Philippine base deal in limbo after vote

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Philippine
base deal
in limbo
after vote
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
MICHAEL S. DARNELL /Stars and Stripes
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Klinkiewicz, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Phillip McFarland
work on an M1A2 Abrams tank during an improvised explosive device drill at
the 2016 Strong Europe Tank Challenge at Grafenwoehr, Germany.
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MANILA, Philippines — Supporters of a deal allowing the U.S.
access to military bases in the
Philippines are hoping the new
president-elect will embrace the
agreement despite his outspoken
opposition to U.S. influence and
his promise to shake up foreign
policy when he takes office next
month.
Rodrigo Duterte, the 71-yearold Davao mayor, bested four
other candidates in the May 9
election with his law-and-order
platform and a promise to upend
the status quo.
Washington and Manila have
yet to hash out the details of a
base-sharing agreement that call
for developing five military bases
to be used by rotational American forces, and Duterte would
face strong resistance if he simply abandoned the agreement, an
executive order by current President Benigno Aquino III.
But proponents of the basesharing plan are concerned that
his administration could drag its
feet and effectively neuter it.
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Photo controversy highlights black women at West Point
BY ERRIN H AINES WHACK
Associated Press
Self-expression is hardly a part
of life for cadets at the United
States Military Academy.
So it was far from ordinary
when 16 black women put their
own spin on the traditional graduation photo, hoisting their fists in
the air while posing in their dress
uniforms, swords at their sides.
A social media firestorm followed. So did an internal inquiry
at the school.
Some viewed the cadets’ pose
as a gesture of racial solidarity
and strength. Others questioned
whether it was a statement of support for Black Lives Matter.
West Point officials decided
last week that the photo was not
politically motivated and no punishment was warranted. Still, that
outcome left some black female
graduates confused: Why would
anyone see controversy in how
those 16 women celebrated their
experience in the Long Gray
Line?
“When I saw it, I said, ‘I wish
me and my classmates had taken
a picture like that,’ ” said Shalela
Dowdy, a 2012 graduate and a
friend of some of the women in
the photograph. “But something
clicked in my mind that not too
many people would be happy
about that picture. The fist stands
for unity and solidarity, but some
people are going to take this the
wrong way.”
None of the 16 women would
agree to be interviewed for this
story. Speaking through black
alumnae, they cited a need to
focus on their graduation next
Saturday, and life after West
Point.
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“To be a black woman
at West Point is
essentially to make a
choice going in ... that the
majority of the time, you
can never fully express
your womanhood or your
blackness.”
— Mary Tobin, who has mentored
black female cadets at West Point
since graduating in 2003
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Bergdahl to return to court Tuesday
Desertion case held
up for months in fight
over classified data
BY COREY DICKSTEIN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — Accused Army deserter
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will return to a Fort Bragg
courtroom Tuesday after a legal fight over
classified data stalled the case for months.
Progress in Bergdahl’s case had been halted
since Feb. 5, when prosecutors asked an appellate court to overturn a military judge’s ruling that ordered them to turn over classified
evidence to the soldier’s lawyers. Prosecutors
argued senior military officials should review
classified material to protect state secrets before it is provided to Bergdahl’s lawyers, but
the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals on
April 30 rejected the motion.
The long delay likely will push back Bergdahl’s trial, which was scheduled to begin
Aug. 8 at Fort Bragg, N.C. In a motion filed
Wednesday, prosecutors proposed moving the
trial’s start date to Dec. 8.
The timetable for the case is likely to be discussed at Tuesday’s hearing.
The trial could be delayed even longer, said
Eric Carpenter, an assistant law professor at
Florida International University and former
Army defense attorney and prosecutor. Attorneys are likely to spend months, and several
hearings, wrangling over “access to evidence
and the defense’s ability to investigate the
case,” he said.
In the prosecution’s motion Wednesday,
Army Maj. Justin C. Oshana wrote that prosecutors have collected more than 1.5 million
pages of potential evidence. The prosecution
has provided about 129,000 pages, including
about 89,000 pages that are classified, to defense lawyers, he wrote.
“These issues tend to take a lot of time to
resolve,” Carpenter said.
In addition, a motion filed May 3 by Bergdahl’s lawyers, civilian Eugene R. Fidell and
Army Lt. Col. Franklin D. Rosenblatt, that
asked the judge to throw out the staff judge
advocate’s pretrial advice to the convening
authority is expected to be argued at the hearing Tuesday.
The pretrial advice is the formal recommendation to the convening authority, the top
officer presiding over a case, on how the case
should proceed.
Bergdahl’s lawyers wrote in their motion
that the staff judge advocate, Col. Vanessa
Berry, provided the convening authority, Gen.
Robert Abrams, commander of Army Forces
Command, “incomplete” and “prejudicially
misleading” advice when she recommended a
TED RICHARDSON /AP
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, arrives for a pretrial hearing Jan. 12 at Fort Bragg, N.C.,
with his defense counsel, Lt. Col. Franklin D. Rosenblatt. Bergdahl, who was held by the
Taliban for five years after he walked off a base in Afghanistan, faces charges of desertion
and misbehavior before the enemy.
general court-martial.
They wrote that Berry included in the
pretrial advice the recommendation by Lt.
Col Mark Visger, the officer who oversaw
Bergdahl’s preliminary hearing in September 2015, that Bergdahl should face a lowerlevel special court-martial with the power to
consider a bad-conduct discharge, in which
the maximum possible sentence would be
one year in jail. More so, they argued Berry
also should have included Visger additionally
recommended Bergdahl be spared a prison
sentence.
“The preliminary hearing officer’s repeated recommendation against confinement
was just as material as his recommendation
against referral to a forum that could not
award a bad-conduct discharge,” Bergdahl’s
lawyers wrote.
Carpenter said the defense is not likely to
win the motion.
“However, this gives the defense another
chance to get into court and emphasize that
two independent officers who reviewed the
facts in the case thought that Bergdahl should
not get jail time or a punitive discharge,”
Carepenter said.
The judge overseeing Bergdahl’s general
court-martial is Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance.
Bergdahl, 30, last appeared before Nance in
January.
In December, Bergdahl was arraigned on
charges of “misbehavior before the enemy by
endangering the safety of a command, unit
or place” and “desertion with intent to shirk
important or hazardous duty,” but he has not
entered a plea.
If convicted of the more serious misbehavior charge, Bergdahl faces up to life in prison.
The desertion charge carries a maximum
penalty of five years in prison, a dishonorable
discharge, reduction to the rank of E-1 and
forfeiture of all pay and allowances.
Bergdahl remains on active duty in a clerical job at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.
On June 30, 2009, Bergdahl was captured
by Taliban fighters after leaving his post
in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika Province.
He was held and tortured for five years by
Haqqani Network Militants before he was released to American special operations forces
in May 2014 after the White House approved
the release of five senior-level Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Qatar.
Bergdahl told an Army investigator three
months after he was released that he’d willingly left Observation Post Mest. He did not
intend to ditch the Army, Bergdahl told thenMaj. Gen. Kenneth R. Dahl; instead, he had
formulated a “fantastic plan” to spark an incident that would put him face-to-face with a
general officer, to whom he hoped to air grievances he had about his chain of command.
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Navy breaks ground on Poland anti-missile site
BY STEVEN BEARDSLEY
Stars and Stripes
The Navy broke ground Friday on a future missile interceptor site in Poland, its
second such base in Europe.
The ceremony at Redzikowo, near the
Baltic coast, marks the beginning of construction on a system designed to shoot
down short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles by the end of 2018. It will join
a similar system in Deveselu, Romania,
as the only ground-launch sites tied into a
European missile shield being built by the
U.S. for NATO use.
The U.S. military formally activated the
Romania site on Thursday.
The U.S. and NATO say the sites are
necessary to intercept ballistic missiles
launched from Iran and other unspecified countries in Asia and the Middle
East. Russia has criticized the plan since
its announcement by the George W. Bush
administration in 2002, saying it could be
used against its own strategic nuclear missiles and that it disrupts the regional strategic balance.
The U.S. and NATO say the system is not
capable of stopping Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Poland, which has long sought a permanent U.S. military presence in the country,
has welcomed the deployment.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work
attended Friday’s ceremony.
“Our partnership with Poland and Romania underwrites U.S. military activities
in the region and reflects our steadfast
commitment to enhancing regional security,” Work said during the ceremony, according to a news release.
The site is part of the European Phased
Adaptive Approach, the Obama administration’s plan for ballistic missile defense
in Europe. Other components include
an early warning radar in Turkey, four
Navy guided-missile destroyers stationed
in Rota, Spain, and a command center
at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein,
Germany.
Like at the Deveselu site, the Redzikowo
system will pair a fire-control deckhouse
with several SM-3 Block IB missile launchers. After completion, the site will be upgraded to the newest model of the missile,
the Block IIA, which is more capable and
has a longer range.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is managing the project for
U.S. 6th Fleet in Naples, Italy. U.S. Navy
Region Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia
will be responsible for establishing and
managing the new Navy base at the site,
Naval Support Facility Redzikowo. The
Missile Defense Agency is tasked with
building the system.
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Americans, Germans honor
memory of US children
buried in Kaiserslautern
BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — It’s been 45 years since the
last American child was buried in
the Kaiserslautern city cemetery,
in a section known simply as the
Kindergraves.
The tiny gravestones are
tended year-round by a group of
Americans and Germans who
have vowed to continue to honor
the memory of the 451 children
buried there even though their
families have long since left.
As they do every spring, the
German American & International Women’s Club and the
Ramstein Area Chiefs’ Group
came together Saturday for the
annual memorial ceremony at the
Kindergraves.
It was the 55th such ceremony and organizers made clear it
would not be the last.
“Some people say, ‘Oh it’s so
long,’ ” said Bruni Puetz. “It’s a
memorial now, to think about the
little children and the parents,
but also a kind of celebrating of
German-American relations here
in Kaiserslautern … and think
about a good cause.”
Puetz is the treasurer of the
German American & International Women’s Club and the
club’s chairperson for the Kai-
serslautern Kindergraves Memorial Foundation — the latter
a partnership between the women’s club and the Ramstein Area
Chiefs’ Group.
Most of the children buried in
the Kindergraves died in infancy
between 1952 and 1971. The U.S.
government at the time did not
pay to send the children back for
burial and many parents — civilians and U.S. servicemembers
stationed in the Kaiserslautern
area — could not afford to do so,
Puetz said.
The foundation uses donations
from local groups and family
members to lease the site from
the city and to maintain the
graves, replacing older gravestones on which engraved names
have begun to fade.
On Saturday, the grass was
newly mowed and each grave
was decorated with a fresh, pink
carnation and an American flag.
A priest blessed the graves and
leaders from the German community and the U.S. military
spoke at a formal ceremony inside the Daenner Chapel, next to
the cemetery.
“When I think about the children” left behind, “I certainly
couldn’t think about a better community to” be left behind in, said
Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Ray,
the 3rd Air Force commander.
A stone marker indicates the location of the Kindergraves in the
Kaiserslautern city cemetery, where 451 American children were
buried between 1952 and 1971.
PHOTOS
BY
JENNIFER H. SVAN /Stars and Stripes
Eli Mullins, 8, a Cub Scout with Pack 156 in Ramstein, Germany, places an American flag next to one of
the Kindergraves in the Kaiserslautern city cemetery on Saturday.
The women’s club held its first
ceremony for the Kindergraves
in 1961, Puetz said. “Because we
are mothers, we thought it was
a good project to remember the
children, but also the parents who
really were in pain when they had
to leave,” she said.
But even as those early ceremonies were held, for many years the
actual grave sites were forgotten,
she said. “It was just wild. The city
mowed it over, but it was forgotten
for many years,” she said.
That changed in 1986, when
the club forged a partnership
with the chiefs’ group to run the
foundation.
Most Americans didn’t know
about the Kindergraves then,
Puetz said. The women’s and
chiefs’ groups share upkeep duties. American volunteers mow
and plant flowers and the women’s club cares for the greenery
around the three large stones at
the front of the site.
The foundation renewed its
lease with the city for the Kindergraves three years ago for another
20 years, Puetz said. In Germany,
grave sites are leased, not bought.
The goal “is to make sure that
the families that have moved on
and aren’t here to pay the respects
From left, Tech. Sgt. Twan Jennings, Tech. Sgt. Jose Aviles Velez,
Airman 1st Class Michael Cordeiro and Senior Airman Nicole
McNaughton arrange flower wreaths Saturday at the site of the
Kindergraves.
to their children, know that there
are Americans still here that care
about them and their families and
recognize the sacrifices that they
gave while they were here,” said
Air Force Chief Master Sgt. John
Robbins, chairperson of the foundation for the chiefs’ group.
For Stefanie Darlington, knowing that the Kindergraves are so
well cared for gives her family
much comfort. Darlington’s older
brother, Ben Leroy Johnson, was
buried there after he died in 1961
from a staph infection when he
was just 6 months old.
“It’s just overwhelming, that
care, that love and that respect
that continues” all these years
later, said Darlington, 55, who
lives outside Cincinnati.
“As my mom would say, ‘It’s
the thing that I would do if I was
there,’ ” she said.
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Protecting ‘most valuable real estate in space’
US spending billions
to secure satellites
after wake-up call
Carter wants secretive
space unit involved in
fight against militants
BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT
The Washington Post
T
he first salvo was a
missile launch by the
Chinese in 2007 that
blew up a dead satellite
and littered space with thousands
of pieces of debris. But it was another Chinese launch three years
ago that made the Pentagon really
snap to attention, opening up the
possibility that outer space would
become a new front in modern
warfare.
This time, the rocket reached
close to a far more distant orbit
— one that’s more than 22,000
miles away — and just happens to
be where the United States parks
its most sensitive national security
satellites, used for tasks such as
guiding precision bombs and spying on adversaries.
The flyby served as a wake-up
call and prompted the Defense
Department and intelligence
agencies to begin spending billions of dollars to protect what Air
Force Gen. John Hyten, in an interview, called the “most valuable
real estate in space.”
Faced with the prospect of hostilities there, defense officials are
developing ways to protect exposed satellites floating in orbit
and to keep apprised of what an
enemy is doing hundreds, if not
thousands, of miles above Earth’s
surface. They are making satellites more resilient, enabling them
to withstand jamming efforts.
Also, instead of relying only on
large and expensive systems, defense officials plan to send swarms
of small satellites into orbit that
are much more difficult to target.
At the same time, the Pentagon
has designated the Air Force secretary a “principal space adviser,”
with authority to coordinate actions in space across the Defense
Department.
Agencies
have
begun participating in war-game
scenarios involving space combat
at the recently activated Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center.
The ‘Space Fence’
The flurry of activity raises the
specter of a new technological
arms race, this one in space, as
nations jockey for advantage. The
Pentagon is even developing what
is known as the “Space Fence,”
which would allow it to better
track debris in space.
National security officials are
concerned not only that missiles
could take out their satellites but
also that a craft’s equipment could
be easily jammed. Potential enemies could “dazzle” sensors, temporarily blinding them, or deploy
tiny “parasitic satellites” that attach to host satellites and do their
worst. That could lead to soldiers
stranded on the battlefield with
little means of communication or
missiles that would not be able to
find their targets.
“We have considered space a
BY DAN L AMOTHE
The Washington Post
Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force
The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif., detects, tracks and identifies artificial objects in Earth’s orbit.
sanctuary for quite some time.
And therefore, a lot of our systems are big, expensive, enormously capable but enormously
vulnerable,” said Deputy Defense
Secretary Robert O. Work.
Perhaps most striking is how
openly Pentagon officials are
talking about their efforts to fight
in space — especially because
much of the work remains highly
classified.
While the United States has
been bogged down in counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pentagon officials say
that Russia and China have been
developing the capability to attack the United States in space.
‘Dependent on space’
“Every military operation that
takes place in the world today is
critically dependent on space in
one way or another,” said Hyten,
commander of the Air Force
Space Command. “Whether our
own people in the United States
are fully cognizant of the dependence on space or not, the rest of
the world has been watching us
very closely.”
Since the 1991 Persian Gulf
War, the United States has become
increasingly reliant on space for
how it fights. Its satellites are used
to snap images of the enemy, provide communications in remote
areas and guide ships, drones and
even bombs via GPS. That same
navigation technology also has become embedded into everyday life
for Americans, who rely on satellites for driving directions, television signals and more. Even the
banking system uses GPS to time
transactions.
Those high-tech capabilities
have given the U.S. military an
extraordinary advantage over its
adversaries, and over the years,
the military has launched dozens
of satellites into space.
Now, as Russia, China and others develop technology that could
take out the national security infrastructure the United States has
built in space, Pentagon officials
fear its satellites could be sitting
ducks. Navy Adm. Cecil Haney,
commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, said recently that
North Korea has successfully
jammed GPS satellites, that Iran
was busy developing a space pro-
gram and that “violent extremist
organizations” were able to access
space-based technologies to help
them encrypt communications,
among other things.
A sense of urgency
“We must recognize that despite our efforts, a future conflict
may start, or extend, into space,”
he said.
Although Hyten and others
had long been concerned about
the mounting arms race in space,
it was only after the 2013 launch
by the Chinese that the Pentagon acted with a new sense of
urgency.
As adversaries began targeting space, “there was a level of
frustration” in the space community, Hyten said. “We just needed
someone to say go.”
The “go” came in 2014, when
top Pentagon officials, including
Work, the deputy defense secretary, made space a priority, saying
at a meeting that “if, God forbid,
someday a conflict does extend
from the Earth to space, what are
you going to do about it?” Hyten
recalled.
The Pentagon spends $22 billion on space programs and is
investing an additional $5 billion
in space efforts this year, including $2 billion for what is known as
“space control,” which includes
its highly classified offensive
programs. Hyten declined to discuss the ways in which the United
States is preparing to attack other
countries in space. But the United
States has had the capability to
blow up satellites since 1985, when
an F-15 fighter pilot fired a missile
into space that took out an old military observation satellite.
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE
BASE, Colo. — Defense Secretary Ash Carter sees a variety
of missions for the Pentagon’s
new, secretive space center —
and that includes fighting the
Islamic State group.
The Pentagon chief said
Thursday that the new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center established by
the Defense Department last
fall has a role not only in preparing for potential conflicts
against rival countries but in
counterterrorism. The center
was created after a yearslong
debate to integrate space operations with the workings of
conventional military units and
intelligence agencies.
Carter visited the center
along with other senior defense
officials and praised its potential afterward. Most public discussion about it has focused on
the “war games” it carries out
to prepare for adversaries like
Russia and China, but the Pentagon chief said the center already is doing more than that.
“I’ll say that in addition to
war-gaming, they’re doing
real-world,
minute-by-minute, no-kidding operations,”
Carter said. “We need them to
work right now on problems of
space’s role in conflict — first
of all, because we are in conflicts today. I’ll just remind you
that we are in the counter-(Islamic State) fight, and I have
instructed our space community to join the fight, to figure out
what we can do to contribute.”
Carter did not elaborate,
likely due to the highly classified nature of the center’s
operations. But his comments
highlight aspects of its work.
The center — known in the
military as the “JICSpOC”
— includes some officials
from the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates
the nation’s spy satellites and
works closely with the National
Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency and other intel-
ligence agencies. Navy Adm.
Cecil D. Haney, commander of
the U.S. Strategic Command,
has said previously that “violent extremist organizations”
have accessed space-based
technologies to encrypt their
communications.
The center was established
in October on a 4,172-acre
military base that is isolated
in the countryside east of Colorado Springs, Colo. But it’s even
more secluded than that: Inside
the
base,
it is co-loWe need cated with
a handful of
them to
other units
work right on 315 acres
of restricted
now on
area
that
problems are even
of space’s more heavily guarded
role in
than
the
rest of the
conflict.
installation.
Ash Carter
Media
secretary of traveling
defense with Carter
were
not
allowed to view the JICSpOC
— or even its exact location.
Col. DeAnna Burt, commander of the 50th Space Wing at
Schriever, said it is located in
a facility that originally had
been set aside for another
unit. Schriever, with its focus
on space operations, also had
the infrastructure in place to
track and communicate with
satellites, the NRO and other
involved agencies with powerful antennas.
Carter said the center was
“but a gleam in my eye” five
years ago, when he was deputy
defense secretary and space
was considered a sanctuary
where military systems could
operate without interference.
Since then, both Russia and
China have continued to bolster
their abilities in space. Threats
to U.S. satellites now include
surface-to-air missiles, and
cyber and electronic attacks
that could disable them, independent analysts and defense
officials acknowledge.
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DOD report: Drones bought
by SOCOM don’t pass tests
BY BROCK VERGAKIS
The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — U.S.
Special Operations Command
bought dozens of hand-launched
drones that failed military tests
and might not be able to meet
mission requirements in the
harsh environments they were
designed for, according to a newly
released report from the Defense
Department’s inspector general.
The waterproof drones conduct
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions and are
capable of landing on land and
in fresh or salt water. AeroVironment Inc. was awarded an initial
one-year, $6 million contract to
build an indefinite quantity of the
Puma AE for SOCOM in 2008,
with an option for four more oneyear contracts with a maximum
value of $200 million.
But initial testing revealed the
drone didn’t meet SOCOM’s stated needs for launch and recovery,
nor requirements for its weight
and size, the DOD report said.
The command’s “testing results
questions whether the current capabilities of the AECV system are
sufficient to fulfill its mission and
whether the current capabilities
represent a significant increase
in performance to justify the acquisition of the AECV,” the report
says, referring to the drone.
The Puma AE had difficulty
landing within 25 meters of a
designated point in winds of 17
mph, the DOD report says. In one
instance, the drone landed 81 meters — almost the length of a football field — from its designated
spot. To meet SOCOM’s requirements, the drone was supposed to
be able to land repeatedly within
25 meters of a spot in winds of
up to 23 mph, yet testing never
reached those speeds.
“The AECV works great under
most of the conditions we encountered … all except the winds,” one
unidentified evaluator said in the
report. “The gust of winds cause
the aircraft to turn and climb
uncommanded numerous times
during the testing phase.”
The report was dated Feb. 4,
2015, but was made public last
week. It says SOCOM acquired
41 of the drones because it didn’t
follow its own procedures for revalidating programs “that did
not meet primary performance
attributes.”
According to the test plan, “if
the system doesn’t meet all pri-
mary performance attributes,
the system is not considered operationally effective or suitable.”
SOCOM officials who certify
the drone’s effectiveness were
supposed to notify acquisition
officials of the drone’s shortcomings. But for reasons the report
doesn’t detail, testing results erroneously showed the program
met minimum standards and no
notification was made. If notification had been made, the program
could have been re-evaluated or
had its production increments
modified.
Instead, SOCOM officials said
in September 2014 they planned
to spend $35.4 million buying additional drones through the 2019
fiscal year. The report notes the
test plan allowed evaluators to
override rules for determining its
success by providing “adequate
justification” as to why a specific
shortfall wasn’t operationally significant, but no justification was
provided.
Another evaluator identified
other shortfalls in the drone, saying its infrared camera “has horrible resolution” and is unable to
positively identify targets.
The drone also failed to meet
standards that required it to fit
PETER LEWIS/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
Petty Officer 3rd Class Mitch Marema, assigned to Commander,
Task Group 56.7.4, Coastal Riverine Squadron 4, launches a
Puma AE unmanned aerial vehicle from a riverine command boat in
September 2013.
into two waterproof, protective
cases with a combined weight of
50 pounds. During testing, the
drone was packed in foam and
was stored in waterproof bags,
which exceeded the weight by
one pound, the report said.
Even then, one operator said
the foam broke during field testing. Another operator said the
foam cases need to be protective
to secure the drone during transport, while another said the foam
case didn’t offer realistic protection and was cumbersome during
transport.
Waterproof protective cases
were later tested, but the combined
weight was 110 pounds — more
than double the target weight.
Hand-launched drones produced by AeroVironment have
been used by the military for
years, but the Tampa, Fla.-based
SOCOM wanted a version to operate in all weather conditions.
SOCOM oversees each military
branch’s special operations forces, including the Navy’s Virginia
Beach-based SEALs. The system
was designed so it could launch
and recover the drones without
modifications to naval vessels.
A new variant was set to undergo testing in January 2015 to
demonstrate compliance in the
areas it had failed in. It’s unclear
how those tests went. and AeroVironment did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Osan airmen, soldiers honored
for rescuing family from fire
BY K IM GAMEL
Stars and Stripes
TRAVIS EDWARDS/Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force
Tech. Sgt. Tina Kay, of the 607th Weather Squadron, hugs the daughter of
Precious Enyioko, right, after the Songtan fire-rescue recognition ceremony Friday
at Osan Air Base, South Korea. Kay was among those credited with keeping the
family safe and administering first aid after the rescue of Enyioko and three of her
children from a burning building on April 29.
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Fifteen
airmen, soldiers and a civilian were honored
Friday for saving a family from a fire while
they were off-duty in a shopping district near
the base.
The dramatic rescue was captured on cellphone footage, with the Americans and local
residents using a blanket to catch a woman
and her three children as she dropped them
from a window in an apartment building,
then jumped out.
The commanders of the 35th Air Defense
Artillery Brigade and the 51st Fighter Wing
said their actions showed the value of being
good neighbors as well as good warriors.
“It shows how we can all come together,”
Col. Andrew Hansen, commander of the 35th
ADA, said after the men and women filed
onto the stage to receive an Air Force commendation medal.
The Nigerian family was on hand to ex-
press gratitude.
“Thank you for allowing God to allow you
to protect the civilians,” the father, Prince
Enyioko, said as his wife, Precious, and their
three children sat in the front row of the auditorium at Osan Air Base.
The brigade also provided new details about
the April 29 rescue, saying Air Force Staff
Sgt. Cierra Rogers was getting her hair braided in the Songtan district building when she
smelled the fire. Rogers was injured and fell
trying to find a safe way out for the family.
The other Americans reacted quickly upon
seeing the mother holding a child out the window. Several grabbed blankets and cushions
from a nearby shop to create a “makeshift
trampoline.” They then caught the children
and the woman with the help of several local
residents. Others administered first aid.
“When we saw the kids, we just knew we
had to help, so we just jumped in,” said Master Sgt. Michael Henry, of Lake Charles, La.
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An Italian C1 Ariete battle tank opens fire during a maneuver drill Wednesday as part of the 2016 Strong Europe Tank
Challenge at the Grafenwoehr, Germany, training area.
An American tanker riding a M1A2 Abrams
battle tank heads to the firing range.
Tanks’ mission:
Train and deter
NATO allies roll in Germany for
annual competitive challenge
M ICHAEL S. DARNELL
Stars and Stripes
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany
— What was once old was new
again as six NATO-allied nations converged on the training
grounds here for the 2016 Strong
Europe Tank Challenge.
Co-hosted by U.S. Army Europe
and the German Bundeswehr, it
was part competition, part skills
training and — as is the case
with nearly every USAREUR
event recently — part deterrence
measure.
It also aimed to restore some
old skills that have fallen by the
For additional photo coverage,
of the tank challenge, go to:
stripes.com/go/tank
wayside since the end of the Cold
War.
