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US jets strike
Islamic State
camp in Libya
BY JOHN VANDIVER,
COREY DICKSTEIN AND TARA COPP
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — American warplanes attacked an Islamic State terrorist training camp early Friday in the
deadliest known U.S. airstrike to date
in Libya, killing at least 30 militants
and targeting one of the group’s top
operatives in the region, according to
Pentagon officials and reports from the
ground.
The United States spent weeks planning the strike carried out by manned
and unmanned aircraft, said Peter Cook,
the Pentagon press secretary. The Islamic State group has used the civil war
in the North African country to expand
its operations there to several thousand
fighters.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter and
other top defense officials have vowed to
attack the Islamic State group anywhere
it attempts to gain a foothold, though
Cook said Friday this most recent strike
— the second against a senior Islamic
State operative in Libya in recent months
— does not necessary signal an uptick in
American operations there.
“This may not be the last” strike in
Libya, Cook said, adding he was not going
to speculate about future operations
there. “We saw an opportunity to strike
at (the Islamic State group) in Libya and
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“We will start from
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I have a report on my desk
with all the boring details.
It’s going to be an easy
mission.”
—Lt. Gen. Abdul Ghani al-Asadi,
and Iraqi special forces commander,
on the plan to take back areas held
by the Islamic State group
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Libya: Not clear if target of airstrike was killed
FROM FRONT PAGE
we feel confident this was a successful strike.”
The main target of the operation was the militant known as
Noureddine Chouchane, a senior
Tunisian operative who served as
key facilitator in the movement
of foreign fighters in and around
Libya.
Cook declined to say where
Chouchane was moving those
fighters, but he said they posed
a threat to “American interests.”
Chouchane had been linked to
two major terrorist attacks in
Tunisia.
It was not immediately clear
whether Chouchane had been
killed in the strike, Cook said,
adding the results of the mission
were still being assessed.
“Destruction of the camp and
Chouchane’s removal will eliminate an experienced facilitator
and is expected to have an immediate impact on [the Islamic
State group’s] ability to facilitate
its activities in Libya, including
recruiting new [Islamic State]
members, establishing bases in
Libya, and potentially planning
external attacks on U.S. interests
in the region,” Cook said.
Weighing options
The attacks come as the United
States considers whether to intensify the pace of airstrikes in
Libya, where Islamic State fighters have been a growing presence
for the past year.
The terror organization is concentrated mainly in the coastal
town of Sirte, the hometown of
Moammar Gadhafi, the former
leader of Libya whose regime was
toppled in a 2011 NATO bombing
campaign. Cook did not provide
an estimate of the group’s size but
officials have estimated there are
between 3,000 and 6,000 Islamic
State fighters in the nation.
Although Cook would not provide specific plans about the role
the U.S. could play in future operations against the militants there,
he said the military would take
opportunities to target it when it
has the opportunity to do so.
Friday’s strike, he said, “demonstrates we will go after (the Islamic State group) whenever it is
necessary, using the full range of
tools at our disposal.”
Retired Navy Cmdr. Chris
SABRATHA MUNICIPAL C OUNCIL /AP
U.S. warplanes struck an Islamic State training camp overnight
Friday in Sabratha, Libya, near the Tunisian border. Local Libyan
officials estimated that more than 40 people were killed.
Harmer, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, said
Friday’s airstrike was the start of
a long-coming push by the Pentagon to dismantle Islamic State
growth in Libya.
“The Pentagon sees [the Islamic State] has morphed into exactly
what al-Qaida was after 9/11,”
Harmer said, referring to how
the group dispersed into independently operating affiliates after
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and on the
Pentagon. “The [Islamic State] is
doing the same thing, except they
are doing it preemptively.”
The civil war in Libya has
generated scores of independent
rebel groups that the Islamic
State is recruiting, Harmer said.
“They’ve got to hit [the Islamic
State] in Libya before they become the biggest group in Libya,”
Harmer said.
The Pentagon has been preparing for greater expansion
into Libya for months. It recently
added a $200-million line item
in its proposed 2017 Overseas
Contingency Operations budget
to expand its counterterrorism
operations in Northern Africa, including Libya. The wartime fund
already has a separate line item
for operations against the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria.
In January, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said plans
for taking “decisive” action in
Libya were under review.
“It’s fair to say that we’re looking to take decisive military action against [the Islamic State]
in conjunction with the political
process” in Libya, Dunford told
reporters at the time.
The strike
Friday’s F-15E airstrikes hit a
farmhouse occupied by Islamic
State militants outside Sabratha,
who were mainly of Tunisian descent, according to The New York
Times, which first reported the
strike.
It was not immediately clear
how many people had been killed
in the attack, Cook said. He said
up to 60 people — mostly Islamic State group fighters, trainers
and recruits — had been present at the camp in recent weeks
as the United States surveyed it.
The Reuters news agency quoted
Sabratha’s mayor as saying 41
people were killed.
There are likely similar camps
in other parts of Libya that could
be targeted in future operations, Cook said. This particular
camp, he said, was attacked Friday because of the presence of
Chouchane, the attack’s primary
target and his intent to use the
camp to launch attacks against
U.S. interests.
Chouchane is believed to have
had a hand in the June attack on a
resort hotel in Tunisia that killed
38 people, mostly from Europe.
“We believe that this group
posed a threat … in the short
term,” he said without identifying
how that was determined or what
that exact threat might be.
“We were able to strike this facility before they posed an even
bigger more significant threat.”
But Harmer said targeting Islamic State leadership in western
Libya won’t be enough.
“If you want to have a desired
effect, you’ve got to do a lot more
than one or two airstrikes here
or there. It’s got to be a sustained
campaign,” he said. “Look at Iraq
where we’ve been doing airstrikes
for 18 months. It put pressure on
[the Islamic State] but does not
fundamentally shift the arc of the
conflict. If you want to really kill
these guys, you need guys on the
ground calling in airstrikes.”
Since 2011, the United States
has been conducting surveillance
operations, launching occasional
strike missions against high-value
targets, and has quietly deployed
special operators to survey the
landscape and work with Libyan
government partners.
Those special operators, Cook
said on Friday, have been able
to get “a better sense of the playing field” in the Libyan civil war
as the U.S. works to find moderate, indigenous fighting groups to
partner with.
In November, the United States
conducted an airstrike in Libya
that killed the country’s top Islamic State leader. Nearly two
years ago, U.S. special operators
in Libya captured a key suspect
in the 2012 attack against U.S. interests in Benghazi in which the
U.S. ambassador and three other
Americans died.
“We want to confront (the Islamic State group as) it pops up,”
Cook said. “We’ve seen the threat
that they pose in Libya, specifically, their efforts to try and organize and become a more coherent
group in Libya, as they have in
Syria and Iraq, and we’re doing
everything we can for that not to
happen.”
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MILITARY
Wounded soldier set
to receive first penis
transplant in the US
BY R ACHEL FELTMAN
The Washington Post
Johns Hopkins University has
selected a wounded soldier as
a patient for the country’s first
penis transplant, Reuters reported Thursday. The university announced its intention, in
December, to perform the first
surgery of this kind in the United
States, and surgeons there have
been practicing the 12-hour procedure on cadavers to prepare for
their patients.
The surgery could take place
within the next few weeks, pending the selection of a donor of the
right age and skin color and permission of their next of kin. The
potential stigma surrounding
penis donation is one of the biggest problem for Johns Hopkins
to overcome. In fact, the medical team has expressed concern
that the very existence of penis
transplants in the United States
may discourage some individuals from donating any of their organs. For now, penile donation is
strictly opt-in.
The first successful penis transplant was performed last year in
South Africa, and has helped the
recipient conceive a child. In South
Africa, the procedure was developed to help men injured during
ritual circumcisions, which are
common in the country’s Xhosa
tribe.
In the United States, the target
demographic for the surgery will
be wounded veterans. The Defense Department’s Trauma Registry reports that 1,367 military
servicemen sustained injuries
to the genitals between 2011 and
2013 in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The anonymous first patient is a
soldier who lost most of his penis
in an explosion overseas. More
than 60 other potential patients
— all of them wounded servicemen — are waiting in the wings
to follow.
“These are very important in
terms of giving back a sense of
self,” Carisa Cooney, clinical research manager of the Johns Hopkins Department of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery, told The
Washington Post in December.
The surgery is meant to restore
sexual function as well as to heal
the psychological trauma of severe genital injury. But it comes
with risk: In addition to the grueling surgery and a lifetime of
medication to keep the immune
system from rejecting the new
organ, patients must prepare for
the possibility that their transplant will make their emotional
anguish worse. Before South
Africa’s successful surgery, the
world’s first transplant in China
ended in the patient asking for
the new penis to be removed. The
presence of the unfamiliar, donated organ was too disturbing.
It’s possible that the surgery,
once developed, could help people
with congenital deficiencies or
even be adapted for transgender
people seeking sex reassignment.
For now, Johns Hopkins will perfect the surgery solely on veterans injured in the line of duty
— men who are ineligible for less
drastic surgical fixes, eager to
participate and who understand
the risks.
Police release video of
DC assault on Marine
in ‘Hell House’ battle
BY TRAVIS J. TRITTEN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — Police released video and images of suspects in the case of a decorated
Marine who was assaulted Friday
outside a fast-food restaurant in
Washington, D.C.
The surveillance video shows a
black assailant in a white tank top
punch Christopher Marquez, a
Bronze Star recipient who fought
in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004, in the
head from behind as Marquez
walked out of a McDonald’s on E
Street across from FBI headquarters. The Marine, who served
until 2011, fell to the ground,
where he appeared to be robbed
and kicked in the head.
The D.C. Metropolitan Police
Department is investigating the
aggravated assault-and-robbery
case near Chinatown and offering
$1,000 to anyone with informa-
tion leading to the arrest of three
suspects, including the male who
punched Marquez, a woman who
appeared to rob him, and another
man who kicked him while he
was on the ground.
Marquez told other media outlets that he believed the attack
was racially motivated and that
the assailants had mentioned the
Black Lives Matter movement to
him before the assault.
The incident spread quickly online and triggered outrage.
Marquez was one of three Marines in an iconic photo taken
during the second battle of Fallujah. Marquez was photographed
carrying a fellow Marine whose
uniform is blood-soaked from
a wound during the so-called
Hell House battle, in which one
Marine was killed and 10 were
wounded.
tritten.travis@stripes.com
Twitter: @Travis_Tritten
JONATHAN SUNDERMAN /Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
The guided-missile destroyer USS Barry launches a Tomahawk cruise missile during a 2011 mission off
Libya. The Navy’s upcoming $434 million budget request would modify a portion of the current stock of
Tomahawks with the ability to strike maritime targets.
Report: Navy ships, subs to
carry new anti-ship missile
BY THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — In the next
decade, U.S. ships and submarines capable of firing Tomahawk
cruise missiles will likely be fitted with a variant specifically
designed to hit enemy ships up to
1,000 miles away, according to a
report published in the U.S. Naval
Institute News.
Vice Adm. Joseph Mulloy,
deputy chief of naval operations
for integration of capabilities
and resources told USNI News
on Wednesday that surface ships
would receive the upgraded
missiles first, followed by submarines. The move follows the
Navy’s upcoming $434 million
budget request that would modify
a portion of the current stock of
Tomahawks with the ability to
strike maritime targets.
Tomahawks, or TLAMs, were
first introduced in the 1980s and
an early variant was actually designed to strike enemy ships but
was withdrawn from service because of issues with the missile’s
accuracy. In 2015, however, the
Navy demonstrated that current
versions of the missile could be
modified to accurately hit moving
naval targets.
According to the Navy’s 2017
budget, the modified Tomahawks
will start testing in 2021 before
being distributed to surface ships
such as guided-missile destroyers
and cruisers as well as guidedmissile submarines.
M ARCUS L. STANLEY/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
The guided-missile frigate USS Taylor departs Naval Station Mayport
in 2014. Modified Tomahawks will start testing in 2021 before
being distributed to surface vessels and guided-missile submarines.
Mulloy’s comments came after
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
announced earlier this month
that the SM-6 missile, a weapon
designed specifically to intercept enemy warheads, would be
upgraded to attack enemy ships
also.
Both the news of the SM-6’s
newfound abilities as well as the
upcoming changes to the Tomahawk are in keeping with the
Navy’s now year-old concept of
“distributed lethality,” which basically entails making the Navy’s
current vessels more lethal within the confines of a restrained
budget environment.
The combination of the SM6 and the modified Tomahawks
would help give the Navy a leg up
on China, a country that is rapidly
upgrading its naval capabilities.
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WAR ON TERRORISM
Iraq prepares
to take back Hit
BY LOVEDAY MORRIS
The Washington Post
BAGHDAD — After clearing
the last neighborhoods of the battered city of Ramadi last week,
Iraqi special forces packed up
to leave but expected to move on
quickly to their next offensive —
the walled market town of Hit.
Located 30 miles northwest of
Ramadi, also in Anbar province,
Hit has been occupied by the Islamic State group since the fall
of 2014. About 12,000 civilians
are estimated to remain, local officials say.
While a buildup of Iraqi army
forces has begun farther north in
preparation for a Mosul offensive,
special forces known as Iraq’s
“Golden Division” have a more
immediate target. Bolstered by a
win in Ramadi, commanders say
they plan to take full advantage
of a state of disarray among the
militants in the area — prioritizing Hit, while debate continues on
whether to move farther west to
Fallujah.
“We will start from western
Anbar, from Hit,” said Lt. Gen.
Abdul Ghani al-Asadi, a special
forces commander. “I have a report on my desk with all the boring details. It’s going to be an easy
mission.”
Leaflets have been dropped
on the city three times, warning
residents to leave, though Islamic
State militants are attempting to
prevent families from escaping,
commanders and tribesmen said.
Asadi said military intelligence
already indicated that large numbers of the militant group’s leaders have fled the city — including
most foreign fighters.
But Sgt. Maj. Donald Sparks, a
spokesman for the U.S. military
in Baghdad, said there are signs
that the Islamic State group is reinforcing its hold.
“We have actually seen fighters and equipment moving into
the area,” he said. Hit is estimated
to have 300 to 400 militants in the
town, with more in the surrounding area, he said.
As with the offensive for Ramadi, Iraqi special forces will take
the lead. They will be supported
by the Iraqi army’s 7th Division,
police and tribal fighters, Asadi
and other commanders said.
The Islamic State group’s takeover of Hit and outlying areas was
particularly bloody. Members of
the Albu Nimr tribe fought for
more than 10 months to defend
the city, and hundreds were killed
when the city fell. The tribesmen
complained that they received little support from the government
and were forced to buy their own
ammunition.
In Iraq’s military circles, there
has long been a debate over the
order of battle — Anbar first or
the Islamic State group’s Iraqi
stronghold of Mosul, in Ninevah
province to the north, or simultaneous operations in more than one
province.
US benches B-1s in militant
fight over Iraq and Syria
The Washington Post
The U.S. Air force’s swingwing bomber, the B-1B Lancer, is
taking a back seat in the air campaign against the Islamic State
group.
Lt. Gen. Charles Brown, commander of the Air Force’s Central
Command, told reporters Thursday that the B-1s had been redeployed back to the United States
for scheduled upgrades to the
aircraft’s cockpits.
Speaking through video conference from his headquarters
in Qatar, Brown said that U.S. air
campaign over Iraq and Syria
might lose a “little flexibility”
with the B-1 benched, but has
plenty of other aircraft to make
up for the deficit.
The B-1, first fielded in the
mid-1980s as a nuclear strike
bomber and affectionately called
“Bone” by pilots, has since become the workhorse of the United
States’ low intensity conflicts in
Iraq, Afghanistan and more recently, Syria. Capable of supersonic flight and staying airborne
for long periods of time, the B-1
is able to carry 75,000 pounds of
internally mounted munitions.
That includes dumb bombs,
GPS-guided variants and cluster
munitions.
Brown didn’t say when the aircraft would return to the skies
over Iraq and Syria but said that
he fully expected the B-1 to return. In the interim, he said, other
aircraft — including those flown
by coalition partners — would
step up.
In recent weeks, Denmark,
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have
said that their aircraft would
begin contributing more to the
air campaign in Iraq and Syria.
C HRISTOPHER FREEMAN /Courtesy of the U.S. Army
Fluffy wingman
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Harold Johnson, with 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 82nd Combat
Aviation Brigade, holds up “Fluffy,” a dog given to him by his daughter for good luck, at Fort A.P. Hill, Va.
‘Fluffy’ flies every mission with Johnson, including when he flew in Afghanistan during a deployment.
Bergdahl’s fear of commander seen
as symptom of his mental condition
BY NANCY MONTGOMERY
Stars and Stripes
Bowe Bergdahl believed in an
honor code that demanded action
to right wrongs, no matter how futile the effort. He believed that a
man should never bow to a corrupt
system. And he also believed that
his brigade commander might try
to kill his own soldiers by sending
them on a suicide mission.
Bergdahl’s belief about his brigade commander was a paranoid
symptom of his “schizotypal personality disorder,” a serious mental health condition diagnosed last
year by an Army psychiatrist, the
podcast “Serial” revealed on its
Friday program.
Friday’s podcast was the second of a two-part episode that
explored Bergdahl’s motivations
in walking off his Afghanistan
combat outpost in 2009. The U.S.
Army sergeant was recovered in a
controversial 2014 prisoner swap
after five years of torture, starvation and isolation by his Taliban
captors.
Symptoms of the personality disorder, experts say, include
paranoia, incorrect perception
of and interpretation of events,
magical thinking, eccentric dress
and speech, and extreme social
anxiety. Personality disorders
usually become apparent after
adolescence and are difficult to
treat.
“It really does tell the story
of Bowe — unfortunately, you
know?” said Michael Valdovinos, a psychologist who was part
of the debriefing team that met
with Bergdahl after the soldier’s
recovery.
Valdovinos — who podcast host
Sarah Koenig said had Bergdahl’s
permission to speak about him
— was critical of how the Army allowed the soldier to enlist in 2008
after he’d washed out of Coast
Guard boot camp two years earlier, diagnosed with “adjustment
disorder with depression.”
“Somewhere, the ball was
dropped,” Valdovinos said.
Yet Dr. Elspeth Cameron
Ritchie, a forensic psychiatrist
and formerly the psychiatric
consultant to the Army surgeon
general, told the program that
Bergdahl’s waiver was not unusual or especially alarming. She
said the Army relies on recruits
to self-report problems — which
Bergdahl apparently did — and
that any interview with a psychiatrist usually wouldn’t determine a
recruit’s mental fitness. The stress
of basic training tests a recruit’s
suitability, she said, and Bergdahl
did well.
Bergdahl was, by all accounts,
an odd young man, from an isolated, home-schooled background,
steeped in romantic ideas about
principled warriors. Friends described him as gentlemanly and
protective, but they also found that
he had unrealistic expectations
and was prone to making severe
judgments when disappointed.
His platoon mates also noticed
his unusual behavior — he removed his mattress to sleep on the
bed frame, and smoked a pipe instead of hanging out with them.
But no one anticipated that he’d
walk off the base because doing so
was so foolhardy and presumptuous and a betrayal of his fellow
soldiers. “He broke this intimate
bond that we all share with each
other,” John Thurman, a platoon
mate, told the podcast.
Bergdahl told officials that he
planned to hike 20 miles to a larger base to report what he viewed
as his commander’s dangerous
leadership. Bergdahl had concluded, after the men had been reprimanded for a photograph taken
out of uniform, that the commander might send them on a suicide
mission because they’d made him
look bad.
The psychiatrist’s diagnosis
was alluded to in the U.S. Army
sergeant’s preliminary hearing on
desertion and misconduct charges
in September, when his lawyers
discussed what they called an unspecified “severe mental disease
or defect.” The Army’s position is
that Bergdahl is responsible and
accountable for his actions because he understood what he was
doing. Charged with desertion and
misconduct, he is headed to courtmartial in August.
Screenwriter Mark Boal, who
taped some 25 hours of interviews
with Bergdahl, told Koenig that
the soldier’s diagnosed personality disorder should not obscure
what he regarded as Bergdahl’s
legitimate criticisms of the Army.
Of course his commander wasn’t
planning to send his soldiers on a
suicide mission, Boal said, but he
had put their lives at risk to retrieve a piece of equipment.
“To simply say, ‘That’s just
the everyday, normal Army life’
and shrug it off and say ‘Who
cares?,’ that’s a huge problem,”
Bergdahl says on the podcast.
“That shouldn’t be acceptable to
anyone.”
montgomery.nancy@stripes.com
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Strategic gains give Russia upper hand in Syria
BY JOHN VANDIVER
Stars and Stripes
STUTTGART,
Germany
— Unity between air and ground
forces and a clear objective have
enabled Russia to turn the tide of
the Syrian civil war, reverse the
fortunes of its longtime ally President Bashar Assad and leave the
already muddled American strategy in Syria in tatters.
Rather than finding himself
stuck in a quagmire, as was widely predicted in the West, Russian
President Vladimir Putin has
seized control of events and established himself — and not President
Barack
Obama — as the
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indispensable
power broker in
a crisis that has
killed more than 250,000 people,
displaced half the Syrian population and unleashed waves of refugees whose presence threatens to
wreck the European Union.
“They have mastered the game
by very effective tactics and they
are on the winning side,” said
Marc Pierini, a former European
Union ambassador to Syria. “The
best the West can hope for is a political arrangement dominated by
the regime.”
When Russia intervened in
Syria in September, Assad’s position seemed untenable as a
mix of opposition forces, some
backed by the United States, and
the Islamic State group gained
ground. A year after the U.S. and
its allies began bombing Islamic
State targets in Syria, the Russians entered the war to shore up
Assad, launching a massive air
campaign the West said focused
mainly on U.S.-backed Syrian opposition forces, rather than the
Islamic State group.
And unlike the U.S., which
failed at attempts to develop
enough reliable local forces, Russia has been able to coordinate its
air campaign with effective partners on the ground — the Syrian
army and its Iranian allies.
Those tactical advantages are
now on full display around the
northwestern city of Aleppo,
whose fall to the regime could
deliver a decisive blow to the
five-year rebellion, carving out
an expanding swath for Assad in
Syria’s west.
Meanwhile, the U.S. efforts to
train a Syrian opposition force
have widely been deemed a disaster. The lone effective ground
partner for the Americans have
been Syrian Kurds, who now are
taking advantage of Russia’s airstrikes around Aleppo to seize
territory north of the city along
Turkey’s border.
U.S. support of the Kurds, is putting at risk the U.S’s 60-year alliance with Turkey, which views the
Kurdish militia in Syria, the YPG,
as its top enemy and fears the YPG
could secure an enclave along the
Turkish border and link up with
Turkish Kurds, whom Ankara has
been battling for months.
Turkey, whose Incirlik Air Base
is key to a U.S. airstrike campaign
against the Islamic State group in
Iraq and Syria, has lashed out at
RUSSIAN D EFENSE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE /AP
A Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target in Syria. Russian air support has helped turn the tide
in the Syrian civil war in favor of President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally of Russia.
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV/AP
Russian air force technicians service a Russian fighter jet at
Hemeimeem airbase in Syria on Oct. 22.
Washington over the issue in a
sign of conflicting priorities.
Now, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under pressure to
stem the flow of refugees pouring into Europe, has revived talk
of instituting a no-fly zone over
Syria, a move Washington has
long been cool to.
Merkel, during a news conference Wednesday, said rather
than establish such a safe zone
by force, her plan would require
the consent of the Assad regime,
underscoring how little leverage
the West possesses when dealing
with Russia in Syria. Russia already has brushed the idea aside.
Short of a dramatic reversal in
American policy — one willing to
risk confrontation with Moscow
— Western calls for a halt to hostilities in Syria amount to more
wishful thinking than strategy,
critics of U.S. policy say.
“I think we need to establish
a no-fly zone to start to stabilize
parts of Syria,” said Stephen
Szabo, a security analyst with the
Transatlantic Academy in Washington. “If it comes to a conflict
with Russia through miscalculation, so be it.”
Merkel’s public flirting with
the idea of a no-fly zone, a reversal from past statements, is part
of a percolating focus on the idea
of setting up safe havens for civilians in Syria.
In a Feb. 9 op-ed in The Washington Post, Syria observers Michael Ignatieff and Leon Wieseltier
argued that failure to establish
such a zone would make the U.S.
complicit in war crimes, given the
toll on civilians in Aleppo.
“Operating under a NATO umbrella, the United States could
use its naval and air assets in
the region to establish a no-fly
zone from Aleppo to the Turkish border and make clear that
it would prevent the continued
bombardment of civilians and
refugees by any party, including
the Russians.”
“If the Russians and Syrians
sought to prevent humanitarian
protection and resupply of the
city, they would face the military
consequences,” the authors said.
A series of safe zones backed
by U.S.-led coalition fire power
could force Putin to the negotiating table on less favorable terms,
said Szabo, the security analyst.
However, he said, the chances of
the White House taking such ac-
tion were remote.
“They (the Russians) know we
have air superiority. He (Putin)
will push as far as he can until he
gets push back,” Szabo said.
The question is whether the
strategic stakes for the U.S. in
Syria are high enough to test Putin’s resolve.
“A no-fly zone is a very difficult
bet,” said Pierini, a security analyst at Carnegie Europe, a think
tank in Brussels. “This was a
good idea the day before yesterday. Doing it in 2012 would have
meant something. Now, with this
massive and highly capable Russian presence, it is a very dangerous situation.”
Despite a deal negotiated last
week in Munich between the West
and Russia for a cessation of hostilities, international observers
say Russian airstrikes continue
in force.
As the civil war steadily intensified in Syria, the U.S. has
largely stood on the sidelines,
focusing its energy on the campaign against the Islamic State
group in Iraq and arguing that
fighting in Syria could only be
ended through political dialogue.
Long before the Russian military
campaign, the White House resisted calls to arm rebel forces
in Syria. While the policy of the
administration was that “Assad
must go,” the White House was
skeptical about whether a credible opposition force existed that
was worth arming.
Critics from all sides, such as
Republican hawk Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, who is now
running for president, have argued that a more robust plan to
support a secular Syrian opposition would have made a difference. Obama also rejected calls
to establish a no-fly zone over
Syria, which would have prevented regime fighter planes from
carrying out strikes on rebel
and civilian positions in Syria,
but also immersed the U.S. in a
messy civil war.
The debate over a no-fly zone
now comes as the Assad regime’s
siege on Aleppo sends thousands
more civilians to Syria’s border
with Turkey, an upheaval that
could eventually result in another
tide of Europe-bound refugees.
And it further complicates the
U.S. relationship with its NATO
ally Turkey and its nominal allies
on the ground in Syria, the Kurds.
For Russia, there are no such
complications, and in recent
months, its willingness to align
with those willing to hammer
anti-Assad forces, has brought
about an alliance between Russia
and the Kurds, who view Washington as an unreliable partner.
“The intentions of Russia are
very clear and very transparent,”
said Pierini. “Now we have alliances and allegiances shifting
for good and bad reasons. Syrian
Kurds fighting in support of the
U.S. and Russia to the great despair of the Turks. It could all get
a lot worse.”
One concern is Turkey, anxious
about Syrian Kurds carving out
territory near its border, could
launch a ground offensive that
would bring it into direct conflict
with Russia. That could prompt
Turkey to appeal to the U.S.-led
NATO alliance for support. However, the U.S. has warned Turkey against sending in forces,
and Ankara appears reluctant to
step inside Syria for direct confrontation without U.S. backing.
But it has been shelling Kurdish
positions for several days and demanded they withdraw from territory near the border.
“Turkey’s original objectives
in Syria’s civil war — to extend
its regional influence and ensure the swift removal of Bashar
al-Assad — now seem a distant
dream,” said The Soufan Group,
a New York-based security firm,
in an analysis of the latest developments. “Far from emerging triumphant from the current mess in
the Middle East, Turkey appears
to be the region’s biggest loser.”
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Big tech firms joining Apple in encryption fight
BY
AND
BRANDON BAILEY
M ICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — The tech industry
is starting to line up with Apple in its fight
against the federal government over the
encryption it uses to keep iPhones secure.
Earlier this week, a U.S. magistrate ordered Apple to help investigators break
into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooters. Apple has
until next Tuesday to challenge that ruling, setting the stage for a legal clash that
could determine whether tech companies
or government authorities get the final
say on just how secure devices like smartphones can be.
CEO Tim Cook decried the order on
Tuesday, saying it would degrade iPhone
security and make users more vulnerable
to spies and cyberthieves. Increasingly,
other prominent tech companies agree.
“We stand with @tim_cook and Apple
(and thank him for his leadership)!” Twit-
ter chief executive Jack Dorsey wrote in a
tweet Thursday afternoon.
In a statement late Thursday, Facebook
said it condemns terrorism and also appreciates the essential work of law enforcement in keeping people safe. But it said it
will “fight aggressively” against requirements for companies to weaken the security of their systems.
“These demands would create a chilling
precedent and obstruct companies’ efforts
to secure their products,” the statement
said.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai had earlier
voiced support for Apple in a series of
tweets. “Forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise users’ privacy,” Pichai wrote on Wednesday, adding that the
case “could be a troubling precedent.”
Apple’s recent iPhones use encryption
security that Apple, itself, can’t unlock.
The government isn’t asking Apple to help
break the iPhone’s encryption directly,
but to disable other security measures
that prevent attempts to guess the phone’s
passcode.
Cook argues that once such a tool is
available, “the technique could be used
over and over again, on any number of devices.” Law enforcement insists that safeguards could be employed to limit use of
the workaround to the particular phone
at hand. On Tuesday, Cook posted a 1,117word open letter that contended the FBI’s
request might have implications “far beyond the legal case at hand.”
For months, Cook has engaged in a
sharp, public debate with government officials over his company’s decision to shield
the data of iPhone users with strong encryption — essentially locking up people’s
photos, text messages and other data so securely that even Apple can’t get at it. Lawenforcement officials from FBI Director
James Comey on down have complained
that terrorists and criminals may use that
encryption as a shield.
While tech companies have spoken
against broad government surveillance
in the past, the Obama administration re-
cently has sought to enlist the tech industry’s help in fighting terrorism. Several
companies recently have heeded the administration’s request for voluntary efforts
aimed at countering terrorist postings on
social media.
