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5 hours later, Royals win World Series opener in 14th
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— An inside-the-park home
run. A power failure that
blacked out the TV audience.
Crazy bounces, great plays and
key errors.
The longest World Series
opener ever had a little bit of
everything. And more than five
hours after they began, Alcides
Escobar and the Kansas City
Royals also had just enough
energy to outlast the New York
Mets.
Saved by Alex Gordon’s
tying home run in the ninth
inning off Mets closer Jeurys
Familia, the Royals won in
the 14th when Escobar dashed
home on Eric Hosmer’s sacrifice fly for a 5-4 win late
Tuesday night.
“It was a great night,” Royals
manager Ned Yost said. “Two
things you don’t want in Game
1 of the World Series: One is to
go 14 innings and the other is
to lose.”
“To find a way to grind that
way out against a great team,
both teams were matching pitch
for pitch,” he said.
This tied for longest Series
game ever and ended at 12:18
a.m. From the get-go, it was
wild and weird.
Escobar hit an inside-theparker on the very first pitch
from Matt Harvey.
Later, that power problem
caused fans and the team’s
replay rooms to go dark.
The nearer it got to midnight
— and beyond — the more
oddly the ball bounced.
In the 11th, Salvador Perez
grounded a single that hit the
third-base bag and caromed
high in the air. In the 12th,
Daniel Murphy struck out on a
pitch that got past Perez — it
ricocheted off the backstop to
the Royals catcher, who threw
out Murphy at first.
About the only thing
missing? A home run by
Murphy, who had connected in
a record six straight postseason
games. The MVP of the NL
Championship Series did contribute a pair of singles.
“Yeah, there was a lot of
baseball out there,” Murphy
said.
In the 14th, Escobar reached
on an error by third baseman
David Wright. Ben Zobrist’s
single put runners at the corners and an intentional walk to
Lorenzo Cain loaded the bases.
Hosmer atoned for a key
error by lifting a flyball measured at 300 feet, and Escobar
barely beat right fielder Curtis
Granderson’s throw home.
“I wanted to redeem myself
for what happened earlier,”
Hosmer said.
“That’s the beauty of this
game. Always get a chance to
redeem yourself and can’t thank
my teammates enough.”
Chris Young pitched three
hitless innings for the win. Bartolo Colon gave up an unearned
run and took the loss.
“Their team, one of the
things we know about them is
they’re never down and out,”
Mets manager Terry Collins.
“We’ve got to put them away.
We’ve got to do a better job.”
Game 2 is Wednesday night,
with Jacob deGrom starting for
the Mets against Johnny Cueto.
It’s a hairy matchup: DeGrom’s
flowing tresses vs. Cueto’s mop
of dreadlocks.
Anyone who’s ever seen
the Royals play — especially
in October — knows they’re
called resilient for a reason.
Once again, they reinforced
their reputation.
Gordon shook the ballpark
when he tagged Familia, hitting
a solo drive with one out over
the center field wall. The star
closer hadn’t blown a save since
July 30 and had been nearly perfect this postseason.
Known more for his glove
than his bat, Gordon connected
when he said Familia tried to
quick pitch him, and got a huge
hug in the dugout from Hosmer.
A two-time Gold Glove first
baseman, Hosmer’s error gave
the Mets a 4-3 lead in the eighth.
“I was the happiest person in
the stadium when Gordon homered,” Hosmer said. “I told him,
‘I just want to hug you right
now.’ I think a lot of people in
Kansas City want to hug him.”
Escobar provided the early
excitement. He loves to swing
at first pitches, and this time
the MVP of AL Championship
Series produced his best result
yet.
A mix-up by Mets outfielders Yoenis Cespedes and
rookie Michael Conforto helped
Escobar wind up with just the
second inside-the-parker to lead
off a Series game. Ol’ Patsy
Dougherty of the Boston Americans did it in 1903 — his came
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samoa news, Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Private Elementary
League kicks off…
by Brian Vitolio/ FFAS MEDIA
A Pacific Horizon player for the Girls level 6-8 division battles for possession of the ball against a St. Theresa
opponent during a game of the 2015 FFAS Private Schools Elementary Soccer League on Thursday, Oct. 22 at
[FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]
Kanana Fou. An SPA player dribbles away from a Kanana Fou B defender to score a goal during a level 6-8 division match of
the 2015 FFAS Private Schools Elementary Soccer League on Thursday, Oct. 22.
A Peteli, Girls level 3-5 player celebrates a goal scored by one of her teammates against Kanana Fou B on Oct. 22
at Kanana Fou during a game of the FFAS Private Schools Elementary Soccer League.
The 2015 Private Schools Elementary League is
off and running after the season kicked off with a
big turnout of players and spectators at the Kanana
Fou field on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.
“We are looking forward to another great
season and the number of children playing and the
number of spectators at Kanana Fou are a great
indication of how popular this competition has
become,” explained FFAS President, Faiivae Iuli
Alex Godinet.
“My thanks to the eight schools participating as
well as to the principals for their continued interest
in this league,” Faiivae added.
“This is the fifth year since this competition
was first started and it is one of our most exciting
leagues of the year,” said FFAS CEO, Tavita
Taumua. “As is usually the case every year, the
schools are contacting us before we contact them,
because their students keep asking them over and
over, ‘When is the soccer league going to start’?”
“Their level of enthusiasm has our office looking
forward to running this league every year.”
The age group divisions have remained the same
— Grades 3-5 and Grades 6-8 for both boys and
girls. The competition is a seven-a-side format with
one-round robin to be followed by playoffs for the
top four teams. “One of the things that has allowed
us to hold this competition successfully is the use
of the Kanana Fou Seminary field, because it is a
centralized area for all these schools to come to,”
Faiivae said. “And for that we are very thankful to
CCCAS and the Seminary.
“CCCAS General Secretary, Rev. Reupena
Alo, and Kanana Fou Seminary President, Rev. Dr.
Moleli Niuatoa have been instrumental in allowing
our association to run the Private Schools elementary competition since it first started in 2011.
“Besides having the competition in a centralized area, it is a big field, allowing us to mark four
fields each for the older and younger age groups,”
he added. “So if you come out to Kanana Fou, we
have eight games going on at the same time and
this allows us to finish on time and also to complete
the competition at an earlier date.”
Faiivae also wanted to thank McConnell Dowell
for their donation as a partner for this competition.
“They gave last year and now again this year,”
Faiivae said. “So I want to thank McConnell
Dowell for their contribution to this league.”
The schools competing are Iakina Adventist,
Kanana Fou Elementary, Marist St. Francis, Pacific
Horizon, Peteli Academy, St. Theresa, Samoa Baptist Academy and South Pacific Academy.
Iakina is the only school not fielding a team in
the Girls’ Grades 3-5 while Kanana Fou has two
teams in each of the boys and girls divisions.
In the girls’ division, there are eight teams in the
Grades 3-5 and nine in the Grades 6-8 level. There
are nine teams each in the Boys’ Grades 3-5 and
Grades 6-8 divisions.
Kanana Fou is the defending title-holder for the
boys and girls’ Grades 3-5 divisions, while Peteli
Academy won the boys and girls’ Grades 6-8
championships last year.
Games are played every Tuesday and Thursday
at Kanana Fou, with the first game at 3:30 p.m.
10.22.2015 RESULTS GRADES 3-5 GIRLS
DIVISION South Pacific Academy 1, Marist St.
