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Most displaced
Syrians living
on government
side of the lines
BY SLOBODAN LEKIC
Stars and Stripes
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrians
displaced by war and living in
their own country — mainly on
the government side of the front
lines — are far greater in number
than those fleeing to Europe, who
have received the bulk of media
attention in the past year.
International aid officials in
Damascus say the civil war, now
in its sixth year, has forced more
than half of Syria’s prewar population of 23 million to leave their
homes.
“While more than 4 million
people have fled the country,
the real problem is inside Syria,
where 8 million have been displaced, many multiple times,”
said Pawel Krzysiek, spokesman
for the International Committee
of the Red Cross in Damascus.
“The only viable solution for
those living in (war-torn) places
is to leave them.”
Although nobody has exact figures on the whereabouts of the
internally displaced people, or
IDPs, aid officials and nongovernmental organizations say the
vast majority have sought shelter
in areas controlled by the government of President Bashar Assad.
“There is no doubt that many,
many more displaced people are
on the government side than on the
opposition side,” Krzysiek said.
About 4.84 million Syrians have
fled abroad since 2011, and 8.7
million are estimated to have been
displaced within Syria, according
to latest statistics released by the
U.N. High Commission on Refugees. In 2016, the United Nations
appealed for $7.73 billion in vital
new funding to help them.
Because many countries are
now placing restrictions on the
number of refugees who can
enter their borders, thousands of
vulnerable people have been left
stranded within Syria. Many of
those remaining are too poor to
leave and depend heavily on international aid agencies for food
and other supplies.
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Ryan Rosa performs a push press as part of a fitness challenge during the Kabul Fitness Festival at the U.S. Embassy in the Afghan
capital on May 27. Rosa, a Marine veteran and embassy employee, said he has made strength gains while in Kabul, where fitness is
one of few outlets embassy staff have on their small compound.
Hunk, chunk, monk or drunk?
Kabul embassy employees fight stress with fitness rather than food, isolation, alcohol
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
KABUL, Afghanistan — It’s
not uncommon on Friday afternoons to spy bulging biceps,
washboard abs or long, lean legs
absorbing sun rays around the
U.S. Embassy pool here. The
nearby sand volleyball court is
also very popular.
Fitness classes are abundant,
and though the main compound
has limited space, the embassy
boasts a number of workout facilities. Exercise is a key way
employees cope with the stress
of a war-zone post and separation from family, officials said.
But fitness doesn’t come eas-
ily for everyone. John Collins,
an embassy employee, said he
gained 12 pounds in his first 30
days at the post last fall, thanks
to daily sodas and ice cream
deserts — his way of dealing
with separation from his family.
Weight gain is one of the risks
of a hardship post like Kabul.
Before being posted here or to
other hardship posts, State Department employees are warned
that they’ll likely fall into one of
four categories: hunk, chunk,
monk or drunk. The long hours
and war environment, in other
words, will cause them to seek
comfort in fitness, food, isolation or alcohol.
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Army IG urges reforms to medal process
BY DAN L AMOTHE
The Washington Post
The Army followed its rules
while denying a Medal of Honor
last year to a Green Beret soldier
credited with staving off a brutal
ambush in Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department Inspector General report released
Wednesday. But it provides a
glimpse into just how subjective
decisions surrounding awards for
valor can be.
The investigation examined the
case of Army Sgt. 1st Class Earl
Plumlee, who was recommended
for the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat
valor, for his role in repelling a
Taliban attack Aug. 28, 2013, on
Forward Operating Base Ghazni
in eastern Afghanistan. Plumlee,
a member of 1st Special Forces
Group from Joint Base LewisMcChord in Washington, is credited with killing several attackers
at point-blank range, using both
small arms and hand grenades,
as their suicide vests detonated.
The commander of Plumlee’s
task force nominated him for the
Medal of Honor, and the recommendation was backed by senior
battlefield commanders, including Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford,
then the top U.S. commander in
Afghanistan. But in May 2015,
Plumlee instead received a Silver
Star, two levels below the Medal
of Honor, drawing concerns from
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R.-Calif.,
and prompting Defense Secretary
Ashton B. Carter to request an inspector general investigation.
Hunter questioned whether
Plumlee’s award was downgraded to a Silver Star because he was
subsequently investigated by the
Army’s Criminal Investigation
Command for attempting to sell a
rifle scope online.
The inspector general found no
evidence that anyone used the investigation to justify awarding the
Silver Star, but the report did provide new details about how the decision to not give Plumlee a Medal
of Honor was reached.
In Afghanistan, the Medal of
Honor of Honor recommendation
received approval from senior
officers that included then-Maj.
Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller; thenLt. Gen. Mark Milley, now the
four-star Army chief; and Dunford, now the chairman of the
C ODIE MENDENHAL / Courtesy of the U.S. Army
Sgt. 1st Class Earl D. Plumlee, right, is presented the Silver Star for
his actions in Afghanistan in 2013.
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Army Human Resources
Command’s awards branch received the nomination in January
2014. The issue was taken up by
the service’s Senior Army Decorations Board afterward, with
two three-star generals and the
top enlisted soldier in the service.
Two of them recommended the
Silver Star, while another saw the
Distinguished Service Cross, one
notch below the Medal of Honor,
as more appropriate.
One of the voting members said
his decision not to recommend
the Medal of Honor came down
in large part to one thing: Plumlee’s rank. Then a staff sergeant,
Plumlee was expected to be a
leader once the Taliban attacked
rather than “a private who would
be seized by the moment and take
extremely valorous and courageous action,” the board member
told the inspector general, according to the report.
“One’s a leader. One’s a Soldier,” the member said, according to the report. “And so when I
looked at the circumstances and,
although the battle was ferocious
and unfortunately a couple members were killed, I just thought
that it wasn’t a sufficient level for
the Medal of Honor based off of
the individual and the circumstances and that, I just felt there
was an expectation of a leader
who did a phenomenal job, that
there was something more that
[the nominee] needed to have
done in order to, in my mind, to
make a recommendation for a
Medal of Honor.” Another board
member told the IG that he had
concerns about the lack of detail
in witness statements that were
submitted on Plumlee’s behalf.
As the recommendation continued to make its way through the
Army’s bureaucracy, the investigation of Plumlee became known,
Army officials said. Some other
commanders in Plumlee’s chain of
command recommended against
the Medal of Honor. However, the
soldier found an advocate in July
2015 in Lt. Gen. James C. McConville, who had just taken over as
the Army’s deputy chief of staff
for personnel, known as the “G1.” Despite the decorations board
calling for a Silver Star, he recom-
mended a Medal of Honor.
McConville told the inspector
general that he was a commanding general in eastern Afghanistan when Plumlee’s base was
ambushed, and aware of what
happened that day. Without Plumlee, McConville told the inspector
general, enemy insurgents could
have penetrated deep into the
base, resulting in a significant impact on coalition operations across
the country. According to a summary of Plumlee’s actions, the
attack was initiated with a 400pound car bomb that breached the
defenses of the base. “LTG McConville stated that he believed
the nominee’s actions were worthy of the MOH; however, after
reading the award recommendation packet, he was not sure that
a reader would fully grasp what
really happened during the firefight,” the IG report said. “He
stated that MOH award recommendations must be constructed
to ’make sure people fully understand the level of valor that was
involved.’”
The Silver Star recommendation received a positive recommendation from Gen. Raymond
Odierno, then the Army chief of
staff, and approval from thenArmy Secretary John McHugh.
Joe Kasper, a spokesman for
Hunter, said that the comments
of members on the decorations
board show “enormous amounts
of personal prejudice” in how
valor awards are approved.
“In essence what he’s saying is,
‘If this was a private, it would rate
the Medal of Honor, but because
we expect our NCOs to do valorous things it doesn’t,’ ” Kasper
said. “That person should be looking at the actions alone.”
As part of its findings, the inspector general recommended that
the Army consider developing a
valor award eyewitness statement
form that includes an “appropriate
explanation of valor award criteria” and ask witnesses to provide
enough facts and details about
how a nominee’s actions meet the
standards required for an award.
The IG also called for the Army
to consider requiring that valor
award recommendations include
statements from all eyewitnesses.
It is not clear whether the Army
will do so.
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BY A LEX HORTON
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PHOTOS
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Virsa Perkins performs a back squat during a CrossFit workout challenge at the Kabul Fitness Festival at
the U.S. Embassy in the Afghan capital on May 27.
Fitness: Exercise ‘changes your state of mind’
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“It’s so true,” said embassy
employee Virsa Perkins. She said
she started high-intensity CrossFit workouts in April, “so the
stresses of Afghanistan don’t get
to me.”
She was one of several embassy
employees, military servicemembers and contractors who took
part in the Kabul Fitness Festival — a slate of dozens of athletic
activities on the compound over
Memorial Day weekend.
“I’m trying to be the hunk,”
Perkins said. “I was the monk.”
Collins, who took part in the
festival’s opening ceremony, said
he attempted to work out when he
arrived in Kabul, but his initial
efforts were inconsistent. “They
try to do a lot here,” he said. “I
think [the challenge is] trying to
find the motivation.”
Though not as austere as many
military bases in Afghanistan,
the main compound in Kabul is
one of three high-threat embassies where the State Department
deems living conditions stressful
enough to warrant extra coping
resources.
Social workers are embedded
at embassies in Kabul, Baghdad
and Islamabad to help people
manage the unique pressures of
living in war-zone environments.
In Kabul, they offer individual
counseling, stress-management
workshops, wellness programs
and other tailored services.
Some of the stresses for the
roughly 1,700 people based at
the embassy are seclusion and
close quarters, officials said. Not
only are they far from home but
people work and live together in
a compound smaller than about
five Manhattan blocks.
Opportunities to leave the facility are few. Private trips outside
the compound require several
days’ notice to arrange for security details to scout and clear the location. Embassy staffers are then
accompanied by armed guards
riding in armored vehicles who
secure the perimeter during the
Embassy workers and servicemembers participate in a dodge ball
tournament during the festival.
visit.
“It’s like an island,” said Basia
Yeziorna, one of two social workers at the Kabul embassy. It’s
unique from most other posts,
where Foreign Service officers
are able to come and go more
easily to see the country they’re
serving in, to meet locals and to
conduct the work of diplomacy.
While exercise can’t change the
environment, “It kind of changes
your state of mind,” said her colleague, Theresa Johnson, adding
that its biochemical effects improve mood. “Exercise is actually
a whole complement of coping
strategies.”
It helps people build or replenish resilience, or the ability to
cope with stress, she said. Other
strategies such as heavy eating,
drinking or isolation can deplete
a person’s resilience resources if
overindulged.
People don’t start bad habits in
Kabul, the social workers said;
they typically arrive with an existing tendency that gets worse.
But many commit to countering their weaknesses by focusing
on fitness goals. There are several workout options available here,
including a tennis court, a gym
with weight and cardio machines,
a volleyball court and a swimming pool. In May, no fewer than
three fitness classes were offered
any day of the week.
Johnson, who’s lost 30 pounds
in Kabul, attends Zumba classes.
They proved so popular, attracting servicemembers from the adjoining NATO base, that a second
session had to be added.
Besides boosting mood and improving physical heath, exercise
is often a way for people to form
supportive social groups outside
work, Yeziorna said. While there
are many sources of support
in the U.S. and other posts, she
added, “here, we really just have
the job.”
Collins said he became consistent in his fitness efforts in
January through “positive peer
pressure” from a friend with
whom he started going to the gym
on a daily basis.
About the same time, he and
his friend began participating in
a Saturday morning fitness club
and running events organized by
Robin Martz, a U.S. Agency for
International Development employee who runs triathlons, and
Maria Amaya, a security officer
who runs ultramarathons.
Martz and Amaya, who also
organized the fitness festival,
started the groups to help people
achieve their New Year’s resolutions, build community and “forget where they’re at,” Amaya
said.
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SAN ANTONIO — More than
5,300 student veterans and their
beneficiaries enrolled in online
courses at Ashford University
could be cut off from their GI Bill
benefits next month, according
to the Department of Veterans
Affairs.
The potential interruption of
education benefits — including
tuition, books and a living stipend
— will go into effect for students
entering any term after June 30
if the school’s parent company,
Bridgepoint Education, is denied
or delayed approval from the California State Approving Agency for
Veterans Education by that date.
VA looks to state agencies to approve higher education programs
to receive access to GI Bill tuition
payments. Iowa’s Department of
Education pulled their certification for Ashford after the university announced it would shutter
its brick-and-mortar university
in Clinton, Iowa, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ashford
recently shifted its headquarters
to San Diego, where Bridgepoint
is based.
The vast majority of Ashford’s
students using the GI Bill attend
online classes, according to VA’s
school comparison website. Another group of about 5,000 student
veterans and beneficiaries are not
currently enrolled but took classes
on or after Aug. 1, 2015, according
to a VA spokesman. Those students could also be affected if they
choose to enroll in future classes.
Seeking approval in California
could prove challenging, as the
company was subpoenaed by the
California Attorney General’s Office in 2013 following investigations into their financial aid and
enrollment practices. The state investigation is ongoing, according
to a spokeswoman for the attorney
general there.
Attorneys general in Kentucky,
New York and North Carolina,
along with the federal Consumer
Finance Protection Bureau, have
launched similar probes to investigate possible violations of consumer protection laws at Bridgepoint,
according to SEC filings.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill pays tuition and fees and provides living
and book stipends to veterans and
dependents attending universities
or trade schools. The payments
are calculated based on time spent
in active-duty service.
According to the VA’s GI Bill
resource page, a veteran with
100 percent eligibility enrolled at
Ashford receives a $1,111 monthly
housing stipend and $1,000 per
year for books, with tuition covered at $21,085 per year.
If certification in California
does not occur, the change will
force veterans and dependents to
pay tuition out of pocket while losing their living and book stipends.
Students would need to relocate to
another accredited school to receive their education benefits.
Ashford is a for-profit institution — part of an industry raked
by President Barack Obama’s administration, which seeks tighter
regulations.
Last year, the Obama administration began enforcing rules
requiring universities to track job
performance of graduates—one
indicator of how much value the
degree brings in the workforce.
The for-profit school industry accounts for 13 percent of all higher
education students but half of all
loan defaults, according to a 2014
Department of Education release.
A 2012 investigation by Sen.
Tom Arkin, D-Iowa, concluded
that GI Bill tuition dollars are
especially lucrative to for-profit
schools. Institutions must not receive more than 90 percent of
their funding from federal coffers,
but VA and Defense Department
funds for the GI Bill do not count
against it. The industry has collected $8.2 billion in funds since
the Post-9/11 GI Bill became law
in 2009, according to an analysis
by the Los Angeles Times.
Industry officials have long
countered they provide nontraditional access for nontraditional
students such as veterans and
military dependents.
Student Veterans of America,
an advocacy group, has deployed
an outreach team to relay information and resources to potentially affected students at Ashford
University. The team will field
questions from Ashford students
and provide guidance on alternative schools that might individually suit them if the California
approval agency declines GI Bill
certification.
While SVA will stop short of telling veterans at Ashford to avoid
for-profit schools in the future, the
group is prepared to make recommendations on the type of institution that veterans should attend.
“We will steer veterans to schools
that provide better value, and in
most cases that means public, private nonprofit and community colleges,” said James Schmeling, the
group’s executive vice president of
strategic engagement.
The university took to Facebook
on Monday to address their students’ concerns.
“First and foremost, our goal
is to ensure that students using
VA education benefits experience
no disruption in their educational
benefits,” one post said.
Ashford has drawn fire for its
recruitment of servicemembers
and veterans. In 2009, Bloomberg
reported that its recruiters canvassed for troops heading to medical retirement, including a Marine
with a traumatic brain injury who
could not recall what classes he
had chosen.
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WAR ON TERRORISM
US steps up drone attacks on militant leadership
BY W. J. H ENNIGAN
Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON –– U.S. drone
operators had been stalking the
baby-faced British terrorist for
days with infrared cameras and
other sensors before the order
came to kill him.
As night fell on April 25, a U.S.
warplane dropped a guided bomb
that obliterated the SUV occupied by Raphael Saihou Hostey,
23, near Mosul, the Islamic State
group’s stronghold in Iraq.
Hostey, a recruiter for the militants, was targeted by a U.S. military campaign that has singled out
and killed more than 120 Islamic
State leaders, commanders, propagandists, recruiters and other
so-called high-value individuals
so far this year, officials said.
The leadership attacks have
picked up recently due to intelligence collected by special operations teams on night raids, from
captured militants and from intercepted of email, cellphone and
other communications.
The focus on the Islamic State
group’s
command-and-control
structure, including its recruitment and funding systems, has
helped weaken the Sunni extremist group as Iraqi, Syrian and
Kurdish forces press the militants
on the battlefield.
The targeted killings are so well
known that militants have built
“counter-drone screens” of cardboard and plywood to hide leaders
and fighters in parts of Raqqa, the
group’s declared capital in Syria.
They also have belittled the attacks as insignificant.
“America, do you think that
victory comes by killing a commander or more?” a spokesman,
Abu Mohammed Adnani, said in
a recorded message released May
21. “We will not be deterred by
your campaign, and you will not
be victorious.”
U.S. commanders tend to agree
that killing the Islamic State
group’s leaders one by one won’t
end the war any more than killing
Osama bin Laden in 2011 ended
the terrorist threat from al-Qaida.
Lt. Gen. Robert P. Otto, Air
Force chief of staff for intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance,
said leadership strikes have only
a short-term effect. Bombing the
group’s oil production sites and
cash hoards have hurt the group
much more.
“From my observation, when
we take [high-value individuals]
off the battlefield, there is a temporary impact on operations and
then the adversary appoints someone else in his place,” Otto said.
“There has always been somebody
else to move into those positions
and the fight continues. We cannot
kill our way out of this war.”
The campaign, run by Joint
Special Operations Command in
Fort Bragg, N.C., emerged from
the “kill-capture operations” that
were used against insurgents in
the Iraq War and that were expanded in Afghanistan. The command refers to each confirmed
kill as a “jackpot.”
The Pentagon this year has an-
nounced several major “jackpots.”
They include Omar Shishani, the
Islamic State group’s minister of
war; Rahman Mustafa Qaduli,
its minister of finance; and Abu
Wahib, military emir for Iraq’s
Anbar province.
For now, the airstrikes have
“created distrust” in the militant ranks, said Rami Abdurrahman, founder of the Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group.
The Islamic State group has
executed at least 46 people as
suspected spies in the last three
months, he said in a telephone
interview. Some were accused
of placing GPS devices on cars
or at locations to signal coalition
forces.
Syrian: Observatory director says politics doesn’t motivate most Syrians
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Humanitarian aid groups say they are
hard-pressed financially to meet the needs
of such large numbers of near-destitute
people.
Relief organizations have been reluctant
to provide detailed breakdowns of how
much aid is going to areas controlled by
the various sides in the conflict, citing the
potential political sensitivity of such revelations. But a Western aid official said the
bulk of relief supplies is going to areas controlled by the opposition groups because
the needs there were the greatest.
On Thursday, international relief groups
delivered aid to the rebel-held Damascus
suburb of Daraya for the first time since
it was besieged in 2012, The Associated
Press reported. The delivery came hours
after the United Nations said the Syrian
government approved access to 15 of the 19
besieged areas within the country.
It has proved difficult for non-Islamic aid
agencies to deliver food and medical supplies to some areas under opposition control because the pro-Western rebels are
often intermingled with fighters from the
Nusra Front, al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate.
“On the government side, things are
much better organized,” said the Western
official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to
journalists.
Although regime security forces have
lost control of large swaths of territory to
opposition groups, including the al Qaidaaffiliated Nusra Front and the extremist
Islamic State group, about three-quarters
of the population still lives in regime-held
territory.
Nearly 80 percent of those displaced by
the war within Syria have fled to government-held parts of the country, a European
diplomat said. Less than a quarter have
chosen the side controlled by the various
rebel groups, said the diplomat, who could
not be named under his nation’s standing
rules.
“This probably also shows where their
political preferences lie,” he said.
Opposition sympathizers acknowledged
that most Syrians preferred the government side but denied this was because they
supported the regime.
Rami Abdurrahman, director of the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
a British-based monitoring group widely
regarded as favoring the opposition, dismissed suggestions that this showed that
most people preferred the regime to the
rebels.
“It is 100 percent true that the large majority of people who don’t want to escape
Syria go to the regime areas,” he said in a
telephone interview. But, he added: “These
people don’t care about politics. They just
want to stay alive, and
opposition areas are
They
not safe.”
For example, Abjust want
durrahman said, at
to stay
least 1.5 million people
from
rebel areas in
alive, and
the northern, war-torn
opposition provinces of Idlib and
areas are Aleppo had sought
shelter in pro-governnot safe.
ment areas along the
Rami coast, including the
Abdurrahman port cities of Tartus
Syrian and Latakia, because
Observatory for they were relatively
Human Rights free of the violence afflicting other parts of
the country.
Among Syria’s neighbors, Turkey currently hosts a record 2.5 million Syrians,
according to the U.N.
In Lebanon, Syrians — who number
about 1.1 million — account for a fifth of the
population. About 600,000 are registered
in Jordan, where they account for about 10
percent of the inhabitants.
In Europe, nearly 500,000 Syrians have
arrived in Germany, and just over 100,000
in Sweden.
Sunnis made up about two-thirds of Syria’s prewar population. Most of those joining
the rebellion and those fleeing the country
and settling in refugee camps in Turkey
and Jordan are rural Sunnis, many of them
intensely religious, aid officials say. In contrast, many urban Sunnis — who tend to be
nonreligious — have sided with the government, as have overwhelming majorities of
Christians, Shiites, Druze, Kurds, Armenians and other minorities.
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Syrians gather around damaged buildings after a bomb attack in the Sayyida Zeinab
suburb of Damascus on Saturday. At least eight people were killed.
Blasts near capital kill at least 12
The Associated Press
BEIRUT — Two suicide bombers struck
close to the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens
more in the latest attack to hit the predominantly Shiite area in recent months, state
TV and an opposition activist group said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombings through its Aamaq
news agency, which said there were three
attacks carried out by suicide bombers.
Aamaq said two attackers were wearing explosive belts, while the third was in a car.
Syrian State TV said the blasts in the
Sayyida Zeinab area just south of Damascus killed 12 people and wounded 55
others. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 20 people were
killed and dozens were wounded in the two
explosions.
The blasts came as U.S.-backed fighters in northern Syria tightened their siege
on the Islamic State stronghold of Manbij,
where tens of the thousands of civilians are
trapped by the fighting. The Syria Democratic Forces, a predominantly Kurdish
group, encircled the town after capturing
dozens of villages and farms near the Turkish border.
“The push toward Manbij slowed down
because of fear for civilians there,” said
Mustafa Bali, a Syrian journalist who visited the front line. “All telecommunications
with the town have been cut,” he told The
Associated Press by telephone.
The Observatory said tens of thousands of
civilians in the town fear bombardment of
residential areas at a time when most bakeries have stopped working and food is running out. It said airstrikes by the U.S.-led
coalition have killed 30 civilians, including
11 children, since SDF began its offensive
on May 31.
Manbij, one of the Islamic State group’s
largest strongholds in Syria’s Aleppo province, is a waypoint on a key supply line between the extremists’ de facto capital of
Raqqa and the Turkish frontier.
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Feds probing
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bike crash
that killed 5
BY ED WHITE
Associated Press
JAE S. LEE, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS/AP
Travelers wait in line to go through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint Friday at Dallas Love Field airport in Dallas. A
police officer shot and injured a man who was involved in a domestic disturbance Friday at the airport, authorities said.
Shooting disrupts Dallas airport
BY DAVID KOENIG
Associated Press
DALLAS — It doesn’t take
much to disrupt a major airport
these days, with travel increasing
and federal security screeners
straining to keep up.
On Friday, a domestic disturbance at Dallas Love Field spun
wildly out of control and ended
with a police officer firing several shots at a man outside the
terminal.
It was over in minutes, but the
repercussions lasted hours.
When the shots rang out, some
frightened travelers at the nearby
security checkpoint rushed past
screeners and toward the safety
of the terminal. The Transportation Security Administration then
ordered the terminal evacuated.
Hundreds of passengers needed
to be screened again, along with
people showing up for afternoon
flights, creating a massive line at
the checkpoint.
Departing flights were stopped
for a time. At least eight inbound
flights operated by Southwest
Airlines and one by Virgin America were diverted to other airports from El Paso to St. Louis,
according to the tracking service
flightaware.com.
Richard Bloom, an aviationsecurity expert at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, said
the terrorism threat makes law
enforcement officers at airports
more security-conscious, but they
are trained to handle many other
situations.
That training varies widely, he
said — some departments give
lectures, but the better approach
is to practice in role-playing
simulations. Whether in an air-
Suspect newly released
from jail before shooting
Associated Press
DALLAS — A Maryland
man newly released from
being jailed on a criminal mischief charge was shot by police
outside a Dallas airport after
hitting his ex-girlfriend and
battering her car with a traffic cone and large landscaping
rocks, police say.
Shawn Nicholas Diamond,
29, of Edgewood, Md., was in
stable condition in a hospital after the Friday incident
outside the Dallas Love Field
terminal, Dallas Police Chief
David Brown said.
Brown said Diamond had
rocks in his hands as he advanced menacingly toward an
officer who had his gun drawn.
port or anywhere else, domestic
disturbances are among the most
dangerous situations for police
because they may be dealing with
enraged and irrational people.
Dallas police Sgt. Mike Beattie, who is stationed at Love Field,
said airport police receive special
training every two years in spotting suspicious-looking travelers
and working in crowds. He did
not detail the training.
Mike Boyd, a Colorado-based
consultant who advises airports,
was sympathetic to Friday’s
officer.
“At an airport, if you see some-
He said
Diamond
was heard
telling the
officer,
“You’re
going to
have
to
shoot.”
Diamond was
Diamond
released
on bond
earlier Friday after spending
the night in a county jail, police
in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton said. He was arrested
Thursday after causing $3,700
in damage to city-owned trees
by reckless driving, Carrollton
police spokeswoman Jolene
DeVito said.
thing crazy going on in this day
and age, maybe it’s better to overreact than underreact,” he said.
Love Field has one major
checkpoint used by all passengers at 20 gates for flights on
Southwest, Virgin and Delta Air
Lines. Nearby Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport has several
checkpoints spread across five
terminals.
“Any kind of a disturbance like
that is going to affect the airport,
especially at an older airport like
Love Field,” Boyd said. “That’s
just one of the vulnerabilities
we’re going to have to live with.”
By late Friday afternoon,
nearly 100 flights at Love Field
had been delayed, representing a
higher percentage of delays than
at busier airports including DFW,
Los Angeles International and
Boston.
Even under the best circumstances, some of the nation’s
busiest airports have seen lines
longer than two hours at security
checkpoints this year. Airlines,
lawmakers and passengers have
pressured TSA to speed people
through the checkpoints more
quickly.
The TSA has moved screeners
around and has reduced lines in
the past two weeks, but July and
early August will be a better test
of the agency’s ability to handle
crowds.
And crowds are expected to be
bigger this year because of the
modestly growing economy and
slightly lower fares. An airline
industry trade group, Airlines
for America, predicts that 230
million passengers will fly in the
U.S. during June, July and August, a 4 percent increase over
last summer.
DETROIT — A federal safety
agency that investigates airplane
failures, commercial truck mishaps and train derailments is taking a look at a Michigan road crash
that killed five bicyclists to determine if lessons can be learned to
prevent a similar tragedy.
Eric Weiss, spokesman for the
National Transportation Safety
Board, said it has been decades
since the agency has “looked at
bicycles and cars and safety.”
An NTSB team arrived in the
Kalamazoo area Thursday and
likely will spend a week conducting interviews and studying the
crash site, bikes and the pickup
that hit the group, investigator
Pete Kotowski said Friday.
“What drew our attention to
this were the five fatalities as well
as the number of injured,” said
Kotowski, adding that the agency
also is interested in the effects of
impaired driving. “The things we
look at are the type of road, the
lane markings, those things. We
haven’t reached any conclusions
yet.”
Five people were killed and
four were injured Tuesday when
a pickup struck a large group of
bicyclists from behind on a twolane road in Kalamazoo County’s
Cooper Township, 160 miles from
Chicago.
“This wasn’t coming around the
bend and suddenly there were bicyclists there,” said Paul Selden,
a bicyclist who knows the road
and talked to an NTSB investigator. “This was a straight stretch of
road, an uphill stretch.”
The driver of the pickup,
Charles Pickett Jr., appeared in
court Friday on second-degree
murder charges and other crimes.
He was returned to jail without
bond, and an attorney will be appointed to represent him.
Prosecutor Jeff Getting is
awaiting a state police report on
what was found in Pickett’s body,
if anything.
The number of bicyclists killed
nationally in crashes has fluctuated during the past decade, while
remaining relatively flat. A total
of 786 cyclists died in 2005, according to the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration. It
dropped to 628 in 2009 and went
back up to 726 in 2014.
Bicycle commuting nationwide
climbed 62 percent from 2000
to 2013, according to a census
survey.
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‘The Voice’ singer shot
dead after Fla. concert
BY NICKI M AYO
GREG SCHREIER
AND
The Associated Press
A gunman opened fire at a Florida concert venue as a onetime star
of “The Voice” signed autographs
for fans after a show, killing the
performer before fatally shooting
himself, officials said Saturday.
A publicist for Christina Grimmie, Heather Weiss, said in an
email early Saturday that “we
can confirm that Christina has
passed and went home to be with
the Lord.” The Orlando Police Department also confirmed on its official Twitter page that Grimmie
had died.
Grimmie, a New Jersey native,
finished third during season six
of NBC’s “The Voice” in 2014,
competing on the team of Maroon
5 star Adam Levine. She began
amassing a following on YouTube
as a teenager, gripping online
viewers with her powerful renditions of hit songs. Her videos on
YouTube have garnered millions
of views.
Police said in a news release that
Grimmie, 22, had performed with
the band Before You Exit at The
Plaza Live in Orlando. The concert ended at about 10 p.m., and
Grimmie was shot as she signed
autographs for fans at a merchandise table.