Civil liberties groups warned the fallout
from the San Bernardino dispute could extend beyond Apple.
“This is asking a company to build a
digital defect, a design flaw, into their
products,” said Nuala O’Connor of the
Center for Democracy and Technology, a
Washington-based group that has criticized
government surveillance. In a statement,
the center warned that other companies
could face similar orders in the future.
Others said a government victory could
encourage regimes in China and other
countries to make similar requests for
access to smartphone data. Apple sells
millions of iPhones in China, which has
become the company’s second-largest
market.
Calif. board rejects
measure specifying
condom use in porn
BY JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — One after
another, scores of people who
make porn films for a living
pleaded their case to California
workplace safety officials: Don’t
force condoms or safety goggles
or other devices designed to stop
the spread of sexually transmitted
diseases on them because those
devices will simply stop people
from watching porn films and
soon they’ll have no jobs at all.
“All of us are here for the same
reason. We want to keep California workers safe,” porn actress
SiouxsieQ, who also reports on
the industry for various publications, told the state Division of
Occupational Safety and Health’s
Standards Board during a public
hearing Thursday.
But adopting regulations specifically requiring the use of condoms and other safety measures
that audiences don’t like would
only keep people from watching
films and destroy a multibilliondollar business that employs
thousands, she and dozens of others told the board.
Oregon House approves
minimum wage increase
SALEM, Ore. The Oregon
House of Representatives has
approved landmark legislation
that not only raises the state’s
minimum wage for all workers to
the highest level in the country,
but does so through an unprecedented, three-tiered system that
sets different rates by geographic
region.
Senate Bill 1532 passed Thurs-
The panel, which had been
poised to approve the measure,
eventually voted it down when
only three members gave their
support. Four yes votes from the
seven-member panel were required for passage. The vote was
3-2 in favor, with one member absent and one board position currently open.
The panel will now begin considering a new worker-safety
measure for the porn industry,
said Cal/OSHA spokeswoman
Julia Bernstein.
Board members appeared influenced by the large number of
industry representatives, ranging
from actors to writers to directors, who argued forcefully but
politely during five hours of testimony. If the proposed regulations
didn’t destroy their multibilliondollar industry, they said, they
would likely force it underground.
Doing that, they added, could be
even worse for performers by
eliminating existing safeguards
such as the industry’s requirement that actors be tested every
14 days for sexually transmitted
diseases.
day, mostly along party lines in a
narrow, 32-26 vote. It will now go
to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown
for final signoff. Brown has said
she supports the proposal.
The bill will increase wages
gradually over six years. By 2022,
the state’s current $9.25-per-hour
minimum — already one of the
highest in the nation — would
climb to $14.75 in metro Portland, $13.50 in smaller cities such
as Salem and Eugene, and $12.50
in rural communities.
From The Associated Press
PROVIDED
BY
SHAWN WINRICH /AP
In this image taken from video, a helicopter crashes at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Thursday. The private
helicopter with five people aboard crashed and sank, leaving a teenage passenger in critical condition.
Eyewitness: Helicopter fell
from sky into Pearl Harbor
BY JENNIFER SINCO K ELLEHER
AND AUDREY MC AVOY
Associated Press
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii —
Tourist Shawn Winrich was taking photos of Pearl Harbor when
he saw a helicopter “essentially
coming straight at us” at a popular tourist destination that attracts thousands of visitors daily.
He switched to video, recording as the helicopter lost altitude
and dipped closer to the water.
“All of a sudden, it essentially
just fell out of the sky and crashlanded in the water,” said the
Madison, Wis., man.
He stopped filming and jumped
in to help.
All five people on board made
it out, but one passenger — a 16year-old boy who was trapped
underwater and had to be cut
free from his seat, according to
witnesses — was hospitalized in
critical condition.
“We are told bystanders
jumped in to help rescue these
patients from the water,” said
Shayne Enright, spokeswoman
for Honolulu Emergency Services Department.
One of them was Chris Gardner, a tour guide with Keawe Adventures who was with a group
of tourists at the Pearl Harbor
Visitor Center when he heard the
crash.
“I took off my shirt and dove in,”
he said, describing how he, a Navy
sailor, a federal police officer and
another man took turns diving
to the submerged helicopter and
trying to free a passenger with a
knife. “He was strapped into his
seat in the back of the aircraft.”
U.S. Navy spokeswoman Agnes
Tauyan identified the aircraft involved in Thursday’s crash as a
Bell 206. The names of the five
people on board were not imme-
diately released.
The helicopter crashed about
20 feet offshore, right next to the
visitor center’s lawn, said Winrich’s daughter, Justice Winrich.
She watched as it “plopped down”
into the water.
“I saw it, like, as it was coming
in, and it looked pretty normal. It
didn’t look like it was shaking or
anything,” Justice Winrich said.
She thought it was strange that
the helicopter was that close to
people.
As it got closer to the water, she
saw some dark smoke coming out
of the back of the helicopter, and
it started shaking slightly.
Winrich saw three people get
out of the helicopter immediately
and start swimming to shore.
“It was crazy,” she said. “You
go on vacation and you never
think you’re going to see something like that.”
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Mixed
legacy
Sanders headed
vets committee
in time of turmoil
BY H EATH DRUZIN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders is either a dogged fighter for veterans’
benefits, a leftist blinded to a nationwide
veterans’ care scandal by his faith in government, or a pragmatic compromiser who
reached across the aisle when major legislation for vets was on the line.
As the former chairman of the Senate
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the Vermont
independent-turned-Democratic
presidential contender has had more direct influence on veterans’ policy than any
of the other remaining seven candidates
and backers and critics have wildly divergent views about his legacy. He served as
chairman from 2013 to 2015, a span that
included the revelation of what has become
an ongoing scandal in health care and benefits that cost former Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki his
job.
But for now, Sanders’ record as committee chairman is being defined by a littleknown employee appeals board keeping
the VA from disciplining senior leaders accused of wrongdoing.
Sanders has long fought for increased
benefits for military veterans, but his signature legislative achievement was the
2014 Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act, a law aimed at reforming the VA that was hammered out during
heated negotiations with Senate and House
Republicans. Some credit him for getting
that law through a deeply polarized Congress, while others blast him for not doing
enough to respond to the nationwide VA
scandal that broke in the spring of 2014.
One thing everyone agrees on: Sanders insisted that the bill include language
that would continue to allow senior VA executives to appeal discipline to the Merit
Systems Protection Board, which handles
federal worker cases. Federal unions saw
the board as vital employee protection, and
Sanders was able to get it into the final bill
despite Republican objections. Sanders’
compromise was to include language giving some veterans the ability to seek private care through their VA coverage, even
though he strongly opposed privatization
of the VA.
This year, the quasi-judicial merit board
has overturned the demotions or firing
of three senior VA executives, even as its
judges confirmed the employees’ wrongdoing, embarrassing the VA and calling
into question whether suspect executives
will face any punishment.
Lawmakers and VA officials have blasted the merit board’s decisions, and VA Secretary Bob McDonald has endorsed a plan
to allow firing senior executives with no
CARLOS BONGIOANNI /Stars and Stripes
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., then chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, questions Secretary of Veterans Affairs
nominee Robert McDonald at his confirmation hearing on July 22, 2014.
AP
Then-Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric
Shinseki arrives on Capitol Hill on May
15, 2014, to testify before the Senate
Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on
the state of Veterans Affairs health care.
appeals process.
“I have much more faith in the VA secretary than I do the Merit Systems Protection
Board,” House Committee on Veterans’
Affairs chairman Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla.,
who helped negotiate the 2014 law with
Sanders, said in an email to Stars and
Stripes. “I wanted to cut the MSPB out of
the disciplinary process for VA senior executives in order to give the secretary the
ability to quickly discipline those who deserved it. Sen. Sanders, however, insisted
that the MSPB remain involved. In order to
pass a law to help veterans suffering from
the VA scandal, we had to compromise.”
A former aide who advised Sanders at
the time, said Sanders and negotiating
partner Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had a
difficult path to passage.
“It was very important to the senator to
have some level of appellate rights for individuals so we didn’t see potential firings
that were without merit,” said the aide, who
asked to be anonymous because her job
prevents her from speaking to reporters..
“There was a lot of non-willingness of
folks to improve veterans’ health benefits,”
she said. “I think he had a strong negotiating partner in John McCain, which really
helped that. You had two people that knew
they had to act.”
After the bill passed, McCain praised
Sanders.
“Bernie Sanders worked very hard
when he was chairman of the Veterans Affairs’ Committee,” McCain told the New
York Times. “He and I had many disagreements, but we were able to come together,
finally, after very spirited discussions.”
One veterans group that has been especially critical of Sanders is the Iraq and
Afghanistan Veterans of America. Its chief
policy officer, Matt Miller, called the 2014
bill a “Band-Aid on a gaping wound” that
did not address systemic problems.
“As chairman, Sanders’ main purpose
was to provide oversight over VA,” Miller
said in an email to Stars and Stripes. “In
this task, he failed. Instead of oversight,
Sanders refused to acknowledge the severity of the scandal, holding only one related
hearing that focused on what the VA was
getting right.”
Sanders gets high marks among many
veterans’ advocates for bringing them to
Capitol Hill to ask about priorities for legislation and improving benefits.
Disabled American Veterans Executive
Director Garry Augustine recalled when
Sanders brought him and other veterans’
advocates to his office at the height of the
VA crisis in 2014. “He not only listened,
but he really wanted to hear what we had
to say,” Augustine said.
Others fault Sanders for being too slow to
act as revelations surfaced in April about
manipulated wait times at the Phoenix VA
Medical Center — the beginning of a nationwide scandal.
As allegations unfolded, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, chaired by
Miller, held a flurry of hearings. Sanders,
meanwhile, called for an independent investigation and said he wouldn’t make a
judgment before getting the results.
“There is, right now, as we speak, a concerted effort to undermine the VA,” Sanders said at a town-hall meeting in May
2014.
Republicans on the Senate veterans’
committee called for hearings in an open
letter to Sanders on May 22, 2014, eight
days before Shinseki was forced to resign.
“It is obvious from the recent VA scandals that the department desperately needs
vigorous oversight,” Sen. Richard Burr, RN.C., said in the letter. “It is our mission
as a committee to provide oversight and
yet the chairman has chosen to ignore requests for hearings.”
Sanders’ office declined a request to
interview the senator, instead releasing
a statement saying Sanders successfully
fought to get the VA the resources it needed to improve service to veterans.
“The idea that Senator Sanders — in his
role as chairman of the veterans’ committee — acted slowly seems to be based on
the idea that he didn’t hold as many hearings as the House did,” the statement said.
“But you have to ask — what did those
hearings lead to? Senator Sanders’ approach was to focus on legislation to fix
the problem — to talk to people at VA, talk
to the veterans’ service organizations that
represent millions of veterans throughout
the country — to understand the root cause
of the problems and find a practical way to
address them.”
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Drafting women
a wedge issue
for GOP hopefuls
BY GREG JAFFE
The Washington Post
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Worshiping here at the Shandon Baptist
Church, just outside the Army’s
Fort Jackson, S.C., Katie Smith
has heard about the idea endorsed by some GOP presidential
candidates to register women for
the military draft.
She does not like it.
“As a Christian, I believe
women are called to be with
their families,” said Smith, 34.
“If women are pushed even further in the military, I worry we’re
going to see the family breakdown even more.”
The odds that 18-year-old
women might someday be drafted into the military and forced to
go through basic training here at
Fort Jackson, the Army’s biggest
training site for new recruits, are
remote at best. So how did the
issue become a subject of heated
debate and division inside the Republican primary?
The answer starts with Sen.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and a policy
change in the White House.
The Obama administration decided in early February to open
up all combat jobs to women,
prompting the question of whether women must register for the
draft, as men do. Republican
presidential candidates Jeb Bush
and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,
said that they should, leading
an incredulous Cruz to rail this
week: “Have we lost our faculties? Is political correctness so
consuming that we’re not willing
to say that’s just nuts?”
For Cruz, who has cast himself
as a true, traditional conservative,
the possibility that women might
be forced to register for the draft
offered a perfect opening to draw
a contrast between himself and
more establishment-friendly Republicans, like Bush and Rubio.
The issue has little to do with
military effectiveness, but has
deep roots in the nation’s culture
wars going back to the 1970s and
1980s. Here at Shandon Baptist
Church, the question of drafting
women quickly pivots to broader
topics such as the role of women in
society and whether they should
be treated the same as men.
Shandon is home to more than
7,000 worshipers, including a big
contingent of soldiers from Fort
Jackson. Each year, more than
36,000 male and female recruits
endure 10 weeks of basic training
here before moving on to other
bases and units.
With the crucial South Carolina primary just days away, Cruz
in particular has used the issue to
appeal to the conservative, evangelical voters who feel as though
they have been on the losing end
of the country’s culture wars for
the past eight years. Cruz has
often cast the issue in the harshest terms.
“As the father of two daughters,
I can tell you, we are not going to
draft American women into military combat,” Cruz said to cheers
Tuesday in South Carolina. He
promised to review the Marine Corps’ failed request to bar
women from combat jobs, saying
that he “would not simply bow
down to political correctness.”
His stand has drawn cheers
from some conservatives who
sense that Cruz has latched on to
an important wedge issue. “A big
deal,” Bill Kristol, editor of the
Weekly Standard, tweeted about
Cruz’s stand. “Cruz can distinguish himself from the rest of the
field and steal some of Trump’s
anti-P.C. thunder.”
PAUL SANCYA /AP
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Thursday in Gaffney,
S.C.
Pope vs. Trump: ‘Not Christian’
to only build border walls
BY NICOLE WINFIELD
AND JULIE PACE
Associated Press
ABOARD
THE
PAPAL
PLANE — Thrusting himself
into the heated American presidential campaign, Pope Francis
declared Thursday that Donald
Trump is “not Christian” if he
wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along
the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump fired back ferociously,
saying it was “disgraceful” for a
religious leader to question a person’s faith.
The rare back-and-forth between pontiff and presidential
candidate was the latest astonishing development in an American election already roiled by
Trump’s free-wheeling rhetoric
and controversial policy proposals, particularly on immigration.
It also underscored the popular
pope’s willingness to needle U.S.
politicians on hot-button issues.
Francis’ comments came hours
after he concluded a visit to Mex-
ico, where he prayed at the border for people who died trying
to reach the U.S. While speaking
to reporters on the papal plane,
he was asked what he thought of
Trump’s campaign pledge to build
a wall along the entire length of
the border and to expel millions
of people in the U.S. illegally.
“A person who thinks only about
building walls, wherever they may
be, and not building bridges, is not
Christian,” he said. While Francis
said he would “give the benefit
of the doubt” because he had not
heard Trump’s border plans independently, he added, “I say only
that this man is not a Christian if
he has said things like that.”
Trump, a Presbyterian and
the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, responded within minutes.
“For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,” he said at a campaign stop
in South Carolina, which holds a
key primary on Saturday. “I am
proud to be a Christian, and as
president I will not allow Chris-
tianity to be consistently attacked
and weakened.”
Trump also raised the prospect of the Islamic State extremist group attacking the Vatican,
saying that if that happened, “the
pope would have only wished and
prayed that Donald Trump would
have been president because this
would not have happened.”
The billionaire businessman
said later Thursday that he was
“totally respectful” of the pope
but stood by his initial response.
Francis, the first pope from
Latin America, has been a vocal
proponent of compassionate immigration policies. In an address
to Congress during his visit to
Washington last year, he urged
lawmakers to respond to immigrants “in a way which is always
humane, just and fraternal.”
He also irked Republicans on
the same trip with his forceful call
for international action to address
climate change. His comments
prompted some GOP presidential
candidates to suggest the pontiff
stay out of politics.
Poll: Voters increasingly see Sanders as electable
BY LISA LERER AND EMILY SWANSON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The more Democrats
learn about Bernie Sanders, the more they
appear to like him.
A greater percentage of Democratic registered voters view the Vermont senator as
likable, honest, competent and compassionate than they did two months ago, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
Seventy-two percent now believe he could
win the general election, a 21-percentagepoint increase from when the survey was
conducted in December.
The findings underscore the challenge
facing Hillary Clinton as she enters the
Democratic contest’s pivotal spring stretch,
with primaries across the country.
Though Sanders is gaining ground with
Democrat voters, Clinton maintains a commanding lock on the party’s leadership. An
Associated Press survey of superdelegates,
who are influential in picking the nominee,
found that 449 of the party insiders back
Clinton, while only 19 support Sanders.
If they continue to back Clinton overwhelmingly, Sanders would have to win the
remaining primary contests by a landslide
to catch up.
Seventy-four percent of Democratic registered voters say they have a favorable view
of Clinton, compared with 64 percent who
say the same of Sanders. That’s a 10-point
increase for Sanders from December.
But 16 percent of Democratic registered
voters still say they don’t yet know enough
about Sanders to form an opinion.
Since December, Sanders has gained
on other measures. Six in 10 say he’s at
least somewhat decisive, after half said
so in the earlier poll. And 64 percent call
him competent, after 55 percent said so in
December.
Sanders is also more likely to be viewed
as very or somewhat honest than he was in
December, 64 percent to 56 percent. Clinton is viewed as honest by 55 percent of
Democrats.
Sanders is the only candidate in either
party who’s viewed as somewhat or very
compassionate, honest and likable by at
least half of all registered voters, and has a
significant advantage over Clinton among
all voters on each of those measures.
Just 30 percent of all voters consider
Clinton honest.
But the poll also finds that Clinton maintains a variety of advantages over Sanders.
Nine in 10 Democratic registered voters say
they think she could win a general election,
a 16-point margin over Sanders. She has a
13-point advantage on being viewed as at
least somewhat decisive, and a 15-point advantage on being viewed as competent.
The AP-GfK Poll of 1,033 adults, including 389 Democratic or Democraticleaning registered voters, was conducted
online Feb. 11-15, using a sample drawn
from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of
sampling error for all respondents is plus
or minus 3.4 percentage points, and is plus
or minus 5.5 percentage points for Democratic voters.
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GOP closes ranks on
opposing Obama nominee
BY JOSH LEDERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans worked to close ranks
Thursday around their leader’s
opposition to President Barack
Obama picking a new Supreme
Court justice, arguing they would
be well within their right to refuse to confirm a nominee.
A day after signs of splintering
emerged, Republicans mounted
a display of unity in the form of
a joint op-ed by Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
of Iowa. Other Republicans appeared to walk back earlier comments that had opened the door to
granting a hearing and possibly a
vote to Obama’s choice to replace
Justice Antonin Scalia.
The series of apparent U-turns
illustrated the turmoil in the
Republican Party about how to
handle the unexpected death of
Scalia, a conservative stalwart.
“No one disputes the president’s
authority to nominate a successor
to Scalia,” McConnell and Grassley wrote in The Washington Post.
But they argued that inconvenient
as it may be for Obama, “the Constitution grants the Senate the
power to provide — or as the case
may be, withhold — its consent.”
Tellingly, the senators didn’t
say if Obama’s nominee should at
least get a hearing.
Earlier this week, Grassley
— whose committee would hold
hearings — indicated he would
wait to see who Obama nominated
before deciding about hearings.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska,
had broken with fellow Republicans on Wednesday by declaring
that the Senate should hold hearings on Obama’s nominee. She,
too, seemed to change her tune
on Thursday, taking to Twitter to
urge Obama to “follow a tradition
embraced by both parties” by
yielding to the next president.
Obama is expected to look
closely at a number of appeals
NASA/AP
A capsule loaded with 1.5 tons of trash is released from the
International Space Station on Friday.
Astronauts give
trash can the boot
BY M ARCIA DUNN
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
The International Space Station
just got a whole lot tidier.
A pair of NASA astronauts released a capsule loaded with 1.5
tons of trash Friday. It should reenter the atmosphere and burn
up over the Pacific on Saturday.
Commander Scott Kelly and
Timothy Kopra, the Americans
on board, sent computer commands to set the Cygnus free.
Kelly, who’s less than two
weeks from wrapping up an unprecedented yearlong mission
A LEX BRANDON /AP
Two people look at the small memorial for Justice Antonin Scalia in
front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Friday.
court judges, including some who
meet Biden’s benchmark. Sri
Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was confirmed by a
vote of 97-0 less than three years
ago. Senators also unanimously
confirmed Jane Kelly in 2013 to
the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit
Court of Appeals.
GOP aides circulated a comment that current Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of
Nevada made during a 2005 debate over Republican President
George W. Bush’s nominees.
“Nowhere in (the Constitution)
does it say the Senate has a duty
to give presidential appointees a
vote.”
A Reid spokesman said his remarks were about other federal
judgeships.
At least one former justice was
siding with Democrats in calling
for the vacancy on the nine-member court to be filled expeditiously.
Sandra Day O’Connor, nominated
by President Ronald Reagan, told
Fox 10 in Phoenix that she disagreed with those calling to wait
for the next president.
“I think we need somebody
there now to do the job,” she said,
“and let’s get on with it.”
Mourners to honor Scalia at Supreme Court
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The casket carrying Justice
Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme
Court where he spent nearly three decades.
Thousands of mourners — from the president
and members of Congress to former justices and
tourists — will pay their respects Friday as the
casket rests in the court’s Great Hall.
The justice’s former law clerks will take turns
standing vigil throughout the day and night in
a tradition most recently observed after the
2005 death of former Chief Justice William
Rehnquist.
Scalia’s casket arrived Friday morning. Supreme Court police carried it up the court
steps, with former clerks following as honorary
pallbearers.
The casket was placed on the Lincoln Catafalque, the platform on which Abraham Lincoln’s
coffin rested in the Capitol rotunda in 1865.
A private ceremony will take place at the court
at 9:30 a.m. Scalia’s casket was to be on public
view from 10:30 a.m. until 8 p.m.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama planned to pay their respects on
Friday, and Vice President Joe Biden and his wife
Jill Biden are set to attend Scalia’s funeral Mass
on Saturday at the Basilica of the National Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
Scalia was found dead on Saturday in his room
at a Texas hunting resort. The 79-year-old jurist
was appointed to the court in 1986 by President
Ronald Reagan. He is survived by his wife, Maureen, nine children and 36 grandchildren.
for NASA, thanked everyone who
worked on the Cygnus.
Virginia-based Orbital ATK
plans to launch another Cygnus
with more supplies from Cape
Canaveral, Fla., next month.
SpaceX, meanwhile, another
commercial cargo carrier for
NASA, is aiming to make a delivery in the next few months.
NASA has handed off space station shipments to private business
so it can focus on getting astronauts
beyond low-Earth orbit, namely to
Mars. It hopes to do the same with
space station crews next year. For
now, U.S. astronauts are hitching
rides with the Russians.
Critics challenge Baylor
claim on sex offenses
BY
AND
DAVID WARREN
R EESE DUNKLIN
Associated Press
DALLAS — Baylor University
did not report a single instance of
sexual assault in a four-year span,
according to federal statistics, a
finding that stands in contrast to
the many other schools.
The Baptist school of 16,000
students in Waco, Texas, has
faced mounting criticism over its
response to sex assaults on campus, and some critics contend administrators have failed to fully
investigate complaints.
“There’s always a red flag
that goes up when a school reports zero incidents,” said Neena
Chaudhry, senior counsel for the
National Women’s Law Center. “I
don’t think it’s a good sign when
you’re not getting any reports because it’s probably not true.”
Among nearly 200 public and
private institutions in the U.S.
with similar enrollment, Baylor was one of about two dozen
schools that reported no offenses.
Colleges and universities are
required to report crime statistics to the Education Department. Prosecutors, alumni and
students said they were dismayed
by statistics that showed Baylor
reported no sexual assaults from
2008 to 2011.
It is “ridiculous” to think that
no assaults occurred at Baylor
during those years, said McLennan County Assistant District
Attorney Hilary LaBorde. At a
seminar at the school last year,
she said, she learned that fewer
than 10 percent of women who
contact the campus’ Title IX office go on to file a police report.
After that four-year span, Baylor reported an increasing number of assaults: two in 2012, six in
2013 and four in 2014. Both TCU
and SMU also reported increases
over the same time — with TCU
reporting 31 cases and SMU 16.
The rise coincides with implementation of the federal Violence
Against Women Act, which affords more protections for sex assault victims, and a 2011 warning
by the Education Department that
schools have a legal responsibility
to investigate allegations of sexual assault immediately, even if a
criminal probe is not finished.
Stefanie Mundhenk, a 2015
Baylor graduate who says she was
raped last year by a fellow student,
criticized the school’s response.
Mundhenk said some staff offered support and guidance, but
there were obstacles, such as the
campus counseling service that
ultimately decided it could not
help. The university’s investigation determined the other student
“was not responsible,” she said,
and campus police told her the
matter would not be forwarded
for prosecution because of lack of
sufficient evidence.
“I wasn’t there for pity. I was
there for justice,” she said, “and
justice wasn’t done.”
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China: US is militarizing South China Sea
BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
BEIJING — China on Friday accused
the U.S. of militarizing the South China
Sea, just days after it was revealed Beijing
had deployed surface-to-air missiles on an
island in the hotly disputed area.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
Hong Lei told reporters that patrols by U.S.
military aircraft and Navy vessels, along
with joint exercises involving regional partners were the true reason why concerns
were growing over peace and stability.
“The above actions have escalated tensions in the South China Sea, and that’s the
real militarization of the South China Sea,”
Hong said.
U.S. and Taiwanese officials this week
confirmed commercial satellite images
showing the missiles placed on Woody Island in the disputed Paracel chain.
China has not denied the appearance of
the missiles, but says it is entitled to defend
its territory and points to the construction
of lighthouses, weather stations and other
infrastructure undertaken to provide more
“public goods and services to the international community.”
The deployment follows China’s building of new islands by piling sand atop reefs
and then adding airstrips and military installations. The buildup is seen as part of
Beijing’s efforts to claim virtually the entire disputed sea and its resources.
Vietnam, which along with Taiwan also
claims the Paracels, issued a diplomatic
note to the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi on
Friday to demand a stop to what it called
“China’s infringement of Vietnam’s sovereignty” over the islands.
China’s action “have also threatened
peace and stability in the region as well as
security, safety, and freedom of navigation
and aviation,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh told reporters.
The Philippines, which claims waters
and features east of Woody island, on Friday said it was “gravely concerned” by reports of the missile deployments.
“Such actions negate China’s earlier
commitment not to militarize the South
China Sea,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Although not one of the six governments
with claims in the South China Sea, the
U.S. says it has a national interest in the region’s stability and freedom of navigation
and overflight in and above what are some
of the world’s busiest sea lanes.
Secretary of State John Kerry has suggested that the positioning of missiles and
other signs of increasing militarization
contradicted a public assurance from Chinese President Xi Jinping when he visited
the White House last September.
Hong’s comments represent China’s
attempt to turn that accusation back on
Washington, a cause to which it has rallied
its entirely state-controlled media outlets.
China’s “defensive deployment on Yongxing targets external military threats,” the
Communist Party newspaper Global Times
said in an editorial, using China’s name for
Woody Island. “The U.S. is bold about imposing pressure on China, and China must
make an appropriate response.”
Uganda police arrest
opposition leader
BY RODNEY MUHUMUZA
Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda — Police
in Uganda arrested opposition
leader Kizza Besigye at his party’s headquarters Friday after
heavily armed police surrounded
the building and a helicopter fired
tear gas at a crowd. Vote counting
continued in the country’s tumultuous elections.
Semujju Nganda, a spokesman
for Besigye’s Forum for Democratic Change party, said police
took Besigye to an unknown location. Afterward, they fired tear
gas and live ammunition into the
air as warning shots, as well as
detonating stun grenades.
Besigye, 59, the main rival to
President Yoweri Museveni, had
been holding a meeting with other
leaders of his party, said Ingrid
Turinawe, an aide to Besigye.
“The police basically invaded
us,” she said.
The voting Thursday suffered
delays in delivery of voting materials, especially in areas seen
as opposition strongholds. Voting
is taking place Friday at 36 polling stations in Kampala and the
neighboring district of Wakiso
where no voting took place on
Thursday.
The government also shut down
social media sites such as Twitter
and Facebook. But using virtual
private networks, or VPNs, many
Ugandans are slowly getting back
on social media.
Besigye’s party was running its
own tally center and discovered
that some of the results being announced by the election commission are a “concoction,” Turinawe
said, noting that the election commission is announcing results
according to tallies from polling
stations, not according to districts, as had been expected.
Provisional results released
Friday showed Uganda’s longtime president with an early lead
over Besigye.
Museveni, 71, has 62 percent
of the vote and Besigye has 33
percent, according to results
from about 23 percent of polling
stations across the country, as
announced by the election commission. Final results are expected Saturday. More than 15
million people were registered to
vote, with members of parliament
also up for election.
BEN CURTIS/AP
Some angry supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye flee from
military police firing warning shots while others stand their ground
Friday near his party headquarters, in Kampala, Uganda.
M ANU BRABO/AP
A volunteer hugs a woman after refugees and migrants arrive on a beach Friday after crossing the
Aegean sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos on a dingy.
Austria asylum caps highlight
EU divisions over migrants
BY LORNE COOK
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS — Austria vowed
to press ahead early on Friday
with plans to cap the number of
asylum-seekers entering the country despite claims the move would
break the law, as European Union
leaders struggled to end their fragmented approach to managing Europe’s biggest refugee emergency
since World War II.
In tense, late-night talks in
Brussels on Thursday, the leaders
also decided to hold a summit in
early March with Turkey, which
has been the source of hundreds
of thousands of people arriving
in the EU during the past year
to push Ankara to tighten border
controls.
More than 1 million people entered the EU in 2015 fleeing conflict or poverty, and some 84,000
have entered so far this year.
Overwhelmed by the numbers
and frustrated by their inability
to agree on an effective European response, some EU countries
have begun tightening border
controls or putting up fences
without warning their neighbors.
In the latest in a series of uncoordinated
and
unilateral
measures by nations, Austria announced that it would allow no
more than 80 people per day to
apply for asylum at its southern
border points, as of Friday.
But the EU’s top migration official, Dimitris Avramopoulos,
said that “Austria has a legal obligation to accept any asylum application that is made on its territory
or at its border.”
In a letter to Austrian Interior
Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner,
seen by The Associated Press,
Avramopoulos said that a ceiling on asylum-seekers “would be
plainly incompatible with Austria’s obligations” under EU and
international law.
