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Mayor steered multimillion water contract to friends

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ichita Mayor Jeff Longwell steered what could become the largest contract in the city’s history to his political supporters, golf partners and friends, a Wichita Eagle investigation has revealed. The city plans to spend about $524 million to build a new plant to treat drinking water. Its 80-year-old plant could fail at any moment, officials have said, leaving 500,000 people without water. How the project is

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handled will affect how much residents pay for water — and the quality of that water — for generations to come. A city selection committee unanimously recommended awarding the contract to Jacobs Engineering, one of the nation’s leading design firms that specializes in water treatment plants. Instead, at Longwell’s urging, the City Council gave it to Wichita Water Partners, a group that has less experience designing large water plants. City staff warned that the group was seeking advice on how to run Wichita’s plant from a company blamed for the Flint, Mich., water crisis.

Longwell, who is up for election in November, said he is friends with the presidents of two companies on the Wichita Water Partners’ team. An ethics expert who has spent decades providing guidance to local officials said the way the city awarded the project could damage public trust and raises “big red flags.” While staff questioned the Wichita Water Partners’ plan, according to staff reports, Longwell called for a rematch and a new way to keep score that favored his Wichita Water Partner friends. During the second round of bidding,

the selection criteria changed from “best value” to low bid, meaning the contract would go to the team that designed the cheapest plant instead of the team that was most qualified. The change was Longwell’s idea. He campaigned for it during three council meetings. He later cast the deciding vote to change the criteria. By directing taxpayer money to his friends, Longwell appears to have violated a plainly written city law meant to shield the awarding of contracts from political influence. It says council members,

such as Longwell, “shall refrain” from “making decisions involving friends” or “using their influence as members of the governing body in attempts to secure contracts, zoning or other favorable municipal action for friends.” Based upon The Eagle’s findings, it appears Longwell did both. The law was adopted in 2008 after a city manager was accused of steering a city contract to a mayor’s friend. City Council members are left to police themselves on that city law, according to SEE MAYOR, 16A

Unfolding threat is unlike any other Trump faced BY JULIE PACE AND ZEKE MILLER

Associated Press WASHINGTON

From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been shadowed by investigations and controversy. They have been layered, lengthy and often inconclusive, leaving many Americans scandal-weary and numb to his behavior. And with each charge against him, Trump has perfected the art of deflection, seemingly gaining strength by bullying and belittling those who have dared to take him on. Now Trump is facing a highvelocity threat like none he’s confronted before.

It has rapidly evolved from a process fight over a whistleblower complaint to an impeachment inquiry within two weeks. Much of the evidence is already in public view. A rough transcript of a phone call in which Trump asks Ukraine’s president to help investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden. The whistleblower’s detailed letter alleging the White House tried to cover up the call, and possibly others. Unlike special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation, which circled an array of people in Trump’s orbit but not always the president himself, Trump doesn’t have the benefit of distance. His words and his actions are at the center of this investigation.

TOM BRENNER NYT

A whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump rapidly evolved from a procedural fight over how to handle the complaint to an impeachment inquiry within two weeks.

“The Mueller report, it was always Manafort this and his son that. There was a cascade of players,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, referring to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and

Donald Trump Jr. “This was just Donald Trump and a disturbing conversation with another world leader.” So, suddenly, Washington is SEE BIGGEST THREAT, 4A

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CVS Health apps put therapies a click away BY NATASHA SINGER

New York Times

CVS Health wants to help millions of American workers improve their sleep. So for the first time, the big pharmacy benefits manager is offering a purely digital therapy as a possible employee benefit. The company is encouraging employers to cover the costs for their workers to use Sleepio, an insomnia app featuring a cartoon therapist that delivers behavior modification lessons. CVS Health’s push could help the nascent business of digital therapeutics, which markets apps to help treat conditions like schizophrenia and multiple scle-

MORE THAN A DOZEN COMPANIES ARE DIGITIZING WELL-ESTABLISHED HEALTH TREATMENTS LIKE COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, OR DEVISING NEW THERAPIES THAT CAN BE DELIVERED ONLINE. rosis. The company recently introduced, along with Sleepio, a way for employers to cover downloads as easily as they do prescription drugs. The company said it had already evaluated about a dozen apps. Some industry executives and researchers say the digital services should make therapy more accessible and

affordable than in-person sessions with mental health professionals. Big Health, the startup behind Sleepio, is one of more than a dozen companies that are digitizing well-established health treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy, or devising new therapies – like video-game-based treatments for children with attention deficit hy-

peractivity disorder – that can be delivered online. Since last year, a few pharmaceutical companies, including Novartis, announced partnerships with startups to develop digital treatments for mental health and other conditions. So far, the use of treatment apps has been limited. But with the backing of CVS Health, which administers prescription drug plans for nearly onethird of Americans, those therapies could quickly reach tens of millions of people. A few employers have started offering Sleepio, and more are expected to sign on this fall, CVS Health said. Like in-person therapy, the insomnia app does not

require a prescription. “We are at this pivotal moment,” said Lee Ritterband, a psychiatry professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine who has developed online health interventions for more than a decade. “For years, these have been bubbling under the surface.” Other experts argue that online therapies may not be ready for mass adoption. In a recent study in Nature, researchers warned that most digital treatments lacked evidence of health benefits. Although first-of-their-kind medical apps that claim to treat diseases must obtain clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, health apps that make

vaguer wellness claims – like better sleep – generally do not need to demonstrate effectiveness to federal regulators. CVS Health said it was carefully reviewing the scientific literature on digital therapies to decide which ones to offer employers. The company selected Sleepio first partly because the app was backed by rigorous, published studies, said Dr. Troyen Brennan, CVS Health’s chief medical officer. “It’s important for us as a pharmacy benefit management company, as a big retail pharmacy, to endorse digital therapeutics when they work as good as or better than medications one can take by mouth,” Brennan said. “We can give the stamp of approval from having looked at the scientific information.”

Stabbing suspect did not return to halfway house on day of the crime BY MICHAEL STAVOLA

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The 30-year-old Wichita man arrested early Saturday morning in connection with a random stabbing Monday failed to return to a courtordered halfway house on the day of the crime, court records show. Wichita Police Department chief Gordon Ramsay announced Saturday that Wade Aaron Dunn was arrested without incident at Wade Dunn a home in the 1000 block of South Main. Ramsay said tips helped lead to the arrest of the man accused of stabbing a 28-year-old woman multiple times just before noon on the 7400 block of East 17th Street. Federal court records show Dunn left Mirrors, Inc. Residential Re-entry Center in Wichita on an itinerary pass around 9:30 a.m. Monday and did not return by 5:30 p.m., as required. Dunn was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after law enforcement found a .40 caliber Glock while arresting him on a Kansas Department of Corrections warrant in 2016. As part of the sentencing, Dunn was transferred to the halfway house July 11 for the remainder of his sentence. Mirrors did not return calls from The Eagle. During the 2016 arrest, law enforcement found

the loaded handgun in Dunn’s right pocket and a loaded magazine in the other pocket, court records show. In all, 17 rounds were found on him. On Tuesday, the WPD released a surveillance video that showed a man discarding a T-shirt after the stabbing. On Thursday, they released an image of the shirt and another surveillance video. The video showed a man, who was walking, run up a driveway while crouched over and then along the far side of what appeared to be an SUV. WPD said the woman was stabbed “multiple times” after being attacked near the front of her vehicle. Ramsay wouldn’t say whether police have recovered a knife. “Some of our veteran investigators were noticeably moved by how bad this attack was,” Ramsay said. He also wouldn’t say what type of weapon they found on Dunn in the Saturday arrest. Dunn was arrested on a warrant for attempted first-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, and an outstanding federal warrant. He is being held without bond. Kansas Department of Corrections records show seven convictions for theft, burglary and criminal threat. All occurred in Sedgwick County. He has more than 25 disciplinary reports from his time in prison. “We still believe there is no apparent connection between the victim and the suspect,” Ramsay said.

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DOGS GET THEIR OWN PLAY ZONE AT HARRISON PARK Kristen Gimmestab, center, plays with some of the dogs that attended the grand opening and ribbon-cutting Saturday for Wichita’s newest dog park at W.B. Harrison Park at 1300 S. Webb Road. The giant enclosed dog park, which has taken over the east corner of the park, is a collaboration between the city, WDM Architects and Together Wichita, which is a nonprofit made up of businesses that organize and finance projects intended to better the city. The Wichita Eagle is one of the businesses.

Several factors affect spending in crucial period for retailers BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG

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The fourth quarter is the most crucial time of the year for many retailers, who hope to make a significant portion of their revenue and profits during the three months that include the holiday season. The following are some of the factors that are likely to affect shopping in the coming quarter. A Consumers are anxious and spending less. Two recent measures of consumer sentiment, the Commerce Department’s August retail sales report and the Conference Board’s September consumer confidence survey, were sobering signs for the fourth quarter. Retailers’ perennial hope is that consumers won’t hold back, because the holidays are a special time, but

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sought-after gifts that once drove holiday shopping – like Elmo and holiday Barbie dolls or, back in the 1980s, Cabbage Patch Kids – have been absent in recent years, noted Carlos Castelan, managing director of The Navio Group, a management consultancy based in Minneapolis. And many of the most popular products are electronics that are widely available. That can be a plus for small retailers who can cater more to their own clientele than trying to latch on to a trend. A Online competition gets fiercer. More consumers are likely to do more of their shopping on their phones, tablets and PCs, looking for the lowest prices as well as speed. Traditional retailers can get shoppers to buy, but they must provide a service that can’t be found online and an emotional connection that makes a trip to a store or mall worth it. “Taking price out of the equation to win on experience and convenience is critical,” Castelan says.

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ican aid. Trump contends that impeaching him would infringe on the ability of future presidents to conduct foreign policy. Unlike the impeachment battles involving Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, the debate over Trump turns on whether a president can solicit or accept help from abroad to advance his

political fortunes and where lies the line between the national interest and personal interests. While the framers of the Constitution might never have imagined an impeachment battle waged 280 characters at a time, they did essentially foresee a showdown over foreign influence on an American president. In fact, in the early years of the republic, one of the most dominant fears of the political class was falling under the sway of other powers. “There was a concern, even a paranoia, about foreign intervention, about people who don’t have the interests of a new country being taken advantage of by an old power,” said Corey Brettschneider, a political science professor and constitutional scholar at Brown University and author of “The Oath and the Office.” The framers expressed this explicitly by inserting

what is now called the emoluments clause in the Constitution, barring international payments or gifts to a president or other federal elected official: “No person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.” Once a forgotten element of the Constitution, it has attained new recognition in the Trump era as multiple critics of the president wage legal battles arguing that he has violated the emoluments clause through hotels and resorts of his that are patronized by Middle East sheikhs and other foreign potentates. The concept of impeachment was adopted from Britain, where there had been plenty of misadventures in foreign policy involving bribes, treaties and ill-advised royal marriages. “Foreign policy mistakes or corruption of foreign policy is a big component

of the body of British impeachment precedents that the framers had in mind,” said Frank O. Bowman III, a law professor at the University of Missouri and author of the new book, “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” During the Virginia ratifying convention, Edmund Randolph linked impeachment to foreign money, saying that a president “may be impeached” if discovered “receiving emoluments from foreign powers.” Others suggested that lying to the Senate about information related to a foreign treaty would qualify for impeachment. In his farewell address, George Washington spoke of “the insidious wiles of foreign influence,” calling it “one of the most baneful foes of republican government” and urging America “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Thomas Jefferson echoed that in warning against “entangling alliances” with foreign powers.

statement that he had not exonerated Trump did not seem to stick. There was ultimately plenty of smoke, but no smoking gun. Numerous other Democratic inquiries appeared likely to meet a similar fate, including House investigation into Trump’s business dealings, his tax returns and a variety of administration scandals. For many Americans, they were one big blur of investigations without any clarity of purpose. Then the whistleblower gave the Democrats what they needed: a simple, easily explainable charge —

that the president sought a foreign government’s help for personal political gain — and his words to back it up. For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and several Democratic moderates who had resisted calls for impeachment, the calculus shifted. It was now more of a risk to recoil from impeachment than charge ahead. “What we’re seeing right now is a completely different moment in the history of this country,” said Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla. One thing that didn’t change — at least not

immediately — was the clear partisan divide over Trump’s actions, both in Washington and across the country. According to a one-day NPR/PBS NewsHour /Marist poll conducted Wednesday, 49% of Americans approve of the House formally starting an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Among Democrats, 88% approve of the investigation, while 93% of Republicans disapprove. On Capitol Hill, some Trump allies confidently dismissed the impeachment inquiry as just another partisan effort to take

down a president who is despised by many Democrats. That rough transcript of a phone call in which Trump presses Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to work with Attorney General William Barr and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on an investigation into Biden? It’s just Trump being Trump, according to his backers.

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New York Times WASHINGTON

Alexander Hamilton, as usual, got right to the heart of the matter. When the framers were designing the Constitution and its power of impeachment, one of the high crimes they had in mind was giving into what Hamilton called “the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” For the authors of the country’s charter, there were few bigger threats than a president corruptly tied to forces from overseas. And so as the House opened an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine last week, the debate quickly focused on one of the oldest issues in America’s democratic experiment. The emerging battle

TOM BRENNER NYT

The White House has been mired in controversy over its interactions with foreign leaders. In 1787, the framers of the Constitution did what they could to provide a legal remedy for presidents who fall under foreign influences.

over the future of Trump’s presidency will explore as never before the scope and limits of a commander in chief’s interactions with other countries. His adversaries echo the fears of the founders in accusing Trump of committing high crimes by pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on Democratic opponents while holding up Amer-

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BIGGEST THREAT different and the history of Trump’s presidency has changed. By year’s end, he could become only the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. That new reality caught Trump and his advisers off guard, according to people close to the president. If anything, they thought the specter of impeachment had been lifted after the Mueller investigation ended without a clear

determination that Trump had committed a crime. The contours of that investigation played to Trump’s strengths. Mueller spent two years in silence, allowing the president to fill the vacuum with assertions that the investigation was a “hoax” and a “witch hunt.” The details of the investigation that did leak out were often complicated and focused on people in Trump’s sphere. Even Mueller’s pointed

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Russian, Saudi call memos also hidden, ex-official says

Case opens window into secret computer systems BY DEB RIECHMANN

BY ZEKE MILLER

Associated Press WASHINGTON

The White House severely restricted distribution of memos detailing President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, after embarrassing leaks of his conversations early in his tenVladimir ure, a form- Putin er White House official said. The White House’s handling of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. A whistleblower alleges the White House tried to “lock down” Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s new president because officials were worried about Trump’s request for help investigating Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden. The anonymous whistleblower alleges the White House also tried to cover up the content of other calls by moving memos onto a highly classified computer system. The former White House official acknowledged that other calls were concealed, while casting the decision as part of an effort to minimize leaks, not an attempt to hide improper discus-

sions. The former official was not authorized to discuss the classification system publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House was beset by leaks of highly sensitive information in the early days of Trump’s presidency. Trump was particularly enraged by leaks that disclosed tough conversations with the leader of Mexico on paying for a border wall and with Australia on abiding by an Obama administration deal on asylumseekers. After those disclosures, a White House adviser raised the possibility of lie detector tests for the small number of people in the West Wing and elsewhere with access to transcripts of Trump’s phone calls. In previous administrations, rough transcripts of presidential phone calls were kept private, but not housed on the highly classified computer system unless sensitive national security information was discussed. Summaries of the calls were distributed to relevant officials in the White House, the State Department and other agencies. The Trump administration’s process curtailed the number of people who had access. The question now is why. The contents of the restricted calls with Putin and bin Salman are unknown. But Trump’s relationship with both leaders has been controversial.

Associated Press WASHINGTON

The whistleblower complaint at the heart of Congress’ impeachment inquiry opened a window Thursday into government computer systems that White House and other government employees use to share and manage classified information on a day-to-day basis. The process is complicated. There are unclassified and classified systems that are not interconnected. Then there is still another where very sensitive information is

stored – one that only a handful of officials can access. Memos and documents created to recount and transcribe presidential calls with foreign leaders typically are classified as “secret,” one of the lowest levels of classified material. That makes sense because presidents aren’t usually in the habit of sharing “top secret” U.S. information with leaders of other nations. This is exactly what happened with the information about President Donald Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The memorandum was classified as “secret,”

and it was entered into a computerized system that stores other “secret” and “top secret” information. But the whistleblower alleges that several White House officials became so concerned about the content of the call that they intervened to “lock down” all records of it. Especially, the whistleblower wrote, the word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced – as is customary – by the White House Situation Room. “White House officials told me that they were ‘directed’ by White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are

typically stored for coordination, finalization and distribution to Cabinetlevel officials,” the whistleblower said in the complaint. The whistleblower says the transcript was loaded into the system reserved for the most sensitive information, describing that as “an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.” Steven Aftergood, who directs the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy, said the concern is that placing the Zelenskiy call records on the more restricted server was an irregular practice that could be a prelude to record destruction. “It also may have signaled an awareness of misconduct,” he said.

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NRA denies a political quid pro quo with Trump BY MAGGIE HABERMAN AND ANNIE KARNI

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President Donald Trump met in the White House on Friday with Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and discussed prospective gun legislation and whether the NRA could provide support for the president as he faces impeachment and a more diffiWayne cult reelecLaPierre tion campaign, according to two people familiar with the meeting. During the meeting, LaPierre asked that the White House “stop the games” over gun control legislation, people familiar with the meeting said. It was not clear whether Trump asked LaPierre for his support or what that support would look like. In a statement Friday evening, an NRA spokesman confirmed the meeting took place but insisted The New York Times’ account of the meeting was “inaccurate.” He pushed back on the account of some officials that any offer of support for the president was in exchange for opposition to gun laws. “The NRA categorically denies any discussion occurred about special arrangements pertaining to the NRA’s support of the president and vice versa,” the statement said. LaPierre has been a

leader in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House in the months since the back-toback mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In a series of calls and meetings, he has tried to move Trump away from proposing any sort of background check measures akin to what the president said after the mass shootings he might support. Even before the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry, LaPierre’s influence on Trump has been clear. After a 30-minute phone call last month, Trump appeared to be espousing NRA talking points when answering questions about guns. “We have very, very strong background checks right now, but we have sort of missing areas and areas that don’t complete the whole circle,” the president told reporters last month, adding, “I have to tell you that it’s a mental problem.” Privately, Trump has raised questions with his aides about the NRA’s ability to help back his 2020 campaign the way it did in 2016, when it poured over $30 million into his election, more than any other outside group. He has voiced concerns that the group looks like it is going bankrupt and may lack the political clout it had last election cycle. This year, the NRA has been mired in investigations by attorneys general in New York and Washington, D.C., and beset by leaks about its lavish

spending practices, while also facing restive donors and inquiries over its ties to Russia. And its finances have been strained. Recent public filings have shown that it largely exhausted a $25 million line of credit that was guaranteed by the deed to its Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters, and borrowed against insurance policies taken out on its executives. Oliver North, who departed this year as the NRA’s president in an acrimonious leadership fight, has said that the organization’s legal bills, running between $1.5 million and $2 million a month from its main law firm, have created an “existential crisis.” In the midterm elections, gun control groups outspent the NRA, upending the usual political dynamics. But the organization still has considerable resources and more than 5 million members, many of whom overlap with Trump’s base. And rallying grassroots support has traditionally been one of its strengths. Aides have reassured Trump that the group is still in good enough financial shape to help him, even as his own political fortunes have shifted since the mass shootings. For his part, Trump has been caught between opposing political pressures to do something on gun legislation and to maintain the status quo. He has idled in neutral while Congress has waited for a sign from the White House on what it plans to propose.

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Fraud and rocket attacks mar Afghan election BY RAHIM FAIEZ AND KATHY GANNON

Associated Press KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

Accusations of fraud and misconduct, more than scores of Taliban attacks, threatened to overwhelm the results of Saturday’s vote for the next president of Afghanistan, denying the winner legitimacy and frustrating efforts to restart peace talks to end 18 years of war. When polls closed Saturday, Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi said there had been 68 Taliban attacks across the country, most of them rockets fired from distant outposts. At least five people were killed, including one police offi-

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Workers count ballots Saturday during the presidential elections at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan. Final results aren’t expected until mid-October.

cer, and scores more were injured. A surge in violence in the run-up to the elections, which follows the collapse of U.S.-Taliban talks to end America’s

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and “hour by hour I was facing problems.” Polls opened at 7 a.m. local time and closed at 5 p.m. after the Independent Election Commission extended polling by one hour. Preliminary results won’t be out until Oct. 17, with a final vote count on Nov. 7. If no candidate wins 51 percent of the vote, a second round will be held between the two leading candidates. Voter Hajji Faqir Bohman, speaking on behalf of disgruntled voters at the Taimani polling center, said polling was so disorganized and flawed that even if his candidate wins, “I will never believe that it was a fair election.” The leading contenders are incumbent President

Ashraf Ghani and his partner in the 5-year-old unity government, Abdullah Abdullah, who already alleges power abuse by his opponent. Cameras crowded both men as they cast their vote earlier in Kabul, with Ghani telling voters they too had a responsibility to call out instances of fraud. A young woman, Shabnam Rezayee, was attacked by an election worker after insisting on seeing the voter’s list when she was told her name was not on the list. Rezayee said the worker hurled abuses at her, directing her insults at her ethnicity. She then punched and scratched her. When it ended and the attacker left, Rezayee found her name on the list and voted. “I am very strong,” she said.

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Wall complicates Marines’ move from Japan to Guam BY AUDREY MCAVOY

Associated Press HONOLULU

President Donald Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several military construction projects slated for Guam, a strategic hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific. This may disrupt plans to move Marines to Guam from Japan and to modernize munitions storage for the Air Force. About 7% of the funds for the $3.6 billion wall are being diverted from eight projects in the U.S. territory, a key spot in the U.S. military’s efforts to deter North Korea and counter China’s growing military. The administration has vowed it’s only delaying the spending, not canceling it. But Democrats in Congress, outraged over Trump’s use of an emergency order for the wall, have promised they won’t approve money to revive the projects. “The fact is, by literally taking that money after it had been put in place and using it for something else, you now put those projects in jeopardy,” said Carl Baker, executive director of Pacific Forum, a Honolulu-based foreign policy think tank. The Senate on Wednesday passed a measure blocking Trump from raiding the military construction budget for the wall. The Democraticcontrolled House is likely to pass the bill, but Trump

THE SENATE ON WEDNESDAY PASSED A MEASURE BLOCKING TRUMP FROM RAIDING THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION BUDGET FOR THE WALL. is expected to veto it as he did with an identical measure in March. The tiny island of Guam holds a naval base with fast attack submarines and an Air Force base with bombers that rotate in from the mainland. The U.S. currently plans to start moving 5,000 Marines there from Okinawa in southern Japan around 2025. This is part of a decades-long effort by Tokyo and Washington to relieve the congested Japanese island’s burden of hosting half the U.S. forces stationed in Japan. The total cost of relocating the Marines is $8.7 billion, of which Japan is paying $3.1 billion. The projects put on hold by the border wall are a small share of this total, yet critical to the relocation. There’s $56 million to build a well system that will supply most of the water to be used by a new Marine base. The area’s existing water supply is inadequate to meet the needs of the transferred troops. There’s also a $50 million live-fire training range and a $52 million munitions storage facility. Documents about the projects the military provided to Congress say the Marines won’t leave Okinawa until replacement

facilities in Guam are ready. The documents say failure to complete these two projects could delay or prevent the Marines from moving. Guam activists opposed to the live-fire range said the delay will give them time to study ancient settlements found in the area. They said it would be irresponsible to move forward on projects that would destroy cultural sites and cause irreversible environmental damage when there’s so much uncertainty about the

relocation. “Our organization is conflicted about the means in which the pause was achieved because these are two instances of colonial injustice, one impacting the other,” the group Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian said in a statement. The U.S. reassured Japan immediately after the announcement that it would stick to the existing timeline. “We have received explanation from the U.S. side about the shifting of the budget that it will not affect the planned movement of Marines on Okinawa to Guam, and that the U.S. government commitment to the realignment plan is unchanged,” then-Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told report-

ers earlier this month. Discussions to reduce the U.S. presence on Okinawa began in the mid-1990s after the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl by three U.S. servicemen sparked mass demonstrations. The allies in 2006 said they would send Marines to Guam by 2014, a deadline that slipped as they revised plans. Although Okinawa makes up less than 1 percent of Japan’s land space, it hosts about half of the 54,000 American troops stationed in Japan and is home to 64 percent of the land used by the U.S. bases in the country under a bilateral security treaty. Jeffrey Hornung, a researcher at the RAND Corporation, a public policy research institute, said even before the latest development, some Okinawa residents were frustrated with the lack of progress in moving the Marines. “The fact is, the longer that the projects on Guam

are delayed, that means the longer that there’s not going to be any forward movement on some aspects of moving the Marines off Okinawa,” Hornung said. “And this all comes from taking money to build a border wall.” Diverted spending also will affect the Air Force, including $45.1 million for two projects to update 70-year-old munitions storage. The Air Force has been rotating bombers – the B-2 stealth bomber as well as the B-1 and B-52 – through Guam since in 2004 to compensate for U.S. forces sent from the Asia-Pacific region to fight in the Middle East. U.S. Rep. Ed Case, a Democrat from Hawaii who sits on the House appropriations subcommittee for military construction, said he’s concerned the administration diverted so much from Guam, given the island is key to the nation’s defense posture in the Pacific.

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Judge: US can’t extend fast-track deportation rule potential devastation is so obvious that (the Department of Homeland Security) can be fairly faulted for its unexplained failure to predict, and attempt to mitigate, the fully foreseeable future floods,” Jackson wrote. Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, hasn’t ruled on merits of the case, but her decision prevents the administration from expanding fast-track authority nationwide while the lawsuit proceeds. Earlier Friday, a federal judge in Los Angeles blocked new rules that would allow the government to detain immigrant children with their parents indefinitely, saying the move conflicted with a 1997 settlement agreement that requires the release of children caught on the border as quickly as possible to relatives in the U.S. and says they can only be held in facilities licensed by a state. The Flores agreement — named for a teenage plaintiff — will remain in place and govern conditions for children in custody, including those with their parents. Also Friday, another federal judge in Los Angeles blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from relying solely on flawed databases to target people for being in the country illegally. The fast-track deportation powers were created under a 1996 law but didn’t become a major piece of border enforcement until 2004, when Homeland Security said it would be enforced for

BY ELLIOT SPAGAT

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s move to vastly extend the authority of immigration officers to deport people without allowing them to appear before judges, the third legal setback for its immigration agenda in one day. The policy, which was announced in July but hasn’t yet been enforced, would allow fast-track deportations to apply to anyone in the country illegally for less than two years. Now, they are largely limited to people arrested almost immediately after crossing the Mexican border. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, ruling late Friday in Washington, said the administration’s expansion of “expedited removal” authority violated procedural requirements to first seek public comment and ignored flaws in how it has been used on a smaller scale at the border. The shortcomings, which were not challenged by government lawyers, include allegations that some people entitled to be in the country were targeted for deportation, translators weren’t provided, and authorities made “egregious errors” recording statements of migrants who said they feared persecution or torture if sent back to their homelands. “With respect to the policy at issue here, the

people who are arrested within two weeks of entering the U.S. by land and caught within 100 miles of the border. Defenders say it relieves burdens on immigration judges — their backlog of cases recently topped 1 million — while critics say it grants too much power to Border Patrol agents and other immigration enforcement officials and jeopardizes rights to fair treatment. Keven McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, said in July that U.S. authorities don’t have space to detain “the vast majority” of people arrested on the border, leading to the release of hundreds of thousands with notices to appear in court. He said expanded authority would likely cause illegal entries to decline and result in people getting more quickly removed from the country than in immigration courts, where cases can take years to resolve. The Justice Department said Saturday that the judge overstepped her authority and undermined laws enacted by Congress with careful consideration by the administration on how to enforce them. The administration’s setbacks followed two recent victories for its immigration policies at the Supreme Court, one allowing diversion of Defense Department money to build a border wall and another denying asylum to anyone who enters the country at the Mexican border after passing through another country and not applying there.

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Poll: Energy-saving habits vary in popularity BY JOHN FLESHER AND EMILY SWANSON

Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.

Turn off the lights when they aren’t needed? Check. Lower the thermostat a few degrees in winter? Maybe. Go full-time vegetarian? Probably not. Americans are willing to go only so far in engaging in habits that conserve energy and reduce emissions that are warming the planet, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll adds to research showing that many take modest steps they consider convenient and feasible – and good for their pocketbooks. But actions that would involve significant lifestyle choices such as diet or transportation are a tougher sell. Roughly 9 in 10 Americans say they often or always turn off unnecessary lights, including 6 in 10 who do so all the time. About half often or always set the thermostat at 68 degrees or lower in winter to reduce heating, while slightly fewer say they keep summertime air conditioning temperatures at 76 degrees or higher.

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George Johnson points to a thermostat Wednesday at the barber shop where he works in Longwood, Fla. Johnson says he rarely uses public transportation but is worried about climate change and keeps his driving to a minimum.

“It has to be pitch dark outside for me to turn a light on,” said sandwich shop worker Tay Harris, 25, of Terre Haute, Indiana, who said she wants to help with climate change and considers it common sense to save electricity. “If you have the beautiful sun that God blessed us with, use it.” The poll found about 2 in 10 Americans often or always use public transportation, carpool, bike or walk instead of driving, while nearly 3 in 10 do so some of the time. Similarly, while only 5% say they always eat vege-

tarian meals, another 13% said they often do so and 37% said they sometimes do. Meat production contributes to global warming in numerous ways, scientists say. It generates manure that releases methane to the atmosphere and encourages destruction of forests that store carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas, to clear land for pasture and livestock feed crops. Overall, 14% said they frequently plant trees. About 6 in 10 city dwellers said they rarely or never plant trees, as opposed to about half of those living

elsewhere. The AP-NORC poll of 1,058 adults was conducted Aug. 15-18. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. Climate concern isn’t the only reason Americans conserve energy. Previous research by The APNORC Center suggests another motive is saving money. The latest survey, conducted last month, shows that some people who don’t believe in climate change routinely take some actions, such as turning off lights and limiting use of heat and air conditioning. So do many who acknowledge the planet is warming but think it’s happening naturally, instead of from human activities. Jon Dahlstrom, 77, who lives in Iowa’s Lynn County, said climate change is real but described the idea of people causing it as “kind of grandiose thinking.” Still, he often dims the lights and sometimes adjusts the thermostat to limit energy use. “That’s just to help lower the bills, or get to where I feel comfortable,” the retired elevator mechanic said.

Still, the poll found that people who believe in climate change are more likely to take environmentally friendly steps than those who don’t. For example, more than half of those who think climate change is happening often or always set the thermostat at 68 degrees or lower in winter, while about 4 in 10 of the nonbelievers do so. The poll found that 19% of those who believe climate is warming use alternatives to driving, compared to 7% of the nonbelievers. Among climate change believers, those who think their actions can make a difference are slightly more likely than those who do not to take some climate-friendly actions. For example, about 8 in 10 of those who believe their actions matter say they at least sometimes keep the thermostat lower in winter, compared with about 7 in 10 of those who don’t think their actions make a difference. Feasibility is a big factor with some actions. While 30% of those who live in urban areas say they frequently use alternatives to driving, just 14% of those in suburbs or rural areas do the same.

“I’m out in the middle of the county in Iowa, so there is no public transportation,” Dahlstrom said. George Johnson, 48, a barber in Deltona, Florida, said he rarely uses public transportation but is worried about climate change and keeps his driving to a minimum. He sometimes eats vegetarian meals and plants trees; he always turns off unnecessary lights. “You’ve got to start somewhere,” he said. “If everybody just turned off their lights one hour or anything, it can help.” The poll also found Democrats were slightly more likely than Republicans to often cut off lights, though both groups tend to do that. Democrats were significantly more willing than Republicans to use alternatives to driving and to eat vegetarian at least sometimes. Americans with college degrees were more likely than those without them to say they always or often set the thermostat lower in winter and higher in summer, as well as eat vegetarian meals. Individual actions alone won’t solve the climate crisis, said Peter Kalmus, an atmospheric scientist who wrote a book about his personal efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

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Census Bureau’s approach to privacy questioned BY JENNIFER MCDERMOTT AND MIKE SCHNEIDER

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In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the U.S. Census Bureau recently undertook an experiment to see if census answers could threaten the privacy of the people who fill out the questionnaires. The agency went back to the last national headcount, in 2010, and reconstructed individual profiles from thousands of publicly available tables. It then matched those records against other public population data. The result: Officials were able to infer the identities of 52 million Americans.

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“This is a brand new, radically more conservative definition of privacy,” University of Minnesota demographer Steven Ruggles said. Federal law bars census officials from disclosing any individual’s responses. But data-crunching computers can tease out likely identities from the broader census results when combined with other personal information.

Some critics fear the agency’s changes could make it harder to draw new congressional and legislative districts accurately. Others worry that research on immigration, demographics, the opioid epidemic and declining life expectancy will be hindered, particularly when it involves less populated areas. If the change had been in place four years ago, Ruggles said, he would not have been able to conduct a 2015 study on the impact of declines in young men’s incomes on marriage. With more and more data sets available to the public with a quick download, it has become easier than ever to match in-

formation with real names. That means aggregated answers to census questions involving race, housing and relationships could lead to individuals. The fear is that advertisers, market researchers or anybody with knowhow and curiosity could use data to reconstruct the identities of census respondents. When the bureau went back to the 2010 census, it matched the census data with commercial databases. More than 1 in 6 respondents were identified by name and neighborhood as well as by information about their race, ethnicity, sex and age. Since the last census, “the data world has changed dramatically,”

Ron Jarmin, deputy director of the census agency wrote earlier this year. “Much more personal information is available online and from commercial providers, and the technology to manipulate that data is more powerful than ever.” The Trump administration’s unsuccessful effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 questionnaire heightened fears about how census information would be used. But privacy concerns are nothing new for the bureau. Historians have found evidence that census data helped identify Japanese Americans who were rounded up and confined to camps during World War II. That revelation led to an apology from thenCensus Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt in 2000.

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Fear amid visibility: Transgender groups are shaken by 18 killings BY RICK ROJAS AND VANESSA SWALES

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In the most recent killing of a transgender woman, the victim’s body was found inside an abandoned car, burned beyond recognition. In another case, the woman was pulled from a lake at a Dallas park. And in a third, she was found dead near a golf course, just weeks after she survived a brutal beating that was captured on video. In the United States this year, at least 18 transgender people – most of them transgender women of color – have been killed in a wave of violence that the American Medical Association has declared an “epidemic.” The killings, which have been reported across the country, have for some prompted a heightened sense of vigilance. “It’s always in the forefront of our minds, when we’re leaving home, going to work, going to school,” said Kayla Gore, who lives in Memphis. “Guys were flirting with me at the gas station, and the first thought was, ‘This could go horribly wrong.’ ” Activists said the cases have also underscored the precarious position of many in a community that faces elevated levels of homelessness and poverty, and the hazards that can bring. The killings this year follow at least 26 recorded last year by the Human Rights Campaign. But transgender advocates noted those figures fail to

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The violence directed at transgender people is “always in the forefront of our minds, when we’re leaving home, going to work, going to school,” says Kayla Gore, shown in midtown Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 26.

grasp the full extent of the perils the community faces, as data provided by law enforcement officials can be incomplete and many crimes are never reported. The paucity of reliable data makes it difficult to measure whether violence against transgender people has increased. But many advocates say that hostility has intensified, as a rise in visibility has also stirred animosity and emboldened people to attack. The climate of fear reflects a widening gulf in the acceptance of transgender groups, which today have far more representation in popular culture. There are transgender or gender-nonconforming characters on television and in movies, and Mattel recently introduced a line of gender-neutral dolls. Yet that cultural progress has not trickled down to every-

day life, particularly for those who are the most vulnerable. “We are the most afraid we’ve ever been,” said Mariah Moore, a program associate for the Transgender Law Center, who lives in New Orleans. “But we’re also stronger than we’ve ever been.” Many transgender people said they have hunkered down, avoiding meeting people they do not know and sticking to places where they have greater odds of staying safe. “A lot of folks are living in silos,” Gore said. Between May and July – when pride events were taking place across the country – at least 14 LGBTQ people were killed, according to a report from the AntiViolence Project. Seven of the victims were black transgender women.

“The increased visibility is a signal for them that they need to double down in fighting back,” Beverly Tillery, the executive director of the Anti-Violence Project in New York, said of those looking to harm transgender people. “We’re definitely seeing what we would call a backlash.” The dangers, of course, extend beyond explicit bias crimes. Discrimination can stand in the way of housing, education and job prospects, pushing many transgender people into homelessness as well as into sex work, elevating risks to their safety. And for black transgender women, racism can compound the discrimination. “The prejudices don’t add upon one another, they multiply upon one another,” said Sarah McBride, the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. Police departments have hired more LGBTQ officers and have sought to mend strained relationships, but advocates say many transgender people avoid calling the police if they are threatened or even physically attacked. Dana Martin, 31, was the first known transgender person killed in 2019, found shot to death in a vehicle in Montgomery, Alabama, in January. Since then, three transgender women have been killed in Dallas, including Muhlaysia Booker, a 23year-old who was shot to death about a month after being brutally assaulted in an unrelated attack that was captured on video and garnered national attention. Another transgender

woman in Dallas was shot several times last week and gravely wounded in an attack authorities are investigating as a hate crime. In Detroit in June, an 18-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder for the targeted killings of a transgender woman, Paris Cameron, and two gay men. The most recent killing, at least the 18th, took place near Clewiston, Florida. The body of Bee Love Slater, 23, was found in a scorched car on Sept. 4, her body so badly burned that she had to be identified with dental records. The series of killings has mobilized transgender and LGBTQ groups, with calls for lawmakers to strengthen hate crime legislation and bar the use of the so-called gay- or trans-panic defense for people charged with attacks. They have also organized self-defense classes and guides on where to find affirming places to eat and shop. The violence against transgender women has been cited by several Democratic presidential candidates, including Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker and Julián Castro, the former housing secretary. At a candidates forum on LGBTQ issues in Iowa last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren read aloud the names of those who have been killed this year. “We do not talk enough about trans Americans, especially trans AfricanAmericans and the especially high rates of murder right now,” Booker said on Twitter after the Democratic debate in Miami in June. “It’s not enough just to be on the Equality Act. We need to have a president who will fight to protect LGBTQ Americans every day.”

Deutsche Bank has tax returns for 2 Trumps Deutsche Bank told a federal appeals court Friday that it had the tax returns of two members of the Trump family but did not disclose their identities. The German bank – long President Donald Trump’s primary lender – is caught in a legal battle between Trump and congressional Democrats, who have issued subpoenas for financial documents connected to the president, his family and his businesses. Appeals court judges had asked for copies of tax returns covered by the subpoenas, which name Trump and his three oldest children – Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. — NEW YORK TIMES

Ancient gilded coffin arrives in Egypt from Met Egyptian airport officials say a gilded coffin that was featured at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has arrived in Cairo. They say the Coffin of Nedjemankh, which investigators in New York determined to be a looted antiquity, arrived Saturday. The officials spoke of condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media. The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the piece from a Paris art dealer in 2017 for about $4 million and made it the centerpiece of an exhibition. It was removed last February. The Met has apologized to Egypt. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MAYOR City Attorney Jennifer Magana. Some council members defended Longwell’s actions, saying they saw no ethical violations and that the ordinance is too ambiguous. “What constitutes a friend? How good of a friend? An acquaintance? We’ve got to be careful not to split hairs,” Council member James Clendenin said. Between the time the water project went out for bid and an initial contract was signed, Longwell met with members of the Wichita Water Partners’ team at least eight times. They frequently communicated through email, and Longwell twice sent information he received about the project from the city manager to Wichita Water Partners. They held a 5-hour “strategy meeting” at a private golf course the week before proposals were due, according to Longwell’s work calendar. While the project was open for bidding, a Wichita Water Partners contractor went on a two-day golf trip to Oklahoma with Longwell and a city engineer who was helping oversee the project. Before Longwell cast the deciding vote, the president of one of the Water Partners’ companies paid for Longwell to enter a $1,000-per-person charity golf tournament. The relationships and meetings during open bidding were not disclosed to the city by Longwell or the contractors. The Wichita Eagle found them in thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Kansas Open Records Act, including the mayor’s work calendar and 2,384 pages of correspondences from city officials’ email accounts and phones. Nor did Longwell disclose the $1,000 entry fee on a state ethics form for local officials that he filed in February. On the section inquiring about gifts with an aggregate value of $500 or more received from individuals or businesses in the past 12 months, Longwell checked that he had nothing to report. Longwell told The Eagle this month that his friendships with two leaders of Wichita Water Partners started when he first ran for council 12 years ago. He said those relationships and meetings during the awarding of the contract didn’t affect his decisions as mayor. Instead, he said, he based his decision on which company promised to provide the most local jobs at the lowest price, although city staff reports obtained by The Eagle calls that into question. He called it “irresponsible reporting to paint this picture of favoritism.” In a written statement Longwell wrote that he is “personally closer” to a friend in the Jacobs group with whom he attends the same church and who has also paid for him to play golf. They met twice between the time the project opened for bidding and the contract was signed — once at city hall and once for golf. That friend, Brent Wooten, is president of Baughman Company, a surveying subconsultant to Jacobs, and he is not listed on the Jacobs org chart as having a role in the project. Wooten could not be reached for comment on Saturday. Longwell also did not disclose that relationship during the council votes. “Our whole goal is to be connected to the community, and I’ve been doing it for 25 years,” Longwell said of his time in public office. “And after 25 years, you develop roots in this community. I’ve grown up here. When you spend this much time in one community, you’re going to have deep roots. You’re going to form friendships.” Marla Flentje, a former director of education for the Kansas Association of Counties who helped draft the state’s first

From left: Roger McClellan, president of Wildcat Companies; Rod Young, president of PEC; and Jeff Longwell, mayor of Wichita, during the 2018 First Tee Pro Am tournament at Flint Hills National Golf Club in Andover, Kan.

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WHAT CONSTITUTES A FRIEND? HOW GOOD OF A FRIEND? AN ACQUAINTANCE? WE’VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO SPLIT HAIRS. Council member James Clendenin code of ethics for Kansas counties, isn’t buying it. “This is not even a close call,” she said. “Cozy relationships and sizable gifts from bidding firms, potentially sharing insider information, and suspension of competitive bidding are big red flags. The biggest loser in this compromised process is public trust in government and its decisions about our new water treatment plant.” ‘MAYOR MIRACLE’ Records obtained by The Eagle show that some members of the Wichita Water Partners had nearly unlimited access to the mayor over the two-year period the city has been planning to build a treatment plant. Professional Engineering Consultants and Wildcat Companies have major roles on the Wichita Water Partners team. Rod Young, president of the engineering firm PEC, and Roger McClellan, president of the construction company Wildcat, both acknowledged to The Eagle their relationships with the mayor. They did not disclose those relationships to the city on a form asking about potential conflicts of interest in the water project. Flentje, the ethics expert, said they should have. “There’s nothing wrong with elected officials having friends who are competing for the city’s business,” she said. “It’s the failure to disclose those relationships that we need to be concerned about because that gives rise to the perception of undue influence from private interests.” Longwell said that the city’s attorney “verified that there is no conflict of interest.” City Attorney Magana declined to verify that to The Eagle, citing attorney-client privilege. In separate written statements, Young and McClellan said their companies have been involved in city projects for decades. Although they didn’t cite examples, they have been awarded work on some of the city’s largest projects, from the Kellogg expansion to the new minor league baseball stadium. Young wrote that his relationship with Longwell began in 2010, after Longwell was elected to the City Council. Because of common interests, Young, Longwell and their spouses developed a social relationship, he said. “Conversations during these events are social and not related to specific City of Wichita projects,” Young wrote. Their personal relationships often overlapped with their professional lives, according to Longwell’s work calendar. When Longwell was named the president of the League of Kansas Municipalities in 2017, PEC threw a party honoring him. PEC invited Longwell to its company parties for Shocker men’s basketball games and to throw out the first pitch at its sponsored events. When he

needed to use a ping pong table, PEC volunteered theirs. He was invited to join the 2018 PEC company golf league, “open to friends and family of all PEC employees.” Young, Longwell and another council member met for “Christmas Cheer” at an Old Town bar in 2017. PEC also agreed to support Longwell’s causes, including paying to sponsor a golf tournament for the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas. Longwell is a board member of that nonprofit. After Young of PEC agreed to sponsor that tournament in March of 2018, Longwell told him “you were already my favorite so not much of a bump but my gratitude.” Emails indicate Young or PEC paid $250 to sponsor a hole at the tournament and $360 for Longwell to play on a team with him, another PEC manager and a Catholic priest. PEC is listed as a hole sponsor on the event website. In that email exchange, Young called Longwell “Mayor Miracle.” They frequently referred to each other in emails by nicknames — Your Eminence, His Highness, Homecoming Queen, Eye Candy, Jethro and Wine Delivery Guy, after Young, the president of PEC, offered to drop off to Longwell leftover wine from a previous dinner party. They did each other favors. In the summer of 2017, a year before the new library opened, Young sought Longwell’s help getting one of his employees’ wife a position at the Advanced Learning Library. He sent Longwell her resume and asked him to make sure it got “in the correct hands.” Longwell said he doesn’t recall the exchange. The woman is not employed by the city. This summer, from his city email account, Longwell sought Young’s help winning the Wichita Business Journal’s primary election poll. He forwarded Young instructions how to vote multiple times in the poll by switching browsers. “Send to your people,” Longwell wrote. “Will do!!!!” Young wrote back. “I’m sure at the time I wanted to make sure that we had a group that was supporting us, too,” Longwell said later about the email. “Those are some of the things that happen in unscientific polls, as you know. And that one was very unscientific.” Between July 2018 and February 2019 — the open bidding period for the water treatment plant — Longwell met with PEC and Wildcat company presidents multiple times for dinner and golf. He also visited their offices. On Aug. 16, Longwell’s calendar lists a meeting with Young, another PEC manager, and the city’s assistant director of public works and chief engineer Gary Janzen. Young refers to the two city officials, according to emails, as “King and Lil Minion.”

Their meeting with the contractors is on Longwell’s calendar as “O-v-N Aerodynamics Session.” It was actually a twoday golf trip to Cimarron National Golf Club in Guthrie, Okla., that included a stay at the Holiday Inn Express. Janzen, as chief engineer of the city, was in charge of collecting and distributing questions to and from all bidders on the water project. He was later on the selection and screening committee that unanimously chose Jacobs. Janzen has not responded to The Eagle’s request for an interview. One week before proposals were due — on Aug. 31 — Longwell held a “Strategy meeting” with McClellan and Young at Rolling Hills Country Club. Longwell said “strategy meeting” is just a name they used on calendar requests and had nothing to do with city projects. On Oct. 22 — after Wichita Water Partners had been made aware of the selection committee’s preference for Jacobs but before the bid was awarded — Longwell played on a golf team with McClellan and Young at the Pro-Am golf tournament at Flint Hills National. That charitable event cost $1,000 a player. Longwell said Wildcat’s McClellan paid for him to play. Longwell had been invited to play in the same tournament in 2017. “Thank you for the invitation to play in this,” Longwell wrote to McClellan and Young after the 2017 tournament from his city email account. “I’m going to be super nice to you for a long time.” HOW LONGWELL INFLUENCED WICHITA’S WATER PLANT CONTRACT On Nov. 5, the evening before the council workshop where staff was to recommend Jacobs, Longwell had dinner with PEC’s Young and Wildcat’s McClellan. They met at Greystone Steak & Seafood restaurant in east Wichita. His calendar says the dinner was scheduled to last 4 hours. The next morning, he began steering the water treatment plant contract in their direction. Instead of following staff recommendation and awarding the project to Jacobs, Longwell had an idea. He suggested a “design contest” that would pay both Jacobs and Wichita Water Partners to begin designing the plant. The city would choose a winner at a later date. He said it would save money and create more competition. It was the first public mention of such an idea. Longwell told The Eagle he doesn’t remember where the idea originated. He said it didn’t come from the contractors he met with the night before. Young and McClellan did not answer The Eagle’s questions about that meeting and whether they ever mentioned a design contest to Longwell. “I don’t remember anything more than a birthday-dinnertype event. I don’t know if it was Roger’s (McClellan) birthday or someone’s birthday. That was the only dinner I remember. . . . There was no discussion,” Longwell said of the November meeting. Roger McClellan was born in April. The other two men were born in May and June. Only three people were listed on the calendar as attending the dinner. The next day, during the Nov. 6 workshop, King, director of public works and utilities, told the City Council that the city received “two strong proposals” for the Northwest Water Treatment Facility and that either team could do the work. What King didn’t state publicly about the decision is outlined in two staff summaries dated Oct. 15 and Nov. 26 obtained by The Eagle through an open records request. The reports were provided to the mayor and the council. The reports show that the

selection committee had concerns about Wichita Water Partners’ proposal, including: A Disinfection: Wichita Water Partners’ proposal didn’t address a question about disinfection at the plant. Its members said during an interview with the selection committee that the team would “learn things along the way.” The staff report notes that without proper disinfection, there could be “dangerous byproducts” in Wichita’s drinking water. It could also cause problems with corrosion control, the staff report notes. Corrosion control problems have been cited as one of the reasons lead from pipes leached into the drinking water supply in Flint, Mich. A Experience: Wichita Water Partners is a team, a joint venture of Burn & McDonnell and Alberici. The team includes Wichita firms PEC; Wildcat; MKEC; Dondlinger; GLMV Architecture; Schaefer, Johnson, Cox & Frey; Dudley Williams and Associates; and the Greteman Group. Other non-local companies on the team include HDR, UCI and DuBois Consultants. With their combined experience, Wichita Water Partners has less experience than Jacobs, according to the report. The city wanted a company that could operate the plant for the first two years and train city workers on how to run the plant. Wichita Water Partners, the report said, had never delivered a design-build project that included providing short-term operations and training. Jacobs was ranked as the country’s top design firm by Engineering News-Record, a trade publication, in 2018 and 2019. A Flint connection: Wichita Water Partners identified Veolia, an engineering firm tied to water crises in Flint, Mich., and Pittsburgh, Penn., as a potential operator for the plant and a firm that could train city staff. Veolia is being sued in Michigan after it assured the residents of Flint that its water was safe to drink, despite growing complaints from residents about sediment and discoloration. The state’s attorney general blames the company’s advice for causing lead to enter people’s drinking water. The company has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, placing the blame on government agencies that failed to act. The company faced similar claims in Pittsburgh but settled out of court. Brian Meier, client advocate for Wichita Water Partners and associate engineer for Burns & McDonnell, wrote to the council that the staff reports included “a number of inaccuracies.” Wichita Water Partners sought Veolia’s advice on how to operate Wichita’s plant, but was willing to drop the company from its operations task force, he wrote. Robert Layton, Wichita’s city manager, said Wichita Water Partners has dropped Veolia as an adviser “to address what could be anything negative regarding their involvement.” The reports were not made available to the public but were given to City Council members so they would know why the selection committee chose Jacobs, Layton said. Although Longwell had proposed rule changes to keep Wichita Water Partners in the game, city staff continued negotiating a contract with Jacobs for council approval on Nov. 20. At the meeting, Longwell said he would rather award the contract to Wichita Water Partners. “I’ll tell you, if I was making a choice today, if I had to make a choice today, I’m going to choose Wichita Water Partners,” he said. Instead of putting that to a vote, he again asked for a design contest that would allow the city to pay both teams to start designing the plant and then dump one of the firms at a later date. A representative of Jacobs told the council that the company was not interested in entering that contest due to concerns about fairness and the absence SEE MAYOR, 17A


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MAYOR of rules explaining how the new winner would be chosen. Alan King, the public works director, said a design contest could be done, but it would require at least two teams. “If there aren’t two teams competing, there’s no competition.” City Council approved holding a design contest between Jacobs and Wichita Water Partners on Nov. 20. Because Jacobs declined to enter, King brought the Jacobs contract back to the Council for approval on Dec. 18. At the December meeting, City Council members expressed concerns about having only one firm bidding on the city’s largest project. But Longwell reassured them a design contest was a good idea because other companies besides Jacobs were interested in joining a design contest. “I will share with you that I have received several phone calls and emails from other companies that said they would be certainly interested in doing a design-build contest,” he told the council before making his substitute motion. The new design contest was approved 4-3, with Longwell casting the deciding vote. No other company entered the contest. “I was a little surprised when none of that materialized,” Longwell told The Eagle this month. LONGWELL’S DECISION The city has to move quickly on the new water treatment plant so it can qualify for a federal loan that would cover up to 49% of the project. The application is due at the end of October. Longwell framed the decision between Wichita Water Partners and Jacobs as a choice between locals and outsiders. He recently said Wichita Water Partners would employ 935 local workers during construction. But documents show little anticipated difference in local participation by Wichita Water Partners and Jacobs. Both firms are owned by outof-state corporations. Wichita Water Partners is a joint-venture between Burns & McDonnell of Kansas City, Mo., and Alberici of St. Louis, Mo. Jacobs is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Jacobs planned to employ 70% to 80% local workers during construction, according to its proposal. Wichita Water Partners’ proposal said it would use up to 85% local labor during construction. Neither offered guarantees. The contract the city signed with Wichita Water Partners does not require local participation, but sets a goal of 70%. Longwell told The Eagle he had “heard from others, you know, stories of Jacobs coming in, winning a bid and using mostly out-of-state talent,” which made him doubt Jacobs would actually use local workers. That doesn’t match the city’s check of the proposing teams’ references, which is outlined in a staff report that had been provided to Longwell. A check of previous projects by Jacobs found the company had a track record of using locals, including 70% or higher local participation in treatment plant projects in Davis, California, Spokane County, Washington, Camp Pendleton, California, and the Tomahawk Creek wastewater plant in Leawood. Longwell said he couldn’t provide the names of the people who told him Jacobs would use out-of-state workers, but he did say it was not the Wichita Water Partners contractors. “I couldn’t even name names at this point, it’s been so far removed. It wasn’t any of the contractors. I’m just saying I’ve heard it from other people around that are familiar with

The Northwest Water Treatment Facility is expected to be built near 21st Street and Hoover Road in Wichita no earlier than 2024. This is an early concept illustration released by the city showing how the plant might be designed.

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THIS IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST SINGLE PROJECT THIS CITY HAS EVER TAKEN ON. YOU CAN TALK ABOUT KELLOGG, AND OVER 30 YEARS WE SPENT A BILLION DOLLARS. BUT THIS ONE WILL IMPACT MORE PEOPLE FOR A MUCH LONGER PERIOD OF TIME. AND WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO GET IT RIGHT AND THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW THAT WE ARE DOING IT RIGHT. Council member Bryan Frye this,” he said. Jacobs did not respond to The Eagle’s questions about this story. LOWEST PRICE OR BEST VALUE? Besides local workers, Longwell also said he felt more comfortable with Wichita Water Partners’ price, which is why he wanted to change the criteria. The track the city took to award the project, progressive design-build, is different from the typical approach to public construction projects. Usually, the city would pay a firm to design the plant to the city’s specifications and then put it out for bid and award the construction work to separate companies. This time, the city awarded the design and construction work all at once, allowing a team of companies to work together to design 30% of the plant and come up with a final cost estimate. The team that wins the first phase — designing 30% of the plant — will build the entire plant, unless the City Council votes to cancel the contract. To go forward, City Council has to approve the second phase as a change order. King, the public works director, estimated that first phase would cost $16-$25 million on such a large project. The more thorough a team is at the start of a project, the more accurate the final cost estimate, he said. The Wichita Water Partners team said it would do the first phase work for $6 million. Jacobs Engineering said it would cost $13.9 million. Even with that cost difference, King said, Jacobs would likely have a lower final cost estimate because its first phase work included risk assessments that would save money throughout the project. The new rules limited what the teams could spend on the first phase to $6 million, less than half what Jacobs said it would cost. That’s slightly more than the $5.27 million the city was willing to spend on the first phase of its minor league baseball stadium project that’s less than one-seventh the cost of the new treatment plant. In the design contest, the city would pick a winner based on who promised to deliver a cheaper project. That substantially altered the

original plan, which called for a “best value” approach, meaning the city would award the project based on qualifications instead of lowest estimated cost. Lisa Washington, executive director of the Design-Build Institute of America in Washington, D.C., said low bid is not a good approach on public projects — especially on a water treatment plant that has to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. She would not comment specifically on Wichita’s project. But she did offer comment on best practices for design-build projects. “We cringe when we hear the term ‘low-bid design-build’ because that’s an oxymoron,” she said. She likened it to buying a car: “You can get the cheapest car available, but will it run in five years? That’s why people do their research, figure out what they can spend and pick the best car for that price. That’s what ‘best value’ is.” Council member Bryan Frye, who was on the selection committee that unanimously favored Jacobs, said in February that he thought the selection committee got it right. He’s also on the steering committee for the new plant. He told The Eagle recently that he still expects Wichita to get a high-quality water treatment plant. But after the contract was awarded to Wichita Water Partners in February, he expressed frustration with the decision to go with the low bid on such an important project, noting the poor condition of the existing plant and the number of communities such as Derby, Valley Center, Kechi, Rose Hill and Andover that rely on Wichita for water. “And we’re going to try to go cheap on this?” he said. “That, to me, is just not the responsible way to do it. You’ve got one chance to do it right.” WHAT’S NEXT AND WHY IT MATTERS Wichita Water Partners is scheduled to design 30% of the new water plant and give the city of Wichita a final cost estimate for the project by Oct. 4. Longwell said a design contest could shave $75 million off the project. The group is also drafting an application for a $270 million

Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help Wichita pay for the water plant. That loan application is due Oct. 30. The favorable terms are projected to save the city $70 million over the life of the loan and allow the project to start by the end of next year, city officials have said. Without the loan, the project would have to be put on hold for another seven years until the city could afford it. It’s unclear when the City Council will decide whether to approve the rest of the contract authorizing Wichita Water Partners to build the plant. “We haven’t decided yet,” said Layton, the city manager. If the City Council is unhappy with the work up to that point, it can exercise an “off-ramp” that would allow it to put the project back out for bid. It’s unclear how the project is progressing. The city’s steering committee meetings have not been open to the public. Frye and Layton have requested that future meetings be open. Layton said the city is working diligently to make sure the new plant serves the needs of Wichita’s water customers. “I don’t want to lose sight of how important this is to the community,” he said. “From a staff standpoint, we are working pretty hard to make sure that this plant is built in a state-ofthe-art way so it doesn’t just serve our needs today, but it serves our future needs.” He said residents can expect yearly rate increases to stay in the single digits. Frye, who is on the water treatment plant steering committee, said he’s been pushing to open the meetings to the public, so people can see the progress the city is making. “This is probably the biggest single project this city has ever taken on,” Frye said. “You can talk about Kellogg, and over 30 years we spent a billion dollars. But this one will impact more people for a much longer period of time. And we absolutely need to get it right and the public needs to know that we are doing it right.” ELECTED OFFICIALS: ‘IT’S JUST THE WAY IT IS’ Contractors and developers regularly try to bend the ears of local elected officials, often seeking special favors, according to the officials. But there’s no uniform rule guiding how to respond. Flentje said all elected officials should have a strong interest in avoiding even the appearance of a conflict of interest to maintain the public trust, which she calls “the currency of democracy.” “Governing body members who are committed to leading with integrity give careful attention to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Directing city funding into the local com-

munity is of legitimate public value, but that worthy end does not justify the repeated violation of well-established ethical norms for elected officials,” she said. Once that trust is broken, it’s hard to repair, she said. “Because the process was so botched, it’s hard to see a clear path forward,” she said. The Wichita Eagle sought one-on-one interviews with each of Wichita’s six City Council members in the weeks leading up to publication of this story. Council member Bryan Frye agreed. Council members Brandon Johnson and James Clendenin agreed to a joint interview with a city public relations specialist in the room. The others — Jeff Blubaugh, Becky Tuttle and Cindy Claycomb — did not have time to meet, according to the city’s scheduling assistant, and requested questions be submitted in writing. Blubaugh, Tuttle and Claycomb sent identical answers defending the council’s action on the water plant, saying they are expected to build relationships in the community and that they take the ethical code seriously. Clendenin and Johnson declined to say whether they would look into Longwell’s relationships. “I guess we would have to determine there was an actual violation,” Johnson said. “If you start hammering down and trying to define that . . . then why are we building relationships? Because then everything can be questioned,” he said. “We would just have to look at the ordinance and decide if we felt like there was any impropriety,” Clendenin said. As for Longwell’s trip, golf outings and dinners with contractors during open bidding, Clendenin and Johnson said they didn’t see anything wrong with it. “I don’t see it,” Johnson said. “Without knowing what was talked about, I really don’t question any of my colleagues on meetings,” he said. “I can’t speculate whether he should or shouldn’t have had these meetings,” Clendenin said. “I would just maintain it’s our job to be relationship builders.” Johnson and Clendenin both downplayed Longwell’s role in awarding the contract, saying the mayor is just one vote. “You give the mayor too much credit,” Johnson said. “Yeah, this idea that the mayor of the city of Wichita has enough power to make any decision he would like is something that I think is a misconception,” Clendenin said. Frye said he is not privy to the mayor’s calendar or schedule, but added that the mayor meeting and communicating with contractors is not unusual. “It’s just the way it is in the town,” Frye said. “I mean, this is a small town. There is one degree of a separation, basically, I feel like, with everybody at any given time,” he said. Mayor John Speer of Kechi, population 2,007, knows a thing or two about small towns. He said when friends are involved in city projects, elected officials should stay out of it. “As a lifelong area resident, there are a lot of vendors and contractors that I am personal friends with,” Speer said. “But at the end of the day . . . I would look at something and say, ‘Does that look like that could seem kind of smelly?’” If a decision gave the appearance of a conflict of interest, Speer said he would recuse himself from voting. “You’re my friend, but I want to be a step above that,” he said. “If it’s a good project or they’re the best vendor, they’ll still get the work. They don’t need my vote.”

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For passion or for money, more seniors keep working BY TIM HENDERSON

Stateline.org ASHBURN, VA.

At 76, Anne Doane is still stocking shelves in a Wegmans here, leaning to fill a display with hairbrushes as Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” plays over the store’s sound system. “I never saved throughout my life, so therefore I have to do this,” Doane said. “And because I like it. I want to get out of the house. I want to talk to people. And I need the money.” More U.S. workers are working after turning 65, both out of financial necessity and to stay busy, a trend the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics sees increasing over the next 10 years. The bureau projects the share of seniors working or actively looking for jobs to rise from 19.6% in 2018 to 23.3% in 2028, nearly double the rate of 1998, when it was less than 12%. More than 165,000 seniors are working in grocery stores, earning an average of about $31,000 a year. About half of the more than 9 million workers 65 or older are in retail, health care, business services or education, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data and a Stateline analysis of Current Population Survey microdata. Some of the highestpaying jobs for seniors are in colleges and universities, where the average salary for the age group is more than $93,000 a

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Wilber Ruiz, left, hoped to retire to his native Peru by now, but at 67, he’s still at work retrieving carts and greeting customers at a Giant supermarket in Ashburn, Virginia.

year, and in charity and advocacy groups, where the average for the age group is more than $107,000 a year. It may be a shock for people to find that they can’t get by on Social Security alone, especially for those who claim their benefits before they turn 70. Social Security currently maxes out at $2,209 a month for those who file at 62 and $3,770 for those who file at 70. It’s particularly tough when the cost of living is high in areas such as Ashburn in Loudoun County, a fast-growing Washington, D.C., suburb where more than a quarter of people 65 or older hold jobs, according to recent census data. “(Working) by older age groups bottomed out in the mid-1990s, when Social Security was more generous and definedbenefit pensions were

more common,” said Brian Asquith, an economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Michigan. Growth in the number of older workers since then has been slower than expected, he said. Even union jobs may not provide much of a pension now. Venorica Tucker, 70, has had a union job as a banquet server for 30 years, commuting from suburban Maryland to the U.S. House of Representatives. She works for a catering contractor, putting in long days that extend from early-morning breakfasts to evening receptions. Her Food and Beverage Workers Union has a pension plan, but it’s a lump sum of less than $20,000, she said. “I had all these ideas about how one could live well (after age 65), but

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those ideas didn’t pan out,” said Tucker, who’s been working similar jobs since the early 1960s, when she was 12, and currently holds a second job as a bartender. “I should have saved more — I always saw people in my family who were in a needy situation, and my friends. They needed help and I could do it, so I did do it,” Tucker said. “Sometimes I did that at the cost of paying my own bills and saving.” Immigrants often have little choice but to keep working after 65, said 67-year-old Wilber Ruiz, who works retrieving carts at a Giant supermarket in Ashburn, Virginia. He had once hoped to be retired at this age in his native Peru, reading literature and writing poetry. “Possibly for a certain type of worker, when they’re older they need to

do something to stay occupied,” Ruiz said in Spanish. “But under the conditions that most Latinos are in, it’s to pay for an apartment, pay for a car to get to work. They survive. That’s all.” States are scrambling to fund more job-training programs for seniors, especially in Vermont, where 26% of older people held jobs in 2018, the highest rate in the country, up from 23% in 2013, according to a Stateline analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Vermont has a combination of a labor shortage and a large senior population that draws more older residents into the workforce, said Mathew Barewicz, an economist at the Vermont Department of Labor. Some are also working because they love their jobs. “It is a passion thing for me,” said Diane Dalmasse, 71, director of the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Waterbury. She has a state pension that would allow her to retire, but she doesn’t want to do that yet. “We make a difference, and I just love the work,” Dalmasse said. “Work is how people are measured in this country.” The employment rate among older workers is increasing fastest in Colorado, Minnesota and Hawaii, where the additional numbers of older workers seeking jobs may be raising unemployment rates despite more job creation, as older workers see an opening in a tight labor market and possible higher wages. “In Colorado, people are working longer because they can,” said Brian Lewandowski, associate director of the research division at the University of Colorado. “We are healthier than

average, and this is a state with a lot of white-collar jobs. If you have a desk job as an accountant or an attorney, you can easily keep doing this.” State programs to train older workers with federal funds are overwhelmed by applications from people who can’t get in, said Pat Elmer, president of Associates for Training and Development, a nonprofit that operates training programs in Vermont, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania. There are 2,000 trainees in those states. The program pays minimum wage to people 55 or older to work for nonprofits and public organizations, such as schools and hospitals, while they gain skills and references for the open job market. Many more people want the training but can’t get in because of waitlists or income restrictions — the federal program that funds it, the Senior Community Service Employment Program, requires participants to have incomes no more than 125% of the poverty level, currently $16,910 for a twoperson family. As the demand for job training among older residents grows, Vermont is considering other options. One program that could be expanded to help meet the need, Progressive Employment, allows workers of all ages to start working in new industries as trainees while they build skills, Elmer said. “So many people are in this situation. They don’t feel like they can retire, because they don’t have the funds,” Elmer said. “In the past, people could take minimum-wage jobs. Now people need updated skills, because they can’t get by on minimum wage and Social Security.”


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LOCAL OBITUARIES Bloom, Lewis Theil Campbell, Norma Carol Dohle, Larry Lee Dower, Zachary Thomas Eck, Candace Lynn Vaughn Erickson, David Jarman, Patricia Ann Jerrick, Phyllis June (Emley) Knocke, Shirley Davison Horine Loehr, Robert Francis Logsdon, Betty "BJ" McCandless, Donald Wayne McQuary, Natasha Milby, Donald Dean Reed, Delbert R. "Bill" Reed, Emiley Lynne Septer, Belita D. Wilson, Billie "Joan"

AREA OBITUARIES ANDOVER-Collins, Dr. Donald Joe CHENEY-Parrent, Ronald Jay COLWICH-Seiler, Joseph John LAS VEGAS, NV-Reddy, Dr. Venumbaka C. NEWTON-Ryan, Mary E. NORTH NEWTON-Unruh, Viola Frances OST-Hilger, Norbert Mike SPRING, TX-Cobb, Gary Franklin

LOCAL DEATHS Arnett, Ava L. (Nally), 83, died Sept. 23, 2019. Service: 1 p.m., Sept. 30, Grace Chapel of Christ Church, 1302 W. Harry Wichita. Baker Funeral Home Valley Center Bennett, Reatha Carol (Blake), 64, passed away September 22, 2019. Services: Pending. Baker Funeral Home Valley Center Breedlove, David K. , age 72, of Wichita, Kansas passed away on Thurs., September 26, 2019. Services are pending. Devorss Flanagan-Hunt Davis, Becky Lynn, 67, passed away Sept. 23, 2019. No Service. Broadway Mortuary Fanning, Lois D. (Scott), 74, passed away September 25, 2019. Funeral service: 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, October 1 at Affinity All Faiths Mortuary. Forshee, Frank Jr., 92, passed away September 24, 2019. Funeral service: 10 a.m. Tuesday, October 1, at Resthaven Mortuary. Kliewer, Junior D., 91, passed away Sept. 26, 2019. Celebration of Life: 11 a.m., Thurs. Oct. 3, Affinity All Faiths Mortuary, 2850 S. Seneca, Wichita. Savute, Mattie Jo, 92, passed away September 27, 2019. Services are pending with Old Mission Mortuary. Sullivan, Stephanie Renee, age 49, passed away September 25, 2019. A private family service will take place at a later date. Resthaven Mortuary Williams, Jean, 93, died Saturday, September 28, 2019. Funeral Services are pending with Downing & Lahey Mortuary - West Chapel.

AREA DEATHS COFFEYVILLE-Eveleigh, Harold David, 68, died Sept. 26, 2019. Service: 1 p.m., Tues., Oct. 1, Veteran’s Memorial Patio, military honors. Ford-Wulf-Bruns FH DOUGLASS-Cooper, Ronald V. Sr. MULVANE-Wickham, Wick, 73, passed away September 22, 2019. Memorial services: Pending for a later date. Baker Funeral Home-Wichita Chapel WELLINGTON-Prouse, Iva Renee, 54, died September 17, 2019. Memorial 10:00 a.m. Tuesday at Freewill Baptist Church, Wellington. Prairie Rose Funeral Home, Anthony. WILSON-Homeier, Zona Mary , 96, passed away September 23, 2019. Memorial: 2 p.m., Wed., Oct. 2, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Wilson. Carlson FH

Jarman, Patricia Ann 87, former St. Joseph Hospital and USD 259 food service employee, passed away Thurs., September 12, 2019. Visitation 6-8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 4. Graveside Service 11 a.m., Sat., Oct. 5, Greenwood Cemetery. Preceded in death by her parents, Edd and Ethel Lamar; son, Randall Jarman; 4 brothers and 1 sister, survivors include her sons, Stephen (Terri) Jarman, David Scott (Cheryl) Jarman and Mark (Angela) Jarman; sisters, Betty Collins and Ruby Cacy; 13 grandchildren and several great and great-greatgrandchildren. Memorials to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice. Share condolences at www.CozineMemorial.com. Broadway Mortuary.

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65, died Thursday, September 26, 2019. Memorial Mass will be at 10:00 am, Friday, October 4, 2019, at All Saints Catholic Church. Preceded in death by his parents, Elvin "Joe" and Elizabeth Erickson. Survived by his brothers, John (Kathy) Erickson of Pensacola, FL, Steve Erickson of Colorado Springs, CO. Downing & Lahey Mortuary - East Chapel. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com

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Dower, Zachary Thomas age 22, a loved son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin and friend passed away on September 10th. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Harry Rutherford. Zach is survived by his father, Trey Dower; his mother and step-father, Rae and Paul Ott; sister, Caroline Dower; grandmother, Gwen Rutherford; and his grandparents, Sue and Tom Dower. He will be greatly missed by all who loved him. A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, September 29th at 3:00 p.m. at East Heights United Methodist Church, 4407 E. Douglas, Wichita, Kansas. A memorial scholarship has been established at East Heights United Methodist Church for students who wish to attend the annual Mission trip to Mountain Top. Zach loved bing a part of this Mission.

Campbell, Norma Carol Retired Boeing Military Finance Analyst, died Saturday, September 21, 2019. Private family services were held on September 26 in Salina, KS at Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Norma enjoyed playing bridge, decorating houses, traveling and swimming. She was also a member of East Heights United Methodist Church, the Twentieth Century Club, Helianthus Club, Suburban Garden Club, Red Hat Society, Knife and Fork Club, Daughters of the American Revolution, Salina Jaycee Janes. Preceded in death by her parents, Clyde and Glorina McClaflin; husband, Thomas Campbell; brothers, Clyde McClaflin, Donald McClaflin; sister, Deloris Marie Meyer. Survived by her daughters, Cameile "Camey" Suzan (Dan) Moore, Carmen Suzan (Ford) Walker; son, Jeffrey Kent (Lily) Campbell; sisters, Ruth Ellen Oltmans; half-sister, Willa Ladeene Wickersham; grandchildren, Christina A. (Jay) Bailey, Lauren M. (Ben) Jackson, Erin L. Walker, Brent E. (Jenna) Walker, Grant T. Campbell, Taylor Y. Campbell, Jack K. Campbell; 7 great-grandchildren. A memorial has been established with: Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, 701 Amidon St., Wichita, KS 67203. Downing & Lahey Mortuary - East Chapel. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com

Eck, Candace Lynn Vaughn Feb. 1, 1950 ~ Sept. 26, 2019. Service: Tuesday, 1 p.m., Aldersgate Methodist Church, 7901 W. 21st. North.

Loehr, Robert Francis 94, Retired after 47 years as a Santa Fe Railroad Chief Clerk, died Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Rosary will be at 7:00 pm, Tuesday, October 1, 2019; Memorial Mass will be at 10:00 am, Wednesday, October 2, 2019, both at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. Robert was a proud WWII Merchant Marine Serviceman. He loved golfing and was a devout Catholic, active in the Knights of Columbus and a regular donor to various Catholic charities. Preceded in death by his parents Charles and Ethel Loehr; wife, Catherine Loehr; daughters, Kathy Loehr, Amy Hawthorn; brothers, Art, Jack, Chuck, and Bill Loehr. Survived by his daughters, Peggy (Bradley) Clark of Wichita, Mary (Steve) Fowler of Rose Hill, Ann (Don) Patricia Loehr of Hutchinson; grandchildren, Tyler Francis (girlfriend, Amanda) Clark, Morgan Whitney Clark, Regina (Adam) Loehr; numerous relatives and friends. In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established with: Serenity Hospice Care, 9415 E. Harry St. #306, Wichita, KS 67207. Downing & Lahey Mortuary - East Chapel. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com

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82, passed away September 27, 2019. Funeral Mass: 10 a.m., Tuesday, October 1, 2019, St. Mary Catholic Church, Newton. Rosary: 6 p.m., Monday, September 30, 2019. Petersen Funeral Home, Newton

90, Learjet retired executive secretary, died Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. Visitation, 6-8 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29; Service, 2 p.m., Monday, Sept. 30, both at Downing & Lahey West. Preceded by loving husband, Frank Logsdon. Betty is survived by sons, Stan (Leslie) of Wichita, Tony (Trenna) of Augusta, and daughter, Stephanie Lane of Wichita; grandchildren, Aubrey, Kelly and Allison Logsdon, Christina Brouillette, Kerri Bear, Nicole Lott and Caleb Logsdon; great-grandchildren, Maisy, Chase, Gianna, Evelynn, Lydia and Fulton Brouillette, Mason, Jacob and Braiden Lott, Gavin and Avery Bear; numerous nieces, nephews and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorials to: Guadalupe Clinic, 940 S. St. Francis, Wichita, KS 67211 and St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Pl., Memphis, TN 38105. www.downingandlahey.com.

93, North Newton, died Aug 9, 2019. Service: Oct 5, 11 am, Bethel College Mennonite Church, 2600 College Ave, N Newton. Visitation: 3 pm, Kidron Bethel Village Menno Hall, 3001 Ivy Dr, N Newton. Full obituary & memorial at www.petersenfamilyfuneralhome.com.

Dohle, Larry Lee age 74, passed away peacefully September 16, 2019 in Halsted, KS. He was born July 14, 1945, he was preceded in death by his wife, 2 brothers and 1 sister. He will be greatly missed. He has requested no funeral service, his family thanks you for your prayers.

Knocke, Shirley Davison Horine 89, died Wednesday, September 25, 2019 in Hutchinson, KS. She was born on the icy, snowy day of December 19, 1929 at La Plata, MO, the eldest of three children of Laurice P. and Cecile Jo (Whitfield) Hayden. The family later moved to Peoria, IL as Mr. Hayden joined Caterpillar Tractor Company. Shirley was educated in Peoria. Shirley married Donald E. Davison of Sedgwick, KS in 1948. They had one child, a son, Ricky Davison, in 1954. They later divorced in 1978 but remained best friends through his death in 2015. Shirley joined Henry’s, Inc. as Credit Manager. During the 25 years she worked for the Levitts she fielded many management positions including buyer traveling to markets in New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles. She often commentated "she never had a job she didn’t like." In 1986, she married Edmund R. Horine who had taken early retirement from Coastal (formerly Derby) and built the September Co., an oil company. Ed and Shirley were co-owners of Shirley’s Ltd. Fur and Leather. Shirley closed Shirley’s due to Ed’s health which became a long 6.5 year illness. During those years she joined Downing & Lahey Mortuary as Pre-Need Consultant. Ed died October 2003. A phone call from Norman Knocke asking her to be his prayer partner, later out to dinner, brought her to the man she would marry November 2008. The Knocke’s made their home at Cedars Retirement Village in McPherson, KS. They joined Trinity Lutheran Church. Such a beautiful life they enjoyed. The Lord called Norm home May 2014. Shirley is survived by her son, Rick Davison, and daughter-in-law, Debra, of McPherson. She was blessed with 2 grandchildren, Darci (Bryan) Weiser and Ryne (Sara) Davison; 4 great-grandchildren, Paxton and Kali Weiser, Adelyn and Aubrey Davison. Brother Don (Therese) Hayden of Decatur, IL; 3 nieces; 1 nephew. Stepchildren, Wayne (Kay) Knocke of Phoenix, AZ, Cynthia (Michael) Atwood of CT, Joel (Veronica) Knocke of San Antonio, TX; 10 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her parents and sister, Betty Lou Ormand, and brother-in-law, Walter Ormand. Private Family Services. Memorials to Trinity Lutheran Church, 119 N. Elm St., McPherson, KS 67460; Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 600 N. Greenwich Rd., Wichita, KS 67206. Downing & Lahey Mortuary - East Chapel. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com

McCandless, Donald Wayne 80, passed away Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Visitation: 4-8 p.m., Family Greeting: 6-7 p.m., Sunday, September 29, at Smith Mortuary, Derby 1415 North Rock Rd; Funeral Service: 1 p.m., Monday, September 30, 2019 at Woodlawn United Methodist Church, 431 S. Woodlawn Blvd in Derby. He is preceded in death by his wife, JoAnn; son, Ricky Thames; parents, Clyde and Mildred McCandless; sister, Delores Iman. Donald is survived by his sons, Chris (Natalie) McCandless, Trey (Susie) McCandless; loving grandchildren & great-grandchildren; siblings, Jo (Alan) Baughman, Ila (Bill) Gipson, Gary (Jan) McCandless, Wanda Patton, Joyce (Jim) Weaver, Dean (Debbie) McCandless & Jim (Barbara) McCandless. In lieu of flowers, a memorial is with the your local animal shelter and/or The ASPCA. www.SmithFamilyMortuaries.com

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SPRING, TX-Cobb, Gary Franklin 85, passed away Wed., September 25, 2019 at St. Luke’s Hospital, Houston, Texas. He was born June 17, 1934 in Darlington, MO. Please visit ForestParkTheWoodlands.com to leave online condolences

Reed, Emiley Lynne found eternal rest with family and friends by her side on September 21, 2019 in Wichita, Kansas. She was born March 5, 1958 to Raymond and Thelma (Kueffer) Reed in Emporia, Kansas. Emiley had a passion for teaching and spent many years as an Elementary School teacher. She loved helping children and was always thinking of others. In her free time she enjoyed working in her garden and watching the birds. Emiley was immensely proud of her family and left behind many beautiful memories. She will be remembered always as a devoted Nana, loving mother, thoughtful sister and kind friend. She leaves behind her sisters Becky Little (husband Don), Jenny Daugherty (husband Rick) and Sarah Radwan; her daughters Michelle (husband Jerry) and Laura Brown (husband Karl); son Nathan Reichenberger (wife Bailey); 2 beloved grandchildren, as well as several nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to your favorite charity. Please send your condolences to EmileyReed2019@gmail.com.

Septer, Belita D. 62, Retired USD 259 secretary passed away on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. She is survived by her loving husband of 20 years, Donald; children, Douglas (Amber) and Jeremy (Candy) Septer; 6 grandchildren; and 1 great-grandchild; siblings, Norvella (Somsack) Piyarat, Virl (Donna) and Boyd (Doris) Gregory. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, September 30 at Calvary’s Rock Church followed by a burial at 4:30 p.m. at the Mt. Ayr Friends Cemetery in Alton, Kansas.

49, passed away suddenly Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Visitation: 2 - 8 p.m. with family present 6 - 8 p.m., Friday, October 4, 2019. Memorial Service: 10 a.m., Saturday, October 5, 2019. Both will be held at Smith Mortuary, Derby, 1415 North Rock Rd; Natasha is survived by her husband, Timothy McQuary; daughter, Ashley McQuary; father, Jon E. (Meribeth) Miller; mother, Rose Mary (Ed) Templin; step-sister, Melissa Templin; loving extended family and many dear friends. In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established with the ADA Diabetes Camps, 608 W Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67203; Beauties and Beasts, PO Box 783001 Wichita, KS 67278. Wilson, Billie "Joan" www.SmithFamilyMortuaries.com. On September 24, 2019, Heaven received our beloved angel, Joan. She was 89. Joan, a retired 25+ year schoolteacher at McCollom Elementary School, was a longtime active member and deacon at Covenant Milby, Donald Dean Presbyterian Church. She 95, passed away Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Family will loved traveling, music, hold memorial services at a later date in Nebraska. Donald playing bridge, cooking was preceded in death by a daughter, Rhea Ann Milby. and family time. Preceding Survivors include his wife, Glenda Milby; children, Kathy her in death were parents, Bloom, Lewis Theil Beberniss (Russell), Randy Milby (Veronica), Ritch Milby 87, died September 19, 2019, in Wichita. He was born (Patty), Terry Milby (Marcy), and Todd Milby (Dana); William and C. Fern Harris. Survivors: her husband, Bob, March 1, 1932, at home on a farm grandchildren, Alex, Carter, Caleb, Stephanie, Katie, of 70 years as of November 23, 2019; daughter, Vicki northwest of Liberal, to Mildred Catherine Rebecca, Sarah, Clare, Bryce, and Liam; nine (Robert) Kelly of Manitou Springs, CO; son, Scott (Sherri) (Headrick) and Lewis Alfred Bloom. Theil great-grandchildren. Share condolences at Wilson of Wichita; grandchildren, Paige (Josh) Guffey and married Olive Zoe Selfridge on August www.CozineMemorial.com. Services by Broadway Cassandra Wilson both of Kansas City, MO; great-grandchildren, Kirra and Reese Guffey, and one on 23, 1952, at the United Methodist Church Mortuary the way that’s due in January. Visitation, 6-8 p.m., in Dighton. Survivors include his widow, Thursday, October 3, Downing & Lahey Mortuary West. Olive, of the home; three sons, Lamont Memorial Service, 10:30 a.m., Friday, October 4, at (Vicki), Wichita; Barry (Alice), Wichita; Covenant Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, and Jim (Susan), Longmont, Colorado; 11 grandchildren; memorial to Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1750 N. Tyler, and 19 great-grandchildren. His parents preceded him in Reed, Delbert R. "Bill" death, Lewis on May 22, 1987, and Mildred on May 20, 94, happily entered his heavenly home on September 12, Wichita, KS 67212. Share tributes online at 1988, at Liberal, as well as his only brother, Norman Lee 2019, while in his home surrounded by www.dlwichita.com. Bloom, December 18, 2015, at Kismet. Theil was close family and his good friend Frank. graduated from Liberal High School in 1950; Kansas State Delbert was born July 6, 1925, near St. University, Manhattan, in 1954; and the University of John, KS, to Ova and Albert Reed. After LAS VEGAS, NV-Reddy, Dr. Venumbaka C. Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, in 1957. moving to St. John during early adulthood Venumbaka "V.C." Chandrasekhar Reddy, M.D., age 73, He practiced family medicine for 10 years as a partner of he met and subsequently married Joy died Saturday, September 21, 2019 in Las the Truhart Clinic, in Sterling. During his years there, he Maddux on June 6, 1948, and their Vegas, NV. Dr. Reddy was born June 15, attended the delivery of more than 400 babies. He returned marriage flourished for over 68 years until 1946 in Nellore, India to the late to KU School of Medicine in 1968 for a residency in Joy’s death in December 2016. Delbert was a member of Venkatasubba Reddy and the late general radiology, finishing in 1971. He joined the Wichita two Baptist Churches; Trinity Baptist in Hoisington, KS, Kanthamma (Yeluru). He was their only Clinic, where he practiced radiology until 1976. He moved where he served as a deacon for over 50 years, then child. He married Suguna V. Reddy to Kingman in 1976 and Pratt in 1986, providing radiology transferring to Cedar Pointe Baptist after re-locating to (Nuvvuru) M.D. on August 9, 1970. services to rural hospitals in Kingman, Pratt, Harper, Wichita in October 2000. Delbert was preceded in death by Together they raised two beautiful Anthony, and Cherryvale, Kansas, as well as Alva and his wife, parents, two sisters and two brothers. He is children. V.C. graduated from V. R. College in Nellore Woodward, Oklahoma. He retired in 2005, and he and survived by one sister, Alberta Lane of Marlow, OK; his India and Rangaraya Medical College in Kakinada, India, Olive moved to Wichita. Theil was a board-certified daughter, Patricia Hadley and husband, Curtis of Grand where he received his medical doctorate degree. He general radiologist, a fellow of American College of Junction, CO; granddaughter, Meredith Hadley-Thornhill conducted his medical internship and residency at Huron Radiology, and a member of the American Medical (Zachary), and great-grandchildren, Sophie and Stella, all Road Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and pulmonary medicine Association. He was a member of the Kansas State of Fruita, CO. Delbert is also survived by his son, Mike specialty fellowship at the University of Missouri in University and University of Kansas Alumni Associations; Reed and wife, Karen; granddaughter, Crystal Reed Columbia, Missouri. He was board certified in Internal 4-H and the Kansas Farm Bureau; Calvary United (Brenton Dube); and great-grandchildren, Allie and Kason; Medicine and was a Fellow of the American College of Methodist Church, Wichita; and a Rotarian during his in addition to his grandson, Jordan Reed, all of Wichita. A Physicians. Dr. Reddy was in private practice in El years in Sterling and Pratt. He and Olive were founding Celebration of Life will be held Tuesday, October 8, 2019, Dorado, KS for 30 years. While working in El Dorado, he members of the South Central Kansas Community at 2:00 p.m. at Ascension Senior Living - Georgetown, was Chief of Staff at the Susan B. Allen Memorial Foundation in Pratt. They also supported the Pratt Regional 1655 S. Georgetown, Wichita, KS 67218. Family requests Hospital. He also worked for United Health Care in Las Medical Center Foundation and together they were active the wearing of your casual patriotic attire to honor Vegas, NV for over 9 years, until his passing. Dr. Reddy participants in Sunday school classes. Theil said one of his Delbert’s service in the United States Army and his love was loved by his patients and the community. He made most memorable stints of community service came from for our country. Delbert’s favorite dessert, pie and ice house calls to elderly patients for over 30 years, long after team-teaching a middle school Sunday School class at Pratt cream, will be enjoyed by all. A graveside service will be this service was no longer provided by most doctors. He for two years. Outside of work, which he considered “a held the next day on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, at 11:00 was always willing to help anyone with his time or money reward all its own,” Theil enjoyed flying, boating, and a.m. at Fairview Park Cemetery located one mile north of and gave generous donations to the YMCA, Susan B. water skiing. Memorials to the Dr. Theil Bloom Memorial St. John, KS, on east side of highway 281. Pastor David Allen Memorial Hospital and the Hindu Temple in Fund at the South Central Kansas Community Foundation, Benavides of Harry Hynes Hospice will officiate both Wichita, KS, the American Red Cross and other various Pratt, to provide scholarships for future healthcare services. In lieu of flowers the family has requested charities. His hobbies included golf, tennis, racquetball, providers and administrators from central and western memorials in Delbert Reed’s name to Ascension Senior ping-pong, travel and spending time with his family V.C. is Kansas; Calvary United Methodist Church, Wichita; or the Living - Georgetown or to Harry Hynes Memorial survived by his wife, Suguna V. Reddy M.D.; his daughter, Great Plains United Methodist Camp Lakeside, Scott City. Hospice, 313 S. Market St., Wichita, KS 67202. Please see Archana V. Reddy M.D.; Son, Nivedan V. Reddy, Captain Visitation from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Reflection full obituary at www.Reflection-Pointe.com. US Army; Granddaughter, Sonia M. Tweito; and his Pointe Funeral Home, 3201 S Webb Road. Funeral at 10:30 grandson, Benjamin N. Tweito. Visitation and funeral a.m. Monday, at Calvary United Methodist Church, 2525 N services will be Sunday, September 29 from 11:30 - 2:30 Rock Road, with burial at Reflection Pointe Cemetery. PM at Kraft-Sussman Funeral Services, 3975 S. Durango www.Reflection-Pointe.com Drive, Suite 104, Las Vegas, NV. A reception will follow services from 5:30 - 7:30 PM at Mint Indian Bistro, 4246 S. Durango Dr., Las Vegas, NV. Donations in his honor can be made to the American Red Cross.


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Aeronautical Engineer, died Sunday, September 22, 2019. Memorial Service will be at 11 am, Tuesday, October 1, 2019, at Downing & Lahey East Mortuary. He served in the U. S. Air Force before earning his Bachelor’s degree from Auburn University then his Master’s and Doctorate from the University of Kansas. He had a lifelong love of airplanes, enjoyed backpacking, canoeing and elements of the wild west. Preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Eunice Collins. Survived by his wife, Janice Collins; children, Mary Ann (John) Turner of Little Rock, AR, Thomas (Tracy) Collins of Madisonville, LA, Donna Collins of Deltona, FL; step-daughter, Georgianna (Ramona) Smith of Burnsville, MN; sister, Elizabeth Kent of Tuscaloosa, AL; and 4 grandchildren. Memorials have been established with: Kansas Humane Society, 3313 N Hillside St, Wichita, KS 67219; and Wichita Symphony Orchestra, 225 W Douglas Ave #207, Wichita, KS 67202. Downing & Lahey Mortuary - East Chapel. Share tributes online at: www.dlwichita.com DAVID J. PHILLIP AP file

CHENEY-Parrent, Ronald Jay 71, retired machinist and Navy veteran, passed away Sept. 26, 2019, peacefully at his home in Cheney, KS surrounded by family. Ron was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Elresa Jean (Way) Parrent; his wife of 26 years, Vicki (Zerener); sister, Carolyn Kay Schild; brother, Chuck Snavely. Left to mourn are his children, Casey (Dalton) Worrel, Robin (Steve) Zimmerman, Rhonda Spencer; brother, Frank (Barbara) Parrent; sister, June Parrent; grandchildren, Stephanie, Steven, Gabrielle; great-grandchildren, Creedence, Chaeton, Delilah. A memorial service for both Ron and Vicki is to be held at a later date.

COLWICH-Seiler, Joseph John 89, passed away at Colwich Gardens on September 28, 2019. He was born on January 23, 1930 to the late John Sr and Rosalie (Spexarth) Seiler in Colwich, KS. He is survived by his wife, Almeda (Winter) Seiler; sons, Ken (Dorothy), Fred (Jan), Dave (Chris), Duane (Stephanie); daughters, Nancy (Dean) Martin, Pat (Suhail) Suleiman, Mary (John) Meng, Connie (Joe) Brossard; brother, John (Pat) Seiler Jr; sisters, Mary (Melvin) Dold, Rosie (Roman) Mannebach; 26 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by parents; siblings, Richard, Jim, Paul, Bernard, Catherine. Rosary will be held on Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 7 p.m. and Funeral Mass on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 10 a.m. both at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Colwich, Ks. Memorial established with Sacred Heart Building Fund. Wulf-Ast Mortuary, Colwich.

DOUGLASS-Cooper, Ronald V. Sr. entered into Heaven on September 25, 2019. He was born on July 10, 1948 in Wichita, KS, where he grew up. His cherished wife of 49 years, Pattie, survives him in addition to family members; daughter, Wendy Higinbotham of Edmond, OK; son, Ron Cooper Jr. of Douglass, KS; sisters, Beverly Harding of Wichita, Rosemary (Dave) Geering of Salina, KS; grandchildren, Stephanie (Marshall) Bjelland, Shelby Karst, Cooper Higinbotham; great-granddaughter, Aurelia Korte; and his beloved fur-babies. Preceded in passing by his parents, William and Mary Cooper; infant son, Jodie Cooper; brothers, Elgie Cooper and Steve Cooper; son-in-law, Bill "Hig" Higinbotham. Ron worked at Boeing as a draftsman for 24 years until he retired in 2002. Ron and Pattie moved their family to Douglass, KS in 1980. He enjoyed living in a small town where he was a Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America for 8 years, and still kept in touch with his troop. In addition to scouting, he enjoyed many hobbies such as fishing and hunting (including rattlesnakes), playing his guitars, photography, and was a loyal fan of the KC Chiefs and Nascar. Visitation will be Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at Lakeview beginning at 1 p.m., funeral service follows at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in Ron’s name can be made to: American Lung Association, P.O. Box 7000, Albert Lea, MN 56007.

OST-Hilger, Norbert Mike 92, retired farmer, passed away on Sat. Sept. 28, 2019. Norbert was born July 29, 1929 in Haven, Ks. the son of Peter and Katie (May) Hilger. On May 9, 1950 he Married Martina Haukap. Survivors include his wife, Martina; sons, Neil (Geri) Hilger, Keith Hilger; daughters, Denice (Tom) Finn, Beverly Hoheisel; sister, Mary Ann Schauf; 8 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren. Rosary: Monday, Sept. 30, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. with the Funeral Mass on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. both at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Ost, Ks. with Father Dan Duling officiating. Interment to follow in the St. Joseph Cemetery. Memorials to St. Joseph Catholic School, Ost, Ks. or to Amedisys Hospice. Wulf-Ast Mortuary, Garden Plain, Ks.

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Even though the holidays are only a few months away, there are things you can do now to avoid going into deep debt come the new year.

There’s still time to build savings for the holidays BY SEAN PYLES

NerdWallet

Timing is everything when it comes to saving for the holidays. The longer you have to build up cash reserves, plan your budget and buy gifts at the right price, the better you can cover these seasonal costs without going into debt. Avoiding debt around the holidays can save you from a spending hangover in the new year: Shoppers who used credit cards to fund the holidays in 2018 expected it would take them over three months to pay off their debt, according to a NerdWallet survey of over 2,000 adults conducted by The Harris Poll. Starting a couple of months before peak holiday season might be cutting it a little close for grand savings schemes this year, but you do have options. Here’s how you can plan your spending this year – and start saving for next year’s holidays. STICK TO BUDGET Say you’re planning to kick off shopping in earnest around Black Friday, which falls on Nov. 29

this year. You still have two months for saving and planning. Start with the following steps. A Set your holiday budget. If you don’t have much savings, you’ll likely have to use your discretionary income – what’s left after regular bills – to fund your holidays. Get a solid understanding of how much that is and try to keep expenses, including gifts and food, within that amount. Being mindful of what you can afford can keep you from overspending, says Los Angeles-based financial coach Dominique Reese. “I say think about your future self,” Reese says. “How would your future financial self – yourself in January, February, March – feel about the expenses that you made over the holidays?” To build your holiday budget, trim discretionary expenses over the next couple of months. Cut back on dining out or going to the movies, or temporarily cancel a couple of monthly subscription services. A Spend smart. Create a gift list that fits your budget, find good deals,

and consider reducing holiday spending on food and gifts across the board to avoid going into debt. Use your budget to guide your gift list. If your budget is tight, consider whether you can buy for fewer people; maybe you can suggest a get-together instead of a gift exchange with some friends. Black Friday and Cyber Monday can offer big savings, but you might find better deals at other times. Start checking prices now so you know what’s a good deal – and what to skip. Being frugal with holiday meal shopping can go far, says Summer Red, professional development manager at the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education. “Food is central to most holiday celebrations, and there are a lot of foods people will buy even though people don’t like it,” Red says. If no one in your family likes the dark meat of a turkey, for example, consider getting specific cuts rather than a whole bird. “I encourage people to let go of some traditions and focus on what they really enjoy,” she says.

“That means you also have less food waste and less money waste.” SET A SAVING STRATEGY While planning this year’s holidays, start thinking about how you’ll save money next year. Track your spending to help inform what you’ll need, Reese advises. “If you went over your budget, set aside more for next year,” she says. Then, find a saving strategy that works for you. Here are a few options. A The 52-week savings challenge: With this “challenge,” you start by saving $1 the first week of December, then $2 the next week, $3 the following week, and so on, adding one dollar each week for a year. At the end, you’ll have nearly $1,400 to spend for the holidays. A Holiday savings accounts: Typically offered by credit unions, these savings accounts are generally locked so you can’t access what you’re putting into savings until the holiday season. Putting just $25 a month into one of these gives you $300 saved for the holidays after a year. A Set aside part of your income: Reese suggests socking away a percentage of your income and automating transfers to build the habit of saving.

JOSE JOSE, 1948-2019

Legendary Mexican crooner was known as ‘Prince of Song’ BY BERENICE BAUTISTA AND AMY GUTHRIE

Associated Press MEXICO CITY

Mexican crooner Jose Jose, the elegant dresser who moved audiences to tears with melancholic love ballads and was known as the “Prince of Song,” has died at the age of 71. Mexican artists’ association ANDI confirmed the death in a Twitter post on Saturday. Multiple media outlets said the singer had died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in South Florida. Jose Jose, whose real name is Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, climbed to the top of the Latin charts in the 1970s with slow songs such as “El Triste” or “The Sad Man,” and “Amar y querer” or “Love and want.” The power of his voice and ability to sing technically difficult tunes in a wide register made him a treasured cultural icon in Latin America. Jose Jose’s music also became popular in countries including Japan and Russia. The artist’s voice, a

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Mexican singer Jose Jose poses for photographers at the Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Awards in 2008. He died Saturday from pancreatic cancer. He was 71.

combination of baritone and lyric tenor, captivated audiences while his dress style of suits accented with bow ties, pocket handkerchiefs and silk scarves was copied at nightlife spots across Latin America. “He squeezed our hearts with his unmistakable voice and left an indelible mark on the world of music,” Latin music star Gloria Estefan said on Twitter. Jose Jose was born to a family of musicians on Feb. 17, 1948, in Mexico City. His mother, Margarita Ortiz Pensado, was a

concert pianist and his father was a tenor in the National Opera of Mexico. The singer added a second Jose to his artist’s name in honor of his father, who died when Jose Jose was 17. The father had abandoned the family when Jose Jose was young. “I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowledge of my success,” Jose Jose told The Associated Press in a 2005 interview. “Since I inherited his

voice, this is recognition of that inheritance.” Jose Jose got started in music singing in cafes before founding a rock group called the Heart Breakers that launched an unsuccessful album in the mid-1960s. His solo career took off with a single called “La nave del olvido” or “The ship of the forgotten” and peaked in the 1980s with albums like “Secrets,” his bestselling collaboration with Spanish love song composer and producer Manuel Alejandro. He struggled with Lyme disease, facial paralysis, substance abuse and depression. His problems with alcohol and drugs led to the 1993 dissolution of his 18-year marriage with model Anel Norena, with whom he had two children: Jose Joel and Marisol. He hit bottom following the separation and began sleeping in a taxi on the outskirts of the Mexican capital. Friends intervened and took him to an addiction treatment center in the U.S. The artist married again in 1995, to a Cuban-American named Sarita Salazar who he met while in rehab. The couple had a daughter, Sara, the next year. Jose Jose was nominated on multiple occasions for a Grammy, but never obtained the prize.


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Shocker Hall Dining Options: Market at Groundhouse & Shocker Dining

Shocker Hall Dining Options: Market at Groundhouse & Shocker Dining

Rhatigan Student Center Dining Options: Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Panda Express Pizza Hut Express, Freddy’s, Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes

Rhatigan Student Center Dining Options: Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Panda Express Pizza Hut Express, Freddy’s, Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes

Braeburn Square Dining Options: Fuzzy’s Taco Shop & Starbucks

Braeburn Square Dining Options: Fuzzy’s Taco Shop & Starbucks

8 a.m.-5 p.m. – WSU South Open House Location: 3821 E. Harry St.

7-9:45 a.m. – Shocker Athletics Garage Sale Location: Charles Koch Arena

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8 a.m.-5 p.m. – Tour Pizza Hut Museum Location: Pizza Hut Museum

All day – Apollo 9/NASA Artwork by Lowell Nesbitt Location: John Bardo Center, 2nd Floor

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10-10:30 a.m. – Future Shocker Baby Crawl Location: Marcus Welcome Center

All day – Creative Crosswalks Location: In front of Ulrich Art Museum

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Braeburn Square Dining Options: Fuzzy’s Taco Shop & Starbucks

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Main Campus & Innovation Campus Tour Location: RSC, East Patio

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10 a.m.-8 p.m. – Shocker Store Location: Braeburn Square 11 a.m.-5 p.m. – Fall Exhibitions Location: Ulrich Museum of Art 5-5:45 p.m. – Innovation Campus Tours Location: John Bardo Center 5:30-7:30 p.m. – Sip & See Location: John Bardo Center – Cornhole Tournament – WSU/Wichita Trivia – Food Trucks | $ – Alumni Association Raffle – John Bardo Center Dedication

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6-10 p.m. – First Friday @ ShiftSpace Gallery Location: St. Francis & 3rd

11 a.m.-1 p.m. – Black & Yellow Scrimmage (Men’s & Women’s basketball) Location: Charles Koch Areana

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8 p.m.-midnight – Cosmic Bowling | $ Location: Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes (Rhatigan Student Center)

Noon-5 p.m. – WSU Sculpture Guild Iron Pour Location: Outside McKnight Art Center

8 p.m. – Mentalist: Eric Dittelman | $ Location: CAC Theater All day – Apollo 9/NASA Artwork by Lowell Nesbitt Location: John Bardo Center, 2nd Floor

1-1:20 p.m. – Anna Walenta String Quartet Location: Outside McKnight Art Center

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Noon-6 p.m. – Shocker Store Location: Braeburn Square 1-4 p.m. – Softball vs Emporia State | $ Location: Wilkins Stadium 2-4 p.m. – “The Moors” | $ Location: Wilner Auditorium 5-9 p.m.– Cosmic Bowling | $ Location: Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes (Rhatigan Student Center) All day – Apollo 9/NASA Artwork by Lowell Nesbitt Location: John Bardo Center, 2nd Floor All day – Creative Crosswalks Location: In front of Ulrich Art Museum

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No, Mayor Longwell: This isn’t the way city business should be done BY THE WICHITA EAGLE EDITORIAL BOARD

It’s disturbing enough that Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell pushed to have the city award a multimillion-dollar contract to his friends and political supporters. It’s disgraceful that, after accepting an invitation to play in a golf tournament with local executives, Longwell pledged in an email, “I’m going to be super nice to you for a long time.” And it’s downright deplorable that some city leaders say that’s “just the way it is” with government business in Wichita.

That’s not the way it’s supposed to be. A Wichita Eagle investigation revealed that Longwell steered the contract for a $524 million water treatment plant — the largest in city history — to Wichita Water Partners, a group that has limited experience designing large water plants. Longwell framed the decision as a choice between locals and outsiders. What it looks like, though, is a favor to insiders who wined, dined and golfed with the mayor before and during the bid process. This comes just months after city leaders voted to

push through a riverfront ballpark development despite lingering questions about that project and its investors. Longwell took a “just trust us” approach then, too. He thwarted established guidelines for the sale of city property and ignored the city’s timetested bid process. Residents and this editorial board voiced concerns about transparency and said we hoped the mayor and City Council would be more upfront in the future. That clearly hasn’t happened. In an email response to recent questions from a

Wichita Eagle reporter, Longwell said some city staff members have “felt bullied” by our stories about the shoddy state of our city’s water infrastructure, which revealed that 99 percent of our water treatment plant is in poor or very poor condition. “We have citizens who have called us in a panic because of the way you have positioned the city’s water issues,” the mayor wrote in the email. We have described Wichita’s water issues precisely the way they are — which is “critical,” according to the Kansas Department of Health and

Environment. That’s not a situation we can or should ignore, so our reporters continue to press officials for answers and explanations. More recently, our reporters combed through thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Kansas Open Records Act. What we found were cozy relationships and sizable gifts from a firm wanting to do business with the city. Longwell steered the council away from its earlier decision on how to award the water plant contract — away from competitive bidding and toward shadier ways of

doing business — and that is unacceptable. Longwell violated public trust by not disclosing his relationships with members of the Wichita Water Partners team. That’s a blow to transparency in government. But an even bigger concern is what it could mean for the city’s future: If contractors think Wichita isn’t a level playing field, with only a select few companies having nearly unlimited access to City Hall, they may hesitate to do business here. That could mean fewer bidders and higher prices for more than $1 billion in projects on the city’s short-term agenda. In just a few weeks, Wichita voters will decide whether to give Longwell another chance and another term as mayor. Given his questionable practices up to now, he doesn’t deserve it.

Decision on refugees falls heaviest on families BY MICHELE GREEN

Special to the Wichita Eagle

As I write this letter, I am awaiting the President’s decision as to the number of refugees — legal immigrants — who will be admitted to the United States during fiscal year 2020, which begins Oct. 1. This year’s Presidential Determination, or PD, was set at 30,000 — the lowest in the history of the modern refugee resettlement program. According to press reports, voices within the administration are urging President Trump to set the PD at zero. If he does so, it means the end of a lifeline program that has enjoyed bipartisan support and brought the U.S. incalculable benefits since its inception in 1980. The impact of such a decision, or even a decision to maintain or reduce the current admissions, falls heaviest on refugee families desperately waiting to immigrate. The average PD, from President Reagan through the Obama years, is 95,000. Even this number is incredibly low when balanced against the 26 million living outside their nation of origin, or the 15 million the United Nations says have no realistic prospect of ever returning to their native lands. Refugees are vetted overseas by US intelligence agencies, a process that averages more than two years. When they arrive in this country they arrive as legal, permanent residents. They can work immediately and apply for US citizenship in 5 years. They are New Americans, and IRC Wichita, the agency I head, has successfully launched more than 1,500 of them

on to new lives in the seven years we’ve operated here in Wichita. Refugees are contributors, not a burden to our community. More than 85% are self-sufficient within six months of landing here. Quite an achievement when you consider many arrive with no English and only the clothes on their back. They will go on to earn a paycheck, pay taxes and contribute immeasurably to the cultural richness that is Wichita. I am proud of the support that Wichita has given our new Americans. Over the past year alone, both the mayor and the governor have signed proclamations welcoming refugees. We have excellent relationships with city government and the Wichita Police Department. We partner with numerous local employers to help clients find that first job. Volunteers, many of whom found out about our program through their church, are key to our success. President Trump has been asked to follow precedent and set the Fiscal Year 2020 PD at 95,000. More likely is that the Congress will respond to the president’s much lower PD decision by passing the Grace Act, a bill that legislatively determines the numbers to be admitted. Whatever happens in Washington, D.C., or has already happened as you read this, I want to thank the Wichita community for the tremendous support we receive. If you support refugees, please make your voice heard; our policymakers need to hear from you.

Michele Green is the executive director of International Rescue Committee - Wichita

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Declining bird populations There is no sweeter sound on the face of the Earth than a meadowlark singing on an early spring morning, no offense to all the good choirs, symphonies and musicians. It’s like a little slice of heaven on Earth. A new landmark study published in the journal Science documents that the populations of Eastern and Western meadowlarks has shriveled by nearly 75% since 1970 (Sept. 20 Eagle). The report states that there has been a 29% drop in bird populations in North America since 1970. The study concludes that there are multiple causes for the declines: the number one cause being habitat loss, with pesticide use and outdoor cats being other major factors. Continual development and urban sprawl has reduced the habitat for many species of birds. Combined with changing agricultural practices and widespread pesticide use, the result has been steep declines in bird populations throughout North America. William Beebe once wrote, “A vanished harmony may yet inspire the composer, but when the

last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.” – William Skaer, Wichita

Foreign affairs Am I the only one who noticed the irony in this week's House hearings? That is, Democrats complaining that a member of a Republican administration allegedly pressured a foreign government to do him a personal favor — which was to pursue his own complaint about a member of a Democratic administration allegedly pressuring a foreign government to do him a personal favor. Well, Stanley, this is another fine mess... – Richard Vogt, Newton

Kashmir As Americans living in Wichita, we treasure our country’s sacred values: Freedom of speech and religion, respect for human rights and protection from arbitrary search, seizure and arrests. But on Aug. 5 those of us with roots in South Asia trembled to see those exact values trampled in Kashmir, as the Indian

government broke 1948 United Nations Resolutions and sent 800,000 soldiers into Kashmir, with its majority Muslim population of 10 million. On Friday, the prime ministers of Pakistan and India addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Meanwhile, President Trump has merely asked those leaders to “work it out.” Absent moral leadership by the United States, we believe India’s commercial ties to the West, with a market of its 1 billion population, will enable far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deny the reality. Despite 50 days without phone or internet communications, information has found its way out, allowing us to invite our city to an open house Sept. 29 from 2 to 5:00 p.m. at the Islamic Society of Wichita to view displays and photographs that portray the situation. Our friends and relatives in the region live in fear, and may be sick, disappeared, arrested or even killed. Please help us call our leaders to see and protest! – Manzoor Ali, Aamir Usmani and Muhammad Akram, Wichita

Protesting To those who tried to disrupt the Climate Strike

Letters to the editor: Include your full name, home address and phone number for verification purposes. All letters are edited for clarity and length; 200 words or fewer are best. Letters may be published in any format and become the property of The Eagle. E-mail: letters@wichitaeagle.com.

in Old Town: You didn’t convince us not to fight climate change. One of you jumped to a platform and, Bible in hand, yelled out scripture. It was theatrical and disruptive, but not moving. It was a graceless display of self-promotion. The two events in Wichita were child-friendly; we were promoting science, not an anti-Christian agenda. (Look up evangelicals supporting “Creation Care.”) When your mother told you to clean your room, did you just tell her the mess was “part of God’s plan during the end times”? Or did you clean it up? You had the right to be there, but you were harassing people who were peacefully trying to get across that the planet is in trouble, but that there are solutions. You didn’t work to create the gathering, but you acted as if it were yours to take control of. In Russia, students were denied a permit to protest, but a few showed up anyway. In Afghanistan, a hundred children marched with armed soldiers to protect them. Globally, more than 4 million took part. See the excitement in Wichita you missed? – Elizabeth Morgan and Priscilla Salem, Wichita

DAILY PRAYER: God, guide us to avoid temptation and danger, and to chart the course that will be productive for ourselves and our loved ones. May our very living honor you. Amen.