Grimmie’s brother immediately
tackled the gunman, who then
shot and killed himself during the
struggle, police said. The gunman
was not identified, and police have
not said why he attacked the singer. An investigation is ongoing, but
police credited the singer’s brother with preventing the gunman
from hurting others.
Sgt. Wanda Miglio said during a
news conference after the shooting
that about 60 to 100 people were in
attendance, although only a handful remained when the shooting
happened.
Miglio said she did not know
what security was like at the
venue or how the shooter got two
guns inside. She also said she did
not know if off-duty officers were
working the concert.
“It was just a casual event,” she
said.
Grimmie had posted a video of
herself shortly before the concert
was scheduled to begin, encouraging fans to come see her perform.
Levine posted a photo of himself with Grimmie on Instagram,
commenting before her death was
confirmed: “I’m sad, shocked and
confused. We love you so much
Grimmie. We are all praying hard
that you can pull through this …
this just isn’t fair.”
When reports of Grimmie’s
ROBB D. C OHEN, INVISION /AP
“The Voice” Season 6 contestant Christina Grimmie performs as
part of “The Voice Tour” at Cobb Energy Centre in Atlanta in June
2014.
death first surfaced, #PrayforChristina was the top trending
hashtag on Twitter. After her death
was confirmed, #RIPChristina
became the top trending hashtag
as Grimmie’s fans took to social
media to express an outpouring of
grief.
“The Voice” paid tribute to
Grimmie on its official Twitter
page: “There are no words. We
lost a beautiful soul with an amaz-
ing voice.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in 2014 that Grimmie
moved to Los Angeles in 2012 after
joining Selena Gomez on tour to
focus on her singing career.
“I’m done being surprised by
cool things she does. She’s very talented and she’s worked incredibly
hard — it’s a dangerous combination,” her brother, Mark Grimmie,
told the newspaper at the time.
Campaign aims
to remove judge in
Stanford rape case
BY K RISTIN J. BENDER
AND LISA L EFF
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A fledgling campaign to recall the judge
who sentenced a former Stanford
University swimmer to six months
in jail for sexually assaulting an
unconscious woman gained momentum as three prominent political consultants joined the effort.
The Recall Judge Aaron Persky
campaign on Friday said media
consultant Joe Trippi, campaign
strategist John Shallman and pollster Paul Maslin would help secure
the signatures and votes required
to remove the Santa Clara County,
Calif., jurist from the bench next
year.
Trippi has worked for a number of Democratic presidential
candidates, while Maslin’s clients
include California Gov. Jerry
Brown and members of Congress.
Shallman has worked for the president of the California Senate, who
spearheaded passage of a law requiring colleges and universities
to apply a “yes means yes” standard in sexual misconduct cases.
Persky was re-elected in an
unopposed election Tuesday,
five days after sentencing Brock
Turner, 20, to six months in jail
and three years’ probation. The
punishment for the Dayton, Ohio,
native ignited intense outcry as
too lenient.
Prosecutors had argued for
Turner to spend six years in prison for three felony convictions
that could have sent him away for
14 years.
The judge said in court that he
followed a recommendation from
the county’s probation department
and cited Turner’s clean criminal
record and the effect the conviction will have on his life.
“I have daughters in college myself, and I find it deeply disturbing
that a judge like Persky could let
a campus predator like Turner off
with barely a slap on the wrist,”
Shallman said. “Justice is supposed to be blind — not stupid.”
A request to interview the
judge wasn’t returned Friday. A
court spokesman has said Persky is barred from commenting
because Turner is appealing his
convictions of felony assault and
attempted rape.
Meanwhile, a group of California lawmakers joined women’s
rights advocates in urging the California agency that investigates
complaints of judicial misconduct
to take action against Persky.
Eleven Democratic state lawmakers asked the Commission on
Judicial Performance to investigate and discipline the judge, alleging he may have engaged in
misconduct in sentencing Turner.
The judge’s decision “confirms
what women already knew: That
rape culture blames us for being
vulnerable when crimes are committed against us, but treats the
same factors — drinking, in particular — as reasons to be exceedingly lenient with rapists,” said
Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, of Stockton.
JEAN REVILLARD,
COURTESY OF
SI2/AP
The solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2, piloted by Swiss adventurer Andre Borschberg, approaches
Manhattan in New York near the Statue of Liberty, left, on Saturday, shortly before landing at John F.
Kennedy International Airport.
Solar-powered airplane lands in NYC
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The solar-powered airplane on a globe-circling
voyage that began more than
a year ago in the United Arab
Emirates reached a milestone
Saturday, completing a trip across
the United States with a Statue of
Liberty flyby before landing in
New York.
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse
2 landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport at 4 a.m. after
a four-hour, 41-minute flight of
about 165 miles from Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania. Its trip across the U.S.
mainland began April 24, when
Solar Impulse landed in San Francisco from Hawaii.
“Si2 is now safe in New York,
JFK airport. … Our new home
is Hangar 19 in John F. Kennedy
International Airport!” the pilots’
logbook read.
Pilots Andre Borschberg, who
flew the plane to New York, and
Bertrand Piccard, who will start
the next leg of the journey, expect
to leave “soon” to cross the Atlantic Ocean for Europe or South
Africa on their way to completing
an aviation engineering feat to
advance environmentally compatible technology.
Across the U.S., they stopped
in Phoenix; Tulsa, Okla.; Dayton,
Ohio, home of aviation pioneers
Orville and Wilbur Wright; and
Allentown, Pa.
The Solar Impulse 2’s wings,
which stretch wider than those of
a Boeing 747, are equipped with
17,000 solar cells that power propellers and charge batteries. The
plane runs on stored energy at
night. Ideal flight speed is about
28 mph, although that can double
during the day when the sun’s rays
are strongest.
The plane originally was scheduled to head to the Big Apple
Monday night, but showers and
thunderstorms moving through
the area caused it to be grounded.
The trip began in March 2015
from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the
United Arab Emirates, and made
stops in Oman, Myanmar, China
and Japan.
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Clinton and Trump work toward party unity
BY LISA
AND JILL
LERER
COLVIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The presidential race shifted to the nation’s
capital Friday, with Democrats
executing a carefully orchestrated plan to unify their party
around presumptive nominee
Hillary Clinton.
Her likely general election
rival, Donald Trump, continued
his months-long effort to win over
the Republican base, with events
wooing top donors and evangelical voters.
With the primary contests all
but over, a series of top Democrats formally announced their
support for Clinton, headlined
by the glowing endorsement of
President Barack Obama on
Thursday.
Within hours, Vice President
Joe Biden and Massachusetts
Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined
that effort, signaling to many of
Sanders’ supporters that it’s time
to unite around the party’s presumptive nominee. Clinton and
Warren met privately for about an
hour Friday morning at Clinton’s
home in Washington, intensifying
speculation that the progressive
stalwart may be tapped for the
vice presidency.
“If you really want to electrify
the base you’ve got to get somebody who’s been speaking to the
base and is going to turn the base
out,” said Rep. Keith Ellison, DMinn., one of Sanders’ top supporters in Congress. He said he
and other progressives would be
thrilled if Clinton tapped Warren
for her ticket.
Democrats in Washington are
eager to unite their party against
Trump. Primary rival Bernie
Sanders, who’s vowed to take
his political revolution to their
national Democratic convention
in July, has been stressing his
determination to defeat Trump,
perhaps signaling he may exit
the race or at least shift his focus
after the final primary election
Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
On Friday, he retreated to his
home in Burlington, Vt., to plot
his next steps.
Clinton, meanwhile, delivered
her first speech since becoming
the presumptive nominee, addressing advocates at Planned
Parenthood, the women’s health
organization and abortion provider. The nonprofit was a strong
champion of Clinton in the primaries, giving her its first endorsement in their 100-year history.
Describing Trump as someone
who “doesn’t hold women in high
regard,” Clinton launched into a
feminist attack on her GOP rival,
arguing he would take the country back to “when abortion was
illegal, women had far fewer options and life for too many women
and girls was limited.”
“When Donald Trump says,
‘let’s make America great again,’
that is code for ‘let’s take America
backward,’” she told the cheering
audience.
Trump, who has also faced
resistance from corners of his
party, addressed a gathering of
conservative evangelical voters at
the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s
“Road to Majority” conference
not long after Clinton spoke.
Facing criticism for suggesting a judge’s Mexican heritage
biased him in a case against the
now-defunct Trump University,
Trump struck a more welcoming
tone.
“No one should be judged by
their race or their color and
the color of their skin,” he said.
“We’re going to bring our nation
together.”
Reading mostly from teleprompters, he declared Clinton
“unfit to be president” while vowing to “restore faith to its proper
mantle” in the U.S.
Trump boasted of the support
he received from evangelicals
in the Republican primary and
touted his opposition to abortion
rights and commitment to religious freedom — issues he rarely
discusses in other settings. Seizing on social issues,
When
Trump
claimed
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would ap‘let’s make point “radical” judges
America
who would
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law.”
backward.
In a new
Hillary Clinton dig against
her email
scandal,
Trump proposed “tough new ethics rules to restore dignity of the
office of the secretary of state”
and challenged Clinton to drop
her support for increasing refugee admissions and instead support “a new jobs program for our
inner cities.”
It was one of several examples
of Trump’s burgeoning populist
attacks against Clinton, whom he
painted as indebted to big money.
He claimed Clinton’s immigration, education and trade policies
would harm working families and
“plunge our poor African-American and Hispanic communities into turmoil and even worse
despair.”
He also accused Clinton of
failing to understand the gravity of the risk posed by Islamic
extremism.
His speech was interrupted by
several protesters, including one
woman who screamed “Refugees
are welcome here!” as she was escorted out of the room.
Trump ditched the teleprompters for a rally Friday night in
Richmond, Va., where he delivered a freewheeling monologue
more like those he gave during
the primaries. He claimed Clinton “hates” Obama. He insisted
he was “the least racist person
you’ll see.” And he repeatedly
called Warren “Pocahontas,”
prompting some in the crowd to
break out in Indian war cries.
‘
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Dan Conneally, an impersonator of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, poses for a photo
with Trump supporters before a speech Saturday in Tampa, Fla.
Republicans wait to see whether
disciplined Trump will emerge
BY JILL COLVIN
JONATHAN LEMIRE
AND
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Weary Republicans are looking for assurances
that Donald Trump can maintain the discipline needed to stay
on message as he prepares for a
bruising general election run-up
against Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s conciliatory, teleprompter-guided victory speech
Tuesday appeared to stave off a
near-revolt over his racially divisive attacks against the Americanborn judge of Mexican heritage
hearing the case against his nowdefunct Trump University.
As he kicked off his general election campaign Friday, a thorny
question has arisen: How does the
party keep Trump in check?
“A primary campaign against
16 opponents is very different and
combative in a different way than
a general election against a wellorganized, well-funded Clinton
machine,” said Rep. Chris Collins,
who has been helping to coordinate
Trump’s outreach to Congress.
Collins said he understood
there would be lingering questions about Trump after the distracting episode, but said the
speech was part of what he sees as
a “total pivot” by the candidate.
The judge episode arguably
marked the biggest crisis of
Trump’s campaign to date and
sparked a series of phone calls
from concerned Republicans,
including House Speaker Paul
Ryan, pressing the gravity of the
situation.
“I explained exactly what I
thought about that comment. I
said it publicly, and I said it privately,” Ryan said on “Good
Morning America” Friday.
“I don’t know what’s in his
heart,” he added. “But I do
think, hope and believe that he’s
going to improve the tenor of the
campaign.”
It remains to be seen, however,
how deeply Trump has internalized the message. Since launching
his campaign, Trump has pushed
back against calls by some of his
closest aides and family members to adopt a more “presidential
tone.” His fiery language and penchant for controversy has earned
him endless free media attention
and energized voters during the
primaries, helping him secure
victory.
“You think I’m going to change?
I’m not changing,” he boomed at a
press conference recently.
Trump campaign manager
Corey Lewandowski dismissed
the idea of an intervention and
downplayed the significance of
the victory speech, noting Trump
has used teleprompters on multiple occasions.
“From time to time, he’ll use
it. But’s a function of the audience and what he wants to say. I
can guarantee you this: In Richmond tonight, it will not be a teleprompter speech,” he said.
Indeed, Trump was already
showing signs that general election Trump will sound a lot like
primary Trump.
He tweeted “Pocahontas is at
it again!” Friday morning, using
his favored nickname for Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, who officially
endorsed Clinton Thursday evening and met with her Friday.
Speaking in a 12,000-personcapacity arena in Richmond, Va.,
that was only about one-third full,
he mused that he might hold a
“Winners Night” at the Republican convention next month, during which various sports heroes
would appear.
To try to keep Trump, who is
notoriously resistant to advice, on
track, some on his team are turning more to his grown children
— Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka, as
well as Ivanka’s husband, Jared
Kushner — in the hope that they
can exert influence. In addition
to giving them more public roles,
some campaign aides have been
pushing for them to travel more
with the candidate, according
to a person familiar with the efforts, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity.
The goal is to try to keep Trump
on message, while asserting more
control over Lewandowski, who is
a constant presence by Trump’s
side. Lewandowski led Trump to
victory in the primary with the
motto “Let Trump be Trump”
and has long resisted suggestions
Trump needs to change his tone.
Lewandowski pushed back
against the notion that Republicans are looking for Trump
to tone down his rhetoric and
stressed the candidate is not
going to change.
Still, supporters say they’re
confident that Trump is growing
into his new role.
“I think Donald is learning
how to be a candidate,” said John
Catsimatidis, a major New York
donor, as he left a closed-door
gathering with Trump on Thursday. “I think he’s getting better
and better at it.”
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At daughter’s
graduation, Obama
‘just a total dad’
BY K RISSAH THOMPSON
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON
—
When
Sidwell Friends School asked
President Barack Obama if he
would like to speak at his elder
daughter’s graduation this spring,
he declined.
“I’m going to be wearing dark
glasses,” he told a group of lunch
companions during a visit to Detroit earlier this year, “I’m going
to cry.”
Obama was true to his word
Friday. He did not speak at Malia
Obama’s commencement ceremony, which he and the first lady
attended along with family and
friends of other graduates of the
elite private school in Northwest
Washington.
“He was just a total dad,” the
mother of a graduating senior said
of the president. “No fanfare. You
didn’t know they were there.”
If the president did cry during the outdoor ceremony, his
tears were hidden behind his
sunglasses.
Inside the gates of the school’s
campus, nestled in the woodsy
fringe of Tenleytown, Malia was
just one of 127 graduates. Like
the other young women, she
wore a white dress — the young
men were in suits — and walked
down the stairs of the Zartman
House administrative building to
take her seat on the lawn beneath
vines of wisteria.
Over recent months, Barack
and Michelle Obama have expressed sadness and pride as
their daughter has grown up. But
primarily, they have been protective as Malia transitions to adulthood and out of their cocoon. She
will turn 18 next month and has
been accepted at Harvard. Her
parents have said she will take a
gap year, allowing her to enroll
after her father’s term ends.
Sidwell did its best to close
the ceremony to the press. The
Obamas, who also celebrated
the 15th birthday of younger
daughter Sasha on Friday with
a post-ceremony luncheon at
Georgetown’s Cafe Milano, wanted to treat the event as a family
affair — and the school and others in attendance tried to respect
that desire.
Obama drew no attention to
himself, and there was no special
attention paid to the first family during the ceremony. Sidwell,
which also educated the children
of Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon,
Herbert Hoover and Teddy Roosevelt, emphasizes equality among
its Quaker traditions: Awards
are not handed out at graduation,
and VIPs get no special recognition. (Though after the ceremony,
the president and Malia posed
for a couple of photos with wellwishers that quickly ended up on
social media.)
Private Buffett lunch
sells for over $3.4M
BY JOSH FUNK
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — For the second time, an anonymous bidder
has agreed to pay more than $3.4
million for a private lunch with
billionaire Warren Buffett, with
the auction proceeds going to a
San Francisco homeless charity.
The bid of
$3,456,789
from
Friday night’s
winner ties
the record
highest
from 2012,
when a bidder also paid
$3,456,789 to
become the
Buffett
most expensive individual charity item ever
sold on eBay.
The weeklong eBay auction to
raise money for the Glide Foundation began Sunday and wrapped
up Friday night. By midmorning
Friday, the bidding reached more
than $2.6 million, nearly $300,000
higher than last year’s winning
bid by Beijing-based Dalian Zeus
Entertainment Co.
Six of the past eight winners
paid more than $2 million to dine
with Buffett, the investor who
leads the Berkshire Hathaway
conglomerate.
Buffett has raised more than
$20 million for Glide. The lunch
auctions began after Buffett’s
first wife, Susie, showed him the
charity, where she had been volunteering. Susie Buffett died in
2004, but the connection between
Warren Buffett and Glide’s founders has endured.
Buffett has said he gets a wide
range of questions at the lunches
that usually run for several hours.
The only limit on lunch conversation is what Buffett might invest in
next, but any other topic is open.
The winners of the lunch auction typically dine with Buffett at
Smith and Wollensky steak house
in New York City, which donates
at least $10,000 to Glide each year
to host the lunch.
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An employee rings out a beer customer Thursday at Liquor Mart in Boulder, Colo. On Friday, Colorado’s
governor signed a bill to gradually allow grocery stores to sell full-strength beer, liquor and wine, the
biggest change to state liquor laws since the end of Prohibition.
Colo. governor signs bill allowing
phase-in of sales of full-strength beer
BY K RISTEN WYATT
Associated Press
DENVER — Colorado Gov.
John Hickenlooper signed a bill
Friday to gradually allow grocery
stores to sell full-strength beer,
liquor and wine, making the biggest change to state liquor laws
since the end of Prohibition.
The law sets up a 20-year period for grocers to slowly acquire
liquor licenses, sometimes by
paying for those held by neighboring liquor stores.
By 2037, Colorado would repeal
its unusual limits on how many
licenses a company or chain may
hold to sell alcohol. It also would
end a requirement that most
grocers sell only “near-beer,”
watered-down versions of common brews.
Colorado’s largest grocers say
the change will take too long
and vow to ask voters this fall for
speedier changes.
Hickenlooper recently said he
didn’t want to see any change
to liquor laws to protect the jobs
of small store owners. But he
signed the measure after meeting with brewers, liquor stores
and grocers.
“I was persuaded by the majority of independent liquor store
owners,” Hickenlooper told reporters Friday afternoon. The
store owners feared that voters
would approve a measure to immediately allow full-strength
beer, wine and liquor in all grocery stores, he said.
“This bill allows a transition period, where all the change doesn’t
happen overnight,” Hickenlooper
said.
The state’s largest grocers —
King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons — said they may still run
multimillion-dollar ballot campaigns this fall to end the “near
beer” requirements once and
for all. Colorado is one of only 5
states to have “near-beer” in grocery stores.
“Consumers want real beer and
wine in the grocery store. They
don’t want to wait until 2037,” said
Georgie Aguirre-Sacasa, who is
managing the campaign for the
Colorado grocers’ ballot measure.
Five versions of a ballot measure to allow more groceries to
sell full-strength beer have been
proposed. Supporters have until
August to turn in some 98,000
signatures to get one of them on
ballots this fall.
Hickenlooper said Friday he
would “loudly” oppose any effort by supermarkets to push for
an immediate change because he
thinks it would be unfair to small
liquor stores who have worked to
build their businesses.
“I care about little guys,” he
said.
Not all liquor stores oppose the
bill. Tiffany Lough, co-general
manager of the Liquor Mart in
Boulder, says it gives the store the
opportunity to compete in a larger market because it will be able
to sell items like chips that are not
allowed under the current law.
“It’s putting us on a more level
playing field,” she said.
Ala. House speaker convicted, ousted
BY K IM CHANDLER
Associated Press
OPELIKA, Ala. — Alabama
House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s
conviction on ethics charges automatically removes him from office
and could mean years in prison
for the powerful Republican.
Friday night, a jury found the
onetime GOP star guilty of 12
counts of public corruption for
using the influence and prestige
of his political stature to benefit
his companies and clients. He
faces up to 20 years in prison for
each count.
The jury, which arrived at the
verdict after nearly seven hours
of deliberation, acquitted Hubbard on 11 other counts.
The conviction comes amid a
season of scandal that has engulfed Republicans at the helm
of Alabama’s legislative, judicial
and executive branches of government. Chief Justice Roy Moore
faces possible ouster from office
over accusations that he violated
canons of judicial ethics during
the fight over same-sex marriage. And Gov. Robert Bentley
has faced calls for his impeachment after a sex-tinged scandal
involving a former top aide.
“We hope this verdict tonight
restores some of the confidence
in the people of the state of Alabama that public officials at all
levels in the state of Alabama will
be held accountable for their actions, especially those that would
betray the public trust,” said W.
Van Davis, the acting attorney
general in the case.
Hubbard, 54, spoke briefly with
his attorneys before being escorted from the courtroom and to the
Lee County jail, a detention center
not far from Mike Hubbard Boulevard named for him. He was released on $160,000 bond and was
driven away by a bail bondsman
as he held his face in his hand.
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Anthropologist follows trail of century-old graffiti around Los Angeles
BY JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES
nthropologist Susan Phillips
had spent a career examining
the graffiti that covers urban
walls, bridges and freeway
overpasses.
When she came across an unrecognizable collection made not of spray paint
but substances like grease pencil and apparently left there for a century, she was
stunned.
Phillips had uncovered a peculiar, almost
extinct form of American hieroglyphics
known as hobo graffiti, the treasure trove
discovered under a nondescript, 103-yearold bridge spanning the Los Angeles River.
At the time, she was researching her book,
“Wallbangin’: Graffiti and Gangs in LA.”
“It was like opening a tomb that’s been
closed for 80 years,” the Pitzer College
professor of environmental analysis said
of finding the writings and occasionally
the drawings of people who signed their
names as Oakland Red, the Tucson Kid
and A-No. 1.
“There’s an A-No. 1, dated 8/13/14,” she
said, pointing to a scribbling during a visit
to the bridge just around the bend from a
modern-day homeless encampment.
Although all but forgotten now, A-No. 1
was the moniker used by a man once arguably America’s most famous hobo, one of
the many itinerant wanderers who traveled from town to town in the 19th and 20th
A
centuries, often by freight train, in search
of brief work and lasting adventure.
“Those little heart things are actually
stylized arrows that are pointing up the
river,” Phillips said, pointing to markings
next to the name. “Putting those arrows
that way means ‘I’m going upriver. I was
here on this date and I’m going upriver.’ ”
Upriver would have been in the direction
of sprawling Griffith Park, in those days a
popular jumping-off point for hobos looking for a safe, common gathering spot.
Nearby is a faded drawing of a man riding a bucking bronco that is signed and
dated by the Tucson Kid, July 1, 1921.
“This is a very beautiful piece by Oakland Red here,” she points out, craning her
head back to point out another work, done
in grease pencil and featuring the creative
use of white space and shading to give it
almost a two-dimensional effect.
“That’s actually a style that graffiti writers and graphic artists use today,” adds
Phillips, who is working on a book about
hobo graffiti.
Such markings, once found all over the
country, have largely vanished in recent
years, she and other experts say. Absent
a few exceptions, they have been covered
over by more recent, more colorful spraypainted images or eliminated entirely by
time, weather or cleanup campaigns.
“A lot of the stuff I’ve documented
through time has been destroyed, either
by the city or by other graffiti writers, and
that is just the way of graffiti,” said Phillips, whose research is being funded by a
Getty Center grant.
She also is looking into ways to preserve
— perhaps digitally — what’s left of the
fragile markings, including some etched
into concrete by spikes taken from the
nearby railroad.
That the markings have survived this
long has much to do with circumstances
unique to Los Angeles, most notably its
51-mile, concrete-bottomed river that
was lowered 25 feet after the hobo graffiti
bridge was built.
The river was dug deeper and paved over
Above: Graffiti left by a hobo is seen under a 103-year-old bridge spanning the
Los Angeles River. The writings and drawings, some dating to 1914, were written
with utensils like grease pencils or etched into the concrete. Below: Anthropologist
Susan Phillips walks along the river while searching for graffiti left by hobos.
PHOTOS
BY
JAE C. HONG /AP
‘It was like opening a tomb that’s
been closed for 80 years. ’
Susan Phillips
anthropologist, author of “Wallbangin’: Graffiti and Gangs in LA.”
to prevent another disastrous flood like
the one that roared through Los Angeles
during the rainy season of 1938, toppling
buildings and killing scores of people.
Restructuring the river prevented future
flooding and put this particular bridge’s
markings several stories above the river,
where they were shielded from rain, wind
and sun and kept out of reach of others by
a man-made, 90-degree-angled concrete
riverbank that was impossible to climb.
“It’s just like a fluke down there in LA
that that survived,” said Bill Daniel, whose
studies of hobo graffiti have taken him
across the country, following the path of
taggers whose work he’s chronicled in the
publication “Mostly True: The West’s Most
Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine” and the
documentary film “Who Is Bozo Texino.”
“It’s hard to find the old stuff because
most older infrastructure has been torn
down,” he added, noting A-No. 1’s signature was an impressive discovery.
A-No. 1, whose name was Leon Ray Livingston and died in 1944, was not only a
hobo but author of several books.
Phillips can’t say definitively the tags attributed to him from 1914 are his, but she
adds that they bear the same style as those
found in the books he was writing and illustrating at the time. Still, some hobo
graffiti taggers were known to appropriate
each other’s monikers.
Meanwhile, she keeps researching the
tags, matching real names with the hobos’
monikers and tracking down survivors
where possible.
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Kits help emergency workers
responding to autism patients
BY K IRSTIN K ENNEDY
Beaver County (Pa.) Times
BEAVER, Pa. — As both the
mother of a son with Asperger’s
syndrome and a mental health
professional, Kimberly Stanford
finds herself in a unique position
of understanding.
Her job as supervisor of family
partnership support at Glade Run
Lutheran Services in Zelienople
is to educate and advocate for
all of the families the organization serves, something she regularly does for her teenage son,
Brandon.
Like any parent of a child on
the autism spectrum, Stanford
has concerns about her son’s ability to respond in an emergency
and communicate his needs to
other people. If he were involved
in a car accident, would he be
able to tell medics he was hurt?
Would the flashing lights and sirens cause him anxiety? Would
the medics know how to interact
with him?
Those are questions Stanford
posed to her husband, Mike, one
night
over
dinner. As
an emergency medical
technician
for
Medic
Rescue
in
Bridgewater, he has
answered
calls to help
people with
Stanford
autism, either for a medical emergency or
a behavioral issue that requires
medical support.
Stanford said her son, who attends Beaver Area High School,
is highly functional and very
smart. However, when it comes
to dealing with a forced social
interaction, like a medical emergency, he might not react like a
typical patient, she said. He also
might not tell responders that
he has Asperger’s syndrome
and needs their patience and
understanding.
Stanford started researching
autism and emergency-response
protocols, and she learned that
those with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more likely to have an
encounter with emergency responders than a person without
it.
Stanford discussed her concerns with her co-workers and
her husband. Across the board,
everyone agreed EMTs could
benefit from additional training
about ASD and how to minimize
the impact of their interactions.
Soon after she worked with Mike
Hartle, operations supervisor at
Medic Rescue, to develop training and get it credentialed for
continuing-education credits.
The objectives of the training
are to give responders, including paramedics, EMTs and firefighters, a brief understanding
of autism and how to identify it.
Stanford said she gives the participant tools to assist the patient
in calming down.
She hopes the program will
help “reduce dangerous behaviors so that (medics) don’t have to
restrain (the patient).” The goal
K EVIN L ORENZI, BEAVER C OUNTY (PA .) TIMES/AP
The sensory kits created by Kimberly Stanford include noisecanceling headphones, weighted lap pads, chewy tubes, stress balls,
lighted fidgets and communication boards.
is to provide an understanding
of “how to keep everybody safe,”
she said.
It’s important to recognize how
to work with a special population,
like those on the autism spectrum, Hartle said.
Learning techniques to interact with ASD patients provided
the participants with “methods to
defuse those situations in a more
effective manner,” Hartle said.
In order to help mediate and
relieve some of the stress of an
emergency, Stanford created a
prototype for a sensory kit that
ambulances can carry and use
with patients on the autism
spectrum.
Stanford hopes educating ambulance companies will carry
into eventually providing extra
training to police departments
and emergency room personnel.
Responders, including police,
may think a person with ASD is
acting disrespectfully or intentionally ignoring instructions.
“They have no concept of authority. Everybody’s on the same
playing field,” she said.
Fan population graying, but polka music persists
BY BRAD HUNDT
The (Washington, Pa.)
Observer-Reporter
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Turn
back the clock to June 2009. Just
three weeks before Michael Jackson died, it looked like the death
knell was sounding for polka.
The
Recording
Academy,
which hands out the Grammy
Awards every year, decided to
eliminate the Best Polka Album
category. In a statement, the
Academy said it was showing
polka the door “to ensure the
awards process remains representative of the current musical
landscape.”
In other words, polka was
something that had become
faintly musty, like Dixieland
jazz or doo-wop, something your
granddad was tapping his wingtips to when he was courting
your grandmother.
Granted, the Best Polka Album
category had become somewhat,
shall we say, predictable, considering that it was won year
after year by Jimmy Sturr, who
ranks as a superstar in the polka
world and took home trophies for
such offerings as “Gone Polka,”
“Polka! All Night Long” and
“Shake, Rattle and Polka!”
But polka didn’t die when it
was no longer allowed across
the Grammys’ velvet ropeline.
If you turn to the AM radio dial
and drive around this region on
weekends, or venture through
the upper reaches of Ohio around
Cleveland or Toledo, the genre
endures, with polka continuing
to crackle over the airwaves. It
also continues to be heard at an
C ELESTE VAN K IRK , (WASHINGTON, PA .) O BSERVER-REPORTER /AP
Lloyd and Theresa McClouchic, left, spin around on the dance floor during SNPJ Polka Jam in Strabane,
Pa. Polka is a mainstay of programming on a local radio station.
assortment of clubs, legion halls
and restaurants.
