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State wins opioid trial Judge awards $572 million for one year

Drugmakers plan to appeal decision

State’s case was the first to make it to trial

Judge Thad Balkman reads a summary of his decision to a full courtroom during the opioid trial at the Cleveland County Courthouse in Norman on Monday. [CHRIS LANDSBERGER PHOTOS/ THE OKLAHOMAN]

By Randy Ellis Staff writer rellis@oklahoman.com

NORMAN — A judge returned a $572 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries Monday, ruling their misleading marketing and distribution of opioid painkillers triggered a deadly crisis in Oklahoma.

“The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma. It must be abated immediately,” Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman said in announcing the verdict.

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Attorney General Mike Hunter and the state’s attorneys listen as Judge Thad Balkman reads a summary of his ruling Monday.

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CHICKASHA — A fire safe was among the first items Shea Wineburner saved when a blaze broke out in his apartment complex near the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma campus.

The irony wasn’t lost him a

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day later when he stood outside The Palms apartments in the 1600 block of S 17th Street where all 30 units had to be evacuated Sunday morning due to fire, smoke and water damage.

“I grabbed my stuff, walked across the street, sat down and watched it burn,” Wineburner

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to the deadliest man-made epidemic our nation has ever seen.”

Attorneys for Johnson & Johnson called the decision “fundamentally unfair” and said they will appeal to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

“We are disappointed and disagree with the judge’s decision,” said Sabrina Strong, attorney for Johnson & Johnson and subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. “We believe that it is flawed.

We have sympathy for all who suffer from substance abuse,

Homeland plans new store in northeast OKC

In Chickasha, residents clean up after fire

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Mike Hunter quickly claimed victory, even though the verdict was far short of the more than $17 billion that the state had requested.

“Today is a major victory for the state of Oklahoma, the nation and everyone who has lost a loved one because of an opioid overdose,” Hunter said.

“Judge Balkman has affirmed our position that Johnson & Johnson maliciously and diabolically created the opioid epidemic in our state. Our evidence convincingly showed that this company did not just lie and mislead, they colluded with other companies en route

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Trump seeks to avoid primary challenge

By Will Weissert The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — “Never Trump” Republicans are eager to see the president confront a credible primary adversary.

But the party will likely erect structural barriers that make that kind of challenge exceedingly difficult.

And for good reason: Every incumbent president for fourplus decades who has faced a serious primary opponent was weakened enough to ultimately lose reelection.

Joe Walsh, a former teaparty-backed, one-term congressman from Illinois, on Sunday joined Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, on the lonely road to try to unseat President Donald Trump.

Other Republicans may join them. Mark Sanford, former governor and Republican congressman from South Carolina, has flirted with a 2020 presidential bid, and Republican ex-Ohio Gov. John Kasich is set to visit New Hampshire, which holds the nation’s first presidential primary, in September.

So far, none of them seems to pose a serious threat. The president’s supporters note that the ranks of outspoken “Never Trumpers” have dwindled substantially since Trump stormed a deep, 2016 presidential primary field of establishment Republicans and then toppled Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the White House.

Unlike some other incumbents who drew primary challengers, Trump now has the overwhelming support of his party’s voters. Other incumbents — in both parties — “saw their base support erode a bit before reelection efforts,” said Keith Appell, a Washington-based Republican strategist. “If anything, this president’s support has grown within his party.”

Weld has held out the prospect that a multicandidate Republican field might prompt primary campaign debates.

But Republican National Committee members have done away with their standing debate committee ahead of next year’s election, and scheduling debates could prove difficult since primary voting begins in about five months.

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but Johnson & Johnson did not cause the opioid abuse crisis here in Oklahoma or anywhere in this country. We have many strong grounds for appeal and we intend to pursue those vigorously.”

The judge rejected arguments of the drug company attorneys, ruling that Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries created a public nuisance that “compromised the health and safety of thousands of Oklahomans.”

The verdict came in the first major lawsuit against opioid manufacturers to make it to trial. It was announced more than a month after the close of testimony in a nonjury trial that lasted 33 trial days and attracted international media attention.

The state had asked for more than $17 billion because witnesses said it would take years to undo the damage.

The judge, though, explained in his written order that his verdict for the state of $572,102,028 covers year one of an abatement plan.

“Though several of the State’s witnesses testified that the plan ‘will take at least 20 years’ to work, the State did not present sufficient evidence of the amount of time and costs necessary, beyond year one, to abate the Opioid Crisis,” the judge wrote.

“The Court will enter such further Orders pertaining to the implementation of the Abatement Plan as necessary and in due course.”

Under the abatement plan detailed in the written order, much of the funding — $232,947,710 — would go toward providing assessments and comprehensive treatment and recovery services to all Oklahomans in need of them. Another $103,277,835 would go toward pain management efforts and $107,683,000 would go toward intensive training in and support to Oklahoma birthing hospitals.

The judge concluded Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries acted unlawfully and that their “false, misleading and dangerous marketing campaigns” caused exponentially increasing rates of addiction, overdose deaths and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

“The increase in opioid addiction and overdose deaths following the parallel increase in opioid sales in Oklahoma was not a coincidence; these variables were ‘causally linked,’” the judge wrote.

Evidence presented during the trial revealed that Johnson & Johnson blanketed the state with sales representatives who were given financial incentives to persuade doctors to prescribe more opioids.

Johnson & Johnson specifically targeted doctors who were already high prescribers for extra sales visits, often buying them meals and leaving behind small gifts, testimony revealed.

Witnesses for Johnson & Johnson contended the drug companies had done nothing wrong.

Company officials testified that the marketing messages they presented were tightly regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration and contained warnings that opioids were associated

By Chris Casteel Staff writer ccasteel@oklahoman.com

Defense attorney Sabrina Strong speaks to the media after the verdict was announced in the opioid trial. [CHRIS LANDSBERGER/ THE OKLAHOMAN]

Key quotes from opioid trial verdict Here are key quotes from Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman’s 42-page judgment in the state’s opioid case against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries: • “Defendants’ sales representatives called on Oklahoma medical professionals hundreds of thousands of times while selling opioids as evidenced by 35 boxes of call notes from Defendants’ Oklahoma sales representatives over the last two decades.

Defendants’ Oklahoma sales representatives brought breakfast, lunch, coffee and snacks to Oklahoma doctors’ offices and used speaker programs as part of their sales strategies.”

• “Defendants’ opioid marketing, in its multitude of forms, was false, deceptive and misleading.”

• “Defendants promoted their specific opioids using misleading marketing.

Among other things, they sent sales representatives into Oklahoma doctors’ offices to deliver misleading messages, they disseminated misleading pamphlets, coupons, and other printed materials for patients and doctors, and

with major risks, including risks of addiction and death.

Johnson & Johnson attorneys also argued the state was attempting to misapply the state’s public nuisance law.

Prescription opioids were linked to more than 6,100 Oklahoma deaths from 2000-2017.

Oklahoma’s lawsuit originally named two other groups of pharmaceutical companies as additional defendants, but they were dropped from the lawsuit after they approved settlement agreements with the state. A group headed

by Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $270 million, while a group headed by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., agreed to pay $85 million.

Oklahoma’s opioid lawsuit has drawn international attention because hundreds of similar lawsuits are currently awaiting trial, including many consolidated in a major federal court action pending in Ohio.

Shortly before the trial against Johnson & Johnson began, the state of Oklahoma dropped fraud and other complaints and narrowed the case to the single issue of public nuisance.

Because the state’s case focused on just the public nuisance complaint, Johnson & Johnson’s attorney contended the verdict should have little impact on the other cases.

“I don’t think it says anything about what will happen elsewhere in the country,” Strong said. “I think it’s an absolute outlier and other courts have already rejected the theory

they misleadingly advertised their drugs over the internet — all of which occurred in Oklahoma. But Defendants also pervasively promoted the use of opioids generally. This ‘unbranded’ marketing included things like print materials that misleadingly touted the safety and efficacy of opioids as a class of pain medication, as well as online materials that promoted opioids generally.

Defendants used and viewed medical education events ... as promotional endeavors that Defendants leveraged to increase the market for opioids through misleading messaging.”

• “There can be no question that this nuisance affects entire communities, neighborhoods, or a considerable number of persons. This nuisance has negatively impacted the entire State.”

• “The Court finds that the sum necessary to carry out the Abatement Plan in year one is the sum of $572,102,028.”

in other jurisdictions.”

Attorneys involved in the consolidated federal cases disagreed.

“Today’s ruling holding Johnson & Johnson liable for Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic serves as another milestone amid the mounting evidence against the opioid pharmaceutical industry who we allege started, fueled and conspired to create the largest public health crisis of our time,” co-lead counsels for the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee said in a joint statement. “While this was one trial against one defendant, important facts were presented that further demonstrate the strength of our clients’ claims.

“While public nuisance laws differ in every state, this decision is a critical step forward for the more than 2,000 cities, counties and towns we represent in the consolidation of federal opioid cases,” they said.Balkman ruled that Johnson & Johnson and its affiliates helped trigger the state’s opioid crisis by carrying out an elaborate and deceptive marketing campaign that portrayed opioids as being less addictive and deadly than they really were.

Witnesses for the state challenged low addiction rates claimed by Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries. The witnesses said the marketing efforts were highly successful. They cited statistics showing that enough opioids were dispensed in 2017 for every adult in Oklahoma to have the equivalent of 156 hydrocodone 10 milligram tablets. As sales of opioids increased, so did overdose deaths, testimony revealed.

NORMAN — Oklahoma’s unusual use of public nuisance law in the opioid case against Johnson & Johnson will be a key issue in the drug company’s appeal of a $572 million judgment, a company attorney said Monday.

“No Oklahoma court has ever done what this court has done today in applying public nuisance law to any commercial activity, let alone the highly regulated area of prescription medicines,” said Sabrina Strong, attorney for Johnson & Johnson.

“The decision violates wellestablished constitutional principles, including due process of law.”

About six weeks before the trial’s start in late May, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter dropped most of the original complaints filed against the drug companies, including fraud and unjust enrichment.

Instead, the state focused on proving the drug companies had created a public nuisance and should be required to fund a comprehensive remediation plan.

Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman found Monday that the state met the burden of proving the companies created a public nuisance. Deceptive marketing constitutes a public nuisance in Oklahoma, he ruled, and the companies’ actions caused harm.

“This nuisance has negatively impacted the entire State,” Balkman said in his ruling. He ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries named in the lawsuit to pay $572 million immediately for various programs to abate the nuisance.

The state had sought nearly $17.2 billion over 20 or 30 years. Balkman’s judgment gave the state one year of abatement.

Though the ruling was seen by many as a victory for Johnson & Johnson, given the amount sought by the state, Hunter stood by the decision not to pursue other claims against the company.

“The complexities of the other claims in our case we evaluated carefully,” Hunter said Monday.

“Again we’re looking toward: What do we need to do to address not only the present but the future?

“As we looked at public nuisance law, it was clear to us that was the best way to maximize any kind of judgment we were able to obtain in court here. So, no looking back. We made the right decision, I’m confident.”

Strong, the attorney for Johnson & Johnson, didn’t see the decision as a victory and said an appeal was being drafted for the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

“Today’s decision reflects a radical departure from more than a century of case law in this state,” she said.

“For over 100 years, public nuisance law has been limited to property disputes, where one misuses their property and causes harm to another.

That is not what this case is about.”

Using the law in that manner deprived the companies of due process, Strong said.

The companies are working on the appeal to the Oklahoma Supreme Court but are willing to go to the U.S. Supreme Court, Strong said.

“We do believe these are issues that will be of interest to the United States Supreme Court if necessary,” she said.

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Group challenges permitless carry referendum in court

By Carmen Forman Staff writer cforman@oklahoman.com

The Oklahoma Second Amendment Association is challenging efforts to suspend a new permitless carry law until a statewide vote on the issue.

The group filed a legal challenge Monday in an attempt to head off a referendum on House Bill 2597, which would allow most Oklahomans to carry a gun without a license or training starting Nov. 1.

Rep. Jason Lowe, Moms Demand Action and Young Democrats of America are leading the volunteer effort to gather nearly 60,000 signatures to suspend implementation of HB 2597 and bring the measure to a statewide

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vote in 2020.

Oklahoma Taxpayers Unite, the Oklahoma Conservative Action Committee and 36 Republican legislators are backing the Second Amendment group’s legal challenge.

Second Amendment Association President Don Spencer called the referendum a waste of time and a misrepresentation of the permitless carry law.

“Citizens of the state of Oklahoma have been waiting on this for over 112 years and it’s time for

them to get their rights back,” he said.

Oklahomans think this law is dangerous and don’t want it, said Rep. Jason Lowe, D-Oklahoma City.

They deserve the chance to vote on it, he said.

“I say to the naysayers, I say to the individuals who cite the Second Amendment, who indicate they believe in the constitution, what’s more enshrined in the constitution than the right to vote?” he said.

The challenge, which was filed with the Oklahoma Supreme Court, alleges the description of the referendum petition “set forth blatantly false, inaccurate, misleading deceitful and inflammatory statements in order to deceive voters

into signing.”

The complaint alleges the referendum summary that informs voters what they’re signing includes two blatantly false and four inaccurate statements. State law requires a petition summary to accurately describe the proposal and explain its effect.

A line in the summary discussing firearms on college campuses is false and misleading in an attempt to garner more signatures by preying on parental fears about their children in school settings, according to the complaint. The complaint also challenges language in the petition about the effects of HB 2597 on law enforcement interactions with citizens.

Brian Ted Jones, an attorney who is helping with the referendum, dismissed claims the petition summary is inaccurate or misleading.

It’s a poorly worded petition that is getting signatures under false pretenses, said attorney Kevin Calvey, a former Republican legislator who is representing the Second Amendment Association.

Calvey, an Oklahoma County commissioner, said he’s confident voters would support permitless carry in an election. But if the referendum moves forward, it could delay implementation of the permitless carry law until after an election next year.

“It’s not about who would win the election,” he said. “We’re confident

of that. It’s about not delaying the full exercise of peoples’ Second Amendment rights.”

Gov. Kevin Stitt signed HB 2597 into law earlier this year after Republican majorities in the House and Senate overwhelmingly supported the measure.

The legal challenge will not interfere with signature gathering for the referendum, which can continue until petitions are turned in by 5 p.m.

Thursday. But the challenge will almost certainly affect what happens when the signatures are turned in because the Oklahoma Supreme Court will have to hear arguments for and against the challenge.

No hearing date was set Monday.

Food desert zoning advances

By William Crum Staff writer wcrum@oklahoman.com

The Oklahoma City council will be asked Tuesday to take a step toward limiting the proliferation of junk food in northeast Oklahoma City.

The city manager is seeking authority to initiate an application, on the city’s behalf, to create a “healthy neighborhood overlay” zoning district within the boundaries of the 73111 ZIP code.

Zoning terms would

restrict development of “small-box discount stores,” such as Dollar General, unless they include a pharmacy or provide at least 500 square feet of retail space for fresh meats, fruits and vegetables.

The zoning restrictions are meant to attack the problem of “food deserts” that lack full-service grocery stores. Advocates of the idea say it is hard for full-service groceries to compete with small-box discounters, leaving many residents in high-poverty areas without access to

nutritious food choices.

The 73111 ZIP code is bounded by NE 16 on the south and Wilshire Boulevard on the north, between N Kelley Avenue and Interstate 35.

According to the 2017 Health and Wellness Community Assessment published by the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, it is one of the least healthy parts of the city, where life expectancy is 68.98 years, 10 years below the national average, and the poverty rate is 30.4%.

At the time of the study, 53% of the residents lived more than a mile from the nearest supermarket.

Earlier this month, the last supermarket in 73111 closed.

On May 7, the city council imposed a 180-day moratorium on small-box discounter development in 73111. The rezoning application for the healthy neighborhood overlay would go to the Planning Commission for a recommendation before being brought to the council for a vote.

Tenant Shea Wineburner, right, and cousin Tristen Flood walk outside The Palms Apartments, 1625 S. 17th Street, in Chickasha on Monday while removing Wineburner’s belongings after a fire there on Sunday.

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Dennis Kluding, manager of the remodeled Homeland at NW 18 and Classen, visits with Homeland CEO Marc Jones shortlly before its official reopening in July 2018. A similar store is being planned for NE 36 and Lincoln Boulevard. [THE OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES]

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two years. The development also will include a new 35,000-square-foot Homeland headquarters.

“We know the area well, and our headquarters is already here,” Homeland CEO Marc Jones said. “I see the traffic to and from the Capitol. And you can’t live in Oklahoma City and not be aware of the lack of grocery choices on the east side of town.”

The property, at the northeast corner of the intersection, was once home to the storied “Sussy’s ItalianAmerican Restaurant and Steakhouse.” It stood reduced to rubble for years after the death of its owner, Jack Sussman, until it was razed in 1993.

The land is owned by the Commissioners of the Land Office, a state agency.

The announcement of a new Homeland comes just days after Charles Shadid, owner of the redeveloped Northeast Town Center at NE 36 and Kelley Avenue, told The Oklahoman he has a signed lease with Hank and Susan Binkowski, owners of Buy For Less,

“This is what a true investment in your community looks like. This is another of many efforts to come as we continue the renaissance of northeast Oklahoma City.”

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to reopen their store in the 20,000-square-foot space occupied for eight months by Sav-A-Lot. That announcement followed days of protest by east side residents over a decision to close their decades-old store at NE 23 and Martin Luther King Avenue after promising in 2014 to build a new higher end Uptown Grocery on the corner along with a new shopping center.

The new Homeland is set to span 30,000 square feet, slightly larger than the renovated Homeland at NW 18 and Classen Boulevard.

“It will be a Homeland, a full grocery store with a bakery, deli, meat cutters and everything we would put into a normal Homeland,” Jones said.

“But we’re not approaching this as a cookie cutter store. This will be the start of a lot of conversations with the neighborhood to get their feedback on how it could be laid out and what it should offer.”

Jones said the new store, being adjacent to the new headquarters,

will allow for the grocery to be used for trying out new products, ideas and services.

Homeland’s announcement is tied to a letter of intent with a new limited liability corporation, which will own and develop the grocery store and headquarters building. The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City is a partner in the new corporation along with Endeavor Corp. and ESmith Legacy Communities.

As negotiated by the alliance, Homeland and the other members of the LLC, the city will contribute funds from the Northeast Renaissance tax increment finance district to support the $75 million development. The block also is being eyed as a possible location for the final senior wellness center to be built as part of MAPS 3.

Councilwoman Nikki Nice, who represents Ward 7 and northeast Oklahoma City, said the deal represents work that has been ongoing for the past quarter

century-dating back to Councilwoman Willa Johnson in the 1990s.

The area is recognized as a food desert by the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and the Lynn Institute.

“This is another tool in the toolbox to provide healthy food options to everyone in northeast Oklahoma City,” Nice said. “Homeland is locally owned and employee owned. It pays living wages. This is what a true investment in your community looks like. This is another of many efforts to come as we continue the renaissance of northeast Oklahoma City.”

About 100 people work at the Homeland headquarters and the new store will employ 75 people. The location is along an city bus route. Jones expects the development to be completed by early 2021.

It is the first built-fromscratch new grocery to be opened by Homeland since it became an employeeowned company in 2011.

“We have a number of employees who live on that side of town and our offices are on that side of town,” Jones said. “If we’re an Oklahoma company for Oklahoma, part of that is being locally oriented and community being a part of our mission.”

said. “I just got smoke damage. I was one of the lucky ones. I’ve been living out of my truck for the last day and a half.”

Seven families were sheltered at Bible Baptist Church on Sunday evening and more than 15 cases had been filed with the Red Cross by Monday afternoon for families who had lost all their belongings.

Chickasha Fire Chief Brian Zalewski said the call for the fire came at 1:15 a.m. Sunday, and crews stayed on scene battling the blaze until around 9 a.m.

Zalewski said three apartments were damaged by the fire and 10 damaged by smoke. The roof over two apartments had significant structural damage.

The fire started in a mechanical room behind the laundry area and fire officials are expected to investigate electrical issues at The Palms, Zalewski said.

Alize Footman was

among those Monday morning awaiting a chance to enter her apartment, assess the damage and save whatever she could.

She said her apartment was not burned, and she didn’t expect much destruction inside.

Footman said she moved in two months ago and recently signed a oneyear lease. Now she finds herself looking for another place to live.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Footman said.

In a grass median across from the apartments, Scot Godfrey with Oklahoma Tenants United offered water, food and toiletries to those removing items from their units.

He also handed out the group’s phone number, and information for those who have landlord problems.

“We just hope something good can come out of this so something like this doesn’t happen again,” Godfrey said.

Outside the apartments, a woman who identified herself as part of management told The Oklahoman she had no comment.

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3 arrested in theft of law enforcement equipment

By Adam Kemp Staff writer akemp@oklahoman.com

Stolen guns, tasers, a ballistic vest and law enforcement badges were all recovered after a recent string of thefts on law enforcement.

The Oklahoma County sheriff, with help from Midwest City, Choctaw Police and the U.S. Marshals Service, announced three arrests on Monday they believe are directly connected to several burglaries of law enforcement vehicles.

Shawn Edward Maclean, 34, was arrested on Aug. 22 on complaints of receiving stolen property, obstruction, possession of a short barreled rifle and concealing stolen property.

Destiny Cheyenne Webster, 21, was arrested on Aug. 15 on

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complaints of obstruction, possession of a short barreled rifle, receiving stolen property and compounding or concealing a crime.

Dennis Nichols, 20, was also arrested on Aug. 21 on an unrelated outstanding warrant, but charges related to the burglaries are pending.

Investigators said Midwest City Police, Oklahoma County sheriff's office, Choctaw Police and Pottawattamie County sheriff all had property stolen including firearms, law enforcement badges, ballistic vests,

Killer mom accused of more crimes

By Tim Willert Staff writer twillert@oklahoman.com

A woman convicted of stabbing her infant son to death is accused of drug possession and other crimes while waiting in the Oklahoma County jail to be formally sentenced.

Raven Veloz, 24, was charged Friday with five counts of possession of contraband in a penal institution. Oklahoma County prosecutors allege she had marijuana, methamphetamine, tobacco and a homemade knife in her jail cell on Aug. 12, and a cellphone in her cell on Aug. 16, according to a court affidavit.

Detention officers found the prohibited items during searches of Veloz' cell. During an interview, she admitted "she gets paid to hold the contraband and gives it to people that she is told to give it to," a deputy sheriff reported in a probable cause affidavit. "When I asked her how much she got paid for the things I found, she stated that she hadn't gotten paid yet.

She was supposed to get paid after everything was delivered.

When I asked her how much, she said $100, maybe $200. It was still up in the air."

Veloz was found guilty in

June of first-degree murder and assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors said she killed 8-month-old Ezekiel Veloz and wounded her daughter, Sophia Veloz, and boyfriend, Sergio Garcia, during an overnight stabbing July 11, 2016. Police responded at 12:30 a.m. to the family’s apartment in the 8800 block of S Drexel Avenue.The defendant also suffered from apparent self-inflicted stab wounds. Garcia gave emotional testimony about the three children he had with Veloz, two of whom are now dead.

Their 13-month-old daughter, Audree, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome six months before the stabbing.

The jury rejected her insanity defense and chose life sentences each for the murder count and two assault and battery counts. Last week, District Judge Natalie Mail ruled the sentences will run consecutively.

Veloz, meanwhile, is charged in two additional cases with possession of contraband in a penal institution and assault and battery upon a police or other law officer. Both cases are pending, court records show.

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tasers, flashlights, cash and photography equipment.

The items were stolen from law enforcement

vehicles.

“This was great detective work by our deputies,” said Oklahoma County Sheriff PD Taylor. “Our investigators with the help of these other law enforcement agencies were able to solve this case in a short amount of time and get these law enforcement items off the streets.”

The arrests came after investigators were sent a photograph of Webster holding a short-barreled rifle that was stolen from a member of the U.S. Marshals task force.

Investigators then encountered Maclean at a residence in the 1100 block of S Broadway in Edmond.

Maclean, whom the sheriff identified as a known member of the criminal gang “Irish Mob,” told law enforcement he was aware of the rifle but denied involvement.

Investigators said he then provided false information regarding other subjects involved and the location of other stolen rifles.

When interviewed by police, Webster, whom police claim is also a known associate of the “Irish Mob,” said the photograph of her holding the stolen rifle was taken in an Aryan Brotherhood neighborhood but that the two gangs were attempting to “settle things down.”

Less than a week later police

interviewed Maclean again and learned he was in possession of the rifle.

Maclean told police he had purchased the stolen rifle and body armor vest for $200 at an undisclosed location in Midwest City.

On Aug. 22, the Oklahoma County sheriff's office went with the U.S. Marshals' task force to a residence in the 9000 block of SE 29 and obtained consent from the homeowner to search the property.

They discovered a handgun in a bathroom floor vent. After running the serial number, law enforcement learned the gun was stolen.

Maclean told the sheriff’s office the handgun was his.

Maclean’s bond is set at $256,000 while Webster’s bond is set at $250,000.

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City (Ford, Midwest City).

Croy, Betty Jo: 80, homemaker, died Aug. 24.

Services 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dibble Free Will Baptist Church, Dibble (Eisenhour, Blanchard).

Burdick, Pauline: 82, died Aug. 24. Services 11 a.m.

Wednesday (Matthews, Edmond).

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Norris, Donald: 85, died Aug. 24. Services 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Bokoshe Baptist Church (Mallory-Martin, Spiro).

Deevers, Christopher Lynn: 35, died Aug. 23. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday, First United Methodist Church (Turner, Geary).

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Means, Dale Lee: 72, died Aug. 25. Services 1 p.m. Thursday, Candlewood Chapel, Midwest

Bingham, Juanita Pearl: 88, registered nurse, died Aug. 25. Graveside services

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11 a.m. Thursday, Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery (Buchanan, Oklahoma City).

Simms, Spencer Christian: 49, died Aug. 21. Memorial services 5 p.m. Wednesday, St. Edward the Confessor Chapel at Casady (Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper, Oklahoma City).

Viar, Michael Weldon: 63, died Aug. 24. Services 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Inner City Church (McNeil’s, Mustang).

Wheeler, Ronald Earl: 87, died Aug. 24. Services 10 a.m.

Friday, OKC First Church of the Nazarene (Hahn-Cook/ Street & Draper, Oklahoma City).

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Helping children exposed to trauma Law enforcement works with school districts to get kids the assistance they need

By Darla Slipke Staff writer dslipke@oklahoman.com

A growing number of Oklahoma law enforcement agencies are partnering with their local school districts to help students who are exposed to trauma through a program called Handle With Care.

When police officers or deputies encounter a child who has experienced a traumatic situation, such as a shooting, domestic violence or a family member’s arrest, they contact the school district with the child’s name, age or grade and three simple words: "Handle with care." To protect the child’s privacy, no other details are provided. Those three words let school officials know the child might need extra attention.

The initiative, which originated in West Virginia, is designed to help ensure that children who are exposed to trauma receive appropriate interventions to help them achieve academically, heal and thrive.

“It really is something that is pretty simple, yet effective,” said Cleveland County Sheriff Todd Gibson. His agency recently partnered with the Lexington, Little Axe and Noble school districts to implement the program.

Law enforcement agencies and school districts in communities across the country and Oklahoma, including Oklahoma City, Midwest City, Edmond, Norman and Stillwater, have

adopted the program.

Last August, Oklahoma City police partnered with Oklahoma City Public Schools to implement Handle With Care.

Deputy Chief Paco Balderrama said officers encounter schoolaged children every day who have experienced trauma, and Handle With Care is just one way to help ensure children receive the services and assistance they need to grow up to be healthy adults.