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Helping find forever families Hundreds of Kansas children are looking for a family. A home where they can feel safe. A place where somebody cares. A place they can call home, forever. As they get older, their chances of being adopted plummet. When they turn 18, that’s it. No more funding. No more guidance. No support network. No more roof over their heads. Children with multiple siblings, older children and those with special needs face the toughest odds. Susan Peters wants to make sure that doesn’t happen. She wants to make sure every child has the opportunity to experience a family they can call their own, a sense of belonging, encouragement, support and love. Throughout her career, Susan has made it a priority to give back to the community, and her segments highlighting children in need of adoption have truly made a difference. With the support of businesses like Berry Companies Inc. and its Berry Tractor, Berry Material Handling and White Star Machinery divisions, Susan has been able to expand Susan’s Kids to give children the amount of exposure they deserve. By running more television and social media messages, we have been able to increase their chances of adoption exponentially.

It works: 35% of the children featured are placed within the first year that their story from Susan’s Kids airs. For more information: http://www.susanskids.org

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Arts &Culture Forum’s ‘Memphis’ looks at racial changes in 1950s BY DAVID BURKE

Eagle correspondent

JAIME GREEN The Wichita Eagle

Eagle photographer Travis Heying films Jenny Wood with members of her medical team from Ascension Via Christi St. Francis. Heying’s documentary, “I Am Not Scared: The Miracle of Jenny Wood,” will premiere at the Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine on Sunday.

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Jenny in the Wood

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The story of Jenny Wood is a story of love and heartbreak, of hope and despair, of joy amid unimaginable grief. In May, the beloved musician barely survived a car crash in downtown Wichita that killed her mother and niece. Wood spent weeks in the intensivecare unit and months recovering from a traumatic brain injury, learning how to walk and talk and sing again. On Sunday she will perform at the Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine. As the sun sets, The Wichita Eagle will premiere a new film that chronicles Wood’s extraordinary journey and the community that rallied around her. “I Am Not Scared: The Miracle of Jenny Wood” is a 40minute documentary written and directed by Eagle photographer Travis Heying. After Sunday’s premiere, it will be available online at Kansas.com. Heying, who has worked at The Eagle since 1997, decided to pursue a full-length docu-

TRAVIS HEYING The Wichita Eagle

Musician Jenny Wood was involved in a traffic accident May 5 in downtown Wichita. The wreck claimed the life of her mother and niece. After a long hospitalization, Wood recently returned home.

mentary after meeting Wood in July. The Eagle published an update on Wood’s recovery at the time, but Heying felt there was more to tell. “I thought it was another example of how something violent can happen to you so suddenly, without warning, and that seems to have become such a fixture in our culture,” Heying said. “One day you’re walking into a Walmart, and the next minute

What: A musicfest celebrating Wichita musician Jenny Wood. Performers include The Cherokee Maidens & Sycamore Swing, Split Lip Rayfield, Katy Guillen & the Girls, and Jenny Wood. At dusk, the Wichita Eagle will premiere a new documentary, “I Am Not Scared: The Miracle of Jenny Wood.” Where: Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine When: Sunday, Sept. 29. Gates open at 3 p.m. Cost: Tickets are $30 and $100, with proceeds benefiting Wood’s recovery; children 12 and under, free. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.com. ...................................................................

you’re running for your life. . . . A lot of people were rooting for Jenny Wood to not be one more victim of those circumstances.” Many of the people who rooted for Wood are featured in the film, including Micala Gingrich-

Gaylord, her close friend; Mary Wright, owner of the Old Mill Tasty Shop, where Wood worked as a waitress; Dr. James Haan, who led her medical team at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis; Robin Macy, a fellow musician and mentor; and Lacey Cruse, a Sedgwick County commissioner who organized a vigil shortly after the crash. Heying also interviewed radio personalities, former teachers, and students and parents who met Wood through her anti-bullying efforts at area schools. He filmed, edited and produced the documentary in less than three months. “It’s this great comeback story. It’s a cool music story. It’s all those things,” Heying said. “But I feel like what we’ve created in the end is almost a love letter to Wichita — like a way to thank them for being so awesome.” The film draws its title from a song featured on Wood’s 2018 album, “Truth Has Legs.” Heying listened to it on repeat during a road trip and found the SEE WOOD, 2B

Even though it takes place more than 60 years ago, the director of Forum Theatre’s “Memphis” says the musical’s themes still resonate today. “It’s a powerful, powerful show with a very strong message,” Kathryn Page Hauptman, Forum’s artistic director, said of the musical that won four Tony Awards in 2010, including best musical, best book and best original score. “Memphis” opened this weekend and continues through Oct. 13. A touring company of “Memphis” played Century II in a Broadway Theatre League production in 2014, but the Forum version is a premiere by a Wichita company. The show’s main character, Huey Calhoun, is based on Dewey Phillips, a Memphis disc jockey in the 1950s credited with being the first to play Elvis Presley music on the radio. “He was great to listen to,” Michael Karraker, who plays Huey, says of Phillips. “His style is very, very, very fastpaced, very Southern-fried, very unique.” Huey becomes part of an interracial romance with Felicia, the sister of the nightclub owner. In the Forum production, she is played by Anjelica Breathett, who is also the show’s musical director. Their romance is one of the sea changes in race relations in the South that’s a force in SEE FORUM, 2B

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Michael Karraker and Anjelica Breathett star in the Forum’s production of “Memphis.”

Symphony’s pops concert will spotlight women rockers BY DAVID BURKE

Eagle correspondent

Celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment during its 2019-2020 season, Wichita Symphony Orchestra is devoting one selection in each concert to a modern, female composer. So when it came time to decide on a pops concert for the Oct. 5 slot, a show spotlighting women rockers seemed only logical, music director and conductor Daniel Hege said. “It just fit in so well with everything else we were doing,”

Hege said. “It’s a really entertaining program with really great entertainers.” “Women Rock!” features the music of Carole King (“I Feel the Earth Move”), Irene Cara (“Flashdance”), Janis Joplin (“Piece of My Heart”), Aretha Franklin (“Freeway of Love,” “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman”), Heart (“These Dreams”), Pat Benatar (“Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “Love is a Battlefield”) and Tina Turner (“Proud Mary,” “Simply the Best”), among others. The performers with the touring production are Shayna

Steele, a former background singer for Bette Midler and a Broadway veteran of “Rent” and “Hairspray”; Cassidy Catanzaro, former lead singer of the band Antigone Rising and a writer whose songs have appeared on albums by Demi Lovato; and Brie Cassil, whose resume includes “Rent” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Conductor William Waldrop, who travels with “Women Rock!” is guest conductor. Hege said it’s more efficient to use the traveling conductor in SEE POPS, 2B

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“Women Rock!” will feature music by Carole King (“I Feel the Earth Move”), Irene Cara (“Flashdance”), Janis Joplin (“Piece of My Heart”) and Aretha Franklin (“You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman”).


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BOOK NOTES WATERMARK BOOKS & CAFE Bestsellers 1. “The Babysitters Coven” by Kate Williams 2. “Heartland” by Sarah Smarsh 3. “Kochland” by Christopher Leonard 4. “Circe” by Madeline Miller 5. “Long After Lauds” by Jeanine Hathaway New and notable “The Water Dancer” by Ta-

Nehisi Coates (One World, $28) A boldly imagined work of magic and adventure from the National Book Award-winning author of “Between the World and Me”. “Beverly, Right Here” by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, $16.99) In the follow-up to “Raymie Nightingale” and “Louisiana’s Way Home”, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.

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rary because it doesn’t show races in a negative way, but in a very positive way. They’re striving to move ahead, to move forward.” The cast of 25 – about half white and half performers of color – is one of the largest that Forum Theatre has staged. Hauptman said a second story of the stage at Wilke Center in First United Methodist Church will be put into use. Karraker said “Memphis” nicely balances its message about racial harmony with an entertaining production. “Just the breadth and depth of this show is really a marathon,” he said. David Bryan, keyboard player for Bon Jovi, and Joe DiPietro, who wrote “I Love You, You’re Perfect,

FORUM “Memphis.” “It’s much more than just racial equity and equality. It’s about being true to yourself and true to your soul, the things you believe in and standing up for them,” Hauptman said. “Especially right now with the challenges we’re facing as a country, as a culture, as a society, that’s a message that we can all live by. “You have to stand up for what you think is right, like Huey did. He changed not only himself but the people around him and created a new reality for them. That’s very powerful today,” she added. “I think it’s very contempo-

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WOOD lyrics eerily relevant to the singer’s current plight: Promise you’ll do All that I should do. When I finally get there, I’ll honestly tell you, I am not scared. Wright, the restaurant owner, told Heying she

found comfort in that song during the weeks following the car crash, when it wasn’t clear whether Wood would survive. Holding the singer’s hand in the hospital, Wright would hum the tune into Wood’s ear.

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EIGHTH DAY BOOKS Bestsellers 1. “The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul’s Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives” ed. by John McGuckin 2. “On the Road with St. Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts” by James K.A. Smith 3. “That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell and Universal Salvation” by David Bentley Hart 4. “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World” by Lewis Hyde

5 “Silence: A Novel” by Shusaku Endo New and notable “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past” by Lewis Hyde (FSG, $28.00). This book forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. “The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam” by Douglas Murray (Bloomsbury, $20.00). Mass

immigration, cultivated selfdistrust and delusion have contributed to a continent in the grips of its own demise. Murray looks at the factors that make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their alteration.

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“It’s not a copy, not a duplication,” she said. “It takes the style of ‘50s music and makes it its own.” The end of the production leaves its audiences on a high note, Hauptman said. “I think they’re going to be exuberant. They’re going to be standing up, clapping and stomping,” she said. “The music is fabulous -- uplifting and hopeful.” “Memphis” opens the ninth season for Forum Theatre, and Hauptman said it has quickly become one of her favorite productions. “It’s very well-written, the story is extremely strong,” she said. “It’s an extremely well-written show. It’s been so exciting to work on it.”

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‘Memphis’ by Forum Theatre When: performances at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 13. Where: Wilke Center, First United Methodist Church, 330 N. Broadway Tickets: $23 for Thursday and Sunday and $25 for Friday-Saturday, by calling 316-618-0444 .......................................................

Now Change,” wrote the lyrics. Bryan wrote the music and DiPietro was the playwright. Hauptman said the all-original score fits in well with the music of the time.

“It felt like Jenny wrote that as a lullaby to soothe herself,” Wright told Heying. “That’s when I decided: That’s it — that has to be the title,” Heying said. “We kind of built the film around the song, and the song became another character in the story.” Wood’s journey will continue, as she tries to heal from physical and

psychological injuries. Proceeds from Sunday’s music festival and film screening at the Bartlett Arboretum will go toward her recovery. “A central theme of this film and this story is karma,” Heying said. “Here’s somebody who has done so much for her community, and then when she needed it, her community gave it right back.”

NATIONAL BEST-SELLERS Fiction 1. “The Institute” by Stephen King 2. “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood 3. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens 4. “The goldfinch” by Donna

Tartt 5. “The Titanic secret” by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul Nonfiction 1. “Talking to Strangers” by Malcolm Gladwell 2. “Call sign chaos” by Jim Mattis and Bing West 3. “Educated” by Tara Westover 4. “The Only Plane in the Sky” by Garrett M. Graff 5. “She Said” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

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POPS this format, since he’s familiar with the headlining performers and can relay the information to the orchestra in a onerehearsal preparation. He said the orchestra is looking forward to the change of pace that the rock-themed pops concert provides. “It’s really fun because they’re orchestrated in a very lively way,” Hege said. “There’s a good vibe and a really energetic pulse going on. You just know that the audience is being entertained. “It’s good for an orchestra’s versatility, and it’s good to show the audience that an orchestra doesn’t play just Brahms and Mozart, and they can swing and play rock and popular music as well,” he added. The musicians, Hege said, realize they’re giving something new and different. “It’s all about the connection with the audience,” he said. A local addition to the concert is Wichita musician Jenny Wood, returning to performing after a May car crash that critically injured her and killed

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‘Women Rock!’ Wichita Symphony Pops Concert When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 Where: Century II concert hall, 225 W. Douglas Tickets: $40-$80, from wichitasymphony.org, by phone at 316-267-7658 or at the symphony box office at Century II. Discounts available for students, seniors and military. .......................................................

her mother and niece. Wood will perform her song “I Am Not Scared” in the symphony setting. The orchestra arrangements were written by Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn, director of the Wichita State school of music. “That’s a wonderful local tie to connect in,” Hege said.


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With restaurant hopes, entrepreneur launches popular egg roll business BY DENISE NEIL

dneil@wichitaeagle.com

Her dream is to open a restaurant, and it’s really all she thinks about. But in the meantime, 20-year-old Tuong Huynh is doing everything she can to raise money toward her goal, and at the moment, that involves rolling and deep frying fresh Vietnamese egg rolls night and day, day and night. Tuong is the owner of a new business called Xing Xing, which she launched over the summer with the help of her husband, TJ Huynh. For now, it’s a homebased business where Tuong prepares egg rolls

by the dozen plus fried rice and dumplings and invites people to order the food then pick it up. Since June, the business has grown through word of mouth and because of Tuong’s creative marketing — and willingness to prepare food with just two hours’ notice. These days, she’s preparing and selling about 1,000 egg rolls a week. The goal is to grow the business and open a Xing Xing food truck followed by a pho restaurant in Wichita. Her ambitious timeline has this all happening within a year. But she’s encouraged by the way her business has taken off over just a few months.

“My passion is doing food,” Tuong said. “In my heart, that’s what I want to do.” Tuong came to the United States from Vietnam as a high school foreign exchange student and went to Bishop Carroll High School. She’s now attending Butler Community College, and a year ago, she married TJ. He works full time at Spirit AeroSystems, he said, but both TJ and Tuong have experience in the restaurant business. His family owns restaurants in Vietnam, he said. TJ, who also came to the United States to attend high school at East High and then went on to study at Butler and Wichita

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DENISE NEIL The Wichita Eagle

Main Street Cafe in Durham is returning as Main Street Cafe & Bakery.

COUPLE STEPS IN TO SAVE KANSAS CAFE KNOWN FOR GERMAN BUFFET THAT CLOSED AFTER FLOOD They’ve become pretty

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TJ and Tuong Huynh have started a to-go egg roll business called Xing Xing that they hope will help fund Tuong’s dreams of opening a pho restaurant in Wichita.

State University, said he started working in Wichita Asian restaurants as a teen and also worked at McDonald’s. Tuong, meanwhile, has worked as a waitress at Saigon Bistro and at Pho Ong 8 at Harry and Oliver, a restaurant her grandmother started. When she decided she wanted to start saving for her restaurant, Tuong said, she watched multiple videos on YouTube about how to make the egg rolls. She took a little from each one and came up with what she considers the

perfect recipe. Her egg rolls, unlike the cabbagefilled, bumpy-surfaced rolls served at many Chinese restaurants, are cigar-shaped with a smooth, crispy exterior and a filling made of pork, carrots, taro and onion. “Crispy outside but juicy inside,” she says. She’s’ had some people tell her that what she makes are spring rolls, not egg rolls. But in Vietnamese culture, she said, spring rolls are not fried but rather are made with fresh rice paper wrappers. In Vietnam, egg rolls are like

good bakers and meat smokers, and with 17 years of experience selling food on their resumes, Mark and Kris Wiebe think they’d be pretty good at running a restaurant. But that’s not their only reason for reopening the Main Street Cafe, the small-town Kansas restaurant that’s been closed since a Fourth of July flood. Mark grew up just two miles outside of Durham, where the cafe has operated for more than two decades. So he knows first-hand how important

the presence of a restaurant can be for small communities. “A small town loses their social meeting place when a cafe like that closes,” he said. “It’s part holding a small community together.” Wendell Wedel and his wife, Linda, had run the Main Street Cafe for 24 years in downtown Durham, population 106. It was known for its Fridaynight German buffet, and people would travel from all over to get a taste of the cafe’s famous homemade sausage, sliced bris-

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the ones she’s making. Tuong said she is determined to open her restaurant, and she’s tried different marketing techniques and giveaways on her Facebook page to promote her current business. She’s planning some big promotions at Christmastime, too, she said. Her business motto, which is printed on her logo along with an adorably hungry kitty: “Better food, better mood.” Xing Xing’s egg rolls and dumplings both cost $9 for one dozen, $17 for two dozen and $25 for three dozen. A serving of char siu fried rice is $7. She can also do big trays of 50 egg rolls for $36, and people have been ordering platters for parties, showers and weddings. Anyone interested in placing an order should call 316-789-5060 or message Xing Xing on Facebook. Once an order is placed, customers get the address for pick up. I’ll keep you posted on the Huynhs progress toward their food truck and restaurant.

Denise Neil: 316-268-6327, @deniseneil

ket, sauerkraut, vareniki and homemade pie. But on July 4, a thunderstorm dumped rain on Marion County, filling downtown Durham with 3 feet of water. The cafe got 32 inches inside, and in the following days, it was gutted by cleanup crews. Wedel, almost 66 years old, decided he didn’t have the energy or desire it would take to reopen. People were distraught, especially natives of the area, which is an hour north of Wichita. One SEE DINING, 6B

SYMPHONIC TALES

The epic Symphonic telling of Scheherazade and Tales of Hemingway.

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A fiesta and concert for all ages

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OCTOBER 5 CENTURY II CONCERT HALL Celebrating the rock anthems of Janis, Aretha, Carole, Tina, Pat, and more! PLUS a special appearance by Wichita front woman Jenny Wood. Sponsored by Laura Ice, M. Kathryn Webb, and the Sam & Rie Bloomfield Foundation

WICHITASYMPHONY.ORG 316.267.7658 Century II Concert Hall, 225 W Douglas Ave Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm

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ACES ON BRIDGE By Bobby Wolff Dear Mr. Wolff: Holding SPADES A-K-4, HEARTS A-10-3-2, DIAMONDS A-Q6, CLUBS K-7-4, I opened two no-trump with no one vulnerable. My left-handopponent overcalled four clubs, and partner doubled. What is this double? What would you do with my hand? — On the Spot, Bellevue, Wash. ANSWER: I play that all doubles of three-level intervention are for takeout. With a penalty double, I pass and hope partner can reopen, or just bid three no-trump. At the four-level, since opener may not balance with a double, responder must double with many strong hands. I’d sit for the double here, given these aces and kings. That is a small loss against a major-suit game we may not even make if suits do not break. Dear Mr. Wolff: My partner and I play Landy over a notrump opening. We had a misunderstanding when I overcalled two clubs for the majors and my left-handopponent doubled, showing values. Partner bid two diamonds. How do you play this? — Spats and Spots, Portland, Ore. ANSWER: The most common agreement is for two diamonds to be natural. To ask partner for a preference between the majors, you can redouble. Pass would show clubs, prepared to play in two clubs doubled. Rule No. 1 in these auctions: Redouble is always for rescue! Dear Mr. Wolff: I recently played against a pair who were using attitude leads. What are these? Do you recommend them? — Alexander Pope, Rutland, Vt. ANSWER: Playing attitude leads, the smaller the card led to a trick, the better the holding. You’d lead the high card from three-small, a middle card from jack to five and a small card from a good suit. Many pairs use them in the middle of the hand to direct the defensive attack, while some also use them on opening lead to no-trump contracts. There are certainly pluses to the approach, but the inferences regarding count are no longer present. Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication for UFS

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Dear Abby: My wife and I were happily married for 45 years. We were devoted to each other. She died suddenly four months ago. I was devastated, but my family and my faith buoyed me up. I still have great sadness over her death, but I’m starting to do better. More than anything, I am lonely. After being close to my wife for so many years, it’s hard being single. I have met several single women who seem very

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avoid being lonely. Like many widowers in your age bracket, you may find that you are now a “hot commodity.”

nice and have shown some interest in me. I don’t have a desire right now to start dating, but I have realized that I do not want to spend the rest of my life alone. I don’t want my children and my wife’s family to think I’m too eager. I also don’t want to cause problems in the family. How long after a spouse’s death is it appropriate to wait before starting to date? — Widower in the Midwest Dear Widower: It used to be expected that widows and widowers would wait one year, out of respect for their late spouses, to begin dating. Those rules have loosened. When you feel ready to date, you will know it. Make no important decisions for one year after the funeral — that includes remarrying to

Dear Abby: I recently moved into a two-bedroom, twobath apartment with my friend from college. My room appears to be slightly larger. I also have a bigger bathroom attached to my room. Her bathroom is smaller and down the hall. I impulsively agreed to pay $100 more for my room. I know I should have measured the footage to calculate what would be fair. We are two months into living together and things are going well. It has hit me that I’m paying $200 more in rent. (She pays $760, and I pay $960.) It seems like a huge difference when I don’t

feel like our situations are that different. She also makes a little more money than I do. Would it be rude to ask her to reconsider the difference in how much we pay? This time around, I’d want to take measurements so there’s no guesswork. I value our relationship, so I’m hesitant to go back on our agreement. — Second Thoughts in Florida Dear Second Thoughts: Revisit the conversation you had while the two of you were moving in and recalculate those figures. Your roommate should be paying $810 and you should be paying $910, which adds up to the $1,720 you owe the landlord. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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HOROSCOPE IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2019: Don’t let challenges discourage you. Look for the best way to overcome any obstacle that stands in your way. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Refuse to let anyone bring you down. Look at what you can accomplish, or make plans to be with someone who enjoys the same things you do. 3 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make an adjustment that will help you get along with someone who spends a lot of time with you. Be careful where you leave anything of value. 3 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If someone isn’t being reasonable, distance yourself. Take better care of yourself, the ones you love and your emotional and financial future. 5 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep an open mind and a closed wallet. Don’t get stuck paying for someone else’s mistake. Use your ingenuity and offer suggestions. 2 stars LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do your due diligence before you venture down a path you know little about. Spending time with someone you love is favored. 4 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A change will do wonders for your mindset. Getting

involved in something that brings you joy. Don’t let the past hold you back. 3 stars LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Deal with uncertainty. A change you make should help ease stress and ensure that you find common ground. 3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Keep personal information private. Gather information that will help you gain perspective on situations that are being embellished. 3 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll make a good impression on someone who has an interest in you. Socializing doesn’t have to cost a lot of money or entail indulgent behavior. 4 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stick to what you know, not what someone tells you. Take better care of your emotional and physical wellbeing. 2 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Time is money. Take an innovative approach to the way you handle your wealth, health and personal documentation. 5 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t be fooled by someone’s actions. Question anything that seems too good to be true. Only make changes that you know are doable. Get together with people who share your opinions. 3 stars By Eugenia Last

DON’T MISS: “The Simpsons” – Apparently, Homer, Marge and company are going to outlast us all. The residents of Springfield somehow never age. They’ve been through five U.S. presidents and even a recent major change in ownership (welcome to the Disney kingdom). And now they launch their – gasp! – 31st season with an episode that has Homer and Bart becoming social media celebrities after a video of them fighting goes viral. We’ll raise a glass of Duff Beer to that. (7 p.m. Sunday, Fox). Other bets: SUNDAY: Oscarwinner Forest Whitaker stars in the new period drama series “Godfather of Harlem.” He plays real-life crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who after spending 11 years in prison returns home to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. And so begins a brutal battle to regain his turf from the Italian mob. (9 p.m., Epix). SUNDAY: Aidan Turner returns for one final season of drama in “Poldark on Masterpiece.” In the opener, the Poldarks look forward to a peaceful life together, but a plea from Ned Despard compels Ross to return to the capital. Also, back in Cornwall, Demelza encounters a new foe. (8 p.m., PBS). MONDAY: What’s WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey doing on “91-1”? She’s a guest star tonight when a massive tsunami hits the Santa Monica Pier. Sorry, but we don’t think even she can put a chokehold on a massive wave. (7 p.m., Fox). TUESDAY: Break out the tissues. The critical darling “Sorry For Your Loss” returns with new episodes as millennial widow Leigh Shaw continues her journey to get past all the grief and anger. (Facebook Watch). WEDNESDAY: Here’s an offbeat premise for a new drama series: In “Almost Family,” a young woman

(Brittany Snow) discovers that her father, a pioneering fertility doctor (Timothy Hutton), inseminated hundreds of women with his own sperm. Now meet your new “sisters”! (8 p.m., Fox). WEDNESDAY: As Season 3 of “S.W.A.T.” begins, the team works with Lieutenant Piper Lynch (Amy Farrington), a senior LAPD Hollywood Division officer, when city departments join forces to stop a serial bomber using drones as detonation devices. (9 p.m., CBS). THURSDAY: The final season of “The Good Place” continues with an episode in which

Eleanor, Michael, Janet and Tahani have their hands full when the new residents begin to show their true colors. Also, Jason receives some unsettling news. (8 p.m., NBC). FRIDAY: As Season 7 of “The Blacklist” begins, “Red” finds himself alone in hostile territory after being abducted by Katarina Rostova. With few leads to go on, Liz and the Task Force venture into unknown danger as they race to find him. (7 p.m., NBC). FRIDAY: Billy Bob Thornton is back as underdog attorney Billy McBride in Season 3 of “Goliath.” The unex-

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pected death of an old friend leads him to take a case in California’s drought-plagued Central Valley, where he confronts a billionaire rancher and his sister, played by Dennis Quaid and Amy Brenneman. (Amazon Prime). SATURDAY: In a case of excellent timing, “Fleabag” star Phoebe Waller-Bridge – fresh off her Emmy night success – hosts “Saturday Night Live.” The musical guest is an even bigger star – Taylor Swift. (10:30 p.m., NBC).

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6 p.m. on ABC America’s Funniest Home Videos All-new gags and pranks generate laughs in the milestone Season 30 premiere of this hit family series, hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro. Among the highlights, a father discovers that his toddler has covered himself — and the back seat of their car — in Nutella, while a couple locked out of their house try to talk their excited dog inside through how to unlock the door. 7 p.m. on PBS The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece Season 4 of this delightful family dramedy finds the Durrells putting

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finishing touches on the transformation of their home into a guest house. The vacationing Basil (Miles Jupp) is in attendance, as is a suspicious character who is concealing

some dubious facets of his identity. Meanwhile, Margo (Daisy Waterstone) throws herself into her new beauty and hairdressing venture, with decidedly mixed results 7:30 p.m. on CBS God Friended Me As this fantasy-drama opens its second season, Miles (Brandon Micheal Hall) hasn’t heard from the God Account in months, so he tries to help the account’s new friend, Joy (Jessica Lu), figure out what she’s expected to do after she gets her first friend suggestion, a soldier on leave in New York. Meanwhile, Simon (Adam Goldberg) helps Cara (Violett Beane) reconnect with an important person from her past.


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How to get those bargain travel price alerts BY ELAINE GLUSAC

New York Times

Penny Yim-Barbieri, 47, a freelance translator based in Las Vegas, didn’t have the Cook Islands on her travel radar when she got an email alert from Scott’s Cheap Flights about round-trip tickets to Rarotonga from Los Angeles at $495. She and her husband jumped on the deal and soon found themselves scuba diving in the South Pacific with humpback whales. “We’re divers and hikers, so we have to save on flights so we can do other stuff,” said Yim-Barbieri, who estimates she’s purchased about 30 bargain international flights found by Scott’s in the past two years. When it comes to selfbooking, it’s a golden age for price alerts, which have expanded from sale emails sent by airlines, travel agencies and other operators to fare predictions and deal disseminators, in both free and paid forms, and arriving by email, smartphone texts or push notifications. “There is an increase in flight price-tracking capabilities, largely because of the ability of these companies to use machine learning to more accurately gauge whether a fare is a deal, and whether it is likely to go up or down,” said Maggie Rauch, the senior director of research at Phocuswright, a travel industry research firm. Flights tend to generate more deal options, but new websites, online features and mobile apps also offer savings on cruises and hotels. The following sites aim to help you get a great deal on the major expenses of travel. FLIGHT DEALS Beware the seductive

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DINING even launched a Go Fund Me campaign to help save the restaurant. Not long after, the Wiebes decided to step in. They’d been setting up a booth they called Homemade Anytime at farmers markets around the area for about 17 years, and they’d gotten particularly good at baking, smoking and meat grilling. They also sold cheese made by Mark’s brother. Those skills, they decided, could translate into restaurant ownership, and they told Wedel they’d

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powers of flight alerts. At 1:37 p.m. on a recent Friday, it was hard to plug away at the deadline for this story when SecretFlying, a new flight deals app, sent this push alert to my phone: “HOT!! Chicago to Barcelona, Spain for only $272 round trip.” The app, launched in 2018 as a paid subscription service and free as of March, allows users to register for flight alerts based on preferred departure cities. The deals lean to international flights, which Tarik Allag, SecretFlying’s founder, said offers bigger discounts, though domestic deals are also available. Users receiving alerts are routed to online travel agencies or aggregators for next steps in booking. “If you have a specific destination and a specific date in mind, then maybe SecretFlying may not be the place to get it,” Allag said. “But if you are somewhat flexible, there are incredible deals to be had.” Flexibility with your destination is key in taking advantage of Scott’s

Cheap Flights, which allows users to set their home airport and receive emails pegged to them. The service specializes in international fares, but also covers deals in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. “On average, we see deals $550 off normal prices,” said Scott Keyes, a co-founder and the chief executive of the company. “We’re not interested in $50 or $75 off.” Paid subscribers, like Yim-Barbieri, fork over $49 a year for the first look at deals and for “mistake fares,” or rock-bottom deals that usually result when the airline makes an error. Keyes found such a

round-trip flight from New York City to Milan for $130 in 2013, which eventually led him to launch his company in 2015. Founded in 2017, Matt’s Flights sends out deals once or twice a week to subscribers of its free email, which covers domestic and international flights from U.S. and Canadian airports in more than 60 cities. After a 14-day free trial, premium subscribers paying $49.99 a year can narrow search results by region and can request custom searches for a particular route. Matt’s doesn’t make the booking for you – results link users to Google Flights to search for the

like to reopen the place. They’ve been working on it as their farmers market schedule allows but hope to be ready to reopen in early November, Mark said. They’ll be making a few changes. For one, the cafe’s name will change, but only slightly. The Wiebes will call it Main Street Cafe & Bakery. The Wiebes, who also are Mennonite cooks, plan to continue offering Friday night buffets, but the content might change a bit. They’re not planning on serving Mennonite vareniki like the Wedels did. Their buffet will feature more smoked meat

and they hope to serve Wedel’s homemade sausage as well. The cafe also will still offer a big variety of pie as well as baked goods to go. Overall, though, it will have a “basic small-town cafe menu,” Mark said. Mark said that everywhere he went with his farmers market booth this summer, people were lamenting the loss of the Main Street Cafe. That gives him faith that he and his wife are taking on a wise venture. “I’ve told people that this is the only business I’ve ever done where I’ve had so many people excited about what I’m doing,” he said.

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IT’S NATIONAL COFFEE DAY, AND A FEW LOCAL SHOPS ARE OFFERING DEALS National Coffee Day falls on a Sunday this year, so the list of people offering freebies isn’t as long as normal. But there are still a few places you can grab a free cup of Joe to celebrate. Here’s a list of some of the places you can visit in Wichita today. Churn & Burn, 548 S.

deal – but it offers customer service via email for premium members who have booking questions. Matt Guidice, the founder of Matt’s Flights, said the service has more than 500,000 free subscribers and that travelers typically save from $200 to $400 on international tickets and from $50 to $200 for domestic fares. Always free, flight searches on Kayak usually come with advice on whether to buy a ticket now or wait as fares may drop. By toggling a button on the search page, users can track prices on a flight and receive email updates on current fares, which often become more volatile as departure nears. According to Giorgos Zacharia, the chief technology officer for Kayak, 47% of the time users save an average of $163 using flight alerts. About a third of the time, flight prices go up by an average of $138. CRUISE SALES CruiseWatch.com, a cruise search site, sends free price alerts to registered users. The site allows you to search for a cruise then set a price alert tailored to price drops and specific cabin types, such as interior or balcony rooms. Users can also set a maximum budget to see if or when a cruise falls into that range. The Germany-based service is tailored to American travelers because they are the biggest market in cruising, according to its chief executive Markus Stumpe. While it doesn’t sell cruises – bookings are handled by travel agency partners – the site offers free advice and strategies for saving money, including how to cancel and rebook if a cruise price drops more than the value of a cancellation fee. According to the company, cruise fares tend to drop around 100 days before sailing and users report typical savings of around $300. HOTEL BOOKINGS Hotel room prices fluctuate less than flights, but the app Pruvo offers the

Oliver, 11414 E. Central: Offering $1.50 off of lattes and mochas from 7:30 to 11 a.m. Common Grounds, 2812 E. Douglas: This coffee shop is offering buy-one-get-one-half-off on all its coffee on Saturday. Dunkin’, 11310 E. 21st St. North, 333 S. West St., 364 N. Rock Road, : Offering a free hot coffee with purchase of another hot coffee of equal or lesser value. Il Primo, 6422 E, Central: With any purchase of

assurance that if a rate drops after you’ve booked it, you’ll know about it and can rebook. Once users share an existing reservation with Pruvo, it tracks your hotel reservation and if a better rate comes along for the same hotel, on the same date, in the same room category, it contacts you. As long as the booking lies outside of the penalty window for cancellations, the service tells users how to cancel their reservation and make a new one at the lower price. According to Pruvo, hotel prices drop about 40% of the time after booking – on average 14% of the original booking price. Most drops are a result of competition between online travel agencies cutting their booking commissions, according to Doron Nadivi, the chief commercial officer of Pruvo. The service is free; the company makes money through commissions from its hotel and travel agency partners. Last summer, Google.com/travel enhanced its free hotel search analyses. It began offering price insights on hotels searched on a mobile platform that lets searchers know if a price is low, high or typical; indicates whether prices are trending up, down or holding; and compares an individual hotel to similar hotels nearby. In a recent search for hotels in New York City in October, I got a best rate of $132 a night for the Pod 51 Hotel in Manhattan, indicating it was a “deal” at 21% less than usual. It also showed rates at “similar hotels nearby,” including the Vanderbilt YMCA at $100 and the Fifty Hotel & Suites by Affinia at $197. Clicking on its “price insights” tab, I got more data; Google called the rate low, with typical rates running $155 to $297, and displayed a graph showing rate fluctuations for the past month. With such searches for hotels in a city over specific dates, Google and Kayak will allow you to activate a hotel price alert that follows rates in the destination.

coffee on Sunday, Il Primo will give away a free pastry from its new bakery neighbor, Aria Bakery. Krispy Kreme, 7777 E. Central: Offering a free brewed coffee and one glazed doughnut. LaMar’s Donuts, 3130 N. Rock Road, 10051 W. 21st St.: Offering a free small coffee. Reverie, 2202 E. Douglas: The shop will offer 8 ounce cups of Pope’s Choice drip coffee for $1 all day Sunday.


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Sports Kansas Jayhawks QB Carter Stanley tries to leap over TCU Horned Frogs safety Trevon Moehrig in the fourth quarter in Amon Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday. The Jayhawks were outmanned from the start. TCU scored touchdowns the first five times it touched the ball.

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Carter Stanley was emotional about this ... and that shouldn’t be a surprise. The Kansas quarterback was standing in front of a temporary backdrop in the bowels of Amon G. Carter Stadium following KU’s 51-14 loss to TCU when he

was asked about teammate Khalil Herbert. The team leader. The star running back. And also the senior who’d decided before the game to sit out, most likely to pursue a redshirt and then graduate transfer away from KU. “It was tough,” Stanley said, his eyes starting to glisten. “Khalil’s a really good friend of mine, great football player. I

don’t know too much about it, but just seems like a personal deal. For us, it’s all about next man up, and we’ve got to be able to move on from that.” For a day, that certainly seemed difficult. KU was out-manned from the start. TCU scored touchdowns the first five times it touched the ball, and KU’s offense couldn’t SEE JAYHAWKS, 3C

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

A surprising shutout and a milestone in Week 4 BY HAYDEN BARBER

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One of the Wichita area’s premier programs was shut out, and one coach reached his 100th win in Week 4. Here are the biggest stories out of Friday night’s high school football action across the greater Wichita area. BISHOP CARROLL AT DERBY: THAT DERBY DEFENSE Grant Adler didn’t have his best game as Derby’s quarterback, but he didn’t need to. Adler has been injured against Bishop Carroll in Week 4 each of the past two seasons. Last year, he broke his arm on the Panthers’ opening drive, and it kept him out for the rest of the regular season. He crossed the goal line for his team’s first TD Friday as Derby beat Carroll 21-0. Adler’s touchdown came with 2:32 left in the first quarter, only a couple of minutes after Bishop Carroll’s Dalton Nichols snagged an interception and returned it into the red zone. It didn’t matter. The Derby defense held, and that was the closest Carroll got to putting points on the board all night. The shutout was Carroll’s first since 2010 when it lost by the same score to Wichita Heights in Week 1. Heights went on to go 13-0 and win the Class 6A state championship that season. The Golden Eagles have been shut out only three times since 2000. Derby’s victory pushes the Panthers further atop the Class 6A West standings at 4-0 without dropping any points in the margin of victory at +52. Carroll drops to 2-2. EISENHOWER AT GODDARD: ROAR ON 54 For the second time since Eisenhower High School was opened, Goddard won’t be painted royal blue this fall. Eisenhower beat its crosstown rival 21-20. Last week, the Tigers relied on junior receiver Mason Turney for the gamewinning touchdown against Andover. They did again Friday as Turney caught the go-ahead score with 1:13 left on a corner route deep in Goddard territory. The only other time Eisenhower has beaten Goddard was 2014. Since then, the Lions have outscored the Tigers 154-50. But Eisenhower’s first-year coach Darrin Fisher has the Tigers at 3-1 and one of the hottest teams in the Wichita area. The win was personally SEE HIGH SCHOOLS, 2C

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The Chiefs defense appears improved from a year ago in terms of statistics (14th and 24th in points and yards, respectively, after ranking 24th and 31st last year). Safety Tyrann Mathieu said, “We do some great things within the game. We just have to start faster and finish way better.”

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Judging the Chiefs’ defense with film, stats and insight PATRICK MAHOMES AND THE OFFENSE ARE SO EFFECTIVE THAT EVEN A LEAGUE-AVERAGE DEFENSE WOULD PROBABLY BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR A PARADE. BY SAM MELLINGER

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The subplot is among the most interesting in the NFL this year, even as it’s overshadowed by the league’s most fun and most spectacular show. It will ultimately be one of the most consequential storylines in recent Kansas City sports history and we’re only beginning to see it form. This is about the Chiefs’ attempt to field a defense good enough to be dragged to the Super Bowl by Patrick Mahomes’ generational gifts, and we’ll get to that soon, but first a series of facts to set the scene. 1. The Chiefs could use a cornerback, even with Morris Claiborne set to come off his suspension next week. 2. The Chiefs will be calling on any cornerback made available through trade, whether it’s Jalen Ramsey or Patrick Peterson or anyone else. 3. In the last month the Chiefs have traded a cornerback (Mark Fields), cut a cornerback (Tremon Smith, who is now with the Packers) and

lost a cornerback off their practice squad (Torry McTyer, picked up by the Dolphins). The point: Everything is relative. The Chiefs need cornerbacks, but so does virtually everyone else. Some need them even worse. This is important to keep in mind. The standard is not perfection, or even to be among the league’s best. Mahomes and the offense are so effective that even a leagueaverage defense would probably be good enough for a parade. Some encouraging notes: Pro Football Focus rates Kendall Fuller and Charvarius Ward among the best 31 cornerbacks in both coverage and tackling. The Chiefs rank ninth overall in coverage, and only two interior linemen have pressured the quarterback more often than Chris Jones. The Chiefs are league average or better in points allowed, turnovers forced, yards per pass attempt against and Football Outsiders’ pass de-

fense metric. Some discouraging notes: The Chiefs are simply awful against the run. Their 6.2 yards per carry allowed is 15 percent worse than anyone else’s. Only five teams have committed more penalties, and only seven have allowed more first downs. After leading the league in sacks last year, the Chiefs are currently tied for 16th and rank 25th in hits. The Chiefs appear improved from a year ago both in terms of statistics (14th and 24th in points and yards, respectively, after ranking 24th and 31st last year) and the eye test (their coverage against the Ravens was as good as any game in recent memory). So the group remains something of a Rorschach test, but as we approach the season’s quarter pole the picture should begin to come into focus. “There’s growth there, there’s progress,” said defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo. “We’re still trying to figure out what it is we do best,

and who fits where. There’s still a little bit of that going on.” A trip through the locker room revealed a common theme. From Tyrann Mathieu: “We do some great things within the game. We just have to start faster and finish way better.” Anthony Hitchens: “We’ve shown good quarters, or good halves, but we haven’t put a full game together. Alex Okafor: “We’ve definitely started the evolution. It shows in glimpses on film. We have really good halves or really good quarters, and then those spots where we took off the gas a little bit.” Told that was strikingly similar to the diagnosis from his teammates, Okafor responded simply: “That’s what the film shows. Everybody can see it, man. That’s what the film shows.” ROLL THE TAPE OK, the film. A general narrative does develop through study of all three of the Chiefs’ games this season. The clearest place of improvement is with communication. The Chiefs gave up some big gains (and some smaller ones) against Jacksonville through simple miscommuSEE MELLINGER, 5C


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SPORTS PLANNER KC ROYALS Sun. Minnesota, 2:15 p.m. KC CHIEFS Sun. at Detroit, noon Oct. 6 Indy, 7:20 p.m. Oct. 13 Houston, noon KANSAS FOOTBALL Sat. Oklahoma, 11 a.m. Oct. 19 at Texas, 6 p.m. Oct. 26 Texas Tech, TBA

HUNTING K-STATE FOOTBALL Sat. Baylor, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 19 TCU, TBA Oct. 26 Oklahoma, TBA WSU VOLLEYBALL Sun. Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Fri. at Memphis, 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at SMU, 1 p.m.

ON THE AIR Sunday’s TV / radio COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY

Women: Ohio State at Indiana, 11 a.m., BTN COLLEGE SOCCER

Women: Penn State at Wisconsin, noon, ESPNU Women: Florida at Vanderbilt, noon, SEC Women: Virginia at Duke, 1 p.m., ACC Women: Georgia at Missouri, 4 p.m., ESPNU Women: Pittsburgh at Miami (Fla.), 6 p.m., ACC Men: Portland at Washington, 6 p.m., PAC-12 CYCLING

UCI: Road Cycling World Championships, 9 p.m., NBCSN (taped) GOLF

European Tour: Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, final round, 6:30 a.m., GOLF LPGA Tour: Indy Women in Tech Championship, final round, noon, GOLF PGA Tour Champions: Pure Insurance Open, final round, 3 p.m., GOLF PGA Tour: Safeway Open, final round, 5 p.m., GOLF HORSE RACING

Belmont Park Live, 1 p.m., FS2 MLB

Minnesota at Kansas City, 2 p.m., FSKC, 1240-AM, 97.5-FM Cleveland at Washington, 2 p.m., TBS MOTOR SPORTS

Formula One: Russian Grand Prix, 6:05 a.m., ESPN2 NHRA Drag Racing: Sunday Nitro St. Louis, noon, FS1 NHRA Drag Racing: AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals, 1 p.m., FS1 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series: Bank of America ROVAL 400, 1 p.m., NBC NFL

New England at Buffalo, noon, CBS, 1410-AM, 93.9FM Kansas City at Detroit, noon, FOX, 1330-AM, 98.7FM Jacksonville at Denver, 3:25 p.m., CBS Dallas at New Orleans, 7:20 p.m., NBC, 1240-AM, 97.5-FM NHL PRESEASON

Chicago (split-squad) at Berlin, noon, NHL San Jose at Vegas, 7 p.m., NHL SOCCER

Italian Serie A: Bologna at Udinese, 7:55 a.m., ESPNEWS German Bundesliga: SC Freiburg at Fortuna Dusseldorf, 8:30 a.m., FS1 English Premier League (EPL): Newcastle United at Leicester City, 10:25 a.m., NBCSN Bundesliga: Hertha Berlin at Koln, 10:50 a.m., FS2 NWSL: Portland Thorns FC at Reign FC, 1 p.m., ESPN2 MLS: D.C. United at New York Red Bulls, 4 p.m., FS1 MLS: Portland at Sporting Kansas City, 6:30 p.m., FSKC, FSKC+ MLS: Los Angeles FC at Minnesota United, 6:30 p.m., FS1

Preview 2019-20: Where to go, and what to expect BY TYLER MAHONEY

Special to The Star

It’s hard to believe, but 2019 is winding down into its final months. For many outdoor enthusiasts, this is the best time of the year. Leaves are beginning to transition in color into the beautiful oranges, yellows and reds we all love. Cooling temps bring a welcome change from the suffocating summer heat. Flocks of waterfowl and other birds are starting their annual migration south. And most importantly, Kansas’ favorite hunting seasons are finally upon us. Let’s take a look at what to expect this hunting season. DEER Muzzleloader: Sept. 16-Sept. 29. Archery: Sept. 16-Dec. 31. Regular firearms: Dec. 4-Dec. 15. Firearms-anterless only: Jan. 1-Jan. 3 (Units 6, 8, 9, 10, and 17); Jan. 1-Jan. 12 (Units 10A, 12, 13, 15 and 19 only); Jan. 1-Jan. 5 (Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 14, 16). Anterless pre-rut season: Oct. 12-14. Outlook: More scouting may be needed due to deer displacement from flooding. It’s been pretty wet this year, especially on public lands. As a result, thick cover under the trees hasn’t had an opportunity to develop. Deer will return quickly to their home territories once flooding subsides but may not hang around long if the cover and food isn’t there. “Folks will really need

TYLER MAHONEY Special to The Star

It’s autumn at last, and the countryside will soon be speckled with hunters silhouetted against the Midwest sky.

to get out and look because things might not be the same as they were last year,” Levi Jasper, big game coordinator for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), said. “A great amount of our public lands are still suffering from flooding around the reservoirs, so some places might not be huntable.” Overall, the population is stable and slightly up in a few places. Southeastern Kansas is definitely the hot spot for good numbers of whitetails. The Walk-In Hunting ground available to the public has increased with over one million acres available for hunters. QUAIL/PHEASANT Regular season: Nov. 9-Jan. 31. Youth: Nov. 2-3. Outlook: Upland bird populations are in good shape this year “Statewide roadside estimates were essentially the same as they were last year,” Jeff Prendergast, small game specialist for the KDWPT, said. “Both pheasants and quail are above the long term aver-

age overall.” While heavy rain and flooding negatively impacted chick survival in the eastern units, there is a silver lining. More rain yields more growth in cover, which creates an abundance of insects. Although fewer nests hatched, the ones that did prospered tremendously, resulting in much larger broods. “Surveys showed the highest density of quail are in north central Kansas in the Smoky Hills region,” Prendergast said. “The northwest had the highest pheasant densities, but the southwest showed some solid results as well.” DUCKS Teal, High Plains Zone: Sept. 21-29. Teal, Low Plains Zone: Sept. 14-29. Ducks, High Plains Unit: Oct. 12-Jan. 5 and Jan. 17-26. Low Plains Early Zone: Oct. 12-Dec. 8 and Dec. 14-29. Low Plains Late Zone: Oct. 26-Dec. 29 and Jan. 18-26.

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NFL Today Show, 10:30 a.m., 1240-AM, 97.5-FM TENNIS

ATP: Zhuhai Open, finals; WTA: China Open, early rounds, 6 a.m., TENNIS ITF: Junior Davis Cup & Fed Cup, finals, 10 a.m., TENNIS ATP: Rakuten Japan Open & China Open, early rounds, 9 p.m., TENNIS TRACK AND FIELD

IAAF World Championships 2019: day 3, 11 a.m., NBC; 12:30 p.m., NBSCN WNBA Finals: game 1, Connecticut at Washington, 2 p.m., ESPN WOMEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL

Boston College at Georgia Tech, 11 a.m., ACC Ohio State at Michigan, 1 p.m., BTN Kentucky at Missouri, 2 p.m., ESPNU Arizona State at UCLA, 2 p.m., PAC-12 Texas A&M at Tennessee, 2 p.m., SEC Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m., ACC Washington at Stanford, 4 p.m., PAC-12

Monday’s TV highlights NBA PRESEASON

Shanghai Sharks at Houston, 7 p.m., NBA NHL PRESEASON

Philadelphia at Lausanne, 1 p.m., NHL NFL

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m., ESPN RUGBY

World Cup 2019: pool A, Scotland vs. Samoa, 5 a.m., NBCSN SOCCER

EPL: Arsenal at Manchester United, 1:55 p.m., NBCSN TENNIS

ATP/WTA: Rakuten Japan Open & China Open, early rounds, 5 a.m., 9 p.m., TENNIS TRACK AND FIELD

IAAF: World Championships 2019, day 4, 9 a.m., noon, Olympic Channel; 6 p.m., NBCSN (taped) 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.

Tyler Mahoney is a Rockhurst Universityeducated outdoors fanatic who works to support his hunting and fishing habits. Read more of his next-generation insight at mahoneyoutdoors.com.

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Low Plains Southeast Zone: Nov. 9-Jan. 5 and Jan. 11-26. Youth seasons: High Plains Unit: Oct. 5-6; Low Plains Early Zone: Oct. 5-6; Low Plains Late Zone: Oct. 19-20; Southeast Zone: Nov. 2-3. Canada geese: Oct. 26-27 and Nov. 6-Feb. 16. Outlook: Flooding could produce mixed results. “Like many states in the Central Flyway, an abundance of water on the landscape will make the 2019-20 waterfowl season an ‘interesting’ one,” Tom Bidrowski, migratory game bird specialist for the KDWPT, said. Kansas experienced well above normal spring and summer precipitation, which caused a number of prolonged and sometimes severe flooding events. This affected moist soil production, as well agricultural plantings across Kansas. Many of the state’s reservoirs are/were above conservation pools. The timing and extent of water withdrawals on those reservoirs will be an important factor in determining waterfowl capacity in Kansas this fall and winter. “Scouting will be key for hunters,” Bidrowski noted. “Duck and goose hunters will have to be mobile and flexible if their normal haunts aren’t paying off.” The KDWPT is soliciting waterfowl hunter input on season dates, duck zones and other waterfowl hunting regulations. Visit the KDWPT website for more information.

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Derby senior quarterback Grant Adler led an offense that finished with 288 total yards.

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HIGH SCHOOLS touching for Fisher, who was the defensive coordinator at Goddard last year under coach Tommy Beason, who he considers one of his best friends. Together, they helped take Goddard to the Class 4A title game. Goddard has now suffered back-to-back losses for the first time since 2015 when it finished 6-4. The Lions are now 2-2. WICHITA WEST AT WICHITA NORTHWEST: CITY LEAGUE KINGS For the second straight year, Wichita Northwest looks to be the City League champion. After beating Bishop Carroll in Week 1, the Grizzlies beat Wichita West, arguably the next best contender for the City League crown, 63-14. They led 42-0 early in the third quarter.

Northwest hasn’t taken a step back since last season when it went to the Class 5A state championship game. The Grizzlies have allowed just 39 points this season. They allowed 176 in their final three games last season. Northwest is now 4-0 and atop the Class 5A West standings. West drops to 2-2 after one of the hottest starts in recent school history. CONWAY SPRINGS AT HUTCHINSON TRINITY: BACK ON TRACK There were questions, but Conway Springs put them to bed. The Cardinals lost 4919 to Cheney in Week 2, and in their first real test since then, they beat Hutch Trinity 43-8 on the road. The Cards led 36-0 at halftime. The victory came as a

milestone for coach Matt Biehler — his 100th at Conway Springs. Since taking over in 2009, the Cardinals have had five undefeated regular seasons and won a state championship in 2011. Hutch Trinity went to the Class 2A quarterfinals last season but drops to 2-2. Conway Springs is back in the win column, pushing its record to 3-1. CLEARWATER AT CHENEY: CARDINALS TAKING FLIGHT Clearwater was one of the surprise teams of 2019, but Cheney put an arrow through its undefeated record. Cheney beat Clearwater 48-10 on homecoming night. Since losing to rival Garden Plain in Week 1, the Cardinals have gone unbeaten and is outscoring its opponents by 135 points in three games. Cheney moves to 3-1 after going 2-7 last season. Clearwater drops to 3-1 as well.

Charlotte Bank of America ROVAL 400 Lineup Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course Concord, N.C. (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) William Byron, Chevy, 103.198 mph. 2. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevy, 103.078. 3. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 103.037. 4. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevy, 102.893. 5. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 102.838. 6. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 102.383. 7. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevy, 102.359. 8. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 101.769. 9. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 101.737. 10. (21) Paul Menard, Ford, 101.587. 11. (2) Brad Keselowski,Ford, 101.486. 12. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevy, 101.449. 13. (41) Daniel Suarez, Ford, 101.953. 14. (47) Ryan Preece, Chevy, 101.943. 15. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota, 101.887. 16. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 101.881. 17. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 101.871. 18. (95) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 101.862. 19. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevy, 101.732. 20. (8) Daniel Hemric, Chevy, 101.696. 21. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 101.566. 22. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 101.542. 23. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevy, 101.461. 24. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford, 101.148. 25. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevy, 101.136. 26. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 101.077. 27. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 100.520. 28. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 100.507. 29. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevy, 100.480. 30. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevy, 100.346. 31. (51) Cody Ware, Chevy, 99.169. 32. (00) Landon Cassill, Chevy, 98.618. 33. (66) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 97.896. 34. (53) Josh Bilicki, Chevy, 97.602. 35. (52) Garrett Smithley, Ford, 97.363. 36. (36) Matt Tifft,Ford, 0.000. 37. (15) Ross Chastain, Chevy, 0.000. 38. (77) Reed Sorenson, Chevy, 0.000. 39. (27) Joe Nemechek, Chevy, 0.000. 40. (96) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 0.000. PLAYOFF RACES Sunday, Oct. 6 — MENCS race, Dover, Del. Sunday, Oct. 13 — 1000Bulbs.com 500, Talladega, Ala. Sunday, Oct. 20 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan.


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TCU 51, KANSAS 14

No. 1 Clemson stops 2-point conversion, beats North Carolina

First quarter TCU: D.Thomas 26 pass from Duggan (Song kick), 11:12. TCU: Wells 7 pass from Duggan (Song kick), 2:09. TCU: Reagor fumble recovery in endzone (Song kick), :00. Second quarter TCU: Anderson 11 run (Song kick), 10:54. TCU: Olonilua 6 run (Song kick), 4:44. TCU: FG Song 25, :01. Fourth quarter KU: Gardner 45 run (L. Jones kick), 12:10. TCU: D.Foster 8 run (Song kick), 9:13. KU: P. Williams 25 pass from Stanley (L. Jones kick), 3:50. TCU: M.Collins 11 run, :00. Attendance: 41,960. KU TCU First downs 8 29 Rushes-yards 18-75 61-319 Passing 84 306 Comp-Att-Int 12-29-0 19-27-0 Return Yards 101 139 Punts-Avg. 9-33.11 4-33.75 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 2-10 10-95 Possession 20:25 39:35 RUSHING: Kansas, Gardner 4-61, P. Williams 8-12, Stanley 6-2. TCU, Anderson 18-115, D.Foster 8-66, Barlow 13-51, Olonilua 9-39, Delton 4-21, Hunt 3-12, M. Collins 1-11, Demercado 3-11, Reagor 1-4, Duggan 1-(minus 11). PASSING: Kansas, Stanley 12-29-0-84. TCU, Duggan 8-11-0-100, Delton 10-150-186, M. Collins 1-1-0-20. RECEIVING: Kansas, Parchment 4-10, P. Williams 3-33, Charlot 2-(minus 1), Fairchild 1-23, Gardner 1-11, Luavasa 1-8. TCU, D. Thomas 3-44, Conwright 3-25, Wells 3-22, D. Davis 2-85, Hunt 2-52, Stephens 1-38, Reagor 1-15, Barlow 1-10, Olonilua 1-6, Lynn 1-6, Anderson 1-3. MISSED FIELD GOALS: Kansas, L. Jones 49. TCU, Song 42.

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Trevor Lawrence connected with Tee Higgins on a 38-yard touchdown pass with 9:54 left and top-ranked Clemson stopped a late 2-point conversion to hold off North Carolina 21-20 on Saturday. The Tigers (5-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) had trouble all day in trying to extend their school-record winning streak to 20 games. They didn’t go ahead for good until Lawrence’s scoring strike in the fourth, then came up with the clinching stop after the Tar Heels pulled within a point with 1:17 left on Javonte Williams’ short run. The Tar Heels (2-3, 1-1) went for 2 and the lead, but the Tigers strung out Sam Howell’s option run to the right and dragged him down short of the end zone to effectively clinch the win — though it was far tougher than expected as a 27-point road favorite. The Tar Heels gave themselves a shot late, but fell to 0-10 against No. 1-ranked teams in The Associated Press college football poll.

Saturday’s Games No. 2 Alabama 59, Mississippi 31: Tua Tagovailoa and DeVonta Smith hooked up for five touchdown passes and a few school records in Alabama’s easy home win. No. 6 Oklahoma 55, Texas Tech 16: Jalen Hurts passed for 413 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 6 Oklahoma rolled to a home win. No. 8 Wisconsin 24, Northwestern 15: Jonathan Taylor ran for 119 yards and his 11th touchdown of the season, Wisconsin got two scores from its defense, and the Badgerswon at home. No. 9 Florida 38, Towson 0: Kyle Trask threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, helping Florida win at home and extend its winning streak to nine. No. 10 Notre Dame 35, No. 18 Virginia 20: Julian Okwara had three sacks of Notre Dame’s eight sacks and caused a fumble that was returned for a touchdown as the Fighting Irish overcame a halftime deficit to win at home. — WIRE SERVICES

COLLEGE FOOTBALL AP TOP 25 No. 1 Clemson 21, N. Carolina 20 No. 2 Alabama 59, Mississippi 31 No. 5 Ohio State at Nebraska, late No. 6 Oklahoma 55, Texas Tech 16 No. 7 Auburn vs. Mississippi St., late No. 8 Wisconsin 24, Northwestern 15 No. 9 Florida 38, Towson 0 No. 10 Notre Dame 35, No. 18 Virginia 20 No. 12 Penn State 59, Maryland 0 No. 14 Iowa 48, Middle Tennessee 3 Arizona St. 24, No. 15 California 17 No. 17 Washington 28, No. 21 Southern Cal. 14 No. 19 Utah vs. Washington St., late No. 20 Michigan 52, Rutgers 0 No. 22 Central Florida vs. UConn, late No. 23 Texas A&M 31, Arkansas 27 No. 24 Kansas St. at Oklahoma St., late No. 25 Michigan St. 40, Indiana 31

SATURDAY’S GAMES EAST Assumption 53, Franklin Pierce 6 Bethune-Cookman 37, Howard 29 Bridgewater (Mass.) 50, Fitchburg St. 6 California (Pa.) 24, Edinboro 7 Cortland St. 59, Buffalo St. 21 Delaware Valley 55, Albright 7 Drake 41, Marist 17 Endicott 58, Becker 12 Fordham 23, Richmond 16 Gannon 51, Clarion 35 Georgetown 24, Columbia 10 Greensboro 27, Gallaudet 25 Hamilton 45, Colby 24 Hobart 16, Montclair St. 3 Ithaca 38, St. John Fisher 35 Johns Hopkins 37, Dickinson 15 Kean 47, Dean 13 King’s (Pa.) 19, Lycoming 13 Lehigh 10, Merrimack 3 Livingstone 35, Lincoln (Pa.) 19 MIT 32, Catholic 13

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TCU Horned Frogs defensive end Adam Plant Jr. tries to knock down a pass by Kansas Jayhawks quarterback Carter Stanley in the second half. The Kansas Jayhawks lost 51-14 to the TCU Horned Frogs at Amon Carter Stadium in Fort Worth on Saturday.

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JAYHAWKS answer while punting on five of its first six possessions. Some of this, though, seemed like it could have been the result of a shock to the system. Herbert, who was one of the team’s four representatives at Big 12 media days, did not play because of “personal reasons,” according to KU. The pieces were put together from there. With a recent NCAA rule change, all football players are eligible for redshirts if they play four games of fewer in a season. Miles was asked afterward, then, if Herbert missing the game could result in a redshirt year then a transfer. “I don’t want to spend time here on anybody other than who played in the game,” Miles said. “I will say this ... this is (after) the fourth day, the fourth game, that someone would be allowed to not play in and still redshirt. (That scenario) makes sense to me.” It came as a surprise. Stanley was asked if Herbert had talked to his teammates before making his decision; the quarterback looked to the ground, shaking his head no twice without saying a word. Team captain Bryce Torneden also said he didn’t learn about Herbert’s absence until right before the game began. “We all have a very good relationship with Khalil,” Torneden said. “But I think at the end of the day, with the maturity of the guys on this team, we know that we’ve got

Merchant Marine 62, Maine Maritime 13 Morrisville St. 42, Husson 15 Muhlenberg 42, Juniata 5 New Hampshire 23, Duquesne 6 Pace 42, St. Anselm 21 Pittsburgh 17, Delaware 14 St. Francis (Pa.) 16, Bryant 6 Stevenson 49, FDU-Florham 15 Syracuse 41, Holy Cross 3 Wagner 24, LIU 14 Washington & Jefferson 38, Grove City 21 West Chester 48, Millersville 7 Widener 41, Alvernia 13 SOUTH Bethel (Tenn.) 48, Point (Ga.) 21 Carson-Newman 42, Virginia-Wise 7 Furman 17, ETSU 10 Georgetown (Ky.) 41, St. Andrews 34 Hardin-Simmons 51, Louisiana College 6 Jacksonville 42, Ave Maria 28 James Madison 45, Elon 10 Newberry 30, Tusculum 20 Shaw 49, Edward Waters 10 Shenandoah 26, Guilford 7 Trinity (Texas) 20, Centre 13 Vanderbilt 24, N. Illinois 18 Warner 63, Kentucky Christian 35 MIDWEST Ashland 31, Northwood (Mich.) 28

to get the job done, and we can’t let little things, whatever the case may be, hold us back or hinder us in any way.” Perhaps that’ll be an easier task moving forward than it was Saturday. Herbert, after all, entered the game as one of the main faces of KU’s program. Not only was he second in the Big 12 in rushing this year, but he also sat 16th in the Jayhawks’ all-time record book. This week, Herbert had been voted by teammates to be the honorary team captain against TCU. Heck, he even spoke on air during Miles’ live radio show on Tuesday, asking Miles a question about how he first met his wife, Kathy, before later showing off his personal handshake with teammate Pooka Williams. “I don’t know exactly what caused his issues,” Miles said after the game, “but he was not with us (today).” It’s too early to know whether this will be a season-defining moment for KU. With a long rebuild ahead — and Miles just starting his first year — will Herbert’s decision impact team morale? Or potentially create a blueprint for others thinking about a change? Torneden, for his part, said it was important for him to keep a good mindset over the next few days. “I know the team’s looking up to me, and I can’t give them any signs of let down or slowing

Bethel (Kan.) 31, Sterling 26 Concordia (Mich.) 42, St. Xavier 35 Concordia (Neb.) 16, Briar Cliff 14 Davenport 35, Lindenwood (Mo.) 24 Dordt 57, Dakota Wesleyan 22 Grand Valley St. 21, Michigan Tech 16 Grand View 32, Evangel 28 Hillsdale 30, Walsh 0 Iowa 48, Middle Tennessee 3 Kenyon 15, Hiram 12 Martin Luther 43, Greenville 14 McKendree 42, Chowan 35 Miami (Ohio) 34, Buffalo 20 Michigan 52, Rutgers 0 Mid-Am Nazarene 62, Clarke 6 Minot St. 24, Minn.-Crookston 16 Northwestern (Iowa) 45, Jamestown 6 Ohio Wesleyan 28, Allegheny 10 St. Francis (Ill.) 55, Lawrence Tech 27 St. Francis (Ind.) 31, St. Ambrose 13 Thomas More 35, Cincinnati Christian 19 Toledo 28, BYU 21 W. Michigan 31, Cent. Michigan 15 Washington (Mo.) 21, Carthage 10 Wisconsin 24, Northwestern 15 Wittenberg 17, DePauw 10 SOUTHWEST Okla. Panhandle St. 34, Texas College 8 TCU 51, Kansas 14

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down,” Torneden said. “I gotta take it to that next level and be there to provide for my team.” As for the actual football .... it wasn’t great for KU in any facet. The Jayhawks’ game plan of lining up early in I-formation to attempt a power run game did not work. KU’s defense, meanwhile, was often gassed on a hot afternoon and appeared especially hamstrung while playing without linebacker and leading tackler Dru Prox. “This thing’s not built in a day,” Miles said. “It’ll take some work, and we’re ready to do that.” The Jayhawks’ mettle should be tested immediately. KU, now 2-3, will host sixth-ranked Oklahoma on Saturday, just hours after the men’s basketball team’s annual Late Night in the Phog celebration at Allen Fieldhouse.

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Saturday was an obvious step back for a program that appeared to be progressing in the weeks prior. Now, the challenge will be responding to the gut punch of a main contributor stepping away. And also doing so unexpectedly. “It’s all about next man up really,” Stanley said. “Obviously today we did have some different guys in there, but it’s something that we can’t allow to affect us.”

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BIG 12 ROUNDUP Baylor beats Iowa State after blowing big lead WACO, TEXAS

John Mayers kicked a 38-yarder with 21 seconds left for the first field goal of the redshirt freshman’s career, lifting Baylor to a 23-21 victory over Iowa State on Saturday after the Bears blew a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter. The Bears (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) won their sixth straight game going back to last season and are off to their best start in three years under coach Matt Rhule. Brock Purdy rallied the Cyclones (2-2, 0-1) with three TD drives after trailing 20-0 in the fourth quarter. But Iowa State couldn’t stop Baylor’s 54-yard drive to the winning points while losing a Big 12 opener for the 16th time in 18 seasons — including all four under coach Matt Campbell. The Bears fell behind for the first time this season on Purdy’s 20yard touchdown pass to Charlie Kolar with less than four minutes to go. Charlie Brewer answered with three third-down conversions on the 14play march. Mayers’ kick into the wind was just inside the right post after he missed badly from the same distance — 38 yards — in the first half. Baylor was behind because of a botched PAT attempt after the second of three touchdown passes from Brewer when the snap went through holder Skyler Wetzel’s hands. — WIRE SERVICES


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MLB SATURDAY’S ROYALS BOX TWINS 4, ROYALS 3 Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Arraez 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 Torreyes ss 1 0 0 0 0 0 Polanco ss 3 0 0 1 0 1 LaMarre rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cruz dh 4 1 2 1 0 1 E.Rosario rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 Cron 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 Garver c 3 2 2 0 1 1 Wade Jr lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 Astudillo 1b-3b 4 0 2 2 0 0 Schoop 2b 4 0 2 0 0 1 Miller cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 Totals 35 4 9 4 1 6

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An Oakland Athletics fan holds a sign that reads "All Aboard Next Stop Playoffs!" during Friday’s game against the Mariners in Seattle.

MLB ROUNDUP Playoff teams set; positions still in flux The creative Tampa Bay Rays and the tenacious Oakland Athletics earned playoff spots Friday night, filling out the 10-team field for the Major League Baseball postseason. Several of the pairings and sites are still to be determined before the playoffs begin Tuesday night with the NL wildcard game. Any tiebreakers that need to be decided on the field would be played Monday. The Rays, back in the playoffs for the first time since 2013, and the A’s will meet Wednesday night in the AL wild-card game, with the host to be settled. Injury-plagued Cleveland was eliminated with an 8-2 loss at Washington. Houston clinched home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs with a 4-0 win over the Angels. The Astros will take on the Rays-A’s winner, while the New York Yankees face Minnesota in the best-of-five Division Series on Friday. Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer is set to start the NL wild-card game against the St. Louis Cardinals or Milwaukee Brewers. The winner of that game will begin the Division Series on Thursday at Dodger Stadium against NL West champion Los Angeles. The Atlanta Braves won the NL East and will face the NL Central champion – either St. Louis or Milwaukee.

Notable Astros: Houston is unsure whether SS Carlos Correa (back), who has made 11 plate appearances since Aug. 19, will be ready for the AL Division Series. He is missing

the final week of the regular season to rest, and he will go through workouts in Houston early next week to determine whether he can play in the first round for the AL West champions. Brewers: OF Ryan Braun (mild left calf strain) was held out Saturday and will miss Sunday’s game. He hopes to be available starting Monday for a potential tiebreaker game with St. Louis for the NL Central title.

Highlights Dodgers 2, Giants 0: Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched seven sharp innings, and Los Angeles posted its 105th win to match the franchise record set in Brooklyn in 1953. Retiring San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy oversaw his 4,031st game, passing Sparky Anderson for seventh on the alltime list. Twins 4, Royals 3: Nelson Cruz hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning, and Minnesota won in Kansas City for its sixth straight victory but lost rookie 3B Luis Arraez to an apparent right leg injury. The Royals’ Jorge Soler took the AL lead with his 46th and 47th homers of the season. Nationals 10, Indians 7: Gerardo Parra hit a grand slam in a nine-run second inning, and Washington assured itself of hosting the NL Wild Card game Tuesday by beating recently eliminated Cleveland. Blue Jays 4, Rays 1: Tampa Bay managed just three hits in Toronto and damaged its chances of hosting the AL Wild Card game. The Rays fell a half-game behind Oakland, which played later Saturday, and needs to finish ahead of the Athletics to host the elimination game Wednesday.

Kansas City AB Merrifield rf 4 1-Phillips pr-rf 0 Soler dh 3 Dozier 3b 4 Gordon lf 3 Cuthbert 1b 3 a-O’Hearn ph-1b 1 Mejia cf 4 Arteaga ss 4 Lopez 2b 3 b-McBroom ph 0 Dini c 4 Totals 33 Minnesota Kansas City

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a-flied out for Cuthbert in the 8th. b-walked for Lopez in the 9th. 1-ran for Merrifield in the 7th. E: Arteaga (3). LOB: Minnesota 6, Kansas City 6. 2B: Garver 2 (16), Astudillo (9), Cruz (26), Miller (1). HR: Cruz (41), off Barnes; Soler (46), off Stashak; Soler (47), off Duffey. RBIs: Astudillo 2 (21), Polanco (78), Cruz (108), Soler 3 (116). SB: Merrifield (20). SF: Polanco. Runners left in scoring position: Minnesota 2 (Miller, E.Rosario); Kansas City 3 (Cuthbert, Dozier). RISP: Minnesota 3 for 8; Kansas City 0 for 3. Runners moved up: Arraez. GIDP: Dini. DP: Minnesota 1 (Schoop, Cron). Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Stashak 2 2 1 1 0 2 24 3.24 Gibson 1 1 0 0 2 2 32 4.85 Littell 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 2.68 Thorpe 1 1 0 0 0 1 17 5.93 May 1 1 0 0 0 2 17 2.94 Duffey W, 5-1 1 2 2 2 0 2 19 2.50 Romo 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.18 Rogers S, 30 1 0 0 0 1 1 11 2.61 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sparkman 5 5 2 2 1 4 90 6.02 Hill 1 2 1 1 0 1 19 3.63 R.Rosario 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 0.00 Barnes L, 0-4 1 1 1 1 0 1 22 8.31 Barlow 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 4.22 Holds: Thorpe (1), May (17), Romo (16). Umpires—Home, Paul Nauert; First, John Libka; Second, Ed Hickox; Third, Carlos Torres. Time: 3:04. Att: 21,995.

FRIDAY’S ROYALS BOX TWINS 6, ROYALS 2, 7 INN. Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Sano 3b 4 2 2 2 0 1 Cave rf 2 1 1 0 2 0 Cruz dh 4 0 3 1 0 0 E.Rosario lf 4 0 1 1 0 0 Astudillo c 4 0 0 0 0 0 Cron 1b 4 1 1 0 0 0 Schoop 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 LaMarre cf 3 1 2 2 0 1 Torreyes ss 3 1 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 6 11 6 2 3 Kansas City Merrifield 2b Soler dh Dozier 3b Gordon lf McBroom rf O’Hearn 1b Lopez ss Viloria c Phillips cf Totals Minnesota Kansas City

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Avg. .246 .253 .309 .278 .266 .253 .256 .227 .167 Avg. .301 .263 .281 .264 .296 .194 .242 .211 .143

Merrifield (10). HR: Sano (34), off Skoglund; LaMarre (2), off Skoglund. RBIs: Cruz (107), E.Rosario (109), Sano 2 (79), LaMarre 2 (3), Gordon (76), Soler (113). SB: LaMarre (1). SF: Soler. Runners left in scoring position: Minnesota 2 (E.Rosario, Cruz); Kansas City 3 (McBroom, Phillips 2). RISP: Minnesota 2 for 8; Kansas City 0 for 5. Runners moved up: Gordon. GIDP: Cron. DP: Kansas City 1 (Dozier, Merrifield, O’Hearn). Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Berrios, W, 6 6 2 2 2 9 99 3.68 14-8 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Skoglund L, 3 9 6 6 1 2 59 9.00 0-3 Hill 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 3.49 McCarthy 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 4.53 Newberry 1 1 0 0 1 1 26 3.77 Zimmer 1 0 0 0 0 0 1210.80 WP: Berrios. Umpires: Home, Carlos Torres; First, Paul Nauert; Second, John Libka; Third, Ed Hickox. Time: 1:54 (0:56 delay). Att: 15,389.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Sunday’s game Cincinnati at Wichita State, 1 p.m.

KCAC Conf.

Rec.

Bethel 4-0 Kansas Wesleyan 3-0 Sterling 3-1 Ottawa 1-1 Southwestern 1-1 Avila 2-2 Tabor 1-2 Bethany 1-2 Friends 1-3 McPherson 0-2 Saint Mary 0-3 x-late game not included Saturday’s results Avila 26, Friends 20 Bethel 31, Sterling 26 Kansas Wesleyan at Ottawa, late Tabor at McPherson, late Southwestern at Bethany, late Saturday, October 5 Bethany at Avila, 1 p.m. Ottawa at Tabor, 1:30 p.m. Sterling at Saint Mary, 1:30 p.m. Bethel at Southwestern, 1:30 p.m. McPherson at Friends, 1:30 p.m.

Team

4-0 4-0 3-1 1-1 1-2 2-2 2-2 1-2 1-3 0-3 0-4

KJCCC

BIG 12 Team

Conf.

Rec.

Oklahoma 1-0 Baylor 1-0 Texas 1-0 Texas Christian 1-0 West Virginia 1-0 x Kansas State 0-0 x Oklahoma State 0-1 Iowa State 0-1 Texas Tech 0-1 Kansas 0-2 x-late game not included Saturday’s results TCU 51, Kansas 14 Baylor 23, Iowa State 21 Oklahoma 55, Texas Tech 16 Kansas State at Oklahoma State, late Saturday, October 5 Oklahoma at Kansas, 11 a.m. Baylor at Kansas State, 2:30 p.m. TCU at Iowa State, 11 a.m. Oklahoma State at Texas Tech, 11 a.m. Texas at West Virginia, 2:30 p.m.

4-0 4-0 3-1 3-1 3-1 3-0 3-1 2-2 2-2 2-3

MIAA Team

Conf.

Rec.

Central Missouri 4-0 4-0 x Northwest Missouri 3-0 3-0 x Pittsburg State 3-0 3-0 x Central Oklahoma 2-1 2-1 x Nebraska-Kearney 2-1 2-1 Missouri Western 2-2 2-2 x Emporia State 1-2 1-2 x Fort Hays State 1-2 1-2 x Missouri Southern 1-2 1-2 Washburn 1-3 1-3 x Lincoln (Mo.) 0-3 0-3 Northeastern State 0-4 0-4 x-late game not included Saturday’s results Central Missouri 55, Washburn 27 Missouri Western 58, Northeastern State 23 C. Oklahoma at NW Missouri, late Emporia State at Lincoln (Mo.), late Mo. Southern at Fort Hays State, late Pittsburg State at Neb.-Kearney, late Saturday, October 5 Missouri Western at Washburn, 1 p.m. Fort Hays State at Central Oklahoma, 1 p.m. Lincoln (Mo.) at Pittsburg State, 1 p.m. Northwest Missouri at Emporia State, 2 p.m. Central Missouri at Missouri Southern, 2 p.m. Northeastern State at Nebraska-Kearney, 2 p.m.

Team

Conf.

Rec.

Hutchinson CC 3-0 5-0 Butler CC 3-1 5-1 x Fort Scott CC 3-1 3-1 x Garden City CC 1-1 3-2 Independence CC 2-2 2-2 Highland CC 1-2 3-2 Coffeyville CC 0-3 1-5 Dodge City CC 0-3 0-5 x-late game not included Saturday’s results Coffeyville CC 55, Arkansas Baptist 24 Highland CC 20, Iowa Central CC 14 Hutchinson CC 35, Butler CC 27 Iowa Western CC 37, Dodge City CC 7 Fort Scott CC at Garden City CC, late Saturday, October 5 Garden City Cc at Iowa Central CC, noon Hutchinson CC at Highland CC, 1 p.m. Dodge City CC at Coffeyville CC, 7 p.m. Butler CC at Independence CC, 7 p.m.

MEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER Saturday’s result Newman 2, Ouachita Baptist 1

WOMEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER

HIGH SCHOOLS FOOTBALL Thursday’s result Wichita East 26, Wichita South 14 Friday’s results Andale 52, Haven 6 Andover 10, Kapaun Mt. Carmel 0 Andover Central 17, Valley Center 14 Attica/Argonia 30, Caldwell 0 Augusta 21, Wellington 14 Belle Plaine 34, Cherryvale 22 Buhler 25, Mulvane 14 Canton-Galva 56, Bennington 8 Cedar Vale/Dexter 56, Flinthills 6 Central Christian 30, Burrton 0 Centre 50, Hartford 0 Chaparral 49, Wichita Independent 0 Chase County 38, Burlingame 12 Cheney 48, Clearwater 10 Conway Springs 43, Hutchinson Trinity 8 Cunningham d. Western Plains/Healy, forfeit Derby 21, Bishop Carroll 0 Eisenhower 21, Goddard 20 El Dorado 44, University Academy 8 Eureka 42, Fredonia 7 Garden Plain 61, Remington 14 Goessel 36, Solomon 26 Halstead 44, Rock Creek 38 Hesston 35, Smoky Valley 8 Holcomb 22, Nickerson 21, OT Howard West Elk 70, Central 44 Hugoton 33, Kingman 13 Little River 48, Central Plains 0 Maize 44, Newton 7 Maize South 33, Arkansas City 15 McPherson 48, Abilene 3 Medicine Lodge 48, Oxford 0 Minneola 50, Norwich 22 Neodesha 26, Douglass 20 Peabody-Burns 54, Herington 14 Pleasanton 28, Bluestem 8 Pretty Prairie 66, Fairfield 20 Rose Hill 39, Circle 20 Salina Central 31, Hutchinson 12 Skyline 60, Moundridge 14 South Barber 52, South Haven 0 South Central 49, Udall 0 Wichita Collegiate 58, Wichita Trinity 0 Wichita Heights 64, Wichita North 49 Wichita Northwest 63, Wichita West 14 Wichita Southeast 33, Liberal 28 Winfield 28, Labette County 7 Saturday’s results Hillsboro 39, Sacred Heart 6 Salina South 49, Campus 19 Sedgwick at Ell-Saline, ppd.

GOLF HOLE IN ONE

Friday’s result Northeastern State 3, Newman 2 Sunday’s games Baylor at Kansas, 1 p.m. Texas at Kansas State, 1 p.m. Rogers State at Newman, 2 p.m.

Terradyne Country Club Aiden Nguyen, No. 15, 155 yards, 8-iron. Witness: Vu Nguyen.

NFL WOMEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL

SUNDAY’S INJURY REPORT

Friday’s results Nebraska-Kearney 3, Newman 0 Tulsa 3, Wichita State 2 Saturday’s results Baylor 3, Kansas 0 Fort Hays State 3, Newman 0 Kansas State 3, TCU 1

KANSAS CITY at DETROIT — CHIEFS: OUT: OT Eric Fisher (groin), WR Tyreek Hill (shoulder), RB Damien Williams (knee). LIONS: OUT: DT Mike Daniels (foot). QUESTIONABLE: WR Danny Amendola (chest), DE Da’Shawn Hand (elbow), CB Darius Slay (hamstring), QB Matthew Stafford (hip).

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LOB: Minnesota 6, Kansas City 6. 2B: Schoop (23), Dozier (29), Lopez (22). 3B:

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East W L Pct GB L10 x-New York 103 57 .644 — 5-5 y-Tampa Bay 96 65 .596 71⁄2 7-3 Boston 83 78 .516 201⁄2 4-6 Toronto 66 95 .410 371⁄2 6-4 Baltimore 54 107 .335 491⁄2 5-5 Central W L Pct GB L10 x-Minnesota 101 60 .627 — 8-2 Cleveland 93 68 .578 8 5-5 Chicago 71 88 .447 29 6-4 Kansas City 58 103 .360 43 2-8 Detroit 46 113 .289 54 1-9 West W L Pct GB L10 x-Houston 105 55 .656 — 8-2 y-Oakland 96 64 .600 9 6-4 Texas 76 84 .475 29 2-8 Los Angeles 72 88 .450 33 4-6 Seattle 67 93 .419 38 5-5 FRIDAY’S GAMES Washington 8 ........................Cleveland 2 Minnesota 6 ....Kansas City 2 ....7 innings Tampa Bay 6.............................Toronto 2 Baltimore 4................................Boston 1 N.Y. Yankees 14 ...........................Texas 7 Houston 4 ...........................L.A. Angels 0 Seattle 4 ..................................Oakland 3 SATURDAY’S GAMES Toronto 4.............................Tampa Bay 1 Baltimore 9................................Boston 4 Minnesota 4........................Kansas City 3 Chi. White Sox 7 ...............Detroit 1 (1st) Washington 10 ......................Cleveland 7 Detroit at White Sox .......6:10 p.m. (2nd) N.Y. Yankees at Texas ...............7:05 p.m. Houston at L.A. Angels.............8:07 p.m. Oakland at Seattle....................8:10 p.m. SUNDAY’S GAMES Baltimore at Boston..................2:05 p.m. Cleveland at Washington ..........2:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Texas ...............2:05 p.m. Houston at L.A. Angels.............2:07 p.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto ..............2:07 p.m. Detroit at Chi. White Sox..........2:10 p.m. Oakland at Seattle....................2:10 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City .........2:15 p.m. END OF REGULAR SEASON

East W L Pct GB L10 x-Atlanta 97 63 .606 — 4-6 y-Washington 92 69 .571 51⁄2 9-1 New York 84 76 .525 13 7-3 Philadelphia 80 80 .500 17 2-8 Miami 56 104 .350 41 4-6 Central W L Pct GB L10 z-St. Louis 90 70 .563 — 6-4 z-Milwaukee 89 71 .556 1 8-2 Chicago 83 77 .519 7 1-9 Cincinnati 73 87 .456 17 3-7 Pittsburgh 69 91 .431 21 4-6 West W L Pct GB L10 x-Los Angeles 105 56 .652 — 8-2 Arizona 83 77 .519 211⁄2 7-3 San Francisco 77 84 .478 28 4-6 San Diego 70 90 .438 341⁄2 2-8 Colorado 69 91 .431 351⁄2 4-6 x-clinched division; y-clinched wild card; z-clinched playoff berth FRIDAY’S GAMES Washington 8 ........................Cleveland 2 Pittsburgh 6..........................Cincinnati 5 N.Y. Mets 4................................Atlanta 2 Colorado 11..........................Milwaukee 7 Philadelphia 5 .....................Miami 4 (15) Chi. Cubs 8..............................St. Louis 2 Arizona 6...............................San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 9 ................................S.F. 2 SATURDAY’S GAMES L.A. Dodgers 2 ................................S.F. 0 Washington 10 ......................Cleveland 7 Miami at Philadelphia ...............5:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh ...........6:05 p.m. Atlanta at N.Y. Mets .................6:10 p.m. Chi. Cubs at St. Louis................6:15 p.m. Milwaukee at Colorado .............7:10 p.m. San Diego at Arizona ................7:10 p.m. SUNDAY’S GAMES Cincinnati at Pittsburgh ...........2:05 p.m. Cleveland at Washington ..........2:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at S.F...................2:05 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia ...............2:05 p.m. Atlanta at N.Y. Mets .................2:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Colorado .............2:10 p.m. San Diego at Arizona ................2:10 p.m. Chi. Cubs at St. Louis................2:15 p.m. END OF REGULAR SEASON

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NFL STANDINGS AND SCHEDULE AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

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NFC

DIV

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2-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 Away

2-0-0 3-0-0 0-3-0 0-2-0 AFC

1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 NFC

1-0-0 2-0-0 0-2-0 0-1-0 DIV

Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee North

2 2 1 1 W

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68 70 58 67 PF

62 1-0-0 71 1-0-0 60 1-1-0 52 0-1-0 PA Home

1-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0 1-1-0 Away

2-0-0 1-1-0 1-2-0 1-2-0 AFC

0-1-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 NFC

1-0-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 0-2-0 DIV

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2 1 0 0 W

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0 0 0 0 T

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60 1-0-0 66 0-2-0 83 0-1-0 85 0-1-0 PA Home

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1-0-1 2-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 NFC

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THIS WEEK

NEXT WEEK

THURSDAY’S GAMES Philadelphia 34......................Green Bay 27 SUNDAY’S GAMES Carolina at Houston.............................noon Cleveland at Baltimore ........................noon Kansas City at Detroit .........................noon Oakland at Indianapolis.......................noon L.A. Chargers at Miami........................noon Washington at N.Y. Giants...................noon Tennessee at Atlanta...........................noon New England at Buffalo.......................noon Seattle at Arizona........................3:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at L.A. Rams..............3:05 p.m. Jacksonville at Denver .................3:25 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago ..................3:25 p.m. Dallas at New Orleans..................7:20 p.m. Open: S.F.......................................N.Y. Jets MONDAY’S GAMES Cincinnati at Pittsburgh ..............7:15 p.m.

THURSDAY, OCT. 3 L.A. Rams at Seattle....................7:20 p.m. SUNDAY, OCT. 6 Atlanta at Houston..............................noon Minnesota at N.Y. Giants .....................noon Baltimore at Pittsburgh ......................noon Jacksonville at Carolina .......................noon Buffalo at Tennessee ...........................noon Chicago vs Oakland at London ....UK ....noon Tampa Bay at New Orleans..................noon New England at Washington................noon Arizona at Cincinnati ...........................noon N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia......................noon Denver at L.A. Chargers ..............3:05 p.m. Green Bay at Dallas .....................3:25 p.m. Indianapolis at Kansas City..........7:20 p.m. Open: Detroit ....................................Miami MONDAY, OCT. 7 Cleveland at S.F...........................7:15 p.m.

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season, including the Chargers’ Philip Rivers. Carolina (1-2) at Houston (2-1): Maybe even more encouraging than the play of fill-in QB Kyle Allen was Carolina tying a franchise record with eight sacks last week. Meanwhile, the Texans came back to beat the Chargers, got five sacks, and Deshaun Watson was unstoppable. Tennessee (1-2) at Atlanta (1-2): Tennessee has allowed 17 sacks, most in the NFL, including nine a week ago. One thing Tennessee is doing right is forcing turnovers (plus-4), while the Falcons are minus-3. Seattle (2-1) at Arizona (0-2-1): Arizona has been a desert oasis for the Seahawks, who haven’t lost there since 2012. The Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald needs five catches to pass Tony Gonzalez for second on the NFL’s career receptions list. Tampa Bay (1-2) at Los Angeles Rams (3-0): Bucs LB Shaquil Barrett leads the NFL with eight sacks, and Mike Evans is coming off the first three-TD receiving game by a Tampa Bay wideout since 1985. The Rams are looking for a second straight 4-0 start under Sean McVay. Jacksonville (1-2) at Denver (0-3): The Jags showed some life with their dismantling of the Titans, with rookie Gardner Minshew sparking them with his completion rate (73.9 percent) and passer rating (110.6). Both are the highest by a rookie QB in his first three career games in the Super Bowl era. Denver has not managed a sack or a takeaway. Washington (0-3) at N.Y. Giants (1-2): The Giants and Washington are tied in allowing an NFC-most 94 points. Sixth overall draft choice Daniel Jones makes his second start for the Giants, and he was sensational down the stretch in beating Tampa Bay. Cincinnati (0-3) at Pittsburgh (0-3) (Monday): The Bengals have dropped eight straight against Pittsburgh and 11 of 12. They are 6-15 in prime-time games since 2011, including 2-5 on Monday night.

Dallas (3-0) at New Orleans (2-1): Cowboys fans are beginning to see America’s Team as a team of destiny. But even without Drew Brees (thumb surgery), the Saints are formidable, as they proved in winning at Seattle last weekend. Minnesota (2-1) at Chicago (2-1): Minnesota has not fared well in Chicago, going 3-15 there since 2000. But the Vikings have split the past four trips, and they come in with the NFL’s best run game, led by the revitalized Dalvin Cook . New England (3-0) at Buffalo (3-0): Tom Brady’s 30 career wins against the Bills are the most by an NFL quarterback against one opponent. A big day for the Bills’ Frank Gore could push him over 15,000 yards rushing; he needs 88. Kansas City (3-0) at Detroit (2-0-1): The Chiefs have scored 25-plus points in an NFL-record 25 consecutive games, and Patrick Mahomes has an NFLrecord 13 300-yard passing games in his first 20 starts. But Detroit’s defense has come alive and could provide a real test for the 2018 NFL MVP. Cleveland (1-2) at Baltimore (2-1): The Browns’ Baker Mayfield has thrown at least one TD pass in all 16 career starts. The Ravens, 66-23 at home under coach John Harbaugh, including 18-2 in September, played pretty well despite losing at Kansas City. Oakland (1-2) at Indianapolis (2-1): Oakland allowed eight touchdown drives of 90 or more yards in the past two seasons, including three in the past two weeks. The Colts had two scoring drives of 90plus yards just last week in a victory over the Falcons. Los Angeles Chargers (1-2) at Miami (0-3): The Chargers have lost eight consecutive games in Miami, with the previous win being the classic 1981 AFC divisional playoff game in overtime. Miami’s longest run this season is 9 yards. Fifteen NFL quarterbacks have a longer run this

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onto the quarterback.”

MELLINGER fect. He dove for the interception in the end zone, but the ball bounced off his hands. It would’ve been a terrific catch, but after the game he texted Spagnuolo to essentially apologize — he expects to make that play, and knows his teammates do, too. “Instinctively, that’s what you were talking about,” Spagnuolo said. “I did think that was an instinctive play. And normally, he just plucks that thing and catches it.” These two plays are worth highlighting for at least three reasons. A Mathieu was given a lot of freedom against the Ravens. Most of that came from Spagnuolo wanting to limit Jackson’s scrambling, but it was also an indication of Mathieu’s potential to create big plays for the Chiefs and limit big plays for the opposition. A If Mathieu makes either of those plays, the structure of the game changes dramatically. A pick-six would’ve likely put the Chiefs up 30-6 at halftime. An interception on the second play would’ve given the Chiefs the ball with an 11-point lead and about 7:30 left. A There is every reason to believe those plays will be made more often as the scheme and personnel grow a mutual comfort. That’s an important point, too. Spagnuolo’s priorities and scheme are a big departure from previous coordinator Bob Sutton. That’s often shorthanded into the switch from a 3-4 base front to a 4-3, but there’s a lot more to it — more stunts, different assignments for the linebackers, different rushing lanes for the linemen, etc. And that’s just for the front. “In the past, it’s just been a lot of off coverage,” defensive backs coach Sam Madison said. “That’s not the way coach Spagnuolo plays. He likes to be in your face, knocking off the timing of the route, and that allows us to get pressure

ABOUT FRANK CLARK ... That pressure is an important part of this, too, which is when we mention Frank Clark’s name. His contract is worth $62 million guaranteed in exchange for consistent harassment of quarterbacks. The defensive end had a terrific sack on a key third down in the fourth quarter to force a field goal against the Ravens (more on that in a minute) but has pressured the quarterback just five times in three games, according to Pro Football Focus. Coaches and players believe he’s among those who will benefit from more comfort in the scheme, and while the company line about Clark being doubled every snap is exaggerated, it is a point worth mentioning. The Ravens doubled, chipped or rolled away from Clark on more than half of their dropbacks. To illustrate the difference, compare Clark’s sack with one from Emmanuel Ogbah. Clark rushes hard upfield, but maintains the awareness to avoid the running back’s chip. He then plants and uses his hands to spin off the right tackle and into Jackson, who appeared to begin a scramble. On his sack, Ogbah is left unblocked as the Ravens sent their linemen, teased a play-action to the other side, and the tight end picked up Mathieu’s blitz. Ogbah deserves full credit, because it’s still a difficult play: He has to read the action and then corral the NFL’s most elusive quarterback. But, still. It’s a different play than those Clark is asked to make, a workload that in theory will open more opportunities for teammates. Similarly, Jones is showing himself to be the defense’s alpha so far, at least up front. He’s drawing doubles and chips and still pressuring the quarterback. This is a good time to pay particular attention to the defense, and not just

Ness and Fs Michael Bunting, Michael Chaput and Hudson Fasching to Tucson (AHL). LOS ANGELES KINGS—Assigned F Nikolai Prokhorkin to Ontario (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Reassigned D Alexandre Carrier and Jeremy Davies and Fs Rem Pitlick, Anthony Richard, Eeli Tolvanen, Yakov Trenin and Josh Wilkins to Milwaukee (AHL). ST. LOUIS BLUES—Assigned D Jake Walman to San Antonio (AHL). Recalled F Alexei Toropchenko from San Antonio.

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nication. Those were all but eliminated against the Ravens, whose big gains came mostly from missed tackles and two key passes when cornerbacks in position did not make the play. The tackling must improve — and, to be fair, it had been better the first two weeks. The hope is that those missed opportunities with balls in the air will be converted. Particularly with the dynamism of the Chiefs’ offense, creating more turnovers and capitalizing on opposing teams’ desperation to keep up is the defense’s clearest path to shedding its reputation for underperformance. The 1999 Rams and 2009 Saints might be the best precedents for Super Bowl winners powered by dominant offenses, and both finished in the top six in turnovers forced. Here, two plays from the win over the Ravens are instructive. The first came after the two-minute warning in the first half, on a first-and-10. The Chiefs showed Cover 2 pre-snap, with Mathieu and Juan Thornhill deep. Mathieu was on the offense’s left, with just one receiver on that side. He read Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s eyes, which stayed in the middle of the field. Mathieu jumped the underneath throw to the tight end, breaking the pass up and missing what would’ve been a pick-six by a blink. “I just knew they were coming,” Mathieu said. “I’m just mad at myself for not coming through with it.” The second example came midway through the fourth quarter, on a secondand-10 from Kansas City’s 16. The Chiefs set in zone coverage, and at the snap Mathieu had Ravens receiver Seth Roberts. Again, he appeared to read Jackson’s eyes and slipped off Roberts for tight end Hayden Hurst on a slant toward the goal line. Mathieu’s read was per-

TRANSACTIONS BASKETBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES—Reinstated RHP David Hale from the 60-day IL. Transferred OF Aaron Hicks to the 60-day IL.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL—Reached a seven-year collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Referees Association. DETROIT LIONS—Released DT Frank Herron from the practice squad. Signed WR Travis Fulgham to the practice squad. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Waived CB Ryan Lewis. Signed WR Ashton Dulin from the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Waived CB Nate Meadors. Signed WR Davion Davis from the practice squad. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Released LB L.J. Fort. Agreed to terms with CB Orlando Scandrick.

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New York City FC at New England, 4 p.m. D.C. United at New York, 4 p.m. FC Dallas at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at LA Galaxy, 6:30 p.m. Los Angeles FC at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. Houston at Real Salt Lake, 6:30 p.m. Seattle at San Jose, 6:30 p.m. Portland at Sporting KC, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, October 6 New England at Atlanta, 3 p.m. Cincinnati at D.C. United, 3 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at FC Dallas, 3 p.m. LA Galaxy at Houston, 3 p.m. Colorado at Los Angeles FC, 3 p.m. New York at Montreal, 3 p.m. Chicago at Orlando City, 3 p.m. New York City FC at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. San Jose at Portland, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle, 3 p.m. Columbus at Toronto FC, 3 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

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CHINA OPEN Saturday At Beijing Women’s Singles – Round Of 64 Belinda Bencic (9), Switzerland, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, 7-5, 6-2. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, def. Xiyu Wang, China, 6-2, 6-2. Zheng Saisai, China, def. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Kiki Bertens (8), Netherlands, def. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (3). Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-4. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Karolina Pliskova (2), Czech Republic, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5.

CHENGDU OPEN Saturday At Chengdu, China. Men’s Singles — Semifinals Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, def. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, 7-6 (6), 6-4. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Denis Shapovalov (8), Canada, 6-3, 6-4. ZHUHAI OPEN Saturday At Zhuhai Men’s Singles — Semifinals Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas (8), Spain, 6-0, 4-6, 6-1. Alex de Minaur (7), Australia, def. Roberto Bautista-Agut (2), Spain, 6-2, 6-2.

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because the Chiefs will complete the first quarter of their regular season this weekend. The feeling within the organization has always been that this retooled defense would need a month or so to take traction — for the players to better understand the scheme, and for Spagnuolo to better understand the particular strengths and tendencies of his players. That process is likely lengthened by a training camp in which the defense is practicing against a unique offense, and on some levels it will be ongoing throughout the season. In the NFL, like many businesses, you’re either getting better or falling behind. One trend is beginning to materialize, and it’s one that people often miss with this defense. Yes, the front office will be aggressive in adding a cornerback. But the model they’ve always used is the one best illustrated by the Eagles’ Super Bowl winner two years ago. That team had shaky corners, solid safeties and relentless aggression and endless depth up front. Again, the Chiefs will continue to look for opportunities with cornerbacks. But the group they have now can work. The goals mentioned around the locker room are somewhat generic: They want to eliminate mental errors, close games better, be tougher against the run, build a reputation for being physical and make big plays. Those are, basically, priorities for every defense. And maybe that’s sort of the point, because if the Chiefs can perform like a typical NFL defense they will play deep into the playoffs. Three games in, you can see the moments that make them believe. Those moments need to happen more often, but the pieces are in place to be at least an average defense — with or without another cornerback.

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ASSISTANT Seeking a patient, positive person for light housework, healthy cooking, some driving, activities. 4 - 6 hours/week to start. Need references. 316-371-5400. Child Care We are in need of a child care giver. A person with experience in caring for kids within ages 4 and 6 yrs old. Call 802-424-0278 Fax 802-4240278 Email DAVRUSSELL@protonmail.com

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Licensed Addictions Councelor Sumner Mental Health Center, a licensed community mental health center, is seeking a Substance Abuse Counselor with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and licensed as a LAC, LMAC, or LCAC to provide substance abuse services in the State of Kansas. Preference for experience with dual diagnosis consumers. Fulltime position (M-F) with competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits program. Must be able to successfully pass required background checks. Send resume to HR@sumnermentalhealth.org by October 15, 2019.

Experienced Carpenters Experienced Painters Valid KS DL, own vehicle and own tools. Must pass background check & drug test, benefits & holiday pay offered. Apply in person 9:00am - 2:00pm at Klein Construction: 919 E. 53rd St N. Field Construction Observer Kirkham Michael Consulting Engineers is a growing company seeking an energetic and knowledgeable individual to fill our Assistant Construction Observer position. This position observes highway construction work and completes materials testing for conformance with plans and specifications. This position is open in either our Ellsworth, Garden City or Cheney, Kansas office. Construction related experience and possession of KDOT Inspection Certification is a plus, but not required. Applicants must possess basic math skills, good communication skills, and a valid driver's license with a good driving record. May require week long overnight travel during the work week for this position. EOE/AA Employer. To apply, please visit our website at www.kirkham.com and complete the application on-line. Closing date of October 4, 2019, with interviews being conducted the week of October 7, 2019. MANUFACTURING

Quality Compliance Manager Well established Aerospace Tooling manufacturer in the Wichita area is actively seeking a professional with experience in compliance, the outside audit process and general inspection activity. This individual should possess proficiency in the following: • Manage & maintain a Quality Mngmnt System that complies with AS9100 Rev.D and ISO 9001:2015. Must have general knowledge of both standards. • Represent the Company from a Quality standpoint on all internal and external audits. Work with all departments on Quality improvement initiative. • Must have the knowledge, experience, and initiative to grow in to a full-time Quality Manager role. • Must have a min of 10 yrs’ experience in an Aerospace Quality position. Wages comparable to experience. To apply, go to jobs.kansas.com by placing 4395537 in the search field.

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AUCTIONS Auctions AUCTION Fri. Oct. 4th 6:30pm 230 W. 5th Belle Plaine, KS. Collectibles, toys, over 70 tractors and combines most MIB, M& M dispensers, colored glass, Fenton bells, cookie jars, Blue Willow, primitives, oil lamps, copper luster, coins, guns, new 22" trimmer & rototiller, generator, power & hand tools, bar stools, much more. Bid Online. wrayauction.com 1-800-954-WRAY

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Butler Co—160-ac farm south of El Dorado, ½ mi off blacktop. 57 ac cropland; bal creek, timber & pasture. Great hunting. Immediate possession. Cowley Co—280+/- acres. Pasture, timber. Excellent hunting. CALL CHUCK KORTE 316-734-5132 Check www.chuckkorte.com for current info & pictures on all auctions. Real Estate auctions affiliated with BHHS PenFed Realty Chuck Korte Real Estate & Auction Service, Inc. Augusta, KS ---316-775-2020

AUCTION Saturday, October 12th @ 10:00am Held on-site @ 10602 E Mosaic, Wichita, KS 67206 LUXURY PATIO HOME - POOL - NORTHEAST WICHITA - GATED COMMUNITY HIGH END FINISHES THROUGHOUT THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR.

AUCTION Saturday October 19th @ 10:00am Held On-Site - 6767 N. Meridian, Wichita, KS 67204 PRIVATE COUNTRY ESTATE ON 17.91 ACRES - LITTLE ARKANSAS RIVERFRONT – WILDLIFE HIKING & ATV TRAILS - MODERN UPDATES & FINISHES THROUGHOUT – POOL LARGE PATIO - OPEN FLOOR PLAN

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2201 N Forest View St, Wichita, KS 67223

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Clean and well-kept Ranch style home located in desirable northwest Wichita. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,444 sq. ft. with a 2 car garage on a half acre lot.

Personals 1969 SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL REUNION Oct 18-19 Hotel Old Town in Wichita Ks Contact Jim 316-722-0812

ANIMALS Cats HAIRLESS SPHYNX KITTENS TICA Registered, Ready Now, All Black, Females & Males, Pet & Breeder Pricing, Current Vaccines & Healthy Vet Check, Litter Trained, Small Home Breeder Mystic Sphynx Cattery Call or Text for more info 316-871-5515

Listed at $225,000.00 OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, September 29 at 2-4PM Call Katie Ternes 316-524-8345 for more information. www.genefrancis.com

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P/T Clerk Position 2 years work exp., computer/data entry and valid driver’s license req. EOE Send resume to P.O. Box 2756 Wichita, KS 67201 by 10/14/2019.

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SECRETARY Public interest law firm seeks personable and reliable person to join our team full-time. Duties include: greeting clients, answering and routing phones, data entry and other clerical duties. Strong organizational skills and basic computer skills required. Spanish bilingual preferred, but not required. KLS offers excellent benefits and competitive salary. Send resume and cover letter to Glenda Leonard, Kansas Legal Services 340 S Broadway, Wichita, KS 67202 or email leonardg@klsinc.org EOE & Affirmative Action Employer. www.kansaslegalservices.org

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Dogs Akc German Shepherd pups We've got farm/country raised shepherds . 10weeks old 7Boys&1girl; Current on vaccines Imported bloodlines from Germany Topeka Ks 785-217-4458or720-377-2558 Thanks 500obo $500.00 Codypoortadams@gmail.com720-3782558 yorky teacup female $700.00 pigfarm4@msn.com 620-714-1478

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AUCTION FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 4:00 PM (Be Prompt!) 750 N SHARPVILLE RD, EL DORADO KS * Betty Criss, Seller TRACTOR & IMPLEMENTS: JD 770 Diesel Tractor 3225 Hours * Schulte 7’ Rotary Mower * King Kutter 6’ Rotary Mower * Frontier 6’ Rotary Mower * Land Pride 58, 3 Pt 5’ Tiller, 3Pt Post Auger with 6” Auger * 8’ 3Pt Road Rake * EQUIPMENT & TOOLS: Single Axle Trailer * Boat Trailer * MISC TOOLS & SCRAP AUCTION SUNDAY OCTOBER 6, 1:00 PM 505 N MAIN ST, BENTON KS * ESTATE OF BILL & BARBARA JOHNSON Truck: Dodge Ram 1500 V8 Ext Cab 4WD, 142k miles Guns: Marlin 30-30 Lever Action * Remington Target Master Model 510 22 Caliber * JC Higgins Model 5322 20 Gauge * Stevens Model 87B 22 Caliber Tools & Equipment: Massey Ferguson 35, 3Pt. Restored * 8×14 Tandem Axle Trailer * Furniture & MISC -------------------------------------------------------------SUNDGREN AUCTION * WWW.SUNDGREN.COM Jeremy Sundgren 316 377 0013 Rick Remsberg 316 322 5391

PREMIER LAND AUCTION 80+- ACRES LYON CO KS * BETWEEN EMPORIA & OLPE THURSDAY OCTOBER 17 2019 6:00 P.M. AUCTION LOCATION: CHICKEN HOUSE, 8 KS HWY 99, OLPE KS 66865 LAND LOCATION: From HWY 99 between Emporia and Olpe, East on Road 110 to L Rd, jog South back to Road 110, East to the property. HIGH QUALITY DEER, TURKEY, & QUAIL HUNTING * TILLABLE PLANTED TO SOYBEANS COAL CREEK MEANDERS THROUGH THE PROPERTY * WILDLIFE COVER & FEED RURAL WATER METER, GREAT CABIN OR HOME BUILDING SITE *INVEST IN LAND! SECLUDED DEAD END ROAD, NO ROADS FOR MILES TO THE EAST -------------------------------------------------------------SUNDGREN REALTY INC. * LAND BROKERS JEREMY SUNDGREN 316 377 0013 WWW.SUNDGREN.COM

DRIVERS WANTED Average Pay $55,000

HOME EVERY NIGHT WEEKENDS OFF! Apply at DRISCO, LLC 2249 SW Ohio St., El Dorado, KS 67042 or call (316) 321-0100, 8am-5pm, M-F for more information.

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Drisco, LLC needs local experienced end dump drivers. Dedicated routes. Well maintained equipment. Competitive wages; Years-ofService Bonus, Safety Bonus, Uniforms. Excellent Benefits: Company Contributed Health Insurance; Paid Life Insurance; 401K with matching benefits, Paid Vacation & Paid Holidays. Requires Minimum 25 years old; 2+ yrs of tractor/trailer driving exp; Current Valid Class A CDL driver’s license; Pre-employment Drug Screen.

Gun & Sporting Goods Auction Saturday, October 5th at 9:00 AM Auction Location: Gene Francis & Associates Auction Facility 12140 W. K-42 Hwy, Wichita Call 316-524-8345 to consign guns, ammo, re-loading equipment, fishing equipment, mounts, and wildlife art. We are accepting up to 350 guns. Visit www.genefrancis.com for sale bill.

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Bev’s Hauling For Less! We Haul Everything & clean out basements Call 316-409-0683

SAFE BATHING SOLUTIONS "Easy Access Walk in Showers & Bath Tubs our Specialty" Best Prices for Seniors & Vets Call 316.6339967 FREE QUOTES

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AUCTION WEDNESDAY *October2nd *9:00 am Sale Site: 13028 S. Seneca, Wichita Hong Kong Retaurant Complete restaurant, seating, all kitchen equipment & building components incl. Spanish roof tiles, air cond. units, iron window grates. Building being demoed. 10% Buyer’s Premium

AUCTION FRIDAY* October 4th * 5:pm Sale Site: 101 W 29th Street North Friday Night Auction Some of the items being auctioned off. Remington Woodmaster 742, Remington 16 ga; Remington 514; Ruger 10/22; Marlin 12 ga; Marlin 30-30; US Carbine 20 call; Tradition Blk Powder 50 Cal; Black Power Hex. Barrell 45 Cal; Squirrel Blk Powder 32 Cal; Max 1934; Crossbows; Lots of different ammo; Shell belts; Neon Beet Signs; Wester Signal; 3% Convenience Fee Terms: cash, credit cards, no checks BUD PALMER AUCTION (316) 838-4141 PalmerAuction.com FB-BudPalmerAuction

160+- ACRES ELK COUNTY, KS TUESDAY OCTOBER 8 2019 6:00 P.M. AUCTION LOCATION: Toot’s Drive In, 1251 KS Hwy 99 Howard KS LAND LOCATION: From HWY 99 West on Turkey 4 Miles to Road 12, then South 1 Mile CATTLE GRAZING PASTURE * WET WEATHER TIMBER LINED DRAW LARGE POND * EXCELLENT HUNTING * ROLLING HILLS * VERY SCENIC -------------------------------------------------------------SUNDGREN REALTY INC. * LAND BROKERS JOE SUNDGREN, BROKER * JEREMY SUNDGREN 316 377 0013 WWW.SUNDGREN.COM McCurdyAuction.com Real Estate-Pers. Appliances Prop Wichita, Ks. 683-0612 REAL ESTATE AUCTION 9303 W 73rd N 4 BD Home on 10 Acres Valley Center, KS Sat Oct 12th, 1pm Open Sunday Oct 6th, 2-4pm Pat Dreiling Auctioneer 316-761-1954 Dreiling Realty & Auction LLC

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) At your service estate sales * Starts Thursday Oct 3rd in Colwich BECKY’S ESTATE SALE STARTS Thurs Oct 3rd, 8am. Very Full, Lots of Antiques! See You There!

