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THURSDAY
March 31,
2016
IN BRIEF
Heavy trash
week near
in Decatur
Jeremy Gilbert, operations manager for the
city of Decatur, reports
that heavy trash week
will be held in the city
starting Monday and
running throughout the
week. Pickup will be on
customers’ regular trash
day. Items not accepted
include home improvement materials, carpeting, appliances with freon
and electronics.
The city collection of
yard waste will also begin
Monday.
Junk vehicles
at AMH gone
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Jail construction back
on track, November
completion anticipated
By MIKE LAMM
The Adams County jail construction project is back on
schedule, CCI Vice President
and Project Manager Joe
Hoffman told the Adams County
Commissioners
Tuesday,
informing them the structure
should be completed in early
November.
All roofing concerns reported to the commissioners by
construction liaison County
Engineer Tim Barkey at last
week’s meeting are being
addressed and the entire roof of
the building should be finished
sometime in April, Hoffman indi-
cated in his monthly report.
Once repairs to the roof are
completed, an infrared thermal
scan will be performed. The
analysis will detect wet spots
in the ceiling insulation (if they
exist), as well as areas where
insulation was inadvertently
missed in the installation process.
From the outside, the exterior brick veneer work has been
completed — with the exception
of the front wall of the multipurpose room — and masonry
work is in progress at the main
entry lobby area, Hoffman said.
In addition, metal siding has
Current plans call for prisoners to be moved into the new facility
in January of 2017.
Photo by Mike Lamm
been applied to the east, south
and west elevations of the building.
He reported the metal stud
wall framing is 98 percent complete in the sheriff’s department area and gypsum board
has been hung on one side of
approximately 75 percent of the
walls. The construction of the
dayroom walls continues in the
housing area, while three walls
in the southeast corner of the
housing area remain to be completed, Hoffman said.
All prefabricated cells in the
booking area have been set
and the elevated walkways and
stairs have been completed in
three of the six dayrooms.
Hoffman said overhead and
in-wall water lines are 90 percent finished in the office and
support areas and plumbing
connections to the cells in the
booking area are in progress.
Also in progress are the fire
protection connections to the
cells.
See JAIL, Page 2
61 drug offenders
have their sentences
shortened by Obama
Persons who missed a
story in Tuesday’s Daily
Democrat regarding a
sale of broken, unusable,
and non-working vehicles
and equipment can put
themselves into the category of “you snooze, you
lose.”
The story concerned
a decision made last
week by the Adams
Health Network Board
of Trustees to get rid of
some vehicles and equipment in an expeditious
and least costly manner
possible. It was determined the items were of
little, if any, value to the
hospital since they were
no longer usable and
the story noted persons
could call the hospital if
they were interested to
picking one up.
AMH Chief Executive
Officer Jo-Ellen Eidam
said Wednesday afternoon that “we’ve had a
ton of calls” after the story
appeared and that “all
items are gone.”
Library book
sale begins
on April 10
The Decatur branch of
the Adams Public Library
System will conduct its
annual book sale April
10-16 during regular
library hours. The event
will coincide with National
Library Week.
Because
of
the
increased use of computerized records at the
library, the book sale
will include a large variety of reference books
no longer required by the
facility. Many other nonfiction and fiction books
of all varieties will also be
available for adults and
youths, plus romance
books, religious tomes,
tapes and CDs.
There will be a special
pre-sale event for members of the Friends of
the Library from 11 a.m.1 p.m. on April 9. During
the final two days of the
sale — April 15 and 16
— the cost will be $2 per
bag.
75¢
STEPPING INTO SPRING — Jeff Colwell and his faithful companion, Snoopy,
took to the River Greenway trail Tuesday to enjoy a walk as warm weather
moved into the area. Temperatures are expected to dip over the weekend
before climbing back up to nearly 60 degrees by mid-week.
Photo by Jannaya Andrews
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama
commuted the prison
sentences of 61 drug
offenders on Wednesday
including more than a
third serving life sentences, working to give new
energy to calls for overhauling the U.S. criminal
justice system.
All of the inmates are
serving time for drug
possession, intent to sell
or related crimes. Most
are nonviolent offenders,
although a few were also
charged with firearms
violations. Obama’s commutation shortens their
sentences, with most of
the inmates set to be
released on July 28.
Obama, in a letter to
the inmates receiving
commutations, said the
presidential power to
grant commutations and
pardons ‘‘embodies the
basic belief in our democracy that people deserve
a second chance.’’
One of the inmates,
Jesse Webster of Chicago,
is serving a life term for
intent to sell cocaine and
filing false tax returns.
Another, Byron McDade
of Bowie, Md., got 27
years for cocaine-relat-
ed charges as well. In
both cases, judges in the
cases later said publicly
it was too harsh, though
sentencing
guidelines
often prevent judges
from being more lenient.
Webster and McDade will
both be released later
this year.
Most are nonviolent
offenders, although a
few also faced firearms
charges. Nabar Criam
of Brooklyn, N.Y., was
sentenced to 15 years
for possession of crack
cocaine with intent to
distribute, but received
an additional charge for
having a gun on hand
during a drug trafficking
crime.
The latest tranche of
commutations brings to
248 the total number of
inmates whose sentences
Obama has commuted
— more than the past
six presidents combined,
the White House said.
The pace of commutations and the rarer use
of pardons are expected
to increase as the end
of Obama’s presidency
nears.
‘‘Throughout
the
remainder of his time in
See OBAMA, Page 2
State Museum to highlight Hoosier history with ‘200 Objects’ display
The Indiana State Museum
in Indianapolis is presenting
a variety of programming to
honor Indiana’s past and present as part of the statewide celebration of the bicentennial of
Indiana’s statehood.
The exhibition “Indiana in 200
Objects” will be on view starting
April 30 and will feature artifacts, including rare and priceless objects and documents.
“This exhibition will introduce significant moments,
events, artifacts and people
from Indiana’s past and present, as well as present our
state’s amazing natural history,”
said Dale Ogden, chief curator of history and culture. “The
experience will showcase the
breadth and depth of Indiana’s
history, including its contributions to the nation and the
world.”
In addition to nearly 140
artifacts from the Indiana State
Museum collection, contributions from institutions, museums, libraries, corporations
and private collections from
throughout the nation will be
utilized to tell Indiana’s story.
A sample of the artifacts to
be exhibited includes a fully
mounted mastodon skeleton,
Mario Andretti’s Indy 500 fire
suit, a leather jacket Elton
John gave to Ryan White, a
Duesenberg
automobile,
Reverend Theodore Hesburgh’s
Presidential Medal of Freedom,
Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket,
Johnny Appleseed’s drinking
flask, Indiana’s electric chair,
a copy of the 13th Amendment
signed by Abraham Lincoln and
a military drone built by Rolls
Royce.
“There are so many
amazing objects in this
exhibition, like Larry
Bird’s college player
of the year trophy,
the Act of Congress
that officially made
Indiana
the
19th
state, astronaut Gus
Grissom’s U.S. Air Force
uniform and Cole Porter’s Tony
Award … and that’s just barely
the tip of iceberg. The curators
could present a similar inventory with completely different
artifacts that are as important
and familiar as those on this
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list and we’d still just be getting
started,” Ogden added.
For more details on the exhibition and related programs,
call 317-504-5378, email
Ogden at DOgden@
indianamuseum.org
or visit the museum
website indianamuseum.org. The exhibition is
included with museum admission. The
Indiana State Museum
is located at 650 W.
Washington St., Indianapolis.
Exhibition gallery hours are 10
a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through
Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on
Sunday. On the first Tuesday of
each month, admission is half
price.
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L ocal /S tate
Indiana gets funds to help prevent opioid overdose deaths
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana
State Department of Health
has received a grant from the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention to help prevent overdose deaths related to prescription opioids as part of the CDC’s
Prescription Drug Overdose:
Prevention for States program.
“As we have seen here in
Indiana, opioid overuse is a
problem that many people
struggle with,” said State Health
Commissioner Jerome Adams.
“This funding will help us gather
data to inform strategies on how
to prevent opioid overdoses.”
Adams is also a member of the
Governor’s Task Force on Drug
Enforcement, Treatment and
Prevention, which was created
by Governor Mike Pence to combat drug abuse and addiction in
Indiana.
The CDC’s National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control
has expanded its Prevention for
States program to an additional
13 states this year to help turn
the tide on the prescription drug
overdose epidemic. Funding
will support enhancements to
INSPECT, the Indiana prescription drug monitoring program
at the Indiana Professional
Licensing Agency; improvements
to opioid prescribing practices,
prevention efforts at the state
and community levels to address
new and emerging problems
related to prescription drug overdoses and a partnership with the
IU Fairbanks School of Public
Health to evaluate opioid prescribing practices in Indiana. The Indiana State Department
of Health will use this funding to
expand the Indiana Violent Death
Reporting System. The expansion will provide additional data
regarding opioid overdose at the
county level and will help inform
prevention efforts and expand
use of data for public health surveillance.
The Prevention for States program is a part of CDC’s ongoing
efforts to scale up prevention
activities as part of a national
response to the opioid overdose
epidemic. Prevention for States
provides resources and support
to advance comprehensive statelevel interventions for preventing
prescription drug overuse, misuse, abuse and overdose.
For more information about
Prescription Drug Overdose:
Prevention for States, visit
http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/states/state_prevention.
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U.S student missing in
Siberia; relatives from
Markle headed there
The Associated Press
Relatives from the Indiana town of Markle are
heading to Russia following the disappearance of
a U.S student in the Siberian region of Russia. A
search is underway for the student, who Russian
officials say disappeared in freezing conditions after
venturing from a guest house in Siberia.
Investigators in the Russian republic of Buryatia
say 25-year-old Colin Madsen of Jefferson City, Mo.,
went missing early Sunday. That’s a day after he
arrived with another American as part of a group
from Irkutsk, where he was a university student.