"If we do this right where a notification will result in followup care, long-term it can result in a lower prison population, higher graduation numbers, a lower number of individuals on drugs and alcohol," Balderrama said.

"Long-term, it can have a lot of positive results, but it starts with that initial notification."

Oklahoma City Public Schools received about 80 referrals last school year. The police department has taken some steps to ensure the school district will be notified more consistently.

Over the summer, the police department made more than 30 referrals. So far this school year, the district has already received notifications for more than two dozen students, said Teri Bell, executive director of student support services. Being informed that a student has had a traumatic experience allows teachers to be hypersensitive to their needs and to make modifications and provide needed supports, Bell said.

The district's response to a notification varies. District officials have instructed staff to judge their response by the student. A teacher might allow a child a couple extra days to complete homework the student didn't

bring to class after the night of their crisis or allow a child some quiet time if they come to school the next morning tired and in need of space.

If there are signs that the child might need to speak to someone, a counselor will meet with them, Bell said.

"The modification or accommodation could be anything," she said. "The key is to identify specifically what that individual student needs and provide it.

For some students, we may not see symptoms of the trauma for weeks or months. However, if our staff knows the student has the history of trauma, they can keep that in mind if symptoms do arise."

Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes said he's not sure how many notifications his officers have made since implementing the initiative at the beginning of last school year. They are working in partnership with four school districts: Mid-Del, Oklahoma City, Choctaw-Nicoma Park and Crutcho. Handle With Care allows school staff to check on students when otherwise they might not have known that something traumatic happened the night before, Clabes said.

"They may have a child that falls asleep in class or acts out in class," he said. "Instead of approaching it strictly from a disciplinary approach, they have more insight and can really delve into what the root of the issue is and how to help the child."

Stillwater police and Stillwater Public Schools launched the program in December. Edmond police and Edmond Public Schools implemented the

Deputy Chief Paco Balderrama said Oklahoma City police officers encounter school-aged children every day who have experienced trauma, and Handle With Care is just one way to help ensure children receive the services and assistance they need to grow up to be healthy adults. [OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES]

program this summer.

State Rep. Cyndi Munson, D-Oklahoma City, requested an interim study to examine Handle With Care and preventing the impact of untreated trauma in children. The study was combined with another interim study that was requested by Rep. Jeff Boatman, R-Tulsa, to review access to statewide mental health programs for youth.

"We can really sort of change the trajectory of someone's life if we can start approaching situations that are difficult with children now," Munson said.

The Handle With Care program is also gaining traction in other states. Last year, Maryland's governor announced the state was implementing Handle With Care. Last month, Delaware's governor signed a law called "Take Care Delaware" calling on police and emergency care providers to inform school officials if a student is involved or present at the scene of a traumatic event. Nevada lawmakers also passed legislation to establish Handle With Care statewide.

Gibson, the Cleveland County

sheriff, said he was inspired to start the program after hearing about Oklahoma City's initiative. He said he wanted his agency to do its part to try to lessen the impact of trauma on children and to create healthier children, adults and families. Deputies have embraced the program, Gibson said.

“From dealing with these types of incidents, they know that these kids are going to need a little more grace,” Gibson said. “They know that these kids are going to possibly need some intervention in the future, but oftentimes they’re left just having to walk away at 2 o'clock in the morning, so this gives them another tool to go beyond the call to help these kids.”

Chad Hall, superintendent of Lexington Public Schools, said he appreciates the sheriff's office for being proactive and forwardthinking. School staff are always striving to add tools to their toolbox to make sure students are safe and secure, Hall said.

"We know once those things are taken care of, they're in a better position to learn," he said.

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G-7 achievement: Trump declares, ‘We got along great’

By Darlene Superville and Zeke Miller The Associated Press

BIARRITZ, France — Never mind his differences with world leaders on China, trade, Russia, Iran and more.

President Donald Trump’s takeaway message from the Group of Seven summit in France was “unity.” In fact, “flawless” unity.

During this year’s gathering of leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies, Trump went to great lengths to portray it as something of a lovefest, papering over significant disagreements on major issues.

“If there was any word for this particular meeting of seven very important countries, it was unity,” Trump said at a news conference Monday closing out the two-day gathering in the French resort of Biarritz.

“We got along great,” he said. “We got along great.”

After Trump disrupted the last two G-7 summits with his erratic behavior, other world leaders seemed determined to play along this year in the interest of keeping any negative drama out of the headlines.

First came the decision by French President Emmanuel Macron, the summit host, to scrap the annual practice of issuing a lengthy joint statement, or communique, at the summit’s conclusion.

The document typically spells out the consensus that leaders have reached on issues on the summit agenda and provides a roadmap for how they plan to tackle them.

Trump roiled the 2017 meeting in Italy over the climate change passage in that summit’s final statement. And he withdrew his signature from the 2018 communique after complaining he had been slighted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the host that year.

“I think it’s against that

U.S President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron hug after their joint press conference at the G-7 summit Monday in Biarritz, southwestern France. [FRANCOIS MORI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

background that Macron decided it’s not worth it” to issue a statement, said Thomas Bernes, a distinguished fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation in Canada.

Instead, the leaders issued a final “declaration” that began: “The G7 leaders wish

to emphasize their great unity and the positive spirit of their debates.”

Macron also sought to play down awkward differences and said that what the G-7 leaders were “really keen on was to convey a positive and joint message following our discussions.”

The French leader stressed that everyone had worked “together, hand in hand, with President Trump over these two days.”

For all of the happy talk, though, Trump came under pressure to end his lengthy trade dispute with China that is hurting other nations as well.

Macron said the dispute had served to “create uncertainty” that is “bad for the world economy.”

Differences over Russia didn’t stay hidden, either.

Trump, as he had before last year’s summit, said he would like to see Russia readmitted to the club. The former G-8 kicked Russia out after President Vladimir Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

While his affinity for Russia has been questioned at home, Trump said Monday he’d prefer Russia be “inside the tent” rather than outside since so many of the issues the leaders discussed involved Russia.

G-7 pledges funds to fight Amazon fires

By Luis Andres Henao and Marcelo De Souza The Associated Press

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson talks to reporters Monday during a news conference in Seattle. Nineteen states, including Washington, are suing over the Trump administration’s effort to alter a federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention. [TED S. WARREN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

States sue to prevent longer detention for child migrants

By Kathleen Ronayne The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

— Nineteen states sued on Monday over the Trump administration’s effort to alter a federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention.

“We wish to protect children from irreparable harm,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said as he announced the lawsuit he is co-leading with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Both are Democrats.

A 1997 agreement known as the Flores settlement says immigrant children must be kept in the least restrictive setting and shouldn’t spend more than 20 days in detention.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said last week it would create new regulations on how migrant children are treated. The administration wants to remove court oversight and allow families in detention longer than 20 days.

About 475,000 families have crossed the border so far this budget year, nearly three times the previous fullyear record for families.

A judge must OK the Trump administration’s

proposed changes in order to end the agreement, and a legal battle is expected from the case’s original lawyers.

It’s not likely that U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee would approve the changes; it was her ruling in 2015 that extended the application of the Flores agreement to include children who came with families. She ordered the Obama administration to release children as quickly as possible.

Still, Becerra argued California has a role to play in the case because the state is home to so many immigrants.

“The federal government doesn’t have a right to tell us how we provide for the well-being of people in our state,” he said.

California does not have any detention centers that house migrant families. The Trump administration argued that because no states license federal detention centers, they wanted to create their own set of standards in order to satisfy the judge’s requirements that the facilities are licensed.

They said they will be audited, and the audits made public. But the Flores attorneys are concerned that they will no longer be able to inspect the facilities,

and that careful state licensing requirements will be eschewed.

Becerra echoed that argument, saying that removing state authority over licensing centers could allow the federal government to place centers in California or other states that don’t meet basic standards of care.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson of Washington, also a Democrat, said prolonged detention will have long-term impacts on the mental and physical health of immigrant children and families.

“When we welcome those children into our communities, state-run programs and services bear the burden of the long-term impact of the trauma those children endured in detention,” he said.

California on Monday also sought to halt a Trump administration effort that could deny green cards to immigrants using public benefits.

Other states joining the lawsuit are Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

PORTO VELHO, Brazil — The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Amazon countries fight raging wildfires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a “colony.”

The pledge by rich countries included $20 million from the G-7 and a separate $11 million from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada has also offered to send firefighting planes to Brazil.

The funds were widely seen as a relatively small amount for dealing with an environmental crisis of such scale, and it was unclear how exactly the money would be administered on the ground. Brazil’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, said the aid was welcome and that Brazil should decide how the resources are used.

The international pledges came despite tensions between European countries and the Brazilian president, who suggested the West was angling to exploit Brazil’s natural resources.

“Look, does anyone help anyone ... without something in return? What have they wanted there for so long?” he said to journalists outside the presidential palace.

Bolsonaro has insulted adversaries and allies, disparaged women, black and gay people, and even praised his country’s 1964-1985 dictatorship. But nothing has rallied more anger at home and criticism from abroad than his response to the fires raging in parts of the Amazon region.

The populist Brazilian leader initially questioned whether activist groups might have started the fires in an effort to damage the credibility of his government. Bolsonaro has called for looser environmental regulations in the world’s largest rainforest to spur development.

In response, European leaders threatened to block a major trade deal with Brazil that would benefit the very agricultural interests accused of driving deforestation.

The impact of the fires and smoke has disrupted life for many in the Amazon region. The airport in Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state, was closed for more than an hour Monday morning because of poor visibility. On Sunday, a soccer match of a lower-tier national league was briefly suspended because of smoke in Rio Branco, capital of Acre state, as fire burned in a field outside the stadium.

In Para state, where fires have swept many areas, resident Moacir Cordeiro said he was worried about their impact on nature and his health. Smoke rose from nearby trees as he spoke.

“I don’t think there are enough people to extinguish the fires,” said Cordeiro, who lives in the Alvorada da Amazonia region. He said it was difficult to breath at night because of the smoke.

Another man, Antonio de Jesus, was also worried.

“Nature shouldn’t be killed off like that,” he said.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday continued his feud with Bolsonaro, who has endorsed a Facebook post insulting Macron’s wife.

Macron accused the Brazilian leader of skipping a scheduled meeting with the French foreign minister in favor of a barber appointment and reiterated that Bolsonaro had lied to him.

“It’s sad. First for him and for the Brazilians,” Macron said.

Brazilian women “are doubtless ashamed to read that about their president” he said, adding that he hoped the country would soon have a president who could behave according to the standards of the office.

Bolsonaro, in turn, referred to Macron’s “ludicrous and unnecessary attacks on the Amazon” and accused the French leader of treating the region “as if we were a colony.”

Soldiers work to put out a forest fire Monday in the Chiquitania Forest of Quitunuquina near Robore, Bolivia. [JUAN KARITA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

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Harvey Weinstein leaves court Monday in New York.

Weinstein has denied all accusations of non-consensual sex and remains free on bail. [MARK LENNIHAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Weinstein pleads not guilty to new charge

By Tom Hays The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a new indictment Monday that includes revised charges of predatory sexual assault, a development that caused the judge to delay the start of his trial until early next year.

The change to the case was intended to open the door for an actress to testify against Weinstein in a rape and sexual assault trial that had been scheduled to start on Sept. 9.

Weinstein mostly kept quiet during a brief appearance in a Manhattan courtroom aside from some exchanges with Judge James Burke, who at one point scolded him for pulling out his cell phone during the proceeding.

After the judge agreed with defense lawyers that the trial needed to be put off so they could have time to respond to the revised charges, he told them the new trial date of Jan. 6 was firm. To make the point, he stared at the defendant and asked, “Mr. Weinstein, do you want to go to trial?”

“Not really,” Weinstein quipped.

Weinstein, 67, who’s free on $1 million bail, has denied all accusations of non-consensual sex.

After the hearing, his attorneys said they would ask the judge to dismiss the indictment, which they called a “desperate”

attempt to salvage the case.

“I think the case itself is weak,” said his lawyer Donna Rotunno.

Weinstein previously pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of raping a woman in 2013 and performing a forcible sex act on a different woman in 2006.

The case remains about those two women, but prosecutors said the new indictment was needed to allow a third woman, Annabella Sciorra, to testify. Sciorra, who is best known for her work on “The Sopranos,” says Weinstein raped her inside her Manhattan apartment in 1993.

Prosecutors can’t charge Weinstein with the alleged attack on Sciorra because it took place too long ago to be prosecuted under state law, but they want to use her testimony to prove that Weinstein had a pattern of assaulting women. That’s necessary to prove the charge of predatory sexual assault.

Sciorra’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, criticized the defense team for saying they would try to get the testimony barred.

“Why are they so afraid of having additional witnesses testify?” she said.

The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they are victims of sexual assault, but Sciorra went public with her story in a story in The New Yorker in October 2017.

Barbados braces as Tropical Storm Dorian nears Caribbean

By Dánica Coto The Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Much of the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados shut down on Monday as Tropical Storm Dorian approached the region and gathered strength, threatening to turn into a small hurricane that forecasters said could affect the northern Windward islands and Puerto Rico in upcoming days.

Prime Minister Mia Mottley closed schools and government offices across Barbados as she warned people to remain indoors.

“When you’re dead, you’re dead,” she said in a televised address late Sunday. “Stay inside and get some rest.”

The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for St. Lucia and a tropical storm warning for Barbados, Martinique, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It also issued a tropical storm watch for Dominica, Grenada, Saba and St. Eustatius.

The storm was expected to dump between 3 to 8 inches of rain in Barbados and nearby islands, with isolated amounts of 10 inches.

As of 2 p.m. EDT Monday,

the fourth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was centered about 95 miles east-southeast of Barbados and moving west at 14 mph. Maximum sustained winds were at 60 mph. Forecasters said it could brush past southwest Puerto Rico late Wednesday as a Category 1 hurricane and then strike the southeast corner of the Dominican Republic early Thursday.

In St. Lucia, Prime Minister Allen Chastanet announced that everything on the island of nearly 179,000 people would shut down by 6 p.m. EDT on Monday, with the hurricane expected to hit around 2 a.m. EDT today.

“We are expecting the worst,” he said.

Some were still boarding up windows and buying food and water, but not Joannes Lamontagne, who lives in the island’s southwest region. He said by phone that everything at his hotel, Serenity Escape, was already protected.

“I don’t wait until it’s announced,” he said of the storm. “We’re always prepared no matter what.”

Forecasters said the storm could pass near or south of Puerto Rico on Wednesday and approach the Dominican Republic on Wednesday night.

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HEALTHYLIFE SHORT SHOT

OUTBREAK LESSONS With the recent rise in cases of measles in Washington state, the Legislature there passed a law removing exemptions from vaccination. Now, when an exemption is claimed, parents have to see a health care provider, be educated about vaccines and produce proof that they’ve done so. If they still choose that their child be exempt, they do so with the knowledge that if there’s an outbreak, the child will be barred from school for the duration of the outbreak, Dr. John Wiesman, Washington’s state health secretary, said at a recent National Press Foundation fellowship.

In Oklahoma, vaccinations are required for children starting kindergarten, unless an exception is granted for medical, religious or personal or philosophical reasons.

— Clytie Bunyan, The Oklahoman

YO U R L I F E

Practicing powerlessness gives freedom, new energy

Charlotte Lankard

B

eing powerless is not a comfortable feeling, especially when you watch someone important to you engaging in harmful activities, or if you find yourself on the receiving end of another’s thoughtless and cruel behavior.

The reality is, however, you are powerless to force another person to do something they don’t want to do, or feel something they are not able or willing to feel, or be something they are not. You are kidding yourself if you think you can force them to change.

You can only change yourself and your own responses.

What will this look like?

The first step is acceptance. Stop struggling and accept things as they are, not as you wish they were.

Give up the need to convince or persuade others of your point of view. It will only be met with resistance. If you persist, count on resentment and hurtful feelings to follow.

Take responsibility for your own actions. Don’t get stuck blaming anyone or anything for your situation.

Don’t spend energy blaming yourself. Blaming doesn’t solve problems. You must practice turning your attention to understanding your own behavior and exploring new ways of self-care.

Practicing powerlessness means you quit trying to enforce the unenforceable.

Practicing powerlessness means you experience a sense of freedom, find new energy and discover new possibilities.

Charlotte Lankard is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice. Contact her at clankard@cox.net.

The idea of young adults continuing to see their longtime pediatricians has been around for quite some time, so when is it time to leave your pediatrician? [PHOTO ILLUSTRATION WITH METROCREATIVE IMAGES]

THE DOCTOR WILL (STILL)

SEE YOU NOW Why some young adults don’t move on

By Caren Chesler Special To The Washington Post

When Joann Alfonzo, a pediatrician in Freehold, New Jersey, walked into her office recently she mentally rolled her eyes when she saw her next patient: a 26-yearold car salesman in a suit and tie.

“That’s no longer a kid. That’s a man,” she recalls thinking.

Yet, Alfonzo wasn’t that surprised. In the past five years, she has seen the age of her patients rise, as more young adults remain at home and, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, on their parents’ health insurance until age 26.

“First it was 21, then 23 and now 26,” Alfonzo says. “A lot of them can’t afford to live on their own and get their own insurance, or even afford the co-pay. And if insurance is offered at work, there’s generally a cost share involved, if insurance is provided at all.”

The idea of young adults continuing to see their longtime pediatricians has been around for quite some time — it was a laugh line on “Friends” in its last TV season in 2004. Rachel takes her child to a pediatrician, she sees the child’s father, Ross, in the waiting room and realizes he’s still a patient.

But these days that’s pretty realistic, Alfonzo says. “We have people who have had children, and they still see us, so we’re seeing the parents and their children, concurrently,” she says.

So when is it time to leave your pediatrician? Talon Manfredini, 22, says he only left his pediatrician, who is a woman, this year because he moved from his family home in New Jersey to begin a new job in Miami.

But he didn’t think twice about continuing to see her, even though he’d finished college. “She just felt like a regular doctor,” he says. “It didn’t feel odd at all or different or weird or anything like that.”

Debbie Weinberger DeFrancesco, 41, a regional sales manager for Tyson from Marlboro, New Jersey, says she continued to see her

The idea of young adults continuing to see their longtime pediatricians has been around for quite some time, so when is it time to leave your pediatrician?

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pediatrician until she was about 27.

“The thing I remember very clearly, especially towards the end of my time there, was how the moms were the same age as me — and not thinking that I was too old for the doctor but that they were too young be having babies,” she says.

She finally decided it was time to get an “adult” doctor when she got married. “I thought it was a good idea for my husband and me to share the same doctor and have our files under one roof,” she says.

Problems?

Aside from some potentially awkward moments in the waiting room, is there anything wrong with pediatricians continuing to treat their patients once they become adults?

A little, Alfonzo says.

“We’re now treating people for adult diseases, things we weren’t trained to treat,” she says, such as adult hypertension, Type 2 See DOCTOR, 10

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Single mother by choice wants positive support from friends

Jeanne Phillips DEAR ABBY: I’m a

single woman who has always wanted children.

As much as I would’ve liked, marriage isn’t in the cards for me yet and maybe not ever, which I’ve accepted.

I have decided to not allow my single status to prevent me from becoming a mother. I have spent years hearing my friends and family tell me how great being a parent is and how I’m missing out. In fact, there was a time or two when I felt certain people were trying to make me feel inadequate. After careful consideration, I chose to utilize donor sperm.

I am now 40 and expecting my first child, and I couldn’t be happier. The only thing I find upsetting is that those same friends who spent years telling me how great motherhood is and asking when I would have children, now speak of nothing but the tribulations of motherhood — the pain of delivery, the fatigue, the expense, and how they couldn’t do it alone, etc.

I’m an educated woman in a profession that pays well, and I consider myself to be fortunate. I didn’t

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GETTING STARTED

Apuleius, whose “Metamorphoses” is the only Latin-language novel that has survived in its entirety, wrote, “Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.”

We do admire rarities that are not absurd.

Yesterday, I posed this question: During an auction at the Summer North American Championships in Las Vegas last month, I bid one heart on the first round and one spade on the second round even though my partner did not pass, double or redouble. How? The answer was that partner made an insufficient one-heart bid that my right-hand opponent surprisingly accepted. (It also could have happened if my left-hand opponent had made an insufficient oneclub or one-diamond bid that my partner accepted and rebid one diamond or one heart.) The full deal and our auction is given in the diagram.

After East accepted my partner’s one-heart rebid, I bid one spade primarily because it was “impossible” for me ever to do that with partner bidding.

I did not ask my partner about the two-spade bid, but it certainly worked well because it made it difficult for West to lead a spade, which would have defeated the contract.

When West led the club ace, I ruffed, cashed my two top trumps, crossed to dummy with a diamond and started to discard spades on clubs. East ruffed the jack and cashed one spade, but I had the rest for an overtrick. I took five hearts, two diamonds, three clubs and a diamond ruff on the board.

As you would imagine, plus 450 was a top.

There are many strategies in solving Sudoku. One way to begin is to examine each 3x3 grid and figure out which numbers are missing. Then, based on the other numbers in the row and column of each blank cell, find which of the missing numbers will work. Eliminating numbers will eventually lead you to the answer.

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decide to become a single mother on a whim. I don’t know what to expect but want to think positive and enjoy my pregnancy.

I’m confused and hurt by my friends’ reactions now that I am pregnant. Is it the pregnancy hormones, or do I need to distance myself from these friends?

Parenting involves many emotions — some of them conflicting. It’s a joy, an adventure, a challenge and a commitment. The experience is also an individual one.

You are a mature person and financially secure. If you need help with your child, you can get it. Please do not allow yourself to be intimidated by what these “friends” are sharing, and do not seek their validation. I’m not implying you should distance yourself and end the relationships, because you may welcome some of their advice in the future. Remember, this journey is one you have thoughtfully chosen.

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HOROSCOPES VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your contributions to your community will make you stand out. You'll gain respect for your honesty and integrity. Do what you can and be proud of what you do.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Don't let anyone limit what you can do. Look at the big picture and make adjustments that will encourage success. If you can make do with less, it's in your best interest.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22): A change is heading your way. Get ready to take a chance, and try using your skills and experience to reach new levels. You can grow emotionally and spiritually.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21): Consider who you are dealing with before you enter into a competition or decide to form a partnership. A lack of honesty or integrity may disrupt your plans.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It's up to you to make things happen. Don't sit around waiting for someone else to do things for you. If you take charge, you'll gain respect and the support you need.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19): Consider what you have been doing and what you wish you were doing. Find the middle ground and inch your way toward your goal. Success takes time, so don't lose sight of your dream.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20): Something doesn't seem right. Question what someone is telling you and consider whether the information is valid. You will achieve greater success if you take charge.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you take a break, relax and find something you enjoy doing, you'll ease your stress.

Walk away from controlling people, and use your intelligence to further your interests.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't make a fuss; do what you do best. If you take control, others will fall in line behind you.

Strive to be your best, do your best and look your best.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Pick and choose wisely. Not everyone is on your team, regardless of what you are led to believe. For best results, do things your way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Believe in the possibilities. If you dare to dream, you'll come up with a plan that could be quite successful. Personal gains, self-improvement and love are on the rise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may be tempted to make a move or change, but before you do so, consider the ramifications. Time is on your side. Focus on networking and gathering information.

Slow down.

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DEAR ABBY

A10 Tuesday, August 27, 2019 THE OKLAHOMAN | OKLAHOMAN.COM

WEATHER Rain

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A cold front moving through the state will bring widespread relief from the heat. However, heavy rain will result in localized flooding. Drying out tomorrow. Winds: NE 7-14 mph.

For the latest weather updates, go to NewsOK.com/weather.

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H E A LT H N O T E S OKLAHOMA CITY

MDA education seminar set MDA Engage, a community education seminar sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, has been scheduled for Sept. 7 at the Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown Hotel, 1 N Broadway Ave. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Brent Beson, director of the MDA Care Center at Integris Southwest Medical Center.

Other presenters will discuss such topics as MDA research, finding new treatments, transitioning from pediatric

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diabetes, high cholesterol, pregnancy, even depression and anxiety. If she encounters something she can’t handle, Alfonzo says she will refer the patient to a specialist.

“Actually, I think it impacts them more in a positive manner, because I think pediatricians are very thorough in their assessment,” she says.

It’s certainly more thorough than an urgent care center, which is where many 20- and 30-somethings wind up when they don’t have insurance and are no longer seeing their pediatrician, Alfonzo says.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) attempted to address the issue of transition from pediatric care into adult care in a policy statement in 2017 and concluded “the age of transition” should be based not on a number but on the patient’s individual needs.

The decision “should be made solely by the patient (and family, when appropriate) and the physician and must take into account the physical and psychosocial needs of the patient and the abilities of the pediatric provider to meet those needs,” the policy statement said. In addition, it said that ‘the establishment of arbitrary age limits on

to adult rehab, clinic care and genetic testing. A panel of experts also will be available to answer questions.

The free seminar will be 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Registration, which is required, will begin at 9 a.m.

Caregivers are encouraged to attend. To register online

by Sept. 2, go to www.mda. org/care/mda-engage/community-education-seminars/ oklahoma.

OU Medicine to host race The OU Medicine campus in Oklahoma City on

pediatric care by health care providers should be discouraged. Health care insurers and other payers should not place limits that affect the patient’s choice of care provider based solely on age.”

The statement was written and published because more pediatricians were seeing older and older patients, and because insurers and healthcare providers had begun to draw arbitrary lines as to the age at which a patient should no longer be seen by a pediatrician, said Jesse Hackell, the AAP’s vice president and a co-author of the statement.

“There are no official, legal rules,” Hackell says.

“Sometimes the insurance companies will try and make rules. Sometimes the hospitals will make rules. But there’s nothing to say we couldn’t keep seeing them.

We’re licensed as physicians, not pediatricians.”

Hackell, a pediatrician in Pomona, New York, says he has patients who definitely don’t want to leave, and most of their problems are ones he is equipped to deal with. Often, he’ll keep the patients through their college years. Why should they have to find a new physician if they get sick while they’re home on break? he asks.

“I won’t take on a new patient after about the age of 18 or 20, but I will certainly see my patients who I’ve seen

Oct. 6 will host about 1,000 from across the state for the Stephenson Cancer Center’s Outpace Cancer Race.

The race, which includes 10K and 5K events, as well as a one-mile walk, will begin at 8 a.m.

The race will begin and end at the Stephenson Cancer Center, 800 NE 10, winding across the OU Medicine campus and nearby neighborhoods, including Lincoln Terrace. The 10K/5K routes are certified by USA Track and Field, and official course maps can be downloaded here. A post-race block party

will include food trucks and kid-friendly activities.

The fundraiser will benefit cancer research and patient services at Stephenson Cancer Center.

To volunteer, go to outpacecancer.com.

since they were kids,” he says.

Once they graduate, though, he generally tells them it’s time to start looking for a general practitioner who treats adults, he says.

“We have to gently nudge them out,” he says.

your visits are so frequent when you’re growing up. If you don’t move around a lot, you do tend to stay with the same doctor,” Hofmann says.

The care can also be different. Her patients with cerebral palsy, for instance, have neurological issues from birth that may require supportive technologies such as feeding tubes or ventilators, technologies that when used on adults are often not to prolong life but rather in the face of a traumatic accident or a life-ending illness. And who would a patient with cerebral palsy, caused by brain damage that occurred before birth or during a child’s first three to five years, see? Hofmann asks.

For those without major issues, though — a college student or graduate about to embark on working life — the transition can be abrupt, sometimes precipitated by a “Sorry, you’ve aged out” response when they call to make an appointment or by a sign in the waiting room.