Francis 0; Kanana Fou A 1, Pacific Horizon 0
Peteli Academy 8, Kanana Fou B 0 (BYE:
Samoa Baptist Academy, St. Theresa) BOYS
DIVISION Pacific Horizon 1, St. Theresa 1;
Iakina Academy 4, Kanana Fou A 1; South Pacific
Academy 10, Kanana Fou B 0; Peteli Academy 2,
Marist St. Francis 0
BYE: Samoa Baptist Academy
GRADES 6-8 GIRLS DIVISION South Pacific
Academy 2, Kanana Fou B 1; Marist St. Francis 5,
Peteli Academy 2; Pacific Horizon 0, St. Theresa 0;
Kanana Fou A 3, Iakina Academy 0; BYE: Samoa
Baptist Academy
BOYS DIVISION Pacific Horizon 6, St. Theresa 4; Marist St. Francis 6, Peteli Academy 1;
Iakina Academy 6, Kanana Fou A 0; South Pacific
Academy 17, Kanana Fou B 0; BYE: Samoa Baptist Academy.
SPORTS SHORTS
FIFA accepts 7 entries in race
for president, Nakhid excluded
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA says there are seven official entries
for the presidential election to replace Sepp Blatter, with former
Trinidad and Tobago player David Nakhid not on the list.
Nakhid said this month he submitted his application with the
required five nominations. However, Nakhid was left off the list of
valid candidatures published by FIFA on Wednesday.
The seven are: Michel Platini, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Gianni
Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale, Musa Bility, Jerome Champagne and
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.
Platini’s candidature has been accepted pending a FIFA ethics
committee investigation into financial wrongdoing.
The election is scheduled for Feb. 26.
Chances of Bart Starr appearing
at Favre ceremony improve
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — It wasn’t that long ago that the
81-year-old Bart Starr’s return to Lambeau Field on Thanksgiving
was doubtful. But, his wife, Cherry, is offering new hope.
Starr is working to become strong enough to travel to Lambeau
Field to join Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre when Favre’s number
goes up on the stadium facade in a special ceremony.
Starr recently suffered a life-threatening lung infection about
a year after a heart attack and multiple strokes debilitated him. In
recent weeks, he has returned home and worked on rehabilitating.
Cherry Starr tells Press-Gazette Media that if the ceremony were
tomorrow, her husband would be there.
The legendary Green Bay Packers’ quarterback still can’t walk
without assistance. He and his wife will soon travel out of the
country for Starr’s second experimental stem cell treatment.
Going global: NBA rosters feature
100 international players
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA’s 70th season begins with 100
international players from 37 countries and territories.
Opening night is Tuesday, and all 30 teams will have at least
one international player on the roster for the second consecutive
year. Toronto leads the league with seven while Cleveland, Minnesota, San Antonio and Utah have six each.
The league says a record 10 African and nine Brazilian players
are on rosters. Canada leads with 12 players, followed by France
with 10. There are eight players from Australia. Croatia and Spain
round out the top five with four players each. Among the prominent international players set to make their NBA debuts this week:
Orlando’s Mario Hezonja of Croatia, Denver’s Emmanuel Mudiay
of Congo and the Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis of Latvia.
Rain in KC should be mostly
over before World Series game
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The National Weather Service
says it appears unlikely that rain in Kansas City will disrupt the
first game of the World Series between the Kansas City Royals
and New York Mets.
Meteorologist Mike July in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, says some
drizzle might remain near the start of the evening game, but the
system should move away shortly after the game begins.
After the game starts, there is a 50 percent chance of showers,
but less than a tenth of an inch is forecast.
It will be chilly, with the high reaching 57 degrees before dropping to about 49 after sunset.
l.a. Lakers to design, build
float for 127th Rose Parade
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers plan to
enter a float in the 127th Rose Parade.
The team announced the plan Tuesday and released an artist’s
rendering of the design of its first Rose Parade float.
The Lakers will be the first NBA team to participate in the
annual New Year’s Day parade in Pasadena before the Rose Bowl.
The 55-foot-long, 30-foot-tall float will have three sections,
including a large Lakers logo and an oversized basketball hoop
encircled with 16 stars to represent the organization’s NBA titles.
The Laker Girls will walk with the float, and special guests will
ride on the front platform.
The float will feature multiple variations of carnations, roses,
orchids, daisies, lilies and chrysanthemums, including flowers specifically grown to match the Lakers’ purple and gold team colors.
Mets’ deGrom plans on cutting
long hair after season
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jacob deGrom sounded like his
decision was a lock: He wants to trim his long hair after the season.
Before Tuesday night’s World Series opener, the New York
Mets pitcher was asked whether his hair was better than the
flowing dreadlocks on Kansas City’s Johnny Cueto. The two are
scheduled to start in Game 2.
DeGrom says “I think mine is gone at the end of the year, so
I’ll give that award to him. It’s driving me nuts. I’ve got to get
rid of it.”
Asked whose hair was better, Cueto responded: “I’m going to
say mine.”
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An Indian from the United States takes part in the bow and arrow competition at the World
Indigenous Games, in Palmas, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015.
The event, which comes one year after Brazil played host to soccer’s World Cup and ahead of next
(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, kicked off on Friday.
Cultural sharing trumps sports
at World’s Indigenous Games
by JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press
PALMAS, Brazil (AP) — Supersized Maori
from New Zealand, diminutive Aeta from the
Philippines and native peoples of all shapes and
sizes in between tested their mettle at the first
World Indigenous Games, a chaotic, kaleidoscopic celebration of first peoples from around
the globe.
Organizers billed the nine-day event as a sort
of indigenous Olympics.
But for many of the nearly 2,000 participants
from some 20 countries who converged last week
on host city Palmas, a remote agricultural outpost
in Brazil’s scorched heartland, the sports themselves took a back seat to what they said really
matters — cross-cultural sharing and learning.
“This restores your faith in humanity,” said
Lamarr Oksasikewiyin, a 46-year-old schoolteacher from the Nehiyaw people of Canada’s
Saskatchewan province, as he followed round
one of the spear-throwing competition. “An elder
once told me that our culture will save us. I think
this is what he meant.”
Despite the obvious differences between participants — Brazil’s Tapirape wore only body
paint and tiny loincloths while the sole Russian
delegate was covered in Siberian furs in defiance
of the sweltering tropical heat — the commonalities that unite indigenous people from around
the globe are palpable, Oksasikewiyin said. From
Ethiopia to Ecuador, first peoples worldwide are
still reeling from the lingering effects of colonialism and fighting to preserve their cultures and
lands, he said.
“We see we’re all in the same boat,” he
shouted over the roar of spectators cheering a
particularly impressive spear toss. “Being here,
all together, it becomes so clear.”
The event, which kicked off Friday, comes
one year after Brazil played host to soccer’s
World Cup and ahead of next year’s Olympics
in Rio de Janeiro. The indigenous event’s hypnotic opening ceremony swirled with eye-popping feather headdresses, sumptuous silk robes,
buttery suede dresses and revealing loincloths as
the 40-odd delegations melted into one chanting,
dancing, pulsating mass of humanity.
The far-flung cultural mash-ups multiplied
over the following days.
Mongolian archers in velvet mantles traded
tips with their feather-crowned brethren, the Xerente people, reputed to be among Brazil’s mostskilled archers. A knot of Tarahumara women
from northern Mexico haggled mercilessly over
the price of a gourd-and-palm leaf headdress with
an equally hard-nosed group of artisan women
from the Amazonian state of Para.
The Games are the biggest thing ever to roll
into the sleepy town of Palmas during its short
27-year history as the capital of Brazil’s newest
state of Tocantins. Non-indigenous locals got
in on the action, too, filling the bleachers and
swarming the handicraft fair. And everyone
snapped endless selfies.
