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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016
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WAR
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Raqqa campaign
with help from US
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NATION
VA chief under fire
for comparing wait
times, Disney lines
Despite low crime rate, every incident
involving US servicemembers stokes
anti-base sentiment on Okinawa
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BY M ATTHEW M. BURKE AND CHIYOMI SUMIDA
Stars and Stripes
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa
very time a U.S. servicemember commits a crime in
Okinawa, it’s big news.
If it’s a serious offense — such as the recent slaying
of a 20-year-old Okinawa woman allegedly by a former
Marine — it can spark large protests by those who want
the American military presence on the island prefecture to shrink,
if not disappear completely.
Over the years, the U.S. military has imposed a number of measures, such as curfews, sensitivity training and limits to off-base
drinking, that have significantly reduced the rate of crime among
the 50,000 American servicemembers, their families and Defense
Department civilian employees.
But no matter what efforts the U.S. makes to tamp down the antibase sentiment, it may be facing a no-win situation. For many Okinawans, every crime is an affront that symbolizes resentment over
the disproportionately large U.S. military presence on Okinawa
and the prefecture’s complicated relationship with the rest of the
country.
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga won the election last year on an
anti-base platform, and he subsequently launched a court battle
that has stalled relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
from busy Ginowan to the less-populated north.
Onaga has used U.S. crimes committed on the island to further
fuel the fire, expressing indignation that the military’s efforts
haven’t wiped out misbehavior completely, although it’s unclear
what more can be done short of banning all U.S. servicemembers
and civilian workers from ever leaving their bases.
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Police officers escort Kenneth
Shinzato, a former Marine
working at Kadena Air Base,
Okinawa, out of Uruma Police
Station on May 20. Shinzato’s
arrest in the death of a Japanese
woman sparked outrage on
Okinawa.
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IG confirms retaliation against
rape whistleblower for 1st time
BY DIANNA CAHN
Stars and Stripes
After reporting in 2012 that she’d been
raped by a more senior officer in the West
Virginia National Guard, Lt. Col. Teresa
James suffered retaliation from a brigadier
general for bringing the rape to light, the Defense Department Inspector General said in
a new report.
The report found that after James reported
the rape, Army Brig. Gen. Charles Veit, the
assistant adjutant general for the West Virginia National Guard, issued her an unfavorable and career-damaging officer evaluation
report in an act of reprisal.
The IG finding is unprecedented. Until
now, not one case of whistleblower reprisal
for reporting sexual assault had ever been
substantiated by the inspector general.
James, who was commander of the 151st
military police battalion, medically retired
from the National Guard in June. Her assailant also was forced to retire. But after
withstanding three years of pressure while
her allegations of rape and then of retaliation
were investigated, she says the finding offers
at least a partial vindication.
“It’s in some ways a small victory, I think,
for survivors of sexual assault, and gives
some sort of hope . . . that perhaps our system
can work,” James said Monday.
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MILITARY
Retaliation: Veteran sees ‘victory, not justice’
FROM FRONT PAGE
“There’s a lack of trust and confidence in our system because so
many claims (of whistleblowing)
are not substantiated,” she said.
“It’s a victory in some sense,
even though it is not justice by
any means.”
The IG called for the secretary
of the Army to “take appropriate action against Veit” for his
reprisal.
It also recommended the Army
secretary remove the bad evaluation from James’ record, give
her a military service award for
her time as commander and convene a board to consider whether
James should be promoted to
colonel.
Not all of James’ allegations
were substantiated. The IG did
not find reprisal in a decision not
to give her a meritorious service
award or to send her for mental
health and medical evaluations.
She was later diagnosed with
delayed onset post-traumatic
stress disorder, she said.
Still, the IG’s substantiation of
any reprisal allegations is surprising. In its most recent report
tracking military whistleblower
reprisals, the IG recorded 149
investigations between April and
September 2015, and 19 were
substantiated.
Of those, the IG gave examples
of 12 cases in which some “corrective actions” were ultimately
taken. Most involved verbal or
written reprimand, with one or
two cases in which the officer
was removed from the position.
None of them involved reports
of sexual assault.
Last year, the watchdog group
Human Rights Watch issued a
report that found that based on
Defense Department surveys,
one in three servicemembers
who report sexual assault are
professionally retaliated against.
The organization found that to be
5,728 cases over the past decade.
But until this report came out
last month, the IG had never substantiated a case.
“It’s stunning,” said Sara
Darehshori, senior counsel at
Human
Rights
Watch. “It’s
so
important.
For
the IG to
say
we’ve
never substantiated a
case doesn’t
encourage
any serviceVeit
member to
bring their case forward. The
fact that someone succeeded,
hopefully, will have some positive value.”
James said it took her years to
report being raped because she
worried about her career. She
“tucked it away” and came forward only after a deployment to
Iraq in 2010 because she learned
that her assailant was “harassing other women.”
“All I could think about was he
was going to do the same thing to
them,” James said. “I felt a duty
to, first of all, get this guy off the
street, which didn’t happen, and
secondly, to try to make the justice system work.”
She helped file sexual harassment and discrimination
complaints for some of her subordinates in 2010, according to
the IG report.
That resulted in an investigation finding that the officer “had
berated, belittled and engaged in
acts of hostility against soldiers;
used gender epithets; engaged
in physical assault on three
other servicemembers; and may
have treated female soldiers
disparately.”
The investigating officer wrote
that the conduct damaged command climate and created an atmosphere of “hostility, fear and
strategic alliances,” according to
the IG report.
In October 2012, James reported her own rape. The IG report
said she also contacted authorities in Arkansas, where the rape
occurred, as well as the Army
criminal investigation command, or CID, and the National
Guard Sexual Assault Response
Coordinator.
The CID declined to investigate, and civilian law enforcement said the statute of
limitations had expired.
The National Guard Bureau,
Office of Complex Investiga-
‘ I felt a duty to, first of all,
get this guy off the street,
which didn’t happen, and
secondly, to try to make the
justice system work. ’
Lt. Col. Teresa James
whistleblower
tions agreed to investigate and
in January 2013, substantiated
that using his position of power
to intimidate and create fear, he
forced himself on her.
Until she reported the rape,
James had received good evaluations for her performance. But in
2012, Veit gave her a damaging
evaluation.
James said her assailant and
other commanders in her unit
were friends.
Following that and other struggles with her command over
working at home due to PTSD,
James filed the DOD IG reprisal
complaint in April 2013. She continued with the National Guard
until she was forced to medically
retire in 2015.
In April, the IG found that Veit
“had motive to reprise” against
James for exposing his favoritism toward her rapist and giving
him a positive evaluation despite
the substantiated sexual harassment findings against him.
James said she had no support
within her unit and few resources
that active-duty Army offered in
the Sexual Assault Response Program. “It was horrific,” she said.
“I had to do a lot on my own.”
James said the Army IG is now
investigating a gender discrimination complaint she made.
Darehshori said James’ story
is “not uncommon.” But the results of the report are.
“The only thing uncommon
was she had the fortitude to stick
it through,” she said. “Three
years of not just professional but
social retaliation. It’s not an easy
road for people to go down.
“I think if people know about
Teresa’s story, maybe it will encourage people to stick with it,”
she added.
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US says flight over Sea of Japan was safe, lawful
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S.
says an Air Force reconnaissance
flight over the Sea of Japan that
triggered a Russian protest was
conducted safely and according
to international law.
Russia’s Defense Ministry protested the Sunday flight by the
U.S. RC-135, saying it jeopardized
air safety. The ministry summoned the U.S. military attache
to complain about the incident.
Moscow says the aircraft
was flying with its transponder
switched off and was at an altitude used by civilian flights in
that area.
U.S. Navy Cmdr. Dave Benham, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Command, said the plane flew
a routine reconnaissance mission
with due regard for the safety of
navigation of all aircraft, and the
flight was professional and completed without incident.
The U.S. says the flight posed
no risk to aircraft at any time.
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EUROPE
PHOTOS
BY
MICHAEL B. K ELLER /Stars and Stripes
Sgt. Vanessa Carrillo, from the 16th Sustainment Brigade,
overhead-presses a 5-gallon jug of water during the competition.
Spc. Christopher McDowell, left, attaches night-vision goggles to Sgt. Chasidy Tenison’s helmet at the
21st Theater Sustainment Command’s Best Warrior Competition in Baumholder, Germany, on Monday.
‘QUITE A CHALLENGE’
Soldiers test their mettle in annual warrior competition in Germany
BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
BAUMHOLDER, Germany
itting in front of a board of
sergeant majors and answering questions about
Army regulations was a
breeze for Sgt. Chasidy Tenison,
one of 15 soldiers testing her
mettle in the Kaiserslautern,
Germany-based 21st Theater
Sustainment Command’s Best
Warrior Competition.
The real push came on the rolling hills and grassy firing ranges
of Baumholder, Germany, where
Tenison, 27, is based as a preventive health specialist.
“A lot of pushups, carrying 5gallon water containers and low
crawling” while “in full gear, in
elbow pads, in knee pads, with
a weapon,” she said, describing
some of the physical demands of
the competition.
“It’s been quite a challenge,”
Tenison said Monday.
The 21st TSC pulled out all the
stops in its annual competition to
find the finest soldiers, putting
three women and 12 men from its
various units through a rigorous
three days of field and academic
tests — on little sleep, rations of
Meals, Ready to Eat and zero
coffee.
Candidates competed in smallarms target shooting, emergency
first aid, combatives and a 12-mile,
predawn march with 35 pounds on
their backs, among other events.
The competition was more than
about being accurate with an M9
pistol or knowing how to perform
first aid.
Organizers pushed the soldiers
to physical and mental exhaustion to see how they reacted under
stress, and added a few surprises
to the mix to see how they responded to the unexpected.
“We’re trying to develop our
young leaders to be able to think,”
said 21st TSC Sgt. Major Stan
S
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Richards. “We can’t possibly prepare them for every situation that
they might face out there, but if we
can train them to think, to analyze
the information that they have and
make good decisions under stress
or pressure, now we’ve got a group
of young leaders that’s going to be
the future of our Army.”
The command selected the winners late Tuesday. The top junior
officer was 2nd Lt. Justin Ganzer,
executive officer of the 16th Sustainment Brigade’s 106th Financial Management Support Unit.
Sgt. Vanessa Carrillo, a heavy
vehicle driver with the 515th
Transportation Company, 39th
Transportation Battalion, was
named the best noncommissioned
officer. Spc. Gerardo Gonzalez
Carbone, a military policeman
with the 709th Military Police
Battalion, 18th Military Police
Brigade, took top honors in the soldier (junior enlisted) category.
Those individuals, along with a
runner-up in each category, will
compete at the U.S. Army Europe Best Warrior Competition
slated for August in Grafenwoehr,
Germany.
The soldiers had to win similar
competitions in their units to qualify for the 21st TSC contest.
Gonzalez Carbone said he was
competing to challenge himself.
Despite the dizzying pace, he was
yet to tire, he said Monday afternoon. “I feel great.”
Pfc. Joshua Parkinson, 22, a
parachute rigger with the 5th
Quarter Master Company at Rhine
Ordnance Barracks in Weilerbach,
Germany, said he was competing
“to try and prove to myself that
I can excel in any area.” He also
wanted to debunk the notion “that
privates are only good for following orders and nothing else.”
Competition has been intense,
Parkinson said, starting with the
first day, Sunday, when in-processing began at 7 a.m. Soldiers didn’t
rest until lights out at 11 p.m.
“At the end of the day, when we
all thought we were done, they told
us to change, to get into (physical
training) gear, and they proceeded
to give us another physical event,”
he said.
Soldiers had to wake up Monday
by 3 a.m. for the next round.
The early wake-up call tested
the soldiers’ ability to focus on
mental and physical tasks while
deprived of sleep, said Sgt. Maj.
Jerry Henshaw, the 21st TSC enlisted leader for operations.
“When you’re in combat for a
lot of time, when we’re in training, a lot of times you don’t get the
standard eight hours of sleep,” he
said.
The command enlisted 86 support personnel to help run the
event, including Sgt. 1st Class
Daniel Dodds, who coordinated
an extremely demanding obstacle
course on Range 7.
Soldiers weighed down by 50
pounds of gear had to move three
35-pound blocks about 65 feet, low
crawl for another 65 feet, pick up
a 30-pound water can and sprint
to the firing line to test their accuracy with an M4 rifle.
“My intent was to get them
tired, to weaken their arms, to get
them stressed, then score them on
a range that requires accuracy,”
Dodds said.
After completing Dodds’ course,
Tenison sat for a few minutes to
catch her breath.
She meant to time herself on the
course, but “I was so tired, I didn’t
even stop my watch,” she said.
Despite the fatigue, she said she
was glad for the experience “so
next time when I push my soldiers
to do it, I can say, ‘I’ve done it, so
you can do it.’ ”
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Soldiers perform a series of physical challenges before firing their
rifles as part of the event.
Carrillo, left, and Pfc. Joshua Parkinson take a break.
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MILITARY
Peacekeeping
exercise kicks
off in Mongolia
BY A ARON K IDD
Stars and Stripes
ELIVERTO V. L ARIOS/Courtesy of the 82nd Airborne Division
Paratroopers test Light Tactical All-Terrain Vehicles in 2015 at Fort Bragg, N.C. The U.S. Army will drop the ATVs with
paratroopers into Poland for a NATO exercise next month.
US to try out ATV during Poland exercise
BY TONY CAPACCIO
Bloomberg
When paratroopers from the U.S.
Army’s 82nd Airborne Division’s quickreaction force jump near Torun, Poland, next month on a NATO exercise,
an all-terrain vehicle it’s evaluating will
descend by parachute as well, an Army
commander said.
About 10 of the ATVs made by Polaris
Industries will be air-dropped along with
about 600 paratroopers from C-17 transports as part of a “joint, forcible-entry exercise,” Col. Colin Tuley told reporters in
a telephone interview last week.
“These vehicles significantly enhance
what would otherwise be foot mobility,”
Brig. Gen. Brian Winski, deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne, added in
an email Thursday. “They change the dynamic and turn what would have been a
3 mile-per-hour operation into a 50 mileper-hour operation,” which would let the
troops strike “at a pace and in locations
the enemy would not expect.” The vehicles can carry as many as six soldiers at
60 mph.
The paratroopers and vehicles are
scheduled to take off from Fort Bragg,
N.C., on June 6 — a storied date for the
unit that helped liberate France in the
Normandy invasion that began on that
day in 1944 — and to drop into Poland
after a 10-hour trans-Atlantic flight.
Tuley commands a 4,200-person brigade that’s on rotation as the Pentagon’s
Global Response Force, designated to
respond to a crisis within 96 hours or
sooner.
He demurred when asked whether
next month’s Exercise Swift Response is
intended to demonstrate the unit’s prowess to Russia. The U.S. and allies in the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization are
working to deter an assertive Russia after
President Vladimir Putin’s intervention
in Ukraine.
“It’s really a united front — for whatever reason,” Tuley said. “It could be to
conduct peacekeeping; it could be how do
you respond to heavy immigration challenges in Europe. It’s really just a symbol
of a united front amongst alliances and
their partners.”
Deterring Russia and stabilizing the
Middle East and Libya are among the topics at a meeting Thursday and Friday of
NATO foreign ministers, including Secretary of State John Kerry, in Brussels.
A battalion of Tuley’s brigade, accompanied by the Polaris ATVs, will join
about 1,000 British and Polish paratroopers in the exercise next month.
“Swift Response will demonstrate the
allies’ ability to respond to a crisis scenario from staging bases in both Europe
and the U.S. within 18 hours of notification,” according to an Army statement.
The ATV, designated the MRZR, is
“still in its pilot year,” Tuley said. The
82nd is going to make a recommendation
on how many to buy over the 30 already
purchased for evaluation from Medina,
Minn.-based Polaris, he said.
Mark McCormick, director of Polaris’
defense sector, said in an interview that
the service is considering the vehicle to
fill a capability gap that the Army has
identified for tactical mobility.
The 82nd’s evaluation, including showcasing the vehicle in the exercise, could
portend an opportunity to sell 300 more
vehicles to equip Army infantry brigade
combat teams, assuming it performs successfully, he said.
US, Thailand work together in Guardian Sea exercise
BY A ARON K IDD
Stars and Stripes
The U.S. and Thailand navies are focusing on “anti-submarine warfare and
maritime domain awareness” during
drills that began Monday off the Asian
country’s west coast.
Exercise Guardian Sea, which runs
through Friday in the Andaman Sea, includes personnel from the U.S. 7th Fleet’s
Task Force 73 and Destroyer Squadron 7
and features the guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem, a P-8A Poseidon aircraft
and a Los Angeles-class submarine operating alongside Thai ships and aircraft, a
Navy statement said.
Capt. H.B. Le, commodore of Destroy-
er Squadron 7, called this year’s exercise
“the most complex to date.”
“Guardian Sea provides our navies the
opportunity and challenge of detecting
and tracking submarines, and to practice
procedures related to anti-submarine
warfare,” Le said in the statement.
The exercise will include a short shore
phase featuring seminars and exchanges
between subject-matter experts from
both navies.
“Guardian Sea is an excellent opportunity to operate at sea in a realistic training
environment with our friends and partners in the Royal Thai Navy,” said Cmdr.
Doug Pegher, the Stethem’s commanding
officer. “Our sailors gain valuable experiences from these engagements, and we
build important maritime relationships
that endure beyond the exercise.”
The U.S. trained with the Thai military
in February during a scaled-down version of Cobra Gold, an annual exercise
it has co-hosted with Thailand for more
than three decades.
The U.S. began limiting its involvement
in Cobra Gold last year in response to the
Thai military seizing control of the nation
in May 2014. In February, 3,288 U.S. servicemembers — down from 3,600 in 2015
and 4,300 in 2014 — were involved in the
exercise, which is among the world’s largest multinational military events.
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Khaan Quest, an annual peacekeeping exercise co-hosted by U.S. Pacific Command and
the Mongolian Armed Forces that brings western troops close to China and Russia, is underway near Mongolia’s capital.
Adm. Harry Harris Jr., head of U.S. Pacific
Command, and U.S. ambassador to Mongolia
Jennifer Zimdahl Galt attended Sunday’s opening ceremony at the Five Hills Training Facility near Ulaanbaatar with Mongolian President
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj.
“[Participants] have come from near and far
to our beautiful country
bound by a single cause
of world peace,” Elbegdorj said in a PACOM
statement.
“Today, Khaan Quest
is universally recognized
as one of the most prestigious regional events with
ever-increasing reputation, significance and
participation.”
Elbegdorj
This year’s drills, which
run through June 4 and feature about 2,000
troops from 40 countries, serve as the capstone
for the United Nations Global Peace Operations
Initiative, a program that provides pre-deployment training to nations preparing to support
U.N. peacekeeping missions.
Khaan Quest will include a field-training drill that “aims to hone servicemembers’
skills in peacekeeping operational procedures
through training in weapons familiarization,
small-boat operations, survival training and a
multinational platoon competition,” the statement said.
There will also be a command-post exercise
to support Mongolia’s modernization goals,
civic-engineering projects and health care
training.
Harris said this year’s Khaan Quest training
will “take us to the next level.”
“The need for teamwork is proven again
and again, the most recent examples being the
tragic earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador,” he
said.
“It reminds us that all nations, no matter
how rich or powerful, can use the help of our
global community from time to time.”
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Soldier seriously hurt in accident
A U.S. soldier was seriously hurt in a one-car
accident Monday while driving toward Grafenwoehr, police said.
The 33-year-old driver was traveling on
district road NEW 21 about 7:40 a.m., coming
from Mantel, when he lost control of his car,
authorities said. The BMW skidded to the right
side of the street, then skidded to the left. The
car hit an embankment, stood up on its front
end and rammed into a tree.
Firefighters had to extricate the man from
his car. The man was not wearing his seat belt,
the Eschenbach police said in a statement.
The soldier was airlifted by a helicopter to
the hospital.
Twenty-seven emergency workers where
on the scene of the accident, police said. The
street was closed for two hours.
From staff reports
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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PACIFIC
Volatile: Poll shows unfavorable impression of US forces on rise
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The local sentiment has deep roots, starting with Japan’s colonization of Okinawa, a
once-sovereign kingdom, along with World
War II’s Battle of Okinawa, which claimed
the lives of 140,000 civilians, and the subsequent forcible seizure of wide stretches of
land that have become U.S. bases.
“There has always been resentment for
crimes committed by members of the U.S.
military,” said Osamu Unten, director of
the governor’s military base affairs division. “ ‘Oh, no, a military member again’ is a
common reaction among people of Okinawa
when a crime involving a servicemember
occurs.”
The crimes remind Okinawans of a time
of U.S. military control that included internment camps and ended with Okinawa’s reversion to Japan in 1972, Unten said.
Prior to reversion, crimes committed
by servicemembers were tried by the U.S.
military, and Okinawan victims had no say.
The Status of Forces Agreement that lays
out the rules, regulations and protections
for a servicemember in the country was
seen as placing troops above the law.
“Even to this day, a crime committed
by a member of the U.S. military is seen
by the Okinawan people as an extension
of that unfortunate time,” Unten said. “It’s
been 70 years, but resentment has never
dissipated.”
Onaga also has railed against the unfair
burden placed upon Okinawa, which hosts
more than half of the U.S. military presence
in Japan despite accounting for less than 1
percent of the country’s total land mass.
The governor says such a presence hampers development because U.S. bases take
up prime land. Six bases lie in a 12-mile
stretch in southern and central Okinawa,
with five slated for closure in coming years.
Approximately 20 percent of base land held
in 1972 has already been reverted.
Part of the problem is there has never
been a national discussion in Japan on what
Okinawa’s role in national security should
be, said Kurayoshi Takara, professor emeritus at the University of the Ryukyus in
Nishihara, Japan, and vice governor under
Onaga’s predecessor, Hirokazu Nakaima.
More than half of all Okinawans polled do
not believe mainland Japanese residents understand their military-related problems.
“The majority of people in the mainland
acknowledge the importance of U.S.-Japan
security alliance, yet they allow the unfair
concentration of military bases on Okinawa,” Takara said. “All of us need to face
the reality and have a cool head to fill the
gap and solve Okinawa’s military-related
problem, which is not a simple but complex
equation.”
Crime
When a U.S. servicemember does something wrong, that resentment often boils to
the surface. About 2,000 people turned out
Sunday to protest the slaying of a Japanese
woman, allegedly by a former Marine who
now has a civilian job on Kadena Air Base.
Similar large demonstrations occurred earlier this year after a U.S. sailor was charged
with raping a Japanese tourist.
Three days after the reported rape in a
A ARON K IDD/Stars and Stripes
In this image taken during a Fuji Television broadcast, Okinawa Gov. Takeshi
Onaga expresses his anger Friday about a former U.S. Marine who was arrested in
connection with the death of a 20-year-old Okinawan woman.
Obama, Abe to discuss case at summit
BY ERIK SLAVIN
Stars and Stripes
TOKYO — President Barack Obama
and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe will discuss the case of a U.S. civilian suspected of murder on Okinawa
prior to the G7 economic summit in the
Ise-shima region, a Japanese Foreign
Ministry official said Tuesday.
The two leaders will hold a bilateral
meeting sometime before the economic
summit begins Thursday.
The Okinawa case is “certainly going
be one of the important issues taken up
in the bilateral meeting,” said the Foreign Ministry official, who spoke during
a background briefing with reporters
Tuesday.
Kenneth Franklin Gadson, who goes
by his Japanese wife’s last name of
Shinzato, was arrested last week and
charged with dumping the body of Rina
Shimabukuro, 20. More charges could
be filed after an autopsy is completed,
Okinawa police said.
The charge leveled at Shinzato, a former Marine working at Kadena Air
Base, has increased protests over the
U.S. military presence on the island,
where about half of all U.S. troops in
Naha hotel, the highest-ranking Marine on
Okinawa, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, visited Onaga to apologize for the incident. Servicemembers were banned from staying at
Naha hotels in a clear effort to appease the
governor and protesters.
The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly then
filed a terse protest resolution with U.S. officials, saying: “Every time a crime or incident involving a member of the U.S. military
has occurred, the Okinawa prefectural as-
Japan are stationed.
On Friday, Abe called for the U.S. to
“take strict measures to prevent something like this from happening again.”
The incident on Okinawa has come just
prior to an event where the two nations
plan to affirm U.S.-Japan cooperation
and friendship. Officials from the two
countries will discuss a range of global
issues, including North Korea’s nuclear
program and China’s increasing military assertiveness in the East and South
China seas.
Abe and Obama will also promote
the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact that all major party U.S.
presidential candidates have come out
against, although Hillary Clinton once
supported the deal.
Obama and Abe also will attend a ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday, where the two leaders
will remember those who died during
the atomic bombing in 1945.
“I think it will be a good tribute to those
who suffered from this tragic event and
a forward-looking message … to reach
for a world without nuclear weapons,”
the Foreign Ministry official said.
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sembly has lodged a strong protest, calling
for education and tighter discipline for servicemembers. Despite such demands, this
crime occurred. Preventive measures and
education by the U.S. military is not working, to say the least. We cannot help but feel
strong indignation.”
Among other things, the assembly called
for an apology and restitution to the victim
and her family — even before the sailor
was charged — tighter discipline for the
military community and an opportunity “to
review and drastically change the current
Status of Forces Agreement.”
The resolution, citing figures that Onaga
also has used, said SOFA-status personnel
had committed 5,896 crimes since 1972.
What it didn’t point out is that government
figures show the rest of Okinawa’s populace
has a crime rate more than twice as high
over the same period — 69.7 crimes per
10,000 people, compared with 27.4 by SOFA
members.
The SOFA crime rate also has been
dropping, police figures show. In 2014, the
prefecture saw the lowest level of crime
committed by SOFA-status personnel since
the reversion. Out of 3,410 arrests prefecturewide that year, only 27 involved SOFA
personnel. There also was just one charge
of a heinous felony, a rape, which was later
dropped by prosecutors.
The FBI says demographics and socioeconomic factors should be taken into account
in crime rates. SOFA members are generally young, and with the steady turnover,
the overall age remains frozen. Younger
populations usually commit more crimes
than older groups.
A devolving situation
Recent polls show the overwhelming
majority of Okinawans think U.S. relations
are important for “today’s Japan,” and
just over half believe the U.S.-Japanese
security alliance contributes to Japan’s
peace and security. But the number of Okinawans with an unfavorable impression of
U.S. forces is on the rise, and the number
of those who do not “feel close” to the U.S.
doubled to more than 40 percent from the
year before, according to a poll conducted
last year by the prefectural government’s
Regional Security Policy Office.
The overwhelming majority of Okinawans find it unacceptable to delay Futenma’s
closure and to keep it at its current location, the poll said. Just shy of 60 percent
are against keeping the air base within the
prefecture.
Past high-profile crimes have certainly
contributed to the people’s ire. In 1995,
three U.S. servicemembers abducted and
raped a 12-year-old girl. Impassioned
protests began for Futenma’s closure and
became irrevocably linked to crimes by
servicemembers. The protest movement
was re-energized in 2012, when two Navy
reservists brutally assaulted, robbed and
raped a local woman.