Sale Monday Sept 30th Rosie and Mike 316-648-0631

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WANTED FREON R12. We pay CA$H. R12 R500 R11. Convenient. Certified professionals. www.refrigerantfinders.com/ad 312-291-9169

Antiques 200+ BOOTH FLEA MARKET Fairgrounds - Hutchinson Sunday, October 6th Info: (620) 663-5626 www.midamericafleamarkets.com AMAZING ANTIQUE AUCTION Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 9:30am 130 E. Third Street, Douglass, KS Bronze figurines, oil paintings, Babes in Woods, Quezal, Belleek, Moser, Art Pottery, an outstanding French barometer, Galle Pottery, Sevres, Sterling Silver, Furniture, Art Glass, Cut Glass, and more! info@woodyauction.com 316-747-2694 www.WoodyAuction.com

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3 BDRM, 2 BA HOME ON 1-ACRE LOT W/POOL, PLUS 30’X24’ DET GAR • 10 E Woodland Dr – Augusta, KS Open House: Sun., Oct 13—2-4 p.m. • 1596 Sq Ft Home Offered By Original Owner

Derby...2435 N Woodlawn Blvd Saturday,Sunday 9AM-4PM MOVING SALE: Household goods, clothing, furniture, pet items, art, and more! Cross streets Patriot/Woodlawn in Derby in Derby Hills area. Cash and CCs via square accepted!

FRI., OCT. 25—10:00 A.M.

Park City Citywide Garage Sale

Machinery, Trailers, Misc • SAT., OCT. 26—10:00 A.M. 57 ANTIQUE TRACTORS • 2 AIRPLANES • Near Andover

Saturday, September 28th Maps available at Park City Businesses

FRI., OCT. 11—5:00 P.M. 6+/- ACRE SUBURBAN • 16407 SW Ohio St Rd – Augusta, KS William Ridgway Estate, Seller • Ranch Home, 24’x48’ Det Gar Rural Water, Lagoon, Augusta Schools • Also selling hand tools & antiques

FRI., OCT. 18—6:00 P.M.

WE NEED LISTINGS OF HOMES, FARMS & RANCHES

CALL CHUCK YOUR LAND BROKER Check www.chuckkorte.com for current info & pictures on all auctions. Real Estate auctions affiliated with BHHS PenFed Realty Chuck Korte Real Estate & Auction Service, Inc. Augusta, KS ---316-775-2020

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Saturday October 12th @ 10AM • 2812 & 2814 E 2nd St North, Wichita, KS 67214 (Live on-Site Auction Real Estate Sells 1st Don’t Miss IT!!) Selling the Estate of Berniece Jones Property #1 2812 E 2nd St North Wichita KS 67214

This is a great investment opportunity

Type: Residential Bedrooms: 3 this bungalow style house is 1298 sq ft Style: Bungalow Basement: Partial 3 bed 1 bath has a large front porch, oversized carport, 2 garages, Year Built: 1918 Taxes: $718.83 newer central a/c heritage shingles Sq Ft: 1298 don’t miss this opportunity!!!!!!

Property #2 2814 E 2nd St North Wichita Ks 67214

Another Great investment opportunity this

Type: Residential Bedrooms: 2 bungalow style house is 1144 sq ft 2 bedroom Style: Bungalow Basement: Partial 1 bath has large front porch large living room a detached garage heritage shingles. This is a Year Built: 1925 Taxes: $636.64 rare opportunity to buy 2 houses side by side Sq Ft: 1144 don’t miss this auction!!!!!!!!!

DISCLOSURE This property is selling in its present condition and is accepted by the buyer(s) without any expressed or implied warranties or representations from the seller(s) or his (her) agent(s). It is incumbent upon the buyer(s) to exercise his (her) own due diligence prior to bidding on this property. It is the responsibility of the prospective purchaser(s) to have any and all inspections and needed appraisals completed prior to the auction day, including but not limited to roof, structure, termite, radon, environmental, groundwater, flood designation, presence of lead-based paint and/or lead-based paint hazards, presence of mold, electrical, mechanical, plumbing and any other desired inspections, if any. Information given is from source deemed reliable but NOT guaranteed by the seller(s) or the Realtor(s) Auctioneer(s). Announcements made the day of the auction shall take precedence over anything previously stated or printed. All registered bidders will be granted access to complete all needed inspections prior to the sale by registering and scheduling an appointment or during open houses. Property is sold as is. There will be 2% referral fee paid to OCT 11th, 2019 by 5:00 pm. Call 316-742-3311 or visit www.newcomauctions.bid for all available reports, TERMS All bidders will be required to register at sale, or for registration prior to sale call 316-742-3311. All successful bidders will be required to sign a cash contract and deposit 10% of total purchase price as earnest money will be applied to the purchase price at closing. Sale will not be subject to loan requirements. The sale will be final and any loan requirements will be the buyer(s) responsibility. If a successful bidder (buyer) does not consummate the same according to the contract, the down payment will not be refunded. Payments is BALANCE at closing on or before November 7th 2019. Cost of title insurance and closing fee will be split 50/50. Possession will be at closing. There Will be A 10% Buyers Premium Added To the Final high Bid Price

Jeremy Wedel Real estate agent Auctioneer 316-742-3311 316-621-0383 cell

Jack Newcom, Auctioneer 316-742-3311 or 316-250-0077 112 N. Main | Leon, KS 67074 newcomauctions@gmail.com Newcomauctions.bid

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FARM & EQUIPMENT Farm & Ranch & Garden John Deere 9670- STS w/ flex header. 1516/1191 hrs 580-541-3683

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AUTOMOTIVE Autos/Classic and Specialty 1967 Mustang GT fastback, all orig. always garaged 52,000 actual mi white w/ blk stripes. serious inquiries only! 785-272-6894 Chickasha Swap Meet CARS & PARTS 712 E Choctaw Chickasha, OK Oct 17, 18 19 Rain or shine 405-224-6552 Facebook us @ Chickasha Swap Meet

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The Estate Of Berniece Jones ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES TOOLS & MISC 2 Roll away tool boxes - sockets - wrenches - pipe Metal signs - candy mach. - Budweiser horse and wrenches crescent wrenches - pliers - hammers Buggy - stand up Radio - Lots of Salt & pepper saws - scroll saw on stand - ext ladders - ext cords Shakers - Knick knacks - Metal wagons much more number stamps - organizers - grease guns - much much to be discovered more to numerous to list!!!!!!!!! FURNITURE & APPLICATIONS Auctioneers Note: Solid Wood china Hutch - old Buffet - Roll top This is a very large auction with over 50 years of desk - several desks - several sofas - several antique accumulation there are 2 homes and 3 garages full, dressers - 3 stand up refrigerators - antique this is a partial list. There are lots of antiques refrigerator - Electric Stove - convection oven - several and collectibles, furniture, Appliances, Tools, pieces of exercise equipment and lots more yard art and Decorations and much much more. Yard Decorations & Collectibles There is a 10% Buyers Premium on all purchases. 10+ old Metal lawn chairs - Metal Glider - windmill - BRING A TRUCK AND BRING A FRIEND AND PLAN TO SPEND THE DAY!!!! cement turkey, chickens, geese - patio tables and chairs NO TELLING WHAT KIND OF TREASURES - metals teader todder - pull behind cultivator - several YOU CAN FIND. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. bird baths - small Rubbermaid storage building Jack Newcom, Auctioneer 316-742-3311 or 316-250-0077 112 N. Main | Leon, KS 67074 newcomauctions@gmail.com Newcomauctions.bid

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AUCTION Saturday October 26th @10 am 112 N Main Leon, KS 67074

Now accepting Consignments Contact: Jack Newcom 316-250-0077 Or Jeremy Wedel 316-621-0383

Have something to sell???? Call to Consign today for Advertising and great commission Rates Accepting: Tractors, Equipment, Trucks, Car, 4 Wheelers, UTVS, Boats, Campers, Jet Skis, Mowers, Tools, and Guns!!!!!!

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ABSOLUTE AUCTION Sat., Oct. 5, 2019 @ 10:00 AM On-Site at 230 S Broadway, Wellington, KS Sumner Co. Farmstead & Quarter Section Older farmstead w/37+/- ac pasture & bldgs; 121+/- tillable 5 mi. East and 1½ mi. South of Wellington

Let our experience work for you!! Jeremy Wedel Real estate agent Auctioneer 316-742-3311 316-621-0383 cell

Jack Newcom, Auctioneer 316-742-3311 or 316-250-0077 112 N. Main | Leon, KS 67074 newcomauctions@gmail.com Newcomauctions.bid

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Saturday October 12th @ 10 AM (Immediately following the Real Estate) 2812 & 2814 E 2nd ST North, Wichita, KS 67214

Jeremy Wedel Real estate agent Auctioneer 316-742-3311 316-621-0383 cell

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RIVER LEVELS

YOUR 7-DAY FORECAST Today

Tonight

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Tuesday

Wednesday

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24-hour change

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22 21

1.87 4.00

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21 19 23

6.01 2.10 5.95

+0.01 none -0.02

Elevation yesterday 1421.40 1338.96

24-hour change -0.02 -0.02

ARKANSAS

Mostly cloudy; windy Precip: 25%

Mostly cloudy; breezy, very warm, humid Precip: 25%

Clouds and sun; breezy, very warm, humid Precip: 25%

74°

89° 73°

85° ALMANAC

Statistics through 5 p.m. yesterday 77°/68° 77°/54° 70°/51° 103° (1953) 35° (1967) 0.09” 0.86” (2.95”) 36.35” (27.04”) 21.92”

A shower and t-storm around; not as warm Precip: 60%

87° 67° 77° 55° SUN & MOON

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National Extremes (Yesterday for the 48 contiguous states.) High: 100° in Zapata, TX Low: 21° in Stanley, ID

Toronto 62/52 Detroit Chicago 66/62 68/66

Denver 86/50

Los Angeles 74/57

New York 77/60

Washington 85/68

Kansas City 83/71 Atlanta 93/73

El Paso 91/71 Houston 91/76 Chihuahua 88/66

Snow

10s

Normal Pool (ft.) 1421.6 1339.0

Cheney Reservoir El Dorado Lake

St. Joseph 83/73

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20s

Miami 90/79

Monterrey 90/74

Flurries

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Stationary Front

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Montreal 61/43

Billings 44/31

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Medicine Lodge 87/73

Liberal 90/67

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Winnipeg 44/40

Seattle 59/44

Dodge City 90/71

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32 781 (574) 4287 (3849) 78% at 5 p.m. 78/68 (2 inches)

0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme

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Garden City 90/69

8 am 10 am Noon 2 pm 4 pm 6 pm

T-storms

Precip: 25%

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REALFEEL TODAY 81

Precip: 30%

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Source: National Allergy Bureau

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A couple of showers possible

68° 53° 71° 58° 76° 58° GROWING DEGREE DAYS 7:23 a.m. 7:16 p.m. 8:14 a.m. 8:17 p.m.

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YESTERDAY Low Absent

Precip: 25%

First

POLLEN INDEX Grasses: Trees:

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n This minimalist but sophisticated Transcend 38-millimeter leather strap watch with a gold-toned trim is waterresistant. $89 at timex.com.

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n Keeps hair pulled back securely.

n Designed with a crochet rainbow.

n Made of 18-karat gold-plated brass.

n Knit from pure organic cotton.

n Measures 2 inches in diameter.

n Measures 30 x 40 inches.

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n Voiced by Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish and more. n 3D animated film by Illumination.

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Whitaker, who has starred in the real-life roles of Idi Amin (The Last King of Scotland) and Charlie Parker (Bird), plays the title role in Godfather of Harlem (Sept. 29 on Epix). The new TV drama series is inspired by the true story of crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from prison to find his hometown controlled by the Italian mob and had to win his turf back. It was interesting, says the actor, 58, to understand Johnson's connection to “the civil rights movement, criminality and [his] family.”

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Census Bureau’s approach to privacy questioned BY JENNIFER MCDERMOTT AND MIKE SCHNEIDER

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In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the U.S. Census Bureau recently undertook an experiment to see if census answers could threaten the

privacy of the people who fill out the questionnaires. The agency went back to the last national headcount, in 2010, and reconstructed individual profiles from thousands of publicly available tables. It then matched those records against other public population data. The result: Officials were

able to infer the identities of 52 million Americans. Confronted with that discovery, the bureau announced that it would add statistical “noise” to the 2020 data, essentially tinkering with its own numbers to preserve privacy. But that idea creates its own problems, and social scientists, redistrict-

ing experts and others worry that it will make next year’s census less accurate. They say the bureau’s response is overkill. “This is a brand new, radically more conservative definition of privacy,” University of Minnesota demographer Steven Ruggles said.

Federal law bars census officials from disclosing any individual’s responses. But datacrunching computers can tease out likely identities from the broader census results when combined with other personal information. Some critics fear the agency’s changes could make it harder to draw new congressional and legislative districts accurately. Others worry that research on immigration, demographics, the opioid epidemic and declining life expectancy will be hindered, particularly when it involves less populated areas. SEE CENSUS, PAGE 2

Trans groups shaken by 18 killings BY RICK ROJAS AND VANESSA SWALES

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Activists with Extinction Rebellion block a major intersection with a boat to protest inaction on climate change in Washington on Monday. The protesters from the activist group snarled traffic in Washington on Monday and again on Friday.

Meet the millionaires helping to pay for climate protests BY JOHN SCHWARTZ

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Climate change protesters from Extinction Rebellion snarled traffic in Washington on Monday and again on Friday. You might find yourself asking, “Who helps pays for this activism?” The answer, in part, is the scions of some of America’s most famous families, including the Kennedys and the Gettys. On Friday, climate protesters marched through parts of downtown Washington, D.C., blocking intersections and causing road closures, according to news reports and the Metropolitan Police. By about 9 a.m., the marchers had made their way down parts of 13th Street NW, after pausing earlier in the morning at the Trump International Hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. The protesters also gathered at McPherson Square, not far from the White House, and

stopped in front of BlackRock’s D.C. offices and the Environmental Protection Agency. Three wealthy donors formed the Climate Emergency Fund this year to support “disruptive activists,” as Trevor Neilson, one of the founders, put it. For years, he said, they have individually given money to more traditional environmental organizations like Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council but concluded that these groups were taking a too-gradual approach to the fight against climate change and that the crisis demanded greater urgency. “The smartest place for philanthropists to invest is in this new generation of activists who refuse to accept the excuses of the adults whose lazy approach to climate is leading us off a cliff,” Neilson said. “The era of gradualism in environmental activism is over.” Since its founding in July, the Climate Emergency Fund has distributed grants, (some as

small as $2,000) to dozens of groups, including 350.org and others tied to the youth climate strikes last week. Extinction Rebellion has chapters around the world and has brought intense attention to climate change through disruptive protests in London in April, and subsequent protests in Los Angeles, New York City and elsewhere. It got a pledge of $350,000. Neilson and the other two founding donors, who are friends and already partners in philanthropy, have homes in Malibu, California, that were threatened by last year’s wildfires. “The fires had a way of waking us up,” he said. So far the effort has raised more than $1 million he said, with about $800,000 in grants. Another of the founders is Rory Kennedy, daughter of Sen. Robert Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. “I’m very excited about it,” she said. “In the history of our country, major social shifts have really hap-

pened, starting out, on the streets. We’re very much running out of time here – we need to help people understand we need a radical change in direction.” And while she said that it was unwise for any member of the Kennedy family to speak of the family “as a unit” since “there are a lot of us,” she said that her support for these organizations was consistent with their values. “As a family, we have appreciated, over the years, the importance of protest,” from the civil rights movement on. She recalled being arrested, at the age of 13, protesting apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington. “My mother drove me down to get arrested,” she said. Aileen Getty, the third founder and granddaughter of oil magnate Jean Paul Getty, gave $600,000 to the group. She said she has redirected the bulk of her philanthropic giving, which has for years provided housing support for the homeless, paid for AIDS research and supported parks and green spaces, to climate issues. “As long as our energies are focused on all of these other SEE CLIMATE, PAGE 2

In the most recent killing of a transgender woman, the victim’s body was found inside an abandoned car, burned beyond recognition. In another case, the woman was pulled from a lake at a Dallas park. And in a third, she was found dead near a golf course, just weeks after she survived a brutal beating that was captured on video. In the United States this year, at least 18 transgender people – most of them transgender women of color – have been killed in a wave of violence that the American Medical Association has declared an “epidemic.” The killings, which have been reported across the country, have for some prompted a heightened sense of vigilance. “It’s always in the forefront of our minds, when we’re leaving home, going to work, going to school,” said Kayla Gore, who SEE KILLINGS, PAGE 2

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CENSUS If the change had been in place four years ago, Ruggles said, he would not have been able to conduct a 2015 study on the impact of declines in young men’s incomes on marriage. With more and more data sets available to the public with a quick download, it has become easier than ever to match information with real names. That means aggregated answers to census questions involving race, housing and relationships could lead to individuals. The fear is that advertisers, market researchers or anybody with

know-how and curiosity could use data to reconstruct the identities of census respondents. When the bureau went back to the 2010 census, it matched the census data with commercial databases. More than 1 in 6 respondents were identified by name and neighborhood as well as by information about their race, ethnicity, sex and age. Since the last census, “the data world has changed dramatically,” Ron Jarmin, deputy director of the census agency wrote earlier this year. “Much more personal

information is available online and from commercial providers, and the technology to manipulate that data is more powerful than ever.” The Trump administration’s unsuccessful effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 questionnaire heightened fears about how census information would be used. But privacy concerns are nothing new for the bureau. Historians have found evidence that census data helped identify Japanese Americans who were rounded up and confined to camps during World War II. That revelation led to an apology from thenCensus Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt in 2000. Jewish groups and some

liberal organizations had concerns about privacy when the bureau was lobbied to ask about religion for the 1960 census. Some noted that Nazis had used government and church records to identify and round up Jews. The idea never went anywhere. During the legal battle over the citizenship question, advocates worried that the information could be used to target residents in the country illegally. Some say lingering concerns could have a chilling effect on the 2020 census. To address those worries, the bureau has adopted a technique called “differential privacy,” which alters the numbers but does not change core findings to protect the

identities of individual respondents. It’s analogous to pixilating the data, a technique commonly used to blur certain images on television, said Michael Hawes, senior adviser for data access and privacy at the Census Bureau. Redistricting experts say the mathematical blurring could cause problems because they rely on precise numbers to draw congressional and state and local legislative districts. They also worry that it could dilute minority voting power and violate the Voting Rights Act. “The numbers might be off by five, 10, 20 people, and if you’re dealing with exact percentages, that could mean something. That could mean a lot,”

said Jeffrey M. Wice, a national redistricting attorney. “That’s why we care about it so much.” In the past, the bureau has used “swapping” and other methods to protect confidentiality. Swapping involves taking similar households in different geographic areas and exchanging demographic characteristics. Census data does not need to be exact for most purposes, “as long as we know it’s really pretty close,” said Justin Levitt, an election law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. But “there’s certainly a point where blurry becomes too blurry.”

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KILLINGS lives in Memphis. “Guys were flirting with me at the gas station, and the first thought was, ‘This could go horribly wrong.’ ” Activists said the cases have also underscored the precarious position of many in a community that faces elevated levels of homelessness and poverty, and the hazards that can bring. The killings this year follow at least 26 recorded last year by the Human Rights Campaign. But transgender advocates noted that those figures fail to grasp the full extent of the perils the community faces, as data provided by law enforcement officials can be incomplete and many crimes are never reported. The paucity of reliable data makes it difficult to measure whether violence against transgender people has increased. But many advocates say that hostility has intensified, as a rise in visibility has also stirred animosity and emboldened people to attack. The climate of fear reflects a widening gulf in the acceptance of transgender groups, which today have far more rep-

resentation in popular culture. There are transgender or gender-nonconforming characters on television and in movies, and Mattel recently introduced a line of genderneutral dolls. Yet that cultural progress has not trickled down to everyday life, particularly for those who are the most vulnerable. “We are the most afraid we’ve ever been,” said Mariah Moore, a program associate for the Transgender Law Center, who lives in New Orleans. “But we’re also stronger than we’ve ever been.” Many transgender people said they have hunkered down, avoiding meeting people they do not know and sticking to places where they will have greater odds of staying safe. “A lot of folks are living in silos,” Gore said. Between May and July – when pride events were taking place across the country – at least 14 LGBTQ people were killed, according to a report from the AntiViolence Project. Seven of the victims were black transgender women. “The increased visibility is a signal for them that

they need to double down in fighting back,” Beverly Tillery, the executive director of the Anti-Violence Project in New York, said of those looking to harm transgender people. “We’re definitely seeing what we would call a backlash.” The dangers, of course, extend beyond explicit bias crimes. Discrimination can stand in the way of housing, education and job prospects, pushing many transgender people into homelessness as well as into sex work, elevating risks to their safety. And for black transgender women, racism can compound the discrimination. “The prejudices don’t add upon one another, they multiply upon one another,” said Sarah McBride, the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. Police departments have hired more LGBTQ officers and have sought to mend strained relationships, but advocates say many transgender people avoid calling the police if they are threatened or even physically attacked. Dana Martin, 31, was the first known transgender person killed in 2019, found shot to death in a vehicle in Montgomery, Alabama, in January. Since then, three transgender women have been killed in Dallas, including

Muhlaysia Booker, a 23year-old who was shot to death about a month after being brutally assaulted in an unrelated attack that was captured on video and garnered national attention. Another transgender woman in Dallas was shot several times last week and gravely wounded in an attack that the authorities are investigating as a hate crime. In Detroit in June, an 18-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder for the targeted killings of a transgender woman, Paris Cameron, and two gay men. The most recent killing, at least the 18th, took place near Clewiston, Florida. The body of Bee Love Slater, 23, was found in a scorched car on Sept. 4, her body so badly burned that she had to be identified with dental records. The series of killings has mobilized transgender and LGBTQ groups, with calls for lawmakers to strengthen hate crime legislation and bar the use of the so-called gay- or trans-panic defense for people charged with attacks. They have also organized self-defense classes and guides on where to find affirming places to eat and shop. The violence against transgender women has been cited by several Democratic presidential candidates, including Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker and Julián Castro, the former housing secretary. At a candidates forum on LGBTQ issues in Iowa last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren read aloud the names of those who have been killed this year. “We do not talk enough about trans Americans, especially trans AfricanAmericans and the especially high rates of murder right now,” Booker said on Twitter after the Democratic debate in Miami in June. “It’s not enough just to be on the Equality Act. We need to have a president who will fight to protect LGBTQ Americans every day.”

REBECCA SMEYNE NYT

Aileen Getty, center wearing a bolo tie, at a gala in New York, Feb. 6. Getty, a co-founder of the Climate Emergency Fund and granddaughter of the oil magnate Jean Paul Getty, has given $500,000 to the fund.

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CLIMATE issues, as pressing as they are, we’re not looking at the most pressing issue of all,” she said. The grants have been welcome, said Roger Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, in an interview from England. “My understanding is, unsurprisingly, some of the rich people are intelligent enough to do the basic maths and realize we’re heading toward extinction.” Climate change, he said, makes strong protest reasonable, even necessary. The money comes with one important restriction, Neilson said. It can “only be used for legal activities.” The nonprofit organization worked the language into the paperwork on every grant agreement and indemnifies the donors from the consequences of illegal actions. “Our funding is primarily used for things like printing signs, printing newsletters, bullhorns, hiring organizers, digital media and other items that are essential to peaceful, legal protest,” Neilson said. And what if a group uses the money for something illegal? “I imagine we would not provide them funding again,” he said. Neilson, who is an entrepreneur and investor, said that the money donated to Extinction Rebellion was not directed to individual actions but more often goes to operating expenses. When he attended the climate strike last Friday in Los Angeles with his 3-yearold son, he said, “I saw the bullhorns that my funding provided to XR four months ago.” Hallam seemed to find these distinctions a bit fussy. The money the group raises doesn’t precisely go to someone to break the law, he said, but “it goes without saying

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THE ERA OF GRADUALISM IN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IS OVER. Trevor Neilson, one of the founders of the Climate Emergency Fund that Extinction Rebellion is involved in civil disobedience, and civil disobedience involves breaking the law.” But, he said, the group draws the line at destructive and violent acts. The scale of the problem, he said, makes rebellion necessary. “Sometimes it’s common sense that you have to cause harm to prevent a greater harm.” Getty noted that much of her family’s wealth came from businesses involved with fossil fuels, which contribute to climate change. Getty Oil was once one of the nation’s largest producers and was bought by Texaco in 1984; she said she has been moving fossil fuels out of her own portfolio in favor of sustainable investments. Other families have distanced themselves from their beginnings in fossil fuels, including the Rockefellers, who have divested their philanthropies of fossil fuel investments and taken on Exxon Mobil, the company that much of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil became. Getty said that “there is obviously an awareness of the legacy of that,” which has only increased her commitment. “Times change, and what was relevant and useful to us decades ago is now harming us beyond recognition.”


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FOCUS: IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY Russian and Saudi call memos also hidden, ex-official says BY ZEKE MILLER

Associated Press WASHINGTON

The White House severely restricted distribution of memos detailing President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, after embarrassing leaks of his conversations early in his tenure, a former White House official said. The White House’s handling of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders is at

the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. A whistleblower alleges the White House tried to “lock down” Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s new president because officials were worried about Trump’s request for help investigating Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden. The anonymous whistleblower alleges the White House also tried to cover up the content of other calls by moving memos onto a highly classified computer system. The former White

House official acknowledged that other calls were concealed, while casting the decision as part of an effort to minimize leaks, not an attempt to hide improper discussions. The former official was not authorized to discuss the classification system publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House was beset by leaks of highly sensitive information in the early days of Trump’s presidency. Trump was particularly enraged by leaks that disclosed tough conversations with the

leader of Mexico on paying for a border wall and with Australia on abiding by an Obama administration deal on asylumseekers. After those disclosures, a White House adviser raised the possibility of lie detector tests for the small number of people in the West Wing and elsewhere with access to transcripts of Trump’s phone calls. In previous administrations, rough transcripts of presidential phone calls were kept private, but not housed on the highly classified computer system unless sensitive national security information was discussed. Summaries of the calls were distributed to relevant officials in the White House, the State

Department and other agencies. The Trump administration’s process curtailed the number of people who had access. The question now is why. The whistleblower’s complaint paints a picture of a White House scrambling to conceal damaging information about the president, including the July call in which he pressed Ukraine’s leader for help investigating Biden. The White House released a rough transcript of the call this past week in which Trump repeatedly says Attorney General William Barr and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani could help with that effort. The call came days after Trump ordered a

freeze to some military assistance for Ukraine. The contents of the restricted calls with Putin and bin Salman are unknown. But Trump’s relationship with both leaders has been controversial, given Russia’s attack on the 2016 U.S. election on Trump’s behalf and Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations, including the murder of a Washington Post journalist. The former official noted that even some of Trump’s calls with U.S. allies were restricted due to the classified matters that arise during the discussions. CNN first reported on the White House effort to conceal those calls.

TOM BRENNER NYT

A whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump rapidly evolved from a procedural fight over how to handle the complaint to an impeachment inquiry within two weeks. Much of the evidence is already in public view.

Unfolding threat is unlike any other Trump faced BY JULIE PACE AND ZEKE MILLER

Associated Press WASHINGTON

From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been shadowed by investigations and controversy. They have been layered, lengthy and often inconclusive, leaving many Americans scandal-weary and numb to his behavior. And with each charge against him, Trump has perfected the art of deflection, seemingly gaining strength by bullying and belittling those who have dared to take him on. Now Trump is facing a high-velocity threat like none he’s confronted before. It has rapidly evolved from a process fight over a whistleblower complaint to an impeachment inquiry within two weeks. Much of the evidence is already in public view. A rough transcript of a phone call in which

Trump asks Ukraine’s president to help investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden. The whistleblower’s detailed letter alleging the White House tried to cover up the call, and possibly others. Unlike special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation, which circled an array of people in Trump’s orbit but not always the president himself, Trump doesn’t have the benefit of distance. His words and his actions are at the center of this investigation. “The Mueller report, it was always Manafort this and his son that. There was a cascade of players,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, referring to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. “This was just Donald Trump and a disturbing conversation with another world leader.” So, suddenly, Washington is different and the history of Trump’s presidency has changed. By

year’s end, he could become only the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. That new reality caught Trump and his advisers off guard, according to people close to the president. If anything, they thought the specter of impeachment had been lifted after the Mueller investigation ended without a clear determination that Trump had committed a crime. The contours of that investigation played to Trump’s strengths. Mueller spent two years in silence, allowing the president to fill the vacuum with assertions that the investigation was a “hoax” and a “witch hunt.” The details of the investigation that did leak out were often complicated and focused on people in Trump’s sphere. Even Mueller’s pointed statement that he had not exonerated Trump did not seem to stick. There was ultimately plenty of smoke, but no smoking

gun. Numerous other Democratic inquiries appeared likely to meet a similar fate, including House investigation into Trump’s business dealings, his tax returns and a variety of administration scandals. For many Americans, they were one big blur of investigations without any clarity of purpose. Then the whistleblower gave the Democrats what they needed: a simple, easily explainable charge – that the president sought a foreign government’s help for personal political gain – and his words to back it up. For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and several Democratic moderates who had resisted calls for impeachment, the calculus shifted . It was now more of a risk to recoil from impeachment than charge ahead. “What we’re seeing right now is a completely different moment in the history of this country,” said Rep. Debbie Mu-

carsel-Powell, D-Fla. One thing that didn’t change – at least not immediately – was the clear partisan divide over Trump’s actions, both in Washington and across the country. According to a one-day NPR/PBS NewsHour /Marist poll conducted Wednesday, 49% of Americans approve of the House formally starting an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Among Democrats, 88% approve of the investigation, while 93% of Republicans disapprove. On Capitol Hill, some Trump allies confidently dismissed the impeachment inquiry as just another partisan effort to take down a president who is despised by many Democrats. That rough transcript of a phone call in which Trump presses Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to work with Attorney General William Barr and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on an investigation into Biden? It’s just Trump being Trump, according to his backers. “You’ve heard President Trump talk. That’s President Trump,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Mark Updegrove, a presidential historian and

president of the LBJ Foundation in Austin, Texas, said it’s that enduring support from Republican lawmakers that currently separates Trump from Richard Nixon, who resigned in the midst of the Watergate impeachment inquiry because his party began to abandon him. “The big difference between this and Watergate is that you had both Republicans and Democrats being deeply concerned about the president being involved in criminal wrongdoing,” Updegrove said. “It was a bipartisan effort and you certainly don’t have that here.” But it is early, compared with Watergate. There were small signs that some Republicans were trying to keep some measure of distance from the president. Some GOP lawmakers fled Washington for a fall break claiming they hadn’t yet read the whistleblower’s complaint. Others said they were open to learning more about the situation.

AP polling editor Emily Swanson and Associated Press writers Alan Fram in Washington and Alan Suderman in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.


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any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.” Once a forgotten element of the Constitution, it has attained new recognition in the Trump era as multiple critics of the president wage legal battles arguing that he has violated the emoluments clause through hotels and resorts of his that are patronized by Middle East sheikhs and other foreign potentates. Indeed, Trump’s entire presidency has been shadowed by questions of foreign ties. The special counsel, Robert Mueller, concluded his investigation by saying he had not found sufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, but that was a narrow legal judgment. While the president has sought to interpret that report to mean that Russia’s ties to the campaign were a “hoax” made up by his opponents, in fact Mueller’s investigation documented extensive contacts between Trump’s associates and Russian figures. It concluded that the Kremlin sought specifically to help Trump get elected, and Mueller said Trump’s campaign welcomed Russia’s help. Trump at one point even publicly called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, and within hours Russian agents sought to do just that by trying to break into her

computer servers. In the end, House Democrats shied away from trying to impeach Trump on those grounds since Mueller said he could not establish a criminal conspiracy. But it set the stage for the current impeachment battle. The concept of impeachment was adopted from Britain, where there had been plenty of misadventures in foreign policy involving bribes, treaties and illadvised royal marriages. “Foreign policy mistakes or corruption of foreign policy is a big component of the body of British impeachment precedents that the framers had in mind,” said Frank O. Bowman III, a law professor at the University of Missouri and author of the new book, “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The fear of foreign powers likewise animated the discussion over impeachment. The delegates who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787, seeking to replace the dysfunctional Articles of Confederation, wanted to create a stronger executive but not a king immune from accountability. The challenge was figuring out what would trigger the most radical remedy of removal from office. At first, the delegates adopted a phrase from Hugh Williamson of North Carolina making a president “removable on impeachment and conviction of malpractice or neglect of duty,” a phrase so broad as to allow Congress to force out a chief executive not just for corruption but for ineffectiveness, more akin

to a prime minister who loses a vote of confidence. That went too far for some delegates and the debate was reopened. What they were looking to avoid, among other things, was a president abusing power for his own personal gain – and the thought of a president who subordinated the national good to foreign interests was high on the list. James Madison feared that a president might “betray his trust to foreign powers,” while Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania, who at first opposed including an impeachment clause at all, agreed they needed recourse for “the danger of seeing the first Magistrate in foreign pay.” So they crafted a clause empowering Congress to impeach a president “for treason, or bribery.” George Mason of Virginia argued that was too limited; there were plenty of abuses that did not add up to treason. He proposed adding “maladministration.” But that again seemed too open-ended to Madison, who complained that it would mean a president served essentially at the pleasure of the Senate. Mason then suggested “other high crimes and misdemeanors,” the compromise that was then accepted. But Americans have been debating ever since 1787 just what qualified as a high crime. Again, the framers had illicit ties with foreign powers in mind. During the Virginia ratifying convention, Edmund Randolph linked impeachment to foreign money, saying that a president “may be impeached” if discovered “receiving emoluments from foreign powers.” Others suggested that lying to the Senate about information related to a foreign treaty would qualify for impeachment. That concern would continue to be a preoccupation of the country’s early leaders. In his farewell address, George Washington spoke of “the insidious wiles of foreign influence,” calling it “one of the most baneful foes of republican government” and urging America “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Thomas Jefferson echoed that in warning against “entangling alliances” with foreign powers. The only impeachment involving foreign policy came in the case of a senator, William Blount, who was accused in 1787 of scheming to transfer parts of Florida and the Louisiana territory to Britain. The House impeached Blount but he fled Washington and the Senate opted to expel him rather than convict him at trial.

chief (of the State Press) and said we should look into this because we thought it would be good to localize a big story,” he said. Howard began looking into Volker and, by Friday evening, confirmed with an unnamed school official that Volker had resigned. He worked on the story with the editor in chief and another managing editor. “We did hard work. We wanted to make sure our facts are right,” Howard said. When the story went online about 6:15 p.m., Howard was working in

the newsroom of the Arizona Republic, where he is an intern. Howard said he jokingly apologized to the newsroom for the story. “I briefly said out loud: ‘Sorry about that,' “ he said. “They were incredibly nice about it. It was sort of a funny moment.” Prominent Washington journalists praised the State Press on Twitter. “Hell of a scoop,” wrote Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman. “I appreciate all the media attention we’re getting,” Howard said. “It’s great for our paper. It’s awesome that we

proved student journalists can do the same reporting everyone else can.” Howard, who grew up in Phoenix, said his mother studied journalism in college and he worked for his high school newspaper. “I grew up in a family that valued news and understood it,” he said. The State Press is his main focus at Arizona State, said Howard, whose major is in journalism and minor is in political science. “I do spend a lot of time at the State Press, probably too much time,” he said.

TOM BRENNER NYT

The White House has been mired in controversy over its interactions with foreign leaders. In 1787, the framers of the Constitution did what they could to provide a legal remedy for presidents who fall under foreign influences.

ANALYSIS

Founders’ fear comes to fore BY PETER BAKER

New York Times WASHINGTON

Alexander Hamilton, as usual, got right to the heart of the matter. When the framers were designing the Constitution and its power of impeachment, one of the high crimes they had in mind was giving into what Hamilton called “the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” For the authors of the country’s charter, there were few bigger threats than a president corruptly tied to forces from overseas. And so as the House opened an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine last week, the debate quickly focused on one of the oldest issues in America’s democratic experiment. The emerging battle over the future of Trump’s presidency will explore as never before the scope and limits of a commander in chief’s interactions with other countries. His adversaries echo the fears of the founders in accusing Trump of committing high crimes by pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on Democratic opponents while holding up American aid. Trump contends

that impeaching him would infringe on the ability of future presidents to conduct foreign policy. Unlike the impeachment battles involving Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, the debate over Trump turns on whether a president can solicit or accept help from abroad to advance his political fortunes and where lies the line between the national interest and personal interests. Shortly after the latest revelations about Trump’s pressure on Ukraine, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., denounced what he called “the president’s corrupt efforts to press a foreign nation into the service of his re-election campaign.” “To use America’s global credibility as a casino token, to be cashed in for personal political gain,” he added, “is an intolerable abuse of power and totally anathema to the rule of law.” Trump has maintained that he was the one trying to stop illicit foreign involvement in American politics by pressing President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine to examine whether Ukrainians helped Democrats during the 2016 campaign and to look into unsubstantiated corruption allegations involving former Vice

President Joe Biden. “If that perfect phone call with the President of Ukraine Isn’t considered appropriate, then no future President can EVER again speak to another foreign leader!” he wrote on Twitter on Friday. While the framers of the Constitution might never have imagined an impeachment battle waged 280 characters at a time, they did essentially foresee a showdown over foreign influence on an American president. In fact, in the early years of the republic, one of the most dominant fears of the political class was falling under the sway of other powers. “There was a concern, even a paranoia, about foreign intervention, about people who don’t have the interests of a new country being taken advantage of by an old power,” said Corey Brettschneider, a political science professor and constitutional scholar at Brown University and author of “The Oath and the Office.” The framers expressed this explicitly by inserting what is now called the emoluments clause in the Constitution, barring international payments or gifts to a president or other federal elected official: “No person holding

Student journalist scores big scoop in Trump-Ukraine story BY TAREK HAMADA

Associated Press PHOENIX

A 20-year-old student at Arizona State University broke the news that a key State Department official who was involved in talks between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian government had stepped down from his post. Andrew Howard, a managing editor of The State Press student news-

paper, reported Friday evening that Kurt D. Volker stepped down from his role as the State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine. “I’m not sure any of us thought it would just be this big scoop,” Howard told The Associated Press. “It’s just incredible.” Usually, the State Press competes with Arizona media outlets, he said. “It turned out we were competing with the world,” Howard said. “I

was never thinking we have to beat the Times and the AP and the Washington Post.” Volker is executive director of the McCain Institute, a think tank in Washington that is run by Arizona State University. Howard said he knew about Volker’s ties to the McCain Institute and decided to see if he could get information about him from his work with the university. “I just talked to editor in


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NATION Report: Arson suspect set wildfires before reunion Associated Press MILPITAS, CALIF.

A suspected arsonist traveled from Missouri to Northern California to set more than a dozen wildfires before attending his 50th high school reunion, a newspaper reported Saturday. Freddie Owen Graham

is being held on $2 million bail on 13 counts of arson. He also faces two special Freddie counts of Owen arson durGraham ing a state of emergency, which was declared by Gov. Gavin

Newsom in March ahead of the wildfire season. A former classmate told the San Jose Mercury News that Graham appeared happy at the party on Sept. 21. Graham, a Milpitas, California-native who has lived in the Kansas City area for the past three decades, didn’t seem troubled or upset, Rich Santoro said.

“He was excited to come. I talked to him five or six times during the night. He was happy he was there. He told me, ‘I didn’t expect to have this much fun.’ ” Santoro said. “It turns out he had already set the fires.” State fire investigators said Graham gave them a different impression. After he was arrested at the airport in San Jose, Graham told them he was in an “emotional” state over the loss of his wife in 2018 when he tossed flaming pieces of paper onto the side of a road.

“Because she passed away and could not be with him, it made him emotional, starting the fires,” the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection report said. Santoro recalled Graham lamenting about attending the reunion without his wife. Prosecutors said he drove through a foothill area northeast of San Jose and set 13 fires over the course of two days. Although the fires caused no injuries or structural damage, they

JIM WILSON NYT

Mark-Steven Holys, once a skilled wine steward, is seen at the homeless encampment where he lives in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 23. Holys says his struggles with drugs, failed marriages, and crime all contributed to his present straits.

Tuxedoed sommelier joins California homeless ranks BY THOMAS FULLER

New York Times OAKLAND, CALIF.

Opus One, Château Lynch-Bages or Petrus. The crimson ribbons of fine wine trickled delicately into his customers’ bulbous crystal glasses. Mark-Steven Holys had a knack for recommending the right bottle, for expertly carving the chateaubriand steaks and pheasant and for remembering the dietary quirks of a clientele that included many of California’s boldfaced names. He waited on George Shultz, the former secretary of state; Joe Montana, the champion quarterback; and Steve Jobs, the Apple founder. Holys, 61, looks back on his decades as a sommelier and tuxedo-clad server from inside a Coleman tent in an Oakland homeless encampment, where the rats, he says, are as big as footballs. He joined the ranks of the unsheltered five years ago, another life upended among a diverse population that is so hard to categorize. Coming handin-hand with the state’s worsening housing shortage, the number of homeless people has swelled in the Bay Area, rising 47% in Oakland alone over the past two years to more than 4,000. California, the country’s wealthiest and most populous state, also has the

JIM WILSON NYT

A BART train speeds past a homeless encampment in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 23.

most homeless, an unremitting crisis that has confounded the state’s political leaders for decades and exposed one of the most extreme manifestations of economic inequality gripping the country. Tent encampments – Oakland city officials count 90 of them – are now as much a part of the landscape as the bars and restaurants that cater to the city’s rising affluence. Many Americans are one medical emergency, one layoff, one family disaster away from bankruptcy or losing the roofs over their heads. For Holys, the journey from wine steward at some of the finest restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area to sleeping in a tent on a strip of dirt next

to a freeway was a gradual unraveling. His struggles with drugs, his failed marriages, his larceny when he needed money – they all contributed to his present straits. “I tasted some incredible wines,” Holys said from a wicker chair in his tent that he calls his throne. “You can swirl and sip, and five minutes later you were still getting layers.” After many restaurant jobs through the 1980s and 1990s, Holys says his undoing came with an addiction to crack cocaine. He stole to fuel his habit and spent a total of eight years in prison. “I was the type of guy who would break into your car and steal the change in your ashtray,” he said.

But it was not until several years after his last release from jail, in 2010, that addiction again took over and no one from his fractured family was there to catch him. He moved from one homeless encampment to the next until arriving earlier this year at his current spot by the 880 freeway and train tracks. Holys loves talking about wine and laments that he has few people around him who share his passion. Over the relentless din of eight lanes of traffic and Amtrak and commuter trains rolling past his encampment in East Oakland, he evokes Opus, the Napa Valley cabernet blend, and Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, the left-bank Bordeaux. He smiles at the memory

of sampling a 1974 Mondavi Reserve cabernet sauvignon. But pinot noir is his favorite grape. “When it’s good and on point it’s an extraordinary experience,” he says, shirtless and in shorts on an unusually hot day last week. Holys sees parallels between the cultivation of wine and his struggles. Pinot noir vines in particular are fragile and finicky, he says; the skins are thinner than other varieties and the best vines are stressed to produce better fruit. “Roots are made to suffer. They have to strain for water,” he said. “It’s a metaphor for what people have to go through.” Holys worked at restaurants where it was not uncommon to serve a $600 bottle of PulignyMontrachet, the venerable Burgundy. If there was anything left in the bottle when the patrons left, he made sure to drip the remnants into his own glass. He has witnessed the extremes of the Bay Area, where the median home price in San Francisco is $1.3 million and Teslas seem as common as Toyotas. He graduated from Palo Alto High School, one of the country’s most prestigious public schools, and studied real estate and business at Foothill College nearby. He played golf at close to a competitive level, he said, scoring in the low 70s, and took dozens of trips to Lake Tahoe to ski. He had five children with three women and worked long hours at more than a dozen restaurants. He is aware of his flaws and does not retreat from

took dozens of firefighters using aircraft, bulldozers and other equipment hours to extinguish. Graham was identified as the suspect after someone saw him, wrote down his rental car’s license plate number and notified firefighters. He was arrested when he was returning a rental car at the airport – his second of the weekend, after reportedly swapping out the one seen by a witness at the fire.

discussing them. He says his Christian faith has helped him control his substance abuse, but he is wary to declare full victory. “It’s really hard to rebuild a person,” Holys says. His neighbors at the encampment were pushed onto the streets by drugs, mental illness and family tragedies. One neighbor, barely lucid, wears the ashes of a recently deceased friend in a vial around his neck. An exMarine sleeps nearby. “You’re going to find the criminals, prostitutes and the malefactors,” Holys said. “But you'll also find people who are saving money wherever they can and who are trying to get out of the homeless quicksand.” “I’ve met a stockbroker and former athletes on the street,” he said. “Once you’re deeply tattooed by this thing it’s very hard to get the ink out of your life.” From the sloping strip of dirt on which they sleep, residents can see the tips of skyscrapers in the Financial District of San Francisco across the bay. They live in tents and shacks fashioned from jagged pieces of plywood, discarded carpets, discarded 2-by-4s and tarps. “Being in a homeless encampment is like being the grate at the bottom of a drain,” Holys said during a conversation about rats that gnawed their way into his tent. “We survive mostly on the garbage that flows down to us.” Holys’ former co-workers and customers remember him fondly, despite what they described as his unpredictability, his absences, his demons. “When he was on – he was awesome,” said Vince Maddalena, who worked with Holys at Maddalena’s, a restaurant in Palo Alto, now closed, that served Silicon Valley pioneers like David Packard. Jobs was said to have discussed the founding of Apple with his partner, Steve Wozniak, at Maddalena’s. These days, Holys collects bottles and cans, cashing them in by the bagful at recycling centers. Despite previous injuries to his wrist and two hernia surgeries, he sometimes helps a friend install hardwood floors. He also collects federal disability and Social Security payments that amount to around $960 a month. Holys has a plan for when he finds permanent shelter. He will get a bottle of Royal Tokaji,the Hungarian dessert wine. He plans to choose a bottle rated 6 Puttonyos, the sweetest variety. It will be a symbol, he says, of putting a bitter past behind him. “My life has been such a wild ride,” he said. “This will be a bottle of gratitude.”


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NATION

Slain deputy devoted life to Sikh faith, serving others BY COREY WILLIAMS AND TAMMY WEBBER

Associated Press

Sandeep Dhaliwal carried a badge and a gun while devoting his life to a faith that teaches love and peace. Dhaliwal, who was fatally shot from behind during a traffic stop Friday, was the first Sikh sheriff’s deputy on a force that includes the nation’s fourth largest city of Houston. Four years ago he won an accommodation to wear his turban and a beard while patrolling. Friends said Dhaliwal, 42, was an example of how love-inspired service to others can tear down walls of distrust and misunderstanding. “He was just a gem of a person. He was a beautiful soul,” Simran Jeet Singh said Saturday. “Everyone who knew him admired him greatly.” A 47-year-old man with an extensive criminal history has been charged

with capital murder in his death. Robert Solis was denied bond at a hearing early SatSandeep urday. Dhaliwal Authorities have not said what might have been his motive and there has been no suggestion that it was a hate crime. Solis was wanted on a warrant for violating parole. The killing came at a time when the U.S. has seen a string a mass shootings, including in El Paso and Odessa and Midland, Texas, prompting a fierce debate over easy access to guns. The country also is riven over President Donald Trump’s push for restrictions on immigration and efforts to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico. Some friends of Dhaliwal said his life showed how the presence of mul-

tiple cultures and faiths can enrich the country. “It’s such a powerful message to send to the community that a man in a turban and beard is just as much American as you,” said Singh, a senior religion fellow at the New York-based Sikh Coalition. Even so, Dhaliwal’s primary motivation was the ability to live his faith, said his friend Manpreet Kaur Singh. “When you wear your articles of faith, you’re telling the world ‘I stand up for injustice, for people and for the greater good,’ ” said Manpreet, an attorney and Sikh Coalition board member. Sikhism, a monotheistic faith, was founded more than 500 years ago in Southeast Asia and has roughly 27 million followers worldwide, most of them in India. There are more than 500,000 Sikhs in the U.S. Male followers often cover their heads with turbans, which are considered

PAUL HOLSTON AP file

The entrance to the Democratic National Committee headquarters June 14, 2016, in Washington. Stories circulating online incorrectly asserted that the FBI only relied on the word of a cybersecurity firm to determine that Russia hacked the DNC’s emails.

NOT REAL NEWS

A look at what didn’t happen this week BY AMANDA SEITZ AND BEATRICE DUPUY

Associated Press

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the real facts: CLAIM: The FBI relied on the word of a cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike, to determine that Russia hacked the emails of the Democratic National Committee. THE FACTS: Social media posts wrongly claim the FBI did not review evidence before concluding Russia breached the DNC’s computer system in 2016. The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike “provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI,” the U.S.-owned company confirmed to The Associated Press in an email.

The false claims circulated widely on Twitter and Facebook after the White House released a rough transcript of President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in which he asked Zelenskiy to investigate CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike first identified malware on the DNC’s server system, later tracing the hack to Russia. Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress in 2017 that agents never physically examined the DNC’s computers but CrowdStrike “ultimately shared with us their forensics from their review of the system.” That’s typical for such investigations, said Eugene H. Spafford, a professor of computer science at the Center for Education and Research in Information Security at Purdue University. Cybersecurity firms like CrowdStrike make copies

of computer systems for law enforcement investigators to examine. “Just making a verified, hardware-level copy of all the bits, all the data that’s stored on the system is sufficient for almost all investigations that would have to be conducted,” said Spafford, who has assisted the FBI in cases. CrowdStrike has identified cyberattacks for the National Republican Congressional Committee and U.S. government. CLAIM: Photo shows Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg with billionaire liberal philanthropist George Soros. THE FACTS: The photo was manipulated to include Soros. Social media users began circulating the manipulated image on Facebook and Twitter after Thunberg arrived in New York ahead of the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations. In the original photo, Thunberg is pictured with former Vice President Al Gore. Thunberg tweeted the original photo on Dec. 30, 2018. The 16-year-old activist spoke Monday at the 2019 U.N. climate summit where she deliver-

sacred, and refrain from shaving their beards. Some were targets of anti-Islam violence following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, even though Sikhism is unrelated to Islam. About 7,000 to 10,000 live in the Gulf Coast Region of the U.S., according to the Houston Chronicle. More than a halfdozen Sikh temples can be found in the region. Dhaliwal was a member of the Sikh National Center in Houston, said its chair, Hardam Azad. Azad said Dhaliwal often would speak with young people at the center, showing his sheriff’s badge. A widely-shared video of Dhaliwal posted on the Facebook page of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office showed him laughing as he allowed a boy to handcuff him and then unlock the handcuffs with the key. “Ever since 9/11 happened, a lot of hate crimes have occurred against the Sikhs,” Azad said. “The

ed an emotional call to action and criticized world leaders for their inaction. Thunberg, who has become the voice of the youth global climate action movement, crossed the Atlantic in a solarpowered boat, traveling two weeks from Plymouth, England, to New York City, where she arrived Aug. 28. She began her protest movement by missing school to demonstrate outside of the Swedish parliament in 2018. Since then students around the world have followed her lead by hosting their own climate protests. CLAIM: Photo shows park littered with debris after worldwide demonstrations to highlight climate change. THE FACTS: The photo is real but shows the scene after a cannabis rally on April 20, in Hyde Park, London. Facebook and Twitter users shared the falsely captioned photo, which shows a grassy park filled with trash bags and overflowing garbage bins, after the Sept. 20 Global Climate Strike to raise awareness about climate change. “They protest for climate change and leave this mess behind,” some Facebook users wrongly claimed. Ashwin Bolar told The Associated Press in an email that he took the photo after the cannabis rally and posted it to the Facebook page of his employer, The Hemp Trading Company, a British clothing company. In his post, Bolar called on rally attendees to “do better” to clean up after themselves. He described it as “disappointing and deeply angering” that people have misrepresented the image, which was originally intended to encourage people to be “more environmentally conscious.”

This is part of The Associated Press’ ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.

way to counter that was exactly the kind of service Sandeep Dhaliwal provided to the larger community.” Prior to Dhaliwal’s hiring, Azad said the center had been in conversations with then-Sheriff Adrian Garcia to bring a Sikh onto the force. Dhaliwal stepped up, he added. “His passion for public service was obvious to us all,” Azad said. “There are some people who live angry lives. He was anything but angry.” Dhaliwal’s father was a police officer in India before moving his family to the United States. The deputy said in a 2015 interview that “serving in the police force is natural” to Sikhs who value service. “Sikhs have been in this country for more than 100 years (but) we’ve been absent from the national conversation,” Singh said. “One of the values of serving in uniform gives us a sense as a community that we are being seen and are being understood.” When Hurricane Harvey ravaged Houston, Dhaliwal joined others in the Sikh community to help feed those left homeless. Then when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto

Rico, he traveled there to help. “There are just those people who come out passionate in the world, and you don’t know what drives them,” said his friend Manpreet. “He wanted to make sure he helped people. I had no idea what made him sacrifice his time.” Manpreet said Dhaliwal didn’t fear being targeted because of his appearance but he did help ensure that Sikh places of worship were protected on Sundays by off-duty officers. She said he also was deeply affected by the 2015 slaying of another deputy, Darren Goforth, who was shot and killed at a gas station while fueling his car. Dhaliwal “really jumped in and helped with the vigil, helped put together the memorial,” Manpreet said. Dhaliwal leaves a wife and three children, as well as his father and sisters, Manpreet said. She said his mother died last year. She said she has a picture of him taken the day the policy change allowed him to wear his turban. “He was so excited. I never had the foresight to see the possibility of him dying in the line of duty.”

Doctor facing life in prison for thousands of opioid doses BY DENISE LAVOIE AND SARAH RANKIN

Associated Press RICHMOND, VA.

By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about a half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years. Patients from five states drove hundreds of miles to see him, spending up to 16 hours on the road to get prescriptions for oxycodone and other powerful painkillers. “He’s done great damage and contributed … to the overall problem in the heartland of the opioid crisis,” said Christopher Dziedzic, a supervisory special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration who oversaw the investigation into Smithers. In the past two decades, opioids have killed about 400,000 Americans, ripped families apart and left communities – many in Appalachia – grappling with ballooning costs of social services like law enforcement, foster care and drug rehab. Smithers, a 36-year-old married father of five, is facing the possibility of life in prison after being convicted in May of more than 800 counts of illegally prescribing drugs, including the oxycodone and oxymorphone that caused the death of a West Virginia woman. When he is sentenced Wednesday, the best Smithers can hope for is a mandatory minimum of 20 years. Authorities say that, instead of running a legitimate medical practice, Smithers headed an interstate drug distribution ring that contributed to the opioid abuse epidemic in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia. In court filings and at trial, they described an

office that lacked basic medical supplies, a receptionist who lived out of a back Joel room durSmithers ing the work week, and patients who slept outside and urinated in the parking lot. At trial, one woman who described herself as an addict compared Smithers’ practice to pill mills she frequented in Florida. “I went and got medication without – I mean, without any kind of physical exam or bringing medical records, anything like that,” the woman testified. A receptionist testified that patients would wait up to 12 hours to see Smithers, who sometimes kept his office open past midnight. Smithers did not accept insurance and took in close to $700,000 in cash and credit card payments over two years. “People only went there for one reason, and that was just to get pain medication that they (could) abuse themselves or sell it for profit,” Dziedzic said. The opioid crisis has been decades in the making and has been fueled by a mix of prescription and street drugs. From 2000 to 2010, annual deaths linked to prescription opioids increased nearly fourfold. By the 2010s, with more crackdowns on pill mills and more restrictive guidelines on prescriptions, the number of prescriptions declined. Then people with addictions turned to even deadlier opioids. But the number of deaths tied to prescription opioids didn’t begin to decline until last year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Martinsville, where Smithers set up shop, has been particularly hard hit.


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POLITICS Judge: US can’t extend fast-track deportation rule BY ELLIOT SPAGAT

Associated Press SAN DIEGO

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s move to vastly extend the authority of immigration officers to deport people without allowing them to appear before judges, the third legal setback for its immigration agenda in one day. The policy, which was announced in July but hasn’t yet been enforced, would allow fast-track deportations to apply to anyone in the country illegally for less than two

years. Now, they are largely limited to people arrested almost immediately after crossing the Mexican border. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, ruling late Friday in Washington, said the administration’s expansion of “expedited removal” authority violated procedural requirements to first seek public comment and ignored flaws in how it has been used on a smaller scale at the border. The shortcomings, which were not challenged by government lawyers, include allegations that some people entitled to be in the country were targeted

for deportation, translators weren’t provided, and authorities made “egregious errors” recording statements of migrants who said they feared persecution or torture if sent back to their homelands. “With respect to the policy at issue here, the potential devastation is so obvious that (the Department of Homeland Security) can be fairly faulted for its unexplained failure to predict, and attempt to mitigate, the fully foreseeable future floods,” Jackson wrote. Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, hasn’t ruled on merits of

the case, but her decision prevents the administration from expanding fast-track authority nationwide while the lawsuit proceeds. Earlier Friday, a federal judge in Los Angeles blocked new rules that would allow the government to detain immigrant children with their parents indefinitely, saying the move conflicted with a 1997 settlement agreement that requires the release of children caught on the border as quickly as possible to relatives in the U.S. and says they can only be held in facilities licensed by a state. The Flores agreement – named for a teenage plaintiff – will remain in place and govern conditions for children in custody, including those with their parents. Also Friday, another

federal judge in Los Angeles blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from relying solely on flawed databases to target people for being in the country illegally. The decision affects detainers issued by an ICE officer in the federal court system’s Central District of California. The fast-track deportation powers were created under a 1996 law but didn’t become a major piece of border enforcement until 2004, when Homeland Security said it would be enforced for people who are arrested within two weeks of entering the U.S. by land and caught within 100 miles of the border. Defenders say it relieves burdens on immigration judges – their backlog of cases recently topped 1 million – while critics say it grants too

much power to Border Patrol agents and other immigration enforcement officials and jeopardizes rights to fair treatment. Keven McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, said in July that U.S. authorities don’t have space to detain “the vast majority” of people arrested on the border, leading to the release of hundreds of thousands with notices to appear in court. He said expanded authority would likely cause illegal entries to decline and result in people getting more quickly removed from the country than in immigration courts, where cases can take years to resolve. The Justice Department said Saturday that the judge overstepped her authority and undermined laws enacted by Congress SEE JUDGE, PAGE 8

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THE FACT IS, BY LITERALLY TAKING THAT MONEY AFTER IT HAD BEEN PUT IN PLACE AND USING IT FOR SOMETHING ELSE, YOU NOW PUT THOSE PROJECTS IN JEOPARDY. Carl Baker, executive director of Pacific Forum, a Honolulu-based foreign policy think tank

STAFF SGT. JOSHUA SMOOT AP

A B-2 Spirit in 2018 taxis on Guam, a Pacific island that is home to several major US military facilities. The border wall is taking a large chunk of Pentagon funding that would have been spent on projects in Guam.

Wall complicates Marines’ move from Japan to Guam BY AUDREY MCAVOY

Associated Press HONOLULU

President Donald Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several military construction projects slated for Guam, a strategic hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific. This may disrupt plans to move Marines to Guam from Japan and to modernize munitions storage for the Air Force. About 7% of the funds for the $3.6 billion wall are being diverted from eight projects in the U.S. territory, a key spot in the U.S. military’s efforts to deter North Korea and counter China’s growing military. The administration has vowed it’s only delaying the spending, not canceling it. But Democrats in Congress, outraged over Trump’s use of an emergency order for the wall, have promised they won’t approve money to revive the projects.

“The fact is, by literally taking that money after it had been put in place and using it for something else, you now put those projects in jeopardy,” said Carl Baker, executive director of Pacific Forum, a Honolulu-based foreign policy think tank. The Senate on Wednesday passed a measure blocking Trump from raiding the military construction budget for the wall. The Democraticcontrolled House is likely to pass the bill, but Trump is expected to veto it as he did with an identical measure in March. The tiny island of Guam holds a naval base with fast attack submarines and an Air Force base with bombers that rotate in from the mainland. The U.S. currently plans to start moving 5,000 Marines there from Okinawa in southern Japan around 2025. This is part of a decades-long effort by Tokyo and Washington to relieve the congested Japanese island’s burden of hosting half the U.S. forces

stationed in Japan. The total cost of relocating the Marines is $8.7 billion, of which Japan is paying $3.1 billion. The projects put on hold by the border wall are a small share of this total, yet critical to the relocation. There’s $56 million to build a well system that will supply most of the water to be used by a new Marine base. The area’s existing water supply is inadequate to meet the needs of the transferred troops. There’s also a $50 million live-fire training range and a $52 million munitions storage facility. Documents about the projects the military provided to Congress say the Marines won’t leave Okinawa until replacement facilities in Guam are ready. The documents say failure to complete these two projects could delay or prevent the Marines from moving. Guam activists opposed to the live-fire range said the delay will give them time to study ancient set-

tlements found in the area. They said it would be irresponsible to move forward on projects that would destroy cultural sites and cause irreversible environmental damage when there’s so much uncertainty about the relocation. “Our organization is conflicted about the means in which the pause was achieved because these are two instances of colonial injustice, one impacting the other,” the group Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian said in a statement. The U.S. reassured Japan immediately after the announcement that it would stick to the existing timeline. “We have received explanation from the U.S. side about the shifting of the budget that it will not affect the planned movement of Marines on Okinawa to Guam, and that the U.S. government commitment to the realignment plan is unchanged,” thenDefense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told reporters earlier this month. Discussions to reduce

the U.S. presence on Okinawa began in the mid-1990s after the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl by three U.S. servicemen sparked mass demonstrations. The allies in 2006 said they would send Marines to Guam by 2014, a deadline that slipped as they revised plans. Although Okinawa makes up less than 1 percent of Japan’s land space, it hosts about half of the 54,000 American troops stationed in Japan and is home to 64 percent of the land used by the U.S. bases in the country under a bilateral security treaty. Jeffrey Hornung, a researcher at the RAND Corporation, a public policy research institute, said even before the latest development, some Okinawa residents were frustrated with the lack of progress in moving the Marines. “The fact is, the longer that the projects on Guam are delayed, that means the longer that there’s not going to be any forward movement on some aspects of moving the Marines off Okinawa,” Hornung said. “And this all comes from taking money to build a border wall.” Diverted spending also will affect the Air Force, including $45.1 million for two projects to update

70-year-old munitions storage. The Air Force has been rotating bombers – the B-2 stealth bomber as well as the B-1 and B-52 – through Guam since in 2004 to compensate for U.S. forces sent from the Asia-Pacific region to fight in the Middle East. In 2017, the U.S. dispatched a B-1 bomber from Guam to the Korean peninsula as a show of force after North Korea accelerated its efforts to test intercontinental ballistic missiles and expand its nuclear weapons program. Project documents say existing facilities won’t adequately support the mission of the 36th Munitions Squadron on Guam. They say upgrades are needed to correct a faulty door design, address earth cover lost during typhoons and house new long-range air-to-ground precision missiles. U.S. Rep. Ed Case, a Democrat from Hawaii who sits on the House appropriations subcommittee for military construction, said he’s concerned the administration diverted so much from Guam, given the island is key to the nation’s defense posture in the Pacific. But he said rewarding these funds in another budget would set an “incredibly dangerous precedent.” “That is a very difficult situation because these are priority projects. However, if we simply said yes to this president on that basis, which he is very much hoping that we will do, then we have essentially said to him and any future president that Congress’ role as the responsible branch of government for appropriations no longer counts,” Case said.

Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report.


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POLITICS

TAMIR KALIFA NYT

A statement from the NRA confirms a Friday meeting between President Donald Trump and group leader Wayne LaPierre. But an NRA spokesman denied reports that any offer of support for Trump was in exchange for opposition to gun laws.

NRA denies political quid pro quo with Trump BY MAGGIE HABERMAN AND ANNIE KARNI

New York Times

President Donald Trump met in the White House on Friday with Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and discussed prospective gun legislation and whether the NRA could provide support for the president as he faces impeachment and a more difficult reelection campaign, according to two people familiar with the meeting. During the meeting, LaPierre asked that the White House “stop the games” over gun control legislation, people familiar with the meeting said. It was not clear whether Trump asked LaPierre for his support or what that support would look like. In a statement Friday

evening, an NRA spokesman confirmed the meeting took place but insisted The New York Times’ account of the meeting was “inaccurate.” He pushed back on the account of some officials that any offer of support for the president was in exchange for opposition to gun laws. “The NRA categorically denies any discussion occurred about special arrangements pertaining to the NRA’s support of the president and vice versa,” the statement said. LaPierre has been a leader in an aggressive campaign by gun rights advocates to influence the White House in the months since the back-toback mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In a series of calls and meetings, he has tried to move Trump away from propos-

Deutsche Bank has tax returns for 2 Trumps BY RANDY PENNELL

New York Times

Deutsche Bank told a federal appeals court Friday that it had the tax returns of two members of the Trump family but did not disclose their identities. The German bank – long President Donald Trump’s primary lender – is caught in a legal battle between Trump and congressional Democrats, who have issued subpoenas for financial documents connected to the president, his family and his businesses. Last month, appeals court judges asked Deutsche Bank and Cap-

ital One Bank if they had copies of tax returns that would be covered by the subpoenas, which name Trump and his three oldest children – Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric – as well as Trump’s company. Capital One told the court that it did not have copies of any tax returns covered by the subpoena. Deutsche Bank said it did, but the names associated with those returns were redacted from the public version of the letter. News organizations, including The New York Times, then asked the court to unseal Deutsche Bank’s letter, and in laying out its opposition to that request, the bank disclosed that the tax

ing any sort of background check measures akin to what the president said after the mass shootings he might support. Even before the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry, LaPierre’s influence on Trump has been clear. After a 30-minute phone call last month, Trump appeared to be espousing NRA talking points when answering questions about guns. “We have very, very strong background checks right now, but we have sort of missing areas and areas that don’t complete the whole circle,” the president told reporters last month, adding, “I have to tell you that it’s a mental problem.” Privately, Trump has raised questions with his aides about the NRA’s ability to help back his 2020 campaign the way it

returns belonged to two individuals. “The bank has in its possession tax returns (in either draft or as-filed form) responsive to the subpoenas for two individuals, not entities, named in the subpoenas,” lawyers for Deutsche Bank told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in a filing Friday. Lawyers for Trump also opposed the request. The bank told the court that it was contractually obligated to preserve the confidentiality of one of those people, but that a review of contracts for the second person did not reveal any confidentiality clauses. Deutsche Bank asked the court to provide it time to inform its clients if the court decides to unseal the letter. The documents held by

did in 2016, when it poured over $30 million into his election, more than any other outside group. He has voiced concerns that the group looks like it is going bankrupt and may lack the political clout it had last election cycle. This year, the NRA has been mired in investigations by attorneys general in New York and Washington, D.C., and beset by leaks about its lavish spending practices, while also facing restive donors and inquiries over its ties to Russia. And its finances have been strained. Recent public filings have shown that it largely exhausted a $25 million line of credit that was guaranteed by the deed to its Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters, and borrowed against insurance policies taken out on its executives. Oliver North, who departed this year as the NRA’s president in an acrimonious leadership fight, has said that the organization’s legal bills, running between $1.5 million and $2 million a month from its main law firm, have created an “existential crisis.” In the midterm elections, gun control groups outspent the NRA, upend-

ing the usual political dynamics. But the organization still has considerable resources and more than 5 million members, many of whom overlap with Trump’s base. And rallying grassroots support has traditionally been one of its strengths. Aides have reassured Trump that the group is still in good enough financial shape to help him, even as his own political fortunes have shifted since the mass shootings. For his part, Trump has been caught between opposing political pressures to do something on gun legislation and to maintain the status quo. He has idled in neutral while Congress has waited for a sign from the White House on what it plans to propose. The White House has also been sending mixed messages on its intentions. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a senior White House adviser, was still calling around to senators this week, saying her father wanted to make a move on guns even as he faced impeachment. But Trump’s meeting with LaPierre on Friday indicated that his priority may be his own political

Deutsche Bank most likely contains details of how Trump made his money, who his partners have been, the terms of his extensive borrowings and other transactions. Trump’s lawyers have fought to block the subpoenas, which were issued in April by the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees, saying they have no legitimate legislative purpose. The Financial Services Committee says it wants to know whether Trump helped Russians and other foreign buyers launder money through his properties, and the Intelligence Committee says it is trying to determine whether Trump’s financial dealings made him subject to foreign influence.

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WE HAVE VERY, VERY STRONG BACKGROUND CHECKS RIGHT NOW, BUT WE HAVE SORT OF MISSING AREAS AND AREAS THAT DON’T COMPLETE THE WHOLE CIRCLE. I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT IT’S A MENTAL PROBLEM. President Donald Trump survival rather than making any strides on guns. In the meantime, White House aides and Trump have sought to blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who announced a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump on Tuesday, for lowering the chances of working together on bipartisan measures.

JUDGE with careful consideration by the administration on how to enforce them. The potential impact of expanding fast-track powers is difficult to predict. McAleenan said in July that 20,570 people arrested in the nation’s interior from October 2017 through September 2018 had been in the U.S. less than two years, which would make them subject to the new rule. Critics say the impact could be more far-reaching because many in the U.S for longer than two years may be unable to prove they have been in the country that long. “The court rejected the Trump administration’s illegal attempt to remove hundreds of thousands of

people from the U.S. without any legal recourse,” said American Civil Liberties Union attorney Anand Balakrishnan, who argued the case on behalf of Make the Road New York and other advocacy groups. “This ruling recognizes the irreparable harm of this policy.” The administration’s setbacks followed two recent victories for its immigration policies at the Supreme Court, one allowing diversion of Defense Department money to build a border wall and another denying asylum to anyone who enters the country at the Mexican border after passing through another country and not applying there.


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POLITICS

DAMON WINTER NYT

A fallowed field is seen in the Westlands Water District, in California, on June 12, 2015. For years, the Interior Department resisted proposals to raise the height of its towering Shasta Dam in Northern California. But the project is going forward now, in a big win for a powerful consortium of California farmers.

Interior chief pushes dam project that old lobbying client wanted BY CORAL DAVENPORT

New York Times WASHINGTON

For years, the Interior Department resisted proposals to raise the height of its towering Shasta Dam in Northern California. The department’s own scientists and researchers concluded that doing so would endanger rare plants and animals in the area, as well as the bald eagle, and devastate the West Coast’s salmon industry downstream. But the project is going forward now, in a big win for a powerful consortium of California farmers that stands to profit substantially by gaining access to more irrigation water from a higher dam and has been trying to get the project approved for more than a decade. For much of the past decade, the chief lobbyist for the group was David Bernhardt. Today, Bernhardt is the interior secretary. It is not the first time that the Interior Department under Bernhardt’s leadership has taken actions that benefit his former client, the Westlands Water District, a state entity created at the behest of, and largely controlled by, some of California’s wealthiest farmers. Bernhardt also promoted the weakening of an endangered-species regulation that would get Westlands more water, a move that has put him under scrutiny from his department’s inspector general. The Shasta is already one of the tallest dams in the nation, and preliminary work has begun to raise its height by 18.5 feet. That would allow it to hold about 14% more water, and the 1,000 or so Central Valley farmers that Westlands represents

would receive more than anyone else. “Prior to the Trump administration, this project was dead,” said Jeffrey Mount, a water management expert with the Public Policy Institute of California. “Now it’s coming to life. And Westlands would be the No. 1 winner here.” Under Bernhardt’s leadership, the Interior Department has disregarded its own scientific and legal analysis showing that raising the Shasta not only would be environmentally damaging and cost-prohibitive but also would also be illegal under California law. California’s attorney general is suing to stop it. This year, the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service was told to prepare a new environmental review of the project, but this one will be much more limited in scope, according to a person familiar with the plans, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution. The new plan would not analyze the effects on salmon habitat downstream or the effects on several rare species. Excluding review of the dam’s downstream effects is “like analyzing the impact of a loaded pistol without looking past the nose of the barrel,” said Jon Rosenfield, a biologist at San Francisco Baykeeper, a conservation organization. The effects of storing more water behind the dam “are major and extend all the way down to San Francisco Bay,” he said. The Interior Department is also pursuing a deal, long sought by Westlands, whereby Westlands would help pay for the work to heighten the dam. William Reilly, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency in the George H.W. Bush administra-

B. MOOSE PETERSON NYT

The critically endangered delta smelt is typically only a couple of inches long but occupies an important place in the food chain.

tion, said the credibility of environmental decisions “always rests on good science.” The decision to raise the Shasta Dam is an example of the Trump administration’s disregarding scientific evidence when making policy, he said. “When you see a pattern of not accepting scientific opinion, you lose trust in what the government has done, and it’s very hard to get that back,” Reilly said. The Trump administration’s ethics pledge requires former lobbyists to recuse themselves for two years from working on any specific issue area involving a particular party on which or for whom they lobbied in the two years before joining the administration. The Interior Department’s ethics office said it had reviewed Bernhardt’s past lobbying for a law related to the Shasta Dam and concluded before his appointment that the law “was not a particular matter or specific issue area.” As a result, it said, the ethics pledge did not prohibit him from decisions about the dam, unless they were on issues that

were “a particular matter” involving his former client. Bernhardt did not respond to detailed written questions. Bernhardt’s spokesman, Nicholas Goodwin, said, “Secretary Bernhardt is and has always been committed to upholding his ethical responsibilities, and he has fully complied with those obligations.” Thomas Birmingham, the general manager of Westlands Water District, said Bernhardt hadn’t lobbied specifically on the issue of the enlargement of the Shasta Dam. Bernhardt was appointed by Trump in 2017 as the Interior Department’s deputy secretary. This year, he rose to the top job after his predecessor, Ryan Zinke, resigned following allegations of ethical misconduct. Zinke’s resignation was one of several high-level departures from the administration amid ethics scandals. Trump’s first pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, resigned last year amid federal investigations into suspected improper activities. He, too was succeed-

ed by a former lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, who previously had represented coal companies. Pruitt and Zinke have denied wrongdoing. The 602-foot Shasta Dam tames the Sacramento River 200 miles north of San Francisco. Built by the Interior Department from 1938 to 1945, it captures the annual snowmelt from Mount Shasta, creating a vast reservoir that anchors California’s federally operated irrigation system, routing water from the state’s verdant north to the almond and pistachio farms of its arid Central Valley. Today, however, California is suffering dire water shortages. For years, water demand has increased but supply has fallen as the warming climate diminishes Mount Shasta’s snowpack. Westlands, the state’s largest agricultural water user, has for decades pressed state and federal lawmakers for changes to provide it with more water. Opponents of raising the Shasta say that, among other things, it would violate state law

prohibiting construction that harms pristine waterways such as the McCloud River, which drains into Lake Shasta. “It is explicitly against California law,” said Mount of the Public Policy Institute. “The federal government needs a permit from the state in order to enlarge the Shasta.” Major concerns about the Shasta Dam have come from the Interior Department’s own scientists, lawyers and economists. In November 2015, staff biologists at the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in a 215-page report that raising the dam “would result in the loss, degradation, and fragmentation of habitat” in and around Shasta Lake and the Sacramento River, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Delta. The report said the project would harm the habitat of many species, including not only the bald eagle but also the northern spotted owl and the Shasta snow-wreath, a delicate white flower. A higher dam would also cut off one of the main routes used by salmon to spawn by reducing the flow of water downstream. That could shrink the Pacific Coast salmon population, the report said, which scientists and fishermen say could devastate the West Coast salmon fishing industry. “That Fish and Wildlife report tells us that raising the dam would choke the life out of the Sacramento River, and what that means for the West Coast salmon industry I shudder to think,” said John McManus, president of the Golden Gate Salmon Association. For these reasons, the report concluded that Fish and Wildlife was “unable to support” raising the dam. A separate Interior Department report, in July 2015, found that raising the dam would also be too costly, at roughly $1.5 billion, given budget constraints. Neither report has been publicly updated with new findings.


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Afghan election workers count ballots Saturday during the presidential elections at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan. Final results aren’t expected until mid-October.

Fraud and rocket attacks mar Afghan election BY RAHIM FAIEZ AND KATHY GANNON

Associated Press KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

Accusations of fraud and misconduct, more than scores of Taliban attacks, threatened to overwhelm the results of Saturday’s vote for the next president of Afghanistan, denying the winner legitimacy and frustrating efforts to restart peace talks to end 18 years of war. When polls closed Saturday, Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi said there had been 68 Taliban attacks across the country, most of them rockets fired from distant outposts. At least five people were killed, including one police, and scores more were injured. A surge in violence in the run-up to the elections, which following the collapse of U.S.-Taliban talks to end America’s longest war, had already rattled Afghanistan in recent weeks. Yet on Saturday, for those who went to vote it was the process itself that drew the greatest criticism, threatening the country’s fragile battle against chaos. Many Afghans found incomplete voters’ lists, unworkable biometric

MOHAMMAD ANWAR DANISHYAR AP

Wounded Afghans lie in a hospital Saturday after a bomb attack in the city of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban militants had warned voters to stay home.

identification systems aimed at curbing fraud, and in some cases hostile election workers. Ruhollah Nawroz, a representative of the Independent Complaints Commission tasked with monitoring the process, said the problems were countrywide. Whether the problems were the fault of the government or the Independent Election Commission, Nawroz said Afghans will have trouble seeing the vote as free and fair. Nawroz said he arrived

Syria demands pullout of all US, Turkish forces BY AYA BATRAWY

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS

Syria’s top diplomat demanded Saturday the immediate withdrawal of American and Turkish forces from the country and said his government reserves the right to defend its territory in any way necessary if they remain. “The United States and Turkey maintain an illegal military presence in northern Syria,” Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told the U.N. General Assembly. “Any foreign forces

operating in our territories without our authorization are occupying forces and should withdraw immediately.” If they refuse, he said, “we have the right to take any and all countermeasures authorized under international law.” There are around 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria on a mission to combat Islamic State group militants. The United States also backs and supports Kurdish groups in the northeast that are opposed to the Syrian government and have fought against Sunni extremist groups. U.S. President Donald

at a polling center in the Taimani neighborhood of Kabul, the capital, at 6 a.m. and “hour by hour I was facing problems.” Polls opened at 7 a.m. local time and closed at 5 p.m. after the Independent Election Commission extended polling by one hour. Preliminary results won’t be out until Oct. 17, with a final vote count on Nov. 7. If no candidate wins 51 percent of the vote, a second round will be held between the two

leading candidates. Voter Hajji Faqir Bohman, speaking on behalf of disgruntled voters at the Taimani polling center, said polling was so disorganized and flawed that even if his candidate wins, “I will never believe that it was a fair election.” The leading contenders are incumbent President Ashraf Ghani and his partner in the 5-year-old unity government, Abdullah Abdullah, who already alleges power abuse by his opponent. Cameras crowd-

Trump had said he wants to bring the troops home, but military officials have advocated a phased approach. Al-Moallem described Turkey and the United States as “arrogant to the point of holding discussions and reaching agreements on the creation of a so-called ‘safe zone' inside Syria” as if it was on their own soil. He said any agreement without the consent of the Syrian government is rejected. The deal between Washington and Turkey details an area five to 14 kilometers deep (three to eight miles), as well as removal of heavy weapons from a 20-kilometer-deep zone (12 miles) along Syria’s northeastern border with Turkey. The

length of the zone has not yet been agreed to by both parties, but will likely stretch hundreds of kilometers. For more than eight years, Syria’s devastating civil war has drawn numerous foreign militaries and thousands of foreign fighters battling for power. Millions of Syrians have fled the country, living as refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and other countries around the world. Hundreds of thousands have been killed. Most of the country has now returned to government control. But rebels and extremists still hold Idlib in the northwest, and U.S-backed Kurdish groups hold the oil-rich northeast.

ed both men as they cast their vote earlier in Kabul, with Ghani telling voters they too had a responsibility to call out instances of fraud. A young woman, Shabnam Rezayee, was attacked by an election worker after insisting on seeing the voter’s list when she was told her name was not on the list. Rezayee said the worker hurled abuses at her, directing her insults at her ethnicity. She then punched and scratched her. When it ended and the attacker left, Rezayee found her name on the list and voted. “I am very strong,” she said. In Kabul, turnout was sporadic and in the morning hours it was rare to see a crowded polling center. Afghans who had patiently lined up before voting centers were opened, in some locations found that election officials had yet to arrive by opening time. Imam Baksh, a security guard, said he wasn’t worried about his safety as he stood waiting to mark his ballot, wondering whom he would vote for. “All of them have been so disappointing for our country,” he said. The government’s push to hold the vote was in itself controversial. In an interview with The Associated Press last week, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who still wields heavy influence, warned that the vote could be destabilizing for the coun-

try at a time of deep political uncertainty and hinder restarting the peace process with the Taliban. But in an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Afghanistan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib said he believed that nothing would be acceptable to the Taliban except a complete return to power. “The elections were a way for us to show, for the people of Afghanistan to show, we are committed to democracy and self-determination and that is how we want to see Afghanistan ruled and that was the most important message and I think that was delivered.” On Saturday, a polling station at a mosque in southern Kandahar was attacked injuring 15 people, including a police officer and several election officials, along with voters. Three were in critical condition, officials said. In northern Kunduz, where Taliban have previously threatened the city – even briefly taking control of some areas – insurgents fired mortar rounds into the municipality and attacked Afghan security forces on its outskirts, said Ghulam Rabani Rabani, a council member for the province. At least two people were killed. In dozens of other places across the country Taliban fired rockets and mortars to frighten people away from voting. Tens of thousands of police, intelligence officials and Afghan National Army personnel were deployed throughout the country to protect the 4,942 election centers. Authorities said 431 polling stayed closed because it was impossible to guarantee their security since they were either in areas under Taliban control or where insurgents could threaten nearby villages. At one polling station in Kabul’s well-to-do Shahre-Now neighborhood, election workers struggled with biometric machines as well as finding names on voters’ lists. Ahmad Shah, 32, cast his vote, but said the election worker forgot to ink his finger – which is mandatory to prevent multiple voting by the same person. “What sort of system is this?” he asked, frustrated that he had risked his safety to vote and expressed fear that fraud will mar the election results. “It’s a mess.” Still, 63-year old Ahmad Khan urged people to vote. “It is the only way to show the Taliban we are not afraid of them,” he said, though he too worried at the apparent glitches in the process.

Ancient gilded coffin arrives in Egypt from New York Met BY SAMY MAGDY

Associated Press CAIRO

Egyptian airport officials say a gilded coffin that was featured at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has arrived in Cairo. They say the Coffin of Nedjemankh, which investigators in New York determined to be a looted antiquity, arrived Saturday. The officials spoke of

condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media. The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the piece from a Paris art dealer in 2017 for about $4 million and made it the centerpiece of an exhibition. It was removed last February. The Met has apologized to Egypt. Prosecutors say they’ve found evidence of hundreds more antiquities thefts.


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JEENAH MOON AP

Myanmar’s Minister of the Office of the State Counsellor Kyaw Tint Swe addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters Saturday.

Myanmar: Repatriate Rohingya to ‘more conducive environment’ BY TED ANTHONY

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS

Wary of international interference, Myanmar insisted Saturday it wants Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighboring Bangladesh repatriated to their former homes so they can live in a “more conducive environment” than the one they left. But it said such a relocation must take place under controlled conditions. Kyaw Tint Swe, Myanmar’s minister for the office of the state counselor, said in his nation’s address at the U.N. General Assembly that Myanmar is working with Bangla-

desh and the U.N. to find “long-term and practical solutions” to bring home some of the more than 740,000 Rohingya in the country’s Rakhine state, which borders Bangladesh. “We fully share the concern of the international community over the violence that affects communities in Rakhine,” Kyaw Tint Swe said. “Our priority now is to expedite repatriation and to create a more conducive environment for verified returnees.” He also warned of “destructive movements in the camps aimed at preventing repatriation.” Myanmar’s military began a harsh counterinsurgency campaign against

Rohingya Muslims in August 2017 in response to an insurgent attack. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign involving mass rapes, killings and burning of their homes. Many of them are residing in camps in and around Cox’s Bazar, a Bangladeshi town near the border with Rakhine. Last year, the U.N.established Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar recommended the prosecution of top Myanmar military commanders on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Myanmar has rejected the allegations.

Four years after a civilian government in Myanmar officially replaced decades of military rule, Kyaw Tint Swe said that “transformation from authoritarianism to a democratic system is a daunting challenge.” Nonetheless, he rejected notions that the conditions around Rohingya repatriation be set by anyone but Myanmar and Bangladesh. The two nations signed an agreement in late 2017 to address the issue but repeated attempts at repatriation have failed because the Rohingya refuse to return without security guarantees. “Issues between neighbors can and must be resolved bilaterally in an

amicable and friendly manner,” Kyaw Tint Swe said. “There have been persistent calls to put pressure on Myanmar. There is also a call to set up a ‘Safe Zone’ inside Myanmar. Such a demand is neither warranted nor workable.” He added, pointedly: “We do not respond well to coercion that is removed from the fairness and consideration due to a sovereign independent member of the family of nations.” Kyaw Tint Swe said any displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh would be issued identity cards upon return – either citizenship cards or, for those who don’t qualify, green cardstyle “national verification cards.” This is a sensitive issue because Myanmar asserts that many Rohingya came from elsewhere and aren’t citizens. Kyaw Tint Swe also rejected notions that the International Criminal Court be involved in any probes into military abuse of Rohingya in Rakhine. Myanmar is not a party to the court, and Kyaw Tint Swe said an investigation by the country’s military recently produced an announcement that “suggests that there will soon be a court martial.” On Thursday, the U.N.’s top human rights body agreed to set up a team to collect evidence of crimes against the Rohingya and others that could be used to prosecute perpetrators. A day later, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Kyaw Tint Swe and renewed calls for Myanmar to bring to justice those responsible for abuses. “Myanmar is not opposed to accountability for any wrongdoing related to the large outflow of displaced persons to Bangladesh,” Kyaw Tint Swe said, but any international body “does not have jurisdiction over alleged crimes in our country.”

Monsoon rains kill 59 in northern India Associated Press LUCKNOW, INDIA

A heavy spell of retreating monsoon rains has flooded wide areas of northern India, killing dozens of people this past week, an official said Saturday. Sandhaya Kureel, a spokeswoman of the Disaster Management and Relief Department, said most of the 59 fatalities were caused by house collapses, lightning and drowning in Uttar Pradesh state. They included at least five people dying of snake bites in flooded areas. The temple city of Varanasi was lashed by 7 inches of rain on Thursday and Friday, flooding the bathing areas of the Ganges River used by thousands of Hindu pilgrims. Schools were shut on Saturday as the downpour caused disruptions in the state capital, Lucknow, and several towns, including Amethi and Hardoi. J.P. Gupta, director of the state Meteorological Department, said the rain is expected to ebb after Monday. The Press Trust of India news agency said the western state of Maharashtra also was hit by heavy rain and nearly 3,000 people were moved to higher ground due to flooding in low-lying areas of Pune city and neighboring areas. More than 350 people have been killed by rainrelated causes in India, Nepal and Bangladesh this monsoon season, which runs from June through September.

JOSE JOSE, 1948-2019

Legendary Mexican crooner was known as ‘Prince of Song’ BY BERENICE BAUTISTA AND AMY GUTHRIE

Associated Press MEXICO CITY

Mexican crooner Jose Jose, the elegant dresser who moved audiences to tears with melancholic love ballads and was known as the “Prince of Song,” has died at the age of 71. Mexican artists’ association ANDI confirmed the death in a Twitter post on Saturday. Multiple media outlets said the singer had died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in South Florida. Jose Jose, whose real name is Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, climbed to the top of the Latin charts in the 1970s with slow songs such as “El Triste” or “The Sad Man,” and “Amar y querer” or “Love and want.” The power of his voice and ability to sing technically difficult tunes in a wide register made him a treasured cultural icon in Latin America. Jose Jose’s music also became popular in countries including Japan and Russia. The artist’s voice, a combination of baritone and lyric tenor, captivated audiences while his dress

style of suits accented with bow ties, pocket handkerchiefs and silk scarves was copied at nightlife spots across Latin America. “He squeezed our hearts with his unmistakable voice and left an indelible mark on the world of music,” Latin music star Gloria Estefan said on Twitter. Jose Jose was born to a family of musicians on Feb. 17, 1948, in Mexico City. His mother, Margarita Ortiz Pensado, was a concert pianist and his father was a tenor in the National Opera of Mexico. The singer added a second Jose to his artist’s name in honor of his father, who died when Jose Jose was 17. The father had abandoned the family when Jose Jose was young. “I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowledge of my success,” Jose Jose told The Associated Press in a 2005 interview. “Since I inherited his voice, this is recognition of that inheritance.” Jose Jose got started in music singing in cafes before founding a rock group called the Heart Breakers that launched an

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HE SQUEEZED OUR HEARTS WITH HIS UNMISTAKABLE VOICE AND LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON THE WORLD OF MUSIC. LYNNE SLADKY AP

Latin music star Gloria Estefan via Twitter

Mexican singer Jose Jose poses for photographers backstage at the Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Awards on Feb. 21, 2008, in Miami. The Mexican crooner died Saturday.

unsuccessful album in the mid-60s. His solo career took off with a single called “La nave del olvido” or “The ship of the forgotten” and peaked in the 1980s with albums like “Secrets,” his bestselling collaboration with Spanish love song composer and producer Manuel Alejandro. He struggled with Lyme disease, facial paralysis, substance abuse and depression. His problems with alcohol and drugs led to the 1993 dissolution of his 18-year marriage with model Anel Norena, with whom he had two children: Jose Joel y Marisol. He hit bottom following the separation and began sleeping in a taxi on the

outskirts of the Mexican capital. Friends intervened and took him to an addiction treatment center in the U.S. The artist married again in 1995, to a Cuban-American named Sarita Salazar who he met while in rehab. The couple had a daughter, Sara, the following year. Jose Jose was nominated on multiple occasions for a Grammy, but never obtained the prize. The Latin Recording Academy recognized the singer with a Musical Excellence Prize at the 2004 Latin Grammy awards. That same year, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His voice troubles made

it very difficult for him to sing in his later years. For a 2008 concert with Greek composer and pianist Yanni, it took the bythen scratchy-voiced Mexican singer seven days to prepare “just to attempt to sing,” recounted Yanni in a video posted to Twitter. “That was an act of bravery on his part,” he added. “He fought really hard for every word, for every sound,” said Yanni. The icon had confirmed via a video message to fans in March 2017 that he was battling pancreatic cancer. “I’m ready to face this new adventure in my life hand-in-hand with God and hand-in-hand with you all,” he told followers.

The death of Jose Jose hit hard in Mexico, which endured the 2016 death of another cherished crooner from the same era: Juan Gabriel. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he was sad to hear of Jose Jose’s death. “He was an extraordinary singer from an era that, with his songs and his romanticism, made a lot of people from my generation cry and be happy,” he told reporters. Jose Jose counted on the unrelenting adoration of fans who turned out to see him as recently as 2017 for concerts in Puerto Rico and the U.S., despite his failing vocals.


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Kenny Wong sees Hong Kong’s demonstrations as a fight for his son’s future. But he is at odds with his own father, who fled Communist rule in mainland China during the Mao Zedong era.

Son tries to tell father why he fights for freedom BY AMY QIN

New York Times HONG KONG

Wong Yue-kui watched with dismay as a live feed on television showed anti-government protesters peacefully occupying an airport terminal in his city, Hong Kong. This is not going to end well, he thought. Then he saw his son, Kenny, a 38-year-old insurance agent, among the black-clad demonstrators. For weeks, he had been arguing with him in the hope that he would step back from the increasingly confrontational protests. Wong, 65, a bald, tough-looking man, had told his son that it was useless and foolish to challenge China’s ruling Communist Party and the party’s hand-picked local officials. He himself had fled the mainland nearly half a century ago, swimming for hours to Hong Kong after his father died while being politically persecuted by the Communists. “Only politics can solve political problems,” said Wong, who runs a cellphone accessories stall at a local market. “We ordinary people can’t solve these problems on our own.” As China marks 70 years of Communist rule, the semiautonomous territory of Hong Kong along its southern border is caught between two worlds. Many in Wong’s generation had fled the mainland during the excesses of the Mao Zedong era and found stability and a path out of poverty in Hong Kong. The memory of political turmoil and China’s startling emergence in recent decades as an economic juggernaut have served as reminders that learning to

LAM YIK FEI NYT

Chan Hak-Chi swims Sept. 20 in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor. A “freedom swimmer” of the Mao Zedong era, he reached Hong Kong after swimming for nearly six hours.

get along with an increasingly powerful and resilient Communist Party is key to survival. But others, like his son, Kenny, see the party’s encroachment on Hong Kong’s affairs in recent years as a threat to cherished political freedoms unseen on the mainland. And they reject the territory’s political elite of bureaucrats and tycoons they see as being more beholden to Beijing. The protests, as many of them see it, are their last chance to defend the city for the next generation and challenge the party in ways that their predecessors had been unwilling. The protests have escalated in violence and increasingly target Beijing: On Oct. 1, the anniversary, the protesters will march to mark what they have called the “national tragedy” of the party’s 70-year “aggression against China.” The recent turmoil in Hong Kong has exposed a new fault line. Though most escapees from China initially fled to Hong Kong

in search of economic freedom, many, like Wu Hay-wing, a retired truck driver, say they’ve come to wholeheartedly cherish the political freedoms they found once they arrived. Unlike Wong, the cellphone accessories seller, some in his group regularly join the protests. “The essence of the Communist Party has never changed – it is a totalitarian regime,” said Wu, 68, who made it to Hong Kong in an improvised boat. Wu said he feared that Hong Kong would soon become just another mainland city. “If that happens, what did I escape here for then?” said Wu. “All my efforts would have been for nothing.” FATHERLY LOVE The unrest has become a vivid test of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s political agility. At the crux of the challenge is how the party might redefine its sovereignty over the territory to win over those who fear or reject its author-

itarian tendencies. In tackling this, Xi may draw lessons from his father, a Communist revolutionary who faced a similar challenge in China’s south decades ago. But China’s top leader could find that the promises of economic development that his father made might have limited effect in the current crisis. Last month, Wong sent his son a cellphone video of a fight between a group of protesters and progovernment supporters, and urged him to stay home. Kenny responded: “I wish you would remember the reason why you risked your life to come to Hong Kong back then.” Life is different now, his father explained; he was poor back then. “But you are in a different place,” he said. “You have your own family, a child. Think about it carefully.” His message was clear: they have more to lose now. For his son, that wasn’t enough of a reason to stand down. “What you did was for

the sake of your mother and the future,” Kenny said. “It’s the same for me. I’m thinking about my son and the future.” FREEDOM SWIMMERS In 1973, Wong Yue-kui was desperate to escape China. His father, a rice merchant, had died five years earlier in a labor camp where the Communists had sent him after they denounced him as a capitalist. Student militants known as Red Guards had ransacked their home in the southern city of Guangzhou and seized the family’s valuables, including a jade bracelet his mother had hidden in a rice tank. Wong was 19 years old, the fifth of six children, and he needed to find better paying work to support his family. He prepared to flee to Hong Kong. His cousin taught him how to swim in a river, whacking him with a bamboo stick each time he reached out to the riverbank. One day, they were ready. For 15 days, Wong and his cousin hiked in the hills under cover of night to prevent detection by the border patrol. He survived on five mooncakes and a bag of grape sugar. At around 2 a.m. on Aug. 18, the two men stripped off their shirts – they had no other possessions – and plunged into the dark waters. Even from that distance, Wong could see the lights of Hong Kong’s buildings sparkling against the inky night sky. Hong Kong – and freedom – seemed so close. He swam as fast as he could. Many escapees had been shot by border agents making the same crossing, their bodies washing up on the shores of Hong Kong. He forced himself to focus on getting there. Around five hours later, Wong crawled onto a muddy embankment. He had made it. THE ELDER XI Scholars estimate that as many as one million

people fled from China to Hong Kong during the Mao era. Risking death, some fled over the land border, others built boats and many – the so-called “freedom swimmers” – braved the waves headon. Villages in China’s south had been emptied, farmland abandoned. The party saw this exodus as a problem and plucked Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, out of political exile. His new task: to guard China’s “southern gate.” Xi Zhongxun, then the party secretary of Guangdong province, responded at first by ramping up propaganda in Guangdong. The party exhorted residents to sing patriotic songs and study Mao Zedong Thought. It spread messages depicting Hong Kong as home to evil capitalists. Still, people fled. The elder Xi traveled around the province and found that in one border village, residents were making one-50th what their neighbors in Hong Kong were making. Elsewhere, the disparity was even greater. That was when, according to official party lore, he realized that economic development – not ideological education – was key. “This was the lesson we learned from the facts,” Xi said when he reflected on that period, according to Chen Bing’an, the author of a book about the history of mainland escapees to Hong Kong, who interviewed the elder Xi in 2000. The strategy was largely successful. By 1989, when another wave of mainlanders fled to Hong Kong following the crackdown on Tiananmen pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, gross domestic product in Guangdong had grown nearly sixfold and the number of migrants fleeing illegally from the mainland to Hong Kong had slowed to a trickle.


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OUR AVERAGE SALE VALUE LAST YEAR WAS $33.95, WHEREAS THIS YEAR THE AVERAGE IS $29.10. Annie Rupani, owner of two Cacao & Cardamom shops and an online store

DAVID J. PHILLIP AP

Annie Rupani, owner of Cacao & Cardamom, fills a custom box with chocolates inside one of her shops in Houston. She’s seen the amount that people spend on each visit drop in the past year.

Economy and tariffs cloud outlook for retailers BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG

Associated Press NEW YORK

The weakening economy has made Kim Hawkins’ bridal customers hesitant about splurging, even for their big day. “They’re getting some of the more simple centerpieces, like glass vases or candles, rather than the more extravagant centerpieces,” says Hawkins, owner of Events Wholesale, a Watkinsville, Georgia-based company that sells decorative items for weddings, parties and other events. Hawkins has also noticed that more people visit her website but don’t buy. Given the slower spending, she’s stepped up her marketing to companies that put on events; she’s gotten a “pretty good” response that has helped replace her lost business from consumers. As independent retailers and other small busi-

nesses prepare for the fourth quarter – the busy season for many of them – consumers have become more conservative. The economy has slowed this year, and the latest retail sales report from the government was disappointing: Sales were unchanged in August from July when car, truck and gas purchases were subtracted. And confidence in the economy fell sharply this month, according to the Conference Board, which this past week released its latest survey of consumer attitudes. Meanwhile, retailers have other issues including the Trump administration’s tariffs on imports from China that have made merchandise more expensive. They’re also dealing with consumers’ increasing preference for online shopping. Annie Rupani began seeing shoppers becoming conservative around Valentine’s Day, even though it’s one of the busiest

holidays for her Houston chocolate business. “Our average sale value last year was $33.95, whereas this year the average is $29.10,” says Rupani, owner of two Cacao & Cardamom shops and an online store. Customers have gravitated toward the smaller boxes of chocolates she sells. Rupani is adapting to the changing environment by developing products that can be sold at lower prices and that will appeal to chocoholics as well as gift-givers. In her online business, she’s negotiating better rates with her shipping company. “Ours is a luxury product, but it’s as important now as ever to be accessible to everyone,” Rupani says. The retailers that management consultant Carlos Castelan works with are planning for a possible recession, keeping their inventories lean and being cautious about hiring. He

advises them to also think long term, responding to consumers’ changing attitudes toward shopping. “Americans are spending less time shopping,” says Castelan, managing director of Minneapolisbased Navio Group. “But when they are coming in to shop, you need to help them, to answer their questions so they can overall have a memorable experience that keeps them coming back for more.” Retailers are learning how to cater to different consumers. Rupani finds that customers searching for fine chocolates on the internet know what they’re looking for, while people who stop in at her shops may not understand that her chocolates are artisanal, not mass-produced. She’s focusing more marketing dollars on the internet, hoping to double her online business to 20% from the current 10%. Eileen Mockus is find-

ing ways to appeal to customers who want upscale organic linens and clothes but don’t want to spend top dollar, especially during the holidays. So Coyuchi, which sells sheet sets that cost into the hundreds of dollars, will be offering items under $50 that will appeal to gift-givers. “We want to be able to have a broader offering for the customer,” says Mockus, CEO of the company that has a store in Point Reyes Station, California, and also sells online and through other retailers. The company has also started a program that gives discounts to customers who return their used Coyuchi linens, which are then recycled. The economy has been a factor in OC Facial Center’s shifting its focus away from traditional spa services and to acne treatments. For the company’s customers, dealing with troubling skin issues is a

necessity, while massages and facials can become expendable when the economy looks less solid. “If we only focused on the facials, I think we’d be seeing there are some ebbs and flows year over year,” says Daniel Robbins, chief marketing officer for the company that has locations in Mission Viejo and Lake Forest, California. OC Facial Center lost some business several months ago when the stock market tumbled, taking the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 2,000 points. “Being here in Orange County, where the cost of living is so high, people get scared,” Robbins says. But the company’s business treating acne keeps growing, he says. Tariffs are an issue for many retailers; new duties against Chinese goods that President Donald Trump ordered into effect Sept. 1 included tariffs on clothing, linens, glasses and other tableware and jewelry, all of which are big sellers during the fourth quarter. Earlier tariffs have sent prices of thousands of industrial and consumer goods higher. Cacao & Cardamom’s packaging comes from China, and Rupani has seen the prices she pays rise by 50% over the past year. While she packages her chocolates in boxes and paper designed to give an upscale impression, “it is something that we may need to reconsider,” she says. The tariffs have led Hawkins to look for vendors who can sell her wedding and party goods at a lower price. But many candles, vases and other items will still have to be bought in China. “I have been reaching out to different suppliers who might have resources in China that might more reasonable – but they’ll still have the tariff added to that,” Hawkins says.

Several factors affect spending in crucial period for retailers BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG

Associated Press NEW YORK

The fourth quarter is the most crucial time of the year for many retailers, who hope to make a significant portion of their revenue and profits during the three months that include the holiday season. The following are some of the factors that are likely to affect shopping in the coming quarter. A Consumers are anxious and spending less. Two recent measures of consumer sentiment, the Commerce Department’s August retail sales report and the Conference Board’s September consumer confidence survey,

were sobering signs for the fourth quarter. Retailers’ perennial hope is that consumers won’t hold back, because the holidays are a special time, but even a little tightening of each shopper’s budget can add up to lower sales overall for retailers. A Tariffs may hurt. The Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from China includes clothing, linens and tableware, all of which are big sellers during the holiday season. Retailers must decide whether to try to find merchandise made in other countries or, if they sell Chinese-made goods, whether to raise their prices. Retailers did get a partial reprieve when President Donald Trump delayed until Dec. 15

planned tariffs on thousands of other consumer goods; those duties would not affect items already on store shelves. A Don’t look for musthave items. The highly sought-after gifts that once drove holiday shopping – like Elmo and holiday Barbie dolls or, back in the 1980s, Cabbage Patch Kids – have been absent in recent years, noted Carlos Castelan, managing director of The Navio Group, a management consultancy based in Minneapolis. And many of the most popular products are electronics that are widely available. That can be a plus for small retailers who can cater more to their own clientele than trying to latch on to a trend.

CRAIG HUDSON Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, file

People stream inside Target at the beginning of the Black Friday period in 2018 in Charleston, W.Va. A Online competition gets fiercer. More consumers are likely to do more of their shopping on their phones, tablets and PCs, looking for the lowest prices as well as speed.

Traditional retailers can get shoppers to buy, but they must provide a service that can’t be found online and an emotional connection that makes a trip to a store or mall

worth it. “Taking price out of the equation to win on experience and convenience is critical,” Castelan says.


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BUSINESS ANALYSIS

WeWork’s biggest problem: It had too much money BY JEFF BERCOVICI

Los Angeles Times

In early 2017, Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son gave Adam Neumann the kind of advice no entrepreneur can afford to ignore. Son’s investment firm, Softbank, was on the verge of pumping more than $4 billion into Neumann’s office subleasing start-up, WeWork, at a $20 billion valuation – making it one of the world’s most valuable private companies, at least on paper. Despite the 10-figure vote of confidence, at the deal closing, Son told Neumann he had been “not crazy enough” to that point, according to Forbes. “Make it 10 times bigger than your original plan,” Son said, in his own recollection. “If you think in that manner, the valuation is cheap.” Whatever else you can say about Neumann’s

tenure at WeWork, which ended this past week when he stepped down as CEO, you can’t say he didn’t try to please his most important investor. (He will remain on the board as non-executive chairman.) WeWork’s fall has been astonishing. When the New York company filed paperwork for an initial public offering in midAugust, it had a private valuation of $47 billion. By this past week, investors had pressured Neumann to postpone the IPO indefinitely after toying with a markdown as low as $10 billion. Neumann’s woo-woo pronouncements, partyhearty proclivities and shameless self-dealing made him an easy target for criticism – especially as the company incinerated capital on his pet ideas, such as inland surfing parks and something called WeWork Mars. But to finger him for WeWork’s belly flop mis-

ses the structural incentives that shaped his behavior – and those of every other money-losing mega start-up, from Theranos to Uber. If you define his job as responding to those incentives, his performance was pretty good, until it wasn’t. “Silicon Valley has fundamentally changed its business model,” says Randy Komisar, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of the valley’s most pedigreed venture capital firms. For decades, Komisar says, he and other venture capitalists invested cash and expertise in start-ups aimed at serving different segments of customers, from consumers to large corporations to the government. A venture capitalist’s job was to build portfolios of self-sufficient companies, a few of which might become wildly successful. That has changed in the past 10 years, thanks to a massive influx of private money looking to get in

on the hottest start-ups before they cool off and become mature public companies. Hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Singapore and mammoth vehicles such as Softbank’s $100 billion Vision Fund need returns large enough to justify their existence – the kind of returns that are hard to find in a world of low interest rates, outside tech. In the before times, a start-up that reached a certain size – say, $1 billion in revenue – would begin facing pressure from its early investors to get its balance sheet in order for an IPO. Its founders, eager to convert their paper money into real wealth, would have reason to heed them. The arrival of the megafunds and their bottomless coffers has changed all that. For traditional venture investors, it meant they could take some of their

own money off the table pre-IPO and gamble on the proposition an already gigantic late-stage start-up might have still more upside left in it. “Effectively, the early money gets all these layers of money after them that protects them from price issues,” says Roger McNamee, managing director of Elevation Partners and author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.” For founders like Neumann, the new money offered an opportunity – or an imperative – to double down on unproven and money-losing business models on the theory they would suddenly turn profitable once all competitors had been forced by their own losses to throw in the towel. “The explicit assumption is if you get enough growth, it doesn’t matter how much you lose,” McNamee says. “That clearly was the way both WeWork and Uber have been run.” (Softbank also pumped billions into Uber, which has seen its share price slide 25% from its May IPO as it continues to absorb heavy losses.) For those who believe in a tech industry that produces companies that

contribute something real to society, the financialization of Silicon Valley is a pernicious trend. “The good news is most of the ‘unicorns’ are actually run really well, but the exceptions are pretty egregious,” says start-up guru Steve Blank, using an industry term for start-ups valued at $1 billion or more. “When cash is essentially free and there’s more cash than opportunity, you get these kinds of start-ups.” Megafunds like Softbank’s encourage entrepreneurs like Neumann to go for broke because they’re so huge that the difference between a so-so exit and a fire sale is a rounding error. “They’re writing small checks for their purposes, but those checks are gigantic and distortive” to the companies taking them, Komisar says. “The real customer in the valley today is the investor,” he says. “It’s become the Wall Street of private capital. Our customers are the investors, our products are entrepreneurs.” And, unfortunately for Neumann and the WeWorks of the world, that customer is always right.

manager at the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education. “Food is central to most holiday celebrations, and there are a lot of foods people will buy even though people don’t like it,” Red says. If no one in your family likes the dark meat of a turkey, for example, consider getting specific cuts rather than a whole bird. “I encourage people to let go of some traditions and focus on what they really enjoy,” she says. “That means you also have less food waste and less money waste.”

DAVID J. PHILLIP AP file

Even though the holidays are only a few months away, there are things you can do now to avoid going into deep debt come the new year.

NERDWALLET

No holiday savings yet? Here’s how to build your funds fast BY SEAN PYLES

NerdWallet

Timing is everything when it comes to saving for the holidays. The longer you have to build up cash reserves, plan your budget and buy gifts at the right price, the better you can cover these seasonal costs without going into debt. Avoiding debt around the holidays can save you from a spending hangover in the new year: Shoppers who used credit cards to fund the holidays in 2018

expected it would take them over three months to pay off their debt, according to a NerdWallet survey of over 2,000 adults conducted by The Harris Poll. Starting a couple of months before peak holiday season might be cutting it a little close for grand savings schemes this year, but you do have options. Here’s how you can plan your spending this year – and start saving for next year’s holidays. STICK TO BUDGET Say you’re planning to

kick off shopping in earnest around Black Friday, which falls on Nov. 29 this year. You still have two months for saving and planning. Start with the following steps. A Set your holiday budget. If you don’t have much savings, you’ll likely have to use your discretionary income – what’s left after regular bills – to fund your holidays. Get a solid understanding of how much that is and try to keep expenses, including gifts and food, within that amount. Being mindful of what

you can afford can keep you from overspending, says Los Angeles-based financial coach Dominique Reese. “I say think about your future self,” Reese says. “How would your future financial self – yourself in January, February, March – feel about the expenses that you made over the holidays?” To build your holiday budget, trim discretionary expenses over the next couple of months. Cut back on dining out or going to the movies, or temporarily cancel a cou-

ple of monthly subscription services. A Spend smart. Create a gift list that fits your budget, find good deals, and consider reducing holiday spending on food and gifts across the board to avoid going into debt. Use your budget to guide your gift list. If your budget is tight, consider whether you can buy for fewer people; maybe you can suggest a get-together instead of a gift exchange with some friends. Black Friday and Cyber Monday can offer big savings, but you might find better deals at other times. Start checking prices now so you know what’s a good deal – and what to skip. Being frugal with holiday meal shopping can go far, says Summer Red, professional development

SET A SAVING STRATEGY While planning this year’s holidays, start thinking about how you’ll save money next year. Track your spending to help inform what you’ll need, Reese advises. “If you went over your budget, set aside more for next year,” she says. Then, find a saving strategy that works for you. Here are a few options. A The 52-week savings challenge: With this “challenge,” you start by saving $1 the first week of December, then $2 the next week, $3 the following week, and so on, adding one dollar each week for a year. At the end, you’ll have nearly $1,400 to spend for the holidays. A Holiday savings accounts: Typically offered by credit unions, these savings accounts are generally locked so you can’t access what you’re putting into savings until the holiday season. Putting just $25 a month into one of these gives you $300 saved for the holidays after a year. A Set aside part of your income: Reese suggests socking away a percentage of your income and automating transfers to build the habit of saving. Having some of your paycheck deposited directly into a savings account by your employer is an easy way to set money aside without thinking about it.