Austria’s chancellor, Werner
Faymann, was not moved, saying
that his country would only accept 37,500 applications this year
as planned.
“Last year, we had around
6,000 more asylum applications
than Italy. We have had a lot
more than asylum-seekers than
France. And anyone who has ever
looked at a map knows that, for
example, those two countries are
larger than Austria and also have
more inhabitants,” he told reporters after the summit.
The new rift laid bare the frustration of nations destabilized by
the arrival of so many people, and
the lack of confidence that any
timely, efficient European solution can be found.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark
Rutte said he understood the reaction of countries under stress
like Austria, but he warned that
the end result could be “the
bunching up of great amounts of
people in difficult circumstances
in northern Greece.”
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No agreement
for Britain, EU
Talks on reform deal extended another day
BY JILL L AWLESS
Associated Press
VISAR K RYEZIU/AP
Opposition stance is clear
Opposition lawmakers release a tear gas canister Friday, disrupting a parliamentary session in the
Kosovo capital Pristina. Kosovo opposition has used tear gas and other violent methods to disrupt its
session several times over the last five months to convince the government to renounce its deals with
Serbia and Montenegro. The opposition coalition has given the government until Feb. 27, to resign and
call new elections in Kosovo.
Dissident arrests at 5-year high
in Cuba ahead of Obama visit
From wire reports
Even some supporters of President Barack
Obama’s moves to strengthen relations with Cuba
are questioning the timing of his planned visit to the
Communist island next month, after arrests of dissidents by Raul Castro’s government reached a fiveyear high.
Obama vowed Thursday that he’ll promote human
rights during his historic visit, the first by a sitting
American president since 1928. But more than a year
of warming relations between the nations, separated
by just 90 miles, have so far failed to slow the Cuban
government’s crackdown on political dissidents.
The Madrid-based Cuban Observatory on Human
Rights said 1,474 people, including 512 women, were
“arbitrarily” detained in January. The arrests have
been climbing since the December 2014 announcement that the two governments would improve ties.
“A presidential visit should occasion a broader
progress on the human-rights agenda. And I haven’t
seen any changes on that front,” said Christopher Sabatini, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s
School of International and Public Affairs who has
supported the rapprochement.
Sabatini said Cuba can take a number of steps to
show progress ahead of Obama’s March 21-22 visit,
including freeing its remaining political prisoners,
allowing greater freedom of expression, providing
Lions leave Kenya park,
wander neighborhood
NAIROBI, Kenya — Six lions
walked out of Nairobi National
Park and were roaming through
a residential area Friday, said
Kenyan wildlife authorities who
dispatched rangers to find the errant big cats.
The lions were first spotted at 4
a.m. near a hospital in the suburb
of Langata, and later near Kibera,
Kenya’s largest slum, said Kenya
Wildlife Service spokesman Paul
Udoto.
citizens with more access to the Internet or joining
the Organization of American States, which would
place it under the scrutiny of the regional body’s
human rights commission.
“Some of these are relatively easy to do,” he said.
“It’s not like we’re asking them to hold free and fair
elections tomorrow.”
Ric Herrero, who heads the #CubaNow advocacy
group that seeks to end the five-decade U.S. trade
embargo against the island, said “it would have been
ideal” for Obama to make the visit later but voiced
confidence in his ability to advocate for human rights
on the trip. Under Castro, 84, Cuba’s human-rights
record is rated as the worst in the Americas by Freedom House.
“We still have differences with the Cuban government that I will raise directly,” Obama said Thursday
on his Twitter account. “America will always stand
for human rights around the world.”
Obama’s visit, the first by a sitting president since
Calvin Coolidge arrived for a Latin American summit, follows administration moves aimed at making
it easier for tourists to visit and U.S. companies to do
business on the island. The president doesn’t have
the authority to completely end the trade embargo,
put in place after Raul’s brother Fidel took power and
confiscated U.S. property in a 1959 revolution. Only
Congress can do that.
It’s unclear how the lions got
out of the park, most of which is
surrounded by an electric fence.
A team of wildlife rangers
tracking the lions aims to capture them and return them to the
park, “but they are prepared for
anything,” Udoto said.
Nairobi National Park’s 45square-miles is home to endangered black rhinos, lions,
leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife. The animals roam just six
miles from downtown Nairobi,
which lies north of the park.
Occasionally lions will clash
with people on the southern side,
which is not fenced.
In 2012 six lions were killed
after the pride of eight lions attacked and killed eight goats of
Masaai herdsmen. Only about
2,000 lions are left in Kenya;
the devastating effect of years of
hunting and then poaching.
The government has announced
plans to build a railway that will
traverse part of the reserve. Conservationists have opposed the
railway line, saying it will further
damage wildlife habitat.
From The Associated Press
BRUSSELS — British Prime
Minister David Cameron faces
tough new talks with European
partners Friday after throughthe-night meetings failed to make
much progress on his demands
for a less intrusive European
Union.
Britain’s future in the union
— along with heightened tensions around Europe’s migrant
crisis — are dominating an EU
summit in Brussels scheduled to
finish Friday with what Cameron
hopes is a breakthrough deal for
EU reform.
Cameron wrapped up talks in
Brussels with EU President Donald Tusk and others around 5:30
a.m., and was expected to resume
bilateral meetings late morning.
An EU-wide breakfast meeting
set to address Cameron’s concerns was delayed until lunch. A
British official speaking on customary condition of anonymity
said Friday morning there are
“some signs of progress but nothing yet agreed and still a lot to
do.”
It’s potentially a pivotal moment for the EU and decades of
integration among once-enemy
nations. Britain is questioning
whether belonging to the bloc is
still worth it, so Cameron is pushing for an EU reform deal that
will let him urge Britons to approve continued membership in
a referendum that could come as
soon as June.
Cameron said he was “battling
for Britain” and told his fellow
leaders that he needed a substantial deal that would be “credible
for the British people.” The British referendum is likely to be
close and hard-fought.
He’s run into tougher-than-expected resistance for the changes he’s seeking, notably from
France. French President Francois Hollande warned Thursday
that no individual leader should
be allowed to stop closer European cooperation, and that ceding
too much to Britain — especially
on lightening financial regulation
— could prompt other countries to
demand special rules, too, undermining the whole idea of unity.
The draft deal offers guarantees to countries, including Britain, that do not use the shared
euro currency, and makes tweaks
aimed at boosting competitiveness and giving national parliaments more power.
A key sticking point is Britain’s push to limit benefit payments to workers from other EU
countries.
Cameron has proposed limiting one payment — child benefit,
given to all families with children
— to migrants from other EU nations for at least 10 years, while
eastern countries argued for
three or four years, according to
one European official involved in
the talks.
Former leader of Poland
denies new allegations
Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — Lech
Walesa,
Poland’s
legendary
anti-communist leader and former president, on Friday denied renewed allegations that he
informed on people to the communist regime or took money
from the secret security service.
Walesa was reacting to claims
by a state history institute that
recently seized documents including a commitment to provide
information signed with Walesa’s
name and codename, “Bolek,”
and reports and receipts for
money, dating from 1970-76.
“I was never broken (collaborating) in December 1970. I did
not collaborate with the (secret
security). I never took money and
never made any spoken or written
report on anyone,” Walesa wrote
on a blog. “I trust that truth will
defend itself.”
Head of the National Remembrance Institute, Lukasz Kamin-
ski, has said the documents look
authentic but historians still need
to check whether what they contain is true.
Walesa said on the blog that
during the many raids on his
home and work places, the secret
police seized his handwritten
notes, also from a 1970 worker
protest, that can now be “used as
information on people.”
In 1970, Walesa was a worker
protest leader at the Gdansk shipyard but in 1976 was fired from
his job. In 1980 he joined and led
another protest at the shipyard
that grew into Poland’s nationwide Solidarity freedom movement that eventually ousted the
communists.
He is a globally-recognized
icon of Poland’s successful and
peaceful struggle against communism and its transition to democracy. He won the 1983 Nobel
Peace Prize for his role in ending
communism in Poland and across
Eastern Europe.
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McConnell, R-Ky., said, “The
American people should have a voice in
the selection of their next Supreme Court
justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not
be filled until we have a new President.”
Similar statements followed from other
Republican senators. Democrats decried
the delay as “unprecedented,” and political commentators wondered whether
Republicans could indeed pull off delaying
until January.
It’s true that the GOP’s historical case for
an 11-month delay is shaky at best. And it’s
true that, as my Washington Post colleague
Catherine Rampell documented this week,
Republicans have been obstructing President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees
long before his last year in office.
But the debate over whether Republicans can delay the nomination for a year
obscures how the Scalia fight could change
the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches.
Suppose one party emerges from 2016 in
control of the White House and the Senate.
Barring a big change before Election Day
and a sweep of truly historic proportions,
the minority party will still have enough
seats to filibuster whomever is nominated.
Will the majority party — Democratic or
Republican — get rid of the filibuster for
Supreme Court nominees? In similar circumstances in 2005, McConnell supported
this “nuclear option” as Senate majority
whip. In 2013, Democrats, frustrated with
blatant GOP obstruction, ditched the filibuster for non-Supreme Court judicial
nominees. In an op-ed for The Washington
Post on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader
Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote of excepting
Supreme Court nominees, “Maybe that
was a mistake.”
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and the Senate have changed hands, the
party out of the White House has voted
against presidents’ nominees in increasingly large numbers and with increasing
frequency. Once, it took someone as extreme as Robert Bork to face united opposition. (Some conservatives have made
Bork into a martyr to Democratic partisanship. It’s true that they objected — to a
nominee who, among other things, did not
recognize a constitutional right to privacy
or equal protection for women and who
had called the Civil Rights Act state coercion of “unsurpassed ugliness.” No wonder
six Republicans voted against him.) Under
George W. Bush and Obama, filibustering
nominees of the opposing party increasingly became standard practice. If in 2017
one party controls both the White House
and Senate, that party’s voters likely will
demand an end to the filibuster if it’s the
sole obstacle to a nomination. But the potential of a Senate filibuster has served in
the past as a useful, often unseen check on
presidents when choosing whom to nominate, and the demise of the filibuster would
increase the executive branch’s share of
power over the makeup of the Supreme
Court.
The other, perhaps more unprecedented
scenario would greatly alter the current
balance of legislative and executive power
in the other direction. In this scenario,
either McConnell & Co. decide to give
Obama’s nominees a floor vote, or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders is elected
president while Senate Republicans hold
their majority. (In the latter instance, by
the way, it should be noted that Clinton
or Sanders likely will be forced to spend
their first 100 days, when a president’s political capital is traditionally highest, on a
Supreme Court fight, rather than on legislative priorities that could use the boost.)
Senate Republicans have built their majority on unbending opposition to everything
Obama and Democrats do, and given the
importance of preserving a conservativemajority court, GOP voters expect nothing less. Even if McConnell lets the Senate
vote, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, won’t miss
a chance for a grandstand filibuster, and
McConnell won’t go nuclear for a Democratic nominee. Democrats might be able
to convince a few purple-state Republicans
to vote for a Democratic president’s choice,
but how conservative would Obama’s or
Clinton’s or Sanders’ nominee have to be to
break a filibuster?
Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution
says the president appoints Supreme Court
nominees with “the advice and consent of
the Senate.” There’s no dictionary or precedent that defines “advice and consent” as
“the Senate picks your nominee for you.”
But if, under huge pressure from the conservative base, enough Republicans think
otherwise, the legislative branch will have
unprecedented control over the next Supreme Court nomination.
If the fight over filling Scalia’s seat
ends the filibuster on Supreme Court appointments, or if the GOP majority rejects
Democratic nominees until a conservative
(or at least someone who leans conservative) is chosen, that will alter checks and
balances at the heart of the American political system. So buckle up: The debate
over whether Republicans can block a
high-court nominee in an election year is
only a warmup. The bigger fight is just getting started.
James Downie is The Washington Post’s Digital
Opinions Editor. He previously wrote for The New
Republic and Foreign Policy magazine.
Keep politics out of your investing strategy
BY BARRY R ITHOLTZ
Bloomberg View
Reader letters
letters@stripes.com
The demise of the filibuster
would increase the
executive branch’s share of
power over the makeup of
the Supreme Court.
B
arron’s cover story this weekend
asked, “Trump and Sanders: Are
They Killing the Stock Market?”
Noting the correlation between
the rise of so-called outsiders and movement in the equities markets, the business weekly said, “U.S. stocks have fallen
sharply since Trump and Sanders began
rising in popularity in the polls. It could be
more than coincidence.”
It could be, but I doubt it.
The story hits upon some of my favorite
investment errors: It creates a false narrative; mixes ideological (read emotional)
activity with investments; confuses correlation with causation; and misunderstands
the markets as a cause of election outcomes, rather than recognizing that similar underlying forces drive both.
We have seen this movie before, and it
doesn’t end well for those who tie a political narrative to an investing thesis. Then
there’s the separate issue of giving presidents way too much credit for good economies and strong markets and assigning
way too much blame for the bad.
I have been preaching the importance
of separating your personal voting preferences from your investments for longer
than I care to remember. There is a pair of
slides I have been using to make the point
since at least 2010. Whether it’s individuals or institutions, people recognize the
foibles of others — or their own — in this
discussion.
Here are criticisms for investors from
either side of the political aisle.
Recall that back in 2003, President
George W. Bush had passed the Jobs and
Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of
2003. My hedge fund buddies on the left
read me chapter and verse as to how horrible the impact of this was going to be: It
would blow out the deficit, it wouldn’t create jobs, it was a wealth transfer from the
poor to the rich, it would be the first time
taxes were cut during a war.
But their jobs were not to sit in a think
tank, stroke their chins and think deep
thoughts; rather, it was on them to deploy
their clients’ money to take advantage of
the environment they found themselves in.
This was especially true for the guys (and
they are all guys) running absolute return
funds.
People running money certainly should
have considered the impact of huge tax cuts
on markets and put aside their own politics.
As one wag noted at the time, “Give me a
trillion dollars, and I’ll throw you one hell
of a party.” Markets took off in anticipation of a lot of stimulus flowing through the
economy. That trillion-dollar bump sent
the market up more than 96 percent over
the next four years. And although some of
the political warnings about the tax cuts
may have eventually come true, they were
completely and utterly irrelevant to U.S.
investment returns.
Right about now, my Republicans friends
are snickering. They shouldn’t be.
After the 2008 presidential elections, my
hedgie friends on the right side of the aisle
issued stern warnings. They informed me
that President Barack Obama was a Muslim/Kenyan/socialist. He was going to destroy markets. On March 6, 2009, Michael
Boskin warned in a Wall Street Journal
column that “Obama’s Radicalism Is Killing the Dow.”
The ideological argument ignored a
number of important facts, including the
passage of a stimulus of almost $1 trillion
and the change in accounting rule FASB
157, which allowed banks to deal with bad
assets on their balance sheets much more
easily. The Federal Open Market Committee announced a Zero Interest Policy and
contemplated Quantitative Easing. This
was in an environment of extremely oversold markets.
Boskin’s column was published literally
on the day the market reached its bottom.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index tripled,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 10,000 points and I still doubt anyone
learned the lesson about mixing politics
and investing.
The very first article I published in
Washington was the simple admonition
that politics and investing don’t mix. In
an election year, we need extra reminding
that this is true.
Barry Ritholtz, a Bloomberg View columnist, is the
founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management. He is a
consultant at and former chief executive officer
for FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm.
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First female US president will get an earful
BY A LYSSA ROSENBERG
The Washington Post
I
was born in 1984, the year Walter
Mondale selected Geraldine Ferraro
to join him on the Democratic ticket,
making her the first woman to contend for the presidency or vice presidency
with the backing of a major party.
I watched Hillary Clinton give her concession speech in 2008. I was covering the
Republican National Convention for National Journal when John McCain tapped
Sarah Palin to be his running mate, sending me scrambling to the Alaska Women’s
Republican Clubs to find out how Palin was
regarded in her home state. And now the
2016 race has given us two substantive female candidates, Carly Fiorina for the Republicans and Clinton for the Democrats,
even if Fiorina was never likely to capture
her party’s nomination.
All of these efforts have made me eager
to see a woman stand on the steps of the
U.S. Capitol and pledge to do everything in
her ability to “preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States.” And
even more than that, I cannot wait for the
moment when that woman has served out
her terms and the sexist backlash that will
be one of the responses to her presidency
is over.
Both the 2016 campaign trail and the
Obama presidency itself have offered previews of what might await America’s first
female president during her time in office.
Ugly sentiments have cropped up on
both sides of the campaign trail this season. Donald Trump, never one to adhere
to the rules that govern a gentleman’s
behavior in any context, has complained
about Fiorina’s looks, implied that Fox
News anchor Megyn Kelly’s tough line of
questioning at a debate was inspired by her
menstrual cycle and ultimately skipped a
debate rather than face her again. Chris
Christie, outflanked by Trump in the
crassness contest, managed to fantasize
about spanking Clinton before exiting the
JOHN L OCHER /AP
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defends a soccer goal from a shot by
a child at the Las Vegas Indoor Sports Center on Feb. 13.
campaign to spend more time with his New
Jersey-based grudges.
Some Bernie Sanders supporters have
adopted language and stances so aggressive and so tinged by gender that the candidate himself disavowed them, declaring
“We don’t want them. I don’t want that.”
Wednesday, the rapper and Sanders surrogate Killer Mike came under fire for
quoting a woman who told him that “a
uterus doesn’t qualify you to be president”
— he might have noted that, the historical record notwithstanding, possession
of male genitalia seems incidental, if not
downright detrimental, to the duties of the
presidency.
The idea that such sentiments would dissipate once Clinton, or any other woman,
took the oath of office is both sweet and utterly risible.
When Barack Obama was running for
president in 2008, his political opponents
spread all sorts of racist memes to prevent
him from gaining the presidency, from
suggesting that his birth certificate had
been falsified, to trying to tie him to former
radical underground figures like Bill Ayers
and Bernardine Dorhn, to insisting that he
was an intellectual clone of his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Those attacks failed
to keep Obama out of the highest office in
the land. But if his inauguration was a moment of national self-congratulation, seeming proof that we had overcome the biases
that have defined the United States since
its inception, the subsequent reaction to
Obama’s presidency proved that optimism
wrong.
The first woman to be elected president
of the United States seems likely to face a
similar experience. Her victory at the polls
and her inauguration would undeniably be
symbolically significant. But that triumph
and her tenure in office would also provoke
a nasty wave of sexist response.
As much as I will be proud to see a
woman serve as president, I’ve also come
to dread that time and the ugliness that
will inevitably accompany it. I can’t wait
for those four or eight years to have come
and gone.
For all the debates about Clinton’s qualifications for the presidency, which are considerable, there is a part of her resume that
is particularly relevant to this dilemma.
More than any other woman in the United
States, Clinton has experience absorbing
tides of sexist trash and getting along with
her work, whether she’s representing New
York in the U.S. Senate, serving as secretary of state, or stumping on the campaign
trail.
It’s true that being attacked doesn’t, in
and of itself, make Clinton a virtuous person. And the decades of scurrilous attacks
on the Clintons have left them less able to
admit error than I might like. But even so,
Clinton has had decades to learn how to
withstand the attacks that will be aimed at
the first female president, and to build relationships with other lawmakers, bureaucrats and foreign heads of state who now
know her for herself.
Perhaps asking her to weather another
four or eight years of viciousness is unfair. But Clinton appears to want the role.
And if she wins it, she could spare another
woman the very specific politics of personal destruction aimed at the first women
and people of color to hold major roles in
American public life.
Alyssa Rosenberg blogs about pop culture for The
Washington Post’s Opinions section.
Apple’s battle with feds likely to be a privacy setback
BY VIVEK WADHWA
Special To The Washington Post
I
magine if the government required
you to have a combination lock on
your door and to give it the key. It
would create security and privacy
risks for you and your family. This is what
could happen if we required the technology industry to add back doors to its software and devices. Hackers, criminals and
foreign governments could crack the code
and abuse it. This is what the technology
industry is rightfully rallying against.
But this isn’t the fight that Apple just
picked with the U.S. government. It refused to comply with a search warrant to
unlock an iPhone that was used by one
of the terrorists who killed 14 people and
injured 22 in San Bernardino, Calif., last
year. The government had the permission
of the owner of the device, San Bernardino
County, and made a reasonable request.
Apple claims that complying with the request would have required it to develop a
new version of its operating system — and
create a back door. But technology experts
disagree. They say that Apple could easily
unlock the phone without creating a back
door or security risk. Security researcher
Trail of Bits says it could add support for a
peripheral device that facilitates PIN code
entry and use this through a customized
version of iOS that only works on a single
device. It could do this on its own and not
share the firmware with the FBI — or any-
one else.
Apple has, after all, done such things
before. The Daily Beast reports that it
complied with government requests to unlock iPhones at least 70 times in the past.
And Apple acknowledged that it had the
technical capacity to do this. Its objection
to the new request was on “reputational
grounds.” It seems that Apple wasn’t as
concerned about its reputation until now.
By picking this particular fight, Apple is
doing the technology industry a big disservice. The public desperately wants protection from terrorists, foreign governments
and hackers. After 9/11, Americans have
accepted certain limits on civil liberties
— which protect their privacy yet provide
the government with enough information
to be effective at its job.
Apple will very likely lose this case in
the courts and suffer a public relations disaster. And this will be a setback for privacy. After all, this battle isn’t going to be
portrayed as being about encryption and
back doors; it is going to center on protection of data of murderous terrorists. Other
than Silicon Valley purists, few will side
with Apple on this.
The technology industry is really not in
a position to throw stones; it lives in a glass
house. It has, after all, created the operating systems and devices that are hacked so
easily. In other industries, product manufacturers would be held liable for the safety and security of their products. Yet tech
seems to get a free ride; its hacked custom-
ers take the blame.
Big Brother would be envious of the surveillance capabilities of Google and Apple.
They read our emails before we do and
keep track of our searches; their mobile
devices log our movements and activities;
the apps that we download commonly trick
us into giving them our contact lists and
other personal data; our smartphones have
the ability to turn our cameras and microphones on without us being aware that this
has happened.
The tech industry wants to learn all it
can about us so that it can market more
products and services to us — and sell our
data to others. It believes that it owns our
data and can use it in any way it wishes.
These companies are not required to tell
consumers what information they are
gathering or how they will protect it. They
keep us in the dark while profiting from
us. When our data is hacked, they simply
plead ignorance.
We should have ownership of our own
data and receive royalties from any use
that we permit.
Things are only going to get worse. The
next big technology, the Internet of Things,
will embed sensors in our appliances, electronic devices, and our clothing. These
will be connected to the Internet via WiFi, Bluetooth or mobile-phone technology.
They will gather extensive data about us
and upload it to central storage facilities managed by technology companies.
Google’s Nest home thermostat already
monitors our daily movements to optimize
the temperature in our homes. In the process, Google learns all about our lifestyles
and habits. Our smart TVs will watch us to
see if we want to change channels — and
learn which shows we like and how attentively we watch them. Our refrigerator will keep track of what we eat so it can
order more food — and know our dietary
weaknesses.
This is bad enough, but the bigger problem is that these devices aren’t secure.
Children’s toys and cars have already
been hacked. Our TV sets and medical devices will also be. Because they don’t face
enough of a liability, device manufacturers
don’t feel obliged to invest the time, money
and effort necessary to secure their devices. It is cheaper for them to apologize and
do product recalls than to build ultra-secure products.
So it is great to see Apple and Google supposedly standing up for consumer rights.
But they need to provide us with the same
protections they are demanding from the
government. We need to have our software
and hardware secure and our data protected from them — as well as from the bad
guys.
Vivek Wadhwa is a fellow at Rock Center for
Corporate Governance at Stanford University,
director of research at Center for
Entrepreneurship and Research
Commercialization at Duke, and distinguished fellow at Singularity University. His past
appointments include Harvard Law School,
University of California, Berkeley, and Emory
University.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Former worker charged
for spiking drink
DAWSONVILLE
—
GA
Authorities said a former employee of a Waffle House in
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The height of a snowman, in feet, that a New York family hopes to keep standing until the spring. The
Fregoe family of Massapequa Park, N.Y., is seeking snow donations to help keep their creation standing.
Members of the family wrapped the snowman in plastic to protect it from a heavy rain that fell Monday.
Mike Fregoe, 51, said the snowman survived the rainstorm but is looking “a little thinner.”
north Georgia has been arrested
and accused of spiking a co-worker’s drink with methamphetamine,
leaving him hospitalized.
Dawson County Sheriff’s Capt.
Tony Wooten said investigators
believe the drink was spiked Dec.
23 at a Waffle House in Dawsonville. He said Sonserea Dawn
Evans, 43, is facing felony aggravated battery and drug charges.
Wooten said the 37-year-old
co-worker, who wasn’t identified,
remains under medical care. Investigators obtained restaurant
surveillance video showing Evans
taking the co-worker’s cup, walking toward the restroom area and
returning with the cup.
The local media reports said
Waffle House emailed a statement that Evans was fired, and it
is assisting investigators.
12 puppies abandoned
on highway, adopted
CHURCH HILL — A
TN
plastic storage container holding 12 puppies was found
beside a highway in Church Hill,
and Humane Society officials
said all of the puppies have been
adopted.
Sandy Behnke of the Hawkins
County Humane Society told the
Kingsport Times-News that a
woman driving along Highway
11 found the puppies Wednesday
morning when she spotted the
container near the Bradley Creek
Road intersection.
The puppies, which are Chihuahua-Dachshund mixes, were taken
to the shelter. They were weaned
and appeared to be between 2 and
3 months old. All were adopted by
the end of the day.
Despite the happy ending,
Behnke said the person responsible should be charged with animal cruelty.
Police to use plate
readers at Bikefest
MYRTLE
BEACH
SC
— Police hope to have
new tools in place as they work
to avoid problems during the upcoming Atlantic Beach Bikefest
this year.
The Sun News of Myrtle Beach
reported that dozens of law enforcement, rescue personnel,
medical professionals and government leaders met in Myrtle
Beach on Tuesday to review plans
for the Memorial Day weekend
motorcycle rally.
Myrtle Beach Police Chief
Warren Gall said the stationary
license plate readers ordered by
his department should be operational by Memorial Day. Gall said
the license plate readers will help
alert them when vehicles linked
to crimes enter or leave the city.
Gall said 42 devices will cover
the city’s eight major gateway
roads.
The police department is also
working on a mapping app to
help tourists and residents to get
around during the traffic-congested holiday weekend.
JIM WEBER, THE (MEMPHIS, TENN.) C OMMERCIAL A PPEAL /AP
Kisses for a good cause
Ashley McMillan gets a smooch on Feb. 13 from affection expert Etta Mae Crunch, who provides kisses on demand for donations to Tails of
Hope Dog Rescue at the Hollywood Feed on Broadway in Memphis, Tenn.
Store owner fends off
robber with mallet
WOODLYNNE — AuNJ
thorities said a grocery
store owner armed with a rubber
mallet fended off a robber carrying a meat cleaver.
Camden
County
authorities said Joseph Delozier, 22, of
Woodlynne, walked into the store
around 9 a.m. Tuesday. He then
held the cleaver to the owner’s
neck and took his cellphone.
The owner was able to escape,
and Delozier initially followed
after him. But when Delozier
grabbed some cash from the register, the owner locked him inside
and flagged down a passer-by
who called police.
Delozier broke a window in a
bid to get out. But as he put his
head through, the owner hit him
with the mallet.
Delozier eventually got out and
tried to flee, but he was soon caught
by police in a nearby cemetery.
Police: About $2K in
jeans stolen from store
PHILADELPHIA —
PA
Police said thousands of
dollars’ worth of jeans were stolen
from a luxury department store
chain in downtown Philadelphia.
Philadelphia police said nine
males donning ski masks stole
20 to 30 pairs of jeans from a
Bloomingdale’s store at around
7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The jeans are
worth about $2,000.
No injuries were reported and
no arrests have been made. Police are trying to gather surveillance footage.
81-year-old woman
chases fleeing robbers
MOUNT POCONO —
PA
Police said an 81-yearold Pennsylvania woman chased
down robbers who stole her purse,
ramming their car with hers and
leaving damage that helped officers apprehend them.
The woman was sitting in her
car in her driveway on Tuesday
when she was approached by a
man and a woman. As she talked
to them through an open window,
one grabbed her purse, and they
fled in a car.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police said she took off after them
and hit the getaway car, but the
duo drove off.
Officers found their damaged
car in a nearby grocery store
parking lot.
The car’s occupants, William
Hayhurst, 34, and Erin Vanmatre, 30, were arrested. They were
arraigned Wednesday on robbery
and other charges.
Police said the suspects targeted her after seeing her with cash
at a pharmacy.
in the building until the bats can
be removed.
Bats close emergency
room to ambulances
in which $1 was stolen has been
ordered to spend time in a correctional center for young adults.
The Herald-Dispatch reported
John Bruce Chafin, 21, of Huntington agreed to a Kennedy plea
on a first-degree robbery charge,
which allowed him to plead without admitting guilt.
Cabell Circuit Court Judge
Chris Chiles sentenced Chafin
to spend at least six months to
two years at Anthony Correctional Center for youthful offenders after suspending his 15-year
prison sentence.
Police and jail records show authorities arrested Chafin on Jan.
13 after they say he brandished a
revolver at a Barboursville man,
demanding the victim to empty
his wallet, which contained $1.
Police later confiscated the dollar bill, a jacket and a revolver as
evidence.
KILGORE — An East
TX
Texas emergency room
has been closed after bats began
to spread through the building.
In a statement posted Tuesday night on the Kilgore Police
Department social media pages,
Good Shepherd Medical Center
said “a number of small bats” had
moved into the Longview, Texasbased hospital’s free-standing
emergency room. The bats moved
into the building’s walls and ceilings, with some migrating into the
area that receives ambulances.
Good Shepherd said it’s working with Kilgore, which owns the
building, and Allegiance Specialty
Hospital, which manages it, to get
the bats removed. Good Shepherd
had decided it’s in the best interests of its patients and staff to suspend emergency medical services
Jail sentence for armed
robbery that netted $1
HUNTINGTON — A
WV
West Virginia man
sentenced for an armed robbery
From wire reports
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HEALTH & FITNESS
the mind can help fight
obesity and bad food habits
PRACTICE WHAT YOU EAT How
BY HOWARD COHEN
Miami Herald
T
urns out, many of us have
been practicing mindful eating all along, but were not
aware we were onto one of
today’s hot medical topics.