“You’ve got to continue to train.
You have to invest the time and
resources in the training to have
the best possible deterrent force,”
said Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of U.S. Army Europe.
“This international tank challenge is a part of a series of things
that helps us improve our skill.”
Of those skills tested, some
— like using camouflage netting
to mask a 60-ton hunk of metal
American tankers from 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment,
Company D, begin the long process of detreading and retreading
their M1A2 Abrams battle tank.
An Italian C1 Ariete battle tank fires at a target.
— haven’t been part of regular
tanker training in some time,
Hodges said.
Others, like dealing with improvised explosive device attacks
were a test of how well the participating units from the U.S., Germany, Denmark, Italy, Poland
and Slovenia work together.
“In order to deter, you have to
have credible warfighting formations,” Hodges said. “That means
it’s not just having the equipment
there, you’ve got to have formations, crews that know how to do
it. This is a time-tested way to
help do this.”
While officials focused on how
the challenge fit into USAREUR’s
mission to deter further aggression from Russia, the troops on
the ground were focused on only
one thing.
“We want to be the best,” said
Spc. Angel Medina, 2nd Battalion,
7th Infantry Regiment, Company
C. “That’s the fire right there.”
Unfortunately for Medina and
his fellow crewmembers, when
the smoke cleared on Friday it
was the Germans in their Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks, and
U.S. Army Col. Clark Lindner scopes out the Italians’ firing precision
during their firing drill.
not the Americans, who won top
bragging rights. The Danish
platoon took second place and
the Poles are taking home third
place.
German tank commander Staff
Sgt. Tim Walter said the key to
victory in the Tuesday-Thursday event was the open dialogue
he kept with both his men and,
surprisingly enough, the other
teams.
“Every soldier gets to talk, and
everyone does what he thinks is
best to fulfill the task,” he said.
“That made us winners.”
Walter said he and his men are
now relieved that it’s over and
that they’re leaving victorious.
“It was challenging, but it was
a lot of fun,” he said. “We’re all
happy. ... We worked so hard for
this.”
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DOD: 2015 saw Bases:
Expert ‘certain’
will
China’s military Duterte
appreciate pact
grow more potent
FROM FRONT PAGE
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
China’s military in 2015 became more assertive in the South
China Sea, projected a greater
global presence and underwent
nascent reforms intended to make
it deadlier and more loyal to the
ruling political party, according
to an annual U.S. Defense Department report.
The report, mandated by Congress, highlights China’s military
strategy and developments.
“China continues to focus on
preparing for potential conflict in
the Taiwan Strait, but additional
missions such as contingencies
in the East and South China seas
and on the Korean peninsula
are increasingly important to
the [People’s Liberation Army],”
Abraham M. Denmark, deputy
assistant secretary of defense for
East Asia, said during a news conference Friday at the Pentagon.
Taiwan’s government was
formed when the Chinese Nationalist government lost a civil
war with the Communist Party
of China in 1949 and its leaders
fled to the island. The Communist Party regards Taiwan as a
breakaway province that eventually must be brought back into the
fold.
The U.S. agrees with that in
principle, but maintains that it
must not be done through force.
Thus, the U.S. for decades has assisted Taiwan in maintaining its
defense.
Although China’s economy has
been slowing down, it continues
to sustain spending for defense.
“From 2006 through 2015, China’s officially disclosed military
budget grew at an average of 9.8
percent per year in inflationadjusted terms,” Denmark said.
China said that its military
budget would grow at 7.6 percent,
to $144 billion, for 2015.
But China’s publicized military budget does not include all
expenditures, such as those for
research and development and
purchases of foreign weapons
and equipment.
“So the true expenditure
DOD estimates in terms of total
military-related spending for
2015 exceeded $180 billion in
2015,” he said.
By comparison, the United
States spent about $600 billion for
defense in 2015.
China’s growing investment in
defense has been fruitful. During a massive military parade
in Beijing last year, the country
unveiled the DF-26 missile, Denmark said, which is capable of
precision ground strikes in the
Asia-Pacific region.
Last year marked China’s commencement of much more assertive tactics regarding its claims
in the South China Sea. China,
China: US report
‘hyped up’ threat
BEIJING — China’s Defense Ministry criticized
a U.S. report assessing its
island-building efforts in
the South China Sea, saying
it “hyped up” China’s socalled military threat.
The Defense Department’s annual report on China’s military activities had
“willfully distorted China’s
national defense policy,”
said ministry spokesman
Yang Yujun, adding that the
U.S. was too suspicious.
China
expressed
its
“strong dissatisfaction and
firm opposition” to the Pentagon report, Yang said.
From The Associated Press
the Philippines, Vietnam and
Taiwan have competing claims
over portions of the sea. But with
its ever-growing fleet, China has
been forcefully taking possession
of reefs and atolls, even expanding them through dredging.
The report said that China had
reclaimed more than 3,200 acres
of land in the South China Sea and
was now shifting the focus on developing and weaponizing them.
“China’s leadership demonstrated a willingness to tolerate
higher levels of tension in pursuit of its maritime sovereignty
claims,” Denmark said. “China’s
strategy is to secure its objectives
without jeopardizing the regional
peace that has enabled its military and economic development,
which in turn has maintained the
Chinese Communist Party’s grip
on power.”
The PLA also expanded its
worldwide presence in 2015.
The most prominent example
of that, he said, was the November announcement that China
would establish a military facility
in Djibouti, a tiny country on the
Horn of Africa.
Chinese President Xi Jinping
ushered in far-reaching military
reforms last year that are intended to modernize command and
control, making the force more
effective at warfighting. But the
changes also will strengthen control of the Communist Party over
the PLA by creating new oversight entities that are closely tied
to the party.
Denmark said the U.S. will continue to encourage China to be
more transparent about its military modernization and its intent.
“Our approach focuses on reducing risk, expanding common
ground and maintaining our military superiority,” he said.
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Duterte’s choices to head the
departments of national defense,
foreign affairs and treasury will
reveal much about his intentions
toward base-sharing, said Virginia Bacay Watson, a professor
at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu.
The two countries announced
the base-sharing deal in February
under the terms of the Enhanced
Defense Cooperation Agreement
signed in 2014. Those facilities
are Antonio Bautista Air Base in
Puerto Princesa; Basa Air Base
in Floridablanca, Pampanga;
Lumbia Air Base in Cagayan de
Oro in southern Mindanao; Fort
Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija province; and Mactan-Benito Ebuen
Air Base in Cebu.
“The U.S. is working closely
with the Philippines to develop
project proposals to enhance
the existing military infrastructure and installations at these
five locations that will enable
high-impact, high-value training for both the Armed Forces of
the Philippines and U.S. Pacific
Command,” Cmdr. Bill Urban, a
Defense Department spokesman,
said in a written statement.
Runway repairs and expansions, depots for pre-positioned
disaster-response supplies and
fuel storage tanks are among the
infrastructure upgrades being
considered, said Urban, who did
not say when the proposals would
be approved.
A decision has not been made
on the upgrades, said a spokesman for the Philippine Department of National Defense.
The base-sharing agreement
marked a new era for military relations between the two countries.
The U.S. military pulled out of
the Philippines in the early 1990s
after negotiations broke down on
extending leases for American
bases.
But with the rise of jihadi terrorism at the turn of the millennium,
the two nations found themselves
fighting a common enemy, and
the U.S. deployed a small contingent of counterterrorism trainers
to Mindanao, where the al-Qaidalinked Abu Sayyaf group was
responsible for a spate of kidnappings and bombings. That effort helped pave the way for the
EDCA in 2014, which Aquino’s
U.S.-friendly administration saw
as a way of pushing back against
China’s aggressive expansionism
underway on the nation’s west
coast in the South China Sea.
The five bases require varying
degrees of improvement, particularly Fort Magsaysay and Basa
Air Base, which are in remote
areas and lack sleeping quarters
and mess hall facilities that meet
American standards for rotations
longer than a few weeks.
U.S. troops already have begun
brief Philippines rotations, with
some servicemembers remaining
BULLIT M ARQUEZ /AP
Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte speaks at a news conference after
voting in his hometown in the Philippines on May 9. Duterte bested
four other candidates tor the country’s presidency.
in the country after joint Balikatan exercises ended April 15.
That first deployment included
four Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft and two HH-60G
Pave Hawk helicopters staged
out of Clark Air Base, where they
conducted maritime awareness
missions for two weeks. They
flew four missions in international waters and airspace, completing the final one on April 28, the
Air Force said. The A-10s left the
Philippines two days later.
The U.S. and the Philippines
jointly patrolled the South China
Sea in March and early April, and
the Philippine defense secretary
has expressed desire to continue
those patrols.
About 80 U.S. personnel, primarily Marines, also stayed on
after Balikatan at the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo,
on the outskirts of Manila, to work
on enhancing joint commandand-control capabilities between
the militaries.
Duterte has sent mixed signals
about his policy direction toward
the U.S. military and relations
with China. At times he’s said
America should butt out, but other
statements have made it sound as
though there’s a place for the U.S.
in multilateral discussions with
China over claims of sovereignty
for South China Sea islands and
reefs.
“I don’t think [Duterte’s] going
to change the current line of calling for U.S. support in the face of
China,” said Carl Baker, an Asia
expert at Pacific Forum Center
for Strategic and International
Studies, a Honolulu-based think
tank.
“Fortunately the EDCA is in
place, so they don’t have to readjudicate that,” he said. “That
should help some. I’m certain
that Duterte is going to be able to
appreciate the value of EDCA, at
least initially, as he starts trying
to govern.”
One key to successful governance will be the level of support Duterte receives from his
military.
“I don’t know how that relationship will work out,” Baker said. “I
don’t see that as being a conflictual relationship, at least up front.”
The military is generally supportive of strong law enforcement,
Baker said. Duterte has touted his
tough-on-crime stance as mayor
of a large city on the island of Mindanao, an epicenter of terrorism
and violent crime, and admitted
he was involved in extrajudicial
killings of criminal suspects.
“But you really have to see how
this guy governs and how he treats
the military and what he does with
the military,” Baker said.
Gerard Finin, a senior fellow at
the East-West Center in Honolulu,
said the individuals he’s spoken
to within the Philippine military
understand that the country’s bilateral relationship with the U.S.
is essential to working through
the South China Sea dispute with
China.
“There’s momentum now for
military
modernization,
upgrades,” said Watson, adding that
the Philippines military is a major
stakeholder in those upgrades.
“And the military will champion the cause,” she said.
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FROM FRONT PAGE
For some, that will mean active-duty service in the Army.
They will become Army officers
after leaving the academy.
The picture was one of several
the women took in their traditional dress uniforms. A different
photo, without the raised firsts,
was tweeted by the chairwoman
of West Point’s Board of Visitors.
Mary Tobin, who has mentored
other black female cadets since
graduating in 2003, said few are
inclined to discuss their experiences publicly.
“To be a black woman at West
Point is essentially to make a
choice going in ... that the majority of the time, you can never
fully express your womanhood
or your blackness,” Tobin said.
“We’re told we’re all green. We
don’t ever talk about it, because
it’s hard enough for everyone at
West Point to graduate.”
The cadets pictured are joining
a rare but proud group of black
women who have broken barriers
on dual fronts at West Point. In
interviews with The Associated
Press, black alumnae describe a
rewarding experience with challenges that included navigating
racial incidents.
Established in 1802, West Point
went co-ed in 1976. Four years
later, there were 62 female graduates. In that class were the first
black female graduates, Joy Dallas and Priscilla “Pat” Walker
Locke. West Point has graduated
357 black women in its 114-year
history, and the Class of 2016 includes 18 black women.
Blacks have contributed to
West Point’s legacy for centuries, from the first black cadet,
Henry O. Flipper, who graduated
in 1877, to 2nd Lt. Emily Perez, a
black woman who was the first
member of the “Class of 9/11” to
die in combat, in 2006.
According to Admissions Director Col. Deborah McDonald,
about 15,000 students apply to
West Point each year, and about 9
percent enroll. There were 1,859
black applicants for the incoming
freshman class, and 14 percent of
them were accepted, McDonald
said.
West Point’s numbers are mirrored at the other U.S. military
service academies. The Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Md.,
counts 20 women who identify as
black in its 2016 graduating class
of 1,215. The Air Force Academy
in Colorado Springs, Colo., has a
graduating class of 827, of whom
11 are black women.
The Coast Guard Academy, in
New London, Conn., didn’t have
a gender breakdown by race, but
said three students identifying as
black are in the graduating class
of 186.
The application process at West
Point is rigorous. Most cadets get
in with a letter of recommendation from a member of Congress
or the vice president. A medical
and physical test is required.
Once enrolled, students are immersed in a campus environment
that doesn’t focus on individuality,
said Donald Outing, West Point’s
chief diversity officer.
“It’s about adopting the culture
and the values of the military as
an institution,” Outing said. “The
mission requires us to develop
soldiers and leaders to function
and fight as one team.”
Sakima Brown, a 1998 graduate
who was the first person from her
hometown of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,
to attend West Point, said making
it at the storied military academy meant you had to “shrink
your blackness.” When she and
the other eight black women in
her class saw each other on campus, they would greet each other
briefly and move on.
Brown, Dowdy and Tobin described a campus life where
even the most casual interactions
among black students piqued curiosity. For example, they said,
fellow cadets, and sometimes staff
or faculty, took notice when more
than a handful of blacks came
together for meals on Sundays,
when cadets were not required to
eat with their companies.
“There were times we would
sit at a table, and if there were
more than two or three AfricanAmericans, it was a problem,”
Brown said. “People would come
over and ask, ‘What are you guys
doing?’ I have never seen 10 African-Americans sitting together at
West Point. At three or four, the
table would get broken up.”
Still, forging friendships was
possible. Brown recalls the day
an upperclassman stopped her on
campus and whispered quickly,
“Join the gospel choir.”
“She didn’t ask if I could sing or
not sing,” Brown said. “You just
joined the gospel choir. It wasn’t
just about the singing. It was praying together, the support system.
That was the
only
place
I couldn’t you were alunderstand lowed to be
together, and
why they
it was once a
didn’t see week for two
hours.
the pride
During
that I saw. that time, you
talk
Sakima Brown could
1998 graduate of about what
was
going
West Point
on. It was the
only place we
were safe being together.”
Dowdy, now stationed at Fort
Bliss, Texas, said when Barack
Obama was elected the country’s
first black president — and the
cadets’ new commander in chief
— in 2008, some on campus
“were mad; they were disrespectful, saying the n-word.”
Dowdy said she was often the
only black woman in her company. Sometimes, she was the only
black person or the only woman
in her classes. Support from other
black women on campus helped
‘
’
O BTAINED
FROM
TWITTER /AP
Officials at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.,
ruled that the photo of black female cadets with their fists raised
was not politically motivated and no punishment was warranted.
her get through.
“They motivated me when I
doubted myself,” she said. “Sometimes things happen at the school
and you don’t know if you want to
bring it up, but they were family. I
talk to all of them every day still,
right now.”
Which is why, Brown said, the
backlash over the photograph
was hurtful.
“I couldn’t understand why
they didn’t see the pride that I
saw,” Brown said.
Tobin, who has served as a
mentor to some of the women pictured, said she believed all along
that their motive was simply to express their joy over graduation.
“You’re looking at each other
like, ‘We made it and we did it together,’ and we did it in an environment that still fights the ghosts
of discrimination, sexism and homophobia,” said Tobin.
“You raise your fist as a sign of
victory.”
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poised to take
SEAL instructor temporarily Navy
ownership of Zumwalt
removed from training duty
BY DAVID SHARP
Associated Press
BY DAN L AMOTHE
AND A DAM G OLDMAN
The Washington Post
A Navy SEAL instructor has
been temporarily removed from
his training duties following the
death of a sailor in a swimming
pool, a service spokesman said
Saturday.
The instructor was removed
last week following the May 6
death of Seaman James Derek
Lovelace, 21, of Crestview, Fla.,
said Navy Cmdr. Jason Salata,
a spokesman for Naval Special
Warfare Command. The incident
occurred during the famously
grueling Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL, or BUD/S, course
at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in California.
Lovelace was helped to the edge
of a swimming pool by instructors after having difficulty in the
water, and was pronounced dead
at a nearby hospital after efforts
to revive him failed, Navy officials said. A preliminary autopsy
report by the San Diego coroner’s
office said he drowned.
The incident is under investigation by the Naval Criminal Inves-
tigative Service. Salata said Naval
Special Warfare, commanded by
Rear Adm. Brian Losey, “is fully
cooperating with the NCIS investigation” and a separate Navy safety
investigation into the fatality.
“It would be premature to
discuss any details until those
investigations are complete,”
Salata said. “As the investigation
progresses and more details are
reviewed, his commander will reassess his status.”
The instructor is an enlisted
petty officer first class who joined
the Navy in 2008 and has served
in SEAL units based in both Coronado and Little Creek, Va. He has
deployed to Afghanistan at least
twice, and was decorated with a
Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal with “V” device for
valor. He is not currently facing
accusations of wrongdoing, and
his name was not released.
Lovelace’s death marks the
third in recent months by a sailor either in BUD/S or recently
separated from it. The others include Seaman Daniel DelBianco,
23, who committed suicide by
jumping from the 22nd story of a
building in downtown San Diego
after washing out of SEAL training, and Petty Officer 2nd Class
Caplen “Cap” Weare, 24, who
rolled over his pickup truck in
San Diego in November following
a night of drinking after falling
out of SEAL training three days
earlier, according to family members and authorities.
Lovelace had been in SEAL
training for about a week. The
first phase of the program focuses
on building physical conditioning,
increasing water proficiency and
honing mental tenacity, according
to the Navy. Students are allowed
to quit upon request, a practice
known as a Drop on Request or
“ringing the bell.”
Military officials defended the
safety of their training program
after Lovelace’s death.
“Despite a successful track record, any loss of life drives us to
ensure we are doing everything
possible to make training safe
and effective,” Navy Capt. Jay
Hennessey, commanding officer of the Naval Special Warfare
Center, said in a statement. “Our
safety precautions for those who
dropped from training have been
effective for 50 years.”
BATH, Maine — The U.S. Navy
is ready to take ownership of the
Zumwalt, its largest and most
technologically
sophisticated
destroyer.
Sailors’ uniforms and personal
effects, supplies and spare parts
are being moved aboard the 610foot warship in anticipation of
crewmembers taking on their
new charge, said Capt. James
Kirk, the destroyer’s skipper.
The Zumwalt is the first new
class of warship built at Maine’s
Bath Iron Works since the Arleigh Burke slid into the Kennebec River in 1989. The shipyard
is expected to turn the destroyer
over to the Navy this week.
It features an angular shape that
makes it 50 times more difficult to
detect on radar; it’s powered by
electricity produced by turbines;
new guns are designed to pummel targets from nearly 100 miles
away. Advanced automation will
allow the ship to operate with a
much smaller crew than the current generation of destroyers.
The final cost of the Zumwalt is
expected to be at least $4.4 billion.
The growing cost forced the
Navy to reduce what was origi-
nally envisioned as a 32-ship program to just three ships. The loss
of economies of scale drove up
the cost of the individual ships.
The slow-going and rising costs
were little surprise after the Government Accountability Office
warned that the Navy was trying to incorporate too many new
technologies into the ship.
“Zumwalt was a challenge to
assemble because of all the new
technologies, but sea trials show
it is a world-class warship with
unique capabilities,” said Loren
Thompson, senior defense analyst with the Virginia-based Lexington Institute.
Some of the ship’s 143 crewmembers have been in Bath for
more than two years to prepare
for the day they take control of it.
The sailors will continue training
to prepare the ship to be formally
commissioned into service as the
USS Zumwalt at a ceremony in
October in Baltimore, Kirk said.
From there, the ship will travel
to its homeport in San Diego for
further tests and trials.
Shipbuilders in Bath are busy
on the second ship in the class, the
Michael Monsoor, which will be
christened next month. Work also
is underway on the third and final
ship, the Lyndon B. Johnson.
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NTSB to probe Texas
bus crash that killed 8
Associated Press
SCOTT TERRELL , SKAGIT VALLEY (WASH.) HERALD/AP
From left, Deejay Sherman Peterson, Anne Thureson, Shirley Morrison and Rosy Betz-Zall, all members
of the Seattle Raging Grannies, sit with their rocking chairs chained together on the Burlington-Northern
Railroad tracks leading to two oil refineries near Burlington, Wash.
Protesters block train tracks
at 2 refineries in Washington
BY PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Hundreds of
climate activists on Saturday
marched to the site of two refineries in northwest Washington
state to call for a break from fossil fuels, while a smaller group
blocked railroad tracks leading to
the facilities for a second day.
Protesters in kayaks, canoes,
on bikes and on foot took part in
a massive demonstration near
Anacortes to demand action on
climate and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
A day before, about 150 activists
had pitched tents and set up camp
on nearby railroad tracks to block
the flow of oil to the nearby Shell
and Tesoro oil refineries.
“We can’t wait anymore. We’ve
got to do things now,” Clara Cleve,
76, of Edmonds, said Saturday.
“Direct action is very effective.
My grandchildren are not going
to have a place to live unless we
move quickly now.”
Cleve said she plans to spend another night in a tent on the tracks
and is prepared to be arrested for
trespassing if necessary.
The protests are part of a series
of global actions calling on people
to “break free” from dependence
on fossil fuels. Similar demonstrations were taking place in Los
Angeles and Albany, N.Y., on Saturday and Washington, D.C., on
Sunday.
In upstate New York, climate
activists gathered at a crudeoil shipment hub on the Hudson River in an action targeting
crude-by-rail trains and oil barges at the Port of Albany. A group
of activists sat on tracks used by
crude oil trains headed to the
port. Police did not report any arrests as of midday Saturday.
In Washington state, organizers are targeting two refineries
that are among the top sources
of greenhouse gas emissions in
the state. Tesoro started shipping
crude oil from North Dakota’s
Bakken Shale region to its refinery, and Shell is proposing an expansion that would similarly bring
in Bakken crude oil by train.
Officials with Shell and Tesoro
said in earlier statements that
they respect the right of people to
demonstrate peacefully, and that
safety is their highest priority.
BNSF Railway spokesman
Gus Melonas said no trains were
scheduled through Saturday, but
he declined to say whether any
were expected to run Sunday.
There had been no word of any
arrests during the day, Given
Kutz, a spokesman for the Skagit
County Emergency Coordination
Center, said late Saturday night.
Skagit County spokeswoman
Bronlea Mishler said authorities are monitoring the situation.
Crowd estimates of the march
range from several hundred to
about 1,000 people, she said.
Bud Ullman, 67, who lives on
Guemes Island, participated in
the march, which he described as
good-spirited and peaceful.
“The scientists are right,” he
said. “We have to get away from
our dependence on fossil fuels,
and it has to be done in a way that
takes into serious consideration
the impact on workers, families
and communities.”
The three-day event was to end
Sunday and has included “kayaktivists” demonstrating on water,
community workshops and an indigenous ceremony.
Many of the nearly 40 groups
involved in organizing the event
were also involved in large onwater kayak protests against
Shell’s Arctic oil drilling rig when
it parked last year at a Seattle
port.
LAREDO, Texas — Federal authorities on Sunday will begin to
investigate what caused a charter
bus headed to a casino to crash in
South Texas, killing eight people
and injuring 44 others in a onevehicle rollover, officials said.
Seven people died at the scene
Saturday on U.S. Highway 83
about 46 miles north of Laredo,
and another died later at a Laredo hospital, Texas Department
of Public Safety Trooper Conrad
Hein said.
“The driver of the bus lost
control and rolled over,” he said.
“Everything’s real preliminary
right now.”
Hein said the driver was among
the survivors. His name and the
names of passengers were not immediately available, Hein said.
The trooper said it was raining
Saturday morning but it was uncertain if that was a factor in the
crash that occurred just before
11:30 a.m. He said no other vehicles were in the area at the time.
The National Transportation
Safety Board said Saturday night
it was sending a team to also investigate the wreck. They were
expected to arrive Sunday.
Webb County Volunteer Fire
Department Chief Ricardo Rangel told the Laredo Morning
Times the bus, which belonged to
OGA Charters, was headed to a
casino in Eagle Pass.
Hein said 23 people were taken
to Doctors Hospital in Laredo,
where the eighth victim died. Fifteen were taken to Laredo Medical Center. Seven were taken to a
Dimmit County hospital in Carrizo Springs.
Priscilla Salinas, a spokeswoman for Laredo Medical Center,
said bus passengers being treated
there were in stable condition.
The highway at the accident
scene was reopened by early
evening.
The crash is one of the deadliest
bus accidents in Texas in the last
several years. In January 2015,
two state corrections officers and
eight inmates were killed when
their Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus struck a piece of
displaced highway guardrail west
of Odessa. The bus fell about 20
feet before striking a Union Pacific freight train that happened to be
passing beneath the highway. On
Thursday, the NTSB concluded
the wreck was caused by the bus
hitting the guardrail piece.
Seventeen passengers died in
2008 near Sherman when their
bus plunged over a highway bridge
on their way to a religious retreat
in Missouri. The NTSB blamed
that crash on a retreaded tire on
the right front axle that was punctured by an unknown object.
Although the retread itself
wasn’t the cause, the panel noted
that the tire was affixed to the
front axle illegally, the bus company didn’t have the authority to
leave Texas after failing an inspection three months earlier,
and the company that inspected
the bus wasn’t equipped to judge
whether it was roadworthy. The
owner of the Houston bus company was charged with making
false statements but avoided prison in 2014 when a federal judge
sentenced him to three years of
probation in a plea agreement.
DANNY Z ARAGOZA , L AREDO (TEXAS) MORNING TIMES/AP
A damaged charter bus is hauled away after a fatal rollover Saturday
on U.S. 83 North in South Texas.
Hours after father surrenders, son in Utah kidnapping case is caught
Associated Press
PINEDALE, Wyo. — The father and son
accused of luring a woman and her four
teenage daughters to a Utah house and
tying them up are in custody in Wyoming.
Late Saturday night, law officers culminated a manhunt with the arrest of Dereck
James “DJ” Harrison, 22, several hours
after the surrender of his father, Flint
Wayne Harrison, 51, the Sublette County
Sheriff’s Office said.
The various charges the men face include aggravated kidnapping and possession of a controlled substance.
The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office said
that shortly after 10 p.m. MDT, the younger
Harrison was arrested without incident in
the Half Moon Lake area of western Wyoming and booked into the county jail.
His father had turned himself in earlier
in the day and had been helping authorities
find his son, officials said.
The forested back country around the
lake had been the focus of a daylong search
after officials determined that the younger
man was in the area, possibly armed with
rifles with high-capacity magazines and
knives. He had also made threats to law
enforcement, the sheriff’s office said.
The arrest came shortly after the department had announced that the search for the
younger man was suspended for the night.
“Law enforcement officials who were
manning the roadblock and patrolling the
roadway observed a male matching the description of Dereck walking south towards
the deputies,” the department said.
Meanwhile, authorities said the woman
and her daughters are recovering after the
attack Tuesday in Centerville, Utah.