Still, the Games have been hampered by technical glitches and allegations of mismanagement.
On opening day, construction workers were still
busily working on the installations. The sporting
events got off to a late start after a wall in the cafeteria collapsed, slightly injuring several workers
and leaving many without breakfast and unable
to compete on Saturday.
The debut competitions were pushed back to
Sunday, which saw a surprise upset in the blistering tug-of-war event: New Zealand’s fierce
Maori warriors lost a battle of the titans against
the fridge-sized Bakairi people of central Brazil.
The Javae women, also from central Brazil,
made short shrift of the Mexican women, in their
Crayola-hued circle skirts, and a hefty combined
U.S-Philippines team outweighed the forestdwelling Macuxi people.
Native Brazilians representing around two
dozen of the country’s more than 300 tribes make
up the lion’s share of participants at the Games
— and their problems have taken center stage at
the event. Small but boisterous protests against
a proposed constitutional amendment that would
give a Brazilian Congress largely dominated
by the agricultural lobby the right to demarcate
indigenous lands erupted at the opening ceremony, where embattled President Dilma Rousseff was booed. The proposal could come up for
an initial vote this week.
“It would be a disaster for us,” said protester
Merong Tapurama, of the Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae
people, adding that he saw the Games themselves
as a bid to paper over the dire reality of Brazil’s
beleaguered indigenous people.
Estimated at between 3 million to 5 million in
pre-Columbian times, Brazil’s indigenous population is now under a million people, making
up just 0.5 percent of the country’s 200 million
inhabitants. They continue to suffer from racism,
poor education and health care, and remain
locked in sometimes-bloody battles with loggers,
miners, cattle-grazers and soy farmers intent on
pushing them off ancestral lands.
“It’s great that the world is getting to see our
culture, see how rich it is,” said Timbira Pataxo,
who travelled from Bahia state to sell knickknacks at the entrance to the Games. “But the
world also needs to know about the real existential threats we face.”
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NFL POWER RANKINGS
No losses, no changes
in Top 5, Patriots No. 1
by RICHARD ROSENBLATT, AP Sports Writer
Chicago Bulls guard Jimmy Butler hangs on the rim after a dunk during the second half of an
NBA basketball game against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.
(AP Photo/Jeff Haynes)
The Bulls won the game 97-95. NEW YORK (AP) — No losses, no changes among the NFL’s
five remaining unbeaten teams in the latest AP Pro32 power rankings, with the New England Patriots again leading the way.
The Patriots collected nine first-place votes and 381 points for
the third week in a row in balloting by the 12 media members
who regularly cover the league. New England (6-0) beat the New
York Jets 30-23 on Sunday.
The next four are Green Bay, Cincinnati, Carolina and Denver,
all 6-0.
The Packers received three first-place votes and 369 points.
Changes near the top are likely by next week with Aaron
Rodgers and the Packers at Peyton Manning and the Broncos on
Sunday night.
“Pass rush will go after Rodgers,” says Fox Sports’ Jerry Czarnecki, who ranks the Packers fourth and Broncos fifth.
“Peyton Manning clearly isn’t at his best, and he may not be
good enough against the Packers,” says Newsday’s Bob Glauber,
adding that the showdown is “matchup made in heaven.”
Miami (3-3) jumped six places to 14th after a second straight
blowout win under interim coach Dan Campbell. The Dolphins
play Tom Brady and the Patriots on Thursday night.
“The Dolphins had one sack in the first four weeks of the
season. They have 11 in their last two games,” says the Dallas
Morning News’ Rick Gosselin.
“Belichick’s marauders can stop the surging Dolphins in their
tracks,” notes the Tampa Tribune’s Ira Kaufman.
St. Louis is on the rise, too, up three places to No. 13 after
a win over Cleveland, and a home game coming up against the
lowly 49ers, 26th this week.
“The Rams defense must be salivating at the thought of facing
San Francisco’s lousy offense,” says Foxsports’ Alex Marvez.
Of the Rams, ESPN’s Herm Edwards says, “Todd Gurley
makes this a different offense.”
Indianapolis tumbled six spots to 17th after a loss to New
Orleans.
“Fortunately for the Colts, they’re in the awful AFC South,
which means 3-4 is still good enough for first place,” says Glauber.
Tennessee fell to the bottom of the rankings at 32nd, replacing
Jacksonville.
“The Titans are still winless at home heading into November
with a league-worst 0-4 mark,” says Gosselin. “That is not a
formula for success.”
NBA’s MVP Curry scores 40
points, Warriors win opener ➧ 5 hours later, Royals win…
Continued from page B1
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — NBA MVP Stephen Curry showed in a hurry he hasn’t lost a step or
his swagger, scoring 40 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 111-95 victory over the New
Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night to open their title defense.
Curry put on a familiar shooting clinic from all over the court, knocking down seven of his first
nine shots with four 3-pointers for 24 first-quarter points. He finished 14 for 26 with seven assists
and six rebounds in a rematch of the first round of the playoffs that Golden State swept 4-0. It was
his 10th career 40-point game.
Curry and the Warriors raised the championship banner and received their rings in an elaborate
pregame ceremony featuring glitz, glow sticks and fire. Coach Steve Kerr attended, then left for the
locker room to rest his surgically repaired back as interim Luke Walton coached the team.
Anthony Davis, who averaged 29.5 points and 12.5 rebounds in two games against Golden State
last season, shot 4 for 20 and scored 10 of his 18 points on free throws.
BULLS 97, CAVALIERS 95
CHICAGO (AP) — Nikola Mirotic scored 19 points and Derrick Rose added 18 to lead
Chicago to a season-opening victory over LeBron James and Cleveland with President Barack
Obama watching.
Pau Gasol blocked a potential tying layup by James in the closing seconds. Jimmy Butler then
broke up an inbounds pass intended for James as time expired.
The president sat courtside for most of the game as his beloved Bulls knocked off the defending
Eastern Conference champions and gave coach Fred Hoiberg a narrow win in his first game.
James scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Cleveland, but the Cavaliers came up short
against the team they knocked out in the conference semifinals last season.
PISTONS 106, HAWKS 94
ATLANTA (AP) — Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 21 points to lead all five Detroit starters in
double figures, carrying the Pistons to a victory over Atlanta and ruining the opener of the team with
the best record in the Eastern Conference last season.
The Pistons, who haven’t had a winning season since 2008 and finished 28 games behind the
Hawks a year ago, began to pull away just before halftime. They led by double figures through most
of the final two quarters and held on despite missing 20 of their last 22 shots from the field.
Andre Drummond had 19 rebounds and 18 points for the Pistons. Marcus Morris also had a
double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Ersan Ilyasova chipped in with 16 points and Reggie
Jackson added 15.
Dennis Schroder led the Hawks with 20 points. Paul Millsap had 19 and Jeff Teague 18, but new
starter Kent Bazemore — who stepped in at small forward after DeMarre Carroll left in free agency
— was held scoreless.
in the second game ever of what became known as the Fall Classic.
“As I ran after the ball, I looked at Conforto and by the time
I looked back up I had lost the ball,” Cespedes said through a
translator.
Cespedes never put his mitt up and the ball glanced off his leg,
darted along the warning and let Escobar score standing up.
Harvey brushed aside the misplay and quickly settled in. The
Mets, meanwhile, soon caught up with Royals starter Edinson
Volquez, who did his best on the day his father died in the
Dominican Republic.
Volquez left the stadium before the game ended and headed
home. Most the Royals didn’t know about his dad.
“I found out in, I think it was the 14th inning, right before we
won the game,” Gordon said. “I was standing next to Ned and he
told me, he said, ‘Let’s win this game for Volquez.’”
