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‘IRRESPONSIBLE ACTS OF A PRANKSTER’ Hoax call led to fatal shooting of Wichita man, 28, by police BY NICHOLE MANNA

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Wichita police investigate a call of a possible hostage situation near the corner of McCormick and Seneca on Thursday night. Andrew “Andy” Finch was fatally shot by a police officer in what is police said started as hoax call known as swatting.

Family: Man shot by police in ‘swatting’ was unarmed, didn’t play video games BY NICHOLE MANNA

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Blue and red lights flashed outside of the McCormick Street house just after 6 p.m. on Thursday. Curious of what was going on – Andrew Finch, 28, opened the door. “I heard my son scream, I got up and then I heard a shot,” his mother, Lisa Finch, said Friday morning. Finch and other relatives invited reporters into their home

Friday morning – more than 12 hours after Wichita police said an officer fatally shot a 28-yearold man, who was identified by family as Andrew “Andy” Finch. “We want Andy’s side of the story to be told,” his mother said. On Thursday, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston said an officer at City Hall received a call that there was a hostage situation at 1033 W. McCormick — and that someone had been shot in the head. “That was the information we

were working off of,” he said, explaining that officers went to the house ready for a hostage situation and they “got into position.” When Finch opened the door, Livingston said he was given commands to raise his hands. He did for a short period of time, then lowered them, Livingston said. He was asked again to raise his hands. “The male then turned towards the officers on the east side of the residence, lowered his hands to the waistband

again, then suddenly pulled them back up towards those officers at the East,” Livingston said. “The officers on the north side of the street feared the male pulled a weapon from his waistband, retrieved a gun and was in the process of pointing it at the officers to the east. Fearing for those officer’s safety, the officer on the north side fired one round.” Finch said her son, a father of two young children, wasn’t armed. Livingston also confirmed Finch was unarmed. As the Finch family talked to reporters, they carefully navigated their way around their foyer, and pointed out a remindSEE SHOOTING, 4A

Wichita police say a man who was fatally shot by an officer Thursday evening was unarmed but had put his hands by his waistband multiple times during commands to raise them. On Friday afternoon, Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston went through a timeline of events and released audio of the 911 call and what dispatchers relayed to officers. The shooting happened at 1033 W. McCormick. In the 911 call, a man told dispatchers he had shot his father and was holding his mother and sibling hostage. Livingston said the call was a “swatting” hoax. Swatting happens when someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of an ongoing crime – often with killing or hostages involved – in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address. Swatting has gained traction across the country with online gamers. Those who try to cause the swatting incident will use SEE HOAX, 6A MORE INSIDE

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NEWS IN BRIEF Botanica cancels New Year’s Eve fireworks due to cold weather Predicted low temperatures and high winds have forced Botanica to cancel its New Year’s Eve fireworks show. However, the Wichita garden will continue Illuminations — its annual holiday light display — through New Year’s Eve. Illuminations will be open from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Botanica said it hopes to use the fireworks in a display sometime this spring. — JASON TIDD

Man sentenced to over 2 years in sexual assault of teen girl in Wichita

A Texas man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for the sexual assault of a teenager in Wichita over a year ago. Jay McLaughlin, 39, of Austin, was sentenced Thursday to 32 months in prison after he pled guilty to two counts of indecent liberties with a child, District Attorney Marc Bennett said in a release. The 15-year-old girl ran away from a group home in Lawrence on Feb. 8, 2016, then was picked up by a man and a woman who drove her to Wichita, he said. McLaughlin, who was in Wichita on business, found the girl on an online escort service and had sex with her in a downtown Wichita hotel two days after she left the group home, Bennett said. McLaughlin was arrested in Texas after an investigation and pled guilty Nov. 15. — JASON TIDD

Four earthquakes hit Oklahoma If you woke up Thursday night and thought you felt shaking, you may not have been wrong — there were four earthquakes overnight in Oklahoma. A pair of 3.8 magnitude earthquakes struck central and northern Oklahoma, the first at 10:11 p.m. Thursday near McLoud and the second at 4:44 a.m. Friday near Hennessey, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Two more earthquakes struck near Hennessey: a 2.5 magnitude at 5:21 a.m. and a 2.6 magnitude at 6:03 a.m. The recorded depths of both 3.8 magnitude quakes were 5 kilometers, while the 2.5 quake was 2 kilometers deep and the 2.6 quake was 4.8 kilometers deep. McLoud is an eastern suburb of Oklahoma City and Hennessey is about 49 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. All four earthquakes were reportedly felt in southern Kansas.

Group: Kansas Legislature lacks policies to prevent sexual harassment BY JOHN HANNA

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The Kansas Legislature should have an independent, outside attorney review sexual harassment complaints, require annual training even for lobbyists, ban gifts to interns and create a non-fraternization policy, a Missouri-based foundation recommended Friday. The Women's Foundation outlined more than two dozen proposals Friday. The foundation promotes gender equity, and top lawmakers, led by Senate President Susan Wagle, turned to its attorneys last month to review the Legislature's existing policy, which hasn't changed since 1994. The foundation is also proposing that the Legislature ban secret settlements of sexual harass-

ment claims, prohibit arbitration in sexual harassment cases and annually report data about the genders of interns, legislative leaders and members of committees, state boards and commissions. It says the sexual harassment policy should be reviewed each year. Wendy Doyle, the foundation's president and CEO, said the Legislature lacks the policies and coordinated approach necessary to prevent sexual harassment. She said those "significant gaps" also prevent the Legislature from responding effectively when sexual harassment occurs. "These ... must be addressed to ensure a safe, respectful and inclusive work environment for staff, interns and everyone who works in the state Capitol," Doyle said. "This is not a partisan issue, and it is not unique to Kansas." The foundation also

recommended having more women as legislative leaders. The foundation has designed a long-term program to increase the number of women who are appointed to local boards and commissions in hopes, she said, of creating a pipeline for women in politics. Wagle, a Wichita Republican, is the only woman among the Legislature's top eight leaders, positions filled by elections among fellow lawmakers. She is the first female Senate president; no woman has served as House speaker. Legislative leaders initiated the sexual harassment policy review after the ex-chief of staff for a former Democratic leader said publicly that a lawmaker once asked her for sex in 2015 and that female college-student interns regularly served as after-hour designated drivers for intoxicated

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The Kansas Supreme Court ordered the disbarment of Wichita attorney Rickey Edward Hodge, Jr. in an opinion filed this week. The order follows a unanimous recommendation for disbarment by a panel of the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys, which looked into accusations involving “conflict of interest, client exploitation, and self-dealing.” The panel, the court opinion said, “made lengthy findings of fact and concluded Hodge violated the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct … while representing a financially distressed Wichita-based landscaping company,” Complete Landscaping Systems. “Highly summarized, Hodge attempted to purchase the company’s assets, as well as an 80-acre ranch held by the company’s majority shareholder,” the court opinion said, while advising and representing the company and its majority owner beginning in 2013 over a judgment against the company in Texas. Jerry Siebenmark: 316-268-6576, @jsiebenmark

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lawmakers in 2016. "Over the years, I do know of complaints that were serious that were taken to our HR department and were dealt with immediately," Wagle said during the news conference without being more specific. Wagle has previously described Legislative Administrative Services as the human resources department for lawmakers. The Legislature's current policy says harassment complaints are brought first to an employee's supervisor or Legislative Administrative Services. The policy does not require an independent review of a complaint, and it does not mandate regular training about sexual harassment for lawmakers. It also says complaints are to be handled as discreetly as possible, and it does not limit interactions between interns and others. Wagle said the first step for the lawmakers is to start the sexual harassment training. "I do believe education is one of the first things we can do," Wagle said. "We've had a number of organizations call who are available to help us with training of staff, legislators, interns."

will still be at the park in March because baby giraffes typically are not weaned off their mothers for five months. Come May, though, she may not be there anymore. “We have a waiting list of zoos wanting giraffes, and with her being a female, she’s kind of in demand,” Fouts said. “But we would also like to grow our herd.” The wildlife park breeds rare and endangered species and provides them to zoos across the country. The baby giraffe is the 53rd born at Tanganyika and the fourth of the year. She joins her mother, Ismene, as the 13th giraffe at the park. “Giraffes in general are kind of like a silent extinction,” Fouts said. “Their numbers are dwindling in the wild.” The baby is nameless for now. Fouts said a lot of people are making name suggestions on Facebook, but the keepers may name her themselves since several recent baby animals have been named by the public or in honor of people. The last baby giraffe born in September was named Celebrity in honor of over 100 Celebrity Cruises volunteers on Give Day. The 50th giraffe born at Tanganyika was born in May. A baby sloth named Chewbacca was born earlier this month. Last December, five cheetah cubs — the first cheetahs ever born in Kansas — were named through a donor lottery. Jason Tidd: 316-268-6593, @Jason_Tidd

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Online gamers have pointed to swatting as the cause of the shooting of a man in Wichita on Thursday night.

Swatting is ‘a potentially deadly crime’ that’s become ‘extraordinarily common’ BY KATHERINE BURGESS

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Brian Krebs remembers holding a roll of tape in his hand, about a dozen guns pointed at his head. Two teenagers had called the police to Krebs’ house in Virginia in what is referred to as a swatting report. Krebs had been using a roll of tape as he worked around the house, and now thinks about how the police could have thought it was a weapon. “I’ve long said this needs to be attempted murder,” Krebs told The Wichita Eagle on Friday. “Nine times out of 10 nobody gets hurt or nobody gets seriously hurt, but things can go wrong.” Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter who covers cybersecurity, was a victim of swatting in 2013.

Swatting is when someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of a crime in progress – often with killing or hostages involved – in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address. It’s often related to online gaming, such as when SWAT teams arrived as a gamer in Colorado was live-streaming. Wichita police said swatting led to the shooting of a man in Wichita on Thursday night. Andrew Finch, 28, was shot and killed by a Wichita police officer when police responded to a false report of a killing and hostage situation. Online gamers said the person who made the swatting call was given the wrong address by his intended victim, sending police to Finch’s home. Finch’s mother said Finch

SWATTING IS WHEN SOMEONE MAKES A CALL TO A POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH A FALSE STORY OF A CRIME IN PROGRESS – OFTEN WITH KILLING OR HOSTAGES INVOLVED – IN AN ATTEMPT TO DRAW A LARGE NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS TO A PARTICULAR ADDRESS. was shot when he opened the door to investigate the flashing lights outside his home. She said her son, who was not armed, screamed when he saw a police officer and was shot. Wichita police said they ordered the man who appeared in the doorway to raise his hands, which he did. He then lowered them to his waist multiple times. The final time, he raised them quickly and officers thought he might be raising a gun. An offi-

cer then shot him. The FBI told The Wichita Eagle that it does not collect statistics on swatting, since it is investigated by local law enforcement. The bureau did tell The Verge in 2013 that it estimated there are around 400 swatting attacks per year. Miley Cyrus has been swatted twice. Other celebrities who’ve been targeted include Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber. Krebs said swatting is

“extraordinarily common.” Krebs said people who make these calls frequently can face stiff penalties, while others often get off free. Most of the time, the people making these calls aren’t caught, Krebs said. Seeking them out is expensive and when they are found, they’re often minors. The FBI estimates the average swatting incident costs $10,000, Krebs said. In Denver, a swatting incident cost law enforcement agencies an estimated $25,000 in 2015. A 2015 incident in Rochester, New York, was estimated to cost about $15,000. Stacey Wright, senior intel program manager at the Center for Internet Security, said another cost comes from law enforcement and first responders being unavailable to respond to real incidents. Officers who respond to a swatting call expect to find a hostage situation or an active shooter. “In most cases the people at that scene aren’t expecting law enforcement or first responders to show up, so they’re caught off guard,” Wright said. In Kansas, making a false call for emergency

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er of what happened. “There’s where he was shot,” Andrew Finch’s aunt, Lorrie HernandezCaballero, said, as she pointed to spots of blood on the home’s porch, and on the carpet just inside the door. “They (police) had to take the screen door as evidence.” After she heard the shot, Finch said she walked out of her bedroom and into the kitchen. A door leading from the kitchen to the side yard was open, she said. “The police said, ‘Come out with your hands up,’” she said. “(The officer) took me, my roommate and my granddaughter, who witnessed the shooting and had to step over her dying uncle’s body.” The family was handcuffed, taken outside and placed into separate police cruisers, she said. They were taken downtown and interviewed by Wichita police officers. Asked if the family has

talked to investigators from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Finch said they were told KBI investigators would contact them. But they have questions now. “What gives the cops the right to open fire?” Finch asked. “Why didn’t they give him the same warning they gave us? That cop murdered my son over a false report.” Finch and HernandezCaballero said they want to see the officer – identified only as a 7 1/2-year veteran of the department – and the person who made the false report held accountable. “The person who made the phone call took my nephew, her son, two kids’ father,” Hernandez-Caballero said. “How does it feel to be a murderer? I can’t believe people do this on purpose.” Online gamers have said in multiple Twitter

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Lisa Finch, surrounded by family members, reacts to the killing of her son, Andrew Finch, who was shot Thursday evening by police.

posts that the shooting was the result of a “swatting” call involving two gamers. Andrew Finch was not involved in the online game, according to his mother and people in the gaming community. “He doesn’t play video games,” Finch said. “He has better things to do with his time.” Swatting is an internet hoax where someone makes a call to a police department with a false

story of an ongoing crime – often with killing or hostages involved – in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address. Swatting has gained traction across the country with online gamers. Those who try to cause the swatting incident will use caller ID spoofing or other techniques to disguise their number as being local. Or they call local non-emergency numbers instead of 911, according

to 911.gov. On Twitter, more than a dozen people who identified themselves as being in the gaming community told The Eagle that a feud between two Call of Duty players sparked one to initiate a “swatting.” “I DIDNT GET ANYONE KILLED BECAUSE I DIDNT DISCHARGE A WEAPON AND BEING A SWAT MEMBER ISNT MY PROFESSION,” said one gamer on Twitter, who others

public assistance is a class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in the county jail, a fine of up to $2,500 or both. Some false calls to police can instead be a felony, punished with up to 13 months in prison for a first-time offender. However, a 12-year-old in California was sentenced to two years in juvenile detention after swatting two celebrities in 2013, according to CNN. A 19-year-old in Massachusetts was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison in 2009 for what the FBI called a “swatting conspiracy.” In 2016, a 43-year-old man received seven years in federal prison for swatting and resisting arrest. His co-defendant was given five years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $80,000 in restitution. It can be unclear who should investigate or prosecute a case of swatting, the New York Times reports, particularly if calls are placed from different states or even different countries. There have been attempts to make swatting a federal crime. In 2015 Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts introduced the Interstate Swatting Hoax Act, which was referred to a subcommittee and never received a vote. In June, she introduced the Online Safety Modernization Act of 2017, which would also make “false communications to cause an emergency response” a criminal violation. It also has been referred to subcommittee. Clark found her own home swarmed with police after someone made a false report of a shooter at her house, not long after she sponsored the Interstate Swatting Hoax Act. Wright said when she first heard about swatting in the mid-2000s, the goal was just to get law enforcement or first responders to act. Now, it’s transformed into something more malicious, with people targeting individuals out of spite or a desire for revenge. Krebs said he takes issue with people calling swatting a “prank.” “I think using the word prank is way too light of a term to toss around with something like this,” Krebs said. “It’s a crime is what it is. It’s a potentially deadly crime.” Katherine Burgess: 316-268-6400, @KathsBurgess

said made the swatting call. His account was suspended overnight. According to posts on Twitter, two gamers were arguing when one threatened to target the other with a “swatting.” The person who was the target of the swatting gave the other gamer a false address, which sent police to Finch’s home instead of his own, according to Twitter posts. Livingston declined to say where the person who made the call might live, citing an ongoing investigation. Andrew Finch leaves behind two children – ages 2 and 7. He is from Virginia and the family moved to Wichita in the mid-1990s. “He was very kind and caring,” Finch said. “He was in gifted classes. He was very artistic. He would draw any picture ... He would do anything for his family.” Nichole Manna: 316-269-6752, @NicholeManna

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caller ID spoofing or other techniques to disguise their number as being local. Or they call local non-emergency numbers instead of 911, according to 911.gov. THE CALL At 6:18 p.m., an officer working at City Hall received a call from an unknown man who said there was a disturbance with his father. When dispatchers spoke with the caller, he said he got into an argument with his mother and shot his father. “They were arguing and I shot him in the head, and he’s not breathing anymore,” the caller said. Asked if he had any weapons on him, the caller said, “Yeah I do.” He then said he was standing by his mother’s closet holding a black handgun. “I’m just pointing the gun at them, making sure they stay in the closet,” the caller said. When the dispatcher asked if he could put the gun down, he said no. He then made further threats. “I already poured gasoline all over the house, I might just set it on fire,” he told the dispatcher. “Do you have my address correct?” He then described a one-story house and again said his father wasn’t breathing. “It’s giving me anxiety, making me paranoid,” he said. When the dispatcher asked if the man was white, black, Asian or Hispanic, heavy breathing could be heard. Then the call disconnected.

OFFICERS ARRIVE As officers arrived to 1033 W. McCormick, Livingston said they were prepared for a hostage situation and were posted on the east, west and north sides of the house. However, there was no hostage situation and family members of the man shot — identified by family as Andrew “Andy” Finch — said he doesn’t play video games. His mother, Lisa Finch, said Finch saw police lights outside, and opened the door to see what happened. She heard him scream, then said she heard one shot fired. Livingston provided this account of what happened when Finch opened the door: “Officers gave him several verbal commands to put his hands up and walk towards them. The male complied for a very short time and then put his hands back down to his waist. The officers continued to give him verbal commands to put his hands up, and he lowered them again. “The male then turned towards the officers on the east side of the residence, lowered his hands to the waistband again, then suddenly pulled them back up towards those officers at the east. “The officers on the north side of the street feared the male pulled a weapon from his waistband, retrieved a gun and was in the process of pointing it at the officers to the east. Fearing for those officers’ safety, the officer on the north side fired one round.” Officers removed four people from the house and

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On Friday afternoon, Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston went through a timeline of events and released audio of the 911 call and what dispatchers relayed to officers.

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then searched it. They discovered there were no hostages or deceased people, Livingston said. Emergency medical crews were standing nearby, he said. “They can’t go in and treat somebody until the house is cleared and made safe,” he said. “An individual was shot at 6:47 and was at the hospital in about 17 minutes.” ‘TRAGIC AND SENSELESS’ The shooting was a tragic and senseless act, Livingston said. “The irresponsible acts of a prankster put people’s lives at risk,” he said.

“The incident is a nightmare for everyone involved, including the family and our police department. Due to the action of a prankster, we have an innocent victim. If the false police call had not been made, we would not have been there.” Wichita police are working with federal authorities to locate the person who made the 911 phone call, he said. He declined to comment on where the caller might live. Officers have been following up on leads found through social media, he said. On Twitter, more than a dozen people who identi-

fied themselves as being in the gaming community told The Eagle that a feud between two “Call of Duty” players sparked one to initiate a “swatting” call. After news began to spread about what happened Thursday night, the people in the gaming community, through Twitter posts, pointed at two gamers. “I DIDNT GET ANYONE KILLED BECAUSE I DIDNT DISCHARGE A WEAPON AND BEING A SWAT MEMBER ISNT MY PROFESSION,” said one gamer, who others said made the swatting call. His account was suspended overnight. According to posts on Twitter, two gamers were arguing when one threatened to target the other with a swatting call. The person who was the target of the swatting gave the other gamer a false address, which sent police to

a nearby home instead of his own, according to Twitter posts. The person who was to be the target of the swatting sent a Tweet saying, “Someone tried to swat me and got an innocent man killed.” Dexerto, a online news service focused on gaming and the “Call of Duty” game, reported the argument began over a $1 or $2 wager over the game. This is, Livingston said, the first time in his memory that Wichita police have dealt with a “swatting” call. If they have happened before, Livingston said, they didn’t rise to this level. “This prank phone call, we don’t see it as a prank,” he said. “It only heightened the awareness of the officers, which we think led to this deadly encounter.” Nichole Manna: 316-269-6752, @NicholeManna

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New Year’s Eve predicted to be coldest in 40-plus years BY EMILY WELLBORN

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CAR CRASHES INTO EAST WICHITA STRIP MALL

A Lincoln MKZ jumped a curb and ran into a window at Innovative Physical Therapy in the Carriage Parkway strip mall near Central and Edgemoor at around 9:45 a.m. Friday. Wichita fire, police and EMS responded to the call. No injuries were reported.

This New Year’s Eve will be dangerously cold. Kansans can expect subzero temperatures over the weekend, and the Kansas Division of Emergency Management wants to warn people about how hazardous these conditions can be. “These temperatures and wind chills can be deadly if you’re inadequately prepared,” said Jonathan York, response and recovery branch director of the division in a press release.

Wind chills are expected to be as low as -10 degrees Sunday and Monday and remain below zero into Tuesday. Botanica has canceled the fireworks planned for New Year’s Eve because of wind and low temperatures. Temperatures have not been this low on New Year’s Eve in Wichita since 1973, said Vanessa Pearce, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita. She said the frigid temperatures are caused by arctic air traveling from farther north than normal, “It’ll be 10 degrees for Wichita and single digits

Heart-warming moments of 2017: Solar eclipse, loveable baby hippo BY AMY FORLITI

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It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2017. The year was also filled with aweinspiring moments that united us and warmed the heart. The first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in a century bought millions together in what some could only describe as a primal experience. Thousands of immigrants took the oath of citizenship, realizing their dreams of becoming Americans. And one adorable baby, Fiona the hippopotamus, became a story of survival as she overcame the odds and tumbled into the world’s heart. The stories provided some lighthearted moments amid a series of deadly mass shootings, terrorist attacks, hurricanes, wildfires, sexual harassment scandals and other tragic news in 2017. Here’s a look at a few of the moving, unifying and just plain fun moments of 2017: YAY, SCIENCE! It seems nothing brought Americans together more than the first total solar eclipse to move across the U.S. in a century. For one moment in the middle of an August day, millions of people stopped what they were doing and gazed upward in wonder as the moon slipped over the sun — leaving a path of total darkness that stretched from Oregon to South Carolina. Some eclipse watchers sang, some danced and some were moved to tears. Kids

thought it was pure magic, and people traveled to remote sections of the country to get the best glimpse. A study by the University of Michigan, requested by NASA, estimated that 215 million American adults — or 88 percent of the country’s adult population — viewed the eclipse either directly or electronically. That’s 104 million more than the 2017 Super Bowl. “People were really just about nature, about this phenomenon that was happening,” said Mamta Patel Nagaraja, who works on public engagement for NASA. “It didn’t matter what color, creed, race, economic ladder you were on, people just went out and enjoyed it. “It transcended all the other things,” she said. #TEAMFIONA This little one wasn’t expected to make it. Fiona, a Nile hippopotamus, was just 29 pounds when she was born prematurely in January. After early health scares, she’s now thriving at more than 600 pounds. This sassy girl has become a symbol of survival — and the star attraction at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Fiona has captivated the masses and the Team Fiona craze isn’t slowing down. She stars in her own internet video series. Tens of millions have gone online to watch her take a bottle, splash in the pool or learn to run. T-shirts bear her image. She’s the subject of children’s books. An ice cream flavor and local brew are named in her honor. She gets so many cards and letters that she

has her own mail bin. Grown men will lean over the pool in their suits and ties to get close to her, said zoo director Thane Maynard. “It’s Fiona’s world, and we’re just living in it,” Maynard said. In her early, most vulnerable days, Fiona received letters and pictures from kids who were preemies themselves, urging her to stay strong. After nurses at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center helped care for the hippo, the zoo sent Fionathemed onesies to the preemies there. “We are working with Fiona and her story to spread a number of messages — one is a message of not giving up,” Maynard said. INSPIRING GENEROSITY Out of cash and out of gas on an interstate exit ramp in Philadelphia, Kate McClure found help from an unlikely source: a homeless man who told her to stay put, then used his last $20 to buy her gas. Johnny Bobbitt Jr.’s selflessness was not lost on McClure. She set up a GoFundMe page for the military veteran and former paramedic, and raised more than $400,000. Now Bobbitt has enough money to buy a home and his dream truck — a 1999 Ford Ranger. An attorney and financial adviser helped create a plan that will allow him to collect a small monthly salary and have some money for retirement. “YES!” OVER ROAST CHICKEN From a simple proposal over roast chicken to plans

for a royal wedding, news that Prince Harry is engaged to American actress Meghan Markle has many cheering. The story drew people in for many reasons. For one, it’s fun. The happiness exuded by the couple as they announced their engagement was contagious, while details of their courtship read like a fairy tale. Harry, an army veteran who had a one-time badboy image but is now devoted to wounded veterans and charitable causes, met Markle on a blind date. The prince later said that’s when he realized he needed to up his game to win her heart. They grew closer while camping in Botswana, and now there

is talk of starting a family. But for some black women the engagement offered more than entertainment. It gave them a Cinderella story they could picture themselves in. Markle, who is divorced, is bi-racial and will be the first woman of color in modern history to join the British royal family.

for a chunk of the state and those are the highs,” she said. The emergency management division said people should wear multiple thin layers instead of a few thick ones to stay better insulated, bring in outdoor pets or make sure they have insulated shelter and work outside only for short periods with a partner. Before traveling, check tire pressure and fluid levels. Pearce recommended keeping emergency supplies in your vehicle in case you are stranded. This should include a first aid kit, jumper cables, nonperishable food, a tow rope or chain, and an ice scraper.

PROUD AMERICANS Manny Macias came to America when he was just 3 months old. Three decades later, he became a citizen of the only place he’s called home. “The U.S. has always been home for me,” said Macias. “Now it’s official.” The federal government says more than 600,000 people became naturalized U.S. citizens in the first nine months of 2017. Macias, 31, said he’s now glad to be able to vote, have more stability and live without fear of being deported.

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AREA OBITUARIES AUGUSTA-Price, Mary W. DERBY-Thomson, Glenita

LOCAL DEATHS Aaron Thompson, 47, died Dec. 28, 2017. Services are currently pending with Robert J. Bethea, Jr. Funerals and Cremations Hudson, David L. 76, died Dec. 26, 2017. Service 2pm Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017 at DeVorss Flanagan-Hunt Mortuary.

Jameson, Jaxon Vaughn died Dec. 28, 2017. Service 12 pm, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at Calvary Baptist Church. Jackson Mortuary. Meyers, Gina R. 56, died Dec. 28, 2017. Service 1pm Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at Resthaven Mortuary. Neal, Mary 94, Dec. 29, 2017. Service pending with Biglow Funeral Directors. Ramsey, Betty Ann 81, died Dec. 25, 2017. Service 10 am Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 at Broadway Mortuary. Young, Doris Law (Smaltz)(Csensick) 84, died Dec. 18, 2017. Services at a later date. Baker Funeral Home.

AREA DEATHS ANTHONY-Stein, Violet M. 89, died. Dec. 27, 2017. Service 10 am Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at Prairie Rose Funeral Home. Brown, Janet 39, died Dec. 18, 2017. Service 11 am Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017 at Biglow Funeral Chapel. Clearwater-Woods, Gary A. 81, died Dec. 28, 2017. Service 11 am Wednesday, Ja. 3, 2018 at First Christian Church, Clearwater. Webb-Shinkle Mortuary CONWAY SPRINGS-Cranmer, Ashley A. 99, died Dec. 25, 2017. Service 11 am Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 at United Methodist Church. Ebersole Mortuary GREAT BEND-Kroeker, Alfred D. 100, died Dec, 18, 2017. Service 10:30 am Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 at Bryant Funeral Home GREAT BEND-Marshall, Leila June 93, died Dec. 23, 2017. Service 11 am Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 at First Church of the Nazarene, Bryant Funeral Home. HILLSBORO-Dirks, Betty 86, Dec. 29, 2017. Service 10 am Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018 at Parkview Mennonite Brethern Church. Jost Funeral Home. KINGMAN-Geesling, Donald L. "Don" 98, died Dec. 28, 2017. Service 1:30pm Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at Kingman United Methodist Church. Livingston Funeral Home. LARNED-Schulze, Jacquelynn Murphy 75, died Dec. 27, 2017. Service 11am Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at Larned United Methodist Church. Beckwith Mortuary MCPHERSON-Burke, Robert A. "Bob" died Dec. 29, 2017. Services are pending with Stockham Family Funeral Home. MCPHERSON-White, Sheryl L. 72, died Dec. 28, 2017. Service 10:30 am Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018 at First United Methodist Church. Stockham Family Funeral Home. NEWTON-Smith-Perfett, Marguerite N. 89, died Dec. 24, 2017. Service 11 am Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 at Trinity Heights United Methodist Church. Broadway Colonial Funeral Home. PRATT-Kneller, Carol 71, died Dec. 27, 2017. Service 2pm Thursday, Jan 4, 2018 at Woodlawn Cemetery in Pomona, Larrison Mortuary. PRATT-Parks, Patty 77, died Dec. 28, 2017. Private family service at later date. Larrison Mortuary. ULYSSES-Covey, Opal Mxine (Stimatze) 93, died Dec. 28, 2017. Service 2pm Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at Shelton Memorial Christian Church. Garnand Funeral Home.

Allen, Regina Rae (Phelps) joined Jesus, her father, mother and a sister in Heaven on December 27th, 2017. Regina was a beloved Instructional Paraeducator with Goddard Academy. She deeply loved all the students and fellow teachers. In that, she found great joy. Regina was born on July 5, 1958 in Beaver, Oklahoma to proud parents, Robert & Melba Phelps. Melba preceded Regina in death. She was also blessed with a wonderful stepmother, Vernetta Phelps, for 45 years, On May 28, 1976 Regina married Joseph L. Allen. They were blessed with two handsome sons; Brian L. Allen and Brent R. Allen. She was also survived by daughter-in-law Haley L. Allen, grandchildren Austin L Allen, Corbyn M. Allen and Rylee R. Allen plus 3 sisters and 1 brother. Services will be held Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 1:00pm at Wulf-Ast Mortuary, 911 Biermann, Garden .

83, passed away in Wichita, KS on the morning of Thursday, December 28, 2017. Mary was preceded in death by her father, David L. Estes, Sr.; mother, Geraldine Estes; brothers, Jerry M. Estes, David L. Estes, Jr., Billy W. Estes, and Bob Estes. Mary was born in Centralia, IL and grew up in Lexington, KY. She taught school in several places, the longest at Emporia State University, Emporia, KS. She began a second career with the United States Postal Service in 1981. She served as a letter carrier, training and development specialist, and Postmaster. Survived by her significant other, Yvonne Slingerland of Wichita; 12 nieces and nephews; numerous great-nieces and nephews. Memorial Service will be at 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, January 3, 2017, at Downing & Lahey East Mortuary. Memorials have been established with: Wichita Children’s Home, 7271 E. 37th St. N., Wichita, KS, 67226, Cats in Peril c/o the Cat Hospital of Wichita, 6130 E. Central, Ste. 100, Wichita, KS 67208. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com

Karlin, James Francis age 81, of Wichita, KS, passed away on December 27, 2017 at Via Christi St. Francis Harry Hynes Hospice Unit in Wichita, KS. He worked for 41 years as an electrician for Derby Refining Company. He is preceded in death by his parents; three daughters, Debra Karlin, Diane Karlin and Dee Boyer; one grandson, Jason Curry; one sister, Vivian Bell; and one brother, Donald Karlin; Survivors include his loving wife of 61 years, Jo; son, Dan Karlin; two daughters, Denise Karlin and Dana Sweetwood (Greg); four brothers, Bob Walterscheid (Mary Kay), Karl Karlin (Rae), Leo Karlin (Delmarie), John Karlin; sister, Virginia Edwards (John); seven grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren. Rosary will be held on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 7:00 P.M. at St. Anthony - St. Rose Catholic Church. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Anthony - St. Rose Catholic Church on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 10:00 A.M. Father Hung Pham will officiate. Interment will follow the service at Prairie Lawn Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 from 1:00 until 5:00 P.M. A memorial has been established with St. Joseph’s Indian School in lieu of flowers. Contributions can be left or mailed to the funeral home. Frank Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements. To leave condolences or sign our guest book, please visit our website at www.frankfuneralhome.net

Stephenson, Everett Southward "Steve" Jr. died Thursday, December 28, 2017, in Wichita. Steve was born on July 21, 1923, in Topeka, KS and recently celebrated his 94th birthday. He graduated from East High and Kansas State University. He served in WWII in the 355th Infantry Regiment, 89th Infantry Division, Company B and was selected for training as Navigator in the Army Air Force. Steve was the Vice President of the Investment and Trust Department at Kansas State Bank and an Investment Broker with Cooper Malone McClain, Inc. He was also a Mason, Shriner and a lifelong member of St. James Episcopal Church. He is survived by his wife, Frances, of Wichita; sons, Brent Branham (Deny) of Dallas, Scott Branham of Santa Cruz, CA; daughters, Sarah Coleman of San Francisco, Martha Stephenson of Portland, OR; six grandchildren, Tom, Caroline, Patrick, Jack, Sarah, and Will; three great-grandchildren, Addison, Tyler and Eli. Memorial Service will be at 1:30 P.M., Saturday, December 30, 2017, at St. James Episcopal Church. A memorial has been established with St. James Episcopal Church, 3750 E. Douglas Ave., Wichita, KS 67208. Downing & Lahey Mortuary - East Chapel. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com

Mystery writer dies, leaving ‘alphabet series’ at ‘Y’ Associated Press LOS ANGELES

Sue Grafton, author of

the best-selling “alphabet series” of mystery novels, has died in Santa Barbara. She was 77. Grafton was surrounded by family, including hus-

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Tidemann, L. Mary born December 10, 1924 in Vancouver, Canada passed away December 29, 2017. At the age of two, Mary along with two of her sisters moved to Carpenter, South Dakota after her mother’s death. She was raised there by her Aunt Gussie and Uncle Jim. She graduated from Willow Lake High School in 1943 and received her teaching degree from Eastern State Normal School in Madison, South Dakota. She married Don Tidemann in June 1947 where she taught school at Bradley, South Dakota. In 1949 she and Don moved to Wichita, Kansas and purchased Sta-Krisp Potato Chip Company. She was preceded in death by her sisters, Ruth and Marion; and husband, Don. She is survived by her sister, Margaret in Victoria, Canada; sons, Grant (Anita) Tidemann, and Ross (Karma) Tidemann; daughter, Jean (Jeff) Baldwin; five grandchildren, Kari, Brandon, Ryan, Bradley, and Bria; 11 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Mary was a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church for more than 65 years where she will be missed by her many friends. Mary was active, still driving to church, remained in good health and lived and was cared for by friends and staff at the Regent Independent Living Facility in Wichita, Kansas. Services to be held at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1101 N. River Blvd., Wichita, Kansas on Thursday, January 4, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established with Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. Downing & Lahey East Mortuary. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com

Williams, Sr., Robert Thomas Bob was born September 27, 1937, and died December 23, 2017, in his home, with his loved ones around him. He was a good man and a warm and loving husband, father, grandfather and friend. He was born in Ft. Dodge, Iowa, the sixth child of seven born to Lydia and Elmer Williams. Bob was confirmed in the Lutheran church at age 13. He graduated from Ft. Dodge High School with the class of 1955, and after serving in the Navy from 1955 to 1958, received a B.A. degree in accounting and economics from the University of Iowa in 1962. He proudly worked for the U.S. Government for 30 years and considered it service to his country. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; his children, Robert (Rebecca), Matthew (Patricia), Rebecca (Joel) McGill, and Amy (Chris) Ringstaff; stepdaughters, Suzanne (Steve) Castro-Miller, and Joan (Stan) Miller; and 20 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church on Saturday, December 30 at 10:00 am. Memorial Contributions may be sent to Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 8021 W. 21st St. N., Wichita, KS, 67205 or HopeNet, Inc., 2501 E. Central, Wichita, KS 67214. Share condolences at www.CozineMemorial.com. Services by Broadway Mortuary.

AUGUSTA-Price, Mary W. 87, passed away, Sun., Dec. 24, 2017. Service 10 am Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017, at First Baptist Church, Augusta. Burial 1:30 at Resthaven Cemetery, Wichita. Memorial: Shriners Hospital for Children or Kindred Hospice.

Thomas, Susan Maria (Moore) Age 59, passed away at her home Dec. 22, 2017. With dignity and grace, Susan was released from her earthly shackles while in her husband’s arms, surrounded by family and friends. She will be missed more than a heart can bear. With never a negative word, she loved life, family and friends. Her passions were dance, song birds, butterflies, and flowers. She was born in Wichita, KS where she spent her entire life. She is survived by her adoring husband, David F. Thomas, and four siblings; Shelby Huslig (Fowler, KS), Jane Church (Michigan), Shari Rutschman (Newton, KS) and Michael Moore (Newton, KS). She was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph and Melba (Milligan) Moore. The family wishes to publicly acknowledge the loving care and support of Dr. James Delmore who helped keep her with us for 29 years. A private memorial will be held Spring 2018. Friends and family will be notified. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Wichita Botanica.

SUE GRAFTON, 1940-2017

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band Steven Humphrey, when she died Thursday after a two-year battle with cancer, her daughter, Jamie Clark, posted on the author’s website.

“Although we knew this was coming, it was unexpected and fast. She had been fine up until just a few days ago, and then things moved quickly,”

DERBY-Thomson, Glenita 84, passed away Wednesday, December 27, 2017. Visitation 1-8 pm, Monday, January 1; funeral service 11 am, Tuesday, January 2, both at Smith Family Mortuary, 1415 N. Rock Rd., Derby. She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, and step-sons, Richard and Ryan. Survived by her husband, Harold; daughter Rhonda (Roy) Hayes; granddaughter, Heather (Joey) Scheid; and great-grandson R.D. Scheid. In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established with Victory in the Valley, 3755 E. Douglas Ave., Wichita, KS 67218. View tributes at www.SmithFamilyMortuaries.com.

the posting said. Grafton began her “alphabet series” in 1982 with “A is for Alibi.” Her most recent book, “Y is for Yesterday,” was published in August. “Many of you also know that she was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV

shows, and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name,” her daughter wrote. “Because of all of those things, and out of the deep abiding love and respect for our dear sweet Sue, as far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y.”

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Deep freeze causes headaches on US roadways The glow of a white Christmas is long gone. Now it’s just winter for the Midwest and East Coast, where bitter temperatures and snow squalls have been blamed for a handful of deaths and canceled a long list of New Year’s celebrations. Icy roadways in central Michigan caused more 30 crashes near Flint on Friday morning. Coastal South Carolina saw a rare bout of freezing rain and drizzle on Friday that forced bridges to shut down for de-icing. Police in the Cincinnati area say a half-dozen cars have been stolen after being left running by owners trying to warm them up. — ASSOCIATED PRESS EPA, U.S. Coast Guard handout

US might hold back $255M from Pakistan U.S. officials saw a potential intelligence windfall after Pakistan captured a member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network who could perhaps provide valuable information about an American hostage. The Americans demanded access to the man, but Pakistani officials rejected those requests. Now, the Trump administration is strongly considering whether to withhold $255 million in aid that it had delayed sending to Islamabad, according to U.S. officials, as a show of dissatisfaction with Pakistan’s broader intransigence toward confronting terrorist networks.

After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration imposed new rules on offshore drilling to improve safety. The Trump administration on Friday said those rules are an unnecessary burden.

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the rules are an unnecessary burden on industry and rolling them back will encourage more energy production. An offshore-drilling group welcomed the rollback, while environmentalists said President Donald Trump was raising the risk of more deadly oil spills. A division of the Interior

Department published the proposed change Friday in the Federal Register. The public will have until Jan. 29 to comment. The Obama administration imposed tougher rules last year in response to the 2010 explosion on a drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon and used by BP. The accident killed 11 workers and trig-

gered a massive oil spill. The Obama rules targeted blowout preventers, massive valve-like devices designed to prevent spills from wells on the ocean floor. The preventer used by BP failed. The rules required more frequent inspections of those and other devices and dictated that experts onshore monitor drilling of highly complex wells in real time. In its notice Friday, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, an office of the Interior Department that regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, said some provisions in the rules created “potentially unduly burdensome requirements” on oil and gas operators “without significantly increas-

ing safety of the workers or protection of the environment.” The bureau said that, when practical, it would give industry flexibility to meet safety and equipment standards rather than insisting on specific compliance methods. The agency estimated that revising some rules and removing others would save the energy industry at least $228 million over 10 years. Oil industry groups have complained about the potential cost of complying with the rules and predicted they would threaten thousands of jobs. Randall Luthi, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, said in a statement that the Trump administration’s rollback was a step toward regulatory reform. He said safety experts in the offshore energy industry would now have the chance to comment on the regulations and “assure the nation’s offshore energy resources are developed safely and expeditiously.” But Miyoko Sakashita, ocean-program director for an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, said rolling back drilling-safety standards was a recipe for disaster. “By tossing aside the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Trump is putting our coasts and wildlife at risk of more deadly oil spills,” Sakashita said in a statement. “Reversing offshore safety rules isn’t just deregulation, it’s willful ignorance.”

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Gunfire at Coptic church in Cairo kills at least 10 A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire Friday outside a church in a Cairo suburb and at a nearby store, sparking a shootout that killed at least 10 people, including eight Coptic Christians, the gunman and a police officer, Egyptian authorities said. The attack began when a gunman tried to break through the security cordon outside the Coptic Church of Mar Mina. It was not clear how many assailants were involved. The local affiliate of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility. Security had been tightened ahead of the Coptic Orthodox celebration of Christmas on Jan. 7. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

Evacuations leave behind hundreds of Syrian patients More than 400 patients on a U.N. list waiting for evacuations from a siege in Syria were left behind Friday as the Red Cross said it had finished transferring just 29 people and their families to Damascus for medical care. It took the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent three days to evacuate the patients and their family members from the eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus to hospitals just minutes away, underscoring the degree to which authorities have obstructed basic relief work. The government refused to allow any evacuations until this week. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ship suspected of sending oil to North Korea seized BY CHOE SANG-HUN

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South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker accused of transferring 600 tons of refined oil to a North Korean ship in October in violation of United Nations sanctions, South Korean officials said Friday. Officials revealed that they had impounded the 11,253-ton tanker, the Lighthouse Winmore, and questioned its crew. The revelation came a day after President Donald Trump accused China of letting fuel oil flow into North Korea through illicit shipto-ship transfers on international waters. There was no immediate evidence of official Chinese involvement in the Lighthouse Winmore’s dealings with the North Koreans. The registered owner of the ship is a Hong Kong company called Win More Shipping. The only director of that company is Gong Ruiqiang, who lives in Guangzhou, China, according to Hong Kong corporate filings. The ship was being leased by a Taiwanese company, South Korean Foreign Ministry officials told reporters Friday. The Lighthouse Winmore docked at the South Korean port of Yeosu on Oct. 11 to load 14,039 tons of refined petroleum from Japan, they said. Four days later, it departed Yeosu, saying it was headed for Taiwan. Instead, it transferred the refined oil to four other ships in international waters, including

600 tons transferred to the North Korean ship Sam Jong 2 on Oct. 19, officials said. A similar ship-to-ship transfer involving another North Korean ship, Rye Song Gang 1, was captured in satellite photos released by the U.S. Treasury Department on Nov. 21, although the department did not release the name of the other ship involved in the high-seas transaction. South Korean authorities boarded the Lighthouse Winmore and questioned its crew members when they returned to Yeosu on Nov. 24. Under those sanctions, countries cannot export more than a half million barrels of refined petroleum products, an 89 percent cut from previous annual shipments, and 4 million barrels of crude oil in total per year to North Korea. They are required to report their oil shipments to the North so that the Security Council can keep a real-time update of the aggregate amount and determine whether the caps have been reached. The Security Council has also banned ship-to-ship transfers of oil on the high seas because they can be used as a loophole to avoid the sanctions. The Lighthouse Winmore remains in South Korean custody, officials said Friday. Its 25 crewmen – 23 Chinese citizens and two men from Myanmar – will be allowed to leave after the investigation is over.

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Betty Rodriguez and her husband, Joel Rodriguez, are residents of the building where 12 people died in a fire in the Bronx borough of New York.

Preschooler playing with stove caused deadly Bronx fire BY BENJAMIN MUELLER AND VIVIAN WANG

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A Bronx fire that killed 12 people was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a stove, authorities said Friday. “It seems like a horrible, tragic accident,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on WNYC radio. The blaze, which killed four children in the fivestory building at 2363 Prospect Ave. in Belmont, was the city’s deadliest in more than a quarter-century. It made December the deadliest month for fires in New York City in a decade, said Daniel A. Nigro, city fire commissioner. The boy playing with the stove in a first-floor apartment screamed when the fire began, sending his mother rushing into the kitchen as it filled with smoke and flames, Nigro

said. She ran out of the apartment with the boy and a 2-year-old child, but left the door open, allowing fire to shoot out of the kitchen and into the stairwell, Nigro said. “Fire travels up,” Nigro said. “The stairway acted like a chimney.” The passageway filled with smoke and flames, blocking some people from running downstairs and killing others who tried. When firefighters arrived, about three minutes after the first 911 calls, as many as 20 people were scurrying down the fire escape, Nigro said. The dead included Karen Stewart-Francis, 37; and her two daughters, Kylie Francis, 2, and Kelly Francis, 7; and her niece Shawntay Young, 19. They were part of a family from Jamaica that had 13 members living in the building, said Stewart-Francis’s mother, Ambrozia Stewart. “My daughter. My

grandchildren. Tell me, what am I going to do?” Stewart wailed, standing near the building Friday morning as a generator and sirens whirred in the background. “Four people I lost.” Her son-in-law, Holt Francis, was in a coma at Jacobi Medical Center, Stewart said. Shevan Stewart, a sister of Stewart-Francis, leaned her head on her mother’s shoulder Friday morning, tears streaming down her cheeks. She said she had been watching television in her first-floor apartment Thursday when she heard someone yell “Fire!” and then grabbed her passport and ID before emerging into a wall of smoke. From outside, she called a relative in the building. “We kept on calling – call, call, call,” she said. But there was no answer. None of the names of the others who died have been released. They included a 1-year-old girl, a boy whose age was not given, a 63-year-old woman and a man who died at the scene, and another woman and three men who were pronounced dead at hospitals. Four people remained hospitalized with critical injuries, “fighting for their lives right now,” de Blasio said. Temperatures were in the teens Thursday night, and stiff winds made it feel below zero, complicating the task for firefighters. Water leaking from hoses froze in streaks on the concrete as displaced residents walked around draped in American Red Cross blankets. The 12 fatalities made the fire the deadliest since an inferno at the Happy Land Social Club – less than a mile from Thursday’s blaze – killed 87 people in 1990.

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TWIN BUSINESSES With the news that Chick N Max is going to be the third business opening in the new retail center in front of Twin Lakes, it seems like a good time for an update

STOCKS SLIDE ON LAST TRADING DAY OF 2017 Wall Street capped 2017 with a loss, weighed down by a broad slide in light trading ahead of the New Year’s holiday. Technology companies, banks and health care stocks accounted for much of the market’s decline. Energy stocks also fell. Despite the downbeat end to the week, the U.S. stock market finished 2017 with its strongest year since 2013. The Standard & Poor’s

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high end. You cannot talk about the 2017 stock market without including the torrid returns of technology stocks, led by the so-called FANGs – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google’s parent Alphabet. They were all home runs. Amazon (whose founder Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post), Facebook and Netflix all locked in gains of about 55 percent for the year. Alphabet was up more than 30 percent, and Microsoft was up 38 percent. Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial Network, also sees the market at a sweet spot – at least for the first half of 2018.

love to have … one right by the river.” Also, he says, “Somewhere in Delano would be awesome.” Arif says he’d like to move quickly. “As quickly as land is available.” Huddle House isn’t the only restaurant he has in the works. Arif, who owns Avivo Brick Oven Pizzeria in NewMarket Square, has something else planned for the center at 21st and Maize Road. It’s nothing like either of his other concepts. Look for more information early next week.

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For the first time, the almost 4-year-old Smash Dev Shop now has an official office. “We were actually working out of our home … saving on overhead,” CEO Maggie Schoonover says. She owns the business with her husband, chief technology officer Greg Crown, and her mother, CFO Margaret Schoonover. They started the custom software development company in 2014 to do custom software engineering and computer programming. They also build web and mobile applications in Wichita and the region. The company has grown with a couple of extra developers for five total employees who now all work at 1136 N. Bitting in Riverside, which is by R Coffee House and Songbird Juice Co. “We found it’s not only easier but more fun to work together in a group setting,” Maggie Schoonover says. She says the office serves another function as well. “I think it legitimizes the business as not being a flash in the pan.” Stephanie Wise of John T. Arnold Associates handled the deal. Schoonover wants to eventually hire more developers. “Hopefully, as long as the company continues to grow.”

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Smash Dev Shop owners Greg Crown and Maggie Schoonover in front of their business’ first office, which is by R Coffee House and Songbird Juice Co. in Riverside.

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Smash Dev Shop opens first official office in Riverside on what’s happening with that center. Some people are wondering what’s opening there, and others are wondering what’s taking so long. Lawyer Abdul Arif is building the center, which is next to the Pizza Hut along 21st Street just east of Amidon. He’s planning to move

his office there and open a Huddle House breakfast restaurant. “We had already started construction when the Chick N Max (deal) came along,” Arif says. “Because of the Chick N Max, our plans got delayed by four months by the time they got their drivethrough and building plans put together.”

He says he had to resolve some issues over the drive-through with the Twin Lakes owner. “That took some time.” Arif also had to get approval from Huddle House. “We kind of pulled everything together, and we’re back on track.” He says walls will begin going up in the next week

or so. Arif hopes to open Huddle House by the middle of April. Chick N Max will follow in early summer. Arif also purchased the rights to open another Huddle House in Wichita. “Ideally, I’d like to do it downtown to cater to the crowd from Old Town and the arena after hours,” he says. “We’d

500 index, the broadest measure of the stock market, gained 19.4 percent for the year. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the year with a 25.1 percent gain, setting 71 all-time highs along the way. The Nasdaq composite notched the biggest gain, an increase of 28.2 percent, while the Russell 2000 index of smallercompany stocks closed out 2017 with a gain of 13.1 percent.

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In the seconds after the tweet, shares of Amazon, which had been trading higher before the opening bell, began to fade and went into negative territory. The stock remained down almost 1 percent in late trading Friday. Between July and September, Amazon paid $5.4 billion in worldwide shipping costs, a 39 percent increase from the previous year.

APPLE OFFERS BATTERY DISCOUNT Apple says it will temporarily lower the price of replacing iPhone batteries, hoping to ease the backlash over its acknowledgment that it deliberately slowed down oldermodel iPhones. The announcement – along with an apology – came less than two weeks after the company said that to prevent iPhones with aging batteries from drawing too much power and abruptly shutting

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President Donald Trump on Friday said Amazon.com should be charged more by the U.S. Postal Service for the packages it sends around the world. In a tweet Friday, Trump said Amazon should be charged “MUCH MORE” by the post office because it’s “losing many billions of dollars a year” while it makes “Amazon richer.”

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NOW OPEN It’s almost two months later than she planned, but Maria Pinales finally got her second Tacos Lopez open on Friday. “Just a big mess with the hood” kept her from opening in early November as planned. Longtime fans of her restaurant at 795 N. West St. have been calling, e-mailing and stopping by 2110 N. Maize Road hoping it would be open. In fact, during final inspections on Friday, Pinales says there were customers sitting in the dining room waiting for a health department employee to finish. The traditional Mexican restaurant, which is in the same center where AAA is just south of 21st and Maize Road, has a drivethrough and seating for about 40. There’s no website for Tacos Lopez, but the phone number is 316-2605949. Reach Carrie Rengers at 316-268-6340 or crengers@wichitaeagle.com. Follow her on Twitter: @CarrieRengers.

down, it issued software updates to “smooth out” the power flow. Such smoothing can cause apps to launch more slowly. Since last week’s announcement, iPhone owners have filed at least 10 class-action lawsuits against Apple. Starting in early January and lasting through December 2018, Apple said, it will charge $29 to replace the battery of an iPhone 6 or later whose warranty has expired. — LOS ANGELES TIMES

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hether you were there in 1965 when the Roundhouse said thank you to “Dave the Rave,” or if 2006 is your idea of the good old days, when Wichita State’s basketball team made a run to the Sweet 16, you no doubt have waited for Saturday to arrive. Wichita State’s first basketball game is here against a fellow member of the American Athletic Conference, the Shockers’ new home. The eighthranked Shockers get to shed the mid-major letter jackets they’ve worn – or maybe been saddled with – for decades. WSU’s new conference was even nice enough to introduce the nation to its newest member on national television (CBS): 11 a.m. Saturday against four-time NCAA champion Connecticut in Hartford. This has been a long time coming for a successful program looking for bigger challenges. Shocker basketball was a national force in the 1960s, when it was a member of a Missouri Valley Conference that was as dominant nationally as any league. But as powerhouse programs began to leave for other conferences, the Missouri Valley dipped into a second-tier conference. Programs would occasionally play their way into national prominence – Larry Bird and Indiana State in 1979, WSU from 1981 to 1983 behind Antoine Carr, Cliff Levingston and Xavier McDaniel – but staying on the national stage was difficult. In the 1990s, a decade fans would like to erase, it looked as if WSU might never again be a national power, much less a top-25 team. Then three things happened: A Then-athletic director Jim Schaus hired Mark Turgeon, who had been a college head coach for two

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My Christmas wish is that the #NoTyson group will put the same passion into the lack of funding for social services in Kansas. The least amongst us are blessings and everyone’s responsibility.

seasons but whose pedigree included learning under legends Larry Brown and Roy Williams at Kansas. Turgeon slowly remade WSU into a Missouri Valley contender, reaching three National Invitation Tournaments before the 2006 team reached the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. A With Turgeon building, Schaus began fundraising for a badly needed renovation to 45-year-old Levitt Arena. The $25 million project kept the Roundhouse shell but most everything else was new, ending the long debate of whether WSU should refurbish its arena or wait for a downtown arena to be built and play games there. Koch Arena has been the right choice for almost 15 years. A When Turgeon left for Texas A&M after seven seasons, Schaus made another great hire when he brought in Gregg Marshall from Winthrop University, where he coached the Eagles to seven NCAA appearances. By Marshall’s fourth season, WSU won the NIT and a year later began a string of NCAA appearances that will reach seven in March. In 10-plus years under Marshall, WSU has won 75 percent of its games, reached the 2013 Final Four, gone 35-0 (NCAA record) before its only loss of 2013-14, beat in-state rival Kansas in the 2015 NCAAs, and raised its coach’s yearly salary to $3.3 million. OK, so maybe the midmajor label was lifted in 2013. But a new conference sealed the deal. Over the next two months, Shocker fans will confront the interesting dynamic of watching many more close games against better conference opponents than in the recent Valley days, when it was rare for a home game to be decided by a winning margin of less than 20 points. Enjoy the big time, Wichita State faithful. You and the Shockers have earned it.

Yes, I did not want Tyson here, but not because I don’t like chicken. I love chicken when it is fried, baked, fricasseed and cooked in any way. I just don’t like it slaughtered in my back yard. Is that wrong? To make kids good readers, you need to allow them to read anything they want when they’re young ... comic books, etc. They’ll move on as they get older. If the young lady is so grateful to Dr. Colyer, she should encourage him to return to fulltime practice so he can continue to help others as he did her. Kansas needs surgeons more than it needs politicians. A church with a nightclub. Don’t try to massage the reason; it’s a drinking establishment. We have reached the point where churches have invited the world in and they have changed the church rather than the other way around. The Democrats in Washington sure hate it when we get a reduction in taxes. It hurts them when they can’t raise them. Whereas President Obama did what he could to stifle America’s economy, President Trump is working to help let its economics grow for everyone. Lower federal taxes have worked to stimulate the economy every time.

Trump’s year of winning dangerously

BY DEROY MURDOCK

For President Donald Trump, 2017 concludes unlike how it commenced. Huge distractions arrived early, including court battles concerning Trump’s travel restrictions on terror-torn nations, a Niagara Falls of classified leaks, and loud threats of impeachment over alleged Russian collusion. Meanwhile, repealing and replacing Obamacare, expected to take just a few months, devolved into a quagmire that devoured time, energy, and morale. But 2017 ends as Trump’s Year of Winning Dangerously. He has navigated these and other troubled waters and de-

fied his liberal and conservative critics. As he puts it: “We are compiling a long and beautiful list” of achievements. While free traders and entitlement reformers could ask for more, nearly all of Trump’s triumphs are solidly conservative victories. Indeed, Trump has implemented policies over which the right has fantasized for years, sometimes decades. A The $1.5 trillion Tax Cut and Jobs Act is the most significant tax-policy overhaul since 1986. Beyond taxes, it also secures free-market priorities in energy, health care and school choice. A It permits petroleum development among 2,000 acres of the 19million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. While leaving literally 99.99 percent of ANWR untouched, the .01 percent available for drilling could yield up to 1.45 million barrels of oil daily,

equal to 14.5 percent of current domestic production. The GOP has tried to unlock ANWR since 1979. A The tax law makes enrollment in Obamacare voluntary by scrapping the individual-coverage mandate. Those who want Obamacare may keep it, but never again will anyone be penalized for rejecting Obamacare. While this will not kill Obama’s disastrous monstrosity immediately, this is the GOP’s greatest progress in snuffing Obamacare since 2010. A Thanks to an amendment by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, education saving accounts (529s) soon may accept tax-free deposits for K-12 education, not just college tuition. A Trump promised to kill two regulations for every new one he imposed. So far, he has scotched 22 new rules for every new one he has inflicted. Some 1,500 restrictions have been

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erased or postponed. A “This will not be quick,” Obama predicted about defeating ISIS in July 2015. “This is a longterm campaign.” Never mind. President Trump has made quick work of ISIS. The radicalIslamic caliphate once terrorized its subjects within an area the size of Ohio. Some 1,000 ISIS killers, down from 45,000, now control a few hellacious acres of Iraq and Syria. According to U.S. intelligence, 98 percent of ISIS’s former territory has been liberated, more than half under Trump. He unleashed U.S. advisors to make tactical decisions on the ground, rather than endlessly await White House permission to hit specific targets, as Obama demanded. This huge victory keeps Trump’s blunt promise from September 2016: “ISIS must be destroyed.” A All of this good news

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helped push stock markets to record highs, with the Dow up 25 percent since Trump’s swearing-in. The markets have generated some $5 trillion in new wealth since his election. Meanwhile, unemployment has plummeted to record lows in 13 states and the lowest nationwide in 17 years. Democrats will have trouble next November telling voters how Trump triggered what Nancy Pelosi calls “Armageddon,” even as their taxes drop, their wages climb, and bonus checks swell their bank accounts. “We’re going to win so much,” candidate Trump said in May 2016, “you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning.” None of these incredible gains has made anyone ill — so far. Still, with Trump’s leadership and the support of the Republican Congress, 2017 turned out to be a winning year. Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with National Review Online.

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So throwing money at education won’t work, they say, but throwing money at corporations will work? We’ll see. We need to elect Tom Hanks president in 2020. What could be wrong in the world with Tom Hanks at the helm? A writer wants to know how many visits to the ball of twine it takes to get bored. How about going just once, then you’d have more time to see and do all the other things in our state. This time of the year is so stressful. I am on pins and needles worrying about whether one of my Opinion Line posts will be featured in The Eagle’s “Best of Opinion Line” for 2017.

DAILY PRAYER God, comfort those who are ailing, injured or weak. Wrap them in compassion, calm their worries, and help them trust in your faithfulness. Amen.

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AAC basketball debut will be exciting, little scary BY TAYLOR ELDRIDGE

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Wichita State forward Darral Willis has scored in double-figures in seven straight games and accumulated four double-doubles.

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Willis sheds ‘Machine Gun’ moniker as he becomes a more consistent player BY TAYLOR ELDRIDGE

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Darral Willis shot so often when he touched the ball last season that WSU coach Gregg Marshall started calling him “Machine Gun” Willis in film breakdowns. That’s because 29.1 percent of WSU possessions when he was on the court ended in Willis’ hands, by far the highest rate on the team and a top-100 rate nationally. Still, the nickname bothered Willis and motivated him this summer to shed the label. Willis has responded with the most consistent play of his twoyear career. He has scored in double-figures in seven straight games and accumulated four double-doubles with averages of

12.8 points and 7.5 rebounds. And that usage rate? It’s still the highest on the team, but it’s down to 26.3 percent. No. 8 Wichita State (10-2) will open American Athletic Conference play Saturday at Connecticut (7-5). “I feel like I’m definitely taking way better shots than I did last year,” Willis said. “Last year (Marshall) was right, I was ‘Machine Gun’ Willis. I was shooting everything. But now I feel like I’m playing my best basketball and I’m trying to get my teammates more involved because that’s going to make it easier for me.” His improved passing is what stands out to coaches and teammates. He finished with just 23 assists in 36 games last season. He already has 15 assists this sea-

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Devin Davis quietly becoming another Auer all-timer at Heights BY HAYDEN BARBER

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When Devin Davis was a freshman, he was another scrawny, unathletic, wannabe shooter in coach Joe Auer’s stable of Heights basketball players. Davis made the junior varsity team and earned some playing time, but that was quickly taken away. He was demoted to the bench and forced to watch as his sidekicks won without him. Fast-forward three years and Davis was at the front of every drill during Thursday’s practice. He plays almost every minute and seemingly has Heights on a

path toward a state championship. “This is the most enjoyable season I’ve had playing basketball,” Davis said. “People listen. People trust me and trust Coach Auer.” Auer said throughout Davis’ first couple of years in the program, he sometimes sulked. He pouted when he missed a shot or struggled in practice. Clearly he wanted to succeed, but he was too immature to handle failure. He reflected. Davis’ freshman year, Heights won the Class 5A championship over Maize South behind a pair of senior leaders, Semaj Hervey and Chris Lowe. “I had never led; I wasn’t

son. Teammates point to the Arkansas State game as close to the best version of Willis: 14 points, 12 rebounds, three assists, no turnovers. “The biggest difference from last year to this year is he’s a more willing and better passer,” Shamet said. “He’s looking to the perimeter and I’ve noticed this year our little connection is a lot better than it was last year. He’s looking to make plays for others after he scores it a few times. “And the crazy thing is he has more in him. So he just has to continue to get better. He’s helping us a lot right now.” Willis’ two-point shooting has essentially remained the same from last season, but Willis’ offensive efficiency has increased thanks to his addition of a three-point stroke installed

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Wichita State's Darral Willis is averaging 12.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game this season for the Shockers.

Devin Davis comfortable with that,” Davis said. “But after being around those guys for a year, it helped me grow into the leader I am today, and coach trusts me to be that guy.” That is the situation he has fallen into in his last season wearing a Heights uniform. Those same teammates who were on the Wichita courts as freshmen remain, and Davis has become the unquestioned conductor.

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this summer. He only took one three-pointer last season; he has connected on nine in 12 games this season and is shooting 42 percent from beyond the arc. “I’m starting to see all of the work I put in over the summer start to pay off,” Willis said. “I’m starting to hit more shots from the outside. I’m a good driver, so I can either catch it and shoot or make something happen off the dribble for me or SEE WILLIS, 6B

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THIS IS THE MOST ENJOYABLE SEASON I’VE HAD PLAYING BASKETBALL. PEOPLE LISTEN. PEOPLE TRUST ME AND TRUST COACH AUER.

Growing up in Cincinnati, back when the Bearcats were a member of the Missouri Valley Conference, John Bardo used to join his father and listen to the basketball games on the radio. He had a special attachment to the conference well before he became the president of Wichita State in April 2012, so Saturday will be an emotional day for Bardo when he watches No. 8 Wichita State play at Connecticut in its nationally-televised debut in WSU’s new league, the American Athletic Conference. It’s difficult to assess the magnitude of the event as it’s happening, but Bardo is sure Saturday’s game will be a milestone for WSU athletics and the university. “As much as it tugs at my heart strings to leave a lifelong friend, at tip-off I’m going to be really excited and maybe even a little tearyeyed,” Bardo said. Wichita State basketball fans have eagerly anticipated the start of the conference season since the move was announced in April, but WSU athletic director Darron Boatright said the emotions will be different once the moment finally arrives Saturday. “All eyes across the nation will be watching our game and it’s going to be satisfying,” Boatright said. “It’s also a little scary. There’s a

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Wichita State guard Landry Shamet and teammate Shaq Morris bring the ball up the floor against Florida Gulf Coast last Friday at Koch Arena.

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Heights’ Devin Davis loses the handle of the ball as he goes up for a basket against Kapaun in the second half.

Braxton Kirkendoll is dropping 10 points per game. Deante Edwards has blossomed into the engine to the Falcons’ vehicle. And Curtis Profit said he knows his role, distributing to his playmakers and shooting when he needs to. In front of them all, Davis leads the team in scoring, avSEE DAVIS, 6B

How Kansas City rookie quarterback Patrick Mahomes impressed the Chiefs’ No. 1 defense. 3B

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Tuesday at Houston, 7 p.m. at Central Fla., 1 p.m. Jan. 6

WSU BASKETBALL Saturday at UConn, 11 a.m. (KWCH) Thursday Houston, 6 p.m. Jan. 7 S. Florida, 3 p.m.

WICHITA THUNDER Saturday Allen, 7 p.m. Sunday at Allen, 5 p.m. Jan. 5 Quad City, 7 p.m.

KU BASKETBALL Tuesday Texas Tech, 8 p.m. (ESPN2) Jan. 6 at TCU, 8:15 p.m. Jan. 9 Iowa St., 8 p.m. K-STATE BASKETBALL Monday W. Virginia, 4 p.m. (ESPNU) Jan. 6 at Texas Tech, 3 p.m. Jan. 10 Oklahoma St., 7 p.m.

THE HALL OF FAME ALMOST CERTAINLY ALREADY INCLUDES STEROID USERS, AND AS BUCK O’NEIL USED TO SAY, THE ONLY REASON PLAYERS OF THE PAST DIDN’T USE STEROIDS IS BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T AVAILABLE.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS Sunday at Broncos, 3:25 p.m. (KWCH) TBA AFC playoffs OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER Sunday Mavericks, 6 p.m. (FSKC) Wed. at Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Thursday at Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

WSU WOMEN Saturday Tulsa, 2 p.m.

ON THE AIR Saturday’s TV / radio COLLEGE BASKETBALL MEN Wichita St. at Connecticut, 11 a.m., KWCH, 103.7-FM Wake Forest at North Carolina, 11 a.m., ESPN2 Brown at Northwestern, 11 a.m., FS1 Miami (Ohio) at Ohio St., 11 a.m., ESPNU Fordham at VCU, 11:30 a.m., NBCSN Tennessee at Arkansas, noon, SEC Florida St. at Duke, 1 p.m., KWCH Georgia Tech at Notre Dame, 1 p.m., ESPN2 Boston College at Virginia, 1 p.m., FSKC DePaul at Xavier, 1 p.m., FS1 Oklahoma at TCU, 1 p.m., ESPNU, 1410-AM, 93.9-FM Harvard at Minnesota, 1 p.m., BTN Massachusetts at St. Bonaventure, 1:30 p.m., NBCSN Southern Mississippi at Western Kentucky, 2 p.m., FCSC Cornell at Auburn, 2:30 p.m., SEC Virginia at Butler, 3 p.m., KWCH Miami at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m., KSCW Vanderbilt at Florida, 3 p.m., ESPN2 Evansville at Loyola, 3 p.m., FSKC St. Mary’s at BYU, 3 p.m., ESPNU Mass.-Lowell at Wisconsin, 3 p.m., BTN Rockhurst at Newman, 3 p.m., 92.3-FM Georgetown at Marquette, 3:30 p.m., FS1 Davidson at Richmond, 3:30 p.m., NBCSN Texas A&M at Alabama, 5 p.m., ESPN2 Temple at Houston, 5 p.m., ESPNU Jacksonville at Michigan, 5 p.m., BTN Eastern Kentucky at Tennessee Tech, 6 p.m., CBSSN Lipscomb at Purdue, 7 p.m., BTN Arizona St. at Arizona, 8 p.m., PAC12 California at Stanford, 9 p.m., FS1

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL WOMEN Saint Mary at Newman, 1 p.m., 92.3-FM COLLEGE FOOTBALL TaxSlayer: Louisville vs. Mississippi St., 11 a.m., ESPN Liberty: Iowa St. vs. Memphis, 11:30 a.m., KAKE, 1240AM, 97.5-FM Fiesta: Washington vs. Penn St., 3:15 p.m., ESPN, 1240AM, 97.5-FM Orange: Wisconsin at Miami. 7:15 p.m., ESPN, 1240-AM, 97.5-FM COLLEGE HOCKEY Army at Minnesota, 7 p.m., FCSA HOCKEY World Junior: Czech Republic vs. Belarus, 11 a.m., NHL World Junior: Finland vs. Slovakia, 3 p.m., NHL World Junior: Denmark vs. Canada, 7 p.m., NHL MMA UFC 219 prelims, 7 p.m., FS1 NBA 76ers at Nuggets, 8 p.m., NBA SOCCER Serie A: Fiorentina vs. AC Milan, 5:30 a.m., beIN Serie A: Roma vs. Sassuoio, 8 a.m., beIN EPL, 9 a.m., NBCSN Serie A: Inter vs. Lazio, 11 a.m., beIN EPL: Man. United vs. Southampton, 11:30 a.m., KSNW Serie A: H. Verona vs. Juventus, 1:45 p.m., beIN

Sunday’s TV highlights NBA Mavericks at Thunder, 6 p.m., FSKC NFL Jets at Patriots, noon, KWCH Cowboys at Eagles, noon, KSAS Chiefs at Broncos, 3:25 p.m., KWCH Cardinals at Seahawks, 3:25 p.m., KSAS WICHITA-AREA TV SPORTS CHANNELS

Local networks: KAKE (ABC) is Cox 10, DirecTV 10, Dish 10, U-Verse 10; KMTW is Cox 6, DirecTV 36, Dish 36, U-Verse 36; KSAS (Fox) is Cox 4, DirecTV 24, Dish 24, U-Verse 24; KSCW is Cox 5, DirecTV 33, Dish 5, U-Verse 5; KSNW (NBC) is Cox 3, DirecTV 3, Dish 3, U-Verse 3; KWCH (CBS) is Cox 12, DirecTV 12, Dish 12, U-Verse 12; Cox 22 and 122 are available only on Cox. National networks: AXS is NA on Cox, DirecTV 340, Dish 167, U-Verse 1106; beIN is Cox 292, DirecTV 620, Dish 392, U-Verse 662; BTN is Cox 273-275, DirecTV 610, Dish 392, U-Verse 650; BYU is Cox 152, DirecTV 374, Dish 9403, U-Verse 567; CNBC is Cox 53, DirecTV 355, Dish 208, U-verse 216; CBSSN is Cox 260, DirecTV 221, Dish 158, U-Verse 643; ESPN is Cox 32, DirecTV 206; Dish 140, U-Verse 602; ESPN2 is Cox 33, DirecTV 209, Dish 144, U-Verse 606; ESPNU is Cox 244, DirecTV 208, Dish 141, U-Verse 605; ESPNC is Cox 246, DirecTV 614, NA on Dish, U-Verse 603; ESPNN is Cox 245, DirecTV 207, Dish 142, U-Verse 604; FBN is Cox 82, DorecTV 359, Dish 206, U-Verse 211; FCSA is Cox 264, DirecTV 608, NA on Dish, U-Verse 647; FCSC is Cox 265, DirecTV 623, NA on Dish, U-Verse 648; FCSP is Cox 266, DirecTV 626, NA on Dish, U-Verse 649; FS1 is Cox 60, DirecTV 219, Dish 150, U-Verse 652; FS2 is Cox 243, DirecTV 618, Dish 397, U-Verse 651; FSKC is Cox 34, DirecTV 671, Dish 418, U-Verse 750; FSN+ is Cox 76, DirecTV 646-680, NA on Dish, U-Verse 690s; Golf is Cox 79, DirecTV 218, Dish 401, U-Verse 641; Longhorn is Cox 285, DirecTV 677, Dish 407, U-Verse 611; MLB on Cox 263, DirecTV 213, Dish 152, U-Verse 634; NBA is Cox 259, DirecTV 216, Dish 156, U-Verse 632; NBCSN is Cox 78, DirecTV 220, Dish 159, U-Verse 640; NFL is Cox 261, DirecTV 212, Dish 154, U-Verse 630; NHL is Cox 262, DirecTV 215, Dish 157, U-Verse 638; Pac-12 is Cox 247, NA on DirecTV, Dish 406, U-Verse 759; SEC is Cox 276-277, DirecTV 611, Dish 408, U-Verse 607; TBS is Cox 29, DirecTV 247, Dish 139, U-Verse 112; TNT is Cox 30, DirecTV 245, Dish 138, U-Verse 108; Tennis is Cox 248, DirecTV 217, Dish 400, U-Verse 660; TRU is Cox 51, DirecTV 246, Dish 242, U-Verse 164; USA is Cox 28, DirecTV 242, Dish 105, U-Verse 124; WGN is Cox 9, DirecTV 307, Dish 239, U-Verse 180.

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First thing I did when opening my Baseball Hall of Fame ballot was to smile at the privilege. Well, that’s not exactly true. The first thing I did was giggle to myself about how much Joe Morgan would hate what I was about to do. And then I smiled at the privilege. Morgan, you might’ve heard, send an email to all Hall of Fame voters asking us to keep “known steroid users” out of the Hall of Fame, where “the hallowed halls honor those who played the game hard and right.” I did appreciate him addressing the form letter personally (though, if you see him, tell him that in the Mellinger house, “Samuel” is what we call our son Sammy when he’s not listening). It’s not that I don’t respect Morgan. He’s perhaps the best second baseman in baseball history, a key part of the Big Red Machine dynasty, and we’re all entitled to our opinion. That’s why I hope he doesn’t mind me stating my opinion: The Hall of Fame almost certainly already includes steroid users, and as Buck O’Neil used to say, the only reason players of the past didn’t use steroids is because they weren’t available. Morgan specifically cited punishing players who used “chemistry to change how hard you hit and throw by changing what your body is made of.” But that’s what many players of his and other eras did with greenies, so now we’re merely talking

about matters of scale, and matters of availability. Willie Mays is among those who’ve admitted taking greenies, and he sure as hell should be honored in the Hall of Fame. The Hall has never been perfect, just like anyone who’s ever visited or been honored there. But if Morgan and other Hall of Famers want to pretend the museum is somehow above recognizing an entire era of the sport, let them start by demanding commissioner Bud Selig and manager Tony LaRussa and many others be removed. The list of Hall of Famers who profited from steroids is long. So, no disrespect to Morgan — OK, maybe a little disrespect, because the sanctimony was over the top — my vote this year comes with the same process and principles as last year. I call and text with a handful of people I respect in the game — this year that included a manager, two scouts, two current players and a Hall of Famer — and study the numbers. In general, I don’t believe any of us know who used steroids and who didn’t, but that Barry Bonds and Rogers Clemens were Hall of Famers with or without, and that Manny Ramirez was a Hall of Famer long before he failed a test. I understand and respect more “hardline” views on steroids, particularly when it comes to the Hall of Fame case of those three. Let’s get to it, then — the best I know how, an explanation of why I voted for the following 10 players (the most allowed). A Barry Bonds: The greatest player of my lifetime. Seven MVPs, including three before anyone thinks he took a drug. My favorite stat from Pharmacy Barry: In 2004, if you made all his hits outs and his walks

hits, he still would’ve won the batting title by 29 points. A Roger Clemens: Either the greatest or second-greatest righthanded pitcher of my lifetime (Greg Maddux). I just don’t know how much longer we’re all supposed to be mad about highly competitive athletes following the incentives put in place to be their most productive selves. A Chipper Jones: He’ll be elected in his first year of eligibility, and deservedly so, though it’ll be with a vote total higher than it otherwise would’ve been because of his lack of connection to steroids. One of the game’s all-time greatest switch-hitters, and one of 21 players all-time with batting averages over .300, on-base over .400 and slugging over .500. You haven’t heard the last of that list. A Manny Ramirez: I get it. He embarrassed himself and stained his reputation with multiple failed drug tests. But those came after one of the most productive careers of all-time. From 1999 to 2005, his worst MVP finish was ninth. In the 10 seasons between 1999 and 2008, the only players with a higher OPS were Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols. Alex Rodriguez, Chipper Jones and Vlad Guerrero are among those behind him. A Edgar Martinez: He’s on the .300/.400/ .500 list, and he was one of the most consistently productive hitters of alltime. I do believe the bar is higher for a full-time DH, but Hall of Famer Paul Molitor also started more than 1,000 games there. David Ortiz will have his case soon, and he started more than 2,000 games as a DH. A Mike Mussina: This is one of the names I didn’t expect to vote for before doing research. But his career was remarkable: top-six Cy Young finish

nine times, covering ages 23 to 39. A better adjusted ERA than Nolan Ryan, Tom Glavine, Steve Carlton and other Hall of Famers. His 3.58 strikeout-towalk ratio is higher than every Hall of Famer except Pedro Martinez and Cy Young. I’m a peakover-consistency guy by nature, but if there’s a position to reward longevity and reliability, it’s starting pitcher. A Curt Schilling: I find the life he’s leading after baseball to be sad, and I’d rather he not have tweeted what was essentially a thumbs-up to killing journalists, but man, the guy could pitch. Since 1969, when baseball lowered the mound, Schilling ranks in the top 10 in strikeout-towalk ratio, strikeouts per nine innings, WHIP, walks per nine, WAA, ERA+, strikeouts and WAR. Even if I found him to be a borderline selection, his postseason success would put him over the top. A Larry Walker: This is another guy I didn’t expect to vote for before the research. Walker won an MVP and three batting titles and led the league in on-base and slugging twice in the same year. He won the modern Triple Crown in 1999: .379, .458 on-base, .710 slugging. The argument against him is always about Coors Field, but his road OPS was actually higher than home in his MVP season. Fewer than one-third of his career plate appearances came at Coors, and he hit everywhere he went: .322/.394/.587 his last year in Montreal, and an OPS over .900 after leaving the Rockies for St. Louis as a 37- and 38-yearold. Also won seven Gold Gloves, with a reputation as an excellent all-around player. A Vlad Guerrero: I wanted to vote for him last year and am happy to have room on the ballot for him this year. Won an MVP and had four other top-six finishes. He was one of the game’s very best hitters for an 11-year stretch, and I don’t know how much this should matter, but he was so fun to watch. A Jim Thome: Homers have been devalued, but 612 without a whiff of steroid rumor is a pretty good place to start a Hall of Fame case. His .956 OPS would rank 13th among Hall of Famers, ahead of Jeff Bagwell and Mike Piazza, and his 147 OPS+ would tie Mike Schmidt, Willie Stargell and Willie McCovey for 24th. That makes 10. I also believe Scott Rolen, Trevor Hoffman and Billy Wagner have interesting cases. If the ballot expanded, I might consider them. This is by definition an entirely subjective exercise. I’m proud to be a part of it, and understand most will disagree with at least part of my ballot. That’s part of the fun. Thanks for hearing me out. Sam Mellinger: 816-234-4365, @mellinger

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Field vision and no-looks: How Mahomes impressed the Chiefs’ No. 1 defense BY TEREZ A. PAYLOR

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Patrick Mahomes will be making his first career start against the Denver Broncos on Sunday, and if you talk to his Chiefs teammates, it doesn’t take long to see that many of them cannot wait to brag about the rookie quarterback’s natural gifts. Take inside linebacker Derrick Johnson, for instance. Johnson is 35, a 13-year NFL veteran. He’s seen many quarterbacks suit up in red and gold over the years. But in the four months Mahomes has served as the Chiefs’ scoutteam quarterback, Johnson has gotten a chance to experience, first-hand, some of the youngster’s special traits as he’s attempted to complete passes against the Chiefs’ first-string defense on a weekly basis. “He has a great knack for being very accurate in tough situations,” Johnson said. “It’s super rare. I haven’t seen many people like it. You don’t want to brag on a rookie too early, but he’s got something to him that’s different than any other quarterback.” That comment has less to do with Alex Smith, who Johnson supports 100 per-

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cent as Chiefs’ the starter, and more to do with the flashes Mahomes has shown as Smith’s apprentice. As the scout-team quarterback, Mahomes runs plays the first-string defense knows are coming. He also must try to complete throws, and give the defense a good look, while targeting less experienced players. Such drills are essentially set up for the defense to win and the scoutteam quarterback to fail. Nevertheless, multiple teammates and coaches had the same refrain this week: While Mahomes is still

working on his command of the offense and comfort within the pocket — things that will ultimately decide how well he fares against the Broncos on Sunday — he regularly completes throws he shouldn’t be able to against the first-stringers due to his overall talent “All the time,” Johnson said. “He throws some balls that only the receivers are going to catch.” “Patrick’s had some, just some ... darts,” defensive coordinator Bob Sutton said. “He’s made some great, great, great throws. “I tell him all the time, ‘I want you to complete as

many passes as you can,’ because that’s the best way these guys can appreciate how tight these windows are and how tight we’ve got to have them if we’re gonna stop them. We’re not looking for the gimme throws; we want to earn (interceptions).” One of the ways Mahomes challenges the firststring defense is with an advanced trick that coaches say only a few quarterbacks in the entire league have in their repertoire — the nolook throw. Usually, a quarterback’s front shoulder points to where he’s throwing the

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A Chief for a month, Darrelle Revis is enjoying the ride but hopeful for more BY TEREZ A. PAYLOR

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Darrelle Revis listened to the question — how does he feel physically this year, compared to last year at this time — and nodded his head. The future Hall of Fame cornerback then flipped off his hat, which was embroidered with his personal logo, and pulled an “AFC West” champs hat from his locker. “Let me throw this one on instead of this one,” Revis said with a laugh. This was Sunday, just moments after the Chiefs clinched their second straight division crown with a 29-13 win over the Miami Dolphins, and the symmetry was clear. Revis, 32, is happy to be back in the NFL, and winning football games again. He’s been with the Chiefs a month now, and he’s put a sometimestumultuous 2016 season — in which his last team, the New York Jets, went 5-11 — in the past. “I’m not really concerned about that,” Revis said, referring to last season. “A lot of people give me (stuff) because of what I’ve accomplished. I’m being real, man. A lot of people give me (stuff) because I’ve done so well. On Sunday, it was like ‘Who is he covering?’ I’m over that. “Right now, this is a good organization I’m a part of. They treat me first class, the guys are stand-up guys. We have a lot of personalities in here, and this is what I wanted to be a part of. Winning team, winning attitude.” The comment, however, was more rooted in Revis’ satisfaction with being a Chief — and how he’s been treated in Kansas City, overall — than it was about his last stop.

ball. But Mahomes has a way of throwing defenders off-balance by turning his shoulder where he wants them to go, instead of where he actually wants to throw. He then delivers the ball, with accuracy, without looking at the target. Crazy. “He might be scrambling out to the right, for instance, and looking to the right side, and all of a sudden (he throws) a no-look to the left,” offensive coordinator Matt Nagy said. “It’s just natural. It’s not easy to do, and not everybody can do that. (He’s on point) pretty often.” Even Johnson, the Chiefs’ best coverage linebacker, has fallen victim to this tactic, one also used by star quarterbacks like Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and Hall of Famer Brett Favre. “I’m pretty good at reading the quarterback, but there’s times out there where I’m like trying to bait him, and he’s clearly baiting me,” Johnson said with a hearty laugh. “And I’m like, ‘This isn’t even your offense.’” “It (ticks me) off,” Johnson added, with another laugh. “He knows exactly what he’s doing. Because right after, he’s laughing. “He does some things where you say, ‘Wow.’” In an effort to give the

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hopefully I’ll get more snaps and get out there a little bit more,” Revis said. “We’re a team that has a veteran coaching staff and experienced players, and it’s good, man — we understand how to win (and) we’ve been showing that all year. Guys have been doing it before I was here. I’m enjoying it.” Terez A. Paylor: 816-234-4489, @TerezPaylor. Download Red Zone Extra, The Star’s Chiefs app. DAVID EULITT deulitt@kcstar.com

Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Darrelle Revis is happy to be back in the NFL.

The 11-year pro was signed in late November to shore up an inconsistent cornerback group, and over the past four games, he’s logged 163 of 272 snaps (59.9 percent) as the team’s nickelback, while surrendering seven catches on 14 targets. “I think the nice thing is he’s come in and worked — I think he’s settled in nice,” quarterback Alex Smith said. “It’s hard to come into that situation with that amount of time off to a group that you aren’t really in on, and I think he did a nice job just coming in, working, just showing through his practice and how he’s playing what he’s all about. I think guys have appreciated that a lot.” From Revis’ standpoint, things are progressing well. He’s recorded eight tackles and two pass deflections and seems to be feeling better weekly as he continues to adjust to

football speed after missing organized team activities, training camp and three-fourths of the regular season. “I’m feeling pretty good, you know?” Revis said. “Coming in the middle of the season, for me it’s been enjoyable to get back to playing football. It’s a process as well, me not playing all year with the team. “I haven’t had a lot of reps … I’ve been training as much as possible but you can’t emulate any game speed when you’re

training. So I’ve got thrown in the fire and I’m doing the best I can in terms of the role I’m playing right now.” Revis said he’s happy with the gameplan the team has set for him. The first month was about getting back into the swing of things. Now, as the season enters the critical point — the team has clinched a playoff berth entering its regularseason finale Sunday at Denver — he hopes to contribute even more. “As we continue to win,

first-string defense the best look possible for upcoming games, Mahomes has had to dial back on such throws. Most of the quarterbacks the Chiefs play can’t replicate the tactic. It would be a surprise if he didn’t break out one or two on Sunday, though. “We haven’t seen one recently,” Nagy said. “But he’s got it in his reportoire. We rein him in a little bit once he thinks he does it a little too well, but we have fun with it.” Add in Mahomes’ impressive field vision, and you get a quarterback that teammates and coaches say can hurt you in multiple ways. When some quarterbacks scramble to the right, defenses know they won’t throw to the left side of the field — most lack the ability to put enough zip on it, deliver it with accuracy or even see who is open over there. That allows defenses to cheat to the side of the field the quarterback is drifting. The coordinator who faces Mahomes weekly in practice says you can’t do this with the rookie. “This guy, he can see it and go,” Sutton said. “Big Ben (Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger) can also see the entire field and throw it. That’s an inherent trait, that’s part of him. He sees it, and I don’t know if there’s that many drills you can do for that. ... Terez A. Paylor: 816-234-4489, @TerezPaylor. Download Red Zone Extra, The Star's Chiefs app.

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Alabama, Clemson set to complete their classic trilogy BY PAUL NEWBERRY

AP National Writer NEW ORLEANS

When you’re in the midst of a historic trilogy, it’s hard to appreciate what it will mean to the ages. Alabama is focused on beating Clemson. Clemson is focused on beating Alabama. Taking time to savor the first two chapters between these college football juggernauts – and, ohhh, are they worth savoring – will only get in the way of preparing for the rubber match. “I just try to take it day by day,” Alabama center Bradley Bozeman said. “I'll look back on it when I’m 40 or 50 years old.” No matter what happens Monday night when the top-ranked Tigers take on the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide in the Sugar Bowl semifinal game, this remarkable three-year run seems assured of joining all those great sporting rivalries that were doled out thrice. Ali-Frazier. Affirmed-Alydar. Nadal-Federer. Warriors-Cavaliers. “We’re in a good place if we’re seeing them,” Alabama safety Minkah Fitzpatrick said of the Tigers. “So, no, I’m not tired of them.” For whatever reason, the trilogy holds a special place in the sports lexicon. They come in all shapes and sizes, from one side

pulling off a sweep (Affirmed edged Alydar three straight times to claim the 1978 Triple Crown) to those who saved the best for last (Ali beating Frazier in the “Thrilla in Manila” after they split their first two heavyweight bouts) to matchups that signaled a changing of the guard (Nadal’s epic victory over Federer in the 2008 Wimbledon final after losing to his Swiss rival the two previous years). Which brings us to Alabama-Clemson III. Already, they’ve produced a matching set of classics that rank among the greatest national championship games in college football history. Two years ago, Alabama won 45-40 in a breakneck affair that featured 40 points, a successful onside kick and a kickoff return for a touchdown in the final 10 1-2 minutes . Last season, Clemson rallied from a two-touchdown deficit and the Tide’s go-ahead TD with just over 2 minutes remaining to win 35-31 on Deshaun Watson’s 2-yard scoring pass to Hunter Renfrow with a single second hanging on the clock . The stakes are a bit different this time. Instead of meeting in the title game, Round 3 falls a week earlier in the College Football Playoff semifinals. Clemson claimed the top seed despite a loss to lowly Syracuse back in mid-October , while Alabama stirred up the biggest debate when it

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Clemson and Alabama will meet on Monday for the third straight year when they square off in the Sugar Bowl. Deshaun Watson (left) passed for 405 yards and four touchdowns against Bama while running for 73 yards in the 2016 game.

landed the fourth seed after a setback to Auburn in its final regular-season game and failing to even qualify for the Southeastern Conference championship . In the end, it’s hard to fault the selection committee for bending to the will of history. A deciding game only seems right. “Oh, it’s a lot of fun,” Tigers defensive lineman Christian Wilkins said. “The reason why I came to Clemson was to compete at the highest level, play against the best teams and win championships. You know if you’re Clemson and you’re playing Alabama, then you’ve had a good season. They’re always going to be at the top. That’s just the kind of program they are.” While many of the faces have changed — most notably, Watson moved on to the NFL after two brilliant performances against the Crimson Tide — there’s a familiarity between the programs that only adds to the buildup. They know each other’s tendencies, the plays they like to run and the ones they shy away from, their many strengths and those

handful of weaknesses that might be exploited at a crucial time. Adding to the storyline: Clemson is coached by Alabama alum Dabo Swinney, whose goal all along was to turn the Tigers into a Atlantic Coast Conference version of the Tide. “It’s been great to compete against Alabama,” Swinney said. “One of the things that was a goal of mine nine years ago was build a program that can be consistent and to build a program that can beat the best, and Alabama has been the best.” Indeed, there’s still a sense that Alabama is college football’s top dog, even though Clemson is the reigning champion. Nick Saban has carried on the houndstooth legacy by guiding the Tide to four national titles in the last eight seasons. His program is the only one to make the playoffs in all four years of its existence. The greatest testament to Bama’s decade-long dominance? Going back to the start of the 2008 season, Saban’s teams have played only three regularseason games — all at the end of the 2010 campaign – that didn’t have an impact on the national cham-

pionship race. “It’s like anything in life,” Saban said matterof-factly. “You make up a goal, you understand there’s a process of things that you have to do to accomplish the goal, and you have to have the discipline to execute it every day. That’s not necessarily a feeling. It’s a choice that you choose to be persistent at the things that are going to help you be successful and you resist the things that are not going to help you be successful.” For Saban and Swinney, that leaves little time to dawdle over how this trilogy will remembered in the big picture. But Renfrow has some idea. Maybe one day, long after his career is over, he'll flip on the TV to watch a “30 for 30” documentary. They'll call it “Tide vs. Tigers: The Trilogy.” “I guess the word is appreciation,” Renfrow said. “I’m just very appreciative for the opportunity to go out there and make the most of it and exhausting the moment. That’s something we talk about. Not wishing for tomorrow. Just living in the moment.”

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Mayfield, Riley ascend together at Oklahoma

Wake Forest tops Texas A&M 55-52

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Usually, the Heisman Trophy winner is able to keep it together during his acceptance speech long enough to get through most of the thank yous and shout outs. Right up until it’s time to acknowledge the family. That is generally when the voice starts cracking and the tears start flowing. Baker Mayfield was different. When he won the Heisman earlier this month, he started losing it even before he got to thanking mom and dad. Choking back tears, Mayfield said Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley had changed his life. “Coach Riley you’ve been a great mentor to me. Been through a lot together. So, appreciate ya,” Mayfield said in between deep breathes. The relationship between two former walkons, one who went on to win a Heisman and one who became the head coach at Oklahoma at 34, has turned into one of the great partnerships in college football and the most important reason the sec-

ond-ranked Sooners are in the College Football Playoff for the second time in three seasons. Oklahoma plays No. 3 Georgia in the Rose Bowl on Monday. “The two of them ascending together has been really neat to watch,” former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. After being doubted so often, Mayfield found in Riley a coach who saw the potential for greatness that in Mayfield the player always knew was possible – if only he had the opportunity to show it. In return, Riley found a quarterback who could make his creative Xs and Os come to life and produce almost magical results. “He would’ve been here without me,” Mayfield said about Riley earlier this month in Norman, Oklahoma. “I wouldn’t be in the position that I’m in without him. There’s a difference in that. He was already very talented and special. There was a reason why he got hired here at such a young age. He’s developed me and made into the player I am. I’ve worked hard and had great teammates around me, but he’s the biggest reason why I’m standing here today.” Like Mayfield, Riley, 34,

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Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield throws during a short segment of Rose Bowl practice on Friday.

started his college football career as a walk-on quarterback at Texas Tech in 2002. “Our situations kind of parallel each other in a lot of ways,” Riley said earlier this week in southern California. “We both came in as walk-ons to this game and kind of understand that life and kind of the climb you have to have.” That’s where the similarities end when it comes to their playing careers. Riley, who was born in West Texas, was on the team for one season before becoming a student assistant for Texas tech coach Mike Leach. Riley seized the opportunity and rapidly worked his way up the career ladder, from graduate assistant to receivers coach to offensive coordinator at East Carolina at the age of 27 to offensive coordinator at Oklahoma 32.

John Wolford threw for 400 yards and four touchdowns, and Matt Colburn ran for 150 yards and the go-ahead score in Wake Forest’s 55-52 victory over Texas A&M on Friday in the Belk Bowl. The teams combined for 1,260 yards and 107 points, making it one of the highest-scoring games in bowl history. Wolford, a four-year starter and the game’s Most Valuable Player, threw all four TD passes in the first half for Wake Forest (8-5). Colburn had a 1-yard touchdown with 2:18 left in the game to give the Demon Deacons the lead for good. Wake Forest’s defense stopped the Aggies on downs on their final drive to seal the win, which was no easy task considering Texas A&M’s potent offense. Aggies quarterback Nick Starkel threw for a Belk Bowl-record 499 yards and four touchdowns – three of those to wide receiver Christian Kirk, who caught 13 passes for 189 yards. “It was a crazy game” Wolford said. “We got up early and then fell behind. But I never had a doubt. This team has been

through a lot, so a close game wasn’t going to faze us.” Scotty Washington had nine catches for 138 yards and a touchdown for the Demon Deacons, while tight end Cam Serigne had nine catches for 112 yards and a score. Tabari Hines had eight receptions for 58 yards and two touchdowns. Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said he had a feeling it would be a shootout. “I thought it would be a high scoring game,” Clawson said. “I told our offensive coordinator before the game, ‘Go fast. I don’t know how much it’s going to take. … Keep your foot on the gas.’ This game was going to come down to whoever could outscore the other team.” Wake Forest spotted Texas A&M (7-6) a 14point first quarter lead following a pair of special teams miscues, but rattled off 31 straight points in a span of 11 minutes, 16 seconds to take a 31-14 lead in the second quarter. But Texas A&M battled back to take the lead late in the third quarter behind two Starkel and Kirk. “After that first quarter, it felt like an old Western Athletic Conference shootout,” said Texas A&M interim coach Jeff Banks.