Debra Blau Reicher, a school psychologist, says she continued to consult her childhood pediatrician about her health issues well after she began taking her daughter to see him.

If her daughter had strep, the pediatrician would do a throat culture on Reicher as well.

“He would see me in his waiting room so he wouldn’t have to charge me,” she said.

“But then one day he had a

Lifelong relationships Living at home and remaining on parents’ insurance policies aren’t the only reasons 20-somethings stay with pediatricians. Medical advancements over the past decade are extending the life expectancy of those with chronic childhood illnesses, such as congenital heart issues, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and diabetes, and the pediatricians who cared for children with these conditions sometimes remain with them as they get old, says Michelle Hofmann, medical director in pediatric services at NeuroRestorative in Riverton, Utah.

Hofmann says when she was training in a pediatric intensive care unit, she had to resuscitate a 50-year-old man who was in her children’s hospital because he’d had congenital heart disease since he was a child. When it was time to do heart surgery, he wanted to have it there.

“One of the things that I think they do really well in pediatrics is establish those lifelong relationships, because

TULSA

Project ECHO summit set The first Project ECHO Summit in Oklahoma will be Thursday in the Tandy Conference Center in the A.R. and Marylouise Tandy Medical Academic Building on the OSU Center

for Health Sciences campus, 1111 W 17th St. The summit will feature health care professionals, legislators and leaders in education addressing the impact Project ECHO has had on the state and the program’s expanding future.

Dr. Sanjeev Arora, director and founder of Project ECHO, will be the keynote speaker.

For a complete list of speakers and program agenda, go to https:// health.okstate.edu/echo.

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sign up,” she recalls, saying “I can no longer see parents.”

She was 30 when the sign was posted.

Changing gears There are better ways than posting a sign for transitioning patients who need to move on, says Jonathan Trager, a pediatrician in Great Neck, New York, whose practice includes adolescent medicine.

“Throughout the teen years into the college years, you let your patients know that you are happy to see them as long as they are comfortable,” says Trager, who sees patients until age 30. When a patient is ready to switch to an internist, or is dealing with issues that may require an internist, Trager and the patient will make that transition decision together, he says. It should be a change that they gear up for over the years, he adds.

A pediatrician, Trager says, is the ideal person to guide the young patient through that transition into adult medical care.

“They know the patient,” he says. “They know the family, and they’re well equipped to handle issues of someone they have been seeing for a long time. Young adults are often extended adolescents. They still could benefit from seeing the pediatrician who knows them well.”

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Gundy sticking with redshirt plan

By Jacob Unruh Staff writer junruh@oklahoman.com

STILLWATER — Jason Taylor II stood on the Oklahoma State sideline last season taking in the orangeand-black surroundings.

Thousands of fans cheered.

The new video board was eyecatching. The speed of the game was furious.

He certainly wasn’t at Carl Albert High School anymore.

“It was way bigger,” Taylor said. “When you’re not on the field, you’re just in awe of how many people. When you’re out there, you just hear the noise

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crucial, even if he only got on the field in the Cowboys’ final three games. He waited 10 games to play and made it on special teams while also preserving his redshirt status.

He recorded no statistics outside of experience.

“I feel like last year that was really what I needed to have done,” said Taylor, who enters OSU’s season opener Friday at Oregon State as a backup safety.

In the modern college football world, the new redshirt rule is important to longterm success. A player who

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and don’t really think about it.”

Taylor’s first season was

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Oklahoma State’s Spencer Sanders, right, gets by Jason Taylor II during spring practice. Taylor redshirted last season after playing in the final three games on special teams. [SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN]

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A COAL MINERS’ COACH

Former Yukon assistant coach Jeff Hall brings wishbone offense to Piedmont

West Virginia coach Neal Brown took his entire Mountaineers’ squad to a coal mining complex

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Briles starts over at Texas high school

By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press

Oklahoma tight end Grant Calcaterra catches a touchdown pass in front of Texas’ B.J. Foster during the Big 12 Championship Game last December in Arlington, Texas. Calcaterra is expecting to produce bigger numbers this season. [BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN]

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By Ryan Aber

It’d be more fun to revel constantly in his two touchdown catches in last year’s Big 12 Championship Game win over Texas, or his leaping one-handed catch over the middle against Texas Tech earlier last season.

Staff writer raber@oklahoman.com

NORMAN — Of course, Grant Calcaterra would like to spend more time watching his highlights.

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But it’s the moments that aren’t perfect that provide the greatest resource for Oklahoma’s tight end.

And studying those plays and the work to fix what became evident through that analysis is what Calcaterra said had the chance to lift him to a breakout season.

The junior from Rancho Santa Margarita, California,

saw the big leap his mentor Mark Andrews made from his sophomore to his junior season. Calcaterra believes that such growth is possible for him as well.

“He took a lot of steps,” Calcaterra said of Andrews.

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MOUNT VERNON, Texas In a small East Texas community, a few blocks from a quaint town square, Art Briles is coaching football again on American soil.

He is some 200 miles and Briles seemingly a lifetime away from Baylor, the school he led to the doorstep of the College Football Playoff five years ago and the school that fired him three years ago in the wake of a sprawling sexual assault scandal he has insisted he handled correctly. After going to Europe when job opportunities in the Canadian Football League and a Mississippi college dried up, Briles is back sort of.

He will be under the Friday night lights in Mount Vernon, population 2,750, and on humble fields in a handful of otherwise quiet, Class 3A towns into early November.

“I’m a football coach. That’s what I’ve always done, so that’s what I do,” said Briles, 63. “This right here is as important as any job as I’ve ever had. That’s the way I’ve always treated any job. ... I treat it like it’s the only job I’ve ever had. I’m not thinking See BRILES, B2

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NORMAN — incoln Riley doesn’t know how the defense will play in Oklahoma’s opener.

Will it be remarkable, stirring the ghosts of glories past, Selmon and Casillas, Shoate and Superman?

Or will it be repugnant, resurrecting ghosts that have haunted the Sooners

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in recent seasons?

Riley isn’t sure, even though he has seen behind the curtain more than most.

But when it comes to this revamped defense, the Sooner coach is certain of this: “Game 1, it doesn’t matter if (things)

go well or they don’t … it’s going to be complete overreaction by the public on every part of it.”

That’s not the nature of Sooner Nation.

That’s human nature.

After an offseason spent trying to fix what has ailed the Sooners for lo these many seasons — OK, it’s only been the past three or four years, but man, it seems a lot longer — everyone wants to see what has changed. Jalen Hurts’ Sooner debut is a big deal, but his background would lead you to believe he will be OK. This defense? We’ll believe

nothing until we see it.

And Sunday will be the first time we see Alex Grinch and Co. for the first time in a real, live game, so of course, everything we see will carry extra weight. The great moments will seem better.

The bad ones will seem worse.

A small sample size will magnify the result.

“One way or another, regardless of what happens, it’s one game,” Riley said.

“You’ve gotta be careful not reading too much into it.”

He speaks from experience on this.

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Gundy adds ambiguity to QB situation

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Williams Field of Arizona.

Mike Gundy’s appearance

on the Big 12 coaches’ teleconference Monday morning was brief.

With Gundy having already held his preOregon State press conference, only a couple of out-of-state reporters entered the teleconference to ask questions of Gundy.

The first: Have you named a starting quarterback yet?

“We’re gonna do it later in the week,” Gundy said.

“We haven’t done anything at this point. We’ve got a couple more practices we’re gonna take into account.”

With Gundy having no further media obligations before the season opener at 9:30 p.m. Friday in Corvallis, Oregon, the likelihood of any public announcement of a starter before kickoff seems unlikely.

And the comment could simply mean he will announce to his team which player, either Dru Brown or Spencer Sanders, will take the first snaps against Oregon State.

All of Gundy’s other comments before Monday have suggested he’d play both quarterbacks Friday night, which would make the title of starter a mostly dubious one.

Asked to weigh the pros and cons of his competing quarterbacks, Gundy praised the work ethic and play of both together, as he has done going back to spring practice.

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in the past watched all season now gets to adjust in four games or less and maintain four more years of eligibility.

By design, OSU used it on 10 freshmen last season. Coach Mike Gundy prefers skill players to get a chance on special teams, while offensive lineman redshirt. It’s a strategy he again plans to use this fall, the second with the new rule.

“I think it serves its purpose,” Gundy said. “I

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beyond this.”

Most residents knew nothing about the possibility of Briles becoming coach until the school board unanimously approved his hiring in a special meeting on the Friday night going into Memorial Day weekend.

That was only a couple of hours before the high school graduation ceremony at Don Meredith Stadium, named after the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and “Monday Night Football” announcer who is easily the town’s most famous native son.

A few weeks after Briles

Eskimo Joe’s, OSU Alumni Association pair up for watch party

Oklahoma State’s Spencer Sanders, left, and Dru Brown continue to compete for the Cowboys’ staritng quarterback job. [SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN]

Oregon State goes with sixth-year senior at QB One side of the OSUOSU battle knows who its starting quarterback will be.

Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith announced late last week that sixthyear senior Jake Luton won the Beavers’ QB battle over Tristan Gebbia, a redshirt sophomore transfer from Nebraska.

The 6-foot-7, 229pound Luton was the Beavers’ starting quarterback at the beginning of the last two seasons before injuries sent him to the sideline.

A junior-college transfer, he has played in 12 games, with nine starts, completing 223 of 359 passes for 2,513 yards and 14 touchdowns.

OSU commit Shane Illingworth goes wild in opener Four-star quarterback recruit Shane Illingworth got his senior season off to a hot start over the weekend.

The 6-6, 225-pound Oklahoma State commit threw for 479 yards and seven touchdowns, both school records, as the Norco (California) High School opened its season with a 52-27 victory over

Eskimo Joe’s and the Oklahoma State Alumni Association have teamed up for an outdoor concert and watch party for the Cowboys’ season opener against Oregon State on Friday.

The outdoor event will be held in the lot north of Eskimo Joe’s and will feature music, inflatable toys, food, drinks and guest appearances by Eskimo Joe and Buffy, Pistol Pete and the OSU Spirit Squad.

All of that will lead up to the live broadcast of the Cowboys at Oregon State on a large video wall beginning at 9:30 p.m.

“Eskimo Joe’s is a watch party staple for OSU alumni and Cowboy fans,” said Blaire Atkinson, OSU Alumni Association president. “We’re excited to partner with Joe’s to offer alumni and students an exciting evening with live music, giveaways and the Cowboys’ season opener.

If you can’t make the trip to Oregon, this watch party will be the next best thing.”

The venue opens at 6 p.m. The Val Gladden Band will play at 7 with other festivities continuing until game time. Patrons are encouraged to bring their own chairs, though some seating will be provided.

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don’t like the rule, because I don’t think if you’ve been in school more than one or two years, you should be able to play four games, then sit and go play somewhere else. Everybody’s got an opinion. I don’t like that rule. I think that’s for a freshman.”

Gundy said six true freshmen will not redshirt this season, including cornerback Thomas Harper, defensive tackle Jayden Jernigan, defensive end Trace Ford and punter Tom Hutton.

Taylor and fellow safety Kanion Williams were the lone freshmen to play in more than one game last season. Both played

special teams and are now back-up safeties.

That is no coincidence.

“Kanion Williams got some good experience last year,” Gundy said.

“It helped him. It was on special teams, but it helped him. He looks like he’s further ahead than guys who didn’t get on the field.

“I think he’s a guy that falls in that category where you could see that it helped him. We would’ve continued to play him last year, but he ran out of his games.”

Two years ago, the Cowboys could have taken advantage of the redshirt rule.

Malcolm Rodriguez was on the fence for playing time coming off a banner high school career at Wagoner. He began playing in Week 5 and played the final nine games, primarily on special teams.

His experience was crucial adjusting to the game speed. Now, he’s seen Williams grow.

Rodriguez has watched Taylor show rapid improvement from his brief experience, too.

The redshirt rule has paid off.

“He should be kind of an older guy back there now,” Rodriguez said of Taylor. “He shouldn’t be confused or anything.”

got a two-year contract for $82,000 a year, about 60 people filled the room for a school board meeting. Only three of them addressed superintendent Jason McCullough and the board members about hiring Briles and only Lauren Lewis spoke against it.

Lewis, who returned to her hometown with her husband about three years ago after living for a decade in Austin, said people later thanked her for speaking out.

“This is a kind, loving, welcoming place, and I think that they tried to put that spin on it, this is a redemption story, we’re going to be able to help this guy,” Lewis said. “But there’s no redemption without remorse.”

Briles was fired in May 2016 after an investigation by a law firm found that over several years the school mishandled numerous sexual assault allegations, including some against football players. The Pepper Hamilton investigation also led to the departures of university president Kenneth Starr, who was demoted and later resigned, and the resignation of athletic director Ian McCaw, now the AD at Liberty University in Virginia.

The investigation led to 105 recommendations for the school to reform its Title IX process and the world’s largest Baptist university is still waiting for the outcome of an NCAA investigation into the case.

It was a humiliating

ending for Briles, a legend in Texas coaching. He was a high school coach for 21 seasons, among those credited with introducing versions of the spread offense to Texas high school ball, before becoming a Texas Tech assistant in 2000, and later the head coach at Houston and Baylor. He won four state championships in a seven-year span at Class 4A Stephenville.

Briles, who received $15 million from Baylor to settle his contract, got a “lot of no’s” when trying to get back into coaching before his first real opportunity, a semipro team in Italy with players ranging in age from 16 to 43, many who openly smoked and drank after late-night practices.

Missions a 3-0 lead.

The Missions tacked on another run in the seventh when Corey Ray hit a solo home run.

Zack Brown (3-7) got the win with three innings of scoreless, one-hit relief while Oklahoma City starter J.D. Martin (3-2) took the loss.

OU track and field coach resigns

the head coach for Oklahoma's men's and women's track and field and cross country for the last six years, has resigned. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Tim Langford, the former head coach at South Carolina State, who was recently named an assistant coach at OU. Langford helped the Bulldogs produce four NCAA indoor and outdoor All-Americans,

28 regional qualifiers and one NCAA indoor national champion in Tyrell Richard in the 400 meters in 2019.

Sixty-two Sooners garnered All-America honors during VanHootegem's tenure, including seven in 2019.

Additionally, 19 Sooners set indoor or outdoor school records the past six seasons.

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Late Sunday: San Antonio sweeps OKC Tyrone Taylor hit a three-run home run in the first inning, leading the San Antonio Missions to a 4-0 win over the Oklahoma City Dodgers on Sunday in San Antonio.

With the win, San Antonio swept the threegame series.

The home run by Taylor scored Troy Stokes and Tyler Austin to give the

Jim VanHootegem,

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US Open ESPN (Cox 29) 6 p.m.

US Open ESPN (Cox 29) MEN'S SOCCER 2 p.m.

UEFA League TNT (Cox 31) WNBA Los Angeles at Washington ESPN2 (Cox 28) 6 p.m.

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St. Louis at Milwaukee FSPLUS (Cox 68)/Cox 703 4 p.m.

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Minnesota at Chicago White Sox MLBN (Cox 264) 7 p.m.

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MORNING ROUNDUP

Serena Williams rolls to easy win in U.S. Open Serena Williams’ first U.S. Open meeting with Maria Sharapova turned out like every other matchup they’ve had in the last 14 years.

Williams rolled into the second round with a 6-1, 6-1 victory on Monday, beating Sharapova for the 19th straight time and taking a 20-2 lead in their rivalry.

Williams, the No. 8 seed, took control by winning the final five games of a 24-minute opening set, then the first two of the second set

Venus Williams dominates first round foe Playing in the U.S. Open for the 21st time, tying Martina Navratilova’s record, Venus Williams improved to 21-0 in firstround matches at Flushing Meadows by beating Zheng Saisai 6-1, 6-0 in all of 66 minutes in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Monday.

Williams is a two-time champion in New York back in 2000 and 2001 and owns seven Grand Slam singles titles in all, along with another 14 in doubles.

But she’s also 39, had lost in the first round at the French Open and Wimbledon this year and her ranking is down to No. 52. That puts her 14 spots behind Zheng.

Sure didn’t seem that way on Monday. Williams dominated from beginning to end, winning twice as many total points, 58-29, compiling more than four times as many winners, 25-6, and two fewer unforced errors than her opponent.

Top-seed Novak Djokovic advances in U.S. Open Top-seeded Novak Djokovic felt good enough after his workmanlike firstround victory at the U.S. Open to do a little dancing.

Djokovic, who is now 34-1 in his last 35 Grand Slam matches, dispatched Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena 6-4, 6-1, 6-4.

He then gave an oncourt interview in which he acknowledged dancing in Central Park as part of his pre-match preparation.

Former Penn State team doctor sues coach A former Penn State University team doctor has filed a lawsuit alleging that head football coach James

Franklin improperly tried to influence his decisionmaking on injured athletes and pressured him to return them to the field.

Dr. Scott A. Lynch, who was removed in March as the football team’s orthopedic physician and the university’s director of athletic medicine, filed the lawsuit Friday in Dauphin County Court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania against Franklin and other university officials.

The lawsuit contends that Lynch’s removal from his position was punishment for reporting to the appropriate authorities about Franklin’s actions and a violation of the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law. The lawsuit also claims Lynch was released in an effort by the university to avoid scandal.

Dwight Howard rejoins Los Angeles Lakers Dwight Howard has rejoined the Los Angeles Lakers six years after his acrimonious departure.

The eight-time All-Star center and 15-year NBA veteran agreed to a contract Monday with the Lakers.

Howard led the NBA in rebounding while spending the 2012-13 season with the Lakers, but he clashed with Kobe Bryant and subsequently spurned Los Angeles as a free agent. He bounced to six franchises after his departure, while the Lakers haven’t made the playoffs since.

He played nine games with Washington last season.

Tennessee football player suspended after arrest Tennessee has suspended cornerback Bryce Thompson following his arrest on a domestic assault charge.

Coach Jeremy Pruitt said in a statement Monday that Thompson will be out “while the process continues.”

Thompson was arrested Saturday night after his girlfriend told police they began arguing when she found another woman’s fake eyelashes in the player’s room.

Witnesses told police they heard Thompson threatening to slap a woman. One witness said he heard Thompson yelling he would “shoot up the school.”

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Bear Jensen was a legendary high school, college coach

By Scott Munn Staff writer smunn@oklahoman.com

Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley, left, and then-West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen shake hands after a 2017 game in Norman. Holgorsen is now head coach at Houston, which plays the Sooners at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday in Norman. [BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN]

Holgorsen: ‘Silly’ to not release depth chart NORMAN — It’s typical practice for college football coaches to release depth charts every Monday during the season, but Oklahoma’s was left blank Monday — six days before the season-opener against Houston.

Well, not totally blank.

Page 9 of OU’s game notes had a “depth chart” heading with nothing more than the eyes emoji in the middle of the page.

“Coming soon,” it said.

Houston coach Dana Holgorsen is waiting.

“I’ve always released a depth chart, and I’ll release one,” Holgorsen told reporters Monday. “Why they don’t put one out, it’s kind of silly to me. So if they’re not putting one out, I ain’t putting one out. I guess I’ll put one out with those funny eyes and stuff like that.”

Concealing depth charts is a common form of gamesmanship for some coaches.

But OU coach Lincoln Riley claimed Monday that his decision was “not strategic.” He and Holgorsen last faced each other nine months ago when Holgorsen was still coaching West Virginia.

“This is a big week for us,” Riley said. “We still have some position battles going on. We have some spots where we will have multiple guys play.

We haven’t made some decisions yet on starters. Even in a couple of positions, we have as many as three guys that can play and play a majority of the game. It gives us, as coaches, a better chance to evaluate it and hopefully give you guys something a little more accurate midweek.”

Oklahoma and Houston will kick off at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in Norman.

“I can kind of figure out who they’re gonna play with, and they can figure out who we’re gonna play with,” Holgorsen said. “There are honestly some positions on our team where we don’t know who the starter is. And that’s probably the same thing for them. But we’ll figure it out soon enough.”

New connection Oklahoma fans will have

an easier time accessing the internet this season at home football games. A multi-year project to bring Wi-Fi to Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium is complete, the school announced Monday.

“This is an exciting upgrade for our stadium and one that we’ve had on the drawing board for several years,” athletic director Joe Castiglione said in a release. “We are rolling it out at an optimum time as we have been able to secure the latest technology, which will make this system viable for several years.”

There is no way to predict how the new system will handle more than 80,000 fans trying to log in, so staff members and engineers will be on site Sunday. A team of “Wi-Fi coaches” will also be accessible throughout the stadium to help fans get connected.

More than 30 miles of copper and fiber wire have been added to the stadium.

There are 1,362 access points connected to 3,702 antennas.

“Fan experience is a high priority for us,” Castiglione said.

“The on-field performance and pageantry of OU football are the best in the nation. Now, we are adding other pieces to the fan experience that make a trip to our stadium even more special and convenient.”

Farewell to people with Oklahoma ties who enjoyed the game day experience: L e s t e r J e n s e n , 94, of Norman. Known as “Bear,” Jensen starred in several sports at Norman High School. Jensen helped the Tigers win the state football championship in 1943 and the state basketball title in 1945.

The football All-Stater went to Oklahoma, where he was an All-Big Six guard in 1946 despite standing just 5-foot11 and 190 pounds. Jensen transferred to East Central University for the 1947 season and earned Little All-America honors. He fulfilled his dream of becoming a football coach, compiling a 105-34-3 record during stops at Davis, Pauls Valley and Claremore high schools. He also enjoyed success as football coach at East Central U. and Cameron; he guided Cameron to the junior college Rose Bowl and through its transition to four-year football program. A member of the Oklahoma Coaches Association, East Central, Cameron and Claremore halls of fame.

Pete Wilson, 75, of Edmond.

The petroleum geologist was a youth soccer coach and general manager of the Oklahoma City Spirit of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.

Charles Sledge , 73, of Oklahoma City. Starred in football and track at Douglass High School. Sledge went on to play football at Langston University, where he graduated with degrees in math and chemistry.

Stan Kelley, 79, of Edmond.

A four-year letterman in both basketball and baseball at Bridge Creek High School.

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Redshirt freshman Jaquayln Crawford has moved from wide

doing. You just have to make the most of all of your opportunities.”

As a sophomore in 2016, Andrews had 31 catches for 489 yards and seven touchdowns. The next season, Andrews had 62 catches for 958 yards and eight scores.

Calcaterra’s sophomore numbers weren’t too far removed from Andrews’ — 26 catches for 396 yards and six touchdowns.

It’s consistency, Calcaterra said, which will help him make a jump, beginning with Sunday’s season opener against Houston (6:30 p.m., ABC).

“There were areas last year where I could’ve made a run after the catch or a better block downfield, things like

receiver to cornerback.

Crawford played in one game last season. He was a consensus four-star receiver coming out of high school in Rockdale, Texas.

Quotable

Riley on what he learned from the Week 0 games: “There’s some great examples in both of those — in clock management, poor tackling, penalties. The Florida-Miami game, you could literally take that and have about three team meetings. Every coach in America probably is right now.”

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in 2015 to fix an offense that seemed to have the requisite talent but that had lost its way. Recent years have made us forget what struggles had befallen the Sooner offense before Riley’s arrival, but he inherited a tough situation.

The fix was not immediate.

In Riley’s first game as offensive coordinator, a home opener against mid-major Akron, the Sooners had a first quarter to forget. Four punts.

Three points. Two first downs.

The offense improved as the evening progressed — OU won 41-3 — but the next week at Tennessee, there were more struggles. Through three quarters, the Sooners had almost as many turnovers (two) as points (three).

But then in a fourth quarter as dramatic as any for OU in the

Lincoln Riley, then in his first season as Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator, had a rough start to 2015. But after three awful quarters and two interceptions by Baker Mayfield at Tennessee, the Sooner offense found its groove after a couple weeks. That’s why Riley is preaching no overreaction regardless of what Alex Grinch and the revamped OU defense do Sunday against Houston. [NATE BILLINGS/THE OKLAHOMAN]

past decade, Baker Mayfield started to build his legend and Riley’s offense started to find its stride. The Sooners won in

double overtime in Knoxville, and while there would be lulls after that — even a loss to Texas — you knew the Air Raid

Bear Jensen, shown in this 2005 photo, stands next to several awards he earned as a successful football player and coach at the high school and college levels. [OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES]

Oklahoma City. Lettered in football, basketball and track at Fairland High School.

Recruited to play football at Missouri Southern. The Army veteran went into coaching after graduating from Oklahoma State.

Winifred Coyer Porter, 98, of Oklahoma City. She starred at guard for the Billings High School basketball team in the 1930s.

Debra Nye Schauf , 71, of Jones. She was executive director of the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association.

Family said Schauf “dedicated her life to the betterment of quarter horse racing all across the United States.”

G a r y B l e v i n s , 89, of Duncanville, Texas. The Oklahoma native was a successful high school basketball and baseball coach.

He was a former director of the Basketball International Congress and helped develop an AAU basketball team, the Texas Shooting Stars. Also worked in insurance.

Don Symcox, 89, of Norman.

He captained Cordell’s Class B state championship basketball team in 1948. Symcox was also an All-State player. A Navy

veteran who went into the banking business.

LeRoy DeShields , 94, of Oklahoma City. A longtime race car driver who competed at both Taft Stadium and State Fair Speedway. DeShields, who owned a successful trucking service in the Stockyards, was the first Mar-Car points champion. A World War II veteran.

Mike Christie, 69, of Denver.

An All-American defenseman out of the University of Denver who played briefly for the Tulsa Oilers of the original Central Hockey League.

Christie had a goal and 27 penalty minutes through 20 games during the 1980-81 season for Tulsa. He would play 412 games over seven seasons in the National Hockey League; four years were spent with the old Colorado Rockies.

Larry Rankin, 51, of Wichita, Kansas. The Stillwater native and Oklahoma State graduate spent 25 years as sports information director at Wichita State. He coordinated media for several Wichita State-hosted NCAA baseball regionals. He was named assistant athletic director at the school in 1998.

that,” Calcaterra said. “Just fully executing my assignments and doing that on a consistent basis will really jumpstart me a little bit.

“Making those extra plays, making those extra downfield blocks is what separates you.”

That brings Calcaterra back to studying film.

There was last October against TCU when Horned Frogs linebacker Garrett Wallow worked out of a block by Calcaterra on a second-quarter run by Kennedy Brooks.

Brooks scored a touchdown on the play, but every time he watches it, Calcaterra sees a missed opportunity to deliver a touchdown-sealing block.

Then there’s a play in the first quarter of a game the next month against Kansas, when Calcaterra caught a pass over the middle but instead of turning it into a

long gain, he started falling to the ground shortly after the catch, making contact with a defender and going down after a 12-yard reception.

“I do kick myself,” Calcaterra said. “I’m just like (dang), I definitely could’ve done something more here but it’s all about just learning and doing better the next play.”

Tight ends coach Shane Beamer said he expects Calcaterra to make those adjustments, especially as it relates to everything else that comes with being successful at the spot in addition to catching passes.

“Grant’s a tough kid, tough guy,” Beamer said. “He’s not afraid of contact.

“Toughness isn’t an issue with him and he's really worked hard from a technique standpoint, things like that, to improve that aspect of his game.”

would soar again in Norman.

“Our first few games here in 2015, we certainly didn’t light the world on fire offensively by any stretch,” Riley said. “We weren’t very good.

Then I thought by the end of that season, if we weren’t the best offense in the country, we were pretty darn close.

“You just gotta make constant improvement.”

That’s what Riley will be focused on with this defense.

Getting better week to week.

Fixing what went wrong.

Building on what went right.

