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‘Leadership at its core’ Longtime ACC staff member guides new program

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

When the coronavirus first hit ACC last March, administrators gathered quickly to plot their course. In short order, they decided to move all classes online and ask students to immediately vacate residence halls.

Ryan Bilderback, who at the time served as the director of student life and supervised the dorms, remembers working through that process.

“The whole time, I was thinking, ‘This is leadership at its core,’” he said.

“We have a problem no one has ever faced before. There’s no manual. Everyone is work-

ing together to figure it out.”

Coincidentally, Bilderback knew Allen Community College also was putting the finishing touches on a new program that would set the course for his future, as well.

He has left his previous position and will now be an instructor for the Leadership Studies program.

As it turned out, that experience in the early days of the See LEADERS | Page A4

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LaHarpe cuts speed limit to 20 mph

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LAHARPE — Motorists will need to tap their breaks when driving through residential areas.

LaHarpe City Council members revamped the city’s speed limit, cutting it to 20 mph in all residential areas.

Many of the streets are too narrow to accommodate the old 30 mph limit, Council members agreed.

Meanwhile, the speed limit in LaHarpe’s downtown business district, which has been 20 mph all along, will remain so from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, but will be lifted to 30 mph outside regular business hours.

Council members also voted to add a crosswalk spanning Main Street, near where students load into school buses each day.

Lauren McDermeit, center, is Aladdin in “The Diamond in the Rough,” a musical variation of the children’s movie, “Aladdin.”

Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy is presenting its annual recital this weekend for family and friends at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

Public ticket sales were called off because of the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. “We’re just glad to be able to present anything at all,” noted Chelsea Lea, the studio’s owner and choreographer.

The original recital date was pushed two months because of the pandemic. The studio will host open enrollment starting Monday, with classes slated to begin Aug. 31. Future shows are “The Nutcracker” in December and “Big Blue World” next June.

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Tonight’s concert satisfies need for ‘something loud’

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

When it comes to hard rock and heavy metal music, Iola isn’t likely the first place you think of, but today is an exception.

Starting this afternoon, six blisteringly loud bands from around the region will be playing at the Time-Out Tavern at 118 E. Jackson Avenue.

The festival is called “Traumafest 2020,” which is celebrating its third year, and will feature the following line-up:

5 p.m. Ghost in the Atlantic 6 p.m. Forever Faded 7 p.m. EdgeOverEdge

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8 p.m. Terrorcuda 9 p.m. XIII Minutes 10 p.m. Kirra TRAUMAFEST will be the last show of 2020 for co-headliners XIII Minutes, who will then dive into the studio to record their second album, which promises to feature a series of “darker vibes.”

In preparation for tonight’s performance, the Register spoke with Jamie Kucinski of XIII Minutes, to get a more intimate look inside the music.

Kucinski is the band’s drummer and founder, which changed to its current name in 2016, though has members

who’ve been playing together almost 10 years.

He said “interestingly enough, it goes really well” being a metal band in the midwest, and spoke of a surprisingly “thriving culture” of hard rock music in the region.

That said, being a musician, period, requires “sacrifice, focus, and diligence,” and is a lifestyle that isn’t possible unless one truly loves it, he added.

Kucinski’s musical journey began early, with his mom listening to Janice Joplin and

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Kansas women create historic ballot

By ALLISON WINTER Kansas Reflector

WASHINGTON — More women from across the nation are running for Congress this year than ever before, and Kansas is leading the way in making history on the ballot.

For the first time ever, there will be a female candidate in each of Kansas’ U.S. House and Senate races in November. All of the Democratic contenders are women. And one Republican woman candidate will challenge Rep. Sharice Davids to represent the Kansas City suburbs.

The Kansans are among a record-breaking number of women making bids for Congress, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

And with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, there will be another historic female candidate at the top of the ballot — the first Black woman and first Asian American to run for vice president on a major party ticket. “In 2020, we’re surpassing the records of just two years ago, an encouraging sign that we could be entering a new era of women’s political participation,� said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for Women in American Politics at Rutgers. “But electoral progress for women should be the norm, not the exception, in a political

For the first time ever, there will be a woman on the ballot in every congressional race in Kansas. Clockwise from bottom left: Rep. Sharice Davids, Kali Barnett, state Sen. Barbara Bollier, Laura Lombard, Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla, all Democrats, and Republican Amanda Adkins. (Composite by Kansas Reflector)

system where women remain significantly underrepresented as officeholders.�

Women hold fewer than a quarter of seats in Congress, though Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leads the House. In the Kansas Legislature, women hold 26% of the seats.

Democratic women came out in record numbers to run for office after the election of President Donald Trump. That tide of newly elected female Democratic representatives helped to flip control of the House in 2018, leading some to call it “the second year of the woman.�

A record 261 women have secured nominations for U.S. House seats in the 2020 election — 78 Republicans and 183 Democrats. Eight states have not yet had their primaries, so the number could rise.

Although deep-red Kansas is considered a conservative state, it has a long history of supporting wom-

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en’s voting rights and historic elections for women. Kansas was the eighth state to provide voting rights to women, the first to elect a woman mayor, and the first to elect a female U.S. senator in her own right, Republican Sen. Nancy Kassaubaum in 1978.

And in its early days, Kansas — established as a free state — was thought of as a progressive stronghold that would support women’s right to vote. “It was a state of abolitionists fighting against slavery, and those abolitionists, men and women, came here, and once they succeeded in making Kansas a free state, a lot of women turned their attention to suffrage,� said Mary Moore, director of the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka.

The museum has an exhibit on the women’s suffrage movement that was scheduled to open in March before the museum had to close its doors due to the

COVID-19 pandemic. It hopes to allow visitors again in September.

National leaders for women’s suffrage chose Kansas as their first battleground in the fight for women’s right to vote. A booklet distributed in 1867 heralded their campaign with this verse on the cover: “Kansas will win the world’s applause / As the sole champion of Woman’s cause / So light the bonfires! Have the flag unfurled / To the Banner State of all the world.�

The first resolution in the nation in favor of suffrage for women and Black men was introduced in Kansas in 1867 but ultimately failed. Kansans approved a state constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote in 1912 — eight years before the United States approved the 19th amendment.

One hundred years later, women are voting and running for office in record numbers across the United States. In total, 583 women filed to run as major-party candidates for primaries for U.S. House seats this year — 227 of them Republican and 356 Democrats.

But while more women of both parties are making bids, Democratic women have been generally more successful in winning their nominations — a trend reflected in Kansas. “Historically, Kansas and other states in the Great Plains and the West have been friendSee WOMEN | Page A4

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Trump admits he’s blocking postal cash to stop mail-in votes

By DEB RIECHMANN/ ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him reelection.

In an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump explicitly noted two funding provisions that Democrats are seeking in a relief package that has stalled on Capitol Hill. Without the additional money, he said, the Postal Service won’t have the resources to handle a flood of ballots from voters who are seeking to avoid polling places during the coronavirus pandemic.

“If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money,” Trump told host Maria Bartiromo on Thursday.

“That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting; they just can’t have it.”

Trump’s statements, including the false claim that Democrats are seeking universal mail-in voting, come as he is searching for a strategy to gain an advantage in his November matchup against Joe Biden. He’s pairing the tough Postal Service stance in congressional negotiations with an increasingly robust mail-in-voting legal fight in states that could decide the election.

In Iowa, which Trump won handily in 2016 but is more competitive this year, his campaign joined a lawsuit Wednesday against two Democratic-leaning counties in an effort to invalidate tens of thousands of voters’ absentee ballot applications. That followed legal maneuvers in battleground Pennsylva-

nia, where the campaign hopes to force changes to how the state collects and counts mail-in ballots. And in Nevada, Trump is challenging a law sending ballots to all active voters.

His efforts could face limits. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rebuffed Republicans who challenged an agreement in Rhode Island allowing residents to vote by mail through November’s general election without getting signatures from two witnesses or a notary.

For Democrats, Trump’s new remarks were a clear admission that the president is attempting to restrict voting rights.

Biden said it was “Pure Trump. He doesn’t want an election.”

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said it was “voter suppression to undermine the safest method to vote during a pandemic, and force Americans to risk their lives to vote.”

NEGOTIATIONS over a big new virus relief package have all but ended, with the White House and congressional leaders far apart on the size, scope and approach for shoring up households, reopening schools and launching a national strategy to contain the coronavirus.

While there is some common ground over $100 billion for schools and new funds for virus testing, Democrats also want other emergency funds that Trump rejects.

“They want $3.5 billion for something that will turn out to be fraudulent. That’s election money, basically,” Trump said during Thursday’s call-in interview.

Democrats have pushed for a total of $10

billion for the Postal Service in talks with Republicans on the COVID-19 response bill. That figure, which would include money to help with election mail, is down from a $25 billion plan in a House-passed coronavirus measure.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has said that the agency is in a financially untenable position, but he maintains it can handle this year’s election mail. A major donor to Trump and other Republicans, DeJoy is the first postmaster general in nearly two decades who is not a career postal employee.

“Although there will likely be an unprecedented increase in election mail volume due to the pandemic, the Postal Service has ample capacity to deliver all election mail securely and ontime in accordance with our delivery standards, and we will do so,” he told the Postal Service’s governing board last week.

Memos obtained by The Associated Press show that Postal Service leadership has pushed to eliminate overtime and halt late delivery trips that are sometimes needed to ensure mail arrives on time, measures that postal workers and union officials say are delaying service.

Additional records detail cuts to hours at post offices, including reductions on Saturdays and during lunch hours.

Democrats, and a handful of Republicans, have sent DeJoy several letters asking him to reverse his changes and criticize what they say is a lack of openness by the agency. Late Wednesday, Senate Democrats again wrote DeJoy, this time saying postal leadership is pushing state election officials to opt for pricier first-class postage for

James Daniels, 59, a postal carrier, loads mail in his truck for delivery at San Clemente Post Office on Friday, May 15, 2020 in San Clemente, Calif. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

mail-in ballots to be prioritized.

“Instead of taking steps to increase your agency’s ability to deliver for the American people, you are implementing policy changes that make matters worse, and the Postal Service is reportedly considering changes that would increase costs for states at a time when millions of Americans are relying on voting by mail to exercise their right to vote,” the Democrats wrote.

Separately, in a letter last month, the Postal Service warned Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson that the agency might not be able to deliver ballots in time to be counted under the state’s deadlines for casting mail-in votes.

Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer said in a statement that “certain deadlines concerning mail-in ballots, may be incompatible with the Postal Service’s delivery standards,” especially if election officials don’t pay more for first-class postage.

“To the extent that states choose to use the

will not be easy, but which are necessary.”