For both teams, this began as a lucky day.
Exactly 30 years earlier, on the same field, Bret Saberhagen
and the Royals routed St. Louis in Game 7 for their most recent
crown. The next year, also on Oct. 27, Darryl Strawberry homered
to help the Mets beat Boston in Game 7 for their latest title.
By the time the Royals won early Wednesday, they’d already
made Oct. 28 a day to remember, too.
UP NEXT
Mets: DeGrom is 3-0 this postseason, with each win coming on
the road. He has struck out 27 in 20 innings against the Dodgers
and Cubs in the playoffs.
Royals: Cueto, acquired from the Reds in late July, will make
his first World Series appearance. He is 1-1 with a 7.88 ERA in
three postseason starts this year.
TOUGH START
This is the Mets’ fifth time in the World Series, and they’ve lost
Game 1 all five times. They wound up winning the title in 1969
and 1986, and lost in 1973 and 2000.
The Mets have gone to extra innings at least once every year
they’ve reached the Series.
Scout teams serve as
feeder system for NFL
by ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Pro Football Writer
In his locker room speech following his successful debut as
Miami’s interim head coach, Dan Campbell credited his practice
squad players for helping propel the Dolphins to their big win at
Tennessee.
“Don’t forget those guys,” he implored his team.
Those guys getting the props were the same ones quarterback
Ryan Tannehill had mocked two weeks earlier, when he criticized them for being overly aggressive during a usually low-key
workout and told them to enjoy their “scout team trophy” after
they picked off a couple of his passes before a loss to the Jets
in London.
Tannehill later apologized but not before drawing the ire of
P-squad graduates across the NFL, players who got their start
on scout teams where security is non-existent, paychecks are
relatively paltry and the only guarantees are that come game day
they’ll have plenty of time to catch up on their laundry.
“If he’s mad that a practice squad player’s picking him off, that’s
his fault. Work on your accuracy then,” sneered Broncos linebacker
Brandon Marshall, who spent time on the practice squads in Jacksonville and Denver before emerging as the anchor the league’s
stingiest defense. “Peyton Manning and these guys never got mad
at me for making a play in practice. They would respect it.
“So, don’t taunt them. Everybody starts from somewhere. Not
everybody’s fortunate enough to be a first-round pick.”
Former Patriots wide receiver Donte Stallworth responded to
Tannehill’s disparaging remarks by tweeting that Tom Brady would
actually pay scout team players who picked him off in practice.
P-squaders are in the ultimate Catch 22.
They’re hired to help prepare the starters for games, to impersonate upcoming opponents but not upstage the regulars, to give
their teammates a good look without making them look bad. While
they shouldn’t be showing up anyone, they also want to show the
coaches they’re worthy of a roster spot themselves.
One of the best P-squad graduates is Houston Texans running
back Arian Foster.
“I know both sides of the coin,” Foster said before he was
lost for the season with an Achilles tendon injury. “On one side,
you’re trying to get a look from the defense that you want to see on
Sunday. Sometimes it gets frustrating because your body is sore,
you’re beat up and a practice squad player is going full-go. He has
no game on Sunday. It gets frustrating, like ‘Come on, man. I’m
just trying to get a look.’
“But on the other side, it’s like, practice squad is week-toweek. They’ll cut you and bring somebody in just because they
look like another player,” Foster added. “I remember, I think
it was Demeco Ryans, he yelled at me one time, too. He’s like
‘Man, slow down. We’re just trying to get a look.’ And I said,
‘Are you going to pay my bills?’”
Steelers linebacker James Harrison is also one of the great
practice squad grads.
Each team can have up to 10 practice squad players, and they
make decent money, $6,600 a week. That’s $112,200 a year if
they’re on the squad for a full season. By comparison, the rookie
minimum salary is $435,000.
Even a one-week promotion to the regular roster is a godsend,
said Broncos linebacker Shaquil Barrett, who made $6,000 a week
on the practice squad last year but got bumped to $24,705 when he
was promoted to the active roster in Week 7.
“My wife and I had a pretty good budget made up but it just
helped us get to that mark a little bit quicker and have some left
over to do other stuff with,” said Barrett, whose wife, Jordanna, is
a stay-at-home mother of three.
Barrett made the 53-man roster this year and his weekly paychecks of $30,000 are five times what he made on the practice squad.
In Miami, practice squad players are back in Tannehill’s good
graces and Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry was glad to hear
Campbell give a shout-out to the guys who had been called out.
“He’s right. Those are the guys who don’t get a lot of credit,”
Landry said.
“Those guys work hard all week,” added Dolphins cornerback
Brent Grimes, who went undrafted out of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and worked his way into the NFL through the
scout team. “You’re not playing, but you’re here all the time. You
feel part of the team.”
Rod Smith, the Broncos’ all-time leading receiver, started out
on the team’s practice squad, where he’d inform tight end Shannon
Sharpe of his stats.
“Dumbest thing ever but the most brilliant thing I ever did,”
Smith said. “I made up my own stats: ‘Yes, Sharpe, I got seven
grabs for 120 today.’ He’d look at me like, ‘Dude, what the hell are
you talking about?’ And I said, ‘I’m killing them today, Sharpe.
I’m killing them.’ And then Sharpe told them. So, they started hitting me. They start jamming me, slamming me to the ground. You
know what, I’d get back up and do it again. Do it again. They’re
just preparing me for the game. And then they let me start and I
never looked back.”
President Barack Obama poses for photos during halftime of a NBA basketball game between the
Cleveland Cavaliers and the Chicago Bulls at the United Center in Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
With Obama watching, Bulls
hold off the Cavaliers 97-95
CHICAGO (AP) — For all the talk about their
fast-paced offense, defense once again lifted the
Chicago Bulls in their season opener.
Pau Gasol’s block of LeBron James and a pass
deflection in the closing seconds helped preserve
the win for new coach Fred Hoiberg. And that
had to please the president.
Nikola Mirotic scored 19 points and Derrick
Rose added 18 to lead the Bulls to a 97-95 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers with President
Barack Obama watching on Tuesday night.
After Gasol blocked James’ potential tying
layup in the closing seconds, Jimmy Butler then
broke up an inbounds pass intended for James as
time expired.
Obama sat courtside for most of the game
as his beloved Bulls got contributions from a
variety of players to knock off the defending
Eastern Conference champions and give Hoiberg
a narrow win in his first game.
“That is how we are going to win every game,”
Rose said. “It kind of feels good going into every
game knowing you have the possibility of winning. You have a chance of winning every game
because we are so good and deep.”
James scored 25 points and grabbed 10
rebounds, but the Cavaliers came up short against
the team they knocked out in the conference
semifinals last season.
The Bulls, playing a more open offense with
Hoiberg than they did under Tom Thibodeau, did
not exactly light it up. But they came away with
a promising win.
Rose, playing with a mask to protect his fractured left orbital, shot just 8 of 22 after missing
almost the entire preseason.
Mirotic, starting over Joakim Noah, nailed
three 3-pointers.
Butler added 17 points and two steals to go
with that deflected pass. Gasol blocked six shots.
The Cavaliers got 19 points and seven assists
from Mo Williams, filling in while Kyrie Irving
recovers from a fractured left kneecap. Kevin
Love added 18 points and eight rebounds.
“We gave ourselves a chance to win,” James
said. “That’s all you can ask.”
The Cavaliers took an 83-82 lead on a floater
by James with 5:32 left in the game.
Mirotic immediately converted a three-point
play after getting fouled by Tristan Thompson on
a baseline floater. That started an 11-2 run that
put Chicago back on top 93-85 with 2:42 left.