Now, don’t misunderstand — Riley isn’t giving his defense a pass Sunday against Houston. Not at all.

“I expect us to play well,” he said of the defense.

This test counts, so the defense is going to be graded.

Riley is just using a curve.

I asked Monday during Riley’s weekly press conference what he wants to see out of the defense, what he will be measuring. He ticked off

three hallmarks: communicating effectively, tackling well and creating turnovers.

“We know how important that is in this day and age of football,” Riley said. “We need to do those things. I’m not going to say we’re going to do them at an end-of-season level, but we expect to do them at a high level on Sunday.”

He will analyze and scrutinize those results just like everyone else. But on Sunday night, don’t expect Riley to offer a verdict the big question.

He won't be proclaiming the defense unbreakable or inoperable, remarkable or repugnant.

But even without his ruling, he figures college football’s court of public opinion will have plenty to offer.

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BIG 12 FOOTBALL JOURNAL

Brown takes Mountaineers to a coal mine Neal Brown has punched all the right PR buttons in his eight months as the West Virginia football coach. Even to the point of taking the Mountaineers to a coal mine.

Earlier this month, Brown and his staff took the entire WVU squad to Arch Coal’s Leer Mining Complex in Grafton, West Virginia. Coal is to West Virginia what oil is to Oklahoma, except the coal industry is much more beleaguered.

“I want them to understand who they represent,” Brown said of his players. “I think coal mining is part of the fabric of West Virginia. The number of miners probably is not as high as it once was, but it still is part of who we are as West Virginians.”

When the Mountaineers take the field for home games, they touch a large chunk of coal. Brown calls it a “man trip,” and he wants his players to understand what kind of men spend their days under the Earth, helping fuel a state.

“It was a great experience,” Brown, who grew up in neighboring Kentucky, said Monday on the Big 12 teleconference.

“Very humbling to see how much pride that those men have in West Virginia football … it’s extremely important, and that trip reinforced what it means to the people of our state.”

First-year West Virginia coach Neal Brown speaks during Big 12 Media Days. [AP PHOTO]

Longhorns have continuity Big 12 football has four new head coaches this season. Big 12 football also will have at least four new starting quarterbacks. Only three schools return both their coach and their quarterback.

Baylor, with Matt Rhule and Charlie Brewer ; Iowa State, with Matt Campbell and Brock Purdy ; and Texas, with Tom Herman and Sam Ehlinger.

Herman said such continuity gives him “all the comfort in the world. It’s very comforting, especially knowing it’s his (Ehlinger’s) third year

in the same offensive system.

He’s really grown in that system in knowing what to do and where to get the ball.

“It’s amazing to think I’m going into Year 3, and I believe I’m the fourth-longest tenured,” Herman said. “That should tell you something.”

Only Campbell, TCU’s Gary Patterson and OSU’s Mike Gundy are Big 12 coaches who have been on the job longer.

Will K-State QB carousel end?

Bill Snyder’s final four teams at Kansas State went a combined 28-23. The four Wildcat

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teams before that went 38-14.

The biggest difference?

Quarterback. Most of the last four seasons, K-State was unsettled at quarterback. Skylar Thompson and Alex Delton last season. Jesse Ertz, Thompson and Delton in 2017. Joe Hubener and Kody Cook in 2015. Some of that indecision was injurycaused, but some was just poor play or coaching indecision.

That should change this season, as new KSU coach Chris Kleiman says Thompson is the undisputed starter.

“Skylar knows, from my conversations, that it’s his job,” Kleiman said Monday on the Big 12 teleconference.

“He’s not looking over his shoulder. He’s going to cut it loose and let it play. He knows we’re confident in him and it’s his show.”

Thompson will need to play better for KSU to return to its previous status. Over two seasons, Thompson has completed 59.5 percent of his passes, with a touchdown to interception ratio of 14/7.

Tech cratered without Bowman Texas Tech quarterback Alan Bowman was a freshman sensa-

tion in 2018 — 69.4 completion percentage, 17 touchdowns and seven interceptions. But a scary collapsed lung ended Bowman’s season. New Tech

Piedmont football coach

offense isn't easy to learn, but he said his players are ahead of where he thought they would be.

The Wildcats debuted the new-look offense Friday in a scrimmage against Tuttle. Hall said there were some bright moments, but there was still plenty to build upon.

"We struggled with some of our execution at times, but we expected that," Hall said.

Although the offense is going through a learning curve, Hall said the defense has been cohesive and outstanding early on. He praised linebacker Bo Hardy and center Jett Boyd , saying they have been two excellent leaders.

Each had a good scrimmage.

Piedmont hosts another scrimmage this week against Ada and Millwood before playing El Reno to open its regular season. With another week of prep, Hall said he's confident the offense can be fluid soon.

"I think we're ahead of schedule, but we'll get there," Hall said.

Tuttle's Bode Brooks commits to play baseball at OU Following a breakout spring, Tuttle star pitcher Bode Brooks had plenty of choices for his college destination.

It came down to Oklahoma.

Brooks, a junior, committed to the Sooners late last week, becoming the second Tuttle player to commit to an in-state Big 12 program in as many weeks. Sophomore Kade Shatwell also recently committed to Oklahoma State.

Brooks was 10-1 with a 1.01 ERA last spring. In 69 1/3 innings, he struck out 74 and walked just 11. He chose the Sooners over offers from Nebraska, Wichita State and Dallas Baptist among others.

Tuttle senior Ryan Duncan, an outfielder, recently committed to Connors State.

Mustang's Gabe Simonsen wins The Field Run Classic G a b e S i m o n s e n continues to run away from his competition.

Mustang's outstanding junior cross-country runner won The Field Run Classic on Saturday in 15:45.19. After a great sophomore season, he was named The Oklahoman's Cross Country Runner of the Year.

He beat Santa Fe South senior Christian Arenivar, who finished in 15:52.15, and Deer Creek sophomore AJ Antonelli, who completed the race in 16:15.59.

Deer Creek topped Piedmont and Mustang for the team title.

Five runners finished in the top 20, including seniors Jack Reed and Drake Wagner.

On the girls side, Mount St. Mary sophomore Ayden Kearney finished in third with a time of 19:09.64. McGuinness freshman Olivia Fosbenner tallied a fourth-place finish in 19:23.03. Another freshman, Jones' Tabitha Fox , finished eighth in 20:02.54.

Jenks won the girls competition with Tulsa Kelley coming in second and Edmond Santa Fe claiming third.

Cameron Jourdan, Staff writer

NFL NOTEBOOK

Texans place Lamar Miller on IR Lamar Miller has been placed on the injured reserve after the Houston Texans running back tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in a preseason game last weekend.

Appearing in his first game this season, Miller was injured on his first carry on Saturday night against Dallas when defensive tackle Maliek Collins slammed into his left leg.

Miller, who has been Houston's featured back for the past three seasons, led the Texans with 210 carries for 973 yards last year.

With Miller out for the season, the Texans will look to Duke Johnson to pick up the slack. Johnson joined the team earlier this month in a trade with Cleveland.

Chiefs sign backup quarterback The Kansas City Chiefs lost backup quarterback Chad Henne to a broken ankle that will require surgery, and they quickly signed veteran Matt

Moore on Monday to provide depth behind starter Patrick Mahomes.

The Chiefs have two other quarterbacks on their roster in Chase Litton and Kyle Shurmur, but neither of the developmental prospects has distinguished himself during the preseason.

The 35-year-old Moore sat out last season after starting a pair of games for Miami in 2017, the end of a seven-year tenure with the Dolphins that began as the starter and ended as their backup. Moore also spent three seasons with Carolina, and is 15-15 in 30 starts.

Broncos cut three veterans on Monday The Denver Broncos created more than $4 million in salary cap space by cutting a trio of veterans Monday, savings that could go toward a seasoned backup quarterback or middle linebacker should they seek to plug holes on their roster.

The Broncos jettisoned sixth-year defensive lineman Zach Kerr, 10th-year outside

Miles plays coy on quarterbacks New Kansas coach Les Miles is mum on the Jayhawks’ starting quarterback. The Jayhawks open the Miles era Saturday against Indiana State, and Miles said he won’t announce a quarterback before the game.

“You certainly can go to the game and watch to see how they’re going to be played,” Miles said. “We like our quarterbacks, and we’re going to let ‘em play out.”

The candidates are junior Thomas MacVittie, who spent two years at Pittsburgh before transferring to junior college, and senior Carter Stanley, who has made nine starts over the previous three seasons.

Berry Tramel, Columnist

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Piedmont adjusting to wishbone offense Jeff Hall knows the flexbone

coach Matt Wells says Bowman has been cleared and is doing well.

“I’ve been told there’s no reason for concern as far as repeat injuries,” said Wells.

“Not more than usual. I do recognize it’s a unique injury, but he’s fully cleared, ready to go.”

With Bowman, Tech was 4-4, including a 51-46 loss to OU in which Tech had a 31-28 halftime lead before Bowman left the game. Without Bowman, Tech was 1-3, and head coach Kliff Kingsbury was fired.

linebacker Dekoda Watson and fifth-year returner/receiver Nick Williams .

Kerr was due a $1.5 million salary this season with a cap hit of just over $2 million. Watson's salary and cap hit were both $1.55 million and Williams recently signed a one-year, $805,000 contract that carried a cap hit of $645,000.

Beckham Jr. returns to Browns' practice Odell Beckham Jr. is closer to being game ready.

With Cleveland's season opener on Sept. 8 against Tennessee quickly approaching, Beckham, who has been slowed by a hip injury, returned to team drills during practice on Monday for the first time in nearly three weeks.

Before the morning workout, the three-time Pro Bowler had not been on the field with quarterback Baker Mayfield, Jarvis Landry and the rest of the starting offense since Aug. 6.

Wire reports

Regent Prep receiver Jack Wright, right, leaps for extra yards during last season’s game against Shattuck. [NATE BILLINGS/THE OKLAHOMAN]

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Will Regent Prep’s Braden Gilbert reach 4,000 passing yards again?

Braden Gilbert led the state in passing yards last season, and it wouldn’t be out of the question for him to do it again.

Gilbert is the leader of the stellar Rams’ offense, and he has plenty of targets to throw it to, including star wide receiver Jack Wright.

He was a big key leading Regent Prep to the title game last season. If he continues playing as well as he did last season during his senior year, it wouldn’t be shocking to see him duplicate the success.

Can Davenport replicate 2018 success?

Davenport had shut out five straight opponents before falling to Shattuck in the state title game.

With five returners back on that side of the ball, it wouldn’t be shocking to see the defense be able to shut down opposing offenses again.

The Bulldogs also return five starters on offense, which scored at least 48 points in every game until the Shattuck loss. Experience could lead to another deep run.

Returning stars Wyatt Cross, Sr., Davenport: Cross is a stellar lineman. He can run and pass block effectively, and on defense, he racked up 88 tackles and six sacks last season.

Coby Prather, Sr., Yale : Prather will play running back this season, but he has been a standout at linebacker. His production should help the offensive unit.

Jack Wright, Sr., Regent Prep: Wright is Class B’s best

receiver. Last season, he caught 81 passed for 1,840 yards and 34 touchdowns. If that wasn’t enough, he added four rushing scores. He and Gilbert make a dynamic duo.

Jaxon Douthit, Sr., Strother: The do-it-all quarterback and linebacker is a huge key for Strother. He accounted for more than 2,100 total yards with 29 touchdowns last season. On defense, he had 96 tackles with a sack and an interception.

Key games Watts at Regent Prep, Week 6: Although Watts will be

pulling for the upset, safety Aaron Mitchell will look to stop the passing attack of Regent Prep while the Rams will try to beat the Engineers with the Gilbert-Wright combo.

Yale at Davenport, Week 10: The battle of the Bulldogs is a game that could decide the district title. Both Yale and Davenport return plenty of starters and experience from playoff runs last season.

Coaches’ polls District B-5 1. Weleetka (8-4) 2. Wetumpka (10-4) 3. Canadian (6-5) 4. Strother (6-5) 5. Caddo (2-8) (tie) Maud (3-7) District B-6 1. Dewar (11-2) 2. Keota (8-3) 3. Gans (5-6) 4. Cave Springs (1-9) 5. Porum (4-7) 6. Arkoma (2-8) District B-7 1. Davenport (13-1) 2. Yale (8-4) 3. Depew (6-5) 4. Prue (6-5) 5. Olive (2-8) 6. Wesleyan Christian (2-8) District B-8 1. Regent Prep (14-1) 2. Watts (8-3) 3. Summit Christian (3-7) 4. Foyil (8-3) 5. Oaks (3-7) 6. South Coffeyville (1-9) *Last year’s record in parentheses

Cameron Jourdan, Staff writer

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SCOREBOARD Wilson Fastpitch Tournament Butner 9, Midway 8 Graham-Dustin 11, Butner 0

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Monday’s Results State Asher 12, Stuart 2 Asher 17, Drummond 0 Binger-Oney 6, Calumet 4 Cameron 10, Indianola 0 Cement 21-20, Chattanooga 2-3 Fargo-Gage 14, Cimarron 2 McCurtain 10, Clayton-Moyers 2 Red Oak 16, Oktaha 2 Rock Creek 14, Achille 4 Tournaments Coleman Tournament Varnum 8, Wapanucka 0 Varnum 10, Soper 0 Eastern Tournament Wright City 4, Red Oak 1

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American Northern Division

W Iowa (Cubs) 70 Memphis (Cardinals) 65 Nashville (Rangers) 61 Omaha (Royals) 55 American Southern Division

W Round Rock (Astros) 79 San Antonio (Brewers) 78 New Orleans (Marlins) 69 Oklahoma City (Dodgers) 59 Pacific Northern Division

W Sacramento (Giants) 69 Reno (Diamondbacks) 61 Tacoma (Mariners) 58 Fresno (Nationals) 58 Pacific Southern Division

W Las Vegas (Athletics) 80 El Paso (Padres) 77 Albuquerque (Rockies) 57 Salt Lake (Angels) 56

L Pct. GB 62 .530 ½½” 67 .492 5 69 .469 8 76 .420 14½½ L Pct. GB 53 .598 ½½” 54 .591 1 61 .531 9 72 .450 19½½ L Pct. GB 63 .523 ½½” 71 .462 8 73 .443 10½½ 74 .439 11 L Pct. GB 52 .606 ½½” 55 .583 3 75 .432 23 75 .427 23½½

Monday’s Games Memphis at New Orleans, ppd.

San Antonio at Round Rock, 7:05 p.m.

Iowa at Oklahoma City, 7:05 p.m.

Nashville at Omaha, 7:05 p.m.

Las Vegas at Albuquerque, 7:35 p.m.

Salt Lake at El Paso, 8:05 p.m.

Reno at Sacramento, 9:05 p.m.

Tacoma at Fresno, 9:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Memphis at New Orleans, Game 1, 4 p.m.

Memphis at New Orleans, Game 2, TBD San Antonio at Round Rock, 7:05 p.m.

Iowa at Oklahoma City, 7:05 p.m.

Nashville at Omaha, 7:05 p.m.

Las Vegas at Albuquerque, 7:35 p.m.

Salt Lake at El Paso, 8:05 p.m.

Reno at Sacramento, 9:05 p.m.

Tacoma at Fresno, 9:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Memphis at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Round Rock, 7:05 p.m.

Iowa at Oklahoma City, 7:05 p.m.

Nashville at Omaha, 7:05 p.m.

Las Vegas at Albuquerque, 7:35 p.m.

Salt Lake at El Paso, 8:05 p.m.

Reno at Sacramento, 9:05 p.m.

Tacoma at Fresno, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Results El Paso 6, Sacramento 0 Fresno 5, Albuquerque 3 Las Vegas 2, Tacoma 0 Memphis 9, Omaha 2 Nashville 7, Iowa 5 New Orleans 2, Round Rock 1 Reno 10, Salt Lake 9 San Antonio 4, Oklahoma City 0 Sunday’s Game SA 4, OKC 0 OKC SA

AB R H BI AB R H BI Joe 4 0 1 0 Stokes Jr. 3 1 0 0 McKinstry 4 0 1 0 Ray 4 1 1 1 Garlick 3 0 0 0 Austin 3 1 1 0 Perkins 2 0 0 0 Taylor 2 1 2 3 Rios 1 0 0 0 Orf 3 0 1 0 Peters 3 0 0 0 Erceg 4 0 0 0 Peter 3 0 0 0 Hager 4 0 0 0 Jackson 3 0 0 0 Gosewisch 4 0 1 0 Moore 3 0 1 0 Suter 1 0 0 0 Reks 1 0 0 0 Brown 1 0 0 0 Lobaton 1 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 Totals 28 0 3 0 Totals 29 4 6 4 Visitor 000 000 000 — 0 Home 300 000 10X — 4 LOB—OKC: 4. SA: 7. 2B—SA: Taylor. HR—SA: Taylor, Ray. SAC—SA: Suter. SB—Stokes, Austin, Taylor.

IP H R ER BB SO Visitor 5.0 5 3 3 2 1 Martin Thornburg 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 Chargois 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 Quackenbush 1.0 0 0 0 2 2 Home Suter 4.0 1 0 0 0 6 Sanchez 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 Brown 3.0 1 0 0 0 3 Perdomo 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 Derby 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 WP—Brown. HBP—Stokes Jr. Umpires—HP: Malachi Moore. 1B: Clayton Hamm. 3B: Javerro January. T—2:23.

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Monday’s Results City Area Byng 6, Blanchard 5 Calumet 13, Verden 0 Chandler 11, Jones 0 Clinton 18, Mount St. Mary 0 Dale 16, Watonga 1 Lone Grove 8, Bridge Creek 3 Minco 10, Dibble 0 Newkirk 11, Hennessey 0 State Antlers 13, Atoka 3 Arapaho-Butler 12, Geary 6 Arnett 15, Seiling 0 Beggs 10, Eufaula 0 Bennington 8, Soper 0 Caddo 4, Stonewall 2 Carnegie 3, Snyder 0 Central High 8, Elmore City-Pernell 6 Coalgate 12, Wewoka 0 Covington-Douglas 15, Dover 0 Chickasha 15, Plainview 5 Davis 13, Little Axe 0 Depew 12, Olive 0 Dewey 11, Lincoln Christian 0 Duke 3, Cyril 2 Elk City 3, Anadarko 2 Fairland 7, Wyandotte 5 Ft. Cobb-Broxton 12, Blair 0 Fletcher 9, Chattanooga 0 Guymon 7, Woodward 6 Heavener 14-13, Keys 0-0 Hinton 15, Arapaho-Butler 6 Hobart 12, Merritt 10 Hominy 12, Wynona 0 Kiowa 13, Crowder 0 Kremlin-Hillsdale 13, Okeene 1 Leedey 4, Hammon 2 Lookeba-Sickles 8, Burns Flat-Dill City 0 Mangum 15-20, Hooker 0-0 Marlow 11, Elgin 2 Mooreland 17, Woodward JV 0 Mounds 10, Warner 0 Morrison 13, Frontier 0 Norman North 6, Putnam City 3 Okemah 4, Paden 3 Okarche 15, Union City 3 Oologa-Talala 5, Grove 3 Pinoneer-Pleasant Vale 10, Garber 2 Pocola 10, Haskell 2 Prague 11, Sante Fe South 0 Quapaw 5, Afton 2 Roff 11, Moss 1 Roff 4, Strother 0 Smithville 3, Rattan 0 Sulpher 11-10, Crooked Oak 0-0 Sterling 7, Ft. Cobb-Broxton 4 Tecumseh 15, Bethel 0 Tupelo 9, Varnum 8 Union City 14, Okarche 3 Vanoss 9, Caddo 2 Velma-Alma 9, Rush Springs 1 Wayne 3, Healdton 2 Welch 12, Copan 7 Tournaments Oklahoma Union Festival Adair 6, RSU 5 Adair 11-8, Sperry 0-5 Pitt 8 Festival Pittsburg 10, Canadian 0 Pittsburg 12, Indianola 0

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Monday’s Results City Area Edmond North def. Edmond Santa Fe 3-0 (25-16, 25-22, 25-14) U.S Grant def. Douglass 3-0 (25-13, 25-7, 25-9) State Broken Arrow def. Springdale-Har-Ber, Arkansas 3-0 (28-26, 25-18,) Claremore def. Catoosa 3-0 (25-18, 25-16, 25-19) Southwest Covenant def. Corn Bible 3-0 (25-22, 25-20, 25-18) Victory Christian def. Berryhill 3-0 (25-4, 25-13, 25-12) Wagoner def. Westville 3-0 (32-30, 25-20, 25-14) Wesleyan Christian School def. Dewey 3-0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-13) Tournaments Cache JV Tournament Cement def. Erick 2-0 (25-13, 25-13) Cement def. Lawton JV 2-0 (25-10, 25-11) Cement def. Tipton JV 2-0 (25-11, 25-8) Cement def. El Reno JV 2-0 (25-17, 25-15) Cement def. Cache JV 2-0 (25-13, 25-14) Erick def. Tipton JV 2-0 (25-17, 25-15) Erick def. Temple 2-0 (25-19, 25-23) Erick def. Community Christian 2-0 (25-17, 25-21)

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PRESEASON All times Central AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST W L T PCT. PF PA New England 3 0 0 1.000 63 23 Buffalo 3 0 0 1.000 75 50 Miami 2 1 0 .667 70 50 N.Y. Jets 1 2 0 .333 57 69 SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 50 50 Houston 1 2 0 .333 56 85 Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 51 72 Jacksonville 0 3 0 .000 17 75 NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA Pittsburgh 3 0 0 1.000 65 41 Baltimore 3 0 0 1.000 81 28 Cleveland 2 1 0 .667 63 41 Cincinnati 1 2 0 .333 63 76 WEST W L T PCT. PF PA Oakland 3 0 0 1.000 69 50 Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 62 61 Denver 1 3 0 .250 49 66 L.A. Chargers 0 3 0 .000 45 59 NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST W L T PCT. PF PA N.Y. Giants 3 0 0 1.000 88 58 Dallas 2 1 0 .667 57 27 Washington 1 2 0 .333 42 60 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 49 63 SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA Tampa Bay 2 1 0 .667 57 56 New Orleans 2 1 0 .667 72 64 Carolina 1 2 0 .333 40 50 Atlanta 0 4 0 .000 54 89 NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA Minnesota 3 0 0 1.000 79 53 Green Bay 1 2 0 .333 62 74 Chicago 1 2 0 .333 53 72 Detroit 0 3 0 .000 46 85 WEST W L T PCT. PF PA San Francisco 3 0 0 1.000 68 41 Seattle 2 1 0 .667 64 54 L.A. Rams 1 2 0 .333 23 34 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 52 66 WEEK 3 Aug. 22 N.Y. Giants 25, Cincinnati 23 Washington 19, Atlanta 7 New England 10, Carolina 3 Baltimore 26, Philadelphia 15 Miami 22, Jacksonville 7 Oakland 22, Green Bay 21 Aug. 23 Tampa Bay 13, Cleveland 12 Buffalo 24, Detroit 20 Aug. 24 Minnesota 20, Arizona 9 Chicago 27, Indianapolis 17 Dallas 34, Houston 0 San Francisco 27, Kansas City 17 New Orleans 28, N.Y. Jets 13 L.A. Rams 10, Denver 6 Seattle 23, L.A. Chargers 15 Sunday’s Game Pittsburgh 18, Tennessee 6 WEEK 4 Thursday’s Games Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Jacksonville, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

L.A. Rams at Houston, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Tennessee at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Kansas City at Green Bay, 7 p.m.

Arizona at Denver, 8 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at San Francisco, 9 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 9 p.m.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Today National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE At Philadelphia -133 Pittsburgh +123 Cincinnati -143 At Miami +133 At New York -110 Chicago +100 At Milwaukee -138 St. Louis +128 At San Francisco Off Arizona Off LA Dodgers -176 At San Diego +164 American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Cleveland -140 At Detroit +130 Minnesota -127 At Chicago +117 At Houston -168 Tampa Bay +158 Oakland -163 At K.C. +153 At LA Angels -140 Texas +130 New York -180 At Seattle +165 Interleague FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE At Washington -305 Baltimore +275 At Toronto Off Atlanta Off At Colorado -109 Boston -101 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Thursday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG At Cincinnati 4 21/2 591/2 UCLA At Clemson 33 351/2 591/2 Ga. Tech At Tulane 2 11/2 571/2 FIU 56 Texas State At Texas A&M 331/2 331/2 At Ariz. State 251/2 25 60 Kent State Utah 7 5 471/2 At BYU Friday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG At Army 231/2 211/2 48 Rice At Wake Forest 21/2 31/2 631/2 Utah State Wisconsin 91/2 131/2 571/2 At S. Florida At Mich. State 20 23 471/2 Tulsa At Rutgers 10 151/2 551/2 UMass Colorado 101/2 131/2 57 Colo. State Purdue 61/2 101/2 581/2 At Nevada Okla. State 161/2 141/2 74 At Oreg. State Saturday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG At Ohio State 24 271/2 631/2 FAU At Nebraska 32 36 64 S. Alabama At NC State 201/2 161/2 541/2 E. Carolina At Illinois 151/2 17 601/2 Akron Indiana 161/2 17 59 Ball State At Kentucky 131/2 12 601/2 Toledo Miss. State 221/2 21 58 La.-Lafayette At Memphis 71/2 6 671/2 Mississippi At Tennessee 251/2 26 571/2 Ga. State E. Michigan 51/2 61/2 531/2 At Cstl Crolna S. Carolina 71/2 91/2 63 N. Carolina Alabama 30 35 571/2 Duke At Stanford 7 61/2 471/2 Northwestern Virginia Tech 21/2 41/2 57 At Boston Coll.

Syracuse 161/2 171/2 66 At Liberty Florida State 3 51/2 54 Boise State At Ark. State 51/2 21/2 58 SMU At Michigan 30 331/2 54 Middle Tenn.

At Iowa 211/2 211/2 49 Miami (Ohio) At LSU 251/2 27 521/2 Ga. Southern Georgia 191/2 21 58 At Vanderbilt

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Virginia +1 21/2 451/2 At Pittsburgh Missouri 151/2 171/2 531/2 At Wyoming Auburn 61/2 31/2 551/2 Oregon At Texas 18 201/2 55 La. Tech At Wash. State 34 32 641/2 NMSU At Southern Cal 101/2 131/2 521/2 Fresno State Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG At Oklahoma 231/2 211/2 821/2 Houston Monday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Notre Dame 20 20 55 At Louisville

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PRESEASON Thursday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Pittsburgh 11/2 3 33 At Carolina Minnesota +21/2 3 35 At Buffalo At Cincinnati 4 31/2 34 Indianapolis At NY Jets 3 3 321/2 Philadelphia At Jacksonville 3 4 33 Atlanta Baltimore 21/2 51/2 331/2 At Wash.

At New England 31/2 21/2 331/2 NY Giants At Cleveland 4 4 331/2 Detroit At Green Bay Pk 21/2 341/2 Kansas City At Dallas 3 3 331/2 Tampa Bay At Chicago 3 3 33 Tennessee At Houston 21/2 21/2 33 LA Rams At New Orleans 4 31/2 361/2 Miami At Denver 3 2 33 Arizona At San Francisco 3 4 34 LA Chargers At Seattle 3 21/2 331/2 Oakland Updated odds available at Pregame.com

AUTO RACING NASCAR GANDER OUTDOORS TRUCK

CHEVROLET SILVERADO 250 Sunday at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Bowmanville, Ontario Lap Length: 2.459 miles (Pole position in parentheses) 1. (1) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 64.

2. (4) Alex Tagliani, Toyota, 64.

3. (5) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 64.