Annie Madsen of Markle said Wednesday her
nephew apparently left the house without a coat to
take a walk in below-freezing temperatures while
others in the guest house slept.
She says his mother from Missouri and his father
from Indiana are heading to Russia.
The aunt says her nephew is fluent in Russian and
has taught English there.
Herbicide company faces fine
over environmental complaints
SELMA, Ind. (AP) —
An herbicide company
faces nearly $130,000 in
state fines over environmental complaints at its
eastern Indiana plant.
The
Indiana
Department
of
E n v i r o n m e n t a l
Management has ordered
the fine against Eco-Pak
for more than 20 violations at the facility in the
Delaware County town of
Selma.
The (Muncie) Star
Press reports that an
inspector cited Eco-Pak
JAIL
From Page 1
Electrically, conduit
connections for lighting
at the cells of the housing
unit are being installed,
as are the lighting roughins in the office area, over
the booking desk and
above the work release
area, Hoffman continued. The lighting roughins at the entry canopy
and fascia around the
building have been completed. On Saturday,
AEP will disconnect the
temporary power to the
facility and switch to permanent power, Hoffman
reported.
Masonry and brick
veneer, the remaining
elevated walkways and
OBAMAFrom Page 1
office, the president is
committed to continuing
to issue more grants of
clemency as well as to
strengthening rehabilitation programs,’’ said
Neil Eggleston, the White
House counsel, in a blog
post.
He added that clemency is a tool of last
resort that can help specific people, but doesn’t
address the broader need
for a ‘‘more fair and just’’
system and ‘‘fix decades
of overly punitive sentencing policies.’’
In a bid to call further
attention to the issue,
Obama met for lunch
Wednesday with people
whose sentences were
previously commuted to
hear about the challenges of re-entering soci-
for releasing wastewater
contaminated with low
concentrations of weed
killers in multiple places, allowing it to reach
neighboring properties.
Eco-Pak general manager Nick Hoffman says
the company is working
with the environmental
agency to resolve the
alleged violations.
The company makes
herbicides for the industrial vegetation management market, including
vegetation control along
rights of way.
stairs, the metal siding
work and the setting of
the last four cells in the
housing area will all be
completed by the end of
April.
While the new jail is
expected to be completed in early November,
Commission Chairman
Doug Bauman noted that
Sheriff Shane Rekeweg
is not planning to move
inmates until January
and wondered about
the necessity for the
extended delay. Hoffman
responded that at most
jails CCI has built, the
sheriffs take 2-3 months
to complete the transition from the old facility
to the new to make sure
their entire staff is properly trained.
ety. One of the former
inmates, Kemba Smith,
was seven months pregnant when she turned
herself in on crack
cocaine charges, and she
served more than 6 years
before former President
Bill Clinton granted clemency in 2000. She went
on to study social work
and become an advocate,
the White House said.
Though there’s wide
bipartisan support for
a criminal justice overhaul, what had looked
like a promising legislative opportunity in
Obama’s final year has
recently lost steam. As
with Obama’s other priorities, the din of the
chaotic
presidential
campaign has increasingly made cooperation
among Republicans and
Democrats in Congress
this year a non-starter.
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Indiana’s GOP Senate primary race gets personal
Obituaries
Wilda Mae Swygart
Wilda May Swygart, 88, Berne, passed away at
11 a.m. March 28, 2016, in her daughter’s home
in Berne. She was born in Adams County Feb. 23,
1928, to the late John Wall and Rea Engle. She married Harold M. Swygart Feb. 23, 1944; he preceded
her in death April 5, 1991.
Among survivors are a five sons, Ronnie (Janice)
Swygart of Decatur, Ricky (Ruth) Swygart of Geneve,
Randy (Janice) Swygart of Decatur, Roderick (Dee)
Swygart of Decatur and Reggie (Deb) Swygart of
Decatur; a daughter, Kuba (Phil) Pollard of Berne;
two brothers, Melvin (Ruth) Wall of Sellersburg and
Norman (Bonnie) Wall of Bluffton; a sister, Carol Rose
(Tom) Weaver of Oklahoma City, Okla.; 23 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great
grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter-inlaw, Betty Swygart; and a granddaughter, Rhonda
Cowans.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday at Yager-Kirchofer Funeral Home with
Pastor Dale Fosnaugh officiating. Burial will follow in
Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Decatur.
Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. Friday and from
9-10:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Preferred memorials are to the donor’s choice.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The
race to fill the seat of retiring
Republican Sen. Dan Coats has
turned into an increasingly hostile war of words between two sitting Indiana GOP congressmen,
mimicking the broader conflict
engulfing the party’s presidential
primary.
U.S. Reps. Marlin Stutzman
and Todd Young, each elected
to Congress in 2010, have campaigned as stalwart conservatives
on similar platforms. But with
just over one month until the May
3 primary, Young is trying to paint
his tea party-backed rival as an
ideologue who prioritizes obstructionism over passing legislation.
And Stutzman has characterized
Young as a pawn of the establishment at a time when Americans
are increasingly frustrated with
‘‘a system that benefits a few
people.’’
The tone of the campaign has
some similarities to the GOP presidential race, with businessman
Donald Trump and tea partybacked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tapping voter anger with Washington
See related commentary on
Page 4 of today’s Democrat
and forcing out of the race more
mainstream candidates such as
former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen.
Marco Rubio, both from Florida.
The Indiana Senate race could
have national implications as
Democrats seek to pick up at least
four seats to retake control of the
Senate. That’s a possibility Young
highlighted Wednesday, when
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
announced it was endorsing him.
The chamber also reported it has
spent $1 million for television ads
supporting Young, according to
federal campaign data.
‘‘We have too many D.C. politicians — too many poseurs and
pretenders who will talk a good
game, but do not have any results
in the end to show for it,’’ said
Young, who recently got another boost when One Nation PAC
— a group with ties to Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
— announced it would run televi-
sion ads for him.
Stutzman, who co-owns his
family’s northwest Indiana farm,
says the chamber’s decision is
‘‘ironic’’ because ‘‘I’m the business
guy and they are endorsing the
attorney.’’ He characterized Young
as a reliable ‘‘yes’’ vote for the
priorities of GOP Congressional
leaders. Stutzman is a member of
the Freedom Caucus of conservative Republican House members
whose aversion to compromise led
to former House Speaker John
Boehner resigning last year.
‘‘The American people are starting to figure out that things are
not getting any better for us and
they are tired of it,’’ Stutzman told
The Associated Press, adding that
Young’s definition of accomplishment is ‘‘passing a bill out of the
House that goes nowhere in the
Senate.’’
The harsh words followed
a bitter turn in the campaign,
when Stutzman and the Indiana
Democratic Party challenged
Young’s candidacy, arguing he
didn’t gather enough voter signatures to qualify for the ballot.
Blotter
Eight individuals were
arrested over the past
48 hours by local law
enforcement officers and
were booked into the
Adams County jail.
Tyler J. Sharp, 22,
Hoagland, was arrested
Wednesday by sheriff’s
deputies for contempt of
court. He was ordered
held without bond.
Nicolas Nino-Romero,
20, Fort Wayne, was
arrested Wednesday by
sheriff’s deputies for possession of marijuana. He
was released on his own
recognizance.
Ernest H. Eicher, 52,
Bryant, was arrested
Wednesday by sheriff’s
deputies on a charge of
invasion of privacy. Bond
was set at $250 cash and
$7,500 surety.
Anthony R. Green, 19,
Decatur, was arrested
Tuesday by sheriff’s deputies for criminal indirect
contempt of court. He
was ordered held without
bond.
Benjamin
Guzman
Mata, 27, Fort Wayne,
was arrested Tuesday
by sheriff’s deputies for
contempt of court. Bond
was set at $200 cash and
$3,000 surety.
Matthew L. Monroe,
26, Mendon, Ohio, was
arrested Tuesday by sheriff’s deputies for violating
the terms of his probation. He was ordered held
without bond.
Melissa D. McGee, 36,
Huntington, was arrested Tuesday by sheriff’s
deputies for possession
of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.
She was released on her
own recognizance.
Daniel J. Dauscher,
45, Berne, was arrested Tuesday by sheriff’s
deputies for possession of
paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. She
was released on her own
recognizance.
Jesus
Escobar Martinez, 24, Fort Wayne,
was arrested Tuesday
by sheriff’s deputies for
operating a motor vehicle
while intoxicated, possession of marijuana and
possession of paraphernalia. Bond was set at
$450 cash and $4,000
surety.
Citations
The Decatur Police
Department issued the
following citations recently:
Cited for seatbelt violations Friday were Jeffrey
L. Colwell, 51, Decatur, on
Winchester Street Sean
A. Saylor, 28, Decatur,
on Line Street; and Larry
D. Shaffer, 62, Decatur,
on Monroe Street. Davon
J. Washington-Johnson,
23, Fort Wayne, was
cited for speeding Friday,
47 mph in a 30 mph zone
on Mercer Street.
Cited for seatbelt violations Saturday were
Robert W. Gaskill, 68,
Decatur, on
S. 2nd
Street;
Margaret
A.
Kubany, 64, Decatur, on
U.S. 224; and Jenna M.
Mendez, 29, Monroe, on
U.S. 27. Lisa M. Morlan,
48, Decatur, was cited
for speeding Saturday,
40 mph in a 30 mph
zone on W. Washington
Street. Cited for speeding Monday were Pau L.
Khai, 29, Fort Wayne, 49
mph in a 35 mph zone
on S. 13th Street; and
Deryll G. Zurcher, 65,
Berne, 40 mph in a 30
mph zone on Winchester
Street. Cited for speeding
Tuesday, 50 mph in a 40
mph zone on 13th Street,
was Lorenzo King, 20,
Fort Wayne.