But just when it looked like the lead was safe,
the Cavaliers came roaring back again.
Love nailed back-to-back 3-pointers to make
it 97-95 with 33 seconds remaining. After a miss
by Rose with 10 seconds remaining, a driving
James got swatted by Gasol.
The ball bounced out along the baseline. The
Bulls had no doubt this time that James was getting the final shot.
They probably thought the same thing at the
end of Game 4 of the conference semifinals in
Chicago. In that one, Cavaliers coach David Blatt
designed a play that had James taking the ball
out. He vetoed it and drained a corner jumper at
the buzzer to give Cleveland the victory.
Things didn’t turn out so well this time for the
Cavaliers. Butler broke up Williams’ inbound
pass.
Obama, in his hometown to speak to the International Association of Chief of Police and attend
a Democratic fundraiser, had not sat courtside
to watch the Bulls since they visited the Washington Wizards in February 2009.
But with his favorite team taking on the best
player on the planet in a rematch of last season’s
second round, Obama decided to take in this
game.
Secret Service agents started blanketing the
United Center in the morning and all eyes turned
toward the tunnel as Obama entered the arena
late in the first quarter. He greeted some people at
courtside as he made his way to his seat opposite
the scorer’s table.
“I think it’s very promising,” Obama told
TNT. “You’ve got a new coach, he’s opening up
the offense a little bit. The question is going to
be can they hang on to the defense, with the new
offense?”
NOAH HURT
Noah played just 17 minutes and was not
available at the end because of a knee problem.
“I tried to put him in, but the trainer would not
let me,” said Hoiberg, who thought Noah’s knee
was bruised.
MILESTONE WATCH
James now has 24,938 points. Only 19 players
have scored 25,000.
TIP-INS: There was a moment of silence
before the game in honor of Flip Saunders. The
Minnesota Timberwolves coach and team president died Sunday after battling cancer. ... The
Bulls have won five straight season openers at
the United Center.
UP NEXT:
Cavaliers: Visit Memphis on Wednesday.
Bulls: Visit Brooklyn on Wednesday.
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Jets’ Eric Decker and wife tackle bullying in schools
by DENNIS WASZAK Jr.,
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J.
(AP) — Eric Decker never
actually heard the gunshots.
The New York Jets wide
receiver remembers being in
the school lunchroom when
the “Code Red” ominously
blared over the intercom.
As teachers frantically tried
to move students to safety,
Decker headed to the library
with 10 other kids who piled
into a closet and locked the
door behind them.
Then, they waited.
Some cried while others
tried to console them. For 45
minutes, Decker and his classmates feared they could be
next.
“It’s all still very vivid to
me,” Decker told The Associated Press, shaking his head.
“Every year, especially on the
date, it always kind of brings
me back. It’s crazy.”
On Sept. 24, 2003, freshman
John
Jason
McLaughlin
brought a gun into Rocori High
School in Cold Spring, Minnesota, and shot 14-year-old
Seth Bartell and 17-year-old
Aaron Rollins. McLaughlin
was found guilty of firstand second-degree murder.
During his trial, the issue of
whether McLaughlin had been
teased — or bullied — by Bartell about his severe acne was
often mentioned as a possible
motive.
“In a small town like that,
you just never think that’s
going to happen,” said Decker,
a junior at the time.
Decker was friends with
Bartell’s brother, Jesse, and
recalled running from the
lunchroom when his buddy
spotted a body on the gymnasium floor across the hall.
“He screamed, ‘That’s my
brother! That’s my brother!’”
said Decker, staring at the
ground. “That’s the only and
last thing I heard or saw. I
still get a little scared in certain situations. For about two
years after that, I was just on
edge always, just with people
around me and in certain settings. It was definitely tough.”
That experience has driven
Decker to partner with STOMP
Out Bullying, along with his
wife Jessie, to educate students, teachers and parents.
The Jets launched an
anti-bullying campaign by
donating 1,000 prevention
toolkits to area schools, and
the Deckers wanted to be
ambassadors to the program
through their foundation.
On Tuesday, the couple was
scheduled to appear at Albert
Leonard Middle School in
New Rochelle, New York, to
help announce their program.
“Having kids, there’s just
that realization even more to
put a stop to all of these issues,”
said Decker, the father of two
young children. “I think it
starts, obviously, at home with
proper communication and just
not holding things in. That sort
of escalates some situations.”
While Decker said he never
was personally bullied while
growing up, the issue hits
home for his wife.
The country music star
experienced her share of
uncomfortable moments as a
self-described “military kid,”
moving 12 times and always
trying to fit in.
Things were worst in
Newnan, Georgia, from seventh through 11th grades.
“I was tortured, pretty
much, by these kids,” she said
during a phone interview with
the AP. “I think it messed with
me so much that I still to this
day can’t drive by a school
without some anxiety or just
feeling sick to my stomach.”
Jessie Decker still has
nightmares every now and then
about that time in her life.
At one sleepover, a girl she
had never met poured what she
called “a huge bucket of slop”
over her head.
“It was like something out
of the movie ‘Carrie,’” she
said.
Decker was also voted to
the homecoming court by her
choir peers, then was booed by
many students when her name
was announced. She remembers being chased between
classes by girls with scissors
wanting to cut her waist-length
hair. There was also the “I Hate
Jessie James Club” website
that someone started.
“I would hide underneath
my hoodies just to get to
classes,” she recalled. “And
then when class was over,
I’d just run so I could escape
anyone trying to find me in the
parking lot. It was so horrible.”
She never really understood
the reason for the despicable
acts. Decker said she developed at an early age, which
might have caused jealousy,
and was always involved in
singing and performing.
A few months ago, she
received an email from “one
of the mean girls,” who wrote
a massive apology for how she
and her friends acted toward her.
The woman said the girls were
“full of envy and jealousy.”
Decker wrote back to the
woman — and accepted her
apology.
“I think it made me feel
validated because for so long
after that stuff happened, I
wondered if I had just made it
all up because it was so horrible,” Decker said. “After she
wrote to me, it was like, ‘OK,
they did do this to me and this
is real.’”
Decker said her husband
helped her break out of her
shell after often sitting in the
corner at parties or events.
“It was just because I was
scared,” she said, adding she
has also overcome stage fright,
thanks in large part to her fans.
The NFL experienced a bullying scandal in 2013, when
then-Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin
accused teammates Richie
Incognito, John Jerry and
Mike Pouncey of harassing
him. That incident sparked
debate about the culture of
sports, whether athletes go too
far with hazing young players.
Eric Decker acknowledged
there’s a “macho man” mentality to sports, but thinks the
line is crossed when things get
too personal — no matter how
old people are.
“I always just want to ask
the question, ‘Why? What
makes you want to tease
someone else?’” he said. “I
understand, obviously, there’s
always little jabs and even at
our age, we’ll tease our good
friends. But it’s about when
it becomes very personal and
whether it’s their appearance
or learning ability — things
that might be really sensitive.
Unless you really know the
person, why would you ever
do that?”
Kids who are bullied need
to know they’re not alone:
Parents, teachers and coaches
can be resources to help them
through difficult times.
“I think the message needs
to be put across that it feels a
lot better to be nice to people
than it does to be mean,” Jessie
Decker said.
“Hurting people maybe
lasts a few seconds for you,
but to do something really
great for somebody, that lasts
forever.”
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O tu’uaiga fa’asaga i le Falepuipui atoa ai
ma le le lelei o le tausaga o pagota, na faia lea e
le ali’i o Brian Benjamin Loma i luma o le ali’i
fa’amasino sili lagolago ia Lyle L. Richmond i le
vaiaso nei, ina ua tula’i o ia mo lana iloiloga sa
faia i le aso Gafuaa.