“This will increase our performance for the election and upcoming peak season and maintain the high level of public trust we have earned for dedication and commitment to our customers throughout our history,” DeJoy wrote, according to the memo obtained by the AP.

mail as part of their elections, they should do so in a manner that realistically reflects how the mail works,” he said.

In a memo to staff Thursday, DeJoy said his policies have brought “unintended consequences that impacted our overall service levels,” but added that the Postal Service “must make a number of significant changes which

COVID by the numbers ed States is averaging 1,000 deaths a day to the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Florida and Georgia remain the current hot spots.

Five steps can help prevent the spread of the virus according to the Centers for Disease and Control. * Wear a face mask; * Wash your hands as often as possible; * Avoid crowds; * Practice social distancing wherever you are, and * Go outside as often as possible.

Allen County’s number of COVID-19 cases has jumped to 22, up from 17, in the past week, according to Friday’s report by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

The state tally has risen from 30,638 to 33,885, and an additional 22 deaths, bringing the total to 402.

Nationwide, more than 5.27 million cases have been confirmed and 167,000 deaths. In Friday’s tally, almost 53,000 Americans had contracted the virus in a day’s time. The Unit-

Rural families without internet face tough choice on school

By PIPER HUDSPETH The Associated Press

B E AT T Y V I L L E , Ky. (AP) — John Ross worries about his children returning to their classrooms this fall with coronavirus cases rising in Kentucky, but he feels he doesn’t have much of a choice: His family’s limited internet access makes it nearly impossible for the kids to keep up with schoolwork from home.

“They’re going to have their education,” the father of three in rural Lee County said as he recalled his children’s struggles to do their work this spring over a spotty cellphone connection.

Lee County, a community of around 7,000 people deep in the Appalachian Mountains, is one of many rural school districts around the country where the decision over whether to bring students back into classrooms is particularly fraught. As in other places, parents and officials are concerned about the virus, but dramatically limited internet access here also means kids could fall seriously behind if the pandemic keeps them home again.

On average, the United States is still seeing

about 1,000 deaths a day from the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The country has had more than 5 million confirmed cases and more than 167,000 deaths over the course of the pandemic.

Roughly 3 million students across the United States don’t have access to a home internet connection.

A third of households with school-age children that do not have home internet cite the expense as the main reason, according to federal Education Department statistics.

But in some rural places, a reliable connection can’t be had at any price.

The void is especially acute in eastern Kentucky. An AP analysis of census data shows that nearly half of students attending public school in Lee lack home access to broadband.

Many districts have been scrambling to set up paper-based alternatives to online instruction or create WiFi hot spots in school parking lots and other public areas. Kentucky’s two largest districts, in Louisville and Lexington, are starting the school year online

and have pledged to give mobile hot spots to students who don’t have internet at home.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said this week the state is exploring ways to expand internet access in hard-toreach areas.

But if school starts as scheduled on Aug. 24 in Lee, which serves roughly 800 students, there will be only two public WiFi hot spots in the county: one at the county courthouse, and another at the public library — both near downtown Beattyville, the county seat, and a good distance from the winding, tree-lined roads where most residents live.

Students aren’t the only ones who struggled this past spring.

Some teachers had to go into their classrooms to get internet access, despite recommendations that they stay home, according to Lee County School Superintendent Sarah Wasson.

In an effort to accommodate those without reliable internet, students will submit their work periodically on USB drives. In between, teachers can check in with them over the phone.

The lack of internet

access often dovetails with and is likely to reinforce other inequalities. Nationally, those without access are more likely to be students of color, from low-income families or in households with lower parental education levels. In Lee County, for instance, almost half of children live below the poverty line. As the pandemic stretches on, Americans with lower incomes who do have internet may struggle to continue to afford it.

“COVID-19 has shown cracks in the system where people have been left behind,” said Lee County Judge Executive Chuck Caudill.

Beattyville Mayor Scott Jackson remembers the fight more than a half-century ago to get clean, running water into the county.

Now, he sees the internet as just as important, in order to help create jobs and encourage businesses to move into the empty storefronts on Beattyville’s main street.

Internet access has improved for some, as Peoples Rural Telephone, one of few internet service providers in the region, started expanding into

the county around four years ago.

But for most residents of the more remote mountain hollers, like Ross’ family, the expansion won’t arrive in time for the start of school.

In the spring, Ross’ children, ages 12, 13, and 15, had to connect their laptops to the mobile hot spot powered by data on his phone.

It didn’t always work.

That meant they often had to complete hard-copy packets without access to online materials.

Ross is able to pay for data with what he

earns from occasional construction jobs, but Comcast, AT&T and T-Mobile recently brought back some data caps, which could slow the speed of what little connection families like Ross’ have.

In Lee, like many other counties in rural Eastern Kentucky, there have been only a few confirmed coronavirus cases. As a result, some are pushing for school to start in person immediately, but others are more cautious. Ross wants officials to hold off until October in hopes the virus will subside.

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Ex-cop’s video captures crowd’s horror during Floyd arrest

By JEFF BAENEN The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released body-camera video from a third officer involved in George Floyd’s arrest captures for the first time the growing horror of onlookers who repeatedly pleaded with the officers to get off Floyd.

The video made available Thursday comes from fired Officer Tou Thao, one of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of Floyd, a handcuffed Black man. Floyd died after a white officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes on a south Minneapolis street May 25 as Floyd repeatedly said he could not breathe.

The death sparked massive protests across the U.S. and beyond against racial injustice and police brutality.

Thao held back a crowd of nearly a dozen bystanders, many taping the scene with their cellphones, as Chauvin pinned Floyd with his knee. Two other officers, Thomas Lane and J. Kueng, held down Floyd, who was suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenience store.

In Thao’s video, a Black man wearing a Northside Boxing Club sweatshirt yells at Chauvin to “get off of his (expletive) neck, Bro” and asks Thao “you gonna keep him like that,” motioning toward Floyd.

“You gonna let him kill that man in front of you, Bro?” he asks Thao.

Greta McClain paints a mural of George Floyd, 46, in Minneapolis during protests following George Floyd's death while in police custody. FILE PHOTO “Bro, he’s not even (expletive) moving right now, Bro.” Thao orders the crowd onto the sidewalk. At one point he tells the onlookers, “This is why you don’t do drugs, kids.”

When a woman who identifies herself as a Minneapolis firefighter

arrives out of uniform, Thao yells at her, “Back off !” She asks if the officers have checked Floyd’s pulse.

“Let me see a pulse,” she demands of the police.

“Check his pulse,” the man says. “You bogus, Bro. ‘Don’t do drugs,’ Bro? ... You call what

he’s doing OK?” The crowd grows more agitated. “What the (expletive) are you doing?” a young woman yells. “He’s dying.”

When the man approaches Thao with his phone, Thao shoves him back toward the sidewalk, yelling, “Get out of the street!”

Prosecutors submitted Thao’s body cam footage earlier this week. On Monday, body cam video from two of the other officers, Lane and Kueng, was released under a judge’s order.

That footage, along with Thao’s video, shows Floyd pleading with the officers as they struggle to place him in the squad car in the moments before his death.

Floyd repeatedly said he could not breathe and called out for his mother

before passing out. He was pronounced dead at a hospital that evening, his death sparking protests against racial injustice and police brutality around the world.

Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. Lane, Kueng and Thao are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter. All four officers were fired and are scheduled for trial in March.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose office is prosecuting the case, has asked the judge to have all four officers tried jointly. Defense attorneys have until Sept. 8 to respond.

The next court hearing for the four is scheduled for Sept. 11.

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lier to electing women throughout the 20th century, for sure. But that is changing somewhat, and it is really driven by party,” said Patrick Miller, an associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas who studies voting behavior.

“In the last 20 years,” he said, “Democratic women are winning Democratic primaries more than ever before and Republican women are getting less successful over time at winning Republican primaries.”

Of the six women who won their congressional primaries in Kansas in 2020, five are Democrats.

And in the predominantly GOP state, most of the Democratic women on the ballot face an uphill battle.

“Academic studies show that when women run for office they win just as often as men do,” said Alexandra Middlewood, an assistant

Academic studies show that when women run for office, they win just as often as men do. But this is still Kansas and Democratic candidates are going to struggle ...

— Alexandra Middlewood, WSU

professor of political science at Wichita State University. “But this is still Kansas, and Democratic candidates are going to struggle in most of our congressional districts.”

In 2016, Trump won all but two counties in Kansas and 56% of the vote. Hillary Clinton won 35.7%.

But Gov. Laura Kelly recently proved that

Democratic women can win in the state. She did so largely through strong Democratic turnout in Kansas’ five most populated counties and some crossover Republican votes.

Vicki Hiatt, chairwoman of the Kansas Democratic Party, said more women have been eager to run for office on the heels of Kelly’s victory and Davids’ success in flipping the Kansas City suburbs for Democrats in 2018.

“I think women in our state have started to see the fact that they could run and could win,” Hiatt said in an interview.

“Women have just been stepping up, so it was not a hard recruiting task.”

Kansas Republican Party chairman Mike Kuckelman said he made it one of his goals to recruit more Republicans to run for office and “to reach out specially to people of color, women, and the Hispanic/

Latino communities.”

In the 3rd District, three women competed in the Republican primary, along with two men. Amanda Adkins, a businesswoman from Overland Park and former chairwoman of the Kansas Republican Party, won the primary and will attempt to unseat Davids. The contest is rated “lean Democratic” by Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election analysis newsletter.

The other competitive House race is expected in the 2nd District, which includes Topeka and much of the eastern part of the state.

Michelle De La Isla, the first Latina to serve as mayor of Topeka, will face Republican Jake LaTurner. LaTurner defeated incumbent Rep. Steve Watkins in the primary, after Watkins was charged with felonies related to voter fraud. Cook Political Report ranks the contest as “likely Republican,”

but recent polls have put the two candidates within a margin of error.

The highest-profile female candidate in Kansas is Barbara Bollier, of Mission Hills, who is seeking to become the first Democratic U.S. senator from the state since 1933. The race has gained national attention as Bollier, a former Republican state senator who switched parties after the election of Trump, has proven herself a powerful fundraiser and formidable candidate.

She will face U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, who has played up his bonafides as a Trump supporter. The race is ranked “lean Republican” by the Cook Political Report.

A new poll, released Wednesday, showed Marshall and Bollier in a dead heat. Marshall was two points ahead in the survey of 1,200 likely voters, but within the margin of error of the

poll. SurveyUSA, a nationally recognized polling house, conducted the survey after a group of election enthusiasts on Twitter crowd-funded the polling effort.