BASEBALL The Colorado Rockies added a significant piece to what’s becoming a formidable and high-priced bullpen by agreeing to a threeyear, $52 million contract with All-Star reliever Wade Davis. His deal includes a fourth-year player option that vests should Davis reach 30 games in 2020, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the terms of the deal have not been released. The team officially announced the deal Friday afternoon. A 32-year-old right-hander, Davis will be in line to close out games for a Colorado team that returned to the playoffs last season for the first time since 2009. The Rockies’ relievers played a big role by going 24-19 with a 4.40 ERA. Their 549 strikeouts over 550 2⁄3 relief innings were the second-most in franchise history. Last season, Davis had a 2.30 ERA and 32 saves for the Chicago Cubs after being acquired in a trade from Kansas City. TENNIS The comeback plans for Novak Djokovic stalled on Friday when a recurrence of pain in his right elbow forced him to withdraw from an exhibition tournament in the United Arab Emirates. Djokovic hasn’t played competitively since he retired in the Wimbledon quarterfinals because of the elbow injury. He was scheduled on Friday to play Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain in the exhibition semifinals, his first tennis match in nearly five months. Djokovic is entered in the Qatar Open starting on Monday in Doha, where he’s the defending twotime champion. That’s his lead-in tournament for the Australian Open, which is the first Novak major of the Djokovic year starts in just over two weeks. UFC: HOLM-JUSTINO BOUT HEADLINES UFC 219 CARD IN VEGAS Holly Holm has ridden perhaps the UFC’s most volatile career roller coaster, from the zenith of her upset of Ronda Rousey two years ago to a three-fight losing streak that left her in tears earlier this year. “It definitely is that,” Holm said. “I don’t know anybody else it’s happened to.” Holm, 36, is back in action Saturday night when she meets Cris “Cyborg” Justino (18-1), the dominant new featherweight champion, in the main event of UFC 219 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “If I was able to do it once, I can do it again. I know I’m capable of beating these girls, and it really comes down to that.” HOCKEY: AMERICAN JUNIORS WIN OUTDOOR GAME Brady Tkachuk and Kieffer Bellows found enough traction in the snow to score shootout goals and cap the United States’ 4-3 victory over Canada on Friday in international hockey’s first outdoor game. Tkachuk and Ron Perunovich scored 34 seconds apart in the third period to rally the United States from a 3-1 deficit in the world junior championship game played in a steady snowfall at the New Era Field, the home of the Buffalo Bills. Associated Press

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Boston 99, Houston 98 Milwaukee 102, Minnesota 96 San Antonio 119, New York 107 Portland 114, Philadelphia 110 Friday’s Games Washington 121, Houston 103 Atlanta at Toronto, late Brooklyn at Miami, late Dallas at New Orleans, late Indiana at Chicago, late Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, late Phoenix at Sacramento, late Charlotte at Golden State, late L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, late Saturday’s Games Miami at Orlando, 6 p.m. New York at New Orleans, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Detroit, 6 p.m. Portland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Cleveland at Utah, 7 p.m. Memphis at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Denver, 8 p.m. Through December 28 Scoring G FG Harden, HOU Antetokounmpo, MIL James, CLE Durant, GOL Cousins, NOR Davis, NOR Lillard, POR Oladipo, IND Irving, BOS Booker, PHX Porzingis, NYK DeRozan, TOR Westbrook, OKC Embiid, PHL Beal, WAS Aldridge, SAN Walker, CHA Butler, MIN McCollum, POR Williams, LAC FG Percentage Capela, HOU Jordan, LAC Adams, OKC Collins, ATL Kanter, NYK Gibson, MIN Davis, NOR James, CLE Randle, LAL Favors, UTA Rebounds

COLLEGE Bowl Results and Schedule Thursday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl, Annapolis, Md. Navy 49, Virginia 7 Camping World Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Oklahoma State 30, Virginia Tech 21 Alamo Bowl, San Antonio TCU 39, Stanford 37 Holiday Bowl, San Diego Michigan State 42, Washington State 17

Westbrook, OKC James, CLE Harden, HOU Simmons, PHL Green, GOL Teague, MIN Lowry, TOR Ball, LAL Schroder, ATL Payton, ORL

Saturday, Dec. 30 TaxSlayer Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla. Louisville (8-4) vs. Mississippi State (8-4), 11 a.m.(ESPN) Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn. Iowa State (7-5) vs. Memphis (10-2), 11:30 a.m.(ABC) Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz. Washington (10-2) vs. Penn State (10-2), 3 p.m.(ESPN) Orange Bowl, Miami Gardens, Fla. Wisconsin (12-1) vs. Miami (10-2), 7 p.m.(ESPN) Monday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl, Tampa, Fla. Michigan (8-4) vs. South Carolina (8-4), 11 a.m.(ESPN2) Peach Bowl, Atlanta UCF (12-0) vs. Auburn (10-3), 11:30 a.m.(ESPN) Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Notre Dame (9-3) vs. LSU (9-3), 12 p.m. (ABC) Rose Bowl (CFP Semifinal), Pasadena, Calif. Oklahoma (12-1) vs. Georgia (12-1), 4:10 p.m.(ESPN) Sugar Bowl (CFP Semifinal), New Orleans Clemson (12-1) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:45 p.m.(ESPN) Monday, Jan. 8 College Football Championship, Atlanta Rose Bowl winner vs. Sugar Bowl winner, 7 p.m.(ESPN)

BASKETBALL NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic

Boston Toronto New York Philadelphia Brooklyn Southeast

29 23 17 15 12 W

10 10 18 19 22 L

.744 — .697 3 .486 10 1 .441 11 ⁄2 .353 141⁄2 Pct GB

Washington Miami Charlotte Orlando Atlanta Central

20 18 12 12 9 W

16 16 22 24 25 L

.556 .529 .353 .333 .265 Pct

Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee Indiana Chicago Western Conference Southwest

24 19 18 19 12

11 15 15 16 22

.686 — .559 41⁄2 .545 5 .543 5 .353 111⁄2

Houston San Antonio New Orleans Memphis Dallas Northwest

25 25 18 11 11 W

9 11 16 24 25 L

.735 — .694 1 .529 7 .314 141⁄2 .306 15 Pct GB

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Portland Utah Pacific

22 20 19 18 15 W

14 15 16 16 21 L

.611 .571 .543 .529 .417 Pct

Golden State 28 L.A. Clippers 14 Phoenix 13 Sacramento 12 L.A. Lakers 11 Thursday’s Games Orlando 102, Detroit 89

7 19 23 22 22

.800 — .424 13 .361 151⁄2 .353 151⁄2 .333 16

Pct

— 1 7 8 10 GB

— 11⁄2 21⁄2 3 7 GB

FT PTS AVG

33 317 2971072 32.5 31 335 223 908 29.3 35 30 34 29 31 33 37 26 29 33 35 26 35 35 32 34 33 32

370 161 972 282 145 782 303 202 882 268 180 737 251 193 782 294 143 821 334 148 913 222 131 640 251 149 704 275 214 794 303 181 841 214 170 623 290 146 804 301 155 776 230 154 690 253 175 721 262 96 697 216 147 664 FG FGA

27.8 26.1 25.9 25.4 25.2 24.9 24.7 24.6 24.3 24.1 24.0 24.0 23.0 22.2 21.6 21.2 21.1 20.8 PCT

179 259 155 237 176 273 137 222 188 317 176 309 268 471 370 661 159 288 172 313 G OFF DEF TOT

.691 .654 .645 .617 .593 .570 .569 .560 .552 .550 AVG

33 34 34 34 36 29 26 29 31

152 168 122 69 102 95 58 71 68

351 342 298 343 311 231 228 232 253

503 510 420 412 413 326 286 303 321

15.2 15.0 12.4 12.1 11.5 11.2 11.0 10.4 10.4

32 119 211 330 10.3 G AST AVG 35 35 33 33 29 31 33 31 31 27

350 325 303 251 215 225 235 220 208 175

TRANSACTIONS

COLLEGE WOMEN

NBA LEADERS

Jordan, LAC Drummond, DET Howard, CHA Cousins, NOR Towns, MIN Capela, HOU Embiid, PHL Davis, NOR Antetokounmpo, MIL Kanter, NYK Assists

Friday, Dec. 29 Belk Bowl, Charlotte, N.C. Wake Forest 55, Texas A&M 52 Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas North Carolina State 52, Arizona State 31 Music City Bowl, Nashville, Tenn. Northwestern 24, Kentucky 23 Arizona Bowl, Tucson, Ariz. New Mexico State (5-6) vs. Utah State (6-6), late Cotton Bowl Classic, Arlington, Texas Southern Cal (11-2) vs. Ohio State (11-2), late

Ohio 65, Northwestern Ohio 58 SOUTHWEST Prairie View 110, Jarvis Christian 80

10.0 9.3 9.2 7.6 7.4 7.3 7.1 7.1 6.7 6.5

COLLEGE MEN Top 25 Fared Thursday 20. Gonzaga (11-3) beat Pacific 81-48. 23. Seton Hall (12-2) beat No. 25 Creighton 90-84. 25. Creighton (10-3) lost to No. 23 Seton Hall 90-84. Friday 2. Michigan State (13-1) beat Cleveland State 111-61. 7. West Virginia (11-1) at Oklahoma State. 11. Kansas (10-2) at Texas. 16. Kentucky (10-2) beat Louisville 90-61. 18. Baylor (10-2) at No. 22 Texas Tech. 22. Texas Tech (11-1) vs. No. 18 Baylor. Thursday’s Major Scores EAST Albany (NY) 78, Kent St. 68 Buffalo 86, NJIT 81 (OT) Delaware 97, Cornell 96 (OT) Fairfield 70, St. Peter’s 61 Hartford 60, Rutgers 58 Providence 94, St. John’s 72 Quinnipiac 78, Monmouth (NJ) 76 Seton Hall 90, Creighton 84 Tulane 85, Temple 75 SOUTH Austin Peay 78, SIU-Edwardsville 58 ETSU 84, Tusculum 65 Houston 79, South Florida 60 Jacksonville 81, Middle Georgia 60 Jacksonville St. 76, E. Kentucky 58 LSU 71, Memphis 61 Marshall 85, Southern Miss. 66 McNeese St. 85, Incarnate Word 62 Mercer 89, Kennesaw St. 56 Murray St. 80, E. Illinois 52 N. Kentucky 77, IUPUI 59 New Orleans 77, Abilene Christian 74 Nicholls 87, Northwestern St. 46 SE Louisiana 73, Stephen F. Austin 62 Tennessee Tech 69, Morehead St. 67 UNC-Wilmington 101, Greensboro 60 UT Martin 63, Tennessee St. 60 (OT) Virginia Tech 76, NC A&T 59 W. Kentucky 69, Louisiana Tech 68 MIDWEST Belmont 94, SE Missouri 72 Bowling Green 97, Lourdes 56 Drake 66, Bradley 64 Fort Wayne 99, Olivet College 93 Green Bay 95, Detroit 83 Indiana St. 73, Valparaiso 64 Oakland 76, Milwaukee 68 S. Illinois 56, N. Iowa 53 UMKC 89, Avila 58 Wright St. 65, Ill.-Chicago 61 SOUTHWEST Cent. Arkansas 81, Texas A&M-CC 69 Lamar 86, Houston Baptist 68 North Texas 63, UTEP 62 Tulsa 79, East Carolina 53 UTSA 79, Rice 66 FAR WEST BYU 69, Portland 45 Denver 106, Colorado Mesa 60 Gonzaga 81, Pacific 48 Montana 87, N. Arizona 69 Montana St. 104, S. Utah 99 New Mexico St. 65, UC Irvine 60 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 87, Loyola Marymount 59 San Diego 73, S.F. 63 Santa Clara 72, Pepperdine 65 Seattle 93, Grambling St. 63 Utah Valley 90, UC Riverside 82 Friday’s Major Scores EAST Bucknell 84, American U. 55 Canisius 77, Rider 76 Colgate 79, Holy Cross 74 Fairleigh Dickinson 82, LIU Brooklyn 71 Lehigh 79, Lafayette 74 Loyola (Md.) 72, Navy 63 Robert Morris 68, Bryant 54 St. Francis Brooklyn 73, Sacred Heart 68 Toledo 85, Penn 72 SOUTH Florida Gulf Coast 76, Florida Memorial 42 Kentucky 90, Louisville 61 Southern U. 98, Ecclesia 57 MIDWEST Akron 86, Concord (WV) 49 Cent. Michigan 91, Lawrence Tech 73 E. Michigan 67, Rochester College 48 Michigan St. 111, Cleveland St. 61

Top 25 Fared Thursday 2. Notre Dame (12-1) beat Syracuse 87-72. 3. Louisville (15-0) beat Georgia Tech 74-71. 5. Mississippi State (14-0) beat MVSU 112-36. 6. Baylor (11-1) beat Kansas State 88-58. 8. Texas (10-1) beat Oklahoma 88-78. 9. West Virginia (13-0) beat TCU 87-82. 12. Ohio State (12-2) beat Nebraska 73-61. Next 13. Florida State (12-1) beat Jacksonville 82-50. 15. Maryland (12-2) beat Illinois 100-65. 18. Villanova (10-1) lost to Creighton 69-54. 19. Green Bay (11-1) beat Wright State 58-51. 21. Michigan (12-2) beat Penn State 89-69. 22. Texas A&M (11-3) beat SMU 79-57. 23. Iowa (13-1) beat Wisconsin 56-46. 24. Oklahoma State (10-2) beat Texas Tech 98-57. Friday 10. Oregon (12-2) beat Washington State 89-56. 11. UCLA (9-2) at Stanford. 14. Duke (11-2) beat Liberty 68-51. 17. Oregon State (10-2) beat Washington 75-63. 20. California (9-2) vs. Southern Cal. Friday’s Major Scores EAST American U. 68, Bucknell 58 Boston U. 60, Army 59 Drexel 74, Delaware 53 Fairfield 56, Canisius 52 Fordham 70, UC Davis 62 Hartford 78, Yale 70 James Madison 55, Hofstra 42 LIU Brooklyn 61, St. Francis Brooklyn 59 Lehigh 70, Lafayette 45 Mount St. Mary’s 68, CCSU 56 Navy 73, Loyola (Md.) 44 New Hampshire 48, Cornell 45 Northeastern 70, Towson 61 Penn 77, NJIT 38 Robert Morris 77, Fairleigh Dickinson 68 St. Francis (Pa.) 89, Sacred Heart 48 Wagner 75, Bryant 66 SOUTH Coastal Carolina 89, Texas-Arlington 76 Duke 68, Liberty 51 ETSU 90, North Greenville 67 FAU 90, Delaware St. 67 Howard 63, Campbell 61 South Alabama 88, Georgia St. 52 Texas State 69, Appalachian St. 54 Troy 88, Georgia Southern 47 VCU 69, Long Beach St. 59 W. Kentucky 88, Lee University 64 William & Mary 68, Coll. of Charleston 54 MIDWEST Missouri St. 77, Indiana St. 63 UMKC 67, Stetson 50 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 76, Louisiana-Monroe 62 UALR 78, Louisiana-Lafayette 43 FAR WEST Oregon 89, Washington St. 56 Oregon St. 75, Washington 63 UC Santa Barbara 77, New Mexico St. 47 Utah Valley 78, Antelope Valley College 54

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Recalled F/C Cristiano Felicio from Windy City (NBAGL). TORONTO RAPTORS — Suspended F Serge Ibaka one game because of an altercation with a team staff member. Recalled F Bruno Caboclo from Raptors 905 (NBAGL).

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Jacksonville DE Yannick Ngakoue $30,387; San Francisco DE Cassius Marsh and L.A. Chargers DE Joey Bosa $18,231; Atlanta CB Desmond Trufant $12,154; and L.A. Chargers S Rayshawn Jenkins, Dallas TE Geoff Swaim and Houston LB Jadeveon Clowney $9,115 for their actions during last week’s games. Fined New Orleans RB Alvin Kamara $6,079 for wearing Christmas-themed red cleats. ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived CB Deji Olatoye. Signed G Jamil Douglas. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived DB B.W. Webb. Signed FB Marquez Williams from the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed OT Tyron Smith and CB Orlando Scandrick on injured reserve. Signed OT Kadeem Edwards and WR Lance Lenoir from the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Placed C Travis Swanson on injured reserve. Signed WR Jace Billingsley from the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed WR Davante Adams to a contract extension. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Waived OL Brett Boyko. Signed RB Russell Hansbrough from the practice squad. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Placed LB Matt Longacre on injured reserve. Activated S Cody Davis from injured reserve. NEW YORK JETS — Signed general manager Mike Maccagnan and coach Todd Bowles to contract extensions. TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived CB Demontre Hurst. Signed RB Khalfani Muhammad from the practice squad.

HOCKEY

PREGAME.COM LINE NBA Favorite NEW ORLEANS Miami San Antonio ATLANTA Cleveland GOLDEN STATE DENVER

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic GP W L OT Pts GF GA 36 38 36 37 38 36 35 37 GP

27 23 20 16 16 13 11 9 W

7 14 10 16 18 16 16 20 L

2 1 6 5 4 7 8 8 OT

56 47 46 37 36 33 30 26 Pts

136 129 109 106 100 97 93 80 GF

88 108 94 121 120 116 119 123 GA

New Jersey 36 22 Washington 39 23 Columbus 38 22 N.Y. Rangers 37 20 N.Y. Islanders 37 20 Carolina 36 17 Pittsburgh 38 19 Philadelphia 37 15 Western Conference Central GP W

9 13 13 13 13 12 16 14

5 3 3 4 4 7 3 8

49 49 47 44 44 41 41 38

116 118 109 118 133 102 109 101

104 111 104 104 129 110 122 106

Nashville Winnipeg St. Louis Dallas Minnesota Chicago Colorado Pacific

9 11 14 15 15 14 16 L

36 38 39 38 37 36 36 GP

22 21 23 20 19 17 17 W

L OT Pts GF GA 5 6 2 3 3 5 3 OT

49 48 48 43 41 39 37 Pts

118 125 114 112 106 105 113 GF

100 108 96 110 108 99 116 GA

Vegas 36 25 9 2 52 126 103 Los Angeles 38 22 11 5 49 111 88 San Jose 35 20 11 4 44 98 86 Calgary 37 18 15 4 40 103 109 Anaheim 38 16 14 8 40 102 112 Vancouver 38 16 17 5 37 103 123 Edmonton 37 17 18 2 36 111 117 Arizona 40 9 26 5 23 92 141 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Thursday’s Games Florida 3, Philadelphia 2 Washington 4, Boston 3, SO Tampa Bay 3, Montreal 1 Toronto 7, Arizona 4 Vegas 3, Los Angeles 2 (OT) Vancouver 5, Chicago 2 San Jose 3, Calgary 2, SO Friday’s Games Buffalo at New Jersey, late N.Y. Rangers at Detroit, late Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, late Pittsburgh at Carolina, late Columbus at Ottawa, late Nashville at Minnesota, late N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, late St. Louis at Dallas, late Toronto at Colorado, late Chicago at Edmonton, late Calgary at Anaheim, late Saturday’s Games Boston at Ottawa, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 6 p.m. Montreal at Florida, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Nashville, 7 p.m. Carolina at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Line O/U 51⁄2 (215) 1 (205) 5 (1951⁄2) OFF (OFF) 31⁄2 (2071⁄2) 13 (2051⁄2) 51⁄2 (216)

NHL LEADERS Goal Scoring Name, Team

Nikita Kucherov, T.B. Alex Ovechkin, Wash. Anders Lee N.Y. Islanders Brock Boeser, Van. John Tavares N.Y. Islanders Patrik Laine Winnipeg Tyler Seguin, Dal. Sean Couturier, Phila. Nikolaj Ehlers Winnipeg M. Grabner N.Y. Rangers William Karlsson Vegas Anze Kopitar, L.A. Sean Monahan, Cal. James Neal Vegas Brayden Schenn St. Louis Phil Kessel, Pitts. Tyler Toffoli, L.A. James van Riemsdyk, Tor. V. Tarasenko St. Louis Jason Zucker, Minn.

36 39 37 35 37 38 38 37 38 37 36 38 37 36 39 38 38 37 39 37

24 24 22 21 21 18 18 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 16 16 16 15 15

Favorite OHIO STATE NOTRE DAME NO CAROLINA HOUSTON CLEMSON Wichita St FLORIDA N’WESTERN VA COMMON Oakland DUKE LA SALLE ELON VIRGINIA XAVIER MINNESOTA ST. BONAV W KENTUCKY TCU Texas A&M Villanova ARKANSAS Miami GEO WASH Dayton Northeastern WRIGHT ST COLL. OF CHARL SAN DIEGO RHODE ISLAND WILLIAM & MARY LOY. OF CHICAGO AUBURN MARQUETTE Davidson Colorado St NEVADA UAB N. KENTUCKY FIU MARSHALL MILWAUKEE OLD DOMINION FRESNO ST UNC-WILM GONZAGA UTSA ARIZONA UTEP San Francisco STANFORD PACIFIC Saint Mary’s CA S DIEGO ST UNLV

Underdog New York at ORLANDO at DETROIT Portland at UTAH Memphis Phila.

Line Underdog 211⁄2 Miami (Ohio) 14 Georgia Tech 15 Wake Forest 71⁄2 Temple 10 NC State 9 at UCONN 101⁄2 Vanderbilt 181⁄2 Brown 12 Fordham 9 at GREEN BAY 10 Florida St 8 Saint Louis 5 Drexel 151⁄2 Boston College 15 Depaul 131⁄2 Harvard 10 UMass 1 16 ⁄2 Southern Miss 1 Oklahoma 11⁄2 at ALABAMA 6 at BUTLER 71⁄2 Tennessee 101⁄2 at PITTSBURGH 3 St. Joseph’s 31⁄2 at DUQUESNE 21⁄2 at J MADISON 1 8 ⁄2 IUPUI 41⁄2 Towson 9 Pepperdine 17 George Mason 2 Hofstra 7 Evansville 1 20 ⁄2 Cornell 9 Georgetown 41⁄2 at RICHMOND 4 at SAN JOSE ST 141⁄2 New Mexico PK Middle Tennessee 131⁄2 Ill.-Chicago 21⁄2 FAU 2 Louisiana Tech 11 Detroit 16 Charlotte 161⁄2 Air Force 1 Delaware 25 Santa Clara 4 North Texas 5 Arizona St 81⁄2 Rice 1 4 ⁄2 at PORTLAND 7 California 4 Loyola Mary 1 at BYU 111⁄2 Utah St 6 Boise St

NHL Favorite Boston WASHINGTON FLORIDA ST. LOUIS NASHVILLE Los Angeles

Line -145 OFF -120 OFF OFF -135

Underdog at OTTAWA New Jersey Montreal Carolina Minnesota at VANCOUV

Line +135 OFF +110 OFF OFF +125

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Favorite Today Louisville 61⁄2 MEMPHIS 41⁄2 Penn St 21⁄2 Wisconsin 5 Monday Michigan 71⁄2 Auburn 91⁄2 LSU 3 Monday: CFP Semifinals Georgia 21⁄2 Alabama 3

Underdog Mississippi St Iowa St Washington at MIAMI South Carolina UCF Notre Dame Oklahoma Clemson

NFL Sunday Favorite BALTIMORE DETROIT Buffalo ATLANTA New Orleans TENNESSEE NEW ENGLAND INDIANAPOLIS PITTSBURGH Washington MINNESOTA Dallas LA CHARGERS SEATTLE DENVER San Francisco

BASKETBALL AAC MEN Conf. W

Overall W

Houston 1 0 11 SMU 1 0 11 Tulane 1 0 10 Tulsa 1 0 8 Cincinnati 0 0 11 Wichita St. 0 0 10 Memphis 0 0 9 Connecticut 0 0 7 Central Florida 0 1 9 Temple 0 1 7 East Carolina 0 1 6 South Florida 0 1 7 Thursday’s Games Tulsa 79, East Carolina 53 Houston 79, South Florida 60 Tulane 85, Temple 75 LSU 71, Memphis 61 Saturday’s Games Wichita St. at Connecticut, 11 a.m. Temple at Houston, 5 p.m.

2 3 3 5 2 2 4 5 4 5 6 7

BIG 12 MEN Conf. W

Overall

TCU 0 0 Texas Tech 0 0 West Virginia 0 0 Oklahoma 0 0 Baylor 0 0 Kansas 0 0 Kansas St. 0 0 Oklahoma St. 0 0 Iowa St. 0 0 Texas 0 0 Friday’s Games West Virginia at Oklahoma St. Baylor at Texas Tech Kansas at Texas Kansas St. at Iowa St. Saturday’s Game Oklahoma at TCU, 1 p.m.

12 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 9 9

0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3

Today 91⁄2 6 21⁄2 4 61⁄2 3 141⁄2 6 61⁄2 3 11 21⁄2 7 9 3 3

Underdog Cincinnati Green Bay at MIAMI Carolina at TAMPA BAY Jacksonville NY Jets Houston Cleveland at NY GIANTS Chicago at PHILA. Oakland Arizona Kansas City at LA RAMS

Conf. W

Connecticut 0 0 Houston 0 0 South Florida 0 0 Temple 0 0 Central Florida 0 0 Cincinnati 0 0 East Carolina 0 0 Tulane 0 0 SMU 0 0 Tulsa 0 0 Memphis 0 0 Wichita St. 0 0 Thursday’s Games Central Florida 62, Davidson 54 Houston 77, Columbia 53 ECU 74, Md.-Eastern Shore 64 Texas A&M 79, SMU 57 Saturday’s Games Temple at Central Florida, 1 p.m. Houston at SMU, 2 p.m. Tulsa at Wichita St., 2 p.m. Cincinnati at East Carolina, 4 p.m.

Overall W

10 11 10 8 8 8 8 8 6 6 5 5

0 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 7 7 8 9

BIG 12 WOMEN Conf. W

West Virginia 1 0 Baylor 1 0 Texas 1 0 Oklahoma St. 1 0 Iowa St. 1 0 Kansas 0 1 TCU 0 1 Kansas St. 0 1 Texas Tech 0 1 Oklahoma 0 1 Thursday’s Games West Virginia 87, TCU 82 Iowa St. 71, Kansas 69, OT Oklahoma St. 98, Texas Tech 57 Texas 88, Oklahoma 78 Baylor 88, Kansas St. 58

Williams 5-11 1-2 13, Ray 0-3 0-0 0, Goth 8-20 4-7 22, Martin 0-2 4-4 4, Jones 0-1 0-0 0, Lakes 0-0 0-0 0, Goodrich 1-3 0-0 3, Middlebrook 1-4 2-6 4, Ranke 3-8 0-0 9, Wiggins 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 18-54 14-23 58. Baylor 26 22 18 22 — 88 Kansas St. 11 14 23 10 — 58 3-Point Goals—Baylor 5-10 (Chou 3-5, Wallace 1-3, Landrum 0-1, Morris 1-1), Kansas St. 8-22 (Page 0-1, Williams 2-4, Goth 2-6, Martin 0-1, Goodrich 1-1, Middlebrook 0-1, Ranke 3-8). Assists— Baylor 26 (Cox 5), Kansas St. 10 (Goth 4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Baylor 41 (Cox 9), Kansas St. 28 (Williams 9). Total Fouls—Baylor 14, Kansas St. 9. A—3,396. IOWA ST. 71, KANSAS 69, OT KANSAS (9-3)—Richardson 5-15 0-0 13, Helgren 1-1 0-0 2, Kopatich 5-12 2-5 15, Lyons 6-14 7-9 19, Osorio 2-9 1-2 6, Johnson 1-1 0-0 2, Wilson 2-8 0-0 6, Lott 2-3 2-2 6, Benoit 0-3 0-0 0, Watts 0-2 0-0 0, Totals 24-68 12-18 69. IOWA ST. (7-5)—Burkhall 2-4 0-0 4, Camber 2-9 0-0 6, Wise 2-6 1-1 5, Carleton 11-22 4-4 30, Durr 1-6 5-7 7, Kennedy-Hopoate 5-9 4-4 15, Scott 0-4 2-2 2, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Totals 24-62 16-18 71. Kansas 17 14 19 14 5 — 69 Iowa St. 18 11 20 15 7 — 71 3-Point Goals—Kansas 9-35 (Richardson 3-9, Kopatich 3-6, Lyons 0-3, Osorio 1-6, Wilson 2-6, Benoit 0-3, Watts 0-2), Iowa St. 7-24 (Camber 2-7, Wise 0-1, Carleton 4-8, Durr 0-3, Kennedy-Hopoate 1-1, Scott 0-3, Johnson 0-1). Assists—Kansas 13 (Lyons 6), Iowa St. 11 (Carleton 3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Kansas 40 (Kopatich 11), Iowa St. 44 (Camber 9). Total Fouls—Kansas 16, Iowa St. 14. A—9,764.

HOCKEY ECHL Eastern Conference North W L OL Sol Pts GF GA Manchester Wheeling Adirondack Reading Brampton Worcester South

AAC WOMEN

National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Placed F Artem Anisimov on injured reserve. Activated D Cody Franson from injured reserve. COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned G Joe Cannata from San Antonio (AHL) to Colorado (ECHL). ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled D Tommy Vannelli from Tulsa (ECHL) to San Antonio (AHL).

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

HOCKEY

Tampa Bay Toronto Boston Florida Montreal Detroit Ottawa Buffalo Metropolitan

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Designated RHP Shane Carle for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Wade Davis on a threeyear contract.

LOCAL SCOREBOARD

Overall W

13 11 10 10 7 9 9 8 6 5

0 1 1 2 5 3 3 4 6 7

NO. 6 BAYLOR 88, KANSAS ST. 58 BAYLOR (11-1)—Cohen 4-7 1-2 9, Cox 8-17 1-3 17, Brown 7-10 6-7 20, Chou 5-8 0-0 13, Wallace 2-5 1-2 6, Landrum 0-2 0-0 0, Morris 6-7 0-0 13, Richards 4-7 0-0 8, Ursin 1-1 0-0 2, Totals 37-64 9-14 88. KANSAS ST. (8-4)—Page 0-2 3-4 3,

19 16 16 15 14 12 W

10 11 13 13 11 11 L

1 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 2 2 OL Sol

85 92 102 89 97 79 GA

45 40 33 29 28 23 19

94 88 112 95 83 87 80

66 69 120 112 103 114 96

OL Sol Pts GF GA

Toledo Fort Wayne Cincinnati Kansas City Kalamazoo Indy Quad City Mountain

2 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 OL Sol

8 8 10 15 10 15 17 L

2 1 1 1 1 0 2

120 104 100 92 87 71 GF

Florida 21 4 S. Carolina 18 6 Greenville 15 13 Orlando 12 14 Atlanta 13 16 Norfolk 11 17 Jacksonville 7 15 Western Conference Central W L 18 17 17 16 13 10 8 W

1 3 2 4 1 1 3

40 34 34 32 31 28 Pts

39 36 35 33 29 23 18 Pts

99 109 93 96 88 81 60 GF

78 81 80 108 88 92 103 GA

Colorado 21 5 4 0 46 115 Idaho 18 9 3 1 40 99 Allen 17 7 4 1 39 106 Wichita 18 9 2 0 38 102 Tulsa 12 11 3 3 30 85 Utah 10 12 5 3 28 78 Rapid City 8 20 0 0 16 76 Thursday’s Games Reading 6, Worcester 2 Brampton 4, Greenville 2 Indy 5, Kalamazoo 3 Friday’s Games Brampton at Greenville Florida at Orlando Jacksonville at Norfolk Kalamazoo at Toledo South Carolina at Atlanta Wheeling at Fort Wayne Cincinnati at Quad City Kansas City at Tulsa Allen at Wichita Idaho at Utah Colorado at Rapid City Saturday’s Games Adirondack at Reading, 6 p.m. Orlando at Florida, 6 p.m. Jacksonville at Norfolk, 6 p.m. Manchester at Worcester, 6:05 p.m. Atlanta at South Carolina, 6:05 p.m. Toledo at Wheeling, 6:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Indy, 6:35 p.m. Fort Wayne at Quad City, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Tulsa, 7:05 p.m. Allen at Wichita, 7:05 p.m. Idaho at Utah, 8:05 p.m. Colorado at Rapid City, 8:05 p.m.

87 81 87 85 92 98 116

NFL NEWS

Jets give GM, coach two-year extensions Associated Press FLORHAM PARK, N.J.

The New York Jets are choosing stability over a shake-up. The team announced Friday that it had extended the contracts of general manager Mike Maccagnan and coach Todd Bowles, keeping the pair for at least the next three seasons through 2020. The team did not announce the length of the extensions, but multiple reports said both are for two years. “During their time here, they have worked together to help the organization build a foundation on which to grow,” acting owner and CEO Christopher Johnson said in a statement. “They are identifying, developing and getting productivity out of our players. “I believe we are headed in the right direction.” The announcement came two days before the Jets complete their season at New England. New York is 5-10 and will miss the playoffs for the seventh straight year and the third under Maccagnan and Bowles.

BRIEFLY Giants: Dave Gettleman was introduced as general manager Friday, and he said he believes Eli Manning can be the Giants’ starting quarterback next year. Gettleman said he wants to get to know standout receiver Odell Beckham Jr. before talking about a new contract for him. Cowboys: Dallas owner Jerry Jones came away impressed and proud after listening to wide receiver Dez Bryant discuss his struggles in 2017 earlier this week. Bryant blamed his litany of dropped passes and declining numbers on playing with tendinitis in his knee, a bad offensive scheme and a lack of focus due to mounting frustrations. Jones acknowledged Bryant has played through injuries. And while he did not address whether the Cowboys would ask Bryant to take a pay cut from his $12.5 million base salary for next season, Jones said the declining numbers are not evidence of a declining receiver. He said Bryant has a lot left in the tank.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 30 2017

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SPORTS STATS COLLEGE FOOTBALL HOW THEY FARED AP TOP 25 TEAMS No. 1 Clemson (12-1) vs. No. 4 Alabama, Sugar Bowl, Monday. No. 2 Oklahoma (12-1) vs. No. 3 Georgia, Rose Bowl, Monday. No. 3 Georgia (12-1) vs. No. 2 Oklahoma, Rose Bowl, Monday. No. 4 Alabama (11-1) vs. No. 1 Clemson, Sugar Bowl, Monday. No. 5 Ohio State (12-2) beat No. 8 Southern Cal 24-7, Cotton Bowl, Friday. No. 6 Wisconsin (12-1) vs. No. 11 Miami, Orange Bowl, today. No. 7 Auburn (10-3) vs. No. 10 UCF, Peach Bowl, Monday. No. 8 Southern Cal (11-3) lost to No. 5 Ohio State 24-7, Cotton Bowl, Friday. No. 9 Penn State (10-2) vs. No. 12 Washington, Fiesta Bowl, today. No. 10 UCF (12-0) vs. No. 7 Auburn, Peach Bowl, Monday. No. 11 Miami (10-2) vs. No. 6 Wisconsin, Orange Bowl, today. No. 12 Washington (10-2) vs. No. 9 Penn State, Fiesta Bowl, today. No. 13 TCU (11-3) beat No. 15 Stanford 39-37, Alamo Bowl, Thursday. No. 14 Notre Dame (9-3) vs. No. 14 LSU, Citrus Bowl, Monday. No. 15 Stanford (9-4) vs. No. 13 TCU, Alamo Bowl, Thursday. No. 16 LSU (9-3) vs. No. 14 Notre Dame, Citrus Bowl, Monday.

No. 17 Oklahoma State (10-3) beat No. 22 Virginia Tech 30-21, Camping World Bowl, Thursday. No. 18 Michigan State (9-3) beat No. 21 Washington State 42-17, Holiday Bowl, Thursday. No. 19 Memphis (10-2) vs. Iowa State, Liberty Bowl, today. No. 20 Northwestern (10-3) beat Kentucky 24-23, Music City Bowl, Friday. No. 21 Washington State (9-4) lost to No. 18 Michigan State 42-17, Holiday Bowl, Thursday. No. 22 Virginia Tech (9-4) lost to No. 17 Oklahoma State 30-21, Camping World Bowl, Thursday. No. 23 South Florida (10-2) beat Texas Tech 38-34, Birmingham Bowl, Dec. 23. No. 24 Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Louisville, TaxSlayer Bowl, today. No. 25 Boise State (10-3) beat Oregon 38-28, Las Vegas Bowl, Dec. 16.

FRIDAY’S RESULTS BELK BOWL Charlotte, N.C. Wake Forest 55, Texas A&M 52 SUN BOWL El Paso, Texas North Carolina State 52, Arizona State 31 MUSIC CITY BOWL Nashville, Tenn. Northwestern 24, Kentucky 23

BELK BOWL Charlotte, N.C.

WAKE FOREST 55, TEXAS A&M 52 Wake Forest 17 21 3 14 — 55 Texas A&M 14 14 14 10 — 52 First Quarter TXAM— (LaCamera kick) TXAM—Tr.Williams 2 run (LaCamera kick), 11:04 WF—Washington 50 pass from Wolford (Weaver kick), 8:47 WF—T.Hines 7 pass from Wolford (Weaver kick), 5:47 WF—FG Weaver 28, 1:33 Second Quarter WF—T.Hines 7 pass from Wolford (Weaver kick), 5:47 WF—Bates 59 punt return (Weaver kick), 12:21 TXAM—Kirk 52 pass from Starkel (LaCamera kick), 7:31 WF—Serigne 37 pass from Wolford (Weaver kick), 4:33 TXAM—Kirk 10 pass from Starkel (LaCamera kick), :18 Third Quarter TXAM—Kirk 9 pass from Starkel (LaCamera kick), 12:51 WF—FG Weaver 27, 5:55 TXAM—Ford 1 run (LaCamera kick), 1:59 Fourth Quarter TXAM—FG LaCamera 19, 12:39 WF—Carney 1 run (Weaver kick), 9:06 TXAM—Ausbon 13 pass from Starkel (LaCamera kick), 5:52 WF—Colburn 1 run (Weaver kick), 2:18 A—32,784. WF TXAM First downs 31 32 Rushes-yards 48-246 31-115 Passing 400 499 Comp-Att-Int 32-49-0 42-63-1 Return Yards 178 160 Punts-Avg. 4-38.25 7-30.28 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 2-2 Penalties-Yards 4-45 7-75 Time of Possession 30:10 29:50 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Wake Forest, Colburn 21-150, Wolford 15-68, Byrd 3-17, Carney 7-13, Serigne 0-0, (Team) 2-(minus 2). Texas A&M, Tr.Williams 7-65, Ford 17-55, Etwi 2-6, Kirk 1-4, Bussey 1-2, Kibodi 1-2, Starkel 2-(minus 19). PASSING—Wake Forest, Wolford 32-49-0-400. Texas A&M, Starkel 42-63-1-499. RECEIVING—Wake Forest, Washington 9-138, Serigne 9-112, T.Hines 8-58, Bachman 5-84, Colburn 1-8. Texas A&M, Kirk 13-189, Ausbon 12-112, Ratley 4-91, Buckley 4-26, K.Rogers 3-43, Ford 2-13, Etwi 2-7, Tr.Williams 1-12, Schorp 1-6. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Wake Forest, Weaver 43.

BELK BOWL WINNERS Dec. 29, 2017 — Wake Forest 55, Texas A&M 52. Dec. 29, 2016 — Virginia Tech 35, Arkansas 24. Dec. 30, 2015 — Mississippi St. 51, N.C. State 28. Dec. 30, 2014 — Georgia 37, Louisville 14. Dec. 28, 2013 — North Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17. Dec. 27, 2012 — Cincinnati 48, Duke 34. Dec. 27, 2011 — N.C. State 31, Louisville 24. Dec. 31, 2010 — South Florida 31, Clemson 26. Dec. 26, 2009 — Pittsburgh 19, North Carolina 17. Dec. 27, 2008 — West Virginia 31, North Carolina 30. Dec. 29, 2007 — Wake Forest 24, Connecticut 10. Dec. 30, 2006 — Boston College 25, Navy 24. Dec. 31, 2005 — N.C. State 14, South Florida 0. Dec. 30, 2004 — Boston College 37, North Carolina 24. Dec. 27, 2003 — Virginia 23, Pittsburgh 16. Dec. 28, 2002 — Virginia 48, West Virginia 22. Note: Continental Tire Bowl (2002-04); Meineke Bowl (2005-2010).

WAKE FOREST BOWL HISTORY Record: 8-4 Dec. 29, 2017 Belk Bowl — Wake Forest 55, Texas A&M 52. Dec. 27, 2016 Military Bowl — Wake Forest 34, Temple 26. Dec. 30, 2011 Music City Bowl — Mississippi St. 23, Wake Forest 17. Dec. 20, 2008 EagleBank Bowl — Wake Forest 29, Navy 19. Dec. 29, 2007 Meineke Bowl — Wake Forest 24, UConn 10. Jan. 2, 2007 Orange Bowl — Louisville 24, Wake Forest 13. Dec. 30, 2002 Seattle Bowl — Wake Forest 38, Oregon 17. Dec. 25, 1999 Aloha Bowl — Wake Forest 23, Arizona St. 3. Dec. 31, 1992 Independence Bowl — Wake Forest 39, Oregon 35. Dec. 22, 1979 Tangerine Bowl — LSU 34, Wake Forest 10. Jan. 1, 1949 Dixie Bowl — Baylor 20, Wake Forest 7. Jan. 1, 1946 Gator Bowl — Wake Forest 26, South Carolina 14

TEXAS A&M BOWL HISTORY Record: 17-22 Dec. 29, 2017 Belk Bowl — Wake Forest 55, Texas A&M 52. Dec. 28, 2016 Texas Bowl — Kansas St. 33, Texas A&M 28. Dec. 30, 2015 Music City Bowl — Louisville 27, Texas A&M 21. Dec. 29, 2014 Liberty Bowl — Texas A&M 45, West Virginia 37. Dec. 31, 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl — Texas A&M 52, Duke 48. Jan. 4, 2013 Cotton Bowl — Texas A&M 41, Oklahoma 13. Dec. 31, 2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl — Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22. Jan. 7, 2011 Cotton Bowl — LSU 41, Texas A&M 24. Dec. 28, 2009 Independence Bowl — Georgia 44, Texas A&M 20. Dec. 29, 2007 Alamo Bowl — Penn St. 24, Texas A&M 17. Dec. 28, 2006 Holiday Bowl — California 45, Texas A&M 10. Jan. 1, 2005 Cotton Bowl — Tennessee 38, Texas A&M 7. Dec. 28, 2001 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl — Texas A&M 28, TCU 9. Dec. 31, 2000 Independence Bowl — Mississippi St. 43, Texas A&M 41, OT. Dec. 28, 1999 Alamo Bowl — Penn St. 24, Texas A&M 0. Jan. 1, 1999 Sugar Bowl — Ohio St. 24, Texas A&M 14. Jan. 1, 1998 Cotton Bowl — UCLA 29, Texas A&M 23. Dec. 28, 1995 Alamo Bowl — Texas A&M 22, Michigan 20. Jan. 1, 1994 Cotton Bowl — Notre Dame 24, Texas A&M 21. Jan. 1, 1993 Cotton Bowl — Notre Dame 28, Texas A&M 3. Jan. 1, 1992 Cotton Bowl — Florida St. 10, Texas A&M 2. Dec. 29, 1990 Holiday Bowl — Texas A&M 65, BYU 14. Dec. 30, 1989 John Hancock Bowl — Pittsburgh 31, Texas A&M 28. Jan. 1, 1988 Cotton Bowl — Texas A&M 35, Notre Dame

ARIZONA BOWL Tucson, Ariz. New Mexico State 26, Utah State 20, OT COTTON BOWL CLASSIC Arlington, Texas Ohio State 24, Southern Cal 7

TODAY’S GAMES TAXSLAYER BOWL Jacksonville, Fla. Louisville (8-4) vs. Mississippi State (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) LIBERTY BOWL Memphis, Tenn. Iowa State (7-5) vs. Memphis (10-2), 11:30 a.m. (ABC) FIESTA BOWL Glendale, Ariz. Washington (10-2) vs. Penn State (10-2), 3 p.m. (ESPN) ORANGE BOWL Miami Gardens, Fla. Wisconsin (12-1) vs. Miami (10-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

UPCOMING BOWLS MONDAY’S GAMES Outback Bowl, Tampa, Fla. Michigan (8-4) vs. South Carolina (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2)

Peach Bowl, Atlanta UCF (12-0) vs. Auburn (10-3), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Notre Dame (9-3) vs. LSU (9-3), 12 p.m. (ABC) Rose Bowl (CFP Semifinal), Pasadena, Calif. Oklahoma (12-1) vs. Georgia (12-1), 4:10 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl (CFP Semifinal), New Orleans Clemson (12-1) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:45 p.m. (ESPN) MONDAY, JAN. 8 College Football Championship, Atlanta Rose Bowl winner vs. Sugar Bowl winner, 7 p.m. (ESPN) SATURDAY, JAN. 20 East-West Shrine Classic, St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, Carson, Calif. American vs. National, 3 p.m. (FS1) SATURDAY, JAN. 27 Senior Bowl, Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 1:30 p.m. (NFLN)

PAST BOWLS SATURDAY, DEC. 16 Celebration Bowl, Atlanta NC A&T 21, Grambling State 14 New Orleans Bowl Troy 50, North Texas 30

Cure Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Georgia State 27, Western Kentucky 17 Las Vegas Bowl Boise State 38, Oregon 28 New Mexico Bowl, Albuquerque Marshall 31, Colorado State 28 Camellia Bowl, Montgomery, Ala. Middle Tennessee 35, Arkansas State 30 TUESDAY, DEC. 19 Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl FAU 50, Akron 3 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20 Frisco (Texas) Bowl Louisiana Tech 51, SMU 10 THURSDAY, DEC. 21 Gasparilla Bowl, St. Petersburg, Fla. Temple 28, FIU 3 FRIDAY, DEC. 22 Bahamas Bowl, Nassau Ohio 41, UAB 6 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Boise Wyoming 37, Central Michigan 14 SATURDAY, DEC. 23 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl South Florida 38, Texas Tech 34 Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth, Texas Army 42, San Diego State 35 Dollar General Bowl, Mobile, Ala. Appalachian State 34, Toledo 0 SUNDAY, DEC. 24 Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu Fresno State 33, Houston 27 TUESDAY, DEC. 26 Heart of Dallas Bowl Utah 30, West Virginia 14 Quick Lane Bowl, Detroit Duke 36, Northern Illinois 14

El Paso, Texas

1958 — Louisville 34, Drake 20. Jan. 1, 1957 — George Washington 13, Texas-El Paso 0. Jan. 2, 1956 — Wyoming 21, Texas Tech 14. Jan. 1, 1955 — Texas-El Paso 47, Florida St. 20. Jan. 1, 1954 — Texas-El Paso 37, Southern Miss. 14. Jan. 1, 1953 — Pacific (Cal.) 26, Southern Miss. 7. Jan. 1, 1952 — Texas Tech 25, Pacific (Cal.) 14. Jan. 1, 1951 — West Texas A&M 14, Cincinnati 13. Jan. 2, 1950 — Texas-El Paso 33, Georgetown 20. Jan. 1, 1949 — West Virginia 21, Texas-El Paso 12. Jan. 1, 1948 — Miami, Ohio 13, Texas Tech 12. Jan. 1, 1947 — Cincinnati 18, Virginia Tech 6. Jan. 1, 1946 — New Mexico 34, Denver 24. Jan. 1, 1945 — Southwestern, Texas 35, U. of Mexico 0. Jan. 1, 1944 — Southwestern, Texas 7, New Mexico 0. Jan. 1, 1943 — Second Air Force 13, Hardin-Simmons 7. Jan. 1, 1942 — Tulsa 6, Texas Tech 0. Jan. 1, 1941 — Case Reserve 26, Arizona St. 13. Jan. 1, 1940 — Arizona St. 0, Catholic 0. Jan. 2, 1939 — Utah 26, New Mexico 0. Jan. 1, 1938 — West Virginia 7, Texas Tech 6. Jan. 1, 1937 — Hardin-Simmons 34, Texas-El Paso 6. Jan. 1, 1936 — Hardin-Simmons 14, New Mexico St. 14. Note: John Hancock Bowl (1989-93).

Rushes-yards 56-333 22-65 Passing 109 273 Comp-Att-Int 9-21-0 21-39-2 Return Yards 75 118 Punts-Avg. 4-43.75 7-36.14 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 7-70 5-65 Time of Possession 35:52 24:08 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Northwestern, J.Jackson 32-157, Larkin 9-112, Alviti 9-54, Roberts 2-13, Nagel 1-4, (Team) 1-(minus 1), Thorson 2-(minus 6). Kentucky, S.King 7-30, S.Johnson 6-17, Snell 6-15, Rose 2-5, Stenberg 0-0, Barker 1-(minus 2). PASSING—Northwestern, Thorson 4-8-0-35, Larkin 1-1-0-24, Alviti 4-11-0-50, Lees 0-1-0-0. Kentucky, S.Johnson 19-36-2-257, Barker 2-3-0-16. RECEIVING—Northwestern, Skowronek 3-25, James 2-16, Fessler 1-28, Thorson 1-24, J.Jackson 1-10, Nagel 1-6. Kentucky, T.Richardson 5-89, Ross 3-67, S.King 3-11, G.Johnson 2-39, Rigg 2-34, C.Walker 2-27, Bowden 2-0, Ali 1-5, Rose 1-1. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Northwestern, Kuhbander 43.

NC STATE 52, ARIZONA ST. 31

NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOWL HISTORY

MUSIC CITY BOWL WINNERS

10. Jan. 1, 1987 Cotton Bowl — Ohio St. 28, Texas A&M 12. Jan. 1, 1986 Cotton Bowl — Texas A&M 36, Auburn 16. Dec. 12, 1981 Independence Bowl — Texas A&M 33, Oklahoma St. 16. Dec. 20, 1978 Hall of Fame Bowl — Texas A&M 28, Iowa St. 12. Dec. 31, 1977 Bluebonnet Bowl — Southern Cal 47, Texas A&M 28. Jan. 2, 1977 Sun Bowl — Texas A&M 37, Florida 14. Dec. 22, 1975 Liberty Bowl — Southern Cal 20, Texas A&M 0. Jan. 1, 1968 Cotton Bowl — Texas A&M 20, Alabama 16. Dec. 28, 1957 Gator Bowl — Tennessee 3, Texas A&M 0. Dec. 9, 1950 Presidential Cup — Texas A&M 40, Georgia 20. Jan. 1, 1944 Orange Bowl — LSU 19, Texas A&M 14. Jan. 1, 1942 Cotton Bowl — Alabama 29, Texas A&M 21. Jan. 1, 1941 Cotton Bowl — Texas A&M 13, Fordham 12. Jan. 1, 1940 Sugar Bowl — Texas A&M 14, Tulane 13. Jan. 2, 1922 Dixie Classic — Texas A&M 22, Centre 14

SUN BOWL

NC State 7 21 3 21 — 52 Arizona St. 0 10 0 21 — 31 First Quarter NCST—Hines 5 run (Bambard kick), 2:40 Second Quarter NCST—Hines 5 run (Bambard kick), 2:40 ASU—FG Ruiz 24, 8:06 NCST—Hines 5 run (Bambard kick), 2:40 ASU—Harry 6 pass from Wilkins (Ruiz kick), 2:08 NCST—Meyers 25 pass from Finley (Bambard kick), 1:00 Third Quarter NCST—FG Bambard 26, 8:20 Fourth Quarter NCST—Gallaspy 23 run (Bambard kick), 14:54 ASU—Wilkins 1 run (Ruiz kick), 9:52 ASU—Ky.Williams 19 pass from Wilkins (Ruiz kick), 8:53 NCST—Samuels 2 run (Bambard kick), 4:06 ASU—Darby 20 pass from Wilkins (Ruiz kick), 2:13 NCST—Gallaspy 1 run (Bambard kick), 1:54 A—39,897. NCST ASU First downs 24 24 Rushes-yards 44-173 30-117 Passing 318 352 Comp-Att-Int 24-29-0 25-40-3 Return Yards 33 115 Punts-Avg. 1-35.0 3-43.66 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 5-54 1-4 Time of Possession 34:29 25:31 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—NC State, Gallaspy 12-79, Hines 16-72, Samuels 6-20, Meyers 1-4, Bambard 1-3, Finley 6-(minus 1), (Team) 2-(minus 4). Arizona St., Richard 13-50, Benjamin 5-42, Wilkins 8-13, Ballage 4-12. PASSING—NC State, Finley 24-29-0-318. Arizona St., Wilkins 25-40-3-352. RECEIVING—NC State, Meyers 7-76, Samuels 7-46, Harmon 4-24, Louis 3-115, Hines 1-28, Emezie 1-26, Gallaspy 1-3. Arizona St., Harry 9-142, Ky.Williams 7-85, Newsome 3-65, Benjamin 2-19, Darby 1-20, Ballage 1-10, Humphrey 1-9, Richard 1-2. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Arizona St., Ruiz 43.

SUN BOWL WINNERS Dec. 29, 2017 — NC State 52, Arizona St. 31. Dec. 30, 2016 — Stanford 25, North Carolina 23. Dec. 26, 2015 — Washington St. 20, Miami 14. Dec. 27, 2014 — Arizona St. 36, Duke 31. Dec. 31, 2013 — UCLA 42, Virginia Tech 12. Dec. 31, 2012 — Georgia Tech 21, Southern Cal 7. Dec. 31, 2011 — Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27, OT. Dec. 31, 2010 — Notre Dame 33, Miami 17. Dec. 31, 2009 — Oklahoma 31, Stanford 27. Dec. 31, 2008 — Oregon State 3, Pittsburgh 0. Dec. 31, 2007 — Oregon 56, South Florida 21. Dec. 29, 2006 — Oregon St. 39, Missouri 38. Dec. 30, 2005 — UCLA 50, Northwestern 38. Dec. 31, 2004 — Arizona State 27, Purdue 23. Dec. 31, 2003 — Minnesota 31, Oregon 30. Dec. 31, 2002 — Purdue 34, Washington 24. Dec. 31, 2001 — Washington State 33, Purdue 27. Dec. 29, 2000 — Wisconsin 21, UCLA 20. Dec. 31, 1999 — Oregon 24, Minnesota 20. Dec. 31, 1998 — Texas Christian 28, Southern Cal 19. Dec. 31, 1997 — Arizona St. 17, Iowa 7. Dec. 31, 1996 — Stanford 38, Michigan St. 0. Dec. 29, 1995 — Iowa 38, Washington 18. Dec. 30, 1994 — Texas 35, North Carolina 31. Dec. 24, 1993 — Oklahoma 41, Texas Tech 10. Dec. 31, 1992 — Baylor 20, Arizona 15. Dec. 31, 1991 — UCLA 6, Illinois 3. Dec. 31, 1990 — Michigan St. 17, Southern Cal 16. Dec. 30, 1989 — Pittsburgh 31, Texas A&M 28. Dec. 24, 1988 — Alabama 28, Washington 6. Dec. 25, 1987 — Oklahoma St. 35, West Virginia 33. Dec. 25, 1986 — Alabama 28, Washington 6. Dec. 28, 1985 — Arizona 13, Georgia 13. Dec. 22, 1984 — Maryland 28, Tennessee 27. Dec. 24, 1983 — Alabama 28, Southern Methodist. Dec. 25, 1982 — North Carolina 26, Texas 10. Dec. 26, 1981 — Oklahoma 40, Houston 14. Dec. 27, 1980 — Nebraska 31, Mississippi St. 17. Dec. 22, 1979 — Washington 14, Texas 7. Dec. 23, 1978 — Texas 42, Maryland 0. Dec. 31, 1977 — Stanford 24, LSU 14. Jan. 1, 1977 — Texas A&M 37, Florida 14. Dec. 26, 1975 — Pittsburgh 33, Kansas 19. Dec. 28, 1974 — Mississippi St. 26, North Carolina 24. Dec. 29, 1973 — Missouri 34, Auburn 17. Dec. 30, 1972 — North Carolina 32, Texas Tech 28. Dec. 18, 1971 — LSU 33, Iowa St. 15. Dec. 19, 1970 — Georgia 17, Texas Tech 9. Dec. 20, 1969 — Nebraska 45, Georgia 6. Dec. 28, 1968 — Auburn 34, Arizona 10. Dec. 30, 1967 — Texas-El Paso 14, Mississippi 7. Dec. 24, 1966 — Wyoming 28, Florida St. 20. Dec. 31, 1965 — Texas-El Paso 13, Texas Christian 12. Dec. 26, 1964 — Georgia 7, Texas Tech 0. Dec. 31, 1963 — Oregon 21, Southern Methodist 14. Dec. 31, 1962 — West Texas A&M 15, Ohio U. 14. Dec. 30, 1961 — Villanova 17, Wichita St. 9. Dec. 31, 1960 — New Mexico St. 20, Utah St. 13. Dec. 31, 1959 — New Mexico St. 28, North Texas 8. Dec. 31, 1958 — Wyoming 14, Hardin-Simmons 6. Jan. 1,

Record: 17-13-1 Dec. 29, 2017 Sun Bowl — NC State 52, Arizona St. 31. Dec. 26, 2016 Independence Bowl — NC State 41, Vanderbilt 17. Dec. 30, 2015 Belk Bowl — Mississippi St. 51, N.C. State 28. Dec. 26, 2014 St. Petersburg Bowl — N.C. State 34, UCF 24. Dec. 31, 2012 Music City Bowl — Vanderbilt 38, N.C. State 24. Dec. 27, 2011 Belk Bowl — N.C. State 31, Louisville 24. Dec. 28, 2010 Champs Sports Bowl — N.C. State 23, West Virginia 7. Dec. 29, 2008 PapaJohns.com Bowl — Rutgers 29, N.C. State 23. Dec. 31, 2005 Meineke Bowl — N.C. State 14, South Florida 0. Dec. 22, 2003 Tangerine Bowl — N.C. State 56, Kansas 26. Jan. 1, 2003 Gator Bowl — N.C. State 28, Notre Dame 6. Dec. 20, 2001 Tangerine Bowl — Pittsburgh 34, N.C. State 19. Dec. 28, 2000 Micronpc.com Bowl — N.C. State 38, Minnesota 30. Dec. 29, 1998 MICRON PC Bowl — Miami 46, N.C. State 23. Jan. 1, 1995 Peach Bowl — N.C. State 28, Mississippi St. 24. Jan. 1, 1994 Hall of Fame Bowl — Michigan 42, N.C. State 7. Dec. 31, 1992 Gator Bowl — Florida 27, N.C. State 10. Jan. 1, 1992 Peach Bowl — East Carolina 37, N.C. State 34. Dec. 28, 1990 All American Bowl — N.C. State 31, Southern Miss. 27. Dec. 31, 1989 Copper Bowl — Arizona 17, N.C. State 10. Dec. 31, 1988 Peach Bowl — N.C. State 28, Iowa 23. Dec. 31, 1986 Peach Bowl — Virginia Tech 25, N.C. State 24. Dec. 23, 1978 Tangerine Bowl — N.C. State 30, Pittsburgh 17. Dec. 31, 1977 Peach Bowl — N.C. State 24, Iowa St. 14. Dec. 31, 1975 Peach Bowl — West Virginia 13, N.C. State 10. Dec. 23, 1974 Bluebonnet Bowl — N.C. State 31, Houston 31, tie. Dec. 17, 1973 Liberty Bowl — N.C. State 31, Kansas 18. Dec. 29, 1972 Peach Bowl — N.C. State 49, West Virginia 13. Dec. 16, 1967 Liberty Bowl — N.C. State 14, Georgia 7. Dec. 21, 1963 Liberty Bowl — Mississippi St. 16, N.C. State 12. Jan. 1, 1947 Gator Bowl — Oklahoma 34, N.C. State 13

ARIZONA STATE BOWL HISTORY Record: 14-15-1 Dec. 29, 2017 Sun Bowl — NC State 52, Arizona St. 31. Jan. 2, 2016 Cactus Bowl — West Virginia 43, Arizona St. 42. Dec. 27, 2014 Sun Bowl — Arizona St. 36, Duke 31. Dec. 30, 2013 Holiday Bowl — Texas Tech 37, Arizona St. 23. Dec. 29, 2012 Fight Hunger Bowl — Arizona St. 62, Navy 28. Dec. 22, 2011 MAACO Bowl — Boise St. 56, Arizona St. 24. Dec. 27, 2007 Holiday Bowl — Texas 52, Arizona St. 34. Dec. 24, 2006 Hawaii Bowl — Hawaii 41, Arizona St. 24. Dec. 27, 2005 Insight Bowl — Arizona St. 45, Rutgers 40. Dec. 31, 2004 Sun Bowl — Arizona St. 27, Purdue 23. Dec. 27, 2002 Holiday Bowl — Kansas St. 34, Arizona St. 27. Dec. 25, 2000 Aloha Bowl — Boston College 31, Arizona St. 17. Dec. 25, 1999 Aloha Bowl — Wake Forest 23, Arizona St. 3. Dec. 31, 1997 Sun Bowl — Arizona St. 17, Iowa 7. Jan. 1, 1997 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 20, Arizona St. 17. Dec. 30, 1987 Freedom Bowl — Arizona St. 33, Air Force 28. Jan. 1, 1987 Rose Bowl — Arizona St. 22, Michigan 15. Dec. 22, 1985 Holiday Bowl — Arkansas 18, Arizona St. 17. Jan. 1, 1983 Fiesta Bowl — Arizona St. 32, Oklahoma 21. Dec. 16, 1978 Garden State Bowl — Arizona St. 34, Rutgers 18. Dec. 25, 1977 Fiesta Bowl — Penn St. 42, Arizona St. 30. Dec. 26, 1975 Fiesta Bowl — Arizona St. 17, Nebraska 14. Dec. 21, 1973 Fiesta Bowl — Arizona St. 28, Pittsburgh 7. Dec. 23, 1972 Fiesta Bowl — Arizona St. 49, Missouri 35. Dec. 27, 1971 Fiesta Bowl — Arizona St. 45, Florida St. 38. Dec. 30, 1970 Peach Bowl — Arizona St. 48, North Carolina 26. Jan. 1, 1951 Salad Bowl — Miami, Ohio 34, Arizona St. 21. Jan. 1, 1950 Salad Bowl — Xavier 33, Arizona St. 21. Jan. 1, 1941 Sun Bowl — Case Western 26, Arizona St. 13. Jan. 1, 1940 Sun Bowl — Arizona St. 0, Catholic U. 0, tie

MUSIC CITY BOWL Nashville, Tenn.

NORTHWESTERN 24, KENTUCKY 23 Northwestern 3 14 0 7 — 24 Kentucky 7 0 7 9 — 23 First Quarter KEN—Snell 3 run (MacGinnis kick), 12:42 NW—FG Kuhbander 33, 3:14 Second Quarter NW—J.Jackson 5 run (Kuhbander kick), 14:07 NW—J.Jackson 2 run (Kuhbander kick), 5:12 Third Quarter KEN—S.Johnson 3 run (MacGinnis kick), 7:11 Fourth Quarter NW—Queiro 26 interception return (Kuhbander kick), 7:49 KEN—FG MacGinnis 48, 4:24 KEN—S.Johnson 9 run (pass failed), :37 A—48,675. NW KEN First downs 20 17

Dec. 29, 2017 — Northwestern 24, Kentucky 23. Dec. 30, 2016 — Tennessee 38, Nebraska 24. Dec. 30, 2015 — Louisville 27, Texas A&M 21. Dec. 30, 2014 — Notre Dame 31, LSU 28. Dec. 30, 2013 — Mississippi 25, Georgia Tech 17. Dec. 31, 2012 — Vanderbilt 38, N.C. State 24. Dec. 30, 2011 — Mississippi St. 23, Wake Forest 17. Dec. 30, 2010 — North Carolina 30, Tennessee 27, 2OT. Dec. 27, 2009 — Clemson 21, Kentucky 13. Dec. 31, 2008 — Vanderbilt 16, Boston College 14. Dec. 31, 2007 — Kentucky 35, Florida St. 28. Dec. 29, 2006 — Kentucky 28, Clemson 20. Dec. 30, 2005 — Virginia 34, Minnesota 31. Dec. 31, 2004 — Minnesota 20, Alabama 16. Dec. 31, 2003 — Auburn 28, Wisconsin 14. Dec. 30, 2002 — Minnesota 29, Arkansas 14. Dec. 28, 2001 — Boston College 20, Georgia 16. Dec. 28, 2000 — West Virginia 49, Mississippi 38. Dec. 29, 1999 — Syracuse 20, Kentucky 13. Dec. 29, 1998 — Virginia Tech 38, Alabama 7

NORTHWESTERN BOWL HISTORY Record: 4-10 Dec. 29, 2017 Music City Bowl — Northwestern 24, Kentucky 23. Dec. 27, 2016 Pinstripe Bowl — Northwestern 31, Pittsburgh 24. Jan. 1, 2016 Outback Bowl — Tennessee 45, Northwestern 6. Jan. 1, 2013 Gator Bowl — Northwestern 34, Mississippi St. 20. Dec. 31, 2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl — Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22. Jan. 1, 2011 TicketCity Bowl — Texas Tech 45, Northwestern 38. Jan. 1, 2010 Outback Bowl — Auburn 38, Northwestern 35, OT. Dec. 29, 2008 Alamo Bowl — Missouri 30, Northwestern 23, OT. Dec. 30, 2005 Sun Bowl — UCLA 50, Northwestern 38. Dec. 26, 2003 Motor City Bowl — Bowling Green 28, Northwestern 24. Dec. 30, 2000 Alamo Bowl — Nebraska 66, Northwestern 17. Jan. 1, 1997 Citrus Bowl — Tennessee 48, Northwestern 28. Jan. 1, 1996 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 41, Northwestern 32. Jan. 1, 1949 Rose Bowl — Northwestern 20, California 14

KENTUCKY BOWL HISTORY Record: 8-9 Dec. 29, 2017 Music City Bowl — Northwestern 24, Kentucky 23. Dec. 31, 2016 TexSlayer Bowl — Georgia Tech 33, Kentucky 18. Jan. 8, 2011 BBVA Compass Bowl — Pittsburgh 27, Kentucky 10. Dec. 27, 2009 Music City Bowl — Clemson 21, Kentucky 13. Jan. 2, 2009 Liberty Bowl — Kentucky 25, East Carolina 19. Dec. 31, 2007 Music City Bowl — Kentucky 35, Florida St. 28. Dec. 29, 2006 Music City Bowl — Kentucky 28, Clemson 20. Dec. 29, 1999 Music City Bowl — Syracuse 20, Kentucky 13. Jan. 1, 1999 Outback Bowl — Penn St. 26, Kentucky 14. Dec. 31, 1993 Peach Bowl — Clemson 14, Kentucky 13. Dec. 29, 1984 Hall of Fame Bowl — Kentucky 20, Wisconsin 19. Dec. 22, 1983 Hall of Fame Bowl — West Virginia 20, Kentucky 16. Dec. 31, 1976 Peach Bowl — Kentucky 21, North Carolina 0. Jan. 1, 1952 Cotton Bowl — Kentucky 20, Texas Christian 7. Jan. 1, 1951 Sugar Bowl — Kentucky 13, Oklahoma 7. Jan. 2, 1950 Orange Bowl — Santa Clara 21, Kentucky 13. Dec. 6, 1947 Great Lakes Bowl — Kentucky 24, Villanova 14

ARIZONA BOWL Tucson, Ariz.

NEW MEXICO ST. 26, UTAH ST. 20 Utah St. 7 6 0 7 0 — 20 New Mexico St. 10 3 0 7 6 — 26 First Quarter NMS—FG Brown 23, 11:15 UTS—Scarver 96 kickoff return (Eberle kick), 11:01 NMS—Huntley 100 kickoff return (Brown kick), 10:47 Second Quarter UTS—FG Eberle 35, 14:55 NMS—FG Brown 33, 11:35 UTS—FG Eberle 30, :00 Fourth Quarter UTS—Hunt 1 run (Eberle kick), 13:28 NMS—Scott 11 pass from Rogers (Brown kick), 6:31 First Overtime NMS—Rose 21 run, :00 A—39,132. UTS NMS First downs 22 16 Rushes-yards 45-187 29-184 Passing 254 191 Comp-Att-Int 25-44-0 29-54-2 Return Yards 115 113 Punts-Avg. 9-42.33 11-40.1 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 1-1 Penalties-Yards 8-74 4-45 Time of Possession 31:02 28:58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Utah St., Hunt 20-133, Bright 11-48, Vaughns 1-6, Miller 1-1, Love 11-1, Wildman

Cactus Bowl, Phoenix Kansas State 35, UCLA 17 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27 Independence Bowl, Shreveport, La. Florida State 42, Southern Mississippi 13 Pinstripe Bowl, Bronx, N.Y. Iowa 27, Boston College 20 Foster Farms Bowl, Santa Clara, Calif. Purdue 38, Arizona 35 Texas Bowl, Houston Texas 33, Missouri 16 THURSDAY, DEC. 28 Military Bowl, Annapolis, Md. Navy 49, Virginia 7 Camping World Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Oklahoma State 30, Virginia Tech 21 Alamo Bowl, San Antonio TCU 39, Stanford 37 Holiday Bowl, San Diego Michigan State 42, Washington State 17

FCS (I-AA) PLAYOFFS CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY, JAN. 6 At Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas North Dakota State (13-1) vs. James Madison (14-0), 11 a.m.

1-(minus 2). New Mexico St., Rose 16-142, Huntley 6-17, Rogers 6-16, Lottie 1-9. PASSING—Utah St., Love 25-44-0-254. New Mexico St., Rogers 29-54-2-191. RECEIVING—Utah St., R.Tarver 8-97, Raymond 5-42, Vaughns 4-37, Bra.Roberts 3-32, Hunt 3-25, Bright 1-12, D.Nelson 1-9. New Mexico St., Rose 6-48, Boone 5-48, Huntley 5-19, Scott 3-37, Muse 3-12, Clark 3-8, Bry.Roberts 1-15, Lottie 1-2, Cramer 1-2, Hogan 1-0. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Utah St., Eberle 44, Eberle 49, Eberle 48, Eberle 29.

ARIZONA BOWL WINNERS Dec. 29, 2017 — New Mexico St. 26, Utah St. 20, OT. Dec. 30, 2016 — Air Force 45, South Alabama 21. Dec. 29, 2015 — Nevada 28, Colorado State 23

NEW MEXICO STATE BOWL HISTORY Record: 3-0-1 Dec. 29, 2017 Arizona Bowl — New Mexico St. 26, Utah St. 20, OT. Dec. 31, 1960 Sun Bowl — New Mexico St. 20, Utah St. 13. Dec. 31, 1959 Sun Bowl — New Mexico St. 28, North Texas 8. Jan. 1, 1936 Sun Bowl — Hardin-Simmons 14, New Mexico St. 14

UTAH STATE BOWL HISTORY Record: 4-7 Dec. 29, 2017 Arizona Bowl — New Mexico St. 26, Utah St. 20, OT. Dec. 22, 2015 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl—Akron 23, Utah St. 21. Dec. 20, 2014 New Mexico Bowl — Utah State 21, UTEP 6. Dec. 26, 2013 Poinsettia Bowl — Utah State 21, Northern Illinois 14. Dec. 15, 2012 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl — Utah State 41, Toledo 15. Dec. 17, 2011 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl — Ohio 24, Utah State 23. Dec. 29, 1997 Humanitarian Bowl — Cincinnati 35, Utah State 19. Dec. 17, 1993 Las Vegas Bowl — Utah State 42, Ball State 33. Dec. 9, 1961 Gotham Bowl — Baylor 24, Utah State 9. Dec. 31, 1960 Sun Bowl — New Mexico State 20, Utah State 13. Jan. 1, 1947 Raisin Bowl — San Jose State 20, Utah State 0

COTTON BOWL CLASSIC Arlington, Texas

OHIO ST. 24, SOUTHERN CAL 7 Southern Cal 0 7 0 0 — 7 Ohio St. 7 17 0 0 — 24 First Quarter OSU—Barrett 1 run (Nuernberger kick), 12:25 Second Quarter OSU—FG Nuernberger 26, 14:55 OSU—Webb 23 interception return (Nuernberger kick), 14:42 OSU—Barrett 28 run (Nuernberger kick), 5:27 USC—R.Jones 1 run (McGrath kick), 1:59 USC OSU First downs 24 13 Rushes-yards 36-57 38-163 Passing 356 114 Comp-Att-Int 26-45-1 11-17-0 Return Yards 80 1 Punts-Avg. 6-34.16 7-42.71 Fumbles-Lost 3-3 1-1 Penalties-Yards 3-35 3-30 Time of Possession 34:56 25:04 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Southern Cal, R.Jones 19-64, Ware 3-9, Malepeai 1-2, Carr 2-0, Darnold 11-(minus 18). Ohio St., Barrett 16-66, Campbell 3-42, Dobbins 13-39, Weber 5-18, (Team) 1-(minus 2). PASSING—Southern Cal, Darnold 26-45-1-356. Ohio St., Barrett 11-17-0-114. RECEIVING—Southern Cal, Burnett 12-139, Vaughns 6-119, Pittman 3-69, D.Imatorbhebhe 2-25, Malepeai 1-3, Petite 1-2, Carr 1-(minus 1). Ohio St., Baugh 4-40, Mack 3-56, Weber 1-16, K.Hill 1-3, McLaurin 1-2, Campbell 1-(minus 3). MISSED FIELD GOALS—Southern Cal, McGrath 28.

COTTON BOWL WINNERS Dec. 29, 2017 — Ohio St. 24, Southern Cal 7. Jan. 2, 2017 — Wisconsin 24, Western Michigan 16. Dec. 31, 2015 — Alabama 38, Michigan St. 0. Jan. 1, 2015 — Michigan St. 42, Baylor 41. Jan. 3, 2014 — Missouri 41, Oklahoma St. 31. Jan. 4, 2013 — Texas A&M 41, Oklahoma 13. Jan. 6, 2012 — Arkansas 29, Kansas St. 16. Jan. 7, 2011 — LSU 41, Texas A&M 24. Jan. 2, 2010 — Mississippi 21, Oklahoma St. 7. Jan. 2, 2009 — Mississippi 47, Texas Tech 34. Jan. 1, 2008 — Missouri 38, Arkansas 7. Jan. 1, 2007 — Auburn 17, Nebraska 14. Jan. 2, 2006 — Alabama 13, Texas Tech 10. Jan. 1, 2005 — Tennessee 38, Texas A&M 7. Jan. 2, 2004 — Mississippi 31, Oklahoma St. 28. Jan. 1, 2003 — Texas 35, LSU 20. Jan. 1, 2002 — Oklahoma 10, Arkansas 3. Jan. 1, 2001 — Kansas St. 35, Tennessee 21. Jan. 1, 2000 — Arkansas 27, Texas 6. Jan. 1, 1999 — Texas 38, Mississippi St. 11. Jan. 1, 1998 — UCLA 29, Texas A&M 23. Jan. 1, 1997 — Brigham Young 19, Kansas St. 15. Jan. 1, 1996 — Colorado 38, Oregon 6. Jan. 2, 1995 — Southern Cal 55, Texas Tech 14. Jan. 1, 1994 — Notre Dame 24, Texas A&M 21. Jan. 1, 1993 — Notre Dame 28, Texas A&M 3. Jan. 1, 1992 — Florida St. 10, Texas A&M 2. Jan. 1, 1991 — Miami 46, Texas 3. Jan. 1, 1990 — Tennessee 31, Arkansas 27. Jan. 2, 1989 — UCLA 17, Arkansas 3. Jan. 1, 1988 — Texas A&M 35, Notre Dame 10. Jan. 1, 1987 — Ohio St. 28, Texas A&M 12. Jan. 1, 1986 — Texas A&M 36, Auburn 16. Jan. 1, 1985 — Boston College 45, Houston 28. Jan. 2, 1984 — Georgia 10, Texas 9. Jan. 1, 1983 — Southern Methodist 7, Pittsburgh 3. Jan. 1, 1982 — Texas 14, Alabama 12. Jan. 1, 1981 — Alabama 30, Baylor 2. Jan. 1, 1980 — Houston 17, Nebraska 14. Jan. 1, 1979 — Notre Dame 35, Houston 34. Jan. 2, 1978 — Notre Dame 38, Texas 10. Jan. 1, 1977 — Houston 30, Maryland 21. Jan. 1, 1976 — Arkansas 31, Georgia 10. Jan. 1, 1975 — Penn St. 41, Baylor 20. Jan. 1, 1974 — Nebraska 19, Texas 3. Jan. 1, 1973 — Texas 17, Alabama 13. Jan. 1, 1972 — Penn St. 30, Texas 6. Jan. 1, 1971 — Notre Dame 24, Texas 11. Jan. 1, 1970 — Texas 21, Notre Dame 17. Jan. 1, 1969 — Texas 36,

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SPORTS STATS COLLEGE FOOTBALL Tennessee 13. Jan. 1, 1968 — Texas A&M 20, Alabama 16. Jan. 2, 1967 — Georgia 24, Southern Methodist 9. Dec. 31, 1966 — LSU 14, Arkansas 7. Jan. 1, 1966 — Arkansas 10, Nebraska 7. Jan. 1, 1964 — Texas 28, Navy 6. Jan. 1, 1963 — LSU 13, Texas 0. Jan. 1, 1962 — Texas 12, Mississippi 7. Jan. 2, 1961 — Duke 7, Arkansas 6. Jan. 1, 1960 — Syracuse 23, Texas 14. Jan. 1, 1959 — Air Force 0, Texas Christian 0. Jan. 1, 1958 — Navy 20, Rice 7. Jan. 1, 1957 — Texas Christian 28, Syracuse 27. Jan. 2, 1956 — Mississippi 14, Texas Christian 13. Jan. 1, 1955 — Georgia Tech 14, Arkansas 6. Jan. 1, 1954 — Rice 28, Alabama 6. Jan. 1, 1953 — Texas 16, Tennessee 0. Jan. 1, 1952 — Kentucky 20, Texas Christian 7. Jan. 1, 1951 — Tennessee 20, Texas 14. Jan. 2, 1950 — Rice 27, North Carolina 13. Jan. 1, 1949 — Southern Methodist 21, Oregon 13. Jan. 1, 1948 — Penn St. 13, Southern Methodist 13. Jan. 1, 1947 — Arkansas 0, LSU 0. Jan. 1, 1946 — Texas 40, Missouri 27. Jan. 1, 1945 — Oklahoma St. 34, Texas Christian 0. Jan. 1, 1944 — Randolph Field, Texas 7. Jan. 1, 1943 — Texas 14, Georgia Tech 7. Jan. 1, 1942 — Alabama 29, Texas A&M 21. Jan. 1, 1941 — Texas A&M 13, Fordham 12. Jan. 1, 1940 — Clemson 6, Boston College 3. Jan. 2, 1939 — St. Mary’s (Cal.) 20, Texas Tech 13. Jan. 1, 1938 — Rice 28, Colorado 14. Jan. 1, 1937 — Texas Christian 16, Marquette 6

OHIO STATE BOWL HISTORY Record: 24-25 Dec. 29, 2017 Cotton Bowl — Ohio St. 24, Southern Cal 7. Dec. 31, 2016 Fiesta Bowl (CFC SF) — Clemson 31, Ohio St. 0. Jan. 1, 2016 Fiesta Bowl — Ohio St. 44, Notre Dame 28. Jan. 12, 2015 College Football Championship — Ohio St. 42, Oregon 20. Jan. 1, 2015 Sugar Bowl (CFC SF) — Ohio St. 42, Alabama 35. Jan. 3, 2014 Orange Bowl — Clemson 40, Ohio St. 35. Jan. 2, 2012 Gator Bowl — Florida 24, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 4, 2011 Sugar Bowl — Ohio St. 31, Arkansas 26. Jan. 1, 2010 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 26, Oregon 17. Jan. 5, 2009 Fiesta Bowl — Texas 24, Ohio St. 21. Jan. 7, 2008 BCS National Championship — LSU 38, Ohio St. 24. Jan. 8, 2007 BCS National Championship — Florida 41, Ohio St. 14. Jan. 2, 2006 Fiesta Bowl — Ohio St. 34, Notre Dame 20. Dec. 29, 2004 Alamo Bowl — Ohio St. 33, Oklahoma St. 7. Jan. 2, 2004 Fiesta Bowl — Ohio St. 35, Kansas St. 28. Jan. 3, 2003 Fiesta Bowl — Ohio St. 31, Miami 24, 2OT. Jan. 1, 2002 Outback Bowl — South Carolina 31, Ohio St. 28. Jan. 1, 2001 Outback Bowl — South Carolina 24, Ohio St. 7. Jan. 1, 1999 Sugar Bowl — Ohio St. 24, Texas A&M 14. Jan. 1, 1998 Sugar Bowl — Florida St. 31, Ohio St. 14. Jan. 1, 1997 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 20, Arizona St. 17. Jan. 1, 1996 Citrus Bowl — Tennessee 20, Ohio St. 14. Jan. 2, 1995 Citrus Bowl — Alabama 24, Ohio St. 17. Dec. 30, 1993 Holiday Bowl — Ohio St. 28, BYU 21. Jan. 1, 1993 Citrus Bowl — Georgia 21, Ohio St. 14. Jan. 1, 1992 Hall of Fame Bowl — Syracuse 24, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1990 Hall of Fame Bowl — Auburn 31, Ohio St. 14. Dec. 27, 1990 Liberty Bowl — Air Force 23, Ohio St. 11. Jan. 1, 1987 Cotton Bowl — Ohio St. 28, Texas A&M 12. Dec. 28, 1985 Citrus Bowl — Ohio St. 10, BYU 7. Jan. 1, 1985 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 20, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 2, 1984 Fiesta Bowl — Ohio St. 28, Pittsburgh 23. Dec. 17, 1982 Holiday Bowl — Ohio St. 47, BYU 17. Dec. 30, 1981 Liberty Bowl — Ohio St. 31, Navy 28. Dec. 26, 1980 Fiesta Bowl — Penn St. 31, Ohio St. 19. Jan. 1, 1980 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 17, Ohio St. 16. Dec. 29, 1978 Gator Bowl — Clemson 17, Ohio St. 15. Jan. 2, 1978 Sugar Bowl — Alabama 35, Ohio St. 6. Jan. 1, 1977 Orange Bowl — Ohio St. 27, Colorado 10. Jan. 1, 1976 Rose Bowl — UCLA 23, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1975 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 18, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1974 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 42, Southern Cal 21. Jan. 1, 1973 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 42, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1971 Rose Bowl — Stanford 27, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1969 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 27, Southern Cal 16. Jan. 1, 1958 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 10, Oregon 7. Jan. 1, 1955 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 20, Southern Cal 7. Jan. 2, 1950 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 17, California 14. Jan. 1, 1921 Rose Bowl — California 28, Ohio St. 0 Southern Cal Bowl History Record: 35-19 Dec. 29, 2017 Cotton Bowl — Ohio St. 24, Southern Cal 7. Jan. 2, 2017 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 52, Penn St. 49. Dec. 30, 2015 Holiday Bowl — Wisconsin 23, Southern Cal 21. Dec. 27, 2014 Holiday Bowl — Southern Cal 45, Nebraska 42. Dec. 21, 2013 Las Vegas Bowl — Southern Cal 45, Fresno St. 20. Dec. 31, 2012 Sun Bowl — Georgia Tech 21, Southern Cal 7. Dec. 26, 2009 Emerald Bowl — Southern Cal 24, Boston College 13. Jan. 1, 2009 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 38, Penn St. 24. Jan. 1, 2008 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 49, Illinois 17. Jan. 1, 2007 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 32, Michigan 18. Jan. 4, 2006 Rose Bowl — Texas 41, Southern Cal 38. Jan. 4, 2005 Orange Bowl — Southern Cal 55, Oklahoma 19. Jan. 1, 2004 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 28, Michigan 14. Jan. 2, 2003 Orange Bowl — Southern Cal 38, Iowa 17. Dec. 25, 2001 Las Vegas Bowl — Utah 10, Southern Cal 6. Dec. 31, 1998 Sun Bowl — Texas Christian 28, Southern Cal 19. Jan. 1, 1996 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 41, Northwestern 32. Jan. 2, 1995 Cotton Bowl — Southern Cal 55, Texas Tech 14. Dec. 30, 1993 Freedom Bowl — Southern Cal 28, Utah 21. Dec. 29, 1992 Freedom Bowl — Fresno St. 24, Southern Cal 7. Dec. 31, 1990 John Hancock Bowl — Michigan St. 17, Southern Cal 16. Jan. 1, 1990 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 17, Michigan 10. Jan. 2, 1989 Rose Bowl — Michigan 22, Southern Cal 14. Jan. 1, 1988 Rose Bowl — Michigan St. 20, Southern Cal 17. Jan. 1, 1987 Florida Citrus Bowl — Auburn 16, Southern Cal 7. Dec. 25, 1985 Aloha Bowl — Alabama 24, Southern Cal 3. Jan. 1, 1985 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 20, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1982 Fiesta Bowl — Penn St. 26, Southern Cal 10. Jan. 1, 1980 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 17, Ohio St. 16. Jan. 1, 1979 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 17, Michigan 10. Dec. 31, 1977 Bluebonnet — Southern Cal 47, Texas A&M 28. Jan. 1, 1977 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 14, Michigan 6. Dec. 22, 1975 Liberty Bowl — Southern Cal 20, Texas A&M 0. Jan. 1, 1975 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 18, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1974 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 42, Southern Cal 21. Jan. 1, 1973 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 42, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 1970 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 10, Michigan 3. Jan. 1, 1969 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 27, Southern Cal 16. Jan. 1, 1968 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 14, Indiana 3. Jan. 2, 1967 Rose Bowl — Purdue 14, Southern Cal 13. Jan. 1, 1963 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 42, Wisconsin 37. Jan. 1, 1955 Rose Bowl — Ohio St. 20, Southern Cal 7. Jan. 1, 1953 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 7, Wisconsin 0. Jan. 1, 1948 Rose Bowl — Michigan 49, Southern Cal 0. Jan. 1, 1946 Rose Bowl — Alabama 34, Southern Cal 14. Jan. 1, 1945 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 25, Tennessee 0. Jan. 1, 1944 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 29, Washington 0. Jan. 1, 1940 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 14, Tennessee 0. Jan. 2, 1939 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 7, Duke 3. Jan. 2, 1933 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 35, Pittsburgh 0. Jan. 1, 1932 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 21, Tulane 12. Jan. 1, 1930 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 47, Pittsburgh 14. Dec. 25, 1924 L.A. Christmas Festival Bowl — Southern Cal 20, Missouri 7. Jan. 1, 1923 Rose Bowl — Southern Cal 14, Penn St. 3

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STAT MATCHUP

LOUISVILLE (8-4) 35 at Purdue 28 47 at North Carolina 35 21 Clemson 47 42 Kent St. 3 55 Murray St. 10 25 at NC State 39 42 Boston College 45 31 at Florida St. 28 32 at Wake Forest 42 38 Virginia 21 56 Syracuse 10 44 at Kentucky 17 MISSISSIPPI ST. (8-4) 49 Charleston Southern 0 57 at Louisiana Tech 21 37 LSU 7 3 at Georgia 31 10 at Auburn 49 35 BYU 10 45 Kentucky 7 35 at Texas A&M 14 34 UMass 23 24 Alabama 31 28 at Arkansas 21 28 Mississippi 31 Rushing Offense G Car RuYD Tds YPG Louisville 12 456 2,999 32 249.9 Mississippi St. 12 579 2,995 26 249.6 Passing Offense G Att Cp InL Yds Tds YPG Louisville 12 433 264 6 3,727 27 310.6 Mississippi St. 12 333 180 13 2,043 17 170.3 Total Offense G Plays Yds YPG Louisville 12 889 6,726 560.5 Mississippi St. 12 912 5,038 419.8 Rushing Defense G Car Yds TD YPG Louisville 12 459 1,847 20 153.9 Mississippi St. 12 409 1,524 17 127.0 Passing Defense G Att Cp DInt Louisville 12 365 213 12 Mississippi St. 12 282 146 9 G Yds Tds Pts Louisville 12 2,794 18 132.36 Mississippi St. 12 2,100 11 120.82 Total Defense G Plays Yds YdsPg Louisville 12 824 4,641 386.8 Mississippi St. 12 691 3,624 302.0 Net Punting G Yds Punts Net Louisville 12 108 40 39.93 Mississippi St. 12 34 51 39.67 Punt Returns G PRYd Yds Avg Louisville 12 23 114 4.96 Mississippi St. 12 21 220 10.48 Kickoff Returns G No KRYd Avg Louisville 12 22 433 19.68 Mississippi St. 12 23 463 20.13 Turnover Margin G FmG DInt Tot FmL Louisville 12 8 12 20 11 Mississippi St. 12 8 9 17 6 G InL Tot Mar/Gm Avg Louisville 12 6 17 3 .25 Mississippi St. 12 13 19 -2 -0.17 Scoring Offense G FG Pts Avg Louisville 12 15 468 39.0 Mississippi St. 12 13 385 32.1 Scoring Defense G Saf Pts Avg Louisville 12 0 325 27.1 Mississippi St. 12 0 245 20.4

MEMPHIS (10-2) 37 Louisiana-Monroe 29 48 UCLA 45 44 S. Illinois 31 13 at UCF 40 70 at UConn 31 30 Navy 27 42 at Houston 38 56 Tulane 26 41 at Tulsa 14 66 SMU 45 70 East Carolina 13 55 at UCF, 2OT 62 IOWA ST. (7-5) 42 N. Iowa 24 41 Iowa, OT 44 41 at Akron 14 7 Texas 17 38 at Oklahoma 31 45 Kansas 0 31 at Texas Tech 13 14 TCU 7 16 at West Virginia 20 42 Oklahoma St. 49 23 at Baylor 13 19 at Kansas St. 20 Rushing Offense G Car RuYD Tds YPG Memphis 12 427 2,509 33 209.1 Iowa St. 12 385 1,438 15 119.8 Passing Offense G Att Cp InL Yds Tds YPG Memphis 12 455 286 10 4,069 37 339.1 Iowa St. 12 439 276 9 3,234 25 269.5 Total Offense G Plays Yds YdsPg Memphis 12 882 6,578 548.2 Iowa St. 12 824 4,672 389.3 Rushing Defense G Car Yds TD YPG Memphis 12 526 2,362 24 196.8 Iowa St. 12 434 1,611 10 134.3 Passing Defense G Att Cp DInt Memphis 12 448 259 16 Iowa St. 12 389 262 12 G Yds Tds Pts Memphis 12 3,353 29 134.90 Iowa St. 12 2,810 21 139.68 Total Defense G Plays Yds YdsPg Memphis 12 974 5,715 476.3 Iowa St. 12 823 4,421 368.4 Net Punting G Yds Punts Net Memphis 12 23 46 39.70 Iowa St. 12 80 62 38.08 Punt Returns G PRYd Yds Avg Memphis 12 19 104 5.47 Iowa St. 12 20 181 9.05 Kickoff Returns G No KRYd Avg Memphis 12 45 1,174 26.09 Iowa St. 12 26 533 20.50 Turnover Margin G FmG DInt Tot FmL Memphis 12 14 16 30 6 Iowa St. 12 8 12 20 0 G InL Tot Mar/Gm Avg Memphis 12 10 16 14 1.17 Iowa St. 12 9 9 11 .92 Scoring Offense G FG Pts Avg Memphis 12 12 572 47.7 Iowa St. 12 17 359 29.9 Scoring Defense G Saf Pts Avg Memphis 12 1 401 33.4 Iowa St. 12 0 252 21.0

PENN ST. (10-2) 52 Akron 0 33 Pittsburgh 14 56 Georgia St. 0 21 at Iowa 19 45 Indiana 14 31 at Northwestern 7 42 Michigan 13 38 at Ohio St. 39 24 at Michigan St. 27 35 Rutgers 6 56 Nebraska 44 66 at Maryland 33 WASHINGTON (10-2) 30 at Rutgers 14 63 Montana 7 48 Fresno St. 16 37 at Colorado 10 42 at Oregon St. 7 38 California 7 7 at Arizona St. 13 44 UCLA 23 38 Oregon 3 22 at Stanford 30 33 Utah 30 41 at Washington St. 14 Rushing Offense G Car RuYD Tds YPG Penn St. 12 413 2,009 33 167.4 Washington 12 447 2,278 34 189.8 Passing Offense G Att Cp InL Yds Tds YPG Penn St. 12 417 269 8 3,430 30 285.8 Washington 12 319 221 5 2,662 18 221.8 Total Offense G Plays Yds YPG Penn St. 12 830 5,439 453.3 Washington 12 766 4,940 411.7 Rushing Defense G Car Yds TD YPG Penn St. 12 423 1,430 11 119.2 Washington 12 421 1,108 8 92.3 Passing Defense G Att Cp DInt Penn St. 12 420 243 10 Washington 12 376 240 13 G Yds Tds Pts Penn St. 12 2,522 12 112.96 Washington 12 2,221 8 113.55 Total Defense G Plays Yds YPG Penn St. 12 843 3,952 329.3 Washington 12 797 3,329 277.4 Net Punting G Yds Punts Net Penn St. 12 73 52 39.81 Washington 12 43 40 38.70 Punt Returns G PRYd Yds Avg Penn St. 12 24 314 13.08 Washington 12 25 458 18.32 Kickoff Returns G No KRYd Avg Penn St. 12 27 615 22.78 Washington 12 23 540 23.48 Turnover Margin G FmG DInt Tot FmL Penn St. 12 14 10 24 2 Washington 12 8 13 21 5 G InL Tot Mar/Gm Avg Penn St. 12 8 10 14 1.17 Washington 12 5 10 11 .92 Scoring Offense G FG Pts Avg Penn St. 12 9 499 41.6 Washington 12 13 443 36.9 Scoring Defense G Saf Pts Avg Penn St. 12 0 186 15.5 Washington 12 0 174 14.5

PAST WINNERS

Dec. 31, 2016 — Georgia Tech 33, Kentucky 18. Jan. 2, 2016 — Georgia 24, Penn St. 17. Jan. 1, 2014 — Nebraska 24, Georgia 19. Jan. 1, 2013 — Northwestern 34, Mississippi St. 20. Jan. 2, 2012 — Florida 24, Ohio St. 17. Jan. 1, 2011 — Mississippi St. 52, Michigan 14. Jan. 1, 2010 — Florida St. 33, West Virginia 21. Jan. 1, 2009 — Nebraska 26, Clemson 21. Jan. 1, 2008 — Texas Tech 31, Virginia 28. Jan. 1, 2007 — West Virginia 38, Georgia Tech 35. Jan. 2, 2006 — Virginia Tech 35, Louisville 24. Jan. 1, 2005 — Florida St. 30, West Virginia 18. Jan. 1, 2004 — Maryland 41, West Virginia 7. Jan. 1, 2003 — N.C. State 28, Notre Dame 6. Jan. 1, 2002 — Florida St. 30, Virginia Tech 17. Jan. 1, 2001 — Virginia Tech 41, Clemson 20. Jan. 1, 2000 — Miami 28, Georgia Tech 13. Jan. 1, 1999 — Georgia Tech 35, Notre Dame 28. Jan. 1, 1998 — North Carolina 42, Virginia Tech 3. Jan. 1, 1997 — North Carolina 20, West Virginia 13. Jan. 1, 1996 — Syracuse 41, Clemson 0. Dec. 30, 1994 — Tennessee 45, Virginia Tech 23. Dec. 31, 1993 — Alabama 24, North Carolina 10. Dec. 31, 1992 — Florida 27, North Carolina St. 10. Dec. 29, 1991 — Oklahoma 48, Virginia 14. Jan. 1, 1991 — Michigan 35, Mississippi 3. Dec. 30, 1989 — Clemson 27, West Virginia 7. Jan. 1, 1989 — Georgia 34, Michigan St. 27. Dec. 31, 1987 — Louisiana St. 30, South Carolina 13. Dec. 27, 1986 — Clemson 27, Stanford 21. Dec. 30, 1985 — Florida St. 34, Oklahoma St. 23. Dec. 28, 1984 — Oklahoma St. 21, South Carolina 14. Dec. 30, 1983 — Florida 14, Iowa 6. Dec. 30, 1982 — Florida St. 31, West Virginia 12. Dec. 28, 1981 — North Carolina 31, Arkansas 27. Dec. 29, 1980 — Pittsburgh 37, South Carolina 9. Dec. 28, 1979 — North Carolina 17, Michigan 15. Dec. 29, 1978 — Clemson 17, Ohio St. 15. Dec. 30, 1977 — Pittsburgh 34, Clemson 3. Dec. 27, 1976 — Notre Dame 20, Penn St. 9. Dec. 29, 1975 — Maryland 13, Florida 0. Dec. 30, 1974 — Auburn 27, Texas 3. Dec. 29, 1973 — Texas Tech 28, Tennessee 19. Dec. 30, 1972 — Auburn 24, Colorado 3. Dec. 31, 1971 — Georgia 7, North Carolina 3. Jan. 2, 1971 — Auburn 35, Mississippi 28. Dec. 27, 1969 — Florida 14, Tennessee 13. Dec. 28, 1968 — Missouri 35, Alabama 10. Dec. 30, 1967 — Penn St. 17, Florida St. 17. Dec. 31, 1966 — Tennessee 18, Syracuse 12. Dec. 31, 1965 — Georgia Tech 31, Texas Tech 21. Jan. 2, 1965 — Florida St. 36, Oklahoma 19. Dec. 28, 1963 — North Carolina 35, Air Force 0. Dec. 29, 1962 — Florida 17, Penn St. 7. Dec. 30, 1961 — Penn St. 30, Georgia Tech 15. Dec. 31, 1960 — Florida 13, Baylor 12. Jan. 2, 1960 — Arkansas 14, Georgia Tech 7. Dec. 27, 1958 — Mississippi 7, Florida 3. Dec. 28, 1957 — Tennessee 3, Texas A&M 0. Dec. 29, 1956 — Georgia Tech 21, Pittsburgh 14. Dec. 31, 1955 — Vanderbilt 25, Auburn 13. Dec. 31, 1954 — Texas Tech 35, Auburn 13. Jan. 1, 1954 — Auburn 33, Baylor 13. Jan. 1, 1953 — Florida 14, Tulsa 13. Jan. 1, 1952 — Miami 14, Clemson 0. Jan. 1, 1951 — Wyoming 20, Washington & Lee 7. Jan. 2, 1950 — Maryland 20, Missouri 7. Jan. 1, 1949 — Clemson 24, Missouri 23. Jan. 1, 1948 — Maryland 20, Georgia 20. Jan. 1, 1947 — Oklahoma 34, N.C. State 13. Jan. 1, 1946 — Wake Forest 26, South Carolina 14. Note: Gator Bowl (1946-2014)

Dec. 30, 2016 — Georgia 31, TCU 23. Jan. 2, 2016 — Arkansas 45, Kansas St. 23. Dec. 29, 2014 — Texas A&M 45, West Virginia 37. Dec. 31, 2013 — Mississippi St. 44, Rice 7. Dec. 31, 2012 — Tulsa 31, Iowa St. 17. Dec. 31, 2011 — Cincinnati 31, Vanderbilt 24. Dec. 31, 2010 — UCF 10, Georgia 6. Jan. 2, 2010 — Arkansas 20, East Carolina 17, OT. Jan. 2, 2009 — Kentucky 25, East Carolina 19. Dec. 29, 2007 — Mississippi St. 10, UCF 3. Dec. 29, 2006 — South Carolina 44, Houston 36. Dec. 31, 2005 — Tulsa 31, Fresno St. 24. Dec. 31, 2004 — Louisville 44, Boise St. 40. Dec. 31, 2003 — Utah 17, Southern Miss 0. Dec. 31, 2002 — TCU 17, Colorado St.3. Dec. 31, 2001 — Louisville 28, BYU 10. Dec. 29, 2000 — Colorado St. 22, Louisville 17. Dec. 31, 1999 — Southern Miss 23, Colorado St. 17. Dec. 31, 1998 — Tulane 41, BYU 27. Dec. 31, 1997 — Southern Miss 41, Pittsburgh 7. Dec. 27, 1996 — Syracuse 30, Houston 17. Dec. 30, 1995 — East Carolina 19, Stanford 13. Dec. 31, 1994 — Illinois 30, East Carolina 0. Dec. 28, 1993 — Louisville 18, Michigan St. 7. Dec. 31, 1992 — Mississippi 13, Air Force 0. Dec. 29, 1991 — Air Force 38, Mississippi St. 15. Dec. 27, 1990 — Air Force 23, Ohio St. 11. Dec. 28, 1989 — Mississippi 42, Air Force 29. Dec. 28, 1988 — Indiana 34, South Carolina 10. Dec. 29, 1987 — Georgia 20, Arkansas 17. Dec. 29, 1986 — Tennessee 21, Minnesota 14. Dec. 27, 1985 — Baylor 21, LSU 7. Dec. 27, 1984 — Auburn 21, Arkansas 15. Dec. 29, 1983 — Notre Dame 19, Boston College 18. Dec. 29, 1982 — Alabama 21, Illinois 15. Dec. 30, 1981 — Ohio St. 31, Navy 28. Dec. 27, 1980 — Purdue 28, Missouri 25. Dec. 22, 1979 — Penn St. 9, Tulane 6. Dec. 23, 1978 — Missouri 20, LSU 15. Dec. 19, 1977 — Nebraska 21, North Carolina 17. Dec. 20, 1976 — Alabama 36, UCLA 6. Dec. 22, 1975 — Southern Cal 20, Texas A&M 0. Dec. 16, 1974 — Tennessee 7, Maryland 3. Dec. 17, 1973 — NC State 31, Kansas 18. Dec. 18, 1972 — Georgia Tech 31, Iowa St. 30. Dec. 20, 1971 — Tennessee 14, Arkansas 13. Dec. 12, 1970 — Tulane 17, Colorado 3. Dec. 13, 1969 — Colorado 47, Alabama 33. Dec. 14, 1968 — Mississippi 34, Virginia Tech 17. Dec. 16, 1967 — NC State 14, Georgia 7. Dec. 10, 1966 — Miami 14, Virginia Tech 7. Dec. 18, 1965 — Mississippi 13, Auburn 7. Dec. 19, 1964 — Utah 32, West Virginia 6. Dec. 21, 1963 — Mississippi St. 16, NC State 12. Dec. 15, 1962 — Oregon St. 6, Villanova 0. Dec. 16, 1961 — Syracuse 15, Miami 14. Dec. 17, 1960 — Penn St. 41, Oregon 12. Dec. 19, 1959 — Penn St. 7, Alabama 0

Dec. 31, 2016 — Clemson 31, Ohio St. 0. Jan. 1, 2016 — Ohio St. 44, Notre Dame 28. Dec. 31, 2014 — Boise St. 38, Arizona 30. Jan. 1, 2014 — UCF 52, Baylor 42. Jan. 3, 2013 — Oregon 35, Kansas St. 17. Jan. 2, 2012 — Oklahoma St. 41, Stanford 38, OT. Jan. 1, 2011 — Oklahoma 48, UConn 20. Jan. 4, 2010 — Boise St. 17, TCU 10. Jan. 5, 2009 — Texas 24, Ohio St. 21. Jan. 2, 2008 — West Virginia 48, Oklahoma 28. Jan. 1, 2007 — Boise St. 43, Oklahoma 42, OT. Jan. 2, 2006 — Ohio St. 34, Notre Dame 20. Jan. 1, 2005 — Utah 35, Pittsburgh 7. Jan. 2, 2004 — Ohio St. 35, Kansas St. 28. Jan. 3, 2003 — Ohio St. 31, Miami 24, 2OT. Jan. 1, 2002 — Oregon 38, Colorado 16. Jan. 2, 2001 — Oregon St. 41, Notre Dame 9. Jan. 2, 2000 — Nebraska 31, Tennessee 21. Jan. 4, 1999 — Tennessee 23, Florida St. 16. Dec. 31, 1997 — Kansas St. 35, Syracuse 18. Jan. 1, 1997 — Penn St. 38, Texas 15. Jan. 2, 1996 — Nebraska 62, Florida 24. Jan. 2, 1995 — Colorado 41, Notre Dame 24. Jan. 1, 1994 — Arizona 29, Miami 0. Jan. 1, 1993 — Syracuse 26, Colorado 22. Jan. 1, 1992 — Penn St. 42, Tennessee 17. Jan. 1, 1991 — Louisville 34, Alabama 7. Jan. 1, 1990 — Florida St. 41, Nebraska 17. Jan. 2, 1989 — Notre Dame 34, West Virginia 21. Jan. 1, 1988 — Florida St. 31, Nebraska 28. Jan. 2, 1987 — Penn St. 14, Miami 10. Jan. 1, 1986 — Michigan 27, Nebraska 23. Jan. 1, 1985 — UCLA 39, Miami 37. Jan. 2, 1984 — Ohio St. 28, Pittsburgh 23. Jan. 1, 1983 — Arizona St. 32, Oklahoma 21. Jan. 1, 1982 — Penn St. 26, Southern Cal 10. Dec. 26, 1980 — Penn St. 31, Ohio St. 19. Dec. 25, 1979 — Pittsburgh 16, Arizona 10. Dec. 25, 1978 — Arkansas 10, UCLA 10. Dec. 25, 1977 — Penn St. 42, Arizona St. 30. Dec. 25, 1976 — Oklahoma 41, Wyoming 7. Dec. 26, 1975 — Arizona St. 17, Nebraska 14. Dec. 28, 1974 — Oklahoma St. 16, BYU 6. Dec. 21, 1973 — Arizona St. 28, Pittsburgh 7. Dec. 23, 1972 — Arizona St. 49, Missouri 35. Dec. 27, 1971 — Arizona St. 45, Florida St. 38

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY JAN. 1 1902 — Michigan beats Stanford 49-0 in the first Rose Bowl. Neil Snow scores four touchdowns in a game that ends with eight minutes to play. The Wolverines earned the nickname as the “Point a Minute” team, having scored 501 points in their ten games. The next Rose Bowl game does not occur until 1916. 1916 — Washington State beats Brown

14-0 in the return of the Rose Bowl. Brown halfback Fritz Pollard, the first African-American to play in the Rose Bowl, gains just 47 yards in the rain-soaked game. After a scoreless first half, Washington State scores on short runs by Ralph Boone and Carl Dietz. 1934 — Columbia upsets Stanford 7-0 in the Rose Bowl when Al Barabas scores in the third quarter on a 17-yard hiddenball play.