Colton D. Robison, 24,
Bluffton, was cited for
operating a motor vehicle
with an alcohol concentration equivalent to .15
or higher and speeding
(45 mph in a 35 mph
zone) Sunday on U.S. 33.
Cited for speeding after
being clocked driving 59
Sunday on U.S. 224 was
Frederic R. Geels, 20,
Monroeville.
Donald E. Riggs, 40,
Marion, was cited for
reckless possession of
paraphernalia Monday
on Winchester Street.
Cited for speeding, 65
on S.R. 101, by Adams
County sheriff’s deputies
on Tuesday was Kevin M.
Gehres, 59, Ohio City.
Nobel literature laureate Imre Kertesz dies at 86
BUDAPEST, Hungary
(AP) — Imre Kertesz, the
Hungarian writer who
won the 2002 Nobel Prize
for Literature for fiction
largely drawn from his
experience as a teenage
prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, died
Thursday. He was 86.
Book publishing firm
Magveto
Kiado
said
Kertesz died at 4 a.m. at
his Budapest home after
a long illness.
Kertesz was only 14
when he was deported
to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland
in 1944. He survived that
camp and later was transferred to the Buchenwald
camp from where he was
liberated in 1945.
‘‘As a child you have
a certain trust in life.
But when something
like Auschwitz happens,
everything falls apart,’’
he once said.
Trump on
defensive for
abortion
comments
ONE LAST RIDE
Motorcyclist friends of Shawn
Reinhart of Monroe took one final
ride with their buddy Wednesday
evening, accompanying the casket carrying Reinhart’s body
from Berne to his final journey
through Decatur, culminating
at EDZ Motorcycle and Repair.
Reinhart was killed by gunfire
early Saturday morning in Fort
Wayne. That incident remains
under investigation.
Photos provided
Minneapolis officers cleared; tension runs high
MINNEAPOLIS
(AP) — Activists from
Minneapolis’
black
community spent four
months demanding the
release of videos and
other evidence after a
black man was fatally
shot in a confrontation
with two white police
officers. When it finally
was made public and a
prosecutor announced
the officers wouldn’t
be charged, they were
enraged.
Hennepin
County
Attorney Mike Freeman
on Wednesday cleared
the officers, saying forensic evidence backed their
account that 24-yearold Jamar Clark was
not handcuffed and was
struggling for an officer’s
gun when he was shot.
Clark ignored warnings to
take his hand off Officer
Mark Ringgenberg’s gun,
leading Officer Mark
Schwarze to shoot Clark
as the officers feared
for their lives, Freeman
said.
‘‘Ringgenberg communicated to Schwarze that
Clark had his firearm and
that Schwarze should
shoot Clark. Schwarze
did. His actions were
reasonable given both
his observations and
Ringgenberg’s plea,’’ the
prosecutor said.
But Freeman’s detailed
version of the events
early on Nov. 15, and
his release of the investigative documents, drew
derision even at the news
Suit filed on behalf of FW homeless
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
Indiana’s second-largest
city faces a federal lawsuit alleging that it is violating homeless residents’
constitutional rights by
destroying tents, coats,
blankets and other property seized during sweeps
of homeless camps.
The lawsuit, which
seeks class-action status, was filed Monday
in U.S. District Court
in Fort Wayne on behalf
of a homeless man who
alleges his coat and other
property was seized by
the city on March 21 and
FARM TOY SHOW
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conference from activists who accused him
of favoring police over
the accounts of bystanders who said Clark was
handcuffed when he was
shot. Several of the critics were among those
who maintained a protest
encampment outside a
police station for 18 days
and led marches and
largely peaceful protests
across the Twin Cities
area after the shooting.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) —
Donald Trump is fighting to convince a skeptical Republican Party he
can improve his standing
among women, even as
he takes back an explosive comment about
abortion and attacks the
credibility of a female
reporter police say was
illegally grabbed by the
GOP front-runner’s campaign manager.
It took Trump’s campaign just hours to backtrack on Wednesday
after he said that should
abortion become illegal,
women who undergo the
procedure should face
‘‘some sort of punishment.’’ The plan sparked
an immediate backlash
from both sides of the
debate, prompting Trump
to release two statements
clarifying his position.
His second statement
said only those who perform abortions would be
‘‘held legally responsible,
not the woman.’’
‘‘The woman is a victim in this case as is the
life in her womb,’’ Trump
said.
The flap comes as
Trump works to hold off a
challenge from chief rival
Ted Cruz in Wisconsin’s
high-stakes primary on
Tuesday. With a win,
Trump’s grasp on his
party’s presidential nomination could be unbreakable.
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For Trump, few limits to
win-at-any-cost approach
The Decatur Daily Democrat
Ron Storey, Publisher
J Swygart, Opinion Page Editor
Stutzman’s hopes
dealt some blows
It says something, although exactly what that is
admittedly is open to speculation and interpretation, when the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate
voices a preference — albeit behind the thin veil of a
statement issued by a Political Action Committee —
for one of the two sitting GOP Indiana Congressmen
he’d like to see join the hallowed halls up Congress’s
upper chamber.
But that’s exactly what happened this week when
a group with solid ties to Sen. Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., came out in support of Rep. Todd Young, R-9,
as the Republican-of-choice in this year’s U.S. Senate
race against Marlin Stutzman, R-3, whose congressional district includes Adams County.
A PAC with ties to McConnell, the cranky, ultraconservative, “just say no” Senate Majority Leader,
announced Wednesday it’s spending $250,000 on
television ads praising Young’s
record on national security. Young
represents a 13-county area in the
southeast corner of the state. The political advocacy group One
Nation, which issued the statement, is part of a constellation of
Republican organizations affiliated
with American Crossroads, a super
political action committee founded
with help from Republican strategist
lone
Karl Rove. As a non-profit advocacy
group, One Nation does not have to
with
disclose its donors’ identities. It has
By J Swygart
run ads praising vulnerable Senate
Republicans up for re-election. But
the Indiana ads are the first in a
state with a GOP primary contest.
The group’s president is Steven Law, former chief
of staff to McConnell, who said in a prepared statement, “After eight years of feckless leadership from
the Obama administration, the world has become a
more dangerous place — which is why it’s critical to
have congressman and former Marine intelligence
officer Todd Young working to promote smart policies
that will keep America safe.”
The ad praises Young for voting last year for
another layer of background checks for Iraqi and
Syrian refugees who want to live in the United States,
the Indy Star reported. And it praises Young’s criticism of the international nuclear agreement with Iran
that the Obama administration helped negotiate.
Stutzman, however, also voted for the background
check bill and criticized the Iran deal.
But Stutzman is also closely aligned with tea party
activities, a group for which McConnell expressed
disdain following his own recent re-election campaign when he said “the tea party has to be killed.”
For that reason alone, McConnell’s preference
for Young over Stutzman might make a modicum of
sense.
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But on Wednesday, Young also got endorsements
from the U.S. and Indiana Chambers of Commerce
— groups not normally concerned about tea party
affiliations or the lack of them — which could deal a
more serious blow to Stutzman’s senatorial bid.
“We are proud to stand with Todd Young, a proven
conservative who has a 91 percent rating with the
U.S. Chamber,” senior vice president and national
political director Rob Engstrom said in a press
release. “Todd understands that a strong free enterprise system is what creates jobs in Indiana and has
a record delivering for Hoosier families. He is a tested
leader who will continue his fight against government overreach and Obama’s failed policies in the
Senate.” Added Indiana Chamber President and CEO Kevin
Brinegar, “We believe Todd Young is the most qualified and most economic-minded individual running
for the Senate seat. He has repeatedly demonstrated
sound fiscal policy and prudent decision-making on
issues that are vital to jobs and economic growth.” Stutzman, who has done few favors for Adams
County or Indiana during his time in Congress, did
himself no favor in the eyes of party leaders earlier this year when he pondered a legal challenge to
Young’s candidacy, based on his belief that Young
failed to collect the necessary number of signatures
on his petition of candidacy. That challenge failed to
materialize, but now Stutzman appears to be paying
the piper.
It’s hard to feel sorry for him.
Later tonight, five GOP candidates seeking to fill
Stutzman’s House seat will address Adams County
Republican Party faithful during the annual Lincoln
Day event. Judging by TV ads popping up with
increasing frequency on Fort Wayne TV outlets, each
candidate is vying to come across as more conservative than the next; Stutzman clones, if you will.
But conservative is one thing; right-wing tea partier is quite another. And the GOP candidates would
be wise to avoid that label at all costs.
The writer is the managing editor of the Decatur
Daily Democrat.
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By JULIE PACE
AP White House
Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting on
his plush private plane surrounded by a gaggle of reporters, Donald
Trump laid bare the depths of his
win-at-any-cost political philosophy.
‘‘Nothing is presidential except
victory,’’ he said Tuesday. ‘‘Victory
is presidential.’’
Very little about Trump’s surprising White House campaign
has fit into any traditional view of
what’s deemed ‘‘presidential’’ —
the kind of know-it-if-you-see-it
behavior befitting an occupant of
the Oval Office.
Indeed, that’s part of the draw
for Trump’s supporters, many of
whom praise the businessman’s
willingness to dispense with political correctness.
Yet even with the built-in expectation that Trump is running an
atypical campaign, the Republican
front-runner continues to surprise with how far he’s willing
to go in busting boundaries that
restrain other presidential candidates. While he’s suggested that
he would be more of a statesman
if he’s the GOP nominee, encouraging Republican Party unity and
promising to moderate his abrasive tone, he can’t seem to resist
the lure of a bareknuckle political
brawl.