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BUSINESS

TIM HENDERSON Stateline/TNS

Wilber Ruiz, left, hoped to retire to his native Peru by now, but at 67, he’s still at work retrieving carts and greeting customers at a Giant supermarket in Ashburn, Virginia.

For passion or for money, more seniors keep working BY TIM HENDERSON

Stateline.org ASHBURN, VA.

At 76, Anne Doane is still stocking shelves in a Wegmans here, leaning to fill a display with hairbrushes as Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” plays over the store’s sound system. “I never saved throughout my life, so therefore I have to do this,” Doane said. “And because I like it. I want to get out of the house. I want to talk to people. And I need the money.” More U.S. workers are working after turning 65, both out of financial necessity and to stay busy, a trend the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics sees increasing over the next 10 years. The bureau projects the share of seniors working or actively looking for jobs to rise from 19.6% in 2018 to 23.3% in 2028, nearly double the rate of 1998, when it was less than 12%. More than 165,000 seniors are working in grocery stores, earning an average of about $31,000 a year. About half of the more than 9 million workers 65 or older are in retail, health care, business services or education, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data and a

Stateline analysis of Current Population Survey microdata. Some of the highestpaying jobs for seniors are in colleges and universities, where the average salary for the age group is more than $93,000 a year, and in charity and advocacy groups, where the average for the age group is more than $107,000 a year. It may be a shock for people to find that they can’t get by on Social Security alone, especially for those who claim their benefits before they turn 70. Social Security currently maxes out at $2,209 a month for those who file at 62 and $3,770 for those who file at 70. It’s particularly tough when the cost of living is high in areas such as Ashburn in Loudoun County, a fast-growing Washington, D.C., suburb where more than a quarter of people 65 or older hold jobs, according to recent census data. “(Working) by older age groups bottomed out in the mid-1990s, when Social Security was more generous and definedbenefit pensions were more common,” said Brian Asquith, an economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Michigan. Growth in the number of

older workers since then has been slower than expected, he said. Even union jobs may not provide much of a pension now. Venorica Tucker, 70, has had a union job as a banquet server for 30 years, commuting from suburban Maryland to the U.S. House of Representatives. She works for a catering contractor, putting in long days that extend from early-morning breakfasts to evening receptions. Her Food and Beverage Workers Union has a pension plan, but it’s a lump sum of less than $20,000, she said. “I had all these ideas about how one could live well (after age 65), but those ideas didn’t pan out,” said Tucker, who’s been working similar jobs since the early 1960s, when she was 12, and currently holds a second job as a bartender. “I should have saved more – I always saw people in my family who were in a needy situation, and my friends. They needed help and I could do it, so I did do it,” Tucker said. “Sometimes I did that at the cost of paying my own bills and saving.” Immigrants often have little choice but to keep working after 65, said 67-year-old Wilber Ruiz, who works retrieving carts

at a Giant supermarket in Ashburn, Virginia. He had once hoped to be retired at this age in his native Peru, reading literature and writing poetry. “Possibly for a certain type of worker, when they’re older they need to do something to stay occupied,” Ruiz said in Spanish. “But under the conditions that most Latinos are in, it’s to pay for an apartment, pay for a car to get to work. They survive. That’s all.” States are scrambling to fund more job-training programs for seniors, especially in Vermont, where 26% of older people held jobs in 2018, the highest rate in the country, up from 23% in 2013, according to a Stateline analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Vermont has a combination of a labor shortage and a large senior population that draws more older residents into the workforce, said Mathew Barewicz, an economist at the Vermont Department of Labor. Some are also working because they love their jobs. “It is a passion thing for me,” said Diane Dalmasse, 71, director of the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Waterbury. She has a state pension that would allow her to retire, but she

doesn’t want to do that yet. “We make a difference, and I just love the work,” Dalmasse said. “Work is how people are measured in this country.” The employment rate among older workers is increasing fastest in Colorado, Minnesota and Hawaii, where the additional numbers of older workers seeking jobs may be raising unemployment rates despite more job creation, as older workers see an opening in a tight labor market and possible higher wages. “In Colorado, people are working longer because they can,” said Brian Lewandowski, associate director of the research division at the University of Colorado. “We are healthier than average, and this is a state with a lot of white-collar jobs. If you have a desk job as an accountant or an attorney, you can easily keep doing this.” State programs to train older workers with federal funds are overwhelmed by applications from people who can’t get in, said Pat Elmer, president of Associates for Training and Development, a nonprofit that operates training programs in Vermont, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania. There are 2,000 trainees in those states. The program pays minimum wage to people 55 or older to work for nonprofits and public organizations, such as schools and hospitals, while they gain skills and references for the open job market. Many more people want the training but can’t get in because of waitlists or income restrictions – the federal program that funds it, the Senior Community Service Employment Program, requires participants to have incomes no more than 125% of the poverty level, currently $16,910 for a twoperson family. As the demand for job training among older residents grows, Vermont is considering other options. One program that could be expanded to help meet the need, Progressive Employment, allows workers of all ages to start working in new industries as trainees while they build skills, Elmer said. “So many people are in this situation. They don’t feel like they can retire, because they don’t have the funds,” Elmer said. “In the past, people could take minimum-wage jobs. Now people need updated skills, because they can’t get by on minimum wage

Recovery of bluefin tuna reopens fight over fishing BY PATRICK WHITTLE

Associated Press PORTLAND, MAINE

A federal plan that could loosen the rules about fishing for one of the most debated species in the ocean has attracted the attention of fishermen and environmentalists, some of whom fear years of conservation work could be undone. Preservation of the Atlantic bluefin tuna has long been a subject of international debate and sometimes discord. The giant sushi fish, which occasionally sell for more than $1 million and often weigh several hundred pounds, are at a fraction

of historical population levels but have shown positive signs in recent years. The federal government is considering some changes to the way the fish are managed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said some of the changes would give fishermen who use longlines, a method of fishing used to catch large fish, more flexibility by increasing their amount of open fishing area, including in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico is a critical spawning area for bluefin, and parts of it are closed down to longliners in the spring to protect the

fish. Reopening it to fishing could jeopardize the bluefin stock in U.S. waters and beyond, said Shana Miller, senior officer for international fisheries conservation with the Ocean Foundation. “It would increase mortality,” Miller said. “It boggles the mind why they’re choosing to do this.” Longliners aren’t allowed to target bluefin tuna, but they are allowed to keep some if they catch them accidentally. The potential rule change would allow longliners to operate in more territory where bluefin spawn, potentially taking more of them as accidental bycatch, Miller said.

ROBERT F. BUKATY AP

A bluefin tuna is weighed on a dock in South Portland, Maine.

It would also potentially open up territory off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and off the Northeastern states. Opening up the territory is on the table in part because of difficulties longliners have had with catching swordfish, a more abundant species

that has high economic value, said Jennie Lyons, an NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman. The NOAA is taking comments until Sept. 30 about its plan to change the fishing rules. Rule changes, if approved, could begin next year. The changes would also not affect fishermen’s

and Social Security.” In Washington, D.C.’s affluent Northern Virginia suburbs, some government workers find they can extend their working lives with freelance work long after retirement age. David Balducchi, 70, retired from the U.S. Department of Labor at 62 but still has plenty of work as a freelance researcher and writer, including a study of policy needs for an aging workforce last year. “For me, it’s part of my own personal journey, working on projects that interest me, things that were important to me,” Balducchi said. In Arlington County, Virginia, more than a fourth of people 65 or older hold jobs, according to census figures. About 7,000 of the county’s 31,000 older workers earn more than $140,000 in professional services and consulting, according to Kurt Larrick, assistant director of the county’s department of human services. Another 1,500 are in retail, making an average of around $40,000. “This is the new norm. People are going to continue working until they can’t physically or they can afford to stop,” Larrick said. The area’s Regional Workforce Council provides training for older workers, offering up to $3,500 toward certification in any in-demand profession, such as the health care, technology or culinary fields. The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that as older people return to the job market, people ages 16 to 24 are not seeking jobs as much as they once did – partly because they’re staying in school, as the long-term benefits of college degrees become more obvious. But part of the reason is that older workers now hold the kinds of jobs that entrylevel workers once did. When the recession hit 10 years ago, some younger people found it difficult to get jobs because entrylevel positions were being filled by older workers displaced by layoffs. But in today’s tight labor market, experts see little damage to younger workers by the graying of the workforce. “The mature workers are doing a lot of retail sales and customer service,” Elmer said. “These were jobs that were empty before the older workers showed up. The grocers and the tourism people were out there begging for people to take these jobs.”

quota for bluefin, said Randy Blankinship, chief of NOAA Fisheries’ Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division. Fishermen most often bring bluefin to the docks in the coastal New England states, especially Massachusetts and Maine, and North Carolina. Longline fishermen need better federal rules, because foreign swordfishermen are filling the void created by restrictions in the domestic market, said Dewey Hemilright, a longliner out of North Carolina. “The U.S. fisherman is going down, while other countries are shipping into our marketplace,” he said. Fishermen also harvest bluefin using harpoons and rod-and-reel gear.


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BUSINESS

IAN C. BATES NYT

Peter Hames, chief executive of Big Health, came up with the idea for Sleepio, an insomnia treatment app that aims to help people modify their behavior, after he developed insomnia himself.

Sleep therapies a click away with CVS Health BY NATASHA SINGER

New York Times

CVS Health wants to help millions of American workers improve their sleep. So for the first time, the big pharmacy benefits manager is offering a purely digital therapy as a possible employee benefit. The company is encouraging employers to cover the costs for their workers to use Sleepio, an insomnia app featuring a cartoon therapist that delivers behavior modification lessons. CVS Health’s push could help the nascent business of digital therapeutics, which markets apps to help treat conditions like schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis. The company recently introduced, along with Sleepio, a way for employers to cover downloads as easily as they do prescription drugs. The company said it had already evaluated about a dozen apps. Some industry executives and researchers say the digital services should make therapy more accessible and affordable than in-person sessions with mental health professionals. Big Health, the startup behind Sleepio, is one of more than a dozen companies that are digitizing well-established health treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy, or devising new therapies – like video-game-based treatments for children with attention deficit

IAN C. BATES NYT

CVS Health is encouraging employers to provide the Sleepio sleep app, which could help push digital therapeutics into the mainstream.

hyperactivity disorder – that can be delivered online. Since last year, a few pharmaceutical companies, including Novartis, announced partnerships with startups to develop digital treatments for mental health and other conditions. So far, the use of treatment apps has been limited. But with the backing of CVS Health, which administers prescription drug plans for nearly one-

third of Americans, those therapies could quickly reach tens of millions of people. A few employers have started offering Sleepio, and more are expected to sign on this fall, CVS Health said. Like in-person therapy, the insomnia app does not require a prescription. “We are at this pivotal moment,” said Lee Ritterband, a psychiatry professor at the University of Virginia School of Med-

icine who has developed online health interventions for more than a decade. “For years, these have been bubbling under the surface.” Other experts argue that online therapies may not be ready for mass adoption. In a recent study in Nature, researchers warned that most digital treatments lacked evidence of health benefits. Although first-of-theirkind medical apps that

claim to treat diseases must obtain clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, health apps that make vaguer wellness claims – like better sleep – generally do not need to demonstrate effectiveness to federal regulators. CVS Health said it was carefully reviewing the scientific literature on digital therapies to decide which ones to offer employers. The company selected Sleepio first partly because the app was backed by rigorous, published studies, said Dr. Troyen A. Brennan, CVS Health’s chief medical officer. “It’s important for us as a pharmacy benefit management company, as a big retail pharmacy, to endorse digital therapeutics when they work as good as or better than medications one can take by mouth,” Brennan said. “We can give the stamp of approval from having looked at the scientific information.” Volunteers in randomized studies who used Sleepio reported feeling milder insomnia than people who used a placebo treatment app or online sleep education. But the app has not been rigorously studied against sleeping pills or in-person behavioral therapy. CVS Health is offering Sleepio just as health experts have soured on prescription sleeping pills. In 2018, retail pharmacies in the United States dispensed more than 29 million prescriptions for drugs like Lunesta and Ambien. But the FDA warned Americans in April that taking certain sleeping medications had caused dangerous sleepwalking and “sleep driving,” resulting in serious injuries and even deaths. The American College of Physicians now recommends cognitive behavioral therapy – a proven psychological intervention that can help people change negative thinking patterns – as the initial treatment for adults with chronic insomnia. Peter Hames, the chief executive of Big Health, said he had hit upon the idea for Sleepio after he developed insomnia. He taught himself to modify his poor sleep habits, he said, by reading self-help books on cognitive behavioral therapy by Colin A. Espie, a sleep medicine professor at Oxford University. He and Espie later founded Big Health to digitize the techniques. “We are taking evidence-based, nondrug therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy that are traditionally delivered face to face by human therapists and then fully automating them,” Hames said. Sleepio unfolds more like a low-key, singleplayer video game, where the user is on a quest for better sleep, than a clinical health program. The app features an animated sleep expert with a Scottish accent, called “the Prof.” An affable but firm therapist, the bot offers people who have insomnia symptoms a series of six weekly online sessions. “At times, you may feel like quitting or even give up, but don’t despair. This is totally normal,” the animated therapist says in the first session. “What I can tell you for sure is, if we work closely together on this, we have an excellent chance of defeating your poor sleep.” Big Health has raised $15 million from investors

including Kaiser Permanente, the Californiabased health system. In 2015, the startup began selling Sleepio directly to employers, sending them aggregated data on their employees’ progress. Companies pay a fee for each employee who uses the insomnia app, but Big Health declined to disclose its pricing. Delta Air Lines and Boston Medical Center, two of the companies that work directly with Big Health, said employees who used Sleepio reported improved sleep. “It feels a lot more like play than work,” said Lisa Kelly-Croswell, the chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center, which has offered Sleepio since 2016. About 3,000 employees there completed the app’s initial screening questionnaire, she said, while 350 people finished the six-week program. In several randomized studies that assigned some volunteers to use Sleepio and others to a different treatment, like online sleep education, the Sleepio user group generally had a greater reduction in the time it took to fall asleep and the time spent awake at night. At the end of the studies, however, there was little difference in total sleep time between Sleepio users and nonusers. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the goal of insomnia therapy is to improve both the quality and the quantity of sleep. Espie said the app’s goal was to treat broken sleep, saying that “people who get consolidated sleep feel the benefit of that.” But in one randomized clinical trial with more than 3,700 participants, only 18% of Sleepio users completed the insomnia treatment. In another study, with nearly 1,400 participants, more than half of the Sleepio group did not engage with the app at all – suggesting that app therapy may be offputting to some people. Espie said some Sleepio users felt benefits from the app early on and stopped using it. Christopher L. Drake, section head for sleep research at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and a co-author of the 1,400-person study, said many people simply preferred in-person therapy. “The future will be combining the efficiency and access of a digital therapeutic with the personalization that you get from one-on-one therapy with a clinician,” Drake said. CVS Health’s rollout of Sleepio is part of its larger effort to popularize online health treatments as employee benefits. Brennan said the company planned to move forward with the apps it deemed to have solid evidence of efficacy. “We’re doing it because we think patients are going to benefit from it,” Brennan said. “That’s an important step for physicians. That’s an important step for patients.” Although Brennan emphasized in an interview that CVS Health was rigorously evaluating treatment apps for efficacy, a company spokeswoman said in a follow-up email that the pharmacy giant wanted to maximize choices for employers. “We will not curate a finite list of available vendors,” Christina Beckerman, the spokeswoman, wrote.


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HEALTH & SCIENCE

CAROLYN COLE TNS

The town of Pacifica, Calif., just south of San Francisco, is pictured. The journal Nature retracted a study published last year that found oceans were warming at an alarming rate over concerns about the study’s stated uncertainties.

Journal Nature retracts ocean-warming study BY JOSHUA EMERSON SMITH

The San Diego Union-Tribune

The journal Nature retracted a study published last year that found oceans were warming at an alarming rate due to climate change. The prestigious scien-

tific journal issued the formal notice this week for the paper published Oct. 31, 2018, by researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They released a statement published on the journal’s website that read

in part: “Shortly after publication, arising from comments from Nicholas Lewis, we realized that our reported uncertainties were underestimated owing to our treatment of certain systematic errors as random errors. “Despite the revised

Psychologists find alarming patterns among pedophiles BY BENEDICT CAREY

New York Times

Images of child sex abuse have reached a crisis point on the internet, spreading at unprecedented rates in part because tech platforms and law enforcement agencies have failed to keep pace with the problem. But less is understood about the issue underlying it all: What drives people to sexually abuse children? Science in recent years has begun to provide some answers. One thing most pedophiles have in common: They discover, usually as teenagers, that their sexual preferences have not matured like everyone else’s. Most get stuck on the same-age boys or girls who first attracted them at the start of puberty, although some retain interest in far younger children. “People don’t choose what arouses them – they discover it,” said Dr. Fred Berlin, director of the Johns Hopkins Sex and Gender Clinic. “No one grows up wanting to be a pedophile.”

Over the past generation, psychologists, forensic specialists and others have studied pedophilia, a disorder characterized by “recurrent, intense arousing fantasies, urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child,” according to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual. These experts have interviewed patients in depth, piecing together life histories and performing a variety of psychological and anatomical measures. While no study offers a complete picture, a portrait is emerging – one that helps elucidate the mental dynamic behind the surge in abuse images and the deepening depravity they depict. These findings also defy common stereotypes about what pedophilia is, and what the risks are for engaging in physical abuse. A majority of convicted offenders are men who prey on children ages 6 to 17. But women also commit hands-on offenses; rough estimates put the rate of pedophilic attraction at 1%-4% in both

men and women. Studies suggest that a small subset of male and female pedophiles have an interest in toddlers or even infants. As scientists seek to understand how the disorder develops, there is growing consensus that the origin is largely biological. This view is based in part on studies pointing to subtle physical traits that have a higher incidence among pedophiles. “The biological clues attached to pedophilia demonstrate that its roots are prenatal,” said James Cantor, director of the Toronto Sexuality Center. “These are not genetic; they can be traced to specific periods of development in the womb.” Psychological and environmental factors may also contribute, although it is not yet clear what those are or how they interact with developmental conditions. By contrast, the common presumption that pedophiles were themselves abused as children now has less support. Child victims are at far greater risk of future sub-

uncertainties, our method remains valid and provides an estimate of ocean warming that is independent of the ocean data underpinning other approaches.” Lewis, a mathematician and critic of the scientific consensus supporting the climate crisis, posted a

critique of the paper shortly after its publication. Co-author and climate scientist Ralph Keeling at Scripps has taken the blame for the mistake. The report used a new approach to measure the ocean’s temperature based on measuring the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide rising off the plant’s oceans. Much of the data on ocean temperatures currently relies on the Argo array, robotic devices that float at different depths. The retraction of the article came on the same

day that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report on the impacts warming on oceans and ice-covered regions. The findings were some of the most dire to date, warning that if emissions continue, sea level rise could reach 3 feet by the end of the century, a more than 10% increase from 2013 predictions. At the same time, the report found that in some cities and islands hundred-year floods will become yearly events.

stance abuse, depression, persistent traumatic stress or criminal aggression than of becoming molesters. The vast majority of offenders deny any sex abuse in their childhood, even though they could garner sympathy in court by doing so, experts say. “A chaotic childhood increases the likelihood of a chaotic adulthood, of any kind,” Cantor said. The relationship between viewing or collecting images and committing hands-on abuse is a matter of continuing debate among some experts, and one that is critical to evaluating the risk an offender poses. Until recently, the prevailing view was that only a minority of people caught viewing such images, between 5% and 20%, also committed physical abuse. That perception began to change in 2007, when a pair of psychologists at the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported that 85% of convicted online offenders acknowledged in therapy that they had raped or otherwise sexually abused children. That finding circulated widely before the study was formally published, creating an uproar among therapists, researchers and law enforcement specialists. The prisons bureau balked at publish-

ing it at all and withdrew it from a peer-reviewed journal close to its release date. Many cited concerns that the study sample was biased: It was based on the confessions of 155 convicts who had sought out therapy in prison, not on a representative sample of pedophiles, a much broader group with diverse habits. “It was what we call a convenience sample – that was a legitimate criticism,” said Michael Bourke, co-author of the study with Andres Hernandez, in a telephone interview. Bourke is now chief of the behavioral analysis unit of the U.S. Marshals. Since then, several other studies have supported the prison finding, if not precisely the 85% number. In one, inspectors from an array of government agencies interviewed 127 online offenders shortly after their arrests. Less than 5% admitted to previously molesting at least one child. When agents followed up with more in-depth, polygraph-assisted methods, another 53% admitted to hands-on offenses, for a total of nearly 60%. “This was not a convenience sample; these were offenders, some of whom

had downloaded just a single image, with no known history, from all over the country, interviewed by people from different agencies,” Bourke said. “They had zero incentive to admit to a previous offense – very much the opposite.” The high rate of previous, hands-on offending undermines another common assumption about pedophiles. “We shouldn’t assume that viewing online images leads to abuse of a child victim in person,” said Joe Sullivan, a specialist in sex crimes against children in Ireland and Britain. “In my clinical experience, it’s the other way around. Most of these men have already committed hands-on offenses.” From this point of view, downloading abuse images – and especially connecting with groups of like-minded pedophiles online – does not awaken latent desires. The desires are very much awake and, in many cases, have already been acted on. But the images and online communities can help erode inhibitions further, drawing pedophiles into more frequent or more aggressive acts, Bourke said.


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HEALTH & SCIENCE

How to develop an appetite for insects BY JOANNA KLEIN

New York Times

Repeat after me: entomophagy. It’s derived from Greek and Latin: “entomon,” meaning “insect,” and “phagus,” as in “feeding on.” Some think it’s the future of food. In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released a report declaring the need to swap traditional protein sources for insects to support a sustainable future. The report helped drive an explosion of efforts all dedicated to making mealworms your next meal. Presenters at a 2018 conference in Georgia, Eating Insects Athens, published papers this month in a special issue of the Annals of the Entomological Society of America. The volume showed how people who study insects scientifically are now spending more time

thinking about eating them. Here are some highlights of what the researchers found: THANK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS When Christopher Columbus returned from the Americas, he and members of his expedition used the insect-eating of the native inhabitants as an example of savagery, and as justification for dehumanizing people he would later enslave, said Julie Lesnik, an anthropologist at Wayne State University and author of “Edible Insects and Human Evolution.” While it wasn’t the only factor, the colonial era deepened the stigmatization of entomophagy in mainland Europe, and in turn among European settlers in the Americas. Further distaste grew as insects threatened profitable agricultural monocultures supported by slavery and industrialization. It wasn’t always that

way. Aristotle loved cicadas. Pliny the Elder preferred beetle larvae. They weren’t that different from insect eaters among other cultures on other continents. THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED COLONIALISM MAY LEAD THE WAY Evidence of insects in written reports, fossilized feces and mummies found in caves across North America, and corroboration from nearly every other continent, suggest humans have valued insects as food for millenniums. Today, billions of people still consume more than 2,100 insect species worldwide. Even in the United States, Kutzadika'a people, or “fly eaters,” cherish salty pupae from Mono Lake in California. Some shoppers may be following suit, purchasing popular cricket flour and protein bars from manufacturers like Chapul in specialty shops and on

Amazon. That company is named after an Aztec word for cricket, and pitches itself to customers as aiming to reduce water usage by livestock in the American West and connecting with native cultures’ food knowledge. UNDOING CENTURIES OF PHOBIA Many of us were programmed early in life to fear insects, and developing an appetite for them won’t be easy. “It’s OK if you think it’s gross. It’s totally fine,” said Lesnik. “You didn’t ask to be programmed this way.” But entomophagy advocates think reprogramming can transform people’s attitudes toward insects. For instance, kale, sushi, lobster and even olive oil or tomatoes were once scorned and unfamiliar in some cultures. But change can come about. With education and by acknowledging negative feelings toward eating insects, adults can try to

resist passing them to their children. “It will really benefit them if they don’t think bugs are gross,” she added. “Because it’s our kids’ generation that’s going to have to be able to solve those problems.” STILL, INSECTS AREN’T YET BEEF OR CHICKEN In the United States, black soldier flies, good at converting waste products to protein, have long been used as feed for poultry and farmed fish. To better understand how to produce more of them, researchers have just characterized their reproductive systems – from the tracts’ shapes to the sperm tails’ lengths. They have also discovered that larvae raised in relatively low densities are more likely to survive, grow heavier at each life stage and develop more quickly. That kind of research could be a model for eventually mass producing other insects for human consumption, like mealworms or crickets, which we’re a long way off from growing in ways that could feed the masses. While years of agricultural research have guided industry regulations aiming to make beef, poultry and pork healthier and

safer, and less wasteful of what they eat, similar research and rules for most insects are a long way off. WHEN INSECTS ARE AND ARE NOT FILTHY Here’s a conundrum: When an insect is in our food, the Food and Drug Administration considers it “filth.” But as long as manufactured insects are “free from filth, pathogens, toxins,” the Department of Agriculture says it’s food. While regulations are clear about insect food sales, they’re more like guidelines for insect food and feed production. The lack of stronger regulations may be limiting the number of insect-based foods on the market today. Even if consumers become more comfortable with the idea of eating insects, they won’t stay that way without specific regulations meant to ensure quality and safety. That’s a goal supported by industry groups like the North American Coalition for Insect Agriculture, recently formed, in part, to work with regulators as more bugs are introduced into our diets.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a yearly flu vaccine for children 6 months and older.

Flu shots help save lives. Why don’t more people get them? BY MARI A. SCHAEFER

Philadelphia Inquirer

Most American adults know that the best protection against influenza is a vaccine, but about half will not get their annual flu shot, according to new survey. The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) commissioned the survey to get a better handle on the public’s attitudes and practices when it comes to getting a flu shot and the vaccine for pneumococcal disease, which protects against the

more serious forms of bacterial pneumonia. The survey garnered 1,002 responses– 916 via the web – from adults over 18 in 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to NFID. The group found that nearly a quarter of U.S. adults who are over age 65 or who have health conditions that put them at greater risk for flurelated complications – such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease – do not plan to get the vaccination. About 51% of adults do not think the vaccine

works, 34% are worried about side effects, and 22% believe they may get the flu from the vaccine, the survey found. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that flu vaccination coverage has increased over the last decade. An annual flu vaccine is recommended for everyone over 6 months old. Even so, the 2017-18 flu season was particularly bad. The CDC estimated the flu was associated with more than 48.8 million illnesses, 22.7 million medical visits, 959,000

hospitalizations, and 79,400 flu-related deaths. There were 183 child deaths reported to the CDC. The 2018-19 season was not considered as severe, with 135 influenza-associated pediatric deaths reported to CDC. One notable finding in the survey was that about 60% of adults at greater risk said they were never advised to get a vaccine for pneumococcal disease. More outreach to health care providers is needed to make sure they talk to patients about available vaccines, said Daniel B.

Jernigan, director of the influenza division in the national center for immunization and respiratory diseases at the CDC. “We know if providers asked patients (about getting the vaccine) it was extremely influential,” he said. “If they have it in the office the coverage goes up even higher.” What health officials are also finding is that there is not just one reason to explain reluctance over the immunization, Jernigan said. People have different reasons, and understanding those differences is part of the solution, he said. Even though there is currently not a lot of flu going around, October is the best time to get a flu shot, said Jernigan. It takes about two

weeks for antibodies to develop sufficiently to protect you. An annual vaccination is needed both because your immunity wanes over time, and because the vaccine is reformulated every year to match the strains of viruses expected to dominate the season, according to the CDC. Some years, the predictions are better than others, which can account for why the vaccine’s effectiveness varies from year to year. Infectious-disease experts agree that even if a vaccinated person gets the flu, symptoms are likely to be less severe than they would have been if they’d skipped a shot.


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OPINION FROM THE SACRAMENTO BEE

California farmers: Keep pesticides to yourselves, away from workers BY THE SACRAMENTO BEE EDITORIAL BOARD

California’s farmers do amazing work. Though small in number, they produce food in abundance that is consumed by people around the world. Yet their production can have seriously negative impacts when it comes to the chemicals they use to kill pests, weeds and diseases. Necessary tools that are legal to use, pesticides nonetheless become a big problem whenever they leave the farm and sicken people nearby. Such was the problem this summer in pesticide drift cases in Tulare and Fresno counties. In both instances, pesticides were applied while farmworkers were in neighboring properties. The result: dozens of sickened workers. One laborer told The Fresno Bee that his health continues to be adversely

affected. Mardonio Solorio says he woke up several nights this summer “coughing blood and gasping for air,” according to a story by Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado. Solorio’s doctor said the ongoing problems stem from pesticide exposure. The vast number of pesticide applications in California’s orchards, vineyards and fields are done properly every year without mishap. But the incidents highlighted in The Fresno Bee’s report are a reminder that one drift case is one too many. No farming chemical should ever leave a field and poison people working nearby. DRIFT CASES EXPLAINED In June, a crew of workers was in a peach orchard near Kerman in Fresno County when a tractor began driving around the

perimeter of an adjoining almond orchard. The applicator on the tractor was spraying an oil to control mites. The chemical is rated by the state as a caution pesticide, meaning precautions must be taken to safely apply it, but its danger to people is at the lowest level. The applicator did not see the workers in the orchard, and the pesticide drifted over to them. The result was 70 people afflicted with headaches, and irritated eyes and throats. Now the Fresno County agricultural commissioner is considering whether to criminally charge the almond farmer for creating an illegal exposure to the pesticide. A week before, a group of 60 farmworkers in a vineyard near Dinuba, in Tulare County, got exposed to a pesticide when the applicator did not

FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

How the House conducts its Trump impeachment inquiry could make all the difference BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Galvanized by the scandal of President Trump’s shocking request that a foreign leader investigate one of his potential opponents, House Democrats have embarked on what Speaker Nancy Pelosi called an “official impeachment inquiry.” It is hugely significant that Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who had been reluctant to focus on impeachment because of the potential political damage to her party, now sees an investigation as necessary. But how the House conducts this probe is as important as the fact that it is moving forward. In the coming weeks and months, House Democrats must address several questions freighted with political implications: How quickly should the inquiry proceedShould it focus exclusively on Trump’s attempts to have Ukraine investigate form-

er Vice President Joe Biden (and the White House’s alleged efforts to cover up that conduct), or should the House scrutinize other serious allegations against him tooHow can the Democratic majority convince the public– and potentially persuadable Republican colleagues–that the impeachment inquiry is driven not by partisanship nor pentup anger at Trump’s divisive words and deeds ? Our view is that the investigation should be expeditious in light of the approaching election but not so fast-tracked as to raise concerns about a rush to judgment. It’s important that Trump and his lawyers have a fair opportunity to respond and provide context. The results should not be a foregone conclusion ; lawmakers must be willing to exonerate the president or stop short of impeachment if that’s where the evidence leads them. It would be wise for

OUR VIEW IS THAT THE INVESTIGATION SHOULD BE EXPEDITIOUS IN LIGHT OF THE APPROACHING ELECTION BUT NOT SO FAST-TRACKED AS TO RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT A RUSH TO JUDGMENT. Pelosi to obtain the authorization of a majority of the House for the investigation, as the House did for the impeachment investigations of Presidents Nixon and Clinton. She should also reconsider an idea she apparently rejected: empaneling a select committee to lead

applications in California each year. Workers get exposed to drift on average about 35 times a year. In 2016, the latest data reported by the state Department of Pesticide Regulation, there were 86 episodes of pesticide exposure to workers from drift and other means.

know they were there. The applicator was treating peaches and was in the adjoining orchard before workers had arrived in the vineyard. The wind shifted, blowing the chemical toward the laborers. One of the workers began to vomit, resulting in a 911 emergency call. About 10 people sought medical attention. The Tulare County agricultural commissioner investigated and found the farm to have violated regulations regarding drift. Two labor contractors were also cited for improper worker training and emergency medical care. The case has been forwarded to the district attorney for review and the ag commissioner is also considering levying a fine. According to state officials, these cases are outliers: On average, there are 3 million pesticide

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR PESTICIDE DRIFT The public’s expectation when it comes to pesticide use is simple: no exposure off the farm. Mistakes happen, people are human – but growers must do more to keep farm chemicals from sickening field workers or blowing into neighborhoods. Every farmer has a responsibility to make sure each employee understands that goal and abides by it when applications are being made. The pressure to get a chemical applied – be it because pests are multiplying or there is a window of good weather – cannot overrule proper judgment. If pesticides cannot be used properly, don’t apply them. Regulations currently in place make it clear that pesticide drift is completely unacceptable. Training staff on how to properly apply pesticides is key. No one should be able to drive a tractor and apply farm chemicals

the investigation, preferably aided by well-respected career prosecutors. As for the scope of the inquiry, we agree that the House should focus primarily on the unfolding story of Trump’s attempt to have a foreign country investigate one of his political opponents. White House notes on the nowinfamous July 25 telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also revealed Trump’s request for help on a broader effort to discredit Biden in which Trump’s personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, looms large. House investigators need to scrutinize that campaign in all of its manifestations. And while Trump’s accusations against Biden have already been debunked, Democrats would do themselves and the country a favor by clearing the air. Then there is the assertion by a whistleblower in the intelligence community that White House officials took unusual steps in the days after the call to “lock down “ records of the conversation, removing the official transcript from the computer system in which such documents are usually

stored and placing it instead in a system usually reserved for sensitive national security information. That alleged coverup must also be scrutinized. And what about other allegationsThe most serious, in our view, is the possibility that Trump might have obstructed justice in a series of attempts to frustrate special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation. In his findings, Mueller said that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” Acting on their own, Atty. Gen. William Barr and then-Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein concluded that “the evidence developed during the special counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.” But Congress has every right to reach its own conclusion on that question. Moreover, the allegations about obstruction of justice arguably involve the same sort of disrespect for legal norms that we see in Trump’s call with Zelensky. We believe that even a streamlined impeachment investigation should include the

without a full understanding of the rules and required safety practices. Those charged with applying these chemicals must also have the courage to tell the boss “not today” if conditions change plans. To that end, California Farm Bureau offices around the state are hosting “Spray Safe” workshops to provide such training. Kern County Farm Bureau has a workshop coming up in January, and the Fresno County Farm Bureau is planning one sometime this winter as well. The sessions will be in English and Spanish. For those who refuse to embrace the training and follow the regulations, punishment and enforcement are key. The state gives county ag commissioners up to two years to complete investigations. By then, a bad actor has moved on to treating and harvesting a new crop. State officials must act to shorten the timeline and expedite punishment for offenders. In 2018, California agriculture earned $50 billion in gross sales. With such earnings, there must be a way to achieve a no-fail process for farmers to safely and efficiently use pesticides.

issue of possible obstruction of justice. Finally, while expediting the impeachment process must be a priority, it can’t be the sole concern of the House. Focusing only on impeachment over the next few months would be a dereliction of House members’ duty to their constituents. It would send the message to the public that the party cares more about politics than the people’s business. Regardless of how carefully the Democrats proceed, they must be prepared for accusations from Trump that this is yet another “witch hunt.” He is likely to continue to enjoy the support of the vast majority of Republicans in Congress. (The pathetic response by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield was to portray the impeachment inquiry as the latest attempt by Democrats to overturn the results of the 2016 election.) It may be hopeless to expect more than a few Republicans to take the allegations against Trump seriously, but House Democrats should still strive to conduct a scrupulously fair investigation, one that focuses on questions of lawlessness.


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COMMENTARY Why millennials are struggling BY PERRY WEED

Baltimore Sun

anything. Could it be that the Ukrainian president feared Biden more than Trump? After all, it was possible Trump would just last another year or less in office and that Biden could be the next president and that the last thing this Ukrainian official wanted was a President Biden on his case. Joe Biden has pleaded innocent to a conflict of interest, but early on he knew what was going on because of newspaper reports, and even though he says he never talked to his son about the issue, his son has said he did. Hunter Biden has said he was a director of the company trying to help it out financially and legally, but it is inconceivable that he did not know he was compromising his father, just as it is equally inconceivable that his father did not know the situation might make the United States look corrupt, too, at least to some. President Barack Obama is said to have been concerned about the son’s since-abandoned job, and Joe Biden could surely have gone to Obama and said, at least on this matter, he did not want to be a point man, or possibly told his son to behave. It didn’t happen, and so you wonder why he decided to risk the worst when other, protective options were at hand.

Four or five years ago, having breakfast at the counter in a popular Annapolis, Md., eatery, I struck up a casual conversation with a stranger sitting next to me. I remember it as if it happened yesterday. This father, for all the right reasons, had pushed his son to get a college degree and counseled him to borrow money to do so. The son had incurred a loan in excess of $100,000 and graduated into an economy of few job openings. He had no good job and no money to pay his debt. The father’s pain, guilt and sense of regret were palpable. This is what happened to millennials following the 2008 Great Recession. Millennials are generally defined to be those born from 1981 to 1996, now 22-37 years old. Some refer to them as the generation who refuses to grow up: no mortgage, no career plan, no marriage, no children. Why is this? Why have they not done as well as their parents? Millennials came of age during a time of dramatic technological change, the proliferation of social media, globalization and economic disruption. For a better life, a bachelor’s degree became all but prerequisite for an adequate wage. The Great Recession unloaded on millennials. They have lived through a slow 10year recovery of a weak labor market and declining wages. College tuition had risen sharply, and the federal loans incurred to repay it have been a considerable burden. Students can no longer work their way through college while taking classes the way they once could. Two-thirds of students who earned a four-year degree in 2017 borrowed to pay for school. Growing numbers of these loan debts are in arrears or in default. Those in charge of these programs – aging politicians and policy-makers – favor the corporations, the wealthier and those over

remains. For example, Jared Dearing, Executive Director of Kentucky’s State Board of Elections, recently testified as part of a federal Elections Assistance Commission panel about Kentucky’s need for additional resources to help our county clerks offices “participate in what is national security.” The House agreed about the urgency of the situation and included $600 million for election security in their appropriations bill. When the relevant Senate Appropriations Subcommittee did not include any funding in its initial mark-up, Leader McConnell helped to develop and co-sponsored an amendment adding $250 million for election security to the appropriations package. While the appropriations process has a long way to go – and differences between the House and Senate need to be worked out – this is an extremely positive development for those who believe that, given the threat to our national security, the

federal government must do something. After all, we don’t want to wake up the day after the 2020 election, knowing that we could have done more. Now is the time to fund those security enhancements. Most of the time, federal, one-size-fits-all election legislation is misguided. States and local governments possess the primary responsibility for administering elections and states should therefore bear the primary burden of funding those election administration expenses. That happens to be the position of the National Association of Secretaries of State, an organization that I led in 2009-10. This is an exception. When our national security is being threatened by rogue actors interfering with our elections, the federal government has a clear duty to act. Foreign efforts to disrupt elections are targeting all of us— they don’t care about a specific county or state but are looking for any vulnerability that will

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Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, departs after delivering a statement on the whistleblower report in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sept. 24.

Joe Biden looks bad, too BY JAY AMBROSE

Tribune News Service

Joe Biden is guilty. No, he is not guilty of breaking a law, at least as far as I know, but he is guilty of a demeaning conflict of interest detrimental to the United States, and he could easily have walked away from it. This is not just another feckless gaffe, some of which, by the way, have more nearly had the appearance of well-practiced tall tales, but a narrative meaning that President Donald Trump is not the only one threatened by the Ukraine mess. Biden may have to step down as a candidate for president, and if he doesn’t, voters may show him the way to the door. Yes, that could mean Sen. Elizabeth Warren would be the Democratic nominee, an extreme, socialistically inspired enemy of capitalism and lover of major, liberty-devouring spending programs that would wreck our econo-

my. Unlike Trump, her slogan should not be America first, but America third, as in becoming a Third World country. But maybe a Republican – who knows who – could beat her in the general election. I know, I know that some are saying Biden is innocent and decent and should not be damaged by Trump talking to the president of Ukraine about him and his son. What Trump said was that the Ukrainian president should look into the firing of a national prosecutor who had probed a natural gas company that had the son, Hunter Biden, on its board. This big, wealthy, powerful company had long been seen as the doer of dirty deeds and its criminally suspect owner had had ties with a Russia-supporting Ukrainian president ousted by means of revolution. Vice President Biden was the Obama administration’s point man in the Ukraine and told the government that the prose-

cutor was corrupt and that he must be fired or it would lose a billion-dollar loan promised by the United States. Ukraine is poor and has been fighting Russian separatists, and the man was fired. The action may have been justified, but consider that this lawyer-son had built his career on his daddy’s influence, representing foreign and domestic companies dependent on the U.S. government’s whims and deliberations, and was making $50,000 a month as a director doing what? It is unclear because, as others have noted, he had no background in energy or anything else that would matter, just an interesting last name. In his phone gab with the Ukrainian president, Trump never mentioned taking away American money meant to help in its military pursuits, mainly the training of soldiers, but he did delay its delivery without explanation. It still got there with no Ukrainian acquiescence in

McConnell could again make history on election security

BY TREY GRAYSON

Only twice in its history has Congress provided any funding to the states for election administration. Mitch McConnell played an instrumental role both times. In 2002, to address the shortcomings of our nation’s system of election administration that were painfully revealed in the 2000 presidential election, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). This bipartisan legislation mandated that states improve their voting systems and voter registration databases. It also authorized over $3.5 billion of federal funds to help with implementation,

the first ever federal election authorization. Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell was the Republican Senate champion for HAVA, and the bill was often called the NeyHoyer-Dodd-McConnell Help America Vote Act, after the four main Congressional champions. As a result of HAVA, during my time as Secretary of State, Kentucky received over $30 million dollars to help us improve our elections. We used those dollars to upgrade voting systems in every precinct, enhance our statewide voter registration database, and to improve to accessibility of polling places across the Commonwealth. In the wake of foreign attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, in 2018, Congress appropriated $380 million to assist states with election security upgrades. Of the $380

million, Kentucky received nearly $6 million. Once again, Mitch McConnell, this time as Senate Republican Leader, played a key role in making such funding available to the states. Given his power and influence as Republican leader, it is no exaggeration to say that the funding would not have happened without McConnell’s leadership and support. That’s because despite what some in the media or his political opponents insist, for nearly two decades, the Republican Leader has played a critical role in improving our election security. This year, McConnell will have another opportunity to demonstrate his leadership on this issue. That’s because, while states have done a good job of spending the $380 million appropriated last year, as indicated by a recent report, more work

65, the most reliable voters. This year’s expected $1 trillion deficit will add to the national debt of $22 trillion. In America’s rapidly aging society, every day about 10,000 individuals become eligible for Medicare. The children and grandchildren of today’s adults are on the hook for these obligations. We now face another possible recession, which would be the second to hit the millennials. To be employed in a stagnant and falling economy, a college education and technical training will be required, but these qualifications will not necessarily return an adequate salary. According to a Deloitte study, millennials are doing far worse financially than generations before them. Their average net worth is below $8,000, a 34% drop in average net worth since 1996. The study found millenials’ incomes have largely flatlined. To pay off the lasting burden of the $1.6 trillion student debt could take many borrowers a lifetime. These debts sap their life and career dreams. A Bloomberg Businessweek analysis found that U.S. student loan borrowers as a group are paying down only about 1% of their federal student loan debt every year. The Great Recession created a particularly daunting challenge for millennials entering the job market. It has left a hangover of uncertainty and lost opportunity. It has affected their future earnings and wealth. Millennials live in a world much less safe, predictable and prosperous than did their parents. Their work is much less secure and the pay less certain. Neither the U.S. economy nor the government has delivered a better world for them than that experienced by their parents.

Perry L. Weed is founder/director of the Economic Club of Annapolis, Md.

undermine our values of American democracy. This view is shared by many others generally opposed to increased federal involvement in elections. For example, the current members of the National Association of Secretaries of State recently sent Senate leadership a letter making this very case. In addition, a growing number of fellow conservatives, including leaders like Grover Norquist and groups such as FreedomWorks, support federal funding to address this threat. That’s why, when the appropriations process concludes, I am confident that Congress, thanks to Mitch McConnell’s leadership, will make history a third time and provide meaningful funding to our state and local governments for election security. After all, our national security depends upon it.

Trey Grayson, an attorney with Frost Brown Todd, served as Kentucky’s Secretary of State from 2004 to 2011.


Trump’s guilty, but to impeach is a mistake

BY DAVID BROOKS

The New York Times

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Adam Neumann, WeWork’s former chief executive, is seen alongside his sister, Adi, at the 2018 Creator Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. The We Company has delayed its long-planned stock offering.

Model fails investors and office workers BY FARHAD MANJOO

The New York Times Company

What was We thinking? That’s the only question worth asking now about the clowncar startup known as The We Company, the money-burning, co-working behemoth whose best-known brand is WeWork. What’s a WeWork? What WeWork works on is work. The We Company takes out long-term leases on in-demand office buildings in more than 100 cities across the globe (lately, it’s even been buying its own buildings). Then We redesigns, furnishes and variously modularizes the digs, aiming to profitably sublease small and large chunks of office space to startups and even big companies. Well, profitable in theory: The We Company lost $1.7 billion last year. But this is fine, We said. Unlike other recent troubled startups, which at least had the decency to

cover up their scandals, We stands out for its brazenness. Critics have long pointed out that We is saddled with a self-evidently faulty business model that leaves it open to real estate downturns, and that its co-founder and just-pushed-out chief executive, Adam Neumann, was a walking parody of high-minded impulsivity and self-dealing. And yet since its founding in 2010, WeWork has been one of the most highly valued startups on the planet, assessed at $47 billion in its last private round of fundraising. WeWork’s Ikea-chic, couch-and-bench-furnished open office aesthetic has also become a cultural template, the sitcom backdrop for a new generation’s workplace travails. Then, last week, came the inevitable blow up. After finding lackluster investor interest in its business, We delayed its long-planned stock offering. On Tuesday, the

Lifestyle changes helped me fight Alzheimer’s BY DAVID BROWN

In 2015, I was told I had early stage memory loss, almost certainly due to Alzheimer’s disease. I was 65. I did poorly on cognitive tests, and MRIs showed relentless atrophy of my brain. I was initially in the stage known as mild cognitive impairment, which immediately precedes Alzheimer’s dementia. In 2016, I had episodes when I couldn’t recall my zip code or my phone number of 30 years. When my wife told me what they were, the numbers didn’t sound familiar. We all know that Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease that robs people of their dignity and their very identity. It is the third leading cause of death in Washington state, bankrupting families in the process of killing its victims. While it may be common in the elderly, it is definitely not normal. I once read that a drug intervention should be on

the market by 2019; but unfortunately, that drug intervention never appeared. There are a few medications to treat symptoms, but a medicine to cure my disease is still not here. However, since 2016, my cognitive test scores have improved steadily, and other manifestations of the disease, such as regular episodes of depression, have almost disappeared. I know my zip code. I’m not cured per se, but my life has changed completely. Why? I adopted lifestyle interventions that, taken together, dramatically turned things around for me: daily vigorous aerobic exercise, a Mediterranean diet, reducing stress, getting adequate sleep, maintaining social connections, learning new things, and the first hour of my day reserved for quiet Bible reading and prayer. While this approach may not help everyone, these are examples of the kinds of interventions now being found effective by many

company pushed out Neumann as CEO. The tech business site The Information reported that We is considering laying off up to a third of its work force. I’ve been hung up on how all this happened: How did so many people put so much money into something so many were warning would end up so badly? What was We thinking? And then it hit me: We wasn’t thinking. WeWork? Not really. WeCan’t! We’reTooDistracted! Much will be written in the coming weeks about how WeWork failed investors and employees. But I want to spotlight another constituency. WeWork’s fundamental business idea – to cram as many people as possible into swank, high-dollar office space, and then shower them with snacks and foosball-type perks so they overlook the distraction-carnival of their desks – fails office workers, too.

scientific studies: A A Rush University Medical Center study found individuals who applied four or five healthy lifestyle habits had a 60% lower risk of Alzheimer’s dementia. Participants applying two or three had a 39% lower risk. A The Alzheimer’s Association is also currently funding the U.S. POINTER study, a two-year clinical trial to evaluate lifestyle interventions to protect cognitive function in older adults (age 60-79). More research like this is needed if we are going to find a way to prevent, treat or cure Alzheimer’s disease. Congress must pass an appropriations bill increasing Alzheimer’s research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $350 million in fiscal year 2020. This amount is consistent with what NIH scientists believe is necessary to achieve the national goal of a treatment by 2025; but the House passed an appropriations bill that would increase Alzheimer’s research by just $100 million. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, a

The model fails you even if you don’t work at a WeWork, because WeWork’s underlying idea has been an inspiration for a range of workplaces, possibly even your own. As urban rents crept up and the economy reached full employment over the past decade, American offices got more and more stuffed. On average, workers now get about 194 square feet of office space per person, down about 8% since 2009, according to a report by the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. WeWork has been accelerating the trend. At its newest offices, the company can more than double the density of most other offices, giving each worker less than 50 square feet of space. As a socially anxious introvert with a lot of bespoke workplace rituals, I used to think I was simply a weirdo for finding modern offices insufferable. I’ve been working from my cozy home office for more than a decade, and now, when I go to the Times’ headquarters in New York – where, for financial reasons, desks were recently converted from cubicles into open office benches – I cannot for the life of me get anything done.

member of the House Appropriations Committee, has supported increased research funding for Alzheimer’s disease in the past but it’s not enough. I hope that Congressman Newhouse will continue championing Alzheimer’s research by urging House leadership to achieve a $350 million level when negotiating the final FY20 appropriations bill with the Senate. Until there is an effective treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s, the best thing we can do is adopt brainhealthy habits. Visit alz.org/10ways for a full list. Leading a healthier lifestyle is an accessible, inexpensive change that nearly everyone can make in their lives, no matter their circumstances. Some things you can’t change — like your genes — but we have control over healthy habits. You can start living healthier today.

David Brown is a retired engineer and high school science teacher who lives with his wife in Richland, Wash. He is author of the book Beating the Dementia Monster: How I stopped the advance of cognitive impairment from Alzheimer’s disease.

Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense on that call with the Ukrainian president. But that doesn’t mean Democrats are right to start an impeachment process. Remember, impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. There is no obligation to prosecute. Congress is supposed to do what is in the best interest of the country. And this process could be very bad for America: This will probably achieve nothing. To actually remove Trump from office, at least 20 Republican senators would have to vote to convict him. If you think that will happen because of this incident, you haven’t been paying attention to the Senate Republicans over the past 21 years. Usually when a leader takes a big risk, it’s because there’s a big upside. But Nancy Pelosi is taking a giant risk and there is little upside. At the end of this process, Trump will probably be acquitted by the Senate. He will declare himself vindicated and victorious in his battle against The Swamp. An ugly backlash could ensue — in both parties. This is completely elitist. We’re in the middle of an election campaign. If Democrats proceed with the impeachment process, it will happen amid candidate debates, primaries and caucuses. Elections give millions and millions of Americans a voice in selecting the president. This process gives 100 mostly millionaire senators a voice in selecting the president. As these two processes unfold simultaneously, the contrast will be obvious. People will conclude that Democrats are going ahead with impeachment in an election year because they don’t trust the democratic process to yield the right outcome. Democratic elites to voters: We don’t trust you. Too many of you are racists! This is not what the country wants to talk about. Pelosi said she would not proceed with impeachment unless there was a bipartisan groundswell of support. There is no bipartisan groundswell, and yet she’s proceeding. According to a Quinnipiac University poll, only 37% of Americans support impeachment. The presidential candidates all report the same phenomenon. Voters are asking them about health care and jobs and climate change, not impeachment. This week, while all this was unfolding, I was in Waco, Nantucket and Kansas City. I had conversations or encounters with hundreds of people. Only one even mentioned impeachment, a fellow journalist. There is a big difference between the conversation Twitter wants to have and the conversation the broader populace wants to have. Democrats are playing Trump’s game. Trump has no policy agenda. He’s

incompetent at improving the lives of American citizens, even his own voters. But he’s good at one thing: waging reality TV personality wars against coastal elites. So now over the next few months he gets to have a personality war against Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler. The Democrats are having a pretty exciting and substantive presidential primary season. This is what democracy is supposed to look like. Why they would want to distract from that is beyond reason. Trump vs. Nadler is exactly the contrast Trump wants to elevate. This process will increase public cynicism. Impeachment would be an uplifting exercise if we had sober leaders who could put party affiliation aside and impartially weigh the evidence. It would be workable if Congress enjoyed broad public affection and legitimacy. We don’t live in that world. This process is already devolving into the sort of mindless partisan war that causes Americans to be disgusted with Washington. Impeachment is no longer a rare and grave crisis in American life; it’s becoming a device parties use when the House and the presidency are in the hands of different parties. Democratic House members have already introduced impeachment articles against Trump on at least four occasions. It’s just another partisan thing. This could embed Trumpism within the GOP. If Trump suffers a withering loss in a straight-up election campaign, then his populist tendency might shrink and mainstream Republicans might regain primacy. An election defeat would mean the people don’t like Trumpism. But the impeachment process reinforces the core Trumpist deep-state message: The liberal elites screw people like us. If Trump’s most visible opponents are D.C. lawyers, Trumpism becomes permanent. This could distort the Democratic primary process. It’s already obvious that impeachment upstages the Democratic primaries. In the months ahead, the Democratic candidates are going to have a harder time getting attention. Democratic policy debates are going to be obscured. Congressional Democrats will become the most visible party leaders. Impeachment will doubtless roil the Democratic primary race in unpredictable ways. The most bellicose candidates may profit as the impeachment wars grow more vitriolic. The moderates may be further marginalized. Democrats are running against a man whose approval rating never gets above 45%. They just have to be normal to win. Instead, they’re rolling the dice in a very risky way. I get the need to remove this unfit man from office. But this process will not produce that outcome. An election can save the country. An inside-theBeltway political brawl will not.


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Luckenbach, Texas, is a very small town with a population of 3 that country star Waylon Jennings made into a crossover hit in 1977.

From Luckenbach to Rocky Top, country music is a US road map BY KRISTIN M. HALL

Associated Press NASHVILLE, TENN.

Country music is a uniquely American art form, with its roots in the fiddle from European immigrants and the African banjo all the way through its explosion as a commercial art form that has reflected the social, economic and cultural changes within our country. Ken Burns took on the gargantuan task of telling the story of country music in his new PBS documentary series “Country Music,” which airs in eight parts over 16 hours. Just as Burns and his filmmaking partners, Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey, sifted through hundreds of hours of footage and audio, there’s a wealth of accompanying material for aficionados who want to dig deeper into the music and the history. The official soundtrack from Legacy Recordings comes in a five-CD box set, as well as other versions including vinyl and digital. There’s also a companion book called “Country Music: An Illustrated History,” by Duncan and Burns. Spotify has an enhanced playlist of music from the film, interview outtakes and more. The storytelling of country music connects a wide swath of Americans from East Coast to the West Coast, from North to the South. For many country writers, their lyrics were inspired by real places and real people, adding authenticity to the melody. A scan of popular country song titles, from “Luckenbach, Texas,” “Okie from Muskogee,”

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Tubers on Georgia’s Chattahoochee, a river country star Alan Jackson made famous.

“New San Antonio Rose,” and “Folsom Prison Blues,” illustrates a country music road map of America. If Burns’ documentary inspires music fans to hit the road, here are a few spots that you can visit that have been etched into country music lore and history:

lingua,” in the town’s dance hall, but it was the crossover hit by Jennings in 1977 that not only put the outlaws on the map, but also this sleepy town. The dance hall is still a place to enjoy country music and cold beers and pick up some souvenirs. If you go: www.luckenbachtexas.com

LUCKENBACH, TEXAS There are few towns more seeped in country music history than this unincorporated outpost in Texas hill country. Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings sang about yearning to go back to this place, a metaphor for small towns and simple times where “everybody’s somebody.” But it wasn’t always that way. The town was abandoned in the ‘60s and put up for sale. Hondo Crouch, an eccentric rancher, and his friends bought the town and reopened the dance hall. Outlaw country singer Jerry Jeff Walker recorded his progressive country live album “Viva Ter-

TALLAHATCHIE BRIDGE, MISSISSIPPI One of country music’s biggest musical mysteries is what happened to Bobbie Gentry. Gentry’s No. 1 hit “Ode to Billie Joe” in 1967 turned her into a star with her swampy, Delta voice and her conversational lyrics about a boy who jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Nobody knows why Billie Joe jumped on that third of June and Gentry herself became a disappearing act in the 1980s. But you can ponder those mysteries as you walk across the bridge in Money, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where she lived in Greenwood as a child. Writer

Tara Murtha, who wrote a book about Gentry’s debut album “Ode to Billie Joe,” said Gentry confirmed the bridge in Money was the one that inspired her song, although the original bridge collapsed in the 1970s and has since been replaced. If you visit Greenwood, look for a marker from the Mississippi Country Music Trail honoring Gentry as well. If you go: www. mscountrymusictrail.org ROCKY TOP, TENNESSEE Written by master songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, this bluegrass standard was originally recorded by the Osborne Brothers. It has since become an official Tennessee state song and the rousing fight song for the University of Tennessee football team, often played to excess. The real Rocky Top is not at the football stadium, but instead it’s a rocky outcropping on the Appalachian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains Nation-

al Park. It’s not easy to get there, a steep, strenuous nearly 14-mile round trip hike. But if you make it, you’ll be treated to some of the most stunning 360degree view of the mountains. If you go: www.nps.gov/appa/ index.htm PARADISE, KENTUCKY This now-defunct Western Kentucky town along the Green River was immortalized by John Prine in “Paradise” as an example of the impact on strip mining in Appalachia, a town literally ripped off the map. Tom T. Hall and John Denver both recorded versions of the song and Prine’s lament became a protest song for environmentalists. In the song, Peabody Coal was responsible for the town’s destruction and Peabody tried for decades to rebut the song. In truth, the town was purchased by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1960s, its buildings demolished and a coal-fired plant was built. Decades later, TVA now plans to shut down the Paradise plant to try to shift to more efficient energy production, despite objections from President Donald Trump. Today, there’s not much to see in Paradise but the plant’s three cooling towers, mounds of coal and a declining coal industry. CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER, GEORGIA The toe-tapping river song “Chattahoochee” that rhymes Chattahoochee with “hoochie-coochie” was one of the biggest hits of Alan Jackson’s career, earning him two Country Music Association Awards and two Grammy nominations. The iconic music video features Jackson water skiing in ripped-up blue jeans and his white cowboy hat. The real Chattahoochee River is not far from where Jackson grew up in Newnan, Georgia, and forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia line. Jackson, who grew up water-skiing, came up with the idea for the music video and his

jeans and the water skis were later donated to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. However, because it was too cold at the time to shoot on the Chattahoochee when they made the video, most of the music video was actually shot on Lake Butler in Florida. But the summer is the perfect time to visit this river, which is popular for recreation, including boating, fishing, rafting and of course water-skiing. If you go: www.nps.gov/chat/ index.htm ‘WABASH CANNONBALL’ “Listen to the jingle, and the rumble and the roar” go the lyrics to this early American train ballad that is the oldest song listed among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 songs that shaped rock ‘n’ roll. This became Roy Acuff’s signature song, but it dates back much earlier than him. The original song was called “The Great Rock Island Route,” and credited to J.A. Roff in 1882 sheet music. Later the name of the song was changed to “The Wabash Cannonball,” a reference to a major rail system that went from Detroit to St. Louis called the Wabash Railroad. It was also recorded by the original country music family, the Carter Family. The Wabash Railroad is no longer chugging along, but portions of its tracks have been turned into nature trails in the Midwest. In Ohio, the Wabash Cannonball Trail is a 65-mile scenic trail system in northern Ohio that is open for hikers, bicyclists and horse riders. In Iowa, the Wabash Trace Nature Trail is a 63-mile trail in southwest Iowa to the Missouri border where you can see remnants of ghost towns that once relied on the railroad. If you go: www.wabashcannonballtrail.org and www.wabashtrace.org


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TRAVEL It’s a vegan world after all at Disney parks across the country BY AMY DREW THOMPSON

Orlando Sentinel

Disney has big news for vegans and those interested in more meatless meals: New plant-based options – hundreds of them – will soon be available at Disney’s theme parks in Florida and California. It makes sense, since Disney parks have been offering an increasing number of plant-based dishes, for all three

squares plus dessert, for quite some time. This new infusion, however, will be formidable. Walt Disney World and Disneyland boast more than 600 dining venues combined, many of them themed. Before long, each will have a plant-based option for guests to sample. Already in place at Galaxy’s Edge, for example, is the Felucian Garden Spread, a filling Middle Eastern delight that even meat eaters might enjoy.

Now more options, including dishes that mimic meat, are available, like the Hot Link Smokehouse Sandwich, coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s Flame Tree Barbecue or German Pretzel Dog at B.B. Wolf’s Sausage Co. at Disney Springs. More options will follow soon, including the Savory Hot Pot at Epcot’s Rose & Crown Pub, Carrot Gnocchi at the Turf Club Bar and Grill at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa

and Maple-Chipotle Barbecue-Braised Jackfruit Dip at the Whispering Canyon Café inside Disney’s Wilderness Resort. All these options, more than 400 of them, will hit Florida’s Walt Disney World quick-service menus on Oct. 1 and table service venues on Oct. 3. A new green-leaf icon will help guests quickly identify which dishes are plantbased. Guests at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, will see the changes in spring

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Park guests walk near a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

2020. Disney defines “plantbased” as “options that are made without animal meat, dairy, eggs or ho-

ney. Instead ingredients come from plants, including vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, seeds and legumes.”

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enough of historic homes, there’s Riverview at Hobson Grove, another listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The view of the Barren River – once visible from the upstairs hallway – is obscured by trees today, but the drive up to the imposing front entrance makes up for it. There was supposed to have been a large porch to take advantage of the view, but construction of the house which began in the 1850s, was halted by the Civil War, and when it was finally finished in 1872, it was without a porch. So upset was the lady of the house that she was known to have said, “that pesky war kept me from getting my porch.” Once you’ve seen the sights, you should save time to just wander Bowling Green’s charming downtown, anchored by Fountain Square with its array of specialty shops and restaurants. It still retains a 1950s feel, although the Square has only one of its original three movie theaters left and the corner soda fountain has been replaced by a commercial business. A few hours spent roaming the hilly campus of Western Kentucky State University is also well worth your time. The beautiful buildings are an architectural feast, ranging from Federal and Greek Revival to Italianate, Queen Anne and Romanesque with some Craftsman cottages and bungalows thrown in for good measure. The on-campus Kentucky Museum has exhibits such as A Star in Each Flag: Conflict in Kentucky. While Bowling Green served as the Confederate Capital of Kentucky, there were Union sympathizers as well, and the exhibit shows that Kentucky really was a state divided. My favorite exhibit showcases Kentucky icon Duncan Hines, often celebrated as one of the south’s most influential food writers and an early endorser of culinary brands. I loved the pithy quotes attributed to Hines – who must have been equal parts courtly charm and cantankerous behavior – especially this one. After eating at the home of a wealthy acquaintance, Hines remarked, “If the oysters had been as cold as the soup, the soup as warm as the wine, the wine as old as the chicken and the chicken as young as the hostess, it would have been a fine dinner.” There’s one thing for sure – Bowling Green makes for a fine travel experience.

If You Go Where to stay: Home2 Suites by Hilton. Affordable and conveniently located, this extended-stay property is perfect, especially if you are traveling with family. Where to eat: Bowling Green’s food scene has really taken off. For breakfast, join locals at Boyce General Store, lauded by Southern Living and KET’s Kentucky Life as “a piece of American history” with roots going back to 1869. You can fill both your stomach and your gas tank at this slice of Americana. For a more upscale brunch, book a table at The Bistro in a renovated house with original hardwood floors and fireplace. Their epic Bloody Marys go great with crab meat beignets and artisan hot browns.

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Bowling Green benefiting from fascination with small-town America BY PATTI NICKELL

Tribune News Service BOWLING GREEN, KY.

Who would believe that a 30-foot hole encased in glass would attract 230,000 annual visitors from around the world to come and gawk? All the more amazing as there is nothing to see in the enclosed abyss. That would not have been the case, however, on the morning of Feb. 12, 2014, at 5:39 a.m. when a sinkhole opened up inside the National Corvette Museum, swallowing eight of the classic cars. It has come to be known around here as the $5 million hole. While the hole itself is empty, seven cars are displayed alongside it. Five remain in the condition they were in upon removal, while the eighth – the one millionth – is in the exhibit hall. The National Corvette Museum is an enormous draw, but Bowling Green, located in southwestern Kentucky – closer to Nashville, Tenn., (less than an hour’s drive away) than to Louisville (a two-hour drive) – is benefiting from

travelers’ current fascination with small-town America. It helps that Bowling Green (population 68,401) punches considerably above its weight, with a wealth of attractions that would do justice to a city three times its size. If you’re looking for a classic American amusement park, they have it. Ditto a railroad museum devoted to the golden era of rail travel. Then there’s a lost river inside one of the area’s numerous caves; a historic, mostly intact African-American community; an antebellum mansion that survived onslaughts by both the Union and Confederate armies, and a thriving food and craft beer scene. And if all that isn’t enough, Mammoth Cave National Park is but a short 30 minutes away. But let’s get back to Bowling Green’s star attraction. In 1953, Chevrolet introduced a new sports car, naming it after a World War II warship known for its compact size and maneuverability. In 1963, the second generation of Corvettes was introduced,

and America fell in love – with the sporty convertible becoming symbolic of the freedom of the open road. While originally manufactured at GM headquarters in Flint, Mich., since 1981, Bowling Green has been the sole home of the much-loved ‘Vette. Plant tours have been temporarily suspended, but don’t worry, there’s enough to do in the nearby museum to keep you occupied for hours. Some 80 Corvettes are on display in period settings – from the model used in the 1950s TV series “Route 66” to the car owned by country music legend Roy Orbison. There are several ways to experience the thrill of driving a Corvette here. Start by piloting a real ‘Vette around a virtual track in a simulator. If that isn’t adrenalineboosting enough, arrange to drive your own (or ride shotgun with a professional driver) around the three-mile course at the Motorsports Park. Finally, for the right price – about $60k – you can drive your own custom-ordered model out of the museum showroom.

It will be difficult to tear yourself away, but there’s lots more to see and do in Bowling Green. While this whole area of Kentucky is riddled with caves (nearby Mammoth Cave is the largest mapped cave system in the world), one cave is located right here. At Lost River Cave, you stroll through a canopy of trees to the cave entrance – all the while hearing stories of disappearing Civil War soldiers sucked into the blue hole of the cave’s underground river, never to be seen again. Your experience will be much more pleasant, as most of the time visitors can take Kentucky’s only underground boat tour. I say most of the time because on my visit high waters resulting from above-average rainfall had made it impossible to enter the cave. I did have a chance to see a makeshift stage at the mouth of the cave overlooking the river. It was being set up for a gala party that night, and my guide said that in the 1930s and 40s this was the location of a nightclub where stars such as Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Shore performed.

The Montana Grill (not to be confused with Ted’s chain) is the place to go for juicy steaks with all the trimmings, and Steamer Southern Seafood Kitchen has seafood so fresh you will think you’re on the coast and not in land-locked Kentucky. FYI: visitbgky.com ......................................................

Next up was a selfguided tour of the ShakeRag District, listed on the National Historic Register in acknowledgement of its importance in AfricanAmerican history. Following the Civil War, the neighborhood, with its collection of bungalows housing both businesses and residences, was home to an increasing black professional class. Later, it provided a haven in this segregated city. Notable buildings include the State Street Baptist Church, the city’s oldest African-American church (1838), and the Underwood-Jones Home. This two-and-a-half story, Italianate-style mansion was the home and office of Dr. Z.K. Jones, the community’s first doctor. If you’re traveling with children, a visit to Beech Bend Amusement Park and Splash Lagoon is a must. A two-day play pass ($39.99) is good for admission and all rides and shows. If you’re a lover of vintage rail cars, you won’t want to miss the Historic RailPark and Train Museum and L&N Depot. Once the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it offers selfguided museum tours and guided tours of five restored rail cars. For those who can’t get


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It’s a golden age for price alerts, which have expanded from emails touting sales to fare predictions and deal disseminators.

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How to get those bargain travel price alerts BY ELAINE GLUSAC

New York Times

Penny Yim-Barbieri, 47, a freelance translator based in Las Vegas, didn’t have the Cook Islands on her travel radar when she got an email alert from Scott’s Cheap Flights about round-trip tickets to Rarotonga from Los Angeles at $495. She and her husband jumped on the deal and soon found themselves scuba diving in the South Pacific with humpback whales. “We’re divers and hikers, so we have to save on flights so we can do other stuff,” said Yim-Barbieri, who estimates she’s purchased about 30 bargain international flights found by Scott’s in the past two years. When it comes to selfbooking, it’s a golden age for price alerts, which have expanded from sale emails sent by airlines, travel agencies and other operators to fare predic-

tions and deal disseminators, in both free and paid forms, and arriving by email, smartphone texts or push notifications. “There is an increase in flight price-tracking capabilities, largely because of the ability of these companies to use machine learning to more accurately gauge whether a fare is a deal, and whether it is likely to go up or down,” said Maggie Rauch, the senior director of research at Phocuswright, a travel industry research firm. Flights tend to generate more deal options, but new websites, online features and mobile apps also offer savings on cruises and hotels. The following sites aim to help you get a great deal on the major expenses of travel. FLIGHT DEALS Beware the seductive powers of flight alerts. At 1:37 p.m. on a recent Friday, it was hard to plug away at the deadline for this story when Secret-

Flying, a new flight deals app, sent this push alert to my phone: “HOT!! Chicago to Barcelona, Spain for only $272 round trip.” The app, launched in 2018 as a paid subscription service and free as of March, allows users to register for flight alerts based on preferred departure cities. The deals lean to international flights, which Tarik Allag, SecretFlying’s founder, said offers bigger discounts, though domestic deals are also available. Users receiving alerts are routed to online travel agencies or aggregators for next steps in booking. “If you have a specific destination and a specific date in mind, then maybe SecretFlying may not be the place to get it,” Allag said. “But if you are somewhat flexible, there are incredible deals to be had.” Flexibility with your destination is key in taking advantage of Scott’s Cheap Flights, which

allows users to set their home airport and receive emails pegged to them. The service specializes in international fares, but also covers deals in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. “On average, we see deals $550 off normal prices,” said Scott Keyes, a co-founder and the chief executive of the company. “We’re not interested in $50 or $75 off.” Paid subscribers, like Yim-Barbieri, fork over $49 a year for the first look at deals and for “mistake fares,” or rock-bottom deals that usually result when the airline makes an error. Keyes found such a round-trip flight from New York City to Milan for $130 in 2013, which eventually led him to launch his company in 2015. Founded in 2017, Matt’s Flights sends out deals once or twice a week to subscribers of its free email, which covers domestic and international flights from U.S. and Canadian airports in more than 60 cities. After a 14-day free trial, premium subscribers paying $49.99 a year can narrow search results by region and can request custom searches for a particular route. Matt’s doesn’t make the booking for you – results link users to Google Flights to search for the deal – but it offers customer service via email for premium members who

have booking questions. Matt Guidice, the founder of Matt’s Flights, said the service has more than 500,000 free subscribers and that travelers typically save from $200 to $400 on international tickets and from $50 to $200 for domestic fares. Always free, flight searches on Kayak usually come with advice on whether to buy a ticket now or wait as fares may drop. By toggling a button on the search page, users can track prices on a flight and receive email updates on current fares, which often become more volatile as departure nears. According to Giorgos Zacharia, the chief technology officer for Kayak, 47% of the time users save an average of $163 using flight alerts. About a third of the time, flight prices go up by an average of $138. CRUISE SALES CruiseWatch.com, a cruise search site, sends free price alerts to registered users. The site allows you to search for a cruise then set a price alert tailored to price drops and specific cabin types, such as interior or balcony rooms. Users can also set a maximum budget to see if or when a cruise falls into that range. The Germany-based service is tailored to American travelers because they are the biggest market in cruising, according to its chief executive Markus Stumpe. While it doesn’t sell cruises – bookings are handled by travel agency partners – the site offers free advice and strategies for saving money, including how to cancel and rebook if a cruise price drops more than the value of a cancellation fee. According to the company, cruise fares tend to drop around 100 days before sailing and users report typical savings of around $300. HOTEL BOOKINGS Hotel room prices fluctuate less than flights, but the app Pruvo offers the assurance that if a rate drops after you’ve booked it, you’ll know about it and can rebook. Once users share an existing reservation with Pruvo, it tracks your hotel reservation and if a better rate comes along for the same hotel, on the same date, in the same room category, it contacts you. As long as the booking lies outside of

Fun on the waterfront FamilyTravel.com

Discover a new waterfront where your family can enjoy fresh air, tasty food and each other’s good company. Here are five places to consider: MONTAUK, N.Y. Head to the end of Long Island, just beyond the famed Hamptons, for a relaxed experience in a beachy enclave where fishermen, surfers, urban hipsters and families easily mix in the salty air. Stroll along the docks to witness (and later sample) the arrival of the day’s fresh catch, as tony yachts and the occasional sightseeing boat, spouting the area’s seafaring history, inch into the harbor. Stay at the historic Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Mari-

na, where all things nautical will serve as your holiday backdrop. A children’s playground, standup paddle boards, kayaks and fishing expeditions provide plenty of opportunity for family fun. Head to the wide stretch of Atlantic Ocean beach a few miles away where you can watch surfers take on the world-famous wave action. Stop in to the Sloppy Tuna’s roof-top deck, just steps from the sand, for a beverage, a lobster roll and one of the best views around. Contact: www.discoverlong island.com; www.Gurneys Resorts.com.

nationally renowned artist schools and galleries, Grand Marais also serves as the gateway to the Gunflint Trail National Scenic Byway and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Hike Pincushion Mountain, set sail on Superior or bike along the shoreline. Plan a side trip down the historic Gunflint Trail where you’ll have the option to paddle across glacier-carved lakes, hike through ancient forests, fish for Walleye and sample Northwoods hospitality. Contact: www.Gunflint.com; VisitCookCounty.com; www.OnlyinMN.com.

GRAND MARAIS, MINN. Located on the shores of Lake Superior, this friendly, harborside village blends an artistic, creative vibe with an adventurous spirit. Home to

INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE, PORTER, IND. Geocaching is a favorite activity of families who choose to explore this 15,000-acre Midwestern

the penalty window for cancellations, the service tells users how to cancel their reservation and make a new one at the lower price. According to Pruvo, hotel prices drop about 40% of the time after booking – on average 14% of the original booking price. Most drops are a result of competition between online travel agencies cutting their booking commissions, according to Doron Nadivi, the chief commercial officer of Pruvo. The service is free; the company makes money through commissions from its hotel and travel agency partners. Last summer, Google.com/travel enhanced its free hotel search analyses. It began offering price insights on hotels searched on a mobile platform that lets searchers know if a price is low, high or typical; indicates whether prices are trending up, down or holding; and compares an individual hotel to similar hotels nearby. In a recent search for hotels in New York City in October, I got a best rate of $132 a night for the Pod 51 Hotel in Manhattan, indicating it was a “deal” at 21% less than usual. It also showed rates at “similar hotels nearby,” including the Vanderbilt YMCA at $100 and the Fifty Hotel & Suites by Affinia at $197. Clicking on its “price insights” tab, I got more data; Google called the rate low, with typical rates running $155 to $297, and displayed a graph showing rate fluctuations for the past month. With such searches for hotels in a city over specific dates, Google and Kayak will allow you to activate a hotel price alert that follows rates in the destination.

Ocean on the south. Family travel plans often include a visit to the National Aquarium, kayaking, sailing, windsurfing and feasting on the region’s famous blue crabs, oysters and clams. Info: www.visit maryland.org; www.aqua. org; www.baltimore.org

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FLIGHTS TEND TO GENERATE MORE DEAL OPTIONS, BUT NEW WEBSITES, ONLINE FEATURES AND MOBILE APPS ALSO OFFER SAVINGS ON CRUISES AND HOTELS.

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Grand Marais, Minn., on the shores of Lake Superior.

lakeshore. Be on the lookout for the rare Karner blue butterfly. Climb over dunes, along rivers and through wetlands as you choose from 50 miles of meandering trails where 1,100 native plants flourish. Take the Succession trail to the top of a dune for a view of the Chicago skyline. Kayak via the Lake Michigan Water Trail or claim your spot along the 15-mile stretch of sandy beach. Contact: www.nps.gov/indu.

BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR, BALTIMORE Decades ago, this spirited Maryland city bolstered a movement to transform industrial waterfronts into tourist meccas where restaurants, shops and appealing attractions would soon energize the local economy. Today, visitors flock to the Inner Harbor, which serves the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the U.S., bordered by the Susquehanna River on the north and the Atlantic

CHARLESTON, S.C. Founded in 1670, this Southern city and its scenic harbor provide an appealing blend of old and new. Cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages and stories of Civil War-era prominence beckon history lovers. Meanwhile, a burgeoning food scene, stunning beaches, nearby plantations, a top-notch aquarium and hip hotels nudge families to experience both. The Waterfront Park offers an ideal place to relax after an active day. As colorful sailboats and ocean-worthy ships slip in and out of the harbor, take note of nearby Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War rang out across the water.


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If You Go From the Sion train station, the “bus postal” can take you closer to the start of many bisses. The bisse association offers an excellent online guide in English to the bisse paths. A list of bisses and useful information is updated by the Musée des Bisses. The tourism offices in the ski resorts of Nendaz and Anzère, as well as Sion, have bisse-related information in English. ......................................................

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The Friday morning market draws shoppers in Sion, Switzerland.

Walking a cliff’s edge to history in the Swiss Alps BY ANDREW BRENNER

LAURYN ISHAK NYT

New York Times

Just outside the train station in the Swiss town of Sion, a yellow signpost points hikers in two main directions with no fewer than 16 routes to choose from. As you cross the medieval downtown, keeping the Valère Basilica and the Tourbillon Castle on the right, aim for the Valaisanne Brewery. If you can resist the brewery’s new tap room and its outdoor tables, be sure to duck as you scramble up a staircase and through the tunnel of holly and its busy bees and onto the Bisse de Clavau and 500 years of history. Now you can relax. The babbling flow of water soothes the soul and the Valais sun warms the body. The Bisse de Clavau was built in 1453 to irrigate the terraced vineyards in the region, which is the driest and hottest in all of Switzerland. A bisse

The cafe Le Chalet de Brac offers mountain views in Savièse, Switzerland.

LAURYN ISHAK NYT

An old chenaux – planks of larch wood forming a three-sided channel held up by two beams of larch wood – was used to transport water in Valais, Switzerland.

(rhymes with peace) is a narrow (2- to 6-foot wide) canal that brings water from high-altitude rivers across mountains to irrigate pastures and vineyards. From the 11th to the early 20th century, about 300 bisses (stretching about 1,200 miles in all) were dug by hand, primarily in the Valais canton, which is bisected by the Rhone River Valley. Cen-

turies ago workers dug up the channels, flinging the mud and debris next to the canals, thus forming a berm that was used as an elevated walkway. To this day, 80% of all pastures and vineyards in Valais are irrigated with water from the bisses, while the paths that run alongside them are excellent for walking or trail running. Along the Bisse de Clavau, Europe’s tallest drys-

tone walls, the highest at 72 feet, support the oftenparched soil. Thirsty walkers can find refreshment at one of the wine bars called guérites, stone outbuildings that vintners used to store tools and take shelter. Located near the start of the trail, the Guérite Brûlefer has a terrace with stunning views that pair perfectly with the crisp white wine. A VERTICAL LANDSCAPE Many bisses are still managed by a consortage, a group – neither public nor private – that is in charge of all aspects of the bisse (repairs, cleaning, enforcing water rights, etc.). A bisse in the upper Valais, in the Germanspeaking part of the canton, inspired a theory on the shared management of scarce resources devel-

oped by Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize for Economics. The consortages have settled disputes and distributed a scarce resource for more than 500 years. In his book on the bisses, the most definitive of its kind in English, Guy Bratt wrote: “some of the bisses in Valais are undoubtedly most remarkable examples of tenacity, courage and sheer bloodyminded determination in human achievement.” Perhaps no other bisse exemplifies this centuriesold sacrifice better than the Bisse de Savièse, also known as the Bisse du Torrent-Neuf. And Patrick Varone is its savior. “People thought I was crazy. No one followed me,” he says of his pioneering plan to restore the bisse in the 1990s. But

when he pitched the idea to the local authorities and 200 people filled the room, his vision started to take shape. The result is a stunning overhaul completed in 2009. It is by far the most thrilling bisse or the most bloodcurdling, depending on your fear of heights. It features four, slightly bouncy, suspension bridges, the longest 443 feet and the highest 262 feet. Between 80,000 and 100,000 visitors make the trip every year, “but about 10% turn around when they see the first bridge,” Varone continued with a hint of a smile. Tourism wasn’t his intention. “I wanted to pay tribute to our ancestors who fought hard to build and maintain the bisse. The mentality was different back then. People today don’t have that kind of courage.” Finding the money required ingenuity as well. The authorities footed one-third of the bill, while commemorative plaques, corporate sponsors and bisse membership fees filled in the rest of the 5.4 million Swiss francs (or $5.5 million). Starting from the Sainte-Marguerite Chappelle where, from 1430 to 1935, workers would stop to pray en route to the Branlires precipice, visitors are immediately struck by the vertical landscape. The water for most of the next several miles was transported in chenaux, planks of larch wood forming a threesided channel that was held up by two boutzets, or beams of larch wood. A nearly 8-inch hole was chiseled into the flaky rock, the beam was placed into the hole, wedges inserted until the beam was tight and the chenal was then laid inside. Visitors – if they dare take their eyes off their feet – can see the old path of the bisse; sometimes it is covered deep with scree in avalanche-prone sections. Mountain goats occasionally send rocks tumbling down the steep embankment, hurtling past the bisse and the wooden overhang protecting hikers. The bisse continues all the way to a 16th-century sawmill that has been painstakingly restored into operation: “You can’t find parts for that on eBay,” Varone said. The last section, available by reservation only, is a must-see. A WALK ENDING IN WINE Hiking is the most popular sport in Switzerland with 44.3% of the population having spent an average of 20 days on the trail in 2014. One lesson foreigners quickly learn is to take the times indicated in the hiking brochures and on the trail signs seriously. The average age of Swiss hikers may be 49, SEE ALPS , PAGE 26


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Mexico is the sixth most-visited country in the world, according to the World Tourism Organization.

Mexico closed its tourism board, so tourist hot spots are going DIY BY HUGO MARTIN

Los Angeles Times

The Mexican government defunded its national tourism board, forcing some hotel and resort towns south of the border to take matters into their own hands to avoid losing their biggest source of travelers – California. The result has been the opening of two privately funded tourism bureaus in Los Angeles. The hotels and restaurants in Los Cabos, a region in the southern peninsula of Baja California, have pooled their funds to open the Los Cabos Tourism Board in offices in Century City so they can promote their destination to travel agents and others in Southern California. “The opening of the Los Angeles office was a completely rational and strategic step that we needed to take,” said Rodrigo Esponda, managing director of the Los Cabos Tourism Board. A few miles away in downtown Los Angeles, four former employees of the Mexican Tourism Board launched a private marketing agency, dubbed

Studio Jungla, to promote Yucatan and Oaxaca, among other Mexican destinations. “We have a good relationship with tour operators, with media and with meeting planners here,” said Jorge Gamboa, a former Mexico tourism board employee and now staffer at Studio Jungla. “This is a good opportunity to promote Mexico because Mexico is very unprotected.” The opening of the privately funded offices reflect an effort by Mexican tourism officials to avoid any disruption to the flow of tourists – and dollars – streaming across the border. For good reason. Mexico had expected to welcome 45 million international visitors who would spend $23.3 billion while in the country in 2019. About 60% of those visitors were expected to come from the U.S. and 18% from California, according to a forecast by Mexican tourism industry experts before the tourism bureau was cut. The visitation numbers for this year were projected to be a 5.8% increase over the previous year.

While the projected growth is good news for Mexico’s tourism industry, it represents a slowdown from the past few years when the number of tourists visiting Mexico had grown by double digits annually. Mexican tourism officials blame the slowdown on several factors, including a U.S. State Department Travel Advisory issued in April about an increase in crime and kidnappings in several Mexican states, overall concerns about the global economy and the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max plane, which several airlines, including Aeromexico, had planned to use to serve the growing demand for air travel. Travel industry experts warn that cutting tourism promotions and marketing can hurt the popularity of a travel destination for several years to come. “The data shows over and over again that when a government cuts tourism promotion, their competitors reap an enormous economic benefit,” said Roger Dow, chief executive of the U.S. Travel Association, the trade group for the nation’s

travel industry. “Then, when they realize their mistake and re-implement their marketing, it can take years to recover their previous market share.” For that reason, Dow said his trade group is pushing Congress to reauthorize funding to promote the U.S. to international travelers. The promotional program, dubbed Brand USA, is paid for by fees charged to tourists and contributions from the private travel and tourism businesses. “I’m never pleased to see a reduction in tourism promotion, whether here or abroad, for the simple fact that this industry creates economic benefits and good jobs for workers,” Dow added. Mexico is the sixth most visited country in the world, according to the World Tourism Organization, so tourism industry leaders in Mexico said they were shocked to learn in December that the federal government was cutting its $295 million in annual funding to its national tourism promotional board. “It’s really devastating for our country if there is no one here to keep the

activation going for some of these activities,” said Alejandro Marin, one of the four leaders at Studio Jungla. Instead, the government announced it plans to divert the tourism funding to build a passenger train to serve tourists, traveling between Canc ún and Palenque, a project that newly elected Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had promised to fund before taking office on Dec. 1. In Mexico, the Visit Mexico website that was previously funded by the government is now financed by private donations from Google, Discovery Channel and hotel company Grupo Posadas. The Mexican government also created a panel of tourism entrepreneurs, including heads of airlines and hotel companies, to help fill the role vacated by the tourism panel. Hotels and resorts of the Baja California region of Los Cabos are directly contributing $2.5 million this year, plus $12 million from hotel taxes to fund the Los Angeles office of the Los Cabos Tourism Board, where tourism

effort. The Grand Bisse de Lens underwent major renovations in 2010 to improve safety and bring water back to a cliff-hanging section made irrelevant by a tunnel built in 1983. It has a storied and well-documented past dating back to about 1448. After the cliffs, it becomes a highly pleasant

walk, complete with a covered picnic table, from which you can observe a water wheel turning a hammer that strikes a plank. The steady banging was like an alarm, letting the caretaker of the bisse know – from a substantial distance away – that the water flow was neither too fast nor too slow and that the bisse wasn’t clogged somewhere upstream. The trail meanders back to public transportation in Chermignon d’En Bas or

Diogne. The other option, which skips the steep uphill, is the Bisse de Sillonin – a bisse with rougher edges. A rope bolted to the rock wall is all that separates walkers from dropping hundreds of feet into the gorge. The path is rocky but safe. Small children should be put in backpacks, or otherwise secured, at this point. The views of the other side of the gorge, and the Bisse de Clavau, are impressive.

The bisse was first mentioned in 1367. Recently, however, the water has been channeled underground before re-emerging at the end of the cliff section. Weary hikers are rewarded several miles later at the Château de Vaas (circa the 12th century), which is one of the oldest houses still standing in Switzerland. The paintings on the façade date back to 1576. Inside, the Maison de Cornalin is an ode to a local grape

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ALPS but they can move. Back on the right bank of the Rhone, a decision needs to be made upon reaching the end of the Bisse de Clavau. After a 15-minute scramble up a steep hiking trail, the Grand Bisse de Lens offers intrepid walkers another example of a successful rehabilitation

representatives try to educate U.S. travel agents about Los Cabos and attend trade shows to promote the destination. The tourism office operates from a swanky Century City building. Now that Mexico’s national tourism panel is out of commission, Esponda worries that other destinations, including Hawaii and the Bahamas, will lure Californians away from returning to their favorite vacation spots in Los Cabos. “We don’t want to wait,” he said. “What we want is to keep a constant presence in the market.” About 1.8 million international travelers visited the municipality on the southern tip of Baja Mexico, with California generating about 40% of those vacationers, he said. Gamboa, the former Mexico tourism bureau employee, said he has the same concern about losing California visitors to other destinations such as Costa Rica, Argentina, Canada, France and Italy, among others. “Every country has representatives here,” he said of California. “They do what we used to do.” Gamboa’s Studio Jungla is already working to try to promote Yucatan, Puerto Vallarta and Oaxaca in California and plans in the coming months to work to with Baja California south, Loreto, La Paz and Mulege.

varietal that produces a medium-bodied red wine. The crispy flutes au fromage, cornalin red wine and Valaisan chiffonade (thinsliced cold cuts) couldn’t come at a better time. After these refreshments, there is a nearby bus stop or an easy 30-minute walk through the vineyards that take you to the valley floor, and – for better or worse – civilization.


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SCORSESE’S EPIC ‘THE IRISHMAN’ PREMIERES AT NY FILM FESTIVAL Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” premiered Friday at the New York Film Festival, finally raising the curtain on the director’s long-awaited, 209-minute crime-drama opus. Though the film’s genre and cast, including Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, has led some to expect a gangster thriller in the mold of “GoodFellas” or “Casino,” “The Irishman” is a Robert De more reNiro flective, less flashy rumination on morality, violence and American power. Through de-aging visual effects, the performances by De Niro, Pesci and Al Pacino span decades. “The Irishman” was screened for members of the press Friday morning ahead of its evening red carpet premiere as the opening night gala for the New York Film Festival. The film’s debut has loomed like few other events on the film calendar, and a rare frenzy greeted it at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Reviews from critics were largely laudatory. Variety called it “a coldly enthralling triumph” and “a stately, ominous, suck-in-your-breath summing up.” The Hollywood Reporter called the film’s length a weakness but still hailed “a sprawling gangland saga that’s by turns flinty, amusing and richly nostalgic.” The New York Times called it “a gift for cinephiles … but also a somber acknowledgement of limitations.” The film is also one of Netflix’s biggest bets yet. The streaming company plunked down $159 million to make “The Irishman” after other studios passed. Scorsese, speaking in a Q&A alongside cast and producers, said that Netflix was the only one willing to bankroll the movie.

Conductor Richard Bonynge is 89. Writer-director Robert Benton is 87. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 84. Soulblues-gospel singer Sherman Holmes is 80. Former Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is 77. Actor Ian McShane is 77. Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty is 77. Nobel Peace laureate Lech Walesa is 76. Television-film composer Mike Post is 75. Actress Patricia Hodge is 73. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 71. Rock singer-musician Mark Farner is 71. Rock singer-musician Mike Pinera is 71. Country singer Alvin Crow is 69. Actor Drake Hogestyn is 66. Olympic gold medal runner Sebastian Coe is 63. Singer Suzzy Roche (The Roches) is 63. Comedian-actor Andrew “Dice” Clay is 62. Rock singer John Payne (Asia) is 61. Actor Roger Bart is 57. Singer-musician Les Claypool is 56. Actress Jill Whelan is 53. Actor Ben Miles is 53. Actor Luke Goss is 51. Rock musician Brad Smith (Blind Melon) is 51. Actress Erika Eleniak is 50. Rhythm-and-blues singer Devante Swing (Jodeci) is 50. Country singer Brad Cotter (TV: “Nashville Star”) is 49. Actress Emily Lloyd is 49. Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner is 49. Actress Rachel Cronin is 48. Country musician Danick Dupelle (Emerson Drive) is 46. Actor Alexis Cruz is 45. Actor Zachary Levi is 39. Actress Chrissy Metz (TV: “This Is Us”) is 39. Actress Kelly McCreary (TV: “Grey’s Anatomy”) is 38. Country singer Katie McNeill (3 of Hearts) is 37. Rock musician Josh Farro is 32. NBA All-Star Kevin Durant is 31. Actor Doug Brochu is 29. Singer Phillip Phillips is 29. Pop singer Halsey is 25. Actress Clara Mamet is 25.

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STARS RELIEVED BY SPIDEY’S RETURN TO MARVEL UNIVERSE Tom Holland, who plays Spider-Man in the blockbuster “Avengers” franchise and solo films, celebrated the end of the contentious summer feud between Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures – and the inevitability that his webslinger would appear in future Marvel Cinematic Univse films coproduced by the rival studios. Holland took to Instagram to celebrate Friday’s development by posting a clip from 2013’s

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Spider-Man star Tom Holland celebrated the web-slinger’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by posting a clip from 2013’s “Wolf of Wall Street” with star Leonardo DiCaprio shouting, “I’m not leaving.”

“Wolf of Wall Street” with star Leonardo DiCaprio shouting, “I’m not leaving.” The actor and his costumed alter ego have been the face of the financial battle, which could have resulted in the young Avenger – who was speculated to front the next phase of the franchise – exiting for good. His co-star Zendaya, who plays his pal and love interest MJ in the “Homecoming” saga, also welcomed the news on Twitter with a dancing SpiderMan GIF. Under the new deal, Spider-Man will return for another film in the “Avengers” saga and also appear in a solo film that will again be co-produced by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and Sony’s Amy Pascal. The third film in the “Spider-Man: Homecoming “ series has been scheduled for release on July 16, 2021. — LOS ANGELES TIMES

METALLICA CANCELS SHOWS AS SINGER ENTERS REHAB Metallica says its frontman James Hetfield has entered rehab, and the band is canceling its upcoming tour in Australia and New Zealand. Three of the heavy metal band’s members tweeted a statement Friday announcing the decision and apologizing to fans. The statement by drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Rob Trujillo says anyone who purchased tickets for the remaining show dates will receive automatic refunds. The band had been scheduled to play five Australian cities from Oct. 17-29, followed by four

shows in New Zealand. The statement says Hetfield has struggled with addiction for years and has re-entered a treatment program. The statement didn’t elaborate, but the band’s members said they appreciate fans’ understanding and support of the 56-year-old Metallica co-founder. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

‘JOKER’ TEAM WON’T GIVE INTERVIEWS AT PREMIERE After facing weeks of scrutiny over the violence in “Joker,” Warner Bros. has decided to prohibit journalists from the red carpet at the film’s U.S. premiere. A day before the event, which will be held Saturday at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre, the studio said that only photographers would be allowed to interact with the filmmakers and cast on the carpet. “A lot has been said about ‘Joker,’ and we just feel it’s time for people to see the film,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson confirmed to The Times. (The news was first reported by Variety.) Journalists are still invited to the screening and after-party Saturday, though many have, in fact, seen the Todd Phillips movie already. “Joker “ debuted at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, where it won the top prize, the Golden Lion, and was then screened days later at the Toronto International Film Festival. In “Joker,” Joaquin Phoenix stars as the iconic DC Comics character in an origin story that explores how a mentally ill

Dog the Bounty Hunter reveals pulmonary embolism diagnosis BY ASHLEY LEE

Los Angeles Times

Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman has been diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism, he has revealed. The 66-year-old star of “Dog’s Most Wanted” finds himself battling his own potentially fatal health problems just three months after his wife, Beth Chapman, died of

cancer. A pulmonary embolism occurs when a clot travels from another part of the body to the lungs and blocks blood flow. The life-threatening event usually causes shortness of breath and chest pains, for which Chapman was rushed to the hospital two weeks ago. Pulmonary embolisms can be treated with bloodthinning medications, which “Real Housewives”

personality NeNe Leakes and tennis legend Serena Williams have both suffered and survived. However, if left untreated, such embolisms can lead to sudden death, as was the case with rapper Heavy D. Chapman shared the news in an interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz, set to air on Monday’s episode of “The Dr. Oz Show.” “I, all the time, stick my foot in my mouth, and I

clown is driven to violence after being oft-mocked by the residents of Gotham. The plot has raised questions about whether viewers – mistakenly viewing the character as a hero – might be inspired to commit violence in his name. — LOS ANGELES TIMES

PERRY SAYS HE CAN’T ‘UP AND LEAVE’ FILMING IN GA. Tyler Perry said he cannot “just up and leave” filming in Georgia despite Hollywood’s backlash against the state’s “heartbeat” abortion law. The actor-directorwriter made the remarks to The Associated Press on Friday while discussing the upcoming opening of his massive Atlanta-based studio. Some celebs have urged TV and film companies to abandon the state after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the restrictive abortion bill in May. But Perry, whose hits include the “Madea” franchise and “Why Did I Get Married” films, said he is committed to staying put. “Atlanta has been the dream. It has been the promised land,” he said. “So when I got here, this whole state and city has been amazing to me and I wouldn’t trade that for anything. Also, I put $250 million in the ground here and in the studio. So when you have a quarter of a billion dollars sat down in the ground, you can’t just up and leave.” Perry is planning a starstudded unveiling of his new studio complex next weekend. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

said, after Beth left, I’m not afraid to die,” said Chapman in the chat. “I take that back.” The reality star told People that he has adopted healthier habits such as following a nutritious diet, taking anticoagulant medication and smoking fewer cigarettes–the last of which can be a major cause of blood clots. “I don’t want to die right now, “ he said. “I’m not afraid to die anymore, but I really didn’t care for awhile if something would happen. I do care now.”

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NOBODY KNOWS ENOUGH, BUT MANY KNOW TOO MUCH. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author

TODAY’S HISTORY In 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. In 1829, London’s reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty. In 1918, Allied forces began their decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I. In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. In 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta. In 1975, baseball manager Casey Stengel died in Glendale, California, at age 85. In 1977, the Billy Joel album “The Stranger” was released by Columbia Records. In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.) In 1989, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer after he’d pulled over her RollsRoyce for expired license plates. (As part of her sentence, Gabor ended up serving three days in jail.) In 2000, Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stonethrowing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175. In 2001, President George W. Bush condemned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers for harboring Osama bin Laden and his followers as the United States pressed its military and diplomatic campaign against terror.

In 2005, John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation. Ten years ago: New York City terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi pleaded not guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in what authorities said was a planned attack on commuter trains. (Zazi later pleaded guilty; he spent nearly a decade helping the U.S. identify and prosecute terrorists, and was rewarded with a sentence that effectively amounted to time already served.) Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu (shoo) was sentenced in New York to more than 24 years in prison for his guilty plea to fraud charges and another four years and four months in prison for his conviction at trial for breaking campaign finance laws; he’s due to be released in 2030. A tsunami killed nearly 200 people in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. Five years ago: In a blistering speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Hamas and the Islamic State group were “branches of the same poisonous tree,” both bent on world domination through terror, just as the Nazis had done. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban. One year ago: Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, agreed to pay a total of $40 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that Musk had duped investors with misleading statements about a proposed buyout of the company. — ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Brown’s fall was as fast as his rise BY ROB MAADDI

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Antonio Brown’s unraveling happened nearly as quickly as his rise in the NFL. One of the most prolific receivers for a decade, the fourtime All-Pro got dumped by three teams in 61⁄2 months. The New England Patriots released him last week after a second woman in 10 days accused him of sexual misconduct – the first said in a lawsuit that he assaulted her on three occasions, including rape. As with most of Brown’s career, all the developments were easy to follow – on his Instagram and Twitter accounts. Brown used social media to

build his fan base and brand as he became one of the league’s most popular players. It also helped hasten his downfall in Pittsburgh, and he used Instagram posts to manipulate his rapid release in Oakland this preseason as he became disgruntled with his new team. That cost him $29,125,000 worth of guaranteed money on his contract. The Patriots signed him hours later, but he played one game with them and was cut after the team learned he tried to intimidate another woman who accused him of sexual harassment. Brown couldn’t keep a low profile, though. On his first unemployed NFL Sunday, he SEE BROWN, PAGE 21

I’M A CONSTANT WORK IN PROGRESS. I ALWAYS TRY TO TAP INTO SOMETHING THAT’S GOING TO BETTER ME, WHETHER AS AN ATHLETE, AS A PARENT, AS A PERSON.

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Wide receiver Antonio Brown scored a TD in his first game with the New England Patriots, but the team released him last week after a second woman in 10 days accused him of sexual misconduct.

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IT CAME DOWN TO ONE PLAY, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS A LOT OF TIMES. WE MADE THE PLAY WE HAD TO MAKE TO WIN THE GAME. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney

son had all kinds of trouble getting going Saturday, from Travis Etienne’s first-half fumble to set up a UNC touchdown to multiple falsestart penalties that continued undercutting the Tigers’ attempts to build momentum. In the end, the Tigers did just enough to stay unbeaten and avoid a shocking upset. “We know it’s hard to win,” Lawrence said. “Sometimes it’s easy to forget that when you win so many games by so many points. This game is only going to make us better.” North Carolina: The Tar Heels have lost three straight after a 2-0 start in Mack Brown’s return to the program he led more than two decades ago. Their first four games came down to the final drives to make them a tested bunch, and this one unexpectedly followed suit. The defense hung in against the Tigers’ highpowered offense and made Clemson work for everything, while the offense did just enough to stay close before coming up with a 16-play TD drive spanning 81⁄2 minutes to put them on the brink of a historic win.

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North Carolina's Sam Howell gets stopped on a two-point conversion by Clemson's James Skalski (47) and Xavier Thomas (3) late in the fourth quarter of a college football game Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C. The stop allowed Clemson to win 21-20 and raise its record to 5-0.

No. 1 Clemson stops 2-point conversion, beats North Carolina BY AARON BEARD

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The ball sat on the 3yard line, forcing topranked Clemson into the most unexpected of positions. Get a stop, or lose the lead late against heavy underdog North Carolina – and maybe the game along with its spot as the front-runner for the College Football Playoff. The Tigers did it, stuffing the Tar Heels’ 2-point conversion attempt with 1:17 left to hold on for a 21-20 victory – narrowly avoiding an upset that would’ve shaken the national landscape in college football.

“It came down to one play, that’s what happens a lot of times,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “We made the play we had to make to win the game.” The Tigers (5-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) had trouble all day in trying to extend earn a program-record 20th straight win. They didn’t go ahead for good until Trevor Lawrence hit Tee Higgins on a 38-yard touchdown pass with 9:54 left, then came up with the stop after the Tar Heels went for the lead instead of a tie after Javonte Williams’ short scoring run. The Tigers strung out Sam Howell’s option run to the right, with Xavier

Thomas, James Skalski and Nolan Turner combining to bring down Howell as he turned toward the goal line. Howell tried to pitch the ball back to Dazz Newsome as he was going down, but Newsome had nowhere to go near the sideline and was pushed out of bounds to put the Tar Heels (2-3, 1-1) short and effectively clinch the win for Clemson – though it was far tougher than expected for the 27-point road favorite on what Swinney called “a tough day at the office, no doubt.” “I’d probably say they probably outplayed us,” Swinney said. “We made a lot of mistakes, a lot of critical, critical errors at

critical times. But when we had to make a play, we made it. That’s what winners do.” The Tar Heels certainly gave themselves a shot, jumping on Clemson with a game-opening TD drive for a 7-0 lead – the Tigers largest deficit of the season – and holding the Tigers to a season-low 331 total yards. It was Clemson’s lowest point total of its 20-game winning streak, which includes last year’s 15-0 run to a fourth straight ACC title and second national championship in three seasons. Yet the Tar Heels fell to 0-11 against No. 1-ranked teams in The Associated Press college football poll. “I told the players that

we’re not into moral victories,” UNC coach Mack Brown said. “That can’t happen, because you’ve got to learn to win. … I told them in my 31 years of coaching, I’ve never been prouder of their effort, because if I’m a reflection of the way those guys fought tonight, then I’m very, very proud of that.” THE TAKEAWAY Clemson: The Tigers had made everything look easy through the opening month of the schedule. The closest call had been a 24-10 win against a ranked Texas A&M team that didn’t reach the end zone in until the final seconds of a game long since decided. But Clem-

POLL IMPLICATIONS The Tigers have been an overwhelming choice at No. 1 in the AP Top 25, claiming 55 first-place votes in this week’s poll compared to just six for No. 2 Alabama and one for No. 3 Georgia. That support could ebb a bit considering Clemson’s struggles to beat a program that had gone 2-14 in the ACC over the previous two seasons. THE BIG PLAY Williams’ TD run gave North Carolina the choice of playing for the tie and overtime or taking the chance that the Tar Heels could get those 3 yards for the 2-point conversion. Yet the Tigers also knew the Tar Heels were likely to try it if they scored, and Swinney said his coaching staff even expected some type of option call. “We knew the speed option was a play they liked,” said Skalski, one of the three defenders to pull down Howell. “That’s the key we got and that’s what we read, and … we made a play.” Howell was hit shortly after turning inside the 5 as he ran to the right with Newsome following. “It’s just a play we’re very confident in,” Howell said. “In my opinion, it was a good play call. That’s something we liked against them, and they just made a good play on defense.” UP NEXT Clemson: The Tigers have an open date next weekend followed by a visit from Florida State on Oct. 12. North Carolina: The Tar Heels travel to Georgia Tech next Saturday.


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Notre Dame defensive lineman Adetokunbo Ogundeji runs a fumble he recovered in for a touchdown against Virginia on Saturday in South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame won 35-20.

No. 10 Notre Dame records eight sacks, tops No. 18 Virginia BY JOHN FINERAN

Associated Press SOUTH BEND, IND.

Julian Okwara had three of Notre Dame’s eight sacks and caused a fumble that was returned for a touchdown as the 10thranked Fighting Irish overcame a halftime deficit to beat No. 18 Virginia 35-20 on Saturday. Notre Dame (3-1), coming off a 23-14 loss at No. 3 Georgia, trailed 17-14 at the break and then had the Cavaliers (4-1) complete a successful onside kick to open the second half. The Notre Dame

defense held, setting the tone for the second half with five of its eight sacks in the third quarter. “We were determined to play physical in the second half,” Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said. “We’ve got a big-play defense. If we can make more plays on offense, this could be a special group.” Jamir Jones started the Irish defensive onslaught in the third quarter when he sacked and stripped Virginia’s Bryce Perkins of the football and defensive tackle Myron TagovailoaAmosa recovered it in midair before rumbling 48 yards to the Virginia 7.

Tony Jones, who had three touchdowns and a season-high 131 yards on 18 carries, scored two plays later from the 2 to give the Irish a 21-17. They never trailed again. Later in the quarter, Okwara, who finished with two forced fumbles and fumble recovery, stripped the ball from Perkins and defensive end Adetokunbo Ogundeji recovered and ran 23 yards to put the Irish up 28-17. “When you can pressure the quarterback with four and still play coverage, there is relatively no risk and that’s what they were able to do,” Virginia coach

Bronco Mendenhall said. Virginia scored first as Perkins, who completed 30 of 43 passes for 334 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions, threw a 6-yard TD pass to Joe Reed. But the Irish answered with the next two touchdowns, a 5-yard run by Jones and an 11-yard run by C’Bo Flemister. The second TD came after Okwara stripped and recovered the football after a sack of Perkins near midfield. Thanks to the sacks, Notre Dame held Virginia to 4 yards rushing. Notre Dame, which outgained Virginia 343-228, got 165

yards on 17-of-25 passing by Ian Book. THE TAKEAWAY Virginia: The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Perkins was spectacular in the first half, with help from Reed, who finished with eight of his career-high nine receptions in the first 30 minutes. Perkins completed 18 of 22 passes (82 percent) for 235 yards and two touchdowns in the first half. He was just 12 of 21 for 99 in the second half with two interceptions as the Irish defensive front dominated. Notre Dame: Virginia came into the game rank-

ing No. 1 with its 20 quarterback sacks and Notre Dame was 108th with four sacks total, none by their defensive ends. The Irish had eight sacks, 61⁄2 by its defensive ends. Khalid Kareem had 21⁄2 and Jones one. POLL IMPLICATIONS Virginia: The Cavaliers, ranked No. 18 coming in, likely will drop after their first loss of the season. Notre Dame: The Irish, who fell three spots to No. 10 following their loss at Georgia, should stay about there after a solid defensive effort. UP NEXT Virginia: The Cavaliers return to ACC Coastal play Friday, Oct. 11 at Miami. Notre Dame: The Fighting Irish entertain Bowling Green Saturday.

SATURDAY’S OTHER ACC GAMES FLORIDA STATE 31, N. CAROLINA STATE 13 TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

Graduate transfer Alex Hornibrook made his first start at Florida State, throwing for a career-high 316 yards and tossing three touchdown passes in the Seminoles’ 31-13 win over North Carolina State on Saturday night. Hornibrook was often pressured and was sacked eight times but he completed 29 of 40 passes and had two touchdown passes to Tamorrion Terry and another to Ontaria Wilson for Florida State. He was starting in place of James Blackman (knee). Bailey Hockman, who transferred from FSU to a junior college in August 2018 and later signed with NC State, played the majority of the game. He completed 21 of 40 passes for 208 yards and had a fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Emeka Emezie for the Wolfpack. NC State had more

sacks (eight) than points (six) through three quarters. Defensive tackle Darrell Murchison had 3.5 sacks. PITTSBURGH 17, DELAWARE 14 PITTSBURGH

Backup Nick Patti capped a fourth-quarter drive with a touchdown pass to help Pittsburgh survive a scare from Delaware 17-14 on Saturday. Patti, who started in place of Kenny Pickett, directed an eight-play, 90-yard drive, finding Taysir Mack in the end zone from 12 yards out. The long drive put the Panthers in the lead for good after an unexpectedly close battle with the Blue Hens. A pair of short fields after Pitt turnovers led to touchdowns for Delaware. After a Patti interception in the second quarter, Nolan Harrison passed 7 yards to Gene Coleman II to tie the game.

When Maurice Ffrench fumbled in the third quarter to give Delaware another short field, Henderson hit Jourdan Townsend with a 5-yard score to give the Blue Hens a fourpoint lead. That’s when Pitt responded with the long drive from Patti, who finished 23 of 37 for 271 yards, two touchdowns and an interception while making his first career start. He relied heavily on Mack, who had five catches for 124 yards. SYRACUSE 41, HOLY CROSS 3 SYRACUSE, N.Y.

Tommy DeVito passed for four touchdowns to four different receivers, the Syracuse defense held Holy Cross to 18 yards rushing and the Orange defeated the Crusaders 41-3 Saturday. The win was Syracuse’s 13th straight against the Crusaders in the team’s first meeting since 1973,

when the Orange won 5-3. DeVito was 19 of 31 for 269 yards and had completions to eight players before leaving the game in the fourth quarter with an apparent injury. Taj Harris and Trishton Jackson led the Orange with six receptions each. The Syracuse defense held Holy Cross to 138 yards total offense, sacked Connor Degenhardt four times and held the Crusaders quarterback to 13 of 28 and 104 yards passing. Holy Cross was averaging nine points a game entering Saturday’s contest. TEMPLE 24, GEORGIA TECH 2 PHILADELPHIA

The Temple defense forced three turnovers and recorded a 74-yard fumble return for a touchdown by safety Benny Walls during a 24-2 victory over Georgia Tech on Saturday.