The recent incidents stand to further
fan the flames of resentment, something
U.S. military officials on Okinawa go out of
their way to try to counteract.
“It is important to note that the overwhelming majority of American servicemembers, dependents and civilian
employees are law-abiding, honorable and
respectful,” said 1st Lt. George McArthur,
a Marine Corps spokesman on Okinawa,
adding that they actively participate in
events to help the local community.
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WAR ON TERRORISM
Taliban official in Helmand
said to be killed in strike
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
KABUL, Afghanistan — The
Taliban’s “shadow governor” in
southern Helmand province was
killed in an airstrike, Afghan authorities announced Tuesday, but
the insurgents immediately denied the report.
Known by his nom de guerre,
“Muzamil,” the man was seriously wounded in the strike on Monday and later died of his injuries,
Helmand province police chief
Aqa Noor Keentoz said. Several
other Taliban fighters also were
killed in the bombing, he said.
The airstrike came as the insurgents were said to be picking
a new leader following the death
of Mullah Mohammad Akhtar
Mansour in a drone strike along
the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
on Saturday.
Keentoz said the strike, conducted by Afghan forces, was
carried out in the Marjah district,
where government forces have
been fighting to wrest control
from the Taliban.
In a statement posted online,
the Taliban claimed that their
governor for Helmand was Haji
Mullah Abdulmanan Akhund and
that Muzamil is his deputy. They
also said none of their officials in
the province has been harmed.
The insurgents have “shadow
governors” for all 34 Afghan
provinces, but rarely reveal the
names for security reasons. They
routinely deny reports that top
officials have been harmed or
killed.
Helmand province, where
nearly 1,000 American, British
and other international troops
died during the 15-year war, has
traditionally been a stronghold for
the Taliban. Since the U.S. and international forces withdrew, militants have overrun large swaths
of the province.
NATO officials have said recently that they expect Helmand
to be the site of the next major Taliban offensive following a lull in
fighting in April when insurgent
fighters laid down their weapons
to harvest opium — the Taliban’s
main source of revenue — from
the abundant poppies there.
Elsewhere, in southern Afghanistan, a roadside bomb killed
at least four civilians and wounded five others traveling in a minivan in Kandahar province early
Tuesday morning. The blast occurred in the Shah Wali Kot district around 7 a.m., a government
spokesman said.
Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this
report.
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Taliban figure says death
of leader could unify group
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — The
death of the leader of the Afghan
Taliban in a U.S. drone strike last
week could make the insurgent
movement stronger by bringing
back dissident commanders and
unifying the movement’s ranks, a
senior Afghan Taliban figure said
on Tuesday.
Mullah Mohammad Ghous,
a foreign minister during the
Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, told The Associated
Press that Mullah Mohammad
Akhtar Mansour’s death cleared
the way for those who left after
he became leader to return to the
insurgency.
Mansour was killed on Saturday in the strike in southwestern
Pakistan, just over the border
from Afghanistan.
His death has been confirmed
by some senior Taliban members,
as well as Washington and Kabul.
The Taliban have yet to formally
announce his death.
Mansour had led the Taliban
since last summer, when the
death of founder Mullah Mohammad Omar became public. Mansour ran the movement in Omar’s
name for more than two years.
The revelation of Omar’s death
and Mansour’s deception led to
widespread mistrust, with some
senior leaders leaving to set up
their own factions.
Some of these rivals fought
Mansour’s men for land, mostly
in the opium poppy-growing
southern Taliban heartland.
Ghous said a faction loyal to the
leader of a major breakaway fac-
tion, Mullah Mohammad Rasool
— who is believed to be detained
in Pakistan — could rejoin the
main branch, “bringing greater
strength.”
“Once the death of Mullah
Akhtar Mansour is confirmed,
Mullah Rasool’s group will have
no excuse,” he said.
Mansour is widely said to have
been a major player in Afghanistan’s multibillion-dollar drug
production and smuggling business that, along with other contraband, helps fund the insurgency.
Western diplomats in Kabul
have said that Mansour had been
in contact with Iran and Russia in
recent months in a bid to diversify his support base away from
Pakistan. Pakistan’s ISI secret
service has long been suspected
of supporting the Taliban leadership in cities over the border from
Afghanistan, notably Quetta and
Peshawar.
Russia and Iran are believed
to have reached out to Taliban
groups in recent months as a
counterweight to the Islamic State
group’s presence in Afghanistan.
Mansour is believed to have been
returning from Iran when he was
targeted by the U.S. drone.
“The Taliban needs financial
and strategic support, so as leader
of the movement Mullah Akhtar
Mansour had to look for it in difference places — and that meant
he had to travel to different countries,” Ghous said.
Ghous said that it was widely
accepted within the upper ranks
of the Taliban that Iran facilitated
contact with Russia for Mansour.
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A fighter with Badr Brigades, an armed Shiite group under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization
Forces, runs as Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces and Sunni tribal
fighters take combat positions against the Islamic State group outside Fallujah on Monday.
Clashes outside Fallujah
briefly subside on Day 2
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Clashes between
Iraqi government forces and the
Islamic State group outside the
city of Fallujah briefly subsided
on Tuesday, the second day of a
large-scale military operation to
drive militants out of their key
stronghold west of Baghdad.
Backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and paramilitary troops,
mostly Shiite militias, Iraqi forces launched the offensive Sunday.
The push to take Fallujah is expected to be a challenge for Iraq’s
struggling security forces due to
defenses put up by the militants
and the thousands of civilians
who remain there. The Islamic
State group has held the city for
more than two years.
In nearby Garma, Mayor
Ahmed al-Halbosi said engineer-
ing teams were clearing booby
traps from houses and government buildings Tuesday — a day
after capturing most of the town.
Garma is just east of Fallujah and
is considered a main supply line
for the Islamic State group.
Col. Mahmoud al-Mardhi, in
charge of paramilitary forces,
said they were still encountering
pockets of resistance in Garma
outskirts, adding that they killed
at least six militants holed up in
buildings Tuesday. He said Fallujah is now completely isolated.
According to the U.S.-led coalition and the United Nations, there
are about 60,000 to 100,000 civilians remaining in Fallujah, down
from more than 250,000 people in
past years.
The Islamic State group previously has used civilians as human
shields, forcing families to move
with the fighters as they retreat
from advancing forces and coalition airstrikes, but many Iraqis
are suspicious of the civilians
who have not fled, assuming
many of them are Islamic State
sympathizers.
Alarmed by the intense fighting, the U.N. and nongovernmental organizations expressed
concern about the fate of civilians
inside Fallujah, calling on warring parties to open safe corridors for them to leave.
On Tuesday, the Norwegian
Refugee Council Iraq director,
Nasr Muflahi, said there was no
sign yet that trapped families
were able to flee, warning that
they “now risk being caught in
the crossfire.”
“All parties to this conflict have
to provide safe exits for civilians,”
Muflahi added.
Death toll rises in Syria coastal bombings
Associated Press
BEIRUT — A suicide bomber
who targeted a hospital in a Syrian coastal city on Monday killed
43 people, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as an activist group raised the overall death
toll from the day’s unprecedented
wave of attacks on government
strongholds to 161.
The attacks — seven bombings
altogether — targeted civilians in
the coastal cities of Tartus and
Jableh for the first time in the
country’s five-year war, raising
fears of more violence among
residents living in government
bastions who have enjoyed relative quiet. The wave of explosions
also underlined the inability of
world powers to jump-start Syrian peace talks in Geneva as the
violence worsens and reaches
new areas.
Most of those killed in Monday’s
explosion at the Jableh National
Hospital were patients and visiting family members, but three
doctors and nurses were also
among the dead, the WHO said.
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US-supported
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Trainers
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volunteers
BY ROBERT BURNS
Associated Press
NORTHERN SYRIA — Barcham Zana knows her enemy.
It is the Islamic State, which
she calls “darkness.”
Islamic State militants killed
two cousins, she said. For her,
the group is not an abstract
threat.
The
20-year-old
spoke
through a Syrian interpreter at
a rudimentary training camp
surrounded by golden waves of
wheat in northern Syria. Zana
and other young fighters had
just finished target practice
with AK-47s on a firing range
encircled by earthen berms.
The nearest front line fighting
was about 50 miles away.
Zana is a member of the
YPJ, a predominantly Kurdish
women’s militia.
She and her commander,
Nujin Dirik, say they are dedicated to the cause. But they
also reflect the depth of ethnic
and other complexities facing
the U.S. military as it seeks to
develop a coherent and competent network of local Syria
forces to defeat the Islamic
State group.
A small group of American
military advisers works here
with Zana and other Syrian
volunteers — mostly Arab men
— who have taken up arms
against what they see as a
scourge on their country and
a threat to their families. One
called the Islamic State group
an “illness.” Several said they
were fed up with the group and
eager to destroy it.
The Americans said the
number of Arab volunteers
has surged this spring, following a series of battlefield
gains against the Islamic State
group, including the retaking
BY TARA COPP
Stars and Stripes
ROBERT BURNS/AP
Barcham Zana, left, and Helene Osman, take part in training in
northern Syria with U.S. military advisers who are working with
local Arab volunteers who want to fight the Islamic State group.
of al-Shaddadeh in Hassakeh
province. That success triggered a recruiting boom, with
more local Arabs seeking to
join than could be accommodated, the Americans said.
One U.S. adviser called the
recruits “raw ... literally civilians coming off the streets.”
The adviser could not be quoted by name under ground rules
set for reporters who visited
the camp Saturday with Army
Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of
U.S. Central Command. The
camp’s location also could not
be disclosed.
A female YPJ trainee who
gave her name as Athima said
she feels a moral imperative.
“It’s my duty to stop this
fighting,” she said, referring to
the Islamic State group.
Dirik says she is fighting
for something bigger: a Syrian Kurdistan, known locally
as Rojava, which already is
a semi-autonomous region of
northeastern Syria comprising
three self-governing cantons.
Judy Ossi, who runs a humanitarian coordination office
for her canton, Jazira, said the
focus on war is obscuring the
suffering of thousands of displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees, whose numbers she said
already are overwhelming and
are likely to grow.
The women of the YPJ revealed no fear of combat. Zana
said she initially was afraid of
the Islamic State group, knowing of their brutal tactics, including beheadings. But once
she joined the YPJ and began
training, her fears disappeared, she said.
That strength-in-numbers
theme applies as well to the
broader U.S. strategy in Syria.
The U.S. has organized the
fighters into an umbrella group
it calls the Syrian Democratic
Forces, or SDF.
It comprises mostly of Syrian Kurds, numbering at least
25,000 fighters, with a smaller
element of Syrian Arabs numbering perhaps 5,000 to 6,000.
WASHINGTON — Syrian
forces aided by U.S. airstrikes
and advisers have begun their
assault to take back Raqqa from
the Islamic State group, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.
Several thousand fighters from
the Syrian Democratic Forces,
the umbrella group that also includes fighters from the Syrian
Arab Coalition and the Kurdish
People’s Protection Forces, or
YPG, are massed about 30 to 40
miles north of Raqqa, two senior
defense officials told Stars and
Stripes on the condition that they
not be named.
On Tuesday, those forces
began to advance toward Raqqa,
which is the Islamic State’s primary headquarters in Syria.
“They’re moving on Raqqa
now,” said Col. Steve Warren, who is the Baghdad-based
spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve.
The Syrian Democratic Forces
announced the launch of the operation through its official Twitter
account. “With the participation
of all [Syrian Democratic Forces] units, we start this operation
to liberate northern [Raqqa],”
the group said. “[Combined Joint
Task Force Operation Inherent
Resolve] forces will accompany
[Syrian Democratic Forces] during the campaign.”
Since Friday, U.S. and coalition aircraft have conducted 10
airstrikes against Islamic State
group positions in Raqqa and
hit tactical units, an Islamic
State garrison and oil infrastructure, according to Defense Department news releases on the
airstrikes.
Dunford defends US strategy against Islamic State group
BY DAN L AMOTHE
The Washington Post
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY
AIRCRAFT — Flying home from
Brussels last week in a silver trailer fastened to the inside of a C-17
cargo jet, the U.S. military’s top
general appeared in an easygoing
mood. He had just spent two days
meeting with his counterparts
from other NATO nations and was
traveling to a submarine base in
Kings Bay, Ga.
So when Marine Gen. Joseph
Dunford, the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, was asked about
the state of operations against the
Islamic State terrorist group, he
was blunt. He rejected the notion
that he, Defense Secretary Ash
Carter and other U.S. officials
have adopted a strategy that is too
reactive — gradually increasing
the number of U.S. troops in Iraq
and Syria whenever bad news
dictates.
“From my perspective, people
are looking at the increases [in
troop numbers] in Iraq as, you
know, we are putting Band-Aids
on and that it’s incremental,” said
Dunford. “In fact, we’ve said from
the very beginning — and you can
go back to Secretary Carter and
I testifying in October — we said
that we are looking for opportunities to reinforce success, and we
are looking for places where we
can put in capabilities to acceler-
ate Iraqi progress. ”
The comments came Thursday
as Iraqi forces were retaking the
desert town of Rutbah in western
Anbar province following a twoday battle with the Islamic State
group. They did so during a week
in which Baghdad, some 240 miles
to the east, was rocked by numerous explosions that killed hundreds of people. The carnage has
raised questions about whether
the Iraqi military will pull more
of its troops back toward the capital rather than the preferred U.S.
plan: preparing for an assault on
Mosul, the Islamic State’s de facto
capital in Iraq.
On Monday, the Iraqi military
took another step that analysts say
could stall the operation to take
back Mosul, launching an assault
on the city of Fallujah in Anbar
province. Just 40 miles west of
Baghdad, it was the site of fierce
fighting that killed more than 100
U.S. troops in two battles in 2004,
and was captured by the Islamic
State in January 2014, five months
before Mosul fell.
Asked about what an assault
on Fallujah could mean, Dunford
said the Iraqis can continue to
prepare for Mosul while simultaneously taking “appropriate action” in Baghdad and carrying out
operations in Anbar province. Operations in Fallujah, he said, are
aimed at trying to prevent Fallujah
from being a threat to Baghdad.
The two defense officials confirmed Syrian forces are being
re-supplied and supported by
U.S. advisers who are located behind the forward line of troops.
The Islamic State group is estimated to have several thousand
fighters defending Raqqa, Warren said.
In the last week, U.S. and coalition jets have dropped leaflets
urging civilians to flee, warning
of the coming fight for the city.
On Friday, the Islamic State
group allowed civilians in the
city to leave, according to The
Associated Press.
The effort to retake Raqqa is
occurring as Iraqi forces, also
aided by U.S. and coalition airpower, are advancing on Fallujah, an Islamic State-controlled
city west of Baghdad.
It is believed Islamic State
fighters in Fallujah are responsible for a recent string of deadly
bombings in Baghdad, Warren
said last week.
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Sanders: Democratic convention could be ‘messy’
BY K EN THOMAS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Democratic
presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said the Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia and his push to make
the party more inclusive could
get “messy,” but he asserted in
an interview with The Associated
Press, “Democracy is not always
nice and quiet and gentle.”
Campaigning Monday ahead
of California’s primary against
Hillary Clinton, Sanders said his
supporters hope the party will
adopt a platform at the summer
convention that reflects the needs
of working families, the poor and
young people, not Wall Street and
corporate America.
Sanders said he will “condemn
any and all forms of violence,” but
his campaign was welcoming political newcomers and first-time
attendees of party conventions. He
said the Democratic Party faces a
choice of becoming more inclusive
or maintaining the status quo.
“I think if they make the right
choice and open the doors to working-class people and young people
and create the kind of dynamism
that the Democratic Party needs,
it’s going to be messy,” Sanders
said. “Democracy is not always
nice and quiet and gentle, but that
is where the Democratic Party
should go.”
Asked if the convention could
be problematic, Sanders said: “So
what? Democracy is messy. Every
day, my life is messy. But if you
want everything to be quiet and
orderly and allow, you know, just
things to proceed without vigorous
debate, that is not what democracy
is about.”
Sanders is vying for support
ahead of California’s June 7 primary, a day that also includes
contests in Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota
and South Dakota. Clinton has
271 more pledged delegates than
Sanders and is just 90 delegates
shy of clinching the nomination
when the total includes superdelegates — the party officials and
elected leaders who can support
the candidate of their choice.
Some Democrats have grown
weary about the length of the primaries, worried that it could give
Republican businessman Donald
Trump a head start on the general
election and make it more difficult
for Democrats to unite behind a
nominee. The issue gained attention when a recent Nevada Democratic convention turned raucous.
Sanders said he was “bothered”
by the portrayal of the Las Vegas
convention, saying it did not turn
violent as some media reports in-
‘ Democracy is not always nice
and quiet and gentle, but that
is where the Democratic Party
should go.
’
dicated. “There was rowdyism.
There was booing, I think inappropriately, by the way,” he said.
The senator spoke after the
Democratic National Committee
announced a 15-member platform
drafting committee, which will
write the first draft of the party
platform. The panel includes allies
of both candidates.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
presidential candidate
Sanders said the platform process would be an “excellent time
to educate the American people,”
saying it would allow the party to
have a vigorous debate over ways
to address wealth inequality, the
role of Wall Street in the economy, climate change and universal
health care.
“A serious debate about seri-
ous issues is good for democracy,
is good for the Democratic Party.
It will increase voter turnout, and
that always works in our effort to
defeat Republicans,” he said.
He declined to entertain the
possibility of being considered as
Clinton’s running mate, saying
he was focused on winning the
nomination.
“If I don’t, we will see what
happens later on,” he said. But he
reiterated that he would do “everything that I can” to ensure that
Trump is not elected president.
Sanders said he had a “shot” at
winning the California primary
against Clinton and that given
his delegate deficit, it was “imperative” that he perform well. He
estimated his rallies around the
state would allow him to speak di-
rectly to 200,000 voters before the
primary.
“What happens if I win a major
victory in California? Will people
say, ‘Oh, we’re really enthusiastic
about Hillary Clinton despite the
fact that Bernie Sanders has now
won whatever it may be, 25 states,
half the states?’ ” he said.
If that happens, he added, superdelegates “may rethink that.
That is why you want the process
to play out.”
Clinton’s campaign said Monday that she would not participate
in a proposed California debate,
choosing instead to campaign in
the state. Sanders said at an evening rally in Santa Monica that he
was “disturbed but not surprised”
that Clinton had “backed out” of
the debate.
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Comment by VA chief criticized Cosby
ordered to
stand trial
Lawmakers blast McDonald for comparing vets’ wait times to lines at Disney
BY TRAVIS J. TRITTEN
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator
called for Bob McDonald to resign Tuesday
amid growing public outrage after the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary compared the time veterans wait for health care to
the wait for rides at Disneyland.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said the dismissive
statements about long waits for veterans seeking health care are “negligent.” Other senators and Republican leadership in the House
also lashed out at McDonald but stopped short
of demanding that he step down.
During a breakfast gathering Monday, McDonald told a group of reporters that he looks
to the Disney company as a model for the
embattled VA. It is a comparison that he has
used in the past and one that plays to his own
experience as the former CEO of Procter &
Gamble, one of the world’s largest and most
successful companies.
“When you go to Disney, do they measure
the number of hours you wait in line? Or what’s
important? What’s important is, what’s your
satisfaction with the experience?” McDonald
said during a media breakfast, according to
multiple reports. “And what I would like to
move to, eventually, is that kind of measure.”
Long and potentially dangerous wait times
at VA hospitals were at the center of a national
scandal in 2014. Investigations found veterans
were waiting months to be seen and that the
department was systematically covering up
the waits at facilities across the country.
“Secretary McDonald’s preposterous statement is right out of Never Never Land,” Blunt
said in a statement posted on his website. “I
call on him to resign because it’s clear he cannot prioritize getting our veterans the health
care they deserve and have earned in a timely
manner.”
Critics also included House leadership,
which used a morning press conference Tuesday to lob criticism at McDonald, and the Republican chairmen of veterans committees in
both the House and Senate.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said lawmakers
were dumbfounded by the secretary’s “disgusting” comments and he urged McDonald
to clarify the department’s stance on wait
times and renew its pledge to treat veterans.
The speaker stopped short of calling for
McDonald’s resignation.
“I don’t know how he’s going to fix it but he
needs to fix it,” Ryan said.
The VA did not immediately say Tuesday
whether McDonald plans to make a public appearance to clarify his remarks. It released
a statement Monday saying veterans are still
waiting too long for care at its nationwide network of hospitals and clinics, but that satisfaction among patients is its top concern.
“We have heard [veterans] tell us that wait
times alone are not the only indication of their
experience with VA and that’s why we must
transform the way we do business,” the department statement said.
Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the
Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said McDonald
was brought in as secretary in 2014 precisely
to solve the wait-time debacle.
“There is nothing amusing about VA’s performance over the past few years, and comparing VA wait times to those of an amusement
park is just plain wrong,” Miller wrote in a
statement posted to the committee website.
“Wait times are of critical importance to the
veterans waiting for VA medical care and they
should be to Sec. Bob McDonald as well.”
Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of
the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said
he was “extremely disappointed in Secretary
McDonald’s comparison of the deadly VA
wait-time scandal to long lines at an amusement park.”
The American Legion, which represents
2.2 million veterans, said the Disney comment was an unfortunate comparison and that
reasonable wait times — not just veteran satisfaction rates — are key to successful health
care.
“People don’t die while waiting to go on
Space Mountain,” National Commander Dale
Barnett said in a released statement.
tritten.travis@stripes.com
Twitter: @Travis_Tritten
Associated Press
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill
Cosby was ordered Tuesday
to stand trial on sexual assault
charges after a hearing that
hinged on a decade-old police report in which a woman said the
comedian gave her three blue
pills that put her in a stupor, unable to stop his advances.
District
Judge
Elizabeth
McHugh ruled that prosecutors
had sufficient evidence to bring
Cosby to trial in the lone criminal
case brought against him out of
the barrage of allegations that he
drugged and molested dozens of
women. No immediate trial date
was set.
Cosby, 78, could get 10 years in
prison if convicted.
“Mr. Cosby, good luck to you,
sir,” the judge said.
“Thank you,” said the former
TV star, who stood up briskly
after the ruling and seemed chipper and unsurprised. He hugged
one of his lawyers.
The judge set an arraignment for July 20, at which time
he could enter a plea. But Cosby
waived his right to appear at that
proceeding. That sets the case on
a trajectory for trial.
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Hawaii might put
gun owners into
federal database
BY M ARINA STARLEAF R IKER
Associated Press
HONOLULU — Hawaii could
become the first state in the United States to enter gun owners into
an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island
resident is arrested anywhere else
in the country.
Most people entered in the “Rap
Back” database elsewhere in the
U.S. are those in “positions of
trust,” such as schoolteachers and
bus drivers, said Stephen Fischer,
of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division. Hawaii could be the first state to add
gun owners.
“I don’t like the idea of us being
entered into a database. It basically tells us that they know where the
guns are, they can go grab them”
said Jerry Ilo, a firearm and hunting instructor for the state. “We
get the feeling that Big Brother is
watching us.”
Supporters say the law would
make Hawaii a leader in safe gun
laws. Allison Anderman, a staff
attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said the bill
was “groundbreaking” and that
she hadn’t heard of other states introducing similar measures.
State Sen. Will Espero, a Democrat who introduced the bill, and
the Honolulu Police Department
said Hawaii could serve as a model
for other states if it becomes the
first to enact the law.
Yet others say gun owners
shouldn’t have to be entered in a
database to practice a constitutional right.
“You’re curtailing that right by
requiring that a name be entered
into a database without doing anything wrong,” said Kenneth Lawson, of the faculty at the University
of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson
School of Law.
Legal experts say the bill could
face challenges but would probably
hold up in court. Recent Supreme
Court rulings have clarified states’
ability to regulate gun sales, said
David Levine, a law professor at
the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
The bill will undergo a legal review by departments including the
Attorney General’s Office, which
supported the bill, before Gov.
David Ige decides if he will sign
it into law, said Cindy McMillan, a
spokeswoman for the governor.
The cost to enter names in the
database will be covered by a fee
paid by gun owners that wasn’t
specified in the bill.
Even though other states don’t
enter gun owners in the database,
Honolulu Police Department Maj.
Richard Robinson said it will still
benefit Hawaii police. Right now,
Hawaii gun owners undergo a
background check only when
they register a gun, so police have
no way of knowing if they’re disqualified from owning a gun in the
future unless they try to register a
new firearm.
MEL EVANS/AP
Transportation Security Administration agents work at a security checkpoint in terminal C at Newark
Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Monday.
TSA security operations chief replaced
BY A LICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A House
committee said Monday that the
head of security operations at the
Transportation Security Administration has been replaced.
“Kelly Hoggan has been removed from his position as head of
security at TSA,” the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform posted on Twitter.
Meanwhile, The Associated
Press obtained a memo sent by
TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger that does not mention
Hoggan but names a temporary
replacement.
“Darby LaJoye will serve as
the Acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Security Operations,” Neffenger wrote in the
memo addressed to TSA senior
leaders. “Darby LaJoye is an ex-
perienced Federal Security Director with successful leadership
tours at two of the nation’s largest
airports, Los Angeles International Airport in California and John
F. Kennedy International Airport
in New York.”
The oversight committee said
Hoggan received more than
$90,000 in bonuses between late
2013 and late 2014.
About a year later, a report from
the Homeland Security Inspector
General’s Office revealed that
agency employees failed to find
explosives, weapons and other
dangerous items in more than 95
percent of covert tests at multiple
U.S. airports.
That report and allegations of
other mismanagement within
TSA have drawn congressional
scrutiny and promoted multiple
hearings on Capitol Hill.
Hoggan’s ouster also comes
amid growing concerns of massive security lines at airports this
summer. The long lines have been
blamed in part on more travelers
during the busy summer travel
season and a shortage of screening officers manning checkpoints.
Neffenger has also attributed
some security line woes to fewer
people than anticipated applying
for the government’s PreCheck
program, which allows passengers
to move through security faster
after submitting to a background
check.
In recent weeks, there have
been reports of thousands of people missing flights because of the
lengthy wait times. Problems have
been reported in Chicago, and
Neffenger was in the city meeting
with local officials to discuss the
issues last week.
House panel hears lawmaker who wants IRS commissioner impeached
BY A LAN FRAM
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A sympathetic House
Judiciary Committee gave a high-profile
forum to a top Republican who wants to
impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, a cause that excites conservatives but
seems unlikely to go far in Congress this
election year.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz
testified before the GOP-run Judiciary
panel on Tuesday. The Utah Republican
has been pushing for Koskinen’s removal
since last summer, accusing the commis-
sioner of hindering congressional investigations of his agency.
“You can’t thumb your nose at Congress
and expect there to be no consequences,”
Chaffetz said in an interview last week.