Said grace before dinner? Enjoy a
moment of silence before tearing into
that savory plate of lechon asado?
You were mindfully eating — or at
least starting out on the right path.
Mindfulness in eating, explains
Dr. Ashwin Mehta, medical director
of Integrative Medicine at Memorial
Healthcare System, “is regarded as a
new science in Western mainstream
medicine but, in reality, it’s really an
ancient science from the dawn of humanity. So many cultural traditions
have a rich history of incorporating
different styles of mindfulness into
practice.”
In general, mindfulness is nonjudg-
In general, mindfulness is
nonjudgmental awareness
that takes many forms,
such as breathing
exercises, guided imagery,
devotional practices,
meditation, biofeedback,
writing in a journal.
mental awareness that takes many
forms, such as breathing exercises,
guided imagery, devotional practices,
meditation, biofeedback, writing in a
journal. “Each of these from a medical standpoint are very similar for
their physiological benefit,” Mehta
says.
Why this matters at a time of expanding American waistlines is that
the practice can readjust one’s metabolism for efficient calorie burning,
the medical community is finding.
Mehta and others, like Scott Rogers,
director of the mindfulness program
at the University of Miami School of
Law, encourage mindful eating to
combat obesity.
Mindful eating is not a diet. It’s not
another form of denial or exercise
program.
“One of the ideas is that a lot of
people can have a lot of factual information about how to eat well, and yet
when the rubber meets the road it’s
challenging to implement. Mindfulness is one way of working through
the impediments and obstacles that
get in the way of doing that which we
already know to do,” Rogers said.
So how can you incorporate mindful eating?
Eat slower. Savor the flavors.
Your brain will have time to register that you’re full and stop you from
overeating.
Enjoy the silence. Concentrate
on the act of eating. Avoid distractions like TV and your work desk, and
avoid eating while driving.
“When things get stressful, when
we get worried, these are some of the
times our habits toward the sweeter
and saltier and fattier foods kick
in,” Rogers says. “One of the things
mindfulness offers us is a way to end
those moments, to be more aware
of the sensations of impulse and not
succumb. The awareness of the sensations compelling that behavior, not
just the thoughts, is the key.”
There is science behind the process, too.
“There are two general modes,
ends of the spectrum in which the
human body operates. One is the
stress response — fight or flight,
which releases adrenaline and cortisol. The other spectrum is rest and
digest,” Mehta says. “One of the reasons mindfulness works is it gives us
insight into exactly where we are on
that spectrum internally so it allows
us to check in on ourselves.
“Our bodies are very intelligent
in how it allocates resources. When
we are stressed out it sends more
blood to muscles and bones
and organs of action.
When we are sitting
down for our meal,
our body will shift its
blood flow to organs
of digestion,” Mehta
says.
“So
oftentimes
we live in a hyperstressed
environment in our society
where 25 percent
of food consumed
in the U.S. is consumed inside moving vehicles, planes,
trains and such. That
is a staggering number. And when you are
multitasking by eating at
your desk, you are not focusing on your eating. The
assimilation of nutrients of
what you are eating is impaired
because the needle is still over on
the stress side of the spectrum,”
Mehta says.
In addition, research shows that
mindfulness practices, such as slowing down, breathing in fully and
being aware, increases the activity
of natural killer cells, the first line of
defense in the immune system. Mindfulness can also change the structure
of genes to protect DNA, which can
alleviate some of the problems associated with aging, Mehta says.
“We know that people who practice
meditation have heightened natural
killer T-cell activity. ... Tremendous
health benefit.”
Bring compassion to the table
— for yourself. “Mindfulness is not
about resisting but about having a
larger container to hold more sometimes competing feelings and sensations,” Rogers says.
Mindfulness tells you you’re
OK. Your feelings are normal.
The point is to recognize your
feelings as temptations that
compel you to consume that
chocolate bar on your colleague’s desk when you
know you really ought to
bypass the candy.
Said Rogers: “The
key is not to talk yourself out of it but to learn
to be with the impulse
to take a bite out
of something and
not give in to the
impulse.”
Mindfulness in
eating can help
fight obesity.
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In losing weight, men may get more help from their brains
BY A MY ELLIS NUTT
The Washington Post
A
ll’s fair in love and war — but not
in dieting, apparently. If you’ve
ever wondered how it is that
men can cut out a few desserts
and quickly drop 10 pounds, while women
torturously calorie-count their way to incremental weight loss, a new animal study
might have the explanation: It’s in the
brain.
A class of hormones known as POMC
peptides, which regulate body weight,
acts differently in female mice than in
male mice, according to a collaboration of
researchers across four continents. The
difference appears to make it harder for
female mice to lose weight.
POMC peptides are produced in the
brain and play a role in appetite, calorie
burning and physical activity, all of which
impact overall body weight. When genetically engineered obese mice were given
the weight-reducing medication lorcaserin, the males experienced significant
weight loss, pushing them back into the
healthy range, whereas the female mice
saw much smaller weight losses and remained obese.
“What we have discovered is that the
part of the brain that has a significant influence on how we use the calories that
we eat is wired differently in males and
females,” team leader Lora Heisler, of the
University of Aberdeen in Scotland, said
in a news release.
In female mice, the source of POMC
peptides reduces appetite, but it does not
raise physical activity or calorie burning
the way it does in male mice.
While humans aren’t necessarily the
same as mice, it’s worth noting that two of
every three adults and one in three children and adolescents in the United States
are overweight or obese, according to the
National Institutes of Health.
“These findings provide evidence that
males and females are hard-wired differently in their regulation of energy balance,” the study’s authors wrote in the
journal Molecular Metabolism. “Given the
reported reduction of POMC neuron activity in middle age in mice, these data may
have ... broad implications for future sexspecific strategies in treating overweight
[problems] and obesity.”
For what it’s worth, the study is a Pyrrhic victory for all those women wondering why they outnumber men in Weight
Watchers meetings. When it comes to dieting, it seems men really do have a head
start.
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BORN TO RUN
‘Race’ director: Jesse Owens helped
‘jump-start’ civil rights conversation
BY JOHN A NDERSON
Newsday
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hen actor Stephan
James was setting
off to make the civil
rights-era
drama
“Selma,” director Stephen Hopkins gave him some advice. “I
told him, ‘Don’t come back from
“Selma” thinking you’re in the
same era,’ ” said the director of
“Race,” which opened Friday. “In
1936, black Americans were never
going to get their rights.”
But 1936 was also the year that
the man whom James portrays
— Olympic legend Jesse Owens
— went to the Berlin Games,
won four gold medals and scored
a public-relations coup against
the Third Reich’s “corporately
branded Olympics,” as Hopkins
described them. Owens, arguably,
changed the world.
“There wasn’t a civil rights
movement at that time,” the British director said, “but in many
ways Jesse’s success, especially in
such a racist arena, helped jumpstart the conversation.”
Owens also very globally debunked the Nazis’ theories of
Aryan supremacy in what would
have been considered, today, to
have been a PR triumph. But despite what he accomplished in
Berlin, Owens never even got a
congratulatory telegram from
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The
movie shows a post-Games Owens
having to get to a dinner — in his
honor — through a restaurant’s
back door. The film, said co-star
Jason Sudeikis, “is a nice reminder how far we’ve come as a country, and how far we need to go.”
James said there’s “totally a lot
of pressure” playing such icons as
Owens and the great civil-rights
activist John Lewis, whom he
played in “Selma.” But he said he’s
not sure whether young people are
familiar with the Owens story the
way earlier generations might
have been.
“I don’t know if older people
know him any better,” the actor
said. “I had to learn about him,
too.” Some people, Hopkins said
wryly, think Owens was one of
the athletes in Mexico City who
gave the black power salute (actually Tommie Smith and John
Carlos). And Owens’ daughters
Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin said there’s
a disparity in awareness about
their father and his accomplishments: Many young people of, say,
Stephan James’ age, have little
idea about Jesse Owens.
“Race” should bring everybody
up to speed, so to speak. Owens
was the grandson of a slave, and
the son of a former sharecropper
(“practically a slave,” Hopkins
Good sports
African-Americans have had a far
more dominant role in sports than in
sports movies, but occasionally the
two worlds collide. The following are
among the more prominent movies
about black athletes:
“The Jackie
Robinson Story”
1950
The Brooklyn Dodger great
— and the first black player
in Major League Baseball
— played himself in this
entertaining biography.
“Hoop Dreams”
1994
Steve James’ epic of sport
and sociology chronicles the
college and professional basketball aspirations of William
Gates and Arthur Agee, two
kids chasing the NBA dream.
“Ali” 2001
Michael Mann’s portrait of
Muhammad Ali follows the
boxing great from his victory
over Sonny Liston as Cassius
Clay, his battles with Joe
Frazier and all the social and
political upheaval that surrounded the champion’s life.
“Tyson” 2008
James Toback’s documentary
portrait of the one-time undisputed heavyweight champion
is told from the fighter’s point
of view and provides a revelatory look at the workings of
Mike Tyson’s mind.
“The Express” 2008
Rob Brown played the
doomed Ernie Davis, the first
black college football player to
win the Heisman Trophy, and
who did so at a time when
the civil rights movement
was gaining momentum.
SOURCE: Newsday
said). He’s first seen in the film —
naturally enough — running. His
gifts at track and field brought him
from Depression-era Cleveland
to Ohio State University, where
he had a fateful meeting with the
man who was going to guide him
toward Berlin: Larry Snyder, a
former track star himself and the
coach of what was, at the time, a
losing team. Owens’ arrival would
change that. Meeting Snyder (Sudeikis) would change Owens.
“A revealing thing about
Larry,” Sudeikis said, “is what
Jesse wrote, when he described
Larry as an ‘accidental non-racist.’ It’s a line with a bit of a Yogi
Berra quality to it, but it made
absolute sense to me, in the sense
that Larry walked the walk.” The
coach accepted black students on
the track team, for instance, at a
time when OSU’s football team
disallowed them. “Larry was on
the right side of history,” Sudeikis said, “and he was bucking
the system, no pun intended”
(Ohio State being the Buckeyes).
Speaking
of
puns,
“Race” is not a whitewash. The virulent racism of 1930s American
is on full display, but
Owens is flawed, too:
While competing in
California, he becomes involved with
Quincella Nickerson
(Chantel Riley), imperiling his relationship back home with Ruth
(Shanice Banton), his wife-to-be
and mother of his child.
“I think they obviously believe
their father’s a saint,” Hopkins
said of the Owens sisters, who
consulted extensively on “Race,”
“but I wanted to make a story
people believe. I’d hate to have a
hero who has no flaws. And here
was a young man dropped into an
incredible maelstrom of politics.
All he wanted to do is run as fast
as he could and feel free, and that
was not allowed to him.”
The central conflict in “Race” is
whether Owens would go to Berlin
at all — the NAACP urges him not
to go, as do other parties opposed
to the perception that the United
States would endorse a racist regime. Leading the pro-Games contingent is wealthy developer Avery
Brundage (Jeremy Irons), who
would become the longtime president of the International Olympic
Committee (1952-72), who urges
America to go, all the while under
contract to build Germany’s new
embassy in Washington. “He’s a
real villain,” Hopkins said.
The other problematic figure
is filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
— portrayed by Dutch actress
Carice van Houten — who created a masterpiece around the ’36
Games (“Olympia”) but was also
an unapologetic propagandist for
Hitler (“Triumph of the Will”).
These peripheral characters
add substance to a story that is
already close to incredible: A
black kid from Cleveland strikes a
blow for global freedom at a time
when freedom in his own country
is in short supply. “It was a perfect storm,” Owens Prather said.
“What was going on in this country, in Europe, Hitler, all of that.
The history of it. It makes for a
good story.”
“Race,” starring Stephan James,
right, tells the story of track and
field star Jesse Owens as he
competed in the 1936 Olympics.
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VIDEO GAMES
While the roguelike game can
feel repetitive, taking down big
bosses, collecting treasure
and restoring the fallen hamlet
to glory is challenging and fun
BY DANIEL TACK
Game Informer Magazine
D
espair overtakes you as
your houndmaster misses
an all-important attack
on an enemy fusilier, the
lighter of the brigand’s massive boss
cannon. The cannon is going to fire
this turn, and there’s nothing left you
can do to stop it. While your leper
and bounty hunter land the finishing
blows on the massive machine, your
plague doctor and houndmaster fail
to survive the encounter, joining the
legions of the dead that occupy the
hamlet’s graveyard. Dead champions never return, but their memory
will haunt you through all the battles
and dungeons yet to come.
Tremendous highs and tumultuous
lows combine in the Lovecraft-inspired, turn-based dungeon-crawler
“Darkest Dungeon.” You’re always
one hit point or one mind sliver away
from complete collapse as you explore winding halls of ruins, warrens,
coves and the titular Darkest Dungeon itself. Featuring permadeath,
procedurally generated levels and
some aspects of permanent progression as the player builds up the decrepit hamlet into a bustling economy,
the game is ultimately about finding
combinations of curious glory seekers and treasure hunters and putting them to work against swarms
of deadly and debilitating monsters.
This dread ensemble is a pleasure
to manage down to the finest details.
With 14 different classes to choose
from, each with many unique abilities, weapons to customize, skills to
upgrade, quirks to deal with and diseases and afflictions to cure, you’re
always managing something.
With perseverance, you can even
the odds against the nightmares
ahead. The game strikes a brilliant
balance most of the time, constantly
testing the player to weigh resources
and risks, but training a fresh team
after a massive loss can be time- consuming and punishing. This too, can
be an important lesson: In “Darkest
Dungeon,” discretion is often the better part of valor, and while mechanics
make cowardice costly, it’s far better
than losing a team to the grave forever. Your hamlet will continue to im-
prove even if your characters continue to
head toward the grave, as most standard
dungeon runs offer resources to help you
upgrade your facilities. It’s an important and satisfying mechanic that gives
some sense of progression even in the
face of overwhelming odds.
“Darkest Dungeon” tweaks the traditional task of managing character
hit points by adding another element
called stress. Darkness, enemy attacks,
critical strikes and watching comrades
fall can all cause despair. A full stress
bar gives the hero a chance for greatness in the face of terror, but the more
likely outcome is a serious malady such
as masochistic or antagonistic tendencies, which could lead your characters
to injure themselves, become unresponsive to your orders or chastise the rest
of the team into deep depression. Managing these two resources along with light
sources, provisions and other supply items
as you traverse the
depths makes for an
insightful lesson in
risk
management,
and it feels wonderfully satisfying when
you deliver the death
blow to a crawling
chaos.
Depending
on the dungeon run,
your heroes could
come back with diseases, maladies or
stress that should be taken care of within
the hamlet before sending them out to
venture again, making the construction of
many different teams a necessity so some
In “Darkest
Dungeon,” players
assemble various teams
of unique characters
to battle against
deadly dungeons
and bosses
in stylized turn-based
combat.
Photos courtesy of Red Hook Studios
Many more staff-written game reviews at stripes.com/games
can adventure while others rest.
“Darkest Dungeon” boasts plenty of
substance and style, but if you’re averse to
crushing difficulty, it might prove to be too
frustrating to be palatable.
The uncompromising difficulty and
challenge will be attractive to some, but
could put off players looking for a simple
crawler where they can beat enemies by
gaining high levels and better gear. In addition, the need to grind through content to
recoup losses take its toll.
“Darkest Dungeon” is an incredible take
on the classic dungeon crawl. The game
brings Lovecraftian lore to new heights
with cool classes, powerful narration, stylish art and addictive gameplay that will
keep you crawling back to battle slithering
monstrosities even as your favorite heroes
become corpses.
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LIFESTYLE
King Cuerno waits
ahead of a scheduled
bout in January in
Los Angeles. “Lucha
Underground” films
in a Boyle Heights
warehouse and airs
weekly in English on
the El Rey Network
and in Spanish on
UniMas. Several
hundred people get
free tickets to watch
the event live.
PHOTOS BY RICK L OOMIS,
L OS A NGELES TIMES/TNS
wrestling TV show blends tights & melodrama
BY JEFFREY FLEISHMAN
Los Angeles Times
A
Above: The action is
intense during a 6
on 6 wrestling bout
during a Lucha Underground wrestling
event on Jan. 16 in
Los Angeles.
Right: Wrestler
Mascarita Sagrada
takes a moment
alone to prepare
himself for his upcoming match.
cross the Los Angeles
River, in a warehouse of
ghosts and corrugated
steel, King Cuerno fastens his mask and strides barechested past girders and broken
windows toward the ring, where
wrestlers spin in pinwheels and
dance on ropes in a frenzied ballet of peacock colors and flying
head scissors.
The crowd in Boyle Heights
— 20something Latinos, comicbook geeks and a rowdy bunch of
Marines — stomps in glee. Sliding
through the clamor with sinister
aplomb is promoter Dario Cueto,
his voice like a bullet through velvet. He rules over “Lucha Underground,” a professional wrestling
TV series where heroes and villains tangle in noirish melodrama
and Aztec mythology in search of
the Gift of the Gods championship belt.
The scripted program blends
the flamboyance of the aerobatic
lucha libre wrestling style prominent in Mexico with the brawn
and punch prevalent north of the
border. Airing on El Rey Net-
work, which reaches 40 million
homes in the U.S., the show is a
glimpse of a hybrid America at a
time when immigration reform
and Donald Trump are challenging the parameters of citizenship and the nation’s changing
demographics.
“Latino culture is very pop culture now,” said Chavo Guerrero
Jr., a third-generation wrestler
whose grandfather was a famous
luchador in Mexico. “People think,
‘Oh, “Lucha,” it’s a Mexican show.’
Uh, no. Look at the fan base. It’s
wrestling. Wrestling is AfricanAmericans, whites, Asians. It’s all
different. In the wrestling world
this show is the first thing that’s
been different in years.”
Beginning its second season,
the English-language show is an
echo of Los Angeles, a city of incongruent architecture and shifting syntax, where food trucks
traversing the fringes park amid
the glint of razor wire and the
blush of graffiti. Rising beneath
palms on ground where trains run
no more, the building that houses
“the Temple” and its ring is an
early 1900s metal factory that has
appeared in the movie “Horrible
Bosses” and the TV show “NCIS:
Los Angeles.”
“Boyle Heights was the first
stop for many immigrants who
came to Los Angeles,” executive
producer Eric Van Wagenen said
before the taping of a new episode
on a recent Saturday afternoon.
He noted that the show is trying to
unite the neighborhood in a county that is about 50 percent Latino.
“We’re embracing them with a
throwback nostalgia for lucha. It’s
kitschy fun for a phenomenon that
came before.”
George Arenivar waited in the
dusk near a hamburger truck
during the intermission before
a six-on-six tag team match. A
cool breeze lifted as young men
in white T-shirts and loose jeans
finished their beers and drifted
toward distant fences. A graphic
artist whose day job is at UPS,
Arenivar stood near a white guy
with a shaved head, two furiously
texting blond girls and a trio of
hipster types who looked as if they
had wandered over from a Spring
Street cafe.
“‘Lucha Underground’ is culturally diverse,” said Arenivar,
one of more than 400 fans who attended a recent taping; “Lucha’s”
highest-rated show drew 250,000
viewers. Arenivar credited the
program’s theatrics and polished
editing. “Wrestling used to be
more campier. But this is cin-
ematic, and the crowd is involved.
They have storylines and wrestling. It’s entertainment.”
Professional wrestling has
long been the odd cousin of who
we are, that sequined and booted
carnival of scowls and grimaces,
of hammerlocks and backflips,
of mad men aflight; all make-believe, but in the spark of the moment, wonderfully alive with the
scent of blood and the glimmer of
pomp. “Lucha” captures this with
eight cameras, editing booths and
back stories woven with Aztec
folklore that seek to compete with
the dominant programming on
World Wrestling Entertainment.
With menace and winked
charm, “Lucha” is emblematic
of the style of El Rey Network,
begun in 2013 by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. The network conjures the mischievous shadows
and gonzo bloodletting in two of
Rodriguez’s films “From Dusk
Till Dawn,” a tale of vampires
and hoodlums starring George
Clooney and Harvey Keitel; and
“Sin City,” a noirish thriller starring Bruce Willis and based on
Frank Miller’s graphic novel of
the same name.
“It’s not just pure lucha libre
out here,” said Brian Cage, who is
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known as “The Machine,” brandishing a mohawk haircut and restless muscles. “It’s a blend
of styles. It crosses cultures. Instead of being a
B-version of the WWE, it’s something different.
It’s more of a TV show about wrestling than a
wrestling TV show. It’s not watered down. It’s not
overdone with drama and soap opera BS. It’s more
(vivid) as opposed to corny and cheeseball.”
The six-on-six tag team bout was a blur of colors
when Prince Puma — donning animal headdress
— marched into “the Temple” through a scrim of
smoke with a cadre that included a black wrestler
brandishing an Afro pick, a woman dressed in a
dominatrix skirt and a cat-like mask, and a white
guy who looked like he belonged on a ZZ Top
album cover. They faced off against King Cuerno
and his crew, notably Taya, who wore red lipstick
and eyelashes as plush as a crow’s wings, and her
partner, the magically cocky Johnny Mundo.
“We’re this absolutely glamorous, meanstreaked couple who are here to show we belong
in ‘the Temple,’ ” said Taya, a classically trained
ballerina who hails from Canada and like other
competitors wrestles for Asistencia Asesoria y
Administracion, a lucha libre promotion in Mexico. “Johnny Mundo and I are viewed as foreigners in this Aztec-Mexican legend built scenario.”
Off to the side of the ring, Cueto (played by Luis
Fernandez-Gil) lurked about like a gangster’s
whisper. He disappeared into an office of pulled
blinds, booze and a set of bullhorns on the wall.
The promoter’s lair had the whiff of old smoke,
creaky leather and a man up to no good; Cueto,
of course, was maneuvering to regain control of
“the Temple” after a murder at the end of Season 1 forced him to vamoose as the luchadores
scattered.
“I’m a lifelong wrestling fan. I’ve always been
fascinated, and I’ve flown all over the country to
see matches,” said Gabriel Daigle, who brought
his 14-year-old son to the match. “But over time I
lost interest.” He added that the WWE and other
wrestling programs “got stupid and challenged
my intelligence. But ‘Lucha’ blew me away.
You can tell it’s shot by filmmakers. It’s totally
revolutionary.”
Despite its edge, though, “Lucha” evokes a past
of ragged arenas and masked men, when challengers appeared out of the Mexican countryside
and legacies were handed to wrestlers like King
Cuerno, who trained in the arts of combat and
started wrestling when he was 4. “The masks
and the whole mystery behind everything comes
from Mexico,” said the king, zipped into a mask
and peering through eye-slits. “We love all this
paraphernalia and flamboyance.”
He disappeared toward the workout room as
Guerrero, his mustache neatly trimmed, spoke of
speed and flying moves and how much things have
changed since the time when his father wrestled
the lucha style in Japan and the U.S., including in
Los Angeles at the Olympic Auditorium.
“Back in the day it was just a headlock,” said
Guerrero. “A body slam was a huge move back
in the 1960s. You body slammed somebody and it
was, ‘Whoa, that’s crazy.’ Today if you body slam
they’ll boo you out of the building. You got to light
yourself on fire, you know. It’s like X Games now,
and we’ve taken it to a different level.”
‘For people to see all sides
of me ... is very welcome’
Jillian Michaels takes on farm life, parenting in new show
BY LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press
D
on’t get Jillian Michaels started on the chickens.
There were supposed to be six, but only five
showed up when her partner, Heidi Rhoades,
cajoled her into collecting them from a loading
dock for their farm, where they live with their two kids
near Malibu, Calif.
“I was 20 minutes late to lunch with my lawyer,” Michaels said in a recent interview. “I’ve got every employee
on the dock of the post office looking for the sixth chicken
that never effing existed in the first place.”
Heidi’s dream farm, and her dream role as the raiser
of chickens, is just one slice of life that brings the funny
in “Just Jillian,” an eight-part docu-series on E! that puts
a spotlight on the personal side of the health guru as she
navigates her rapid-fire existence.
“She raised these damn chickens in the living room
for three months, until they had feathers and could go
outside,” Michaels said. “I couldn’t even get out of my
driveway the other day because the chickens were in the
middle of the driveway.”
The 40-year-old Michaels is loving life post “The Biggest Loser” and is hoping you laugh with her, not always
just at her, about chickens and loads of other things.
“Opening up my life and my world in such a big way ...
has been actually kind of a great experience for me thus
far. No. 1, I love my life. ... On top of that, I am somebody
that has been kind of put in a corner and become a cartoon character, so for people to see all sides of me now
— the good, the bad, the soft, the hard, the laugh, the sad
— is very welcome.”
Michaels has been off the NBC weight-loss competition that boosted her celebrity as a badass trainer for
a couple of years and now declares: “I’m done with
‘Biggest Loser.’ ”
Instead, she loves taking on the “comedy of errors”
of her life that occur on “Just Jillian” as “we go
about our daily routine.” By that, she’s talking about the dance of women everywhere
“to be the best mom, the best co-worker,
the best friend, the best daughter, and all
of the absurdity in the minutiae. It’s just
a lot of fun.”
Her kids, a 3-year-old son and
a 5-year-old daughter, appear
along with Michaels’ adorable work husband, business
partner Giancarlo Chersich,
and others in her entourage.
Also caught on camera is
Michaels’ unique parenting
style, including the moment
she teaches her daughter
the meaning of the word
“bull (bleep).”
“I told her, it’s when
people run out of Halloween candy on Halloween,”
Michaels said.
The show promises
guest appearances by
the next generation of fitness celebs. And watch
for the beads of sweat
when Heidi brings up the
subject of marriage. The
two have been together
forever but are not legally
hitched.
“I’m unbelievably superstitious,”
Michaels
said. “I’m like, we have
this great relationship, we
have this great life, why
do you want to invite the
devil?”
Jillian Michaels
appears on her
new TV docu-series,
“Just Jillian,” airing
Thursdays on AFN-Pulse.
Lucha Underground wrestler Fenix motions to
the audience. Lucha Underground films in a
Boyle Heights warehouse and airs weekly in
English on the El Rey Network and in Spanish
on UniMas.
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DOD plans fast upgrade to Windows 10
BY M ATT DAY
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — The Department
of Defense is embarking on a
program to update millions of
its computers to Windows 10, an
unusually quick move for one of
Microsoft’s massive government
customers.
Microsoft
highlighted
the
department’s plans in a pair of
blog posts Wednesday, but the
news emerged in a little-noticed
November memo by Terry
Halvorsen, the Pentagon’s chief
information officer.
Halvorsen said the department must rapidly transition to
Windows 10 to improve cybersecurity and to streamline and to
lower the costs of its informationtechnology footprint. He set a
goal of completing the migrations
by January 2017. It’s unclear what
the project will cost.
About 4 million devices are
slated for updates as part of the
program, said Susie Adams,
chief technology officer with the
Microsoft group responsible for
sales and support to federal government clients. “This is an unprecedented move for the DOD,”
Adams said.
It is the largest single deployment of Windows 10 since its release six months ago, she said.
Sprawling federal agencies
are rarely quick adopters of new
software, and the Pentagon’s embrace of Windows 10 is likely to
be read as an endorsement of the
software’s security features and
stability, analysts say.
“The speed at which they’re
doing the deployment is shocking to me,” said Patrick Moorhead, president of Moor Insights
& Strategy, an independent research firm “A year? That’s fast.
The DOD is normally last to deploy something.”
Typically, Moorhead said,
government agencies wait to see
what vulnerabilities hackers find
in new software, and consider
updating when later versions
or the government’s own security workers have patched those
vulnerabilities.
That hesitance, along with the
massive scale of government
agencies and a lengthy budgeting-and-review process, has left
the DOD with a patchwork of operating systems, from Microsoft’s
ancient Windows XP to Windows
7, and a smaller portion of software made by other companies,
Moorhead said.
Windows 10 was released in
July to generally positive reviews. Businesses were said to be
more comfortable with Windows
10 than its widely panned predecessor, Windows 8.
Microsoft said last month that
more than 200 million personal
computers, Xbox game consoles
and smartphones were running
the operating system.
The Seattle-area company has
touted Windows 10 security features like integrated fingerprint
and face scanning and a feature
that walls off the operating sys-
tem’s core functions to prevent
them from being infected by
malware.
Government clients, much
like big businesses, usually buy
Microsoft’s operating system as
part of multiyear service and
technical-support packages that
give them the option to upgrade
to the latest software at no added
charge.
It’s unclear what the labor and
other elements of the Windows 10
upgrade effort will cost.
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British pound (Feb. 22) ........................ $1.46
Japanese yen (Feb. 22) ...................... 111.00
South Korean won (Feb. 22) ......... 1,208.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3771
British pound ....................... $1.4269/0.7008
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3821
China (Yuan) ........................................6.5212
Denmark (Krone) ................................ 6.7197
Egypt (Pound) ...................................... 7.8301
Euro ........................................ $1.1106/0.9005
Hong Kong (Dollar) ..............................7.7741
Hungary (Forint) .................................278.54
Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.9148
Japan (Yen)...........................................112.86
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.2993
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.5996
Philippines (Peso)................................. 47.64
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.94
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7505
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.4075
South Korea (Won) ......................... 1,232.66
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9909
Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 35.76
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.9592
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.30
30-year bond ........................................... 2.61
WEATHER OUTLOOK
SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
40/27
Kabul
61/35
Seoul
40/24
Baghdad
79/53
Kandahar
68/34
Kuwait
City
91/53
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
51/42
Brussels
51/41
Bahrain
79/62
Riyadh
83/56
Lajes,
Azores
60/51
Doha
83/61
Busan
47/29
Tokyo
59/40
Iwakuni
40/36
Guam
85/75
Sasebo
47/37
Ramstein
48/35
Pápa
49/39
Stuttgart
46/33
Aviano/
Vicenza
46/33
Naples
60/47
Morón
64/44
Djibouti
84/71
Osan
40/23
Sigonella
60/44
Rota
65/49
Okinawa
64/57
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
66/51
Saturday’s US temperatures
City
Abilene, Tex
Akron, Ohio
Albany, N.Y.
