston 104, Atlanta 95, OT
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Golden State 4, Houston 1
Houston 97, Golden State 96
San Antonio 4, Memphis 0
Oklahoma City 4, Dallas 1
Dallas 85, Oklahoma City 84
Portland 4, L.A. Clippers 2
Clippers 115, Portland 95
L.A. Clippers 102, Portland 81
Conference semifinals
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland vs. Atlanta
Monday: Atlanta at Cleveland
Wednesday: Atlanta at Cleveland
Friday: Cleveland at Atlanta
Sunday: Cleveland at Atlanta
x-Tuesday, May 10: at Cleveland
x-Thursday, May 12: at Atlanta
x-Sunday, May 15: at Cleveland
Toronto vs. Miami
Tuesday: Miami at Toronto
Thursday: Miami at Toronto
Saturday: Toronto at Miami
Monday: Toronto at Miami
x-Wednesday, May 11: at Toronto
x-Friday, May 13: at Miami
x-Sunday, May 15: Miami at Toronto
WESTERN CONFERENCE
San Antonio 1, Oklahoma City 0
San Antonio 124, Oklahoma City 92
Monday: at San Antonio
Friday: San Antonio at Oklahoma City
Sunday, May 8: at Oklahoma City
x-Tuesday, May 10: at San Antonio
x-Thursday, May 12: at Oklahoma
City
x-Sunday, May 15: at San Antonio
Golden State 1, Portland 0
Sunday: Golden State 118, Portland
106
Tuesday: Portland at Golden State
Saturday: Golden State at Portland
Monday, May 9: at Portland
x-Wednesday, May 11: at Golden
State
x-Friday, May 13: at Portland
x-Monday, May 16: at Golden State
Sunday
Raptors 89, Pacers 84
INDIANA — George 8-18 6-6 26, Turner
2-11 0-0 4, Mahinmi 3-5 0-0 6, G.Hill 8-11
0-0 19, Ellis 7-14 0-0 15, S.Hill 2-5 0-0 4,
Stuckey 4-6 0-0 9, Lawson 0-1 1-2 1, Miles
0-2 0-0 0. Totals 34-73 7-8 84.
TORONTO — Carroll 1-6 0-0 3, Patterson 4-9 0-0 11, Valanciunas 4-10 2-2 10,
Lowry 5-14 1-2 11, DeRozan 10-32 9-9 30,
Biyombo 1-3 1-4 3, Joseph 4-8 0-0 8, Powell 5-6 0-0 13, Ross 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-89
13-17 89.
Indiana
23 21 20 20—84
Toronto
28 22 28 11—89
Three-point
goals—Indiana
9-19
(George 4-7, G.Hill 3-4, Stuckey 1-1, Ellis 1-4, S.Hill 0-1, Miles 0-2), Toronto 8-24
(Powell 3-4, Patterson 3-5, Carroll 1-4,
DeRozan 1-5, Ross 0-1, Joseph 0-1, Lowry
0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Indiana 43 (George 12), Toronto 56 (Valanciunas 15). Assists—Indiana 12 (Ellis 7), Toronto 21 (Lowry 9). Total Fouls—Indiana
17, Toronto 12. A—20,669 (19,800).
Warriors 118, Blazers 106
PORTLAND — Aminu 6-13 0-0 15, Harkless 4-12 1-3 10, Plumlee 0-7 1-2 1, Lillard
8-26 10-10 30, McCollum 5-17 2-2 12, Crabbe 6-9 3-3 15, Henderson 2-3 0-0 5, Davis
5-6 1-1 11, Roberts 1-1 0-0 2, Connaughton 1-2 0-0 3, Montero 1-1 0-0 2, Vonleh
0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-97 18-21 106.
GOLDEN STATE — Barnes 4-7 1-2 10, Green
6-14 9-9 23, Bogut 5-8 0-0 10, Livingston 49 4-4 12, Thompson 14-28 2-3 37, Iguodala
1-3 4-4 6, Barbosa 2-4 1-2 6, Varejao 2-3
0-0 4, Clark 2-7 0-0 4, Speights 3-7 0-0 6,
Rush 0-1 0-0 0, McAdoo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
43-91 21-24 118.