The other two congressional races are rated as “solid Republican” by Cook Political Report with slim chances for the Democratic women challengers.

Democrat Kali Barnett, a music teacher from Garden City, will face Republican candidate Tracey Mann, of Salina, a former lieutenant governor, in western Kansas’ large, rural 1st District. The heavily GOP district has only once sent a Democrat to Congress.

In the 4th District, which includes Wichita and south-central Kansas, Democrat Laura Lombard of Wichita, a 36-year-old business development consultant, will challenge incumbent Republican Ron Estes.

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pandemic provided a real-life lesson on the importance of leadership skills.

“It was really interesting to see that firsthand.

How do leadership theories apply? How do you make decisions? How do you communicate? How do you work with other people?” Bilderback said.

“If you have a core foundation to know how to work with people, even if you don’t meet your goals and you’re only making progress, you’re still accomplishing something.”

LEADERSHIP means different things to different people, Bilder-

back said.

Think about leadership, and what typically pops into your mind is a vision of authority, someone at the front of the room or the office dictating a plan to others.

But leadership is more about mobilizing others, Bilderback said.

It’s about understanding what people need and want, about learning to communicate and work with people who have different visions and desires. It’s about improving a business or a community. It’s about having an impact on someone’s life and teaching them how to lead.

“Not everyone is born with specific traits to be

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a leader, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn those traits,” Bilderback said. “Some people are more comfortable in a leadership position, and a lot of people work under leaders in a supportive role. That’s also a form of leadership.

Anyone can learn to be a leader. Anyone can learn to function in a leadership realm.”

Leadership studies is a growing field in Kansas, Bilderback said.

ACC has been developing a program for about two years, and classes will transfer to four-year universities that offer similar programs.

The development process included conversations with ACC students, who shared their thoughts about the value of leadership skills.

“Students are looking at the world today, and

the challenges, and they want to learn how to fit into that world. Through learning leadership skills, they can navigate that world,” Bilderback said.

“And I think students are interested in having a voice. The way the world is today, there are a lot of voices that are finally being heard.

Through leadership courses, people can learn how to speak up and how to do that in a professional way.”

ACC’s program starts this fall with just one course, “Principles of Leadership,” that will be offered both in-person and online. In-person classes will practice social distancing measures. The class offers an introduction to leadership theories and an examination of personal strengths and styles

that contribute to leadership.

Starting in the spring, ACC will add “Civic Leadership.” The class will encourage students to go into the community to analyze different models of civic leadership, such as participating in government meetings or community change projects.

In the fall of 2021, ACC will introduce two “Organizational Leadership” and “Ethics and Diversity in Leadership.” Students also can participate in internships, partnering with local businesses to learn about problem solving and communication skills in a professional setting.

“Part of leadership is mobilizing people to solve problems,” Bilderback said. “You don’t have to have all the answers, but you can work with people to solve a problem. Hopefully students will learn to define what leadership means to them, and if we can help them solve problems in the community or find a career, that’s a benefit.”

BILDERBACK attended Emporia State University, where he

initially wanted to be an elementary school teacher.

Instead, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and began a career in the mental health field.

He worked five years at Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center before transitioning to ACC 14 years ago.

He earned a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Fort Hays State University in 2011.

He’s spent the past nine years as the director of student life. He also taught an eight-week online seminar, “College Career Success.”

He and his wife, Rebecca, who is the director of online learning at ACC, have lived in Iola for 15 years.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for me and for the college and for our students,” Bilderback said. “It’s a challenging time to build a new program, with the pandemic, but it’s exciting at the same time. Our administration has a good understanding of how leadership can positively affect our students in so many facets of their lives. I’m very excited about that.”

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This election, let’s take the high road There’s probably not a woman alive who is not — openly or secretly — nervous for Kamala Harris, the third woman to be nominated for the vice-presidency, and the first woman of color.

The stakes for her to help take Democrat Joe Biden to the White House are incredible: Get Black people to the polls. Convince suburban housewives Democrats are not socialists.

Prove that America is still the land of opportunity.

And show men that a woman is equal to the job.

The latter challenge will be the most formidable.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s kneejerk response to Harris is that she is “nasty.”

Here we go again. This time, however, Americans must not sit idly by.

We let the 2016 campaign slide off the tracks when then-candidate Trump routinely demeaned women by criticizing their faces, “Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” (Carly Fiorina); the fact that they have to use the facilities, “I know where she went — it’s disgusting,” (Hillary Clinton); their womanhood, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” (Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly); and their intelligence, “Low IQ. She’s bleeding badly from a facelift,” (MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.)

The shock value of such behavior worked wonders to not only distract us from the issues but also to portray women as inherently inferior.

IN A RECENT letter to media figures, a group of female leaders tasked the media to call out the double standards waged against female candidates.

Words such as “nasty” — never applied to men — imply untoward behavior.

People also will dissect Harris’s looks, the tone of her voice, her hair, her attractiveness, while men (obviously) get a free pass.

That Harris is ambitious will be twisted as an unworthy behavior, while admired in men.

During an interview this

Susan Lynn Register editor week Trump said Harris was not “liked,” a gender criticism he frequently used against Clinton, as if it’s a qualifier for office, and never used to evaluate a man.

As a Black woman, Harris is accustomed to being a target and likely will brush off such slights. But that doesn’t excuse systemic racism that persists in portraying people of color as less than.

Harris brings a wonderful story to the election. The daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, she and her sister were taught by their middle-class parents that the sky’s the limit to what they can achieve in America.

This is something to celebrate, not mock or insidiously question.

But because she’s a Black woman, racists will question just how “authentic” an American she is, just as they did with former President Barack Obama.

On Friday, the president claimed that the California-born Harris was ineligible to run as vice-president supposedly because her parents were immigrants.

“I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements. I have no idea if that’s right,” he said.

Of course Trump knows perfectly well that the allegation is false. But it’s his modus operandi to repeat such racist conspiracy theories, just as he did for years with the “birther” falsehood that Obama was born in Kenya.

FOR THE NEXT 80 days of the presidential campaign it’s every American’s duty to be on guard for such double standards held against women and minorities and to see them for their divisive nature.

If we are to come together as a country, then we must stand together against such hate.

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Aug. 10 — A fire destroyed three Iola business buildings on the west side of the square early today and damaged several others.

The fire, which firefighters think started in the kitchen area of T.C.’s Diner, destroyed that building, which contained John Foust’s law offices on its second floor.

Also destroyed were a building which housed Hixon’s Office Supplies and Equipment and the China Palace Restaurant building. Five other buildings on the block were damaged by smoke or heat. Among the businesses involved were the Unique Salon of Beauty, John Boyer’s Accucast Dental Laboratory and a computer business owned by Robin Boyer.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/TNS)

Kansas is being pulled away from expansion Kansas has another neighbor expanding Medicaid — and this time, it is different.

Last Tuesday, Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment expanding Medicaid by a vote of 53% to 47%.

Nebraska voters passed expansion in 2018 and Oklahoma voters did so earlier this year. Colorado passed it in 2013.

Kansas is now surrounded by expansion states, but this one is different, because Kansas’ most-populated border lies on the Missouri state line, while the borders with those other states are largely rural.

About one in three Kansans live in the bi-state Kansas City area. People, jobs and commerce flow freely across the border, old rivalries notwithstanding. No one sees that more acutely than KC’s hospitals, which all treat their share of patients from both states. In fact, the massive KU Medical Center complex is right on the state line.

Assuming Missouri’s Republican leaders do not find a way to derail the voter-approved amendment, these hospitals and doctors’ offices will now see a big gap in coverage depending on which state a patient calls home.

Will this increase pressure on Kansas to pass expansion too? Not necessarily. The

Michael Smith Insight Kansas Kansas Legislature passed expansion in 2017 with solid majorities, but it was vetoed by then-Governor Brownback on the grounds of being too expensive, and there were not enough votes in the Senate to override. Polls show that a slim majority of Kansans do favor the policy, but many also believe that those who are able should pay some type of premium or co-pay or be subject to a work requirement.

In 2020, before COVID, a likely passage of expansion was derailed by abortion politics — bad timing, since care for many who suffer complications from COVID, as well as coverage for those who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic would both have been accessible to more people had it passed, up to 138% above the poverty line. It may not be a coincidence that Missouri and Oklahoma both passed expansion during the pandemic.

Some of those Kansas legislators who voted for expansion in 2017 were defeated this time. In fact, the near-rout

of moderate Republican legislators by conservatives last week probably means fewer votes for expansion, even if Democrats seize on the opportunity to beat the conservative nominees in November. With only a few exceptions, this opportunity for Democrats appears most likely in Johnson County.

Politically, this will only deepen the split between the KC area and the rest of Kansas. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce backed Missouri’s Medicaid expansion and would likely do the same in Kansas, while the Wichita-based Kansas Chamber — in which Koch Industries plays an outsized role — opposed it. The irony here is that the KC area will drive the push for expansion while the biggest beneficiaries would be rural hospitals, which are particularly at risk if expansion does not pass, and soon. It is also notable that Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma are all Republican-leaning states which passed expansion via petition-initiated ballot initiative, a provision which Kansas does not have.

In sum, last week’s election results promise to further pull Kansas in opposite directions on this critical issue. The next chapter will be written in November.

Gov. Parson must respect election results Missourians on Tuesday measure and former Gov. Eric spoke their minds on Medic- Greitens signed it into law, aid expansion. but unions took their case diMore than 53% of those rectly to the people, gathering who went to the polls en- more than 300,000 signatures dorsed it. to force a statewide vote. DeWe urge lawmakers to ac- spite that lopsided result, cept that as the will of the some Republican lawmakers people and move on. vowed to resurrect the issue We’ve seen too many recent soon afterward, and no doubt instances where it will be disvoters have spocussed in the ken their minds We’ve seen too next legislative — unambigumany recent instanc- session. ously — only to • Like Clean hear some law- es where voters have Missouri: Clean makers argue spoken their minds Missouri was that the public — unambiguously — a constitutionhas been hoodal amendment only to hear some law- that winked, that enacted voters didn’t makers argue that the l o n g - n e e d e d u n d e r s t a n d voters didn’t under- lobbying rewhat they were stand what they were forms as well doing, that lawas tighter cammakers know doing. paign finance best and it is up limits, and most to them to set controversially, things right for the good of it also created a new rediseveryone. tricting process. More than • Like Right to Work: Two 62% of voters approved. Beyears ago, in August 2018, fore the final votes were even Missourians went to the polls in, some lawmakers said votand by a margin of nearly 7-3 ers just didn’t understand the rejected a right-to-work mea- issue and had bought a pig in sure. Lawmakers that spring a poke. Lawmakers proposed had passed a right-to-work their own alternative, which

will appear as Amendment 3 on the November ballot, but already some of the state’s Republicans leaders — most notably John Danforth — are urging voters to reject it and stick with Clean Missouri.