The Owls also generated 198 yards on the ground thanks in large part to Re'Mahn Davis, who had 29 carries for 135 yards and two touchdowns. Temple spoiled the return of former head coach Geoff Collins, who posted a 15-10 record over two years as Owls coach before agreeing to take the head coaching job at Georgia Tech in December 2018. Collins was replaced by former Northern Illinois coach Rod Carey, who is 3-1 in his first four games at Temple. Walls recorded two turnovers in the second half, including a 74-yard fumble recovery score on the opening drive of the second half to extend the Owls’ lead to 21-0. In the fourth quarter, he intercepted James Graham’s pass in the end zone to halt the final legitimate threat for a Georgia Tech comeback.

WAKE FOREST 27, BOSTON COLLEGE 24 BOSTON

Jamie Newman threw for two touchdowns and Wake Forest relied on its impressive third-down conversions to beat Boston College 27-24. Newman completed 21 of 33 passes for 243 yards. Cade Carney added a TD run for Wake Forest, which went 17 of 24 on third-down attempts. Clinging to a three-point lead early in the fourth quarter, Newman lofted a 27-yard TD to Scotty Washington, who made a leaping grab over Jason Maitre to make it 27-17. BC then sliced it to 27-24 when running back David Bailey hit tight end Chris Garrison with a 16-yard scoring toss with just under seven minutes left. But the Demon Deacons converted a couple more third downs before punting the ball back in the closing seconds. — ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Oklahoma offensive lineman Tyrese Robinson lifts teammate CeeDee Lamb as they celebrate a touchdown by Lamb in the second quarter of the Sooners’ 55-16 rout of Texas Tech on Saturday in Norman, Okla.

Hurts, No. 6 Oklahoma cruise past Texas Tech BY CLIFF BRUNT

Associated Press NORMAN, OKLA.

Oklahoma receivers CeeDee Lamb and Charleston Rambo had envisioned how Saturday’s game against Texas Tech would go for them. With help from Jalen Hurts, those thoughts became reality. Hurts passed for 415 yards and three touchdowns, Lamb had career highs of 185 yards receiving and three touchdowns, and No. 6 Oklahoma rolled past the Red Raiders 55-16. Rambo entered the day with the team lead in receptions, yards and touchdowns, but Lamb got the best of their friendly competition on Saturday. “That’s my roommate, so Thursday we were talking about stuff we were going to do on Saturday and he did it,” Rambo said. “That’s my dog, so I’m happy for him.”

Rambo had 122 yards receiving on just two catches in the first quarter, and Lamb took it from there. “It’s exciting when you see one of your closest friends doing the things that he wanted to do and it was all planned,” Lamb said. “He’s doing a good job, and I just hope he keeps getting better.” Hurts also ran for 70 yards and another score for the Sooners (4-0, 1-0 Big 12). His 485 yards of total offense ranks eighth in Oklahoma history. It was the first 400-yard passing game for the senior transfer from Alabama. “He’s seeing the field really well,” Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said. “He’s understanding how we want to attack people. He was a little more confident today, a little bit more steady.” Trey Sermon ran for 76 yards and two scores for Oklahoma. The Sooners, who entered the game leading the nation in total offense, gained 642 yards.

They have totaled at least 600 yards in each game this season. “Those guys are elite,” first-year Texas Tech coach Matt Wells said. “They’re elite. They’re really good.” Jett Duffey passed for 120 yards and SaRodorick Thompson ran for 96 yards for Texas Tech (2-2, 0-1). Duffey got most of the action at quarterback in place of Alan Bowman, who sat out with a shoulder injury. Hurts passed for 306 yards and two touchdowns and ran eight times for 60 yards and two more scores in the first half to help Oklahoma take a 34-10 lead. Wells tried to reassure his team after the game. “The message is that it’s a process,” he said. “So many times, we get short-sighted by results. I understand I get paid to deliver results, but there’s not a quick fix.” THE TAKEAWAY Texas Tech: The Red

Raiders were outmanned, and Oklahoma’s dominance was so thorough that Bowman likely would have made little difference. Oklahoma: The Sooners were their usual selves on offense, and Hurts continued to improve on his touch passes and deep throws. The defense took another step forward by holding the Red Raiders to 314 yards, including 122 yards passing. Oklahoma has held its past three opponents under 20 points.

downs with 24.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS Lamb moved up from ninth to seventh in Oklahoma history in yards receiving. He passed Malcolm Kelly and Dede Westbrook and now has 2,379 yards. Marquise Brown is next on the list with 2,413 yards. Lamb also passed Kelly, Westbrook and Mark Andrews to move into a tie with Kenny Stills for fifth place in school history in receiving touch-

ROUGH OUTING Jackson Tyner got the start for Tech, but he didn’t last long. He went 1 for 5 for 2 yards before Duffey took over with 5:12 left in the first quarter.

FIRST INTERCEPTION Hurts threw his first interception of the season on a tipped ball in the third quarter. Nick Basquine couldn’t quite get to it, and Douglas Coleman III picked it off. “We could have sat there and dwelled on it, pouted, whatever, but that’s not the culture we have as a team,” Hurts said. “We learn from it and move forward and keep the main thing the main thing.”

PAYBACK Riley said running back Kennedy Brooks was “good” after a low hit by Texas Tech’s Eli Howard following Hurts’ interception. The hit drew a 15-yard

penalty for an illegal block. An inspired Oklahoma defense got two 15-yard penalties before settling down and holding Tech to a field goal. “We were emotional about it at that point,” he said. “All the guys saw the play. Love how feisty and fiery we played, but it’s got to be under control, too. Love how we responded. It was not poor us. Let’s rise up and go do it, and we did it.” NEW KICKER Oklahoma kicker Gabe Brkic had a perfect game in place of Calum Sutherland. Sutherland was arrested last week in Oklahoma on a public intoxication charge. Riley said during the week that he was disappointed, but wouldn’t say if Sutherland would play. Brkic made all seven of his extra points and field goals of 34 and 33 yards. POLL IMPLICATIONS The Sooners did what they could to impress voters, but it’s hard to say what will happen. Oklahoma has dropped two spots since the preseason despite going without a loss. UP NEXT Texas Tech hosts Oklahoma State on Saturday. Oklahoma plays at Kansas on Saturday.


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Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard, right, looks to elude Kansas State defensive back Kevion McGee during an 84-yard run on Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.

Hubbard runs for 296 yards as Oklahoma State triumphs BY JOHN TRANCHINA

Associated Press STILLWATER, OKLA.

Chuba Hubbard entered Saturday’s game as the nation’s leading rusher, yet still felt the need to rebound from what he considered to be a sub-par performance a week earlier. Hubbard ran for 296 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries, and Oklahoma State shut down No. 24 Kansas State’s own vaunted rushing attack in a weather-delayed 26-13 victory. Hubbard carried just three times in the first quarter for the Cowboys (4-1, 1-1 Big 12), who built a 13-0 lead when the game was halted more than an hour in the second quarter due to lightning. But the breakout star

finished with runs of 53, 84 and 44 yards in a dominant performance. After gaining “just” 121 yards on 37 carries in a 36-30 loss at No. 11 Texas last week, Hubbard felt like he redeemed himself. “I wasn’t happy with how it went last week, I felt like I let down my team in a lot of ways,” Hubbard said. “Texas obviously played great but I know I could have done a lot more, so this week, I just wanted to bounce back from that and help put my team in a position to win. Everything came together, so it was a good win. “It’s a great feeling.” Spencer Sanders added 153 yards passing and a touchdown for Oklahoma State. Most of that went to Tylan Wallace, who hauled in eight passes for 145 yards. “I think he should be in

the Heisman running right now,” Sanders said of Hubbard. “He’s doing great, he’s a big asset to this team and we’re just going to keep getting better each week.” Skylar Thompson was 11 of 23 for 118 yards for the Wildcats (3-1, 0-1), who were coming off a bye following a big win at Mississippi State. “We held them to 26 points, which is a good effort by our defense, but we couldn’t get anything going on offense,” said Kansas State first-year coach Chris Klieman, whose team was just 1 of 13 on third downs. “Offensively, we just couldn’t get enough going, especially on 1st-and-10, that was where we struggled. We just didn’t get into a great rhythm on offense and that’s a credit to their defense.”

By the time lightning struck nearby and the officials ordered everyone off the field, the Cowboys had a 208-32 edge in offensive yardage. On the first play following the lengthy layoff, Thompson connected with Samuel Wheeler for a 39-yard pass, eventually leading to Blake Lynch’s 46-yard field goal. Oklahoma State looked to be securely in control after Hubbard’s 84-yard touchdown run on the Cowboys’ first play of the third quarter, giving them a 23-3 advantage. Kansas State battled back, though, as both its defense and its offense asserted itself in the second half. The defense recorded back to back interceptions of Sanders, by Elijah Sullivan and Darreyl Patterson, and the offense capitalized on

both. Lynch’s 37-yard field goal and a 5-yard touchdown run by James Gilbert pulled K-State to within 23-13 with 7:14 remaining. Oklahoma State drained the clock on its next possession, though, as Matt Ammendola kicked his fourth field goal of the night with 1:03 to go to put the game away. TAKEAWAY Kansas State entered the game ranking 10th in the nation in rushing, averaging 280 yards, but struggled for most of this one. Through the first half, the Wildcats gained just 18 yards on 13 carries, and had just 68 heading into the final couple minutes of the third quarter. In the end, the Wildcats wound up with 126 yards on 32 carries (a 3.9-yard aver-

age), led by Gilbert’s 44 yards on 12 carries. Oklahoma State had issues capitalizing in the red zone in its previous game, a 36-30 loss at No. 11 Texas. And once again, the Cowboys could not punch the ball in from inside the 20. It was a pair of field goals and a turnover-on-downs against the Longhorns, while this time Oklahoma State kicked three field goals after stalling within the 5-yard-line, and another within the 15. The big difference Saturday night was the outcome. POLL IMPLICATIONS With Oklahoma State sitting just outside the Top 25 (they were essentially 27th), and K-State at No. 24, it was always likely that the winner of this game will land in the 20-23 range of the poll, while the loser gets left out. UP NEXT Kansas State returns home to take on Baylor next Saturday. Oklahoma State heads to Lubbock next Saturday to face Texas Tech.

SATURDAY’S OTHER BIG 12 GAMES BAYLOR 23, IOWA STATE 21 WACO, TEXAS

John Mayers kicked a 38-yarder with 21 seconds left for the first field goal of the redshirt freshman’s career, lifting Baylor to a 23-21 victory over Iowa State on Saturday after the Bears blew a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter. The win in the Big 12 opener for both teams was the second in a row for the

Bears, who won their sixth straight game going back to last season and are off to their best start in three years under coach Matt Rhule. Brock Purdy rallied the Cyclones with three TD drives after trailing 20-0 in the fourth quarter. But Iowa State couldn’t stop Baylor’s 54-yard drive to the winning points while losing a Big 12 opener for the 16th time in 18 sea-

sons – including all four under coach Matt Campbell. After a rough start, Purdy finished 27 of 45 for 342 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. Johnnie Lang had a touchdown rushing and another receiving. TCU 51, KANSAS 14 FORT WORTH, TEXAS

Freshman Max Duggan led touchdown drives on

all three of his first-half possessions as TCU scored on every first-half possession on Saturday and was never threatened in a 51-14 victory over Kansas to open Big 12 play. TCU dominated in every area of the first half against Kansas, which ended a 48-game road losing streak to Power 5 opponents earlier this season at Boston College.

TCU was locked in from the opening kickoff, coming off a home loss to rival SMU a week ago that knocked the Horned Frogs out of the Top 25. The Horned Frogs had some extra motivation as well after losing last year at Kansas. Duggan started for a second straight game but was replaced midway through the second quarter by graduate transfer

Alex Delton with the Horned Frogs in full control at 28-0. Delton, who played last year at Kansas State, led TCU on two scoring drives to end the first half for a 38-0 lead. Kansas lost its 46th consecutive Big 12 road game. The Jayhawks’ last Big 12 road win came Oct. 4, 2008 at Iowa State. — ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Buckeyes receiver K.J. Hill, right, celebrates his TD with quarterback Justin Fields during a 48-7 win over the Cornhuskers on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.

Fifth-ranked Ohio State has little trouble during victory over Nebraska BY ERIC OLSON

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Ohio State was supposed to get its first big test of the season at Nebraska. It hardly turned out that way. Justin Fields threw for three touchdowns and ran for another, Nebraska quarterback Adrian Martinez was intercepted on three of the Cornhuskers’ first four series, and the No. 5 Buckeyes turned in their most impressive performance of the season in a 48-7 victory Saturday night. Ohio State (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) scored on its first six possessions and led 38-0 after a dizzying first half. By the time Nebraska finally scored, the Buckeyes had rolled off 124 straight points since trailing Miami (Ohio) 5-0 last week.

“I think we’re very confident right now,” Fields said. “We came into Lincoln – the crowd is amazing here – and it was loud at the beginning. We handled it well, jumped on them early and didn’t let up.” Nebraska (3-2, 1-1) didn’t go over 100 yards of total offense until late in the third quarter, just before its only TD, and it was obvious early that second-year coach Scott Frost’s program is still a ways from returning to national prominence. “We’re all disappointed,” Frost said. “I thought we had a puncher’s chance if we came out and played a really good game, and we didn’t, so that’s the end result. I told the team we can’t doubt for a second where this is going, what we’re doing to get it there, the improvement we’ve made. I want the guys to go to bed to-

night and put this behind them.” The Buckeyes had come to Lincoln off four straight lopsided wins but the question remained: just how good are they? Based on this performance, they’re really good. “We talked about what it would take to win this game on the road,” Buckeyes coach Ryan Day said, “and we hit on all cylinders. We assumed it would be hard. We’ve been preparing for this game for a while. Any time you have to go on the road and win a night game, we know that’s not easy in this league.” Fields, the transfer from Georgia who has played himself into the first tier of Heisman Trophy candidates, threw for 212 yards and kept alive his streak of no interceptions this season. He added 72 yards rushing. He now has had a hand in 23 touchdowns,

16 through the air. J.K. Dobbins ran for 177 yards and a TD on 24 carries and became the 11th player in Ohio State history to surpass 3,000 career rushing yards. He’s gone over 100 yards against Nebraska three straight years. The Buckeyes scored on their first eight full drives – one ended as time ran out in the half – and didn’t punt for the first time until early in the fourth quarter. “I felt calm and confident coming into the game,” Fields said. “I think that goes with preparation. You prepare hard, you have nothing to worry about in the game.” Ohio State’s defense dominated, stuffing the run and pressuring Martinez into bad decisions. Jeff Okudah had interceptions on two of Nebraska’s first three series. He made a diving

pick to set up Fields’ 15yard run up the middle for the Buckeyes’ first touchdown. Okudah was on his back at his own 4 when he snagged a ball tipped by Wan'Dale Robinson, and that led to the first of Blake Haubeil’s two field goals. Jordan Fuller intercepted Martinez’s pass at midfield, Fields broke a 41-yard run and then handed off to Major Teague for the first of his two TDs and a 24-0 lead. Nebraska, as an unranked team, hasn’t beaten a top-five team since Alabama in 1977 and has lost nine straight against Top 25 opponents. Martinez finished just 8 of 17 for 47 yards. “This is just us trying to improve every week and get better,” Day said. “This was a major challenge for us. This doesn’t mean anything if we don’t keep it going.”

THE TAKEAWAY Ohio State: The Buckeyes are the complete package with Fields at the controls, one of their most powerful offensive lines in years and a defense that once again appears well stocked with NFL prospects. Nebraska: This one is going to sting. The Huskers hosted the ESPN “College GameDay” crew in the morning and were humbled in the top game on the weekend schedule. GNARLY NUMBERS Ohio State has outscored its opponents 17322 in the first half, topped 500 yards for the fourth consecutive game and has allowed fewer than 300 yards of total offense in each of its first five games. YOUR FATHER'S NEBRASKA Frost went old school with his play-calling on a series in the first half, having Dedrick Mills line up at fullback in the I formation and having Martinez go under center to take the snap. Mills had a pair of 12-yard runs on trap plays, but the possession ended with another interception. UP NEXT Ohio State hosts No. 25 Michigan State on Oct. 5. Nebraska hosts Northwestern on Oct. 5.


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BY NOAH TRISTER

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On a rare day when Michigan State’s defense was struggling, Brian Lewerke and Darrell Stewart helped the Spartans prevail. Lewerke threw two touchdown passes to Stewart, and those two connected again for a big gain on Michigan State’s final drive, which ended when Matt Coghlin made a tie-breaking 21-yard field goal with 5 seconds remaining. The 25thranked Spartans beat Indiana 40-31 on Saturday – after Coghlin’s kick gave Michigan State a 34-31 lead, the Hoosiers tried to lateral their way down the field on their last offensive play, but that resulted in a fumble the Spartans recovered for a touchdown. “It definitely feels good to be able to score when we need to and drive down there at the end and get points, when the defense wasn’t having their best day,” Lewerke said. “Which doesn’t happen a lot.” Lewerke threw for 300 yards and three touchdowns in a game that turned into quite a quarterback duel. Michael Penix Jr. returned for Indiana (3-2, 0-2 Big Ten) after missing the previous two games with an undisclosed injury – and he gave the Spartans (4-1, 2-0) fits, completing 20 passes in a row during one stretch. Penix threw for three touchdowns, including an 11-yarder to Whop Philyor that tied the game at 31 with 2:00 remaining. Lewerke immediately led the Spartans back down the field. Stewart outfought defensive back Jaylin Williams for a 44yard reception, then Lewerke broke free for a 30-yard run that put the ball at the 1. Rather than try to score right away, the Spartans ran the clock down and set up Coghlin’s kick. “Tough way to lose. Proud of our team, how our kids fought,” Indiana coach Tom Allen said. “It’s hard to face them in the locker room knowing how hard they played. Look them in the eyes, and there’s a lot of tears in there. And there should be.” Elijah Collins gave Michigan State a 7-0 lead with a 4-yard scoring run,

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GAME MANAGEMENT Lewerke said he wasn’t sure whether he should score on his long run toward the end – or if the Spartans should try to run more time off the clock. “I was aware of all that stuff, so I was kind of thinking about whether or not I should score or not,” Lewerke said. “Ended up working out well.” Coach Mark Dantonio sounded a little skeptical of that explanation – but was happy to be able to run the clock down. “I thought he was tackled, but we'll go with what he’s saying – he’s hot,” Dantonio said. “I think that it was the right thing to do, and then we just wanted to kick the field goal at the end of the game. We didn’t want to score and allow them any time on the clock.”

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Michigan State kicker Matt Coghlin, second from right, is mobbed by teammmates after his tie-breaking 21-yard field goal against Indiana with 5 seconds remaining during the fourth quarter Saturday in East Lansing, Mich.

No. 25 Michigan State turns back Indiana but Indiana answered late in the first quarter with a 28-yard TD pass from Penix to Philyor. Lewerke put the Spartans back ahead with a 5-yard touchdown pass to Stewart in the second, but Penix scored on a 2-yard run to tie it at 14. Lewerke found Stewart for a 26-yard TD with 33 seconds left in the half. Penix completed his last seven pass attempts of the first half and his first 13 of the second, but Michigan State held the Hoosiers to a field goal in the red zone to start the third quarter.

Indiana went ahead 24-21 with 14:52 remaining in the fourth on a 12-yard touchdown pass from Penix to Donavan Hale, who appeared to make the catch with one hand while cornerback Josiah Scott was draped all over him. Michigan State went back ahead 28-24 with 12:12 remaining when Lewerke threw a 10-yard scoring pass to Matt Seybert. THE TAKEAWAY Indiana: The Hoosiers had an impressive game

plan, throwing quick, short passes and largely negating Michigan State’s pass rush. It wasn’t enough for a win, but Penix is a redshirt freshman and seems to have a bright future. “The coaches put us in the right situation, play calls, the receivers getting open,” Penix said. “Just catch and throw. That’s all we always preach – catch and throw. We’re out there just playing our hearts out, just protecting each other and making sure we’re on the same page.”

Michigan State: The Spartans’ offense has been deservedly criticized this year, but this is now backto-back games with more than 30 points. Lewerke and Co. responded under pressure late in this one. CRUCIAL FLAGS The teams combined for 15 penalties, including a few huge ones. Penix’s second-quarter touchdown run was set up by a pass interference penalty in the end zone. In the fourth, the Hoosiers had a long punt return negated by a penalty that brought

NOTABLE Philyor had 14 catches for 142 yards. … The Spartans allowed 30 points for the first time in 17 games. … Dantonio was honored after the game for taking over the school’s career lead in victories the previous weekend at Northwestern. … Dantonio said LB Brandon Bouyer-Randle has entered the transfer portal. He also said RB Connor Heyward missed the game for personal reasons. WR Weston Bridges was out because of what Dantonio called a minor team rules issue. POLL IMPLICATIONS The Spartans were barely in the Top 25, and this wasn’t an especially convincing win – but unlike in their previous home game against Arizona State, they were able to win in the end and retain the Old Brass Spittoon. UP NEXT Indiana: The Hoosiers are off next weekend before hosting Rutgers on Oct. 12. Michigan State: The Spartans play at Ohio State next Saturday night.

SATURDAY’S OTHER BIG TEN GAMES NO. 8 WISCONSIN 24, NORTHWESTERN 15 MADISON, WIS.

Jonathan Taylor ran for 119 yards and his 11th touchdown of the season, Wisconsin got two scores from its defense, and the eighth-ranked Badgers remained unbeaten with a 24-15 win over Northwestern on Saturday. Taylor carried 26 times to help Wisconsin (4-0, 2-0 Big Ten) avenge its 31-17 loss to the Wildcats last season. The junior reached 100 yards rushing for the 26th time in 31 career games and moved into fourth place on the Badgers’ career rushing list (4,730). After allowing 81 yards rushing through the first three games, the Wisconsin defense surrendered 97 yards on the ground to Northwestern (1-3, 0-2). The Badgers’ defense sacked backup quarter-

back Aidan Smith once and starter Hunter Johnson three times, including one by safety Eric Burrell that caused a fumble by Johnson in the end zone. Matt Henningsen recovered to make it 14-3 in the third quarter for Wisconsin. Noah Burks added the other after intercepting Smith and returning it 68 yards down the Wisconsin sideline. Johnson went 10-for-21 and Smith completed 8 of 19 passes and had a late 15-yard touchdown to JJ Jefferson. Drake Anderson had 16 carries for 69 yards and a 4-yard score for the defending Big Ten West champion Wildcats, who dropped their second straight game conference game. NO. 14 IOWA 48, MIDDLE TENNESSEE 3 IOWA CITY, IOWA

Nate Stanley threw for

276 yards and two touchdowns, Toren Young added a career-high 131 yards rushing and 14th-ranked Iowa throttled Middle Tennessee 48-3 on Saturday, moving to 4-0 for just the second time in 10 years. Brandon Smith caught both of Stanley’s TD throws for the Hawkeyes. Iowa gained 644 yards, its most in coach Kirk Ferentz’s 21 seasons in charge. Iowa racked up 358 of those yards in the first half and scored on its first four drives, a stretch headlined by an 18-yard TD throw from Stanley to Smith, to jump ahead 24-0 midway through the second quarter. Ihmir Smith-Marsette’s 14-yard touchdown run off a jet sweep pushed Iowa’s lead to 34-3 with 2:19 left in the third quarter.

Asher O'Hara was 15 of 22 passing for 110 yards for Middle Tennessee (1-3). The Blue Raiders’ defense was gashed for over eight yards a play. NO. 20 MICHIGAN 52, RUTGERS 0 ANN ARBOR, MICH.

Shea Patterson accounted for three touchdowns in the first half and ran for a fourth score in the third quarter, setting up No. 20 Michigan to rout Rutgers 52-0 on Saturday. The Wolverines (3-1, 1-1 Big Ten) enjoyed a confidence-boosting win following a humiliating loss at Wisconsin. The Scarlet Knights (1-3, 0-2) have not won a conference game since the 2017 season and have to improve a lot to end the drought this year. Patterson threw a quick out to Nico Collins on the opening drive and the

receiver broke a tackle and sprinted up the sideline for a 48-yard score. On Michigan’s next drive, Patterson had his first of three rushing TDs to match the number of scores the dual-threat quarterback had previously on the ground in his career. Patterson played twoplus quarters and was 17 of 23 for 276 yards with one TD and one interception. MINNESOTA 38, PURDUE 31 WEST LAFAYETTE, IND.

Tanner Morgan threw for 396 yards and four touchdowns, both career highs, to help Minnesota hold off Purdue 38-31 on Saturday. The Golden Gophers (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) have won six straight overall and four in a row outside Minneapolis for the first

time since 2003. Purdue (1-3, 0-1) has lost two straight home games and this one was never really close after the Boilermakers lost starting quarterback Elijah Sindelar and All-American receiver Rondale Moore on the same first-quarter play. Sindelar appeared to hurt his left shoulder when he was sacked and Moore appeared to suffer a lower left leg injury while running down the field. Morgan took full advantage by completing his first 14 passes, throwing for 298 yards in the first half – four short of his previous career best – and running an offense that needed only two quarters to produce nine plays of 16 or more yards. He finished 21 of 22 with no interceptions. — ASSOCIATED PRESS


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DEAN RUTZ Seattle Times/TNS

Washington’s Salvon Ahmed is off and running on an 89-yard touchdown in the third quarter against USC on Saturday at Husky Stadium in Seattle.

2 plays were crucial as No. 17 Washington defeats No. 21 USC BY TIM BOOTH

Associated Press SEATTLE

Elijah Molden dropped into open space near the goal line and went unnoticed. When the pass went his direction, Washington’s young cornerback finally grabbed his first interception. Two plays later, Salvon Ahmed ran into open space. When he found it, the speedy running back broke off the longest run play for Washington in 25 years. They were two plays a matter of seconds apart that broke the game open and helped No. 17 Washington beat No. 21 Southern California 28-14 on Saturday. “I thought that was game-changing, that sequence right there. That’s a 14-point swing,” Washington coach Chris Petersen said. Washington’s talented secondary forced Matt Fink into three intercep-

tions, shut down the pass game for most of the afternoon and caused headaches for the former thirdstringer thrust into his first college start. Meanwhile, the Huskies received a career day from Ahmed, who rushed for 153 yards, including his 89-yard TD run in the third quarter and gave Washington a 21-point lead. Ahmed missed last week’s win at BYU with a leg injury. But he was back in a big way against the Trojans with the longest run play for Washington (4-1, 1-1 Pac-12) play since a 91-yard TD run by Napoleon Kaufman in 1994 against San Jose State. “Those are the kinds of runs that you dream for,” Ahmad said. “I’m happy that I’ve got an offensive line that can make those things happen up front for us. They work their tails off every single down and that is a reward to them and a reward to me.” His big run came mo-

ments after Fink’s most critical mistake. With USC (3-2, 2-1) trailing 20-7 and driving, Fink failed to see Molden dropping into a zone and had a pass intercepted at the Washington 1 as he tried to hit Michael Pittman Jr. “It was just a high ball and I jumped up and got it. It could have been anyone,” Molden said. Each of Fink’s first two interceptions led to Washington touchdowns, and his final one – the second of the day for freshman safety Cameron Williams – came in the closing seconds. But it was Molden’s pick that stung most. “It was just a bad read. Should have handed the ball off and that’s on me,” Fink said. Fink, the No. 3 QB when the season started, carved up Utah a week ago throwing for 351 yards after being called into duty when Kedon Slovis went down with a concussion. Fink found passing

quite a bit tougher against Washington and its standout secondary. The Trojans found nothing open downfield. Pittman caught a 44-yard touchdown on a blown coverage late in the third quarter. It was the Trojans’ first pass play of more than 8 yards and was the only one of longer than 19 yards. USC’s last legitimate hope ended when Myles Bryant broke up a fourth-and-goal pass in the end zone with 4:47 left. Washington defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake threw looks at Fink that hadn’t been shown all season. The Huskies used bracket coverage on Pittman and Tyler Vaughns regularly and the Trojans didn’t have answers. “Those are some of the best receivers in the Pac-12. I’ve been competing against those guys for a long time, but we came in understanding they were going to test us,” Bryant said. “They ended

up getting one on us but I think guys played big and we ended up getting turnovers and helping our offense out.” Fink finished 19 of 31 for 163 yards and had a 3-yard TD run. Stephen Carr rushed for 94 yards, but for this day USC’s version of the ‘Air Raid' offense was grounded. “We made enough mistakes to lose the game,” USC coach Clay Helton said. After a couple of big weeks, Washington QB Jacob Eason had a quiet day but didn’t make any mistakes. Eason was 16 of 26 for 180 yards. FIRST QUARTER DOMINANCE Washington took an early 14-0 lead, continuing its first-quarter dominance this season. The Huskies took advantage of a short punt and capped a 35-yard scoring drive with Newton’s 1-yard TD plunge. Fink followed with a bad overthrow that was

intercepted by Williams and Washington built a two-touchdown advantage when Andre Baccellia recovered Ahmed’s fumble in the end zone. Ahmed fumbled at the 1, but Baccellia won the scramble and gave the Huskies a 14-point lead. Washington has outscored opponents 77-3 in the first quarter this season. THE TAKEAWAY USC: The Trojans were unable to get Pittman free a week after he caught 10 passes for 232 yards against Utah. Pittman didn’t get his first target, and catch, until midway through the second quarter. He finished with four catches for 64 yards, but 44 came on one play. Washington: Ahmed’s previous career high came earlier this year when he rushed for 119 yards against California. The Huskies rushed for 193 yards as a team. POLL IMPLICATIONS USC’s return to the AP Top 25 is likely to be brief. The Huskies have a chance to move up a couple of spots from last week. UP NEXT USC: The Trojans have an open week before playing at Notre Dame on Oct. 12. Washington: The Huskies begin a two-game road trip playing at Stanford next Saturday.


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AMANDA LOMAN AP

Stanford kicker Jet Toner, left, watches his 39-yard field goal attempt be on the mark with 1 second left in a game against Oregon State on Saturday in Corvallis, Ore.

Toner’s field goal with 1 second left gives Stanford win over Oregon State BY ANNE M. PETERSON

Associated Press CORVALLIS, ORE.

There was no reason for any doubt when Jet Toner stepped up to kick the game-winning field goal for Stanford Saturday night. “He’s got that cool Hawaiian breeze going through his veins,” Cardinal coach Davis Shaw said about the senior from Honolulu. Toner’s 39-yard field goal came with just a second left on the clock, and Stanford overcame Oregon State’s late rally for a 31-28 victory that snapped a three-game losing streak. The Beavers tied the game at 28 on Artavis Pierce’s 1-yard touchdown run with 1:55 left in the game. But Connor Wedington returned the kickoff 43 yards and Davis Mills passed for a first

down and ran for another on a final drive that ended with Toner’s field goal. Mills, starting in place of injured quarterback K.J. Costello, threw for 245 yards and three touchdowns for the Cardinal (2-3, 1-2 Pac-12), who extended their winning streak over the Beavers to 10 games. Costello sat out of the game after injuring his thumb in Stanford’s loss to No. 13 Oregon last Saturday. “It was huge,” Shaw said about the win. “First and foremost because it was a conference win. Tonight was the great team win that you’re looking for.” The game, which was delayed for 15 minutes because of lightning in the area, was the Pac-12 opener for the Beavers (1-3, 0-1). Oregon State had a bye last weekend after a 45-7 victory over lowertier Cal Poly two weeks ago.

Jake Luton threw for 337 yards and a touchdown for the Beavers. Isaiah Hodgins had 10 catches for 162 yards and a TD. Hodgins went into the game ranked eighth nationally with an average of 115.7 receiving yards a game. The Cardinal led 28-14 in the fourth quarter, but B.J. Baylor’s 1-yard touchdown run closed the gap with 7:01 left and gave the Beavers momentum. But in the end the rally fell short. “It’s real tough,” said Pierce, who finished with 141 yards rushing. “I feel like it’s part of us growing as a team, learning how to win those close games. It’s going to involve some growing pains like this. But I feel like will pay off in the end. We just got to keep fighting, stay together and put together a full game instead of one half.” Stanford’s opening drive ended when Toner

missed a 53-yard field goal attempt. Oregon State’s ensuing drive ended with Jordan Choukair’s missed 50-yard try. The Cardinal took over and capped its drive with Mills’ 22-yard touchdown pass to Michael Wilson. Choukair’s 33-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Stanford midway through the second quarter. Mills found Colby Parkinson with a 2-yard touchdown pass late in the half to take a 14-0 lead. The 6-foot-7 Parkinson was critical to Stanford’s victory over Oregon State last year with four touchdown receptions. In total, Parkinson caught six passes for 166 yards in the 48-17 win in Palo Alto. The Beavers got to the Stanford 25 before the break, but Luton was sacked twice, once for 15 yards and again for 5 yards, before time ran out. Mills connected with

Brysen Tremayne on a 3-yard touchdown to extend the lead midway through the third quarter before Luton’s 11-yard scoring pass to Hodgins, who barely got a hand on the ball while swarmed by three defenders. Pierce made it interesting with a 43-yard touchdown run for Oregon State with 12:23 left in the game, closing within 21-14. Stanford appeared to get a 46-yard field goal from Toner, but the Beavers were penalized on the play, negating the kick and giving the Cardinal a first down. A roughing the passer foul on Oregon State gave Stanford another first down and Parkinson found a leaping Mills with an 8-yard scoring pass. “I was very excited and very nervous,” Parkinson said about the play. THE TAKEAWAY Stanford: Mills also started for the Cardinal in

a loss to USC earlier this season. … Costello hurt the thumb on his throwing hand when he brought his hand down after a pass and struck the helmet of an Oregon player in the team’s 21-6 loss to the Ducks. Oregon State: The Beavers honored former coach Dennis Erickson, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame this year. He'll be formally enshrined in December. … Jermar Jefferson, last season’s Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, returned after he missed the game against Cal Poly with an ankle injury. But Jefferson ran for just 17 yards on four carries against the Cardinal and played only sparingly in the second half. … Oregon State did not turn the ball over. DELAY The game was originally scheduled to start at 4:10 p.m. local time, but lightning struck nearby during team warmups and the stands were cleared. The game did not start until 4:25 p.m. QUOTABLE “What it really showed was our grit and true character as a team. We’re always gonna be able to fight back, throw the last punch and be in a place to win. We’re excited about going forward,” Parkinson said. UP NEXT Stanford hosts Washington on Saturday. Oregon State visits UCLA next Saturday night.


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RON JENKINS AP

Texas A&M wide receiver Ainias Smith celebrates after scoring a touchdown against Arkansas during the first half of the Aggies’ 31-27 win over the Razorbacks on Saturday.

Mond throws for 3 TDs as Texas A&M eases past Arkansas BY STEPHEN HAWKINS

Associated Press ARLINGTON, TEXAS

No. 23 Texas A&M had a chance to really take control early when big defensive tackle Justin Madubuike intercepted a pass at the goal line. That’s just not what happens when the Aggies, even when favored by more than three touchdowns, play Arkansas. These games are always close. Kellen Mond threw for 251 yards and three touchdowns, and Quartney Davis’ second TD catch put the Aggies ahead to stay in a 31-27 win Saturday over Arkansas, which drove to the A&M 19 in the final minute before a fourth-down incompletion. “I wouldn’t say it’s embarrassing. I’ve been playing this game for the

past three years and it seems like every year it comes down to the wire,” Davis said. “It’s a pretty interesting game.” Instead of the Aggies (3-2, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) seizing momentum after Madubuike picked off the pass by Nick Starkel, DeJon Harris scooped up a fumble and returned it 6 yards for a touchdown on the next play to get Arkansas within 14-10 with 51⁄2 minutes left in the first half. Starkel, the grad transfer who played for Texas A&M the past two seasons, sustained a significant bruise on his left (non-throwing) arm when tackling the 304-pound Madubuike and didn’t return. “I had never had an interception in my life,” Madubuike said. “I just looked up to see where the ball was and it just

appeared right to my left peripheral. I turned and it was right there, and grabbed it and tried to run, and he tried to tackle me.” The Razorbacks even went ahead when Ben Hicks, who lost the starting job to Starkel after two games, made a nice backshoulder throw to Mike Woods in the front corner of the end zone for a 13-yard TD. A week after a home loss to San Jose State, the Razorbacks (2-3, 0-2) lost their 13th consecutive SEC game, including all 10 under second-year coach Chad Morris. They have lost eight in a row against Texas A&M since the Aggies left the Big 12. “It hurts that it was that close and we couldn’t do it, but I think it opened some eyes,” Arkansas cornerback Kamren Curl said. “We’ve got to find ways

to win games like this,” Morris said. “This was a pivotal week for our football team. We all knew this performance last week was unacceptable. And how we responded was the only thing that matters, and why we got the results that we did.” After Mond was picked off in the end zone late in the third quarter, the Razorbacks had to punt after Hicks was sacked at the 2. That set up a short drive for Mond’s 3-yard TD to Davis with 12:21 left. Davis’ 22-yard catchand-run 8 seconds before halftime had put A&M up 21-17. He spun away from a linebacker after making a short catch, then swept across to the other side of the field to score. The teams traded field goals after Davis’ second TD catch, and Seth Small’s 50-yarder with 3:52 left was big for Texas

A&M. “You always feel good because you find ways to persevere and have success, but you’re not satisfied, you’re not content,” Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher said. “You know there’s a lot of issues that we have to get fixed to go on down the road to play good football.” SO CLOSE A close game between the former Southwest Conference rivals really should be no surprise. The Aggies won by a touchdown last year, after three of the previous four meetings went to overtime. THE TAKEAWAY Texas A&M: After losses to No. 1 Clemson and No. 7 Auburn, the Aggies again found themselves in a tight game against Arkansas. Texas A&M had a chance to take control early after Madu-

buike’s interception, but the scoop-and-score by Arkansas on the next play quickly changed the tone of things again. Arkansas: Hicks, who lost the starting job to Starkel after two games, had already converted one fourth down on the final Arkansas drive, and had an impressive 17-yard scramble before his final pass was incomplete. He finished 15 of 27 for 188 yards. Morris said afterward, “Nick’s our starter.” CAPTAIN'S STADIUM The game was played again in the home stadium of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, who are owned by Jerry Jones, a captain for Arkansas’ 1964 undefeated team. Jones was at the game. His grandson, John Stephen Jones, is a Razorbacks quarterback. POLL IMPLICATIONS Texas A&M was the only two-loss team in the latest AP Top 25. The Aggies likely did enough to hang in the poll. UP NEXT Texas A&M: The Aggies have an open date before hosting secondranked Alabama on Oct. 12, which starts a stretch of four of five games at home. Arkansas: The Razorbacks play Oct. 12 at Kentucky after an open date.


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Tua, Smith lead way as Alabama easily tops Mississippi BY JOHN ZENOR

Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, ALA.

Tua Tagovailoa and DeVonta Smith hooked up for a 74-yard touchdown strike barely a minute into the game. Turns out they were just getting started. Tagovailoa and Smith partnered on five touchdown passes and between them set a few school records while No. 2 Alabama ran away from Mississippi 59-31 on Saturday. “He was the person that was open pretty much all the time, so I just gave him the ball,” Tagovailoa said. The Crimson Tide (5-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) actually trailed for the first time this season before flexing its muscles against the 371⁄2-point underdogs. The Rebels (2-3, 1-1) couldn’t even slow down Smith, who sometimes gets overshadowed in a loaded receiving group. Not this game. Smith had 11 catches for school records of 274 yards and five TDs. He had 221 yards by halftime, and added a 27-yard score for another highlight in the biggest game of any Tide receiver. Smith is certainly now known for more than being the guy who caught the game-winning touchdown in the national title game two seasons ago. “That’s been a goal the whole time, just to get my name established just not as someone who caught the game-winning catch, just to get myself out there,” he said. The old school mark was three touchdown catches, and Smith also tied the SEC record last matched in 2006 by South Carolina’s Sidney Rice. His yardage total was sixth-best in league history. Tagovailoa passed for a school-record six touch-

downs and rushed for a seventh. He had matched the record of five TD passes in two straight games but finally eclipsed it in the fourth quarter. He completed 26 of 36 passes for 418 yards. It wasn’t all smooth sailing for the Tide, even with a blocked punt for a touchdown tossed in. Ole Miss turned a muffed punt into a score and then took a 10-7 lead on Luke Logan’s 33-yard field goal. Alabama’s first deficit of the season lasted 3: 44. Then Alabama scored 31 points in the second quarter. “I guess a win is a win,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. “We did some very good things out there today, but we also didn’t play some things very well. I think it’s pretty obvious that we left some money on the table on offense. We had some plays that we could have made that we didn’t make.” The Rebels started backup quarterback John Rhys Plumlee with Matt Corral sidelined with bruised ribs sustained in a loss to California. Plumlee passed for two touchdowns and ran for a third. He finished 10-of-28 passing for 141 yards with an interception, and ran 25 times for 109 yards. “We came here to win,” Ole Miss coach Matt Luke said. “There are no excuses. The thing we’ve got to do is build on some of the positives out there, like some of the guys out there competing, some of the young guys making plays. We’ve got to build on that, but there are a lot of things we’ve got to get corrected, too.” TUA’S RECORD WATCH Tagovailoa’s touchdown run in the second quarter was the 81st TD passing and rushing of his career, passing AJ McCarron for the school record. He also ultimately tied McCar-

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Alabama wide receivers Henry Ruggs III, left, and DeVonta Smith celebrate Smith’s touchdown during the first half of the Crimson Tides’ 59-31 win over Ole Miss on Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

ron’s 77 scoring passes. “I feel like it’s just the guys I’m surrounded with, that’s all I can say,” Tagovailoa said. “Those are the guys that make me look good.” REICHARD OUT Former starting kicker

Joseph Bulovas replaced an injured Will Reichard (hip flexor). Bulovas made a 36-yard field goal and hit the right upright on a 28-yarder. THE TAKEAWAY Mississippi: Rebounded from a tough loss to

Cal by starting 4 of 5 on third-down conversions. Had 476 total yards and 279 on the ground against the Tide. Alabama: Had some struggles defensively but the offense produced even more big plays than usual. Ale Kaho both blocked

and recovered the punt for a touchdown.

injure his left leg less than two minutes into the fourth quarter and needed support to make the sidelines as the crowd chanted “Rico, Rico.” Feaster gave South Carolina a second 100yard rusher with 107 yards (67 in the final period) and touchdown runs of 2 and 19 yards. It’s the first time the Gamecocks had a pair of 100-yard rushers in SEC play since 2001 when Andrew Pinnock and Derek Watson did it in a win over Vanderbilt with Lou Holtz as coach.

one touchdown, Riley Neal threw for 189 yards and a touchdown and Vanderbilt defeated Northern Illinois 24-18. The victory was the first of the season for the Commodores (1-3), who dropped their first three games to Power Five teams, two of which came against Top Five ranked opponents No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 LSU. After winning their season opening game, Northern Illinois (1-3) has dropped three straight, all against Power Five teams. Vanderbilt’s Keyon Brooks and Vaughn scored rushing touchdowns on the first two Vanderbilt drives of the game.

UP NEXT Mississippi hosts Vanderbilt Saturday night. Alabama gets its first open date before visiting No. 23 Texas A&M on Oct. 12.

SATURDAY’S OTHER SEC GAMES NO. 7 AUBURN 56, MISSISSIPPI STATE 23 AUBURN, ALA.

Seth Williams had eight receptions for 161 yards and two touchdowns, JaTarvious Whitlow ran for three scores and Bo Nix had his best game in an Auburn uniform. Auburn (5-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) started fast, scoring three touchdowns on its first eight plays from scrimmage. It was aided by five Miss State penalties and a fumbled kickoff in the first five minutes that resulted in short fields. Whitlow galloped for a 30-yard score on Auburn’s first play. After the Tigers stifled Tommy Stevens and the Miss State offense for minus-22 yards on

their first two possessions, Nix and receiver Anthony Schwartz added red-zone rushing touchdowns for a 21-0 lead. Save for a lost fumble by Williams with 4:30 left in the second quarter, Auburn scored a touchdown on every possession in the first half. Penn State transfer Stevens earned the nod at quarterback for the Bulldogs (3-2, 1-1), but Garrett Shrader took over in the first quarter after Stevens sustained an injury. NO. 9 FLORIDA 38, TOWSON 0 GAINESVILLE, FLA.

Kyle Trask threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, helping Florida beat lower-division Towson for its ninth

straight victory. Trask completed 15 consecutive passes to open the game, giving him 18 straight completions and breaking Chris Leak’s mark (17) set against Wyoming in 2005. Trask’s hot streak ended with an incompletion to Jacob Copeland early in the third quarter. He responded with a perfect throw to Kyle Pitts in the corner of the end zone for his second TD pass of the afternoon. Trask finished 18 of 20 for 188 yards for the Gators (5-0). Towson dropped to 2-3. SOUTH CAROLINA 24, KENTUCKY 7 COLUMBIA, S.C.

Rico Dowdle and Ta-

vien Feaster each rushed for more than 100 yards and South Carolina snapped a five-game series losing streak to Kentucky with a 24-7 victory Saturday night. The Gamecocks (2-3, 1-2 Southeastern Conference) also ended a run of six consecutive losses to Power Five opponents against the Wildcats (2-3, 0-3). All week, South Carolina coach Will Muschamp emphasized an improved running attack: Dowdle and Clemson grad transfer Feaster made sure it happened. Dowdle ran for 102 yards and a 30-yard touchdown, his second time surpassing the century mark in three games. But Dowdle appeared to

VANDERBILT 24, NORTHERN ILLINOIS 18 NASHVILLE, TENN.

Ke’Shawn Vaughn rushed for 138 yards and

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SATURDAY’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS APPALACHIAN ST. 56, COASTAL CAROLINA 37 BOONE, N.C.

Zach Thomas passed for two touchdowns, Darrynton Evans and Marc Williams rushed for two touchdowns each and Appalachian State opened Sun Belt Conference play with a 56-37 win over Coastal Carolina on Saturday night. The Mountaineers (4-0) scored two touchdowns late in the first half to open a 35-21 lead and the Chanticleers (3-2) never recovered after giving up the first score of the second half. The game was delayed by lightning for two hours late in first quarter. Shortly after play resumed Coastal Carolina scored to tie the game at 14. They swapped touchdowns after that before Williams scored on a 1-yard plunge to cap a quick 77-yard drive for a 28-21 lead with 1:59 to play. Then good coverage and a forced fumble pinned Coastal Carolina at its 3. A quick three-and-out, a short punt with a 12-yard return set up the Mountaineers They scored in three plays, using just 36 seconds for the halftime lead. ARKANSAS STATE 50, TROY 43 TROY, ALA.

Alabama-transfer Layne Hatcher passed for 440 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions in his debut as a starter and Arkansas State held off Troy 50-43 in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams on Saturday night. Hatcher’s pass was intercepted by Carlton Martial, setting the Trojans up with a chance to tie or go ahead with just less than three minutes to go. Kaleb Barker led Troy to the Arkansas State 8, but on fourth and 4, an offensive player was injured with the clock still running, causing the last nine seconds of the game to be lost to an automatic 10-second runoff. Omar Bayless had 10 catches for 213 yards and a score for the Red Wolves . Jonathan Adams Jr. added 105 yards receiving with a TD and Kirk Merritt had 104 yards receiving and two TDs. CINCINNATI 52, MARSHALL 14 HUNTINGTON, W.VA.

Desmond Ridder threw a season-high four touchdown passes and Cincinnati rolled to a 52-14 victory over Marshall on Saturday. The Bearcats were dominant throughout their final nonconference tuneup before the start of American Athletic Conference play. Marshall was limited to 256 yards of offense, with half of that coming in the fourth quarter. EAST CAROLINA 24, OLD DOMINION 21 NORFOLK, VA.

Warren Saba blocked a punt for a touchdown, Horton Ahlers passed for two more and East Carolina held off Old Dominion 24-21 Saturday night. Each team scored a field goal on its first possession, but the tide began to turn when Saba blocked a Bailey Cate punt and recovered the ball for a four-yard touchdown. A series later, Cate pinned the Pirates back at the 4 with a 49-yard punt. Demetrius Mauney tore

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Appalachian State running back Darrynton Evans breaks away from Coastal Carolina safety Kameron Burton to score a touchdown in the first quarter of the Mountaineers’ 56-37 win over the Chanticleers on Saturday in Boone, N.C.

off a 21-yard run to kick off the 96-yard scoring march. Ahlers teamed with Blake Proehl on a 72-yard TD for a 17-3 halftime lead. The 14point lead was ECU’s largest after a half against an FBS team since the 2015 season. FLORIDA ATLANTIC 45, CHARLOTTE 27 CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Chris Robison and Malcolm Davidson each accounted for two touchdowns and Florida Atlantic rolled to a 45-27 victory over Charlotte on Saturday in a Conference USA opener. Robison was 20-of-27 passing for 312 yards with a pair of touchdown passes. Davidson, a freshman, added a career-high 83 yards rushing that included two touchdown runs. Harrison Bryant had six receptions for 96 yards for Florida Atlantic. Meiko Dotson had two interceptions. Chris Reynolds was 15 of 28 for 208 yards passing with three touchdown passes, but threw two of Charlotte’s three interceptions. HOUSTON 46, NORTH TEXAS 25 DENTON, TEXAS

Patrick Carr ran for 139 yards and three touchdowns to lead Houston to a 46-25 victory over North Texas on Saturday night. Houston rebounded from consecutive sevenpoint losses and will host Cincinnati next Saturday to open American Athletic Conference play. Carr, who surpassed the 1,000-yard career rushing mark in a 38-31 loss at Tulane on Sept. 19, broke loose on a 68-yard touchdown run with his first carry of the game. He added scoring runs from 2 and 12 yards in the second half.

LIBERTY 17, NEW MEXICO 10 LYNCHBURG, VA.

Stephen Calvert threw for 306 yards and two touchdowns, Antonio Gandy-Golden caught six passes for 144 yards and Liberty defeated New Mexico 17-10 on Saturday night. Calvert’s touchdown passes were 3 yards to Gandy-Golden in the first quarter and 2 yards to Jerome Jackson in the second quarter. Liberty added a 42-yard field goal by Alex Probert in the third quarter and led 17-3 deep into the final period. LOUISIANA 37, GA. SOUTHERN 24 STATESBORO, GA.

Elijah Mitchell and Trey Ragas each ran for two touchdowns and Louisiana-Lafayette beat Georgia Southern, 37-24, in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both schools Saturday night. The Ragin' Cajuns now have won back-to-back road games and their first win in a conference opener since the 2016 season. LA. MONROE 30, SOUTH ALABAMA 17 MONROE, LA.

Caleb Evans threw for 286 yards and three touchdowns and Louisiana Monroe beat South Alabama 30-17 on Saturday night in a Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams. Louisiana Monroe led 17-10 entering the fourth and Evans had the Warhawks on the move. Facing fourth-and-seven at the South Alabama 33yard line, he completed a 12-yard pass to Josh Pedersen for a first down. The nine-play, 61-yard drive ended when Evans completed a 21-yard TD pass to Jonathan Hodoh for a 23-10 lead. After forcing the Jaguars to a four-and-out,

Evans this time led a nineplay, 75-yard scoring drive that ended with his 13yard touchdown run with 7:02 to left. LOUISIANA TECH 23, RICE 20, OT HOUSTON

J'Mar Smith ran for a touchdown in overtime that made the difference as Louisiana Tech edged Rice 23-20 on Saturday night. Trailing 20-17 in the overtime period, Smith led the Bulldogs (4-1) downfield then took it in himself from 12 yards out for the win. Rice had scored first in OT on a 36-yard field goal by Chris Barnes. Miami (Ohio) 34, Buffalo 20 OXFORD, OHIO

Jaylon Bester ran for 107 yards and a touchdown and Miami scored 31 straight points to race past Buffalo 34-20 on Saturday in the MidAmerican Conference opener for both teams. Quarterback Brett Gabbert started the comeback with a 1-yard plunge that cut the RedHawks’ deficit to 14-10. Bester capped scoring for Miami with a 4-yard run that made it 34-14 late in the third quarter. In between, Gabbert had a 13-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Walker and Mike Brown turned his second interception into a 25-yard touchdown return. SMU 41, SOUTH FLORIDA 0 TAMPA, FLA.

Xavier Jones ran for two first-quarter touchdowns and Shane Buechele threw three second-quarter touchdown passes as SMU rolled to a 41-0 lead early in the second half and held on to post a 48-21 win over South Florida in the American Athletic Conference opener for

both schools Saturday. Coming off a win over then-No. 25 Texas Christian last week, the Mustangs now are 5-0 for the first time since 1983. SMU finished 10-2 that season after losing to Alabama in the Sun Bowl. Jones had runs of 9 and 36 yards for first-quarter touchdowns. Beuchele threw a 6-yard pass to James Proche, 31 yards to Reggie Roberson and 19 yards to Proche to make it 34-0 at halftime. He ran 10 yards for a score in the third quarter before South Florida got on the board won a 24-yard touchdown from Blake Barnett to Jacob Mathis. Beuchele was 21 of 25 for 226 yards and three touchdowns with an interception. Jones carried 15 times for 155 yards. Barnett finished 13 of 21 for 222 yards with three touchdowns for the Bulls . TOLEDO 28, BYU 21 TOLEDO, OHIO

Kahlil Robinson’s 40yard interception return to the BYU 2-yard line in the final minute set up Shakif Seymour’s touchdown run to rally Toledo to a 28-21 victory on Saturday. Robinson’s pick of a Zach Wilson pass came immediately after BYU’s Chaz Ah You stripped the ball from Rockets running back Bryant Koback and recovered it at the Cougars 20. Koback’s 1-yard score tied the score at 21 early in the fourth quarter, capping a nine-play, 70yard drive. With Wilson out of the game in the final minute, backup Jaren Hall directed the Cougars to the Toledo 32 before his pass went beyond the end zone on the game’s final play. BYU coach Kalani Sitake said after the game that Wilson suffered an injury to his throwing

hand and expected the quarterback to miss some playing time. UMASS 37, AKRON 29 AMHERST, MASS.

Michael Curtis threw for two touchdowns and ran for another and UMass defeated Akron 37-29 on Saturday. UMass led 20-14 at intermission, but after the break, Curtis led the Minutemen on 12-play, 72yard drive in four minutes for a 27-14 lead. On the ensuing kickoff, Akron secured favorable field position when Michael Mathieson returned it to the Zips’ 37-yard line. But on the next play, Jordan Adams intercepted Robbie Kelly and returned it 45 yards to the Akron 18-yard line. A personal foul penalty on Akron moved the ball near the goal line. Curtis plunged in from two yards out on the next play for a 20point lead. The Zips used three different quarterbacks with Kato Nelson throwing for two touchdowns and Zach Gibson, making his collegiate debut, throwing for another. WESTERN MICHIGAN 31, CENTRAL MICHIGAN 15 KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Jon Wassink threw for a touchdown and ran for another, LeVante Bellamy ran for 105 yards and a touchdown and Western Michigan defeated rival Central Michigan 31-15 on Saturday. Patrick Lupro stopped CMU’s game-opening drive with an interception at midfield. Bellamy cashed in four plays later with an 11-yard run. By the time Wassink scored on a 1-yard plunge late in the third quarter, the Broncos led 24-0. — ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton holds onto the top of his helmet after being sacked by Tampa Bay linebacker Shaquil Barrett during a game Sept. 12. Newton is 0-8 during his last eight starts as Carolina’s quarterback, and he won’t play Sunday at Houston because of a foot injury.

Vegan diet may be hurting the play and injury recovery of Panthers QB Newton BY BRENDAN MARKS

bmarks@charlotteobserver.com

Cam Newton and Hannibal Buress walk into a vegan restaurant, and leave with a Ziploc bag of magic mushrooms and new perspectives. Wait, what? It’s true. Newton and his friend, Buress, a comedian, shot an episode of the quarterback’s vlog over lunch one afternoon this past offseason, live from the patio of Los Angeles vegan restaurant Gracias Madre. The episode — appropriately titled ‘Yo! This Vegan?’ — features the pair trying flash-fried cauliflower in a cashew cheese sauce, with barbecue jackfruit carnitas tacos that easily could pass for pulled pork. Only, Newton doesn’t eat pork — or any kind of animal byproduct. He has been vegan since February, his latest attempt at maximizing his physical performance and honing his body. Or, as he said in a recent news conference, getting “vegan strong.” While Buress jokingly gave Newton a baggie of psychedelic mushrooms at the start of the episode, it’s Newton’s response to that “gift” that bears a little more analysis. The encounter is hilarious, but months later, Newton’s words carry more significance: “Every time a person thinks a person is vegan,” he said, shaking the bag, “they just think that you

eat stuff like this all day.” Newton’s diet would normally be his business. But after two underwhelming performances to begin the 2019 season, coupled with a lingering mid-left foot sprain that will cost him at least two games, it bears further examination. The Observer spoke to several sports nutritionists, dietitians and trainers about Newton’s plantbased diet, and they all came to the same conclusion: What Newton is eating — or rather, isn’t — may be contributing to his on-field struggles and his body’s ability to recovery from injury. “Go back to 2015 Cam, badass Cam. He was a pescatarian,” said Chris Howard, a certified nutritionist and strength and conditioning coach from Waxhaw, N.C. “Salmon, shrimp, you get a lot of good fats and complete proteins. In fact, (fish) is one of the best protein sources there is. “Now you take away the most valuable part of that (diet), and ... there’s just no way around it: He can’t recover as well with less nutrients, with less calories and with less muscle mass. It’s just not going to happen.” AN INTRO TO VEGANISM Newton first went vegan in February, according to a March episode of his vlog, moving on from the pescatarian diet he

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HE CAN’T RECOVER AS WELL WITH LESS NUTRIENTS, WITH LESS CALORIES AND WITH LESS MUSCLE MASS. IT’S JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Chris Howard, a certified nutritionist and strength and conditioning coach, on the vegan diet of Panthers QB Cam Newton

had maintained since the spring of 2013. Vegans differ from vegetarians in that they eat no animal products, while vegetarians may eat eggs and dairy products. Pescatarians do not eat meat, with the exception of seafood. “I’m a constant work in progress. I always try to tap into something that’s going to better me, whether as an athlete, as a parent, as a person. So this offseason, I was like man, I want to try something different,” Newton said in the episode. “I’m loving how I’m feeling.” Nancy Clark, a Bostonbased sports nutritionist and the author of Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook, said it absolutely is possible for professional athletes to perform at a high level as vegans, but it takes extensive overcompensating. “The question is: Can you be a vegan athlete and be successful? Of course you can. And if you Google vegan athletes, you’ll see a whole bunch

of Olympians and names in every sport,” Clark said. “The concern is: Is he consuming enough protein and enough calories? When you’re in calorie deficit, which he obviously has been because he’s been losing weight, some of the protein that you eat gets burned for gas in the car instead of getting used to build muscle.” Vegan athletes typically experience deficiencies in vitamin B6 and B12, which can contribute to weakness and fatigue. The primary issue for a vegan athlete, especially one with the listed size Newton has at 6-foot-5 and 245 pounds, is simply not eating enough calories. “Every human body has what used to be called a set point,” said John Howie, a former champion body builder who’s now a strength trainer with a master’s in nutrition. “That’s a percent of body fat that’s comfortable for that physiology, that it’s going to fight to maintain even if you try to diet

beyond that. “If you get any heavier, you’re adding fat, and if you get any lighter, you’re losing muscle.” Howie also refers to the set point as a person’s “fighting weight,” but it means the same thing: That the body becomes comfortable at a certain weight, and losing weight beyond that can lead to negative consequences. Coach Ron Rivera previously said Newton had gotten up to 260-265 pounds during the 2016 season. In the same vlog that Newton announced he had gone vegan, he said his goal was to get down to 235-238 pounds this offseason. “Some people think that if you lose a little weight, you become a little lighter on your feet, and that might be true in that you don’t have to propel quite as much weight going forward,” Howard said. “But when you’re a guy that’s used to operating at 250 or whatever he really was, his body’s not behaving the way it used to. Certainly, he’s not going to be willing to lower a shoulder and make contact as much at that weight, and it’s going to feel differently.” Howard and Howie said they saw a noticeably slimmer Newton in the Panthers’ Week 1 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. Even losing 10 pounds, they said, could result in less energy during athletic competition, as well as an

increased susceptibility to injury. “If he’s in a state of starvation, although minimal and self-imposed, you can overtrain a lot easier,” Howie said. “If he is operating in starvation mode, your body will fight to protect organs. It’ll take muscle after the fat’s gone — the next choice is muscle because that’s all that’s left to burn. “At 250 pounds, he’d need about 3,800 calories a day to maintain that weight. You almost can’t eat enough beans and vegetables to eat that many calories.” SOME VEGAN NFL PLAYERS SUCCEED; OTHERS STRUGGLE Newton is far from the only vegan to ever play in the NFL. Some have done it with terrific success. In 2017, at least 11 members of the Tennessee Titans, including Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jurrell Casey, adopted a vegan diet with help from linebacker Derrick Morgan’s wife, Charity, a vegan chef. The Titans made the playoffs that season. But bodies are different, and not every player who made the change to a plant-based diet has seen positive results. Perhaps most notably, back in 2007, Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez went vegan in an attempt to live a healthier lifestyle. According to the Wall Street Journal, three weeks after adopting the diet, he walked into the Kansas City Chiefs training facility and was met with a shock: “The 100-pound dumbbells he used to easily throw around felt like lead weights,” the article says. “’I was scared out of my mind,’ (Gonzalez) says. Standing on the scale, he learned he’d lost 10 pounds.” Gonzalez ended up adding small amounts of animal protein back to his diet, which helped him re-gain his strength while maintaining the additional energy his vegan diet provided. (Gonzalez deSEE NEWTON, PAGE 14


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JEFF SINER jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

Panthers quarterback Cam Newton grimaces in pain after injuring his left foot Aug. 22 against New England in the preseason. The injury made Newton basically unable to run during the Panthers’ first two regular-season games.

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NEWTON clined to comment for this story. The Chiefs’ team nutritionist at the time, Mitzi Dulan, did not return phone or email requests from the Observer.) “If Tony Gonzalez is telling you that the hundreds he used to throw around felt like lead, and if Cam lost 20 pounds,” Howard said, “what do you think a linebacker is going to feel like?” Newton’s teammate Gerald McCoy, who also went vegan earlier this year, said he had a similar experience to Gonzalez. “Realistically for me, what I’ve had to do is I’m not fully vegan anymore,” McCoy told the Observer. “What I found out is, a guy of my size, my stature, I was dropping body fat at a rapid rate. I was building muscle at a rapid rate, but it wasn’t sustainable for me. “So I had to add some type of animal protein in, like now I eat eggs and I may throw one animal protein in during the week. Because being a vegan at my size, and the mass that I carry around, it just wasn’t sustainable.” Like Gonzalez, McCoy said reintegrating small portions of lean animal protein, like fish and chicken, into his diet has immediately paid dividends. “The explosiveness wasn’t sustainable because I didn’t have that extra oomph that I needed, because of the lack of the type of protein I was taking in, so I just added a little bit of animal protein back in my diet and it’s given me that oomph back,” McCoy said. “Now week to week, I’m getting more and more explosive, and I can feel it. I can literally feel the change. “Even in the weight room, I can feel when I put weight on, I’m holding it up. Before, I was getting it off me and I was moving the weight, but it was like pushing through. Now it’s just like boom! “It’s not that being a vegan is bad, but when you’ve got mass like me (6-4, 300 pounds), you’ve gotta have a healthy balance.” HOW DO VEGANS GET ENOUGH PROTEIN, AND WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DON’T? Caloric deficit isn’t the only potential issue vegan athletes face. Reduced protein intake can also lead to muscular issues and an inability to properly rehab from injuries. And simply put, animal and plant proteins aren’t the same. The human body uses protein for thousands of

purposes, everything from growing hair and fingernails to creating essential hormones. Proteins, as well as fats and carbohydrates, are the macronutrients used to perform the majority of bodily functions. Proteins are made up of building blocks called amino acids, some of which the body naturally creates, others of which we must take from food. The body can store protein in your muscles, but it cannot store the amino acids needed to build them. Animal meat contains all the amino acids needed to produce what are called “complete” proteins; plants can have more or less of certain amino acids, and so there can be imbalances. As such, any person on a strict plant-based diet would need to eat the proper mix of plants to gain sufficient amino acids required to create “complete” proteins. “You look at corn, it’s got two of them. Green beans have got another one. You look at wheat, it’s got two others,” Howie said. “You’ve got to put them all together in one stomachful of food basically to get what’s called a complete protein.” But even a well-structured vegan diet won’t give the body every amino acid it needs. BUILDING MUSCLE ON A VEGAN DIET One amino acid in particular, Clark said, is particularly important for muscle growth: leucine. “That triggers muscles to grow,” Clark said. “So when you exercise, you stimulate muscle growth, and you want to make sure that you’ve got adequate leucine in your diet to support muscular growth.” Leucine is not produced by humans. It is found naturally in animal and plant proteins, but in dramatically different quantities. According to an article by Clark, people who exchange beef for beans and other plant proteins typically experience about a 50 percent reduction in leucine. That ties directly into something Howard explained: That when a person works out, that exercise in itself doesn’t support muscular growth — muscle building comes in the recovery thereafter. “When you work out, you’re causing muscle damage. The recovery is where you build and repair. So whenever you’re working out, you’re just setting the table for recovery,” he said. “You’re not actually doing anything

but hurting yourself when you’re working out, on a small scale, in a very specific fashion, for specific growth. “If you don’t give yourself the building blocks to grow back, you’re not going to be able to grow.” Essentially, working out conditions human muscles to absorb leucine. But a vegan diet naturally leads to a leucine deficiency; vegan athletes must eat enough leucinerich plant proteins — soy, beans, legumes, seeds and nuts are good sources — to overcompensate. If they don’t, they risk not providing their muscles with the necessary fuel to grow — and in that case, sometimes the body can turn to pre-existing muscle as a last-resort source of protein. NOT MUCH PROTEIN? IN ATHLETES, IT CAN LEAD TO ... So while a caloric deficit can lead to a person losing body fat, a protein deficit on top of that can lead to the body using muscle for fuel instead of as a platform for building strength and more muscle. “You’re just talking about losing 10 pounds. So, of course, you’re going to have less muscle to work with, so there’s no way you can be strong,” Howard said. “At the same time, the way you’ve lost that muscle is by depriving the body of the ability to rebuild the muscle. That’s as simple as that. He only lost muscle mass because he hasn’t been feeding that muscle as much as he was.” In Newton’s case, where he is recovering from a mid-left foot sprain, losing muscle mass can also mean hurting the body’s ability to rehab. “(Muscles) all work in concert, powerfully and in a seamless fashion, to turn and look somewhere,” Howie said. “When your energy is down and your muscles don’t contract as fast, you lose that coordination. You lose that body’s ability to make that power wave go from your foot to your fingertips. “Even in the foot, in the muscles between the metacarpals, they’re smaller, and so when he stepped — whatever he did — he just didn’t step with enough authority to hold his position, and it moved a little extra and he got hurt.” Why might that be problematic in Newton’s situation? “If he’s losing muscle mass while trying to recover … that’s not a conducive environment at all,” Howard said. “You want all hands on deck, nutritionally, to repair that muscle. I understand how much rehab he’s doing, but when you have less nutrients — specifically protein — to rebuild that,

you’re putting yourself behind the eight ball.” ONE SMALL CHANGE CAN REVERSE THE DAMAGE There is no way to know what exactly Newton is eating, which makes assessing the specific impact of his diet difficult. Newton has been unavailable to reporters since the team’s loss to Tampa on Sept. 12 while he recovers from the mid-left foot sprain. Panthers team nutritionist Jennifer Brunelli also declined an interview request for this story through a team spokesman. “It’s a disadvantage not knowing what he’s actually eating,” Clark said. “How well-educated is he in a vegan diet? If you have lots of whole wheat bread and brown rice, lots of fruits and lots of vegetables, you can fill yourself up. But are you getting enough hummus, enough beans, enough nuts to give you enough protein?” Even without knowing what Newton is eating, though, McCoy’s experience validates what Clark, Howard and Howie all agreed upon: Re-introducing small amounts of animal protein — i.e. returning to a pescatarian diet — could help Newton with both his performance and his ability to recover from injury. “If he gets his calories up and if he gets his protein up, if he would return to having fish and include either dairy milk or soy milk … those are really high-quality proteins that would give him what he needs effortlessly,” Clark said. “He’d start feeling a lot better.” Asked how long it would take for Newton to feel better after eating small amounts of animal protein, Clark was clear: “Immediately.” Howard stressed that a vegan diet, for the majority of people, can be a healthy lifestyle that contributes to reduced chance of chronic disease and increased energy. But for Newton — who is dealing not just with violent hits on his body every Sunday, but recovering from injury — the diet doesn’t make sense. “The last thing I want to do is knock a vegan diet because I think most people could really benefit from that, but someone who has the amount of abuse of their body that he does, that’s just not a normal occupation,” Howard said. “You hear about veganism as a lifestyle, and I think that’s what you hear from Cam. “He’s adopted a healthier lifestyle — and kudos for trying to do that — but I just think this really is the wrong choice.”

In a vlog post released Friday afternoon, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton explained what’s really going on with his left foot as he prepares to sit out his second straight game. Newton, smoking a cigar and sipping a glass of wine, confirmed that his mid-left foot sprain is actually a “mild” Lisfranc injury. The Athletic’s Joe Person first reported last week that Newton’s foot sprain was a Lisfranc. Newton said that he was focused strictly on his shoulder coming into the 2019 season, until the team went to New England for Week 3 of the preseason. “It happened – the unthinkable, so to speak,” Newton said. “Something else got hurt.” The quarterback says he immediately felt something wrong in his foot, but over the next two weeks leading up to the Panthers’ home opener against the Rams, he convinced himself he needed to play. “This is where I got in my own way,” he said. “Because I thought automatically, I’ve gotta play Week 1. I can’t let my fans down.” But after struggling with a noticeable limp during practice that week, Newton attempted his pregame ritual of jogging and warming up all over the field at Bank of America Stadium. He quickly realized he wasn’t 100 percent. “Week 1, as I’m about to jog around, I realize: Oh, I can’t run,” he said.

After losses to the Rams and Tampa Bay to start the season, including a last-second fourth-and-1 play for the game against the Buccaneers, Newton realized he couldn’t continue playing. He specifically said he wasn’t sure he could push off his foot to gain that yard against Tampa, Bay when in the past, “you know what’s about to happen; you can’t stop it.” He then went to coach Ron Rivera, general manager Marty Hurney and the rest of the team’s power structure and told them he needed time to get his body right. “I needed to see that me at 80% was not OK,” Newton said. “I realize it’s okay to take time. “I’ve just gotta get right.” Newton said that Rivera and Hurney were totally accepting of letting him take time to heal. Newton didn’t elaborate on a specific timeline for his return, saying it could take anywhere from one week to six. He also said that in the meantime, he will do everything he can to support his teammates overall, especially backup quarterback Kyle Allen. Allen threw four touchdowns in his second career NFL start last weekend against Arizona. He also said that for those already writing him off, to just wait and see what the Panthers accomplish when he returns. “If I’m able to get the time off for me to heal and get back to 100 percent,” he said, “then I have no doubt in my mind everything that we want as a team can still be accomplished.”

CAROLINA (1-2) AT HOUSTON (2-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, FOX OPENING LINE: Texans by 4 RECORD VS. SPREAD: Carolina 1-2, Houston 2-1 SERIES RECORD: Tied 2-2 LAST MEETING: Panthers beat Texans 24-17, Sept. 20, 2015 LAST WEEK: Panthers beat Cardinals 38-20; Texans beat Chargers 27-20 AP PRO32 RANKING: Panthers No. 22, Texans No. 12 PANTHERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (11), RUSH (11), PASS (13). PANTHERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (4), RUSH (24), PASS (2). TEXANS OFFENSE: OVERALL (17), RUSH (10), PASS (21). TEXANS DEFENSE: OVERALL (22), RUSH (15), PASS (23). STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Panthers have won last two in series. … Carolina tied franchise record with eight sacks last week. … Carolina QB Kyle Allen played in college at nearby Texas A&M and Houston. Allen threw for 261 yards and four TDs last week in second career start for injured Cam Newton (foot). … RB Christian McCaffrey had 153 yards rushing and touchdown last week. He averaged 122.3 yards of offense with seven touchdowns in four games against AFC last season. His 76-yard scoring run last week was longest rushing touchdown in franchise history. … TE Greg Olsen led team with six catches for 75 yards and two touchdowns vs. Arizona. … WR Curtis Samuel looks for third straight road game with TD. … DE Mario Addison tied career high with three sacks last week. Has 41⁄2 sacks in last four road games. … LB Luke Kuechly had 10 tackles at Arizona and leads NFL with 36 tackles this season. … Rookie LB Brian Burns looks for third straight game with sack. … Rookie Christian Miller had first two sacks of career last week. … Houston had season-high five sacks at Chargers. … QB Deshaun Watson threw for season-best 351 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions for first career game with 300 or more yards passing, three or more TDs and no interceptions. He has 607 yards passing with five TD passes and three rushing touchdowns in last two games against NFC. … RB Carlos Hyde had TD run last week. … RB Duke Johnson has 2,225 yards receiving since entering league in 2015, most among running backs. … WR DeAndre Hopkins has six straight games with at least five receptions. … Fantasy tip: Houston WR Kenny Stills could be good pickup after leading team with season-high 89 yards receiving last week. — ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes huddles with center Austin Reiter and the offense during their game against the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.

COMMENTARY

QB Mahomes becomes more vocal for Chiefs BY VAHE GREGORIAN

vgregorian@kcstar.com

We know Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes best as the man with the golden arm who has hoisted a city. And for the absurd 360-degree peripheral vision or extrasensory perception or combination thereof that animates his play and has confounded the NFL. For being unflappable and uncannily polite for someone of his stature. The infinite currency this has created for the 24-year-old reigning NFL Most Valuable Player enables another element to his repertoire as the 3-0 Chiefs prepare to play on Sunday at Detroit: a willingness to call out teammates and coaches — as he was captured on candid camera doing several times last week. Before we elaborate, it’s important to note that Mahomes is foremost an exuberant encourager, looking to ignite the team and credit others. He’s quick to take the blame when it’s his and probably even when it’s not and seems engaged in some way or another all across the locker room. All adding up to being just about the perfect teammate. Even so, the admonishments are another form of imposing his influence, an edge he can wield freely even at this young age because of the combination of his remarkable talent and sheer connectivity with the offense in particular. It’s a strange image to get used to, actually. But good for him. Good for the Chiefs. “You just want to have success on every single play, and that’s something that I think we have as a team, is we hold each other accountable,” Mahomes said. “It’s not just me saying stuff to those guys; I mean, they’ll say stuff to me if I do something wrong. “If you have that type of

Lions quarterback Stafford questionable

The Lions added an unexpected name to their injury report Friday. Quarterback Matthew Stafford. Per the report, Stafford was a limited participant in practice Friday because of a hip injury. Stafford, who has made 131 straight starts, played through a back ailment

last year, and an ESPN report says the issue this week is actually a flare-up in his back. According to the Detroit Free Press, Stafford “was in good spirits and moving around easily in the locker room after practice” Friday. Stafford has six touchdowns in three games this season. The Lions backup is David Blough, a rookie who has never thrown an NFL pass.

chemistry, (then) you can talk to each other in that way and still respect each other and still love each other. That’s when you get the best out of each other.” If he weren’t the person he is and the player he is, this would have a different feel to it. But he hardly could be more universally liked and respected. Or better heard. “He’s being a leader; that’s what he’s supposed to do,” said rookie Mecole Hardman, who was scolded by Mahomes after finessing a sideline pattern at Oakland that led to an incompletion. “If he’s seeing something different than what we see, then he’ll let us know.” With tangible impact. That day, Mahomes spoke with Hardman on the sideline and told him he had to be faster into his cuts and have a better grasp of down and distance. “He kind of tried to sell it a little bit more with a nod, and he was open,” Mahomes said after the game. “But it was late, and the pressure (on Mahomes to throw) was there. “So I just told him, ‘You have to speed it up. You have to play with that speed; use your speed.’ You saw him the rest of the game — he sped it up

and made big plays for us.” Call it coincidence, but Hardman is looking more on pace by the snap and followed up with an 83yard touchdown reception from Mahomes last week as the trust between them has accelerated. Message received. “Yeah,” Hardman said, smiling, “I had to speed it up.” Some of Mahomes’ other airings of grievances have been more about simple accountability. Like last week against Baltimore, when he was visibly agitated with center Austin Reiter for a low snap with a wet ball that led to Mahomes getting smacked down. And on the sideline just before halftime when Mahomes was frustrated with clock management from the bench. That relegated the end of the half to one play from the Ravens’ 24-yard-line, a field goal, when there could have been ample time to take a shot at the end zone. With a meaningful caveat, this is all more than fine by Chiefs’ coach Andy Reid, who enjoys something verging on a symbiotic relationship with Mahomes. While he cautions that if Mahomes squawks about something on every play

BY SAM MCDOWELL

smcdowell@kcstar.com

“people are just going to turn (him) off,” he always welcomes Mahomes’ input and believes he “weighs it well” when it comes to raising objections. So do Mahomes’ teammates. “In this age of people getting their feelings hurt, (Mahomes and Reid) really love to communicate everything out in the open,” said punter Dustin Colquitt, who has seen what true dysfunction looks like earlier on in his club-record 225 games. Counterintuitive as it might sound, Colquitt reckons any such superficial friction is going toward the worthy cause of making the offense “frictionless” … which it virtually has been while averaging nearly 34 points this season. Mahomes “is about bringing guys together (toward) that common goal,” Colquitt said. Colquitt is among some who believe that it’s not much different than the way Mahomes exhorted teammates last year: It just feels that way since the Mahomes Effect has made him “probably the most recognizable face in North America” with cameras focused on every micro-movement. But that perspective is in the eye — or the ear, perhaps — of the beholder. Receiver Sammy Watkins, who took it to heart when he was chided by Mahomes in training camp for coming in last in sprints, believes Mahomes is more apt to speak up now. Like others, he also figures it’s his own fault when they’re not on the same page. “He likes things a certain way. … It’s not (about) what I like to do; I try to incorporate my game into what he wants out of me,” Watkins said, smiling and adding that when Mahomes calls him out his answer is, “‘Hey, alright, bro, I got you.’” With no need for Ma-

KANSAS CITY (3-0) AT DETROIT (2-0-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, Fox OPENING LINE: Chiefs by 6 RECORD VS. SPREAD: Kansas City 3-0, Detroit 2-1 SERIES RECORD: Chiefs lead 8-5 LAST MEETING: Chiefs beat Lions 45-10, Nov. 1, 2015 LAST WEEK: Chiefs beat Ravens 33-28; Lions beat Eagles 27-24 AP PRO32 RANKING: Chiefs No. 2, Lions No. 15. CHIEFS OFFENSE: OVERALL (2), RUSH (22), PASS (1). CHIEFS DEFENSE: OVERALL (24), RUSH (27), PASS (19). LIONS OFFENSE: OVERALL (12), RUSH (18), PASS (11). LIONS DEFENSE: OVERALL (23), RUSH (22), PASS (22). STRAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Detroit 2-0 against Chiefs at Ford Field, winning in 2011 and 2007. … Kansas City aims for third straight 4-0 record. … Chiefs have scored 25-plus points in NFL-record 25 consecutive games. … Andy Reid enters 100th game as Chiefs coach. He is 68-31 in regular season for KC. … QB Patrick Mahomes has NFLrecord 13 300-yard passing games in first 20 starts. … Mahomes needs 363 yards passing to break Kurt Warner’s record for yards passing through four games. … RB Darrel Williams had career-high 109 yards from scrimmage last week. … FB Anthony Sherman to play 100th consecutive game, longest active streak at position. … Chiefs scored 28 points and 23 points in second quarters of last two games. … DT Chris Jones has sack in six of last seven road games. … Lions aim for undefeated mark through four games first time since 2011. … Detroit first NFL team with four players having 100 yards receiving and touchdown in game through Week 3. … RB Kerryon Johnson has scored last two home games and gained 80-plus yards from scrimmage in previous five home games. … DE Trey Flowers had eight tackles and sack last week. … CB Justin Coleman had career-high three passes defended at Philadelphia. … Jamal Agnew scored on kickoff return last week – first in NFL this season – has NFL-high three scores off returns since 2017. Fantasy tip: Johnson has been productive at home and Kansas City is allowing NFL-high 6.2 yards per carry to running backs. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

homes to walk it back later. “We know as players that we need to do what our quarterback needs us to do,” said Watkins, noting the relationships among the receivers also allows for them to critique each other. “It’s not about an ego thing. I don’t think any guy in our room has an ego problem with him getting on us or saying something. It’s about making the team better and better.” Or as Reiter put it recalling last week: “If you don’t really know the person, sometimes you might take it personally, and I think that wouldn’t be a good thing. … (But) it’s like brothers, man. We’re all holding each other accountable. And mistakes like that, we’re going to get on each other … “It’s just that we hold each other to that high of a standard. We have a lot

of passion.” Especially that being generated by the pivot point of an intricate operation that is completely dependent on Mahomes’ communication with Reid and his line, receivers and backs. If they don’t see the defense through the same lens, before and during the play, all the scheming and would-be choreography is for naught. So if Mahomes and Reiter, say, see something different in what the blocking call should be before the snap … “If he doesn’t like it,” Reiter said, “he’ll tell us where to go.” Reiter meant that literally, but, somehow, the slang meaning came to mind. Just another way Mahomes is a force with which to be reckoned — and another dimension to how his game and charisma compels followers.


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FAMILIAR TERRITORY Cowboys QB Prescott is returning to home state in a zone, letting the good times roll

ROGER STEINMAN AP

BY CLARENCE E. HILL JR.

chill@star-telegram.com FRISCO

Sunday’s game at New Orleans Saints is special to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott because it’s his first game back in his home state of Louisiana since he played LSU in Baton Rouge as the QB of Mississippi State. It will be his first ever game at the Superdome after coming up two games short of the 3A State Championship game as a senior at Haughton (La.) High, losing 49-41 to eventual state champion Franklinton. He attended one Saints game at the Superdome when he was named a high school player of the week but never took the field as a player. The nostalgia will be heavy in the stands for his family from his mom and dad’s hometown of Vinton, La., who plan to make the two-hour trek to New Orleans for the game. A host of former coaches and classmates plan to attend the game as well. But it’s really just another game for Prescott as he leads the undefeated Cowboys (3-0) into their toughest test of the season on the road against the Saints (2-1) and their raucous fan base. “I mean, it would in high school if I had made it there, it would have had special meaning (to play in the Superdome),” Prescott said. “But right now it’s another game, going on the road, always fun, knowing this environment, knowing the Superdome, knowing how their fans are going to be, the intensity, the atmosphere, I’m excited to go in there with my team, the brotherhood we have, the us against the world mentality. “I’m sure maybe when I’m on the field (he will soak in the moment) and I think back to the high school days, the what if moments if you made it to the state championship. That’s where you played it but it’s the next game for me.” Interestingly, when

Prescott thinks of playing in the Superdome, it’s always about the missed opportunity in high school. It’s something that haunted him in college with former Franklinton running back Josh Robinson in the backfield with him at Mississippi State. But it was never about the Saints as he grew up a Cowboys fan. The true beauty of Prescott going back on Sunday is that he is returning playing the best football of his life and enjoying it with the unbridled joy of a kid playing in his backyard with his older brothers Tad and Jace again. Prescott leads the league in completion percentage (74.5) and is second in passer rating (128.0) and touchdown passes (9) to find himself in the thick of early NFL MVP consideration. He has the Cowboys on the brink of their first 4-0 start in 12 years. “It has all come together for him,” said Tad, who will drive over from Vinton to the game on Sunday morning with Jace. “It’s a joy to watch. That is how I can explain it. To watch our little brother live out his dream is crazy. “The only time I’ve seen him have as much fun playing was his rookie year, his junior year at Mississippi State when they were No. 1 and when were playing the back yard as kids and I was his first coach. But nothing surprises us. We expected this because of the work he put in. The goal was to be the best. The reason he is here is because he worked his ass off. That’s why he doesn’t stress and can play free.” There were no better example of Prescott playing free and having the time of his life doing so than in last Sunday’s 31-6 victory against the Miami Dolphins when he was called out a play and then told his teammates in huddle that “spicy nuggets were back” at Wendy’s and he was going to pick up some on his way home. Prescott admitted he never got his nuggets, though he may have a new endorsement deal in

the near future. “I’m sure his agents are probably working to get a deal done right there,” tight end Jason Witten said with a laugh. “Capitalize on the opportunity, you know? I don’t think he’s gotten enough there. ... Pass them down to the rest of us, you know?” Witten said it was classic Prescott being calm, cool and having fun on the field, while keeping his teammates loose. “Listen, [he has the] ability to lock in and then keep a little bit of personality. ... He’s relaxed, he’s calm out there,” Witten said. “I believe he prepares during the week and then he doesn’t overthink it when he gets in those moments.” Prescott has been a cool customer since showing up as a fourth-round pick in 2016 and fashioning the finest rookie season of any quarterback in NFL history. His 14 gamewinning drives are tied with Drew Brees and Detroit’s Matt Stafford for the most in the NFL since 2016 and they are most for any quarterback in his first three years in the league. His 35 wins since 2016 are most of any quarterback in the NFL, save for seven-time Super Bowl Tom Brady. But even Prescott will tell you he is more at ease in 2019 and having more fun playing football than any time in his career. Credit his comfort, maturity and knowledge of the game in his fourth year in the league, the play-calling and chemistry with offensive coordinator Kellen Moore as well as the number of exciting weapons the team has on the outside in receivers Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup, Randall Cobb to go along with Witten and tight end Blake Jarwin and running backs Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard. Prescott is controlling an unstoppable offense not seen in these parts since at least 2007 when the Cowboys opened the season 4-0 with four straight games with at least 34 points and 431 or more yards in three of the four games.

The Cowboys opened 2019 with three straight games of at least 31 points and 474 yards on offense but actually have a teamrecord streak of four games with at least 30 points and 400 yards of offense dating back to 2018 season finale. “I think this game is fun,” Prescott said. “The level of fun we get to have is because we have playmakers. You feel (unstoppable) to a sense. You know if you do your (stuff) right your are pretty much unstoppable. It’s exciting. I’m excited.” Prescott’s confidence is at an all-time high and he admits has felt he has been a zone to start the season akin NBA star Steph Curry bombing away from 3-point line. He doesn’t believe he can miss, which he blames for a second-quarter interception against the Dolphins last week. He termed it a heat check. Considering he completed 20 straight passes between Game 2 against the Redskins and Game 3, marking the second-longest streak in franchise history, and is 22 of 22 passing in the third quarter of all three games, his feelings of being in a zone is understandable. “I think just his command and conviction in how he’s playing,” Moore said. “He’s letting that thing rip, and it’s maybe a silly way of saying it, but I think there’s something to it that there’s no hesitation in him. He’s hitting the top of his drop, he’s seeing it, he’s letting it rip and he’s very convicted and decisive in what he’s doing.” It’s what has made the game more fun for him and he has been more daring. Moore and quarterbacks coach Jon Kitna have encouraged him to push the ball down the field more than in the past. “I came in as a rookie and you almost don’t want to (mess) it up,” Prescott said. “That is how it was for me in year two and three. Not that I wasn’t getting coached, but stuff I wasn’t getting coached on I wasn’t getting hammered on it enough. Now

DALLAS (3-0) AT NEW ORLEANS (2-1) Sunday, 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC OPENING LINE: Cowboys by 3 RECORD VS. SPREAD: Dallas 3-0; New Orleans 1-2 SERIES RECORD: Cowboys lead 17-12 LAST MEETING: Cowboys beat Saints 13-10, Nov. 29, 2018 LAST WEEK: Cowboys beat Dolphins 31-6; Saints beat Seahawks 33-27 AP PRO32 RANKING: Cowboys No. 4, Saints No. 7 COWBOYS OFFENSE: OVERALL (3), RUSH (3), PASS (4). COWBOYS DEFENSE: OVERALL (15), RUSH (10), PASS (15). SAINTS OFFENSE: OVERALL (21), RUSH (19), PASS (17). SAINTS DEFENSE: OVERALL (28), RUSH (26), PASS (30). STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Dallas has won two of past three meetings. … Cowboys seeking first 4-0 start since going 5-0 in 2007. … RB Ezekiel Elliott (125 yards) and rookie RB Tony Pollard (103) were fourth pair of 100-yard rushers in same game in club history. Most recent was all-time NFL rushing leader Emmitt Smith and Chris Warren in 1998. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett started that game at QB in place of injured Troy Aikman. … Cowboys have four-game regular-season streak of at least 30 points, 400 yards, longest in club history. Started with finale last year at Giants. … Two-time rushing champ Elliott has risen to fourth in NFL with 289 yards after consecutive 100-yard games. …. … TE Jason Witten needs one TD catch to tie Hall of Famer Bob Hayes for second most in club history at 71. Dez Bryant leads with 73. … Saints coach Sean Payton is 4-3 vs. Dallas, last team with which he served as assistant coach from 20032005 before taking only head coaching job in 2006. … QB Teddy Bridgwater had 177 yards passing, two TDs and no INTs at Seattle in only start this season. … RB Alvin Kamara had 161 scrimmage yards (92 receiving, 69 rushing), two TDs (one rushing, one receiving) last week. His receiving TD made him fifth player in NFL history with at least 20 TDs rushing (23) and 10 TDs receiving (10) during first three seasons. … Since 2017, Kamara has 3,536 scrimmage yards and 33 TDs, placing him among just two RBs (Todd Gurley) with 3,500-plus scrimmage yards and 30-plus TDs in that span. … WR Michael Thomas has at least 10 catches and at least 100 yards receiving in two of past three at home. … DE Cam Jordan had two sacks and forced fumble in last meeting, when Saints sacked Prescott seven times. … Fantasy tip: Cowboys WR Amari Cooper’s 10 TDs in first 12 games with Cowboys match Hayes (1965) for most in team history. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kit has come in. They are pushing me to do. Push the ball down the field. You can make that throw throw it. Kitna’s philosophy here is let her rip. It’s like home run hitters. We are waiting on that pitch, if they give us that pitch we are going to take the shot.” The results have been dramatic. Prescott has 13 completions of 20 yards of more to six different receivers. He leads the NFL in air yards per attempt and is second in yards per completion among quarterbacks who started all three games.

Prescott says having a plethora of big play receivers for the first time in his career makes it even more fun and easy. “I haven’t had that,” Prescott said. “I haven’t had that in my career. You throw it and I got guy who do a lot with the ball after they get it. Being more comfortable and trusting and knowing these guys are going to go get it. That’s what’s fun.” Well, as they say in New Orleans “laissez les bon temps rouler”, so let the good times keep rolling in his first game at Superdome.


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NFL WEEK 4 PREVIEW SEATTLE (2-1) AT ARIZONA (0-2-1) Sunday, 4:05 ET, Fox OPENING LINE: Seattle by 3 RECORD VS. SPREAD: Seattle 1-2, Arizona 2-1 SERIES RECORD: Seahawks lead 20-19-1 LAST MEETING: Seahawks beat Cardinals 27-24, Dec. 30, 2018 LAST WEEK: Seahawks lost to Saints 33-27; Cardinals lost to Panthers 38-20 AP PRO32 RANKING: Seahawks No. 10, Cardinals No. 28. SEAHAWKS OFFENSE: OVERALL (9), RUSH (15), PASS (10). SEAHAWKS DEFENSE: OVERALL (11), RUSH (4), PASS (16). CARDINALS OFFENSE: OVERALL (25), RUSH (26), PASS (15). CARDINALS DEFENSE: OVERALL (30), RUSH (30), PASS (T24). STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Seattle hasn’t lost at Arizona since 2012. Seahawks are 5-0-1 at State Farm Stadium since, with tie in 2016. … In 17 years as division rivals, Seattle and Arizona have split season series nine times, including five of last eight seasons. … Seahawks trying for 2-0 road start for seventh time in team history and first since 2013, when team won Super Bowl. … Seattle is 29-19-1 in last 49 road games. … Seattle QB Russell Wilson has started 115 straight games, fourth-longest active streak for QB behind Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan and Matthew Stafford. … Seattle WR Tyler Lockett had career highs of 11 catches, 154 yards vs. New Orleans last weekend. … Arizona LB Jordan Hicks is second in NFL with 35 tackles. Seattle LB Bobby Wagner is third with 33. … Arizona LB Chandler Jones has at least one sack in seven straight games vs. Seahawks. … Arizona RB David Johnson has scored TD in all three games this year. … Arizona WR Larry Fitzgerald needs five catches to pass Tony Gonzalez for second on NFL’s all-time receptions list. Fitzgerald has caught 1,325 passes in 16-year career. … Former QB Carson Palmer to become 18th member of Cardinals Ring of Honor on Sunday. Had 38-21-1 record as team’s starting QB. … Arizona QB Kyler Murray’s 69 yards rushing vs. Carolina were fifth most for QB in franchise history. … Arizona’s 12 rookies on roster are tops in NFL. Minnesota and Oakland have 11. … Fantasy tip: Seahawks’ defense might seem like strange play on road, but there’s potential for big points. Murray’s been sacked 16 times, second highest in league. Cardinals’ offense ranks 25th in total yards. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAVID SEELIG AP

Tight end Luke Willson played his first five NFL seasons with the Seahawks (2013-17), and he is back with them now.

Willson tells of journey from unemployment to return to Seahawks BY GREGG BELL

gbell@thenewstribune.com RENTON, WASH.

Luke Willson has a story on how he stayed in shape while unemployed this month, and how he eventually signed with the Seahawks. It’s Luke Willson. Of course he has a story. “I was on my way to the (San Francisco) airport, to go workout for another team, in an Uber,” the 29-year-old veteran, funloving tight end said Wednesday before his first practice of his Seattle redux. “And my agent called and said this (in Seattle) might go down. So it was a quick pivot right there.” His agent told Willson to continue in the car to SFO on Tuesday, because they weren’t sure the Seahawks would get the deal done. Turns out, as coach Pete Carroll explained Wednesday, Willson’s return was contingent on the Pittsburgh Steelers agreeing to send Seattle a fifth-round draft choice in a trade for tight end Nick Vannett. The Seahawks wanted Willson, a Super Bowl winner with them after being drafted in 2013, over Vannett, a 2016 draft pick who never realized the Seahawks’ expectations for him. “All right,” Willson told his agent Tuesday at SFO, his home airport since the Oakland Raiders cut him Aug. 31. “I’ll board the

plane last then.” Just as he was about to go through the secured door and down the jetway to his fourth workout with an NFL team this month, his agent called back to tell Willson to fly to Seattle, instead. The Seahawks had a deal done to trade Vannett to the Steelers. “We were boarding. And I got the call from my agent,” he said. “So I walked over two terminals and flew to Seattle, instead. “It was a pretty wild 24 hours, man.” A pretty wild month, man. After being a star of the HBO series “Hard Knocks” with the Oakland Raiders this summer during training camp, the Raiders released him among their final cuts of the preseason. True to his understated nature—and his relatively modest (by NFL standards) $7.8 million in total pay over seven years in the league— Willson wasn’t at some posh performance center in San Diego or Arizona staying in NFL-ready shape this month. Willson posted on his social-media pages descriptions of killer workouts he got while unemployed this month. With free weights. In the basement of his apartment building in San Francisco. “You like that, huh?” Willson said, laughing. “You know what? It was a bit makeshift, but I got some good work in there, man. It’s great. When you don’t have a job you go in

there at odd hours, when everybody else is working. So I had the whole thing to myself. Got a little music goin’. “Wasn’t the most ideal performance facility, but I thought it did the trick. ...It apparently was a pretty nice apartment complex, man. “This was a decent gym.” The Seahawks drafted Willson in the fifth round in 2013 as a pass-catching tight end from Canada and Rice University. Willson played his first five NFL seasons with the Seahawks (2013-17), and 89 of his 102 career receptions are with Seattle. He signed before the 2018 season in free agency with Detroit then spent this preseason with Oakland. The Raiders released him Aug. 30. All of Seahawks headquarters was buzzing with the life of the party being back in the building. Staffers flagged him down for selfies. Guard Jordan Roos and linebacker K.J. Wright were among the veteran Seahawks who were wearing their shorts 1980s-short going out to practice Wednesday. That’s to honor Willson’s “Techno Thursday” movement he started in the locker room and on the field a few years ago and carried, with much amusement, through the 2017 season. Willson blared techno dance music from a neon-green, 1980s-style boombox in

the locker room on Thursdays before practice in his first stint with the team. “Although I gave my boombox to my brother.” Willson said Wednesday. “So I’m going to buy another boombox, tonight. And we are going to get it going.” During those Thursday practices, Willson and his fellow tight ends began wearing John Stocktonshort practice shorts to fit the throw-back vibe. By the 2017 season, Willson’s movement had spread through the entire team. Quarterback Russell Wilson was among the teammates who began wearing his shorts ultra short for Thursday practices, too. Carroll began playing the tight end’s techno music instead of the usual rap through the practices. CenturyLink Field’s public-address system was playing Willson’s music for his touchdowns, of which he had a career-high four for Seattle that season. The touchdown celebration involved Willson’s teammates joining him for his techno dancing in the end zone. It even carried into road stadiums. This is what happened when the Cowboys’ stadium sound system was playing one of Willson’s techno sounds during a timeout in a Christmas Eve 2017 Seahawks game at Dallas: Is Techno Thursday about to become a thing again now that Willson is back with the Seahawks?

“Of course, man. Of course!” he said, sounding almost offended to be asked. “I mean, I’m assuming. You are hyped about it, aren’t you?” Not everyone is. All-Pro linebacker Bobby Wagner said this when asked if he was happy about having Willson back on the team: “Kind of, man. “I don’t know. We got to check him, man. He might still be mic’d up for ‘Hard Knocks’... Does Wagner want “Techno Thursday” to come back with Willson? “No,” he said. “I do not. Let that stay in the past.” Wagner said if he hears “any kind of techno music” he may enlist one of the Seahawks’ rookies to “sneak in and turn it off.” Too bad, Willson says. The short shorts are coming back, too. “Yeah, I think so,” he said. “A lot of the guys have kept that going, it seems like. There’s a lot of dudes, I was looking today, that supported that movement.” “Pretty exciting. Pretty exciting, just being in this building. Bit surreal, still. It kind of happened pretty quick.” All jokes aside—and with Willson, that’s a lot to push aside—the Seahawks have football reasons he’s back. Carroll made the point that Willson and Vannett are basically the same type of player: a receiving tight end who can also block and knows Seattle’s offensive system. Left unsaid: the Seahawks trust Willson to do that job better and more consistently than Vannett did it for 31⁄4 seasons with Seattle. Willson already has. Willson joins Will Dissly as the two true tight ends on the active roster for Sunday’s game at Arizona; reserve tackle George Fant enters for a handful of plays each game as an extra run-blocking tight end.

The Seahawks drafted Vannett in the fourth round in 2016 out of Ohio State, where he was known as college football’s best run blockers and a sure-handed receiver. He has 47 catches in his 41-game career. The 6-foot-6, 261-pound Vannett had a career-high 29 receptions and three of his four career touchdowns last season. He has four catches for 38 yards through three games this season. He never fully became the run blocker Seattle hoped for with his size when it drafted him. Carroll put doubt into the idea Willson may be back merely to bridge the month or so before veteran Ed Dickson returns off injured reserve to re-enter the offense. Seattle’s number-one tight end last season had knee surgery in August. The team put Dickson, 32, on its initial 53-man roster for the regular season Aug. 31 then placed him on injured reserve. Doing it that way makes Dickson eligible to be one of the two IR players each NFL team can designate to return to play that season, after eight weeks. The Seahawks can designate Dickson to return from IR to practice three weeks from now. He can then practice for two weeks before the team has to decide whether to activate him, or leave him on IR for the rest of this season. “We’ll see. The time is getting down there now,” Carroll said. “He’s working at it. We really won’t know until we get closer. I don’t really have a good assessment for you. “I’m concerned about it, though. The race is on. ... He’s on schedule, but I don’t know until we get closer, and can start working and can see him. He’s still in the rehab phases.” Carroll said the Steelers had wanted Vannett for a while, and that Seattle traded Vannett knowing it could re-sign Willson.


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NFL WEEK 4 PREVIEW CLEVELAND (1-2) AT BALTIMORE (2-1) Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, CBS OPENING LINE: Ravens by 4 RECORD VS. SPREAD: Cleveland 1-2, Baltimore 2-1 SERIES RECORD: Ravens lead 30-10 LAST MEETING: Ravens beat Browns 26-24, Dec. 30, 2018 LAST WEEK: Browns lost to Rams 20-13; Ravens lost to Chiefs 33-28 AP PRO32 RANKING: Browns No. 19, Ravens No. 6 BROWNS OFFENSE: OVERALL (24), RUSH (25), PASS (18). BROWNS DEFENSE: OVERALL (10), RUSH (14), PASS (10). RAVENS OFFENSE: OVERALL (1), RUSH (1), PASS (7). RAVENS DEFENSE: OVERALL (16T), RUSH (3), PASS (27).

GAIL BURTON AP

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is capable of having success running and passing, and Cleveland Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said “he presents tremendous challenges for us.”

A year after Mayfield’s Browns career took off, Ravens QB Jackson is AFC North’s rising star BY JONAS SHAFFER

Baltimore Sun

In Week 4 of his rookie season, Baker Mayfield was already QB1 for the Cleveland Browns. The previous week, the No. 1 overall draft pick had come off the bench for injured quarterback Tyrod Taylor and delivered salvation. A comeback 21-17 win over the New York Jets was Cleveland’s first victory since Dec. 24, 2016, and the starting job was Mayfield’s. “I’ve just been waiting for my moment,” he said after the game. “I’m just getting started.” In Baltimore, the wait continued for Lamar Jackson. As Mayfield passed for nearly 300 yards in a shootout overtime loss to the Oakland Raiders, the No. 32 overall pick didn’t attempt a pass in a 26-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, his third straight no-throw game. Jackson, still a rookie gadget player behind established starter Joe Flacco, instead rushed four times for 17 yards. As the Ravens and Browns prepare to meet Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium in their AFC North opener, it is worth considering not only how much has changed since

863 Passing yards for Colts QB Lamar Jackson this season, to go along with eight total touchdowns and no interceptions

their memorable last encounter but also since their last Week 4. In late September 2018, the Ravens were 2-1 and Flacco hadn’t yet hurt his hip. The Browns were 1-1-1 and looked like the furthest thing from the division’s next offseason favorite. A year later, the faces of the franchise have changed but the teams’ results have not ? not yet, anyway. The defending champion Ravens are 2-1, their lone loss coming against a Super Bowl favorite. The once-hyped Browns are 1-2, their lone win coming against a team playing its thirdstring quarterback. “It wasn’t a field position game, it was a possession game,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said about using analytics to decide to try a 2-point conversion. For all their differences in public perception, the teams are united in their reliance on second-year quarterbacks. And as Jackson has ascended through three games,

Mayfield has struggled. Their looming showdown is already rich with drama and backstory. Who knows what will happen next in a matchup that could define the AFC North for years to come? “I’m sure a bunch of fans are going to be circling that,” left tackle Ronnie Stanley said Wednesday. “Just like (Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick) Mahomes and Lamar (in Week 3), there’s going to be the same type of atmosphere for those games.” The first Jackson-Mayfield installment will be tough to top. Needing a Week 17 win at home, the Ravens held on, 26-24, to secure their first playoff appearance since 2014 and first AFC North crown since 2012. Inside linebacker C.J. Mosley’s interception on fourth down with just over a minute left set off celebrations across Baltimore and denied Cleveland its spoiler hopes. The quarterback duel seemed like a preview of the teams’ long-term

offensive designs. Jackson finished 14-for-24 for 179 yards and had 20 carries for 90 yards and two touchdowns, part of a rushing offense that gashed Cleveland for 296 yards. Mayfield was 23for-42 for 376 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions. On offense and defense, the Ravens had bludgeoned their way into the postseason. Cleveland would do it another way. In maybe the offseason’s most high-profile move, the Browns traded for Odell Beckham Jr., pairing one of the NFL’s most promising young quarterbacks with one of the league’s most dynamic receivers. Almost overnight, the Browns became the sexy pick in the AFC North. Mayfield found himself on the cover of ESPN the Magazine. Analysts praised the franchise’s new direction. All the while, Ravens players rolled their eyes. Former Ravens coach Brian Billick reflects on life away from coaching » “We have a lot of free time, and in the media, they’re talking about OBJ and that tandem, and Baker Mayfield, the next savior,” safety Earl Thomas III said Wednesday. “He had a hot start. And

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: First place at stake in AFC North. … Ravens face Browns for first time under GM Eric DeCosta, who took over for Ozzie Newsome, a Hall of Fame TE with Cleveland. … Hyped Browns at early crossroads after two losses at home. … Browns split with Ravens last season, but are 3-19 vs. Baltimore since 2007. … Despite missing seven starters, including entire secondary with injuries, Browns were in position to tie NFC champion Rams in final seconds Sunday night but failed on four plays from 4-yard line. … First-year coach Freddie Kitchens took blame for loss, and lamented not running ball near goal line with three timeouts. … Browns QB Baker Mayfield has struggled, completing just 56.9 percent of passes (63.8 as rookie) with three TDs and five interceptions. … Mayfield has thrown at least one TD pass in all 16 career starts. Only Hall of Famer Kurt Warner (24) had better opening run. … Mayfield threw three TD passes and three picks in season finale against Ravens as rookie. … Browns WR Odell Beckham Jr. has been dealing with double teams so far, but still had team-high six catches against Rams. … Beckham had eight catches for career-high 222 yards in only game against Ravens for Giants in 2016. Beckham has averaged 128.8 yards per game in four games against AFC North teams. … Browns DE Myles Garrett has six sacks this season and 261⁄2 in 30 career games. … Browns will play four of next five games on road. … Browns RB Nick Chubb was held to 24 yards on nine carries in 2018 season finale at Baltimore. … Ravens RB Mark Ingram leads NFL with five rushing TDs, ranks fifth with 257 yards on ground. … Baltimore owns plus-3 turnover differential and plus-9 in last six games against Cleveland. … Ravens 10-1 at home against Browns under coach John Harbaugh, who started in 2008. … Baltimore QB Lamar Jackson has thrown 221 passes without INT, longest current streak in NFL. … Ravens tight ends have combined 33 catches, 389 yards and three TDs, all NFL highs for position. … Ravens’ defense burned for 503 yards last week. … Baltimore’s 1,535 yards on offense after three games second most in NFL history behind 2011 Patriots (1,621). … Ravens CB Brandon Carr expected to make 180th consecutive start, longest current streak among defensive players. … Baltimore 66-23 at home under Harbaugh, 18-2 in September. … Ravens K Justin Tucker’s 90.3% success rate on FGs best in NFL history. Fantasy tip: Beckham could have big day against defense that yielded 374 yards passing vs. KC and 349 against Arizona two weeks ago. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

then, to add on to that, Coach (John Harbaugh) talked about it a couple of times in meetings. So guys kind of got tired of it.” It’s taken less than a month for the AFC North’s quarterback pecking order to reorder itself. With the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger (elbow) out for the season and the Cincinnati Bengals’ Andy Dalton having a ho-hum start to 2019, Mayfield has had every chance to emerge as the division’s most important player. But problems with accuracy and pocket awareness have limited him. He ranks 32nd in the NFL in passer rating, and the Browns’ offense is No. 28 in efficiency, according to Football Outsiders. He has played, in many ways, like critics expected Jackson to this season. Jackson, meanwhile, has played like many fans (and fantasy football owners) expected Mayfield to: 63% passing, 863 passing yards, eight total touchdowns and no interceptions, as productive a passer as a runner. One viral tweet from this week perhaps best underscores the gap between their early-season performances: Jackson could throw eight straight interceptions Sunday before Mayfield attempts a pass and still have a superior quarterback rating this season. “I think Lamar has made some strides and is throwing the ball well, which I know those guys put a lot of time into that, and he certainly has,”

Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said in a conference call Wednesday. “It’s evident on film. And, of course, everybody knows how gifted he is as a runner. So he presents tremendous challenges for us as a defense, and we’ve got our work cut out for us.” The Ravens know better than to expect anything less than Mayfield at his best. Harbaugh said Wednesday that the Browns “do many of the things that he does well.” Defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale said Mayfield has “got some weapons this year that he didn’t have last year.” Even Jackson, who’s friendly with the fellow Heisman Trophy winner off the field, said Mayfield “went No. 1 in the draft for a reason.” A loss Sunday would not undercut the Ravens’ year as it would have in their 2018 regular-season finale. But the game will have practical and symbolic significance. With a win, the Ravens would re-establish a twogame lead for first place in the AFC North at the season’s quarter pole. It might also cement Jackson as the division’s top quarterback, a distinction that seemed incomprehensible only a year ago. “It’s pretty exciting and something to look forward to,” center Matt Skura said Thursday of the matchup. “Because those two just make electrifying plays, and you know that something spectacular is going to happen.”