Portland
17 34 22 33—106
Golden State
37 28 28 25—118
Three-point goals—Portland 10-31
(Lillard 4-8, Aminu 3-8, Henderson 1-1,
Connaughton 1-2, Harkless 1-5, Crabbe
0-3, McCollum 0-4), Golden State 11-31
(Thompson 7-14, Green 2-5, Barbosa 1-1,
Barnes 1-3, Iguodala 0-1, Bogut 0-1, Rush
0-1, Speights 0-2, Clark 0-3). Fouled Out—
Davis. Rebounds—Portland 51 (Plumlee
12), Golden State 61 (Green 13). Assists—
Portland 26 (Plumlee 6), Golden State
27 (Green 11). Total Fouls—Portland 19,
Golden State 22. Technicals—Henderson
2, Varejao 2. Ejected—Henderson, Varejao. A—19,596 (19,596).
Heat 106, Hornets 73
CHARLOTTE — Williams 1-3 2-2 5, Kaminsky 3-15 4-4 12, Jefferson 2-7 0-0 4,
Walker 3-16 2-2 9, Lee 5-8 0-0 11, Lin 4-8
1-1 9, Batum 3-9 3-3 10, Zeller 3-7 0-0 6,
Daniels 0-5 0-0 0, Lamb 3-5 0-0 7, Harrison
0-0 0-0 0, Gutierrez 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 27-84
12-12 73.
MIAMI — J.Johnson 3-10 2-2 9, Deng 6-9
1-1 15, Whiteside 4-8 2-4 10, Dragic 11-17
1-4 25, Wade 5-11 2-2 12, Green 7-16 0-0
16, Richardson 1-6 0-0 3, McRoberts 2-4
0-0 4, Winslow 2-3 1-1 5, T.Johnson 2-4 0-0
5, Wright 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 43-89 11-16 106.
Charlotte
18 24 11 20— 73
Miami
29 25 29 23—106
Three-point goals—Charlotte 7-21 (Kaminsky 2-5, Lee 1-1, Lamb 1-1, Williams 12, Batum 1-3, Walker 1-4, Lin 0-2, Daniels
0-3), Miami 9-24 (Deng 2-4, Dragic 2-5,
Green 2-6, T.Johnson 1-1, Richardson 1-3,
J.Johnson 1-4, Wright 0-1). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—Charlotte 42 (Zeller 7),
Miami 66 (Whiteside 12). Assists—Charlotte 14 (Walker 6), Miami 24 (J.Johnson,
Dragic, Deng 4). Total Fouls—Charlotte
14, Miami 16. A—19,868 (19,600).
FRANK G UNN, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan, front, drives to the net as Pacers forward Paul George defends Sunday
in Toronto. The Raptors won 89-84 to advance to the conference semifinals.
Raptors finally end drought
BY I AN H ARRISON
Associated Press
TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan
pushed the Toronto Raptors into
the second round — finally.
DeRozan scored 30 points and
Toronto beat the Indiana Pacers
89-84 on Sunday night in Game
7 to advance to face Miami in the
Eastern Conference semifinals.
The Raptors won a best-ofseven series for the first time in
franchise history.
“We got the monkey off our
back, more than anything, from
these past couple of years,”
DeRozan said. It just feels good to
get that off.”
The Raptors won their first
postseason series since a fivegame triumph over the New York
Knicks in 2001, ending the NBA’s
longest active drought between
series victories. Toronto lost in
the first round the previous two
seasons, including a Game 7 loss
to Brooklyn in 2014 and a sweep
to Washington last year.
Jonas Valanciunas had 15 rebounds and 10 points, rookie Norman Powell added 13 points, and
Kyle Lowry had 11 for Toronto,
set to open at home against the
Heat on Tuesday night.
DeRozan, who struggled with
his shooting throughout the series, was 10 of 32 in Game 7.
“He was huge,” coach Dwane
Casey said. “I thought he got his
swagger back, his rhythm back a
little bit.”
Paul George led Indiana with 26
points and 12 rebounds, George
Hill added 19 points, and Monta
Ellis had 15.
George called DeRozan, a fellow All-Star and teammate with
the U.S. national team, “a special
player.”
“Regardless of his struggling to
shoot in this series, he’s special,”
George said. “He’s still probably
one of the most poised and undercontrol players I’ve guarded.”
George, whose strong performances helped carry seventhseeded Indiana into Game 7,
made just two of eight attempts
in the second half and admitted
afterward to being tired.
“I ran out of gas a little bit,” he
said. “I’m not going to try and sit
here and be Superman. I definite-
ly was winded late in the game.”
Toronto nearly ran out of gas,
too, scoring just 11 points in the
final quarter and watching as the
Pacers whittled a 16-point deficit down to three in the final few
minutes.
“We stunk it up in the fourth
quarter,” Casey said. “It wasn’t
pretty, believe me, but our defense
carried us down the stretch.”