“It’s happy music,” said Joe
Grkman, a polka musician who
lives in Peters Township and
fronts the band Grkmania, which
has played at venues around the
Pittsburgh region for decades.
“It’s the poor man’s Prozac.”
In Western Pennsylvania,
polka gained a foothold because
it was brought to the region by
immigrants from Germany and
Eastern Europe who came to
work in mines and mills. The
same goes for places like Chicago and Milwaukee, though the
industries were different.
Polka also developed a following in other locales where immigrants from Eastern Europe
settled, such as New York and
the western part of Massachusetts when it was rich with in-
dustry. Tejano music, a variation
of polka music, has a following in
Texas.
Neither
the
International
Polka Association in Chicago
nor the National Cleveland-Style
Polka Hall of Fame and Museum
in Cleveland had information on
how many polka albums are sold
in the United States every year,
but it’s safe to assume that the
number doesn’t match the weekly
sales of blockbuster albums from
Adele or Taylor Swift.
Most polka artists nowadays
record and release albums independently, so determining how
many units the whole genre sells
is just about impossible to gauge,
according to Dan Mateja, a director at the International Polka
Association.
Because of its happy-go-lucky
nature, polka is good weekend music, according to Eric
O’Brien, a producer at radio station WKHB. While he didn’t have
specific listenership numbers,
he said feedback they get on the
polka programs is positive.
“The listeners love it,” he said.
“It’s a very faithful bunch. We’re
in the Mon Valley, and that tends
to be a strong area for it.”
While polka has not gone the
way of the woolly mammoth or
the dodo, Mateja concedes that it
is having a hard time acquiring
young followers.
Some do turn up at polka festivals, he said, but the most dedicated polka aficionados tend to
be older listeners with parents
who might have had polka records in heavy rotation on home
turntables.
One exception is Jason Cadez,
33, who books polka bands at the
SNPJ lodge in Strabane and plays
polka music while working as a
systems specialist for the Port
Authority of Allegheny County.
Booking polka bands is “important to our heritage since we’re a
Slovenian club,” Cadez said.
“We get our old-timers who
come down, and we have a younger crowd that comes down, too.”
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Bangladesh detains 1,600 in crackdown on attacks
Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Authorities have rounded up about
1,600 criminal suspects, including a few dozen believed to be
Islamist radicals, in a nationwide
crackdown aimed at halting a
wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists in Bangladesh,
police said Saturday.
The attacks — including on two
Hindus in the last week — have
alarmed the international community and raised questions
about whether Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina’s secular government can maintain security for
minorities in the Sunni Muslimmajority country.
Police and paramilitary soldiers fanned out across the
country Thursday night, raiding
suspected militant hideouts and
detaining about 1,600 people by
Friday night, police said.
Only 37 of those detained are
suspected to be radical Islamist
militants, according to police
spokesman Kamrul Islam. Those
include three charged with alleged membership in the banned
militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
None of those arrested is believed to be a high-level operator
who might have organized or ordered attacks, police said. All the
detainees are being held in jail.
Hasina’s government has faced
criticism for failing to prosecute
suspects of at least 18 killings carried out over the past two years.
Victims include atheist bloggers,
foreign aid workers, university
professors, gay rights activists
and religious minorities including Hindus, Christians and Shiite
Muslims.
Hasina had announced the antimilitancy campaign after the wife
of a police superintendent was
shot and stabbed to death on June
5 as she was waiting with her son
at a bus stop. The victim had been
an ardent campaigner against Islamist militants, and her murder
stunned the country’s establishment, many of whom considered
the victim as one of their own.
Speaking to Parliament on
Wednesday, Hasina said, “If they
think they could turn Bangladesh
upside down, they are wrong.
They will be exposed to justice in
the soil of Bangladesh, and their
patrons will also not be spared.”
The attacks have followed a pattern: A group of young men wielding knives or machetes approach
their victim as his or her guard
is down, perhaps while strolling
down the street or relaxing at
home. The attackers spew hateful language, then hack and stab
at the victim before disappear-
Hasina’s government, however,
says transnational terror groups
have no presence in the South
Asian nation of 160 million. It
blames the attacks on domestic
groups aligned with political opposition parties, though it has
presented no evidence of such a
campaign and the opposition denies the allegations.
On Friday, the opposition Bangladesh National Party said it was
worried the government campaign against extremists would
lead to efforts to suppress opposition parties.
“The crackdown is a strategy which the government earlier used to suppress the people’s
movement. We fear that they will
again oppress the opposition in
the name of conducting a crackdown,” BNP Secretary General
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
said.
Parisians worry strikes
will scare away visitors
Hunters say
they create
53,000 jobs
BY R APHAEL
AND M STYSLAV
BY K EVIN CROWLEY
SATTER
CHERNOV
Associated Press
Bloomberg
Hunters who travel to Africa to
shoot big game had been keeping
a low profile in the aftermath of
global outrage provoked by the
killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe last year. Now they’re fighting back.
The conservation arm of Safari
Club International, which suspended the membership of U.S.
dentist Walter Palmer for shooting Cecil, has published research
that says trophy hunting contributes $426 million dollars to eight,
mostly poor sub-Saharan African
countries and employs 53,000
people.
United Airlines and Delta Air
Lines banned transporting animal
trophies, and tighter hunting rules
were introduced after Palmer shot
the 13-year-old male lion, who was
part of an Oxford University conservation project, after he wandered out of Zimbabwe’s Hwange
National Park in July. Such restrictions threaten a vital source
of income for one of the world’s
poorest regions, according to the
SCI, home to the world’s largest
collection of hunting records.
“There’s certainly some negative impacts that have been realized in the aftermath of that
incident,” said Matthew Eckert,
director of conservation at the
Safari Club Foundation, the SCI’s
conservation arm, which funded
the report. “It’s drawing more
attention from the public to one
side of the perspective, that’s the
animal activist, the animal-rights
movement. They’re being blinded
and not seeing the importance of
hunting to conservation and the
people.”
Each year between 2012 and
2014, almost 19,000 international
hunters, mostly from the United
States, visited the eight African
ing, often without a trace. Many
victims are killed with a machete
blow to the back of the neck.
Authorities
have
arrested
some suspects in some of the 18
attacks, mostly low-level operatives accused of following orders
to carry out attacks, but none has
been prosecuted. Police have said
they are waiting until investigations are complete before taking
any suspects to court.
Nearly all the attacks have been
claimed by transnational Islamist
extremist groups, including the
Islamic State group and various
affiliates of al-Qaida. The killing Friday morning of a Hindu
ashram worker in northern Bangladesh was also claimed by the
Islamic State group, according
to the SITE Intelligence Group,
which monitors jihadist activity
online and cited the Amaq News
Agency.
Creative Commons
Cecil the lion, seen at Hwange National Park in 2010, was killed by
Walter Palmer, a big game hunter, last year.
countries studied in the report,
spending on average two weeks
and $26,000. Most of that spending is in remote rural areas where
people have limited economic opportunities, it said.
“By providing jobs and income
to local communities, hunting conveys a positive value to wildlife
which incentivizes communities
to protect game species and the
land they, and all wildlife species,
depend upon,” the report said.
That’s not an argument that sits
well with animal-rights organizations, which say hunting is too
lightly controlled, and in South
Africa, the most popular destination, land owners are driven to
breed animals with the biggest
horns or unusual coat colors that
do little for conservation. In the
rest of Africa, it’s mainly wild animals on government or community land that are hunted. Botswana,
Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania,
Zambia, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia
were included in the study along
with South Africa, where trophy
hunting accounts for about 3 percent of the tourism industry.
“When you hunt it’s supposed
to be selective but trophy hunters tend to just want the biggest
trophies,” said Isabel Wentzel,
a spokeswoman for the South
Africa’s National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
“It’s a free-for-all.”
Hunting groups are coming
under pressure from animal-rights
activists to reform their practices
after the slaying of Cecil, whose
striking black mane was a popular tourist attraction, exposed the
scale of Africa’s hunting industry.
Palmer was forced to temporarily
close his dental practice in Minnesota as demonstrators and news
crews congregated at the clinic.
After Cecil was killed, United
and Delta joined a number of
airlines including Emirates and
Deutsche Lufthansa from stopping customers from transporting big-game hunting trophies as
cargo. To import lion carcasses
to the U.S., hunters must prove to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
that hunting in the country of origin enhances populations.
“I hope that a single incident
which was an international sensation and phenomenon driven
by an emotional response doesn’t
impact negatively a conservation
mechanism of sustainable use,”
Eckert said.
PARIS — About a quarter of
Air France pilots are striking to
demand better working conditions — the latest challenge to
travelers and France’s image as
it hosts Europe’s biggest sporting
event.
Weeks of strikes and demonstrations over the country’s labor
reforms and other industrial
disputes have led to panic at the
pumps, violent protests in the
streets and, most recently, garbage rotting in the gutters. It’s a
litany of headaches, which some
Parisians fear will scare away
visitors.
“I’m telling you, France has become a very ugly country,” Francoise Cuip, 60, told a reporter in
Paris’ well-heeled 16th district.
“It’s my country, but that’s the
way it is.”
French leaders had hoped to
put the disruption behind them
as the country turned its attention to the European Championship soccer tournament, which
is expected to draw more than
2 million visitors, but unions
are planning to keep up the airline and trash strikes through
Tuesday.
Up to a fifth of flights are canceled Saturday, Air France said,
both domestic and international. Among those affected were
flights carrying spectators to cities holding matches.
French train drivers have also
been on strike for days; France’s
SNCF rail company was disrupted in the southeast, with
cancellations possible. In Paris,
the rail link between the capital
and Charles de Gaulle Airport
was disrupted, with few trains
running along the usually busy
route.
Meanwhile garbage was piling
up uncollected because of a continuing strike and blockages by
collectors.
On the streets of the capital,
there
was
exasperaWhen
tion at the
drumbeat of
it’s not
the trains, disruption.
“When
when it’s
it’s not the
trains, when
not the
not the
metro, it’s it’s
metro,
it’s
the trash. the trash,”
said
CathIn terms
erine Jacob,
of hygiene, 48,
who
it’s not
was
walking
past
an
good
overflowing
for the
garbage bin
near Paris’
tourists,
Trocardero.
it’s not
“In
terms
good
of hygiene,
it’s not good
for the
the tourresidents. for
ists, it’s not
Tomorrow good for the
residents.
we’ll have
rats in the Tomorrow
we’ll
have
street
rats in the
Catherine street.”
Paris
Jacob Mayor Anne
A Paris resident Hidalgo said
on Twitter
that the city was “mobilizing all
means, public and private” to
clear the garbage.
The strikes are occurring for
different reasons, but the labor
unrest is tapping into nationwide
discontent as the government
tries to change laws regulating
working hours and layoffs.
The influential CGT union,
which is driving much of the action, may meet with the government over the weekend.
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Breaking up with Bernie Sanders
BY A LEXANDRA PETRI
The Washington Post
A
great relationship can be ruined
by a lousy breakup. Instead of remembering the many wonderful
times you had together, when he
taught you that “socialist” was not a dirty
word, took you to inspiring rallies with great
soundtracks and urged you to take down
corrupt money in politics, all your recent
memories are of his dozens of ALL-CAPS
TEXTS insisting “THIS CONVERSATION
IS NOT OVER YET!!!”
Standing in the yard with a boom box
for one evening can be viewed as a romantic, if mildly creepy, gesture. But standing
there until July 25 is grounds for a noise
complaint.
You wanted to remember the good times,
and there were many of them. You felt energized, at least in caucus states. You changed.
You moved left.
But for you to start to miss and remember him fondly, he needs to leave. He needs
to stop lurking around with a bird perched
on his finger, hoping you will change your
mind.
It’s like when someone says “in conclusion” and then talks for 10 more minutes.
He is still at your place even though you’ve
gotten up from the couch, put on a bathrobe
and started your evening skin-care regimen. Even John Kasich has taken the hint
and left, but Bernie remains.
The Sanders campaign is that person
repeating the joke a second time in case
maybe the reason you didn’t laugh was
you didn’t hear it properly, and then a third
time, and forcing you to say, “No, the reason
I didn’t laugh was that it wasn’t funny, I did
C LIFF O WEN /AP
Democratic presidential candidate Sen.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally in
Washington on Thursday.
hear you, though!”
You hate to be that person, but he is making it difficult not to.
A man vigorously beating a dead horse
is standing outside Sanders HQ sighing,
“Dude, give it a rest.”
But he does not hear. He is too wrapped
up in explaining for the tenth time why this
won’t really be over until JULY 25TH AND
DO NOT LET ANYONE CONVINCE YOU
OTHERWISE.
I think most of us have experienced the
form of breakup when you say, “I don’t
think we should see each other any more,”
and the other party says, “I DISAGREE!”
and then you are trapped into a conversation with someone who believes with utmost
conviction that he is the right man for you
and that the only reason you keep saying,
“No, thanks, though, but it’s been great!” is
that you don’t understand the magnitude of
what he is offering.
But the problem is not that you don’t understand what he is offering. You do understand. It’s that you don’t want what he is
offering.
He seems to think that if he just explained
it to you in greater detail, or louder, or at
greater length, or with more excited gesticulation, you would suddenly understand
and change your mind. But, in fact, that is
only strengthening your conviction that it is
time to end things.
You thought that when he got to the restaurant, he knew it was to say goodbye. He
seemed to hint as much. But he hasn’t said
it yet.
You try dropping hints, like — not voting
for him, or voting for someone else, or sending President Barack Obama out with arms
folded to explain that, really, your mind is
made up and he needs to go.
“Yes!” Bernie says. “We should go! Somewhere quieter where we can hear ourselves
think! About the revolution!”
You yawn, but he does not notice. It is
over, but Sanders does not want it to be over.
Instead of taking the hint, Sanders is following all of you to the parking lot and trying to
continue the argument there.
You do not feel threatened, exactly. Just
— embarrassed. For him.
There are so many positive things that
could come out of this. He could put his
frustration into taking up gardening, or trying to invest energy in socialist politics at
the local level. Or, I guess, he could continue
to repeat to you what he has already said 25
times.
He’s been a movement. He’s been a voice.
But now he’s just that guy who won’t leave.
US foreign policy matters, but how much?
BY STEPHEN M. WALT
D
oes U.S. foreign policy matter? Of
course it does, but how much?
These days, both proponents
and critics of America’s omnipresent role in the world tend to portray U.S.
foreign policy as the single most important
factor driving world affairs. For defenders
of global activism, active U.S. engagement
(including a willingness to use military
force in a wide variety of situations) is the
source of most of the positive developments
that have occurred over the past 50 years
and remains critical to preserving a “liberal” world order.
By contrast, critics of U.S. foreign policy
both at home and abroad tend to blame “U.S.
imperialism,” the “Great Satan,” or mendacious Beltway bungling for a host of evil actions or adverse global trends and believe
the world will continue to deteriorate unless
the United States mends its evil ways.
Both sides of this debate are wrong. To
be sure, the United States is still the single
most influential actor on the world stage.
Although its population is only about 5 percent of humankind, the United States produces roughly 20 percent to 25 percent of
gross world product and remains the only
country with global military capabilities. It
has security partnerships all over the world,
considerable influence in many international organizations and it casts a large cultural
shadow.
For defenders of the U.S.-led “liberal
world order,” America’s global role is the
source of (almost) All Good Things. As Samuel P. Huntington put it more than 20 years
ago, U.S. primacy is “central to the future
of freedom, democracy, open economies
and international order in the world.” Or, as
Politico’s Michael Hirsh once wrote (possibly after one too many espressos), “the role
played by the United States is the greatest
gift the world has received in many, many
centuries, possibly all of recorded history.”
Hyperbole aside, that self-congratulatory
worldview is almost a truism within the U.S.
foreign-policy establishment. In this version
of recent world events, America’s “Greatest
Generation” defeated fascism in World War
II and then went on to found the United Nations, lead the global campaign for human
rights, spread democracy far and wide and
create and guide the key economic institutions (the World Bank, the International
Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, etc.) that have produced six decades of
(mostly) steady economic growth.
My point is not that the U.S. role in the
world has been consistently negative; the
point is that those who believe U.S. leadership is the primary barrier to a return
to anarchy and barbarism are overstating
America’s positive contributions.
But if defenders of American hegemony
give U.S. leadership too much credit, some
critics of U.S. foreign policy make the opposite error. I’m often critical of U.S. foreign
policy — and especially its overreliance on
military force, indifference to the deaths it
causes, self-righteous hypocrisy and refusal
to hold officials accountable — but my criticisms pale in comparison to those offered
up by the extreme left and extreme right
and by many foreign opponents. Blaming
all the world’s ills on the United States is not
merely factually wrong; it lets the real perpetrators off the hook.
Instead of seeing the United States as all
powerful and either uniquely good or evil, it
makes more sense to see it as pretty much
like most past great powers. It has done
some good things, mostly out of self-interest but occasionally for the benefit of others
as well. It has made some pretty horrific
blunders, and these actions had significant
repercussions. It has done bad things for
the usual reasons — overconfidence, ignorance, excessive idealism, etc. — and to
paraphrase Bill Clinton, “just because it
could.”
What worries me — and should worry
you, too — is that neither Hillary Clinton
nor Donald Trump appears to get this.
Given that there are more than 150 million
native-born Americans over the age of 35
(and thus eligible to be president), it’s depressing to think our choices — realistically
speaking — are coming down to this.
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Ren Belfer
professor of international relations at Harvard
University. This article first appeared in Foreign
Policy magazine.
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OPINION
Implications of Iran nuke deal one year in
BY R AYMOND TANTER
T
he Iran nuclear deal posed a simple trade: In exchange for Tehran
agreeing to limit its nuclear capabilities, economic sanctions would
be lifted. But the devil is in the details concerning, for example, a role for missiles on
the nuclear side of the equation and state
sponsorship of terrorism on the sanctions
relief side.
Signed in Geneva on July 14, the deal’s
first anniversary is coming up — a good
opportunity to reflect on the economic,
nuclear and regional implications of the
accord as the debate rages on in Washington between the executive and legislative
branches.
In Washington, support is growing for
the notion that the Obama administration
has failed to hold Tehran accountable for
nuclear violations, downplayed Iran’s economic windfall from sanctions relief and
ignored the deal’s negative regional implications for state sponsorship of terrorism.
Critics hoped in vain that the nuclear
deal would place explicit limits on ballistic
missiles. The burden, however, was left to
the United Nations rather than the parties
to the deal.
The third paragraph of Annex B of
resolution 2231 (2015) calls on Iran not to
undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear
weapons, including launches using such
ballistic missile technology. Because the
nuclear deal did nothing to address the full
range of Iran’s ballistic missile development, weak missile language in this resolution compounded the problem.
On March 31, GOP Reps. Mike Pompeo,
of Kansas, Peter Roskam, of Illinois, and
Lee Zeldin, of New York, reminded Secretary of State John Kerry that in selling
the nuclear deal, he assured Congress that
the administration would provide a robust
diplomatic response to Tehran’s missile
launches. Sadly, such was not the case.
Before the July nuclear deal, Iran was
expressly prohibited by U.N. resolutions
from launching ballistic missiles capable of
carrying nuclear weapons. Security Council Resolution 1929 stated that the council
“decides that Iran shall not undertake any
activity related to ballistic missiles capable
of delivering nuclear weapons.” The term
“decides” placed a strict legal obligation on
all states to comply.
In exchange for Tehran’s agreement to
the nuclear deal, the Obama administration unwisely granted Iran flexibility for
ballistic missile testing. Security Council
Resolution 2231 certified the deal, replacing the prohibition with accommodating
language: “Iran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic
missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.”
As Foreign Policy’s Colum Lynch wrote
on March 16:
“The updated measures are neither legally binding nor as restrictive as the measures in place at the time of the nuclear
pact. In essence, resolution 2231 provides
Iran with a loophole big enough to develop
medium- and long-range missiles without
the risk of running afoul of Security Council dictates. It also complicates efforts to
define what kinds of missiles are capable
of carrying a nuclear warhead.”
Lynch was spot on. The Obama administration failed to hold Tehran accountable
for nuclear violations. But the appeasement
of Iran is also tied to state sponsorship of
terrorism. In selling the nuclear deal, the
administration expressed a hope and implied an expectation that Tehran would
moderate its participation in terrorism, for
which it has quite a history.
The State Department’s 2013 Country
Report on Terrorism called Iran the top
state sponsor of terrorist activities. The report released in 2014 said the same thing,
as did the report for 2015, which was released on June 2. Tehran supported conflicts in Syria and Iraq and was implicated
in violent Shia opposition raids in Bahrain.
M AJID A SGARIPOUR, MEHR NEWS AGENCY/AP
A worker rides a bicycle in 2010 in front
of the reactor building of the nuclear
power plant, just outside Bushehr, Iran.
So Iran continues as a state sponsor of terror, irrespective of the nuclear deal.
In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Obama said it was possible that as a
consequence of the United States engaging
Iran via the nuclear deal, Iran would start
“making different decisions that are less
offensive to its neighbors.”
And the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg
mused: “[Obama] has bet global security
and his own legacy that one of the world’s
leading state sponsors of terrorism will adhere to an agreement to curtail its nuclear
program.”
The NPR and Atlantic interviews laid
bare the president’s faith that Iran’s terrorism can be moderated, which has not been
borne out by the facts.
In summarizing the arguments of critics
of the Iran deal’s sanctions-relief provisions, Robert Einhorn, a former high-level
negotiator for the Obama administration who helped to develop what became
the 2015 deal, described concerns that a
“windfall” of released funds would “enable
Iran to devote substantial additional re-
sources to destabilizing its neighbors and
expanding its regional influence.”
Einhorn detailed efforts to “minimize
the potential adverse effects of the released funds.” Nonetheless, the money has
likely helped Tehran to increase its assistance to proxies and allies in Lebanon,
Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Gaza and Yemen. In
addition, Iran has continued to strengthen
the military capabilities of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, which operates in
many of these countries.
Even more troubling is the Obama administration’s continued support for sanctions relief, irrespective of Iran’s behavior,
as described by John Hannah, a senior
counselor at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies, in his testimony before the
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 17.
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of
FDD and also a critic of sanctions relief divorced from Iran’s behavior, told the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs: “Iran is engaged in a robust
effort to legitimize its financial sector despite a decadeslong rap sheet of … illicit
financial activities that it shows no sign of
curbing.”
Regardless of who is in the Oval Office,
she or he could work with our partners to
counter Tehran’s provocations. Such actions might include the interdiction of illicit
arms shipments and sanctioning terrorism
financing by the Iranian regime. There
also is a need to fix the gap in the nuclear
deal — which offers no agreed-upon penalties for Iranian violations of the deal’s
terms, short of the last-resort punishment
of a “snapback” of U.N. sanctions against
Iran — as Rob Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute, proposed
lastAugust.
Tanter was a former member of the National
Security Council staff and Representative of the
Secretary of Defense to arms control talks during
the Reagan administration. This article first appeared in Foreign Policy magazine.
Why employee review systems ‘need improvement’
BY STEPHEN M IHM
Bloomberg View
F
ew rituals of the modern workplace evoke more dread than the
annual performance review. Like
a colonoscopy or root canal, it has
been viewed as a necessary evil: deeply
unpleasant but indispensable for the health
of an organization.
These methods of reviewing workers
themselves are evaluated and, like so many
employees, sometimes found wanting. In
the past year, Accenture, General Electric, Microsoft and Adobe have instituted
review systems that move away from traditional methods of assessment. In recent
weeks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley announced that they would abandon
old-fashioned numerical rankings administered annually in favor of more qualitative assessments that uses adjectives
— Outstanding, Good, Needs Improvement
— delivered in real time.
Sadly, the history of performance appraisals in the workplace suggests that
this latest trend, however well-intentioned,
is unlikely to be the last word. For close
to a century, management gurus have
tinkered endlessly with the hated performance review. The latest “reforms” look
suspiciously like warmed-over versions of
decades-old doctrines.
In the early 20th century, few companies
assessed their employees’ performance in
any formal way and those that did relied
on rudimentary methods. For example, a
company might rank employees using a
10-point scale, with “1” being excellent and
“10” poor. But this system lacked rigor and
depended far too much on the subjectivity
of the reviewer.
Enter Walter Dill Scott, director of the
Bureau of Salesmanship Research in the
Division of Applied Psychology at Carnegie Mellon. In an attempt to figure out
what traits helped men succeed in sales, he
devised what became known as the “manto-man” scale in about 1915. In this system, a manager would select a trait such as
“self-reliance” and then laboriously draw
up a list of people he knew and rank them
from best to worst for this attribute, with
numbers assigned from 15 (the best) to 1
(the worst). Then the manager would try
to determine where the employee being
assessed belonged compared with other
friends and acquaintances.
The system’s virtue was that it wasn’t
abstract but judged the employee against a
group of people the rater knew well. But it
was, one critic noted, “too time-consuming,
cumbersome and difficult to understand
for the average rating executive.” And
though it provided a yardstick for managers could measure, every yardstick was
unique. Scott’s method failed to catch on in
corporate America, but he was a successful salesman and he managed to persuade
the U.S. Army to adopt the method during
World War I.
After the war, Scott founded a company that specialized in devising new ways
of measuring employees. One of the key
players, Beardsley Ruml, devised what
became known as the “Graphic Rating
Scale.” Rather than ask managers to rate
employees relative to outsiders, the new
scale required that they rank them relative
to other employees within the company.
A manager would be asked, for example,
about an employee’s “initiative” — the extent to which they were able to “make practical suggestions for doing things in a new
way.” The manager would use a horizontal
line that listed five adjectives, from “Very
Original” on the far left to “Occasionally
Suggests” in the center to “Needs Constant
Supervision” on the far right. The evaluator could then put a check mark anywhere
on the line. This gave managers discretion to split hairs and add shading to their
evaluation. But when the human resources
department collected the questionnaires,
they superimposed a stencil over the paper
that distributed the check marks into one
of five quintiles.
But one thing was missing: how to help
employees improve their performance
from year to year. Harry Walker Hepner,
author of “Psychology in Business” in
1930, observed that most ratings systems
failed to give employees guidance about
the qualities they should “develop or eliminate.” He lamented that employees “do not
improve themselves because the management does not tell them what to do to improve or how to do it.”
After World War II, the idea of giving “feedback” to employees caught on.
It wasn’t enough to judge them; now they
would be given the tools necessary to
change their ways. An annual review was
about the past, yes. But it also looked to
the future. And it wasn’t just a once-a-year
ritual; it was continuous.
And in the 1980s, corporations instituted “vitality curves,” which required
managers to rank employees along a set
distribution: It was no longer possible for
all employees to be above average. The
most extreme version of this method was
the “rank and yank” system that General
Electric helped pioneer: Employees at the
wrong end of the bell curve would be fired
at the end of the year.
All of these systems had drawbacks,
which companies have tried to remedy.
In the latest flurry of reforms, most are
signaling a shift from purely quantitative
rankings — e.g. Goldman’s 9-point scale —
to qualitative, continuous rankings aimed
at helping employees improve.
And for that, Goldman gets an “Outstanding” for effort. But originality? The words
“Needs Improvement” come to mind.
Stephen Mihm, an associate history professor
at the University of Georgia, is a contributor to
Bloomberg View.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Publisher holds contest
to find new owner
HARDWICK — As
VT
he approaches his 71st
birthday, Ross Connelly is ready
THE CENSUS
2.4K
The number of gallons of tea a community plans to brew Friday. The residents of Summerville,
S.C., want to mark National Tea Day by reclaiming the record for the world’s largest container of
iced tea. Last year, they filled a 10-foot mason jar with over 1,400 gallons of the drink, but in October, their record was eclipsed by a festival in North Charleston, which brewed 2,200 gallons.
to retire as editor and publisher of
the 127-year-old community newspaper in Vermont he and his late
wife bought three decades ago.
He was unsuccessful at selling
the weekly Hardwick Gazette, so
he came up with a novel way to
find a new owner: an essay contest that kicks off on Saturday.
If he gets at least 700 essays,
he’ll pick a winner from among
them. He’s looking for someone to
show they can handle the responsibility of providing strong local
coverage when people are increasingly relying on the internet
and social media for their news.
The entry fee is $175, and contestants are expected to write up
to 400 words about their skills and
vision for owning a weekly newspaper with paid subscriptions.
Swan decoys making
geese scarce in park
HARBOR BEACH —
MI
Decoy swans are doing
the trick to deter real geese — and
what they leave behind — around
a Michigan park.
The Huron Daily Tribune reported Thursday eight life-like
swans and one coyote have been
placed along a bike trail near
Harbor Beach’s Lincoln Park.
Four more decoy swans — which
are no friends to geese in their
real form — are on the way for
another section of the trail.
The campaign builds on successful decoy deployment started
last year. It follows years of trouble with geese behaving aggressively toward people on the path
and perpetual plops of droppings.
Pet owners may be
buried with furry pals
ALBANY — New York
state may soon allow
pet owners to spend eternity with
their furry companions.
The state Legislature passed a
bill allowing cemeteries, except
for religious ones, to offer people
the option of being buried with the
cremated remains of a dog, cat or
other tame domesticated animal.
Cemeteries wouldn’t be required to allow pet remains.
Supporters said they expect
many pet owners will embrace
the idea. They said cemeteries
should be free to offer the option.
NY
Man out to see sunrise
drifts miles away
JERSEY CITY — A man
getting ready to watch
the sunrise on a piece of plywood
in a marina was swept out by the
Hudson River current and wound
up about 2 nautical miles away
near Governors Island.
The man was sent drifting into
the river on an 8-foot-long piece of
plywood on Thursday around 4:45
a.m., Fire Department of New
York Capt. Louis Guzzo said.
The man told rescuers from fire
department marine units he went
out to the dock at the Newport
Yacht Club and Marina in Jersey
City to watch the sun come up.
Guzzo said he believes the man
NJ
G REGORY BULL /AP
Culture clash
Joanne Steury, from left, Margerie Steury and Rosa Graber wade into the Pacific Ocean for the first time Thursday in Coronado, Calif.,
during a family trip from their Amish community in Michigan.
stayed on the piece of wood because he didn’t want to jump into
the water and lose his cellphone
while swimming back.