Albuquerque
Allentown, Pa.
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Billings
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Bridgeport
Brownsville
Buffalo
Burlington, Vt.
Caribou, Maine
Casper
Charleston, S.C.
Charleston, W.Va.
Charlotte, N.C.
Hi
81
56
50
70
55
77
32
60
66
57
78
61
76
51
69
45
47
49
51
82
47
45
36
51
70
63
64
Lo
56
35
35
38
36
36
26
42
52
41
59
39
58
29
55
25
29
36
37
65
34
34
31
26
52
46
47
Wthr
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
Snow
Clr
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Chattanooga
Cheyenne
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado Springs
Columbia, S.C.
Columbus, Ga.
Columbus, Ohio
Concord, N.H.
Corpus Christi
Dallas-Ft Worth
Dayton
Daytona Beach
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Duluth
El Paso
Elkins
Erie
Eugene
Evansville
Fairbanks
Fargo
Flagstaff
Flint
Fort Smith
61
55
56
62
57
62
69
69
60
45
84
76
61
73
63
60
54
38
81
58
52
52
68
15
37
59
52
73
51
26
32
47
35
30
50
52
42
32
64
62
43
52
31
36
33
24
52
41
33
37
52
2
19
24
32
56
Cldy
PCldy
Clr
Clr
Clr
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Clr
PCldy
Cldy
Fort Wayne
Fresno
Goodland
Grand Junction
Grand Rapids
Great Falls
Green Bay
Greensboro, N.C.
Harrisburg
Hartford Spgfld
Helena
Honolulu
Houston
Huntsville
Indianapolis
Jackson, Miss.
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Key West
Knoxville
Lake Charles
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
58
65
63
54
53
45
41
64
54
48
43
79
79
66
65
74
74
35
70
75
61
75
54
72
64
64
71
72
34
42
29
29
35
27
30
43
37
33
24
65
63
55
41
58
50
33
41
67
49
60
32
50
50
36
57
51
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
Clr
Rain
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
Clr
Louisville
Lubbock
Macon
Madison
Medford
Memphis
Miami Beach
Midland-Odessa
Milwaukee
Mpls-St Paul
Missoula
Mobile
Montgomery
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark
Norfolk, Va.
North Platte
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Paducah
Pendleton
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
66
85
70
47
53
70
75
83
48
45
39
73
73
67
75
56
57
64
63
79
62
77
68
50
61
58
85
56
52
41
50
30
35
59
65
54
33
29
22
55
52
54
59
43
41
45
28
48
36
54
55
31
39
41
55
38
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
Pocatello
Portland, Maine
Portland, Ore.
Providence
Pueblo
Raleigh-Durham
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Roanoke
Rochester
Rockford
Sacramento
St Louis
St Petersburg
St Thomas
Salem, Ore.
Salt Lake City
San Angelo
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
St Ste Marie
Savannah
Seattle
Shreveport
41
44
51
50
70
66
56
53
65
62
50
56
63
71
73
84
52
50
83
78
67
60
66
66
38
71
50
75
24
34
39
35
30
43
29
28
44
44
35
31
42
49
59
77
38
30
55
60
53
47
43
32
26
50
38
61
PCldy
Snow
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
PCldy
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
PCldy
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
South Bend
Spokane
Springfield, Ill
Springfield, Mo
Syracuse
Tallahassee
Tampa
Toledo
Topeka
Tucson
Tulsa
Tupelo
Waco
Washington
W. Palm Beach
Wichita
Wichita Falls
Wilkes-Barre
Wilmington, Del.
Yakima
Youngstown
56
49
56
42
65
70
48
74
75
58
71
83
75
69
78
63
74
72
82
52
58
50
55
33
31
33
29
42
52
34
47
56
32
41
47
52
57
60
41
64
40
54
36
40
31
34
Clr
Clr
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
Clr
Clr
Clr
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
National temperature extremes
Hi: Thu., 91, Roswell, N.M., Canadian,
Texas, and Buffalo, Okla.
Lo: Thu., -20, Roscommon, Mich.
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
College hockey
Thursday’s score
FAR WEST
Denver 4, Colorado College 1
Deals
Thursday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
DETROIT TIGERS — Signed RHP Bobby
Parnell to a minor league contract with
an invite to major league camp.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Signed senior
vice president of baseball operations
and general manager Dayton Moore
and manager Ned Yost to contract extensions. Agreed to terms with INF Clint
Barmes, LHP Brian Duensing and RHP
Ross Ohlendorf on minor league contracts.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms
with RHP Ryan Webb on a one-year contract. Placed RHP Chase Whitley on the
60-day DL.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Exercised the 2017 contract option of manager Chip Hale.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Claimed C
Tony Wolters off waivers from Cleveland.
Transferred RHP Adam Ottovino to the
60-day DL.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to
terms with RHPs Matt Belisle and Burke
Badenhop on minor league contracts.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
BROOKLYN NETS — Named Sean
Marks general manager.
CHICAGO BULLS — Acquired G Justin
Holiday from Atlanta and a 2018 secondround draft pick from Utah and sent G
Kirk Hinrich to Atlanta.
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Acquired F
Channing Frye from Orlando. Cleveland
sent G Jared Cunningham and a future
second-round draft pick to Orlando and
C Anderson Varejao and 2018 first-round
draft pick to Portland.
DENVER NUGGETS — Traded G Randy
Foye to Oklahoma City for F Steve Novak,
G D.J. Augustin and two future secondround draft picks.
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Traded Fs Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton
to Detroit for a protected 2016 first-round
pick and F Joel Anthony.
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Traded F Jeff
Green to the Los Angeles Clippers for G
Lance Stephenson.
NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Acquired F
Jarnell Stokes and cash from Miami for a
future second round draft pick.
PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Acquired a
2017 second-round draft pick from Denver and C Joel Anthony from Detroit.
Sent the rights to C Chukwudiebere
Maduabum to Houston. Waived G JaKarr
Sampson.
PHOENIX SUNS — Traded F Markieff
Morris to Washington for a protected
2016 first-round draft pick and Fs Kris
Humphries and DeJuan Blair.
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS — Acquiring G Brian Roberts and a future secondround pick from Miami for cash considerations. Waived G Tim Frazier.
UTAH JAZZ — Acquired G Shelvin
Mack from Atlanta for a future secondround draft pick.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
CAROLINA PANTHERS — DE Jared Allen announced his retirement.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Terminated
the contracts of TE Jim Dray and DL Randy Starks.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Named Al
Guido president, Paraag Marathe chief
strategy officer and executive vice
president of football operations, Ethan
Casson chief operating officer, Hannah
Gordon general counsel, Brano Perkovich chief investment officer and Scott
Sabatino chief financial officer.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned G Reto Berra and D Nate Guenin
to San Antonio (AHL).
SOCCER
Major League Soccer
D.C. UNITED — Acquired targeted
allocation money and general allocation money from Orlando for M Antonio
Nocerino.
FC DALLAS — Terminated the contract
of D Je-Vaughn Watson.
NEW YORK RED BULLS — Announced
academy director Bob Montgomery will
become director of coaching education
and youth partnerships.
COLLEGE
NORTH TEXAS — Named Mike Ekeler defensive coordinator/linebackers
coach, Troy Reffett co-defensive coordinator/assistant head coach, Derrick LeBlanc defensive line coach, Nate
Brown cornerbacks coach, Zack Womack
strength and conditioning coach and
Shane Elder assistant athletic director
for football operations.
College basketball
Thursday’s men’s scores
EAST
Baruch 68, Hunter 61
CCSU 76, Mount St. Mary’s 72
Delaware 62, Coll. of Charleston 59
Elon 81, Drexel 76
Fairfield 74, Canisius 71
Farmingdale 75, Old Westbury 71
Hofstra 84, Towson 82
Lyndon St. 86, Castleton 83, 2OT
Niagara 76, Marist 72
Philadelphia 65, Georgian Court 43
Quinnipiac 56, St. Peter’s 55
Robert Morris 74, LIU Brooklyn 67
Sacred Heart 74, Bryant 57
St. Francis Brooklyn 70, St. Francis
(Pa.) 58
Susquehanna 86, Elizabethtown 70
UConn 68, SMU 62
Wagner 94, Fairleigh Dickinson 74
Yeshiva 75, St. Joseph’s (LI) 70
York (NY) 74, CCNY 71
SOUTH
Ala.-Huntsville 76, Christian Brothers 70
Alderson-Broaddus 72, Trevecca Nazarene 71
Belmont 86, E. Kentucky 78
Bethel (Tenn.) 110, William Carey 102
Bluefield 72, St. Andrews 61
Campbellsville 73, Lindsey Wilson 59
Chattanooga 85, VMI 59
Coppin St. 71, NC Central 60
Cumberland (Tenn.) 70, St. Catharine 55
ETSU 67, The Citadel 51
Florida Gulf Coast 82, Lipscomb 67
Gardner-Webb 84, Charleston Southern 76
Georgia Southern 90, Arkansas St. 59
High Point 88, Longwood 80
Jacksonville 81, SC-Upstate 76
Kennesaw St. 92, Stetson 82
Kentucky 80, Tennessee 70
Kentucky Wesleyan 84, Davis & Elkins 78
LeMoyne-Owen 76, Kentucky St. 71
Marshall 87, Charlotte 72
Martin Methodist 61, Blue Mountain 54
Morehead St. 66, Tennessee St. 61
North Florida 107, NJIT 71
Northeastern 95, James Madison 94, 3OT
Old Dominion 59, W. Kentucky 56
Radford 69, Liberty 67
South Alabama 75, Appalachian St. 71
UALR 57, Georgia St. 49
UNC Asheville 70, Presbyterian 61
UNC Greensboro 82, Samford 77, OT
UT Martin 87, E. Illinois 84, OT
W. Carolina 72, Mercer 65
William & Mary 87, UNC Wilmington 69
Winthrop 79, Coastal Carolina 67
MIDWEST
Grand Valley St. 76, Saginaw Valley St. 73
Hillsdale 88, Ferris St. 70
IPFW 91, S. Dakota St. 79
Lake Superior St. 83, N. Michigan 74
Maranatha Baptist 84, Moody Bible 74
Michigan St. 69, Wisconsin 57
Minnesota 68, Maryland 63
Northwood (Mich.) 73, Michigan Tech 63
SIU-Edwardsville 72, SE Missouri 69
Wichita St. 99, Missouri St. 68
SOUTHWEST
Houston Baptist 73, Abilene Christian 71
Louisiana Tech 87, UTSA 74
Louisiana-Monroe 76, Texas St. 57
North Texas 77, FIU 75
Rice 90, FAU 85
Rogers St. 84, Oklahoma Christian 74
Texas Rio Grande Valley 67, Seattle 57
Texas-Arlington 84, Louisiana-Lafayette 83, OT
Tulsa 70, Cincinnati 68, OT
UTEP 78, Southern Miss. 73
FAR WEST
BYU 69, San Diego 67
Cal Poly 58, UC Davis 53
California 78, Washington 75
E. Oregon 72, Walla Walla 55
E. Washington 93, Sacramento St. 88
Gonzaga 90, Pacific 68
Grand Canyon 78, UMKC 66
Hawaii 69, CS Northridge 63
Idaho 80, Portland St. 74
N. Arizona 81, Idaho St. 68
New Mexico St. 63, CS Bakersfield 55
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 74, Portland 72
San Francisco 82, Pepperdine 72
Santa Clara 76, Loyola Marymount 72
Stanford 72, Washington St. 56
UC Santa Barbara 65, UC Riverside 55
Utah 75, UCLA 73
Utah Valley 74, Chicago St. 72
Weber St. 87, S. Utah 83
AP Men’s Top 25 schedule
Saturday’s games
No. 1 Villanova vs. Butler
No. 2 Kansas at Kansas State
No. 3 Oklahoma at No. 10 West Virginia
No. 5 North Carolina vs. No. 11 Miami
No. 8 Xavier at Georgetown
No. 13 Iowa State vs. TCU
No. 14 Kentucky at Texas A&M
No. 15 Dayton vs. St. Bonaventure
No. 16 Oregon vs. Oregon State
No. 17 Purdue at No. 22 Indiana
No. 18 Louisville vs. No. 20 Duke
No. 19 Notre Dame at Georgia Tech
No. 24 Texas vs. No. 25 Baylor
Tennis
Sunday’s games
No. 6 Maryland vs. Michigan
No. 21 SMU vs. East Carolina
Thursday’s women’s scores
EAST
Castleton 72, Lyndon St. 34
Dist. of Columbia 74, Mercy 65
Michigan St. 70, Rutgers 67
Philadelphia 77, Georgian Court 62
Quinnipiac 76, Marist 71
Rider 57, St. Peter’s 48
Syracuse 83, Florida St. 73
SOUTH
Ala.-Huntsville 52, Christian Brothers 47
Arkansas St. 79, Georgia Southern 52
Bethel (Tenn.) 71, William Carey 59
Blue Mountain 68, Martin Methodist 63
Boston College 67, Clemson 64
Charlotte 87, Marshall 77
Davis & Elkins 61, Kentucky Wesleyan 53
Duke 66, Virginia Tech 62
Florida 79, Vanderbilt 67
Freed-Hardeman 66, Columbia (SC) 57
Furman 85, UNC-Greensboro 71
Georgetown (Ky.) 75, Berea 65
Kentucky 83, Mississippi St. 60
Kentucky St. 71, LeMoyne-Owen 67
Lindsey Wilson 73, Campbellsville 65
Louisiana Tech 75, UTSA 66
Louisville 74, Virginia 59
Memphis 100, Temple 97, 5OT
Mercer 61, ETSU 45
N. Kentucky 81, Detroit 60
New Orleans 62, SE Louisiana 51
North Texas 58, FIU 40
Notre Dame 86, Wake Forest 52
Pittsburgh 76, North Carolina 60
Rice 75, FAU 54
South Alabama 68, Appalachian St. 54
South Carolina 61, Georgia 51
Tennessee 57, Mississippi 51
Trevecca Nazarene 72, AldersonBroaddus 54
UALR 54, Georgia St. 39
UTEP 57, Southern Miss. 54
W. Kentucky 85, Old Dominion 74, OT
Wofford 72, W. Carolina 71
MIDWEST
Grand Canyon 68, UMKC 59
Green Bay 58, Ill.-Chicago 40
Hillsdale 74, Ferris St. 63
Indiana 93, Minnesota 79
Iowa 63, Purdue 55
Marantha Baptist 55, Moody Bible 42
Michigan Tech 69, Northwood (Mich.) 60
Milwaukee 70, Valparaiso 60
N. Michigan 73, Lake Superior St. 57
Nebraska-Omaha 57, IUPUI 54
Ohio St. 96, Nebraska 70
S. Dakota St. 80, Denver 52
Saginaw Valley St. 75, Grand Valley St. 71
Saint Louis 84, Duquesne 81
South Dakota 86, W. Illinois 50
St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 76, Wis.-Parkside 62
Utah Valley 69, Chicago St. 62
Wright St. 79, Oakland 63
SOUTHWEST
Arkansas 69, Alabama 67
Houston Baptist 62, Incarnate Word 61
Louisiana-Lafayette 59, Texas-Arlington 42
Rogers St. 79, Oklahoma Christian 68
Stephen F. Austin 79, Lamar 77
Texas A&M 68, LSU 54
Texas St. 63, Louisiana-Monroe 57
FAR WEST
BYU 68, San Diego 60
Cal Poly 63, Cal St.-Fullerton 57
Idaho 84, Portland St. 63
Idaho St. 71, N. Arizona 61
New Mexico St. 67, CS Bakersfield 59
Pacific 87, Portland 38
Sacramento St. 94, E. Washington 91
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 66, Gonzaga 47
San Francisco 99, Pepperdine 75
Santa Clara 68, Loyola Marymount 41
Texas Rio Grande Valley 76, Seattle 71
UC Riverside 83, Long Beach St. 58
UC Santa Barbara 70, CS Northridge 58
Weber St. 75, S. Utah 56
EXHIBITION
Cumberland (Tenn.) 78, St. Catherine
U. 51
AP Women’s Top 25 schedule
Saturday’s games
No. 1 UConn at East Carolina
No. 4 Baylor vs. Iowa State
No. 17 Oklahoma State at TCU
No. 20 Oklahoma at Kansas
Sunday’s games
No. 5 Ohio State vs. Illinois
No. 6 Maryland at Rutgers
No. 7 Oregon State vs. No. 12 UCLA
No. 8 Texas vs. West Virginia
No. 9 Arizona State vs. Washington
No. 11 Louisville at Boston College
No. 12 Texas A&M at Vanderbilt
No. 14 Mississippi State at Mississippi
No. 15 Stanford at Utah
No. 16 Kentucky vs. Arkansas
No. 18 Miami vs. Virginia Tech
No. 19 South Florida vs. Memphis
No. 21 DePaul at Creighton
No. 22 Florida at Georgia
No. 23 Syracuse at Pittsburgh
No. 24 Tennessee at LSU
No. 25 Michigan State vs. Minnesota
Boxing
Fight schedule
Feb. 20
At Oberhausen, Germany, Fedor Chudinov vs. Felix Sturm, 12, for Chudinov’s
WBA World super middleweight title.
Feb. 27
At Manchester, England, Carl Frampton vs. Scott Quigg, 12, for Frampton’s
IBF-WBA Super World bantamweight
titles; Marco McCullough vs. Isaac Lowe,
12, for vacant Commonwealth featherweight title; Hosea Burton vs. Miles
Shinkwin, 12, for vacant British light
heavyweight title; Ryan Burnett vs. An-
thony Settoul, 12, for the vacant WBC International bantamweight title; Charlie
Edwards vs. Luke Wilton, 10, flyweights.
At Madison Square Garden, New York
(HBO), Terence Crawford vs. Hank Lundy,
12, for Crawford’s WBO junior welterweight title; Felix Verdejo vs. William
Silva, 10, lightweights.
At Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif., Leo
Santa Cruz vs. Kiko Martinez, 12, for
Cruz’s WBA Super World featherweight
title; Julio Ceja vs. Hugo Ruiz, 12, for
Ceja’s WBC World super bantamweight
title; Gerald Washington vs. Oscar Rivas,
10, heavyweights.
Delray Beach Open
Thursday
At Delray Beach Stadium & Tennis
Center
Delray Beach, Fla.
Purse: $514,065 (WT250)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Second Round
Tim Smyczek, United States, def. Donald Young (7), United States, 1-6, 7-6 (2),
6-2.
Jeremy Chardy (5), France, def. Noah
Rubin, United States, 6-4, 6-2.
Sam Querrey, United States, def. Austin Krajicek, United States, 6-4, 6-3.
Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, def.
John-Patrick Smith, Australia, 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles
Quarterfinals
Treat Huey, Philippines, and Max
Mirnyi (3), Belarus, def. Chris Guccione
and Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-3, 6-4.
Jeremy Chardy, France, and Leander
Paes, India, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain,
and Sam Groth, Australia, 6-3, 4-6, 10-6.
Open 13
Thursday
At Palais des Sports
Marseille, France
Purse: $671,500 (WT250)
Surface: Hard-Indoor
Singles
Second Round
Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, def. Quentin Halys, France, 6-0, 6-4.
Benoit Paire (8), France, def. Vincent
Millot, France, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.
Nick Kyrgios, Australia, def. Teymuraz
Gabashvili, Russia, 6-4, 6-4.
Richard Gasquet (3), France, def. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 6-7 (5), 3-6.
Tomas Berdych (2), Czech Republic,
def. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 6-3, 3-6,
7-5.
Doubles
Quarterfinals
Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Michael Venus (2), New Zealand, def. Mateusz Kowalczyk, Poland, and Andreas Siljestrom,
Sweden, 2-6, 6-2, 10-7.
Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Colin
Fleming, Britain, def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, 6-3, 3-6, 11-9.
Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, and Nick
Kyrgios, Australia, def. Marin Draganja,
Croatia, and Julian Knowle, Austria, 6-3,
6-4.
Rio Open
Thursday
At Jockey Club Brasileiro
Rio de Janeiro
Purse: Men, $1.33 million (WT500)
Women, $226,750 (Intl.)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Second Round
Guido Pella, Argentina, def. Santiago
Giraldo, Colombia, 6-4, 6-0.
David Ferrer (2), Spain, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, def.
Inigo Cervantes, Spain, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3.
Federico Delbonis, Argentina, def.
Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-3, 6-0.
Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Nicolas
Almagro, Spain, 6-3, 7-5.
Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, def. Thiago
Monteiro, Brazil, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
Women
Second Round
Danka Kovinic (3), Montenegro, def.
Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, 6-2, 6-3.
Paula Cristina Goncalves, Brazil, def.
Johanna Larsson (2), Sweden, 6-4, 6-4.
Lara Arruabarrena (6), Spain, def. Ana
Bogdan, Romania, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.
Petra Martic, Croatia, def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2.
Doubles
Men
First Round
Guillermo Duran, Argentina and Phili
Oswald, Austria, def. Rogerio Dutra Silva
and Joao Souza, Brazil, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 10-8.
Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares (1),
Brazil, def. Fabiano de Paula and Orlando
Luz, Brazil, 6-2, 6-3.
Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, and Marcelo
Demoliner, Brazil, def. Aljaz Bedene, Britain, and Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-7
(6), 7-6 (4), 10-4.
Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, and Dominic
Thiem, Austria, vs. Alexandr Dolgopolov,
Ukraine, and Daniel Munoz-de la Nava,
Spain, 7-5, 7-5.
Women
Quarterfinals
Alize Lim, France, and Francesca Schiavone, Italy, def. Christina McHale and
Anna Tatishvili, United States, 6-3, 3-6,
10-8.
Mariana Duque-Marino, Colombia,
and Tatjana Maria, Germany, def. Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, and Stephanie Vogt (1), Liechtenstein, 7-6 (2), 4-6,
10-5.
Veronica Cedepe Royg, Paraguay, and
Maria Irigoyen (4), Argentina, def. Paula
Cristina Goncalves, Brazil, and Sanaz
Marand, United States, 7-6 (5), 6-0.
Dubai Championships
Thursday
At Dubai Tennis Stadium
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Purse: $1.73 million (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Quarterfinals
Caroline Garcia, France, def. Andrea
Petkovic, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.
Sara Errani, Italy, def. Madison Brengle, United States, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, def. Coco
Vandeweghe, United States, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2.
Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, def.
Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
Doubles
Quarterfinals
Timea Babos, Hungary, and Julia Goerges (4), Germany, def. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Maria Jose Martinez
Sanchez, Spain, 6-4, 6-1.
Sara Errani, Italy, and Carla Suarez
Navarro, Spain, def. Xu Yi-Fan and Zheng
Saisai, China, 6-4, 6-3.
Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic (2), France, def. Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, and CoCo Vandeweghe,
United States, 6-3, 6-1.
Golf
Northern Trust Open
PGA Tour
Thursday
At Riviera Country Club
Los Angeles
Purse: $6.8 million
Yardage: 7,322; Par 71 (35-36)
First Round
a-denotes amateur
Camilo Villegas
31-32—63
Chez Reavie
32-34—66
Bubba Watson
32-34—66
Luke List
33-33—66
Ricky Barnes
32-35—67
Rory McIlroy
33-34—67
Charles Howell III
31-36—67
a-Charlie Danielson
32-35—67
Shawn Stefani
32-35—67
Justin Leonard
33-34—67
Ben Crane
31-36—67
Jason Kokrak
34-34—68
Billy Horschel
32-36—68
Charl Schwartzel
32-36—68
Angel Cabrera
32-36—68
Harris English
33-35—68
Retief Goosen
33-35—68
Martin Laird
32-36—68
Marc Leishman
34-34—68
Kevin Chappell
34-34—68
Kyle Reifers
34-34—68
Dustin Johnson
33-35—68
Adam Scott
36-32—68
Troy Merritt
33-35—68
Luke Donald
35-33—68
Will MacKenzie
37-32—69
K.J. Choi
32-37—69
Ryan Moore
36-33—69
Justin Rose
35-34—69
Hideki Matsuyama
35-34—69
Matt Kuchar
34-35—69
Peter Malnati
34-35—69
Chris Stroud
33-36—69
Jamie Donaldson
34-35—69
Francesco Molinari
34-35—69
Women’s Australian Open
-8
-5
-5
-5
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
LPGA Tour
Thursday
At The Grange Golf Club, West Course
Adelaide, Australia City
Purse: $1.3 million
Yardage: 6,600; Par: 72 (36-36)
First Round
a-amateur
SooBin Kim
32-31—63 -9
Caroline Masson
33-33—66 -6
Casey Grice
34-32—66 -6
Catriona Matthew
34-33—67 -5
Karrie Webb
33-34—67 -5
a-Hye Jin Choi
32-35—67 -5
P.K. Kongkraphan
34-33—67 -5
Jenny Shin
34-33—67 -5
Dani Holmqvist
33-35—68 -4
a-Eun Jeong Seong
34-35—69 -3
Bertine Strauss
35-34—69 -3
Beth Allen
34-35—69 -3
Min Seo Kwak
35-34—69 -3
Lee Lopez
36-33—69 -3
Haru Nomura
35-34—69 -3
Malaysian Open
PGA European Tour
Thursday
At Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Purse: $3 million
Yardage: 7,079; Par: 71
First Round
Nathan Holman
32-32—64
Danny Willett
34-31—65
Tommy Fleetwood
32-33—65
Peter Uihlein
34-31—65
Jorge Campillo
33-32—65
Alexander Levy
32-33—65
Angelo Que
32-33—65
Thongchai Jaidee
33-33—66
Miguel Tabuena
33-33—66
Marcus Fraser
34-32—66
College baseball
Thursday’s scores
SOUTH
Eastern Mennonite 11-6, PSU-Altoona 5-7
La Grange 8, Sewanee 3
Lenior-Rhyne 17, Limestone 5
Northwood (Fla.) 12, Lee 10
Union (Ky.) 12, Cumberlands 5
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Gut wins downhill;
Vonn loses her ski
Associated Press
LA TUILE, Italy — Swiss
racer Lara Gut won a downhill
by a large margin Friday and
reclaimed the overall World Cup
lead from Lindsey Vonn, who lost
a ski, fell and did not finish.
Gut finished 1.02 seconds
ahead of Cornelia Huetter of Austria, with Nadia Fanchini of Italy
third, 1.03 back, as the Franco
Berthod course in the shadows of
Mont Blanc made its debut on the
circuit
Vonn was the last of the favorites to start and was ahead of Gut
at the first checkpoint but then
her right ski detached on a tricky
turn and she slid down the course
on her hip.
“I was getting a little bit bounced
by the ice there and I was a little
bit inside of my body position and
my ski just came off,” said Vonn,
showing off her bent ski in the
finish area. “I’m definitely disappointed. I thought I was skiing
pretty well. ... That’s pretty much
the one thing besides the weather
you can’t control. I did my job and
hopefully tomorrow my skis will
also do their job.”
The American said she didn’t
have any serious injuries.
“I’ll
probably
be
pretty
bruised,” Vonn said. “I slid on my
hip for quite a ways.”
Gut moved 13 points ahead of
Vonn in the overall standings.
In other skiing news:
Alexis Pinturault of France
protected his lead from the morning slalom in the afternoon’s
downhill to win an Alpine combined race and clinch the overall
combined title as rival Kjetil Jansrud’s bid crumbled on Friday at
Chamonix, France.
It was the 12th race win of Pinturault’s career, and his first title
in any discipline.
He was level on points with
Jansrud in the combined standings before this race. But the Norwegian downhill specialist placed
fifth in the race to drop to third in
the combined standings.
Italian Dominik Paris finished
0.27 seconds behind Pinturault
to take second place in the race,
followed by French pair Thomas
Mermillod-Blondin and Victor
Muffat-Jeandet.
Celtics say F Olynyk
will miss 2 weeks
BOSTON — Boston Celtics
forward Kelly Olynyk has a right
shoulder injury that will keep him
out for about two weeks.
General manager Danny Ainge
revealed the prognosis on a conference call with reporters after
standing pat at the NBA trade
deadline on Thursday.
Ainge said Olynyk received
treatment during the All-Star
break. The injury won’t require
surgery, he said, but it does need
more time.
Olynyk is averaging 10.1 points
and 4.3 rebounds per game.
Ainge said he came close on a
deal Thursday but didn’t want to
bring in a player as a short-term
fix who would become a free
agent after the season.
Webb, Rays agree
to $1M, 1-year deal
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. —
Reliever Ryan Webb agreed to a
$1 million, one-year contract with
Tampa Bay on Friday, a move the
Rays hope bolsters their bullpen.
The 30-year-old right-hander
was 1-0 with a 3.20 ERA in 50 2 ⁄3
innings over 40 games for the
Cleveland Indians last season. He
can earn an additional $500,000
in performance bonuses based on
games: $100,000 each for 30 and
each additional 10 through 70.
Webb also has pitched for the
San Diego Padres (2009-10), Florida and Miami Marlins (2011-13)
and Baltimore Orioles (2014) in
seven major league seasons. He
is 17-18 with a 3.35 ERA in 357
appearances.
In other baseball news:
New manager Andy Green
on Friday picked Tyson Ross as
the opening day starter against
the defending NL West champion
Los Angeles Dodgers on April 4
at Petco Park.
The right-hander was 10-12
with a 3.26 ERA and 212 strikeouts in 196 innings in 2015. He’s
entering his fourth season with
the Padres.
The Dodgers and reliever
Louis Coleman agreed Friday to
a $725,000, one-year contract.
Coleman’s deal was announced
when pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in Arizona. His salary is identical to the
one he agreed to last month with
the Kansas City Royals, who then
released him.
The 29-year-old right-hander
was 8-2 with nine saves and a
1.69 ERA in 38 games with the
Royals’ Triple-A Omaha club last
season. He was called up to Kansas City in September and made
four scoreless appearances in the
majors.
Capitals sign Chorney
to 2-year extension
ARLINGTON, Va. — The
Washington Capitals signed defenseman Taylor Chorney to a
$1.6 million, two-year contract
extension Friday.
Chorney has been a surprising contributor with the injuries
to defensemen Brooks Orpik and
John Carlson that pushed him
into a more prominent role. Chorney has averaged almost 13 minutes a game this season.