• Like Minimum Wage: A similar tale unfolded for the minimum wage increase that went before voters in November 2018 and was passed — again by with an approval rate 62%. It raises the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2023. Come January, some lawmakers were working to repeal it.

As for Medicaid expansion, we say: Leave it alone.

It was just last fall that Missouri Gov. Mike Parson vowed to uphold the will of the voters.

“If the people of the state of Missouri — that is their will and they vote to do that — that’s what I’m supposed to do is uphold the will of the people of this state, and that’s what I intend to do regardless of whether I agree with the issue or whether I don’t.”

We urge him to remember his pledge.

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While there seems to be a new video every day of maskless youth blithely partying outside (and inside) bars, many people have actually been drinking less during the pandemic.

Half of Americans say they aren’t excited at all about heading back to their favorite watering hole — or any bar for that matter.

Indeed, fear of enclosed spaces and sloppy, less-than-socially distanced crowds may change drinking culture for a long time to come.

It’s already threatening the future of your friendly bartender.

Countertop cocktail makers have been available for years. Larger-scale commercial options have been mix-

ing drinks and entertainment, using robotic arms to whirl and shake cocktails in clubs from Europe to Dubai and aboard cruise ships. But the pandemic may have opened the door to a bigger stage.

A woman placing her pink face mask down on an empty bar and clinking glasses with a robotic bartender was not your typical drinking ad before COVID-19. But in a time when fellow drinkers and bartenders are possible disease vectors, the austerity of contactless cocktails can be comforting.

“In robotic bars like ours, there is no kind of contact with (people) be-

cause you can order and pay through your mobile phone, so you touch nothing,” said Emanuele Rossetti, chief executive officer of Torino, Italy-based Makr Shakr.

To be sure, robotic mixologists won’t solve the risk of close quarters — which is part of what makes bars ideal hot spots for transmitting the coronavirus.

Your local bar probably doesn’t have the money right now to bring in a more-than-$100,000 robot, either. And big-ticket customers such as cruise lines, which have been anchored for months, are stuck in a pandemic-induced financial pinch.

Rossetti said the initial impact was a “very big slowdown,” but conversations about new orders have started up again.

Dina Zemke, an associate professor at Ball State University who

studies how physical environments affect services, said robotic bartenders are more entertainment than serious mixologists. She said that while bartenders still have a future, bars themselves may change.

There are semi-robotic options that may catch on more — such as automated dispensers for wine and mixed drinks, she said. And there are nonalcoholic options, too: “Sally” is a $35,000 salad-making robot that aims to clean up the supermarket salad bar.

“The concept of a bar is completely changing now.”

Alan Adojaan, chief executive officer of Tallinn, Estonia-based startup Yanu, said his company has created a prototype robot bartender that’s getting interest from airports and casinos.

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attending Grateful Dead shows.

And when he later saw Kiss’s “Alive II” album, with Peter Chris drumming on a massive kit with flames in the background, the image made an enduring impact.

“That’s what I wanted to do,” said Kucinski.

“The journey began.”

“It’s taken me a lot further than I ever thought it would.”

OF COURSE, the journey wasn’t always easy and unfortunately featured a few shake-ups, such as losing a guitarist and a vocalist.

The band also had to go through a maturation period, which for Kucinski, included becoming a husband and father.

“If you lose your family in the pursuit, you’ve lost it all,” he said.

Kucinski has a good sense of humor about being a hard rock musician despite approaching middle-age, which in itself involves its own challenges.

“Music is not like athletics,” he laughed.

“With music, you just continue to get better as you age.”

Navigating the complexities of the music industry has been no cakewalk, either, whether it’s “learning to be a businessman” or forming “a series of connections and partnerships.”

Members of the band XIII Minutes include Michael Rowley, vocalist; Jamie Kucinski, drummer; Thomas Wheat, guitarist; and Nate Markt, tour bassist. Chad Fenner of Concrt Fotos

“There is a passion there,” said Kucinski, “but you also have to temper it with reality,” especially a financial one, which means that most musicians must still work full-time jobs outside of any rockstar lifestyle.

AS FOR the music itself, like many artists, Kucinski is reticent to define XIII Minutes in terms of a specific sound or genre.

Over the years, he’s come instead to ask lis-

teners: “What do you hear? Does it speak to you?”

“I can tell you what to think,” he said, “but that limits your imagination.”

Kucinski points to the 1990s and early 2000s as providing inspiration, and really enjoys bands like Killswitch Engaged and Disturbed, who he described as “having an amazing sonic element.”

He also has a lot of respect for bands like Korn who helped to redefine the hard rock/

metal genre and draw in new listeners.

As for why he loves hard rock/metal music more generally, Kucinski shared how the music served as his escape when he was young, especially when faced with the challenges of poverty, abuse, addiction and homelessness.

The bands he was listening to, “they were speaking what I was feeling,” he said.

“When I was young, [hard rock music] was my safe space.”

On the flip-side, it’s those early life challenges that not only served as a place of solace for Kucinski, but inspires him to help young people today.

He describes himself as “an advocate,” someone who will “speak up for others,” and he points to hard rock as music that young people truly thrive upon, especially when they feel trapped in “a culture that doesn’t understand you.” “[Young people] need something loud, bold and unafraid,” said Kucinski, and metal is the “boldest, bravest music in the world.”

“Hopefully we can get those kids out,” whether in Iola or elsewhere, he said.

“Kids in small towns need someone to hear their stories. I’m excited to do that.”

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By MARC LEVY and ELLEN KNICKMEYER The Associated Press

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is undoing Obamaera rules designed to limit potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields and pipelines, formalizing the changes Thursday in the heart of the nation’s most prolific natural gas reservoir and in the premier presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Andrew Wheeler, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, signed the rollback of the 2016 methane emissions rule in Pittsburgh as the agency touted the Trump administration’s efforts to “strengthen and promote American energy.”

The EPA first proposed the rollback last year, accusing the Obama administration of enacting a legally flawed rule, and agency officials said it would save companies tens

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of millions of dollars a year in compliance requirements without changing the trajectory of methane emissions.

But states, including California, and a coalition of environmental advocacy groups warned that the changes are illegal — not to mention a setback in the fight against climate change — and expect to quickly sue to block it.

“It’s not only negligent, it’s unlawful,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “We won’t sit silently while the EPA allows this super pollutant to rapidly warm our atmosphere.”

The White House took the event to Pittsburgh, the headquarters for many companies exploring the Marcellus Shale, the booming reservoir that vaulted Pennsylvania to the nation’s No. 2 natural gas state, behind Texas.

“EPA has been working hard to fulfill President Trump’s promise to cut burdensome and ineffective regulations for our domestic energy industry,” Wheeler said in a statement.

Reflecting the pervasive politics of the presidential campaign, Wheeler cast blame onto the presumptive Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, saying “regulatory burdens put into place by the ObamaBiden Administration fell heavily on small and medium-sized energy businesses.”

Pennsylvania is of prime importance in November’s presidential election, and the natural gas industry is playing a central role in TV attack ads being aired in the state by Trump’s allies.

In recent years, preventing methane leaks from well-site equipment and pipelines has become important for regulators because

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methane is a potent greenhouse gas.

The oil and gas industry was responsible for nearly 30% of the nation’s methane emissions in 2018, and methane accounted for 10% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA. The Trump administration is eliminating the twice-yearly requirement for companies to inspect for methane leaks on equipment installed after 2015 at well sites and downstream segments, such as pipelines, compressor stations and storage tanks. Leaks must be fixed.

Supporters of the rule maintained that, based on reports the companies file, it seemed to be helping reduce methane emissions. They also pointed to the EPA’s acknowledgment in its technical analysis that its rule changes will increase emissions of methane and smog-forming compounds.

Operators will still have to check equipment for leaks of smog-forming compounds at some higher-producing well sites, but Thursday’s changes relaxed those standards and producers won’t have to inspect pipelines or downstream equipment anymore.

Any leaks they fix help capture methane, and companies say they have a financial incentive to voluntarily fix leaks to ensure that methane gets to customers, rather than going into the atmosphere.

But, far more importantly, killing the methane emissions rule also blocks a legal requirement for the EPA to extend the rule to cover many more pieces of equipment installed before 2015, environmental advocates say.

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blatantly illegal,” said David Doniger, senior strategic director of the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Robert Howarth, an ecology professor at Cornell University, estimated that shale oil and gas production in North America accounted for one-third of the total global increase in methane emissions over the past year.

Rolling back methane measures now is “dangerously reckless,” Howarth said. “Methane emissions are increasing rapidly, and the oil and gas industry is clearly part of the problem.”

Peter Zalzal, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, said that, without federal leadership, stronger state regulation will be even more important.

Some states — such as California, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Wyoming — have methane standards that are comparable or stronger than the EPA’s 2016 rule.

But many big oil and gas states — such as Texas — do not, Zalzal said.

Oil and gas industry representatives pushed for the methane rollbacks, fearing more expensive rules covering

emissions from older equipment.

Smaller, independent operators hailed the changes as important to their survival.

“The issue for producers has never been whether regulations were necessary; it has always been whether the regulations were sound and cost effective,” the Independent Petroleum Association of America said.

Still, some companies opposed a rollback, noting they had pledged to reduce emissions or pointing out that they were already exceeding the rule’s requirements.

Some oil majors including BP, Shell and ExxonMobil have called on Trump to strengthen efforts to cap methane emissions. The Trump administration’s move is “frustrating and disappointing,” Shell’s U.S. president, Gretchen Watkins, said in a statement.

In 2016’s election, Trump eked out a win in Pennsylvania — the first Republican presidential candidate to capture it since 1988 — by piling up support with Pennsylvania’s rural areas and working-class whites.

Since then, Trump has eagerly promoted the state’s gas industry, underscoring his

focus on shoring up his base as his appointees have moved to expand extraction on federal lands, boost the export of liquefied natural gas and restrict the ability of states to block pipelines.

Meanwhile, a proTrump super PAC, America First Action, is running TV ads in Pennsylvania accusing Biden of wanting to ban “fracking,” the process that along with horizontal drilling has unlocked a torrent of oil and natural gas across the United States in the past decade.

Biden’s campaign counters that that is flatly untrue.

Biden would only ban new gas-drilling permits on public lands, his campaign said, pointing out that about 90% of fracking is on private land.