The men are accused of tying the mother and daughters up with zip ties. When the
elder Harrison hit the woman with a baseball bat, the teens began to break their ties
and try to escape, according to charging
documents. In the struggle that followed,
one girl slapped away a shotgun pointed at
her throat and another grabbed the bat and
hit the son, police said.
The victims managed to escape.
The father and son had been using methamphetamine heavily over several days
and falsely believed the woman had reported them to authorities, police said.
The elder Harrison is a registered sex
offender. He surrendered in Pinedale for
reasons still unknown to police. Investigators think the father and son had been in
Wyoming since Thursday.
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Fla. Republicans on
Trump as nominee:
He’s not Clinton
BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — The most hardcore Republican faithful in the
most important swing state came
together this past weekend for the
first time since Donald Trump
became the party’s presumptive
presidential nominee and the reaction went largely like this: Well,
he’s not Hillary Clinton.
Trump carried Florida’s March
winner-take-all GOP primary
by an overwhelming amount to
earn the state’s 99 delegates, one
of the biggest prizes on the path
to the nomination. In November,
Florida’s 29 electoral votes will
be even more important. It is the
largest politically competitive
state in the country, and his task
now is to get the state Republican
elite who opposed him in the primary to support him.
The consensus at the Republican Party of Florida meeting is
that they will, even if there’s some
initial reluctance to back the man
who ruthlessly mocked two of the
state’s most popular Republicans
during the primary: former Gov.
Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio.
“I’m heartbroken,” said Carole Jean Jordan, who served as
the state GOP chair under Bush
and traveled the country to help
his presidential campaign. “But
wounds will heal.”
Unlike Bush, the person credited with building the powerful
state party, GOP activists say
they will vote for Trump.
Enthusiasm, though, clearly
was lacking during the weekendlong meeting.
Most of the state’s Republican
activists backed Bush or Rubio,
and it’s fresh in their minds how
Trump treated them. Trump
repeatedly called Bush “low energy” and mocked him for needing “mommy” to campaign for
him. He said Bush, the son of one
president and the brother of another, was an embarrassment to
his family.
And Trump called Rubio
“Little Marco” and often said he
sweats like a dog, paying no attention to the fact that dogs really
aren’t known for sweating.
“We’re very disappointed that
our candidate didn’t make it,”
Jordan said. “We had different
ideas, we had different plans, we
had different thoughts of what we
wanted our candidate to be. It’s
hard. It’s hard for everybody in
that room.”
But if they need something
to rally around, it’s defeating
Clinton.
“There’s just all sorts of reasons why we don’t want to see Ms.
Clinton in the White House,” she
said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi
Ryan: No timeline
for backing Trump
GREEN BAY, Wis. —
House Speaker Paul Ryan
says he doesn’t have a timeline for unifying behind
presumptive
Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump.
During a news conference Saturday in Green
Bay, Wis., reporters asked
Ryan whether he hopes to
have party unity before the
GOP convention in July. He
said “this is a process; we
still have some time to go.”
Ryan also said that Republicans are in the process
of unifying while “Democrats are still ripping each
other apart.”
Ryan said he and Trump
will have policy disputes,
“no two ways about it,” but
that it’s important there be
“real party unity, not pretend party unity.”
Ryan said that while there
are questions about Republicans’ refusing to back
Trump, “we’re really in the
never-Hillary camp.”
tried to whip up support for
Trump during a Saturday morning breakfast. Most of her intended applause lines fell flat, met
with a smattering of polite clapping and often with more than
half the room leaving their hands
on their laps.
Afterward, she acknowledged
that there’s been a lukewarm response to Trump among the party’s top activists.
“Of course there is. This was a
hard-fought primary,” Bondi said.
“Feelings get hurt, and these are
deep feelings.”
But she pointed to the number
of people who have avoided politics who now are enthusiastically
involved — making homemade
signs, attending rallies in large
numbers and giving Trump a record number of primary votes.
State party Vice Chairman Joe
Gruters, of Sarasota, aligned with
Trump early and served as his
Florida campaign co-chair. He
said activists are approaching him
and asking how they can help.
“Donald Trump won, and it’s
time for everybody to get on
board. I truly believe that this
never-Trump movement will be
less than a half-percent of all
Republicans,” Gruters said, adding that the holdouts will be far
outnumbered by the new voters
Trump is attracting.
MEL EVANS/AP
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally last week in
Blackwood, N.J.
Rivals’ rallies put spotlight
on Clinton’s enthusiasm gap
BY CATHERINE LUCEY
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Rock
concert rallies versus intimate
town halls. Adoring groupies versus dutiful voters. Sweeping promises versus targeted proposals.
Whether Hillary Clinton is
competing against Democratic
rival Bernie Sanders or presumptive Republican nominee Donald
Trump, one concern is much the
same. They are outsider candidates riding a wave of populist excitement while she is viewed as a
traditional, establishment choice.
As a result, her campaign
sometimes just looks a little less
exciting.
Clinton has won far more votes
than any other 2016 candidate.
But if she moves into a general
election matchup with Trump,
she may continue to be dogged by
questions about voter enthusiasm,
Study: Toxic metals in
LA homes near gas leak
LOS ANGELES — Homes located near a gas well blowout
that spewed the nation’s largestknown release of methane had
higher levels of toxic metals that
could have caused symptoms Los
Angeles residents have suffered
from for months, public health officials said.
Tests found barium, manganese
and vanadium more frequently
and in higher concentrations in
especially as Trump pledges to
continue his raucous rallies.
Clinton’s supporters say they
are not worried.
“Big crowds mean nothing,”
said former Pennsylvania Gov.
Ed Rendell. “You don’t get extra
points for an enthusiastic vote
versus a moderately enthusiastic
vote.”
Still, the differences are clear.
In recent days, Sanders rallied
with roughly 4,000 in Salem, Ore.,
and Trump drew thousands in
Bellingham, Wash. Clinton held a
rally with more than 1,000 people
in New Jersey but also spoke about
family issues at a gathering with
about 15 in northern Virginia.
Trump’s large crowds were
good for more than his ego. They
helped him power past his numerous rivals and to the verge of
clinching the nomination as Clinton continues mopping up against
her last remaining challenger.
“I think the rallies for Trump
are the demonstration of his appeal as I think the rallies for Sanders are the demonstration of his
appeal,” said Republican pollster
Greg Strimple. He added that
Sanders’ crowds have exposed
some of Clinton’s weaknesses and
he would not have generated that
energy “if the Democrats were so
enamored of her candidacy.”
Republican strategist Sara
Fagen, who has not backed Trump,
said Clinton “doesn’t have a movement. She has a base of people that
will show up, but they’re not overly energized.” Still, Fagen said
a general election may be more
challenging for Trump, noting
that his success so far has been in
a crowded primary.
“There’s no doubt Trump is energizing an element of the electorate,” she said. “But some people
are showing up not to support him
as well. He’s divisive.”
dust in homes located near the
Aliso Canyon gas storage facility, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said
Friday.
The contaminants could be responsible for eye, nose, throat and
skin irritation, but are not expected to cause long-term problems,
the report said.
Some 8,000 families moved
out of their San Fernando Valley
homes after the gas well blowout
in October, with many people complaining of persistent headaches,
nausea and nosebleeds. Even after
Southern California Gas Co. permanently sealed the well nearly
four months later, a survey found
a majority of homes continued to
report health problems.
The unusual patterns of metals
found appear to have come from
the well where gas is stored in a
vacant oil field deep underground,
said Michael Jerrett, chairman of
the Environmental Health Sciences Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Jewish bus blaze
evokes tension of
’91 Brooklyn riots
BY VERENA DOBNIK
AND COLLEEN L ONG
Associated Press
NEW YORK — For days, the
charred school bus sat in front of
a Jewish girls’ school in Brooklyn,
its ruined hulk posing a troubling
question: Has the quarter-century
of peace between blacks and Jews
in Crown Heights begun to fray?
Twenty-five years ago this August, the neighborhood’s black
residents exploded into days of
rioting after a 7-year-old boy, the
son of Guyanese immigrants, was
accidentally struck and killed
by a car in the motorcade of the
leader of the Lubavitcher sect. A
rabbinical student was stabbed
and died. Many people were
beaten. Vehicles were flipped and
burned.
Those tensions were supposed
to have melted away a long time
ago, but on the afternoon of May
8, a group of boys, all black, stole
aboard an unlocked bus parked
in front of the Bnos Chomesh
Academy, set fire to the seats and
ran. Flames consumed the bus in
minutes.
Five children, including 11year-olds, a 12-year-old and two
14-year-olds, have been arrested
and accused of arson and criminal mischief.
The episode prompted at least
one leader in Brooklyn’s Orthodox
Jewish community to formally
complain to police about what he
saw as a trend in anti-Semitic incidents. He said another bus was
attacked and a student was beaten by a group of black teens in the
days before the bus burning.
“These are not isolated events,”
wrote Barry Sugar, of the Jewish
Leadership Council. “Attacks of
this nature can either be decisively curtailed by law enforcement or defiantly intensified by
delinquents.”
Many others, though, said
there was no reason to believe
that the bad old days were back.
Community leaders say that
some tensions linger, but that
newer stresses have taken over,
including skyrocketing rents and
gentrification.
“With an 11-year-old kid, I’m
not sure. Maybe it was just mischief,” said Shea Hecht, a leading
Lubavitch rabbi who had been
among the community leaders
working to quell the 1991 riot.
“Some stupid 11-year-old kid did
something. I hope we don’t all get
bent out of shape and start thinking we have to go back and start
fighting.”
Richard Green, a black community activist who has worked with
neighborhood kids for more than
three decades, said he thought
the burning of the bus was “more
about idle hands than hate.”
Last week, Crown Heights bustled with residents going about
their business — blacks, Jews
and others walking side by side
on streets.
The area is still mostly black,
according to city figures. But
once largely poor, it has grown
steadily wealthier in recent
years during Brooklyn’s economic boom. As some commercial
strips have transformed into hipster districts with artisanal coffee and burger joints, rents have
tripled.
Police officers patrolled around
C OURTESY
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In this frame grab taken from surveillance video, children watch May 8 as pieces of cardboard placed
into a school bus begin to burn in the Crown Heights section of the Brooklyn borough of New York.
When a group of young black children set fire to the school bus outside a Jewish school, it evoked bad
memories of a violent riot in the same Brooklyn neighborhood 25 years ago.
RICHARD D REW/AP
The remains of a school bus that was burned May 8 sit on a street
Wednesday in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.
the Lubavitch headquarters on
Eastern Parkway, but that is a
routine sight in post 9/11 New
York.
Just feet from the Lubavitch
headquarters, a sleek, 24-hour
espresso bar offered kosher food.
Daniel Berry, 29, a Jewish
computer technology student who
moved to Crown Heights from
Los Angeles three months ago
with his wife and toddler son, said
he thought the bus attack was an
isolated incident.
“I definitely think it’s a racist
and anti-Semitic act, but it can
be an isolated act,” he said. “Honestly, I don’t necessarily have
close relationships with people
in the black community. But the
encounters I have, whether it’s
at the market, or walking to the
laundromat, it’s typically very
polite and cordial and normal.”
Zorina Frederick, a native of
Granada who has lived in Crown
Heights since before the 1991
riots, said the neighborhood vibe
has changed dramatically since
then.
“We will still have pockets of
people who feel different about
another group of people,” she
said.
But she summed up the sentiments of many in Crown Heights
by suggesting that a reckless act
by one group of kids was no sign
of more trouble to come.
“Kids do foolish things,” she
said.
Calif. ballot measure blamed for shoplifting increase
BY DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
ROCKLIN, Calif. — Perry Lutz
says his struggle to survive as a
small businessman became a lot
harder after California voters reduced theft penalties a year and
a half ago.
About a half-dozen times this
year, shoplifters have stolen expensive drones or another of the
remote-controlled toys he sells in
HobbyTown USA, a small shop
in Rocklin, northeast of Sacramento. “It’s just pretty much open
season,” Lutz said. “They’ll pick
the $800 unit and just grab it and
run out the door.”
Anything below $950 keeps
the crime a misdemeanor — and
likely means the thieves face no
pursuit and no punishment, say
retailers and law enforcement
officials. Large retailers including Safeway, Target, Rite Aid and
CVS pharmacies say shoplifting
increased at least 15 percent, and
in some cases doubled, since voters approved Proposition 47 and
ended the possibility of charging
shoplifting as a felony with the
potential for a prison sentence.
Shoplifting reports to the Los
Angeles
Police
Department
jumped by a quarter in the first
year, according to statistics the
department compiled for The Associated Press. The ballot measure also lowered penalties for
forgery, fraud, petty theft and
drug possession.
Public Policy Institute of California researcher Magnus Lofstrom noted a troubling increase
in property crime in California’s
largest cities in the first half-year
after Proposition 47 took effect.
Preliminary FBI crime reports
show a 12 percent jump in larceny-theft, which includes shoplifting, but he said it is too early to
determine what, if any, increase
is due to the ballot measure.
The increase in shoplifting reports set up a debate over how
much criminals pay attention
to penalties, and whether law
enforcement is doing enough to
adapt to the legal change.
Prosecutors, police and retailers, including California Retailers
Association President Bill Dombrowski and CVS Health spokesman Mike DeAngelis, say the
problem is organized retail theft
rings whose members are well
aware of the reduced penalties.
“The law didn’t account for
that,” said Capt. John Romero,
commander of the LAPD’s commercial crimes division. “It did
not give an exception for organized retail theft, so we’re seeing
these offenders benefiting and the
retailers are paying the price.”
Lenore Anderson, executive director of Californians for Safety
and Justice, who led the drive to
pass Proposition 47, said law enforcement still has plenty of tools,
including using the state’s general conspiracy law and proving
that the same thief is responsible
for multiple thefts that together
top $950.
Shoplifting rings generally recruit society’s most vulnerable
— the homeless, low-end drug
users, those living in the country
illegally — to steal merchandise
that can be sold for a discount on
the streets or over the Internet,
said Joseph LaRocca, a Los Angeles-based theft-prevention consultant and formerly the National
Retail Federation’s vice president
of loss prevention.
While misdemeanors, in theory, can bring up to a year in
county jail, Fresno Police Sgt.
Mark Hudson said it’s not worth
it to issue a citation or to arrest a
suspect who likely would be released immediately because of
overcrowding.
“We’ve heard of cases where
they’re going into stores with a
calculator so they can make sure
that what they steal is worth less
than $950,” said Robin Shakely,
Sacramento County assistant
chief deputy district attorney.
Adam Gelb, director of the public safety performance project at
The Pew Charitable Trusts, disputes those sorts of anecdotes.
“The vast majority of offenders
just aren’t fine-tuning their behavior that way,” Gelb said.
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Cat, briefly the world’s
oldest, dies at 30
— A SiaTX MANSFIELD
mese cat recently cited
by the Guinness Book of World
THE CENSUS
1,500
The number of miniature bottles of liquor officials say a former Endeavor Air flight attendant is charged with
stealing from her job and selling online. The Shelby County, Tenn., district attorney’s office said Friday that Rachel
Trevor, 28, is charged with theft and unlawful sale and transportation of alcohol. Investigators said Trevor put the
small bottles into her bag after flights, then posted them for sale on Craigslist.
Records as the world’s oldest living cat did not live to enjoy the
title.
Scooter marked his 30th birthday on March 26. However, owner
Gail Floyd of Mansfield, Texas,
told the Fort
Worth StarTelegram
that Scooter
had
died
by the time
Guinness
conferred its
title on April
8.
Dr. Tricia
Latimer, a
Scooter
Mansfield
veterinarian, said Scooter had
lived to the equivalent of about
136 human years.
Scooter wasn’t Guinness’ oldest
cat of all time. That mark belongs
to a fellow Texas cat who lived to
be 38.
Man gets prison for
stabbing dog to death
MILWAUKEE — A MilWI
waukee man was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for
repeatedly stabbing an unwanted
cocker spaniel that kept finding
its way home.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Zachary Senner,
38, told the judge at sentencing
Friday he was sincerely sorry
and took full responsibility.
According to his lawyer, Senner
was drunk and high on cocaine
on the December night when police found the dog, Brandy, dead.
Senner pleaded guilty in April.
Senner told police his brother
and sister-in-law asked him to
get rid of their dog. He tried
abandoning Brandy, but she soon
found her way home. Then he slit
the dog’s throat and left it in some
woods. But Brandy made it home
again, bleeding badly. He then
stabbed the dog repeatedly until
it died.
Fire chiefs won’t resign
over racy photographs
LOS LUNAS — Three
Valencia
County
fire chiefs say they won’t step
down after being photographed
with scantily clad women on a
taxpayer-funded trip.
KOAT-TV in Albuquerque reported that chief Steven Gonzales
and two chiefs he supervises are
refusing the county manager’s
demands to resign.
The trio were photographed
in uniform with women dressed
in little clothing while attending a conference in Indiana last
month.
All three were put on leave and
have since returned to work.
County
Manager
Danny
Monette said they broke personnel policies and there also has
been an outcry from the public.
Gonzales said the incident has
been blown out of proportion and
they have already served their
suspensions and have apologized
publicly.
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Gearing up
Will Higgins is outfitted with a grenade launcher, body armor and a helmet Thursday by Harrisonburg Police Department SWAT officer Jason
Wyant during an open house at Valley Mall in Harrisonburg, Va.
‘Evil’ limousine catches
fire on way to prom
NATICK — A group
MA
of teenagers escaped
unharmed after the limousine
they were riding in caught fire on
the way to prom.
WFXT-TV reported the Natick
High School students smelled
smoke in the white stretch limousine about 6 p.m. Friday.
The limo burst into flames soon
afterward. The teens and the limo
driver escaped unharmed.
The teens caught a ride on
a passing trolley that also was
heading to the dance.
It’s unclear what caused the
blaze. Natick police tweeted that
the limo “might be evil” because
the fire later rekindled and had to
be doused again.
One student suggested the bad
fortune was a result of it being Friday the 13th. The students said it
was scary but also “kind of cool.”
‘Scooby-Doo’-painted
van crashes into house
ST. PAUL — St. Paul
MN
police had a mystery
on their hands when a van painted
as “The Mystery Machine” from
the animated TV series “Scooby-
Doo” crashed into a home.
Van owner Guy Frechette was
sleeping about 3 a.m. Friday when
officers knocked on his door. He
learned his custom-painted van
had been stolen from in front of
his home.
Nobody was injured when the
van hit the house, but the van
sustained front-end damage. A
police dog caught two suspects
in a garage a block away. Police
identified them but did not arrest
them because they lacked proof.
Guy and Theresa Frechette
said this is their third Mystery
Machine, which is actually a fully
loaded camper. They take it to parades and on their quest to visit
all of Minnesota’s state parks.
‘Bathroom bandit’
pilfers plumbing
COLUMBUS — Police
OH
in Ohio’s capital are
searching for a man who’s been
pilfering plumbing from stores,
hospitals and restaurants.
Columbus police said the man
dubbed the Bathroom Bandit enters local establishments, visits
the men’s restroom, disconnects
the plumbing and leaves with the
stolen parts in his backpack.
A police department spokeswoman said the businesses will
have to not only replace the parts
but also hire plumbers to repair
the man’s toilet tinkering. She
said his crimes may be unusual,
but they’re still felonies.
The thief has struck a Kmart,
several restaurants and the
Mount Carmel West Hospital, all
on the city’s west side.
He is described as a white male
between 40 and 50 years old, 5’7”
to 5’11” and 180 to 200 pounds.
He’s been seen driving a black
Honda Accord.
long the python was, but sent a
message to concerned parents
saying the snake was not poisonous and there was no danger to
students.
The subject line of the message
was “Happy Friday the 13th.”
Python slithers away
after show-and-tell
with railroad spikes and other
items being thrown off a Philadelphia railroad overpass onto passing vehicles.
Police said at least four vehicles
were damaged Friday night as
they passed under the overpass
near the University of Pennsylvania while heading toward the
Interstate 76 on-ramp.
Authorities said one man said
that after his windshield was
broken, he parked and left his
vehicle and saw the defendant on
the train tracks. The suspect was
stopped by university police.
Another man was treated at the
scene for a minor injury after his
windshield was broken. Police
recovered three metal railroad
spikes, two metal railroad clamps
and a rock.
MOUNT PLEASANT
SC
— Barbossa the python
apparently got a bit bored and
slithered away after being displayed during show-and-tell.
Media outlets reported that a
student brought the ball python to
Laing Middle School to show during science class on Friday. Later
in the day, it was discovered the
snake had made a break from the
plastic foam container in which it
was kept.
School officials called a wildlife
removal company and it was more
than five hours later when the python was finally found lodged in a
gap behind a cabinet.
School officials did not say how
Suspect held after
objects thrown at cars
PHILADELPHIA —
PA
Police have arrested an
18-year-old suspect in connection
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Censorship trending on Facebook?
Orange County (Calif.) Register editorial
T
he news media’s reputation has
taken a substantial hit in recent
years, and it appears that social
media, which has increasingly
been seen as a viable alternative news
source, is not immune to disappointing
readers’ sense of fairness with its own biases. Social media behemoth Facebook is
now coming under fire, courtesy of a report from tech blog Gizmodo, that offers
evidence the company’s trending news topics are manipulated for political reasons.
While Facebook’s news feed is based on
an algorithm designed to detect and highlight popular issues being discussed, less
known was the amount of the human element that goes into selecting top stories.
“Facebook workers routinely suppressed
news stories of interest to conservative
readers from the social network’s influ-
ential ‘Trending’ news section,” Gizmodo
reported, based on interviews with several
former “news curators” responsible for operating the site’s news module, located in
the upper right portion of users’ Facebook
pages.
“Depending on who was on shift, things
would be blacklisted or trending,” one former curator, identified as a conservative,
revealed. “I believe it had a chilling effect
on conservative news.”
The topics suppressed included former
Republican presidential candidate and
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, talk-show
host Glenn Beck and the IRS scandal
involving the targeting of conservative
groups.
Even when stories from conservative
sites like Breitbart, Red State or Newsmax
were legitimately trending, the curators
were instructed to link to “a more neutral
outlet” carrying the same story, driving
viewer traffic — and advertising revenue
— to those other sites instead. Moreover,
managers directed curators to “insert”
into the news feed stories they considered
important, such as coverage of the Black
Lives Matter movement or the conflict
in Syria, even if they were not deemed
“trending” by the algorithm.
Facebook is a private company and can
handle and disseminate its news any way
it likes, just like any newspaper or cable
news channel. What is disappointing is
that Facebook has long professed its political neutrality, and the manipulation of
computer-driven trending news flies in the
face of that promise to its billions of users.
Besides providing still more evidence of
left-leaning news bias, this practice is disingenuous and a disservice to Facebook’s
users. Thanks to the Gizmodo report, at
least Facebook users are now aware of its
bias and can react as they see fit.
Anti-Muslim bigotry aids Islamist terrorists
BY DAVID PETRAEUS
A
lmost 15 years after the 9/11 attacks, and five years since the
killing of the chief architect of
those attacks, the United States
and the world face a resurgent threat from
terrorism. This stark reality should inform
the national debate as we prepare to elect
our next commander in chief.
As states across the Middle East have
collapsed into civil war, Islamist extremist groups such as the Islamic State have
exploited the upheaval to seize vast swaths
of territory, which they have used to rally
recruits, impose totalitarian rule over the
people trapped in these areas and plot attacks against the rest of the world.
Few responsibilities that our next president inherits will be more urgent, important or complex than thwarting these
terrorist plans, reversing the conditions
that have enabled their rise and combating
the broader Islamist extremist ideology
that animates them.
It would be a mistake to minimize the
continuing risk posed by these groups. Although al-Qaida’s senior leadership ranks
have been dramatically reduced, and
while encouraging progress is being made
against the Islamic State in Iraq and, to a
lesser degree, Syria, these remain resilient
and adaptive organizations. While Islamist
extremist networks do not pose an “existential” threat to the United States in the
way that Soviet nuclear weapons once did,
their bloodlust and their ambition to inflict
genocidal violence make them uniquely
malevolent actors on the world stage.
Nor can they be “contained.” On the
contrary, from Afghanistan before 9/11 to
Syria and Libya today, history shows that,
once these groups are allowed to establish
a safe haven, they will inevitably use it to
project instability and violence.
Moreover, the fact is that free and open
societies such as ours depend on a sense of
basic security to function. If terrorism succeeds in puncturing that, it can threaten
the very fabric of our democracy — which
is, indeed, a central element of the terrorist
strategy.
For that reason, I have grown increasingly concerned about inflammatory political discourse that has become far too
common both at home and abroad against
Muslims and Islam, including proposals
from various quarters for blanket discrimination against people on the basis of their
religion.
Some justify these measures as necessary to keep us safe — dismissing any
criticism as “political correctness.” Others play down such divisive rhetoric as the
excesses of political campaigns here and
in Europe, which will fade away after the
elections are over.
I fear that neither is true; in fact, the
ramifications of such rhetoric could be
very harmful — and lasting.
As policy, these concepts are totally
counterproductive. Rather than making
our country safer, they will compound the
already grave terrorist danger to our citizens. As ideas, they are toxic and, indeed,
nonbiodegradable — a kind of poison that,
once released into our body politic, is not
easily expunged.
Setting aside moral
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who flirt with hate
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speech against Mushate speech lims should realize
they are playing diagainst
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cians propose blanket
discrimination
against Islam, they bolster the terrorists’
propaganda.
At the same time, such statements directly undermine our ability to defeat Islamist
extremists by alienating and undermining
the allies whose help we most need to win
this fight: namely, Muslims.
During the surge in Iraq, we were able
to roll back the tide of al-Qaida and associated insurgents because we succeeded in
mobilizing Iraqis — especially Sunni Arabs
— to join us in fighting against the largely
Sunni extremist networks in their midst.
Later, we took on the Iranian-backed Shiite
militia, with the important support of the
Shiite-majority Iraqi security forces.
Likewise, the rapid ouster of the Taliban regime after 9/11 was made possible
by our partnership with Muslim fighters
of the Afghan Northern Alliance. And in
Southeast Asia, it was by working with
the government of Indonesia — the most
populous Muslim-majority country in the
world — that Jemaah Islamiah, once one
of al-Qaida’s most capable affiliates, was
routed.
The good news is that today, hundreds of
thousands of Muslims are fighting to defeat
the terrorists who wish to kill us all. That
includes brave Afghan soldiers fighting
the Islamic State and the Taliban, as well
as Persian Gulf forces in Yemen battling
both Iranian-backed Houthis and al-Qaida
in the Arabian Peninsula. And it includes
Arab and Kurdish forces who are battling
the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In fact,
we should do more to support these partners of ours.
Inescapably, clearing territory of entrenched terrorist networks and then
holding it takes boots on the ground. The
question is — whether in Yemen, Libya,
Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria
or Mali — do the bulk of those boots need
to be our own or those of local Muslim
partners?
I fear that those who demonize and denigrate Islam make it more likely that it will
be our own men and women who ultimately have to shoulder more of this fight — at
greater cost in dollars and lives.