O le mae’a ai ona fa’afofoga o le fa’amasinoga
i le tulaga ua i ai le mataupu a Loma, na toe tolopo
ai loa le mataupu a le ua molia se’i toe fofoga i le
masina fou, peita’i, na fa’afuase’i ona tula’i le ua
molia ma fa’ailoa i luma o le fa’amasinoga tulaga
fa’aletonu o loo alia’e mai i totonu o le falepuipui
o lo o taofia ai o ia, e pei o le aofia o leoleo ma
pagota i le fefaatauaiga o fualaau faasaina e aofia
ai aisa, ae o loo ia molimauina fo’i uiga faasotoma o loo faia e isi pagota aga’i i isi pagota.
O lo o tuuaia e le malo ia Loma i le moliaga
mamafa e tasi o lona umia faasolitulafono o vaega
o le laau faasaina o le mariuana, ina ua maua o ia
e sui o le Ofisa o Tiute i le amataga o le masina o
Setema na te’a nei, o loo ia tauaveina vaega o le
laau faasaina, ina ua taunu’u mai o ia i le malaga
a le Hawaiian Air i le atunu’u.
Na taua e Loma i leoleo ina ua fesiligia o ia,
e leai sona manatu o mea sa ia aumaia i lana mai
i Amerika Samoa o loo i ai vaega o le laau faasaina o le mariuana, ae ina ua faailoa atu i ai e
leoleo, o mea uma sa sau ma ia ua mae’a ona faia
i ai suega, ma ua fa’amaonia fo’i le i ai o le vailaau o loo maua i le laau faasaina o le mariuana,
na tali le ua molia, o ia e i ai lona laisene mai
le setete o Colorado e mafai ai ona ia umia ma
fa’aaoga mariuana.
Ae ina ua faaauau pea ona fesiligia o ia e
leoleo, na taua ai e le ua molia e fa’apea, na mafua
ona ia fa’aaogaina mariuana, e fesoasoani ai i le
tiga o lona tino na mafua mai i le fa’alavelave tau
ta’avale na a’afia ai o ia i le lua vaiaso talu ai, ao
lei malaga mai i Amerika Samoa.
O lo o taofia pea Loma i le toese i Tafuna e
fa’atali ai lana iloiloga lea ua faatulaga e faia i le
masina fou.
Sauni tama’ita’i
aoga mo le sailiina siamupini
ta’aloga Volipolo
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le vaiaso fou lea ua fa’atulaga e le Komiti o Ta’aloga Afeleti
a fanau aoga i le atunu’u, e faia ai sailiga siamupini a tama’ita’i
aoga i le ta’aloga Volipolo, i le tuana’i ai o vaiaso e 5 talu ona
fa’agasolo mai le ta’amilosaga.
O le vaiaso mulimuli lenei o loo fa’agasolo ai ta’aloga fa’ai’u,
ma saili ai loa ‘au e fa pito i luga i le vaega o tama’ita’i laiti ma
tamaitai matutua, pe afai ae mae’a ta’aloga o loo fa’agasolo i le
vaiaso lenei.
I le vaega o tama’ita’i laiti (J.V), o loo tulaga muamua pea le au
a Fagaitua Vikings, ina ua mae’a a latou ta’aloga e 9 e leai ma se
faiaina, ae manumalo uma ai i a latou ta’aloga sa faia, sosoo ai le
‘au a Tafuna Warriors e 9 ta’aloga ae 7 manumalo.
I le vaega o tama’ita’i matutua, ua tutusa ai nei i le tulaga
muamua le siamupini o le 2014 mai Fagaitua ma le au a Faasao/
Marist i le ta’i lua o faiaina, sosoo ai Tafuna Warriors ua 10 a latou
ta’aloga ae 6 manumalo.
O le ta’aloga i le va o Fagaitua Vikings ma Faasao/Marist i le
aso Gafua na te’a nei, na manumalo ai Faasao/Marist ia Fagaitua
i se ta’aloga mataina ma le finau, ina ua manumalo Faasao/Marist
i seti sosoo e lua.
Na taua e le faiaoga a Fagaitua Viking ia Lalomilo Mano i le
Samoa News e fa’apea, e ui i le tulaga fa’aletonu sa i ai le ta’aalo
a lana au i le aso Gafua na te’a nei, ae o loo i ai pea lona faanaunauga e tatau lava ona toe siamupini lana au i le taamilosaga o
lenei tausaga.
“O nai faaletonu laiti lava na mafua ai ona faiaina la’u ‘au i
le aso Gafua, ae ou te manatu e tatau ona manumalo i le latou
ta’aloga i le aso Lulu o le vaiaso nei i le isi la taaloga ma Faasao/
Marist,” o le saunoaga lea a Mano.
O le itula e 4:30 i le afiafi nei e toe ta’aalo ai Fagaitua Vikings
ma Faasao/Marist i le fale taalo a Fagaitua mo le la ta’aloga faai’u
o le taamilosaga, ao lumana’i ai sailiga siamupini i le aso Gafua o
le vaiaso fou.
I le vaega o tama’ita’i matutua, e fa au o le a saili mai ai le
siamupini o lenei tausaga, lea e aofia ai Fagaitua, Faasao/Marist,
Tafuna ma Leone.
O le aso Gafua o le vaiaso fou i le itula e 4:30 i le afiafi ua faatulaga e faia ai semi-final, ae o le aso Lulu e sosoo ai e saili ai loa le
siamupini o lenei tausaga.
Se vaaiga i ‘au pito i luga i le vaega o tama’ita’i matutua (varsity), le ‘au a Fagaitua ma Faasao/Marist i le taimi o le la ta’aloga i le aso Gafua na te’a nei i Malaeloa.
[ata AF]
O se va’aiga i le tama’ita’i Piper Dellums i ana folasaga e fa’atatau i “Sauaga o so’o se ituaiga, i totonu o Aiga!” sa avea ma fofoga taumolimoli fa’apitoa i se fe’au taua
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
o lenei masina “Taofia Sauaga i Totonu o Aiga.” O lenei semina sa fa’atautaia lea i le Fatuoaiga Hall i le aso ananafi.
Piper Dellums: “Fa’aosofia Lou Fia Fesosoani atu”
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
E to’atele i latou na lagona le fe’au taua sa folasia
e le tama’ita’i o Piper Dellum, ina ia fa’aosofia lou fia
fesoasoani atu, avea oe ma se va’afa’aola, pe afai e
te o’o atu ma talanoa vavalalata ma i latou o lo’o i ai
fa’afitauli ogaoga i le soifua.
“Pe afai e te maua le avanoa e fa’auia pe fa’ao’o
atu ai se tau’au e fa’alagolago i ai se tasi o pagatia, aua
e te nofoa’i, ae fa’ao’o atu lena fesoasoani. E tatau ia i
tatou ona matua fa’alogo ma a’apa atu, suia se ola o se
tasi o pagatia i le fiafia,” o le tala lea a Piper Dellums i
se semina i le aso ananafi i “Sauaga o so’o se ituaiga,
i totonu o Aiga” sa faia i Fatuoaiga Hall.
Sa ia ta’ua le matagofie o le olaga Kerisiano,
peita’i e le o taimi uma e tonu ai fa’ai’uga, ma i’u ai
ina fa’aletonu se olaga o se tasi, emo ane le ata, ua
nofo i le nofoaga o sala.