And while Trump often ridicules the science behind increasingly urgent warnings for immediate action to stave off the worst of climate damage by cutting fossil fuel emissions, Biden’s campaign said it recognizes that “climate change is an urgent problem and that all Americans have the right to clean air and clean water.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bone-dry vegetation fueled wildfires near Los Angeles amid warnings Friday that the risk of new blazes erupting was high as temperatures spike and humidity levels drop during a statewide heat wave.

A huge forest fire that prompted evacuations north of Los Angeles was just 12% contained and after threatening more than 5,400 homes, it had charred more than 18 square miles of

brush and trees.

Cooler overnight temperatures helped firefighters increase containment, but the forecast called for hot, dry weather with dangerous fire conditions because of possible gusty winds, officials said.

Record-breaking heat is possible through the weekend, with triple-digit temperatures and unhealthy air predicted for many parts of the state.

Preliminary dam-

age assessments found that at least five buildings burned in the Lake Hughes area north of Los Angeles, but authorities said they believed more had been damaged or destroyed.

There was no containment of a blaze that blackened foothills above the Los Angeles suburb of Azusa.

It churned through nearly 4 square miles of brush on Thursday and was moving away from homes.

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Chiefs ink Kelce to extension

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs weren’t done when they signed star quarterback Patrick Mahomes to a record-setting extension, or when they put together a pricey package to keep Pro Bowl defensive tackle Chris Jones on the line.

Now, they’re shelling out more big money to keep tight end Travis Kelce in the fold.

The Chiefs and the twotime All-Pro agreed to a four-year, $57.25 million extension Thursday that will keep him with the Super Bowl champions through See KELCE | Page B8

Beyond hoops, playing in seclusion tests NBA players

By TANIA GANGULI Los Angeles Times

ORLANDO, Fla. — LeBron James had just finished a 30-minute workout and lay on the court wearing sweatpants just a shade darker than the gray in his beard.

From a pocket he pulled out a plastic wristband imprinted with a Lakers logo and the outline of Mickey Mouse.

It’s called a MagicBand.

For tourists visiting Walt Disney World, it is a way to get around, pay for things and get into one’s hotel room. For the inhabitants of the NBA’s “bubble,” it’s one of the keys to keeping them safe from the coronavirus.

The MagicBand also serves as a medical tracker, and players, coaches, reporters, referees and NBA officials alike all must wear them any time they are out of their rooms — that and a mask and a credential, except when playing, coaching or exercising.

Players scan their MagicBand when they leave their hotel, holding it against a sensor that glows green and plays a jaunty tune if the player is safe to proceed. It connects to a daily online questionnaire that asks for COVID-19 symptoms and records temperature and oxygen saturation levels. If any-

Lakers star LeBron James, while wearing his MagicBand, stretches before a game in the NBA bubble in Orlando. LOS ANGELES TIMES/TANIA GANGULI/TNS thing is amiss — a missed COVID-19 test, no temperature log that day — the sensor turns blue.

James wrapped the band around his wrist and locked it into place. Then he scooted toward his teammates who were warming up for a scrimmage. He wasn’t play-

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ing that day and would sit on the bench as the loudest fan in the building. He had to be since outside spectators are forbidden.

The NBA is attempting to finish its season while sequestered at Walt Disney World. The league invited its top 22 teams along with

10 media outlets, including The Los Angeles Times, plus a handful from its broadcast partners to chronicle its experiences in this environment.

It’s an experiment that takes the willingness of the See NBA | Page B6

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NCAA cancels fall sports; football marches on (for some)

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby speaks during the 2019 Big 12 media days in Arlington, Texas.

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Big 12 schools march forward

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

Baylor coach Dave Aranda could see a weight being lifted off the shoulders of his players during a meeting Tuesday night, when word began to filter out that the Big 12 Conference would attempt to play football this fall.

“You could just see the joy,” Aranda said. “Everyone was smiling. Guys were cracking jokes, were excited.”

Months of uncertainty had finally given the Bears and their conference rivals the slightest bit of clarity. If all goes according to plan, they will take the field for a non-conference game next month, then begin a round-robin league schedule on Sept. 26 with the intention of crowning a Big 12 champion on Dec. 12 near Dallas.

That doesn’t mean they will be competing for a national title, though. The Atlantic

Coast and Southeastern conferences have so far joined the Big 12 in playing this fall, but the Big Ten, Pac-12 and many smaller conferences are trying for the spring.

So will there be two national champions, like there sometimes were when poll voters declared who was best?

Will an autumn champion play a spring champion? Will this year, like so many things See BIG 12 | Page B7

The NCAA called off fall championship events — a move Thursday that does not affect major college football — because not enough schools will be competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball during the first semester.

NCAA President Mark Emmert made the announcement in a video posted on Twitter, but it has been clear this was coming as conferences canceled fall sports seasons because of the coronvirus pandemic.

“That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t and can’t turn toward winter and spring and say, ‘How can we create a legitimate championship for those students?’” Emmert said. “There are ways to do this. I am completely confident we can figure this out.

If schools and conferences want to move forward ... let’s do it.”

Emmert also said NCAA

NCAA President Mark Emmert TNS officials have begun work on contingencies for the NCAA basketball tournaments, possibly moving dates and looking into creating bubbles in which the teams can compete.

He said the NCAA would prioritize staging championships in winter and spring sports because those — including the lucrative men’s basketball tournament — were canceled when COVID-19 first spiked See NCAA | Page B2

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Dodgers pitcher: Astros were ‘rats’ in sign-stealing scandal

By JORGE CASTILLO Los Angeles Times

Joe Kelly wasn’t on the Dodgers when they lost to the Houston Astros in the 2017 World Series, but he still holds a deep grudge against the players for shifting blame and avoiding punishment after cheating their way to a championship.

Kelly was a guest on “The Big Swing,” a podcast co-hosted by Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling, and didn’t mince words when discussing Astros players’ handling of the scandal during the offseason and in spring training.

He said they became snitches and ratted. He railed against them for scapegoating management and the coaching staff, specifically Alex Cora, the Astros’ bench coach in 2017 and later his manager for two seasons with the Boston Red Sox. Cora was fired as Red Sox manager after Major League Baseball’s report named him as one of the cheating scheme’s masterminds.

Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch also lost their jobs. Carlos Beltran, the only player named in MLB’s report, was let go as manager of the New York Mets before he managed a game. The other players involved received immunity to cooperate with the league’s investigation. Kelly called the lack of player punishment “nonsense.”

“The way that

Everyone knows they cheated. That’s fine. That’s completely fine. It’s not fine to do it, but it’s fine that we already know it happened. What’s not fine is ruining someone’s life to make yourself look better. That ain’t fine.

— Joe Kelly, pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers

Joe Kelly, from left, of the Los Angeles Dodgers has a word with Carlos Correa of the Houston Astros as he walks off the mound after a series of high inside pitches in the sixth inning at Minute Maid Park on July 28 in Houston. Both benches emptied. GETTY IMAGES/BOB LEVEY/TNS (scheme) was run over there was not from the coaching staff,” Kelly said. “They’re not the head boss in charge of that thing. It’s the players. So now the players get the immunity, and all they do is go snitch like a little ..., and they don’t have to get fined, they don’t have to lose games.”

Kelly said Cora is a “personal friend and a guy who I passionately love.” He explained Cora had to pull his daughter from her middle school in the United States and move to Puerto Rico because of the verbal abuse she received. He said Cora wants to eventually “speak his mind” and tell his side of the

story.

“Everyone knows they cheated,” Kelly said. “That’s fine. That’s completely fine. It’s not fine to do it, but it’s fine that we already know it happened. What’s not fine is ruining someone’s life to make yourself look better. That ain’t fine.”

The podcast episode was released at midnight Thursday but was recorded Aug. 2 when, the Dodgers were in San Diego. Kelly was four days removed from receiving an eight-game suspension for throwing pitches near two Astros batters’ heads.

Kelly fired a 3-0 fastball behind Alex Bregman’s head in the first

game of a two-game series against the Astros on July 28. He threw a curveball near Carlos Correa’s head later in the inning that Correa believed was intentional.

Correa glared at Kelly.

The two later exchanged words when Correa struck out to end the inning. Kelly mocked Correa with a pouting face before the benches cleared.

Kelly’s suspension was reduced to five games Wednesday after appeal. He will serve the ban when he comes off the injured list.

Major League Baseball cited Kelly’s involvement in a brawl in 2018 as reason for the

original eight-game ruling. On the podcast, Kelly criticized the league for leveling such a harsh sentence _ the equivalent of 22 games in a normal 162-game season. He called the suspension “crazy,” pointing out that he didn’t hit a batter or receive even a warning from the home plate umpire.

“I threw a ball. It was nowhere close to the history that I’ve had with altercation,” Kelly said.

“The facts are there. I got more games, more fine, more punishment.

And then they’re going to bring a BS excuse that well during the pandemic we can’t have altercations.

“I didn’t have an altercation. They had the altercation. I cussed.

So did their manager.

I walked away. They walked towards me so where’s the altercation there? I want to know.

I really want to know what they’re actually thinking. Because what they’re doing right now, there’s no thinking involved. There’s literally no thinking involved.”

Kelly said Astros manager Dusty Baker told him to “get your skinny ass on the mound” and Correa spit

at the Dodgers when the benches cleared. Baker received a fine from the league. He was the only Astro disciplined after the fracas.

“My cuss words get eight games, and his cuss words get zero?”

Kelly said. “That makes complete sense, right?

Welcome to planet Earth. A debacle.”

Stripling said the Dodgers were ready to leave the cheating scandal in the past, but they were angered by what they believed were phony apologies from Astros players. He said members of the 2017 team will never get over losing to the Astros in the World Series.

Kelly wasn’t on that team. He was with the Red Sox, a club that lost to the Astros in a division series that year, but he holds hard feelings just like his Dodgers teammates.

“Maybe they have called (Cora) and said, ‘Hey, I’m sorry.’ Or called Luhnow and said, ‘Hey, I’m sorry.’ Or called Hinch, and Beltran,” Kelly said. If they had said, ‘Hey, I’m super scared, I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t want to lose money, I had to rat.’”

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across the United States in March.

Moving fall sports to the spring still must go through the Division I Council, which is comprised of representatives of all 32 conferences, and be approved by the DI Board of Directors.

Championship events in all sports could be modified going forward to deal with COVID-19, Emmert said. That is likely to include fewer teams participating at fewer and predetermined sites.

The spring calendar already features more sports than the fall so cramming still more in, including FCS football, will create logistical challenges.

“Will it be normal?

Of course not. We’ll be playing falls sports in the spring,” he said.

“Will it create other conflicts and challenges? Of course. But is it doable? Yeah.”