We should also acknowledge that patriotic Muslim Americans in our intelligence
agencies and armed forces — many of them
immigrants or children of immigrants
— have been vital assets in this fight with
radical Islam.
It has also been through building ties
of trust and cooperation between law enforcement and Muslim communities in the
United States that we form our most effective defense against homegrown radicalization and lone-wolf attacks.
Again, none of this is to deny or diminish
the reality that we are at war with Islamist
extremism — a fanatical ideology based on
a twisted interpretation of Islam. Nor is it to
minimize the need for smart, intelligencedriven measures to prevent terrorists from
infiltrating our borders and exploiting our
immigration policies.
But it is precisely because the danger of
Islamist extremism is so great that politicians here and abroad who toy with antiMuslim bigotry must consider the effects
of their rhetoric. Demonizing a religious
faith and its adherents not only runs contrary to our most cherished and fundamental values as a country, it is also corrosive
to our vital national security interests and,
ultimately, to the United States’ success in
this war.
David Petraeus, a retired U.S. Army general who
commanded coalition forces in Iraq from 2007 to
2008 and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011 and who
served as CIA director from 2011 to 2012, wrote
this for The Washington Post.
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Why Budweiser shouldn’t call itself ‘America’
BY TOM ACITELLI
Special to The Washington Post
F
rom a campaign season already close to blasting beyond
parody comes another twist,
courtesy of the nation’s biggest
brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev announced
Tuesday it would rebrand its 12-ounce bottles and cans of Budweiser as “America”
through the November election.
“We thought nothing was more iconic
than Budweiser and nothing was more
iconic than America,” the creative director
behind the rebranding told Fast Co Design,
which broke the news.
Yes, it’s hard to argue with the iconic nature of Bud, the country’s best-selling nonlight-beer brand and one of the top sellers
on Earth. Harder still to argue with the
stature of the U.S. of A. And, frankly, from
a marketing standpoint, it’s freakishly brilliant, however shameless. Who wouldn’t
want a refreshing gulp of America during
the sweltering summer months?
Peel back the label a bit, though, and
one discovers the whole thing tastes a bit
thin. Why? Because Budweiser is about as
American these days as a successful Green
Party or ample paid maternity leave. So
many other, smaller — and when it comes
to flavor, better — beers scream “America” so much more loudly.
The maker of Bud, of course, is no longer
an American company. Early this century,
major shareholders in what was then Anheuser-Busch began pressing the ruling
Busch family to sell the firm, the roots
of which stretched to the 1860s. Its stock
wasn’t doing well, and the world’s bigger
breweries were consolidating. South African Breweries took over Miller in 2002,
then SABMiller and Molson Coors merged
their U.S. operations in a joint venture. In
2004, Belgium’s Interbrew merged with
Brazil’s AmBev to become InBev, maker
of brands such as Beck’s and Stella Artois.
August Busch IV declared in an April
2008 speech to distributors that the brewery his great-great-grandfather had founded would never be sold “on my watch.” That
didn’t last. Shareholders such as Barclays
and Berkshire Hathaway proved a little
stronger than clannish pride, and in July
2008, the Busch family nodded to the inevitable: an all-cash deal valued at nearly $52
billion rendered Anheuser-Busch a subsidiary of InBev. While the conglomerate’s
North American headquarters remained
in AB’s longtime St. Louis home, the shots
from then on have been called from InBev’s headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.
Anheuser-Busch InBev still operates a
dozen breweries in the United States, as well
as hubs that feed into commercial brewing,
including a glass-manufacturing plant and
hop farms. The company employs thousands of Americans, who produce brands
such as Budweiser that have been phenomenally popular since at least the early 1970s,
when AB accounted for nearly one-fourth
of all domestic beer sales. Today, AB InBev
accounts for nearly half.
Nevertheless, of all the bibulous candidates to claim some kind of uber-patriotic
mantle as the nation gropes for its next
leader, AB-InBev is the least convincing.
Not because it’s foreign-controlled — lots
of firms operating in the U.S. market are.
What really disqualifies AB-InBev is the
relentless mass production of its beers, that
flagship Budweiser in particular. Watery,
soda-pop fizzy and ruthlessly inoffensive,
if not slightly alkaline, in flavor, the beer
tastes the same wherever it’s made and
however far it’s shipped. An engineering
marvel, no doubt, but not the way nature
intended beer to be made and served.
Beer was once an intensely local thing in
the United States, with thousands of breweries dotting the landscape. Cities such as
St. Louis, Philadelphia, Boston and New
York boasted dozens each by the early
1900s. Where beer came from mattered
and idiosyncratic styles abounded.
Two realities spawned such a local
focus. First, the influx of German immigrants throughout the middle and late 19th
century created a demand for beer in a
nation best known, libation-wise, for whiskey. Second, beer tastes best fresh, and
shipping it all that far just wasn’t an option
before innovations such as the aluminum
can, refrigeration and the Interstate Highway System, never mind the rise of preservatives now used by macro-producers.
America lost this local focus on freshly
made, distinct beer beginning with Prohibition in the 1920s and early 1930s. The
picture became that much fuzzier after repeal, which launched an arms race between
the biggest surviving breweries, including
Anheuser-Busch. By the 1970s, it and four
other breweries produced nearly half of
the nation’s beer. Analysts were predicting
only one or two American breweries would
remain by 2000.
That, of course, did not happen. Right
around the time AB and its nearest competitors were starting to carve up the national beer market like a game of Risk,
much smaller operations started arising —
first in California, then in Colorado, then
New York State, then everywhere.
Some of this was due to a sharp per-barrel excise tax cut in 1976, some due to the
legalization of homebrewing two years
later. A lot of it also appeared due to pockets of Americans simply getting fed up
with the tepid fizz AB and its rivals were
cranking out. Many a homebrewer has
turned pro since the 1970s.
Today, there are more breweries in the
United States than ever before — more
than 4,100 — making a kaleidoscope of
styles and style iterations. The vast majority brew fewer than 6 million barrels annually (a barrel equals about two full-size
kegs). That means that even larger micro
or craft breweries such as Yuengling and
the Boston Beer Co., which makes Sam
Adams, produce far less each year than the
tens of millions of barrels AB-InBev produces just for selling in the United States.
Many brew only for their surrounding
regional markets, a return to the local
focus AB-InBev did so much to dismantle
(which it is still doing, with a recent spate
of craft-brewery acquisitions and subsequent expansions of those brands’ reach).
All brew using more traditional ingredients and techniques. More often than not,
the resultant beers are bold, distinct and
strong.
In other words: American.
Tom Acitelli is the author of “The Audacity
of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer
Revolution” and, most recently, “American Wine:
A Coming-of-Age Story.”
Senate panel: Military pay raise caps should continue
MILITARY UPDATE
BY TOM PHILPOTT
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or a fourth straight year, military
personnel could see their basic
pay increase next January fall
short of average wage growth in
the private sector.
That became more likely when the Senate Armed Services Committee last week
offered a first peak at its fiscal 2017 compensation reform package, which is also
expected to support higher TRICARE fees
and co-pays, the bulk of them targeted at
retirees under age 65 and their families.
Senators endorsed a military pay raise
for Jan. 1, 2017, of 1.6 percent rather than
the 2.1 percent needed to match private
sector wage growth as measured by the
government’s Employment Cost Index.
The Senate committee is signaling once
again that it is ready to take a harder
stand on containing compensation costs
than are their House colleagues who last
month marked up their own version of the
fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill and
voted for a pay raise to match the ECI. The
House panel also wants only modest TRICARE fee increases and would apply most
of them only to persons who join the military after 2017. Not so the Senate committee. Its members don’t stand for re-election
every two years.
“We’ve done some tough things, some
long overdue things and some very necessary things for those who serve in the military,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
chairman of the Armed Services’ Personnel Subcommittee.
“This is the most comprehensive look
at military health care I’ve ever been involved in. We’re trying to make it better,”
Graham said. People will want to push
back “because change is hard to accept.
But the goal [is] to bring about efficiency,
lower costs [and] improve quality.”
Graham added, “If we don’t do anything,
in about 20 years, 18 percent of the Department of Defense budget is going to be
military health care-related. That’s an unsustainable path.”
Graham said the proposed health care
reforms not only will make the system
more sustainable for taxpayers but they
will expand patient services and access.
Graham and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
D-N.Y., noted one other key health care
provision: a $40 million initiative to reinstate the higher applied behavior analysis
therapy rates that TRICARE replaced
April 1 under its demonstration for expanded treatment of military children
with autism.
Families with special needs children
will be the “biggest winners” from the
committee’s health reform initiatives, Graham, said.
A House-Senate conference committee
this summer will negotiate away any differences between the two versions of the
authorization bill. In the recent past House
negotiators have acquiesced to senators on
the pay cap issue. In January, the basic pay
increase was capped at 1.3 percent, a full
percentage point below a raise to pace the
ECI. In both 2014 and 2015, military pay
increases were capped at 1 percent when
1.8 percent was needed to match wage increases nationwide.
Every pay cap saves the Department of
Defense a lot of money. Next January’s pay
cap would free up $300 million through the
last nine months of fiscal 2017.
Smaller basic pay raises also hold down
future retirement costs and all other military pays linked to basic pay levels. The
Congressional Budget Office estimates
that capping basic pay increases by just
a half percentage point for a full decade
would save almost $25 billion.
The Defense Department’s current
plan is to cap pay increases through fiscal
2020.
From 2001 through 2010, as hundreds
of thousands of U.S. troops went to war,
Congress acknowledged a military pay gap
and began setting pay raises a half percentage point above the ECI. But by 2011,
with the nation worried about runaway
debt, Congress passed the Budget Control
Act, which ordered defense spending tightened by roughly $500 billion over the next
decade.
For the next three years, Congress set
military pay raises, as standing federal
law requires, to match changes in the ECI.
Since 2014, however, the Obama administration has proposed and Congress has
allowed military raises to fall below wage
growth nationally. Congress also embraced
the administration’s call to dampen Basic
Allowance for Housing growth by a full
percentage point per year until BAH rates
cover only 95 percent, rather 100 percent,
of average rental costs off base.
The cumulative effect of basic pay and
BAH caps is taking a toll on the purchasing power of military personnel and families, said Steve Strobridge, director of
government relations for Military Officers
Association of America.
Some lawmakers, he said, look at the
caps’ impact on individuals in a single year
and conclude it “doesn’t seem to mean
much,” Strobridge said. “But if you look at
how much that person is losing each year
versus what they would have had, had there
not been a pay raise cap or allowance cap,
you can see the numbers start compounding pretty quickly.”
Assuming another half-percent pay cap
next January, a married E-5 who had 10
years of service when assigned to Washington in 2014 will feel a cumulative loss of
income of $4756 through 2017, the result of
four consecutive basic pay caps and three
years of BAH caps, Strobridge said.
A married junior officer (O-3) who had
10 years in when assigned to the Washington area in 2014 would see a cumulative
loss in pay and allowances over that same
four-year period of $7,869, he said.
Even that impact is understated, Strobridge said, if those careerists go on to
retire, given how pay caps hold down the
value of future retired pay.
“That O-3 is going to give up $1,100 a
year in retired pay for the rest of his life if
he retires at 20 years,” he said.
So far, however, the Senate committee
embraces the administration’s argument
that growth in military pay, allowances
and health care costs need to be curbed
and those dollars used instead for more
critical readiness needs including training, equipment, fuel and spare parts.
During the subcommittee mark Tuesday,
Graham and Gillibrand choose to describe
in detail provisions in the bill to modernize the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The more impactful provisions, on pay and
benefits, were left for the full committee to
describe in a forthcoming press release.
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New form of genetic engineering prompts excitement, ethical concerns
BY JOEL ACHENBACH
The Washington Post
P
to that of any of the person’s descendants.
Many researchers say they worry about
unintended consequences with long-term
effects.
The second debate covers the tricky matter of who exactly invented CRISPR and,
thus, should be awarded the patents. Big
money is in the balance. Prestigious science institutions are doing battle with one
another; invective flies on social media.
Message: Science is a business.
Both issues are so prickly that it’s easy
to overlook the way CRISPR has already
changed how countless scientists do basic
research. Thousands of them are using it
to understand the genetic origins of diseases. This isn’t the future; this is now.
Soon, CRISPR could lead to genetically
modified plants that wind up in your grocery store. It already has been used to develop a mushroom that won’t turn brown as
quickly, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided doesn’t need regulatory approval because no genes from other
organisms were required for its creation.
eople in pain write to Jennifer
Doudna. They have a congenital illness. Or they have a sick
child. Or they carry the gene for
Huntington’s disease or some other dreadful time-bomb wired through every cell in
their body. They know that Doudna helped
invent an extraordinary new gene-editing
technology, known as CRISPR.
But they don’t all seek her help. One
woman, the mother of a child with Down
syndrome, explained: “I love my child and
wouldn’t change him. There’s something
about him that’s so special. He’s so loving
in a way that’s unique to him. I wouldn’t
change it.”
The scientist tears up telling this story.
“It makes you think hard about what it
means to be human, doesn’t it?” she says.
Doudna has been doing a lot of hard
thinking lately as she ponders the consequences of CRISPR.
The world of molecular biology is mad
‘A crazy life’
for this new form of genetic engineering.
Scientists have turned a natural bacteDoudna is a party to the patent battle
rial defense system into a laboratory tool
even as she’s among the most outspoken
for cutting or reordering genes in a cell
figures in the ethical debate.
— an innovation that could be used to tar“It’s a bit of a crazy life right now,” she
get genetic mutations linked to numerous said.
diseases.
Doudna, 52, is highly conscious of being
CRISPR is not the first method for ma- a woman in a male-dominated scientifnipulating genes but it’s by far
ic profession. She never used to be,
the cheapest, easiest, most
though. She kept her head down.
versatile. Its many atShe did her lab work. She pubtributes have genThe world
lished. She was promoted and
erated incredible
lauded. But as she became
of molecular biolexcitement
as
more well known, and
well as appreroutinely cited as a posogy
is
mad
for
this
hension. While
sible winner of a Nobel
new form of genetic enthe approach
Prize, she noticed all
hasn’t been
the glass ceilings above
gineering.
Scientists
have
applied
yet
her and most women
in
humans
turned a natural bacterial generally.
“Seeing
for therapeuboardrooms that have
defense
system
into
a
tic purposes,
no women in them,”
that’s on the
laboratory tool for cutshe said. “Seeing upper
horizon. So are
levels of administrations
ting or reordering
worrisome scethat have no or few women
narios involving
in them.”
genes in a cell.
genetic
enhanceDoudna didn’t invent CRISments and purely cosPR; bacteria did. It’s an amazmetic applications.
ingly nifty immune system that
The technology is still being
testifies to the innovations that emerge
honed. Two Harvard biochemists reported from Darwinian natural selection.
recently in Nature magazine that they had
In the genetic code of bacteria are refound a way to target a single letter in a ge- peated sequences of letters (amino acids)
nome in the laboratory experiment.
that until recently were viewed as junk
This is all happening with dizzying DNA. Scientists who studied them began
speed. CRISPR has spawned two con- to refer to them as clustered regularly intentious, parallel debates, with Doudna terspaced short palindromic repeats — or
squarely in the middle of both.
CRISPRs.
The first is the ethical issue raised by the
Researchers gradually figured out that
mother of the child with Down syndrome: these sequences were akin to copies of
How far should we go in editing the human DNA segments in viruses that had previgenome? The new technique potentially ously attacked the bacteria. At its core, life
enables changes in the human “germ- is built around information, and the humline” cells, which could entail changes not blest bacterium keeps a record of bad stuff
only to a single person’s genome but also that has previously come down the pike.
ILLUSTRATION
The CRISPR system takes fast action.
When a virus shows up, the system identifies the invader as familiar and then directs molecular machinery to slice up and
disable it.
How this natural system became leveraged by human beings as a laboratory tool
is a controversial tale that is keeping patent
lawyers busy. The narrative prominently
features Doudna. She co-authored with
French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier
a 2012 paper showing how the CRISPR
system could be exploited to cut genes in a
test tube and create a new method of gene
editing.
Soon after that breakthrough, a scientist
named Feng Zhang, of the Broad Institute
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, published a paper
showing how CRISPR could be applied to
mammalian cells. George M. Church, a
BY
BEV SCHILLING /Stars and Stripes
geneticist at Harvard Medical School, published a similar result at the same time.
Perhaps inevitably, patent applications
generated a tremendous battle, pitting
not only Doudna and Charpentier against
Zhang but also lofty institutions — notably, University of California, Berkeley, and
Broad/MIT/Harvard — against one another. The two sides have tried to settle their
fight, they revealed in an April 11 filing.
But it could drag on for years.
The scientists also have equity stakes in
startup companies that want to commercialize the CRISPR technology. Doudna,
for example, is the co-founder of three —
Caribou Biosciences, Intellia Therapeutics
and Editas Medicine.
There’s a lot of money flying around.
Doudna and Charpentier each received a
$3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2015.
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The TV show shuffle
In with the new
‘Nashville,’ ‘CSI,’ ‘Castle,’ slew of sitcoms
among ill-fated programs getting the ax
BY LYNN ELBER
Associated Press
It wasn’t quite the Red Wedding, but last
week brought viewers news of more than a
dozen prime-time shows being axed to make
room for new programs next season.
ABC took the sword to seven series (including country music drama “Nashville” and
veteran whodunit “Castle”) while Fox is sacrificing five freshman shows, including comedies starring aging pretty boys Rob Lowe and
John Stamos.
Meanwhile, CBS is deleting “CSI: Cyber”
after this, its sophomore season, thus laying
to rest the “CSI” dynasty that encompassed
four series during a 16-year span.
ABC/AP
The official body count — as well as new
programming blood for the 2016-2017 season Say goodbye to Deacon (Charles Esten) and
— will be rolled out this week at the networks’ Rayna (Connie Britton): ABC announced
Thursday that “Nashville” is canceled.
“upfront” sessions for advertisers.
But through a combination of network leaks
and networks jumping the gun, a flood of an- which a wealth of longtime affection for Miss
Piggy and its other characters failed to transnouncements got early exposure May 12.
Perhaps the sourest note came from ABC late into viewership.
The cancellations follow a recent shake-up
with word that it’s canceling “Nashville”
after four seasons. Never a ratings hit, that in the network’s executive ranks, with ABC
Entertainment Group Presiseries enjoyed a loyal followdent Paul Lee replaced by
ing, especially in Music City, For a full list of cancellations
Channing Dungey.
where the show was filmed. and renewals so far, see
Fox is dumping comedies
The network’s decision drew stripes.com/go/tvshows
“Grandfathered” (starring
an immediate lament from
Stamos) and “The Grinder”
Nashville’s mayor, Megan
Barry, who in a statement called the news “in- (starring Lowe) as well as midseason entries
“Bordertown,” “Minority Report” and “Coocredibly disappointing.”
“Castle,” which debuted in 2009, was still a per Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.”
But the news wasn’t all grim.
reliable ratings performer. It was announced
At ABC, “Scandal” producer Shonda
last month that co-star Stana Katic was exiting, but Nathan Fillion, who plays Castle, had Rhimes is collaborating with William Shaketweeted in vain that he hoped the show would speare on a period drama about the aftermath
of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. “Still Starcontinue for years despite her departure.
In addition, sophomore series “Agent Cart- Crossed” will become Rhimes’ fifth series at
er” and “Galavant” won’t be back. Freshmen ABC. Along with “Scandal,” her ShondaLand
series “Blood & Oil” and “The Family” have company produces “Grey’s Anatomy,” “How
also been yanked, as is “The Muppets,” for to Get Away with Murder” and “The Catch.”
CBS/AP
Melissa Benoist can cheer up: Her show,
“Supergirl,” is being picked up by the CW.
“The Catch,” which hasn’t made the ratings
splash of Rhimes’ other shows since its recent
premiere, will return for a second season,
ABC said.
“Supergirl” is landing at CW for its second
season after debuting last year on CBS. It’s a
good fit for CW, currently home to three other
superhero shows: “The Flash,” “Arrow” and
“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.”
All are from prolific producer Greg Berlanti, who has placed yet another show at CW
for next season, “Riverdale.” Based on the
Archie Comics characters, “Riverdale” was
described by the network as a present-day
“surprising and subversive take” on Archie,
Betty, Veronica and their friends. Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse and Luke Perry will star.
Among the new series announced
May 12:
“Conviction,” ABC. A lawyer and
former first daughter (Hayley Atwell) takes a job with the New
York district attorney’s office to
avoid jail time for drugs and political damage for her mother’s Senate campaign.
“Imaginary Mary,” ABC. Jenna
Elfman plays a fiercely independent career woman whose life is
turned upside down when she
meets the love of her life — a divorced father with three kids.
“Downward Dog,” ABC. Based
on the web series, the comedy
looks at the life of a struggling millennial (Allison Tolman) from the
perspective of her philosophical
dog, Martin.
An as-yet-untitled comedy from
ABC about an unapologetically
plump wife and mother (Katy
Mixon) whose flawed family lives
in a wealthy town populated by
so-called “perfect” children.
“Time After Time,” ABC. Based
on the novel and movie, with writer H.G. Wells (Freddie Stroma)
time-traveling to modern Manhattan in search of Jack the Ripper.
“Frequency,” CW, inspired by the
2000 Dennis Quaid-Jim Caviezel
film. A police detective gets in
touch with her late father via a
ham radio and they work together
on an unsolved murder case. Riley
Smith is among the stars.
“No Tomorrow,” CW, follows a
cautious woman and a freewheeling man who fall in love and
decide to pursue their dreams because of a belief that the apocalypse is near. The cast includes
Tori Anderson and Josh Sasse.
“Chicago Justice,” NBC. Producer Dick Wolf expands his
Windy City-based franchise with
a drama about state prosecutors
and investigators. It joins “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire” and
“Chicago P.D.”
George R.R. Martin
Jimmy Kimmel
Dionne Warwick
Duncan Jones
Martin offers new taste
of ‘Winds of Winter’
ABC’s Kimmel launches
‘campaign’ for veep
Luckett, Gaga to star in
Dionne Warwick biopic
Filmmaker still inspired
by dad, David Bowie
Foster: Movie sets
‘healthier’ with women
Jodie Foster
Author George R.R. Martin is
progressing little by little on his
hotly anticipated next book.
Martin last week posted an
excerpt from “The Winds of
Winter,” the sixth novel in his
“A Song of Ice and Fire” series.
The excerpt focuses on Princess
Arianne Martell and her reports
back to her father, Prince Doran
Martell of Dorne.
The previous installment was
“A Dance With Dragons” in 2011.
Martin now has fallen behind
“Game of Thrones,” the HBO
show based on his book series.
The new excerpt can be found
on GeorgeRRMartin.com.
Late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel says he’s looking for a new
job — vice president of the United
States.
The ABC jokester launched his
“campaign” on his show May 12
with a speech on Hollywood Boulevard. Kimmel says “it’s time
to take our country back! From
whom? I don’t know, but I want it
back.”
Kimmel says he’d never stop
fighting for his fellow Americans,
unless “Game of Thrones” is on,
then he’d stop for as long as it
takes for him to figure out what’s
going on in the show.
Destiny’s Child alum LeToya
Luckett will star as Dionne Warwick in a planned biopic of the
R&B singer.
Warwick, 75, was in Cannes
on May 13 to announce the project, which will also co-star Lady
Gaga, Danny Glover and Olympia
Dukakis. Gaga is to play the late
British singer Cilla Black.
The film, based on Warwick’s
memoir “My Life As I See It,”
will focus on the years 1962
through 1968. The five-time
Grammy winner’s hits include
“Say a Little Prayer” and “That’s
What Friends Are For.”
AMBI Pictures will produce.
Filmmaker Duncan Jones says
his dad, David Bowie, inspired
him to make movies.
The director of “Moon” and
“Source Code” talked about his
late father in an interview May
11. Bowie died in January.
Jones said his dad taught him
to trust his creative instincts.
“I think as much on the creativity level — his bravery and
willingness to try stuff that other
people weren’t expecting,” Jones
said. “Just doing what feels right
at the moment on a creative level
is certainly something I got from
him.”
“Money Monster” director
Jodie Foster says Hollywood’s
risk aversion is contributing to its
overwhelmingly male directors.
Foster, speaking May 12 at the
Cannes Film Festival in France,
said the industry is “scared, period” and that fearfulness has led
to executives choosing familiar,
male faces.
But Foster said she’s seen a
trend for the better over the years.
She said when women began to
join productions, “everything
changed.” “Suddenly it felt more
like a family, and movie sets became healthier.”
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Vt. wants drug firms to explain costs
BY DAVE GRAM
Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont is poised to become the first
state requiring drug companies
to explain their price increases,
and Bob and Deborah Messing
think that’s a good idea.
The Messings live in Montpelier
and are in their early 70s. She’s on
Orencia, a Bristol-Myers Squibb
product, for rheumatoid arthritis.
He recently finished a course of
Harvoni, made by Gilead Sciences
Inc. to treat hepatitis C.
Both drugs are expensive,
though for people of the Messings’ modest income, big manufacturers’ discounts and state
assistance make their costs manageable. Harvoni lists at $1,125
per pill, or $94,500 for a 12-week
course of treatment. Orencia’s list
price tops $3,000 a month.
Drug prices have been a big
issue nationwide, highlighted
by Martin Shkreli, an executive
dubbed “Pharma Bro.” He was
CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals
when the company acquired rights
to make Daraprim, which has been
on the market since the 1950s and
is used to treat a life-threatening
parasitic infection. Turing raised
the price from $13.50 per pill to
$750 per pill.
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing in March, Sen. Bob
Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat,
called that move “pure evil.”
Drug companies often counter
that research and development of
new medicines is costly, a view
that got some support last month
in a Boston Globe op-ed by Dr.
Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the Harvard Medical School.
“New drugs require expensive
research and development under
tight regulatory oversight. The
cost of developing a single new
drug may exceed $2 billion when
including the cost of failures,”
Flier wrote.
Vermont state Rep. Christopher
Pearson, a member of the Vermont Progressive Party from the
state’s largest city, Burlington,
and a key supporter of the legis-
lation, noted prescription drugs
often sell for far less in other
countries and offered another
reason for high prices: the inability of Medicare and Medicaid to
negotiate better prices.
If the governor signs the bill,
which is likely, it wouldn’t be the
first time one of the nation’s smallest states in both size and population has taken on big business.
Vermont in 2007 passed a law to
restrict prescription “data mining” by companies that track doctors’ prescribing habits and sell
the information to drug companies, but the U.S. Supreme Court
shot it down in 2011.
Several other states, including
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Virginia,
have had drug-explanation measures like Vermont’s under consideration this year and in 2015.
A California ballot initiative in
November would require state
agencies to get drugs for the same
prices as the Veterans Administration, which is not affected by
the no-negotiations rule.
The Vermont bill calls on state
health care regulators to develop
an annual list of up to 15 drugs
with the biggest price increases.
Their manufacturers would then
have to justify the increases to
the attorney general’s office.
The bill’s likely longer-term
problem for the pharmaceutical
industry is in legislative findings
near the top: “Transparency is
typically the first step toward
cost-containment,” it says.