In a written statement Monday, Koskinen said Chaffetz’s allegations against him
are without merit. He said he wouldn’t appear Tuesday because he’s been busy traveling and preparing for other hearings, but
that he would be willing to testify in the
future.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, whose department includes the IRS, criticized Republicans. Lew said in a written statement
Tuesday that the House should focus on
the nation’s needs, “not the kind of political agenda that an impeachment vote here
would represent.”
While booting Koskinen has become
a favorite cause among conservatives
— Chaffetz has 73 co-sponsors on his impeachment resolution — support by other
Republicans has been tepid, and Democrats are flatly opposed.
House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
has yet to embrace the idea, with spokesman Brendan Buck saying Ryan has
deferred to committee leaders. Many Republicans would rather not launch a cam-
paign-season impeachment effort with
virtually no chance of success even as they
try persuading voters that they are running Congress constructively.
To impeach a federal official, a majority of the House must vote for conviction.
It then takes a two-thirds majority vote of
the Senate to actually remove the official
from office.
The Senate’s minority Democrats could
easily block the effort, leaving many to believe that Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., won’t even try. McConnell
spokesman Donald Stewart declined to
comment on the subject last week.
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Feds eye
donations to
Va. governor
Fewer
US adults
smoking
Associated Press
BY M IKE STOBBE
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The nation
seems to be kicking its smoking
habit faster than ever before.
The rate of smoking among
adults in the U.S. fell to 15 percent
last year thanks to the biggest
one-year decline in more than 20
years, according to a new government report.
The rate fell 2 percentage points
from 2014, when about 17 percent
of adults in a large national survey
said they had recently smoked.
The smoking rate has been falling for decades, but it usually drops
only 1 point or less in a year.
The last time there was a drop
nearly as big was from 1992 to
1993, when the smoking rate fell
1.5 percentage points, according
to Brian King, of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported the new statistic Tuesday. It’s based on a large
national survey that is the government’s primary measuring stick
for many health-related trends.
Smoking is the nation’s leading cause of preventable illness,
causing more than 480,000 deaths
each year in the United States, the
CDC estimates. Why the smoking
rate fell so much in 2015 — and
whether it will fall as fast again
— is not quite clear.
About 50 years ago, roughly 42
percent of U.S. adults smoked. It
was common nearly everywhere
— in office buildings, restaurants,
airplanes and even hospitals. The
smoking rate’s gradual decline has
coincided with an increased public understanding that smoking is
a cause of cancer, heart disease
and other lethal health problems.
Experts attribute recent declines to the mounting impact of
anti-smoking advertising campaigns, cigarette taxes and smoking bans. The increased marketing
of electronic cigarettes and their
growing popularity has also likely
played a role. But it is not yet clear
whether that will help further propel the decline in smoking or contribute to an increase in smoking
in years to come.
E-cigarettes heat liquid nicotine
into a vapor, delivering the chemical that smokers crave without the
harmful by-products generated
from burning tobacco.
That makes them a potentially
useful tool to help smokers quit,
but experts fear it also creates a
new way for people to get addicted
to nicotine.
A LAN DIAZ /AP
Steve Noe, Martin County mosquito specialist, explains the use of the Mosquito Magnetic Pro, a
machine used for luring and trapping mosquitoes, outside a home in Rio, Fla., this month.
Lessons from ’13 Fla. dengue
outbreak can help in Zika fight
BY JENNIFER K AY
Associated Press
RIO, Fla. — A summer flu
seemed to be sweeping through
Rachel Heid’s riverfront neighborhood. Pale and shaky, she left
work with a fever. Neighbors had
the same symptoms, and a contractor at her home felt so sick he
went to the hospital.
Heid thought the neighborhood children were passing a bug
around their circle. She never
suspected a virus carried by bugs
hovering around their birdbaths
and tarp-covered boats — until
health officials left pamphlets at
their houses asking for blood samples if they recently suffered from
fevers and joint or muscle pain.
The dengue fever outbreak infected 28 people in August and
September 2013. It caught Florida’s Atlantic coast by surprise.
The mosquito-borne disease associated with crowded, third-world
conditions had spread among the
pink plastic flamingoes of Rio and
Jensen Beach.
The mosquitoes that spread
dengue also carry the Zika virus,
which has been linked to serious
birth defects and has grown into
an epidemic in Central and Latin
America — though officials expect only small outbreaks in the
United States.
The successful fight against
dengue in these Florida suburbs
may forecast what other U.S. communities worried about Zika face
as the summer mosquito season
begins. Among the lessons local
officials learned: the importance
of home inspections by mosquito
control technicians, media campaigns to “drain and cover” standing water, and changes residents
made in their own yards.
Travelers occasionally come
‘ You can’t, you know, eradicate totally,
but to go from a dozen houses to just two,
even three years later, is great.
’
Stephen Noe
county mosquito control inspector
home with dengue, but Florida
went 75 years without a local infection until a 2009 outbreak in
Key West. The state now records a
handful of cases annually, mostly
in the densely populated Miami
area. Health officials have alerted
hospitals to the potential for dengue, but mosquito-borne diseases
have rarely worried lifelong Florida residents like Heid.
“We don’t have an international airport here,” Heid said. “We
don’t have a lot of tourism. We
don’t have a cruise, we don’t have
a port — nothing. So we don’t have
the international intake like you
would in Miami or the Keys. But
yet — we had dengue here.”
The 2013 outbreak in Martin
County seemed like an anomaly
— 100 miles north of Miami, in
communities with fewer than
15,000 people — but it had the
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that
transmit dengue and a traveler
who brought home the virus two
years earlier.
Fogging trucks rumbled down
the streets of affected neighborhoods nearly every night for a
month, but county employees
spent more time — four or five
hours daily — on sweeps targeting all small containers holding
water where Aedes aegypti breed.
The biggest offenders: buckets,
kiddie pools, recycling bins, convenience-store soda cups, potato
chip bags and boats.
“Rio is this old seaside town,
you know, a fishing town,” said
Stephen Noe, a county mosquito
control inspector. “Boats were a
huge problem.”
Maintenance and office workers from the county engineering
department joined Noe and five
other mosquito control employees
for the work. The response drew
resources away from mosquito
surveillance elsewhere in the
county, but for an operation with
a budget under $1 million dollars
and only six employees, it was
enough to handle the outbreak,
said Don Donaldson, the county’s
engineering director.
Eight people needed hospitalization, but none suffered more
severe forms of dengue. Things
could have been worse, hospital
officials said.
Today, all but a handful of hot
spots in the outbreak areas remain
mostly clear of the discarded containers that attract Aedes aegypti,
Noe said.
“You can’t, you know, eradicate
totally, but to go from a dozen
houses to just two, even three
years later, is great,” he said.
No one has contracted dengue
in Martin County since 2013, even
though a neighboring county has
since documented local transmission of another virus carried by
the same mosquito.
McLEAN, Va. — Virginia Gov.
Terry McAuliffe is a subject of a
federal investigation looking at
donations to his gubernatorial
campaign, according to a U.S. law
enforcement official.
The official spoke on condition
of anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak publicly about
an ongoing investigation. CNN
first reported the story Monday.
Marc Elias, a lawyer for McAuliffe’s campaign, said Monday that
the governor, a Democrat, is unaware of any investigation.
“The governor will certainly cooperate with the government if he
is contacted about it,” Elias said in
a statement.
Spokespeople at the FBI and
Justice Department declined to
comment Monday.
The law enforcement official
did not say what specific contributions were drawing scrutiny, but
said that campaign finances and
donations to his 2013 campaign
were part of the investigation.
The official said the investigation has been ongoing for some
time and there was no indication
that it was close to concluding.
McAuliffe’s predecessor in the
governor’s mansion, Republican
Bob McDonnell, was convicted
on federal corruption charges but
has appealed his conviction to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Before winning his gubernatorial campaign in 2013 over Republican Ken Cuccinelli, McAuliffe
made his name in national Democratic politics as a prolific, wellconnected fundraiser with close
ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Although McAuliffe is close to
the Clintons, the official told The
Associated Press that the investigation of McAuliffe is unconnected to a separate FBI investigation
looking at the legality of private
email servers that Hillary Clinton
used while serving as secretary of
state.
Last year, McAuliffe’s political
action committee, Common Good
Va., returned a $25,000 donation
from a company with ties to Angola’s state-owned oil company after
the AP raised questions about its
legality. Federal law prohibits
campaigns at any level from receiving money from outside the
U.S.
McAuliffe’s international business connections also came under
scrutiny prior to his gubernatorial
campaign. He served as chairman
of GreenTech Automotive, a company that hoped to bring supercompact automobiles to the U.S.
market. The company attracted
hundreds of thousands of dollars
in foreign investment, in part
through a federal program that
granted visas to investors who met
certain job-creation thresholds.
McAuliffe resigned from the
company in December 2012.
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Obama pushes rights in Vietnam
BY FOSTER K LUG AND NANCY BENAC
Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam — President Barack
Obama on Tuesday pressed Vietnam to
allow greater freedoms for its citizens, arguing that better human rights would improve the communist country’s economy,
stability and regional power.
On his second full day in the southeast
Asian nation, Obama also met with activists and entrepreneurs as part of a push for
closer ties with the fast-growing, strategically crucial country. The visit included
the lifting of one of the last vestiges of Vietnam War-era antagonism: a 5-decades-old
arms sale embargo.
In a speech at the National Convention
Center, Obama sought to balance a desire
for a stronger relationship with Vietnam
with efforts to hold its leadership to account over what activists call an abysmal
treatment of government critics.
Nations are more successful when people
can freely express themselves, assemble
without harassment and access the internet and social media, Obama said.
“Upholding these rights is not a threat
to stability but actually reinforces stability
and is the foundation of progress,” Obama
told the audience of more than 2,000, including government officials and students
from five universities across the Hanoi
area. “Vietnam will do it differently than
the United States does ... But there are
these basic principles that I think we all
have to try to work on and improve.”
Freedom of expression is where new
ideas happen, Obama said. “That’s how a
Facebook starts. That’s how some of our
greatest companies began.”
Journalists and bloggers can “shine a
light on injustice or abuse” when they are
allowed to operate free of government interference or intimidation, he added. And,
stability is encouraged when voters get to
choose their leaders in free and fair elections “because citizens know that their
voices count and that peaceful change is
possible. And it brings new people into the
system,” Obama said.
Obama also traced the transformation
of the U.S.-Vietnamese relationship, from
wartime enemies to cooperation. He said
the governments are working more closely
together than ever before on a range of
issues.
“Now we can say something that was
once unimaginable: Today, Vietnam and
the Unites States are partners,” he said,
adding that their experience was teaching
the world that “hearts can change.”
Earlier Tuesday, Obama met with six
activists, including a pastor and advocates
for the disabled and sexual minorities.
He said several others were prevented
from coming. “Vietnam has made remarkable strides in many ways,” Obama said,
but “there are still areas of significant
concern.”
Obama also referred in the speech to
China’s growing aggression in the region,
something that worries many in Vietnam,
which has territorial disputes in the South
China Sea with Beijing.
CAROLYN K ASTER /AP
President Barack Obama visits the Jade
Emperor Pagoda with Thich Minh Thong,
abbot of the pagoda, in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam, on Tuesday.
Remains in crash
suggest explosion
BY SAM M AGDY
Associated Press
YANNIS KOLESIDIS, ANA-MPA/AP
A refugee family carries personal belongings at a makeshift refugee camp at the Greek-Macedonian
border near the northern Greek village of Idomeni on Tuesday as Greek authorities began to evacuate
the country’s largest such camp.
Greece begins clearing refugee camp
BY COSTAS K ANTOURIS
Associated Press
IDOMENI, Greece — Greek
authorities sent hundreds of police into the country’s largest informal refugee camp Tuesday to
support the gradual evacuation of
the Idomeni site on the Macedonian border.
The left-led government has
pledged that police will not use
force, and says the operation is
expected to last about a week to
10 days. Journalists were blocked
from covering inside the camp
By about midday 23 buses carrying a total 1,110 people had left
Idomeni, heading to new refugee
camps in northern Greece, police
said, while earth-moving machinery was used to clear abandoned
tents. No violence was reported.
Vicky Markolefa, a representa-
tive of the Doctors Without Borders charity, said the operation
was proceeding “very smoothly”
and without incident. “We hope it
will continue like that,” she said.
The camp, which sprang up at
an informal pedestrian border
crossing for refugees and migrants heading north to wealthier
European nations, was home to
an estimated 8,400 people — including hundreds of children —
mostly from Syria, Afghanistan
and Iraq.
At its peak, when Macedonia
shut its border in March, the
camp housed more than 14,000,
but numbers have declined as
people began accepting authorities’ offers of alternative places
to stay.
In Geneva, UNHCR spokesman
Adrian Edwards said the evacuation appeared to be taking place
“calmly,” and the U.N. refugee
agency was sending more staffers to Idomeni.
“As long as the movement of
people from Idomeni is ... voluntary in nature (and) that we’re
not seeing use of force, then we
don’t have particular concerns
about that,” he said. “It often does
help move people into more organized sites, when they’re willing
to move to those places.”
In Idomeni, most have been
living in small camping tents
pitched in fields and along railroad tracks, while aid agencies
have set up large marquee-style
tents to help house people. Greek
authorities have sent in cleaning
crews regularly and have provided portable toilets, but conditions
have been precarious at best,
with heavy rain creating muddy
ponds.
CAIRO — Human remains
retrieved from the crash site of
EgyptAir Flight 804 suggest there
was an explosion on board that
may have brought down the aircraft in the east Mediterranean, a
senior Egyptian forensics official
said Tuesday.
“The logical explanation is that
an explosion brought it down,” the
official told The Associated Press.
The official, who is part of the
Egyptian team investigating the
crash that killed all 66 people
on board the flight from Paris to
Cairo early last Thursday, has
personally examined the remains
at a Cairo morgue. He spoke on
condition of anonymity because
he was not authorized to release
the information.
All 80 pieces that have been
brought to Cairo so far are small.
“There isn’t even a whole body
part, like an arm or a head,” said
the official. “But I cannot say what
caused the blast.”
He did not say whether traces
of explosives were found on the
human remains retrieved so far.
The expert’s comments mark a
new dramatic twist surrounding
last week’s crash, which remains
a mystery. The plane’s black
boxes have yet to be found and
photographs of retrieved debris
published by the Egyptian military over the weekend were not
charred and appear to show no
signs of fire.
Egyptian officials have said
they believe terrorism is a more
likely explanation than equipment
failure, or some other catastrophic
event, and some aviation experts
have said the erratic flight reported by the Greek defense minister
suggests a bomb blast or a struggle in the cockpit.
So far no hard evidence has
emerged on the cause of the
disaster.
An independent Cairo daily,
al-Watan, quoted an unnamed forensics official in its Tuesday edition as saying the plane blew up in
midair — but that it has yet to be
determined whether the blast was
caused by an explosive device or
something else.
France’s aviation accident investigation agency would not
comment on
anything involving the
The
bodies or say
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whether any
explanation information
has surfaced
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tigation
to
brought it indicate an
explosion.
down.
In a search
clues,
Egyptian for
forensics family memofficial bers of the
victims gave
been arriving during the day Tuesday at the
Cairo morgue forensics’ department to give DNA samples to help
identify the remains of their kin, a
security official said. The official
also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The EgyptAir crash shocked
a nation struggling to revive its
ailing economy and contain a
resilient insurgency by Islamic
militants.
Safety on board Egyptian aircraft and at the country’s airports
have been under close international scrutiny since a Russian airliner crashed in the Sinai Peninsula
last October, killing all 224 people
on board, shortly after taking off
from an Egyptian resort. The
crash was claimed by the Islamic
State affiliate in Sinai and blamed
by Moscow on an explosive device
planted on board.
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WIRED WORLD
Drone racing: Next sport of modern age?
Leagues vie
for sponsors,
try to boost
viewer appeal
BY RYAN NAKASHIMA
Associated Press
HAWTHORNE,
Calif.
—
Decked out in high-tech goggles,
pilot Steve Zoumas dives low and
sees the final gate zooming toward
him: a 20-foot-tall, metal-framed
box ringed with neon. Boom! His
sight goes black. The crowd lets
out a collective “Whoa!” as pieces of his aircraft, which has just
smashed into a concrete barrier,
go flying.
Zoumas is just fine, though;
it’s his drone that’s toast. The
pilot takes off his goggles and
crosses to the pilots’ lounge for
the replay. Once again, his quadcopter drone, a buzzing machine
roughly the size of a loaf of bread,
zooms daringly around obstacles
and through hairpin turns; once
again, it meets its demise.
“I was pushing it that lap,” said
Zoumas, 31, a construction company owner. “I just wanted to put
on a show for the crowd.”
Welcome to drone racing, a
would-be sport in which men, and
a few women, fly remote-controlled drones against competitors at up to 80 mph along looping
courses with hairpin curves and
drops. Many races take place in
open fields, but here, racers and
spectators have gathered in an
abandoned, rubble-strewn mall
set up with course-marking gates
across two floors.
Fans sit on bleachers behind
protective mesh, passing around
antenna-equipped goggles to see
the pilot’s view. Big-screen TVs
show off unique camera angles
while glowing copters whizz by,
emitting the high-pitched hum of
weed wackers on steroids.
Racing is a labor of love for
many pilots. Many are born tinkerers and spend hours customizing their drones with new parts
or building them from scratch.
Some say they’ve spent more
than $10,000 on frames, motors,
batteries, propellers and camera
mounts.
Fred Loo, 31, a pilot known as
“Flying Bear,” said he and his
wife even put off having kids so
he can spend more time racing.
He said he’d give up his high-paying Silicon Valley job in a heartbeat if he could figure out how to
fly drones for a living.
Of course, that’s the sticking
point. Drone racing is still something of a guerrilla sport, even
though ESPN has agreed to air a
drone special on its ESPN3 channel this fall. Money is tight, and
most pilots have to keep their day
jobs. While high-profile races
such as the World Drone Prix,
MICHAEL BRIAN, D RONE R ACING LEAGUE /AP
Drones taking off from their launch pads for a race in March at a vacant mall in Hawthorne, Calif.
RICHARD VOGEL /AP
Ken “Flying Bear” Loo watches a drone race with other pilots during
a Drone Racing League event March 19 in Hawthorne, Calif. Loo,
an engineer for a Silicon Valley technology giant, said he has burned
through vacation days, lunch hours and weekends flying drones.
held in Dubai last March, pay out
as much as $250,000 to the winning pilot, such affluence feels
very distant here in the shell of
the Hawthorne Plaza mall.
That could change if drone racing hits it big, attracting a mass
audience and the sponsors who
want to sell them stuff. Serial entrepreneur Nick Horbaczewski,
35, who founded the Drone Racing League
last
year,
thinks
he
knows how
to pull that
off.
The trick,
he said, is
making the
audience
feel
the
same thrill
Horbaczewski
as the pilots.
That’s why his league lights up
each quadcopter and its pilot’s
goggles with matching, colored
LEDs, which help spectators
track the tiny, speeding drones.
It’s also why pilots wear T-shirts
emblazoned with nicknames like
“KittyCopter,” “Rekrek” and
“Zoomas.” Pilot backstories and
slick editing build up the drama
for videos put online.
The fast-talking Horbaczewski
helped turn “Tough Mudders,” a
quirky half-marathon in which
people pay to slog through artificial quagmires, into a $100
million-plus business as its chief
revenue officer. He sank his own
money into the drone league last
year, though he also raised $8
million from the likes of Miami
Dolphins owner Steve Ross, the
talent business Creative Artists
Agency and media giant Hearst.
But there’s plenty of turbulence
ahead. Similarly promising quasiathletic leagues have crashed and
burned before. Take professional
paintball, which seemed like a
surefire winner at its peak in
NICK UT/AP
Drones sit ready in March prior to races held by the Drone Racing
League at a vacant mall in Hawthorne, Calif. In drone racing, a crash
means bits of plastic go flying, a replacement is grabbed, and no
harm done.
2005. A sport in which combatants shoot at one another across
an obstacle-strewn field promised a built-in audience of gun enthusiasts and video-gamers.
Paintball thrived for several
years, airing its own show on
ESPN3 and drawing sponsors
like Budweiser, Monster energy drinks and the U.S. Army.
Then manufacturers of paintball
equipment consolidated and cut
back on ad spending. Interest in
the sport dwindled, and its main
league folded in 2014.
Further complicating things,
multiple drone-racing leagues
are vying for attention. Horbaczewski’s major competition is
the International Drone Racing
Association, which last month
announced it’ll have a special
on ESPN3 in the fall. There are
a handful of other big leagues
around the world, and grass-roots
races pop up all the time.
The hodgepodge of organiza-
tions has bewildered would-be
sponsors, frustrating some who
found the experience of backing
a race a sinkhole for time and
money. Multirotor Superstore, a
Santa Cruz, Calif.-based online
retailer of drone parts, already
sponsors pilots like Loo with discounts and access to new gear at
grassroots events.
But owner Michael Silviera
said he spent $20,000 sponsoring
the IDRA’s U.S. National Drone
Racing Championships last year,
to disappointing results. His company’s logos weren’t displayed as
agreed at an after-party he helped
pay for, he said. That would have
stung more had promised crowds
actually turned up for the event.
Attendance was less than 100,
although he’d been told to expect
10,000 fans.
“That hurt quite a bit,” Silviera
said. “Now we’re a little hesitant
about doing things.”
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Travel vision
BY BRIAN FUNG
The Washington Post
W
hen will the Hyperloop
become an actual thing?
That’s the question on everyone’s mind after Hyperloop One successfully used an electric
motor to push a sled down a test track at
speeds of over 100 miles an hour. The May
18 demo lasted just seconds, in a taste of
what’s to come if engineers can get the
whole thing built. Hyperloop One’s chief
executive, Rob Lloyd, estimates his company will start serving passengers in
2021, but it could be even longer than that.
Here’s why.
If you’re not familiar with the Hyperloop, it’s a high-speed transportation
concept initially devised by Elon Musk,
essentially a maglev train housed inside
a near-vacuum tube. The lack of an atmosphere reduces drag and theoretically will
enable passengers to zip along at airlinerlike speeds.
This month’s test didn’t involve the
tubes, and the sled was mounted
on rails that won’t be a part of
the final product. But it did
represent a first step toward a fully functioning model Hyperloop
One wants to try
out before year’s
Bibop Gresta, left, Hyperloop
Transportation Technologies’
operations chief, and CEO Dirk
Ahlborn stand in front of a model
of a Hyperloop capsule.
A NNE CUSACK , L OS A NGELES TIMES/TNS
end.
Even from that point, though, it’ll take a
much larger leap to reach the point where
humans get to ride in the contraption. The
challenges ahead can broadly be grouped
into two categories: technological, and political. Together, those challenges mean it
could be years before anyone will be crisscrossing the country in little windowless
capsules.
Many of the technological problems have
to do with the frailty of the human body.
Acceleration, braking and banking all
subject you to g-forces that only intensify
the faster you go. Push beyond your limits,
and you could suffer a stroke or completely
black out. Actually solving those issues is
simply a matter of physics, and not really
all that hard. What makes them so thorny
is what the solutions would imply for
politics, which arguably pose the
Hyper-
Hyperloop technology works,
but political hurdles remain
loop’s biggest challenge.
You see, in order to avoid putting undue
g-forces on passengers, the Hyperloop has
to travel in a straight line. It can’t really
make turns, and when it does, the turns
would have to be very gradual.
“When you’re going 600 miles per hour,
you can’t really go around curves, and
you’d have to be very flat,” James Powell,
a physicist who helped invent the superconducting maglev train, told Livescience
in 2013.
That means in order to get anywhere
efficiently, the Hyperloop might have to
cut across lots of different people’s land.
Musk’s original proposal budgeted $1 billion for acquiring permits and land rights.
And, he said, the Hyperloop will require
less access to land than high-speed rail,
because the pylons that support the
Hyperloop’s elevated
track
are
“com-
parable to a tree or telephone pole.”
It’s possible, even, that the Hyperloop
could fit within the median of a major
highway. Building it there would reduce
the cost of having to buy private land, but it
would increase the need to get something
called rights-of-way — essentially, government permission to build infrastructure
on public land.
That could amount to a very big, very
complicated knot of policy and regulation.
It’s a bit like the problem facing Google
Fiber, which carefully selects which cities to go into based on the costs of acquiring rights-of-way. But the Hyperloop can’t
pick-and-choose quite so easily; it has to go
with the straightest, most direct route possible between cities.
What if some town refuses to let the
Hyperloop through? Does it have to go
around? If so, the train would have to slow
way down to make the turn, or else the
turn would have to start incredibly early
— potentially requiring the Hyperloop to
deviate from its intended path, calling for
even more land acquisition or adjacent
permits.
In this respect, the Hyperloop faces even greater constraints than high-speed
rail projects.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Retired priest says he
didn’t expose himself
GREEN BAY — A reWI
tired priest has pleaded not guilty to allegations that
exposed himself to a minor in
Brown County.
During an appearance in court
Monday, the Rev. Richard Thomas, 78, pleaded not guilty to four
counts of exposing himself.
WLUK-TV reported that the
Catholic Diocese of Green Bay
has restricted Thomas from any
public ministry.
Thomas was living in Grellinger Hall, a home for retired
priests in Allouez. He’s accused
of exposing himself four times in
March to a 16-year-old boy who
was walking to school.
The complaint says Thomas
told investigators he is seeking
treatment.
THE CENSUS
The number of consecutive days a Massachusetts man has run since making a resolution on Jan. 1, 1989, to run every
day. Saugus resident Lenworth “Kip” Williamson, 57, a General Electric Co. engineering manager, told The Daily Item, of Lynn,
that he remembers reading at the time that if you can do something for 21 days, it becomes a habit. He said 1989 was a mild
winter, which helped him as he is strictly an outdoor runner. Williamson sticks to the streets regardless of the weather and puts
in a minimum of 3 miles a day. At least once a week, he puts in a 6- to 8-mile run. He said as long as his legs work, he will continue running.
10K
Man won’t fight charges
he stole from elk ranch
TWIN FALLS — A forID
mer employee of a Twin
Falls elk ranch has agreed to a
plea deal on charges that he stole
from ranch owners.
The Times-News reported
that Brandon Eldredge, 31, was
charged with stealing elk semen
from the Early Morning Elk
Ranch in 2011 and selling it to another ranch for $3,000.
Eldredge entered an Alford plea
to felony grand theft on Tuesday,
meaning he did not admit to committing the crime but conceded
that he would likely be found
guilty if the case went to trial.
According to the plea agreement, Eldredge will receive a
suspended sentence of two to five
years in prison and be placed
under supervised probation for
two years. He has also agreed to
pay back the Early Morning Elk
Ranch.
AUSTIN BACHAND, (H ARRISONBURG, VA .) DAILY NEWS -RECORD/AP
Hospital welcomes
Mickey, a falcon chick
Trying it on for size
EAST MEADOW — A
NY
Long Island hospital
has helped with the birth of doz-
Ceci Nester, 4, of Staunton, Va., wears a firemen’s hat given to her by volunteer firefighter Shawn Rhodes, of the Bridgewater Volunteer
Fire Co., while looking at the inside of a firetruck during Safety Day at the Green Valley Book Fair in Mount Crawford, Va., on Saturday.
ens of babies since 1997, but these
little ones aren’t human.