4. (17) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 64.

5. (6) Austin Hill, Toyota, 64.

6. (13) Johnny Sauter, Ford, 64.

7. (12) Stewart Friesen, Chevrolet, 64.

8. (3) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 64.

9. (8) Tyler Ankrum, Toyota, 64.

10. (9) Raphael Lessard, Toyota, 64.

11. (10) Matt Crafton, Ford, 64.

12. (11) Gary Klutt, Chevrolet, 64.

13. (14) Grant Enfinger, Ford, 64.

14. (18) Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet, 64.

15. (15) DJ Kennington, Chevrolet, 64.

16. (20) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet, 64.

17. (21) Gus Dean, Chevrolet, 64.

18. (2) Todd Gilliland, Toyota, 64.

19. (16) Dylan Lupton, Chevrolet, 63.

20. (19) Jason White, Toyota, 63.

21. (7) Harrison Burton, Toyota, Engine, 62.

22. (23) Bobby Reuse, Chevrolet, 62.

23. (24) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet, 60.

24. (29) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 60.

25. (26) Roger Reuse, Ford, 58.

26. (25) Josh Reaume, Chevrolet, Suspension, 50.

27. (22) Dan Corcoran, Chevrolet, Accident, 27.

28. (27) Gregory Rayl, Chevrolet, Transmission, 4.

29. (28) Ray Ciccarelli, Chevrolet, Engine, 2.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 88.913 mph.

Time of Race: 1 Hour, 46 Minutes, 12 Seconds.

Margin of Victory: 5.160 Seconds.

Caution Flags: 3 for 9 laps.

Lead Changes: 6 among 5 drivers.

Lap Leaders: B. Moffitt 1-21; S. Friesen 22; B. Rhodes 23-31; R. Chastain 32; A. Hill 33; R. Chastain 34-41; B. Moffitt 42-64.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Brett Moffitt 2 times for 44 laps; Ross Chastain 2 times for 9 laps; Ben Rhodes 1 time for 9 laps; Austin Hill 1 time for 1 lap; Stewart Friesen 1 time for 1 lap.

TRANSACTIONS

B OX S C O R E S

A M E R I CA N L E AG U E EAST DIVISION TEAM New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

ROCKIES 3, BRAVES 1

W L PCT. GB WCGB 85 47 .644 _ _ 76 56 .576 9 _ 70 62 .530 15 6 53 80 .398 32½ 23½ 43 88 .328 41½ 32½

L10 STR HOME AWAY 4-6 W-1 49-20 36-27 5-5 L-2 34-31 42-25 7-3 L-1 34-34 36-28 2-8 L-1 25-39 28-41 4-6 W-2 22-46 21-42

CENTRAL DIVISION TEAM W L PCT GB WCGB Minnesota 79 51 .608 _ _ Cleveland 76 55 .580 3½ _ Chicago 60 70 .462 19 15 Kansas City 46 85 .351 33½ 29½ Detroit 39 89 .305 39 35

L10 STR HOME AWAY 7-3 W-2 39-29 40-22 4-6 L-1 41-27 35-28 6-4 W-1 33-32 27-38 3-7 W-1 24-39 22-46 3-7 L-2 17-43 22-46

WEST DIVISION TEAM W L PCT GB WCGB Houston 85 47 .644 _ _ Oakland 74 55 .574 9½ ½ Texas 64 68 .485 21 12 Los Angeles 63 70 .474 22½ 13½ Seattle 56 75 .427 28½ 19½

L10 STR HOME AWAY 7-3 W-4 49-16 36-31 7-3 L-2 43-26 31-29 4-6 L-1 38-27 26-41 3-7 L-5 33-31 30-39 7-3 W-1 29-37 27-38

N AT I O N A L L E A G U E EAST DIVISION TEAM Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

W L PCT. GB WCGB 80 53 .602 _ _ 73 57 .562 5½ _ 67 62 .519 11 1½ 67 63 .515 11½ 2 47 83 .362 31½ 22

L10 STR HOME AWAY 8-2 L-1 39-27 41-26 8-2 W-5 36-26 37-31 6-4 L-1 38-28 29-34 6-4 L-3 37-24 30-39 2-8 L-1 27-41 20-42

CENTRAL DIVISION TEAM W L PCT. GB WCGB St. Louis 71 58 .550 _ _ Chicago 69 61 .531 2½ _ Milwaukee 67 63 .515 4½ 2 Cincinnati 61 69 .469 10½ 8 Pittsburgh 55 75 .423 16½ 14

L10 STR HOME AWAY 7-2 W-4 40-24 31-34 5-5 L-3 44-22 25-39 5-5 L-1 38-27 29-36 4-6 W-1 37-31 24-38 5-5 W-3 29-37 26-38

WEST DIVISION TEAM Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

L10 STR HOME AWAY 5-5 L-1 52-18 34-28 5-5 W-2 29-33 36-32 4-6 W-1 30-32 35-34 5-5 W-1 30-35 30-34 4-6 W-1 34-29 25-44

W L PCT. GB WCGB 86 46 .652 _ _ 65 65 .500 20 4 65 66 .496 20½ 4½ 60 69 .465 24½ 8½ 59 73 .447 27 11

SCORES/SCHEDULE MONDAY’S GAMES American League Oakland at Kansas City, late N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, late

(all times Central) L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

Interleague Baltimore at Washington, 6:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Boston at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.

National League Colorado 3, Atlanta 1 Cincinnati 6, Miami 3 Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, late St. Louis at Milwaukee, late Arizona at San Francisco, late L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, late TODAY’S GAMES American League Cleveland at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

National League Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 6:40 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:45 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES American League N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 3:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:07 p.m.

National League St. Louis at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

Boston at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Interleague Baltimore at Washington, 6:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Boston at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.

BASEBALL

American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent RHPs Carlos Carrasco and Jefry Rodriguez and OF Bradley Zimmer to Columbus (IL) for rehab assignments.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent RHP Jesse Hahn to Wilmington (Carolina) and LHP Danny Duffy to Northwest Arkansas (TL) for rehab assignments.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent OF Byron Buxton to Cedar Rapids (MWL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent LHP Jordan Montgomery to Tampa (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed OF Stephen Piscotty on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 25. Designated OF Nick Martini for assignment.

Selected the contract of OF/1B Seth Brown from Las Vegas. Promoted D’Lonra Ellis to vice president/general counsel.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed LHP Jose Alvarado on the 10-day IL. Reinstated 2B Joey Wendle from the 10-day IL. TEXAS RANGERS — Assigned RHP Shane Carle outright to Nashville (PCL). Reinstated LHP Yohander Mendez from 60-day IL and optioned him to Nashville. Transferred RHP Jesse Chavez to the 60-day IL. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Joel Payamps to Reno (PCL). Reinstated LHP Robbie Ray from the 10-day IL. ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned OF Adam Duvall to Gwinnett (IL). Reinstated SS Dansby Swanson from the 10-day IL. Sent OF Austin Riley to Gwinnett for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP German Márquez and OF Raimel Tapia on the 10-day IL; Márquez retroactive to Aug. 23 and Tapia to Aug. 24. Recalled LHP Phillip Diehl and RHP Joe Harvey from Albuquerque (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Tayron Guerrero to Jupiter (FSL) for a rehab assignment. Recalled RHP Pablo López from the 10-day IL. Optioned LHP José Quijada to New Orleans (PCL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Sent OF Tyler O’Neill to Springfield (TL) for a rehab assignment.

American Association LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Exercised 2020 options on Cs Daniel Herrera and Tyler Moore; OFs Forrestt Allday, Randolph Oduber and Nick Schulz; INFs Christian Ibarra, Ivan Marin, Josh Mazzola, Steve Pascual, Cody Regis and Curt Smith; LHPs Tyler Anderson, Martire Garcia, Spencer Herrmann, Kyle Kinman and Josh Norwood; and RHPs Austin Boyle, John Brownell, Reese Gregory, Jake Hohensee, Ricky Knapp, Shairon Martis, Austin Pettibone and Brad Thoutt.

Atlantic League NEW BRITAIN BEES — Released RHP Anthony Alicki.

FOOTBALL

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed DL Siupeli Anau and Clinton McDonald.

BUFFALO BILLS — Claimed LB Jeff Holland off waivers from Arizona. Released P Cory Carter.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed C Kirk Barron.

DENVER BRONCOS — Released DL Zach Kerr, LB Dekoda Watson and KR/WR Nick Williams.

DETROIT LIONS — Released WR Deontez Alexander. Signed RB Justin Stockton. Activated LB Steve Longa from the PUP list.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Waived/injured S Mike Tyson. Signed CB Jackson Porter.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Waived CB Deante Burton and CB Derrick Jones. Placed RB Lamar Miller and T David Steinmetz on reserve/IL. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived S Matthias Farley. Signed Ss Micah Abernathy and Jacob Thieneman.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed QB Matt Moore.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived OL Will Holden.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released DL Mike Pennel Jr. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed CB Tim Harris Jr. on IR. Signed DB Jordan Holland to a threeyear contract.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League WINNIPEG JETS — Signed F Gabriel Bourque to a one-year contract.

OLYMPIC SPORTS

United States Curling Association USCA — Announced the resignation CEO Rick Patzke, effective next month. Named Rich Lepping interim CEO.

COLLEGES

CAMPBELL — Named Connor Faix volunteer assistant baseball coach, Matt Clark as director of player development for baseball and Jabin Weaver as director of baseball operations and analytics.

PROVIDENCE — Named Jim Mitchell assistant men’s lacrosse coach.

SAINT AUGUSTINE’S — Named Dr. Sheila I. Benton assistant athletics director for compliance.

T O D AY ’ S P I T C H I N G C O M PA R I S O N NATIONAL LEAGUE

2019 TEAM LAST THREE STARTS TEAMS PITCHERS TIME W-L ERA REC W-L IP ERA Pittsburgh Brault (L) 3-3 3.98 5-8 0-2 17.2 3.57 Philadelphia Smyly (L) 6:05p 2-6 6.99 8-7 0-0 14.1 6.91 Cincinnati Miami

Castillo (R) Smith (L) 6:10p

12-5 8-7

3.10 14-12 3.82 11-10

1-1 1-2

17.0 15.2

6.35 6.89

Chicago New York

Darvish (R) Stroman (R) 6:10p

4-6 7-11

4.43 11-15 3.18 12-13

0-1 1-0

18.1 15.1

4.91 4.11

St. Louis Mikolas (R) Milwaukee Houser (R) 6:40p

7-13 6-5

4.43 13-13 3.62 4-7

0-1 2-0

16.0 18.1

8.44 1.47

Arizona Leake (R) San Francisco Samardzija (R) 8:45p

9-10 9-10

4.77 12-14 3.44 14-12

0-2 1-1

16.0 20.1

9.56 1.77

Los Angeles Buehler (R) San Diego Quantrill (R) 9:10p

10-3 6-4

3.16 3.32

0-1 2-1

17.0 18.1

2.65 2.45

15-9 5-8

AMERICAN LEAGUE

2019 TEAM LAST THREE STARTS TEAMS PITCHERS TIME W-L ERA REC W-L IP ERA Cleveland Plutko (R) 5-3 4.54 9-4 1-1 18.0 4.50 Detroit Turnbull (R) 6:10p 3-12 4.05 6-17 0-3 14.0 6.43 Tampa Bay Morton (R) Houston Verlander (R) 7:10p

13-5 15-5

2.85 17-10 2.82 18-9

1-1 0-1

18.0 21.0

3.50 3.43

Minnesota Pineda (R) Chicago Giolito (R) 7:10p

9-5 14-6

4.26 3.20

14-9 16-9

2-0 2-1

18.0 21.0

4.00 1.71

Oakland Fiers (R) Kansas City Montgomery (L) 7:15p

12-3 3-6

3.46 5.07

18-9 2-5

2-0 2-1

18.1 18.0

3.44 2.50

Texas Minor (L) Los Angeles Heaney (L) 9:07p

11-7 3-3

3.17 14-12 4.31 8-4

1-1 2-0

20.2 18.2

3.92 2.41

ATLANTA AB R H BI BB SO AVG. Acuña Jr. cf 4 0 0 0 1 2 .290 Albies 2b 3 0 1 0 1 2 .285 Freeman 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .298 Donaldson 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .262 Joyce rf 3 0 2 0 1 0 .269 Swanson ss 4 0 0 0 0 3 .262 Cervelli c 4 0 2 0 0 0 .556 1-Hamilton pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .333 Flowers c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .225 Ortega lf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .233 Teheran p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .122 b-Culberson ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .274 Jackson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Martin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --d-Hechavarría ph 0 0 0 1 0 0 .258 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Swarzak p Blevins p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --TOTALS 30 1 6 1 5 12 COLORADO AB R H BI BB SO AVG. Blackmon rf 2 0 0 1 1 0 .317 Story ss 4 0 3 0 0 1 .296 Arenado 3b 3 1 1 0 1 1 .305 Murphy 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .283 McMahon 2b 4 1 1 2 0 2 .264 Desmond lf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .255 Hampson cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .209 Nuñez c 2 1 1 0 1 0 .267 Melville p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .333 a-Daza ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .180 Parsons p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Estévez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --c-Alonso ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .294 Diaz p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --27 3 6 3 4 6 TOTALS ATLANTA 000 000 001: 1 6 0 000 000 012: 3 6 1 COLORADO One out when winning run scored. a-grounded out for Melville in the 5th. b-struck out for Teheran in the 7th. c-grounded out for Estévez in the 8th. d-sacrificed for Martin in the 9th.

1-ran for Cervelli in the 9th.

E: Arenado (8). LOB: Atlanta 9, Colorado 4. 2B: Albies (34), Cervelli (3), Nuñez (2). 3B: Cervelli (1). HR: McMahon (18), off Blevins. RBIs: Hechavarría (5), Blackmon (73), McMahon 2 (68). SB: Freeman (6), Acuña Jr. (31), Story (19), Ortega (1). CS: Story (7). SF: Hechavarría, Blackmon. S: Teheran.

Runners left in scoring position: Atlanta 7 (Donaldson, Albies, Swanson, Freeman, Joyce, Acuña Jr.); Colorado 1 (Murphy). RISP: Atlanta 1 for 12; Colorado 0 for 2.

Runners moved up: Ortega, Alonso. GIDP: Cervelli, Arenado, Murphy.

DP: Atlanta 2 (Donaldson, Albies, Freeman; Freeman); Colorado 1 (McMahon, Story, Murphy).

ATLANTA IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Teheran 6 3 0 0 3 4 97 3.39 Jackson 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 3.34 Martin 1 2 1 1 0 0 21 5.91 Swarzak, L, 1-2 0 0 1 1 1 0 5 2.90 Blevins .1 1 1 1 0 1 6 4.21 COLORADO IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Melville 5 5 0 0 3 6 100 0.75 Parsons 2 0 0 0 1 3 27 4.91 Estévez 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 3.94 Diaz, W, 5-3 1 1 1 1 1 2 23 4.75 Inherited runners-scored: Blevins 1-1.

Umpires: Home, Nic Lentz; First, Pat Hoberg; Second, Greg Gibson; Third, Brian Knight.

T: 3:27. A: 29,803 (50,398).

REDS 6, MARLINS 3

CINCINNATI AB R H BI BB SO AVG. VanMeter lf-1b 4 2 1 0 1 1 .285 R.Iglesias p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Galvis 2b 5 1 3 4 0 1 .404 Suárez 3b 4 1 2 1 0 1 .256 Aquino rf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .321 Barnhart c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .231 J.Iglesias ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .295 Dietrich 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .203 b-Ervin ph-lf 2 1 1 1 0 0 .310 Senzel cf 3 1 2 0 1 0 .264 Gray p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .154 Lorenzen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .357 d-Farmer ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .252 TOTALS 35 6 10 6 2 5 MIAMI AB R H BI BB SO AVG. Berti lf 4 1 0 0 1 2 .270 Walker 3b 4 1 1 2 0 0 .270 Cooper 1b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .280 Castro ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 4 0 0 0 0 1 .267 Ramirez rf Díaz 2b 2 0 0 0 2 1 .169 Alfaro c 4 1 2 1 0 1 .269 Brinson cf 2 0 1 0 1 0 .187 Lopez p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .192 1 0 0 0 0 0 .196 a-Dean ph Conley p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --c-Granderson ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .190 Keller p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --e-Prado ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .239 TOTALS 31 3 5 3 5 10 CINCINNATI 001 030 011 — 6 10 0 MIAMI 002 000 001 — 3 5 0 a-flied out for Lopez in the 5th. b-popped out for Dietrich in the 6th. c-struck out for Conley in the 7th. d-flied out for Lorenzen in the 9th. e-struck out for Keller in the 9th.

LOB — Cincinnati 7, Miami 7. 3B — VanMeter (1), Brinson (1). HR — Galvis (4), off Lopez; Suárez (36), off Keller; Ervin (4), off Keller; Walker (6), off Gray; Alfaro (13), off R.Iglesias.

RBIs — Galvis 4 (11), Suárez (80), Ervin (15), Walker 2 (29), Alfaro (42). SB — Berti (8), Senzel (13). S — Gray, Brinson.

Runners left in scoring position — Cincinnati 3 (Senzel, Aquino); Miami 4 (Lopez, Berti 2). RISP — Cincinnati 2 for 6; Miami 1 for 6.

Runners moved up — J.Iglesias. GIDP — Aquino.

DP — Miami 1 (Díaz, Cooper).

CINCINNATI IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gray, W, 10-6 6 2 2 2 5 6 102 2.92 Lorenzen, H, 17 2 1 0 0 0 1 23 3.04 R.Iglesias 1 2 1 1 0 3 22 4.25 MIAMI IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lopez, L, 5-6 5 5 4 4 1 3 86 4.41 Conley 2 2 0 0 0 2 29 6.41 Keller 2 3 2 2 1 0 43 7.36 Inherited runners-scored — Lorenzen 2-0. HBP — Lopez (Dietrich), Keller (Suárez).

Umpires — Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Ryan Blakney; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Dan Iassogna.

T — 3:03. A — 5,297 (36,742).

New York Tanaka (R) 9-7 4.68 16-10 2-1 20.1 3.10 Seattle Kikuchi (L) 9:10p 5-8 5.19 12-14 1-0 17.1 3.12

INTERLEAGUE

2019 TEAM LAST THREE STARTS TEAMS PITCHERS TIME W-L ERA REC W-L IP ERA Baltimore Brooks (R) 3-7 6.21 7-7 1-2 13.1 10.13 Washington Corbin (L) 6:05p 10-5 3.17 16-10 1-0 20.0 1.35 Atlanta Soroka (R) Toronto TBD ( ) 6:07p Boston Colorado

10-2 2.41 16-7 0-0 20.2 2.18 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00

Porcello (R) 11-10 TBD ( ) 7:40p 0-0

5.49 15-11 0.00 0-0

1-2 0-0

16.0 0.0

5.06 0.00

KEY: 2019 TEAM-Team’s record in games started by today’s pitcher.

ROUNDUP

ROCKIES 3, BRAVES 1: Ryan McMahon hit a two-run homer in the ninth to lift the Colorado Rockies to a win over the Atlanta Braves. McMahon hit a 1-1 fastball from Jerry Blevins just over the scoreboard in right field for the second game-ending homer of his career. Nolan Arenado started the inning with a walk off Anthony Swarzak (1-2).

Jairo Diaz (5-3) blew the save in the ninth but got the win.

Monday was a makeup from the April 10th game postponed due to inclement weather and forced Atlanta to crisscross the country. The Braves traveled to Denver on Sunday night after playing in New York, and right after the game boarded a plane for Toronto to take on the Blue Jays. Colorado starter Tim Melville pitched five scoreless innings and now has allowed just one run over 12 innings since being recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque last week.

The 29-year-old journeyman was pitching in the Atlantic League this spring before signing a minor league deal with Colorado.

REDS 6, MARLINS 3: Sonny Gray pitched six effective innings, Freddy Galvis drove in four runs and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Miami Marlins. Gray (10-6) walked five, but limited Miami to two runs and four hits.

The right-hander improved to 4-0 in August, allowing three runs in five starts. Galvis had three hits and Eugenio Suárez hit his 36th homer for the Reds, who snapped a three-game losing streak.

T H I S DAT E I N BASEBALL

1897: Roger Bresnahan, later a Hall of Fame catcher, made his majorleague debut as a pitcher for the Washington Senators by shutting out the St. Louis Browns 3-0.

1911: Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox. Walsh struck out eight and walked one.

1937: Brooklyn’s Fred Frankhouse pitched a rainshortened no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds. The game was stopped with two out in the eighth inning with the Dodgers leading 5-0.

1977: Toby Harrah and Bump Wills of the Texas Rangers hit back-to-back inside-the-park home runs on consecutive pitches in the seventh inning in an 8-2 victory over New York at Yankee Stadium.

1978: Joe Morgan of the Cincinnati Reds hit his 200th career home run to become the first player in major league history to have 200 homers and 500 stolen bases.

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Cattlemen’s leadership academy makes selections Noble Research Institute research assistant Brooks Braunagel and livestock consultant Caitlin Hebbert were selected to the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Leadership Academy (CLA) class 27.

Braunagel joined the Noble Research Institute in 2015 and is a research assistant on Noble’s ranches. He owns and manages a small cowcalf operation, where he practices rotational grazing and no-till planting throughout the year.

Hebbert joined the Noble Research Institute in 2018 and is a livestock consultant in Noble’s producer relations program. She was raised on large cow-calf operations in far West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. She earned her bachelor’s degree in animal science from West Texas A&M University and her master’s degree in ruminant nutrition from New Mexico State University.

CLA is targeted for beef producers ages 25 to 40. The program is designed to develop young members through industry exposure, education and association communication. CLA consists of a series of four seminars designed to provide participants the opportunity to explore the state’s cattle industry, gain information and network with fellow Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association members.

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BancFirst to pay dividend The directors of BancFirst Corp. have declared a quarterly dividend of 32 cents per share payable Oct. 15 to shareholders as of Sept. 30. The payout is an increase of 6.7 percent from the previous quarter.

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S The former Walter E. Allen Chrysler Plymouth dealership at 301 NW 13, more recently home to Able Rents, has been sold to the Pivot Project for $1.8 million. [PROVIDED BY OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY]

Credit-free plans Developers swear off historic tax credit review with latest acquisition

By Steve Lackmeyer Business writer slackmeyer@oklahoman.com

Officials from the Pivot Project, developers with a track record of doing historic rehabilitations of older buildings, say they’ve given up on seeking historic tax credits and National Register status as they look at options for their latest acquisition in Midtown.

The former Walter E. Allen Chrysler Plymouth dealership at NW 13 and Harvey Avenue has been home to Able Rents for the past 30 years while the west service garage half of the building was sold separately five years ago and renovated into offices.

Pivot Project Managing Partners Jonathan Dodson, Ben Sellers and David Wanzer have developed historic buildings, including the Tower Theatre on Uptown, the Arcade Building in Film Row and the former Sunshine Laundry Building at NW 1 and Classen Boulevard.

Dodson and Sellers said Monday they originally sought to buy the dealership for a tenant but that tenant dropped out.

“The more we looked at it, it’s a beautiful building and a good long-term play for our equity partners,” Dodson said.

The pair said they envision tearing out the concrete walls that were placed instead of the showroom glass back in the 1970s. But otherwise, they have no immediate plans.

Officials from Pivot Project, which recently bought the former Walter E. Allen Chrysler Plymouth dealership at 301 NW 13 for $1.8 million, say they have no immediate plans for redevelopment. [STEVE LACKMEYER/THE OKLAHOMAN]

Seeking historic tax credits and placement on the National Register of Historic Places is not a part of their plan.

“The historic tax credit process has become so cumbersome, we’ve decided we will not pursue historic tax credits until something changes,” Dodson said.

When asked to elaborate, Sellers only confirmed the backlash stems from projects completed in Uptown and Midtown.

Bob Blackburn, director of the Oklahoma Historical Society and whose oversight includes the state Historic Preservation Office that oversees the tax credits, responded they have 50 historic tax credit projects underway and most indicate they are happy with how the reviews have been handled.

“Some developers do not like to follow federal rules

to get tax credits — but it’s taxpayer money,” Blackburn said. “Others have ideas that don’t conform to the ideals of historic preservation. If you want to do a rooftop bar on top of a historic structure, I say go for it. But without federal money. We follow the rules, and I will not apologize for that.”

Blackburn defended the tax credit process, noting they have played a key role in downtown Oklahoma City’s renaissance with recipients including the Skirvin Hilton and current redevelopment of First National Center.

“Historic tax credits are designed for a very specific market, not for every old building,” Blackburn said.

“We don’t set the standards.

The feds set the standards.

We do the other half. And that has seemed to work since the 1970s.”

“The historic tax credit process has become so cumbersome, we’ve decided we will not pursue historic tax credits until something changes.”

Jonathan Dodson, Pivot project managing partner

ixteen projects, 75% aimed at addressing stubborn social issues for our community, others consisting of arena and stadium investment and yet others representing some interesting opportunities to take on other long-nagging economic development challenges.

The MAPS 4 resolution to be voted on Tuesday by the Oklahoma City Council is very, very different from the one drafted a decade ago for MAPS 3.

As with the MAPS 3 resolution, the new plan is the city council’s commitment to specified projects if voters on Dec. 10 approve the one-cent sales tax.

But there was no digging into details on the MAPS 3 resolution, which was less than one-page long.

It listed a brief summary of each project, funding, and that was it. This time, led by Mayor David Holt, the list spans 10 pages, and it’s been quite a read since it was released Friday afternoon.

MAPS 4 represents a definite transition away from downtown projects, though money is slated for a multi-use stadium and improvements to the Chesapeake Energy Arena aimed at getting the Thunder to go for a lease extension of up to another 15 years.

The parks budget, meanwhile, includes $11.5 million for Oklahoma River enhancements that would include a pedestrian bridge connection and boat landing at the American Indian Cultural Center at Eastern Avenue. A low water dam, far less elaborate than the ones with locks built as part of the original MAPS, is planned as way to ensure visitors the cultural center won’t be viewing a muddy ditch to the east.

The beautification package, meanwhile, addresses a corridor

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Judge pushes rate settlement for Empire

By Jack Money Business writer jmoney@oklahoman.com

Empire Electric District customers won’t see a hike in their bills next year, but would see hikes the following two years under a proposed settlement agreement on a rate increase request the utility has before Oklahoma’s Corporation Commission.

The district, a Liberty Utilities company that serves 4,686 customers in Craig, Delaware

and Ottawa counties in far northeast Oklahoma, originally had asked the commission for approval of a $2.3 million rate increase.

The Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers organization objected to that plan, arguing the increase would boost rates for large commercial and industrial customers served by Empire by about 20%.

It instead asked for the Corporation Commission to limit the electricity provider’s rate increase

in the state to $1.4 million, the amount stipulated in the settlement agreement.

The settlement, an Empire executive testified, would limit its increase to $1.4 million annually and would provide the utility with a return on equity of 9.5%.

Sheri Richard, director of rates and regulatory affairs for Liberty, said the proposed settlement was reached after two face-toface meetings and several conference calls.

Richard said the

proposed settlement leaves rates unchanged for customers during the first year the agreement would be in effect, as the increase would be entirely offset by a refund of excess revenues Empire collected for federal corporate taxes since approval of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

The act reduced corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, but the utility continued to collect revenues for the tax at the higher rate, given that is what was allowed under

AMAZON Packages also make their way through Amazon sortation and delivery centers before final delivery to consumers.

W i t h t h e c o m p l etion of this fulfillment center, same-day delivery service is expected to be added within a 40-mile radius, according to Kevin Connelly, logistics director of Amazon’s North America operations.