Up 78-64 after three, the Raptors didn’t make their first basket
of the fourth until a three by Powell at 8:19. Joseph followed with a
pullup jumper to make it 81-67,
leading to an Indiana timeout.
The Pacers responded by scoring 12 of the next 14 points, cutting
it to 85-79 with 3:23 remaining.
Indiana cut it to three at 85-82 on
Ellis’ three-pointer with 2:37 left,
but Lowry answered with a driving layup.
George made a pair of free
throws with 52 seconds left to pull
Indiana within three again at 8784. After DeRozan missed a three,
Solomon Hill grabbed the rebound
and Indiana called a timeout to
draw up a play for George, but he
turned the ball over.
Heat rout Hornets, advance to conference semis
BY TIM R EYNOLDS
Associated Press
DAVID SANTIAGO, EL NUEVO HERALD/TNS
Heat center Hassan Whiteside blocks a
shot by Hornets center Frank Kaminsky
III during the third quarter Sunday.
MIAMI — Miami Heat ousted the Charlotte Hornets from the NBA playoffs with
an emphatic 106-73 victory on Sunday.
Miami won two elimination games to take
the series 4-3 and will play Toronto in the
Eastern Conference semifinals starting on
Tuesday night.
“Just great competition,” Heat coach
Erik Spoelstra said, lauding the Hornets.
“Our hats go off to them. They made us better. ... I think our basketball team needed
to go through that, to be pushed and find a
different level which we showed in the last
two games.”
Goran Dragic scored 25 points in his
first Game 7, Gerald Green added 16 and
Luol Deng scored 15. Dwayne Wade finished with 12 and Hassan Whiteside had
a 10-point, 12-rebound, five-block clincher
for the Heat, who have won their last four
Game 7s.
Frank Kaminsky scored 12 for Charlotte,
which got 11 from Courtney Lee and 10 from
Nic Batum. The Hornets’ two biggest stars,
Kemba Walker and Al Jefferson, never got
going — combining for 13 points.
“I thought we had a great season,” said
Walker, who shot 3-for-16. “We were really
resilient. We had a lot of injuries but we
stuck together all year. When guys’ names
got called to make plays and step up, they
did. A lot of people didn’t even think we’d
be here.”
A contentious series, with too much attention getting placed on courtside fan behavior and NBA officiating reports, pushed
Miami to the limit. Charlotte had a chance
to close out the Heat on its home floor in
Game 6, wasting the opportunity.
The Hornets never had a chance in
Game 7.
Miami led the whole way, taking a 12point lead at the half and stretching it to 24
by the midpoint of the third quarter — the
period that has been a problem for the Heat
all season but became the catalyst to what
became a rout Sunday. And with that, it was
obvious that Charlotte’s season was going
to be bookended: It started with a loss in
Miami, and it ended with a loss in Miami.
“I still thought at halftime, we were
fine,” Hornets coach Steve Clifford said.
“And then in the third quarter, it got away
from us.”
Wade has played in 29 postseason series;
the Heat have won 22 of them. And under
Spoelstra, the Heat are now 15-4 in postseason series, 8-4 when facing elimination
games and 15-5 in games when they have a
chance to oust an opponent.
“I’m not a prophet or anything,” Wade
said, “but I knew we were winning this
game.”
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NASCAR
AP photos
Brad Keselowski celebrates after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala. It was Keselowski’s second victory of the season.
Demolition man
Keselowski avoids chaos to win crazy crash-fest at Talladega
BY JENNA FRYER
Associated Press
TALLADEGA, Ala.
wo cars went airborne, 35 were
involved in an accident of some
kind, and Danica Patrick had the
wind knocked out of her in a vi-
T
cious crash into the wall.
Just another demolition derby at Talladega Superspeedway.
Brad Keselowski won the crash-fest Sunday that was dominated by multiple wrecks
that caused millions of dollars in damage to
race teams. It was Keselowski’s fourth career win at Talladega and second victory of
the season, and ended Joe Gibbs Racing’s
streak of four consecutive victories.
“Crazy day. Somehow we managed to
stay ahead of or out of all the chaos,” Keselowski said. “That’s how Talladega goes.
Sometimes we run here and everybody
kind of lines up against the wall, and sometimes we come here and it’s crazy side by
side, wreck ‘em up, flip ‘em.
“I think that’s kind of the allure to coming here because you don’t know what
you’re going to get.”
That’s not entirely true about Talladega,
which more times than not turns into a
mess of wrecked race cars.
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