1935 — Bucknell beats Miami 26-0 in the first Orange Bowl. 1935 — Tulane beats Temple 20-14 in the first Sugar Bowl. The Green Wave complete a 14-0 comeback when Temple defender Horace Mowery tips a pass into the direction of Dick Hardy, who takes it in to the end zone. 1971 — Notre Dame ends Texas’ 30-game winning streak with a 24-11 win in the Cotton Bowl. The Irish defense forces nine fumbles and Joe Theismann throws for one touchdown and runs for two more as Notre Dame to keeps the top-ranked Longhorns from winning a

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STAT MATCHUP WISCONSIN (12-1) 59 Utah St. 31 FAU 40 at BYU 33 Northwestern 38 at Nebraska 17 Purdue 38 Maryland 24 at Illinois 45 at Indiana 38 Iowa 24 Michigan 31 at Minnesota 21 Ohio St. MIAMI (10-2) 41 Bethune-Cookman 52 Toledo 31 at Duke

second straight national championship. 1991 — Georgia Tech routs Nebraska 45-21 in the Citrus Bowl to finish as college football’s only unbeaten team (11-0-1). 1992 — Miami beats Nebraska 22-0 in the Orange Bowl, the first shutout of the Cornhuskers since 1973, and finishes with a 12-0 record. 1993 — No. 2 Alabama wins its first national championship in 13 years and deprives Miami of its fifth title as the Crimson Tide defense humbles the No. 1 Hurricanes 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl. 1993 — Florida State beats Nebraska

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24 at Florida St. 20 25 Georgia Tech 24 27 Syracuse 19 24 at North Carolina 19 28 Virginia Tech 10 41 Notre Dame 8 44 Virginia 28 14 at Pittsburgh 24 3 Clemson 38 Rushing Offense G Car RuYD Tds YPG Wisconsin 13 585 2,979 28 229.2 Miami (FL) 11 355 1,812 17 164.7 Passing Offense G Att Cp InL Yds Tds YPG Wisconsin 13 291 181 15 2,431 21 187.0 Miami (FL) 11 371 202 9 2,840 25 258.2 Total Offense G Plays Yds YPG Wisconsin 13 876 5,410 416.2 Miami (FL) 11 726 4,652 422.9 Rushing Defense G Car Yds TD YPG Wisconsin 13 407 1,204 5 92.6 Miami (FL) 11 456 1,676 6 152.4 Passing Defense G Att Cp DInt Wisconsin 13 369 181 17 Miami (FL) 11 380 208 17 G Yds Tds Pts Wisconsin 13 2,088 10 96.31 Miami (FL) 11 2,310 14 109.01 Total Defense G Plays Yds YdsPg Wisconsin 13 776 3,292 253.2 Miami (FL) 11 836 3,986 362.4 Net Punting G Yds Punts Net Wisconsin 13 119 56 36.73 Miami (FL) 11 30 63 36.27 Punt Returns G PRYd Yds Avg Wisconsin 13 22 186 8.45 Miami (FL) 11 13 207 15.92 Kickoff Returns G No KRYd Avg Wisconsin 13 31 643 20.74 Miami (FL) 11 27 588 21.78 Turnover Margin G FmG DInt Tot FmL Wisconsin 13 9 17 26 8 Miami (FL) 11 12 17 29 3 G InL Tot Mar/Gm Avg Wisconsin 13 15 23 3 .23 Miami (FL) 11 9 12 17 1.55 Scoring Offense G FG Pts Avg Wisconsin 13 14 439 33.8 Miami (FL) 11 15 351 31.9 Scoring Defense G Saf Pts Avg Wisconsin 13 0 171 13.2 Miami (FL) 11 0 201 18.3

PAST WINNERS Dec. 30, 2016 — Florida St. 33, Michigan 32. Dec. 31, 2015 — Clemson 37, Oklahoma 17. Dec. 31, 2014 — Georgia Tech 49, Mississippi St. 34. Jan. 3, 2014 — Clemson 40, Ohio St. 35. Jan. 1, 2013 — Florida St. 31, Northern Illinois 10. Jan. 4, 2012 — West Virginia 70, Clemson 33. Jan. 3, 2011 — Stanford 40, Virginia Tech 12. Jan. 5, 2010 — Iowa 24, Georgia Tech 14. Jan. 1, 2009 — Virginia Tech 20, Cincinnati 7. Jan. 3, 2008 — Kansas 24, Virginia Tech 21. Jan. 2, 2007 — Louisville 24, Wake Forest 13. Jan. 4, 2006 — Penn St. 26, Florida St. 23, 3OT. Jan. 1, 2005 — Southern Cal 55, Oklahoma 19. Jan. 1, 2004 — Miami 16, Florida St. 14. Jan. 2, 2003 — Southern Cal 38, Iowa 17. Jan. 2, 2002 — Florida 56, Maryland 23. Jan. 3, 2001 — Oklahoma 13, Florida St. 2. Jan. 1, 2000 — Michigan 35, Alabama 34, OT. Jan. 2, 1999 — Florida 31, Syracuse 10. Jan. 2, 1998 — Nebraska 42, Tennessee 17. Dec. 31, 1996 — Nebraska 41, Virginia Tech 21. Jan. 1, 1996 — Florida St. 31, Notre Dame 26. Jan. 1, 1995 — Nebraska 24, Miami 17. Jan. 1, 1994 — Florida St. 18, Nebraska 16. Jan. 1, 1993 — Florida St. 27, Nebraska 14. Jan. 1, 1992 — Miami 22, Nebraska 0. Jan. 1, 1991 — Colorado 10, Notre Dame 9. Jan. 1, 1990 — Notre Dame 21, Colorado 6. Jan. 2, 1989 — Miami 23, Nebraska 3. Jan. 1, 1988 — Miami 20, Oklahoma 14. Jan. 1, 1987 — Oklahoma 42, Arkansas 8. Jan. 1, 1986 — Oklahoma 25, Penn St. 10. Jan. 1, 1985 — Washington 28, Oklahoma 17. Jan. 2, 1984 — Miami 31, Nebraska 30. Jan. 1, 1983 — Nebraska 21, LSU 20. Jan. 1, 1982 — Clemson 22, Nebraska 15. Jan. 1, 1981 — Oklahoma 18, Florida St. 17. Jan. 1, 1980 — Oklahoma 24, Florida St. 7. Jan. 1, 1979 — Oklahoma 31, Nebraska 24. Jan. 2, 1978 — Arkansas 31, Oklahoma 6. Jan. 1, 1977 — Ohio St. 27, Colorado 10. Jan. 1, 1976 — Oklahoma 14, Michigan 6. Jan. 1, 1975 — Notre Dame 13, Alabama 11. Jan. 1, 1974 — Penn St. 16, LSU 9. Jan. 1, 1973 — Nebraska 40, Notre Dame 6. Jan. 1, 1972 — Nebraska 38, Alabama 6. Jan. 1, 1971 — Nebraska 17, LSU 12. Jan. 1, 1970 — Penn St. 10, Missouri 3. Jan. 1, 1969 — Penn St. 15, Kansas 14. Jan. 1, 1968 — Oklahoma 26, Tennessee 24. Jan. 2, 1967 — Florida 27, Georgia Tech 12. Jan. 1, 1966 — Alabama 39, Nebraska 28. Jan. 1, 1965 — Texas 21, Alabama 17. Jan. 1, 1964 — Nebraska 13, Auburn 7. Jan. 1, 1963 — Alabama 17, Oklahoma 0. Jan. 1, 1962 — LSU 25, Colorado 7. Jan. 2, 1961 — Missouri 21, Navy 14. Jan. 1, 1960 — Georgia 14, Missouri 0. Jan. 1, 1959 — Oklahoma 21, Syracuse 6. Jan. 1, 1958 — Oklahoma 48, Duke 21. Jan. 1, 1957 — Colorado 27, Clemson 21. Jan. 2, 1956 — Oklahoma 20, Maryland 6. Jan. 1, 1955 — Duke 34, Nebraska 7. Jan. 1, 1954 — Oklahoma 7, Maryland 0. Jan. 1, 1953 — Alabama 61, Syracuse 6. Jan. 1, 1952 — Georgia Tech 17, Baylor 14. Jan. 1, 1951 — Clemson 15, Miami 14. Jan. 2, 1950 — Santa Clara 21, Kentucky 13. Jan. 1, 1949 — Texas 41, Georgia 28. Jan. 1, 1948 — Georgia Tech 20, Kansas 14. Jan. 1, 1947 — Rice 8, Tennessee 0. Jan. 1, 1946 — Miami 13, Holy Cross 6. Jan. 1, 1945 — Tulsa 26, Georgia Tech 12. Jan. 1, 1944 — LSU 19, Texas A&M 14. Jan. 1, 1943 — Alabama 37, Boston College 21. Jan. 1, 1942 — Georgia 40, TCU 26. Jan. 1, 1941 — Mississippi St. 14, Georgetown 7. Jan. 1, 1940 — Georgia Tech 21, Missouri 7. Jan. 2, 1939 — Tennessee 17, Oklahoma 0. Jan. 1, 1938 — Auburn 6, Michigan St. 0. Jan. 1, 1937 — Duquesne 13, Mississippi St. 12. Jan. 1, 1936 — Catholic U. 20, Mississippi 19. Jan. 1, 1935 — Bucknell 26, Miami 0

2017-18 CONFERENCE BOWL RECORDS Through Friday Conference Big Ten Independents Sun Belt Big 12 American Athletic Atlantic Coast Mountain West Conference USA Mid-American Pac-12 Southeastern

27-14 in the Orange Bowl to set an NCAA record by winning eight consecutive bowl games. 2000 — Georgia’s Hap Hines kicks a 21-yard field goal in overtime to complete the greatest comeback in bowl history. The Bulldogs pull out a 28-25 victory over Purdue after trailing 25-0 early in the second quarter in the Outback Bowl. 2006 — New England’s Doug Flutie converts the NFL’s first successful drop kick in 64 years during a 28-26 loss to Miami. 2007 — Boise State, after tying the game with seven seconds to go in reg-

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ulation, stuns No. 7 Oklahoma 43-42 in overtime to win the Fiesta Bowl. The No. 9 Broncos win on Ian Johnson’s 2-point conversion run after receiver Vinny Perretta throws a fourth-down touchdown pass to Derek Schouman. 2009 — Southern California beats Penn State 38-24 to become the first team to win three consecutive Rose Bowls. 2014 — Central Florida pulls off one of the biggest upsets of the bowl season by outlasting No. 6 Baylor 52-42 in the Fiesta Bowl. It’s the highest-scoring game in Fiesta Bowl history and second-highest BCS bowl ever.

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NFL Injury Report Sunday NEW YORK JETS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — JETS: OUT: T Brandon Shell (concussion). DOUBTFUL: TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins (ribs/foot). QUESTIONABLE: DE Kony Ealy (knee), RB Matt Forte (knee), RB Akeem Judd (ankle). PATRIOTS: OUT: DT Alan Branch (knee), RB Rex Burkhead (knee), RB Mike Gillislee (knee). QUESTIONABLE: WR Chris Hogan (shoulder), DE Eric Lee (ankle/finger), S Devin McCourty (shoulder), WR Matt Slater (hamstring), LB Kyle Van Noy (calf), T LaAdrian Waddle (ankle), RB James White (ankle). WASHINGTON REDSKINS at NEW YORK GIANTS — REDSKINS: OUT: LB Ryan Anderson (knee), LB Zach Brown (illness/knee/ Achilles), DL Ziggy Hood (elbow). QUESTIONABLE: WR Robert Davis (concussion), LB Martrell Spaight (illness/ankle), WR Maurice Harris (back), G Kyle Kalis (ankle), DL Terrell McClain (toe), LB Ryan Kerrigan (calf). GIANTS: OUT: TE Evan Engram (rib), WR Tavarres King (concussion), WR Sterling Shepard (neck). QUESTIONABLE: OT Ereck Flowers (groin), OT Bobby Hart (ankle). CHICAGO BEARS at MINNESOTA VIKINGS — BEARS: DOUBTFUL: OL Bobby Massie (knee), OL Josh Sitton (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: DB DeAndre Houston-Carson (back), TE Adam Shaheen (chest). VIKINGS: OUT: CB Tramaine Brock (foot), C Pat Elflein (shoulder), LS Kevin McDermott (shoulder), DT Shamar Stephen (ankle). DALLAS COWBOYS at PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — COWBOYS: OUT: DE David Irving (concussion), DE Benson Mayowa (back/illness). QUESTIONABLE: DT Richard Ash (shoulder), WR Cole Beasley (illness), T La’el Collins (back), RB Rod Smith (back). EAGLES: OUT: DE Brandon Graham (ankle), LB Joe Walker (neck). QUESTIONABLE: CB Jalen Mills (ankle). GREEN BAY PACKERS at DETROIT LIONS — PACKERS: OUT: WR

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S.F. 44, Jacksonville 33 MONDAY’S RESULTS Pittsburgh 34, Houston 6 Philadelphia 19, Oakland 10 SUNDAY’S GAMES N.Y. Jets at New England, noon Washington at N.Y. Giants, noon Chicago at Minnesota, noon

Davante Adams (concussion), G Jahri Evas (knee), RB Aaron Jones (knee), WR Jordy Nelson (shoulder), LB Nick Perry (ankle/shoulder), TE Richard Rodgers (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: WR Geronimo Allison (illness), LB Clay Matthews (hamstring), CB Damarious Randall (knee), OT John Ulrick (back). LIONS: OUT: CB Nevin Lawson (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: DE Anthony Zettel (groin). CLEVELAND BROWNS at PITTSBURGH STEELERS — BROWNS: OUT: RB Dan Vitale (groin). QUESTIONABLE: CB Briean BoddyCalhoun (knee/not injury related), RB Matthew Dayes (knee), S Derron Smith (hip), CB Jamar Taylor (foot). STEELERS: OUT: WR Antonio Brown (calf). QUESTIONABLE: C Maurkice Pouncey (hip). HOUSTON TEXANS at INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — TEXANS: OUT: G Jeff Allen (concussion), WR DeAndre Hopkins (calf), RB Jordan Todman (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: T Kendall Lamm (concussion), LB LaTroy Lewis (shoulder). COLTS: OUT: T Denzelle Good (knee), DT Johnathan Hankins (ankle), TE Jason Vander Laan (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: WR Donte Moncrief (ankle). CINCINNATI BENGALS at BALTIMORE RAVENS — BENGALS: OUT: T Cedric Ogbuehi (shoulder). DOUBTFUL: LB Vontaze Burfict (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: CB William Jackson (knee), RB Joe Mixon (ankle). RAVENS: DOUBTFUL: WR Jeremy Maclin (knee). QUESTIONABLE: G Jermaine Eluemunor (shoulder), T Austin Howard (knee), DT Patrick Ricard (neck), WR Mike Wallace (knee), DT Brandon Williams (back). NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — SAINTS: OUT: T Terron Armstead (thigh), DE Trey Hendrickson (ankle), TE Michael Hoomanawanui (concussion). BUCCANEERS: DOUBTFUL: DE Robert Ayers (shoulder), LB Devante Bond (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: TE Cameron Brate (hip/knee), WR Chris Godwin (ankle), WR DeSean Jackson (ankle), DE Ryan Russell (shoulder). KANSAS CITY CHIEFS at DENVER BRONCOS — CHIEFS: OUT: WR

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Dallas at Philadelphia, noon Green Bay at Detroit, noon Cleveland at Pittsburgh, noon Houston at Indianapolis, noon Cincinnati at Baltimore, 3:25 p.m. New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 3:25 p.m. Kansas City at Denver, 3:25 p.m. Jacksonville at Tennessee, 3:25 p.m.

Tyreek Hill (not injury related). DOUBTFUL: DT Bennie Logan (knee). QUESTIONABLE: CB Kenneth Acker (illness), T Cameron Erving (illness), LB Tamba Hali (knee), RB Akeem Hunt (shoulder), DE Rakeem Nunez-Roches (illness), LB Kevin Pierre-Louis (shoulder), RB Charcandrick West (illness). BRONCOS: OUT: DE Zach Kerr (ankle), WR Cody Latimer (thigh), WR Emmanuel Sanders (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: T Donald Stephenson (hand). JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS at TENNESSEE TITANS — JAGUARS: OUT: WR Marqise Lee (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: LB Blair Brown (concussion), DT Abry Jones (back), T Cam Robinson (abdomen). TITANS: OUT: RB DeMarco Murray (knee). QUESTIONABLE: CB Logan Ryan (ankle). BUFFALO BILLS at MIAMI DOLPHINS — BILLS: OUT: CB Shareece Wright (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: G Ryan Groy (illness), WR Deonte Thompson (back/shoulder). DOLPHINS: DOUBTFUL: QB Matt Moore (foot), T Laremy Tunsil (ankle), RB Damien Williams (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: TE MarQueis Gray (hip), DE Charles Harris (thigh), LB Neville Hewitt (hamstring), S T.J. McDonald (shoulder), WR DeVante Parker (ankle), S Michael Thomas (not injury related), CB Alterraun Verner (hamstring), DE Cameron Wake (illness). ARIZONA CARDINALS at SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — CARDINALS: QUESTIONABLE: LB Josh Bynes (ankle), TE Troy Niklas (ankle), RB Elijhaa Penny (hand/), G Earl Watford (ankle), RB Kerwynn Williams (quadricep/ribs/back). SEAHAWKS: OUT: LB D.J. Alexander (concussion), DT Nazair Jones (foot). QUESTIONABLE: G Luke Joeckel (foot), LB Bobby Wagner (hamstring), TE Luke Willson (ankle). SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS at LOS ANGELES RAMS — 49ERS: No players listed. RAMS: DOUBTFUL: LB Mark Barron (achilles). QUESTIONABLE: WR Cooper Kupp (knee).

— Win and Tennessee loss or tie and Baltimore win or tie, or — Tie and Tennessee loss and Buffalo loss or tie BUFFALO (8-7) (at Miami (6-9), Sunday) Clinches playoff berth with: — Win and Baltimore loss, or — Win and L.A. Chargers loss or tie and Tennessee loss or tie, or — Tie and L.A. Chargers loss and Tennessee loss NFC CLINCHED: Philadelphia - NFC East and first-round bye, Minnesota NFC North, Los Angeles Rams - NFC West, New Orleans - playoff berth, Carolina - playoff berth PHILADELPHIA (12-2) (vs. Oakland (6-8), tonight;vs. Dallas (8-7), Sunday)

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OAKLAND RAIDERS at LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — RAIDERS: OUT: DT Treyvon Hester (ankle). DOUBTFUL: T Vadal Alexander (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: CB David Amerson (foot), CB Dexter McDonald (knee), T David Sharpe (illness). CHARGERS: OUT: S Adrian Phillips (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: RB Melvin Gordon (ankle), DT Corey Liuget (knee), T Russell Okung (groin), LB Denzel Perryman (hamstring). CAROLINA PANTHERS at ATLANTA FALCONS — PANTHERS: QUESTIONABLE: S Kurt Coleman (ankle), CB Ladarius Gunter (illness), G Trai Turner (concussion). FALCONS: OUT: TE Levine Toilolo (knee). QUESTIONABLE: C Alex Mack (calf).

Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win and Philadelphia loss or tie, or — Tie and Philadelphia loss Clinches first-round bye with: — Win or tie, or — Carolina loss or tie, or — New Orleans win NEW ORLEANS (11-4) (at Tampa Bay (4-11), Sunday) Clinches NFC South with: — Win, or — Carolina loss, or — Tie and Carolina tie CAROLINA (11-4) (at Atlanta (9-6), Sunday) Clinches NFC South with: — Win and New Orleans loss or tie, or — Tie and New Orleans loss

IF PHILADELPHIA WINS VS. OAKLAND MONDAY: Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs IF PHILADELPHIA LOSES VS. OAKLAND MONDAY: Clinches home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win, or — Minnesota loss, or — Tie and Minnesota tie MINNESOTA VIKINGS (12-3) (vs. Chicago (5-10), Sunday) IF PHILADELPHIA WINS VS. OAKLAND MONDAY: Clinches first-round bye with: — Win or tie, or — Carolina loss or tie, or — New Orleans win IF PHILADELPHIA LOSES VS. OAKLAND MONDAY:

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THURSDAY’S GAMES Florida 3, Philadelphia 2 Washington 4, Boston 3, SO Tampa Bay 3, Montreal 1 Toronto 7, Arizona 4 Vegas 3, Los Angeles 2 (OT) Vancouver 5, Chicago 2 San Jose 3, Calgary 2, SO

FRIDAY’S GAMES Buffalo 4, New Jersey 3 (OT) Detroit 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, SO Philadelphia 5, Tampa Bay 3 Carolina 2, Pittsburgh 1 Ottawa 5, Columbus 4 Minnesota 4, Nashville 2 Winnipeg 4, N.Y. Islanders 2

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Dallas 4, St. Louis 2 Colorado 4, Toronto 3 (OT) Chicago 4, Edmonton 3 (OT) Anaheim 2, Calgary 1 SATURDAY’S GAMES Boston at Ottawa, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 6 p.m. Montreal at Florida, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Nashville, 7 p.m. Carolina at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Vancouver, 9 p.m. SUNDAY’S GAMES Toronto at Vegas, 2:30 p.m. Arizona at Anaheim, 3 p.m. Tampa Bay at Columbus, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Edmonton, 6 p.m. San Jose at Dallas, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, 7 p.m. Chicago at Calgary, 8 p.m. MONDAY’S GAME N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, noon

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FRIDAY’S GAMES Washington 121, Houston 103 Toronto 111, Atlanta 98 Brooklyn 111, Miami 87 Chicago 119, Indiana 107 Dallas 128, New Orleans 120 Milwaukee 97, Oklahoma City 95 Phoenix 111, Sacramento 101 Charlotte 111, Golden State 100 L.A. Clippers 121, L.A. Lakers 106

SATURDAY’S GAMES Miami at Orlando, 6 p.m. New York at New Orleans, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Detroit, 6 p.m. Portland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Cleveland at Utah, 7 p.m. Memphis at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Denver, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES Chicago at Washington, 2:30 p.m. Minnesota at Indiana, 4 p.m. Brooklyn at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 6 p.m. Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Houston, 6 p.m. Memphis at Sacramento, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES Milwaukee at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Orlando at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Portland at Chicago, 7 p.m.

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Turnovers: 12 (Bogut 2, Clarkson 2, Ingram 2, Nance Jr. 2, Brewer, Caldwell-Pope, Kuzma, Randle). Steals: 7 (Nance Jr. 2, Brewer, Caldwell-Pope, Hart, Ingram, Randle). L.A. Clippers 35 27 29 30 — 121 L.A. Lakers 22 26 28 30 — 106 Att.—18,997 (19,060). Officials—James Williams, Brent Barnaky, Brett Nansel

Thompson 36:10 10-20 1-2 3 2 3 24 Iguodala 27:33 1-3 0-0 6 2 4 2 Bell 19:55 3-7 2-2 5 2 2 8 McCaw 19:35 1-3 0-0 0 2 2 2 Young 15:39 2-7 0-0 0 0 2 5 West 15:01 5-7 0-0 6 0 2 10 Looney 1:25 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 2 Totals 240:00 40-87 12-13 43 32 25 100 Percentages: FG .460, FT .923. 3-Point Goals: 8-22, .364 (Durant 4-5, Thompson 3-7, Young 1-5, Bell 0-1, Iguodala 0-1, McCaw 0-1, Green 0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 17 (32 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Green 3, Bell, West). Turnovers: 17 (Green 5, Durant 3, Iguodala 2, Thompson 2, Bell, Livingston, Pachulia, West, Young). Steals: 6 (Bell 2, Iguodala, McCaw, Pachulia, West). Charlotte 32 21 26 32 — 111 Golden State 29 24 22 25 — 100 Att.—19,596 (19,596). Officials—Justin Van Duyne, Marc Davis, Dedric Taylor

(Zeller 2, Allen, Dinwiddie). Turnovers: 18 (Carroll 3, Harris 3, Hollis-Jefferson 3, Dinwiddie 2, LeVert 2, Stauskas 2, Acy, Allen, Mozgov). Steals: 8 (Crabbe 2, Dinwiddie 2, Hollis-Jefferson 2, Acy, LeVert). Technical Fouls: coach Nets (Defensive three second), 6:24 fourth. Miami Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Olynyk 23:25 1-7 0-0 7 2 3 2 Richardson 28:18 7-12 5-5 2 2 3 19 Whiteside 20:14 6-11 5-7 8 0 2 17 Dragic 23:21 3-12 5-6 4 5 2 11 T.Johnson 32:46 4-15 2-2 5 1 2 11 Ellington 28:06 2-10 3-4 2 0 0 7 Adebayo 27:46 2-5 3-5 5 1 2 7 Walton Jr. 25:30 1-6 0-0 1 1 2 3 Mickey 19:24 2-5 1-2 9 0 1 5 Williams Jr. 6:24 1-4 0-0 0 0 1 2 Haslem 4:46 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 3 Totals 240:00 30-89 24-31 43 12 18 87 Percentages: FG .337, FT .774. 3-Point Goals: 3-26, .115 (Haslem 1-2, T.Johnson 1-3, Walton Jr. 1-3, Mickey 0-1, Richardson 0-1, Dragic 0-3, Williams Jr. 0-3, Olynyk 0-4, Ellington 0-6). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 11 (14 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Olynyk, Walton Jr., Whiteside). Turnovers: 11 (Olynyk 3, Adebayo 2, Richardson 2, Whiteside 2, Dragic, Mickey). Steals: 9 (Dragic 2, Walton Jr. 2, Whiteside 2, Adebayo, Olynyk, Richardson). Technical Fouls: coach Heat (Defensive three second), 7:08 first; coach Erik Spoelstra, 1:11 third. Brooklyn 24 35 36 16 — 111 Miami 20 19 21 27 — 87 Att.—19,600 (19,600). T—2:05. Officials—Kane Fitzgerald, Josh Tiven, J.T. Orr

Green 27:09 6-10 2-2 2 0 1 18 Gordon 26:42 6-11 2-2 0 1 0 16 Qi 11:51 0-3 0-2 1 0 3 0 Brown 6:20 2-4 0-0 0 1 0 4 Weber 6:20 3-3 0-0 0 0 0 9 Totals 240:00 38-89 13-16 35 15 13 103 Percentages: FG .427, FT .813. 3-Point Goals: 14-48, .292 (Green 4-6, Weber 3-3, Gordon 2-5, Paul 2-5, Harden 1-4, Anderson 1-8, Ariza 1-9, Brown 0-2, Qi 0-3, Tucker 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 14 (19 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Black, Harden). Turnovers: 14 (Harden 5, Weber 3, Black, Brown, Gordon, Paul, Qi, Tucker). Steals: 11 (Black 2, Green 2, Paul 2, Weber 2, Ariza, Brown, Harden). Technical Fouls: Paul, 8:05 second. Washington Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Morris 26:37 1-7 4-4 9 1 2 6 Porter Jr. 39:48 9-16 1-1 6 7 1 26 Gortat 18:57 2-3 0-0 7 2 1 4 Beal 31:45 9-17 0-0 2 1 1 21 Wall 31:22 7-10 1-2 2 4 3 17 Oubre Jr. 26:12 9-18 0-0 4 1 3 21 Mahinmi 20:37 1-1 1-2 5 0 3 3 Meeks 17:58 4-8 2-3 5 1 0 13 Satoransky 16:38 3-3 0-0 3 4 0 6 McCullough 4:24 2-3 0-0 2 0 0 4 Frazier 2:51 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 0 Smith 2:51 0-2 0-0 0 0 1 0 Totals 240:00 47-88 9-12 45 23 15 121 Percentages: FG .534, FT .750. 3-Point Goals: 18-36, .500 (Porter Jr. 7-11, Beal 3-6, Meeks 3-6, Oubre Jr. 3-7, Wall 2-4, Morris 0-2). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 16 (16 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Mahinmi 2, Gortat, Porter Jr., Satoransky). Turnovers: 16 (Meeks 4, Wall 4, Satoransky 3, Morris 2, Mahinmi, Oubre Jr., Porter Jr.). Steals: 12 (Wall 5, Oubre Jr. 3, Porter Jr. 2, Mahinmi, Meeks). Technical Fouls: Oubre Jr., 8:05 second. Houston 23 25 30 25 — 103 Washington 27 32 28 34 — 121 Att.—20,356 (20,356). T—1:56. Officials—Jacyn Goble, Brian Forte, Ed Malloy

Milwaukee Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Antetokounm- 39:49 10-16 3-4 12 6 0 23 po Middleton 39:03 8-18 1-2 6 3 3 20 Henson 29:20 8-12 2-5 6 2 4 18 Bledsoe 24:27 4-13 0-2 5 2 5 8 Snell 36:23 5-11 1-1 4 0 3 15 Dellavedova 25:09 0-4 0-0 1 9 3 0 Brogdon 21:01 3-6 1-1 2 3 2 7 Maker 14:50 1-4 0-2 5 1 2 3 Terry 9:58 1-1 0-0 2 0 1 3 Totals 240:00 40-85 8-17 43 26 23 97 Percentages: FG .471, FT .471. 3-Point Goals: 9-29, .310 (Snell 4-10, Middleton 3-8, Terry 1-1, Maker 1-2, Brogdon 0-2, Dellavedova 0-2, Bledsoe 0-4). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 9 (6 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Henson 4, Antetokounmpo, Maker, Middleton). Turnovers: 9 (Antetokounmpo 5, Bledsoe 2, Brogdon, Middleton). Steals: 9 (Brogdon 3, Snell 2, Antetokounmpo, Bledsoe, Middleton, Terry). Technical Fouls: coach Bucks (Defensive three second), 11:33 third. Oklahoma City Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Anthony 34:37 5-12 1-1 6 0 4 12 Roberson 34:41 2-8 0-0 9 0 2 5 Adams 32:14 2-7 2-3 7 1 3 6 Abrines 9:42 0-1 0-0 1 0 1 0 Westbrook 40:02 16-34 6-9 14 9 4 40 Huestis 27:50 3-5 0-0 0 0 3 7 Felton 27:09 4-8 1-3 3 6 1 10 Grant 20:22 5-6 2-4 2 0 1 12 Patterson 13:23 1-2 0-0 3 0 0 3 Totals 240:00 38-83 12-20 45 16 19 95 Percentages: FG .458, FT .600. 3-Point Goals: 7-25, .280 (Westbrook 2-9, Patterson 1-2, Anthony 1-3, Huestis 1-3, Roberson 1-3, Felton 1-4, Abrines 0-1). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 12 (19 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Grant 2, Adams, Felton, Huestis). Turnovers: 12 (Westbrook 5, Anthony 2, Adams, Felton, Grant, Patterson, Roberson). Steals: 5 (Roberson 3, Adams, Westbrook). Technical Fouls: coach Thunder (Defensive three second), 11:25 fourth. Milwaukee 38 20 15 24 — 97 Oklahoma City 18 26 23 28 — 95 Att.—18,203 (18,203). T—2:10. Officials—Ben Taylor, Derrick Stafford, Leon Wood

CLIPPERS 121, LAKERS 106 L.A. Clippers Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Griffin 32:10 6-15 11-12 6 6 3 24 C.Williams 23:58 5-9 0-0 2 0 2 11 Jordan 31:41 6-8 0-0 16 0 4 12 Rivers 26:31 5-12 0-0 2 3 3 13 Teodosic 33:15 3-8 3-4 5 7 3 11 L.Williams 30:32 4-14 13-15 3 4 0 23 Dekker 18:28 4-6 0-0 2 0 3 8 Harrell 16:19 7-9 1-3 9 0 1 15 Evans 15:50 2-5 0-0 2 2 1 4 W.Johnson 9:51 0-0 0-0 1 1 1 0 Thornwell 1:25 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 42-86 28-34 49 23 21 121 Percentages: FG .488, FT .824. 3-Point Goals: 9-32, .281 (Rivers 3-7, Teodosic 2-7, L.Williams 2-10, Griffin 1-3, C.Williams 1-3, Dekker 0-1, Evans 0-1). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 13 (16 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (C.Williams 2, Harrell 2, Jordan 2). Turnovers: 13 (Griffin 4, Teodosic 3, L.Williams 2, C.Williams, Harrell, Jordan, Rivers). Steals: 7 (Evans 3, Dekker, Griffin, Teodosic, W.Johnson). L.A. Lakers Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Hart 22:00 1-4 0-0 2 2 2 2 Kuzma 36:49 6-14 0-1 5 2 3 13 Randle 28:31 8-16 2-4 7 2 4 18 Caldwell-Pope 33:45 6-11 2-2 7 1 3 14 Ingram 36:34 8-20 2-2 1 3 2 18 Clarkson 35:05 9-16 0-0 5 8 0 20 Nance Jr. 18:10 6-7 4-5 4 4 4 16 Brewer 15:17 2-4 1-2 2 2 2 5 Caruso 6:07 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 Bogut 5:04 0-0 0-0 2 0 1 0 Bryant 1:19 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 Zubac 1:19 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 46-94 11-16 35 25 22 106 Percentages: FG .489, FT .688. 3-Point Goals: 3-19, .158 (Clarkson 2-5, Kuzma 1-7, Bryant 0-1, Caruso 0-1, Hart 0-1, Caldwell-Pope 0-2, Ingram 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 12 (14 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Ingram, Nance Jr., Randle).

RAPTORS 111, HAWKS 98 Atlanta Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Ilyasova 28:27 3-6 0-1 8 1 0 6 Prince 34:39 12-16 1-2 10 1 1 30 Plumlee 18:41 3-6 0-0 6 0 1 6 Bazemore 28:35 3-9 1-1 6 3 4 8 Schroder 35:06 6-20 2-2 5 9 3 14 Belinelli 27:14 5-11 2-2 0 3 1 14 Collins 20:37 3-8 5-8 8 0 1 11 Delaney 19:45 1-5 1-2 1 0 2 3 Cavanaugh 14:02 2-5 1-2 4 0 1 6 Taylor 12:54 0-2 0-0 0 4 1 0 Totals 240:00 38-88 13-20 48 21 15 98 Percentages: FG .432, FT .650. 3-Point Goals: 9-24, .375 (Prince 5-6, Belinelli 2-5, Cavanaugh 1-2, Bazemore 1-4, Delaney 0-2, Ilyasova 0-2, Schroder 0-3). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 18 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Collins 4, Prince 2, Ilyasova). Turnovers: 18 (Bazemore 5, Ilyasova 3, Plumlee 3, Schroder 3, Belinelli, Collins, Delaney, Taylor). Steals: 6 (Schroder 2, Bazemore, Belinelli, Delaney, Taylor). Toronto Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Anunoby 22:54 4-8 0-0 4 2 3 9 Miles 18:01 3-8 0-0 0 0 2 9 Valanciunas 21:39 5-12 2-2 11 0 4 13 DeRozan 33:53 10-18 3-3 1 5 2 25 Lowry 30:16 5-15 0-0 5 5 1 12 Wright 29:06 6-10 0-0 7 2 2 13 Siakam 22:58 2-7 0-0 7 1 2 5 Poeltl 19:20 3-5 0-0 10 1 2 6 VanVleet 17:44 2-9 1-2 1 3 2 6 Powell 17:07 3-10 0-1 2 3 1 7 Nogueira 7:01 3-3 0-0 3 0 1 6 Totals 240:00 46-105 6-8 51 22 22 111 Percentages: FG .438, FT .750. 3-Point Goals: 13-37, .351 (Miles 3-6, DeRozan 2-4, Lowry 2-9, Wright 1-1, Valanciunas 1-2, VanVleet 1-2, Siakam 1-3, Anunoby 1-5, Powell 1-5). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 11 (17 PTS). Blocked Shots: 15 (Poeltl 3, Siakam 3, DeRozan 2, Nogueira 2, Valanciunas 2, Miles, Powell, Wright). Turnovers: 11 (VanVleet 3, DeRozan 2, Valanciunas 2, Anunoby, Lowry, Poeltl, Powell). Steals: 9 (Anunoby 2, Miles 2, Wright 2, Powell, Valanciunas, VanVleet). Atlanta 22 25 22 29 — 98 Toronto 30 32 26 23 — 111 Att.—19,800 (19,800). Officials—Bill Kennedy, Courtney Kirkland, Kevin Cutler

HORNETS 111, WARRIORS 100 Charlotte Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Kidd-Gilchrist 25:46 5-12 2-4 2 1 1 12 Williams 22:40 0-2 0-0 6 1 0 0 Howard 40:16 10-15 9-12 12 7 1 29 Batum 31:33 6-10 1-2 4 6 2 15 Walker 35:15 5-16 3-4 5 5 1 16 Kaminsky 25:20 5-8 3-5 6 3 1 14 Lamb 22:14 4-13 3-4 6 1 1 11 Graham 16:27 3-5 2-3 3 0 1 8 Carter12:45 1-4 0-0 1 3 1 2 Williams O’Bryant III 7:44 2-4 0-0 2 0 1 4 Totals 240:00 41-89 23-34 47 27 10 111 Percentages: FG .461, FT .676. 3-Point Goals: 6-20, .300 (Walker 3-9, Batum 2-4, Kaminsky 1-2, Carter-Williams 0-1, Graham 0-1, Lamb 0-3). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 10 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Lamb 2, Walker 2, Kaminsky, Williams). Turnovers: 10 (Howard 4, Batum 3, Carter-Williams 2, Walker). Steals: 12 (Walker 3, Carter-Williams 2, Howard 2, Kaminsky 2, Batum, Lamb, Williams). Technical Fouls: coach Pat Delany, 6:14 first. Golden State Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Durant 33:50 8-19 7-7 4 6 3 27 Green 33:40 4-11 0-0 11 16 2 8 Pachulia 13:56 0-2 0-0 7 0 4 0 Livingston 23:13 5-7 2-2 1 2 1 12

MAVERICKS 128, PELICANS 120 Dallas Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Barnes 36:14 6-15 0-0 5 0 1 13 Kleber 21:05 1-4 1-2 1 0 3 3 Nowitzki 24:45 4-9 2-3 12 2 3 13 Matthews 29:40 7-11 0-0 4 2 3 18 Smith Jr. 31:22 8-12 0-0 10 10 1 21 Barea 23:53 5-10 1-2 2 9 1 14 Ferrell 23:30 3-6 0-0 2 2 2 7 Harris 20:08 5-8 2-2 3 1 1 17 Powell 14:46 4-4 7-7 3 0 4 15 Mejri 14:37 3-4 1-2 1 1 4 7 Totals 240:00 46-83 14-18 43 27 23 128 Percentages: FG .554, FT .778. 3-Point Goals: 22-39, .564 (Harris 5-7, Smith Jr. 5-7, Matthews 4-7, Barea 3-5, Nowitzki 3-5, Ferrell 1-2, Barnes 1-5, Kleber 0-1). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 15 (16 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Mejri 2, Barea, Nowitzki). Turnovers: 15 (Smith Jr. 7, Barea 4, Barnes, Ferrell, Kleber, Mejri). Steals: 5 (Matthews 2, Barea, Powell, Smith Jr.). Technical Fouls: coach Mavericks (Defensive three second), 4:24 second. New Orleans Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Davis 42:13 12-22 8-8 5 2 3 33 Moore 34:45 5-8 5-5 1 3 1 16 Cousins 43:49 11-24 7-8 20 8 4 32 Holiday 39:19 7-12 6-7 2 3 0 23 Rondo 19:41 3-9 0-0 2 8 3 6 Nelson 21:36 3-5 0-0 1 1 3 6 Clark 14:48 1-3 0-1 0 3 2 2 Miller 13:56 0-2 2-3 0 0 2 2 Cunningham 9:53 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 Totals 240:00 42-85 28-32 31 28 19 120 Percentages: FG .494, FT .875. 3-Point Goals: 8-31, .258 (Holiday 3-6, Cousins 3-10, Moore 1-3, Davis 1-4, Nelson 0-1, Clark 0-2, Miller 0-2, Rondo 0-3). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 8 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Cousins 5, Holiday). Turnovers: 8 (Cousins 6, Davis, Holiday). Steals: 8 (Rondo 3, Cousins 2, Davis 2, Moore). Dallas 36 41 32 19 — 128 New Orleans 21 39 41 19 — 120 Att.—16,878 (16,867). T—2:13. Officials—John Goble, Tony Brown, Haywoode Workman

NETS 111, HEAT 87 Brooklyn Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Carroll 25:27 3-10 3-4 4 3 3 10 Hollis22:51 8-9 2-2 8 1 2 18 Jefferson Zeller 21:17 3-6 4-4 7 1 1 11 Crabbe 26:18 2-8 1-1 2 1 4 6 Dinwiddie 29:08 4-11 2-2 2 6 4 11 Harris 29:13 7-9 3-4 7 0 2 21 LeVert 23:01 4-10 4-4 5 11 2 12 Acy 20:30 2-3 0-0 7 1 2 6 Allen 19:38 5-10 2-2 9 0 1 12 Stauskas 15:48 1-2 1-2 3 1 1 4 Mozgov 6:49 0-1 0-0 0 0 1 0 Totals 240:00 39-79 22-25 54 25 23 111 Percentages: FG .494, FT .880. 3-Point Goals: 11-26, .423 (Harris 4-4, Acy 2-2, Zeller 1-1, Stauskas 1-2, Dinwiddie 1-4, Carroll 1-5, Crabbe 1-6, Allen 0-1, LeVert 0-1). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 18 (22 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4

BULLS 119, PACERS 107 Indiana Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Bogdanovic 33:17 2-10 3-4 4 2 0 7 T.Young 31:42 4-9 0-0 7 4 2 8 Turner 25:13 4-10 5-8 3 2 0 13 Collison 39:27 12-16 2-2 3 5 2 30 Stephenson 35:24 8-19 0-0 9 3 4 18 Joseph 30:50 4-9 2-4 4 4 5 10 Sabonis 27:54 6-13 2-2 9 2 1 14 J.Young 12:21 3-6 0-0 2 0 1 7 Poythress 3:52 0-1 0-0 2 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 43-93 14-20 43 22 15 107 Percentages: FG .462, FT .700. 3-Point Goals: 7-22, .318 (Collison 4-5, Stephenson 2-5, J.Young 1-3, Joseph 0-1, T.Young 0-1, Turner 0-2, Bogdanovic 0-5). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 10 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Sabonis 3, Turner 2, J.Young). Turnovers: 10 (Collison 3, Stephenson 2, Turner 2, Bogdanovic, Joseph, T.Young). Steals: 10 (T.Young 3, Collison 2, Joseph 2, Bogdanovic, Poythress, Turner). Chicago Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Markkanen 28:23 11-17 5-5 7 1 1 32 Valentine 25:58 2-6 0-0 4 5 3 4 Lopez 23:48 6-9 0-0 4 1 3 12 Grant 33:00 4-9 0-0 7 12 4 11 Holiday 36:09 3-8 4-4 2 4 1 11 Nwaba 32:03 2-5 2-2 4 1 5 7 Mirotic 27:35 10-20 0-0 4 4 3 28 Zipser 17:20 1-2 0-0 1 0 0 2 Portis 15:44 4-9 4-4 7 3 0 12 Totals 240:00 43-85 15-15 40 31 20 119 Percentages: FG .506, FT 1.000. 3-Point Goals: 18-39, .462 (Mirotic 8-16, Markkanen 5-9, Grant 3-6, Nwaba 1-1, Holiday 1-3, Portis 0-1, Zipser 0-1, Valentine 0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 15 (15 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Holiday 3, Zipser). Turnovers: 15 (Mirotic 3, Grant 2, Lopez 2, Nwaba 2, Valentine 2, Zipser 2, Holiday, Markkanen). Steals: 6 (Grant, Holiday, Lopez, Mirotic, Nwaba, Zipser). Indiana 27 25 25 30 — 107 Chicago 37 27 22 33 — 119 Att.—21,178 (20,917). T—2:00. Officials—Derrick Collins, Lauren Holtkamp, Eric Lewis

WIZARDS 121, ROCKETS 103 Houston Ariza Tucker Anderson Harden Paul Black

Min 31:53 15:27 31:36 29:25 25:32 27:45

FG-A 3-11 1-5 3-11 7-14 3-11 4-6

FT-A R A F Pt 0-0 5 2 2 7 0-0 2 1 3 2 2-2 12 0 0 9 5-6 0 4 1 20 0-0 1 6 2 8 2-2 12 0 1 10

SUNS 111, KINGS 101 Phoenix Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Chriss 28:15 5-6 1-4 8 4 2 14 Warren 38:00 12-18 2-3 10 1 2 26 Chandler 29:38 1-3 4-4 11 1 2 6 Booker 31:51 9-25 5-7 3 3 4 26 Ulis 23:59 2-5 0-0 2 4 2 5 Daniels 20:45 3-10 1-2 0 0 3 9 Bender 19:45 3-6 0-0 2 3 0 9 Canaan 19:25 3-5 2-2 3 6 2 9 Len 18:22 1-2 1-2 6 1 1 3 Jo.Jackson 10:00 2-5 0-0 2 3 1 4 Totals 240:00 41-85 16-24 47 26 19 111 Percentages: FG .482, FT .667. 3-Point Goals: 13-30, .433 (Chriss 3-3, Bender 3-5, Booker 3-9, Daniels 2-8, Ulis 1-1, Canaan 1-3, Warren 0-1). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 10 (12 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Len 2, Bender, Chandler, Chriss). Turnovers: 10 (Chandler 3, Bender 2, Booker, Chriss, Jo.Jackson, Ulis, Warren). Steals: 5 (Jo.Jackson 2, Booker, Canaan, Chriss). Technical Fouls: Jo.Jackson, 5:11 second; Chandler, 2:20 third. Sacramento Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Labissiere 15:48 5-6 2-2 4 1 2 12 Temple 27:35 5-8 0-0 3 5 1 12 Randolph 24:34 5-11 4-4 3 3 3 14 Hill 29:58 2-11 7-9 3 1 4 12 Mason 34:03 3-8 0-0 4 5 3 7 Cauley-Stein 30:40 4-10 3-4 9 3 0 11 Bogdanovic 30:26 5-10 1-2 2 3 4 13 Hield 24:42 4-12 2-2 4 1 4 12 Koufos 22:14 4-4 0-0 5 1 2 8 Totals 240:00 37-80 19-23 37 23 23 101 Percentages: FG .463, FT .826. 3-Point Goals: 8-23, .348 (Temple 2-3, Bogdanovic 2-5, Hield 2-5, Mason 1-2, Hill 1-6, Randolph 0-2). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 9 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Bogdanovic, Temple). Turnovers: 9 (Temple 3, Randolph 2, Hield, Hill, Koufos, Mason). Steals: 6 (Cauley-Stein 2, Mason 2, Randolph, Temple). Phoenix 35 20 33 23 — 111 Sacramento 25 21 37 18 — 101 Att.—17,583 (17,608). T—2:07. Officials—Sean Corbin, Karl Lane, C.J. Washington

NATIONAL SCOREBOARD BASKETBALL

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Designated RHP Shane Carle for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Wade Davis on a threeyear contract.

National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Recalled F/C Cristiano Felicio from Windy City (NBAGL). TORONTO RAPTORS — Suspended F Serge Ibaka one game because of an altercation with a team staff member. Recalled F Bruno Caboclo from Raptors 905 (NBAGL).

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Jacksonville DE Yannick Ngakoue $30,387; San Francisco DE

Cassius Marsh and L.A. Chargers DE Joey Bosa $18,231; Atlanta CB Desmond Trufant $12,154; and L.A. Chargers S Rayshawn Jenkins, Dallas TE Geoff Swaim and Houston LB Jadeveon Clowney $9,115 for their actions during last week’s games. Fined New Orleans RB Alvin Kamara $6,079 for wearing Christmas-themed red cleats. ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived CB Deji Olatoye. Signed G Jamil Douglas. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived DB B.W. Webb. Signed FB Marquez Williams from the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed OT Tyron Smith and CB Orlando Scandrick on injured reserve. Signed OT Kadeem Edwards and WR Lance Lenoir from the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Placed C Travis Swanson on injured reserve. Signed WR Jace Billingsley from the practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed WR Davante Adams to a contract extension. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Waived OL Brett Boyko. Signed RB Russell Hansbrough from the practice squad. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Placed LB Matt Longacre on injured reserve. Activated S

Cody Davis from injured reserve. NEW YORK JETS — Signed general manager Mike Maccagnan and coach Todd Bowles to contract extensions. TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived CB Demontre Hurst. Signed RB Khalfani Muhammad from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Steven Lorentz from Florida (ECHL) to Charlotte (AHL). CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Placed F Artem

Anisimov on injured reserve. Activated D Cody Franson from injured reserve. COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned G Joe Cannata from San Antonio (AHL) to Colorado (ECHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned D Joonas Lyytinen from Milwaukee (AHL) to Atlanta (ECHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned D Dalton Prout to Binghamton (AHL). ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled D Tommy Vannelli from Tulsa (ECHL) to San Antonio (AHL).

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SPORTS STATS MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL FRIDAY’S RESULTS

TODAY’S GAMES

TOP 25 No. 2 Mich. St. 111, Cleveland St. 61 No. 7 West Virginia 85, Oklahoma St. 79 No. 11 Kansas 92, Texas 86 No. 16 Kentucky 90, Louisville 61 No. 22 Texas Tech 77, No. 18 Baylor 53 EAST American International 71, Post (Conn.) 67 Boston U. 90, Army 82 Bucknell 84, American U. 55 CCSU 72, St. Francis (Pa.) 68 Canisius 77, Rider 76 Colgate 79, Holy Cross 74 Fairleigh Dickinson 82, LIU Brooklyn 71 Iona 98, Niagara 93 (OT) Lehigh 79, Lafayette 74 Loyola (Md.) 72, Navy 63 Marist 63, Siena 58 Robert Morris 68, Bryant 54 St. Francis Brooklyn 73, Sacred Heart 68 St. John Fisher 80, Old Westbury 58 Toledo 85, Penn 72 Wagner 76, Mount St. Mary’s 57 William Paterson 67, Baruch 63 SOUTH Appalachian St. 66, Texas St. 62 Coastal Carolina 90, Texas-Arlington 65 Cumberlands 99, Kentucky Christian 75 Florida Gulf Coast 76, Florida Memorial 42 Georgia Southern 86, Troy 80 Hobart 84, Rowan 79 Kentucky 90, Louisville 61 Maryland 66, UMBC 45 South Alabama 86, Georgia St. 64 Southern U. 98, Ecclesia 57 Texas-Dallas 117, Rhodes 105 MIDWEST Akron 86, Concord 49 Ball St. 75, Florida A&M 54 Cent. Michigan 91, Lawrence Tech 73 Doane 69, Kansas Wesleyan 65 E. Michigan 67, Rochester (Mich.) 48 Emory & Henry 85, Alma 82 Idaho 74, North Dakota 57 Indiana 79, Youngstown St. 51 Iowa 98, N. Illinois 75 Kansas St. 91, Iowa St. 75 Michigan St. 111, Cleveland St. 61 Nebraska 71, Stetson 62 Ohio 65, Northwestern Ohio 58 Spring Arbor 91, Purdue-Northwest 69 St. Francis (Ind.) 69, Michigan-Dearborn 67 St. John’s (Minn.) 89, Wis.-Superior 67 Taylor 75, Concordia (Mich.) 68 Wis.-Eau Claire 74, Northwestern (Minn.) 58 Wis.-River Falls 72, St. Olaf 49 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 75, Louisiana-Monroe 64 Kansas 92, Texas 86 Louisiana-Lafayette 77, UALR 63 Prairie View 110, Jarvis Christian 80 Texas Tech 77, Baylor 53 West Virginia 85, Oklahoma St. 79 FAR WEST Corban 76, Northwest U. 66 E. Oregon 85, Walla Walla 74 Evergreen St. 81, NW Christian 80 N. Colorado 88, E. Washington 75 Oregon Tech 115, Multnomah Bible 101 S. Oregon 104, Warner Pacific 98 (OT) Utah 66, Oregon 56 Howard vs Hawaii, late

TOP 25 No. 1 Villanova at Butler, 3 p.m. No. 3 Arizona State at No. 17 Arizona, 8 p.m. No. 4 Duke vs. No. 24 Florida State, 1 p.m. No. 5 Texas A&M at Alabama, 5 p.m. No. 6 Xavier vs.DePaul, 1 p.m. No. 8 Wichita State vs. UConn at the XL Center, Hartford, Conn., 11 a.m. No. 9 Virginia vs. Boston College, 1 p.m. No. 10 TCU vs. No. 12 Oklahoma, 1 p.m. No. 13 North Carolina vs. Wake Forest, 11 a.m. No. 14 Purdue vs. Lipscomb, 7 p.m. No. 15 Miami at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. No. 19 Tennessee at Arkansas, noon No. 20 Gonzaga vs. Santa Clara, 6 p.m. EAST Wichita St. at UConn, 11 a.m. Coppin St. at Penn St., noon Saint Louis at La Salle, 1 p.m. Maine at Columbia, 1 p.m. UMass at St. Bonaventure, 1:30 p.m. Saint Joseph’s at George Washington, 3 p.m. Elmira at Binghamton, 3 p.m. Dayton at Duquesne, 3 p.m. George Mason at Rhode Island, 3 p.m. Miami at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. Fairfield at Manhattan, 6 p.m. Dartmouth at New Hampshire, 6 p.m. Norfolk St. at Stony Brook, 6 p.m. SOUTH Wake Forest at North Carolina, 11 a.m. Fordham at VCU, 11:30 a.m W. Carolina at The Citadel, noon Furman at VMI, noon North Greenville at SC-Upstate, 1 p.m. Florida St. at Duke, 1 p.m. Campbell at UNC-Asheville, 1 p.m. St. Andrews at NC Central, 1 p.m. Drexel at Elon, 1 p.m. Boston College at Virginia, 1 p.m. High Point at Winthrop, 1 p.m. Southern Miss. at W. Kentucky, 2 p.m. Cornell at Auburn, 2:30 p.m. Northeastern at James Madison, 3 p.m. NC State at Clemson, 3 p.m. Yale at Kennesaw St., 3 p.m. Radford at Presbyterian, 3 p.m. Vanderbilt at Florida, 3 p.m. Hofstra at William & Mary, 3 p.m. Towson at Coll. of Charleston, 3 p.m. Northwestern St. at McNeese St., 3:30 p.m. Davidson at Richmond, 3:30 p.m. Liberty at Gardner-Webb, 3:30 p.m. Middle Tennessee at UAB, 4 p.m. North Florida at Mississippi St., 4 p.m. Wofford at UNC-Greensboro, 4 p.m. Longwood at Charleston Southern, 4:30 p.m. Morehead St. at Jacksonville St., 4:30 p.m. Texas A&M at Alabama, 5 p.m. FAU at FIU, 6 p.m. Charlotte at Old Dominion, 6 p.m. Louisiana Tech at Marshall, 6 p.m. Belmont at UT Martin, 6 p.m. E. Kentucky at Tennessee Tech, 6 p.m. Incarnate Word at Nicholls, 6 p.m. Ill.-Chicago at N. Kentucky, 6 p.m. Delaware at UNC-Wilmington, 6 p.m. Chattanooga at Samford, 7 p.m. E. Illinois at Austin Peay, 7 p.m. SIU-Edwardsville at Murray St., 7 p.m. MIDWEST Brown at Northwestern, 11 a.m. Miami (Ohio) at Ohio St., 11 a.m. Oakland at Green Bay, noon

NO. 2 MICHIGAN ST. 111, CLEVELAND ST. 61 Cleveland St. Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Kenic 25 1-7 0-0 1 1 2 2 Appleby 29 3-9 3-6 1 4 0 9 Carpenter 27 1-7 0-0 4 1 4 3 Word 31 9-17 1-1 1 0 1 26 Wright 30 3-10 6-6 3 3 2 14 Hairston 19 0-2 0-1 2 0 3 0 Thomas 18 2-4 2-2 2 0 0 7 Highsmith 17 0-2 0-0 0 0 4 0 Christian 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Totals 200 19-58 12-16 14 9 16 61 Percentages: FG .328, FT .750. 3-Point Goals: 11-37, .297 (Word 7-13, Wright 2-8, Thomas 1-2, Carpenter 1-4, Hairston 0-2, Highsmith 0-2, Appleby 0-3, Kenic 0-3). Team Rebounds: 1. Team Turnovers: 7 (16 PTS). Blocked Shots: 1 (Carpenter). Turnovers: 7 (Kenic 2, Wright 2, Appleby, Highsmith, Thomas). Steals: 6 (Appleby, Carpenter, Hairston, Kenic, Word, Wright). Technical Fouls: None. Michigan St. Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Jackson 20 4-7 3-3 6 3 4 12 Ward 22 7-8 8-12 14 0 2 22 Langford 25 9-12 1-1 1 3 0 23 Winston 17 4-5 0-0 3 4 4 11 Bridges 30 7-16 0-0 8 7 2 18 McQuaid 25 4-7 0-0 2 3 0 11 Nairn 22 1-3 0-0 2 4 3 2 Goins 15 1-1 0-0 2 1 1 2 Schilling 12 3-3 2-2 2 0 2 8 Tillman 8 1-1 0-0 4 1 0 2 George 4 0-0 0-0 3 0 0 0 Totals 200 41-63 14-18 47 26 18 111 Percentages: FG .651, FT .778. 3-Point Goals: 15-26, .577 (Langford 4-5, Bridges 4-9, Winston 3-4, McQuaid 3-6, Jackson 1-2). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 11 (15 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Jackson 3). Turnovers: 11 (Goins 2, Jackson 2, Langford 2, Bridges, George, McQuaid, Schilling, Winston). Steals: 1 (Goins). Technical Fouls: None. Cleveland St. 25 36 — 61 Michigan St. 63 48 — 111 A—14,797 (16,280).

NO. 7 WEST VIRGINIA 85, OKLAHOMA ST. 79 West Virginia Harris Konate West Carter Miles Bender Allen Bolden Harler Routt Totals

Min 27 22 25 38 37 17 16 11 6 1 200

FG-A 1-6 4-6 3-6 2-10 4-7 1-3 7-11 3-7 0-1 0-0 25-57

FT-A 6-8 5-6 4-4 6-6 2-3 1-2 1-1 2-2 0-0 0-0 27-32

R A F 6 1 4 9 0 4 4 1 5 4 7 2 2 5 2 5 0 3 2 1 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 15 27

Pt 9 13 11 12 12 3 15 10 0 0 85

Harvard at Minnesota, 1 p.m. DePaul at Xavier, 1 p.m. Georgia Tech at Notre Dame, 1 p.m. Presentation College at S. Dakota St., 2 p.m. Jamestown at N. Dakota St., 2 p.m. Grand Canyon at Illinois, 3 p.m. IUPUI at Wright St., 3 p.m. Mass.-Lowell at Wisconsin, 3 p.m. Villanova at Butler, 3 p.m. Evansville at Loyola of Chicago, 3 p.m. Georgetown at Marquette, 3:30 p.m. Chicago St. at W. Michigan, 3:30 p.m. Denver at South Dakota, 3:30 p.m. Concordia (MI) at Fort Wayne, 3:30 p.m. Jacksonville at Michigan, 5 p.m. Detroit at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Lipscomb at Purdue, 7 p.m. Hampton at Rio Grande, 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST Tennessee at Arkansas, noon Oklahoma at TCU, 1 p.m. Temple at Houston, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Houston Baptist, 7 p.m. Nebraska-Omaha at Oral Roberts, 7 p.m. North Texas at UTSA, 7 p.m. Lamar at Texas A&M-CC, 7:30 p.m. Sam Houston St. at Abilene Christian, 7:30 p.m. Rice at UTEP, 8 p.m. FAR WEST Howard at Hawaii, 12 a.m. Montana at S. Utah, 1:30 p.m. UC Riverside at Seattle, 3 p.m. Saint Mary’s (Cal) at BYU, 3 p.m. Pepperdine at San Diego, 3 p.m. New Mexico at Nevada, 4 p.m. Holy Names at UC Davis, 4 p.m. Colorado St. at San Jose St., 4 p.m. Montana St. at N. Arizona, 6 p.m. Air Force at Fresno St., 6 p.m. Texas A&M International at Long Beach St., 6 p.m. Santa Clara at Gonzaga, 6 p.m. Cal St.-Fullerton at Utah Valley, 7 p.m. Arizona St. at Arizona, 8 p.m. S.F. at Portland, 8 p.m. Idaho St. at Weber St., 8 p.m. Notre Dame de Namur at Cal Poly, 9 p.m. Pacific Union College at UC Santa Barbara, 9 p.m. Loyola Marymount at Pacific, 9 p.m. Utah St. at San Diego St., 9 p.m. California at Stanford, 9 p.m. Morgan St. at CS Northridge, 9 p.m. Portland St. at Sacramento St., 9:05 p.m. Boise St. at UNLV, 10 p.m.

SOUTH Florida Tech at Florida Gulf Coast, noon ETSU at Mercer, 1 p.m. Texas-Arlington at Appalachian St., 1:30 p.m. Tulsa at Tulane, 2 p.m. Texas State at Coastal Carolina, 2:30 p.m. UCF at East Carolina, 3 p.m. Georgia Southern at South Alabama, 3:05 p.m. Georgia St. at Troy, 3:15 p.m. South Carolina at Mississippi, 5 p.m. Georgia at Kentucky, 5 p.m. MIDWEST Savannah St. at Michigan St., 11 a.m. Tennessee St. at SE Missouri, 1 p.m. N. Iowa at Bradley, 1 p.m. Providence at Creighton, 1:30 p.m. Lincoln Christian University at W. Illinois, 2 p.m. Missouri St. at Valparaiso, 3 p.m. Indiana St. at Illinois St., 3 p.m. Memphis at Cincinnati, 3 p.m. Drake at S. Illinois, 3 p.m. E. Washington at North Dakota, 4 p.m. SOUTHWEST SE Louisiana at Cent. Arkansas, 3 p.m. Louisiana-Lafayette at Arkansas St., 3:30 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe at UALR, 4 p.m. South Florida at SMU, 7 p.m. FAR WEST Idaho at N. Colorado, 3 p.m. Utah at Oregon St., 5 p.m. Washington at UCLA, 7 p.m. Washington St. at Southern Cal, 8 p.m. Colorado at Oregon, 9 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES EAST Quinnipiac at Siena, noon SOUTH Florida National at Stetson, noon Alabama St. at Jackson St., 5:30 p.m. Alabama A&M at Grambling St., 7:30 p.m. Ark.-Pine Bluff at MVSU, 7:30 p.m. MIDWEST Youngstown St. at Cleveland St., noon West Virginia at Kansas St., 4 p.m. Texas at Iowa St., 6 p.m. SOUTHWEST Alcorn St. at Prairie View, 5 p.m. Southern U. at Texas Southern, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

TUESDAY’S GAMES

No. 2 Michigan State vs. Savannah State, 11 a.m. No. 16 Kentucky vs.Georgia, 5 p.m. No. 21 Cincinnati vs. Memphis, 3 p.m. No. 23 Seton Hall vs. St. John’s, 4 p.m. No. 25 Creighton vs. Providence, 1:30 p.m. EAST Monmouth (NJ) at St. Peter’s, 11 a.m. Centenary at UMBC, noon Rider at Niagara, noon Wagner at St. Francis Brooklyn, noon Iona at Canisius, noon Mount St. Mary’s at LIU Brooklyn, 1 p.m. Fairleigh Dickinson at Sacred Heart, 1:30 p.m. Central Penn College at Md.-Eastern Shore, 2 p.m. St. Francis (Pa.) at Bryant, 2 p.m. Robert Morris at CCSU, 2:30 p.m. St. John’s at Seton Hall, 4 p.m. Virginia Tech at Syracuse, 5 p.m.

EAST Toledo at Buffalo, 6 p.m. Manhattan at Marist, 6 p.m. Hofstra at Northeastern, 6 p.m. Vermont at Harvard, 6 p.m. Lehigh at Navy, 6 p.m. Holy Cross at Lafayette, 6 p.m. Colgate at American U., 6 p.m. Loyola (Md.) at Army, 6 p.m. Boston U. at Bucknell, 6 p.m. SOUTH Trinity Baptist at Jacksonville, 6 p.m. Carver at Kennesaw St., 6 p.m. Alabama at Vanderbilt, 6 p.m. William & Mary at James Madison, 6 p.m. Penn St. at Maryland, 6 p.m. Delaware at Coll. of Charleston, 6 p.m. UMKC at SC-Upstate, 6 p.m. Drexel at UNC-Wilmington, 6 p.m. Towson at Elon, 6 p.m. Auburn at Tennessee, 6 p.m.

Percentages: FG .439, FT .844. 3-Point Goals: 8-22, .364 (Bolden 2-4, Carter 2-5, Miles 2-5, Harris 1-4, West 1-4). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 18 (25 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Carter, Konate). Turnovers: 18 (Carter 8, Harris 5, West 3, Konate, Miles). Steals: 11 (Carter 5, Miles 2, Allen, Bolden, Harris, West). Technical Fouls: None. Oklahoma St. Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Solomon 24 3-4 2-2 8 0 5 9 Smith 33 3-8 1-2 1 2 1 7 Waters 29 2-6 7-8 5 2 4 13 Carroll 32 5-12 5-10 5 1 0 17 Shine 32 7-11 2-4 5 4 2 17 Averette 23 1-3 4-6 2 0 1 6 McGriff 18 0-0 4-4 2 0 4 4 Sima 8 3-3 0-0 1 0 3 6 Dziagwa 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 Totals 200 24-47 25-36 29 9 21 79 Percentages: FG .511, FT .694. 3-Point Goals: 6-17, .353 (Waters 2-4, Carroll 2-5, Solomon 1-1, Shine 1-4, Averette 0-1, Smith 0-2). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 21 (16 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Solomon 2, Carroll). Turnovers: 21 (Waters 6, Smith 4, Shine 3, Averette 2, Dziagwa 2, Solomon 2, Carroll, Sima). Steals: 11 (Carroll 4, Waters 4, Averette, Shine, Smith). Technical Fouls: None. West Virginia 39 46 — 85 Oklahoma St. 46 33 — 79 A—8,257 (13,611).

NO. 11 KANSAS 92, TEXAS 86 Kansas Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Azubuike 29 6-11 1-1 13 1 3 13 Garrett 18 1-3 0-0 3 2 1 2 Graham 39 6-15 5-6 5 8 1 23 Mykhailiuk 37 6-16 3-3 4 2 4 20 Vick 38 8-14 0-0 4 2 3 21 Newman 29 4-10 4-5 5 0 1 13 Lightfoot 10 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 0 Totals 200 31-69 13-15 35 15 14 92 Percentages: FG .449, FT .867. 3-Point Goals: 17-35, .486 (Graham 6-12, Vick 5-8, Mykhailiuk 5-10, Newman 1-4, Garrett 0-1). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 8 (10 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Garrett, Lightfoot, Vick). Turnovers: 8 (Azubuike 2, Newman 2, Garrett, Graham, Mykhailiuk, Vick). Steals: 4 (Garrett 2, Lightfoot, Mykhailiuk). Technical Fouls: None. Texas Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Bamba 34 9-16 3-5 15 0 4 22 Osetkowski 39 7-15 3-4 8 1 1 17 Coleman 38 7-14 0-0 6 5 2 17 Roach 38 5-10 3-4 7 4 2 13 J.Young 14 0-4 0-0 2 1 0 0 Davis 23 2-10 6-6 3 0 4 12 Jones 9 1-3 2-2 0 1 1 5 Sims 5 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 0 Totals 200 31-72 17-21 42 12 16 86 Percentages: FG .431, FT .810. 3-Point Goals: 7-25, .280 (Coleman 3-5, Davis 2-8, Bamba 1-2, Jones 1-2, J.Young 0-1,

Florida National at North Florida, 6 p.m. Charleston Southern at Liberty, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh at Louisville, 8 p.m. Arkansas at Mississippi St., 8 p.m. MIDWEST Akron at W. Michigan, 6 p.m. Ohio at Cent. Michigan, 6 p.m. Butler at Xavier, 6 p.m. Indiana at Wisconsin, 6 p.m. E. Michigan at Ball St., 6 p.m. Michigan at Iowa, 6 p.m. Kent St. at N. Illinois, 6 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at Bowling Green, 6 p.m. Doane at Nebraska-Omaha, 7 p.m. IUPUI at Green Bay, 7 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Rio Grande, 7 p.m. Georgetown at DePaul, 8 p.m. Texas Tech at Kansas, 8 p.m. Nebraska at Northwestern, 8 p.m. SOUTHWEST TCU at Baylor, 6 p.m. Florida at Texas A&M, 8 p.m. FAR WEST San Diego St. at Colorado St., 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES EAST Marquette at Providence, 5:30 p.m. VCU at Saint Joseph’s, 6 p.m. La Salle at Rhode Island, 6 p.m. Clemson at Boston College, 6 p.m. Hartford at Albany (NY), 6 p.m. George Washington at Duquesne, 6 p.m. Richmond at Fordham, 6 p.m. NJIT at Brown, 6 p.m. Maine at Stony Brook, 6 p.m. George Mason at UMass, 6 p.m. New Hampshire at UMBC, 6 p.m. NC Central at Delaware St., 6:30 p.m. SOUTH Mississippi at Georgia, 5:30 p.m. Memphis at UCF, 6 p.m. Saint Louis at Davidson, 6 p.m. East Carolina at South Florida, 6 p.m. Winthrop at Radford, 6 p.m. Presbyterian at Longwood, 6 p.m. UNC-Asheville at High Point, 6 p.m. North Carolina at Florida St., 6 p.m. Gardner-Webb at Campbell, 6 p.m. Syracuse at Wake Forest, 6 p.m. Fisk at Lipscomb, 6:30 p.m. SC State at Bethune-Cookman, 6:30 p.m. Md.-Eastern Shore at Morgan St., 6:30 p.m. Lamar at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Howard at Florida A&M, 7 p.m. Coppin St. at Norfolk St., 7 p.m. Kentucky at LSU, 7:30 p.m. Alabama St. at Grambling St., 7:30 p.m. Alabama A&M at Jackson St., 7:30 p.m. Virginia at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m. Missouri at South Carolina, 8 p.m. Miami at Georgia Tech, 8 p.m. MIDWEST Rutgers at Purdue, 6 p.m. Evansville at S. Illinois, 7 p.m. S. Dakota St. at N. Dakota St., 7 p.m. Indiana St. at Loyola of Chicago, 7 p.m. W. Illinois at South Dakota, 7 p.m. Valparaiso at Bradley, 7 p.m. St. John’s at Creighton, 7 p.m. Illinois St. at Drake, 7 p.m. St. Bonaventure at Dayton, 7:30 p.m. Illinois at Minnesota, 8 p.m. NC State at Notre Dame, 8 p.m. SOUTHWEST UConn at Tulsa, 6 p.m. Cent. Arkansas at Sam Houston St., 6:30 p.m. McNeese St. at Abilene Christian, 7 p.m.

Osetkowski 0-2, Roach 0-5). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 7 (5 PTS). Blocked Shots: 8 (Bamba 8). Turnovers: 7 (Coleman 3, J.Young, Jones, Osetkowski, Roach). Steals: 5 (Bamba, Coleman, Davis, J.Young, Roach). Technical Fouls: team, 3:43 second. Kansas 37 55 — 92 Texas 34 52 — 86 A—15,802 (16,540).

NO. 16 KENTUCKY 90, LOUISVILLE 61 Louisville Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Adel 36 4-12 4-4 4 3 0 13 King 24 5-10 1-1 4 0 3 12 Mahmoud 16 2-3 0-0 4 0 5 4 Spalding 28 6-11 0-1 11 1 3 12 Snider 29 3-11 1-1 3 4 1 7 Nwora 19 1-4 1-2 0 0 1 3 McMahon 16 0-4 2-2 1 2 1 2 Williams 15 3-8 1-2 5 0 2 8 Perry 7 0-3 0-0 0 0 4 0 Thomas 5 0-1 0-0 0 0 3 0 Sutton 5 0-2 0-0 0 0 2 0 Totals 200 24-69 10-13 32 10 25 61 Percentages: FG .348, FT .769. 3-Point Goals: 3-25, .120 (King 1-3, Williams 1-4, Adel 1-6, Sutton 0-1, Thomas 0-1, Perry 0-2, Snider 0-2, McMahon 0-3, Nwora 0-3). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 10 (15 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Adel, Mahmoud, Spalding, Thomas, Williams). Turnovers: 10 (Adel 3, Mahmoud 2, Spalding 2, McMahon, Sutton, Williams). Steals: 3 (Mahmoud, Spalding, Thomas). Technical Fouls: Sutton, 8:24 first. Kentucky Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Knox 17 2-8 4-5 7 0 5 8 Richards 17 1-4 2-2 6 0 2 4 Washington 31 5-10 6-6 7 2 1 16 Diallo 29 5-11 3-6 6 0 2 14 Green 27 4-6 2-2 0 5 3 13 Gilgeous-Alexander 33 9-16 5-6 5 4 0 24 Gabriel 23 1-2 0-0 7 1 2 3 Killeya-Jones 19 3-5 2-3 4 0 4 8 Calipari 2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 Pulliam 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 David 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Baker -0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Totals 200 30-62 24-30 42 13 19 90 Percentages: FG .484, FT .800. 3-Point Goals: 6-13, .462 (Green 3-4, Gabriel 1-1, Diallo 1-2, Gilgeous-Alexander 1-2, Washington 0-1, Knox 0-3). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 11 (16 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Gabriel 2, Richards 2, Washington). Turnovers: 11 (Green 3, Gabriel 2, Knox 2, Washington 2, Diallo, Gilgeous-Alexander). Steals: 5 (Gilgeous-Alexander 3, Diallo 2). Technical Fouls: Killeya-Jones, 8:24 first. Louisville 27 34 — 61 Kentucky 41 49 — 90

Nicholls at Stephen F. Austin, 7 p.m. Northwestern St. at Texas A&M-CC, 7 p.m. Alcorn St. at Texas Southern, 7:30 p.m. Southern U. at Prairie View, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma St. at Oklahoma, 8 p.m. FAR WEST Fresno St. at Utah St., 8 p.m. New Mexico at Boise St., 8 p.m. UC Riverside at Cal St.-Fullerton, 9 p.m. Wyoming at Nevada, 9:30 p.m. UNLV at San Jose St., 10 p.m.

THURSDAY, JAN. 4 EAST Vermont at Mass.-Lowell, 6 p.m. LIU Brooklyn at St. Francis (Pa.), 6 p.m. Bryant at Mount St. Mary’s, 6 p.m. St. Francis Brooklyn at Robert Morris, 6 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 6 p.m. Sacred Heart at Wagner, 6 p.m. Cincinnati at Temple, 8 p.m. SOUTH E. Illinois at Morehead St., 5 p.m. Middle Tennessee at FIU, 6 p.m. UT Martin at Austin Peay, 6 p.m. UAB at FAU, 6 p.m. VMI at Wofford, 6 p.m. UALR at Georgia St., 6:15 p.m. UTSA at Louisiana Tech, 6:30 p.m. W. Carolina at Chattanooga, 6:30 p.m. Arkansas St. at Georgia Southern, 6:30 p.m. The Citadel at Furman, 6:30 p.m. SIU-Edwardsville at E. Kentucky, 7 p.m. ETSU at Samford, 7 p.m. SE Missouri at Murray St., 7 p.m. UTEP at Southern Miss., 7 p.m. Tennessee Tech at Belmont, 7 p.m. Coastal Carolina at Louisiana-Monroe, 7 p.m. Appalachian St. at Louisiana-Lafayette, 7:15 p.m. Jacksonville St. at Tennessee St., 7:30 p.m. SMU at Tulane, 8 p.m. MIDWEST Green Bay at Cleveland St., 6 p.m. Ohio St. at Iowa, 6 p.m. Houston at Wichita St., 6 p.m. Ill.-Chicago at IUPUI, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Youngstown St., 6:35 p.m. Maryland at Michigan St., 7 p.m. N. Iowa at Missouri St., 8 p.m. SOUTHWEST Fort Wayne at Oral Roberts, 7 p.m. Old Dominion at Rice, 7 p.m. Charlotte at North Texas, 7 p.m. Troy at Texas-Arlington, 7:15 p.m. South Alabama at Texas State, 7:30 p.m. FAR WEST Arizona St. at Colorado, 7:30 p.m. Arizona at Utah, 8 p.m. N. Arizona at Weber St., 8 p.m. N. Colorado at Montana St., 8 p.m. North Dakota at Montana, 8 p.m. S. Utah at Idaho St., 8 p.m. Portland St. at E. Washington, 8:05 p.m. UC Santa Barbara at Cal Poly, 9 p.m. Hawaii at Long Beach St., 9 p.m. Santa Clara at Loyola Marymount, 9 p.m. San Diego at Portland, 9 p.m. UCLA at Stanford, 9 p.m. UC Irvine at UC Davis, 9 p.m. Pacific at Saint Mary’s (Cal), 9 p.m. Sacramento St. at Idaho, 9 p.m. Southern Cal at California, 9:30 p.m. Gonzaga at Pepperdine, 10 p.m. BYU at S.F., 10 p.m.

Baylor Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Clark 21 3-7 4-5 4 0 5 10 Omot 27 3-6 3-4 5 0 1 9 Vital 28 4-8 4-5 3 0 4 12 Lecomte 33 3-11 1-2 1 0 1 8 McClure 29 4-9 0-0 0 0 4 10 Lindsey 25 1-3 0-0 0 1 1 2 Maston 21 0-4 0-0 3 0 1 0 Jolly 16 1-3 0-0 1 0 3 2 Totals 200 19-51 12-16 17 1 20 53 Percentages: FG .373, FT .750. 3-Point Goals: 3-12, .250 (McClure 2-3, Lecomte 1-6, Jolly 0-1, Maston 0-1, Omot 0-1). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 14 (12 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Lindsey 2, Vital 2). Turnovers: 14 (Lecomte 3, Lindsey 3, Jolly 2, Vital 2, Clark, Maston, McClure, Omot). Steals: 7 (McClure 3, Omot 2, Lindsey, Vital). Technical Fouls: None. Texas Tech Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Gray 25 2-5 0-0 3 2 1 4 Za.Smith 4 1-1 0-0 1 0 0 2 Odiase 17 0-0 0-2 6 4 2 0 Evans 28 6-10 2-2 1 2 3 18 Stevenson 26 2-6 6-6 4 5 0 11 Zh.Smith 24 6-10 3-4 4 0 2 15 Culver 22 5-7 1-2 4 1 4 13 Hamilton 21 2-7 2-3 7 1 3 8 Moretti 17 1-4 2-2 1 0 1 4 Francis 15 1-2 0-0 5 1 1 2 Webster 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Totals 200 26-52 16-21 36 16 17 77 Percentages: FG .500, FT .762. 3-Point Goals: 9-22, .409 (Evans 4-7, Culver 2-4, Hamilton 2-4, Stevenson 1-3, Zh.Smith 0-1, Moretti 0-3). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 15 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Zh.Smith 2). Turnovers: 15 (Odiase 5, Hamilton 3, Evans 2, Zh.Smith 2, Culver, Gray, Stevenson). Steals: 5 (Stevenson 2, Gray, Hamilton, Odiase). Technical Fouls: None. Baylor 19 34 — 53 Texas Tech 40 37 — 77 A—12,827 (15,098).

A—24,228 (23,500).

NO. 22 TEXAS TECH 77, NO. 18 BAYLOR 53

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Line O/U 51⁄2 (215) 1 (205) 5 (1951⁄2) OFF (OFF) 31⁄2 (2071⁄2) 13 (2051⁄2) 51⁄2 (216)

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Line 211⁄2 14 15 71⁄2 10 9 101⁄2 181⁄2 12

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2 Hofstra 7 Evansville 1 Cornell 20 ⁄2 9 Georgetown 41⁄2 at RICHMOND 4 at SAN JOSE ST New Mexico 141⁄2 PK Middle Tennessee Ill.-Chicago 131⁄2 21⁄2 FAU 2 Louisiana Tech 11 Detroit 16 Charlotte Air Force 161⁄2 1 Delaware 25 Santa Clara 4 North Texas 5 Arizona St Rice 81⁄2 at PORTLAND 41⁄2 7 California

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Underdog Mississippi St Iowa St Washington at MIAMI

Monday Michigan 71⁄2 Auburn 91⁄2 LSU 3 Monday: CFP Semifinals Georgia 21⁄2 Alabama 3

South Carolina UCF Notre Dame Oklahoma Clemson

NFL Sunday Favorite BALTIMORE DETROIT Buffalo ATLANTA New Orleans TENNESSEE NEW ENGLAND INDIANAPOLIS PITTSBURGH Washington

Today 91⁄2 6 21⁄2 4 61⁄2 3 141⁄2 6 61⁄2 3

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SPORTS STATS WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL FRIDAY’S RESULTS

TODAY'S GAMES

TOP 25 No. 10 Oregon 89, Washington St. 56 Stanford 76, No. 11 UCLA 65 No. 14 Duke 68, Liberty 51 No. 17 Oregon St. 75, Washington 63 No. 20 Cal 76, USC 64 EAST American U. 68, Bucknell 58 Boston U. 60, Army 59 Drexel 74, Delaware 53 Fairfield 56, Canisius 52 Fordham 70, UC Davis 62 Hartford 78, Yale 70 Holy Cross 71, Colgate 64 James Madison 55, Hofstra 42 LIU Brooklyn 71, St. Francis Brooklyn 69 Lehigh 70, Lafayette 45 Mount St. Mary’s 68, CCSU 56 Navy 73, Loyola (Md.) 44 New Hampshire 48, Cornell 45 Northeastern 70, Towson 61 Old Westbury 95, York (NY) 44 Penn 77, NJIT 38 Robert Morris 77, Fairleigh Dickinson 68 Smith 59, Baruch 32 St. Francis (Pa.) 89, Sacred Heart 48 VCU 69, Long Beach St. 59 Wagner 75, Bryant 66 William Smith 61, Nazareth 60 SOUTH Coastal Carolina 89, Texas-Arlington 76 Duke 68, Liberty 51 ETSU 90, North Greenville 67 Elon 75, UNC Wilmington 67 FAU 90, Delaware St. 67 Florida Gulf Coast 87, S. Dakota St. 73 Howard 63, Campbell 61 Lipscomb 66, Alabama A&M 50 Louisiana Tech 87, Alcorn St. 49 Sewanee 69, Wooster 56 South Alabama 88, Georgia St. 52 Texas St. 69, Appalachian St. 54 Transylvania 68, Oglethorpe 55 Troy 88, Georgia Southern 47 UMKC 67, Stetson 50 W. Kentucky 88, Lee 64 William & Mary 68, Coll. of Charleston 54 MIDWEST Albion 53, Carnegie-Mellon 38 Aquinas 71, Olivet 50 Drake 86, Valparaiso 50 Grand View 61, Bellevue 43 Missouri St. 77, Indiana St. 63 N. Dakota St. 97, Dakota St. 42 N. Iowa 70, Loyola of Chicago 41 S. Illinois 74, Evansville 62 Siena Heights 73, Indiana-Kokomo 60 St. Thomas (Minn.) 76, Wis.-LaCrosse 38 Xavier 69, Butler 62 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 76, Louisiana-Monroe 62 Texas A&M Commerce 69, UTSA 60 UALR 78, Louisiana-Lafayette 43 FAR WEST Arizona St. 72, Colorado 47 Cal Poly 59, CS Bakersfield 57 California 76, Southern Cal 64 Oregon 89, Washington St. 56 Oregon St. 75, Washington 63 Stanford 76, UCLA 65 UC Santa Barbara 77, New Mexico St. 47 UTEP 92, Cal St.-Fullerton 91 Utah 89, Arizona 55 Utah Valley 78, Antelope Valley 54

TOP 25 No. 19 Green Bay at Northern Kentucky, 12 p.m. EAST Villanova at Providence, 12 p.m. Dartmouth at Albany (NY), 1 p.m. Siena at Rider, 1 p.m. Iona at Niagara, 2 p.m. UMBC at Princeton, 3 p.m. Monmouth (NJ) at Marist, 6 p.m. SOUTH Norfolk St. at Longwood, 11 a.m. Vermont at FIU, 12 p.m. Green Bay at N. Kentucky, 12 p.m. Alice Lloyd at Marshall, 12 p.m. Northwestern St. at McNeese St., 1 p.m. Charleston Southern at Wofford, 1 p.m. Virginia Wise at Radford, 1 p.m. SC State at Old Dominion, 1 p.m. Converse at Gardner-Webb, 1 p.m. Furman at Presbyterian, 1 p.m. Temple at UCF, 1 p.m. Morehead St. at Jacksonville St., 2 p.m. Hampton at Samford, 2 p.m. Houston Baptist at New Orleans, 2 p.m. Mercer at Charlotte, 3 p.m. E. Kentucky at Tennessee Tech, 3 p.m. NC Central at SC-Upstate, 3:30 p.m. Belmont at UT Martin, 4 p.m. Cincinnati at East Carolina, 4 p.m. Blue Mountain at Southern Miss., 4 p.m. E. Illinois at Austin Peay, 4:30 p.m. SIU-Edwardsville at Murray St., 5 p.m. Florida Memorial at Florida Gulf Coast, 6 p.m. Tuskegee at UAB, 6:30 p.m. MIDWEST Oakland at Youngstown St., 12 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland St., 12 p.m. N. Illinois at Miami (Ohio), 12 p.m. Tennessee St. at SE Missouri, 12 p.m. Milwaukee at Wright St., 12:30 p.m. Georgetown at Creighton, 1 p.m. Oral Roberts at Nebraska-Omaha, 1 p.m. W. Illinois at Fort Wayne, 1 p.m. Kent St. at E. Michigan, 1 p.m. Bowling Green at W. Michigan, 1 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Ball St., 1 p.m. Buffalo at Akron, 1 p.m. Denver at South Dakota, 1 p.m. Tulsa at Wichita St., 2 p.m. IUPUI at Ill.-Chicago, 3 p.m. Seton Hall at Marquette, 6:30 p.m. St. John's at DePaul, 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST Nicholls at Incarnate Word, 1 p.m. Houston at SMU, 2 p.m. Columbia at Rice, 2 p.m. Sam Houston St. at Abilene Christian, 2 p.m. Oklahoma Panhandle State at North Texas, 3 p.m. Lamar at Texas A&M-CC, 5 p.m. FAR WEST Fresno St. at Air Force, 2 p.m. Nevada at New Mexico, 2 p.m. UNLV at Boise St., 2 p.m. San Diego at Pepperdine, 3 p.m. San Jose St. at Colorado St., 3 p.m. S. Utah at Montana, 3 p.m. San Diego St. at Utah St., 3 p.m. Weber St. at Idaho St., 3 p.m. N. Arizona at Montana St., 3 p.m. Sacramento St. at Portland St., 3:05 p.m. BYU at Saint Mary's (Cal), 4 p.m. Gonzaga at Santa Clara, 4 p.m. Pacific at Loyola Marymount, 4 p.m. Portland at San Francisco, 4 p.m.

NO. 17 OREGON ST. 75, WASHINGTON 63 Washington (6-6) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Henson 30 5-12 1-1 7 3 2 13 Johnson 25 3-13 0-0 2 0 1 8 Collier 20 1-6 0-0 2 3 3 2 Melgoza 26 5-10 8-10 2 2 2 19 Moser 22 1-5 0-0 3 2 2 2 Rooks 16 2-7 0-0 3 1 1 6 Semebene 12 1-3 1-2 3 0 4 3 Griggsby 16 3-5 0-0 1 0 1 8 Peterson 20 0-2 0-0 1 1 3 0 Wieburg 13 1-2 0-0 1 1 2 2 Totals 200 22-65 10-13 32 13 21 63 Percentages: FG .338, FT .769. 3-Point Goals: 9-27, .333 (Henson 2-4, Johnson 2-8, Rooks 2-7, Griggsby 2-2, Melgoza 1-2, Collier 0-1, Moser 0-1, Peterson 0-1, Wieburg 0-1) Blocked Shots: 1 (Rooks 1) Turnovers: 9 (Collier 3, Melgoza 2, Johnson 1, Moser 1, Griggsby 1, Peterson 1) Steals: 9 (Collier 3, Melgoza 2, Henson 1, Moser 1, Semebene 1, Griggsby 1) Technical Fouls: None. Oregon St. (10-2) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Corosdale 25 2-6 2-2 3 4 2 7 Gulich 35 11-12 2-2 12 2 1 24 McWilliams 33 1-3 0-0 4 7 0 3 Pivec 28 3-8 4-9 7 6 3 11 Tudor 26 6-11 0-0 3 1 3 17 Grymek 5 1-3 0-0 2 0 2 2 Goodman 18 3-8 0-0 3 2 3 9 Kalmer 15 1-3 0-0 1 3 0 2 Washington 15 0-1 0-2 3 0 1 0 Totals 200 28-55 8-15 43 25 15 75 Percentages: FG .509, FT .533. 3-Point Goals: 11-26, .423 (Tudor 5-9, Goodman 3-5, Corosdale 1-4, McWilliams 1-3, Pivec 1-4, Kalmer 0-1) Blocked Shots: 8 (Gulich 7, McWilliams 1) Turnovers: 18 (Pivec 6, Grymek 3, Goodman 3, McWilliams 2, Corosdale 1, Gulich 1, Tudor 1, Kalmer 1) Steals: 2 (Pivec 2) Technical Fouls: None. Washington 21 15 9 18 — 63 Oregon St. 20 10 25 20 — 75 A—4,247. Officials_InFini Robinson, Michol Murray, Benny Luna.

STANFORD 76, NO. 11 UCLA 65 Ucla (9-3) Drummer Billings Burke Canada Hayes Onyenwere Rosenblum Dean Horvat Totals

Min 19 38 28 39 12 23 2 28 11 200

FG-A 1-1 3-8 6-13 7-28 0-2 1-5 0-0 5-12 0-5 23-74

FT-A 0-0 7-9 0-2 4-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 11-16

R A F 0 1 0 10 1 4 4 2 4 4 6 4 2 0 1 3 0 4 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 0 0 33 11 19

Pt 2 13 14 20 0 2 0 14 0 65

N. Colorado at Idaho, 4 p.m. North Dakota at E. Washington, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at CS Northridge, 6 p.m. UTEP at UC Riverside, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY'S GAMES TOP 25 No. 1 UConn vs. Memphis at the XL Center, Hartford, Conn., 12:30 p.m. No. 2 Notre Dame at Wake Forest, 12 p.m. No. 3 Louisville at N.C. State, 1:30 p.m. No. 4 South Carolina vs. No. 22 Texas A&M, 1 p.m. No. 5 Mississippi State at Georgia, 5 p.m. No. 6 Baylor vs. Texas Tech, 1 p.m. No. 7 Tennessee at Kentucky, 11 a.m. No. 8 Texas vs. No. 9 West Virginia, 3:30 p.m. No. 10 Oregon vs. Washington, 3 p.m. No. 11 UCLA at No. 20 California, 1 p.m. No. 12 Ohio State vs. Indiana, 1 p.m. No. 13 Florida State vs. North Carolina, 1 p.m. No. 14 Duke at Miami, 11:30 a.m. No. 15 Maryland at Penn State, 1 p.m. No. 16 Missouri at Alabama, 2 p.m. No. 17 Oregon State vs. Washington State, 1 p.m. No. 18 Villanova at Providence, 12 p.m. No. 21 Michigan at No. 23 Iowa, 3 p.m. No. 24 Oklahoma State vs. Kansas State, 2 p.m. No. 25 South Florida vs. Tulane, 11 a.m. EAST Coll. of Charleston at Towson, 11 a.m. Mount St. Mary's at Bryant, 11 a.m. Robert Morris at Sacred Heart, 11 a.m. James Madison at Northeastern, 12 p.m. Cornell at Mass.-Lowell, 12 p.m. Chicago St. at Pittsburgh, 12 p.m. UMass at Duquesne, 12 p.m. Wagner at CCSU, 12 p.m. Dayton at La Salle, 12 p.m. Memphis at UConn, 12:30 p.m. St. Francis (Pa.) at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Stony Brook at Harvard, 1 p.m. Quinnipiac at Manhattan, 1 p.m. Richmond at Rhode Island, 1 p.m. VCU at Saint Joseph's, 1 p.m. Dartmouth at Binghamton, 1 p.m. Maryland at Penn St., 1 p.m. George Washington at Fordham, 1 p.m. Hofstra at Drexel, 1 p.m. SOUTH Texas-Arlington at Appalachian St., 11 a.m. Tulane at South Florida, 11 a.m. Tennessee at Kentucky, 11 a.m. Duke at Miami, 11:30 a.m. Notre Dame at Wake Forest, 12 p.m. Texas State at Coastal Carolina, 12 p.m. Brevard College at W. Carolina, 1 p.m. Texas A&M at South Carolina, 1 p.m. Boston College at Virginia Tech, 1 p.m. Georgia St. at Troy, 1 p.m. Brown at Howard, 1 p.m. William & Mary at UNC-Wilmington, 1 p.m. North Carolina at Florida St., 1 p.m. Davidson at George Mason, 1 p.m. Syracuse at Virginia, 1 p.m. Lees-McRae at UNC-Greensboro, 1 p.m. Savannah St. at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Clemson at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m. Georgia Southern at South Alabama, 1:05 p.m. Louisville at NC State, 1:30 p.m. Missouri at Alabama, 2 p.m.

Percentages: FG .311, FT .688. 3-Point Goals: 8-25, .320 (Dean 4-9, Burke 2-5, Canada 2-6, Hayes 0-2, Horvat 0-3) Blocked Shots: 3 (Billings 2, Burke 1) Turnovers: 9 (Billings 4, Canada 3, Hayes 1, Onyenwere 1) Steals: 11 (Canada 7, Billings 3, Burke 1) Technical Fouls: None. Stanford (7-6) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Dodson 4 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 2 Smith 36 6-12 0-0 13 0 4 14 McPhee 27 10-16 5-9 7 4 3 26 Sniezek 40 0-0 4-6 6 5 2 4 Williams 8 0-3 4-4 0 0 0 4 Fingall 25 4-6 2-2 6 3 2 10 Jerome 3 1-1 0-0 1 0 0 2 Johnson 33 2-3 0-2 6 3 2 4 Carrington 10 2-5 2-2 5 1 2 7 Romano 5 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 Wilson 9 1-2 0-0 1 0 0 3 Totals 200 27-52 17-25 48 16 15 76 Percentages: FG .519, FT .680. 3-Point Goals: 5-14, .357 (Smith 2-4, McPhee 1-2, Carrington 1-2, Wilson 1-2, Williams 0-2, Fingall 0-1, Romano 0-1) Blocked Shots: 4 (Smith 3, Fingall 1) Turnovers: 20 (McPhee 4, Carrington 4, Smith 3, Sniezek 3, Fingall 2, Johnson 2, Romano 1) Steals: 4 (Williams 1, Fingall 1, Johnson 1, Wilson 1) Technical Fouls: None. UCLA 9 20 17 19 — 65 Stanford 14 18 16 28 — 76 A—3,102. Officials_Robert Scofield, Clarke Stevens, Kent Johnson.

NO. 14 DUKE 68, LIBERTY 51 Liberty (5-7) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Barbour 18 2-6 2-2 2 0 4 6 Green 20 5-12 2-2 7 0 3 12 Johnson-Graham 22 2-4 2-2 4 3 3 6 Baker 28 4-11 0-0 3 4 5 10 Ilic 14 1-6 0-0 0 0 0 3 Reagan 12 1-2 2-2 0 0 2 4 Crowder 14 0-3 0-0 2 1 0 0 Johnson 17 1-7 0-0 1 1 1 3 Makurat 13 1-7 1-1 3 0 2 3 Rettstatt 18 1-6 0-0 8 0 1 2 Sellers 22 1-4 0-0 4 3 0 2 Ucar 1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 0 Vega 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Totals 200 19-68 9-9 36 12 21 51 Percentages: FG .279, FT 1.000. 3-Point Goals: 4-18, .222 (Baker 2-4, Ilic 1-6, Johnson 1-2, Johnson-Graham 0-1, Makurat 0-1, Rettstatt 0-2, Sellers 0-2) Blocked Shots: 3 (Makurat 2, Green 1) Turnovers: 19 (Baker 5, Johnson 3, Green 2, JohnsonGraham 2, Crowder 2, Barbour 1, Reagan 1, Makurat 1, Rettstatt 1, Sellers 1) Steals: 16 (Barbour 4, Sellers 4, Green 2, JohnsonGraham 1, Baker 1, Reagan 1, Crowder 1, Johnson 1, Makurat 1) Technical Fouls: None.

Vanderbilt at LSU, 3 p.m. Florida at Auburn, 3 p.m. Mississippi St. at Georgia, 5 p.m. MIDWEST Bradley at Illinois St., 11 a.m. Toledo at Ohio, 12 p.m. Indiana at Ohio St., 1 p.m. Wisconsin at Purdue, 1 p.m. S. Illinois at Indiana St., 1 p.m. Missouri St. at Evansville, 1 p.m. St. Bonaventure at Saint Louis, 2 p.m. TCU at Kansas, 2 p.m. Loyola of Chicago at Drake, 2 p.m. Northwestern at Illinois, 2 p.m. Nebraska at Minnesota, 2 p.m. Oklahoma at Iowa St., 2 p.m. Valparaiso at N. Iowa, 2 p.m. Michigan at Iowa, 3 p.m. Rutgers at Michigan St., 3 p.m. SOUTHWEST SE Louisiana at Cent. Arkansas, 1 p.m. Louisiana-Lafayette at Arkansas St., 1 p.m. Texas Tech at Baylor, 1 p.m. Mississippi at Arkansas, 2 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe at UALR, 2 p.m. Kansas St. at Oklahoma St., 2 p.m. West Virginia at Texas, 3:30 p.m. FAR WEST Hawaii Pacific at Hawaii, 11 p.m. UCLA at California, 1 p.m. Arizona St. at Utah, 1 p.m. Washington St. at Oregon St., 1 p.m. Arizona at Colorado, 2 p.m. Western New Mexico at New Mexico St., 3 p.m. Southern Cal at Stanford, 3 p.m. UC Irvine at CS Bakersfield, 3 p.m. Washington at Oregon, 3 p.m.

MONDA’S GAMES SOUTH North Florida at Wofford, 1 p.m. Alabama A&M at Grambling St., 5:30 p.m. Alabama St. at Jackson St., 5:30 p.m. Ark.-Pine Bluff at MVSU, 5:30 p.m. SOUTHWEST Alcorn St. at Prairie View, 3 p.m. Southern U. at Texas Southern, 5:30 p.m.

TUESDAY'S GAMES EAST Xavier at Georgetown, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Boston U., 1 p.m. Navy at Lehigh, 5 p.m. Butler at Villanova, 6 p.m. Army at Loyola (Md.), 6 p.m. Canisius at Iona, 6 p.m. American U. at Colgate, 6 p.m. Niagara at Fairfield, 6 p.m. Providence at St. John's, 6 p.m. Rider at St. Peter's, 6 p.m. Creighton at Seton Hall, 6 p.m. Lafayette at Holy Cross, 6:05 p.m. SOUTH Brevard College at SC-Upstate, 4 p.m. St. Andrews at NC A&T, 4:30 p.m. Longwood at Charleston Southern, 6 p.m. Winthrop at Radford, 6 p.m. Gardner-Webb at High Point, 6 p.m. Liberty at Presbyterian, 6 p.m. UNC-Asheville at Campbell, 6 p.m. MIDWEST South Dakota at N. Dakota St., 5 p.m. Central Christian College of Kansas at UMKC, 7 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Wichita St. at Houston, 7 p.m. FAR WEST Utah Valley at Denver, 3 p.m. Arizona Christian at Grand Canyon, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES EAST UMBC at New Hampshire, 10 a.m. Cornell at NJIT, 10:30 a.m. Fordham at UMass, 4 p.m. NC Central at Delaware St., 4:30 p.m. Indiana at Penn St., 6 p.m. Kansas St. at West Virginia, 6 p.m. George Mason at La Salle, 6 p.m. Mass.-Lowell at Vermont, 6 p.m. Illinois at Rutgers, 6 p.m. Albany (NY) at Hartford, 6 p.m. Saint Joseph's at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m. Stony Brook at Maine, 6 p.m. W. Michigan at Buffalo, 6 p.m. SOUTH SC State at Bethune-Cookman, 4:30 p.m. Md.-Eastern Shore at Morgan St., 4:30 p.m. Coppin St. at Norfolk St., 4:30 p.m. George Washington at VCU, 5 p.m. Howard at Florida A&M, 5 p.m. Columbia at Hampton, 5 p.m. Alabama A&M at Jackson St., 5:30 p.m. Alabama St. at Grambling St., 5:30 p.m. UConn at East Carolina, 6 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Nicholls, 6 p.m. Saint Louis at Richmond, 6 p.m. Kennesaw St. at Savannah St., 6 p.m. North Texas at Louisiana Tech, 6:30 p.m. Abilene Christian at McNeese St., 6:30 p.m. Texas A&M-CC at Northwestern St., 6:30 p.m. UT Martin at Austin Peay, 7 p.m. MIDWEST Akron at Toledo, 6 p.m. E. Michigan at Bowling Green, 6 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at Ball St., 6 p.m. South Florida at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Kent St. at N. Illinois, 6 p.m. Ohio at Cent. Michigan, 6 p.m. Northwestern at Michigan St., 6 p.m. Nebraska-Omaha at S. Dakota St., 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST Tulane at Tulsa, 11 a.m. Southern U. at Prairie View, 5:30 p.m. Alcorn St. at Texas Southern, 5:30 p.m. Kansas at Texas Tech, 6:30 p.m. New Orleans at Lamar, 7 p.m. UCF at SMU, 7 p.m. Sam Houston St. at Cent. Arkansas, 7 p.m. Oklahoma St. at Texas, 7 p.m. Iowa St. at Baylor, 7 p.m. FAR WEST Nevada at Wyoming, 7:30 p.m. San Jose St. at UNLV, 8 p.m. Boise St. at New Mexico, 8 p.m. Colorado St. at San Diego St., 8:30 p.m. Utah St. at Fresno St., 9 p.m.

SOUTH Southern Miss. at Charlotte, 10:30 a.m. Mercer at Wofford, 2 p.m. Samford at Furman, 4 p.m. Arkansas St. at Georgia Southern, 4 p.m. UALR at Georgia St., 4 p.m. UNC-Greensboro at Chattanooga, 4:30 p.m. SIU-Edwardsville at E. Kentucky, 4:30 p.m. Tennessee Tech at Belmont, 5 p.m. Appalachian St. at Louisiana-Lafayette, 5 p.m. Iowa at Maryland, 5 p.m. Coastal Carolina at Louisiana-Monroe, 5 p.m. SE Missouri at Murray St., 5 p.m. Jacksonville St. at Tennessee St., 5:30 p.m. Alabama at Florida, 6 p.m. Boston College at North Carolina, 6 p.m. Duke at Louisville, 6 p.m. South Carolina at Mississippi, 6 p.m. Duquesne at Davidson, 6 p.m. UAB at Old Dominion, 6 p.m. Virginia at NC State, 6 p.m. Florida St. at Clemson, 6 p.m. W. Carolina at ETSU, 6 p.m. Auburn at Tennessee, 6 p.m. Georgia at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m. Middle Tennessee at W. Kentucky, 7 p.m. E. Illinois at Morehead St., 7:15 p.m. Arkansas at Mississippi St., 8 p.m. MIDWEST IUPUI at Cleveland St., 3 p.m. Ill.-Chicago at Youngstown St., 4:15 p.m. Oral Roberts at Fort Wayne, 5 p.m. Michigan at Wisconsin, 6 p.m. N. Kentucky at Detroit, 6 p.m. Rhode Island at Dayton, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Ohio St., 6 p.m. Wright St. at Oakland, 6 p.m. Miami at Notre Dame, 6 p.m. LSU at Missouri, 7 p.m. DePaul at Marquette, 7 p.m. Montana at North Dakota, 7 p.m. South Dakota at W. Illinois, 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST Troy at Texas-Arlington, 5 p.m. South Alabama at Texas State, 5:30 p.m. Kentucky at Texas A&M, 6 p.m. TCU at Oklahoma, 7 p.m. FAR WEST Idaho St. at S. Utah, 7:30 p.m. Weber St. at N. Arizona, 7:30 p.m. San Francisco at BYU, 8 p.m. Pepperdine at Gonzaga, 8 p.m. Montana St. at N. Colorado, 8 p.m. Portland at San Diego, 8 p.m. Hawaii at Cal St.-Fullerton, 9 p.m. Loyola Marymount at Santa Clara, 9 p.m. Cal Poly at UC Riverside, 9 p.m. Saint Mary's (Cal) at Pacific, 9 p.m. UC Davis at UC Irvine, 9 p.m. Long Beach St. at UC Santa Barbara, 9 p.m. Idaho at Sacramento St., 9:05 p.m. E. Washington at Portland St., 10 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES EAST Canisius at Manhattan, 10 a.m. Iona at Siena, 10 a.m. Georgia Tech at Syracuse, 6 p.m. Wake Forest at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Marist at St. Peter's, 6 p.m. Niagara at Quinnipiac, 6 p.m.

Duke (11-2) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Mathias 31 3-8 5-8 7 1 2 11 Odom 28 3-5 0-1 7 0 2 6 Brown 28 8-13 8-10 4 1 4 26 Gorecki 34 6-12 2-5 1 4 0 17 Suggs 21 0-1 1-2 7 0 1 1 Treece 5 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 1 Williams 9 0-0 0-0 0 0 5 0 Faz Davalos 21 1-2 0-0 7 2 0 2 Adams 23 2-3 0-0 3 3 0 4 Totals 200 23-44 17-28 40 11 14 68 Percentages: FG .523, FT .607. 3-Point Goals: 5-11, .455 (Gorecki 3-7, Brown 2-4) Blocked Shots: 12 (Odom 6, Faz Davalos 4, Mathias 1, Gorecki 1) Turnovers: 24 (Brown 7, Gorecki 5, Mathias 3, Suggs 3, Adams 3, Odom 2, Faz Davalos 1) Steals: 11 (Brown 4, Mathias 2, Odom 2, Gorecki 2, Suggs 1) Technical Fouls: None. Liberty 13 10 14 14 — 51 Duke 15 21 24 8 — 68 A—3,531. Officials_Susan Blauch, Carla Fountain, Meadow Overstreet.