The company issued a statement Monday saying the center will ramp up operations over the next few weeks, and the capability for same-day delivery will come during that time.

Amazon received $1 million in job-creation incentives from the city for the facility, and an additional $700,000 in road and other improvements along SW 89, Portland Avenue and Interstate 44.

Amazon Senior Manager of Economic Development Tom Florino told city officials

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I’ve written about for months where Reno Avenue runs between Bricktown and the cultural center. The corridor is a mix of hotels and truck stops and two unsightly scrap metal operations.

Mayor David Holt’s proposal to include some inexpensive dressing up of the Interstate 35 and Interstate 44 bridges over the Oklahoma River is on the list. Efforts to recast the Oklahoma Health Center east of downtown into an Innovation District are set to receive $25 million for requested connectivity, especially with widening of the NE 10 Street bridge for wider and safer sidewalks over Interstate 235. Other pedestrian bridges are envisioned pending available funding.

The request for funding for an Innovation

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The Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers organization supports the proposed agreement, though a spokesman for the organization couldn’t be reached for comment.

The proposed settlement agreement was recommended Monday to elected members of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission by an administrative law judge who considered the rate increase request, officials said.

S TAT E G R A I N S WHEAT (BU): .02 to .03 lower. 3.20-3.76.

Davis 3.20; Hooker 3.49; Keyes 3.59; Buffalo 3.60; Eldorado, Frederick, Hobart, Lawton, Temple 3.64; Alva 3.67; Cherokee 3.68; Shattuck 3.69; Clinton 3.71; Manchester 3.72; Weatherford 3.73; El Reno, Geary, Okarche, Medford, Okeene, Perry, Ponca City, Stillwater, Watonga, 3.74; Banner 3.76; Gulf 4.94.

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its existing rate structure.

Once this case is approved, the utility will reduce the amount of revenues it collects for federal taxes to the lower 21% rate, officials said.

As for the second year under the proposed settlement agreement, an average residential customer would see an increase of about $4.71 monthly, or about 6.2%, while in the third year, a customer would see an increase of about $8.56 a month, or about 10.7%.

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Buffalo 7.26; Hooker 7.27; Weatherford 7.36; Alva, Shattuck 7.42; Medford, Ponca City 7.47; Stillwater 7.48; Manchester 7.67; Gulf 9.07 3/4.

CORN (BU): .01 lower. 3.24-3.69.

Lawton 3.24; Manchester 3.29; Medford, Ponca City 3.32; Shattuck 3.49; Weatherford 3.61; Keyes 3.64; Hooker 3.69; Gulf 4.19 3/4.

MILO (CWT): Mostly .02 to .03 lower.

5.19-5.55.

Eldorado N/A; Buffalo 5.19; Lawton 5.25; Manchester 5.26; Alva, Medford 5.35; Ponca City 5.37; Keyes 5.42; Hobart 5.50; Hooker, Shattuck 5.51; Weatherford 5.55.

COTTON: Grade 41, Leaf 4, Staple 34 Cotton in Southwestern Oklahoma average 52.16 cents per pound.

Source: Oklahoma Dept of AG-USDA Market News

SOYBEANS (BU): Mostly .10 to .11 higher.

LIVESTOCK Livestock report from the Oklahoma City Stockyards: Receipts: 4,900; Last Monday: 2,382; Year ago: 5,225 Compared to last week: All classes of feeder cattle are trading steady to $2 higher.

Steer and heifer calves not tested as of yet.

Demand moderate to good. Supply included: 100% Feeder Cattle (63% Steers, 36% Heifers, 1% Bulls). Feeder cattle supply over 600 lbs. was 76%. Note: these trends and Monday receipts are through 3:00 p.m. and are subject to change.

Feeder Steers: Medium and Large No. 1: few 475 lbs. $179; 525-550 lbs. $146.50$156; 550-600 lbs. $150-$152.50; Yearlings: 600-650 lbs. $146-$151.50; 650-700 lbs. $144-$145; 700-800 lbs. $132.50-$148.50; 800-900 lbs. $132.50-$146; 900-950 lbs.

The Amazon Fulfillment facility at 9201 S Portland Ave. in Oklahoma City on July 29.

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the company expected to hire more than 1,700, including 53 managerial positions when seeking approval for the economic incentives.

The company still is accepting job applications through Sept. 19 for the facility.

Capital investment from Amazon was expected to be nearly $153 million, and the estimated economic impact of the incentivized portion of the project is $9.5 million over the first two years of operation.

Local sales tax and property revenue is estimated at $2.6 million over the first two years.

Estimated economic impact of the entire Amazon project for the first two years exceeds $129 million.

As part of the celebration of opening the new fulfillment center, Amazon donated $30,000 to The Foundation For Oklahoma City Public Schools, in conjunction with the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation to sponsor

a new STEM Center at Prairie Queen Elementary School.

Amazon also is planning a second Oklahoma fulfillment center in Tulsa.

Similar in size, the company expects to employ about 1,500.

A report by The Tulsa World revealed the facility will be built on an 82-acre property near 43rd Street North and 129th East Ave. and includes an estimated $130 million capital investment.

Hall, meanwhile, calls for the city to provide $10 million if it can be matched from private sources.

Northeast Oklahoma City, historically shortchanged with the MAPS initiatives, could come out the winner this time with $25 million allocated for restoring a key landmark for the city’s civil rights movement, the Hope Center at NE 23 and Martin Luther King Avenue. The plan includes money for expansion of the original Oklahoma City NAACP Youth headquarters (firebombed twice) into the sort of civil rights museum and learning center envisioned decades ago by the legendary Clara Luper.

The beautification list also includes money for improvement of the NE 23 corridor east of downtown and a statue of acclaimed black author Ralph Ellison.

The parks proposal includes an ambitious makeover of Booker T. Washington Park while

the Innovation District list includes funding to convert the Foster Center on NE 4, originally the black YMCA, into a community jobs hub connected to the hospitals, research institutes and other major employers nearby.

Not every proposal discussed for MAPS 4 made the cut, though all ideas officially presented to the city council over the past several weeks are on the list. At the very start, Mayor David Holt announced an aviation hub, a streetcar extension and an aquarium were not moving forward.

Hopes were raised last week for the aquarium, however, after Don Hayes, representing owners of the former cotton oil mill property south of Lower Bricktown, presented the aquarium anyway, with the blessing of the Oklahoma City Zoo and Ward 7 Councilwoman Nikki Nice.

With the tide turning toward social issues, this

just wasn’t the year that an aquarium was going to get on the list. And consider this omission a possible blessing for the project. The Oklahoma City Zoological Trust has the dedicated sales tax funding to help make the aquarium a possibility if they team up with the right partner.

I believe that partner is out there. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art was cut from the original MAPS list in 1993 and it turned out to be a blessing.

MAPS funding can only go so far. Private funding raised by the late, great museum director Carolyn Hill achieved a level of excellence unthinkable with public funding.

The publicity this past week over the aquarium may result in some disappointment and broken hearts, but the response may be just what is needed to ensure it happens and to a much greater level than could be envisioned with MAPS 4.

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$133.50; 1,000-1,100 lbs. $123-$126.25.

Medium and Large Nos. 1-2: few 345 lbs. $173; 500-550 lbs. $139-$155.50; 550-600 lbs. $127-$143; 600-700 lbs. $137-$149; 700-800 lbs. $130-$139.75; 800-875 lbs. $134.50-$136; 900-1,000 lbs. $122.50-$131; 1,000 lbs. $125.

Feeder Heifers: Medium and Large No. 1: 400-450 lbs. $143-$158; 500-600 lbs. $142-$147; Yearlings: 600-700 lbs. $130$138; 700-750 lbs. $127-$133; 800-850 lbs. $123-$125; 925 lbs. $115. Medium and Large Nos. 1-2: 400-500 lbs. $139.50-$148; 500-600 lbs. $132-$144; 600- 650 lbs. $126-$139.50; 700-800 lbs. $126.50-$131; 800-900 lbs. $117-$118; 900 lbs. $118.

Source: Usda-Oklahoma Agriculture Department Market News Service

OIL AND GAS REPORTS per day; TD 11,010.

INTENT TO DRILL Blaine: Acacia Exploration Partners LLC; Moon Duck No. 4-6H Well; SW1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 06-17N-13W; TD 15,630.

Canadian: Red Bluff Resources Operating LLC; Bromlow 1405 No. 7-21MH Well; SW1/4 NW1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 21-14N-05W; TD 13,312.

Red Bluff Resources Operating LLC; Bromlow 1405 No. 8-28MH Well; SW1/4 NW1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 21-14N-05W; TD 13,126.

Grady: Camino Natural Resources LLC; Wild Turkey 0505 32-29 No. 1MH Well; NW1/4 NE1/4 NE1/4 NE1/4 (BHL) of 29-05N-05W; TD 22,091.

Continental Resources Inc.; Z 21 No. 2-178XHW Well; N1/2 N1/2 N1/2 NW1/4 (BHL) of 08-07N-05W; TD 19,601.

EOG Resources Inc.; Livingston 0112 No. 3H Well; NW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4 (BHL) of 01-09N-05W; TD 19,930.

EOG Resources Inc.; Livingston 0112 No. 4H Well; NW1/4 NE1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4 (BHL) of 01-09N-05W; TD 19,500.

EOG Resources Inc.; Livingston 0112 No. 9H Well; NW1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 (BHL) of 01-09N-05W; TD 19,644.

Kingfisher: Oklahoma Energy Acquisitions LP; Steele 1806 No. 4-34MH Well; NE1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 (SL) of 03-17N-06W; TD 12,500.

Oklahoma crude oil prices as of 5 p.m.

Monday: Oklahoma Sweet: Sunoco Inc. — $50.25 Oklahoma Sour: Sunoco Inc. — $38.25 Oklahoma oil and gas drilling activity posted August 15:

COMPLETION Kingfisher: Gastar Exploration LLC; Red 1907 No. 2-1LOH Well; NW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4 (BHL) of 02-19N-07W; 693 barrels oil per day, 685,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 12,436.

Woods: BCE-Mach LLC; Frieze 8-2-13 No. 1H Well; SE1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 05-27N-13W; 121 barrels oil per day, 597,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 10,614.

BCE-Mach LLC; Longpine 24-28-18 No. 3H Well; SE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 24-28N-18W; 2,624,000 cu-ft gas per day, 251 barrels oil per day; TD 10,495.

BCE-Mach LLC; Mackey 10-27-17 No. 2H Well; SW1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 10-27N-17W; 149 barrels oil per day, 451,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 10,567.

BCE-Mach LLC; O’Neil 4-27-15 No. 2H Well; SW1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 04-27N-15W; 111 barrels oil per day, 844,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 10,258.

BCE-Mach LLC; Wise 14-28-18 No. 3H Well; SE1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 11-28N-18W; 254 barrels oil per day, 1,421,000 cu-ft gas

Source: Oil-Law Records Corp.

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Open High Low Settle Chg. CORN (CBOT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Sep 19 358 362 357 358.50 -1.25 Dec 19 366.75 371.25 366.25 368.25 +.50 Mar 20 379 383.50 378.75 380.50 +.50 May 20 387.50 391.50 387 389 +.50 Est. sales 310,642 Fri’s. sales 484,040 Fri’s open int 1,680,964 off 62369.00 OATS (CBOT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Sep 19 268 269.75 259.25 263 -1.75 Dec 19 267 271 266.50 270 +3 Mar 20 273.25 274.25 273.25 274 +2.75 May 20 273.75 +2.75 Est. sales 245 Fri’s. sales 293 Fri’s open int 4,505 off 62.00 SOYBEAN MEAL (CBOT) 100 tons- dollars per ton Sep 19 289.30 293.90 289.30 293.00 +3.10 Oct 19 291.30 295.90 291.30 295.00 +3.20 Dec 19 295.00 299.50 295.00 298.60 +3.20 Jan 20 296.50 300.80 296.50 300.00 +3.10 Est. sales 123,424 Fri’s. sales 119,117 Fri’s open int 450,780 up 2495.00 SOYBEAN OIL (CBOT) 60,000 lbs- cents per lb Sep 19 28.36 28.62 28.30 28.33 -.01 Oct 19 28.48 28.73 28.41 28.45 Dec 19 28.72 28.98 28.65 28.69 -.01 Jan 20 28.94 29.21 28.87 28.91 -.02 Est. sales 105,119 Fri’s. sales 114,485 Fri’s open int 479,013 off 1908.00 SOYBEANS (CBOT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Sep 19 842 857.25 842 853.75+10.50 Nov 19 855 870.50 855 867.25+10.75 Jan 20 869.50 885 869.50 880.50 +9.25 Mar 20 883.50 897.75 883.50 893.50 +8.25 Est. sales 229,966 Fri’s. sales 281,808 Fri’s open int 651,045 off 7725.00

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Open High Low Settle Chg. WHEAT (CBOT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Sep 19 474 480 470.75 473 -2.25 Dec 19 476 481.25 472.75 475.25 -2.50 Mar 20 480.75 486.50 479.25 481.50 -2 May 20 486.25 490.25 483 485 -1.75 Est. sales 85,451 Fri’s. sales 128,124 Fri’s open int 367,645 off 22441.00 WINTER WHEAT (CBOT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Sep 19 390 395 387.75 389 -2.50 Dec 19 401.50 408.50 400.25 402 -2.75 Mar 20 418 423.50 416.50 417.50 -2.50 May 20 428.25 434.25 427.25 428.25 -2.75 Est. sales 51,406 Fri’s. sales 60,091 Fri’s open int 294,646 off 2139.00 CATTLE (CME) 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

Aug 19 105.40 105.75 104.50 105.47 +.85 Oct 19 100.27 101.67 100.17 101.00 +1.60 Dec 19 105.25 106.55 105.07 105.97 +1.67 Feb 20 110.50 111.57 110.35 111.15 +1.43 Est. sales 44,763 Fri’s. sales 50,928 Fri’s open int 332,518 up 1429.00 FEEDER CATTLE (CME) 50,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

Aug 19 138.50 138.90 137.90 138.65 +1.30 Sep 19 135.25 136.50 134.52 136.00 +2.75 Oct 19 134.35 135.25 133.25 134.37 +1.85 Nov 19 133.80 134.92 132.97 134.02 +1.72 Est. sales 12,392 Fri’s. sales 20,641 Fri’s open int 47,269 up 74.00 HOGS-Lean (CME) 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

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August 26 - September 1

WEEK 1 GAMES

Submitted by Ginny Rohr, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, Tulsa

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma vs Houston Oklahoma State at Oregon State Texas vs Louisiana Tech

1. Many of the NCAA footballs used this week are skillfully hand crafted by the Wilson Football Factory. Where is the factory located? How many years has it been there? Wilson holds the longest official game ball relationship in American sports history with the NFL. What year did it begin?

2. The University of Oklahoma is hosting a non-conference opponent this week. Off the gridiron OU’s library hosts the premier History of Science Collections. Its Galileo collection includes all 12 first editions, some containing Galileo’s own handwriting. Who is Galileo?

Where was he born? How many years ago?

Kansas vs Indiana State Baylor vs Stephen F. Austin Texas Tech vs Montana State TCU vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3. The flight of Monarch butterflies has no borders. Every fall millions of monarch butterflies in the U.S. and Canada travel upwards of 3,000 miles to their winter sanctuaries. The largest, most visited sanctuary is El Rosario, Michoacán, east of Mexico City.

You can create a monarch rest stop by planting the common milkweed in your own back yard.

What is its botanical name?

Why has there been a decline in monarch numbers over the last 20 years?

West Virginia vs James Madison Iowa State vs Northern Iowa Kansas State vs Nicholls

Using the map https://www. fws.gov/savethemonarch/pdfs/ migration-map.pdf which Big 12 states are on the fall migration route?

4. What does FEMA stand for?

Which Big 12 states have experienced severe weather to the extent that a Major Disaster Declaration was declared by FEMA within the past year?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY

Football Physics Fun Explore Newton’s Third Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, by making a balloon rocket.

Materials: Balloon, Plastic drinking straw, String (10-15 feet long), Tape Directions: 1. Thread string through the straw.

2. Tie string at each end to a chair or table leg.

(String should be taut.)

3. Blow up the balloon and hold the end so the air can’t escape.

Use two pieces of tape to secure the balloon below the straw.

4. Let go!

Explain what happens. Why? How does it apply to the game of football?

Enrichment: Explore online National Science Foundation’s The Science of NFL Football

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September 2 - September 8

WEEK 2 GAMES

Submitted by Jeff Woolsey, OKCPS -Capitol Hill Middle School, Oklahoma City

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma vs South Dakota Oklahoma State vs McNeese

Texas vs LSU Kansas vs Coastal Carolina Baylor vs UTSA Texas Tech vs UTEP

West Virginia at Missouri Kansas State vs Bowling Green

1. Two of the eight Big 12 teams playing this week will travel out of state to play. Which school will have the farthest to go, and how many miles will they travel?

2. The Cowboys of McNeese State (Louisiana) play the Cowboys of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater this week. Compare both states in square miles and population. Which state is bigger in total area? Which state has a larger population?

3. Of the 10 Schools that make up the Big 12 conference, four of them are in located in Texas. Three of these teams play this week. Which Texas opponent has the shortest distance to travel? How many miles and what major roadway will they take?

4. The South Dakota Coyotes play the Sooners in Norman this week. South Dakota is home to Black Hills National Forest. Inside the Black Hills National Forest there are two separate memorials carved in the side of the hills.

Name the two memorials and how far apart (in miles) they are. ➼ OVERTIME ACTIVITY The United States is made up of 50 states, for each team that is playing this week, name in alphabetical order the state that each team is from and list each state’s capital.

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September 9 - September 15

WEEK 3 GAMES

Submitted by Janet Hall, Bethany Public Schools, Bethany

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma at UCLA Iowa State vs Iowa Oklahoma State at Tulsa

Texas at Rice Kansas at Boston College Texas Tech at Arizona

TCU at Purdue West Virginia vs NC State Kansas State at Mississippi State

1. In 1895 when Iowa State became the 3. Of the ten teams traveling this week, Cyclones, the term cyclone was used in the which team will travel the farthest to U.S. to mean the same thing as tornado. play? Which team will have the shortest However, the real meaning of cyclone is distance to travel for their game? different from tornado. What is a cyclone?

4. Rice University is in Houston, Texas. They What are two other terms that can mean are known as the Owls because of the owls cyclone? in their official university crest (shield) 2. Some of the teams playing Big 12 teams However, the crest was designed far away this week are west of the Continental by someone who was not a Texan. The Divide. What is the Continental owls included in the crest are not Divide? Which of this week’s even native to the U.S. Where was teams are located west the crest for the Rice Owls of it? designed and upon what were the owls based?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY

One of this week’s teams is east of the Atlantic Fall Line. Which team is it? What is the Atlantic Fall Line? On a map, draw the general route of the Atlantic Fall Line.

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September 16 - September 22

WEEK 4 GAMES

Submitted by Darren Purcell, University of Oklahoma, Norman

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma State at Texas TCU vs SMU

1. The Iowa State Cyclones host the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks this week. The Warhawks’ home city is located in a parish that shares a name with a mountain range in Oklahoma. What is the name of the mountains located in the southeast of Oklahoma and the parish that is home to the city of Monroe, Louisiana? The two areas are connected by a river that rises in the mountain range and flows through Monroe.

Baylor at Rice West Virginia at Kansas

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2. Baylor’s home city of Waco, Texas, is situated inland, while Rice plays in Houston, near the Gulf of Mexico. Both are considered to be in a humid subtropical climate zone, which indicates hot, humid summers and cool to mild winters. As fall starts this week and the weather begins to cool, which city has the coldest record low for September, at 39 degrees Fahrenheit?

Why would one be warmer than the other if they are both in the same climate classification?

3. If you were a Louisiana-Monroe fan planning to drive to Iowa State for the game, one of your fastest routes would include interstate highways along with U.S. highways.

Heading north from Monroe, Louisiana to Ames, Iowa, what interstates would you take to get there?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY The expansion of wind energy in the United States has definitely impacted states with Big 12 schools. Using the website: https://www. energy.gov/maps/renewable-energy-productionstate, which of the five Big 12 states (Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia) produces the most wind energy? Which state gets the greatest percentage electricity from wind power? Where do each of these states rank nationally in the production of wind power?

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September 23 - September 29

WEEK 5 GAMES

Submitted by Brenda Chapman, State Department of Education-Social Studies Coordinator, Oklahoma City

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma vs Texas Tech

Kansas State at Oklahoma State Kansas at TCU

1. Waco, Texas, home to Baylor University, has a population of 138,183 and consists of 95.5 square miles.

Ames, Iowa, home to Iowa State University, has a population of 58,965 and consists of 24.27 square miles.

Which university has a larger enrollment? Which city has a higher median housing price and a higher median household income? Waco is also home to a shopping complex set in repurposed silos original built in 1950 for the Brazos Valley Cotton Oil Company.

What is the name of this popular shopping area owned by Chip and Joanna Gaines hosts of HGTV’s Fixer Upper?

Which city might you choose to live in? (present evidence for your claim)

Baylor vs Iowa State

2. The Lubbock, Texas area, home to Texas Tech University, is the largest contiguous cotton growing region in the world. How much cotton does the area produce?

Name something made from cotton that isn’t something you wear. If a Norman, Oklahoma company wants to make OU Sooners t-shirts, how can they get the cotton from Lubbock to Norman? Design the fastest route.

What National Research center located at the University of Oklahoma in Norman could help with the weather conditions for the trip?

3. Fort Worth, Texas, home to Texas Christian University and Lawrence, Kansas, home to the University of Kansas are on opposite ends of the Chisholm Trail. Thousands of cattle were driven from Texas north. Describe the Mexican influence on the job of being a cowboy.

What parts of Oklahoma did the trail pass through?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Communities honor people and events by building statues, sculptures, and memorials. The University of Oklahoma has Heisman Park where they have placed statues of their Heisman winners. Norman also has a statue of James Garner in the downtown district to honor their native son. Lubbock has a statue of Buddy Holly to honor one of their favorite sons. Oklahoma State University created a memorial to the ten members of the basketball team and staff who were killed in a plane crash. Who does your community honor and how do they honor these people or events? Is there an area that your community protects?

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September 30 - October 6

WEEK 6 GAMES

Submitted by Ginny Rohr, OKAGE Teacher Consultant, Tulsa

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma at Kansas

Oklahoma State at Texas Tech West Virginia vs Texas

1. The United States has a decennial census. What does decennial mean? When will the next U.S. census occur? Using https://www.census.gov/quickfacts what are the 14 statistical topics listed for each city? Generate a table using the same link of the cities hosting Big 12 games this week. Compare and contrast the data for each of these cities.

2. The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), located in the National Weather Center (NWC), is housed on the University of Oklahoma campus.

The NSSL and the NWC, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration work together to improve understanding of weather and provide accurate and timely forecasts and warnings.

What is a meteorologist? What is a hydrologist?

3. One goal of Kansas State University is to improve the quality of life for all through its volunteerism. When was K-State founded? What was its original mission?

How many counties does Kansas have and which have K-State volunteers assisting in 4-H? How many youth currently participate in their 4-H? What do the four H’s stand for?

Kansas State vs Baylor

4. Debates are underway for the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates. How old do you have to be to run for President, and how old do you have to be to vote?

Which constitutional amendment states the voting age? List the home states for each Big 12 team and the names of U.S. presidents that were born in each.

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY

Game Time – The Pressure’s On! The NCAA game ball is required to be inflated to the pressure of 12½ to 13½ pounds per square inch. Make a prediction and then test your air pressure to see if you can blow paper into a bottle.

Materials: paper, empty water bottle Directions: 1. Place water bottle on its side.

2. Roll a small piece of paper into a pea sized ball.

3. Place the ball in the mouth of bottle.

4. BLOW! What happens? Explain.

What is air pressure?

What is the Bernoulli Principle?

Enrichment: Explain the Bernoulli Principle’s effect on aviation.

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October 7 - October 13

WEEK 7 GAMES

Submitted by Courtney Moore, OKAGE Program Manager, Norman

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma vs Texas

Texas Tech at Baylor

Iowa State at West Virginia

1. This week, Oklahoma will head to Dallas to play Texas in the Red River Rivalry. What is the origin of the name Red River? The Red River has two other names.

What are they? Describe some of the native wildlife found in or near the river.

2. The Texas State Fair will be taking place during the Red River Rivalry. What are four food or drink items that one can purchase at the fair? What are four attractions that you can go to and what do they reflect about Texas culture 3. The Texas Tech Red Raiders face off against the Baylor Bears this week. Baylor is located in Waco, Texas.

One way Geographers measure the amount of people in a given area is to examine the population density. What is the definition of population density? What is the population density of Waco?

What is the population density of the state of Texas?

How do the population densities compare?

What explains the difference in population density? ➼ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Oklahoma and parts of Texas are a part of tornado alley. Use a map of the United States to identify tornado alley and draw the path of all the larger (classification EF2 or higher) tornadoes that occurred in Spring 2019.

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October 14 - October 20

WEEK 8 GAMES

Submitted by Jeff Woolsey, OKCPS - Capitol Hill Middle School, Oklahoma City

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma vs West Virginia Oklahoma State vs Baylor 1. There are 10 Universities that make up the Big 12 and they are located in five states. Four of those states are located in the Central Time Zone. Which state is not located in this time zone? In what time zone can it be found?

How many hours ahead or behind is it from the Central Time Zone?

2. Of the five games being played this week, what is the latitude/ longitude of the game that is the farthest north? What is

Texas vs Kansas Texas Tech vs Iowa State the latitude/longitude of the most southern game? What is the distance between the Northernmost game location and the Southernmost game location?

3. The Jayhawks of Kansas play the Longhorns of Texas in Austin.

How many miles is it from Lawrence, Kansas to Austin, Texas? How long would it take to drive that route? If you were to walk at 10 miles per hour, how long would it take to walk?

Kansas State vs TCU

4. The Mountaineers of West Virginia play the Sooners of Oklahoma this week. The population of Oklahoma is 3,911,338 and the population of West Virginia is 1,844,128. What is the difference in populations between the two states? Compare the populations of the two states at two different times in the past. How has the difference in population between the two states changed? What do you think might have caused this change?

➼ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Of the 50 states, there are nine states that have a panhandle. What is the definition of a panhandle state? Name the nine states, and which states have big 12 teams? Which state has 2 panhandles?

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October 21 - October 27

WEEK 9 GAMES

Submitted by LeaAnn J. Wyrick, Broken Bow Public Schools, Broken Bow

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma at Kansas State

1. This week the Iowa State Cyclones will host the Oklahoma State Cowboys. One particular Iowa State Alum made huge strides in the agricultural world in the early-mid 20th century. George Washington Carver (1860s- January 5, 1943) was an agricultural scientist and inventor. After graduating from Iowa State with a Master’s degree in agricultural science he worked and conducted research at which university?

Which legume did he famously promote which helps restore nitrogen into the soil? George Washington Carver trained

Oklahoma State at Iowa State Kansas vs Texas Tech farmers to practice crop rotation.

How does it work? Can you name some of his invented products which resulted from a surplus of sweet potatoes and peanuts?

2. The Texas Longhorns and TCU Horned Frogs will battle it out this week in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Both colleges are located in Texas, however the cities are quite different. Research and compare the two cities on city-data.com Which city would you prefer to live in based on your findings? Explain your answer.

West Virginia at Baylor

TX 79409 to play at Kansas University, 1450 Jayhawk Blvd.

Lawrence, KS 66045?