Nassau University Medical
Center is celebrating the arrival of Mickey, a falcon chick
that hatched on a 17th-story
window ledge. Hospital officials
call the parents Mr. and Mrs.
Meadowbrook.
On Monday, a biologist determined that the Meadowbrooks
have an “only child.” Four other
eggs failed to hatch and will be
analyzed. The current theory is
that chilly spring weather was to
blame.
The biologist put a band on
Mickey so the state Department
of Environmental Conservation
can track him when he starts flying in about a month.
ternoon lightning strike.
LDS Church spokesman Eric
Hawkins confirmed the strike.
Spires topped with sculptures
depicting the angel Moroni with
a trumpet are a signature of
temples built by The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
around the world.
Most are constructed of fiberglass covered in gold leaf.
Lightning damages gold
statue on top of temple
SALT LAKE CITY
UT
— Lightning struck the
angel Moroni statue on top of the
Mormon temple in Bountiful.
The Deseret News reported
that the gold statue lost part of its
head and back in the Sunday af-
Owner of 181-year-old
bar disallows smoking
LAFAYETTE — The
owner of a 181-year-old
bar in Lafayette says smoking
will no longer be allowed.
Knickerbocker Saloon owner
Jeff Hamann told WLFI-TV that
he made the decision after his
mother died from smoking complications. He said some smokers were disappointed but others
seemed to understand when he
made the decision. He said they
told him “it’s the wave of the future; it’s the way the world is.”
Hamann said people can smoke
on the bar’s patio. He hopes he
IN
doesn’t lose any customers.
The bar’s general manager,
Deborah Walstra, said she’s seen
new people coming in who avoided Knickerbocker Saloon before
because of the smoke.
Police: Suspect wrecks
car; passenger killed
SHREVEPORT — PoLA
lice in Louisiana said a
burglary suspect who was being
chased by his victim ended up
wrecking his car and killing a female passenger.
News outlets reported that
Shreveport police received a call
Sunday morning from a man who
saw someone breaking into his
car in a casino parking lot.
The vehicle owner told police
he saw the suspect stealing items
and loading them into a truck.
The suspect drove off, and the vehicle owner followed him.
Police said the suspect lost control of his vehicle, which crashed
and caught fire. The suspect,
Christian Smith, 21, of Shreveport, was injured, and a female
passenger was killed. Her name
has not been released.
Smith faces aggravated burglary charges, and additional
charges are pending.
Baby deer rescued with
help of police officers
HARTFORD — Police
in Connecticut have
gone to the rescue of a baby deer
whose mother died.
Hartford police said a resident
told them she
found
the
fawn on the
highway Sunday next to its
mother, which
had died after
being hit by a
car. The resident brought
the fawn to the
front door of
the Hartford Police Department.
Images of the encounter show
the fawn curled up in the back
of a squad car and being held by
officers.
Police said they turned the
CT
deer over to the state’s environmental department, which took it
to a rescue farm.
Gaggle of young geese
escorted off interstate
OAKLAND — CaliforCA
nia Highway Patrol officers said they recently led “the
world’s slowest pursuit” on Interstate 80 near Oakland.
Officer Sean Wilkenfeld told the
San Francisco Chronicle that officers were responding to a Sunday
call about “felonious fowl” — that
is, a flock of baby geese that had
wandered onto the left lane of the
freeway.
Wilkenfeld said officers stopped
traffic and were able to corral the
geese to the right shoulder. From
there, they escorted the flock to
an exit at a comfortable waddling
speed.
He said drivers shouldn’t
hesitate to call 911 if there are
animals on the highway because
they can cause a traffic hazard
when people swerve to avoid hitting them.
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‘Pink Panther’ actor
Kwouk dies at 85
X-WOMEN
take the lead
Female protagonists central to ‘Apocalypse’
BY JOHN A NDERSON
Newsday
P
ardon our political correctness, but
shouldn’t “X-Men: Apocalypse” really be
“X-Persons: Apocalypse”?
“X-People,” corrected Alexandra Shipp
(“Straight Outta Compton”), who plays Ororo
Munroe/Storm, the younger version of the character previously played by Halle Berry. “I love it.”
After 16 years of a hugely successful, surprisingly intelligent, action-packed mutant franchise
— one that has featured among its cast members
Berry, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romjin, Famke
Janssen, Olivia Williams, Ellen Page, Rose Byrne
and, of course, Jennifer Lawrence — couldn’t there
be a little accommodation in the title?
Ah, well, branding is branding, and you can’t
mess with Google searches. So “X-Men” it is. And
it is the boys, after all, who are causing the trouble
— again. Awakened after several dormant millennia, a self-proclaimed god/mutant named Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) decides that mankind, circa
1983, deserves to be destroyed. Magneto (Michael
Fassbender), always looking for a problem, allies
himself with Apocalypse. Professor Xavier (James
McAvoy), namesake of the X-Men, is engaged in a
fight for the future of the planet. The game, as they
say, is afoot.
Yet despite all the super mutant testosterone at
work, it’s the women X-ers who seem key to this
film. “Apocalypse” marks director Bryan Singer’s
fourth trip to X-Ville and the third in which the storyline has flashed back, as it first did in “X-Men:
First Class,” thus enabling younger actors — Lawrence, for instance, who stepped into the Raven/
Mystique role originated by Romjin — to join the
X-party.
Alongside Lawrence are Olivia Munn, who has
taken over the Betsy Braddock/Psylocke role (Meiling Melancon played her, once, in “Last Stand”);
Sophie Turner, who inhabits the Jean Grey/Phoenix character once played by Janssen; and Shipp
as Storm, the role that once turned Berry moody
and blue.
“It was hugely scary,” said Shipp, 24, about stepping into a role so identified with another actress.
“The way Halle played Storm, she was always so
controlled and poised and knew exactly what she
was doing. I wanted to find out where that came
from. I know what I was like when I was 16, I was a
know-it-all and so sure of myself, and I bring some
of that to Storm.”
She compared “X-Men: Apocalypse,” in some
ways to “Survivor,” in that everyone has an important role in the plot twists and the outcomes. “It’s
really that everyone is essential,” she said, while
agreeing that there is a surfeit of strong women in
the kind of a movie — a Marvel movie — where
you don’t always find them.
Shipp, who has been romantically linked to
co-star McAvoy, is a singer-songwriter and actress with a variety of credits and as such is just
one of the multi-talents emerging on the X train.
Turner, an English actress and veteran of “Game
of Thrones,” will be playing novelist Mary Shelley
in the upcoming biopic “Mary Shelley’s Monster.”
Lawrence, of course, seems to blithely hop back
and forth between devoting her Oscar-winning
gifts to art-indie fare like “Joy” and mega-billion
franchises like “The Hunger Games.” Munn, a
correspondent on “The Daily Show” from 201011, seems to be the real fan among the “X-Men”
cast, and a defender of her character’s place in the
pantheon.
“Have you read the comic books?” she asked.
“The films are the choices of people in Hollywood
and the studios and what stories they’ll do, and
what they’ll pull out. But the comic book Psylocke
has always been my favorite. She’s a really strong
character. For fans who love the comic books, she’s
always been important.”
Psylocke, who becomes one of the mutant “four
horsemen” who align themselves with Apocalypse,
required a lot of physical investment on Munn’s
part. “It was definitely very exciting to see how far
I could push myself,” she said. “I always thought I
was in good shape, and then I started training for
this movie and realized how out of shape I was.”
It was good, Munn said, not having had “a big
movie star who played my character before, like
Famke Janssen, or Halle Berry, or James Marsden — there’s a lot of big stars who’ve put their imprint on the characters. So that was one advantage
I had. But I’ve been a fan since I was a little kid,
so in bringing Psylocke to the screen there were
other pressures — knowing how unusual she is,
and wanting to do her justice, and being a fan. How
do I see her? How do other fans see her? I had to
work through that.”
And the importance of the women to “X-Men:
Apocalypse,” she said, should not be underestimated. “It’s important to realize the power that the
women hold in this movie, and how great it is,” she
said. “And how much damage it can cause.”
Top: Alexandra Shipp (left) plays Ororo Munroe/Storm; Jennifer Lawrence is Raven/Mystique; Sophie
Turner is Jean Grey/Phoenix; and Olivia Munn is Betsy Braddock/Psylocke in “X-Men: Apocalypse.”
Twentieth Century Fox photos
‘X-Men’ sequels
keep mutating
Like a lot of series, “X-Men” likes
to tease us with titles — “X-Men: The
Last Stand,” released in the ancient
year of 2006, sounded like a summing-up, and yet was followed by four
more installments, counting the sequel
to come. “X-Men: Apocalypse,” too,
hints at some kind of finale. But as
long as the franchise’s tales of superpowered mutants continue to do the
kind of business that 2014’s “Days of
Future Past” did ($748 million worldwide, according to boxofficemojo.
com), it will keep going. The following
(not counting “Wolverine” and “Deadpool”) is where it’s been:
“X-Men” 2000
We forget, but director
Bryan Singer won Sundance
festival awards before joining
the world of superheroes.
Singer’s initial “X-Men” effort
features Wolverine (Hugh
Jackman) and Rogue (Anna
Paquin) joining Professor
Xavier (Patrick Stewart)
and his academy against
Magneto and his Brotherhood
of Mutants.
“X-Men 2” 2003
This one is by Singer again,
with Col. William Stryker
(Bryan Cox) brainwashing
Xavier into revealing the
whereabouts of all mutants
so they can be killed.
“X-Men: The Last
Stand” 2006
Hardly. With Singer off to do
“Superman Returns,” Brett
Ratner was hired to make
this one, about a cure for
mutants and outrage among
some.
“X-Men: First Class”
2011
Flashback: It’s 1962,
Xavier is played by James
McAvoy and the mutants are
recruited to help the U.S.
government defeat a crazed
dictator intent on starting
World War III. Director
Matthew Vaughn’s film has
Jennifer Lawrence joining the
crew as Raven/Mystique, and
Michael Fassbender as Erik
Lensherr, aka Magneto.
“X-Men: Days of
Future Past” 2014
Dare we say the best of
the bunch? Featuring the
entirety of extant X-Men
cast members plus the
Nixon administration, this
story involves Wolverine
going back in time to thwart
an assassination and save
mankind. And Singer is back
in the saddle.
SOURCE: Newsday
Burt Kwouk, who played martial arts expert Cato in the comic
“Pink Panther” films, died on
Tuesday at age 85. No cause of
death was given.
Born in northwest England
and raised in Shanghai, Kwouk
had his breakthrough film role in
“The Inn of the Sixth Happiness”
in 1958, and appeared in the
James Bond films “Goldfinger”
and “You Only Live Twice.”
In 1964, Blake Edwards cast
him in “A Shot in the Dark,” a
comedy centered on Peter Sellers’ bumbling Inspector Clouseau. Kwouk appeared in half a
dozen more “Pink Panther” movies as Cato Fong, a manservant
whose job was to attack Clouseau
when he least expected it.
Johnny Depp’s daughter
face of Chanel scent
Chanel has tapped Johnny
Depp’s 16-year-old daughter,
Lily-Rose, to represent a new
perfume.
Lily-Rose
Depp
announced the
news on Instagram alongside a picture
of her kissing a bottle of
Chanel No. 5
L’Eau. Chanel Lily-Rose Depp
also made an
announcement on Instagram.
Depp’s mother is model Vanessa Paradis.
The teen plays pioneering
American dancer Isadora Duncan in “The Dancer,” which
screened last week at the Cannes
Film Festival in France.
Tragically Hip’s Downie
diagnosed with cancer
Canadian rootsy rock band
The Tragically Hip announced
Tuesday that its lead singer, Gord
Downie, has been diagnosed with
terminal brain cancer.
In postings on its website and
Facebook page, the band said the
52-year-old Downie, a father of
four, was diagnosed with the condition in December. Despite the
diagnosis, it said, Downie and the
band plan to tour this summer.
Other news
Helen Mirren’s latest role is
audio only. The award-winning
British actress is narrating the
recently rediscovered Beatrix
Potter story “The Tale of KittyIn-Boots,” Penguin Random
House told The Associated Press
on Tuesday. The hardcover and
audio editions are scheduled for a
Sept. 6 release.
One of the stars of the reality TV show “Pawn Stars” told
a judge on Monday he’s taking a
plea deal that would spare him
jail time in a case stemming from
the discovery of guns, marijuana
and other drugs at his Las Vegas
home. Austin Lee Russell, who is
known as “Chumlee” to viewers,
said he’ll plead guilty to a felony
weapon charge and a misdemeanor attempted drug possession count in an agreement that
will get him counseling and three
years’ probation.
From The Associated Press
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Facebook alters trending topics feature
BY RYAN NAKASHIMA
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Facebook
says it is dropping its reliance on
news outlets to help determine
what gets posted as a “trending
topic” on the giant social network,
a move adopted after a backlash
over a report saying it suppressed
conservative views.
Facebook’s general counsel,
Colin Stretch, outlined the change
in a 12-page letter sent Monday to
Republican Sen. John Thune, RS.D., chairman of the Commerce
Committee, which oversees the Internet and consumer protections.
The move comes less than a
week after Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg met with Glenn Beck
and more than a dozen other conservative commentators to address concerns stemming from a
report in the tech blog Gizmodo.
The Gizmodo report, which relied
on a single anonymous former
Facebook worker with self-described conservative leanings,
claimed that Facebook downplays
conservative news subjects on its
trending feature.
As part of the changes outlined
Monday, Facebook will stop looking to news outlets like The Wall
Street
Journal, Huffington Post and
By not
DrudgeReport
relying
to automation any
cally nominate
topics for its
specific
trending feanews
ture. It also
outlets,
automatically
Facebook nominates topics based on a
returns to spike in user
its neutral posts about a
subject.
roots.
“In
our
Brent Bozell meetings last
Media Research week, we reCenter president ceived feedback that any
list — even a
good one — inherently raises questions of which publications are
included versus which are not,”
‘
’
said Facebook spokeswoman Jodi
Seth. “Based on this feedback, we
felt that the best approach would
be to clear up this issue by removing these lists entirely and focus
on surfacing the conversation on
Facebook.”
Trending topics are seen on the
right side of the screen on computers or after tapping on the search
bar when using a mobile app.
As part of its review, Facebook
found that members of the team
working on trending topics could
temporarily suppress topics if
news outlets weren’t reporting on
them enough.
But the company said it found
no evidence of systemic political
bias, although it couldn’t discount
that a lone wolf might be able to
game its system.
“It is impossible to fully exclude
the possibility that over the years
of the feature’s existence, a specific reviewer took isolated actions
with an improper motive,” it said.
Thune said in a statement that
he found Facebook’s response “encouraging,” although it revealed
that its trending topics feature
“relied on human judgment — not
just an automated process — more
than previously acknowledged.”
Brent Bozell, the president of
the conservative Media Research
Center, who attended last week’s
meeting, applauded the change.
“Facebook was relying on a preponderance of liberal and leftist
‘news’ organs. By not relying on
any specific news outlets, Facebook returns to its neutral roots,”
he said in a statement.
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South Korea (Won) ..........................1,188.63
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9925
Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 35.74
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.9467
(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 ............................................. 0.34
30-year bond ........................................... 2.62
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WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Sanders won’t be fooled again by democracy
BY FRANCIS WILKINSON
Bloomberg View
A
merican socialism is not for the
impatient. From the early 19th
century on, a parade of reformers, unionists, utopians, anarchists, syndicalists, socialists, communists,
pranksters and malcontents has sought to
pick the lock of American capitalism and
free the oppressed.
Wall Street, the Vatican of capital, was
a source of grievance, and a bloody target
of terrorists, at least as far back as 1920.
Mass deprivation in the 1930s and youthful radicalism in the 1960s each took their
best shot at revolution. In between, beatniks and professors scoffed at the herd
instincts of mass consumers and the false
consciousness of the perpetually striving.
Bernie Sanders, 74, has waited a long
time for his moment. In this, he is representative of his creed. He has applied his
socialism to a begrudging soil and tilled
away, determined to get back to the garden. He has never given up. And his side
has never won.
It’s understandable that he is reluctant
to cede the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton. Whether his presidential campaign began with a prescient insight or a
lucky roll of the dice, his success has been
extraordinary. In a 2015 Gallup poll, more
Americans said they would vote for a Muslim or an atheist for president than for a socialist. Sanders has done remarkably well
swimming against the tide, all the while
claiming he’s rolling with it.
Clinton has collected 2.9 million more
votes than Sanders. When the last primaries end on June 7, she will almost certainly be headed to the Democratic National
Convention with a bigger lead over Sanders than Barack Obama had over Clinton
when Democrats nominated him in 2008.
Do you remember how Clinton dominated the 2008 convention? How she reorganized the party in her image? I don’t either.
Sanders has done remarkably well swimming against
the tide, all the while claiming he’s rolling with it.
It was Obama’s show. Because the way the
system works is that if you win more votes,
and more delegates, as Clinton has on both
counts in 2016, you win the nomination.
And if you win the nomination, you get to
lead the party and its convention.
Ah, the system.
The trouble, from Sanders’ perspective,
is that the system is corrupt, and so is the
party that operates within it. In late April,
Sanders posed the big question that has
animated his campaign, as quoted by the
New York Times:
“ ‘The Democratic Party has to reach
a fundamental conclusion: Are we on the
side of working people or big-money interests?’ ” Mr. Sanders asked the crowd. ‘Do
we stand with the elderly, the children, the
sick and the poor? Or do we stand with Wall
Street speculators and the drug companies
and the insurance companies?’ ”
Over the course of 2016, Democratic
voters answered Sanders. In voting for
Clinton, they opted to stand with those in
need of health care and education and opportunity, but to do so in a way that doesn’t
destroy Wall Street or drug companies or
insurance companies.
Sanders doesn’t like the answer. He
wants revolution, not gradual progress; purity, not a compromise that straddles and
mediates opposing interests. He and his
supporters have attacked the results of the
Democratic primaries as rigged, resorting
to the kind of logic — and, in Nevada, conduct — that recalls some of socialism’s less
gentle antecedents.
As Jaime Fuller wrote on MTC.com:
“Sanders voters have also been selectively frustrated about the many confusing primary rules. They have not railed
against caucuses, which tend to feature
extremely low turnout and are so long that
many people with inflexible work hours
or busy lives are unable to take part. Of
course, Sanders has done exceedingly well
in caucuses. Using ‘rigged’ is a political act
as much as the politics the phrase seeks to
call out.”
Of course, when the system is corrupt,
you are not obligated to honor its rules.
And when your opponent is morally compromised and doctrinally wrong, you have
a duty to prevent her from gaining power
at the expense of your more perfect, farreaching vision. Or you do if you value socialism more than you trust democracy.
Sanders has taken pains to stress that
he is a Democratic Socialist, distinguishing himself from the unsavory henchmen
of Moscow and Beijing. His primary campaign has been unhindered by the kind of
red-baiting that would envelop, and overwhelm, him in a general election, when his
youthful associations with less democratic
strains of socialism would become a staple
of Republican advertising.
It’s likely that in a general election, the
agents of capitalism would indeed join
forces to crush Sanders. His campaign,
which has sparked a fire but not a revolution, would be exposed as just the latest socialist mirage on the American landscape.
In the Democratic primary, Sanders has
been spared all that. He hasn’t won. But
he hasn’t completely lost, either. He’s just
been required, once again, to wait. It’s not
capitalism, however, that has deferred his
dream of socialism with American characteristics. It’s democracy.
Francis Wilkinson writes on politics and domestic
policy for Bloomberg View.
A Trump presidency could be bad for Bergdahl
BY JOHN M. CRISP
Tribune News Service
W
hat seemed impossible only a
few months ago now seems at
least feasible: Donald Trump
could become the next president of the United States.
Who has the most to fear from a Trump
presidency? Muslims? Mexicans? Women?
The disabled? The poor? What Trump really thinks about these groups is elusive,
but at one point or another during the campaign for the nomination, he has treated all
of them with dismissive contempt, exclusionary condescension and ridicule.
But large groups of people are abstractions, easy to attack from a podium at a
rally full of fired-up supporters. Do individuals have anything to fear from a
Trump presidency?
How about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl? Last
week his trial was rescheduled from August to Feb. 6, when he will face charges
of desertion and misbehavior before the
enemy, a crime that bears the potential
penalty of life in prison.
By February, we’ll have a new commander in chief, probably either Hillary
Clinton or Donald Trump. What does that
mean for Bowe Bergdahl?
By way of review: Bergdahl was on duty
with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan in 2009
when he wandered away from his post
and was captured by the Taliban. He was
held for five years in harsh conditions and
was occasionally tortured. Time was run-
ning out for a sick and exhausted Bergdahl
when he was repatriated in exchange for
five Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
The prisoner swap was controversial,
and President Barack Obama took a lot of
predictable heat from the right. But I argued in its defense at the time — and still
do. The circumstances of Bergdahl’s absence from his post in Afghanistan were
unknown, and no commander in chief
should leave an American soldier to his fate
in enemy hands without the opportunity to
defend himself against any allegations.
Further, I argued for leniency for Bergdahl — and still do. He volunteered to
serve his country out of patriotism, but
without enough self-awareness to realize
that he wasn’t suited for military life. After
26 days of basic training the Coast Guard
rejected him for psychological reasons.
Nevertheless the Army, in need of troops,
inducted him under a special waiver that
ignored evidence of his mental instability.
And then the Army sent him into a poorly managed war that, by 2009, America
had mostly lost interest in. He was put into
combat and subjected to mental stresses
that he was ill-equipped to handle.
Should any soldier be permitted to leave
his post with impunity? No. But life in prison? That’s way too harsh.
So Bergdahl will go on trial in February. One potential commander in chief,
Clinton, defended the prisoner swap. She
said, “This young man, whatever the circumstances, was an American citizen — is
an American citizen — was serving in our
military. The idea that you really care for
your own citizens and particularly those in
uniform, I think is a very noble one.”
On the other hand, if Trump wins, here’s
the attitude that he brings to the job of
commander in chief: “We’re tired of Sgt.
Bergdahl, who’s a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed. Thirty
years ago he would have been shot.”
These are two very different attitudes.
Of course, it’s worth noting that Trump,
a scion of the rich and powerful, never
served in combat or even in the military,
and that he managed to avoid the Vietnam
War draft with four student deferments
and questionable recourse to a medical
disqualification for bone spurs in his foot.
Yet he doesn’t hesitate to criticize Sen.
John McCain, who spent more than five
honorable years in the Hanoi Hilton: McCain is “a war hero because he got captured.
I like people who weren’t captured.”
I suspect that showing McCain a little
respect or showing Bergdahl a little compassion will not destroy our nation’s military discipline, and it might assure other
patriotic volunteers that they won’t be left
behind or sent to prison for life if they are
unable to stand up to the stresses of combat. This is something that Trump, commander in chief or not, will never be able
to understand.
John M. Crisp, an op-ed columnist for Tribune
News Service, teaches in the English Department
at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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At NRA, Trump sticks with ‘spray and pray’
BY DAN K. THOMASSON
Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON
bout the same time Donald Trump
was brandishing his newly found
credentials as a key defender of
the right to bear arms by aiming a barrage of verbal bullets at Hillary
Clinton at the National Rifle Association’s
annual celebration, a man was waving
the real thing at a security point near the
White House.
For his trouble, Trump hopes to win millions of votes.
For his trouble, the man who refused to
drop his weapon won a bullet in the chest
from the Secret Service and perhaps a
chance to survive.
Somehow, the two separate events seem
fittingly connected, or at least intertwined
in the irresponsibility that rages in this
country’s love affair with deadly weapons.
Trump comes newly to his position on
guns, having shortly after the Sandy Hook
Elementary School shooting praised President Barack Obama’s efforts to put new
restrictions on the sale of guns. But politicians change their minds, particularly
when there is an opportunity to lambaste
an opponent over one of the touchiest issues in American culture and to stretch
the truth more than a little and receive
huzzas for it.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee sighted in on Clinton’s stated
intention to expand background checks
of prospective gun owners and to close
loopholes that allow gun show trading
with no checks at all. What Clinton really
is aiming at is the abolition of the Second
Amendment, he charged, an act that would
leave average, law-abiding Americans defenseless in an increasingly violent soci-
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ety. How’s that for buying into your host’s
(the NRA’s) line without reservation and
receiving thunderous (or should we make
that hysterical) applause for it?
First of all, Clinton is not so foolish as to
tweak the snout of firearms lovers by suggesting anything as radical as destroying
the Constitution’s stated privilege of gun
ownership, no matter how desirable that
may seem, especially so after one of those
sensational mass murders that comes so
frequently now. One may not like Clinton,
the expected Democratic candidate, for
a variety of reasons. But she is not stupid
about the power of the NRA and other
shills for firearms manufacturers.
The one thing that Trump said that is
certainly accurate is that the NRA is the
most powerful lobby in the nation. That
is so because those who oppose it have no
comparable dedicated voice, and because
of that, politicians are scared to death of
it, even those who understand how wrongheaded and dangerous the group’s policies
are. Trump wasn’t the only politician or
prospective officeholder to humble himself
at the lobby’s yearly gathering, pledging
fealty and genuflecting to those who would
give up their weapons only after they were
pried from their cold, dead hands, as Charlton Heston, the movie star who was one of
the NRA’s more colorful presidents, once
famously said.
Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana,
who has a history of embarrassing his state
but wants a second term and once thought
about running for president, swore his allegiance to the lords of gunpowder as a
“card-carrying member of the NRA.”
He bragged to the Louisville, Ky., crowd
that Indiana allows freedom-loving Hoosiers to carry concealed weapons in the
100-year-old state park system. Now that’s
something to be proud of! It’s that kind of
insensitivity that cost him his higher aspirations but should provide for an easy
re-entry into local talk radio if he needs
it. Listeners abound who favor that sort of
Genghis Khan palaver.
Much of Trump’s contention that “Heartless Hillary” would disarm Americans
in high-crime neighborhoods, “whether
it’s a young, single mom in Florida or a
grandmother in Ohio” is, of course, just
eyewash. When was the last time such a
woman pulled out a 9 millimeter and blew
away the bad guy? That certainly applies to
grandmothers in Ohio, bless them.
The crowd that watched the drama at the
security point near the White House was
sizable. In an age where packing heat has
become as common as reports of the latest
shootings, it’s probably a fact that someone
was carrying. But as usual in these cases,
no civilian acted. It’s probably a good
thing.
What is disturbing in this year of political turmoil is that single-minded, one-issue
voters are likely to ignore what’s really important in this election — experience and
sanity, for instance.
Dan K. Thomasson is an op-ed columnist for
Tribune News Service and a former vice president
of Scripps Howard Newspapers.