NO. 10 OREGON 89, WASHINGTON ST. 56 Wash. St. (7-6) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Brown 24 5-11 0-0 5 0 2 12 Kostourkova 21 3-4 3-6 2 2 3 9 Hailey 22 2-5 1-1 0 0 2 6 Pavlopoulou 23 2-4 0-0 5 4 2 5 Swedlund 28 3-9 1-2 3 1 3 7 McClure 19 2-4 0-0 1 2 2 4 Subasic 5 0-1 0-0 1 0 0 0 Washington 17 5-8 0-3 7 1 3 10 Molina 23 0-4 0-0 3 4 0 0 Muzet 18 1-4 0-0 4 2 4 3 Totals 200 23-54 5-12 33 16 21 56 Percentages: FG .426, FT .417. 3-Point Goals: 5-17, .294 (Brown 2-5, Hailey 1-2, Pavlopoulou 1-3, Muzet 1-3, Swedlund 0-2, Molina 0-2) Blocked Shots: 5 (McClure 5) Turnovers: 18 (Muzet 4, Kostourkova 3, Washington 3, Molina 3, Pavlopoulou 2, Brown 1, Swedlund 1, McClure 1) Steals: 5 (Brown 2, Pavlopoulou 1, Molina 1, Muzet 1) Technical Fouls: None. Oregon (12-2) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Hebard 31 11-14 3-6 10 0 1 25 Sabally 21 5-11 3-3 2 1 2 14 Bando 26 7-16 0-0 3 1 2 18 Cazorla 31 1-4 2-2 1 8 0 4 Ionescu 33 9-16 2-2 6 8 1 25 Campisano 3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 Gildon 11 0-1 0-0 3 0 1 0 Giomi 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 McGwire 10 1-3 0-0 4 0 1 2 Ayuso 10 0-1 1-4 1 0 2 1 Hall 8 0-2 0-0 1 0 0 0

Maley 13 0-3 0-0 5 2 2 0 Totals 200 34-72 11-17 42 20 12 89 Percentages: FG .472, FT .647. 3-Point Goals: 10-31, .323 (Ionescu 5-9, Bando 4-10, Sabally 1-4, Cazorla 0-3, Hall 0-2, Maley 0-3) Blocked Shots: 4 (Hebard 1, Cazorla 1, Gildon 1, McGwire 1) Turnovers: 9 (Cazorla 4, Ayuso 2, Hebard 1, Ionescu 1, McGwire 1) Steals: 14 (Sabally 5, Ionescu 3, Bando 2, Hebard 1, Cazorla 1, Hall 1, Maley 1) Technical Fouls: None. Washington St. 7 16 25 8 — 56 Oregon 20 21 28 20 — 89 A—3,476. Officials_Charles Gonzalez, Karen Lasuik, Brian Woods.

NO. 20 CALIFORNIA 76, SOUTHERN CAL 64 Southern Cal (10-2) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Simon 40 8-19 4-6 11 1 4 20 Adams 40 3-7 0-0 7 2 4 7 Edwards 40 4-14 2-2 2 1 3 10 Mazyck 39 4-13 3-3 6 0 3 13 Moore 40 5-9 4-6 5 5 2 14 Milisic 0 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 0 Tapley 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 Totals 200 24-63 13-17 34 9 18 64 Percentages: FG .381, FT .765. 3-Point Goals: 3-18, .167 (Mazyck 2-9, Adams 1-1, Edwards 0-6, Moore 0-2) Blocked Shots: 1 (Moore 1) Turnovers: 11 (Moore 4, Simon 3, Edwards 3) Steals: 2 (Adams 1, Moore 1) Technical Fouls: None. California (10-2) Min FG-A FT-A R A F Pt Anigwe 27 5-12 3-4 13 3 5 16 Davidson 27 6-9 3-3 7 1 0 15 Cowling 38 6-12 1-2 1 5 1 13 Smith 34 2-8 2-2 1 4 2 8 Thomas 34 1-6 3-3 1 3 2 6 Styles 15 2-4 0-0 1 0 0 4 West 9 2-2 0-0 3 1 4 4 Brown 16 2-4 5-6 3 0 0 10 Totals 200 26-57 17-20 35 17 14 76 Percentages: FG .456, FT .850. 3-Point Goals: 7-19, .368 (Anigwe 3-3, Smith 2-4, Thomas 1-5, Brown 1-2, Davidson 0-1, Cowling 0-4) Blocked Shots: 2 (Anigwe 1, Davidson 1) Turnovers: 12 (Anigwe 2, Cowling 2, Smith 2, Davidson 1, West 1, Brown 1) Steals: 5 (Anigwe 2, Thomas 2, Cowling 1) Technical Fouls: None. Southern Cal 17 10 18 19 — 64 California 19 17 17 23 — 76 A—2,217. Officials_Brenda Pantoja, Cheryl Flores, Bart Baldwin.

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SPORTS STATS 2017 SPORTS AT A GLANCE Jan. 1 — Top-ranked Connecticut extended its winning streak to 88 games, routing UCF 84-48. The Huskies set the NCAA record with 31 straight road wins and extended their winning streak against unranked opponents to 100 games. Jan. 1 — Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston passed for 202 yards and a touchdown in the Buccaneers’ 17-16 win over Carolina. Winston, who passed for 4,042 yards as a rookie last season, finished this season with 4,090 passing yards to become the first player in NFL history to have at least 4,000 passing yards in each of his first two seasons. Jan. 1 — New Orleans’ Drew Brees passed for 350 yards and two touchdowns in a 38-32 loss to Atlanta. Brees finished with 5,208 passing yards this season. Brees, who also had 5,000 passing yards in 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013, has five of the NFL’s nine all-time 5,000-yard passing seasons and is the only quarterback in NFL history to pass for at least 5,000 yards in multiple seasons. His 471 completions this season also set an NFL record. Jan. 2 — Matt Boermeester kicked a 46-yard field goal as time expired, and No. 9 Southern California rallied from a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter for a 52-49 victory over No. 5 Penn State, in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl ever played. Freshman Sam Darnold passed for 453 yards and five touchdowns while leading the Trojans to their ninth consecutive win. Jan. 2 — — Jimmy Butler scored 52 points and outdueled Kemba Walker, carrying the Chicago Bulls in a 118-111 victory over the Charlotte Hornets. Jan. 2 — Sven Baertschi scored twice and Ryan Miller made 24 saves for his 350th career victory to lead Vancouver to a 3-2 win over Colorado. The 36-year-old Miller joined John Vanbiesbrouck (374) and Tom Barrasso (369) as the only U.S.-born goalies to reach 350 wins. Jan. 5 — The Columbus Blue Jackets lost 5-0 to the Washington Capitals ending their winning streak at 16 games, one shy of the NHL record. Columbus lost for the first time since Nov. 26 and fell short of the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins’ record of 17 consecutive wins. Jan. 7 — Khalid Abdullah ran for 101 yards and two touchdowns as James Madison won its second Football Championship Subdivision title, beating Youngstown State 28-14. Jan. 8 — James Harden had 40 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for his 10th triple-double of the season, and the Houston Rockets beat the Toronto Raptors 129-122. Harden, who also had 10 turnovers, is the first player with a 40-point triple-double and 10 or more turnovers since turnovers became official in the 1977-78 season. Jan. 9 — Baylor was ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll for the first time. The Bears (15-0) made a meteoric rise in the poll, going from a team that didn’t receive a vote in the preseason poll to one that received 55 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Jan. 9 — Clemson dethroned the defending champions and became the first team to beat Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty in a national title game, taking down the top-ranked Crimson Tide 35-31 in the College Football Playoff. Deshaun Watson found Hunter Renfrow for a 2-yard touchdown pass with a second remaining to give the Tigers their first national championship since 1981. Jan. 10 — FIFA expanded the World Cup to 48 teams, adding 16 extra nations to the 2026 tournament. President Gianni Infantino’s favored plan — for 16 threeteam groups with the top two advancing to a round of 32 — was unanimously approved by the FIFA Council. Jan. 10 — Nathan Adrian broke out of a shooting slump with a career-high 22 points, and No. 10 West Virginia beat No. 1 Baylor 89-68 in the Bears’ first game as the top-ranked team in program history. Jan. 11 — Alex Ovechkin scored 35 seconds into the Washington Capitals’ 5-2 victory over Sidney Crosby and the rival Pittsburgh Penguins to become the 84th player in NHL history to record 1,000 career points. Jan. 12 — Team chairman Dean Spanos announced the San Diego Chargers would move to Los Angeles. Jan. 12 — The Los Angeles Rams hired Sean McVay, the youngest head coach in NFL history. McVay, who turns 31 years old on Jan. 24, McVay spent the past three seasons as the Washington Redskins’ offensive coordinator. Lane Kiffin was 31 years old when the Oakland Raiders hired him in January 2007. Jan. 12 — Fresh off his victory on Maui, Justin Thomas became the seventh player to join the “59 Club” on the PGA Tour when he made a 15-foot eagle putt on his last hole at the Sony Open for an 11-under 59. Jan. 13 — Justin Thomas finished with another eagle and put himself in the PGA Tour record book again in the Sony Open. A day after his 59, Thomas made an 8-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole at Waialae for a 6-under 64 to set the 36-hole scoring record on the PGA Tour. Thomas was at 17-under 123 and had a five-shot lead over Gary Woodland. The previous mark was 124, last matched at the 2015 BMW Championship by Jason Day at Conway Farm. Jan. 13 — Kelsey Plum scored 36 points to become the 12th player in women’s basketball history to top 3,000 career points and Washington routed Arizona 90-73. Jan. 14 — Top-ranked UConn broke its own NCAA record with its 91st consecutive victory, scoring the first 21 points and romping past SMU 88-48. Coach Geno Auriemma and the Huskies (16-0) broke the record of 90 that his team first accomplished more than six years ago. The four-time defending national champion Huskies hadn’t lost a game since falling in overtime at sixth-ranked Stanford on Nov. 17, 2014. Jan. 14 — New England’s Dion Lewis became the first in NFL postseason history to have a rushing TD, receiving TD and kickoff return for a TD in a single game, which led to the Patriots’ 34-16 division playoff win over Houston. The Patriots advanced to their sixth straight conference championship game, the longest streak since the 1970 merger. Jan. 15 — Justin Thomas won the Sony Open with the lowest 72-hole score in PGA Tour history. Thomas capped off his wonderful week at Waialae that began with a 59 with his second straight victory. He closed with a 5-under 65 to set the record at 253. Tommy Armour III shot 254 at the 2003 Texas Open. Jan. 15 — Aaron Rodgers threw a 36-yard pass to a toe-dragging Jared Cook on the sideline, and Mason Crosby kicked a 51-yard field goal on the next play as time expired, sending Green Bay to the NFC championship game. It was the Packers’ eighth straight win while thwarting a Dallas rally in a 34-31 victory in the divisional round of the playoffs. 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third-and-20 with 12 seconds left, and after the Cowboys tied the score twice in the final 4:08 after trailing by 18 in the first half and by 15 to start the fourth quarter. Jan. 15 — Chris Boswell set an NFL postseason record with six field goals to account for all of Pittsburgh’s points in an 18-16 win at Kansas City. Jan. 16 — Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams earned his 800th career victory when Isaiah Hicks scored 20 points to lead North Carolina to an 85-68 win over Syracuse. Jan. 18 — Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Jan. 19 — Six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic was beaten 7-6 (8), 5-7, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 by wild-card entry Denis Istomin in a second-round match. No. 2-ranked Djokovic had won five of the six previous titles at Melbourne Park and six overall, and had never dropped a set in six previous meetings against Istomin. Jan. 20 — Henrik Sedin had a goal for his 1,000th career point before Luca Sbisa scored the winner early in the third period to help Vancouver beat Florida 2-1. Sedin converted a pass from twin brother Daniel on a 2-on-1 rush for his 11th goal of the season. Henrik Sedin became the 85th player in NHL history to reach 1,000 points. Jan. 21 — Adam Hadwin shot a 13-under 59 in the CareerBuilder Challenge for the ninth sub-60 round in PGA Tour history and the second in 10 days. Hadwin matched David Duval’s tournament record, a 13-under 59 on the Arnold Palmer Private Course in the final round of his 1999 victory. Jan. 20 — Karen Chen claimed gold in the women’s U.S. figure skating competition, outperforming several Olympians. The 17-year-old scored a 141.40 in the free skate for a 214.22 total and was followed on the podium by silver medalist Ashley Wagner and bronze medalist Mariah Bell. Chen won the short program the night before, setting a new U.S. record of 72.82. Chen ended the Gold-Wagner dynasty, marking the first time since 2011 that neither Gracie Gold nor Ashley Wagner won the U.S. title. Jan. 22 — Atlanta’s Matt Ryan threw for 392 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score in another MVP-worthy showing, leading the Falcons to a 44-21 blowout of Green Bay in the NFC championship game. Jan. 22 — New England’s Tom Brady passed for a Patriots playoff-record 384 yards, going 32 of 42 with three TD tosses to lead the Patriots to the Super Bowl with a 36-17 win over Pittsburgh. Jan. 22 — Nathan Chen followed a record-setting short program with a near-flawless free skate featuring five quadruple jumps to become the youngest men’s U.S. figure skating champion in more than five decades. The 17-year-old Chen, performing to “The Polovtsian Dances,” became the first skater in the world to land five clean quads in competition. The result was a free skate score of 212.08 — more than the composite of several rivals — and finished with a 318.47 total that put him well clear of the competition. Jan. 22 — Chantel Osahor grabbed a Pac-12-record 30 rebounds and scored 20 points to lead Washington to an 87-44 rout of Washington State. Jan. 22 — The Dallas Mavericks gave the Los Angeles Lakers the worst loss in their history, 122-73. The 49-point defeat just edged Los Angeles’ two previous worst losses at 48 points, most recently 123-75 at Utah on March 28, 2016. Jan. 23 — Kim Clijsters and Andy Roddick were elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Also in the Class of 2017 announced by the hall: wheelchair tennis player Monique Kalkman-van den Bosch, tennis historian and journalist Steve Flink, and the late instructor Vic Braden. Jan. 25 — Usain Bolt was stripped of one of his nine Olympic gold medals in a doping case involving teammate Nesta Carter. The IOC says Carter tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a banned stimulant, in re-analysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Carter and Bolt were teammates on the winning 4x100meter relay team. Jan. 26 — Venus Williams beat CoCo Vandeweghe 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-3 to reach the final of the Australian Open, becoming the oldest finalist at the tournament in the Open era. Serena Williams, a six-time Australian Open winner, overwhelmed Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-2, 6-1 in the second women’s semifinal to set up an all-Williams final. Roger Federer beat fourth-seeded Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3 in an all-Swiss night match to became the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam final since Ken Rosewall made the 1974 U.S. Open final at 39. Jan. 28 — James Harden scored 51 points and had 13 rebounds and 13 assists to lead the Houston Rockets to a 123-118 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. Jan. 28 — Serena Williams won her record 23rd Grand Slam singles title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over her older sister Venus in the Australian Open final. With her record seventh Australian title, the 35-year-old Williams moved ahead of Steffi Graf for the most major titles in the Open era. Margaret Court won 24 majors, but collected 13 of those before the Open era. Jan. 28 — Arrogate beat California Chrome again, winning the $12 million Pegasus World Cup in his rival’s last race before retirement. Arrogate went to the front near the head of the stretch, and jockey Mike Smith delivered what became an easy win as California Chrome was eased. Arrogate’s last three wins are the Travers, the Breeders’ Cup Classic and now the inaugural running of the world’s richest race. Jan. 29 — Roger Federer won his 18th major title by beating Rafael Nadal 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 to capture the Australian Open. Federer was down a break early in the pivotal fifth set, but came back to break the Spaniard in the sixth game to level the set at 3-all. Federer captured his first major title since Wimbledon in 2012 and his fifth Australian Open trophy. Jan. 29 — Japan teenager Ippei Watanabe set a world record in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2 minutes, 06.67 seconds. The 19-year-old university student improved on the previous mark of 2:07.01 set by compatriot Akihiro Yamaguchi in 2012. Watanabe set the record time in the final of the 200 breaststroke at the Tokyo metropolitan championships. Jan. 29 — Wayne Simmonds scored the tiebreaking goal with 4:58 to play, and fill-in coach Wayne Gretzky led the Metropolitan Division to a 4-3 victory over the Pacific Division in the final match of the revamped NHL All-Star Game. The Pacific beat the Blackhawk-dominated Central Division team 10-3 in the first 20-minute semifinal, and the Metropolitan team beat the Atlantic 10-6 in the second. Jan. 29 — Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton completed 10 of 12 passes for 100 yards

and engineered two scoring drives to help lead the AFC to a 20-13 victory over the NFC in the Pro Bowl. Jan. 30 — The St. Louis Cardinals were stripped of their top two picks in this year’s amateur draft and ordered to give them to Houston along with $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros’ email system and scouting database. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred also banned former St. Louis executive Christopher Correa for life as he ruled the Cardinals must give the 56th and 75th draft choices in June to Houston. Feb. 1 — Napheesa Collier had 25 points and 10 rebounds to help UConn to its 96th consecutive win with a 97-69 victory over Temple. Katie Lou Samuelson added 24 points for the Huskies (21-0), who won their 35th consecutive game on the road, surpassing their own NCAA record. UConn’s last road loss came against Stanford on Nov. 17, 2014. That was also the last time the Huskies lost any game. Feb. 2 — Patrick Marleau scored his 500th career goal, Chris Tierney tallied twice and surging San Jose defeated Vancouver 4-1. Marleau became the 45th player in NHL history to reach 500 goals, scoring in the first period on a power play. Feb. 3 — Tara VanDerveer became the second NCAA women’s coach to reach 1,000 career victories, when No. 8 Stanford beat USC 58-42 in front of the home crowd at Maples Pavilion. VanDerveer joined the late Pat Summitt, with 1,098 wins to her name, as the only other women’s coach in the elite club. Feb. 3 — Boston’s Isaiah Thomas scored 17 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers 113-107. Boston and Los Angeles began the night with 3,252 wins, tied for the most in NBA history. Before their loss, the Lakers held at least a share of the league’s victories mark since 2001. Feb. 4 — Running backs LaDainian Tomlinson, Terrell Davis and quarterback Kurt Warner were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Joining them were sackmaster Jason Taylor and Morten Andersen, the NFL’s all-time leading scorer, who joined Jan Stenerud as the second pure placekicker to make the hall. Seahawks safety Kenny Easley made it as a senior nominee, while Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones got in as a contributor. Feb. 4 — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was voted The Associated Press 2016 NFL’s Most Valuable Player and top offensive player. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took Offensive Rookie of the Year and Jason Garrett was selected Coach of the Year by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. Feb. 4 — Six of the top 10 men’s basketball teams in The Associated Press rankings lost. Top-ranked Gonzaga beat Santa Clara 90-55, extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 24 games, but the most of the top ten didn’t fair as well. Second-ranked Baylor lost in Waco to Kansas State 56-54, No. 3 Kansas fell at home to Iowa State 92-89 in overtime, No. 5 Arizona lost at No. 13 Oregon 85-58, No. 7 West Virginia went down at home to Oklahoma State 82-75, No. 8 Kentucky was routed by No. 24 Florida 88-66 in Gainesville and No. 9 Virginia lost on the road to Syracuse 66-62. Feb. 4 — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim got his 1,000th victory with a 66-62 win over No. 9 Virginia. Officially it was victory No. 899 after the NCAA stripped him of 101 victories as part of punishment handed down in 2015 after a multiyear investigation of the school’s athletic department. Feb. 4 — Gregg Popovich became the winningest coach with a single franchise in NBA history, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 121-97 victory over the Denver Nuggets. Popovich earned his 1,128th victory to pass former Utah coach Jerry Sloan for the mark. Feb. 4 — VCU got a bit of a miracle at St. Bonaventure with the help of the home fans. A last-second loss for the Rams turned into an 83-77 overtime win, thanks to a technical foul the Bonnies were assessed with .5 seconds left when fans and players prematurely rushed the court after Matt Mobley’s 3-pointer. VCU guard JeQuan Lewis hit the technical free throw to tie the game at 66-66. VCU still had the ball, and Jonathan Williams got off a heave at the buzzer that hit the rim, sending the game to OT. Feb. 5 — Tom Brady led one of the greatest comebacks in sports, let alone Super Bowl history, lifting New England from a 25-point hole to the Patriots’ fifth NFL championship in the game’s first overtime finish. The Patriots scored 19 points in the final quarter, including a pair of 2-point conversions, then marched relentlessly to James White’s 2-yard touchdown run in overtime beating the Atlanta Falcons 34-28. Feb. 5 — Leon Draisaitl scored the only goal in a shootout, and the Edmonton Oilers stopped a three-game slide with a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. Feb. 7 — Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia broke the women’s 2,000-meter world record at the indoor Miting International de Catalunya in Spain. Dibaba’s time of 5:23.75 bettered the world indoor best set by Gabriela Szabo in 1998 by almost seven seconds. The 2,000 indoors isn’t considered an official world record event by the IAAF. At 25 years old, Dibaba owns the outdoor world record in 1,500, as well as the indoor record for 1,500, mile, 2,000, 3,000, two miles and 5,000. Feb. 10 — A crowd stampeded at a football stadium in Angola, leaving at least 17 people dead and dozens injured. Spectators had gone to the stadium to watch the inaugural game between home team Santa Rita de Cassia and Recreativo de Libolo in the national Girabola competition. Feb. 10 — Golden State’s Draymond Green became the first player in NBA history to record a triple-double with fewer than 10 points scored. Green had 12 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals and 4 points in a 122-107 win over Memphis. Green also had five blocks, which made him the first player to record 10 steals and five blocks in a game since steals and blocks were first tracked in 1973-74. Feb. 11 — Ajee’ Wilson broke the American record in the women’s indoor 800 meters to win the event for the fourth straight year in the NYRR Millrose Games. Wilson finished in 1 minute, 58.27 seconds at The Armory to break the mark of 1:58.71 set by Nicole Teter in 2002. Feb. 11 — Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves for his 400th career win as the New York Rangers beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2. Lundqvist became the 12th goaltender in NHL history with at least 400 wins and the first European-born goaltender to reach the mark. Feb. 13 — Gabby Williams scored a career-high 26 points and Napheesa Collier added 18 to help top-ranked UConn to its 100th consecutive victory with a 66-55 win over No. 6 South Carolina. Feb. 13 — Nikola Jokic got his second career triple-double and the Denver Nuggets tied an NBA record with 24

3-pointers while shocking the Golden State Warriors 132-110. The Nuggets tied the 3-point mark set by the Rockets in December of 2016 against New Orleans. Feb. 13 — Kawhi Leonard scored 32 points and San Antonio clinched its NBA-record 20th consecutive winning season with a 110-106 victory over Indiana. The Spurs improved to 42-13 in the season following Tim Duncan’s retirement. They have had a winning record every season since 199798, when Duncan was a rookie, and broke a tie with the Utah Jazz, who had 19 straight winning seasons from 19852004. Feb. 16 — Lowell Bailey upset the pre-race favorites in the men’s individual competition to become the first American biathlete to win gold at the world championships. Bailey hit all 20 targets and finished the 20-kilometer race in 48 minutes, 7.4 seconds to edge Ondrej Moravec of the Czech Republic, who also shot cleanly, by 3.3 seconds. Feb. 16 — Anaheim Ducks forward Antoine Vermette was suspended for 10 games without pay for slashing a linesman in apparent anger after a faceoff. Vermette slapped his stick against the back of linesman Shandor Alphonso’s legs after losing a faceoff to Minnesota captain Mikko Koivu during the third period of the Ducks’ 1-0 win on Feb. 14. Feb. 16 — Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby fed Chris Kunitz for a first-period goal against Winnipeg to become the 86th player in NHL history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. He added an assist on Phil Kessel’s game-tying goal in the third and then put the winner past Connor Hellebuyck with 21 seconds left in overtime as the Penguins escaped with a 4-3 victory. Feb. 17 — Laura Dahlmeier led Germany to the world title in the women’s 4x6kilometer relay, becoming the first biathlete to win a medal in 10 straight world championship races. It was Dahlmeier’s fifth medal of the championships, after winning gold in mixed relay, pursuit and individual competition, and silver in sprint. She also won five medals at last year’s worlds in Oslo. The previous best mark of nine straight podiums was held by retired Norwegian great Tora Berger. Feb. 18 — Mikaela Shiffrin won a third straight slalom title at the ski world championships to retain her unbeaten record at major events. Shiffrin’s gold medal streak in slalom includes each world championships she entered, starting in 2013, and the 2014 Olympics. Her victory gave the United States its first world title at St. Moritz in the 10th of 11 medal events. Shiffrin also took silver in giant slalom on Feb. 16. Feb. 18 — Indiana’s Glenn Robinson III beat Derrick Jones Jr. of Phoenix in the All-Star slam dunk contest. Houston’s Eric Gordon has dethroned Golden State’s Klay Thompson as the NBA All-Star 3-point contest champion. Gordon’s score of 21 in a final-round tie-breaker defeated Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving, the 2013 winner who had 18. The pair had each finished with a score of 20 in the final round, and needed to shoot 25 more balls to decide it. Feb. 19 — Laura Dahlmeier won the world title in the women’s 12.5-kilometer mass start, becoming the first athlete to win five gold medals at a single biathlon world championship. Dahlmeier also won the mixed relay, pursuit, individual competition and women’s relay, and was runner-up in the sprint. Feb. 19 — Anthony Davis had an All-Star Game for the record books, scoring 52 points, 10 more than Wilt Chamberlain’s All-Star record that had stood for 55 years, and the Western Conference beat the Eastern Conference 192-182 — the highest-scoring game in league history. Feb. 19 — Florida State baseball coach Mike Martin joined Augie Garrido as the only coaches to win 1,900 games when the Seminoles posted an 11-3 victory over VCU. Feb. 22 — Mississippi announced a self-imposed a one-year postseason football ban for the 2017 season. The Rebels received an amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA that included eight new football violations, including six that were Level I. Feb. 23 — Italian skier Federico Pellegrino became the first man from outside Scandinavia to win a Nordic championship in freestyle cross-country sprint in the world championships held in Lahti, Finland. Pellegrino won by 0.15 seconds from Sergei Ustyugov of Russia. Feb. 25 — Marit Bjoergen won a record 15th world championship gold medal in cross-country skiing with victory in a 15-kilometer skiathlon. The 36-year-old Norwegian has more gold medals than any other cross-country skier — male or female — in world championship history, having previously shared the record of 14 gold medals with retired Russian Yelena Valbe. Bjoergen is a specialist at the skiathlon, which is raced half in classic style and half in freestyle. Feb. 25 — Kelsey Plum surpassed Jackie Stiles to become the NCAA’s all-time scoring leader with a career-best 57 points in the final regular season game of her career, leading No. 11 Washington past Utah 84-77. Plum hit 19 of 28 shots and was 13 of 16 at the free-throw line, surpassing Stiles’ mark of 3,393 points midway through the fourth quarter. Feb. 25 — Eric Mika had 29 points and 11 rebounds to help BYU upset No. 1 Gonzaga 79-71, ending the Bulldogs’ bid to go undefeated in the final game of the regular season. Feb. 25 — Deontay Wilder returned from right arm injuries to stop Gerald Washington in the fifth round and retain his WBC heavyweight title. Wilder (38-0, 37 knockouts) seemed mostly cautious with his right in the early rounds but staggered Washington (18-1-1) and sent him down with a hard one followed by a left in the fifth at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala. Feb. 26 — Kurt Busch won the Daytona 500, surviving a crash-filled season opener to win the race for the first time in 16 tries. Busch passed Kyle Larson on the final lap before cruising to the victory. March 3 — Kyrie Irving scored 43 points, LeBron James had 38 and the Cleveland Cavaliers set the NBA regular-season record with 25 3-pointers as they turned back Atlanta’s late rally to beat the Hawks 135-130. Cleveland made 25 of 46 3s to break a record that stood less than three months. Houston made 24 treys in a 122-100 win over New Orleans on Dec. 16. March 4 — Marit Bjoergen won world championship gold in the 30-kilometer classical race as Norway completed a sweep of women’s cross-country ski titles at the world championships in Lahti, Finland. Bjoergen took her record 18th career gold medal — and fourth of the championships — by 1.9 seconds from Heidi Weng. No country had won all women’s cross-country gold medals at a single world championships since Russia in 1997, when there were only five events, rather than the current six. March 4 — Marcel Hirscher stunned the world of Alpine skiing by locking up an

unprecedented sixth straight overall World Cup title. Two days after his 28th birthday, the Austrian won a giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, to give him an insurmountable lead of more than 500 points over his main rivals. He became the first male skier to win six overall titles. On the women’s side, only fellow Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell has won six championships, but her titles in the 1970s were interrupted. March 4 — Gwen Berry broke the world indoor record in the women’s weight throw and Noah Lyles toppled the 300-meter mark in the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico. Berry’s toss of 25.60 meters (84 feet) on her final throw, bettered the previous best of 25.56 set by American Brittany Riley in 2007. Lyles finished in 31.87 seconds, edging Paul Dedewo by 0.05 seconds. Lyles, 19, clipped one-hundredth of a second off fellow American Wallace Spearmon’s 2006 best of 31.88. March 4 — Napheesa Collier scored 24 points and top-ranked UConn routed Tulsa 105-57 in the American Athletic Conference quarterfinals. The Huskies (30-0) extend their NCAA-record winning streak to 105 games and reach the 30-victory mark for the 12th consecutive season. March 5 — Overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher wrapped up his fourth slalom title with Austrian compatriot Michael Matt winning the penultimate race of the season. Hirscher’s fourth-place finish, 0.80 seconds behind Matt, was enough for the 28-year-old to take his third globe of the weekend. Hirscher matched Alberto Tomba’s tally of four titles. Only Ingemar Stenmark, with eight, has more. March 6 — Katie Lou Samuelson had a record-breaking night, scoring 40 points and hitting all 10 of her 3-point shots to lead top-ranked UConn to a 100-44 rout of South Florida in the American Athletic Conference Tournament final. Samuelson set a Division I record for consecutive 3-pointers in a game and also set the tournament’s single-game scoring mark. March 6 — Joe Thornton of the San Jose Sharks became the 13th NHL player to reach 1,000 assists when he assisted on Joe Pavelski’s empty-net goal with 26 seconds left in the third period of a 3-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets. March 7 — Dirk Nowitzki scored the 20 points he needed for 30,000 in his career in barely more than a quarter, and the Dallas Mavericks posted an easy home win over the Los Angeles Lakers, a 122-111 victory. The 7-foot German became the sixth NBA player and the first international one to reach the milestone. March 7 — The Portland Trail Blazers overcame Russell Westbrook’s career-high 58 points to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 126-121. Allen Crabbe scored 23 points, Damian Lillard had 22 and C.J. McCollum 21 for the Trail Blazers, who shot 55 percent from the field. Westbrook shot 21 of 39, but just 6 of 15 in the fourth quarter. March 9 — The second-ranked and top-seeded Villanova Wildcats shot 63.2 percent (36 for 57) and committed just five turnovers in a record-setting 108-67 victory over St. John’s in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals. Villanova shot better than 50 percent from 3-point range (15 for 29), made 21 of 25 free throws and only committed seven personal fouls, none in the first half. It was the most points and largest margin of victory in the tournament for Villanova and it was the worst loss the Red Storm ever endured. March 11 — Jayson Tatum took over in the final three minutes, making key plays on both ends of the floor, and Duke became the first team to win the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament with four wins in four days by rallying past Notre Dame for a 75-69 win. Duke won its first ACC Tournament championship since 2011 and its 20th overall, most in league history. March 12 — Joakim Jensen finally ended what is believed to be the longest game in hockey history, scoring in the eighth overtime in the Norwegian League playoffs. More than 8 1/2 hours after the game started — and after 217 minutes, 14 seconds of play — Jensen broke through to give the Storhamar Dragons a 2-1 victory over the Sparta Warriors. The game ended at 2:32 a.m. In the longest game in NHL, the Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Maroons 1-0 in a 1936 Stanley Cup final game on Mud Bruneteau’s goal at 16:30 of the sixth overtime. Storhamar leads the best-of-seven quarterfinal series 3-2. March 12 — Mitch Seavey won his third Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the fastest and oldest champion at age 57. Seavey also set a time record of 8 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds. That shaved several hours off the record his son set last year: 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes and 16 seconds. He outran his son, defending champion Dallas Seavey, and lapped the oldest musher record that he set at age 53 in 2013. He previously won the race in 2013 and 2004. March 16 — Northwestern’s first-ever NCAA Tournament game was victorious, 68-66 over Vanderbilt, after Commodores guard Matthew Fisher-Davis inexplicably grabbed Wildcats guard Bryant McIntosh on purpose, sending McIntosh to the free throw line for the go-ahead points with 15 seconds left. March 17 — Mikaela Shiffrin wrapped her first overall World Cup alpine skiing title without stepping into the starting gate. Shiffrin secured the season-long title after Ilka Stuhec and her coach said the Slovenian skier wouldn’t compete in the upcoming slalom. The 22-year-old Shiffrin joined an elite group in Phil Mahre (1981-83), Tamara McKinney (1983), Bode Miller (2005, 2008) and Lindsey Vonn (2008-10, 2012) as the only American overall World Cup champions. March 18 — Kalani Brown scored 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelmed much smaller Texas Southern 119-30, the most lopsided women’s NCAA Tournament game ever. The 89-point margin broke the previous record 74-point win by Tennessee over North Carolina A&T (111-37) in 1994. Baylor’s 119 points were the most ever scored in regulation of a women’s NCAA Tournament game, surpassing the previous record 116. Ohio State scored 116 in a 1998 game, and UConn matched twice. March 20 — FIFA banned for life the referee who awarded a disputed penalty for South Africa against Senegal in a World Cup qualifying match. Referee Joseph Lamptey of Ghana gave a penalty for a non-existent handball against Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly. Replays clearly showed the ball struck Koulibaly’s knee and then dropped to the ground. Lamptey was found guilty of breaching the rule relating to “unlawfully influencing match results,” FIFA said. His assistant was cleared. FIFA declined to give more details of why its disciplinary panel imposed a life ban on the referee. March 22 — Marcus Stroman took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, Ian Kinsler slugged a two-run homer and the United States routed Puerto Rico 8-0 to

win its first World Baseball Classic in four tries. March 22 — Russell Westbrook recorded his 35th triple-double of the season with 18 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists and the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised to a 122-97 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. Westbrook, who made all six of his field-goal attempts and all six of his free throws, became the first NBA player to have a triple-double without missing a shot attempt or free throw. March 24 — Devin Booker scored 70 points, becoming the sixth different player in NBA history to reach that total, but the Boston Celtics got 34 points from Isaiah Thomas and outlasted the Phoenix Suns 130-120. Booker joined Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, David Thompson, David Robinson and Elgin Baylor as the NBA’s 70-point scorers. Just 20 years old, Booker scored 51 after halftime. March 24 — Chris Chiozza went end to end and made a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Florida an 84-83 victory against Wisconsin in an East Regional semifinal. Nigel Hayes had given the Badgers a 2-point lead with 4 seconds left on two free throws. With no timeouts left, the Gators inbounded to Chiozza and the point guard stopped at the top of the arc and dropped in the winner. Wisconsin’s Zak Showalter forced overtime with a leaning 3-pointer off one leg with 2.1 seconds left in regulation as the Badgers wiped out a 12-point deficit in the last 4:15. It was first overtime game of this NCAA Tournament. March 24 — De’Aaron Fox scored a career-high 39 points as the Kentucky Wildcats beat UCLA 86-75 in a showdown between two of college basketball’s goliaths for a spot in the South Regional final. Fox’s 39 points was the best by a freshman in tournament history. March 25 — Arrogate showed his class again in the $10 million Dubai World Cup as he came from last place to win by an impressive 2 1/4 lengths. In the second richest horse race in the world, Arrogate produced a powerful finish under jockey Mike Smith to beat Gun Runner and Neolithic in a 1-2-3 finish for the United States. It was the third Dubai World Cup for trainer Bob Baffert after Silver Charm (1998), and Captain Steve (2001). March 25 — Joakim Noah of the New York Knicks was been suspended for twenty games for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program by testing positive for Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator LGD-4033. March 25 — Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points and Johnathan Williams added 19 to send top-seeded Gonzaga to its first Final Four with an 83-59 victory over No. 11 seed Xavier in the West Regional final. March 25 — Tyler Dorsey hit six 3s and poured in 27 points, Dillon Brooks added 17 and Oregon ended Kansas’ romp through the NCAA Tournament with a 74-60 victory in the final of the Midwest Regional. March 26 — Sindarius Thornwell scored 26 points and South Carolina earned its first trip to the Final Four with a 77-70 victory over SEC rival Florida in the East Regional final. March 26 — Luke Maye hit a jumper with 0.3 seconds left, and top-seeded North Carolina held off Kentucky 75-73 to earn the Tar Heels’ second straight trip to the Final Four and 20th all-time in a showdown of college basketball’s elite in the South Regional. March 26 — Morgan William scored a career-high 41 points, and No. 2 seed Mississippi State upset top-seeded Baylor 94-85 in overtime to reach the Final Four for the first time. March 26 — Alanna Smith’s jumper with 23 seconds left capped Stanford’s rally from a 16-point deficit in the second half, Erica McCall blocked a last-second shot and the Cardinal edged top-seeded Notre Dame 76-75 to reach its first Final Four since 2014. March 27 — NFL owners approved the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas 31-1 at the league meetings. Miami was the lone dissenter. March 27 — UConn’s women’s basketball team advanced to its 10th consecutive Final Four with a 90-52 victory against Oregon. The victory and moved coach Geno Auriemma past Pat Summitt for the most NCAA Tournament victories at 113. March 27 — Top-seeded South Carolina held off No. 3 seed Florida State 71-64 in a furious finish to win the women’s Stockton Regional. South Carolina’s win put both basketball teams in the Final Four. March 29 — New York Mets reliever Jeurys Familia was given a 15-game suspension under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy. The suspension stemmed from Familia’s Oct. 31 arrest on a simple assault charge. Prosecutors later dropped charges. March 29 — Russell Westbrook had 57 points — the most in a triple-double in NBA history — 13 rebounds and 11 assists to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 114-106 overtime win over the Orlando Magic. March 30 — Kansas guard Frank Mason III and Gonzaga coach Mark Few won The Associated Press player and coach of the year awards. Mason led Kansas to its 13th consecutive Big 12 title. The senior point guard averaged 20.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists while shooting 48.7 percent from 3-point range. Few led Gonzaga to a 36-1 record. March 30 — UConn’s Geno Auriemma was named The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball Coach of the Year for the ninth time. all. Kelsey Plum of Washington was the women’s college basketball Player of the Year. Plum broke the career NCAA scoring mark, topping Jackie Stiles’ 16-year old record in style with a 57-point effort on her senior night. She finished her career with 3,498 points. March 30 — TCU beat Georgia Tech 88-56 to win the NIT championship under first-year coach Jamie Dixon. Guard Kenrich Williams scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and was named the most outstanding player. The Horned Frogs (25-15) doubled its win total over last years 12-21 season. March 31 — Evgenia Medvedeva retained her world figure skating title, breaking her own world record total score with 233.41 points. The 17-year-old Russian became the first woman to win back-to-back titles since 2001. March 31 — Allisha Gray scored 18 points, A’ja Wilson had a double-double and South Carolina advanced to its first national championship game after beating Stanford 62-53 in the women’s national semifinals. March 31 — UConn’s record 111-game winning streak came to a startling end when Mississippi State pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in women’s basketball history, shocking the Huskies 66-64 on Morgan William’s overtime buzzer beater in the national semifinals. April 1 — Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu produced a remarkable comeback to win the men’s world figure skating title. Hanyu was fifth after the short program but produced a world-record free skate score of 223.30

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SPORTS STATS 2017 SPORTS AT A GLANCE points, landing four quadruple jumps, for a total of 321.59 points. April 1 — Two-time NBA scoring champion Tracy McGrady, Kansas coach Bill Self, former Chicago Bulls executive Jerry Krause and former UConn star Rebecca Lobo were part of this year’s Basketball Hall of Fame class. Others in the class included Notre Dame women’s coach Muffet McGraw, Texas high school coach Robert Hughes, former NCAA executive Tom Jernstedt, Harlem Globetrotters player, owner and CEO Mannie Jackson, former Globetrotters player Zack Clayton, former European star Nikos Galis and former NBA and ABA star George McGinnis. April 1 — Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points, Gonzaga’s big men combined for 27 and the Bulldogs survived a furious second-half rally by South Carolina for a 77-73 victory in a matchup of first-time teams at the men’s Final Four. April 1 — North Carolina survived a late rally in the final seconds and hung on for 77-76 win against Oregon to put itself one game away from its sixth college basketball national championship. North Carolina’s Kennedy Meeks matched his career high with 25 points and grabbed 14 rebounds. His final rebound was the most pivotal, coming after a missed free throw in the closing seconds. North Carolina missed four straight free throws at the end of the game but got offensive rebounds in both cases to emerge victorious. April 2 — So Yeon Ryu won the ANA Inspiration in a one-hole playoff with Lexi Thompson, who was given a four-stroke penalty late in the final round for an incorrect ball placement a day earlier. Ryu birdied the 18th hole in the playoff to win her second major title. April 2 — A’ja Wilson scored 23 points to help coach Dawn Staley and South Carolina win their first women’s national championship with a 67-55 victory over Mississippi State. Staley made the Final Four three times as a player at Virginia but never won. April 3 — The NHL announced it will not participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, saying it sees no tangible benefit in halting the season for three weeks — despite clear signs from the world’s best players that they want to go. NHL players had participated in the previous five Olympics dating to 1998. April 3 — Justin Jackson delivered the go-ahead three-point play and North Carolina scored the last eight points for a 71-65 win over Gonzaga and an NCAA title. It was an ugly affair, filled with 44 fouls and 52 free throws. April 5 — Stephen Curry scored 42 points and the Golden State Warriors held off the Phoenix Suns 120-111 for their seasonhigh 13th straight win, clinching the best record in the NBA for the third straight season. Golden State became the first team have the NBA’s best record for three consecutive seasons since the Boston Celtics did it in 1983-84, ’84-’85 and ’85-’86. The Warriors, Boston — multiple times — and Philadelphia are the only franchises in NBA history to achieve that feat. The Warriors also are the first team to win at least 65 games in three straight seasons. April 6 — Charley Hoffman finished the largest first-round lead at Augusta National in 62 years. Hoffman shot a 7-under 65 in windy conditions to have a four-shot edge over William McGirt heading into second round. That was the largest since the 1955 Masters, when Jack Burke Jr. opened with 67 and was four shots ahead of Julius Boros and Mike Souchak. April 7 — Russell Westbrook became the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season, but failed for the second game in a row to break Oscar Robertson’s single-season record. Westbrook fell two assists shy of what would have been his 42nd triple-double in the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 120-99 loss to the Phoenix Suns. Aug. 8 — Damian Lillard scored a franchise-record 59 points and matched his career high with nine 3-pointers to help the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 101-86. April 8 — Jarid Lukosevicius scored three goals in the second period, and Denver beat Minnesota Duluth 3-2 for the men’s NCAA hockey championship. Lukosevicius’ three goals in a 7:39 span finished off the first hat trick in an NCAA final since Denver coach Jim Montgomery accomplished the feat in Maine’s 5-4 victory against Lake Superior State in 1993. It also helped Montgomery become only the fourth man to win the championship as a head coach and player. April 9 — Sergio Garcia overcame a two-shot deficit with six holes to play and beat Justin Rose in a sudden-death playoff at the Masters for his first major after nearly two decades of heartache. No one ever played more majors as a pro — 70 — before winning a major for the first time. April 9 — Russell Westbrook broke Oscar Robertson’s 56-year-old record with his 42nd triple-double of the season, then he broke the Denver Nuggets’ hearts with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer for a 106-105 victory. Westbrook had 50 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in breaking Robertson’s record of 41 triple-doubles that stood since the 1961-62 season. With his triple-double in the books, Westbrook scored his team’s final 15 points, including a 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded after a timeout with 2.9 seconds left. April 10 — Wil Myers hit a leadoff triple in the eighth inning to complete the first cycle of his career and send San Diego past Colorado 5-3. April 11 — In Dortmund, Germany, three explosions went off near Borussia Dortmund’s team bus ahead of a Champions League quarterfinal match, injuring one of the soccer team’s players. The first-leg match against Monaco was called off shortly before kickoff following the blasts near the team hotel in suburban Dortmund. April 13 — Kelsey Plum was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, going to the San Antonio Stars. The Washington guard, who set the NCAA career scoring record, is the first player from the school to be taken first. April 17 — Geoffrey Kirui and Edna Kiplagat put Kenya back on top at the Boston Marathon after being shut out in the world’s most prestigious marathon twice in the past three years. Geoffrey Kirui won the 121st running in 2:09:37, pulling away from three-time U.S. Olympian Galen Rupp with two miles to go to give Kenya its first men’s victory in five years. Edna Kiplagat won the women’s race to complete the Kenyan sweep. April 17 — All four postseason games went to overtime on the same day for the first time since April 10, 1985. The only other time it happened before that was April 11, 1980. Toronto’s Tyler Bozak scored 1:37 into overtime to beat the Washington Capitals 4-3. Corey Perry scored 1:30 into overtime and the Anaheim Ducks rallied from three goals down for 5-4 win. 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Ryan scored on a tip-in on a power play 5:43 into overtime, and Ottawa recovered after giving up a three-goal lead to beat Boston 4-4. Kevin Fiala scored on a backhander 16:44 into overtime, and the Nashville Predators rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the third period to beat Chicago 3-2. April 18 — Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Starling Marte was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for Nandrolone, a steroid. April 18 — The NCAA awarded coveted men’s basketball tournament games and other events to North Carolina, effectively ending a boycott that helped force the state to repeal parts of a law that limited protections for LGBT people. The governing body announced decisions for events through 2022, two weeks after the NCAA said it had “reluctantly” agreed to consider North Carolina again for hosting duties. April 19 — James Harden scored 35 points and the Houston Rockets overcame 51 points from Russell Westbrook in the highest-scoring triple-double in playoff history, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 115-111 to take a 2-0 lead in the first-round Western Conference playoff series. Westbrook set a franchise playoff scoring record and added 13 assists and 10 rebounds. It was the sixth career playoff triple-double for Westbrook, who had an NBA-record 42 in the regular season. But he shot just 4 for 18 in the fourth quarter as the Rockets clawed back from a double-digit deficit to surge ahead before holding on. April 20 — Olympic champion hurdler Brianna Rollins of the United States received a one-year suspension repeated failures to disclose her whereabouts to anti-doping officials — a ban she says was caused by a mix-up in a computer program. April 20 — LeBron James finished with 41 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Cleveland Cavaliers set an NBA postseason record by erasing a 25-point halftime deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 119-114 and take a 3-0 lead. The largest halftime deficit overcome to win a playoff game had been 21 points by Baltimore against Philadelphia in 1948. April 20 — Roman Josi scored twice, Pekka Rinne had 30 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 to complete a surprising sweep of the Western Conference’s top seed. Led by Rinne’s shutouts in the first two games, the Predators limited the high-scoring Blackhawks to just three goals in 13 periods. Chicago became the first No. 1 seed to lose in the opening round since the Los Angeles Kings knocked off the Vancouver Canucks on their way to the Stanley Cup title in 2012. It was the first time a No. 1 seed was swept in the first round since the NHL adopted its current playoff format in 1994. April 23 — Kenyan runner Mary Keitany broke Paula Radcliffe’s women-only marathon world record with a third victory in London, while Daniel Wanjiru won the men’s race for the first time. Keitany completed the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 17 minutes and 1 second to shave 41 seconds off Radcliffe’s 12-year-old mark. April 23 — Ottawa’s Clarke MacArthur scored on a power play 6:30 into overtime as the Senators beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 to win their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series in six games. Washington’s Marcus Johansson stuffed his second goal of the game past Frederik Andersen six and a half minutes into overtime as the Capitals edged the Leafs 2-1 to win the series 4-2 with five of the six games decided in extra time. The first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs featured 18 overtime games in 42 contests (42.9%), a record for any round in the history of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. April 25 — In a swift response to increasing debates over television reviews, golf’s ruling bodies issued a new decision on the Rules of Golf that limits the use of video evidence and could spare players from being penalized even if they violated a rule. The decision issued — and effective immediately on all tours around the world — has two standards. Players can avoid a penalty if the violation could not be noticed with the naked eye. Rules officials also can eliminate penalties if they feel players made a “reasonable judgment” in taking a drop or replacing their golf balls on the putting green. April 25 — Trea Turner hit for the third cycle in Nationals history and drove in a career-high seven runs, helping Washington to a 15-12 win over Colorado. April 26 — Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander was fined $100,000 by the NBA for confronting a referee during live game action. The incident occurred a day earlier in the final minute of the first quarter during the Rockets’ 105-99 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. April 27 — Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett was picked first overall by the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Draft. Chicago sent a third-round pick, a fourth and a 2018 third to San Francisco to switch and take Mitchell Trubisky, who started only 13 games for North Carolina. April 29 — Anthony Joshua survived the first knockdown of his young career and came back to drop Wladimir Klitschko twice before stopping him in the 11th round to retain his heavyweight titles. Before a boisterous crowd of 90,000 at Wembley Stadium, Joshua landed a right uppercut early in the 11th round that spun Klitschko’s head around. He was all over the Ukrainian and dropped him with a left hook, but Klitschko got up only to take even more punishment. Joshua knocked Klitschko down again and was landing punches to his head on the ropes when referee David Fields moved in to stop the bout late in the 11th round. April 29 — Carlos Gomez hit for the cycle for the second time and Rougned Odor hit a tiebreaking two-run homer to help the Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3. Gomez needed only four at-bats for his first cycle since May 7, 2008, with the Minnesota Twins. He doubled in the first inning, singled in the third and tripled in the fifth off starter Jesse Chavez. He hit a first-pitch fastball from Jose Valdez onto the hill behind center field in the seventh for a two-run homer. April 29 — Yasiel Puig, Cody Bellinger and Justin Turner hit consecutive homers off Hector Neris in the ninth, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers rally for a 6-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Los Angeles trailed 5-2 before the three straight homers. Austin Barnes then singled off Neris with one out. Joely Rodriguez came in and got Andrew Toles to fly out, but Corey Seager singled and Adrian Gonzalez drilled a ball off third baseman Maikel Franco’s glove for the winning hit. April 30 — Anthony Rendon had 10 RBIs, three home runs and six hits as the Washington Nationals took advantage of Noah Syndergaard’s injury and mauled the New York Mets 23-5 to set a franchise scoring record. Rendon went a career-best

6 for 6 and scored five times while breaking the club mark for RBIs. May 1 — Kevin Shattenkirk scored 3:13 into overtime and the Washington Capitals overcame a late collapse in regulation to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Washington had a 2-0 lead disappear in the final two minutes of the third when Evgeni Malkin and Justin Schultz scored in a 48-second span to force overtime. Washington became the third team in Stanley Cup Playoffs history to surrender a multi-goal lead in the final two minutes of regulation and win in overtime. May 2 — Isaiah Thomas scored 53 points — the second-highest total in Celtics playoff history — to help Boston beat the Washington Wizards 129-119 in overtime and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals. Thomas scored 20 points in the fourth quarter and nine in overtime, when the Celtics outscored Washington 15-5. May 5 — Corey Perry scored 6:57 into the second overtime after the Anaheim Ducks rallied from a three-goal deficit in the final minutes of regulation, completing a spectacular 4-3 comeback win over the Edmonton Oilers. The Ducks took a 3-2 lead in their second-round playoff series. Rickard Rakell put the tying goal through a crowd of prone players with 15 seconds left in regulation to cap a stunning sequence of three goals in just over three minutes, all with goalie John Gibson pulled for an extra attacker. Ryan Getzlaf with 3:16 left and Cam Fowler with 2:51 left in regulation before Rakell tied it up. The Ducks became the second team in Stanley Cup Playoffs history to overcome a three-goal deficit in the final four minutes of regulation to force overtime. May 6 — Always Dreaming won the Kentucky Derby, pulling away in the slop, to win by 2 3/4 lengths over long shot Lookin At Lee, with another long shot Battle of Midway five lengths back. Always Dreaming, ridden John Velazquez, covered the 1 1/4-mile track in 2:03.59 and paid $11.40, $7.20 and $5.80. Lookin At Lee returned $26.60 and $15.20, while Battle of Midway paid $20.80. May 7 — Bradley Beal scored 29 points and Washington Wizards used a 26-0 thirdquarter run to beat the Boston Celtics 121-102 to tie the second-round series at two games apiece. John Wall added 27 points and 12 assists for Washington. Trailing 53-48 before the run, Washington led 74-53 on Porter’s layup with 5 minutes left in the third. May 14 — Stephen Curry scored 40 points and hit a tying 3-pointer with 1:48 remaining, and the Golden State Warriors rallied from way down after Kawhi Leonard was lost to an ankle injury to beat the San Antonio Spurs 113-111 in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. Draymond Green gave Golden State the lead for good on a three-point play after the Warriors trailed by as many as 25 points in the first half. Leonard left in the third quarter after he re-injured his left ankle, and the Warriors capitalized with an 18-0 run. May 14 — Si Woo Kim of South Korea became the youngest winner of The Players Championship. Thew 21-year-old Kim was the only player to go bogey-free on the TPC Sawgrass course and closed with a 3-under 69 for a three-shot victory in golf’s biggest tournament that’s not a major. The previous youngest champion of The Players was Adam Scott, who was 23 when he won in 2005. May 19 — LeBron James scored 30 points, Kevin Love had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers steamrolled the Boston Celtics 130-86 to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals and tie an NBA record with their 13th straight playoff victory. May 20 — Cloud Computing ran down Classic Empire in the final strides to win the Preakness by a head. The 13-1 long shot was one of five fresh horses in the Preakness that didn’t run two weeks earlier in the Kentucky Derby. Derby winner Always Dreaming and Classic Empire dueled throughout most of the race before Classic Empire went in front midway on the far turn. It looked as if Classic Empire would go on to win, but Cloud Computing ran him down on the outside. Ridden by Javier Castellano, Cloud Computing ran 1 3/16 miles in 1:55.98 and paid $28.80 to win. May 21 — Bernhard Langer cruised to his second straight Regions Tradition victory, shooting an 8-under-64 to match Jack Nicklaus’ record of eight PGA Tour Champions major titles. Langer wiped out a six-stroke deficit over the weekend and entered the final round down two strokes to Fred Funk. He finished at 20-under 268 for a five-stroke victory over Scott McCarron and Scott Parel. May 21 — Sweden won the ice hockey world championship with a 2-1 shootout victory over two-time defending champion Canada. Sweden goaltender Henrik Lundqvist stopped three shots in the shootout and Ryan O’Reilly struck the post for Canada, as Nicklas Backstrom and Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored shootout goals for the Swedes to win their first title since 2013. May 22 — Stephen Curry scored 36 points and the Golden State Warriors closed out the Western Conference Final against the injury-ravaged San Antonio Spurs with a 129-115 victory, becoming the first team in league history to start the playoffs 12-0. Golden State led by as many as 22 points in cruising to its third straight NBA Finals. May 22 — Colton Sissons scored three goals to lead the Nashville Predators to their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final after eliminating the Anaheim Ducks with a 6-3 win in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals. The Predators, who’ve never won even a division title in their 19-year history, came in with the fewest points of any team in these playoffs. Nashville’s magical run started by sweeping the West’s No. 1 seed in Chicago. The Predators downed St. Louis in six to reach their first conference finals, and now they’ve knocked off the Pacific Division champ in Anaheim. Peter Laviolette became the fourth coach to take three different teams to the Final, and the first since the playoffs split into conference play in 1994. May 23 — NFL owners cut the overtime period from 15 minutes to 10 minutes during the regular season, but also gave players plenty of leeway to celebrate after a touchdown. May 25 — LeBron James scored 35 points and passed Michael Jordan to become the NBA’s all-time playoff scoring leader as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Boston Celtics 135-102 to claim their third straight Eastern Conference title and a return trip to the NBA Finals. James surpassed Jordan for the top spot on the NBA’s all-time playoff scoring list, scoring 35 points against Boston to reach 5,995 in his career. Jordan scored 5,987 in his postseason career in 179 games from 1985-2003. James played in his 212th career postseason game. May 26 — The World Boxing Association

suspended two judges after their scoring of the Hassan N’Dam and Ryota Murata WBA middleweight title fight on May 20 in Japan. Gustavo Padilla from Panama and Hubert Earle from Canada were suspended for six months.The two judges saw N’Dam win Saturday’s bout 116-112 and 115113. The third had Murata up 117-110. After the bout, WBA President Gilberto Mendoza, who also said he scored it 117-110 in favor of Murata, called for a rematch. May 28 — Takuma Sato won the Indianapolis 500 to give owner Michael Andretti a second consecutive victory. Sato had to hold off Helio Castroneves, who was trying to win for a record-tying fourth time, in the closing laps. May 28 — Angelique Kerber became the first women’s No. 1 seed to lose in the French Open’s first round in the Open era. Kerber lost 6-2, 6-2 to the 40th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova of Russia. May 29 — Maryland beat Ohio State 9-6 to win its first men’s NCAA lacrosse championship. The Terrapins lost the title game in each of the last two years and four of the last six. Tim Rotanz led the Terrs with a hat trick. May 31 — Jake Guentzel, Scott Wilson and Evgeni Malkin scored 3:18 apart early in the third period as the Penguins chased goalie Pekka Rinne and pulled away for a 4-1 victory in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. The 22-year-old Guentzel finished with two goals to give him an NHL-high 12 during the playoffs, the second-most by a rookie in postseason history. His 19 playoff points are the most by an American-born first-year player. June 1 — Kevin Durant scored 38 points in his first NBA Finals game with Golden State, Stephen Curry added 28 and the Warriors rolled to their 13th straight win this postseason by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-91 in Game 1. This marked the first time in NBA history the same two teams played in three straight Finals and just the fourth time it has happened in the four major sports leagues. June 3 — Albert Pujols hit a grand slam for his 600th homer, becoming the ninth member of the club during the fourth inning of the Los Angeles Angels’ 7-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins. June 3 — Edinson Volquez threw the sixth no-hitter in Marlins history, facing the minimum 27 batters and beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-0. Volquez struck out 10, and the two baserunners who reached on walks were erased by double plays. June 3 — Jerry Bozzo became the oldest trainer to win a thoroughbred race. 96-year-old got the milestone when Cotton Tooyah, ridden by Miguel Vasquez, won the second race on by 4 1/2 lengths at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Bozzo, who celebrated his 96th birthday last October, has been breeding and training thoroughbreds in South Florida since the 1970s. June 4 — Stephen Curry had a triple double and Kevin Durant scored 33 and the Golden State Warriors took a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals with a 132-113 victory in Game 2. Curry finished with 32 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Cleveland’s LeBron James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists to tie Magic Johnson’s record with his eighth career Finals triple-double. June 6 — Scooter Gennett hit four home runs, matching the major league record, and finished with 10 RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds routed the St. Louis Cardinals 13-1. June 6 — Shay Knighten hit a three-run double in the second inning and Oklahoma defended its NCAA softball title with a 5-4 win over Florida. June 7 — Kevin Durant drained a big 3-pointer with 45.3 seconds left and scored 31 points as the Golden State Warriors moved within one win of postseason perfection by rallying to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 118-113 to take a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals. June 8 — Jelena Ostapenko became the first unseeded women’s finalist at the French Open in more than 30 years by beating Timea Bacsinszky. The 47thranked Ostapenko won 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3. The last unseeded player to reach the final at Roland Garros was Mima Jausovec, who lost to seven-time French Open champion Chris Evert in 1983. Third-seeded Simona Halep beat second-seeded Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to reach her second Grand Slam final. June 9 — The Cleveland Cavaliers stopped Golden State from celebrating a perfect postseason in record fashion. LeBron James set an NBA Finals record with his ninth triple-double, and the Cavaliers had the highest-scoring first half ever in the Finals while beating the Warriors 137-116 in Game 4. The Warriors had won their first 15 playoff games, the longest postseason streak in North American sport history. Kyrie Irving scored 40 points and James finished with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, breaking the record of eight triple-doubles held by Magic Johnson. June 10 — Unseeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia stunned No. 3 Simona Halep 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in an enthralling French Open final for the first title of her career. Ostapenko, ranked only 47th and just two days past her 20th birthday, became one of the most unlikely Grand Slam champions in tennis history. She also denied Halep what would have been her first major championship and the No. 1 ranking. Halep, a 25-year-old from Romania, was playing in her second major final. She was the runner-up to Maria Sharapova at Roland Garros in 2014. June 10 — Tapwrit overtook favored Irish War Cry in the stretch to win the Belmont Stakes by two lengths, giving trainer Todd Pletcher his third career victory in the final leg of the Triple Crown. Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Tapwrit ran 1 1/2 miles in 2:30.02 and paid $12.60, $6.50 and $5. Pletcher took two of the three Triple Crown races, having saddled Always Dreaming to victory in the Derby. June 11 — Rafael Nadal won his record 10th French Open title by dominating 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 in the final. No other man or woman has won 10 championships at the same major in the Open era, which began in 1968. Nadal, who did not drop a set all tournament, improved to 10-0 in finals at Roland Garros. Nadal increased his career haul to 15 Grand Slam trophies, breaking a tie with Pete Sampras for second place in the history of men’s tennis, behind only rival Roger Federer’s 18. Over his career, Nadal is 79-2 at the French Open and 102-2 in all best-of-five-set matches on clay. June 11 — The Stanley Cup returned to Pittsburgh after Patric Hornqvist scored the go-ahead goal on a bad-angle shot with 95 seconds left in a 2-0 win over the Nashville Predators in Game 6. Carl Hagelin sealed the win by scoring into an empty net with 14 seconds left in leading the Penguins to become the first NHL team in nearly two decades to win consecutive championships.

June 12 — The Minnesota Twins selected California high school shortstop Royce Lewis with the No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft. It marked the third time the Twins have led off the draft, and first since they took hometown high school catcher Joe Mauer in 2001. June 12 — Kevin Durant capped his spectacular first season with the Warriors by bringing home that coveted NBA championship. Durant, who joined Golden State last July, scored 39 points in a fast-and-furious, Finals-clinching 129-120 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Stephen Curry added 34 points, 10 assists and six rebounds as Golden State closed out its second title in three years after squandering a 3-1 lead a year ago to the Cavs to miss a repeat. June 15 — The NCAA suspended Louisville’s men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino for five Atlantic Coast Conference games following its sex scandal investigation. The men’s basketball program was placed on four years’ probation, vacated wins in which ineligible players participated and handed down a 10-year show-cause order for former basketball operations director Andre McGee. Other penalties included men’s basketball scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions;a fine of $5,000, plus the university must return money received through conference revenue sharing for its appearances in the 2012 to 2015 NCAA men’s basketball championships. June 15 — Rickie Fowler matched the U.S. Open scoring record to par for the opening round with a 7-under 65 at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. Fowler was one of 44 other players who broke par, to break a championship record that had stood for 27 years. Fowler joined Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf, who each shot 7-under 63 in 1980 at Baltusrol. June 18 — Brooks Koepka broke away from a tight pack with three straight birdies on the back nine at Erin Hills and closed with a 5-under 67 to win the U.S. Open for his first major championship. A par on the final hole tied Rory McIlroy’s record score to par at 16 under for a four-shot victory. June 18 — Diana Taurasi scored 19 points to break the WNBA career scoring record in the Phoenix Mercury’s 90-59 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks. Taurasi finished with 7,494 points, passing Tina Thompson’s mark of 7,488. June 18 — Nolan Arenado completed the cycle with a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies stunned the San Francisco Giants by rallying for a 7-5 victory. Arenado hit the first pitch he saw from All-Star closer Mark Melancon into the left-field seats. June 19 — Dodgers rookie Cody Bellinger launched two more home runs, setting a major league record with his powerful start as Los Angeles held on for a 10-6 victory over the New York Mets. Bellinger reached 21 homers in 51 career games — faster than any other player in big league history. Despite spotting the rest of the NL three weeks before he was called up from the minors, the first baseman led the league in home runs. June 20 — Detroit’s defensive tackle Khyri Thornton was suspended six games by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on substances of abuse. June 21 — Edmonton’s Connor McDavid won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player at the league’s postseason awards show. McDavid also won the Ted Lindsay Award, given to the league’s most outstanding performer in a vote of his fellow players. He already knew he would win the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL scoring champion. The honors capped a remarkable sophomore season for the 20-year-old center, who won the scoring title and led the Oilers back to the Stanley Cup playoffs after an 11-year absence. Boston center Patrice Bergeron won the Selke Trophy for the fourth time as the NHL’s best defensive forward, and San Jose’s Brent Burns won his first Norris Trophy as the top defenseman. Toronto center Auston Matthews easily took the Calder Trophy as the league’s top rookie, and Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky won his second Vezina Trophy. June 22 — Free agent cornerback Justin Gilbert was suspended one-year by the NFL for violation of the league’s substances of abuse policy. June 22 — The Philadelphia 76ers selected guard Markelle Fultz with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. The Los Angeles Lakers followed by taking Lonzo Ball as the draft started with a pair of freshmen point guards from the Pac-12 Conference. Nine of the first 10 selections played just one season of college ball. Last year’s record of 14 freshmen fell when Brooklyn grabbed Jarrett Allen from Texas at No. 22, and there were 16 total among the 30 first-round picks — and just two seniors. June 23 — The New Jersey Devils selected center Nico Hischier with the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL draft. The 18-year-old Hischier is the highest drafted Swiss player in the NHL history. June 26 — Helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup with a resounding romp against software tycoon Larry Ellison’s two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA. The underfunded but resourceful Kiwis claimed the oldest trophy in international sports with another dominating light-air sprint around the Great Sound of Bermuda aboard their fast, 50-foot foiling catamaran. They won Race 9 to clinch the 35th America’s Cup match at 7-1. Burling, at 26, became the youngest helmsman to win sailing’s greatest prize in a competition that dates to 1851. June 26 — Teemu Selanne and Paul Kariya, a dynamic duo in Anaheim for several years, were elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The longtime Ducks teammates were joined by Mark Recchi, Dave Andreychuk and longtime Canadian university coach Clare Drake. Canadian star Danielle Goyette became the fifth women’s player elected, and Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs got in as part of the builder category. June 26 — Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook capped his historic season at the NBA’s inaugural awards show, winning 2016-17 Most Valuable Player award. Westbrook receiving 69 of 101 first-place votes, Harden 22, Leonard nine and James one. Milwaukee guard Malcolm Brogdon was named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year. June 27 — Florida scored four runs in the eighth inning to pull away from LSU, and the Gators beat their Southeastern Conference rival 6-1 to complete a two-game sweep in the College World Series finals for their first national title in baseball. The Gators posted the eighth sweep in the 15 years of the best-of-three finals format, and first since 2013. LSU lost for the first time in seven appearances in a championship game. July 1 — Stephen Curry agreed a $201 million maximum contract with the Golden State Warriors. Curry’s five-year maximum became the league’s first $200 million contract.

July 1 — Houston Astros rookie pitcher David Paulino received an 80-game suspension after testing positive for the performance-enhancing substance Boldenone. July 2 — Jeff Horn shocked Manny Pacquiao by a controversial unanimous decision at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia, to win the WBO welterweight title. The 29-year-old Horn was given almost no hope of beating the 11-time world champion. The 38-year-old Pacquiao had a chance to knock Horn out in the ninth round, with the Aussie on the ropes and in big trouble in front of the 51,052 fans at Suncorp Stadium, but couldn’t complete the job. July 2 — Danielle Kang birdied the final hole to win the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for her first LPGA Tour title, edging defending champion Brooke Henderson. Kang became the first player to birdie the 72nd and final hole to win this Championship by a single stroke since Meg Mallon in 1991. July 6 — The World Boxing Organization announced it will re-score the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn welterweight title fight because of the contentious unanimous decision awarded to the Australian challenger, but there is no plan to change the result. The WBO was responding to a Philippines government department’s request to review the fight after Pacquiao said the decision against him on July 2 was unfair. The Philippines Games and Amusements Board (GAB) said it based the request on protecting boxing’s integrity, citing possible miscalls by the referee and judges. But the WBO reiterated its only hope of revoking the fight judges’ decision rests on proving fraud in match officiating. July 10 — Rafael Nadal was beaten in the fourth round at Wimbledon, losing to Gilles Muller 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13. Nadal erased a two-set deficit, then four match points, but could not erase the fifth. The two-time champion at the All England Club saved two match points in the 10th game of the fifth set, and two more in the 20th game. Nadal had won 28 consecutive completed sets at major tournaments, equaling his personal best. July 10 — An independent review of the scoring in Manny Pacquiao’s contentious WBO welterweight world title loss to Jeff Horn confirmed the outcome in favor of the Australian. A Philippines government department asked the WBO to review the refereeing and the judging of the so-called “Battle of Brisbane” in Australia on July 2 after Horn, fighting for his first world title, won a unanimous points decision against Pacquiao, an 11-time world champion. The WBO said three of the five independent judges who reviewed the bout awarded it to Horn, one awarded it to Pacquiao and one scored a draw. July 10 — Rookie Aaron Judge dominated the All-Star Home Run Derby. The largerthan-life New York Yankees slugger beat Minnesota’s Miguel Sosa 11-10 with two minutes to spare in the final, reaching 513 feet and displaying remarkable power to all fields. July 11 — Venus Williams reached the semifinals at Wimbledon for the 10th time. The five-time champion at the All England Club advanced by beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 7-5 under a closed roof on Centre Court. July 11 — Seattle’s Robinson Cano homered off Chicago Cubs closer Wade Davis leading off the 10th inning and the American League beat the National League 2-1 in the All-Star Game. Craig Kimbrel of Boston wiggled out of a jam in the ninth and right fielder Justin Upton made a lunging catch in the 10th to help the AL win its fifth in a row. And for the first time since 1964, the rivalry is all even — 43 wins apiece with two ties, and each side has scored exactly 361 runs. July 12 — Sam Querrey stunned topseeded Andy Murray in five sets in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Querrey, an American seeded 24th, was dominating down the stretch for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1 victory. Querrey became the first U.S. man to reach the semifinals at any Grand Slam tournament since Andy Roddick lost in the 2009 Wimbledon final. July 13 — Venus Williams reached her ninth Wimbledon final and first since 2009, turning in her latest display of gutsy serving to beat Johanna Konta 6-4, 6-2. At 37, Williams became the oldest finalist at the All England Club since Martina Navratilova was the 1994 runner-up at that age. In the opening semifinal, Garbine Muguruza overwhelmed Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-1 in just over an hour. July 14 — Roger Federer advanced to the final at the All England Club for the 11th time by beating Tomas Berdych 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-4. Marin Cilic defeated Sam Querrey 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-5 in the other semifinal. July 15 — Garbine Muguruza powered her way to her first title at Wimbledon and second at a Grand Slam tournament, beating a fading Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0 by claiming the final’s last nine games. July 15 — Cody Bellinger became the first Dodgers rookie to hit for the cycle and Alex Wood became the first Dodgers pitcher in more than a century to win his first 11 decisions in a season, helping Los Angeles beat the Miami Marlins 7-1. July 16 — Roger Federer won his record eighth Wimbledon title, beating Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 on Centre Court in his 11th final at the All England Club. The win moved him above both Pete Sampras and William Renshaw, who each have won seven titles at the grass-court major. It was the 35-year-old Federer’s record 19th Grand Slam singles title. July 16 — Sung Hyun Park won the U.S. Women’s Open for her first LPGA Tour victory. The 23-year-old from South Korea shot her second straight 5-under 67 and won a day-long battle with front-running Shanshan Feng and teenage amateur Hye-Jin Choi at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Park finished at 11-under 277 for a two-stroke win over Choi. President Donald Trump attended the biggest event in women’s golf for the third straight day. July 17 — New Jersey’s first casino has become the first in Atlantic City to let patrons play daily fantasy sports contests for money. Resorts Casino Hotel launched FastPick, a daily fantasy sports game in which customers choose head-to-head player matchups of real-world athletes. July 21 — Mongolian grand champion Hakuho set the record for most career wins in sumo wrestling after toppling ozeki Takayasu in the Nagoya grand sumo tournament. Hakuho reached the milestone 1,048th win, surpassing the total that former ozeki Kaio finished on in 2011. The Mongolian yokozuna started his sumo career at age 16, and made his tournament debut in 2001. July 21 — Olympic champion Shi Tingmao led a China 1-2 in the women’s 3-meter springboard competition at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary. Shi, the defending champion, won comfortably ahead of Wang Han to claim China’s ninth straight gold in this event. Chinese divers

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SPORTS STATS 2017 SPORTS AT A GLANCE have won 20 of the last 21 Olympic and world titles in women’s 3-meter springboard since 1986. July 22 — Branden Grace set the new standard for scoring in the majors with a 62 in the third round of the British Open at Royal Birkdale. It was the lowest score ever recorded in 442 major championships. From the time Johnny Miller shot his famous 63 in the final round at Oakmont to win the 1973 U.S. Open, a 63 was posted in the majors 30 more times, most recently by Justin Thomas in the U.S. Open last month at Erin Hills. Grace, who made the cut by one shot, finished at 4-under 206. July 22 — Maya Moore scored 23 points, reigning league MVP Nneka Ogwumike added 22 points and the West outlasted the East 130-121 in the WNBA All-Star Game. July 22 — Clint Dempsey fed Jozy Altidore for the go-ahead goal, then scored on a free kick to match Landon Donovan’s American record with his 57th international goal and lead the United States over Costa Rica 2-0 and into the CONCACAF Gold Cup championship game. July 23 — Defending champion Chris Froome won his fourth and most challenging Tour de France title. The 32-year-old British rider finished 54 seconds ahead of Colombian Rigoberto Uran overall, the smallest margin of his wins. July 23 — Jordan Spieth used a remarkable string of holes on the back nine to hold off Matt Kuchar and win the British Open for the third major championship of his career. He won by three shots — the same margin he started the day with — after a final round 1-under-69. July 26 — Katie Ledecky’s bid to win six gold medals at the world championships ended when she was beaten in the 200-meter freestyle by Italy’s Federica Pellegrini. Ledecky settled for the silver medal, tying for second with Australia’s Emma McKeon. Pellegrini finished in 1:54.73. The 28-year-old Pellegrini became the first swimmer in the history of the championship to capture seven medals in a single individual event. Her incredible run in the 200 free began at the 2005 worlds in Montreal, where she grabbed a silver. She was third in 2007 at Melbourne, and then had back-to-back victories, including a world-record performance at Rome in 2009 (1:52.98) that still stands from the rubber-suit era. July 26 — Jordan Morris scored a tiebreaking goal in the 88th minute, and the United States beat Jamaica 2-1 for its sixth CONCACAF Gold Cup title and first since 2013. July 27 — The Washington Nationals tied a franchise record with eight home runs, including two apiece by Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman, and Max Scherzer pitched six innings of three-hit ball in a 15-2 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers. July 28 — The U.S. women claimed a record-extending fifth world championship in water polo with a 13-6 victory over Spain. Kiley Neushul scored four goals to help the two-time Olympic champions win back-to-back titles at the worlds. July 29 — Caeleb Dressel has become the first swimmer to win three gold medals on a single night at the world championships. America’s newest star turned in a stunning performance, racing three times over the course of about two hours — and winning every time. He started with a victory in the 50-meter freestyle, came back about a half-hour later to nearly break Michael Phelps’ world record in the 100 butterfly and closed the night by leading off a world-record performance in the mixed 4x100 free relay. That gave Dressel six gold medals in the championships. Katie Ledecky made it five gold medals in her final event of the world championships, cruising to victory in the 800-meter freestyle. July 30 — Caeleb Dressel won his seventh gold medal of the world championships in Budapest, Hungary, putting the U.S. team ahead to stay with another dominating swim in the 4x100-meter medley relay. Dressel joined Michael Phelps in another elite club with seven golds at the secondbiggest meet after the Olympics. Phelps had seven victories at the 2007 worlds in Melbourne, Australia. July 30 — Bernhard Langer won the Senior British Open at Royal Porthcawl for his record-extending 10th senior major title and fifth in the last 10. The 59-year-old German star closed with an even-par 72 to finish at 4-under 280 and beat American Corey Pavin by three strokes. July 30 — Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers became the first player from the Dominican Republic, and 31st overall, to join the 3,000-hit club during a 10-6 loss to Baltimore. Beltre doubled down the line past third base off lefty Wade Miley, who got Beltre out on a swinging strikeout in the second. July 30 — J.R. Todd became the first black winner in NHRA Funny Car history, beating Tim Wilkerson in the Sonoma (Calif.) Nationals. The 35-year-old Todd also joined Don Prudhomme as the only NHRA drivers to win at Sonoma Raceway in both nitro categories. Todd won nine times in Top Fuel. Aug. 1 — Evan Longoria became the second Tampa Bay player to hit for the cycle and drove in three runs to lead the Rays past Houston 6-4. He was a double shy when he came to the plate with two outs in the ninth inning and laced a laser to left field. Longoria was initially ruled out, but the call was overturned after a crew chief review. Aug. 3 — Neymar became the most expensive player in soccer history after completing his blockbuster transfer to Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona for 222 million euros ($262 million). Aug. 5 — Justin Gatlin spoiled Usain Bolt’s farewell beating him in the 100 meters at the world championships in London. Bolt got off to a slow start and Gatlin held him off at the line in 9.92 seconds. American sprinter Christian Coleman took silver in 9.94 seconds and Bolt took bronze in 9.95. Aug. 5 — The Orange County Breakers beat the defending champion San Diego Aviators 22-18 to win their second World TeamTennis championship. Aug. 5 — Perfect Spirit was declared the winner in the $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack after the judges disqualified first-place finisher What The Hill. Hall of Fame driver David Miller steered What The Hill first across the finish line, but was taken down for interfering with Guardian Angel AS in the stretch and striking the other colt’s legs, causing Guardian Angel to go off stride. Aug. 6 — Geoffrey Kirui gave Kenya a record fifth men’s marathon title at the world championships, winning a seesaw race with Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia that finished on London’s famed Tower Bridge. Aug. 6 — I.K. Kim won the Women’s British Open, hanging on with a 1-under 71 for a two-shot victory over Jodi Ewart Shadoff and her first major championship. Kim had a six-shot lead going into the final round, but Shadoff put enormous pressure on Kim by closing with a 64.

Aug. 10 — Ramil Guliyev of Turkey earned the upset of the world track and field championships when he matched Wayde Van Niekerk stride for stride and won the 200-meter title by lunging at the line just ahead of the favored South African. The 27-year-old Guliyev finished in 20.09 seconds, .02 seconds ahead of both Van Niekerk. The South African took silver by .001 seconds. It was the slowest final since 2003. Aug. 11 — The NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott six games after a yearlong NFL investigation of his domestic violence case in Ohio. The 2016 NFL rushing leader was suspended despite prosecutors in Columbus, Ohio, deciding a year ago not to pursue the case involving Elliott’s girlfriend at the time in the same city where Elliott starred for Ohio State. The league said there was “substantial and persuasive evidence” that Elliott had physical confrontations last summer with his then-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson. Aug. 12 — Usain Bolt ended his stellar career in excruciating pain. The Jamaican great crumpled to the track with a left-leg injury as he was chasing a final gold medal for the Jamaican 4x100-meter relay team at the world championships in London. Having to make up lots of ground on the anchor leg, Bolt suddenly screamed and stumbled as he came down with the first injury he has experienced at a major competition. Britain went on to beat the United States in a tight finish. Tori Bowie was the unlikely first double gold medalist at the championships, anchoring the U.S. team to the 4x100-meter relay title ahead of Britain and Jamaica. At the same time, Allyson Felix, running the second leg on the winning team, earned a record 15th medal at the world championships in a career going back to 2005. Kevin Mayer became the “world’s greatest athlete,” winning the decathlon. Mayer, the first Frenchman to win the title, won with 8,768 points. Aug. 13 — Justin Thomas emerged from the shadow of a longtime friend and won the PGA Championship to take his place among the young elite in golf. Thomas closed with a 3-under 68 and won by two shots. The week began with Jordan Spieth’s quest for a career Grand Slam. Spieth was at the 18th green at Quail Hollow, but only so he could celebrate the moment with Thomas, close friends since they were 14. Aug. 20 — Lexi Thompson got things going with a big rally and Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer won key matches to help the U.S. beat Europe 16 1/2-11 1/2 in the Solheim Cup. Gerina Piller sealed it with a birdie putt that put her 3 up over Florentyna Parker with three to play in a 4-and-2 victory. Aug. 23 — Zach Britton’s AL-record run of converting 60 straight save attempts ended, when the Baltimore closer blew a two-run lead and failed to get out of the ninth inning in a game the Orioles ultimately won 8-7 over Oakland in the 12th. Aug. 26 — Ohio State star Kyle Snyder scored a late takedown of Olympic gold medalist Abdusalim Sadulaev in the deciding match, and the United States won the world freestyle wrestling title for the first time in 22 years. The U.S. and Russia were tied heading into the highly anticipated match between Snyder and Sadulaev, who moved up to the 213-pound weight class to challenge the American. Veteran Jordan Burroughs also won a gold medal for the U.S. at 163 pounds. Aug. 26 — Floyd Mayweather Jr. stopped UFC champion Conor McGregor on his feet in the 10th round at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. The much-hyped 154-pound fight was more competitive than many expected when an unbeaten, five-division world champion boxer took on a mixed martial artist making his pro boxing debut. Mayweather (50-0) survived a rough beginning and gradually took control. He brutalized McGregor in the 10th, landing numerous shots and chasing McGregor around the ring until referee Robert Byrd saved the Irishman and stopped the fight. Aug. 27 — Giancarlo Stanton hit his 50th home run to break an eighth-inning tie, helping the Miami Marlins sweep the San Diego Padres with a 6-2 victory. Stanton became the first National League player to reach 50 homers since Prince Fielder hit 50 for Milwaukee in 2007. Aug. 27 — Tsubasa Tomii buckled down after allowing two first-inning home runs and Japan hit three homers in the fourth and won the Little League World Series title with a 12-2 victory over Lufkin, Texas. Aug. 28 — The NFL suspended Cincinnati linebacker Vontaze Burfict five games for leveling a Chiefs running back in violation of its player safety rules, the latest in Burfict’s history of egregious hits that have drawn fines and suspensions. The suspension was reduced from five to three games on Aug. 30. Aug. 28 — Maria Sharapova’s first Grand Slam match after a 15-month doping suspension ended with a victory at the U.S. Open. Sharapova recovered after faltering midway through the first-round match and emerged to beat No. 2-seeded Simona Halep 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in over more than 2 1/2 hours in a night match. Aug. 29 — Angelique Kerber became only the second defending U.S. Open champion in the professional era to lose in the first round. The surprisingly lopsided 6-3, 6-1 loss to 45th-ranked Naomi Osaka of Japan was former No. 1 Kerber’s latest in a long list of disappointing performances in 2017. Aug. 31 — The NBA fined new Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka $500,000 for his contact with Paul George’s agent, a violation of the NBA’s anti-tampering rule. Aug. 31 — Shelby Rogers beat 25thseeded Daria Gavrilova 7-6 (6), 4-6, 7-6 (5) to set a record for the longest women’s match in U.S. Open history. The secondround match took 3 hours, 33 minutes. The previous record was 3 hours, 23 minutes, when Johanna Konta defeated Garbine Muguruza 7-6, 6-7, 6-2 in a second-round match in 2015. Sept. 2 — Lewis Hamilton claimed his 69th career pole position to break the Formula One record previously held by Michael Schumacher. After a 2 1/2-hour rain delay at the Italian Grand Prix, Hamilton finished more than a second ahead of Max Verstappen. Sept. 2 — Freshman Bryar Topo scored the last of St. John’s 14 touchdowns with 10:06 remaining and the Johnnies beat St. Scholastica 98-0 in a Division III season opener. It was the most points scored against a fellow D-III team, breaking the 97 points in the 1977 game between Concordia-Moorhead and Macalester. Sept. 2 — Howard, an FCS team from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, pulled off what may have been the biggest upset in modern college football history by point-spread standards. The Bison entered as 45-point road underdogs against UNLV and stunned the Rebels 43-40 in Las Vegas.

Sept. 2 — Hall of Fame driver Brian Sears swept the Yonkers Trot and Messenger Stakeson at Yonkers Raceway. Sears won by a nose in both of Yonkers’ signature $500,000 stakes for 3-year-old trotters and pacers, guiding the favored DownbytheSeaside in the Messenger, and Top Flight Angel in the Yonkers Trot in the following race. Both races are the second jewels in the Triple Crown for pacers and trotters. Sept. 3 — UCLA’s Josh Rosen faked the spike and threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Lasley with 43 seconds remaining and UCLA overcame a 34-point deficit to stun Texas A&M 45-44. Rosen was 35 of 59 for 491 yards and four fourthquarter touchdowns. UCLA scored on five straight possessions after trailing 44-10 with 4:08 to play in the third quarter. Sept. 4 — J.D. Martinez tied a major league record by hitting four home runs and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-0 for their 11th straight victory. Martinez became the 18th player in major league history to hit four homers in a game, and the 16th in the modern era. Sept. 4 — Madison Keys eliminated No. 4-seeded Elina Svitolina 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4 and give the United States four women in the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time in 15 years. The 15th-seeded Keys joined Americans Venus Williams, CoCo Vandeweghe and Sloane Stephens in the final eight at Flushing Meadows. Sept. 4 — Juan Martin del Potro rallied from a two-set deficit to defeat sixthseeded Dominic Thiem in a thrilling comeback at the U.S. Open. The No. 24-ranked del Potro needed every last moment of a 1-6, 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4 match to advance to the quarterfinals. The Argentinian won the third set and saved two match points with aces in the fourth set. Sept. 4 — No. 25 Tennessee rallied from a pair of 14-point deficits in the second half and stopped a 2-point conversion in the second overtime, to stun Georgia Tech 42-41 despite giving up five rushing touchdowns to TaQuon Marshall and getting dominated statistically. Sept. 5 — Venus Williams returned to the U.S. Open semifinals for the first time since 2010 by coming back in the third set to beat two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2). At 37, Williams is the oldest women’s semifinalist at any Grand Slam tournament since Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1994. She will face unseeded Sloane Stephens in the first all-American women’s semifinal in New York since 2002. Stephens advanced earlier with a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) victory over 16th-seeded Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia. Sept. 5 — Restaurant and casino owner Tilman Fertitta agreed to buy the Houston Rockets from Leslie Alexander for an NBA-record $2.2 billion. The price surpasses the $2 billion Steve Ballmer paid for the Los Angeles Clippers in 2014. Sept. 6 — CoCo Vandeweghe became the third American into the U.S. Open women’s semifinals, beating top-seeded Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (4), 6-3. Madison Keys completed the sweep for American women, giving the host country all four U.S. Open semifinal spots for the first time in 36 years. The 15th-seeded Keys took 69 minutes for a 6-3, 6-3 victory over 418th-ranked qualifier Kaia Kanepi of Estonia. The Americans haven’t had all four semifinalists at the U.S. Open since 1981, when Tracy Austin beat Martina Navratilova for the title. Chris Evert and Barbara Potter also made the semifinals. Sept. 6 — The NFL announced the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers would open the season with a hurricane-imposed bye. Their opener scheduled for Sept. 10 was postponed by the NFL until Nov. 19 because of Hurricane Irma. Sept. 6 — FIFA ordered that a World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal be replayed after the referee was found guilty of match manipulation and banned for life. South Africa beat Senegal 2-1 in the qualifier last November, helped by a penalty awarded by Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey for a non-existent handball. Sept. 7 — Sloane Stephens reached her first Grand Slam final, edging Venus Williams 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 in the first of two all-American semifinals. Stephens became just the fourth unseeded player to reach the U.S. Open women’s final in the Open era, which began in 1968. Stephens, two points from defeat, took the last three games of a back-and-forth semifinal. In the other semifinal, the 15th-seeded Madison Keys dominated No. 20 CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 in barely more than an hour. Sept. 7 — Florida State and Florida canceled their Sept. 9 home football games because of Hurricane Irma. No. 10 Florida State was set to play LouisianaMonroe, and No. 22 Florida was scheduled to face Northern Colorado. The storm also impacted games involving Florida teams outside the Top 25. South Florida and UConn called off their game in Connecticut because of travel concerns. Central Florida also announced its scheduled Friday night home game with Memphis had been called off. The Memphis-UCF game had been moved from Saturday to Friday because of the threat. Sept. 8 — A federal judge blocked Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott’s six-game suspension over a domestic violence case. Sept. 8 — David Benavidez becames boxing’s youngest world champion — and the youngest ever in the super middleweight division — with a split decision victory over Ronald Gavril at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. At 20 years, 9 months old, Benavidez (19-0, 17 KOs) won the vacant WBC super middleweight title over the 31-year-old Gavril (18-2, 14 KOs). Sept. 9 — Sloane Stephens dominated Madison Keys in the U.S. Open final and won 6-3, 6-0 for her first Grand Slam title. The 83rd-ranked Stephens became the second unseeded woman to win the tournament in the Open era, which began in 1968. This was the first all-American women’s final at Flushing Meadows since 2002, when Serena Williams beat Venus Williams. Sept. 9 — Jose Abreu became the first White Sox player to hit for the cycle in 17 years, among six Chicago players to go deep in a 13-1 rout of the San Francisco Giants. Sept. 10 — Rafael Nadal won his 16th Grand Slam title by sweeping Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in the U.S. Open final. It was the third U.S. Open title for the top-seeded Nadal, who won two majors this year for the first time since 2013. At No. 32, Anderson was the lowest-ranked U.S. Open men’s finalist since the ATP computer rankings began 44 years ago. He had never before been past the quarterfinals at any major tournament in 33 tries. Sept. 10 — Kristi Toliver of the Washington Mystics scored 32 points, hitting a WNBA playoff-record nine 3-pointers, to beat the New York Liberty 82-68 and advance the semifinals. Sept. 10 — Aaron Judge became the

second major league rookie with a 40-homer season, going deep twice as New York pounded the Texas Rangers 16-7. Sept. 10 — The Los Angeles Rams routed the Indianapolis Colts 46-9 in 31-year-old Sean McVay’s impressive debut as the youngest head coach in modern league history. Sept. 11 — In the start of a series moved from Florida to Citi Field because of Hurricane Irma, Todd Frazier capitalized on Trevor Plouffe’s two-out error with a three-run homer in a five-run fourth inning that led the New York Yankees to a 5-1 win over Tampa Bay. Jacoby Ellsbury broke Pete Rose’s major league record by reaching base on catcher’s interference for the 30th time. Sept. 12 — The Cleveland Indians extended their winning streak to 20 games and matched the AL mark held by the 2002 Oakland Athletics, beating the Detroit Tigers 2-0. Sept. 12 — The Minnesota Twins became the first team in major league history to hit a homer in each of the first seven innings in a 16-0 rout of the San Diego Padres. Brian Dozier, Jorge Polanco, Jason Castro, Eddie Rosario, Castro again, Eduardo Escobar and Kennys Vargas all went deep to set a Target Field record. Sept. 15 — The Cleveland had its AL record run stopped at 22 straight games as the Indians were beaten 4-3 by the Kansas City Royals, who became the first team to conquer the defending league champions since Aug. 23. The Indians came within four of matching the overall record held by the 1916 New York Giants. Sept. 16 — In front of the largest crowd to attend a stand-alone MLS match, Josef Martinez had his second hat trick in a row and his third of the season to help Atlanta United hold on for a 3-3 draw against Orlando City. Atlanta United set the record with 70,425 on hand at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The previous record was held by the Los Angeles Galaxy for the 69,255 who attended their first-ever match at the Rose Bowl in 1996. Sept. 16 — Feleipe Franks heaved a 63-yard touchdown pass to Tyrie Cleveland as the clock expired, and No. 24 Florida beat No. 23 Tennessee 26-23 in a wild, wacky and sometimes unwatchable rivalry game. The final play capped a crazy fourth quarter in which the teams combined for 37 points and little, if any, defense. Sept. 16 — Gennady Golovkin retained his middleweight titles, fighting to a draw with Canelo Alvarez in a brutal battle that ended with both fighters thinking they won. The two fighters traded huge punches and went after each other for 12 rounds. Golovkin was the aggressor throughout but couldn’t put Alvarez down, and Alvarez more than stood his own in exchanges with Triple G. One judge had Alvarez winning 118-110, a second had it 115-113 in Golovkin’s favor, while the third had it 114-114. Sept. 17 — Anna Nordqvist beat unheralded American Brittany Altomare in a playoff in driving rain and hail at the first extra hole to win the Evian Championship. Nordqvist sank a 4-foot putt for a bogey 5 on the soaked 18th hole while the 102nd-ranked Altomare had a six. Sept. 17 — Josef Newgarden won his first IndyCar championship by closing out the best year of his career as the top driver at Team Penske. Newgarden finished second at Sonoma Raceway to prevent his Penske teammates, as well as four-time champion Scott Dixon, from taking the title away from him. Newgarden, who won the title by 13 points, is only the second American in 11 years to win the IndyCar title. Sept. 17 — Los Angeles Chargers tight end Antonio Gates had a touchdown catch in a 19-17 loss to Miami, giving him 112 for his career — passing Tony Gonzalez (111) for the most by a tight end in NFL history. Sept. 19 — Kansas City’s Alex Gordon hit Major League Baseball’s record 5,694th home run of 2017, breaking the season mark. Gordon’s home run off Toronto’s Ryan Tepera raised the total to one more than the 5,693 set in 2000 at the height of the Steroids Era. The record was broken with just less than two weeks remaining in the regular season. Sept. 20 — Chris Sale struck out 13 to become the first AL pitcher in 18 years to reach the 300 mark, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 9-0. Sept. 20 — The NCAA placed the men’s basketball team at Pacific on two years of probation for academic and recruiting violations under former coach Ron Verlin. Sept. 22 — The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their fifth straight NL West title, beating the San Francisco Giants 4-2 as Cody Bellinger set an NL rookie record with his 39th home run. Bellinger hit a three-run homer in the third off Jeff Samardzija, topping the NL rookie mark set by Wally Berger in 1930 and matched by Frank Robinson in 1956. Sept. 23 — Juwan Johnson caught a seven-yard TD pass as time expired and fourth-ranked Penn State rallied to stun Iowa 21-19 in the Big Ten opener for both teams. Sept. 24 — Peter Sagan of Slovakia became the first man to win three straight road race titles after holding off Norwegian Alexander Kristoff in a sprint finish at the World Cycling Championships. Sept. 24 — Diego Valeri scored twice to extend his MLS-record scoring streak to nine straight games and Portland beat Orlando City 3-0. Valeri moved in front of NYCFC’s David Villa for most goals this season with 20. Sept. 24 — Chelsea Gray’s pull-up jumper with 2 seconds to play helped the Los Angeles Sparks avoid what would have been a stunning collapse and take Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, 85-84, over the Minnesota Lynx. The Sparks led 28-2 in the first quarter and 78-66 with five minutes to play, but gave it all back after a charge from the Lynx. The Lynx took an 84-83 lead with 6.5 seconds to play. But Gray got free to knock down a pull-up 14-footer. Sept. 24 — Jake Elliott, who was two of three on field goals, made a 61-yarder as time expired to give Philadelphia a 27-24 victory over the New York Giants. Elliott’s 61-yard field goal is the longest by a rookie in NFL history and tied for the third-longest game-ending field goal, trailing only Tom Dempsey (63 yards, Nov. 8, 1970) and Matt Bryant (62 yards, Oct. 22, 2006). Sept. 25 — Aaron Judge broke Mark McGwire’s major league record for home runs by a rookie, hitting a pair for the second straight day to raise his total to 50 and lead the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 11-3. Sept. 26 — Sylvia Fowles grabbed a WNBA Finals-record 17 rebounds and scored 13 points to lead the Minnesota Lynx to a 70-68 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in Game 2, evening the series at one game apiece. Fowles broke Taj McWilliamsFranklin’s record of 16 for Connecticut in 2005. Sept. 26 — In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a

top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors. Sept. 27 — From worst to wild card, the Minnesota Twins completed a most remarkable reversal. A couple hours after losing 4-2 to Cleveland, the Twins earned an AL wild-card berth the Angels lost 6-4 in 10 innings to White Sox. A season after winning just 59 games, the Twins became the first team to lose at least 100 and then make the postseason the following year. Sept. 28 — Sam Saunders, Arnold Palmer’s grandson, shot a 12-under 59 in the first round of the Web.com Tour Championship. Saunders closed with six straight birdies at Atlantic Beach Country Club for the seventh sub-60 round in Web.com Tour history. Sept. 28 — Giancarlo Stanton homered twice to become the first player to hit 59 in a season since 2001, and the Miami Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 7-1. Sept. 28 — NBA owners passed rules designed to prevent healthy players from sitting out games, and teams from losing games on purpose to improve their draft position. Under the new draft lottery rules, the teams with the three worst records will all have 14 percent odds to land the No. 1 pick when the changes are implemented with the 2019 draft. The team with the worst record previously had 25 percent odds to win the lottery and could fall to the No. 4 spot in the draft. Now that team call tumble all the way to fifth. The Board of Governors voted to allow Commissioner Adam Silver to fine teams who violate the league’s new guidelines about resting players. Teams can’t sit healthy players for high-profile, nationally televised games, and fines for violating that can be for at least $100,000. Sept. 29 — Clay Millican broke the Top Fuel time record in the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park. Millican had a 3.631second pass at 330.39 mph at the home race for Stringer Performance during the second round of qualifying. He’s chasing his fifth No. 1 qualifier of the season and 10th of his career. Sept. 30 — Russia and China were among nine countries suspended from weightlifting for a year in an attempt to combat an epidemic of doping. The decision by the International Weightlifting Federation followed the retesting of anti-doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Also suspended were Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Turkey, and Ukraine. Sept. 30 — Jordan Chunn ran for 191 yards and a touchdown, Troy’s defense forced four turnovers and the surging Trojans upset No. 25 LSU 24-21. Troy became the first team from outside the Southeastern Conference to win in LSU’s Death Valley since UAB in 2000. Sept. 30 — Detroit’s Andrew Romine became the fifth player in baseball history to play all nine positions in one game, helping the Tigers to a 3-2 win over Minnesota. Romine, a 31-year-old utilityman, played catcher for the first time in his career and got one out on the mound. He was the first player to accomplish the feat since Shane Halter for Detroit against Minnesota on Oct. 1, 2000. Sept. 30 — Seventh-ranked Georgia hit a big milestone as a program, notching win No. 800 with a 41-0 rout of Tennessee. Sept. 30 — Notre Dame reached 900 wins with a 52-17 win over Miami (Ohio). Oct. 1 — Frankie Dettori won an unprecedented fifth Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe as Enable capped a memorable season. Enable, the 10-11 favorite, led for most of Europe’s richest horse race to claim her fifth consecutive victory after wins in the Epsom Oaks, the Irish Oaks, the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Yorkshire Oaks. The filly won by 2 1/2 lengths over Cloth Of Stars. Oct. 1 — Houston’s Deshaun Watson became the first rookie to throw four touchdowns and run for another one since Fran Tarkenton in 1961 and tied an NFL record for most TDs by a rookie quarterback in Houston’s 57-14 victory over Tennessee. Oct. 1 — The Americans won the Presidents Cup for the seventh straight time, and this one was no contest. A dominant U.S. team needed only one point from the 12 singles matches on the last day. Kevin Chappell halved the opening match with Marc Leishman, and victory was assured when Daniel Berger went 3 up with three to play against Si Woo Kim and won the match. Oct. 3 — Didi Gregorius’ three-run homer tied the score after the Minnesota Twins chased Luis Severino in the first inning, rookie Aaron Judge hit a two-run shot in his postseason debut and the New York Yankees were rescued by their brilliant bullpen during an 8-4 victory in the AL wild-card game. Oct. 4 — Sylvia Fowles had 17 points and broke her own WNBA Finals record by grabbing 20 rebounds to lead the Minnesota Lynx to their fourth championship in seven years with an 85-76 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in Game 5. Oct. 4 — Relief pitcher Archie Bradley hit a stunning two-run triple in the seventh inning, one of four three-baggers by Arizona that sent the Diamondbacks past the Colorado Rockies 11-8 in the National League wild-card game. The 11 runs were the most scored by a team in a Wild Card game and the 19 runs set the record for two teams. Oct. 5 — Jose Altuve hit three home runs in an unprecedented show of power for the 5-foot-6 major league batting champion as the Houston Astros roughed up Chris Sale and the Boston Red Sox 8-2 in Game 1 of the AL Division Series. Oct. 5 — Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin, Wayne Simmonds and Brandon Saad each recorded a hat trick in his team’s season opener. It’s the first time four different players scored at least three goals in his season opener in 100 years, since the NHL’s first two games back in 1917. Ovechkin’s hat trick that led the Washington Capitals to a 5-4 shootout win at Ottawa was the 18th of his career. Reigning MVP McDavid picked up his second already at age 20. The hat tricks by McDavid and Simmonds on Oct. 4 were the first, respectively, in franchise history for the Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers in a season opener. Oct. 6 — Yan Gomes singled home Austin Jackson from second base with none out in the 13th inning as the Cleveland Indians rallied from five runs down to stun the New York Yankees 9-8 and snatch a 2-0 lead in the AL Division Series. Oct. 6 — Justin Turner drove in five runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-5 in Game 1 of their NL Division Series. Turner’s five RBIs tied a team postseason record. Oct. 6 — The Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Dallas Stars 2-1 in franchise’s inaugural season opener. James Neal scored both of Vegas’ goals in the third

period and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 45 of 46 shots for the win. Oct. 7 — Jarvion Franklin ran in from the 12 to give Western Michigan a 71-68 victory over Buffalo in a record-tying seven overtimes with a record-breaking 139 total points. This was the fourth game in FBS history to go into seven overtimes. The Syracuse-Pittsburgh game (Nov. 26, 2016) had a total of 137 points. Oct. 7 — Backup Khalil Tate rushed for 327 yards, an FBS record for a quarterback, and accounted for five touchdowns to help Arizona hold off Colorado 45-42. Oct. 7 — No. 21 Florida has set an NCAA record by scoring in its 366th consecutive game. The Gators got on the scoreboard with Eddy Pineiro’s 25-yard field goal in the second quarter of a 17-16 loss to LSU. That broke the previous mark set by Michigan (1984-2014). Oct. 7 — Alex Ovechkin scored four goals to become the first player in 100 years with back-to-back hat tricks to open a season, and the Washington Capitals beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1. Oct. 8 — Masahiro Tanaka’s seven-inning gem was saved when Aaron Judge prevented a home run in right field, and Greg Bird homered to give the New York Yankees a 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 3, extending their AL Division Series. Oct. 8 — Aaron Rodgers threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams with 11 seconds remaining, lifting Green Bay over the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in another thriller nine months after the Packers’ divisional playoff victory on the same field. Oct. 9 — Justin Verlander outpitched Chris Sale in a relief role reversal of aces, and the Houston Astros advanced to their first AL Championship Series, rallying past the Boston Red Sox 5-4 in Game 4 of the AL Division Series. Oct. 9 — Cody Bellinger homered, drove in two runs and flipped over a dugout railing to steal an out for a dominant Yu Darvish, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 to finish a three-game sweep in their NL Division Series. Oct. 10 — The United States was eliminated from World Cup contention with a shocking 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad scored a pair of first-half goals, and the United States will miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986. Oct. 10 — The Vegas Golden Knights won their home opener and remained unbeaten three games into their inaugural season with a 5-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Oct. 11 — Didi Gregorius homered twice off Corey Kluber as the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-2 in Game 5 to complete their comeback from a 2-0 deficit in the Division Series and dethrone the AL champions. Oct. 12 — A federal appeals court cleared the way for the NFL to impose a six-game suspension on Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott over domestic violence allegations, siding with the league in the latest high-profile fight over its ability to punish players for off-field behavior. In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in New Orleans granted the league’s emergency request to set aside an injunction and ordered a district court in Texas to dismiss Elliott’s case. The NFL announced that the suspension was effective immediately, though further appeals were possible and the Cowboys are not playing this weekend. Oct. 12 — Addison Russell drove in four runs, Wade Davis earned a seven-out save, and the Chicago Cubs reached their third NL Championship Series in a row by edging the Washington Nationals 9-8 in a thriller of a Game 5. Oct. 13 — Gustav Nyquist scored twice and Detroit had four goals in the third period to beat Vegas 6-3, handing the NHL’s newest franchise its first loss. Vegas is the first NHL expansion team to win its first three games. Oct. 15 — Justin Turner hit a three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 4-1 win over the Chicago Cubs and a 2-0 lead in the NL Championship Series. Oct. 15 — New England quarterback Tom Brady passed for 257 yards with two touchdowns in the Patriots’ 24-17 win at the New York Jets. Brady, who has 187 regular-season victories, surpassed Hall of Famer Brett Favre (186) and Peyton Manning (186) for the most regularseason victories by a starting quarterback in NFL history. Oct. 16 — Louisville’s Athletic Association officially fired coach Rick Pitino nearly three weeks after the school acknowledged that its men’s basketball program is being investigated as part of a federal corruption probe. The association, which oversees Louisville’s sports programs and is composed of trustees, faculty, students and administrators, voted unanimously to oust the longtime Cardinals coach following a board meeting. Oct. 16 — Nikita Kucherov scored twice to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. Kucherov became the fourth NHL player in 30 years to score in each of his team’s first six games, joining Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh, 1992), Steve Yzerman (Detroit, 1988) and Keith Tkachuk (St. Louis, 2008). Oct. 17 — Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott was granted another legal reprieve in the running back’s fight to avoid a six-game suspension over domestic violence allegations. U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty granted a temporary restraining order blocking the league’s suspension, clearing Elliott to play Oct. 22 at San Francisco. Crotty’s ruling came five days after a federal appeals court overturned a Texas court’s injunction that had kept Elliott on the field. Oct. 17 — Boston’s Gordon Hayward broke his left ankle just five minutes into the season, a grisly injury that overshadowed Kyrie Irving’s return to Cleveland and the Cavaliers’ 102-99 win over the shocked Celtics. Oct. 18 — The Chicago Bulls have suspended forward Bobby Portis for the first eight games for injuring teammate Nikola Mirotic during a fight at practice. Mirotic suffered multiple broken bones in his face as well as a concussion on Oct. 17. Oct. 19 — Kike Hernandez homered three times and drove in seven runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers romped past the Chicago Cubs 11-1 behind Clayton Kershaw to reach the World Series for the first time since 1988. Oct. 20 — Oakland running back Marshawn Lynch was suspended one game by the NFL for shoving a game official during the Raiders’ victory over Kansas City on Dec. 19. Oct. 21 — Charlie Morton and Lance McCullers combined on a three-hitter, Jose Altuve and Evan Gattis homered and the Houston Astros reached the World Series, blanking the New York Yankees 4-0 in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series. Oct. 22 — Sebastian Giovinco scored on a brilliant free kick in the 84th minute,

