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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2016
TAMING THE
‘KILLER ROBOT’
Robots such as the
Navy’s Shipboard
Autonomous
Firefighting
Robot, rear, are
being developed
to assist human
servicemembers.
The military is
researching ways
to incorporate
more autonomous
systems while
easing fears of
futuristic killer
robots such as
those depicted in
the “Terminator”
films, front.
Navy wants to teach robots how to behave » Page 4
Photos courtesy
of the U.S. Navy and
Warner Bros. Pictures
ILLUSTRATION BY
SEAN MOORES
Stars and Stripes
POW/MIA Accounting Agency works to hasten identifications
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The reorganized agency
tasked with accounting for the nation’s
missing warfighters has improved its
communication with family members and
boosted cooperation with outside partners
to find and retrieve remains, say some advocates involved in the effort.
But those observers also wonder whether
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agen-
cy, which reached full operational capacity
in January, will flounder with the sudden
July departure of its first director, Michael
Linnington. While DPAA officials say the
overhaul and reforms are well-established,
critics contend that inefficiencies and lack
of transparency still dog the agency.
Linnington stayed for only a year, despite
repeated promises to families of missing
servicemembers that he was in the job for
the long haul.
“It’s really hard to say what exactly the
positives are,” said Ann Mills-Griffiths,
chairman of the board for the National
League of POW/MIA Families. “Things
were in a state of complete flux at the time
that Linnington decided to step out.”
Although his departure was a “shock,”
DPAA can rebound if his replacement
“can handle the complexities of this mission,” she said.
The reorganized agency has been trying
to improve, though “clumsily” so, MillsGriffiths said.
“I think it has the chance of being better,” she said. “Is it better yet? No, it’s still
dysfunctional. It still has a lot of work to be
done to make it as productive as I think it
could be.”
In an interview with Stars and Stripes
shortly before he left to head the Wounded
Warrior Project, Linnington said he believed the new DPAA had strengthened its
relationships with families and members
of Congress.
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Monday, August 15, 2016
EUROPE
Wiesbaden’s prospects looking up
With rocket launch,
students boost
their STEM skills
BY DAN STOUTAMIRE
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WIESBADEN, Germany —
Some kids can’t keep away from
the classroom — even during the
summer holidays.
More than 30 students participated in the first week of the
Wiesbaden High School Robowarriors robotics club’s annual STEM summer day camp,
which this year focused on space
technologies. STEM stands for
science, technology, engineering
and mathematics.
“We try to find something that
engages students and fires their
imaginations,” said Frank Pendzich, a science teacher at the
high school and adviser to the Robowarriors. “Innovation is key to
what we want to do, to get kids to
solve problems.”
Pendzich and the camp’s counselors, all students at the high
school and Robowarriors members, designed and built smallscale hot-air balloons and planes,
before moving on to water rockets
on Friday.
Parents came out Friday morning for the rocket demonstration.
“He’s always been interested
in STEM-type stuff, mainly the
arts stuff, and he was interested
in space and building rockets, so
I said, ‘Let’s do the space camp,’ ”
said Brandi Collins of her son
Nick, who is about to enter the
sixth grade.
Nick said he enjoyed the handson nature of the camp and discussions about space travel. He hopes
to come back next year.
“The hot-air balloons were fun
to make with my teammates,” he
said. “We kept talking about the
change in pressure when you get
to outer space and everything,
and oxygen.”
The camp is a major part of the
Robowarriors’ annual fundraising efforts, which enable members to buy materials for their
projects and travel to competitions in the United States.
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Clockwise from top:
Students at the
Wiesbaden High
School Robowarriors
robotics club summer
camp volunteer to
demonstrate their
water rockets Friday in
Wiesbaden, Germany;
Natalie Puente-Bonilla,
left, and Olivia
Cunningham launch
their rocket; Ethan
Davies prepares to pull
a lanyard to launch a
rocket; Frank Pendzich,
a science teacher at
the school and robotics
club adviser, watches a
student launch a rocket.
PHOTOS
BY
DAN STOUTAMIRE
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Work at nuclear
test site ongoing
in North Korea
BY A ARON K IDD
Stars and Stripes
Work is continuing at North
Korea’s Punggye-ri underground
nuclear test site, particularly at
the north portal where the communist nation claimed to have
exploded a hydrogen bomb in
January, a Washington-based
think tank said.
Satellite images taken Aug. 4
show a large canopy has been
erected south of a support building near the test tunnel’s entrance, according to an analysis
by 38 North, a website run by
Johns
Hopkins
University’s
School of Advanced International
Studies that monitors North Korean activities.
The canopy is not camouflaged
but does prevent accurate observation of the area it covers, the
website said. Supplies, equipment
and vehicles spotted near the portal in images from July were no
longer present.
“The purpose of the activity as well as of an object located
on the tailings pile to the east of
the North Portal is unclear,” the
analysis said. It may be a small
vehicle or a group of smaller objects such as mine-ore carts.
The images also show activity
at other areas of the site, including large trucks in the main support area and at the command
center; supplies or crates stacked
in front of an active greenhouse;
a small vehicle at a building near
the west portal; and the external
completion of a building, thought
to be for security forces, being
constructed east of the command
center.
Clouds prevented meaningful
observations of the entrance to
the south test tunnel, 38 North
said. Also, several groups of people and small vehicles that were
spotted on a road south of the facility in July were not present in
the recent photos, though much
of the area was obscured by summer tree canopies.
Angered over the recent deployment of nuclear-capable B-2
stealth bombers to Guam, North
C OURTESY
Korea on Thursday accused the
U.S. of planning a surprise nuclear attack in connection with
upcoming U.S.-South Korea war
games and promised to retaliate
with its own nuclear strike.
The U.S. and South Korea have
been bracing for the North to conduct a fifth nuclear test since ear-
lier this year. Leader Kim Jong
Un claimed during his country’s
historic Workers’ Party Congress
in May that he won’t use nuclear
weapons unless the nation’s sovereignty is under attack.
North Korea completed four increasingly powerful nuclear tests
at Punggye-ri in 2006, 2009, 2013
Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan
— A Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare plane tested its
noise levels Thursday at Marine
Corps Air Station Iwakuni in
Japan before a carrier air wing
moves there next year.
The Growler, from Electronic
Attack Squadron 141 out of Naval
Air Facility Atsugi near Tokyo,
flew over the base and the surrounding city of Iwakuni, 25 miles
south of Hiroshima.
The plane, a modified F/A-18F
Super Hornet with electronic
warfare capability to jam and suppress enemy aircraft signals, is
one of the new types of aircraft
that will arrive with the wing.
Officials recorded noise levels
as high as 97 decibels about a halfmile from the base and 105.5 decibels on base, according to data
provided by the Japanese government. A subway train produces
roughly 100 decibels.
Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda had asked for the flight and
was among those present during
noise tests. The levels were “not
much different from the noise
from the conventional Hornets
already assigned to Marine Corps
Air Station Iwakuni,” he said in a
statement.
It was regrettable that officials
couldn’t compare noise produced
by the Navy’s Super Hornet to the
Marines’ version, Fukuda said.
The city will use the data to ensure “noise and safety precautions
involving the relocation of the carrier air wing” are in place before
the move, he said.
The base’s population will
double to approximately 10,000
with the arrival of nine squadrons
making up Carrier Air Wing Five,
which flies off the Yokosuka-based
USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier during deployments.
The air wing’s move is part of
a 2006 agreement reached by the
U.S. and Japan to realign forces. New facilities being built at
Iwakuni include a new airfield and
support facilities, a modernized
exchange and commissary and a
270-unit officer housing area.
Workers also are building a new
recreation complex complete with
a cultural center, tea room, baseball and soccer fields and indoor
volleyball and basketball courts
a few miles from the base atop
Mount Atago.
Iwakuni City has yet to take
a position on the relocation, although Fukuda soundly defeated
a candidate opposed to moving the
air wing in an election earlier this
year.
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A IRBUS D EFENSE & SPACE /38 North
and in January. It claimed the
fourth test was a hydrogen bomb
— potentially much more powerful than the enriched uranium or
plutonium weapons it has tested
in the past — though experts have
questioned that.
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Apache helo
collision in
South Korea
injures four
Noise test conducted
at Iwakuni air base
BY JAMES K IMBER
AND H ANA KUSUMOTO
OF
A new canopy erected near the north portal of North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site is shown in
this Aug. 4 satellite image.
BY K IM GAMEL
Stars and Stripes
JACOB FARBO/Courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps
A Navy EA-18G Growler from Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan,
conducts a noise test near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on
Thursday. The plane is one of the new types of aircraft that will
arrive at Iwakuni next year.
SEOUL, South Korea — Two
Apache helicopters collided Friday at Camp Humphreys, South
Korea, injuring four U.S. soldiers,
a spokesman said.
The AH-64 helicopters were
getting ready to take off when
the collision occurred at the base
south of Seoul, said Lt. Col. Richard Hyde, the 2nd Infantry Division spokesman.
The four soldiers were taken to
nearby hospitals with minor injuries, but all have been released,
he said Sunday.
The military did not give a
cause, saying an investigation is
underway.
Last November, two pilots were
killed when an Apache attack helicopter crashed during a routine
training mission 50 miles east of
Camp Humphreys.
About 28,500 U.S. servicemembers are stationed in South Korea,
which remains technically at war
with the North after the 1950-53
conflict ended with an armistice
instead of a peace treaty.
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Navy looking at
teaching robots
how to behave
BY SETH ROBSON
Stars and Stripes
T
he rise of artificial intelligence has long stoked
fears of killer robots like
the “Terminator,” and
early versions of military automatons are already on the battlefield.
Now, the Navy is looking into how
it can teach machines to do the
right thing.
“We’ve been looking at different
ways that we can have people interact with autonomous systems,”
Marc Steinberg, an Office of
Naval Research manager, said in
a phone interview this month.
The Navy is funding a slew of
projects at universities and institutes that look at how to train such
systems, including stopping robots
from harming people.
In 1979, a Ford autoworker in
Michigan became the first person killed by a robot when he was
struck in the head by the arm of
a 1-ton production-line machine,
according to Guinness World Records. More recently, police in
Dallas used a robot to deliver a
bomb that killed the shooter who
opened fire on officers at a Black
Lives Matter protest.
Science fiction author Isaac
Asimov’s 1950 book of short stories, “I, Robot,” is credited with
creating the three laws of robotics, including a “robot may not
injure a human being or, through
inaction, allow a human being to
come to harm.”
Rather than try to control machines with Asimov’s laws, Navy
researchers are taking other approaches. They’re showing robots
what to do, putting them through
their paces and then critiquing
them and telling them what not to
do, Steinberg said.
“We’re trying to develop systems that don’t have to be told
exactly what to do,” he said. “You
can give them high-level mission
guidance, and they can work out
the steps involved to carry out a
task.”
That could be important as the
Navy fields more unmanned systems. It’s already flying drones,
driving unmanned speedboats
and sending robotic submersibles
to collect data beneath the waves.
The Navy has no plans to create
robots that attack enemy forces
without oversight. Humans would
always be in command of a machine ordered to attack, Steinberg
said.
However, there are situations
where a military robot might have
to weigh risks to humans and make
appropriate decisions, he said.
“Think of an unmanned surface
vessel following the rules of the
road,” Steinberg said. “If you have
another boat getting too close, it
could be an adversary or it could
be someone who is just curious
who you don’t want to put at risk.”
The robot research is in its early
stages and likely will take decades
to mature, he said.
Teaching human values
A Navy-funded project at the
Georgia Institute of Technology
involves an artificial intelligence
software program named Quixote
that uses stories to teach robots
acceptable behavior.
Quixote could serve as a
“human user manual” by teaching robots values through simple
stories that reflect shared cultural
knowledge, social mores and protocols, said Mark Riedl, director
of Georgia Tech’s Entertainment
Intelligence Lab.
For their research, Riedl and
his team have searched online for
stories that highlight daily social
interactions — going to a pharmacy or restaurant, for example
— as well as socially appropriate
behaviors like paying for meals.
The team plugged the data into
Quixote to create a virtual agent
— in this case, a video game character placed in gamelike scenarios mirroring the stories. As the
virtual agent completed a game,
it earned points and positive reinforcement for emulating the actions of people in the stories.
Riedl’s team ran the agent
through 500,000 simulations, and
it displayed proper social interactions more than 90 percent of the
time, a Navy statement said.
“Social norms are designed to
keep us out of conflict with each
other, and we want robots to be
aware of the way humans work
with each other,” Riedl said, adding that smartphone applications
such as Siri and Cortana are programmed not to say hurtful or insulting things to users. “We want
Quixote to be able to read literature off the internet and reverseengineer social conventions from
those stories.”
Quixote could help train soldiers
by simulating foreign cultures
that have different social norms,
he said.
“A robot with a real soldier needs
to have an idea of how people do
W YATT O LSON /Stars and Stripes
A technician walks beside a bridge-toting robot during the Pacific Manned-Unmanned Initiative, or
PACMAN-I, on July 26 at Bellows Air Force Station, Hawaii. The prototype robot is designed to carry all
the pieces of a disassembled bridge or to tow it into place.
things,” he said. “It shouldn’t respond in an inappropriate way just
because people behave differently
overseas.”
The goal is to build a tool that
lets people without computer science or artificial intelligence
backgrounds train robots, Riedl
said.
It’s an approach that backfired
recently with Microsoft’s Tay
chatbot. Engineered to convey
the persona of a teenage girl, Tay
learned through conversations
with online users but was switched
off after evolving into a sex-crazed
Nazi — tweeting, for example, that
“Hitler did nothing wrong” and
asking her followers for sex.
“Right now, it’s not something
we need to worry about because
artificial intelligence bots are
very simplistic,” Reidl said. “It’s
hard to get them to do anything,
period, but you can imagine a day
in the future where robots have
much more capabilities.”
Normal behavior
There’s always a risk that people will use a tool to do harm; however, Quixote should be relatively
tamper-proof because it will tap
into a vast trove of online literature to discern appropriate values,
he said.
“There is subversive literature
out there, but the vast majority
of what it is going to read will be
about … normal human behavior,
so in the long term, Quixote will
be kind of resistant to tampering,”
Reidl said.
Humans
are
hard-wired
through social conventions to avoid
conflict, Reidl said, although mankind has engaged in near-constant
warfare for millennia. That hasn’t
deterred the researchers, but it
may concern groups campaigning
for a ban on autonomous military
robots.
A recent Human Rights Watch
and Harvard Law School report
calls for humans to retain control
over all weapons systems. Last
year, a group of technology experts — including physicist Stephen Hawking, Tesla Motors CEO
Elon Musk and Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak — warned that autonomous weapons could be developed within years, not decades.
Peter Asaro, vice chair of the International Committee for Robot
Arms Control — which is campaigning for a treaty to ban “killer
robots” — questions whether a
machine can be programmed to
make the sort of moral and ethical
choices that a human does before
taking someone’s life.
Soldiers must consider whether
their actions are justified and the
risks that they take are proportionate to a threat, he said.
“I don’t know that it’s a role
that we can give to a machine,” he
said. “I don’t know that looking at
a bunch of different examples is
going to teach it what it needs to
know. Who is responsible if something goes wrong?”
If a robot follows its programming but does something wrong,
it’s hard to decide who to hold responsible, Asaro said.
“Is it the people who built it,
the people who deployed it or the
people operating it? There’s an accountability gap,” he said.
Asaro cited a pair of 2003 incidents in which a U.S. Patriot missile shot down a Royal Air Force
Tornado jet fighter and a U.S. Navy
F-18 Hornet from the carrier USS
Kitty Hawk in Kuwait and Iraq. In
both cases, computers identified
the planes as enemy missiles.
“You don’t want to start building
systems that are engaging targets
without a human in control,” he
said. “You … aren’t going to eliminate those types of mistakes (and)
the more you have these systems,
the more likely you are to have
these incidents and the worse they
are going to become.”
Possible treaty
A treaty banning the production
of autonomous weapons would not
eliminate the problem but would
provide the sort of protection that
has stopped widespread use of
weapons of mass destruction, he
said.
“There are people who will use
these weapons, but there will be
diplomatic consequences if they
do that,” he said. “It doesn’t mean
a terrorist can’t build these weapons and use them, but there won’t
be an international market.”
David Johnson, director of the
Center for Advanced Defense
Studies in Washington, is less
concerned.
“We are many, many years
away from autonomous systems
that have enough connectivity to
be truly thinking, and they will
operate under the guidance they
are given,” he said.
A ban on such weapons won’t
work in the long run because they
could be developed by America’s
adversaries, individuals or nonstate groups, Johnson said.
“People might not want the
military to look at that technology,
but how do they stop a corporation
or individual or another country?
If you put your head in the sand,
it doesn’t stop time moving forward,” he said.
Despite the lack of an immediate threat, Johnson thinks the research is a good idea.
“I would question if it’s in the
U.S.’ best interests to build autonomous systems, but I don’t question
whether it is worth researching
them,” he said.
Technology such as smart
bombs has already enabled the
military to reduce war damage
to infrastructure and cut civilian casualties, said Arizona State
engineering professor Braden
Allenby.
“A technology like this is scary
to many people because it involves
the military, and people have all
these images of evil robots in science fiction,” he said. “In films,
the robots are evil and based on
evil people.”
However, artificial intelligence
doesn’t mirror human thought,
Allenby said.
“A lot of what robots and artificial intelligence do in modern
combat is enable us to handle very
large flows of information in real
time so we can protect our warriors and civilians on the battlefield,” he said.
The U.S. military should understand technology that will likely
be used by its adversaries before
too long, Allenby said.
“The question of how we deploy
it is critical, but it needs to be presented responsibly, which is what
the Navy is doing here,” he said.
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“I think it’s really been a year
of great change and great progress,” he said. “Are we where we
need to be? No, I don’t think any
organization can ever fully rest
and say they’re where they need
to be. We still have some processes we need to look at in terms of
maturing them to where they can
be most effective. I think we need
to continue to improve our ability
to provide answers to our families
of our missing that ask us those
questions.”
“Over the hump” was how Brig.
Gen. Mark Spindler, DPAA’s deputy director who heads the Hawaii
lab at Joint Base Pearl HarborHickam, described the agency’s
status.
“We are focused,” he said. “I
think the organization understands the objectives. They understand the mission.”
That has not equated to a significant rise in the number of identifications made annually. As of Aug.
8, DPAA has this year identified
the remains of 62 missing servicemembers. At that rate, by year’s
end the total would slightly exceed the 100 identifications made
in 2015 and 107 made in 2014.
“I certainly feel like things are
better than they used to be, but
things were pretty damn bad,”
said Jed Henry, a documentary
filmmaker who spearheaded a
yearslong quest to repatriate the
remains of Army Pvt. 1st Class
Lawrence Gordon from an “unknown” grave in France.
Henry said DPAA was doing
a better job at disinterring and
working to identify World War
II remains buried as unknowns,
which he said had been “virtually
impossible” under the management of the three agencies that
merged to become DPAA — the
Defense POW/Missing Personnel
Office, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Air
Force Life Science Equipment
Laboratory.
“If someone had told me they
wanted to do one of those cases
two years ago, I would have told
them they don’t have a hope in
hell, that it was just a wasted effort,” he said.
Successful outcome
Henry pointed to a successful
outcome in the case of John E. Anderson, a World War II sailor who
died during the D-Day invasion of
1944 and whose remains ended
up in an “unknown” grave at the
Normandy American Cemetery at
Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
With Henry’s help, the Anderson family assembled evidence
strongly suggesting the grave belonged to the sailor. The DPAA exhumed the remains and identified
them as Anderson in about four
months, Henry said, citing briefings he received from Linnington.
That was “light-years faster
compared to the past,” said Henry,
who added that it took about five
years for the identification to be
made after the family became actively involved in the search. Anderson was buried in Minnesota
in May.
“Until last year, the most disinterments they’ve done in a year
was two,” Henry said. “And this
VLADIMIR POTAPENKO/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
Personnel assigned to and working with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency conduct recovery
operations as part of a mission in Rimini, Italy, last August.
year, they had a goal of 50 in Europe and 50 in the Pacific. That’s
taken a huge step.”
Identifying remains from “unknown” gravesites is how the
agency intends to reach a 2010
mandate set by Congress for 200
IDs a year, Spindler said.
The agency plans to reach that
number in the near term by working with outside organizations that
often have a niche geographical
interest or narrow-but-deep historical knowledge. Among them
are History Flight, which specializes in recovering World War II
remains, and The BentProp Project, which began by searching for
servicemembers killed in Palau
but has expanded.
‘Very impressed’
DPAA partnered last year with
Archaeologists of the Air, an Italian organization that searches for
lost WWII aircraft. Last fall, they
recovered remains belonging to
pilot Robert L. McIntosh, who
crashed near Imola, Italy, in late
1945.
Mary Ann Reitano, who works
for World War II Families for the
Return of the Missing, said she
was “very impressed with the new
direction” DPAA has taken with
the strategic partnerships, which
she called a “phenomenal idea.”
Her cousin’s remains have yet to
be found in Vietnam, where he
went missing in 1966.
She said the outside organizations allow DPAA “to do what
I call cherry-picking the really
easy cases, which is inadvertently going to save the government
money because they don’t have to
send out an entire team,” she said.
“That saves them money that can
be redirected into Vietnam cases
where you have all that overhead
and costs because of all the restrictions put on teams that go into
Southeast Asia.”
More than 80 percent of the
identifications made by DPAA
from the beginning of 2014
through Aug. 8 have been from remains connected to World War II
or the Korean War. Thirty IDs of
remains from Southeast Asia have
been made during that period.
Many analysts for Vietnam
cases have left the agency, and the
process of restoring those numbers is of “major proportions,”
said Mills-Griffiths, of the National League of POW/MIA Families.
Spindler — the DPAA deputy
director — admitted there is a
shortage of such analysts and that
the agency is in the process of filling those positions.
“But there’s nothing overly dynamic that has challenged us in
our analyst capability in Southeast
Asia,” he said.
Reitano’s assessment of DPAA’s
handling of research and analysis
was harsh. At least four analysts
have been assigned to her cousin’s
case since she became involved
about a dozen years ago, she said.
She and her family members
have met with their case analyst
three times in the past two years,
and outside of ordering some paperwork one time, “She’s done
absolutely nothing for us,” said
Reitano, who added she was “infuriated” that that paperwork request had been made only a week
before the family met with the
analyst earlier this summer.
A contradiction
“It really contradicts the image
that they try to portray to the general public and to Congress that
they follow every lead, that they’re
working diligently on these cases,
that they’re working in concert
with the families,” she said. “Our
personal experience has been the
complete opposite.”
Reitano described her family’s
experience as “the norm.” Speaking with many of the family members who attended the National
League of MIA/POW Families annual meeting in June, she said she
found only one person who “had a
positive working experience” with
a case analyst.
Henry said general communication with families has improved,
but credited that to the now-departed director.
“Linnington was kind of a soldiers’ general, and he seemed to
be very sensitive about remarks
about him and other people,”
he said. “He was accessible. He
called me a couple times. He responded to my emails. He had real
answers.”
Some families have seen changes for the better at DPAA.
Valarie Wolfe, whose father’s
plane was shot down in Laos during the Vietnam War in 1966, said
she and several family members
had grown exasperated with the
government’s efforts to repatriate
Capt. Thomas Wolfe. The government has had a standing recommendation since 2006 to excavate
a site believed to hold his remains.
But year after year, nothing was
done, she said.
“This is the 50th year of my
father’s loss,” Wolfe said. “We just
came to a point in our case where
we felt like we needed to take additional measures.”
That meant contacting elected
officials, veterans groups and the
media.
While attending the National
League of MIA/POW Families
June meeting, Wolfe said she felt
a “fresh enthusiasm” from some
DPAA staff there, along with “a lot
of new technology” and “people
who were very dedicated to implement those technologies.”
This summer, DPAA notified
the family that the site believed to
hold Wolfe’s remains will be excavated this fall, she said.
Pessimism over Linnington’s
untimely departure, however,
runs deep.
“I think most people felt we had
the right people in place, and things
were actually going to happen,”
Henry said. “But, unfortunately,
to leave within a year — and while
he probably leaves the agency better off than it was before he came
in, which is a significant accomplishment — the bad side to that is
that whoever comes in next could
undo everything he did.”
Spindler believes otherwise.
“The stripe of a great organization is that it can carry on without
him,” he said of the former director. “This organization is most capable of doing that. We’ll be fine.”
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Syria’s Idlib province pounded by airstrikes
Associated Press
BEIRUT — Syria’s rebel-held,
northwestern Idlib province
came under heavy bombardment
Sunday, activists reported, as rebels and pro-government forces
battled for control of the nearby
city of Aleppo.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported
26 airstrikes across the province,
one of the last remaining bastions
of rebel control. Rebels in Idlib,
home to a pre-war population of
1.5 million, are mounting an offensive to seize contested Aleppo.
Tens of thousands of Syrians displaced from Aleppo province have
found refuge in Idlib.
The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network, said
Russian jets struck the towns of
Jisr al-Shaghour and Binnish,
while the Observatory reported
strikes on the provincial capital,
Idlib. It was unclear how the activists identified the planes.
Moscow has been waging an
air campaign in support of government forces for nearly a year.
Russia’s military said six longrange Tu-22M3 bombers that
took off from Russian territory
carried out strikes Sunday on the
Islamic State group near the eastern Syrian city of Deir el-Zour.
The strikes killed a large number of militants while destroying
two command posts, six arms
caches, two tanks, four armored
infantry vehicles and seven allterrain vehicles with heavy machine guns, the Defense Ministry
statement said.
The ministry made no mention
of any strikes in Idlib.
Elsewhere in Syria, rebels and
RUSSIAN D EFENSE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE /AP
In this frame grab from video, a Russian long-range bomber Tu-22M3 flies during a strike above Syria on Sunday.
government forces battled around
a major power plant in the central
Hama province.
State media reported that rebels inflicted heavy damage to the
Zaara generating station, while
an opposition media activist in
the nearby town of Aqrab said the
power plant was not targeted.
Obeida al-Hamawi, of the activist-run Hama Media Center, said
government forces had launched
an assault from positions near
the plant to retake the village of
Zaara, captured by rebels earlier
this year. He said electricity was
still being supplied to the area.
The Observatory reported
heavy clashes in the area.
Clashes and airstrikes continued across the northern Aleppo
province, resulting in at least 49
civilian deaths on Saturday alone,
activists and state media reported. Five children were among the
dead.
The Observatory said government airstrikes and shelling on
opposition areas in Aleppo city
Peshmerga
aim to clear
villages
near Mosul
Syria’s largest city and its commercial capital.
In the south, rockets set two
apartment blocks on fire in a besieged, opposition-held suburb of
Damascus. The local council in
Daraya accused the government
of using incendiary weapons, and
posted videos showing volunteers
transporting water tanks on tractors to help firefighters battle
the blaze. The Observatory also
reported a government rocket attack on the suburb.
Afghan police killed
in Taliban attacks
Associated Press
Associated Press
IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi Kurdish
forces have retaken five villages
east of Islamic State group-held
Mosul in an operation launched
early Sunday morning, according to an official statement.