Short of that, backers said they
want to light a fire under Congress to act on drug prices.
Rep. Peter Welch, a Democrat
and Vermont’s lone congressman,
said last week that Congress did
not appear likely soon to do so.
States taking action “will be a
boost to my efforts down here,”
Welch said, adding that governments have a big stake.
“Why can’t the state say to the
pharmaceutical companies selling the drug, ‘Hey, if you’re going
to hammer us with a 50 percent
price increase, we want to know
why.’ ”
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (May 16).......................... $1.1639
Dollar buys (May 16) ........................€0.8592
British pound (May 16) ........................ $1.48
Japanese yen (May 16) ......................106.00
South Korean won (May 16) ..........1,138.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3769
British pound .....................................$1.4356
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.2935
China (Yuan) ........................................6.5295
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.5859
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8784
Euro ........................................$1.1295/0.8853
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7637
Hungary (Forint) ................................. 279.61
Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.7806
Japan (Yen)........................................... 109.47
Kuwait (Dinar) ..................................... 0.3016
Norway (Krone) ................................... 8.2118
Philippines (Peso).................................46.63
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.90
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7501
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3727
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,175.96
Switzerland (Franc)............................ 0.9767
Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 35.47
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.9661
(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
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currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.26
30-year bond ........................................... 2.55
WEATHER OUTLOOK
MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
MONDAY IN EUROPE
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Busan
74/54
Okinawa
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2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
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AUDI, Q5 Quattro Premium Plus
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Excellent condition, FSH, Midnight Blue Metallic, Black Leather Seats, Panorama Sunroof,
Power Tailgate, Xenon Lights,
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146
Nissan,
Skyline,
2007
$9500.00 Fun, sporty, reliable
and low-mileage sedan (43,500
miles). Have all maintenance
records since I purchased the
car in Dec 2010 from an
off-base dealer. GPS navigation
equipped with ETC, Bluetooth
hands-free calling/playing music, music box music storage on
hard drive, power seats, dual air
zone A/C, push button start,
backup camera, passenger side
mirror camera to avoid curb
checks, turn signal markers on
side mirrors, heated side mirrors,
traction
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Cadillac, Escalade Hybrid,
2009 $29500.00 In Excellent
Condition, No accidents or repair of any kind. All service is
done at Cadillac dealership.
email:
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BMW, 525i, 2007 $12000.00
Immaculate US Specs loaded
with goodies. 1st and only
owner of the car and have
performed all maintenance myself during my ownership. The
car has never been in an
accident and is in mint condition.
Contact me [email protected] for
details and info on the car and
all the babying it has received.
The car in currently in Geneva
Switzerland and we can probably work something out getting
the car to your destination.
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Chevrolet, Corvette, 2004,
Commemorative Ed, 29,500
miles, Exc. Cond., LeMans Blue,
New Michelin Pilot Sport Runflat Tires, New brakes and
rotors, 4 sp. Auto, Comfort
Access, Leather, Cruise, Power
Everything, Dual Airbags, Moon
RoofTarga , HUD, Bose CD,
ABS, Traction Contrl, Active
Handling, Dual Climate, Sport
Exhaust. Loud and fast. $21,500
obo.
Write
for
pictures:
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722 48 680
Porsche, Cayman S, 2008
$27000.00 US Spec. 2nd owner.
German Porsche dealer maintained. Power windows, seats,
mirrors, door locks. 6 CD
changer. Extra rims with winter
tires. Excellent condition! Great
fun car!
[email protected]
Toyota , Corolla S, 2003
$2500.00 Well maintained and
great condition inside and out.
US specs, 4 cyl engine, 5 speed
manual transmission. Power
windows, locks and side mirrors.. Cruise, air, Pioneer stereo.
Currently has winter tires on it
and come with a set of summer
tires on aluminum sport rims.
Passed inspection 28 April 2016
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Furniture
Miscellaneous
510
Coffee Table $600.00 Finely
crafted just a touch elegant,
made
by
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Excellent
condition.
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m
sofa $850.00 Living room sofa
made out of leather in vintage
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Excellent
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Jaguar, XF, 2010 $20000.00
Looking for a Good home for an
Outstanding Friend that can't
come to the States. Priced to
sell due to my approaching
PCS. If I could take this car to
the States, it would not be for
sale. 3.0 Diesel. Autobahn driving up to 50 MPG. 137000
kilometers (about 82000 miles)
Excellent car with all the extras.
Dealer maintained--all services
conducted on time. Currently
parked on Panzer Kaserne. If
interested, please call: cell:
0179-1307193
or
email
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Jeep,
Compass,
2011
$10500.00 Parked at the Grafenwoehr lemon lot. Located in
front of the food court. 2011
Jeep
Compass
in
Great
Condition! US Spec. Price: US $
10,500 Milage: 62,000 Transmission: Manual Exterior: Silver
Interior: Black Options: Manual
Transmission 5 Seats Seat
Covers Floor Protective Mats
Roof Rails Alloy Wheels GREAT
CONDITION! Features: ABS AM
FM Satellite Radio CD Player
AUX Port Power Windows
Cruise Control Power Door
Locks Great Condition Great for
City usage but also very comfy!
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Sunlight RV, T-57, 2014
$39500.00 Super cool RV for
the best way to see Europe.
Like new. Only 6 meters long
but has everything you need.
Kitchen, bathroom with shower,
heater, Awning, 4 place bike
rack, GPS, Sleeps 3, 130 hp
Diesel, back up camera, and
lots more. Already registered in
US system. Euro spec. Easy to
drive. Solar battery charging
system. Off grid camping no
problem. 015121203021
Toyota , RAV 4 limited, 2006
$7900.00 passed inspection last
week, price negotiable, Automatic, great, dependable SUV!
Well maintained, regular oil
changes, etc.2.4L 4-cyl. 4-speed
Automatic,
cruise
control.
driver-side power seat, all-wheel
drive, 147k miles 011-49-711-1
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VW, Golf, 1.4 gasoline, 4-door,
manual, 2010 $8500.00 4-door
hatchback, German spec, 1.4
gasoline, 85K Km, manual
transmission, full dealer service
record with recent service, TUV
2017, dual zone AC, winter
package (heated seats, mirrors,
windshield wiper fluid), summer
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reliable and easy to park.
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Mercedes-Benz, C300 4MATIC
Sport, 2010 $15000.00 US
Spec; Well-maintained; Mechanically sound, runs & drives great;
Newer 8k miles Michelin Pilot
Sport AS tires; Weathertech
floor liners; $15,000 obo; Call
Gene at +32 (0)477 92 1117
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HONDA,
ODYSSEY,
2002
$1500.00 Looking to get rid of
vehicle due to transmission
problems. If anyone is looking
for a vehicle for parts or an
enthusiast who does transmission repair, I'm willing to part
with the vehicle for a below
market value cost. Only serious
offers
need
to
apply.
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Motorcycles
Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo,
Pop-Top
Camper,
2008
$29000.00 Metallic Blue, sleeps
4, kitchen, frig, awning and
under warranty. Like New.
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Honda,
CB500F,
2014
$4400.00 Bike is in excellent
stock condition and has been
well maintained. It is US spec
and has passed inspection
registered in Germany. It is a
solid, reliable bike that is easy to
maneuver and is great on back
roads as well as on the
autobahn. This bike has never
been down or taken to a track.
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Selling for family reasons. jeffre
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for Rent. Very modern style in a
great area. Large kitchen, two
bathrooms, car garage, basement, and terrace with small
back yard. Across from German
Aldi supper market, close to bus
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Asking price 2800 euro cold,
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Purse: $10.5 million
Yardage: 7,215; Par: 72
Third Round
Jason Day
63-66-73—202
Hideki Matsuyama
68-71-67—206
Ken Duke
74-67-65—206
Alex Cejka
67-67-72—206
Francesco Molinari
66-69-72—207
Kevin Chappell
71-67-70—208
Retief Goosen
70-68-70—208
Colt Knost
72-63-74—209
Cameron Tringale
65-69-75—209
Jonas Blixt
67-67-75—209
Si Woo Kim
68-70-72—210
Danny Lee
67-71-72—210
Matt Kuchar
71-67-72—210
Bryce Molder
70-68-72—210
Daniel Berger
66-72-73—211
Daniel Summerhays
69-71-71—211
Rory McIlroy
72-64-75—211
Gary Woodland
67-68-76—211
Graeme McDowell
72-70-69—211
Shane Lowry
65-68-78—211
Ryan Palmer
67-70-75—212
Jerry Kelly
67-68-77—212
Louis Oosthuizen
72-67-74—213
J.J. Henry
70-69-74—213
Billy Horschel
68-70-75—213
Vijay Singh
70-70-73—213
Adam Scott
73-65-75—213
Justin Thomas
70-68-75—213
Scott Piercy
70-68-75—213
Sean O’Hair
70-67-76—213
William McGirt
72-65-76—213
Brooks Koepka
66-70-77—213
Boo Weekley
66-69-78—213
Adam Hadwin
70-70-74—214
Bubba Watson
69-71-74—214
Brendon de Jonge
71-67-76—214
K.J. Choi
73-68-73—214
Zac Blair
71-70-73—214
David Hearn
71-71-72—214
Keegan Bradley
72-67-76—215
Bill Haas
65-73-77—215
Sergio Garcia
72-66-77—215
Brendan Steele
65-76-74—215
Russell Knox
68-67-80—215
Hudson Swafford
66-73-77—216
Brian Harman
69-70-77—216
Bernd Wiesberger
71-67-78—216
Paul Casey
68-72-76—216
Martin Kaymer
68-72-76—216
Ian Poulter
69-68-79—216
Jim Furyk
71-70-75—216
Jason Dufner
70-66-80—216
Zach Johnson
67-69-80—216
Soren Kjeldsen
72-70-74—216
Harold Varner III
73-66-78—217
Freddie Jacobson
70-69-78—217
Jhonattan Vegas
67-71-79—217
Chad Campbell
68-71-78—217
Ernie Els
66-73-78—217
Justin Rose
65-74-78—217
Dustin Johnson
70-70-77—217
Kyle Reifers
71-70-76—217
Morgan Hoffmann
69-73-75—217
Marc Leishman
70-72-75—217
Johnson Wagner
70-71-77—218
James Hahn
67-73-79—219
Jon Curran
70-71-79—220
Camilo Villegas
71-71-78—220
Branden Grace
72-70-78—220
Will Wilcox
68-71-82—221
Fabian Gomez
73-69-79—221
Steve Wheatcroft
68-74-79—221
Jamie Lovemark
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Shawn Stefani
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Kevin Streelman
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EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
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Chicago
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New York
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Connecticut
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Indiana
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Washington
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Los Angeles
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Minnesota
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Seattle
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Phoenix
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San Antonio
0
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Saturday’s games
Dallas 90, Indiana 79
New York 87, Washington 76
Minnesota 95, Phoenix 76
Chicago 93, Connecticut 70
Atlanta 73, San Antonio 63
Sunday’s games
Seattle at Los Angeles
Dallas at New York
Monday’s games
No games scheduled
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Pro soccer
Tennis
Ollie’s Bargain Outlet 200
MLS
Whitecaps 4, Toronto FC 3
Italian Open
NASCAR XFinity
Saturday
At Dover International Speedway
Dover, Del.
Lap length: 1 mile
(Starting position in parentheses)
1. (3) Erik Jones, Toyota, 120 laps.
2. (11) Darrell Wallace Jr., Ford, 120.
3. (5) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 120.
4. (1) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 120.
5. (2) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 120.
6. (32) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 120.
7. (7) Joey Logano, Ford, 120.
8. (8) Matt Tifft, Toyota, 120.
9. (4) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 120.
10. (13) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 120.
11. (17) JJ Yeley, Toyota, 120.
12. (19) Blake Koch, Chevrolet, 120.
13. (14) Jeb Burton, Ford, 119.
14. (21) Drew Herring, Toyota, 119.
15. (12) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet,
119.
16. (6) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 118.
17. (20) Ray Black Jr., Chevrolet, 117.
18. (15) Ryan Reed, Ford, 117.
19. (30) BJ McLeod, Ford, 117.
20. (16) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 117.
21. (22) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 117.
22. (18) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet,
117.
23. (28) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 117.
24. (27) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet,
116.
25. (10) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 116.
26. (33) Timmy Hill, Dodge, 115.
27. (29) Alex Guenette, Chevrolet, 115.
28. (25) Mario Gosselin, Chevrolet, 113.
29. (9) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 112.
30. (24) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 109.
31. (26) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, 87.
32. (39) Mike Harmon, Dodge, 81.
33. (23) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration,
66.
34. (36) Carl Long, Toyota, vibration, 32.
35. (35) Derrike Cope, Chevrolet, 28.
36. (38) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet,
suspension, 15.
37. (40) Josh Reaume, Chevrolet, suspension, 5.
38. (37) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, vibration, 4.
39. (31) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, vibration, 1.
40. (34) Justin Marks, Chevrolet, accident, 0.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 122.867
mph.
Time of Race: 58 minutes, 36 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 1.434 seconds.
Caution Flags: 2 for 10 laps.
Lead Changes: 4 among 3 drivers.
Lap Leaders: T. Dillon 1-11; E. Jones 1244; A. Bowman 45-77; E. Jones 78-120.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead,
Laps Led): E. Jones 2 times for 76 laps;
A. Bowman 1 time for 33 laps; T. Dillon 1
time for 11 laps.
Driver Standings: E. Sadler, 349; D. Suarez, 346; T. Dillon, 319; J. Allgaier, 317; E.
Jones, 309; B. Gaughan, 305; B. Jones, 290;
B. Poole, 282; D. Wallace Jr, 268; R. Reed,
244.
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal
4 3 4 16 18 16
Philadelphia
4 3 3 15 14 11
Toronto FC
4 4 2 14 13 11
New York City FC 3 3 4 13 15 15
D.C. United
3 4 4 13 13 13
New England
2 3 7 13 15 20
Orlando City
2 2 5 11 16 14
New York
3 7 1 10 13 20
Columbus
2 4 4 10 12 15
Chicago
1 4 4
7
8 12
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Colorado
7 2 3 24 15 9
FC Dallas
7 4 2 23 19 19
Vancouver
6 5 2 20 20 20
Los Angeles
5 1 4 19 24 12
San Jose
5 3 3 18 15 14
Real Salt Lake
5 2 2 17 14 13
Sporting KC
4 6 2 14 11 13
Seattle
4 5 1 13 12 10
Portland
3 5 3 12 16 20
Houston
2 6 2
8 17 19
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Saturday’s games
Philadelphia 1, Montreal 1
Colorado 1, Columbus 1
New England 2, Chicago 0
Vancouver 4, Toronto FC 3
Real Salt Lake at Houston, ppd. to Sunday
FC Dallas 2, Seattle at 0
Sunday’s games
Real Salt Lake at Houston
Orlando City at Sporting KC
New York at Portland
Wednesday’s games
New York City FC at Toronto FC
Chicago at New York
Friday’s games
Philadelphia at D.C. United
Vancouver
2 2—4
Toronto
1 2—3
First half—1, Vancouver, Kekuta Manneh 2, 12th minnute; 2, Vancouver, Christian Bolanos 4, 18th; 3, Toronto, Sebastian Giovinco 7 (Damien Perquis), 37th.
Second half—4, Toronto, Sebastian
Giovinco 8 (Michael Bradley), 66th; 5,
Vancouver, Kekuta Manneh 3 (Pedro
Morales), 6, Vancouver, Pedro Morales 5
(Kekuta Manneh), 70th; 7, Toronto, Drew
Moor 1 (Sebastian Giovinco), 80th.
Goalies—Vancouver, David Ousted;
Toronto, Clint Irwin.
Yellow Cards—Pa Modou Kah, Vancouver, 35th; Fraser Aird, Vancouver,
63rd; Fraser Aird, Vancouver, 76th; Blas
Perez, Vancouver, 89th.
Red Cards—Fraser Aird, Vancouver,
76th.
Saturday
At Foro Italico
Rome
Purse: Men, $4.28 million (WT1000);
Women, $2.74 million (Premier)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Semifinals
Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Lucas
Pouille, France, 6-2, 6-1.
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Kei Nishikori (6), Japan, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Women
Semifinals
Madison Keys, United States, def.
Garbine Muguruza (3), Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Serena Williams (1), United States, def.
Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-4, 6-1.
Doubles
Men
Semifinals
Vasek Pospisil, Canada, and Jack Sock
(8), United States, def. Rohan Bopanna,
India, and Florin Mergea (6), Romania, 76 (4), 7-6 (2).
Bob and Mike Bryan (5), United States,
def. Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 10-7.
Women
Semifinals
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (7), Russia, def. Andrea Hlavackova
and Lucie Hradecka (4), Czech Republic,
6-2, 7-5.
Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania
Mirza (1), India, def. Irina-Camelia Begu
and Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-3, 6-4.
Indianapolis Grand Prix
IndyCar
Saturday
At Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Road Course
Course length: 2.439 miles
(Starting position in parentheses,
driver, chassis-engine, laps completed
and reason out (if any):
1. (1) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 82,
Running
2. (13) Helio Castroneves, Chevrolet,
82, Running
3. (3) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 82,
Running
4. (24) Graham Rahal, Honda, 82, Running
5. (2) Charlie Kimball, Chevrolet, 82,
Running
6. (22) Conor Daly, Honda, 82, Running
7. (7) Scott Dixon, Chevrolet, 82, Running
8. (6) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,
82, Running
9. (15) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 82,
Running
10. (12) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 82,
Running
11. (18) Spencer Pigot, Honda, 82, Running
12. (17) Carlos Munoz, Honda, 82, Running
13. (9) Mikhail Aleshin, Honda, 82,
Running
14. (11) Max Chilton, Chevrolet, 82,
Running
15. (19) Marco Andretti, Honda, 82,
Running
16. (14) Matt Brabham, Chevrolet, 82,
Running
17. (23) Gabby Chaves, Honda, 82, Running
18. (20) Takuma Sato, Honda, 82, Running
19. (10) Will Power, Chevrolet, 82, Running
20. (4) Jack Hawksworth, Honda, 82,
Running
21. (25) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet,
82, Running
22. (16) JR Hildebrand, Chevrolet, 81,
Running
23. (21) Alex Tagliani, Honda, 81, Running
24. (8) Sebastien Bourdais, Chevrolet,
20, Mechanical
25. (5) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 0, Contact
Race Statistics
Winners average speed: 108.784 mph
Time of Race: 1:50:18.5823
Margin of victory: 4.4748 seconds
Cautions: 2 for 10 laps
Lead changes: 7 among 5 drivers
Lap Leaders: Pagenaud 1 - 21; Kimball
22 - 23; Rahal 24 - 25; Pagenaud 26 - 40;
Castroneves 41 - 45; Daly 46 - 59; Castroneves 60 - 61; Pagenaud 62 - 82
Saturday
FC Dallas 2, Sounders 0
Seattle
0 0—0
Dallas
1 1—2
First half—1, Dallas, Mauro Diaz 2, 3rd
minute.
Second half—2, Dallas, Michael Barrios 5 (Mauro Rosales), 80th.
Goalies—Seattle, Stefan Frei; Dallas,
Chris Seitz.
A—14,630 (20,500)
Revolution 2, Fire 0
Chicago
0 0—0
New England
1 1—2
First half—1, New England, Lee Nguyen 2, 22nd minute.
Second half—2, New England, Femi
Hollinger-Janzen 1 (Juan Agudelo, Lee
Nguyen), 84th.
Goalies—Chicago, Matt Lampson;
New England, Bobby Shuttlesworth.
Yellow Cards—Arturo Alvarez, Chicago, 19th; Gershon Koffie, New England,
24th; London Woodberry, New England,
57th; Juan Agudelo, New England, 80th.
A—18,997 (68,756)
Rapids 1, Crew 1
Colorado
0 1—1
Columbus
1 0—1
First half—1. Columbus, Cedrick 1
(Harrison Afful), 23rd minute.
Second half—2. Colorado, Kevin Doyle
7 (Shkeizen Gashi), 55th.
Goalies—Colorado, Steve Clark; Columbus, Zac MacMath.
Yellow Cards—Kevin Doyle, Colorado,
10th. Shkelzen Gashi, Colorado, 63rd.
A—15,023 (19,968)
Union 1, Impact 1
Philadelphia
1 0—1
Montreal
1 0—1
First half — 1. Montreal, Didier Drogba
5, 3rd minute. 2. Philadelphia, C.J. Sapong
10 (Sebastien Le Toux, Chris Pontius),
24th.
Goalies — Philadelphia, Andre Blake;
Montreal, Evan Bush.
Yellow Cards — Ignacio Piatti, Montreal, 36th. Marco Donadel, Montreal,
50th. Ambroise Oyongo, Montreal, 80th.
Raymon Gaddis, Philadelphia, 81st.
A—20,801 (20,801)
NWSL
W L T Pts GF GA
Washington
4 0 1 13
7 1
Chicago
3 1 1 10
4 3
Orlando
3 2 0
9
7 4
Portland
2 0 3
9
5 3
Houston
2 2 1
7
6 6
Sky Blue FC
2 2 1
7
5 5
Seattle
2 2 1
7
6 5
Western New York 2 3 0
6
3 6
FC Kansas City
0 3 2
2
2 5
Boston
0 5 0
0
0 7
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday’s games
Sky Blue FC 1, Boston 0
Chicago 0, FC Kansas City 0
Saturday’s games
Washington 1, Houston 0
Orlando 1, Western New York 0
Portland 1, Seattle 1
Friday, May 20
Orlando at Houston
Saturday, May 21
Western New York at Sky Blue FC
Portland at Washington
College baseball
Miami 4, Pittsburgh 3, 11 innings
Morehead St. 15, Jacksonville St. 14
North Florida 10, S.C. Upstate 3
Notre Dame 3, North Carolina 1
UT Martin 2, E. Illinois 0
Virginia 9, Georgia Tech 4
Virginia Tech 20, Wake Forest 13
Wofford 11, ETSU 0
MIDWEST
Augustana (Ill.) 5, North Central (Ill.)
Saturday’s scores
EAST
Alderson-Broaddus 9, Trevecca Nazarene 6
Boston College 7, Niagara 2
Bridgeport 14, Molloy 12
CCSU 8, Bryant 4
Delaware 9, Towson 6
Fairleigh Dickinson 8-9, Long Island U.
7-10
George Washington 7, Richmond 5
Hofstra 2, Buffalo 1
Immaculata 3, Gwynedd Mercy 2, 11
innings
MIT 7, Mass. Maritime 1
Quinnipiac 5-7, Canisius 1-4
St. John Fisher 6, Utica 5
Saint Joseph’s 14, Fordham 3
UConn 15, UCF 8
Union (N.Y.) 3, Clarkson 1
Wagner 8, Sacred Heart 5
Wesleyan (Conn.) 7, Trinity (Conn.) 6
SOUTH
Bethune-Cookman 6, Savannah St. 5
Campbell 4, High Point 3
Charlotte 4, UTSA 2
Columbus St. 4, Georgia College 3
Duke 3, Florida St. 1
E. Kentucky 8, Murray St. 3
Florida Gulf Coast 19, Lipscomb 3
Georgia Southern 7, Clemson 6
La Salle 5, George Mason 4
Liberty 7, Radford 2
Longwood 12, Winthrop 3
LSU 11, Tennessee 3
Louisville 4, NC State 2
Marshall 14, W. Kentucky 1
3
Georgia 7, Missouri 4
Greenville 9, Westminster (Mo.) 6
Grinnell 11, St. Norbert 8
Indiana 3, Illinois 1
Indianapolis 9, Missouri S&T 8
Marietta 6, Baldwin-Wallace 5
Milwaukee 5, Wright St. 1
N. Illinois 2, E. Michigan 1
Quincy 8, Bellarmine 5
St. Cloud St. 13, Concordia (St.P) 2
St. John’s (Minn.) 11, St. Mary’s (Minn.)
4
S. Illinois 4, Evansville 0
Toledo 10, Ball St. 7
W. Michigan 14, Ohio 7
Wis.-Oshkosh 8, Wis.-Stevens Point 7
SOUTHWEST
Angelo St. 5, W. Texas A&M 1
Ark.-Monticello 14, Henderson St. 2
Houston Baptist 8, Texas A&M-CC 2
Washburn 9, Cent. Oklahoma 2
FAR WEST
Stanford 4, Utah 2
TOURNAMENTS
Heartland Conference
Championship
St. Edward’s 6, Oklahoma Christian 0
Deals
Saturday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP
Anthony Ranaudo to Charlotte (IL).
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed OF Michael Brantley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Tuesday. Selected the contract of
INF Michael Martinez from Columbus (IL).
Transferred C Roberto Perez to the 60-day
DL.
DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned LHP Daniel Norris to Toledo (IL). Selected the
contract of RHP Warwick Saupold from
Toledo.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Traded RHP J.R.
Graham to the N.Y. Yankees for a player
to be named or cash. Agreed to terms
with 2B Tommy Field on a minor league
contract.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP
Luis Severino on the 15-day DL. Optioned
C Gary Sanchez and RHP J.R. Graham to
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Agreed to
terms with RHPs Chad Green and Conor
Mullee on one-year contracts and selected them from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Transferred RHP Bryan Mitchell, INF Greg
Bird and OF Mason Williams to the 60-day
DL.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Traded RHP Jhan
Martinez to Milwaukee for cash. Placed
2B Logan Forsythe on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Tuesday. Recalled RHP Danny
Farquhar from Durham (IL).
TEXAS RANGERS — Signed RHP Kyle
Lohse to a minor league contract.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent RHP Bo
Schultz to Buffalo (IL) and 2B Devon Travis
to Dunedin (FSL) for rehab assignments.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Extended
their affiliation with the Reno Aces of the
Pacific Coast League through the 2018
season.
CHICAGO CUBS — Designated OF Ryan
Kalish for assignment. Reinstated C
Miguel Montero from the 15-day DL.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RHP
Miguel Castro to Albuquerque (PCL) for a
rehab assignment.
MIAMI MARLINS — Assigned LHP Craig
Breslow outright to New Orleans (PCL).
Sent RHP Edwin Jackson to Jupiter (FSL)
for a rehab assignment.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Designated
LHP Michael Kirkman for assignment.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent OF
Cody Asche to Clearwater (FSL) for a rehab assignment.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned RHP
Seth Maness to Memphis (PCL). Recalled
LHP Dean Kiekhefer from Memphis.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned INF/OF
Alex Dickerson to El Paso (PCL). Recalled
RHP Leonel Campos from El Paso.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Exercised
the option on Baseball Operations and
General Manager Mike Rizzo through the
2018 season.
COLLEGE
FLORIDA STATE — Announced sophomore women’s basketball C Chatrice
White is transferring from Illinois.
HOUSTON — Announced the resignation of softball coach Kyla Holas.
AP sportlight
May 16
1884 — African-American Isaac Murphy,
considered one of the greatest race riders
in American history, wins the first of his
three Kentucky Derbies when he guides
Buchanan to victory. The horse, trained by
African American William Bird, is the first
maiden to win the Kentucky Derby. Only
two other maiden horses have gone on to
win the Run For The Roses — Sir Barton in
1919, and Brokers Tip in 1933.