His assists through 45 games
are a career high as he has reestablished himself as a full-time
NHL player.
Signed in the offseason as
depth on the blue line, Chorney will count $800,000 against
Washington’s salary cap in 201617 and 2017-18.
ROD AYDELOTTE, WACO TRIBUNE HERALD/AP
Baylor students and alumni hold a candlelight vigil outside the home of university president Ken Starr
on Feb. 8 in what organizers call a “Survivors’ Stand” in Waco, Texas. The event was held in an effort to
urge changes to how the school handles sexual assault cases.
Critics challenge Baylor
claim of no sex assaults
BY
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DAVID WARREN
R EESE DUNKLIN
Associated Press
DALLAS — Baylor University
did not report a single instance
of sexual assault in a four-year
span, according to federal statistics, a finding that stands in
sharp contrast to the many other
private and public schools that
made multiple reports over the
same period.
The Baptist school of 16,000
students in Waco has faced
mounting criticism over its response to sex assaults on campus,
and some critics contend administrators fail to fully investigate
complaints, including two involving football players who were
later convicted.
“There’s always a red flag
that goes up when a school reports zero incidents,” said Neena
Chaudhry, senior counsel for the
National Women’s Law Center. “I
don’t think it’s a good sign when
you’re not getting any reports because it’s probably not true.”
Among nearly 200 public and
private institutions in the U.S.
with similar enrollment, Baylor was one of about two dozen
schools that reported no offenses.
Baylor has declined to address
specific allegations, though President and Chancellor Ken Starr
has decried the “scourge of sexual violence.”
Colleges and universities are
required to report crime statistics to the Education Department.
Prosecutors, alumni and students
said they were dismayed by the
statistics that showed Baylor reported nothing from 2008-11.
K HAMPHA BOUPHANH, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM /MCT
Texas Tech’s Aaron Crawford, left, tries to avoid the tackle by
Baylor’s Tevin Elliott (18) and Elliot Coffey on Nov. 26, 2011. Elliot
was prosecuted and convicted of sexual assault.
It’s “ridiculous” to think that no
assaults occurred at Baylor during those years, said McLennan
County Assistant District Attorney Hilary LaBorde. At a seminar at the school last year, she
said, she learned that fewer than
10 percent of women who contact
the campus’ Title IX office go on
to file a police report.
LaBorde prosecuted two Baylor football players who were
convicted of sexual assault: Tevin
Elliott for a 2012 offense and Sam
Ukwuachu for a 2013 assault.
ESPN’s “Outside The Lines”
profiled three unnamed students
earlier this month who said the
school failed to act after they reported being sexually assaulted
by Elliott. One of the victims said
an administrator told her there
were six complaints against Elliott, and Baylor could not act because “it turns into a he said-she
said,” according to the report.
In the case of Ukwuachu,
LaBorde told The Associated
Press, Baylor “did not validate”
the sex assault claim made by another student.
Michele Davis, a nurse who
examines victims of sexual assault for the Advocacy Center
for Crime Victims and Children
in Waco, said on “Outside The
Lines” that she sees about eight
Baylor students a year. Of those,
athletes are accused 25 to 50 percent of the time.
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NHL
Scoreboard
Roundup
Capitals upend
Islanders in OT
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Justin Williams sensed one of his linemates
was getting tired late in the 3-on3 overtime, so he waited for a line
change. With rested teammates
Williams went up the ice and got
the winning goal.
Williams scored 4:16 into the
extra period to lift the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 victory over
the New York Islanders on Thursday night.
On the play, defenseman John
Carlson sent the puck across to
Williams, who sent a one-timer
from beyond the top of the left faceoff circle past Islanders goalie
Thomas Greiss for his 19th of the
season.
“I was behind the net and I
knew (Matt Niskanen) was tired
so I asked him if he wanted to go
change. He said ‘Yeah,’ so I let
him go change, get some fresh
guys out there,” Williams said.
“Certainly didn’t get all of the
one-timer but enough to get in.”
Alex Ovechkin scored twice
in a 1:27 span early in the second period and Braden Holtby
stopped 20 shots for Washington
to get his league-leading 36th win
of the season. The Capitals beat
the Islanders for the third time in
three meetings this season.
Washington, which leads the
NHL with 88 points, was 7-2-1 in
its last 10 coming in but won for
the fifth time in six games and
improved to 15-3-2 against Metropolitan Division teams.
“We had seen our game slip
lately and it’s not all the way back
to where it needs to be but we
did a lot of good things tonight,”
Williams said. “We need to keep
having the puck a lot more and
lessening the opportunities the
other team has and I thought we
did a good job of that tonight.”
John Tavares and Frans Nielsen
scored for the Islanders.
Blues 2, Kings 1 (OT): Jaden
Schwartz scored 1:40 into overtime, Brian Elliott was sharp
again in goal and host St. Louis
beat Los Angeles.
Robby Fabbri scored a powerplay goal in the first period for
St. Louis and Elliott made 34 of
35 saves as he improved to 11-33 since Jake Allen was injured on
Jan. 8.
Coyotes 6, Stars 3: Maxi
Domi had two goals and an assist,
linemate Anthony Duclair had
three assists and host Arizona
beat Dallas at its own game.
The Coyotes scored a seasonbest six goals for the second
straight game, racing past the
NHL’s top-scoring team to win
consecutive games for the first
time in nearly a month.
Penguins 6, Red Wings 3:
Phil Kessel scored twice, Sidney
Crosby had a goal and an assist
and host Pittsburgh got plenty of
help from other players in a win
over Detroit.
Matt Cullen added a goal and
an assist, Ben Lovejoy picked
up his first goal since November
and Scott Wilson collected the
first goal of his career for the
Penguins.
Rangers 4, Maple Leafs 2:
Derek Stepan scored with 1:31
remaining and Derick Brassard
added an empty-netter for his
second goal of the game to lift visiting New York over Toronto.
Stepan’s one-time goal came 59
seconds after Colin Greening tied
it with his first goal as a member
of the Leafs.
Sharks 2, Panthers 1 (SO):
Joe Pavelski scored the winning
goal in the shootout and visiting
San Jose beat Florida for its third
straight victory.
Joonas Donskoi also scored in
the shootout for the Sharks. Nick
Bjugstad had a shootout goal for
Florida, but San Jose’s Martin
Jones stopped Jussi Jokinen in
the third round to seal it.
Ducks 5, Canucks 2: Ryan
Getzlaf, Rickard Rakell and Sami
Vatanen each had a goal and an
assist and visiting Anaheim beat
Vancouver.
Josh Manson and Kevin Bieksa
also scored, John Gibson made 19
saves and Anaheim wrapped up a
seven-game trip with a 5-1-1 record and improved to 11-1-1 over
its last 13 overall.
Lightning 6, Jets 5 (SO): Steven Stamkos scored in the fifth
round of the shootout and host
Tampa Bay rebounded after
blowing a three-goal lead to beat
Winnipeg.
Tampa Bay got regulation goals
from Stamkos, Victor Hedman,
Jonathan Marchessault, Alex Killorn and Nikita Kucherov.
Predators 2, Bruins 0: Pekka
Rinne made 29 saves, Filip Forsberg had a goal and an assist and
host Nashville beat Boston.
Craig Smith had the other goal
and Mike Ribeiro had two assists
for Nashville, which has won of
two of three.
Wild 5, Oilers 2: Matt Dumba,
Thomas Vanek and Mikael Granlund each had a goal and an assist
and visiting Minnesota beat Edmonton to win its third straight
under interim coach John
Torchetti.
Jason Pominville and Charlie
Coyle scored for the Wild, and
Darcy Kuemper made 31 saves.
Minnesota had lost 13 of 14 games
under former coach Mike Yeo before his firing Saturday night.
Senators 4, Hurricanes 2:
Cody Ceci scored the winning
goal early in the third period and
host Ottawa beat Carolina.
Alex Chiasson, Zack Smith and
Mark Stone also scored for the
Senators. Craig Anderson stopped
30 shots.
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
GP W
L OT Pts
Florida
58 33 18
7 73
Boston
58 31 21
6 68
Detroit
58 29 20
9 67
Tampa Bay
57 31 22
4 66
Ottawa
59 27 26
6 60
Montreal
58 27 27
4 58
Buffalo
58 23 28
7 53
Toronto
56 20 27
9 49
Metropolitan Division
Washington 56 42 10
4 88
N.Y. Rangers 58 33 19
6 72
N.Y. Islanders 56 30 19
7 67
Pittsburgh
56 29 19
8 66
New Jersey
58 29 22
7 65
Carolina
58 26 22
10 62
Philadelphia 56 25 21
10 60
Columbus
58 23 28
7 53
GF
161
174
149
155
169
159
137
136
GA
136
160
153
144
184
161
162
167
187
170
163
148
130
141
137
149
128
150
144
144
136
154
151
180
Western Conference
Central Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
61 38 18
5
81 175 142
59 37 16
6 80 191 162
60 34 17
9 77 147 140
58 27 21
10 64 153 152
60 30 26
4 64 161 166
58 26 22
10 62 150 147
57 25 28
4 54 148 168
Pacific Division
Los Angeles 57 33 20
4
70 155 136
Anaheim
57 30 19
8 68 141 139
San Jose
56 31 20
5 67 166 149
Arizona
57 27 24
6 60 157 174
Vancouver
57 22 23
12 56 135 162
Calgary
56 25 28
3 53 153 173
Edmonton
59 22 31
6 50 148 181
Note: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
Wednesday’s games
Chicago 5, N.Y. Rangers 3
Colorado 3, Montreal 2
Minnesota 5, Calgary 3
Thursday’s games
Tampa Bay 6, Winnipeg 5, SO
San Jose 2, Florida 1, SO
Washington 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT
Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 3
N.Y. Rangers 4, Toronto 2
Ottawa 4, Carolina 2
St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 1, OT
Nashville 2, Boston 0
Minnesota 5, Edmonton 2
Arizona 6, Dallas 3
Anaheim 5, Vancouver 2
Friday’s games
N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey
San Jose at Carolina
Buffalo at Columbus
Philadelphia at Montreal
Vancouver at Calgary
Saturday’s games
Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh
Philadelphia at Toronto
Detroit at Ottawa
Winnipeg at Florida
New Jersey at Washington
Los Angeles at Nashville
Boston at Dallas
St. Louis at Arizona
Colorado at Edmonton
Chicago
Dallas
St. Louis
Nashville
Colorado
Minnesota
Winnipeg
Friday
Capitals 3, Islanders 2 (OT)
Washington
0 2 0 1—3
N.Y. Islanders
1 0 1 0—2
First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Tavares
22 (Leddy), 15:41.
Second Period—2, Washington, Ovechkin 36 (Kuznetsov, J.Williams), 1:25. 3,
Washington, Ovechkin 37 (Backstrom,
Oshie), 2:52 (pp).
Third Period—4, N.Y. Islanders, Nielsen
16 (Okposo, Hamonic), 18:16.
Overtime—5, Washington, J.Williams
19 (Carlson, Niskanen), 4:16.
Shots on Goal—Washington 9-14-102—35. N.Y. Islanders 9-4-8-1—22.
Power-play opportunities—Washington 1 of 5; N.Y. Islanders 0 of 2.
Goalies—Washington, Holtby 36-6-3
(22 shots-20 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Greiss
16-6-3 (35-32).
A—15,795 (15,795). T—2:44.
Senators 4, Hurricanes 2
Carolina
1 1 0—2
Ottawa
1 1 2—4
First Period—1, Ottawa, Chiasson 4
(Lazar, Paul), 7:36. 2, Carolina, J.Staal 14
(Nordstrom, Liles), 19:37.
Second Period—3, Ottawa, Smith 13
(Neil, Karlsson), 5:39. 4, Carolina, Nash 7
(Lindholm, Rask), 18:17 (pp).
Third Period—5, Ottawa, Ceci 7
(Pageau), 3:50. 6, Ottawa, Stone 18 (Karlsson, Anderson), 19:59 (en).
Shots on Goal—Carolina 8-13-11—32.
Ottawa 7-6-9—22.
Power-play opportunities—Carolina 1
of 2; Ottawa 0 of 4.
Goalies—Carolina, Lack 10-11-3 (21
shots-18 saves). Ottawa, Anderson 2419-4 (32-30).
A—16,994 (19,153). T—2:30.
Predators 2, Bruins 0
Boston
0 0 0—0
Nashville
2 0 0—2
First Period—1, Nashville, C.Smith 13
(Forsberg, Ribeiro), 2:51. 2, Nashville,
Forsberg 20 (Ekholm, Ribeiro), 14:37.
Shots on Goal—Boston 10-9-10—29.
Nashville 13-7-4—24.
Power-play opportunities—Boston 0
of 4; Nashville 0 of 2.
Goalies—Boston, Rask 21-17-5 (24
shots-22 saves). Nashville, Rinne 21-18-8
(29-29).
A—17,113 (17,113). T—2:35.
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Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom, center, watches a shot by
teammate Justin Williams get past Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss
for the winning goal during overtime of Friday’s game in New York.
Penguins 6, Red Wings 3
Lightning 6, Jets 5 (SO)
Detroit
1 1 1—3
Pittsburgh
2 2 2—6
First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Lovejoy 3
(Hornqvist, Cullen), 9:56. 2, Detroit, Jurco
4 (Nyquist, Athanasiou), 13:40. 3, Pittsburgh, Cullen 7 (Hornqvist, Daley), 16:47.
Second Period—4, Detroit, Larkin 19
(Glendening, Quincey), 2:19. 5, Pittsburgh, Kessel 17 (Crosby, Kunitz), 2:43.
6, Pittsburgh, Wilson 1 (Sheary, Pouliot),
16:46.
Third Period—7, Pittsburgh, Kessel 18
(Maatta, Kunitz), 6:26. 8, Detroit, Zetterberg 12 (Abdelkader, Datsyuk), 11:13.
9, Pittsburgh, Crosby 25 (Letang), 19:12
(en).
Shots on Goal—Detroit 10-12-16—38.
Pittsburgh 14-14-11—39.
Power-play opportunities—Detroit 0
of 1; Pittsburgh 0 of 1.
Goalies—Detroit, Mrazek 22-11-5 (32
shots-27 saves), Howard (13:34 third, 66). Pittsburgh, Fleury 23-13-6 (38-35).
A—18,584 (18,387). T—2:30.
Winnipeg
0 1 4 0—5
Tampa Bay
3 0 2 0—6
Tampa Bay won shootout 2-1
First Period—1, Tampa Bay, Hedman 6
(Brown), 15:38. 2, Tampa Bay, Marchessault 7 (Killorn), 17:52. 3, Tampa Bay,
Stamkos 23 (Callahan, Sustr), 19:39.
Second Period—4, Winnipeg, Myers 6
(Peluso, Lowry), 13:45.
Third Period—5, Tampa Bay, Killorn 10
(Callahan), 2:00. 6, Winnipeg, Scheifele
13 (Trouba), 6:01 (pp). 7, Winnipeg, Ladd
14 (Armia), 7:33 (sh). 8, Winnipeg, Ladd
15 (Scheifele), 12:44. 9, Winnipeg, Perreault 9 (Wheeler, Byfuglien), 14:40 (pp).
10, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 24, 15:04.
Shootout—Winnipeg 1 (Wheeler NG,
Ladd G, Scheifele NG, Stafford NG, Ehlers
NG), Tampa Bay 2 (Callahan G, Kucherov
NG, Filppula NG, Palat NG, Stamkos G).
Shots on Goal—Winnipeg 13-9-15-4—
41. Tampa Bay 8-8-8-2—26.
Power-play opportunities—Winnipeg
2 of 4; Tampa Bay 0 of 5.
Goalies—Winnipeg, Pavelec 6-7-2 (26
shots-21 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy
9-5-0 (41-36).
A—19,092 (19,092). T—2:47.
Rangers 4, Maple Leafs 2
N.Y. Rangers
0 2 2—4
Toronto
1 0 1—2
First Period—1, Toronto, Parenteau 15
(Marincin, Loov), 3:58.
Second Period—2, N.Y. Rangers, Brassard 21 (Yandle, Miller), 3:56 (pp). 3, N.Y.
Rangers, Zuccarello 20 (Stepan, Miller),
9:24.
Third Period—4, Toronto, Greening 1
(Boyes, Arcobello), 17:30. 5, N.Y. Rangers,
Stepan 13 (Zuccarello, Miller), 18:29. 6,
N.Y. Rangers, Brassard 22 (Zuccarello),
19:40 (en).
Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 6-7-7—20.
Toronto 13-11-13—37.
Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Rangers 1 of 3; Toronto 0 of 5.
Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Raanta 5-4-2
(37 shots-35 saves). Toronto, Bernier 615-3 (19-16).
A—18,952 (18,819). T—2:36.
Wild 5, Oilers 2
Minnesota
2 2 1—5
Edmonton
2 0 0—2
First Period—1, Minnesota, Pominville
8 (Granlund, Vanek), 9:30 (pp). 2, Edmonton, McDavid 10 (Pouliot, J.Eberle), 9:58.
3, Minnesota, Dumba 8 (Parise, Koivu),
13:16 (pp). 4, Edmonton, Yakupov 5,
17:19.
Second Period—5, Minnesota, Vanek
16 (Koivu, Reilly), 4:48. 6, Minnesota,
Granlund 6 (Dumba, Reilly), 15:37.
Third Period—7, Minnesota, Coyle 18,
19:56 (en).
Shots on Goal—Minnesota 10-7-10—
27. Edmonton 13-10-10—33.
Power-play opportunities—Minnesota
2 of 3; Edmonton 0 of 2.
Goalies—Minnesota, Kuemper 6-3-5
(33 shots-31 saves). Edmonton, Talbot
12-19-3 (26-22).
A—16,839 (16,839). T—2:25.
Ducks 5, Canucks 2
Anaheim
0 2 3—5
Vancouver
0 0 2—2
Second Period—1, Anaheim, Rakell 15
(Vatanen, Santorelli), 2:03. 2, Anaheim,
Vatanen 8 (Getzlaf, Fowler), 10:25 (pp).
Third Period—3, Anaheim, Getzlaf 7,
4:14. 4, Anaheim, Manson 3 (Rakell, Cogliano), 4:41. 5, Vancouver, Hansen 17
(D.Sedin), 6:18. 6, Vancouver, Baertschi
12 (H.Sedin, D.Sedin), 11:58 (pp). 7, Anaheim, Bieksa 3 (Kesler), 17:29 (en).
Shots on Goal—Anaheim 10-13-10—33.
Vancouver 9-6-6—21.
Power-play opportunities—Anaheim 1
of 3; Vancouver 1 of 4.
Goalies—Anaheim, Gibson 13-8-2 (21
shots-19 saves). Vancouver, Miller 12-178 (32-28).
A—18,435 (18,910). T—2:30.
Sharks 2, Panthers 1
San Jose
0 0 1 0—2
Florida
0 0 1 0—1
San Jose won shootout 2-1
Third Period—1, Florida, Jagr 18 (Trocheck, R.Smith), 2:23. 2, San Jose, Couture 6 (J.Thornton, Pavelski), 8:56.
Shootout—San Jose 2 (Donskoi G, Pavelski G), Florida 1 (Huberdeau NG, Bjugstad G, Jokinen NG).
Shots on Goal—San Jose 7-7-1-3—18.
Florida 11-4-3-2—20.
Power-play opportunities—San Jose 0
of 4; Florida 0 of 1.
Goalies—San Jose, Jones 28-15-3 (20
shots-19 saves). Florida, Montoya 9-4-2
(18-17).
A—13,019 (19,250). T—2:37.
Blues 2, Kings 1 (OT)
Los Angeles
0 0 1 0—1
St. Louis
1 0 0 1—2
First Period—1, St. Louis, Fabbri 14
(Lehtera, Parayko), 11:32 (pp).
Third Period—2, Los Angeles, Toffoli
24 (Carter, Doughty), 3:25 (pp).
Overtime—3, St. Louis, Schwartz 3,
1:40.
Shots on Goal—Los Angeles 8-13-131—35. St. Louis 16-7-7-2—32.
Power-play opportunities—Los Angeles 1 of 6; St. Louis 1 of 6.
Goalies—Los Angeles, Quick 28-15-3
(32 shots-30 saves). St. Louis, Elliott 167-6 (35-34).
A—18,923 (19,150). T—2:42.
Coyotes 6, Stars 3
Dallas
1 1 1—3
Arizona
0 3 3—6
First Period—1, Dallas, Seguin 31
(Sharp, Ja.Benn), 9:38.
Second Period—2, Arizona, Domi 14
(Duclair, Hanzal), 3:33. 3, Dallas, Ja.Benn
30 (Spezza, Seguin), 13:02 (pp). 4, Arizona, Stone 4 (Domi, Duclair), 13:53. 5,
Arizona, Domi 15 (Duclair, Hanzal), 18:26.
Third Period—6, Arizona, Hanzal 10
(Ekman-Larsson), 7:20 (pp). 7, Dallas,
Hemsky 8 (Oduya, Spezza), 8:33. 8, Arizona, Gaudet 1 (Chipchura, Dahlbeck),
9:14. 9, Arizona, Vermette 10 (Boedker,
Michalek), 18:14 (en).
Shots on Goal—Dallas 11-11-17—39.
Arizona 18-16-8—42.
Power-play opportunities—Dallas 1 of
4; Arizona 1 of 3.
Goalies—Dallas, Niemi 21-11-5 (41
shots-36 saves). Arizona, Domingue 128-4 (39-36).
A—11,853 (17,125). T—2:35.
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NBA
Teams take cautious
approach at deadline
BY TIM R EYNOLDS
Associated Press
MIAMI — In past years, a team like the Toronto
Raptors almost certainly would have been looking
to add some help for the stretch run. They’re holding down second place in the Eastern Conference,
have been one of the league’s hottest teams for the
last month and seem poised to make a significant
playoff push.
Yet on this trade-deadline day, they did nothing.
They weren’t alone. For the most part, Thursday’s
deadline came and went with most NBA teams seeming cautious, with the huge rise in the salary cap for
next season — and the uncertainty of how the freeagent market will react to that over the summer
— deterring clubs from making moves that might
adversely affect their flexibility going forward.
There’s a clear wait-and-see approach about how
the massive cap jumps that are coming will inevitably change the way teams go about their business.
This season’s cap was a record $70 million. That
seems like pocket change when compared to how
next season will likely top $90 million, and a cap of
$110 million or more for 2017-18 is possible.
“The spike is something we’re all aware of ... as
we’re thinking about things and trying to create
more financial opportunities in the coming summer,
for us to grow and get better,” Atlanta coach Mike
Budenholzer said. “I’m sure every team is similar.”
There were several deals Thursday, but no
blockbusters.
Cleveland landed Channing Frye and the Los
Angeles Clippers got Jeff Green for perhaps the
two biggest player moves among contending teams,
while Miami got under the luxury-tax threshold and
the Washington Wizards aquired disgruntled forward Markieef Morris from the Phoenix Suns
Detroit was the most notable exception at trade
time, with the Pistons adding Tobias Harris (his
contract runs through 2018-19), plus taking a chance
on Donatas Motiejunas. He’ll be a restricted free
agent, so Detroit will have a chance to keep him if
it so chooses.
Roundup
Scoreboard
Cavs cruise past broken Bulls
Associated Press
CLEVELAND
—
LeBron
James scored 25 points and
barely missed a triple-double,
Kevin Love added 15 points and
15 rebounds and the Cleveland
Cavaliers looked refreshed from
the All-Star break with a 106-95
victory over the Chicago Bulls on
Thursday night.
James had nine rebounds and
nine assists in 35 minutes for
the Cavs, who lost their first two
matchups with Chicago this season. But the Bulls are broken,
missing three key players because of injuries.
Cleveland has its sights set on
finishing with the East’s best record and earlier in the day the
club acquired forward Channing
Frye from Orlando in a threeteam trade the Cavs hope can get
them an NBA title. They had to
part with popular center Anderson Varjeao and a future firstround pick to obtain Frye, who
has not yet joined his new squad.
Derrick Rose scored 28 points
and Pau Gasol had 14 for the
Bulls, just 5-14 since they were a
season-best 10 games over .500 on
Jan. 9. Chicago is currently without Jimmy Butler, Nikola Mirotic
and Joakim Noah.
Wizards 103, Jazz 89: Marcin Gortat had 22 points and 10
rebounds and John Wall added
17 points and 11 assists to help
Washington beat visiting Utah.
Rescheduled from Jan. 23 because of a snowstorm, the game
was first of three in three days
for Washington following the AllStar break.
Hours before the start, the Wizards acquired forward Markieff
Morris from Phoenix at the trade
deadline in an attempt to boost
their playoff hopes.
Gordon Hayward scored 19
points and Rodney Hood added
18 points for Utah.
BRANDON DILL /AP
The Memphis Grizzlies traded forward Jeff Green to the Los Angeles
Clippers in exchange for guard Lance Stephenson on Thursday.
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W
L
Toronto
35
17
Boston
32 23
New York
23
32
Brooklyn
14 40
Philadelphia
8 45
Southeast Division
Atlanta
31
24
Miami
29
24
Charlotte
27
26
Washington
24
28
Orlando
23 29
Central Division
Cleveland
39
14
Indiana
28 25
Chicago
27
26
Detroit
27
27
Milwaukee
22
32
Pct
.673
.582
.418
.259
.151
GB
—
4½
13½
22
27½
.564
.547
.509
.462
.442
—
1
3
5½
6½
.736
.528
.509
.500
.407
—
11
12
12½
17½
Western Conference
TONY D EJAK /AP
Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose, left, drives against the Cavaliers’
LeBron James in the first half of Thursday’s game in Cleveland.
Clippers 105, Spurs 86:
Chris Paul had 28 points and 12
assists, and host Los Angeles led
all the way to snap San Antonio’s
six-game winning streak coming
out of the All-Star break.
Just before the game, Paul
returned from Oklahoma City
where he attended the funeral of
Ingrid Williams, wife of Thunder
assistant coach Monty Williams.
Ingrid Williams She was killed
in a car accident last week at age
44.
Southwest Division
W
L Pct
San Antonio
45
9 .833
Memphis
31
22 .585
Dallas
29
26 .527
Houston
27
28 .491
New Orleans
20
33 .377
Northwest Division
Oklahoma City
40
14 .741
Portland
27
27 .500
Utah
26
27 .491
Denver
22
32 .407
Minnesota
17
37 .315
Pacific Division
Golden State
48
4 .923
L.A. Clippers
36
18 .667
Sacramento
22
31 .415
Phoenix
14 40 .259
L.A. Lakers
11 44 .200
Wednesday’s games
No games scheduled
Thursday’s games
Washington 103, Utah 89
Cleveland 106, Chicago 95
L.A. Clippers 105, San Antonio 86
Friday’s games
Dallas at Orlando
Detroit at Washington
New York at Brooklyn
Toronto at Chicago
Philadelphia at New Orleans
Charlotte at Milwaukee
Minnesota at Memphis
Indiana at Oklahoma City
Miami at Atlanta
Houston at Phoenix
Denver at Sacramento
Golden State at Portland
San Antonio at L.A. Lakers
Boston at Utah
Saturday’s games
Washington at Miami
Milwaukee at Atlanta
New York at Minnesota
Golden State at L.A. Clippers
GB
—
13½
16½
18½
24½
—
13
13½
18
23
—
13
26½
35
38½
Calendar
March 1 — Playoff eligibility waiver
deadline.
April 13 — Regular season ends.
April 15 — Playoff rosters set
April 16 — Playoffs begin.
May 17 — Draft lottery.
Thursday
Clippers 105, Spurs 86
SAN ANTONIO — Anderson 4-6 0-0
8, Aldridge 3-12 4-4 10, Duncan 1-6 0-0
2, Parker 6-13 1-2 14, D.Green 2-9 0-0 4,
Diaw 2-5 0-0 5, Mills 4-10 0-0 9, Simmons
2-5 1-2 5, West 4-6 3-3 12, Butler 4-7 0-0 8,
Marjanovic 2-2 2-2 6, McCallum 1-2 1-2 3.
Totals 35-83 12-15 86.
L.A. CLIPPERS — Pierce 4-9 2-2 12,
Mbah a Moute 2-6 0-0 5, Jordan 4-6 1-2 9,
Paul 9-18 7-7 28, Redick 7-13 1-2 17, Johnson 2-6 0-0 5, Aldrich 4-5 0-2 8, Crawford
7-15 2-2 19, Wilcox 0-0 2-3 2, Dawson 0-0
0-0 0. Totals 39-78 15-20 105.
San Antonio
15 19 29 23— 86
L.A. Clippers
21 21 30 33—105
Three-Point Goals—San Antonio 4-17
(Diaw 1-1, West 1-1, Parker 1-3, Mills 14, Simmons 0-1, Aldridge 0-1, Butler 0-2,
D.Green 0-4), L.A. Clippers 12-25 (Crawford 3-6, Paul 3-7, Redick 2-2, Pierce 2-5,
Mbah a Moute 1-1, Johnson 1-4). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—San Antonio 41
(Duncan 6), L.A. Clippers 54 (Jordan 17).
Assists—San Antonio 19 (West, Parker 4), L.A. Clippers 23 (Paul 12). Total
Fouls—San Antonio 16, L.A. Clippers 20.
A—19,410 (19,060).
Cavaliers 106, Bulls 95
CHICAGO — Dunleavy 2-9 0-0 5, Gibson
3-7 1-4 7, Gasol 6-13 2-4 14, Rose 11-19 4-4
28, Moore 2-7 1-2 5, Snell 4-9 0-0 9, Portis
6-16 0-0 13, McDermott 1-6 0-0 3, Brooks
2-5 2-4 8, Felicio 0-1 1-2 1, Bairstow 0-1
2-2 2. Totals 37-93 13-22 95.
CLEVELAND — James 11-19 3-3 25, Love
5-10 3-4 15, Thompson 8-10 0-1 16, Irving
6-18 6-6 19, Smith 1-9 0-0 3, Mozgov 5-8 11 11, Dellavedova 2-7 2-2 7, Shumpert 2-6
0-0 5, Jefferson 2-4 0-0 5, Kaun 0-0 0-0 0.
Totals 42-91 15-17 106.