The operation aims to “clear
several more villages” and is
“one of many shaping operations”
that will increase pressure on
Mosul, the Kurdish region Security Council, an umbrella group
of the multiple security forces in
Iraq’s Kurdish region, said in a
statement.
Peshmerga Brig. Gen. Dedewan Khurshid Tofiq described
the operation as “ongoing.”
Footage filmed by Rudaw, a
local television network, showed
smoke rising from a village in
the distance as armored vehicles
pushed across a field.
The statement said the area
cleared is about 19 square miles.
U.S.-led coalition planes are
and the surrounding countryside
killed 40 civilians Saturday, while
the Local Coordination Committees put the toll in opposition
areas at 45 dead.
State media and the Observatory said rebel shelling on government-held districts of Aleppo
city killed nine civilians, including two children. State media said
another 22 people were wounded.
Rebels and pro-government
forces are battling for control of
the northern metropolis, once
M AYA A LLERUZZO/AP
A soldier from the 1st Battalion of the Iraqi Special Operations
Forces, in the role of an Islamic State militant, runs through smoke
during a training exercise to prepare to retake Mosul.
supporting the operation and have
destroyed a car bomb, according
to the security statement.
Iraqi forces are beginning to
encircle Mosul before the fullscale offensive to retake the city.
South of Mosul, Iraqi army forces are working to clear villages
around a recently recaptured air
base.
Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has been held by the
Islamic State group since 2014.
It remains the last major urban
stronghold of the militant group
in Iraq.
KABUL, Afghanistan — At
least nine policemen were killed
in Taliban attacks on checkpoints
in the northern Afghan province
of Baghlan, while another two
were killed in the east, security
officials said Sunday.
Gen. Noor Habib Gulbahari,
police chief of Baghlan, said
three police checkpoints in the
Baghlan-e-Markazi district were
attacked by insurgents Saturday
night.
He also said five insurgents
were killed and three wounded in
the ensuing gunbattles. Fighting
was ongoing elsewhere in the region, he added.
In eastern Nuristan province,
two police officers were killed
and nine others were wounded in
an attack on a district headquarters in the early hours of Sunday,
said Gen. Akramudin Sareh, the
provincial police chief.
Sareh said around a dozen insurgents were killed in the battle
in Waygul district.
“Afghan security forces repelled a huge attack,” he said.
He also confirmed that sporadic gunbattles are ongoing in
the area. Nuristan is a remote,
mountainous and largely impassable region bordering Pakistan;
its population is known for their
green eyes and red hair.
Zabihullah
Mujahid,
the
Taliban spokesman, claimed
responsibility for the two attacks, adding that the attackers
had seized equipment from the
police.
Taliban fighters frequently attack police checkpoints as they
are easy targets and present
opportunities to seize vehicles,
weapons and ammunition.
Authorities want to reduce and
consolidate the checkpoints, but
local residents frequently say
they feel safer with them.
In eastern Paktika province,
more than 20 insurgents were
killed by an airstrike in Khoshamand district on Thursday night,
according to Gen. Khalilullah Ziayee, the provincial police chief.
He said the insurgent base was
targeted by ground forces backed
by airstrikes.
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Police search for suspect
in killing of imam, friend
BY JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Police in New
York City are searching for the
man who fatally shot the leader
of a mosque and a friend as they
left afternoon prayers, setting off
fear and anguish among the community’s Bangladeshi Muslim
immigrants.
Although police said no motive had been established for the
killing of Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 64, on
Saturday afternoon near the AlFurqan Jame Masjid mosque,
community members worried
the slayings could be rooted in
intolerance.
“There’s nothing in the preliminary investigation to indicate that
they were targeted because of
their faith,” said Deputy Inspector Henry Sautner, of the New
York Police Department.
The imam’s daughter, Naima
Akonjee, said her father — described by worshippers as a
pious man who gave compelling readings from the Quran
— didn’t “have any problems with
anyone.”
She said the imam and Uddin
were close friends who always
walked together to the mosque
from their homes on the same
street.
Police said the men were shot in
the head as they left the mosque in
the Ozone Park section of Queens
shortly before 2 p.m. They later
were pronounced dead.
Both men were wearing traditional religious attire; Akonjee was carrying about $1,000
in cash, but the money was not
taken.
Sautner said that video surveillance showed they were approached from behind by a man
in a dark polo shirt and shorts
who shot them and then fled south
on 79th Street with the gun still in
his hand.
Police released a sketch early
Sunday of a dark-haired, beard-
ed man wearing glasses. Police
said witnesses described the
shooter as a man with a medium
complexion.
No arrests had been made by
early Sunday.
Members of the Bangladeshi
Muslim community served by
the mosque in the working-class
neighborhood said they want the
shootings to be treated as a hate
crime. More than 100 people attended a rally Saturday night and
chanted, “We want justice!”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy
group, held a news conference
near
the
shooting
scene, where
Kobir Chowdhury,
a
leader at another local
mosque,
said, “Read
my
lips:
This is a
hate crime”
Akonjee
directed at
Islam. “We are peace-loving.”
Sarah Sayeed, a member of
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s staff who
serves as a liaison to Muslim
communities, attended the rally.
“I understand the fear because
I feel it myself,” she said. “I understand the anger. But it’s very
important to mount a thorough
investigation.”
Letitia James, who as the
city’s public advocate serves as a
watchdog over city agencies, said
in a statement, “This violence is
as alarming as it is senseless.”
She urged the police department
to “vigorously” investigate the
slayings.
Members of the community
had felt animosity lately, with
people cursing while passing the
mosque, said worshipper Shahin
Chowdhury. He said he had advised people to be careful walking around, especially when in
traditional clothing.
CALVIN M ATTHEIS, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL /AP
A car burns on Saturday as more than 100 people gather following the fatal shooting of a man in
Milwaukee.
Calm urged in Milwaukee
after unrest over shooting
BY GRETCHEN EHLKE
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Simmering
anger over the fatal shooting of a
man by police erupted in violence
on Milwaukee’s predominantly
black north side, with protesters
skirmishing with officers over
several hours and setting fire to
at least four businesses in an outburst the mayor says was fed by
social media.
The uprising that broke out Saturday evening didn’t subside until
after midnight, after Mayor Tom
Barrett and other city leaders appeared at a news conference to
plead for calm. Police said three
people were arrested and one officer was hurt by a brick thrown
into a squad car.
The triggering event came
Saturday afternoon, when a man
fleeing police after a traffic stop
was shot and killed. Police said
the man was armed, but it wasn’t
clear whether he was pointing the
gun or aiming it at officers. Barrett said the man was hit twice, in
the chest and arm.
Neither his race nor the officer’s
was immediately released, nor
were they identified.
The protesters were largely
black, and Alderman Khalif Rainey — who represents the district
— said early Sunday morning that
the city’s black residents are “tired
of living under this oppression.”
“This entire community has sat
back and witnessed how Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has become the
worst place to live for AfricanAmericans in the entire country,” Rainey said at the end of a
news conference at which Barrett pleaded for calm. “Now this
is a warning cry. Where do we go
from here? Where do we go as a
community from here?”
The anger at shootings by Milwaukee police is not new and
comes as tension between black
communities and law enforcement has ramped up across the
nation, resulting in protests and
the recent killings of officers in
Baton Rouge, La., and Dallas.
Milwaukee was beset by protests and calls for police reform
after an officer fatally shot Dontre Hamilton, a mentally ill black
man, in 2014. In December, the
Justice Department announced it
would work with Milwaukee police on reforms.
Chief Ed Flynn had asked for
what’s known as a collaborative
reform process after the federal
government said it wouldn’t pursue criminal civil rights charges
against the officer.
Mall chaos: Patrons report shots, but did gunfire actually occur?
BY EMERY P. DALESIO
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Police are
investigating reports of gunfire
that sent shoppers inside a busy
North Carolina mall running
in fear or hiding inside stores,
with authorities saying they
haven’t confirmed what actually
happened.
Pandemonium erupted Saturday afternoon after several
shoppers said they heard what
sounded like gunfire inside Crabtree Valley Mall. But police found
no gunshot victim or shell casings
from spent bullets, Raleigh police
Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown
told reporters at a late afternoon
news conference.
While some people reported
seeing a gun, “no one has reported that we had a gun fired, so we
are looking at all possibilities,”
Deck-Brown said.
Video posted on social media
sites shows dozens of people run-
ning toward mall exit doors as
numerous screams were heard.
Outside the mall, where people
gathered afterward, a police officer got on the loudspeaker of a
firetruck and said there was no
one shot in the mall.
Witnesses described chaos
after reports of shots.
Eight people ranging in age
from 10 to 70 were transported to
hospitals for treatment of injuries
suffered as they rushed to leave
the mall, the police chief said.
None of those injuries appeared
to be life-threatening.
The shopping complex in an affluent area of Raleigh was put on
lockdown while helicopters buzzed
overhead and numerous law enforcement vehicles swarmed the
shopping area. Footage from a
news helicopter showed shoppers
filing out of the mall with their
hands over their heads as police
took control of the scene.
Raleigh police said they ini-
H ARRY LYNCH, THE (R ALEIGH, N.C.) NEWS & O BSERVER /AP
People rush from an exit at the Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, N.C.,
on Saturday after reports of gunfire.
tially responded at 2:30 p.m. to
reports that shots had been fired.
John Riggleman and Kristin
Warring said in an interview
that they were heading to a video
game store when they heard shots
coming from the food court. They
quickly ran into the store with
dozens of others. Police told them
they could leave the store at about
3 p.m.
Riggleman said they were inside the store for about a halfhour. When they finally were
allowed to leave, they passed
about 10 officers or SWAT team
members moving the other way
with guns drawn.
“They had guns up, kind of covering us as we were running out.
And then there were more back
toward the exit kind of telling
people where to go,” Riggleman
said.
Another person said he saw an
argument between two men in
the food court that led to about
four shots being fired. Antonio
Richardson told The Associated
Press that he saw two men who
appeared to be in their early 20s
arguing and that one of them
began shooting.
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6 killed in Va.
crash from Ky.,
Ind., Germany
Scores
rescued,
3 die in
flooding
BY M ELINDA DESLATTE
AND M ICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — Emergency crews worked through the
night to rescue scores of south
Louisiana residents from homes
and stranded cars as deadly flooding continued to inundate large
swaths of the region Sunday, three
days after rain-swollen water levels began rapidly rising.
Mike Steele, spokesman for
the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness, said there was an
overnight spike in flood rescues in
the eastern part of Baton Rouge.
He said two nursing homes in that
area were being evacuated.
Police also were rescuing people from dozens of cars that were
stranded on a mileslong stretch
of Interstate 12, which was closed
from Baton Rouge to Tangipahoa
Parish.
“It never slowed down last
night,” Steele said Sunday morning. “For the last few hours, there
has been just as much activity as
at any point.”
Steele said the flooding that
started Friday has damaged more
than 1,000 homes in East Baton
BY JESSICA GRESKO
Associated Press
PHOTOS
BY
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Above: Army National Guard vehicles travel through floodwaters Sunday just west of Tickfaw, La., as
rescue operations continued after heavy rains inundated the region. Below: A horse walks through
receding floodwaters near Tickfaw.
Rouge Parish, more than 1,000
homes in Livingston Parish and
hundreds more in other areas,
including St. Helena and Tangipahoa parishes.
At least three deaths have been
blamed on the flooding.
Steele said the Louisiana National Guard alone had rescued
more than 3,000 people from
floodwaters as of midnight, and
that number was bound to continue rising Sunday.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel
Edwards declared a state of
emergency, calling the floods
“unprecedented” and “historic.”
He and his family were even
forced to leave the Governor’s
Mansion when chest-high water
filled the basement and electricity was shut off.
“That’s never happened before,”
said the governor, whose family
relocated to a state police facility
in the Baton Rouge area.
The governor toured flood-ravaged areas by helicopter later
Saturday after rivers and creeks
burst their banks, and he warned
Louisiana residents it would be too
risky to venture out even after the
rains start to subside.
One of the worries, the governor
said, is that as the rain lessens in
the next several hours, people will
become complacent and feel too at
ease in areas where waters may
still be rising for several days, getting in cars in areas that could still
be dangerous.
“I’m still asking people to be patient. Don’t get out and sightsee,”
Edwards said. “Even when the
weather is better, it’s not safe.”
In one dramatic rescue Saturday, two men on a boat pulled a
woman from a car almost completely underwater, according
to video by WAFB. The woman,
who’s not initially visible on camera, yells from inside the car, “Oh,
my god, I’m drowning.”
One of the rescuers, David
Phung, jumps into the brown
water and pulls the woman to
safety. She pleads with Phung
to get her dog, but he can’t find
it. After several seconds, Phung
takes a deep breath, goes underwater and resurfaces — with the
small dog. Both the woman and
dog appeared OK.
Elsewhere, rescues continued
late Saturday, including missions
by crews in high-water vehicles
who pulled motorists from one
swamped stretch of Interstate
12. Maj. Doug Cain, a spokesman
of the Louisiana State Police,
said about 125 vehicles became
stranded on the 7-mile stretch,
prompting those rescues.
Fugitive arrested in NM officer’s death; 1 other held
BY A STRID GALVAN
Associated Press
Authorities don’t yet know why
a New Mexico police officer in a
small village famous for its green
chile and not much more pulled
over two Ohio murder suspects
before being gunned down.
But the daytime encounter with
Jesse Hanes and James Nelson
on Friday turned out to be deadly
for one of the eight police officers in Hatch, 190 miles south of
Albuquerque.
Officer Jose Chavez, 33, was
shot dead at a convenience store
in front of a fellow officer who had
just arrived, authorities said.
The suspected shooter is Hanes,
38, who along with Nelson was
wanted in Ohio in the July 25
shooting death of a 62-year-old
man just outside Chillicothe, about
60 miles south of Columbus.
Ohio authorities had said Hanes
and Nelson, 36, were believed
to have fled the state and were
armed and extremely dangerous,
warning that the two men have a
violent criminal history.
It’s unclear whether Chavez, a
father of two children who joined
the Hatch Police Department two
years ago, knew the suspects were
wanted in Ohio.
A fellow officer who arrived to
assist just as Chavez was shot reported seeing him with paperwork
and appearing to draw his service
weapon before smoke filled the air
and Chavez fell to the ground.
Chavez was shot in the neck and
airlifted to University Medical
Center in El Paso, Texas, where
he later died.
Dona Ana County Sheriff Enrique “Kiki” Vigil said Chavez
went through training at the department’s academy in 2013 and
that he was considered one of their
own.
“We’re not gonna allow these
folks to get away. We’ve lost one of
our best,” Vigil said.
Police arrested Nelson and were
waiting for Hanes to be released
from the hospital to book him on
state charges, sheriff’s spokeswoman Kelly Jameson said. Hanes
was treated for a gunshot wound
to the right thigh that appeared to
be self-inflicted, she said.
Hanes’ arrest came after a dramatic car pursuit, a carjacking and
the shooting of a bystander whose
car Hanes stole, police said.
Hanes was driving a luxury car
when Chavez pulled him over at a
gas station shortly before 4 p.m.
Friday.
Chavez was standing outside
the passenger’s door when Hanes
reached through the window and
shot him, police said. Nelson was
the passenger. A third man who
police said had been hitchhiking
is being treated as a witness and
won’t face charges.
Hanes then fled on Interstate
25 at speeds of up to 100 miles per
hour before stopping at a rest area,
authorities said. He carjacked a
36-year-old man, shooting him in
the stomach after the man refused
to accompany him, police said.
That man has not been identified
but was in stable condition at an El
Paso hospital, Jameson said.
Hanes fled on his own after
shooting the man, but sheriff’s
deputies were able to stop him by
using a tire-deflating device. The
suspect crashed the vehicle into a
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Officer Jose Chavez graduates
from the Law Enforcement
Academy in Las Cruces, N.M., in
October 2013.
pile of wood and briefly barricaded himself in the car before surrendering to deputies, Jameson
said.
Nelson and the hitchhiker were
found about 7 miles away near
Rincon.
WASHINGTON — An Indiana
woman, two of her four children
and a foreign exchange student
were among the six people killed
in a small plane crash in Virginia,
a family member said Saturday.
Lisa Borinstein, 52, Luke Borinstein, 19, and Emma Borinstein,
15, were killed in Friday’s crash
along with a foreign exchange
student, Joseph Borinstein, the
children’s grandfather, said in a
telephone interview Saturday.
Borinstein said the family had
chartered the plane to fly to Virginia, where his eldest grandson,
Drew, is a senior at Virginia Military Institute. Emma’s twin brother stayed at home in Shelbyville,
Ind., because he had football and
basketball practice, he said.
“It’s a sad thing, and we’re just
absolutely overwhelmed by this
loss. It’s unreal. Hard to express
yourself,” he said.
The children’s father died last
year. Borinstein said his daughter-in-law was a “wonderful lady”
who worked as a registered nurse.
He said his grandson, Luke, had
just completed his first year at
Wabash College, an all-male liberal arts college in Indiana, and
was interested in medicine.
The school said on its website
Saturday that he had just returned
from a two-week immersion trip
to Lima, Peru, and had spent the
first part of his summer working
in a biology professor’s lab.
Virginia State Police on Saturday identified the others killed
in the crash as: Maren Timmermann, 15, of Berlin, Germany;
William C. Hamerstadt, 64, of
Carmel, Ind., who was piloting
the plane; and Robert D. Ross, 73,
of Louisville, Ky., the owner of the
plane.
Hamerstadt’s wife, Marilyn,
said by email that she was mourning the loss of her husband.
“He was my true hero and the
love of my life,” she wrote.
Both Emma and Maren were
students at Triton Central High
School — Emma a sophomore
and Maren a junior, according to
the school system.
Virginia State Police said in a
statement that the plane took off
from Louisville on Friday morning and stopped in Shelbyville
before continuing on to Virginia.
The plane crashed into trees after
aborting its landing at Shannon
Airport in Fredericksburg, Va.
An investigation determined
that the 1969 Beech 95-B55
twin-engine, fixed-wing aircraft
touched down midway down the
runway at Shannon Airport and
then executed a “go-around,”
Virginia State Police said. As
the plane attempted to turn and
climb, it appeared to have stalled
as it made it beyond the railroad
tracks at the end of the airport
property, state police said. The
plane banked, crashed in the trees
and immediately caught fire.
The cause of the crash is under
investigation.
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Year in jail for mogul in
domestic violence case
BY SUDHIN THANAWALA
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A Silicon Valley
internet mogul who made $300 million at
the age of 25 and appeared on “The Oprah
Winfrey Show” as a highly eligible bachelor was sentenced Friday to a year in jail
for violating his probation in a domestic
violence case.
Gurbaksh Chahal, now 34, was sentenced
by Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown,
who gave him time to appeal the decision
before starting to serve the sentence.
Brown determined last month that Chahal had violated the probation ordered after
he pleaded guilty in 2014 to misdemeanor
charges of battery and domestic violence
battery.
Prosecutors said surveillance footage
from his San Francisco penthouse showed
him punching and kicking his girlfriend
and trying to smother her with a pillow.
Chahal entered his plea to the reduced
charges after the woman stopped cooperating with authorities, and a judge said the
video could not be used as evidence because it had been improperly obtained.
He was accused of violating his probation by kicking another girlfriend, who
also didn’t cooperate with prosecutors.
His lawyers challenged her credibility by
saying she got into a sham marriage to get
a U.S. visa and had been drinking on the
night of the dispute.
Chahal said both women had cheated on
him.
During the previous probation hearing,
Brown reviewed the video of the first attack before issuing her ruling. The footage
was not made public.
Chahal made $300 million in 2007 when
he sold his digital advertising company
to Yahoo. A year later, he appeared on
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” in a segment
that promoted him as a highly eligible
bachelor.
Chahal’s legal woes extend beyond the
criminal case. Two former employees
have sued him for discrimination, painting
him as a bullying boss who thought little
of women.
Patricia Glaser, the lawyer representing Chahal in the lawsuits, did not return
emails or phone calls seeking comment.
Emails to Chahal’s online advertising technology company, Gravity4, were not returned. A message to his Twitter account
also went unanswered.
Faced with the initial domestic violence
charges, Chahal got help from powerful
former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown
and the former chief financial officer for
the state of California, Steve Westly, according to one of the lawsuits and emails
between Westly and Chahal reported by
PAUL C HINN, SAN FRANCISCO C HRONICLE /AP
Tech mogul Gurbaksh Chahal sits with his attorney James Lassart during a hearing in
San Francisco to consider revocation of his probation on domestic violence charges.
The Wall Street Journal.
Westly, who was on the board of a company Chahal founded, suggested the businessman reach out to Brown, according to a
2015 lawsuit by Yousef Khraibut, a former
Gravity4 employee. Chahal told Khraibut
that he paid Brown a $250,000 retainer to
exert pressure on the district attorney to
dismiss the charges, saying Brown had the
“juice” to make them disappear, the lawsuit said.
A woman who answered the phone at
Brown’s law office said he would not be
back until Friday. Brown said in a radio
interview in September that he was asked
to put together a legal team to defend Chahal but did nothing unethical and returned
most of the $250,000.
Westly, whose name has been mentioned
as a possible gubernatorial candidate in
2018, said in a statement that he doesn’t
comment on ongoing legal cases but added
that domestic violence in any form is
inexcusable.
Khraibut’s lawsuit also accuses Chahal of
crass behavior, saying he sought male colleagues’ opinions of a bikini photo of a prospective female employee and used a vulgar
term to describe decisions to let attractive
women advance in the hiring process.
In court documents, Chahal shot back
that Khraibut was fired for not doing his
work and was seeking publicity to get
money he wasn’t owed.
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Tactics of Kremlin
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BY M ICHAEL BIRNBAUM
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G IAN EHRENZELLER, K EYSTONE /AP
Emergency services attend the scene at the Salez-Sennwald train station after a man attacked other
passengers aboard a train in Salez, Switzerland, on Saturday.
1 killed in Swiss attack
No terrorism ties seen in burning, knife assault on train
BY DAVID R ISING
Associated Press
BERLIN — The man who attacked passengers on a crowded
Swiss train with a knife and burning liquid died of his wounds Sunday, as did one of his victims, a
34-year-old woman, Swiss police
said. Three others remain hospitalized with serious wounds.
Police are still searching for a
motive but said there’s no indication the suspect, identified only
as a 27-year-old Swiss man from
a neighboring region, had ties to
extremist groups.
A 43-year-old woman, a 6-yearold girl and a 17-year-old girl remained hospitalized Sunday with
serious injuries, St. Gallen canton
(state) police spokesman HansPeter Kruesi told The Associated
Press. A 17-year-old youth and a
50-year-old man wounded in the
attack have been treated and released, he said.
Kruesi said all the victims lived
in the St. Gallen canton.
Swiss police searched the suspect’s home after the Saturday
afternoon attack on the train as it
neared the station in Salez, close
to the Liechtenstein border. Kruesi would not comment on what
evidence was seized at the home
but said that, “so far, there are no
indications this was a terrorist or
politically motivated crime.”
Police were not able to question
the suspect before he died, Kruesi
said, adding that the man had no
criminal record and was not previously known to police.
According to a video of the attack evaluated by police, the assailant acted alone, attacking
passengers on the train between
Buchs and Sennwald with a knife
and then burning liquid, which is
now being analyzed by a police forensics team.
The train driver was being
credited with quick thinking, continuing into the Salez station before stopping, a move that allowed
police and rescue crews to get on
board easier.
BRUSSELS — The hacking of
Democratic Party computer systems, widely thought by U.S. intelligence officials to be the work of
the Russian government, may be
giving Washington a new taste of
unconventional Kremlin tactics
that have long been employed to
influence politics in neighboring
European countries.
Russia has tried hard in recent years to tug Europe to its
side, bankrolling the continent’s
extremist political parties, working to fuel a backlash against migrants and using its vast energy
resources as a cudgel against its
neighbors. Two-and-a-half years
into the Ukraine crisis, President
Barack Obama’s administration
officials say the Kremlin may now
be engaging in similar trickery in
the U.S. presidential campaign to
boost Russia-friendly Republican
nominee Donald Trump.
The alleged effort would be an
unusually blunt challenge to the
U.S. political system but one familiar to Europe, where officials and
analysts see Russian fingerprints
on a wide spectrum of initiatives
designed to split Western unity and
encourage acceptance of Kremlin
policies. European leaders say
Russia has been involved in such
actions as an April referendum
in the Netherlands that rejected a
European Union trade deal with
Ukraine and the strengthening of
cross-border bonds among Euroskeptic parties.
With many U.S. and European
voters feeling left adrift by the
tides of globalization and threatened by migration, the Russian
efforts have played on existing
Western weaknesses and found a
receptive audience.
“The Russians have been trying
for years to destabilize Europe,”
said Alexander Pechtold, a Dutch
lawmaker who was a leader of the
losing effort to persuade voters
to support the Ukraine deal. The
referendum was triggered by antiEU activists who said they want to
stop the expansion of the bloc and
improve relations with Russia.
“Over a long period of time,
Russia has been stoking unrest
in Europe, an unrest that already
exists because we find ourselves
in a vulnerable period,” Pechtold said. “It uses that weakness
to deteriorate the situation to its
advantage.”
In Europe, Russia has been
pressing hard to roll back sanctions imposed after it annexed
Crimea in 2014, a task that could
succeed with the support of just
one of the 28 EU nations, which
need unanimity to prolong the
measures. Even before that conflict, Russian President Vladimir
Putin was working to build support for his vision of the world,
which seeks to preserve his domestic power by favoring authoritarian leaders over democratically
elected ones and by gaining for his
country the deference once accorded to the Soviet Union.
Russia did not create the British
Euro-skepticism that led voters to
opt to pull out of the EU. Nor did it
set in motion the conflagration in
Syria, whose refugees have taxed
European unity in a way that little else has. But at each turn, the
Kremlin has sought to exploit and
exacerbate the vulnerabilities of
the EU and the NATO military alliance, leaders and analysts say.
“They try to benefit the most
out of these messes, but I wouldn’t
say they are creating them,” said
Peter Kreko, director of the Political Capital Institute, a Budapest,
Hungary-based think tank that
has studied links between European political parties and the
Kremlin.
Video claims some kidnapped girls were killed in airstrikes
Associated Press
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Some
of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls have been killed in Nigerian
military airstrikes, according to
a new video appearing to come
from Boko Haram Islamic extremists, which shows one of the
alleged victims pleading for authorities to release detained militants in exchange for the girls’
freedom.
The video posted Sunday on
Twitter shows a girl, covered in
a hijab with just her face showing, identified as one of the 276
students abducted from a remote school in northeastern Nigeria in April 2014. In the video,
she claims that some of her kidnapped classmates died in aerial
bombardments by the Nigerian
air force. She also said that 40
have been “married” to Islamic
extremist fighters.
The video shows a fighter warning in the Hausa language that if
President Muhammadu Buhari’s
government battles Boko Haram
with firepower, the girls won’t be
seen again.
“Presently, some of the girls are
crippled, some are terribly sick
and some of them, as I had said,
died during bombardment by the
Nigerian military,” the fighter
says, appearing before a group of
more than 40 young women in hi-
jabs, some holding babies.