The latest surreal scene played
out Tuesday, when Trump’s
campaign
manager
Corey
Lewandowski was charged with
simple battery for an altercation
with a female reporter who was
working for a conservative news
outlet. Lewandowski is Trump’s
closest and most visible adviser,
a constant presence at campaign
events and the gatekeeper for
who gets access to the real estate
mogul.
He’s also nearly single-handedly
steered Trump’s campaign within
sight of victory in the Republican
nominating contest.
Most presidential campaigns
move quickly to shut down a
firestorm over a staffer regardless
of rank, particularly if legal issues
are involved. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
abruptly fired one of his top aides
earlier this year after the adviser
posted a video online that inaccurately portrayed Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio as disparaging the
Bible.
But Trump chose to fan the
flames of the controversy surrounding Lewandowski. He vigorously defended his adviser and
predicted no jury would convict
him. He also accused journalist
Michelle Fields of trying to destroy
Lewandowski’s life and questioned
the origin of bruises on Fields’
arm that she says were the result
of the campaign manager’s manhandling.
‘‘How do you know those bruises weren’t there before?’’ Trump
said, his every word being blasted out live on cable news. At
a campaign rally in Janesville,
Wisconsin, he polled his crowd
on whether they’d seen video of
the incident. ‘‘What did you think,
right?’’ he asked them. ‘‘Nothing.’’
Trump’s comments come amid
sharp criticism from Democrats,
as well as some Republicans, of
derogatory statements he’s made
about women — both during this
campaign and during his extensive public life before entering politics. He’s embroiled in a heated
controversy involving an unflattering image of Cruz’s wife that
he highlighted on Twitter, as well
as a vague and ominous threat
he made on Twitter to ‘‘spill the
beans’’ about Heidi Cruz.
Following the charge against
Lewandowski, the Texas senator accused Trump of running a
campaign ‘‘built on attacks’’ and
said there’s ‘‘no place in politics
for insults, for personal attacks,
for going to the gutter, and there
should be no place for physical
violence either.’’
Women comprise a powerful
share of persuadable voters in
the general election. And even as
Trump is still trying to lock down
the GOP nomination, he’s struggling with the women he would
need to win the White House.
A recent NBC/Wall Street
Journal poll found 70 percent of
women had a negative opinion of
Trump. Nearly three quarters of
women overall, and 39 percent of
Republican women, had an unfavorable view of him in a recent
CNN poll.
Yet some women who comprise
Trump’s supremely loyal legion of
supporters say they see little wrong
with Lewandowski’s actions and
the response from their favored
candidate.
‘‘It’s all ridiculous to me because
I don’t think grabbing someone’s
arm to restrain them is battery,’’
said Carlene Summers, a 72-yearold who attended Trump’s rally
Tuesday in Janesville, Wisconsin.
‘‘I used to work on a school playground and I restrained quite a
few kids and I never got in trouble
for battery.’’
It’s the tension between the
voters Trump needs to win now
as he tries to wrap up the GOP
nomination and those he needs
on his side in November that
highlights the weakness in his
boundary-pushing approach to
the campaign. Beyond his comments about women, he’s also
been harsh in his depiction of
immigrants, including calling
Mexicans crossing into the United
States murderers and rapists.
While Republicans have long
grappled with both appealing to
more conservative primary voters and a broader general election audience, the challenge
they’ve faced has focused largely
on modulating their policy positions.
It’s deeply uncertain whether
Trump can make the same pivot
when his words and his actions
seem as focused on the personal
as they do on the policy.
Obamacare adds uncertainty
for health care providers
By Pam Galloway
Since last summer, I have traveled throughout the 12 counties
of Indiana’s 3rd Congressional
District, meeting with families in
their communities, and listening to
their concerns. Voters have been
very receptive of my platform to
dismantle Obamacare, defend the
Second Amendment and protect life,
faith, family and country.
Obamacare is often a topic of
these discussions, since it amounts
to a government takeover of onesixth of the U.S. economy. Many
Hoosier families have been punished
by restrictions in health care and
by skyrocketing costs. Another way
Obamacare is negatively impacting
health care is by adding uncertainty
for health care providers, including
those in northeastern Indiana.
In early March, Markle Medical
Center announced it will close
facilities in Bluffton, Warren and
Hartford City. More than 7,000
patients are being notified that their
medical services relationship is terminated as of the end of March.
For many of these rural patients,
this development means increased
travel in order to receive needed
medical care.
The closing of these facilities in
Huntington, Wells and Blackford
March 31, 2016
Today is the 91st day of 2016
and the 12th day of spring.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1889, the
Eiffel Tower was dedicated in a
ceremony in Paris.
In 1930, the Motion Pictures
Production Code was adopted to
regulate mature content in mov-
People’s
Voice
counties also has a negative impact
on dozens of health care workers
and their families. Some of these
medical personnel are posting for
other positions with Markle Medical,
but many face uncertain employment prospects.
As a retired surgeon, I understand
the pressures of running a medical
practice as a business. Sometimes
medical offices do close for business
reasons. However, Obamacare adds
new layers of uncertainty between
medical providers and the patients
they seek to serve. Obamacare regulations also pressure medical providers to close rural facilities in
favor of large mega-centers in urban
areas.
The bottom line is that Obamacare
interferes with the doctor-patient
relationship in a variety of ways,
which is why I call for full repeal
and defunding. There are some who
single out the Medical Device Tax as
the objectionable part of Obamacare.
This is shortsighted, since the tax
is only one aspect of this massive
government overreach. To remove
the tentacles of government control,
Obamacare must be fully repealed.
Pam Galloway is a Republican
candidate for Indiana’s 3rd District
congressional seat.
ies.
In 1968, President Lyndon
Johnson announced a halt to
bombing missions over North
Vietnam and closed the televised
speech with the announcement
that he would not run for reelection.
In 1995, singer-songwriter
Selena was murdered by the former president of her fan club.
Time for radical
Mike Pence to be
booted from office
Governor Mike Pence is
a radical Christian fundamentalist, hell-bent on dragging our state to the Dark
Ages. He shares many of the
oppressive values embraced
by Islamic terrorists who are
waging a holy war to force
their radical beliefs on all of
humanity.
Governor Pence destroyed
Hoosier hospitality by turning it into Hoosier hostility
against the LGBT community. He is doubling-down
on the war against women
by signing a tyrannical
and intrusive bill corrupting the constitutional right
of Hoosier women to control their own reproductive
choices.
It is time to boot this
pious joker out of office and
elect a governor who will
protect the constitutional
rights of all Hoosiers.
Kenneth H. Wolfe
Decatur
TODAY’S QUOTE: “So blind is
the curiosity by which mortals
are possessed, that they often
conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason
to hope for success, but merely
being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth
they seek lies there.” — Rene
Descartes
C ommunity
Southeast particpates in ‘Read Across America’
M a r c h -A p r i l
Community Calendar
Thursday, March 31:
Rotary Club, noon, Back 40 restaurant.
Monroe United Methodist Church Farmer's Wagon,
1 p.m., line is to form no earlier than noon.
Senior citizens play cards, 1 p.m., Riverside
Center.
Zumba, Southeast Elementary School, 4-5 p.m.
TOPS Club weigh-in, 5:30 p.m.; meeting 6:15
p.m., Woodcrest Activity Building.
Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., weigh-in; 6:30 p.m.
meeting, Adams Memorial Hospital Decatur Room.
Sober Beginnings, 6:30-8 p.m., Adams Memorial
Hospital Berne Room. Divorce Care4Kids, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Decatur
Church of God.
A.A. (open) Big Book meeting, 7 p.m., First Church
of the Nazarene, Berne.
Yoga for Stretching and Strength, Hope United
Methodist Church, 6608 Hoagland Rd., Hoagland, 7
p.m.
Friday, April 1:
Immanuel House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8545N C.R.
500E, Decatur. A.A. Happy Hour Discussion Group (closed), 5-6
p.m., Decatur Church of God.
Reformers Unanimous Addiction Recovery
Program, 7-9 p.m., Grace Fellowship Church.
Free community scrapbook night, 6-11 p.m.,
Common Ground Church.
The month of March is “Read Across
America Month” and Trisha Gose’s first
grade class at Southeast Elementrary School
hosted many guest readers in their classroom
to read and share stories with the students. Pictured above is Mayor Ken Meyer with
Gose's class after he read the book, "Mother
Bruce" to them.
At right, Decatur Police Officer Trent
Busse keeps the first grade students entertained as he reads "Wacky Wednesday" to
them during his visit.
Photos provided
Saturday, April 2:
A.A., 7 p.m., (open speaker/discussion) Cross
Community Church, Berne.
Sunday, April 3:
Flea Market, 7 a.m., Riverside Center. To rent a
table, call Bonnie Gregg at 724-2341.
North Adams Art Coucil upcoming events
The North Adams Art
Council has several upcoming events for the month of
April. Early registration is
required.
For more details or to register for a class, go to www.
NAACdecatur.com.
April 6
10-10:40 a.m. — Down
on the farm preschool music,
movement and art for ages
2-4. The cost is $25 for a
non-member and $20 for a
member.
April 6
12-12:40 p.m. — Down
member.
April 9
9-10:30 a.m. — Mixed
media words and collage on
canvas for ages 13 and older.
The cost is $25 for non-members and $20 for members.
April 11
6:30-9 p.m. — Open painting night for all ages. The cost
is $5.
April 13
10-10:40 a.m. — Down
member.
April 13
12-12:40 p.m. — Down
member.
April 16
9 a.m.-12 p.m. — Basket
weaving: Berry Basket for
ages 8-98. The cost is $15
for non-members and $12 for
members.
April 18
6:30-9 p.m. — Open painting night for all ages. The cost
is $5.
April 20
10-10:40 a.m. — Down
member.
April 20
12-12:40 p.m. — Down
member.
Monday, April 4:
Clothes Closet, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Damascus Road
Church.