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FootballXtra TAMPA BAY (1-2) AT LOS ANGELES RAMS (3-0) Sunday, 4:05 p.m. ET, Fox OPENING LINE: Rams by 91⁄2 RECORD VS. SPREAD: Tampa Bay 1-2, Los Angeles Rams 3-0 SERIES RECORD: Rams lead 16-8 LAST MEETING: Rams beat Buccaneers, 37-32, Sept. 25, 2016 LAST WEEK: Giants beat Buccaneers 32-31; Rams beat Browns 20-13 AP PRO32 RANKING: Buccaneers No. 26, Rams No. 3 BUCCANEERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (14), RUSH (8), PASS (20). BUCCANEERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (14), RUSH (6), PASS (21). RAMS OFFENSE: OVERALL (16), RUSH (7), PASS (22). RAMS DEFENSE: OVERALL (3), RUSH (11), PASS (4). STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Sean McVay’s first head coaching matchup with franchise where he began NFL career as Jon Gruden’s 22-year-old assistant receivers coach in 2008. … Rams have won five straight over Tampa Bay since 2012. … Bucs DT Ndamukong Suh returns to LA after starting every game in sole season with Rams on way to his first Super Bowl. … Bucs RB Ronald Jones II also returns to Coliseum, where “Texas Tesla” starred for USC. … QB Jameis Winston’s 380 yards passing last week were fourth most of career. … Bucs LB Shaquil Barrett leads NFL with eight sacks in four games. Since sacks became official stat in 1982, NFL record through team’s first four games is nine, shared by Jets’ Mark Gastineau (1984), Panthers’ Kevin Greene (1998) and Packers’ Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (2001). … WR Mike Evans coming off first three-TD receiving game by Tampa Bay wideout since 1985. … Rams face third NFC South opponent already this season. … Rams looking for second straight 4-0 start under McVay. Defending NFC champs opened 8-0 last season. … Rams have gone eight straight regular season games without allowing more than three points in first quarter. … Rams’ pass defense has been outstanding. LA has allowed just four pass plays longer than 20 yards, and none longer than 40. Both totals are NFL best. Also, just one TD pass allowed. … WR Cooper Kupp is off to outstanding start in return from season-ending injury. He had career-high 11 catches for 102 yards last week. … DT Aaron Donald coming in hot after slow statistical start in first two games. He has 91⁄2 sacks, two forced fumbles in last seven home games. … S John Johnson led Rams with nine tackles last week. Also has interceptions in back-to-back games. .. Rams LB Clay Matthews’ next tackle will be 600th of career. He will be 26th active player to reach mark. … Fantasy tip: Jones is coming off first career performance with 100 yards from scrimmage. Former Trojan appears to be finding his stride, and he'll be highly motivated coming back to LA. Could be value pickup. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

MARK J. TERRILL AP

Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley has been involved in 15% fewer snaps than last season, and quarterback Jared Goff hasn’t been able to benefit from Gurley’s dominating presence yet after three games.

COMMENTARY

Goff, Rams’ offense are weighed down without Gurley carrying load BY BILL PLASCHKE

Los Angeles Times

This might seem like a crazy thing to write about an unbeaten football team. This might appear nonsensical considering this team has the NFL’s most brilliant young head coach, its most productive running back, and a talented maturing quarterback. This might sound nutty, but it’s true, and those who have watched three games with a gnawing sense of unfamiliarity and uncertainty know it’s true. The Rams offense isn’t right. The Rams offense has lost its swagger, misplaced its mojo, forgotten its identity. The Rams are 3-0, but it’s a defensive 3-0, a trudging 3-0, a really weird 3-0. They won their first game against an injured quarterback, their second against a backup quarterback, and their third with a goal-line stand. The Rams offense didn’t win any of those games. The offense just

sort of showed up, made a handful of big plays, and scurried away in the shadow of Aaron Donald. Last season their attack was so powerful, everybody wanted to imitate their game plan and clone their head coach. For much of this season, they’ve been just another high-priced huddle. Last season they scored 32.9 points per game. This season they’re down more than a touchdown, scoring 25.7 points per game. Last season they ranked second with 421 yards per game. This season they’re down more than 60 yards at 358 per game, ranking them squarely in the middle of the league. Does anything about the Rams offensive talent and coaching and scheme cry out “mediocre “ to youIt shouldn’t, but it does, and it’s not too hard to figure why. Todd Gurley is barely here, and Jared Goff isn’t the same without him. Gurley has been involved in 15% fewer snaps than last season, Goff no longer benefits from the back’s dominating presence, and everything is just off.

No more long, exhausting Gurley-led drives. No more great Goff playaction screen passes. No more feeling of sustained momentum. Gurley has been slowed by what is clearly load management. Goff simply hasn’t stepped up to the new challenge. This perfect backfield storm hasn’t capsized the Rams yet, but at some point, it will, and they know it. “Offensively our standards are so high, we expect to be better, and we need to be if we want to win games later in the year and continue to be competitive,” Goff said Wednesday at his weekly news conference at the Rams practice facility in Thousand Oaks. “In certain games down the road it won’t be enough.” The offense has been so sluggish, when I mentioned to coach Sean McVay on Wednesday that it didn’t seem as sharp as in previous years, he actually agreed. “Absolutely,” he said at his daily news conference. “I haven’t done a good enough job for us, I think it starts with me. … We expect to be sharper over-

all … if I do a better job, and everybody else is a little bit better, we’re hopeful we'll see better results.” Did you catch the running theme there. McVay blaming himself, bless his heart, for the sake of protecting his players, the young coach always blames himself. From the moment he set foot in Thousand Oaks three years ago, he’s been publicly carrying the burden for seemingly every Rams mistake, highlighted by him taking full responsibility on a national stage for the three measly points the Rams scored in the Super Bowl. The accountability is admirable. His players love him for it. It has set the tone for a calm locker room where even the most volatile of veterans isn’t afraid to look in a mirror. “When you feel like you’re responsible for a lot of the things that you could do better to help set it up in a situation that’s more conducive for success, I think that’s the truth, “ McVay said. “I’m not going to make any excuses for why we

haven’t gotten it done up to the level of our standards over the first three weeks. All I know how to do is to work as hard as I can to get it fixed. I’m just going to keep grinding every single day.” Yet the heat does not always belong on McVay. And in the current case of the ornery offense, the issues are much bigger than him. First, no matter how much gobbledygook he spreads about failing to get Gurley the ball – McVay constantly says he needs to do a better job of play calling, as if his photographic brain just forgets about the goliath in his backfield – the truth is in Gurley’s arthritic left knee. The knee can’t withstand everyday NFL pounding. The knee needs to be coddled for the moments when it is really needed. The Rams won’t say this, but they don’t have to say it, they’ve been doing it since he broke down at the end of last spring. There is a reason Gurley did not participate in team drills during the offseason, practiced only every other day during training camp, didn’t play in the preseason, and hasn’t been practicing on Fridays. Yet Wednesday, when asked about increasing Gurley’s usage, McVay seriously said, “We’ve got to have more plays.” More playsThey rank ninth in the league in snaps. He also went back to that game management rationale, claiming, “More than anything, the feel, the flow of the game … getting Malcolm (Brown) involved a little bit too.” Brown is by all accounts a great teammate and

important cog, but it stretches the imagination to think his presence is what is keeping Gurley on the bench. McVay is emptying his pockets of every scrap of coach speak to avoid saying the words “load management.” But that’s what it is, that’s the new Rams normal, which brings up the second Rams problem. Goff isn’t handling that reality very well. He has thrown for four touchdowns with three interceptions while looking mostly pedestrian. His quarterback rating of 84.5 is more than 16 points below last year’s mark. His completion percentage is down. His yardsper-completion is down. He struggles to get comfortable behind a reshaped offensive line. Goff is living down to everyone’s worst fears – system quarterback having trouble when the system is out of whack – and he acknowledges his role. He respects his coach falling on his sword, but he’s having none of it. “We do appreciate when he does that, it kind of shows that accountability that he preaches … but no, it’s execution and detail and just being on top of our stuff and performing, basic performance,” Goff said. “Just go out there and throw and catch and make the plays you’re supposed to make and everything will fall into place … we can do a lot more on our part, and need to, offensively, to get anywhere.” They eventually will need Gurley to be more involved. They will eventually need Goff to show up. They will need to get anywhere but where they are.


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NFL WEEK 4 PREVIEW

CINCINNATI (0-3) AT PITTSBURGH (0-3)

L.A. CHARGERS (1-2) AT MIAMI (0-3)

NEW ENGLAND (3-0) AT BUFFALO (3-0)

TENNESSEE (1-2) AT ATLANTA (1-2)

Monday, 8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN

Sunday, 1 p.m. Eastern, CBS OPENING LINE: Chargers by 161⁄2

Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, CBS

Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, CBS

OPENING LINE: Steelers by 31⁄2

OPENING LINE: Patriots by 61⁄2

OPENING LINE: Falcons by 5

RECORD VS. SPREAD: Cincinnati 2-1; Pittsburgh 1-2

RECORD VS. SPREAD: Chargers 1-2, Miami 0-3

RECORD VS. SPREAD: New England 2-1; Buffalo 2-1

RECORD VS. SPREAD: Titans 1-2, Falcons 1-2

SERIES RECORD: Steelers lead 64-35

SERIES RECORD: Dolphins lead 18-15

SERIES RECORD: Patriots lead 74-43-1

SERIES RECORD: Tied 7-7

LAST MEETING: Steelers beat Bengals 16-13, Dec. 30, 2018

LAST MEETING: Dolphins beat Chargers 19-17, Sept. 17, 2017

LAST MEETING: Patriots beat Bills 24-12, Dec. 23, 2018

LAST MEETING: Falcons beat Titans 10-7, Oct. 25, 2015

LAST WEEK: Bengals lost to Bills 21-17; Steelers lost to 49ers 24-20

LAST WEEK: Chargers lost to Texans 27-20; Dolphins lost to Cowboys 31-6

LAST WEEK: Patriots beat Jets 30-14; Bills beat Bengals 21-17

LAST WEEK: Jaguars beat Titans, 20-7; Colts beat Falcons 27-24

AP PRO32 RANKING: Bengals No. 30, Steelers No. 25

AP PRO32 RANKING: Chargers No. 17, Dolphins No. 32

AP PRO32 RANKING: Patriots No. 1, Bills No. 11

AP PRO32 RANKING: Titans No. 20, Falcons No. 18

BENGALS OFFENSE: OVERALL (18), RUSH (32), PASS (3).

CHARGERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (5T), RUSH (13), PASS (5).

PATRIOTS OFFENSE: OVERALL (5t), RUSH (20), PASS (2).

TITANS OFFENSE: OVERALL (27), RUSH (12), PASS (28).

BENGALS DEFENSE: OVERALL (27), RUSH (31), PASS (12).

CHARGERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (19), RUSH (18), PASS (17).

PATRIOTS DEFENSE: OVERALL (1), RUSH (1), PASS (1).

TITANS DEFENSE: OVERALL (7), RUSH (21), PASS (3).

STEELERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (30), RUSH (29), PASS (25).

DOLPHINS OFFENSE: OVERALL (31), RUSH (31), PASS (30).

BILLS OFFENSE: OVERALL (8), RUSH (5), PASS (19).

FALCONS OFFENSE: OVERALL (10), RUSH (27), PASS (6).

STEELERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (29), RUSH (28), PASS (31).

DOLPHINS DEFENSE: OVERALL (32), RUSH (32), PASS (28).

BILLS DEFENSE: OVERALL (5), RUSH (8), PASS (9).

FALCONS DEFENSE: OVERALL (8), RUSH (12), PASS (8).

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Steelers have won eight straight vs. Bengals and 11 of 12, with Cincinnati’s only victory at Heinz Field in 2015. Streak includes playoff win at Paul Brown Stadium in 2015. … Bengals 6-15 in prime-time games since 2011, when Andy Dalton was rookie, including 2-5 on Monday night. Cincinnati is 11-24 on Monday night; Steelers 46-24 on Monday night, 25-5 at home. … Pittsburgh off to first 0-3 start since 2013. … Bengals trying to avoid first 0-4 start since 2008, when they dropped first eight and finished 4-11-1. … Steelers giving up 139 yards rushing per game. Bengals averaging NFL-worst 42 yards on ground. … Zac Taylor 0-3 in first season as Bengals head coach, matching Marvin Lewis’ start when hired in 2003. Bengals have never reached playoffs after opening season 0-3. … Dalton ranks second in NFL with 978 yards passing, function of Bengals’ inability to run. Running game ranks last in NFL. … Joe Mixon ran for 105 yards in last game vs. Steelers. He’s rushed for only 88 yards combined in first three games this season, averaging 2.8 per carry behind depleted line. … Steelers QB Mason Rudolph passed for 174 yards, two TDs, one pick in first NFL start last week vs. 49ers. Rudolph’s two TDs matched franchise record for QB in first start. … Fantasy tip: Dalton typically struggles vs. Steelers, but Pittsburgh’s secondary uneven at best.

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Chargers face Dolphins for sixth time in past seven years. … Los Angeles coach Anthony Lynn is 0-1 vs. Miami. … Chargers have lost eight consecutive games in Miami, with last win being 1981 AFC divisional playoff game in overtime, 41-38. … Philip Rivers has five 300-yard passing games in eight starts vs. Miami, including past three. … For third consecutive season since move to Los Angeles, Chargers have losing record after three games. … Chargers’ Austin Ekeler leads running backs in yards receiving (208) and AFC running backs in yards from scrimmage (368). … Chargers RBs averaging 5.4 yards per carry, third best in NFL. … WR Keenan Allen leads league in receptions (25), yards (404) and touchdowns (4). … DE Melvin Ingram has 41⁄2 sacks in three games vs. Miami. … Dolphins are on pace to set NFL records both for fewest points scored and most points allowed in 16-game season. Dolphins have been outscored 133-16, worst point differential through three games since at least 1940. … Miami is 0-3 for first time since 2011. … QB Josh Rosen, who will make first home start for Dolphins, ranks 34th in 32-team league in passer rating. Teammate Ryan Fitzpatrick ranks 35th. … Fantasy tip: Chargers DE Joey Bosa, who has 11⁄2 sacks this season, could have big day with Rosen expected to throw plenty behind shaky line.

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Patriots have won five straight and are 33-5 against Bills since Bill Belichick took over as coach in 2000. … In position for ninth 4-0 start, fifth under Belichick and first since 2015, when opened 10-0. … Tom Brady’s 30 career wins against Bills most by NFL quarterback against one opponent. … Brady’s 15 wins at Orchard Park, New York, rank fourth among all QBs, and four shy of Drew Bledsoe, who had four wins with Patriots and 14 with Bills. … Brady’s 71,425 career yards passing (regular season) rank fourth on NFL list and 413 short of matching Brett Favre. … RB Sony Michel has eight TDs rushing in past six outings, including postseason. … DB Devin McCourty has threegame interception streak, one short of matching Mike Haynes’ team record in 1976. … Defense is first in NFL history to not allow touchdown rushing or passing through first three games of season. Only TDs allowed came against Jets on interception return and muffed punt. … Bills’ last win against Patriots was 16-0 at New England on Oct. 2, 2016, when Brady was serving fourth and final game of NFL suspension. … Josh Allen leads NFL quarterbacks with eight TDs rushing since start of 2018 season. … Fantasy tip: Beware of starting Brady, who has gone combined 84 of 127 for 932 yards with three TDs and four interceptions in four games against Sean McDermott-coached Bills.

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Titans making first visit to Atlanta since 23-17 loss in 2011. … This is Mike Vrabel’s first game against Falcons as coach. … Titans are plus-4 and Falcons are minus-4 in turnover differential. … Losers of two straight, Titans playing third road game in first four weeks. … Falcons have won two straight in this series. Falcons playing second of three straight against AFC teams. … Titans QB Marcus Mariota has not been intercepted this season. … Titans have allowed NFL-worst 17 sacks, including season-high nine in last game. … Titans RB Derrick Henry has NFL-best 12 total TDs, 11 rushing, in last eight games, including final five of 2018. … Titans held ball 35:18 in loss to Jaguars last week. … Titans have five takeaways and only one turnover, tied for second in NFL with plus-4 turnover margin. … Falcons WR Julio Jones has TD catch in seven straight games, NFL’s longest active streak. … Jones needs 4 yards receiving to reach 11,000 in 115 games, fastest in NFL history. … QB Matt Ryan completed 22 of 23 passes for 216 yards, three TDs, in second half against Colts. … Devonta Freeman’s 88 yards rushing last week were high mark since Dec. 18, 2017 vs. Tampa Bay, when he had 126. Freeman was limited by injuries to two games in 2018. … Fantasy tip: Henry quietly has league-high 865 yards rushing in last eight games.

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JACKSONVILLE (1-2) AT DENVER (0-3)

MINNESOTA (2-1) AT CHICAGO (2-1)

OAKLAND (1-2) AT INDIANAPOLIS (2-1)

WASHINGTON (0-3) AT N.Y. GIANTS (1-2)

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OPENING LINE: Broncos by 31⁄2

OPENING LINE: Bears by 21⁄2

OPENING LINE: Colts by 7

OPENING LINE: Giants by 3

RECORD VS. SPREAD: Jacksonville 1-2; Denver 0-3

RECORD VS. SPREAD: Minnesota 2-1; Chicago 1-2

RECORD VS. SPREAD: Oakland 1-2; Indianapolis 2-0-1

RECORD VS. SPREAD: Washington 0-3; New York Giants 1-2

SERIES RECORD: Tied 6-6

SERIES RECORD: Vikings lead 60-54-2

SERIES RECORD: Raiders lead 9-8

SERIES RECORD: Giants lead 101-69-4

LAST MEETING: Broncos beat Jaguars 20-10, Dec. 4, 2016

LAST MEETING: Bears beat Vikings 24-10, Dec. 30, 2018

LAST MEETING: Colts beat Raiders 42-28, Oct. 28, 2018

LAST MEETING: Giants beat Redskins 40-16, Dec. 9, 2018

LAST WEEK: Jaguars beat Titans 20-7; Broncos lost to Packers 27-16

LAST WEEK: Vikings beat Raiders 34-14; Bears beat Redskins 31-15

LAST WEEK: Raiders lost to Vikings 34-14; Colts beat Falcons 27-24

LAST WEEK: Redskins lost to Bears 31-15; Giants beat Buccaneers 32-31

AP PRO32 RANKING: Jaguars No. 21, Broncos No. 27

AP PRO32 RANKING: Vikings No. 8, Bears No. 14

AP PRO32 RANKING: Raiders No. 24 , Colts No. 13

AP PRO32 RANKING: Redskins No. 29, Giants No. 23

JAGUARS OFFENSE: OVERALL (22), RUSH (23), PASS (16).

VIKINGS OFFENSE: OVERALL (15), RUSH (2), PASS (31)

RAIDERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (26), RUSH (16), PASS (24).

REDSKINS OFFENSE: OVERALL (22), RUSH (30), PASS (9).

JAGUARS DEFENSE: OVERALL (20), RUSH (17), PASS (18).

VIKINGS DEFENSE: OVERALL (12), RUSH (13), PASS (11)

RAIDERS DEFENSE: OVERALL (25), RUSH (19), PASS (24T).

REDSKINS DEFENSE: OVERALL (26), RUSH (29), PASS (20).

BRONCOS OVERALL: OVERALL (20), RUSH (14), PASS (23).

BEARS OFFENSE: OVERALL (29), RUSH (21), PASS (29)

COLTS OFFENSE: OVERALL (19), RUSH (6), PASS (26).

GIANTS OFFENSE: OVERALL (7), RUSH (9), PASS (8).

BRONCOS DEFENSE: OVERALL ( 9), RUSH (16), PASS (6).

BEARS DEFENSE: OVERALL (8), RUSH (5), PASS (14)

COLTS DEFENSE: OVERALL (18), RUSH (20), PASS (13).

GIANTS DEFENSE: OVERALL (31), RUSH (23), PASS (32).

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: QB Gardner Minshew leads NFL rookies in completion percentage (73.9), passing TDs (five) and passer rating (110.6). … Minshew’s completion percentage, passer rating both highest by rookie QB in first three career games in Super Bowl era. … DJ Chark one of five WRs in NFL with at least four 30yard catches. … Chark is first Jaguars player since Jimmy Smith in ‘98 with TD catch in each of first three games. … Since signing with Jaguars in ‘17, Denver native Calais Campbell’s 28 sacks third most in league. … Campbell AFC’s defensive player of the week following three-sack performance vs. Titans. … Rookie DE Josh Allen had first two career sacks in Week 3. … CB Jalen Ramsey missed practice all week (illness, back, paternity leave) after requesting trade following sideline spat with coach Doug Marrone, bue he did make the trip. … Broncos first team since sack became official stat in ‘82 to start season with zero sacks, zero takeaways in first three games. … Vic Fangio first of 17 Broncos head coaches to start 0-3. … Broncos’ last 0-4 start was ‘99 following back-toback Super Bowl wins. … OLB Von Miller’s 98 sacks lead NFL since arrival in ‘11. … Fantasy Watch: Broncos WRs Courtland Sutton, Emmanuel Sanders each had 85plus receiving yards in two of first three games.

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Bears swept Vikings last year for first time since 2011, kept Minnesota out of postseason with victory in regular-season finale. … Vikings are 3-15 on road vs. Bears since 2000, but two of those wins have come in last four trips. …. Vikings lead league with seven rushing touchdowns, two shy of last season’s total. … Vikings averaging NFLlow 21 pass attempts per game. … Minnesota has have not allowed third-quarter point yet. Bears are second in league, with six points allowed. … RB Dalvin Cook leads NFL with 375 rushing yards. He’s one of only five players in league history to start season with at least 110 yards and one TD in each of first three games, joining Pro Football Hall of Fame members Jim Brown, O.J. Simpson, Emmitt Smith and Curtis Martin. … Chicago had five takeaways at winless Washington on Monday night, bringing season total to six. … QB Mitchell Trubisky completed 25 of 31 passes for 231 yards, threw his first three touchdowns of season against Redskins after struggling in first two games. …. Since entering NFL with Oakland in 2014, LB Khalil Mack is tied for league lead in forced fumbles (18), tied for second in games with two or more sacks (13). … Fantasy tip: Cook going against tough run defense could lead to opportunities for receivers Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen.

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: Oakland has lost three straight at Indianapolis since winning in 2001, final season of Jon Gruden’s first coaching tenure with franchise. … Raiders have lost back-to-back games in same season by 18 or more points for first time since 2012. … Oakland has two scores in last 18 drives. … Raiders are 1-8 on road under Gruden over past two seasons. … Darren Waller had career highs last week with 13 receptions, 134 yards. Waller leads all TEs with 26 catches. … WR Tyrell Williams is first Raiders player since Mervyn Fernandez in 1989 with TD catches in first three games. … Oakland allowed eight TD drives of 90 or more yards past two seasons, including three in last two weeks. Colts had two scoring drives of 90-plus yards in last week’s victory over Falcons. … Indy has won seven straight home games and scored at least 23 points in nine straight home games. … Colts have second-fewest penalties (15) and fewest penalty yards (114) in league. … Indy’s defense has not allowed 100-yard runner in 21 straight games, second-longest active streak. … QB Jacoby Brissett has won backto-back starts for first time in career. … RB Marlon Mack ranks third in league in yards rushing, averaging 99.7 per game. … Fantasy tip: Mack had 132 yards and two TDs in last game against Raiders. With Colts more committed to ground game this season, Mack could have another big day.

STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES: First 0-3 start for Washington since 2013, last went 0-4 in 2001. … Redskins finished 3-13 last year. … Game marks return of S Landon Collins, who signed with Redskins as free agent. Collins was drafted by New York in 2015. … QB Case Keenum threw for 332 yards and two TDs against Bears, but was victimized by turnovers. … RB Adrian Peterson rushed for 149 yards and had two TDs against Giants on Oct. 28. He has 100-plus yards rushing in two of last three games against New York. … Chris Thompson only NFC RB with four-plus catches in each game this season. … Rookie WR Terry McLaurin is first in NFL history with fiveplus catches and TD in first three career games. … CB Josh Norman had sack and interception last week, but also burned in coverages. … LB Ryan Kerrigan has 61⁄2 sacks in past four meetings with Giants. … First time since late 2004 that Giants QB Eli Manning has not started against Redskins. … Rookie QB Daniel Jones threw for 336 yards and two TDs, and ran for two more in debut as starter against Bucs. … He can join Cardinals rookie Kyler Murray and Panthers’ Cam Newton (2011) as only rookies with 300-plus yards passing in first two starts. … Fantasy tip: New York has allowed 94 points this season, most in NFC. Redskins WRs, especially McLaurin, should be good play.

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NFL about healthy relationship dynamics. “Today’s headlines and usage of social media are making it more difficult to show, by example, how to live with empathy and compassion,” says Suzanne McCormick, the U.S. president of United Way Worldwide. “That’s all the more reason we should be deliberate about providing our kids the tools they need to build healthy relationships and make good decisions during their critical and formative middle school years.” Schools that teach character education report higher academic performance, improved attendance, reduced violence, fewer disciplinary issues, a reduction in substance abuse and less vandalism. Now, the NFL and United Way are also incorporating digital mental health education into the program for five schools in each of the NFL’s 32 markets. “We’re excited to see the constant growth of the Character Playbook program and now be able to offer it free of charge to any school who wants it,” says Alexia Gallagher, vice president of philanthropy and executive director of the NFL Foundation. “Volunteerism is also an important aspect of character building and we’re thrilled that Character Playbook’s Character Challenge will encourage students to donate 100 minutes of their time part of the Huddle for 100 to honor the league’s 100th season.”

2019 Hero Award at a banquet in Niagara Falls, New York, on Tuesday. In accepting the honor, Vincent focused his attention on the evening’s 22 other award winners. “I think we heard from all the heroes,” he said during a four-minute speech. “The empathy. The humbleness. The meekness. These are the real heroes. I’m just doing

my part.” Vincent, the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2002 for his offfield work, first captured the local YWCA’s attention by speaking at a luncheon a year ago. Vincent now is in charge of the league’s football operations. He formerly was president of the NFL Players Association.

CHARACTER PLAYBOOK The NFL’s Character Playbook program will have reached almost a half-million students in just over three years of existence. Players across the league have been involved in the digital program that has drawn acclaim from educators everywhere. It is available to all U.S.

schools free of charge for the first time. Designed for students in the seventh through ninth grades, Character Playbook has seen nearly 500,000 middle school students access the curriculum for personal development. The course, developed and administered by digital education leader EVERFI, has also raised students’ expectations

CARSON HONORED The Arizona Cardinals will induct quarterback Carson Palmer into the club’s Ring of Honor at halftime during Sunday’s game against Seattle. Palmer is the 18th player to join the group, which includes quarterback Kurt Warner, cornerback Aeneas Williams and safety Pat Tillman. Palmer played for five seasons in Arizona and his .642 winning percentage (38-21-1) is the best for a starting quarterback in team history. He also owns the club’s singleseason records with 4,671 yards passing, 35 touchdowns and 104.6 passer rating, which all came in 2015. That’s the year the Cardinals made it to the NFC championship game. “He’s deserving,” Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald said on Wednesday. “He’s a great human being and an unbelievable quarterback for many years.”

always compared myself to other people in terms of what punishment did they get,” Leaf told The Associated Press. “I was that guy for so long where I just couldn’t take an honest look in the mirror and see my part in it. When you no longer rely on the idea of blaming others then you have to take a look at what your part is in all this and he’s just not willing to do that as of yet.” Brown took a few days off from social media after declaring in a Twitter rant that he was done with the league. He returned to the platform Thursday and indicated he’s not quite ready to hang up the cleats.

“I’m still the best why stop now,” Brown wrote . He followed up with: “The game need me I’m like test answers.” Brown also wrote that he won’t be wearing Nike , which dropped him last week. He announced he wants to practice at high schools one day a week starting in Miami. Then he engaged in a back-andforth with Los Angeles Rams safety Eric Weddle, who faced him often with the Baltimore Ravens. His latest stream of consciousness was tame compared to the nowdeleted posts from Sunday. Brown claimed then the NFL had been more lenient toward others facing allegations of sexual misconduct. Brown was accused of rape by a former trainer , who filed a civil lawsuit against him in Florida. The second

woman, an artist he hired to paint a mural at his home, has accused Brown of exposing himself to her. Dr. Joel Fish, the director at the Center for Sport Psychology in Philadelphia, has worked extensively with athletes of all ages and skills levels, from youth sports through the Olympic and professional ranks for more than 25 years. He has served as a sports psychology consultant for the Philadelphia 76ers, Flyers and Phillies. “If I’ve learned anything working with pro athletes, behaviors are not always logical and just because you’re big and strong physically doesn’t mean you’re big and strong emotionally,” Fish said. “And when I hear patterns like his, that says to me underlying the behavior there’s some real

issues that he’s got to work out.” Brown went to seven Pro Bowls in nine seasons with the Steelers but was traded to Oakland in March after wearing out his welcome in Pittsburgh. He was released by the Raiders after quarreling with coach Jon Gruden and general manager Mike Mayock. The Patriots quickly signed him, just days before he was accused of rape in the civil lawsuit. “In all kinds of behavior change, they talk about people, places and things,” Fish said. “Surround yourself with the right people, be careful because certain places are bad environments and things you have to watch what you put in your mouth and just sort of you know some of the things that you do. … Based on

some of those videos, I think people, places and things, there’s something that seems pretty evident that he needs to take a look at.” Brown’s future in the NFL is uncertain and he faces possible suspension for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Still, it’s possible a team will take a chance on player with Brown’s immense talent. But first he needs to make changes. “Success does not make a man, it reveals who they really are,” said Pastor Ted Winsley, the Eagles’ team chaplain. “I believe that he is getting exposed to the fact that the foundation of who he has identified himself to be has been money, football and fame. None of these things have satisfied him or made him whole.”

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Troy Vincent, a former Buffalo Bills safety and current NFL executive vice president, was honored by the Niagara Frontier YWCA for his extensive work advocating against domestic violence and sexual assault. Vincent was presented with the association's 2019 Hero Award.

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BROWN took shots at Patriots owner Robert Kraft, even though he wants to get some or all of his $9 million bonus from New England. He also directed criticism at longtime Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf’s story of drugs and self-destruction is well-known. Leaf spiraled out of control and ended up in prison but has turned his life around and is helping other players as an NFL Legends Community coordinator. He described Brown’s actions as “self-sabotage.” “It’s lacking in any personal accountability and I know what that’s like for sure because I


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NFL NFL AT 100 The stories on this page are part of a series of Associated Press stories highlighting the 100th season of the NFL

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The Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles play on Dec. 31, 1988 at Soldier Field in Chicago. The game became known as the Fog Bowl, and finished No. 50 in voting to select the top 100 games in NFL history.

Mud Bowl, Rodgers’ Hail Mary are selected by voters among top games in history of NFL BY BARRY WILNER

Associated Press

From the Mud Bowl to Aaron Rodgers’ Hail Mary and the most points in a century’s worth of games, the NFL has revealed its top games, from No. 100 to a tie for No. 31. There’s also a Fog Bowl and a Freezer Bowl. Not

to mention a bevy of Super Bowls. In balloting conducted by The Associated Press, 65 media members and football historians on a nationwide panel voted for the top 100. The NFL announced 70 of them on Friday night with a TV special produced by NFL Films. Hall of Famers populate

the rosters of many of the matches, as do long-forgotten performers. There are desperation completions and fake spikes, stirring comebacks naturally accompanied by brutal collapses. The list begins with the 1982 AFC title game between the Jets and Dolphins on a rain-soaked field in Miami. A.J. Duhe

made three interceptions of Richard Todd in a 14-0 victory on a field better suited for pig farming. Jets coach Walt Michaels always insisted the Dolphins wanted that kind of playing surface. “There were some things that went on,” Michaels said. “The league rule is to cover the field, and it wasn’t. What

else has to be said?” As for the Fog Bowl, which came in at No. 50, the Bears apparently beat the Eagles 20-12 in that 1988 NFC divisional playoff at Soldier Field; it was impossible to see anything for much of the contest. “I remember looking to the left side of the field and we thought the stadi-

First championship game, draft highlight NFL in 1930s BY DENNIS WASZAK JR.

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A look at the NFL’s second decade, the 1930s: FRANCHISES The 1930 season was played with 11 clubs, including the Portsmouth Spartans – who became the Detroit Lions in 1934 – the lone newcomer. It also marked the final season for the Minneapolis Red Jackets and Newark Tornadoes. The Frankford Yellow Jackets and Providence Steam Roller left the league after 1931. It was also the first (and only) campaign for the Cleveland Indians. The league dropped to eight members in ‘32, including the new Boston Braves – who became the Boston Redskins in 1933 before moving to Washington four years later. The Staten Island Stapletons also played their final season in ‘32. The NFL saw its biggest influx of teams for the decade in 1933, with the additions of the Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Pirates (later the Steelers) and Cincinnati Reds. By 1934, every team except

the Packers was located in a city that also had a major league baseball team and a stadium. The Reds didn’t make it through their second season, though, as they lost their first eight games while scoring just one touchdown and one field goal, and were suspended by the NFL for not paying league dues. The independent St. Louis Gunners replaced them for the last three games. The league played with nine teams the next two years before the addition of the Cleveland Rams in 1937. The NFL was a 10team league for its final three seasons of the 1930s. TOP TEAMS The Packers won four titles in the 1930s, including the first two of the decade – capping a run of three straight – when they finished with the league’s best record. Green Bay also won in 1936 and ‘39. Portsmouth and the Chicago Bears finished the 1932 season tied for first place, so the NFL held its first tiebreaker playoff game to determine the league champion. Frigid weather forced the

game to be moved from Wrigley Field to the indoor Chicago Stadium, on a field that was just 80 yards long – including two half-moon-shaped end zones – and was 45 yards wide. The Bears won 9-0. Due to the success and interest of the playoff tiebreaker, the NFL created its first league championship game in 1933 after dividing its clubs into two five-team divisions. Chicago beat the New York Giants 23-21 at Wrigley Field, with the Bears scoring the winning touchdown with less than three minutes left when receiver Bill Hewitt caught a pass from fullback Bronko Nagurski and lateraled to end Bill Karr, who ran it in for the 19yard score. The other champions that decade: the Giants (1934 and ‘38), Lions ('35) and Redskins ('37).

the first Pro Football Hall of Fame class in 1963, joining Red Grange, Don Hutson, Johnny Blood, Ernie Nevers, Cal Hubbard, Mel Hein, Dutch Clark and Sammy Baugh. A George “Moose” Musso was a two-way standout for the Bears, playing guard and tackle on offense and nose guard on defense. He was the first player in league history to win all-NFL honors at two positions, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982. A Byron “Whizzer” White might be best known as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, but he also made a mark on the gridiron. He led the NFL in rushing as a rookie in 1938 with the Pirates. He left Pittsburgh to study at Oxford in 1939, returned to the league in 1940 and played two seasons with the Lions.

TOP PLAYERS A Nagurski was a powerful and dominant fullback who began his career with the Bears in 1930 and played nine seasons with Chicago. He was one of nine players in the 1930s to be inducted in

TOP COACHES A Curly Lambeau won four NFL titles in the decade as the Packers were the league’s powerhouse. A Steve Owen led the Giants to two titles, the last of his three as a head

coach in the NFL. A Ralph “Curley” Jones guided the Bears to the championship in 1932, but general manager George Halas took over as the coach the following year to save money – and also won to complete Chicago’s back-to-back titles. MEMORABLE GAMES A The 1934 championship game between the Giants and Bears became known as the “Sneakers Game.” The field at the Polo Grounds in New York was frozen and the Giants were trailing 13-3 in the third quarter. They changed their sneakers to get better traction – and rallied to beat the previously undefeated Bears 30-13. A The Dodgers and Eagles made TV and pro football history on Oct. 22, 1939, when they played in the NFL’s first televised game. It was broadcast by NBC as a special event for visitors at the World’s Fair in New York, and area residents were also able to watch as Brooklyn won 23-14. GAME CHANGERS The 1932 playoff game

um was on fire because it was that thick and it was billowing over the side of the wall,” former Eagles middle linebacker Mike Reichenbach recalled. “It was like a horror movie. It kind of engulfed the stadium in no time.” These 70s games weren’t just about the weather. Though a few rain-making passes that wound up as winning touchdowns found their way into the collection. Rodgers had one that helped get the 2015 NFC divisional playoff between the Packers and Cardinals into a tie for 31st. While Rodgers’ miracle pass tied the game, Larry Fitzgerald’s fabulous catch and run set up the win for Arizona. Also at 31st was the 1950 NFL championship game, when the Browns, a powerhouse in the AllAmerica Conference, had joined the NFL and then beat the Rams 30-28 on Lou “The Toe” Groza’s field goal with 28 seconds remaining. The list ranges from as modern a game as the 2018 AFC title shootout won by New England at Kansas City, 37-31 in overtime (No. 36), to the 1933 NFL championship (No. 51), the first scheduled title game, won by the Bears 23-21. There are high-scoring frenzies such as 49ers 39, Giants 38 in the 2002 NFC wild-card match that is dubbed “One Wild Finish” and came in 39th. And defensive battles: No. 81 is Red Grange’s NFL debut, when his Bears tied the Cardinals 0-0 in 1925. Even “Heidi” makes an appearance, landing tied at 40th. When NBC pulled the plug on a JetsRaiders 1968 regularseason game to air the children’s classic, Oakland’s two late touchdowns went unseen as the Raiders won 43-32. The top 30 shows will be revealed next Friday night.

paved the way for several rules changes, including making the forward pass legal from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage after a passer previously needed to be at least 5 yards behind. Eagles owner Bert Bell, who later became the league’s commissioner, created the NFL draft as a way to assist teams who couldn’t attract top talent in the free-for-all system that had been in place. Philadelphia had the top pick in the first draft in 1936 and took Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger, a halfback from the University of Chicago who opted to not play professional football. FUN FACT In 1936, the Boston Redskins won the Eastern Division and were scheduled to host the championship game against Green Bay. But because of scant fan support at home, Redskins owner George Preston Marshall moved the game to the Polo Grounds in New York – where the Packers won 21-6. Marshall then relocated the Redskins to Washington to start the 1937 season, and they’ve played there since.


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An hour before kickoff at a game this month at Hoover High School, the opposing football team, Indianola High, pulled up and unloaded the large video monitor that would let its coaching staff analyze plays throughout the game. The coaches at Hoover High, where most students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, would have to make do with watching the old-fashioned way. Another loss, a Hoover student told the principal, seemed imminent. Indianola ran 84 yards for a touchdown on its first play, the running back shedding Hoover’s smaller players like a video game villain. The game ended

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Hoover High School football players gather around head coach William Siffin during halftime of a home game in Des Moines, Iowa, earlier this month. Leaders in places like Des Moines are contemplating a concept, now in use or under consideration in numerous American states and cities, that places schools in divisions according to their poverty level rather than their enrollment numbers.

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The Baltimore Orioles drew 1.3 million fans to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, their lowest total at home in a non-strike shortened season since 1978.

BY RONALD BLUM

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Major League Baseball has entered the Boom/ Bust Era. An unprecedented four teams have won 100 games in the same season. Four clubs lost in triple figures for only the second time. Amid widespread claims the baseballs have changed, hitters shattered the home run record for the second time in three seasons. And sparked by batters going for the fences to beat suffocating shifts, strikeouts set a record for the 12th year in a row and outnumbered hits for the second straight season. With some teams out of contention even before their first pitch, average attendance has dropped four years in a row for the first time since the commissioner’s office started tracking it in 1980. “We’re going to draw 68-plus million people at the big league level,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said this past week, “another 41 million in minor league baseball – they’re actually going to be up. I’ll take 110 million people going to see the sport live. That’s a really, really awesome number in an environment where people have more and more and more alternatives to consume.” More and more teams have adopted an all-in or all-out philosophy. If they don’t think they can win it, why bother to be in it? Better to shed expensive veterans and rebuild with cheaper rookies – and incur the box-office hit. Management calls that prudent rebuilding. The players’ association labels it tanking. “We have some of the most remarkably talented players our game has seen as a whole in a long time,” union head Tony Clark said. “But the willful fail-

Attendance drops in boom-bust era of big winners, losers

TED S. WARREN AP

Athletics fans celebrated Oakland’s wild-card berth during the game in Seattle on Friday. The A’s rank 25th in MLB payroll and have a chance to advance to the playoffs if they beat Tampa Bay, which also clinched a wild-card spot and rank last in payroll.

ure of too many franchises to field competitive teams and put their best players on the field is unquestionably hurting our industry.” San Francisco has dropped from 3.2 million fans at home to about 2.7 million, Seattle and Toronto both from 2.3 million to about 1.8 million. Baltimore drew 1.3 million, its lowest total at home in a non-strike shortened season since 1978. Kansas City’s 1.5 million is its

lowest since 2006. While Philadelphia rose by about 500,000 following the signing of Bryce Harper and Minnesota by 300,000 during the Twins’ winningest regular season in a half-century and San Diego by over 200,000 after adding Manny Machado, about half the teams are headed to declines. This year’s drop was just around 2% with three days left in the regular season, from 28,830 to

28,252, but the final average should rise slightly after weekend games. The average fell below 30,000 last year for the first time since 2003. Manfred points to increases in television viewers. Fox is up 9% this year and at a seven-year high, and local broadcasts are first in prime time in 24 of 25 markets. Use of MLB’s At-Bat app is up 18%. Still, wins and attendance are correlated in

many markets. “We’ve lost a lot of games this year, a few more than we wanted to, but ultimately it’s about getting on the right side of things and sometimes you do have to take a step back,” said Mariners manager Scott Servais, whose team entered the weekend 66-93. “The disparity in the game between the top and the bottom, it’s real. There’s no question about it. Is it good for the game? I

don’t know. I do know that there are a lot of really smart people that work in front offices and ownership groups and they do realize that sometimes you do need to pull back, and that’s what we’re doing, and I’m all in because I think it’s going to work.” Houston (105 wins, through Friday), the Los Angeles Dodgers (104) and New York Yankees (103) all broke the century mark with time to spare, and Minnesota (100) did so Friday. It’s the third consecutive year at least three teams have reached 100 – before this run it occurred only in 1942, 1977, 1998, 2002 and 2003. Detroit (112), Baltimore (107), Miami (104) and Kansas City (102) gave baseball four 100-loss teams for the first time since 2002. “Whether a team loses 95 or loses 100, I just don’t see that as a relevant issue,” Manfred said. “I think the more important point is that we have different clubs from all sorts of market sizes that are successful.” Players are upset that many teams failed to pursue free agents the last two offseasons, executives concentrating two to five years into the future rather than trying to win now. “Each free-agent market is a little bit different, but what we have seen that seems to be consistent over these last two markets is this all-in and all-out mentality,” Clark said. Still, spending and success are not completely linked. Tampa Bay, last in payroll at $66 million, has clinched an AL wild-card berth along with Oakland, 25th at $95 million. Three of the six highest payrolls failed to reach the postseason: No. 1 Boston ($228 million), the No. 3 Chicago Cubs ($217 million) and No. 6 San Francisco ($181 million).

AP writer Tim Booth contributed to this report.


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Pujols looks forward to final 2 years of deal BY JEFF FLETCHER

Orange County Register ANAHEIM

Albert Pujols is finishing this season so strong that he’s eagerly looking ahead to the remaining two years on his contract. “I think the way I train and my dedication and my discipline I have in this game, if I am healthy I can play until I’m 50,” the 39-year-old Pujols said on Friday. “I don’t have any doubt in myself. I still have that drive to compete every day. The fire is there. I think it’s always going to be there for me until the day I’m done. “Whether it’s tomorrow or in spring training, if I feel one day the fire is not there, it doesn’t matter how much money is left on my contract, it’s time to go. But I don’t see that happening. Because this year this is the most fun I had because I was healthy and I was able to do things I wasn’t able to do in the past.” In the eighth year of his 10-year, $240-million contract, Pujols altered the trajectory of a career that seemed to many like it was headed quickly toward its end. He was coming off the worst seasons of his career, and last year ended with three surgeries. Against all odds, though, Pujols has been just about the only member of the 2019 Angels who hasn’t been hurt. He missed one game because of his son’s high school graduation and one because he was sick, but otherwise he got through the season without any

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I STILL HAVE THAT DRIVE TO COMPETE EVERY DAY. THE FIRE IS THERE. I THINK IT’S ALWAYS GOING TO BE THERE FOR ME UNTIL THE DAY I’M DONE. Albert Pujols

health issues. “I think if you were a betting person, you probably would’ve thought there would’ve been issues,” Manager Brad Ausmus said. “But he’s done an excellent job of doing his maintenance work, his strength work and keeping his body healthy, keeping his knees healthy.” On Friday night Pujols was at first base for the 97th time, the most games he’s played in the field since 2014. He has started 125 of the Angels’ 160 games. Most of Pujols’ seasons with the Angels have been marred by injuries, or at least followed offseasons in which he had his workouts interrupted by surgeries. Last year, Pujols’ season ended in late August when he had surgery on his left knee. A few weeks into his rehab from that, he had a cleanup on his right elbow. Pujols also said he had a cleanup on his left elbow. Despite the three procedures, Pujols had them early enough that he still had a normal offseason of workouts. That, he said, is the reason that he’s been able to stay on the field. Pujols has also perform-

ed better than he had in the previous two years. His .739 OPS through Friday’s game is his highest since a .780 mark in 2016. His 23 homers surpassed the 19 he hit last season. He also has 93 RBIs. In the second half, Pujols has hit .262 with a .763 OPS. He said he made an adjustment at the All-Star break, with the help of hitting coaches Jeremy Reed, Shawn Wooten and Paul Sorrento. “They have put me in a better position to attack the ball like I normally do,” Pujols said. Ausmus pointed out that Pujols has specialized in using the whole field with runners on base. He hit .294 with runners in scoring position. “He’s a tremendous example, in this day of shifting, of how altering your approach to drive in that runner from second or third, how valuable that could be,” Ausmus said. “We’re trying to score runs and beat the other team, and he’s a great example for these younger players.” Each of those hits also slows the steady decline of Pujols’ career batting average, which sat peril-

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Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Albert Pujols has performed better than he had in the previous two years. His 23 homers through Friday’s game surpassed the 19 he hit last season. He also has 93 RBIs.

ously at .2998 as play began on Friday. While that number still rounds to make him a “.300 hitter,” as it will when this season ends, Pujols won’t be able to play regularly throughout the final two years of his contract without losing that distinction. He insists that he doesn’t care. “It doesn’t matter if I hit .280 or .290 or .300,” Pujols said. “At the end of the day, if you look at my career, it would be selfish

Verlander gets 3,000th career strikeout, Astros top Angels to clinch home field BY JOE REEDY

Associated Press ANAHEIM, CALIF.

It ended up being a night of milestones for Justin Verlander and the Houston Astros. The Astros ace accomplished two strikeout feats – getting his 3,000th in the majors and careerhigh 300th of the season – and Houston clinched home-field advantage throughout the postseason with a 6-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night. “It was a big night for Justin and a great night for our team,” Houston manager AJ Hinch said. Jose Altuve and Josh Reddick homered to back Verlander (21-6), who became the 18th pitcher to reach 3,000 career punchouts and the 19th since 1900 to reach 300 in a season. Both came against Kole Calhoun. The right-hander – who struck out 12 in six innings while allowing three runs and four hits – came into the game with 2,994 strikeouts. He expected to reach the career milestone, but he thought getting to 300 would be a

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Houston Astros starting pitcher Justin Verlander throws a strike for his 3,000th career strikeout against the Los Angeles Angels’ Kole Calhoun on Saturday in Anaheim, Calif.

tougher task against a team that is the thirdtoughest to strike out in the majors. He’s the second pitcher to reach both marks in the same game, following Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2000. “Three thousand was something I wanted to accomplish this season. I honestly wrote off 300. I thought it was going to be a lot to ask for since these guys don’t strike out

much,” Verlander said. “I got 3,000 and then to look up after five innings and have 11 strikeouts. Talking to AJ, I knew we were only going to go six innings. I had more emotion for 300 than 3,000 because I didn’t expect to get there in this game. Very thankful to get both accomplishments. It hasn’t set in yet.” He achieved the career milestone in the fourth

inning when he got Calhoun swinging at a slider. Calhoun reached first, though, on a wild pitch, and Andrelton Simmons then gave Los Angeles a 3-0 lead with a two-run homer to left-center. Brian Goodwin supplied the first run in the second when he lined Verlander’s curveball over the wall in right-center. According to BaseballReference and Retrosheet,

of me to think, ‘Oh, I didn’t hit .300.’ That’s a question a lot of people are bringing to me. … I have dropped probably 30 points since I left St. Louis. If I drop two more, three more, four more, I don’t think anybody is going to look at the batting average.” As Pujols heads into the winter, Ausmus said the Angels can reasonably expect him to perform about the same next year. Pujols is likely to get the

benefit of more days at designated hitter next season, with Shohei Ohtani leaving the spot open more often once he’s pitching again. Because he’s ending this season healthy, Pujols figures he can get even stronger this winter. “All I can control,” Pujols said, “is to try to get myself ready and finish strong over my contract the next couple years, just one day at a time.”

that’s the first time a pitcher has recorded his 3,000th strikeout on a wild pitch. “I told him that was my fault. I love that pitch because it is on top of the plate,” catcher Robinson Chirinos said. “It hit the top of my foot. It couldn’t have happened at a worse moment.” Verlander reached 300 in a season for the first time when he got Calhoun on a foul tip in the sixth. Verlander and teammate Gerrit Cole are the first teammates to record at least 300 strikeouts in the same season since Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2002. Cole has 316. It was Verlander’s sixth game this season and fourth since the All-Star break with 12 or more strikeouts. Altuve, who had three hits and drove in three runs, doubled to drive in Kyle Tucker in the seventh to extend Houston’s lead to three runs. Roberto Osuna worked the ninth for his 38th save. The Astros are only one game in front of the Dodgers but clinched home field by virtue of having a better intradivisional record. Houston beat the Dodgers in the 2017 World Series to claim its first championship, winning Game 7 on the road.

“It doesn’t matter who we are playing, having that one extra game at home is going to be beneficial,” Reddick said. “We see how dangerous teams are at home in the playoffs. It is more of a comfort level for us.” Houston will face either Tampa Bay or Oakland, who play Wednesday night in the AL wild-card game, starting Friday in the Division Series. The Yankees and Minnesota will meet in the other ALDS, which starts the same day. TRAINER’S ROOM Angels: Goodwin was back in the lineup and batted second after leaving Thursday’s game due to back spasms. Astros: Zack Greinke will throw a bullpen session on Sunday and a simulated game before the start of the AL Division Series. The right-hander also threw a bullpen on Friday in order to stay fresh for the postseason. UP NEXT Cole (19-5, 2.52 ERA) attempts to reach 20 wins for the first time in front of friends and family. The 29-year old right-hander grew up in Newport Beach and lives in Santa Ana during the offseason. Left-hander Dillon Peters (4-3, 4.72 ERA) takes the mound in the Angels’ finale.


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K I NG FELIX’S REIGN IS OVER

TED S. WARREN AP

With the "King's Court" cheering section behind him, Seattle starting pitcher Felix Hernandez tips his cap as he takes the mound Thursday against Oakland at T-Mobile Park. Hernandez made his final appearance of his 15th, and presumably final, season with the Mariners.

COMMENTARY

Not a fairy-tale ending for Hernandez in Seattle – but it’s a necessary one BY LARRY STONE

Seattle Times

Happy Felix Day? Not exactly. The farewell party for Felix Hernandez on Thursday at T-Mobile Park wasn’t quite a joyous occasion. Massively emotional, yes (and I have the Kleenex to prove it). Bittersweet, certainly. Poignant, without question. Wistful, most definitely. Everyone was feeling the gravity of the night, most of all Felix, who seemed intent on making it an interactive experience. One last time, he wore his intensity, and sentimentality, for the world to see, as raw and authentic as it could be. And he tried to share all his feelings with the crowd. The King’s tears when pulled from the game in the sixth inning tugged at heartstrings all over the baseball world. But happy? It was hard to embrace that emotion based on the way this relationship, once as mutually satisfying as any in baseball, is ending. Not with a bang or whimper, but a melancholy sigh. What was once unthinkable is now inevitable: The Felix Hernandez era,

which glimmered with limitless possibilities for the Seattle Mariners, is over. And that is how it must be. Sad to say, it’s time. Thankfully, it won’t end in rancor or bitterness. There’s too much shared history, and affection, for that. It’s more like a couple that splits up amicably after years of a happy marriage because their goals and sensibilities no longer align. Call it irreconcilable differences. “All the years I played with Seattle, I was just having fun,” he said afterward, still choked up at the memory of what just occurred. “I really thank the organization for the opportunity when I was 16 years old. I came to the big leagues when I was 19. It’s a lot of different things going through my mind right now. I don’t even know what to say.” The Mariners are in the process of a massive rebuild, one in which a declining 33-year-old pitcher, even one as immensely popular and with such a long list of signature moments, no longer fits. And if Felix is going to reinvent himself and continue his career – no guarantee at this point – he needs a new locale and new voices to shake him

out of his malaise. Maybe the parting gift the Mariners give Felix is the motivation to prove to them he’s not done yet. “We’ll see if I can find a job,” he said. “But I’m not retiring. You saw me pitch today. I can still go out there and compete.” The fans, not quite filling half the stadium, and with half of those comprising the expanded King’s Court, hung on Hernandez’s every move. For the Oakland Athletics, it was a critical game in the wild-card race. For the Mariners, irrelevant in the playoff chase for five months, it was a chance to showcase, salute and ponder the legacy of an icon. And the crowd was fully on board. Every time Hernandez reached two strikes, which was frequent, the familiar, fullthroated “K” chant reverberated throughout the stadium. It was as if they were trying to will The King back to the days when strikeouts flowed with ease. “Today was rocking, it was popping,” Hernandez said. “It was good. I was trying to strike out a lot of people. I think in the first two innings that got me in trouble. But after that I settled down.” Nowadays, Hernandez

often lacks command and the consistent putaway pitch, and it has haunted him. But he came up with three of them – whiffing Sean Murphy for the second out in the second, Chad Pinder to end the third, and Seth Brown for the second out in the fifth. The eruption of noise after each was visceral – and Hernandez immediately pointed to the Court after the first two. Everyone got what they came for. Almost. But real life is not a fairy tale, and Hernandez was touched for three runs in the first two innings, including a two-run homer by Matt Chapman. He would give up five hits and walk four in 51⁄3 innings. But he battled with all his will, and avoided the blowout that often lurked, and would have been the ultimate letdown. Naturally, and fittingly, the Mariners’ offense failed Hernandez, as it did so often throughout his career, undermining masterpiece after masterpiece. When Felix took the mound in the sixth inning, his teammates allowing him to go out alone to milk the ovation, he trailed 3-1 and was nearing 100 pitches. The end was approaching, and the sense of both

foreboding and something akin to sorrow was palpable. The leadoff hitter, Robbie Grossman, flied out to center. Out of the dugout came manager Scott Servais to get Hernandez. His 15-year run of brilliance in Seattle was over, and it didn’t hit just Felix hard. He was openly weeping, but so were Servais and Kyle Seager, the only current Mariner who remembers when Hernandez’s dominance was a common occurrence. Servais never got to see that, unlike his managerial predecessors, but his reverence was wellexpressed before and after the game. “It was difficult,” Hernandez said. “It was emotional. I was trying to strike out the last guy. I couldn’t do it for my fans out there. But it was hard because I saw my teammates out there. It was hard not to cry.” Hernandez hugged his infielders one by one and slowly walked off the mound, gesturing to the crowd and touching his heart. As the A’s players stood on the dugout steps applauding, Hernandez bowed deeply to the crowd and disappeared into the dugout and a sea of hugs. He emerged one more time for a curtain call, and was gone until the Mariners’ 3-1 loss was complete. Then he trotted out to King’s Court and interacted with the inhabitants of what he called “the best section in baseball.” And so a Mariners season that began in Japan

with a heartfelt farewell to one legend, Ichiro, ends with another. I was churning with mixed emotions as the evening progressed, and I’m sure I wasn’t alone. It’s hard not to think the Mariners ultimately let Hernandez down by not surrounding him with the team that could have showcased his talents in the postseason. And Hernandez, for whatever reason – you could debate that one for months – began an inexorable decline four years ago. Yet the joy and passion he had for the Mariners and Seattle was real and heartwarming. The exploits that propped up a succession of drab Mariners seasons were real, too, and indelible. I give Hernandez full credit for never once, not even in private, griping about the lack of run support. He always had his teammates’ back. And, in the end, they had his, too – especially Dylan Moore, whose brilliant leaping catch to end the fifth inning with the bases loaded – “un-beelievable,” Felix said, drawing out the word – averted disaster. Before the game, Servais had said, “He’s been such a big part of this organization for so long, you do want him to go out on a high note.” Hernandez went out with a full display of the passion that made him special. And, come to think of it, that made it a Happy Felix Day.


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Dodgers tie club record for wins as Ryu blanks rival Giants BY JANIE MCCAULEY

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO

While the Los Angeles Dodgers kept raising their win total, Hyun-Jin Ryu continued to lower his ERA. With one game left in the regular season, they’re both in good position. Ryu secured the majorleague ERA title at 2.32 with seven sharp innings, and the Dodgers matched a franchise record with their 105th victory, beating the San Francisco Giants 2-0 on Saturday for their sixth straight win. The NL West champions tied the win mark of the 1953 “Boys of Summer” team based in Brooklyn that included Hall of Famers Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella and Pee Wee Reese. “I’m very proud of that,” manager Dave Roberts said. “You don’t just show up and win 105 games against very good teams all year long. That’s a credit to everybody and just a continued focus each day to get better. It’s a really fun and good, talented group.” The Dodgers began the day one game behind Houston for the best record in baseball and one game ahead of the Yankees. Los Angeles will begin the Division Series

next Thursday at home against the NL wild-card winner. Ryu (14-5) allowed five hits, struck out seven and didn’t walk a batter for a third straight start. He also hit an RBI single in the fifth for the game’s first run. Roberts is calling for his Korean left-hander to win the NL Cy Young Award – even if Ryu himself is giving the nod to reigning winner Jacob deGrom, who’s second in ERA at 2.43 for the Mets. “There were so many good pitchers this season, it possibly might be a tough decision for you as well, but I honestly think Jacob deGrom deserves it, and you should probably vote for him,” Ryu said through an interpreter and with a wry smile. Kenta Maeda pitched the eighth. Kenley Jansen hit Evan Longoria to start the ninth and gave up Kevin Pillar’s single before striking out three for his 33rd save. Max Muncy hit his 35th homer in the sixth off rookie Logan Webb (2-3). Webb singled in the fifth for his first major-league hit. Retiring Giants manager Bruce Bochy oversaw his 4,031st game, moving past Sparky Anderson for sole possession of seventh place on the all-time list while managing his second-tolast game with San Francisco. Bochy was honored on

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu works against the San Francisco Giants in the first inning Saturday. Ryu threw seven scoreless innings and drove in a run in the Dodgers’ 2-0 victory.

the field before the game by San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who presented Bochy with a key to the city. Webb, a top pitching prospect, allowed two runs on six hits in six innings, struck out five and walked one in his eighth career start. “We faced a very good pitcher and we were just a hit away from getting things going, just like last night,” Bochy said. MADBUM’S PLACE Madison Bumgarner will be ready Sunday even if he’s not on the mound as originally planned – Bochy hinted “he’ll have his spikes on,” so perhaps be prepared for a pinchhit appearance and one final ovation from the home crowd.

“We thought that would be the best thing for both of us,” Bumgarner said Saturday. The 2014 World Series MVP can become a free agent, so Tuesday might have been his final start for the Giants. He is wrapping up a contract singed in April 2012 that included a $12 million contract option this year, and the Giants opted not to deal him at the trade deadline. “I’m sure I’ll make my way back here one way or another,” he said. HONORING MAGOWAN Peter Magowan, who died in January, was honored pregame with a plaque on the Giants Wall of Fame he started as San Francisco’s managing general partner. “It was good to get

Athletics beat Mariners, will host American League wild-card game BY CHRIS TALBOTT

Associated Press SEATTLE

Oakland pitcher Brett Anderson understands the importance of the Athletics hosting the American League wild-card game. “It’s like a Raiders game,” Anderson said Saturday night. “You get the Black Hole; you get crazy people.” Anderson struck out three in five strong innings, Ramon Laureano hit a solo home run in the third inning and the A’s beat the Seattle Mariners 1-0, clinching the right to host the Tampa Bay Rays in a wild-card matchup on Wednesday night. Tampa Bay lost 4-1 at Toronto earlier Saturday, while Oakland is steamrolling into the playoffs. The A’s have won three of their last four games and are 18-7 in September. The winningest team in baseball since June 16 with a record of 60-28 the A’s are 33 games over .500 for the first time since 2002. And now all that winning has given them a huge advantage. “There’s going to be

JOHN FROSCHAUER AP

The Oakland Athletics’ Ramon Laureano makes his way through the dugout after hitting a solo home run on a pitch from the Seattle Mariners’ Marco Gonzales during the third inning Saturday in Seattle. It was the only run of the game.

50,000 people in Oakland, I have a feeling,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “When we get that big a crowd at home, they have an effect. We’re excited about going home in front of our fans. There’s a great bond between us and the fans. And they

can get pretty loud.” Oakland used Anderson (13-9) and three relievers for the victory. Anderson gave up three hits, extending his career high for wins. Melvin said he was willing to let Anderson pitch the sixth, but after 10 days rest and with

temperatures dropping throughout the game, he began to experience tightness in his elbow. Jesus Luzardo struck out three in the eighth and ninth for his second save, getting out of a jam in the ninth with two runners on base.

Peter’s plaque up there, with what he’s done for the San Francisco Giants and the impact he made keeping them here and really in the community,” Bochy said. “I know that he’d be very proud. … Peter, he did a lot for me.” TRAINER’S ROOM Dodgers: LF A.J. Pollock sat out after being hit in the left knee with a pitch and leaving during the fifth inning of Friday’s 9-2 win with a bruised knee. … Roberts said 3B Justin Turner – missing a fourth straight game with back tightness – won’t play Sunday. Instead, he will get some simulated work done during Tuesday’s workout day back home ahead of the Division Series. Turner worked throwing and swinging in

The Mariners’ only real threat came in the fifth inning when Mallex Smith attempted a safety squeeze with the bases loaded. But Matt Olson picked up the bunt attempt barehanded and flipped it to catcher Sean Murphy, who easily tagged out Tom Murphy. It was the 12th shutout of the year for the A’s. “There’s only a handful of guys who can make that play,” Anderson said. “To be able to come in and have the foresight to charge it and then make a perfect throw on the run, that saved the game. Those guys (in the infield) have been doing that all year. For a guy that doesn’t strike many people out, I need those plays.” Seattle’s Marco Gonzales (16-13) took the loss despite a strong outing in chilly, windy conditions. Gonzales struck out four and walked three, giving up just five hits in the seven-inning outing. Gonzales’ only mistake was leaving a 3-2 sinker up in the zone for Laureano, who sent it out of the park in left field for his 24th home run in the third inning. “It comes down to one swing and theirs went over the fence,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. TRAINER’S ROOM Athletics: OFs Chad

the cage again Saturday as he did Friday. “If he wasn’t able to kind of move around and swing the bat, I’d probably be a little concerned, but since he’s doing that, I feel confident he’ll be fine,” Roberts said. Giants: C Buster Posey returned to the starting lineup after three days not playing at all. He caught 13 innings of a 16-inning game Tuesday. UP NEXT LHP Rich Hill (4-1, 2.59 ERA) makes his 13th start of the season pitching the last day having gone 1-0 with eight strikeouts in two previous outings vs. San Francisco. RHP Dereck Rodriguez (6-10, 5.27) will now start Sunday’s season finale for the Giants.

Pinder and Ramon Laureano were in the lineup Saturday despite taking spills Friday night in an outfield manager Bob Melvin characterized as difficult to play on due to rain and dampness. Pinder twisted his knee on Friday, Melvin said, “and he has a little abductor thing that he has going on in concert with a hamstring thing he’s got going on.” But Pinder hit in the cage and ran around on the field enough to convince Melvin to put him in the lineup with home-field advantage in the AL wildcard race still in play. Also playing hurt are Laureano (shin), OF Mark Canha (groin) and Robbie Grossman (shoulder). “That’s just the way this group is,” Melvin said. “They want to play, they want to win home field. It doesn’t surprise me.” Mariners: LHP Tommy will miss his bulk innings assignment Sunday because of an inflamed left shoulder, Mariners manager Scott Servais said. UP NEXT Athletics: RHP Tanner Roark (4-2, 4.50 ERA) will make his 10th start for the A’s since coming over from Cincinnati at the trade deadline. Mariners: Prospect RHP Justin Dunn (0-0, 3.86 ERA) will serve as an opener and will be followed by multiple relievers.


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WE NEEDED A WIN … BUT LUCKILY THE ROCKIES BAILED US OUT A LITTLE BIT AND WE STILL CONTROL OUR OWN DESTINY. Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright Hamels, then began barking at him and walked toward the mound. Cubs catcher Jonathan Lucroy stepped between Molina and Hamels, and St. Louis teammate Matt Carpenter dragged Molina away while players poured onto the field. No warnings or ejections were issued. “We’ve got history,” Molina said about Hamels. “For many years I’ve faced him. Every time he goes inside, he goes in tight and this time I was tired of it. I let him know. We all man up. He said something, I said something, but that was the end.” Hamels said he was confused by Molina’s reaction but felt he needed to stand up for himself. “It’s kind of a crazy situation,” Hamels said. Schwarber launched the first pitch he saw from Wainwright into the right field bleachers for his 38th home run. Happ hit a two-run homer in the third and another in the fifth for his fifth career multi-home run game and first this season. He has 11 home runs since being recalled from Triple-A Iowa on July 26. Harrison Bader broke up the Cubs’ shutout when he hit his 11th homer of the season off Kyle Ryan in the fifth inning. Tommy Edman added a two-run triple and an RBI single, and Paul Goldschmidt batted with the bases loaded in the seventh but grounded into a double play. St. Louis’ Paul DeJong hit his 30th homer off Pedro Strop in the eighth, trailing only Colorado’s Trevor Story (35) for the lead among NL shortstops. Story hit a gameending homer for Colorado to sink Milwaukee.

SCOTT KANE AP

The Cardinals’ Paul Goldschmidt walks to the dugout after striking out during the fourth inning Saturday in St. Louis.

Cardinals lose to Cubs, NL Central race goes to final day of season BY DAVID SOLOMON

Associated Press ST. LOUIS

Adam Wainwright was itching to spray champagne in the Cardinals clubhouse Saturday night. It’s been nearly four years since his last boozy bash, and after getting roughed up by the Cubs, he and his St. Louis teammates will have to wait at least one more night. The Cardinals’ push for a division title will go down to the final day of the regular season following an 8-6 loss to Chicago on Saturday night.

“You can’t ask for anything more,” Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said. “We’ve had it in our control and we’ve controlled it at the point to the final day with a one-game lead. We can be disappointed, which we are, about tonight, laid it all out there. But we can also look up and realize that on the last game of the season, we control our destiny.” Wainwright (14-10) allowed four homers for the first time in his career, but the Cardinals maintained a one-game lead over Milwaukee for the NL Central lead when the Brewers lost 3-2 in 10

innings at Colorado. If the teams are tied after Sunday’s regular season finales, they will play a tiebreaking Game 163 in St. Louis on Monday. The second-place finisher will play in the NL wild-card game at Washington on Tuesday. “I couldn’t be more disappointed in me,” Wainwright said. “Unfortunate, because we needed that game. We needed a win. I’d love to be popping champagne right now, but luckily the Rockies bailed us out a little bit and we still control our own destiny.” Yadier Molina shouted at

Cubs left-hander Cole Hamels after being grazed by a fastball in the second inning, sparking a benchesclearing fracas. No punches were thrown, but Chicago landed some haymakers anyway – two homers from Ian Happ and one each from Kyle Schwarber and Victor Caratini assured the Cubs their first series win at Busch Stadium this season. Hamels allowed two hits and struck out eight in four innings after Cubs manager Joe Maddon said pregame that he would be limited to three innings. Hamels was making his first start since Sept. 16

after dealing with left shoulder tightness. Chicago has been eliminated from postseason contention. Steve Cishek (4-6) and four other relievers turned a lead over to Brandon Kintzler, who pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save. Wainwright allowed six runs on a career hightying 12 hits, snapping a string of six straight starts without a loss. He said he feels good but needs to make a mechanical fix. Molina was awarded first base after Hamels’ 91 mph pitch clipped his left arm. He took a few steps toward first and stared at

TRAINER’S ROOM Cubs: OF Nicholas Castellanos (right groin tightness) was held out of the lineup after being scratched before Friday’s game. Maddon said he doubts Castellanos will play again this season. Cardinals: 2B Kolten Wong (strained left hamstring) remains day-to-day but says he’s improving. “There’s still that little knot kind of feeling in my hamstring,” Wong said. “Got up to probably 85-90 percent.” UP NEXT The Cardinals and Cubs wrap up their three-game series Sunday. Shildt announced RHP Jack Flaherty (10-8, 2.85) will start with the division title at stake. He has given up four earned runs in his last 37 innings for a 0.97 ERA, including allowing one run over eight innings against the Cubs on Sept. 19. “Jack’s our guy,” Shildt said. “We all recognize the job that Jack’s done for this club, really all year, but especially the second half. It’s his game.” The Cubs will counter with LHP Derek Holland (2-4, 5.47).


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DAVID ZALUBOWSKI AP

Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Matt Albers heads off the mound after giving up a game-winning home run to the Colorado Rockies’ Trevor Story in the 10th inning Saturday in Denver.

Brewers stumble in 9th, lose in 10th; still trail by 1 game in NL Central BY MICHAEL KELLY

Associated Press DENVER

Josh Hader and the Milwaukee Brewers got the help they needed from the Chicago Cubs. They will need a little more after blowing a chance to pull even in the NL Central race. Hader gave up a tying home run with two outs in the ninth inning and the Brewers lost to Colorado 3-2 in the 10th Saturday night, preventing them from catching St. Louis atop the division. The Brewers will go into Sunday’s regular-season finale one game behind the Cardinals, who lost 8-6 to the Chicago Cubs. If the Cards and Brewers wind up tied, there would be a one-game tiebreaker Monday in St. Louis for the division title. If the Brewers don’t overtake the Cardinals, they will play at Washington on Tuesday night in the NL wild-card game. “It’s a tough loss, but we play tomorrow and there’s going to be more games after that,” manager Craig Counsell said. “We’re playing to force a

(game) 163 tomorrow.” With a chance to tie for the division lead, Hader quickly retired the first two batters in the ninth. But rookie Sam Hilliard then stepped up as a pinch-hitter and launched an opposite-field drive to left off the Brewers closer that made it 2-all. “Exactly where I wanted it,” Hader said of the pitch. “He got a bat on it, elevation took it from there. There’s times where you execute your pitch and get the result that you didn’t want.” Trevor Story led off the Colorado 10th with his 35th home run, connecting against Matt Albers (8-6). The loss was more painful when the Brewers lost another player to injury. Outfielder Lorenzo Cain, who robbed the Rockies of a homer with a catch over the wall in center in the seventh, left the game in the ninth with a left ankle sprain. He was hurt trying to score from first on a double by Ben Gamel and his availability for Sunday is uncertain. “It’s really, what does he look like when he comes in tomorrow?” Counsell said. “How

DAVID ZALUBOWSKI AP

The Colorado Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon, right, douses Trevor Story for hitting a game-winning home run in the 10th inning Saturday in Denver.

much swelling is there?” Counsell was ejected in the ninth inning arguing that Cain didn’t have a lane to slide home. Cain has been troubled by a problem in the same ankle earlier this month. “If you’re not going to overturn that one, then why is there a rule? Tell

me what the rule’s for,” Counsell said. Milwaukee built a 2-0 lead on Eric Thames’ 25th home run in the fifth and an RBI double in the seventh by Orlando Arcia. Three solo home runs by the Rockies sent the Brewers into Sunday needing more help from the Cubs.

Ian Desmond homered off Drew Pomeranz in the Rockies eighth. Jairo Diaz (6-4) got the win. Cain finished with two hits and was thrown out twice on the basepaths, but he made up for it with a big catch on Garrett Hampson’s drive in the

seventh. He was greeted with a line of teammates near third base as he jogged off the field after the inning. He also made a diving catch of Yonathan Daza’s sinking liner to end the sixth. “He was incredible. Obviously, his defense – two plays that were absolutely amazing,” Counsell said. “Huge plays. That’s why he’s a great player and he shows up in these games.” Yasmani Grandal was also thrown out at home in the sixth when he tried to score from first on a double by Mike Moustakas. Moustakas was back in the lineup after not starting Friday’s game with a nagging sore left elbow. Moustakas said his elbow “flared up recently” but added it felt much better after a day off. “It’s something I’ve always dealt with,” he said. “You play 162 games your arm gets a little sore.” TRAINER’S ROOM Brewers: OF Ryan Braun was diagnosed with a mild left calf strain after having an MRI. Braun, who was hurt in Friday’s loss, said he will get treatment through Sunday and is optimistic he can play as early as Monday if Milwaukee has a game to decide the NL Central. UP NEXT RHP Jeff Hoffman (2-6, 6.78 ERA) will start the final game of the season for the Rockies. Counsell announced after Saturday’s game that RHP Adrian Houser (6-7, 3.73) will get the ball for Milwaukee.


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Rays lose, will head west to Oakland for wild-card game BY IAN HARRISON

“They put that on the scoreboard here every time we play,” Duffy said. “I’ve been trying to get that off there for a while.” Duffy’s last homer was June 16, 2018, at Yankee Stadium. He missed 103 games this season because of a left hamstring injury.

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ROOF REPORT The retractable roof opened a few minutes before the game started, but rolled closed again after a light rain began falling in the first inning.

TORONTO

The Tampa Bay Rays are headed west for the AL Wild Card Game. Tampa Bay managed just three hits and lost 4-1 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, setting up a trip to Oakland for the wild-card round. “It’s going to be challenging,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said after the loss. “We’re going to need Oakland to play like they haven’t here for a while.” Matt Duffy homered in the seventh inning, but that was it for Tampa Bay. Duffy finished with two hits and Tommy Pham singled for the team’s other hit. The Rays (96-65) secured a postseason berth Friday and began the day tied with Oakland in the wild-card race. The A’s shut out Seattle 1-0 on Saturday night to clinch home field for the wildcard matchup. The Athletics won four of seven regular-season meetings with the Rays, giving them the head-tohead tiebreaker. “We’re a confident team regardless of where we are,” Duffy said. The Rays are 48-32 on the road with one game remaining. Teoscar Hernandez hit his 25th homer for Toronto, and Trent Thornton (6-9) pitched five effective innings. Rowdy Tellez had two hits and drove in a run.

GET ON WITH IT Biggio has reached safely in 28 consecutive games, breaking the Blue Jays rookie record (Russ Adams, 27 games, 2005).

FRED THORNHILL Canadian Press

Tampa Bay starting pitcher Ryan Yarbrough throws against the Blue Jays during the second inning Saturday in Toronto. Yarbrough allowed three runs and five hits in five innings as the Rays lost 4-1.

The Blue Jays jumped on Ryan Yarbrough (11-6) for three runs before he recorded his first out of the game. Hernandez connected for his second career leadoff homer. Cavan Biggio then singled and scored on Randal Grichuk’s triple. Tellez added an RBI single. “The first inning, it seemed like just a lot of pitches found the center of the plate,” Cash said.

Yarbrough allowed three runs and five hits in five innings. “I feel like I kind of cleaned it up a little bit as the game went along,” Yarbrough said. Thornton settled down nicely after a shaky first. The right-hander allowed one hit, struck out eight and walked four. “Thornton set the tone after the first inning,” Cash said. “I mean, they had a guy up and we

didn’t capitalize. That’s kind of our chance right there.” Thornton’s 149 strikeouts are the most for a Blue Jays rookie since Mark Eichhorn had 166 in 1986. “He’s really pitched well in his last nine starts for sure, and a great job again today,” manager Charlie Montoyo said. Ken Giles worked the ninth for his 23rd save in 24 opportunities.

Severino a bit erratic in final start of regular season as Yanks fall to Rangers BY STEPHEN HAWKINS

Associated Press ARLINGTON, TEXAS

Luis Severino was a bit erratic but got through some adversity in his third start of the season for the New York Yankees. The next time he is on the mound for the AL East champions will be in the playoffs. “All in all, enough of a buildup as we head into the playoffs,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Obviously not as sharp as he was in his last two, but I thought a nice rebound from the first inning where he struggled a little bit.” Severino had four walks and a throwing error over three innings in the Yankees’ 9-4 loss to the Texas Rangers on Saturday night. Rougned Odor had a career-high six RBIs for the Rangers, including his 30th homer for a grand slam in the sixth to make it 8-1. Odor put the Rangers ahead to stay with a tworun double in the first, the only hit and runs allowed by Severino (1-1). The right-hander had already walked two batters and committed his error on a pickoff attempt by then. After three walks in the first inning, Severino retired seven of the last eight batters he faced. After feeling uncomfort-

BRANDON WADE AP

New York Yankees starting pitcher Luis Severino delivers during the first inning against the Texas Rangers on Saturday in Arlington, Texas.

able in the first, he struck out the side in the second – all swinging. “In the second and third I felt more like myself,” he said. “It was everything. I didn’t feel like myself (in the first). … The fastball was all over the place. Stride, I changed everything.” When asked if he was ready for the playoffs, Severino responded, “Yeah, of course. That was not my best start, but it doesn’t matter. The most important thing is that I feel healthy.”

Severino has pitched only 12 innings this season after recovering from a lat injury that had sidelined him since spring training. A 19-game winner in 2018, he struck out four while throwing 72 pitches against 14 Texas batters. He had tossed nine scoreless innings before that, four against the Los Angeles Angels and five against Toronto with nine strikeouts last Sunday. The Rangers played the final night game at their ballpark before moving across the street to a new

stadium next season. A day game Sunday wraps up the 26th and final season at the stadium that opened in 1994 as The Ballpark in Arlington. Odor raised his batting average from .202 to .204, still the lowest among the 136 major league qualifiers. But he has 93 RBIs along with the 30 homers, nine in September. “He’s finishing strong. The only thing I really challenge is the season’s going to end after tomorrow,” manager Chris Woodward said. “I hope

After Duffy hit his first homer of the season off Sam Gaviglio, Richard Urena restored Toronto’s three-run cushion with an RBI double in the bottom half of the inning. DUFFY DELIVERS Duffy had gone 427 at-bats since his previous home run, the longest active streak in the majors and one of which he was reminded frequently by opposing videoboards.

he has some truth and some understanding of what he’s doing right now, because if this is the guy we could have all year, we’d have a superstar.” Yankees leadoff hitter DJ LeMahieu went 0 for 3, his average slipping two points to .329. He trailed White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson (.337) for the major league lead. Anderson didn’t play in the first game of Chicago’s doubleheader before going 0 for 2 in the nightcap. The Yankees led 1-0 after Aaron Judge tripled on a towering flyball to the left-center gap in the first and scored on a sacrifice fly by Brett Gardner. They didn’t score again until Didi Gregorius had a three-run double with two outs in the ninth. Jonathan Hernandez (2-1), the second of six Texas pitchers, threw two scoreless innings. BIG LEADS The Rangers had five stolen bases, including two double steals in the first inning. They lead the majors with 128 stolen bases, 11 more than Kansas City. The Rangers have never finished a season with the most stolen bases in the majors. They led the American League with 126 in 1972, the franchise’s first season in Texas, but were second in the majors behind Cincinnati’s 140. TRAINER’S ROOM Yankees: New York got encouraging news about another starter when an MRI showed only nerve irritation for James Paxton. The lefty was re-

TRAINER’S ROOM Rays: INF Yandy Diaz (left foot) had six at-bats in an instructional league game Saturday and will join the team in Toronto on Sunday. Diaz has been out since July 23 and is on the 60-day IL. Blue Jays: 3B Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (right knee) was scratched from the starting lineup and replaced by Brandon Drury. Montoyo said Guerrero hurt himself rounding second base Friday. Guerrero is day to day. … SS Bo Bichette (concussion) has been ruled out for the remainder of the season. Bichette was hit on the batting helmet by a pitch at Baltimore last Thursday. UP NEXT Rays: LHP Blake Snell (6-7, 4.21) starts Sunday in his third appearance since returning from elbow surgery. Blue Jays: RHP Clay Buchholz (5-9, 5.00 ERA) is 9-9 with a 2.69 ERA in 25 career games against the Rays.

moved after the first inning of the series opener Friday night, his last start before the playoffs, because of tightness and discomfort in his buttocks. Paxton, who had won 10 consecutive starts before that no-decision in the Yankees’ 14-7 win, said he was taking some pills to calm the irritation. Boone considered it minor and said he wasn’t even concerned about it. All-Star catcher Gary Sanchez, who returned Friday after missing 10 games with left groin tightness, didn’t play. New York also held off again slugger Edwin Encarnacion’s return from a left oblique injury. The 36-year-old missed his 13th straight game. Encarnacion said after the game he’s feeling much better. “If I’m not 100 percent, I’m close,” he said through a translator. He said he would be ready to play Friday in the Division Series opener against Minnesota even though he’s not ready for a game just yet. “I don’t want to have a setback,” Encarnacion explained. UP NEXT The Rangers play their 2,081st and final regularseason game at the ballpark they have called home since 1994. They are moving across the street next season to a new $1 billion-plus stadium with a retractable roof. Masahiro Tanaka (11-8) is expected to pitch for the Yankees, but might not start. Lance Lynn (15-11) goes for the Rangers.


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MLB Kirby Yates. PLAYOFF PLANS Atlanta’s playoff rotation lines up to have lefthander Dallas Keuchel (8-8) start the opener, with Foltynewicz and rookie right-hander Mike Soroka (13-4) likely to follow. Manager Brian Snitker says the order won’t be finalized until Monday at the earliest, and he still isn’t sure whether to include 11 or 12 pitchers on his roster. “I don’t know if we’re a finished product yet. We’re still young and talented,” Snitker said. “Honestly, I’m not so sure these guys didn’t start the year expecting to do this. Nobody else did. I think they did. Everybody else picked us to finish fourth, I think.” DONATING Alonso will donate the 9/11 tribute cleats he wore in a game this month to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at a ceremony Tuesday.

ADAM HUNGER AP

Mets rookie Pete Alonso follows through on his 53rd home run of the season during the third inning against the Atlanta Braves on Saturday in New York.

BY RONALD BLUM

Associated Press NEW YORK

Pete Alonso hit his 53rd home run to break the rookie record Yankees star Aaron Judge set in 2017, and the New York Mets beat the playoff-bound Atlanta Braves 3-0 on Saturday night. A 24-year-old who debuted on opening day, Alonso launched a 93 mph fastball on a 1-2 count from former All-Star Mike Foltynewicz just to the right of straightaway center field. The solo shot in the third boosted the lead to 3-0 and followed a two-run homer earlier in the inning by light-hitting backup catcher Rene Rivera. As Alonso’s 415-foot drive landed in the seats, the Home Run Derby champion raised both arms in triumph while running to first base. Mets teammates came out of the dugout to congratulate him, and the crowd of 32,210 at Citi Field gave a standing ovation to a

Alonso hits 53rd HR, sets rookie record as Mets blank Braves player nicknamed Polar Bear during spring training by teammate Todd Frazier. “It’s surreal. It was almost like an out-of-body experience,” Alonso said. “Unbelievable moment. “This is more than a dream. This is more than fantasy. I can’t put it into words.” Alonso raised both arms again, tilted his head back and looked skyward as he stood in front of the dugout. Overcome with emotion, he had tears in his eyes when he went to first base in the fourth. “I was just kind of thinking about all the greats in

the game of baseball. I was thinking about guys like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, guys like Aaron Judge,” Alonso said, “and the fact that I’m ahead of those guys as a rookie, it’s mindblowing.” He heads into the final day of the regular season leading the majors in homers, four ahead of Cincinnati’s Eugenio Suarez. No rookie since 1900 has won an outright home run title in the big leagues. Alonso has already set franchise records for homers, total bases (347) and extra-base hits (85). He has 120 RBIs and 102

runs, becoming the first Mets rookie to reach triple digits in both categories. Steven Matz (11-10) allowed two hits and five walks in six innings, finishing with a winning record for the first time since his first full season in 2016. Jeurys Familia, Brad Brach and Edwin Diaz finished the threehitter. Diaz struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 26th save in 33 chances, his first save since Aug. 15 – also against the Braves. Foltynewicz (8-6) gave up three runs and three hits in his final start for the NL East champions before the Division Series against St.

Louis or Milwaukee. An All-Star last year who started the Division Series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Foltynewicz was bothered by elbow discomfort during spring training, was demoted to the minor leagues and made his first four starts for Triple-A Gwinnett. Recalled by Atlanta, he went 2-5 with a 6.37 ERA in 11 outings and got sent down in late June for five more outings with the Stripers. Rivera’s home run, on a hanging slider, was his first since Aug. 15 last year for the Los Angeles Angels off San Diego’s

Arraez hurt in Twins’ victory over Royals BY DICK KAEGEL

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, MO.

It was a tough moment for rookie third baseman Luis Arraez. It could have been a lot worse. Arraez sprained his right ankle during the seventh inning of Minnesota’s 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday, leaving his status for the Twins’ AL Division Series against the New York Yankees in question. Arraez collided with first baseman Willians Astudillo while he was chasing Hunter Dozier’s popup at the mound. Astudillo caught the ball and Arraez grabbed the back of his right leg as he tumbled to the ground. Arraez, who is batting .334 in 92 games for the AL Central champions, had to be carted off the field. But X-rays were negative. “He’s already in there breaking a few smiles and doing a little better than

ORLIN WAGNER AP

Minnesota Twins first baseman Willians Astudillo, left, is run into by third baseman Luis Arraez (2) while catching a fly ball in the seventh inning Saturday in Kansas City. Arraez was injured on the play.

he initially thought,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “He was definitely scared at the time. At least we got some good initial news.” Baldelli wouldn’t spec-

ulate on when Arraez might return. The Twins’ playoff opener is Friday in New York. Nelson Cruz hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth for Minnesota

(101-60), which has won six in a row and eight of nine overall. The Twins can match the franchise single-season record for wins set in 1965 with a victory in the finale

Sunday. Kansas City slugger Jorge Soler went deep twice to move into the AL lead with 47 homers. Soler snapped a tie with the Angels’ Mike Trout, who is out with an injury. Soler is looking to become the Royals’ first league home-run champion. With his father, Jorge Sr., and other family members in the stands, Soler matched Rafael Palmeiro for the most homers in a season by a Cuban-born player. “It means a lot, there’s a lot of pride tying him at 47 – for the organization, for my family, for the people of Cuba,” Soler said. Whit Merrifield had three hits in Ned Yost’s penultimate game with Kansas City. The 65-yearold Yost is retiring after Sunday’s finale to his 10th season as Royals manager. Soler connected in the first against Cody Stashak, sending a drive soaring over the wall in center. He added a two-run

TRAINER’S ROOM Braves: OF Ronald Acuna Jr., who hasn’t played since Tuesday because of a tight left hip, will take batting practice for three days starting Monday and will run Wednesday, a day before the Division Series opener. …. OF Ender Inciarte, who last played Aug. 16 because of a strained right hamstring that still causes discomfort, returned to Atlanta to be examined and “he’ll be down for the foreseeable future,” Snitker said. … Utilityman Johan Camargo, out since fouling a ball off his right shin on Sept. 11, also will miss the Division Series. “The one thing that we’ve been bitten by with the injuries is our bench – what was really a stronglooking bench with some guys that we don’t have anymore,” Snitker said. Mets: OF-INF Jeff McNeil expects to have surgery Tuesday, six days after the ulna bone in his right hand broke when hit by a pitch from Miami’s Josh Smith. UP NEXT Soroka (13-4) goes Sunday for the Braves in a tuneup for his playoff start. RHP Noah Syndergaard (10-8) pitches for the Mets.

shot in the seventh against Tyler Duffey (5-1), tying it at 3. “Cannon shots – they were just like they were shot out of a cannon,” Yost said. Cruz then led off the eighth with a drive to left for his 41st homer on a 3-2 pitch from Jacob Barnes (1-5). It was a bittersweet moment for Cruz after Arraez’s injury. “It was difficult. He’s a huge part of our team,” he said. “We’re a better team when he’s playing. Hopefully he’s ready for Friday.” Sergio Romo worked the eighth for the Twins before Taylor Rogers got three outs for his 30th save. Cruz has nine homers, 28 RBIs and a .371 average in 16 games against Kansas City this year. The game ended with rain failing. The start time was moved up five hours because of thunderstorms in the forecast. UP NEXT Kansas City starts righthander Jorge Lopez (4-9, 6.35 ERA) on Sunday against Twins left-hander Martin Perez (10-7, 5.13 ERA).


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MATT SLOCUM AP

Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper (3) hits a three-run home run against the Miami Marlins during the sixth inning Saturday in Philadelphia. The hosts won 9-3 to ensure their first non-losing season since 2012.

Harper leads homer parade as Phillies roll past Marlins BY AARON BRACY

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA

Bryce Harper is doing what he can to help the Philadelphia Phillies end a string of seven straight losing seasons. Harper hit one of three Philadelphia home runs, and Zach Eflin pitched 72⁄3 strong innings as the Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 9-3 on Saturday night. Cesar Hernandez and Maikel Franco also went deep for Philadelphia, which evened its season record against the Marlins at 9-9. The Phillies

(81-80) will need to complete a three-game series sweep in Sunday’s season finale to clinch their first winning record since going 102-60 in 2011. “Gotta do it,” Harper said. “Gotta go out there and win tomorrow. That’s huge for us. It’s not where we want to be, but winning seasons are good.” Philadelphia tied a club record for homers in a month with 44. Eflin (10-13) gave up three runs on six hits with six strikeouts and two walks. “Just being aggressive, not backing down and trusting every pitch,” Eflin said of his keys. “I

felt comfortable, was attacking guys and keeping them off balance.” Neil Walker homered for Miami. “We just didn’t get anything going,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. Harper was drilled in the back by reliever Jose Quijada in the fourth inning. He bent over at the waist, clearly in pain, while being attended to by Philadelphia’s trainer. He stayed in the game and gingerly jogged to first. Harper’s payback came in his next at-bat in the sixth, when he launched a 92 mph fastball from

Wei-Yin Chen over the wall in left for his 35th homer. The two-out, three-run shot gave Philadelphia a 9-1 lead. “Just trying to go up there and have good atbats,” said Harper, who has 114 RBIs. “I want to go up there and do damage the best I can.” All of the runs were unearned after a costly two-base error by center fielder Jon Berti on a drive to the warning track by Eflin. Eflin got the first two outs in the eighth before Miguel Rojas singled. Walker then ended the right-hander’s night with a two-run drive to right.

The Phillies went in front early on Hernandez’s leadoff homer in the first off Caleb Smith (10-11). Franco’s two-run shot in the second made it 3-0, and Philadelphia tacked on three more runs in the sixth on a two-run single by Adam Haseley and an RBI double by Deivy Grullon. The double was Grullon’s first career hit. Smith allowed six runs, five earned, on five hits in three innings. “He didn’t seem to be real sharp with anything tonight,” Mattingly said. TRAINER’S ROOM Marlins: RHP Tayron Guerrero departed with a

Iglesias lifts Reds over Pirates in 12 innings BY JOHN PERROTTO

Associated Press PITTSBURGH

Jose Iglesias doubled home the winning run in the 12th inning, relief pitcher R.J. Alaniz got his first career hit and victory, and the Cincinnati Reds outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 Saturday night. Iglesias’ two-out liner to center snapped a 2-2 tie and came after the Pirates turned a double play. The hit scored Kyle Farmer, who led off with a single against Alex McRae (0-4). Alaniz (1-0) singled in Iglesias with an insurance run in his first major league plate appearance and also pitched two scoreless innings. Iglesias had three hits and two RBIs for the Reds, and Tucker Barnhart homered. The Pirates were held

to five hits by seven pitchers and were shut out over the final 10 innings. Cincinnati snapped a five-game losing streak and won for the first time in 13 games at PNC Park. Pittsburgh’s four-game winning streak ended. Pittsburgh rookie James Marvel allowed two runs in five innings but remained winless in four career starts. Lucas Sims opened a bullpen game for Cincinnati and gave up both runs in two innings. The Reds tied it at 2 in the fourth when Phillip Ervin led off with a double and scored on Iglesias’ single. Barnhart opened the scoring with a home run to the right field stands in the top of the second. The Pirates pulled ahead 2-1 in the bottom of the inning on a passed ball and Steven Barron’s RBI double.

UP NEXT RHP Sanday Alcantara (5-14, 3.95) will start for the Marlins in Sunday’s finale. RHP Aaron Nola originally was scheduled to pitch for Philadelphia, but the Phillies instead will use a bullpen-bycommittee. The Phillies haven’t announced their opener.

the bus to pull all the way up to the ballpark. Thus, everyone had to walk the last three blocks. TRAINER’S ROOM Reds: RHP Trevor Bauer (illness) has been scratched from his scheduled start Sunday in the season finale. Pirates: C Barron left the game in the second inning when struck in the face by an errant pickoff throw to second base by Sims. That came right after he notched his first career RBI. … 3B Colin Moran (strained left hip) missed his fourth straight game and OF Bryan Reynolds (right hamstring discomfort) sat out a third consecutive day. Neither will play in Sunday’s series finale.

FOND FAREWELL Pirates broadcaster Steve Blass was honored in a pregame ceremony as he gets set to end his run of 34 years in the booth Sunday. Blass has spent a total of 60 years in the organization since being signed as an amateur free agent in 1960 from Falls Village, Connecticut. He pitched 10 seasons for the Pirates from 1964-74 and threw a complete game in Game 7 of the 1971 World Series to beat the Orioles. The Pirates announced that Blass will be part of the inaugural class next year when they establish a team Hall of Fame. KEITH SRAKOCIC AP

TRAFFIC JAM Most of the Reds players were about an hour late getting to PNC Park as the team bus got caught in football post-game

tight left groin after walking pitcher Nick Pivetta to lead off the eighth. Guerrero missed nearly a month, returning Sept. 1, due to a torn finger nail on the middle finger of his right hand. Phillies: INF/OF Scott Kingery was out of the lineup on Saturday and won’t play in Sunday’s season finale after experiencing blurred vision in Friday night’s game. Kingery will be re-evaluated next week. . SS Jean Segura (sprained right ankle) also didn’t play on Saturday and likely is done for the season.

The Reds’ Jose Iglesias (4) celebrates with Aristides Aquino in the dugout after scoring in the 12th inning.

traffic after Pitt defeated Delaware at adjacent

Heinz Field. Police would not permit

UP NEXT Reds: RHP Tyler Mahle (2-12, 5.34 ERA) will take Bauer’s spot in the rotation and is winless since May 31, a span of 13 starts. Pirates: RHP Trevor Williams (7-8, 5.52) is 0-2 with a 7.11 ERA in four starts in September.


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Hicks’ homer in 9th gives Tigers doubleheader split vs. White Sox BY JOHN JACKSON

Associated Press CHICAGO

With one swing, John Hicks provided a rare moment of triumph at the end of a tough season for the Detroit Tigers. Hicks connected for a three-run homer in the ninth inning, and the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 4-3 on Saturday night for a doubleheader split. Detroit was down 2-1 when Ronny Rodriguez reached on an error on shortstop Tim Anderson leading off the ninth. One out later, Travis Demeritte singled to put runners on the corners. Hicks, batting for catcher Jake Rogers, then drove a 1-2 pitch from Alex Colome (4-5) deep to left for his 13th homer. “Obviously, it hasn’t been the year I wanted, the year pretty much anyone wanted – numbers-wise and wins-wise,” Hicks said. “To finish strong is, obviously, a plus. We’ve got one more game and, hopefully, we can go out and put up some good numbers, all of us, just kind of go into the offseason on a high note.” Before Saturday, Colome had been 17 for 17 in converting save opportunities at home. The White Sox had been 58-0 when leading after eight. “What happened today is not because I’m tired,” Colome said through a translator. “Sometimes you throw a bad pitch.” Buck Farmer (6-6) pitched a scoreless eighth

good feeling to the offseason and work on that for next season.” Detroit’s Matthew Boyd (9-12) allowed four runs, two earned, and six hits in four innings. He struck out four to finish with 238 for the season. In the nightcap, the White Sox jumped on top 2-0 in the second on a two-run single by Zack Collins. Ivan Nova allowed just one hit through five innings before running into trouble in the sixth. Former White Sox player Gordon Beckham led off with a broken-bat hit just behind third and Reyes followed with a single to put runners on the corners. Nova then walked Jordy Mercer to load the bases and was pulled. Aaron Bummer gave up broken-bat single to Jeimer Candelario to score Beckham, then retired the next three to escape further damage. BIRTHDAY BOY Mendick celebrated his 26th birthday with his second major league homer. “I think it’s the first time I’ve played baseball on my birthday in a while, so that was nice,” he said.

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The Detroit Tigers’ Travis Demeritte, left, congratulates John Hicks after his three-run home run against the White Sox in the ninth inning of Game 2 of a doubleheader on Saturday night in Chicago.

for the win, and Joe Jimenez got three outs – giving up a pinch-hit solo homer to Yoan Moncada – for his ninth save. Anderson, who is looking to become the third White Sox player to win a batting title, went 0 for 2 with two walks after sitting out the opener. He is batting .337 and has a sizable lead over the Yankees’ DJ LeMahieu at .329 heading into Sunday. Luke Appling (1936 and

1943) and Frank Thomas (1997) also won AL batting titles with the franchise. In the first game, Reynaldo Lopez tossed fivehit ball into the ninth inning to lead Chicago to a 7-1 victory. Eloy Jimenez and Danny Mendick went deep for the White Sox. Jimenez, who began the season in the minors, has 31 homers on the year. Miguel Cabrera hom-

ered for Detroit, which has 113 losses on the season, the second-most in franchise history. Saturday’s opener was a makeup of a game postponed on July 2. The teams were supposed to play a doubleheader on Friday, but both games were rained out. The second of those was canceled, so each team will play 161 games. Lopez (10-15) allowed one run and five hits with

nine strikeouts. He was lifted after giving up a single to Victor Reyes leading off the ninth. Kelvin Herrera came on to get the final three outs. Lopez was 0-3 with a 10.29 ERA in his previous three starts. “It’s a good feeling when you can finish the season with this good outing,” Lopez said through a translator. “I think it’s important because you can carry this

TRAINER’S ROOM Tigers: 2B Harold Castro didn’t start the second game because of a sore ankle. Manager Ron Gardenhire said he may not play Sunday as well. UP NEXT Tigers RHP Spencer Turnbull (3-16, 4.59 ERA) will make his 30th start in the season finale on Sunday. The rookie is coming off a solid effort against Minnesota on Tuesday, allowing two runs and six hits in six innings. LHP Ross Detwiler (3-5, 6.85) pitches for the White Sox.

ROUNDUP NATIONALS 10, INDIANS 7 WASHINGTON

The Washington Nationals’ surge started after they brought aboard Gerardo Parra, whose dugout dancing and “Baby Shark” walk-up music became the trademarks of the club’s turnaround. So maybe it’s fitting the Nationals assured themselves of hosting the NL wild-card game by holding on to beat the alreadyeliminated Cleveland Indians 10-7 Saturday with the help of his grand slam in a nine-run second inning. “You guys are feeling the good vibes in here,” Parra said. “It’s like a family.” Nationals Park will be the site of a win-or-gohome game Tuesday night between Washington, which will send three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer to the mound, and either the St. Louis Cardinals or Milwaukee Brewers. One of those clubs will be the NL Central champion; the other will be the league’s second wild-card entry. “That’s awesome. I don’t have to go home and pack,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “Nice to stay at home. The boys wanted to stay at home, so they came out and swung the bats.” Asked before Saturday’s game about the importance of clinching homefield advantage, Scherzer said: “Would it be nice? Yes. But is it imperative?

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The Washington Nationals’ Gerardo Parra went 2 for 4 on Saturday, including a grand slam for his ninth home run of the season.

No. We’re ready to play anybody, anywhere.” Sure looks that way at the moment. Washington extended its winning streak to seven games, the longest run this season for a team that was 19-31 before heading in the right direction. “We’re hot at the right time,” said starter Patrick Corbin, who got hit around, giving up six runs on three homers in 41⁄3 innings. The Indians hit four long balls in all, breaking their franchise record for a season with 222. “I care more about finding a way to be one run better than the other team, whether it takes 10 singles or five homers,” manager Terry Francona

said. “I don’t care. All I care about is us winning, and, however we get to that, I’ll take it.” That didn’t happen enough in 2019 to extend the season, and Cleveland has lost four games in a row. An 8-2 defeat at Washington on Friday eliminated the Indians from the playoff race after they won the previous three AL Central titles. Playing in place of an ill Victor Robles, Parra drove in four runs Friday – with a homer, a double and a sacrifice fly – and continued his surge Saturday, going 2 for 2 in the second inning alone. That included his second grand slam with Washington, which signed

him in May to a deal worth the $555,000 minimum after the 32-year-old outfielder was designated for assignment by San Francisco. “Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Yesterday was a big day,” Parra said, “but I think today is another big day.” ORIOLES 9, RED SOX 4 BOSTON

Renato Nunez homered in his second straight game and was one of four Baltimore players to go deep as the Orioles beat Boston. DJ Stewart, Richie Martin and Trey Mancini also homered for Baltimore, which won its 54th game of the season and has a chance to close out a dis-

mal year with a threegame sweep of the defending World Series champion Red Sox on Sunday at Fenway Park. Xander Bogaerts and J.D. Martinez homered for the Red Sox, who lost their third straight. John Means (12-11) recovered from a rough start and pitched five solid innings for the Orioles, allowing three runs on five hits. He walked two and struck out five. Martin and Stewart drove in two runs apiece and Mancini capped off the day with a solo homer to right in the ninth, his team-high 35th of the season. Bogaerts and Martinez hit back-to-back homers for Boston in the first, when the Red Sox took a 3-2 lead. Martin’s solo homer in the second tied it and Nunez put Baltimore ahead again in the third with a towering shot over the Green Monster, his second homer of the series and 31st of the season. Jhoulys Chacin (3-12) lasted just 22⁄3 innings for Boston. He allowed four runs on five hits, struck out three and walked one. DIAMONDBACKS 6, PADRES 5 PHOENIX

Christian Walker hit his first career grand slam and added a solo shot to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the San Diego Padres 6-5 on Saturday night. Walker continued a

breakout season with his 28th and 29th homers. The 28-year-old came into the year with 88 career at-bats over four seasons, and has found a home in the middle of the Diamondbacks’ lineup. The Padres lost for the 14th time in 16 games. They had a 5-1 lead in the seventh inning, but Arizona rallied with five runs, including Walker’s grand slam deep into the leftcenter seats off David Bednar (0-2). San Diego hit three homers, including solo shots by Luis Urias and Eric Hosmer and a tworun blast by Manny Machado.

Notable Indians: 3B Jose Ramirez (sore right hand) sat out a second game in a row and probably won’t play in the season finale Sunday, manager Terry Francona said. Ramirez returned to the lineup this week, less than a month after having his broken right hand surgically repaired. Orioles: RF Anthony Santander missed his fourth straight game. Manager Brandon Hyde said Santander was banged up heading into the weekend. Red Sox: LF Andrew Benintendi was out of the lineup for the second straight day. Benintendi hasn’t played since leaving Thursday’s game at Texas in the fourth inning after fouling a pitch off his right calf. — ASSOCIATED PRESS


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MOTORSPORTS

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Kurt Busch drives his car through a chicane during a test of the Roval course in October 2017 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. The Roval (part-oval, part-road course) will give drivers a challenge and could throw a wrench into some drivers’ hopes of advancing in the playoffs.

NASCAR CUP SERIES

Drivers try to protect playoff positions at tricky Charlotte Roval

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BY JENNA FRYER

Associated Press

THIS PLACE IS SO TREACHEROUS, AND THERE’S JUST NOT A LOT OF ROOM FOR ERROR. TO MAKE A MOVE ON SOMEBODY COMES WITH A LITTLE BIT OF RISK.

CONCORD, N.C.

The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway was created specifically to add a unique venue to NASCAR’s playoffs and the hybrid road course doesn’t disappoint. As a reminder, last year’s inaugural event ended with the leaders crashing each other trying to win. A return trip to this 17-turn, 2.28-mile circuit hasn’t made the course any more comfortable, and a multitude of drivers have spun off track, hit the tire barriers and struggled to get through a rebuilt chicane. It makes for a curious challenge in Sunday’s elimination race, when the 16-driver playoff field will be trimmed by four. “This place is so treacherous, and there’s just not a lot of room for error,” Chase Elliott said Saturday after posting the fastest lap in final practice. “To make a move on somebody comes with a little bit of risk. I think it’s going to be a really aggressive race.” The stakes are high for

Chase Elliott

WESLEY BROOME AP

Pole winner William Byron sits in his car Saturday during practice for Sunday’s race. Byron is 12th in the playoff standings, two points clear of teammate Alex Bowman for the final place in the second round.

the championship field as only Martin Truex Jr., winner of the opening two playoff races, Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch have locked themselves into the second round. Brad Keselowski advances with a 34th-place finish, Denny Hamlin moves on by finishing 33rd and Joey Logano only needs to finish 29th. Elliott, winner on the road course at Watkins Glen in August, needs to finish 16th or better. But he had a poor qualifying effort – he was 19th while

Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron, Alex Bowman and Jimmie Johnson were first, second and fourth – and knows he must deliver Sunday. “We aren’t locked in, so we have to have a good run,” Elliott said. But The Roval is so unlike anything else on the NASCAR circuit that drivers have struggled in every on-track session. Truex had to change his engine during Saturday’s final practice when his gears malfunctioned, and

Johnson damaged his car when he rolled off course and backed into the tire barrier. It was Truex and Johnson a year ago who wrecked each other with the checkered flag in sight, allowing Ryan Blaney to dart past them for the victory. That precedent has the field nervous, particularly the four drivers at risk of elimination. Bowman, Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch and Erik Jones will all try to race their way into the second round, but Jones almost certainly needs to win to overcome a 42point penalty levied when his car failed inspection last weekend. The rest of the field is bunched very tight together with the possibility of

some major point shuffling Sunday. Byron, a Charlotte native, starts on the pole alongside Bowman, his teammate and challenger for a spot in the second round. Byron is in the final transfer position, just two points ahead of Bowman. “I kind of just have to run well, right?” said Bowman. The Roval uses twists and turns through the Charlotte Motor Speedway infield. Chicanes on the backstretch and frontstretch slow the cars, and, potentially increase passing on the oval portion of the track. An added wrinkle from last year is an overhauled backstretch chicane revamped to make it a braking and passing zone

The backstretch chicane last year acted more as a slalom and drivers didn’t have to brake hard enough in that area, which was 32 feet wide at its widest point. Track officials began work on rebuilding the chicane immediately after the CocaCola 600 in May, and the revision has made it a true sharp left, with a hard right to get into it. The width has been expanded to 54 feet, and drivers have more flexibility on how aggressive they’d like to be in that portion of the track. The chicane was only finished last week, so drivers are still adapting. “I think that’s going to add an interesting element to the race. The old chicane was just really, really fast, and it was hard to run through there behind another car,” said Aric Almirola, who sits 11th in the standings, one spot above the cutline. “The other car would really gap you because you were in dirtier air trying to go through a very tricky spot on the race track. Now it’s less aero dependent going through that chicane on the backstretch, and a really heavy braking zone getting into it, which can present an opportunity to pass.” IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden got to drive through the chicane in an exhibition Friday in an open-wheel car, and the veteran of road course racing gave it his stamp of approval. “I’m sure the NASCAR guys are going to like it,” he said. “Keeps them honest, creates more of a braking zone, a better setup for coming onto the final banking set into the final corner. I hope they race better because of it.”


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MOTORSPORTS

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AJ Allmendinger celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.

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Allmendinger races to his 1st NASCAR victory since 2014 GERRY BROOME AP

BY JENNA FRYER

Associated Press CONCORD, N.C.

AJ Allmendinger raced to his first NASCAR victory in five years Saturday in the Xfinity Series race on The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Allmendinger has transitioned this season from full-time racing to the

broadcast booth, but agreed to drive a handful of Xfinity Series races for Kaulig Racing. He’s been competitive in his five starts and delivered the win Saturday. It was Allmendinger’s first victory since he won in a Cup car in 2014. His last Xfinity Series victory was in 2013, and he’s now has three career Xfinity wins.

“The last few years were rough,” Allmendinger said of his firing at the end of last season from JTG-Daugherty Racing. He then thanked Matt Kaulig for giving him this partial opportunity to still race. “He asked me to come in and help him build his team, and I can’t thank him enough.” Kaulig met him in victo-

ry lane. “He’s a hired gun, he’s amazing, he’s the best in the world,” Kaulig said. Allmendinger led 20 of the 67 laps in the win for Chevrolet. His car still needed to pass post-race inspection, something it failed to do in two of his previous four races with Kaulig. Reigning series champion Tyler Reddick fin-

AJ Allmendinger (10) drives through Turn 12 during the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.

ished second and was followed by Austin Cindric, Justin Allgaier and Noah Gragson. Cole Custer finished eighth and joined Christopher Bell as two drivers already advanced into the second round of the playoffs.

After collecting the checkered flag from the flagman, Allmendinger entered the crowed, climbed the steps and found a young girl to give the away the flag. He then posed for selfies with fans before heading to victory lane.

has two event victories this year and 151 overall. “It was a good night for me, and I do love this, I do love the fans and I love driving these racecars,” Force said. “We’ve got a real good team and we’re out there fighting the fight. I’m excited I get to drive a car that’s this good.” Mike Salinas qualified No. 1 in Top Fuel, Erica Enders in Pro Stock, and Matt Smith in Pro Stock

Motorcycle in the second of six races in the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship playoffs. Salinas had a 3.687 at 330.55 for his fifth No. 1 qualifier this season and sixth overall. Enders claimed her second straight No. 1 qualifier with a 6.552 at 209.85 in a Camaro, and Smith had a 6.801 at 198.93 on an EBR.

ROUNDUP LECLERC CLAIMS 4TH STRAIGHT POLE, HAMILTON 2ND SOCHI, RUSSIA

Charles Leclerc clinched his fourth straight pole position and championship leader Lewis Hamilton was second in qualifying at Formula One’s Russian Grand Prix on Saturday. Leclerc finished around 0.40 seconds clear of Hamilton, with Leclerc’s Ferrari teammate Sebas-

tian Vettel third fastest at the Sochi Autodrome. Hamilton is bidding for his first win since the summer break and his Mercedes team is often the dominant force in Russia, having won all of the five races staged here. Hamilton is 65 points ahead of teammate Valtteri Bottas in his quest for a sixth world title, but looks to have his work cut out against Leclerc.

Alex Albon crashed out of qualifying. The London-born Thai spun at the slow-speed Turn 13 before slamming into the barriers. The driver confirmed he was unhurt. Earlier Saturday, McLaren said the team will be powered by Mercedes from 2021, ending its association with Renault at the end of the 2020 campaign. The long-term agreement will run until at least 2024.

70-YEAR-OLD FORCE TOPS NHRA FUNNY CAR QUALIFYING MADISON, ILL.