“If our members in detention
are not freed, let the government
and parents of the Chibok girls
know that they will never find
these girls again,” he said.
The video, cited by the SITE
Intelligence Group, was posted
by Ahmad Salkida, a Nigerian
journalist known to have good
contacts within Boko Haram.
Salkida said he was given the
video by the Boko Haram wing
led by Abubakar Shekau, who is
in a leadership battle with a lieutenant named by the Islamic State
group as the new leader of what it
calls its West Africa Province.
Dozens of the schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok escaped on
their own within two days of the
abduction. One girl escaped this
year, saying she had been led to
freedom by her Boko Haram
“husband.” Some 218 remain
missing.
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At Mosquito Festival,
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Castro thanks Cuba,
criticizes Obama in
birthday message
BY M ICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press
HAVANA — Fidel Castro
thanked Cubans for their wellwishes on his 90th birthday
and criticized President Barack
Obama in a lengthy letter published in state media. He appeared but did not speak at a gala
in his honor.
“I want to express my deepest
gratitude for the shows of respect,
greetings and praise that I’ve received in recent days, which give
me strength to reciprocate with
ideas that I will send to party
militants and relevant organizations,” he wrote on Saturday.
“Modern medical techniques
have allowed me to scrutinize
the universe,” wrote Castro, who
stepped down as Cuba’s president
10 years ago after suffering a severe gastrointestinal illness.
Just after 6 p.m., he could be
seen in footage on state television slowly approaching his seat
at Havana’s Karl Marx theater,
clad in a white Puma tracksuit top
and green shirt. He sat in what appeared to be a specially equipped
wheelchair and watched a tribute
by a children’s theater company,
accompanied by footage of highlights from his decades in power.
He sat alongside his younger
brother, President Raul Castro,
and President Nicolas Maduro
of Venezuela, along with Cuba’s
highest-ranking military and civilian officials.
In his letter, Castro accompanied his thanks with reminiscences about his childhood and
youth in eastern Cuba, describing the geology and plant life
of the region where he grew up.
He touched on his father’s death
shortly before his own victory in
overthrowing U.S-backed strongman Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
Castro returns at the end to
criticize Obama, who appeared
to anger the revolutionary leader with a March trip to Cuba in
which he called for Cubans to
look toward the future. A week
after the trip, Castro wrote a
sternly worded letter admonishing Obama to read up on Cuban
history, and declaring that “we
don’t need the empire to give us
anything.”
D ESMOND BOYLAN /AP
Workers help hand-roll a 90-meter cigar, stretching through many
rooms, in Havana in honor of former leader Fidel Castro’s 90th
birthday, which was celebrated Saturday.
In Saturday’s letter, he criticizes Obama for not apologizing
to the Japanese people during a
May trip to Hiroshima, describing Obama’s speech there as
“lacking stature.”
The Cuban government has
taken a relatively low-key approach to Castro’s birthday in
comparison with the large-scale
gatherings that had been planned
for his 80th. Along with the Saturday evening gala, government
ministries have held small musical performances and photo exhibitions that pay tribute to the
former head of state.
Castro last appeared in public
in April, closing the twice-a-decade congress of the Communist
Party with a call for Cuba to stick
to its socialist ideals amid ongoing normalization with the U.S.
The need for closer economic
ties with the U.S. has grown more
urgent as Venezuela, Castro’s
greatest ally, tumbles into economic free-fall, cutting the flow
of subsidized oil that Cuba has
depended on the South American
country for. Meanwhile, tens of
thousands of Cubans are migrating to the United States, hollowing
out the ranks of highly educated
professionals.
The brightest spot in Cuba’s
flagging economy has been a postdetente surge in tourism that is
expected to boom when commercial flights to and from the United
States, Cuba’s former longtime
enemy, resume on Aug. 31.
Thai junta accused of
exploiting bombings
BANGKOK — Critics of Thailand’s military government have
accused it of exploiting deadly
bombings and arson attacks to
crack down on its opponents.
The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, known
as the Red Shirts, issued their
criticism Sunday as Thai authorities said they were keeping security high after attacks killed four
people and wounded dozens.
Reports said at least three people identified as Red Shirt leaders
or supporters have been detained,
apparently for questioning in connection with the attacks.
Officials hinted opponents of
the junta were responsible, but
foreign terrorism experts suggest
Muslim separatists from southern Thailand were responsible.
Kuwait accuses Iranians
of breaching border
More than 50K
march against
gender violence
in Peru’s cities
KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s
Interior Ministry said Sunday its
coast guard detained 10 Iranian
“infiltrators” trying to sneak into
the country illegally. An Iranian
official, however, described them
as fishermen whose detention was
not related to border violations.
One of the Iranian men was
wounded after refusing coast
guard orders to surrender, the
ministry said.
Iran’s semi-official Fars news
agency quoted Ali Hajatpour, deputy chief of Bushehr province’s
coast guard in southern Iran, as
saying some Iranian fisherman
were detained in Kuwait because
of a “quarrel.”
Associated Press
LIMA, Peru — More than 50,000 people
marched in Peru’s capital and eight other cities on Saturday to protest violence against
woman and what they say is the indifference
of the judicial system.
Officials said the size of the protest was
unprecedented in Peru and followed several
recent high-profile cases in which male perpetrators were given what women’s groups
said were too-lenient sentences. The march in
Lima ended at the palace of justice.
“Today, the 13th of August, is a historic day
for this country because it represents a breaking point and the start of a new culture to eradicate the marginalization that women have been
suffering, especially with violence,” said Victor
Ticona, president of Peru’s judicial system.
Ticona said a commission of judges would
receive representatives of the protesters.
Newly inaugurated President Pedro Pablo
Kuczynski took part in the march along with
first lady Nancy Lange.
“What we don’t want in Peru is violence
against anyone, but especially against women
and children,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Kuczynski said his government is “going to ask for facilities for women to
denounce violence because abuse flourishes in
an environment where complaints cannot be
made, and the blows are absorbed in silence
— and this is not how it should be.”
Peru’s march follows similar protests
BEREZNIKI, Russia — Despite worldwide fears of Zika, for
residents of one Russian town the
more mosquito bites the better.
At the Russian Mosquito Festival in Berezniki, Irina Ilyukhina,
9, won the “tastiest girl” category
with 43 bites after going berrypicking with her mother.
Hot and dry weather in the
town, however, has depleted the
number of mosquitoes this year.
Festival organizers had to cancel
the mosquito hunt, where participants try to collect as many of the
insects as possible in jars.
Russia has detected only a few
Zika cases, all in people who are
believed to have been infected in
areas overseas.
PHOTOS
BY
RODRIGO A BD/AP
Tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Lima, Peru, on Saturday to protest the
judicial system’s treatment of domestic violence.
‘ Today ... represents
... the start of a new
culture to eradicate the
marginalization that women
have been suffering.
’
Victor Ticona
president of Peru’s judicial system
against gender violence in other Latin American countries, including Argentina and Brazil, held under the slogan #NiUnaMenos
— #NotOneLess.
Women chant slogans against the justice
system as they march to protest domestic
violence in Lima.
Bangladesh agrees to
move elephant to park
NEW DELHI — An Indian elephant that washed up in a swamp
in Bangladesh has become a
jumbo problem for wildlife officials on both sides of the border.
Floodwaters carried the male
elephant thousands of miles upstream from India before he became trapped in a swamp some
three weeks ago.
Indian wildlife agreed with
Bangladesh’s proposal to transfer
the elephant to the Bangabandhu
Safari Park.
Wildlife wardens also face the
problem of controlling the hundreds of people who have gathered to watch the rescue efforts,
Dey said.
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Soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces are stacked against a building during a training exercise in
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For Mosul, learning from 2003
BY DAVID PETRAEUS
Special to The Washington Post
I
n the next few months, a mixed force
of Iraqi Arab and Kurdish security
forces — including various Sunni and
perhaps some Shiite militia elements
— will enter Mosul, clear the city of Islamic
State extremists and then work to bring
governance, stability and reconstruction
to one of Iraq’s most complex cities and its
province.
There is no question that the Islamic
State group will be defeated in Mosul; the
real question is what comes afterward.
Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve
the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to
one of Iraq’s most diverse and challenging
provinces? Failure to do so could lead to Islamic State group 3.0.
The prospect of the operation to clear
Mosul brings to mind experiences from
the spring of 2003, when the 101st Airborne Division, which I was privileged to
command, entered a Mosul in considerable
turmoil. Our first task, once a degree of
order had been restored, was to determine
how to establish governance. That entailed
getting Iraqi partners to help run the city
of nearly 2 million people and the rest of
Nineveh province — a very large area
about which we knew very little.
Establishing a representative interim
council to work with us in Nineveh proved
to be no easy task — and its formation and
subsequent developments hold insights for
the coming endeavor in Mosul.
The challenge of Mosul and Nineveh is
the considerable number of ethnic groups,
religious sects, tribes and other elements
that make up the province. Ultimately,
we ensured that the provincial council included representatives of every district in
Nineveh, of every major religion (Sunni,
Shiite, Christian, Shabak), of each ethnic
group (Arabs, Kurds, Yazidis, Turkmen),
of every additional major societal element
(Mosul University academics, businessmen, retired generals) and of each major
tribe not already sufficiently represented.
We were able to structure a caucus that
elected an interim provincial council. That
council, in turn, elected an experienced,
able interim governor (a Sunni Arab, given
that Sunni Arabs made up the majority of
Nineveh’s population), who was a well-respected, highly decorated former major
general whose brother had been killed
by Saddam Hussein and who had himself
been under house arrest for a considerable
period.
Importantly, I had the legal authority
needed and the forces necessary to back
up that authority, if required. I was not reluctant to exercise either.
U.S. forces today obviously lack the authority, remit and sheer numbers of the
U.S. elements in Iraq in 2003. They also
do not have the mandate that we had in
the early days. But the enabling forces
that the U.S.-led coalition has provided for
Iraqi elements over the past year — intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
assets, advisers, logistical elements, and
precision strike platforms, in particular
— have been instrumental in the successes
enjoyed by the Iraqis in Ramadi, Fallujah,
Tikrit, Baiji, Qayyarah and a host of other
battle sites.
I have no doubt that coalition assets will,
in the weeks ahead, do so much damage
to the surviving Islamic State elements in
Mosul that the battle there may well be less
intense than many have feared. Thus, the
most significant challenge in Mosul will not
be to defeat the Islamic State group; rather,
it will be the task we faced there in 2003: to
ensure post-conflict security, reconstruction and, above all, governance that is representative of and responsive to the people.
All of this will have to be pursued largely
by Iraqis, of different allegiances, without
the kinds of forces, resources and authorities that we had.
Leaders of the various Iraqi elements
will likely have their own militias, and
there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State
boundaries, governing structures and distribution of power and resources. If those
challenges are not enough, others will
emanate from Iran and the Shiite militias
it supports, from Turkey and Iraq’s Sunni
Arab neighbors, from the Kurdish regional government that understandably wants
to retain the disputed internal boundary
areas that its peshmerga now largely control, and so on.
The effort in Mosul and Nineveh in the
spring, summer and early fall of 2003 was
very successful. Ultimately, however, it
was undone by an inability to get Iraqi authorities in Baghdad to approve initiatives
we pursued in reconciliation with former
Baath Party members cast out of work by
the Coalition Provisional Authority’s deBaathification decree and in providing
work for the tens of thousands of Iraq soldiers also rendered unemployed by the authority. The other ultimate challenge was
the lack of clear direction and resources
from Baghdad for their ministries’ activities in Nineveh. Those failures meant that
the Sunni insurgency ultimately intensified in Mosul, as it already had in the other
Sunni Arab areas of Iraq. The Sunni Arabs
in Nineveh came to see few reasons to support the new Iraq; indeed, they perceived
many to actively or tacitly oppose it.
There clearly are lessons to be learned
from our earlier experience — and from
after the departure of U.S. forces in late
2011. Most particularly, they have to do
with the need for inclusive, representative
and responsive governance.
In the case of Mosul, Nineveh’s Sunni
Arabs, in particular, will need considerable reassurances that their interests will
be adequately represented in the new
Mosul and Nineveh. But so will the Kurdish citizens of Nineveh (of multiple political parties), as well as Shiite Arabs, Shiite
and Sunni Turkmen, Yazidis, Christians,
Shabak and numerous tribes.
The best vehicle for carrying this out
would be a provincial council like the one
set up in 2003, and through a similarly inclusive process. Importantly, Shiite militias
should play no role in post-Islamic State security and governance. Because Nineveh
and the other Sunni Arab provinces lack
significant energy resources and the leverage they provide, Kurdish-style constitutional autonomy is not a viable option.
Nonetheless, Baghdad and Prime Minister
Haider al-Abadi will need to be prepared
to make more explicit commitments about
levels of resourcing, and also perhaps grant
the region greater autonomy in determining spending priorities. The task facing
al-Abadi is exceedingly complex, but the
only way forward is to squarely face the
challenges, work to build relationships and
press the many disparate parties to find
common ground on the issues — aided by
the U.S.-led coalition.
The process to resolve post-Islamic State
issues will be difficult and intense. But
having enabled the defeat of the Islamic
State group and having provided the largest amount of assets to ensure further successes and reconstruction initiatives, the
United States, together with its numerous
coalition partners, will have considerable
influence over the resolution of the issues.
It will have to exercise that influence.
David Petraeus is a retired U.S. Army general who
commanded coalition forces in Iraq from 2007
to 2008 and in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011 and
served as CIA director from 2011 to 2012. He is a
partner in a major global investment firm.
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A crowd-pleaser’s theory of Trump’s antics
BY H ARLAN COBEN
Bloomberg View
T
hink Donald Trump has some
grand scheme behind his outbursts? Think his rhetoric is carefully thought out to produce a
certain reaction? Think he meticulously
plans each call for his followers to take up
arms?
Sorry, no. There is no strategy here,
folks.
Sadly, this is the part of Trump I get too
well. I do a lot of public speaking, and when
I do, I try to gauge the audience because I
love a reaction. Like any entertainer — and
that’s what an author tries to be on a book
tour — I like to hear laughs or see that the
audience is listening intently. I want them
rapt and engaged. If I see too many people
fiddling with their phones or looking bored,
I’ll try on the fly to fix it. If the jokes aren’t
going well, I’ll give them a more serious
how-to-write-a-novel talk. And vice versa.
It’s why I rarely prepare remarks.
Trump is this, raised to the nth power.
My guess is that this is why he detests the
teleprompter and goes off it so often. With
the teleprompter, you have to stick to the
script. But sometimes speeches fail to stir
a crowd. Outrageous claims, discursions
and over-the-top jokes get them going.
You can see Trump’s frustration when the
audience grows too quiet: Where are my
laughs? Where are my cheers and gasps
and chants?
Where is the love?
When I feel this way, I’ve been known to
go too far or make an inappropriate joke.
When Trump feels this way — well, just
watch the news.
Take his recent comments on the Second Amendment. I don’t think he had a
master plan to call for an assassination. I
think his inner monologue went something
more like this: “Folks, if Hillary is elected,
she’s going to get rid of the Second Amendment … that’s my talking point. … Hmm,
got a decent reaction. … Where do we go
from here and get that big laugh? … Well,
the only way to stop her after she’s elected
would be if the guys with the guns (Good!
Back to the Second Amendment!) do something about it.”
It has been this way for Trump since he
glided down the Trump Tower escalator to
announce his candidacy. His was a campaign soon to be dismissed but for that first
big improv, when he stumbled upon calling Mexicans rapists. That drew a reaction
— a big one — and it turned out to be far
more appealing than his negotiation skills
or his take on trade. It was a throwaway
line gone viral.
And how often have you heard Trump
excuse his conduct with some variation
on the theme that it was a joke, that the
crowd loved it? When the hosts of ABC’s
“Live With Kelly and Michael” raised his
controversial comments about wanting to
date his daughter Ivanka, Trump replied,
“Everyone laughed.” This is paramount to
him.
If you buy my theory, then it becomes
clear why Trump can’t stay on message.
Policy discussions? Boring and low-energy. Polls to brag about? Well, right now
he doesn’t have that. Most of all, you can
only spend so much time on the golden
oldies, like “BUILD THAT WALL.” You
need something new to get that audience
rocking.
As with any addiction, it generally takes
a little bit more to get the high each time.
So first he says Hillary Clinton is a criminal (“Lock her up!”), then he raises the
temperature by claiming that the election
is rigged. Guns are a natural next step.
You’ve got to keep upping the ante. Most
recently, he said Barack Obama founded
the Islamic State group.
Does Trump not see the danger in his
words? My guess is that he doesn’t care one
way or the other. He’s getting the laughs,
the gasps, the cheers from the crowd — repercussions be damned. To him, that’s all
that matters.
Harlan Coben is the author of “Tell No One,” “Fool
Me Once,” “Long Lost” and “Hold Tight.” His latest
novel, “Home,” will be published in September.
VA predicts emergency care claim tsunami if ruling upheld
BY TOM PHILPOTT
M
ore than 2 million claims for
private-sector
emergency
health care services provided
to Department of Veterans
Affairs-enrolled veterans since February
2010 could be eligible for VA reimbursement if a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of
Appeals for Veterans Claims is allowed to
stand, the VA general counsel has warned.
The counsel also has warned in court
documents that over the next decade the
VA could be swamped with an estimated
68.6 million additional claims for emergency care reimbursements, which could
drive up VA health costs over that period
by as much as $10.6 billion.
Despite those alarms, and the VA introducing a new legal argument, a full panel
of judges on the claims court voted 6-1 last
month to deny the VA’s motion to rehear
the case, and instead made final its ruling of last April in the case of Richard W.
Staab v. Robert A. McDonald.
The VA has until Sept. 20 to appeal the
decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, a near certainty given
what’s at stake. Meanwhile, VA officials
say they are unable to begin to pay any of
the emergency health care claims that the
Staab decision requires until they can prepare new regulations to support the complex review process.
“Even if the Staab decision is upheld,” VA
officials explained in a statement Wednesday, “the statutory authority [cited by the
court] does not set forth a payment methodology or payment limitations necessary
for VA to implement the decision. Therefore, VA must follow legal procedures to
[draft, publish for public comment and]
implement regulations that would allow it
to process payments for claims impacted
by Staab.”
In Staab, the court agreed with lawyers
for an 83-year-old Air Force veteran that
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the VA wrongly ignored “plain language”
of a 2010 statute meant to protect VA-enrolled veterans from out-of-pocket costs
when forced to use outside emergency
care. So the VA should not have turned
down Staab’s claim for roughly $48,000 in
health care costs he was forced to pay following open-heart surgery in December
2010.
For many years the VA has maintained
that, by law, it can reimburse VA-enrolled
veterans for outside emergency care only if
they have no alternative health insurance.
That includes Medicare, Tricare, employer-provided health insurance or contracted health plans of any kind. The practical
effect is that veterans with other health
insurance often are stuck paying hefty outof-pocket costs that their plans won’t cover,
while veterans with no other insurance see
the VA routinely pick up their entire emergency care tab.
The logic of this offended some lawmakers, and in 2009 they persuaded Congress
to clarify the law on VA coverage of outside
emergency care. A single provision was
changed to say the VA could “reimburse
veterans for treatment in a non-VA facility if they have a third-party insurance
that would pay a portion of the emergency
care.”
To ensure colleagues understood the
change, Staab’s attorneys noted, Sen.
Daniel Akaka, then-chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said in a
floor speech that it would “modify current
law so that a veteran who has outside insurance would be eligible for reimbursement
in the event that the outside insurance does
not cover the full amount of the emergency
care.”
The change took effect Feb. 1, 2010. But
in preparing new regulations, VA officials
interpreted the revised law as still preserving its way of screening most emergency
care claims. The revised regulation said
the VA would continue to cover outside
emergency care only if the “veteran has no
coverage under a health-plan contract.”
That was wrong, a three-judge panel on
the appellate claims court ruled last April,
citing the “plain language” of the revised
statute. It deemed the revised regulation
as invalid and vacated a Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision that had upheld VA
denial of Staab’s claim. The board, it said,
had relied on a faulty rule rather than the
revised statute.
The VA’s general counsel immediately
asked the three-judge panel to reconsider
its decision but also asked the full appellate
court to review the case. Reconsideration
was denied in late June. On July 14, while a
decision on full court review was pending,
the VA filed a motion to “stay the precedential effect” of Staab, that is, to not require
payment of previously denied emergency
claims given the “strong likelihood” the
decision will be reversed.
In the same motion, the VA argued that
the claims court erred by not focusing on
language in the statute Congress didn’t
change in 2010, which the VA believes still
bars reimbursement if the veteran has a
separate health plan contract. Instead, the
claims court based its decision on changes
to another section of the statute. The VA
argues the intent of that change was only to
address situations where veterans benefit
from third-party insurance coverage, not
their own alternative health plans.
The VA appears to be saying that the
2010 law was intended to allow it to cover
only emergency costs not fully covered, for
example, by the insurance of a driver at
fault in an accident that injured a veteran.
But to be eligible, the veteran still can’t
have other health insurance.
This was not an argument the VA previously had made, said Bart Stichman, one
of Staab’s attorneys. The VA declined interview requests about the case and gave
only limited written responses to questions, noting Staab is active litigation that
could be overturned. But documents filed
since we first reported on this decision last
April show the VA wants judges to know
the magnitude of the burden on it if the decision is allowed to stand.
From April through July 6, the VA has
had to suspend consideration of almost
85,000 claims for emergency care that it
previously would have denied. They can’t
be adjudicated “until VA has promulgated
payment regulations necessitated by the
Court’s decision and established the technological or other means to confirm the
amounts paid by the veterans’ health-plan
contracts,” VA lawyers explained in their
filing.
The VA estimates that, looking back six
years, more than 2 million claims could
be affected by Staab, and 68 million more
claims could be eligible for reimbursement
over the next 10 years. Numbers are so
large, the VA reported, because emergency
room visits generate multiple claims, given
the acuity of care required. The averages
are four claims per outpatient emergencyroom visit and eight per emergency hospital admission.
The administrative costs alone of handling those claims, which would require
more employees, new technology and other
support needs, would be $182 million over
the next 10 years, raising total VA costs to
$10.8 billion.
Within a week of receiving those estimates, six of seven judges on the claims
court still signaled it was the VA that erred
in interpreting the 2010 law.
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Fiction gives us soul
Research: Engaging with stories about other people can improve empathy, theory of mind
BY SARAH K APLAN
I
The Washington Post
have been a nerd my whole life. I was always
“that kid,” the one who read in a corner at recess and talked about Jo March and Ponyboy
as though they were real people. I have a vivid
memory of myself at 8 or 9, staying up far past my
bedtime to read Katherine Paterson’s “Bridge to
Terabithia” by flashlight. When I reached the gutwrenching ending, I began sobbing loudly enough
to summon my mother from down the hallway.
As soon as she saw the book in my hand, she
knew nothing was actually wrong. “I think I
comforted you,” my mom told me recently. “I
hope I didn’t say, ‘Stop crying, it’s not real.’ ”
(She claims not to remember any details of this
incident.)
When I told this story to Keith Oatley, a perfect
stranger, he told me I didn’t need to feel silly for
getting so worked up over the fates of fictional
characters.
“You were just being a human being,” he said.
Oatley would know — he is a cognitive
psychologist at the University of Toronto, a
novelist and the author of a new review in the
journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences looking at
the psychological effects of fiction. In his review
of the past decade of research on the subject, he
concludes that engaging with stories about other
people can improve empathy and theory of mind.
“When we read about other people, we can
imagine ourselves into their position and we can
imagine what it’s like being that person,” Oatley
said. “That enables us to better understand people,
better cooperate with them.”
In 2006, Oatley helped conduct a study that
linked reading fiction to better performance on
empathy and social acumen tests. Participants
were first tested on their ability to recognize
author names — a decent proxy for figuring out
how many books they read and what kinds.
“We are all familiar with the stereotype of the
bookworm,” he and his co-authors wrote. “An
image leaps automatically to mind: that of a
nebbish and unfashionable individual, wearing
spectacles, whose demeanor is largely
characterized by the social awkwardness
one might expect from someone who has
chosen the company of print over peers.”
But the second half of the study
ILLUSTRATION
BY
suggested that stereotype is unfair, Oatley
said. The participants were then scored on a
Interpersonal Reactivity Index, which is designed
to measure empathy, and the Reading the Mind
in the Eyes Test, which gauges ability to interpret
the mental states of others by asking people to
associate pictures of actors’ eyes with an emotion.
Participants who knew the most fiction writers
on the author-recognition test scored far higher on
the measurements of social acumen.
“People who read more fiction were better at
empathy and understanding others,” Oatley said.
Any author would tell you as much. But
according to Oatley, psychology had long been
“very sniffy” about studying fiction.
“People thought it was just made up,” he said.
“So who knows what could be happening?”
But the past decade and a half has seen a shift
in that trend. In 2000, Jemeljan Hakemulder, of
Utrecht University in Germany, published “The
Moral Laboratory,” a book outlining the results of
almost two dozen experiments that linked reading
to better social skills.
A 2013 study in the American Psychological
Association’s journal Psychology of Aesthetics,
Creativity, and the Arts found that the process of
imagining scenes while reading led to an increase
in empathy and prosocial behavior.
Raymond Mar, a psychologist who co-authored
the 2006 study with Oatley, has found that the
BEV SCHILLING /Stars and Stripes
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parts of the brain used
for inferring thoughts
Really,
and feelings of others
all art is
— a phenomenon called
metaphor.
“mentalizing” — light up
on an MRI machine when
When we
people are processing
read, we
stories.
become
The type of story matters,
according to some research.
Anna
In 2013, researchers at
Karenina
The New School in New
or Harry
York made a splash when
they published an article
Potter.
in Science arguing that
… We
literary fiction — as
understand
opposed to nonfiction or a
popular genre, like sci-fi
them
— temporarily enhanced
from the
a skill known as theory of
inside.
mind, which is the ability
to imagine what might be
Keith Oatley
going on in someone else’s
cognitive
head. The authors said
psychologist
literary fiction tends to
focus more on characters’
interior lives than nonfiction
or genre stories; readers have to get inside the
heads of the characters, which is what leads to the
psychological effect.
A 2014 study found something similar.
Participants who read an excerpt from a novel
about a Muslim American woman were less
likely to make broad assumptions based on
race than those who just read a synopsis of the
story, suggesting that the way a story is told is as
important as what is being said.
Oatley compared reading to being in a flight
simulator. “You experience a lot of situations
in a short span of time,” he said, far
more so than if we went about our
lives waiting for those experiences
to come to us.”
Books, he continued, are life
simulators. They allow us to see
ourselves in someone else.
“Really, all art is metaphor,”
Oatley said. “When we read,
we become Anna Karenina or
Harry Potter. … We understand
them from the inside.”
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High note for Helberg
C HRIS PIZZELLO, INVISION /AP
Kevin Hart has signed a deal
to release an album under the
pseudonym Chocolate Droppa.
Hart to record album
as rapper alter ego
Kevin Hart is used to entertaining audiences with his jokes,
and now he’s hoping to do so with
his rhymes.
The superstar comedian has
signed a deal with Motown Records to release an album under
his rapper alter-ego, Chocolate
Droppa, this fall.