1925 — Flying Ebony, ridden by Earl
Sande, becomes the fourth field horse
to win the Kentucky Derby, a 1 1/2-length
victory over Captain Hal. The first network
radio broadcast of the Kentucky Derby
airs from WHAS in Louisville.
1976 — The Montreal Canadiens win
their 19th Stanley Cup with a 5-3 victory
over the Philadelphia Flyers, capping a
four-game sweep.
1980 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat
the Philadelphia 76ers 123-107 to win
the NBA title in six games. Rookie guard
Magic Johnson fills in at center for the
injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and comes
up with 42 points, 15 rebounds and seven
assists and is named the Finals MVP. The
42 points are the most scored by a rookie
in an NBA Finals game.
2015 — American Pharoah wins the
Preakness in a driving rain, keeping alive
his Triple Crown bid. Ridden by Victor Espinoza, the heavy favorite wins easily despite starting from the unfavorable No. 1
post.
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THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Spieth misses cut,
focuses on attitude
BY DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.
— Jordan Spieth finished with a
15-foot birdie putt, the kind he
could have used on the previous
two holes at The Players Championship in a failed bid to make the
cut. He at least managed a smile
before stepping inside the scoring room to sign his last card of a
short week.
“I think that one came a little
too late,” he said.
Spieth laughed when someone
jokingly suggested that at least
he had momentum going to next
week, though there may have
been some truth to that.
Not because he ended with a
birdie, but because he ended it
with perspective.
“I’m beating myself up a little
bit too much on the golf course,
and it’s affecting me,” Spieth said
after a 71. “And I realize that
now.”
The culprit at the TPC Sawgrass was his putter. Spieth said
he worked hard on his swing
when he got back to work after
the Masters, and he neglected his
short game.
It showed. He never got any
momentum on a Stadium Course
where scoring records were
set each day. His tournament
changed on the final hole of his
first round when it took him five
shots to get down from a bunker
behind the ninth green.
And it sure didn’t help being
in the same group as Jason Day,
who made 15 birdies in 36 holes
and built a four-shot lead.
“I just need to a do a little bit
better job of being positive with
myself and smiling a bit more,
having a bit more fun,” Spieth
said. “And it’s tough when you’re
getting shellacked by 15 shots in
the same group, you know?”
Spieth missed the cut for the
second straight year at The Players Championship, this one getting a little more scrutiny because
it was his first tournament since
he squandered a five-shot lead on
the back nine at the Masters.
He said Augusta National feels
like a long time ago, he’s over it
and that The Players was not related to any hangover.
Even so, there are signs of impatience and rash decisions, and
that cropped up immediately Saturday morning when he returned
to finish the second round. He
was one stroke below the cut line,
but his next shot was blocked by
trees right of the 15th fairway
with the pin in the front.
Spieth had an 8-iron to try to
run it onto the green, but the angle
was such that he didn’t think he
could keep it on the green. Only
later did it dawn on him that hitting the green shouldn’t have
been a priority. Anywhere short
of the green would have led to a
simple up-and-down. Instead,
he switched to a 9-iron, the ball
came out high and hit a tree and
he made bogey.
Spieth plays twice at home, the
AT&T Byron Nelson and Colonial,
and then goes to the Memorial for
his fourth straight tournament
and last one before the U.S. Open.
The question is whether his attitude improves.
“Just need to be a little bit
more positive with myself on the
course and maybe lower expectations a little bit and just kind of
free myself up,” Spieth said. “It
just seems I’m so tense, and I just
need to get back to the way I enjoy
playing golf. And I’m not far off.”
LYNNE SLADKY/AP
Jordan Spieth hits from the fifth tee during the second round of The
Players Championship golf tournament Friday in Ponte Vedra Beach,
Fla. Spieth missed the cut at The Players for the second year.
LYNNE SLADKY/AP
Jason Day hits from an 11th hole sand trap during the third round of The Players Championship golf
tournament Saturday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Day held a four-stroke lead heading into the final round.
Day sets 36-hole record
amid changing conditions
BY DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jason Day saw
The Players Championship at its easiest and toughest, all in the span of nine hours Saturday on what
felt like two golf courses.
He set a record when it felt like a shootout.
He was even stronger when the TPC Sawgrass
turned into a battle for survival.
And when a long, wild and utterly exhausting day
was finally over, the world’s No. 1 player could take
solace that he still had a four-shot lead.
“I want to say this was the toughest day I’ve ever
had to play in my life,” Day said after gutting out a 1over 73 going into the final round. “I want to win this
tournament so bad. I really do. ... But right now, I’m
just trying to focus on trying to play well tomorrow. I
mean, that’s all you could do is just try to survive.”
The difference between morning and afternoon
was more like night and day.
Day finished his storm-delayed second round
with a 66 to set the 36-hole record at 15-under 199,
and it appeared he would take aim at more records.
And then it all changed. The PGA Tour rolled the
greens one more time. The wind picked up. The air
dried out. The sun baked out the course.
Suddenly, the greens were like putting on glass.
Day four-putted from 18 feet for a double bogey.
He made another double bogey two holes later. But
right when it looked like he would fall victim to the
fierce conditions, the 28-year-old Australian played
the final 10 holes with three birdies and seven pars
to reach 14-under 202 and keep his big lead.
More than excited about a chance to win the PGA
Tour’s premier event, he was worried about facing
similar conditions Sunday.
“That would just ruin everything,” he said. “That
won’t make it fun for ... we were out there for nearly
six hours today trying to play 18 holes. They made
the course pretty much nearly unplayable. If they do
make it like that, then I’m just going to have to grind
my hardest to win the tournament, and I’m OK with
that.
“I won’t stop until it’s done, and I can rest after
that.”
It wasn’t unplayable for everyone.
Ken Duke in the round of a lifetime made six birdies over his last seven holes for a 65, which was more
than 10 shots better than the average score. He was
tied for second with Hideki Matsuyama, who made
seven birdies in his round of 67. Joining them at 10under 206 was Alex Cejka, who shot a 72.
Six of the 76 players who made the cut had a double bogey or worse.
There were 149 three-putts — or worse — in the
third round. Sergio Garcia took six putts from just
off the sixth green. Paul Casey took five putts from
about 8 feet on the 15th hole. The putts wouldn’t stop
rolling.
There was still the traditional trouble at the Stadium Course. Russell Knox hit three shots in the
water on the island-green 17th and made a 9 that ruined his round (he shot 80) and his chances. Kevin
Chappell had to play his second shot with his feet on
the planks framing the water on the 18th hole. Having made two eagles, he closed with a double bogey
to fall six shots back after a 70 that felt a lot better.
Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson and defending
champion Rickie Fowler all missed the cut when the
storm-delayed second round was completed Saturday morning. If there was a consolation, it was not
having to take on Sawgrass at its scariest.
One more round, and no one is sure what to expect
now.
The average score the opening two rounds was
71.02. It was 75.59 on Saturday, helped by 86 scores
of double bogey or worse. There were 163 rounds
under par the opening two rounds, and only six on
Saturday.
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DODEA EUROPE SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS
Girls fields seem set
for predictable finals
BY GREGORY BROOME
Stars and Stripes
Defending champions Stuttgart, Hohenfels and Alconbury face multiple challenges to their reigns at this week’s DODEA
Europe girls soccer championships. The
four-day event opens Wednesday at sites
around the Kaiserslautern Military Community, culminating with three championship games Saturday at Kaiserslautern
High School.
Division I
MICHAEL A BRAMS/Stars and Stripes
ISB’s Ioan Bishop, left, and Wiesbaden’s Temi Alumanah fight for the ball in the
Raiders’ 5-3 win on Friday. Both teams are among a crowded field of contenders for
the DODEA Europe Division I championship.
No clear-cut boys favorite
BY GREGORY BROOME
Stars and Stripes
Three champions will emerge from evenly-matched fields of legitimate contenders
this week as the DODEA Europe boys soccer championships play out at sites around
the Kaiserslautern Military Community.
The event opens Wednesday and concludes
with three championship games on Saturday at Kaiserslautern High School.
Division I
The schedule calls for the season to end
Saturday with a Division I championship
game crowning an champion. It’s a good
thing, because this pack of evenly-matched
teams might otherwise never produce a
clear leader.
Ramstein is the defending champion
after beating International School of Brussels 1-0 last spring. The Royals have a good
chance at repeating, but a loss to Stuttgart
and a scoreless tie with Kaiserslautern
prove they’re vulnerable.
ISB showed it belonged back in the title
conversation with a final-weekend win
over Wiesbaden, but the Raiders faltered
in a title-game rematch with Ramstein the
next day, taking a 3-1 loss.
Wiesbaden has a middling 2-2-1 divisional record but has hung tight with everyone,
including both 2015 finalists, and has the
potential put it all together this weekend.
Kaiserslautern is talented and consistently competitive but has trouble closing out games, as evidenced by tie games
against Division I rivals Wiesbaden and
Ramstein and even Division III Ansbach.
Naples has produced a strong body of
work this spring, but the same was true
last spring when the top-seeded Wildcats
bowed out of the bracket prematurely.
Vicenza picked up a signature win over
Stuttgart on April 29 but has otherwise
been erratic.
Finally, Stuttgart opened its season emphatically with a 3-0 win over Ramstein
and a 4-2 win over Kaiserslautern in its
first two games. But they tailed off soon
afterward with losses to Wiesbaden and
Vicenza and a scoreless tie with Naples.
Division II
It used to be that Marymount dominated
Division II boys soccer. Those days ended
last spring, and don’t appear to be coming
back this season.
To be clear, the reason for the newfound
parity in DODEA Europe’s middle class
is not that Marymount has noticeably declined. The Royals appear as dangerous
as ever, as evidenced by lopsided regularseason wins over divisional rivals AOSR
and Aviano and impressive defeats of solid
Division I programs Naples and Vicenza.
Rather, it’s the field that has closed the
gap. Most notably, of course, is Bahrain,
the team that unseated Marymount in
2015’s riveting championship game shootout. As usual, Bahrain has no regular-season DODEA Europe record upon which to
prognosticate, but the defending champs
figure to be centrally involved.
Realignment has brought a new challenger into the mix: Florence. The Wild Boars
won last year’s Division III title and have
the talent to pull off a division-switching
repeat. They proved as much this spring by
playing Marymount to a 2-2 draw.
Meanwhile, Black Forest Academy has
notched blowout wins over AOSR, Aviano,
Ansbach and Division I Vilseck. BFA and
AFNORTH are eying a title-game opportunity after settling for a third-place
matchup a year ago.
Division III
Florence must be replaced as Division
III champion. Why not the team that replaced it in the division entirely?
Ansbach dropped a division due to a
drastic decrease in enrollment. Counterintuitively, that’s led to a resurgence for
the moribund Cougars program. Ansbach
shook off years of futility early this spring
with a pair of strong showings against Division I opponents, followed by a two-day
April breakout that included a 5-0 defeat of
Bitburg and a 4-1 defeat of Baumholder.
If the Cougars are to make the next leap
to the level of champion, they’ll need to
withstand a difficult field that includes Alconbury, Brussels and Sigonella.
The most predictable of all DODEA Europe championship races has followed its
familiar projections this spring.
Stuttgart and Ramstein are the teams
to beat once again, to the point that the
Panthers and Royals can’t even beat each
other. The teams played to a 2-2 tie March
26, representing the only time either squad
was at serious risk of a loss this spring.
That continues a storyline that has played
out over the course of the past half-decade.
The Panthers and Royals meet annually in
the championship game, where they play
a fiercely intense match that could fall in
either’s favor. They’ve alternated titles
over that span, with Stuttgart winning last
year’s edition.
Most of the available evidence suggests
that trend will continue this season.
Both teams score with ease, led by the
offensive talents of Ebony Madrid, Kendall
Spohr and Erin Barnett for the Royals and
Kat Farrar, Emily Smith and Julia Smith
for the Panthers, among many other productive players on both squads. The teams
are equally adept on the other end, routinely holding opponents to one or zero goals
per game. The Royals and Panthers don’t
look vulnerable to a letdown, but that won’t
stop teams from trying — even if they’ve
already failed at an upset in the regular
season.
SHAPE is perhaps the most dangerous of those. Freshman striker Sunniva
Leivdal has bumped the Spartans to a new
level on offense, and they were able to stay
even with Ramstein for a half before taking a 3-1 loss on April 30.
Naples, getting further and further removed from its own days as a Division II
dynasty, managed to hang a few goals on
Stuttgart on April 30 but couldn’t slow the
Panthers’ offense in a 7-3 defeat.
SHAPE, Naples and the rest of the field
will need a lot to go right in potential tournament rematches if they are to disrupt
the duopoly atop Division I.
Division II
Black Forest Academy wasted no time
this spring in establishing itself as the
team to beat in the DODEA Europe middle
class.
In their April 16 opener the Falcons
dominated defending Division II champion
Hohenfels 7-0. A week later, they pounded
Ansbach 9-0; a week after that, they handled two more divisional opponents, American Overseas School of Rome and Aviano,
by respective scores of 8-1 and 3-1.
But BFA, a 2015 semifinalist, isn’t the
only contender ready to supplant a Hohenfels squad that might be ill-equipped to defend its title.
A month before the Falcons made their
opening statement, new Division II contender Florence debuted with an impressive 4-2 win over Division II mainstay
Aviano. Just a year after a harmless early
exit from the Division III bracket, Florence could be prepared to make an impact
at a higher level.
Both BFA and Florence will have to
contend with AFNORTH, an obvious heir
apparent to the throne after losing to Hohenfels 1-0 in last year’s title game. The
Lions have returned with a souped-up offense led by Caitlyn Helwig and Caitlin
Fenton.
Rota, meanwhile, takes its usual spot
as a wild-card contender. The Admirals
played AFNORTH to a 2-2 tie on April 22,
suggesting they’ll be right in the mix as the
bracket moves into its later rounds.
Division III
It seems pretty straightforward: defending small-school champion Alconbury is
back largely intact, with key players Isabel
Black and Roni Teti providing valuable continuity along with frequently rippled nets.
But the Dragons won’t run unopposed.
Last year’s runner-up, Brussels, thirdplace finisher, Baumholder, and ever-present contender Sigonella rank as Alconbury’s
biggest threats. Baumholder, in particular,
looks problematic for Alconbury with star
senior Karina Inchauregui poised for one
last tournament run.
Scoreboard
DODEA Europe
Soccer Championships
Around Kaiserslautern, Germany
Wednesday’s matches
All Division I and Division II boys
and girls matchups are TBD
Division I boys and girls matches
at Reichenbach and Kaiserslautern,
beginning ay 8:30 a.m.
Division II boys and girls matches
at Landstuhl (off base) and Kaiserslautern beginning ay 8:30 a.m.
Division III
Boys
At Landstuhl (on base)
Baumholder (1) vs. Ankara (6), 11
a.m.
Alconbury (2) vs. Brussels (5), 1:30
p.m.
Sigonella (3) vs. Ansbach (4), 4
p.m.
Girls
At Landstuhl (on base)
Sigonella (1) vs. Alconbury (6), 9:45
a.m.
Brussels (2) vs. Ansbach (5), 12:15
p.m.
Ankara (3) vs. Baumholder (4), 2:45
p.m.
K ENT H ARRIS/Stars and Stripes
Stuttgart freshman Emily Smith, one of her team’s
assists leaders, will try to help the Panthers defend
their DODEA Europe championship this week.
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SPORTS BRIEFS/MMA
Briefly
US’ Miocic KOs
Werdum to claim
heavyweight title
Serena ends
title drought at
Italian Open
Associated Press
ROME — Serena Williams ended a nine-month
title drought with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Madison
Keys in an all-American Italian Open final Sunday.
Williams’ previous title came in Cincinnati in
August — a month before her attempt at a calendar-year Grand Slam ended with a semifinal loss to
Roberta Vinci at the U.S. Open.
It’s Williams’ fourth title in Rome and it comes
exactly a week before the French Open begins.
It was the first time two American women have
met in a final on clay since Serena beat older sister
Venus in the 2002 French Open.
The last all-American final in Rome was in 1970,
when Billie Jean King beat Julie Heldman.
In the men’s tournament, top-ranked Novak
Djokovic was facing Andy Murray in a rematch of
last week’s Madrid Open final.
In the Rome record book, Serena drew level with
Conchita Martinez and Gabriela Sabatini, who also
took four titles at the Foro Italico. Chris Evert holds
the women’s record with five titles while Rafael
Nadal holds the overall mark with seven.
It was the 70th title overall in Serena’s career.
Jones wins at Dover, collects bonus
DOVER, Del. — Erik Jones won the Xfinity Series race Saturday at Dover International Speedway
and took a $100,000 bonus from the series’ Dash-4Cash program.
Four drivers were eligible for the bonus Saturday,
and Jones won it for the second time this season.
There’s one more Dash-4-Cash race, at Indianapolis
this summer.
Jones led a race-high 76 laps in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and he was cruising to the win until a
caution came out with 11 laps remaining because
Brendan Gaughan spun. The yellow flag ate up
Jones’ lead over Alex Bowman, who pitted under the
caution for four tires.
Jones was the leader on the restart with five to go,
and Bowman was fourth. But Jones got a nice push
from second-place finisher Darrell Wallace Jr., that
allowed him to break free of the pack.
In other auto racing:
French driver Simon Pagenaud pulled away to
win IndyCar’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis for his
third straight victory and second in three years on
the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Pagenaud inherited the lead when Team Penske
teammate Helio Castroneves pitted with 20 laps to go,
and beat the Brazilian by 4.4748 seconds on the 2.439mile course. Pagenaud is the first IndyCar driver to
win three in a row since Scott Dixon in 2013.
Max Verstappen of Red Bull became Formula
One’s youngest race winner at age 18 with a victory
at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona after Mer-
BY M AURICIO SAVARESE
Associated Press
A LESSANDRA TARANTINO/AP
Serena Williams returns the ball to Madison Keys
during their finals match at the Italian Open in
Rome on Sunday. Williams won 7-6, 6-3.
cedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg
crashed into each other on the first lap on Sunday.
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen was second and teammate Sebastian Vettel third.
Haskins retains bantamweight title
CARDIFF, Wales — Britain’s Lee Haskins successfully defended his IBF world bantamweight title
with a unanimous points victory over Mexico’s Ivan
Morales on Saturday.
Haskins’ superiority at Cardiff Ice Arena in the
Welsh capital was reflected on the cards of the three
judges, who scored it 119-108, 118-110, 118-110 In
Haskins’ favor.
In other boxing news:
Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s title
defense against Alexander Povetkin was postponed
by the WBC after the Russian challenger failed a
drug test.
The WBC said the May 21 fight in Moscow is off,
pending an investigation, with no backup date.
Povetkin’s promoter said the substance found in
an April test was meldonium, the stamina booster
for which tennis star Maria Sharapova and dozens
of other athletes in ex-Soviet nations have tested
positive since it was banned from Jan. 1.
US worlds quarterfinal spot in doubt
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Germany beat the
United States 3-2 on a last-minute goal by Korbinian Holzer at the world ice hockey championship
on Sunday, putting American qualification for the
quarterfinals in doubt.
The third defeat in six games leaves the U.S.
fourth in Group B, one place behind Germany with
one game remaining against fifth-placed Slovakia.
The top four advance to the quarterfinals.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Stipe
Miocic of the United States beat
Brazil’s Fabricio Werdum in front
of his shocked home crowd on
Saturday to become the new UFC
heavyweight champion.
The American fighter used his
boxing expertise to knock out the
Brazilian in the first round of
UFC 198 in Curitiba, Southern
Brazil.
Werdum started on his feet,
avoidingMiocic’sattemptstobring
him to the floor and use his jiujitsu. But as he moved toward the
American, Miocic landed a sucker punch on the Brazilian’s chin
to quickly
end
the
Cleveland, contest.
Miocic,
this is for
an
Ohio
you!
firefightwon
Stipe Miocic er,
New UFC six of his
heavyweight past seven
champion who is fights.Weran Ohio firefighter dum had
won
five
straight
fights, highlighted by a win
against Mark Hunt for the interim title and then a submission
victory against Cain Velasquez in
a unification bout.
The bout was scheduled for
February until Werdum pulled
out with injuries and forced a
postponement.
Cleveland’s
long-suffering
sports fans have not celebrated a
major professional championship
in team sports since 1964, but
they can at least celebrate Miocic’s individual achievement.
Celebrating in front of a soldout but ultimately disappointed
crowd of 45,000 fans at Arena da
Baixada, Miocic shouted: “Cleveland, this is for you!”
“I would like to thank the fans.
‘
’
You were against me, but you
made all this happen. Fabricio
is tough, I had to guess what he
was doing, so I was preparing for
this,” the new champion said.
Still looking surprised at the
octagon, Werdum said: “I have to
admit that he was better than me.
But I will do all I can to come back
and be champion again,” said the
38-year old Brazilian.
The local fans could celebrate a
Brazilian victory over an American opponent in the key women’s
fight on the undercard as Cris
“Cyborg” Justino needed just one
minute and 20 seconds to knock
out Leslie Smith of the United
States.
The Brazilian veteran now has
a 16-fight winning streak since
her debut in 2005, stopping ten
consecutive opponents and winning titles in the Strikeforce and
Invicta promotions.
Fans have long clamored for
Justino to face former UFC bantamweight
champion
Ronda
Rousey, but Justino was concerned about making the weight.
Rousey’s loss to Holly Holm derailed the discussion.
Justino served a one-year suspension in 2012 for testing positive for steroids.
UFC champion Miesha Tate
was watching Justino’s “impressive performance.” “What a
powerful woman! Congrats on
making 139lbs! Four more and
we can have a title fight!,” Tate
said on Twitter.
In other main card fights, welterweight Bryan Barbarena of the
United States beat home crowd
favorite Warlley Alves in a unanimous decision. In a split decision,
Brazilian light heavyweight Mauricio Rua outpointed American
Corey Anderson. Middleweight
Ronaldo Souza got a technical
knockout against countryman
Vitor Belfort.
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MLB SCOREBOARD
American League
East Division
W
L
23
12
23
14
19
19
16
18
15
20
Central Division
Chicago
24
13
Cleveland
17
16
Kansas City
17
19
Detroit
15
21
Minnesota
9
26
West Division
Seattle
21
15
Texas
21
16
Los Angeles
15
21
Oakland
15
22
Houston
15
23
Baltimore
Boston
Toronto
Tampa Bay
New York
Red Sox 6, Astros 5 (11)
Houston
Pct
.657
.622
.500
.471
.429
GB
—
1
5A
6A
8
.649
.515
.472
.417
.257
—
5
6A
8A
14
.583
.568
.417
.405
.395
—
A
6
6A
7
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Washington
23
14
.622
—
Philadelphia
22
15
.595
1
New York
21
15
.583
1A
Miami
19
17
.528
3A
Atlanta
9
26
.257
13
Central Division
Chicago
27
8
.771
—
St. Louis
19
18
.514
9
Pittsburgh
18
17
.514
9
Milwaukee
15
22
.405
13
Cincinnati
14
22
.389
13A
West Division
Los Angeles
20
17
.541
—
San Francisco
21
18
.538
—
Colorado
18
18
.500
1A
San Diego
17
21
.447
3A
Arizona
17
22
.436
4
Saturday’s games
Boston 6, Houston 5, 11 innings
N.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago White Sox 1
Minnesota 6, Cleveland 3
Tampa Bay 6, Oakland 0
Baltimore 9, Detroit 3
Atlanta 5, Kansas City 0
Texas 6, Toronto 5, 10 innings
L.A. Angels 9, Seattle 7
Washington 6, Miami 4
Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh 2
Miami 7, Washington 1
Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3
San Diego 8, Milwaukee 7, 12 innings
Colorado 7, N.Y. Mets 4
San Francisco 5, Arizona 3
L.A. Dodgers 5, St. Louis 3
Sunday’s games
Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees
Minnesota at Cleveland
Oakland at Tampa Bay
Detroit at Baltimore
Houston at Boston
Atlanta at Kansas City
Toronto at Texas
L.A. Angels at Seattle
Cincinnati at Philadelphia
Miami at Washington
San Diego at Milwaukee
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs
N.Y. Mets at Colorado
San Francisco at Arizona
St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers
Monday’s games
Cincinnati (Lamb 0-0) at Cleveland
(Anderson 0-3)
Boston (Porcello 6-1) at Kansas City
(Ventura 3-2)
Tampa Bay (Smyly 1-4) at Toronto
(Happ 5-0)
Minnesota (Berrios 1-1) at Detroit
(Zimmermann 5-2)
N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 1-4) at Arizona
(Ray 1-2)
Texas (Holland 3-2) at Oakland (Manaea 0-1)
L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-5) at L.A.
Dodgers (Maeda 3-2)
Atlanta (Perez 1-0) at Pittsburgh
(Niese 3-2)
Miami (Conley 2-2) at Philadelphia
(Eickhoff 1-5)
Saturday
Rockies 7, Mets 4
New York
Colorado
ab
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
38
r h
0 0
0 2
0 1
1 2
2 2
1 3
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 1
4 13
bi
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
ab
Blckmon cf 4
Story ss
4
Arenado 3b 5
Parra lf
4
Ca.Gnzl rf 4
Mar.Ryn 1b 3
LMahieu 2b 3
Wolters c 4
E.Btler p
2
Germen p 0
Logan p
0
Estevez p 0
Raburn ph 1
McGee p
0
r
0
1
1
1
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
h bi
1 2
2 0
1 1
2 0
0 0
1 0
2 2
2 2
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
1 0
0 0
Grndrsn rf
D.Wrght 3b
Cnforto lf
Cspedes cf
Duda 1b
N.Wlker 2b
A.Cbrra ss
Plwecki c
Bstardo p
Verrett p
Robles p
De Aza ph
Glmrtin p
Lagares ph
Hndrson p
A.Reed p
R.Rvera c
Totals
Totals
34 7 12 7
New York
010 102 000—4
Colorado
115 000 00x—7
E—Blackmon (1), Verrett (1). DP—Colorado 2. LOB—New York 8, Colorado 8.
2B—D.Wright (8), Cespedes (6), Duda (5),
Story (10), Mar.Reynolds (9), Wolters (4).
HR—N.Walker (10). CS—LeMahieu (3).
S—E.Butler (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
New York
Verrett L,3-1
2C 10
7
7
3 0
Robles
B
0
0
0
0 0
Gilmartin
2
1
0
0
0 2
Henderson
1
0
0
0
0 1
Reed
1
0
0
0
0 1
Bastardo
1
1
0
0
0 0
Colorado
Butler W,2-1
5
9
4
4
0 3
Germen
1C
3
0
0
1 0
Logan H,7
B
0
0
0
0 1
Estevez H,5
1
0
0
0
0 2
McGee S,11-13
1
1
0
0
0 1
E.Butler pitched to 2 batters in the
6th HBP—by Bastardo (Story). T—3:11.
A—34,362 (50,398).