There are three main driving routes. Approximately how many miles and how long will it take following these routes: Via US-60 West?

Via I-35 and I-40 W? Via I-35?

Which route would you choose and why? Explain your answer.

3. The Kansas Jayhawks will meet the Texas Tech Red Raiders on the gridiron. How far will the Red Raiders travel from 2500 Broadway, Lubbock,

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY The universities in this week’s Gridiron Geography offer top-notch programs where many students reach optimal levels of professionalism and academic achievement. The University of Oklahoma (OU) is no exception, with a proud tradition rooted in excellence. This is evident in the numerous OU graduates who have made a positive impact in the world. Choose one of OU’s listed Distinguished Alumni. Create a map tracing the locations the person lived, worked and went to school. Was he or she a traveler? If so, to which states and/ or countries did he or she travel? List one way you think geography was a factor in his or her career. Explain your answer.

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October 28 - November 3

WEEK 10 GAMES

Submitted by Darren Purcell, University of Oklahoma, Norman

GAME SCHEDULE Baylor vs West Virginia

Oklahoma State vs TCU

Kansas vs Kansas State

1. Several Big 12 universities were founded with a mission to, “...without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactic, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts.” (Morill Act, 1862, 7 U.S.C. § 304).

What two word term is used to describe universities that were founded under the Morill Act to focus on agriculture and engineering? How many Big 12 schools are classified as this type of university? How many are there in Oklahoma?

2. The Kansas mascot is the Jayhawk (not a real bird), which is short for “Jayhawker.”

Jayhawkers were the name given to guerilla groups opposed to the expansion and spread of what institution into Kansas during the 1850s?

3. Both Manhattan, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas are situated near the same river that flows into the Missouri River at Kansas City, Kansas. What is the name of this river? What direction does this river generally flow to get to the Missouri River?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Some Big 12 universities are private universities and were not founded by the governments of states they are located in. Using encyclopedias or the websites of the Big 12 schools, find out how many are private universities, who founded the schools, and what do they have in common?

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November 4 - November 10

WEEK 11 GAMES

Submitted by LeaAnn J. Wyrick, Broken Bow Public Schools, Broken Bow

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma vs Iowa State

1. This week, Baylor will go head to head with TCU. Baylor is located in Waco, Texas and Texas Christian University is in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Imagine you are going to visit each city. Research the internet and find the top family friendly attractions in each city. Which three would you like to visit in each city? Write the six attractions (you chose) and their locations and places (five themes of geography).

2. The Kansas State Jayhawks will hit the road to meet the Texas Longhorns. The football players will prepare to play the game, while thousands of fans will prepare to attend the game. What

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TCU vs Baylor Texas vs Kansas State basic geographical information will be helpful for players, coaches and fans going to the game? List three examples. Name three resources which could be used to find the information.

3. West Virginia Mountaineers will host the Texas Tech Red Raiders this week. West Virginia is known for famous rivalries on and off the football field. The famous Hatfield and McCoy feud took place on each side of which 159mile tributary of the Big Sandy River?

Can you imagine the McCoy family living around Pikeville, West Virginia? Well, it almost happened. In which year did

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surveyors almost name the Levisa Fork as the Virginia-Kentucky border, (which would later become the West Virginia-Kentucky border in 1863)? How many miles does the Levisa Fork stretch? Which major river does the Big Sandy River flow toward? Do you think the Hatfield-McCoy feud would have been different if the Levisa Fork had been established as the border?

Explain your answer.

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY ESRI is an international supplier of geographic information system software, web GIS and geodatabase management application. Interactive maps can be useful in various ways and help us organize complicated data in a way that is easier to read and understand. Visit the ESRI website and click “Sharing the MAPS WE LOVE”. Scroll down to “recent maps”.

Scroll through the maps and explore information in the different maps.

Check out Election Results in 3D, U.S. Minority Populations, Twister Dashboard, Natural Resources maps, story maps and more! Make sure to look up the college towns from Gridiron Geography on the maps.

Learn and enjoy!

November 11 - November 17

WEEK 12 GAMES

Submitted by Janet Hall, Bethany Public Schools, Bethany

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma at Baylor Oklahoma State vs Kansas 1. Why are the United States Department of Agriculture and the Texas Parks and Wildlife involved with Baylor University’s athletic program?

2. OU fans traveling to Baylor this weekend can visit an interesting site of ancient life in Waco. What ancient site in Waco became a National Monument in 2015? What can you see there?

Texas at Iowa State Texas Tech vs TCU 3. Four teams playing this week are located on land that was designated as Indian Territory when the U.S. government forced eastern Native American tribes to move farther west. What four teams are they?

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4. Another team playing this week is located in a state that did not even exist until there was disagreement about whether or not to join the Confederacy. What team is this?

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY If someone wanted to visit each of the five stadiums being used in this week’s games, what would be the shortest route between them? About how many total miles would the trip be? Show the route on a map.

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November 18 - November 24

WEEK 13 GAMES

Submitted by Courtney Moore, OKAGE Program Manager, Norman

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma vs TCU West Virginia vs Oklahoma State

1. Geographers use latitude and longitude as location points for various places.

Define latitude. Define longitude. Of the five games taking place this week, what is the latitude/ longitude of the game that is farthest West and the latitude/longitude of the game that is farthest East?

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2. The Oklahoma State Cowboys play in Morgantown, West Virginia this week. Oklahoma land cover is mostly plains and low hills. What are the ten separate land regions in Oklahoma? What are the land covers of Oklahoma?

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3. The Kansas State Wildcats travel to Ames, Iowa to challenge the Iowa State Cyclones. Kansas is made up of 105 counties. Kansas State is located in which county? Why might a state have a low number of counties and another state have a high number of counties?

➼ OVERTIME ACTIVITY

State fairs are a way for communities to come together and celebrate culture and heritage. Research the states where this week’s teams are from and explore how the various state fairs compare and contrast.

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November 25 - December 1

WEEK 14 GAMES

Submitted by Brenda Chapman, State Department of Education-Social Studies Coordinator, Oklahoma City

GAME SCHEDULE Oklahoma State vs Oklahoma Texas vs Texas Tech 1. Mascots are thought to bring good luck or give a connection to all fans. Iowa State University teams are known as the Cyclones.

A cyclone is difficult to depict in a costume so the cardinal was selected as the mascot from the official colors of cardinal and gold.

Kansas State teams were first referred to as the “Aggies”. The nickname “Wildcats” was given to the football team in 1915 by then coach John “Chief” Bender because of the team’s fighting spirit. Willie the Wildcat, a student in a large, life-like wildcat head, is Kansas State’s number one fan. What is the mascot of your favorite university and what is its name? Research how the mascot was chosen.

2. One of the most famous hand signs in all of college football is the Hook’em Horns sign fans give to put their horns up.

This sign has its origins from a Yell Leader trying to create more excitement and noise from the fans in the upcoming game against TCU in 1955. The sign is made by extending your index and pinkie fingers in the air.

This has become part of the branding and

TCU vs West Virginia Kansas vs Baylor marketing for the University of Texas and what fans do to greet each other anywhere in the world. The “Guns Up” sign is the widely recognized greeting of one Red Raider to another. It is also the sign of victory displayed by the crowd at every athletic event. The sign is made by extending the index finger outward while extending the thumb upward and tucking in the middle, little and fourth fingers to form a gun. The sign can be traced back to L. Glenn Dippel, a 1961 alumnus of Texas Tech. He looked to mascot Raider Red and his raised guns for inspiration and developed the Guns Up hand symbol. The Texas Tech cheerleaders immediately adopted Guns Up and a new tradition was born. What other iconic hand signs or logos are recognizable to everyone?

Does your school have a hand signal or a logo everyone uses?

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TV host Steve Harvey; actor Don Knotts; former CEO of Cisco John Chambers; and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin. TCU is also very proud of its notable alumni including long time CBS journalist Bob Schieffer; actress Shantel Van Santen; football players LaDainian Tomlinson and Davy O’Brien; former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England; and U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson who was the first registered nurse to be elected to Congress. Research people who have attended your favorite school who have gone on to do great things and list what they have contributed.

3. West Virginia University and Texas Christian University are very proud of their former students who have accomplished great things. West Virginia can claim basketball player and GM for the Lakers, Jerry West;

➥ OVERTIME ACTIVITY Oklahoma has been home to several inventions, one of which is the shopping cart. Sylvan Goldman owned the Humpty Dumpty Supermarket chain in Oklahoma City and noticed his customers could not fit all their goods in the hand-held baskets. In 1937, he designed the first “shopping cart” on wheels and received a patent on it in 1940 which paid him royalties for 17 years.

Carl C. Magee invented the “coin controlled parking meter” in 1935. It was installed in Oklahoma City and charged 5 cents per hour. In the U.S. today, parking meters generate over 1.25 million dollars per day. What new product or service do you think would help the environment or make life easier for Oklahomans? Draw up your plans for the next big idea. How do you get a patent and what does this mean for the patent owner?

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Robert Fuller, foreground right, receives a blessing and prayer from Rev. Quentin Dupont at St. Therese Parish Catholic Church on May 5 in Seattle.

Robert Fuller smiles as he listens to music at a party in his honor, hours before he would die, May 10 in Seattle. The day he picked to die, Fuller had the party of a lifetime.

A Final Decision

Friends lay their hands on Robert Fuller, wearing angel-themed socks, as he lies unconscious after taking prescribed drugs to end his life May 10 in Seattle. He’s one of about 1,200 people who have used Washington’s Death with Dignity Act to end their lives in the decade since it became law.

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When Robert Fuller found out he had throat cancer, he decided to finish out his life and then end it with fatal drugs. That’s legal in Washington, one of nine states where “aid in dying” is allowed for those who are terminally ill. Fuller, who was 75, spent time with friends, traveled and ate favorite foods. Then, when the time came, he administered the drugs to himself, surrounded by friends.

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8.27.19 | PAGE 2 NATIONAL REPORT FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.

Florida nursing home employees charged in patient deaths Four employees of a Florida nursing home where 12 people died in sweltering heat after a hurricane cut power were charged Monday, at least three of them with aggravated manslaughter, their attorneys said.

Nursing home patients at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, ranging in age from 57 to 99, began dying three days after Hurricane Irma swept through in September 2017.

The center, which housed about 150 patients at the time, did not evacuate any of the residents as the temperature began rising, even though a fully functional hospital was across the street, investigators said. The home’s license was suspended days after the storm and it was later closed.

FRANKFORT, KY.

Court lets Purdue Pharma court records be made public The secret testimony from former Purdue Pharma President Richard Sackler and other records in a Kentucky opioids lawsuit must be made public after the state Supreme Court declined to review an earlier ruling.

The court record was sealed in 2015 as part of a $24 million settlement between Purdue and the state of Kentucky.

Health news website STAT sued to open the records. In ruling for the publication, the Court of Appeals reasoned there was a strong public interest in disclosing records that involved a settlement with a government agency.

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In this April 5 photo, Robert Fuller stands after a bout of nausea, where a portrait of him before he became ill hangs on the wall, at his home in Seattle. Just over a month later, Fuller became one of about 1,200 people who have used Washington’s Death with Dignity Act to end their lives in the decade since it became law. [ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE]

In the face of death, the party of a lifetime

By Gene Johnson The Associated Press

SEATTLE — The day he picked to die, Robert Fuller had the party of a lifetime.

In the morning, he married his partner in their senior housing apartment.

He then took the elevator down to the building’s common room.

Supported by a walking stick, he greeted dozens of friends. The crowd spilled into a sunny courtyard on a beautiful spring day.

A gospel choir sang. A violinist and soprano performed “Ave Maria.” A Seattle poet imagined Fuller as a tree, with birds perched on his thoughts.

When the time came, “Uncle Bob” banged his walking stick on the ceiling to command attention.

“I’m so ready to go,” he announced.

“I’m tired.”

Later that afternoon, Fuller plunged two syringes filled with a light brown liquid — a fatal drug cocktail mixed with Kahlua — into his feeding tube.

He was one of about 1,200 people who have used Washington’s Death with Dignity Act to end their lives in the decade since it became law.

As such laws grow more popular — Hawaii, New Jersey and Maine this year make it nine states where “aid in dying” is allowed — more people who are terminally ill have the option of hastening their death. Fuller, 75, said he wanted to demonstrate how such laws work.

For him, the decision was, if not easy, never in doubt.

When he was growing up in New Hampshire, he said, his severely depressed grandmother drowned

herself in the Merrimack River. He saw her body in the water, a trauma that began his long, matter-of-fact relationship with death.

Fuller’s friends described him as playful, wise, witty and vibrant, a wonderful singer. He sponsored people in recovery after quitting drinking in 1983. In retirement he ran a voucher program that provided music and theater tickets to those who couldn’t afford them.

He tried to kill himself in 1975, he said, when he was drinking too much and despondent that his marriage ended after he told his wife he was gay.

In the mid-1980s, he helped care for friends dying of AIDS. But his own sexual behavior was so risky it verged on suicidal. He contracted AIDS, then lived long enough to benefit from the AIDS cocktail.

“I think I wanted to get AIDS,” he said. “All my friends were dying.”

For critics, that sort of fatalism is a key problem with aid-in-dying laws.

To allow people to hasten their deaths signals to the terminally ill that their lives are not worth living, they say.

“We should be very concerned that we are normalizing suicide in our society, especially at the very time during which, practically out of the other side of our mouth, we are saying suicide is an epidemic,” said Wesley J. Smith, a prominent critic of the laws.

Fuller had long thought he would want to control his death if he became terminally ill. Last summer he went to the doctor with a sore throat. It turned out to be an aggressive cancer at the base of his tongue. He gave up on chemo, saying it was killing his soul.

Instead, he picked a date — May 10

— and began planning.

“Why should I suffer?” he said. “I’m totally at peace with this.”

He went up the Space Needle and took a road trip down the Pacific Coast Highway with his partner. The cancer made it difficult to eat, but he had the flan from the neighborhood Mexican restaurant one last time.

He also began returning to St. Therese Catholic church. Parishioners supported Fuller’s choice.

“It was hard to even cry because he was so forthcoming and so sober about it,” said Kent Stevenson, director of church’s gospel choir there. “He was just so outrageously unique and such a character, this was completely in keeping with who Bob was.”

At his party, Fuller betrayed no sign of reconsideration. He kept his sense of humor, greeting a reporter by saying: “I’m dying to read your story.”

He invited those who wished to be with him to come upstairs. Friends packed into his bedroom.

“It’s hard to be here, but I wouldn’t miss it,” said Yvonne Kilcup, of Tacoma, whom Fuller began sponsoring in recovery 24 years ago.

In the kitchen, two volunteers mixed the drugs and Kahlua. They said they considered themselves to be like midwives, ushering people out of the world instead of into it.

“You know if you do this, if you put this in your system, you’ll go to sleep and you won’t wake up?” one told him.

“I do,” Fuller answered.

He plunged the syringes.

His eyes closed for longer and longer periods.

“I’m still here,” he said.

And then, he wasn’t.

Prosecutor won’t charge exlawmaker over sex assault claim A prosecutor said Monday he believes a crime occurred but does not plan to charge a former state representative who resigned during an investigation into allegations he sexually assaulted a woman four years ago.

Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said he agreed with a conclusion in a 14-page grand jury report that charges should not be pursued against former Rep. Brian Ellis.

“The passage of time, diminishing memories, the resulting inability to corroborate the victim, and all the surrounding circumstances of this case make a criminal prosecution of the member impracticable,” the jury wrote, suggesting changes to internal legislative rules and procedures regarding sexual misconduct allegations.

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.

7 escape injury in fiery plane crash at California airport Seven people escaped unhurt when a large transport plane they were on crash-landed and caught fire at Southern California’s Santa Barbara Airport, authorities said.

The Lockheed C-130 experienced hydraulic problems shortly after departing an airport in nearby Santa Maria on Sunday night, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The crew declared an emergency and diverted to Santa Barbara, where it landed on its belly and skidded along a runway, the FAA said.

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Italian opposition leader ‘optimistic’ coalition can formed

In this Saturday photo, Shogofa Sadiqi, right, chief director of Zan TV speaks with a staff member at her office in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Young women in Afghanistan are the most vulnerable population, and perhaps the most defiant, as the United States and the Taliban near a deal on ending America’s longest war. Worried about losing what they’ve gained over nearly two decades, they are demanding a voice in high-level talks to determine their country’s future. [RAFIQ MAQBOOL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Young Afghan women barely remember Taliban but fear a return

By Cara Anna The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two yellow burqas are on display at a television station in Kabul, bright versions of the blue ghostlike garments some women in the capital still wear. For the young women at Zan TV they are relics, a reminder of a Taliban-ruled past that few of them can recall.

Their generation is the most vulnerable, and perhaps the most defiant, as the United States and the Taliban near a deal on ending America’s longest war.

Worried about losing what they’ve gained over nearly two decades, they are demanding a voice in high-level talks to determine their country’s future.

“For me, I will not submit myself to the Taliban,” said Shogofa Sadiqi, Zan TV’s 25-year-old chief director, who believes the insurgent group will have less impact as it faces a new generation.

She described the burqas as a symbol of the challenges women have faced over the years and practically shuddered when asked if she’d worn one herself.

Never, ever. “I don’t like it,” she said, switching to English to make her feelings clear.

About two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population is 25 or younger, with little or no memory of life before 2001. That’s when a U.S.-led invasion pushed out the Taliban, who had sheltered al-Qaida and its leader Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks and imposed a harsh form of Islamic law that kept women out of public view.

Now this young generation watches as U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad negotiates a troop withdrawal in return for Taliban assurances on countering terror groups. With talks focusing on security, little else is assured. Few know what the Taliban are thinking or what they will do as international forces leave and the world’s attention moves on.

The insurgent group has recovered from its defeat and now controls roughly half of Afghanistan. With its position stronger than ever it has rejected negotiations with the Afghan government,

though intra-Afghan talks on political and security issues are meant to follow a U.S.-Taliban deal. The Taliban could join the government.

As for women’s rights in this still highly conservative country, the U.S. has said it will be left for Afghans to decide.

For Karishma Naz, a 23-year-old music presenter on Zan TV — “Woman TV” in the Dari language — the uncertainty is unsettling. She doubts the Taliban have changed their beliefs and imagines two options if the “dark days” return: she will stay at home by force or leave the country, an option unavailable for many young Afghan women.

“Why are there no women to represent and defend us?” Naz asked, worried about losing the career in front of the camera that she’d wished for as a child. But as the seconds counted down to her live broadcast she adjusted her pink headscarf, straightened up and put on a smile.

Her generation has seen Afghan women become street artists, CEOs, a member of the Supreme Court and the first female winner of the televised talent show “Afghan Star.” Young Afghan women have formed an allfemale orchestra and competed in the Olympics. A woman opened the country’s first yoga studio, another leads the state-run film production company and a third held a Kabul street concert with her rock band earlier this year.

They have equal rights under the post-2001 constitution, but reality often lags behind. Women still have to stand up to conservative relatives, community members and judgmental strangers. A bill criminalizing violence against women still hasn’t been passed.

Little has changed in areas controlled by the Taliban, who have said girls can be educated and even work in politics and the judiciary, though not as president or chief justice.

“This research could not identify a single girls’ secondary school open in an area of heavy Taliban influence or control,” said a report last year by the Overseas Development Institute, which

interviewed more than 160 Taliban fighters, officials and civilians in seven of the country’s 34 provinces.

Maryam Sama, a 27-year-old member of Parliament, said much still needs to be done even in areas under government control. About half of all girls in Afghanistan still don’t attend school, more than half are married before age 19 and domestic violence is widespread despite billions of dollars in humanitarian aid since 2001.

“But if we turn into an Islamic emirate we will have no voice,” Sama said, referring to the Taliban’s name for its self-styled government. “If anything happens in Afghanistan, if anything goes wrong, all the responsibility goes back to the United States and the people at this (negotiating) table.”

One of the few women who spoke with Taliban leaders during their meetings with representatives of Afghan society this year in Moscow and Qatar is former lawmaker Fawzia Koofi, who pushed past her uncomfortable memories of the Taliban’s rule to attend in the interest of peace.

Taliban representatives told her they regretted many things that had occurred and said women were forced to stay at home because of the insecurity at the time. She didn’t believe it.

The Taliban still don’t support women’s rights according to international principles, she said. A Taliban statement at the Moscow talks said the group is committed to women’s rights within the framework of Islam “and then Afghan tradition.” It also criticized immorality and indecency “under the name of women’s rights.”

“I think the new generation of people in Afghanistan will not be able to accept this kind of approach,” Koofi said.

She told the Taliban that a girl born in the final months of their rule would now be 18. “She knows how to use all the technology and the opportunities of the world, and if you try to oppress her or deprive her of her rights, definitely she will use her abilities to inform the world,” she recalled during an interview.

Study finds films lag significantly in Latino representation

By Jake Coyle The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Latinos make up 18% of the U.S. population and 24% of its frequent moviegoers, yet they rarely see themselves on movie screens.

A new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative finds that Latino representation in film lags significantly behind the U.S. population and that, over the last decade, the number of Latino characters in the most popular movies is virtually

unchanged.

The report, released Monday and conducted in partnership with the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and Wise Entertainment, analyzed the 1,200 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2018 and some 47,268 speaking or named characters. It found that in that 12-year period, 4.5% of all speaking or named characters were Latino, and just 3% of leads or co-leads.

Over that time, the rate of representation has hovered between 3-6%, researchers

found. In, 2018, there were Latino speaking characters in 5% of the most popular films — the same rate as in 2008.

Inclusion Initiative founder and director Stacy L. Smith, who co-authored the study, said that in all areas of film, Latino are “vastly underrepresented.”

“At a time where Latinos in our country are facing intense concerns over their safety, we urgently need to see the Latino community authentically and accurately represented throughout entertainment,” Smith said

in a statement.

Researchers found that in the films studied, 4% had a Latino director, and most of those filmmakers — 71% — were from outside the U.S. Out of the 1,335 directors, only one was a Latina. Among producers, just 3% were Latino.

The study also found that Latinos, when they are on screen, frequently appear in stereotyped roles. In the most popular films at the U.S. box office, Latinos are depicted as criminals 24% of the time; 17% were portrayed as poor or with a low income.

The head of Italy’s opposition Democrats expressed optimism Monday a deal can be struck with the populist 5-Star Movement to form a new government of rivals that would keep right-wing leader Matteo Salvini out of power and possibly bring back the same premier who quit barely a week ago, reflecting the topsy-turvy state of the country’s politics.

Late in the evening, Democratic Party chief Nicola Zingaretti headed back to Chigi Palace, the premier’s office, for talks with 5-Star Leader Luigi Di Maio as well as with caretaker Premier Giuseppe Conte, who quit his post last week after Salvini yanked his right-wing League’s support for the government.

The huddle was reported to be still underway after midnight, several hours after Conte returned from the just-ended G-7 summit in France to begin discussions in Rome.

MOMBASA, KENYA

Kenya exports first oil shipment, amid high expectations Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has flagged off the country’s first export shipment of oil, more than 200,000 barrels of crude.

Kenyatta said Monday the oil exports begin an era of greater prosperity for Kenyans. The oil was purchased by a British-based Chinese company, according to a Kenyan government announcement.

The shipment is an accumulation of oil produced since Kenya began pumping in June 2018 at up to 2,000 barrels a day. The oil was trucked from Kenya’s north to the coast in the Early Oil Pilot Scheme. A pipeline is being constructed to move the oil to Mombasa port. Kenya expects to start commercial oil production in 2024 with production of up to 100,000 barrels a day.

BEIRUT

Lebanon: Israeli air force hits Palestinian base in Lebanon Israeli drones bombed a Palestinian base in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria early Monday, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency and a Palestinian official said, further raising tensions in the Middle East.

The strike came a day after an alleged Israeli drone crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in southern Beirut while another exploded and crashed nearby.

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Saudi Arabia, UAE vow to back Yemen war effort amid cracks Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged Monday to keep their floundering coalition war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels together after an Emirati troop pullout and the rise of the southern separatists they supported.

The joint communique came as the Houthis launched at least six ballistic missiles and two drone attacks into Saudi Arabia, keeping up its pressure on the kingdom as online infighting between the Emirati and Saudi intelligentsia exposed growing cracks between the usually lockstep oil-rich nations.

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ON THE MOVE Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday: SRC Energy Inc., up 50 cents to $4.65: The oil and gas company agreed to be acquired

by PDC Energy in a deal the companies valued at $1.7 billion including debt.

TechipFMC PLC, up 91 cents to $24.01: The London-based energy company said it would separate into two publicly traded businesses.

Walt Disney Co., up $2.94 to $134.61: The media company will open 25 Disney-branded stores in Target locations starting in October, with more to follow.

Pitney Bowes Inc., down 30 cents to $3.31: The company said it would sell its software and data business to Syncsort for $700 million.

Apple Inc., up $3.85 to $206.49: Technology companies that do a lot of business with China rose after President Donald Trump said Beijing wanted to make a trade deal.

Fossil Group Inc., up $1.09 to $11.49: Fossil disclosed that Executive Vice President Greg McKelvey has purchased another 200,000 shares of the company’s stock.

The Medicines Co., up $4.82 to $39.85: The company announced positive trial results for a cholesterol drug.

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President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a working session during the G-7 summit Monday at Casino in Biarritz, southwestern France. [IAN LANGSDON, POOL VIA AP]

At their mercy Trump order on China will hurt us, small businesses say

By Joyce M. Rosenberg The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Although President Donald Trump has told U.S. companies to stop dealing with China, small business owners say complying would hurt, even devastate them.

If Vanessa Topper can’t work with a manufacturer in China, “I’m going to have to fold a quarter of my business,” she says.

About 25 percent of the promotional products Topper sells are imported from China. She estimates that if she were to look for a supplier in another country, it would cost her company, TopNest Designs, at least $100,000 and she would risk losing clients, companies that produce wine, beer and liquor.

Topper, whose business is based in Tiburon, California, says she can’t afford to go to a country like Vietnam to meet with manufacturers.

Moreover, the process of finding a new supplier would take months, and she has no guarantee that the merchandise would meet her customers’ requirements.

Small businesses individually and as groups say their revenue and profits

have been hurt by the trade wars that began with Trump’s imposition of 25% tariffs on Chinese-made raw materials and products last year. Since then, Trump has expanded the tariffs on the goods U.S. companies import, and China has responded with tariffs of its own on items exported from the U.S. On Friday, China announced it was raising tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. imports, after which Trump’s “ordered” that U.S. companies find alternatives to doing business with China.

Trump softened the threat Sunday, saying he would only consider it if China again responded with raising tariffs on American goods.

Companies of all sizes have seen their costs rise because of the tariffs, and some have lost business as their customers reject higher-priced goods.

But the tariffs take a greater toll on smaller companies that don’t have the financial resources to shift their manufacturing to other countries.

“It’s not as easy as a tweet to find alternatives. And time spent finding alternatives is time spent not growing the business,” says Karen Kerrigan, president of the advocacy group Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.

But in some industries, there are few or no alternatives. Manufacturers, importers and retailers are forced to pay the tariffs.

“There’s nothing I can do about where the products in my store are sourced from,” says Tiffany Zarfas Williams, owner of The Luggage Shop of Lubbock, Texas. “That’s way behind my control. I’m at the mercy of my manufacturers, and changing factories and finding new sourcing options take years.”

The vast majority of luggage sold in the U.S. is made in China. But even if it were made domestically or in other countries, “that doesn’t even address the issue that all of the parts and pieces that make luggage are all made in China as well,” Williams says.