While he hasn’t released music
before, Hart has showcased his
rap skills in videos posted online.
He offered a warning to his fellow rappers in an Instagram post
Aug. 11: “If you’re a rapper I suggest you run because I’m about to
come for all of you suckas.”
Killam, Pharoah each
land a Showtime series
Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah already have post-“Saturday
Night Live” plans. They’ll each
star in a TV series for Showtime.
David Nevins, president and
CEO of Showtime Networks,
made the announcement Aug. 11.
Pharoah will star in the halfhour comedy “White Famous,”
about an African-American comedian who tries to maintain
his identity as he crosses over to
mainstream celeb status.
Killam will front a half-hour
comedy as well, called “Mating.”
He’ll play a recently divorced guy
who married young and is thrust
into the modern dating world.
Nevins said Showtime had already been in talks with Killam
and Pharoah prior to their release
from “SNL.”
Other news
Thomas Gibson has been
dismissed from the long-running
CBS drama “Criminal Minds.”
ABC Studios and CBS Television
Studios, which produce the series,
made the announcement Aug. 12
with no further details. Gibson
has starred on the show, which
follows a group of FBI profilers,
since its premiere in 2005.
Melissa Benoist and Grant
Gustin better work on their vocal
exercises. The CW announced
that crossover musical episodes
are planned for its TV shows “Supergirl” and “The Flash.”
Showtime is in talks with
Stephen Colbert to host a live
election-night comedy special.
Disney’s first Latino princess will keep her throne: The TV
series “Elena of Avalor” is getting a second-season renewal.
TV and Broadway star Laura
Benanti is pregnant. She and her
husband are expecting a baby girl
this winter.
From The Associated Press
‘Big Bang Theory’ actor discusses sharing
screen with Streep in ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’
BY A MY K AUFMAN
Los Angeles Times
I
magine you’re a really bad singer. You don’t just miss a note occasionally — you miss almost every note. You sound like a dying
goose. But you have no idea how terrible you are because you hear
only positive things about your voice.
That’s the plot of “Florence Foster Jenkins,” in which Meryl Streep
brings to life the story of an actual 1940s New York socialite who sold
out Carnegie Hall despite being an awful singer.
Her husband (Hugh Grant) paid critics to write positive reviews.
And her pianist — played with comic elan by “The Big Bang Theory’s”
Simon Helberg — attempted to make up for her vocal shortcomings via
his musical dexterity.
The role of the pompous but empathetic pianist could be a career
changer for Helberg, best known for playing nerdy aerospace engineer
Howard Wolowitz on CBS’ long-running sitcom hit.
A few blocks from the Los Feliz
Calif., home he shares with his wife
and two children, the 35-year-old
discussed his own reputation in Hollywood and what it was like working
opposite the almighty Streep.
Los Angeles Times: One of the
themes of the movie is self-image.
Do you think most actors in Hollywood have a sense of how they are
truly perceived in the industry?
Helberg: I think it depends on the
level you’re at and how much money
you pay your agents to lie to you. Earlier on, I felt like I got some pretty
straightforward feedback from people. When you’re starting out, there’s
no incentive to tell you anything but
the truth. You’ll get feedback that’s
like, “You’re not handsome enough.”
They will dress up those things a little bit too by saying, “You’re too character-y,” which means too ugly or too
Jewish or too short. Those are hard
things to hear. But in the beginning,
I was probably more like Florence.
Just blind, pure passion.
Say you were in Florence’s position: Would you want to know that
everyone actually thought you
were a bad actor?
I’m sweating. I feel like that’s
happened. There’s a part of you
that has to care — if you’re trying
to tell a story, you want to know if
the story got across. Critics are
definitely operating in a vacuum
and will be brutally honest. I just
don’t know if their honest opinion is the honest opinion that
I’m craving the most. It’s just
that they’re the ones with the
loudest voice. If Florence was
so passionate about singing,
and it brought her such a
tremendous amount of joy
— telling her that the experience people were having was different than the
one that she intended on them
having, and then she stops pur-
suing her dream. Is that worth it?
Every actor in the world is so obsessed with Meryl. Having worked
with her, do you get why?
Aside from this almost divine,
supernatural ability that she has
— which is ironic, that she is playing someone who is completely free
of ability or talent — she also has
the most incredible generosity. The
most simple way to describe it is that
being with her on set, you feel like
you’re with someone who sees in 360
degrees.
OK, but she sings so badly in the
movie. That must have gotten on
your nerves occasionally.
What she’s doing is so insanely
hard. She was singing literally the
most complicated, most well-revered
canon of operatic music in four or
five languages. And what’s amazing
is she was actually singing it kind of
well. That’s what makes it so bad. She
is coming up right next to the note, or
passing through it.
You played jazz piano in high
school. Did that help you get the
part?
When I first met with Stephen
(Frears, the director), I was just going
in to say, “Hey, I played piano. I can
probably play some of these things.
But at the very least, I can put my
hands exactly where they should be
and you can fix it in post.” But by the
end of the meeting, I was like, “I’m
a professional classical pianist and I
can play anything.”
Whoa. So how did you live up to
that promise?
I rented an apartment to practice
the piano and to work, because that’s
how scared I was to make this movie.
It had a piano, and I had to practice
for, like, three or four months. Aside
from learning the pieces, it was more
about the technique — watching a lot
of Vladimir Horowitz and (Arthur)
Rubinstein videos seeing how they
sat and held themselves.
Actor Simon Helberg brushed up on his high-school jazz piano skills
to accompany Meryl Streep in “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
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Man dies after being
found in manure pit
TOWNMI MILLINGTON
SHIP — A 55-year-old
man died after being found in a
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The number of skimmers found on gas pumps in Arizona in the first twelve days of the month. There were 11 found in
the same time period last year. Skimmers are used to steal credit and debit card information. Authorities say criminals are
upping the stakes, making it more difficult to find the devices inside the gas pumps by attaching skimmers to the circuit
boards. Since Jan. 1, 40 skimmers have been found around the state.
manure pit on his dairy farm in
Michigan’s Thumb region.
The Tuscola County Sheriff’s
Office said in a news release that
firefighters found the man Friday
and he was “beyond any medical
assistance.”
The pit is about a dozen feet
deep and had a foot to 16 inches of
liquid manure at the bottom.
Rainbow Creek Farms coowner Diane Foley confirmed
to MLive.com that her husband,
Steve Foley, was the victim. She
says her husband’s death was an
accident.
Police: Officer fires live
ammo in drill at school
ROCKWOOD — A poTN
lice officer accidentally
fired a live round during active
shooter training last week at a
Tennessee middle school, officials said.
No one was near the officer
Thursday morning, and the bullet
damaged a “minor little piece” of
a cinder block wall at Rockwood
Middle School, Roane County
Schools Superintendent Leah
Watkins told WBIR-TV.
Police and the school system
were working together to demonstrate what an active shooter
situation sounds like. In the drill,
school employees are locked
in a classroom with the police
chief while an officer fires blank
rounds in the hallway.
Police are investigating how
a live round came to be fired instead of a blank. The officer who
fired the weapon is on paid administrative leave.
MITSU YASUKAWA , THE RECORD
OF
BERGEN C OUNTY (N.J.)/AP
Boulder broken, moved
from national park road
Don’t burst my bubble
ZION
NATIONAL
PARK, Utah — A road
in Utah’s Zion National Park that
was closed after a boulder the
size of a house tumbled onto the
highway has been reopened.
Zion officials said Friday that
Zion-Mount Carmel Highway
was reopened after the boulder
was broken into small pieces by a
hydraulic ram-hoe and moved off
the roadway. Park crews cut out
the damaged asphalt and put in a
temporary gravel patch.
The boulder fell after strong
thunderstorms pounded the park
Wednesday afternoon. Nobody
was injured and most park activity was unaffected.
A giant soap bubble floats in the air as children try to grab it during the annual “Day in the Sun” end of summer camp at Eastside Park in
Paterson, N.J.
UT
Nearly 9-foot alligator
removed from garage
— A nearTX FULSHEAR
ly 9-foot alligator was
removed from a Houston-area garage after the homeowner found
the reptile beside his lawn mower.
Police in Fulshear said nobody
was hurt in Thursday night’s incident and the animal was being
taken to an alligator refuge.
Homeowner Doug Dallmer
said the goal was not to harm the
alligator, which was hissing and
biting while being removed.
Turnpike reuniting lost
teddy bear with boy
OLDMANS
TOWNNJ
SHIP — The New Jersey
Turnpike is reuniting a New York
boy with the teddy bear he lost on
a road trip to North Carolina.
The
12-year-old’s
mother,
Julissa Viana, of New City, N.Y.,
tweeted that the bear was missing when the family reached the
Outer Banks on Aug. 6. She said
the family had stopped at one of
the turnpike’s service areas and
the bear likely fell out while her
husband sorted belongings.
Turnpike Authority spokesman Tom Feeney told NJ.com
he saw the tweet and asked the
patron services office to check
with southbound service areas.
The staff at the Clara Barton Service Area in Oldmans Township
found the bear and the authority
is mailing it home.
Road rage killer dies
in road rage incident
FL
PLANT CITY — A man
who had recently been
released from prison after serving
time for a road rage killing was
shot and killed during another
road rage encounter in Florida.
Col. Donna Luscynski, of the
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s
Office, said the incident occurred
Wednesday morning in Plant City.
She said Gary Lynn Durham, 40,
stopped his pickup truck, got out
and approached the motorist behind him. An argument escalated
between the two.
Investigators said the car’s
driver, Robert Padgett, 42,
warned Durham before he pulled
out a gun and shot him. Paramedics arrived to find Padgett giving
CPR to Durham, but Durham
later died.
Durham had recently been released from prison for the 2001
killing of Timothy Gibbs, 48, in
another road rage incident.
Luscynski said Padgett will not
be arrested.
Civil War battlefield
sold, to be preserved
PRESCOTT — The
AR
sale of 448 acres in
southwest Arkansas that was the
site of a Civil War battle has been
completed.
The Nevada County Depot and
Museum purchased the Elkins
Ferry land for $976,000 from
Hancock Timber Management,
of Hope, and plans to preserve it
while adding interpretive trails
and historical signage.
The land is on the Little Missouri
River about 8 miles northwest of
Prescott. Historic Preservation
Program spokesman Mark Christ
told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that it’s where Union and
Confederate armies fought in 1864
as the Union tried to make its way
to Shreveport, La.
City OKs ‘to-go-cups’
for alcohol in public
OCEAN
SPRINGS
MS
— Customers are now
allowed to carry alcoholic drinks
out of bars and restaurants in
parts of Ocean Springs, thanks to
a new “to-go-cup” ordinance.
The ordinance took effect Aug.
6. WLOX-TV reported that the city
has been distributing information
on the law and its restrictions.
Patrons in a specified enter-
tainment district can leave an
establishment with alcohol, but
they can’t carry the adult drink
into another place that serves alcohol. Bars and restaurants must
serve the drinks in clear, plastic
cups that are no larger than 16
ounces.
Mother, son reunited,
are charged with incest
CLOVIS — Jury trials are scheduled for
a New Mexico mother and her 19year-old son who were charged
with incest after the teen told authorities the two were involved in
a romantic relationship.
Online court records show a
trial for Monica Mares, 36, is
scheduled to begin Aug. 25. — five
months after a grand jury indicted
her and her son, Caleb Peterson,
on one count each of incest. Peterson’s trial is scheduled to begin
next month.
Citing court records, the Clovis
News-Journal reported Mares
gave up Peterson for adoption
when he was an infant, and the
mother and son reunited recently.
NM
From wire reports
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Crowdfunding catches on in India
BY SARITHA R AI
Bloomberg
When farmers in the scorched
village of Horti in Western India
were struggling to raise money
for a canal, they turned to an
unlikely source: a crowdfunding
website called FuelADream.
The farmers had never heard of
crowdfunding before, but a local
nonprofit group suggested the site
and helped them write a proposal
that explained how a canal would
help feed local families. Within
weeks, they had raised $4,490
from about 100 people. They donated an equal amount of their
own money and built the storage
duct. Monsoon rains arrived a
few weeks ago, filling the new 5mile-long, 32-foot-wide waterway
that runs through fields where
farmers will soon plant soybeans,
sugarcane and cereal grains.
“Who would imagine that
strangers would donate money
to help build a canal in a place
they had never even seen?” asked
Manohar Kulkarni, 69, a retired
government official and native
of Horti, which used to rely on
tankers trundling along its rutted
roads to supply water.
In India, crowdfunding is taking an unusual twist. While U.S.
sites like Indiegogo and RocketHub focus on financing startups
and new products, India’s crowdfunding companies are using the
power of the internet to tackle
social causes, including early
education, childhood nutrition
and support for indigent farmers.
Given the country’s poverty, donors can make a difference with
small amounts of money, and entrepreneurs get the opportunity
to experiment with new ideas before pitching them to big-time financiers or government officials.
“There are a billion dreams
waiting to come true,” said Ranganath Thota, a former PepsiCo
executive, who started the Bangalore-based FuelADream a year
ago. “The power of a crowd is not
to be underestimated as a force
for connecting with the world.”
The crowdfunding industry provided about $34.4 billion in capital globally last year and is set to
surpass venture capital this year,
according to California-based research advisory Massolution. No
reliable numbers are available for
India which, by all estimates, accounts for a small fraction of this.
But local crowdfunding sites are
proliferating and drawing attention from backers including the
World Bank and Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla, who is financing market-based approaches
to development.
Local sites benefit from the
spread of technology. India is now
the world’s second-largest internet market, with more than 342
million mobile users, and online
payment options make it easy to
give money.
Projects are wide-ranging. In
Indore, a town in central India,
crowdfunding is used to provide
board, lodging and schooling for
31 children orphaned by farmer
suicides. In Delhi, the technology
has been used to develop a matchmaking app called Loveability
that connects people with disabilities. And in Bangalore, vChalk has
raised about $2,400 to offer remedial English and math classes for
the children of street vendors, factory workers and security guards.
Piyush Jain has been thinking about crowdfunding in India
since he was a student at Harvard
University from 2011 to 2013. He
wrote his graduate thesis on leveraging the technology to solve
the country’s developmental
problems and began work on his
site Impact Guru in the school’s
innovation lab. Now based in
Mumbai, he’s run hundreds of
campaigns in the past two years
and raised about $180,000, including for the education startup
vChalk. “Knocking on people’s
doors or cold-calling to solicit donations can only go so far,” said
Jain. “The old ways are not working anymore.”
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (Aug. 15) ......................... $1.1492
Dollar buys (Aug. 15)........................€0.8702
British pound (Aug. 15) ....................... $1.34
Japanese yen (Aug. 15) ....................... 99.00
South Korean won (Aug. 15) .........1,073.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound ..................................... $1.2917
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.2957
China (Yuan) ........................................6.6295
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6652
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8798
Euro ........................................ $1.1164/0.8958
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7565
Hungary (Forint) ................................. 277.51
Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.8110
Japan (Yen)........................................... 101.27
Kuwait (Dinar) ..................................... 0.3018
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.2215
Philippines (Peso).................................46.60
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.83
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7498
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3460
South Korea (Won) .......................... 1,102.74
Switzerland (Franc)............................ 0.9749
Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 34.79
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.9612
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.28
30-year bond ........................................... 2.23
WEATHER OUTLOOK
MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
MONDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
80/71
Kabul
90/65
Baghdad
118/88
Kuwait
City
122/94
Riyadh
114/87
Seoul
94/74
Kandahar
100/71
Osan
94/74
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
73/53
Bahrain
110/93
Brussels
73/53
Lajes,
Azores
78/69
Doha
111/90
Ramstein
79/53
Stuttgart
79/58
Iwakuni
90/78
Sasebo
91/78
Guam
84/78
Pápa
81/58
Aviano/
Vicenza
83/64
Naples
87/69
Morón
101/74
Sigonella
90/65
Rota
90/74
Djibouti
109/90
Tokyo
80/71
Busan
89/71
Okinawa
88/78
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
82/69
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Indianapolis
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Jackson, Miss.
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Juneau
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Kansas City
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88
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Syracuse
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Tampa
93
Toledo
81
Topeka
85
Tucson
102
Tulsa
86
Tupelo
90
Waco
87
Washington
94
W. Palm Beach
91
Wichita
88
Wichita Falls
91
Wilkes-Barre
87
Wilmington, Del. 92
Yakima
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Youngstown
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Hi: Sat., 120, Death Valley, Calif.
Lo: Sat., 28, Stanley, Idaho
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
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Auto racing
Mid-Ohio Challenge
NASCAR XFINITY
Saturday
At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Lexington, Ohio
Lap length: 2.258 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (16) Justin Marks, Chevrolet, 75 laps,
146.7 rating, 45 points.
2. (1) Sam Hornish Jr, Chevrolet, 75,
117.2, 40.
3. (3) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 75, 112.8, 0.
4. (7) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 75, 118.5,
38.
5. (11) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 75,
97.3, 36.
6. (6) Erik Jones, Toyota, 75, 97.4, 35.
7. (15) Andy Lally, Chevrolet, 75, 107.2,
35.
8. (12) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet,
75, 85.4, 33.
9. (4) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 75, 80.2,
32.
10. (17) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 75,
79.2, 31.
11. (8) Ryan Reed, Ford, 75, 93.7, 30.
12. (13) Blake Koch, Chevrolet, 75, 70.2,
29.
13. (22) Alon Day, Dodge, 75, 84.7, 28.
14. (21) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 75,
64.4, 28.
15. (10) Darrell Wallace Jr, Ford, 75,
102.4, 27.
16. (2) Owen Kelly, Toyota, 75, 82.7, 26.
17. (24) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 75,
76.2, 24.
18. (29) Ryan Ellis, Ford, 75, 64.6, 23.
19. (19) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 75,
67.7, 22.
20. (27) Stanton Barrett, Ford, 75, 61.3,
21.
21. (26) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 74,
61.8, 20.
22. (23) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 74, 64.7,
19.
23. (5) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 74, 81.7,
18.
24. (36) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet,
73, 39.5, 17.
25. (32) David Starr, Chevrolet, 73, 43.3,
16.
26. (30) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 73, 52.1, 0.
27. (38) B J McLeod, Ford, 73, 36.3, 14.
28. (37) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 73, 39.5,
13.
29. (31) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 72, 43.8,
0.
30. (33) Ray Black Jr, Chevrolet, 72,
40.7, 11.
31. (35) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet,
72, 38.5, 10.
32. (28) T.J. Bell, Chevrolet, 71, 52.7, 9.
33. (39) Roger Reuse, Dodge, 70, 31.2,
8.
34. (14) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet,
64, 45.5, 7.
35. (20) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, accident, 56,
82.0, 6.
36. (18) Kenny Habul, Chevrolet, accident, 54, 65.0, 5.
37. (34) Tim Cowen, Toyota, accident,
54, 47.7, 4.
38. (9) Nelson Piquet Jr., Ford, accident, 31, 54.2, 3.
39. (40) Mario Gosselin, Chevrolet,
electrical, 3, 25.2, 0.
40. (25) Jeff Green, Toyota, reargear, 2,
23.3, 1.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner: 53.435
mph.
Time of Race: 3 hours, 10 minutes, 9
seconds.
Margin of Victory: 3.707 seconds.
Caution Flags: 8 for 32 laps.
Lead Changes: 13 among 8 drivers.
Lap Leaders: S.Hornish 1-4; R.Chastain
5; S.Hornish 6-8; O.Kelly 9; S.Hornish 10;
J.Marks 11-42; A.Lally 43-45; T.Dillon 4647; R.Blaney 48-53; O.Kelly 54; J.Marks 55;
D.Wallace 56-62; T.Dillon 63-65; J.Marks
66-75
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,
Laps Led): J.Marks, 3 times for 40 laps;
D.Wallace, 1 time for 6 laps; S.Hornish,
3 times for 5 laps; R.Blaney, 1 time for 5
laps; T.Dillon, 2 times for 3 laps; A.Lally, 1
time for 2 laps; O.Kelly, 2 times for 0 laps;
R.Chastain, 1 time for 0 laps.
Wins: E.Jones, 3; S.Hornish, 1; E.Sadler,
1; D.Suarez, 1.
Top 10 in Points: 1. E.Sadler, 668; 2.
D.Suarez, 657; 3. T.Dillon, 629; 4. E.Jones,
613; 5. J.Allgaier, 610; 6. B.Gaughan, 598; 7.
B.Poole, 587; 8. B.Jones, 573; 9. D.Wallace,
512; 10. R.Reed, 496.
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.
Pro soccer
Golf
MLS
New York City FC 3, Crew 3
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
New York City FC 10 7 8 38 43 43
New York
10 9 6 36 43 33
Toronto FC
10 7 6 36 33 24
Philadelphia
9 8 7 34 42 37
Montreal
8 6 9 33 38 34
D.C. United
6 8 9 27 24 28
New England
6 10 8 26 29 44
Orlando City
5 6 11 26 36 39
Columbus
3 8 11 20 29 38
Chicago
4 11 6 18 20 30
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
13 6 6 45 39 33
Colorado
11 3 9 42 27 20
Los Angeles
9 3 11 38 38 23
Real Salt Lake
10 7 7 37 35 34
Sporting KC
10 11 5 35 30 30
Portland
8 9 8 32 36 36
San Jose
7 6 10 31 25 25
Vancouver
8 11 6 30 34 41
Seattle
7 12 3 24 24 29
Houston
4 10 8 20 24 28
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday’s Games
San Jose 2, Vancouver 1
Saturday’s Games
New York 3, Montreal 1
Philadelphia 4, New England 0
D.C. United 2, Portland 0
New York City FC 3, Columbus 3, tie
Sporting Kansas City 2, FC Dallas 2,
tie
Colorado 1, Los Angeles 1, tie
Sunday’s games
Orlando City at Chicago
Real Salt Lake at Seattle
Toronto FC at Houston
New York City FC
1 2—3
Columbus
0 3—3
First half—1, New York City FC, Lampard 9, 41st minute.
Second half—2, Columbus, Meram 3
(Francis, Trapp), 49th; 3, Columbus, Finlay 2 (PK), 80th; 4, New York City FC, Villa
14 (Pirlo), 83rd; 5, New York City FC, Villa
15 (PK), 93rd; 6, Columbus, Finlay 3, 95th.
Goalies—New York City FC, Josh Saunders; Columbus, Steve Clark.
Yellow
Cards—Tchani,
Columbus,
91st.
A—18,189 (20,145)
Saturday
United 2, Timbers 0
Portland
0 0—0
D.C. United
2 0—2
First half—1, D.C. United, Birnbaum 2
(Boswell, Sam), 7th minute; 2, D.C. United, Acosta 2 (Mullins), 29th.
Goalies—Portland, Jake Gleeson; D.C
United, Bill Hamid.
Yellow Cards—Ridgewell, Portland,
50th; Boswell, D.C. United, 56th; Jewsbury, Portland, 57th; Franklin, D.C. United, 75th; Andriuskevicius, Portland, 83rd.
A—16,298 (20,000)
Red Bulls 3, Impact 1
Montreal
1 0—1
New York
2 1—3
First half—1, Montreal, Piatti 13 (Mancosu, Donadel), 21st minute; 2, New York,
Wright-Phillips 13 (Kljestan, Davis), 22nd;
3, New York, Wright-Phillips 14 (Davis),
41st.
Second half—4, New York, Davis 2
(Grella), 46th.
Goalies—Montreal, Evan Bush; New
York, Luis Robles.
Yellow Cards—Collin, New York, 14th;
Bernardello, Montreal, 50th; Mallace,
Montreal, 69th; Muyl, New England, 87th.
Red Cards—Oyongo, Montreal, 48th.
A—23,459 (25,000)
NFL preseason
Miami
N.Y. Jets
New England
Buffalo
Tennessee
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Houston
1
1
0
0
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Cincinnati
1
0
0
0
Denver
Oakland
San Diego
Kansas City
1
1
0
0
T
Pct
0 1.000
0 1.000
0 1.000
0
.000
South
PF PA
27 10
17 13
34 22
18 19
0 0 1.000
0 0 1.000
1 0
.000
0 0
.000
27
19
13
0
10
18
17
0
0
1
1
1
0 1.000
0
.000
0
.000
0
.000
22
17
11
16
19
30
17
17
0 0 1.000
0 0 1.000
1 0
.000
1 0
.000
22
31
10
16
0
10
27
17
Philadelphia
N.Y. Giants
Washington
Dallas
W
1
0
0
0
L
0
1
1
1
T
Pct
0 1.000
0
.000
0
.000
0
.000
PF PA
17
9
10 27
17 23
24 28
Atlanta
Tampa Bay
New Orleans
Carolina
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0 1.000
0
.000
0
.000
0
.000
23
9
22
19
17
17
34
22
Minnesota
Detroit
Green Bay
Chicago
1
1
1
0
0 0 1.000
0 0 1.000
0 0 1.000
1 0
.000
17
30
17
0
16
17
11
22
Los Angeles
1 0 0 1.000
Seattle
1 0 0 1.000
Arizona
0 1 0
.000
San Francisco 0 0 0
.000
Saturday’s games
Seattle 17, Kansas City 16
Indianapolis 19, Buffalo 18
Tennessee 27, San Diego 10
Los Angeles 28, Dallas 24
Sunday’s game
Houston at San Francisco
28
17
10
0
24
16
31
0
North
West
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
South
North
West
Union 4, Revolution 0
Philadelphia
1 3—4
New England
0 0—0
First half—1, Philadelphia, Sapong 7
(Fabinho), 2nd minute;
Second half—2, Philadelphia, Pontius 10, 51st; 3, Philadelphia, Marquez, 2
(Pontius), 54th; 4, Philadelphia, Alberg 8
(Davies), 93rd.
Goalies—Philadelphia, Andre Blake;
New England, Bobby Shuttleworth.
Yellow Cards—Caldwell, New England, 18th; Kamara, New England, 41st;
Herbers, Philadelphia, 80th.
A—17,127 (20,000)
NWSL
W L T Pts GF
Portland
8 2 5 29 20
Washington
9 3 2 29 22
Western New York 8 5 2 26 29
Chicago
7 4 4 25 14
Sky Blue FC
6 5 4 22 18
Seattle
5 5 5 20 18
Orlando
6 9 0 18 14
FC Kansas City
4 7 4 16 11
Houston
3 7 3 12 13
Boston
2 11 1
7
7
Note: Three points for victory,
point for tie.
Thursday, Aug. 18
Washington at Houston
GA
12
12
18
13
20
14
19
14
15
29
one
World TeamTennis
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
L
0
0
0
1
Sporting KC 2, FC Dallas 2
Sporting Kansas City FC
0 2—2
FC Dallas
0 2—2
Second half—1, FC Dallas, Akindele 6
(Harris, Gruezo), 66th; 2, Sporting Kansas City FC, Dwyer 11 (Davis), 68th; 3,
Sporting Kansas City FC, Dwyer 12, 73rd;
4, FC Dallas, Urruti 7, 76th.
Goalies—Sporting Kansas City FC,
Alec Kann; FC Dallas, Chris Seitz.