The man, whose name wasn’t
disclosed, was rescued unharmed
about a quarter-mile from Governors Island, a 172-acre island in
the heart of the harbor close to
lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Firefighters mow
veteran’s lawn
PEABODY — A group
MA
of Massachusetts firefighters is earning praise for
mowing the lawn of an ailing
World War II veteran.
Paul Costas was about to cut
the grass at his home on Wednesday when he decided he needed
an ambulance. Costas wondered
aloud who was going to mow his
lawn.
Barbara Copp, Costas’ daughter and next-door neighbor, told
The Salem News that she returned from the hospital to find
three Peabody firefighters mowing her father’s lawn.
Copp says the firefighters were
“magnificent” and she’s never
moving out of Peabody.
Driver crashes car
into doughnut shop
NH
HUDSON — Time to
make more doughnuts.
Police said a minivan struck a
Dunkin’ Donuts in Hudson, N.H.,
at 7:30 a.m. Friday, causing enough
damage to close the business.
The driver and people inside
the store weren’t hurt. The driver,
identified as Jennifer McComas,
43, of Hudson, said she was trying
to back out and thought the minivan was in reverse. She’s not facing any charges.
Police Lt. David Bianchi said,
“the entire pastry display had
to be thrown away due to being
showered with flying debris.”
Man bites woman in
road rage incident
ARLINGTON — Police
arrested a man who they
say bit a woman’s finger during a
road rage incident in Arlington.
Local media outlets reported that Wednesday evening,
Markeater Holyroyd, 36, was
driving in South Arlington with
her son when Timothy Dubois,
55, shouted at her. He then allegedly threw something at her car.
When Holyroyd stopped down
the road, Dubois came up to the
driver’s side of her car and assaulted her, according to Arlington County police. Holyroyd
opened the door and attempted to
push him away. Dubois continued
attacking her and bit her finger.
A witness took a picture of Dubois’s license plate.
VA
Police arrested Dubois on
charges of malicious wounding,
assault and battery and driving
under the influence.
Woman posed as
landlady, stole ‘rent’
FREDERICK — A
MD
North
Carolina
woman is accused of stealing
more than $4,000 from five men
by posing as the landlady of a
Maryland property she was being
evicted from.
Citing charging documents,
The Frederick News-Post reported that Deborah Lynn Kingsley,
49, posted photos on Craigslist of
the home she had not paid rent
on for months. Authorities said
she told would-be renters she was
the property owner and landlady
in order to take about $4,300 in
rent and security deposits from
five people over the course of two
months last year.
Bus driver saves
disabled passenger
PLAINVIEW — A
NY
woman who uses a
wheelchair said she’s alive because a New York bus driver
carried her to safety when the vehicle’s wheelchair lift lost power
as the bus burst into flames.
Jean Jeune had been driving
the paratransit bus in Plainview
on Long Island Thursday when
he smelled smoke.
Flames shot out from the engine as the bus pulled over. Jeune
said the flames quickly spread
and the wheelchair lift died.
Cindy March, who has spinal
weakness and narrowing of the
spinal canal, says she screamed,
fearing she was about to die.
That’s when Jeune lifted her
from the wheelchair and carried
her to safety.
Tubman could be
honored with US park
AUBURN — Harriet
NY
Tubman’s
upcoming
debut on the $20 bill is just half
the good news in the upstate
New York town where the Underground Railroad conductor
settled down and grew old.
A long-sought national historical park here honoring Tubman
could be officially established as
early as this summer. The move
would give a boost to preservation
efforts at her old home and church
just as the former slave is poised to
replace President Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill.
Tubman had been free for a
decade in 1859 when she bought
a parcel of land on the outskirts of
Auburn. She settled long-term in
the area after the Civil War.
From wire reports
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LIFESTYLE
BY TERRY TANG
Associated Press
F
ans of the old TV show
“Saved by the Bell” are getting a chance to step back
in time and feel like part
of their favorite ‘90s high
school sitcom gang. But
chances are they are eating better than
the kids at Bayside High ever did.
In a plan that class schemer Zack
Morris would find genius, a vacant restaurant space in Chicago’s Wicker Park
neighborhood has become Saved by the
Max, a replica of The Max. The fictitious
southern California hangout was where
students would hash things out over fries
and milkshakes.
“It’s so cool,” said Mallory Carl, of Chicago, who was eating at a counter seat
on the restaurant’s opening day June 1.
“The whole atmosphere is just like it, especially that pink Max sign. That was the
big iconic image for any time they shifted
to a scene here.”
Actor and magician Ed Alonzo, who
played diner owner Max, also got in on the
fun. After liking the project on Facebook,
he was invited to appear during opening
week at the pop-up diner. Dressed like
his TV alter-ego, he surprised fans with
magic tricks, just like on the series.
“Unfortunately, I don’t think there’ll
ever be a ‘Saved by the Bell’ television
special reunion ... I think this is as close
as I’ll get to it,” Alonzo said. “This is better than the original Max that we used to
shoot the show on over at NBC.”
The eatery will be open nightly through
Aug. 31 for ticketed dinners. It also offers
walk-in brunch and late night service.
Tickets for the dinners have already sold
out.
A $35 ticket gets you an appetizer, entree and dessert. Local chef Brian Fisher
curated a menu that pays homage to Zack,
Slater, Screech and other characters from
the show, but also is a step above regular
diner food. Items include A.C. Sliders,
Mac & Screech and a Preppy BLT. Unlike
the TV diner, there is a cocktail menu.
“Saved by the Bell,” which ran from
1989-1992, was a sunny sitcom about a
group of friends at Bayside High School
in southern California.
Taking a page from the comedy movie
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the school
was often run more by the teens than
their hapless principal. The show was
both ridiculed and embraced for its zany
plot lines.
The mastermind behind the diner is
Derek Berry, a bar events manager who
has been “obsessed” with “Saved by the
Bell” since he was a kid. The 33-year-old,
a former DJ at ’90s nostalgia-oriented
events, collaborated on the diner concept
with two friends also in the service and
events industries, Steve Harris and Zack
Eastman. They found a contractor to revamp the space and spoke with representatives from NBC Universal, which owns
rights to the show.
The entertainment company was immediately on board and helped ensure
that the pop-up diner replicated The Max
down to “the corner of the door,” Berry
said.
Dinner tickets went on sale in April and
sold out within minutes. That prompted
an extension to the end of August. Tickets
sold out in minutes again.
“I said the night before we went on
sale, I’d be really happy if we could sell a
couple days out and then go into this and
just have a really cool, successful run,”
Berry said.
“This is awesome, but now we really
need to nail this. People need to come in
and go ‘Whoa, I’m here.’ ”
The overwhelming interest hasn’t es-
Long lines for ‘Saved by the Bell’ pop-up restaurant
TERRY TANG /AP
At top: Customers eat at pop-up restaurant Saved by the Max in Chicago on June 1. A vacant restaurant
space in a Chicago neighborhood has become a replica of The Max, the fictitious hangout from the TV
sitcom “Saved by the Bell.” On the menu at Saved by the Max: Tori’s Fried Chicken, Korean fried chicken
with a coconut milk waffle, far left; and right, A.C. Sliders, an appetizer of pulled pork sliders. Cast member
Ed Alonzo, right, talks to Steve Gross and Tiffany Gross at the restaurant on June 1.
caped cast and crew from the show. Producer and writer Peter Engel will appear
at the diner this summer. Invites have
gone out to the actors including “Extra”
TV host Mario Lopez, who played jock
A.C. Slater and has talked about the diner
on his iHeartRadio show, according to
Berry.
With a recent wave of ’80s and ’90s
shows such as “Full House” getting revived, Berry said he knows the interest is
completely nostalgia-driven.
He also gives some credit to “Tonight
Show” host Jimmy Fallon. The late-night
comedian’s “Saved by the Bell” skit last
year with original cast members has
more than 33 million hits on YouTube.
The restaurant has gotten inquiries
from fans as young as 21 to 40-somethings who grew up on it.
“Someone emailed me from Australia
as an inquiry, asking if they could get
married here,” Berry said.
The restaurant is looking at possibly
staying open beyond summer.
“I think there’s demand to stay open.
How long? I’m not sure. You never want to
milk something dry,” Berry said. “I don’t
want to do this until we only have three
people sitting at the diner bar.”
If You Go:
Saved by the Max
Pop-up diner and bar inspired
by The Max from “Saved by the
Bell” TV show. Dinners sold out
through end of August. Walk-in
brunch and late night service.
Address: 1941 W. North Ave.,
Chicago;
Online: facebook.com/events/
942955415760073
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MUSIC
BY R ANDY LEWIS
Los Angeles Times
“S
ound is the theme of this album,” Paul Simon writes in the
press notes accompanying his new work, “Stranger to Stranger,” “as much as it’s about
the subjects of the individual songs. If people get
that, I’ll be pleased.”
True to his word, the visceral
sonic qualities of the 11 tracks on the
collection are as commanding as his
ever-literate lyrics and consistently
inviting melodies.
Yet this is nothing new for one of
the premiere singers and songwriters of the rock era.
At 74, Paul
Simon is back
with “Stranger to
Stranger,” his 13th
solo studio album.
Courtesy of Concord
Music Group
At 74, Simon reaches ever further for new textures, musically
and sonically, to help him say what
he wants to say, making “Stranger
to Stranger” a distinguished and
captivating extension of, rather
than a dramatic departure from,
his rich body of work.
It’s a work reflective of an artist
still hungry for exploration. Think
back to the chest-deep thump
of the drum kit kicking in at the
beginning of Simon & Garfunkel’s
“The Sound of Silence,” which
followed the gentle acoustic-guitar
opening. Or remember the punch
of hand-claps and percussion
beneath the pair’s bristling harmonies on “Cecilia.”
Don’t forget the stinging slide
guitar and the fat, sensuous stereo
baritone saxes in “Paranoid Blues”
from his 1972 debut solo album.
Just as invigorating: the haunting human spirit emerging from
Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s gutgrabbing harmonies on “Diamonds
on the Souls of Her Shoes” from his
high-water mark 1986 “Graceland”
album.
Here, he’s further expanded
the ongoing search for new frontiers by incorporating several custom
instruments created by musical maverick Harry Partch to perform the
micro-tonal music Partch long championed — music in which octaves
are subdivided into 43 parts, rather than the standard 12 whole and
half-notes commonly used in Western classical and pop music.
The first sound we hear is the rubbery bend of the Bengalese stringed
gopichand in the album’s opening track, “The Werewolf.” That sound
piques the listener’s curiosity as much as Simon’s lyrics. Black humor
rules in this scenario about a “Milwaukee man (who) led a
fairly decent life” — until his wife murders him
“ahhh ... with a sushi knife,” he rhymes
nonchalantly.
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Music for everyone
Ziggy Marley on political new album, acting
BY RYAN PEARSON
Associated Press
Ziggy Marley is trying to push outside
his comfort zone.
The 47-year-old recording artist recently tried his hand at acting — though
he admits he’s not a natural on-screen.
And he was more involved than ever in
the recording process of his self-titled
sixth studio album, released last month.
Marley worked as an engineer and
mixed the album at his house.
The seven-time Grammy winner, Bob
Marley’s oldest son, is also getting a bit
political this time around — seeding
the lyrics of his reggae-pop tunes with
references to U.S. politics. Even some of
the sunnier songs on the album contain
messages that go beyond island fun:
Lead single “Weekend’s Long” includes
a coded reference to acceptance of
homosexuality — significant because of
Jamaica’s anti-gay laws.
“Your religion can’t dictate who you
love or how you love. I’m sure God will
understand mon if you love somebody
who the text say you shouldn’t love, you
know what I say?” Marley said.
In a recent interview, Marley talked
about his new album, his priorities for
his children and Snapchat’s controversial Bob Marley filter.
The album is a bit more political
than your previous work. Why?
It’s the whole world — just the division.
Even being in America, I see so much
division between the people, caused by
politics, mostly, and race. It really hurt
me. It really touched a nerve to see that
people can’t get together and love each
other and live together around the world.
You made your acting debut earlier
this year in “Hawaii Five-O.” Why did
you want to do it?
The reason why I wanted to do it was
because I didn’t want to do it. And that
made me want to do it. It’s like yeah, I’m
uncomfortable. All right, do it. ... You
have to get rid of your ego, which is a
good exercise. I love that.
Is it a goal to have your children
continue the family musical tradition?
No, no. My daughter, she already
seem to have chosen her identity. (My
younger sons) have not yet. So we will
have to see where they want to be. But
all I know is, they must have work ethic,
discipline and manners. These are the
basic foundations that we have to give
to them. So whatever them do, whether
it be the highest job or the lowest job,
them have work ethic and these kind of
principles.
On April 20 — known as “National
Weed Day” — Snapchat put out a
“Bob Marley” filter (in partnership
with Marley estate) that drew backlash. What was your reaction?
I have no problem with it, per se. Bob
fans are very, they’re very adamant
about him. They love him so much.
You can’t mess with Bob too much. You
can’t. You’ve got to be careful (laughs).
Musicians have been boycotting
North Carolina on their tours over
recent state laws limiting protections
to LGBT people. What do you think
about that?
We play music for anyone, mon.
Music come for freedom, so we have to
give them the music, no matter who or
what them saying. ... We can’t boycott
the people. The people is who we are
playing the music for, not the state or
the government — the people. So we
come for the people, not for the policy.
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Simon’s ear for the myriad sounds of life
complements his thoughtful reflections on
the human experience. Thus, the songs
yield insights that feel more vividly genuine than if he had only paired them with
the gentle strums of a guitar, which could
have relegated the works to the land of the
coffeehouse singer-songwriter.
“The fact is,” he sings in “The Werewolf,” “most obits are mixed reviews/Life
is a lottery a lot of people lose.”
He then opens an airy soundscape
founded on upright bass and hand claps
in “Wristband,” a hilarious situation not
unlike that in Alejandro G. Inarritu’s
“Birdman,” in which the protagonist steps
outside a theater midshow for a smoke,
only to hear the door’s lock click behind
him.
Only too quickly he discovers “You got
to have a wristband, and if you don’t have a
wristband, you don’t get through the door.”
The song would remain merely amusing
if he didn’t develop the idea toward a larger
observation about the lucky few who are
“in da club,” and the vast majority clamoring unsuccessfully to join them because
they lack the requisite signifier of admission.
Towns that never get a wristband
Kids that can’t afford the cool brand
Whose anger is a shorthand
For you’ll never get a wristband
Paul Simon
Stranger to Stranger (Concord Records)
This is pop music at its most artful and
relevant, a sentiment from a septuagenarian representative of rock’s old guard
that’s arguably as potent as anything from
seemingly more streetwise artists onethird his age.
“Stranger to Stranger” includes two
instrumentals: “The Clock,” in which a
relentless ticking sound is a stern reminder
of our limited time on Earth; and “The
Garden of Edie,” a gorgeous solo guitar
number, fleshed out with harmonium,
C HRIS PIZZELLO
INVISION /AP
percussion and Partch’s organ-like Chromelodeon. It’s not hard to interpret it as a
paean to his wife, singer-songwriter Edie
Brickell.
As he did in 2011’s superb “So Beautiful
So What” album, Simon continues to face
mortality and what it means to him as the
days, weeks, months and years tick by.
Spirituality that might have been suspect
to a skeptical younger man takes on another dimension later in life.
He invokes the biblical “fishers of men”
metaphor for “Street Angel”:
He baits his lines
With prayers and wishes
They sparkle in the shallows
They catch the falling light
We hide our hearts like holy hostages
We’re hungry for the love, and so we bite
The title track initially reads like the
musings of a man pondering whether a
longtime love would do it all over again.
Yet it’s almost impossible not to read that
thought in context of his on-again, off-again
musical partnership with Art Garfunkel,
or even his relationship with his audience.
“In a Parade” evokes the pulsing joy
of a second-line procession through New
Orleans’ French Quarter, and “Cool Papa
Bell” applies his lifelong love of baseball
to the story of the Negro League player
considered one of the fastest ever to play
the game.
The man who still sings with a childlike
voice invokes a certain street expletive
more than once, seemingly as much to
experience with its combination of phonemes passing over his gentile vocal cords
as for the meaning itself.
Simon closes the album (which has five
bonus tracks in the deluxe CD and vinyl
editions) with “Insomniac’s Lullaby,” a
reassuring ode to the peace that can come
by accepting life on life’s terms:
A siren is playing its song in the distance
The melody rattles the old window
frame
Gradually, angels reveal their existence
And there’s nothing and no one to blame
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas famously advised us “Do not go gentle into that good
night/Rage, rage against the dying of the
light.” What many people may not realize
is that when Thomas wrote it, he was 33.
There’s been plenty of understandable
bemoaning of the deaths of many great
musicians in the first half of this year:
David Bowie, Merle Haggard, Prince,
Glenn Frey, Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister and Guy Clark, to cite half a dozen.
Baby-boomer music fans who came of
age listening to the music of Simon, Bob
Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and
other rock ’n’ roll poets can be equally
grateful that many of them are not only
still with us, but doing some of their best
work into their so-called golden years,
showing by example what it means to lead
“a life well-lived.”
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BOOKS
Leadership’s dark side
Book dives into bad examples taken from military experience
BY SETH ROBSON
Stars and Stripes
T
he U.S. military is renowned for
training excellent leaders but, in an
organization
with millions
of personnel, it has its
share of leadership
failures.
“Leadership from
the Darkside,” by
former naval aviator,
now sci-fi and fantasy
author Chris Kennedy,
takes the idea that,
“there’s nothing more
instructive than a bad
example,” and runs
with it using stories
where leadership went wrong to demonstrate
how effective leadership ought to work.
In the book Kennedy illustrates 11 prin-
ciples of leadership that could be as useful
to boardroom executives as they could be to
battlefield commanders. But instead of doing
it with positive examples, he details cases
where commanders went to the “darkside”
upsetting subordinates and, at times, resulting in disaster.
One of the leadership principles Kennedy,
who has more than 3,000 hours flying attack
and reconnaissance aircraft, talks about
involves seeking responsibility and taking
responsibility for your actions.
He cites, as an example, the captain of
a small surface ship that was crossing the
equator on its way to Australia after a deployment to the Arabian Gulf in the early 1990s.
“When ships cross the equator … there is
a longstanding tradition of hazing the ‘Wogs’
(the sailors who have never crossed the line
before) by the ‘Shellbacks’ (those who have
crossed the line),” he writes.
Egged on by the ship’s commanding
officer, shellbacks whipped the pollywogs
severely and the ceremony was suspended
after a sailor passed blood in his urine and
had to be medevaced off the ship, although
it’s possible his injury was from an earlier
fall in heavy seas, Kennedy writes.
It wasn’t clear whether the ship’s senior
leaders were disciplined, although it appears
all left the Navy within five years of the
incident, but a dozen enlisted sailors faced
non-judicial punishment following an investigation, he writes.
“When senior leaders hint at excessive behavior being OK they have tacitly approved
it,” Kennedy writes. “When a leader chooses
not to stop it, or at least check on it, he or she
is the one who is in the end responsible.”
“Leadership from the Darkside” is a quick
read at 135 pages, but it will resonate with
those who have served in uniform and it has
some useful lessons for those taking the helm
in the corporate world.
Robson.seth@stripes.com
Twitter: @SethRobson1
Ink and Bone
The Emperor’s Revenge
The House of Secrets
Lisa Unger
Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison
Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg
Readers return to the small
town of The Hollows in another
gut-wrenching tale of horror and
mystery.
Finley Montgomery has been
visited by ghostly figures and
experienced prophetic visions
for as long as she can remember.
Her grandmother, Eloise Montgomery, has the same gift.
Merri Gleason has been
living a lie for some time. Her
husband is cheating, and the
rest of her family is imploding.
Almost a year earlier, she stayed
home while her husband, son
and daughter went hiking. Her
daughter was abducted, and the
others were shot and left behind.
They survived, but the pain still
lingers.
Merri is tired of having no answers, so she makes a last-ditch
effort by hiring Jones Cooper
to uncover the truth. His background as a police officer turned
private investigator should help,
along with the assistance of
Finley’s grandmother and her
visions.
Strong characters and stellar
writing make this a wonderful
mix of small-town life with the
supernatural.
— Jeff Ayers/AP
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of
The Oregon might have met their
match in the latest Oregon Files
adventure.
Chairman Cabrillo leads a
small team into hostile territory
to stop a ruthless band of terrorists. A bank heist instigated
by the manager results in a
fiery crash in the middle of the
Monaco Grand Prix. When the
crew begins to search for answers into the mystery of why a
seemingly trustworthy head of a
bank would suddenly steal from
his own institution, they discover
that he might have been set up to
take the blame.
A ruthless individual who has
a more sinister plan in mind
than just a mere robbery leads
the group responsible for the
brutal attack on the bank. To
make matters worse, he captains
a vessel that’s just as formidable
as The Oregon with even more
advanced weaponry. The catalyst
and possible downfall of Cabrillo
and his team also ties in with a
diary stolen during Napoleon’s
failed invasion of Russia. “The
Emperor’s Revenge” showcases
what fans love about Cussler’s
novels: a wonderful blend of action-adventure and history.
— Jeff Ayers/AP
The results are somewhat
mixed as Meltzer, one of the best
historical thriller writers in the
business, teams up with acclaimed author Goldberg.
Jack Nash hosts a popular conspiracy TV show. His son, Skip,
becomes a fixture on the show.
Nash’s daughter, Hazel, has
developed the same passion for
historical conspiracies and tales.
One tale she fondly remembers
involves a leather Bible belonging to Benedict Arnold found inside the chest of a frozen corpse.
Then one day Hazel wakes
up in a hospital and is told she
was in a car crash. Her father
has been killed and her brother
seems different somehow. An
FBI agent shows up asking questions about Jack, and she soon
realizes that a man has been
found dead with a priceless book
once owned by Benedict Arnold
implanted in his chest. Is something sinister happening?
When the novel focuses on the
mystery, “The House of Secrets”
is classic Meltzer. What doesn’t
work are the characters.
Since this is the beginning of a
series, the likability factor needs
to be amped up for readers to
enjoy the very solid framework.
— Jeff Ayers/AP
The View from the
Cheap Seats
Neil Gaiman
Warning: This book may make
you want to read a bunch of other
books. Maybe even buy a comic.
“The View from the Cheap
Seats” is a collection of lectures,
acceptance speeches, essays,
book introductions, obits and
tributes written by Gaiman
over the decades. There’s plenty
here to spend a few hours with,
including his commencement
speech at the University of the
Arts in Philadelphia that went
viral in 2012 — “Husband runs
off with a politician? Make good
art. Leg crushed and then eaten
by a mutated boa constrictor?
Make good art. IRS on your trail?
Make good art. Cat exploded?
Make good art.”
The book is crammed with his
thoughts about the comic, sci-fi
and fantasy art forms, friends
he’s loved and lost. Each dispatch
is no more than a dozen pages
— some just a dozen paragraphs.
There’s little here to quibble
about because it’s so personal.
Gaiman has a direct writing
style that’s easy to read.
If all you’ve ever heard or seen
of Gaiman is the film adaptation
of “Coraline,” the book is a nice
jumping-off point into his world.
— Rob Merrill/AP
Stephen King drives
‘Mercedes’ trilogy
to an emotional end
Readers who missed
Brady Hartsfield in the second book in Stephen King’s
trilogy about a psychotic
killer will be delighted to
know he’s alive — but definitely not well — in “End of
Watch.”
Don’t even think about
reading it unless you’ve
read the previous two books
— “Mr. Mercedes” and
“Finders Keepers.”
The final installment begins where book two ended.
Brady is awake in room 217
of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic.
The man who drove a car
into a crowd at a job fair
and killed eight people is
still paralyzed, but his coma
has lifted and his brain has
never been more alive.
The story of how it all
happens is too strange to
summarize here. Suffice
it to say that King pulls off
quite a trick, even for him.
His killer can now kill again
without ever leaving his
hospital bed.
Standing in his way
are retired detective Bill
Hodges, his partner, Holly
Gibney, and their mutual
friend Jerome Robinson.
King works his customary
storytelling magic, unspooling the plot threads almost
as quickly as readers can
turn the pages.
What King does offer
readers is a little more
heart than many of his tales.
The relationship between
Hodges and Holly is truly
touching. She’s always been
somewhere on the autism
scale, but feels the most
normal when she’s with him.
When Hodges is diagnosed
with cancer as the gang
tries to figure out how Brady
is killing again, it’s Holly he
worries about:
“I’ll try the treatments,
sure. But I need a couple of
days before I check into the
hospital. And right now I
need you. Can you come and
pick me up?
“ ‘Okay.’ Crying harder
than ever, because she
knows he’s telling the truth
about needing her. And
being needed is a great
thing. Maybe the great
thing.”
To share any more would
deprive readers of the fun.
— Rob Merrill/AP
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GADGETS & CHARTS
GADGET WATCH
Innovative speakers look good, sound great
BY GREGG ELLMAN
Tribune News Service
I
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Tri-Tip, right, is one of the characters in the game “Skylanders
Imaginators,” in which players will be able to create their own unique
characters. The fifth installment of the series is set to debut Oct. 16.
‘Skylanders’ adding
custom characters
BY DERRIK J. L ANG
Associated Press
T
he population of Skylands
will be booming come
fall.
Activision is introducing the option for “Skylanders”
players to create their own characters in the series’ fifth installment,
which is set to debut Oct. 16. The
toys-to-life franchise mimics realworld figures in the virtual video
game world of Skylands.
“Skylanders Imaginators” will
add 10 crystal-shaped toys to the
lineup that can be used to assemble heroes from scratch by picking
their body parts, wardrobes,
voices, superpowers and other
attributes on-screen. The various
crystals each represent the different elements found across the
Skylands, such as air, water and
light.
From animal heads to armored
suits, “Skylanders” associate producer Lou Studdert said there are
about 18 sextillion — and growing
— possible aesthetic combinations
of Imaginators.
“We don’t just want to make the
same game,” said Studdert. “We’re
making sure that every year that
we’re innovating and pushing forward. As weird as it sounds, kids
now expect their action figures to
come to life in a video game. They
didn’t five years ago.”
In a demonstration of “Imaginators,” Studdert constructed a
fiery Skylander with an itty-bitty
noggin and a giant guitar used to
battle bad guys. He declined to
comment if Activision will provide
a way for players to order physical
versions of their custom characters.
The next “Skylanders” entry
will also add 31 new “sensei”
characters to the roster of more
than 300 heroes that have been released since the original “Spyro’s
Adventure” in 2011. They include
reformed villain Golden Queen
and dinosaur-inspired smasher
Tri-Tip.
The “creation crystals” will cost
$10, while the “sensei” characters
will be priced at $15.
As with past “Skylanders”
installments, previously released
character figures can be employed
in “Imaginators.” The air, land
and sea vehicle toys introduced in
last year’s “SuperChargers” entry
will also work in an “Imaginators”
multiplayer racing mode.
“Skylanders” pioneered the
toys-to-life category. The competition now includes “amiibo” from
Nintendo and “Lego Dimensions”
from Warner Bros. Interactive.
Disney announced earlier this
month it was shuttering its “Infinity” toys-to-life franchise because
the market is too risky.
A built-in bungee cord loop can keep it attached to you while hiking, biking, surfing or
just because you want it close by.
Online: ultimateears.com; $99.99, available
in summer themes Habanero, Tropical Anime,
Volcano, Atmosphere and Sugarplum
t’s that time of year to take the audio
outside, and there are lots of innovative
portable speakers to choose from. Which
is best all depends on what features your
lifestyle requires.
The iHome iX360 delivers 360-degree sound
Cyclists will like the rugged NYNE Edge
from a six-speaker system that even flashes
speaker (7-by-3.5-by-2.25 inches) since it comes
alerts from your smartphone.
with an adjustable clip for instant on/off to fit
The tube-shaped speaker measures
most handlebars.
7.01-by-2.81-by-2.81 inches and has
It has a builtGlanceable notification technology,
in multi-funcwhich is color coded and easy to setup
tion LED light
in the free iHome app to receive
with emernotification from your phone. This
gency strobe
includes calls, texts, email and social
settings inside
media alerts.
S
NY NE /TN
the great-soundProducing the sound are two miding speaker.
range drivers, two passive subwoofers and two
When the speaker is
tweeters. The lithium ion battery will last up to
mounted, the controls are eas10 hours; a USB port will charge your smartily reached on the top panel for
phone using your own charging cable.
power, volume and track choices.
A built-in microphone with digital voice echo
Pairing is done with Bluetooth or near field
cancellation lets you use the iX360 as a handscommunication and the sound is available on the free device.
go, whether rain or shine.
Pairing is done via Bluetooth or NFC.
The speaker has double-injection rubber
Online: iHomeAudio.com; $99.99
housing and an iPX5 weatherproof design to
withstand splashes, a quick rain shower, dust
Creative’s Sound Blaster Roar 2 wireless
and small drops.
speaker is compact but powerful in sound and
It has a USB charging port, an internal 15great in looks.
hour rechargeable battery and a waterproof
The speaker measures 2.0-by-7.4-by-4.3
microphone to use it as a speakerphone.
inches, but there’s nothing small in the sound
Online: nyne.com; $99.95
from the five built-in drivers and subwoofer. It’s
enhanced with the instant Roar audio power
The UE Roll 2 waterproof Bluetooth speaker
boost, which gives it a room-filling sound for a
has arrived from Ultimate Ears just in time for
larger audience at high volumes.
the summer.
When the speaker is played at lower volume, a
It has a wireless range of 100 feet (up from 65
technology called TeraBass intelligently boosts
feet) and produces 15 percent more sound than
the
bass for a better low audio experience.
its original version.
You can send your music to the speaker with
The sound from the 5.3-inch disc-shaped
Bluetooth or NFC or play it from a microSD
speaker, is amazing, even when the speaker
memory card through the built-in card reader.
is floating around a pool with the included UE
The rechargeable battery will last for about 8
Floatie.
hours of use before a charge is needed and will
Inside are a pair of tweeters and a 2-inch
supply power to a smartphone when needed.
driver. Its iPX7 rating allows it to be immersed
A reversible carry-bag in dark gray/light gray
in water up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes.