The Donald’s Republican coalition of the unwilling
BY M ARGARET CARLSON
Bloomberg View
O
h, how the mighty are falling in line, if not in love. The
most stalwart Donald Trump
deniers among establishment
Republicans are clambering to get on
board. Support is a depreciating asset:
Wait until the train leaves the station at the
Cleveland convention and you’ll get little
for swallowing your pride, abandoning
your conscience and stifling your fears.
A corollary of that is that the higherplaced the opponent, the more valuable the
capitulation. That’s why South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham getting with the program over the weekend is so important. It’s
part of bringing a divided party back together. Without that, it is hard to win. What
should worry Hillary Clinton are new polls
showing that Trump is within three points
of her. More worrying for her is the speed
at which the Republicans are coming together. In an NBC-WSJ poll, Trump is
winning among Republicans over Clinton
86 percent to 6 percent, up from 72 percent
to 13 percent a month ago.
Complete capitulation by Graham is
unlikely but acceptance of Trump by the
most outspoken Never-Trump senator is
a notable step toward a united convention
in July. You may remember that Trump
lashed out at Graham by giving out his private cellphone number, and that Graham
responded by destroying said phone in
front of TV cameras.
Throughout the campaign, as a conservative in good standing, Graham’s biting criticisms carried weight. He called Trump a
“race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot”
in December. A few weeks later, in January, Graham said he would support neither Trump nor Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — a
choice he said was like deciding whether
to be “shot or poisoned.” By March, when
it looked as if nothing was working to stop
Trump, he threw his weight behind Cruz.
Apparently, given the choice, he did prefer
one kind of death over another.
Graham’s desperate move to Cruz didn’t
work but he stood firm. Even as Trump
clinched the nomination, Graham wasn’t
having any part of it. As recently as the
beginning of this month, Graham said he
wouldn’t support his party’s presumptive
nominee. “I do not believe he is a reliable
Republican conservative nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to
serve as commander in chief,” Graham
said, adding that Trump had “conned” the
party.
Count Graham now in the conned column. A few moments on his new cellphone
with the Trumpster, and Graham wants to
let bygones be bygones. The shift started
Friday when Graham said on CNN that he
had a “cordial, pleasant” call from Trump
in which they talked about national security, the scariest of Trump’s governing
shortfalls and an area in which he needs
all the tutoring he can get. Graham can’t
abandon his past, vivid feelings about
Trump altogether and so he didn’t. “My
criticism has been wide and it’s been deep
but we did have a good conversation,” he
said. “He asked good questions.”
Hmmmmm. That’s not a lot to hang a
change of heart on but when you want to
come around, any fig leaf will do. The usually sober Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Bob Corker, softened
after Trump’s first speech on foreign affairs. Trump, who’d pronounced himself
his best adviser, did not garner good reviews, with most experts calling the speech
incoherent at best, but Corker said it was
“very thoughtful.” Sen. Kelly Ayotte, in a
tough re-election race in New Hampshire,
hedged her bets by making a distinction
without any meaning. She “supports” but
is not “endorsing” Trump. And so it goes.
True enough, Clinton will unite her side
when the primaries are over. But that
comes with an asterisk that Trump doesn’t
have to deal with. Trump had no one person among his 16 opponents for the nomination leading a movement.
Clinton has one such person, Sen. Bernie
Sanders, a figure who’s accrued a devoted
following among young people. A recent
ABC-Washington Post poll shows Clinton
is losing 20 percent of Sanders’ supporters.
Compare that to the 11 percent of Republicans who supported someone other than
Trump for the nomination. It’s not that the
20 percent isn’t going to show up for Clinton. They say they will show up to vote for
Trump.
There are holdouts — the Bush family,
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,
freshman Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, and
the hemming and hawing House Speaker
Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin — but there’s
pressure coming from peace-at-any-cost
Republican National Chairman Reince
Priebius to come around now.
Within 24 hours of his CNN appearance,
Graham’s inclination not to endorse Trump
had melted to the point where he was urging others in the party to do so. At a private
fundraiser in Florida, Graham urged Republicans to back Trump, saying that any
doubts they have should be erased by the
greater evil of having a Clinton back in the
White House.
Graham’s press secretary, Kevin Bishop, confirmed that the senator attended
a fundraiser in Florida on Saturday but
didn’t confirm the remarks, though attendees did so to CNN. Bishop said that Graham
is not supporting the third-party run some
conservatives are organizing, adding that
an explicit Graham endorsement wouldn’t
necessarily help Trump.
Count among other holdouts some major
donors, according to The New York Times,
including the very articulate investor Michael Vlock. Explaining his closed wallet, he said of Trump: “He’s an ignorant,
amoral, dishonest and manipulative, misogynistic, philandering, hyper-litigious,
isolationist, protectionist blowhard.”
Graham couldn’t have said it better — a
few weeks ago. As a moth is drawn to the
flame, politicians are drawn to power. For
his early and flattering remarks, Corker
has joined the short list of vice presidential possibilities. There will surely be more
to follow. Little Marco told a Miami radio
station that he’d always said he would support the Republican nominee, especially
given that the likely Democratic candidate
is Clinton. Lyin’ Ted is having a hard
time getting over, well, being called Lyin’
Ted among other things, and has not yet
folded.
But, every day and with greater speed,
there will be others who, short of falling in
love, will fall in line.
Margaret Carlson is a Bloomberg View columnist.
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Honda Accord (Executive)
2009
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4 door sedan
Automatic
201 PS
114,000 Kms (all Autobahn)
Black with black leather interior
Fully Loaded ( no GPS )
Summer & winter tires with rims
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Sunlight RV, T-57, 2014
$39500.00 Super cool RV for
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Like new. Only 6 meters long
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Kitchen, bathroom with shower,
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Nissan,
Skyline,
2007
$9500.00 Fun, sporty, reliable
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hard drive, power seats, dual air
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traction
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HONDA CIVIC LX COUPE 2006
(SOFA) $5800.00 Re-posting to
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From the first post many potential buyers preferred require
maintenance to be completed
prior to buying the vehicle. I
decided to complete all require
maintenance's assessed from
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the vehicle. Some maintenance's are already completed and
others are waiting on parts to be
delivered. I am the first and only
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and U.S. SPEC vehicle. Like
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to selling and adjusted the price
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$5800 USD. Require Maintenance assessed by Auto Shop:
Wheels and Tires ( Done: brand
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Alternator
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Caliper & Brake Pad ( Pending:
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Cadillac, Escalade Hybrid,
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Element,
2011
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Well maintained, regular oil
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2013
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sunroof, heated seats, leather
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Mercedes-Benz, C300 4MATIC
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Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
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Auto racing
Indy 500 lineup
IndyCar Series
After Sunday qualifying; race Sunday,
May 29
At Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses
1. (5) James Hinchcliffe, Honda,
02:36.0063, 230.760 mph.
2. (21) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet,
02:36.0470, 230.700.
3. (28) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda,
02:36.0821, 230.648.
4. (29) Townsend Bell, Honda,
02:36.1950, 230.481.
5.
(26)
Carlos
Munoz,
Honda,
02:36.3264, 230.287.
6.
(12)
Will
Power,
Chevrolet,
02:36.7471, 229.669.
7. (7) Mikhail Aleshin, Honda,
02:36.8205, 229.562.
8. (22) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet,
02:37.1096, 229.139.
9. (3) Helio Castroneves, Chevrolet,
02:37.1265, 229.115.
10. (77) Oriol Servia, Honda, 02:37.1638,
229.060.
11. (98) Alexander Rossi, Honda,
02:37.5679, 228.473.
12.
(14)
Takuma
Sato,
Honda,
02:37.8747, 228.029.
13. (9) Scott Dixon, Chevrolet,
02:37.9007, 227.991.
14. (27) Marco Andretti, Honda,
02:37.9161, 227.969.
15. (6) JR Hildebrand, Chevrolet,
02:37.9809, 227.876.
16. (42) Charlie Kimball, Chevrolet,
02:38.0180, 227.822.
17. (2) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,
02:38.1141, 227.684.
18. (10) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet,
02:38.2906, 227.430.
19. (11) Sebastien Bourdais, Chevrolet,
02:38.2919, 227.428.
20. (20) Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet,
02:38.4325, 227.226.
21. (19) Gabby Chaves, Honda,
02:38.4566, 227.192.
22. (8) Max Chilton, Chevrolet,
02:38.8100, 226.686.
23. (24) Sage Karam, Chevrolet,
02:38.9851, 226.436.
24. (18) Conor Daly, Honda, 02:39.0721,
226.312.
25. (63) Pippa Mann, Honda, 02:39.2877,
226.006.
26. (15) Graham Rahal, Honda,
02:39.4002, 225.847.
27. (61) Matt Brabham, Chevrolet,
02:39.4846, 225.727.
28. (88) Bryan Clauson, Honda,
02:39.8111, 225.266.
29. (16) Spencer Pigot, Honda,
02:40.1087, 224.847.
30. (25) Stefan Wilson, Chevrolet,
02:40.2833, 224.602.
31. (41) Jack Hawksworth, Honda,
02:40.2878, 224.596.
32. (4) Buddy Lazier, Chevrolet,
02:42.0498, 222.154.
33. (35) Alex Tagliani, Honda, No time
(No speed).
AP sportlight
May 25
1948 — Ben Hogan wins the PGA
championship, beating Mike Turnesa in
the final round, 7 and 6.
1965 — Muhammad Ali knocks out
Sonny Liston a minute into the first
round in the controversial rematch for
Ali’s heavyweight title. Listed as the
fastest knockout in a heavyweight title
bout, Liston goes down on a short righthand punch.
1975 — The Golden State Warriors become the third team to sweep the NBA
Finals, beating the Washington Bullets
96-95 on Butch Beard’s foul shot with 9
seconds remaining.
1978 — The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Game 6 for
their third straight Stanley Cup.
1980 — Johnny Rutherford wins his
third Indianapolis 500 in seven years and
becomes the first driver to win twice
from the pole position.
1987 — Herve Filion becomes the first
harness racing driver to win 10,000 races. Filion reaches the milestone driving
Commander Bond to victory in the third
race at Yonkers Raceway.
1991 — The Pittsburgh Penguins, led
by Mario Lemieux, win the Stanley Cup
for the first time with an 8-0 rout of the
Minnesota North Stars.
1998 — Princeton punctuates its claim
as one of college lacrosse’s great programs by beating Maryland 15-5 for its
third straight NCAA Division I title and
fifth in seven years.
2002 — Boston sets an NBA record,
overcoming a 21-point fourth-quarter
deficit in a 94-90 win over New Jersey.
The Celtics outscore the Nets 41-16 in
the quarter.
College baseball
Baseball America Top 25
DURHAM, N.C. — The top 25 teams in
the Baseball America poll through May
22 (selected by the staff of Baseball
America):
Record Prv
1. Texas A&M
41-13
2
2. Mississippi State
40-14
3
3. Miami
43-10
4
4. Florida
44-11
1
5. Texas Tech
40-14
5
6. Louisville
46-10
7
7. LSU
39-17
8
8. Virginia
36-18
9
9. South Carolina
42-13 10
10. Mississippi
40-16
6
11. Tulane
37-17 11
12. Vanderbilt
41-15 12
13. FAU
37-15 17
14. TCU
38-14 15
15. Clemson
38-18 23
16. N.C. State
34-18 19
17. Oklahoma State
35-18 20
18. Florida State
34-19 14
19. Coastal Carolina
40-15 22
20. Southern Miss.
36-18 13
21. Bryant
44-10 24
22. Long Beach State
35-18 25
23. Cal State Fullerton
33-19 18
24. Louisiana-Lafayette
37-19
—
25. Rice
32-20 16
Collegiate Baseball poll
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Collegiate Baseball poll with records through May 22.
Voting is done by coaches, sports writers and sports information directors:
Record Pts Prv
1. Mississippi State
40-14-1 492
5
2. Miami
43-10 491
2
3. Louisville
46-10 489
4
4. South Carolina
42-13 487
6
5. Texas A&M
41-13 485
3
6. Florida
44-11 482
1
7. Texas Tech
40-14 481
7
8. Virginia
36-18 478
9
9. LSU
39-17 477 11
10. Vanderbilt
41-15 474 10
11. Florida State
34-19 470
8
12. Oklahoma State
35-18 468 14
13. N.C. State
34-18 467 15
14. TCU
38-14 465 16
15. Washington
31-19 462 17
16. Mississippi
40-16 460 12
17. Tulane
37-17 457 13
18. Louisiana-Lafayette 37-19 456 22
19. Coastal Carolina
40-15 455 25
20. Cal State Fullerton
33-19 452 19
21. Arizona State
33-19 451 20
22. Long Beach State
35-18 448 —
23. FAU
37-15 446 —
24. Arizona
33-20 442 21
25. South Alabama
38-18 440 23
26. Kent State
41-12 437 28
27. Dallas Baptist
37-17 435 29
28. Clemson
38-18 432 30
29. Bryant
44-10 431 —
30. Nebraska
37-18 428 —
Monday’s scores
FAR WEST
Oregon 2, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 1
UC Santa Barbara 6, Gonzaga 5
TOURNAMENTS
NCAA Division II
East Region
S. New Hampshire 4, Franklin Pierce 3
Franklin Pierce 6, S. New Hampshire 3,
Franklin Pierce advances
Atlantic Region
Millersville 6, Mercyhurst 2, Millersville advances
South Region
Delta St. 3, Nova Southeastern 1
Nova Southeastern 3, Delta St. 1, Nova
SE advances
Southeast Region
Lander 5, S.C.-Aiken 3, Lander advances
Central Region
Cent. Missouri 7, Ark.-Monticello 4,
Cent. Missouri advances
Midwest Region
S. Indiana 10, Missouri S&T 5, S. Indiana advances
West Region
Cal Poly Pomona 7, Cal Baptist 6, CPP
advances
College lacrosse
NCAA Division I Tournament
Preliminary Round
Wednesday, May 11
Quinnipiac 14, Hartford 9
Towson 18, Hobart 5
First Round
Saturday, May 14
Brown 17, Johns Hopkins 8
Notre Dame 15, Air Force 7
North Carolina 10, Marquette 9
Loyola (Md.) 16, Duke 11
Sunday, May 15
Maryland 13, Quinnipiac 6
Syracuse 11, Albany (N.Y.) 9
Navy 13, Yale 10
Towson 10, Denver 9
Quarterfinals
Saturday, May 21
At Brown Stadium
Providence, R.I.
Maryland 13, Syracuse 7
Brown 11, Navy 10
Sunday, May 22
At Ohio Stadium
Columbus, Ohio
North Carolina 13, Notre Dame 9
Loyola (Md.) 10, Towson 8
At Lincoln Financial Field
Philadelphia
Semifinals
Saturday, May 28
Loyola (Md.) (14-3) vs. North Carolina
(10-6)
Brown (16-2) vs. Maryland (16-2)
Championship
Monday, May 30
Semifinal winners
College softball
Golf
NCAA Division I
Super Regionals
Super Regionals
(Best-of-three)
x-if necessary
Host school is home team for Game 1;
visiting school is home team for Game
2; coin flip determines home team for
Game 3
At Gainesville, Fla.
Thursday: Georgia (43-18) vs. Florida
(56-5)
Friday: Florida vs. Georgia
x-Friday: Georgia vs. Florida
At Tallahassee, Fla.
Friday: Utah (35-19) vs. Florida State
(51-8)
Saturday: Florida State vs. Utah
x-Saturday: Utah vs. Florida State
At Eugene, Ore.
Saturday: UCLA (38-13) vs. Oregon
(47-8)
Sunday: Oregon vs. UCLA
x-Sunday: UCLA vs. Oregon
At Auburn, Ala.
Saturday: Arizona (39-19) vs. Auburn
(52-9)
Sunday: Auburn vs. Arizona
x-Sunday: Arizona vs. Auburn
At Norman, Okla.
Thursday: Louisiana-Lafayette (46-7)
vs. Oklahoma (50-4)
Friday: Oklahoma vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
x-Friday: Louisiana-Lafayette vs. Oklahoma
At Tuscaloosa, Ala
Friday: Washington (39-13) vs. Alabama (49-12)
Saturday: Alabama vs. Washington
x-Saturday: Washington vs. Alabama
At Harrisonburg, Va.
Friday: LSU (48-15) vs. James Madison
(49-4)
Saturday: James Madison vs. LSU
x-Saturday: LSU vs. James Madison
At Ann Arbor, Mich.
Saturday: Missouri (42-14) vs. Michigan (49-5)
Sunday: Michigan vs. Missouri
x-Sunday: Missouri vs. Michigan
World Series
June 2-8
ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, Oklahoma
City
Pro soccer
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF
Philadelphia
5 3 3 18 15
New York City FC 4 4 5 17 18
Montreal
4 4 4 16 19
New York
5 7 1 16 21
Toronto FC
4 4 4 16 14
D.C. United
3 5 4 13 13
New England
2 4 7 13 17
Orlando City
3 3 5 14 19
Columbus
2 4 5 11 12
Chicago
2 5 4 10
9
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF
Colorado
8 2 3 27 16
FC Dallas
8 4 2 26 23
Vancouver
6 6 2 20 22
Los Angeles
5 1 5 20 25
San Jose
5 3 4 19 16
Real Salt Lake
6 3 2 20 17
Sporting KC
5 7 2 17 14
Seattle
4 6 1 13 10
Portland
4 6 3 15 21
Houston
3 6 2 11 18
Note: Three points for victory,
point for tie.
Sunday’s games
Portland 4, Vancouver 2
San Jose 1, Los Angeles 1
Wednesday’s games
Philadelphia at Orlando
Friday’s games
D.C. United at Sporting KC
Saturday’s games
Houston at Vancouver
Toronto FC at New York
Real Salt Lake at Columbus
Seattle at New England
Los Angeles at Montreal
Portland at Chicago
Philadelphia at Colorado
FC Dallas at San Jose
Sunday’s game
Orlando City at New York City FC
GA
11
24
18
20
12
14
24
17
15
13
GA
9
21
24
13
15
15
17
13
24
19
one
NWSL
W L T Pts GF GA
Washington
4 1 1 13
8 5
Chicago
4 1 1 13
6 4
Portland
3 0 3 12
9 4
Orlando
4 2 0 12
8 4
Western New York 3 3 0
9
8 8
Seattle
2 3 1
7
7 7
Houston
2 3 1
7
6 7
Sky Blue FC
2 3 1
7
7 10
Boston
1 5 0
3
1 7
FC Kansas City
0 4 2
2
2 6
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday, May 20
Orlando 1, Houston 0
Saturday, May 21
Western New York 5, Sky Blue FC 2
Portland 4, Washington 1
Sunday, May 22
Boston 1, FC Kansas City 0
Chicago 2, Seattle 1
Friday’s games
Boston at Western New York
Washington at Houston
Saturday’s game
Orlando at FC Kansas City
Sunday’s games
Seattle at Portland
Sky Blue FC at Chicago
Deals
PGA Tour statistics
Monday’s transactions
Through May 22
Scoring Average
1, Adam Scott, 69.731. 2, Phil Mickelson, 69.816. 3, Jason Day, 69.822. 4, Rory
McIlroy, 69.851. 5, Hideki Matsuyama,
69.888. 6, Jordan Spieth, 69.895. 7, Dustin
Johnson, 69.904. 8, Rickie Fowler, 69.943.
9, Matt Kuchar, 69.974. 10, Justin Rose,
70.009.
Driving Distance
1, Tony Finau, 311.1. 2, J.B. Holmes,
310.2. 3, Dustin Johnson, 309.1. 4, Gary
Woodland, 308.3. 5 (tie), Bubba Watson
and Jason Kokrak, 306.7. 7, Hudson Swafford, 306.4. 8 (tie), Jamie Lovemark and
Brooks Koepka, 305.2. 10, Rory McIlroy,
305.0.
Driving Accuracy Percentage
1, Thomas Aiken, 74.47%. 2, Colt Knost,
73.46%. 3, Jerry Kelly, 72.95%. 4, Justin
Leonard, 72.16%. 5, Justin Hicks, 71.63%.
6, Darron Stiles, 71.60%. 7, Emiliano Grillo, 70.52%. 8, Zac Blair, 70.17%. 9, Jason
Bohn, 70.09%. 10, Russell Knox, 69.93%.
Greens in Regulation Percentage
1, Russell Knox, 72.00%. 2, Lucas Glover, 71.92%. 3, Sergio Garcia, 71.89%. 4,
Bubba Watson, 71.86%. 5, Rickie Fowler,
71.41%. 6, Justin Rose, 71.14%. 7, Patrick Rodgers, 70.61%. 8, Thomas Aiken,
70.58%. 9, Henrik Stenson, 70.49%. 10 ,
Jhonattan Vegas, 70.37%.
Total Driving
1, Emiliano Grillo, 76. 2, Henrik Stenson, 81. 3 (tie), Keegan Bradley and Hudson Swafford, 84. 5, Lucas Glover, 86. 6,
Russell Henley, 95. 7, Louis Oosthuizen,
98. 8, Davis Love III, 100. 9 (tie), Justin
Rose and Jim Herman, 105.
Strokes Gained-Putting
1, Steve Stricker, 1.065. 2, Jason Day,
1.012. 3, Phil Mickelson, .869. 4, Jamie
Donaldson, .821. 5, Adam Hadwin, .764.
6, Brian Harman, .720. 7, Tim Wilkinson,
.693. 8, Daniel Summerhays, .674. 9, Andrew Landry, .641. 10, Patton Kizzire,
.633.
Birdie Average
1, Jordan Spieth, 4.78. 2, Hideki Matsuyama, 4.76. 3, Dustin Johnson, 4.55. 4,
Jason Day, 4.48. 5, Rory McIlroy, 4.47. 6,
Adam Scott, 4.45. 7, Rickie Fowler, 4.32. 8,
Justin Rose, 4.22. 9, Phil Mickelson, 4.19.
10, Henrik Stenson, 4.16.
Eagles (Holes per)
1, Bubba Watson, 79.7. 2, Adam Scott,
80.0. 3, Ben Martin, 81.8. 4, Kevin Chappell, 95.4. 5 (tie), Sung Kang and Patrick
Rodgers, 99.0. 7, Rory McIlroy, 102.0. 8,
Dustin Johnson, 102.9. 9, Charley Hoffman, 104.0. 10, Andrew Loupe, 106.0.
Sand Save Percentage
1, David Toms, 70.00%. 2, Justin Rose,
63.49%. 3, K.J. Choi, 62.50%. 4, Sean O’Hair,
62.24%. 5, Danny Lee, 62.14%. 6, Jonas
Blixt, 61.90%. 7, Robert Allenby, 61.11%.
8, Jason Day, 59.62%. 9, Smylie Kaufman,
59.60%. 10, Bryce Molder, 59.22%.
All-Around Ranking
1, Justin Rose, 199. 2, Rickie Fowler,
266. 3, Jason Day, 277. 4, Rory McIlroy,
279. 5, Adam Scott, 292. 6, Sergio Garcia,
350. 7, Brooks Koepka, 364. 8, Kevin Kisner, 365. 9, Phil Mickelson, 388. 10, Ryan
Palmer, 394.
BASEBALL
American League
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Recalled RHP
Tommy Kahnle from Charlotte (IL).
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHP
Cody Anderson and LHP Ryan Merritt
from Columbus (IL). Placed RHP Joba
Chamberlain on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sunday.
DETROIT TIGERS — Recalled RHP Buck
Farmer from Toledo (IL).
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed OF
Alex Gordon on the 15-day DL. Recalled
INF Cheslor Cuthbert from Omaha (PCL).
HOUSTON ASTROS — Released C Erik
Kratz.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned INF
Jorge Polanco to Rochester (IL). Reinstated INF Eduardo Escobar from the 15day DL.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Sent 2B Jed
Lowrie to Nashville (PCL) for a rehab assignment.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned RHP
Steve Geltz to Durham (IL). Selected the
contract of RHP Tyler Sturdevant from
Durham (IL).
TEXAS RANGERS — Placed OF ShinSoo Choo on the 15-day DL, retroactive
to May 21 and OF Drew Stubbs on the 15day DL. Selected the contract of SS Jared
Hoying from Round Rock (PCL). Recalled
3B-OF Joey Gallo from Round Rock. Designated OF Patrick Kivlehan for assignment.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Acquired LHP
Brian Matusz and the 76th pick in the
2016 amateur draft from Baltimore RHP
Brandon Barker and LHP Trevor Belicek.
Optioned RHP Joel De La Cruz to Gwinnett (IL). Recalled RHP Casey Kelly from
Gwinnett.
CINCINNATI REDS — Acquired two international signing bonus slots from Baltimore for RHP Franderlyn Romero.
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Selected the
contract of LHP Lucas Luetge from Salt
Lake (PCL). Sent RHP Frankie Montas
to Tulsa (TL) and OF Scott Van Slyke to
Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for rehab assignments.
NEW YORK METS — Placed 1B Lucas
Duda on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday. Selected the contract of INF/OF Ty
Kelly from Las Vegas (PCL). Designated
LHP Dario Alvarez for assignment.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent OF
Cody Asche to Reading (EL) for a rehab
assignment.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHP
Colin Rea to El Paso (PCL). Recalled LHP
Keith Hessler from El Paso.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent RHP
Sergio Romo to Sacramento (PCL) for a
rehab assignment.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHP
Matt Belisle to Potomac (Carolina) for a
rehab assignment.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
NBA — Upgraded Golden State F Draymond Green’s flagrant foul on Oklahoma
City C Steven Adams, during a May 22
game, to a Flagrant Foul 2 and fined him
$25,000.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Terminated
the contract of WR Brian Hartline.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed S T.J.
Green.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived RB
Brandon Ross. Signed DT Travis Raciti.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Waived
LS Chris Highland. Signed WR Vincent
Brown and PK Connor Barth.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released P
Ryan Quigley. Signed DT Derrick Lott.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms
with OT Jack Conklin.
COLLEGE
GEORGETOWN — Named Akbar Waheed men’s assistant basketball coach.
HOLY CROSS — Named Joe Scott men’s
assistant basketball coach.
KANSAS — Announced junior men’s
basketball F Evan Maxwell is transferring from Liberty.
LIMESTONE — Promoted Ben Price to
assistant director for development and
marketing.
MINNESOTA — Named Tamisha Augustin women’s assistant basketball
coach.