Chicago
19 23 22 31— 95
Cleveland
26 22 30 28—106
Three-Point Goals—Chicago 8-21 (Rose
2-3, Brooks 2-3, Portis 1-1, Snell 1-2, Dunleavy 1-3, McDermott 1-5, Felicio 0-1, Gasol 0-1, Moore 0-2), Cleveland 7-24 (Love
2-6, Shumpert 1-2, Irving 1-3, Dellavedova
1-3, Jefferson 1-3, Smith 1-5, James 0-2).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago
59 (Portis 10), Cleveland 57 (Love 15).
Assists—Chicago 12 (Gasol 4), Cleveland 21 (James 9). Total Fouls—Chicago
19, Cleveland 22. Technicals—Gibson,
Smith. A—20,562 (20,562).
Wizards 103, Jazz 89
UTAH — Hayward 7-15 4-4 19, Favors 49 3-4 11, Gobert 5-9 6-9 16, Neto 1-5 0-0 2,
Hood 6-12 3-4 18, Booker 3-4 1-2 7, Burke
1-8 0-0 2, Johnson 1-3 2-2 4, Lyles 1-4 2-2
4, Ingles 1-5 0-0 2, Withey 1-3 2-2 4. Totals
31-77 23-29 89.
WASHINGTON — Porter 4-8 0-1 9, Nene
7-11 2-2 16, Gortat 9-12 4-5 22, Wall 7-17
1-2 17, Temple 1-7 1-4 4, Dudley 1-6 1-2 4,
Beal 7-14 0-0 16, Gooden 1-1 0-1 2, Sessions 5-9 3-4 13, Eddie 0-0 0-0 0, Oubre Jr.
0-1 0-0 0. Totals 42-86 12-21 103.
Utah
23 19 26 21— 89
Washington
28 21 27 27—103
Three-Point Goals—Utah 4-15 (Hood
3-5, Hayward 1-3, Withey 0-1, Johnson 01, Lyles 0-1, Burke 0-2, Ingles 0-2), Washington 7-18 (Wall 2-4, Beal 2-4, Dudley
1-3, Temple 1-3, Porter 1-3, Sessions 0-1).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Utah 59
(Gobert 12), Washington 46 (Gortat 10).
Assists—Utah 20 (Burke 7), Washington
25 (Wall 11). Total Fouls—Utah 21, Washington 20. A—12,415 (20,308).
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MLB: SPRING TRAINING
A look at the National League teams by division entering spring training, including key players each club acquired and lost, and dates of the first
workout for pitchers and catchers, and the full squad:
New York Mets
Manager: Terry Collins (sixth season).
2015: 90-72, first place, lost to Kansas City in World
Series.
Training Town: Port St. Lucie, Florida.
First Workout: Feb. 19/26.
He’s Here: 2B Neil Walker, SS Asdrubal Cabrera, LHP
Antonio Bastardo, OF Alejandro De Aza, OF Roger
Bernadina, RHP Jim Henderson, RHP Stolmy Pimentel, INFOF Ty Kelly.
He’s Outta Here: 2B Daniel Murphy, LHP Jonathon Niese, LF Michael Cuddyer,
RHP Tyler Clippard, 3B-2B Juan Uribe, INF-OF Kelly Johnson, RHP Carlos Torres,
RHP Bobby Parnell, RHP Dillon Gee, OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis, C Anthony Recker,
LHP Alex Torres, OF Darrell Ceciliani, OF Eric Young Jr., LHP Eric O’Flaherty,
LHP Jack Leathersich, RHP Tim Stauffer.
Going campin’: Following their first World Series appearance in 15 years, the
Mets pulled off another splashy surprise when they retained free agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes. His big bat fortifies the entire lineup and makes the
Mets a threat to repeat as NL champs. They want to win their first title since
1986. The payroll is up over $140 million, its highest total in five years, and
previously pessimistic fans are giddy about the hard-throwing young rotation that features Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard and Steven
Matz. Bartolo Colon was brought back as a stopgap until another talented
young starter, Zack Wheeler, returns from Tommy John surgery. The target
date is around July 1. Bastardo was signed to help the bullpen set up closer
Jeurys Familia, and there is enviable depth all over the diamond. Walker and
Cabrera could improve the defense up the middle, while fan favorite Wilmer
Flores is preparing for his new niche as a utility infielder. SS Ruben Tejada’s
role is in question, and it remains to be seen how much captain David Wright
(spinal stenosis) can play and produce at third base.
Washington Nationals
Manager: Dusty Baker (first season).
2015: 83-79, second place.
Training Town: Viera, Florida.
First Workout: Feb. 20/25.
He’s Here: 2B Daniel Murphy, OF Ben Revere, INF Stephen
Drew, RHP Trevor Gott, RHP Shawn Kelley, LHP Oliver
Perez, RHP Yusmeiro Petit.
He’s Outta Here: RHP Jordan Zimmermann, SS Ian
Desmond, RHP Drew Storen, CF Denard Span, 3B Yunel Escobar, RHP Doug
Fister, RHP Casey Janssen, 2B Dan Uggla, RHP Craig Stammen.
Going campin’: After failing to make the postseason despite being an overwhelming favorite in the NL East, the Nationals fired manager Matt Williams
and are hoping to turn around under Dusty Baker, despite losing much more
than they added up and down the roster. GM Mike Rizzo revamped the middle
of the bullpen but held onto Jonathan Papelbon as the closer, even though
he was not great on the mound in September — and grabbed soon-to-be NL
MVP Bryce Harper by the throat in a dugout argument during a game. While
Zimmermann, Desmond, Span, Storen and Escobar left, little was added. The
hope, presumably, is Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg will carry the rotation, and players who were ineffective because of injuries — LF Jayson Werth,
1B Ryan Zimmerman, 3B Anthony Rendon — can bounce back to revive the
offense.
Miami Marlins
Manager: Don Mattingly (first season).
2015: 71-91, third place.
Training Town: Jupiter, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 19/23.
He’s Here: LHP Wei-Yin Chen, INF Chris Johnson, RHP
Edwin Jackson.
He’s Outta Here: Manager Dan Jennings, RHP Henderson
Alvarez, INF Casey McGehee, INF Donovan Solano.
Going campin’: The Marlins have made noise during the offseason mostly
with moves they didn’t make, and RHP Jose Fernandez and OF Marcell Ozuna
remain on the roster despite speculation they would be traded. Miami replaced Alvarez by giving Chen an $80 million, five-year deal. Miami also
signed NL batting and stolen base champion Dee Gordon to a $50 million, fiveyear contract, and helped the bench by adding Johnson. But depth remains
an issue, and the primary goal in spring training will be to get to opening day
with everyone healthy. Ace Fernandez and slugger Giancarlo Stanton haven’t
been in a lineup together since May 2014.
Atlanta Braves
Manager: Fredi Gonzalez (sixth season).
2015: 67-95, fourth place.
Training Town: Kissimmee, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 20/25.
He’s Here: OF Ender Inciarte, SS Erick Aybar, 3B-1B Kelly
Johnson, C Tyler Flowers, 3B Gordon Beckham, 2B Emilio
Bonifacio, 2B Chase d’Arnaud, SS Dansby Swanson, RHP
Carlos Torres, RHP Jim Johnson, RHP Bud Norris, LHP
Ian Kroll, RHP Jhoulys Chacin, RHP Kyle Kendrick, RHP David Carpenter, RHP
Aaron Blair, LHP Sean Newcomb, LHP Alex Torres, RHP Chris Volstad, RHP Jose
Ramirez, RHP Casey Kelly
He’s Outta Here: SS Andrelton Simmons, OF Cameron Maybin, RHP
Shelby Miller, OF Eury Perez, LHP Mike Minor, 3B Pedro Ciriaco, C Christian
Bethancourt, RHP Edwin Jackson, RHP Peter Moylan, LHP Ross Detwiler, OF
Todd Cunningham
Going campin’: Aybar is expected to be a one-year fill-in at shortstop as
the team awaits the arrival of Swanson, the 2015 No. 1 overall draft pick
who was acquired with Inciarte from Arizona. Julio Teheran, Norris and 2015
rookie Matt Wisler are the favorites to lead the rotation. Kendrick and Chacin
were added as veteran safety nets while such prospects as Newcomb, Blair,
Tyrell Jenkins battle Manny Banuelos and Williams Perez for starting jobs.
Mike Foltynewicz, whose 2015 season ended early due to blood clots in his
right shoulder, may not be ready for the start of spring training. A crucial experiment will be the move of Hector Olivera from third base to left field. The
Braves need Olivera, 30, to emerge as the high-average hitter they expected
when they acquired him last season from the Dodgers. Another former Cuban
star, Adonis Garcia, also 30, is the favorite to start at third base.
Philadelphia Phillies
Manager: Pete Mackanin (first full season).
2015: 63-99, fifth place.
Training Town: Clearwater, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 18/23.
He’s Here: RHP Jeremy Hellickson, RHP Charlie Morton,
LHP Brett Oberholtzer, OF Peter Bourjos, OF Tyler Goeddel,
RHP David Hernandez, RHP Vincent Velasquez.
He’s Outta Here: RHP Ken Giles, RF Jeff Francoeur, OF
Domonic Brown, RHP Aaron Harang, RHP Jerome Williams, LHP Cliff Lee.
Going campin’: The Phillies are in full rebuilding mode with a new frontoffice regime led by president Andy MacPhail and general manager Matt
Klentak. Only Ryan Howard and Carlos Ruiz remain from the team that won
five straight NL East titles and the 2008 World Series. The Phillies have restocked the farm system by trading Cole Hamels and young closer Giles. Some
prospects are still a few years away, but several will be competing in spring
training for roster spots. Oberholtzer, Velasquez and righty Jerad Eickhoff
will push for a job in the starting rotation. Former first-round pick Aaron Nola
already earned his spot and 2013 No. 1 overall draft pick Mark Appel, acquired
from Houston for Giles, will get a chance. Catcher Jorge Alfaro, outfielder
Nick Williams and righty Jake Thompson, three of the main players acquired
from Texas for Hamels, might be up later this season. Third baseman Maikel
Franco, the team’s best hitter, will begin his first full season in the majors.
The organization’s goal is to be ready to compete in 2017, so this season is
about finding the core players to build around.
St. Louis Cardinals
Los Angeles Dodgers
Manager: Mike Matheny (fifth season).
2015: 100-62, first place, lost to Cubs in NLDS.
Training Town: Jupiter, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 18/23.
He’s Here: RHP Mike Leake, INF Jedd Gyorko, RHP Seung
Hwan Oh, C Brayan Pena, RHP Matt Bowman, C Mike
Ohlman.
He’s Outta Here: RF Jason Heyward, RHP John Lackey,
INF-OF Mark Reynolds, OF Jon Jay, C Tony Cruz, OF Peter Bourjos, INF Pete
Kozma, RHP Carlos Villanueva, RHP Matt Belisle, LHP Randy Choate, RHP
Steve Cishek.
Going campin’: The Cardinals led the majors with 100 victories last season,
and although they made an early exit and took a couple of free agent hits
when Heyward and Lackey signed with the Cubs, they appear to have no
holes. Mike Leake is a durable rotation addition and ace Adam Wainwright
is back from a torn left Achilles tendon that sidelined him for most of last
season. Stephen Piscotty, coming off an exceptional rookie debut, likely
will be the right fielder. There’s power potential at first base with Brandon
Moss a year removed from hip surgery and Matt Adams healthy. The team
might again need to monitor the innings load for Michael Wacha and Carlos
Martinez, whose season ended in September due to shoulder woes. Gyorko
could get semi-regular playing time at three infield spots while helping 2B
Kolten Wong, SS Jhonny Peralta and 3B Matt Carpenter stay fresh. All-Star
C Yadier Molina is unlikely to be ready for the opener, leaving Pena as the
stand-in starter.
Manager: Dave Roberts (first season).
2015: 92-70, first place, lost to Mets in NLDS.
Training Town: Glendale, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 19/25.
He’s Here: LHP Scott Kazmir, RHP Kenta Maeda, OF
Trayce Thompson, INF Micah Johnson.
He’s Outta Here: Manager Don Mattingly, RHP
Zack Greinke, SS Jimmy Rollins, RHP Juan Nicasio,
RHP Joel Peralta, OF Scott Schebler.
Going campin’: The Dodgers are coming off their third straight NL
West title and hope to end their bad run in the postseason. They lost
in five games in the NL Division Series to the Mets. They’ve lost in
the NLDS for two straight years and the NLCS in 2013. Mattingly and
the team mutually parted ways not long after the latest postseason
failure despite having baseball’s biggest payroll. He was replaced
by Dave Roberts, a well-regarded coach who has never managed at
the big league level. The biggest offseason blow was the loss of Greinke to division rival Arizona, leaving the Dodgers with half of their
1-2 punch. Together, Clayton Kershaw and Greinke were 104-34 with
a 2.10 ERA over the last three years; the rest of the rotation was 98-98
with a 4.03 ERA. The Dodgers failed to make a splash in the offseason
free-agent market despite their ample payroll. On the positive side,
they’ll have three players who are 25 or younger at shortstop (Corey
Seager), center field (Joc Pederson) and right field (Yasiel Puig). Puig
will be watched closely after missing over half of last season with leg
injuries.
Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager: Clint Hurdle (sixth season).
2015: 98-64, second place, lost to Cubs in wild-card
game.
Training Town: Bradenton, Florida.
First Workout: Feb. 19/23.
He’s Here: LHP Jon Niese, 1B John Jaso, INF Jason Rogers,
RHP Neftali Feliz, RHP Juan Nicasio.
He’s Outta Here: 2B Neil Walker, 1B Pedro Alvarez, RHP
A.J. Burnett, RHP Joakim Soria, RHP Vance Worley, 3B Aramis Ramirez, OF
Travis Snider.
Going campin’: The Pirates had the second-best record in the majors in 2015
but their postseason lasted all of one game thanks to Jake Arrieta and the
precocious Cubs. While Chicago ramped up its spending in hopes of catching
St. Louis, the Pirates stuck to the plan and the budget. They swapped longtime building block Walker for Niese, declined to offer Alvarez a contract and
signed Jaso and Rogers, hoping one of them can give Michael Morse some
help in a first-base platoon. The back end of the starting rotation is filled with
question marks, and the infield could be a work in progress until Jung Ho Kang
returns from the broken leg that cut short his rookie season. The strength
remains the outfield, led by perennial All-Star Andrew McCutchen and the
back end of the bullpen, where setup man Tony Watson and All-Star closer
Mark Melancon are among the best 1-2 combinations in the majors. There’s
work to be had in front of them, though general manager Neal Huntington has
become an expert at filling in the holes with capable arms.
Chicago Cubs
Manager: Joe Maddon (second season).
2015: 97-65, third place, wild card, lost to Mets in NLCS.
Training Town: Mesa, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 20/24.
He’s Here: OF Jason Heyward, RHP John Lackey, 2B Ben
Zobrist, RHP Adam Warren.
He’s Outta Here: 2B Starlin Castro.
Going campin’: The Cubs broke out in a huge way last
season and fueled hope that a championship drought dating to 1908 is nearing the end. That optimism has only escalated since the final out of Game 4
of the NLCS. That’s because the Cubs added to a team that already boasted
the NL Cy Young winner (Jake Arrieta), Rookie of the Year (Kris Bryant) and
Manager of the Year, not to mention sluggers such as Anthony Rizzo and Kyle
Schwarber. Even better, they did it without trading any of their top prospects.
They strengthened their outfield and rotation by signing Heyward ($184 million, eight years) and Lackey ($32 million, two years) away from division rival
St. Louis. The Cubs also avoided arbitration with Arrieta, agreeing to a $10.7
million, one-year contract. One remaining item on the to-do list: an extension
for president of baseball operations Theo Epstein. The architect of the team’s
overhaul, he is entering the fifth and final season of his contract.
San Francisco Giants
Manager: Bruce Bochy (10th season).
2015: 84-78, second place.
Training Town: Scottsdale, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 18/23.
He’s Here: RHP Johnny Cueto, RHP Jeff Samardzija, OF Denard Span.
He’s Outta Here: RHP Tim Lincecum, RHP Mike
Leake, RHP Tim Hudson, OF Nori Aoki, RHP Ryan Vogelsong, LHP Jeremy Affeldt, RHP Yusmeiro Petit, OF
Juan Perez, C Hector Sanchez.
Going campin’: After missing the playoffs last season, the Giants
are hoping to repeat their pattern of even-year championships — they
won the World Series in 2010, ‘12 and ‘14. GM Bobby Evans went on a
spending spree this offseason to strengthen the rotation and up-themiddle defense. He committed $220 million to Cueto and Samardzija to
provide needed support behind ace Madison Bumgarner. Chris Heston
won 12 games as a rookie and will also be in the mix for the back end
of the rotation with Jake Peavy and Matt Cain, who made just 11 starts
because of injuries. The Giants also signed SS Brandon Crawford to a
$75 million, six-year extension and Span to a $31 million, three-year
contract to fill a hole in center field and the leadoff spot. With C Buster
Posey and 2B Joe Panik also in the fold, the Giants are as strong as they
have been in years up the middle. One hole that will need to be filled
in spring training is finding a replacement for retired lefty reliever Jeremy Affeldt.
Arizona Diamondbacks
Manager: Chip Hale (second season).
2015: 79-83, third place.
Training Town: Scottsdale, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 18/23.
He’s Here: RHP Zack Greinke, RHP Shelby Miller,
RHP Tyler Clippard, SS Jean Segura.
He’s Outta Here: OF Ender Inciarte, 2B Aaron Hill,
C Jarrod Saltalamacchia, RHP Jhoulys Chacin, RHP
Jeremy Hellickson.
Going campin’: The Diamondbacks took a major step toward being a
contender with their signing of Greinke to a $206 million, six-year deal.
Starting pitching was the team’s major weakness last season. Greinke
was 19-6 with a major league-best 1.66 ERA for the Dodgers. Arizona
further bolstered its rotation with the acquisition of Miller from Atlanta. Miller was 6-17 for the punchless Braves last year but with a
3.02 ERA. Left-hander Patrick Corbin, two years removed from Tommy
John surgery, should give the Diamondbacks a potent 1-2-3 punch in
the rotation. Rubby De La Rosa, Robbie Ray and Archie Bradley will
contend for the final two spots. There’s one or two jobs up for grabs
in the bullpen after the signing of Clippard. If Segura supplants slickfielding, low-hitting Nick Ahmed at shortstop, the only real competition on the infield is at second base, where Chris Owings will have to
hold off Brandon Drury and Phil Gosselin. With two of the game’s best
hitters in 1B Paul Goldschmidt and CF A.J. Pollock, offense shouldn’t
be a problem. Segura was obtained in a trade with Milwaukee to help
make up for the loss of Inciarte’s bat.
San Diego Padres
Milwaukee Brewers
Manager: Craig Counsell (second season).
2015: 68-94, fourth place.
Training Town: Phoenix.
First Workout: Feb. 21/25.
He’s Here: 1B Chris Carter, IF Aaron Hill, SP Chase
Anderson, SS Jonathan Villar, OF Rymer Liriano, 3B Will
Middlebrooks, OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis, 3B Garin Cecchini
He’s Outta Here: 1B Adam Lind, RP Francisco Rodriguez,
SS Jean Segura, SP Kyle Lohse, IF Jason Rogers, OF Shane Peterson
Going campin’: Milwaukee is rebuilding under new general manager David
Stearns and Craig Counsell, who is entering his first full season as skipper.
The trade of Segura to Arizona seems to pave the way for top shortstop prospect Orlando Arcia to get to the big leagues sooner. Owner Mark Attanasio
is giving Stearns full control of the overhaul, which could take a few years
before the Brewers are contenders again. Spring training is all about getting incoming veterans like Hill and Carter to fill in the lineup, while continuing to develop young talent already at the major league level like outfielder
Domingo Santana and starter Taylor Jungmann. Slugger Ryan Braun will proceed carefully after back surgery. Don’t be surprised if the Brewers continue
dealing, with veteran catcher Jonathan Lucroy another top candidate to go.
After going 6-14 with a 5.63 ERA, pitcher Matt Garza has vowed to improve
this spring.
Manager: Andy Green (first season).
2015: 74-88, fourth place.
Training Town: Peoria, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 19/24.
He’s Here: RHP Fernando Rodney, SS Alexei
Ramirez, CF Jon Jay, LHP Drew Pomeranz, C Christian
Bethancourt, RHP Jabari Blash.
He’s Outta Here: Interim manager Pat Murphy, LF
Justin Upton, RHP Craig Kimbrel, RHP Ian Kennedy,
RHP Joaquin Benoit, LF Rymer Liriano, RHP Odrisamer Despaigne, 2B
Jedd Gyorko, INF Will Middlebrooks, 1B Yonder Alonso, RHP Casey Kelly, SS Clint Barmes.
Going campin’: The Padres were a major disappointment last season after general manager A.J. Preller loaded up with big-name veterans during a frenzied few weeks in December 2014. Now Preller has
gone the other way, shipping out a handful of veterans for prospects to
restock the farm system while staying away from splashy acquisitions.
Preller denies it’s a rebuilding, but it’s certainly a remodeling for a
team that hasn’t reached the playoffs since 2006 and will host the AllStar Game this summer. Preller did bring in Ramirez, but he’s 34 and is
viewed as a bridge to prospect Javier Guerra. Upton and Kennedy left
via free agency, helping to give the Padres six of the top 85 picks in the
June draft. Green is just 38, putting him closer to the players’ ages than
predecessors Bud Black and Murphy. Green, who had success as a minor league manager, brought in Mark McGwire as his bench coach.
Colorado Rockies
Cincinnati Reds
Manager: Bryan Price (third season).
2015: 64-98, fifth place.
Training Town: Goodyear, Ariz.
Park: Goodyear Ballpark.
First Workout: Feb. 18/23.
He’s Here: INF Jose Peraza, OF Scott Schebler.
He’s Outta Here: 3B Todd Frazier, closer Aroldis
Chapman.
Going campin’: The Reds launched into a full-scale rebuilding last July,
trading starters Johnny Cueto and Mike Leake for prospects. The overhaul
continued in the offseason with Frazier — the All-Star Home Run Derby
champion — and Chapman getting dealt for prospects. Cincinnati tried to
trade 2B Brandon Phillips, but he blocked the deals. What’s left is a rotation that lacks experience — it consisted of all rookies the second half of
last season — and a bullpen with no proven closer. C Devin Mesoraco (hip
surgery) and SS Zack Cozart (reconstructive knee surgery) are expected
back. RH starter Homer Bailey had Tommy John surgery last May and will
be back at some point, too. But it’s been a long time since the Reds went
into spring training with so many things unsettled. They’ll spend the time
in Arizona trying to figure out which of the young players is closest to being
ready, and who might fit into the rotation. 1B Joey Votto, CF Billy Hamilton
and RF Jay Bruce remain, though it wouldn’t be a surprise if Bruce is traded
during the season.
Manager: Walt Weiss (fourth season).
2015: 68-94, fifth place.
Training Town: Scottsdale, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 19/25.
He’s Here: LHP Jake McGee, RHP Jason Motte, OF
Gerardo Parra, RHP Chad Qualls, INF-OF Mark Reynolds.
He’s Outta Here: RHP John Axford, LHP Rex Brothers, OF Corey Dickerson, RHP Tommy Kahnle, 1B Justin Morneau, C-INF Wilin Rosario.
Going campin’: The Rockies overhauled their roster after a fifth
straight losing season. First off, they revamped their bullpen by bringing in Motte and Qualls and trading for McGee in a deal that sent Dickerson to Tampa Bay. Colorado may still be in the market for a starter,
too. As it stands now, right-hander Chad Bettis is looking more and
more like the ace of the staff. Prized pitching prospect Jon Gray also
showed some hints of his talent last season. There’s a big question
mark hanging over Colorado heading into camp: Shortstop Jose Reyes
and his legal situation. Reyes remains under investigation in accordance with the league’s new domestic violence policy. Reyes was arrested Oct. 31 at a resort in Hawaii and pleaded not guilty to a charge
of abuse of a family or household member. Smooth-fielding third baseman Nolan Arenado is coming off a season in which he led the majors
with 130 RBIs. After much trade speculation in the offseason, Carlos
Gonzalez is back in purple pinstripes — for the time being, anyway. “We
all have talent. We just have to show it on the field,” Gonzalez said.
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MLB SPRING TRAINING
A look at the American League teams by division entering spring
training, including key players each club acquired and lost, and dates
of the first workout for pitchers and catchers, and the full squad:
Texas Rangers
Toronto Blue Jays
Manager: John Gibbons (fourth season).
2015: 93-69, first place, lost to Royals in ALCS.
Training Town: Dunedin, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 22/26.
He’s Here: RHP Joe Biagini, OF Darrell Ceciliani,
RHP Jesse Chavez, RHP Gavin Floyd, LHP J.A. Happ,
OF Junior Lake, RHP Arnold Leon, RHP Drew Storen,
RHP/LHP Pat Venditte.
He’s Outta Here: LHP Mark Buehrle, LHP Jeff Francis, RHP LaTroy Hawkins, RHP Liam Hendriks, RHP Mark Lowe, C Dioner
Navarro, INF Cliff Pennington, LHP David Price, OF Ben Revere.
Going campin’: The Blue Jays will bring back the biggest bats from
the offense that led the major leagues with 891 runs last season, 127
more than the second-best Yankees. With reigning AL MVP Josh Donaldson in the heart of a lineup that also features sluggers Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Troy Tulowitzki, there’s every reason to
expect another high-scoring season. The pitching staff isn’t so strong,
with question marks in both the rotation and bullpen. Toronto didn’t
even try to retain 2015 rental David Price, who left for division-rival
Boston. Still, the Blue Jays did hold on to surprise star Marco Estrada,
who signed a $26 million, two-year contract after career-bests of 13
wins and a 3.13 ERA. Toronto needs a new leadoff batter after trading
Revere to Washington for closer Drew Storen, who will compete with
2015 rookie sensation Roberto Osuna for the ninth-inning role. Much
attention will be paid to the new front office duo of president Mark
Shapiro and GM Ross Atkins, who both joined from Cleveland. The high
that accompanied the end of a 21-year playoff drought soon faded last
fall after Canadian GM Alex Anthopoulos, whose busy deadline deals
transformed the 2015 squad, resigned rather than work under Shapiro.
Anthopoulos later accepted a job with the Dodgers.
New York Yankees
Manager: Joe Girardi (ninth season).
2015: 87-75, second place, lost to Houston in wildcard game.
Training Town: Tampa, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 19/25.
He’s Here: 2B Starlin Castro, LHP Aroldis Chapman, OF Aaron Hicks.
He’s Outta Here: RHP Adam Warren, LHP Justin
Wilson, OF Chris Young, LHP Chris Capuano, 2B Stephen Drew, INF Brendan Ryan.
Going campin’: New York was 57-42 and led the AL East by seven
games before play on July 29, then went 30-33 and finished six games
back — the first time in team history the Yankees had a lead that large
and failed to finish first. With the goal of getting under the luxury tax
threshold by 2018, New York has not signed a free agent to a major
league contract for the first time since free agency began after the
1976 season. The Yankees traded for their three biggest acquisitions:
Castro, Hicks and Chapman, the hard-throwing closer who figures to
form an imposing end-of-game trio with LHP Andrew Miller and RHP
Dellin Betances. The biggest questions are health: starting pitchers
Masahiro Tanaka (wrist, forearm), CC Sabathia (knee, alcohol rehab),
Michael Pineda (forearm), Ivan Nova (recovery from Tommy John surgery) and Nathan Eovaldi (wrist) all missed time last year. 1B Mark
Teixeira broke his shin in mid-August and is expected to be at full
strength, but backup Greg Bird will miss the season following shoulder surgery. Jacoby Ellsbury, Brett Gardner, Alex Rodriguez and Brian
McCann all slumped late in the season. Replacements will have to be
found for Warren and Wilson, who both were traded. LHP Jacob Lindgren, expected back from elbow surgery, could take Wilson’s spot.
Baltimore Orioles
Manager: Buck Showalter (seventh season).
2015: 81-81, third place.
Training Town: Sarasota, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 19/24.
He’s Here: OF Hyun Soo Kim, OF-1B Mark Trumbo,
RHP Odrisamer Despaigne, OF Efren Navarro, RHP
Vance Worley.
He’s Outta Here: LHP Wei-Yin Chen, OF Gerardo
Parra, 1B Steve Pearce, C Steve Clevenger.
Going campin’: Coming off a disappointing .500 season, the Orioles
enter spring training with an improved offense and a thin starting rotation. Executive VP of baseball operations Dan Duquette’s biggest
move this winter was retaining slugger Chris Davis at $161 million over
seven seasons. Signing Kim and trading for Trumbo enhanced the outfield and filled out a lineup that already features Adam Jones, Manny Machado, Matt Wieters and steadily improving second baseman
Jonathan Schoop. The four-year contract provided to setup man Darren O’Day kept the bullpen sound, so Showalter’s main focus at camp
will be to cobble together a rotation minus Chen. Chris Tillman, Miguel
Gonzalez, Ubaldo Jimenez and Kevin Gausman were a combined 36-40
last year, leaving plenty of room for improvement. At this point, there
is no apparent No. 5 starter.
Tampa Bay Rays
Manager: Kevin Cash (second season).
2015: 80-82, fourth place.
Training Town: Port Charlotte, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 21/26.
He’s Here: OF Corey Dickerson, SS Brad Miller, C
Hank Conger, 1B-OF Logan Morrison, OF-INF Steve
Pearce, RHP Chase Whitley, LHP Dana Eveland, RHP
Danny Farquhar.
He’s Outta Here: LHP Jake McGee, SS Astrubal Cabrera, C J.P. Arencibia, OF Daniel Nava, RHP Brandon Gomes, RHP Kirby
Yates, LHP C.J. Riefenhauser, RHP Nathan Karns, OF Grady Sizemore,
1B-DH John Jaso, OF Joey Butler.
Going campin’: The Rays’ sub-.500 finish last season left them with
consecutive losing records for the first time since 2006-07. An inability
to consistently win close games was the reason. They were 46-48 in
games decided by two runs or fewer, including 26-30 in one-run games.