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SPORTS STATS 2017 SPORTS AT A GLANCE giving Toronto FC a 2-2 tie at Atlanta and the most points ever in a Major League Soccer season. The tie gave Supporters’ Shield winner Toronto (20-5-9) 69 points on the season, beating the previous MLS mark of 68 set by the Los Angeles Galaxy in 1998. Oct. 22 — The Phoenix Suns fired coach Earl Watson just three games in to the NBA season. Oct. 22 — Chicago’s rookie safety Eddie Jackson became the first NFL player to score multiple defensive touchdowns of 75 yards or more in a game. Jackson ran back a fumble recovery 75 yards on the game’s opening possession and returned an interception of Cam Newton 76 yards for a score early in the second quarter to give Chicago a 14-0 lead. The Bears won 17-3. Oct. 22 — The Los Angeles Chargers played a dominant defensive game in the first home victory of their relocation season, 21-0 over the Denver Broncos. Joey Bosa had two of the Chargers’ five sacks while they sent the Broncos to the franchise’s first shutout defeat since a 24-0 loss to the Los Angeles Raiders on Nov. 22, 1992. Oct. 23 — Iditarod officials identified four-time champion Dallas Seavey as the musher whose dogs tested positive for a banned substance. Seavey, winner of four titles in the nearly 1,000-mile race before his 30th birthday, withdrew from next year’s race in protest after the Iditarod Trail Committee identified him as the musher. Oct. 24 — The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 for their fourth straight victory. The Golden Knights (7-1-0) became the first team in NHL history to win seven of the first eight games in its inaugural season. Vegas is the 10th expansion team to put together a four-game winning streak. Oct. 25 — George Springer hit a two-run drive in the 11th inning and the Houston Astros won a thrilling home run derby at Dodger Stadium, beating Los Angeles 7-6 to tie the World Series at one game apiece. The teams combined for a Series record eight homers. Houston trailed 3-2 in the ninth when Marwin Gonzalez hit a leadoff home run against closer Kenley Jansen. Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa hit back-toback homers in the Houston 10th for a 5-3 lead. The Dodgers came back, tying it on Yasiel Puig’s home run and an RBI single with two outs by Enrique Hernandez. Springer’s shot off Brandon McCarthy gave Houston just enough margin to withstand Charlie Culberson’s homer in the bottom of the 11th. Oct. 26 — Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov became the seventh set of teammates in NHL history to start the season with point streaks of at least 11 games, leading surging Tampa Bay past Detroit 3-2. Kucherov got his 12th goal in the first period, and setup Stamkos’ power-play goal from the low left circle that put Tampa Bay (9-1-1) up 2-1 at 6:22 of the third. The duo also tied Martin St. Louis’ team season-opening point streak set in 2009-10. Oct. 27 — Oscar Dansk earned his third win in three career games and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Colorado Avalanche 7-0 to extend the best start by an NHL expansion team. The Golden Knights improved to 8-1-0. They’ve won five straight, matching the longest winning streak by a team in its inaugural season, joining the New York Rangers (1926-27) and Edmonton Oilers (1979-80). Oct. 28 — Major League Baseball suspended Houston Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel the first five games of next season for making a racist gesture at Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish during the World Series. Gurriel pulled on the corners of his eyes after homering off Darvish during Houston’s 5-3 win in Game 3 on Oct. 27. He also used a derogatory Spanish term in reference to Darvish. Oct. 28 — Cody Bellinger lined a go-ahead double in the ninth inning, four Dodgers pitchers combined on a two-hitter and Los Angeles rallied past the Houston Astros 6-2 to tie the World Series at 2-all. Bellinger was 0 for 13 with eight strikeouts when he doubled and scored in the seventh to tie it at 1. Bellinger’s tiebreaking hit in the ninth came off closer Ken Giles. Joe Musgrove relieved Giles and allowed Austin Barnes’ sacrifice fly and Joc Pederson’s three-run homer, his second home run of the Series. Dodgers starter Alex Wood pitched no-hit ball until George Springer homered with two outs in the sixth. Wood, Brandon Morrow, winner Tony Watson and Kenley Jansen combined on the two-hitter. Jansen allowed Alex Bregman’s two-out homer in the ninth, the 14th home run of the Series. Oct. 28 — J.T. Barrett capped the greatest game of his career with a 16-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Baugh with 1:48 left in the fourth quarter and No. 6 ohio State rallied from 11 down in the final five minutes to hand No. 2 Penn State its first loss, 39-38. Barrett was 33 for 39 for 328 yards and four touchdown passes, three in the fourth quarter after the Buckeyes were down 35-20. Penn State led 38-27 with 5:42 left. Barrett hooked up with Johnnie Dixon for two touchdowns in the fourth and then got the ball back down five with 3:20 left. The Buckeyes quickly marched down the field and then Barrett found his big tight end Baugh open for the lead. Oct. 28 — Tyler Toffoli scored off a faceoff — his second goal of the game — just before time expired in overtime to give the Los Angeles Kings a 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves for the Kings, who are off to their best start in franchise history at 9-1-1. With 0.9 seconds left and the puck dropped for a faceoff, Anze Kopitar won the draw back to Toffoli, who unloaded a shot that beat Rask to the far post from the top of the right circle. The clock had been reset by the referees from 0.4 to 0.9 before the faceoff. Oct. 29 — Caroline Wozniacki won the biggest title of her career when she beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4 in the WTA Finals. The 27-year-old Wozniacki’s best previous result at the WTA Finals was reaching the final in 2010. Williams was the only player at this year’s WTA Finals who didn’t win a title during the season. Oct. 29 — Justin Rose mounted the third-largest final-round comeback in PGA TOUR history to win the WGC-HSBC Champions. Rose started the final round eight shots behind Dustin Johnson, who tied a record for losing the largest lead in the final round. The historic 5-under 67 round by Rose was keyed by a back-nine 31 that featured five birdies, including back-to-back birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 that gave him a lead he would never lose. Johnson, the No. 1 player in the world, was six shots clear of the field but didn’t make a single birdie on a wild, wind-blown day to finish with a 77. Rose finished at 14-under 274 and Johnson tied for second with Henrik Stenson (70) and Brooks Koepka (71), two strokes back. Oct. 29 — Lewis Hamilton won his fourth career Formula One season championship with a ninth-place finish at the Mexican Grand Prix in a race won by Red Bull’s Max

Verstappen. Hamilton had to overcome first-lap chaos when his Mercedes was bumped by title rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari. Vettel finished fourth but had to win or finish second to push the title chase to the last two races in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Hamilton’s championship makes him the most decorated British driver in F1 history, passing Sir Jackie Stewart. He is one of only five drivers in F1 history with four or more. Oct. 29 — Russell Wilson hit Jimmy Graham for an 18-yard touchdown with 21 seconds left, his second TD catch of the fourth quarter, to lead Seattle over Houston 41-38. Wilson finished 26 of 41 for a career-high 452 yards and four TDs. Deshaun Watson was nearly the equal of Wilson, throwing for 402 yards and four touchdowns and three interceptions. Watson has thrown three touchdown passes in four consecutive games and is the first rookie in NFL history to accomplish the feat. He has 16 touchdown passes in his past four games, the most by a rookie in any four-game span. Oct. 29 — Houston’s Alex Bregman hit a game-ending single off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the 10th inning and the Astros outslugged the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 to take a 3-2 World Series lead. Houston fell behind 7-4 on Cody Bellinger’s three-run homer in the top of the fifth, but bounced back to tie it 7-7 on Jose Altuve’s three-run homer in the bottom of the inning. The Dodgers took an 8-7 lead in the seventh inning. The Astros, behind homers by George Springer and Carlos Correa, took and 11-8 lead in the bottom of the seventh. Corey Seager of the Dodgers doubled in a run in the eighth and Houston’s Brian McCann homered in the bottom of the inning for 12-9 lead. Yasiel Puig’s two-run homer in the ninth off Chris Devenski was the record 22nd of the Series, and Chris Taylor tied the score with a two-out, two-strike RBI single. Jensen hit McCann with a pitch with two outs, George Springer walked and Derek Fisher pinch ran for Bregman at second. Bregman won the 5-hour, 17-minute marathon with a liner into left field. Oct. 30 — A federal judge cleared the way for the NFL to enforce a six-game suspension of Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott over domestic violence allegations. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla denied the request for a preliminary injunction from players’ union attorneys working for Elliott. Failla put the ruling on hold for 24 hours to give Elliott’s legal team time to appeal, a likely move. It was the second time a federal ruling has overturned a reprieve that kept Elliott on the field. Oct. 31 — Chris Taylor hit a tying double off Justin Verlander during a two-run rally in the sixth inning and Corey Seager had a go-ahead sacrifice fly to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Houston Astros 3-1 to even the World Series at three games apiece. Nov. 1 — The Houston Astros, led by George Springer, beat Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7 for first World Series title in franchise history. Springer, the MVP of the series, led off the evening with a double against Yu Darvish, and soon it was 2-0. Springer hit his fifth homer — tying the mark set by Reggie Jackson and matched by Chase Utley — when he connected for a record fourth game in a row, making it 5-0 in the second inning. Nov. 3 — LeBron James poured in 57 points — the second-highest total of his career — to help the Cleveland Cavaliers end a four-game losing skid by beating the Washington Wizards 130-122. James did it efficiently, making 23 of 34 field-goal tries and all nine free throws, while adding 11 rebounds and seven assists. Nov. 4 — Gun Runner won the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic by 2 1/4 lengths, sending rival Arrogate to a third straight career-ending defeat at Del Mar. The 4-year-old colt ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:01.29 and paid $6.80, $4.40 and $3.20. Collected finished second and West Coast third. Arrogate finished in a dead-heat for fifth with Gunnevera. The biggest upset of the day belonged to Bar of Gold in the $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint. She paid $135.40 to win at 60-1 odds, edging 18-1 Ami’s Mesa in a photo finish. It was the second longest-priced winner in Breeders’ Cup history. Nov. 4 — Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield passed for a school-record 598 yards and five TDs, helping the No. 8 Sooners outlast No. 11 Oklahoma State 62-52 in the highest-scoring game in the history of the rivalry. Mason Rudolph of Oklahoma State passed for 448 yards and five TDs. Nov. 4 — Quarterback Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for a career-high 265 yards and Army ended Air Force’s 306-game scoring streak with a 21-0 win. Air Force had the fifth-longest scoring streak all-time in the FBS before Army’s swarming defense ended it. The last time the Falcons were held scoreless was by Mississippi in the 1992 Liberty Bowl. It was the first time the Falcons were shut out at home since Nov. 1, 1980, against Boston College. Nov. 4 — Northwestern’s 31-24 overtime victory over Nebraska made them the first Football Bowl Subdivision program in history to play three consecutive games that have gone to overtime and win them all. The Wildcats came to Lincoln off a 39-31 triple-overtime win at Michigan State. The week before the Wildcats beat Iowa 17-10 in overtime at home. Nov. 5 — Shalane Flanagan dethroned Mary Keitany to become the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon since 1977, potentially ending her decorated career with her first major marathon victory. Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya won the men’s race, holding off countryman Wilson Kipsang by 3 seconds for his first major victory. Nov. 5 — Jared Goff of the Los Angeles Rams and Carson Wentz of the Philadelphia Eagles became the first quarterbacks selected Nos. 1 and 2 in the same draft to each throw four or more touchdown passes on the same day. Goff, the top pick in 2016, had four touchdown throws in Los Angeles’ 51-17 rout of the New York Giants. Wentz, No. 2 that year, also threw four TD passes in Philadelphia’s 51-23 victory over Denver. Nov. 5 — New Orleans defeated Tampa Bay 30-10 to improve to 6-2 with its sixth straight victory. The Saints became the third team since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970 to win their next six games after an 0-2 start. Nov. 9 — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City denied Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott’s bid to keep a six-game suspension over alleged domestic violence on hold. The court ruled that Elliott didn’t meet the standards to continue blocking the suspension but ordered a hearing as soon as it could be scheduled. The denial of the injunction makes him ineligible in Sunday’s game at Atlanta. Nov. 10 — The Japanese women’s team set a world record in the team pursuit in the first speedskating World Cup of the season, edging the eight-year-old mark of Canada. Nana and Miho Takagi and Ayano

Sato pulled out a big last lap to clock 2:55.77, and improve the 2009 mark of Canada by .02 seconds. The Japanese also beat the Dutch world and Olympic champions in Heereveen, Ntherlands. Nov. 11 — Lamar Jackson accounted for four touchdowns and 342 yards while establishing an NCAA milestone in beating Virginia 38-21. Jackson, the Heisman Trophy winner, became the first player in NCAA history to post two seasons with 1,000 yards rushing and 3,000 yards passing. Nov. 11 — Nevada’s Dameon Baber claimed a spot in the NCAA record book with three touchdowns off returns in a 59-14 rout of San Jose State. Baber returned a blocked punt six yards to give Nevada a 14-7 lead near the end of the first quarter. He intercepted a pass in the end zone and returned it 100 yards for a score in the second quarter and added another pick six, from 39 yards, in the third quarter. Nov. 11 — Jacques Perra threw for three touchdowns, Stephen Wagner added three more on the ground, and St. Thomas (Minn.) beat St. Olaf 97-0 to become the second Division III team this season to score 90-plus in a shutout victory. St. Thomas picked off four passes, had two return touchdowns and held the Oles to 71 total yards. The Tommies gained 667 yards. Nov. 11 — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points to help Milwaukee overcome Lonzo Ball’s triple-double in the Bucks’ 98-90 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Ball became the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double when he had 17 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds. At 20 years and 15 days, he bested LeBron James by four days to become the youngest to accomplish the feat. Nov. 11 — Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski became the first men’s Division I basketball coach to win 1,000 games at one school, when his top-ranked Blue Devils beat Utah Valley 99-69. Krzyzewski, who in 2015 became the first men’s coach to win 1,000 games, improved to 1,073-330. He coached six years at his alma mater, Army before taking over at Duke. He is 1,000-271 in the 38 seasons with the Blue Devils. Nov. 12 — The United States won its 18th Fed Cup title and the first since 2000 with a 3-2 win against Belarus. CoCo Vandeweghe and Shelby Rogers beat Aryna Sabalenka and Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3, 7-6 (3) in the deciding doubles of the 2017 final. Sasnovich had kept Belarus alive after beating U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens 4-6, 6-1, 8-6 to leave the final even at 2-2. Vandeweghe earlier beat Sabalenka 7-6 (5), 6-1 to give the U.S. a 2-1 lead. Nov. 12 — Brittany Force became the NHRA’s first female Top Fuel season champion since Shirley Muldowney in 1982 in the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals. Force, the daughter of 16-time Funny Car champion John Force, wrapped up the title in the quarterfinals and went on to win the event at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. Force beat Shawn Langdon with a 3.668-second pass at 330.07 mph in the final for her fourth victory of the year. Nov. 13 — Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger were voted unanimously as baseball’s Rookies of the Year after their recordsetting home run binges lifted the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers into the postseason. Nov. 14 — Grayson Allen — Duke’s lone senior — scored a career-high 37 points, freshman Trevon Duval had 17 points and 10 assists, and the top-ranked Blue Devils beat No. 2 Michigan State 88-81 in the Champions Classic in Chicago. Nov. 14 — Kyrie Irving returned to the lineup and scored 25 points while wearing a mask, and the Boston Celtics beat the Brooklyn Nets 109-102 for their 13th straight victory. The Celtics remained unbeaten since an 0-2 start. Irving missed one game with a minor facial fracture after he was hit by teammate Aron Baynes on Nov. 10. The Celtics’ streak made them the first team in NBA history to win 13 straight games after starting the year 0-2 or worse. Nov. 15 — Dewayne Dedmon scored a career-high 20 points and had 14 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks rode a dominant first half to the most lopsided win in franchise history, 126-80 over the Sacramento Kings. Atlanta’s 46-point margin of victory was two points better than its previous best, a 141-97 win over Detroit on Feb. 7, 1994. Nov. 15 — Corey Kluber of the Cleveland Indians and Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals were repeat winners of the Cy Young awards. Nov. 16 — James Harden had 23 of his 48 points in the second quarter while Houston scored 90 points in the first half en route to a 146-116 win over Phoenix. The Rockets made 61 percent of their first-half shots to get the second-most points in a first half in NBA history. Houston came up 14 points shy of the franchise record for points in a game. Ryan Anderson added 24 points for the Rockets, who have won seven of eight. Nov. 16 — Houston Astros compact dynamo Jose Altuve won the American League MVP award, towering over New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge by a wide margin. Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton won the NL MVP award, barely edging Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds. Nov. 18 — Kyrie Irving scored 30 points, Jaylen Brown added a career-high 27 and the Boston Celtics won their 15th straight game with a 110-99 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. At 15-2, Boston matched the best start in franchise history through 17 games. The winning streak is the club’s fifth-longest, four behind the 2008-09 team that set the franchise mark. Nov. 19 — Martin Truex Jr. clinched his first NASCAR Cup championship by winning the season finale at HomesteadMiami Speedway. Truex edged fellow Toyota driver Kyle Busch in the 400-mile finale. Kevin Harvick (fourth) and Brad Keselowski (seventh) were the only other championship contenders in the field. Truex won for the eighth time this year, continuing the most successful season of his journeyman career. Nov. 19 — New Orleans extended its winning streak to eight games with an unlikely comeback, erasing a 15-point deficit inside the final six minutes of regulation and kicking a short field goal in overtime to defeat Washington 34-31. With their victory, the Saints became the first team since the 1970 merger to win eight consecutive games immediately following an 0-2 start. Nov. 19 — With a 33-8 win over Oakland, the New England Patriots improved to 8-2 and clinched their 17th straight season without a losing record, tying the 1957-73 Cleveland Browns for the second-longest streak in NFL history. Dallas has the record with 21 straight from 1965-85. Stephen Gostkowski set a New England record with a 62-yard field goal at the end of the first half. Nov. 19 — Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov

outlasted Belgium’s David Goffin 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to win the ATP World Tour Finals title. Nov. 22 — Houston’s Luc Mbah a Moute logged an amazing plus-57 through his 26 minutes on the floor of a 125-95 win over the Denver Nuggets. During the 30-point rout Mbah a Moute set an NBA record for plus-minus for an individual game. It topped Joe Smith’s plus-52 in a 2001 Timberwolves win over the Bulls, a 53-point game that also produced a plus-50 for Wally Szczerbiak and plus-48 for Terrell Brandon. Mbah a Moute’s traditional stat line was 13 points on 5-of-5 shooting with four rebounds, four steals and an assist. Nov. 23 — Philip Rivers threw for 434 yards and three touchdowns in his first Thanksgiving game in the NFL and the Los Angeles Chargers beat the fading Dallas Cowboys 28-6. Nov. 25 — Nate Mason scored 20 points to lead No. 14 Minnesota to an 89-84 victory over No. 25 Alabama, which finished the game with just three players, in the championship game of the Barclays Center Classic. Jordan Murphy added 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for Minnesota. Collin Sexton had 40 points for the Crimson Tide. The game was marred by a near brawl involving Minnesota’s Dupree McBrayer and Alabama’s Dazon Ingram in front of the Crimson Tide bench 6:21 into the second half. During the fracas, Alabama players Donta Hall, Alex Reese, Daniel Giddens, Avery Johnson Jr. and Herbert Jones came off the bench and were ejected. Ingram, who had four fouls at the time of the scuffle, fouled out. Nearly 3 minutes after the McBrayerIngram incident, Alabama lost John Petty to a leg injury and were down to three players. Leading by 14 with 10:17 left, the Golden Gophers saw their lead trimmed to 83-80 on Sexton’s layup. Alabama had a chance to cut the deficit to one — or tie — after Sexton grabbed a rebound of a miss by Coffey, but he missed a mid-range right side jumper. Nov. 26 — France won the Davis Cup for the first time in 16 years after beating Belgium 3-2. Lucas Pouille’s lopsided 6-3, 6-1, 6-0 win over Steve Darcis in the second reverse singles gave France its 10th Davis Cup title, ending a run of three losses in finals. France joined Britain in third place on the list for the most Davis Cup titles, behind the United States (32) and Australia (28). France had won its last title in 2001, and lost in finals in 2002, 2010 and 2014. Nov. 26 — Julio Jones finished with 12 receptions for 253 yards and two touchdowns in Atlanta’s 34-20 victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was Jones’ third career game with at least 250 yards receiving;no other player has more than one. Nov. 26 — Tom Brady tossed four touchdown passes and the New England Patriots pushed through a mistake-filled game to beat the Miami Dolphins 35-17. It was Brady’s 28th career game with four or more touchdown passes — ranking third all-time. His 26 touchdowns passes are the most ever in a season after turning 40 years old. New England clinched its 17th consecutive season with a winning record. It’s the longest such streak since 1970, topping the previous record held by the 1970-1985 Dallas Cowboys and 19831998 San Francisco 49ers. Nov. 26 — Lirim Hajrullahu kicked a 32-yard field goal with 49 seconds left and the Toronto Argonauts stunned the Calgary Stampeders 27-24 in the Canadian Football League’s snowy 105th Grey Cup. Nov. 27 — Oakland receiver Michael Crabtree and Denver cornerback Aqib Talib were suspended two games — later reduced to one game — for fighting during the recent game between the two teams. The suspensions came a day after the two players brawled during Oakland’s 21-14 victory. The fight was a continuation of a dispute that started last season when Talib ripped Crabtree’s chain off during the season finale. Crabtree missed the first game between the teams this year but didn’t wait long to seek revenge. Nov. 29 — Ben Simmons had 31 points and a career-high 18 rebounds and overcame a Hack-a-Shaq strategy, leading Philadelphia past Washington 118-113. Joel Embiid had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Dario Saric added 24 points to help the Sixers win. Washington nearly overcame a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter and spent the final five minutes intentionally fouling Simmons, who entered the game shooting 56.6 percent. He went 15 for 29, but made six of his last eight. His 24 attempts in the fourth were an NBA record for a quarter and the 29 overall set a league mark for rookies. Dec. 2 — McKenzie Milton of UCF threw for 494 yards and five TDs to help the 12th-ranked Knights win the American Athletic Conference title with a 62-55 victory over No. 16 Memphis in double overtime. The 117 points between UCF and Memphis set a record for an FBS conference championship game. Dec. 3 — Keenan Allen had 10 catches for 105 yards and a touchdown in his third straight big game for surging Los Angeles Chargers, which beat the winless Cleveland Browns 19-10. Allen became the first player in league history to have 10 or more catches, 100 or more yards and one or more touchdowns in three consecutive games. Dec. 3 — Tom Brady continued his career-long dominance of the Buffalo Bills completing 21 of 30 for 258 yards and an interception in New England’s 23-3 victory. He improved to 27-3 against Buffalo and broke Brett Favre’s record for wins by a quarterback against any one opponent. The Patriots also reached double digits in victories for the 15th consecutive season, the second-longest streak in league history. San Francisco had at least 10 wins in 16 straight seasons from 1983-1998. Dec. 5 — The International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian Olympic committee and IOC member Alexander Zhukov, and also banned Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vilaty Mutko from the Olympics for life. Mutko was the sports minister in 2014 and is the head of the organizing committee of soccer’s next World Cup. Russian athletes would be allowed to compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics as neutrals despite orchestrated doping at the 2014 Sochi Games. Those Russians invited would compete as an “Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR)” without their national flag or anthem. The IOC also imposed a fine of $15 million on the Russian Olympic committee to pay for investigations into the case and toward future anti-doping work. Dec. 5 — Bradley Beal scored a career-high 51 points, and Washington bounced back from a demoralizing loss the night before to beat Portland 106-92. Beal made 21 field goals, also a career high, and the Wizards led by as many as 23 points. He hit five 3-pointers. The Wizards were coming off a 116-69 Dec. 4 loss at Utah, the second-largest losing margin in franchise history. Dec. 6 — UCLA canceled a men’s basketball

game with Montana because of wildfires in the area. Several wildfires were burning throughout Southern California, including near the UCLA campus. Dec. 6 — Roger Goodell signed a five-year contract extension to remain commissioner of the NFL through 2024. Dec. 7 — Baker Mayfield was named The Associated Press college football Player of the Year, becoming the fourth Oklahoma quarterback to win the award since it was established in 1998. Mayfield received 51 first-place votes from the 56 AP college football poll voters and easily outpointed Stanford running back Bryce Love, who came in second. Dec. 7 — Larry Nassar, a former elite sports doctor whose sexual assault cases that rocked Michigan State University and the group that trains U.S. Olympic gymnasts, was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for possessing thousands of images of child pornography. Nassar, 54, will also be sentenced for 10 state counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in January. In November, he pled guilty to using his hands to molest girls at his campus office, his home and at a gymnastics club near Lansing, Michigan. Dec. 9 — Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield has won the Heisman Trophy, completing a climb from walk-on to one of the most accomplished players in the history of college football. The brash Sooners star became the sixth Oklahoma player to the win Heisman in one of the most lopsided votes ever. Stanford running back Bryce Love was the runner-up, making it five second-place finishes for the Cardinal since 2009. Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson, last year’s Heisman winner, was third, the best finish by a returning winner since Tim Tebow of Florida in 2008. Mayfield received 732 first-place votes and 2,398 points. Love had 75 first-place votes and 1,300 points and Jackson received 47 and 793. Mayfield received 86 percent of the total points available, the third-highest percentage in Heisman history. Dec. 9 — Jozy Altidore opened the scoring in the 67th minute and Toronto FC beat the Seattle Sounders 2-0 in the MLS Cup to become the first Canadian champion in league history. Toronto avenged a penaltyshootout loss to Seattle last year in the title game. Victor Vasquez made it 2-0 in injury time from close range after substitute Armando Cooper’s shot rebounded off the post. Dec. 9 — Russia’s Denis Yuskov broke the men’s 1,500-meter world record in the World Cup speedskating event at the Utah Olympic Oval. Yuskov finished in 1 minute, 41.02 seconds to break the mark of 1:41.04 set by American Shani Davis on the same ice in a World Cup race on Dec 11, 2009. Dutchman Koen Verweij was second in 1:41.63, and countryman Thomas Krol was third. Dec. 10 — Japan’s Nao Kodaira and Canada’s Ted-Jan Bloemen set world records on the final day of the World Cup speedskating event at the Utah Olympic Oval. Kodaira finished in 1 minute, 12.09 seconds in the women’s 1000 meters, her third race victory in three days. American Brittany Bowe held the previous record of 1:12.18. Bloemen finished in 6:01.86 in the men’s 5,000. Dutch skater Sven Kramer held the previous record of 6:03.32. Dec. 10 — Jack Morris was elected to the Hall by its Modern Era committee along with former Detroit Tigers teammate Alan Trammell. The big-game pitcher and star shortstop were picked by 16 voters who considered 10 candidates whose biggest contributions came from 1970-87. Morris got 14 votes and Trammell drew 13, one more than the minimum needed. Dec. 10 — Sam Werner scored in the second overtime to lead Stanford to its third straight NCAA men’s soccer title with a 1-0 win over Indiana. The goal was blasted over goalkeeper Trey Muse’s head from close range and sneaked just under the crossbar after an Indiana turnover in the box. The Cardinal (19-2-2), who came into the NCAA tournament as the No. 9 seed, became the second men’s soccer program to win three straight titles. Virginia, under former U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena, won four in a row from 1991 to 1994. The Cardinal women won the national championship last weekend, making Stanford the first school to win both soccer titles in the same season. Dec. 10 — Ben Roethlisberger completed 44 of a franchise-record 66 passes for 506 yards and two touchdowns, becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to top 500 yards passing three times and leading Pittsburgh past Baltimore 39-38. Antonio Brown caught 11 passes for 213 yards for Pittsburgh. The Steelers blew an early 14-point lead and found themselves trailing by 11 going into the fourth before exploding for 19 points over the final 15 minutes, the last three coming on Chris Bowell’s 46-yard field goal with 42 seconds left. It was the fourth gamewinning field goal in the final minute for Boswell over the past five games. Dec. 10 — For the eighth time since the 1970 merger, quarterbacks taken No. 1 and No. 2 overall in the same draft squared off with the Rams’ Jared Goff — the first pick overall in 2016 — and Philadelphia’s Carson Wentz — who went No. 2. Wentz threw for 291 yards and four touchdowns before leaving with a knee injury in the Eagles’ 43-35 win. Goff threw for 199 yards and two touchdowns for Los Angeles. Dec. 15 — Mount Union won its 13th Division III football national championship with a 12-0 victory over defending champion Mary Hardin-Baylor. The Purple Raiders (15-0) limited Mary Hardin-Baylor to 144 yards. The Crusaders (14-1) had not trailed all season and had their 29-game winning streak snapped. Dec. 15 — Bobby Portis scored a careerhigh 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls won their fifth consecutive game, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 115-109. The Bulls became the first team in the NBA to win five straight games after a double digit losing streak. Dec. 17 — Marcel Hirscher dominated both runs to take a record fifth straight win in the Alta Badia giant slalom at La Villa, Italy. Hirscher finished 1.70 seconds ahead of Norwegian rival Henrik Kristoffersen and broke tie with Italian great Alberto Tomba — the pair had four GS wins each on the challenging Gran Risa course. Dec. 17 — Eli Manning passed for a season-high 434 yards with three touchdowns in the New York Giants 34-29 loss to Philadelphia. The Eagles became the first team since 1991 to block a field goal, extra point and punt in the same game. Dec. 17 — Buffalo’s LeSean McCoy scored twice and became the 30th player to reach 10,000 yards rushing to help the Bills beat the Miami Dolphins 24-16. Dec. 18 — Scott Frost was named Associated Press Coach of the Year after leading UCF to a perfect season, including a conference title and a bid to the Peach Bowl. Frost received 21 first-place votes and 100 points from 57 top 25 poll voters who submitted ballots. Kirby Smart of

Georgia finished second with seven first-place votes and 55 points. Dec. 19 — Freshman Trae Young had 26 points and tied an NCAA Division I record with 22 assists as No. 17 Oklahoma rolled past Northwestern State 105-68. Young’s 22 assists tied the major college record set by Tony Fairley of Charleston Southern vs. Armstrong in 1987 and matched by Southern’s Avery Johnson against Texas Southern in 1988 and Syracuse’s Sherman Douglas against Providence in 1989. Young also broke the former Big 12 record of 18, set by Oklahoma’s Michael Johnson vs. North Texas in 1997, and matched by Oklahoma State’s Doug Gottlieb vs. Florida Atlantic in 1998. Dec. 19 — North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell became the third women’s Division I coach to register her 1,000th career victory after the Tar Heels beat Grambling State 79-63. Hatchell, who battled leukemia and was declared cancer-free in 2014, is 1,000-376 during a 43-year career that started with 11 seasons at Francis Marion. Hatchell, 728-286 with the Tar Heels, is the only coach to win national titles at the AIAW, NAIA and NCAA levels, capturing the first two of those at Francis Marion in 1982 and 1986. Dec. 19 — Geno Auriemma won his 1000th game as top-ranked UConn beat Oklahoma 88-64 in the Hall of Fame women’s Holiday Showcase. Auriemma became the fourth women’s coach to reach the 1,000-win mark, joining Pat Summitt, Tara VanDerveer and Sylvia Hatchell, who earned her milestone victory earlier in the day. He became the fastest to achieve the mark, doing so in his 1,135th game. The Hall of Fame coach has gone 500-36 since winning his 500th game in 2003. That includes winning 100 of his last 101 contests. Dec. 20 — Fletcher Magee scored 27 points to help Wofford stun No. 5 North Carolina 79-75, snapping the reigning national champion’s 23-game home winning streak. The Terriers (8-4) led the entire second half and by as many as 14 points before holding off UNC’s late-game run for a huge road win and their first win over a ranked team in 23 games. Dec. 20 — Rookie forward Kyle Kuzma set career highs with 38 points and seven 3-pointers, and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame 51 points from James Harden to end the Houston Rockets’ 14-game winning streak with a 122-116 victory. It was Houston’s first loss since Nov. 14. The game was tied before Los Angeles scored 10 straight points — while Houston missed seven shots in a row — to go up 110-100 with about four minutes left. Dec. 21 — The Seattle Seahawks were fined $100,000 for not properly following concussion protocol with quarterback Russell Wilson during a game in November. Dec. 23 — Darnell Woolfolk scored on a 1-yard run with 18 seconds left, Kell Walker converted a go-ahead 2-point run and Army added a last-play defensive touchdown for a 42-35 victory over San Diego State the Armed Forces Bowl. Rashaad Penny ran for 221 yards, his fifth straight game of at least 200 yards, and scored four touchdowns. Penny’s scores came on runs of 81, on his first carry, 32, 49 and 4 yards. Penny finished the season with 2,248 yards and became the fourth FBS player ever to run for 200 yards in five straight games. Dec. 26 — Stanford swimmer Katie Ledecky was named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. She earned five golds and a silver at this year’s world championships in Budapest, Hungary. Ledecky received 351 points, edging out Serena Williams with 343. Williams won the Australian Open for her Open erarecord 23rd Grand Slam tennis title. Dec. 27 — Jose Altuve, one of only a handful of players who endured the Astros’ painful rebuilding process en route to this year’s championship, which gave hope to a city ravaged by Hurricane Harvey, was chosen as The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year. Jose Altuve led the Houston Astros to their first World Series title with a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in November and picked up the franchise’s first MVP trophy in more than two decades a couple of weeks later.

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SPORTS STATS LABEL TAG WITH 20 POINT DUMMY TEXT. 2017 Sports At A Glance Jan. 1 — Top-ranked Connecticut extended its winning streak to 88 games, routing UCF 84-48. The Huskies set the NCAA record with 31 straight road wins and extended their winning streak against unranked opponents to 100 games. Jan. 1 — Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston passed for 202 yards and a touchdown in the Buccaneers’ 17-16 win over Carolina. Winston, who passed for 4,042 yards as a rookie last season, finished this season with 4,090 passing yards to become the first player in NFL history to have at least 4,000 passing yards in each of his first two seasons. Jan. 1 — New Orleans’ Drew Brees passed for 350 yards and two touchdowns in a 38-32 loss to Atlanta. Brees finished with 5,208 passing yards this season. Brees, who also had 5,000 passing yards in 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013, has five of the NFL’s nine all-time 5,000-yard passing seasons and is the only quarterback in NFL history to pass for at least 5,000 yards in multiple seasons. His 471 completions this season also set an NFL record. Jan. 2 — Matt Boermeester kicked a 46-yard field goal as time expired, and No. 9 Southern California rallied from a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter for a 52-49 victory over No. 5 Penn State, in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl ever played. Freshman Sam Darnold passed for 453 yards and five touchdowns while leading the Trojans to their ninth consecutive win. Jan. 2 — — Jimmy Butler scored 52 points and outdueled Kemba Walker, carrying the Chicago Bulls in a 118-111 victory over the Charlotte Hornets. Jan. 2 — Sven Baertschi scored twice and Ryan Miller made 24 saves for his 350th career victory to lead Vancouver to a 3-2 win over Colorado. The 36-year-old Miller joined John Vanbiesbrouck (374) and Tom Barrasso (369) as the only U.S.-born goalies to reach 350 wins. Jan. 5 — The Columbus Blue Jackets lost 5-0 to the Washington Capitals ending their winning streak at 16 games, one shy of the NHL record. Columbus lost for the first time since Nov. 26 and fell short of the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins’ record of 17 consecutive wins. Jan. 7 — Khalid Abdullah ran for 101 yards and two touchdowns as James Madison won its second Football Championship Subdivision title, beating Youngstown State 28-14. Jan. 8 — James Harden had 40 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for his 10th triple-double of the season, and the Houston Rockets beat the Toronto Raptors 129-122. Harden, who also had 10 turnovers, is the first player with a 40-point triple-double and 10 or more turnovers since turnovers became official in the 1977-78 season. Jan. 9 — Baylor was ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll for the first time. The Bears (15-0) made a meteoric rise in the poll, going from a team that didn’t receive a vote in the preseason poll to one that received 55 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Jan. 9 — Clemson dethroned the defending champions and became the first team to beat Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty in a national title game, taking down the top-ranked Crimson Tide 35-31 in the College Football Playoff. Deshaun Watson found Hunter Renfrow for a 2-yard touchdown pass with a second remaining to give the Tigers their first national championship since 1981. Jan. 10 — FIFA expanded the World Cup to 48 teams, adding 16 extra nations to the 2026 tournament. President Gianni Infantino’s favored plan — for 16 threeteam groups with the top two advancing to a round of 32 — was unanimously approved by the FIFA Council. Jan. 10 — Nathan Adrian broke out of a shooting slump with a career-high 22 points, and No. 10 West Virginia beat No. 1 Baylor 89-68 in the Bears’ first game as the top-ranked team in program history. Jan. 11 — Alex Ovechkin scored 35 seconds into the Washington Capitals’ 5-2 victory over Sidney Crosby and the rival Pittsburgh Penguins to become the 84th player in NHL history to record 1,000 career points. Jan. 12 — Team chairman Dean Spanos announced the San Diego Chargers would move to Los Angeles. Jan. 12 — The Los Angeles Rams hired Sean McVay, the youngest head coach in NFL history. McVay, who turns 31 years old on Jan. 24, McVay spent the past three seasons as the Washington Redskins’ offensive coordinator. Lane Kiffin was 31 years old when the Oakland Raiders hired him in January 2007. Jan. 12 — Fresh off his victory on Maui, Justin Thomas became the seventh player to join the “59 Club” on the PGA Tour when he made a 15-foot eagle putt on his last hole at the Sony Open for an 11-under 59. Jan. 13 — Justin Thomas finished with another eagle and put himself in the PGA Tour record book again in the Sony Open. A day after his 59, Thomas made an 8-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole at Waialae for a 6-under 64 to set the 36-hole scoring record on the PGA Tour. Thomas was at 17-under 123 and had a five-shot lead over Gary Woodland. The previous mark was 124, last matched at the 2015 BMW Championship by Jason Day at Conway Farm. Jan. 13 — Kelsey Plum scored 36 points to become the 12th player in women’s basketball history to top 3,000 career points and Washington routed Arizona 90-73. Jan. 14 — Top-ranked UConn broke its own NCAA record with its 91st consecutive victory, scoring the first 21 points and romping past SMU 88-48. Coach Geno Auriemma and the Huskies (16-0) broke the record of 90 that his team first accomplished more than six years ago. The four-time defending national champion Huskies hadn’t lost a game since falling in overtime at sixth-ranked Stanford on Nov. 17, 2014. Jan. 14 — New England’s Dion Lewis became the first in NFL postseason history to have a rushing TD, receiving TD and kickoff return for a TD in a single game, which led to the Patriots’ 34-16 division playoff win over Houston. The Patriots advanced to their sixth straight conference championship game, the longest streak since the 1970 merger. Jan. 15 — Justin Thomas won the Sony Open with the lowest 72-hole score in PGA Tour history. Thomas capped off his wonderful week at Waialae that began with a 59 with his second straight victory. He closed with a 5-under 65 to set the record at 253. Tommy Armour III shot 254 at the 2003 Texas Open. Jan. 15 — Aaron Rodgers threw a 36-yard pass to a toe-dragging Jared Cook on the sideline, and Mason Crosby kicked a 51-yard field goal on the next play as time expired, sending Green Bay to the NFC championship game. It was the Packers’ eighth straight win while thwarting a Dallas rally in a 34-31 victory in the divisional round of the playoffs. The throw

on the run from Rodgers to Cook came on third-and-20 with 12 seconds left, and after the Cowboys tied the score twice in the final 4:08 after trailing by 18 in the first half and by 15 to start the fourth quarter. Jan. 15 — Chris Boswell set an NFL postseason record with six field goals to account for all of Pittsburgh’s points in an 18-16 win at Kansas City. Jan. 16 — Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams earned his 800th career victory when Isaiah Hicks scored 20 points to lead North Carolina to an 85-68 win over Syracuse. Jan. 18 — Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Jan. 19 — Six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic was beaten 7-6 (8), 5-7, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 by wild-card entry Denis Istomin in a second-round match. No. 2-ranked Djokovic had won five of the six previous titles at Melbourne Park and six overall, and had never dropped a set in six previous meetings against Istomin. Jan. 20 — Henrik Sedin had a goal for his 1,000th career point before Luca Sbisa scored the winner early in the third period to help Vancouver beat Florida 2-1. Sedin converted a pass from twin brother Daniel on a 2-on-1 rush for his 11th goal of the season. Henrik Sedin became the 85th player in NHL history to reach 1,000 points. Jan. 21 — Adam Hadwin shot a 13-under 59 in the CareerBuilder Challenge for the ninth sub-60 round in PGA Tour history and the second in 10 days. Hadwin matched David Duval’s tournament record, a 13-under 59 on the Arnold Palmer Private Course in the final round of his 1999 victory. Jan. 20 — Karen Chen claimed gold in the women’s U.S. figure skating competition, outperforming several Olympians. The 17-year-old scored a 141.40 in the free skate for a 214.22 total and was followed on the podium by silver medalist Ashley Wagner and bronze medalist Mariah Bell. Chen won the short program the night before, setting a new U.S. record of 72.82. Chen ended the Gold-Wagner dynasty, marking the first time since 2011 that neither Gracie Gold nor Ashley Wagner won the U.S. title. Jan. 22 — Atlanta’s Matt Ryan threw for 392 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score in another MVP-worthy showing, leading the Falcons to a 44-21 blowout of Green Bay in the NFC championship game. Jan. 22 — New England’s Tom Brady passed for a Patriots playoff-record 384 yards, going 32 of 42 with three TD tosses to lead the Patriots to the Super Bowl with a 36-17 win over Pittsburgh. Jan. 22 — Nathan Chen followed a record-setting short program with a near-flawless free skate featuring five quadruple jumps to become the youngest men’s U.S. figure skating champion in more than five decades. The 17-year-old Chen, performing to “The Polovtsian Dances,” became the first skater in the world to land five clean quads in competition. The result was a free skate score of 212.08 — more than the composite of several rivals — and finished with a 318.47 total that put him well clear of the competition. Jan. 22 — Chantel Osahor grabbed a Pac-12-record 30 rebounds and scored 20 points to lead Washington to an 87-44 rout of Washington State. Jan. 22 — The Dallas Mavericks gave the Los Angeles Lakers the worst loss in their history, 122-73. The 49-point defeat just edged Los Angeles’ two previous worst losses at 48 points, most recently 123-75 at Utah on March 28, 2016. Jan. 23 — Kim Clijsters and Andy Roddick were elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Also in the Class of 2017 announced by the hall: wheelchair tennis player Monique Kalkman-van den Bosch, tennis historian and journalist Steve Flink, and the late instructor Vic Braden. Jan. 25 — Usain Bolt was stripped of one of his nine Olympic gold medals in a doping case involving teammate Nesta Carter. The IOC says Carter tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a banned stimulant, in re-analysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Carter and Bolt were teammates on the winning 4x100meter relay team. Jan. 26 — Venus Williams beat CoCo Vandeweghe 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-3 to reach the final of the Australian Open, becoming the oldest finalist at the tournament in the Open era. Serena Williams, a six-time Australian Open winner, overwhelmed Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-2, 6-1 in the second women’s semifinal to set up an all-Williams final. Roger Federer beat fourth-seeded Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3 in an all-Swiss night match to became the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam final since Ken Rosewall made the 1974 U.S. Open final at 39. Jan. 28 — James Harden scored 51 points and had 13 rebounds and 13 assists to lead the Houston Rockets to a 123-118 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. Jan. 28 — Serena Williams won her record 23rd Grand Slam singles title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over her older sister Venus in the Australian Open final. With her record seventh Australian title, the 35-year-old Williams moved ahead of Steffi Graf for the most major titles in the Open era. Margaret Court won 24 majors, but collected 13 of those before the Open era. Jan. 28 — Arrogate beat California Chrome again, winning the $12 million Pegasus World Cup in his rival’s last race before retirement. Arrogate went to the front near the head of the stretch, and jockey Mike Smith delivered what became an easy win as California Chrome was eased. Arrogate’s last three wins are the Travers, the Breeders’ Cup Classic and now the inaugural running of the world’s richest race. Jan. 29 — Roger Federer won his 18th major title by beating Rafael Nadal 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 to capture the Australian Open. Federer was down a break early in the pivotal fifth set, but came back to break the Spaniard in the sixth game to level the set at 3-all. Federer captured his first major title since Wimbledon in 2012 and his fifth Australian Open trophy. Jan. 29 — Japan teenager Ippei Watanabe set a world record in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2 minutes, 06.67 seconds. The 19-year-old university student improved on the previous mark of 2:07.01 set by compatriot Akihiro Yamaguchi in 2012. Watanabe set the record time in the final of the 200 breaststroke at the Tokyo metropolitan championships. Jan. 29 — Wayne Simmonds scored the tiebreaking goal with 4:58 to play, and fill-in coach Wayne Gretzky led the Metropolitan Division to a 4-3 victory over the Pacific Division in the final match of the revamped NHL All-Star Game. The Pacific beat the Blackhawk-dominated Central Division team 10-3 in the first 20-minute semifinal, and the Metropolitan team beat the Atlantic 10-6 in the second. Jan. 29 — Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton

completed 10 of 12 passes for 100 yards and engineered two scoring drives to help lead the AFC to a 20-13 victory over the NFC in the Pro Bowl. Jan. 30 — The St. Louis Cardinals were stripped of their top two picks in this year’s amateur draft and ordered to give them to Houston along with $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros’ email system and scouting database. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred also banned former St. Louis executive Christopher Correa for life as he ruled the Cardinals must give the 56th and 75th draft choices in June to Houston. Feb. 1 — Napheesa Collier had 25 points and 10 rebounds to help UConn to its 96th consecutive win with a 97-69 victory over Temple. Katie Lou Samuelson added 24 points for the Huskies (21-0), who won their 35th consecutive game on the road, surpassing their own NCAA record. UConn’s last road loss came against Stanford on Nov. 17, 2014. That was also the last time the Huskies lost any game. Feb. 2 — Patrick Marleau scored his 500th career goal, Chris Tierney tallied twice and surging San Jose defeated Vancouver 4-1. Marleau became the 45th player in NHL history to reach 500 goals, scoring in the first period on a power play. Feb. 3 — Tara VanDerveer became the second NCAA women’s coach to reach 1,000 career victories, when No. 8 Stanford beat USC 58-42 in front of the home crowd at Maples Pavilion. VanDerveer joined the late Pat Summitt, with 1,098 wins to her name, as the only other women’s coach in the elite club. Feb. 3 — Boston’s Isaiah Thomas scored 17 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers 113-107. Boston and Los Angeles began the night with 3,252 wins, tied for the most in NBA history. Before their loss, the Lakers held at least a share of the league’s victories mark since 2001. Feb. 4 — Running backs LaDainian Tomlinson, Terrell Davis and quarterback Kurt Warner were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Joining them were sackmaster Jason Taylor and Morten Andersen, the NFL’s all-time leading scorer, who joined Jan Stenerud as the second pure placekicker to make the hall. Seahawks safety Kenny Easley made it as a senior nominee, while Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones got in as a contributor. Feb. 4 — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was voted The Associated Press 2016 NFL’s Most Valuable Player and top offensive player. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took Offensive Rookie of the Year and Jason Garrett was selected Coach of the Year by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. Feb. 4 — Six of the top 10 men’s basketball teams in The Associated Press rankings lost. Top-ranked Gonzaga beat Santa Clara 90-55, extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 24 games, but the most of the top ten didn’t fair as well. Second-ranked Baylor lost in Waco to Kansas State 56-54, No. 3 Kansas fell at home to Iowa State 92-89 in overtime, No. 5 Arizona lost at No. 13 Oregon 85-58, No. 7 West Virginia went down at home to Oklahoma State 82-75, No. 8 Kentucky was routed by No. 24 Florida 88-66 in Gainesville and No. 9 Virginia lost on the road to Syracuse 66-62. Feb. 4 — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim got his 1,000th victory with a 66-62 win over No. 9 Virginia. Officially it was victory No. 899 after the NCAA stripped him of 101 victories as part of punishment handed down in 2015 after a multiyear investigation of the school’s athletic department. Feb. 4 — Gregg Popovich became the winningest coach with a single franchise in NBA history, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 121-97 victory over the Denver Nuggets. Popovich earned his 1,128th victory to pass former Utah coach Jerry Sloan for the mark. Feb. 4 — VCU got a bit of a miracle at St. Bonaventure with the help of the home fans. A last-second loss for the Rams turned into an 83-77 overtime win, thanks to a technical foul the Bonnies were assessed with .5 seconds left when fans and players prematurely rushed the court after Matt Mobley’s 3-pointer. VCU guard JeQuan Lewis hit the technical free throw to tie the game at 66-66. VCU still had the ball, and Jonathan Williams got off a heave at the buzzer that hit the rim, sending the game to OT. Feb. 5 — Tom Brady led one of the greatest comebacks in sports, let alone Super Bowl history, lifting New England from a 25-point hole to the Patriots’ fifth NFL championship in the game’s first overtime finish. The Patriots scored 19 points in the final quarter, including a pair of 2-point conversions, then marched relentlessly to James White’s 2-yard touchdown run in overtime beating the Atlanta Falcons 34-28. Feb. 5 — Leon Draisaitl scored the only goal in a shootout, and the Edmonton Oilers stopped a three-game slide with a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. Feb. 7 — Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia broke the women’s 2,000-meter world record at the indoor Miting International de Catalunya in Spain. Dibaba’s time of 5:23.75 bettered the world indoor best set by Gabriela Szabo in 1998 by almost seven seconds. The 2,000 indoors isn’t considered an official world record event by the IAAF. At 25 years old, Dibaba owns the outdoor world record in 1,500, as well as the indoor record for 1,500, mile, 2,000, 3,000, two miles and 5,000. Feb. 10 — A crowd stampeded at a football stadium in Angola, leaving at least 17 people dead and dozens injured. Spectators had gone to the stadium to watch the inaugural game between home team Santa Rita de Cassia and Recreativo de Libolo in the national Girabola competition. Feb. 10 — Golden State’s Draymond Green became the first player in NBA history to record a triple-double with fewer than 10 points scored. Green had 12 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals and 4 points in a 122-107 win over Memphis. Green also had five blocks, which made him the first player to record 10 steals and five blocks in a game since steals and blocks were first tracked in 1973-74. Feb. 11 — Ajee’ Wilson broke the American record in the women’s indoor 800 meters to win the event for the fourth straight year in the NYRR Millrose Games. Wilson finished in 1 minute, 58.27 seconds at The Armory to break the mark of 1:58.71 set by Nicole Teter in 2002. Feb. 11 — Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves for his 400th career win as the New York Rangers beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2. Lundqvist became the 12th goaltender in NHL history with at least 400 wins and the first European-born goaltender to reach the mark. Feb. 13 — Gabby Williams scored a career-high 26 points and Napheesa Collier added 18 to help top-ranked UConn to its 100th consecutive victory with a 66-55 win over No. 6 South Carolina. Feb. 13 — Nikola Jokic got his second career triple-double and the Denver

Nuggets tied an NBA record with 24 3-pointers while shocking the Golden State Warriors 132-110. The Nuggets tied the 3-point mark set by the Rockets in December of 2016 against New Orleans. Feb. 13 — Kawhi Leonard scored 32 points and San Antonio clinched its NBA-record 20th consecutive winning season with a 110-106 victory over Indiana. The Spurs improved to 42-13 in the season following Tim Duncan’s retirement. They have had a winning record every season since 199798, when Duncan was a rookie, and broke a tie with the Utah Jazz, who had 19 straight winning seasons from 19852004. Feb. 16 — Lowell Bailey upset the pre-race favorites in the men’s individual competition to become the first American biathlete to win gold at the world championships. Bailey hit all 20 targets and finished the 20-kilometer race in 48 minutes, 7.4 seconds to edge Ondrej Moravec of the Czech Republic, who also shot cleanly, by 3.3 seconds. Feb. 16 — Anaheim Ducks forward Antoine Vermette was suspended for 10 games without pay for slashing a linesman in apparent anger after a faceoff. Vermette slapped his stick against the back of linesman Shandor Alphonso’s legs after losing a faceoff to Minnesota captain Mikko Koivu during the third period of the Ducks’ 1-0 win on Feb. 14. Feb. 16 — Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby fed Chris Kunitz for a first-period goal against Winnipeg to become the 86th player in NHL history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. He added an assist on Phil Kessel’s game-tying goal in the third and then put the winner past Connor Hellebuyck with 21 seconds left in overtime as the Penguins escaped with a 4-3 victory. Feb. 17 — Laura Dahlmeier led Germany to the world title in the women’s 4x6kilometer relay, becoming the first biathlete to win a medal in 10 straight world championship races. It was Dahlmeier’s fifth medal of the championships, after winning gold in mixed relay, pursuit and individual competition, and silver in sprint. She also won five medals at last year’s worlds in Oslo. The previous best mark of nine straight podiums was held by retired Norwegian great Tora Berger. Feb. 18 — Mikaela Shiffrin won a third straight slalom title at the ski world championships to retain her unbeaten record at major events. Shiffrin’s gold medal streak in slalom includes each world championships she entered, starting in 2013, and the 2014 Olympics. Her victory gave the United States its first world title at St. Moritz in the 10th of 11 medal events. Shiffrin also took silver in giant slalom on Feb. 16. Feb. 18 — Indiana’s Glenn Robinson III beat Derrick Jones Jr. of Phoenix in the All-Star slam dunk contest. Houston’s Eric Gordon has dethroned Golden State’s Klay Thompson as the NBA All-Star 3-point contest champion. Gordon’s score of 21 in a final-round tie-breaker defeated Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving, the 2013 winner who had 18. The pair had each finished with a score of 20 in the final round, and needed to shoot 25 more balls to decide it. Feb. 19 — Laura Dahlmeier won the world title in the women’s 12.5-kilometer mass start, becoming the first athlete to win five gold medals at a single biathlon world championship. Dahlmeier also won the mixed relay, pursuit, individual competition and women’s relay, and was runner-up in the sprint. Feb. 19 — Anthony Davis had an All-Star Game for the record books, scoring 52 points, 10 more than Wilt Chamberlain’s All-Star record that had stood for 55 years, and the Western Conference beat the Eastern Conference 192-182 — the highest-scoring game in league history. Feb. 19 — Florida State baseball coach Mike Martin joined Augie Garrido as the only coaches to win 1,900 games when the Seminoles posted an 11-3 victory over VCU. Feb. 22 — Mississippi announced a self-imposed a one-year postseason football ban for the 2017 season. The Rebels received an amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA that included eight new football violations, including six that were Level I. Feb. 23 — Italian skier Federico Pellegrino became the first man from outside Scandinavia to win a Nordic championship in freestyle cross-country sprint in the world championships held in Lahti, Finland. Pellegrino won by 0.15 seconds from Sergei Ustyugov of Russia. Feb. 25 — Marit Bjoergen won a record 15th world championship gold medal in cross-country skiing with victory in a 15-kilometer skiathlon. The 36-year-old Norwegian has more gold medals than any other cross-country skier — male or female — in world championship history, having previously shared the record of 14 gold medals with retired Russian Yelena Valbe. Bjoergen is a specialist at the skiathlon, which is raced half in classic style and half in freestyle. Feb. 25 — Kelsey Plum surpassed Jackie Stiles to become the NCAA’s all-time scoring leader with a career-best 57 points in the final regular season game of her career, leading No. 11 Washington past Utah 84-77. Plum hit 19 of 28 shots and was 13 of 16 at the free-throw line, surpassing Stiles’ mark of 3,393 points midway through the fourth quarter. Feb. 25 — Eric Mika had 29 points and 11 rebounds to help BYU upset No. 1 Gonzaga 79-71, ending the Bulldogs’ bid to go undefeated in the final game of the regular season. Feb. 25 — Deontay Wilder returned from right arm injuries to stop Gerald Washington in the fifth round and retain his WBC heavyweight title. Wilder (38-0, 37 knockouts) seemed mostly cautious with his right in the early rounds but staggered Washington (18-1-1) and sent him down with a hard one followed by a left in the fifth at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala. Feb. 26 — Kurt Busch won the Daytona 500, surviving a crash-filled season opener to win the race for the first time in 16 tries. Busch passed Kyle Larson on the final lap before cruising to the victory. March 3 — Kyrie Irving scored 43 points, LeBron James had 38 and the Cleveland Cavaliers set the NBA regular-season record with 25 3-pointers as they turned back Atlanta’s late rally to beat the Hawks 135-130. Cleveland made 25 of 46 3s to break a record that stood less than three months. Houston made 24 treys in a 122-100 win over New Orleans on Dec. 16. March 4 — Marit Bjoergen won world championship gold in the 30-kilometer classical race as Norway completed a sweep of women’s cross-country ski titles at the world championships in Lahti, Finland. Bjoergen took her record 18th career gold medal — and fourth of the championships — by 1.9 seconds from Heidi Weng. No country had won all women’s cross-country gold medals at a single world championships since Russia in 1997, when there were only five events, rather than the current six. March 4 — Marcel Hirscher stunned the

world of Alpine skiing by locking up an unprecedented sixth straight overall World Cup title. Two days after his 28th birthday, the Austrian won a giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, to give him an insurmountable lead of more than 500 points over his main rivals. He became the first male skier to win six overall titles. On the women’s side, only fellow Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell has won six championships, but her titles in the 1970s were interrupted. March 4 — Gwen Berry broke the world indoor record in the women’s weight throw and Noah Lyles toppled the 300-meter mark in the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico. Berry’s toss of 25.60 meters (84 feet) on her final throw, bettered the previous best of 25.56 set by American Brittany Riley in 2007. Lyles finished in 31.87 seconds, edging Paul Dedewo by 0.05 seconds. Lyles, 19, clipped one-hundredth of a second off fellow American Wallace Spearmon’s 2006 best of 31.88. March 4 — Napheesa Collier scored 24 points and top-ranked UConn routed Tulsa 105-57 in the American Athletic Conference quarterfinals. The Huskies (30-0) extend their NCAA-record winning streak to 105 games and reach the 30-victory mark for the 12th consecutive season. March 5 — Overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher wrapped up his fourth slalom title with Austrian compatriot Michael Matt winning the penultimate race of the season. Hirscher’s fourth-place finish, 0.80 seconds behind Matt, was enough for the 28-year-old to take his third globe of the weekend. Hirscher matched Alberto Tomba’s tally of four titles. Only Ingemar Stenmark, with eight, has more. March 6 — Katie Lou Samuelson had a record-breaking night, scoring 40 points and hitting all 10 of her 3-point shots to lead top-ranked UConn to a 100-44 rout of South Florida in the American Athletic Conference Tournament final. Samuelson set a Division I record for consecutive 3-pointers in a game and also set the tournament’s single-game scoring mark. March 6 — Joe Thornton of the San Jose Sharks became the 13th NHL player to reach 1,000 assists when he assisted on Joe Pavelski’s empty-net goal with 26 seconds left in the third period of a 3-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets. March 7 — Dirk Nowitzki scored the 20 points he needed for 30,000 in his career in barely more than a quarter, and the Dallas Mavericks posted an easy home win over the Los Angeles Lakers, a 122-111 victory. The 7-foot German became the sixth NBA player and the first international one to reach the milestone. March 7 — The Portland Trail Blazers overcame Russell Westbrook’s career-high 58 points to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 126-121. Allen Crabbe scored 23 points, Damian Lillard had 22 and C.J. McCollum 21 for the Trail Blazers, who shot 55 percent from the field. Westbrook shot 21 of 39, but just 6 of 15 in the fourth quarter. March 9 — The second-ranked and top-seeded Villanova Wildcats shot 63.2 percent (36 for 57) and committed just five turnovers in a record-setting 108-67 victory over St. John’s in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals. Villanova shot better than 50 percent from 3-point range (15 for 29), made 21 of 25 free throws and only committed seven personal fouls, none in the first half. It was the most points and largest margin of victory in the tournament for Villanova and it was the worst loss the Red Storm ever endured. March 11 — Jayson Tatum took over in the final three minutes, making key plays on both ends of the floor, and Duke became the first team to win the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament with four wins in four days by rallying past Notre Dame for a 75-69 win. Duke won its first ACC Tournament championship since 2011 and its 20th overall, most in league history. March 12 — Joakim Jensen finally ended what is believed to be the longest game in hockey history, scoring in the eighth overtime in the Norwegian League playoffs. More than 8 1/2 hours after the game started — and after 217 minutes, 14 seconds of play — Jensen broke through to give the Storhamar Dragons a 2-1 victory over the Sparta Warriors. The game ended at 2:32 a.m. In the longest game in NHL, the Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Maroons 1-0 in a 1936 Stanley Cup final game on Mud Bruneteau’s goal at 16:30 of the sixth overtime. Storhamar leads the best-of-seven quarterfinal series 3-2. March 12 — Mitch Seavey won his third Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the fastest and oldest champion at age 57. Seavey also set a time record of 8 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds. That shaved several hours off the record his son set last year: 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes and 16 seconds. He outran his son, defending champion Dallas Seavey, and lapped the oldest musher record that he set at age 53 in 2013. He previously won the race in 2013 and 2004. March 16 — Northwestern’s first-ever NCAA Tournament game was victorious, 68-66 over Vanderbilt, after Commodores guard Matthew Fisher-Davis inexplicably grabbed Wildcats guard Bryant McIntosh on purpose, sending McIntosh to the free throw line for the go-ahead points with 15 seconds left. March 17 — Mikaela Shiffrin wrapped her first overall World Cup alpine skiing title without stepping into the starting gate. Shiffrin secured the season-long title after Ilka Stuhec and her coach said the Slovenian skier wouldn’t compete in the upcoming slalom. The 22-year-old Shiffrin joined an elite group in Phil Mahre (1981-83), Tamara McKinney (1983), Bode Miller (2005, 2008) and Lindsey Vonn (2008-10, 2012) as the only American overall World Cup champions. March 18 — Kalani Brown scored 21 points and top-seeded Baylor overwhelmed much smaller Texas Southern 119-30, the most lopsided women’s NCAA Tournament game ever. The 89-point margin broke the previous record 74-point win by Tennessee over North Carolina A&T (111-37) in 1994. Baylor’s 119 points were the most ever scored in regulation of a women’s NCAA Tournament game, surpassing the previous record 116. Ohio State scored 116 in a 1998 game, and UConn matched twice. March 20 — FIFA banned for life the referee who awarded a disputed penalty for South Africa against Senegal in a World Cup qualifying match. Referee Joseph Lamptey of Ghana gave a penalty for a non-existent handball against Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly. Replays clearly showed the ball struck Koulibaly’s knee and then dropped to the ground. Lamptey was found guilty of breaching the rule relating to “unlawfully influencing match results,” FIFA said. His assistant was cleared. FIFA declined to give more details of why its disciplinary panel imposed a life ban on the referee. March 22 — Marcus Stroman took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, Ian Kinsler slugged a two-run homer and the

United States routed Puerto Rico 8-0 to win its first World Baseball Classic in four tries. March 22 — Russell Westbrook recorded his 35th triple-double of the season with 18 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists and the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised to a 122-97 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. Westbrook, who made all six of his field-goal attempts and all six of his free throws, became the first NBA player to have a triple-double without missing a shot attempt or free throw. March 24 — Devin Booker scored 70 points, becoming the sixth different player in NBA history to reach that total, but the Boston Celtics got 34 points from Isaiah Thomas and outlasted the Phoenix Suns 130-120. Booker joined Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, David Thompson, David Robinson and Elgin Baylor as the NBA’s 70-point scorers. Just 20 years old, Booker scored 51 after halftime. March 24 — Chris Chiozza went end to end and made a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Florida an 84-83 victory against Wisconsin in an East Regional semifinal. Nigel Hayes had given the Badgers a 2-point lead with 4 seconds left on two free throws. With no timeouts left, the Gators inbounded to Chiozza and the point guard stopped at the top of the arc and dropped in the winner. Wisconsin’s Zak Showalter forced overtime with a leaning 3-pointer off one leg with 2.1 seconds left in regulation as the Badgers wiped out a 12-point deficit in the last 4:15. It was first overtime game of this NCAA Tournament. March 24 — De’Aaron Fox scored a career-high 39 points as the Kentucky Wildcats beat UCLA 86-75 in a showdown between two of college basketball’s goliaths for a spot in the South Regional final. Fox’s 39 points was the best by a freshman in tournament history. March 25 — Arrogate showed his class again in the $10 million Dubai World Cup as he came from last place to win by an impressive 2 1/4 lengths. In the second richest horse race in the world, Arrogate produced a powerful finish under jockey Mike Smith to beat Gun Runner and Neolithic in a 1-2-3 finish for the United States. It was the third Dubai World Cup for trainer Bob Baffert after Silver Charm (1998), and Captain Steve (2001). March 25 — Joakim Noah of the New York Knicks was been suspended for twenty games for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program by testing positive for Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator LGD-4033. March 25 — Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points and Johnathan Williams added 19 to send top-seeded Gonzaga to its first Final Four with an 83-59 victory over No. 11 seed Xavier in the West Regional final. March 25 — Tyler Dorsey hit six 3s and poured in 27 points, Dillon Brooks added 17 and Oregon ended Kansas’ romp through the NCAA Tournament with a 74-60 victory in the final of the Midwest Regional. March 26 — Sindarius Thornwell scored 26 points and South Carolina earned its first trip to the Final Four with a 77-70 victory over SEC rival Florida in the East Regional final. March 26 — Luke Maye hit a jumper with 0.3 seconds left, and top-seeded North Carolina held off Kentucky 75-73 to earn the Tar Heels’ second straight trip to the Final Four and 20th all-time in a showdown of college basketball’s elite in the South Regional. March 26 — Morgan William scored a career-high 41 points, and No. 2 seed Mississippi State upset top-seeded Baylor 94-85 in overtime to reach the Final Four for the first time. March 26 — Alanna Smith’s jumper with 23 seconds left capped Stanford’s rally from a 16-point deficit in the second half, Erica McCall blocked a last-second shot and the Cardinal edged top-seeded Notre Dame 76-75 to reach its first Final Four since 2014. March 27 — NFL owners approved the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas 31-1 at the league meetings. Miami was the lone dissenter. March 27 — UConn’s women’s basketball team advanced to its 10th consecutive Final Four with a 90-52 victory against Oregon. The victory and moved coach Geno Auriemma past Pat Summitt for the most NCAA Tournament victories at 113. March 27 — Top-seeded South Carolina held off No. 3 seed Florida State 71-64 in a furious finish to win the women’s Stockton Regional. South Carolina’s win put both basketball teams in the Final Four. March 29 — New York Mets reliever Jeurys Familia was given a 15-game suspension under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy. The suspension stemmed from Familia’s Oct. 31 arrest on a simple assault charge. Prosecutors later dropped charges. March 29 — Russell Westbrook had 57 points — the most in a triple-double in NBA history — 13 rebounds and 11 assists to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 114-106 overtime win over the Orlando Magic. March 30 — Kansas guard Frank Mason III and Gonzaga coach Mark Few won The Associated Press player and coach of the year awards. Mason led Kansas to its 13th consecutive Big 12 title. The senior point guard averaged 20.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists while shooting 48.7 percent from 3-point range. Few led Gonzaga to a 36-1 record. March 30 — UConn’s Geno Auriemma was named The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball Coach of the Year for the ninth time. all. Kelsey Plum of Washington was the women’s college basketball Player of the Year. Plum broke the career NCAA scoring mark, topping Jackie Stiles’ 16-year old record in style with a 57-point effort on her senior night. She finished her career with 3,498 points. March 30 — TCU beat Georgia Tech 88-56 to win the NIT championship under first-year coach Jamie Dixon. Guard Kenrich Williams scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and was named the most outstanding player. The Horned Frogs (25-15) doubled its win total over last years 12-21 season. March 31 — Evgenia Medvedeva retained her world figure skating title, breaking her own world record total score with 233.41 points. The 17-year-old Russian became the first woman to win back-to-back titles since 2001. March 31 — Allisha Gray scored 18 points, A’ja Wilson had a double-double and South Carolina advanced to its first national championship game after beating Stanford 62-53 in the women’s national semifinals. March 31 — UConn’s record 111-game winning streak came to a startling end when Mississippi State pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in women’s basketball history, shocking the Huskies 66-64 on Morgan William’s overtime buzzer beater in the national semifinals. April 1 — Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu produced a remarkable comeback to win the men’s world figure skating title. Hanyu was fifth after the short program but produced a

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SPORTS STATS LABEL TAG WITH 20 POINT DUMMY TEXT. world-record free skate score of 223.30 points, landing four quadruple jumps, for a total of 321.59 points. April 1 — Two-time NBA scoring champion Tracy McGrady, Kansas coach Bill Self, former Chicago Bulls executive Jerry Krause and former UConn star Rebecca Lobo were part of this year’s Basketball Hall of Fame class. Others in the class included Notre Dame women’s coach Muffet McGraw, Texas high school coach Robert Hughes, former NCAA executive Tom Jernstedt, Harlem Globetrotters player, owner and CEO Mannie Jackson, former Globetrotters player Zack Clayton, former European star Nikos Galis and former NBA and ABA star George McGinnis. April 1 — Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points, Gonzaga’s big men combined for 27 and the Bulldogs survived a furious second-half rally by South Carolina for a 77-73 victory in a matchup of first-time teams at the men’s Final Four. April 1 — North Carolina survived a late rally in the final seconds and hung on for 77-76 win against Oregon to put itself one game away from its sixth college basketball national championship. North Carolina’s Kennedy Meeks matched his career high with 25 points and grabbed 14 rebounds. His final rebound was the most pivotal, coming after a missed free throw in the closing seconds. North Carolina missed four straight free throws at the end of the game but got offensive rebounds in both cases to emerge victorious. April 2 — So Yeon Ryu won the ANA Inspiration in a one-hole playoff with Lexi Thompson, who was given a four-stroke penalty late in the final round for an incorrect ball placement a day earlier. Ryu birdied the 18th hole in the playoff to win her second major title. April 2 — A’ja Wilson scored 23 points to help coach Dawn Staley and South Carolina win their first women’s national championship with a 67-55 victory over Mississippi State. Staley made the Final Four three times as a player at Virginia but never won. April 3 — The NHL announced it will not participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, saying it sees no tangible benefit in halting the season for three weeks — despite clear signs from the world’s best players that they want to go. NHL players had participated in the previous five Olympics dating to 1998. April 3 — Justin Jackson delivered the go-ahead three-point play and North Carolina scored the last eight points for a 71-65 win over Gonzaga and an NCAA title. It was an ugly affair, filled with 44 fouls and 52 free throws. April 5 — Stephen Curry scored 42 points and the Golden State Warriors held off the Phoenix Suns 120-111 for their seasonhigh 13th straight win, clinching the best record in the NBA for the third straight season. Golden State became the first team have the NBA’s best record for three consecutive seasons since the Boston Celtics did it in 1983-84, ’84-’85 and ’85-’86. The Warriors, Boston — multiple times — and Philadelphia are the only franchises in NBA history to achieve that feat. The Warriors also are the first team to win at least 65 games in three straight seasons. April 6 — Charley Hoffman finished the largest first-round lead at Augusta National in 62 years. Hoffman shot a 7-under 65 in windy conditions to have a four-shot edge over William McGirt heading into second round. That was the largest since the 1955 Masters, when Jack Burke Jr. opened with 67 and was four shots ahead of Julius Boros and Mike Souchak. April 7 — Russell Westbrook became the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season, but failed for the second game in a row to break Oscar Robertson’s single-season record. Westbrook fell two assists shy of what would have been his 42nd triple-double in the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 120-99 loss to the Phoenix Suns. Aug. 8 — Damian Lillard scored a franchise-record 59 points and matched his career high with nine 3-pointers to help the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 101-86. April 8 — Jarid Lukosevicius scored three goals in the second period, and Denver beat Minnesota Duluth 3-2 for the men’s NCAA hockey championship. Lukosevicius’ three goals in a 7:39 span finished off the first hat trick in an NCAA final since Denver coach Jim Montgomery accomplished the feat in Maine’s 5-4 victory against Lake Superior State in 1993. It also helped Montgomery become only the fourth man to win the championship as a head coach and player. April 9 — Sergio Garcia overcame a two-shot deficit with six holes to play and beat Justin Rose in a sudden-death playoff at the Masters for his first major after nearly two decades of heartache. No one ever played more majors as a pro — 70 — before winning a major for the first time. April 9 — Russell Westbrook broke Oscar Robertson’s 56-year-old record with his 42nd triple-double of the season, then he broke the Denver Nuggets’ hearts with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer for a 106-105 victory. Westbrook had 50 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in breaking Robertson’s record of 41 triple-doubles that stood since the 1961-62 season. With his triple-double in the books, Westbrook scored his team’s final 15 points, including a 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded after a timeout with 2.9 seconds left. April 10 — Wil Myers hit a leadoff triple in the eighth inning to complete the first cycle of his career and send San Diego past Colorado 5-3. April 11 — In Dortmund, Germany, three explosions went off near Borussia Dortmund’s team bus ahead of a Champions League quarterfinal match, injuring one of the soccer team’s players. The first-leg match against Monaco was called off shortly before kickoff following the blasts near the team hotel in suburban Dortmund. April 13 — Kelsey Plum was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, going to the San Antonio Stars. The Washington guard, who set the NCAA career scoring record, is the first player from the school to be taken first. April 17 — Geoffrey Kirui and Edna Kiplagat put Kenya back on top at the Boston Marathon after being shut out in the world’s most prestigious marathon twice in the past three years. Geoffrey Kirui won the 121st running in 2:09:37, pulling away from three-time U.S. Olympian Galen Rupp with two miles to go to give Kenya its first men’s victory in five years. Edna Kiplagat won the women’s race to complete the Kenyan sweep. April 17 — All four postseason games went to overtime on the same day for the first time since April 10, 1985. The only other time it happened before that was April 11, 1980. Toronto’s Tyler Bozak scored 1:37 into overtime to beat the Washington Capitals 4-3. Corey Perry scored 1:30 into overtime and the Anaheim Ducks rallied

from three goals down for 5-4 win. Bobby Ryan scored on a tip-in on a power play 5:43 into overtime, and Ottawa recovered after giving up a three-goal lead to beat Boston 4-4. Kevin Fiala scored on a backhander 16:44 into overtime, and the Nashville Predators rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the third period to beat Chicago 3-2. April 18 — Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Starling Marte was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for Nandrolone, a steroid. April 18 — The NCAA awarded coveted men’s basketball tournament games and other events to North Carolina, effectively ending a boycott that helped force the state to repeal parts of a law that limited protections for LGBT people. The governing body announced decisions for events through 2022, two weeks after the NCAA said it had “reluctantly” agreed to consider North Carolina again for hosting duties. April 19 — James Harden scored 35 points and the Houston Rockets overcame 51 points from Russell Westbrook in the highest-scoring triple-double in playoff history, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 115-111 to take a 2-0 lead in the first-round Western Conference playoff series. Westbrook set a franchise playoff scoring record and added 13 assists and 10 rebounds. It was the sixth career playoff triple-double for Westbrook, who had an NBA-record 42 in the regular season. But he shot just 4 for 18 in the fourth quarter as the Rockets clawed back from a double-digit deficit to surge ahead before holding on. April 20 — Olympic champion hurdler Brianna Rollins of the United States received a one-year suspension repeated failures to disclose her whereabouts to anti-doping officials — a ban she says was caused by a mix-up in a computer program. April 20 — LeBron James finished with 41 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Cleveland Cavaliers set an NBA postseason record by erasing a 25-point halftime deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 119-114 and take a 3-0 lead. The largest halftime deficit overcome to win a playoff game had been 21 points by Baltimore against Philadelphia in 1948. April 20 — Roman Josi scored twice, Pekka Rinne had 30 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 to complete a surprising sweep of the Western Conference’s top seed. Led by Rinne’s shutouts in the first two games, the Predators limited the high-scoring Blackhawks to just three goals in 13 periods. Chicago became the first No. 1 seed to lose in the opening round since the Los Angeles Kings knocked off the Vancouver Canucks on their way to the Stanley Cup title in 2012. It was the first time a No. 1 seed was swept in the first round since the NHL adopted its current playoff format in 1994. April 23 — Kenyan runner Mary Keitany broke Paula Radcliffe’s women-only marathon world record with a third victory in London, while Daniel Wanjiru won the men’s race for the first time. Keitany completed the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 17 minutes and 1 second to shave 41 seconds off Radcliffe’s 12-year-old mark. April 23 — Ottawa’s Clarke MacArthur scored on a power play 6:30 into overtime as the Senators beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 to win their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series in six games. Washington’s Marcus Johansson stuffed his second goal of the game past Frederik Andersen six and a half minutes into overtime as the Capitals edged the Leafs 2-1 to win the series 4-2 with five of the six games decided in extra time. The first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs featured 18 overtime games in 42 contests (42.9%), a record for any round in the history of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. April 25 — In a swift response to increasing debates over television reviews, golf’s ruling bodies issued a new decision on the Rules of Golf that limits the use of video evidence and could spare players from being penalized even if they violated a rule. The decision issued — and effective immediately on all tours around the world — has two standards. Players can avoid a penalty if the violation could not be noticed with the naked eye. Rules officials also can eliminate penalties if they feel players made a “reasonable judgment” in taking a drop or replacing their golf balls on the putting green. April 25 — Trea Turner hit for the third cycle in Nationals history and drove in a career-high seven runs, helping Washington to a 15-12 win over Colorado. April 26 — Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander was fined $100,000 by the NBA for confronting a referee during live game action. The incident occurred a day earlier in the final minute of the first quarter during the Rockets’ 105-99 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. April 27 — Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett was picked first overall by the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Draft. Chicago sent a third-round pick, a fourth and a 2018 third to San Francisco to switch and take Mitchell Trubisky, who started only 13 games for North Carolina. April 29 — Anthony Joshua survived the first knockdown of his young career and came back to drop Wladimir Klitschko twice before stopping him in the 11th round to retain his heavyweight titles. Before a boisterous crowd of 90,000 at Wembley Stadium, Joshua landed a right uppercut early in the 11th round that spun Klitschko’s head around. He was all over the Ukrainian and dropped him with a left hook, but Klitschko got up only to take even more punishment. Joshua knocked Klitschko down again and was landing punches to his head on the ropes when referee David Fields moved in to stop the bout late in the 11th round. April 29 — Carlos Gomez hit for the cycle for the second time and Rougned Odor hit a tiebreaking two-run homer to help the Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3. Gomez needed only four at-bats for his first cycle since May 7, 2008, with the Minnesota Twins. He doubled in the first inning, singled in the third and tripled in the fifth off starter Jesse Chavez. He hit a first-pitch fastball from Jose Valdez onto the hill behind center field in the seventh for a two-run homer. April 29 — Yasiel Puig, Cody Bellinger and Justin Turner hit consecutive homers off Hector Neris in the ninth, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers rally for a 6-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Los Angeles trailed 5-2 before the three straight homers. Austin Barnes then singled off Neris with one out. Joely Rodriguez came in and got Andrew Toles to fly out, but Corey Seager singled and Adrian Gonzalez drilled a ball off third baseman Maikel Franco’s glove for the winning hit. April 30 — Anthony Rendon had 10 RBIs, three home runs and six hits as the Washington Nationals took advantage of Noah Syndergaard’s injury and mauled the New York Mets 23-5 to set a franchise

scoring record. Rendon went a career-best 6 for 6 and scored five times while breaking the club mark for RBIs. May 1 — Kevin Shattenkirk scored 3:13 into overtime and the Washington Capitals overcame a late collapse in regulation to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Washington had a 2-0 lead disappear in the final two minutes of the third when Evgeni Malkin and Justin Schultz scored in a 48-second span to force overtime. Washington became the third team in Stanley Cup Playoffs history to surrender a multi-goal lead in the final two minutes of regulation and win in overtime. May 2 — Isaiah Thomas scored 53 points — the second-highest total in Celtics playoff history — to help Boston beat the Washington Wizards 129-119 in overtime and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals. Thomas scored 20 points in the fourth quarter and nine in overtime, when the Celtics outscored Washington 15-5. May 5 — Corey Perry scored 6:57 into the second overtime after the Anaheim Ducks rallied from a three-goal deficit in the final minutes of regulation, completing a spectacular 4-3 comeback win over the Edmonton Oilers. The Ducks took a 3-2 lead in their second-round playoff series. Rickard Rakell put the tying goal through a crowd of prone players with 15 seconds left in regulation to cap a stunning sequence of three goals in just over three minutes, all with goalie John Gibson pulled for an extra attacker. Ryan Getzlaf with 3:16 left and Cam Fowler with 2:51 left in regulation before Rakell tied it up. The Ducks became the second team in Stanley Cup Playoffs history to overcome a three-goal deficit in the final four minutes of regulation to force overtime. May 6 — Always Dreaming won the Kentucky Derby, pulling away in the slop, to win by 2 3/4 lengths over long shot Lookin At Lee, with another long shot Battle of Midway five lengths back. Always Dreaming, ridden John Velazquez, covered the 1 1/4-mile track in 2:03.59 and paid $11.40, $7.20 and $5.80. Lookin At Lee returned $26.60 and $15.20, while Battle of Midway paid $20.80. May 7 — Bradley Beal scored 29 points and Washington Wizards used a 26-0 thirdquarter run to beat the Boston Celtics 121-102 to tie the second-round series at two games apiece. John Wall added 27 points and 12 assists for Washington. Trailing 53-48 before the run, Washington led 74-53 on Porter’s layup with 5 minutes left in the third. May 14 — Stephen Curry scored 40 points and hit a tying 3-pointer with 1:48 remaining, and the Golden State Warriors rallied from way down after Kawhi Leonard was lost to an ankle injury to beat the San Antonio Spurs 113-111 in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. Draymond Green gave Golden State the lead for good on a three-point play after the Warriors trailed by as many as 25 points in the first half. Leonard left in the third quarter after he re-injured his left ankle, and the Warriors capitalized with an 18-0 run. May 14 — Si Woo Kim of South Korea became the youngest winner of The Players Championship. Thew 21-year-old Kim was the only player to go bogey-free on the TPC Sawgrass course and closed with a 3-under 69 for a three-shot victory in golf’s biggest tournament that’s not a major. The previous youngest champion of The Players was Adam Scott, who was 23 when he won in 2005. May 19 — LeBron James scored 30 points, Kevin Love had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers steamrolled the Boston Celtics 130-86 to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals and tie an NBA record with their 13th straight playoff victory. May 20 — Cloud Computing ran down Classic Empire in the final strides to win the Preakness by a head. The 13-1 long shot was one of five fresh horses in the Preakness that didn’t run two weeks earlier in the Kentucky Derby. Derby winner Always Dreaming and Classic Empire dueled throughout most of the race before Classic Empire went in front midway on the far turn. It looked as if Classic Empire would go on to win, but Cloud Computing ran him down on the outside. Ridden by Javier Castellano, Cloud Computing ran 1 3/16 miles in 1:55.98 and paid $28.80 to win. May 21 — Bernhard Langer cruised to his second straight Regions Tradition victory, shooting an 8-under-64 to match Jack Nicklaus’ record of eight PGA Tour Champions major titles. Langer wiped out a six-stroke deficit over the weekend and entered the final round down two strokes to Fred Funk. He finished at 20-under 268 for a five-stroke victory over Scott McCarron and Scott Parel. May 21 — Sweden won the ice hockey world championship with a 2-1 shootout victory over two-time defending champion Canada. Sweden goaltender Henrik Lundqvist stopped three shots in the shootout and Ryan O’Reilly struck the post for Canada, as Nicklas Backstrom and Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored shootout goals for the Swedes to win their first title since 2013. May 22 — Stephen Curry scored 36 points and the Golden State Warriors closed out the Western Conference Final against the injury-ravaged San Antonio Spurs with a 129-115 victory, becoming the first team in league history to start the playoffs 12-0. Golden State led by as many as 22 points in cruising to its third straight NBA Finals. May 22 — Colton Sissons scored three goals to lead the Nashville Predators to their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final after eliminating the Anaheim Ducks with a 6-3 win in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals. The Predators, who’ve never won even a division title in their 19-year history, came in with the fewest points of any team in these playoffs. Nashville’s magical run started by sweeping the West’s No. 1 seed in Chicago. The Predators downed St. Louis in six to reach their first conference finals, and now they’ve knocked off the Pacific Division champ in Anaheim. Peter Laviolette became the fourth coach to take three different teams to the Final, and the first since the playoffs split into conference play in 1994. May 23 — NFL owners cut the overtime period from 15 minutes to 10 minutes during the regular season, but also gave players plenty of leeway to celebrate after a touchdown. May 25 — LeBron James scored 35 points and passed Michael Jordan to become the NBA’s all-time playoff scoring leader as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Boston Celtics 135-102 to claim their third straight Eastern Conference title and a return trip to the NBA Finals. James surpassed Jordan for the top spot on the NBA’s all-time playoff scoring list, scoring 35 points against Boston to reach 5,995 in his career. Jordan scored 5,987 in his postseason career in 179 games from 1985-2003. James played in his 212th career postseason game.