“E amata ia te oe le faufautua o lo’o totogia
fa’apitoa mo lou lea tiute, avatu le auaunaga o lo’o
mana’omia, aua o nei mea uma e fa’alagolago le
toe sao mai o lagona o lea sui, i gaoioiga ua mae’a
fa’atulaga e le malo e talafeagai ma ala o le tulafono
e toe fa’aleleia ai fa’ai’uga ma le i’uga o le tagata ua
sasi lona la’asaga i le olaga!”
“Aisea o le a taofiofi ai lagona fa’aalia o le
tagata o nofosala se’i va’ai i se tasi e sau mai fafo e
fa’aalia ane i ai mo se to’omaga? Aisea ua le mafai
ai ona fa’ailoa sa’o i ta’ita’i o Ekalesia sa tautua ma
fa’amautu ai lona olaga Kerisiano sa soifua ane ai,
a’o le’i sasi lana la’a?”
Sa ia saunoa foi, “O lea ua tatou sa’afi i le mau
fesoasoani e ofo atu i le tagata ua sala, peita’i, e
le’i muamua fa’atino le tiute o le Malo ina ia mua’i
fa’atula’ia se nofoaga e togafitia ai fa’aletonu tau
vaila’au o’ona ma fuala’au fa’asaina ina ia mafai ona
toe fa’afo’i le olaga o le tagata i le mama a’ia’i mai
nei a’afiaga.”
“E le’i mua’i tapenaina fo’i se nofoaga e toe
fa’a’auupegaina ai le tagata i ni tomai eseese e
fa’afaigofie ai ona ia soifua ma tausia lona tagata
tuto’atasi ma taumafai pea ona tutumau i le amio lelei.”
E le o maua fo’i le ituaiga falema’i e togafitia
atoatoa ai le tino ma le mafaufau o le tagata ia le toe
tagofia fuala’au fa’asaina ma vaila’au o’ona po’o le
“Detox Center” o gaoioiga nei e matua mo’omia i
totonu o se atunu’u.
Sa ia lu’ia le vasega o Failauga i totonu o Ekalesia.“E
ao ina mafai e le tina ona sulufa’i atu ia te oe. E tatau
ona matua iloa lelei le a’afiaga o i ai i totonu o so’o se
aiga o lau ekalesia. Peita’i, afai ae le iloa e oe se mea o
tupu, ua tatou nonofo ai pea i le pouliuli?”
“O le ki o mea uma, o le talanoa. Talatalanoa i le
tagata o lau ekalesia o lo’o e va’aia o mamao lona
agaga ma oe! O le tasi lena fa’aaliga o le Tusi Sa, e
le na’o le tagata o lo’o fa’asoa so’o mai ia te oe, ae
va’ai po’o le ua ia toto se tuaoi e te iloa lelei ai o ia! O
ia tonu lena o lo’o tatau ona e asiasi i lona fale, ma e
talanoa ma mata’i uiga ma aga a le fanau o lena aiga,
e te iloa lelei ai lava mea o tutupu i totonu o lena lotoifale ma olaga o tina ma fanau i lea aiga!”
O le isi fa’afitauli sa ia fa’ailoa, o le nofonofo lea
ua manatu ua lelei mea uma, ae le o iloa patino le
mau pagatia. “A faigata ona e o’o i le fale o lena aiga,
fa’amasani ma fa’auo i le fanau lena e tu’u mai e o
mai i le lotu, e le mafai ona le fa’ailoa atu e le tamaitiiti lona fatu ma ona lagona ia te oe le tama o le galuega! Aisea, aua e iloa e le tamaitiiti e mafai ona o’o
le fesoasoani i lona tina, pe afai e te silafia.”
O sana fa’ata’ita’iga, “Sa ou i ai fa’atasi ma
tamaiti, sa fai le talotaloga ina ia taofia le sauaga i
totonu o aiga, e a’afia fa’atasi ai tina ma fanau! O se
tasi o fanau e to’atele lava sa fa’atasi ma a’u ma malomaloa le matou vala’au atu, ae uma ane, u’u lo’u lima
ma fai mai, ‘Alu e talanoa i lou tina, o lona igoa lea
ma le matou fale lea, e te maua ai lava si o’u tina, ua
ou mana’o e te fesoasoani i lo’u tina.’ O le tina lea o
lo’o o’o pea i ai le lima o le tama o le aiga, e le o ola
i se olaga fiafia, e fa’asasa e le tama ona mafuta mai i
mea e fai a le Ekalesia, ina ne’i iloa ai lea fa’afitauli.”
Ina ua fa’ailoa mai vaega e le o fa’atinoa e le malo e
ao ina mua’i fa’atula’ia mo togafitiga fa’alemafaufau,
lagona ma le soifua maloloina o i latou ua nofosala
ona o soligatulafono, na fesiligia lea o le ali’i fa’atonu
o le Ofisa o le Criminal Justice ia Keith Gebauer. O
lea ofisa o lo’o maua ai tupe fetarale mo polokalama
feasoasoani.
“O lea ua mautu mai le taofi, peita’i, o tinoitupe
uma lava ua toina mai le Feterale mo le tapenaga o
tagata nofosala ina ia toe fuata’ina o latou olaga i
totonu o le to’ese, ele o aofia ai ma se vaega tupe e
fa’atutuina ai ni fale mo ia gaoioiga ua fa’ailoa mai
nei e le susuga Piper Dellums.”
Na toe tu’uina atu ia te ia se fesili, “E le o le vaega
lena a le malo o le fa’atula’ia o le fale?” ta’ina?” Na
tali le tama’ita’i loia a le malo ia Mitzie Jesop Ta’ase,
“O lo ua mae’a fa’atula’ia le falema’i mo e i ai afaina i
mafaufau, o lena itu e mafai ona fa’auia i ai togafitiga
tau “detox”, pe afai o le a fa’atulaga loa e le Criminal
Justice se polokalama fa’apea e fa’ao’o atu ia i latou
o nofosala.”
O lea ituaiga o togafitiga, e toe fa’aleleia atili ai le
amio ma mafaufauga o i latou ua masani ona avea le
ava o’ona ma le pia ma lafitaga e sulufa’i i ai i o latou
fa’afitauli.
O Dellum, o se tamaitai Amerika, sa a’oa’oina i
Bekerly ma maua ai ona fa’ailoga maualuluga fa’apea
ma le Iunivesite o Niu Ioka lea na maua ai lona MA
i le 1992.
E tele tausaga sa alaala ma ola ai Dellum i Aferika i
Saute ma e vava lalata le la’ua mafutaga ma le ta’ita’i
ta’uta’ua o lea malo o Nelson Mandela, e afua mai le
taimi na fa’afalepuiuia ai o ia, e o’o i le vaitaimi na
toe fa’ato’ilaloina ai le faigamalo a Aferika i Saute sa
tete’e ia Mandela, ae toe tatala i tua Mandela ma toe
fo’i sa’oloto.
E i ai tusi sa tusia e Dellum i le taimi na alaala ai o
ia Aferika, “Open Your Eyes” (Pupula ou Mata) ma sa
mauaina ai e ia le fa’ailoga mo le tusitala o le tausaga
2005. E tele fo’i ata tifaga pupu’u sa ia tu’ufaatasia,
ma ata tifaga ma se fe’au taua ua ia tu’ufa’atasia, ae
ese ai fo’i o ata tifaga mo le fanauiti.
Fa’aauau lenei fetufa’iga ma Dellums i le semina a
taeao i Fatuaiga Hall.