John Force powered to the No. 1 spot in Funny Car at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals. The 70-year-old Force had a 3.842-second pass at 334.40 mph in his Chevrolet Camaro in the final run for his fourth No. 1 qualifier this season and 159th overall. The 16-time season champion

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BASKETBALL WNBA FINALS

Mystics, Sun vie to be first-time WNBA champion BY DOUG FEINBERG

Associated Press NEW YORK

The WNBA will crown a first-time champion when the Washington Mystics and Connecticut Sun meet in the league’s best-of-5 finals beginning Sunday. It’s the first time that’s happened since 2011. The Mystics will try and win the title after getting swept in the finals last season, while the Sun return to the championship for the first time since 2005. It’s the third time since the WNBA changed its playoff format in 2016 that the top two seeds advanced to play for the title. Washington, as a three-seed last year, is the

JESSICA HILL AP

Alyssa Thomas is one of four Connecticut Sun players who average in double digits.

only team not to finish 1 or 2 in the regular-season standings to reach the championship round. Here are a few things to watch for in the WNBA Finals: EASTERN DOMINANCE:

Even though there really aren’t conferences in the WNBA since the playoff format change in 2016, the former East will have the champion. It’s only the second time since 2009 that an Eastern team will win. The Indiana Fever were champions in 2012. Since the league’s first championship in 1997, the East has won four titles (three by Detroit and Indiana’s). TOUGH TERPS: Maryland will be well represented in the finals with five of coach Brenda Frese’s former players competing. Washington has Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (’17), Tianna Hawkins (’13) and Kristi Toliver (’09) while the Mystics feature Brionna Jones (’17) and Alyssa Thomas (’14).

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Elena Delle Donne missed one of the Washington Mystics’ two regular-season games against WNBA opponent Connecticut because of knee pain. The Mystics lost both games.

Washington also has Kiara Leslie, who played two years at Maryland before transferring to N.C. State for her final two seasons. She hasn’t played this year because of a knee injury. Only Toliver won a championship in college and she’s also the only one to win a WNBA title, doing so with Los Angeles in 2016.

FULL STRENGTH: The Mystics lost two of the three meetings with Connecticut during the regular season, but Washington was without key members of its team in all three games. Elena Delle Donne missed the first game on May 25 because of knee pain. Emma Meesseman missed the other two games because

NBA ROUNDUP NBA: NETS PLAYER CAN’T USE CONTRACT TO LURE INVESTORS The NBA on Friday notified the Brooklyn Nets’ Spencer Dinwiddie that he cannot use his contract as a digital investment vehicle, according to a league statement given to the New York Times. Dinwiddie had announced earlier in the week to The Athletic that he planned to go public with an “$SD8” token offered by his company DREAM Fan Shares that would enable investors to essentially buy into his three-year, $34.4 million NBA contract. By selling shares in his contract, Dinwiddie would have allowed investors to bet on whether he would be able to play well enough to earn an even more lucrative contract after the second year of his deal. The NBA, in its statement, said the “tokenized security” is prohibited by the collective bargaining agreement. The NBA Players Association declined to comment Friday night. NOTABLE Lakers: General manager Rob Pelinka said the team is keeping four-time AllStar center DeMarcus Cousins for the time being, pending an ongoing investigation by the NBA into a threat Cousins is accused of making to the mother of his son last month. Kings: First-year coach Luke Walton said he is focused on his team and not worried about a lawsuit filed in April by a former sportscaster. Kelli Tennant accused Walton of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room in 2014 when he was an assistant with Golden State Warriors and harassing her after that during his tenure with the Lakers. The Kings and the NBA investigated the charges but took no action against Walton when “investigators determined that there was not a sufficient basis to support the allegations.” Magic: Free-agent guard B.J. Johnson signed an Exhibit 10 contract, the Orlando Sentinel reported. — WIRE SERVICES

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Second-year guard Trae Young (11), the runner-up to Luke Doncic for Rookie of the Year last season, is at the forefront of the Atlanta Hawks’ massive overhaul.

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Hawks show definite signs of hope as rebuilding process continues BY PAUL NEWBERRY

Associated Press ATLANTA

As the Atlanta Hawks head into the third year of a massive overhaul, there are definite signs of hope. They might even have a shot at the playoffs in the wide-open Eastern Conference. But, as the team prepares to open training camp with an intriguing core of young players, those in charge aren’t in any hurry to rush the process. “We haven’t done anything,” coach Lloyd Pierce said Friday. “I don’t want any our guys

thinking we’ve accomplished anything just yet.” Indeed, the Hawks won just 29 games a season ago, so this is still very much a long-term project. But general manager Travis Schlenk has taken major strides in constructing a totally new roster, one that follows the blueprint laid out by his former employer, the three-time champion Golden State Warriors. Trae Young and John Collins have already established themselves as two of the NBA’s brightest young prospects. Kevin Huerter made big strides during his rookie season. De’Andre Hunter, Cam Reddish and Bruno Fer-

nando were drafted this year to further bolster the roster. Former No. 2 overall pick Jabari Parker was signed in free agency. None are older than 24. “We need to see what this little young core can do together,” Schlenk said. “Do they fit together? We certainly think they’re going to fit together nicely. That’s the plan. But we haven’t been able to see it yet. We need to see those guys in action. That doesn’t mean a month. I’m talking about seeing them together for a whole year.” Schlenk will concede there are no certainties in the rebuilding game, that

much of the process is just gut instinct hopefully coupled with a lot of luck. When he was at Golden State, no one knew that Stephen Curry would develop into one of the NBA’s biggest stars. But the front office began to sense something special was happening when a sixth-seeded team won a playoff series and took San Antonio to six games in the second round in 2013, so the decision was made to pursue a risky trade for Andre Iguodala. Two seasons later, the Warriors won the first of what would be three titles in a run of five straight trips to the NBA Finals. Remembering how the

she was with the Belgium national team. FAMILIAR FACE: Winning the best-of-5 series would give coach Mike Thibault his first championship. It would come against his former team, which he led from 2003 to 2012. Thibault, 69, guided the Sun to the WNBA Finals in 2004 and 2005 before they fell short each time.

Iguodala trade fell into place, Schlenk said, “We could continue to go with these young guys, but we have a veteran who wants to come play with these young guys. We knew that would speed up the timeline, but we felt like we had a chance with that acquisition to become a really good team.” The Hawks aren’t in that position. Not yet anyway. The big push could come next year, when expiring contracts will free up some $64 million for free agency or trades. “We’re not going to really know until we see this young group play together,” Schlenk said. “I can’t sit here and say today, unless you’re one of a handful of teams, that we have a chance to be special.” When training camp begins on Tuesday, the Hawks will be keeping a watchful eye on several of their young players. Collins is dealing with a right hip strain, so his workload will be limited during the preseason. The same goes for Huerter, who returned to Atlanta late last month complaining of a sore knee. An MRI showed no structural damage, but the Hawks won’t take any chances. Then there’s Reddish, the No. 10 overall pick out of Duke. While he has been fully cleared to resume on-court activities after undergoing core muscle surgery, the team will carefully monitor his workload leading up to the regular season. Pierce said it’s vital that the Hawks keep everyone healthy if they’re going to take the next step in their development. “It’s hard when you’re putting a team together, especially a young team, if you can’t see them all out there together,” he said. “It’s really hard to see what to expect moving forward and having that breakthrough moment. That’s part of the reason why we’re being cautious and will remain cautious with every guy. We’re in no rush to advance anyone. We don’t want to skip steps. Health is at the forefront of everything we do, then take it from there.”


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GOLF

For one LPGA golfer, million-dollar prize is worth the pain BY KAREN CROUSE

New York Times PORTLAND, ORE.

The South African golfer Lee-Anne Pace was ready to retire this spring. She had been on the road for more than a decade, her body ached almost constantly, and her peaks, which included topping the Ladies European Tour’s money list in 2010, seemed like specks in a rearview mirror. Then she heard from her sister, who had stumbled across a shocking list online. It was the standings for a new seasonlong risk-reward competition, believed to be the first contest in golf to offer an equal bonus for the winners from both the PGA and LPGA tours. The prize: $1 million, the kind of single payday only two other women – the winners of the U.S. Women’s Open and the Tour Championship – will see this year. “And you’re leading,” Pace’s sister, Simone Krug, told her. “So you can’t quit.” Pace, 38, had no idea. As far as she was concerned, the season had been a disaster. Her accountant had told her that, after expenses, she was $50,000 in the hole for the year. But her sister was right. She could not quit, no matter how much her love of the game had succumbed to exhaustion, pain and a longing to return to South Africa. Most days, Pace said, “I just want to go home.” But Pace, who joined the LPGA in 2007, will make at least one more start, next week in Texas. “The odds are very high against me even being in this position,” she said. Pace, who ranks outside the top 50 in driving distance, outside the top 140 in putting and outside the top 250 in the world, has no idea how she has managed to string together the best cumulative score in the competition, in which players accumulate points based on how they navigate strategically chal-

CHRIS CARLSON AP

Lee-Anne Pace is one round shy of meeting the round minimum and leads a competition for a $1 million bonus put up by Aon.

lenging holes designated each week. Her nearest challenger, Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand, is the women’s world No. 7, the reigning Player of the Year, a two-time major winner and one of the tour’s longer hitters. “This year’s been quite weird,” Pace said in August, “because I wanted to stop playing four or five weeks ago.” Neck, back and hip injuries have limited Pace to 15 starts and $46,856 in earnings, well short of her yearly travel and training expenses, which she said are roughly $100,000 to $200,000. But since that conversation with her sister, the chase for the $1 million bonus that seems tantalizingly, teasingly

within her grasp has consumed Pace, who must log 40 competitive rounds to be eligible for the money. Pace is one round shy of meeting the round minimum and still leads in the competition. But her body is breaking down even as she keeps calculating the million-dollar math in her head. “I definitely do think about it,” said Pace, referring to the $1 million bonus put up by Aon, a global professional services provider. The payout would be close to 15 million South African rand, which, she said, “is a huge thing, obviously. Money’s never been a motivation for me, if that makes sense, but everyone’s really going on about it at

home. It’s super important because it can change my life.” So she will tee it up in next week at Old American Golf Club in suburban Dallas, and hope she can somehow hold onto her lead. Brooks Koepka, the big-hitting, major-winning, world No. 1, pocketed the men’s Aon Challenge bonus back in August in what amounted to a gold bow atop his $9 million season earnings. Pace, a nine-time winner on the Ladies European Tour, won five of those titles in 2010. In 2014, she won the LPGA’s Blue Bay tournament in China’s Hainan Island and rose to a career-high No. 31 in the women’s

world rankings. In 2016, she posted three top 10s, including a second place, and made $523,939. Those were the days, she said, when she could afford to pay a physiotherapist, a body mechanic, if you will, to keep her body in alignment while she was traveling. “I felt great during those years,” Pace said. “I wish I could have stuck with him.” But she stopped working with him as a costsaving measure. “And it was pretty much downhill from there,” she said with a rueful laugh. Pace, whose gait calls to mind someone walking barefoot over rocks, was five rounds short of the Aon minimum going into her most recent start, at the Portland Classic in Oregon late August. She played the first 36 holes in 11-under par while taking mostly half swings with her driver to protect her injured back. She went into the weekend tied for fourth – and fully aware that a top-3 finish would pave her way into the lucrative, limited field fall events in Asia for which she is not yet qualified. She played the final 36 holes in 8-over par and finished tied for 57th – but somehow she remained atop the Aon Challenge standings. Pace’s plan was to play in both of the last two events in the United States before the tour moves to Asia, starting with this week’s tournament in Indianapolis. Her body had other plans. “Unfortunately, playing four rounds in Portland did more damage,” said Pace, who added, “I don’t think it will be wise to play two more events with a back injury.” During the three weeks of September that the LPGA Tour was on hiatus for the Solheim Cup, Pace returned to her part-time residence in France, where she received a diagnosis of a spinal disorder, Maignes Syndrome, which is characterized by difficulty twisting the torso without great discomfort. Crisscrossing continents takes a toll on the body in the best of circumstances. But with Pace in serious pain and her game failing, the decision to bypass the tournament in Indianapolis this week to rest came easier. “When you’re not playing well, there’s no real sense in keeping at it,” Pace said. “I feel like I can do a lot more with my life now, nearly being 40, than to keep traveling and

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Cameron Champ takes 3-shot lead in Safeway Open Wire services NAPA, CALIF.

Even as he bolted to the top of the leaderboard at the Safeway Open, Cameron Champ’s mind was elsewhere. Champ’s grandfather, Mack, is in hospice battling stomach cancer and the family has been commuting back and forth between the tournament and his hometown of Sacramento, about 65 miles northeast of Silverado Resort. “It’s been a pretty emotional week,” Champ said Saturday after shooting a bogey-free 5-under 67 in windy conditions to take a three-shot lead into the

final round. “He just made me realize there’s a lot more to life than golf. His thing is he likes to say ‘focus’ a lot. Me and my dad always laugh about it. like, ‘OK Pops.’ ” Champ has certainly looked focused this week. He opened with a 67 on Thursday, had two bogeys and a six birdies for a 68 on Friday, then moved into the lead with steady iron play and strong putting. Champ narrowly missed a sixth birdie on No. 17 after nearly driving the green. He had a 14under 202 total despite playing the four par 5s without a birdie. “I’m certainly happy with the position I’m in,” Champ said. “I know if I

can get in the fairways on those (par 5s) and kind of do what I did today, it will be a good day.” Champ didn’t make the trip to visit his grandfather following Friday night’s round and was uncertain of his plans after taking the lead. Closing out Sunday with his second PGA Tour victory would provide Champ and his family a much-needed lift. “It would be mind-blowing, honestly,” Champ said. Sebastian Munoz (67), Adam Hadwin (67) and Nick Taylor (70) were 11 under, and Chez Reavie (69), Collin Morikawa (70), Justin Thomas (71) and Nick Watney (72) followed at 10 under.

Munoz, the Sanderson Farms Championship winner last week in Mississippi, got back into the mix with six birdies. That followed an uneven second round when the 26year-old Colombian had a double bogey and an eagle. Second-round leader Bryson DeChambeau was 8 under after a 76. DeChambeau bogeyed Nos. 3 and 10, doublebogeyed No. 13 then ran into big trouble after hitting his second shot on No. 18 over the grandstands around the green and into a patch of reeds. Following a lengthy discussion with course officials and a delay of at least 20 minutes, DeCham-

beau took a drop and flopped a shot back over the grandstands onto the green 10 feet from the pin. He two-putted for par.

Notable LPGA: Mi Jung Hur kept her two-stroke lead in the Indy Women in Tech Championship on Saturday, birdieing five of the final eight holes for a 6under 66 in Indianapolis. Hur rebounded from an opening bogey with a birdie on the par-5 second. She added birdies on Nos. 9, 11, 13, 14, 16 and 18 to get to 17 under at Brickyard Crossing, the layout that features four holes inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval.

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THIS YEAR’S BEEN QUITE WEIRD BECAUSE I WANTED TO STOP PLAYING FOUR OR FIVE WEEKS AGO. South African golfer Lee-Anne Pace – last month

be away from my family.” Pace grew up in wine country, in Paarl, in the Western Cape province, and though she rarely returns during the season because it’s too far to travel during her weeks off, it is never far from her mind. Pace’s sister, Krog, this year had her first child, a daughter named Cara whom Pace described as “the light of my life.” She considered giving up the $1 million chase before Portland. The week before, her hips were hurting her so much, she withdrew during the first round of the CP Open in Canada, on the hole after she registered a quadruple-bogey 9. As it happened, she recorded the high score on that week’s designated risk-reward hole, and because she withdrew, the score did not count against her seasonlong total. Pace described as “hurtful” any suggestion that she withdrew expressly to protect her lead. She recalled last year’s Women’s PGA Championship, where she essentially disqualified herself midround when she realized she had violated a rule by using a sand wedge she had damaged while slamming it against a stake after a poor shot. Nobody else would have noticed the damage if she had not brought it to a rules official’s attention. “People tend to forget things like that,” Pace said with a sigh. She added: “After Canada I was like, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ I seriously nearly went home.” Pace said her sister talked her out of it by reminding her how many people in South Africa she could help through charitable giving if she were, against all odds, to take home the $1 million bonus. “She was like, ‘It’s not just for yourself,’” Pace said, “and it’s true.” And so she hobbles on, long past her peak but ever closer to a life-changing payday.

Marina Alex, coming off the United States’ Solheim Cup loss to Europe, was second after a 64. PGA Champions: Steve Flesch shot a 4-under 67 at Poppy Hills to take the second-round lead in the Pure Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach, California. Flesch had five birdies and a bogey at Poppy Hills to reach 8 under. Billy Andrade and Kent Jones were two strokes back. European Tour: The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship had two more surprise leaders, with Victor Perez and Matthew Southgate out in front at 20 under par after the third round. Perez shot an 8-under 64 at Kingsbarns while Southgate returned a 7-under 65 at St. Andrews, leaving them two shots clear of Paul Waring after his 7-under 65 at Carnoustie.


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A changing of the guard is on the horizon, and the Kings are counting on their core four to help guide them into the future, including Dustin Brown.

Kings’ core four tasked with reviving franchise’s Stanley Cup aspirations BY JACK HARRIS

Los Angeles Times

In typical unfiltered and resolute form, Drew Doughty barely let the question finish before interjecting. The Kings defenseman is known for having opinions on, well, everything. His game. His teammates. His coaches. Even the NHL’s evolving style of play. Few topics are off-limits for the straight-shooting, frontteeth-missing, five-time All-Star. His role as a leader, with the franchise in flux, is no different. Along with Anze Kopitar, Dustin Brown and Jonathan Quick, Doughty is one of the Kings’ four mainstays this decade. That group has been at the forefront of each of the last nine seasons, a run that began with a long-awaited playoff berth in 2010, peaked with Stanley Cup championships in 2012 and 2014, and bottomed out in a second-to-last-place finish last season. Sitting in front of his locker recently, Doughty was reminded of all this. Then he was asked: “Do you guys feel a responsibility to help rebuild?” He jumped in with a passionate, pointed answer. “Yeah, for sure,” he said, his voice rising an octave, as if there was any other choice. “We’re the leaders on the team.” In a league of mercenaries, long-tenured quartets are rare. In their decade together, Doughty, Brown, Kopitar and Quick helped lift the franchise to the pinnacle of the sport, then couldn’t keep it from slipping to punching-bag status. They’ve been through four coaching changes, and seen the club’s prospect pool turn over time and again. They’ve been at the forefront of one NHL revolution, the paragon of puck possession and defensive fortitude; then lagged far behind another, as speed and movement have again modernized the game. Now, at the point when most teams cut bait and sever ties with the aging players tethered to a fallen

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The four-man nucleus that keyed the 2009-10 Kings playoff run remains, including goaltender Jonathan Quick.

dynasty, the Kings are hoping to rebuild around their rooted veterans. This is somewhat out of necessity, given the hefty contracts to which each is signed (all of them are inked through at least 2021-22 and have average annual values of at least $5.8 million). But it’s partly by choice too. A changing of the guard is on the horizon. And the Kings are counting on their core four to help guide them into the future. “Who doesn’t want to be in that role?” Doughty said. “The guy that’s looked upon to lead the team – that’s what I’ve wanted to be my whole life. Now that I finally have it, I just want to get better at it.” During the 2009-10 season, Doughty was a frequent visitor to thengeneral manager Dean Lombardi’s office. As the defenseman remembers it, their conversations often followed a familiar script. “Can you handle this? Can you do this?” Lombardi would ask Doughty, then in his second year, the last member of the Kings’ core four to break into the

league. Doughty would answer confidently: “Yes.” Lombardi would counter: “No you can’t.” Doughty would snap back: “Yes, I can.” There was a method to Lombardi’s madness. “He did it, “ Doughty said, “because he wanted me to become what am I now.” Entering that campaign, the Kings were mired in a six-season playoff drought. The team had veteran leadership in Sean O’Donnell, Rob Scuderi, Justin Williams, Matt Greene and Jarret Stoll, but had finished last in the Pacific Division the previous two years. By the time 2009-10 rolled around, the Kings’ path forward was clear. Before they could win rings and raise banners, they needed Brown and Kopitar and Doughty and Quick – all of whom were 25 or younger – to carry the torch. So, Doughty was pushed by Lombardi and recorded 59 points. Brown continued to evolve in his second season as team captain. Kopitar not only played the

most minutes of any forward, but finished with the first positive plus-minus rating of his career. Quick started a career-high 71 games in net. Over the course of the season, the Kings began transforming into a contender. They collected 101 points and made the playoffs for the first time since 2002. As the No. 6 seed, they took the third-seeded Vancouver Canucks to six games in the first round. The team would add more veterans, including Jeff Carter and Mike Richards, en route to their Stanley Cup titles. Only nine players remain on the team from their 2014 championship. But the four-person nucleus that keyed that first playoff run remains. Now, they’re on the other end of the spectrum, tasked with being the steady hands for a significant rebuild. Said Kopitar: “We’ve been here for a little while now. We’re used to winning. … We’re going to have to lead the way. And pull the young guys with us.” Brown: “Part of it is setting the example of how

things are supposed to be done, and the other part is holding each other accountable. It’s pretty easy if Kopi and Dewey, myself, if guys like that are being held accountable, then it makes it a lot easier to hold the line elsewhere.” Quick: “There’s more than just four of us. There’s a lot of us here. We’ve been through what it takes to have success in this league.” Since being hired as the Kings’ coach in April, Todd McLellan has been reticent to reference what happened to the team last year. He watched from afar as the Kings plummeted to a 71-point campaign, the worst in the DoughtyKopitar-Brown-Quick era. McLellan has been careful to not pass judgment, or juxtapose himself to either of the two coaches the Kings put behind the bench last year. He did take notice, however, of the players’ comments over the course of 2018-19, which went from candid to discouraged to flat-out dejected as the season spiraled out of control. The core four veterans were among the

most outspoken critics: A Following a 5-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Nov. 13, just a week after coach John Stevens was fired and replaced by interim coach Willie Desjardins, Kopitar said: “It was a lack of desperation, work, energy, emotion, whatever. That kind of effort, it’s unacceptable.” A In the wake of a 6-3 defeat to the New Jersey Devils on Dec. 6, Doughty said: “It’s pathetic. It’s embarrassing. It’s frustrating.” A With the Kings shaping up to be sellers at the trade deadline in late February, Brown said: “Right now, we’re a losing team. It’s difficult and a new experience for a lot of guys.” A On Feb. 26, Quick berated Dejardins on the bench for not challenging a goalie interference call. Those frustrated outbursts left an impression on McLellan. He’s long been familiar with these players, having coached against them in the Pacific Division every year since 2008-09 with the San Jose Sharks and Edmonton Oilers. He pointed to those moments from last year as proof the Kings’ longstanding leadership group still has plenty left to prove. “They spoke up, “ McLellan said. “When you put it on the line like that at the end of last year, you have to provide the team with those things. “Last year was a down year by team standards, individual standards. The pride got away from them. Right now, I sense that they’re a proud group. They’re willing to try anything.” After last year, they may need to. The culture they spent years building crumbled. For the Kings’ core four, the glory days are likely behind them. They’re bracing for their new gritty reality. “It’s really up to us leaders to drive the bus,” Doughty said. “We’ve tried to drive the bus for the last few years and it hasn’t really worked.” Then Doughty paused, contemplating the challenge ahead. “Maybe, “ he continued, “I don’t know – maybe we have to do some things differently. You can always do things differently. We need an entire team effort. We need our leaders to lead.”


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Variety of Stanley Cup champs shows there’s no one blueprint BY STEPHEN WHYNO

Associated Press

Had the night of June 12 gone differently, maybe NHL rivals would be looking to the Boston Bruins as the model to follow to win the Stanley Cup. “We were one game away to change the narrative of how teams should be structured,” Bruins defenseman Torey Krug said. The Bruins lost Game 7 of the final to the big, heavy St. Louis Blues, who bruised and battered their way to the Cup. In recent years, that might have led teams around the league to bulk up and try to follow the Blues’ lead – but that is unlikely. The differences in recent champions – from fast and skilled to physical and punishing – illustrate how many different blueprints there are to win a championship in today’s NHL. They also show the importance of tailoring style of play to personnel and perfecting team chemistry. “There’s so many different ways,” Blues playoff MVP Ryan O’Reilly said. “Most of the players in the league, you’re not going to change. You change little things and make adjustments, but you’re not going to change the players that they are. So it’s finding your group of players and getting them to play the most effective way.” Over the past decade, the Chicago Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins won it all with speed, skill and talent. The Los Angeles Kings, Washington Capitals and Blues had plenty of skill, sure, but also used size to wear

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Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask started in two finals and was the backup when Boston won the Cup in 2011, on building a winner: “You can win many different ways as long as your team’s comfortable playing that style of game.”

down opponents. In a sport where whoever lifts the Cup tends to swing the pendulum on how to build a winner, it’s become more of a race to see which team can impose its will come playoff time. “Every year is different,” said Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask, who started in two finals and was the backup when Boston won the Cup in 2011. “The way you build your team, everybody needs to be comfortable with that. You can win many different ways as long as your team’s comfortable playing that style of game.”

The Blues under coach Craig Berube got comfortable playing a defensefirst style predicated on taking the body and winning series by attrition. O’Reilly concedes a lot has to go right to play that way. The 2016 and 2017 Penguins battled attrition and overcame injuries to win the Cup. They weren’t the biggest team by any means but had the ingredients to go toe to toe with anyone when it mattered most. “Playoffs is a whole different beast, and obviously there’s more hitting,” Chicago winger Alex DeBrincat said.

“Even if you’re a skilled team, you’re going to hit more.” Jonathan Marchessault, whose Vegas Golden Knights lost to the Capitals in the 2018 final, said it’s important to “stay true to the identity of your team” – whatever that is. Yet there remains a notion that when the regular season ends and the playoffs begin, the NHL trend toward speed and skill ruling the ice is no longer the case. “It’s different hockey,” said Anze Kopitar, who won with the Kings in 2012 and 2014. “In order to get into the playoffs, you’ve got to be fast and

skilled and everything. Playoffs is a little bit different. You’ve got to wear teams down, and that’s what it is. It’s not as highscoring as it is during the regular season. You still obviously have to have some grit and some hardnosed guys that are willing to do that.” Players talk about feeling like there’s less room to maneuver in the playoffs, like the surface shrinks and each decision must be made a halfsecond quicker. That does put a premium on turning up the toughness level. “Even if the game is going skill and finesse, generally speaking, speed,

skill, if you ask anyone around the league, going into a rink where you know it’s going to be a heavy style, there’s an intimidation factor there,” said Tom Wilson, who recorded 15 points, blocked 12 shots and dished out 100 hits during the Capitals’ Cup run. “That’s why hockey’s great. That’s why it’s a physical sport. When you’re playing a team and you know they’re going to finish their checks, you know they’re going to be heavy on the puck, you know they’re going to battle, that’s important.” Battling isn’t just about the Kings, Capitals or Blues finishing thundering checks and separating opposing players from the puck. It’s about gutting through injuries, winning races to the puck and dictating the tempo of the game to suit a certain style. “You always have to stick to what gives you success throughout a regular season,” Krug said. “We play a certain way where we can match up against any style. If you want to play fast, we’ll do it. You want to play heavy and in your face, we have the players that can do that as well, and we won’t shy away from it.” The Blues’ blueprint could help a team like Winnipeg lift the Cup. Maybe the Tampa Bay Lightning can take a page from the Penguins’ playbook. Or perhaps the San Jose Sharks win with the depth on defense that earned the Blackhawks three championships in six years. Based on the variety of champions and the parity of the NHL, which will be the last team standing and how they do it is anyone’s guess. “The fun part about the year we won and this year is that anyone can win,” Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom said. “Everyone can win, which is great.”

ROUNDUP CROSBY LEAVES PRESEASON FINALE WITH APPARENT FOOT INJURY Sidney Crosby left the Pittsburgh Penguins’ preseason finale against Buffalo in the first period Saturday in Pittsburgh after taking a shot off his skate. Hit by a shot from Sabres defenseman Marco Scandella, Crosby played on 6:42 before leaving. Pittsburgh forward Bryan Rust left the game after he was hit in the hand in the third period. “They both got hit with shots,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. “They are being evaluated now. We will probably have more definitive answers tomorrow morning.” The Sabres won the game 3-2 in a shootout, with Casey Mittelstadt scoring in the sixth round. Tage Thompson also scored for Buffalo in the shootout. Thompson’s goal in the second round drew Buffalo even, after Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang opened the round by scoring on a wrist shot. Letang was the only Penguin to score in the shootout. Buffalo’s Linus Ullmark made 34 saves, and Marco Scandella and Zemgus Girgensons scored for the Sabres. Patric Hornqvist and Bryan Rust scored for the Penguins, and Matt Murray made 28 saves. The two teams will open

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The Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) and Buffalo Sabres’ Kyle Okposo (21) tangle as they try to control the puck in front of Henri Jokiharju (10) during the first period of a preseason game Saturday in Pittsburgh.

the regular season Thursday in Buffalo. A At Anaheim, California, Hampus Lindholm broke a tie on a power play early in the third period and John Gibson made 19 saves in first 40 minutes of the Ducks’ 2-1 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Jakob Silfverberg tied it for Anaheim in the second. Ryan Miller took over for Gibson in the third, stopping all seven shots he faced. Vinnie Hinostroza scored for Arizona in first.

A At Boston, David Pastrnak and Jake DeBrusk each had three goals and an assist in the Bruins’ 8-2 victory over a Chicago Blackhawks split squad. Charlie Coyle and Karson Kuhlman also scored, and Tuukka Rask stopped 19 shots. Philipp Kurashev and Tim Soderlund scored for Chicago. Chicago’s regulars are in Berlin for a game against Eisbaren of the German Hockey League on Sunday.

A At Dallas, Ben Bishop made 25 saves and stopped Gabriel Landeskog in the shootout to push the Stars to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche. Tyler Seguin and Alexander Radulov scored in the shootout for Dallas. Nathan MacKinnon scored Colorado’s lone goal in the tiebreaker. Seguin, Joe Pavelski and Jamie Benn scored for Dallas in regulation. Pavelski and Benn scored 2:05 apart late in the third to force overtime. Name Kadri, Andre Burakovsky

and Joonas Donskoi scored for Colorado, and Philipp Grubauer made 33 saves. A At Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mathew Barzal broke a tie with 2:20 left in the New York Islanders’ 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers. Michael Dal Colle, Josh Bailey and Adam Pelech also scored for the Islanders. Semyon Varlamov and Thomas Greiss each play half the game in goal. Varlamov started and stopped all 14 shots he faced, and Greiss stopped five shots. Vladimir Namestnikov and Tony DeAngelo scored for the Rangers. Alexandar Georgiev made 22 saves. A At Toronto, Auston Matthews had a goal and two assists and Frederik Andersen made 16 saves to help the Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-2. Matthews finished the preseason with five goals and three assists in four games. Andreas Johnsson, Trevor Moore, William Nylander and John Tavares also scored. A In Tampa, Florida, Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves and Vincent Trocheck scored the only goal in the shootout to lead the Florida Panthers to a 1-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Andrei Vasilevskiy

made 28 saves for the Lightning. A At Montreal, Nick Suzuki scored in overtime to lift the Canadiens to a 4-3 win over the Ottawa Senators. Phillip Danault, Tomas Tatar and Brendan Gallagher also scored and Carey Price stopped 34 shots. Bobby Ryan, Anthony Duclair and Filip Chlapik scored for the Senators. A At Calgary, Alberta, Tobias Rieder scored against his former team to lead the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers. Milan Lucic, who the Flames acquired in July in a deal that saw fellow veteran forward James Neal go the other way to the Oilers, also scored for Calgary, and David Rittich stopped 26 shots. Gaetan Haas and Zack Kassian scored for the Oilers.

Notable A The Colorado Avalanche agreed to terms with Mikko Rantanen on a $55.5 million, six-year contract, The Denver Post and Associated Press reported. A Vancouver Canucks right wing Brock Boeser returned to practice less than a week after his concussion.

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For decades, the Australian Football League celebrated on-field violence. Now, retired players are mobilizing and accusing the league of failing to protect them.

BY KEN BELSON

New York Times MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Australian rules football is one of the world’s most violent sports. Thirty-six players careen across a massive field, where they are exposed to blindside hits and errant elbows, bruising shoulders and airborne knees. Their protection is a mouthpiece and sometimes a padded cap. Collisions can be cringe-inducing. Concussions are common. So when retired players in their 30s and 40s started complaining about memory loss, struggles with paying attention and anger management, Alan Pearce tried to help. A neurophysiologist, he began to measure the former players’ brain waves to determine if their brains were functioning properly. The players “were saying, ‘I just thought I was getting old, but I’m only 47,’ ” Pearce said. The Australian Football League took note. In 2015, it gave Pearce about $20,000 to help cover the cost of more tests. But after Pearce spoke on a television program about the cognitive struggles of former players, Paul McCrory, a neurologist who was once closely aligned with the league, told him he had crossed a line. Soon after, Pearce lost his lab space, hindering his research. A decade after retired American football players struggling with neurological problems forced the NFL to confront its traumatic brain injury crisis, a narrative that will be very familiar to sports fans in the United States is playing out on the other side of the world. Retired players from the AFL, which held its Grand Final on Saturday, are coming forward with horrific tales of cognitive deterioration in what should still be the prime of their lives. At the same time, the league in which they endured so much damage is attempting to avoid culpability by playing down any link between head hits and brain trauma even as it tries to make the game safer by changing the rules of the sport and adding concussion protocols. More than 100 retired

Australia faces its own crisis on concussions AFL players are accusing the league of failing to protect them from the known dangers of repeated collisions and of resisting calls to pay for their health care costs. “We have retired players now in their 50s and 60s with structural damage to their brains – exactly what has happened in the States – but we have a position of continual denial from the AFL,” said Peter Jess, a player agent and advocate for the players. “The AFL is throwing everything at this.” The AFL declined to make its chief medical director, Peter Harcourt, or another executive available to discuss the league’s strategy for dealing with its retired players. In a statement, the league said it was “on the public record in acknowledging that neurodegenerative disease is associated with head trauma.” Also in the statement, Andrew Dillon, the league’s general counsel and general manager for game development, said, “The AFL is committed to world-leading management of head trauma in sport.” “At every stage,” he added, “our decisions have been guided by research, and we have had a conservative approach, putting players’ health first.” With players contemplating litigation, Jess met informally with the AFL in recent weeks, but talks stalled. Several former players feel the league is more focused on helping active players rather than retirees. The debate over the health of retired AFL players has grown louder in recent years as a growing list of younger players, citing repeated “head knocks,” have retired after just a few years in the league. Retired players, who for years were loath to criticize the league that made them famous, have also begun to speak out about their health. “They’ve got their heads in the sand,” John Barnes,

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WE HAVE RETIRED PLAYERS NOW IN THEIR 50S AND 60S WITH STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THEIR BRAINS – EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE STATES. Peter Jess, an agent for Australian rules football players

a 16-year veteran of the AFL and its predecessor, the Victorian Football League, said of the AFL leadership. “Until one of their sons gets knocked out and can’t remember anything, they won’t change.” During the past decade, the AFL has increased penalties for dangerous tackles and going after players on the ground. It also began discouraging players from using their heads as weapons. To some, this was the league acknowledging the game was too dangerous. “If it wasn’t the case that head knocks were serious, then why did they change all the rules to make the game safer?” Barnes said. A BRUTAL GAME AND ITS CONSEQUENCES As a ruckman and a forward, Barnes’ job was to play in the middle of the field and jump for loose balls as bodies flew at him from every direction. Flying elbows left him bruised and battered after every game. “You’d come off the field with a broken nose, two cuts above your eyes, your jaw would be sideways but wouldn’t be broken, and you’d have five eggs on the back of your head,” Barnes said. “If you’re scared, you can’t play footy. That’s just how it was. Dog-eatdog mentality.” The hits to the head took their toll, he said, because players felt they had to shrug off concussions to stay in the lineup. Barnes, now 50, began having seizures when he

was 42. They come without warning. He will drift in and out of consciousness for about five minutes and regain his memory in 20 minutes or so. Doctors have said his epilepsy was caused by repeated hits to the head. While retired players like Barnes stew, the AFL has taken steps to make the game safer. It has strengthened penalties for hits to the head. Cameras are used to spot potential concussions. Identifying concussions is complicated, though. In Australian rules football, play is continuous for 20-minute segments or longer, unlike in American football, which has stoppages after every down. The frequency of concussions has ticked higher in recent years as the league has become more adept at spotting them and as more players report them. Last year, there were almost 7.5 concussions per 1,000 player game hours in the AFL, up 11% from the prior year. But Nathan Gibbs, a former team doctor who tracked concussions on the AFL’s Sydney Swans for 14 years, said the real rate was about 21⁄2 times higher than the AFL’s published figures, which would make it comparable to the NFL’s. “I think there is a lot of pressure not to report concussions,” Gibbs said. The AFL said that its figures had come from 18 clubs and that one club could vary from the average. It added that club employees could be punished for the mismanagement of injuries.

PUSHING BACK For a league confronting mounting complaints about safety and brain injuries, McCrory was both a surprising and fitting choice to serve as a leading medical consultant for the AFL. A former team doctor now affiliated with the influential Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, McCrory represents the AFL at a working group of doctors from the NFL, World Rugby and other collision sports who share research. McCrory has played down the dangers of repeated head hits, saying the news media have distorted the dangers of concussions and created “a sense of fear” about Australian and American football. At a lecture in 2016, he said sports like rugby and boxing were more dangerous than American football. “For all the carry-on and hoo-ha you hear from the United States, it actually has the lowest rates of concussion of any of these sports,” he said. McCrory declined to speak with The New York Times. The AFL said McCrory currently has no formal role with the league. Pearce, the neurophysiologist, said skeptics like McCrory see a player who is holding a job and conclude that his headaches cannot be linked to concussions he may have suffered. They “are playing the game that if there’s no evidence, it doesn’t exist,” Pearce said in an interview this year. BIFFS AND BUMPS The AFL celebrated on-field violence for decades. In 2001, the league’s broadcast partner produced a show called “Biffs, Bumps and Brawlers” that highlighted players knocking each other out and throwing fists. Greg Griffin, a lawyer working with the retired players, said the videos are evidence the

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league promoted big hits for profit. “It was Circus Maximus, which was Nero killing the Christians,” Griffin said. Griffin credited the league with making the game safer after 50 years of allowing virtually uncontrolled hits to the head, “but they’ve done it because they realized they lost the Australian public in terms of encouraging their children to play this game.” David Parkin, a longtime coach who estimates that he had a dozen concussions during his 10-year playing career, said that players understood they had to play through concussions and that coaches regularly put concussed players back into games. “I was a serious offender and consistently during competition tried to pressure medical staff to get players back in the game,” he said. “That’s the absolute fact.” Another fact is retired players have been excluded from the national workers’ compensation plan since the 1970s, after a player was paralyzed in a game. Club directors realized that they were personally liable if a player sued his team. So the sports minister in Victoria successfully lobbied the state government to exclude professional athletes, including footballers, from receiving workers’ compensation. Other states passed similar legislation. Lawmakers promised to find a way to compensate former players, then didn’t follow through. Sports executives are now free from personal liability, yet injured players still cannot file claims. If the retired AFL players sue the league, they will face some of the same hurdles as NFL players have. They would need to show that their former team doctors deliberately neglected their “duty of care” and that the hits they absorbed as pro players directly led to their current medical problems. While they plot a legal strategy, some former players are pledging their brains to the country’s only sports-specific brain bank so future generations can learn from their misfortune. Michael Buckland, a neuropathologist in Sydney, spent years looking at the brains of people with multiple sclerosis and other diseases before he read about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the degenerative brain disease found in athletes who played collision sports that can only be diagnosed after death. “To me, it looked like a new pathology they were describing, so I was hoping to see if we could find it in Australia,” said Buckland, who opened the brain bank last year. Buckland’s first diagnosis, of a 77-year-old former Australian rules football player with dementia, was negative for CTE. In June, he was involved in research that showed two rugby players were found with CTE. The diagnoses, which were done by a different department at Buckland’s hospital, shook the rugby world. A fourth diagnosis, of an ex-boxer who committed suicide, was also positive for CTE. Buckland said that in the years ahead, more diagnoses are sure to come back positive. “It’s got to be here, given the sports we play in Australia,” Buckland said.


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HIGH SCHOOLS

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WE NEED TO MATCH KIDS UP WITH COMPETITION THAT IS SAFE FOR THEM SO THEY CAN WALK OUT ON A FIELD AND BE COMPETITIVE. Peter Weber, executive director of the Oregon School Activities Association

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“On just about every Friday night, they outsize us, they outman us, and they outnumber us,” says Hoover High principal Sherry Poole about the suburban powerhouses on the school’s football schedule that routinely win state championships.

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FOOTBALL in a 35-7 loss for Hoover, to no one’s surprise. During the past decade, Hoover High and Des Moines’ four other large public high schools have a cumulative record of 0104 against rivals with more affluent student bodies from the Polk County suburbs, according to figures compiled by The Des Moines Register. They rarely do any better against similar opponents from beyond the county, like Indianola. The disparity has been the topic of news articles and impassioned conversations across the state, from Sioux City to Davenport. With all that losing, leaders in places like Des Moines are contemplating a change in how high school athletic teams are matched up against one another: What if the poverty level of a school’s student body was used to decide which teams it played? The concept, now in use or under consideration in numerous American states and cities, turns on its head old notions of athletics as an equalizer. The thought of intentionally lumping poor schools into lesser divisions, separate from richer schools that have fancy equipment and larger and more specialized coaching staffs, rankles some educators, who say it sends a terrible message. “Our kids don’t want to be classified as poor kids who have to play lowerlevel competition,” said Mitchell Moore, a coach at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. “I’m a big believer that socioeconomics has nothing to do with catching a football.” But at Hoover, where losing has gotten exhausting for players and fans alike, moving down to a lower division would be a welcome relief, many parents and students say. The idea of judging teams based on wealth may sound distasteful in con-

cept, but the reality of losing night after night, year after year, feels far worse. And schools with extra resources for special training and technology, they say, simply do better on the field – so why not acknowledge that in the matchups? “On just about every Friday night, they outsize us, they outman us, and they outnumber us,” Sherry Poole, Hoover’s principal, said about the suburban powerhouses on the school’s schedule that routinely win state championships. “Your heart just kind of stops whenever someone gets crunched.” Dustin Hagler, a 17year-old senior who plays on both the offensive and defensive lines for Hoover High, said that he saw students in the hallways who would make good football players, but that they consistently resisted his recruiting efforts. “It’s hard when you lose,” said Hagler, who is also the senior class president. “But it’s not just losing. It’s almost like you feel beat down. Like the odds are stacked against you.” Over the past few years, officials overseeing high school sports in states including Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado have added provisions allowing schools with high poverty levels to drop down to lower athletic divisions. Washington state will introduce the idea next year, and Iowa is considering it. Schools are commonly assigned to athletic divisions based on their enrollment, and Hoover, with more than 1,000 students, has long been placed in the state’s top athletic division, competing with the largest of Iowa’s public and private high schools. Its traditional rivals include city schools with relatively high poverty rates, but also suburban schools that have won the past nine

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The Hoover High School marching band performs as the scoreboard displays the team’s 28-point deficit at a home game earlier this month in Des Moines, Iowa. Hoover and the city’s four other large public high schools have a cumulative record of 0-104 over the past decade against rivals with more affluent student bodies from the Polk County suburbs.

state championships. Ways of gauging poverty levels vary, but state athletic officials typically rely on the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches. At Hoover, about 75% qualify, compared with about 10%, on average, in neighboring suburban schools. At Indianola High, Hoover’s opponent on that recent game night, about 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. The debate over whether economic status should have a place in deciding a sports team’s competition has been fierce. The issue has led to awkward conversations among school administrators, parents and teammates, raising questions about fairness and the meaning of high school sports. Supporters say the approach, intended to give poorer schools a better chance of winning games, will help students gain confidence. They also say it could reduce the risk of concussions and other injuries against teams with more expensive and elaborate training resources and access to better nutrition. “We don’t feel like we are coddling these stu-

dents; we feel like we are trying to put them on an even playing field,” said Peter Weber, executive director of the Oregon School Activities Association, which oversees high school athletics. “We need to match kids up with competition that is safe for them so they can walk out on a field and be competitive.” But others, including many coaches, say the change adds new barriers for impoverished students, and suggests they are too weak or too poor to compete against richer rivals. Why, they ask, should students’ athletic potential be limited by their parents’ bank accounts? And some opponents say tinkering with long-standing athletic matchups in an attempt to even the odds is a way of babying young people – a “medals for everyone” mentality that undermines lessons in resilience and grit. “They’re out there making do with what they have, and that’s the right thing to do,” said Gabe Murray, 19, a former Hoover football player. Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society Program, said the sports achievement dis-

parity between wealthy suburban public schools and their urban counterparts has degenerated into “a competitive gap that is similar to the income gap” in the nation. “The divide has always been there,” he said, “but it has widened.” The disparity, experts say, is meaningful beyond the world of athletics because sports participation has been found to aid in academic success and college admissions, and is a predictor for professional success. The discussion comes at a critical juncture for youth sports, where participation rates for many activities – particularly football – are in decline because of fears about brain injury and because children’s interests more than ever fall outside engagement in traditional sports, according to studies. For the moment, switching leagues is not yet an option in Iowa, where the Iowa High School Athletic Association is scheduled to discuss the issue later this year. If a request by the Des Moines Public Schools and other districts is approved, Hoover and other schools could apply to drop down a division.

Historically, the imbalance in high school sports has been between public schools and private schools, which are often able to recruit students and offer scholarships. In Iowa, which has comparatively few large private schools that excel in sports, tension has centered around disparities between public high schools that have similar enrollment sizes but very different student demographics. Thomas Ahart, superintendent of the Des Moines Public Schools, said students in the district must often work after-school jobs to support their families, which prevents many from participating in sports. Ahart and others have pointed to the correlation between schools that win championships and how few students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. Across all Iowa schools, the percentage of students who qualify for such meals is about 43%, while Ahart said Des Moines’ dominant suburban sports schools have rates around 7%. In Des Moines public schools, about three-quarters of students qualify for free meals. “There’s a real issue of equity of opportunity, and the foundation of the problem is tied most directly to poverty,” he said. “Even if we do everything right, the chances of us getting a victory is slim to none.” Farrey, from the Sports & Society Program, said he believed more effort should be made by schools to encourage students – whatever their skill level – to play sports, instead of focusing primarily on winning and competitiveness. “Kids do sports because they are looking to do something larger than themselves,” he said. “It’s not about whether you win. Sports are fun.” But in Des Moines, high school football has not been much fun in recent years, some players said. Kyle Fischer, whose son, Jerad Fischer, is Hoover’s quarterback, said wealthier schools have an undeniable advantage, so moving Hoover to a lower league would simply be recognizing that truth. He said that neither parents nor schools should be ashamed of trying to give their children the opportunity to compete equitably, including wanting kids to avoid sustaining injuries while playing against bigger, stronger players. “They need to look at fairness across the board,” Fischer said. “I don’t believe in coddling kids, but the kids are just not getting the same opportunities.”


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IN BRIEF SABALENKA KEEPS WUHAN OPEN TITLE Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus beat unseeded American Alison Riske 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the Wuhan Open final in China to become the tournament’s first back-to-back champion. The ninth-seeded Sabalenka on five of the first six games in the first set. Riske rallied in the second, withstanding nine aces to level the match, but Sabalenka regained control in the decider. Despite losing, Riske is set to enter the top 30 rankings for the first time in her career at age 29. A Seventh-seeded Alex de Minaur beat Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2 to reach the final of the Zhuhai Championships in China. De Minaur will be looking to win his third career title when he faces unseeded Adrian Mannarino, who beat eighthseeded Albert RamosVinolas 6-0, 4-6, 6-1. A In the Chengdu Open, unseeded Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta overcame 12 aces from eighth-seeded Denis Shapovalov to upset the Canadian 6-3, 6-4. He faces hard-hitting Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the final. Bublik smashed 21 aces in his 7-6 (6), 6-4 win over Lloyd Harris. A Alison Van Uytvanck won her second title of the season in a keenly fought final against Sorana Cirstea, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, at the Tashkent Open in Uzbekistan.

Soccer Liverpool faces punishment over ineligible player: Liverpool could face punishment for fielding an ineligible player in its third-round win over MK Dons in the English League Cup. Liverpool says the club is aware of a “potential administrative issue pertaining to one of our players” and is “working with the relevant authorities in order to establish the facts of the matter.” The identity of the player has not been disclosed. Liverpool could be fined or, at worst, be thrown out of the competition. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp fielded a young team in its 2-0 victory on Tuesday. It set up a fourth-round match at home to Arsenal. A Juventus eased to a 2-0 win over Spal in Serie A at Milan. Miralem Pjanic and Cristiano Ronaldo scored in each half. A Lyon’s miserable form continued with a 1-0 defeat in Paris to Nantes, which moved provisionally top of the French league.

Notable A Two-time Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries will be allowed to bobsled for the United States this season and beyond, after Canadian officials said they are granting here request to be released from their program. Humphries has been seeking that release for weeks after filing a harassment complaint against the Canadian program alleging she was mistreated by a coach. A Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten rode alone for more than 100 kilometers to win the women’s elite race at the Road World Championships in Harrogate, England. It’s her first world road race title.

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Deanna Price of the United States celebrates after winning the gold in the women’s hammer at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday in Doha, Qatar.

WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Price gives US its 1st world gold in hammer BY PAT GRAHAM

Associated Press DOHA, QATAR

The very first time DeAnna Price tried to throw the hammer, it smacked her in the head. She figured that was the end of that. Good thing she kept on trying. The former softball standout, who used track and field only to stay in shape, put America on the board in the quirky little world of the hammer throw, winning the country’s first world championship medal in the event Saturday – a gold one , at that. Words you never expected to hear: An Amer-

ican will be among the favorites in the hammer next summer in Tokyo. “It’s been such a crazy journey,” the U.S. record holder from Missouri said. Even though there’s netting to hem in wild throws, the dangers inherent in hurling a nearly 9-pound weight across the middle of a jam-packed stadium often relegates hammer throwers to offsite venues. Or leaves them to compete before the runners, jumpers and throwers – and fans – even show up. Very few get famous in this sport. So, what made Price decide it was hammer time? A four-sport athlete in high school, she was fo-

cused on softball, but then it got dropped from the Olympic program for 2012 and 2016. So she decided to try something else. Early on, it was the 800 meters. But that changed when she was invited by a coach to give the hammer a go. It didn’t go well. “He handed me this thing, and I didn’t know what it was. It was the hammer,” Price recalled. “At 16 years old, I don’t know what to do with this thing. The first time I wound it around my head, I hit my head with the handle, right on the forehead. I remember literally dropping it and saying, ‘I’m never doing this again. I’m done.’ ” Idle threat, of course.

Price became a two-time NCAA champion at Southern Illinois. To take it to another level, she took off 50 pounds in 2015. “I was just trying to be as strong as I can,” she explained. “So I changed my diet. It’s been going pretty well.” This spring, she ran into a mysterious back ailment. She thought it might be mono. It wasn’t. She grew more and more frustrated. “Basically, I was throwing 76 and 77 meters earlier this year and then all my numbers just dropped,” Price said. “I couldn’t throw over 70 meters. I’m sitting there thinking, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with me.’ I felt like I had a harness on

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Coleman easy to find this time: At the front of the pack in the 100 BY EDDIE PELLS

Associated Press DOHA, QATAR

Everyone knew exactly where to find Christian Coleman this time. The sprinter who faced a suspension because he couldn’t be located for drug testing burst out of the blocks Saturday night and powered to the early lead in track’s marquee event. He got stronger from there, blowing away the seven other entrants in the 100-meter worldchampionship title race and leaving little doubt about who will be chased, and who will do the chasing, in a reworked track landscape without the retired Usain Bolt. Coleman’s time, 9.76 seconds, might not have turned many heads, but this should: He beat Justin Gatlin to the line by .13 seconds – an entire body length. That marked the biggest blowout in a 100meter race at worlds or the Olympics since 2011. “This is something I'll never take for granted,” Coleman said. “The op-

portunity to come out here and compete. And then to be crowned world champion?” But Coleman’s breakout night had few similarities to any that Bolt dominated over his 10 years of record-setting, reggaefueled fun. Even on the races everyone knew he’d win, Bolt brought the entertainment– and some drama – taking forever to unfurl his 6-foot-5 frame from the blocks, then working the first 50 meters to grab the lead, then leaving everyone hanging at the end to see what that clock might say. Coleman, on the other hand, never trailed – the legs on his muscle-bound, 5-9 frame pumping like pistons from start to finish. The differences on the second evening at the air-conditioned track in Doha weren’t restricted to the men’s 100. Earlier, Jamaica earned its first gold medal of the championship. Not in its traditional sprints, but in the long jump, courtesy of Tajay Gayle, who won the country’s first worldchampionship medal in a

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Christian Coleman of the United States screams after crossing the finish line to win the men’s 100-meter final on Saturday in Doha, Qatar.

field event. The Netherlands, home of speed skating and sprinter Dafne Schippers, took home its first 10,000-meter gold on the shoes of Ethiopian-born Sifan Hassan, who is making a smooth transition from middle distance to the long races. Coleman grabbed the headline five weeks after his name started showing up in the headlines. The leak of information about his troubles with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency opened up a spigot of allegations and recriminations that followed him to Doha and could stay with him on the road to next year’s Tokyo Olympics. His case involved three “whereabouts failures” that occurred between June 6, 2018 and April 26,

2019. Three failures in a 12-month span can trigger an anti-doping violation. But the rules are technical, and there’s a difference between not being where you say you’re going to be and simply failing to update the app that tells authorities where you can be found. Because of those details, Coleman’s first violation was backdated to April 1, 2018 – the start of the three-month period at which the original information is supposed to be inputted. That took his first violation out of the 12-month window and compelled USADA to drop the case. It allowed Coleman to race here in Doha, but couldn’t strip away the words “Coleman” and “Doping” that appeared in

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and couldn’t throw.” She saw a chiropractor who gave her exercises that did the trick – and saved her season. “That’s why this is so emotional,” she said. On Saturday, Price wrote a few tips to remember in Sharpie on her left arm: “Relax my left arm. Walk straight back. Keep my head back on entry.” She followed through. Price started off with a throw of 252 feet, 2 inches (76.87 meters) to take the lead, which was followed by a foul. She unleashed a throw of 254-4 (77.54) on her third attempt. It was good enough to hold off runner-up Joanna Fiodorow of Poland. Zheng Wang of China was third. The other American in the final, Pan Am Games gold medalist Gwen Berry, failed to get a clean throw in the final Saturday. The event was missing the gold standard: World record holder and Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland. She didn’t compete at worlds due to an injury. Price recalled being in awe of Wlodarczyk in 2015 when she made the world team that year. “I remember actually sitting next to Anita and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m sitting next to someone who can throw 80 (meters),’ ” Price recounted. “I never thought this opportunity would come. Now I’m throwing 78 (meters).” She joked with Fiodorow and Zheng at the post-race news conference. As Price was talking, Fiodorow gave her rabbit ears behind her head. Price proceeded to give Zheng an embrace. It’s true – hammer throwers are one, big happy family. A growing family, perhaps? “I’m hoping that with my story that people can see you don’t have to start out really young,” Price said. “You can start in high school, or college and you can be a worldclass athlete as long as you put in time.”

headlines worldwide. Coleman, who has been subject to more than 20 doping tests over the past two years and never been hit with a positive, posted a long YouTube video to explain the situation. He came to Doha thinking that would calm things down. It hasn’t, and at this point – with the 200meter qualifying starting Sunday and relays on his plate later next week – he’s done trying. “I’m not spending much time trying to explain things to people who aren’t interested in the truth,” he said. Best, perhaps, to let his running do the talking. With Tokyo a mere 10 months away, Gatlin, who came in as defending champion, bronze medalist Andre De Grasse and Yohan Blake of Jamaica found out just how much room they have to make up. When did Coleman know he had it wrapped up? “From the start,” he said. “I got up on top of everybody. … I knew that if I was being patient, the end would take care of itself.” At the end, Coleman let out a primal scream, then pounded his chest twice and jogged a half-circle around the track, shouting into the stands. He blew a couple of kisses toward the heavens and kneeled for a brief second.


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HOUSTON 6, L.A. ANGELS 3

AMERICAN LEAGUE THURSDAY’S RESULTS Minnesota 10, Detroit 4 Chi. White Sox 8, Cleveland 0 Oakland 3, Seattle 1

Texas 7, Boston 5 L.A. Angels 4, Houston 3 (12)

FRIDAY’S RESULTS Detroit at Chi. White Sox, ppd. Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 2 N.Y. Yankees 14, Texas 7 Houston 4, L.A. Angels 0

Detroit at Chi. White Sox, late cancelled Baltimore 4, Boston 1 Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m. Seattle 4, Oakland 3

SATURDAY’S RESULTS Chi. White Sox 7, Detroit 1 Baltimore 9, Boston 4 Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 1 Houston 6, L.A. Angels 3

Detroit 4, Chi. White Sox 3, 2nd game Minnesota 4, Kansas City 3 Texas 9, N.Y. Yankees 4 Oakland 1, Seattle 0

TODAY’S GAMES Baltimore (Shepherd, 0-0, 7.71) at Boston (Rodriguez, 19-6, 3.80) ............2:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Green, 4-4, 4.24) at Texas (Lynn, 15-11, 3.76).........................2:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Snell, 6-7, 4.21) at Toronto (Buchholz, 1-5, 7.00) .....................2:07 p.m. Houston (Cole, 19-5, 2.52) at L.A. Angels (Peters, 4-3, 4.72)........................2:07 p.m. Oakland (Roark, 10-9, 4.32) at Seattle (Dunn, 0-0, 3.86) .............................2:10 p.m. Detroit (Turnbull, 3-16, 4.59) at Chi. White Sox (Detwiler, 3-5, 6.85) ..........2:10 p.m. Minnesota (Perez, 10-7, 5.13) at Kansas City (Lopez, 4-9, 6.35)....................2:15 p.m. WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Tampa Bay at Oakland, 7:09 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE THURSDAY’S RESULTS Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 3 San Francisco 8, Colorado 3 Pittsburgh 9, Chi. Cubs 5

L.A. Dodgers 1, San Diego 0 Washington 6, Philadelphia 3 Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 2

FRIDAY’S RESULTS Philadelphia 5, Miami 4 (15) N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 2 Chi. Cubs 8, St. Louis 2 L.A. Dodgers 9, San Francisco 2

Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5 Colorado 11, Milwaukee 7 Arizona 6, San Diego 3

SATURDAY’S RESULTS L.A. Dodgers 2, San Francisco 0 Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 2 (12) N.Y. Mets 3, Atlanta 0 Colorado 3, Milwaukee 2 (10)

Philadelphia 9, Miami 3 Chi. Cubs 8, St. Louis 6 Arizona 6, San Diego 5

TODAY’S GAMES Miami (Alcantara, 5-14, 3.95) at Philadelphia (Parker, 3-2, 4.18) ..................2:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Mahle, 2-12, 5.34) at Pittsburgh (Williams, 7-8, 5.52).................2:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Hill, 4-1, 2.59) at San Francisco (Rodriguez, 6-10, 5.27).......2:05 p.m. San Diego (Baez, 1-1, 3.25) at Arizona (Walker, 0-0) ....................................2:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Houser, 6-7, 3.86) at Colorado (Hoffman, 2-6, 6.78) ................2:10 p.m. Atlanta (Soroka, 13-4, 2.60) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard, 10-8, 4.30) ...........2:10 p.m. Chi. Cubs (Holland, 2-4, 5.47) at St. Louis (Flaherty, 10-8, 2.85) ..................2:15 p.m. TUESDAY’S GAMES Chi. White Sox at Washington, 7:08 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE THURSDAY None scheduled FRIDAY’S RESULT Washington 8, Cleveland 2 SATURDAY’S RESULT Washington 10, Cleveland 7 TODAY’S GAME Cleveland (Clevinger, 13-3, 2.39) at Washington (Ross, 3-4, 5.90) ..............2:05 p.m.

Houston Springer rf Tucker pr-rf Altuve 2b Bregman ss Mayfield ss Alvarez dh Gurriel 1b Diaz 3b Reddick lf Straw lf Chirinos c Marisnick cf Totals

AB 2 1 5 3 0 4 4 3 4 0 3 4 33

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 3 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 6 6 6 5 9

Avg. .288 .281 .295 .296 .161 .321 .299 .267 .276 .269 .240 .234

Los Angeles Fletcher 2b Goodwin cf Pujols dh Calhoun rf Simmons ss K.Smith c Walsh 1b Ward lf Cowart 3b Totals

AB 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 3 32

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 3 1 13

Avg. .293 .264 .245 .231 .261 .251 .211 .211 .211

Houston 000 005 100 — 6 6 0 Los Angeles 100 200 000 — 3 5 0 LOB—Houston 6, Los Angeles 4. 2B—Altuve (25). 3B—Marisnick (2). HR—Altuve (30), off Suarez; Reddick (13), off Bard; Goodwin (16), off Verlander; Simmons (6), off Verlander. RBIs—Altuve 3 (70), Reddick 3 (53), Goodwin (46), Simmons 2 (37). SB—Gurriel (4). Runners left in scoring position—Houston 3 (Marisnick, Gurriel, Bregman); Los Angeles 0. RISP—Houston 1 for 7; Los Angeles 0 for 1. Runners moved up—Gurriel. GIDP—Cowart. DP—Houston 1 (Gurriel, Bregman). Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Verlander, W, 6 4 3 3 0 12 80 2.53 20-6 Rondon, H, 18 1 0 0 0 1 0 13 3.77 Pressly, H, 30 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2.36 Osuna, S, 37-43 1 1 0 0 0 1 10 2.67 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suarez 5 3 2 2 2 6 84 7.34 Bard, L, 3-2, BS, 1 1 3 3 1 2 25 4.31 0-0 1 Middleton ⁄3 1 1 1 2 0 13 0.00 2 Mejia ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 6 3.65 Anderson 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 5.80 T.Cole 1 1 0 0 0 0 20 6.16 Inherited runners-scored—Mejia 2-0. HBP—Bard (Diaz), Rondon (Walsh). WP—Verlander. Umpires—Home, Larry Vanover; First, Alfonso Marquez; Second, Dave Rackley; Third, Ben May. T—2:55. A—35,814 (45,050).

OAKLAND 1, SEATTLE 0 Oakland Semien ss Laureano rf Chapman 3b Olson 1b Canha cf Davis dh Pinder lf Grossman lf Brown ph-lf S.Murphy c Neuse 2b Totals

AB 3 4 4 4 3 3 2 0 1 4 3 31

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 6 1 4 8

Avg. .286 .288 .249 .269 .273 .218 .239 .240 .310 .265 .280

Seattle Long 2b Crawford ss Nola 1b Seager 3b Lewis rf T.Murphy c Gordon pr Santana dh Narvaez ph-dh Broxton pr-dh Moore ph-dh Lopes lf Smith cf Totals

AB 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 33

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 6

Avg. .276 .231 .268 .239 .270 .270 .274 .253 .278 .115 .206 .271 .228

Oakland 001 000 000 — 1 6 0 Seattle 000 000 000 — 0 6 0 LOB—Oakland 7, Seattle 8. 2B—Pinder (20).

W

L

Pct

GB

Hm

Aw

RS

RA

Diff

Str

L10

105 84 77 70 70

56 77 84 91 91

.652 .522 .478 .435 .435

21 28 35 35

59-22 43-37 35-45 42-38 36-45

46-34 41-40 42-39 28-53 34-46

877 812 678 831 682

613 743 764 955 788

264 69 -86 -124 -106

W6 W4 L2 W2 L5

8-2 7-3 4-6 4-6 2-8

HR—Laureano (23), off Gonzales. RBIs—Laureano (66). SB—Smith (45), Canha (2). Runners left in scoring position—Oakland 4 (S.Murphy 2, Davis); Seattle 4 (Crawford, Long, Smith, Lopes). RISP—Oakland 0 for 5; Seattle 0 for 6. GIDP—S.Murphy, Olson. DP—Seattle 2 (Long, Crawford, Nola; Seager, Long, Nola). Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Anderson, W, 5 3 0 0 1 3 73 4.00 12-9 Petit, H, 28 1 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 16 2.78 Diekman, H, 12 1⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 13 4.50 Luzardo, S, 1-1 2 1 0 0 0 3 27 1.80 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gonzales, L, 7 5 1 1 3 4 118 4.09 16-12 Tuivailala 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 2.45 1 Guilbeau ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 4 3.75 2 Magill ⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 18 3.74 HBP—Luzardo (Moore). WP—Luzardo. Umpires—Home, Ryan Blakney; First, Marvin Hudson; Second, Angel Hernandez; Third, Chad Fairchild. T—2:41. A—26,401 (47,943).

BALTIMORE 9, BOSTON 4 Baltimore Villar 2b Stewart rf Hays cf Mancini lf Ruiz 3b Nunez dh Davis 1b Wilkerson cf-rf Wynns c Martin ss Totals

AB 4 4 0 5 5 5 3 3 4 4 37

R H BI BB SO 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 9 12 9 4 10

Avg. .274 .238 .313 .291 .232 .246 .179 .226 .227 .204

Boston AB Bradley Jr. cf 5 Devers 3b 5 Bogaerts ss 4 Martinez dh 4 Travis lf 3 Holt 1b 4 G.Hernandez rf 2 Owings 2b 2 M.Hrnandez ph-2b 2 Leon c 4 Totals 35

R H BI BB SO 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 9 4 5 7

Avg. .226 .308 .309 .305 .215 .298 .130 .156 .252 .192

Baltimore 211 004 001 — 9 12 0 Boston 300 001 000 — 4 9 0 LOB—Baltimore 6, Boston 9. 2B—Villar (33), Davis (9), Martin (8). HR—Stewart (4), off Chacin; Martin (6), off Chacin; Nunez (31), off Chacin; Mancini (35), off Smith; Bogaerts (33), off Means; Martinez (36), off Means. RBIs—Stewart 2 (15), Martin 2 (23), Nunez (90), Wynns (5), Villar (72), Mancini 2 (96), Bogaerts 2 (116), Martinez (105), Leon (19). SB—Villar (40), Wilkerson (3). CS— Stewart (2). S—Wilkerson. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 2 (Wilkerson, Wynns); Boston 2 (Martinez, Bradley Jr.). RISP—Baltimore 4 for 7; Boston 1 for 8. Runners moved up—Stewart. GIDP—Bradley Jr., Holt. DP—Baltimore 2 (Villar, Martin, Davis; Villar, Martin, Davis). Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Means W,12-11 5 5 3 3 2 5 96 3.60 2 ⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 23 5.13 Armstrong 2 Tan.Scott H,2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 7 4.78 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 2 0 29 5.93 Kline 1 Bleier 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 7 5.37 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 10 6.00 Tate Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 2 Chacin L,0-2 2 ⁄3 5 4 4 1 3 60 7.36 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 7 6.94 Poyner Hembree 1 0 0 0 0 1 18 3.86 Brasier 1 0 0 0 1 2 14 4.85 2 Cashner ⁄3 5 4 4 0 0 27 6.20 1 Brewer 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 25 4.12 Smith 2 1 1 1 1 2 38 5.81 Inherited runners-scored—Tan.Scott 2-0, Bleier 1-0, Brewer 1-0. Umpires—Home, Brian O’Nora; First, Mark Ripperger; Second, James Hoye; Third, Shane Livensparger. T—3:37. A—36,414 (37,731).

MINNESOTA 4, KANSAS CITY 3 Minnesota Arraez 3b Torreyes ss Polanco ss LaMarre rf Cruz dh E.Rosario rf Cron 1b Garver c Wade Jr lf Astudillo 1b-3b Schoop 2b Miller cf Totals

AB 4 1 3 0 4 4 0 3 4 4 4 4 35

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 9 4 1 6

Avg. .334 .154 .297 .227 .311 .276 .253 .273 .212 .271 .259 .214

Kansas City Merrifield rf Phillips pr-rf Soler dh Dozier 3b Gordon lf Cuthbert 1b O’Hearn ph-1b Mejia cf Arteaga ss Lopez 2b McBroom ph Dini c Totals

AB 4 0 3 4 3 3 1 4 4 3 0 4 33

R H BI BB SO 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 3 3 13

Avg. .303 .143 .265 .279 .267 .249 .193 .222 .185 .240 .296 .173

Minnesota 010 011 010 — 4 9 0 Kansas City 100 000 200 — 3 7 0 E—Arteaga (3). LOB—Minnesota 6, Kansas City 6. 2B—Garver 2 (16), Astudillo (9), Cruz (26), Miller (1). HR—Cruz (41), off Barnes; Soler (46), off Stashak; Soler (47), off Duffey. RBIs—Astudillo 2 (21), Polanco (78), Cruz (108), Soler 3 (116). SB—Merrifield (20). SF—Polanco. Runners left in scoring position—Minnesota 2 (Miller, E.Rosario); Kansas City 3 (Cuthbert, Dozier). RISP—Minnesota 3 for 8; Kansas City 0 for 3. Runners moved up—Arraez. GIDP—Dini. DP—Minnesota 1 (Schoop, Cron). Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Stashak 2 2 1 1 0 2 24 3.24 Gibson 1 1 0 0 2 2 32 4.85 Littell 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 2.68 Thorpe, H, 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 17 5.93 May, H, 17 1 1 0 0 0 2 17 2.94 Duffey, W, 5-1 1 2 2 2 0 2 19 2.50 Romo, H, 16 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.18 Rogers, S, 30-36 1 0 0 0 1 1 11 2.61 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sparkman 5 5 2 2 1 4 90 6.02 Hill 1 2 1 1 0 1 19 3.63 R.Rosario 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 0.00 Barnes, L, 0-4 1 1 1 1 0 1 22 8.31 Barlow 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 4.22 Umpires—Home, Paul Nauert; First, John Libka; Second, Ed Hickox; Third, Carlos Torres. T—3:04. A—21,995 (37,903).

TORONTO 4, TAMPA BAY 1 Tampa Bay Wendle ss Robertson ph-ss Meadows rf Pham lf B.Lowe 2b Aguilar dh N.Lowe 1b Duffy 3b Perez c Heredia cf McKay ph Joh.Davis cf Totals

AB 3 1 4 2 2 4 4 4 2 2 1 0 29

R H BI BB SO Avg. 0 0 0 0 1 .231 0 0 0 0 1 .207 0 0 0 0 2 .291 0 1 0 2 1 .274 0 0 0 2 1 .270 0 0 0 0 1 .267 0 0 0 0 1 .265 1 2 1 0 1 .255 0 0 0 2 2 .217 0 0 0 0 1 .223 0 0 0 0 0 .200 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1 3 1 6 12

Toronto Hernandez cf-lf Biggio 2b Grichuk rf Tellez 1b Drury 3b Smoak dh Fisher pr-dh Alford lf McKinney ph Jon.Davis cf Jansen c Urena ss Totals

AB 2 3 4 4 3 3 0 2 1 0 3 4 29

R H BI BB SO 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 8 4 5 9

Tampa Bay

000

000

Avg. .227 .235 .233 .227 .218 .205 .163 .192 .215 .173 .207 .257

100 — 1 3 0

TUESDAY None scheduled WEDNESDAY None scheduled

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL HISTORY SEPT. 29 1913 — Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators finished the season with 36 victories by virtue of a 1-0 decision over the Philadelphia A’s. 1915 — The Philadelphia Phillies clinched their first NL pennant, beating the Boston Braves, 5-0, behind Grover Alexander’s one-hitter. 1954 — Willie Mays made his famous over-theshoulder catch of Vic Wertz’s long drive to center field and pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes homered off Bob Lemon in the 10th inning to lead the New York Giants to a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the World Series. 1963 — John Paciorek of the Houston Colt .45s, in his only major league appearance, went 3-for-3 with three RBIs and four runs scored against the New York Mets. A back injury ended his baseball career the next season. 1976 — John Montefusco of the San Francisco Giants pitched a 9-0 no-hitter over the Braves in Atlanta. 1983 — Mike Warren of the Oakland A’s pitched a no-hitter to beat the Chicago White Sox, 3-0. 1986 — Minnesota’s Bert Blyleven broke Robin

Roberts’ 1956 record of 46 home run pitches in a season when he gave up a two-out, third-inning homer to Cleveland rookie Jay Bell. It was the first major league pitch Bell had seen. Despite giving up two more homers, Blyleven was the winner when the Twins rallied in the eighth for a 6-5 victory. 1986 — Chicago Cubs rookie Greg Maddux defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 8-3 in the City of Brotherly Love. The losing pitcher was his brother, Mike, also a rookie. It was the first time brothers faced each other as rookie pitchers. 1996 — Brady Anderson of the Baltimore Orioles became the 14th player to reach the 50-homer mark in a 4-1 loss at Toronto. Anderson’s previous season high was 21. 2001 — Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki set the major league rookie record for hits in a season but the Mariners fell to Oakland 8-4. Suzuki got his 234th hit, breaking the previous rookie mark set by Shoeless Joe Jackson with Cleveland in 1911. 2011 — The Tampa Bay Rays clinched the AL wild card with a stunning rally, overcoming a late seven-run deficit and then beating the New York Yankees 8-7 on Evan Longoria’s home run in the 12th inning. The Rays’ win came four minutes after

Boston blew a one-run lead in the ninth at Baltimore and lost 4-3. The Red Sox held a nine-game lead over the Rays in early September. Boston became the first team to miss the postseason after leading by as many as nine games for a playoff spot entering September. 2011 — Chris Carpenter and St. Louis completed one of the more remarkable comebacks in baseball history, clinching the NL wild card with an 8-0 win over Houston and a later loss by Atlanta. The Cardinals got their playoff spot when the Braves fell to Philadelphia 4-3 in 13 innings. St. Louis trailed Atlanta by 10 1/2 games on Aug. 25. The Cardinals won 23 of their last 31 games. 2013 — On the last day of the season, Miami’s Henderson Alvarez pitched one of baseball’s most bizarre no-hitters. Alvarez celebrated in the on-deck circle when the Marlins score on a two-out wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0. Today’s birthdays: Tyler Mahle 25;Branden Kline 28.


SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29 2019

Toronto 300 000 10x — 4 8 0 LOB—Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 8. 2B—Tellez (18), Urena (6). 3B—Grichuk (5). HR—Duffy (1), off Gaviglio; Hernandez (25), off Yarbrough. RBIs— Duffy (12), Hernandez (62), Grichuk (80), Tellez (54), Urena (4). SB—Pham (24), Alford (2). CS—Drury (1). Runners left in scoring position—Tampa Bay 2 (Aguilar, Duffy); Toronto 5 (Urena 2, Tellez). RISP—Tampa Bay 0 for 3; Toronto 1 for 8. Runners moved up—Aguilar, Drury. GIDP—McKay, Smoak, Grichuk. DP—Tampa Bay 3 (Duffy, B.Lowe, N.Lowe; Wendle, B.Lowe, N.Lowe; Perez, Wendle, Perez); Toronto 1 (Tellez, Urena). Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Yarbrough, L, 5 5 3 3 2 3 79 4.13 11-6 Fairbanks 1 0 0 0 1 2 17 5.11 1 Castillo ⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 22 3.41 Beeks 1 2⁄3 1 0 0 1 3 30 4.31 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Thornton, W, 5 1 0 0 4 8 103 4.84 6-9 Adam, H, 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 13 3.00 2 Gaviglio, H, 5 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 12 4.61 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 15 4.05 Boshers, H, 4 2 Law, H, 8 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 7 4.90 Giles, S, 23-24 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 1.87 Inherited runners-scored—Beeks 2-0. IBB—off Yarbrough (Jansen). HBP—Yarbrough (Smoak), Beeks (Biggio). Umpires—Home, Tony Randazzo; First, Jeff Nelson; Second, Adam Hamari; Third, Laz Diaz. T—3:17. A—20,293 (53,506).

CHI. WHITE SOX 7, DETROIT 1 Detroit Reyes cf H.Castro 2b Cabrera dh Stewart lf Lugo 3b Dixon rf Hicks 1b Greiner c W.Castro ss Totals

AB 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 30

R H BI BB SO 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 1 1 11

Avg. .301 .291 .281 .240 .252 .246 .210 .205 .237

Chicago Garcia lf Mendick ss Abreu 1b E.Jimenez dh Moncada 3b Castillo c Sanchez 2b Engel cf Cordell rf Totals

AB 3 5 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 33

R H BI BB SO 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 10 6 4 7

Avg. .279 .314 .283 .267 .314 .207 .256 .244 .221

Detroit 100 000 000 — 1 5 1 Chicago 002 202 10x — 7 10 0 E—H.Castro (7). LOB—Detroit 3, Chicago 7. 2B—Hicks (15), Sanchez (20). HR—Cabrera (11), off Lopez; Mendick (2), off Jackson; E.Jimenez (31), off Jackson. RBIs—Cabrera (58), Cordell (24), Sanchez (43), Garcia (40), Mendick 2 (4), E.Jimenez (78). SB—Cordell (3). CS—Reyes (3). S—Garcia. Runners left in scoring position—Detroit 1 (Stewart); Chicago 4 (E.Jimenez, Mendick, Sanchez). RISP—Detroit 1 for 4; Chicago 4 for 10. GIDP—Mendick. DP—Detroit 1 (H.Castro, W.Castro, Hicks). Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Boyd, L, 9-12 4 6 4 2 1 4 74 4.56 Jackson 3 4 3 3 2 2 61 8.47 Soto 1 0 0 0 1 1 16 5.77 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lopez, W, 10-15 8 5 1 1 1 9 105 5.38 Herrera 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 6.08 Inherited runners-scored—Herrera 1-0. WP— Jackson, Herrera(2). PB—Greiner (4). Umpires—Home, Jerry Meals; First, Tom Woodring; Second, Gabe Morales; Third, Chris Segal. T—2:41. .

DETROIT 4, CHI. WHITE SOX 3 Detroit Reyes cf Mercer ss Candelario 1b Stewart dh Rodriguez lf Dixon lf Lugo 3b Demeritte rf Rogers c Hicks ph-c Beckham 2b Totals

AB 5 4 4 3 4 0 4 3 3 1 4 35

R H BI BB SO 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 8 4 2 9

Avg. .303 .266 .204 .236 .217 .246 .245 .229 .125 .213 .215

Chicago Garcia rf Anderson ss Abreu 1b E.Jimenez lf McCann c Sanchez 2b Mendick 3b Moncada ph Collins dh Engel cf Palka ph Totals

AB 4 2 4 4 4 4 3 1 3 3 1 33

R H BI BB SO 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 3 2 9

Avg. .279 .337 .283 .267 .273 .254 .316 .315 .193 .246 .111

Detroit 000 001 003 — 4 8 0 Chicago 020 000 001 — 3 8 1 E—Anderson (26). LOB—Detroit 7, Chicago 6. 2B—Candelario (17), Reyes (16), Engel (10). HR—Hicks (13), off Colome; Moncada (25), off J.Jimenez. RBIs—Candelario (32), Hicks 3 (35), Collins 2 (12), Moncada (78). Runners left in scoring position—Detroit 5 (Demeritte, Lugo, Stewart, Mercer); Chicago 4 (Garcia, Engel, McCann). RISP—Detroit 2 for 9; Chicago 1 for 7. Runners moved up—Lugo. LIDP—Abreu. GIDP— Lugo, Abreu. DP—Detroit 2 (Lugo, Candelario, Lugo; Mercer, Beckham, Candelario); Chicago 1 (Mendick, Sanchez, Abreu). Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Alexander 5 7 2 2 2 4 86 4.86 Cisnero 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 4.33 Garcia 1 0 0 0 0 2 10 12.15 Farmer, W, 6-6 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 3.72 J.Jimenez, S, 1 1 1 1 0 1 11 4.37 9-14 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nova 5 3 1 1 2 4 83 4.72 Bummer, H, 26 2 1 0 0 0 2 18 2.16 Marshall, H, 18 1 1 0 0 0 2 18 2.52 Colome, L, 4-5, 2 ⁄3 3 3 2 0 1 30 2.80 BS, 30-33 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2.80 Cordero Inherited runners-scored—Bummer 3-1, Cordero 1-0. HBP—Alexander (Collins), Nova (Demeritte). WP—Alexander. Umpires—Home, Ron Kulpa; First, Gabe Morales; Second, Chris Segal; Third, Tom Woodring. T—2:58. A—25,552 (40,615).

WASHINGTON 10, CLEVELAND 7 Cleveland Zimmer cf Lindor ss Rodriguez p Mercado ph-rf Luplow lf Reyes rf Hoyt p Otero p Allen ph

AB 5 2 0 3 3 3 0 0 0

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Avg. .000 .283 --.270 .276 .241 ----.230

Maton p Flaherty ph Bauers 1b Chang 3b-ss Haase c Velazquez 2b Plutko p Wood p Freeman ph-3b Totals

0 1 3 3 4 4 0 0 4 35

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 7

0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 9

0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 7

0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 12

--.143 .222 .186 .071 .100 .000 --.277

Washington Turner ss Eaton rf Taylor cf Rendon 3b Soto lf Cabrera 2b Zimmerman 1b Parra cf-rf Gomes c Corbin p Suero p Stevenson ph Guerra p Rodney p Adams ph Hudson p Doolittle p Totals

AB R H BI BB SO 5 0 1 0 0 2 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 1 0 4 2 1 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 0 1 4 2 2 4 0 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 10 11 10 5 8

Avg. .295 .280 .233 .319 .281 .323 .259 .242 .223 .092 .000 .370 .000 --.229 --.000

Cleveland 000 420 001 — 7 9 0 Washington 090 100 00x — 10 11 0 LOB—Cleveland 6, Washington 6. 2B—Velazquez (1), Reyes (10), Turner (37), Rendon (44), Soto (31). HR—Luplow (14), off Corbin; Haase (1), off Corbin; Reyes (10), off Corbin; Luplow (15), off Doolittle; Parra (8), off Wood. RBIs—Luplow 2 (38), Haase 3 (3), Reyes 2 (35), Corbin (4), Eaton (49), Rendon 2 (126), Cabrera (40), Parra 4 (39), Zimmerman (27). CS—Stevenson (1). Runners left in scoring position—Cleveland 2 (Lindor, Mercado); Washington 2 (Cabrera, Gomes). RISP—Cleveland 1 for 8; Washington 6 for 13. Runners moved up—Zimmer. GIDP—Chang. DP—Washington 1 (Turner, Cabrera, Zimmerman). Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Plutko, L, 7-5 1 1⁄3 7 8 8 2 3 48 4.86 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 6 3.86 Wood Rodriguez 2 2 1 1 1 1 33 4.63 Hoyt 1 1 0 0 1 1 15 2.16 Otero 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 4.85 Maton 2 0 0 0 1 2 24 2.92 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Corbin 4 1⁄3 7 6 6 2 8 94 3.25 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 12 4.54 Suero Guerra 1 1 0 0 0 1 11 4.86 Rodney 1 0 0 0 2 0 15 4.05 Hudson, W, 3-0 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 1.44 Doolittle 1 1 1 1 0 0 21 4.05 Inherited runners-scored—Wood 3-3. IBB—off Plutko (Soto). HBP—Plutko (Eaton). PB—Gomes (10). Umpires—Home, Bruce Dreckman; First, Cory Blaser; Second, Eric Cooper; Third, Joe West. T—3:10. A—38,435 (41,313).

L.A. DODGERS 2, S.F. 0 Los Angeles Pederson rf Negron ph-rf Muncy 1b-3b Maeda p Jansen p Taylor lf Bellinger cf Hernandez cf Seager ss Beaty 3b Freese ph-1b Rios ph-1b Lux 2b Martin c Ryu p Gyorko ph-3b Totals

AB 3 1 3 0 0 4 3 1 4 2 1 1 3 3 2 1 32

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 2 1 9

Avg. .248 .245 .252 .250 .000 .257 .303 .240 .272 .267 .315 .283 .239 .220 .157 .156

San Francisco Solano 2b Belt ph Adames pr-2b Dubon ss Posey c Longoria 3b Pillar cf Slater 1b Vogt ph Davis rf Rickard lf Dickerson ph Webb p Suarez p Abad p Yastrzemski ph Rogers p Totals

AB 3 1 0 4 4 3 4 3 1 4 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 34

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 12

Avg. .333 .235 .333 .290 .256 .254 .264 .241 .263 .150 .286 .294 .111 .000 --.272 ---

Los Angeles 000 011 000 — 2 7 0 San Francisco 000 000 000 — 0 7 0 LOB—Los Angeles 4, S.F. 8. 2B—Bellinger (34), Lux (4). HR—Muncy (35), off Webb. RBIs—Ryu (3), Muncy (98). Runners left in scoring position—Los Angeles 1 (Seager); S.F. 3 (Pillar, Solano, Dickerson). RISP— Los Angeles 1 for 3; S.F. 0 for 6. Runners moved up—Martin. LIDP—Taylor. GIDP—Taylor. DP—S.F. 2 (Slater; Solano, Dubon, Slater). Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ryu, W, 14-5 7 5 0 0 0 7 97 2.32 Maeda, H, 4 1 1 0 0 0 2 16 4.04 Jansen, S, 33-41 1 1 0 0 0 3 22 3.71 San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Webb, L, 2-3 6 6 2 2 1 5 90 5.22 Suarez 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 5.79 Abad 1 0 0 0 0 0 16 4.15 Rogers 1 1 0 0 0 3 15 1.08 HBP—Jansen (Longoria). Umpires—Home, Roberto Ortiz; First, Manny Gonzalez; Second, Sam Holbrook; Third, Jim Wolf. T—2:40. A—37,518 (41,915).

PHILADELPHIA 9, MIAMI 3 Miami Berti cf Rojas ss Walker 1b Castro 3b Alfaro c Diaz 2b Ramirez rf Dean lf Guerrero p J.Smith p Prado ph C.Smith p Quijada p Brinson ph Chen p Granderson lf Totals

AB 3 4 4 3 4 3 4 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 33

R H BI BB SO 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 3 3 8

Avg. .274 .284 .260 .270 .262 .171 .273 .229 ----.232 .233 .000 .173 .000 .185

Philadelphia Hernandez 2b Gosselin lf Harper rf Hoskins 1b Rodriguez ss Franco 3b Haseley cf Grullon c Eflin p Pivetta p Totals

AB 4 5 4 3 2 4 4 4 3 0 33

R H BI BB SO 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 9 10 9 5 3

Avg. .280 .266 .259 .226 .227 .234 .263 .111 .160 .080

Miami Philadelphia

000 123

001 003

020 — 3 7 2 00x — 9 10 0

E—Dean (4), Berti (3). LOB—Miami 6, Philadelphia 6. 2B—Alfaro (14), Grullon (1). 3B—Ramirez (3). HR—Walker (8), off Eflin; Hernandez (14), off C.Smith; Franco (17), off C.Smith; Harper (35), off Chen. RBIs—Castro (85), Walker 2 (38), Hernandez (71), Franco 2 (56), Haseley 2 (26), Grullon (1), Harper 3 (114). SB—Harper (15). Runners left in scoring position—Miami 2 (Diaz, Granderson); Philadelphia 3 (Gosselin, Eflin, Hoskins). RISP—Miami 1 for 4; Philadelphia 4 for 9. Runners moved up—Walker. GIDP—C.Smith, Franco, Haseley. DP—Miami 2 (Rojas, Diaz, Walker; Rojas, Walker); Philadelphia 1 (Franco, Rodriguez, Hernandez). Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA C.Smith, L, 3 5 6 5 4 1 71 4.52 10-11 Quijada 1 0 0 0 0 0 22 5.76 Chen 2 3 3 0 0 2 27 6.59 Guerrero 1 2 0 0 1 0 15 6.26 J.Smith 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 8.31 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Eflin, W, 10-13 7 2⁄3 6 3 3 2 6 108 4.13 Pivetta 1 1⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 24 5.38 Inherited runners-scored—J.Smith 1-0. HBP— Quijada (Harper). PB—Alfaro (11). Umpires—Home, Chad Whitson; First, Bill Miller; Second, Ramon De Jesus; Third, Chris Conroy. T—3:06. A—25,156 (43,647).

CHI. CUBS 8, ST. LOUIS 6 Chicago Kemp rf-lf Hoerner 2b Schwarber lf Strop p Kintzler p Happ cf-rf Lucroy c Caratini 1b Russell ss Bote 3b Hamels p Descalso ph Ryan p Phelps p Wieck p Cishek p Almora Jr. ph-cf Totals

AB 5 4 5 0 0 5 5 5 5 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 42

R H BI BB SO 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 16 8 1 7

Avg. .192 .293 .250 ----.268 .189 .266 .239 .258 .143 .174 .000 ----.000 .236

St. Louis Fowler rf C.Martinez p Edman 2b Goldschmidt 1b Ozuna lf Molina c Carpenter 3b DeJong ss Bader cf Wainwright p Leone p O’Neill ph Webb p Ravelo ph Brebbia p Miller p J.Martinez ph Arozarena rf Totals

AB 3 0 4 5 4 4 4 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 32

R H BI BB SO Avg. 1 0 0 2 2 .236 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 2 3 0 1 .307 0 1 0 0 2 .256 0 0 0 1 1 .242 0 1 0 0 0 .271 0 0 0 0 4 .226 1 1 1 0 1 .234 2 1 1 1 1 .207 0 0 0 0 1 .160 0 0 0 0 0 --1 0 0 1 0 .262 0 0 0 0 0 --1 0 0 1 0 .205 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 1 .269 0 0 0 0 0 .316 6 6 5 6 14

Chicago 102 030 020 — 8 16 1 St. Louis 000 030 210 — 6 6 0 E—Strop (1). LOB—Chicago 9, St. Louis 8. 3B—Edman (7). HR—Schwarber (38), off Wainwright; Happ 2 (11), off Wainwright; Caratini (11), off Wainwright; Bader (12), off Ryan; DeJong (30), off Strop. RBIs—Schwarber (92), Happ 4 (30), Caratini (34), Kemp (12), Hoerner (17), Bader (39), Edman 3 (36), DeJong (78). SB—Bote (5). SF— Hoerner. Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 4 (Kemp, Hoerner, Bote); St. Louis 3 (Ozuna, Molina, Fowler). RISP—Chicago 3 for 8; St. Louis 2 for 7. Runners moved up—Schwarber, Kemp, Goldschmidt. GIDP—Goldschmidt. DP—Chicago 1 (Bote, Caratini). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hamels 4 2 0 0 0 8 67 3.81 1 Ryan ⁄3 1 3 3 2 1 24 3.54 Phelps 1 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 30 3.18 Wieck 0 0 2 2 2 0 15 3.60 Cishek, W, 4-6 1 1 0 0 1 0 9 2.95 Strop, H, 6 1 1 1 1 1 3 27 4.97 Kintzler, S, 1-3 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 2.68 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Wainwright, L, 4 1⁄3 12 6 6 0 3 84 4.19 14-10 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 6 5.53 Leone Webb 2 0 0 0 0 1 19 3.76 1 Brebbia ⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 16 3.59 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 7 4.45 Miller C.Martinez 1 2 0 0 0 1 26 3.23 Wieck pitched to 3 batters in the 7th Inherited runners-scored—Phelps 2-2, Cishek 3-2, Leone 1-0, Miller 2-2. HBP—Hamels (Molina), Wieck (Bader), Kintzler (Edman). WP—Wieck. Umpires—Home, Fieldin Cubreth; First, Doug Eddings; Second, CB Bucknor; Third, Will Little. T—3:46. A—46,971 (45,538).

N.Y. METS 3, ATLANTA 0 Atlanta Swanson ss Albies 2b Freeman 1b Donaldson 3b Markakis rf Duvall lf Martin p McCann c Cervelli c Hamilton cf Joyce ph Foltynewicz p Fried p Ortega lf Totals

AB 5 4 3 3 3 4 0 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 31

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 5 12

Avg. .251 .298 .294 .259 .287 .263 --.252 .310 .250 .291 .057 .196 .193

New York Nimmo cf Alonso 1b Cano 2b Conforto rf J.Davis lf Brach p Diaz p Rosario ss Frazier 3b Rivera c Matz p Familia p R.Davis lf Totals

AB 3 3 3 3 2 0 0 3 3 3 2 0 1 26

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 3 2 11

Avg. .221 .260 .258 .255 .305 ----.286 .247 .250 .228 --.208

Atlanta 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 New York 003 000 00x — 3 4 0 LOB—Atlanta 10, New York 1. 3B—Duvall (1). HR—Rivera (1), off Foltynewicz; Alonso (53), off Foltynewicz. RBIs—Rivera 2 (3), Alonso (120). CS—Rosario (9). Runners left in scoring position—Atlanta 4 (Foltynewicz 2, Markakis); New York 0. RISP— Atlanta 0 for 6; New York 1 for 1. GIDP—Alonso. DP—Atlanta 1 (Swanson, Albies, Freeman). Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Foltynewicz 4 3 3 3 1 5 61 4.54 L,8-6 Fried 3 2⁄3 1 0 0 1 5 43 4.02 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 3 4.08 Martin New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Matz W,11-10 6 2 0 0 5 7 98 4.21 Familia H,14 1 1 0 0 0 2 16 5.70 Brach H,2 1 1 0 0 0 1 10 3.68

Diaz S,26-33 1 0 0 0 0 2 10 5.59 IBB—off Matz (Hamilton). HBP—Matz (Donaldson). WP—Foltynewicz, Matz(2). Umpires—Home, Stu Scheuwater; First, Alan Porter; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Mark Wegner. T—2:33. A—32,210 (41,922).

TEXAS 9, N.Y. YANKEES 4 New York LeMahieu 2b Estrada 2b Judge rf Frazier rf Gardner cf Wade ph-cf Stanton lf Maybin lf Voit dh Gregorius ss Urshela 3b Romine c Higashioka c Ford 1b Totals

AB 3 1 3 0 1 2 3 1 3 4 4 2 1 2 30

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 4 7 4 2 7

Avg. .329 .250 .272 .263 .252 .250 .309 .288 .263 .240 .315 .281 .214 .261

Texas Choo dh Andrus ss Calhoun lf Santana cf Odor 2b Heineman rf Guzman 1b Trevino c Kiner-Falefa 3b Totals

AB 4 3 4 3 4 2 3 5 4 32

R H BI BB SO 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 1 2 6 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 9 9 9 11 9

Avg. .264 .273 .268 .282 .204 .213 .218 .250 .238

New York 100 000 003 — 4 7 2 Texas 200 106 00x — 9 9 0 E—Severino (1), Romine (2). LOB—New York 3, Texas 11. 2B—Gregorius (14), Odor (30), Heineman (6), Trevino (9). 3B—Judge (1). HR—Odor (30), off Cortes Jr.. RBIs—Gardner (74), Gregorius 3 (61), Odor 6 (93), Trevino (13), Calhoun (47), KinerFalefa (21). SB—Santana 2 (21), Choo (14), Heineman (1), Odor (11). CS—Odor (9). SF— Gardner. Runners left in scoring position—New York 2 (Judge, Urshela); Texas 7 (Guzman, Odor, Calhoun, Trevino, Choo). RISP—New York 1 for 5; Texas 4 for 14. Runners moved up—LeMahieu. GIDP—Judge, Romine, LeMahieu. DP—Texas 3 (Andrus, Odor, Guzman; Andrus, Odor, Guzman; Kiner-Falefa, Odor, Guzman). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Severino L,1-1 3 1 2 2 4 4 72 1.50 1 Hale ⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 23 3.11 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 7 4.15 Lyons Cessa 1 1⁄3 2 4 4 4 1 40 4.11 2 ⁄3 4 2 2 0 0 28 5.67 Cortes Jr. Heller 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 1.23 Gearrin 1 0 0 0 1 1 18 4.50 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Farrell 2 1 1 1 0 0 24 2.70 Hernandez 2 1 0 0 1 2 31 4.32 W,2-1 Martin H,5 1 1 0 0 0 0 11 4.76 Clase H,4 2 2 0 0 0 1 25 2.31 Montero 1 0 0 0 0 3 19 2.48 Leclerc 1 2 3 3 1 1 24 4.43 Inherited runners-scored—Lyons 2-0, Cortes Jr. 3-3. IBB—off Lyons (Andrus). HBP—Cessa (Guzman), Leclerc (Voit). Umpires—Home, Adrian Johnson; First, Jordan Baker; Second, Alex Tosi; Third, Gary Cederstrom. T—3:17. A—42,870 (49,115).

ARIZONA 6, SAN DIEGO 5 San Diego Margot cf Mejia ph Jankowski pr Myers lf Hosmer 1b Machado 3b Renfroe rf France 2b Urias ss Hedges c Garcia ph Richards p Erlin p Mejias-Brean ph Strahm p Bednar p Reyes p Naylor ph Totals

AB 4 1 0 4 4 3 4 4 4 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 34

R H BI BB SO 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 10 5 3 12

Avg. .234 .270 .158 .239 .267 .254 .214 .234 .226 .176 .248 .000 .000 .233 .286 --.000 .245

Arizona Dyson cf Rojas lf Escobar 2b-3b Walker 1b Lamb 3b Hirano p Ginkel p Jones rf Locastro rf Ahmed ss Avila c Ray p Sherfy p Leyba ph-2b Totals

AB 2 3 4 3 2 0 0 1 3 4 3 2 0 1 28

R H BI BB SO 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 6 5 6 7 6

Avg. .232 .222 .267 .259 .194 ----.260 .250 .255 .207 .073 .000 .280

San Diego 002 101 100 — 5 10 0 Arizona 010 000 50x — 6 5 0 LOB—San Diego 6, Arizona 5. 2B—France (8), Mejia (11), Lamb (8), Dyson (11). 3B—Myers (1). HR—Machado (32), off Ray; Urias (4), off Ray; Hosmer (22), off Sherfy; Walker (28), off Richards; Walker (29), off Bednar. RBIs—Machado 2 (85), Urias 2 (24), Hosmer (99), Walker 5 (73), Dyson (27). SB—Myers (16). CS—Margot (4). S—Richards. Runners left in scoring position—San Diego 4 (Renfroe, Margot, Myers); Arizona 3 (Ahmed, Locastro). RISP—San Diego 2 for 7; Arizona 2 for 6. GIDP—Ahmed. DP—San Diego 1 (France, Hosmer). San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Richards 3 1⁄3 1 1 1 4 4 58 8.31 Erlin 1 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 26 5.37 Strahm, H, 6 1 1 0 0 0 1 11 4.66 Bednar, L, 0-2, 2 ⁄3 3 5 5 2 0 24 6.55 BS, 0-1 Reyes 1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 15 7.62 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ray 6 8 4 4 3 10 105 4.34 Sherfy, W, 1-0 1 1 1 1 0 2 15 5.89 Hirano, H, 15 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 4.75 Ginkel, S, 2-2 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 1.48 Inherited runners-scored—Erlin 2-0. IBB—off Ray (Machado). WP—Erlin. Umpires—Home, Ryan Additon; First, Mike Muchlinski; Second, Rob Drake; Third, Tim Timmons. T—3:05. A—46,477 (48,519).

COLORADO 3, MILWAUKEE 2 Milwaukee Grisham rf Grandal c Moustakas 3b Hiura 2b Taylor cf Thames 1b Cain cf Hader p Albers p Gamel lf Arcia ss G.Gonzalez p Peralta p Suter p

AB 5 3 4 4 0 4 3 0 0 4 4 2 0 0

R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Avg. .242 .247 .255 .309 .333 .249 .258 .000 --.248 .221 .043 .133 .000

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T.Shaw ph Guerra p Pomeranz p Spangenberg 2b Totals

1 0 0 1 35

0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 8

0 0 0 0 2

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11

.157 .333 .000 .250

Colorado Hampson 2b Blackmon rf Story ss Desmond lf McMahon 3b Fuentes 1b Daza cf Nunez c Butera c Tapia ph Diehl p Johnson p Valaika ph Diaz p C.Gonzalez p Pazos p Almonte p Murphy ph Wolters c Hilliard ph-cf Totals

AB 5 5 5 4 3 4 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 37

R H BI BB SO 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 10 3 2 12

Avg. .253 .316 .293 .253 .252 .213 .200 .167 .175 .276 ----.178 --.045 --.000 .278 .263 .268

Milwaukee 000 010 100 0 — 2 8 0 Colorado 000 000 011 1 — 3 10 0 No outs when winning run scored. LOB—Milwaukee 5, Colorado 9. 2B—Moustakas (29), Cain (29), Arcia (15), Gamel (17), Story (37). 3B—Desmond (3). HR—Thames (24), off C.Gonzalez; Desmond (19), off Pomeranz; Hilliard (6), off Hader; Story (34), off Albers. RBIs—Thames (60), Arcia (58), Desmond (64), Hilliard (12), Story (84). SB—Daza (0), Fuentes (0). CS—Cain (7). Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 2 (Hiura, T.Shaw); Colorado 4 (Desmond, C.Gonzalez, Butera). RISP—Milwaukee 0 for 2; Colorado 0 for 6. Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA G.Gonzalez 4 2⁄3 4 0 0 2 5 72 3.70 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 5.31 Peralta Suter, H, 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 13 0.52 2 Guerra, H, 19 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 8 3.58 Pomeranz, H, 11 1 1⁄3 1 1 1 0 3 17 2.16 Hader, BS, 1 2 1 1 0 2 17 2.53 37-43 Albers, L, 8-5 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 4.98 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA C.Gonzalez 6 3 1 1 2 6 92 5.68 2 Pazos ⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 8 0.93 1 Almonte ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 6 5.79 Diehl 1 0 0 0 0 3 16 8.53 Johnson 1 2 0 0 0 1 14 5.73 Diaz, W, 5-4 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 4.61 Inherited runners-scored—Peralta 1-0, Pomeranz 1-0, Almonte 1-1. Umpires—Home, Mark Carlson; First, Tripp Gibson; Second, Brian Gorman; Third, Nick Mahrley. T—3:00. A—47,381 (50,398).

CINCINNATI 4, PITTSBURGH 2 Cincinnati Peraza 2b Romano p Lorenzen cf Votto 1b-lf-1b Suarez 3b Aquino rf-1b-rf VanMeter lf Bowman p Blandino ph Garrett p Farmer 2b Ervin cf-lf-rf-lf Barnhart c J.Iglesias ss Sims p O’Grady ph-lf Gausman p Casali ph R.Iglesias p Alaniz p Totals

AB 3 0 3 5 4 6 2 0 1 0 2 5 5 4 0 4 0 1 0 1 46

R H BI BB SO Avg. 0 1 0 1 0 .243 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 1 0 0 1 .208 0 0 0 1 1 .262 0 2 0 2 1 .273 0 0 0 0 2 .256 0 0 0 0 0 .232 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 1 .235 0 0 0 0 0 --1 1 0 1 0 .235 1 1 0 0 0 .271 1 1 1 1 1 .232 1 3 2 2 0 .288 0 0 0 0 0 .125 0 2 0 0 0 .179 0 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 0 .246 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 1 1 0 0 1.000 4 13 4 8 7

Pittsburgh Newman ss Reyes cf Frazier 2b Osuna 1b Kramer rf Holmes p Kela p Cabrera ph Stratton p McRae p Elmore lf Gonzalez 3b Baron c Stallings pr-c Marvel p Brault ph Ramirez p Jerez p Markel p Joseph rf Totals

AB 5 4 5 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 3 40

R H BI BB SO 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 5 7

Avg. .309 .201 .279 .264 .171 .000 --.278 .000 .333 .209 .252 .200 .267 .000 .333 .000 --.000 .182

Cincinnati 010 100 000 002 — 4 13 1 Pittsburgh 020 000 000 000 — 2 5 1 E—Bowman (1), Gonzalez (6). LOB—Cincinnati 15, Pittsburgh 7. 2B—Suarez (22), O’Grady 2 (2), Ervin (11), Peraza (18), J.Iglesias (21), Baron (1), Frazier (33). HR—Barnhart (11), off Marvel. RBIs—Barnhart (40), J.Iglesias 2 (59), Alaniz (1), Baron (1). CS—Elmore (1). Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 9 (Aquino 4, VanMeter, O’Grady, Casali); Pittsburgh 4 (Marvel, Gonzalez, Elmore). RISP—Cincinnati 3 for 18; Pittsburgh 1 for 8. Runners moved up—Votto 2, Barnhart, Elmore, Gonzalez. LIDP—O’Grady. GIDP—Votto. DP—Pittsburgh 3 (Newman; Osuna, Newman, Osuna; Frazier, Newman, Osuna). Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sims 2 2 2 2 1 1 42 4.60 Bowman 3 0 0 0 0 1 37 3.66 1 Garrett 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 14 3.07 Romano 1 0 0 0 1 0 14 8.04 Gausman 12⁄3 2 0 0 2 2 20 4.03 R.Iglesias 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 4.16 Alaniz, W, 1-0 2 1 0 0 1 1 35 5.40 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Marvel 5 6 2 2 2 2 90 8.31 Ramirez 1 1 0 0 0 2 15 7.71 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 11 7.36 Jerez Markel 1 0 0 0 3 0 26 5.71 1 Holmes ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 5.58 Kela 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 2.12 Stratton 1 0 0 0 2 0 26 3.66 McRae, L, 0-4 2 5 2 2 0 1 40 8.78 Inherited runners-scored—Jerez 1-0, Markel 2-0, Holmes 2-0. IBB—off Gausman (Cabrera). HBP— McRae (Ervin). PB—Barnhart (5), Stallings (4). Umpires—Home, Dan Iassogna; First, Jansen Visconti; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, John Tumpane. T—4:27. A—21,084 (38,362).


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NATIONAL SCOREBOARD WNBA PLAYOFFS

TRANSACTIONS

PREGAME.COM LINE

FIRST ROUND

BASKETBALL

MLB

Wednesday, Sept. 11 Chicago 105, Phoenix 76 Seattle 84, Minnesota 74

American League NEW YORK YANKEES—Reinstated RHP David Hale from the 60-day IL. Transferred OF Aaron Hicks to the 60-day IL.

SECOND ROUND

FOOTBALL

Sunday, Sept 15 Los Angeles 92, Seattle 69 Las Vegas 93, Chicago 92

National Football League NFL—Reached a seven-year collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Referees Association. ARIZONA CARDINALS—Released TE Darrell Daniels. Signed P Ryan Winslow from the practice squad. CHICAGO BEARS—Waived TE Bradley Sowell. Signed DL Jonathan Harris from the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS—Released DT Frank Herron from the practice squad. Signed WR Travis Fulgham to the practice squad. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Waived CB Ryan Lewis. Signed WR Ashton Dulin from the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Waived CB Nate Meadors. Signed WR Davion Davis from the practice squad. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Released LB L.J. Fort. Agreed to terms with CB Orlando Scandrick.

Sunday National League Favorite SAN FRAN PHILA. Cincinnati COLORADO NEW YORK ARIZONA ST. LOUIS American League New York BOSTON TORONTO LA ANGELS SEATTLE CHICAGO Minnesota Interleague WASHINGTON

SEMIFINALS (Best-of-5; if necessary) WASHINGTON vs. LAS VEGAS Mystics wins series 3-1 Tuesday, Sept. 17 Washington 97, Las Vegas 95 Thursday, Sept. 19 Washington 103, Las Vegas 91 Sunday’s result Las Vegas 92, Washington 75 Tuesday’s game Washington 94, Las Vegas 90

National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES—Assigned D Aaron Ness and Fs Michael Bunting, Michael Chaput and Hudson Fasching to Tucson (AHL). DALLAS STARS—Assigned D Joseph Cecconi to Texas (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS—Assigned Fs Ryan Kuffner, David Pope, Givani Smith, Evgeny Svechnikov, Joe Veleno and Filip Zadina and D Oliwer Kaski, Gustav Lindstrom and Vili Saarijarvi to Grand Rapids (AHL). Released Fs Jarid Lukosevicius, Gregor MacLeod and Dominik Shine from tryouts. LOS ANGELES KINGS—Assigned F Nikolai Prokhorkin to Ontario (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Reassigned D Alexandre Carrier and Jeremy Davies and Fs Rem Pitlick, Anthony Richard, Eeli Tolvanen, Yakov Trenin and Josh Wilkins to Milwaukee (AHL). ST. LOUIS BLUES—Assigned D Jake Walman to San Antonio (AHL). Recalled F Alexei Toropchenko from San Antonio.

FINALS (Best-of-5) Sunday’s game Connecticut at Washington, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1 Connecticut at Washington, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3 Washington at Connecticut, TBD x-Tuesday, Oct. 8 Washington at Connecticut, 7 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 10 Connecticut at Washington, 7 p.m.

Underdog LA Dodgers Miami PITTSBURGH Milwaukee Atlanta San Diego Chicago

Line OFF OFF +127 OFF -105 OFF OFF

-173 OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF -185

TEXAS Baltimore Tampa Bay Houston Oakland Detroit KANSAS CITY

+161 OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF +170

OFF Cleveland

OFF

NFL

HOCKEY

CONNECTICUT vs. LOS ANGELES Sun win series 3-0 Tuesday, Sept. 17 Connecticut 84, Los Angeles 75 Thursday, Sept. 19 Connecticut 94, Los Angeles 68 Sunday’s result Connecticut 78, Los Angeles 56

Line OFF OFF -137 OFF -105 OFF OFF

SOCCER Major League Soccer MONTREAL IMPACT—Named Olivier Renard sporting director.

Sunday Favorite HOUSTON BALTIMORE NY GIANTS LA Chargers INDY Kansas City New England ATLANTA LA RAMS Seattle CHICAGO DENVER Dallas Monday PITTSBURGH

Points O/U Underdog Carolina 4 (471⁄2) 7 (45) Cleveland 3 (49) Washington 141⁄2 (441⁄2) MIAMI Oakland 61⁄2 (451⁄2) 1 DETROIT 7 (54 ⁄2) 7 (411⁄2) BUFFALO Tennessee 31⁄2 (46) 9 (49) Tampa Bay 5 (48) ARIZONA 1 Minnesota 1 ⁄2 (38) 21⁄2 (371⁄2) Jacksonville 21⁄2 (471⁄2)NEW ORLEANS 3

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Wednesday’s matches Atlanta 2, Indy 1 Loudoun 4, Swope Park (KC) 1 Tulsa 4, San Antonio 3 Friday’s matches Charleston 1, New York II 1, tie Saturday’s matches Charlotte 4, Hartford 0 Tampa Bay 2, Louisville 2, tie N. Carolina 3, Ottawa 1 Pittsburgh 3, Indy 0 Nashville 2, Loudoun 0 Las Vegas 3, Colorado 1 Memphis 5, Bethlehem Steel 0 Rio Grande Valley 2, Orange County 0 Atlanta 1, Saint Louis 1, tie San Antonio 2, Fresno 1 Real Monarchs 2, Reno 1 Phoenix 2, New Mexico 2, tie Los Angeles II 5, OKC Energy 1 Tulsa 1, Tacoma 1, tie El Paso at Sacramento, late

TENNIS WTA Beijing open Saturday At National Tennis Center Beijing Purse: $3,515,225 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Men’s Singles Qualification Bernard Tomic, Australia, def. Marton Fucsovics (3), Hungary, walkover. Daniel Evans (2), Britain, def. Jie Cui, China, 6-3, 6-1. Pablo Cuevas (1), Uruguay, def. Wu Di, China, 6-1, 6-4. Cameron Norrie (4), Britain, def. Yecong He, China, 6-2, 6-1. Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, def. Ricardas Berankis (5), Lithuania, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1. Vasek Pospisil, Canada, def. Andreas Seppi (7), Italy, 6-3, 6-4. Dominik Koepfer (8), Germany, def. Jason Jung, Taiwan, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4. Women’s Singles Qualification Lauren Davis (5), United States, def. Anastasia Potapova (9), Russia, 6-3, 6-1. Magda Linette (1), Poland, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 6-2, 6-1. Anna Blinkova (6), Russia, def. Zarina Diyas (12), Kazakhstan, 6-2, 7-5. Christina McHale, United States, def. Tamara Zidansek (7), Slovenia, 7-5, 7-6 (7). Andrea Petkovic (15), Germany, def. Marie Bouzkova (4), Czech Republic, 7-5, 2-1, ret. Women’s Singles Round Of 64 Belinda Bencic (9), Switzerland, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, 7-5, 6-2. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, def. Xiyu Wang, China, 6-2, 6-2. Zheng Saisai, China, def. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Kiki Bertens (8), Netherlands, def. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (3). Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-4. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Karolina Pliskova (2), Czech Republic, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5. Men’s Doubles Qualification Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Sam Querrey (1), United States, def. Yecong He and Jie Cui, China, 6-4, 7-5. Daniel Evans and Kyle Edmund, Britain, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, and Pablo Cuevas (2), Uruguay, 6-4, 7-6. Women’s Doubles Round Of 32 Sam Stosur, Australia, and Zhang Shuai (7), China, def. Storm Sanders, Australia, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, 4-6, 6-3, 10-8.