($39.99) with detachable wrist and shoulder
You can use a pair of UE Roll 2s simultanestraps is great for protection and portability.
ously or even pair one of the new ones with an
Online: us.creative.com; $169.99, available in
original UE Roll. You’ll get about nine hours of
black or white models
use from the rechargeable lithium-ion battery.
The UE Roll 2
provides about
nine hours of
use from the
rechargeable
lithium-ion
battery.
ULTIMATE E ARS/TNS
ITUNES MUSIC
SPOTIFY MUSIC ITUNES MOVIES VIDEO GAMES
The top 10 songs on iTunes for the
week ending June 2:
The most streamed tracks on Spotify
from May 27-June 2:
The top 10 movies on iTunes for the
week ending June 5:
Game Informer ranks the Top 10 PlayStation 4 games for June:
The top iPhone apps for the week ending June 5:
1. “CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!” (from
“Trolls”), Justin Timberlake
2. “One Dance” (feat. Wizkid & Kyla),
Drake
3. “Just Like Fire” (from “Alice Through
the Looking Glass”), P!nk
4. “Panda,” Desiigner
5. “Don’t Let Me Down” (feat. Daya),
The Chainsmokers
6. “H.O.L.Y.,” Florida Georgia Line
7. “This Is What You Came For” (feat.
Rihanna), Calvin Harris
8. “Work from Home” (feat. Ty Dolla
$ign), Fifth Harmony
9. “Lost Boy,” Ruth B.
10. “7 Years,” Lukas Graham
1. “One Dance” (feat. Wizkid & Kyla),
Drake
“Panda,” Desiigner
3. “Needed Me,” Rihanna
4. “Controlla,” Drake
5. “Too Good,” Drake
6. “This Is What You Came For,” Calvin
Harris
7. “Work from Home,” Fifth Harmony
8. “Don’t Let Me Down,” The Chainsmokers
9. “Pop Style,” Drake
10. “CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!”
(from “Trolls”), Justin Timberlake
1. “London Has
Fallen”
2. “Deadpool”
3. “Burnt”
4. “How to Be
Single”
5. “10 Cloverfield
Lane”
6. “Triple 9”
7. “13 Hours: The
Secret Soldiers of
Benghazi”
8. “Gods of Egypt”
9. “The Finest Hours”
10. “Race”
1. “Overwatch,” Blizzard
2. “Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End,” Sony
3. “Doom,” Bethesda
4. “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Blood
and Wine,” Warner Bros.
5. “Dark Souls III,” Bandai Namco
6. “Ratchet & Clank,” Sony
7. “MLB The Show 16,” Sony
8. “Odin Sphere Leifthrasir,” Atlus
9. “ King’s Quest – Chapter 3: Once
Upon A Climb,” Sierra
10. “Alienation,” Sony
1. Minecraft: Pocket Edition
2. StephMoji by Steph Curry
3. Facetune
4. Heads Up!
5. Justmoji
6. KIMOJI
7. NBA 2K16
8. 7 Minute Workout Challenge
9. Bloons TD 5
10. Geometry Dash
— Compiled by AP
— Compiled by AP
— Compiled by AP
— Compiled by TNS
APPS
— Compiled by AP
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Gawker files for bankruptcy, selling itself
BY M AE A NDERSON
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Gawker Media
is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and putting itself up
for sale, strained by a jury’s verdict that it must pay $140 million
to pro wrestler Hulk Hogan in an
invasion-of-privacy lawsuit.
The filing by the 14-year-old
website follows the revelation in
May that Silicon Valley, Calif.,
billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Hogan’s lawsuit as what he
called a “deterrent” to Gawker’s
no-holds-barred and sometimes
gonzo style of journalism. Thiel’s
secret role sparked anxiety over
the possibility that more wealthy
individuals might cow publications by covertly funding lawsuits
against them.
Gawker said it plans to sell itself to publishing company Ziff
Davis, although other bidders
could emerge during the bankruptcy court auction. The sale
will help it fund its appeal against
the Hogan judgment in a Florida
state court.
“We have been forced by
this litigation to give up our
long-standing
independence,”
Gawker founder Nick Denton
said in a statement. “With stronger backing and disentangled
from litigation, [Gawker writers]
can perform their vital work on
more platforms and in different
forms.”
The move also allows Gawker’s
websites to keep operating normally, the company says.
Gawker filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection about
three months after Hogan won a
lawsuit against the online gossip
and news publisher.
The New York publisher said
in the filing that it has as much
as $500 million in debt and up to
$100 million in assets.
Hogan sued Gawker after it
posted a video of him having sex
with a friend’s wife. Gawker said
the footage was newsworthy information about a public figure and
protected by the First Amendment. Hogan still won a judgment
for $115 million in compensatory
damages, plus an added $25.1 million in punitive damages.
Only afterward did Thiel’s part
in funding Hogan’s lawsuit become clear.
Thiel, who co-founded PayPal
and was an early investor in Facebook, has been a frequent target of
Gawker writers, who have written
unflattering pieces about his political beliefs and utopian goals.
One 2007 post outed Thiel as gay.
A Gawker-owned site, Valleywag,
ran a number of stories skewering
Facebook, which provided a big
chunk of Thiel’s estimated $2.7
billion fortune.
A spokesman for Thiel said he
had no comment on Friday.
Media analyst Dean Starkman,
a fellow at the Center for Media,
Data and Society at the Central
European University in Budapest, said the bankruptcy was
an “ominous development” for
journalism.
“You don’t want billionaires to
be any final arbiter of press fairness — that’s just not democracy,”
he said. “While many of us dis-
agreed with Gawker’s news judgment in this case, and many are
ambivalent about Gawker itself,
the issue here was a billionaire’s
use and potential abuse of the
legal process to drain a journalism outlet’s resources.”
In the filing, Hogan, whose real
name is Terry Bollea, was listed
as Gawker’s biggest creditor. One
of his lawyers, David Houston,
said in a statement that the wrestler and his legal team intend to
pursue the judgment award and
hold Gawker “accountable.”
MARKET WATCH
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (June 13) .........................$1.1609
Dollar buys (June 13) .......................€0.8614
British pound (June 13) ....................... $1.48
Japanese yen (June 13) .....................104.00
South Korean won (June 13) .........1,132.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound .....................................$1.4338
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.2705
China (Yuan) ........................................6.5628
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.5854
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8798
Euro ........................................ $1.1291/0.8856
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7615
Hungary (Forint) ................................. 276.03
Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.8579
Japan (Yen)...........................................106.82
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3012
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.2064
Philippines (Peso)................................. 46.03
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.86
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7504
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3543
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,164.55
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9641
Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 35.19
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.9153
(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 ............................................. 0.25
30-year bond ........................................... 2.45
WEATHER OUTLOOK
SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC
SUNDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
70/58
Kabul
92/65
Baghdad
101/76
Kuwait
City
110/81
Riyadh
107/79
Seoul
89/65
Kandahar
107/76
Bahrain
99/87
Brussels
67/55
Lajes,
Azores
75/63
Doha
106/89
Ramstein
65/53
Stuttgart
69/55
Iwakuni
81/68
Sasebo
82/68
Guam
91/81
Pápa
68/56
Aviano/
Vicenza
75/57
Naples
75/64
Morón
98/69
Sigonella
89/64
Rota
85/68
Djibouti
99/87
Tokyo
73/65
Osan
88/64 Busan
80/65
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
64/53
Okinawa
84/77
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
83/67
Sunday’s US temperatures
City
Abilene, Texas
Akron, Ohio
Albany, N.Y.
Albuquerque
Allentown, Pa.
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Billings
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Bridgeport
Brownsville
Buffalo
Burlington, Vt.
Caribou, Maine
Casper
Charleston, S.C.
Charleston, W.Va.
Charlotte, N.C.
Hi
90
74
68
91
78
92
61
89
92
85
90
89
90
76
92
82
77
74
80
91
68
57
55
80
95
86
96
Lo
71
65
61
63
65
67
49
64
73
70
73
73
73
53
73
67
47
59
65
78
57
55
53
55
72
69
72
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Clr
Chattanooga
94
Cheyenne
79
Chicago
76
Cincinnati
88
Cleveland
72
Colorado Springs 83
Columbia, S.C.
100
Columbus, Ga.
92
Columbus, Ohio
82
Concord, N.H.
67
Corpus Christi
89
Dallas-Ft Worth
91
Dayton
85
Daytona Beach
89
Denver
82
Des Moines
95
Detroit
75
Duluth
65
El Paso
96
Elkins
79
Erie
65
Eugene
76
Evansville
94
Fairbanks
65
Fargo
86
Flagstaff
75
Flint
74
Fort Smith
91
71
57
64
71
64
59
73
73
70
57
79
74
71
72
61
72
62
51
75
64
61
44
70
51
65
43
59
71
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Fort Wayne
Fresno
Goodland
Grand Junction
Grand Rapids
Great Falls
Green Bay
Greensboro, N.C.
Harrisburg
Hartford Spgfld
Helena
Honolulu
Houston
Huntsville
Indianapolis
Jackson, Miss.
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Key West
Knoxville
Lake Charles
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
85
90
92
87
78
70
72
95
82
77
72
86
89
93
86
91
94
55
93
89
91
88
76
93
90
95
91
72
68
64
67
61
60
45
56
71
70
62
47
74
75
69
72
73
72
48
72
79
68
76
60
74
68
74
73
61
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Rain
Louisville
93
Lubbock
93
Macon
95
Madison
77
Medford
84
Memphis
92
Miami Beach
88
Midland-Odessa 95
Milwaukee
67
Mpls-St Paul
83
Missoula
70
Mobile
91
Montgomery
94
Nashville
94
New Orleans
89
New York City
79
Newark
81
Norfolk, Va.
94
North Platte
91
Oklahoma City
90
Omaha
96
Orlando
93
Paducah
93
Pendleton
77
Peoria
91
Philadelphia
84
Phoenix
102
Pittsburgh
76
72
69
72
59
47
75
77
73
59
66
41
72
74
71
76
69
70
75
70
71
75
73
71
46
71
72
78
66
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Pocatello
Portland, Maine
Portland, Ore.
Providence
Pueblo
Raleigh-Durham
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Roanoke
Rochester
Rockford
Sacramento
St Louis
St Petersburg
St Thomas
Salem, Ore.
Salt Lake City
San Angelo
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
St Ste Marie
Savannah
Seattle
Shreveport
75
66
74
77
90
97
82
80
93
92
68
81
91
96
89
88
75
77
92
90
68
73
81
86
65
95
69
90
44
55
52
61
64
73
64
53
73
69
57
63
61
74
78
79
48
56
71
75
61
55
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47
72
50
74
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Sioux City
Sioux Falls
South Bend
Spokane
Springfield, Ill.
Springfield, Mo.
Syracuse
Tallahassee
Tampa
Toledo
Topeka
Tucson
Tulsa
Tupelo
Waco
Washington, D.C.
W. Palm Beach
Wichita
Wichita Falls
Wilkes-Barre
Wilmington, Del.
Yakima
Youngstown
96
93
81
69
93
90
66
93
89
78
93
99
91
91
91
90
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92
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National temperature extremes
Hi: Fri., 112, Death Valley, Calif.
Lo: Fri., 25, Mount Washington, N.H.
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SCOREBOARD
College baseball
Sports
on AFN
NCAA Division I
super regionals Glance
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
Tennis
Ricoh Open
Friday
At Autotron Rosmalen
Den Bosch, Netherlands
Purse: ATP, $643,900 (WT250);
WTA, $226,750 (Intl.)
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Quarterfinals
Ivo Karlovic (3), Croatia, def. Adrian
Mannarino, France, 6-3, 6-4.
Sam Querrey (5), United States, def.
Stefan Kozlov, United States, 6-3, 6-0.
Gilles Muller (7), Luxembourg, def. David Ferrer (1), Spain, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Nicolas Mahut (8), France, def. Bernard
Tomic (2), Australia, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2.
Women
Quarterfinals
Belinda Bencic (1), Switzerland, def.
Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, 7-6 (6),
7-6 (2).
Kristina Mladenovic (3), France, def.
Elise Mertens, Belgium, 7-5, 6-3.
CoCo Vandeweghe (6), United States,
def. Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, 6-2, 6-2.
Madison Brengle, United States, def.
Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles
Men
Semifinals
Dominic Inglot, Britain, and Raven
Klaasen (3), South Africa, def. Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, and Frederik Nielsen,
Denmark, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 10-8.
Women
Semifinals
Oksana Kalashnikova, Georgia, and
Yaroslava Shvedova (1), Kazakhstan, def.
Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Amra Sadikovic, Switzerland, 6-1, 6-3.
Xenia Knoll, Switzerland, and Aleksandra Krunic (4), Serbia, def. Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, and Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 4-6, 6-1, 10-6.
Deals
Friday’s transactions
Mercedes Cup
Friday
At TC Weissenhof
Stuttgart, Germany
Purse: $689,300 (WT250)
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
Singles
Quarterfinals
Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, def.
Gilles Simon (4), France, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-0.
Philipp Kohlschreiber (7), Germany,
def. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 64, 7-5.
Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, def.
Florian Mayer, Germany, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (1).
Dominic Thiem (3), Austria, def.
Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles
Semifinals
Oliver Marach, Austria, and Fabrice
Martin, France, def. Bob and Mike Bryan
(1), United States, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (6).
Nottingham Open
Thursday
At Nottingham Tennis Centre
Nottingham, England
Purse: $226,750 (Intl.)
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
Singles
Second Round
Zheng Saisai, China, def. Johanna
Konta (2), Britain, 6-4, 7-5.
Ashleigh Barty, Australia, def. Andrea
Hlavackova, Czech Republic, 6-0, 4-6, 6-4.
Tamira Paszek, Austria, def. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 6-3, 3-1, retired.
Tara Moore, Britain, def. Christina
McHale (8), United States, 6-2, 6-2.
Pro basketball
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
Atlanta
6
3 .667
Chicago
5
4 .556
New York
4
4 .500
Indiana
4
5 .444
Washington
4
6 .400
Connecticut
2
7 .222
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
Minnesota
9
0 1.000
Los Angeles
8
0 1.000
Dallas
3
5 .375
Phoenix
3
6 .333
Seattle
3
6 .333
San Antonio
1
6 .143
Friday’s games
Chicago 73, Indiana 64
Connecticut 77, Seattle 76
Atlanta 78, Minnesota 110
Saturday’s games
Minnesota at Washington
New York at San Antonio
Los Angeles at Dallas
Sunday’s games
Connecticut at Atlanta
Chicago at Phoenix
Seattle at Indiana
(Best-of-three)
x-if necessary
Host school is Game 1 home team; visiting school is Game 2 home team; coin
flip determines Game 3 home team
At A-Rod Park at Mark Light Field
Coral Gables, Fla.
Friday: Miami 12, Boston College 7
Saturday: Boston College (34-21) vs.
Miami (49-11)
x-Sunday: Boston College vs. Miami
At Dudy Noble Field
Starkville, Miss.
Friday: Arizona 1, Mississippi State 0
Saturday: Arizona (43-21) vs. Mississippi State (44-17-1)
x-Sunday: Arizona vs. Mississippi State
At Rip Griffin Park
Lubbock, Texas
Friday: East Carolina 8, Texas Tech 6
Saturday: East Carolina (38-21-1) vs.
Texas Tech (45-18)
x-Sunday: East Carolina vs. Texas Tech
At Olsen Field
College Station, Texas
Friday: TCU (45-15) at Texas A&M (48-14)
Saturday: TCU vs. Texas A&M
x-Sunday: TCU vs. Texas A&M
At Founders Park
Columbia, S.C.
Saturday: Oklahoma State (39-20) at
South Carolina (46-16)
Sunday: Oklahoma State vs. South
Carolina
x-Monday: Oklahoma State vs. South
Carolina
At Jim Patterson Stadium
Louisville, Ky.
Saturday: UC Santa Barbara (40-18-1)
at No. 2 Louisville (50-12)
Sunday: UC Santa Barbara vs. Louisville
x-Monday: UC Santa Barbara vs. Louisville
At Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
Gainesville, Fla.
Saturday: Florida State (40-20) at Florida (50-13)
Sunday: Florida State vs. Florida
x-Monday: Florida State vs. Florida
At Alex Box Stadium
Baton Rouge, La.
Saturday: Coastal Carolina (47-16) at
LSU (45-19)
Sunday: Coastal Carolina vs. LSU
x-Monday: Coastal Carolina vs. LSU
GB
—
1
1½
2
2½
4
GB
—
½
5½
6
6
7
BASEBALL
American League
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Purchased the
contract SS Tim Anderson from Charlotte
(IL). Designated SS Jimmy Rollins for assignment. Placed OF Austin Jackson on
the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Jason Coats
from Charlotte.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Phil
Hughes and RHP Trevor May on the 15day DL. Reinstated RHP Kyle Gibson from
the 15-day DL, Recalled RHP J.T. Chargois
from Rochester (IL).
NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP
Chad Green from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
(IL). Placed INF Chris Parmelee on the 15day DL.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled INF
Max Muncy and RHP Zach Neal from
Nashville (IL). Optioned RHP Jesse Hahn
to Nashville.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Activated OF
Leonys Martin from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Luis Sardinas to Tacoma
(PCL).
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Recalled
OF Peter O’Brien from Reno (PCL). Optioned LHP Edwin Escobar to Reno.
ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled INF Jace
Peterson from Gwinnett (IL).
CHICAGO CUBS — Activated OF Chris
Coghlan. Placed INF Tommy La Stella on
the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 8.
CINCINNATI REDS — Placed OF Billy
Hamilton on the seven-day concussion
list, retroactive to June 9. Reinstated RHP
Anthony DeSclafani from the 60-day DL.
NEW YORK METS — Activated INF Kelly
Johnson. Optioned OF Ty Kelly to Las Vegas (PCL).
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed RHP
Vince Velasquez on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Luis Garcia from Lehigh Valley (IL).
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed INF
Kelby Tomlinson on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 9. Purchased the contract
of INF Ramiro Pena from Sacramento
(PCL). Transferred RHP Sergio Romo to
the 60-day DL.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed CB
William Jackson.
DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived-injured
CB Brandon McGee. Waived CB Terrance
Mitchell.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released
TE Michael Williams.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed DT
Javon Hargrave to a four-year contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
DALLAS STARS — Signed RW Brett
Ritchie to a one-year contract.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Acquired F
Marc Savard and a 2018 second-round
draft pick from Florida for Fs Graham
Black and Paul Thompson.
COLLEGE
OKLAHOMA — Announced the resignation of assistant track and field coach
Brian Blutreich.
Soccer
Auto racing
Copa America
FIRST ROUND
Top two in each group advance
GROUP A
GP W D L GF GA
x-Colombia
2 2 0 0
4
1
United States 2 1 0 1
4
2
Paraguay
2 0 1 1
1
2
Costa Rica
2 0 1 1
0
4
x-advanced to quarterfinals
Friday, June 3
At Santa Clara, Calif.
Colombia 2, United States 0
Saturday, June 4
At Orlando, Fla.
Costa Rica 0, Paraguay 0
Tuesday, June 7
At Chicago
United States 4, Costa Rica 0
At Pasadena, Calif.
Colombia 2, Paraguay 1
Saturday, June 11
At Philadelphia
United States vs. Paraguay
At Houston
Colombia vs. Costa Rica
GROUP B
GP W D L GF GA
Brazil
2 1 1 0
7
1
Peru
2 1 1 0
3
2
Ecuador
2 0 2 0
2
2
Haiti
2 0 0 2
1
8
Saturday, June 4
At Seattle
Peru 1, Haiti 0
At Pasadena, Calif.
Brazil 0, Ecuador 0
Wednesday, June 8
At Orlando, Fla.
Brazil 7, Haiti 1
At Glendale, Ariz.
Ecuador 2, Peru 2
Sunday, June 12
At East Rutherford, N.J.
Ecuador vs. Haiti
At Foxborough, Mass.
Brazil vs. Peru
GROUP C
GP W D L GF GA
x-Mexico
2 2 0 0
5
1
x-Venezuela 2 2 0 0
2
0
Uruguay
2 0 0 2
1
4
Jamaica
2 0 0 2
0
3
x-advanced to quarterfinals
Sunday, June 5
At Chicago
Venezuela 1, Jamaica 0
At Glendale, Ariz.
Mexico 3, Uruguay 1
Thursday. June 9
At Philadelphia
Venezuela 1, Uruguay 0
At Pasadena, Calif.
Mexico 2, Jamaica 0
Monday, June 13
At Houston
Mexico vs. Venezuela
At Santa Clara, Calif.
Uruguay vs. Jamaica
GROUP D
GP W D L GF GA
Argentina
2 2 0 0
7
1
Panama
2 1 0 1
2
6
Chile
2 1 0 1
3
3
Bolivia
2 0 0 2
2
4
Monday, June 6
At Orlando, Fla.
Panama 2, Bolivia 1
At Santa Clara, Calif.
Argentina 2, Chile 1
Friday, June 10
At Foxborough, Mass.
Chile 2, Bolivia 1
At Chicago
Argentina 5, Panama 0
Tuesday, June 14
At Philadelphia
Chile vs. Panama
At Seattle
Argentina vs. Bolivia
Rattlesnake 400
Pts
6
3
1
1
Pts
4
4
2
0
Pts
6
6
0
0
Pts
6
3
3
0
NASCAR Camping World Trucks
Saturday
At Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, Texas
Lap length: 1.500 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (6) William Byron, Toyota, 167 laps,
122.6 rating, 36 points.
2. (4) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 167, 143.3,
33.
3. (1) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 167,
114.5, 31.
4. (15) Ben Kennedy, Chevrolet, 167,
104.7, 29.
5. (5) Tyler Reddick, Ford, 167, 99.4, 28.
6. (8) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 167,
108.2, 27.
7. (23) John Hunter Nemechek, Chevrolet, 167, 86.2, 26.
8. (2) German Quiroga Jr, Toyota, 167,
92.1, 25.
9. (13) Rico Abreu, Toyota, 167, 92.8,
24.
10. (3) Daniel Hemric, Ford, 167, 102.1,
24.
11. (12) Ben Rhodes, Toyota, 167, 75.0,
22.
12. (14) Cody Coughlin, Toyota, 167,
68.2, 21.
13. (18) Austin Wayne Self, Toyota, 167,
69.2, 20.
14. (16) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 167,
77.2, 19.
15. (27) Austin Hill, Ford, 167, 64.5, 18.
16. (20) Caleb Holman, Toyota, 166,
71.2, 17.
17. (7) John Wes Townley, Toyota, 166,
77.6, 16.
18. (11) Cameron Hayley, Toyota, 165,
56.7, 15.
19. (21) Jesse Little, Toyota, 165, 52.5,
14.
20. (22) Parker Kligerman, Ford, 164,
56.5, 13.
21. (19) Tyler Young, Chevrolet, 164,
49.2, 12.
22. (17) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet,
164, 50.7, 11.
23. (29) Wayne Edwards, Chevrolet,
164, 39.5, 10.
24. (25) Travis Kvapil, Chevrolet, 163,
44.8, 9.
25. (24) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 160, 41.7, 8.
26. (28) Ryan Lynch, Chevrolet, 158,
34.8, 7.
27. (10) Spencer Gallagher, Chevrolet,
153, 59.3, 6.
28. (26) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, accident, 92, 37.1, 5.
29. (32) Timothy Viens, Chevrolet, vibration, 56, 30.0, 4.
30. (31) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, suspension, 30, 27.3, 0.
31. (30) Carlos Contreras, Chevrolet,
engine, 4, 26.5, 2.
32. (9) Christopher Bell, Toyota, engine, 0, 26.0, 1.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner:
134.908 mph.
Time of Race: 1 hour, 51 minutes, 24
seconds.
Margin of Victory: 2.095 seconds.
Caution Flags: 4 for 22 laps.
Lead Changes: 11 among 4 drivers.
Lap Leaders: J.Sauter 0; M.Crafton
1-10; J.Sauter 11-16; D.Hemric 17-34;
M.Crafton 35-57; D.Hemric 58; M.Crafton
59-100; J.Sauter 101-103; M.Crafton 104127; W.Byron 128; M.Crafton 129-162;
W.Byron 163-167
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times
Led, Laps Led): M.Crafton, 5 times for
128 laps; D.Hemric, 2 times for 17 laps;
J.Sauter, 3 times for 7 laps; W.Byron, 2
times for 4 laps.
Wins: M.Crafton, 2; W.Byron, 1;
J.Nemechek, 1; J.Sauter, 1.
Top 10 in Points: 1. M.Crafton, 161;
2. T.Peters, 149; 3. D.Hemric, 144; 4.
S.Gallagher, 139; 5. W.Byron, 135; 6.
J.Nemechek, 127; 7. T.Reddick, 125; 8.
C.Bell, 124; 9. J.Sauter, 120; 10. T.Young,
115.
NASCAR Driver Rating Formula
A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.
The formula combines the following
categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While
on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under
Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, LeadLap Finish.
FireKeepers
Casino 400 lineup
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
After Friday qualifying; race Sunday
At Michigan International Speedway
Brooklyn, Mich.
Lap length: 2 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 199.557
mph.
2. (78) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota,
199.016.
3. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet,
198.950.
4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 198.774.
5. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 198.588.
6. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet,
198.369.
7. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 198.194.
8. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 198.014.
9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 197.819.
10. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet,
197.352.
11. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 196.549.
12. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford,
195.111.
13. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 197.873.
14. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,
197.753.
15. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 197.569.
16. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,
197.498.
17. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet,
197.179.
18. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 196.856.
19. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 196.533.
20. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
196.490.
21. (95) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 196.207.
22. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 196.137.
23. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet,
196.127.
24. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet,
195.759.
25. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet,
196.185.
26. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 196.132.
27. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet,
196.078.
28. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 195.961.
29. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet,
195.934.
30. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 195.785.
31. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota,
195.408.
32. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet,
194.805.
33. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet,
193.668.
34. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet,
192.725.
35. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 192.704.
36. (55) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 191.225.
37. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 189.823.
38. (32) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford,
189.120.
39. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet,
187.705.
40. (98) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet,
185.620.
Golf
Women’s PGA Championship
Friday
At Sahalee Country Club
Sammamish, Wash.
Purse: $3.5 million
Yardage: 6,668; Par 71
Second Round
Mirim Lee
71-69—140
Brooke Henderson
67-73—140
Gerina Piller
72-69—141
Lydia Ko
71-70—141
Brittany Lincicome
71-70—141
Tiffany Joh
70-72—142
So Yeon Ryu
72-70—142
In-Kyung Kim
69-73—142
Su Oh
73-69—142
Ai Miyazato
72-70—142
Catriona Matthew
76-67—143
Minjee Lee
70-73—143
Christina Kim
69-74—143
Suzann Pettersen
70-73—143
Cheyenne Woods
73-70—143
Kelly Tan
74-70—144
Ha Na Jang
74-70—144
In Gee Chun
71-73—144
Hee Young Park
70-74—144
Lizette Salas
72-72—144
Anna Nordqvist
73-71—144
Chella Choi
71-73—144
Ariya Jutanugarn
70-75—145
Cristie Kerr
72-73—145
Casey Grice
73-72—145
Candie Kung
73-72—145
Mika Miyazato
74-71—145
Sandra Changkija
75-71—146
Juli Inkster
75-71—146
Danielle Kang
72-74—146
Alena Sharp
74-72—146
Kris Tamulis
71-75—146
Beatriz Recari
73-73—146
Shanshan Feng
76-70—146
Ashleigh Simon
70-77—147
Jodi Ewart Shadoff
72-75—147
-2
-2
-1
-1
-1
E
E
E
E
E
+1
+1
+1
+1
+1
+2
+2
+2
+2
+2
+2
+2
+3
+3
+3
+3
+3
+4
+4
+4
+4
+4
+4
+4
+5
+5
St. Jude Classic
PGA Tour
Friday
At TPC Southwind
Memphis, Tenn.
Purse: $6.2 million
Yardage: 7,224; Par: 70
Second Round
a-amateur
Daniel Berger
67-64—131
Tom Hoge
65-69—134
Brooks Koepka
70-65—135
Dustin Johnson
66-69—135
Phil Mickelson
70-65—135
Brett Stegmaier
67-69—136
Ken Duke
70-66—136
Russell Henley
68-68—136
Shawn Stefani
65-71—136
Wesley Bryan
70-66—136
Cameron Percy
69-67—136
Brian Gay
66-70—136
Will MacKenzie
70-66—136
Hudson Swafford
70-66—136
Chad Campbell
68-69—137
Eric Axley
69-68—137
Steve Stricker
66-71—137
Colt Knost
66-71—137
Wes Roach
67-70—137
Sam Saunders
69-68—137
Retief Goosen
67-70—137
Seung-Yul Noh
65-72—137
Rob Oppenheim
72-65—137
Vaughn Taylor
68-70—138
Charlie Wi
70-68—138
Ben Crane
68-70—138
Harris English
69-69—138
Francesco Molinari
68-70—138
Carl Pettersson
71-67—138
Chad Collins
72-66—138
Freddie Jacobson
72-66—138
Tyrone Van Aswegen
70-68—138
Bronson Burgoon
72-66—138
John Merrick
68-70—138
Senior Players Championship
-9
-6
-5
-5
-5
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-4
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
Friday
At Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickon Course)
Flourtown, Pa.
Purse: $2.8 million
Yardage: 7,017; Par: 70
Second Round
Brandt Jobe
69-69—138 -2
Bernhard Langer
71-68—139 -1
Scott Dunlap
70-69—139 -1
Wes Short, Jr.