A.A. Big Book discussion, 7 p.m., Decatur Church
of God.
Decatur Church of Christ Food Pantry, 8-10 a.m.,
for residents with last names beginning with A-L.
Send engagement and wedding annnoucements to [email protected].
Tuesday, April 5
Optimist Club, noon, Richard’s Restaurant.
Zumba, Southeast Elementary School, 4-5 p.m.
A.A., 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church.
MOPS, 9-11 a.m., First United Methodist
Church.
Adams County senior citizens meeting, 11:30
a.m., Riverside Center.
NEED MORE SPACE?
April 23
9-10:30 a.m. — Fairy, frog
or gnome garden for ages
6-12. The cost is $25 for nonmembers and $20 for members.
Sense & Sensitivity
By HARRIETTE COLE
Reader Stuck in the Middle of Affair
DEAR HARRIETTE: I have two best
friends who have been in a serious relationship for five years. They recently got
engaged and are scheduled to be married at the beginning of next spring.
The woman and I were hanging out
and having some girl time when she
received a phone call and quickly got
up to leave the room. After she got back,
I asked her about the call; after some
pushing, I found out she has another
man on the side whom she has been
seeing for the past six months.
I am at a complete loss -- I love and
am loyal to both of my best friends,
and while I don’t want to betray anyone’s trust or be responsible for their
breakup, I don’t want to see them go
through with a wedding that shouldn’t
happen. Should I tell her fiance that she
is cheating, or should I stay out of this?
Any guidance would be appreciated. -Conflict of Interest, Philadelphia
DEAR CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
This is a very tricky situation. The best
thing you can do is speak directly to your
friend who revealed the affair. Ask her if
she still plans to get married. Directly
ask her if she intends to stay with this
other man or if she plans to commit fully
to her upcoming marriage. Finally, make
it clear to her that you consider yourself
to be best friends with both her and her
fiance. Suggest strongly that she work
out her business so that she can do
what’s right for her and what’s honorable for her relationship. Make it clear
that you will not lie for her.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I try to take the
bus or public transportation as often as
I can. I live in a fairly affluent area, so
public transportation is looked down
upon. I don’t have my own car, which is
rare in my town, so I don’t see it as a big
deal to take a bus or train somewhere.
The first time I took the bus into my
town, I was fairly excited I navigated
it all alone, yet when I told my friends,
they looked at me like I was povertystricken. It rubbed me the wrong way.
Why should I have to hide what kind
of transportation I took? Now I don’t
mention if I took the bus or train somewhere.
I regret not saying something more
forceful the first time my friends thought
I was a freak for using public transportation. Is it too late now? I don’t want to be
looked down upon just because I don’t
have a car and choose public transportation or walking. -- Environmentally
Friendly, Bronxville, New York
DEAR
ENVIRONMENTALLY
FRIENDLY: Your mode of transportation
should not be a source of ridicule. At the
same time, it does not have to be the
focus of conversation. There’s no need
to hide how you get to activities, but you
don’t need to advertise, either.
Stop worrying about what your friends
think. Don’t backtrack and bring it up
again to justify yourself more forcefully.
Let it go. You are being practical, which
is smart. Don’t forget that.
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follow it, and if control or bullying is
applied, walk away. Protect your
position and your right to choose.
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22) -- Reconnect with people you
have worked or played with in the
past. What transpires will lead to an
interesting outcome with personal or
professional options galore. Romance
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Bring about the changes that will
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cannot come to an agreement with
someone you live with or work alongside. Look for opportunities that allow
you to do your own thing in order to
avoid interference.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
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Your determination and enthusiasm
will help you get the support you
need to address a lingering concern.
If change is required, make it happen.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
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66
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75
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79
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93
13 UNCW (25-7)
85
6 Texas (20-12)
72
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St. Louis
Xavier 2
65
7 Oregon St. (19-12)
67
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Providence
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84
68
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62
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71
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47
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82
60
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92
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Utah 3
59
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71
Butler (21-10) 9
83
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85
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94
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52
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68
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80
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Fresno St. (25-9) 14
69
Syracuse 10
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51
Syracuse 10
75
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88
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61
71
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Butler 9
63
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50
85
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70
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45
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64
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77
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75
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70
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Spokane
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57
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Chattanooga (29-5) 12
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56
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56
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91
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74 Notre Dame 6
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Brooklyn
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67
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86
57
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N. Carolina 1
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86
88
60
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North Carolina 1
67
Raleigh
73
72
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59
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73
72
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77
65
55
66
Spokane
55
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61
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74
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As the drivers return from a brief spring break, it’s worth noting that the quality of the racing so far this season has exceeded even optimistic expectations.
POSITIVE VIBES
Aerodynamic Changes Have Produced High-Quality Racing in ’16
T
radio channel and poured cold water on the positive vibes by saying
his weekend at Martinsville Speedway, NASCAR wraps its
he preferred more pack racing and drafting. It was a statement that
version of spring break. All three national series were quiet
seemed both odd (Kentucky or tracks like it have never produced that
for the Easter weekend, and many drivers and teams took
type of racing in NASCAR’s history) and ill-timed.
the time to travel and recharge from the season’s first five
Another France misstep this season is the biggest
races, which featured improved competition
blemish on otherwise great first leg of 2016. France,
and excellent finishes in its flagship Sprint Cup Series.
Geoffrey Miller
along with current and former drivers, appeared at a Feb.
NASCAR’s early report card is full of high marks
Athlon Sports contributor
29 rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald
made possible by the sanctioning body’s aerodynamic
@GeoffreyMiller
Trump to offer what was later characterized as a personal
rules changes that have put more of each race’s outendorsement. The move brought into question a decision
come back in its drivers’ hands. Those changes include
last season by NASCAR to move banquet events out of
a smaller front splitter (a flat plate that extends forward
a Florida resort owned by Trump after NASCAR sponsor Camping
from the bottom of the car’s nose), a reduced underbody radiator pan
World objected to remarks from Trump about Mexican immigrants.
and a smaller rear spoiler. Those changes reduce the amount of air
Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis publicly criticized France’s
pushing down on a race car’s body panels (downforce) and force teams
endorsement in a tweet. France, when interviewed later by the Assoto find other ways to make the cars stick to the track in the corners.
ciated Press nine days later, claimed surprise that he would be quesFor many years, NASCAR had gone the opposite way. More downtioned for the endorsement — an explanation that Lemonis called
force was routinely added to the Sprint Cup rule book until 2015 when
“typical Brian” in an ESPN Radio interview. “I’ve seen this happen
it began to trim away slightly from the spoiler and radiator pan. But
before,” Lemonis said. “He doesn’t necessarily have all the facts and
the 2015 effect was less pronounced because NASCAR also reduced
he picks up a vision and he does it with enthusiasm and exuberance.”
horsepower, a move that seemed to counter-balance the downforce
For France and NASCAR, it seems the good racing on-track couldn’t
change. NASCAR eventually scheduled a four-race experiment: two
have come at a better time.
events with much more downforce and two with much less. After the
high-downforce package produced regrettable races at Indianapolis
Motor Speedway and Michigan International Speedway, the decision
SPRINT CUP STANDINGS
to use the lower package was made easy for this season.
POINTS BEHIND
DRIVER (WINS)
POINTS BEHIND DRIVER (WINS)
So far, it’s been the sport’s best change in recent memory that wasn’t
127 -68
1. Kevin Harvick [1]
195
-- 11. Martin Truex Jr.
safety-related. Passing is up, and the races have a combined average
125 -70
2. Jimmie Johnson [2] 184 -11 12. Jamie McMurray
finish margin (0.367 seconds) after five races that’s the lowest since
120 -75
3. Carl Edwards
171 -24 13. Aric Almirola
4. Denny Hamlin [1]
170 -25 14. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 119 -76
1993. Better yet? The drivers are enthralled. “I think it’s significantly
113 -82
4. Kyle Busch
170 -25 15. Matt Kenseth
better than what we had last year,” said Jamie McMurray. “And I can’t
110 -85
6.
Joey
Logano
165
-30 16. Chase Elliott
find anybody that thinks differently. You can race a little bit closer.
110 -85
7. Kurt Busch
148 -47 16. Ryan Blaney
The car in front of you doesn’t mess up your car as much.”
109 -86
8. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 145 -50 18. Kasey Kahne
The sport’s most popular driver has also been effusive in praise.
108 -87
9. Brad Keselowski [1] 142 -53 19. AJ Allmendinger
“Every week has been fun, fun, fun,” said Dale Earnhardt Jr. “The
95 -100
10. Austin Dillon
139 -56 20. Trevor Bayne
cars are fun to drive, slipping and sliding. It’s a good challenge and
I’m enjoying it.”
XFINITY STANDINGS
TRUCK STANDINGS
The process to this point hasn’t been all roses for NASCAR. The
DRIVER (WINS)
POINTS BEHIND DRIVER (WINS)
POINTS BEHIND
changes came with a verifiable price. The disappointment of last
1. Daniel Suarez
182
-1. Parker Kligerman 55
-year’s aerodynamic package changes — and the exceptional cost it
2. Elliott Sadler
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2. Daniel Hemric
54
-1
dealt to teams — contributed to NASCAR ceding significant power
3. Justin Allgaier
163 -19
3. Ben Rhodes
53
-2
to its owners this season in the form of a team charter system. A sport
4. Brandon Jones
161 -21
4. J.H. Nemechek [1] 52
-3
5. Ty Dillon
159 -23
5. Timothy Peters
49
-6
known to run from a bully pulpit operates much differently these days.