Boston
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Altuve 2b
3 1 2 0 Betts rf
5 1 2 1
Sprnger rf
6 1 1 4 Brdly J cf
5 0 1 0
Correa ss
4 1 2 1 Bgaerts ss 6 3 3 1
Col.Rsm lf
5 0 2 0 Ortiz dh
5 1 3 3
Ma.Gnzl 1b 5 0 1 0 Han.Rmr 1b 5 0 1 0
Vlbuena 3b 4 1 1 0 T.Shaw 3b 3 0 1 1
Tucker dh
3 0 0 0 Rtledge 2b 4 1 1 0
White ph-dh 0 0 0 0 B.Holt lf
5 0 1 0
CGomz pr-dh 1 0 0 0 Vazquez c 3 0 1 0
J.Cstro c
3 1 1 0 Pedroia ph 1 0 0 0
Mrsnick cf 5 0 1 0 Hanigan c 1 0 0 0
Totals
39 5 11 5 Totals
43 6 14 6
Houston
140 000 000 00—5
Boston
201 100 001 01—6
DP—Houston 2, Boston 2. LOB—Houston
9, Boston 11. 2B—Ma.Gonzalez (8), J.Castro
(5), Marisnick (1), Betts (7), Bogaerts (14),
Ortiz (16), T.Shaw (13), Rutledge (4). 3B—
Ortiz (1). HR—Springer (9), Correa (6), Ortiz (10). CS—Correa (2), Ma.Gonzalez (2).
S—Valbuena (3), Rutledge (1).
Houston
IP
H
R ER BB SO
McHugh
6
10
4
4
3 2
Neshek H,6
1
0
0
0
0 2
Harris H,9
1
0
0
0
1 0
Gregerson BS,2
1
1
1
1
1 0
Giles
1
1
0
0
0 1
Feliz L,1-1
C
2
1
1
0 0
Boston
Buchholz
6
7
5
5
3 5
Smith
C
2
0
0
0 0
Layne
1
1
0
0
1 1
Tazawa
1B
0
0
0
0 1
Kimbrel
1
0
0
0
0 0
Uehara W,2-1
1
1
0
0
0 2
HBP—by Tazawa (Correa). WP—Giles,
Feliz. T—4:13. A—37,430 (37,499).
Cubs 8, Pirates 2
Pittsburgh
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jaso 1b
4 0 0 0 Fowler cf
5 1 2 1
McCtchn cf 4 1 1 0 Heyward rf 4 2 3 0
G.Plnco rf
4 1 1 0 Bryant 3b-lf 4 1 1 1
S.Marte lf
4 0 0 0 Rizzo 1b
5 1 2 4
Crvelli c
4 0 1 2 Zobrist 2b 3 1 2 0
Kang 3b
1 0 0 0 Soler lf
3 0 0 0
Hrrison 2b 3 0 0 0 J.Baez 3b
1 0 0 0
Mercer ss
3 0 0 0 Russell ss 4 1 1 2
Schugel p
0 0 0 0 M.Mntro c 3 1 0 0
Locke p
1 0 0 0 Arrieta p
2 0 0 0
J.Hghes p
0 0 0 0 L Stlla ph
1 0 0 0
S.Rdrgz ss 1 0 0 0 Grimm p
0 0 0 0
Totals
29 2 3 2 Totals
35 8 11 8
Pittsburgh
000 200 000—2
Chicago
000 303 02x—8
E—Harrison
(6).
DP—Chicago
1.
LOB—Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 9. 2B—McCutchen (9). HR—Rizzo (11), Russell (4).
SB—G.Polanco (4).
Pittsburgh
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Locke L,1-3
5B
6
6
6
2 3
Hughes
C
1
0
0
2 1
Schugel
2
4
2
2
1 3
Chicago
Arrieta W,7-0
8
3
2
2
2 11
Grimm
1
0
0
0
0 1
HBP—by Arrieta (Kang), by Locke
(Montero). WP—Arrieta. PB—Montero,
Cervelli. T—2:42. A—40,953 (41,072).
Dodgers 5, Cardinals 3
St. Louis
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Crpnter 3b 3 0 0 0 Utley 2b
2 1 0 0
Pscotty rf
4 0 1 0 C.Sager ss 4 1 3 2
Hlliday lf
4 0 0 0 J.Trner 3b 3 0 0 1
Moss 1b
4 0 0 0 Ad.Gnzl 1b 4 1 2 2
Molina c
4 0 0 0 Grandal c 4 0 0 0
Grichuk cf
4 1 2 0 Pderson cf 3 0 0 0
Gyorko 2b
3 1 1 0 Puig rf
3 0 0 0
Oh p
0 0 0 0 C.Crwfr lf 1 1 0 0
Hzlbker ph 1 1 1 2 EHrnd ph-lf 1 0 0 0
A.Diaz ss
3 0 0 0 Kazmir p
3 1 1 0
C.Mrtnz p
1 0 0 1 Jansen p
0 0 0 0
Kkhefer p
0 0 0 0
Tejada 2b
1 0 0 0
Totals
32 3 5 3 Totals
28 5 6 5
St. Louis
000 010 002—3
Los Angeles
000 130 10x—5
E—C.Seager 2 (6), Moss (2). DP—St. Louis 2. LOB—St. Louis 5, Los Angeles 4. 2B—
Grichuk (4). HR—Hazelbaker (7), C.Seager
(4), Ad.Gonzalez (4). SF—C.Martinez (1),
J.Turner (2). S—Carpenter (3).
St. Louis
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Martinez L,4-3
5
5
4
4
3 2
Kiekhefer
1C
1
1
1
0 4
Oh
1B
0
0
0
0 2
Los Angeles
Kazmir W,3-3
8C
5
3
2
1 7
Jansen S,13-13
B
0
0
0
0 1
HBP—by Martinez (Utley). WP—Kazmir. T—2:45. A—48,459 (56,000).
Orioles 9, Tigers 3
Detroit
Baltimore
ab r h bi
Rickard rf 5 0 1 0
M.Mchdo ss 5 0 0 0
A.Jones cf 3 2 2 1
C.Davis 1b 3 1 1 0
Trumbo dh 4 2 2 1
Wieters c 4 1 1 2
P.Alvrz 3b 3 0 1 0
Flherty 3b 1 1 1 0
Schoop 2b 3 2 2 5
Kim lf
4 0 0 0
Totals
31 3 5 3 Totals
35 9 11 9
Detroit
000 002 010—3
Baltimore
000 003 15x—9
E—Kinsler (1). DP—Detroit 1, Baltimore 1. LOB—Detroit 5, Baltimore 5. 2B—
Kinsler (7), V.Martinez (11), A.Jones (5),
Trumbo (5). HR—Mi.Cabrera (5), A.Jones
(5), Wieters (2), Schoop 2 (7).
Detroit
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Sanchez L,3-4
6
6
4
4
2 4
VerHagen
1
2
3
3
1 0
Lowe
B
2
2
2
0 1
Saupold
C
1
0
0
0 0
Baltimore
Wright W,2-3
7
3
2
2
3 6
Brach S,1-4
2
2
1
1
0 3
An.Sanchez pitched to 1 in the 7th
VerHagen pitched to 3 in the 8th HBP—by
Wright (Martinez). T—2:44. A—32,174
Kinsler 2b
J..Mrtn rf
Mi.Cbrr 1b
V.Mrtnz dh
Cstllns 3b
J.Upton cf
Moya lf
J.McCnn c
J.Iglss ss
ab
3
2
3
4
4
4
4
4
3
r
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
1
0
1
2
0
0
0
1
0
bi
0
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
Giants 5, Diamondbacks 3
San Francisco
Arizona
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Span cf
4 2 4 0 Segura 2b 5 0 0 1
Panik 2b
4 1 1 1 Ja.Lamb 3b 4 0 0 0
Matt.Df 3b 4 0 0 0 Gldschm 1b 4 1 1 0
Posey c
5 1 2 2 R.Weeks lf 4 0 1 0
Pence rf
4 1 1 2 Hrrmann c 3 1 1 0
Belt 1b
4 0 1 0 Drury rf
3 0 1 0
Pagan lf
4 0 0 0 Mrshall p 0 0 0 0
Tmlnson ss 3 0 1 0 Gsselin ph 0 0 0 1
B.Crwfr ss 1 0 0 0 Hudson p 0 0 0 0
Peavy p
3 0 0 0 Owings cf 4 1 2 1
Law p
0 0 0 0 Ahmed ss 4 0 0 0
Osich p
0 0 0 0 Corbin p
2 0 0 0
Strckln p
0 0 0 0 Curtis p
0 0 0 0
Gllspie ph
1 0 1 0 Tomas rf
2 0 2 0
Gearrin p
0 0 0 0
Totals
37 5 11 5 Totals
35 3 8 3
San Francisco
100 200 002—5
Arizona
010 000 110—3
E—Ahmed (6), Matt.Duffy (3). DP—Arizona 2. LOB—San Francisco 9, Arizona 8.
2B—Posey (8), R.Weeks (5), Owings (6).
3B—Span (2). HR—Pence (6). SB—Owings
(6). SF—Gosselin (2).
San Francisco
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Peavy
6
3
1
1
2 5
Law H,1
C
2
1
1
0 0
Osich H,7
B
0
0
0
0 0
Strickland W,1-0 BS,2 1
2
1
1
0 2
Gearrin S,1-1
1
1
0
0
0 1
Arizona
Corbin
6B
8
3
3
1 4
Curtis
B
1
0
0
0 0
Marshall
1B
0
0
0
1 1
Hudson L,1-1
1
2
2
2
1 1
HBP—by Hudson (Span). T—3:05. A—
32,448 (48,633).
Rays 6, Athletics 0
Oakland
Tampa Bay
ab r h bi
Guyer dh
5 1 2 2
B.Mller ss 5 1 1 2
Lngoria 3b 4 1 2 0
C.Dckrs lf 4 0 1 0
De.Jnnn lf 0 0 0 0
Sza Jr. rf
3 1 1 0
Mrrison 1b 1 0 0 0
Pearce 2b 3 1 0 1
Krmaier cf 3 1 1 1
Conger c
3 0 0 0
Totals
28 0 2 0 Totals
31 6 8 6
Oakland
000 000 000—0
Tampa Bay
002 002 02x—6
E—Valencia (6). DP—Oakland 1, Tampa Bay 1. LOB—Oakland 2, Tampa Bay 8.
2B—Guyer (5), Longoria (11), Souza Jr.
(6). 3B—C.Dickerson (1). HR—B.Miller (5).
SB—Kiermaier (6). SF—Pearce (1).
Oakland
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Graveman L,1-5
5C
6
4
4
2 1
Triggs
2
1
1
1
1 1
Rzepczynski
B
1
1
1
2 0
Tampa Bay
Andriese W,2-0
9
2
0
0
0 5
HBP—by Andriese (Burns). T—2:36.
A—28,158 (31,042).
B.Burns cf
Alonso 1b
Reddick rf
Vlencia 3b
Vogt dh
K.Davis lf
Semien ss
Coghlan 2b
McBride c
ab
3
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
r
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
bi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Braves 5, Royals 0
Atlanta
Kansas City
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Mrkakis dh 3 1 0 0 A.Escbr ss 4 0 0 0
Incarte lf
5 1 2 1 L.Cain cf
4 0 1 0
Freeman 1b 2 0 1 0 Hosmer 1b 4 0 1 0
K.Jhnsn 2b 4 1 1 2 K.Mrles dh 4 0 2 0
D.Cstro 2b
0 0 0 0 Gordon lf 4 0 0 0
Frnceur rf
4 1 1 0 S.Perez c
4 0 2 0
Przynsk c
4 0 2 2 Cthbert 3b 3 0 0 0
G.Bckhm 3b 4 0 1 0 C.Colon 2b 3 0 0 0
M.Smith cf 4 1 3 0 Orlando rf 3 0 2 0
Aybar ss
3 0 0 0
Totals
33 5 11 5 Totals
33 0 8 0
Atlanta
000 003 020—5
Kansas City
000 000 000—0
E—K.Johnson (3). DP—Atlanta 1, Kansas City 2. LOB—Atlanta 6, Kansas City 6.
2B—Inciarte (1), Pierzynski (4), M.Smith
(7), S.Perez (9), Orlando (2). 3B—M.Smith
(1). SB—L.Cain (5). CS—Inciarte (2),
M.Smith (5). S—Aybar (3).
Atlanta
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Foltynewicz W,1-1
8
7
0
0
0 4
Krol
C
1
0
0
0 2
Grilli
B
0
0
0
0 0
Kansas City
Gee L,0-1
5B
6
3
3
2 5
Hochevar
C
0
0
0
0 1
Alexander
1C
2
1
1
0 2
Wang
1B
3
1
1
1 1
WP—Hochevar. T—2:43. A—36,541.
Phillies 4, Reds 3
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
ab
O.Hrrra cf 4
C.Hrnnd 2b 3
Franco 3b 4
Howard 1b 4
D.Hrnnd p 0
Galvis ss
4
Rupp c
4
T.Gddel lf 3
Nola p
1
A.Biley p
0
A.Blnco 1b 0
Bourjos rf 2
ab r h bi
r h bi
Cozart ss
4 1 1 0
1 2 2
Peraza cf
4 0 1 0
0 2 1
Votto 1b
2 0 0 0
1 1 0
Phllips 2b
3 1 1 1
0 1 1
Bruce rf
3 1 1 0
0 0 0
E.Sarez 3b 4 0 1 0
0 1 0
Duvall lf
4 0 2 2
0 1 0
Brnhart c
4 0 0 0
1 2 0
Adleman p 2 0 0 0
1 0 0
Cotham p
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
R.Cbrra ph 1 0 0 0
0 0 0
J..Rmrz p
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
Somsen p
0 0 0 0
Pacheco ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
32 3 7 3 Totals
29 4 10 4
Cincinnati
100 000 101—3
Philadelphia
000 120 10x—4
E—Rupp (2). DP—Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 1. LOB—Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia
6. 2B—Duvall 2 (11), Franco (6), Howard
(2). HR—O.Herrera (4). SB—T.Goeddel (1).
CS—Votto (1), C.Hernandez (5). SF—Phillips (3). S—Nola (1), Bourjos (3).
Cincinnati
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Adleman L,1-1
5
8
3
3
2 3
Cotham
1
0
0
0
1 2
Ramirez
1
1
1
1
0 1
Somsen
1
1
0
0
0 0
Philadelphia
Nola W,3-2
7
5
2
1
1 9
Bailey H,2
1
0
0
0
1 2
Hernandez S,1-2
1
2
1
1
1 0
T—2:45. A—29,535 (43,651).
Padres 8, Brewers 7 (12)
San Diego
Milwaukee
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jnkwski cf 4 1 0 0 Villar ss
5 0 3 0
Myers 1b
5 2 2 1 Gennett 2b 6 1 0 0
Jay pr
0 0 0 0 Lucroy 1b-c 6 3 2 1
Rodney p
0 0 0 0 Do.Sntn rf 3 2 0 0
Bthncrt c
1 0 0 0 Nwnhuis cf 7 1 3 3
Kemp rf
6 3 3 3 A.Hill 3b
4 0 1 0
Wallace 3b 4 0 0 0 Presley lf 4 0 1 1
Qcknbsh p 0 0 0 0 Mldnado c 2 0 0 0
Buchter p
0 0 0 0 Carter ph-1b2 0 0 1
Maurer p
0 0 0 0 W.Prlta p
2 0 0 0
De.Nrrs 1b 2 1 1 1 C.Trres p
0 0 0 0
M.Upton lf 5 1 4 2 H.Perez ph 1 0 0 0
A.Rmrez ss 6 0 1 1 Boyer p
0 0 0 0
H.Snchz c
5 0 2 0 Walsh ph
0 0 0 0
L.Cmpos p 0 0 0 0 Blazek p
0 0 0 0
Vllneva p
0 0 0 0 Jffress p
0 0 0 0
Pirela 2b
4 0 0 0 R.Flres ph 1 0 0 0
Perdomo p 1 0 0 0 Thrnbrg p 0 0 0 0
Hand p
2 0 0 0 Capuano p 0 0 0 0
Rosales 3b 1 0 0 0
Totals
46 8 13 8 Totals
43 7 10 6
San Diego
202 020 000 002—8
Milwaukee
200 000 220 001—7
E—Rodney (1), H.Sanchez 2 (2), Pirela
(1). DP—San Diego 2, Milwaukee 2. LOB—
San Diego 7, Milwaukee 14. 2B—Myers
(7), Kemp (9), M.Upton (5), H.Sanchez (1),
Nieuwenhuis 2 (7). HR—Myers (7), Kemp
(9), De.Norris (3), M.Upton (5), Lucroy (4).
SB—Jankowski (4), M.Upton (7), A.Ramirez
(4), Gennett (1), Nieuwenhuis (3). CS—
A.Ramirez (4), Villar (5). SF—Carter (5).
San Diego
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Perdomo
2
4
2
2
2 4
Hand
4
2
0
0
2 5
Quackenbush
B
1
2
2
2 0
Buchter H,7
B
0
0
0
2 0
Maurer BS,2
1B
2
2
1
1 2
Rodney
1
0
0
0
1 2
Campos W,1-0
2
0
0
0
2 2
Villanueva S,1-1
1
1
1
1
0 2
Milwaukee
Peralta
4C
8
6
6
3 3
Torres
1B
1
0
0
0 1
Boyer
1
0
0
0
0 0
Blazek
1
1
0
0
0 1
Jeffress
1
0
0
0
1 0
Thornburg
1
1
0
0
0 1
Capuano L,1-1
2
2
2
2
1 1
Perdomo pitched to 2 in the 3rd HBP—
by Perdomo (Santana). T—5:04. A—28,896.
Rangers 6, Blue Jays 5 (10)
Toronto
Texas
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Sndrs lf-cf-lf 5 0 2 0 Odor 2b
5 0 0 0
Dnldson 3b 5 0 0 0 Desmond cf 5 0 2 0
Butista rf
5 1 2 0 Mazara rf 5 0 2 0
Encrncn dh 5 0 0 0 Beltre 3b
4 0 0 0
Smoak 1b
4 1 1 2 Fielder dh 5 0 0 0
Tlwtzki ss
4 2 2 1 Mreland 1b 3 1 1 0
Carrera cf
2 0 1 1 Stubbs pr-lf 1 1 1 1
ABurns ph-lf 2 0 0 0 Andrus ss 3 1 1 0
Pillar cf
0 0 0 0 Rua lf-1b
3 2 1 0
Ru.Mrtn c
3 0 1 0 B.Wlson c 4 1 1 4
Goins 2b
2 1 1 1
Barney ph-2b 2 0 0 0
Totals
39 5 10 5 Totals
38 6 9 5
Toronto
001 010 003 0—5
Texas
040 001 000 1—6
E—Desmond (4). DP—Texas 1. LOB—
Toronto 5, Texas 7. 2B—Bautista 2 (10),
Tulowitzki (3). 3B—Rua (1). HR—Smoak
(3), Tulowitzki (8), Goins (2), Stubbs (1),
B.Wilson (2). SB—Desmond (7), Stubbs (2),
Andrus (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Toronto
Estrada
6
5
5
4
4 5
Cecil
C
1
0
0
0 0
Biagini
1B
1
0
0
0 0
Floyd L,1-3
1C
2
1
1
0 2
Texas
Lewis
7
4
2
2
0 6
Diekman H,9
C
2
0
0
0 1
Dyson H,10
B
0
0
0
0 0
Tolleson BS,3
C
3
3
3
1 1
Barnette W,3-2
1B
1
0
0
0 1
WP—Lewis. PB—Martin. T—3:01. A—
47,115 (48,114).
Yankees 2, White Sox 1
Chicago
New York
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Eaton rf
4 0 1 0 Gardner lf 4 0 0 0
J.Rllns ss
4 0 0 0 S.Cstro 2b 4 0 0 0
Abreu 1b
4 0 1 0 Tixeira 1b 4 0 0 0
Frazier 3b
3 1 1 1 Beltran rf 2 0 0 0
Me.Cbrr lf
3 0 1 0 Ellsbry cf 0 0 0 0
Sands ph
1 0 0 0 B.McCnn c 3 0 0 0
Lawrie 2b
4 0 1 0 Headley 3b 2 1 0 0
Av.Grca dh 3 0 0 0 Hicks cf-rf 3 1 1 1
D.Nvrro c
3 0 0 0 Grgrius ss 3 0 3 1
A.Jcksn cf
3 0 0 0 A.Rmne dh 3 0 1 0
Totals
32 1 5 1 Totals
28 2 5 2
Chicago
000 100 000—1
New York
020 000 00x—2
DP—Chicago 1. LOB—Chicago 5,
New York 4. 2B—Abreu (6), Lawrie (12),
A.Hicks (2), Gregorius (6), Au.Romine (4).
HR—Frazier (12).
Chicago
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Quintana L,5-2
7
5
2
2
2 5
Duke
1
0
0
0
0 1
New York
Nova W,2-1
5C
4
1
1
1 2
Betances H,8
1B
0
0
0
0 4
Miller H,1
1
1
0
0
0 2
Chapman S,2-2
1
0
0
0
0 2
T—2:24. A—39,691 (49,642).
Twins 6, Indians 3
Minnesota
ab
Mauer 1b
5
E.Nunez ss 4
Sano rf
4
Mstrnni pr-rf 0
Plouffe 3b
5
Park dh
3
Dozier 2b
4
E.Rsrio lf
4
Centeno c
3
Da.Sntn cf 4
Totals
36
Minnesota
Cleveland
Cleveland
r h
0 2
0 0
0 1
0 0
1 2
0 1
0 0
1 1
2 2
2 2
6 11
bi
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
2
1
6
C.Sntna dh
Kipnis 2b
Lindor ss
Napoli 1b
Jo.Rmrz 3b
Byrd rf
Gomes c
Naquin cf
Ra.Dvis lf
ab
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
r
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
h bi
0 0
0 0
2 1
1 0
1 1
0 0
1 1
2 0
0 0
Totals
32 3 7 3
000 021 102—6
000 100 011—3
DP—Minnesota 2, Cleveland 1. LOB—
Minnesota 9, Cleveland 5. 2B—Centeno
(1), Da.Santana (4), Napoli (9). HR—Centeno (1), Gomes (5). SB—Sano (1). SF—
E.Nunez (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Minnesota
Santana W,1-2
6
5
1
1
1 5
Tonkin H,1
1
0
0
0
0 2
Pressly H,1
1
1
1
1
2 2
Jepsen
1
1
1
1
0 0
Cleveland
Kluber L,2-5
6C
7
4
4
3 7
Hunter
1B
0
0
0
0 0
Crockett
B
2
2
2
0 0
Otero
C
2
0
0
1 0
HBP—by Kluber (Dozier). T—3:08. A—
15,428 (38,000).
Nationals 6, Marlins 4
Miami
Washington
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Detrich 2b
4 1 1 0 M.Tylor cf 3 2 2 0
Prado 3b
4 0 1 1 Rendon 3b 4 1 2 1
Yelich lf
4 1 2 2 Harper rf
2 1 0 0
Stanton rf
5 0 0 0 D.Mrphy 2b 4 0 1 1
Bour 1b
2 0 0 0 Zmmrmn 1b 3 0 0 1
Ozuna cf
4 1 2 0 Werth lf
4 0 2 1
Hchvrra ss 4 0 0 0 W.Ramos c 4 1 1 1
Mathis c
4 1 2 1 Espnosa ss 4 0 1 0
Ncolino p
1 0 0 0 Strsbrg p
3 0 0 0
B.Mrris p
0 0 0 0 Rivero p
0 0 0 0
I.Szuki ph
1 0 0 0 Kelley p
0 0 0 0
Wttgren p
0 0 0 0 dn Dkkr ph 1 1 0 0
Ralmuto ph 1 0 0 0 Ppelbon p 0 0 0 0
Urena p
0 0 0 0
Totals
34 4 8 4 Totals
32 6 9 5
Miami
100 011 100—4
Washington
300 011 01x—6
E—Strasburg (1), Dietrich (1), Bour (2),
Ozuna (1). DP—Miami 1, Washington 2.
LOB—Miami 9, Washington 11. 2B—Dietrich (6), Yelich (10), Mathis (2), M.Taylor
(4). HR—Yelich (5), W.Ramos (4). SB—
M.Taylor 2 (6), Harper (6). SF—D.Murphy
(1), Zimmerman (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Miami
Nicolino L,2-1
4C
5
4
4
5 1
Morris
B
0
0
0
0 0
Wittgren
2
3
1
1
1 1
Urena
1
1
1
0
0 0
Washington
Strasburg W,6-0
6
5
3
3
3 7
Rivero H,5
B
2
1
1
0 1
Kelley H,3
1C
1
0
0
0 3
Papelbon S,11-13
1
0
0
0
2 1
HBP—by Strasburg (Prado). T—3:22.
A—28,634 (41,418).
Marlins 7, Nationals 1
Miami
Washington
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Detrich 2b
3 1 1 1 Revere cf 5 0 0 0
Prado 3b
4 1 3 0 Rendon 3b 3 0 0 0
A.Ramos p 0 0 0 0 D.Mrphy 2b 4 0 2 0
Yelich lf
4 1 0 0 W.Ramos c 4 0 1 0
Stanton rf
5 0 1 0 O.Perez p 0 0 0 0
Bour 1b
4 1 1 1 C.Rbnsn 1b 3 0 0 0
Phelps p
0 0 0 0 dn Dkkr lf 2 1 0 0
B.Mrris p
0 0 0 0 Heisey rf
3 0 1 0
Hchvrra ph-ss 1 0 0 0 Drew ss
2 0 0 1
Ozuna cf
5 2 3 2 Roark p
2 0 0 0
Ralmuto c
5 0 1 2 Solis p
1 0 0 0
Rojas ss-3b 3 1 1 1 Lobaton c 1 0 1 0
K.Flres p
1 0 0 0
Gllspie ph
1 0 0 0
Urena p
1 0 0 0
C.Jhnsn 1b 1 0 0 0
Totals
38 7 11 7 Totals
30 1 5 1
Miami
021 040 000—7
Washington
000 100 000—1
DP—Miami 1. LOB—Miami 9, Washington 10. 2B—Dietrich (7). 3B—Ozuna (3).
HR—Bour (6). SF—Drew (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Miami
Flores
3
1
0
0
3 1
Urena W,1-0
3
2
1
1
1 0
Phelps
1
1
0
0
1 0
Morris
1
0
0
0
1 1
Ramos
1
1
0
0
0 0
Washington
Roark L,2-3
5
8
7
7
2 5
Solis
3
0
0
0
1 3
Perez
1
3
0
0
0 1
HBP—by Roark (Dietrich), by Urena
(den Dekker). T—2:55. A—30,019 (41,418).