Last week the NCAA Board of Governors said championship events in a sport would canceled if fewer than 50% of the teams competing in that sports played a regular season.

Divisions II and III almost immediately followed by canceling their fall championships. Division I — which is comprised of 357 schools — held on, but as conference after conference canceled their fall seasons the tipping point came.

Falls sports also include field hockey, cross country and water polo.

Schools in conferences that have not yet canceled their fall seasons could conceivably try to stage regular-season competition over the

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next few months.

The highest tier of Division I football, the Bowl Subdivision, is not impacted. The College Football Playoff is run by the conferences and six of those leagues are still moving toward having a season, including the Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference and Big 12.

Beyond those six conferences, the rest of Division I has mostly been shuttered. Whether they can pull off football or any other sport during the pandemic is still to be determined.

Earlier in the day, the NCAA’s chief medical officer and two of its infectious disease expert advisers warned the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 throughout the United States remains an enormous obstacle for college sports

to overcome.

“I feel like the Titanic. We have hit the iceberg, and we’re trying to make decisions of what time should we have the band play,” said Dr. Carlos Del Rio, executive associate dean at Emory University.

Del Rio, a member of the NCAA’s COVID-19 advisory panel, appeared with NCAA chief medical officer Dr. Brian Hainline on a webinar hosted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

“We need to focus on what’s important,” Del Rio said. “What’s important right now is we need to control this virus. Not having fall sports this year, in controlling this virus, would be to me the No. 1 priority.”

The United States has had more than 5 million COVID-19 cases.

Earlier this week, the Big Ten and Pac-12 became the first Power Five conferences to decide not to play football, or any sports, this fall.

Emmert called it a devastating blow.

College sports administrators and coaches have been making the case schools are providing structured environments with frequent testing and strict protocols that make athletes safer than the general population.

“We had some positive tests when our student-athletes first came back,” Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said. “We had a dramatic decrease since they’ve gotten under our umbrella and that’s good. Basically we have our student-athlete under our umbrella. On a college campus where students are going to

class, it’s hard to create a bubble.”

Hainline said about 1%-2% of college athletes who have been tested by schools have been positive for COVID-19.

Del Rio said conferences are coming to different decisions not because they have different information, but because they are assessing risk differently.

“Some conferences will say, we’ll go forward. It’s a very narrow path, hopefully they’ll be no infections and if there are infections we’ll be able to detect them, and we we’ll be able to stop them and we won’t have an outbreak,” Del Rio said.

“But other conferences say, no. Our tolerance is for zero risk and therefore we will not have it. It’s exactly the same data just being looked at in different ways.”

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By CLIFF BRUNT The Associated Press

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Serena takes win in sibling grudge match

By JOSH SHULLIVAN Lexington Herald-Leader

In sports, it’s not unusual for hyped-up individual matchups to disappoint — just ask anyone who’s blown hard-earned money on a subpar pay-per-view event.

But that certainly was not the case in central Kentucky on Thursday.

In a highly anticipated contest under highly unusual circumstances, two of the most iconic figures in the history of professional tennis put on an absolute show. Serena Williams and Venus Williams went toe-totoe for two hours and 19 minutes in the second round of the Top Seed Open at Top Seed Tennis Club in Nicholasville, with younger sister Serena claiming the victory, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

With the match tied 4-4 in the final set, Serena blasted a vicious forehand from deep behind the baseline, screaming “Come on!” as the shot landed just inbounds to give her a 5-4 edge and put her in the driver’s seat. Serena, the tournament’s No. 1 seed who is No. 9 in the WTA rankings, had 14 service aces on the afternoon and broke her sister’s serve five times.

It was the 31st time since 1998 the siblings faced off as professionals, but the first time

they’d done so in a venue void of fans. Spectators are barred from the $225,000 Women’s Tennis Association tournament because of the coronavirus pandemic, so the Williams sisters battled in front of their coaches and a smattering of WTA and Top Seed staff members. There were no claps or cheers to punctuate a well-placed shot or frenzied rally, of which there were many.

Asked afterward if the unusual environment made the match feel more like practice than serious competition, Venus firmly rejected the idea.

“No. This was a real match with real points and real consequences,” she told the media during a Zoom teleconference.

Serena, 38, now owns a 19-12 advantage in the series. She’s won two in a row and five of the last six meetings between the pair and now has an 8-4 edge in three-set matches against her sister.

Venus, 40, last beat Serena at the Indian Wells Masters in 2018. Months later Serena returned the favor, defeating Venus in the U.S. Open while she was pregnant with her daughter, Alexis. Thursday marked the first meeting between the sisters since Serena gave birth.

“I feel like today I turned it up in the last

two games,” Serena said during a teleconference. “I think Venus is playing really, really, really good. I feel like it was a very high-quality match. It was a lot of long points and (Venus was) running me around and then at one point it was just big serves ...

We both started serving really well and we were both returning well. She was making some great forehands.”

Before the match the duo walked onto the court together, both wearing masks, amid silence. They spoke to each other near the center court net and shared a laugh before receiving instructions from an official, then settled in for another edition of one of the most fascinating rivalries in sports.

Venus, who’s No. 67 in the WTA rankings, struggled with her serve early on and fell behind 2-0 in the first set, but quickly righted the ship.

Routinely deploying a blistering forehand strike, Venus won five straight games to take a 5-2 lead and went on to claim the first set.

After the match, Venus discussed the challenging road she drew in the tournament’s 32-player singles field.

In the first round, she beat former world’s No. 1-ranked player and twotime major champion Victoria Azarenka.

Andretti tops in Indy 500 practice INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The horsepower boost sent speeds skyrocketing over 233 mph early on Fast Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The Andretti Autosport cars quickly jumped to the top of the board with Marco Andretti logging a lap of 233.491 miles per hour (375.77 kilometres per hour). It’s the fastest lap in a practice — which is considered unofficial — since Sebastien Bourdais went 233.116 mph in 2017.

The speed record at Indianapolis Motor Speedway belongs to Arie Luyendyk, who went 239.260 mph for an unofficial mark during practice on May 10, 1996. Two days later, he turned a lap at 237.498 mph in qualifying.

The Honda teams seemed to quickly adapt to the traditional speed

bump given by IndyCar the day before Saturday qualifying for the Indy 500. Andretti teammates Ryan Hunter-Reay, James Hinchcliffe, Alexander Rossi and Zach Veach all topped 231 mph.

“It is crazy jumping in with that boost,” said Hinchcliffe. “Going 231 around Indianapolis? Man, this is fun.”

Andretti said his goal is to crack the the top nine in qualifying to ensure a starting spot in the first three rows for the Aug. 23 race. The starting order is determined by a four-lap average for each driver, and Andretti said his team will spend the rest of Friday focusing on finding consistent laps.

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“Honestly, I’m playing well. I don’t think I’ve ever had a tougher draw in my life,” Venus said. “I basically played two finals in a row, so it’s definitely an unbelievable experience to start the season this way.”

With her third service ace of the match, Serena took a 3-2 lead in the second set. She won four of the last five games in the set to even up the match.

Both sisters struggled at times with the oppressive heat. Before the final set, Venus went into the club’s indoor facility for a break while Serena waited in a chair adjacent to the court. Players are permitted to pause the action for up to 10 minutes when “heat rules” are in effect, as they were on Thursday.

Venus emerged from the indoor facility after eight minutes, discarded a banana peel after apparently enjoying a snack then hit the court for the finale.

After the sisters split the first four games of the third set, Venus won the next two to pull ahead 4-2. The set was again knotted at 4-4 before Serena pulled away.

“I forgot I was down 2-4, so that’s a good thing. That’s when I’m doing good, when I’m not focusing on the score,” Serena said. “I needed to come back and start winning some of these tight matches.”

Serena Williams was scheduled to meet either No. 116 Shelby Rogers or No. 120 Leylah Fernandez in Friday’s quarterfinals.

Rogers and Fernandez faced off Thursday night.

Months after the world was reminded of the best run in Chicago Bulls history, the franchise closed a chapter on one of its worst.

The Chicago Bulls fired coach Jim Boylen on Friday as the new front office begins its remake of a team that missed the playoffs for the fourth time in five years — a tough stretch for a franchise whose dominance in the 1990s was chronicled in the ESPN documentary “The Last Dance.”

The Bulls finished 22-43 this season and were one of the eight teams that didn’t qualify for the NBA’s restart at Walt Disney World, where the playoffs begin next week.

The move was hardly a surprise. Only Tim Floyd (.205) had a lower winning percentage than Boylen (.317) in franchise history.

“This was a very difficult decision, but it is time for our franchise to take that next step as we move in a new direction and era of Chicago Bulls basketball,” said Arturas Karnisovas, the team’s new executive vice president of basketball operations.

“Jim is a great human being that cares deeply about this organization and the game of basketball.”

A longtime NBA assistant, Boylen got his first head coaching job in the league in

December 2018 when the Bulls fired Fred Hoiberg after a 5-19 start. Boylen led the Bulls to a 17-41 record the rest of the way and a 22-43 mark in this pandemic-interrupted season after getting a contract extension.

The Bulls were 11th in the Eastern Conference before play was stopped in March because of the coronavirus.

After the season, Chicago hired Karnisovas as it became clear deeper changes were needed. The man he replaced, John Paxson, had said in February 2019 the Bulls “absolutely” planned to retain Boylen. He said at the time that Boylen was “doing the right things” and “promoting the right message to our players.”

The Bulls made good on that promise, and they entered this season with strong hopes.

“We think we can compete,” Paxson said before the season.

“And when you compete at a high level, you have the ability to be a playoff-caliber team.

We set that as a goal.”

Paxson’s optimism came with caution. He said he expected Zach LaVine, Lauri Markkanen and Otto Porter to “step up.”

LaVine averaged 25.5 points but wasn’t an All-Star. Markkanen, a 7-footer from Finland, missed 15 games with a pelvic injury and his scoring and rebounding numbers dropped.

Porter missed 51 games with a variety of left foot injuries.

Officials opt out of upcoming season NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL’s longest-serving on-field official was among five who have opted to take a leave of absence for the 2020 season.

Line judge Jeff Bergman, who was entering his 29th year of service, headlined the list released Friday by the NFL. Also in the group was back judge Steve Freeman, who was entering his 20th year. He is part of the league’s only father-son duo in the officials ranks.

Freeman is a former NFL player who spent

12 of his 13 seasons with the Bills. His son, Brad, is a back judge is entering his seventh season.

Also opting out are field judges Greg Gautreaux and Joe Larrew and back judge Tony Steratore.

The league said additional officials will be hired and announced.