Peter Horwitz, owner of Tiger Packaging, a paper and plastic products supplier based in Boca Raton, Florida, has shifted most of his manufacturing away from China in recent years. But he’s unable to find suppliers in other countries for some of his products, including vinyl gloves. He’s looked in the U.S. but found none.

“We’d much rather support our own. But the reality isn’t like that, unfortunately,” he says.

German business confidence declines to near 7-year low

By Geir Moulson The Associated Press

BERLIN — German business confidence has fallen for a fifth consecutive month and hit a nearly seven-year low, a closely watched survey found Monday — adding to mounting worries that Europe’s biggest economy is headed for a recession.

The Ifo institute said its monthly confidence index

declined to 94.3 points in August from 95.8 in July.

Managers’ views of the current situation and the outlook for the next six months both worsened.

It was the lowest reading for the index since November 2012. Ifo’s head, Clemens Fuest, said “there are ever more indications of a recession in Germany.”

The survey is based on responses from some 9,000

firms and is a leading indicator of the health of the economy.

The German economy contracted by 0.1% in the April-June period and the country’s central bank, the Bundesbank, said last week it “could decline slightly” again in the summer. A technical recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann warned against

excessive pessimism in a weekend newspaper interview, saying that he sees “no reason to panic.” He noted that Germany is coming off a long upswing with healthy employment and said “the outlook is particularly uncertain at the moment,” citing political factors such as Brexit and international trade conflicts.

Still, Ifo’s latest survey showed an across-the-board

decline in confidence. In the manufacturing sector, “the last time that industrial companies demonstrated such pessimism was in the crisis year of 2009,” Fuest said. He added that “not a single ray of light was to be seen in any of Germany’s key industries.”

ING economist Carsten Brzeski said the latest Ifo report “suggests the risk of a negative sentiment loop is larger than ever.”

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Throwing shade Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America?

By Jonathan Coopersmith Texas A&M University

Many of us apply sunscreen when we go to the beach. But walking outside under the fierce summer sun — even if it’s to run a quick errand — can be taxing: We sweat, we get exhausted, we burn and we expose ourselves to dangerous UV rays.

In Asian countries, many people have a convenient tool at their disposal: They’ll often use umbrellas to shield them from the sun’s powerful rays.

In the U.S., even though most people own an umbrella to keep them dry when it’s raining, almost no one uses one for sun protection.

Yet at one time, trendsetting American women did use umbrellas for sun protection.

As a historian of technology, I’m interested in why some technologies are readily accepted by some groups but not by others. Unlike an expensive technology that may be very challenging to learn how to use — such as a car with a manual transmission — the umbrella is cheap, readily accessible and easy to use.

So why did the sun umbrella fall out of favor in the U.S.? And can Americans — women and men — ever be convinced to carry an umbrella when it’s hot and sunny, not just when it’s wet?

From status symbol to tool of the masses The umbrella was actually invented to protect people from the sun.

The origin of the word “parasol” comes from the French “para,” for “stop,” and “sol,” for sun. And “umbrella” originates from the Latin “umbra,” which means “shade” or “shadow.”

Thousands of years ago, servants in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India wielded large umbrellas to shade rulers from the sun. Umbrellas made for individual use didn’t appear in Europe until the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and they were deployed to ward off both the sun and the rain. Fashionable, wealthy

women primarily used them, a reflection of the umbrella’s high cost and the status it denoted.

By the 1850s, the introduction of folding metal ribs and lighter materials, like silk, reduced the weight and cost of the umbrella, transforming it into an essential component of the wardrobes of middle-class and upper-class women.

Like other technologies, ranging from radios to thermos bottles, 20thcentury mass production turned umbrellas from a status symbol for the wealthy into a tool for the masses.

When it comes to protection from the sun, umbrellas have been long used by women far more than men.

In 19th-century Western cultures — much like in Asia today — pale skin was perceived as a sign of beauty. It signaled that a woman was wealthy enough that she didn’t have to work outdoors.

The umbrella also came to be associated with feminine fraility, which made umbrellas less attractive to men. The reluctance of the military to authorize their officers and men to use umbrellas is one example of how the umbrella has been gendered.

Yet since the 1960s, the inexpensive umbrella has become a widespread low-cost accessory for Asian women to protect them from the sun. A 2008 survey found 65% of Beijing women used an umbrella to reduce sun exposure, while only 14% of men did — a result found in similar studies.

So why did American women stop using the umbrella for sun protection?

The automobile reduced the need for walking and provided a private shield from the sun for the driver and passengers. Starting in the 1920s, tans started to be seen as a sign of beauty in many Western cultures, while changing fashion styles dictated that a “modern” women should shed the parasol as a musthave accessory.

A sensible skin cancer deterrent?

While many Asian women might

use the umbrella to preserve their fair skin, increasing concerns about skin cancer might serve as an impetus to re-introduce the sun umbrella in Western cultures.

A rise in skin cancer rates — 5 million new cases and 9,000 deaths from melanoma annually in America — has led to a growing emphasis on reducing sun exposure among public health advocates.

Nonetheless, sun umbrellas haven’t received much attention. Even the American Academy of Dermatology suggests umbrellas only for infants, gardeners and tractor drivers.

Yet they’re effective, cheaper and less messy than applying sunscreen. A 2012 study conducted by the Emory Medical School Department of Dermatology found that an umbrella could reduce direct exposure to UV rays by 77% to 99%. Total UV exposure, which includes indirect sunlight reflected from the ground, can be much higher, which is why sun umbrella advocates emphasize that it should be used only as an adjunct, not a replacement, for other preventive measures like clothing and sunscreen.

But clearly, there’s a big roadblock that’s holding back their widespread adoption — American women either don’t know about sun umbrellas or don’t see them as fashionable. And most men definitely don’t view them favorably.

Making umbrellas fashionable again How can we make umbrellas fashionable again?

McDonald’s, of all places, could offer some clues.

Eating hamburgers with your hands is not a genetically hardwired activity. Some cultures even frown on eating with your hands in public.

Nonetheless, since the 1960s, McDonald’s has opened over 30,000 stores in more than 100 countries. Now, people around the world eat hamburgers with their hands. McDonald’s pulled this off by intensively promoting its burgers as a visible symbol of modernity and

Americanism while also adapting to local cultures.

Menus were expanded to include local cuisine — think shrimpburgers in Japan and mashed potato beef burgers in China. McDonald’s advertisements featured celebrities and actors happily eating hamburgers with their hands. Nervous neophytes easily learned how to hold a hamburger without feeling like a ignorant, second-class citizen.

Making sun umbrellas fashionable might require a similar campaign, one that involves the medical community, fashion designers, umbrella manufacturers, umbrellas sellers and media influencers.

Just as the MTV show “Sixteen and Pregnant” helped reduce teenage pregnancy in the United States, so too could television and social media promote celebrities and influencers using sun umbrellas.

This is not wishful thinking. In a one survey of women conducted from 2011 to 2012, 80% of nonusers indicated that a doctor’s recommendation would make them consider using a sun umbrella. Seventy-one percent thought seeing more people using a sun umbrella would encourage them to actually use one. In the study, participants who viewed photographs of famous women using umbrellas for sun protection thought that they were more socially acceptable.

The women surveyed were young: 31 was the mean age. Their main reasons for using a sun umbrella were to avoid wrinkles, protect their skin and, last, minimize the risk of skin cancer.

The main reasons for not using a sun umbrella were the understandable desire to keep their hands free, the inconvenience of using one, and, significantly, not having thought about it before.

As for me, a 63-year-old male living in sunny Texas whose parents had skin cancer, I’ll keep embarrassing my kids by wearing my wide-brimmed dorky dad hat, slathering on the sun screen, donning long-sleeve shirts — and unfurling my portable umbrella when strolling under the sun.

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Isinbayeva calls for IAAF to lift Russia’s ban for worlds Former Olympic pole vault champion and current International Olympic Committee member Yelena Isinbayeva has called on the IAAF to lift Russia’s ban from international track and field in time for the world championships next month.

Russia has been suspended since 2015 over widespread doping, though the IAAF allows dozens of Russians to compete as neutrals.

In comments to Russian state news agency Tass, Isinbayeva says the IAAF “definitely” should reinstated Russia because “the criteria, the road-map points, which the (Russian) federation was issued have been completed.”

Colts quarterback Jacoby Brissett throws during a practice at the team’s NFL training facility, Monday in Indianapolis. [DARRON CUMMINGS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Colts try to quickly turn corner following Luck’s decision

By Michael Marot The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Reality hit hard as soon as the Indianapolis Colts walked into their locker room Monday morning.

Andrew Luck’s stall was empty, the name plate gone, the era over.

Coach Frank Reich and general manager Chris Ballard started the day with a team meeting to discuss how the Colts would proceed without their newly retired starting quarterback.

Luck’s replacement, Jacoby Brissett, took the podium inside a packed media room, Pro Bowl receiver T.Y. Hilton wore a Stanford baseball cap to honor his 2012 draft classmate and then it was time to get back to work.

“In one respect this story is unique and shocking,” coach Frank Reich said. “But it’s happened enough where a team loses a great player, and it galvanizes a team and propels them to a championship.”

The former pastor has a vast array of resources to make the point, some from his own experiences.

In 1989, when Jim Kelly got hurt most thought the Buffalo Bills would slow things down for his backup, Reich.

Instead, coach Marv Levy didn’t change a thing and Reich responded by leading the Bills to three consecutive wins. Three years later, with Kelly out again, Reich won two playoff games, including the greatest comeback in postseason history as the Bills eventually won their third straight AFC title.

In 2017, Reich was Philadelphia’s offensive coordinator when MVP candidate Carson Wentz tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee — an injury many expected to derail the Eagles’ title hopes. Instead, Nick Foles

stepped in and led Philadelphia to its first title since 1960.

Then there was the seemingly madefor-TV script from two decades ago when a grocery store bagger-turnedquarterback Kurt Warner took over for the injured Trent Green and led the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl title.

Warner was the league’s MVP, too.

But Reich and the Colts know this season is not about the past. They must focus on adding their own, unique chapter to the underdog story to fill the hole in the middle of the locker room.

“I need to be Jacoby Brissett, just be myself,” he said when asked about permanently replacing his close friend. “It’s always been prepare like you’re the starter.”

Outside the locker room, many doubt Brissett can emerge as the next Foles, Warner or even Reich. Brissett went 4-11 in 2017, becoming the starter less than two weeks after Indy acquired him in a trade from New England, behind an offensive line that allowed the most sacks in the NFL that season.

Around the Colts’ complex, though, there are plenty of Brissett believers.

Reich noted Brissett has taken more than 1,200 snaps with the starting unit since April when offseason workouts started as Luck tried to recover from a lower left leg injury.

Plus, he’s working with a coach who has been down this road previously.

Reich spent his first decade in the NFL playing behind a Hall of Famer, needing to be ready at every moment.

It’s a conversation the two have had multiple times since Reich was hired 18½ months ago.

“From Day 1, I came in and watched all of Jacoby’s film and I said this guy is a top-20 quarterback, this guy is a starting quarterback in the NFL,” Reich said. “This guy is all in, he’s not

just checking off boxes. He’s a great leader and I’m excited for him.”

So are teammates, who have embraced Brissett’s hard-working approach on the field and his funloving style off it.

As for Luck, teammates universally backed his decision to walk away two weeks before the Sept. 8 season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Some, like Brissett and left tackle Anthony Castonzo, acknowledged Luck let them in on the secret before Saturday’s game. Most, like All-Pro linebacker Darius Leonard, said they found out as word trickled out on the sideline.

Luck made his formal announcement to the team in the postgame locker room, just moments before going public with the decision.

Castonzo understood.

“Everybody deals with the pain, it’s when you’re out there and you’re doing something and you feel yourself not being able to change direction or miss a throw in his case,” he said. “It’s when the pain starts to affect your ability on the field is when it really gets to you.”

Most were disappointed with the chorus of boos Luck heard from fans as he left the Lucas Oil Stadium turf for the final time.

“It sucked,” Brissett said, acknowledging Luck was at peace with the choice. “I mean you don’t want to hear that, especially for a guy like that who’s done what he’s done and what he’s been through.”

But it didn’t take the Colts long to move on from Saturday — or the announcement that shocked the football world.

“It’s the same old, same old,” Leonard said. “He’s a great player, we respect everything Andrew does. But now we’re focused on Jacoby Brissett and winning games.”

Back in Texas, Briles returns to coaching in the small time

By Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press

MOUNT VERNON, Texas — In a small East Texas community, a few blocks from a quaint town square, Art Briles is coaching football again on American soil.

He is some 200 miles and seemingly a lifetime away from Baylor, the school he led to the doorstep of the College Football Playoff five years ago and the school that fired him three years ago in the wake of a sprawling sexual assault scandal he has insisted he handled correctly. After going to Europe when job opportunities in the Canadian Football League and a Mississippi college

dried up, Briles is back — sort of.

He will be under the Friday night lights in Mount Vernon, population 2,750, and on humble fields in a handful of otherwise quiet, Class 3A towns into early November.

“I’m a football coach.

That’s what I’ve always done, so that’s what I do,” said Briles, 63. “This right here is as important as any job as I’ve ever had. That’s the way I’ve always treated any job. ... I treat it like it’s the only job I’ve ever had. I’m not thinking beyond this.”

Most residents knew nothing about the possibility of Briles becoming coach until the school board

unanimously approved his hiring in a special meeting on the Friday night going into Memorial Day weekend.

That was only a couple of hours before the high school graduation ceremony at Don Meredith Stadium, named after the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and “Monday Night Football” announcer who is easily the town’s most famous native son.

A few weeks after Briles got a two-year contract for $82,000 a year, about 60 people filled the room for a school board meeting. Only three of them addressed superintendent Jason McCullough and the board members about hiring Briles

and only Lauren Lewis spoke against it.

Lewis, who returned to her hometown with her husband about three years ago after living for a decade in Austin, said people later thanked her for speaking out.

“This is a kind, loving, welcoming place, and I think that they tried to put that spin on it, this is a redemption story, we’re going to be able to help this guy,” Lewis said. “But there’s no redemption without remorse.”

Briles was fired in May 2016 after an investigation by a law firm found that over several years the school mishandled numerous sexual assault allegations, including some against football players.

MIAMI GARDENS, FLA.

Super Bowl practice run for Fox at Dolphins’ game It’s two hours before kickoff, and in the Fox TV truck, a large screen shows logos of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Miami Dolphins and this season’s Super Bowl.

Talk about fantasy football.

That image from last week’s preseason game between the Jaguars and Dolphins was likely as close as either team will get to the Super Bowl in Miami in February. But Fox will be there, and the ho-hum exhibition matchup served as a dress rehearsal for the season finale in nearly six months.

“We start our season and end our season here,” producer Richie Zyontz said.

RALEIGH, N.C.

Canes prospect Mattheos to miss camp while fighting cancer Carolina Hurricanes prospect Stelio Mattheos will miss training camp while he fights testicular cancer.

General manager Don Waddell said Monday that the 20-year-old forward is expected to return to full health and will resume training for the upcoming season once he completes treatment and is cleared by doctors.

Mattheos was diagnosed in June, two days after helping Carolina’s AHL affiliate in Charlotte win a championship. He had surgery to remove one testicle and has completed multiple courses of chemotherapy during the past two months.

ALICANTE, SPAIN

Bennett wins 3rd stage, Roche keeps Spanish Vuelta lead Sam Bennett won the third stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Monday, with fellow Irishman Nicolas Roche keeping his overall lead ahead of Nairo Quintana.

Bennett dominated the final sprint in the 117-mile mostly flat stage from Ibi to Alicante, beating Edward Theuns and Luka Mezgec to the finish line.

“I knew it would be a very fast sprint so I really wanted to kick first,” Bennett said. “I’m delighted to get a Grand Tour victory.

I’m delighted we are giving the Irish fans something to cheer for.”

It is the first time that Ireland has had both the stage winner and overall leader at the Vuelta on the same day.

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In this Friday photo, Athletics rookie pitcher Nathan Patterson tosses a baseball, in Mesa, Ariz. [JOHN MARSHALL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Pitcher discovered on social media lands chance with A’s

By Janie McCauley The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — Nathan Patterson never even made the varsity baseball team as a middle infielder during high school back home in Kansas.

In fact, he’d strayed far from the game — running his own landscaping business and working various other jobs that included sales and software — before baseball came back into his life when he least expected it.

If that was the whole story, Patterson’s journey to the Oakland Athletics’ rookie ball team would have been remarkable, yet the way the pitcher got discovered made it even crazier yet: He became an instant social media sensation.

In Colorado for a family reunion to celebrate his grandmother’s 80th birthday last month, Patterson wound up at a Rockies game with time on his hands because of a rain delay. He and his brother tried out the speed-pitch challenge cage at Coors Field just for fun. His brother, Christian, hit 83 mph and the booth operator congratulated him on the top speed of the day.

Then Patterson took his turn, spending about $5 total for all the tosses.

The radar gun read: 90-94-94-96-95-96.

He might have even had a couple of beers in his system.

His brother’s video of the throws quickly took off on social media.

“Guys, we were just chillin at a @rockies baseball game, and my brother decided to step into a speed pitch challenge...he hit 96 mph ?? @MLB Let’s get him signed!” Christian posted on Twitter with the video .

Then, Christian sent a social media update that read , “And 2 weeks later...he’s now a professional athlete” featuring photos of Patterson signing his contract in full green and gold A’s gear.

“It’s become more and more real now,” the 23-year-old Patterson said. “There’s kind of a misconception that I threw a ball ... almost a month ago and got signed, a misconception that there was no work or sacrifice that went into it when in reality there was a ton of work and a lot of sacrifices over the last year that got me to being where I am today.”

An elbow fracture discovered when Patterson was playing on a showcase team the summer before his senior year in high school kept him from playing baseball that final season at Blue Valley High in Overland Park, Kansas. Just 5-foot-8 and 140 pounds when he graduated, Patterson is now 6-1, 185 pounds.

There were also complications that derailed his rehab. He “wasn’t ever able to really get 100%” healthy, so Patterson pushed aside any college baseball hopes and enrolled in community college courses. He lasted only two months before dropping his four classes to run the landscaping business that took off and became so busy that he and a friend needed to hire employees.

When Patterson realized about a year later in June 2015 that “sun up to sun down” lawn care and landscaping wasn’t his life path and he wanted to “go experience the world,” he used Google to determine where he would go next. Austin, Texas, came up as No. 1 when he searched for “coolest places to live when you’re young and single,” so he told his friends and family that’s where he would move.

He met his girlfriend in Austin. Fast forward and she was promoted and they wound up moving

to Nashville, where Patterson was able to work remotely for the software company he had joined.

Last summer, his family visited and they went to a Nashville Sounds Triple-A game, with the ballpark close to where Patterson lived. That’s when he initially tried out one of those pitch-speed booths, hit 96 mph on his final throw and realized he had quite an arm — even with his background being as an infielder.

“Blew my own mind, honestly,” he said.

A coach saw him and immediately encouraged Patterson to play baseball, if not collegiately then in the pros. So a couple of weeks later Patterson began contemplating the idea of chasing a lost dream once more, as a pitcher.

But last December, Patterson’s plan to resume baseball was stalled again when he got hit by a car while riding his electric longboard. He broke the wrist on his left, non-throwing hand and needed surgery.

“It was a very, very sad day, like all this work over the last two months was for nothing,” he recalled.

Patterson returned to Kansas City for two weeks at Christmas last year and his family urged him to push on. By January he was throwing off a mound again in Nashville with a cast on the other hand, and that’s when about 20 colleges came calling along with a handful of major league organizations. Patterson hired an agent.

He also began working closely with Jarrod Parker, who played for the A’s before a pair of Tommy John surgeries forced him out of the game. Parker opened Parker Sports Performance last September in Nashville, and Patterson was one of the first athletes to participate in a regular training program at the center.

Martinez says he’s just getting started for No. 24 Huskers

By Eric Olson The Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. — Adrian Martinez was the most productive freshman quarterback in the nation last season.

He started showing up on Heisman Trophy candidate lists in the spring, and over the weekend he became the first sophomore in two decades to be voted a team captain at Nebraska.

Martinez said he is just getting started.

“I feel like I haven’t even reached the surface yet,” he said Monday. “There’s a lot more that we as a team want to accomplish, that I want to accomplish,

and I think we’re going to do that.”

The No. 24 Cornhuskers, who open at home against South Alabama on Saturday, are projected to be greatly improved over the team that started 0-6 and finished 4-8 in coach Scott Frost’s first season. Martinez is one of the main reasons why.

He’s a natural in Frost’s up-tempo spread offense, having set several school records and averaging 295.1 yards per game while leading an offense ranked second in the Big Ten behind Ohio State.

“I would have guessed this is what Adrian would have accomplished, just knowing Adrian and the type of

person he is and getting to know him in recruiting,” Frost said. “He’s considerably better right now. I hope he keeps meeting and exceeding our expectations.”

Martinez is well positioned to go down among the greats to play quarterback at Nebraska, a list that includes a national champion in Frost, two-time national champion Tommie Frazier and Heisman winner Eric Crouch.

Those QBs played in ground-based offenses that featured heavy doses of the triple-option. Martinez probably could have thrived in those systems as well, but his passing abilities elevate

the threat he presents.

South Alabama cornerback Jalen Thompson said he’s studied video of Martinez much of the summer and called him “a real ball player.”

“I can tell he’s smooth. He seems calm and collected back there in the pocket,” he said. “I’ve been seeing all the hype about him. Most of the time you see guys like that, they’re overrated. He’s living up to the hype.”

Nebraska defensive lineman Darrion Daniels, a graduate transfer from Oklahoma State, said Martinez makes the Huskers’ offense as dynamic as the famously wide-open, high-scoring units he faced in the Big 12.

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Pork Chops with Salted Lemon-Garlic Relish come off the grill juicy and beautiful. [TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/ CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS]

How to pick the right pork for summer grilling

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By JeanMarie Brownson Tribune News Service

W

e put steaks, seafood, vegetables, pizza and even watermelon and heads of lettuce on the grill. Sometimes, barbecue sauce gets involved. Occasionally, the heavy smoke from applewood or maple penetrates a whole turkey or beef brisket. We love it all.

A gathering around a grill in Michigan found us discussing which cut of pork to cook that evening.

Rib lovers tend to be the most vocal cheerleaders, while dieters embrace lean tenderloin. Myself, I love a moist, grilled pork chop for its versatility, relative quick-cooking and moderate price tag.

When grilling for company, I prefer the visual appeal of a bone-in pork chop. My favorite is the center-cut pork chop. This chop sports the beauty of a T-bone steak with the bone dividing the white loin meat and the darker tenderloin nugget on the other side.

Likewise, rib-cut pork chops, with their curved bone running along one side and the lean loin muscle meat attached to it, offer great flavor and visual appeal. These tend to have less meat per chop than their center-cut cousins, but are often easier to find. I

ask the butcher to cut them a generous 1 to 1 1/4 inches thick; this proves ideal for portion size and ease of grilling. If you purchase pre-packaged chops in the meat case, take the time to find the thickest.

Boneless pork chops are simply the rib-cut pork chop without the bone.

They are super lean and more tricky to cook than bone-in chops — especially if they are thin. I always prefer to cook meat on the bone for extra insurance against dryness, but if you prefer boneless, be sure to select chops at least 3/4-inch thick. Avoid overcooking them by setting a timer and moderating the grill’s (or broiler’s) heat.

For grilling, I steer away from pork shoulder chops, also known as blade chops or blade steaks. This section of pork needs moist heat to cook well and is better suited for the slow cooker or Dutch oven.

This summer pork menu includes a topping of salted lemons, garlic, olive oil and fresh thyme. Lighter and less salty than Moroccanstyle preserved lemons, a jar of this relish stays handy in the refrigerator for a quick boost to nearly everything off the grill, plus steamed vegetables, cooked grains and hearty salads. Accompany the chops with buttered pasta and sliced ripe tomatoes.

Makes 6 servings • 6 rib-cut or center-cut bone-in pork chops, each cut about 1 1/4 inches thick and weighing 12 ounces (total 4 1/2 pounds) • 1 cup applewood, cherry or pecan wood chips for grilling • Salt, freshly ground black pepper • 4 to 6 cups small broccoli florets or 2 bunches broccolini, ends trimmed • Salted lemon-garlic relish, see recipe • Fresh herb sprigs, for garnish Pat chops dry and place in a baking dish. Season generously on all sides with salt and pepper. Cover loosely and refrigerate at least 30 minutes or up to 24 hours.

Soak wood chips in cool water to cover for 20 minutes or more.

Prepare a charcoal grill and let coals burn until they are at medium-high heat and covered in gray ash (an oven thermometer will register 375 degrees to 400 degrees). Or preheat a gas grill to medium-high. Drain wood chips and sprinkle over the hot coals. Or, set wood chips on a double thickness of

foil on the grate over the gas burner.

Cover the grill to preheat the grill grates thoroughly.

Use tongs to arrange pork chops in a single uncrowded layer on the preheated grill grates. Cover grill and cook without turning for 8 minutes.

Gently loosen chops and flip. Move pieces around as necessary to adjust for hot spots and so pork cooks evenly without excess browning. Cover the grill and continue cooking until the meat is nearly firm when pressed, about 4 to 6 minutes more. (An instantread thermometer will register 145 degrees.)

While the pork cooks, heat a large pot of salted water to the boil. Add the broccoli and cook, uncovered, stirring once or twice, until bright green and crisp-tender, 3 to 4 minutes. Drain well.

Set aside uncovered.

Remove the chops from the grill to a large serving platter. Scatter the broccoli over all. Spoon the salted lemon-garlic relish over everything.

Garnish with herb sprigs. Serve.

SALTED LEMON-GARLIC RELISH Makes about 1 cup • 2 small lemons, scrubbed, ends trimmed off • 4 to 6 small cloves garlic, peeled, crushed or finely minced • 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried • 1 teaspoon coarse (kosher) salt • 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary or 1/4 teaspoon dried • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, optional • 1/4 teaspoon each: freshly ground black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

Slice lemons as thinly as possible and pluck out the seeds. Put lemon slices, garlic, thyme, salt and rosemary into a small bowl. Use a wooden spoon or clean hands to massage the seasonings into the lemon slices and release the juices. Stir in optional Dijon, peppers and olive oil.

Pack mixture, including all the juices, into a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid.

Refrigerate mixture for a few hours or up to 1 week. Use at room temperature.

Bring the beach vibes home with this frosty smoothie WHITE SANDS SMOOTHIE

By Ellie Krieger Special to The Washington Post

If you are looking for me in the summertime, chances are you’ll find me, at some point, on the beach in Montauk, Long Island, as close to the crashing waves as possible. If I am not in the water or on the white, sandy beach, I may have sauntered two blocks into town to grab a bite from Joni’s Kitchen, a hip little cafe with a relaxed surfer attitude and a chalkboard full of healthy menu items.

One of my go-tos there is the aptly named White Sands Smoothie, a frosty milkshake-like, nourishing treat with a pale palette of milk and banana made “sandy” from being blended with coconut, almonds and a fragrant sprinkle of nutmeg.

This recipe is my version of it, so I could bring those beachy vibes home to enjoy even after the school year starts up again.

Makes 1 serving • 1 very ripe banana, cut into chunks and frozen • 3/4 cup (1%) low-fat milk or plant milk of choice • 2 tablespoons sliced or slivered almonds (unsalted) • 1 tablespoon unsweetened shredded coconut • 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract • Pinch freshly ground nutmeg

White Sands Smoothie. [PHOTO BY TOM MCCORKLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST]

In a blender, combine the banana, milk, almonds, coconut, vanilla extract and nutmeg and blend until smooth. Serve right away.