6. Brendan Gaughan 154 -28
6. Tyler Young
47
-8
A contributing factor to that change has been how NASCAR CEO
7. Erik Jones
152 -30
7. Ryan Truex
45
-10
Brian France has been viewed by the garage area. France made a sig8. Darrell Wallace Jr. 134 -48
8. Brandon Brown
43
-12
nificant misstep after the 2015 race Kentucky Speedway — one of
9. Ryan Reed
133 -49
9. Grant Enfinger
42
-13
the two low downforce experiment races last season that produced
10. Brennan Poole
130 -52
10. Johnny Sauter [1] 41
-14
glowing reviews on all fronts — when he went on NASCAR’s satellite
Two Sprint Cup drivers are both lighter
in the pocket following their trip to Auto
Club Speedway. Danica Patrick picked up
an expected penalty ($20,000 and four
races of probation) for approaching the
track to gesture at Kasey Kahne following contact that caused a major crash for
Patrick (below). Somewhat unexpected —
and also controversial — was Kyle Busch’s
$10,000 fine and four-race probation
after the XFINITY race. Busch, who finished second, accused NASCAR of “fixing
races” on his in-car radio after blowing a
tire on the final lap.
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Sprint Cup Series
Race: STP 500
Track: Martinsville Speedway
Location: Martinsville, Va.
Date: Sunday, April 3
TV: 1 p.m. ET, FS1
Layout: 0.526-mile oval
Turns/Banking: 4/12º
March 2015 Winner: Denny Hamlin
XFINITY Series
Race: O’Reilly Auto Parts 300
Track: Texas Motor Speedway
Date: Friday, April 8
TV: 8:30 p.m. ET, FS1
April 2015 Winner: Erik Jones
Camping World Truck Series
Race: Alpha Energy Solutions 250
Track: Martinsville Speedway
Date: Saturday, April 2
TV: 2:30 p.m. ET, FS1
2015 Winner: Joey Logano
NEWS & NOTES
FROM FORMULA 1 TO NASCAR? Stewart-Haas Racing has a direct relationship with
Formula 1 these days — the team is a sister of and shares a North Carolina campus with
part of the newly established Haas F1 Team — and one of the drivers told racing website
Motorsport.com that he’d love to test a Sprint Cup car. Romain Grosjean, a Frenchman
who finished a stunning sixth in the team’s debut two weeks ago in Australia, told the
website that he sat in a Cup car while visiting the North Carolina shop over the winter.
In the interview, Grosjean said he’d be open to testing and then potentially racing only a
road course. Haas F1, owned by SHR co-owner Gene Haas, is the first American F1 team
to compete in the series since 1986. Esteban Gutiérrez is Haas F1 Team’s other driver as it
competes in its maiden season.
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board structure that will hang above the infield. Its design involves huge cables hung
over the grandstands from four points, connecting at a central halo-type structure that
will hoist up screens that are 30 feet tall and 63 feet wide. The supporting structures
outside the track have been erected and the cabling has been installed to hoist the halo
structure. The display will be five times larger than screens formerly mounted to a nowdemolished infield pole structure (visible at right). Bristol will now have video boards not
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By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.
(AP) — D’Angelo Russell
knows he must rebuild the
Los Angeles Lakers’ trust
in him after the rookie
guard’s unflattering video
exchange with teammate
Nick Young ended up on
social media.
Speaking
before
Wednesday night’s home
game against Miami,
Russell apologized profusely for recording the
video, saying his actions
have created ‘‘a bad vibe’’
on the last-place club.
Russell also acknowledged that the video
might have imperiled
Young’s relationship with
his fiancie, rapper Iggy
Azalea.
‘‘I feel as sick as possible,’’ Russell said. ‘‘I
wish I could make things
better right away, but I
can’t.’’
Russell is a pillar of
the last-place Lakers’
rebuilding effort, but
he was lightly booed by
Lakers fans in pregame
introductions and in the
opening minutes against
the Heat. Other fans
shouted ‘‘Snitch!’’ and
‘‘Traitor!’’ from the stands
at Staples Center.
In Russell’s video, the
20-year-old point guard
asks Young about being
with women other than
Azalea. Russell claimed
he has no idea how the
video became public,
claiming he didn’t post it
on social media or send it
to any friends.
‘‘That’s the two-andtwo I’m trying to put
together, me and my
team,’’ said Russell, who
also declined to blame
the leak on phone hacking. ‘‘I have no clue how
that got out.’’
Russell disagreed with
claims that his teammates have isolated him,
but he knows they aren’t
happy.
‘‘I know if I’ve lost anybody’s trust, I’m going to
work my tail off to gain
it back, because that’s
something you need for
a winning team,’’ Russell
said. ‘‘You need everybody
to trust each other. You
need the first guy to trust
the 15th guy, and that’s
my intentions.’’
Young was unusually downbeat in his own
brief comments before
Wednesday’s game. The
charismatic
veteran
guard has mostly played
poorly this season for the
Lakers, his hometown
team.
‘‘I don’t want to get
into my personal life
right now,’’ Young said.
‘‘I think it’s best me and
D’Angelo handle the
situation we have in a
private manner, outside
the media. I think it’s
something we really do
need to sit down and
talk about. That’s about
it. What happened is
what happened. We’ve
got to work on it.’’
Azalea’s wedding to
Young had been postponed
even before the video
drama. The Australian
pop star posted an interesting response on her
Twitter account: ‘‘hmmm
i see D Angelo Russell is
trending... I actually liked
his film. Thanks bro.’’
Russell said he intended the video to be a joke
between two easygoing
players. Young is among
Russell’s closest friends
on the team, with Russell
claiming they usually
share a mischievous attitude toward life and locker-room antics.
By PATRICK ROSE
Associated Press
CHICAGO
(AP)
—
Josh Jackson and Frank
Jackson each scored
19 points, and the West
beat the East 114-107
in the boys McDonald’s
All American Game on
Wednesday night.
Frank Jackson, who
has committed to play for
Mike Krzyzewski at Duke,
was 5 for 7 from 3-point
range. Josh Jackson, who
is considering Michigan
State, Kansas and Arizona
for his college choice, was
9-for-11 shooting.
Josh Jackson and
Frank Jackson were
named co-MVPs.
Jayson Tatum had 18
points for the East, and
Bam Abebayo added 16
points and 12 rebounds.
Tatum also has committed to the Blue Devils.
Lonzo Ball, who was
named player of the year,
had a game-high 13
assists for the West. He is
committed to UCLA.
The West led for most
of the game.
Markelle Fultz showed
off his long range shooting with back-to-back 3s
to help the East close
to 82-70, but the West
NBA STANDINGS
By The Associated Press
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct
x-Toronto 50 24 .676
Boston 43 31 .581
New York
30 46 .395
Brooklyn 21 53 .284
Philadelphia 9 66 .120
Southeast Division
W L Pct
x-Atlanta 45 31 .592
Miami 43 30 .589
Charlotte 43 31 .581
Washington 36 38 .486
Orlando 31 43 .419
Central Division
W L Pct
y-Cleveland 52 22 .703
Detroit 40 35 .533
Indiana 39 35 .527
Chicago 37 37 .500
Milwaukee 31 44 .413
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct
y-San Antonio 63 12 .840
Memphis 41 34 .547
Houston 37 38 .493
Dallas 37 38 .493
New Orleans 27 47 .365
Northwest Division
W L Pct
y-Oklahoma City52 23 .693
Portland 39 36 .520
Utah 37 38 .493
Denver 32 44 .421
Minnesota 25 50 .333
Pacific Division
W L Pct
y-Golden State 68 7 .907
x-L.A. Clippers 47 27 .635
Sacramento 29 45 .392
Phoenix 20 55 .267
L.A. Lakers
15 59 .203
Washington at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.
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52 1/2
-clinched playoff spot
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Tuesday’s Games
Chicago 98, Indiana 96
Charlotte 100, Philadelphia 85
Orlando 139, Brooklyn 105
Detroit 88, Oklahoma City 82
Houston 106, Cleveland 100
Golden State 102, Washington 94
Wednesday’s Games
Toronto 105, Atlanta 97
L.A. Clippers 99, Minnesota 79
Milwaukee 105, Phoenix 94
Denver 109, Memphis 105
San Antonio 100, New Orleans 92
Dallas 91, New York 89
Golden State 103, Utah 96, OT
Washington at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Miami at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Chicago at Houston, 7 p.m.
Brooklyn at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
Orlando at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Denver at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 9:30
p.m.
Boston at Portland, 10 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Orlando at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Cleveland at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Utah, 9 p.m.