Yellow Cards—Hedges, FC Dallas,
22nd; Harris, FC Dallas, 83rd; Abdul-Salaam, Sporting Kansas City FC, 86th; Medranda, Sporting Kansas City FC, 88th.
A—13,408 (20,500)
Tennis
Pro football
W
1
1
1
0
Rapids 1, Galaxy 1
Colorado
0 1—1
Los Angeles
0 1—1
Second half—1, Colorado, Gashi 3
(Hairston), 51st; 2, Los Angeles, Steres 2
(Gerrard), 62nd.
Goalies—Colorado, Tim Howard; Los
Angeles, Brian Rowe (Dan Kennedy,
85th).
Yellow Cards—de Jong, Los Angeles,
86th; Azira, Colorado, 87th.
A—25,667 (27,000)
W
L
Pct. GB
x-San Diego
8
4
.667 —
y-Orange County
8
4
.667 —
Philadelphia
7
5
.583 1
Washington
7
5
.583 1
Springfield
4
8
.333 4
New York
2
10
.167 6
x- 1 seed in Finals
y- 2 seed in Finals
Friday’s matches
San Diego 24, New York 16
Philadelphia 21, Orange County 18
Washington 21, Springfield 20
Saturday’s matches
Philadelphia 25, San Diego 9
Washington 25, Orange County 19, EP
Springfield 22, New York 19, EP
WTT Finals
Friday, Aug. 26
At Forest Hills Stadium
Forest Hills, N.Y.
Orange County vs. San Diego
Mexican Open
Friday
At Solaz Resort & Spa Los Cabos
Los Cabos, Mexico
Purse: $721,030 (WT250)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Championship
Ivo Karlovic (3), Croatia, def. Feliciano
Lopez (1), Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Doubles
Championship
Purav Raja and Divij Sharan, India, def.
Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Ken Skupski,
Britain, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3).
Boxing
Fight schedule
Aug. 19
Rhinos Stadium, Rochester, N.Y., Jarrell
Miller vs. Fred Kassi, 10, heavyweights;
Nikolay Potapov vs. Antonio Nieves, 10,
bantamweights; Bakhtiyar Eyubov vs.
Karim Mayfield, 10, welterweights.
Deals
Saturday’s transactions
John Deere Classic
Saturday
At TPC Deere Run
Silvis, Ill.
Purse: $4.8 million
Yardage: 7,268; Par 71
Third Round
Ryan Moore
65-65-65—195
Ben Martin
66-68-62—196
Morgan Hoffmann
67-67-62—196
Johnson Wagner
68-64-67—199
Whee Kim
69-67-64—200
Kelly Kraft
69-64-67—200
Wesley Bryan
66-64-70—200
Bud Cauley
67-68-66—201
Andrew Loupe
64-70-67—201
Steve Marino
66-65-70—201
Ricky Barnes
69-68-65—202
Scott Stallings
69-67-66—202
Aaron Wise
69-70-63—202
Kyle Stanley
67-66-69—202
Scott Brown
66-66-70—202
Andrew Landry
69-67-67—203
Shaun Micheel
69-66-68—203
Miguel Angel Carballo
70-64-69—203
Robby Shelton
71-68-64—203
Tom Gillis
64-68-71—203
Steve Wheatcroft
68-69-67—204
Geoff Ogilvy
67-70-67—204
Derek Ernst
70-67-67—204
Charlie Danielson
67-71-66—204
Cameron Smith
69-66-69—204
Jamie Lovemark
69-66-69—204
Sung Kang
69-66-69—204
Jon Rahm
69-66-69—204
Abraham Ancer
69-68-68—205
Shawn Stefani
70-67-68—205
Billy Hurley III
71-67-67—205
Scott Pinckney
66-70-69—205
Angel Cabrera
70-66-69—205
Matt Jones
67-69-69—205
Michael Kim
69-70-66—205
Patrick Rodgers
65-74-66—205
Keegan Bradley
68-69-69—206
Kent Jones
68-69-69—206
Boo Weekley
69-69-68—206
Robert Garrigus
71-65-70—206
Steve Stricker
70-68-68—206
Zac Blair
67-69-70—206
Andres Romero
70-68-68—206
Scott Langley
70-69-67—206
Kevin Na
69-70-67—206
Adam Hadwin
71-68-67—206
Tyler Aldridge
68-71-67—206
Stuart Appleby
68-71-67—206
Dawie van der Walt
70-69-67—206
Tim Herron
68-69-70—207
Rory Sabbatini
67-71-69—207
Ben Curtis
68-69-70—207
Zach Johnson
65-71-71—207
Luke List
73-65-69—207
Bronson Burgoon
68-67-72—207
Hudson Swafford
69-65-73—207
Andres Gonzales
68-71-68—207
-18
-17
-17
-14
-13
-13
-13
-12
-12
-12
-11
-11
-11
-11
-11
-10
-10
-10
-10
-10
-9
-9
-9
-9
-9
-9
-9
-9
-8
-8
-8
-8
-8
-8
-8
-8
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-7
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
-6
U.S. Senior Open
Saturday
At Scioto Country Club
Columbus Ohio
Purse: $3.75 million
Yardage: 7,124; Par 70
Third Round
Miguel Angel Jimenez
68-70-69—207
Gene Sauers
68-69-71—208
Ian Woosnam
69-72-70—211
Loren Roberts
73-68-70—211
Billy Mayfair
69-67-75—211
David Frost
71-73-68—212
Bernhard Langer
73-70-69—212
Scott Dunlap
73-70-69—212
Joe Durant
75-67-70—212
Michael Allen
68-71-73—212
Glen Day
68-70-74—212
Joey Sindelar
69-66-77—212
Scott Verplank
69-73-71—213
Jeff Maggert
70-71-72—213
Paul Goydos
71-73-70—214
Kevin Sutherland
71-72-71—214
Stephen Ames
70-68-76—214
Jeff Gallagher
68-76-71—215
Colin Montgomerie
72-71-72—215
Jay Haas
70-72-73—215
Olin Browne
70-71-74—215
Grant Waite
75-70-71—216
Tommy Armour III
71-73-72—216
Tom Byrum
76-69-71—216
Brian Henninger
70-72-74—216
Vijay Singh
66-75-75—216
Peter Fowler
77-67-73—217
Tom Lehman
74-70-73—217
Takeshi Sakiyama
69-74-74—217
Miguel Angel Martin
72-72-73—217
Marco Dawson
70-73-74—217
Woody Austin
75-70-72—217
Doug Garwood
71-74-72—217
Larry Mize
75-71-71—217
Duffy Waldorf
78-68-71—217
Bart Bryant
72-74-71—217
Jeff Hart
71-76-70—217
Paul Broadhurst
70-73-75—218
Scott Hoch
74-71-73—218
-3
-2
+1
+1
+1
+2
+2
+2
+2
+2
+2
+2
+3
+3
+4
+4
+4
+5
+5
+5
+5
+6
+6
+6
+6
+6
+7
+7
+7
+7
+7
+7
+7
+7
+7
+7
+7
+8
+8
Pro basketball
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
New York
18
8 .692 —
Atlanta
13
12 .520
4½
Indiana
12
12 .500
5
Chicago
11
13 .458
6
Washington
9
15 .375
8
Connecticut
8
16 .333
9
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct GB
x-Los Angeles
21
3 .875 —
x-Minnesota
21
4 .840
½
Phoenix
10
14 .417 11
Seattle
9
15 .375 12
Dallas
9
16 .360 12½
San Antonio
5
18 .217 15½
x-clinched a playoff spot
Note: Olympic break; season resumes
August 26.
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Placed RHP
Darren O’Day on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Friday. Recalled RHP Tyler Wilson
from Norfolk (IL).
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Sent 2B Brett
Lawrie to Birmingham (SL) for a rehab
assignment.
HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned LHP
Kevin Chapman to Fresno (PCL). Extended its Player Development Contract with
the Fresno Grizzlies of the Pacific Coast
League, through the 2018 season.
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed OF
Shane Robinson on the 15-day DL. Designated 2B Sean Coyle for assignment.
Claimed LHP Cody Ege off waivers from
Miami and optioned him to Salt Lake
(PCL). Selected the contract of OF Nick
Buss from Salt Lake. Transferred RHP
Nick Tropeano to the 60-day DL. Sent 1B
C.J. Cron to Salt Lake for a rehab assignment. Today the Angels made the following transactions:
MINNESOTA TWINS — Designated LHP
Andrew Albers for assignment. Selected
the contract of LHP Ryan O’Rourke from
Rochester (IL).
NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP
Ben Heller to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).
Reinstated INF Chris Parmelee from the
15-day DL and assigned him outright to
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Selected the
contracts of INF/OF Tyler Austin and
OF Aaron Judge from Scranton/WilkesBarre. Transferred RHP Conor Mullee to
the 60-day DL.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent RHP Tony
Zych to the AZL Mariners for a rehab assignment.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent OF Ezequiel Carrera to Buffalo (IL) for a rehab
assignment.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Reinstated C Welington Castillo from paternity
leave.
ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP
Akeel Morris to Mississippi (SL). Claimed
3B Kyle Kubitza off waivers from Texas
and optioned him to Gwinnett (IL). Designated RHP Manny Banuelos for assignment. Recalled RHP Ryan Weber from
Gwinnett. Agreed to terms with RHP Jimmy Moran on a minor league contract.
Sent RHP Arodys Vizcaino to the GCL
Braves and C Tyler Flowers to Gwinnett
for rehab assignments.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Selected the
contract of RHP Matt Carasiti from Albuquerque (PCL). Sent RHP Chad Qualls
to Albuquerque for a rehab assignment.
Colorado Rockies sent RHP Chad Qualls
on a rehab assignment to Albuquerque
Isotopes.
NEW YORK METS — Optioned RHP
Logan Verrett and SS Matt Reynolds to
Las Vegas (PCL). Recalled RHP Gabriel
Ynoa from Las Vegas. Reinstated SS Jose
Reyes from the 15-day DL.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned
3B Cody Asche to Lehigh Valley (IL). Reinstated OF Peter Bourjos from the 15-day
DL.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Sent C Chris
Stewart to Altoona (EL) for a rehab assignment.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed OF
Matt Holliday on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Friday. Selected the contract of
RHP Luke Weaver from Memphis (PCL).
Transferred LHP Tyler Lyons to the 60day DL.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned LHP
Buddy Baumann to El Paso (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Brandon Morrow
from El Paso. Transferred INF Cory Spangenberg to the 60-day DL.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Released
RHP Jonathan Papelbon. Recalled RHP
Reynaldo Lopez from Syracuse (IL).
FOOTBALL
National Football League
CHICAGO BEARS — Waived OL Dan Buchholz and Donovan Williams. Signed OL
Khaled Holmes and Shelley Smith.
NEW YORK JETS — Signed RB Lache
Seastrunk. Waived/injured RB Matthew
Tucker.
AP sportlight
Aug. 15
1948 — Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins
the U.S. Women’s Open golf title over
Betty Hicks.
1995 — Monica Seles returns to the
WTA Tour after a 28-month absence following her 1993 stabbing with a 6-0, 6-3
win over Kimberly Po at the Canadian
Open in Toronto.
1999 — Tiger Woods makes a crucial
par save on the 17th hole and holds on to
win the PGA Championship by one stroke
over 19-year-old Sergio Garcia. The 23year-old Woods becomes the youngest
player to win two majors since Seve Ballesteros in 1980.
2012 — San Francisco outfielder Melky
Cabrera is suspended 50 games following a positive test for testosterone, putting an abrupt end to what had been an
MVP-caliber regular season. Cabrera
leads the National League in hitting.
2014 — Mo’Ne Davis, one of two girls
at the Little League World Series, throws
a two-hitter to help Philadelphia beat
Nashville 4-0 in the opener for both
teams. Davis, the first girl to appear for
a U.S. team in South Williamsport since
2004, has eight strikeouts and doesn’t
walk a batter.
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MLB SCOREBOARD
American League
East Division
W
L
66
51
65
51
63
52
60
56
46
69
Central Division
Cleveland
66
48
Detroit
62
54
Kansas City
56
60
Chicago
56
60
Minnesota
47
70
West Division
Texas
69
49
Seattle
61
54
Houston
61
56
Oakland
52
65
Los Angeles
49
67
Toronto
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Tampa Bay
White Sox 8, Marlins 7
Chicago
Pct
.564
.560
.548
.517
.400
GB
—
A
2
5A
19
.579
.534
.483
.483
.402
—
5
11
11
20A
.585
.530
.521
.444
.422
—
6A
7A
16A
19
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct GB
Washington
68
47
.591 —
Miami
60
56
.517
8A
New York
58
58
.500 10A
Philadelphia
55
63
.466 14A
Atlanta
44
73
.376 25
Central Division
Chicago
73
42
.635 —
St. Louis
61
56
.521 13
Pittsburgh
58
56
.509 14A
Milwaukee
51
64
.443 22
Cincinnati
48
67
.417 25
West Division
San Francisco
66
50
.569 —
Los Angeles
65
51
.560 1
Colorado
56
61
.479 10A
San Diego
50
66
.431 16
Arizona
48
68
.414 18
Saturday’s games
N.Y. Yankees 8, Tampa Bay 4
Toronto 4, Houston 2
Boston 6, Arizona 3
Chicago White Sox 8, Miami 7
Cleveland 5, L.A. Angels 1
Minnesota 5, Kansas City 3
Detroit 2, Texas 0
San Francisco 6, Baltimore 2
Seattle 4, Oakland 3
St. Louis 8, Chicago Cubs 4
L.A. Dodgers 8, Pittsburgh 4
Philadelphia 6, Colorado 3
Washington 7, Atlanta 6
Cincinnati 11, Milwaukee 5
N.Y. Mets 3, San Diego 2, 11 innings
Sunday’s games
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees
Houston at Toronto
Chicago White Sox at Miami
L.A. Angels at Cleveland
Arizona at Boston
Kansas City at Minnesota
Detroit at Texas
Baltimore at San Francisco
Seattle at Oakland
San Diego at N.Y. Mets
Atlanta at Washington
Colorado at Philadelphia
Cincinnati at Milwaukee
Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs
Monday’s games
Boston (Pomeranz 8-9) at Cleveland
(Tomlin 11-5)
Toronto (Dickey 8-12) at N.Y. Yankees
Kansas City (Kennedy 6-9) at Detroit
(Norris 1-0)
San Diego (Perdomo 5-6) at Tampa
Bay (Smyly 4-11)
Oakland (Detwiler 1-0) at Texas (Perez
7-8)
Seattle (Hernandez 6-4) at L.A. Angels
(Nolasco 4-9)
Miami (Phelps 5-6) at Cincinnati
(Finnegan 7-8)
Washington (Scherzer 12-7) at Colorado (De La Rosa 7-7)
N.Y. Mets (Colon 10-6) at Arizona (Ray
5-11)
Pittsburgh (Vogelsong 1-2) at San
Francisco (Moore 7-8)
Saturday
Mets 3, Padres 2 (11)
San Diego
New York
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ab r h bi
Jnkwski cf 3 0 0 0 J.Reyes ss 4 1 0 0
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4 1 1 1 Grndrsn lf 5 0 0 0
Solarte 3b
4 1 1 1 N.Wlker 2b 5 1 2 1
A.Dckrs lf
4 0 2 0 Bruce rf
5 0 0 0
Schimpf 2b 4 0 1 0 Loney 1b
5 0 1 0
Blash rf
4 0 0 0 W.Flres 3b 5 1 3 1
Bthncrt c
4 0 0 0 De Aza cf 3 0 0 0
Noonan ss 4 0 0 0 T.d’Arn c
2 0 1 0
Cosart p
2 0 0 0 deGrom p 2 0 0 0
J.Dmngz p
0 0 0 0 K.Jhnsn ph 0 0 0 1
Morrow p
0 0 0 0 Ad.Reed p 0 0 0 0
Wallace ph 1 0 0 0 Familia p
0 0 0 0
Buchter p
0 0 0 0 Blevins p
0 0 0 0
Hand p
0 0 0 0 E.Gddel p 0 0 0 0
Rosales ph 1 0 0 0 T.Rvera ph 1 0 0 0
Maurer p
0 0 0 0 G.Ynoa p
0 0 0 0
Totals
35 2 5 2 Totals
37 3 7 3
San Diego
000 000 101 00—2
New York
100 000 100 01—3
E—Myers (2), Bethancourt (3), Noonan
(1). DP—San Diego 2, New York 2. LOB—
San Diego 1, New York 8. HR—Myers (23),
Solarte (12). CS—A.Dickerson (1). SF—
K.Johnson (2). S—T.d’Arnaud (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
San Diego
Cosart
6
3
1
1
2 2
Dominguez
1
1
1
1
1 1
Morrow
1
0
0
0
0 0
Buchter
1
1
0
0
0 1
Hand
1
0
0
0
0 2
Maurer L,0-3
B
2
1
1
0 0
New York
deGrom
7
3
1
1
1 9
Reed H,28
1
0
0
0
0 1
Familia BS,3
1
1
1
1
0 1
Blevins
B
1
0
0
0 0
Goeddel
C
0
0
0
0 1
Ynoa W,1-0
1
0
0
0
0 1
WP—Cosart.
T—3:22.
A—36,854
(41,922).
Miami
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Eaton cf-rf 2 2 0 1 D.Grdon 2b 5 2 2 0
Sladino 2b 4 0 1 2 Prado 3b
5 1 2 3
Me.Cbrr lf
5 0 0 0 Yelich lf
5 1 2 0
Abreu 1b
5 0 1 1 Stanton rf 5 1 3 3
T.Frzer 3b
4 0 1 0 Ozuna cf
4 0 0 0
Ti.Andr ss
4 2 2 0 Ralmuto c 4 0 2 1
Coats rf
4 2 2 1 Detrich 1b 1 0 1 0
Rbrtson p
0 0 0 0 Rojas 1b
1 0 0 0
D.Nvrro c
4 2 2 1 Hchvrra ss 4 0 0 0
Shields p
2 0 0 0 Conley p
2 2 2 0
Albers p
0 0 0 0 McGowan p 1 0 0 0
C.Snchz ph 0 0 0 0 Wttgren p 0 0 0 0
Da.Jnnn p
0 0 0 0 Brrclgh p
0 0 0 0
Beck p
0 0 0 0 I.Szuki ph 1 0 0 0
Morneau ph 1 0 1 1 Rodney p 0 0 0 0
N.Jones p
0 0 0 0
Shuck ph-cf 1 0 0 0
Totals
36 8 10 7 Totals
38 7 14 7
Chicago
130 101 020—8
Miami
014 200 000—7
DP—Chicago 2, Miami 2. LOB—Chicago
10, Miami 6. 2B—Saladino (8), Abreu (26),
Ti.Anderson (12), Morneau (6), Yelich
(33), Realmuto (23). 3B—Dietrich (5).
HR—Coats (1), Prado (7), Stanton (25).
SB—Ti.Anderson (5), Coats (1), Realmuto
(11). S—Saladino (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Shields
3
10
7
7
1 0
Albers
2
2
0
0
0 1
Jennings
C
1
0
0
0 2
Beck W,1-0
1B
0
0
0
0 0
Jones H,24
1
0
0
0
0 2
Robertson S,29-35
1
1
0
0
0 1
Miami
Conley
4
5
5
5
4 4
McGowan
1B
2
1
1
1 0
Wittgren H,5
1C
1
0
0
0 0
Brraclough L,6-3 BS,3 1
2
2
2
1 2
Rodney
1
0
0
0
1 1
Shields pitched to 3 batters in the 4th
HBP—by Albers (Dietrich), by Rodney
(Coats). WP—Barraclough 2. T—3:23.
A—20,006 (36,742).
Tigers 2, Rangers 0
Detroit
Texas
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Kinsler 2b
5 0 1 0 Choo rf
3 0 0 0
McGehee 3b 5 1 4 1 Desmond cf 4 0 0 0
Mi.Cbrr 1b 4 0 2 0 Beltre 3b
4 0 2 0
V.Mrtnz dh 5 0 1 1 Beltran dh 4 0 0 0
J..Mrtn rf
4 0 1 0 Odor 2b
4 0 0 0
J.Upton lf
5 0 1 0 Lucroy c
2 0 0 0
Aviles cf
3 0 2 0 Mreland 1b 3 0 1 0
Collins cf
0 0 0 0 Profar lf
2 0 0 0
Sltlmcc c
3 0 1 0 Andrus ss 3 0 0 0
D.Mchdo ss 3 1 1 0
Totals
37 2 14 2 Totals
29 0 3 0
Detroit
000 011 000—2
Texas
000 000 000—0
DP—Detroit 1, Texas 1. LOB—Detroit
13, Texas 5. 2B—Kinsler (23), McGehee
(1), Aviles (5), Moreland (17).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Detroit
Boyd W,4-2
7
2
0
0
2 3
Greene H,12
1
0
0
0
1 1
Rodriguez S,33-36
1
1
0
0
0 0
Texas
Hamels L,12-4
7
14
2
2
3 5
Kela
2
0
0
0
2 3
WP—Hamels.
T—2:54.
A—37,792
(48,114).
Indians 5, Angels 1
Los Angeles
ab
Y.Escbr 3b 3
Calhoun rf 4
Trout dh
2
A.Smmns ss 2
J.Marte 1b 3
Bandy c
4
Gvtella 2b
3
Buss cf
3
G.Petit lf
3
Cleveland
r
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
ab r h bi
Ra.Dvis lf-cf 4 0 1 0
Kipnis dh 4 0 1 0
Lindor ss
4 1 3 0
Napoli 1b 4 1 2 0
Jose.Rm 3b 4 1 1 1
Chsnhll rf 4 0 2 2
Naquin cf 3 1 1 0
Guyer ph-lf 1 0 0 0
Gimenez c 4 1 2 1
M.Mrtnz 2b 3 0 1 0
Totals
27 1 1 1 Totals
35 5 14 4
Los Angeles
010 000 000—1
Cleveland
310 001 00x—5
E—Y.Escobar 2 (17). DP—Los Angeles 1,
Cleveland 1. LOB—Los Angeles 5, Cleveland 6. 2B—Jose.Ramirez (30), Naquin
(13), Gimenez (2). SB—Trout (19), Chisenhall (6). CS—Ra.Davis (4), Lindor (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Shoemaker L,6-13
6
12
5
5
0 3
Morin
1
1
0
0
0 1
Alvarez
1
1
0
0
0 3
Cleveland
Clevinger W,1-1
5C
1
1
1
4 3
Otero H,1
B
0
0
0
0 0
Shaw
1
0
0
0
0 1
Miller
1
0
0
0
1 3
Allen
1
0
0
0
1 0
T—3:04. A—30,409 (38,000).
Giants 6, Orioles 2
Baltimore
ab r
A.Jones cf
5 0
J.Hardy ss
3 0
M.Mchdo 3b 4 0
Trumbo rf
4 0
Schoop 2b 3 0
C.Davis 1b
2 1
C.Jseph c
3 0
P.Alvrz ph
0 0
Wieters ph 1 1
Reimold lf
3 0
Gausman p 1 0
Gllardo ph 1 0
Worley p
0 0
Pearce ph
1 0
Jimenez p
0 0
Flherty ph
1 0
Totals
32 2
Baltimore
San Francisco
h
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
5
bi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
San Francisco
ab
Span cf
5
Pagan lf
2
Belt 1b
5
Posey c
1
Crwford ss 4
Pence rf
3
E.Nunez 3b 3
Panik 2b
3
Bmgrner p 3
Law p
0
Gllspie ph 1
Romo p
0
Ja.Lpez p
0
Casilla p
0
r
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
h bi
2 4
1 0
1 2
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
3 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
Totals
30 6 7 6
000 000 002—2
020 002 20x—6
LOB—Baltimore 8, San Francisco 9.
2B—J.Hardy (18), M.Machado (34), Pagan
(16), Panik 2 (12). HR—Belt (14). SB—Pagan (12).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Baltimore
Gausman L,3-10
4
2
2
2
6 9
Worley
2
2
2
2
1 2
Jimenez
2
3
2
2
2 2
San Francisco
Bumgarner W,11-7
7
3
0
0
3 8
Law
1
0
0
0
0 0
Romo
C
0
1
1
1 2
Lopez
0
2
1
1
1 0
Casilla S,27-32
B
0
0
0
0 0
Ja.Lopez pitched to 3 batters in the 9th
T—2:59. A—41,456 (41,915).
Mariners 4, Athletics 3
Seattle
Oakland
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Aoki lf
5 0 1 0 Crisp cf
5 0 3 1
S.Smith rf
4 1 2 1 Semien ss 4 0 0 0
O’Mlley rf
0 0 0 0 Vogt c
4 0 2 0
Cano 2b
4 1 1 2 K.Davis lf 4 1 1 1
N.Cruz dh
4 1 2 1 Alonso 1b 4 0 0 0
K.Sager 3b 4 0 0 0 B.Btler dh 4 2 3 0
Lind 1b
3 0 1 0 Smlnski rf 4 0 1 1
L.Mrtin cf
4 0 0 0 Healy 3b
4 0 1 0
Innetta c
3 0 2 0 Muncy 2b 3 0 0 0
K.Marte ss 4 1 0 0 Vlencia ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
35 4 9 4 Totals
37 3 11 3
Seattle
000 130 000—4
Oakland
010 002 000—3
DP—Seattle 1, Oakland 1. LOB—Seattle
6, Oakland 7. 2B—Iannetta (12), B.Butler 2
(16). HR—Cano (26), N.Cruz (29), K.Davis
(29). SB—Crisp (7).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Seattle
Iwakuma W,14-7
5B
9
3
3
0 2
Vincent H,12
C
1
0
0
0 1
Caminero H,4
1
1
0
0
0 1
Wilhelmsen H,7
1
0
0
0
0 1
Diaz S,6-6
1
0
0
0
0 1
Oakland
Graveman L,8-8
6
7
4
4
1 2
Axford
1
0
0
0
1 0
Rzepczynski
1B
1
0
0
0 1
Hendriks
C
1
0
0
0 0
WP—Axford.
T—2:58.
A—35,067
(37,090).
Reds 11, Brewers 5
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Hmilton cf 4 2 2 0 Villar 3b
4 0 1 0
T.Holt cf
1 0 0 0 Or.Arca ss 5 0 0 0
Cozart ss
5 2 2 1 Braun lf
5 2 2 1
Votto 1b
5 1 4 2 Gennett 2b 5 1 4 1
Jos.Smt p
0 0 0 0 Carter 1b 5 0 1 0
Duvall lf
4 1 2 1 H.Perez rf 4 0 2 0
Phllips 2b
5 1 2 2 K.Brxtn cf 4 1 2 1
Schbler rf
4 1 0 0 Mldnado c 3 1 1 2
E.Sarez 3b 5 2 2 3 Davies p
2 0 1 0
Brnhart c
5 1 2 0 Blazek p
0 0 0 0
Straily p
3 0 0 0 R.Flres ph 1 0 0 0
J.Diaz p
0 0 0 0 Boyer p
0 0 0 0
Renda ph
1 0 0 1 C.Trres p
0 0 0 0
B.Wood p
0 0 0 0 Wilkins ph 1 0 0 0
D Jesus 1b 1 0 0 0 Knebel p
0 0 0 0
Totals
43 11 16 10 Totals
39 5 14 5
Cincinnati
001 008 110—11
Milwaukee
000 002 021— 5
E—Or.Arcia (2), Maldonado (4). LOB—
Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 9. 2B—Votto 2
(22), E.Suarez (13), Braun (18), Gennett
(19), H.Perez (10), K.Broxton (5). 3B—
Hamilton (3). HR—E.Suarez (19), Braun
(20), Maldonado (6). SB—Villar (46). CS—
Villar (16). SF—Duvall (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cincinnati
Straily W,8-6
5B 10
2
2
0 6
Diaz
C
0
0
0
1 1
Wood
1
1
0
0
0 1
Smith
2
3
3
3
1 0
Milwaukee
Davies L,9-5
5
8
5
5
1 4
Blazek
1
4
4
2
0 0
Boyer
1
2
1
1
0 0
Torres
1
2
1
1
0 1
Knebel
1
0
0
0
0 2
Davies pitched to 4 batters in the 6th
WP—Davies. T—3:29. A—30,357 (41,900).