PGA Tour FedEx Cup leaders
Through May 22
Rank Player
Points YTD Money
1. Jason Day
2,040
$5,561,729
2. Adam Scott
1,848
$4,670,349
3. Russell Knox
1,350
$2,983,176
4. Brandt Snedeker
1,300
$2,781,611
5. Kevin Chappell
1,223
$2,960,977
6. Justin Thomas
1,198
$2,874,087
7. Jordan Spieth
1,183
$2,864,907
8. Kevin Kisner
1,182
$2,578,280
9. Patrick Reed
1,161
$2,606,491
10. Hideki Matsuyama
1,151
$2,860,135
11. Kevin Na
1,130
$2,366,916
12. Sergio Garcia
1,081
$2,470,173
13. Bubba Watson
1,069
$2,741,720
14. Smylie Kaufman
1,019
$2,075,938
15. Graeme McDowell
991
$2,235,029
16. Dustin Johnson
961
$2,345,424
17. Jason Dufner
945
$1,777,533
18. Charley Hoffman
939
$1,948,583
19. Rickie Fowler
938
$2,104,654
20. Branden Grace
873
$1,834,931
21. Phil Mickelson
870
$2,078,038
22. Fabian Gomez
870
$1,784,581
23. Brooks Koepka
869
$2,007,810
24. Charles Howell III
866
$1,808,319
25. Jamie Lovemark
844
$1,746,420
26. Matt Kuchar
842
$1,968,435
27. James Hahn
820
$1,840,299
28. Charl Schwartzel
813
$1,707,196
29. Emiliano Grillo
810
$1,672,678
30. Jim Herman
784
$1,725,924
31. Bill Haas
755
$1,564,550
32. Rory McIlroy
754
$2,010,130
33. Justin Rose
716
$1,747,842
34. Henrik Stenson
693
$1,523,333
35. Patton Kizzire
680
$1,349,753
36. Tony Finau
676
$1,182,593
37. William McGirt
663
$1,293,224
38. Roberto Castro
648
$1,358,048
39. Colt Knost
645
$1,272,569
40. Danny Willett
644
$1,852,959
41. Daniel Berger
623
$1,417,514
42. Freddie Jacobson
618
$1,166,529
43. David Lingmerth
613
$1,258,057
44. Si Woo Kim
607
$1,110,713
45. Jason Bohn
607
$1,285,105
46. Jimmy Walker
606
$1,227,966
47. J.B. Holmes
596
$1,445,482
48. K.J. Choi
588
$1,173,985
49. Ryan Moore
587
$1,366,724
50. Jason Kokrak
586
$1,168,114
51. Louis Oosthuizen
583
$1,634,313
52. Alex Cejka
578
$1,197,871
53. Brian Stuard
573
$1,330,095
54. Bryce Molder
569
$1,151,489
55. Vaughn Taylor
566
$1,349,030
56. Harris English
565
$986,324
57. Billy Horschel
563
$1,109,434
58. Danny Lee
555
$1,180,619
59. Brendan Steele
541
$1,007,692
Pro basketball
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
Atlanta
2
1 .667
Indiana
2
1 .667
New York
2
1 .667
Chicago
1
2 .333
Connecticut
1
2 .333
Washington
1
3 .250
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
Los Angeles
3
0 1.000
Minnesota
3
0 1.000
Dallas
3
1 .750
Seattle
1
2 .333
Phoenix
0
3 .000
San Antonio
0
3 .000
Sunday’s games
Atlanta 87, Chicago 81
Minnesota 78, Seattle 71
Monday’s games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s games
Atlanta at New York
Los Angeles at Chicago
Wednesday’s games
Minnesota at Phoenix
GB
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3
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HIGH SCHOOL: DODEA EUROPE
Schedule
Baseball
MICHAEL S. DARNELL /Stars and Stripes
Hohenfels’ Jared Johnson slides in as Bitburg’s Jermain Cooks waits
for the throw to arrive during a doubleheader at Hohenfels earlier
this month. The Barons are the top seed in the D-II/III tournament.
Baseball championships
Ramstein clearly D-I
favorite; Rota’s road
to D-II repeat tough
BY GREGORY BROOME
Stars and Stripes
The DODEA Europe baseball
tournament begins its three-day
run Thursday around the Kaiserslautern Military Community in
Germany. Defending champions
Ramstein and Rota will test their
respective divisional title reigns
against strong fields of title hopefuls from across the continent.
Division I: At times this regular season, three-time defending
champion Ramstein has appeared
beatable.
The Royals just haven’t been
beaten.
Ramstein has played a handful of close games this spring
- a three-run margin with Lakenheath, a two-run game with Wiesbaden, even a three-run decision
against Division II/III opponent
AFNORTH. But even as they
fill the Royals’ rear-view mirror,
those opponents might not be as
close as they appear.
A look at the other halves of
the doubleheaders containing
those close games reveals a more
substantial edge for the reigning champs. The Royals routed
Lakenheath 20-1 before the later
6-3 win, not to mention a 14-0 defeat of the Lancers a day prior.
Ramstein blanked Wiesbaden 9-0
in game one before taking a 4-2
decision in the nightcap. And AFNORTH’s temerity in losing just
6-3 last Saturday morning was
punished with an 18-0 whipping
in the afternoon.
Those numbers hint at a significant discrepancy in overall
talent. As such, Ramstein is going
to be very difficult to beat in a
crucial single game, where ace
pitcher Jonny Oswald and the
Royals’ parade of sweet-swinging sluggers can all be brought to
bear at once.
To make things even more
challenging for the challengers, the Royals have the kind of
depth necessary to withstand
the tournament’s rigors and arrive at those crucial elimination
games with their key arms and
bats intact. That was evident in
last spring’s championship game,
when Ramstein piled on 27 runs
against a Vilseck team that had
exhausted its resources just getting to Saturday.
Those runner-up Falcons were
blanked by a combined 19-0 score
when they opened this regular
season against Ramstein, but
they and a handful of other potentially dangerous squads will take
their whacks again this week.
Wiesbaden might have the best
chance, as the Warriors boast a
very strong pitching staff led by
Alex Newton and Gunner Yingling and potent sticks up and
down the order. Stuttgart, which
until recently shared the marquee with Ramstein atop Division
I, has defiantly stayed in contention with a string of comeback
wins this spring, but the Panthers’ season was bookended by
two losses apiece to the Warriors
and Royals.
Division II/III: The returning
final four from last year’s smallschool tournament — reigning
champion Rota, runner-up Ansbach and semifinalists Bitburg
and AFNORTH — are all back
with strong entries poised to meet
or exceed their 2015 standards.
But they might have to make
room for one more.
The champion Admirals, led
by returning star Zach Heisler,
played their typically slight regular-season schedule this spring
but made it count in three straight
wins over AFNORTH.
Ansbach has held its own
through a rigorous schedule and
enters the tournament coming
off an impressive doubleheader
sweep of Vilseck.
But Bitburg has even that beat
in terms of positive momentum;
the Barons spent their season’s
Thursday
Division I
At Pulaski Barracks
8:30 a.m. — 4 SHAPE vs. 5 Vilseck
10:15 a.m. — 1 Ramstein vs. 8 Kaiserslautern
12 p.m. — 2 Wiesbaden vs. 7 Vilseck
1:45 p.m. —3 Stuttgart vs. 6 Vicenza
3:30 p.m. — 2 Wiesbaden vs. 9 Lakenheath
5:15 p.m. — 6 Vicenza vs. 7 Vilseck
7 p.m. — 3 Stuttgart vs. 9 Lakenheath
At Ramstein Southside Fitness Center
5:15 p.m. — 1 Ramstein vs. 5 Naples
7 p.m. — 4 SHAPE vs. 8 Kaiserslautern
Division II/III
At Ramstein Southside Fitness Center
8:30 a.m. — 1 Bitburg vs. 8 AFNORTH
8:30 a.m. — 3 Ansbach vs. 7 Bahrain
10:15 a.m. — 4 Sigonella vs. 5 Hohenfels
12 p.m. — 2 Rota vs. 7 Bahrain
1:45 p.m. — 3 Ansbach vs. 6 Aviano
1:45 p.m. — 4 Sigonella vs. 8 AFNORTH
3:30 p.m. — 1 Bitburg vs. 5 Hohenfels
5:15 p.m. — 2 Rota vs. 6 Aviano
Friday
Division I
At Ramstein Southside Fitness Center
8:30 a.m. — 6 Vicenza vs. 9 Lakenheath
8:30 a.m. — 3 Stuttgart vs. 7 Vilseck
10:15 a.m. — 5 Naples vs. 8 Kaiserslautern
12 p.m. — 2 Wiesbaden vs. 6 Vicenza
1:45 p.m. — 1 Ramstein vs. 4 SHAPE
1:45 p.m. — 7 Vilseck vs. 9 Lakenheath
3:30 p.m. — 2 Wiesbaden vs. 3 Stuttgart
Division II/III
At Pulaski Barracks
8:30 a.m. — 1 Bitburg vs. 4 Sigonella
10:15 a.m. — 2 Rota vs. 3 Ansbach
1:45 p.m. — 5 Hohenfels vs. 8 AFNORTH
3:30 p.m. — 6 Aviano vs. 7 Bahrain
5:30 p.m. — Semifinal
At Ramstein Southside Fitness Center
5:15 p.m. — Semifinal
Saturday
At Pulaski Barracks
9 a.m. — Division I semifinal
At Ramstein Southside Fitness Center
9 a.m. — Division I semifinal
11:15 a.m. — D-II/III third-place game
1:15 p.m. — D-II/III championship game
3:15 p.m. — D-I third-place game
5:30 p.m. — D-I championship game
Softball
Thursday
Division I
At Ramstein High School
8:30 a.m. – 4 Naples vs. 8 SHAPE
10:15 a.m. – 1 Kaiserslautern vs. 5
Vilseck
3:30 p.m. – 1 Kaiserslautern vs. 8
SHAPE
3:30 p.m. – 4 Naples vs. 5 Vilseck
At Kapaun Air Station
8:30 a.m. – 2 Ramstein vs. 9 Vicenza
10 a.m. – 6 Wiesbaden vs. 7 Lakenheath
11:45 a.m. – 3 Stuttgart vs. 9 Vicenza
1:30 p.m. – 2 Ramstein vs. 7 Lakenheath
3:15 p.m. – 3 Stuttgart vs. 6 Wiesbaden
Division II/III
At Ramstein High School
8:30 a.m. – 4 Rota vs. 7 Baumholder
10:15 a.m. – 2 Bitburg vs. 6 AFNORTH
12 p.m. – 1 Aviano vs. 4 Rota
1:45 p.m. – 2 Bitburg vs. 3 Sigonella
5:15 p.m. – 1 Aviano vs. 5 Hohenfels
5:15 p.m. – 3 Sigonella vs. 6 AFNORTH
Friday
Division I
At Ramstein High School
8:30 a.m. – 7 Lakenheath vs. 9 Vicenza
10:15 a.m. – 2 Ramstein vs. 6 Wiesbaden
12 p.m. – 5 Vilseck vs. 8 SHAPE
12 p.m. – 3 Stuttgart vs. 7 Lakenheath
1:45 p.m. – 6 Wiesbaden vs. 9 Vicenza
3:30 p.m. – 1 Kaiserslautern vs. 4 Naples
5:15 p.m. – 2 Ramstein vs. 3 Stuttgart
Division II/III
At Ramstein High School
8:30 a.m. – 1 Aviano vs. 7 Baumholder
10:15 a.m. – 4 Rota vs. 5 Hohenfels
Afternoon matchups TBD
Saturday
At Ramstein High School
9 a.m. – Division II/III semifinals
11:15 a.m. – Division I semifinals
1:15 p.m. – D-II/III third-place game
1:30 p.m. – D-I third-place game
3:15 p.m. – D-II/III championship game
5:30 p.m. – D-I championship game
final weekend sweeping AFNORTH and Division I SHAPE
while plating a combined 36 runs
in those four games.
AFNORTH, though it ended
up on the wrong side of many of
the above exchanges, owns wins
against Division I SHAPE and
Lakenheath this spring and remains a difficult out.
Sigonella is perhaps the most
qualified of the others in the field
to crash the semifinals party.The
Jaguars hit their peak in late
April with wins over Naples
and Ansbach and bring a steady
.500 divisional record into the
postseason.
broome.gregory@stripes.com
Twitter: @broomestripes
Softball championships
Kaiserslautern seems
ready for next step
Raiders a favorite to stop Ramstein D-I reign;
Aviano eyes repeat but has challengers in D-II
BY GREGORY BROOME
Stars and Stripes
A new large-school favorite
brings intrigue to the DODEA Europe softball tournament, which
runs Thursday through Saturday
around the Kaiserslautern Military Community in Germany.
While last year’s small-school
champ, Aviano, is a strong contender to extend the school’s firstever softball title reign, defending
D-I champion Ramstein is facing
a very potent challenge from longtime archrival Kaiserslautern.
Division I: This could be the
Raiders’ year.
After multiple seasons of settling for a spot in the third-place
game, Kaiserslautern (11-1) enters
the postseason a favorite to play
in — and have a strong chance at
winning — the main event. The
Raiders spent the spring undefeated until the final weekend,
when they split a doubleheader
with the Royals.
But even in its lone defeat, Kaiserslautern was impressive. The
Raiders rallied from a 5-0 deficit
and pulled ahead 7-6 on a Tori
Liggins grand slam. Though they
eventually took an 11-7 loss, the
Raiders regrouped immediately
to claim a 9-0 nightcap victory.
That kind of resilience is a recipe for the postseason success that
has narrowly eluded the program
the past few years.
Liggins leads the way at the
plate and on the mound, where in
last weekend’s season finale she
kept the potent defending champs
off the board while granting just
three hits and a walk. She’s supported by a capable batting order
including Emma Frost, Phoenix
Whisennand, Chloe Whisennand,
Sydney Brown and Nina Knight.
As promising as this Kaiserslautern squad is, it will face resistance this week from traditional
powers Ramstein and Stuttgart.
The Royals come into the post-
season having suffered two losses
in their last four division games,
so momentum, to the extent that
it matters in the transition from
regular season to postseason, is
assuredly not on the Royals’ side.
But a lot of other factors are. The
Royals have a strong pair of pitchers in Abby Walker and Victoria
Rady, while sluggers Zania Sterling and Sierra Nelson headline a
lineup that can string together hits
and post big innings.
Stuttgart, the 2014 champ formerly known as Patch, remains
a difficult out despite taking four
losses this spring. The Panthers
can hang with Kaiserslautern, losing the two regular-season meetings by a combined five runs,
and they split doubleheaders with
both 2015 finalists, Ramstein and
Vilseck.
Division II/III: What’s the best
way to follow up your program’s
first-ever championship?
With your program’s first ever
repeat.
That’s the goal Aviano will
pursue this week, and it’s one
the Saints have a good chance of
achieving. They have an 8-4 overall record, the best in Division II
(with the exception of Rota’s 2-0
regular-season cameo appearance), and have big-game experience garnered from both last
year’s tournament run and this
spring’s showdowns with D-I Italian rivals Naples and Vicenza.
They’ve also got junior McKenzie Milligan, the ace pitcher
and run-producing slugger who is
among DODEA-Europe’s best allaround players, and solid senior
leaders in De’Ja Knight and Ashley Mills.
The Saints’ biggest obstacle to
a repeat might come from within
their own home country. Sigonella, boasting an offense that scored
at least four runs in each regular
season game, split four games
with Aviano this spring.
broome.gregory@stripes.com
DAN STOUTAMIRE /Stars and Stripes
Ramstein’s Abby Walker pitches during a doubleheader at Wiesbaden
earlier this month. The Royals will try to defend their title this week.
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NHL PLAYOFFS
Pavelski helps Sharks take series lead
San Jose looks to
close out Western
finals at home
Western Conference finals
Game 6
St. Louis at San Jose
AFN-Sports2
2 a.m. Thursday CET
9 a.m. Thursday JKT
BY R.B. FALLSTROM
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — All the time Joe
Pavelski has spent practicing his
stick work has paid off big for the
San Jose Sharks.
And the Sharks captain has his
team on the brink of their first
trip to the Stanley Cup Final.
“You think back to some of the
best scorers ever, his ability to
get his stick on pucks in front of
the net from different angles is as
good as anybody I’ve ever seen,”
coach Peter DeBoer said. “His
biggest asset is he works at it.”
With the Sharks trailing by a
goal, Pavelski tied the game late
in the second period and then
scored the go-ahead goal in the
opening minute of the third period in the Sharks’ 6-3 victory over
the St. Louis Blues for a 3-2 lead
in the Western Conference finals
on Monday night.
“You play a good game like
that, you want to ride that,” Pavelski said. “Everyone’s played a key
role so far and it’s going to have to
continue.”
Joel Ward also scored twice, including one of two empty-netters,
in the final minute for San Jose,
which can close out the series at
home on Wednesday night. Joe
Thornton had three assists.
The Sharks had a strong response after losing 6-3 in Game 4
in San Jose.
Pavelski leads all players in
the playoffs with 12 goals and
Scoreboard
Conference finals
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Tampa Bay 3, Pittsburgh 2
Tampa Bay 3, Pittsburgh 1
Pittsburgh 3, Tampa Bay 2, OT
Pittsburgh 4, Tampa Bay 2
Tampa Bay 4, Pittsburgh 3
Tampa Bay 4, Pittsburgh 3 (OT)
Tuesday: at Tampa Bay
x-Thursday: at Pittsburgh
WESTERN CONFERENCE
San Jose 3, St. Louis 2
St. Louis 2, San Jose 1
San Jose 4, St. Louis 0
San Jose 3, St. Louis 0
St. Louis 6, San Jose 3
Monday: San Jose 6, St. Louis 3
Wednesday: at San Jose
x-Friday: at St. Louis
JEFF ROBERSON /AP
Blues goalie Jake Allen blocks a shot by Sharks center Tomas Hertl (48) during Monday’s Game 5 of the
Western Conference finals in St. Louis. The Sharks won 6-3 to take a 3-2 series leaad.
has three two-goal games, one in
each series. The Sharks’ captain
added an assist and is tied with
forward Logan Couture for the
postseason points lead, each with
a franchise-record 21 points.
“It’s good to see Sharks up
there,” Couture said.
Rookie Robby Fabbri scored
and David Backes had an assist for
St. Louis. Both were questionable
coming off injuries in Game 4.
But star forward Vladimir
Tarasenko was silent again.
Tarasenko was minus-2 with one
shot and is scoreless in the series
after getting seven goals and 13
points in the first two rounds.
“He’s struggled this series,”
coach Ken Hitchcock said. “He
hasn’t gotten the looks that he
normally gets. But he’s one shift
away from breaking it open.”
The Blues are just 4-6 at home
in the postseason, and failed to
hold leads of 2-1 and 3-2 in Game
5. They’re 6-3 on the road and
need another win to bring the series home for Game 7.
“We did it in Game 4,” Backes
said. “Now, we’ve got to go in
there and do it again.”
The Sharks are 6-2 at home in
the postseason and need one more
win to reach the Cup Final.
Monday
Sharks 6, Blues 3
San Jose
1 2 3—6
St. Louis
2 1 0—3
First Period—1, San Jose, Vlasic 1
(Pavelski, Thornton), 3:51. 2, Schwartz
4 (Backes, Berglund), 7:04. 3, Brouwer 8
(Stastny, Steen), 15:08.
Second Period—4, San Jose, Ward 3
(Vlasic, Martin), 4:37 (pp). 5, St. Louis,
Fabbri 4 (Parayko, Pietrangelo), 11:58
(pp). 6, San Jose, Pavelski 11 (Thornton,
Couture), 18:33 (pp).
Third Period—7, San Jose, Pavelski 12
(Burns, Hertl), :16. 8, San Jose, Tierney 5
(Thornton), 19:06 (en). 9, San Jose, Ward
4, 19:27 (en).
Shots on Goal—San Jose 10-8-9—27. St.
Louis 9-5-7—21.
Power-play opportunities—San Jose 2
of 3; St. Louis 1 of 3.
Goalies—San Jose, Jones 11-6 (21 shots18 saves). St. Louis, Allen 1-1 (25-21).
A—19,372 (19,150). T—2:31.
Bolts’ Kucherov shines in playoffs
BY FRED GOODALL
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — The bigger the playoff moment, the more Nikita Kucherov
shines.
The young Russian has a knack for scoring when Tampa Bay needs it most, which
is one of the reasons the Lightning are
within one victory of reaching the Stanley
Cup Final for the second straight year.
Kucherov has found the back of the net
an NHL-leading 11 times in 15 games this
postseason, seven of them in situations in
which he’s either tied the score or given his
team a lead.
The 22-year-old’s latest addition to the
impressive playoff résumé he began compiling last year was a late goal Sunday to
force overtime against Pittsburgh in Game
5 of the Eastern Conference finals. He
also notched an assist on Tyler Johnson’s
winner less than a minute into the extra
period.
The 4-3 victory on the road gave Tampa
Bay a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series.
Game 6 was scheduled for Tuesday night
at Amalie Arena.
“When you’re a rising star in this league,
as he is ... every team’s got one of those guys
at some point,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper
said. “It just seems the bigger the moment,
the bigger they rise to the occasion. He is
proving that last year wasn’t a fluke. He’s
just a gifted, skilled, determined player.
He’s really a pleasure to coach.”
Kucherov had 10 goals in 26 playoff
games a year ago, including a pair of overtime winners that
He’s
the Lightning
getting the helped
to the Stanley Cup
game-tier, Final, where they lost
to the Chicago Blackgamehawks in six games.
winner;
One more victory and
Tampa Bay will besets
come the first team to
up the
make consecutive trips
biggest
to the championship
round since the Penof the
guins and Detroit Red
biggest
Wings did it in 2008
and 2009.
goals...
“He keeps climbJon Cooper
ing the ladder, and
Lightning coach
he keeps getting better. But what has really been remarkable for me this year in
watching him is the timeliness of his game.
He’s not scoring one goal in a 6-1 loss or
the sixth goal in a 6-1 win,” Cooper said
Monday.
“He’s getting the game-tier, game-win-
‘
’
ner; sets up the biggest of the biggest goals,
and that says a little bit about the type of
player you are,” the coach added. “When
you need him, he’s the one ultimately, more
often than not, that’s there for you.”
Pittsburgh has gone from a 2-1 series
lead to facing elimination for the first time
this postseason after losing consecutively
for the first time since January.
Coach Mike Sullivan said he wasn’t going
to make a decision on a starting goaltender
for Game 6 until Tuesday morning. MarcAndre Fleury made his first start in nearly
two months in Game 5, and was unable to
protect leads of 2-0 and 3-2.
Rookie Matt Murray started the first
four games of this series and is 9-4 with a
2.33 goals-against-average and .923 save
percentage.
The Penguins were confident they could
rebound and take the series back home for
a seventh game.
“I believe in my team. I believe in myself,
and we can come back to Pittsburgh for
sure,” Penguins star Evgeni Malkin said.
“This group has done a terrific job all
year of just staying in the moment and not
dwelling on the past, not getting ahead of
itself, and just trying to focus on that one
game in hand,” Sullivan said, “and that’s
what we’re going to have to do.”
C HRIS O’MEARA /AP
The Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov, front,
moves past the Penguins’ Justin Schultz
during Game 4 of the Eastern Conference
finals last Friday. Kucherov has scored 11
times in 15 games this postseason.
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Marvel
on the
mound
Fan favorite Big Sexy
turns 43, shows no
signs of slowing down
BY M IKE FITZPATRICK
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Watching someone wait
has rarely been so amusing.
Bartolo Colon will casually flip a baseball back and forth from bare hand to black
glove, spinning it by the seams high off his
fingertips as the next young hitter — perA LEX BRANDON /AP
haps 20 years his junior — struts toward
home plate with serious intentions.
Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon, who turned 43 on Tuesday, is the last Montreal Expo still playing in the majors.
This happens on a major league mound,
mind you, in the center of a stadium packed
player most likely to go viral these days.
A quick refresher:
it’s a combination of his age, his size, his
with 40,000 people.
Colon has a Cy Young Award, three
For a No. 5 starter, Colon has made more unflappability, the fact that his teammates
And yet Colon, the roly-poly YouTube All-Star selections and 222 victories, most than his share of headlines this month — love him,” Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen
sensation wearing a New York Mets uni- among active pitchers.
and some of them were no laughing matter. said. “He’s somebody who every fan can
form, resembles the fill-in starter on any
He went 14 years between playoff Last week, the New York Post reported he relate to.
summer Sunday for some rec
wins, then became the oldest was being sued by a woman who alleged
“He’s different. He’s a one-off and that’s
team in a men’s league playing
pitcher to lose a World Series the pitcher hadn’t paid child support for what makes him special. There’s never
at the public park.
game.
There’s an
two children he fathered with her outside been anybody like him,” Cohen added.
Not a care in the world, it
He once threw 38 con- his marriage.
Listed at 5-foot-11 and 283 pounds, the
athlete inside
seems.
secutive strikes in a game.
Colon declined to comment about “per- quiet Colon remains quick off the mound
No fear of Bryce Harper and
that body.
Another time, it took him 20 sonal stuff” and insisted the story wasn’t and keeps batters off balance with smarts
the Washington Nationals.
That’s still the pitches to strike out Ricky a distraction.
and skill.
“I really love pitching to
Gutierrez.
On the field, of course, he became the
Now, the heavy-set right-hander is an exbest pitch in
those good batters,” Colon said
He had a career-low 2.65
oldest player in major league history to hit pert at creating late movement. He sinks
through a translator last week.
ERA at age 40, and set a cabaseball, is a
his first career home run when he connect- the ball, runs it, cuts it and paints corners.
“Even if they give me a good
reer high with 31 straight
ed May 7 against James Shields.
well-located
And he rarely walks anyone.
whack, I still enjoy just duelscoreless innings at 42.
It was a shocking moment of improbable
“There’s an athlete inside that body,” Naing it out with them.”
fastball — and
He’s pitched for the Red
Baseball’s ageless ambasSox and White Sox, both New success that charmed nearly everyone but tionals manager Dusty Baker said. “That’s
he’s
the
sador of fun, Colon turned 43
York teams, in the Cleveland the Padres, especially considering Colon’s still the best pitch in baseball, is a well-loon Tuesday a few hours after
epitome of it.
cold and California sun (An- previous penchant for comically embar- cated fastball — and he’s the epitome of
rassing swings that sent a Mets helmet fly- it.”
pitching the Mets to a 7-1 win
Dusty Baker gels and Athletics).
Manager Terry Collins, recalling when
at Washington.
And he’s the last Mon- ing off his huge head .
Nationals manager
The long ball generated such buzz it Colon joined the Mets in 2014, acknowledgHe tossed seven crisp intreal Expo still playing in the
practically spawned its own cottage indus- es he never imagined they’d squeeze this
nings despite a stiff back that
majors.
persuaded him to take precautions at the
Quite a career for this fan favorite, now try, from special baseball cards to “Bart- much out of him.
plate.
bino” shirts to one-of-a-kind bobbleheads
More to come at age 43, too.
the oldest player in the big leagues.
His latest birthday seems a fitting time
“The first time I saw him pitch, I said, ‘I
And whether you fancy his stunning (with a belly that bobbles, too).
to toast the many unique achievements of home run in San Diego, that behind-theSo what is it that makes Colon, once sus- don’t know how he’s going to continue this’
a modern-day throwback, a pitcher whose back toss to first base or when he grabbed pended 50 games for a positive drug test, — and he has,” Collins said. “It’s been a
19-year trek around the majors fills seven his ample belly on the bench with both such a big hit with fans?
marvel to watch.”
pages in the Mets’ media guide.
hands, “Big Sexy” has become the ball“I think it’s the total package. I think
For all of us.