71-69—140 E
Bart Bryant
69-71—140 E
Jay Don Blake
68-72—140 E
Tom Byrum
74-67—141 +1
Woody Austin
71-70—141 +1
Carlos Franco
74-68—142 +2
Steve Lowery
71-71—142 +2
Billy Andrade
70-72—142 +2
Scott McCarron
71-71—142 +2
Jeff Sluman
69-73—142 +2
David Frost
72-70—142 +2
Colin Montgomerie
70-73—143 +3
Miguel Angel Jimenez
72-71—143 +3
Vijay Singh
69-74—143 +3
Doug Garwood
70-73—143 +3
Jeff Maggert
71-73—144 +4
Olin Browne
72-72—144 +4
Joe Durant
74-70—144 +4
Tommy Armour III
71-73—144 +4
Greg Kraft
74-70—144 +4
John Cook
72-72—144 +4
Mark Brooks
71-73—144 +4
Jesper Parnevik
72-73—145 +5
Fred Funk
73-72—145 +5
Brad Bryant
74-71—145 +5
Skip Kendall
72-73—145 +5
Duffy Waldorf
73-73—146 +6
Michael Allen
72-74—146 +6
Tom Watson
71-75—146 +6
Joey Sindelar
73-73—146 +6
Peter Fowler
77-69—146 +6
Loren Roberts
75-72—147 +7
•STA
Sunday, June 12, 2016
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SPORTS BRIEFS/COLLEGE BASEBALL
Briefly
Westbrook, Harden
pull out of Olympics
Associated Press
Russell Westbrook and James
Harden chose staying home over
going for gold.
And as the losses pile up, the
U.S. Olympic basketball team has
to hope it still has enough to win
when it gets to Rio.
Days after Stephen Curry announced he wouldn’t play, Westbrook and Harden pulled out
Friday, further weakening a
backcourt that was expected to
be a U.S. strength.
Westbrook and Harden played
for the U.S. when it won gold in
the 2012 Olympics, and both had
also won a world championship.
“I have been extremely blessed
to wear the ‘red, white, and blue’
and to compete at the highest international level with the greatest
players representing the greatest
country in the world,” Harden
said in a statement released by
the Houston Rockets. “I sincerely
hope I’ll earn an opportunity to
represent Team USA again in the
future.”
Neither player gave a reason
for his decision. USA Basketball
chairman Jerry Colangelo said
this week that every player who
had pulled out so far, which includes forwards Anthony Davis,
Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge, had done so because of
injury.
But the Zika virus is also a concern in Brazil, which has been hit
hard by the mosquito-borne virus
that has been linked to severe
birth defects and possible neurological problems in adults. Spain
star Pau Gasol had recently said
he was considering skipping the
Olympics for that reason.
Andrew Wiggins also said Friday he wouldn’t play for Canada,
which needs to win a qualifying
tournament in July to earn an
Olympic berth. Instead, he wants
to remain in Minnesota to prepare for the Timberwolves’ first
season under Tom Thibodeau.
Biggio’s son selected
on Day 2 of MLB Draft
NEW YORK — Cavan Biggio
heard his name announced during the Major League Baseball
draft by a familiar voice.
The son of Hall of Famer Craig
Biggio was selected in the fifth
round by the Toronto Blue Jays
on Friday. And, it was the Notre
Dame infielder’s older brother,
Conor, who broke the news.
Conor, a 34th-round pick of
Houston last year, is working as
an intern for the league and was
able to get on the microphone to
broadcast that the younger Biggio
was the 162nd player drafted.
Cavan Biggio hit .311 with four
home runs and 28 RBIs while
starting all 54 games for the Irish
this season as a junior. He was
also drafted out of high school
in the 29th round in 2013 by
Philadelphia.
Biggio’s father still has brag-
ging rights, though. Craig Biggio
was a first-rounder in 1987 and
went on to a fantastic big league
career.
Cavan Biggio wasn’t the only
familiar name selected during
the draft’s second day.
Rafael Palmeiro’s son Preston,
a first baseman for North Carolina State, was taken in the seventh round by Baltimore — one
of his father’s former teams. Rafael Palmeiro had two stops with
the Orioles, playing in Baltimore
from 1994-98 and 2004-05.
The younger Palmeiro hit .337
with nine home runs and 55 RBIs
during his junior season for the
Wolfpack.
Kentucky third baseman JaVon
Shelby, the son of Colorado hitting coach and former outfielder
John Shelby, went in the fifth
round to Oakland after hitting a
team-leading 12 home runs for
the Wildcats.
Texas high school outfielder
Conner Caple, son of former
reliever Mike Capel, was also
drafted in the fifth, selected by
Cleveland.
Rookie Byron wins
Truck race in Texas
FORT WORTH, Texas — A
rookie driver and recent high
school graduate put an end to
Matt Crafton’s chance for a Texas
triple the day before his 40th
birthday.
William Byron passed Crafton’s
beat-up No. 88 Toyota with five
laps to go Friday night at Texas
Motor Speedway for his second
career victory in the NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series.
Crafton, who finished second,
had won the series’ last two races
this season. The two-time series
champion and current season
points leader was also trying to
win the June race at Texas for the
third year in a row, and led 133
of 167 laps at the 1 ½-mile, highbanked track in the Rattlesnake
400.
Byron also won at Kansas last
month in the No. 9 Toyota owned
by Kyle Busch, and joined Crafton as the only multiple winners
this season.
In other auto racing news:
Joey Logano improved his
chances of racing to his first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory of the
year, posting a lap of 199.557 mph
Friday to win the pole at Michigan International Speedway.
Logano, who won 11 times the
previous two years, will start first
for the second time this year and
the 16th in his career.
“Track position always plays
when you’re making decisions,”
he said.
Martin Truex Jr. will start second, his ninth start among the
top 10 this season. Tony Stewart,
who plans to retire at the end of
the season, will start third in the
40-car race in his best qualifying
performance of the year.
BRAD TOLLEFSON, LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-JOURNAL /AP
East Carolina’s Travis Watkins hits a grand slam against Texas Tech during Friday’s super regional in
Lubbock, Texas. East Carolina won 8-6 to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series.
Three seeds knocked off
in super regional openers
BY ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
East Carolina, TCU and Arizona beat national
seeds on the road in NCAA super regional openers
Friday night, and No. 3 Miami joined them in moving within one victory of advancing to the College
World Series.
Travis Watkins continued his power surge with a
grand slam and two-run homer in East Carolina’s 86 win over No. 5 Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas.
Luken Baker hit a three-run homer to lead the
Horned Frogs in an 8-2 win over No. 4 Texas A&M
in College Station, Texas.
Arizona shut out No. 6 Mississippi State 1-0 in
Starkville, Miss., with Bobby Dalbec allowing five
hits in 8 2 ⁄3 innings hours after he was drafted by the
Boston Red Sox.
Johnny Ruiz hit two home runs, including a grand
slam in the eighth inning, to lead Miami in a 12-7
victory over Boston College in Coral Gables, Fla.
The four other super regionals began Saturday:
Florida State at No. 1 Florida, UC Santa Barbara at
No. 2 Louisville, Coastal Carolina at No. 8 LSU and
Oklahoma State at South Carolina.
Winners of the best-of-three series advance to the
CWS in Omaha, Neb., beginning June 18.
A look around the country:
Game 1 wins big: Since the current tournament
format went into effect in 1999, 77.9 percent (106 of
136) of the teams that won Game 1s in super regionals have advanced to the College World Series.
Unexpected homers: East Carolina’s Watkins,
who hit three home runs in the regular season, has
four in the last three games. In regionals, Watkins’
three-run walk-off homer in the ninth inning eliminated defending national champion Virginia, and
he hit a two-run homer in the regional final against
William & Mary.
Miami’s Ruiz, before going deep twice, had hit
only two home runs in 151 career games.
Baker’s roll: In his last nine games, TCU’s Baker
has five homers and 14 RBIs and is batting .611 (22for-36). Things are going so well for the 6-foot-4,
265-pounder that he was even able to score from
second base on a wild pitch in the fifth inning.
Delayed gratification: A power outage caused a
37-minute delay in the middle of the eighth inning
between Arizona and Mississippi State. Dalbec went
back out to the mound for the bottom of the eighth
and faced eight more batters before Cameron Ming
relieved with runners on first and second and two
outs in the bottom of the ninth. Ming struck out Jake
Mangum to end the game.
Dalbec, taken in the fourth round by the Red Sox,
was the Wildcats’ closer early in the season and was
making only his fifth start of the season. He struck
out nine, walked two and hit three batters in his longest outing of the season.
Double ouch: Mississippi State’s Ryan Gridley
was hit by Dalbec pitches in his first two plate appearances. The second one, in the fourth inning,
ricocheted off Gridley’s left elbow pad and struck
catcher Cesar Salazar’s neck. Salazar was able to
keep playing. Gridley has been hit by a team-high
11 pitches.
Prospect watch
Miami’s Zack Collins, the 10th overall pick by
the Chicago White Sox, hit a three-run homer off
fellow first-rounder Justin Dunn of Boston College
in the third inning of their game in Coral Gables,
Fla.
Dunn, 19th overall pick by New York Mets,
gave up two home runs in the third inning, to Collins and Ruiz. They were only the second and third
home runs against Dunn this season. He went 5 1 ⁄3
innings, giving up five runs on six hits. He walked
two and struck out six.
Mississippi State’s Dakota Hudson, 34th overall
pick by St. Louis, went 6 1 ⁄3 innings against Arizona.
He gave up one run on seven hits and a walk and
struck out six.
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MLB
Kershaw, Turner key Dodgers’ victory
BY JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Clayton Kershaw
has been downright dominant for the Dodgers in San Francisco’s home ballpark.
And, lately, everywhere else.
Never one to consider his strikeouts the
measure of a successful night, Kershaw
sat down the Giants all game until Justin
Turner finally delivered the one big hit Los
Angeles needed.
Kershaw struck out 13 in eight innings,
Turner hit a go-ahead homer in the top of
the ninth and the Dodgers beat the Giants
3-2 on Friday night after losing three of
four in their last visit to AT&T Park.
Kershaw (9-1) outdueled Johnny Cueto
to improve to 7-0 over his past eight starts,
with 82 strikeouts to three walks during
that stretch since an April 26 loss to Miami.
He is 3-0 in six road starts and 10-3 with a
1.30 ERA in 17 outings at AT&T Park.
“It was a fun game to be a part of,” Kershaw said. “Johnny’s pitching. You kind of
see why he’s so good.”
Turner hit a 2-1 pitch from Santiago
Casilla (1-2) to left field to start the ninth
and the Dodgers shaved a game off the Giants’ NL West lead to pull within three —
although both clubs know this race surely
will be decided down the stretch.
The Dodgers have won the past five
games against the Giants when Kershaw
pitches, and the lefty is 18-7 in 33 starts
facing rival San Francisco.
“These guys, you have to beat them,”
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “To
have Kersh take the mound first game of
the series, set the tone and to match Cueto
pitch for pitch, those are two of the best in
the game ... big hit by JT late, big lift for
us.”
Kenley Jansen allowed Brandon Belt’s
two-out double in the ninth followed by a
walk to pinch-hitter Gregor Blanco before
striking out Brandon Crawford on a 3-2
pitch for his 17th save.
The Dodgers improved to 12-1 in Kershaw’s outings, while the Giants dropped to
11-2 when Cueto takes the mound. He beat
Los Angeles in consecutive April starts.
Cueto, who was trying to become the
majors’ third 10-game winner of the night
after Washington’s Stephen Strasburg and
Chris Sale of the White Sox, had his home
scoreless streak of 29 1 ⁄3 innings snapped in
the first when he fell behind 2-0.
The right-hander struck out eight in
eight innings, allowing two runs on three
hits with no walks.
The Dodgers went ahead on a balk that
Cueto and manager Bruce Bochy debated
with plate umpire D.J. Reyburn, then added
on with Adrian Gonzalez’s RBI single.
Matt Duffy homered in the bottom of
the first, sending an 0-1 pitch — Kershaw’s
first slider of the game — into the left-field
bleachers for just the fifth long ball given
up by Los Angeles’ ace, and Buster Posey
hit a tying double in the sixth.
“That’s a tough one to lose,” Bochy said.
“A home run in the ninth got us.”
M ARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ /AP
Clayton Kershaw struck out 13 in eight
innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat
the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Friday
night at AT&T Park.
Statistics
American League
TEAM BATTING
AB R H
2150 350 626
2041 229 546
2056 275 551
2070 291 550
2086 310 546
2031 284 523
2048 260 526
2054 283 520
2042 232 506
2021 245 494
2051 226 501
2064 248 502
1989 247 479
2161 268 515
2107 264 495
INDIVIDUAL BATTING
AB R H
Bogaerts Bos
252 47 88
Altuve Hou
250 46 85
V.Martinez Det
209 24 71
Ortiz Bos
200 28 68
Nunez Min
200 31 66
Hosmer KC
225 32 73
Mazara Tex
204 27 66
Pedroia Bos
241 42 77
Bradley Jr. Bos
202 32 64
Y.Escobar LAA
229 28 72
Kinsler Det
239 50 75
Castellanos Det
213 28 66
Desmond Tex
240 44 74
J.Ramirez Cle
177 28 54
Trout LAA
225 42 68
Machado Bal
240 42 72
Mi.Cabrera Det
228 32 68
Calhoun LAA
225 39 67
Lindor Cle
235 38 70
Cano Sea
248 47 73
Saunders Tor
201 30 59
Me.Cabrera ChW
219 28 64
Trumbo Bal
236 38 69
Cain KC
224 30 65
Betts Bos
263 56 76
N.Cruz Sea
223 36 64
Ellsbury NYY
195 26 56
Beltran NYY
217 35 62
Seager Sea
228 37 65
Mauer Min
214 23 60
S.Perez KC
188 20 52
Springer Hou
257 42 71
Longoria TB
233 35 64
Vogt Oak
189 20 52
Andrus Tex
201 26 55
T.Shaw Bos
227 34 62
Beltre Tex
225 30 61
Kipnis Cle
236 32 64
H.Ramirez Bos
221 30 60
Gregorius NYY
197 18 53
Eaton ChW
236 24 63
J.Martinez Det
230 33 61
Gardner NYY
191 36 50
Odor Tex
215 35 56
Schoop Bal
216 24 56
S.Castro NYY
229 19 59
Abreu ChW
238 24 61
Correa Hou
234 28 60
R.Davis Cle
192 29 49
A.Jackson ChW
181 24 46
Donaldson Tor
229 47 58
Giavotella LAA
182 20 46
Souza Jr. TB
202 26 51
Cron LAA
179 20 45
Pillar Tor
236 22 59
B.Burns Oak
210 26 52
A.Escobar KC
259 21 64
Aoki Sea
218 33 53
Morrison TB
169 21 41
Lawrie ChW
223 24 54
B.Miller TB
182 17 44
Rickard Bal
186 24 45
Valbuena Hou
174 22 42
Alonso Oak
175 18 42
Headley NYY
176 17 42
Iglesias Det
181 24 43
Napoli Cle
212 39 50
Sano Min
179 25 42
Bautista Tor
218 38 51
Boston
Kansas City
Detroit
Texas
Seattle
Baltimore
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Oakland
New York
Minnesota
Chicago
Tampa Bay
Houston
Toronto
HR
74
50
73
69
92
91
56
68
62
64
64
56
88
77
80
RBI
337
216
264
281
300
271
252
269
224
235
214
236
240
257
252
Avg
.291
.268
.268
.266
.262
.258
.257
.253
.248
.244
.244
.243
.241
.238
.235
HR RBI Avg
7 40 .349
10 37 .340
9 34 .340
16 55 .340
9 24 .330
12 38 .324
10 28 .324
7 27 .320
9 40 .317
3 17 .314
11 35 .314
11 35 .310
9 40 .308
3 22 .305
13 44 .302
15 38 .300
12 36 .298
7 32 .298
6 30 .298
18 50 .294
10 21 .294
5 29 .292
20 48 .292
8 34 .290
14 45 .289
15 43 .287
3 19 .287
16 44 .286
11 41 .285
7 22 .280
8 26 .277
14 37 .276
14 35 .275
5 16 .275
2 21 .274
7 36 .273
10 40 .271
7 31 .271
4 33 .271
4 21 .269
3 19 .267
12 36 .265
5 14 .262
9 29 .260
9 33 .259
9 25 .258
7 33 .256
8 32 .256
6 24 .255
0 18 .254
14 35 .253
2 18 .253
10 24 .252
5 26 .251
3 21 .250
0
6 .248
0 16 .247
1 10 .243
7 18 .243
7 23 .242
5 19 .242
4 11 .242
6 18 .241
1 12 .240
3 12 .239
1 10 .238
14 44 .236
11 27 .235
12 40 .234
A.Jones Bal
Encarnacion Tor
K.Davis Oak
Pujols LAA
Semien Oak
Crisp Oak
Col.Rasmus Hou
Dozier Min
Upton Det
C.Davis Bal
C.Santana Cle
Moreland Tex
Park Min
Frazier ChW
K.Morales KC
Dickerson TB
Fielder Tex
218 31 51
240 27 56
203 23 47
229 24 53
198 22 45
186 21 42
209 19 47
210 24 47
215 26 48
212 44 47
221 29 49
191 23 42
181 25 39
225 36 48
205 17 41
177 18 35
216 15 42
TEAM PITCHING
ERA H ER BB
Seattle
3.67 500 222 172
Toronto
3.70 512 233 194
Cleveland
3.79 485 228 170
Chicago
3.80 523 230 194
Baltimore
3.91 534 232 190
Texas
3.96 531 241 198
New York
4.09 515 243 141
Tampa Bay
4.11 502 237 173
Kansas City
4.13 509 240 200
Houston
4.18 583 268 172
Boston
4.23 483 252 209
Detroit
4.36 529 255 185
Los Angeles
4.51 554 271 193
Oakland
4.72 550 277 194
Minnesota
5.13 611 303 162
INDIVIDUAL PITCHING
IP H BB SO
S.Wright Bos
82 60 33 70
Salazar Cle
68 44 33 81
Hill Oak
64 48 24 74
Estrada Tor
81 48 33 71
Quintana ChW
77 69 17 71
Tanaka NYY
78 64 15 59
F.Hernandez Sea
63 51 26 53
Sale ChW
91 73 19 86
Aa.Sanchez Tor
80 66 26 76
Tillman Bal
78 62 29 75
Lewis Tex
76 71 17 51
M.Perez Tex
78 70 36 43
Zimmermann Det
71 71 15 46
Hamels Tex
76 69 30 76
Fister Hou
73 67 25 44
Gausman Bal
60 58 15 54
Odorizzi TB
73 61 23 65
Tomlin Cle
67 69
7 45
Walker Sea
67 62 15 63
Happ Tor
76 66 24 48
Kluber Cle
89 71 19 87
Bauer Cle
60 55 22 57
Verlander Det
79 62 23 85
Porcello Bos
76 67 15 68
Kennedy KC
71 64 25 66
Karns Sea
66 64 31 67
Iwakuma Sea
83 85 19 63
Dickey Tor
78 75 29 53
Volquez KC
78 81 29 64
Rodon ChW
63 71 24 59
Eovaldi NYY
71 74 17 66
Price Bos
84 75 24 91
Pelfrey Det
65 84 28 34
Archer TB
72 75 34 88
E.Santana Min
60 67 21 48
Holland Tex
65 65 20 36
Stroman Tor
86 90 26 57
Smyly TB
71 69 19 77
Fiers Hou
67 78 12 47
Nolasco Min
71 80 13 63
McHugh Hou
71 88 18 67
Miley Sea
72 78 21 52
Ventura KC
66 66 35 44
Gray Oak
61 65 26 50
Keuchel Hou
83 92 27 72
Moore TB
70 81 22 63
Weaver LAA
70 88 18 42
Santiago LAA
67 66 28 58
Pineda NYY
66 84 17 71
Jimenez Bal
62 83 35 52
Buchholz Bos
62 63 28 40
A.Sanchez Det
60 67 29 50
9
13
14
12
11
5
8
7
4
14
10
8
11
19
6
11
4
32
48
36
41
25
22
35
25
17
35
28
25
20
42
22
26
30
.234
.233
.232
.231
.227
.226
.225
.224
.223
.222
.222
.220
.215
.213
.200
.198
.194
SO Sh
513
1
462
0
502
1
465
1
450
0
424
0
527
0
496
1
480
0
542
0
515
0
433
0
444
0
460
0
475
0
Sv
15
17
14
16
23
21
19
18
17
17
15
18
14
16
8
W L ERA
7 4 2.08
6 3 2.24
8 3 2.25
4 2 2.57
5 6 2.58
3 1 2.76
4 4 2.86
10 2 2.87
5 1 2.91
8 1 3.01
5 0 3.20
5 4 3.22
8 3 3.30
5 1 3.32
6 3 3.34
0 3 3.45
3 3 3.47
8 1 3.48
3 6 3.48
6 3 3.57
6 6 3.65
4 2 3.88
5 5 3.97
7 2 4.04
4 5 4.06
5 2 4.09
5 5 4.10
4 6 4.15
5 6 4.25
2 5 4.40
6 2 4.42
7 3 4.62
1 6 4.68
4 7 4.73
1 6 4.77
5 5 4.87
5 2 4.94
2 7 4.94
3 3 5.00
2 4 5.17
5 5 5.22
6 2 5.27
4 4 5.32
3 6 5.34
3 8 5.44
2 4 5.56
5 5 5.56
3 4 5.64
3 6 6.14
3 6 6.21
3 6 6.24
3 6 6.30
National League
TEAM BATTING
AB R H
2141 296 587
2118 308 574
2120 246 572
2118 337 567
2194 278 579
1986 314 504
2106 267 528
2060 279 513
1999 247 486
2005 268 485
2116 252 502
1994 222 466
2027 188 470
2084 260 482
1975 198 455
INDIVIDUAL BATTING
AB R H
Murphy Was
226 38 85
Ozuna Mia
230 37 75
Yelich Mia
200 29 65
Zobrist ChC
194 42 63
Marte Pit
227 33 73
Harrison Pit
210 27 67
A.Diaz StL
208 42 66
Herrera Phi
214 33 67
Prado Mia
227 25 71
Braun Mil
189 24 59
Realmuto Mia
196 21 60
LeMahieu Col
203 35 62
Piscotty StL
223 38 68
Lucroy Mil
207 32 63
C.Gonzalez Col
230 40 69
Fowler ChC
214 38 64
Jaso Pit
188 21 56
Pence SF
181 27 54
Villar Mil
218 32 65
Belt SF
202 28 60
Blackmon Col
186 29 55
Arenado Col
234 45 69
Polanco Pit
220 41 65
Myers SD
238 39 70
Mar.Reynolds Col
184 27 54
Segura Ari
249 29 73
Cozart Cin
196 32 57
Freese Pit
175 28 51
Jay SD
239 31 69
Carpenter StL
214 44 61
Owings Ari
179 21 51
Seager LAD
237 40 67
Cespedes NYM
199 34 56
A.Gonzalez LAD
211 21 59
Bryant ChC
233 44 65
Goldschmidt Ari
215 32 60
Drury Ari
191 19 53
Bruce Cin
208 35 57
Walker NYM
205 25 56
Duvall Cin
197 32 53
Molina StL
209 22 56
Phillips Cin
209 28 56
Mercer Pit
202 27 54
Story Col
241 36 64
Tomas Ari
196 29 52
Hill Mil
174 21 46
A.Cabrera NYM
221 21 58
Ja.Lamb Ari
202 29 53
Parra Col
237 32 62
Rendon Was
225 39 59
B.Crawford SF
208 23 54
Span SF
231 25 60
Utley LAD
196 34 51
Rizzo ChC
205 35 53
A.Ramirez SD
217 19 56
Cervelli Pit
167 19 43
Posey SF
195 29 50
Harper Was
185 36 47
C.Hernandez Phi
199 17 50
McCutchen Pit
237 37 59
F.Freeman Atl
219 27 54
Hechavarria Mia
198 21 49
Holliday StL
203 26 50
Panik SF
211 29 52
Markakis Atl
218 19 53
Franco Phi
219 18 53
Zimmerman Was
199 32 48
Upton SD
217 25 52
Conforto NYM
188 26 45
Pittsburgh
Colorado
Miami
St. Louis
Arizona
Chicago
San Francisco
Washington
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
San Diego
New York
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
HR
57
77
50
82
69
69
53
85
63
75
65
81
25
64
53
RBI
282
297
235
325
265
300
254
272
232
253
242
216
179
242
186
Avg
.274
.271
.270
.268
.264
.254
.251
.249
.243
.242
.237
.234
.232
.231
.230
HR RBI Avg
11 42 .376
11 36 .326
5 28 .325
8 36 .325
5 22 .322
2 29 .319
8 32 .317
5 18 .313
1 18 .313
9 33 .312
2 15 .306
4 21 .305
7 34 .305
9 28 .304
13 30 .300
7 27 .299
3 19 .298
7 36 .298
5 25 .298
7 29 .297
6 29 .296
19 53 .295
9 39 .295
13 37 .294
3 19 .293
5 28 .293
9 25 .291
5 22 .291
2 20 .289
10 42 .285
2 18 .285
14 35 .283
16 39 .281
5 29 .280
14 43 .279
11 37 .279
8 18 .277
13 42 .274
13 25 .273
17 41 .269
1 22 .268
6 27 .268
2 21 .267
16 42 .266
7 21 .265
6 21 .264
5 19 .262
11 37 .262
5 27 .262
6 20 .262
6 32 .260
2 23 .260
4 20 .260
13 43 .259
3 23 .258
0 21 .257
8 27 .256
13 37 .254
1 14 .251
9 25 .249
9 18 .247
3 17 .247
9 31 .246
6 24 .246
1 34 .243
10 32 .242
9 28 .241
7 26 .240
9 29 .239
Werth Was
Duffy SF
Kemp SD
Puig LAD
E.Suarez Cin
Galvis Phi
A.Russell ChC
Carter Mil
Votto Cin
Pederson LAD
Heyward ChC
J.Turner LAD
Ahmed Ari
Espinosa Was
Grichuk StL
Granderson NYM
D.Norris SD
Stanton Mia
201 30 48
228 29 54
249 31 59
186 21 44
220 33 51
221 24 51
193 23 44
217 30 49
209 33 47
176 25 39
199 28 44
195 22 43
188 19 41
196 23 42
193 29 41
220 28 46
182 24 37
187 22 37
TEAM PITCHING
ERA H ER BB
Chicago
2.66 384 157 172
New York
3.05 495 182 149
Washington
3.27 458 200 172
Los Angeles
3.34 440 207 165
San Francisco
3.64 528 227 154
Philadelphia
4.00 508 240 173
Miami
4.03 515 244 239
St. Louis
4.20 510 253 175
Pittsburgh
4.24 545 260 227
Atlanta
4.40 516 264 206
San Diego
4.46 548 278 246
Milwaukee
4.47 552 271 212
Arizona
4.76 590 301 227
Colorado
4.94 570 297 177
Cincinnati
5.58 570 332 267
INDIVIDUAL PITCHING
IP H BB SO
Kershaw LAD
101 59
6 122
Arrieta ChC
80 51 26 87
Bumgarner SF
86 67 25 99
Syndergaard NYM
77 65 12 95
Lester ChC
79 59 17 78
Cueto SF
96 76 19 81
Fernandez Mia
75 54 25 110
Hammel ChC
69 52 24 60
Matz NYM
60 54 13 61
Pomeranz SD
70 46 32 83
Lackey ChC
82 57 19 84
Nola Phi
78 62 15 85
Maeda LAD
70 54 20 65
Cole Pit
68 70 20 55
Chatwood Col
77 66 23 49
deGrom NYM
61 54 16 56
Teheran Atl
82 61 23 77
Hendricks ChC
68 49 15 57
J.Ross Was
65 56 22 51
Strasburg Was
86 69 23 110
Colon NYM
73 76 13 48
Roark Was
73 64 27 65
Samardzija SF
81 74 18 68
Straily Cin
67 47 29 59
Nelson Mil
81 71 33 65
Scherzer Was
88 68 25 107
Velasquez Phi
62 56 22 73
Eickhoff Phi
73 71 15 62
Conley Mia
65 60 28 65
Martinez StL
67 53 23 57
Finnegan Cin
76 66 35 53
Greinke Ari
87 85 16 73
J.Garcia StL
69 68 25 61
G.Gonzalez Was
71 70 19 71
Niese Pit
71 75 24 49
Wisler Atl
72 61 20 53
Anderson Mil
66 62 16 52
Leake StL
75 74 14 47
Shields SD
67 69 27 57
Hellickson Phi
75 75 20 71
Koehler Mia
66 64 37 51
Kazmir LAD
69 61 24 72
Chen Mia
71 73 16 57
Harvey NYM
73 81 20 61
Rea SD
63 59 25 44
Corbin Ari
79 82 23 58
Wacha StL
73 78 28 63
Wainwright StL
78 85 19 55
Liriano Pit
62 63 38 60
Locke Pit
72 76 27 37
Bettis Col
72 88 19 53
W.Peralta Mil
61 92 26 38
10
3
14
5
13
6
4
16
11
8
3
5
3
10
7
11
7
12
33
15
42
20
33
22
32
39
35
26
21
21
17
25
26
18
16
29
.239
.237
.237
.237
.232
.231
.228
.226
.225
.222
.221
.221
.218
.214
.212
.209
.203
.198
SO Sh
531
1
524
0
581
0
576
3
481
2
529
1
517
0
473
1
439
1
465
0
515
0
445
0
496
1
447
0
418
0
Sv
12
22
17
17
15
21
23
12
21
10
14
20
13
15
8
W
9
9
7
6
7
9
9
7
7
5
7
5
5
5
7
3
2
4
5
10
5
4
7
3
5
7
5
3
3
6
2
8
4
3
6
2
4
4
2
4
4
5
3
4
3
3
2
5
4
5
4
3
L
1
1
2
2
3
1
2
2
2
6
2
4
4
4
4
2
6
5
4
0
3
4
4
2
5
4
2
8
3
5
4
3
5
5
2
6
6
4
7
4
6
3
2
8
2
5
6
4
5
4
5
7
ERA
1.52
1.80
1.88
2.00
2.06
2.16
2.29
2.36
2.39
2.44
2.63
2.65
2.70
2.77
2.79
2.80
2.85
2.90
2.92
3.04
3.08
3.20
3.33
3.34
3.43
3.57
3.65
3.68
3.76
3.76
3.77
3.84
3.89
3.93
3.93
3.98
4.21
4.22
4.28
4.34
4.36
4.46
4.56
4.66
4.74
4.80
4.91
5.22
5.25
5.38
5.85
6.79
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MLB SCOREBOARD
American League
East Division
W
L
36
24
35
25
33
30
31
30
28
31
Central Division
Cleveland
34
26
Chicago
31
30
Kansas City
30
30
Detroit
30
30
Minnesota
18
42
West Division
Texas
37
24
Seattle
34
27
Houston
29
34
Los Angeles
26
35
Oakland
25
35
Baltimore
Boston
Toronto
New York
Tampa Bay
.567 —
.508 3A
.500 4
.500 4
.300 16
.607 —
.557 3
.460 9
.426 11
.417 11A
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct GB
Washington
37
24
.607 —
New York
34
26
.567 2A
Miami
32
29
.525 5
Philadelphia
29
32
.475 8
Atlanta
18
42
.300 18A
Central Division
Chicago
41
18
.695 —
St. Louis
33
28
.541 9
Pittsburgh
32
29
.525 10
Milwaukee
28
33
.459 14
Cincinnati
23
38
.377 19
West Division
San Francisco
36
26
.581 —
Los Angeles
33
29
.532 3
Colorado
28
33
.459 7A
San Diego
26
36
.419 10
Arizona
26
37
.413 10A
Friday’s games
N.Y. Yankees 4, Detroit 0
Toronto 4, Baltimore 3, 10 innings
Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3
Boston 8, Minnesota 1
Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City 5
Cleveland 6, L.A. Angels 2
Seattle 7, Texas 5
St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 3, 12 innings
Washington 9, Philadelphia 6
Cincinnati 2, Oakland 1
Atlanta 5, Chicago Cubs 1
N.Y. Mets 2, Milwaukee 1, 11 innings
San Diego 7, Colorado 5
Miami 8, Arizona 6
L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 2
Saturday’s games
Baltimore at Toronto
Boston at Minnesota
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox
Houston at Tampa Bay
Detroit at N.Y. Yankees
Cleveland at L.A. Angels
Texas at Seattle
Philadelphia at Washington
Chicago Cubs at Atlanta
N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee
Oakland at Cincinnati
San Diego at Colorado
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco
St. Louis at Pittsburgh
Miami at Arizona
Sunday’s games
Baltimore (Jimenez 3-6) at Toronto
(Sanchez 5-1)
Houston (Keuchel 3-8) at Tampa Bay
(Moore 2-4)
Detroit (Fulmer 6-1) at N.Y. Yankees
(Pineda 3-6)
Boston (Porcello 7-2) at Minnesota
(Dean 1-2)
Kansas City (Ventura 4-4) at Chicago
White Sox (Carroll 0-0)
Cleveland (Salazar 6-3) at L.A. Angels
(Huff 0-1)
Texas (Hamels 5-1) at Seattle (Miley
6-2)
Oakland (Manaea 2-4) at Cincinnati
(Lamb 1-3)
Chicago Cubs (Lester 7-3) at Atlanta
(Kelly 0-2)
N.Y. Mets (Matz 7-2) at Milwaukee (Davies 4-3)
Philadelphia (Morgan 1-5) at Washington (Ross 5-4)
Miami (Conley 3-3) at Arizona (Ray 25)
San Diego (Friedrich 3-1) at Colorado
(Butler 2-3)
St. Louis (Leake 4-4) at Pittsburgh
(Niese 6-2)
L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-1) at San Francisco (Peavy 2-6)
Friday
Yankees 4, Tigers 0
Detroit
Reds 2, Athletics 1
Oakland
Pct GB
.600 —
.583 1
.524 4A
.508 5A
.475 7A
New York
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Kinsler 2b
4 0 1 0 Ellsbry cf 3 0 0 0
Maybin cf
4 0 1 0 Gardner lf 3 2 1 0
Mi.Cbrr 1b 4 0 0 0 Beltran rf 4 1 2 1
V.Mrtnz dh 4 0 1 0 A.Rdrgz dh 3 1 0 0
Cstllns 3b
4 0 0 0 B.McCnn c 3 0 1 1
J..Mrtn rf
3 0 2 0 S.Cstro 2b 4 0 1 0
J.Upton lf
3 0 0 0 Grgrius ss 3 0 2 2
J.McCnn c
3 0 0 0 Headley 3b 2 0 0 0
J.Iglss ss
3 0 1 0 Rfsnydr 1b 3 0 0 0
Totals
32 0 6 0 Totals
28 4 7 4
Detroit
000 000 000—0
New York
301 000 00x—4
E—Sabathia (1), J.McCann (2). DP—Detroit 2, New York 1. LOB—Detroit 7, New
York 5. 2B—Gregorius (9).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Detroit
Pelfrey L,1-6
6C
6
4
3
5 2
Hardy
1B
1
0
0
0 0
New York
Sabathia W,4-4
7
5
0
0
2 4
Betances
1
0
0
0
0 2
Swarzak
1
1
0
0
0 1
T—2:48. A—40,011 (49,642).