May 26 — The World Boxing Association suspended two judges after their scoring of the Hassan N’Dam and Ryota Murata WBA middleweight title fight on May 20 in Japan. Gustavo Padilla from Panama and Hubert Earle from Canada were suspended for six months.The two judges saw N’Dam win Saturday’s bout 116-112 and 115113. The third had Murata up 117-110. After the bout, WBA President Gilberto Mendoza, who also said he scored it 117-110 in favor of Murata, called for a rematch. May 28 — Takuma Sato won the Indianapolis 500 to give owner Michael Andretti a second consecutive victory. Sato had to hold off Helio Castroneves, who was trying to win for a record-tying fourth time, in the closing laps. May 28 — Angelique Kerber became the first women’s No. 1 seed to lose in the French Open’s first round in the Open era. Kerber lost 6-2, 6-2 to the 40th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova of Russia. May 29 — Maryland beat Ohio State 9-6 to win its first men’s NCAA lacrosse championship. The Terrapins lost the title game in each of the last two years and four of the last six. Tim Rotanz led the Terrs with a hat trick. May 31 — Jake Guentzel, Scott Wilson and Evgeni Malkin scored 3:18 apart early in the third period as the Penguins chased goalie Pekka Rinne and pulled away for a 4-1 victory in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. The 22-year-old Guentzel finished with two goals to give him an NHL-high 12 during the playoffs, the second-most by a rookie in postseason history. His 19 playoff points are the most by an American-born first-year player. June 1 — Kevin Durant scored 38 points in his first NBA Finals game with Golden State, Stephen Curry added 28 and the Warriors rolled to their 13th straight win this postseason by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-91 in Game 1. This marked the first time in NBA history the same two teams played in three straight Finals and just the fourth time it has happened in the four major sports leagues. June 3 — Albert Pujols hit a grand slam for his 600th homer, becoming the ninth member of the club during the fourth inning of the Los Angeles Angels’ 7-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins. June 3 — Edinson Volquez threw the sixth no-hitter in Marlins history, facing the minimum 27 batters and beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-0. Volquez struck out 10, and the two baserunners who reached on walks were erased by double plays. June 3 — Jerry Bozzo became the oldest trainer to win a thoroughbred race. 96-year-old got the milestone when Cotton Tooyah, ridden by Miguel Vasquez, won the second race on by 4 1/2 lengths at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Bozzo, who celebrated his 96th birthday last October, has been breeding and training thoroughbreds in South Florida since the 1970s. June 4 — Stephen Curry had a triple double and Kevin Durant scored 33 and the Golden State Warriors took a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals with a 132-113 victory in Game 2. Curry finished with 32 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Cleveland’s LeBron James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists to tie Magic Johnson’s record with his eighth career Finals triple-double. June 6 — Scooter Gennett hit four home runs, matching the major league record, and finished with 10 RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds routed the St. Louis Cardinals 13-1. June 6 — Shay Knighten hit a three-run double in the second inning and Oklahoma defended its NCAA softball title with a 5-4 win over Florida. June 7 — Kevin Durant drained a big 3-pointer with 45.3 seconds left and scored 31 points as the Golden State Warriors moved within one win of postseason perfection by rallying to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 118-113 to take a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals. June 8 — Jelena Ostapenko became the first unseeded women’s finalist at the French Open in more than 30 years by beating Timea Bacsinszky. The 47thranked Ostapenko won 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3. The last unseeded player to reach the final at Roland Garros was Mima Jausovec, who lost to seven-time French Open champion Chris Evert in 1983. Third-seeded Simona Halep beat second-seeded Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to reach her second Grand Slam final. June 9 — The Cleveland Cavaliers stopped Golden State from celebrating a perfect postseason in record fashion. LeBron James set an NBA Finals record with his ninth triple-double, and the Cavaliers had the highest-scoring first half ever in the Finals while beating the Warriors 137-116 in Game 4. The Warriors had won their first 15 playoff games, the longest postseason streak in North American sport history. Kyrie Irving scored 40 points and James finished with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, breaking the record of eight triple-doubles held by Magic Johnson. June 10 — Unseeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia stunned No. 3 Simona Halep 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in an enthralling French Open final for the first title of her career. Ostapenko, ranked only 47th and just two days past her 20th birthday, became one of the most unlikely Grand Slam champions in tennis history. She also denied Halep what would have been her first major championship and the No. 1 ranking. Halep, a 25-year-old from Romania, was playing in her second major final. She was the runner-up to Maria Sharapova at Roland Garros in 2014. June 10 — Tapwrit overtook favored Irish War Cry in the stretch to win the Belmont Stakes by two lengths, giving trainer Todd Pletcher his third career victory in the final leg of the Triple Crown. Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Tapwrit ran 1 1/2 miles in 2:30.02 and paid $12.60, $6.50 and $5. Pletcher took two of the three Triple Crown races, having saddled Always Dreaming to victory in the Derby. June 11 — Rafael Nadal won his record 10th French Open title by dominating 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 in the final. No other man or woman has won 10 championships at the same major in the Open era, which began in 1968. Nadal, who did not drop a set all tournament, improved to 10-0 in finals at Roland Garros. Nadal increased his career haul to 15 Grand Slam trophies, breaking a tie with Pete Sampras for second place in the history of men’s tennis, behind only rival Roger Federer’s 18. Over his career, Nadal is 79-2 at the French Open and 102-2 in all best-of-five-set matches on clay. June 11 — The Stanley Cup returned to Pittsburgh after Patric Hornqvist scored the go-ahead goal on a bad-angle shot with 95 seconds left in a 2-0 win over the Nashville Predators in Game 6. Carl Hagelin sealed the win by scoring into an empty net with 14 seconds left in leading the Penguins to become the first NHL team in nearly two decades to win

consecutive championships. June 12 — The Minnesota Twins selected California high school shortstop Royce Lewis with the No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft. It marked the third time the Twins have led off the draft, and first since they took hometown high school catcher Joe Mauer in 2001. June 12 — Kevin Durant capped his spectacular first season with the Warriors by bringing home that coveted NBA championship. Durant, who joined Golden State last July, scored 39 points in a fast-and-furious, Finals-clinching 129-120 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Stephen Curry added 34 points, 10 assists and six rebounds as Golden State closed out its second title in three years after squandering a 3-1 lead a year ago to the Cavs to miss a repeat. June 15 — The NCAA suspended Louisville’s men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino for five Atlantic Coast Conference games following its sex scandal investigation. The men’s basketball program was placed on four years’ probation, vacated wins in which ineligible players participated and handed down a 10-year show-cause order for former basketball operations director Andre McGee. Other penalties included men’s basketball scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions;a fine of $5,000, plus the university must return money received through conference revenue sharing for its appearances in the 2012 to 2015 NCAA men’s basketball championships. June 15 — Rickie Fowler matched the U.S. Open scoring record to par for the opening round with a 7-under 65 at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. Fowler was one of 44 other players who broke par, to break a championship record that had stood for 27 years. Fowler joined Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf, who each shot 7-under 63 in 1980 at Baltusrol. June 18 — Brooks Koepka broke away from a tight pack with three straight birdies on the back nine at Erin Hills and closed with a 5-under 67 to win the U.S. Open for his first major championship. A par on the final hole tied Rory McIlroy’s record score to par at 16 under for a four-shot victory. June 18 — Diana Taurasi scored 19 points to break the WNBA career scoring record in the Phoenix Mercury’s 90-59 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks. Taurasi finished with 7,494 points, passing Tina Thompson’s mark of 7,488. June 18 — Nolan Arenado completed the cycle with a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies stunned the San Francisco Giants by rallying for a 7-5 victory. Arenado hit the first pitch he saw from All-Star closer Mark Melancon into the left-field seats. June 19 — Dodgers rookie Cody Bellinger launched two more home runs, setting a major league record with his powerful start as Los Angeles held on for a 10-6 victory over the New York Mets. Bellinger reached 21 homers in 51 career games — faster than any other player in big league history. Despite spotting the rest of the NL three weeks before he was called up from the minors, the first baseman led the league in home runs. June 20 — Detroit’s defensive tackle Khyri Thornton was suspended six games by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on substances of abuse. June 21 — Edmonton’s Connor McDavid won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player at the league’s postseason awards show. McDavid also won the Ted Lindsay Award, given to the league’s most outstanding performer in a vote of his fellow players. He already knew he would win the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL scoring champion. The honors capped a remarkable sophomore season for the 20-year-old center, who won the scoring title and led the Oilers back to the Stanley Cup playoffs after an 11-year absence. Boston center Patrice Bergeron won the Selke Trophy for the fourth time as the NHL’s best defensive forward, and San Jose’s Brent Burns won his first Norris Trophy as the top defenseman. Toronto center Auston Matthews easily took the Calder Trophy as the league’s top rookie, and Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky won his second Vezina Trophy. June 22 — Free agent cornerback Justin Gilbert was suspended one-year by the NFL for violation of the league’s substances of abuse policy. June 22 — The Philadelphia 76ers selected guard Markelle Fultz with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. The Los Angeles Lakers followed by taking Lonzo Ball as the draft started with a pair of freshmen point guards from the Pac-12 Conference. Nine of the first 10 selections played just one season of college ball. Last year’s record of 14 freshmen fell when Brooklyn grabbed Jarrett Allen from Texas at No. 22, and there were 16 total among the 30 first-round picks — and just two seniors. June 23 — The New Jersey Devils selected center Nico Hischier with the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL draft. The 18-year-old Hischier is the highest drafted Swiss player in the NHL history. June 26 — Helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup with a resounding romp against software tycoon Larry Ellison’s two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA. The underfunded but resourceful Kiwis claimed the oldest trophy in international sports with another dominating light-air sprint around the Great Sound of Bermuda aboard their fast, 50-foot foiling catamaran. They won Race 9 to clinch the 35th America’s Cup match at 7-1. Burling, at 26, became the youngest helmsman to win sailing’s greatest prize in a competition that dates to 1851. June 26 — Teemu Selanne and Paul Kariya, a dynamic duo in Anaheim for several years, were elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The longtime Ducks teammates were joined by Mark Recchi, Dave Andreychuk and longtime Canadian university coach Clare Drake. Canadian star Danielle Goyette became the fifth women’s player elected, and Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs got in as part of the builder category. June 26 — Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook capped his historic season at the NBA’s inaugural awards show, winning 2016-17 Most Valuable Player award. Westbrook receiving 69 of 101 first-place votes, Harden 22, Leonard nine and James one. Milwaukee guard Malcolm Brogdon was named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year. June 27 — Florida scored four runs in the eighth inning to pull away from LSU, and the Gators beat their Southeastern Conference rival 6-1 to complete a two-game sweep in the College World Series finals for their first national title in baseball. The Gators posted the eighth sweep in the 15 years of the best-of-three finals format, and first since 2013. LSU lost for the first time in seven appearances in a championship game. July 1 — Stephen Curry agreed a $201 million maximum contract with the Golden State Warriors. Curry’s five-year maximum became the league’s first $200 million

contract. July 1 — Houston Astros rookie pitcher David Paulino received an 80-game suspension after testing positive for the performance-enhancing substance Boldenone. July 2 — Jeff Horn shocked Manny Pacquiao by a controversial unanimous decision at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia, to win the WBO welterweight title. The 29-year-old Horn was given almost no hope of beating the 11-time world champion. The 38-year-old Pacquiao had a chance to knock Horn out in the ninth round, with the Aussie on the ropes and in big trouble in front of the 51,052 fans at Suncorp Stadium, but couldn’t complete the job. July 2 — Danielle Kang birdied the final hole to win the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for her first LPGA Tour title, edging defending champion Brooke Henderson. Kang became the first player to birdie the 72nd and final hole to win this Championship by a single stroke since Meg Mallon in 1991. July 6 — The World Boxing Organization announced it will re-score the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn welterweight title fight because of the contentious unanimous decision awarded to the Australian challenger, but there is no plan to change the result. The WBO was responding to a Philippines government department’s request to review the fight after Pacquiao said the decision against him on July 2 was unfair. The Philippines Games and Amusements Board (GAB) said it based the request on protecting boxing’s integrity, citing possible miscalls by the referee and judges. But the WBO reiterated its only hope of revoking the fight judges’ decision rests on proving fraud in match officiating. July 10 — Rafael Nadal was beaten in the fourth round at Wimbledon, losing to Gilles Muller 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13. Nadal erased a two-set deficit, then four match points, but could not erase the fifth. The two-time champion at the All England Club saved two match points in the 10th game of the fifth set, and two more in the 20th game. Nadal had won 28 consecutive completed sets at major tournaments, equaling his personal best. July 10 — An independent review of the scoring in Manny Pacquiao’s contentious WBO welterweight world title loss to Jeff Horn confirmed the outcome in favor of the Australian. A Philippines government department asked the WBO to review the refereeing and the judging of the so-called “Battle of Brisbane” in Australia on July 2 after Horn, fighting for his first world title, won a unanimous points decision against Pacquiao, an 11-time world champion. The WBO said three of the five independent judges who reviewed the bout awarded it to Horn, one awarded it to Pacquiao and one scored a draw. July 10 — Rookie Aaron Judge dominated the All-Star Home Run Derby. The largerthan-life New York Yankees slugger beat Minnesota’s Miguel Sosa 11-10 with two minutes to spare in the final, reaching 513 feet and displaying remarkable power to all fields. July 11 — Venus Williams reached the semifinals at Wimbledon for the 10th time. The five-time champion at the All England Club advanced by beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 7-5 under a closed roof on Centre Court. July 11 — Seattle’s Robinson Cano homered off Chicago Cubs closer Wade Davis leading off the 10th inning and the American League beat the National League 2-1 in the All-Star Game. Craig Kimbrel of Boston wiggled out of a jam in the ninth and right fielder Justin Upton made a lunging catch in the 10th to help the AL win its fifth in a row. And for the first time since 1964, the rivalry is all even — 43 wins apiece with two ties, and each side has scored exactly 361 runs. July 12 — Sam Querrey stunned topseeded Andy Murray in five sets in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Querrey, an American seeded 24th, was dominating down the stretch for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1 victory. Querrey became the first U.S. man to reach the semifinals at any Grand Slam tournament since Andy Roddick lost in the 2009 Wimbledon final. July 13 — Venus Williams reached her ninth Wimbledon final and first since 2009, turning in her latest display of gutsy serving to beat Johanna Konta 6-4, 6-2. At 37, Williams became the oldest finalist at the All England Club since Martina Navratilova was the 1994 runner-up at that age. In the opening semifinal, Garbine Muguruza overwhelmed Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-1 in just over an hour. July 14 — Roger Federer advanced to the final at the All England Club for the 11th time by beating Tomas Berdych 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-4. Marin Cilic defeated Sam Querrey 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-5 in the other semifinal. July 15 — Garbine Muguruza powered her way to her first title at Wimbledon and second at a Grand Slam tournament, beating a fading Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0 by claiming the final’s last nine games. July 15 — Cody Bellinger became the first Dodgers rookie to hit for the cycle and Alex Wood became the first Dodgers pitcher in more than a century to win his first 11 decisions in a season, helping Los Angeles beat the Miami Marlins 7-1. July 16 — Roger Federer won his record eighth Wimbledon title, beating Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 on Centre Court in his 11th final at the All England Club. The win moved him above both Pete Sampras and William Renshaw, who each have won seven titles at the grass-court major. It was the 35-year-old Federer’s record 19th Grand Slam singles title. July 16 — Sung Hyun Park won the U.S. Women’s Open for her first LPGA Tour victory. The 23-year-old from South Korea shot her second straight 5-under 67 and won a day-long battle with front-running Shanshan Feng and teenage amateur Hye-Jin Choi at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Park finished at 11-under 277 for a two-stroke win over Choi. President Donald Trump attended the biggest event in women’s golf for the third straight day. July 17 — New Jersey’s first casino has become the first in Atlantic City to let patrons play daily fantasy sports contests for money. Resorts Casino Hotel launched FastPick, a daily fantasy sports game in which customers choose head-to-head player matchups of real-world athletes. July 21 — Mongolian grand champion Hakuho set the record for most career wins in sumo wrestling after toppling ozeki Takayasu in the Nagoya grand sumo tournament. Hakuho reached the milestone 1,048th win, surpassing the total that former ozeki Kaio finished on in 2011. The Mongolian yokozuna started his sumo career at age 16, and made his tournament debut in 2001. July 21 — Olympic champion Shi Tingmao led a China 1-2 in the women’s 3-meter springboard competition at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary. Shi, the defending champion, won comfortably ahead of Wang Han to claim China’s ninth

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SPORTS STATS LABEL TAG WITH 20 POINT DUMMY TEXT. straight gold in this event. Chinese divers have won 20 of the last 21 Olympic and world titles in women’s 3-meter springboard since 1986. July 22 — Branden Grace set the new standard for scoring in the majors with a 62 in the third round of the British Open at Royal Birkdale. It was the lowest score ever recorded in 442 major championships. From the time Johnny Miller shot his famous 63 in the final round at Oakmont to win the 1973 U.S. Open, a 63 was posted in the majors 30 more times, most recently by Justin Thomas in the U.S. Open last month at Erin Hills. Grace, who made the cut by one shot, finished at 4-under 206. July 22 — Maya Moore scored 23 points, reigning league MVP Nneka Ogwumike added 22 points and the West outlasted the East 130-121 in the WNBA All-Star Game. July 22 — Clint Dempsey fed Jozy Altidore for the go-ahead goal, then scored on a free kick to match Landon Donovan’s American record with his 57th international goal and lead the United States over Costa Rica 2-0 and into the CONCACAF Gold Cup championship game. July 23 — Defending champion Chris Froome won his fourth and most challenging Tour de France title. The 32-year-old British rider finished 54 seconds ahead of Colombian Rigoberto Uran overall, the smallest margin of his wins. July 23 — Jordan Spieth used a remarkable string of holes on the back nine to hold off Matt Kuchar and win the British Open for the third major championship of his career. He won by three shots — the same margin he started the day with — after a final round 1-under-69. July 26 — Katie Ledecky’s bid to win six gold medals at the world championships ended when she was beaten in the 200-meter freestyle by Italy’s Federica Pellegrini. Ledecky settled for the silver medal, tying for second with Australia’s Emma McKeon. Pellegrini finished in 1:54.73. The 28-year-old Pellegrini became the first swimmer in the history of the championship to capture seven medals in a single individual event. Her incredible run in the 200 free began at the 2005 worlds in Montreal, where she grabbed a silver. She was third in 2007 at Melbourne, and then had back-to-back victories, including a world-record performance at Rome in 2009 (1:52.98) that still stands from the rubber-suit era. July 26 — Jordan Morris scored a tiebreaking goal in the 88th minute, and the United States beat Jamaica 2-1 for its sixth CONCACAF Gold Cup title and first since 2013. July 27 — The Washington Nationals tied a franchise record with eight home runs, including two apiece by Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman, and Max Scherzer pitched six innings of three-hit ball in a 15-2 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers. July 28 — The U.S. women claimed a record-extending fifth world championship in water polo with a 13-6 victory over Spain. Kiley Neushul scored four goals to help the two-time Olympic champions win back-to-back titles at the worlds. July 29 — Caeleb Dressel has become the first swimmer to win three gold medals on a single night at the world championships. America’s newest star turned in a stunning performance, racing three times over the course of about two hours — and winning every time. He started with a victory in the 50-meter freestyle, came back about a half-hour later to nearly break Michael Phelps’ world record in the 100 butterfly and closed the night by leading off a world-record performance in the mixed 4x100 free relay. That gave Dressel six gold medals in the championships. Katie Ledecky made it five gold medals in her final event of the world championships, cruising to victory in the 800-meter freestyle. July 30 — Caeleb Dressel won his seventh gold medal of the world championships in Budapest, Hungary, putting the U.S. team ahead to stay with another dominating swim in the 4x100-meter medley relay. Dressel joined Michael Phelps in another elite club with seven golds at the secondbiggest meet after the Olympics. Phelps had seven victories at the 2007 worlds in Melbourne, Australia. July 30 — Bernhard Langer won the Senior British Open at Royal Porthcawl for his record-extending 10th senior major title and fifth in the last 10. The 59-year-old German star closed with an even-par 72 to finish at 4-under 280 and beat American Corey Pavin by three strokes. July 30 — Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers became the first player from the Dominican Republic, and 31st overall, to join the 3,000-hit club during a 10-6 loss to Baltimore. Beltre doubled down the line past third base off lefty Wade Miley, who got Beltre out on a swinging strikeout in the second. July 30 — J.R. Todd became the first black winner in NHRA Funny Car history, beating Tim Wilkerson in the Sonoma (Calif.) Nationals. The 35-year-old Todd also joined Don Prudhomme as the only NHRA drivers to win at Sonoma Raceway in both nitro categories. Todd won nine times in Top Fuel. Aug. 1 — Evan Longoria became the second Tampa Bay player to hit for the cycle and drove in three runs to lead the Rays past Houston 6-4. He was a double shy when he came to the plate with two outs in the ninth inning and laced a laser to left field. Longoria was initially ruled out, but the call was overturned after a crew chief review. Aug. 3 — Neymar became the most expensive player in soccer history after completing his blockbuster transfer to Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona for 222 million euros ($262 million). Aug. 5 — Justin Gatlin spoiled Usain Bolt’s farewell beating him in the 100 meters at the world championships in London. Bolt got off to a slow start and Gatlin held him off at the line in 9.92 seconds. American sprinter Christian Coleman took silver in 9.94 seconds and Bolt took bronze in 9.95. Aug. 5 — The Orange County Breakers beat the defending champion San Diego Aviators 22-18 to win their second World TeamTennis championship. Aug. 5 — Perfect Spirit was declared the winner in the $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack after the judges disqualified first-place finisher What The Hill. Hall of Fame driver David Miller steered What The Hill first across the finish line, but was taken down for interfering with Guardian Angel AS in the stretch and striking the other colt’s legs, causing Guardian Angel to go off stride. Aug. 6 — Geoffrey Kirui gave Kenya a record fifth men’s marathon title at the world championships, winning a seesaw race with Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia that finished on London’s famed Tower Bridge. Aug. 6 — I.K. Kim won the Women’s British Open, hanging on with a 1-under 71 for a two-shot victory over Jodi Ewart Shadoff and her first major championship. Kim had a six-shot lead going into the final round, but Shadoff put enormous pressure

on Kim by closing with a 64. Aug. 10 — Ramil Guliyev of Turkey earned the upset of the world track and field championships when he matched Wayde Van Niekerk stride for stride and won the 200-meter title by lunging at the line just ahead of the favored South African. The 27-year-old Guliyev finished in 20.09 seconds, .02 seconds ahead of both Van Niekerk. The South African took silver by .001 seconds. It was the slowest final since 2003. Aug. 11 — The NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott six games after a yearlong NFL investigation of his domestic violence case in Ohio. The 2016 NFL rushing leader was suspended despite prosecutors in Columbus, Ohio, deciding a year ago not to pursue the case involving Elliott’s girlfriend at the time in the same city where Elliott starred for Ohio State. The league said there was “substantial and persuasive evidence” that Elliott had physical confrontations last summer with his then-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson. Aug. 12 — Usain Bolt ended his stellar career in excruciating pain. The Jamaican great crumpled to the track with a left-leg injury as he was chasing a final gold medal for the Jamaican 4x100-meter relay team at the world championships in London. Having to make up lots of ground on the anchor leg, Bolt suddenly screamed and stumbled as he came down with the first injury he has experienced at a major competition. Britain went on to beat the United States in a tight finish. Tori Bowie was the unlikely first double gold medalist at the championships, anchoring the U.S. team to the 4x100-meter relay title ahead of Britain and Jamaica. At the same time, Allyson Felix, running the second leg on the winning team, earned a record 15th medal at the world championships in a career going back to 2005. Kevin Mayer became the “world’s greatest athlete,” winning the decathlon. Mayer, the first Frenchman to win the title, won with 8,768 points. Aug. 13 — Justin Thomas emerged from the shadow of a longtime friend and won the PGA Championship to take his place among the young elite in golf. Thomas closed with a 3-under 68 and won by two shots. The week began with Jordan Spieth’s quest for a career Grand Slam. Spieth was at the 18th green at Quail Hollow, but only so he could celebrate the moment with Thomas, close friends since they were 14. Aug. 20 — Lexi Thompson got things going with a big rally and Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer won key matches to help the U.S. beat Europe 16 1/2-11 1/2 in the Solheim Cup. Gerina Piller sealed it with a birdie putt that put her 3 up over Florentyna Parker with three to play in a 4-and-2 victory. Aug. 23 — Zach Britton’s AL-record run of converting 60 straight save attempts ended, when the Baltimore closer blew a two-run lead and failed to get out of the ninth inning in a game the Orioles ultimately won 8-7 over Oakland in the 12th. Aug. 26 — Ohio State star Kyle Snyder scored a late takedown of Olympic gold medalist Abdusalim Sadulaev in the deciding match, and the United States won the world freestyle wrestling title for the first time in 22 years. The U.S. and Russia were tied heading into the highly anticipated match between Snyder and Sadulaev, who moved up to the 213-pound weight class to challenge the American. Veteran Jordan Burroughs also won a gold medal for the U.S. at 163 pounds. Aug. 26 — Floyd Mayweather Jr. stopped UFC champion Conor McGregor on his feet in the 10th round at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. The much-hyped 154-pound fight was more competitive than many expected when an unbeaten, five-division world champion boxer took on a mixed martial artist making his pro boxing debut. Mayweather (50-0) survived a rough beginning and gradually took control. He brutalized McGregor in the 10th, landing numerous shots and chasing McGregor around the ring until referee Robert Byrd saved the Irishman and stopped the fight. Aug. 27 — Giancarlo Stanton hit his 50th home run to break an eighth-inning tie, helping the Miami Marlins sweep the San Diego Padres with a 6-2 victory. Stanton became the first National League player to reach 50 homers since Prince Fielder hit 50 for Milwaukee in 2007. Aug. 27 — Tsubasa Tomii buckled down after allowing two first-inning home runs and Japan hit three homers in the fourth and won the Little League World Series title with a 12-2 victory over Lufkin, Texas. Aug. 28 — The NFL suspended Cincinnati linebacker Vontaze Burfict five games for leveling a Chiefs running back in violation of its player safety rules, the latest in Burfict’s history of egregious hits that have drawn fines and suspensions. The suspension was reduced from five to three games on Aug. 30. Aug. 28 — Maria Sharapova’s first Grand Slam match after a 15-month doping suspension ended with a victory at the U.S. Open. Sharapova recovered after faltering midway through the first-round match and emerged to beat No. 2-seeded Simona Halep 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in over more than 2 1/2 hours in a night match. Aug. 29 — Angelique Kerber became only the second defending U.S. Open champion in the professional era to lose in the first round. The surprisingly lopsided 6-3, 6-1 loss to 45th-ranked Naomi Osaka of Japan was former No. 1 Kerber’s latest in a long list of disappointing performances in 2017. Aug. 31 — The NBA fined new Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka $500,000 for his contact with Paul George’s agent, a violation of the NBA’s anti-tampering rule. Aug. 31 — Shelby Rogers beat 25thseeded Daria Gavrilova 7-6 (6), 4-6, 7-6 (5) to set a record for the longest women’s match in U.S. Open history. The secondround match took 3 hours, 33 minutes. The previous record was 3 hours, 23 minutes, when Johanna Konta defeated Garbine Muguruza 7-6, 6-7, 6-2 in a second-round match in 2015. Sept. 2 — Lewis Hamilton claimed his 69th career pole position to break the Formula One record previously held by Michael Schumacher. After a 2 1/2-hour rain delay at the Italian Grand Prix, Hamilton finished more than a second ahead of Max Verstappen. Sept. 2 — Freshman Bryar Topo scored the last of St. John’s 14 touchdowns with 10:06 remaining and the Johnnies beat St. Scholastica 98-0 in a Division III season opener. It was the most points scored against a fellow D-III team, breaking the 97 points in the 1977 game between Concordia-Moorhead and Macalester. Sept. 2 — Howard, an FCS team from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, pulled off what may have been the biggest upset in modern college football history by point-spread standards. The Bison entered as 45-point road underdogs against UNLV and stunned the Rebels 43-40 in Las

Vegas. Sept. 2 — Hall of Fame driver Brian Sears swept the Yonkers Trot and Messenger Stakeson at Yonkers Raceway. Sears won by a nose in both of Yonkers’ signature $500,000 stakes for 3-year-old trotters and pacers, guiding the favored DownbytheSeaside in the Messenger, and Top Flight Angel in the Yonkers Trot in the following race. Both races are the second jewels in the Triple Crown for pacers and trotters. Sept. 3 — UCLA’s Josh Rosen faked the spike and threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Lasley with 43 seconds remaining and UCLA overcame a 34-point deficit to stun Texas A&M 45-44. Rosen was 35 of 59 for 491 yards and four fourthquarter touchdowns. UCLA scored on five straight possessions after trailing 44-10 with 4:08 to play in the third quarter. Sept. 4 — J.D. Martinez tied a major league record by hitting four home runs and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-0 for their 11th straight victory. Martinez became the 18th player in major league history to hit four homers in a game, and the 16th in the modern era. Sept. 4 — Madison Keys eliminated No. 4-seeded Elina Svitolina 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4 and give the United States four women in the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time in 15 years. The 15th-seeded Keys joined Americans Venus Williams, CoCo Vandeweghe and Sloane Stephens in the final eight at Flushing Meadows. Sept. 4 — Juan Martin del Potro rallied from a two-set deficit to defeat sixthseeded Dominic Thiem in a thrilling comeback at the U.S. Open. The No. 24-ranked del Potro needed every last moment of a 1-6, 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4 match to advance to the quarterfinals. The Argentinian won the third set and saved two match points with aces in the fourth set. Sept. 4 — No. 25 Tennessee rallied from a pair of 14-point deficits in the second half and stopped a 2-point conversion in the second overtime, to stun Georgia Tech 42-41 despite giving up five rushing touchdowns to TaQuon Marshall and getting dominated statistically. Sept. 5 — Venus Williams returned to the U.S. Open semifinals for the first time since 2010 by coming back in the third set to beat two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2). At 37, Williams is the oldest women’s semifinalist at any Grand Slam tournament since Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1994. She will face unseeded Sloane Stephens in the first all-American women’s semifinal in New York since 2002. Stephens advanced earlier with a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) victory over 16th-seeded Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia. Sept. 5 — Restaurant and casino owner Tilman Fertitta agreed to buy the Houston Rockets from Leslie Alexander for an NBA-record $2.2 billion. The price surpasses the $2 billion Steve Ballmer paid for the Los Angeles Clippers in 2014. Sept. 6 — CoCo Vandeweghe became the third American into the U.S. Open women’s semifinals, beating top-seeded Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (4), 6-3. Madison Keys completed the sweep for American women, giving the host country all four U.S. Open semifinal spots for the first time in 36 years. The 15th-seeded Keys took 69 minutes for a 6-3, 6-3 victory over 418th-ranked qualifier Kaia Kanepi of Estonia. The Americans haven’t had all four semifinalists at the U.S. Open since 1981, when Tracy Austin beat Martina Navratilova for the title. Chris Evert and Barbara Potter also made the semifinals. Sept. 6 — The NFL announced the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers would open the season with a hurricane-imposed bye. Their opener scheduled for Sept. 10 was postponed by the NFL until Nov. 19 because of Hurricane Irma. Sept. 6 — FIFA ordered that a World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal be replayed after the referee was found guilty of match manipulation and banned for life. South Africa beat Senegal 2-1 in the qualifier last November, helped by a penalty awarded by Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey for a non-existent handball. Sept. 7 — Sloane Stephens reached her first Grand Slam final, edging Venus Williams 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 in the first of two all-American semifinals. Stephens became just the fourth unseeded player to reach the U.S. Open women’s final in the Open era, which began in 1968. Stephens, two points from defeat, took the last three games of a back-and-forth semifinal. In the other semifinal, the 15th-seeded Madison Keys dominated No. 20 CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 in barely more than an hour. Sept. 7 — Florida State and Florida canceled their Sept. 9 home football games because of Hurricane Irma. No. 10 Florida State was set to play LouisianaMonroe, and No. 22 Florida was scheduled to face Northern Colorado. The storm also impacted games involving Florida teams outside the Top 25. South Florida and UConn called off their game in Connecticut because of travel concerns. Central Florida also announced its scheduled Friday night home game with Memphis had been called off. The Memphis-UCF game had been moved from Saturday to Friday because of the threat. Sept. 8 — A federal judge blocked Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott’s six-game suspension over a domestic violence case. Sept. 8 — David Benavidez becames boxing’s youngest world champion — and the youngest ever in the super middleweight division — with a split decision victory over Ronald Gavril at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. At 20 years, 9 months old, Benavidez (19-0, 17 KOs) won the vacant WBC super middleweight title over the 31-year-old Gavril (18-2, 14 KOs). Sept. 9 — Sloane Stephens dominated Madison Keys in the U.S. Open final and won 6-3, 6-0 for her first Grand Slam title. The 83rd-ranked Stephens became the second unseeded woman to win the tournament in the Open era, which began in 1968. This was the first all-American women’s final at Flushing Meadows since 2002, when Serena Williams beat Venus Williams. Sept. 9 — Jose Abreu became the first White Sox player to hit for the cycle in 17 years, among six Chicago players to go deep in a 13-1 rout of the San Francisco Giants. Sept. 10 — Rafael Nadal won his 16th Grand Slam title by sweeping Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in the U.S. Open final. It was the third U.S. Open title for the top-seeded Nadal, who won two majors this year for the first time since 2013. At No. 32, Anderson was the lowest-ranked U.S. Open men’s finalist since the ATP computer rankings began 44 years ago. He had never before been past the quarterfinals at any major tournament in 33 tries. Sept. 10 — Kristi Toliver of the Washington Mystics scored 32 points, hitting a WNBA playoff-record nine 3-pointers, to beat the New York Liberty 82-68 and advance the semifinals.

Sept. 10 — Aaron Judge became the second major league rookie with a 40-homer season, going deep twice as New York pounded the Texas Rangers 16-7. Sept. 10 — The Los Angeles Rams routed the Indianapolis Colts 46-9 in 31-year-old Sean McVay’s impressive debut as the youngest head coach in modern league history. Sept. 11 — In the start of a series moved from Florida to Citi Field because of Hurricane Irma, Todd Frazier capitalized on Trevor Plouffe’s two-out error with a three-run homer in a five-run fourth inning that led the New York Yankees to a 5-1 win over Tampa Bay. Jacoby Ellsbury broke Pete Rose’s major league record by reaching base on catcher’s interference for the 30th time. Sept. 12 — The Cleveland Indians extended their winning streak to 20 games and matched the AL mark held by the 2002 Oakland Athletics, beating the Detroit Tigers 2-0. Sept. 12 — The Minnesota Twins became the first team in major league history to hit a homer in each of the first seven innings in a 16-0 rout of the San Diego Padres. Brian Dozier, Jorge Polanco, Jason Castro, Eddie Rosario, Castro again, Eduardo Escobar and Kennys Vargas all went deep to set a Target Field record. Sept. 15 — The Cleveland had its AL record run stopped at 22 straight games as the Indians were beaten 4-3 by the Kansas City Royals, who became the first team to conquer the defending league champions since Aug. 23. The Indians came within four of matching the overall record held by the 1916 New York Giants. Sept. 16 — In front of the largest crowd to attend a stand-alone MLS match, Josef Martinez had his second hat trick in a row and his third of the season to help Atlanta United hold on for a 3-3 draw against Orlando City. Atlanta United set the record with 70,425 on hand at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The previous record was held by the Los Angeles Galaxy for the 69,255 who attended their first-ever match at the Rose Bowl in 1996. Sept. 16 — Feleipe Franks heaved a 63-yard touchdown pass to Tyrie Cleveland as the clock expired, and No. 24 Florida beat No. 23 Tennessee 26-23 in a wild, wacky and sometimes unwatchable rivalry game. The final play capped a crazy fourth quarter in which the teams combined for 37 points and little, if any, defense. Sept. 16 — Gennady Golovkin retained his middleweight titles, fighting to a draw with Canelo Alvarez in a brutal battle that ended with both fighters thinking they won. The two fighters traded huge punches and went after each other for 12 rounds. Golovkin was the aggressor throughout but couldn’t put Alvarez down, and Alvarez more than stood his own in exchanges with Triple G. One judge had Alvarez winning 118-110, a second had it 115-113 in Golovkin’s favor, while the third had it 114-114. Sept. 17 — Anna Nordqvist beat unheralded American Brittany Altomare in a playoff in driving rain and hail at the first extra hole to win the Evian Championship. Nordqvist sank a 4-foot putt for a bogey 5 on the soaked 18th hole while the 102nd-ranked Altomare had a six. Sept. 17 — Josef Newgarden won his first IndyCar championship by closing out the best year of his career as the top driver at Team Penske. Newgarden finished second at Sonoma Raceway to prevent his Penske teammates, as well as four-time champion Scott Dixon, from taking the title away from him. Newgarden, who won the title by 13 points, is only the second American in 11 years to win the IndyCar title. Sept. 17 — Los Angeles Chargers tight end Antonio Gates had a touchdown catch in a 19-17 loss to Miami, giving him 112 for his career — passing Tony Gonzalez (111) for the most by a tight end in NFL history. Sept. 19 — Kansas City’s Alex Gordon hit Major League Baseball’s record 5,694th home run of 2017, breaking the season mark. Gordon’s home run off Toronto’s Ryan Tepera raised the total to one more than the 5,693 set in 2000 at the height of the Steroids Era. The record was broken with just less than two weeks remaining in the regular season. Sept. 20 — Chris Sale struck out 13 to become the first AL pitcher in 18 years to reach the 300 mark, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 9-0. Sept. 20 — The NCAA placed the men’s basketball team at Pacific on two years of probation for academic and recruiting violations under former coach Ron Verlin. Sept. 22 — The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their fifth straight NL West title, beating the San Francisco Giants 4-2 as Cody Bellinger set an NL rookie record with his 39th home run. Bellinger hit a three-run homer in the third off Jeff Samardzija, topping the NL rookie mark set by Wally Berger in 1930 and matched by Frank Robinson in 1956. Sept. 23 — Juwan Johnson caught a seven-yard TD pass as time expired and fourth-ranked Penn State rallied to stun Iowa 21-19 in the Big Ten opener for both teams. Sept. 24 — Peter Sagan of Slovakia became the first man to win three straight road race titles after holding off Norwegian Alexander Kristoff in a sprint finish at the World Cycling Championships. Sept. 24 — Diego Valeri scored twice to extend his MLS-record scoring streak to nine straight games and Portland beat Orlando City 3-0. Valeri moved in front of NYCFC’s David Villa for most goals this season with 20. Sept. 24 — Chelsea Gray’s pull-up jumper with 2 seconds to play helped the Los Angeles Sparks avoid what would have been a stunning collapse and take Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, 85-84, over the Minnesota Lynx. The Sparks led 28-2 in the first quarter and 78-66 with five minutes to play, but gave it all back after a charge from the Lynx. The Lynx took an 84-83 lead with 6.5 seconds to play. But Gray got free to knock down a pull-up 14-footer. Sept. 24 — Jake Elliott, who was two of three on field goals, made a 61-yarder as time expired to give Philadelphia a 27-24 victory over the New York Giants. Elliott’s 61-yard field goal is the longest by a rookie in NFL history and tied for the third-longest game-ending field goal, trailing only Tom Dempsey (63 yards, Nov. 8, 1970) and Matt Bryant (62 yards, Oct. 22, 2006). Sept. 25 — Aaron Judge broke Mark McGwire’s major league record for home runs by a rookie, hitting a pair for the second straight day to raise his total to 50 and lead the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 11-3. Sept. 26 — Sylvia Fowles grabbed a WNBA Finals-record 17 rebounds and scored 13 points to lead the Minnesota Lynx to a 70-68 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in Game 2, evening the series at one game apiece. Fowles broke Taj McWilliamsFranklin’s record of 16 for Connecticut in 2005. Sept. 26 — In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in

college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors. Sept. 27 — From worst to wild card, the Minnesota Twins completed a most remarkable reversal. A couple hours after losing 4-2 to Cleveland, the Twins earned an AL wild-card berth the Angels lost 6-4 in 10 innings to White Sox. A season after winning just 59 games, the Twins became the first team to lose at least 100 and then make the postseason the following year. Sept. 28 — Sam Saunders, Arnold Palmer’s grandson, shot a 12-under 59 in the first round of the Web.com Tour Championship. Saunders closed with six straight birdies at Atlantic Beach Country Club for the seventh sub-60 round in Web.com Tour history. Sept. 28 — Giancarlo Stanton homered twice to become the first player to hit 59 in a season since 2001, and the Miami Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 7-1. Sept. 28 — NBA owners passed rules designed to prevent healthy players from sitting out games, and teams from losing games on purpose to improve their draft position. Under the new draft lottery rules, the teams with the three worst records will all have 14 percent odds to land the No. 1 pick when the changes are implemented with the 2019 draft. The team with the worst record previously had 25 percent odds to win the lottery and could fall to the No. 4 spot in the draft. Now that team call tumble all the way to fifth. The Board of Governors voted to allow Commissioner Adam Silver to fine teams who violate the league’s new guidelines about resting players. Teams can’t sit healthy players for high-profile, nationally televised games, and fines for violating that can be for at least $100,000. Sept. 29 — Clay Millican broke the Top Fuel time record in the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park. Millican had a 3.631second pass at 330.39 mph at the home race for Stringer Performance during the second round of qualifying. He’s chasing his fifth No. 1 qualifier of the season and 10th of his career. Sept. 30 — Russia and China were among nine countries suspended from weightlifting for a year in an attempt to combat an epidemic of doping. The decision by the International Weightlifting Federation followed the retesting of anti-doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Also suspended were Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Turkey, and Ukraine. Sept. 30 — Jordan Chunn ran for 191 yards and a touchdown, Troy’s defense forced four turnovers and the surging Trojans upset No. 25 LSU 24-21. Troy became the first team from outside the Southeastern Conference to win in LSU’s Death Valley since UAB in 2000. Sept. 30 — Detroit’s Andrew Romine became the fifth player in baseball history to play all nine positions in one game, helping the Tigers to a 3-2 win over Minnesota. Romine, a 31-year-old utilityman, played catcher for the first time in his career and got one out on the mound. He was the first player to accomplish the feat since Shane Halter for Detroit against Minnesota on Oct. 1, 2000. Sept. 30 — Seventh-ranked Georgia hit a big milestone as a program, notching win No. 800 with a 41-0 rout of Tennessee. Sept. 30 — Notre Dame reached 900 wins with a 52-17 win over Miami (Ohio). Oct. 1 — Frankie Dettori won an unprecedented fifth Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe as Enable capped a memorable season. Enable, the 10-11 favorite, led for most of Europe’s richest horse race to claim her fifth consecutive victory after wins in the Epsom Oaks, the Irish Oaks, the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Yorkshire Oaks. The filly won by 2 1/2 lengths over Cloth Of Stars. Oct. 1 — Houston’s Deshaun Watson became the first rookie to throw four touchdowns and run for another one since Fran Tarkenton in 1961 and tied an NFL record for most TDs by a rookie quarterback in Houston’s 57-14 victory over Tennessee. Oct. 1 — The Americans won the Presidents Cup for the seventh straight time, and this one was no contest. A dominant U.S. team needed only one point from the 12 singles matches on the last day. Kevin Chappell halved the opening match with Marc Leishman, and victory was assured when Daniel Berger went 3 up with three to play against Si Woo Kim and won the match. Oct. 3 — Didi Gregorius’ three-run homer tied the score after the Minnesota Twins chased Luis Severino in the first inning, rookie Aaron Judge hit a two-run shot in his postseason debut and the New York Yankees were rescued by their brilliant bullpen during an 8-4 victory in the AL wild-card game. Oct. 4 — Sylvia Fowles had 17 points and broke her own WNBA Finals record by grabbing 20 rebounds to lead the Minnesota Lynx to their fourth championship in seven years with an 85-76 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in Game 5. Oct. 4 — Relief pitcher Archie Bradley hit a stunning two-run triple in the seventh inning, one of four three-baggers by Arizona that sent the Diamondbacks past the Colorado Rockies 11-8 in the National League wild-card game. The 11 runs were the most scored by a team in a Wild Card game and the 19 runs set the record for two teams. Oct. 5 — Jose Altuve hit three home runs in an unprecedented show of power for the 5-foot-6 major league batting champion as the Houston Astros roughed up Chris Sale and the Boston Red Sox 8-2 in Game 1 of the AL Division Series. Oct. 5 — Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin, Wayne Simmonds and Brandon Saad each recorded a hat trick in his team’s season opener. It’s the first time four different players scored at least three goals in his season opener in 100 years, since the NHL’s first two games back in 1917. Ovechkin’s hat trick that led the Washington Capitals to a 5-4 shootout win at Ottawa was the 18th of his career. Reigning MVP McDavid picked up his second already at age 20. The hat tricks by McDavid and Simmonds on Oct. 4 were the first, respectively, in franchise history for the Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers in a season opener. Oct. 6 — Yan Gomes singled home Austin Jackson from second base with none out in the 13th inning as the Cleveland Indians rallied from five runs down to stun the New York Yankees 9-8 and snatch a 2-0 lead in the AL Division Series. Oct. 6 — Justin Turner drove in five runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-5 in Game 1 of their NL Division Series. Turner’s five RBIs tied a team postseason record. Oct. 6 — The Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Dallas Stars 2-1 in franchise’s inaugural season opener. James Neal

scored both of Vegas’ goals in the third period and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 45 of 46 shots for the win. Oct. 7 — Jarvion Franklin ran in from the 12 to give Western Michigan a 71-68 victory over Buffalo in a record-tying seven overtimes with a record-breaking 139 total points. This was the fourth game in FBS history to go into seven overtimes. The Syracuse-Pittsburgh game (Nov. 26, 2016) had a total of 137 points. Oct. 7 — Backup Khalil Tate rushed for 327 yards, an FBS record for a quarterback, and accounted for five touchdowns to help Arizona hold off Colorado 45-42. Oct. 7 — No. 21 Florida has set an NCAA record by scoring in its 366th consecutive game. The Gators got on the scoreboard with Eddy Pineiro’s 25-yard field goal in the second quarter of a 17-16 loss to LSU. That broke the previous mark set by Michigan (1984-2014). Oct. 7 — Alex Ovechkin scored four goals to become the first player in 100 years with back-to-back hat tricks to open a season, and the Washington Capitals beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1. Oct. 8 — Masahiro Tanaka’s seven-inning gem was saved when Aaron Judge prevented a home run in right field, and Greg Bird homered to give the New York Yankees a 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 3, extending their AL Division Series. Oct. 8 — Aaron Rodgers threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams with 11 seconds remaining, lifting Green Bay over the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in another thriller nine months after the Packers’ divisional playoff victory on the same field. Oct. 9 — Justin Verlander outpitched Chris Sale in a relief role reversal of aces, and the Houston Astros advanced to their first AL Championship Series, rallying past the Boston Red Sox 5-4 in Game 4 of the AL Division Series. Oct. 9 — Cody Bellinger homered, drove in two runs and flipped over a dugout railing to steal an out for a dominant Yu Darvish, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 to finish a three-game sweep in their NL Division Series. Oct. 10 — The United States was eliminated from World Cup contention with a shocking 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad scored a pair of first-half goals, and the United States will miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986. Oct. 10 — The Vegas Golden Knights won their home opener and remained unbeaten three games into their inaugural season with a 5-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Oct. 11 — Didi Gregorius homered twice off Corey Kluber as the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-2 in Game 5 to complete their comeback from a 2-0 deficit in the Division Series and dethrone the AL champions. Oct. 12 — A federal appeals court cleared the way for the NFL to impose a six-game suspension on Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott over domestic violence allegations, siding with the league in the latest high-profile fight over its ability to punish players for off-field behavior. In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in New Orleans granted the league’s emergency request to set aside an injunction and ordered a district court in Texas to dismiss Elliott’s case. The NFL announced that the suspension was effective immediately, though further appeals were possible and the Cowboys are not playing this weekend. Oct. 12 — Addison Russell drove in four runs, Wade Davis earned a seven-out save, and the Chicago Cubs reached their third NL Championship Series in a row by edging the Washington Nationals 9-8 in a thriller of a Game 5. Oct. 13 — Gustav Nyquist scored twice and Detroit had four goals in the third period to beat Vegas 6-3, handing the NHL’s newest franchise its first loss. Vegas is the first NHL expansion team to win its first three games. Oct. 15 — Justin Turner hit a three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 4-1 win over the Chicago Cubs and a 2-0 lead in the NL Championship Series. Oct. 15 — New England quarterback Tom Brady passed for 257 yards with two touchdowns in the Patriots’ 24-17 win at the New York Jets. Brady, who has 187 regular-season victories, surpassed Hall of Famer Brett Favre (186) and Peyton Manning (186) for the most regularseason victories by a starting quarterback in NFL history. Oct. 16 — Louisville’s Athletic Association officially fired coach Rick Pitino nearly three weeks after the school acknowledged that its men’s basketball program is being investigated as part of a federal corruption probe. The association, which oversees Louisville’s sports programs and is composed of trustees, faculty, students and administrators, voted unanimously to oust the longtime Cardinals coach following a board meeting. Oct. 16 — Nikita Kucherov scored twice to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. Kucherov became the fourth NHL player in 30 years to score in each of his team’s first six games, joining Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh, 1992), Steve Yzerman (Detroit, 1988) and Keith Tkachuk (St. Louis, 2008). Oct. 17 — Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott was granted another legal reprieve in the running back’s fight to avoid a six-game suspension over domestic violence allegations. U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty granted a temporary restraining order blocking the league’s suspension, clearing Elliott to play Oct. 22 at San Francisco. Crotty’s ruling came five days after a federal appeals court overturned a Texas court’s injunction that had kept Elliott on the field. Oct. 17 — Boston’s Gordon Hayward broke his left ankle just five minutes into the season, a grisly injury that overshadowed Kyrie Irving’s return to Cleveland and the Cavaliers’ 102-99 win over the shocked Celtics. Oct. 18 — The Chicago Bulls have suspended forward Bobby Portis for the first eight games for injuring teammate Nikola Mirotic during a fight at practice. Mirotic suffered multiple broken bones in his face as well as a concussion on Oct. 17. Oct. 19 — Kike Hernandez homered three times and drove in seven runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers romped past the Chicago Cubs 11-1 behind Clayton Kershaw to reach the World Series for the first time since 1988. Oct. 20 — Oakland running back Marshawn Lynch was suspended one game by the NFL for shoving a game official during the Raiders’ victory over Kansas City on Dec. 19. Oct. 21 — Charlie Morton and Lance McCullers combined on a three-hitter, Jose Altuve and Evan Gattis homered and the Houston Astros reached the World Series, blanking the New York Yankees 4-0 in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series. Oct. 22 — Sebastian Giovinco scored on a

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SPORTS STATS LABEL TAG WITH 20 POINT DUMMY TEXT. brilliant free kick in the 84th minute, giving Toronto FC a 2-2 tie at Atlanta and the most points ever in a Major League Soccer season. The tie gave Supporters’ Shield winner Toronto (20-5-9) 69 points on the season, beating the previous MLS mark of 68 set by the Los Angeles Galaxy in 1998. Oct. 22 — The Phoenix Suns fired coach Earl Watson just three games in to the NBA season. Oct. 22 — Chicago’s rookie safety Eddie Jackson became the first NFL player to score multiple defensive touchdowns of 75 yards or more in a game. Jackson ran back a fumble recovery 75 yards on the game’s opening possession and returned an interception of Cam Newton 76 yards for a score early in the second quarter to give Chicago a 14-0 lead. The Bears won 17-3. Oct. 22 — The Los Angeles Chargers played a dominant defensive game in the first home victory of their relocation season, 21-0 over the Denver Broncos. Joey Bosa had two of the Chargers’ five sacks while they sent the Broncos to the franchise’s first shutout defeat since a 24-0 loss to the Los Angeles Raiders on Nov. 22, 1992. Oct. 23 — Iditarod officials identified four-time champion Dallas Seavey as the musher whose dogs tested positive for a banned substance. Seavey, winner of four titles in the nearly 1,000-mile race before his 30th birthday, withdrew from next year’s race in protest after the Iditarod Trail Committee identified him as the musher. Oct. 24 — The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 for their fourth straight victory. The Golden Knights (7-1-0) became the first team in NHL history to win seven of the first eight games in its inaugural season. Vegas is the 10th expansion team to put together a four-game winning streak. Oct. 25 — George Springer hit a two-run drive in the 11th inning and the Houston Astros won a thrilling home run derby at Dodger Stadium, beating Los Angeles 7-6 to tie the World Series at one game apiece. The teams combined for a Series record eight homers. Houston trailed 3-2 in the ninth when Marwin Gonzalez hit a leadoff home run against closer Kenley Jansen. Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa hit back-toback homers in the Houston 10th for a 5-3 lead. The Dodgers came back, tying it on Yasiel Puig’s home run and an RBI single with two outs by Enrique Hernandez. Springer’s shot off Brandon McCarthy gave Houston just enough margin to withstand Charlie Culberson’s homer in the bottom of the 11th. Oct. 26 — Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov became the seventh set of teammates in NHL history to start the season with point streaks of at least 11 games, leading surging Tampa Bay past Detroit 3-2. Kucherov got his 12th goal in the first period, and setup Stamkos’ power-play goal from the low left circle that put Tampa Bay (9-1-1) up 2-1 at 6:22 of the third. The duo also tied Martin St. Louis’ team season-opening point streak set in 2009-10. Oct. 27 — Oscar Dansk earned his third win in three career games and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Colorado Avalanche 7-0 to extend the best start by an NHL expansion team. The Golden Knights improved to 8-1-0. They’ve won five straight, matching the longest winning streak by a team in its inaugural season, joining the New York Rangers (1926-27) and Edmonton Oilers (1979-80). Oct. 28 — Major League Baseball suspended Houston Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel the first five games of next season for making a racist gesture at Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish during the World Series. Gurriel pulled on the corners of his eyes after homering off Darvish during Houston’s 5-3 win in Game 3 on Oct. 27. He also used a derogatory Spanish term in reference to Darvish. Oct. 28 — Cody Bellinger lined a go-ahead double in the ninth inning, four Dodgers pitchers combined on a two-hitter and Los Angeles rallied past the Houston Astros 6-2 to tie the World Series at 2-all. Bellinger was 0 for 13 with eight strikeouts when he doubled and scored in the seventh to tie it at 1. Bellinger’s tiebreaking hit in the ninth came off closer Ken Giles. Joe Musgrove relieved Giles and allowed Austin Barnes’ sacrifice fly and Joc Pederson’s three-run homer, his second home run of the Series. Dodgers starter Alex Wood pitched no-hit ball until George Springer homered with two outs in the sixth. Wood, Brandon Morrow, winner Tony Watson and Kenley Jansen combined on the two-hitter. Jansen allowed Alex Bregman’s two-out homer in the ninth, the 14th home run of the Series. Oct. 28 — J.T. Barrett capped the greatest game of his career with a 16-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Baugh with 1:48 left in the fourth quarter and No. 6 ohio State rallied from 11 down in the final five minutes to hand No. 2 Penn State its first loss, 39-38. Barrett was 33 for 39 for 328 yards and four touchdown passes, three in the fourth quarter after the Buckeyes were down 35-20. Penn State led 38-27 with 5:42 left. Barrett hooked up with Johnnie Dixon for two touchdowns in the fourth and then got the ball back down five with 3:20 left. The Buckeyes quickly marched down the field and then Barrett found his big tight end Baugh open for the lead. Oct. 28 — Tyler Toffoli scored off a faceoff — his second goal of the game — just before time expired in overtime to give the Los Angeles Kings a 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves for the Kings, who are off to their best start in franchise history at 9-1-1. With 0.9 seconds left and the puck dropped for a faceoff, Anze Kopitar won the draw back to Toffoli, who unloaded a shot that beat Rask to the far post from the top of the right circle. The clock had been reset by the referees from 0.4 to 0.9 before the faceoff. Oct. 29 — Caroline Wozniacki won the biggest title of her career when she beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4 in the WTA Finals. The 27-year-old Wozniacki’s best previous result at the WTA Finals was reaching the final in 2010. Williams was the only player at this year’s WTA Finals who didn’t win a title during the season. Oct. 29 — Justin Rose mounted the third-largest final-round comeback in PGA TOUR history to win the WGC-HSBC Champions. Rose started the final round eight shots behind Dustin Johnson, who tied a record for losing the largest lead in the final round. The historic 5-under 67 round by Rose was keyed by a back-nine 31 that featured five birdies, including back-to-back birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 that gave him a lead he would never lose. Johnson, the No. 1 player in the world, was six shots clear of the field but didn’t make a single birdie on a wild, wind-blown day to finish with a 77. Rose finished at 14-under 274 and Johnson tied for second with Henrik Stenson (70) and Brooks Koepka (71), two strokes back. Oct. 29 — Lewis Hamilton won his fourth career Formula One season championship with a ninth-place finish at the Mexican

Grand Prix in a race won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Hamilton had to overcome first-lap chaos when his Mercedes was bumped by title rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari. Vettel finished fourth but had to win or finish second to push the title chase to the last two races in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Hamilton’s championship makes him the most decorated British driver in F1 history, passing Sir Jackie Stewart. He is one of only five drivers in F1 history with four or more. Oct. 29 — Russell Wilson hit Jimmy Graham for an 18-yard touchdown with 21 seconds left, his second TD catch of the fourth quarter, to lead Seattle over Houston 41-38. Wilson finished 26 of 41 for a career-high 452 yards and four TDs. Deshaun Watson was nearly the equal of Wilson, throwing for 402 yards and four touchdowns and three interceptions. Watson has thrown three touchdown passes in four consecutive games and is the first rookie in NFL history to accomplish the feat. He has 16 touchdown passes in his past four games, the most by a rookie in any four-game span. Oct. 29 — Houston’s Alex Bregman hit a game-ending single off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the 10th inning and the Astros outslugged the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 to take a 3-2 World Series lead. Houston fell behind 7-4 on Cody Bellinger’s three-run homer in the top of the fifth, but bounced back to tie it 7-7 on Jose Altuve’s three-run homer in the bottom of the inning. The Dodgers took an 8-7 lead in the seventh inning. The Astros, behind homers by George Springer and Carlos Correa, took and 11-8 lead in the bottom of the seventh. Corey Seager of the Dodgers doubled in a run in the eighth and Houston’s Brian McCann homered in the bottom of the inning for 12-9 lead. Yasiel Puig’s two-run homer in the ninth off Chris Devenski was the record 22nd of the Series, and Chris Taylor tied the score with a two-out, two-strike RBI single. Jensen hit McCann with a pitch with two outs, George Springer walked and Derek Fisher pinch ran for Bregman at second. Bregman won the 5-hour, 17-minute marathon with a liner into left field. Oct. 30 — A federal judge cleared the way for the NFL to enforce a six-game suspension of Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott over domestic violence allegations. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla denied the request for a preliminary injunction from players’ union attorneys working for Elliott. Failla put the ruling on hold for 24 hours to give Elliott’s legal team time to appeal, a likely move. It was the second time a federal ruling has overturned a reprieve that kept Elliott on the field. Oct. 31 — Chris Taylor hit a tying double off Justin Verlander during a two-run rally in the sixth inning and Corey Seager had a go-ahead sacrifice fly to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Houston Astros 3-1 to even the World Series at three games apiece. Nov. 1 — The Houston Astros, led by George Springer, beat Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7 for first World Series title in franchise history. Springer, the MVP of the series, led off the evening with a double against Yu Darvish, and soon it was 2-0. Springer hit his fifth homer — tying the mark set by Reggie Jackson and matched by Chase Utley — when he connected for a record fourth game in a row, making it 5-0 in the second inning. Nov. 3 — LeBron James poured in 57 points — the second-highest total of his career — to help the Cleveland Cavaliers end a four-game losing skid by beating the Washington Wizards 130-122. James did it efficiently, making 23 of 34 field-goal tries and all nine free throws, while adding 11 rebounds and seven assists. Nov. 4 — Gun Runner won the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic by 2 1/4 lengths, sending rival Arrogate to a third straight career-ending defeat at Del Mar. The 4-year-old colt ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:01.29 and paid $6.80, $4.40 and $3.20. Collected finished second and West Coast third. Arrogate finished in a dead-heat for fifth with Gunnevera. The biggest upset of the day belonged to Bar of Gold in the $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint. She paid $135.40 to win at 60-1 odds, edging 18-1 Ami’s Mesa in a photo finish. It was the second longest-priced winner in Breeders’ Cup history. Nov. 4 — Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield passed for a school-record 598 yards and five TDs, helping the No. 8 Sooners outlast No. 11 Oklahoma State 62-52 in the highest-scoring game in the history of the rivalry. Mason Rudolph of Oklahoma State passed for 448 yards and five TDs. Nov. 4 — Quarterback Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for a career-high 265 yards and Army ended Air Force’s 306-game scoring streak with a 21-0 win. Air Force had the fifth-longest scoring streak all-time in the FBS before Army’s swarming defense ended it. The last time the Falcons were held scoreless was by Mississippi in the 1992 Liberty Bowl. It was the first time the Falcons were shut out at home since Nov. 1, 1980, against Boston College. Nov. 4 — Northwestern’s 31-24 overtime victory over Nebraska made them the first Football Bowl Subdivision program in history to play three consecutive games that have gone to overtime and win them all. The Wildcats came to Lincoln off a 39-31 triple-overtime win at Michigan State. The week before the Wildcats beat Iowa 17-10 in overtime at home. Nov. 5 — Shalane Flanagan dethroned Mary Keitany to become the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon since 1977, potentially ending her decorated career with her first major marathon victory. Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya won the men’s race, holding off countryman Wilson Kipsang by 3 seconds for his first major victory. Nov. 5 — Jared Goff of the Los Angeles Rams and Carson Wentz of the Philadelphia Eagles became the first quarterbacks selected Nos. 1 and 2 in the same draft to each throw four or more touchdown passes on the same day. Goff, the top pick in 2016, had four touchdown throws in Los Angeles’ 51-17 rout of the New York Giants. Wentz, No. 2 that year, also threw four TD passes in Philadelphia’s 51-23 victory over Denver. Nov. 5 — New Orleans defeated Tampa Bay 30-10 to improve to 6-2 with its sixth straight victory. The Saints became the third team since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970 to win their next six games after an 0-2 start. Nov. 9 — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City denied Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott’s bid to keep a six-game suspension over alleged domestic violence on hold. The court ruled that Elliott didn’t meet the standards to continue blocking the suspension but ordered a hearing as soon as it could be scheduled. The denial of the injunction makes him ineligible in Sunday’s game at Atlanta. Nov. 10 — The Japanese women’s team set a world record in the team pursuit in the first speedskating World Cup of the season, edging the eight-year-old mark of

Canada. Nana and Miho Takagi and Ayano Sato pulled out a big last lap to clock 2:55.77, and improve the 2009 mark of Canada by .02 seconds. The Japanese also beat the Dutch world and Olympic champions in Heereveen, Ntherlands. Nov. 11 — Lamar Jackson accounted for four touchdowns and 342 yards while establishing an NCAA milestone in beating Virginia 38-21. Jackson, the Heisman Trophy winner, became the first player in NCAA history to post two seasons with 1,000 yards rushing and 3,000 yards passing. Nov. 11 — Nevada’s Dameon Baber claimed a spot in the NCAA record book with three touchdowns off returns in a 59-14 rout of San Jose State. Baber returned a blocked punt six yards to give Nevada a 14-7 lead near the end of the first quarter. He intercepted a pass in the end zone and returned it 100 yards for a score in the second quarter and added another pick six, from 39 yards, in the third quarter. Nov. 11 — Jacques Perra threw for three touchdowns, Stephen Wagner added three more on the ground, and St. Thomas (Minn.) beat St. Olaf 97-0 to become the second Division III team this season to score 90-plus in a shutout victory. St. Thomas picked off four passes, had two return touchdowns and held the Oles to 71 total yards. The Tommies gained 667 yards. Nov. 11 — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points to help Milwaukee overcome Lonzo Ball’s triple-double in the Bucks’ 98-90 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Ball became the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double when he had 17 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds. At 20 years and 15 days, he bested LeBron James by four days to become the youngest to accomplish the feat. Nov. 11 — Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski became the first men’s Division I basketball coach to win 1,000 games at one school, when his top-ranked Blue Devils beat Utah Valley 99-69. Krzyzewski, who in 2015 became the first men’s coach to win 1,000 games, improved to 1,073-330. He coached six years at his alma mater, Army before taking over at Duke. He is 1,000-271 in the 38 seasons with the Blue Devils. Nov. 12 — The United States won its 18th Fed Cup title and the first since 2000 with a 3-2 win against Belarus. CoCo Vandeweghe and Shelby Rogers beat Aryna Sabalenka and Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3, 7-6 (3) in the deciding doubles of the 2017 final. Sasnovich had kept Belarus alive after beating U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens 4-6, 6-1, 8-6 to leave the final even at 2-2. Vandeweghe earlier beat Sabalenka 7-6 (5), 6-1 to give the U.S. a 2-1 lead. Nov. 12 — Brittany Force became the NHRA’s first female Top Fuel season champion since Shirley Muldowney in 1982 in the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals. Force, the daughter of 16-time Funny Car champion John Force, wrapped up the title in the quarterfinals and went on to win the event at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. Force beat Shawn Langdon with a 3.668-second pass at 330.07 mph in the final for her fourth victory of the year. Nov. 13 — Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger were voted unanimously as baseball’s Rookies of the Year after their recordsetting home run binges lifted the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers into the postseason. Nov. 14 — Grayson Allen — Duke’s lone senior — scored a career-high 37 points, freshman Trevon Duval had 17 points and 10 assists, and the top-ranked Blue Devils beat No. 2 Michigan State 88-81 in the Champions Classic in Chicago. Nov. 14 — Kyrie Irving returned to the lineup and scored 25 points while wearing a mask, and the Boston Celtics beat the Brooklyn Nets 109-102 for their 13th straight victory. The Celtics remained unbeaten since an 0-2 start. Irving missed one game with a minor facial fracture after he was hit by teammate Aron Baynes on Nov. 10. The Celtics’ streak made them the first team in NBA history to win 13 straight games after starting the year 0-2 or worse. Nov. 15 — Dewayne Dedmon scored a career-high 20 points and had 14 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks rode a dominant first half to the most lopsided win in franchise history, 126-80 over the Sacramento Kings. Atlanta’s 46-point margin of victory was two points better than its previous best, a 141-97 win over Detroit on Feb. 7, 1994. Nov. 15 — Corey Kluber of the Cleveland Indians and Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals were repeat winners of the Cy Young awards. Nov. 16 — James Harden had 23 of his 48 points in the second quarter while Houston scored 90 points in the first half en route to a 146-116 win over Phoenix. The Rockets made 61 percent of their first-half shots to get the second-most points in a first half in NBA history. Houston came up 14 points shy of the franchise record for points in a game. Ryan Anderson added 24 points for the Rockets, who have won seven of eight. Nov. 16 — Houston Astros compact dynamo Jose Altuve won the American League MVP award, towering over New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge by a wide margin. Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton won the NL MVP award, barely edging Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds. Nov. 18 — Kyrie Irving scored 30 points, Jaylen Brown added a career-high 27 and the Boston Celtics won their 15th straight game with a 110-99 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. At 15-2, Boston matched the best start in franchise history through 17 games. The winning streak is the club’s fifth-longest, four behind the 2008-09 team that set the franchise mark. Nov. 19 — Martin Truex Jr. clinched his first NASCAR Cup championship by winning the season finale at HomesteadMiami Speedway. Truex edged fellow Toyota driver Kyle Busch in the 400-mile finale. Kevin Harvick (fourth) and Brad Keselowski (seventh) were the only other championship contenders in the field. Truex won for the eighth time this year, continuing the most successful season of his journeyman career. Nov. 19 — New Orleans extended its winning streak to eight games with an unlikely comeback, erasing a 15-point deficit inside the final six minutes of regulation and kicking a short field goal in overtime to defeat Washington 34-31. With their victory, the Saints became the first team since the 1970 merger to win eight consecutive games immediately following an 0-2 start. Nov. 19 — With a 33-8 win over Oakland, the New England Patriots improved to 8-2 and clinched their 17th straight season without a losing record, tying the 1957-73 Cleveland Browns for the second-longest streak in NFL history. Dallas has the record with 21 straight from 1965-85. Stephen Gostkowski set a New England record with a 62-yard field goal at the end of the first half.

Nov. 19 — Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov outlasted Belgium’s David Goffin 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to win the ATP World Tour Finals title. Nov. 22 — Houston’s Luc Mbah a Moute logged an amazing plus-57 through his 26 minutes on the floor of a 125-95 win over the Denver Nuggets. During the 30-point rout Mbah a Moute set an NBA record for plus-minus for an individual game. It topped Joe Smith’s plus-52 in a 2001 Timberwolves win over the Bulls, a 53-point game that also produced a plus-50 for Wally Szczerbiak and plus-48 for Terrell Brandon. Mbah a Moute’s traditional stat line was 13 points on 5-of-5 shooting with four rebounds, four steals and an assist. Nov. 23 — Philip Rivers threw for 434 yards and three touchdowns in his first Thanksgiving game in the NFL and the Los Angeles Chargers beat the fading Dallas Cowboys 28-6. Nov. 25 — Nate Mason scored 20 points to lead No. 14 Minnesota to an 89-84 victory over No. 25 Alabama, which finished the game with just three players, in the championship game of the Barclays Center Classic. Jordan Murphy added 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for Minnesota. Collin Sexton had 40 points for the Crimson Tide. The game was marred by a near brawl involving Minnesota’s Dupree McBrayer and Alabama’s Dazon Ingram in front of the Crimson Tide bench 6:21 into the second half. During the fracas, Alabama players Donta Hall, Alex Reese, Daniel Giddens, Avery Johnson Jr. and Herbert Jones came off the bench and were ejected. Ingram, who had four fouls at the time of the scuffle, fouled out. Nearly 3 minutes after the McBrayerIngram incident, Alabama lost John Petty to a leg injury and were down to three players. Leading by 14 with 10:17 left, the Golden Gophers saw their lead trimmed to 83-80 on Sexton’s layup. Alabama had a chance to cut the deficit to one — or tie — after Sexton grabbed a rebound of a miss by Coffey, but he missed a mid-range right side jumper. Nov. 26 — France won the Davis Cup for the first time in 16 years after beating Belgium 3-2. Lucas Pouille’s lopsided 6-3, 6-1, 6-0 win over Steve Darcis in the second reverse singles gave France its 10th Davis Cup title, ending a run of three losses in finals. France joined Britain in third place on the list for the most Davis Cup titles, behind the United States (32) and Australia (28). France had won its last title in 2001, and lost in finals in 2002, 2010 and 2014. Nov. 26 — Julio Jones finished with 12 receptions for 253 yards and two touchdowns in Atlanta’s 34-20 victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was Jones’ third career game with at least 250 yards receiving;no other player has more than one. Nov. 26 — Tom Brady tossed four touchdown passes and the New England Patriots pushed through a mistake-filled game to beat the Miami Dolphins 35-17. It was Brady’s 28th career game with four or more touchdown passes — ranking third all-time. His 26 touchdowns passes are the most ever in a season after turning 40 years old. New England clinched its 17th consecutive season with a winning record. It’s the longest such streak since 1970, topping the previous record held by the 1970-1985 Dallas Cowboys and 19831998 San Francisco 49ers. Nov. 26 — Lirim Hajrullahu kicked a 32-yard field goal with 49 seconds left and the Toronto Argonauts stunned the Calgary Stampeders 27-24 in the Canadian Football League’s snowy 105th Grey Cup. Nov. 27 — Oakland receiver Michael Crabtree and Denver cornerback Aqib Talib were suspended two games — later reduced to one game — for fighting during the recent game between the two teams. The suspensions came a day after the two players brawled during Oakland’s 21-14 victory. The fight was a continuation of a dispute that started last season when Talib ripped Crabtree’s chain off during the season finale. Crabtree missed the first game between the teams this year but didn’t wait long to seek revenge. Nov. 29 — Ben Simmons had 31 points and a career-high 18 rebounds and overcame a Hack-a-Shaq strategy, leading Philadelphia past Washington 118-113. Joel Embiid had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Dario Saric added 24 points to help the Sixers win. Washington nearly overcame a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter and spent the final five minutes intentionally fouling Simmons, who entered the game shooting 56.6 percent. He went 15 for 29, but made six of his last eight. His 24 attempts in the fourth were an NBA record for a quarter and the 29 overall set a league mark for rookies. Dec. 2 — McKenzie Milton of UCF threw for 494 yards and five TDs to help the 12th-ranked Knights win the American Athletic Conference title with a 62-55 victory over No. 16 Memphis in double overtime. The 117 points between UCF and Memphis set a record for an FBS conference championship game. Dec. 3 — Keenan Allen had 10 catches for 105 yards and a touchdown in his third straight big game for surging Los Angeles Chargers, which beat the winless Cleveland Browns 19-10. Allen became the first player in league history to have 10 or more catches, 100 or more yards and one or more touchdowns in three consecutive games. Dec. 3 — Tom Brady continued his career-long dominance of the Buffalo Bills completing 21 of 30 for 258 yards and an interception in New England’s 23-3 victory. He improved to 27-3 against Buffalo and broke Brett Favre’s record for wins by a quarterback against any one opponent. The Patriots also reached double digits in victories for the 15th consecutive season, the second-longest streak in league history. San Francisco had at least 10 wins in 16 straight seasons from 1983-1998. Dec. 5 — The International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian Olympic committee and IOC member Alexander Zhukov, and also banned Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vilaty Mutko from the Olympics for life. Mutko was the sports minister in 2014 and is the head of the organizing committee of soccer’s next World Cup. Russian athletes would be allowed to compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics as neutrals despite orchestrated doping at the 2014 Sochi Games. Those Russians invited would compete as an “Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR)” without their national flag or anthem. The IOC also imposed a fine of $15 million on the Russian Olympic committee to pay for investigations into the case and toward future anti-doping work. Dec. 5 — Bradley Beal scored a career-high 51 points, and Washington bounced back from a demoralizing loss the night before to beat Portland 106-92. Beal made 21 field goals, also a career high, and the Wizards led by as many as 23 points. He hit five 3-pointers. The Wizards were coming off a 116-69 Dec. 4 loss at Utah, the second-largest losing margin in franchise history.

Dec. 6 — UCLA canceled a men’s basketball game with Montana because of wildfires in the area. Several wildfires were burning throughout Southern California, including near the UCLA campus. Dec. 6 — Roger Goodell signed a five-year contract extension to remain commissioner of the NFL through 2024. Dec. 7 — Baker Mayfield was named The Associated Press college football Player of the Year, becoming the fourth Oklahoma quarterback to win the award since it was established in 1998. Mayfield received 51 first-place votes from the 56 AP college football poll voters and easily outpointed Stanford running back Bryce Love, who came in second. Dec. 7 — Larry Nassar, a former elite sports doctor whose sexual assault cases that rocked Michigan State University and the group that trains U.S. Olympic gymnasts, was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for possessing thousands of images of child pornography. Nassar, 54, will also be sentenced for 10 state counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in January. In November, he pled guilty to using his hands to molest girls at his campus office, his home and at a gymnastics club near Lansing, Michigan. Dec. 9 — Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield has won the Heisman Trophy, completing a climb from walk-on to one of the most accomplished players in the history of college football. The brash Sooners star became the sixth Oklahoma player to the win Heisman in one of the most lopsided votes ever. Stanford running back Bryce Love was the runner-up, making it five second-place finishes for the Cardinal since 2009. Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson, last year’s Heisman winner, was third, the best finish by a returning winner since Tim Tebow of Florida in 2008. Mayfield received 732 first-place votes and 2,398 points. Love had 75 first-place votes and 1,300 points and Jackson received 47 and 793. Mayfield received 86 percent of the total points available, the third-highest percentage in Heisman history. Dec. 9 — Jozy Altidore opened the scoring in the 67th minute and Toronto FC beat the Seattle Sounders 2-0 in the MLS Cup to become the first Canadian champion in league history. Toronto avenged a penaltyshootout loss to Seattle last year in the title game. Victor Vasquez made it 2-0 in injury time from close range after substitute Armando Cooper’s shot rebounded off the post. Dec. 9 — Russia’s Denis Yuskov broke the men’s 1,500-meter world record in the World Cup speedskating event at the Utah Olympic Oval. Yuskov finished in 1 minute, 41.02 seconds to break the mark of 1:41.04 set by American Shani Davis on the same ice in a World Cup race on Dec 11, 2009. Dutchman Koen Verweij was second in 1:41.63, and countryman Thomas Krol was third. Dec. 10 — Japan’s Nao Kodaira and Canada’s Ted-Jan Bloemen set world records on the final day of the World Cup speedskating event at the Utah Olympic Oval. Kodaira finished in 1 minute, 12.09 seconds in the women’s 1000 meters, her third race victory in three days. American Brittany Bowe held the previous record of 1:12.18. Bloemen finished in 6:01.86 in the men’s 5,000. Dutch skater Sven Kramer held the previous record of 6:03.32. Dec. 10 — Jack Morris was elected to the Hall by its Modern Era committee along with former Detroit Tigers teammate Alan Trammell. The big-game pitcher and star shortstop were picked by 16 voters who considered 10 candidates whose biggest contributions came from 1970-87. Morris got 14 votes and Trammell drew 13, one more than the minimum needed. Dec. 10 — Sam Werner scored in the second overtime to lead Stanford to its third straight NCAA men’s soccer title with a 1-0 win over Indiana. The goal was blasted over goalkeeper Trey Muse’s head from close range and sneaked just under the crossbar after an Indiana turnover in the box. The Cardinal (19-2-2), who came into the NCAA tournament as the No. 9 seed, became the second men’s soccer program to win three straight titles. Virginia, under former U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena, won four in a row from 1991 to 1994. The Cardinal women won the national championship last weekend, making Stanford the first school to win both soccer titles in the same season. Dec. 10 — Ben Roethlisberger completed 44 of a franchise-record 66 passes for 506 yards and two touchdowns, becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to top 500 yards passing three times and leading Pittsburgh past Baltimore 39-38. Antonio Brown caught 11 passes for 213 yards for Pittsburgh. The Steelers blew an early 14-point lead and found themselves trailing by 11 going into the fourth before exploding for 19 points over the final 15 minutes, the last three coming on Chris Bowell’s 46-yard field goal with 42 seconds left. It was the fourth gamewinning field goal in the final minute for Boswell over the past five games. Dec. 10 — For the eighth time since the 1970 merger, quarterbacks taken No. 1 and No. 2 overall in the same draft squared off with the Rams’ Jared Goff — the first pick overall in 2016 — and Philadelphia’s Carson Wentz — who went No. 2. Wentz threw for 291 yards and four touchdowns before leaving with a knee injury in the Eagles’ 43-35 win. Goff threw for 199 yards and two touchdowns for Los Angeles. Dec. 15 — Mount Union won its 13th Division III football national championship with a 12-0 victory over defending champion Mary Hardin-Baylor. The Purple Raiders (15-0) limited Mary Hardin-Baylor to 144 yards. The Crusaders (14-1) had not trailed all season and had their 29-game winning streak snapped. Dec. 15 — Bobby Portis scored a careerhigh 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls won their fifth consecutive game, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 115-109. The Bulls became the first team in the NBA to win five straight games after a double digit losing streak. Dec. 17 — Marcel Hirscher dominated both runs to take a record fifth straight win in the Alta Badia giant slalom at La Villa, Italy. Hirscher finished 1.70 seconds ahead of Norwegian rival Henrik Kristoffersen and broke tie with Italian great Alberto Tomba — the pair had four GS wins each on the challenging Gran Risa course. Dec. 17 — Eli Manning passed for a season-high 434 yards with three touchdowns in the New York Giants 34-29 loss to Philadelphia. The Eagles became the first team since 1991 to block a field goal, extra point and punt in the same game. Dec. 17 — Buffalo’s LeSean McCoy scored twice and became the 30th player to reach 10,000 yards rushing to help the Bills beat the Miami Dolphins 24-16. Dec. 18 — Scott Frost was named Associated Press Coach of the Year after leading UCF to a perfect season, including a conference title and a bid to the Peach Bowl. Frost received 21 first-place votes and 100 points from 57 top 25 poll voters

who submitted ballots. Kirby Smart of Georgia finished second with seven first-place votes and 55 points. Dec. 19 — Freshman Trae Young had 26 points and tied an NCAA Division I record with 22 assists as No. 17 Oklahoma rolled past Northwestern State 105-68. Young’s 22 assists tied the major college record set by Tony Fairley of Charleston Southern vs. Armstrong in 1987 and matched by Southern’s Avery Johnson against Texas Southern in 1988 and Syracuse’s Sherman Douglas against Providence in 1989. Young also broke the former Big 12 record of 18, set by Oklahoma’s Michael Johnson vs. North Texas in 1997, and matched by Oklahoma State’s Doug Gottlieb vs. Florida Atlantic in 1998. Dec. 19 — North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell became the third women’s Division I coach to register her 1,000th career victory after the Tar Heels beat Grambling State 79-63. Hatchell, who battled leukemia and was declared cancer-free in 2014, is 1,000-376 during a 43-year career that started with 11 seasons at Francis Marion. Hatchell, 728-286 with the Tar Heels, is the only coach to win national titles at the AIAW, NAIA and NCAA levels, capturing the first two of those at Francis Marion in 1982 and 1986. Dec. 19 — Geno Auriemma won his 1000th game as top-ranked UConn beat Oklahoma 88-64 in the Hall of Fame women’s Holiday Showcase. Auriemma became the fourth women’s coach to reach the 1,000-win mark, joining Pat Summitt, Tara VanDerveer and Sylvia Hatchell, who earned her milestone victory earlier in the day. He became the fastest to achieve the mark, doing so in his 1,135th game. The Hall of Fame coach has gone 500-36 since winning his 500th game in 2003. That includes winning 100 of his last 101 contests. Dec. 20 — Fletcher Magee scored 27 points to help Wofford stun No. 5 North Carolina 79-75, snapping the reigning national champion’s 23-game home winning streak. The Terriers (8-4) led the entire second half and by as many as 14 points before holding off UNC’s late-game run for a huge road win and their first win over a ranked team in 23 games. Dec. 20 — Rookie forward Kyle Kuzma set career highs with 38 points and seven 3-pointers, and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame 51 points from James Harden to end the Houston Rockets’ 14-game winning streak with a 122-116 victory. It was Houston’s first loss since Nov. 14. The game was tied before Los Angeles scored 10 straight points — while Houston missed seven shots in a row — to go up 110-100 with about four minutes left. Dec. 21 — The Seattle Seahawks were fined $100,000 for not properly following concussion protocol with quarterback Russell Wilson during a game in November. Dec. 23 — Darnell Woolfolk scored on a 1-yard run with 18 seconds left, Kell Walker converted a go-ahead 2-point run and Army added a last-play defensive touchdown for a 42-35 victory over San Diego State the Armed Forces Bowl. Rashaad Penny ran for 221 yards, his fifth straight game of at least 200 yards, and scored four touchdowns. Penny’s scores came on runs of 81, on his first carry, 32, 49 and 4 yards. Penny finished the season with 2,248 yards and became the fourth FBS player ever to run for 200 yards in five straight games. Dec. 26 — Stanford swimmer Katie Ledecky was named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. She earned five golds and a silver at this year’s world championships in Budapest, Hungary. Ledecky received 351 points, edging out Serena Williams with 343. Williams won the Australian Open for her Open erarecord 23rd Grand Slam tennis title. Dec. 27 — Jose Altuve, one of only a handful of players who endured the Astros’ painful rebuilding process en route to this year’s championship, which gave hope to a city ravaged by Hurricane Harvey, was chosen as The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year. Jose Altuve led the Houston Astros to their first World Series title with a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in November and picked up the franchise’s first MVP trophy in more than two decades a couple of weeks later.

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range of emotions that comes with it. I know coach (Gregg Marshall) has this team prepared and they’re ready to compete with the best teams we can possibly compete with.” While Bardo promoted the academic benefits of joining the American and Boatright emphasized how it can improve all of WSU’s sports, it was clear the move was made with men’s basketball in mind. Marshall’s program is closer than it’s ever been to the heavyweights of the college basketball world and he’s aware of how important WSU’s first impression will be, especially with a top-10 team many prognosticators are

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holiday break. They sit atop the City League and are outscoring opponents by more than 15 points a contest. The beauty of Auer’s group this year is its versatility. Davis is the leader, but he isn’t the only option. There are five Falcons who average more than eight points per game. Each adds another dimension, and Davis’ is the three-ball. He is shooting 43 percent behind the arc and finished his junior season near that mark, too, earning second team All-Class 5A honors. Still, Davis doesn’t attract the spotlight. Although his play fills up stat sheets, the unselfish system doesn’t bring a ton of college scouts through the doors. He received a few Division II offers and committed to Colby College, a small liberal arts college in Maine. Davis is set to join the pre-med program and wants to become a doctor down the road, something Auer said he told him his

time at Heights will help with. “Think of all your patients you have every day, all these different guys, all these different personalities,” Auer said he told Davis. “What a great opportunity for you to conquer leadership before you head out into the world.” Colby is almost 2,000 miles away. He won’t know anyone or bring anyone with him. He said that is a little scary, but for a kid from Wichita, it’s an offer he couldn’t pass up. Auer used Davis as an example constantly throughout Thursday’s practice. Auer cited Davis’ goals, his commitment to his eduction, his selflessness and how all of those things have gotten him to a point where playing a sport is going to “pay his bills.” There is a lot of talented youth on Heights’ roster this season, all of whom can learn from the example Davis has set, Auer said. Danair Dempsey is at the forefront of the Falcons’ future.

Dempsey, a 6-foot-5 freshman, has been exposed to fame. He went to Houston Rocket guard Chris Paul’s camp. He has met Kevin Durant, he said. He starts for Heights. And he is still two years away from taking his driving exam. Edwards, who plays alongside Dempsey in the post, said he has never seen a player as young and talented. Davis’ importance is amplified because of that, to ground the high-fliers and motivate those getting demoted to the JV team. For his final season in Wichita, Davis said he wants two things, and one leads to the other. “I want to be remembered for being the best leader this program has ever had,” Davis said. “And hopefully at the end of the year, winning a state championship will set that in stone.”

picking to win the conference. “Obviously you want to make a good first impression,” WSU sophomore Landry Shamet said. “But we’re approaching this like we would with any other good teams we’ve played. We just look at it like we have another good team we have to go try and beat.” When AAC commissioner Mike Aresco visited Wichita in September, he said WSU joining the ranks was a “shot in the arm” for the AAC. It was ideal timing in basketball terms: WSU, a preseason title contender, joining another established contender in Cincinnati with programs like SMU, Houston, Temple, and Central Florida all on the upswing. The consensus among NCAA Tournament projections has three AAC

teams in the field with up to three more programs close enough to be capable of playing their way into the field with a good conference season. That doesn’t include Connecticut or Memphis, a pair of tradition-rich programs in the midst of rebuilding. “Wichita State was always going to be a tremendous team and they would do well in any league, but I’m glad they’re in our league because there’s no question the competition is going to be better,” Aresco said. “There’s depth in this conference and that will make (WSU) an even stronger team and it’s going to help them playing better competition in bigger arenas in bigger cities on national television. This is the start of a great thing for Gregg Marshall and his program.”

The reality of the stepup in competition began to sink in with the basketball team while studying film of Connecticut, which is 7-5 and has lost its five games by an average of 20.8 points. By all accounts, the Huskies are considered a middle-ofthe-pack AAC team. The talent disparity between Connecticut, which boasts high school All-Americans and highlytouted recruits, and teams in the middle of the Valley provides a stark contrast. “You start watching them on video against Arizona and you start to realize they’re just as long and as athletic as Arizona,” said WSU assistant coach Kyle Lindsted, who is preparing the scouting report for Saturday’s game. “It kind of takes you back a little bit. It’s a different type of player

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my teammates.” Willis has been at his best on put-backs on offensive rebounds, cutting to the basket off interior screens, and popping out as the screener. But what Willis has been most proud of is the counter he developed this summer for teams that shade him to the left. He is known as a dominant left-handed player who almost always spins to get to his left hand, but in the Oklahoma game he left a defender leaning left in the dust with a spin move to his right and finished with a ferocious dunk. That’s the result of hard work in the offseason in Willis’ pursuit to become a more complete player. “I knew coming into this season everyone was going to play me to my left and try to take that away, so I had to come up with something new,” Willis said. “There’s going to be

than we’ve seen over the years in conference up and down the line.” It’s clear WSU won’t be able to rely on the same paths it took to win a share of the Valley championship the last four seasons and compile a 68-4 conference record in that span. The American not only offers bigger cities and more exposure for WSU, but also a significant step-up in the competition’s talent level. “Our advantages are going to be to play harder, play smarter, and be tougher,” Lindsted said. “We’re not going to outathlete these guys, so we better do the things we’ve been known for doing over the years. We’ve got to make sure that’s what we’re about.” This type of challenge is what players look forward to.

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I FEEL LIKE I’M DEFINITELY TAKING WAY BETTER SHOTS THAN I DID LAST YEAR. LAST YEAR (MARSHALL) WAS RIGHT, I WAS ‘MACHINE GUN’ WILLIS. I WAS SHOOTING EVERYTHING. BUT NOW I FEEL LIKE I’M PLAYING MY BEST BASKETBALL. Darral Willis plenty more plays like that the rest of the season.” Taylor Eldridge: 316-268-6270, @tayloreldridge

“Anybody who is competitive wants to play the best of the best,” Shamet said. “It’s something I think we’re all looking forward to.” The volleyball team’s undefeated run to an American championship earlier in the fall gave WSU’s athletic department a taste of what victory was like in the new conference. The men’s basketball team hopes to add to it in March. “The sense I’ve got from talking to people is they were ready for a change,” Bardo said. “Everyone understands why this is such an important move. I think everyone is excited to get this thing started.” Taylor Eldridge: 316-268-6270, @tayloreldridge

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Creating cheer in the new year Create mini bars throughout your home as a key to party traffic control, a way to get guests to spread out. Create a bar in the living room, using an old serving cart. Add bottles and a few essentials, like glassware, mixers and ice. Or turn an end table or console table into a small bar. Keep it simple, with just a few favorite spirits on hand. — MARY CAROL GARRITY/TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

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Fabric is a great way to use ultra violet in decor. Pantone Color Institute named “ultra violet” as the Color of 2018.

Ultra Violet colors the year ahead BY DEBBIE ARRINGTON

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How to keep a poinsettia perky Did you get a poinsettia? Here’s a few tips to keep it looking its best: A Place in a warm sunny location away from heating vents or drafts. Poke holes in the foil wrapper for drainage and place on a saucer. A Place indoors in indirect light. Six hours or more of light (natural or fluorescent) is best. A Keep temperatures between 65 and 75 degrees, day or night. A Limit their exposure to outside temperatures; they can’t take any chill for extended periods. If using potted poinsettias for a porch display, place them outside just before your guests arrive. Don’t leave them outside overnight. A Check the soil daily. Water when soil feels dry to the touch, but don’t let it get soggy. Allow water to drain into the saucer; discard excess water.

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f color forecasters are correct, the year ahead will be filled with a purple haze. From housewares to fashion to flowers, expect a heavy dose of bright, eye-popping purple. That’s the prediction of the experts at Pantone Color Institute, which recently named “ultra violet” as the Color of 2018. This isn’t your basic aubergine or periwinkle or Sacramento Kings’ royal purple. Instead, ultra violet — as its name implies — kicks up its intensity as “a dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade,” accord-

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ing to the color experts. To come up with its annual Color of the Year, Pantone tracks trends in all segments of design, then weighs

shades it sees on the upswing against other more nebulous factors such as the mood of the nation. “We are living in a

time that requires inventiveness and imagination,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, in the

official announcement. “It is this kind of creative inspiration that is indigenous to … ultra violet, a blue-based purple that takes our awareness and potential to a higher level. From exploring new technologies and the greater galaxy, to artistic expression and spiritual reflection, intuitive ultra violet lights the way to what is yet to come.” Pantone reads many things into this intense hue. It “communicates ingenuity, originality and visionary thinking that points to the future,” according to the experts. It’s a Prince kind of purple. Ultra violet also has a calming and meditative aspect that can combat the nonstop stress of life today, Pantone noted. Visually, it complements the ubiquitous grays in modern homes. For color watchers, ultra violet is more blue than radiant orchid, Pantone’s 2014 Color of the Year, and pinker SEE ULTRA VIOLET, 5C

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As 2017 rolls out and 2018 ushers in, some clear design trends are taking shape. Many are tied to lifestyle trends now affecting home decor. 1. Local materials. Similar to the farm-to-table movement in food, in home decor, many businesses – including even larger retailers – are incorporating the work of local artisans into their product mix. 2. Gray, black and taupe. More than ever, muted colors are dominating the color landscape. Why? Because of the versatility of neutral

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colors. Neutral colors don’t have to be boring; they can easily be added to any pop of color or accents.

3. Brass. No longer considered outdated, brass is now a popular and modern finish for case goods as well as lighting.

4. Vintage. One of the trends that will be elevated in 2018 will be blending old with new. Socalled conversation pieces can easily be incorporated and blended into a modern palette. 5. Recycled, repurposed and reclaimed

materials. These days people are more socially conscious than ever, and in nearly every city there is an ever growing group of local craftsmen producing gorgeous furnishings such as wood slab tables SEE TRENDS, 2C

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Yes, older homes tend to have more character than new construction, from unique architectural features to lovable little nooks. But what looks charming is often not practical. So before you invest in vintage, consider the perks of buying new. Here are 10 reasons to buy a brand-new house: 1. Personalized picks. Purchasing a house that hasn’t been completed allows you to customize your home. Buyers can often choose everything from the floor plan to the finishes in a new masterplanned community. 2. Modern design. New homes reflect the lifestyles of today’s families, with open floor plans, flex rooms and livable outdoor spaces, as well as plenty of closet space and roomy master suites. They also have all the outlets and charging ports needed to keep everyone and everything plugged in. 3. Energy efficiency. State law requires that California builders be extremely energy-efficient, which means new homes come with thicker wall insulation, highly efficient heating and cooling systems and appliances, along with doublepaned windows, and LED lighting. An increasing number of new homes also are equipped with solar panels, making these residences good for the environment as well as your pocketbook. 4. Low maintenance. Besides having everything new and in perfect working order, new construction is also focused on low maintenance, often with composite building materials that won’t weather or crack and won’t need to be painted every few years. 5. Worry-free warranty. If something does go wrong, state regulations require builders to offer a 10-year warranty on major structural defects. Limited coverage on materials and workmanship usually lasts from one to two years. 6. Safe haven. New homes are constructed to the latest building codes, which are constantly updated to address consumer safety issues. Codes include elements that range from insulation to plumbing and paint. Hightech ventilation and airfiltration systems ensure that even what you can’t see won’t hurt you. 7. Fire safety. New homes are required to have fire sprinklers. They also must have hard-wired smoke alarms with a battery backup. Smoke alarms need to be interconnected, which means that if smoke is detected, all alarms will sound. 8. Friendly financing. Builders often have a mortgage company that can offer incentives to buyers. 9. Neighborly neighborhoods. Because everyone is moving into the community at the same time, chances are you will get to know your neighbors. Often, new communities attract like-minded people, so your new neighbors are likely to become your new friends. 10. It’s new! There’s an emotional factor to owning something that’s brand-new. Owning something that’s never been used is gratifying.

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Experts’ favorite folding chairs for entertaining a crowd BY LINDSEY M. ROBERTS

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When hosting for the holidays and beyond, extra seating is easily overlooked, says Aleah Valley, an event planner in Seattle. But if you plan your seating as well as you plan your food, Valley says, “your guests will feel appreciated and welcome, that they aren’t just an afterthought that you dusted off an old chair from your garage for.” Do a dry run, she suggests: Check to see whether you have enough chairs for the number of guests around your table without being crowded. And if you do need folding chairs, we have some tips for that, too, from Valley, a shop owner in Boston, the cofounder of Chairish, a blogger and a designer. They agree that scale is important. Any chair that’s small and narrow might make guests feel as if they “drew the short straw,” Austin designer Avery Cox says. And make sure it’s sturdy, Cox adds: “I’m not a fan of the folding-chair wobble.” As co-founder of a wedding-planning business in Seattle, Valley & Co. Events, Valley knows how to elevate folding chairs beyond their utilitarian selves. To dress up something basic such as the Fritz Style folding chair ($49.99, chairsdirectseating.com), which she

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describes as “comfy, with nice padding and very portable,” she adds easy decorations. “A really simple way to jazz up chairs would be to take a handful of herbs and tie them with twine on the back of the chair with a name tag,” she says. “Even if it’s just a few people, going that extra

mile helps make your guests feel welcome.” At the vintage furniture marketplace Chairish (chairish.com), traditional wood folding chairs with a “schoolhouse look and feel” go fast, notes Anna Brockway, and she’s seen an uptick in Lucite, too. The co-founder and chief marketing officer of Chairish can’t help but recommend going vintage, but she also likes the Lucent folding chair from Wisteria ($229, wisteria.com) because of the way the material goes with all styles and maintains a sophisticated and contemporary look. “Over time, folding chairs are an investment that is worth it and something you can use for not only your events, but for friends who may need the help,” says Michiel Perry, founder of Black Southern Belle, outside Charleston, South Carolina. “What better hostess gift than bringing the folding chairs?” She says a bamboo folding chair, such as the American Champion bamboo folding chair ($38.44, amazon.com), is a “perfect addition to your entertaining arsenal.” When looking for chairs, Jill Goldberg, the owner and principal designer of Hudson Interior Designs and the store Hudson in Boston, says that comfort is the No. 1 priority. Her pick is the Nisse folding chair from Ikea ($14.99, ikea.com). It also comes in orange and, for an additional $10, white, and it can even be hung on a hook. A folding chair doesn’t have to be ugly, Cox says. She likes the popular ballroom folding chairs in fruitwood from Ballard Designs ($299 for two, ballarddesigns.com). Cox dresses up her folding chairs with draped textiles or sheepskin on the back.

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Miss Robbie’s Hamburger Heaven after she retires comes to a boiling point; and Beyonce’s dad, Mathew Knowles, surprises Tim with more than just a visit. 9 p.m. on ABC Ten Days in the Valley Though there still are two more “days” left in the series, its central crisis reaches a conclusion of sorts in the new episode “Day 8: Against Type,” as the search for the abducted Lake (Abigail Pniowsky) comes to an end. Expect the residual effects to continue for Jane (Kyra Sedgwick), though ... as well as for others including Ali (Erika Christensen), who gets entangled with drug dealer PJ (Mark L. Young).

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TRENDS and custom furniture. 6. Metallics. Silver, brass, chrome and metal will be hot in 2018. Hardware will be on trend as a way to make a statement, whether through kitchen cabinets or furniture pieces. Additionally, soft goods will be influenced by the presence of metallics in pillows and bedding. 7. Anything hygge. Hygge is a Danish word (pronounced hoo-guh) that essentially means coziness and a feeling of contentment. There are a number of ways this translates into daily life, from the home to how to act throughout the day. Look for items that can bring about calm and relaxation.

8. Basic black. There was a time when deep brown and indigo were popular alternatives to black. In 2018, black will be back and dominant in home decor. Black continues to make a power statement and will be used prominently in finishes, fixtures and furnishings. 9. Concrete. This material remains popular, whether you are looking to achieve a look that is modern and minimal or industrial chic. 10. Pink. Believe it or not, this color has become a gender-neutral mainstay. No longer considered feminine, the color pink is seen in all gender fashion on the runway as well as in home decor.

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Directions: 1. Words must be of four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed. 3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible. 4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.

Today’s word: BEDRIDDEN (BEDRIDDEN: BED-rid-en: Confined to bed, as by illness.)

Find the 7 words to match the 7 clues. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in each solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.

CLUES

SOLUTIONS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________

like Uriah Heep (8) dragging one’s heels (9) Kindle e-reader (10) seaside puddle (8) harsh governments (9) sidekick (7) quite small (10)

RWHI

UNCT

POOL

TIVE

UOUS

DIM

ACO

TIDE

ING

LYTE

RAN

PAPE

INU

Friday’s Answers: 1. GUZZLING 2. KIPPERS 3. LOZENGE 4. UNACCEPTED 5. SWEATS 6. DEMPSEY 7. ORIGEN

ACES ON BRIDGE

Today’s deal saw South take a flyer at four spades, partly because he was not sure what his opponents could make, and partly because it was hard to guess what his partner’s hearts would offer. Facing nothing in hearts, four spades could be cold; facing heart honors, maybe he would get lucky and ind the opponents would lead the suit so he could take quick discards. West did lead hearts, and dummy was about as bad in the majors as possible. Nonetheless, when the irst trick got ruffed, East could immediately see that the threat of discards coming on the clubs was a real one. How would you suggest he defend after declarer leads the spade jack from hand at trick two? The answer is that East must go against received wisdom and lead a diamond back into the tenace. The best lead is a low diamond, hoping to ind declarer with at least three diamonds, and for West to possess the 10, or at the very least the nine, with declarer misguessing and failing to put up the 10 from his hand. As the cards lie, East gets in on the second spade to play a second diamond, and then again with the club king to cash out for down one. If East does not shift to a diamond, South’s slow diamond losers go away on the clubs. The deal is far easier to defend if North is declarer; after a top spade lead from East, he has a natural shift to a low diamond. By Bobby Wolff

Average mark 32 words. Time limit 40 minutes.

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Can you find 46 or more words in BEDRIDDEN? The list will be published Monday.

Yesterday’s word: VALUABLES vale value vase veal abase able abuse alas label lase lava lave lues

usable uvea bale ball balsa basal base beau bell blase blue bull sable

salable sale salve save seal sell slab slave slub slue suable suave

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 19 24 26 27 28 29 31 34 35 36

Clean Esteemed Lets off Tricycle operator Six make an inning Join the military Courtroom worker, briefly Fire residue Classic DeLillo novel Huge ocean vessel Long heroic stories Thick book Old Toyota model Soul legend Redding Brad lternative Singer Tori Stunning success Novel inserts No longer together Affirmative answer Glen Canyon, for one Patella’s place

37 “Holy moly!” relative 39 Feeble-minded 40 Playful aquatic mammals 41 Pack down 46 Trembling trees 47 Guys’ pool wear 48 Called 49 Roomy car 50 Decay 51 Stop from falling over,

DEAR ABBY

HOROSCOPE IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2017: You’ll have to keep things organized if you don’t want to lose sight of your goals. Stick to the rules and do your best to uphold your reputation. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Make preparations for an event that will bring you in touch with old friends. Be realistic regarding future prospects. 4 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Set aside an amount for holiday expenses and don’t spend a penny more. Being straight up will help you avoid stress. 3 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotions will be dif icult to control. Sticking to the truth will go hand in hand with maintaining a good reputation. 3 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Protect your reputation. Someone you know should not be included in your personal conversations. 3 stars LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Choose your friends wisely. Someone will play mind games with you which could turn out to be costly. 4 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Self-deception or disillusionment will set in if you refuse to see the truth. Be realistic when with partnerships. 2 stars LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Stick close to the people you know and trust. Avoid travel and emotional indulgence. 3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Discuss your feelings and make plans that will give you something to look forward to. Romance is highlighted. 3 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Consider the highs and lows you’ve experienced this year and let go of the past. Take a big irst step forward. 3 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A shopping trip will help you prepare for upcoming festivities. Honesty will encourage a positive response. 3 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Touch base with old friends or people you won’t get to see once the end-of-the-year festivities begin. Reminisce. 5 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be truthful about the way you feel. Try not to act on assumptions that don’t turn out to be based on facts. 2 stars By Eugenia Last

DENNIS THE MENACE

Dear Abby: My family includes a niece and her husband with three kids. The middle child, a 5-year-old girl, is allowed to choose her own out its. Her hair, which is long and tangled, goes unbrushed. Her ill- itting clothes are worn and inappropriate for the weather and school. When I discussed it with her parents, their answer fell flat. Because she’s learning to dress herself without parental guidance, she’s not learning what’s appropriate. When they came for Thanksgiving dinner the child showed up in summer clothes. By the end of the evening, she appeared ill. I’m surprised neglect charges haven’t been iled against the parents. Any suggestions to get across to them that their parenting style is lacking? — Worried Relative Dear Worried: Your dilemma isn’t how to get across to the parents that they need to teach their child better fashion choices. If that little girl is going around with tangled hair and summer clothes in cold weather, it may be that her parents are unable or unwilling to give her the basics. I, too, am surprised that the school hasn’t contacted child protective services. Since they haven’t, you should talk to these parents again and voice your concerns.

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Dear Abby: My partner of 11 years has decided he is no longer in love with me. He says it’s because he thinks I cheated on him. I have told him repeatedly that it didn’t happen. He says he wants us to start over as friends and see where things go because he doesn’t want to be in a relationship with anyone. However, he’s sleeping with a 22-year-old in the home we share. Should I hold out for him, or tell him the “friends” thing is not going to work? — Confused and Lost Guy Dear Guy: I don’t blame you for feeling confused and lost, considering the mixed messages you have been getting. He is making excuses for wanting to trade you in for a newer model. This is why he is accusing you of having done something that he is doing under your nose. The only true confession he has uttered is that he doesn’t want to be in a relationship. That is your cue to head for the door, unless, of course, the roof over your head belongs to you.

Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby .com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

CELEBRITY CIPHER By Luis Campos Directions: Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present. Each letter in the cipher stands for another. TODAY’S CLUE: V equals M

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UTN

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as a vase 53 Given to servile imitation 56 Loaded with hackberry trees? 58 Wading bird 59 “Que ___ ...” 60 “The ___ Is On” 62 Picnic pest 63 Lancelot du ___

ANSWER TO FRIDAY’S PUZZLE:

Partner shifts blame for collapse of relationship

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STUNNING CREATURES By Timothy E. Parker

NMK

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PREVIOUS SOLUTION: “If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.” — Mark Twain

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Escape modern life for a tiny box deep in the woods BY LAVANYA RAMANATHAN

The Washington Post

To commune with ourselves, we must trek two hours to Stanardsville, a town on the edge of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains whose population has stairstepped down over the years to 384 people, a country store and this wooded plot, which, before 20 tiny houses arrived this fall, was an RV campground called Heavenly Acres. The heavenly part is debatable. On the second official day of winter, the tract is a colorless bog, surrounded by tall, barren trees and covered with a blanket of dead leaves. But this, promises Getaway — a start-up that offers these rental not-cabins and this not-camping not far from major cities — is where we may rejuvenate our very souls. As our car crunches up the gravel driveway, we pass an ominous charcoalgray box on wheels. A sign proclaims it “Lenore.” It is a carbon copy of Lillian, Hank, Felix and Shirley, which is the tiny house we have been assigned, we learn in a succinct text from the company that also feeds us an entry code. But Lenore sends the first ripple of excitement through the car. Tinys have a way of doing that. In Getaway’s soft, wooded marketing photos, tinys such as Lenore are imbued with symbolism. Inside, couples slice avocados together. A multiethnic gaggle of cool kids in bea-

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Getaway markets its tiny homes in the woods as a way to “rediscover the pleasure of boredom, solitude and unstructured time.”

nies convenes at a fire pit. Young women plant themselves in large picture windows overlooking the forest with hardcover books you can only assume are by Zadie Smith or Audre Lorde. In one image, a woman simply contorts herself in a display of yogic bliss. The savvy emphasis on escape and disconnectedness and repose has resonated among the millennials Getaway aims to reach. In each of its markets, outside New York, Boston and Washington, Getaway’s houses are booked solid on weekends, and in early 2017, the company, founded by two Harvard graduates, raised $15 million in venture capital funding, which suggests

that a tiny house campground may soon be coming to a forest near you. Despite its name, Getaway does not sell the sort of wild weekend vacation you might experience in Cancun or the food-focused travels you might have in Portugal. Instead, it presents a dire vision of urban life, and then offers itself as the antidote. It evokes the Japanese practice of forest bathing, and disconnection, and a little curative isolation. It encourages you to use your tiny, at the rate of just over $160 a night, to finish your novel — because you obviously never have time to work on it otherwise — and insists that you remove yourself from a list of stressors conveniently

Six unique products to jump-start your creativity this magical book will inspire and delight you, your children, and anyone who peeks over your shoulder. Ages 5 and older. About $10. laurenceking.com.

BY ARMIN BROTT AND SAMANTHA FEUSS

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Ever one of us has a story. But we’re not all equally skilled in telling those stories. This week, we review several unique products that are designed to jump-start your creativity and get those storytelling juices flowing. It may start with “Once up on a time…”, but where it goes from there is completely up to you. Ghost Story Box (Laurence King). Combine these 20 two-sided puzzle pieces to create a different ghostly tall tale every time. Actually, it'll be a long tale — up to eight feet, to be precise. The pieces are there for guidance, but the true inspiration needs to come from you. Better yet, get the whole family together, and as each person adds a piece to the puzzle, he or she also adds a few minutes of horror to the story. Ages 6 and older. Less than

ARMIN BROTT TNS

Little White Lies Guide to Making Your Own Movie guides you through the entire process in 39 simple (but not always easy) steps.

$15. laurenceking.com. To the Ends of the Earth and Back Again Coloring Book (Laurence King). For those who prefer to tell their stories in pictures rather than words, this coloring book — which, at 17 feet is the longest in the world — is just the ticket. Featuring dragons, deserts, mountains, witches, and more,

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ULTRA VIOLET than blue iris, the 2008 top choice. (And it’s a stark contrast to 2017’s pick, greenery.) What does this mean to consumers? Expect a lot of ultra violet in everything from appliances and bedding to sofas and tile. Your Kings jersey will suddenly be a fashion statement. “This means 2018 will be a good year to stock up on all things purple, if you

love the color,” said interior designer Jennifer Ott in her assessment of ultra violet. Michael Murphy, trends and interior design producer at Lamps Plus, pegged ultra violet as the right tone for the moment. “This color evokes truth, self-respect and dignity,” he said. “All of these words seem to be culturally relevant.”

The Hollow Woods Storytelling Card Game (Laurence King). Like the Ghost Story Box, this game relies on myrioramas, a Victorian-era visual story-telling technique where the teller could arrange small pictures in different ways to yield a larger one. In this case, the 20 picture cards combine to create more than two quintillion (that’s a 2 with 15 zeros) possible scenes inhabited by unicorns, dragons, and mysterious figures from the mind of illustrator Rohan Daniel Eason. All you need is your imagination to bring them to life. Ages 5 and older. About $15. laurenceking.com. Rehab: A Family’s Release (Rehab Gaming). This simple card game is

In the garden, ultra violet already is right at home. Purple ranks among the most common flower colors and is a longtime florist favorite. If you’re thinking of energizing your landscape with ultra violet, consider planting some Purple Dome asters, purple morning glories or purple monkshead; all have that same vibrant shade. They’ll make your spring and summer gardens ultra appealing.

noted in a Getaway pamphlet. These include: work, email, texts and competition. We punch in the code and crack open Shirley like a safe and begin to poke around. I plop down on the large, soft platform bed. (”Memory foam?” I announce giddily.) I pore over the copious literature, which informs guests, among other things, that the absence of mirrors is intentional. Because only monsters think about their pores when they’re supposed to be out here like Henry David Thoreau. (Need a reminder? There’s a copy of “Walden” on the bookshelf.) We scan the kitchen, which comes with two plates, two mugs, a pan

designed to get families interacting again, and provides a platform for each person to share funny, important issues in their lives. Players take turns turning over cards, reading questions, and — most importantly — answering them. For example, “If you were a superhero, what would your day job be?” or “Name a time when you were sad.” Before passing the turn, the player who just answered picks another player to answer the same questions. When “social” cards come up, all players participate (for example, a breath-holding contest). So, put away your phone, turn off those electronic devices, and get ready to truly reconnect with your family. For ages 8 and older. Rehab also has a similar game for groups of adult couples (A Couples Release) and another for lovers (After Dark). All are about $12. rehabga-

and not a single wine glass. And we encounter the wooden box where you really, really, really should lock away your cellphone, source of so much pain and FOMO. But just in case you can’t part with it, they’ve conveniently provided absolutely no WiFi. “Idiot,” you think. “This is called camping.” Not exactly. Now, in tiny houses that no one will acknowledge are honestly just what we used to call cabins, it’s called “escaping.” Just what are we running from? For the suburban families that have made “Tiny House Hunters” an HGTV hit, tiny houses are an alternate reality, an incredible stretch of the imagination. “How could anyone live with so little?” is the obvious question. The better one: “What must that be like, to not be so in debt that your skin feels like it’s on fire every moment of every waking day?” Having only recently moved up from a series of 350-square-foot tiny houses called studio apartments, I know what it’s like to live with no doors. Anxiety is worrying that I might live like this forever, or perhaps one day live with even less. So I can’t dismiss the popular fascination with tiny houses — little wooden temples to minimalism that on average clock in at just over 200 square feet and can be had for about $50,000 — as a misguided fad. Adorable wooden cottages on wheels have exploded in popularity not because people wanted to downsize, but because they were downsized. We struggle “our whole lives to work hard enough so we can relax,” says Amy

Turnbull, president of the American Tiny House Association, a relatively recent creation (founded in 2015) with 400 members nationwide. “What has changed is that millennials and the housing crisis of 2008 have shown us we ain’t got time for that. Security is a myth. Housing is beyond the reach of many. We have student loan debt. So, what’s the point?” “Initially people were like, that’s so cute, I want one,” Turnbull says. But the tiny house movement has been mired in municipal wrangling and shunned by communities that won’t abide what ultimately are temporary homes. In many areas, they are illegal, she says. And so “you can’t live in them full time,” Turnbull says with some exasperation. “That’s the problem.” But Getaway, and other tiny house rentals, such as Caravan in Portland, Oregon, or the Tiny Homes Hotel of Austin, Texas, can give you a taste of the tinyhouse life. In an early marketing video, one of Getaway’s founders spoke of tiny houses as yet another millennial reaction to their parents’ whole lives. “The form is wrong, the function is wrong,” chief executive Jon Staff intoned as a camera panned over beige dream homes in some nameless suburbia. Millennials have been blamed for the death of really important American institutions, like paper napkins and J. Crew and promiscuity. But what if we’ve got it all wrong? What if it’s the American institutions that are secretly killing millennials, or at least filling them with an existential dread that quietly eats away at their insides like acid reflux?

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rence King). These days, it’s all about video. So, whether you’re telling your story in a Facebook post, a YouTube video, a presentation for a client, or simply capturing your baby’s first steps, knowing how to put images together is critical. This information-packed, jargon-free, 144-page book offers tips, wisdom, and guidance from professional filmmakers that will help you make your movie more cinematic — even if all you’re using is your smartphone — in just 39 steps. Less than $12.50. laurenceking.com.