Miami at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Boston at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Jackson duo dominate McDonalds HS game
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
Tampa Bay 764427 5 93214182
Florida 764225 9 93218189
Boston 774029 8 88223209
Detroit 77382811 87198212
Ottawa 773533 9 79219235
Montreal 773536 6 76205224
Buffalo 77313511 73185210
Toronto 76283711 67186222
Metropolitan Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
z-Washington 765416 6114237177
N.Y. Rangers764324 9 95219199
Pittsburgh 764325 8 94219190
N.Y. Islanders754125 9 91210193
Philadelphia 76382513 89198200
New Jersey 773732 8 82173194
Carolina 77332816 82187208
Columbus 763038 8 68195237
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
x-Dallas 774622 9101252220
x-St. Louis 774622 9101206186
x-Chicago 774426 7 95213192
Nashville 77392513 91215199
Minnesota 77382811 87210190
Colorado 773934 4 82205218
Winnipeg 773139 7 69195225
Pacific Division
GPW LOTPts GF GA
x-Los Angeles764526 5 95208180
x-Anaheim 75422310 94196178
x-San Jose 774328 6 92228199
Arizona 763435 7 75199226
Calgary 763238 6 70210240
Vancouver 76273613 67172221
Edmonton 793042 7 67194234
OTE: Two points for a win, one
N
point for overtime loss.
x-clinched playoff spot
z-clinched conference
Tuesday’s Games
N.Y. Islanders 2, Carolina 1, SO
Pittsburgh 5, Buffalo 4, SO
New Jersey 2, Boston 1
Montreal 4, Detroit 3
Toronto 5, Florida 2
Minnesota 4, Chicago 1
St. Louis 3, Colorado 1
Dallas 5, Nashville 2
San Jose 4, Vancouver 1
Wednesday’s Games
Philadelphia 2, Washington 1, SO
Ottawa 2, Winnipeg 1
Calgary at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Toronto at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Columbus at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Nashville at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
New Jersey at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Calgary at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Vancouver at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Minnesota at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Boston at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Washington at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Vancouver at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Major League Baseball
Spring Training Glance
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L
Pct
Toronto 17
Los Angeles
15
Minnesota 18
Houston 17
Detroit 16
Texas 17
Cleveland 15
Chicago 15
Tampa Bay
12
Seattle 15
New York
13
Kansas City
14
Oakland 11
Boston 12
Baltimore 10
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W
Washington 18
Arizona 22
Philadelphia 15
Colorado 14
Cincinnati 15
Milwaukee 13
Los Angeles
13
Miami 10
St. Louis
10
Chicago 10
San Francisco
11
San Diego
10
New York
7
Pittsburgh 7
Atlanta 6
6
8
10
10
11
13
12
13
11
14
13
19
15
17
15
.739
.652
.643
.630
.593
.567
.556
.536
.522
.517
.500
.424
.423
.414
.400
L
4
7
10
12
15
13
14
13
13
17
19
19
16
20
19
Pct
.818
.759
.600
.538
.500
.500
.481
.435
.435
.370
.367
.345
.304
.259
.240
OTE: Split-squad games count in
N
the standings; games against nonmajor league teams do not.
———
Tuesday’s Games
Minnesota 6, Boston 2, 7 innings
N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Philadelphia at
Clearwater, Fla., ccd., Rain
Washington vs. St. Louis at Jupiter,
Fla., ccd., Rain
N.Y. Yankees (ss) 5, Pittsburgh 4, 5
innings
Toronto (ss) vs. Detroit at Lakeland,
Fla., ccd., Rain
Tampa Bay vs. Toronto (ss) at Dunedin, Fla., ccd., Rain
Miami 1, N.Y. Mets 0
L.A. Angels 1, Cleveland (ss) 1, tie
Chicago White Sox 6, Texas 2
Chicago Cubs 9, Oakland 5
Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 2
San Diego 11, L.A. Dodgers 9
Colorado 6, Arizona 1
Baltimore 4, Atlanta 4, tie, 10 innings
Kansas City 16, San Francisco 10
Cleveland (ss) 4, Seattle 1 Wednesday’s Games
Washington 12, N.Y. Mets 1
Minnesota 4, Toronto 3
Tampa Bay 4, Boston (ss) 3
St. Louis 3, Miami 0
Pittsburgh 4, Boston (ss) 4, tie
Philadelphia 8, Houston 4
N.Y. Yankees 2, Atlanta 0
Texas 5, Kansas City 1
Arizona 12, Oakland 9
San Diego 7, Seattle 5
Cleveland 4, L.A. Dodgers 3
Cincinnati 6, Chicago White Sox 3
Chicago Cubs 10, Colorado (ss) 0
Milwaukee 5, Colorado (ss) 4
Detroit 2, Baltimore 1
Thursday’s Games
Boston vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers,
Fla., 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay at Port
Charlotte, Fla., 1:05 p.m.
St. Louis vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss) at
Tampa, Fla., 1:05 p.m.
Cincinnati vs. Cleveland at Good-
year, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.
Atlanta vs. Baltimore at Sarasota,
Fla., 3:05 p.m.
Arizona vs. Colorado at Scottsdale,
Ariz., 3:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets vs. Chicago Cubs at Las
Vegas, 8:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Houston, 8:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
p.m.
Oakland at San Francisco, 10:15
p.m.
Wednesday’s Transactions
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES —
Released RHP Miguel Gonzalez.
Reassigned C Audry Perez to their
minor league camp.
BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned
LHP Roenis Elias to Pawtucket (IL).
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Selected the contract of INF Jimmy Rollins
from Charlotte (IL). Optioned RHP
Scott Carroll to Charlotte. Assigned
RHP Jacob Turner outright to Charlotte.
DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned
LHP Matt Boyd to Toledo (IL). Agreed
to terms with RHP Bobby Parnell on
a minor league contract.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS —
Released OF Travis Snider from a
minor league contract.
NEW YORK YANKEES —
Optioned RHPs Nick Goody and
Branden Pinder and LHP Tyler Olson
to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).
SEATTLE MARINERS — Acquired
RHP Nick Vincent from San Diego for
a player to be named. Optioned RHP
Mayckol Guaipe to Tacoma (PCL).
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned
RHP Matt Andriese and 3B Richie
Shaffer to Durham (IL). Released C
Rene Rivera.
TEXAS RANGERS — Assigned C
Michael McKenry and INF Ike Davis
to their minor league camp.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS —
Optioned RH/LHP Pat Venditte and
OF Darrell Ceciliani to Buffalo (IL).
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned
RHP Mike Foltynewicz to Gwinnett
(IL). Reassigned Cs Ryan Lavarnway
and Blake Lalli to minor their league
camp.
CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to
terms with 2B Munenori Kawasaki,
OF Shane Victorino and LHP Manny
Parra on minor league contracts.
CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned
OF Tyler Holt to Louisville (IL). Reassigned RHP Drew Hayes, RHP Ryan
Mattheus, RHP JC Ramirez and RHP
Pedro Villarreal to their minor league
camp. Announced Rule 5 LHP Chris
O’Grady cleared waivers and was
offered back to the Los Angeles
Angels.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS —
Reassigned IF/OF Elian Herrera,
RHP Brandon Beachy and OF Rico
Noel to minor league camp.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed
RHP Zack Jones, LHP Sean Nolin
and OF Rymer Liriano on the 15-day
DL.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES —
Agreed to terms with RHP Edward
Mujica on a minor league contract.
responded
with
11
straight points, highlighted by Frank Jackson’s
back-to-back 3s
Fultz finished with 10
points.
Malik Monk, a 6-foot3 shooting guard, energized the United Center
crowd with a reverse
alley-oop for the West.
On the next possession,
he took a pass from Ball
and elevated high for the
dunk. Monk was one of
four Kentucky recruits
playing in the game.
Josh Jackson made a
3-pointer to put the West
up 52-47 at the break.
Warriors escape with OT win over Jazz, 103-96
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)
— Stephen Curry scored
31 points, including six
straight in overtime, and
the Golden State Warriors
continued their historic
run with a 103-96 victory over the Utah Jazz on
Wednesday night.
The Warriors (68-7)
surpassed last season’s
victory total and must win
five of their final seven
games to break the 199596 Chicago Bulls’ record of
72-10.
Klay Thompson hit
the tying 3-pointer with
15 seconds remaining after an offensive
rebound and kick-out
from Shaun Livingston
after Thompson missed
the previous attempt.
Curry took over with
his burst that gave the
Warriors a 99-93 lead.
He then took a charge
on Gordon Hayward with
1:21 left before setting
up Draymond Green’s
dunk on the ensuing possession to put away the
game.
The
Jazz
(37-38)
fell into a tie with the
Houston Rockets for the
No. 7 slot in the Western
Conference playoff race.
SPURS
100,
PELICANS 92
SAN ANTONIO (AP)
— Manu Ginobili scored
20 points and the San
Antonio Spurs beat the
injury-depleted
New
Orleans Pelicans 100-92
on Wednesday night for
their NBA-record 38th
straight home victory to
open a season.
San Antonio topped the
37-0 start by the Chicago
Bulls during their record
72-victory season in
1995-96. Golden State
(67-7) has an existing
36-game home winning
streak to open the season, giving the Warriors
a chance to end up with
the record.
San Antonio’s Kawhi
Leonard had 16 points in
his return from a threegame absence, showing no discomfort after
bruising his right quadriceps on March 23. The
6-foot-7 forward hit three
long jumpers to open
the game, including his
only 3-pointer in five
attempts.
Alexis Ajinca had 18
points for New Orleans,
which was without nine
players due to injury. Jordan
Hamilton added 14 points
in his first start in his third
game with the team.
Leonard also had a pair
of assists to Danny Green
in the first 6 minutes of
the first quarter. The first
came on a fast-break
layup after Leonard corralled a turnover and the
second came after he spun
into the lane and tossed
out a pass to Green for a
3-pointer.
Green finished with
16 points, going 4 for 6
on 3-pointers on a hotshooting night behind the
arc for San Antonio. The
Spurs were 12 for 24 on
3s.
RAPTORS
105,
HAWKS 97
TORONTO (AP) —
DeMar DeRozan scored 26
points, Jonas Valanciunas
added 19 points and nine
rebounds, and the Toronto
Raptors earned their franchise-record 50th victory
of the season Wednesday
night, 105-97 victory over
the Atlanta Hawks.
DeRozan added six
assists and five rebounds,
while Kyle Lowry finished with 17 points, 11
assists and six rebounds
as Toronto (50-24) won for
just the second time in five
games.
Toronto became the
final franchise in the NBA
to reach 50 in a season.
Jeff Teague had 18
points for the Hawks (4531), whose four-game winning streak was snapped.
Tim Hardaway Jr.
added 15 points and Paul
Millsap had seven points
and nine rebounds for
Atlanta, which has won
14 of its last 18 games.
260
ll
s
NBA—Raptors 105, Hawks 97...Mavs 91, Knicks 89...Spurs 100, Pelicans 92...Warriors 103, Jazz 96 (OT)
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Russell
Sports
Scoreboard apologizes
in LA
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Hakes, Combs clash on the field after conference honors
By BOB SHRALUKA
Two Adams County baseball
products, Brian Hakes and
Dalton Combs, have earned
player of the week honors
from their respective college
leagues.