Cincinnati
ab r h bi
Cozart ss 4 0 0 0
Votto 1b
3 0 0 0
Phllips 2b 3 1 1 0
Bruce rf
3 0 0 0
Duvall lf
3 1 1 1
E.Sarez 3b 3 0 1 0
T.Holt cf
3 0 0 0
Brnhart c 3 0 1 0
DSclfni p
1 0 0 0
Selsky ph 1 0 0 0
B.Wood p 0 0 0 0
Waldrop ph 1 0 1 0
Cngrani p 0 0 0 0
Totals
31 1 9 1 Totals
28 2 5 1
Oakland
001 000 000—1
Cincinnati
000 000 20x—2
DP—Oakland 1, Cincinnati 3. LOB—
Oakland 9, Cincinnati 3. 2B—Valencia (6),
Duvall (15). HR—Vogt (5). SB—Semien
(4). S—S.Gray (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Oakland
Gray L,3-6
7C
5
2
2
1 4
Doolittle
B
0
0
0
0 0
Cincinnati
DeSclafani
6
8
1
1
2 2
Wood W,5-1
2
0
0
0
1 2
Cingrani S,6-11
1
1
0
0
0 0
HBP—by DeSclafani (Davis). WP—
DeSclafani, Gray 2. T—2:36. A—21,520
(42,319).
Crisp cf
Lowrie 2b
Vogt c
Vlencia 3b
K.Davis lf
Alonso 1b
Semien ss
Muncy rf
Smlnski ph
S.Gray p
Dlittle p
B.Btler ph
ab
5
3
4
4
2
4
4
1
1
2
0
1
r
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
2
0
2
1
0
2
1
0
1
0
0
0
bi
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nationals 9, Phillies 6
Philadelphia
ab
O.Hrrra cf
3
C.Hrnnd 2b 4
Franco 3b
4
T.Jseph 1b 4
Ruiz c
3
Galvis ss
4
Asche lf
4
T.Gddel rf
3
Hllcksn p
1
Paredes ph 1
Lu.Grca p
0
A.Blnco ph 1
Washington
ab r h bi
Revere cf-lf 5 2 2 0
Werth lf
2 1 1 2
M.Tylor cf 1 0 0 0
Harper rf
2 1 0 0
D.Mrphy 2b 4 1 2 3
Zmmrmn 1b 4 0 0 0
W.Ramos c 3 1 1 1
Drew 3b
4 1 2 2
Espnosa ss 4 2 3 1
Strsbrg p
2 0 0 0
Rivero p
0 0 0 0
C.Rbnsn ph 1 0 0 0
Ppelbon p 0 0 0 0
Totals
32 6 6 6 Totals
32 9 11 9
Philadelphia
022 000 020—6
Washington
002 221 20x—9
DP—Philadelphia 2. LOB—Philadelphia 3, Washington 5. 2B—Werth (11),
D.Murphy 2 (17), Drew (2). HR—T.Joseph 2
(7), W.Ramos (9), Drew (5), Espinosa (10).
S—Hellickson (6), Strasburg (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Philadelphia
Hellickson L,4-4
6
9
7
7
3 2
Garcia
2
2
2
2
2 1
Washington
Strasburg W,10-0
7
5
4
4
1 10
Rivero
1
1
2
2
1 2
Papelbon S,16-18
1
0
0
0
1 1
T—2:53. A—37,941 (41,418).
r
1
1
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
1
0
2
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
0
4
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
Blue Jays 4, Orioles 3 (10)
Baltimore
Toronto
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
A.Jones cf
5 0 0 0 Carrera rf 4 1 1 0
Kim lf
4 0 0 0 Dnldson 3b 5 0 1 1
M.Mchdo ss 4 1 0 0 Encrncn dh 5 1 1 1
C.Davis 1b
3 1 1 2 Sunders lf 4 1 1 1
Trumbo dh 3 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 3 1 1 0
Wieters c
3 0 0 0 Ru.Mrtn c 1 0 1 1
Schoop 2b 4 1 1 1 Pillar cf
4 0 2 0
Reimold rf 4 0 1 0 Travis 2b
4 0 0 0
Flherty 3b
4 0 1 0 Barney ss 4 0 2 0
Totals
34 3 4 3 Totals
34 4 10 4
Baltimore
000 012 000 0—3
Toronto
100 101 000 1—4
E—Gausman (2). DP—Baltimore 1.
LOB—Baltimore 6, Toronto 8. 2B—Smoak
(8). HR—C.Davis (14), Schoop (9), Encarnacion (13), Saunders (10). SB—Donaldson (4). S—Carrera (1), Ru.Martin (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Baltimore
Gausman
6B
8
3
2
2 4
Givens
1C
1
0
0
1 2
Brach L,5-1
1
1
1
1
0 1
Toronto
Estrada
6
4
3
3
4 8
Chavez
2
0
0
0
1 0
Osuna
1
0
0
0
0 2
Storen W,1-2
1
0
0
0
0 0
T—2:54. A—44,439 (49,282).
Braves 5, Cubs 1
Chicago
Atlanta
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Fowler cf
4 0 1 1 Incarte cf 4 0 2 2
Heyward rf 4 0 0 0 C.d’Arn ss 5 0 0 0
Bryant 3b
4 0 0 0 Freeman 1b 3 0 0 1
Zobrist 2b
3 0 1 0 Mrkakis rf 5 0 0 0
M.Mntro c
3 0 1 0 Ad.Grca 3b 3 1 3 1
J.Baez 1b
3 0 0 0 Flowers c 4 1 1 1
Russell ss
3 0 0 0 Pterson 2b 3 2 2 0
Almora lf
3 1 1 0 B.Nrris p
1 0 1 0
Hammel p
2 0 0 0 J.Jhnsn p
0 0 0 0
T.Wood p
0 0 0 0 Frnceur ph 1 1 1 0
Warren p
0 0 0 0 Vzcaino p 0 0 0 0
Coghlan ph 1 0 0 0 M.Smith lf 3 0 2 0
Grimm p
0 0 0 0
Richard p
0 0 0 0
Totals
30 1 4 1 Totals
32 5 12 5
Chicago
001 000 000—1
Atlanta
020 100 02x—5
E—Russell (6). DP—Atlanta 1. LOB—
Chicago 2, Atlanta 11. 2B—Fowler (17),
Almora (1). HR—Ad.Garcia (2), Flowers
(3). SB—C.d’Arnaud (3). SF—Inciarte (1),
Freeman (2). S—B.Norris 2 (5).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Hammel L,7-2
5C
8
3
3
0 4
Wood
1
1
0
0
1 0
Warren
B
0
0
0
1 0
Grimm
0
2
2
2
1 0
Richard
1
1
0
0
0 1
Atlanta
Norris W,2-7
7
4
1
1
0 6
Johnson H,7
1
0
0
0
0 1
Vizcaino
1
0
0
0
0 2
Grimm pitched to 3 batters in the 8th
HBP—by Hammel (Peterson). WP—Norris. T—2:51. A—30,547 (49,586).
Rays 4, Astros 3
Houston
Tampa Bay
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Sprnger rf
5 0 1 0 Frsythe 2b 4 1 2 1
Ma.Gnzl ss 5 0 2 0 B.Mller ss 4 0 2 1
Altuve 2b
4 0 2 0 Lngoria 3b 4 1 0 0
Col.Rsm lf
5 0 2 0 Mrrison dh 2 1 0 0
Gattis dh
4 0 0 0 Pearce 1b 4 0 3 2
Vlbuena 3b 3 1 1 0 C.Dckrs lf 4 0 0 0
White 1b
3 1 1 1 Mahtook lf 0 0 0 0
J.Cstro c
3 1 1 2 Sza Jr. rf
3 0 0 0
Mrsnick cf 3 0 1 0 De.Jnnn cf 2 1 0 0
T.Kemp ph 0 0 0 0 Conger c
3 0 1 0
Totals
35 3 11 3 Totals
30 4 8 4
Houston
000 003 000—3
Tampa Bay
220 000 00x—4
DP—Houston
1,
Tampa
Bay
1.
LOB—Houston 11, Tampa Bay 7. 2B—
Ma.Gonzalez (11), Valbuena (11), Forsythe (10), Pearce 2 (7), Conger (4). HR—
J.Castro (5). SB—Springer (4), White (1).
CS—Marisnick (1), Morrison (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
McCullers L,3-2
6
7
4
4
4 7
Feliz
1
0
0
0
1 2
Giles
1
1
0
0
0 3
Tampa Bay
Andriese W,5-0
5B
8
3
3
4 5
Ramirez H,8
1C
2
0
0
0 1
Cedeno H,12
1
0
0
0
0 2
Colome S,18-18
1
1
0
0
1 2
T—3:19. A—13,075 (31,042).
White Sox 7, Royals 5
Kansas City
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Mrrfeld lf
5 1 2 0 Eaton cf
3 0 0 0
A.Escbr ss 5 0 1 1 Abreu 1b
4 1 2 1
Hosmer 1b 4 2 2 3 Me.Cbrr lf 3 1 1 2
L.Cain cf
4 0 2 0 Frazier 3b 4 0 1 0
K.Mrles dh 4 0 0 0 Shuck dh
4 0 1 0
S.Perez c
4 1 2 1 Lawrie 2b 4 2 2 1
Orlando rf
3 0 1 0 Avila c
4 2 2 3
Cthbert 3b 4 0 0 0 Av.Grca rf 4 0 1 0
C.Colon 2b 4 1 2 0 Ti.Andr ss 3 1 2 0
Totals
37 5 12 5 Totals
33 7 12 7
Kansas City
100 101 200—5
Chicago
003 202 00x—7
DP—Kansas City 1, Chicago 1. LOB—
Kansas City 7, Chicago 4. 2B—Merrifield
(8), Abreu (12), Ti.Anderson (1). HR—
Hosmer 2 (12), S.Perez (8), Me.Cabrera
(5), Lawrie (7), Avila 2 (2). SB—Orlando
(4). CS—Eaton (3), Av.Garcia (1). SF—Hosmer (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Kansas City
Kennedy L,4-5
5C
9
7
7
1 1
Hochevar
1B
2
0
0
0 1
Soria
1
1
0
0
0 1
Chicago
Sale W,10-2
6
11
5
5
1 8
Jennings H,2
B
0
0
0
0 0
Putnam H,2
C
1
0
0
0 2
Jones H,14
1
0
0
0
0 0
Robertson S,15-17
1
0
0
0
0 1
Sale pitched to 3 batters in the 7th
HBP—by Kennedy (Eaton). T—3:00. A—
23,290 (40,615).
Cardinals 9, Pirates 3 (12)
St. Louis
ab
Crpnter 2b 4
A.Diaz ss
3
Hlliday lf
3
Oh p
0
Rsnthal p
0
Gyorko ph
1
J.Brxtn p
0
Wnwrght ph 1
C.Mrtnz pr 0
Bowman p 0
M.Adams 1b 6
J.Prlta 3b
5
Moss rf-lf
6
Hzlbker cf
1
Grichk ph-cf 4
Fryer c
3
Molina c
2
Wacha p
2
G.Grcia ph 0
Pscotty rf
1
Pittsburgh
r
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
h
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
bi
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
ab r h bi
Jaso 1b
2 0 1 1
S.Rdrgz 1b 3 0 1 0
McCtchn cf 6 0 1 0
G.Plnco rf 5 0 0 0
Kang 3b
5 0 1 0
S.Marte lf 5 2 2 0
Crvelli c
1 0 1 0
Stewrt ph-c 3 0 0 0
Hrrison 2b 5 0 0 1
Mercer ss 4 1 1 1
G.Cole p
1 0 0 0
Schugel p 0 0 0 0
Watson p 0 0 0 0
Freese ph 1 0 0 0
N.Feliz p
0 0 0 0
Lbstein p
0 0 0 0
Joyce ph
0 0 0 0
Mlancon p 0 0 0 0
J.Hghes p 0 0 0 0
Fgueroa ph 1 0 0 0
Nicasio p
0 0 0 0
Totals
42 9 9 8 Totals
42 3 8 3
St. Louis
000 000 030 006—9
Pittsburgh
010 010 001 000—3
E—Kang (2). DP—St. Louis 1, Pittsburgh 2. LOB—St. Louis 7, Pittsburgh 9.
2B—Wainwright (4), M.Adams (10), McCutchen (12). 3B—S.Marte (2). HR—Carpenter (10), Moss (14). SB—S.Marte (19).
S—Hazelbaker (2), Schugel (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
St. Louis
Wacha
7
3
2
2
3 5
Oh H,11
1
1
0
0
0 0
Rosenthal BS,2
1
2
1
1
2 1
Broxton W,1-0
2
1
0
0
0 1
Bowman
1
1
0
0
0 0
Pittsburgh
Cole
2
2
0
0
1 3
Schugel
4
0
0
0
0 4
Watson H,12
1
0
0
0
1 0
Feliz BS,2
1
2
3
3
1 1
Lobstein
1
0
0
0
0 1
Melancon
1
0
0
0
2 1
Hughes
1
1
0
0
0 1
Nicasio L,5-5
1
4
6
6
1 2
G.Cole pitched to 1 batter in the 3rd
HBP—by Cole (Diaz), by Schugel (Diaz).
WP—Wacha. T—4:16. A—28,417 (38,362).
Calendar
June 9-11 — Amateur draft, Secaucus,
N.J.
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.
Aug. 16-18 — Owners’ meetings, Houston.
Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40
players.
Mets 2, Brewers 1 (11)
New York
Milwaukee
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Grndrsn rf 4 0 1 0 Villar ss
5 0 1 0
Lagares cf 0 0 0 0 Gennett 2b 5 0 0 0
De Aza lf-rf 5 0 0 0 Braun lf
5 0 0 0
Cspeds cf-lf 5 1 2 1 Lucroy c
3 0 1 0
Loney 1b
4 0 0 0 Brxtn pr-cf 1 0 0 0
Blevins p
0 0 0 0 Carter 1b 2 0 0 0
Familia p
0 0 0 0 Nwnhuis cf 4 1 1 0
A.Cbrra ss 4 1 1 0 Boyer p
0 0 0 0
Flres 3b-1b 5 0 3 0 A.Hill 3b
2 0 0 0
K.Jhnsn 2b 4 0 2 0 R.Flres rf
2 0 0 1
Plwecki c
5 0 1 0 J.Gerra p
1 0 0 0
Harvey p
1 0 0 0 W.Smith p 0 0 0 0
Cnforto ph 1 0 0 0 Thrnbrg p 0 0 0 0
Robles p
0 0 0 0 H.Perez ph 1 0 0 0
Bstardo p
0 0 0 0 Jffress p
0 0 0 0
N.Wlker ph 1 0 0 0 Mldnado c 0 0 0 0
Hndrson p 0 0 0 0
Mat.Ryn 3b 1 0 0 1
Totals
40 2 10 2 Totals
31 1 3 1
New York
000 001 000 01—2
Milwaukee
000 010 000 00—1
E—Plawecki (2). DP—Milwaukee 2.
LOB—New York 11, Milwaukee 6. 2B—
Cespedes (10), W.Flores (6), K.Johnson
(1). 3B—Nieuwenhuis (1). HR—Cespedes
(16). SB—K.Broxton (4). SF—R.Flores (4).
S—Harvey (2), J.Guerra (4), Maldonado
(1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
New York
Harvey
6
2
1
1
2 8
Robles
1
1
0
0
1 1
Bastardo
1
0
0
0
0 1
Henderson
1
0
0
0
3 2
Blevins W,2-0
1
0
0
0
0 1
Familia S,2A1
1
0
0
0
0 2
Milwaukee
Guerra
6C
5
1
1
2 2
Smith
1
0
0
0
0 0
Thornburg
B
1
0
0
0 1
Jeffress
1
2
0
0
1 1
Boyer L,1-1
2
2
1
1
0 1
Henderson pitched to 1 batter in the
10th T—3:56. A—27,358 (41,900).
Marlins 8, Diamondbacks 6
Miami
Arizona
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Hchvrra ss 4 1 1 0 Segura 2b 4 0 2 1
Prado 3b
4 1 1 0 Bourn cf
4 0 0 1
Yelich lf
5 2 2 2 Gldschm 1b 4 1 3 0
Ozuna cf
5 0 2 2 W.Cstll c
4 1 1 0
Stanton rf
4 1 1 0 O’Brien lf
4 0 0 0
C.Jhnsn 1b 4 0 0 0 Cllmntr p
0 0 0 0
Rojas 2b
3 1 0 0 Hrrmann ph 1 0 0 0
Mathis c
3 1 1 0 Ja.Lamb 3b 4 0 1 2
Ncolino p
2 0 0 0 Tomas rf-lf 4 1 1 0
Ellngtn p
0 0 0 0 Ahmed ss 4 2 3 1
Gllspie ph
0 0 0 0 Corbin p
3 1 2 1
Bour ph
1 1 1 4 Clppard p 0 0 0 0
Brrclgh p
0 0 0 0 Curtis p
0 0 0 0
I.Szuki ph
1 0 0 0 Barrett p
0 0 0 0
Phelps p
0 0 0 0 D.Prlta ph-rf 1 0 0 0
A.Ramos p 0 0 0 0
Totals
36 8 9 8 Totals
37 6 13 6
Miami
100 000 700—8
Arizona
002 120 100—6
E—Nicolino (1). DP—Miami 1. LOB—Miami 5, Arizona 10. 2B—Yelich (18), Stanton (7), Ja.Lamb (15), Ahmed (9), Corbin
(2). 3B—Yelich (2), Ahmed (1). HR—Bour
(10). SB—Segura (7), Goldschmidt (8).
SF—Bourn (1). S—Segura (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Miami
Nicolino
5C 12
5
5
1 6
Ellington W,1-0
B
0
0
0
0 1
Barraclough H,12
1
1
1
1
1 3
Phelps H,14
1
0
0
0
0 0
Ramos S,19-19
1
0
0
0
1 1
Arizona
Corbin
6B
5
4
4
2 6
Clippard L,2-3 BS,1 0
1
3
3
2 0
Curtis
0
1
1
1
0 0
Barrett
C
1
0
0
0 2
Collmenter
2
1
0
0
0 0
Clippard pitched to 3 batters in the 7th
Curtis pitched to 1 batter in the 7th WP—
Ellington. T—3:10. A—26,970 (48,633).
Padres 7, Rockies 5
San Diego
Colorado
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jay cf
5 1 1 2 Blckmon cf 4 0 0 0
Myers 1b
3 1 1 4 LMahieu 2b 5 1 1 0
M.Kemp rf 5 0 0 0 Arenado 3b 4 1 1 2
Solrte 2b-3b 3 0 0 0 Ca.Gnzl rf 4 1 2 0
M.Upton lf 4 1 1 1 Story ss
3 2 2 0
Wallace 3b 3 0 1 0 Parra lf
4 0 0 1
Qcknbsh p 0 0 0 0 Mar.Ryn 1b 4 0 2 1
H.Snchz ph 0 0 0 0 Hundley c 3 0 1 1
Bthncrt ph 1 0 0 0 J.Gray p
3 0 0 0
Rodney p
0 0 0 0 Estevez p 0 0 0 0
De.Nrrs c
4 0 0 0 McGee p
0 0 0 0
A.Rmrez ss 4 2 2 0 J.Mller p
0 0 0 0
Cashner p
0 0 0 0 Raburn ph 1 0 0 0
Perdomo p 1 1 1 0
Hand p
0 0 0 0
Amrista 2b 2 1 2 0
Totals
35 7 9 7 Totals
35 5 9 5
San Diego
002 100 004—7
Colorado
200 200 010—5
E—Hundley (2), Estevez (2), De.Norris
(4), Perdomo (1). DP—San Diego 1.
LOB—San Diego 5, Colorado 6. 2B—Jay
(20), Ca.Gonzalez (11). HR—Myers (13),
M.Upton (7), Arenado (19). SB—Myers
(8), Amarista (5), Story (4). CS—Blackmon (3). SF—Myers (4). S—Perdomo (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
San Diego
Cashner
B
0
0
0
0 1
Perdomo
5C
8
4
3
1 7
Hand
0
0
0
0
1 0
Quackenbush W,3-2 2
1
1
1
1 1
Rodney S,12-12
1
0
0
0
0 1
Colorado
Gray
7
4
3
1
0 7
Estevez H,9
1
1
0
0
1 3
McGee L,0-2 BS,3
C
4
4
4
0 1
Miller
B
0
0
0
0 1
Hand pitched to 1 batter in the 7th
T—3:23. A—32,663 (50,398).
Indians 6, Angels 2
Cleveland
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Ra.Dvis cf
5 1 1 0 Y.Escbr 3b 4 2 2 0
Kipnis 2b
4 1 3 1 Calhoun rf 4 0 1 0
Lindor ss
3 0 0 1 Trout cf
4 0 0 1
Napoli 1b
3 1 1 1 Pujols dh
4 0 0 0
C.Sntna dh 4 1 1 1 J.Marte 1b 3 0 0 0
Jo.Rmrz lf
4 1 1 1 Gvtella 2b 2 0 0 0
Uribe 3b
4 0 1 0 Ortega lf
3 0 0 0
Gomes c
4 0 0 0 C.Perez c 3 0 0 0
M.Mrtnz rf 4 1 2 0 G.Petit ss 3 0 0 0
Totals
35 6 10 5 Totals
30 2 3 1
Cleveland
420 000 000—6
Los Angeles
100 001 000—2
E—Y.Escobar (10). DP—Los Angeles 2. LOB—Cleveland 4, Los Angeles 2.
2B—Ra.Davis (9), Napoli (11), C.Santana
(10), Y.Escobar (15). SB—Jo.Ramirez (6).
CS—M.Martinez (1). SF—Lindor (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cleveland
Kluber W,6-6
9
3
2
2
1 8
Los Angeles
Santiago L,3-4
1B
7
6
5
1 2
Guerra
2C
1
0
0
0 1
Bedrosian
1
0
0
0
0 0
Alvarez
2
2
0
0
0 3
Salas
1
0
0
0
0 1
Rasmus
1
0
0
0
0 0
WP—Kluber.
T—2:34.
A—39,487
(43,250).
Red Sox 8, Twins 1
Boston
Minnesota
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Betts rf
5 1 1 0 E.Nunez ss 4 1 1 0
Pedroia 2b 5 1 3 1 Grssman lf 2 0 1 1
Bgaerts ss 5 1 4 4 Mauer dh 4 0 1 0
Ortiz dh
5 0 2 0 Plouffe 3b 4 0 1 0
Cstll pr-dh 0 1 0 0 Dozier 2b
4 0 1 0
Han.Rmr 1b 4 1 1 0 Park 1b
4 0 0 0
Rtledge 3b 0 0 0 0 Kepler rf
4 0 2 0
Brdly J cf
5 1 2 2 K.Szuki c
4 0 1 0
Shaw 3b-1b 5 1 1 0 Buxton cf 4 0 0 0
Chris.Y lf
5 0 0 0
Vazquez c
5 1 2 1
Totals
44 8 16 8 Totals
34 1 8 1
Boston
000 033 002—8
Minnesota
000 000 010—1
E—Park (1), Han.Ramirez (2). DP—Boston 1. LOB—Boston 10, Minnesota 8. 2B—
Pedroia 2 (18), Ortiz (27), Bradley Jr. (16),
Kepler (4). 3B—Bradley Jr. (5). HR—Bogaerts (7). CS—Grossman (2).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Boston
Wright W,7-4
7B
7
1
0
2 6
Barnes
1C
1
0
0
0 2
Minnesota
Duffey L,2-5
5B 10
6
6
0 3
Jepsen
1C
2
0
0
1 2
Tonkin
2
4
2
2
0 3
PB—Vazquez.
T—3:00.
A—22,786
(39,021).
Dodgers 3, Giants 2
Los Angeles
ab
Utley 2b
2
C.Sager ss 4
J.Trner 3b
4
Ad.Gnzl 1b 4
Thmpson rf 4
Pderson cf 4
Grandal c
4
E.Hrnnd lf
3
Kershaw p 3
Jansen p
0
San Francisco
ab r h bi
Span cf
4 0 0 0
Panik 2b
4 1 1 0
Matt.Df 3b 4 1 1 1
Posey c
4 0 1 1
Belt 1b
4 0 1 0
Wllmson lf 3 0 1 0
G.Blnco ph 0 0 0 0
Crwford ss 4 0 1 0
Parker rf
3 0 0 0
Cueto p
2 0 0 0
Brown ph 1 0 0 0
Casilla p
0 0 0 0
Totals
32 3 5 2 Totals
33 2 6 2
Los Angeles
200 000 001—3
San Francisco
100 001 000—2
E—Cueto (1), C.Seager (8). LOB—Los
Angeles 4, San Francisco 5. 2B—Pederson
(13), Posey (12), Belt (15). HR—J.Turner
(5), Matt.Duffy (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Kershaw W,9-1
8
5
2
2
0 13
Jansen S,17-19
1
1
0
0
1 1
San Francisco
Cueto
8
3
2
2
0 8
Casilla L,1-2
1
2
1
1
0 1
HBP—by Cueto (Utley), by Cueto
(Utley). WP—Cueto. T—2:35. A—41,208
(41,915).
r
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
0
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
bi
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Mariners 7, Rangers 5
Texas
Seattle
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Profar 3b
4 1 2 0 K.Marte ss 4 0 1 0
Desmond cf 4 1 2 2 Gterrez rf 4 0 1 0
Mazara rf
4 0 2 0 Cano 2b
3 1 0 0
Odor 2b
4 0 0 0 N.Cruz dh 4 2 1 0
Rua lf
4 1 1 1 D.Lee 1b
4 2 2 4
Fielder dh
4 0 1 0 K.Sager 3b 2 2 1 1
Andrus ss
4 0 0 0 Innetta c
4 0 1 0
Mreland 1b 4 2 2 2 S.Smith lf 3 0 0 1
Chrinos c
3 0 0 0 L.Mrtin cf 4 0 0 0
Totals
35 5 10 5 Totals
32 7 7 6
Texas
001 000 211—5
Seattle
010 400 02x—7
E—Odor (6), Rua (2), Chirinos (1).