Red Sox 6, Diamondbacks 3
Arizona
Boston
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Segura 2b
4 0 0 0 Pedroia 2b 4 0 2 1
Bourn cf
3 1 2 1 Bgaerts ss 4 0 0 0
Gldschm 1b 2 1 0 0 Betts rf
4 0 1 1
Ja.Lamb 3b 2 0 0 1 Ortiz dh
3 0 0 0
Weeks dh
4 0 1 1 Han.Rmr 1b 4 0 0 0
Tomas lf
4 0 0 0 T.Shaw 3b 3 0 0 0
Owings ss
3 1 1 0 A.Hill ph-3b 1 0 0 0
O.Hrnnd c
3 0 1 0 Leon c
3 2 2 1
Gsselin ph 1 0 0 0 B.Holt lf
4 3 1 2
Brito rf
3 0 0 0 Bnntndi cf 3 1 2 1
Drury ph
1 0 0 0
Totals
30 3 5 3 Totals
33 6 8 6
Arizona
000 210 000—3
Boston
001 032 00x—6
E—T.Shaw (15), Brito (2). DP—Boston 3.
LOB—Arizona 7, Boston 5. 2B—Benintendi (2). HR—Leon (5), B.Holt (6). SB—Bourn
(11), Goldschmidt (17).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Arizona
Bradley L,4-8
5B
7
6
4
2 4
Hathaway
B
0
0
0
0 1
Delgado
B
1
0
0
0 0
Hudson
1
0
0
0
0 0
Loewen
1
0
0
0
0 0
Boston
Buchholz
4B
3
3
3
3 1
Ross Jr. W,2-2
1
1
0
0
1 1
Tazawa H,16
C
0
0
0
0 0
Barnes H,10
1
1
0
0
3 1
Ziegler H,2
1
0
0
0
0 3
Kimbrel S,19-21
1
0
0
0
0 1
M.Barnes pitched to 3 batters in the
8th T—3:12. A—37,653 (37,499).
Phillies 6, Rockies 3
Colorado
Philadelphia
ab r h bi
C.Hrnnd 2b 4 2 2 0
Bourjos rf 2 1 0 0
Altherr cf-lf 3 0 1 1
T.Jseph 1b 2 1 0 1
Franco 3b 3 2 1 3
Ruiz c
2 0 1 0
T.Gddel lf 3 0 0 0
Mariot p
0 0 0 0
E.Ramos p 0 0 0 0
Fthrstn ph 1 0 0 0
Gomez p
0 0 0 0
Galvis ss
4 0 1 1
Eckhoff p 2 0 0 0
Lu.Grca p 0 0 0 0
O.Hrrra cf 2 0 0 0
Totals
38 3 13 3 Totals
28 6 6 6
Colorado
000 003 000—3
Philadelphia
300 100 20x—6
DP—Colorado
1,
Philadelphia
2.
LOB—Colorado 11, Philadelphia 6. 2B—
Ca.Gonzalez (30), Dahl 2 (3), Ruiz (6).
3B—Rusin (1). HR—Descalso (3), Wolters
(2), Franco (21). SB—Blackmon (15), Altherr (4). CS—LeMahieu (6). SF—T.Joseph
(4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Colorado
Anderson L,4-4
3
2
4
4
2 2
Rusin
3
1
0
0
3 1
Estevez
1
2
2
2
0 1
McGee
1
1
0
0
0 2
Philadelphia
Eickhoff W,8-12
5C 10
3
3
2 3
Garcia H,1
B
0
0
0
0 0
Mariot H,1
1
0
0
0
0 1
Ramos H,11
1
1
0
0
0 2
Gomez S,30-33
1
2
0
0
0 3
Ty.Anderson pitched to 1 batter in the
4th HBP—by Anderson (Franco), by Garcia (Blackmon), by Estevez (Bourjos).
T—3:20. A—23,203 (43,651).
ab
Blckmon cf 4
LMahieu 2b 4
Ca.Gnzl rf
5
Arenado 3b 5
Dahl lf
5
Dscalso ss 4
Paulsen 1b 4
Wolters c
3
Ty.Andr p
1
Rusin p
2
Estevez p
0
Parra ph
1
McGee p
0
r
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
1
3
2
0
2
2
0
2
0
1
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Nationals 7, Braves 6
Atlanta
Washington
ab r h bi
T.Trner 2b 5 3 3 1
Revere cf 4 2 2 1
D.Mrphy 1b 3 1 1 4
Rendon 3b 3 0 0 0
Werth lf
4 1 1 0
Goodwin rf 4 0 0 0
Espnosa ss 4 0 1 1
P.Svrno c
4 0 2 0
R.Lopez p 3 0 0 0
Solis p
0 0 0 0
Kelley p
0 0 0 0
C.Rbnsn ph 1 0 1 0
Y.Petit p
0 0 0 0
Mlancon p 0 0 0 0
Totals
36 6 11 6 Totals
35 7 11 7
Atlanta
100 000 014—6
Washington
202 021 00x—7
E—P.Severino (1), Whalen (1). DP—
Washington 2. LOB—Atlanta 7, Washington 6. 2B—Aybar (14), Markakis (29).
3B—Peterson (1), T.Turner (5), Revere
2 (7). HR—F.Freeman (23), T.Turner (3),
D.Murphy (22). SF—D.Murphy (6).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
Whalen L,1-1
5
6
6
6
0 5
Hursh
1
3
1
1
0 1
Roe
2
2
0
0
1 0
Washington
Lopez W,1-1
7
5
1
1
2 2
Solis
C
2
1
1
1 0
Kelley
B
0
0
0
0 1
Petit
0
2
3
3
0 0
Melancon S,33-333 1
2
1
1
0 0
Y.Petit pitched to 3 batters in the 9th
WP—Hursh, Kelley. T—3:07. A—38,490
(41,418).
Incarte cf
Aybar ss
F.Frman 1b
M.Kemp lf
Mrkakis rf
Ad.Grca 3b
Pterson 2b
Przynsk c
Whalen p
Hursh p
G.Bckhm ph
Roe p
Frnceur ph
ab
5
5
3
5
4
3
3
4
2
0
1
0
1
r
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
h
1
2
1
2
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
bi
1
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Dodgers 8, Pirates 4
Pittsburgh
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
A.Frzer 2b
3 1 1 0 Utley 2b
5 1 2 1
Hrrisn ph-2b 2 0 0 0 Reddick rf 5 1 2 0
S.Marte lf
4 2 2 0 C.Sager ss 5 1 3 1
S.Rdrgz cf
1 0 0 0 Ad.Gnzl 1b 5 1 2 0
McCtchn cf 2 0 0 0 Pderson cf 5 2 3 2
Locke p
0 0 0 0 Kndrick lf 5 1 2 1
Fryer ph
0 0 0 0 Segedin 3b 5 1 2 0
G.Plnco rf
5 0 1 1 Ellis c
3 0 0 0
Kang 3b
2 1 2 2 McCrthy p 0 0 0 0
Jaso 1b
2 0 0 1 Fields p
1 0 0 0
Freese ph-1b 2 0 0 0 Urias p
1 0 1 1
Crvelli c
4 0 3 0 Blanton p 0 0 0 0
Mercer ss
5 0 1 0 E.Hrnnd ph 1 0 0 0
G.Cole p
3 0 0 0 P.Baez p
0 0 0 0
Hughes p
0 0 0 0 Ravin p
0 0 0 0
Joyce ph-lf 2 0 0 0 Jansen p
0 0 0 0
Totals
37 4 10 4 Totals
41 8 17 6
Pittsburgh
120 000 010—4
Los Angeles
111 122 00x—8
E—G.Polanco (3), Kang 2 (10). DP—
Pittsburgh 1. LOB—Pittsburgh 18, Los
Angeles 11. 2B—S.Marte (28), G.Polanco
(26), Utley 2 (20), Pederson (23), Kendrick 2 (21). HR—Kang (12), Pederson (17).
SB—S.Marte (40), Cervelli (5), Reddick
(6), Kendrick (8). S—Urias (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Pittsburgh
Cole L,7-8
4B 12
6
4
0 3
Hughes
1C
3
2
2
0 3
Locke
2
2
0
0
0 1
Los Angeles
McCarthy
1C
2
3
3
5 3
Fields
1
2
0
0
0 2
Urias W,3-2
2C
3
0
0
3 3
Blanton H,20
1C
1
0
0
1 1
Baez
1
2
1
1
0 0
Ravin
C
0
0
0
2 1
Jansen S,35-40
B
0
0
0
0 1
HBP—by McCarthy (Kang), by Cole
(Ellis). WP—Ravin. PB—Cervelli. T—3:54.
A—40,563 (56,000).
Cardinals 8, Cubs 4
St. Louis
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
G.Grcia ss
5 0 0 0 Fowler cf
3 0 1 0
Pscotty rf
3 1 1 0 Bryant 3b 4 0 0 0
Crpnter 1b 5 1 2 0 Rizzo 1b
4 0 1 0
Moss lf
4 2 1 1 Zobrist lf
4 2 2 0
Molina c
4 0 2 0 Russell ss 2 2 2 2
J.Prlta 3b
3 1 0 0 Heyward rf 4 0 1 0
Gyorko 2b
3 2 1 2 Cntrras c 3 0 0 0
Grichuk cf
4 1 1 4 J.Baez 2b
4 0 1 1
L.Waver p
1 0 0 0 Hndrcks p 2 0 0 0
Wong ph
1 0 0 0 Szczur ph 1 0 0 0
A.Reyes p
1 0 0 0 Edwards p 0 0 0 0
Hzlbker ph 1 0 0 0 Joe.Smt p 0 0 0 0
Segrist p
0 0 0 0 Mntgmry p 0 0 0 0
Maness p
0 0 0 0 Soler ph
1 0 0 0
Duke p
0 0 0 0
Totals
35 8 8 7 Totals
32 4 8 3
St. Louis
000 001 160—8
Chicago
020 000 002—4
E—Maness (2). DP—St. Louis 2. LOB—
St. Louis 5, Chicago 5. 2B—Zobrist (24).
HR—Moss (20), Gyorko (17), Grichuk (14),
Russell (14). CS—Fowler (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
St. Louis
Weaver
4
4
2
2
3 3
Reyes W,1-0
3
1
0
0
1 3
Siegrist
1
0
0
0
0 0
Maness
0
3
2
1
0 0
Duke
1
0
0
0
0 0
Chicago
Hendricks
7
5
2
2
0 12
Edwards L,0-1
C
1
5
5
4 1
Smith
B
1
1
1
0 0
Montgomery
1
1
0
0
0 1
Maness pitched to 3 batters in the 9th
HBP—by Hendricks (Piscotty). WP—Edwards. T—2:50. A—41,278 (41,072).
Yankees 8, Rays 4
Tampa Bay
New York
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Frsythe 2b 4 0 0 0 Ellsbry cf 4 1 1 0
Krmaier cf 4 1 1 0 A.Hicks lf 4 1 2 3
Lngoria 3b 4 1 2 0 Headley 3b 3 1 0 0
B.Mller 1b
4 2 2 4 Grgrius ss 4 1 2 2
M.Duffy ss 4 0 1 0 S.Cstro 2b 4 1 2 1
C.Dckrs dh 3 0 0 0 G.Snchz dh 4 0 0 0
Sza Jr. ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Austin 1b 4 1 2 1
Mahtook rf 3 0 0 0 Judge rf
4 2 2 1
Frnklin lf
3 0 0 0 Au.Rmne c 4 0 0 0
Maile c
3 0 0 0
Totals
33 4 6 4 Totals
35 8 11 8
Tampa Bay
000 301 000—4
New York
020 130 20x—8
LOB—Tampa Bay 2, New York 4.
2B—Gregorius (24). HR—B.Miller 2 (22),
A.Hicks (6), Gregorius (15), S.Castro (14),
Austin (1), Judge (1). SB—A.Hicks (1),
Austin (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Tampa Bay
Andriese L,6-4
5
8
6
6
0 8
Ramirez
2
3
2
2
1 1
Farquhar
1
0
0
0
0 3
New York
Tanaka W,9-4
7
5
4
4
0 8
Clippard
1
0
0
0
0 0
Swarzak
0
1
0
0
0 0
Layne
1
0
0
0
0 1
Swarzak pitched to 1 batter in the 9th
T—2:40. A—41,682 (49,642).
Blue Jays 4, Astros 2
Houston
Toronto
ab r h bi
Travis 2b
4 0 0 0
Dnldson 3b 4 1 1 1
Encrncn dh 3 1 2 0
Sunders rf 4 1 1 0
Lake rf
0 0 0 0
Tlwtzki ss 3 0 0 0
Ru.Mrtn c 2 1 1 3
Smoak 1b 3 0 1 0
M.Upton cf 3 0 1 0
Ccliani lf
3 0 0 0
Totals
32 2 7 2 Totals
29 4 7 4
Houston
200 000 000—2
Toronto
100 003 00x—4
DP—Houston 1, Toronto 1. LOB—Houston 6, Toronto 3. 2B—Altuve (32), Correa
(29), A..Reed 2 (2). 3B—Altuve (4). HR—
Donaldson (28), Ru.Martin (9). CS—Altuve (7), M.Upton (6).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
McHugh L,7-10
5B
5
3
3
2 6
Hoyt BS,1
C
1
1
1
0 0
Gustave
2
1
0
0
0 2
Toronto
Sanchez W,12-2
7
5
2
2
3 6
Grilli H,13
1
1
0
0
0 3
Osuna S,26-28
1
1
0
0
0 1
T—2:35. A—47,505 (49,282).
Sprnger rf
Bregman 3b
Altuve dh
Correa ss
Ma.Gnzl 2b
Gattis c
A..Reed 1b
T.Hrnnd cf
T.Kemp lf
ab
3
4
3
3
4
4
4
4
3
r
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
1
2
1
1
0
2
0
0
bi
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
Twins 5, Royals 3
Kansas City
Minnesota
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Orlando cf 4 0 2 0 Dozier 2b
4 2 2 1
Cthbert 3b 4 1 1 1 Grssman lf 5 1 3 2
L.Cain rf
4 0 0 0 Mauer 1b 3 0 1 0
Hosmer 1b 4 0 0 0 Sano dh
4 0 0 0
Morales dh 4 0 0 0 Kepler rf
4 0 1 0
S.Perez c
4 1 1 0 J.Plnco 3b 4 0 1 0
A.Grdon lf
3 1 2 0 Edu.Esc ss 4 0 1 0
A.Escbr ss 4 0 2 1 K.Szuki c
4 1 1 0
Mondesi 2b 4 0 0 0 E.Rsrio cf 4 1 2 2
Totals
35 3 8 2 Totals
36 5 12 5
Kansas City
001 000 101—3
Minnesota
100 013 00x—5
E—Pressly (1), J.Polanco (3). DP—Minnesota 2. LOB—Kansas City 6, Minnesota
9. 2B—S.Perez (23), A.Escobar (15), Dozier (27). HR—Cuthbert (10), Dozier (25),
Grossman (8), E.Rosario (8).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Kansas City
Gee L,4-6
5B 11
5
5
1 6
Flynn
2C
1
0
0
1 1
Minnesota
Duffey W,8-8
7
6
2
2
1 6
Pressly H,10
1
1
0
0
0 0
Kintzler S,11-12
1
1
1
0
0 1
T—2:35. A—30,147 (39,021).
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Roundup
Cards snap Cubs’ 11-game streak
Associated Press
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Seattle Mariners pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma works against the
Athletics in the first inning of Saturday’s game in Oakland, Calif.
Surging Mariners
get past Oakland
BY M ICHAEL WAGAMAN
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Hisashi
Iwakuma’s sore neck nearly prevented the Mariners pitcher from
making his scheduled start and
continued to bother him throughout the night.
The Mariners gave their righthander two big reasons to stick it
out — a pair of long home runs by
Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz.
Another stellar outing from
Seattle’s bullpen helped, too.
Iwakuma pitched into the sixth
inning for his 14th win and the
Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on Saturday night for their
seventh victory in eight games.
“I was OK to go today, but as
the game progressed I started
to feel stiffness,” Iwakuma said
through an interpreter. “My body
was starting to fly open. I wasn’t
as high as I wanted it to be. I kind
of felt that throughout the third,
fourth, fifth inning, but I was able
to get out of jams.”
Iwakuma (14-7) allowed three
runs on nine hits for his eighth win
in the last nine starts. He struck
out two and didn’t walk a batter
for the fifth time this season.
Four Seattle relievers combined for 3 2 ⁄3 scoreless innings.
Edwin Diaz retired three batters
for his sixth save.
“Our bullpen was outstanding,”
Mariners manager Scott Servais
said. “Very, very good and they
needed to be tonight. We didn’t
have much room for error. That’s
a good formula for a win.”
CHICAGO — Randal Grichuk
hit a grand slam to cap a six-run
burst in the eighth inning and the
St. Louis Cardinals stopped the
Cubs’ 11-game winning streak,
beating Chicago 8-4 on Saturday.
After a run-scoring wild pitch
and a bases-loaded walk with
two outs in the eighth put the
Cardinals ahead 4-2, Grichuk
connected.
Brandon Moss and Jedd Gyorko also homered for St. Louis.
Addison Russell hit his 14th
homer for the NL Central-leading
Cubs.
Giants 6, Orioles 2: Madison
Bumgarner snapped a five-start
winless streak with seven shutout
innings, Denard Span had four
RBIs and host San Francisco beat
Baltimore.
The victory kept the Giants
alone atop the NL West, a game
ahead of Los Angeles. The Orioles
fell out of first place in the AL East,
a half-game behind Toronto.
Yankees 8, Rays 4: Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge became the
first teammates to hit home runs
in the first at-bats of their major
league debuts in the same game,
sparking host New York past
Tampa Bay.
Indians 5, Angels 1: Rookie
Mike Clevinger took a no-hitter
into the sixth inning to get his
first major league win and Cleveland one-hit visiting Los Angeles.
Mets 3, Padres 2 (11): Wilmer Flores drove in the winning
run when rookie second baseman
Ryan Schimpf made a wild throw
to plate in the 11th inning, and
host New York beat San Diego.
Blue Jays 4, Astros 2: Russell
Martin hit a go-ahead three-run
homer in the sixth inning, Aaron
Sanchez pitched seven innings to
help Toronto end visiting Houston’s winning streak at four.
Nationals 7, Braves 6: Daniel
Murphy hit a two-run homer and
drove in four runs, rookie Reynaldo Lopez pitched seven innings
for his first major league win and
host Washington beat Atlanta.
Twins 5, Royals 3: Brian Dozier hit his 25th home run of the
season and the 100th of his career,
leading Tyler Duffey and Minnesota past visiting Kansas City.
Phillies 6, Rockies 3: Maikel
DAVID BANKS/AP
The Cardinals’ Randal Grichuk watches his grand slam go into the
bleachers during the eighth inning of Saturday’s game against the
Cubs in Chicago. St. Louis won 8-4 to break the NL Central-leading
Cubs’ 11-game winning streak.
Franco hit a three-run homer,
then was in the middle of a testy
exchange that led to the benches
clearing and a pair of ejections in
host Philadelphia’s victory over
Colorado.
White Sox 8, Marlins 7: Dioner Navarro scored the go-ahead
run on a strikeout, capping a bizarre eighth-inning comeback in
visiting Chicago’s victory over
Miami.
Tigers 2, Rangers 0: Casey
McGehee had four of Detroit’s
14 hits against Cole Hamels,
Matt Boyd pitched seven scoreless innings and the Tigers beat
AL-leading host Texas to snap a
five-game losing streak.
Red Sox 6, Diamondbacks 3:
Brock Holt hit a two-run homer,
Sandy Leon had a solo shot and
Boston beat visiting Arizona.
Reds 11, Brewers 5: Eugenio
Suarez hit a three-run home run
during an eight-run sixth inning
in Cincinnati’s victory over host
Milwaukee.
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Briefly
Marks gets first Xfinity
win at rainy Mid-Ohio
Associated Press
DANNY MOLOSHOK /AP
The Dodgers’ Howie Kendrick celebrates after hitting an RBI double
against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday in Los Angeles.
Dodgers’ 17 hits
sink Pittsburgh
BY TIM LIOTTA
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Nobody
wanted to be left out Saturday,
as the first seven hitters in the
Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup had
multihit games, with Joc Pederson leading the way with a home
run, double and single.
The Dodgers, who lead the
majors in batting average and
slugging percentage since the AllStar break, combined 17 hits and
a pair of successful challenges for
an 8-4 victory over the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
“We’re just grinding as a team,
putting together quality at-bats,”
Pederson said. “We’ve been hitting balls hard for a while now. It
was nice to get a game where everybody got a benefit from it.”
“The offense has been swinging the bat really well,” he said.
“The bullpen has been doing really well. We’ve just been playing
good baseball. We have to keep
building on that.”
The Dodgers hit five doubles
and used three Pittsburgh errors
to win a game that did not see a 12-3 inning until the bottom of the
eighth.
Pederson had his 17th homer,
a two-run shot. Corey Seager
also three hits and an RBI as Los
Angeles overcame a 3-1 deficit
by scoring in each of the first six
innings.
Relievers Josh Fields, Julio
Urias (3-2), Joe Blanton, Pedro
Baez, Josh Ravin and Kenley Jansen combined to hold Pittsburgh
to one run over 7 1 ⁄3 innings. Jansen got his 35th save.
A starter in his 10 previous appearances, Urias came with two
outs in the third, and pitched 2 2 ⁄3
innings of scoreless relief.
“It’s a huge win for us,” Pederson said. “It didn’t go the way
we planned, but Julio stepped up
big, and we were able to get some
runs and win the ballgame.”
The Pirates, who had 10 hits to
go with 11 walks, tied a franchise
record by leaving 18 men on base.
They left the bases loaded in the
first and second innings.
“They were out there. We
couldn’t get them in,” manager
Clint Hurdle said. “I don’t think
we were trying to do anything except fight, scratch, claw our way
back into the game.”
Dodgers starter Brandon McCarthy was forced from the game
in the second inning with right hip
stiffness. He walked home runs in
runs in both the first and second
innings as he struggled with control for his second straight start.
“I just couldn’t work through it.
I think it’s more game intensity.
In the bullpen I can get through
it,” he said. “I need to take some
time and get the body right. I’ve
got to get back physically to a
good point. Whatever that takes,
however long it takes.”
McCarthy walked five and hit
one of the 13 batters he faced,
throwing 29 of 51 pitches out of
the strike zone.
Gerrit Cole (7-8) gave up 12 hits
and six runs in 4 1 ⁄3 innings.
Jung Ho Kang hit his 12th
home run and Francisco Cervelli
had three hits for the Pirates.
Pittsburgh had won 14 of 18 from
the Dodgers before this loss.
LEXINGTON, Ohio — Justin
Marks splashed through the rain
at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
on Saturday for his first NASCAR
Xfinity Series victory.
The 35-year-old Marks pulled
away on a restart with two left
to go in the 75-lap race on the
2.085-mile, 13-turn road course,
finishing 3.7 seconds ahead of
pole-sitter Sam Hornish Jr.
“These are as tough conditions
as you can put drivers in,” Marks
said. “It’s just really hard on everybody when it’s dry and wet
and you don’t really know what to
do, so strategy plays a big role in
it. My specialty is road racing in
the rain in these stock cars and I
don’t get much of an opportunity
to do it, so when that opportunity
presents itself, you have to really
take advantage of it.”
Marks dedicated the victory to
late Chip Ganassi driver Bryan
Clauson, the 27-year-old dirt
racer who died last Sunday night
from injuries in a sprint car accident in Kansas. All of the cars
had “BC” decals.
“Bryan’s short career in stock
car racing came with Chip Ganassi Racing, so it’s great to be able to
put this thing in Victory Lane to
honor him and think about him,”
Marks said. “He’s a real American hero race car driver, Bryan
was. They don’t make them like
that anymore.”
Marks started 16th in the second of the series’ three roadcourse races. He took the lead
from Ty Dillon with 10 laps left,
and had a big lead with four left
to go when T.J. Bell went off the
track and brought out the eighth
and final caution.
With the rain falling harder,
Marks cautiously negotiated the
slippery final laps. He led 43 laps
in Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. 42
Chevrolet.
Ryan Blaney was third, followed by Dillon, Justin Allgaier,
Eric Jones, Andy Lally, Brendan
Gaughan, series points leader Elliott Sadler and Brennan Poole.
Russian track athlete
appeals Olympics ban
RIO DE JANEIRO — Darya
Klishina, the only Russian athlete at the Rio Olympics for track
and field, attended a hearing Sunday to determine whether she
can compete, as her country’s
sports minister said the allegations against her were part of
a campaign to tarnish Russia’s
reputation.
Klishina’s lawyer Paul Greene
told The Associated Press before
the hearing that the long jumper
was to testify in person before
the Court of Arbitration for Sport
TOM E. PUSKAR /AP
Justin Marks and crew celebrate winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series
auto race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday in Lexington,
Ohio. It was Marks’ first Xfinity victory.
at a luxury beachside hotel after
track’s world governing body, the
IAAF, retracted her eligibility for
the Olympics.
Greene said the IAAF case
against Klishina relies on confidential evidence from a report
on Russian doping by World AntiDoping Agency investigator Richard McLaren, with a key piece of
evidence being scratch marks
found on bottles containing drug
test samples she gave in Russia.
Lochte, 3 others robbed
by armed men in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO — The U.S.
Olympic Committee said Ryan
Lochte and three other American
swimmers were robbed by armed
men who stopped their taxi.
USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said Lochte and the others
left the French Olympic team’s
hospitality house early Sunday in
a taxi headed for the athletes village, hours after the last night of
Olympic swimming.
He said “the taxi was stopped
by individuals posing as armed
police officers who demanded the
athletes’ money and other personal belongings.”
USA Today and Fox Sports
Australia first reported the news,
citing Lochte’s mother, Ileana
Lochte.
Maguire hurt, Francois
likely Seminoles’ QB
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State quarterback Sean Maguire has a broken bone in his right
foot, putting freshman Deondre
Francois in position to open the
season as the starter.
Coach Jimbo Fisher revealed
the injury Saturday after the
team’s practice, saying Maguire
broke the bone Wednesday. The
fracture wasn’t confirmed until
Friday.