After what the league
described as “a monster week,”
Hakes, of Decatur, was named
Wolverine-Hoosier
Athletic
Conference (WHAC) Player of
the Week. The 6-4, 245-pound
senior, a Bellmont grad, is
a catcher/third baseman for
Indiana Tech.
In six games last week,
Hakes hit .571 with a .679 onbase percentage and a 1.048
slugging average as Tech went
6-0 and boosted its record to
21-3 (6-0 conference). Hakes
had 12 hits in 21 official atbats, with two home runs, two
doubles, and a triple while
walking four times and getting
hit three times. He scored six
runs and stole two bases while
striking out only once in 21
trips.
Hakes also drove in the winning run in two games, scored
the winning run in another
and got his team off in front
with first-inning RBI-hits in
three of the six contests.
Through the first 24 games,
Hakes was hitting .459 (3474), with 12 doubles, two triples, four home runs and 33
RBI. His slugging percentage
was .838 and he had a .594
on-base average (11 walks, 15
hit-by-pitch).
Off to its best start in years,
Tech's 6-0 week followed a
6-1 record compiled during
a swing through Florida and
Georgia.
Meanwhile,
Combs,
of
Monroe, was announced as
the Player of the Week by the
Crossroads Conference. The
Adams Central grad is a junior
outfielder with the Huntington
University Foresters, who had
won four in a row through last
Monday and are 8-16 on the
season.
Combs went 14-24 last
week, a .583 average, with five
doubles, a home run, five RBI
and a .917 slugging percentage. He began this week as the
league's second-leading hitter,
.427, and was second in slugging, .680. He had compiled
32 hits, 11 for extra bases,
with 14 RBI and a .463 onbase percentage.
The 6-3, 215-pound Combs
paced the Foresters in hitting
last season with a .386 average, with 23 runs, 39 hits, 7
doubles, 3 homers and 19 RBI
in 37 games. He racked up
a .545 slugging average and
.448 on-base numbers.
Meet on diamond
Ironically, within hours of
the two conference announcements, the players of the week
met on the diamond Tuesday
night, four years after their
last meeting in high school.
NAIA-ranked Tech scored
an unearned run in the fifth
inning to break up a tight
pitching duel between the
Warriors' Cody Kellar and the
Foresters' Connor West and
went on to post an 8-3 win
at Huntington's Forest Glen
Park.
Hakes had a single, a double and two walks in five trips
for the winners. Combs finished the night 0-4 but hit
the ball hard with a pair of
deep flyouts and also drove in
the Foresters' first run on a
groundout.
Third baseman Adam Roser
paced the Huntington offense
with two singles and a double.
Another area player, Branson
Dossen, a spring graduate of
Heritage High School, started
at third for Tech and finished
with a single in four times.
The win was the ninth in
a row for Tech, which this
week gained 23rd spot in
the national rankings, the
NAIA Coaches' Top 25 poll.
It marked the Warriors' first
appearance in the poll since
April of 2012.
Azarenka advances to semi-finals
By STEVEN WINE
AP Sports Writer
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) —
Victoria Azarenka was well on
her way to victory Wednesday
when she drew a code violation
for chastising herself too colorfully, and she later angrily
jabbed at her eyes with two
fingers as if to say, ‘‘Watch the
ball.’’
Azarenka sets high standards for herself, which is one
reason she is undefeated in
March.
The two-time Grand Slam
champion moved one win closer to a rare Indian Wells-Key
Biscayne double by beating
Johanna Konta
in the quarterfinals of the
Miami
Open,
6-4, 6-2.
Top-ranked
Novak Djokovic
overcame back
spasms to defeat
No.
7-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-3.
Afterward Djokovic said he’s
not concerned about his back
going into Friday’s semifinal
against No. 15-seeded David
Goffin, who became the first
Belgian ever to reach the men’s
semifinals at Key Biscayne
by rallying past No. 18 Gilles
Simon 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.
Eight-time women’s champion Serena Williams was
eliminated in the fourth round,
making
Azarenka’s
path
less daunting. Her opponent
Thursday night will be No.
2-seeded Angelique Kerber,
who beat No. 22 Madison Keys
6-3, 6-2.
Keys, who committed 39
unforced errors, was the last
American in either draw.
No. 15 Svetlana Kuznetsova,
who ousted Williams, will play
No. 19 Timea Bacsinszky in
the other semifinal.
Azarenka, seeded 13th, beat
Williams in the Indian Wells
final less than two weeks ago
and is 20-1 this year. She
is trying to become the third
woman to win Indian Wells
and Key Biscayne in the same
year, a feat achieved only by
Steffi Graf and Kim Clijsters.
‘‘If I’m able to make it, it’s
great,’’ Azarenka said. ‘‘It
seems so close, but it’s really
far. I want to stay in the present. I want to continue to fight
and keep getting better.’’
Azarenka won Key Biscayne
in 2009 and 2011. A former
No. 1 player, she fell out of the
top 30 in 2014 because of foot
and thigh injuries but will be
back in the top five next week.
‘‘I never doubted my abilities,’’ she said. ‘‘The doubt
was to get healthy again. I still
feel I’m far from my best, and
that’s really exciting for me.’’
Against the No. 24-seeded
Konta, Azarenka wasn’t always
pleased with her play. The code
violation came when she lost
the first game of
the second set.
‘‘Sometimes I
cuss, and that’s
OK,’’ she said.
‘‘Whatever will
make me play
better, I’m going
to do. I was just
trying to push
myself.’’
Azarenka never lost serve
and committed just 14 unforced
errors in 119 points. Her deep,
steady groundstrokes gradually broke down Konta’s baseline game, and the Brit doublefaulted three times on break
point.
Djokovic moved a step closer to his sixth Key Biscayne
men’s title, which would tie
Andre Agassi’s record, and his
third in a row. He improved to
20-0 on hard courts against
Berdych, but not without a
strain — he tweaked his back
and received treatment from
a trainer five games into the
second set.
Djokovic blamed a swirling
wind. Despite the tricky conditions he finished with only
eight unforced errors to 35 for
Berdych.
‘‘This was overall from
the first to the last point the
best match I’ve played of the
tournament,’’ he said, ‘‘and it
comes at the right stage of the
event.’’
Djokovic improved to 26-1
this year and said he feels better about his game than at the
same stage in 2015 — a year
in which he won three Grand
Slam titles.
ADAMS COUNTY PLAYS ON— Brian Hakes (left), a senior at Indiana Tech, and Dalton Combs,
a junior at Huntington University, both produced well for their respective baseball clubs this
week and were named Player of the Week in the WHAC and Crossroads Conferences respectively. The duo ironically would play on the field with Tech picking up the 8-3 victory. (Photos
provided)
Braves honored for stellar wrestling season
Post-season
wrestling
awards were given out to the
Bellmont Braves as a successful run to state for six
grapplers culminated another
memorable campaign for the
school.
With a team-state title in
January at the AA level, the
Braves also finished the season with tidy 21-2 record.
Represented by first-year
head coach Paul Gunsett, Jon
Becker, Bryce Baumgartner,
Caleb
Hankenson,
and
Braiden Shaw were all listed
as first team all-NE8.
Senior Daniel Gunsett was
awarded second team honors,
while DeAundre James, Grant
Gutierrez, Matt Laughlin, Tony
Busse, and Jarron Gerwig
battled their way onto the
honorable mention list for the
Northeast Eight Conference.
Becker, Gunsett, Busse,
Baumgartner,
Hankenson
and Mason Mendez were the
six wrestlers who ended their
season all the way at the state
level in Indianapolis but it
was Busse who made first
team Academic All-State with
a GPA of over 3.5. Gutierrez,
Hankenson and Becker were
all honorable mention on that
list thanks to their 3.25 or
above GPA and wrestling performances.
The successful Braves campaign can be remembered
much longer as the team is
selling state championship
t-shirts for just $15 each.
They can be ordered through
the wrestlers or through coach
Gunsett at gunsettp@nadams.
k12.in.us.
BUSSE
Bengals pick up LB Dansby from Cleveland
By JOE KAY
AP Sports Writer
CINCINNATI (AP) — The
Bengals signed versatile linebacker Karlos Dansby to a
one-year deal on Wednesday,
bringing in someone who can
help them get through Vontaze
Burfict’s suspension for the
first three games next season.
The 34-year-old linebacker
played for the intrastate rival
Cleveland Browns the last two
seasons and led them in tackles. He also had a team-high
three interceptions in 2015.
Now he’ll be facing them twice
a season.
‘‘Naw, it ain’t going to be
weird, not at all,’’ he said on a
conference call.
Dansby is the Bengals’ first
notable free agent signing from
outside the current roster.
The Bengals have spent most
of free agency trying to keep
their defense intact after it
finished second in the NFL in
fewest points allowed. Among
those re-signed to multiyear
deals were cornerback Adam
‘‘Pacman’’ Jones and safety
George Iloka.
Dansby has played all three
linebacker spots and is known
for his ability to cover receivers. He gives the Bengals versatility at linebacker, especially when Burfict is gone. The
NFL suspended the middle
linebacker for repeatedly violating its player safety rules,
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receiver Antonio Brown in the
head during Pittsburgh’s firstround playoff win. Brown was
sidelined with a concussion as
a result of the hit.
Cincinnati has reached the
playoffs five years in a row but
lost its first-round game all
five times, an NFL record. The
Bengals haven’t won a playoff
game in 25 years, the sixthlongest streak of postseason
futility in NFL history.
Dansby leaves a Browns
team that has been in disarray and has only one winning
record in the last 13 years.
Former Bengals offensive
coordinator Hue Jackson took
over as head coach this year.

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