Officials are allowed to opt out under the protocols negotiated by the NFL and NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Helping friend is becoming burdensome Dear Carolyn: I just relocated to a new city, as did a college friend. She doesn’t own a car, and because we’re often at the same events, she will ask me for rides. I’ve agreed out of obligation a few times, and now I’m worried this is becoming a habit that will add up in gas expenses and time (i.e. driving out of my way when I have to get up early the next morning for work). I can’t figure out whether I’m being totally selfish and should just suck it up and drive her, or whether I’m right in feeling uncomfortable with the new status quo. As a nonconfrontational people-pleaser, how do I tell her, “I can’t drive you this time” when there’s no real excuse?

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Designated Driver?: No, it’s not selfish to be uncomfortable with being taken for granted.

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have these doubts, do two things: 1.

Acknowledge your history of conflictavoidance; 2. Flip the scenario: Is it selfish for the other person to expect you to go out of your way for her and pay all costs, without any say or compensation?

I hope it’s clear you’re not the “taker” in this exchange.

Not that your friend is necessarily doing anything wrong. She is asking — you can decline. Being able to see it that way — and to say “no” sometimes — is on you.

She should of course be offering gas money and making it clear she’s okay with your saying no. Since she’s not making it easy for you, and since it’s your limit that needs setting, you have to do

the hard thing. Start saying “no” when you want to, and start a conversation about ground rules.

This, by the way, is the true way to please people. That’s because if you keep running yourself ragged while silently resenting the imposition, then you will stop enjoying this friend’s company — and she won’t even have had a chance to fix things. If instead you’re transparent about your limits, then you give your friend the choice to stay in your good graces.

Re: Driver: Another way to go about this is to ask for something else that she can help you with — if you prefer not to ask for gas money, etc., or if that’s more useful to you.

I also want to touch on the arc of friendship. I have a good friend I drove often for several years. He never offered anything. Fast-forward a couple of years and my father died. This

Treating erectile dysfunction Dear Dr. Roach: I’m 21 years old, and I have had trouble getting and maintaining erections since 2017. I don’t smoke or drink alcohol.

What might be the possible cause? — I.A. Answer: Erectile dysfunction is a common problem in older men, but it’s very uncommon in teenagers and young adults.

There are four major systems involved in erectile function. The heart and blood vessels need to be adequate, and while this is frequently a problem for older men with blockages, it would be rare but not impossible for a man your age. The nerves to the

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health penis need to be intact, and nerve damage from trauma could occasionally cause this problem.

You would have known about a nerve problem after the trauma began.

Although it’s rare, I have had dedicated bicyclists note decreased erections after spending all day on the bike.

The hormones of the body need to be in balance. Low testosterone is a big issue and you should be checked, but high estrogens and pro-

lactin also can cause ED. Your doctor should consider testing all of these hormone levels.

I’m glad you don’t smoke, but heavy cannabis use can lower testosterone enough to cause ED, even in young men. Finally, the brain is called the primary sex organ in humans for good reason: Psychological or relationship issues can certainly cause difficulty with erections.

Most 21-year-olds are transitioning from their pediatrician or adolescent medicine specialist to an adult medicine doctor, but any general doctor should be able to evaluate what might be going on.

friend put me on the plane, looked after my bird for two days, then drove from D.C. to Long Island — with the bird — and stayed for a week helping out and being an anchor for mum and me.

This was why I never worried — there’s an ebb and flow to our friendship. This might not be true with your friend, but it is sometimes there.

— Anonymous Anonymous: This is great, thanks.

And it reminds me of something I forgot to include: They’re both relatively new to this city, right? So the carpooling could be a shot of social courage for the friend. If so, then the ar rangement/probl e m / aw k w a r d n e s s might not be indefinite.

Write to Carolyn Hax at tellme@washpost.com. Get her column delivered to your inbox each morning at wapo.st/haxpost.

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bubble’s inhabitants to submit to stringent protocols, to provide almost invasive amounts of information, and to agree to near-constant surveillance.

Three weeks ago, Richaun Holmes of the Sacramento Kings had barbecue and lemon pepper chicken wings delivered to the Yacht Club resort.

It’s one of 33 hotels at Disney World, three of which are housing the teams.

When the driver arrived, Holmes went out to meet him. Once Holmes returned, security gave him the bad news. He’d inadvertently walked off campus and would face a 10-day quarantine.

“I wasn’t really too aware of the borders,” Bogdan Bogdanovic (8) of the Sacramento Kings goes up for a shot against Dwight Howard (39) of the Los Holmes said. “... They Angeles Lakers during the second quarter at The Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex in Lake just kind of let me know Buena Vista, Fla. GETTY IMAGES/KEVIN C. COX/TNS they wanted to be as safe as possible and had racism and police bru- 350. to enforce the rules.” tality started by former Everybody living For 10 days Holmes NFL quarterback Colin here and workers who Guys have life going on. Whether it be could not leave his Kaepernick. don’t must be tested eva family problem, a kid problem, a wife room. Food was brought “I hope we continue ery day. Bus drivers who to him. For workouts, problem or anything. There’s issues that to make Kap proud,” shuttle people between his team sent him an exJames said. the residences and come in these guys’ lives. ercise bike and a punchThree players have games post signs that ing bag.

— Clippers coach Doc Rivers opted not to kneel, one announce, “I’ve been “I tore that room up,” citing his religion, one tested daily!” It is up to Holmes said pleasantly citing his connection to each person to rememafter he was released. the military. ber to do it — a skipped He seemed to be smil- again.

Only five of the 22 test results in a warning opposing team’s crowd. ing as he discussed his “It’s actually refresh- Instead, his eyes dart- teams in the bubble or sometimes a quick quarantine workouts, ing,” Lakers guard JR ed around as he looked have Black head coach- quarantine. but with a mask it was Smith said. “Get to see upon just a handful of es, but their white There are questions hard to tell. people, get to actually socially distanced peo- counterparts have been about just how long this (It’s a problem see how people are do- ple. vocal allies inside the will work. Like anyone, throughout campus, ing, see how their fami“I was trying to put bubble. The coaches players miss their famiwhere greetings must lies are doing.” myself in a road envi- have worked with Bry- lies, friends and pets. be more exaggerated to The Lakers and Clip- ronment,” James said. an Stevenson of the Brook Lopez, a cencompensate for half of pers share a hotel, the “This was the Raptors’ Equal Justice Initiative ter for the Milwaukee everyone’s face being Gran Destino Tower of home game. So taking to learn more about is- Bucks, joked that he hidden.) the Coronado Springs and making big shots on sues of racism. They’ve considered sneaking Holmes’ chicken inci- Resort, with six other the road floor is some- all worn pins that say his cat, Poupin, into dent struck fear into ev- elite teams. They have thing that I relish.” “coaches for racial jus- the bubble. Lopez’s deeryone. What if the bor- separate meeting and tice.” votion can’t be underders weren’t properly meal rooms, where a “I just think this is stated. When he played SERIOUS work was defined? What if, while server behind a Plexi- being done in the bub- not a time to be neu- for the Lakers, he hired going for a run around glass shield takes your ble too. Seventy-five% tral,” Orlando coach a car service to ferry the campus, you stepped plate and loads it up of the NBA’s players are Steve Clifford said. “Ev- Poupin (pronounced out of bounds and had at each buffet-style Black and they didn’t erybody has to make like the mustard Grey to reenter quarantine? station. But the teams want to lose the mo- a decision about ‘do I Poupon) from Los AnHaving been confined share other common mentum that had built want to be part of trying geles to Fresno, where to my 300-square-foot areas, such as hotel around the demands of to change this and make his mom lives, when room for seven days restaurants. protesters and social it better or not?’ “ his neighborhood was upon my arrival, I had Like Smith, Toronto justice advocates to end evacuated due to the no interest in a second, coach Nick Nurse ap- racism in America.

MAJOR League Base- Skirball fire. longer quarantine. Run- preciates being able to In the weeks before ball opted not to play Children are a bit ning was out. Sitting by see friends so frequent- the games restart- in a bubble and, with more complicated. Famthe pool in socially dis- ly. Usually, the blur of ed, players used news its players given more ilies aren’t allowed to tanced chairs was much constant travel makes conferences to dis- freedom away from the visit yet, and some playsafer. contact difficult. “Now cuss Breonna Taylor, a ballpark, already has ers’ kids — angry, sad or For the first few you’re bumping into 26-year-old emergency suffered a couple of confused to see their faweeks, this place had them every time you medical technician who coronavirus outbreaks. thers leave after months a summer camp vibe. turn around,” Nurse was killed in her home So far, the bubble envi- at home — ask during Teams began arriving said about an hour be- by police in Louisville, ronments have worked check-in calls when dad July 7 and their quar- fore the Lakers played Ky. It was not a coinci- for the NBA, the WNBA is coming home. antines lasted only 36 the Raptors. dence — they’d talked and Major League SocTheir coaches can hours. There were DJ A minute later, he about doing this as a cer, which is seques- empathize.

Brooklyn parties and reunions asked: “Who’s home to- group. Some players tered in a different part coach Jacques Vaughn and video games; play- night, anyway?” participated in a video of Disney World. has carried a small ers happily displayed The Raptors were conference with TayThe NBA has not an- bamboo plant with him the fish they’d caught the designated home lor’s mother. nounced a positive test to practices and games from a lake full of them. team. During the fourth Players decided as a among players since as a metaphor for how One pleasant surprise quarter, James hit back- group that they would July 13, and before that, they must face the chalwas the opportunity to to-back three-pointers kneel during the na- only two players who lenge of the bubble. see friends from oppos- and glared into what tional anthem, adopt- entered the bubble test“We’re going to have ing teams over and over normally would be the ing the protest against ed positive out of nearly to be extremely flexi-

ble, adaptable and resilient,” Vaughn said.

The bamboo is all those things.

Flexibility is a trait NBA families must have anyway, but the bubble tests it even more.

The Clippers have had four players leave the bubble or arrive late because of the deaths of loved ones.

“Guys have life going on,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “Whether it be a family problem, a kid problem, a wife problem or anything.

There’s issues that come in these guys’ lives. We give guys days off all the time, but no one really notices.”

Here, though, tending to a family emergency means leaving the bubble, whose rules don’t allow for a quick departure and return.

MY HAMLET in this world is on the edge of the bubble.

Twice I’ve walked out of my room without my MagicBand and had to sit at my door until a kind hotel employee wandered by and let me into my room.

Our hotel shares a lobby and a gift shop with the Gran Destino, but reporters aren’t allowed into either. We can go to the mail room, a cavernous warehouse filled with dozens of pallets loaded with water bottles and Gatorade.

Deliveries here have included couches, refrigerators and arcade games. And wine. Lots of wine.