DP—Seattle 1. LOB—Texas 4, Seattle 5.
2B—Desmond (16), Mazara (5). HR—Desmond (9), Rua (4), Moreland 2 (8), D.Lee
2 (10), K.Seager (11). CS—Profar (1). SF—
S.Smith (3).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Texas
Holland L,5-5
5
5
5
5
2 3
Wilhelmsen
2
1
0
0
0 2
Tolleson
1
1
2
1
0 1
Seattle
Iwakuma W,5-5
7
7
3
3
1 3
Vincent H,10
C
2
1
1
0 1
Cishek S,14-17
1B
1
1
1
0 1
WP—Tolleson. PB—Iannetta. T—2:54.
A—37,055 (47,476).
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Roundup
White Sox
add to KC’s
frustration
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Alex Avila hit two of Chicago’s season-high four home runs and the
struggling White Sox beat Kansas City 7-5
on Friday night to give a shaky Chris Sale
his major league-leading 10th win and the
Royals their eight straight loss.
The defending champions matched their
longest losing streak since May 2013, while
the White Sox opened the weekend series
with their second straight win after dropping 20 of 26.
Sale (10-2) pitched into the seventh and
got the victory despite giving up a seasonhigh three home runs — two solo drives to
Eric Hosmer and one to Salvador Perez.
But the White Sox also used the long ball to
come out on top after beating Washington
the previous night.
Avila came through with his first two
homers since signing with Chicago in the
offseason. He hit back-to-back solo drives
with Brett Lawrie in the fourth and added
a two-run shot in the sixth off Ian Kennedy
(4-5) to make it 7-3.
Cardinals 9. Pirates 3 (12): Pitcher
Adam Wainwright, pinch-hitting because
his team was out of positon players, hit a
two-run, two-out double to spark a six-run
12th inning in visiting St. Louis’ victory
over Pittsburgh.
Mariners 7, Rangers 5: Dae-Ho Lee hit
two home runs, including a three-run blast
off starter Derek Holland (5-5), and host
Seattle beat Texas.
Yankees 4, Tigers 0: CC Sabathia (4-4)
kept up his recent resurgence with seven
sharp innings, Brett Gardner sparked another scoring burst and host New York beat
Detroit for its fifth straight victory.
Blue Jays 4, Orioles 3 (10): Edwin Encarnacion homered in the 10th inning to
help host Toronto snap Baltimore’s winning streak at five.
Braves 5, Cubs 1: Bud Norris (2-7)
pitched seven strong innings, Adonis Garcia and Tyler Flowers hit home runs and
host Atlanta beat Chicago.
Mets 2, Brewers 1 (11): Matt Reynolds
drove home the go-ahead run in the 11th
inning with a fielder’s choice after a line hit
off shortstop Jonathan Villar’s glove, leading visiting New York past Milwaukee.
Reds 2, Athletics 1: Adam Duvall doubled home the tying run in the seventh and
scored on Sonny Gray’s second wild pitch
of the inning, rallying host Cincinnati past
Oakland for its first interleague victory of
the season.
Red Sox 8, Twins 1: Xander Bogaerts
hit a three-run homer and matched his
career high with four hits, Steven Wright
(7-4) pitched into the eighth inning, and
visiting Boston beat Minnesota.
Indians 6, Angels 2: Corey Kluber (6-6)
pitched a three-hitter with eight strikeouts
and Jason Kipnis had three hits in visiting Cleveland’s victory over slumping Los
Angeles.
Padres 7, Rockies 5: Wil Myers hit a
two-out, three-run homer in the ninth inning off closer Jake McGee (0-2), helping
visiting San Diego rally past Colorado.
Marlins 8, Diamondbacks 6: Justin
Bour hit a pinch-hit grand slam and visiting Miami overcame a four-run deficit to
beat Arizona.
Rays 4, Astros 3: Steve Pearce had
three hits and two RBIs in host Tampa
Bay’s victory over Houston.
PHOTOS
BY
EVAN VUCCI /AP
Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg became the majors’ first 10-game winner in Friday’s victory over the Phillies in Washington.
Strasburg stays unbeaten
Pitcher improves to 10-0 as Nationals rally past Phillies
BY BENJAMIN STANDIG
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Stephen Strasburg
hasn’t had to be dominant to win games
this season.
Strasburg became the majors’ first 10game winner despite a rocky beginning,
and the Washington Nationals overcame
a four-run deficit to beat the Philadelphia
Phillies 9-6 on Friday night.
The Nationals scored in five straight innings after trailing 4-0 in the third. Wilson
Ramos, Stephen Drew and Danny Espinosa homered off Jeremy Hellickson (4-4),
and Daniel Murphy drove in three runs
with a pair of doubles.
Strasburg (10-0) has won 13 consecutive
decisions and beat Chris Sale of the Chicago
White Sox to the 10-win mark by about an
hour. He labored early but finished strong,
retiring the final 14 batters he faced after
Tommy Joseph’s two-run homer in the
third. The right-hander struck out 10 and
allowed four runs, five hits and one walk
over seven innings.
“I wasn’t going to change my approach,”
Strasburg said. “I gave up a few runs there
early, but I was going to keep pounding
away.”
Strasburg’s winning streak, already a
franchise record, matches the longest in
D.C. baseball history since Walter Johnson
won 13 in a row for the Washington Senators in 1924.
Joseph homered twice. The rookie has
emerged as Philadelphia’s primary first
baseman with Ryan Howard struggling.
The Phillies have lost 11 of 14.
Jayson Werth’s two-run double off
Hellickson cut the deficit in half during the
bottom of third. Ramos’ and Drew’s long
Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz, left, looks on as the Nationals’ Daniel Murphy hits a tworun double during the fifth inning. Murphy finished with two doubles and three RBIs.
balls tied the game 4-4 in the fourth.
Murphy hit into a double play to end
Washington’s third-inning rally, but the
NL batting leader found redemption in the
fifth with a go-ahead double. Murphy and
Drew hit RBI doubles in the seventh for a
9-4 lead.
The Phillies scored two runs in three
different innings, but the Nationals did so
four times including the third, fourth and
fifth.
Jonathan Papelbon pitched the ninth inning for his 16th save.
The NL East-leading Nationals returned
home after going 6-3 on a three-city trip
that began with a three-game sweep at
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia swept a three-game series
in Washington April 26-28 but trails the
season series 6-4.
Hellickson allowed seven runs and nine
hits over six innings after giving up seven
runs combined over his previous three
starts.
Strasburg, who began the streak Sept.
15, 2015, left his previous start Saturday in
Cincinnati in the sixth inning with a cramp
in his right calf. By the time he exited his
latest outing, he had struck out eight of
Philadelphia’s nine starters at least once.
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Murray confident
despite latest loss
BY WILL GRAVES
Associated Press
FRANK G UNN, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
Hockey Hall of Famer Gordie Howe poses beside the Stanley Cup on Nov. 14, 2011, at the Hall of Fame
in Toronto. Howe, known worldwide as “Mr. Hockey,” died Friday at the age of 88.
Long before 99, league
had No. 9: Gordie Howe
BY JOHN WAWROW
Associated Press
B
efore there was 99, there
was only one No. 9.
With apologies to
Maurice Richard, that
player was “Mr. Hockey,” Gordie
Howe, the exceptionally rugged,
skilled and seemingly ageless
farm boy from Floral, Saskatchewan, whose career spanned six
decades and became an inspiration for many of the NHLers who
followed.
“Players like that, they become
legends. They become heroes,”
said former Buffalo Sabres star
Gilbert Perreault.
“We became hockey players
from watching these guys: (Jean)
Beliveau, Howe, Bobby Hull, Stan
Mikita. When I was a young age,
I really had great admiration for
these players,” Perreault added.
“It’s a great loss for hockey.”
Howe’s death at the age of 88
on Friday led to an outpouring of
gratitude from numerous current
and former hockey stars for the
impact he made on their careers.
It began with Wayne Gretzky,
of course. The “Great One” deferred his title to Howe by calling
him “the greatest player ever.”
Gretzky chose to wear No. 99
because of Howe. And he wasn’t
the only one.
By the numbers
1,850
Number of points
Gordie Howe racked up
during his NHL career.
801
Number of goals
Howe scored during
his NHL career.
1,767
Number of games
Howe played during
his NHL career.
SOURCE: Associated Press
“Gordie Howe you will be
missed,” former Dallas Stars
great Mike Modano wrote in a
note posted on his Twitter account. “The reason I wore #9.”
Current
Sabres
forward
Evander Kane shared a similar
message on Twitter.
“Very sad to hear about Gordie
Howe #MrHockey #thebest9,”
Kane wrote. “He was one of the
owners of my junior team and
was a big reason I wear the number 9.”
According to ProHockeyReference.com, 278 NHL players are
listed as having worn No. 9, from
former Oilers star Glenn Anderson to current San Jose Sharks
forward Dainius Zubrus.
Former New York Islanders
general manager Bill Torrey
noted how popular the number
became because of Howe, but he
isn’t sure it needs to be retired.
“I don’t know. Hey, Gordie
Howe, he’s not called Mr. Hockey
for nothing. I think that’s as great
an honor as anybody can have,”
Torrey said. “I don’t know of anybody that’s called Mr. Baseball or
Mr. Football. Not like this.”
How Howe picked up the title
of “Mr. Hockey” is not entirely
clear, though his late beloved
wife, Colleen, did trademark the
nickname.
He set the scoring mark with
801 goals and 1,850 points.
PITTSBURGH — Matt Murray’s slender frame has spent the
past two months seemingly impervious to the increasingly massive weight on his shoulders.
Until Thursday. Skating onto the
ice at Consol Energy Center with
a chance to help the Pittsburgh
Penguins raise the franchise’s
fourth Stanley Cup, the enormity
of the moment — however briefly
— may have gotten the best of the
22-year-old rookie.
Murray used phrases like “a
little bit jittery” and “a little bit
nervous” to describe the opening
minutes of Pittsburgh’s 4-2 loss
to San Jose in Game 5, a stretch
when he allowed three goals on
five shots as the Sharks earned a
return trip to the West Coast for
Game 6 on Sunday night thanks
to 44 saves from goaltender Martin Jones.
“As a team we really settled
down after a tough start but we
came back and stayed resilient,”
Murray said. “We played the way
we needed to to win the game but
their goalie stood on his head.”
Something Murray has done
at times during Pittsburgh’s run
to the final, particularly after a
rare bumpy patch. He has yet to
drop consecutive starts during
the playoffs, going 5-0 with a 1.76
goals against average in games
following a loss. Having a team
peaking in front of him — one
that doesn’t think twice about
stepping in front of shots before
they ever make it to Murray —
helps. So does Murray’s healthy
self-confidence.
“I don’t think I played badly by
any means,” Murray said.
Maybe, but Murray knows he’s
at a portion of the season where
being OK won’t be good enough.
In the big picture, he has a very
real shot at capturing the Conn
Scoreboard
Stanley Cup Final
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2
Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2
Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 1, OT
San Jose 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT
Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 1
San Jose 4, Pittsburgh 2
Sunday: at San Jose
TV: AFN-Sports, 2 a.m. Monday CET; 9
a.m. Monday JKT
x-Wednesday: at Pittsburgh
TV: AFN-Sports, 2 a.m. Thursday CET;
9 a.m. Thursday JKT
Smythe Trophy given to the playoff MVP. His 14 wins during the
postseason are one away from
the NHL record for victories by
a rookie.
Still, it’s not the number of
goals Murray is giving up but
the nature of them that’s a bit
problematic.
There was Joel Ward’s breakaway slap shot from the slot in
Game 3 that set the stage for Joonas Donskoi’s wrist shot from in
overtime that gave the Sharks life.
There was Brent Burns’ opening
goal on Thursday, a score that in
some ways mirrored Donskoi’s
winner, zipping past Murray’s
right shoulder. There was Melker
Karlsson’s flip late in the first period that went through the same
hole between left pad and his
glove that Ward found.
Would Murray have liked to be
sharper just three periods from
a championship, a victory that
would allow him to tie the NHL
record for wins by a rookie goaltender in the playoffs?
Of course. It didn’t happen, so
the Penguins keep playing. He
hasn’t lost much sleep since taking over in Game 3 of the opening round against the New York
Rangers. He’s not going to start
now.
“I thought they had a couple of
lucky bounces,” he said.
ERIC RISBERG /AP
Penguins goalie Matt Murray, right, is 5-0 with a 1.76 goals against
average in games immediately following a loss this postseason.
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NBA FINALS
LeBron, Cavaliers
on ropes after loss
BY TIM R EYNOLDS
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — LeBron James said
Game 4 was another “do-or-die” scenario
for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
He can only hope he was wrong.
The NBA Finals have all but slipped
away from James and the Cavaliers, an offensive disaster of a fourth quarter their
undoing in what became a 108-97 loss to
the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 on
Friday night. Cleveland trails the series 31, a deficit that no team has ever overcome
in the championship round.
Game 5 is Monday in Oakland, Calif.,
where the defending champion Warriors
are 50-3 this season. If Cleveland is going
to pull off this miracle, it’ll need to win
there twice.
So it’s not over.
It only seems that way, and James’ alltoo-familiar June nightmare is one loss
away from being officially complete — although he certainly didn’t sound Friday
night like the series was over.
“We feel like the chips have been stacked
up against us all year anyway,” James
said.
This is James’ seventh trip to the Finals,
and barring the most improbable of comebacks this will be his fifth time watching
someone else hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy. He’ll likely be blamed for yet another
setback, even though he’s averaging 24.7
points, 11 rebounds and 9.3 assists in this
series. He told the Cavaliers to follow his
lead, took the blame when they fell behind
2-0 in the series, has tried to say and do all
the right things.
The Warriors are one victory from denying him again. It went six games last year
when the Cavaliers didn’t have Kevin Love
for the entirety of the series and Kyrie
Irving for most of the matchup. This one
could end in five even though Irving has
played well for much of this matchup and
Love returned to the lineup for Game 4
after missing essentially six quarters with
a concussion.
“If you don’t think we can win, don’t get
on the plane,” Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue
said, when asked what the approach is now.
“I just think we’ve got to come back anyway, so we might as well come back and
play. We’ve got to come back to Cleveland,
don’t we?”
Cleveland was threatening to take control early in the third of Game 4, leading by
eight. Less than 30 seconds later, the lead
was down to two.
Stephen Curry three-pointer. Splash.
Klay Thompson three-pointer. Splash.
The Warriors suddenly had life. Cleveland’s lead was 83-81 when James scored
with 10:21 left, and it was about seven minutes before the Cavaliers managed another
field goal. A 12-1 run in the fourth put the
Warriors on top for good, and that 11-point
margin was the exact difference between
the teams when time expired.
“I went with my best players in the fourth
quarter ... and it didn’t work,” Lue said.
All James could do then was glumly slap
hands with a few of his teammates, his face
hardly showing any emotion. Fans started
leaving long before the final horn, quite
possibly for the final time this season.
The Eastern Conference championship
banner for this season is already swaying
from the rafters in Quicken Loans Arena,
and “2015-16” has been added to the banner displaying Central Division titles next
to that one.
James delivered those. The one he wants
most may be out of reach, but the Warriors
aren’t writing him off.
“At any moment, the guy can just turn
RON SCHWANE /AP
LeBron James is staring at an all-too-familiar June nightmare unless he can lead the
Cavaliers out of a 3-1 hole, a deficit no team has overcome in the NBA Finals.
into an uncontainable player,” Warriors
guard Andre Iguodala said. “You’ve got to
have the appropriate fear.”
A team that calls the Cavs’ arena home
might win a championship this weekend,
though it won’t exactly become worldwide
news if the Lake Erie Monsters — the Columbus Blue Jackets’ affiliate in the American Hockey League — finish a sweep of
the Hershey Bears and hoist the Calder
Cup on Saturday night.
It’ll be nice, but it’s not the title Cleveland craves.
Since the Cleveland Browns won their
last football title in 1964 — the championship game wasn’t even known as the Super
Bowl then — Cleveland has experienced
147 NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL opening
days with title dreams that ultimately were
dashed. (Yes, an NHL team was briefly
here.) Over that span, 56 franchises in the
four biggest U.S. sports leagues have at
least one championship.
James returned to Cleveland after four
successful years in Miami to end that
drought.
His summer might start Monday, the
drought still there. For now, all James is
thinking about is Game 5.
“We’ve got to come in with the mindset
that our coaching staff will give us a great
game plan,” James said. “And we’ll execute that.”
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Here’s an oddity: The Warriors shot 47
percent from three-point range, 36 percent
from two-point range. Weird, but it was good
enough. The Larry O’Brien Trophy will be
flying cross-country to Oakland, Calif., on
Saturday, and Golden State will have a chance
to mess it up with joyous fingerprints and
champagne baths Monday.
It’s hard to win an NBA title, harder still to
go back-to-back. Only six franchises in league
history have pulled that trick off.
On paper years from now, it’ll seem like it
was easy. They’ve only made it look that way.
It’ll eventually be forgotten that this team
spent half a season without head coach Steve
Kerr because of back trouble, that Curry got
hurt twice in the playoffs, that the Warriors
trailed Oklahoma City 3-1 in the Western
Conference finals, and were essentially left
for dead in that series.
Only 10 teams in NBA history have rallied
from 3-1 down, and the Warriors doing it has
to remind the Cavaliers that it’s possible.
Problem is, the Warriors doing it also has
reminded them that it’s possible. On Friday,
they left Quicken Loans Arena for what they
hope was the final time this season talking
about playing with the appropriate fear and
respect that teams can carry into any closeout
game.
“I’ve already told our guys Game 5 will be
the hardest game of the series,” Kerr said.
“Every closeout game is difficult, but when
you’re at home, for a strange reason it’s even
more difficult. You’ve got, you know, everybody in your ear, you’ve got friends, you’ve
got family who want to come to the game and
want to discuss everything.
“We have to understand that this series is
not over.”
True, for a lot of reasons.
Foremost among them, the Cavaliers — who
know no team has escaped a 3-1 hole in the
NBA Finals — still have LeBron James.
His second ring in 2013 with Miami came
when the Heat needed to win two elimination
games in the Finals to oust the San Antonio
Spurs in what became a dramatic seven-game
matchup, highlighted by Ray Allen’s overtime-forcing three-pointer with 5.2 seconds
left in Game 6.
The chips are obviously stacked a lot higher
against James this time.
“We’ve already got to take a flight home
back anyways, so we might as well come home
with a win and play on our home floor again,”
James said, not long after Cavs coach Tyronn
Lue offered similar sentiments. “Being a confident bunch, we feel like the chips have been
stacked up against us all year anyway.”
Either way, the ending of this series will be
historic.
Either Cleveland does something no team
has done, or Golden State will repeat and be
poised to become a dynasty.
Green in another dustup
Draymond Green has found himself in another
thorny playoff situation. The Golden State Warriors
forward tangled with Cleveland’s LeBron James during the fourth quarter of Game 4 on Friday night, with
the Cavaliers’ star saying it all went too far.
“Draymond just said something that I don’t agree
with,” James said. “I’m all cool with the competition.
I’m all fine with that, but some of the words that came
out of his mouth were a little bit overboard, and being
a guy with pride, a guy with three kids and a family,
things of that nature, some things just go overboard.”
Green, who kicked Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams
in the groin during the Western Conference finals and
was fined $25,000 a day later for that play, was asked
what he and James were saying to one another.
“Stuff that’s said on the court,” Green said. “You’ll
never get it from me.”
James said he and his teammates reviewed video
of a sequence where it appeared that Green hit the
four-time NBA MVP in the groin. James believes the
NBA will take a look at the play.
“I didn’t see it, no,” Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue
said. “Did he do it?”
That’s up to the NBA to decide now.
If the league decides to retroactively assess a flagrant-1, Green would miss Game 5 on Monday night
since it would be his fourth flagrant point of the playoffs. If the league were to find something worthy of
a flagrant-2 sanction, Green would be suspended for
Game 5 and Game 6.
From The Associated Press
Scoreboard
NBA Finals
(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
Golden State 3, Cleveland 1
Golden State 104, Cleveland 89
Golden State 110, Cleveland 77
Cleveland 120, Golden State 90
Friday: Golden State 108, Cleveland 97
Monday: at Golden State
TV: AFN-Sports, 3 a.m. Tuesday CET;
10 a.m. Tuesday JKT
x-Thursday: at Cleveland
TV: AFN-Sports, 3 a.m. Friday CET; 10
a.m. Friday JKT
x-Sunday, June 19: at Golden State
TV: AFN-Sports, 2 a.m. Monday CET; 9
a.m. Monday JKT
Friday
Warriors 108, Cavaliers 97
GOLDEN STATE — Barnes 5-11 0-0 14,
Green 2-9 5-8 9, Bogut 0-0 0-0 0, Curry
11-25 9-10 38, K.Thompson 7-14 7-7 25,
Iguodala 4-12 0-0 10, McAdoo 1-1 0-0 2,
Speights 0-0 0-0 0, Varejao 0-1 2-2 2, Ezeli
0-0 0-2 0, Livingston 3-8 2-2 8. Totals 33-81
25-31 108.
CLEVELAND — Jefferson 1-2 1-2 3,
James 11-21 2-4 25, T.Thompson 5-7 0-5
10, Irving 14-28 4-5 34, Smith 3-10 2-2 10,
Love 3-6 4-6 11, Frye 0-1 0-0 0, Dellavedova 0-1 2-2 2, Shumpert 1-5 0-0 2, D.Jones
0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-81 15-26 97.
Golden State
29 21 29 29—108
Cleveland
28 27 22 20— 97
Three-Point Goals—Golden State 1736 (Curry 7-13, Barnes 4-5, K.Thompson
4-9, Iguodala 2-5, Green 0-4), Cleveland
6-25 (Irving 2-6, Smith 2-8, Love 1-2,
James 1-5, Dellavedova 0-1, Shumpert
0-3). Fouled Out—Jefferson. Rebounds—
Golden State 43 (Green 12), Cleveland
40 (James 13). Assists—Golden State
23 (Iguodala 7), Cleveland 15 (James 9).
Total Fouls—Golden State 22, Cleveland
24. Technicals—Golden State defensive
three second, Golden State Coach Warriors. A—20,562 (20,562).
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BOXING
World watches, says goodbye to Ali
The Greatest
remembered
by thousands
in Louisville
BY JENNA FRYER,
CLAIRE GALOFARO
BRUCE SCHREINER
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Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As Muhammad Ali’s youngest son rode
in his father’s funeral procession
through the streets of the city he
adored, he noticed scores of children lining the route, pumping
their fists, shouting “Ali! Ali!”
Asaad Amin Ali figured the
children in attendance couldn’t
possibly yet understand what
they were experiencing Friday
as Louisville and the world paid
their respects to The Greatest.
“It’s not explainable, it was
amazing,” said Asaad Amin Ali.
“We looked out of the car and see
people dancing and cheering and
you also see people crying. (The
children) are going to remember
that for the rest of their lives.
“The outpouring of love ... it’s
inspiration. We saw how much he
affected the world.”
Ali made one final journey
through Louisville, his hometown,
then was laid to rest in a cemetery
he chose more than a decade ago.
The burial was followed by a starstudded memorial service where
the boxing great was eulogized as
a brash and wildly charismatic
breaker of racial barriers.
The more than three-hour memorial capped nearly a full day
of mourning in Louisville for
Ali, the three-time heavyweight
champion of the world who died
last week at 74 after a long battle
with Parkinson’s disease.
Family spokesman Bob Gunnell said when the motorcade
pulled up outside Ali’s childhood
home, they were already woefully behind schedule. They hadn’t
planned to stop there, just drive
by and wave.
But the street was jammed full
of people who threw roses on the
cars. Ali’s widow, Lonnie, asked if
they could pause there.
“Let’s just stay here for a few
seconds and let Muhammad enjoy
this,” Gunnell recalled she said.
Here are some other things
we’ll remember from the celebration of Ali’s life:
The family’s farewell: Wearing
a large, black hat that concealed
her eyes, Lonnie Ali became the
chief storyteller of her husband’s
legacy.
She touched on how Ali wanted to be remembered in death,
and how he helped plan his final
goodbye.
“Some years ago during his
long struggle with Parkinson’s in
a meeting that included his closest
advisers, Muhammad indicated
M ARK HUMPHREY/AP
The hearse carrying the body of Muhammad Ali passes in front of his boyhood home during his funeral procession Friday in Louisville, Ky.
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LEFT, AND
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Left: Muhammad Ali’s widow, Lonnie Ali, speaks at his memorial service Friday in Louisville, Ky. Right: People watch a live stream of the
memorial service outside The O2, in south London. Louisville pastor Kevin Cosby said Muhammad Ali loved everyone, whether they lived in
the penthouse or the projects. Cosby was among several faith leaders who spoke at the memorial service.
that when the end came for him,
he wanted us to use his life and
his death as a teaching moment
for young people, for his country
and for the world,” she said. “He
wanted us to remind people who
are suffering, that he had seen
the face of injustice. That he grew
up in segregation, and that during
his early life, he was not free to be
who he wanted to be.
“But he never became embittered enough to quit or to engage
in violence.”
She also urged the 15,000 in attendance at the public memorial
at the KFC Yum! Center to follow
Ali’s example, and to reflect upon
his legacy and what Ali stood for
during difficult times.
“He was sure-footed in his
self-awareness, secure in his
faith and he did not fear death,”
she said. “Yet his timing is once
again poignant. His passing and
its meaning for our times should
not be overlooked. As we face un-
certainty in the world and divisions at home as to who we are as
a people, Muhammad’s life provides useful guidance.
“Muhammad was not one to
give up on the power of understanding the boundless possibilities of love and the strength of our
diversity. He counted among his
friends people of all political persuasions, saw truth in all faiths
and the nobility of all races.”
The Greatest impression: The
memorial service was packed
with celebrities, athletes and
politicians, including former
President Bill Clinton, Sen. Orrin
Hatch, director Spike Lee, former NFL great Jim Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, soccer star
David Beckham, Whoopi Goldberg and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
It was comedian Billy Crystal,
though, who brought the house
down with impressions of Ali and
his memories of his time with the
champion.
“He was a tremendous bolt
of lightning, created by Mother
Nature out of thin air, a fantastic
combination of power and beauty,” said Crystal. “We’ve seen
still photographs of lightning at
the moment of impact, ferocious
in its strength, magnificent in
its elegance. And at the moment
of impact it lights up everything
around it so you can see everything clearly.
“Muhammad Ali struck us in
the middle of America’s darkest
night.”
Crystal cracked everyone up
with his career-making impersonation of a boastful, fast-talking
Ali — and Ali’s foil, sportscaster
Howard Cosell — and rhapsodized about the fighter’s charisma, outspokenness and talent.
The boyhood home: All week,
parents have been bringing their
children to Ali’s boyhood home,
trying to explain his legacy in
simple terms to children who live
in a world much different than
the one Ali rose to fame in.
As the procession neared the
little pink house where Ali grew
up, thousands of mourners along
the route chanted, “Ali! Ali!” for
the former heavyweight champion. The area around his home
was crowded with scores of people — young and old; black, white
and Asian — awaiting the processional carrying Ali’s casket.
Debra Brown, who grew up
in another part of western Louisville, said she always admired
how Ali has represented the city
and wanted to be a part of the
events to say goodbye. She said
she brought her granddaughter
to teach her about his boxing
triumphs and his humanitarian
causes outside the ring.
“She knows the name now.
When she gets older, it will stick
in her head. ... When she sees his
face, she’s going to remember
Muhammad Ali.”
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Golden State guard Stephen Curry,
who failed to score 20 points in
any of the first three games, scored
38 Friday night as the Warriors
took a commanding 3-1 lead over
the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA
Finals.
TONY D EJAK /AP
Curry comes alive in Game 4,
putting Warriors within one win
of repeating as NBA champions
These Finals all but over for Cavaliers, Page 30
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A repeat NBA title now just one win away
for Golden State
By TIM REYNOLDS
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The Golden State Warriors have won 88 games this season, when
factoring in the regular season and the playoffs. That’s another NBA record to add to
their collection, one more than the Chicago
Bulls totaled in their 1995-96 season.
It’s unclear if the Warriors even noticed.
The next victory is the only one that really
matters to them.
They’re on the verge of successive championships, and their first opportunity to
close out their record-setting season in the
only acceptable manner is set for Monday
on their home floor at Oracle Arena. The
Warriors earned that right by coming into
Cleveland and beating the Cavaliers 108-97
in Game 4 on Friday, a win that gave Golden
State a commanding 3-1 lead in the series.
“It’s going to be our biggest game of the
year, obviously,” two-time reigning NBA
MVP Stephen Curry said. “We always talk
about just because we’re going home doesn’t
mean you can relax or take things for granted. You work all regular season to have
home-court advantage, and this is a great opportunity for us, and we need to play with a
sense of urgency and a sense of aggression.”
In other words, exactly as they did in
Game 4.
The Warriors seemed to have grown tired
of questions about their star backcourt’s ineffectiveness. Golden State set an NBA Finals record with 17 three-pointers on Friday,
outscoring the Cavaliers by 33 points from
beyond the arc. Curry, who didn’t have as
much as a 20-point game in any of the first
three matchups in this series, had 38. Klay
Thompson had 25, many of them coming at
the biggest points in the game.
Here’s an oddity: The Warriors shot 47