The Ultimate Wisecrack Generator (Chronicle Books). If you’ve ever wanted to come up with a zingy insult but couldn’t find the words, those days are over. This five-part flip book puts more than 60 million original, weird, wacky, silly and often hilarious insults (each of which is a miniature story) in the palm of your hand. Just pick your person or animal (a Sweaty Yeti), a two-part description (who won’t shut up about sock puppets), a desire (wants to kiss), and the object of that desire (Justin Bieber), and you’re ready to match wits with just about anyone. Ages 6-9. About $10. chroniclebooks.com. Little White Lies Guide to Making Your Own Movie in 39 Steps (Lau-

Armin and Samantha are the authors of the popular parenting blogs: mrdad.com and havesippywilltravel.com. For more reviews of toys and games, visit parentsatplay.com

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Richard Kibbe is an avid collector and restorer of original Model A Fords. But his “toy car” is this replica 1930 Model A Speedster that he built from an original chassis, with a steel body that he designed and built himself.

Model A Speedster not really a race car, but a ‘toy car’ BY MIKE BERRY

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Kibbe created the rounded ‘turtle deck’ of his speedster using parts from the hood of an old Dodge power wagon for the top portion. He then wrapped sheet metal around the lower portion and blended it all together.

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Kibbe says he lucked out finding 15-inch wheels to fit his speedster, finding a set of Kansas-made wheels manufactured during World War II using Model A hubs and spoked later model rims.

CAR TALK

All signs point to a transmission issue

BY RAY MAGLIOZZI

Car Talk

Dear Car Talk: I recently bought a gently used Toyota RAV4, and passed on my 2000 Honda CR-V with 189,000 miles to my grandson. One day while he was driving, it developed “a

loud banging noise right under me.” He drove it a few more blocks. The U-joint at the front end of the drive line broke completely off, and the yoke was slightly damaged. The tech at the shop said we could pay $65 to remove the drive line and support brackets, and turn it into a front-wheel-drive-only car, or pay $1,000 to order and install a new drive line. He assured me that everything would work fine, and since Junior doesn’t drive in snow or mud, I took the $65 op-

Richard Kibbe honed his skills on Model A restorations on a collection ranging from sporty roadsters to a cabriolet to a family-sized 4-door sedan — even a wood-bodied extended cab truck. But the one that catches everyone’s eye is his 1930 Ford Speedster. “I call it my ‘toy car,’ ” he says proudly. “It’s really a replica race car.” The speedster began as a leftover Model A chassis and drive train. “A guy in St. Louis was building hot rods. He bought the body from a guy south of Kansas City. I like hot rodders. The pieces they throw away, I can use.” Kibbe had a vision of what the rusty old frame and 4-cylinder engine could become, a sort of 2-seat open roadster with a more streamlined shape. Speedsters were modified Model A’s and T’s popular on dirt tracks of the 1920s and ’30s. He cleaned up the stock frame rails and rebuilt the Model A engine, adding a

modern Weber carb, a 12-volt alternator and a straight pipe exhaust only slightly muffled by a glasspack muffler. “I wanted the front end looking low,” he said. So he bolted a one-inch shorter 1929 radiator to the front of the car and slipped a four-inch dropped axle under the frame rails. He also moved the firewall back four inches, where he mounted the Rootlieb custom cowl. That required lengthening the hood, also a metal Rootlieb piece, by four

inches. It also meant he had to extend the steering column by about the same amount. For the rounded off rear end of his speedster, he used part of an old Dodge Power Wagon hood for the top section, handforming sheet metal for the lower portion and then blending it all together. A 16-gallon fuel tank fed through a side-mounted filler cap is stationed within the sculptured rear end, which also includes a bit of storage space. “It was kind of an engi-

tion. After about 1,500 or so miles, the car started having all kinds of issues: not wanting to get going after stopping in traffic, and not wanting to get out of first gear. One guy told me it’s the transmission; another told me to put the drive line back together and the problems would go away. What do you think? — Grandpa Jess Dear Grandpa Jess: I would guess it’s not related to the front-wheeldrive battlefield conversion you did, Jess. Which is too bad, because then the Magic 8 Ball points to the “transmission.” On some cars, you really can’t convert them from all-wheel drive to twowheel drive. But this CR-V is really a front-wheeldrive car at heart. They

added a viscous coupling in the rear that activates only when the front wheels are going faster than the rear wheels (like when the front wheels are slipping on ice). So if you remove the rear drive shaft, it'll simply never activate. So that shouldn’t affect your transmission. But 189,000 miles followed by a young, leadfooted grandson can affect a transmission. My advice would be to go online and look at mechanicsfiles.com. That’s a database where readers and listeners of ours recommend mechanics they really like and trust. You can search it by ZIP code. And you can and should look for someone who specializes in Hondas. It could be a bad trans-

mission control module, a bad range sensor or a stuck valve or obstruction somewhere. Someone who works on a lot of CR-Vs may have seen this problem before, and may have a sense of whether it’s more likely to be something mechanical or something electronic. He may want to try a transmission-fluid flush first, just in case it’s a stuck valve, since a flush can free it up. That certainly would be the best-case scenario, Jess. But once you get a better handle on what’s causing the problem and what it'll cost to fix, you can decide whether you want to repair it … or let Junior hoodwink you into kissing that gently used RAV4 goodbye. Just don’t give

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In an effort to give the speedster a racier profile, Kibbe installed a shorter 1929 Model A radiator in the car, along with a 4-inch dropped front axle. Cast iron brake drums replaced the original steel drums.

neer-as-you-go job,” Kibbe notes. “It’s basically a ’30 Model A chassis with a handbuilt body.” Kibbe upgraded the stamped steel Model A brake drums to heavier cast iron pieces, but he retained the original rodcontrolled mechanical brakes and friction shocks. The crowning touch for the chassis was finding a rare set of conversion spoke wheels manufactured somewhere in Kansas during WWII. Model A center hubs that would normally mount 19-inch or 21-inch rims were removed and welded into smaller rims, which were easier to find tires for during the war. “They sort of resemble Kelsey Hayes wheels. I bought them in Newton,” Kibbe said. In this case, the back wheels are 19-inch hubs that carry 265/75R15 Kelly radials, while the fronts are 21-inch hubs mounting 225/80R15 Yokohama radials. A stock Model A instrument cluster is mounted in the wooden dashboard, with a small electronic tachometer positioned behind the 4-spoke steering wheel. Fellow Model A guru John Stone donated a genuine Great American Race calibrated mechanical speedometer/ odometer to the cause. A factory Model A shifter controls the original 3speed manual transmission. For occupant comfort, Kibbe chose the “60” portion of a 1986 Chevy pickup “60/40” seat, fitted with lap belts. He created a two-piece leaned-back windshield by mounting 1929 Model A wind wings on the cowl, horizontally. After everything was pieced together, Kibbe painted his speedster in a cream color accented with blue striping of his own design, using swap-meetsourced paint. He added the number 32 to the design and presented the car to his wife, Linda, as a 32nd wedding anniversary present. Their names adorn the tail piece of the speedster, as does a swapmeet nerf bar and a diecast Wichita Air Capital emblem. “People say how fast will this race car go and I tell them I’ve had it up to 60 and that’s as fast as I want to go,” Kibbe grins. “It’s really not a race car, more like a motorcycle with four wheels. It’s my `toy car,’” he reiterated. And it is obviously meant for fun, first and foremost. Mike Berry: mberry@wichitaeagle.com

GETTING TOGETHER Jan. 19-21: Cars for Charities Rod & Custom Car Show, Century II. Call 316-7342072 for information. March 16-17: 43rd annual Swap Meet for Charity, Century II. Call Katie Arnold at 316-267-8914. April 14: 33rd annual Tulip Time Festival, Car & Bike Show, 300 E. 5th St., Belle Plaine. Call Bill at 620-262-5494. April 21: 4th annual CARS Club Swap Meet, 4-H grounds, McPherson. Call 916-2174827 for information. June 2: 32nd annual Derby Classic car show, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Atwoods parking lot, Derby. Call Chuck at 316-655-1099.

him a transmission warranty this time, Jess. Good luck. Got a question about cars? Write to Ray in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email by visiting the Car Talk website at www.cartalk.com.

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New JFK documents offer fresh set of leads 54 years later BY KEVIN G. HALL

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A half dozen 2017 releases of long-secret documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have given plenty of new leads to those who don’t believe alleged gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. President Donald Trump promised via Twitter this fall that all the JFK assassination documents will be public by the end of April 2018 “to put any and all conspiracies to rest.” Instead, the 34,963 documents released so far in 2017 have fed the fire tended by researchers and others who believe there is much more to the story how a U.S. president was assassinated in Dallas 54 years ago. “To this point, as expected, we haven’t had a document that lists the conspirators in the murder of President Kennedy,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of The Kennedy Half Century. “What we have gotten is a lot of rich material, not just about the Kennedy assassination but the times.” It was a 1991 movie, Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” that led Congress to require the secret documents to be released more than two decades later after they were reviewed for national security purposes and to protect past informants. The film, which challenged the official version of the assassination, brought conspiracy theorists into the mainstream and led other Americans to question the SEE JFK DOCUMENTS, PAGE 4

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Shiori Ito, who says she was raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi, one of Japan’s most well-known television journalists, stands on a street in Tokyo on June 13. Ito’s story is a stark example of how sexual assault remains a subject to be avoided in Japan, where few women report rape to the police and their complaints rarely result in arrests or prosecution when they do.

The woman who broke japan’s silence on sexual assault

BY MOTOKO RICH

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It was a spring Friday night when one of Japan’s bestknown television journalists invited Shiori Ito out for a drink. Her internship at a news service in Tokyo was ending, and she had inquired about another internship with his network. They met at a bar in central Tokyo for grilled chicken and beer, then went to dinner. The last thing she remembers, she later told the police, was feeling dizzy and excusing herself to go to the restroom, where she passed out. By the end of the night, she alleged, he had taken her back to his hotel room and raped her while she was unconscious. The journalist, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, the Washington bureau chief of the Tokyo Broadcasting System at the time and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, denied the charge and, after a twomonth investigation, prosecutors dropped the case. Then Ito decided to do something women in Japan almost never do: She spoke out. In a news conference in May and a book published in October, she said the police had

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The Sheraton Miyako Hotel in Tokyo, where Shiori Ito said she was raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi.

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A taxi outside the Sheraton Miyako Hotel in Tokyo, where Shiori Ito said she was raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi, one of Japan’s most well-known television journalists.

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JAPAN’S SILENCE obtained hotel security camera footage that appeared to show Yamaguchi propping her up, unconscious, as they walked through the hotel lobby. The police also located and interviewed their taxi driver, who confirmed that she had passed out. Investigators told her they were going to arrest Yamaguchi, she said – but then suddenly backed off. Elsewhere, her allegations might have caused an uproar. But here in Japan, they attracted only a smattering of attention. As the United States reckons with an outpouring of sexual misconduct cases that have shaken Capitol Hill, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the news media, Ito’s story is a stark example of how sexual assault remains a subject to be avoided in Japan, where few women report rape to the police and their complaints rarely result in arrests or pros-

ecution when they do. On paper, Japan boasts relatively low rates of sexual assault. In a survey conducted by the Cabinet Office of the central government in 2014, 1 in 15 women reported experiencing rape at some time in their lives, compared with 1 in 5 women who report having been raped in the United States. But scholars say Japanese women are far less likely to describe nonconsensual sex as rape than women in the West. Japan’s rape laws make no mention of consent, date rape is essentially a foreign concept and education about sexual violence is minimal. Instead, rape is often depicted in manga comics and pornography as an extension of sexual gratification, in a culture in which such material is often an important channel of sex education. The police and courts tend to define rape nar-

rowly, generally pursuing cases only when there are signs of both physical force and self-defense and discouraging complaints when either the assailant or victim has been drinking. Last month, prosecutors in Yokohama dropped a case against six university students accused of sexually assaulting another student after forcing her to drink alcohol. And even when rapists are prosecuted and convicted in Japan, they sometimes serve no prison time; about 1 in 10 receive only suspended sentences, according to Justice Ministry statistics. This year, for example, two students at Chiba University near Tokyo convicted in the gang rape of an intoxicated woman were released with suspended sentences, though other defendants were sentenced to prison. Last fall, a Tokyo University student convicted in another group sexual assault was also given a suspended sentence. “It’s quite recent that activists started to raise

ON PAPER, JAPAN BOASTS RELATIVELY LOW RATES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. IN A SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CABINET OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN 2014, 1 IN 15 WOMEN REPORTED EXPERIENCING RAPE AT SOME TIME IN THEIR LIVES, COMPARED WITH 1 IN 5 WOMEN WHO REPORT HAVING BEEN RAPED IN THE UNITED STATES. BUT SCHOLARS SAY JAPANESE WOMEN ARE FAR LESS LIKELY TO DESCRIBE NONCONSENSUAL SEX AS RAPE THAN WOMEN IN THE WEST. JAPAN’S RAPE LAWS MAKE NO MENTION OF CONSENT, DATE RAPE IS ESSENTIALLY A FOREIGN CONCEPT AND EDUCATION ABOUT SEXUAL VIOLENCE IS MINIMAL. the ‘No Means No’ campaign,” said Mari Miura, a professor of political science at Sophia University in Tokyo. “So I think Japanese men get the benefit from this lack of consciousness about the meaning of consent.” Of the women who reported experiencing

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Shiori Ito Ito says she felt ashamed and considered keeping quiet, too, wondering if tolerating such treatment was necessary to succeed in Japan’s male-dominated media industry. But she decided to go to the police five days after the encounter.

rape in the Cabinet Office survey, more than twothirds said they had never told anyone, not even a friend or family member. And barely 4 percent said they had gone to the police. By contrast, in the United States, about a third of rapes are reported to the police, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. “Prejudice against women is deep-rooted and severe, and people don’t consider the damage from sexual crimes seriously at all,” said Tomoe Yatagawa, a lecturer in gender law at Waseda University. Ito, 28, who has filed a civil suit against Yamaguchi, agreed to discuss her case in detail to highlight the challenges faced by women who suffer sexual violence in Japan. “I know if I didn’t talk about it, this horrible climate of sexual assault will never change,” she said. Yamaguchi, 51, also agreed to speak for this article. He denied committing rape. “There was no sexual assault,” he said. “There was no criminal activity that night.” Ito had met Yamaguchi twice while studying journalism in New York before their encounter on April 3, 2015. When she contacted him again in Tokyo, he

suggested that he might be able to help her find a job in his bureau, she said. He invited her for drinks and then dinner at Kiichi, a sushi restaurant in the trendy Ebisu neighborhood. To her surprise, they dined alone, following beer with sake. At some point, she felt dizzy, went to the bathroom, laid her head on the toilet tank and blacked out, she said. When she woke, Ito said, she was underneath Yamaguchi in his hotel bed, naked and in pain. Japanese law describes the crime of “quasirape” as sexual intercourse with a woman by “taking advantage of loss of consciousness or inability to resist.” In the United States, the law varies from state to state, with some defining the same crime as second-degree rape or sexual assault. The police later located a taxi driver who recalled picking up Ito and Yamaguchi and taking them to the nearby Sheraton Miyako Hotel, where Yamaguchi was staying. The driver said Ito was conscious at first and asked to be taken to a subway station, according to a transcript of an interview with the driver. Yamaguchi, however, instructed him to take them to his hotel. The driver recalled Yamaguchi saying they had more work to discuss. He also said Yamaguchi might have said something like, “I won’t do anything.” When they pulled up to the hotel, the driver said, Ito had “gone silent” for about five minutes, and he discovered that she had vomited in the back seat. “The man tried to move her over toward the door, but she did not move,” the driver said, according to the transcript. “So he got off first and put his bags on the ground, and he slid his shoulder under her arm and tried to pull her out of the car. It looked to me like she was unable to walk on her own.” Ito also appears inSEE JUMP_TO, PAGE 3

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JAPAN’S SILENCE capacitated in hotel security camera footage obtained by the police. In pictures from the footage seen by The New York Times, Yamaguchi is propping her up as they move through the lobby around 11:20 p.m. Ito said it was about 5 a.m. when she woke up. She said she wriggled out from under Yamaguchi and ran to the bathroom. When she came out, she said, “he tried to push me down to the bed, and he’s a man, and he was quite strong, and he pushed me down and I yelled at him.” She said she demanded to know what had happened and whether he had used a condom. He told her to calm down, she said, and offered to buy her a morning-after pill. Instead, she got dressed and fled the hotel. Ito believes she was drugged, she said, but there is no evidence to support her suspicion. Yamaguchi said she had simply drunk too much. “At the restaurant, she drank so quickly, and in fact I asked her, ‘Are you all right?’” he said. “But she said, ‘I’m quite strong and I’m thirsty.’” He said: “She’s not a child. If she could have controlled herself, then nothing would have happened.” Yamaguchi said he had brought her to his hotel because he was worried that she would not make it home. He had to rush back to his room, he said, to meet a deadline in Washington. Yamaguchi acknowledged that “it was inappropriate” to take Ito to his room, but said, “It would have been inappropriate to leave her at the station or in the hotel lobby.” “It is not only my mistake but also her mistake to lose control,” he said. He declined to describe what happened in his room or say whether he

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I KNOW IF I DIDN’T TALK ABOUT IT, THIS HORRIBLE CLIMATE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT WILL NEVER CHANGE. Shiori Ito

had sex with Ito, citing the advice of his lawyers. But in court documents he submitted for Ito’s civil suit, Yamaguchi acknowledges that he had sex with her and claims she was conscious and did not resist. And in emails that he exchanged with Ito in the three weeks after the night at the hotel, Yamaguchi wrote that he had undressed her to clean her up and laid her down on one of the beds in his room. In civil court documents, Yamaguchi said Ito later woke and knelt by his bed to apologize, he said. “So it’s not the truth at all that I had sex with you while you were unconscious,” he said in a message April 18, 2015. “I was quite drunk, and an attractive woman like you came into my bed halfnaked, and we ended up like that. I think we both should examine ourselves. However, I cannot totally accept the fact that I am the only one to blame.” In a message May 8, 2015, Yamaguchi appeared to acknowledge that the two had intercourse by telling Ito she could not be pregnant because he had an “extremely low sperm count.” In another email, Yamaguchi denied Ito’s allegation of rape and suggested that they consult lawyers. “Even if you insist it was

quasirape, there is not a chance that you can win,” he wrote. When asked about the emails, Yamaguchi said a full record of his conversations and correspondence with Ito would demonstrate that he had “had no intention” of using his position to seduce her. “I am the one who was caused trouble by her,” he added. SHAME AND HESITATION Ito said she rushed home to wash after leaving the hotel. She now regards that as a mistake. “I should have just gone to the police,” she said. Her hesitation is typical. Many Japanese women who have been assaulted “blame themselves, saying, ‘Oh, it’s probably my fault,’” said Tamie Kaino, a professor emeritus of gender studies at Ochanomizu University. Hisako Tanabe, a rape counselor at the Sexual Assault Relief Center in Tokyo, said even women who call their hotline and are advised to go to the police often refuse because they do not expect the police to believe them. “They think they will be told they did something wrong,” she said. Ito said she felt ashamed and considered keeping quiet, too, wondering if tolerating such treatment was necessary to succeed in Japan’s maledominated media industry. But she decided to go to the police five days after the encounter. “If I don’t face the truth,” she recalled thinking, “I think I won’t be able to work as a journalist.” The police officers Ito spoke to initially discouraged her from filing a complaint and expressed doubt about her story because she was not crying as she told it, she said. Some added that Yamaguchi’s status would make it difficult for her to pursue the case, she said. But Ito said the police eventually took her seri-

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Shiori Ito published a book about her experience in October; it has received only modest attention in Japan’s mainstream news media

ously after she urged them to view the hotel security footage. A two-month investigation followed, after which the lead detective called her in Berlin, where she was working on a freelance project, she said. He told her they were preparing to arrest Yamaguchi on the strength of the taxi driver’s testimony, the hotel security video and tests that found his DNA on one of her bras. The detective said Yamaguchi would be apprehended at the airport June 8, 2015, after arriving in Tokyo on a flight from Washington, and he asked her to return to Japan to help with questioning, Ito said. When that day came, though, the investigator called again. He told her that he was inside the airport but that a superior had just called him and ordered him not to make the arrest, Ito said. “I asked him, ‘How is that possible?’” she said.

“But he couldn’t answer my question.” Ito declined to identify the investigator, saying she wanted to protect him. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police would not comment on whether plans to arrest Yamaguchi were scuttled. “We have conducted a necessary investigation in light of all laws and sent all documents and evidence to the Tokyo prosecutors’ office,” a spokesman said. ‘I HAVE TO BE STRONG’ In 2016, the most recent year for which government statistics are available, the police confirmed 989 cases of rape in Japan, or about 1.5 cases for every 100,000 women. By comparison, there were 114,730 cases of rape in the United States, according to FBI statistics, or about 41 cases per 100,000 residents, both male and female. Scholars say the disparity is less about actual

crime rates than a reflection of underreporting by victims and the attitudes of the police and prosecutors in Japan. Differences in rape laws also play a role. Over the summer, Parliament passed the first changes to Japan’s sex crime laws in 110 years, expanding the definition of rape to include oral and anal sex and including men as potential victims. Lawmakers also lengthened minimum sentences. But judges can still suspend sentences. And despite the recent cases, there is still little education about sexual violence at universities. At Chiba, a course for new students refers to the recent gang rape as an “unfortunate case” and only vaguely urges students not to commit crimes. In Ito’s case, there is also a question of whether Yamaguchi received favorable treatment because of his connection to the prime minister. The allegations did not affect Yamaguchi’s position at the Tokyo Broadcasting System, but he resigned last year under pressure from the network after publishing an article that was seen as controversial. He continues to work as a freelance journalist in Japan. Ito published a book about her experience in October; it has received only modest attention in Japan’s mainstream news media. Isoko Mochizuki, one of the few journalists to investigate Ito’s allegations, said she faced resistance from male colleagues in her newsroom, some of whom dismissed the story because Ito had not gone to the hospital immediately. “The press never covers sexual assault very much,” she said. Ito said that was precisely why she wanted to speak out. “I still feel like I have to be strong,” she said, “and just keep talking about why this is not OK.”

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Noriyuki Yamaguchi, one of Japan’s most well-known television journalists, who was accused of raping Shiori Ito when she was an intern, is seen Oct. 18 in Tokyo. He declined to describe what happened in his room or say whether he had sex with Ito, citing the advice of his lawyers. But in court documents he submitted for Ito’s civil suit, Yamaguchi acknowledges that he had sex with her and claims she was conscious and did not resist.

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This fall, the National Archives disclosed thousands of files related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. Some documents, deemed sensitive even after 54 years, were held back for further review. To date, 34,963 documents have been made public in 2017.

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JFK DOCUMENTS official version of events. McClatchy’s Washington bureau, the Miami Herald and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram have pored over thousands of newly released JFK documents. Here are some of the new or bolstered leads revealed thus far by the new material. Dallas mayor was CIA asset: One particular document from the August release has created much buzz. It that shows that Earle Cabell, mayor of Dallas at the time of the Nov. 22, 1963, shooting, became a CIA asset in late 1956. The CIA had withheld the information on grounds that it was not considered relevant. No related documents have been released, but even alone it is important. Cabell’s brother Charles was deputy director of the CIA until he was fired by Kennedy in January 1962. “That shows why Dallas was the place,” said Zack Shelton, a retired veteran FBI agent who fervently disbelieves that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman. “I think the investigation or focus is going to be turned more into Oswald not being the lone wolf.” Shelton, now 67 and retired in Beaumont, Texas, was an FBI agent in Chicago combating organized crime in the 1980s. In the process of helping bust a contraband ring involving an alleged mafia hitman named James Files, Shelton was told that Files had curious things to say about the Kennedy killing roughly 20 years earlier. That tip to Shelton launched a chain of events that led to Files confessing from prison in Illinois that he was one of several gunmen in Dallas on the fateful day, and that he fired from the famous grassy knoll. Many historians dismiss Files’ claims, but Shelton maintains that Files was indeed an assassin and was part of the Cosa Nostra mob organization headed in Chicago by

Salvatore “Sam the Cigar” Giancana. Files was released from prison in 2016 after a long stint for attempted murder. The CIA and FBI documents released so far say nothing about Files or another assassin he allegedly worked with named Charles Nicoletti, but that’s no surprise to Wim Dankbaar. He’s a Dutch national with a website and videos devoted to debunking what he considers a myth — that Oswald killed Kennedy or that he acted alone — and promoting the view that Files assassinated Kennedy. “Do you really think they haven’t deep-sixed the incriminating files?” Dankbaar asked in a testy telephone interview. The November tranche of new documents does include some about Giancana’s courier, a former Chicago cop who went by the alias Richard Cain and met in Mexico City with CIA staff; he was also an informant for the FBI. A 1992 biography written by Giancana’s family said the mob boss had told his younger brother that Cain and Nicoloetti, not Oswald, were in the Texas Book Depository from where shots at Kennedy were fired. In addition, several new documents discuss the CIA and its work with mobsters to prevent Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba and later oust him. There’s this bar in New Orleans: Another revelatory JFK document released in full on Dec. 15 was the transcript of a 1978 interview by the House Select Committee on Assassinations with Orest Pena. According to Pena, a bar owner in New Orleans, Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. government agent or informant. How did he know? Because Pena himself was an informant, he said. He had given details to the Warren Commission in July 1964 but, as the new document shows, later revealed much more detail about Warren de

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Surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 23, 1963.

Brueys, an FBI agent in New Orleans to whom Pena said he reported. Oswald, he claimed, frequented a breakfast place regularly not only with de Brueys but with agents from U.S. Customs and Immigration in New Orleans. Pena believed Oswald had an office in the same government complex. Pena also testified to the House panel that de Brueys had threatened him if he shared with investigators details of their meetings and training of anti-Castro instigators, and that his FBI handler had transferred to Dallas before the assassination. Pena’s testimony, however, was largely discounted by two government commissions. “Their reasons for denying this were weak,” said Rex Bradford, president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which boasts the largest searchable electronic collection of JFK assassination documents; Bradford is another disbeliever in the official version of events. The newly released transcript is likely to spark new interest in the New Orleans link to the assassination and searches of government records in multiple agencies, he said. De Brueys died in 2013 at the age of 92. Son Jim de Brueys told the New Orleans Advocate at the

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I DON’T THINK I WILL LIVE TO SEE IT, BUT AS MORE DOCUMENTS COME TO LIGHT THE COUNTRY WILL EVENTUALLY LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION AND IN WHAT WAY BISHOP/PHILLIPS WAS INVOLVED. Antonio Veciana, a Cuban émigré who helped lead the anti-Castro group Alpha 66

time that his father was sent to Dallas after the assassination, not before, and that he was long frustrated by being named in conspiracy theories. David Atlee Phillips, Texan in Mexico: One of the names experts are watching for in the documents yet to be released is David Atlee Phillips. The Texan was a native of Fort Worth, a decorated World War II veteran and actor who rose to CIA leadership roles across the Americas, including Cuba,

Mexico and Chile. Among the new documents released earlier this month was one showing that the CIA itself was trying to gauge what Phillips knew about Oswald and when he learned certain things about the alleged gunman’s mysterious September 1963 trip to Mexico. Documents show that the CIA had tracked Oswald and picked up phone intercepts of his calls with and visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in the Mexican capital just months before the assassination in Dallas. “He was there for six days and we know about six hours. What was he doing there? I don’t think he was on vacation,” said Sabato, who thinks there is still much to learn about the Mexico trip. The new documents provide details about people with whom Oswald met in Mexico and agency efforts to reconstruct his time there when he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies, purportedly seeking to travel to either country. Spying on the Cuban embassy was one of Phillips’ chief tasks, he wrote in his own autobiography, “The Night Watch.” A main reason Phillips is of such interest is the claim by a now elderly anti-Castro leader in Miami that Oswald was a CIA

informant handled by a man named Maurice (or Morris, as it sometimes appears) Bishop. And Bishop was actually an alias used by Phillips, insists Antonio Veciana. Veciana, a Cuban émigré, helped lead the antiCastro group Alpha 66 and claims he himself worked with Bishop/ Phillips, and saw him with Oswald. In a statement to McClatchy, Veciana, now 89 and in failing health, said that “I have no doubt that the man I knew as Maurice Bishop was David Atlee Phillips. He was the same man I saw with Oswald.” The newly released documents show that the CIA looked into Veciana’s claim. One document reveals a list of all employees past and present with the last name Bishop, ordered up by agency leaders. “I don’t think I will live to see it, but as more documents come to light the country will eventually learn the truth about the Kennedy assassination and in what way Bishop/ Phillips was involved,” Veciana told McClatchy. Shawn Phillips, now 74 and an acclaimed folk musician, is the nephew of the former CIA leader. He has been often quoted telling the story of how his own father, James, became estranged from brother David late in life; an attempted reconciliation went south after David, dying from lung cancer, confessed to James that he had been in Dallas the day of JFK’s assassination. The nephew did not return requests for comment, but in a 1988 poem eulogized his uncle as a man of mystery and complexity. In “The Night Watch,” written years earlier, David Atlee Phillips said that he was working in the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City when he got a call from his wife saying she’d heard a report that Kennedy had been shot, contrary to what he supposedly confessed on his deathbed. Of Oswald he wrote, “I know of no evidence to suggest that Oswald acted as an agent for the Cubans or the Russians, that he was a CIA agent or that any aspect of his Mexico City trip was any more ominous than reported by the Warren Commission.” Still, documents released in 2017 suggest the CIA and FBI spent decades trying to better understand Oswald’s time in Mexico. More intrigue: Other twists in the newly released documents include the finding that an ultra conservative former secret agent named George Gaudet had mysteriously had been issued a Mexican travel permit whose number was the next one after Oswald’s permit number. And in yet another revealing document that will set researchers hunting in a new direction, there’s the account of a call to the British paper, the Cambridge Evening News, just 25 minutes before the assassination, advising that the U.S. embassy would soon have big news. The released document was a memo from the CIA to the FBI, dated four days after the killing, and notes the information was shared with Britain’s MI5. Kevin G. Hall: 202-383-6038, @KevinGHall

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Firefighters work at the scene of a deadly fire on Thursday night at a five-story apartment building in the Belmont section of the Bronx. Officials said at least 12 people were killed when a blaze fueled by gusty winds tore through the century-old apartment building, the deadliest fire in the city in more than a quarter-century.

A boy’s scream, a door ajar and 12 dead in a Bronx fire BY BENJAMIN MUELLER, LIZ ROBBINS AND ANNIE CORREAL

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The 3-year-old boy in the kitchen screamed. His mother ran in from the bathroom. He had been playing with the knobs of the stove again. With flames jumping through the kitchen, she scooped up the boy and a 2-yearold child and ran into the cold. She left her firstfloor apartment door ajar behind her. The fire flashed out into the hallway of the fivestory building in the Bronx on Thursday night. The stairwell became in effect a chimney. The fire climbed up, up, up, seeking air. Confronted with a hallway inferno, residents upstairs retreated and threw open their windows, giving the fire more oxygen, before they crowded onto fire escapes, screaming in several languages. Others, along the side and back of the building, where the fire began, could not even get to their fire escape. When all the dead were counted, there were 12, making the fire in the Belmont neighborhood New York City’s deadliest in 27 years. Four other people were critically injured, “fighting for their lives right now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday. The fire broke out on the coldest night of the year, and the first firefighters to the scene could not get water from the hydrant in front of the burning building. It was frozen. Within moments the firefighters connected to a working hydrant down the block, but the building was already a tenement of death. Firefighters found three victims in the entrance hall. A baby and an adult huddled in a bathtub. On

JULIO CORTEZ AP

A tear runs down the face of Kenyon George, 19, whose girlfriend Shawntay Young, 19, died during Friday’s apartment fire in the Bronx.

the fifth floor, Karen Stewart-Francis, 37; her two daughters, Kylie Francis, 2, and Kelly Francis, 7; and her niece Shawntay Young, 19, were all trapped. They all died. Soot, which is usually found on the ceiling in a fire, appeared on the floor and at ankle level on the walls, a sign of how hot the fire was and how quickly it spread. Firefighters raced through the building on stairwells coated with ice, carrying people downstairs, slipping and sliding. The disaster was fed not by structural defects or firefighting mishaps, officials said, but by an unholy mix of circumstance. “It seems like a horrible, tragic accident,” de Blasio said. The fire sent waves of shock and grief through a working-class neighborhood blocks from the Bronx Zoo. The building that burned, home to Dominican, Trinidadian, Ghanaian, Guinean and Jamaican immigrants, is several blocks away from the heart of the Bronx’s Little Italy. With residents and shopkeepers used to

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Building residents are evacuated after a fatal fire at 2363 Prospect Avenue in the Bronx on Thursday.

exchanging pleasantries in the street, many of them counted the victims among their friends. The occasion prompted officials to remind New Yorkers that open doors hasten the spread of flames. “Close the door, close the door, close the door,” the fire commissioner, Daniel A. Nigro, said at a news conference Friday. It was a familiar refrain. In 1998, four people died on the Upper West Side after smoke from a fire in the apartment where the family of actor Macaulay

Culkin lived spread to the rest of the building because apartment and stairwell doors were propped open. In the Bronx fire, it is not clear what combustible material the stovetop flames lit. The mother told investigators her son had a history of turning on the burners. Her apartment door faced the stairwell, so leaving it open created a direct path from her kitchen up the rest of the building, which had about 25 apartments. Constructed of plaster and brick in

1916, it was not fireproof. When Edwin Ramos got off a bus nearby on Thursday night, he saw people crammed onto the fire escape, their feet planted but their bodies leaning as far as possible over the railing to get space from the flames. They gripped the railings, trying desperately to hold on. “I was just hoping that nobody jumped,” Ramos said. The smoke was so thick that an elderly woman next to him began spitting and coughing uncontrollably, he said, so he took off his scarf and wrapped it around her instead. On the fire escape, chaos reigned, said Maria Pacheco, a neighbor from a nearby building. “Movies are nothing compared to what I saw,” she said. Angelo Villanova, 23, who grew up in Belmont and was back visiting a friend, was going to the store for a bag of ice when he passed the burning building. A girl ran out. “She was coughing and I started –” he said, making chest-pumping motions with his hands. “I went in the building but I was suffocating. I couldn’t breathe. So I went out and I said, ‘Someone give me a boost!’” With a hoist, he leapt onto the fire escape in front of the building, unhooked the ladder and started helping people down – children first. But he said another fire escape on the side of the building was cloaked in flames and impossible to scale. Debris fell from the windows. A delivery man who lives in a neighboring building, Kareem Turner, 26, saw Villanova near the back fire escape. He went outside. “It is all good?” he asked. “Nah! It’s a fire!” Turner said he jumped over a gate dividing the

buildings and began hoisting people over. The fire, already raging on the side of the building, traveled to the back. “The fire was following us,” he said. “If I had not seen them, and helped them, they would have perished for a fact.” Firefighters on Engine 88 arrived three minutes after the first 911 call, only to find the hydrant frozen. Some firefighters called for ambulances for the three victims in the entrance hall while others stepped around them. “Now we have multiple victims and we don’t have water,” said Lt. Mickey Conboy, a 32-year veteran who serves in Rescue Company 3. The engine drove up the block looking for another hydrant while hose lines extended onto the street from the back. Firefighters quickly found one on 187th Street. “It didn’t slow activity,” Nigro said of the frozen hydrant. “By the time the door was opened they had already connected to another hydrant.” Conboy said firefighters reached portable ladders up to ease the overcrowding on the fire escape. “It was a very unique fire experience,” he said. “All the floors above the hallway and the stairwell were incinerated.” Angelo Duran was working at the Bronx Zoo Deli on the corner when the superintendent of a nearby building ran in shouting for help. People were still on the fire escape, some of them too scared to descend. After Duran yelled for them to come down and firetrucks arrived, he watched firefighters emerge from the building with a thin boy who was unconscious. They set him down near Duran’s feet. “They went to get oxygen and I just stayed there rubbing his chest,” he said. “I rubbed his chest.” Firefighters carried out two more unconscious victims: a man with smoke rising off his clothes, and a woman who appeared to have been burned. In all, five people were found dead inside the building, all on the third and fourth floors. Seven others were pronounced dead at nearby hospitals. Authorities had not yet officially released the names of the victims. Temperatures were in the teens Thursday night, and stiff winds made it feel below zero. Water leaking from hoses froze in streaks on the concrete as displaced residents walked around draped in American Red Cross blankets. The building had open violations for a broken smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector in a first-floor apartment, according to city records. But de Blasio said those issues did not appear to be related to the fire. The 12 fatalities made the fire the deadliest since an inferno at the Happy Land Social Club – less than a mile from Thursday’s blaze – killed 87 people in 1990. Thursday’s toll surpassed that of a 2007 blaze in the Bronx caused by an overheated cord that killed 10 people, nine of them children. Hours after the Bronx fire, another fire tore through a building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Two more men died, the 23rd and 24th fire fatalities this December.

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Hoax call leads to police shooting of unarmed man BY HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH AND JIM SALTER

Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Police and the FBI are investigating whether an argument over an online game prompted a hoax call that led to a house where an officer shot and killed a Kansas man who apparently wasn’t involved in the dispute. Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston on Friday blamed a “prankster” who called 911 and made up a story about a shooting and kidnapping. He did not mention reports that an argument over online gaming was at the heart of the prank, although he said investigators had made good progress tracking online leads. Police have not disclosed the name of the man who was killed

Thursday evening, but relatives identified him as Andrew Finch, 28. Livingston, speaking at a news conference, said the hoax call was a case of “swatting,” in which a person makes up a false report to get a SWAT team to descend on an address. “Due to the actions of a prankster we have an innocent victim,” Livingston said. He said no one has been arrested in connection with the hoax. Police played audio of the call to 911. A man said his father had been shot in the head. He said he was holding his mother and a sibling at gunpoint. The caller, speaking with relative calm, said he poured gasoline inside the home “and I might just set it on fire.” Several officers arrived and surrounded the home, braced for a hostage situation. When Finch went to the door police told him

to put his hands up and move slowly. But Livingston said the man moved a hand toward the area of his waistband – a common place where guns are concealed. An officer, fearing the man was reaching for a gun, fired a single shot. Finch died a few minutes later at a hospital. Livingston said Finch was unarmed. The officer, a sevenyear veteran of the department, is on paid leave pending the investigation. The Finch family on Friday allowed reporters inside their home. Lisa Finch told them her son was not a gamer. “What gives the cops the right to open fire?” she asked. “That cop murdered my son over a false report in the first place.” Lisa Finch said the family was forced outside barefoot in freezing cold and handcuffed after the shooting. She said her

granddaughter was forced to step over her dying uncle and that no guns were found in the home. Dexerto, an online news service focused on gaming, reported that the series of events began with an online argument over a $1 or $2 wager in a “Call of Duty” game on UMG Gaming, which operates online tournaments including one involving “Call of Duty.” “We woke this morning to horrible news about an innocent man losing his life,” UMG spokeswoman Shannon Gerritzen said in an email to the Associated Press. “Our hearts go out to his loved ones. We are doing everything we can to assist the authorities in this matter.” She declined to disclose other details. In addition to the 911 call, police also released a brief video of body camera footage from another officer at the scene. It was difficult to see clearly what happened. The FBI estimates that roughly 400 cases of swatting occur annually, with some using caller ID spoofing to disguise their number. An FBI supervisor in Kansas City, Missouri, which covers all of Kansas, said the agency joined in the investigation at the request of local police.

TONY DEJAK AP

Frank Necci clears snow from St. Andrews Catholic Church on Friday in Erie, Pa. The cold weather pattern was expected to continue through the holiday weekend and likely longer, according to the National Weather Service.

Deep freeze causes headaches on roadways across country BY JOHN SEEWER

Associated Press TOLEDO, OHIO

Already winter-weary parts of the Midwest and East Coast are dealing with a mounting number of weather-related headaches, from highway pileups to frozen pipes and a rash of car thefts. And there’s more to come. Bitter temperatures and snow squalls have been blamed for a handful of deaths and canceled a long list of New Year’s celebrations. Icy roads in central Michigan caused more 30 crashes Friday on highways near Flint while a chain-reaction crash involving about 40 vehicles in the southwestern part of the state left three hurt. Coastal South Carolina saw a rare bout of freezing rain and drizzle on Friday that forced bridges from Charleston to Myrtle Beach to shut down for

de-icing. Police in the Cincinnati area say a half-dozen cars have been stolen in recent days after being left running unattended by owners trying to warm them up. Cincinnati police warned in a tweet that leaving your car running means “the only person who will be warm is the thief who stole your car.” More snow is on the way in Erie, Pennsylvania, where 65 inches have fallen since Christmas Eve. Now parts of the surrounding county could get up to 16 inches of more snow by Sunday. A call center set up to help people dig out has been overwhelmed. “The phones have been ringing off the hook,” said Josh Jaeger, a coordinator for the center told the Erie Times-News. Cleanup continued inside Michigan State University’s basketball arena after a frozen water pipe burst and flooded a

hallway, but the mess wasn’t expected to interrupt a game Friday. Diann Wears, of Toledo, said she was already fed up with winter as she stood along a slush-covered sidewalk while waiting for a bus. “And it’s just the beginning,” she said Friday. “I’m sure it will get worse.” Frigid conditions in Boston took their toll on the nation’s fifth-largest transit system. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has spent heavily to winterize what’s known as the “T” since it was crippled by record-breaking snowfall in 2015. But the agency reported “severe delays” on one of its lines Friday, citing a broken piece of track and a disabled train, among other problems. Several deaths have been linked to the wintry weather during the past week.

In South Dakota, an 83-year-old woman died from exposure to the cold after she crashed her car and then got out to look for help. Search crews found her body in a ditch on Sunday. Three people were found dead in a canal along Lake Erie earlier this week after their car slid off an icy road. The National Weather Service predicts another blast of arctic air will chill much of the eastern twothirds of the U.S. through the weekend and into 2018. Temperatures could fall into the single digits as far south as Oklahoma and sink to zero or below Friday night in Nebraska and Iowa and remain there for at least three days. “It’s pretty unusual to get that long of a streak where it’s completely below zero,” said Iowa’s State Climatologist Harry Hillaker. “Historically, that doesn’t happen very often in Des Moines.” The Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies braced for storms forecasters warned could bring several feet of mountain snow and freezing rain.

Professor who tweeted about ‘white genocide’ resigns after year of threats BY MARWA ELTAGOURI

Washington Post

The threats began last December, when Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher tweeted that all he wanted for Christmas was white genocide. This week, he resigned, after a year of enduring unrelenting harassment and death threats for his controversial tweets, he said. “After a year of harassment by right-wing, white supremacist media outlets and internet mobs, after death threats and threats of violence directed against me and my family, my situation has become unsustainable,” he wrote in a statement on Facebook. Dozens of incidents of harassment against professors have been reported on college campuses in the past year, with African-American professors among those most targeted, according to the AAUP. Conservativeleaning websites have drawn attention to professors they allege “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom,” according to one website, “Professor Watchlist.” Critics say the websites are an attack on academic freedom. The Christmas tweet was meant to be satirical, as white genocide is an “imaginary concept” used by the far right to scare white people, CiccarielloMaher said. In April, the politics and global studies professor again made headlines when he criticized someone giving up their first class seat on a plane to a uniformed soldier. He cited Mosul in reference to an airstrike in March by U.S. forces, which may be among the worst U.S.-led civilian bombings in 25 years. And in October, he again sparked outrage with a series of tweets that suggested the Las Vegas shooting, which killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500 others, was brought on by the “narrative of white victimization.” Ciccariello-Maher on Thursday announced his resignation from Drexel, effective Sunday. He wrote in his statement on Facebook that the decision was not one he took lightly and that his position at the university has become “unsustainable.” “Staying at Drexel in the eye of this storm has become detrimental to my own writing, speaking, and organizing,” he wrote. He told CNN earlier this month that he had 800 unread voicemails in his inbox and that the threats involving his child “are the most frightening to me.” His October tweets about the Las Vegas shooting led Drexel to place Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave for safety purposes, according to Inside Higher Ed. Drexel administrators, who have tried to distance the university from Ciccariello-Maher’s positions, said they were concerned about the growing number of threats directed toward

him, and CiccarielloMaher has since been teaching his courses online. Ciccariello-Maher explained his tweets a Washington Post op-ed, saying his argument was “not new, but rather reflects decades of research on how race and gender function in our society.” The American Association of University Professors came to CiccarielloMaher’s defense, saying the university bowed to the pressure of those threatening him. “A suspension is a severely adverse personnel action, and imposing one on Ciccariello-Maher without consulting an appropriate faculty body raises concerns for his academic freedom and tenured status,” the group said in a statement. “It is especially concerning that the suspension is indefinite. In the past year, conflicts over free speech on college campuses have escalated as clashes have broken out between white nationalists and counterprotesters. In August, a rally by several hundred white nationalists and white supremacists at the University of Virginia resulted in shoving, punching and the spraying of chemical irritants by both groups, and a woman was killed when a car drove into a crowd of counterprotesters. Protests of controversial speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos and Richard Spencer have turned violent, and a fifth of undergraduate students now say it’s acceptable to silence a speaker with physical force if they make “offensive and hurtful statements,” according to a September survey of students conducted by the Brookings Institution. University professors have also faced increased scrutiny with classroom conversations exposed on social media and as conservatives rallied against what they called leftleaning colleges and universities. Last December, death threats forced an Orange Coast College professor to flee her home state of California after a video surfaced of her telling her students that President Donald Trump’s election was an “act of terrorism.” In June, an assistant professor at the University of Iowa was hit with hate mail and threats for her piece discussing how classical white marble statues were often painted. Stories of her work began to circulate online, with one reading, “Prof: ‘white marble’ in artwork contributes to white supremacy.” In his Facebook post addressing his resignation, Ciccariello-Maher said tenured faculty should defend all faculty members from attacks by the far right and white supremacists. “Only then can we build campus solidarities that transcend such artificial boundaries among faculty - and beyond, to campus workers and students as well - solidarities that will be the last line of defense in what is today a losing battle for universities,” he wrote.

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PATRICK SEMANSKY AP

Above left, relatives of a homicide victim gather for a vigil near the scene of the murder Dec. 22 in Baltimore. Friends and family of the victim joined activist Erricka Bridgeford, who leads near-daily ceremonies at murder sites around the city. Above right, crime scene tape at the scene of a homicide clings to a fence post in Baltimore on Dec. 21.

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Erricka Bridgeford kneels as she performs a ceremony on Dec. 21 in front of crime scene tape that was left behind at the scene of a homicide Dec. 21 in Baltimore. Bridgeford is a professional conflict mediator and the main organizer behind “Baltimore Ceasefire.”

‘NOBODY KILL ANYBODY’ Peacemaker does what she can to help stop the bloodshed in Baltimore BY DAVID MCFADDEN

Associated Press BALTIMORE

In an alley where a teenager became one of Baltimore’s latest bodies to fall, Erricka Bridgeford whispered prayers and directed smoke from burning sage in a gathering intended to transform spots where people are slain into a kind of sacred ground. The spiritually minded activist began to cry, letting her tears fall on asphalt where the 17-yearold boy she didn’t know was fatally shot the night before. She called out “You matter! You matter!” in a raw voice that came from somewhere deep inside her 5-foot-2 frame. Over the past year, the African-American woman from West Baltimore has become the city’s clearest voice calling for people to lay down their weapons. A professional conflict mediator, she’s the main organizer behind “Baltimore Ceasefire,” a citizen-led effort to reverse

one of the worst homicide rates in the United States. “You can get really overwhelmed by the numbers. But if this city is going to heal, we'll all have to do our best to start being better people from the inside,” said Bridgeford, 45, the public face behind the movement launched this past summer with the motto “Nobody kill anybody.” Held in August, the first cease-fire weekend was marked by peaceful marches, cookouts, community events, and pledges by gang members to refrain from violence. The event, advertised on social media and with posters in shop and home windows, attracted international attention – and was lauded even though it ended with two homicides that led cynics to belittle the effort. A second event was held last month. Bridgeford hasn’t stopped there. Plans call for cease-fire weekends to be held four times a year, and she also leads nearnightly gatherings in the hope of transforming

homicide sites into places alive with meaning. But she’s hardly naive. Bridgeford knows firsthand how ingrained violence is in the city: Her brother, a stepson, and three cousins have all died in shootings. When she was just 12, she saw a neighbor die from a gunshot. Baltimore is not alone in its suffering; violent crime is up in a number of cities, including Chicago, St. Louis, and Cleveland. What some researchers say sets Baltimore apart is a violent-crime rate that has returned to the high levels not seen since the early 1990s, when U.S. cities grappled with a nationwide crack cocaine epidemic. In fact, with 2017 not quite over, Baltimore has already set a city record for killings per capita, with roughly 56 slayings per 100,000 people. The highest overall annual total was 353 slayings, or 49 homicides per 100,000 people, in 1993, when Baltimore was home to more than 700,000 residents. The city is cur-

rently home to 615,000. “Many cities experienced an increase in violence in 2015 and 2016, but very few have gone all the way back to where they were 25 years ago,” said Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at New York University, who described Baltimore as an “anomaly” in the national crime landscape. Baltimore has seen 343 homicides so far this year, only one less than 2015’s 344 killings. The number was 318 in 2016. While deadly violence has plagued swaths of the mid-Atlantic city for decades, Baltimore has been in the throes of a crime surge since 2015, when the homicide rate spiked after the city’s worst rioting in decades and the arrest of officers involved in a police-custody death. The city also is hobbled by the opioid crisis, with 694 overdose deaths in 2016. Bridgeford’s anti-violence efforts haven’t been able to stop the deaths, per se, but they have made residents think about their city’s slayings

as something more than grim statistics. One of the major aims of her quest is to humanize the victims, most of whom are young black men from neighborhoods awash in drugs and marked by crumbling housing, a scarcity of decent opportunities, and deep inequality. Lisa Miller, a professor at Rutgers University who has studied anti-crime politics for more than 20 years, said the work of black community organizers like Bridgeford has too often gone unnoticed. She said a flawed narrative that black citizens aren’t doing anything to reduce violence can feed into a persistent view of too many white Americans that the conditions of generational poverty in which many AfricanAmericans live is entirely within their control. “This racist narrative remains alive and well, unfortunately. It defies empirical reality in every sense and is not hard to debunk, which tells you something about its dura-

bility,” Miller said. New research suggests grassroots organizers like Bridgeford have a real impact on lowering crime rates. In late October, Sharkey published research in the American Sociological Association journal that suggests grassroots groups may become increasingly central to efforts to control violence within communities vulnerable to crime spikes. A sometimes bubbly presence with an infectious laugh, Bridgeford is an inspiring figure to many. That includes Baltimore’s mayor, Catherine Pugh, who describes her as an “incredibly energetic, incredibly focused” woman who is able to attract people to antiviolence causes. Recently named “Marylander of the Year” by The Baltimore Sun, Bridgeford says she hopes all residents will take ownership of the city’s violent crime problem. Her work ties in with one of her social media slogans: “Don’t be numb.” “I want the cease-fire to become an institution in Baltimore until everyone is truly paying attention to the waste of human life,” she said. “We can’t continue like this.”

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US eyes increased water deliveries to Calif. farmers Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO

The Trump administration said Friday it will look at revving up water deliveries to farmers from California’s Central Valley Project, the largest federal water project in the United States, in what environmental groups called a

threat to protections for struggling native salmon and other endangered species. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation formally served notice it would begin looking at changing the operation of the massive California water project to maximize water deliveries. Spokeswoman Erin Curtis called it the

first step in what would likely be an 18-month analysis. The water project is a network of 18 dams and reservoirs and 500 miles of canals and aqueducts that draw water from the delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which are part of the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas.

Launched in the 1930s, the water project has helped make California’s Central Valley the United States’ richest farm region. It also has contributed to driving several once-plentiful species of smelt, salmon and other native animals toward extinction, biologists and environmental groups say. Doug Obegi, a senior

attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group, contended in an email Friday the move represented “the latest attempt by the Trump administration to roll back protections for salmon and other endangered native fisheries … in order to increase water supplies” for the state’s agricultural water agencies. Curtis, the Reclamation spokeswoman, called the effort a priority for the current administration. Cutbacks of water deliveries for the project’s customers during the recently ended five-year

California drought – including cutbacks prompted by rules protecting endangered native species also struggling in the drought – helped prompt the decision to look at possibly redoing the rules for operating the water project, Curtis said. So did new U.S. legislation last year that encouraged more big water construction projects and water deliveries for Western farmers, Curtis said. Federal authorities will seek public comment through Feb. 1.

Random drawing might break tie in Va. race BY DENISE LAVOIE

Associated Press RICHMOND, VA.

As Democrats and Republicans continued partisan sniping Friday over a House seat that could determine the balance of power in the Virginia House of Delegates, state elections officials moved to break the deadlock by scheduling a random drawing to pick the winner. The Virginia Board of Elections said it will pick the winner’s name in the Newport News-based 94th District next Thursday, unless a recount court decides to intervene. The race between Democrat Shelly Simonds and Republican Del. David Yancey has seesawed since the Nov. 7 election. Initially, it appeared that Yancey had won by 10 votes, but a recount put Simonds ahead by a single vote. A three-judge recount court later declared the race a tie after agreeing with the Yancey campaign that a disputed ballot was a vote for him. On Wednesday, Simonds asked the court to reconsider, but the panel has not yet responded. The fight over the seat has been intense as Republicans try to hold on to a majority in the House after a bruising election in which Democrats erased the 66-34 advantage held by Republicans, as voters vented anger toward Republican President Donald Trump. During a conference call with reporters Friday, GOP House Leader Kirk Cox – who hopes to become the next speaker of the House – criticized Democrats for causing “politically motivated delays” in deciding the 94th District race. “Democrats have sought to delay and obstruct at every turn,” Cox said. “They’ve sought to litigate their way to victory.” Cox called Simonds’ legal action a “deliberate strategy to make it more difficult for the House to organize smoothly” when the legislature reconvenes on Jan. 10. He said that even if the winner’s name is pulled Jan. 4, the House will not be able to seat the winner by the opening day of the legislative session if the loser asks for a recount. That would leave Republicans with a 50-49 majority as the session opens.

JOHN MINCHILLO AP file

A parked limousine burns as riot police clear the street during a demonstration after the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 in downtown Washington D.C. Protesters registered their rage against the new president in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Trump’s inaugural parade route.

The first Inauguration Day protest trial ended in acquittals. But more than 150 defendants await their day in court. BY ELLIE SILVERMAN

Washington Post

Hundreds of people, wearing all black and hiding their faces, moved through more than 16 blocks of downtown Washington on Inauguration Day. Some carried hammers, crowbars and bricks. They shattered shop windows, and by the end there was more than $100,000 in property damage. Last week, the first six people to go to trial in the case were acquitted by a jury on all the charges of rioting and destruction of property — an outcome that illustrates the challenge for D.C. prosecutors who are preparing for trials of more than 150 others picked up in the Jan. 20 mass arrest. The six acquitted defendants said they were lawfully exercising their First Amendment right to free speech, while a few others broke away to cause damage. Prosecutors said there was no evidence to show the six participated in the destruction, but they argued that the defendants made a choice to stay with the group and provide cover for those who smashed windows and toppled newspaper boxes. At one point, a

prosecutor referred to the protesters as “a sea of black masks.” It is not clear how many of the remaining defendants authorities believe they can prove participated in — or helped plan — protests aimed at vandalism. Legal experts said the U.S. attorney’s office in the District could weigh whether to continue moving forward on the less serious cases after the first trial’s jury rejected the government’s theory that the entire group of protesters bears some responsibility for the destruction. “The message from this jury is they’re not going to convict people by a guilty by association basis,” said Preston Burton, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District and a partner at Buckley Sandler law firm. Burton is not involved in the cases. A 38-year-old juror, who sought to remain private and asked not to be identified, said that during deliberations, some jurors “unloaded” because they could not hold someone responsible for the mayhem. During the trial, the panel watched hours of video that showed the destruction and heard from employees of busi-

nesses who described their fear in those chaotic moments. In the end, the juror said, the panel concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to convict the six people before them. The decision came after a nearly four-week trial and two full days of deliberation. “There was a frustration across the jury that we had to watch all this video about our city being torn up and destroyed and didn’t get to punish people that deserved to be punished based on evidence,” the juror said. “I’m hoping that some of the trials down the road really get some of these people that are clearly captured on video that are breaking property.” Prosecutors allege that a group called Disrupt J20 helped plan the protests, pulling in participants from across the country. More than 200 people were arrested. Twenty have pleaded guilty, prosecutors have dropped cases against 20 others, and the six were acquitted. The remainder are scheduled for trial, in groups of six or seven, through mid-2018. The defendants have been grouped into four categories based on the type of criminal conduct they allegedly committed

and how similar it is to that ascribed to other defendants. Those groupings are based on factors that include the “level of seriousness” and “specific acts of destruction, planning/organizing of the riot, charging the police line, etc.,” prosecutors wrote in a March court filing. Betty Ballester, an attorney who represents a defendant scheduled to go on trial in April, said prosecutors “need to decide what’s important for them” as they continue. “We have a good history of allowing people to protest, and I think the jury really was wondering if these people were just protesting or were they rioting. There has been a distinct separation,” she said. “If somebody threw a brick through a window and it’s on video, then that’s pretty clear that’s a destruction of property and that’s not peaceful protesting.” Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, declined to comment on the government’s case. In a statement released after the acquittals, the U.S. attorney’s office said the damage done that day “impacted many who live and work in the District of Columbia, and created a

danger for all who were nearby.” “We appreciate the jury’s close examination of the individual conduct and intent of each defendant during this trial and respect its verdict,” the statement said. “In the remaining pending cases, we look forward to the same rigorous review for each defendant.” Elizabeth Lagesse, a defendant who is scheduled for a trial in July, said she feels “cautiously optimistic” after the Dec. 21 verdict. She said she traveled from Baltimore to the District to protest Trump’s victory and then “got swept up in this crazy police battle basically, and then we just were held on the street for hours.” It is “chilling” that prosecutors are holding the group liable for violence not all committed, she said. “You only have control over what you yourself do,” Lagesse said. “Now that there’s been a jury of ordinary D. C. residents who you know just didn’t buy it, it’s time that we start dropping these charges.” David LaBahn, president of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys and a former deputy prosecutor in California, said to win the upcoming cases, prosecutors need to be able to explain to a jury: “What’s the culpability? . . . Of the 200, why am I sitting in judgment of this man or woman?”

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POLITICS Trump administration fires all members of HIV/AIDS council BY BEN GUARINO

Washington Post

EPA, U.S. Coast Guard handout

Trump administration aims to trim rules on offshore drilling Associated Press DALLAS

The Trump administration on Friday proposed to rewrite or kill rules on offshore oil and gas drilling that were imposed after the deadly 2010 rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration said the rules are an unnecessary burden on industry and rolling them back will encourage more energy production. An offshore-drilling group welcomed the rollback, while environmentalists said President Donald Trump was raising the risk of more deadly oil spills. A division of the Interior Department published the proposed change Friday in

the Federal Register. The public will have until Jan. 29 to comment. The Obama administration imposed tougher rules last year in response to the 2010 explosion on a drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon and used by BP. The accident killed 11 workers and triggered a massive oil spill. The Obama rules targeted blowout preventers, massive valve-like devices designed to prevent spills from wells on the ocean floor. The preventer used by BP failed. The rules required more frequent inspections of those and other devices and dictated that experts onshore monitor drilling of highly complex wells in real time. In its notice Friday, the Bureau of Safety and Envi-

ronmental Enforcement, an office of the Interior Department that regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, said some provisions in the rules created “potentially unduly burdensome requirements” on oil and gas operators “without significantly increasing safety of the workers or protection of the environment.” The bureau said that, when practical, it would give industry flexibility to meet safety and equipment standards rather than insisting on specific compliance methods. The agency estimated that revising some rules and removing others would save the energy industry at least $228 million over 10 years. Oil industry groups have complained about the

potential cost of complying with the rules and predicted they would threaten thousands of jobs. Randall Luthi, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, said in a statement that the Trump administration’s rollback was a step toward regulatory reform. He said safety experts in the offshore energy industry would now have the chance to comment on the regulations and “assure the nation’s offshore energy resources are developed safely and expeditiously.” But Miyoko Sakashita, ocean-program director for an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, said rolling back drilling-safety standards was a recipe for disaster. “By tossing aside the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Trump is putting our coasts and wildlife at risk of more deadly oil spills,” Sakashita said in a statement. “Reversing offshore safety rules isn’t just deregulation, it’s willful ignorance.”

The remaining members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/ AIDS were fired en masse this week. Months after a halfdozen members resigned in protest of the Trump administration’s position on health policies, the White House dismissed the rest through a form letter. The notice “thanked me for my past service and said that my appointment was terminated, effective immediately,” said Patrick Sullivan, an epidemiologist at Emory University who works on HIV testing programs. He was appointed to a four-year term in May 2016. The council, known by the acronym PACHA, has advised the White House on HIV/AIDS policies since its founding in 1995. Members, who are not paid, offer recommendations on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, a five-year plan responding to the epidemic. The group is designed to include “doctors, members of industry, members of the community and, very importantly, people living with HIV,” said Scott Schoettes, an attorney with the LGBT rights organization Lambda Legal. “Without it, you lose the community voice in policymaking.” Schoettes was among those who quit in June, and he went out with a fiery commentary in Newsweek. “The Trump Administration has no strategy to address the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, seeks zero input from experts to formulate HIV policy, and — most concerning — pushes legislation that will harm people living with HIV and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease,” he wrote in the column. “We tried to stick it out,” Schoettes told The Washington Post on Friday. “The fact is you’re dealing with a public

Sanders to Republicans: Stop saying I support your tax bill BY DAVID WEIGEL

Washington Post

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., clarified his opposition to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act this week, after Republicans and Fox News cited him to argue that the largely businessfocused legislation was a boon for the working class. Earlier in the week, Sanders watched Republicans promote only the first part of his answer to CNN’s Jake Tapper, after the host asked whether the legislation’s changes to the standard deduction and income tax brackets amounted to “a good thing.” After Sanders said yes, the Republican National Committee issued a statement calling on Sanders and other critics of the bill to make permanent the “middle-class tax cuts,” which are set to expire in 2025. Sanders’ response? No way.

“The Republicans are so desperate to spin their disastrous tax plan that they have resorted to taking comments I recently made completely out of context,” Sanders said in a statement. “Instead of this grossly obscene piece of legislation, let’s pass tax reform that permanently benefits all middle-income and working-class families without giving tax breaks to the top 1 percent. Instead of providing huge tax breaks to the rich and large corporations that explode the deficit, which this bill does, millionaires, billionaires and large, profitable corporations must begin paying their fair share of taxes.” It was not the first time that Sanders, a popular political figure, had been cited by conservatives to make a roundabout populist pitch. In October, the conservative group Campus Reform got some attention from Fox Business for interviews in

which young voters praised features of the Republican tax plan when told they came from Sanders. In the video, voters were told about the plan to increase the child tax credit, end the estate tax and lower tax rates on small businesses to 25 percent. “You read out, line by line, the Trump tax plan,” said Fox Business host Stuart Varney to Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips. “You told them it was the Sanders plan.” “This plan was so compassionate, it was caring, it was common sense,” said Phillips. “I think I could do the same interview on the Hill, talk to Senate Democrats, ask ‘what do you think of Bernie’s plan,’ and get the same answers.” The questions as shown in Campus Reform’s video, however, reflected neither the totality of the GOP’s plan, or Sanders’s own plans. At one point,

ALEX BRANDON AP file

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, speaks after a caucus luncheon, with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., on Capitol Hill, on Dec. 19 in Washington.

Phillips was shown describing the estate tax as “the death tax,” and implying that all taxpayers could be hit by it. “When people die, it’s a large tax on their estate,” said Phillips. Before the passage of the GOP’s tax bill, the federal estate tax only affected taxpayers with more than $5.45 million in assets. The bill, as passed, doubled the exemption for the estate tax, but kept the tax itself in place. Sanders has proposed raising the

tax from a pre-Trump level of 40 percent to 55 percent. Two months later, as the bill was headed toward passage, conservative filmmaker Ami Horowitz conducted interviews in the “liberal mecca” of Manhattan to prove that Sanders supporters could support it. In a video for the Daily Wire, a conservative news site, Horowitz made six claims. “If you’re making $50,000 or less, a family of four will not pay any

health issue. It’s not partisan at all.” But the “writing was on the wall,” he continued. The Office of National AIDS Policy, established in 1993 during the Clinton administration, has not had a director since President Donald Trump took office. “The tipping point for me was the president’s approach to the Affordable Care Act,” Schoettes said. “It is of great importance for people living with HIV like myself.” The council’s executive director, Kaye Hayes, confirmed in a statement that all remaining council members had received letters Wednesday “informing them that the administration was terminating their appointments.” She did not address when the administration might begin to make new appointments to the council, which can number up to 25 members. Its most recent meeting took place in August, Sullivan said, and by November, an archived version of PACHA’s website shows the group was down to 10 members and two staff. The website, which says it was updated Dec. 28, now shows two staff and no council members. “Changing the makeup of federal advisory committee members is a common occurrence during administration changes,” Hayes said in the statement. “The Obama administration dismissed the George W. Bush administration appointees to PACHA in order to bring in new voices. All PACHA members are eligible to apply to serve on the new council that will be convened in 2018.” The Washington Blade reported that termination letters were delivered without warning by way of FedEx. Gabriel Maldonado, chief executive of the LGBT and HIV/AIDS group Truevolution and a council member until this week, said he could only speculate why the final members were fired.

taxes at all.” “Double the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000.” “He’s lowering corporate taxes from 35 percent to 21 percent.” “If you take out a mortgage for more than three quarters of a million dollars, you’re going to pay taxes on that.” “The more money you make, the more a percentage of your income you have to pay in taxes.” “He keeps the Obamaera tax credits for clean energy.” As in the Campus Reform video, Horowitz offered a misleading rundown of the tax bill. One bullet point, the Obamaera tax credits, represented no change in policy. Neither did “the more money you make, the more you have to pay” — a rote description of the progressive income tax. The description of effects for a middle-class family of four was misleading — according to at least one study, that family’s tax burden could slightly increase. And Sanders opposed the corporate tax cut.

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POLITICS gives more than he gets. By backing the 32-yearold crown prince so wholeheartedly, the president cemented his status as heir to the House of Saud. The crown prince has since jailed his rivals as Saudi Arabia pursued a deadly intervention in Yemen’s civil war.

DOUG MILLS NYT

On Nov. 8, President Xi Jinping of China and President Donald Trump sit with their wives during an opera in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from a reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable.

Trump disrupts 70 years of American foreign policy BY MARK LANDLER

New York Times

ISRAEL AND CHINA Trump granted an enormous concession to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he announced earlier this month that the United States would formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But he did not ask anything of Netanyahu in return. That showed another hallmark of Trump’s foreign policy: how much it is driven by domestic politics. In this case, he was fulfilling a campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. While evangelicals and some hard-line, pro-Israel American Jews exulted, the Palestinians seethed. With China, Trump’s cultivation of Xi probably persuaded him to put more economic pressure on its neighbor North Korea over its provocative behavior. But in return for Xi’s efforts, Trump has largely shelved his trade agenda vis-à-vis Beijing. “It was a big mistake to draw that linkage,” said Robert B. Zoellick, who served as U.S. trade representative under George W. Bush. “The Chinese are playing him, and it’s not just the Chinese. The world sees his narcissism and strokes his ego, diverting him from applying disciplined pressure.”

WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump was already revved up when he emerged from his limousine to visit NATO’s new headquarters in Brussels in May. He had just met France’s recently elected president, Emmanuel Macron, whom he greeted with a white-knuckle handshake and a complaint that Europeans do not pay their fair share of the alliance’s costs. On the long walk through the NATO building’s majestic atrium, the president’s anger grew. He looked at the polished floors and shimmering glass walls with a property developer’s eye. By the time he reached an outdoor plaza where he was to speak to the other NATO leaders, Trump was fuming, according to two aides who were with him that day. His visceral reaction to the $1.2 billion building, more than anything else, colored his first encounter with the alliance, aides said. Nearly a year into his presidency, Trump remains an erratic, idiosyncratic leader on the global stage, an insurgent who attacks allies the United States has nurtured since World War II and who can seem more at home with America’s adversaries. His Twitter posts, delivered without warning or consultation, often make a mockery of his administration’s policies and subvert the messages his emissaries are trying to deliver abroad. Trump has pulled out of trade and climate change agreements and denounced the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. He has broken with decades of U.S. policy in the Middle East by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And he has taunted Kim Jong Un of North Korea as “short and fat,”

STEPHEN CROWLEY NYT

On May 26, President Donald Trump, center, walks with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, in blue, and other members of the Group of 7 in Taormina, Italy. Nearly a year into his presidency, Trump remains an erratic, idiosyncratic leader on the global stage, an insurgent who attacks allies the U.S. has nurtured since World War II and who can seem more at home with America’s adversaries.

fanning fears of war on the peninsula. He has assiduously cultivated President Xi Jinping of China and avoided criticizing President Vladimir Putin of Russia – leaders of the two countries that his own national security strategy calls the greatest geopolitical threats to America. Above all, Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from a reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order into something more inwardlooking and unpredictable. That is a seminal change from the role the nation has played for 70 years, under presidents from both parties, and it has lasting implications for how other nations chart their futures. ‘PRAGMATIC REALISM’ Trump’s unorthodox approach “has moved a lot of us out of our comfort zone, me included,” the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said in an interview. McMaster de-

fined Trump’s foreign policy as “pragmatic realism” rather than isolationism. Trump’s advisers argue that he has blown the cobwebs off decades of foreign policy doctrine and, as he approaches his anniversary, that he has learned the realities of the world in which the U.S. must operate. They point to gains in the Middle East, where Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is transforming Saudi Arabia; in Asia, where China is doing more to pressure a nuclear-armed North Korea; and even in Europe, where Trump’s criticism has prodded NATO members to ante up more for their defense. “Most foreign leaders are still trying to get a handle on him,” said Richard N. Haass, a top State Department official in the George W. Bush administration who is now the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “Everywhere I go, I’m still getting asked, ‘Help us understand this president,

help us navigate this situation.’ ” Few countries have struggled more to adapt to Trump than Germany, and few leaders seem less personally in sync with him than its leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, the physicist-turned-politician. After she won a fourth term, their relationship took on weighty symbolism: The great disrupter versus the last defender of the liberal world order. For Merkel and many other Germans, something elemental has changed across the Atlantic. “We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands,” she said in May. “The times in which we can fully count on others – they are somewhat over.” FRIENDLY AUTOCRATS There have been fewer misunderstandings with autocrats. Xi of China and King Salman of Saudi Arabia both won over Trump by giving him a lavish welcome when he visited. The Saudi mon-

arch projected his image on the side of a hotel; Xi reopened a long-dormant theater inside the Forbidden City to present him and his wife an evening of Chinese opera. Later, chatting with his aides, Trump continued to marvel at the respect Xi had shown him. It was a show of respect for the American people, not just for the president, one adviser replied gently. Then, of course, there is the strange case of Putin. The president spoke of his warm telephone calls with the Russian president, even as he introduced a national security strategy that acknowledged Russia’s efforts to weaken democracies by meddling in their elections. Aides to Trump argue that his outreach to autocrats has been vindicated. When the Saudi crown prince visited the White House in March, the president lavished attention on him. Since then, they say, Saudi Arabia has reopened cinemas and allowed women to drive. But critics say Trump

GLOBALISTS VS. NATIONALISTS For some of Trump’s advisers, the key to understanding his statecraft is not how he deals with Xi Jinping or Angela Merkel, but the ideological contest over America’s role that plays out daily between the West Wing and agencies such as the State Department and the Pentagon. “There’s a chasm that can’t be bridged between the globalists and the nationalists,” said Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist and leader of the nationalist wing. On the globalist side of the debate stand McMaster, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, and Trump’s chief economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn. On the nationalist side, in addition to Bannon, stand Stephen Miller, the president’s top domestic adviser, and Robert Lighthizer, the chief trade negotiator. The globalists have curbed some of Trump’s most radical impulses. He has yet to rip up the Iran nuclear deal, though he has refused to recertify it. He has reaffirmed U.S. support for NATO, despite his objections about those members he believes are freeloading. And he has ordered thousands of additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan, even after promising during the campaign to stay away from nation-building. Trump acknowledges that being in office has changed him. “My original instinct was to pull out,” he said of Afghanistan, “and, historically, I like following my instincts. But all my life I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.”

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WORLD It feels colder in parts of Canada than on Mars BY AMANDA ERICKSON

Washington Post

On Thursday, the temperature on Mars hit -20 degrees Fahrenheit. That might have felt positively balmy to some Canadians, who are shivering through a frigid cold snap. This week, temperatures across the country dropped way, way, way below freezing. In Ed-

monton and Yellowknife, it felt like -40 degrees. Things felt just about as cold in Saskatoon and Regina, located near the middle of the country. In Ottawa and Toronto, it felt like -20 degrees with the windchill. For comparison: It’s about 1 degree at Antartica’s Amundsen-Scott weather station. It’s “summer” down there. On Thursday, the Mars Gale

Crater reached -9.4 degrees, making it feel warmer than Saskatoon, Montreal and Calgary. (At night, NASA’s Curiosity rover recorded lows of -112 degrees. So, take heart, Canadians! It’s warmer in Canada than Mars in the dead of night.) The cold temperatures have wreaked havoc on the country’s infrastructure. It’s so cold that electric poles are snapping in

Nova Scotia, leaving 158,000 people without power. It’s cold enough that ice skating has been canceled, and windows are breaking. It’s not unprecedented. As Environment Canada explains, Canada has seen temperatures this low in the stretch between Christmas and New Year’s. What is unusual is the amount of time this snap is hanging around. Extreme weather warnings are in effect through the weekend, and a lot of New Year’s Eve festivities have been canceled. “The size of this cold wave in terms of geo-

graphical distribution is quite exceptional for this early in the winter season,” Environment Canada meteorologist Alexandre Parent told CTV. “What’s also exceptional is the duration of this episode.” Temperatures haven’t been this low since 1993, he said. Senior climatologist Dave Phillips told CBC News Network the freezing temperatures will last through the New Year. “This cold air is like molasses: it fills all the nooks and crannies and it sticks there, and it’s hard to get it out,” he said Wednesday.

US. DEPT. OF TREASURY NYT

Satellite images provided by the U.S. Treasury Department shows the alleged transfer of refined petroleum between an unidentified ship and the North Korean ship Rye Song Gang 1 in October 2017.

Ship suspected of sending oil to North Korea seized BY CHOE SANG-HUN

New York Times SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

Taiwanese company, South Korean Foreign Ministry officials told reporters Friday. The Lighthouse Winmore docked at the South Korean port of Yeosu on Oct. 11 to load 14,039 tons of refined petroleum from Japan, they said. Four days later, it departed Yeosu, saying it was headed for Taiwan. Instead, it transferred the refined oil to four other ships in international waters, including 600 tons transferred to the North Korean ship Sam Jong 2 on Oct. 19, officials said. A similar ship-to-ship transfer involving another North Korean ship, Rye Song Gang 1, was captured in satellite photos released by the U.S. Treasury Department on Nov. 21, although the department did not release the name of the other ship involved in the high-seas transaction. South Korean authorities boarded the Lighthouse Winmore and questioned its crew members when they returned to Yeosu on Nov. 24. The ship was formally impounded by South Korea after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Dec. 22 requiring

member countries to inspect and impound any vessel in their ports that was believed to have been used for prohibited activities with North Korea. Under those sanctions, countries cannot export more than a half million barrels of refined petroleum products, an 89 percent cut from previous annual shipments, and 4 million barrels of crude oil in total per year to North Korea. They are required to report their oil shipments to the North so that the Security Council can keep a real-time update of the aggregate amount and determine whether the caps have been reached. The Security Council has also banned ship-toship transfers of oil on the high seas because they can be used as a loophole to avoid the sanctions. The Lighthouse Winmore remains in South Korean custody, officials said Friday. Its 25 crewmen – 23 Chinese citizens and two men from Myanmar – will be allowed to leave after the investigation is over. Word of the seizure emerged after Trump used a post on Twitter and an interview with The New York Times to accuse

China of letting oil flow into North Korea in defiance of U.N. sanctions, warning that there will be no “friendly solution” until the flow stops. When it blacklisted several Chinese trading companies and North Korean shipping companies and their vessels in November, the U.S. Treasury Department said that North Korea was “known to employ deceptive shipping practices, including ship-to-ship transfers.” Trump’s criticism of China came after the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, quoting anonymous sources, reported that U.S. spy satellites have spotted 30 shipto-ship transfers of oil and other products since October in international waters between North Korea and China. The report said the “smuggling” took place between North Korean vessels and ships believed to be from China. In its latest sanctions, adopted Dec. 22, the Security Council expressed concern that North Korea was “illicitly exporting coal and other prohibited items through deceptive maritime practices and obtaining petroleum ille-

gally through ship-to-ship transfers.” Washington has called on the Security Council to blacklist 10 ships – including the Lighthouse Winmore,the Sam Jong 2 and the Rye Song Gang 1 – for circumventing sanctions by conducting shipto-ship transfers of refined petroleum products to North Korean vessels or transporting North Korean coal, Reuters reported, citing U.N. documents. The South Korean Foreign Ministry refused to confirm the Chosun Ilbo report, saying that the matter was being discussed at the Security Council’s sanctions committee. But Chinese officials disputed the news media reports. “I would like to know whether the relevant media could specify which ship or ships were involved in the situation?” Hua Chunying, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said Wednesday. “What made them conclude that these ships violated the Security Council resolutions? Any solid evidence?” Ren Guoqiang, a spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry, was more categorical in denial: “The situation you have mentioned absolutely does not exist,” he told reporters Thursday.

US might hold back $255M in aid to Pakistan BY ADAM GOLDMAN, MARK LANDLER AND ERIC SCHMITT

New York Times WASHINGTON

When Pakistani forces freed a Canadian-American family this fall held captive by militants, they also captured one of the abductors. U.S. officials saw a potential windfall: He was a member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network who could perhaps provide valuable information about at least one other American hostage. The Americans demanded access to the man, but Pakistani officials rejected those requests, the latest disagreement in the increasingly dysfunctional relationship between the countries. Now, the Trump administration is strongly considering whether to withhold $255 million in aid that it had delayed sending to Islamabad, according to U.S. officials, as a show of dissatisfaction with Pakistan’s broader intransigence toward confronting the terrorist networks that operate there. The administration’s internal debate over whether to deny Pakistan the money is a test of whether President Donald Trump will deliver on his threat to punish Islamabad for failing to cooperate on counterterrorism operations. Relations between the United States and Pakistan, long vital for both, have chilled steadily since the president declared over the summer that Pakistan “gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence and terror.” The United States, which has provided Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid since 2002, said in August that it was withholding the $255 million until Pakistan did more to crack down on internal terrorist groups. Senior administration officials met this month to decide what to do about the money, and U.S. officials said a final decision could be made in the coming weeks. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive discussions, did not detail what conditions Pakistan would have to meet to receive the aid. It was not clear how the United States found out about the militant’s arrest, but a U.S. drone had been monitoring the kidnappers as they moved deeper into Pakistan. Caitlan Coleman, an American, and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, were freed along with their children in an October raid after five years in captivity. Pakistani troops confronted Haqqani militants as they ferried the family across the tribal lands of northwest Pakistan. The Trump administration has foreshadowed a cutoff in recent days with harsher language. Last week, in announcing his national security strategy, Trump again singled out Pakistan for criticism. “We make massive payments every year to Pakistan,” he said. “They have to help.”

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WORLD

AMR NABIL AP

Bullets holes mark the police booth Friday outside Mar Mina church in Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, where at least nine people – eight Coptic Christians and the police officer protecting them – were killed in a shootout outside the church. A gunman also died.

Gunfire at Coptic church in Cairo kills at least 9 BY MENNA ZAKI

Associated Press

A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire Friday outside a church in a Cairo suburb and at a nearby store, sparking a shootout that killed at least nine people, including eight Coptic Christians, authorities said. It was the latest attack targeting Egypt’s embattled Christian minority. The gunman was also killed, along with at least one police officer, officials said. The local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack late Friday, saying it was carried out by a “security detail” and that one of its men was “martyred” in the strike. The claim was

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PEOPLE WERE TERRIFIED AND WANTED TO CHECK ON THEIR FAMILIES IN OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE CHURCH. WE STAYED INSIDE FOR 30 MINUTES BEFORE WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUT. Witness Raouth Atta carried by the group’s Aamaq news agency. The attack began when the gunman tried to break through the security cordon outside the Coptic Church of Mar Mina. It was not clear how many assailants were involved. Egypt’s Interior Ministry referred to only one, but the Coptic Orthodox church mentioned “gunmen.” Five people were

wounded, including another police officer, Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said. The attack came amid tightened security around churches and Christian facilities ahead of the Coptic Orthodox Christian celebrations of Christmas on Jan. 7. Police have been stationed outside churches and in nearby streets across Cairo. President

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has personally chaired meetings with his top security chiefs in recent days to discuss security during New Year’s Eve and the Orthodox Christmas. President Donald Trump spoke with Egypt’s president after the attack, condemning it and reiterating “that the United States will continue to stand with Egypt in the face of terrorism.” “President Trump emphasized his commitment to strengthening efforts to defeat terrorism and extremism in all their forms,” a White House statement said. Trump has promised to make protecting beleaguered Christian communities overseas a priority for his administration. A video circulating on social media after Friday’s

attack apparently showed the gunman lying on the ground with his face covered in blood. Authorities closed off the area around the church. The Interior Ministry identified the assailant as Ibrahim Ismail Mostafa, who, the agency said, was involved in several previous militant attacks. The Interior Ministry said he was wounded and arrested but made no mention of his death, which was reported by the Health Ministry. The assailant had earlier opened fire at the nearby store owned by a Christian, the Interior Ministry said. Islamic militants have for years battled security forces in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in an insurgency now led by IS. It is centered in the turbulent northern part of Sinai but has also carried out attacks in the mainland. The militants are targeting mainly security personnel and Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority. The latest attack, in the southern Cairo suburb of Helwan, showcases the difficulties faced by security forces in containing an insurgency that is growing in sophistication and brutality. The assault came a little more than a month after militants killed 311 worshippers inside a mosque in Sinai, the deadliest attack by militants on civilians in Egypt’s modern history. Last week, they fired a guided rocket that destroyed an army helicopter at the airport of the city of el-Arish in northern Sinai during an unannounced visit there by the defense and interior ministers. At least one senior officer was killed and two wounded in that attack, which pointed to an unusually high level of intelligence available to the militants. Samir Gerges, a witness to Friday’s church attack, said people inside the church closed the gates when the shooting began but that some bullets penetrated the building. Gerges said he was walking along a nearby street

Evacuations leave behind hundreds of Syrian patients BY PHILIP ISSA

Associated Press BEIRUT

More than 400 patients on a U.N. list waiting for evacuations from a siege in Syria were left behind on Friday as the Red Cross said it had finished transferring just 29 people and their families to Damascus for medical care. It took the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent three days to evacuate the patients and their family members from the eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus to hospitals just minutes away, underscoring the degree to which authorities have obstructed basic relief work in the war-torn country. The U.N. submitted a list of names to the government six months ago of patients requiring evacuation from the government’s siege of the suburbs of its own capital because they were suffering from war wounds, kidney failure, and malnu-

trition. In November, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said the list had reached 494 names, and 12 patients had died waiting for care. The U.N.’s children’s agency said more than 100 children require evacuation. The government, which has besieged the eastern Ghouta suburbs with varying degrees of severity since 2013 in response to a revolt against President Bashar Assad’s rule, refused to allow any evacuations until this week. Food stores and medical supplies have dried up under the blockade. U.N. officials have blasted the use of sieges against civilians in Syria as “medieval” and “barbaric.” Amnesty International called the tactic a crime against humanity. It is not clear if the 29 patients evacuated were on the U.N. list. “We could treat some of the cases if we receive medicines and aid,” said Ibrahim Mahmoud of the Unified Medical Bureau in Eastern Ghouta. The Army of Islam, a

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A member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, left, carries a baby during a patient evacuation this week from eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, the Syrian capital.

prominent rebel faction in eastern Ghouta, said it had agreed to release an equivalent number of captives to the government in exchange for securing the medical evacuations. The last of the 29 evacuations came as rebels attacked a government position at the town of Harasta, along the eastern Ghouta front, and the government resumed its stepped up bombardment of the suburbs. Al-Qaida-linked insurgents joined the Ahrar

al-Sham rebel faction to launch a new attack on pro-government forces near a military installation partially seized by rebels in mid-November, activists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. It was the first time the al-Qaida-linked Hay'at Tahrir al Sham – Arabic for Levant Liberation Committee, also known as HTS – joined the battle over the installation. The government maintains that its war in Syria is against

al-Qaida and other terrorists. Fighters for HTS were preparing to leave eastern Ghouta on buses to HTSdominated northwest Syria two weeks ago, said local media activist Anas al-Dimashqi and Observatory head Rami Abdurrahman. But the arrangements fell apart. Instead on Friday, dozens of fighters holed up near the Golan Heights boarded buses with their families to the northwestern province of Idlib as

when the gunfire broke out. He saw people running and some taking cover in a nearby restaurant. Another witness, 40year-old Raouth Atta, was praying inside the church when the violence broke out. “People were terrified and wanted to check on their families in other buildings of the church,” she told The Associated Press by phone. “We stayed inside for 30 minutes before we were able to get out.” Once she was able to leave, Atta said, she saw blood everywhere. “We kept praying,” said the Rev. Boules, who was teaching a class in the church complex. On hearing gunfire, he went to check on his students, who were panicking and terrified. Since December 2016, Egypt’s Copts have been targeted by the militants, who waged a series of attacks that left more than 100 dead and scores wounded. The country has been under a state of emergency since April after suicide bombings struck two Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday. The local IS affiliate has claimed responsibility for all the bombings targeting Christians. Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population. They have long complained of discrimination in the Muslim-majority nation and claim that authorities have often failed to protect them from sectarian attacks. Just last week, hundreds of Muslim demonstrators stormed an unlicensed church south of Cairo, wounding three people. The demonstrators shouted anti-Christian slogans and called for the church’s demolition, according to the local diocese. The demonstrators destroyed the church’s fittings and assaulted Christians inside before security personnel arrived and dispersed them.

part of an arranged surrender to the government, Syrian state media reported. The state news agency SANA said 300 al-Qaidalinked militants and their families would be sent to Idlib or to Daraa, in south Syria, as part of the arrangement, which allows the government to reassert control over the Beit Jin area, near Israel. Israel has publicly warned against the accumulation of Iranian and Iranian-backed forces at its border. Iran has arranged for thousands of militiamen from across the region to fight on behalf of Assad’s government and has sent top commanders to direct its own Revolutionary Guards in the country as well. Also Friday, Assad’s media office published photos of the first family visiting wounded veterans in the central province of Homs over the holidays, capping off a year of newly-found freedom of movement for the President, who spent most of the first years of the civil war in Damascus. Syria’s nearly sevenyear civil war has killed some 400,000 people and created the worst refugee crisis since World War II, with some five million Syrians having fled the country.

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Mattis: US wants Saudis to reduce civilian casualties in Yemen fight BY SAGAR MEGHANI

Associated Press WASHINGTON

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Friday the U.S. is determined to reduce the number of civilian casualties in the Saudi-led campaign against rebels in Yemen and will press ahead with efforts to train Saudi pilots

to identify legitimate targets. His comments to reporters at the Pentagon followed a U.N. report on Thursday that said more than 100 civilians had been killed in airstrikes in Yemen in just the past 10 days. “We are going to continue to train them how to do target identification, try to get their capabilities

up in those areas. We’re going to continue to work with their pilots and explain how you do bombing runs, that sort of thing,” Mattis said. “Anything we can do to limit the civilian casualties, we will be doing … We are going to try to make that military of the Saudis more capable of carrying out what they find to be their military necessity without

killing innocents.” At the same time, he blamed the rebels for stockpiling weapons in residential areas, which he said was not a sign that they care about the safety of civilians. On Thursday, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen said that Saudiled airstrikes had killed 109 civilians since Dec. 18, including at least 54 in

airstrikes on a market in the western province of Taiz, and 14 people from the same family in an airstrike on a farm in the coastal Hodeida province. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Shiite rebels criticized the statement, calling it “biased” toward the rebels and calling on the U.N. to review the humanitarian work mechanism and the compe-

HANI MOHAMMED AP

A man inspects the rubble of a Houthi-held detention center destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Dec. 13.

Why Trump lashed out at Saudis over Yemen BY MISSY RYAN AND JOSH DAWSEY

Washington Post

President Donald Trump’s public rebuke of Saudi Arabia this month for its role in the conflict in Yemen was an impromptu move quickly set in motion after intelligence officials presented him with images of the deepening humanitarian crisis there, officials said. In a strongly worded statement that surprised foreign diplomats and even key figures in his administration, Trump called on Saudi Arabia to allow food and supplies to reach “the Yemeni people who desperately need it.” “This must be done for humanitarian reasons immediately,” he said. The Dec. 6 statement marked a striking departure for a president who has shown unflinching support for the kingdom’s leadership. Administration officials say it was instrumental in Saudi Arabia’s decision to temporarily suspend its blockade of the Red Sea port of Hodeida, which to critics had come to symbolize Saudi excesses in the nearly three-year-old war in Yemen.

The episode also highlights the powerful role that depictions of civilian suffering overseas have had in stirring a president who took office with a clear domestic focus and little foreign policy experience. Sometimes they have triggered sudden, consequential responses from the president. In April, Trump decided to launch Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air base after televised images of victims of a chemical weapons attack, including lifeless children, had what he said was a “big impact” on him. It was the first direct U.S. assault on the government of President Bashar Assad in that country’s civil war, a seeming break with the administration’s policy on the Syrian leader. Trump’s public critique of Saudi Arabia capped a weeks-long behind-thescenes effort as U.S. officials sought to persuade Saudi leaders to fully lift the blockade, which it imposed on Yemeni ports, airports and land crossings after Houthi rebels fired a missile toward Riyadh’s international airport Nov. 4. But the private entreaties from diplomats and White

House aides lacked the impact of Trump’s action. “When the criticism comes from State, they can discount it because that’s just the bureaucracy talking,” said Gerald Feierstein, an expert on Persian Gulf nations and a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen. “But if they’re losing Donald Trump, they have to be concerned about the state of the relationship.” Intelligence officials highlighted deteriorating conditions in Yemen as part of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) the morning of Dec. 6, as Trump prepared to meet with Cabinet officials, according to officials familiar with the day’s events. Hours after the briefing, which included imagery related to the crisis, the White House issued Trump’s terse, first-person statement. Officials said the president previously had been briefed on the humanitarian crisis, but one official with knowledge of the Dec. 6 briefing said it had prompted him to push the United States to take a harder stance. Since then, the president has asked periodically about Yemen, the official said.

“While it was a relatively spontaneous decision, it also brought to a climax many months of discussions and wrangling on the issue of how to ease the humanitarian plight in Yemen,” a senior U.S. official said of Trump’s statement that day. Like others interviewed for this report, he spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. As they have for other presidents, intelligence briefers frequently have employed imagery and graphics to illustrate complex conditions overseas for Trump in the PDB and other briefings. Officials close to Trump say the former reality television star has been particularly drawn to photos and images used in those presentations. “He doesn’t have the attention span or the patience to sit and comb through books or briefing materials,” said Tim O’Brien, a Trump biographer and longtime observer. Trump also has made a habit, O’Brien said, of making instinctive decisions based on what he sees. “He makes snap judgments because he thinks his instincts are unerring,” O’Brien said. David Priess, a former CIA officer and intelligence briefer, said content

presented in the PDB has the potential to shape presidential perceptions. “Something that is emotional, that is heartbreaking, has the ability to change policy,” he said. A spokesman for the National Security Council said Trump’s statement was “entirely consistent with and a natural progression” from earlier statements from the White House, State Department and other agencies. “We have a very strong partnership with Saudi Arabia and engage regularly on a broad range of issues, including Yemen,” the spokesman said. The conflict in Yemen has presented a dilemma for the United States since gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia intervened in 2015 to contain a rebellion that they said was stoked by regional rival Iran. U.S. officials have been eager to demonstrate their support for Saudi Arabia, which has faced multiple missile attacks by the Houthi rebel movement. But they also have sought to distance themselves from the kingdom’s management of the conflict, which critics say has been characterized by indiscriminate Saudi airstrikes and inaction in the face of civilian suffering. The United States has provided military support, mostly in the form of weapons sales and aircraft

tence of its employees in Yemen. It said the statement created “a constant state of uncertainty about the information and data on which the U.N. relies and undermines its credibility.” The coalition, backing an internationally recognized government, has been at war with Iranallied Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, since March 2015. The stalemated war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced 3 million, damaged critical infrastructure and pushed the country to the brink of famine.

refueling assistance, to Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the conflict. President Barack Obama’s administration was sharply critical of Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian stance, but there was a sense that such pressure might subside after Trump took office, as the new president embraced the gulf nation’s leaders and vowed to help them push back against Iran. Trump has repeatedly defended the kingdom’s ruling family, including after a controversial internal purge. But U.S. officials have grown increasingly concerned as the conflict driven by the rebels and the Saudi-led coalition has caused needless civilian casualties, led to as many as 1 million cases of cholera and pushed millions to the brink of famine. Saudi Arabia, which blames the Houthis for the crisis, identified Hodeida as a priority because, it says, weaponry used to attack Saudi interests is smuggled through the port. Initially, U.S. officials made their appeals privately. At the State Department, Deputy Secretary John J. Sullivan met with aid groups. White House aides engaged with Saudi diplomats. But many officials say it was Trump’s public pressure that led the Saudi government to announce later in December that it would permit both humanitarian and commercial shipments, including desperately needed fuel, into Hodeida for 30 days. Aid groups remain concerned that it will take longer than that to unload supplies and are skeptical that the port will be handed over to the United Nations as planned, raising the likelihood that the blockade may be reimposed in short order. “As long as imports through Hodeida are threatened, the worst mass atrocity in decades remains scarily on the horizon,” said Scott Paul, senior humanitarian policy adviser at Oxfam America. Perry Cammack, a former Obama administration official who is now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the Trump administration must signal to Saudi Arabia that it is willing to withhold military support. “President Trump now has Saudi Arabia’s attention,” he said. “But to meaningfully ameliorate the catastrophic conditions in Yemen, he’ll need to signal that his December 6 statement constitutes not just a rhetorical flourish but a real change in policy.”

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Puerto Rico authorities said Friday that nearly half of power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria, sparking outrage among islanders who accuse the government of mismanaging its response to the Category 4 storm. Officials said 55 percent of the nearly 1.5 million customers have power, marking the first time the government has provided that statistic since Maria hit on Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph. Officials had previously reported only power generation, which stands at nearly 70 percent of prestorm levels. “It’s just extraordinary that it is still so far away from being 100 percent recovered,” said Susan Tierney, a senior adviser for Denver-based consulting company Analysis Group who testified before a U.S. Senate committee on efforts to restore power in Puerto Rico. “I’m not aware of any time in recent decades since the U.S. has electrified the entire economy that there has been an outage of this magnitude.” One of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities remains entirely without power, and it’s unclear when some electricity will be restored to the central mountain town of Ciales. Crews this week restored power for the first time to parts of the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa, which received the first hit from Maria. Among those still in the dark is Christian Pagan, 58, who lives near the capital of San Juan and said it was the government’s fault that a large number of people still don’t have power. “Everybody saw that the devastation was great, but I don’t understand why they’re trying to sell people something that’s not real,” he said of the explanations the government has provided as to why power has not been fully restored. “The first month was lost to bureaucracy and an uncoordinated reaction.” He especially criticized the power company’s former director, Ricardo Ramos, who resigned in late October after signing a $300 million contract for a Montana-based company that had only two full-time employees when the storm hit. Ramos also had said that he did not

DENNIS M. RIVERA PICHARDO NYT file

Residents of the crime-ridden Luis Lloréns Torres housing project walk in darkness on Oct. 12 after Hurricane Maria wiped out the streetlights in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Months after Maria ravaged Puerto Rico and damaged much of its electrical grid, nearly half of the island’s customers are still without power, according to the authorities.

Nearly half of Puerto Rico clients in dark

CARLOS GIUSTI AP file

Barrio Patron resident Karina Santiago Gonzalez works on a small power plant in Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 21.

activate mutual-aid agreements with power companies in the U.S. mainland in part because there was no way to communicate with them. “That’s the kind of help you ask for three days before the hurricane,” Pagan said. It is not yet known what percentage of businesses and homes now have electricity. Power company spokesman Geraldo Quinones told the Associated Press that officials are still working to obtain

that data, stressing that the optical fiber that helps provide the number of customers with power and other data was destroyed by the hurricane. Gov. Ricardo Rossello had pledged 95 percent power generation by Dec. 15, while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has said the entire island will have power by May. Fredyson Martinez, vice president of a union that represents workers with Puerto Rico’s power company, said Friday that a

recent study by local engineers found that 90 percent of industries and 75 percent of businesses already have power, meaning residential areas are disproportionately in the dark. Martinez said the company should have provided the number of customers without power a while ago, adding that officials had other ways of obtaining the information despite the damaged fiber optic cable. Martinez also said that a

Zimbabwean family lingers in limbo at Thai airport for 2 months BY RICHARD C. PADDOCK AND MUKTITA SUHARTONO

New York Times BANGKOK

A family of eight from Zimbabwe, including four children, have been stuck at a Bangkok airport for most of the past two months, unwilling to return home because of political uncertainty there and unable to secure visas to a third country. Thai immigration officials said the family members had applied to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in the hope of obtaining refugee status. They are being allowed to remain at the airport, rather than a detention center, while their

case is considered. On Friday, the travelers were settled into a quiet corner of a large waiting area, where they occupied three sofas. Their luggage was piled on airport trolleys, and the children watched a video on a small portable device while the adults talked with reporters and airport personnel who stopped by. The Zimbabwean travelers declined to give their names, or to explain how they ended up in their predicament. They also did not say what danger they would face if they were to return to Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, who held power in Zimbabwe for 37 years, was ousted in

late November. That was about a month after the family members were initially blocked from leaving Thailand. Police Col. Cherngron Rimpadee, a spokesman for Thailand’s Immigration Bureau, said the family first tried to leave Thailand on Oct. 23. But they did not have a valid visa for Spain, their destination, so were not allowed to board their flight. And because they had overstayed their Thai visas by five months, they were fined and banned from re-entering the country for a year, meaning they could not leave Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport. In November, they

succeeded in getting on a flight to Kiev, Ukraine, in the hope of continuing on to a third country. But on arrival in Kiev, they were denied permission to travel on. After they refused to fly to Zimbabwe, they were sent back to Bangkok. Now, unable to enter Thailand, or to board a flight bound for a country of their own choosing, they spend their time near the G departure gates, waiting for permission to leave. “We are stuck here,” said one of the Zimbabwean men, who did not want to be identified and would not comment further or offer details about their situation, seemingly

lack of supplies and equipment is slowing power restoration efforts, echoing an early concern by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which also has said that Puerto Rico’s rough terrain presents another challenge. Government officials said nearly 14,000 poles already have been shipped to Puerto Rico, and that another 7,000 will arrive in upcoming days. In addition, some 3,500 workers are trying to restore power across the island, with

ill-at-ease with the growing attention. Their situation is somewhat reminiscent of the 2004 film, “The Terminal,” in which a traveler is left in limbo at Kennedy International Airport when his fictitious country’s government collapses and he is left without valid papers. Their situation came to light Tuesday when an airport worker posted a photo of himself with one of the children on Facebook and mentioned that the family was living at the airport. He also wrote that airport staff had been bringing the family food and gifts over the holidays as they remained stranded in the airport. Cherngron said it was not unusual for passengers to get stuck at an airport for a period of time. “This happens at every airport in the world,

many working through the holidays and others even stripping down to their shorts to swim across a cold river with a strong current to reach damaged infrastructure. “We know that the priority of our clients is to know when they will receive the power service again,” said Justo Gonzalez, the power company’s interim director. “Maria severely impacted most of our energy infrastructure.” Officials said Puerto Rico has 2,400 miles of transmission lines, 30,000 miles of distribution lines and 342 substations that suffered substantial damage during the hurricane. Gonzalez said crews are tackling projects that include installing new poles and building primary transmission towers and connection wiring. Carlos Torres, who is overseeing power restoration efforts, said that crews are still finding unexpected damage including what he called severely impacted substations. “We will not stop working until every person and business has their lights back on,” he said. Among those still waiting for power is Eileen Cheverez, a 48-year-old respiratory therapist who lives in Morovis, which borders Ciales. She said power was restored to homes around her, but that crews still need to set up a key cable so she can have lights. “This truly consumes you mentally, emotionally,” she said, adding that seeing homes lit up around her gives her some hope amid the frustration. “It’s like a lack of respect. I know the damage was great, especially in the mountains, but I feel they’ve taken too long.” Puerto Rico’s governor on Friday said that he has requested up to 1,500 additional workers from electric companies across the U.S. mainland to help restore power, and said he has asked the Army Corps of Engineers to increase its capacity to provide assistance. “We understand how difficult it has been for the people of Puerto Rico who have been without power for so long,” he said. “Our administration will continue working to ensure that there are the necessary resources to complete this restoration effort after an unprecedented devastation.”

not only in Thailand,” he said. Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said she was aware of the case but could not provide details because of confidentiality requirements. “We are currently exploring potential solutions,” she said. Cherngron said that sending the family to a detention center was still an option. “If we feel that the U.N. process is taking too long, we might consider moving them to our center, where we have a complete childcare center,” he said. “We don’t have any deadline because we know this is a complicated issue that involves different countries who also have laws and procedures.”

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nurses at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center helped care for the hippo, the zoo sent Fionathemed onesies to the preemies there. “We are working with Fiona and her story to spread a number of messages — one is a message of not giving up,” Maynard said.

BY AMY FORLITI

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS

ROGELIO V. SOLIS AP

On Sept. 18, 35 immigrants from 23 countries recited the Oath of Allegiance during the naturalization ceremony in Jackson, Miss.According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 603,825 people became naturalized U.S. citizens in the first nine months of 2017.

Heartwarming moments of 2017

ALASTAIR GRANT AP

Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle arrive to attend the traditional Christmas Day service at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England.

million more than the 2017 Super Bowl. “People were really just about nature, about this phenomenon that was happening,” said Mamta Patel Nagaraja, who works on public engagement for NASA. “It didn’t matter what color, creed, race, economic ladder you were on, people just went out and enjoyed it.