After three weeks of reporters being confined to the hotel, practice spaces and arenas, the NBA opened a few activities to them.

Three of us booked a pontoon ride and we celebrated like it was a trip to Rome.

“The only thing that’s hard is being away from your loved ones,” said Rob Pelinka, the Lakers general manager and vice president of basketball operations.

Flexibility and technology help.

One night Jayson Tatum, a forward for the Boston Celtics, read a book to his 2-year-old son, Deuce, on FaceTime. “He was excited to see that his dad had (the same) book that he had for his nightly routine,” Tatum said.

Deuce’s mother sent copies of five of Deuce’s favorite books into the bubble. Tatum couldn’t recall all the titles, but one did stand out: “Daddy Loves You.”

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around the world, simply be one to forget?

Those are among the questions that still must be answered. “We have a College Football Playoff call next week and we’ll obviously talk about this.

It’s going to be a while into the season before all that is resolved,� Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Wednesday. “There probably isn’t any obvious reason why it couldn’t work to continue to try to play a postseason, but you’re looking at a December-January time frame right in the heart of the virus season. I just think it’s too early.

We’re going to have to be patient.�

Patience is something the league has been preaching since March, when the coronavirus pandemic began shutting down sports in the U.S. as it turned the world upside down.

The Big 12’s board of directors have been speaking on an almost-daily basis with infectious disease experts, scientists and physicians while getting the input of coaches, administrators and athletes. It came up with a plan it believes will work.

Fall sports will begin after Sept. 1 with football playing a schedule in which each team can play one non-conference game before league play begins a few weeks later.

The schools will all play each other to give them 10 total games.

All athletes will be subject to three tests per week — likely Sun-

players lose a season of eligibility if only five or six games are played?

Bowlsby acknowledged most of those questions do not have answers, at least at this point. But he hopes the NCAA will provide some clarification soon on such issues as eligibility and financial aid.

He also agreed that it would be difficult for the Big 12 to continue if the ACC and SEC ultimately move to the spring. “Any time anybody at any level has decided they weren’t going to play or they were going to do something different, it affects us,�

Bowlsby said. “I don’t know we would want to be the only college football conference playing.

To the questions about the postseason — that would pretty much eliminate the postseason.�

The decision to move forward this fall was met with overwhelming approval from coaches and athletes, many of whom simply wanted clarity as they pressed on with daily workouts in anticipation of a season. “They want to compete,� Kansas State coach Chris Klieman

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day, Wednesday and Friday — in “high contact� sports such as football, volleyball and soccer.

Should an athlete test positive, they would be subject to echocardiograms, a cardiac MRI, blood tests and other examinations before they are cleared to return.

Non-conference opponents also must adhere to Big 12 standards the week before competition. “We have been unwavering in putting our focus squarely on the well-being of our student-athletes and staff members,� Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said. “There has been great effort expended in areas like testing and sanitizing, which are part of a comprehensive plan.�

TCU Chancellor Vic-

tor Boschini, who chairs the board of directors, acknowledged things could change at any time. The Big Ten, for example, had released a conference-only schedule before scrapping the fall season just days later. “If at any point our scientists and doctors conclude that our institutions cannot provide a safe and appropriate environment for our participants, we will change course,� Boschini said.

The Big 12 wanted to wait until August to reach a decision on fall sports to see what would happen as teams began their preseason camps.

And while there were numerous outbreaks when athletes returned to campus in June for workouts, most of the league’s 10 schools have

not reported any positive tests for several weeks. “Frankly, we found that what we thought was golden 60 days ago is garbage today. It’s an ever-evolving environment,� Bowlsby said, “and we will find ourselves with bump spots during the fall. There isn’t any doubt about that. But I think we are very well-prepared to deal with those things.�

That doesn’t mean there aren’t still more questions that answers.

Does a school that experiences an outbreak during the week forfeit their game? What are the chances that coaches try to game the system for a competitive edge? Is there a number of positive tests leaguewide that ultimately would force the Big 12 to call off the season? Do

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said. “Especially seniors, they only have so many opportunities to compete. It’s pretty special when you go into your senior years.

Those are the guys I’m really hopeful have a chance.�

Whether they compete in front of fans is a question that the Big 12 is leaving to local jurisdictions. Each state has put its own limits on crowd sizes, some of them barring any large gatherings altogether, and schools will be forced to adjust their ticketing plans to adhere to the recommendations of public health officials.

Regardless, and at least for now, those players will be on the field in some fashion next month. “The last two days in particular, the anxiety and stress, for coaches and players, was something we talked quite a bit about,� said Aranda, the first-year Baylor coach. “I’ve got a lot of faith in our team, and a lot of faith in our players, in terms of doing the right thing. Nowhere at any point in the past is taking care of each other as important as it is right now.�

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Kelce: All-pro tight ends signs hefty contract extension Continued from A1

2025, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press.

The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced.

The deal came the same day the San Francisco 49ers and their AllPro tight end, George Kittle, agreed to a fiveyear, $75 million extension, a person familiar with that contract told AP. Kittle and Kelce, who were on opposing sidelines during the Super Bowl in February,

long ago established themselves as the clearcut top two tight ends in the game.

The Chiefs rallied in the second half to win their first championship in 50 years. And as the Chiefs spent the offseason securing their core players by giving Mahomes a 10-year extension that could be worth a half-billion dollars, and Jones a fouryear, $85 million deal, it left Kelce confident that it was merely the first of what could be many Super Bowls.

“The guys coming

in this office, they know what this team is capable of,” he said as the Chiefs reported to training camp, which is being held at their practice facility because of the coronavirus pandemic. “It shows in what we did last year and who all we have coming back, which means we have just about every single leader that we had in this locker room.”

Kelce quickly grew into a leader after a standout college career marked by some off-thefield issues that caused

his draft stock to plummet. The Chiefs selected him in the third round in 2013 and, after missing most of his rookie season because of a knee injury, he immediately moved into the lineup and became a match-up nightmare for opposing defenses.

The affable and outspoken Kelce has been voted to five consecutive Pro Bowls, and he’s put together four straight 1,000-yard receiving seasons. He also has excelled under the brightest of lights, catching 10 passes for 134 yards and

three TDs in a playoff win over Houston, three more passes in an AFC championship win over Tennessee, and then grabbing six passes for 43 yards and a touchdown in helping the Chiefs to a 31-20 victory over the 49ers.

“He’s athletic. I think he’s instinctive. His routes don’t look like

anybody else’s routes,” Titans coach Mike Vrabel said. “I mean, the route is to get open at whatever depth the quarterback wants. He can freeze guys, and then burst across the field. He’s got great catch radius. I mean, he’s tall, he’s long, he’s athletic, he’s tough, and it’s a tough challenge.”

NASCAR THIS WEEK THROUGH THE GEARS

Cup teams enter regular season grinder

By Godwin Kelly godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com

W

hen you look at the NASCAR Cup Series from Aug. 8 to Aug. 29, it will make your head spin.

This is the regular-season finale grind — six races at three tracks — that will determine the 16-driver playoff field.

The Cuppers are coming off a back-to-back race weekend at Michigan and now head south to Daytona International Speedway.

Fasten your seat belts, and, oh, grab your face mask and hand sanitizer. It’s go time …

FIRST GEAR: Kevin Harvick didn’t leave much left on the table for his counterparts when the competition was done at Michigan. The 44-year-old driver won five of six stages and scored consecutive victories on consecutive days at the same track.

Nobody has done that ever in NASCAR history. Richard Petty won back-to-back Cup Series races on back-to-back days on different race tracks in 1971.

Harvick has a series-leading six wins, has piled up 35 championship points and leads the regular-season standings by 137 points over Brad Keselowski.

Harvick heaped all the praise on his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford team led by crew chief Rodney Childers.

“I think when you look at my team, we’ve been together for going on seven years now, and you look at the confidence everybody

QUESTIONS & AT T I T U D E Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers

You’re not expecting mayhem?

I’ve wandered back and forth on expectations for the first-ever lap, without practice, at the Daytona Road Course this week. Common sense — or maybe just hopeful optimism — tells me everyone will veer off the tri-oval and into the infield road course, picking their way around the horseshoe turns like nervous tourists navigating the roads of Boston. It would be nice if all of the best cars were still around once the best drivers have a feel for the place.

Any chance you’re wrong?

Kevin Harvick makes a pit stop during Sunday’s race at Michigan. He swept both Cup races at Michigan and gave his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Ford team all the credit. [AP/PAUL SANCYA]

has in each other,” Harvick said of his success. “The details of the race cars and the thought of everything that goes into everything that we do is untouchable.”

SECOND GEAR: After spending a beautiful weekend in Michigan’s Irish Hills, the Cup Series heads to Daytona for its most improbable race of the season.

These bulky stock cars, which weigh more than 1½ tons, will be competing on a modified Daytona road course. NASCAR added a second chicane exiting the East Banking or NASCAR Turn 4.

“It’s a unique challenge,” said Jimmie Johnson, a twotime Daytona 500 winner.

Also, the Speedway will open the grandstands and there will be spectators watching the race.

THIRD GEAR: Tough week for those in the NASCAR Silly Season swirl. Leavine Family

Racing owner Bob Leavine said he must sell his race team.

Leavine will compete through the 2020 Cup season. After that, it will be up to the new owners to reorganize the team, which may mean rookie driver Christopher Bell will likely be looking for a new job.

Meanwhile, Joe Gibbs Racing announced this will be Erik Jones last season in the No. 20 Toyota (are you listening, Christopher?).

FOURTH GEAR: And you never want to see this as a car owner, two of your three cars crash each other out. That’s what happened to Roger Penske at Michigan on Sunday when Brad Keselowski wrecked Ryan Blaney.

“I just lost it,” Keselowski said.

“It’s my fault. I feel really bad for my teammate. He didn’t deserve that.”

Earlier in the week, Keselowski signed a contract extension. Talk about good timing.

You new around here? Of course there is. You see, many (or most, or maybe all) of the drivers have practiced the new Daytona layout on simulators, where the realism is so strong they’ll have a pretty good feel for the track before getting to town. A few of them, human nature tells you, might feel a little too comfortable and therefore are ready to attack at the drop of the green.

It might make for a weird mix and, yes, mayhem.

Ken Willis, ken.willis @news-jrnl.com

GODWIN’S PICKS F O R DAY T O N A WINNER: Martin Truex Jr. REST OF TOP 5: Kevin Harvick, Chase Elliott, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer FIRST ONE OUT: Ryan Preece DARK HORSE: Tyler Reddick DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: The first lap produces a major calamity and the last lap becomes a drag race to the checkered flag.

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