Angels 9, Mariners 7
Los Angeles
ab
Y.Escbr 3b 5
Calhoun rf 4
Trout cf
5
Pujols dh
4
Nava lf
4
S.Rbnsn lf
0
Cron 1b
5
Gvtella 2b
3
B.Ryan ss
0
C.Perez c
4
G.Petit ss-2b 3
Seattle
r
1
3
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
h
2
3
2
1
1
0
0
2
0
1
1
bi
1
2
1
3
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
ab r h bi
Aoki lf
5 1 1 0
S.Smith rf 5 0 1 0
Cano 2b
5 1 1 1
N.Cruz dh 4 1 1 1
K.Sager 3b 4 1 3 0
Lind 1b
4 1 2 4
Srdinas pr 0 1 0 0
D.Lee 1b
0 0 0 0
Clvnger c 4 0 1 1
Innetta c
0 0 0 0
K.Marte ss 4 0 1 0
L.Mrtin cf 3 1 0 0
Totals
37 9 13 9 Totals
38 7 11 7
Los Angeles
000 001 503—9
Seattle
020 000 050—7
E—L.Martin (1). DP—Seattle 1. LOB—
Los Angeles 7, Seattle 5. 2B—Nava (1),
C.Perez (3), K.Seager (10), Lind (3). HR—
Calhoun (3), Trout (8), Pujols (8), Giavotella (2), Lind (2). CS—Giavotella (2).
S—G.Petit (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Chacin
7
5
2
2
0 4
Morin
B
3
4
4
1 1
Salas BS,2
B
2
1
1
0 1
Bedrosian W,1-0
B
1
0
0
0 1
Smith S,3-4
1
0
0
0
0 1
Seattle
Iwakuma
6B
9
4
4
1 2
Peralta
0
2
2
2
1 0
Guaipe
1C
0
0
0
1 1
Cishek L,2-3 BS,3
1
2
3
3
1 1
Jo.Peralta pitched to 3 batters in the
7th HBP—by Cishek (Calhoun). T—3:29.
A—42,038 (47,476).
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MLB
Roundup
Arrieta, Cubs keep rolling
Associated Press
MICHAEL D WYER /AP
Boston’s David Ortiz, right, watches his game-winning double in
front of the Astros’ Jason Castro during the 11th inning on Saturday
in Boston. The Red Sox won 6-5.
Ortiz puts on show,
rallies Boston with
RBIs in 9th, 11th
BY KEN POWTAK
Associated Press
BOSTON — David Ortiz made
sure he got to his daughter’s
birthday party.
Big Papi may have picked up an
extra gift from the field, too.
Ortiz hit a winning double with
two outs in the 11th inning after
lining a tying triple in the ninth
and earlier moving into 20th place
on the career home run list, sending the Boston Red Sox past the
Houston Astros 6-5 on Saturday.
Ortiz was blasted with white
powdery spray from his teammates at second base after the
victory. He later walked off holding the bag over his head.
When it was over, he met his
son at his locker, showered,
quickly got dressed and hustled
out the door.
In a postgame interview, the
40-year-old Ortiz told the team’s
NESN cable network: “You know
when we’re playing at home
you’ve got the wonderful feeling
from the fans.”
Hanley Ramirez was on deck
when Ortiz delivered the winning
hit and rushed out to celebrate.
“I was trying to tackle him. But
man, I couldn’t do it,” Ramirez
said. “Papi, his emotion and how
happy he was, he’s got energy.
Every time he comes here he’s
laughing, talking loud and it’s
fantastic.”
Boston’s Jackie Bradley Jr. singled in the first inning, extending
the majors’ longest hitting streak
to 20 games.
George Springer hit a grand
slam and Carlos Correa a solo
homer for the Astros.
Ortiz broke a tie with Ernie
Banks and Eddie Mathews with
his 513th homer, a drive that
cleared Boston’s bullpen and
sailed into the bleacher seats. The
shot in the third was his 10th of
the season.
Houston led 5-4 with two outs
in the ninth when Ortiz hit an
RBI triple just past diving center fielder Jake Marisnick. After
sliding into third, he got up and
pumped both fists toward his
dugout following his first triple
since June 15, 2013.
Ramirez then tried to bunt on
the first pitch, but closer Luke
Gregerson threw him out.
In the 11th, Xander Bogaerts
singled with two outs against Michael Feliz (1-1) and advanced on
a wild pitch. Ortiz hit a drive off
the base of the center-field wall
for his 600th career double to win
it.
Ortiz joined Hank Aaron and
Barry Bonds as the only major
leaguers with at least 500 home
runs and 600 doubles.
“He got us twice,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “Once in
the ninth and once in the 11th inning, both to the middle part of
the field.”
Koji Uehara (2-1) pitched a
scoreless 11th for the win.
Jose Altuve reached five times
with two singles and three walks
for the Astros.
Houston
starter
Collin
McHugh gave up four runs over
six innings.
Springer’s slam off Clay Buchholz caromed off a billboard
above the Green Monster seats to
make it 5-2 in the second. Springer homered for the third time in
four games, and for the second
straight day at Fenway Park.
There was a spattering of boos
before Buchholz was booed louder
as he walked off after the inning’s
last out. Buchholz was charged
with five runs in six innings, but
held Houston scoreless over his
final four.
Correa’s homer completely left
the park over the Monster, making it 1-0 in the first.
CHICAGO — Jake Arrieta regained his form right after Anthony Rizzo’s towering drive landed
in the bleachers in right field.
The unbeaten ace took over
from there.
Arrieta struck out 11 in eight
innings, Rizzo drove in four runs
and the Chicago Cubs remained
perfect against the Pittsburgh
Pirates with an 8-2 victory on
Saturday.
Arrieta improved to 18-0 with a
microscopic 0.75 ERA in 20 regular-season starts since Aug. 1. The
Cubs have won his last 21 starts,
extending a franchise record.
“It’s unusual,” manager Joe
Maddon said with a chuckle. “It’s
very unusual what he is doing.”
Arrieta (7-0) allowed three
hits and two runs, leaving with
a major league-best 1.29 ERA.
After Rizzo’s 11th homer made it
3-2 in the fourth, the reigning NL
Cy Young Award winner struck
out seven while finishing his outing with four hitless innings.
“That was a huge swing of the
bat by Anthony,” Arrieta said. “It
picked me up.”
Rizzo also singled in Jason
Heyward in the eighth and is
among the major league leaders with 33 RBIs. Heyward finished with three hits, Ben Zobrist
reached four times and Addison
Russell hit a two-run homer as
Chicago improved to 5-0 against
Pittsburgh this year.
The 27-8 record for the Cubs
is baseball’s best start since the
1984 Detroit Tigers won 30 of
their first 35 games.
“We’re just plugging away right
now and understanding that we’ve
got to get up for every ballgame,”
Heyward said.
Bouncing back from a so-so
start for his lofty standards, Arrieta moved to 8-1 in 11 career
regular-season starts against the
Pirates. He also struck out 11 in
a five-hit shutout at Pittsburgh in
last year’s wild-card game.
Nationals 6, Narlins 4; Marlins 7, Nationals 1: Marcell
Ozuna and J.T. Realmuto each
drove in two runs and visiting
Miami beat Washington to split a
doubleheader.
The Nationals won the opener
6-4 behind six strong innings
from Stephen Strasburg (6-0).
Right after the final out, Washington announced that Bryce
Harper had dropped his appeal
of a one-game suspension and
would sit out the nightcap for his
behavior following an ejection on
Monday.
The Marlins battered Nationals starter Tanner Roark (2-3) for
seven runs in five innings.
In the first game, Justin Nicolino (2-1) took the loss and Jonathan Papelbon pitched the ninth
for his 11th save.
Angels 9, Mariners 7: Albert
Pujols hit a three-run homer in
the ninth inning to fuel a second
rally in Los Angeles’ win over
host Seattle.
The Angels trailed 2-1 before
DAVID BANKS/AP
Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta struck out 11 Pirates on Saturday
in Chicago. Arrieta is 18-0 with a 0.75 ERA since Aug. 1.
taking the lead with a five-run
seventh, but then Seattle came
back with a five-run eighth. Steve
Clevenger had a two-out RBI single to cap the inning for a 7-6 lead
heading into the ninth.
Closer Steve Cishek (2-3)
couldn’t save it. With one out, he
hit Kole Calhoun with a pitch and
Mike Trout singled to right. Pujols then hit his eighth home run
on a 1-1 slider.
Orioles 9, Tigers 3: Jonathan
Schoop hit two home runs, including a grand slam, Matt Wieters
and Adam Jones also homered,
and host Baltimore stretched its
winning streak to seven games.
Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run
homer for the Tigers, who have
lost 11 of 12.
Rockies 7, Mets 4: DJ LeMahieu and Tony Wolters had two
hits and two RBIs apiece and host
Colorado beat New York.
Dodgers 5, Cardinals 3: Scott
Kazmir pitched 8 2 ⁄3 innings and
Adrian Gonzalez and Corey Seager homered in host Los Angeles’
victory over St. Louis.
Kazmir (3-3) allowed three
runs on five hits, struck out seven
and walked one.
Giants 5, Diamondbacks 3:
Buster Posey hit a two-run double
in the ninth inning and Hunter
Pence had his 200th career home
run to lead visiting San Francisco
to a win over Arizona.
Rangers 6, Blue Jays 5 (10):
Drew Stubbs homered with two
outs in the 10th inning, helping
host Texas beat Toronto after the
Blue Jays rallied with consecutive homers in the ninth to force
extra innings.
Justin Smoak hit a two-run
homer and Troy Tulowitzki followed with a tying shot off closer
Shawn Tolleson. Tolleson has a
7.07 ERA and has blown two of
his past four save opportunities.
Braves 5, Royals 0: Mike
Foltynewicz pitched a careerhigh eight scoreless innings,
Kelly Johnson and A.J. Pierzynski each drove in two runs, and
visiting Atlanta beat Kansas City.
The Royals have lost 13 of 18
and have not won consecutive
games since April 21-22.
Phillies 4, Reds 3: Tyler
Goeddel threw out Eugenio Suarez with catcher Cameron Rupp
holding onto the ball following a
violent collision to end the game
and host Philadelphia held on to
beat Cincinnati.
Aaron Nola (3-2) tied a career
high with nine strikeouts in seven
stingy innings, Odubel Herrera
hit a solo homer and David Hernandez pitched out of a jam for
his first save since July 12, 2013,
for Arizona against Milwaukee.
Yankees 2, White Sox 1: Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and
Aroldis Chapman combined for
scoreless relief and struck out
eight as host New York used its
three big bullpen arms in the
same game for the first time to
secure a victory.
Twins 6, Indians 3: At Cleveland, Juan Centeno took Corey
Kluber deep for his first major
league homer, Ervin Santana allowed one run in six innings and
Minnesota ended an eight-game
losing streak.
Rays 6, Athletics 0: Matt
Andriese pitched a two-hitter
for his first career shutout and
Brad Miller hit a two-run home
run, leading host Tampa Bay to a
victory.
Padres 8, Brewers 7 (12):
Derek Norris and Melvin Upton
Jr. hit back-to-back solo homers in
the top of the 12th inning to lift visiting San Diego past Milwaukee.
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Penguins, Lightning
off to a testy start
slammed into Johnson in the final moBY WILL GRAVES
ments of the opening period, Tampa Bay
Associated Press
coach Jon Cooper called it a “trap quesPITTSBURGH — So much for nice- tion.” Pressed on if Lightning forward
ties and the promise of fluid, free-flowing Ryan Callahan deserved supplemental dishockey. In the span of three testy periods cipline outside of the five-minute major he
Friday night, the Eastern Conference fi- received for nudging a vulnerable Letang
nals flipped from benign to occasionally into harm’s way, Penguins coach Mike Sulbelligerent.
livan offered only “the NHL’s going to do
Pittsburgh defensemen Kris Letang and their job, we’re going to do ours. We’re just
Brian Dumoulin needed
going to play hockey.”
to be helped off the ice
The league chose not
after getting smashed
to pursue any further acinto the boards headfirst
tion against Callahan.
following illegal hits from
Cooper allowed while
behind by a member of
his team’s reputation for
the Tampa Bay Lightbeing among the league’s
ning. Tampa Bay center
elite skaters is well deTyler Johnson skated off
served, the Lightning
Eastern Conference finals
in obvious pain following
have found themselves
Game
2
a knee-on-knee collision
in the penalty box more
Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh
with Penguins forward
than any other club durChris Kunitz that may
AFN-Sports
ing the postseason.
have been avoidable.
Tampa Bay is aver2 a.m. Tuesday CET
Following two emoaging over 16 minutes
9 a.m. Tuesday JKT
tionally charged series
in penalties through 11
wins over the New York
games. The Penguins
Rangers and Washington
are averaging less than
Capitals, the prospect of facing the less fa- 10 minutes in the box.
miliar Lightning seemed to offer an oppor“It’s not something we’re proud of,” Cootunity for a respite from the NHL’s annual per said. “We’ve had to grind some things
tap dance with what is — and what isn’t outs.”
— against the rules. Tampa Bay’s chippy
At least the Lightning might not have
3-1 victory in Game 1 instead proved to be to grind it out — at least in the long term
more of the same.
— without top goaltender Ben Bishop. The
“This isn’t as much as a rivalry as maybe Vezina Trophy finalist injured his left leg
the Rangers and the Capitals, it certainly just over 12 minutes into Game 1 while
should be (now), after some of the hits,” scrambling to get back in position in front
Pittsburgh forward Patric Hornqvist said.
of the net. Bishop left the ice on a stretcher
Neither side wanted to do much politick- but tests revealed no structural damage.
ing in the aftermath.
Cooper is upbeat about Bishop’s prognosis
When asked about the way Kunitz even though he cautioned Bishop’s status
G ENE J. PUSKAR /AP
The Lightning’s Tyler Johnson, right, is checked into the boards by the Penguins’ Chris
Kunitz during the first period of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday in
Pittsburgh. Johnson was helped off the ice after the hit.
for Monday night’s Game 2 — and anything
after that really — remains uncertain.
“Everything has been really good so far
on Ben,” Cooper said Saturday. “Much better than the scene we saw, what happened
when he was carted off.”
Backup Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25
stops in Bishop’s absence in his first significant playing time since the end of the
regular season. The 21-year-old received
plenty of help in front of him. The Lightning blocked 15 shots and kept Pittsburgh’s
star-laden attack under wraps while building a three-goal lead.
St. Louis looks to shake home ice blues
BY R.B. FALLSTROM
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — The rest of the
postseason, the St. Louis Blues
have home-ice advantage. Now, if
they can only capitalize on it.
The Blues are in the Western
Conference finals for the first
time since 2001 not because of
those rip-roaring, standing room
crowds, but because they’ve been
so good at blocking out the noise
elsewhere.
They’re 3-4 in the Scottrade
Center and 5-2 in the other two
rinks, including the 6-1 knockout blow in Game 7 of the second
round at Dallas two days after
they fumbled a chance to wrap up
the series at home.
Headed into Game 1 Sunday night against the San Jose
Sharks, the message from coach
Ken Hitchcock to the players was
time honored: Keep it simple, get
the puck to the open man, avoid
heroics.
“One-on-one hockey is for November and February,” Hitchcock said Saturday. “Not now.”
Ensemble work, combined with
sterling goaltending by Brian Elliott, has carried the Blues this
LM O TERO/AP
The Blues’ Alex Pietrangelo,
from left, Colton Parayko and
Jay Bouwmeester celebrate their
Game 7 Western Conference
semifinals win last week against
the Stars in Dallas.
far. Six players have at least 10
points and five others have at
least a half-dozen points.
“I think it doesn’t matter who
you are playing now, both teams
are going to be good at home and
on the road,” Blues defenseman
Alex Pietrangelo said. “So we
have to make sure we play our
game.”
The Sharks were the NHL’s
best road team during the season, although that hasn’t carried
over to the playoffs. They were
4-0 at home in the second round
against the Predators, and 0-3 in
Nashville.
“That’s the playoffs,” San Jose
forward Tommy Wingels said.
“You’re expected to win at home
and hold serve. If we can go in
and continue winning games on
the road, I’ll be very happy.”
Both teams are strangers in
recent years to deep playoff runs,
and neither has won a Cup. San
Jose, in the Western Conference
finals for the first time since
2005, took two of three during the
season.
But this, every coach and
player will tell you, is a different
animal.
Some things to watch:
Making the stops: The 31-yearold Elliott has thrived in his first
extended postseason opportunity,
making an NHL-high 441 saves.
Elliott was a ninth-round pick in
2003 by Ottawa. “It’s something
you wake up in the morning and
you just try to have that same
winning feeling,” Elliott said.
Goalie was one of the biggest
questions facing the Sharks heading into the playoffs given Martin Jones, formerly undrafted,
had not made a postseason start.
Jones has passed the test so far,
posting a 2.16 goals-against average and giving San Jose its first
playoff shutout in six years in
the Game 7 clincher last round
against the Predators.
“We’re confident in him,” coach
Peter DeBoer said. “He’s been
great all year for us.”
Clutch Couture: It took awhile
for Sharks center Logan Couture to regain form after missing
about two months early in the season with a broken leg. He’s at the
top of his game this postseason,
leading the NHL with 17 points,
including a franchise-record 11
in the second round. His presence gives the Sharks a second
top center behind Joe Thornton
and makes it tough for opponents
to match up.
Scoreboard
Second round
(Best-of-seven)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Islanders 1
N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 3
Tampa Bay 4, NY Islanders 1
Tampa Bay 5, NY Islanders 4, OT
Tampa Bay 2, NY Islanders 1, OT
Tampa Bay 4, NY Islanders 0
Pittsburgh 4, Washington 2
Washington 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT
Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2, OT
Washington 3, Pittsburgh 1
Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3, OT
WESTERN CONFERENCE
St. Louis 4, Dallas 3
Dallas 2, St. Louis 1
St. Louis 4, Dallas 3, OT
Dallas 3, St. Louis 2, OT
Dallas 3, St. Louis 2
San Jose 4, Nashville 3
Nashville 4, San Jose 1
Nashville 4, San Jose 3, 3OT
Nashville 4, San Jose 3, OT
Conference finals
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Tampa Bay 1, Pittsburgh 0
Tampa Bay 3, Pittsburgh 1
Monday: at Pittsburgh
Wednesday: at Tampa Bay
Friday, May 20: at Tampa Bay
x-Sunday, May 22: at Pittsburgh
x-Tuesday, May 24: at Tampa Bay
x-Thursday, May 26: at Pittsburgh
WESTERN CONFERENCE
St. Louis vs. San Jose
Sunday: at St. Louis
Tuesday: at St. Louis
Thursday: at San Jose
Saturday, May 21: at San Jose
x-Monday, May 23: at St. Louis
x-Wednesday, May 25: at San Jose
x-Friday, May 27: at St. Louis
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Curry aims to be 100 percent for Thunder
League MVP looks to put injury behind him after bonus healing time
BY JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen Curry surprised coach Steve Kerr with how quickly
he found his groove the past two games
after returning from a right knee injury,
even with a few more misses than usual for
the MVP.
Now, Curry and the Golden State Warriors push into the Western Conference
finals against Oklahoma City counting on
their superstar to be fully healthy for an
entire round for the first time this postseason as they chase a repeat title.
“Hopefully, it will be close to 100 percent by Monday night,” Curry said after
Friday’s practice.
Fellow Splash Brother Klay Thompson,
who carried the load on both ends of the
floor during Curry’s absence for much of
the first two rounds, is counting on it.
So far, Curry’s return has been seamless
— even more so than Kerr had foreseen.
The Coach of the Year figured there might
be a transition period as everybody got
comfortable again.
“It has [been smooth],” Thompson said.
“Anyone can see that. He hasn’t missed a
beat.”
Draymond Green practiced after injuring his left ankle during Wednesday’s series
clincher against Portland, while 7-foot center Andrew Bogut sat out Friday’s workout
with a strained muscle in his right leg.
Scoreboard
Conference Semifinals
(Best-of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland 4, Atlanta 0
Toronto 3, Miami 3
Miami 102, Toronto 96, OT
Toronto 96, Miami 92, OT
Toronto 95, Miami 91
Miami 94, Toronto 87, OT
Toronto 99, Miami 91
Miami 103, Toronto 91
Sunday: Miami at Toronto
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Oklahoma City 4, San Antonio 2
San Antonio 124, Oklahoma City 92
San Antonio 100, Oklahoma City 96
Golden State 4, Portland 1
Portland 120, Golden State 108
Golden State 132, Portland 125, OT
Conference finals
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland vs. Toronto OR Miami
Tuesday: at Cleveland
On AFN: AFN-Sports, 2:30 a.m. Wedneday CET; 9:30 a.m. Wednesday JKT
Thursday: at Cleveland
Saturday, May 21: at Toronto or Miami
Monday, May 23: at Toronto or Miami
x-Wednesday, May 25: at Cleveland
x-Friday, May 27: at Toronto or Miami
x-Sunday, May 29: at Cleveland
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Monday: at Golden State
On AFN: AFN-Sports2, 3 a.m. Tuesday
CET; 10 a.m. Tuesday JKT
Wednesday: at Golden State
Sunday, May 22: at Oklahoma City
Tuesday, May 24: at Oklahoma City
x-Thursday, May 26: at Golden State
x-Saturday, May 28: at Oklahoma City
x-Monday, May 30: at Golden State
‘ It’s obviously good things to look forward to
hopefully the next series.
’
Stephen Curry
Warriors guard
The hope was that Bogut would return
to practice Saturday and be ready for Monday night’s Game 1 of the best-of-seven series against the Thunder at Oracle Arena.
An MRI wasn’t in the plans for Bogut’s injury, Kerr said.
After a whirlwind week that included
becoming the NBA’s first unanimous MVP
on Tuesday, Curry looked forward to taking some much-needed downtime between
now and the next round to rest his body
and mind.
“You go from missing three weeks, two
and a half weeks to playing significant minutes in 48 hours, especially with what the
day in between was like, it kind of shocks
your body,” Curry said. “So you’ve got to
take advantage of these three days we have
off to get refreshed and rejuvenated mentally and physically, and get ready to play.”
Curry came off the bench and overcame
a slow start to score 40 points in a 132-125
Game 4 overtime win at Portland on Monday night, including an NBA-record 17 in
overtime. He then started and scored 29
in Wednesday’s clincher against the Trail
Blazers.
“It went really well, obviously. He was
much better than we could have ever hoped
or expected given the length of time that he
was out,” Kerr said. “He was phenomenal
in both games, showing why he was the
MVP. Now it’s great to get him a few days of
practice, a few more days to treat the injury.
Hopefully we can put this injury behind
him by the time we start this next series.”
Golden State won all three meetings with
the Thunder, who eliminated San Antonio
in Game 6 on Thursday night after dropping the series opener, during its remarkable regular season that ended with 73 wins
to top the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls for the best
regular-season record ever. That included a
121-118 overtime win Feb. 27 at Oklahoma
City in which Curry hit a three-pointer a
few feet in from halfcourt to win it.
He knows it will be far tougher on the
pressure-packed playoff stage.
“After Game 1 it’s pretty impressive how
OKC turned it around and put that behind
them, which is a lesson for the playoffs as
a whole,” Curry said. “Each game takes its
BEN M ARGOT/AP
The Warriors’ Stephen Curry passes
during practice Friday in Oakland, Calif.
own identity.”
The do-everything point guard still expects more from himself, saying he can
improve his consistency over the course
of 48 minutes — which will be needed
against Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant
and the aggressive, hard-nosed rebounding Thunder.
“I’ve finished both games strong but
over the course of the entire game I haven’t
been as in sync as I want to,” he said. “It’s
obviously good things to look forward to
hopefully the next series.”
Cavs avoiding rust with conditioning
BY TOM WITHERS
Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio —
Even coach Tyronn Lue came off
the floor sweating on Saturday.
Don’t think for a second the
unbeaten Cavaliers have been
lounging around the past week
as they’ve waited for their next
opponent.
“Guys have been really busting
their butt in the gym,” forward
Channing Frye said as beads of
perspiration streaked the sides of
his face.
Unblemished and seemingly
unstoppable through the first two
rounds of the playoffs, LeBron
James & Co. finally know they’ll
host Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Tuesday. All that’s
left to be determined is whether
they’ll play Miami or Toronto. The
Heat and Raptors were to play
Game 7 on Sunday, with the winner earning a shot at the 8-0 Cavs.
Cleveland hasn’t played since
May 8, when it completed its
second consecutive postseason
sweep, ousting an Atlanta Hawks
team that was grounded by the
Cavs’ battalion of three-point
marksmen. The Cavs dropped 77
three-pointers in four games, and
they’re hoping the long break between series won’t cool off their
shooting touch.
To combat any rust, Lue has
made sure his team worked on its
conditioning. They’ve been running and lifting and lifting and
running.
On Wednesday, the Cavs
JOHN BAZEMORE /AP
Cavaliers forward LeBron James, left, heads to the hoop against
Hawks guard Kyle Korver in the second half. The Cavaliers have two
more days to rest before opening the Eastern Conference finals.
endured a grueling workout
supervised by strength and conditioning coach Derek Millender.
The brutal, 40-minute session included time on a punishing piece
of cardiovascular exercise equipment that left many of the players
too tired to run.
“That was pretty tough,” forward Tristan Thompson said.
“But I thought it was great for
us because the team could push
each other. It was fun. I thought
it brought us even closer together
as a team.”
The nine-day break could most
help the 31-year-old James, who
had to carry the Cavs a year ago.
He’s averaging a career-low 23.5
points so far as Kyrie Irving and
Kevin Love have stepped up.
“LeBron is letting the game
come to him,” Lue said. “When
he wants to be aggressive and he
sees fit to be aggressive when the
teams have a good run or whatever they may have, then he just
takes over the game. And with
Kyrie and Kevin playing at a high
level, he can take a lot of mileage
off of his body and just kind of
seeing and figuring out the flow
of the game.
“I don’t think he’s been in this
position before and it’s been great
for him.”
After they quickly dispatched
Detroit in the first round, the
Cavs didn’t play for a week before
their matchup against the Hawks.
And although they won Game 1,
it wasn’t easy. Cleveland blew an
18-point lead before making plays
in the closing minutes and holding on.
With little margin for error,
Lue doesn’t want any drop-off
this time.
“We got tired,” he said of the
104-93 win on May 2. “In that
second half we got tired in that
third quarter. I went back and
watched that game two nights
ago. We got tired, a little fatigued.
And I thought in the first half, as
far as rust, we didn’t have a lot of
rust offensively. We took care of
the basketball. We executed the
way we wanted to execute, I just
thought that third quarter we got
a little tired.”
The Cavs spent part of Saturday’s workout preparing for the
Heat and Raptors. Both teams
run similar offensive sets, so Lue
and his assistant coaches gave
the players a sneak peek at what
they’ll be facing. It’s part of keeping them mentally sharp before
returning to the floor.
Lue said he’s been watching
the Miami-Toronto series, but not
every second. He’s more interested in reviewing film of Cleveland’s games against both teams
to see if he can spot any tendencies or weaknesses.
The Cavs weren’t going to
practice again until Sunday evening after the Heat and Raptors
concluded Game 7, that way they
could prepare for a specific opponent — not two.
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The Warriors’ Stephen
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practice on Frida in
Oakland, Calif. The
Warriors play the Thunder
in Game 1 of the Western
Conference finals on
Monday.
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