As a result, president of baseball operations Matt Silverman reshaped
the roster through a pair of offseason trades, hoping to add more pop
to the middle of the batting order while not compromising one of the
AL’s most reliable defenses. Baseball’s youngest manager, Kevin Cash,
enters his second season and has to determine how all the new pieces
fit — not only offensively but in a restructured bullpen. The addition of
Dickerson and Pearce adds power, but also gives the team a surplus
of outfielders. There’s a potential logjam at first base, too, where Morrison has been added and James Loney is the incumbent.
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The Royals signed pitcher Ian Kennedy in the offseason.
Manager: Jeff Banister (second season).
2015: 88-74, first place, lost to Toronto in ALDS.
Training Town: Surprise, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 19/24.
He’s Here: RHP Tony Barnette, RHP Tom Wilhelmsen, OF Justin Ruggiano.
He’s Outta Here: OF Leonys Martin, 1B Mike Napoli, RHP Yovani Gallardo
Going campin’: The Rangers surprised most
people last season by winning the AL West after pitcher Yu Darvish
had Tommy John surgery during spring training. Even more strange
was the ending — Game 5 of the AL Division Series at Toronto with
that nearly hour-long seventh inning that included three consecutive
Texas errors before Jose Bautista’s homer and big bat flip. Still, the
success in their first season under Banister — the AL Manager of the
Year — has only heightened expectations going into spring training.
Cole Hamels will be in the rotation from the start of the season following his midyear addition. Darvish is on track to be back by late May or
early June, and the bullpen got even stronger with the addition of two
more relievers with closing experience — Barnette (from Japan) and
Wilhelmsen (trade from Seattle). The everyday lineup returns pretty
much intact, and veteran 3B Adrian Beltre has had plenty of recovery
time from left thumb surgery and the strained lower back that kept
him out of two ALDS games.
Kansas City Royals
Houston Astros
Manager: Ned Yost (seventh season).
2015: 95-67, first place, World Series champions.
Training Town: Surprise, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 19/24.
He’s Here: RHP Ian Kennedy, RHP Joakim Soria, C
Tony Cruz.
He’s Outta Here: RF Alex Rios, RHP Greg Holland,
RHP Ryan Madson, LF Jonny Gomes, RHP Johnny
Cueto, LHP Franklin Morales, RHP Jeremy Guthrie,
2B-OF Ben Zobrist.
Going campin’: The Royals are coming off their second straight
World Series appearance and first championship since 1985, and there
is little reason to believe the success won’t continue. They brought
back All-Star LF Alex Gordon with a $72 million, four-year deal, and
signed Kennedy to replace Cueto in the rotation. Otherwise, the team
that beat the New York Mets in five games in the World Series returns
mostly intact. There are only a couple of jobs open in spring training: right field, where Jarrod Dyson and Paulo Orlando are expected
to platoon, and the fifth spot in the rotation behind Edinson Volquez,
Yordano Ventura, Kennedy and Kris Medlen. With several cornerstone
players, including first baseman Eric Hosmer and center fielder Lorenzo Cain, headed toward free agency after next season, the Royals think
they have a two-year window to win another title.
Manager: A.J. Hinch (second season).
2015: 86-76, second place, wild card, lost to Kansas City in ALDS.
Training Town: Kissimmee, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 19/23.
He’s Here: RHP Ken Giles, RHP Doug Fister.
He’s Outta Here: 1B Chris Carter, INF Jed Lowrie,
LHP Brett Oberholtzer.
Going campin’: The Astros look to contend again
after their long-term rebuilding project finally came to fruition and
they made the postseason for the first time since 2005. After coming
six outs from a trip to the AL Championship Series — they wasted a
three-run against Kansas City in their Game 4 loss and then were eliminated in Game 5 — Houston’s top priority was to boost the bullpen.
The Astros added right-hander Ken Giles, who will compete to be their
closer, in a trade with the Phillies. They chose not to offer a contract
to slugger Chris Carter, which puts pressure on Jon Singleton to prove
he can be their everyday first baseman after struggling offensively in
parts of two major league seasons. Carter’s absence leaves the Astros
without one of their biggest power threats — hit 90 homers in three
seasons in Houston. The Astros also count on 2015 AL Cy Young Award
winner Dallas Keuchel and AL Rookie of the Year shortstop Carlos Correa to build on their spectacular work last year.
Minnesota Twins
Manager: Paul Molitor (second season).
2015: 83-79, second place.
Training Town: Fort Myers, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 22/27.
He’s Here: DH Byung Ho Park, C John Ryan Murphy.
He’s Outta Here: RF Torii Hunter, CF Aaron Hicks,
RHP Blaine Boyer, RHP Mike Pelfrey, LHP Brian Duensing, C Chris Herrmann.
Going campin’: The Twins are coming off a promising 2015, with designs on their first postseason spot in six years. Success will hinge on
the starting pitchers, with at least eight candidates for five spots after
the rotation combined for a 4.14 ERA that ranked 16th in the majors.
Twins starters were last in 2014, last in 2013 and second-to-last in 2012.
Slimmed-down Phil Hughes needs to bounce back and pitch like the
ace he was in 2014. Trevor May would rather be in the rotation, but he
could be more valuable as the late-inning reliever. Even if closer Glen
Perkins returns to his All-Star, injury-free form, many openings and
questions remain in the bullpen. The move of slugger Miguel Sano to
right will be closely scrutinized, as will the adjustment of South Korean
power hitter Byung Ho Park to major league competition. Then there’s
prized prospect Byron Buxton, who struggled at the plate last year but
is being counted on to stay healthy and entrench himself in the lineup.
Cleveland Indians
Manager: Terry Francona (fourth season).
2015: 81-80, third place.
Training Town: Goodyear, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 18/23.
He’s Here: 1B Mike Napoli, OF Rajai Davis, RHP
Craig Stammen.
He’s Outta Here: INF Mike Aviles, RHP Scott Atchison, OF Michael Bourn, OF Nick Swisher.
Going campin’: Picked as a darkhorse to win the
World Series last season, the Indians fell way short, missing the playoffs for the second straight year. Corey Kluber anchors one of baseball’s best and deepest rotations. OF Michael Brantley’s recovery from
right shoulder surgery will be a major topic during camp. His recovery
is on schedule, but he’s expected to miss at least the season’s first
month. SS Francisco Lindor batted .313 in 99 games as a rookie in ‘15
and is one of the AL’s rising stars. His presence from the start should
stabilize Cleveland’s infield. Napoli brings much-needed power. Davis
provides a speed threat at the top of the order. The Indians will continue to receive calls about trading one of their pitchers, a move they’ve
resisted but might have to make to bolster their offense.
Chicago White Sox
Manager: Robin Ventura (fifth season).
2015: 76-86, fourth place.
Training Town: Glendale, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 19/23.
He’s Here: 3B Todd Frazier, INF Brett Lawrie, RHP
Mat Latos, C Dioner Navarro, C Alex Avila.
He’s Outta Here: SS Alexei Ramirez, RHP Jeff Samardzija.
Going campin’: Few teams were more disappointing than the White Sox last year. Chicago flamed out after a busy offseason that raised expectations. Even so, the White Sox still believe
they have the goods with Chris Sale leading the rotation and Jose
Abreu anchoring the lineup. They addressed a big issue at third base
by acquiring Frazier, an All-Star and the winner of last year’s All-Star
Home Run Derby, from Cincinnati. Chicago just needs him to rebound
from a second-half slump. Adding an outfielder or shortstop probably
wouldn’t hurt, either. Latos figures to compete for one of the final two
rotation spots with John Danks, Erik Johnson and Jacob Turner.
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
Manager: John Farrell (fourth season).
2015: 78-84, fifth place.
Training Town: Fort Myers, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 19/24.
He’s Here: LHP David Price, RHP Craig Kimbrel, OF
Chris Young.
He’s Outta Here: LHP Wade Miley, LHP Craig Breslow, LHP Rich Hill.
Going campin’: The Red Sox are coming off their
third last-place finish in four years. In 2013, they won the World Series. Farrell returns to the dugout after missing the last six weeks of
the 2015 season receiving treatment for cancer; the team went 28-20
under bench coach Torey Lovullo. Price joins the rotation after signing a $217 million, seven-year contract. Hanley Ramirez, one of last
year’s big free agent signings, will move to first base after struggling
to adapt to the outfield during his first season in Boston. Third baseman Pablo Sandoval also will try to bounce back in his second season
at Fenway Park. If the Red Sox start poorly, attention will turn quickly
to the farewell tour for designated hitter David Ortiz, who has said this
will be his last season.
Manager: Brad Ausmus (third season).
2015: 74-87, fifth place.
Training Town: Lakeland, Fla.
First Workout: Feb. 19/23.
He’s Here: LF Justin Upton, RHP Jordan Zimmermann, RHP Francisco Rodriguez, RHP Mike Pelfrey,
RHP Mark Lowe, LHP Justin Wilson, CF Cameron Maybin, C Jarrod Saltalamacchia, SS Mike Aviles.
He’s Outta Here: OF Rajai Davis, C Alex Avila, RHP
Alfredo Simon, RHP Joe Nathan, RHP Al Alburquerque.
Going campin’: After their streak of four straight AL Central titles
ended last year, the Tigers were facing a somewhat bleak future unless they were willing to keep spending. They were, as evidenced by
the signings of Upton and Zimmermann. Detroit hopes those two acquisitions and an overhauled bullpen will be enough to put the Tigers
back in the postseason. The team’s health will be crucial. Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez and Justin Verlander all missed time last year,
and that expensive trio remains a big part of Detroit’s core. The back
end of the rotation was a problem last season, but LHP Daniel Norris
looks promising.
Los Angeles Angels
Manager: Mike Scioscia (17th season).
2015: 85-77, third place.
Training Town: Tempe, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 19/24.
He’s Here: 3B Yunel Escobar, SS Andrelton Simmons, RHP Al Alburquerque, OF Craig Gentry, C Geovany Soto, OF Daniel Nava, INF Gregorio Petit, INF
Cliff Pennington.
He’s Outta Here: SS Erick Aybar, 3B David Freese,
OF David Murphy, C Chris Iannetta, RHP Trevor Gott, INF Grant Green,
OF Matt Joyce, OF David DeJesus, OF Shane Victorino.
Going campin’: The Angels finished one game out of a playoff position last season, but owner Arte Moreno and new general manager Billy Eppler decided not to push their payroll into luxury tax territory with
any game-changing additions. Los Angeles didn’t fill its gaping hole
in left field with an elite free agent, instead patching it with veterans
Craig Gentry and Daniel Nava. The Angels also switched half of their
infield, obtained glove whiz shortstop Andrelton Simmons from Atlanta and third baseman Yunel Escobar from Washington. With little help
expected from one of the majors’ worst farm systems, the Angels will
continue to rely on Mike Trout, Kole Calhoun and 36-year-old Albert Pujols, who probably won’t be ready for Opening Day after surgery on his
right foot. Their fairly deep rotation is still headed by Garrett Richards
but features nobody else who won more than nine games last season,
including declining ace Jered Weaver. The Angels appear to be hoping
that better luck with largely the same players will get Trout into position for the first playoff victory of his big league career.
Seattle Mariners
Manager: Scott Servais (first season).
2015: 76-86, fourth place.
Training Town: Peoria, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 20/25.
He’s Here: C Chris Iannetta, C Steve Clevenger,
1B Adam Lind, 1B Dae-Ho Lee, OF Nori Aoki, OF Leonys Martin, RHP Joaquin Benoit, RHP Steve Cishek,
RHP Ryan Cook, RHP Justin De Fratus, RHP Nathan
Karns, LHP Wade Miley, RHP Evan Scribner, RHP Joe
Wieland.
He’s Outta Here: 1B Logan Morrison, SS Brad Miller, OF Austin Jackson, DH Mark Trumbo, OF Dustin Ackley, LHP J.A. Happ, RHP Carson
Smith, LHP Roenis Elias, LHP Joe Beimel.
Going campin’: No team in the major leagues underwent a bigger
offseason makeover than the Mariners, from the front office to the
coaching staff to the majority of the projected 25-man roster. Most of
the position battles are settled heading into spring training with the
main questions backup utility player, the right-handed complement to
Adam Lind at first base and how exactly the rotation among five players in the outfield breaks down. The pitching staff will be the focus of
attention during spring training, both in the bullpen and rotation. Most
of Seattle’s bullpen plans fall in place if Steve Cishek can lock down
the closer role, but the pitchers serving as the bridge to the eighth
and ninth innings will be the battle to watch. In the rotation, the No. 5
spot is sought by right-hander Nathan Karns and lefties James Paxton,
Vidal Nuno and Mike Montgomery.
Oakland Athletics
Manager: Bob Melvin (sixth season).
2015: 68-94, fifth place.
Training Town: Mesa, Ariz.
First Workout: Feb. 21/26.
He’s Here: INF Jed Lowrie, LHP Rich Hill, RHP Ryan
Madson, LHP Marc Rzepczynski, RHP John Axford,
RHP Liam Hendriks, 1B Yonder Alonso, RHP Henderson Alvarez,
He’s Outta Here: 3B Brett Lawrie, RHP Jesse
Chavez, LHP Fernando Abad, LHP Drew Pomeranz, LHP/RHP Pat Venditte, RHP Evan Scribner, 1B Ike Davis, 1B Nate Freiman, OF Craig Gentry, LHP Barry Zito.
Going campin’: Oakland’s run of three straight playoff berths ended with a disappointing last-place finish as Billy Beane’s bold moves
to trade Yoenis Cespedes midway through 2014 and future MVP Josh
Donaldson last offseason backfired. The A’s led the majors with 126
errors last season and had one of the worst bullpens in the league. The
4.56 ERA for the relievers ranked last in the AL and the 25 blown saves
were second worst. That led to a 19-35 record in one-run games, the
most one-run losses in the majors. The return of Lowrie after a year in
Houston should help the infield defense, and Axford, Madson, Rzepczynski and Hendriks should fortify the bullpen. The rotation remains a
question behind ace Sonny Gray. Hill went from independent ball to the
majors and used a 1.55 ERA in four September starts to get a deal with
Oakland and a spot in the rotation. Jesse Hahn and Kendall Graveman
are coming off injuries, and Sean Nolin and Chris Bassitt are also in the
mix. A wild card could be RHP Jarrod Parker, who has not pitched in the
majors since 2013 because of injuries.
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Scoreboard
Can-Am Duel 1
PHELAN M. EBENHACK /AP
Dale Earnhardt Jr. waves to fans after winning the first of two qualifying races for Sunday’s NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 on Thursday in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Legacy: Busch takes second qualifier
FROM BACK PAGE
“I try not to make too big a deal
— I told all you guys how much
I like people to remember dad
and talk about dad,” he said. “I’m
guilty of daydreaming a little bit,
about winning this race tonight
because of the day. That’s very
special to me. I was glad that
nothing bad happened and we
didn’t tear our car up because
that would have been embarrassing on a day like this.”
Kyle Busch, the reigning Sprint
Cup champion, won the second
qualifying race, but several contenders wrecked their prized cars
in a last-lap accident.
Busch was trying to hold off
Jamie McMurray on the final lap
and briefly blocked him. McMurray moved up the track for another try, but Jimmie Johnson was
in the same space and Johnson
bounced off the wall to trigger a
multi-car accident.
Among those who wrecked
strong race cars were Johnson,
Matt Kenseth and Martin Truex
Jr., who will all have to go to
backup cars for the Daytona 500.
Kenseth had earned a front row
starting spot for Sunday’s seasonopener, but he’ll now forfeit it because of the crash.
It wasn’t clear how much damage Kurt Busch and McMurray
sustained, but Stewart-Haas Racing said it would not go to a backup for Busch.
Only two spots were up for
grabs in the 500 — one in each
qualifying race. Michael McDowell earned the spot in the first
race, while Robert Richardson
Jr. earned the final transfer spot.
Richardson only got the call two
weeks ago from BK Racing to attempt the Daytona 500.
“I was at home working on my
ranch,” said Richardson, who
added every dollar he earns this
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Thursday
At Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (2) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 60
laps, 146.4 rating, 0 points.
2. (7) Joey Logano, Ford, 60, 114.3, 0.
3. (4) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 60, 77.5, 0.
4. (22) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 60,
89.6, 0.
5. (6) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 60, 100.2,
0.
6. (1) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 60, 76.6,
0.
7. (8) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 60, 78.8,
0.
8. (11) Greg Biffle, Ford, 60, 53.8, 0.
9. (15) Chris Buescher, Ford, 60, 45, 0.
10. (3) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 60,
54.1, 0.
11. (5) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 60,
78.3, 0.
12. (17) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 60, 44.9, 0.
13. (10) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 60, 78.1,
0.
14. (13) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet,
60, 63.5, 0.
15. (14) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 60,
66.9, 0.
16. (20) David Ragan, Toyota, 60, 53.4,
0.
17. (21) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 60, 31.7,
0.
18. (18) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 60,
40.3, 0.
19. (16) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 60, 26.5,
0.
20. (12) Brian Scott, Ford, accident, 59,
71.6, 0.
21. (9) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, accident, 58, 74.3, 0.
22. (19) Cole Whitt, Toyota, accident,
47, 60.1, 0.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner:
172.899 mph.
Time of Race: 0 hours, 52 minutes, 6
seconds.
Margin of Victory: 0.183 seconds.
Caution Flags: 1 for 4 laps.
Lead Changes: 4 among 4 drivers.
Lap Leaders: C.Elliott 1-2; D.Earnhardt
Jr. 3-39; K.Kahne 40-41; D.Hamlin 42-54;
D.Earnhardt Jr. 55-60.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times
Led, Laps Led): D.Earnhardt Jr., 2 times
for 43 laps; D.Hamlin, 1 time for 13 laps;
C.Elliott, 1 time for 2 laps; K.Kahne, 1
time for 2 laps.
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weekend will go into a college
fund for his newborn son. Richardson manages hay production
as his full-time job at a ranch in
Pilot Point, Texas.
“The stress that I’ve been putting just on myself in general to
make this race, I’ve been pacing
the floor ever since I woke up this
morning just eager to get this race
under way, just eager to see how
the outcome would happen.”
Failing to make the cut were:
Josh Wise, Cole Whitt, David Gilliland and Reed Sorenson.
Earnhardt
dominated
the
Daytona 500 lineup
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Thursday
At Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (2) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 60 laps, 127.3
rating, 0 points.
2. (10) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 60,
98.1, 0.
3. (5) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 60, 79.9, 0.
4. (4) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 60, 100.7, 0.
5. (8) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 60, 93.3, 0.
6. (11) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 60, 81.8,
0.
7. (14) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 60,
77.1, 0.
8. (22) Brian Vickers, Chevrolet, 60,
56.5, 0.
9. (12) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 60,
67.1, 0.
10. (16) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 60,
44.5, 0.
11. (17) Landon Cassill, Ford, 60, 38.8,
0.
12. (19) David Gilliland, Ford, 60, 48.3, 0.
13. (3) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 59,
74.3, 0.
14. (21) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 59,
75.3, 0.
15. (15) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
59, 70.5, 0.
16. (1) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 59, 89.3,
0.
17. (6) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 59,
82.5, 0.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
After Sunday qualifying; race Sunday
At Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 196.314
mph.
2. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 196.036.
3. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,
195.682.
4. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 195.207.
5. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 194.46.
6. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,
193.399.
7. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 194.746.
8. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 194.51.
9. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet.
10. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 194.662.
11. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota,
194.523.
12. (95) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 193.936.
13. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet,
194.104.
14. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet,
192.938.
15. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 193.665.
16. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet,
192.291.
17. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 192.365.
18. (14) Brian Vickers, Chevrolet.
19. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford,
195.118.
20. (93) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota,
192.686.
21. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet,
194.675.
22. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet,
191.302.
23. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 191.436.
24. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 191.192.
25. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 193.878.
26. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,
194.839.
27. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet,
192.542.
28. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota.
29. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 189.068.
30. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
191.583.
31. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet,
191.249.
32. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet,
194.25.
33. (32) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 191.808.
34. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 193.753.
35. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 193.332.
36. (83) Michael Waltrip, Toyota,
192.406.
37. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet,
193.936.
38. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet,
194.099.
39. (59) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet,
192.604.
40. (26) Robert Richardson Jr., Toyota,
190.496.
Failed to Qualify
41. (35) David Gilliland, Ford, 189.35.
42. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 187.282.
43. (40) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet,
181.163.
44. (98) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 190.375.
150-mile race and easily darted
around leader Denny Hamlin
with six laps remaining to cruise
to the victory. Earnhardt led 43 of
the 60 laps in his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, and Hamlin
seemed to be the only driver with
a car strong enough to challenge
the No. 88.
Hamlin won last week’s exhibition race, but his Toyota didn’t
have the help Hamlin needed
when Earnhardt was ready to
make a pass for the win. Hamlin
finished fifth.
Defending Daytona 500 winner
Joey Logano was second and Ryan
Blaney was third. Blaney had
early issues with a loose wheel,
but had assured himself a spot in
Sunday’s Daytona 500 based on
qualifying speed. Still, his Wood
Brothers Racing team got him
back on the lead lap and he was
in position to work with Logano to
make a late run at Earnhardt.
Instead, the order didn’t change
and Blaney’s finish opened up
a spot in the Daytona 500 for
McDowell.
“It’s so intense. When Blaney
had a problem there, we were
counting on him racing his way
in,” McDowell said. “I can’t tell
you what it means to make the
Daytona 500. We’re racing Sunday and I can’t wait to get going.”
It’s the third time in seven years
that McDowell has raced his way
into the 500. He had to use a block
on Whitt to preserve his position.
The block led to Whitt spinning
and bringing out the only caution
of the first race.
Can-Am Duel 2
Kyle Busch celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the second of
two qualifying races for Sunday’s NASCAR Daytona 500 Sprint Cup
Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
18. (18) Robert Richardson Jr., Toyota,
59, 35.8, 0.
19. (9) Aric Almirola, Ford, 59, 77.1, 0.
20. (13) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 59,
30.2, 0.
21. (20) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 56,
26.1, 0.
22. (7) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, engine, 31, 43.5, 0.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner:
191.898 mph.
Time of Race: 0 hours, 46 minutes, 54
seconds.
Margin of Victory: Under Caution.
Caution Flags: 1 for 1 laps.
Lead Changes: 3 among 3 drivers.
Lap Leaders: M.Kenseth 1-23; Ky.Busch
24-37; A.Almirola 38-39; Ky.Busch 40-60.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,
Laps Led): Ky.Busch, 2 times for 35 laps;
M.Kenseth, 1 time for 23 laps; A.Almirola,
1 time for 2 laps.
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Five OTs:
Women’s
game ties
record
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Minnesota’s Nate Mason, right, drives around Maryland’s Rasheed Sulaimon during the second half of Thursday’s game in
Minneapolis. Minnesota won 68-63 to earn its first Big Ten victory this season. Mason and Sulaimon led their teams in scoring.
Roundup
Minnesota stuns Maryland
Gophers pick up first Big Ten win in upset of No. 6 Terps
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Nate Mason had 18
points, six rebounds and six assists to help
Minnesota get its first Big Ten win of the
season with a stunning 68-63 upset of No. 6
Maryland on Thursday night.
Jordan Murphy added 17 points and
11 rebounds and Joey King had 15 points
and six boards for Minnesota (7-19, 1-13),
which shot just 33 percent.
Rasheed Sulaimon scored 28 points for
Maryland (22-5, 10-4), which has lost consecutive games for the first time this season. Melo Trimble had 10 points on 3-for-11
shooting and the Terrapins turned the ball
over 15 times.
The Williams Arena crowd stormed
the court when time expired to celebrate
Minnesota’s first Big Ten regular-season
win since beating Michigan State on Feb.
26, 2015.
The Terrapins were coming off a lackluster performance in a home loss to Wisconsin and were playing without freshman
Diamond Stone, who was suspended one
game for a hard foul of a Badgers player
in that loss.
No. 8 Michigan State 68, Wisconsin
57: Denzel Valentine had 24 points, 10
assists and seven rebounds for the host
Spartans.
Michigan State (22-5, 9-5 Big Ten) went
from eighth place in the conference into a
four-way tie for fourth with its sixth win in
seven games.
Michigan State’s Bryn Forbes scored 17
points and Eron Harris had 10.
The Badgers (16-10, 8-5) had won seven
straight games dating to their victory Jan.
17, at home against Michigan State.
Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ scored 18 points
and Bronson Koenig had 12 with a scoring
surge late in the game. Nigel Hayes was
held to a season-low five points, 12 below
his team-high scoring average, for the
Badgers.
No. 14 Kentucky 80, Tennessee 70:
Jamal Murray scored 28 points and Derek
Willis made seven three-pointers for a career-high 25 as the host Wildcats won their
fourth straight.
Sixteen days after blowing a 21-point
lead in an 84-77 loss at Tennessee, Kentucky (20-6, 10-3 Southeastern Conference) held its ground this time against the
Volunteers. The Wildcats stretched a sixpoint halftime lead to as many as 22.
Armani Moore scored 21 points and
Kevin Punter Jr. added 19 for Tennessee
(12-14, 5-8 SEC), which got within 10 points
in the final minute but really wasn’t that
close in losing for the third time in four
games since upsetting Kentucky.
Tyler Ulis added 11 points and nine assists for Kentucky, which shot 26-for-62
overall (42 percent) but made 11 of 24 from
long range (46 percent).
Connecticut 68, No. 21 SMU 62: Amida
Brimah had 16 points, eight rebounds and
five blocks as the host Huskies improved
their NCAA Tournament résumé.
Brimah was playing in his sixth game
since returning from a broken finger.
Daniel Hamilton scored 14 points and
made two key free throws late for Connecticut (19-7, 9-4 American) and Shonn Miller
added 12 points and seven rebounds.
Nic Moore scored 14 points and Ben
Moore had 13 points and 12 rebounds for
SMU (21-4, 9-4).
A dunk by Brimah on a lob pass from
Omar Calhoun capped an 8-0 run that gave
the Huskies a 61-52 lead with just under 5
minutes left in the game.
SMU cut the lead to two points with just
over a minute left, but missed its final four
shots.
The Mustangs, who are ineligible for
postseason play, are 3-4 since their 18-0
start to the season.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis and
Temple matched the longest game in
NCAA women’s basketball history Thursday night, with the Tigers outlasting the
Owls 100-97 in five overtimes.
Brianna Wright scored a career-high
35 points for Memphis, including the tiebreaking basket with 6.2 seconds left in the
fifth overtime. Drexel beat Northeastern
98-80 on Feb. 22, 2007, in the only other Division I five-overtime game. Two Division
II games have gone to five overtimes.
The game was tied at 50 at the end of
regulation. Both teams broke the previous
record of 43 points by one team in overtimes and the combined 97 points in the
five extra periods set a record, surpassing
the 83 by Kentucky and Baylor on Dec. 6,
2013, in a four-OT game.
Both teams entered game having won six
of their last seven and the game was close
throughout. The game featured 22 ties and
17 lead changes and the largest lead was
nine by Temple late in the third quarter.
Mooriah Rowser added 21 points for the
Tigers (16-10, 10-5 American). Asianna
Fuqua-Bey had 13 rebounds.
Feyonda Fitzgerald had 26 points for
Temple (17-9, 11-4). Alliya Butts added 19
points, Donnaizha Fountain had 17 points
and 11 rebounds, and Tanaya Atkinson had
15 points and a career-high 20 rebounds.
Temple had four players foul out and
Memphis two, with four players finishing
with four fouls. The Owls went 28-for-42
from the line and the Tigers 22-for-37.
Temple’s Ugo Nwaigwe hit the second
of two free throws with 18.1 seconds left
in regulation to tie the game and Brea Elmore’s three-pointer for the Tigers with a
second left rattled out.
Fuqua-Bey tied it for Memphis with 11
seconds left in the first overtime and the
Owls couldn’t get a clean look at the end.
After Temple’s Atkinson tied the game
late in the second overtime, which featured
six lead changes, Fitzgerald blocked a Loysha Morris three-pointer at the buzzer to
extend the game.
Fitzgerald twice put the Owls up by
seven in the third overtime but a threepointer by Elmore and her layup following a turnover tied the game at 80 with 46
seconds left. Temple regained the lead on a
layup by Fountain with 35 seconds left but
Wright tied it with 21 seconds left. Fountain’s three-pointer bounced off the rim at
the buzzer for Temple.
In the fourth overtime, Temple opened
an 89-84 lead after Fountain’s three-point
play with 2:14 to go but Memphis battled
back and went up 93-91 on two free throws
by Wright with nine seconds left. Atkinson
again tied it for Temple with 4.5 seconds
left and Elmore missed a jumper at the
buzzer.
Memphis shot 42 percent from the field
(37-for-88), including 4-for-18 from threepoint range. The Owls were 32-for-86 from
the floor (37 percent), 5-for-26 behind the
arc.
In Division II in five overtimes, St.
Joseph’s (Ind.) beat Northern Kentucky
131-130 on Feb. 2, 1988, and Florida Tech
topped Florida Southern 82-81 on Jan. 28,
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legacy
Earnhardt Jr. wins Daytona
qualifier on 15th anniversary
of father’s untimely death
BY JENNA FRYER
Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Driving a
car he believes is unbeatable, Dale Earnhardt Jr. added to his family legacy at
Daytona International Speedway on the
anniversary of his father’s death.
Earnhardt won the first qualifying
race Thursday night for the Daytona 500
to earn a starting spot on the second row
for NASCAR’s biggest event.
It was Earnhardt’s 17th career win at
Daytona International Speedway. The
late Dale Earnhardt leads all drivers
with 34 career victories at Daytona. He
was killed on the final lap of the 2001
Daytona 500.
“It’s another win at Daytona for the
Earnhardts, adding to the legacy,” Earnhardt said in Victory Lane. “We’re up
here in the 50s now.”
The No. 88 Chevrolet that Hendrick
Motorsports brought to Daytona won
three times last year, and Earnhardt admitted after the qualifying race that he
allowed himself to daydream about winning as a tribute to his father.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr., seen above posing with the trophy in Victory Lane, and
at right passing Denny Hamlin (11), won the first of two qualifying races for
Sunday’s NASCAR Daytona 500 Sprint Cup Series race in Daytona Beach,
Fla., on Thursday. Kyle Busch won the second qualifying race.
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