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MLB SCOREBOARD
American League
East Division
W
L
26
16
27
17
21
22
22
24
20
22
Central Division
Chicago
27
19
Cleveland
23
20
Kansas City
23
21
Detroit
22
22
Minnesota
11
33
West Division
Seattle
26
18
Texas
25
20
Los Angeles
21
24
Oakland
20
26
Houston
17
28
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Toronto
Tampa Bay
Pct GB
.619 —
.614 —
.488 5A
.478 6
.476 6
.587 —
.535 2A
.523 3
.500 4
.250 15
.591 —
.556 1A
.467 5A
.435 7
.378 9A
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct GB
Washington
27
18
.600 —
New York
26
18
.591
A
Philadelphia
25
20
.556 2
Miami
23
21
.523 3A
Atlanta
12
31
.279 14
Central Division
Chicago
29
14
.674 —
Pittsburgh
24
19
.558 5
St. Louis
24
21
.533 6
Milwaukee
18
26
.409 11A
Cincinnati
15
30
.333 15
West Division
San Francisco
28
19
.596 —
Los Angeles
23
23
.500 4A
Colorado
21
22
.488 5
Arizona
21
25
.457 6A
San Diego
19
27
.413 8A
Monday’s games
Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 6, 1st
game
Cleveland 5, Chicago White Sox 1, 2nd
game
L.A. Angels 2, Texas 0
Kansas City 10, Minnesota 4
Oakland 5, Seattle 0
Pittsburgh 6, Colorado 3
N.Y. Mets 7, Washington 1
Detroit 5, Philadelphia 4
Miami 7, Tampa Bay 6
St. Louis 4, Chicago Cubs 3
L.A. Dodgers 1, Cincinnati 0
San Francisco 1, San Diego 0
Tuesday’s games
Toronto at N.Y. Yankees
L.A. Angels at Texas
Baltimore at Houston
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox
Kansas City at Minnesota
Oakland at Seattle
Tampa Bay at Miami
Arizona at Pittsburgh
N.Y. Mets at Washington
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis
Colorado at Boston
Milwaukee at Atlanta
Philadelphia at Detroit
Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers
San Diego at San Francisco
Wednesday’s games
Kansas City (Gee 1-1) at Minnesota
(Duffey 1-3)
L.A. Angels (Santiago 3-2) at Texas
(Lewis 3-0)
Cleveland (Kluber 3-5) at Chicago
White Sox (Quintana 5-3)
Toronto (Estrada 1-2) at N.Y. Yankees
(Nova 3-1)
Baltimore (Wilson 2-2) at Houston
(McHugh 4-4)
Oakland (Gray 3-5) at Seattle (Iwakuma 2-4)
N.Y. Mets (Matz 6-1) at Washington
(Roark 3-3)
Philadelphia (Nola 3-3) at Detroit
(Sanchez 3-5)
Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 8-0) at St. Louis
(Martinez 4-4)
San Diego (Shields 2-6) at San Francisco (Peavy 1-5)
Arizona (De La Rosa 4-4) at Pittsburgh
(Locke 2-3)
Colorado (Gray 1-2) at Boston (Wright
3-4)
Miami (Nicolino 2-2) at Tampa Bay
(Andriese 3-0)
Milwaukee (Guerra 3-0) at Atlanta
(Foltynewicz 1-2)
Cincinnati (Straily 2-1) at L.A. Dodgers
(Kazmir 3-3)
Monday
Mets 7, Nationals 1
Washington
ab r h bi
Revere cf 3 0 0 0
M.Tylor ph-cf 1 0 0 0
Werth lf
4 1 2 0
Harper rf
4 0 0 0
D.Mrphy 2b 4 0 2 0
Zmmrman 1b 4 0 2 1
Rendon 3b 4 0 0 0
W.Ramos c 3 0 0 0
Espnosa ss 3 0 0 0
Y.Petit p
0 0 0 0
Solis p
0 0 0 0
G.Gnzlz p 1 0 0 0
Heisey ph 0 0 0 0
Treinen p 0 0 0 0
Drew ph-ss 1 0 0 0
Totals
36 7 11 7 Totals
32 1 6 1
New York
005 020 000—7
Washington
100 000 000—1
DP—New York 1, Washington 1. LOB—
New York 4, Washington 6. HR—D.Wright
(5), Cespedes (15), N.Walker (11). SB—
Zimmerman (1). SF—Campbell (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
New York
Colon W,4-3
7
5
1
1
2 2
Blevins
1
1
0
0
0 1
Verrett
1
0
0
0
0 1
Washington
Gonzalez L,3-2
5
10
7
7
0 7
Treinen
2
1
0
0
0 2
Petit
1
0
0
0
0 0
Solis
1
0
0
0
0 1
HBP—by Gonzalez (Granderson). T—
2:33. A—31,264 (41,418).
ab
4
5
4
4
4
4
3
4
3
0
1
0
r
1
1
1
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
2
2
1
2
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
3
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
Tigers 5, Phillies 4
Second game
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Ra.Dvis cf
3 1 1 2 Eaton rf
4 0 0 0
Kipnis dh
4 0 1 1 Sladino ss 4 0 0 0
Lindor ss
4 0 0 0 Frazier 3b 4 1 2 0
C.Sntna 1b 4 0 1 0 Me.Cbrr lf 4 0 2 1
Jo.Rmrz lf
4 1 1 1 Abreu 1b
4 0 0 0
Uribe 3b
3 1 1 1 Lawrie 2b 3 0 0 0
Chsnhll rf
3 1 1 0 Avila c
4 0 0 0
Gimenez c 4 1 1 0 Av.Grca dh 3 0 1 0
M.Mrtnz 2b 4 0 0 0 A.Jcksn cf 3 0 1 0
Totals
33 5 7 5 Totals
33 1 6 1
Cleveland
010 020 200—5
Chicago
001 000 000—1
E—Jo.Ramirez
(1).
DP—Chicago
1. LOB—Cleveland 4, Chicago 6. 2B—
C.Santana (9), Frazier (5). 3B—A.Jackson
(2). HR—Ra.Davis (5), Jo.Ramirez (3),
Uribe (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cleveland
Anderson W,1-3
7
5
1
1
0 9
Shaw
1
1
0
0
0 1
Allen
1
0
0
0
1 1
Chicago
Johnson L,0-2
6C
6
5
5
3 5
Purke
2B
1
0
0
0 0
WP—Shaw. T—2:40. A—18,323 (40,615).
Philadelphia
Detroit
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
O.Hrrra cf
4 0 3 1 Kinsler 2b 4 0 0 0
Lough rf
1 0 0 0 J.Mrtnz rf 4 1 1 1
C.Hrnnd 2b 4 0 0 1 Mi.Cbrr 1b 3 3 3 2
Franco 3b
3 1 2 1 V.Mrtnz dh 4 0 3 1
Howard dh 4 0 0 0 Cstllns 3b 3 1 2 1
T.Jseph 1b 4 1 2 1 An.Rmne 3b 0 0 0 0
Rupp c
4 0 2 0 Moya lf
4 0 1 0
Galvis ss
4 0 1 0 Aviles lf
0 0 0 0
T.Gddel lf
4 2 2 0 Maybin cf 4 0 2 0
Bourjos rf-cf 3 0 0 0 J.McCnn c 4 0 0 0
A.Blnco ph 1 0 0 0 J.Iglss ss
4 0 0 0
Totals
36 4 12 4 Totals
34 5 12 5
Philadelphia
001 111 000—4
Detroit
001 030 10x—5
E—Castellanos (4), O.Herrera (5).
DP—Philadelphia 1, Detroit 2. LOB—
Philadelphia 7, Detroit 7. 2B—T.Joseph
(1), Mi.Cabrera (8), Castellanos (12).
HR—Franco (8), T.Joseph (2), J.Martinez
(10), Mi.Cabrera 2 (11), Castellanos (9).
SF—C.Hernandez (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Philadelphia
Velasquez
4
9
3
3
2 2
Murray L,0-1
3
3
2
2
0 1
Bailey
1
0
0
0
0 2
Detroit
Pelfrey
6
11
4
4
0 3
Wilson W,1-1
1
0
0
0
0 2
Lowe H,8
1
1
0
0
0 2
Rodriguez S,13-14
1
0
0
0
0 2
Velasquez pitched to 2 batters in the
5th WP—Wilson, Murray, Lowe. T—3:10.
A—26,400 (41,681).
Royals 10, Twins 4
Kansas City
G ENE J. PUSKAR /AP
Rockies catcher Tony Wolters, right, tags out the Pirates’ Francisco
Cervelli, who was attempting to score on a fielder’s choice by Sean
Rodriguez during the third inning of Monday’s game in Pittsburgh.
Pirates 6, Rockies 3
Colorado
Marlins 7, Rays 6
Pittsburgh
ab
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
1
1
1
0
r
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
2
0
0
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Tampa Bay
ab r h bi
Jaso 1b
4 0 0 0
Mercer ss 0 0 0 0
McCtchn cf 4 1 1 0
G.Plnco rf 4 1 1 0
S.Marte lf 4 1 1 0
Freese 3b 3 1 0 0
Crvelli c
3 1 1 0
Hrrison 2b 4 1 2 2
S.Rdrgz ss-1b 2 0 0 0
Vglsong p 0 0 0 1
Locke pr
0 0 0 0
Boscan p
1 0 1 1
Kang ph
1 0 0 0
N.Feliz p
0 0 0 0
Watson p 0 0 0 0
J.Hghes p 0 0 0 0
Mlancon p 0 0 0 0
Totals
33 3 7 3 Totals
30 6 7 4
Colorado
000 020 001—3
Pittsburgh
024 000 00x—6
E—Mar.Reynolds
(2).
DP—Colorado 1. LOB—Colorado 5, Pittsburgh 4.
2B—Blackmon 2 (8). SB—G.Polanco (6),
S.Marte (13), Harrison (7). CS—Harrison
(1). SF—LeMahieu (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Colorado
Lyles L,1-2
2B
5
6
4
3 3
Rusin
4C
2
0
0
0 4
Castro
1
0
0
0
0 0
Pittsburgh
Vogelsong
2
2
0
0
0 2
Boscan W,1-0
4
2
2
2
1 2
Feliz
1
0
0
0
0 2
Watson
1
0
0
0
0 1
Hughes
B
2
1
1
0 0
Melancon S,15-16
C
1
0
0
0 0
HBP—by Lyles (Vogelsong). WP—Lyles.
T—3:10. A—34,529 (38,362).
Blckmon cf
Story ss
Arenado 3b
Ca.Gnzl rf
Mar.Ryn 1b
Parra lf
LMahieu 2b
Wolters c
Raburn ph
Lyles p
Rusin p
Adames ph
M.Cstro p
bi
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Chicago
St. Louis
ab
4
4
4
5
3
0
3
0
0
4
4
3
1
0
35
r
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
h
1
0
3
1
0
0
2
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
9
bi
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
ab
Crpnter 3b 3
A.Diaz ss
3
Hlliday lf
4
Pscotty rf 3
Moss 1b
4
Molina c
4
Grichuk cf 4
Wong 2b
2
Wnwrght p 1
Oh p
0
M.Adams ph 1
Segrist p
0
Rsnthal p 0
Miami
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Guyer lf
5 3 3 1 I.Szuki lf
5 1 4 1
Colome p
0 0 0 0 Prado 3b
5 1 1 2
Mahtook cf 3 1 1 0 Ralmuto c 5 0 1 0
Mrrison ph-1b 2 0 1 1 Stanton rf 3 0 1 0
Lngoria 3b 4 0 0 0 Ozuna cf
4 2 3 1
Pearce 1b
2 0 0 0 C.Jhnsn 1b 3 0 0 0
E.Rmrez p
0 0 0 0 Rojas 2b
4 2 3 2
E.Rmero p
0 0 0 0 Hchvrra ss 4 1 1 0
B.Mller ss
1 0 1 0 Chen p
2 0 0 0
Sza Jr. rf
5 0 3 1 Urena p
0 0 0 0
T.Bckhm 2b 3 1 0 0 Bour ph
0 0 0 0
C.Dckrs ph 1 0 0 0 Brrclgh p
0 0 0 0
Motter ss-lf 3 1 2 3 Phelps p
0 0 0 0
Casali c
4 0 0 0 Yelich ph
0 0 0 0
Moore p
2 0 1 0 Gllspie ph 0 0 0 1
De.Jnnn ph-cf 2 0 0 0 A.Ramos p 0 0 0 0
Totals
37 6 12 6 Totals
35 7 14 7
Tampa Bay
210 002 100—6
Miami
301 100 02x—7
DP—Tampa Bay 1, Miami 1. LOB—Tampa Bay 9, Miami 8. 2B—Guyer (9), Motter
(1), Prado (9), Rojas (3). HR—Guyer (5),
Motter (2), Ozuna (9). CS—I.Suzuki (1).
SF—Gillespie (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Tampa Bay
Moore
5
10
5
5
1 3
Ramirez L,6-2
2
3
2
2
2 2
Romero BS,1
B
1
0
0
0 0
Colome
C
0
0
0
0 0
Miami
Chen
5C
9
5
5
3 3
Urena BS,1
B
1
0
0
1 1
Barraclough
1
1
1
1
1 2
Phelps W,3-2
1
0
0
0
0 1
Ramos S,14-14
1
1
0
0
0 0
E.Ramirez pitched to 2 batters in the
8th T—3:11. A—17,969 (36,742).
White Sox 7, Indians 6
Cardinals 4, Cubs 3
New York
Grndrsn rf
Lagares cf
D.Wrght 3b
Cspedes lf
N.Wlker 2b
A.Cbrra ss
Cmpbell 1b
Plwecki c
B.Colon p
Blevins p
Mat.Ryn ph
Verrett p
Indians 5, White Sox 1
Cleveland
First game
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
C.Sntna dh 4 1 0 0 Eaton rf
4 0 0 0
Kipnis 2b
4 1 1 0 J.Rllns ss
5 0 1 1
Lindor ss
4 0 0 0 Frazier 3b 3 2 2 1
Napoli 1b
3 1 1 2 Me.Cbrr lf 4 1 0 0
Jo.Rmrz 3b 4 1 1 2 Abreu 1b
5 1 1 0
Gomes c
4 0 0 0 Lawrie dh 2 2 2 3
Chsnhll rf
2 1 1 0 C.Snchz 2b 5 0 0 0
Ra.Dvis ph-cf 1 0 0 0 D.Nvrro c
3 0 1 0
Byrd lf
3 1 1 2 A.Jcksn cf 3 1 3 2
M.Mrtnz cf-rf 4 0 2 0
Totals
33 6 7 6 Totals
34 7 10 7
Cleveland
010 020 030—6
Chicago
101 130 10x—7
E—Kipnis (1), Ra.Davis (2). DP—Cleveland 1, Chicago 1. LOB—Cleveland 4, Chicago 12. 2B—Kipnis (8), M.Martinez 2 (3),
Abreu (7), A.Jackson (11). HR—Napoli
(8), Jo.Ramirez (2), Byrd (4), Frazier (14),
Lawrie (6). SB—Ra.Davis (11), Frazier (4),
Lawrie (3). S—Eaton (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cleveland
Clevinger L,0-1
5
7
6
6
3 4
Otero
1C
2
1
0
2 1
Adams
1B
1
0
0
2 2
Chicago
Latos W,6-1
6
5
3
3
1 4
Duke H,11
1
1
2
2
2 0
Albers H,9
C
1
1
1
0 0
Jones H,11
B
0
0
0
0 1
Robertson S,12-14
1
0
0
0
1 2
Duke pitched to 2 batters in the 8th
WP—Clevinger. T—3:10. A—0 (40,615).
Cleveland
r
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
h bi
0 0
0 1
1 0
0 0
0 0
1 0
2 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
1 2
0 0
0 0
Fowler cf
Bryant rf
Zobrist 2b
Rizzo 1b
Soler lf
Szczur lf
M.Mntro c
T.Wood pr
D.Ross c
J.Baez 3b
Russell ss
Lackey p
L Stlla ph
Warren p
Totals
Totals
29 4 5 4
Chicago
000 210 000—3
St. Louis
001 000 201—4
E—Russell (5). DP—Chicago 1, St. Louis 1. LOB—Chicago 10, St. Louis 4. HR—
Grichuk (6), M.Adams (5). SB—Russell
(2). SF—A.Diaz (3). S—Wainwright (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Lackey
7
4
3
3
1 9
Warren L,3-1
1C
1
1
1
0 2
St. Louis
Wainwright
6
7
3
3
3 4
Oh
1
0
0
0
0 1
Siegrist
1
0
0
0
1 0
Rosenthal W,2-1
1
2
0
0
0 1
HBP—by Lackey (Wong), by Wainwright (Soler), by Lackey (Piscotty). T—
2:48. A—45,008 (43,975).
Minnesota
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
A.Escbr ss 5 1 1 0 E.Nunez 2b 5 0 0 0
Mrrfeld 3b 5 2 2 0 Mauer 1b 5 1 3 1
L.Cain cf
5 0 2 1 Sano rf
3 0 0 0
Hosmer 1b 5 1 1 0 Plouffe 3b 5 2 3 0
K.Mrles dh 4 2 1 1 Park dh
3 0 1 0
S.Perez c
5 3 5 1 Grssman lf 3 1 2 1
Orlando rf
4 1 3 2 Edu.Esc ss 4 0 2 1
Infante 2b
3 0 1 3 K.Szuki c
4 0 1 0
J.Dyson lf
5 0 1 2 Da.Sntn cf 4 0 0 0
Totals
41 10 17 10 Totals
36 4 12 3
Kansas City
114 200 002—10
Minnesota
200 001 010— 4
E—K.Suzuki (3), A.Escobar (7). DP—
Kansas City 3, Minnesota 1. LOB—Kansas
City 8, Minnesota 9. 2B—A.Escobar (6),
Merrifield (1), L.Cain (4), S.Perez (10), Infante (9), Grossman (2). 3B—S.Perez (2).
HR—Mauer (3). SB—Orlando (2), J.Dyson
(8), Da.Santana (10). SF—Orlando (1), Infante (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Kansas City
Kennedy
3B
5
2
2
1 3
Alexander
1C
3
1
1
1 1
Moylan W,1-0
2B
4
1
1
0 0
Herrera H,12
C
0
0
0
0 1
Wang
1
0
0
0
1 0
Minnesota
Nolasco L,1-3
2C
8
6
6
2 3
May
1B
4
2
2
0 2
Rogers
2
1
0
0
0 0
Kintzler
1
1
0
0
0 2
Abad
1
0
0
0
0 2
Jepsen
1
3
2
2
0 1
Alexander pitched to 2 batters in the
6th HBP—by Kennedy (Park). T—3:29.
A—17,886 (39,021).
Athletics 5, Mariners 0
Oakland
Seattle
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Crisp lf
5 1 2 0 L.Mrtin cf 4 0 2 0
B.Burns cf
4 1 1 0 Gterrez rf 4 0 1 0
Vogt c
3 1 1 2 Cano 2b
4 0 1 0
Vlencia 3b 5 0 1 2 N.Cruz dh 4 0 2 0
K.Davis dh 4 0 0 0 D.Lee 1b
4 0 1 0
Alonso 1b
3 0 0 0 K.Sager 3b 4 0 1 0
Semien ss
4 1 0 0 Innetta c
3 0 0 0
Coghlan 2b 3 0 0 0 Aoki lf
3 0 0 0
Ldndorf 2b 1 0 0 0 C.Tylor ss 3 0 1 0
Smlnski rf
4 1 2 1
Totals
36 5 7 5 Totals
33 0 9 0
Oakland
000 000 140—5
Seattle
000 000 000—0
E—C.Taylor 2 (2). DP—Oakland 3.
LOB—Oakland 8, Seattle 6. 2B—Valencia
(2). HR—Vogt (4). SB—Crisp (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Oakland
Hill W,7-3
8
8
0
0
0 6
Madson
1
1
0
0
0 0
Seattle
Walker L,2-4
7B
4
5
1
0 6
Nuno
0
0
0
0
0 0
Peralta
C
1
0
0
1 1
Johnson
1
2
0
0
1 1
Nuno pitched to 1 batter in the 8th
HBP—by Nuno (Vogt). WP—Walker. T—
2:40. A—16,370 (47,476).
Giants 1, Padres 0
San Diego
San Francisco
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jay cf
4 0 0 0 Span cf
4 0 0 0
M.Upton lf 4 0 0 0 Tmlnson 2b 3 0 1 0
M.Kemp rf 4 0 1 0 Panik ph-2b 1 0 0 0
Wallace 3b 3 0 0 0 Matt.Df 3b 4 0 2 0
Myers 1b
3 0 0 0 Posey c
3 0 0 0
De.Nrrs c
3 0 0 0 Pagan lf
3 0 0 0
A.Rmrez ss 2 0 0 0 Gllspie 1b 0 0 0 0
Amrista 2b 3 0 1 0 Belt 1b-lf
4 1 1 0
Pmeranz p 2 0 0 0 B.Crwfr ss 4 0 0 0
Solarte ph 1 0 0 0 G.Blnco rf 1 0 0 0
Maurer p
0 0 0 0 Cueto p
1 0 0 0
Hand p
0 0 0 0 Pence ph
1 0 1 1
Totals
29 0 2 0 Totals
29 1 5 1
San Diego
000 000 000—0
San Francisco
000 000 001—1
E—Amarista (2). LOB—San Diego 3,
San Francisco 9. 2B—Matt.Duffy (7),
Pence (8). CS—Matt.Duffy (2). S—Cueto
2 (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
San Diego
Pomeranz
7
2
0
0
3 4
Maurer
1
1
0
0
0 0
Hand L,1-1
C
2
1
1
0 1
San Francisco
Cueto W,7-1
9
2
0
0
0 6
HBP—by Cueto (Ramirez). T—2:37.
A—42,099 (41,915).
Angels 2, Rangers 0
Los Angeles
ab
Y.Escbr 3b 4
Trout cf
4
Pujols 1b
4
Cron dh
4
Gvtella 2b
4
B.Ryan ss
0
C.Perez c
4
G.Petit ss-2b 3
Ortega rf
3
S.Rbnsn lf
3
Texas
r
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
2
2
1
0
2
0
0
1
1
0
bi
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
ab r h bi
Odor 2b
4 0 0 0
Desmond cf 4 0 2 0
Fielder dh 3 0 1 0
Alberto pr-dh 0 0 0 0
Beltre 3b
3 0 1 0
Mreland 1b 4 0 0 0
Andrus ss 3 0 1 0
Mazara rf 4 0 1 0
Hoying lf
2 0 0 0
Rua ph-lf
1 0 0 0
Gallo ph
1 0 0 0
B.Wlson c 4 0 1 0
Totals
33 2 9 2 Totals
33 0 7 0
Los Angeles
002 000 000—2
Texas
000 000 000—0
E—Tropeano (1). DP—Los Angeles 1,
Texas 2. LOB—Los Angeles 5, Texas 9.
2B—Trout (9), Giavotella (7), Desmond
(11). HR—Pujols (9). CS—Y.Escobar (2),
Ortega (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Tropeano W,3-2
6C
4
0
0
1 6
Mahle
0
1
0
0
0 0
Morin H,6
B
0
0
0
0 0
Salas H,8
1
2
0
0
1 0
Smith S,6-8
1
0
0
0
1 1
Texas
Holland L,3-4
6C
7
2
2
1 4
Tolleson
1B
1
0
0
0 2
Bush
1
1
0
0
0 1
Mahle pitched to 1 batter in the 7th
T—2:56. A—25,298 (48,114).
Dodgers 1, Reds 0
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Cozart ss
4 0 1 0 E.Hrnnd lf 4 0 0 0
Hmilton cf 3 0 0 0 J.Trner 3b 2 1 0 0
Votto 1b
2 0 0 0 Ad.Gnzl 1b 4 0 1 0
Phllips 2b
3 0 0 0 Kndrick 2b 2 0 1 0
Bruce rf
3 0 0 0 Thmpson cf 3 0 1 0
Duvall lf
3 0 0 0 C.Sager ss 3 0 0 0
Pacheco 3b 3 0 0 0 Puig rf
3 0 1 0
Brnhart c
3 0 1 0 Ellis c
2 0 0 0
Fnnegan p 2 0 0 0 Kershaw p 3 0 1 0
E.Sarez ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
27 0 2 0 Totals
26 1 5 0
Cincinnati
000 000 000—0
Los Angeles
000 001 00x—1
E—Phillips (6), Barnhart 2 (3). DP—Cincinnati 4, Los Angeles 1. LOB—Cincinnati
2, Los Angeles 5. 2B—Cozart (14). SB—
Kendrick (2), Thompson (1). S—Hamilton
(3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cincinnati
Finnegan L,1-3
8
5
1
1
4 2
Los Angeles
Kershaw W,7-1
9
2
0
0
1 7
WP—Finnegan 2. T—2:11. A—42,519
(56,000).
Calendar
June 9-11 — Amateur draft, Secaucus,
New Jersey.
July 12 — All-Star Game, San Diego.
July 15 — Last day to sign for amateur
draft picks subject to deadline.
July 24 — Hall of Fame inductions,
Cooperstown, N.Y.
Aug. 1 — Last day to trade a player
without securing waivers.
Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40
players.
November TBA — Deadline for teams
to make qualifying offers to their eligible
former players who became free agents,
fifth day after World Series.
November TBA — Deadline for free
agents to accept qualifying offers, 12th
day after World Series.
Dec. 1 — Collective bargaining agreement between MLB and players’ association expires.
Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to offer
2017 contracts to unsigned players.
Dec. 5-8 — Winter meetings, National
Harbor, Md.
2017
January TBA — Salary arbitration filing.
January TBA — Salary arbitration figures exchanged.
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Walk-off
home run
lifts Cards
over Cubs
BY JOE H ARRIS
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Randal Grichuk told reporters Monday afternoon that his sore
back was OK. A few hours later, Grichuk
proved it with his first career walk-off
home run.
Grichuk’s solo homer in the bottom of
the ninth lifted the St. Louis Cardinals to a
4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs.
“I was trying to battle and get a pitch in
the zone and put good wood on it and get
on,” Grichuk said. “Luckily, I was able to
get a homer.”
Matt Adams tied the score with a tworun homer in the seventh for St. Louis’
major league-leading ninth pinch-hit
homer of the season. It also ended a streak
of 13 innings of one-run pitching by Chicago starter John Lackey against his former team.
“This is a team that can do damage in a
hurry,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny
said. “That’s something we haven’t had in
the past as much, the ability for quite a few
guys in that lineup that feel good about getting the ball over the fence and create instant offense.”
Grichuk drove a 2-2 pitch off of Adam
Warren (3-1) for the win.
Adams drove a high change-up to
straight-away center to revive what was
a stagnant offense against Lackey. It was
Adams’ second pinch-hit homer this season and he’s hitting .500 off the bench.
“It’s no secret,” Adams said. “I just
make sure I’m ready to go when my name’s
called.”
Trevor Rosenthal (2-1) pitched a scoreless ninth.
The Cubs’ Ben Zobrist had three singles
and a walk, extending his streak to 29
starts with reaching safely. He is hitting
.387 during that span.