WUHAN OPEN

WTA SCHEDULE

Saturday At Optics Valley International Tennis Center Wuhan, China Purse: $2,828,000 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Women’s Singles Final Aryna Sabalenka (9), Belarus, def. Alison Riske, United States, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.

H-hard, RC-red clay, GC-green clay, G-grass Sept. 22-28 — Wuhan (China) Open, HO Sept. 23-28 — Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Open, HO Sept. 28-Oct. 6 — China Open, Beijing, HO Oct. 7-13 — Upper Austria Ladies Linz, HI Oct. 7-13 — Prudential Hong Kong Open, HO Oct. 7-13 — Tianjin (China) Open, HO Oct. 14-20 — BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open, HI Oct. 14-20 — VTB Kremlin Cup, Moscow, HI Oct. 21-27 — WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai (China), HO Oct. 27-Nov. 3 — WTA Finals, Shenzhen, China, HI Nov. 9-10 — Fed Cup final

ATP

ATP SCHEDULE CHENGDU OPEN Saturday At Chengdu Center Chengdu Purse: $1,096,575 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Men’s Singles Semifinal Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, def. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, 7-6 (6), 6-4. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Denis Shapovalov (8), Canada, 6-3, 6-4. Men’s Doubles Semifinal Dusan Lajovic and Nikola Cacic, Serbia, def. Nicholas Monroe and Taylor Fritz, United States, 6-4, 6-4.

ZHUHAI OPEN Friday At Hengqin International Tennis Center Zhuhai Purse: $931,335 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Men’s Singles Quarterfinal Albert Ramos-Vinolas (8), Spain, def. Gael Monfils (3), France, 7-5, 6-4. Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 6-1, 6-4. Roberto Bautista-Agut (2), Spain, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-2, 6-2. Men’s Doubles Semifinal Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen (4), Belgium, def. Kwon Soon Woo, South Korea, and Dominik Koepfer, Germany, 6-4, 6-3.

H-hard, C-clay, G-grass Sept. 23-29 — Chengdu (China) Open, HO Sept. 23-29 — Shenzhen (China) Open, HO Sept. 30-Oct. 6 — China Open, Beijing, HO Sept. 30-Oct. 6 — Rakuten Japan Open, Tokyo, HI Oct. 6-13 — Rolex Shanghai Masters, HO Oct. 14-20 — VTB Kremlin Cup, Moscow, HI Oct. 14-20 — European Open, Antwerp, Belgium, HI Oct. 14-20 — Intrum Stockholm Open, HI Oct. 21-27 — Erste Bank Open 500, Vienna, HI Oct. 21-27 — Swiss Indoors Basel, HI Oct. 28-Nov. 3 — Rolex Paris Masters, HI Nov. 5-9 — Next Gen ATP Finals, Milan, HI Nov. 10-17 — Nitto ATP Finals, London, HI Nov. 22-24 — Davis Cup tournament finals, Madrid or Lille, France, surface TBA


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FRIDAY’S GAMES New Jersey 2, Columbus 0 Toronto 4, Detroit 3, SO Nashville 2, Carolina 1 (OT) St. Louis 4, Washington 3 Los Angeles 3, Vegas 2 SATURDAY’S GAMES Boston 8, Chicago 2

Buffalo 3, Pittsburgh 2, SO Dallas 4, Colorado 3, SO N.Y. Islanders 4, N.Y. Rangers 2 Montreal 4, Ottawa 3 (OT) Toronto 5, Detroit 0 Florida 1, Tampa Bay 0, SO Calgary 3, Edmonton 2 Anaheim 2, Arizona 1

SUNDAY’S GAMES Chicago at Eisbaren, 12:30 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 12:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 1 p.m. St. Louis at Columbus, 4 p.m. San Jose at Vegas, 7 p.m.

BRUINS 8, BLACKHAWKS 2

STARS 4, AVALANCHE 3, SO

PANTHERS 1, LIGHTNING 0, SO

FLAMES 3, OILERS 2

Chicago 0 1 1 — 2 Boston 4 2 2 — 8 First Period—1, Boston, DeBrusk 1 (Kuraly), 11:21. 2, Boston, Coyle 1, 11:53. 3, Boston, DeBrusk 2 (Pastrnak, Krug), 15:35 (pp). 4, Boston, Pastrnak 1 (Marchand, Krug), 18:37 (pp). Penalties—Holm, CHI, (tripping), 0:19; Hakkarainen, CHI, (holding), 14:03; Hughes, BOS, (hooking), 16:23; Hagel, CHI, (tripping), 18:25; Bjork, BOS, (roughing), 18:53. Second Period—5, Boston, Pastrnak 2 (Clifton), 8:55. 6, Chicago, Kurashev 1 (Tuulola, Hagel), 11:13. 7, Boston, Kuhlman 1 (DeBrusk, Coyle), 13:47. Penalties—Kuhlman, BOS, (tripping), 0:24. Third Period—8, Boston, Pastrnak 3 (Rask, Krug), 1:02. 9, Boston, DeBrusk 3 (Coyle, Ritchie), 13:44. 10, Chicago, Soderlund 1 (Hakkarainen), 19:14. Penalties—Highmore, CHI, (tripping), 11:17; Marchand, BOS, (holding), 11:17; Highmore, CHI, Misconduct (misconduct), 11:17; Highmore, CHI, (unsportsmanlike conduct), 11:17; Marchand, BOS, (unsportsmanlike conduct), 11:17; Beaudin, CHI, (illegal check to head), 16:32. Shots on Goal—Chicago 4-9-8—21. Boston 14-7-9—30. Power-play opportunities—Chicago 0 of 3; Boston 2 of 4. Goalies—Chicago, Tomkins 0-0-0 (12 shots-9 saves), Lankinen 0-1-0 (18-13). Boston, Rask 1-0-0 (21-19). A—17,565 (17,565). Referees—Eric Furlatt, Wes McCauley. Linesmen—Ryan Daisy, Matt MacPherson.

Colorado 2 0 1 0 — 3 Dallas 0 1 2 0 — 4 First Period—1, Colorado, Kadri 1 (MacKinnon, Makar), 11:22 (pp). 2, Colorado, Burakovsky 1, 11:44. Penalties—Lindell, DAL, (delay of game), 10:15; Comeau, DAL, (boarding), 16:42. Second Period—3, Dallas, Seguin 1 (Pavelski, Benn), 13:33. Penalties—Dickinson, DAL, (slashing), 0:29; Landeskog, COL, (hooking), 7:30; Radulov, DAL, (slashing), 9:39; Benn, DAL, (high sticking), 15:30; Landeskog, COL, (high sticking), 15:39; MacKinnon, COL, (high sticking), 16:01. Third Period—4, Colorado, Donskoi 1, 6:04. 5, Dallas, Pavelski 1 (Seguin), 16:22. 6, Dallas, Benn 1 (Heiskanen, Klingberg), 18:27. Penalties—Zadorov, COL, (cross checking), 19:10. Overtime—None. Penalties—None. Shootout—Colorado 1 (MacKinnon G, Kadri NG, Landeskog NG), Dallas 2 (Seguin G, Radulov G, Pavelski NG). Shots on Goal—Colorado 9-15-4—28. Dallas 6-12-11-7—36. Power-play opportunities—Colorado 1 of 5; Dallas 0 of 4. Goalies—Colorado, Grubauer 0-0-0 (36 shots-33 saves), Francouz 0-0-0 (0-0). Dallas, Bishop 1-0-0 (28-25). A—13,112 (18,532). T—2:49. Referees—Trevor Hanson, Peter MacDougall. Linesmen—Tyson Baker, Darren Gibbs.

Florida 0 0 0 0 — 1 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 — 0 First Period—None. Penalties—Cernak, TB, (interference), 2:23; Killorn, TB, (high sticking), 7:13; Stillman, FLA, (unsportsmanlike conduct), 14:47; Witkowski, TB, (unsportsmanlike conduct), 14:47. Second Period—None. Penalties—Trocheck, FLA, (slashing), 0:26; Maroon, TB, (roughing), 5:57; Acciari, FLA, (roughing), 5:57; Kucherov, TB, (slashing), 7:11. Third Period—None. Penalties—None. Overtime—None. Penalties—Gourde, TB, (tripping), 1:01. Shootout—Florida 1 (Trocheck G, Borgstrom NG), Tampa Bay 0 (Shattenkirk NG, Cirelli NG, Sergachev NG). Shots on Goal—Florida 15-1-10-2—28. Tampa Bay 9-11-5-1— 26. Power-play opportunities—Florida 0 of 4; Tampa Bay 0 of 1. Goalies—Florida, Bobrovsky 0-0-0 (26 shots-26 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 0-0-0 (28-28). A—14,732 (19,092). T—2:28. Referees—Pierre Lambert, Kelly Sutherland. Linesmen—Pierre Racicot, Andrew Smith.

Edmonton 0 0 2 — 2 Calgary 0 2 1 — 3 First Period—None. Penalties—Larsson, EDM, (interference), 7:27; Rieder, CGY, (interference), 14:19; Bear, EDM, (high sticking), 18:53. Second Period—1, Calgary, Rieder 1 (Czarnik, Jankowski), 6:26. 2, Calgary, Lucic 1 (Andersson, Brodie), 9:12 (pp). Penalties— MacDonald, CGY, (hooking), 1:54; Granlund, EDM, (hooking), 8:29; Frolik, CGY, (boarding), 18:35. Third Period—3, Edmonton, Haas 1 (Bear, Nygard), 10:46 (pp). 4, Edmonton, Kassian 1 (Nygard), 11:17 (pp). 5, Calgary, Rieder 2 (Brodie), 14:21. Penalties—Nurse, EDM, (tripping), 2:47; Calgary bench, served by Tkachuk (too many men on the ice), 4:32; Mangiapane, CGY, (roughing), 9:00. Shots on Goal—Edmonton 3-9-16—28. Calgary 9-10-3—22. Power-play opportunities—Edmonton 1 of 5; Calgary 1 of 4. Goalies—Edmonton, Koskinen 0-1-0 (22 shots-19 saves). Calgary, Rittich 1-0-0 (28-26). A—18,896 (19,289). T—2:25. Referees—Brad Meier, Ian Walsh. Linesmen—Trent Knorr, Bevan Mills.

MAPLE LEAFS 5, RED WINGS 0

DUCKS 2, COYOTES 1

CANADIENS 4, SENATORS 3, OT

Detroit 0 0 0 — 0 Toronto 1 4 0 — 5 First Period—1, Toronto, Johnsson 1 (Matthews), 0:29. Second Period—2, Toronto, Moore 1, 6:01 (sh). 3, Toronto, Nylander 1 (Kerfoot, Barrie), 8:45 (pp). 4, Toronto, Matthews 1 (Tavares, Rielly), 9:50 (pp). 5, Toronto, Tavares 1 (Barrie, Matthews), 16:34 (pp). Third Period—None. Shots on Goal—Detroit 5-6-5—16. Toronto 13-16-3—32. Power-play opportunities—Detroit 0 of 3; Toronto 3 of 4. Goalies—Detroit, Howard 0-0-0 (29 shots-24 saves), Larsson 0-0-0 (3-3). Toronto, Andersen 0-0-0 (16-16). T—2:25. Referees—Ghislain Hebert, Kevin Pollock. Linesmen— Greg Devorski, Mark Shewchyk.

Arizona 1 0 0 — 1 Anaheim 0 1 1 — 2 First Period—1, Arizona, Hinostroza 1 (Demers), 7:23. Penalties—Holzer, ANA, (tripping), 6:13; Stepan, ARI, (hooking), 6:49; Larsson, ANA, (interference), 15:47. Second Period—2, Anaheim, Silfverberg 1 (Lundestrom, Rakell), 13:14. Penalties—Chychrun, ARI, (hooking), 0:30. Third Period—3, Anaheim, Lindholm 1 (Getzlaf, Comtois), 5:23 (pp). Penalties—Chychrun, ARI, (interference), 4:05; Grant, ANA, (interference), 9:34; Fowler, ANA, (slashing), 15:19; Schmaltz, ARI, (high sticking), 19:45. Shots on Goal—Arizona 9-11-7—27. Anaheim 14-12-11—37. Power-play opportunities—Arizona 0 of 4; Anaheim 1 of 4. Goalies—Arizona, Kuemper 0-1-0 (37 shots-35 saves). Anaheim, Miller 1-0-0 (7-7), Gibson 0-0-0 (20-19). A—15,105 (17,174). T—2:25. Referees—TJ Luxmore, Chris Schlenker. Linesmen—Vaughan Rody, James Tobias.

THURSDAY’S GAMES Detroit 4, St. Louis 1 N.Y. Rangers 2, Philadelphia 1, SO Tampa Bay 4, Florida 2 Edmonton 5, Winnipeg 3 Minnesota 2, Dallas 1 Arizona 4, Vancouver 2 San Jose 4, Calgary 1

SABRES 3, PENGUINS 2, SO Buffalo 0 1 1 0 — 3 Pittsburgh 0 2 0 0 — 2 First Period—None. Penalties—Pettersson, PIT, (holding), 10:45; Jokiharju, BUF, (unsportsmanlike conduct), 12:03; Dumoulin, PIT, (interference), 12:03; Dahlin, BUF, (interference), 13:28; Hornqvist, PIT, (hooking), 19:09. Second Period—1, Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 1 (Schultz, Bjugstad), 8:35. 2, Pittsburgh, Rust 1 (Schultz, Aston-Reese), 9:34. 3, Buffalo, Scandella 1 (Lazar, Jokiharju), 11:03. Penalties—Nelson, BUF, (high sticking), 11:41; Tanev, PIT, (boarding), 18:47. Third Period—4, Buffalo, Girgensons 1 (Gilmour), 11:27. Penalties—Larsson, BUF, (slashing), 5:23; Pettersson, PIT, (tripping), 13:52; Marino, PIT, (delay of game), 14:20. Overtime—None. Penalties—Malkin, PIT, (interference), 0:33; Sobotka, BUF, (interference), 3:26. Shootout—Buffalo 2 (Okposo NG, Thompson G, Thompson NG, Asplund NG, Gilmour NG, Mittelstadt G), Pittsburgh 1 (Malkin NG, Letang G, Guentzel NG, Bjugstad NG, McCann NG, Kahun NG). Shots on Goal—Buffalo 7-12-10-1—30. Pittsburgh 8-12-15-3— 38. Power-play opportunities—Buffalo 0 of 6; Pittsburgh 0 of 4. Goalies—Buffalo, Ullmark 1-0-0 (36 shots-34 saves). Pittsburgh, Murray 0-0-1 (30-28). A—18,235 (18,387). T—2:45. Referees—Jake Brenk, Kendrick Nicholson. Linesmen—Devin Berg, David Brisebois.

Ottawa 0 2 1 0 — 3 Montreal 1 1 1 1 — 4 First Period—1, Montreal, Danault 1, 16:16 (sh). Penalties— Ryan (OT)T, Major (fighting), 9:28; Chiarot, MTL, Major (fighting), 9:28; Domi, MTL, Major (fighting), 9:53; Sabourin (OT)T, Major (fighting), 9:53; Sabourin (OT)T, served by L.Brown, (roughing), 9:53; Danault, MTL, (holding stick), 10:49; Poehling, MTL, (tripping), 14:38; Tkachuk (OT)T, (roughing), 19:00. Second Period—2, Montreal, Tatar 1 (Danault, Gallagher), 5:57. 3, Ottawa, Ryan 1 (DeMelo, Duclair), 9:06. 4, Ottawa, Duclair 1, 10:44 (sh). Penalties—Byron, MTL, (slashing), 1:22; Abramov (OT)T, (tripping), 10:05; Chabot (OT)T, (high sticking), 18:11. Third Period—5, Ottawa, Chlapik 1, 17:43. 6, Montreal, Gallagher 1 (Petry, Weal), 19:01. Penalties—Poehling, MTL, (tripping), 5:24; Abramov (OT)T, (slashing), 7:47; Fleury, MTL, (holding), 13:10. Overtime—7, Montreal, Suzuki 1, 4:04. Penalties—None. Shots on Goal—Ottawa 13-14-9-1—37. Montreal 10-14-7-2— 33. Power-play opportunities—Ottawa 0 of 5; Montreal 0 of 5. Goalies—Ottawa, Nilsson 0-0-1 (34 shots-30 saves). Montreal, Price 1-0-0 (37-34). A—20,746 (21,288). T—2:44. Referees—Marc Joannette, Justin St Pierre. Linesmen—Michel Cormier, Derek Nansen.

MOTORSPORTS NASCAR MONSTER ENERGY

NASCAR XFINITY

CHARLOTTE BANK OF AMERICA ROVAL 400 LINEUP

DRIVE FOR THE CURE 250

Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course Concord, N.C. (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 103.198 mph. 2. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 103.078. 3. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 103.037. 4. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 102.893. 5. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 102.838. 6. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 102.383. 7. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 102.359. 8. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 101.769. 9. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 101.737. 10. (21) Paul Menard, Ford, 101.587. 11. (2) Brad Keselowski,Ford, 101.486. 12. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 101.449. 13. (41) Daniel Suarez, Ford, 101.953. 14. (47) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 101.943. 15. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota, 101.887. 16. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 101.881. 17. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 101.871. 18. (95) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 101.862. 19. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 101.732. 20. (8) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 101.696. 21. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 101.566. 22. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 101.542. 23. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 101.461. 24. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford, 101.148. 25. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 101.136. 26. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 101.077. 27. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 100.520. 28. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 100.507. 29. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 100.480. 30. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 100.346. 31. (51) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 99.169. 32. (00) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 98.618. 33. (66) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 97.896. 34. (53) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 97.602. 35. (52) Garrett Smithley, Ford, 97.363. 36. (36) Matt Tifft,Ford, 0.000. 37. (15) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 0.000. 38. (77) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 0.000. 39. (27) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 0.000. 40. (96) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 0.000.

Saturday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord, North Carolina Lap Length 1.5 miles (Starting position in parentheses) 1. (5) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 67. 2. (2) Tyler Reddick (P), Chevrolet, 67. 3. (3) Austin Cindric (P), Ford, 67. 4. (7) Justin Allgaier (P), Chevrolet, 67. 5. (12) Noah Gragson (P), Chevrolet, 67. 6. (6) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 67. 7. (14) John Hunter Nemechek (P), Chevrolet, 67. 8. (4) Cole Custer (P), Ford, 67. 9. (1) Chase Briscoe (P), Ford, 67. 10. (13) Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, 67. 11. (8) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 67. 12. (11) Christopher Bell (P), Toyota, 67. 13. (22) Harrison Burton(i), Toyota, 67. 14. (19) Lawson Aschenbach, Chevrolet, 67. 15. (23) Michael Annett (P), Chevrolet, 67. 16. (15) Brandon Jones (P), Toyota, 67. 17. (35) Brandon Brown , Chevrolet, 67. 18. (21) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 67. 19. (26) Stephen Leicht, Chevrolet, 67. 20. (20) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 67. 21. (33) Joey Gase, Toyota, 67. 22. (30) Joe Nemechek(i), Chevrolet, 67. 23. (34) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 67. 24. (32) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 67. 25. (36) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet, 67. 26. (28) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 67. 27. (16) Preston Pardus, Chevrolet, 67. 28. (10) Will Rodgers, Chevrolet, 67. 29. (17) Gray Gaulding, Chevrolet, 67. 30. (25) Ryan Sieg (P), Chevrolet, 65. 31. (9) Justin Haley (P), Chevrolet, 61. 32. (24) Ray Black II, Chevrolet, Accident, 60. 33. (27) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, Transmission, 54. 34. (31) David Starr, Chevrolet, 28. 35. (18) Tommy Joe Martins, Toyota, Suspension, 26. 36. (37) Chad Finchum, Toyota, Brakes, 26. 37. (38) Bayley Currey(i), Chevrolet, Rear Gear, 10. 38. (29) JJ Yeley, Toyota, Accident, 5. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 73.726 mph. Time of Race: 2 Hrs, 6 Mins, 30 Secs. Margin of Victory: 2.386 Seconds. Caution Flags: 7 for 14 laps. Lead Changes: 7 among 6 drivers. Lap Leaders: C. Briscoe (P) 1-21;A. Cindric (P) 22;C. Custer (P) 23;C. Bell (P) 24-37;C. Custer (P) 38-41;T. Reddick (P) 42;C. Bell (P) 43-47;A.

Allmendinger 48-67. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Chase Briscoe (P) 1 time for 21 laps; A J Allmendinger 1 time for 20 laps; Christopher Bell (P) 2 times for 19 laps; Cole Custer (P) 2 times for 5 laps; Austin Cindric (P) 1 time for 1 lap; Tyler Reddick (P) 1 time for 1 lap. Stage 1 Top Ten: 98,22,7,90,51,23,8,19,9,00 Stage 2 Top Ten: 00,98,2,7,9,19,90,20,22,51

F1 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX LINEUP After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Sochi Autodrom Sochi, Russia Lap length: 5.85 kilometres Third session 1. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 1 minute, 31.628 seconds. 2. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mercedes, 1:32.030. 3. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari, 1:32.053. 4. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing Honda, 1:32.310. 5. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes, 1:32.632. 6. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, McLaren Renault, 1:33.222. 7. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Renault, 1:33.289. 8. Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren Renault, 1:33.301. 9. Romain Grosjean, France, Haas Ferrari, 1:33.517. 10. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Renault, 1:33.661. Eliminated after second session 11. Pierre Gasly, France, Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda, 1:33.950. 12. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Racing Point BWT Mercedes, 1:33.958. 13. Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari, 1:34.037. 14. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas Ferrari, 1:34.082. 15. Lance Stroll, Canada, Racing Point BWT Mercedes, 1:34.233. Eliminated after first session 16. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari, 1:34.840. 17. George Russell, Great Britain, Williams Mercedes, 1:35.356. 18. Robert Kubica, Poland, Williams Mercedes, 1:36.474. 19. Alexander Albon, Thailand, Red Bull Racing Honda, 1:39.197.

NHRA MIDWEST NATIONALS PAIRINGS Saturday At World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Ill. Pairings for Sunday’s final eliminations Top Fuel 1. Mike Salinas, 3.687 seconds, 330.55 mph vs. 16. Cameron Ferre, 3.973, 301.20; 2. Billy Torrence, 3.699, 321.88 vs. 15. Kyle Wurtzel, 3.877, 309.42; 3. Austin Prock, 3.707, 332.10 vs. 14. T.J. Zizzo, 3.791, 323.43; 4. Brittany Force, 3.708, 331.12 vs. 13. Pat Dakin, 3.758, 328.22; 5. Steve Torrence, 3.708, 327.90 vs. 12. Scott Palmer, 3.753, 329.42; 6. Leah Pritchett, 3.709, 327.51 vs. 11. Antron Brown, 3.748, 326.32; 7. Richie Crampton, 3.710, 324.75 vs. 10. Doug Kalitta, 3.741, 327.59; 8. Clay Millican, 3.721, 325.06 vs. 9. Terry McMillen, 3.727, 329.10. Did Not Qualify: 17. Luigi Novelli, 3.978, 293.98; 18. Lex Joon, 4.143, 212.16; 19. Chris Karamesines, 4.910, 147.68. Funny Car 1. John Force, Chevy Camaro, 3.842, 334.40 vs. 16. Terry Haddock, Ford Mustang, 4.232, 285.11; 2. Matt Hagan, Dodge Charger, 3.854, 333.08 vs. 15. Jim Campbell, Charger, 4.038, 314.90; 3. Bob Tasca III, Mustang, 3.855, 327.51 vs. 14. Cruz Pedregon, Charger, 4.014, 320.05; 4. Robert Hight, Camaro, 3.877, 334.90 vs. 13. Bob Bode, Mustang, 3.967, 322.96; 5. Ron Capps, Charger, 3.877, 332.84 vs. 12. Blake Alexander, Mustang, 3.960, 323.43; 6. Jonnie Lindberg, Mustang, 3.878, 328.46 vs. 11. Tim Wilkerson, Mustang, 3.949, 309.91; 7. Tommy Johnson Jr., Charger, 3.889, 324.59 vs. 10. Shawn Langdon, Toyota Camry, 3.905, 330.72; 8. J.R. Todd, Camry, 3.890, 333.58 vs. 9. Jack Beckman, Charger, 3.894, 326.16. Did Not Qualify: 17. Dale Creasy Jr., 4.258, 237.05; 18. Jack Wyatt, 7.335, 98.44. Pro Stock 1. Erica Enders, Chevy Camaro, 6.552, 209.85 vs. 16. Alan Prusiensky, Dodge Dart, 6.649, 208.01; 2. Jeg Coughlin, Camaro, 6.558, 208.01 vs. 15. Val Smeland, Camaro, 6.633, 207.30; 3. Jason Line, Camaro, 6.560, 209.52 vs. 14. Steve Graham, Camaro, 6.631, 207.98; 4. Greg Anderson, Camaro, 6.563, 211.10 vs. 13. Fernando Cuadra Jr., Camaro, 6.630, 208.17; 5. Deric Kramer, Camaro, 6.572, 208.88 vs. 12. Chris McGaha, Camaro, 6.602, 208.97; 6. Matt Hartford, Camaro, 6.572, 208.26 vs. 11. Kenny Delco, Camaro, 6.601, 208.88; 7. Bo Butner, Camaro, 6.575, 209.10 vs. 10. Fernando Cuadra, Camaro, 6.590, 208.39; 8. Aaron Stanfield,

Camaro, 6.580, 207.66 vs. 9. Alex Laughlin, Camaro, 6.586, 207.69. Did Not Qualify: 17. Cristian Cuadra, 6.661, 205.04; 18. Wally Stroupe, 6.673, 205.94; 19. Robert River, 6.843, 202.73. Pro Stock Motorcycle 1. Matt Smith, EBR, 6.801, 198.93 vs. 16. Jianna Salinas, Suzuki, 7.160, 186.23; 2. Steve Johnson, Suzuki, 6.838, 196.02 vs. 15. Andie Rawlings, Suzuki, 7.140, 185.05; 3. Andrew Hines, HarleyDavidson, 6.851, 195.82 vs. 14. Michael Ray, Victory, 6.993, 191.51; 4. Eddie Krawiec, HarleyDavidson, 6.859, 194.97 vs. 13. Kelly Clontz, Suzuki, 6.941, 192.96; 5. Jerry Savoie, Suzuki, 6.869, 196.13 vs. 12. Hector Arana Jr, EBR, 6.939, 194.94; 6. Angie Smith, EBR, 6.874, 196.96 vs. 11. Hector Arana, EBR, 6.937, 195.36; 7. Angelle Sampey, Harley-Davidson, 6.874, 192.77 vs. 10. Scotty Pollacheck, EBR, 6.890, 195.14; 8. Ryan Oehler, EBR, 6.886, 196.44 vs. 9. Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 6.886, 195.76. Pro Modified 1. Rickie Smith, Chevy Camaro, 5.724, 252.43 vs. 16. Alex Laughlin, Camaro, 5.863, 251.39; 2. Steve Jackson, Camaro, 5.734, 251.49 vs. 15. Carl Stevens, Camaro, 5.843, 256.45; 3. Khalid alBalooshi, Camaro, 5.749, 255.24 vs. 14. Scott Oksas, Ford Mustang, 5.832, 250.23; 4. Brandon Snider, Chevy Corvette, 5.749, 247.34 vs. 13. Steven Whiteley, Camaro, 5.819, 246.62; 5. Mike Castellana, Camaro, 5.757, 248.80 vs. 12. Sidnei Frigo, Camaro, 5.809, 253.90; 6. Todd Tutterow, Camaro, 5.769, 249.81 vs. 11. Steve Matusek, Mustang, 5.805, 252.71; 7. Eric Latino, Camaro, 5.776, 248.89 vs. 10. Mike Janis, Camaro, 5.799, 248.02; 8. Michael Biehle, Mustang, 5.791, 252.24 vs. 9. Bob Rahaim, Camaro, 5.792, 247.70. Did Not Qualify: 17. Rick Hord, 5.866, 252.80; 18. Doug Winters, 5.871, 248.39; 19. Jason Scruggs, 5.877, 248.57.


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NEW ENGLAND AT BUFFALO — PATRIOTS: QUESTIONABLE: DE Michael Bennett (shoulder), RB Rex Burkhead (foot), S Nate Ebner (groin), WR Julian Edelman (chest), LB Dont’a Hightower (shoulder), TE Matt LaCosse (ankle), OT Marshall Newhouse (illness). BILLS: OUT: TE Tyler Kroft (ankle), LB Corey Thompson (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: LB Maurice Alexander (knee), OL Jon Feliciano (neck), WR Robert Foster (groin), CB Taron Johnson (hamstring), OL Spencer Long (ankle), WR Isaiah McKenzie (ankle), RB Devin Singletary (hamstring). KANSAS CITY CHIEFS AT DETROIT LIONS — CHIEFS: OUT: OT Eric Fisher (groin), WR Tyreek Hill (shoulder), RB Damien Williams (knee). LIONS: OUT: DT Mike Daniels (foot). QUESTIONABLE: WR Danny Amendola (chest), DE Da’Shawn Hand (elbow), CB Darius Slay (hamstring), QB Matthew Stafford (hip). CAROLINA PANTHERS AT HOUSTON TEXANS — PANTHERS: OUT: QB Cam Newton (foot), G Trai Turner (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: LB Marquis Haynes (elbow), LB Bruce Irvin (hamstring), CB Donte Jackson (groin), DE Kawann Short (shoulder). TEXANS: OUT: OT Seantrel Henderson (illness). QUESTIONABLE: DE Charles Omenihu (knee). OAKLAND RAIDERS AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — RAIDERS: OUT: WR Dwayne Harris (ankle), G Gabe Jackson (knee). QUESTIONABLE: OT Trenton Brown (ankle/knee), C Jordan Devey (groin). COLTS: OUT: S Malik Hooker (knee), LB Darius Leonard (concussion), DT Tyquan Lewis (ankle). DOUBTFUL: WR T.Y. Hilton (quadricep). QUESTIONABLE: CB Pierre Desir (hamstring), DE Al-Quadin Muhammad (neck), DE Jabaal Sheard (knee). LOS ANGELES CHARGERS AT MIAMI DOLPHINS — CHARGERS: OUT: K Michael Badgley (right groin),

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TE Virgil Green (groin), TE Hunter Henry (knee), RB Justin Jackson (calf), WR Mike Williams (back). DOUBTFUL: WR Travis Benjamin (hip). QUESTIONABLE: CB Casey Hayward (back), LB Drue Tranquill (ankle). DOLPHINS: OUT: WR Allen Hurns (concussion), CB Jomal Wiltz (groin). QUESTIONABLE: OT Jesse Davis (elbow), LB Trent Harris (foot), S Reshad Jones (ankle), S Bobby McCain (hamstring/shoulder), WR Albert Wilson (hip/calf). WASHINGTON AT NEW YORK GIANTS — REDSKINS: OUT: TE Jordan Reed (concussion), C Chase Roullier (knee). QUESTIONABLE: WR Terry McLaurin (hamstring), G Brandon Scherff (ankle). GIANTS: OUT: RB Saquon Barkley (ankle), LB Tae Davis (concussion), LB Alec Ogletree (hamstring). SEATTLE SEAHAWKS AT ARIZONA CARDINALS — SEAHAWKS: DOUBTFUL: C Ethan Pocic (back). QUESTIONABLE: DE Ezekiel Ansah (back), DT Quinton Jefferson (hip), RB Rashaad Penny (hamstring), CB Neiko Thorpe (hamstring). CARDINALS: OUT: WR Damiere Byrd (hamstring), S Charles Washington (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: DT Miles Brown (shoulder), G Lamont Gaillard (knee), P Andy Lee (right hip). TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS AT LOS ANGELES RAMS — BUCCANEERS: OUT: CB Jamel Dean (ankle), LB Devin White (knee). QUESTIONABLE: OT Demar Dotson (calf), WR Chris Godwin (hip), C Ryan Jensen (back). RAMS: No players listed. MINNESOTA AT CHICAGO — VIKINGS: OUT: G Josh Kline (concussion), LB Kentrell Brothers (wrist/ hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: CB Mackensie Alexander (elbow). BEARS: OUT: WR Taylor Gabriel (concussion), DT Bilal Nichols (hand). QUESTIONABLE: DT Akiem Hicks (knee), OL Kyle Long (hip), TE

Trey Burton (groin), PK Eddy Pineiro (right knee). JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS AT DENVER BRONCOS — JAGUARS: OUT: LB D.J. Alexander (hamstring), TE Josh Oliver (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: CB Jalen Ramsey (not injury related/back). BRONCOS: OUT: CB Bryce Callahan (foot), OT Ja’Wuan James (knee). QUESTIONABLE: CB Kareem Jackson (hamstring), RB Andy Janovich (pectoral), LB Josey Jewell (hamstring), LB Joseph Jones (triceps), DE Derek Wolfe (ankle). DALLAS COWBOYS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — COWBOYS: OUT: DE Tyrone Crawford (hip), WR Michael Gallup (knee), DT Antwaun Woods (knee). QUESTIONABLE: LB Luke Gifford (ankle). SAINTS: OUT: QB Drew Brees (right thumb), C Will Clapp (hand), WR Tre’Quan Smith (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: DT Sheldon Rankins (achilles). MONDAY CINCINNATI BENGALS AT PITTSBURGH STEELERS — BENGALS: DNP: DT Ryan Glasgow (thigh), WR A.J. Green (ankle), DE Carl Lawson (hamstring), CB Darius Phillips (knee), DE Kerry Wynn (concussion). LIMITED: DE Andrew Brown (cramps), DE Carlos Dunlap (hamstring), OT Cordy Glenn (concussion), DE Sam Hubbard (ankle), CB Dre Kirkpatrick (illness), OT Andre Smith (hamstring), CB B.W. Webb (forearm), S Shawn Williams (back). FULL: TE Tyler Eifert (not injury related), G Michael Jordan (knee). STEELERS: DNP: LB Anthony Chickillo (foot), G Ramon Foster (not injury related), TE Vance McDonald (shoulder), RB Roosevelt Nix (knee), LB Vince Williams (hamstring). LIMITED: LB Jayrone Elliott (hamstring). FULL: LB Mark Barron (not injury related), CB Joe Haden (shoulder), C Maurkice Pouncey (not injury related).

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOP 25 Saturday No. 1 Clemson 21, N. Carolina 20 No. 2 Alabama 59, Mississippi 31 No. 5 Ohio State at Nebraska, late No. 6 Oklahoma 55, Texas Tech 16 No. 7 Auburn 56, Mississippi St. 23 No. 8 Wisconsin 24, Northwestern 15 No. 9 Florida 38, Towson 0 No. 10 Notre Dame 35, No. 18 Virginia 20 No. 12 Penn State 59, Maryland 0 No. 14 Iowa 48, Middle Tennessee 3 Arizona St. 24, No. 15 California 17 No. 17 Washington 28, No. 21 Southern Cal. 14 No. 19 Utah 38, Washington St. 13 No. 20 Michigan 52, Rutgers 0 No. 22 Central Florida 56, UConn 21 No. 23 Texas A&M 31, Arkansas 27 Oklahoma St. 26, No. 24 Kansas St. 13 No. 25 Michigan St. 40, Indiana 31

SATURDAY’S GAMES EAST Albany (NY) 39, William & Mary 31 Alfred 56, Rochester 13 Amherst 26, Tufts 16 Assumption 53, Franklin Pierce 6 Bethune-Cookman 37, Howard 29 Bowie St. 54, St. Augustine’s 6 Bridgewater (Mass.) 50, Fitchburg St. 6 Brockport 55, Alfred St. 6 California (Pa.) 24, Edinboro 7 Carnegie-Mellon 49, St. Vincent 14 Case Reserve 37, Thiel 6 Cincinnati 52, Marshall 14 Coast Guard 17, Curry 7 Cortland St. 59, Buffalo St. 21 Dartmouth 38, Colgate 3 Delaware Valley 55, Albright 7 Drake 41, Marist 17 East Stroudsburg 63, Lock Haven 14 Endicott 58, Becker 12 Fordham 23, Richmond 16 Gannon 51, Clarion 35 Geneva 27, Waynesburg 7 Georgetown 24, Columbia 10 Greensboro 27, Gallaudet 25 Hamilton 45, Colby 24

Hobart 16, Montclair St. 3 Indiana (Pa.) 56, Mercyhurst 24 Ithaca 38, St. John Fisher 35 Johns Hopkins 37, Dickinson 15 Kean 47, Dean 13 King’s (Pa.) 19, Lycoming 13 Kutztown 34, Shepherd 27 Lehigh 10, Merrimack 3 Livingstone 35, Lincoln (Pa.) 19 MIT 32, Catholic 13 Mass. Maritime 31, Westfield St. 7 Mass.-Dartmouth 21, Plymouth St. 14 McDaniel 32, Gettysburg 22 Merchant Marine 62, Maine Maritime 13 Middlebury 32, Trinity (Conn.) 27 Misericordia 35, Lebanon Valley 32 Morrisville St. 42, Husson 15 Muhlenberg 42, Juniata 5 NC Central 27, Morgan St. 17 New Hampshire 23, Duquesne 6 Nichols 25, Salve Regina 15 Norwich 35, Castleton 14 Notre Dame Coll. 40, Urbana 20 Pace 42, St. Anselm 21 Penn 28, Lafayette 24 Pittsburgh 17, Delaware 14 Princeton 56, Bucknell 23 RPI 38, Anna Maria 0 Shippensburg 30, Bloomsburg 15 Slippery Rock 55, Seton Hill 14 St. Francis (Pa.) 16, Bryant 6 St. Lawrence 33, Hartwick 0 Stevenson 49, FDU-Florham 15 Stony Brook 31, Rhode Island 27 Susquehanna 42, Franklin & Marshall 13 Syracuse 41, Holy Cross 3 Temple 24, Georgia Tech 2 UMass 37, Akron 29 Ursinus 35, Moravian 28 Villanova 33, Maine 17 W. Connecticut 42, Worcester St. 28 W. New England 50, New England 38 W. Virginia St. 33, Concord 23 WPI 35, Springfield 21 Wagner 24, LIU 14 Wake Forest 27, Boston College 24 Washington & Jefferson 38, Grove City 21 West Chester 48, Millersville 7 Westminster (Pa.) 45, Bethany (WV) 9 Widener 41, Alvernia 13 William Paterson 35, SUNY Maritime 0 Williams 41, Bowdoin 10 Yale 27, Cornell 16

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First Quarter MICH—Collins 48 pass from Patterson (Nordin kick), 12:52 MICH—Patterson 2 run (Nordin kick), 5:07 Second Quarter MICH—Patterson 4 run (Nordin kick), 7:33 MICH—FG Moody 33, :15 Third Quarter MICH—C.Turner 7 run (Nordin kick), 14:05 MICH—Patterson 1 run (Nordin kick), 2:35 Fourth Quarter MICH—Milton 1 run (Nordin kick), 12:40 MICH—Jackson 23 pass from Milton (Moody kick), 9:08 A—110,662. RUT MICH First downs 10 28 Rushes-yards 29-46 41-141 Passing 106 335 Comp-Att-Int 17-24-0 20-27-1 Return Yards 74 42 Punts-Avg. 7-39.14 2-47.5 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 9-70 6-35 Time of Possession 29:19 30:41 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Rutgers, Pacheco 10-23, Adams 7-21, Blackshear 6-11, S.Jones 1-4, (Team) 1-(minus 2), Sitkowski 4-(minus 11). Michigan, C.Turner 11-48, Haskins 9-45, Charbonnet 5-22, Wilson 4-13, VanSumeren 3-5, Patterson 4-4, Jackson 1-2,

SOUTH Alabama 59, Mississippi 31 Alabama A&M 63, Central St. (Ohio) 20 Albany St. (Ga.) 54, Clark Atlanta 19 Alcorn St. 45, MVSU 19 Appalachian St. 56, Coastal Carolina 37 Arkansas St. 50, Troy 43 Auburn 56, Mississippi St. 23 Austin Peay 52, Jacksonville St. 33 Belhaven 46, McMurry 18 Berry 31, Millsaps 14 Bethel (Tenn.) 48, Point (Ga.) 21 Brevard 40, Allen 9 Bridgewater (Va.) 40, S. Virginia 6 Campbell 34, Mercer 27 Carson-Newman 42, Virginia-Wise 7 Chattanooga 60, W. Carolina 36 Clemson 21, North Carolina 20 Delta St. 34, North Greenville 9 E. Kentucky 42, Tennessee St. 16 East Carolina 24, Old Dominion 21 Emory & Henry 49, Bluefield South 21 FAU 45, Charlotte 27 Fayetteville St. 55, Elizabeth City St. 12 Florida 38, Towson 0 Florida A&M 30, Norfolk St. 28 Florida St. 31, NC State 13 Florida Tech 44, West Georgia 10 Fort Valley St. 50, Benedict 16 Furman 17, ETSU 10 Georgetown (Ky.) 41, St. Andrews 34 Hardin-Simmons 51, Louisiana College 6 Hendrix 34, Birmingham-Southern 24 Jacksonville 42, Ave Maria 28 James Madison 45, Elon 10 Kennesaw St. 31, Reinhardt 7 Kentucky St. 33, Jackson St. 25 LaGrange 50, Apprentice 13 Lenoir-Rhyne 56, Mars Hill 28 Liberty 17, New Mexico 10 Limestone 41, UNC-Pembroke 25 Louisiana-Lafayette 37, Georgia Southern 24 Louisiana-Monroe 30, South Alabama 17 Miles 52, Lane 28 Newberry 30, Tusculum 20 North Alabama 41, Presbyterian 21 Randolph-Macon 31, Ferrum 10 Rhodes 14, Sewanee 3 SE Louisiana 44, Northwestern St. 27 SMU 48, South Florida 21 Sam Houston St. 28, McNeese St. 17 Samford 61, The Citadel 55

Milton 2-1, Capatina 2-1. PASSING—Rutgers, Sitkowski 17-24-0-106. Michigan, Milton 3-4-0-59, Patterson 17-23-1-276. RECEIVING—Rutgers, Blackshear 7-55, P.Woods 3-20, Pacheco 3-12, Melton 2-20, Washington 1-2, Aa.Young 1-(minus 3). Michigan, Bell 6-83, PeoplesJones 4-62, Eubanks 3-43, Collins 2-59, Black 2-30, Schoonmaker 1-29, Jackson 1-23, C.Turner 1-6. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NO. 8 WISCONSIN 24, NORTHWESTERN 15 Northwestern Wisconsin

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First Quarter WIS—J.Taylor 13 run (Larsh kick), 9:16 NW—FG Kuhbander 29, 1:37 Third Quarter WIS—Henningsen 0 fumble return (Larsh kick), 2:34 Fourth Quarter WIS—FG Larsh 36, 12:58 WIS—Burks 68 interception return (Larsh kick), 11:29 NW—Anderson 4 run (pass failed), 8:45 NW—Jefferson 15 pass from Ai.Smith (pass failed), 4:10 A—76,825. NW WIS First downs 21 13 Rushes-yards 41-97 36-130 Passing 158 113 Comp-Att-Int 18-41-1 15-24-1

Shaw 49, Edward Waters 10 Shenandoah 26, Guilford 7 South Carolina 24, Kentucky 7 Southern Miss. 31, UTEP 13 Stetson 55, NC Wesleyan 21 Trinity (Texas) 20, Centre 13 UCF 56, UConn 21 UT Martin 40, Murray St. 7 Valdosta St. 44, Shorter 7 Vanderbilt 24, N. Illinois 18 Virginia St. 31, Johnson C. Smith 15 Virginia Union 16, Winston-Salem 15 W. Kentucky 20, UAB 13 Warner 63, Kentucky Christian 35 Washington & Lee 43, Hampden-Sydney 24 West Alabama 36, Tuskegee 16 West Florida 27, Mississippi College 21 Wingate 13, Catawba 10 Wofford 51, VMI 36 MIDWEST Anderson (Ind.) 56, Defiance 29 Ashland 31, Northwood (Mich.) 28 Bethel (Kan.) 31, Sterling 26 Bethel (Minn.) 35, Gustavus 33 Cent. Missouri 55, Washburn 27 Central 52, Loras 33 Charleston (WV) 19, Valparaiso 13 Chicago 27, Lake Forest 10 Coe 52, Luther 21 Concordia (Mich.) 42, St. Xavier 35 Concordia (Moor.) 51, Hamline 0 Concordia (Neb.) 16, Briar Cliff 14 Concordia (St.P.) 28, Wayne (Neb.) 21 Cornell (Iowa) 22, Lawrence 17 Davenport 35, Lindenwood (Mo.) 24 Dixie St. 28, South Dakota Mines 16 Dordt 57, Dakota Wesleyan 22 Elmhurst 32, Carroll (Wis.) 30 Emporia St. 50, Lincoln (Mo.) 7 Ferris St. 38, N. Michigan 10 Findlay 75, Alderson-Broaddus 28 Fort Hays St. 44, Missouri Southern 3 Grand Valley St. 21, Michigan Tech 16 Grand View 32, Evangel 28 Hanover 28, Bluffton 10 Hillsdale 30, Walsh 0 Illinois College 28, Ripon 25 Illinois Wesleyan 21, Augustana (Ill.) 17 Indianapolis 49, SW Baptist 6 Iowa 48, Middle Tennessee 3 Kenyon 15, Hiram 12 Knox 45, Beloit 21

Return Yards 53 72 Punts-Avg. 10-39.3 9-31.55 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 2-1 Penalties-Yards 4-23 7-79 Time of Possession 29:38 30:22 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Northwestern, Anderson 16-68, Ai.Smith 7-11, Bowser 6-10, Hunter Johnson 11-8, McGowan 1-0. Wisconsin, J.Taylor 26-119, Groshek 2-6, Stokke 1-5, Coan 3-2, Watson 1-1, (Team) 3-(minus 3). PASSING—Northwestern, Hunter Johnson 10-21-0-59, Ai.Smith 8-20-1-99. Wisconsin, Coan 15-24-1-113. RECEIVING—Northwestern, Lees 5-59, Jefferson 3-38, Holman 3-34, McGowan 2-15, ChiaokhiaoBowman 2-14, Mangieri 1-1, Anderson 1-(minus 1), Bowser 1-(minus 2). Wisconsin, Groshek 4-31, Cephus 3-30, D.Davis 3-24, J.Taylor 3-15, A.Taylor 1-11, Ferguson 1-2. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NO. 6 OKLAHOMA 55, TEXAS TECH 16 Texas Tech Oklahoma

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First Quarter OKL—Sermon 1 run (Brkic kick), 11:27 OKL—Hurts 1 run (Brkic kick), 5:14 OKL—FG Brkic 34, :48 Second Quarter TT—Shyne 13 run (Wolff kick), 11:44 OKL—Lamb 71 pass from Hurts (Brkic kick),

Lake Erie 49, Kentucky Wesleyan 42 Macalester 42, Grinnell 3 Martin Luther 43, Greenville 14 McKendree 42, Chowan 35 Miami (Ohio) 34, Buffalo 20 Michigan 52, Rutgers 0 Michigan St. 40, Indiana 31 Mid-Am Nazarene 62, Clarke 6 Minn. Duluth 42, Bemidji St. 7 Minn. St.-Moorhead 47, Mary 32 Minn.-Morris 28, Iowa Wesleyan 21 Minnesota 38, Purdue 31 Minnesota St. 20, Winona St. 6 Minot St. 24, Minn.-Crookston 16 Monmouth (Ill.) 34, St. Norbert 14 Mount St. Joseph 50, Franklin 27 Mount Union 37, John Carroll 14 Muskingum 38, Wilmington (Ohio) 21 NW Missouri St. 59, Cent. Oklahoma 10 North Central 77, North Park 0 Northern St. (SD) 20, St. Cloud St. 17 Northwestern (Iowa) 45, Jamestown 6 Notre Dame 35, Virginia 20 Ohio Northern 45, Otterbein 35 Ohio St. 48, Nebraska 7 Ohio Wesleyan 28, Allegheny 10 Rose-Hulman 52, Manchester 35 SW Minnesota St. 35, Upper Iowa 28 Simpson (Iowa) 46, Buena Vista 0 St. Francis (Ill.) 55, Lawrence Tech 27 St. Francis (Ind.) 31, St. Ambrose 13 St. John’s (Minn.) 56, Carleton 10 St. Olaf 48, Augsburg 26 St. Scholastica 28, Westminster (Mo.) 27 Tennessee Tech 40, E. Illinois 29 Thomas More 35, Cincinnati Christian 19 Tiffin 41, Ohio Dominican 31 Toledo 28, BYU 21 Truman St. 63, Quincy 14 W. Michigan 31, Cent. Michigan 15 Wabash 34, Denison 20 Wartburg 42, Dubuque 25 Washington (Mo.) 21, Carthage 10 Wayne (Mich.) 24, Saginaw Valley St. 20 Wheaton (Ill.) 62, Millikin 0 Wis.-Eau Claire 21, St. Thomas (Minn.) 19 Wis.-Platteville 55, Lakeland 28 Wisconsin 24, Northwestern 15 Wittenberg 17, DePauw 10 Youngstown St. 45, Robert Morris 10 SOUTHWEST Angelo St. 28, Midwestern St. 6 Baylor 23, Iowa St. 21

11:23 TT—FG Wolff 24, 6:33 OKL—Lamb 14 pass from Hurts (Brkic kick), 2:09 OKL—FG Brkic 33, :00 Third Quarter OKL—Lamb 65 pass from Hurts (Brkic kick), 14:13 TT—FG Wolff 36, 7:49 OKL—Sermon 32 run (Brkic kick), 5:00 TT—FG Wolff 41, :24 Fourth Quarter OKL—Stevenson 28 run (Brkic kick), 8:18 A—84,416. TT OKL First downs 16 24 Rushes-yards 37-192 30-201 Passing 122 441 Comp-Att-Int 12-26-0 22-33-1 Return Yards 73 38 Punts-Avg. 6-43.66 3-41.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 8-65 9-112 Time of Possession 31:54 28:06 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Texas Tech, S.Thompson 13-96, Henry 8-31, Mannix 1-23, Shyne 5-18, Duffey 7-16, Hutchings 1-6, Rigdon 1-2, X.White 1-0. Oklahoma, Sermon 7-76, Hurts 9-70, Stevenson 4-29, K.Brooks 8-29, Major 0-0, Willis 1-(minus 1), (Team) 1-(minus 2). PASSING—Texas Tech, Tyner 1-5-0-2, Mannix 0-1-0-0, Duffey 11-20-0-120. Oklahoma, Mordecai 4-6-0-5, Hurts 16-23-1-413, Rattler 2-4-0-23. RECEIVING—Texas Tech, S.Thompson 4-14, Rigdon 2-37, X.White 1-21, Ezukanma 1-19,

Harding 14, Henderson St. 13 Houston 46, North Texas 25 Houston Baptist 68, Texas Southern 31 Incarnate Word 31, Abilene Christian 24 Louisiana Tech 23, Rice 20 Mary Hardin-Baylor 65, Howard Payne 0 Missouri Western 58, Northeastern St. 23 NW Oklahoma 28, Ark.-Monticello 0 Okla. Panhandle St. 34, Texas College 8 Oklahoma 55, Texas Tech 16 Oklahoma Baptist 50, East Central 41 Oklahoma St. 26, Kansas St. 13 Ouachita 26, SW Oklahoma 21 Prairie View 42, Grambling St. 36 S. Arkansas 35, Arkansas Tech 14 S. Nazarene 22, SE Oklahoma 21 Southern U. 31, Ark.-Pine Bluff 7 Stephen F. Austin 24, Lamar 17 TCU 51, Kansas 14 Tarleton St. 49, Texas-Permian Basin 7 Texas A&M 31, Arkansas 27 Texas Lutheran 27, Southwestern (Texas) 0 Texas St. 24, Nicholls 3 WEST Baldwin-Wallace 34, Heidelberg 33 Black Hills St. 13, Fort Lewis 7 CSU-Pueblo 24, Texas A&M Commerce 17 Cal Poly 24, S. Utah 21 Colorado Mesa 42, Chadron St. 30 Colorado Mines 42, NM Highlands 13 E. Washington 35, North Dakota 20 Fresno St. 30, New Mexico St. 17 Idaho St. 51, Portland St. 24 Montana 45, UC Davis 20 Montana St. 49, N. Arizona 31 N. Colorado 27, Idaho 24 Stanford 31, Oregon St. 28 Utah St. 34, Colorado St. 24 W. Oregon 36, Cent. Washington 26 Washington 28, Southern Cal 14 Weber St. 29, N. Iowa 17 West Texas A&M 45, W. New Mexico 21 Wis.-Stout 29, Cal Lutheran 21 Wyoming 53, UNLV 17

D.Thompson 1-18, Carter 1-8, Shyne 1-3, Vasher 1-2. Oklahoma, Lamb 6-183, Haselwood 6-59, Stevenson 3-13, C.Rambo 2-122, Sermon 2-11, Hall 1-23, Stogner 1-19, Wease 1-11. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NO. 23 TEXAS A&M 31, ARKANSAS 27 Texas A&M Arkansas

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First Quarter TXAM—A.Smith 9 pass from Mond (Small kick), 2:56 Second Quarter ARK—FG Limpert 46, 14:15 TXAM—Spiller 4 run (Small kick), 9:48 ARK—Harris 6 fumble return (Limpert kick), 5:30 ARK—Woods 13 pass from Hicks (Limpert kick), 1:55 TXAM—Q.Davis 22 pass from Mond (Small kick), :08 Third Quarter ARK—Whaley 11 run (Limpert kick), 10:34 Fourth Quarter TXAM—Q.Davis 3 pass from Mond (Small kick), 12:21 ARK—FG Limpert 40, 8:46 TXAM—FG Small 50, 3:52 A—51,441. TXAM ARK First downs 24 26 Rushes-yards 33-89 26-98 Passing 251 297


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Comp-Att-Int 23-35-1 27-44-1 Return Yards 40 35 Punts-Avg. 4-40.75 3-35.66 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-55 8-48 Time of Possession 32:37 27:23 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Texas A&M, Kibodi 9-38, Mond 14-33, Q.Davis 2-19, Spiller 7-0, (Team) 1-(minus 1). Arkansas, Boyd 18-89, Whaley 3-12, Hicks 3-0, (Team) 1-(minus 1), Starkel 1-(minus 2). PASSING—Texas A&M, Mond 23-35-1-251. Arkansas, Starkel 12-17-1-109, Hicks 15-27-0-188. RECEIVING—Texas A&M, Ausbon 7-82, Q.Davis 7-62, A.Smith 5-80, Spiller 2-17, Kibodi 1-9, Buckley 1-1. Arkansas, O’Grady 8-91, Woods 4-62, Burks 4-58, Whaley 3-21, T.Morris 2-26, Boyd 2-10, Hammonds 2-8, Ko.Jackson 1-19, T.Jackson 1-2. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Arkansas, Limpert 51.

NO. 14 IOWA 48, MIDDLE TENNESSEE 3 Middle Tennessee Iowa

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First Quarter IOW—M.Sargent 4 run (Duncan kick), 11:01 IOW—FG Duncan 49, 4:54 IOW—B.Smith 18 pass from Stanley (Duncan kick), :15 Second Quarter IOW—B.Ross 1 run (Duncan kick), 8:33 Third Quarter IOW—FG Duncan 42, 10:52 MTS—FG Holt 43, 5:24 IOW—Smith-Marsette 14 run (Duncan kick), 2:19 Fourth Quarter IOW—B.Smith 10 pass from Stanley (Duncan kick), 10:01 IOW—Petras 1 run (Duncan kick), :47 A—63,706. MTS IOW First downs 12 30 Rushes-yards 24-80 51-351 Passing 136 293 Comp-Att-Int 17-27-0 20-29-0 Return Yards 0 20 Punts-Avg. 8-41.87 1-34.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 8-72 3-20 Time of Possession 24:03 35:57 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Middle Tennessee, O’Hara 10-33, McDonald 6-22, B.Anderson 4-15, West 1-7, Mobley 2-7, England-Chisolm 1-(minus 4). Iowa, T.Young 11-131, Goodson 12-97, M.Sargent 14-91, Smith-Marsette 2-28, Kelly-Martin 1-3, B.Ross 1-1, Petras 1-1, Pallissard 1-0, Pottebaum 1-0, Stanley 7-(minus 1). PASSING—Middle Tennessee, O’Hara 15-22-0110, Cunningham 2-5-0-26. Iowa, Stanley 17-25-0276, Petras 3-4-0-17. RECEIVING—Middle Tennessee, Pierce 6-43, T.Lee 2-16, Windham 2-16, B.Anderson 2-9, Marshall 1-21, England-Chisolm 1-14, Upton 1-12, Ali 1-5, West 1-0. Iowa, B.Smith 6-71, Smith-Marsette 4-60, Tracy 3-85, Goodson 3-7, Ragaini 2-39, Beyer 1-27, O.Martin 1-4. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Iowa, Duncan 39.

NO. 17 WASHINGTON 28, NO. 21 SOUTHERN CAL 14 Southern Cal Washington

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First Quarter WAS—Newton 1 run (Henry kick), 3:38 WAS—Baccellia fumble recovery in endzone (Henry kick), :29 Second Quarter USC—Fink 3 run (McGrath kick), 4:14 WAS—FG Henry 28, :00 Third Quarter WAS—FG Henry 35, 12:02 WAS—Ahmed 89 run (McClatcher pass from Eason), 4:56 USC—Pittman Jr. 44 pass from Fink (McGrath kick), 2:10 USC WAS First downs 18 16 Rushes-yards 33-212 35-193 Passing 163 180 Comp-Att-Int 19-32-3 16-26-0 Return Yards 84 75 Punts-Avg. 6-36.66 6-43.33 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 8-80 7-44 Time of Possession 31:09 28:51 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Southern Cal, Carr 7-94, Stepp 10-62, Malepeai 10-49, Fink 6-7. Washington, Ahmed 17-153, McClatcher 2-21, Newton 9-20, McGrew 2-8, Baccellia 0-0, Eason 3-0, (Team) 1-(minus 1), H.Bryant 1-(minus 8). PASSING—Southern Cal, Fink 19-32-3-163. Washington, Eason 16-26-0-180. RECEIVING—Southern Cal, St.Brown 5-31, Pittman Jr. 4-64, Vaughns 4-44, Krommenhoek 2-10, Malepeai 2-8, Falo 1-6, Carr 1-0. Washington, Fuller 6-68, H.Bryant 4-49, Otton 2-43, Baccellia 2-13, Ahmed 1-6, McGrew 1-1. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NO. 10 NOTRE DAME 35, NO. 18 VIRGINIA 20 Virginia Notre Dame

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First Quarter UVA—J.Reed 6 pass from Perkins (Delaney kick), 10:58 ND—T.Jones 5 run (Doerer kick), 4:35

ND—Flemister 11 run (Doerer kick), :18 Second Quarter UVA—FG Delaney 32, 8:07 UVA—Dubois 16 pass from Perkins (Delaney kick), :43 Third Quarter ND—T.Jones 2 run (Doerer kick), 9:20 ND—Ogundeji 23 fumble return (Doerer kick), 1:41 Fourth Quarter ND—T.Jones 30 run (Doerer kick), 10:28 UVA—FG Delaney 27, 6:28 UVA ND First downs 20 19 Rushes-yards 29-4 37-157 Passing 334 165 Comp-Att-Int 30-43-2 17-25-0 Return Yards 56 17 Punts-Avg. 4-40.25 6-36.16 Fumbles-Lost 4-3 1-1 Penalties-Yards 6-52 9-50 Time of Possession 33:32 26:28 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Virginia, Taulapapa 10-31, J.Reed 1-3, Cowley 0-0, Kier 2-(minus 1), Perkins 16-(minus 29). Notre Dame, T.Jones 18-131, Flemister 6-27, J.Smith 3-8, Young 1-2, Book 9-(minus 11). PASSING—Virginia, Perkins 30-43-2-334. Notre Dame, Book 17-25-0-165. RECEIVING—Virginia, Dubois 9-143, J.Reed 9-107, Jana 4-23, Cowley 3-34, Kemp 3-10, Chatman 2-17. Notre Dame, Claypool 6-30, Kmet 4-65, Young 3-19, Finke 2-32, Flemister 1-13, T.Jones 1-6. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Notre Dame, Doerer 47.

NO. 25 MICHIGAN ST. 40, INDIANA 31 Indiana Michigan St.

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First Quarter MSU—Collins 4 run (Coghlin kick), 8:04 IU—Philyor 28 pass from Penix (Justus kick), 1:35 Second Quarter MSU—Stewart Jr. 5 pass from Lewerke (Coghlin kick), 12:55 IU—Penix 2 run (Justus kick), 4:07 MSU—Stewart Jr. 26 pass from Lewerke (Coghlin kick), :33 Third Quarter IU—FG Justus 26, 8:23 Fourth Quarter IU—Hale 12 pass from Penix (Justus kick), 14:52 MSU—Seybert 10 pass from Lewerke (Coghlin kick), 12:12 MSU—FG Coghlin 44, 3:33 IU—Philyor 11 pass from Penix (Justus kick), 2:00 MSU—FG Coghlin 21, :08 MSU—M.Dowell fumble recovery in endzone, :00 IU MSU First downs 26 23 Rushes-yards 28-70 34-142 Passing 286 300 Comp-Att-Int 33-42-0 18-36-0 Return Yards 125 64 Punts-Avg. 5-37.4 4-41.25 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 9-85 6-61 Time of Possession 34:20 25:40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Indiana, S.Scott 18-66, R.Walker 4-11, Philyor 1-6, (Team) 1-(minus 2), Penix 2-(minus 4), James 2-(minus 7). Michigan St., Lewerke 12-78, Collins 17-56, Nelson 1-5, Jefferson 2-4, Williams Jr. 1-2, (Team) 1-(minus 3). PASSING—Indiana, Penix 33-42-0-286. Michigan St., Lewerke 18-36-0-300. RECEIVING—Indiana, Philyor 14-142, Hale 7-99, S.Scott 4-28, Fryfogle 3-25, Hendershot 2-8, Westbrook 2-3, Ellis 1-7. Michigan St., Stewart Jr. 5-117, White 4-67, Seybert 3-43, Hayes 3-38, Collins 1-16, Gillison 1-12, Dotson 1-7. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Michigan St., Coghlin 43.

NO. 1 CLEMSON 21, NORTH CAROLINA 20 Clemson North Carolina

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First Quarter NC—D.Brown 40 pass from Howell (Ruggles kick), 13:15 Second Quarter CLE—Etienne 13 run (Potter kick), 12:43 NC—Corrales 10 pass from Howell (Ruggles kick), 7:55 CLE—Lawrence 3 run (Potter kick), :33 Fourth Quarter CLE—Higgins 38 pass from Lawrence (Potter kick), 9:54 NC—Ja.Williams 1 run (run failed), 1:17 A—50,500. CLE NC First downs 14 14 Rushes-yards 31-125 36-146 Passing 206 144 Comp-Att-Int 18-30-0 15-27-0 Return Yards 67 25 Punts-Avg. 5-45.8 7-42.14 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-30 3-20 Time of Possession 28:11 31:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Clemson, Etienne 14-67, Lawrence 11-45, Dixon 4-20, (Team) 2-(minus 7). North Carolina, Carter 16-99, Ja.Williams 10-49, D.Brown 1-2, A.Williams 1-1, Howell 8-(minus 5). PASSING—Clemson, Lawrence 18-30-0-206. North Carolina, Howell 15-27-0-144. RECEIVING—Clemson, Higgins 6-129, J.Ross 3-47, Rodgers 3-12, Chalk 2-16, Etienne 2-3, Overton 1-0, Powell 1-(minus 1). North Carolina, D.Brown 3-63, Corrales 3-25, Ja.Williams 2-35,

Newsome 2-16, Groves 2-10, Carter 2-(minus 7), Bargas 1-2. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Clemson, Potter 40.

NO. 2 ALABAMA 59, MISSISSIPPI 31 Mississippi Alabama

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First Quarter BAMA—De.Smith 74 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 13:50 MIS—Plumlee 1 run (Logan kick), 10:20 MIS—FG Logan 33, 2:36 Second Quarter BAMA—Tu.Tagovailoa 7 run (Bulovas kick), 13:52 BAMA—FG Bulovas 36, 9:51 BAMA—De.Smith 25 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 6:01 BAMA—De.Smith 23 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 2:45 BAMA—De.Smith 33 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 1:23 Third Quarter BAMA—De.Smith 27 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 10:49 MIS—Ealy 9 pass from Plumlee (Logan kick), 8:29 BAMA—Kaho 0 blocked punt return (Bulovas kick), 5:29 Fourth Quarter MIS—Mingo 26 pass from Plumlee (Logan kick), 13:23 BAMA—Forristall 19 pass from Tu.Tagovailoa (Bulovas kick), 7:57 MIS—Jad.Jackson 28 pass from G.Tisdale (Logan kick), :05 A—99,590. MIS BAMA First downs 25 28 Rushes-yards 58-279 30-155 Passing 197 418 Comp-Att-Int 12-30-1 26-37-0 Return Yards 15 129 Punts-Avg. 6-23.57 2-30.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 9-97 10-76 Time of Possession 30:23 29:37 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Mississippi, Plumlee 25-109, Ealy 11-68, Conner 10-62, Phillips 7-27, G.Tisdale 2-10, Woullard 2-4, (Team) 1-(minus 1). Alabama, N.Harris 9-71, B.Robinson 10-60, K.Robinson 5-20, Bolden 1-5, Tu.Tagovailoa 4-1, (Team) 1-(minus 2). PASSING—Mississippi, G.Tisdale 2-2-0-56, Plumlee 10-28-1-141. Alabama, Tu.Tagovailoa 26-36-0-418, M.Jones 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING—Mississippi, Mingo 3-74, Moore 3-40, Pellerin 2-14, D.Jackson 1-28, Jad.Jackson 1-28, Ealy 1-9, Phillips 1-4. Alabama, De.Smith 11-274, Jeudy 8-84, Forristall 2-40, N.Harris 2-0, Ruggs 1-11, B.Robinson 1-9, Waddle 1-0. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Alabama, Bulovas 28.

NO. 9 FLORIDA 38, TOWSON 0 Towson Florida

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First Quarter FLA—Pitts 5 pass from Trask (McPherson kick), 9:28 Second Quarter FLA—FG McPherson 42, 14:55 FLA—Trask 1 run (McPherson kick), 3:46 Third Quarter FLA—Pitts 7 pass from Trask (McPherson kick), 9:19 FLA—Pierce 37 run (McPherson kick), 4:50 Fourth Quarter FLA—Zipperer 2 pass from E.Jones (Howard kick), 9:47 A—79,126. TWN FLA First downs 17 23 Rushes-yards 29-65 32-160 Passing 183 262 Comp-Att-Int 18-32-2 24-28-0 Return Yards 38 11 Punts-Avg. 3-45.0 1-36.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 7-40 4-28 Time of Possession 29:59 30:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Towson, Thaenrat 8-35, Feliz-Platt 7-27, Flacco 10-15, Stover 2-12, (Team) 2-(minus 24). Florida, Pierce 6-84, E.Jones 1-29, M.Davis 6-22, Perine 6-16, V.Jefferson 1-7, Copeland 2-5, N.Wright 2-5, Hammond 2-3, Clement 1-2, Ma.Wilson 1-(minus 1), Trask 4-(minus 12). PASSING—Towson, Stover 2-5-0-26, Flacco 16-27-2-157. Florida, E.Jones 6-8-0-74, Trask 18-20-0-188. RECEIVING—Towson, Leatherbury 4-65, Street 4-29, Epps 4-20, C.Smith 2-28, Rutkowski 1-20, Hunter 1-11, D.Thompson 1-6, Feliz-Platt 1-4. Florida, Grimes 5-55, Hammond 4-37, Pitts 4-28, Cleveland 3-59, Zipperer 3-31, Copeland 2-22, V.Jefferson 2-16, Perine 1-14. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Towson, O’Neill 33, O’Neill 48.

NO. 7 AUBURN 56, MISSISSIPPI ST. 23 Mississippi St. Auburn

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First Quarter AUB—Whitlow 30 run (Carlson kick), 12:55 AUB—Nix 9 run (Carlson kick), 9:46 AUB—Schwartz 13 run (Carlson kick), 8:59 MSST—S.Guidry 9 pass from Shrader (kick failed), 2:20 Second Quarter AUB—Whitlow 3 run (Carlson kick), 13:18

MSST—FG Christmann 27, 7:55 AUB—S.Williams 39 pass from Nix (Carlson kick), 5:33 AUB—Whitlow 3 run (Carlson kick), 13:18 Third Quarter AUB—S.Williams 32 pass from Nix (Carlson kick), 13:28 MSST—Mitchell 21 pass from Shrader (Christmann kick), 2:13 Fourth Quarter AUB—Martin 7 run (Carlson kick), 14:16 MSST—Shrader 7 run (Christmann kick), :50 MSST AUB First downs 20 25 Rushes-yards 38-118 45-217 Passing 216 361 Comp-Att-Int 13-26-0 18-24-0 Return Yards 16 55 Punts-Avg. 6-36.0 1-43.0 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 4-3 Penalties-Yards 9-70 5-37 Time of Possession 32:40 27:20 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Mississippi St., Shrader 16-89, K.Hill 17-45, Witherspoon 2-3, Gibson 1-(minus 1), (Team) 1-(minus 2), Stevens 1-(minus 16). Auburn, Nix 7-56, Whitlow 10-55, D..Williams 7-32, Martin 8-31, Schwartz 3-25, Shivers 4-22, Stove 1-3, M.Miller 1-1, (Team) 2-(minus 2), Gatewood 2-(minus 6). PASSING—Mississippi St., Stevens 1-3-0-7, Shrader 12-23-0-209. Auburn, Nix 16-21-0-335, Gatewood 2-3-0-26. RECEIVING—Mississippi St., Green 3-69, Mitchell 2-33, De.Thomas 2-22, K.Hill 2-21, Payton 1-30, Zuber 1-20, Spivey 1-12, S.Guidry 1-9. Auburn, S.Williams 8-161, Schwartz 2-67, Cannella 2-39, Hastings 2-25, Stove 1-27, Wilson 1-16, M.Miller 1-16, Farrar 1-10. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NO. 22 UCF 56, UCONN 21 UConn UCF

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First Quarter UCF—McCrae 1 run (Barnas kick), 12:44 UCF—G.Davis 73 pass from Gabriel (Barnas kick), 7:21 UCF—Clarke 48 interception return (Barnas kick), 3:17 UCF—Killins 75 run (Barnas kick), 1:06 Second Quarter UCF—G.Davis 16 pass from Gabriel (Barnas kick), 11:04 UCF—G.Davis 13 pass from Gabriel (Barnas kick), 10:06 Third Quarter UCF—M.Williams 21 pass from Mack (Barnas kick), 12:37 UCF—Thompson 2 run (Obarski kick), 5:48 UCONN—Ross 16 pass from Krajewski (C.Harris kick), 1:30 Fourth Quarter UCONN—A.Brown 12 pass from Krajewski (C.Harris kick), 10:36 UCONN—Drayton 15 pass from Krajewski (C.Harris kick), :19 UCONN UCF First downs 23 27 Rushes-yards 40-145 37-230 Passing 281 377 Comp-Att-Int 23-36-2 21-30-0 Return Yards 84 22 Punts-Avg. 5-36.2 2-34.0 Fumbles-Lost 4-2 1-1 Penalties-Yards 7-60 11-90 Time of Possession 38:09 21:51 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—UConn, Mensah 23-123, Krajewski 8-26, Thompkins 6-1, Zergiotis 3-(minus 5). UCF, Killins 3-77, Thompson 11-71, Coles 7-47, Mack 6-27, McCrae 4-25, Anderson 3-3, (Team) 1-(minus 3), Gabriel 2-(minus 17). PASSING—UConn, Zergiotis 1-3-1-8, Krajewski 22-33-1-273. UCF, Gabriel 11-16-0-281, Wimbush 1-1-0-(minus 1), Mack 9-13-0-97. RECEIVING—UConn, Ross 6-91, Thompkins 5-27, A.Brown 4-55, Rose 3-34, Drayton 2-33, Hairston 2-24, Medlock 1-17. UCF, G.Davis 5-119, M.Williams 3-62, O’Keefe 3-29, A.Harris 3-18, Anderson 2-37, J.Harris 1-74, McCrae 1-14, Baker 1-10, Thompson 1-9, T.Nixon 1-5. MISSED FIELD GOALS—UConn, C.Harris 40, C.Harris 52.

NO. 5 OHIO ST. 48, NEBRASKA 7 Ohio St. Nebraska

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First Quarter OSU—Fields 15 run (Haubeil kick), 10:35 OSU—Hill 2 pass from Fields (Haubeil kick), 4:37 Second Quarter OSU—FG Haubeil 23, 9:32 OSU—Teague 8 run (Haubeil kick), 8:26 OSU—Teague 1 run (Haubeil kick), 5:42 OSU—Mack 18 pass from Fields (Haubeil kick), 1:34 Third Quarter OSU—FG Haubeil 36, 10:35 OSU—G.Wilson 6 pass from Fields (Haubeil kick), 3:51 NEB—Mills 9 run (McCallum kick), 2:07 OSU NEB First downs 32 15 Rushes-yards 53-368 39-184 Passing 212 47 Comp-Att-Int 15-22-0 8-17-3 Return Yards 49 51 Punts-Avg. 1-39.0 5-34.6 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 2-25 6-57 Time of Possession 36:54 23:06

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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Ohio St., Dobbins 24-177, Teague 12-77, Fields 12-72, Crowley 4-45, (Team) 1(minus 3). Nebraska, Martinez 15-81, Mills 11-67, W.Robinson 9-27, Washington 4-9. PASSING—Ohio St., Fields 15-21-0-212, (Team) 0-1-0-0. Nebraska, Martinez 8-17-3-47. RECEIVING—Ohio St., Hill 5-39, Mack 3-66, Olave 3-30, Teague 1-28, Victor 1-27, Farrell 1-16, G.Wilson 1-6. Nebraska, Washington 2-10, Allen 2-7, Mills 1-10, W.Robinson 1-8, Spielman 1-7, Noa 1-5. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

OKLAHOMA ST. 26, NO. 24 KANSAS ST. 13 Kansas St. Oklahoma St.

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First Quarter OKS—FG Ammendola 25, 6:12 OKS—Carter 3 pass from Sanders (Ammendola kick), 3:57 Second Quarter OKS—FG Ammendola 21, 8:40 KST—FG Lynch 46, 5:35 OKS—FG Ammendola 29, 2:06 Third Quarter OKS—Hubbard 84 run (Ammendola kick), 12:45 Fourth Quarter KST—FG Lynch 37, 12:16 KST—Gilbert 5 run (Lynch kick), 7:14 OKS—FG Ammendola 18, 1:03 A—55,509. KST OKS First downs 8 21 Rushes-yards 32-126 44-373 Passing 118 153 Comp-Att-Int 11-23-0 16-25-2 Return Yards 76 5 Punts-Avg. 7-42.28 4-38.5 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 8-65 6-60 Time of Possession 29:08 30:52 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Kansas St., Gilbert 12-44, Thompson 7-27, Trotter 4-25, J.Brown 5-12, Youngblood 1-11, Holcombe 1-6, Sullivan 1-3, (Team) 1-(minus 2). Oklahoma St., Hubbard 25-296, Sanders 14-52, L.Brown 4-25, Wallace 1-0. PASSING—Kansas St., Thompson 11-23-0-118. Oklahoma St., Sanders 16-25-2-153. RECEIVING—Kansas St., Schoen 3-23, Brooks 3-15, J.Brown 2-13, Wheeler 1-39, Lenners 1-19, Trotter 1-9. Oklahoma St., Wallace 8-145, Wolf 3-(minus 5), Hubbard 2-7, Stoner 1-5, Carter 1-3, Woods 1-(minus 2). MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NO. 19 UTAH 38, WASHINGTON ST. 13 Washington St. Utah

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First Quarter UTH—Henry-Cole 11 pass from Huntley (Redding kick), 4:03 WST—McIntosh 4 pass from Gordon (Mazza kick), :17 Second Quarter UTH—Nacua 52 pass from Huntley (Redding kick), 14:51 WST—FG Mazza 51, 12:25 WST—FG Mazza 24, 3:31 UTH—Huntley 15 run (Redding kick), :22 Third Quarter UTH—FG Redding 28, 7:20 UTH—Vickers 7 run (Redding kick), 1:28 Fourth Quarter UTH—Huntley 3 run (Redding kick), 1:21 WST UTH First downs 19 29 Rushes-yards 14-61 41-192 Passing 252 334 Comp-Att-Int 30-49-2 21-30-0 Return Yards 72 0 Punts-Avg. 2-45.5 1-40.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 9-66 9-87 Time of Possession 25:32 34:28 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Washington St., Borghi 8-51, McIntosh 3-9, Gordon 3-1. Utah, Henry-Cole 15-79, Huntley 6-31, Brumfield 6-24, Shelley 3-21, Wilmore 7-16, Vickers 1-7, Dixon 1-5, Br.Kuithe 1-5, Simpkins 1-4. PASSING—Washington St., Gordon 30-49-2-252. Utah, Huntley 21-30-0-334. RECEIVING—Washington St., Borghi 9-70, Patmon 5-62, Fisher 5-31, Bell 4-44, McIntosh 3-7, Winston 2-30, D.Martin 1-4, Harris 1-4. Utah, Nacua 5-90, B.Thompson 4-111, Enis 3-62, Dixon 2-24, Simpkins 2-14, Brumfield 2-7, Henry-Cole 1-11, Thedford 1-11, Vickers 1-4. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Utah, Redding 33.

BOXING OCT. 1 At Osaka, Japan, Hiroto Kyoguchi vs. Tetsuya Hisada, 12, for Kyoguchi’s WBA Super World light flyweight title.

OCT. 5 At Madison Square Garden, New York, Sergiy Derevyanchenko vs. Gennady Golovkin, 12, for the vacant IBF middleweight title; Ivan Baranchyk vs. Gabriel Bracero, 10, super lightweights; Israil Madrimov vs. Alejandro Barrera, 10, super welterweights; Ali Akhmedov vs. Andrew Hernandez, 10, super middleweights. At Dort Federal Event Center, Flint, Mich. (SHO), Jaron Ennis vs. Demian Daniel Fernandez, 10, welterweights; Jermaine Franklin vs. Pavel Sour, 10, heavyweights; Ja’Rico O’Quinn vs. James Smith, 10, super flyweights.

OCT. 12 At First Direct Arena, Leeds, England, Josh Warrington vs. Sofiane Takoucht, 12, for Warrington’s IBF featherweight title; Zelfa Barrett vs. Jordan McCorry, 12, for Barrett’s Commonwealth super featherweight title; Lyndon Arthur vs. Emmanuel Anim, 12, for the vacant Commonwealth light heavyweight title; Michael

Ramabeletsa vs. Jack Bateson, 10, super bantamweights; Troy Williamson vs. Nav Mansouri, 10, super welterweights. At Wintrust Arena, Chicago, Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyrone Spong, 12, heavyweights; Charles Conwell vs. Patrick Day, 10, super welterweights; Josh Hernandez vs. Giovanni Mioletti, 10, super featherweights.

OCT. 18 At Liacouras Center, Philadelphia (ESPN), Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs. Artur Beterbiev, 12, for Gvozdyk’s WBC and Beterbiev’s IBF light heavyweights; Luis Collazo vs. Kudratillo Abdukakhorov, 10, welterweights; Michael Seals vs. Elio Heraldo Trosch, 10, light heavyweights.

OCT. 19 At Charleroi, Belgium, Ryad Merhy vs. Imre Szello, 12, for Merhy’s interim WBA World cruiserweight title; Mikalai Vesialou vs. Abdul Khattab, 12, for Vesialou’s WBA Continental middleweight title.

OCT. 25 At TBA, South Africa, Chayaphon Moonsri vs. Simpiwe Konkco, 12, for Moonsri’s WBC World/IBO minimumweight titles.

OCT. 26 At O2 Arena, London, Josh Taylor vs. Regis Prograis, 12, for Taylor’s IBF/WBA Super World/WBC Diamond super lightweight titles; Dereck Chisora vs. Joseph Parker, 12, heavyweights; Ricky Burns vs. Lee Selby, 12, lightweights; Yves Ngabu vs. Lawrence Okolie, 12, for Ngabu’s European cruiserweight title; James Tennyson vs. Craig Evans, 10, lightweights. At Santander Arena, Reading, Pa. (SHO), Erickson Lubin vs. Terrell Gausha, 12, super welterweights; Robert Easter Jr. vs. Adrian Granados, 10, super lightweights; Rau’shee Warren vs. Emmanuel Rodriguez, 12, bantamweights. At Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Reno, Nev., Shakur Stevenson vs. Joet Gonzalez, 12, for the vacant WBO featherweight title; Josh Greer vs. Antonio Nieves, 10, bantamweights; Albert Bell vs. Frank De Alba, 10, super featherweights; Jason Sanchez vs. Adeilson Dos Santos, 10, featherweights; Andy Vences vs. Mark Bernaldez, 10, super featherweights.

At Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson, Calif. (ESPN), Miguel Berchelt vs. Jason Sosa, 12, for Berchelt’s WBC World super featherweight title; Jerwin Ancajas vs. Jonathan Rodriguez, 12, for Ancajas’ IBF super flyweight title; Javier Molina vs. Hiroki Okada, 10, junior welterweights. At MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Ryan Garcia vs. Romero Duno, 10, lightweights.

NOV. 7 At Saitama, Japan, Naoya Inoue vs. Nonito Donaire, 12, for Inoue’s IBF and Donaire’s WBA bantamweight titles (World Boxing Super Series final); Nordine Oubaali vs. Takuma Inoue, 12, for Oubaali’s WBC World bantamweight title.

DEC. 7 At Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua, 12, for Ruiz’s IBF/WBA Super World/WBO/IBO heavyweight titles

NOV. 2 At MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, Md. (FS1), Brian Castano vs. Wale Omotoso, 10, super welterweights; Javier Fortuna vs. Jesus Cuellar, 10, super featherweights.

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY SEPT. 29 1923 — Gene Sarazen beats Walter Hagen 1 up to capture the PGA championship. 1941 — Joe Louis knocks out Lou Nova in the sixth round at the Polo Grounds in New York to retain the world heavyweight title. 1954 — Willie Mays makes his over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz’ long drive to center field and pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes homers off Bob Lemon in the 10th inning to lead the New York Giants to a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the World Series. 1974 — Dr. Norbert Sander Jr. wins the New York City Marathon in 2:26:30 and Kathy Switzer capture the women’s division in 3:07:29.

1977 — Muhammad Ali wins a unanimous 15-round decision over Earnie Shavers at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain his world heavyweight title. 1984 — Mike Prindle of Western Michigan sets an NCAA record by kicking seven field goals in a 42-7 rout over Marshall. 1985 — Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon is sacked 12 times in a 17-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys to tie an NFL record. 1991 — Pat Bradley wins the MBS LPGA Classic by one shot over Michelle Estill for her 30th career victory, qualifying her for the LPGA Hall of Fame. 1995 — The NHL and NHL Players Association strike a deal to allow league players to participate in the 1998 Winter Olympics. 2000 — At the Sydney Olympics, the U.S. men’s basketball team escapes the humiliation of playing for a bronze medal with an

85-83 victory over Lithuania in the semifinals. It’s the closest victory and biggest scare for a U.S. Olympic team since NBA players started competing in 1992. 2002 — After losing to Iowa State, Nebraska drops out of the Associated Press Top 25 football poll after being ranked for 348 consecutive weeks. The last time Nebraska was missing from the poll was Oct. 5, 1981. 2002 — Seattle’s Shaun Alexander scores an NFL-record five touchdowns in the first half of a 48-23 rout of Minnesota. He finishes with 139 yards rushing and 92 receiving and one TD short of the league mark of six in a game. 2004 — Major League Baseball announces the Montreal Expos will move to Washington to begin play at RFK Stadium in the 2005 season. 2012 — Geno Smith throws for 656 yards and ties a Big 12

record with eight touchdown passes to lead No. 9 West Virginia to a 70-63 win over No. 25 Baylor. Smith outduels Baylor’s Nick Florence, who has a standout game of his own with 581 yards and five TDs. Baylor’s Terrance Williams sets a Big 12 record with 314 yards receiving. The old mark was set minutes earlier by West Virginia’s Stedman Bailey, who had 303 yards and five TDs. 2015 — NCAA bans the SMU men’s basketball team from the postseason and suspends coach Larry Brown for nine games, saying he lied to investigators and ignored a case of academic fraud by a player. 2018 — Seventeen-year-old Hailie Deegan uses a bump-and-run on her teammate to become the first female winner of a NASCAR K&N West Series race. Her last-lap shove of Cole Rouse at Meridian Speedway in Idaho gives her the victory.


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GOLF PGA TOUR SAFEWAY OPEN Saturday At Silverado Resort & Spa (North) Napa, Calif. Purse: $6.6 million Yardage: 7,166; Par 72 Third Round Cameron Champ ...............................67-68-67—202 Sebastian Munoz...............................71-67-67—205 Adam Hadwin ...................................68-70-67—205 Nick Taylor ........................................69-66-70—205 Chez Reavie ......................................69-68-69—206 Collin Morikawa ................................72-64-70—206 Justin Thomas...................................71-64-71—206 Nick Watney......................................69-65-72—206 Bud Cauley........................................69-72-66—207 Zac Blair ...........................................75-66-66—207 Michael Thompson ............................71-68-68—207 Charles Howell III ............................73-65-69—207 Xinjun Zhang ....................................69-68-70—207 Brian Gay ..........................................70-67-70—207 Daniel Berger....................................73-69-66—208 Rhein Gibson.....................................74-68-66—208 Jhonattan Vegas ...............................70-71-67—208 Harold Varner III ..............................72-69-67—208 Roger Sloan ......................................70-69-69—208 Andrew Landry..................................65-74-69—208 Bryson DeChambeau.........................68-64-76—208 Lanto Griffin .....................................69-73-67—209 Mark Hubbard ...................................71-71-67—209 Marc Leishman..................................70-72-67—209 Chesson Hadley.................................72-69-68—209 Brandt Snedeker ...............................73-67-69—209 Cameron Percy..................................70-69-70—209 Jim Furyk ..........................................71-67-71—209 Francesco Molinari ............................66-71-72—209 Patrick Cantlay .................................69-71-70—210 Brian Stuard......................................70-70-70—210 Aaron Baddeley.................................69-70-71—210 Harris English ...................................70-68-72—210 Talor Gooch.......................................69-69-72—210 Dylan Frittelli ....................................70-65-75—210 Cameron Tringale..............................68-74-69—211 Patrick Rodgers ................................70-71-70—211 Bo Hoag............................................71-70-70—211 Harry Higgs.......................................71-69-71—211 Adam Scott.......................................65-73-73—211 Robby Shelton...................................70-67-74—211 Scott Harrington...............................72-70-70—212 Michael Gligic....................................72-69-71—212 Fabian Gomez ...................................71-70-71—212 Brice Garnett ....................................70-70-72—212 Adam Long .......................................67-68-77—212 Tyler Duncan.....................................68-74-71—213 Kristoffer Ventura.............................72-70-71—213 Sungjae Im .......................................70-72-71—213 Kevin Chappell ..................................72-70-71—213 Isaiah Salinda ...................................72-70-71—213 Hank Lebioda ....................................71-70-72—213 Maverick McNealy .............................70-71-72—213 Corey Conners...................................68-73-72—213 Carlos Ortiz.......................................72-69-72—213 David Hearn ......................................71-70-72—213 John Oda ..........................................70-66-77—213 Ricky Barnes .....................................72-70-72—214 Brendan Steele..................................74-68-72—214 Bo Van Pelt.......................................72-70-72—214 Vaughn Taylor...................................73-69-72—214 Si Woo Kim .......................................69-70-75—214 Rafael Campos ..................................71-71-73—215 Rob Oppenheim ................................68-74-74—216 Max Homa ........................................70-70-76—216 Tyler McCumber................................74-68-75—217 Scott Piercy ......................................70-72-80—222 Failed to make the cut Anirban Lahiri.........................................72-71—143 Morgan Hoffmann ..................................68-75—143 Nate Lashley...........................................71-72—143 Kevin Na.................................................71-72—143 Emiliano Grillo ........................................71-72—143 Joel Dahmen...........................................74-69—143 Tom Hoge...............................................73-70—143 Chris Baker.............................................67-76—143 Nelson Ledesma .....................................70-73—143 Sepp Straka............................................69-74—143 John Huh................................................70-73—143 Sung Kang..............................................72-71—143 Martin Trainer ........................................72-71—143 Kevin Tway .............................................71-72—143

Abraham Ancer.......................................70-73—143 Doc Redman ...........................................71-72—143 Adam Schenk .........................................71-72—143 Matthew NeSmith ..................................66-77—143 Charley Hoffman ....................................73-71—144 Wyndham Clark ......................................72-72—144 Austin Cook ............................................73-71—144 Patton Kizzire.........................................75-69—144 Phil Mickelson ........................................75-69—144 Chase Seiffert ........................................69-75—144 Cameron Davis .......................................76-68—144 Ryan Brehm............................................72-72—144 Kyle Stanley............................................72-72—144 Luke List.................................................73-71—144 Bronson Burgoon....................................75-69—144 Scott Brown ...........................................73-71—144 Hideki Matsuyama ..................................72-72—144 Brandon Hagy.........................................72-72—144 Ryan Moore ............................................74-71—145 Andres Gonzales .....................................70-75—145 Jason Dufner ..........................................73-72—145 Henrik Norlander ....................................72-73—145 Sam Ryder..............................................72-73—145 Robert Streb ..........................................76-69—145 Jamie Lovemark......................................73-72—145 Ben Taylor ..............................................72-73—145 Sebastian Cappelen ................................73-72—145 Kevin Streelman .....................................71-75—146 Brendon Todd .........................................72-74—146 Matt Every .............................................76-70—146 Troy Merritt............................................72-74—146 Fred Couples...........................................74-72—146 Danny Lee ..............................................76-70—146 Martin Laird ...........................................73-73—146 Pat Perez................................................70-76—146 Michael Kim............................................72-74—146 Grayson Murray ......................................72-74—146 John Daly ...............................................76-70—146 Dominic Bozzelli .....................................71-75—146 Beau Hossler ..........................................74-72—146 Vincent Whaley ......................................72-74—146 Sangmoon Bae .......................................72-75—147 Satoshi Kodaira ......................................70-77—147 Peter Malnati .........................................71-76—147 Akshay Bhatia.........................................71-76—147 C.T. Pan..................................................71-76—147 Stuart L. Smith ......................................72-75—147 Lucas Glover...........................................77-71—148 Mackenzie Hughes..................................74-74—148 a-Tony Romo ..........................................70-78—148 Vince Covello..........................................69-79—148 Colt Knost ..............................................78-71—149 Byron Meth ............................................77-72—149 Byeong Hun An.......................................75-74—149 Kyoung-Hoon Lee ...................................75-74—149 Michael Gellerman..................................77-72—149 Mark Anderson .......................................75-74—149 Henry Chung ..........................................76-74—150 J.J. Spaun...............................................74-77—151 Ben Martin .............................................72-79—151 George McNeill .......................................74-79—153 Chris Stroud ...........................................76-78—154 Kevin Stadler ..........................................77-78—155

Lee Janzen.....................................71PB-69PH—140 Woody Austin ................................69PH-71PB—140 Greg Kraft .....................................68PB-72PH—140 Doug Barron ..................................67PH-73PB—140 Tom Lehman..................................67PH-73PB—140 Vijay Singh.....................................72PB-69PH—141 Tom Pernice Jr. ..............................72PB-69PH—141 Tim Petrovic ..................................74PB-67PH—141 Rod Pampling ................................67PB-74PH—141 Jerry Kelly......................................67PH-74PB—141 Kenny Perry ...................................73PB-69PH—142 Esteban Toledo ..............................69PH-73PB—142 Chris DiMarco ................................69PH-73PB—142 Duffy Waldorf................................68PH-74PB—142 Retief Goosen ................................67PH-75PB—142 Gibby Gilbert III............................70PB-72PH—142 David Frost ....................................68PB-74PH—142 Steve Jones....................................67PH-75PB—142 Paul Goydos...................................67PH-75PB—142 Scott McCarron..............................69PH-73PB—142 Gene Sauers...................................68PB-74PH—142 Colin Montgomerie ........................72PB-71PH—143 Joe Durant.....................................73PB-70PH—143 Ken Tanigawa ................................70PB-73PH—143 Jerry Smith....................................71PB-72PH—143 Larry Mize......................................73PB-70PH—143 Steve Pate .....................................74PB-70PH—144 Rocco Mediate ...............................71PB-73PH—144 Sandy Lyle .....................................71PB-73PH—144 Gary Nicklaus.................................74PB-70PH—144 Glen Day ........................................71PB-73PH—144 Russ Cochran .................................67PH-77PB—144 Bob Estes.......................................71PB-73PH—144 Ken Duke .......................................71PH-74PB—145 Darren Clarke.................................69PH-76PB—145 Failed to make the cut............................................... Todd Fischer ..................................74PB-72PH—146 Davis Love III................................70PH-76PB—146 Jesper Parnevik..............................74PB-72PH—146 Dan Forsman .................................73PB-73PH—146 Michael Allen .................................77PH-70PB—147 Dennis Hendershott.......................72PH-75PB—147 Scott Simpson ...............................72PH-75PB—147 Gary Hallberg.................................71PB-76PH—147 Mark O’Meara ................................69PH-78PB—147 Brandel Chamblee..........................73PH-75PB—148 David McKenzie..............................73PH-75PB—148 Mark Calcavecchia..........................74PH-74PB—148 Doug Garwood...............................77PB-71PH—148 Tom Kite ........................................69PH-79PB—148 Tommy Tolles.................................70PH-78PB—148 Olin Browne...................................72PB-76PH—148 Cliff Kresge....................................73PH-75PB—148 Grant Waite ...................................75PB-73PH—148 Mark Brooks ..................................71PB-77PH—148 Mark Walker ..................................76PB-73PH—149 Skip Kendall ...................................76PB-73PH—149 Michael Bradley .............................72PH-78PB—150 Fred Funk.......................................75PH-75PB—150 Carlos Franco.................................69PH-81PB—150 Jay Haas ........................................69PH-82PB—151 Loren Roberts................................69PH-82PB—151 Peter Jacobsen ..............................75PB-81PH—156

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

LPGA TOUR

PURE INSURANCE

INDY WOMEN IN TECH CHAMPIONSHIP

Saturday b-Pebble Beach Golf Links (Host Course), 6,864 yards; Par 72 h-Poppy Hills, 6,898 yards; Par 71 Purse: $2.1 million Yardage: 6,864; Par 72 Second Round This 54 hole tournament will conclude on Sunday. .... Steve Flesch ..................................68PB-67PH—135 Billy Andrade .................................70PB-67PH—137 Kent Jones.....................................68PB-69PH—137 Marco Dawson ...............................67PH-71PB—138 Stephen Leaney .............................69PH-70PB—139 Joey Sindelar .................................67PB-72PH—139 Tommy Armour III ........................71PH-68PB—139 Jeff Maggert..................................68PH-71PB—139 Tom Gillis.......................................69PH-70PB—139 Paul Broadhurst.............................72PB-67PH—139 Kirk Triplett ...................................70PH-69PB—139 Bernhard Langer............................67PH-72PB—139 Tom Byrum ....................................68PH-72PB—140 Billy Mayfair ..................................71PB-69PH—140 Scott Parel.....................................68PB-72PH—140 Wes Short, Jr. ................................68PH-72PB—140

Saturday At Brickyard Crossing Golf Course Indianapolis Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,526; Par: 72 Third Round a-amateur Mi Jung Hur ......................................63-70-66—199 Marina Alex.......................................66-71-64—201 Maria Torres......................................69-68-66—203 Nanna Koerstz Madsen......................65-75-64—204 Bronte Law .......................................65-75-65—205 Chella Choi........................................67-72-67—206 Megan Khang....................................69-70-68—207 Caroline Masson................................69-70-68—207 Amy Olson ........................................66-72-69—207 Sakura Yokomine ..............................65-70-72—207 Amy Yang .........................................71-70-67—208 Georgia Hall ......................................69-71-68—208 Clariss Guce ......................................71-68-69—208 Mariah Stackhouse............................71-70-68—209 Yu Liu ...............................................70-71-68—209 Hyo Joo Kim......................................70-73-67—210

Alison Lee .........................................70-72-68—210 Christina Kim ....................................72-69-69—210 Pavarisa Yoktuan ..............................70-71-69—210 Inbee Park........................................69-71-70—210 Alena Sharp ......................................68-72-70—210 Ryann O’Toole...................................68-72-70—210 Tiffany Chan .....................................73-65-72—210 Pornanong Phatlum ..........................66-72-72—210 Lydia Ko ............................................73-71-67—211 Jing Yan ............................................72-72-67—211 Azahara Munoz .................................72-71-68—211 Karine Icher......................................71-72-68—211 Sarah Kemp ......................................71-71-69—211 Brooke M. Henderson........................69-72-70—211 Cheyenne Woods...............................68-73-70—211 Katherine Kirk...................................72-68-71—211 Anna Nordqvist .................................70-70-71—211 Nicole Broch Larsen ..........................68-72-71—211 Kendall Dye.......................................69-69-73—211 Su Oh................................................74-70-68—212 Brittany Altomare .............................71-73-68—212 Ashleigh Buhai..................................69-74-69—212 Ruixin Liu..........................................70-72-70—212 Sarah Schmelzel................................70-71-71—212 Caroline Hedwall ...............................68-73-71—212 Brittany Lang....................................68-73-71—212 Peiyun Chien.....................................69-71-72—212 Ally McDonald ...................................67-72-73—212 Madelene Sagstrom ..........................71-72-70—213 Angel Yin ..........................................69-74-70—213 Gemma Dryburgh..............................71-70-72—213 Lauren Stephenson ...........................67-74-72—213 a-Erica Shepherd...............................70-74-70—214 Daniela Darquea................................68-75-71—214 Xiyu Lin.............................................71-71-72—214 Louise Ridderstrom ...........................71-73-71—215 Austin Ernst......................................72-71-72—215 Giulia Molinaro..................................72-71-72—215 Jasmine Suwannapura ......................69-73-73—215 Anne van Dam...................................68-74-73—215 Jodi Ewart Shadoff............................67-72-76—215 Morgan Pressel .................................76-68-72—216 Mi Hyang Lee ....................................73-71-72—216 Cydney Clanton.................................72-72-72—216 Jennifer Song....................................71-72-73—216 Katherine Perry.................................72-70-74—216 Mirim Lee..........................................67-73-76—216 Klara Spilkova ...................................72-72-73—217 Cheyenne Knight...............................68-73-76—217 Hannah Green ...................................73-71-74—218 Eun-Hee Ji.........................................68-76-74—218 Sarah Burnham .................................69-74-75—218 Emma Talley .....................................69-75-75—219 Ayako Uehara....................................72-72-76—220 Failed to make the cut Ariya Jutanugarn....................................74-71—145 Moriya Jutanugarn .................................73-72—145 Wei-Ling Hsu ..........................................73-72—145 Jacqui Concolino.....................................73-72—145 Na Yeon Choi..........................................73-72—145 Kim Kaufman..........................................72-73—145 Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras .................71-74—145 Cristie Kerr .............................................71-74—145 Linnea Strom..........................................71-74—145 Jane Park ...............................................71-74—145 In Gee Chun ...........................................71-74—145 Jaye Marie Green....................................69-76—145 Alana Uriell.............................................77-69—146 Celine Herbin..........................................74-72—146 Elizabeth Szokol .....................................74-72—146 Charley Hull............................................73-73—146 Lauren Kim.............................................73-73—146 Dottie Ardina..........................................72-74—146 Lindsey Weaver ......................................71-75—146 Maria Fassi .............................................71-75—146 Kris Tamulis............................................71-75—146 Jenny Shin..............................................69-77—146 Charlotte Thomas...................................76-71—147 Lexi Thompson .......................................76-71—147 Pajaree Anannarukarn ............................75-72—147 Kristen Gillman.......................................74-73—147 Danielle Kang .........................................74-73—147 Jeong Eun Lee ........................................73-74—147 Shanshan Feng .......................................72-75—147 So Yeon Ryu ...........................................72-75—147 Sei Young Kim ........................................72-75—147 Sung Hyun Park......................................70-77—147 Laura Gonzalez Escallon..........................70-77—147 Paula Creamer........................................76-72—148 Lee Lopez ...............................................75-73—148 Lindy Duncan..........................................74-74—148 Muni He .................................................73-75—148 Youngin Chun .........................................72-76—148 Jennifer Kupcho......................................75-74—149

Dana Finkelstein.....................................75-74—149 Mina Harigae..........................................75-74—149 Gerina Piller ...........................................74-75—149 Gaby Lopez.............................................73-76—149 Haeji Kang..............................................73-76—149 Suzuka Yamaguchi..................................72-77—149 Angela Stanford .....................................72-77—149 Pernilla Lindberg ....................................71-78—149 Annie Park..............................................77-73—150 Kaeli Jones .............................................76-74—150 Hee Young Park......................................76-74—150 P.K. Kongkraphan ...................................75-75—150 Jenny Haglund........................................74-76—150 Marissa Steen.........................................73-77—150 Isi Gabsa ................................................72-78—150 Wichanee Meechai..................................70-80—150 Brianna Do .............................................75-76—151 Tiffany Joh .............................................74-77—151 a-Annabelle Pancake...............................76-76—152 Anne-Catherine Tanguay ........................78-77—155 Brittany Marchand..................................77-78—155 Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong............83-73—156 Stephanie Meadow........................................76—WD

EUROPEAN TOUR ALFRED DUNHILL CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday At St. Andrews and Carnoustie, Scotland s-St. Andrews (Old Course): 7,318 yards, par-72 c-Carnoustie (Championship Course): 7,394 yards, par-72 k-Kingsbarns Golf Links: 7,227 yards, par-72 Purse: $5 million Third Round V. Perez, France ...........................64s-68c-64k—196 M. Southgate, England.................65c-66k-65s—196 P. Waring, England.......................65k-68s-65c—198 J. Lagergren, Sweden ...................69c-62k-68s—199 T. Finau, United States.................67c-66k-66s—199 J. Smith, England .........................64s-68c-68k—200 A. Pavan, Italy .............................68c-65k-67s—200 L. Donald, England .......................68c-68k-64s—200 T. Hatton, England .......................66c-68k-67s—201 L. Bjerregaard, Denmark ..............67c-68k-66s—201 J. Wang, South Korea ...................66c-68k-6xs—201 C. Hill, Scotland............................66k-65s-70c—201 M. Jordan, England.......................66k-64s-71c—201 R. Ramsay, Scotland.....................65k-67s-70c—202 J. Rose, England ...........................68c-64k-70s—202 R. Knox, Scotland .........................66s-66c-70k—202 A. Noren, Sweden.........................69c-66k-68s—203 L. Haotong, China ........................71c-68k-64s—203 R. MacIntyre, Scotland.................71c-66k-66s—203 C. Shinkwin, England....................72c-68k-63s—203 M. Fitzpatrick, England ................69c-67k-67s—203 P. Harrington, Ireland ..................69c-68k-66s—203 A. Rai, England.............................68k-66s-69c—203 S. Lowry, Ireland..........................73c-66k-64s—203 Also D. Willett, England .......................72c-66k-66s—204 E. Pepperell, England ...................70c-66k-68s—204 T. Fleetwood, England ..................66c-69k-70s—205 J. Veerman, United States ............72c-63k-70s—205 J. Catlin, United States.................72c-65k-69s—206 R. McIlroy, Northern Ireland ........70c-66k-70s—206 M. Wallace, England .....................70c-68k-68s—206 Missed cut R. Cabrera-Bello, Spain.................69c-69k-70s—208 S. Kim, United States ...................74k-65s-70c—209 D. Lipsky, United States................73c-64k-72s—209 E. Els, South Africa.......................70c-72k-69s—211 B. Wiesberger, Austria..................72c-71k-68s—211 J. Suri, United States....................68s-74c-70k—212 J. Rahm, Spain .............................71c-68k-73s—212 B. Wu, United States....................71k-66s-76c—213 B. Henson, United States .............68k-69s-78c—215 S. Crocker, United States..............71k-71s-75c—217 D..A. Points, United States...........69s-75c-74k—218

BASKETBALL NBA UPCOMING SCHEDULE Tuesday, Oct. 22 New Orleans at Toronto, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23 Chicago at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Orlando, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Memphis at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Boston at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. Washington at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. New York at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Denver at Portland, 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 Atlanta at Detroit, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Houston, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 Toronto at Boston, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Charlotte, 6 p.m. New York at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Chicago at Memphis, 7 p.m. Dallas at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Washington at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 8 p.m. Portland at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Utah at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 Miami at Milwaukee, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Detroit, 6 p.m. Orlando at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Boston at New York, 6:30 p.m. Indiana at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Toronto at Chicago, 7 p.m. New Orleans at Houston, 7 p.m. Washington at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Utah, 8 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 2:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Memphis, 5 p.m. Portland at Dallas, 6 p.m. Miami at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Charlotte at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28 Indiana at Detroit, 6 p.m. Chicago at New York, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Orlando at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Houston, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. Golden State at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Portland at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Denver at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Dallas at Denver, 8 p.m. Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30 Chicago at Cleveland, 6 p.m. New York at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Indiana at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Detroit at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Houston at Washington, 7 p.m. Portland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Utah, 9 p.m. Charlotte at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Phoenix at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 Miami at Atlanta, 6 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1 Houston at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Indiana, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Orlando, 6 p.m. New York at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Utah at Sacramento, 9 p.m. San Antonio at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. Brooklyn at Detroit, 6 p.m. Denver at Orlando, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Washington, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Memphis, 7 p.m. Toronto at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. Charlotte at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Portland, 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 Chicago at Indiana, 4 p.m. Houston at Miami, 5 p.m. Sacramento at New York, 5 p.m. L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6 p.m. Dallas at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. Utah at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4 Detroit at Washington, 6 p.m. New Orleans at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Houston at Memphis, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Portland at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 Indiana at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Boston at Cleveland, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 7 p.m. Orlando at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Miami at Denver, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6 New York at Detroit, 6 p.m. Washington at Indiana, 6 p.m. Chicago at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Sacramento at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Golden State at Houston, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Memphis, 7 p.m. Orlando at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Utah, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 Boston at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Miami at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Portland at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8 Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m. Memphis at Orlando, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Washington, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Golden State at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Toronto at New Orleans, 7 p.m. New York at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Denver, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at Utah, 8 p.m. Brooklyn at Portland, 9 p.m. Miami at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 Boston at San Antonio, 4 p.m. New Orleans at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Houston at Chicago, 7 p.m. Dallas at Memphis, 7 p.m. Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 Denver at Minnesota, 2:30 p.m. Indiana at Orlando, 5 p.m. Charlotte at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Cleveland at New York, 6:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Portland, 8 p.m. Toronto at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11 Minnesota at Detroit, 6 p.m. Dallas at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Memphis at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Utah at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12 Oklahoma City at Indiana, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Detroit at Miami, 6:30 p.m. New York at Chicago, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Denver, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Brooklyn at Utah, 8 p.m. Portland at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 Memphis at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Orlando, 6 p.m. Washington at Boston, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Houston, 6:30 p.m. San Antonio at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m. Toronto at Portland, 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 Miami at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Dallas at New York, 7 p.m. Chicago at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Brooklyn at Denver, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 Detroit at Charlotte, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Orlando, 6 p.m. Indiana at Houston, 7 p.m. Utah at Memphis, 7 p.m. Washington at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Boston at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 Brooklyn at Chicago, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Indiana, 6 p.m. Charlotte at New York, 6:30 p.m. New Orleans at Miami, 7 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Toronto at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Portland at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17 Philadelphia at Cleveland, 2 p.m. Boston at Sacramento, 2:30 p.m. Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m. Denver at Memphis, 5 p.m. Golden State at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 Cleveland at New York, 6 p.m. Indiana at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Charlotte at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Chicago, 7 p.m. Portland at Houston, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Utah, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19 Golden State at Memphis, 7 p.m. Portland at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20 New York at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Washington, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Charlotte at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Cleveland at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Orlando at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Golden State at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m. Utah at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Houston at Denver, 8 p.m. Boston at L.A. Clippers, 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21 Portland at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. New Orleans at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 Atlanta at Detroit, 6 p.m. Charlotte at Washington, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. San Antonio at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Miami at Chicago, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Denver, 8 p.m. Golden State at Utah, 8 p.m. Houston at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 Phoenix at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Chicago at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Orlando at Indiana, 6 p.m. Toronto at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. San Antonio at New York, 6:30 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. Portland at Cleveland, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 7 p.m. Detroit at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m. New Orleans at Utah, 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24 Dallas at Houston, 2:30 p.m. Brooklyn at New York, 5 p.m. Sacramento at Washington, 5 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 7 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m.


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