“It transcended all the other things,” she said. #TEAMFIONA This little one wasn’t expected to make it. Fiona, a Nile hippopotamus, was just 29 pounds when she was born prematurely in January. After early health scares, she’s now thriving at more than 600 pounds. This sassy

girl has become a symbol of survival — and the star attraction at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Fiona has captivated the masses and the Team Fiona craze isn’t slowing down. She stars in her own internet video series. Tens of millions have gone online to watch her take a bottle, splash in the pool or learn to run. T-shirts bear her image. She’s the subject of children’s books. An ice cream flavor and local brew are named in her honor. She gets so many cards and letters that she has her own mail bin. Grown men will lean over the pool in their suits and ties to get close to her, said zoo director Thane Maynard. “It’s Fiona’s world, and we’re just living in it,” Maynard said. In her early, most vulnerable days, Fiona received letters and pictures from kids who were preemies themselves, urging her to stay strong. After

INSPIRING GENEROSITY Out of cash and out of gas on an interstate exit ramp in Philadelphia, Kate McClure found help from an unlikely source: a homeless man who told her to stay put, then used his last $20 to buy her gas. Johnny Bobbitt Jr.’s selflessness was not lost on McClure. She set up a GoFundMe page for the military veteran and former paramedic, and raised more than $400,000. Now Bobbitt has enough money to buy a home and his dream truck — a 1999 Ford Ranger. An attorney and financial adviser helped create a plan that will allow him to collect a small monthly salary and have some money for retirement. Bobbitt has said he’s overwhelmed. He told “Good Morning America” he plans to pay the generosity forward by donating some of the money to organizations that will help others. “Everybody out there is facing some kind of struggle, so if I can touch their life, the way mine was touched, (it’d be) an amazing feeling,” he told “Good Morning America.” “YES!” OVER ROAST CHICKEN From a simple proposal over roast chicken to plans for a royal wedding, news that Prince Harry is engaged to American actress Meghan Markle has many cheering. The story drew people in for many reasons. For one, it’s fun. The happiness exuded by the couple as they announced their engagement was contagious, while details of their courtship read like a fairy tale.

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Harry, an army veteran who had a one-time badboy image but is now devoted to wounded veterans and charitable causes, met Markle on a blind date. The prince later said that’s when he realized he needed to up his game to win her heart. They grew closer while camping in Botswana, and now there is talk of starting a family. But for some black women the engagement offered more than entertainment. It gave them a Cinderella story they could picture themselves in. Markle, who is divorced, is bi-racial and will be the first woman of color in modern history to join the British royal family. “We all have this fantasy of being swept off our feet by the prince. It’s validation that, of course, we can be princesses,” Essence Magazine Editorin-Chief Vanessa K. DeLuca said at the time. PROUD AMERICANS Manny Macias came to America when he was just 3 months old. Three decades later, he became a citizen of the only place he’s called home. “The U.S. has always been home for me,” said Macias. “Now it’s official.” The federal government says more than 600,000 people became naturalized U.S. citizens in the first nine months of 2017. The ceremonies can be huge moments for those involved. Many times they are family affairs, complete with proud smiles or tears of joy as the newest Americans realize dreams that were years in the making. Many dress in their best and pose for photos while clutching American flags. Macias, 31, said he’s now glad to be able to vote, have more stability and live without fear of being deported. “It was important to me to get the documentation saying I was a citizen,” he said. “I did get a little emotional, because finally for me, the journey was done.”

LIZ DUFOUR AP

Fiona makes her debut May 31 in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fiona’s story of survival earned her millions of fans online.

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BUSINESS MARKETS

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US stocks slide on final trading day of year BY ALEX VEIGA

Associated Press

Wall Street capped 2017 with a loss, weighed down by a broad slide in light trading ahead of the New Year’s holiday. Technology companies, banks and health care stocks accounted for much of the market’s decline. Energy stocks also fell, even as the price of U.S. crude oil surged to its highest level in more than two years. Despite the downbeat end to the week, the U.S. stock market finished 2017 with its strongest year since 2013. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, the broadest measure of the stock mar-

ket, gained 19.4 percent for the year, more than double its gain in 2016. Including dividends, the total return was 22.5 percent, as of late Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the year with a 25.1 percent gain, setting 71 all-time highs along the way. The Nasdaq composite notched the biggest gain, an increase of 28.2 percent, while the Russell 2000 index of smallercompany stocks closed out 2017 with a gain of 13.1 percent. “It’s been the year that surprised everybody,” said J.J. Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade. “It was truly buyon-the-dip, and that paid off better than anyone

possibly expected.” On Friday, many investors opted to pocket some of their gains, especially in technology stocks, which led the market with a gain of 36.9 percent. Chipmaker KLATencor was among the sector’s big decliners, dropping $2.78, or 2.6 percent, to $105.07. Traders also sold off health care and financials stocks, both of which rose 20 percent this year. Health care management company Centene fell $2.02, or 2 percent, to $100.88, while SunTrust Banks gave up 85 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $64.59. The S&P 500 ended the day down 13.93 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,673.61. The Dow dropped 118.29

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points, or 0.5 percent, to 24,719.22. The Nasdaq fell 46.77 points, or 0.7 percent, to 6,903.39. The Russell 2000 index gave up 13.42 points, or 0.9 percent, to 1,535.51. Oil and gas futures finished broadly higher Friday. Benchmark U.S. crude added 58 cents, or 1 percent, to settle at $60.42 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That’s the highest closing price of the year and the first time U.S. crude has finished above $60 a barrel since June 2015. In other energy futures trading, wholesale gasoline rose a penny to $1.80 a gallon, while heating oil added 2 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $2.08 a gallon. Gold added $12.10, or 0.9 percent, to $1,309.30 an ounce. Silver gained 22 cents to $17.15 an ounce. Copper slipped a penny to $3.30 a pound. Bond prices rose. The

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Trader Michael Milano, right, works in the crowd during the Russell rebalance on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading on June 23.

Will stocks keep climbing in 2018? BY THOMAS HEATH

Washington Post

The stock market resembles a locomotive as it heads into 2018. Low interest rates, nearrecord employment, healthy corporate earnings, global economic strength and a mostlybusiness-friendly Trump administration that saw through an overhaul of the tax system has propelled the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to a 20 percent gain as measured by price. If your throw in dividends, the total return grows to more than 21 percent on the year. Not bad, considering people were calling the early returns in 2017 a “Trump Bump.” What happened? Back up a few years. “The global economy was depressed during 2015 by the plunge in the

commodities industries around the world,” said Ed Yarden of Yardeni Research. “It didn’t cause a global recession, but it did cause a global slowdown. In other words, 2015 was a global synchronized minibust. “ “Then 2016 was a global synchronized recovery from that bust,” Yardeni said. “And 2017 was the beginning of what turned into a global synchronized boom that lasts in 2018.” Yardeni predicts the S&P 500 will hit 3,100 by the end of 2018. That’s a generous pop of 16 percent from present day. He expects a similar increase in the Dow Jones industrial average, a widely watched metric of 30 major U.S. companies that saw high-flying gains in 2017. Yardeni and others say the present conditions, barring a war or other Black Swan event, offer a

rare occasion when the stars are aligned for stocks. He said the push will come from rising earnings. But there are other salutary factors, as well. “China has been providing an enormous stimulus,” he said. “They are pumping $2 trillion in increases in the bank loans the past 12 months. The Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank monetary policy remain very easy. Then, of course, there is a little circularity here. Rising stock prices have created rising wealth effect around the world. It all adds up to a remarkably good environment for earnings. It’s hard to picture a more bullish environment when you have the global economy growing at a good clip with no inflation.” Barron’s recently published its annual outlook from its panel of 10 in-

vestment strategists, including Yardeni. The mean 2018 outlook for the Barron’s group came in at 2,840 for the S&P, with Yardeni’s prediction at the high end. You cannot talk about the 2017 stock market without including the torrid returns of technology stocks, led by the so-called FANGs – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google’s parent Alphabet. They were all home runs. Amazon (whose founder Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post), Facebook and Netflix all locked in gains of about 55 percent for the year. Alphabet was up more than 30 percent, and Microsoft was up 38 percent. Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial Network, also sees the market at a sweet spot – at least for the first half of 2018. “This is probably as good as it gets,” McMillan said. “The play right now is regulation. Republicans are going to continue to act while they can, and regulation will continue to get hacked away.” That makes banks, and

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yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.41 percent from 2.43 percent late Thursday. The dollar finished the year weaker for the first time since 2012. On Friday, the U.S. currency fell to 112.64 yen from 112.87 yen on Thursday. The euro strengthened to $1.2012 from $1.1952. Major stock indexes in Europe finished mixed Friday. Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.9 percent, hitting a record on the close of a shortened trading day. Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 each declined 0.5 percent. In Asia, most markets ended the day with modest gains. Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed 0.1 percent lower, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index gained 0.2 percent. For the year, the Nikkei posted a gain of 19.1 percent, while the Hang Seng finished with a gain of 36 percent.

financial services companies in general, ripe for earnings increases going into next year. McMillan is also bullish on the energy sector, which has been beaten down over the past few years because of an oil glut. Oil gluts push the price of a barrel of oil downward, which also depresses the shares of oil companies. But there are other factors at work, including the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries extending cuts in oil production into next year, placing demand more in line with supply. “I started saying six to eight months ago that when you look at the gap between energy stocks and oil prices, energy stocks should go up. The question is, ‘Are energy prices going to stay where they are or move higher?’ ” McMillan said. “They will move higher. You are seeing the oil and gas industry, specifically in the U.S., move back toward oligopoly pricing.” That said, McMillan doesn’t hold to Yardeni’s bullish scenario for 2018, summing up his forecast as: “A great first half and then people are going to start to sober up and sell off. A 2018 recession is possible and 2019 recession probable.” Washington investment manager Michael Farr put this this way: “The rule says ‘buy low.’ This isn’t low. While many can make money by buying high and selling higher, it is a much riskier approach and quite inappropriate for important ‘nest egg’ type assets.” McMillan expects the S&P 500 to level off at 2,700 a year from now, barely up from the airy 2,600s where it was preChristmas 2017. He also worries about the low volatility in the stock market, which signals a complacency toward inherent stock risks. “As you look at the percentage of investors who expect the market to go up, that’s very, very high,” McMillan said. “I have been giving a talk for over a year titled ‘1999 2.0,’ ” he said, referring to the dot-com bubble that exploded into a bear market. “When you look at the economic and market metrics, the similarities between this bull market and the dot-com bubble are remarkable.”

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Goldman Sachs sees $5 billion earnings hit before new tax law BY EMILY FLITTER

New York Times

Goldman Sachs expects to take a $5 billion charge to its fourth-quarter earnings as a result of the tax bill President Donald Trump signed into law last week, the bank said in a regulatory filing. It is a one-time blow for Goldman. The benefits of the law’s tax cuts – including a reduction of the corporate income tax to 21 percent from 35 percent – will be much longer lasting. Two-thirds of the estimated $5 billion charge comes from Goldman preparing to pay taxes on assets it holds overseas. Another portion stems from the bank revaluing assets on its balance sheet it intended to use as a tax shield under the old, higher rate. Those assets are now worth less since the corporate tax rate is set to decline – the latest illustration of how companies are reshaping their structures and finances to fully take advantage of the new, lower tax rates. Under the new tax law, companies will no longer be able to entirely avoid taxes on overseas holdings. But the tax they pay on those assets will drop to a rate between 8 and 15.5 percent from 35 percent. In recent weeks, some of Goldman’s competitors have also estimated onetime hits to their earnings because of the tax law. During a Dec. 5 conference, JPMorgan Chase’s chief financial officer, Marianne Lake, said moving overseas funds back to the United States could cost the bank up to $2 billion. On Dec. 6, the Citigroup chief financial officer, John Gerspach, said Citi could be facing a $20 billion charge. Bank of America said in a Dec. 22 filing it could book a $3 billion charge in its fourth-quarter earnings. Public companies are required to account for changes to tax laws during the quarter in which they are enacted, so even though the banks will not be sending checks to the IRS yet, their balance sheets must be adjusted to reflect what they will eventually owe. Goldman’s own bank analysts estimated on Dec. 18 that in the long run, big banks’ per-share earnings would increase by 13 percent, on average, under the new system. Investors took the news in stride. Goldman’s shares were down about 1 percent in recent trading, while broader stock market indexes were essentially flat. Goldman cautioned in its filing late Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the actual earnings charge could differ significantly from its $5 billion estimate if the government issues new guidance on the applications of the law or if interpretations of the law’s components change.

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Gina Mezzacappa and her daughter Olivia Minichiello shop for shoes at Macy's after returning a pair of boots Thursday at the Galleria Mall in White Plains, N.Y. The final days of December, traditionally a slow period, is increasingly generating so much traffic and sales that some chains call it the 13th Month or the Second Season.

Christmas may be over, but holiday shopping is not BY TIFFANY HSU

New York Times

Gina Mezzacappa avoided the mall for her holiday shopping, but an ill-fitting pair of Michael Kors boots brought her back this week. The shoes, a gift for her daughter, had come from Macy’s website, but Mezzacappa visited the Galleria at White Plains, in suburban New York, to return them in person. By the time she got her $50 back, she had spent $300 on other items. Christmas is over, but holiday shopping is still in full swing. The final days of December, traditionally a slow period used by retailers to purge outdated inventory, is generating so much traffic and sales that some chains are calling it the 13th Month or the Second Season. It is a recognition of the swarms of consumers who are flooding back into shops and websites on a rising tide of returns, exchanges and gift cards. The day after Christmas was most likely the fourthbusiest shopping day of the season this year, behind Black Friday and the two Saturdays before the holiday, according to Shoppertrak. The Saturday after Christmas is expected to be the ninth-busiest day. Five years ago, only 5 percent of consumers planned to shop after Christmas, according to a Deloitte survey. This year, nearly 40 percent will. Retailers, as they do every year, are discounting leftover stacks of reindeer-emblazoned sweaters. But some are also displaying new merchandise at full price to attract impulse buyers emboldened by store credit and confidence in the econo-

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A sale sign hangs Thursday at the Galleria Mall in White Plains, N.Y.

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THIS WEEK HAS, OVER THE YEARS, BEEN GRADUALLY ASSUMING MORE AND MORE IMPORTANCE IN THE OVERALL MIX. RETAILERS WANT TO GET A SECOND BITE AT THE APPLE. Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, a consulting firm

my. Seasonal workers are being assigned longer shifts. Stores are extending their hours. For years, traditional retailers have been steadily losing sales to Amazon and its e-commerce kin while being battered by a string of bankruptcies and declining revenue. Shares in Macy’s, which plans to shut 100 stores, have fallen more than 60 percent in 2 1⁄2years.

But the vibrant holiday season has kindled hopes among some that the “retail apocalypse” has perhaps hit bottom. Since sales forecasts were released in November, Macy’s stock has climbed 45 percent, and Abercrombie & Fitch is up 40 percent. Recently, the last week of the year has started to feel “a little like a stretched-out Black Friday,” said Craig Johnson,

president of Customer Growth Partners, a consulting firm. “This week has, over the years, been gradually assuming more and more importance in the overall mix,” he said. “Retailers want to get a second bite at the apple.” And Mezzacappa, a homemaker, has still more spending planned. “I wanted a shirt, I had it in my hand, but there was only one register open and a line out the door,” she said of her trip to the New York mall. “So I'll just order it online.” E-commerce continues to gobble up most of the growth in retail sales. Overall retail sales from the start of November until Christmas Eve increased nearly 5 percent from the same period a year earlier, the largest upswing since 2011, ac-

cording to data from Mastercard SpendingPulse. But online sales surged 18 percent. And on Black Friday this year, Americans spent 17 percent more online than they did in 2016, according to Adobe Digital Insights, while foot traffic into stores declined slightly, according to Shoppertrak. More e-commerce means more returns, as more online retailers try to entice customers by allowing them to change their minds frequently and easily. Online return rates are frequently double that of brick-andmortar businesses and are extremely costly to companies. But even returns can have a silver lining when the economy is strong and consumers are in a spending mood, as they are this

year. Companies are dangling incentives for consumers to return holiday gifts in person, knowing that those who do often end up browsing the store and buying other items. This year, Kohl’s began accepting certain Amazon returns at 82 of its stores. And customers who receive store credit are often inclined to think of the value as free money, according to behavioral economists. A similar psychology applies with gift cards: Shoppers with a gift card in 2017 overspent its value by an average of $38, up $10 from last year, according to First Data, a payment technology company. Americans bought more physical and digital gift cards this year than in each of the previous three years, according to the company. And with consumer confidence near a 17-year high, fueled by a strong job market, stock market gains and the prospect of tax cuts, shoppers are eager to treat themselves. Several brands are taking advantage, making a wider selection of fresh spring merchandise available at full price and mixing it in with clearance items in hopes of luring customers who are wielding new gift cards or who have just unloaded returns. J.C. Penney cut the number of discounts and deals in its print circular ad for this week by 72 percent compared with the same week last year, according to an analysis by Market Track, a retail and advertising data company. Kohl’s cut its deals by 67 percent, and Target by 33 percent. “The race to the bottom is basically over,” said Paula Rosenblum, managing partner at RSR, a retail technology research firm. “Some years, it’s a panic game,” she said, “but it’s like retailers have woken out of a dream, a weird dream filled with door busters, and are now starting to play the game right.”

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Trump trains his crosshairs on favorite target, again — Amazon BY JOSEPH PISANI

Associated Press NEW YORK

President Donald Trump returned to a favorite target Friday, saying that Amazon.com should be charged more by the U.S. Postal Service for the packages it sends around the world. Amazon has been a consistent recipient of Trump’s ire. He has accused the company of failing to pay “internet taxes,” though it’s never been made clear by the White House what the president means by that. In a tweet Friday, Trump said Amazon should be charged “MUCH MORE” by the post office because it’s “losing many billions of dollars a year” while it makes “Amazon richer.” Amazon lives and dies by shipping, and increasing rates that it negotiates with the post office, as well as shippers like UPS and FedEx, could certainly do some damage. In the seconds after the

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President Donald Trump criticize the U.S. Postal Service Friday, saying the agency is losing money and should be charging Amazon more for shipping packages.

tweet, shares of Amazon, which had been trading higher before the opening bell, began to fade and went into negative territory. The stock remained down almost 1 percent in late trading Friday. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post. The Post, as well as other major media, has been labeled as “fake news” by Trump after reporting unfavorable developments during his

campaign and presidency. He has labeled Bezos’ Post the “AmazonWashingtonPost.” The Seattle company did not respond to a request for comment Friday. A spokeswoman for the Postal Service said, “We’re looking into it.” Between July and September, Amazon paid $5.4 billion in worldwide shipping costs, a 39 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. That amounts to

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Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, also owns the Washington Post. President Donald Trump has often labeled the Post as fake news.

nearly 11 percent of the $43.7 billion in total revenue it reported in that same period. In 2014, Amazon reached a deal with the Postal Service to offer delivery on Sundays. Trump has also attacked U.S. corporations not affiliated in any way with the news media. Just over a year ago, he tweeted “Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of

control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!” Shares of Boeing Co. gave up almost 1 percent when trading opened that day, but recovered. Several days later, and again on Twitter, he said that Lockheed-Martin, which is building the F-35 fighter jet, was “out of control.” Its shares tumbled more than 5 percent, but they too recovered. The Postal Service has lost money for 11 straight years, mostly because of

pension and health care costs. One part of the operation that is not suffering, however, is shipping and packages, which handles Amazon and other online orders from retailers. In the year that ended Sept. 30, the postal service reported higher-thanexpected revenue of $19.5 billion, “due to e-commerce growth.” The post office does not break down what is driving that growth, but online orders from retailers, particularly Amazon.com, has revolutionized the way goods are bought and delivered. Analysts at Bain & Co. expected Amazon to capture 50 percent of all online shopping growth during the holiday shopping season. Amazon has taken some steps toward becoming more self-reliant in shipping. Earlier this year it announced that it would build a worldwide air cargo hub in Kentucky, about 13 miles southwest of Cincinnati. Shares of Amazon.com Inc. slipped almost 1 percent Friday to $1,174.86. The Seattle company’s stock is up more than 57 percent this year and surpassed $1,000 each for the first time in April.

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A JetBlue plane takes off in view of the air traffic control tower at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, in Seattle, on April 23, 2013.

JetBlue sings the delay blues, heads for worst year since 2007 BY MARY SCHLANGENSTEIN

Bloomberg News

JetBlue Airways Corp. has little to show for its efforts to improve on-time performance. This year through October, the airline’s on-time arrival rate of 70 percent trails the industry average of 79 percent, according to the U.S. Transportation Department. That puts the carrier on track for its worst showing since 2007. Flight delays threaten two of JetBlue’s most important initiatives. Tardiness adds costs, undermining a corporate push to trim $300 million in expenses by 2020. Chronically late flights also weaken the airline’s efforts to woo more of the most-lucrative passengers, including those for its

premium Mint offering. “Even the first-class suites arrive late when the airplane is late,” said Bob Mann, president of aviation consulting firm R.W. Mann & Co. “I think some high-value customers have figured out that Delta is doing a better job.” Delta Air Lines is typically near the top of the pack. Delays cost U.S. carriers $62.55 a minute on average in direct operating expenses last year, according to the trade group Airlines for America. Multiplied by JetBlue’s 4.95 million minutes of delays for the first 10 months of this year, the latest period for which information is available, that works out to $310 million. JetBlue said it’s more vulnerable to delays than its competitors because

about 70 percent of its flights stop at airports in the Northeast, which are especially prone to congestion and bad weather. More than 35 percent of its flights are at its base, John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The carrier, which responded to questions by email, cited repair and renovation work that temporarily shut major runways at Kennedy and Boston’s Logan International Airport this year. JetBlue also said that it puts less extra time, or “padding,” in its schedule than rivals do, giving its flights less wiggle room to arrive when promised. But the company’s ontime rate is on track for a third straight annual decline at its other “focus cities’’ of Long Beach,

California; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida. JetBlue’s Flight 667 between Orlando and Ponce, Puerto Rico, is under review by the Transportation Department after five straight months of chronic delays, defined as flights delayed more than 30 minutes more than 50 percent of the time. And the carrier was responsible for 8 percent of its delayed flights, according to the Transportation Department. That’s about the same as delays caused by problems like congestion and weather, and compares with an average of 5.1 percent for the dozen U.S. airlines tracked. JetBlue adjusted its boarding process early in 2017 as part of a multiyear effort to reduce delays. It also plans to increase the time between flights on the ground next year, hoping to avoid one plane’s problems from spilling over to another

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EVEN THE FIRST-CLASS SUITES ARRIVE LATE WHEN THE AIRPLANE IS LATE. I THINK SOME HIGH-VALUE CUSTOMERS HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT DELTA IS DOING A BETTER JOB. Bob Mann, president of aviation consulting firm R.W. Mann & Co.

aircraft. And the carrier is working on initiatives to save time between flights, like getting cleaners on planes before all passengers exit. The airline may get some help from the Feder-

al Aviation Administration, which is studying measures to improve operations in the Northeast. The carrier also is a proponent of legislation that would shift air-traffic control to a nonprofit corporation, a move that proponents say would increase efficiency. The fate of that legislation is far from clear, however. JetBlue Chief Executive Officer Robin Hayes told investors and analysts earlier this year that operating on time is “the most cost-effective way of running” an airline. That’s likely to mean a sharper focus on improving schedule performance, said Savanthi Syth, an analyst at Raymond James Financial Inc. “They’ve made this target of keeping costs under control,” she said. “A very important part of that is going to be operations.”

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BUSINESS GM settles suits in ignition case, but many remain General Motors will pay $120 million to settle claims from dozens of states in its long-running ignition-switch defect

scandal. The settlement resolves one of the legal battles involving a case that left at least 124 people dead and 275 injured in cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion made by the old GM. GM did not to disclose the defect in which the

ignition switch could rotate to the off position, causing cars to stall and airbags to not deploy. The settlements did not resolve the litigation in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. — DETROIT FREE PRESS

Calif. company gets OK for wireless charger Energous, a San Jose, Calif., company, is the first firm to receive federal approval for a wireless charging system purport-

ed to power devices from up to 3 feet away, the company said. The FCC certified the company’s “WattUp Mid Field transmitter,” which uses radio frequency energy to deliver power from the transmitter to a multitude of device types, En-

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Peggy Wiedmeyer checks out at Book World in West Bend, Wis., on Dec. 22. Early in November, at a moment when retailers traditionally look forward to reaping holiday profits, the owner of the fourth-largest bookstore chain in the country surrendered to the forces of e-commerce.

Bbookstore chains, long in decline, are undergoing a final shakeout BY DAVID STREITFELD

New York Times APPLETON, WIS.

This fall, at a moment when retailers traditionally look forward to reaping holiday profits, the owner of the fourth-largest bookstore chain in the country surrendered to the forces of e-commerce. Book World, founded in 1976, sold hardcovers, paperbacks and sometimes tobacco in malls, downtowns and vacation areas across the Upper Midwest. It had endured recessions, the expansion of superstores like Borders and Barnes & Noble, and then the rise of Amazon. But the 45-store chain could not survive the shifting nature of shopping itself, and so announced its liquidation. “Sales in our mall stores are down this year from 30 to 60 percent,” said Bill Streur, Book World’s owner. “The internet is killing retail. Bookstores are just the first to go.” As e-commerce becomes more deeply embedded in the fabric of daily life, including for the first time in rural areas, bookstores are undergoing a final shakeout. Family Christian Stores, which had 240 stores that sold books and other religious merchandise, closed this year, not long after Hastings Entertainment, a retailer of books, music and video games with 123 stores, declared bankruptcy and then shut down. “Books aren’t going away, but bookstores are,” said Matthew Duket, a Book World sales associate waiting for customers in the West Bend, Wisconsin, store.

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Empty bookshelves are seen Dec. 22 in a Book World store in West Bend, Wis.

Here is one way to measure the upheaval in bookselling: Replacing Book World as the fourth-largest chain, Publishers Weekly says, will be a company that had no physical presence a few years ago. That would be Amazon, which having conquered the virtual world has opened or announced 15 bookshops, including at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. In a famous passage in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” a novel that Book World used to sell, a character is asked how he went bust. “Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually and then suddenly.” That more or less mirrors what happened to Book World and other bookstore chains. A few years ago, ebooks were widely assumed to be driving the physical book – and the physical bookstore – to

extinction. Instead, ebook sales leveled off, and the physical book has retained much of its appeal. But readers are increasingly ordering those books online, getting them delivered with their clothes and peanut butter and diapers. Bookstore sales were $684 million in October, the Census Bureau said this month, off 4.6 percent from a year earlier and down 39 percent from a decade ago. “There aren’t many businesses that can survive a 20 to 30 percent drop,” said Streur, 68. “Closing was the last thing in the world I wanted. But reality sets in.” It was an abrupt decision that surprised even his 300 full- and part-time employees; a few said that at least some of the stores – especially those that catered to tourists – seemed to be holding their own. Book World

had opened a store in Jefferson City, Missouri, just a few weeks before. But a search for buyers for the chain or even some of the stores came up short. The chain swung from a profit in 2014 to break-even in 2015 to a loss in 2016, although Streur declined to provide numbers. “There was nobody interested in buying us,” he said. A walk around some of Book World’s stores in its home state, Wisconsin, underlines the tough retail environment. The store in Mequon is in a strip mall with at least eight empty storefronts. In Oshkosh, the store is on the main street, but at 10 a.m. there was no foot traffic. The stores in Fond du Lac and Manitowoc were almost as bleak. These streets look as if an overpowering recession had hit, but the unemployment rate in Wisconsin

fell this year to a 17-year low. Mequon is especially affluent: Its household income is double the national average. This is Amazon Prime territory, its shoppers drawn to the fast-shipping membership program that some analysts say half the households in the country have joined. Since Amazon dominates online book sales even more than it dominates other online retail, its coffers will likely get a boost from Book World’s demise. Glenn Butts, a flight instructor and pastor browsing among the bargains in West Bend, said he bought books “50 percent in person, 50 percent online.” In the future, he said, “it will probably be all online.” Still, he had his regrets. “People are getting their information these days from God knows where,” he said. “You go into a bookstore to get something a bit more in-depth, to read it and digest it. That acts against fake news.” Other customers remained resolute. “I don’t like doing things online, so I won’t be buying books there,” said Susan Briggs, a former substitute teacher buying a collection of Emerson essays in Mequon. “Technology is going to be the downfall of civilization.” Stoicism is a classic Midwest attribute, which probably helped keep Book World alive for years. “Convenience changes our expectations, and then erodes our taste,” said Michael Schutz, who grew up riding his bike to the

ergous said. Devices to be charged must be equipped with a receiver. WattUp isn’t ready for retail, but Energous will demonstrate it at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Engadget reported. — THE MERCURY NEWS

Book World in Portage, where he bought everything Stephen King wrote. That pushed Schutz to become a horror writer himself. Looming over the fate of the stores is Amazon. Mark Dupont, Streur’s son-in-law and Book World’s senior vice president, said in an interview at the chain’s headquarters here that he, unlike others in the industry, did not hold any animosity toward the retailer. “To go online is so easy, so convenient,” he said. “To draw people into a store now is a monumental challenge. This is a huge sea change for retail. I don’t see any end to it.” Some Book World managers were less forgiving. “There’s no way to compete against Amazon, which doesn’t care if it makes a profit,” said Erik Sanstad, the manager of the Mequon store. Still, he added: “I’m a little reluctant to say the internet killed Book World. We never advertised, never got our name out there.” The biggest bookstore chain is Barnes & Noble, which has been struggling for many years and has closed about 10 percent of its stores since 2011. Its most recent pivot was to go back to its roots and concentrate on bookselling. Books-a-Million, taken private by its investors in 2015 after its market capitalization plunged, is ranked second. Half Price Books, many of whose books are secondhand or remainders, is third. “The age of the physical chain of bookstores is behind us – unless you don’t need to be profitable,” said Daniel Goldin, the owner of Boswell Book Co. in Milwaukee, the sole surviving descendant of a local chain that began in 1927. “You can never save enough money through centralization to be able to compete with Amazon,” he said. “Instead, you have to go in the other direction – be so rooted in your community you can turn on a dime.” That is what Michael Bauer hopes to do in Minocqua, a town near the Michigan border. He owns a gift shop where he sells a small quantity of children’s books, local guides and cookbooks. When the Book World across the street announced its demise, he saw an opportunity. This month, Bauer, 63, signed a contract to buy the Book World building and its fixtures for more than $300,000. He hopes to open it as a new bookstore, which he will run with his fiancée, by March 1. “I like tradition. I like antiques,” he said. “I think it’s important for kids to read, and do it the old-fashioned way.” But he is aware of the challenges. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that Amazon, Walmart, all those places made it more difficult for a single store,” Bauer said. “But if you work hard, and provide a good product, you will” – and he settled for the bare minimum – “exist.”

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BUSINESS BY SIMON PARKIN

New York Times

Jake Kazdal, an American video game developer who lives in Kyoto, Japan, spent a night in early March refreshing the website of GameStop, the video game retail chain in the United States. He wanted to buy Nintendo’s just-released console, the Switch. But the device had already sold out in Japan, forcing him to look elsewhere. While Kazdal had bought Nintendo’s previous console, the Wii U, a few years earlier, he soon had buyer’s remorse. “After a few short games at my folks’ place, everyone was done,” he said. “I remember thinking: ‘Uhoh.’” The announcement of the Switch, however – a sort of two-in-one device that can be played at home or on the go – lowered his skepticism about Nintendo. Nine months later, his support is full-throated. “It’s what the Wii U should have been,” he said. Kazdal’s changing view on Nintendo is widely shared. This time last year, the company that made Mario and Donkey Kong household names seemed to have lost both its audience and enchanted touch. Players were moving elsewhere. Losses were piling up. But thanks largely to the arrival of the Switch in March, Nintendo has had a startling turnaround year. The new console became the fastest-selling video game system in Nintendo’s history – to the point where the company failed to keep up with demand. In Japan, thousands of people lined up this summer to enter a lottery for a chance to buy one. In the United States, retailers struggled, for much of the year, to maintain stock. Nintendo’s internal target for its first-year sales of the Switch has risen to 16 million from 10 million. In the company’s most recent quarterly report, released in October, it announced profit of $209 million, after regularly reporting losses in previous quarters. Its stock is up more than 75 percent this year.

Switch flips Nintendo’s fate, reviving the magic at a sagging company

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The Nintendo Switch is shown off before its March release during a Jan. 13 presentation event in Tokyo.

“Neither analysts nor investors predicted the strength of adoption for the Switch,” says Piers Harding-Rolls, who leads a group of game industry analysts at IHS Markit, a research firm. After years of resistance, Nintendo has also embraced the widespread move to mobile gaming that has reshaped the industry. Late last year, it introduced “Super Mario Run,” bringing the mustachioed plumber to the iPhone for the first time. Introducing new versions of some classic consoles, like the Super Nintendo, has also provided a revenue lift. But the major reason for the company’s recent success has been its ability to identify and correct several problems with the Wii U, a console it released in 2012. Third-party publishers made few games for the system, and Nintendo’s games, while lauded, were

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released infrequently, then not at all. The problems started with branding, however. The device’s name implied an iterative upgrade to the Wii, an earlier hit that popularized motionsensing controllers, but the Wii U was a much different console. The Wii U’s controller, which included an iPadlike screen that allowed for new game possibilities but also defied easy explanation, compounded the problem. “It was a bit difficult for consumers to understand

what the system was about,” said Shigeru Miyamoto, a top executive at the company and the creator of many of Nintendo’s most celebrated games during the past three decades. Satoru Iwata, the company’s president when the Wii U was released, recognized these issues. Before his death in 2015, from complications related to cancer, he set in motion changes that have helped the company since. Iwata pushed the company to refine the Wii U’s design for the Switch, rather than pivot from them. The Switch comes with a small screen that can be attached directly to the controllers or remain separate and connect to a TV. People can play the machine as a hand-held device or as a more traditional console. “It is truly portable,” Kazdal said. In October, the company released “Super Mario Odyssey,” a game that, for

the first time in the series’ history, took Mario to destinations that looked like real-world locations, like New York City. “We have deliberately maintained a pace of content that we were unable to achieve with the Wii U,” said Reginald FilsAime, president of Nintendo of America. This output is being led by a new generation of young game designers overseen by Shinya Takahashi, a little-known executive who has recently taken over Nintendo’s hardware and software divisions. “While we were truly saddened by Iwata’s passing, it came at a time when new leaders were rising in the company,” Takahashi, 54, said. Kosuke Yabuki, a 37year-old mentee of Miyamoto, 65, said the company has not changed how products are made. “Our mission remains the same: to find unique ways to

explore play,” he said. “The difference is that, perhaps, now is our time.” Maintaining this newfound momentum through 2018 presents a significant challenge, however. As the majority of Nintendo’s staunchest fans now own the console, the company must focus on attracting new believers, a difficulty when the company has announced no major releases from its own Mario and Zelda franchises to persuade buyers. That means Nintendo will need outside developers to provide critical support. Those developers have typically been cautious about supporting Nintendo’s machines, because the technology inside them is relatively distinct compared with those made by Microsoft and Sony, two main rivals. That makes it more expensive to build a game that works for all three brands. But with the Switch, Nintendo has worked hard to court support of major publishers such as Ubisoft, EA and Bethesda. In November, the Japanese game studio Square-Enix told investors that, in addition to researching which of its games could be brought to Nintendo’s system, it will also be “aggressively making games for Switch.” Nintendo has also been courting smaller game makers, referring to independent developers who bring their games to the Switch as “Nindies.” Some have already enjoyed success. Lizardcube, the Paris-based developer of “Wonder Boy,” has reported that the Switch version of its game outsold all other platform versions combined. Still, many players worry about the Switch’s prospects in the coming year and beyond. “I am worried about the longevity of the system over Nintendo’s penchant for abandoning things,” one Twitter user wrote this week, while canvassing views as to whether he should invest in the product. But Phil Harrison, a former vice president of the video game divisions at Microsoft and Sony, said the last year reinforced an old and important lesson. “Never underestimate Nintendo,” he said.

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Super Mario Odyssey has been one of the hits this year on the Nintendo Switch. Thanks largely to the arrival of the Switch in March, Nintendo has had a startling turnaround year.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Source code for Apple’s 1983 Lisa computer to be made public BY SEUNG LEE

San Jose Mercury News

Before there was an iPhone, iMac or Macintosh, Apple had the Lisa computer. The Lisa computer – which stands for Local Integrated Software Architecture but was also named after Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter – was a flop when it released in 1983 because of its astronomical price of $10,000 – $24,700 when adjusted for inflation. But in the grand scheme of Apple’s history, the Lisa computer’s software laid the groundwork for what was to be the macOS

operating system. Sometime next year, Apple fans will be able to relive the early days of Apple – back when it was still a startup in Cupertino, Calif., led by Jobs and Steve Wozniak – thanks to the Mountain View, Calif.based Computer History Museum. The museum’s software curator, Al Kossow, announced to a public mailing list that the source code for the Lisa computer has been recovered and is with Apple for review. Once Apple clears the code, the museum plans to release it to the public with a blog post explaining the code’s historic significance.

However, not every part of Lisa’s source code will be available, Kossow said. “The only thing I saw that probably won’t be able to be released is the American Heritage dictionary for the spell checker in LisaWrite (word processing application),” he said. The Lisa was the first computer with a graphical user interface aimed at businesses – hence its high cost. With a processor as fast as 5 MHz and 1 MB of RAM, the Lisa computer gave users the breakthrough technology of organizing files by using a computer mouse. Apple spent $150 million on the development

of Lisa and advertised it as a game-changer, with actor Kevin Costner in the commercials. But Apple only sold 10,000 units of Lisa in 1983 and pivoted to create a smaller and much cheaper successor, the Macintosh, which was released the next year. “The Lisa was doomed because it was basically a prototype – an overpriced, underpowered cobbledtogether ramshackle Mac,” author and tech journalist Leander Kahney told Wired in 2010. “Lisa taught the Mac team they’d need to articulate a clear purpose for the Mac.” The Lisa computer also set off another chain of events which helped define Apple’s history, according to Wired. Jobs was promptly kicked off the Lisa development

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The Apple Lisa sits on the bottom row with various Apple Macs on the top row in the stacks at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

team by CEO John Sculley and joined the Macintosh team. Sculley’s move against Jobs helped create the legendary fissure be-

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Dozens of drones wait to perform in a light show during the World Fly-In Expo in Wuhan, China, on Nov. 4. China has become the world leader in drones thanks largely to a single company, DJI, which has grown to account for more than 70 percent of the global market, according to Skylogic Research, a drone research firm.

At an air show in China, drones – not jets – are the real stars BY LAM YIK FEI AND RAYMOND ZHONG

New York Times WUHAN, CHINA

Need more evidence that China is a global force in technology? Just listen for the low whine of tiny propellers. And look up. At the World Fly-In Expo, an air show held in the central Chinese city of Wuhan last month, jets, hot air balloons, autogiros and ultralight planes were upstaged by Chinesemade drones. Remote-controlled flying machines drew crowds at exhibition booths and performed in tight formation, high above the ground. Teams in brightly colored jackets raced industrial drones and competed in events like delivering parcels and spraying plumes of mock pesticide. Special drones even helped clear the skies of birds before performances by manned aircraft, using loud blasts of noise. China is the world leader in drones thanks largely to a single company, DJI.

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A drone club meeting is held Nov. 5 at Zhongjiacun elementary school in Wuhan, China. The club gets together to fly commercial drones and build their own.

Founded in 2006, DJI has grown to account for more than 70 percent of the global market, according to Skylogic Research, a drone research firm. The privately owned company used cheap prices to cement its market share and is frequently lauded as an example of China’s ability to compete with global rivals in the

technology sphere. While it does not disclose financial results, it enjoys financial backing from Silicon Valley investors and has access to suppliers and talent in China’s southern manufacturing belt. DJI’s machines, which can buzz over beaches and hover above scenic mountainscapes, are used by hobbyists and

professional photographers alike. China’s drone economy is not just about selfies and aerial video, however. Drones in China inspect power lines, survey fires and disaster zones, spray crops, and monitor air pollution around factories. In some remote areas, they have delivered packages. Online retailers and

logistics companies are aiming to expand drone deliveries by signing more agreements with local governments. But as DJI courts more industrial customers such as utilities and developers, the company’s drones – and the vast quantities of footage taken by their cameras – have come under scrutiny. U.S. customs officials said in a memo this year that DJI’s drones were sending sensitive information about U.S. infrastructure back to China. The report, from the Los Angeles office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau, cited an unnamed source in the drone industry. DJI – formally named Da Jiang Innovations Science and Technology Co. – denied the allegations, saying the memo was “based on clearly false and misleading claims.” This year, the U.S. Army ordered its units to discontinue the use of DJI drones, equipment and software, citing unspecified “cyber vulnerabil-

tween the two that led to Job’s ouster from Apple in 1985. Jobs returned to the company in 1997.

ities.” Such concerns have scarcely dampened the public’s enthusiasm for drones in China. In Wuhan, the Ewatt Aerospace Flight Academy is expanding. The school, which is run by industrial-drone maker Ewatt, was the first in China to be accredited to issue the license needed to pilot heavy industrial drones. Its one-month course attracts people who hope to work either for a drone maker or for a company that needs drone operators. “More and more people want to learn,” said the school’s dean, Li Chunfei. They are starting earlier and earlier, too. At Zhongjiacun elementary school in downtown Wuhan, Xiong Sheyu, 11, is a member of the drone club. Under the supervision of a teacher, Yang Lei, students meet every Sunday to fly commercial drones. They also build their own, which look like giant paper airplanes. From the school’s playground, Sheyu sends one of them soaring, a Chinese flag in tow. With a remote control, he steers it among the concrete buildings. The cardboard plane, held together by tape and glue, hangs in the air for around 10 minutes. “I love to see the world from the sky,” Sheyu said. His father, Xiong Pinggao, added: “Learning to fly drones can make him prouder of the country.” At the air show, Sam Zhang and Yuan Jiajie laid out more than 100 white drones on a grassy field, preparing for the evening’s entertainment. The two men work for Ehang, a Guangzhou-based company that makes consumer and commercial drones. Ehang is also testing another drone – a small helicopter, essentially – that can fly a passenger for 25 minutes at an average speed of 37 mph. Another business for Ehang: light shows. Zhang drives a blue truck loaded with equipment all around China, filling the skies above private parties and government events with swarms of colorfully lit drones. As night falls in Wuhan, Zhang and Yuan take their controls. Like a regiment of fireflies, the drones lift off from the ground. They form words and shapes – a plane; a bird’s wings; the letters “WFE,” for World Fly-In Expo – and make the sky dance and swirl with light.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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The new Salesforce Tower is seen from downtown San Francisco on Dec. 19.

San Francisco’s skyline, now inexorably transformed by tech BY DAVID STREITFELD

New York Times SAN FRANCISCO

The skyscraper came late to this city, a shipping and manufacturing hub for much of its existence. The wealthy roosted on the hills, and the masses toiled on the flats and the docks. Everyone lived close to the ground in a setting renowned for its natural beauty. Now the things being shipped are virtual, and vast amounts of office space are needed to design, build and market them. Salesforce, a company that did not exist 20 years ago, will take up residence Jan. 8 in the new Salesforce Tower, which at 1,070 feet is the tallest office building west of the Mississippi. In Silicon Valley, the office parks blend into the landscape. They might have made their workers exceedingly rich, they might have changed the world – whether for better or worse is currently up for debate – but there is nothing about them that says: We are a big deal. Skyscrapers tell a different story. They are the pyramids of our civilization, permanent monuments of our existence. They show who is in charge and what they think about themselves. Salesforce Tower is breaking a San Francisco height record that stood for nearly half a century. “A ceiling has been breached,” said Alison Isenberg, a professor of urban history at Princeton University. “Now the discussion becomes is this just a building that is taller than the ones we already had, or does it raise new questions about the nature of the city?” Salesforce Tower is visible from just about everywhere. Go to the farthest edges of the city, and its 61 stories of tapered steel and glass stick up like a forceful thumb. On the drive north from the airport, the tower is the one building discernible over Potrero Hill. From

the distant North Bay, it is the first thing you notice as San Francisco sheds its customary morning fog. The building catches the morning sun, dazzling the way none of its lesser neighbors do. The tower is not beautiful, but is impossible to ignore. The top floors are set off from the rest, and the crown is flat rather than a spire. It looks as if a rocket were stowed up there, an escape vehicle for the tech overlords when the city is consumed by disaster. It will have to be a big rocket, because there are so many overlords. While few were looking, tech ate San Francisco, a development encouraged by Mayor Ed Lee, who unexpectedly died this month. There are now 79,129 high-tech jobs in the city, about triple the number a decade ago, according to a new research report from the real estate firm CBRE. If you work in an office in the city, there is a 28 percent chance you work in tech. That level is exceeded only by Seattle, where the sharp growth of

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SAN FRANCISCO HAS GONE FROM BEING DRIVEN BY MULTITUDES OF INDUSTRIES IN 2007 TO BEING NOW FOCUSED LARGELY ON TECH. THE GROWTH FEEDS ON ITSELF. TECH WORKERS ARE ATTRACTED TO THE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CITY, AND THE SUPPLY OF WORKERS MEANS MORE TECH COMPANIES COME HERE. Colin Yasukochi, a CBRE analyst

Amazon pushed the percentage of tech workers up to 38 percent, and by Silicon Valley itself, where it is 42 percent. “San Francisco has gone from being driven by multitudes of industries in 2007 to being now focused largely on tech,” said Colin Yasukochi, a CBRE analyst. “The growth feeds on itself. Tech workers are attracted to the great opportunities in the city, and the supply of workers means more tech companies come here.” The website for Salesforce Tower makes a point of noting the other tech companies nearby – Yelp, Amazon, eBay, Intuit. Meanwhile, nontech companies are slimming down and looking elsewhere. Charles Schwab, the financial services firm founded in San Francisco in 1971, just built a 5,000employee campus in Texas. Within Salesforce Tower’s shadow, a more slender, 802-foot building is also just coming to completion. It will house thousands of Facebook employees; there are condos

for sale as well. The penthouse is available for a reported $42 million, offering a well-heeled mogul the chance to make a splashy statement. San Francisco has always been like this. There were so few skyscrapers in the city’s first century that the ones that were built tell a tale of rampant egos and unrestrained power. At the end of the 19th century, the city’s newspapers had hubris and wealth to rival today’s internet companies. In 1890, the owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, M.H. de Young, erected a 10-story building worthy of his publication. It was the tallest building on the West Coast. That irked the new owners of The Call newspaper, the Spreckels family, who in 1895 commissioned a tower of their own mere feet from the Chronicle building. It would be more than half again as tall – 18 stories – and would be, they promised, “the finest building ever erected for a newspaper office.” It had a 60foot terra cotta Baroque dome, four corner cupolas

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Salesforce Tower, left, is seen Dec. 18 on Mission Street in San Francisco. Salesforce Tower, which at 1,070 feet is the tallest office building west of the Mississippi, will be inhabited in January, signaling tech’s triumph in the city.

and spectacular flourishes. It did the job, and then some, Ellen Klages wrote in a historical overview in 1993. One commentator at the time exclaimed, “From the summit of every hill as one views the city, it rivets the attention of the spectator, reminding him forcibly of the story of the giant holding an army of pygmies at bay.” That was just the beginning. Today’s inhabitants of Silicon Valley are no slouches at self-promotion, but even they could learn something from The Call, which published a report calling its new headquarters “the crowning achievement of mankind in the Western world.” Salesforce, co-founded and run by Marc Benioff, is wisely saying no such thing. It makes software that lets companies handle their relationships with customers better and so passes unnoticed by the general public. Next year, it will most likely surpass Wells Fargo as the largest private employer in the city. San Francisco has always had conflicting feelings about growth and wealth. It was a gold rush boomtown but in the 1960s was home to the Diggers, a hippie offshoot that dreamed of a society without money. That notion lingered in a thousand communes. “The mid-1960s and early 1970s in San Francisco simultaneously saw a downtown building boom and by far the nation’s strongest anti-skyscraper movement,” said Isenberg, author of “Designing San Francisco: Art, Land and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay.” “They went hand in hand.” At the center of the conflict was the Transamerica Pyramid, whose plans were unveiled in 1969. An insurance company, Transamerica had deep roots in the city, but many residents thought its location on the edge of the Financial District, near Chinatown and North Beach, would overwhelm the neighborhood. The leader of the opposition was Alvin Duskin, a dress manufacturer – he is said to be the first to use the peace sign in fashion – and local agitator. “Stop them from burying our city under a skyline of tombstones,” one ad urged, while another proclaimed: “New studies have shown that the more we build high-rise, the more expensive it becomes to live here.” The protests had an effect. The Transamerica Pyramid was shaved down from 1,040 feet to 853 feet. A proposition in 1971 to limit buildings to six stories did not pass, but it was one of those defeats that is also a bit of a victory. The Transamerica Pyramid remained the tallest in the city until this year. If Salesforce executives ever get too full of themselves, they can seek out the Call building. In 1938, the dome was removed, and the remains were stripped of all architectural splendor. The building – whose hightech tenants include a venture capitalist and a DNA sequencing startup – is getting a face-lift, but its past glory is gone for good. As for The Call itself, the paper disappeared many decades ago, leaving no trace.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY New technology aims to slow damage to O’Keeffe works BY MORGAN LEE

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M.

Chemical reactions are gradually darkening many of Georgia O’Keeffe’s famously vibrant paintings, and art conservation experts are hoping new digital imaging tools can help them slow the damage. Scientific experts in art conservation from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Chicago area announced plans this week to develop advanced 3-D imaging technology to detect destructive buildup in paintings by O’Keeffe and eventually other artists in museum collections around the world. Dale Kronkright, art

conservationist at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, said the project builds on efforts that began in 2011 to monitor the preservation of O’Keeffe paintings using high-grade images from multiple sources of light. That prevented taking physical samples that might damage the works. Destructive buildup of soap can emerge as paintings age. It happens as fats in the original oil paints combine with alkaline materials contained in pigments or drying agents. Tiny blisters emerge in the paint and turn into protrusions that resemble tiny grains of sand and can appear translucent or white. Thousands of the tiny blemishes can notice-

ably darken a painting. “They’re a little bit bigger than human hair, and you can see them with the naked eye,” Kronkright said. The creeping problem looms not only over O’Keeffe’s iconic paintings of enlarged flowers and the New Mexico desert but also the vast majority of 20th century oil paintings in museums, in part because professionalgrade canvases from the period were primed with nondrying fats or oils, Kronkright said. To develop imaging technology that can assess the growth of the protrusions, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $350,000 to the O’Keeffe museum and a collaborative artconservation center run by Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. The project aims to create a web-based system that allows any art conservator to upload and analyze images of paintings in

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Dale Kronkright, head of conservation at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, reviews imaging data of an oil painting in Santa Fe, N.M., on Feb. 3, 2015.

efforts to limit damage from soap formation. Scientists still do not fully understand what triggers and speeds up the formation – though changes in temperature and humidity during transportation are prime suspects, Kronkright said. The two-year project is likely to record paintings under light frequencies that stretch beyond the visible spectrum in search

of clues about the chemical composition of paintings. In the past, gathering that information would mean removing a postagestamp-sized chip from the works. “It now gives us a way to analyze the entire painting without taking any destructive samples whatsoever,” Kronkright said. “That’s a really big deal.” O’Keeffe’s work offers a

for the people.” While it all started with a dumpling, the group also helped other food, clothing, science and animal emoji, including the woman in the hijab, the sandwich and the fortune cookie. Emojination has worked with companies like China’s Baidu, GE and the Finnish government to help them submit emoji proposals.

BY BARBARA ORTUTAY

Associated Press NEW YORK

We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that’s sad? There’s loaf of bread and a croissant. But where’s the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, a lobster, a petri dish or a tooth? These are the kind of questions that trigger heated debates and verbal bomb tossing – or at least memos with bursts of capital letters – among members of the group burdened with deciding which new emojis make it onto our phones and computer screens each year. And now more people are getting in on the act. The Unicode Consortium is tasked with setting the global standard for the icons. It’s a heady responsibility and it can take years from inspiration – Hey, why isn’t there a dumpling? – to a new symbol being added to our phones. That’s because deciding whether a googly-eyed turd should express a wider range of emotions is not the frivolous undertaking it might appear to be. Picking the newest additions to our roster of cartoonish glyphs, from deciding on their appearance to negotiating rules that allow vampires but bar Robert Pattinson’s or Dracula’s likeness, actually has consequences for modern communication. Not since the printing press has something changed written language as much as emojis have, says Lauren Collister, a scholarly communications librarian at the University of Pittsburgh. “Emoji is one way language is growing,” she says. “When it stops growing and adapting, that’s when a language dies.” Growing and adapting doesn’t seem like an issue for emojis. The additions for 2017 included genderneutral characters, a breastfeeding woman and a woman in a hijab. For better or worse, the expanding vocabulary has given us an emoji movie, emoji short story contests and books written in emoji – someone translated “Moby Dick” into “Emoji Dick.” In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared the “face with tears of joy” emoji its word of the year.

special opportunity to unravel the mystery of soap formation because so much is known and preserved about the techniques and materials she used on more than 800 paintings spanning a sixdecade career, allowing for controlled experiments. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum first grew alarmed about soap protrusions to its collection in 2011, when a traveling exhibit returned with visible damage that couldn’t be linked to vibrations or jostling, Kronkright said. “Left unchecked, they will continue to grow, both grow in number and grow in size – and in damaging effect,” he said. He estimates that five paintings in the museum’s collection have obvious damage linked to soap formation, while 90 percent of all O’Keeffe paintings are susceptible.

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Author Jennifer 8. Lee poses for photos before eating lunch at Dumpling Time restaurant in San Francisco on Dec. 27. Thanks largely to Lee’s efforts, the dumpling emoji was added to the Unicode Standard this year after almost two years of research, meetings, and a written, illustrated proposal that reads a bit like an academic paper, complete with research on dumpling history and popularity.

Will we ever get a sad poop emoji? Well, there’s a process New York’s Museum of Modern art has added the original emoji set to its permanent collection. Apple’s pricey iPhone X lets you send animojis, animated emojis that mimic your facial expressions and speak in your voice. HOW DID WE GET HERE? These tiny pictographs became a part of our online language with the ascent of cellphones, getting their start in Japan in 1999 – “emoji” combines the Japanese words for “picture,” or “e” (pronounced “eh”), and “letters,” or “moji” (moh-jee). At first, there were just 176: simplistic, highly pixelated icons such as a heart, a soccer ball and a rocking horse. Today there are more than a thousand. Because none are taken away, their number only keeps growing. “Long after you and I are dust in the wind there will be a red wine emoji,” said Mark Davis, the cofounder and president of Unicode Consortium who also works at Google. Anyone can propose an emoji. But for it to make it

to phones and computers, it has to be approved by Unicode. The nonprofit group, mostly made up of people from large tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook, translates emoji into one standard, so that a person in France, for example, can send an emoji or a text message to a person in the U.S. and it will look the same, no matter what brand of phone or operating system they use. From the proposals to the design, a bevy of rules govern emojis. To submit a proposal to Unicode, you must follow a strict format, in writing, that includes your emoji’s expected usage level, whether it can be used as an archetype, a metaphor for a symbol (a pig face, for example, can mean more than the face of a pig and represent gluttony). There are many reasons for exclusion, too. Emojis can’t be overly specific, logos or brands, specific people (living or dead) or deities. A swastika wouldn’t be approved either. Each year, a new version of the Unicode Standard is released. This year we got Unicode 10.0,

which adds 8,518 characters, for a total of 136,690. It added the bitcoin symbol, a set of 285 Hentaigana characters used in Japan and support for languages such as Masaram Gondi, used to write Gondi in Central and Southeast India. And then there’s the dumpling. AN EMOJI TAKES SHAPE Back in August 2015, journalist and author Jennifer 8. Lee was texting with her friend Yiying Lu, the graphic designer behind the iconic “fail whale” illustration that used to pop up when Twitter’s network was down. It dawned on Lee that there was no dumpling emoji. “There are so many weird Japanese food emoji,” she said, but she didn’t understand how there could be no dumpling. After all, dumplings are almost universal. Think about it – ravioli, empanada, pierogi, potsticker – all dumplings. The process took almost two years, including research, many meetings and a written, illustrated proposal that reads a bit

like an academic paper, complete with research on dumpling history and popularity. But thanks largely to her efforts, the dumpling emoji was added to the Unicode Standard this year. And as part of her dumpling emoji lobbying, Lee decided to join the Unicode Consortium. It was an eye-opener. When she showed up at her first quarterly meeting of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, she expected a big auditorium. Instead, it was just a conference room. Most people there, she said, were “older, white male engineers,” from the big tech companies. The debates are as esoteric as they are quirky. Should “milk” be in a glass or a carton or a bottle? Pancake or pancakes? Many of the emoji decision-makers are engineers or have linguistic backgrounds, she said, but very few are designers, which can mean limitations on how they think about the images. As part of their efforts to diversify emojis, Lee and Lu founded Emojination, a group promoting “emoji by the people,

WHAT MAKES THE CUT But when they proposed the frowning poop, they met with some resistance. “Will we have a CRYING PILE OF POO next? PILE OF POO WITH TONGUE STICKING OUT? PILE OF POO WITH QUESTION MARKS FOR EYES? PILE OF POO WITH KARAOKE MIC? Will we have to encode a neutral FACELESS PILE OF POO? As an ordinary user, I don’t want this kind of crap on my phone,” wrote Michael Everson, a linguist, typographer, in a memo to the Unicode Technical Committee. Another member, typographer Andrew West, wasn’t happy with a proposal for a sliced bagel emoji. “Why are we prioritizing bagel over other bread products?” he wrote. Clearly he is not a New Yorker. Got an idea for an emoji and are willing to fight for it? It’s not too late to submit one for the class of 2019. As for 2018, stay tuned. We’ll know in a few months which ones made the cut. And while there’s a desire to be funny and quirky, the diversity of emojis is a real issue. Amy Butcher, whose 2015 essay prompted Google to propose emojis to represent women as professionals – and not just brides and polished nails – thinks there’s more work to do. The Ohio Wesleyan University professor would like to see interracial couples and human in a wheelchair to represent a disabled person, rather than the wheelchair icon one might see on a bathroom door. “These tiny, insignificant images begin to create an everyday narrative, and it’s deeply problematic that one might consistently find their identity or demographic lacking, or pigeonholed, or altogether absent,” she said.

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OPINION FROM THE RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER

The roads to history – all history

way. It began with people such as Harold Russell, who attends Harvey’s Chapel church in Hillsborough and wants to call attention to the church’s old site, the one that was lost when Jim Crow laws forced the church to

move. What happened, apparently was that some African-American churches had to move when the counties they were in no longer would maintain or fix their access roads, which had been built for

wagons but could not take low-slung automobiles. Russell, whose greatgrandfather helped found the church, then got up with Tom Magnuson, a local historian who had founded a group to map old trade routes. He has found four churches around Hillsborough that were relocated as Harvey’s Chapel was. Magnuson helped Russell and then he got in touch with UNC-Chapel Hill. Now, university students and teachers are working toward a goal of preserving old church sites. And here’s how Rachel Cotterman, a Ph.D. student working on the project, put it: “It feels important to understand how the legally enforced racial segregation of that era was actually paved into the landscape of our state.” Wow. She couldn’t have articulated the significance of this effort any better with 10 doctorates. This effort truly is a

gional identity built on its own denial, on the idea of unqualified normality: This sounds, of course, like whiteness – a racial identity that consists only of the absence of certain kinds of oppression.” Caitlin Flanagan’s “Death at a Penn State Fraternity” from The Atlantic describes the death of a fraternity pledge during hazing: “After Tim Piazza fell, four fraternity brothers carried him, unconscious, to a couch. He was in obvious need of medical attention, yet the fraternity brothers treated him with a callousness bordering on the sadistic. They slapped him and punched him, threw his shoes at him, poured beer on him, sat two abreast on his

twitching legs.” But the essay is really about how the whole system closes up around the incident, refusing to see it and deal with it, like an ocean swallowing up a truth it did not want to face. In “The New Class War” in American Affairs, Michael Lind points out that by the time of the Great Recession, 95 percent of microprocessors were manufactured by just four companies. Twothirds of the glass bottles in the world were made by just two firms. In 2007, two firms controlled 86 percent of the global market in the financial information industry. Sixty percent of the tires in the world were made by just three companies.

These oligarchs spend a lot of their effort not in enhancing productivity but in playing nationstates off one another in search of tax breaks and subsidies. If any nation threatens to enforce a basic social contract, the companies threaten to move offshore. This situation has sparked a populist uprising, but “when populist outsiders challenge oligarchic insiders, the oligarchs almost always win.” The result is rule by a banana republic elite. Many of us were raised to believe that political and market competition would produce mostly benign results. Lind describes a world of relentless economic warfare. He may not be right, but his

BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD

There were a multitude of cruelties and injustices during the Jim Crow era in the South, that period beginning in the 1890s when Southern governments formalized their grudge against the United States government after reconstruction. Millions of Americans alive today can well remember the segregated bathrooms and school classrooms and all sorts of public facilities that insulted the dignity and stole the rightful equality of African-Americans. In many ways, the South still is recuperating from this disgraceful period. And now and then, yet another aspect of Jim Crow is unearthed. In the case of some forgotten African-American churches in North Carolina, that’s the literal truth. And now, with the assistance of students and professors working

Harvey’s Chapel church in Hillsborough, N.C.

through the Center for Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and their Back Ways Project (within the Southern Oral History Program), a new sort of civil rights movement is under

The 2017 Sidney Awards, part II BY DAVID BROOKS

I was entranced by an essay in Emergency Physicians Monthly. It’s an oral testimony by Dr. Kevin Menes, who was in charge of the emergency department of Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas the night Stephen Paddock opened fire on a concert. Menes’ description of what happened that night is dry, methodical and compelling, and it deserves the first of this second batch of the year’s Sidney Awards, which I named for the philosopher Sidney Hook and give for outstanding long-form journalism. More than 200 patients arrived that night at Sunrise Hospital, sometimes piled five or six at a time in the back of cruisers, ambulances and pickup trucks. Menes had to decide who was “dying now, in a few minutes or in an hour.” He tagged each, from red to green. “Some were shot in the neck or shot in the chest, but they were still awake and talking to me. These went into my orange area because I knew that I probably had 30 minutes before they crashed. … It was important to get the red tags into the operating room because the orange

tags would start to crump and become the next red tags.” Throughout, Menes was thinking of flow. Moving patients through the system and identifying the choke points. If you want to know what professional craftsmanship looks like, this is it. It’s nearly impossible to write an essay capturing an entire region’s culture and feel, and it’s doubly hard if that region is as sprawling as the Midwest. So Phil Christman gets a Sidney plus for his essay “On Being Midwestern” in the consistently splendid Hedgehog Review. Christman notes that the early settlers were fanatically devoted to education. The grid road pattern one sees across the Midwest was laid out so that children would grow up no more than 1.4 miles from a schoolhouse. He also observes that the Midwest is always held up as the definition of normal America. “What does it do to people to see themselves as normal?” Christman asks. One thing it leads to is a certain self-repression. “Any emotion spiky or passionate enough to disrupt the smooth surface of normality must be shunted away.” He continues: “A re-

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In this Oct. 6, 2017, file photo, a man passes crosses set up to honor those killed during the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

blending of some of the best North Carolina has to offer. An energetic descendant, Russell, with a penchant for seeking parts of history that help tell a story of a region and his own family. A historian, Magnuson, who was determined not to be denied when it came to the literal unearthing of a period of history, the Jim Crow period, that must never be forgotten, and knew where to go to get help. And UNC-Chapel Hill’s applicable programs, where help was delivered by professional researchers who understood (see: Cotterman) how important this kind of project was. All are due credit for something that will amplify a period of this state’s history that is as significant as it is an example of injustice, and a period of time that has been lost to so many families. It’s amazing, when considered, and the search is itself exciting. If an academic endeavor could draw applause the way athletic contests do, this one would deserve a standing ovation.

sprawling essay is provocative and essential. To finish on a hopeful note, let’s return to medicine and Atul Gawande’s “The Heroism of Incremental Care” in The New Yorker. He contrasts the heroic mode of medicine, in which the surgeon swoops in and performs some miracle procedure, with the humbler and more incremental medicine practiced by primary care physicians who see the same patient consistently over years, who prescribe a steady beat of small changes to gradually treat conditions like migraine headaches. Confronted by an ill patient, the surgeon tries to rule out what the problem isn’t and then provide a solution to the problem. The incremental physician is comfortable with waiting, trying different approaches, achieving episodic momentary victories. In the end, Gawande concludes that the incrementalist physicians probably have a greater impact on public health than his own, “heroic” surgeon type. It’s a lesson we could learn in politics, too. By the way, if you want to learn about these sorts of essays on a regular basis, check out The Browser, Longform.org, Brain Pickings, Arts & Letters Daily and Conor Friedersdorf’s Best of Journalism. The times are hard, but the essays are good. — THE NEW YORK TIMES

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COMMENTARY Men, resist the urge to play the injured party BY MARY SANCHEZ

The Kansas City Star

After the dizzying rush of revelations and accusations of sexual assault and sexual harassment by movie moguls, actors, senators, editors, talking heads, bible-thumping candidates for office and all manner of other powerful men, American society finds itself at a crossroads. Women, by and large, feel a little vindicated. Men feel wary. But if you cheered when Al Franken and John Conyers resigned from the U.S. Congress, step back a bit. If you felt satisfaction and validation when Time magazine declared the “silence breakers” on sexual assault and harassment as the 2017 Person of the Year, brace your-

selves. Because #MeToo is about to meet #NotMe and #ItWasMeButForgiveMe and #WhoDoTheseBitchesThinkTheyAre. Men and the places where they hold sway (i.e., just about everywhere) are due for a major attitude adjustment. More allegations will come, and more powerful, once-untouchable men will step aside or be cast aside. And it’s hard to deny that all of this awareness is leading us somewhere positive. However, social change to the degree many hope for – a fundamental reordering of how men and women relate to each other – will not occur without a lot of push-back, attempts (by men) to reclaim lost ground. Men are feeling threatened right now. And that usually leads to circling

the wagons, to consciously and unconsciously shoring up power before it can be taken away. It’s what privilege does. A male colleague recently commented, “There isn’t a man in America today who isn’t deeply rethinking his behavior.” That’s a positive step, for sure. But who are men speaking with, and what conclusions are they drawing? Even those who might have the best of intentions in their self-assessment are often missing the mark when they reach out to women. This is purely anecdotal and certainly not a groundswell, but some women tell me they have heard from men who now feel they may have overstepped boundaries in the past, crossed a line with something that they

said or did. Phone calls, texts and emails have been sent (yes, I received one) apologizing or just touching base to ask, “We’re good, right?” Some women view this as men covering their tails, protecting themselves from being accused later. The message I received came across as thoughtful, although I did not recall the event that this former college acquaintance referenced. A woman I know who received one such communication fears that hiring patterns will soon reflect the decisions of men to distance themselves from women in the workplace rather than expose themselves to uncomfortable questioning of their behavior. Sure enough, it didn’t take much looking around on the Reddit online forum The Red Pill before I found this gem: “Avoid hiring and promoting feminists if you can do so legally. Women,

especially radicalized feminists, are dominating the workforce and taking control of companies, political positions, etc., due to policies that wildly favor them.” Of course, you should consider the source. The Red Pill promotes itself as a place for “discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.” But elsewhere on the web and social media, men are promoting the idea that they are being made into second class citizens. What men need to do now is dare to go in the opposite direction, to resist the notion that they are victims in this controversy. To listen, learn and resolve to do better. The question on the table is men’s behavior toward women. And too many men – capable, smart, well-meaning men – are often completely unaware of how their behavior offends and disadvantages women. What has transpired in

BY MARC THIESSEN

Special to The Washington Post

As we approach the end of President Donald Trump’s first year in office, the list of extraordinary things he has done – for both good and ill – is nothing short of remarkable. Trump inspires such deep emotions in his critics and supporters that many have struggled to objectively assess his presidency. Some are so blinded by their hatred of Trump that they refuse to acknowledge the good he has done, while others are so blinded by devotion that they overlook almost any transgression. I’ve tried to give Trump the credit he deserves when he does the right thing, while calling him out when he does the wrong thing. So, here is my list of the 10 best things Trump has done in his first 11 months. (In a subsequent column, I will give you my list of the 10 worst.) 10. He enforced President Barack Obama’s red line against Syria’s use of chemical weapons. When the regime of Bashar Assad used a toxic nerve agent on innocent men, women and children, Trump didn’t wring his hands. He acted quickly and decisively, restoring America’s credibility on the world stage that Obama had squandered. 9. He has taken a surprisingly tough line with Russia. Trump approved a $47 million arms package for Ukraine, sent troops to Poland’s border with Russia and imposed new sanctions on Moscow for violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. 8. He recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Four American presidents promised to do it, but only one actually did. This is why the American people elected Trump. He does what he promises to do, for better or for worse – in this case, definitely for the better. Even Jeb Bush tweeted his approval. 7. He withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. After George W. Bush pulled out of the disastrous Kyoto treaty, U.S. emissions went down faster than much of Europe. The same will be true for Trump’s departure from the Paris accord. Combined with his approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, and opening

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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office with reporters after signing the Republican tax bill and continuing resolution to fund the government on Dec. 22 in Washington.

The 10 best things Trump has done in his first year the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration, Trump is helping usher in a new age of American energy development. 6. He got NATO allies to kick in $12 billion more

toward our collective security. Decades of pleading by the Bush and Obama administrations failed to get NATO allies to meet their financial commitments to the alli-

ance, but Trump’s tough talk and reticence to affirm America’s Article V commitment did the trick. NATO is stronger as a result. 5. He has virtually elim-

inated the Islamic State’s physical caliphate. Trump removed the constraints Obama placed on our military and let it drive the terrorists from their strongholds.

recent months shows that women’s voices are being taken seriously in ways they weren’t in previous generations. That is a critical first step, but one that could be sidetracked if these high-profile news stories become melodramas with men as the injured parties. Not much will have been accomplished until this shift in the dynamics of gender trickles down to affect the office administrative assistant, the co-ed working at the neighborhood shop, the single mother who is beholden to her male manager for the hours she’s assigned at the fast food restaurant where she works, and the intern trying to get some experience in her chosen industry. We’re making progress, but we'll have a long way to go if men insist on taking the low road. Mary Sanchez is an opinion-page columnist for The Kansas City Star.

4. He admitted he was wrong on Afghanistan and reversed Obama’s disastrous withdrawal. In a rare admission, Trump declared: “My original instinct was to pull out. ... But all my life, I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office. ... A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum for terrorists.” 3. He enacted historic tax and regulatory reform that has unleashed economic growth. Trump signed the first comprehensive tax reform in three decades and removed the wet blanket of Obama-era regulations smothering our economy. We are now heading into our third consecutive quarter of above 3 percent growth. 2. He is installing conservative judges who will preside for decades. With his appointment of Neil M. Gorsuch, Trump secured a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and he is moving at record pace to fill the federal appeals courts with young conservative judges. 1. He, not Hillary Clinton, was inaugurated as president. Trump delivered the coup de grace that ended the corrupt, dishonest Clinton political machine. There are many other significant achievements that did not make the top 10. Trump has taken a clear, strong stand against the narco-dictatorship in Venezuela, and he renamed the “Asia-Pacific” the “Indo-Pacific” to include India in the larger task of preventing Chinese hegemony in Asia. Trump has made clear that he is willing to use force to stop North Korea from deploying nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of destroying U.S. cities – which has prompted China to finally put real pressure on Pyongyang. We’ll see if it works. The record of achievement suggests that, despite the noxious tweets and self-inflicted wounds emanating from the White House, Trump has the potential to become one of the most consequential conservative presidents in modern American history. The question is: Does all this good outweigh the bad? We’ll review the 10 worst things Trump has done in a forthcoming column.

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NAMES & FACES January, and after exploring many options to that effect, I have accepted that this is an injury that simply needs more time and care to heal,” the singer, 40, posted Wednesday on her website and social media accounts. On Nov. 7, Shakira had said that due to strained vocal cords, she could not kick off the tour the following day in Cologne, Germany.

PEOPLE DEGENERES GOES PRIME TIME WITH GAME SHOW Ellen DeGeneres is known for keeping her comedy on the nice side. But she lets her inner meanie out for “Ellen’s Game of Games.” That’s NBC’s new prime-time game show, which begins its regular run Tuesday after a December sneak peek. The hour-long show subjects its contestants to minorleague torments that, it turns out, delight host DeGeneres – and offers a $100,000 top prize. She says she gets a kick out of seeing panic on contestants’ faces when they are in danger of giving the wrong answer. They know the consequences could include being drenched with water or launched airborne. DeGeneres says no one gets hurt, only humiliated. “Ellen’s Game of Games” airs at 8 p.m. Eastern Tuesday on NBC.

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Shakira has postponed her concert tour again because of a damaged vocal cord, but says it will begin in June.

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CHLOE X HALLE ACT, SING ON TV’S ‘GROWN-ISH’ When the duo Chloe x Halle accepted an award on behalf of Beyoncé, who had just given birth, at the 2017 BET Awards, they not only honored their mentor, they landed a gig on the upcoming TV show, “grown-ish.” The sisters said Kenya Barris, the executive producer of the hit ABC series “black-ish” and its spinoff “grown-ish,” saw the singers at the awards show with actress Yara Shahidi – who stars in

both of his shows – and he knew there was something special about the trio. “He just said he knew in that moment he wanted us to be a part of the show because we all looked so great together,” Halle Bailey, 17, said in an interview this week. “We just feel so blessed that we get to be a part of this.” “Grown-ish” will have a two-episode premiere Wednesday night on Freeform. It follows Shahidi’s “black-ish” character Zoey, the popular and socially active 17-year-old, as she heads to college,

where she meets her classmates played by the Halle and Chloe Bailey. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

SHAKIRA POSTPONES TOUR, GIVES JUNE DATE FOR RETURN Grammy Award-winning pop star Shakira has again postponed her El Dorado concert tour, due to a hemorrhaged vocal cord, but added that she “will be getting back on the road in June 2018.” “Though I very much hoped to be able to recover my vocal cords in time to pick the tour back up in

GINO DOMENICO AP

Mystery writer Sue Grafton has died in Santa Barbara, Calif., at the age of 77. Her daughter, Jamie Clark says her mother passed away Thursday night after a two-year battle with cancer.

SUE GRAFTON, 1940-2017

Mystery writer dies, leaving her ‘alphabet series’ at ‘Y’ BY JOHN ANTCZAK

Associated Press LOS ANGELES

Sue Grafton, author of the best-selling “alphabet series” of mystery novels, has died in Santa Barbara. She was 77. Grafton was surrounded by family, including husband Steven Humphrey, when she died Thursday after a two-year battle with cancer, her daughter, Jamie Clark, posted on the author’s website. “Although we knew this was coming, it was unexpected and fast. She had been fine up until just a few days ago, and then

things moved quickly,” the posting said. Grafton began her “alphabet series” in 1982 with “A is for Alibi.” Her most recent book, “Y is for Yesterday,” was published in August. “Many of you also know that she was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows, and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name,” her daughter wrote. “Because of all of those things, and out of the deep abiding love and respect for our dear sweet Sue, as far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now

ends at Y.” Humphrey said Grafton had been struggling to find an idea for “Z” while undergoing treatment and losing weight. “Nothing’s been written,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “There is no Z.” He added with a laugh, “Nobody in this family will ever use the letter Z again.” The fictional heroine of the series, Southern California private detective Kinsey Millhone, was Grafton’s alter ego, she told The Seattle Times earlier this year. “I’m an introvert, so

SNAKE BITES VACATIONING LOHAN IN THAILAND Lindsay Lohan was bitten by a snake during a hike in Phuket, Thailand, on Wednesday, she revealed on her Instagram story. The “Mean Girls” star shared a video of her beautiful surroundings before zooming in on the red bite on her ankle. “I love this, it’s so beautiful, amazing place … aside from my snake bite,” she said. “Hi! I’m still in Phuket in Thailand, it’s beautiful here and yeah I got bit by a snake on a hike the other day,” she continued. “The positive side of it is, I’m OK. Happy New Year and God bless. Ciao.” Lohan, 31, said her shaman on the journey told her the snake bite was actually good luck. Luck she might be in need of after she was hit with a $100,000 tax lien earlier this week for money she owed for the years 2010, 2014 and 2015, according to People. — NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

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Actor Russ Tamblyn is 83. Baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax is 82. Folk singer Noel Paul Stookey is 80. TV director James Burrows is 77. Actor Fred Ward is 75. Singer-musician Michael Nesmith is 75. Actress Concetta Tomei is 72. Singer Patti Smith is 71. Rock singer-musician Jeff Lynne is 70. TV personality Meredith Vieira is 64. Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is 62. Actress Patricia Kalember is 61. Country singer Suzy Bogguss is 61. Former “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer is 60. Actress-comedian Tracey Ullman is 58. Rock musician Rob Hotchkiss is 57. Radio-TV commentator Sean Hannity is 56. Sprinter Ben Johnson is 56. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is 54. Actor George Newbern is 54. Movie director Bennett Miller is 51. Singer Jay Kay (Jamiroquai) is 48. Rock musician Byron McMackin (Pennywise) is 48. Actress Meredith Monroe is 48. Actor Daniel Sunjata is 46. Actress Maureen Flannigan is 45. Actor Jason Behr is 44. Golfer Tiger Woods is 42. TV personality-boxer Laila Ali is 40. Actress Lucy Punch is 40. Singer-actor Tyrese Gibson is 39. Actress Eliza Dushku is 37. Rock musician Tim Lopez (Plain White T’s) is 37. Actress Kristin Kreuk is 35. Folkrock singer-musician Wesley Schultz (The Lumineers) is 35. NBA player LeBron James is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer Andra Day is 33. Pop-rock singer Ellie Goulding is 31. Actress Caity Lotz is 31. Pop-rock musician Jamie Follese (Hot Chelle Rae) is 26.

TODAY’S THOUGHT

“WORK IS A DULL THING; YOU CANNOT GET AWAY FROM THAT. THE ONLY AGREEABLE EXISTENCE IS ONE OF IDLENESS, AND THAT IS NOT, UNFORTUNATELY, ALWAYS COMPATIBLE WITH CONTINUING TO EXIST AT ALL.” Rose Macaulay, English poet and essayist (1881-1958)

doing half of what Kinsey is beyond my poor capabilities,” Grafton said. “But it’s fun to get to live her life without penalty.” Her husband agreed that Grafton was Kinsey. “Yes, as Sue said, ‘We’re one spirit in two bodies, and she got the good one,’ ” Humphrey said. While Grafton aged, her heroine didn’t quite as much. “So when I started, she was 32, and I was 42. Now, she is 39, and I am 77. So there’s a little bit of injustice there, but she is single,” she told NPR in an interview earlier this year. “She’s been married twice. She has no kids, no pets, no house plants.” She said she was looking forward to reaching the end of the alphabet with “Z is for Zero.” Grafton began writing at 18, and wrote her first novel at 22. “A is for Alibi” was the eighth novel she wrote, and the third she had published. On her blog, she said her ideas come from everywhere. “I read newspapers, textbooks on crime. I talk to private investigators, police officers, jail administrators, doctors, lawyers, career criminals. Ideas are everywhere,” she said. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Grafton stayed tied to her roots, dividing her time between a home there and her home in California. In addition to her husband and daughter Jamie Clark, she is survived by another daughter, Leslie Twine, and her son, Jay Schmidt. Grafton’s remains will be cremated and the family will hold a private memorial Sunday. Memorials also will be held in Louisville and New York City.

TODAY’S HISTORY In 1853, the United States and Mexico signed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for $10 million in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase. In 1905, the Franz Lehar operetta “The Merry Widow” premiered in Vienna. In 1916, Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “Mad Monk” who wielded considerable influence with Czar Nicholas II, was killed by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg. In 1922, Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which lasted nearly seven decades before dissolving in December 1991. In 1936, the United Auto Workers union staged its first “sit-down” strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Michigan. (The strike lasted until Feb. 11, 1937.) In 1942, a near-riot of bobby-soxers greeted the opening of Frank Sinatra’s singing engagement at the Paramount Theater in New York’s Times Square. In 1947, King Michael I of Romania agreed to abdicate, but charged he was being forced off the throne by Communists. In 1954, Olympic gold medal runner Malvin G. Whitfield became the first black recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award for amateur athletes. In 1965, Ferdinand Marcos was inaugurated for his first term as president of the Philippines. In 1979, Broadway composer Richard Rodgers died in New York at age 77. In 1989, a Northwest Airlines DC-10, which had

been the target of a telephoned threat, flew safely from Paris to Detroit with 22 passengers amid extratight security. In 1997, a deadly massacre in Algeria’s insurgency began in four mountain villages as armed men killed women and children in an attack that lasted from dusk until dawn the following morning; up to 412 deaths were reported. In 1999, former Beatle George Harrison fought off a knife-wielding intruder who’d broken into his mansion west of London and stabbed him in the chest. (The attacker was later acquitted of attempted murder by reason of insanity.) Ten years ago: Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner of an election marred by widespread allegations of rigging; violence flared in Nairobi slums and coastal resort towns, killing scores in the following days. Three days after Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Zardari, was named symbolic leader of her Pakistan Peoples Party, while her husband took effective control. Five years ago: Recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 first graders in Connecticut as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama pledged on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to put his “full weight” behind legislation aimed at preventing gun violence. A tour bus crashed on an icy Oregon highway, killing nine passengers and injuring almost 40 on Interstate 84 east of Pendleton. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

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HOME & GARDEN 10 home design trends to watch in the coming year BY MEGAN MCDONOUGH

Washington Post

New Year’s is just around the corner, and while you’re deciding on your annual resolutions, the design world is setting its sights on what styles will be big in 2018. The home remodeling and design platform Houzz is ahead of the game, having recently released its top 10 homedesign-trend predictions for the new year. The site’s forecast, derived from conversations with industry experts as well as trends noticed among its 40 million monthly users, gives a glimpse of what we might soon see in our homes and on our social media feeds. Houzz editor and writer Mitchell Parker spoke about Houzz’s conclusions, and why these particular trends are gaining traction.

1. MORE COLOR IN KITCHENS Although white will always be a classic color for kitchen design, homeowners are shying away from bland hues and injecting rich colors, such as warm wood tones (example: mahogany) and neutrals (example: grays and blues), into the space to give it a warm, fresh and unique feel. Social sites such as Instagram, Pinterest and Houzz have exposed homeowners to “what’s possible, what looks fun and what they can personalize themselves,” Parker said, and have encouraged them to be bigger risktakers when it comes to color. 2. RICH COLORS THROUGHOUT HOME Warm grays paired with “camel, rust, tobacco [and] brown-blacks,” as well as earthy reds and yellows, are expected to edge out cooler neutrals in the coming year. “These rich colors are not like the avocado green

and mustard colors from the 1970s. They won’t date quickly,” Parker said. “They are rich, moody and work well in home e3. No more white or stainless steel sinksnvironments where you want a soothing and diverse mix of colors and textures.” 3. NO MORE WHITE OR STAINLESS STEEL SINKS The modern Farmhouse style will continue to flourish in 2018 and spread to the bathroom. Parker predicts that there will be “more concrete, stone, copper and granite composite sinks in darker hues of gray, bronze or black.” “As people set out to personalize their spaces, they are kind of bored with seeing a white sink all of the time,” Parker said. The rustic home decor trend is “waking people up to trying something new and different.” It “harkens back to simpler times,” he said, “and that feeling of simplicity can be very calm-

ing in a home environment.” 4. FLORALS The tropical palm print may have flooded your Instagram feeds this year, but people aren’t yet tired of eye-catching, oversized graphic florals. Houzz expects even more interpretations of overscaled floral patterns, in high-contrast colors, in the new year. 5. VINTAGE LIGHTING Vintage light fixtures, including sconces, lanterns, pendants and chandeliers, are making a comeback as crafty home do-it-yourselfers outfit retro fixtures with new technology. “I find that vintage fixtures are often bettermade than new fixtures, I prefer their patina, and I appreciate the distinctive, one-of-a-kind quality they add to rooms,” designer and “Today” show style expert Elizabeth Mayhew wrote in The Washington Post. “Online shopping platforms such as 1stDibs, Etsy and One Kings Lane have made it easy to find everything from an early-20th-century French crystal chandelier to a ’60s Sputnik.”

6. TROUGH OR BUCKET SINKS Another sign the modern Farmhouse trend isn’t dying in 2018: Houzz predicts that deep, wide and durable trough and bucket sinks will continue to be popular in the new year. Used commonly in busy laundry rooms and kids’ bathrooms, these long, narrow and low-maintenance sinks can help create a rustic aesthetic and maximize minimal space.

8. MILLWORK FEATURE WALLS AND DETAILING The ease and availability of millwork has helped increase its demand and popularity in the design world. “Before, if you wanted to find millwork or reclaimed wood, you really had to know where to go and find somebody who was good at working with it,” Parker said. “Now, you can DIY it, and put it right against the drywall behind your bed to create a feature wall.”

7. CONCRETE ACCENTS Step aside, white marble — it’s concrete’s time to steal the spotlight. “It’s a really affordable, high-impact design element,” Parker said. Already used for floors and countertops, the versatile, accessible material is now being utilized in more interesting and unexpected ways, including in home accessories, such as pendant lighting and furniture. “We’re seeing new uses [of it] on all kinds of hardscaping surfaces,” Parker added. “On anything you can think of, people are casting it.”

9. WALLPAPER-LIKE BACKSPLASH Looking to refresh your kitchen or bathroom? Stay away from subway or hexagon tiles and instead consider contemporary tiles that look like wood, concrete, resin, fabric or even wallpaper.

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Fabric is a great way to use ultra violet in decor. Expect a lot of ultra violet in everything this year, from appliances and bedding to sofas and tile.

Ultra Violet colors will be everywhere you look in 2018 BY DEBBIE ARRINGTON

The Sacramento Bee

If color forecasters are correct, the year ahead will be filled with a purple haze. From housewares to fashion to flowers, expect a heavy dose of bright, eye-popping purple. That’s the prediction of the experts at Pantone Color Institute, which recently named “ultra violet” as the Color of 2018. This isn’t your basic aubergine or periwinkle or Sacramento Kings’ royal purple. Instead, ultra violet — as its name implies — kicks up its intensity as “a dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple

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If you love purple, 2018 is your year. Ultra Violet is the Color of 2018, according to Pantone Color Institute, and is already available in many household items.

shade,” according to the color experts. To come up with its annual Color of the Year, Pantone tracks trends in all segments of design, then weighs shades it sees on the upswing against other more nebulous factors such as the mood of the nation. “We are living in a time that requires inventiveness and imagination,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, in the official announcement. “It is this kind of creative inspiration that is indigenous to … ultra violet, a blue-based purple that takes our awareness and potential to a higher level. From exploring new technologies and the

10. CASUAL AND CALM MODERN BEDROOMS Homeowners are running with the “less is more” notion in the master bedroom and opting for more modern and minimalist furnishings. Instead of bold and busy colors, soothing, neutral color palettes are expected to reign supreme, along with soft fabrics and simple furniture pieces.

greater galaxy, to artistic expression and spiritual reflection, intuitive ultra violet lights the way to what is yet to come.” Pantone reads many things into this intense hue. It “communicates ingenuity, originality and visionary thinking that points to the future,” according to the experts. It’s a Prince kind of purple. Ultra violet also has a calming and meditative aspect that can combat the nonstop stress of life today, Pantone noted. Visually, it complements the ubiquitous grays in modern homes. For color watchers, ultra violet is more blue than radiant orchid, Pantone’s 2014 Color of the Year, and pinker than blue iris, the 2008 top choice. (And it’s a stark contrast to 2017’s pick, greenery.) What does this mean to consumers? Expect a lot of ultra violet in everything from appliances and bedding to sofas and tile. Your Kings jersey will suddenly be a fashion statement. “This means 2018 will be a good year to stock up on all things purple, if you love the color,” said interior designer Jennifer Ott in her assessment of ultra violet. Michael Murphy, trends and interior design producer at Lamps Plus, pegged ultra violet as the right tone for the moment. “This color evokes truth, self-respect and dignity,” he said. “All of these words seem to be culturally relevant.” In the garden, ultra violet already is right at home. Purple ranks among the most common flower colors and is a longtime florist favorite. If you’re thinking of energizing your landscape with ultra violet, consider planting some Purple Dome asters, purple morning glories or purple monkshead; all have that same vibrant shade. They’ll make your spring and summer gardens ultra appealing.

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HOME & GARDEN BY NORMAN WINTER

Tribune News Service

In Japanese the word Kanjiro means you must feel. I’m not sure if that means to touch or to experience, to me the Kanjiro camellia is one to experience. Kanjio is known botanically as Camellia hiemalis and it made its debut in 1954. Touting a camellia cultivar that’s entering its 64th year is a testament to both its character and performance in the landscape. Over the last dozen years I’ve got to experience Kanjiro to its full beauty. When I was a horticulturist with Mississippi State University I had the opportunity to film several planted along the streets of downtown Brookhaven, Miss., as part of a beautification project. My son has is using it to give some fall blooming razzle dazzle in Columbus, Ga. At the Coastal Georgia Botanical Garden we have planted hundreds. They were planted about five years ago as a screen for a chain link fence. I remember my first thought was that will take a while to do the job. Now 45 months later my thought is “Wow what a great idea they had.” Kanjiro is cold hardy from zones 7-10, which mean geographically that a little more than a third of the country can experience its beauty. The rest of the country may choose to grow it in a container that is moved to protection during the winter. Kanjiro is evergreen with dark glossy leaves that seem to be the perfect backdrop for the

Kanjiro camellia has stood the test of time

scores of rose-pink blooms sporting bright golden stamens. You can expect it to reach 8 to 10 feet in height and 6 to 8 feet wide. Whether it is radio, TV, newspaper or in person, I am always preaching the placement of the needed bones of the landscape. This structure, of course, is only accomplished by having an adequate portion of evergreen plant material. Camellias like the Kanjiro would be a perfect choice. They have deep green, glossy leaves and yet also offer us weeks of terrific blooms. Like all other camellias they require fertile welldrained acid soil. This coming spring would be a great time to plant woody shrubs and trees and by all means camellias like the Kanjiro. Garden centers will have their best inventory. The camellias along our Judge Arthur Solomon Camellia Trail are all placed in a series of beds. The canopy of trees high overhead allows just the right amount of light for vigorous healthy growth. It only make sense that if we are going to make investment in the landscape, we need to do it right by putting our shrubs to bed. It is so sad to see a fine camellia like Kanjiro placed in a location where it will be surrounded by turf. Glossy leaves, hundreds of buds and blooms that attract pollinators of all sorts, including the long tailed skipper butterfly, make these plants high on my list. I hope you will add a Kanjiro camellia to your garden this spring. Norman Winter is director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens at the Historic Bamboo Farm, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, and author of “Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South” and “Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden.” Follow him at: @CGBGgardenguru

KANJIRO IS COLD HARDY FROM ZONES 7-10, WHICH MEAN GEOGRAPHICALLY THAT A LITTLE MORE THAN A THIRD OF THE COUNTRY CAN EXPERIENCE ITS BEAUTY.

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The blooms of the Kanjiro camellia bring in an assortment of pollinators.

Inspiring thoughts to help bring a touch of comfort and joy BY DEBBIE TRAVIS

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I always look forward to previews of what’s new and trending for the coming year. It’s exhilarating to survey the latest in paint colors and wall coverings, a fresh take on pattern shapes and sizes, and how decorative cladding, including tiles and stone, are being utilized. This year’s splendid array offers something for every taste and style. What stands out across all decor types is a continuing emphasis on all things that bring comfort and optimism to our homes. Call it a backlash given the scary headlines and challenges of modern life. Whatever the reasons, we crave an inviting environment, rooms that offer a collective hug. Here are some inspiring thoughts and products that are ready and waiting for you. Soften up those hard edges on furnishings with

curvaceous shapes. Rounded sofa backs, padded arms, plump cushions and tactile fabrics are de rigueur. Yes, you can be sophisticated and comfy. Velvet is super popular, as are smooth fabrics in bold colors. Coffee tables shine bright in brushed metals and glass, with rounded edges and see-through supports. Practical and open solutions to shelving and storage are indicative of a looser, less-than-perfect attitude, where everything is out in the open, easily accessible and part of the overall decor. Shelves are an economical alternative to kitchen cabinets, especially the uppers. They are easy to organize and actually make even a small kitchen appear larger. Whole walls in the living area are arranged with a variety of wood and metal storage units that can be fashioned for an industrial, modern or traditional style. Wabi-sabi is the tradi-

tional Japanese aesthetic that encompasses the art of imperfection. It gives a nod to pottery that’s cracked, chipped or uneven, mismatched wood grain, weathered walls and peeling paint finishes. It’s a comfort to think that a messy bed or untidy room is acceptable, and it does fit into a relaxed mood. Dark colors are showing up on more than focal walls; whole rooms are painted in deep red, powerful pink, bold black and nautical navy. Brightly colored furniture and artwork stand out against these rich shades. Painted furniture continues to be popular, transforming secondhand finds as well as new tables, chairs and cabinets. Wallpaper has come full circle and is on everyone’s list. But today’s papers are better quality, and colors and images have shifted with the times. Ever popular florals come in sizes from small to big and wide. Light and shadows bring out the embossed textures in fine grass papers and reveal the beauty of layers of color in the painterly wallpapers. The metal scene is exploding around us, from the multiple metallic

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Curves are comfy and approachable, popular in sofa and furniture style.

sheens showing up in everything from fingernail polish to flooring patterns enriched with slivers of silver tile. Metallic paints create a shimmery luxe mood on walls and furniture. From fashion to home design, upholstery and drapery fabrics are threaded with colorful metals that link up to brushed-metal details in

furniture. Always on trend, nature’s lush shades and rich patterns are at the core of design. Green is a living color and permeates life and the fashions we create. Bringing it indoors is easier than ever with oversized images of flora and fauna showing off on wallpapers and fabrics. Have you thought about a jungle

room? Or perhaps an English country garden overrun with botanicals? Bring comfort and joy into your life; it’s never been easier. Please email your questions to house2home@ debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at @debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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HOME & GARDEN 10 reasons to buy a brand-new home BY PAT SETTER

The San Diego Union-Tribune

your home. Buyers can often choose everything from the floor plan to the finishes in a new masterplanned community. 2. Modern design. New homes reflect the lifestyles of today’s families, with open floor plans, flex rooms and livable outdoor spaces, as well as plenty of closet space and roomy master suites. They also have all the outlets and charging ports needed to keep everyone and everything plugged in. 3. Energy efficiency. State law requires that California builders be ex-

tremely energy-efficient, which means new homes come with thicker wall insulation, highly efficient heating and cooling systems and appliances, along with double-paned windows, and LED lighting. An increasing number of new homes also are equipped with solar panels, making these residences good for the environment as well as your pocketbook. 4. Low maintenance. Besides having everything new and in perfect working order, new construction is also focused on low maintenance, often with composite building materials that won’t weather or crack and won’t need to be painted every few years.

5. Worry-free warranty. If something does go wrong, state regulations require builders to offer a 10-year warranty on major structural defects — items such as a faulty foundation or sagging roof. Limited coverage on materials and workmanship usually lasts from one to two years. Be sure to check with the builder, as warranties differ from one company to the next. 6. Safe haven. New homes are constructed to the latest building codes, which are constantly updated to address consumer safety issues. Codes include elements that range from insulation to plumbing and paint. Hightech ventilation and airfiltration systems ensure

that even what you can’t see won’t hurt you. 7. Fire safety. New homes are required to have fire sprinklers, even in singlefamily residences. They also must have hard-wired smoke alarms with a battery backup. Smoke alarms need to be interconnected, which means that if smoke is detected, all alarms will sound. 8. Friendly financing. Builders often have a mortgage company that can offer incentives to buyers. 9. Neighborly neighborhoods. Because everyone is moving into the community at the same time, chances are you will get to know your neighbors, whether it’s at a

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Getaway markets its tiny homes in the woods as a way to “rediscover the pleasure of boredom, solitude and unstructured time.”

Modern life too much for you? Maybe a tiny box in the woods is the cure BY LAVANYA RAMANATHAN

The Washington Post

To commune with ourselves, we must trek two hours to Stanardsville, a town on the edge of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains whose population has stairstepped down over the years to 384 people, a country store and this wooded plot, which, before 20 tiny houses arrived this fall, was an RV campground called Heavenly Acres. The heavenly part is debatable. On the second official day of winter, the tract is a colorless bog, surrounded by tall, barren trees and covered with a blanket of dead leaves. But this, promises Getaway — a start-up that offers these rental notcabins and this not-camping not far from major cities — is where we may rejuvenate our very souls. As our car crunches up the gravel driveway, we pass an ominous charcoalgray box on wheels. A sign proclaims it “Lenore.” It is a carbon copy of Lillian, Hank, Felix and Shirley, which is the tiny house we have been assigned, we learn in a succinct text from the company that also feeds us an entry

code. But Lenore sends the first ripple of excitement through the car. Tinys have a way of doing that. In Getaway’s soft, wooded marketing photos, tinys such as Lenore are imbued with symbolism. Inside, couples slice avocados together. A multiethnic gaggle of cool kids in beanies convenes at a fire pit. Young women plant themselves in large picture windows overlooking the forest with hardcover books you can only assume are by Zadie Smith or Audre Lorde. In one image, a woman simply contorts herself in a display of yogic bliss. The savvy emphasis on escape and disconnectedness and repose has resonated among the millennials Getaway aims to reach. In each of its markets, outside New York, Boston and Washington, Getaway’s houses are booked solid on weekends, and in early 2017, the company, founded by two Harvard graduates, raised $15 million in venture capital funding, which suggests that a tiny house campground may soon be coming to a forest near you. Despite its name, Getaway does not sell the sort

of wild weekend vacation you might experience in Cancun or the food-focused travels you might have in Portugal. Instead, it presents a dire vision of urban life, and then offers itself as the antidote. It evokes the Japanese practice of forest bathing, and disconnection, and a little curative isolation. It encourages you to use your tiny, at the rate of just over $160 a night, to finish your novel — because you obviously never have time to work on it otherwise — and insists that you remove yourself from a list of stressors conveniently noted in a Getaway pamphlet. These include: work, email, texts and competition. We punch in the code and crack open Shirley like a safe and begin to poke around. I plop down on the large, soft platform bed. (”Memory foam?” I announce giddily.) I pore over the copious literature, which informs guests, among other things, that the absence of mirrors is intentional. Because only monsters think about their pores when they’re supposed to be out here like Henry David Thoreau. (Need a reminder? There’s a copy

of “Walden” on the bookshelf.) We scan the kitchen, which comes with two plates, two mugs, a pan and not a single wine glass. And we encounter the wooden box where you really, really, really should lock away your cellphone, source of so much pain and FOMO. But just in case you can’t part with it, they’ve conveniently provided absolutely no WiFi. “Idiot,” you think. “This is called camping.” Not exactly. Now, in tiny houses that no one will acknowledge are honestly just what we used to call cabins, it’s called “escaping.” Just what are we running from? For the suburban families that have made “Tiny House Hunters” an HGTV hit, tiny houses are an alternate reality, an incredible stretch of the imagination. “How could anyone live with so little?” is the obvious question. The better one: “What must that be like, to not be so in debt that your skin feels like it’s on fire every moment of every waking day?” Having only recently moved up from a series of

350-square-foot tiny houses called studio apartments, I know what it’s like to live with no doors. Anxiety is worrying that I might live like this forever, or perhaps one day live with even less. So I can’t dismiss the popular fascination with tiny houses — little wooden temples to minimalism that on average clock in at just over 200 square feet and can be had for about $50,000 — as a misguided fad. Adorable wooden cottages on wheels have exploded in popularity not because people wanted to downsize, but because they were downsized. We struggle “our whole lives to work hard enough so we can relax,” says Amy Turnbull, president of the American Tiny House Association, a relatively recent creation (founded in 2015) with 400 members nationwide. “What has changed is that millennials and the housing crisis of 2008 have shown us we ain’t got time for that. Security is a myth. Housing is beyond the reach of many. We have student loan debt. So, what’s the point?” It’s no wonder that the tiny house, off the grid in fact and in spirit, appeals. “Initially people were like, that’s so cute, I want one,” Turnbull says. But the tiny house movement has been mired in municipal wrangling and shunned by communities that won’t abide what ultimately are temporary homes. In many areas, they are illegal, she says. And so “you can’t live in them full time,” Turn-

social organized by the builder or at one of the many amenities that come with the planned community. Often, new communities attract like-minded people, so your new neighbors are likely to become your new friends. 10. It’s new! There’s an emotional factor to owning something that’s brand-new. Like a new car with that new car smell, owning something that’s never been used is gratifying. The same is true for a house that’s shiny and unscratched and has never been occupied by anyone but you.

bull says with some exasperation. “That’s the problem.” But Getaway, and other tiny house rentals, such as Caravan in Portland, Oregon, or the Tiny Homes Hotel of Austin, Texas, can give you a taste of the tiny-house life. In an early marketing video, one of Getaway’s founders spoke of tiny houses as yet another millennial reaction to their parents’ whole lives. “The form is wrong, the function is wrong,” chief executive Jon Staff intoned as a camera panned over beige dream homes in some nameless suburbia. Millennials have been blamed for the death of really important American institutions, like paper napkins and J. Crew and promiscuity. But what if we’ve got it all wrong? What if it’s the American institutions that are secretly killing millennials, or at least filling them with an existential dread that quietly eats away at their insides like acid reflux? “You can make a case that millennials are stressed out. They feel stressed out by their phones,” says Jean M. Twenge, a psychologist who studies generational differences and is the author of “Generation Me.” “Technology just feels so demanding, all the time,” Twenge says. “And as people have spent more time interacting with digital media, they spend less time interacting with each other face-to-face.” If their parents’ little boxes are another institution that has to go, maybe, Getaway seems to posit, the answer is a littler box. Maybe the answer is in “Walden.” “The irony here is that what Thoreau did was move to Walden Pond to get away from society. Arguably, life in a village at that time and life at Walden Pond wasn’t that different,” Twenge notes. “Compare that to life with a phone in modern times.” It’s ridiculous, but I expect to feel some instant woodsiness that never materializes. Even though I play Bon Iver on the Bluetooth radio, and then take the provided torch outside to our fire pit and sprinkle the (provided) firestarter over the (provided) logs, and light our first campfire and make some (provided) s’mores. Instead, we sit outside and poke at our baby fire, which is as formidable as a burning candle, and drink wine until it begins to rain. Later, I sleep like the dead.