St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright
pitched in and out of trouble throughout
his six innings, scattering seven hits and
stranding eight runners, while throwing
68 of his 108 pitches for strikes.
MICHAEL THOMAS/AP
The Cardinals’ Randal Grichuk watches
his game-winning home run sail toward
the stands during the ninth inning of
Monday’s game in St. Louis.
M ARK J. TERRILL /AP
Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw earned his third shutout of the season Monday against the Reds in Los Angeles.
Roundup
Kershaw
blanks
Reds
Dodgers ace limits Cincinnati to just two hits
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw
tossed a two-hitter for his third shutout of
the season, pitching the Los Angeles Dodgers past Cincinnati 1-0 Monday night for
their eighth straight win over the Reds.
Kershaw (7-1) struck out seven, ending
his franchise-record streak of six starts in
a row with at least 10 strikeouts. He gave
the bullpen some much-needed rest after
the Dodgers used a combined 13 relievers
in consecutive extra-inning games at San
Diego last weekend.
The left-hander retired his final 17 batters after issuing just his fifth walk of the
season to Joey Votto leading off the fourth.
Kershaw threw 102 pitches.
The Dodgers won back-to-back games
for the first time since taking three in a
row May 12-14. They needed just 2 hours,
11 minutes, to beat the Reds after outlasting San Diego in 5:47 on Sunday.
Brandon Finnegan (1-3) allowed five
hits in his first career complete game for
Cincinnati. The left-hander, who struck
out two and walked four, hasn’t won since
April 16.
Giants 1, Padres 0: Brandon Belt scored
from first base when pinch-hitter Hunter
Pence’s bloop double to short right field
fell between two San Diego players with
two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning
to give host San Francisco the win.
Johnny Cueto (7-1) allowed two hits in
his third complete-game win over the Padres this season. The right-hander struck
out six and didn’t walk a batter while becoming the first Giants pitcher since Jason
Schmidt in 2004 to win seven times in his
first 10 starts.
Mets 7, Nationals 1: David Wright, Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker homered on
the day teammate Lucas Duda went on the
disabled list, leading host New York past
Washington.
Pitching on the eve of his 43rd birthday, Bartolo Colon (4-3) allowed one run
and five hits in seven efficient innings.
Baseball’s oldest player struck out two and
walked two.
Marlins 7, Rays 6: Ichiro Suzuki had
four hits, including a single in his team’s
two-run eighth inning, and host Miami rallied past Tampa Bay.
The 42-year-old Suzuki has 10 hits in
the past three games to raise his average
to .417 and increase his career hit total to
2,960.
Angels 2, Rangers 0: Albert Pujols hit a
two-run home run, the 569th of his career,
and Nick Tropeano (3-2) threw 6 2 ⁄3 strong
innings to help Los Angeles beat Texas.
The Angels have won eight of their last
11 games.
Tigers 5, Phillies 4: Miguel Cabrera hit
two of his team’s four solo homers, then
scored the tiebreaking run on Victor Martinez’s seventh-inning single to lift host
Detroit past Philadelphia.
J.D. Martinez and Nick Castellanos also
homered for Detroit, which has won seven
of eight.
White Sox 7,1; Indians 6,5: Rajai
Davis’ two-run homer in the fifth inning
of the second game put his team ahead to
stay, Jose Ramirez hit his second long ball
of the day and Juan Uribe also went deep
and visiting Cleveland earned a split of its
doubleheader with Chicago.
In the opener, Brett Lawrie broke a fifthinning tie with a three-run homer, Todd
Frazier hit his 14th of the season and the
White Sox held on for the victory.
Pirates 6, Rockies 3: Pittsburgh starter Ryan Vogelsong was carted off the field
after getting struck in the head by a pitch
in the second inning of his team’s win over
visiting Colorado.
With the bases loaded and Pittsburgh
leading 1-0, Rockies starter Jordan Lyles
(1-2) hit Vogelsong in the left cheek with a
92 mph fastball. Vogelson was making his
second start of the season, filling in because of a rainout Sunday.
Royals 10, Twins 4: Salvador Perez had
a career-high five hits, including a double,
a triple and an RBI, to lead visiting Kansas
City past Minnesota.
Paulo Orlando added three hits and two
RBIs in the rain-delayed game for the Royals, who put All-Star outfielder Alex Gordon on the disabled list earlier in the day
with a fractured right wrist.
Athletics 5, Mariners 0: Rich Hill
pitched eight innings to win his fourth
straight start, Stephen Vogt hit a leadoff homer in the seventh inning to snap a
scoreless tie and visiting Oakland ended a
four-game skid.
Taijuan Walker (2-4) held the A’s to two
hits through six innings, but then Vogt
opened the seventh by driving a 3-1 pitch
deep over the right field wall for his fourth
homer.
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NBA PLAYOFFS
Green, Westbrook
take jabs on fouls
Warrior fined $25K for Game 3 groin kick
BY CLIFF BRUNT
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Draymond Green knows who is responsible for his kick to the
groin of Thunder center Steven
Adams: Russell Westbrook and
the rest of the NBA stars who get
to the foul line with a whole lot of
salesmanship.
Green’s kick felled the 7-foot,
255-pound Adams during the
second quarter of Golden State’s
Game 3 loss to Oklahoma City in
the Western Conference finals
on Sunday night. Westbrook later
said Green kicked Adams intentionally — and that didn’t go over
well with the Warriors’ standout.
“There are multiple plays
where I did it later in the game
when I got fouled and my right
leg went up,” Green said Monday.
“I always do it. Russell said I did
it on purpose, but he’s part of the
superstar group that started all
this acting in the NBA.”
Green even pointed to a play
at the end of the second quarter,
when Green fouled Westbrook on
a long three-pointer.
“Russell Westbrook kicked me
at the end of the half,” Green said.
“He just didn’t happen to catch me
where I caught Steven Adams.”
Westbrook
wasn’t
thrilled
with Green’s comments, calling
Green’s foul on the three-pointer
a “dumb play on his part.”
“I’ve never been fined for one
flop since I’ve been playing in the
NBA,” Westbrook said. “I don’t
know about no flopping or nothing. I don’t know how to flop. But it
seems like he was the one that was
flailing, kicking his legs out and
stuff yesterday. It wasn’t me.”
Green was called for a flagrant
1 foul and Adams later noted that
Green had kneed him in the same
spot during Game 2. Green was
fined $25,000 by the NBA on Monday and the foul was upgraded to a
BRYAN TERRY, THE O KLAHOMAN /AP
Golden State’s Draymond
Green, right, was fined $25,000
by the NBA for this kick to
Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams
during Game 3 on Sunday.
Green insists the kick was
not intentional, and avoided a
suspension for a flagrant 2 foul.
flagrant 2, but he was not suspended and will be in uniform when the
defending champion Warriors try
to even the series at 2-2.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr said
he needs Green at his best.
“He needs to refocus a little
bit,” Kerr said. “He’ll admit it.
It was not one of his best games
— in fact, it was one of his worst.
The great thing with Draymond
is he always turns it around. He’s
one of the great competitors that
we have in the league, that we
have on our team. When things
aren’t looking great, he usually
plays his best.”
Kerr knows Green might have
made himself a target for the
officials.
“Does he have to be careful? I
guess,” Kerr said. “Now, people
are watching for him or whatever.
He’s just going to play, he’s going
to be himself, and we’ll see what
happens.”
Green insists the hit to Adams
to the floor wasn’t that big a deal.
“I can see how somebody can
think it was intentional, but yet nobody can go in my head and say,
‘Draymond was thinking about
kicking him and he kicked him,’ ”
Green said. “If you watch my reaction, I walk back to the threepoint line, clap everybody’s hands,
turn around and look like, ‘What’s
the dude on the floor for?’”
Green scored six points, made
1 of 9 shots and committed four
turnovers in a game to forget. Normally one of the league’s best defenders, he was beaten numerous
times individually by the Thunder,
and the Warriors were outscored
by 43 points with him on the floor.
With the crowd booing loudly
every time Green touched the
ball, he couldn’t make plays to
shut Thunder fans up.
“That’s what was frustrating
to me,” he said. “I was just bad. I
missed a couple easy ones and it
just kind of killed my whole game.
That was pretty frustrating, especially with all the boos, because I
love boos and it usually helps me
play well. It was frustrating that I
couldn’t get it going.”
Green has been below his standard throughout the series. He’s
averaging 13 points on 37 percent
shooting in the series, and just 5.3
rebounds and 4.7 assists. In the
regular season, Green averaged
14 points on 49 percent shooting,
9.5 rebounds and 7.4 assists.
Warriors guard Stephen Curry
expects Green to improve.
“He’s mentally strong, so nothing that happened last night is
going to affect Game 4 except
light a fire probably,” Curry said.
“You can look at trends and all
that. In the Houston series, he
was able to understand what he
needed to do differently. He’s a
very smart guy. He has a great
eye for the game. I think it matters to him a lot to have an impact
FRANK G UNN, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
Raptors guard Kyle Lowry scores as Cavaliers guard-forward J.R. Smith, right, looks on during first half
of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals Monday in Toronto. The Raptors won 105-99.
Even: Cavs look to turn it around at home
FROM BACK PAGE
The Raptors are 2-6 on the road
in the playoffs.
After a 10-0 start to these playoffs, the Cavaliers are counting
on home court advantage to help
them reach their second straight
Finals.
“Going back home we have to
play a lot better and I think we
will,” LeBron James said.
Cleveland lost consecutive playoff games to an Eastern Conference opponent for the first time
since dropping the final three
games of the conference semifinals to Boston in 2010.
“We had a few defensive breakdowns that you can’t have down
the stretch of a game, especially
in the playoffs,” Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said. “They executed
every time we made a mistake.”
James scored 29 points and
Kyrie Irving had 26 for the Cavaliers, who trailed by as many as
18 points. Channing Frye scored
nine of his 12 points in the fourth
quarter.
Lowry scored nine in the fourth
and DeRozan had 12, connecting
on five of six shots.
“It’s a cakewalk for me when
[Lowry] gets going,” DeRozan
said. “It opens up everything.”
The Raptors led 78-69 to begin
the fourth but Frye made consecutive three-pointers as Cleveland
opened the final quarter with an
8-0 run, cutting it to 78-77. The
Cavaliers made their first 11
shots of the fourth quarter.
“It wasn’t enough because we
got off to a horrible first half once
again in this building and you’re
playing catch up the whole game,”
James said.
Frye’s errant three-point attempt at 4:12 was Cleveland’s
first miss of the fourth. DeRozan
made two free throws at the other
end and, after another miss by
Frye, Carroll made one of two to
put Toronto up 99-96 with 3:23 to
go.
A long three by Irving made it
101-99 with 2:00 left, but DeRozan answered with a driving bank
shot at 1:33. Toronto got the ball
back after Biyombo blocked J.R.
Smith’s three, and Biyombo kept
the offensive possession alive by
rebounding Lowry’s missed shot.
After a timeout, Lowry let the
shot clock wind down before driving for the decisive layup, making
it 105-99 with 22 seconds to go.
Toronto jumped out to a 13-5
lead as Cleveland missed eight
of its first 10 shots. Following a
timeout, the Cavs made five of
their next six to cut the deficit but
the Raptors led 27-24 after one
quarter.
Lowry scored 15 points in the
second, making three of Toronto’s
four three-pointers, as the Raptors opened a 57-41 halftime lead
despite not shooting a single free
throw in the first two quarters.
It marked the first time a team
led by 15 or more at halftime in
a conference finals game without
shooting a free throw since Game
2 of the 2001 East Finals between
Milwaukee and Philadelphia. The
Bucks made two of six from the
line, the fewest ever made in an
NBA playoff game at the time.
DeRozan shot Toronto’s first
free throws at 6:13 of the third
after being tackled by Smith on
a drive. The foul drought came
after Raptors coach Dwane Casey
was fined $25,000 for criticizing
the officials following Toronto’s
Game 3 win.
Fans cheered derisively when
Matthew Dellavedova was called
for Cleveland’s first foul of the
game at 8:56 of the second.
After shooting 3-for-19 in
Game 3, Kevin Love shot 4-for14 in Game 4. He finished with
10 points. Love did not play in the
fourth after appearing to injure
his left ankle when he stepped on
referee David Guthrie late in the
third.
“It didn’t feel too great,” Love
said.
Lue said Love’s health was “no
concern.”
Scoreboard
Conference finals
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Cleveland 2, Toronto 2
Cleveland 115, Toronto 84
Cleveland 108, Toronto 89
Toronto 99, Cleveland 84
Monday: Toronto 105, Cleveland 99
Wednesday: Toronto at Cleveland
Friday: Cleveland at Toronto
x-Sunday: Toronto at Cleveland
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Oklahoma City 2, Golden State 1
Oklahoma City 108, Golden State 102
Golden State 118, Oklahoma City 91
Oklahoma City 133, Golden State 105
Tuesday: at Oklahoma City
Thursday: at Golden State
x-Saturday: at Oklahoma City
x-Monday, May 30: at Golden State
Monday
Raptors 105, Cavaliers 99
CLEVELAND — James 11-16 6-6 29,
T.Thompson 1-3 0-0 2, Love 4-14 0-0 10,
Irving 11-21 1-1 26, Smith 3-12 0-0 9, Jefferson 4-4 0-0 8, Frye 4-8 0-0 12, Dellavedova 1-4 0-0 2, Shumpert 0-1 1-2 1. Totals
39-83 8-9 99.
TORONTO — Carroll 3-12 4-5 11, Scola
0-1 0-0 0, Biyombo 2-4 1-4 5, Lowry 14-20
3-4 35, DeRozan 14-23 4-4 32, Ross 1-3 0-0
3, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Patterson 3-5 2-2 9,
Joseph 4-8 0-0 8. Totals 42-78 14-19 105.
Cleveland
24 17 28 30— 99
Toronto
27 30 21 27—105
Three-point goals—Cleveland 13-41
(Frye 4-8, Irving 3-8, Smith 3-11, Love 27, James 1-3, Shumpert 0-1, Dellavedova
0-3), Toronto 7-22 (Lowry 4-7, Ross 1-2,
Patterson 1-3, Carroll 1-7, DeRozan 0-1,
Joseph 0-1, Scola 0-1). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Cleveland 38 (T.Thompson,
James 9), Toronto 35 (Biyombo 14). Assists—Cleveland 23 (James, Irving 6), Toronto 17 (Lowry 5). Total Fouls—Cleveland
17, Toronto 16. Technicals—Toronto defensive three second. A—20,367 (19,800).
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FRENCH OPEN/SPORTS BRIEFS
Briefly
Djokovic joins
Nadal, Murray
in 2nd round
Report: NFL tried
to influence study
on brain injuries
BY SAMUEL PETREQUIN
Associated Press
PARIS — Novak Djokovic treated the Roland Garros crowd with some great tennis shots on Tuesday.
His charm offensive continued after the match.
Interviewed on court by former Wimbledon
champion Marion Bartoli, the top-ranked Serb
pleased the fans on Court Philippe Chatrier with a
few words in French.
Djokovic is craving a career Grand Slam at the
French Open after losing in the final three times
over the past four years. A fans’ favorite in Paris,
he has dramatically improved his level of French in
recent years.
“These two weeks might be the most important
in the whole season (for me),” Djokovic said after
defeating 95th-ranked Yen-hsun Lu of Taiwan 6-4,
6-1, 6-1.
Djokovic was in complete control, broke his opponent seven times, and closed the match with a drop
shot. He joined his main rivals Rafael Nadal and
Andy Murray in the second round.
Seeded No. 2 in Paris for the first time, Murray
rallied to win from two sets down for the ninth time,
and beat Czech qualifier Radek Stepanek 3-6, 3-6,
6-0, 6-3, 7-5.
While Murray needed two days to advance, ninetime champion Nadal had a much easier time, easing past Sam Groth 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.
In the women’s draw, Australian Open champion
Angelique Kerber lost in the first round. Hampered
by a left shoulder injury, the third-seeded Kerber
was upset by 58th-ranked Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Kerber is the fifth Australian Open women’s
champion to lose in the first round at Roland Garros,
after Chris O’Neil (1978), Barbara Jordan (1979),
Lindsey Davenport (2000), and Li Na (2014).
Two-time Australian Open winner Victoria Azarenka also lost, but not without putting up a fight despite hobbling around court on a gimpy right knee.
The fifth seed from Belarus locked up the knee in
the second set when preparing to return the serve of
Karin Knapp from Italy.
Azarenka got treatment, and survived a tiebreaker to tie the match at one-set all, but Knapp raced
away in the third set as Azarenka struggled to run
or bend her knees to serve and eventually called it
Associated Press
A LASTAIR G RANT/AP
Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns in his first round
match at the French Open against Australia’s Sam
Groth at the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris on
Tuesday. Nadal won 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.
quits with Knapp leading 6-3, 6-7(6), 4-0..
Francesca Schiavone, the 2010 French Open
champion, was also eliminated, losing to Kristina
Mladenovic 6-2, 6-4.
Schiavone was surprised to receive a standing
ovation after her loss, and was annoyed at tournament organizers for prematurely announcing this
was her last French Open.
“Roland Garros announced my retirement but I
didn’t,” Schiavone said. “So you can stand up all of
you and go back to work in the office because I didn’t
say that. I will announce when I will want to stop.”
Stepanek, the oldest man in the field at 37, hit
57 winners in his suspenseful encounter on Court
Philippe Chatrier.
Murray was leading 4-2 in the fourth set when
play was suspended on Monday because of darkness.
He was twice two points from losing while serving
and trailing 5-4 in the fifth. But he held there, then
broke Stepanek, and served out after wasting his
first match point with a double-fault.
Scoreboard
Tuesday
At Stade Roland Garros
Paris
Purse: $35.9 million (Grand Slam)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Men
First Round
Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic,
def. Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1.
Bernard Tomic (20), Australia, def. Brian Baker, United States, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
Borna Coric, Croatia, def. Taylor Fritz,
United States, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.
Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, def. Illya Marchenko, Ukraine, 7-5,
6-4, 6-3.
Aljaz Bedene, Britain, def. Gerald Melzer, Austria, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, def. Florian Mayer, Germany, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Radek
Stepanek, Czech Republic, 3-6, 3-6, 6-0,
6-3, 7-5.
Lucas Pouille (29), France, def. Julien
Benneteau, France, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4).
John Isner (15), United States, def.
John Millman, Australia, 6-7 (4) 7-6 (12),
7-6 (7), 7-5.
Rafael Nadal (4), Spain, def. Sam
Groth, Australia, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.
Dominic Thiem (13), Austria, def. Inigo
Cervantes, Spain, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, 6-1.
Quentin Halys, France, def. Chung Hyeon, South Korea, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.
Feliciano Lopez (21), Spain, def. Thomas Fabbiano, Italy, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
Steve Darcis, Belgium, def. Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, 6-3, 6-4, 6-0.
Facundo Bagnis, Argentina, def. Kenny
de Schepper, France, 6-0, 6-2, 7-6 (2).
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Yenhsun Lu, Taiwan, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1.
Pablo Cuevas (25), Uruguay, def. Tobi-
as Kamke, Germany, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (4).
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, def.
Thiemo de Bakker, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4,
5-7, 7-6 (3).
Nicolas Mahut, France, def. Ricardas
Berankis, Lithuania, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-1.
Joao Sousa (26), Portugal, def. Damir
Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2-6, 7-6
(8), 6-4, 7-5.
Roberto Bautista Agut (14), Spain, def.
Dmitry Tursunov, Russia, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.
Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def. Gilles
Muller, Luxembourg, 7-5, 6-4, 6-1.
Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Federico Delbonis (31), Argentina, 7-6 (3), 6-7
(4), 6-4, 6-4.
Nicolas Almagro, Spain, def. Philipp
Kohlschreiber (24), Germany, 5-7, 6-2, 62, 6-4.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (6), France, def.
Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 6-3, 6-4, 64.
Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Fabio
Fognini (32), Italy, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3.
Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. Rajeev
Ram, United States, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-0.
David Ferrer (11), Spain, def. Evgeny
Donskoy, Russia, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0.
Women
First Round
Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, def. Angelique Kerber, Germany (3), 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Kristina Mladenovic (26), France, def.
Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 6-2, 6-4.
Alize Cornet, France, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-1, 6-0.
Tatjana Maria, Germany, def. Jelena
Jankovic (23), Serbia, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
Timea Babos, Hungary, def. Samantha
Crawford, United States, 6-4, 6-0.
Carla Suarez Navarro (12), Spain, def.
Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 6-2,
4-6, 6-2.
Dominika Cibulkova (22), Slovakia,
def. Zheng Saisai, China, 6-3, 6-1.
Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, def. Laura
Siegemund, Germany, 6-2, 6-2.
Wang Qiang, China, def. Tessah Andrianjafitrimo, France, 6-0, 6-0.
Ana Konjuh, Croatia, def. Arina Rodionova, Australia, 6-2, 6-3.
Ekaterina Makarova (27), Russia, def.
Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 5-7,
6-4, 6-3.
Sam Stosur (21), Australia, def. Misaki
Doi, Japan, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
Zhang Shuai, China, def. Galina Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan, 7-5, 6-2.
Timea Bacsinszky (8), Switzerland,
def. Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, 6-3, 6-1.
Louisa Chirico, United States, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 6-2, 2-6, 8-6.
Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Alize Lim,
France, 6-3, 6-2.
Daria Kasatkina (29), Russia, def.
Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, 6-1, 4-6,
6-3.
Venus Williams (9), United States, def.
Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4).
Ana Ivanovic (14), Serbia, def. Oceane
Dodin, France, 6-0, 5-7, 6-2.
Madison Keys (15), United States, def.
Donna Vekic, Croatia, 6-3, 6-2.
Virginie Razzano, France, def. Ipek
Soylu, Turkey, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0.
Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, def. Sachia Vickery, United States, 6-2, 6-2.
Denisa Allertova, Czech Republic, def.
Kurumi Nara, Japan, 7-5, 3-6, 0-2, retired.
Mariana Duque-Marino, Colombia,
def. Daria Gavrilova, Australia, 5-7, 6-4,
6-4.
Andrea Petkovic (28), Germany, def.
Laura Robson, Britain, 6-2, 6-2.
Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Olga
Govortsova, Belarus, 7-5, 6-3.
Taylor Townsend, United States, def.
Amandine Hesse, France, 6-2, 6-1.
WASHINGTON — National
Football League officials improperly sought to influence a government study on the link between
football and brain disease, according to a senior House Democrat in a report issued Monday.
New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone
said the league tried to strongarm the National Institutes of
Health into taking the project
away from a researcher that the
NFL feared was biased.
The NFL had agreed to donate $30 million to the NIH to
fund brain research but backed
out after the institutes refused
to take a $16 million grant away
from prominent Boston University researcher Robert Stern.
He’s a leading expert on the link
between football and brain diseases such as chronic traumatic
encephalopathy. Taxpayers are
instead bearing the cost.
The NFL denied Pallone’s
findings.
“The NFL rejects the allegations,” NFL spokesman Brian
McCarthy said in a statement on
Monday. The league acknowledged that it had raised concerns
about the study and a potential
conflict of interest involving
Stern, but McCarthy said the NFL
had communicated its concerns
through appropriate channels.
Pallone initiated the investigation after ESPN reported that the
NFL had backed out of funding
the NIH study because of its objections to Stern.
In other football news:
The Concussion Legacy Foundation said former NFL defensive
end Bubba Smith was diagnosed
with the brain disease CTE by researchers after his death.
Smith died in 2011 at 66. He’s
one of 90 former NFL players diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic
Encephalopathy since 2008 at a
brain bank affiliated with Veteran Affairs, Boston University and
the foundation. Out of four stages
of the disease, the foundation said
Smith had stage 3 CTE.
The NFL has voted to expand its current replay system to
include more reviewable plays.
The plays that will be reviewable
under the amendments approved
Tuesday at the NFL owners meetings include penalty enforcement,
proper down, spot of the foul and
status of the game clock.
The league also announced that
the replay official and the members of the officiating department
at the league office may now consult with the on-field officials during games to provide information
on penalty yardage, proper down
and status of the game clock.
Derby winner Nyquist
won’t run in Belmont
NEW YORK — The trainer of
Nyquist said the Kentucky Derby
winner is sick and won’t run in
the Belmont Stakes on June 11.
Doug O’Neill said Tuesday
that Nyquist is “out because of
sickness.”
Nyquist’s bid for a chance at the
Triple Crown ended when he finished third behind Exaggerator
in the Preakness at Pimlico Race
Course on Saturday.
O’Neill’s assistant Jack Sisterson said from Baltimore that the
colt’s blood work came back and
showed an elevated white blood
cell count. He said “we just want
to do right by him and get him to
100 percent.”
When he’s healthy again, the
plan is to ship him back to California, with a summer schedule
that could include the Travers
Stakes at Saratoga.
Newgarden has fastest
lap in final Indy practice
INDIANAPOLIS — Josef Newgarden flipped the script Monday
by posting the fastest lap in the
final full practice for the Indianapolis 500.
Less than 24 hours after losing
the pole to James Hinchcliffe, the
American turned a lap of 227.414
mph. Target Chip Ganassi teammates Tony Kanaan, the 2013
Indy winner, and defending series champion Scott Dixon were
second and third at 226.393 and
226.339.
Only one practice session, Friday, remains before Sunday’s
100th running of the race.
Donaldson narrowly
gets into US Open
FAR HILLS, N.J. — Jamie
Donaldson’s birdie-birdie finish
to tie for 10th in the Irish Open
moved him to No. 60 in the world
and spared him from qualifying
for the U.S. Open.
The U.S. Open field for Oakmont on June 16-19 now is halffilled after 27 players earned
exemptions from being in the top
60 this week. Sergio Garcia, at
No. 12 after winning the AT&T
Byron Nelson, was among the 27
players in the top 60 of this week’s
world ranking who weren’t already eligible.
Another exemption is available this week to the winner of
the BMW PGA Championship.
The rest of the field will be determined by 36-hole qualifiers
in Japan, England and America,
and by the top 60 in the June 13
world ranking.
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EVEN
Lowry leads Raptors
over Cavs to tie series
BY I AN H ARRISON
Associated Press
TORONTO — A series that once looked lopsided is now even.
Kyle Lowry scored 35 points, including a driving layup in the final minute, and
DeMar DeRozan had 32 as the Toronto Raptors evened the Eastern Conference
finals by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-99 in Game 4 on Monday night.
DeMarre Carroll scored 11 points and Bismack Biyombo had 14 rebounds as
Toronto improved to 8-2 at home this postseason and got back on level terms
after big losses in Games 1 and 2.
“We’ve been counted out, and we like that challenge,” DeRozan said.
The next challenge for Toronto? Game 5 on Wednesday night in Cleveland,
where the Raptors are 0-3 this season, losing by a combined 72 points.
“We have to continue to make sure that when they punch, we punch back,”
Lowry said. “And if they punch three times, we punch four times.”
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Raptors center Bismack Biyombo, back, celebrates Monday with guard Kyle Lowry during the second half against the Cavaliers. Toronto won 105-99 to tie the series at 2-2.
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