Maguire is in a walking boot
and will have a screw inserted
into the foot early next week.
Fisher said it is likely that the senior would miss 3-4 weeks. Florida State opens the season Sept. 5
in Orlando against Mississippi.
This would be the second time
in four years a redshirt freshman
has started at QB for the Seminoles. In 2013, Jameis Winston
won the Heisman and led them to
the national championship.
Marlins place Stanton,
Conley on DL
MIAMI — Slugger Giancarlo
Stanton and left-hander Adam
Conley have been placed on the
disabled list by the Miami Marlins, a double whammy for a team
seeking its first playoff berth
since 2003.
Stanton hurt his groin trying
to stretch a single into a double
and was tagged out at second
base to end Saturday’s 8-7 loss to
Chicago.
Conley gave up five runs in
four innings and said he has
been pitching with soreness in
his pitching hand that has been
getting worse. He hurt his hand
banging it on the roof of the dugout at Wrigley Field celebrating a
teammate’s home run on Aug. 3.
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OLYMPICS
Thompson makes
her mark in 100
Jamaica’s newest sprint champion routs field
BY EDDIE PELLS
Associated Press
ERIC G AY/AP
Fans reenter the basketball venue following a controlled explosion at a game between Spain and Nigeria
at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Halfway through the Games, Brazil is still struggling with a
litany of problems that have underlined the challenges of taking the Olympics away from their traditional
territories, and made clear the Games may not go to untested regions again in the near future.
Problems: Games suffer as Brazil
is mired in recession, political turmoil
FROM BACK PAGE
Chicago as the 2016 host city. Rio
won because IOC members were
convinced the time had come to
go to South America. Back then,
Brazil was a rising economic and
political star on the world stage.
Today, Brazil is mired in a crippling recession, its suspended
president is facing impeachment,
and many politicians and business
leaders are locked up in a massive
corruption scandal. Budget cuts
and cash flow problems forced
Olympic organizers to scale back.
“There were two or three other
candidates in that (2016) race
that would have done a much better job,” Pound said. “There is a
reason the Games haven’t been
held here before. Every day is a
challenge.”
In many parts of Rio, it’s hard
to tell the city is hosting the
Olympics. Dressing up the venues with the “look of the games”
branding — logos, banners and
other designs — has fallen short
after a Ukrainian supplier failed
to deliver.
“The good part is that the Brazilian fans are great and the Brazilian people are as helpful as can
be,” Olympic historian David Wallechinsky told the AP. “The negative part is they are simply not
prepared. They had seven years.
They should have been able to get
it together. They just didn’t.”
Wallechinsky, who is attending
his 17th Olympics, added: “The
negative part combines the lastminute preparedness of Athens
2004 with the incompetence of
the organizers of Atlanta 1996
— the worst of the two.”
Rio organizers remain publicly
upbeat.
“We need to finish what we
have started,” Rio organizing
committee spokesman Mario Andrada said Saturday. “I’ll be glad
to come to you after the Games
and give you a full detailed report
on everything we did well and everything that we did wrong. But
we have a lot of celebrate.”
IOC spokesman Mark Adams
said: “I think we’ll look back
on these games as being a really good thing for the Olympic
movement.”
The Games have gone forward
without any major disruption. Security is tight throughout the city,
and more than a dozen Brazilians
have been arrested after declaring loyalty to Islamic State.
Among the problems that have
surfaced so far:
Ryan Lochte and three
other American swimmers were
robbed at gunpoint early Sunday
by thieves posing as police officers who stopped their taxi and
took their money and belongings.
An Olympic security officer was fatally shot after taking
a wrong turn into a dangerous
slum.
Two
Australian
rowing
coaches were attacked and robbed
by two assailants, one with a knife,
in Ipanema, and Portugal’s education minister was held up at knifepoint on a busy street nearby.
Stray bullets have twice
landed in the equestrian venue at
the Olympic complex in Deodoro.
Two windows were shattered
on a bus carrying journalists; Rio
organizers blamed rocks, some
claimed it was gunfire.
A German Olympic canoe
coach, Stefan Henze, suffered lifethreatening head injuries when a
taxi he was riding in crashed into
a concrete barrier near the Olympic Park.
Bomb squads set off several
controlled explosions after finding unattended bags at venues
and across the city.
The water at the diving and
water polo pool turned green. Organizers blamed a contractor for
mistakenly dumping hydrogen
peroxide into the pool.
Some venues, including
the track and field stadium for
Friday’s opening day of athletics
competition, have been plagued
by empty seats and small crowds.
High ticket prices and lack of interest among Brazilians in some
sports have been blamed.
Because of a shortage of
concession stands at some venues, organizers have had to open
the gates to let fans out to find
food and water.
Sergio Praca, a Brazilian political scientist, said his friends tell
him: “ ‘We’ve always known it was
going to be a disaster in organization, but now that the Games are
started, let’s just make the best of
it.’ I think we as Brazilians never
overestimated our capacity or organize anything.’ ”
RIO DE JANEIRO — The new
Olympic champion caught her
country’s flag from out of the
stands, unfurled it and fumbled
a bit as she tried to drape it over
her shoulders.
She knew exactly where to turn
for help.
Jamaica’s newest sprint champion is Elaine Thompson, and she
was more than happy to let ShellyAnn Fraser-Pryce place that
green-and-yellow Jamaican flag
over her shoulders after denying
her friend and training partner a
record third straight title in the
100 meters on Saturday.
“When I crossed the line and
glanced around to see I was
clear, I didn’t quite know how to
celebrate,” Thompson said after
she routed the field in 10.71 seconds, with Fraser-Pryce taking
bronze.
The nation that produced the
once-in-a-lifetime sprinter in
Usain Bolt has more of a production line going on the women’s
side. Thompson joins the likes of
Merlene Ottey, Veronica Campbell-Brown and, of course, Fraser-Pryce in the island country’s
long line of sprinting luminaries.
At 24, more than five years
younger than the woman she
unseated, Thompson showed a
changing of the guard doesn’t
have to mean a redrawing of the
map.
“Jamaica has so many talented
sprinters,” Thompson said. “To
be the second champion (at 100
meters), I’m really happy.”
What was billed as one of the
most competitive finals in the
history of the event turned into
something of a non-race. Thompson made it that way.
Running about level halfway
through the 100 meters, she pulled
away from American Tori Bowie
for a .12-second victory — a gap
big enough to scoot a bookcase
between her and the American.
Thompson’s 10.71 was only .01
off the time she ran at Jamaica’s
national
championships
last
month. That 10.70 in Kingston
was the best of five sub-10.8 women’s sprints this year and served
notice that things could be very
fast when the sprinters reached
Rio de Janeiro.
Three of those sub-10.8 women
were in the final — Bowie and another American, English Gardner,
were the others — as was FraserPryce, the 29-year-old former
champion who was a brace-faced
newcomer when she won her first
of two golds at the Bird’s Nest in
Beijing eight years ago.
“I’m just happy that Jamaica
gets to keep the gold medal,” Fraser-Pryce said.
DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP
Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson wins the gold in the women’s 100-meter
final during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
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OLYMPICS
Military Olympians Scoreboard
in action this week
Sam Kendricks
Sport: Track and Field
Event: Pole vault (finals Monday)
Hometown: Oxford, Miss.
Military: US Army reserve
2nd Lt. Sam Kendricks captured the
pole vault crown with a U.S. track and
field trials record jump that earned him
an Olympic spot for Rio.
Paul Chelimo
Sport: Track and Field
Event: 5,000 (heats Wednesday;
finals Saturday)
Hometown: Iten, Kenya
Joined Army: May 2014
Military Occupation: Water Treatment Specialist
Specialist Paul Chelimo is a water
treatment specialist and distance
runner in the U.S. Army World Class
Athlete Program who specializes in
the 5,000 meters. A native of Iten,
Kenya, he came to America in 2010
to attend the University of Rome and
transferred to the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro in 2011. Chelimo, 25, punched his ticket to Rio de
Janeiro by finishing third in the 5,000
meters with a time of 13:35.92 at
the 2016 U.S. Olympic Track & Field
Trials in Eugene, Oregon.
Hillary Bor
Sport: Track and Field
Event: 3,000 steeplechase (heats
Monday; finals Wednesday)
Hometown: Eldoret, Kenya
Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo.
Joined Army: July 2013
Military Occupation: Financial
Management Technician
Sgt. Hillary Bor is a distance runner
in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete
Program. A native of Eldoret, Kenya,
Bor finished second at the 2016 U.S.
Olympic Track & Field Trials with a
time of 8:24.10 to earn a berth in the
Rio Olympic Games.
John Nunn
Sport: Track and Field
Event: 50K race walk (Friday)
Hometown: Evansville, Ind.
Residence: Bonsall, Calif.
Joined Army: December 2000
Military Occupation: Dental Hygienist, Prior Infantry
SSG John Nunn is a medical
services noncommissioned officer
who competes in the race walk event
of track and field for the U.S. Army
World Class Athlete Program (WCAP).
An Olympian in 2004 and 2012, SSG
Nunn qualified for his third Olympics
by winning the 2016 U.S. Olympic
Race Walk 50K Team Trials with
a personal-best time of 4 hours, 3
minutes, 21 seconds on Feb. 21 in
Santee, Calif.
Nathan Schrimsher
Event: Modern pentathlon
(Saturday)
Hometown: Roswell, N.M.
Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo.
Joined Army: January 2013
Military Occupation: Motor Transport Operator
Sgt. Nathan Schrimsher competes
in modern pentathlon, a five-sport
event consisting of fencing, swimming,
equestrian show jumping, crosscountry running and pistol shooting
– all in the same day. In July of 2015,
Schrimsher finished third at the Pan
American Games in Toronto to earn a
berth in the Rio Olympics.
Army WCAP program and NBC
Olympics.
Medals table
Through Saturday, Aug. 13
139 of 306 total medal events
Nation
G
S
B Tot
United States
24 18 18
60
China
13 11 17
41
Britain
10 13
7
30
Japan
7
3 14
24
Russia
6
9
8
23
Australia
6
7
9
22
Italy
6
7
5
18
France
5
8
5
18
Germany
8
5
3
16
South Korea
6
3
4
13
Canada
2
2
8
12
Hungary
5
3
3
11
Netherlands
3
2
3
8
New Zealand
2
6
0
8
Kazakhstan
2
2
3
7
Denmark
1
2
3
6
South Africa
0
5
1
6
Spain
3
0
2
5
Sweden
1
3
1
5
North Korea
1
2
2
5
Czech Republic
1
0
4
5
Belgium
2
1
1
4
Thailand
2
1
1
4
Belarus
1
2
1
4
Brazil
1
1
2
4
Poland
1
1
2
4
Romania
1
1
2
4
Ukraine
0
3
1
4
Saturday’s medalists
ATHLETICS
Men’s Discus
GOLD—Christoph Harting, Germany
SILVER—Piotr Malachowski, Poland
BRONZE—Daniel Jasinski, Germany
Men’s 10,000
GOLD—Mohamed Farah, Britain
SILVER—Paul Kipngetich Tanui, Kenya
BRONZE—Tamirat Tola, Ethiopia
Men’s Long Jump
GOLD—Jeff Henderson, United States
SILVER—Luvo Manyonga, South Africa
BRONZE—Greg Rutherford, Britain
Women’s 100
GOLD—Elaine Thompson, Jamaica
SILVER—Tori Bowie, United States
BRONZE—Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaica
Women’s Heptathlon
GOLD—Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium.
SILVER—Jessica Ennis-Hill, Britain.
BRONZE—Brianne Theisen Eaton, Canada.
CYCLING (TRACK)
Women Team Pursuit
GOLD—Britain (Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Laura
Trott)
SILVER—United States (Kelly Catlin,
Chloe Dygert, Sarah Hammer, Jennifer Valente)
BRONZE—Canada (Allison Beveridge,
Jasmin Glaesser, Kirsti Lay, Georgia Simmerling, Laura Brown)
Women’s Keirin
GOLD—Elis Ligtlee, Netherlands
SILVER—Rebecca James, Britain
BRONZE—Anna Meares, Australia
FENCING
Women’s Sabre Team
GOLD—Russia (Sofya Velikaya, Yuliya
Gavrilova, Yana Egorian, Ekaterina Dyachenko)
SILVER—Ukraine (Olena Voronina, Olga
Kharlan, Olena Kravatska, Alina Komashchuk)
BRONZE—United
States
(Monica
Aksamit, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Dagmara
Wozniak, Mariel Zagunis)
GYMNASTICS (TRAMPOLINE)
Men
GOLD—Uladzislau Hancharou, Belarus
SILVER—Dong Dong, China
BRONZE—Gao Lei, China
ROWING
Men’s Single Sculls
GOLD—Mahe Drysdale, New Zealand
SILVER—Damir Martin, Croatia
BRONZE—Ondrej Synek, Czech Republic
Men’s Eights
GOLD—Britain (Scott Durant, Tom
Ransley, Andrew T Hodge, Matt Gotrel,
Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge,
William Satch, Phelan Hill)
SILVER—Germany (Maximilian Munski, Malte Jakschik, Andreas Kuffner, Eric
Johannesen, Maximilian Reinelt, Felix
Drahotta, Richard Schmidt, Hannes Ocik,
Martin Sauer)
BRONZE—Netherlands (Dirk Uittenbogaard, Boaz Meylink, Kaj Hendriks,
Boudewijn Roell, Olivier Siegelaar, Tone
Wieten, Mechiel Versluis, Robert Luecken,
Peter Wiersum)
Women’s Single Sculls
GOLD—Kimberley Brennan, Australia
SILVER—Genevra Stone, United States
BRONZE—Duan Jingli, China
Women’s Eights
GOLD—United States (Emily Regan,
Kerry Simmonds, Amanda Polk, Lauren
Schmetterling, Tessa Gobbo, Meghan
Musnicki, Eleanor Logan, Amanda Elmore,
Katelin Snyder)
SILVER—Britain (Katie Greves, Melanie
Wilson, Frances Houghton, Polly Swann,
Jessica Eddie, Olivia Carnegie-Brown, Karen Bennett, Zoe Lee, Zoe de Toledo)
BRONZE—Romania (Roxana Cogianu,
Ioana Strungaru, Mihaela Petrila, Iuliana
Popa, Madalina Beres, Laura Oprea, Adelina Bogus, Andreea Boghian, Daniela
Druncea)
SHOOTING
Men’s 25-Meter Rapid Fire Pistol
GOLD—Christian Reitz, Germany
SILVER—Jean Quiquampoix, France
BRONZE—Li Yuehong, China
Men’s Skeet
GOLD—Gabriele Rossetti, Italy
SILVER—Marcus Svensson, Sweden
BRONZE—Abdullah Alrashidi, Independent
SWIMMING
Men’s 1500 Freestyle
GOLD—Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italy
SILVER—Connor Jaeger, United States
BRONZE—Gabriele Detti, Italy
Men’s 4X100 Medley Relay
GOLD—United States (Ryan Murphy,
Cody Miller, Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian, p-Kevin Cordes, p-Caeleb Dressel, pDavid Plummer, p-Tom Shields).
SILVER—Britain (Chris Walker-Hebborn,
Adam Peaty, James Guy, Duncan Scott).
BRONZE—Australia (Mitchell Larkin,
Jake Packard, David Morgan, Kyle Chalmers, p-Cameron McEvoy).
Women’s 50 Freestyle
GOLD—Pernille Blume, Denmark
SILVER—Simone Manuel, United States
BRONZE—Aliaksandra
Herasimenia,
Belarus
Women’s 4X100 Medley Relay
GOLD—United States (Kathleen Baker,
Lilly King, Dana Vollmer, Simone Manuel,
p-Catherine Meili, p-Olivia Smoliga, p-Abbey Weitzeil, p-Kelsi Worrell)
SILVER—Australia (Emily Seebohm,
Taylor McKeown, Emma McKeon, Cate
Campbell, p-Brittany Elmslie, p-Madeline
Groves, p-Madison Wilson)
BRONZE—Denmark (Mie Nielsen, Rikke
Moller Pedersen, Jeanette Ottesen, Pernille Blume)
TENNIS
Women’s Singles
GOLD—Monica Puig, Puerto Rico
SILVER—Angelique Kerber, Germany
BRONZE—Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic
WEIGHTLIFTING
Men’s 94kg
GOLD—Sohrab Moradi, Iran
SILVER—Vadzim Straltsou, Belarus
BRONZE—Aurimas Didzbalis, Lithuania
Saturday’s scores
BASKETBALL
Men
Argentina 111, Brazil 107
Spain 109, Lithuania 59
Nigeria 90, Croatia 76
Women
Australia 74, Belarus 66
Turkey 79, Brazil 76, 2OT
Japan 79, France 71
FIELD HOCKEY
Women
Argentina 5, India 0
Netherlands 2, Germany 0
Spain 3, South Korea 2
Britain 2, United States 1
Australia 2, Japan 0
New Zealand 1, China 0
SOCCER
Men
Quarterfinals
Germany 4, Portugal 0
Nigeria 2, Denmark 0
Honduras 1, South Korea 0
Brazil 2, Colombia 0
TEAM HANDBALL
Men
Germany 28, Slovenia 25
Croatia 29, France 28
Denmark 26, Qatar 25
Egypt 27, Brazil 27
Poland 25, Sweden 24
Argentina 23, Tunisia 21
VOLLEYBALL
Men
Iran 3, Egypt 0 (28-26, 25-22, 25-16)
Argentina 3, Cuba 0 (25-16, 25-14, 2516)
Russia 3, Poland 2 (25-18, 16-25, 25-18,
22-25, 15-13)
United States 3, France 1 (25-22, 25-22,
14-25, 25-22)
Canada 3, Mexico 0 (25-20, 25-13, 25-22)
Italy 3, Brazil 1 (23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 2515)
WATER POLO
Women
Spain 12, China 8
Italy 10, Russia 5
Australia 10, Brazil 3
United States 11, Hungary 6
Saturday’s results
Beach Volleyball
Men
Round of 16
Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar
Schmidt, Brazil, def. Pablo Herrera Allepuz
and Adrian Gavira Collado, Spain, 24-22,
21-13.
Nikita Liamin and Dmitri Barsouk, Russia, def. Evandro Goncalves Oliveira Junior
and Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 16-21, 21-14, 1510.
Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, def. Chaim Schalk and
Ben Saxton, Canada, 21-12, 21-15.
Women
Round of 16
Sarah Pavan and Heather Bansley, Canada, def. Jamie Lynn Broder and Kristina
Valjas, Canada, 21-16, 21-11.
Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst,
Germany, def. Isabelle Forrer and Anouk
Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 21-19, 21-10.
Nadine Zumkehr and Joana Heidrich,
Switzerland, def. Marleen van Iersel and
Madelein Meppelink, Netherlands, 19-21,
21-13, 15-10.
Boxing
Men’s Welter (69kg)
Quarterfinals
Mohammed Rabii, Morocco, def. Steven
Gerard Donnelly, Ireland, 2-1.
Shakhram Giyasov, Uzbekistan, def.
Roniel Iglesias, Cuba, 3-0.
Souleymane Diop Cissokho, France,
def. Saylom Ardee, Thailand, 3-0.
Daniyar Yeleussinov, Kazakhstan, def.
Gabriel Maestre, Venezuela, 3-0.
Men’s Heavy (91kg)
Semifinals
Evgeny Tishchenko, Russia, def. Rustam Tulaganov, Uzbekistan, 3-0.
Vassiliy Levit, Kazakhstan, def. Erislandy Savon, Cuba, 3-0.
Men’s Super Heavy (+91kg)
Round of 16
Tony Victor James Yoka, France, def.
Laurent Jr. Clayton, U.S. Virgin Islands, 3-0.
Hussein Iashaish, Jordan, def. Mihai
Nistor, Romania, 2-1.
Leinier Eunice Pero, Cuba, def. Guido
Vianello, Italy, 3-0.
Filip Hrgovic, Croatia, def. Ali Eren
Demirezen, Turkey, 3-0.
Davilson dos Santos Morais, Cape
Verde, def. Joe Joyce, Britain, TKO (R1,
3:00).
Bakhodir Jalolov, Uzbekistan, def. Edgar
Ramon Munoz, Venezuela, TKO (R2, 1:22).
Nigel Paul, Trinidad & Tobago, def. Efe
Ajagba, Nigeria, KO (R1, 2:44).
Ivan Dychko, Kazakhstan, def. Mahammadrasul Majidov, Azerbaijan, 3-0.
Fencing
Women
Sabre Team
Bronze Medal
United States (Monica Aksamit; Dagmara Wozniak; Ibtihaj Muhammad; Mariel
Zagunis), def. Italy (Rossella Gregorio;
Irene Vecchi; Loreta Gulotta; Ilaria Bianco), 45-30
Gold Medal
Russia (Ekaterina Dyachenko; Yuliya
Gavrilova; Yana Egorian; Sofya Velikaya),
def. Ukraine (Olga Kharlan; Olena Kravatska; Alina Komashchuk; Olena Voronina), 45-30
Shooting
Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Final
1. Christian Reitz, Germany, 34.
2. Jean Quiquampoix, France, 30.
3. Yuehong Li, China, 27.
4. Fusheng Zhang, China, 21.
5. Leuris Pupo, Cuba, 18.
6. Riccardo Mazzetti, Italy, 10.
Skeet
Semifinals
1. Gabriele Rossetti, Italy, 16 (QG).
2. Marcus Svensson, Sweden, 16 (QG).
3. Mikola Milchev, Ukraine, 15 (QB).
4. Abdullah Alrashidi, Independent, 14
(QB).
5. Jesper Hansen, Denmark, 14.
6. Stefan Nilsson, Sweden, 14.
Bronze Medal
Abdullah Alrashidi, Independent, def.
Mikola Milchev, Ukraine, 16-14.
Gold Medal
Gabriele Rossetti, Italy, def. Marcus
Svensson, Sweden, 16-15.
Swimming
Men
1500 Freestyle
Final
1. Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italy, 14:34.57.
2. Connor Jaeger, United States,
14:39.48.
3. Gabriele Detti, Italy, 14:40.86.
4. Jordan Wilimovsky, United States,
14:45.03.
5. Mack Horton, Australia, 14:49.54.
6. Ryan Cochrane, Canada, 14:49.61.
7. Damien Joly, France, 14:52.73.
8.
Henrik
Christiansen,
Norway,
15:02.66.
4x100m Medley Relay
Final
1. United States (Ryan Murphy; Michael
Phelps; Cody Miller; Nathan Adrian),
3:27.95.
2. Britain (Chris Walker-Hebborn; James
Guy; Adam Peaty; Duncan Scott), 3:29.24.
3. Australia (Mitchell Larkin; David
Morgan; Jake Packard; Kyle Chalmers),
3:29.93.
4. Russia (Anton Chupkov; Aleksandr
Sadovnikov; Evgeny Rylov; Vladimir Morozov), 3:31.30.
5. Japan (Ryosuke Irie; Takuro Fujii; Yasuhiro Koseki; Katsumi Nakamura), 3:31.97.
6. Brazil (Guilherme Guido; Joao Gomes;
Henrique Martins; Marcelo Chierighini),
3:32.84.
7. Germany (Steffen Deibler; Damian
Wierling; Jan-Philip Glania; Marco Koch),
3:33.50.
8. China (Jiayu Xu; Zhuhao Li; Xiang Li;
Zetao Ning), DSQ.
Women
50 Freestyle
Final
1. Pernille Blume, Denmark, 24.07.
2. Simone Manuel, United States, 24.09.
3. Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarus,
24.11.
4. Francesca Halsall, Britain, 24.13.
5. Cate Campbell, Australia, 24.15.
6. Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Netherlands,
24.19.
7. Bronte Campbell, Australia, 24.42.
8. Etiene Medeiros, Brazil, 24.69.
4x100 Medley Relay
Final
1. United States (Kathleen Baker; Dana
Vollmer; Lilly King; Simone Manuel),
3:53.13.
2. Australia (Taylor McKeown; Emma
McKeon; Emily Seebohm; Cate Campbell),
3:55.00.
3. Denmark (Pernille Blume; Rikke
Moller Pedersen; Mie Nielsen; Jeanette
Ottesen), 3:55.01.
4. China (Yuanhui Fu; Jinglin Shi; Ying
Lu; Menghui Zhu), 3:55.18.
5. Canada (Kylie Masse; Penny Oleksiak; Rachel Nicol; Chantal Van Landeghem), 3:55.49.
6. Russia (Anastasiia Fesikova; Svetlana Chimrova; Yulia Efimova; Veronika
Popova), 3:55.66.
7. Britain (Georgia Davies; SiobhanMarie O’Connor; Chloe Tutton; Francesca
Halsall), 3:56.96.
8. Italy (Carlotta Zofkova; Ilaria Bianchi;
Arianna Castiglioni; Federica Pellegrini),
3:59.50.
Tennis
Singles
Men
Semifinals
Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Kei Nishikori (4), Japan, 6-1, 6-4.
Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, def.
Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Women
Gold Medal
Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Angelique Kerber, Germany, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.
Bronze Medal
Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, def.
Madison Keys, United States, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.
Doubles
Women
Bronze Medal
Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova,
Czech Republic, def. Andrea Hlavackova
and Lucie Hradecka (6), Czech Republic,
7-5, 6-1.
Mixed
Semifinals
Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram, United
States, def. Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna (4), India, 2-6, 6-2, 10-3.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock,
United States, def. Lucie Hradecka and
Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-6
(3).
Track and field
Men
10,000
1. Mohamed Farah, Britain, 27:05.17.
2. Paul Kipngetich Tanui, Kenya,
27:05.64.
3. Tamirat Tola, Ethiopia, 27:06.26.
4. Yigrem Demelash, Ethiopia, 27:06.27.
5. Galen Rupp, United States, 27:08.92.
6. Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei, Uganda,
27:10.06.
7. Bedan Karoki Muchiri, Kenya,
27:22.93.
8. Zersenay Tadese, Eritrea, 27:23.86.
U.S. Finishers
14. Leonard Essau Korir, United States,
27:35.65.
19. Shadrack Kipchirchir, United States,
27:58.32.
Long Jump
1. Jeff Henderson, United States, (8.38),
27-6.
2. Luvo Manyonga, South Africa, (8.37),
27-5 1-2.
3. Greg Rutherford, Britain, (8.29), 27-2
1-2.
4. Jarrion Lawson, United States, (8.25),
27-0 3-4.
5. Jianan Wang, China, (8.17), 26-9 3-4.
6. Emiliano Lasa, Uruguay, (8.10), 26-7.
7. Henry Frayne, Australia, (8.06), 26-5
1-4.
8. Kafetien Gomis, France, (8.05), 26-5.
Discus Throw
Final
1. Christoph Harting, Germany, 68.37,
(68.37), 224-3 3-4.
2. Piotr Malachowski, Poland, 67.55,
(67.55), 221-7 1-2.
3. Daniel Jasinski, Germany, 67.05,
(67.05), 219-11 3-4.
4. Martin Kupper, Estonia, 66.58, (66.58),
218-5 1-4.
5. Gerd Kanter, Estonia, 65.10, (65.10),
213-6.
6. Lukas Weisshaidinger, Austria, 64.95,
(64.95), 213-1.
7. Zoltan Kovago, Hungary, 64.50,
(64.50), 211-7 1-4.
8. Apostolos Parellis, Cyprus, 63.72,
(63.72), 209-0 3-4.
U.S. Finisher
11. Mason Finley, United States, 62.05,
(62.05), 203-7.
Women
100
Final
1. Elaine Thompson, Jamaica, 10.71.
2. Tori Bowie, United States, 10.83.
3. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaica,
10.86.
4. Marie-Josee Ta Lou, Ivory Coast,
10.86.
5. Dafne Schippers, Netherlands, 10.90.
6. Michelle-Lee Ahye, Trinidad & Tobago, 10.92.
7. English Gardner, United States, 10.94.
8. Christania Williams, Jamaica, 11.80.
Heptathlon
1. Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium, 6810.
2. Jessica Ennis-Hill, Britain, 6775.
3. Brianne Theisen Eaton, Canada,
6653.
4. Laura Ikauniece-Admidina, Latvia,
6617.
5. Carolin Schafer, Germany, 6540.
6. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Britain,
6523.
7. Yorgelis Rodriguez, Cuba, 6481.
8. Gyorgyi Zsivoczky-Farkas, Hungary,
6442.
U.S. Finishers
12. Barbara Nwaba, United States,
6309.
17. Kendell Williams, United States,
6221.
18. Heather Miller-Koch, United States,
6213.
Trampoline
Men
Final
1. Uladzislau Hancharou, Belarus,
61.745.
2. Dong Dong, China, 60.535.
3. Lei Gao, China, 60.175.
4. Ginga Munetomo, Japan, 59.535.
5. Dmitrii Ushakov, Russia, 59.525.
6. Masaki Ito, Japan, 58.800.
7. Dylan Schmidt, New Zealand, 57.140.
8. Andrey Yudin, Russia, 6.815.
Weightlifting
Men’s 94kg
Group A
1. Sohrab Moradi, Iran, 403 (182-221),
403 kg.-888 pounds.
2. Vadzim Straltsou, Belarus, 395 (175220), 395 kg.-870 pounds.
3. Aurimas Didzbalis, Lithuania, 392
(177-215), 392 kg.-864 pounds.
4. Sarat Sumpradit, Thailand, 390 (177213), 390 kg.-859 pounds.
5. Ragab Abdalla, Egypt, 387 (174-213),
387 kg.-853 pounds.
6. Dmytro Chumak, Ukraine, 387 (174213), 387 kg.-853 pounds.
7. Ali Hashemi, Iran, 383 (173-210), 383
kg.-844 pounds.
8. Aliaksandr Bersanau, Belarus, 381
(173-208), 381 kg.-839 pounds.
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OLYMPICS
Another rough day
on the water caps
rowing competition
BY K ARL R ITTER
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — It wasn’t
so much the microbes but the
wind that made waves during the
Olympic rowing competition.
For the first time since 1996, the
Olympic regatta was not held in a
purpose-built lake, but a natural
lagoon that left rowers exposed to
the elements in new ways.
While worries about water pollution marked the run-up to the
Rio de Janeiro Games, it was the
wind swishing in from the mountains that stirred up trouble for
rowers in narrow, unstable racing shells.
American sculler Genevra
Stone felt right at home in the
choppy waters, which reminded
her of her hometown.
“This is classic Boston basin,”
she said after winning silver in
the women’s single sculls. “Same
wind. We got some wake bounce
and I was just like, ‘This is my
thing. I can row through wakes.’”
The British team also seemed
comfortable in the conditions and
topped the rowing medals table
with three golds and two silvers.
Others had a tough time.
“I was pretty close to sinking
out there, which generally would
be an indication that the course
isn’t rowable,” Australia’s Kim
Brennan, the world’s top female
sculler, said after the first day of
the regatta.
She looked hopelessly lost amid
the whitecaps on the lagoon, finishing her opening heat in third
place behind Kenia Alanis of
Mexico and Micheen Thornycroft
of Zimbabwe, rowers who normally wouldn’t be able to match
her pace.
“It was chaotic,” Thornycroft
said. “It was anyone’s game.
Whoever could get their blades in
and move.”
Brennan learned from the experience and dealt with the conditions better in subsequent heats.
She led the final Saturday from
start to finish to win Australia’s
first Olympic gold in women’s
single sculls.
“This week was a reminder
that a top rower needs to be truly
ready for all conditions,” said
Matt Smith, executive director of the international rowing
federation.
At least two boats capsized during the regatta, which is unusual
in elite races. Serbia’s men’s pair
overturned in their opening race
and Kazakh sculler Vladislav
Yakovlev flipped in two consecutive heats. The episodes received
more attention given the concerns about water pollution in Rio
de Janeiro.
Hamish Bond, gold medalist
with Eric Murray in the men’s
pair, likened the conditions on
the first day of racing to “walking down some stairs and when
you’re mid-stride the step gets
three times the height.”
But he and Murray knew what
to expect in Rio and said they
had prepared themselves for the
conditions.
The Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a strip of land that
holds the Ipanema and Leblon
neighborhoods. The lagoon is
much bigger and doesn’t have the
rectangular shape of an artificial
race course.
On two days, the winds were so
strong that races were canceled,
but even on calmer days the water
could be choppy.
The conditions are expected
to be a bit easier for kayakers
and canoeists who will race on
a shorter course for their sprint
events next week.
M ATT YORK /AP
Americans Emily Regan, Kerry Simmonds, Amanda Polk, Lauren Schmetterling, Tessa Gobbo, Meghan
Musnicki, Eleanor Logan, Amanda Elmore and Katelin Snyder celebrate after winning the gold medal in
the women’s rowing eight Saturday in Rio de Janeiro.
Women’s eight
US win streak continues
Coxswain’s rallying cry spurs women from third to gold
BY K ARL R ITTER
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — The U.S. boat was in third
place halfway through the race when coxswain
Katelin Snyder shouted the magic words: “This is
the U.S. women’s eight!”
Yes, it was.
The crew responded and did what it always does:
It won.
The U.S. women’s eight is a seemingly invincible
boat, with 11 consecutive world and Olympic titles
since 2006.
Only two crew members racing Saturday remained from the boat that won gold in the London
Olympics, and only one from Beijing four years
earlier.
It didn’t matter.
Canada led after the first 1,000 meters of the
2,000-meter race, with the U.S. in third. But when
Snyder unleashed her rallying cry, everyone knew
what had to happen.
“She yelled, ‘this is the U.S. women’s eight!’ And
we rallied,” said Kerry Simmonds, who rowed in
seat No. 2.
Snyder, always playing down her role as the coxswain — the only person in the boat without oars
— said she told the crew to “trust your fitness, and
trust the plan and trust your teammates.”
But what about the tradition of the U.S. women’s
eight — a dynasty that stands out in team sports?
“I did say that,” she said, bashfully. “I think it was
in the third 500 (meters). And everyone was going
together. I was going with them and they were going
with me.”
Meghan Musnicki, who also rowed the eight in
London, said Snyder’s call referred to the entire
women’s team, including the rowers who were cut
in the fierce competition to make the Olympics.
“It’s an honor to be part of such an amazing group
of women and feel like every single one of them is
rooting for you and has your back,” Musnicki said.
The U.S. crew won the race in 6 minutes, 1.49
seconds. As Canada faded after its aggressive start,
Britain took the silver and Romania the bronze.
It was the first U.S. gold medal in the rowing regatta and second overall, after Genevra Stone’s silver in the women’s single sculls.
Britain had never medaled before in the women’s
eight. Jessica Eddie, who’s rowed in Britain’s eight
since 2005, hopes the silver will inspire younger
rowers to challenge the U.S. winning streak.
“I’ve been here getting beaten by the Americans
for the past 11 years,” Eddie said. “I hope this will
trickle down and that women who will now be coming into the sport for the next four, eight, 12 years
can believe they can do it.”
Beach volleyball
US men advance to quarters unbeaten
BY JIMMY GOLEN
Associated Press
M ARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ /AP
Americans Nick Lucena, right, and Phil
Dalhausser celebrate a point over Austria
during a round of 16 match Sunday.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Americans Phil
Dalhausser and Nick Lucena received
their reward for cruising through pool play
and the first round of the Olympic beach
volleyball elimination stage: A quarterfinal matchup with the world champions on
their home sand.
The U.S. men remained unbeaten at
the Copacabana venue on Saturday night
with a 21-14, 21-15 victory over Austria.
That lined them up with Brazil’s Alison
and Bruno, who arrived in Rio as the No.
1 seed.
“We wanted to play Brazil in Brazil,
preferably in the final,” said Dalhausser,
the 2008 gold medalist. “We got our wish,
just a little early. Hopefully we can come
away with the win.”
Dalhausser and Lucena won all three
pool play matches, but Alison and Bruno
stumbled in the group stage and lost to
Austria’s Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst. That dropped the Brazilians to
second in their pool and led to an unlucky
draw for the Americans — one of the other
favorites to win the gold medal.
The teams have split their four head-tohead matchups on the international tour,
with the Brazilians winning a pair of finals
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Long Beach,
Calif. The Americans won in Hamburg in
a match that Dalhausser said was the best
they have played.
“It will be the toughest test for us,” said
the 2008 Olympic gold medalist.
The Brazilian crowd taunted the Americans by shouting “Zika” at them whenever
they served, apparently in response to
comments from some Americans — nota-
bly women’s soccer goalie Hope Solo — expressing concern over the mosquito-borne
virus or mocking the host nation for the
outbreak.
In the previous match Saturday night,
Australia rallied after losing the first set
to beat Poland and advance to a quarterfinal matchup with American women Kerri
Walsh Jennings and April Ross.
The American women are 4-0 in their
career against Australians Taliqua Clancy
and Louise Bawden, who beat Poland 1521, 21-16, 15-11.
In Saturday’s other quarterfinals, the
Dutch team of Alexander Brouwer and
Robert Meeuwsen advanced to a matchup
with countrymen Reinder Nummerdor and
Christiaan Varenhorst. It will be the third
time in the beach volleyball tournament
that a team has faced its compatriots.
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Brits rally past US
to finish atop pool
BY CLIFF BRUNT
Associated Press
FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP
American Shakur Stevenson, left, and Brazil’s Robenilson de Jesus exchange punches during a
bantamweight 56-kg preliminary boxing match in Rio. Stevenson won by unanimous decision.
US boxers pushing for more
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Nico
Hernandez had a gnarly gash over
his left eye that left him bloodied,
with blurred vision and in need of
stitches.
He had a better look in mind for
Sunday.
Hernandez, 20, will leave the
Rio Games with a bronze medal
in the light flyweight division,
ending a medal drought for the
U.S. that stretched to 2008.
Hernandez’s chance for a gold
medal ended Friday when he
lost to Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy
Dusmatov by unanimous decision. He stayed through Sunday’s
final and was then decorated in
bronze on the medal stand.
“We said when we get there,
we’re going to medal,” Hernandez said. “We’re finally here.”
Andre Ward in 2004 was the
last American male to win a gold
medal in boxing. Deontay Wilder
won the bronze in 2008 and the
American men had an embarrassing medal-free trip to London
four years ago.
U.S coach Billy Walsh said he
thought Hernandez could have
done enough to steal a win.
“I thought we had a chance,”
Walsh said.
The Americans had been one of
the surprises of the tournament
with a 6-1 record into Friday. The
run stalled on Friday when Carlos Balderas followed Hernandez
and lost to Cuban 2012 Olympic
bronze medalist Lazaro Alvarez
by unanimous decision in a light-
weight bout.
The American medal push isn’t
over. Flyweight Antonio Vargas
defeated Brailian Juliao Neto in
his debut Saturday. Light welterweight Gary Russell improved to
2-0 on Sunday, follwing his sharp
win in his opening bout, with a 21 win over Thailand’s Wuttichai
Masuk.
On Sunday, American Shakur
Stevenson won his first fight in the
tournament. He remains the prime
candidate to become the first U.S.
gold medalist in 12 years.
Stevenson defeated Brazilian
fighter Robenilson de Jesus by
unanimous decision 30-27, 2928, 29-28. Stevenson was sharp
in the bantamweight bout and
busted de Jesus open above the
right eye in the second round.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Britain
snatched Pool B out of the United
States’ hands, scoring two goals
in the final eight minutes Saturday to defeat the Americans 2-1
in women’s field hockey.
Sophie Bray scored midway
through the fourth period, then
Alex Danson barely got the stick
on a long shot and redirected it
into the goal three minutes later
for the clincher.
The United States would have
won the pool with a draw because of goal difference, making Britain’s strong finish more
dramatic.
“We have to show resilience,”
British player Kate RichardsonWalsh said. “The American side
are full of positive energy, full of
resilience themselves. So we have
to learn from that and feed off
that.”
Topping the group means Britain avoids possibly running into
the No. 1-ranked Netherlands, the
Group A winner, until the final.
The Netherlands, the two-time defending Olympic champion, has allowed just one goal in five matches
at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
In quarterfinal action on Monday, Britain will play Spain, the
United States will face Germany,
the Netherlands plays Argentina
and Australia will square off with
rival New Zealand.
The Americans, who haven’t
medaled since 1984, posted the
best pool play performance in
team history.
“We’ve had a good set of pool
games,” United States coach
Craig Parnham said. “We’re disappointed with the result tonight,
but overall and for the week, we’ve
been very good. Huge amount of
positives to come out of the week.
Today’s not the worst thing that
can happen. We can learn some
lessons from there, make sure
we regroup and reset before the
quarterfinal.”
Britain outshot the United
States 6-1 in the first half, but the
match was scoreless at the break.
Britain failed to score on four
penalty corners, and U.S. goalkeeper Jackie Briggs had three
saves in the first half.
“I think we were a bit outplayed,” U.S. midfielder Michelle
Vittese said. “We don’t ever like
to do that. When we know that, I
think it hits us a bit harder. Our
job was just to get out there and
do what we know we can do.”
The Americans had been a
second-half team throughout
pool play, and they looked ready
to produce another strong effort.
Vittese scored midway through
the third quarter, and the United States took a 1-0 lead into the
fourth period.
DARIO L OPEZ-MILLS/AP
American Melissa Gonzalez
falls while fighting for the ball
with Britain’s Nicola White
during their field hockey match
Saturday.
Water polo’s quarter sprints mix speed and technique
BY JAY COHEN
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Each quarter begins with pure, unbridled speed, a furious
dash from the mouth of the goal to the middle of the pool while your opponent comes
barreling at you from the opposite direction. At stake is the most valuable commodity in water polo: possession of the ball.
While players have all sorts of tricks for
winning the sprints, they all agree on one
thing: Practice makes perfect.
“Pushing off the wall is way better,”
U.S. driver Rachael Fattal said. “But [you]
try to get momentum, so if you can get
momentum it’s not too bad. It’s definitely
something you have to work on.”
U.S. coach Adam Krikorian lets his players decide who takes the sprints — “They
know better than I do,” he said — and it
worked out quite well in an 11-6 victory
over Hungary on Saturday, concluding a 30 run through group play for the defending
Olympic champions. The Americans had
the ball at the beginning of each quarter,
with Fattal taking two sprints, Hungary
jumping early on one and the U.S. winning
a jump ball after a tie-up in the fourth.
SERGEI G RITS/AP
The USA’s Kiley Neushul, left, passes the
ball forward as Hungary’s Gabriella Szucs
goes to block during their preliminary
round water polo match Saturday.
Fattal said captain Maggie Steffens lines
up next to her for the sprints and helps her
watch the referees.
“I only look at one. Maggie’s telling me
what the other ref behind me is doing,”
Fattal said. “So when she puts her hand up
I know that my person’s going to put their
hand up and get ready to go, but I just go as
fast as I can. I put my head down and hold
my breath and I go.”
Timing the starting whistle is a big key
— “If you start little bit later, you don’t
have a chance,” said Zivko Gocic, the captain of Serbia’s men’s team — but you also
have to get up to full speed as quickly as
possible — without the benefit of starting
blocks or a wall.
“It’s pretty tough,” Australia driver
Keesja Gofers said. “It’s always nice to
do sprints off the wall, when you get a
nice push-off. But we do work a lot on our
breaststroke and egg beater (kicks), so
we’re used to starting from nothing and
like changing speeds.”
Gofers and Rowie Webster scored two
goals apiece to help Australia beat Brazil
10-3 to finish second in Group A behind
unbeaten Italy. Australia will face Hungary in Monday’s first quarterfinal.
Also Saturday, Laura Lopez Ventosa
scored four times as Spain pulled away
from China for a 12-8 victory, and Roberta
Bianconi had three goals in Italy’s 10-5
win against Russia. Spain and Russia meet
in Monday’s quarters, and Italy takes on
China.
Next up for the United States is Brazil,
which has dropped each of the three meet-
ings between the countries this year by a
combined score of 55-7.
The U.S. got a preview of what it likely
will see more and more the rest of the way
when Hungary tried a physical approach
against the speedy Americans. But Steffens scored four times and Maddie Musselman had three goals to send the U.S. to
its 19th straight victory.
“That’s what we need to be ready for,”
Krikorian said. “I think I’d be shocked if
teams don’t come out and play real more
physical with us. Everyone’s looking for
an edge and trying to find a way to gain an
advantage and obviously that’s one way to
play.”
Steffens leads the tournament with 10
goals after scoring 21 times during the United States’ march to its first Olympic gold.
The Stanford star seems to have picked up
right where she left off in London.
“She’s a captain for a reason,” Krikorian
said. “Obviously an excellent player, but
I’d say an even better leader, and someone
that we can kind of count on to play with
intelligence and play with intensity all the
time. That’s exactly what you want out of
your leader.”
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Phelps caps career with 23rd gold in medley relay
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Standing atop the medal podium for
the 23rd time, Michael Phelps
teared up, bit his lip and gave a
little nod.
This was how he really wanted
to go out.
On top of his game in the
water.
Totally content away from the
pool.
“It turned out pretty cool,”
Phelps said, another gold medal
around his neck. “It’s just a perfect way to finish.”
Phelps put the United States
ahead to stay on the butterfly leg
of the 4x100-meter medley relay,
giving the most decorated athlete
in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal Saturday night.
If that was the end, and Phelps
insists it is, the numbers are simply astonishing.
No other Olympian has more
than nine gold medals.
With 28 medals in all, he’s 10
clear of anyone else.
“It’s not even once in a generation,” said his coach, Bob Bowman. “It might be once in 10
generations that someone like
Michael Phelps comes along. “
As Nathan Adrian touched
the wall to finish off the victory,
Phelps gathered the other relay
swimmers, Ryan Murphy and
Cody Miller, in his arms. One
night after his only setback of the
Games, an upset loss to Joseph
Schooling in the 100 fly, Phelps
was back on top.
At age 31, he leaves Rio with
five golds and a silver.
“I wouldn’t change anything,”
he said. “This is the best place
I’ve ever been in my life.”
In the stands, his fiancée, Nicole
Johnson, bounced along to the
music with their son, 3-month-old
Boomer, cradled in her arms.
Phelps is eager to spend a lot
more time with them. He plans
to marry Johnson after the Olympics and said he wants to watch
his son grow, maybe even dole out
a swimming lesson or two.
And what if Boomer wants to
take all those medals to showand-tell someday?
“I might let him take one,”
Phelps said with a grin.
“Maybe a bronze,” Bowman
chimed in.
Most of the U.S. swim team was
in the stands to watch Phelps’ finale, including the biggest female
star at the pool, Katie Ledecky.
The 19-year-old Ledecky joked
that she was proud to be part of
Phelps’ final Olympics — twice.
He initially retired after the 2012
London Olympics, only to decide
about a year later to return.
The comeback endured a huge
setback with his second drunkendriving arrest in 2014, which led
to Phelps being banned from the
world championships last year.
But it also sparked a turnaround
in his personal life. He entered
six weeks of inpatient therapy,
where he got in touch with some
of the issues that seemed to lead
him astray.
He quit drinking, reconnected
with his estranged father, got engaged, moved to Arizona along
with Bowman, and became a father for the first time.
Phelps sounds much more adamant when he says his swimming
career really is over.
“These Games really showed
his growth,” teammate Anthony
Ervin said. “That human spirit,
that capacity to heal. I think
it showed in his swimming, it
showed in his demeanor, and it
certainly showed in his leadership on the team.”
Phelps was elected a team
captain for the first time in his
fifth Olympics and truly seemed
to enjoy being around his fellow
swimmers. He was still the same
ruthless competitor, but he was
also willing to join in when some
of his younger teammates made
a carpool karaoke video at their
final training camp in Atlanta.
On a victory stroll around the
pool, Phelps and his teammates
grabbed a sign that said, “Thank
You Rio.”
“No matter what country you
swim for, you’re indebted to Michael Phelps for bringing a lot of
exposure to the sport and making it a little more mainstream,”
Murphy said. “If this is the end,
that was a great way to cap off an
incredible career.”
Murphy, who won two backstroke golds in Rio, put the
Americans out front with a worldrecord split — it counts since he
was leading off — before Britain
surged ahead on the breaststroke
with its own world-record holder,
Adam Peaty.
Phelps dove into the pool in
second place.
He wouldn’t be for long.
On the return lap, Phelps powered through the water with his
windmill of a stroke, surging
ahead of James Guy to pass off a
lead to the anchor Adrian.
It wasn’t in doubt after that.
Adrian pulled away on the free-
LEE JIN - MAN /AP
American Michael Phelps kisses his gold medal for the men’s
4x100-meter medley relay final Saturday in Rio. It was the 23rd
Olympic gold for Phelps, who says he’s retiring after the Games.
style to win in an Olympic-record
time of 3 minutes, 27.95 seconds.
Britain held on for silver, with
Australia nabbing bronze.
The victory came just minutes
after the women’s medley relay
gave the United States its 1,000th
Olympic gold medal at the Summer Games.
“A thousandth gold for team
USA,” said Simone Manuel, who
swam the anchor leg for her second gold of the Games and second
medal of the night. “It’s a nice
number.”
Kathleen Baker, Lilly King and
Dana Vollmer joined Manuel in
the historic victory, which came
with a time of 3:53.13. Australia
earned silver, while Denmark
took bronze.
Earlier in the night, Manuel
took silver in the 50 free. She
already became the first African-American woman to win an
Olympic swimming title with her
win in the 100 free.
Connor Jaeger gave the U.S.
another silver in the 1,500 free.
The night, though, belonged
to Phelps, who walked out of the
arena for the final time carrying an American flag and a gold
medal around his neck.
The only way imaginable.
Dire predictions for US swimming miss the mark
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — They teamed up
for a carpool karaoke video. They planted
their flag in Brazil. And when the Olympics are done, they’ll be remembered as
the latest in a long line of U.S. swimming
powerhouses.
So much for all those dire forecasts.
Turns out, the less-than-glittering times
at the U.S. trials were no indication of how
fast they would swim once they got to the
big stage. And all those who thought they
were too inexperienced to shine on the international stage totally missed the mark.
The Americans finished off the final
night at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium by
equaling their biggest medal haul in the
last three decades.
Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky & Co.
made sure the U.S. stayed firmly atop the
swimming world.
“We all know we’re part of a really special team,” Ledecky said Saturday, five
medals hanging from her neck after one of
the greatest performances in Olympic history. “We have such great depth in the U.S.
in swimming, and it’s something we take
great pride in. This is kind of our stage to
LEE JIN - MAN /AP
American Simone Manuel celebrates her
silver medal for the 50-meter freestyle
on Saturday. Manuel also won gold with
the 4x100 medley relay. She had already
won gold in the 100 free.
show the world that.”
The Americans piled up 16 golds and 33
medals overall, matching their total from
the 2000 Sydney Games.
Phelps, of course, led the way. But no one
was more dominant than the 19-year-old
Ledecky, whose four golds included two
world record-shattering performances. She
joined Amy Van Dyken and Missy Franklin as the only American women to capture
as many as four golds in a single Games,
matched Debbie Meyer as the only females
to sweep the 200, 400 and 800 free, and also
won silver anchoring the 4x100 free relay.
“What she’s doing in the sport is ridiculous,” Phelps said.
There’s something to be said for the camaraderie displayed by the American team.
During their final training session in
Atlanta, a host of swimmers — Phelps and
Ryan Lochte among them — took to the
streets to record a James Corden-style
carpool karaoke video. Even Ledecky took
a turn behind the wheel, even though she
still has just a learner’s permit.
“I was only at a gas station,” she quipped,
“so I didn’t think I was going to hurt
anyone.”
In addition to Phelps and Ledecky, the
biggest U.S. stars were Maya DiRado, who
turned in the ultimate one-and-done with
two golds and four medals overall; Ryan
Murphy, who extended U.S. men’s dominance of the backstroke; Simone Manuel,
the first African-American woman to win a
gold medal with her victory in the 100 free,
plus another gold in the women’s 4x100
medley relay; Lilly King, who backed up
her brash diatribe against doping; and
Anthony Ervin, the oldest member of the
team at 35 and a gold medalist again in the
50 free — 16 years after he first won the
event in Sydney.
Even with a hugely disappointing performance by Franklin, who didn’t even make
it to the final of her two individual events,
the Americans still blew everyone away.
There are several factors that go into the
success of the U.S. program, starting with
some simple numbers. The Americans
have far more swimmers and resources to
draw from than most nations, so it’s only
natural they would dominate.
Beyond that, Ledecky pointed to a U.S.
trials format that sets up the team to perform well at the Olympics. Over eight
nights in Omaha, just a month before the
games and following the same schedule of
events, swimmers earned their way onto
the team before sellout crowds of more
than 14,000 at every session.
That was bigger than the crowds in Rio,
where there were plenty of empty seats
each night.
“It’s an overly easy environment for
us to swim fast in because we’ve been
through our Olympic trials, which is way
more pressure-filled than the Olympics,”
Ledecky said. “Obviously the crowd here
hasn’t been that intimidating to us.”
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Host city still struggling with litany of
problems through first week of games
BY STEPHEN WILSON
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO
ows of empty seats, green water, controlled explosions, stray bullets, the
killing of a young policeman in a favela,
muggings of team officials, an attack
on a media bus, spotty weather, snarled traffic, long travel distances and lack of a Carnival
atmosphere.
Halfway through the Olympics, Rio de Janeiro
is still struggling with a litany of problems that
have underlined the challenges of taking the
games away from their traditional territories,
and made clear they may not go to untested regions again in the near future.
The athletes and sports competitions have
risen to the occasion, the Brazilians have been
welcoming and friendly, and TV pictures beamed
around the world have featured Rio’s beautiful
scenery and backdrops at their best.
Overall, though, Olympic officials and veterans
say Rio has been beset by so many organizational issues that South America’s first games have
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John Coates
IOC vice president
been more of a disappointment than a delight.
“It has been along the lines of what experienced Olympic observers and organizers would
have expected,” said Dick Pound, the IOC’s longest-serving member, in an interview with The
Associated Press. “Then you add the political and
corruption issues, and they didn’t have a chance
to get everything done the way they would have
liked to.”
IOC vice president John Coates told the BBC:
“This has been the most difficult games we have
ever encountered.”
Seven years ago, the International Olympic
Committee selected Rio over Madrid, Tokyo and
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