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Foa’i Komisi Faiga Faiva a le Pasefika $50,000 mo le Uafu
tusia Ausage Fausia
Le taimi na tauaao ai e le sui faatonusili o le Pulega o Uafu ma Malaeva’alele ia Chris King se
foa’i e $50,000 mai le Faatonu o le Komisi o Faiga Faiva a le Pasefika ia Seutaatia Kitty Simonds, i
le taimi o le fonotaga lona 164 a le Komisi sa usuia i Amerika Samoa i le vaiaso na te’a nei. [ata AF]
E $50,000 se fesoasoani na tauaao e le Faatonu o le Komisi
o Faiga Faiva a le Pasefika ia Seutaatia Kitty Simonds, i le Sui
Fa’atonusili o le Pulega o Uafu ma Malaevaalele ia Chris King,
i le taimi na usuia ai le Fonotaga lona 164 a le Komisi i Amerika
Samoa i le vaiaso na te’a nei.
O le foa’i e pei ona taua e Seutaatia, e tauala atu lea i le Matagaluega o le Pulega o Uafu ma Malaeva’alele, o se latou sao lea i
le toe faafouina o le Uafu mo Va’a Fagota i Malaloa, e fa’aaoga
mo va’a fagota tetele.
Na taua e Seutaatia i lana saunoaga ao lumanai ai le tauaaoina
o le foa’i e fa’apea, o se tasi lenei o faanaunauga a le Komisi i
soo se taimi e faia ai atina’e i totonu o le Pasefika i tulaga tau
faiga faiva, o le tuu atu lea i ai o sa latou fesoasoani ina ia silafia
e atunuu o le Pasefika.
Saunoa atili Seutaatia e fa’apea, talu lava ona fa’atulaga
galuega mo le toe fa’afouina o le uafu i Malaloa sa faaleagaina
i le galulolo, sa i ai lava le manatu o le Komisi e tuuina mai sa
latou fesoasoani mo lenei galuega tele, peita’i o le fa’afitauli
sa feagai ma le Komisi, o le leai o se taimi e tauaao mai ai lea
fesoasoani.
“O le vaega tupe la lenei, o se vaega lea o le tupe ua mae’a
ona folafola e le Komisi e tuuina mai e fesoasoani ai i le fausia
o le uafu mo va’a fagota i le teritori,” o le saunoaga lea a Seutaatia i le taimi na ia tauaao atu ai le siaki i le susuga a King, ae
na taua e King e fa’apea, o le tupe lenei, o le a fesoasoani lea i
le fa’atinoina o le isi vaega o le galuega o loo totoe e le’i mae’a.
Na taua e Seutaatia i le Samoa News ina ua fesiligia o ia e
tusa ai o lenei foa’i, o le agaga atoa o le Komisi, ia mautu ma lelei
nofoaga e taunu’u ma fa’amautu i ai va’a fagota o loo galulue i le
atina’e o pisinisi ma le malo, aemaise lava i kamupani i’a.
“O le faanaunauga atoa lea o le Komisi, ia lelei le atina’eina o
faiga faiva i Amerika Samoa faapea ai isi atunuu o le pasefika, o
le mafua’aga fo’i lena o lo matou naunau e foa’i tupe fesoasoani
nei, e fesoasoani ai i le malo ma ana atina’e,” o le isi lea saunoaga
a Seutaatia.
O le itu i Sasa’e o le malae o va’a i Malaloa, ua fa’amoemoe
e fa’alautele mo uafu o va’a fagota tetele, e pei ona talanoaina i
se fonotaga sa faia e le au pisinisi ma le Matagaluega o Uafu ma
Malaeva’alele i le amataga o le tausaga nei.
O le agaga atoa o le aufai pisinisi e aofia ai ma i latou o loo
faia a latou vaa fagota tetele, ia i ai se vaega e taula ai va’a fagota,
ina ia taofia ai le tau aveese o va’a i le taimi e aga’i mai ai ni meli
tetele poo va’a la’u oloa i le uafu tele i Fagatogo.
OLAGA LE TUMAU
Tusia: Akenese Ilalio Zec
tusia Ausage Fausia
ARONA AMITUANA’I
O le aso 20 Novema lea ua faatulaga e lau ai le fa’asalaga a Arona Amituana’i i luma o le
Fa’amasinoga Maualuga, i le mae’a ai lea ona ta’usala o ia e le fa’amasinoga i le moliaga mama
o le fa’aoolima i le tulaga tolu, i lalo o se maliliega sa latou sainia ma le malo ma talia fo’i e le
fa’amasinoga.
I le ta’usala ai o Amituana’i i le moliaga mama e pei ona ia ioeina, na talosaga ai loa le malo i
le fa’amasinoga ina ia solofua isi moliaga o loo totoe ai i le pepa o tagi sa latou fa’aulu fa’asaga
ia te ia, lea e aofia ai le moliaga o le talepefale i le tulaga lua ma le faatupu vevesi i nofoaga
faitele.
O le vaiaso na te’a nei na tali ioe ai Amituana’i i le moliaga o le faaoolima i luma o le afioga
i le ali’i fa’amasino sili ia Michael Kruse, e mafua mai i le fa’alavelave lea na ia faaoolima ai i
se alii leoleo i Nuuuli, ao taumafai leoleo e pu’e fa’apagota o ia, peita’i o le vaiaso nei, o lea ua
ia ta’utino ai i luma o le ali’i fa’amasino sili lagolago ia Lyle L. Richmond, e faamaonia tu’uaiga
fa’asaga ia te ia, i lona fa’aoolima lea i le susuga ia Silila Patane, o ia lea e ana le fale lea sa ia
ulufale fa’amalosi ai i Pago Pago i le aso 18 o Novema 2013.
NOFOVAAVAAIA LE ALII NA FAAOOLIMA I LONA TO’ALUA
O le ali’i lea na ta’usala e le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo i moliaga o le faaoolima i le tulaga tolu
atoa ai ma le faia o faiga faatupu vevesi i totonu o lona aiga, ua poloaina e le fa’amasinoga le
faanofovaavaaia o ia mo le 12 masina, i lalo o poloaiga e tatau ona ia usita’i i ai.
O ni isi o ia tuutuuga e aofia ai le faasa lea ona ia toe soliina se tulafono a le malo, faasa ona
ia toe faia ni sauaga faasaga i lona to’alua ma lana fanau, poo lona faia foi o ni isi lava folafolaga
e tau fa’amata’u ai lona to’alua ma lana fanau, fa’asa fo’i ona ia toe tagofia le ‘ava malosi poo ni
fualaau fa’asaina.
E 45 aso na manatu le fa’amasinoga e faasala ai le ua molia i le toese, peita’i ua manatu le
fa’amasinoga e fa’amalumalu lona tuliina o ia aso, fuafua lava i lona usitaia uma o tuutuuga ua
tuuina atu ia te ia.
O le mataupu e pei ona ta’usala ai le ali’i na molia, na afua mai i le fa’alavelave lea na ia
faaoolima ai isi ona to’alua i le masina na te’a nei, ina ua manava atu i le fale e ‘ona e leai se
meaai, ma ia fa’aoolima ai loa ia te ia, peita’i na taua e le fafine na a’afia i leoleo, o le mafua’aga
autu na ita ai lona to’alua, ona sa masalosalo o ia o loo faia sa la faigauo ma se tasi o ali’i i le
nu’u, e ui e le sa’o ia masalosaloga.
Vaega: 94
Fa’atalofa atu i lou alafa’i mai i le manuia i lenei taeao fou, o
se taeao manino, taeao toto’a, e ao ai ona o tatou fa’apea ifo, Le
Atua e, ia e alofa ma fesoasoani mai ia i matou i lenei aso, ina
ia taunu’u i le manuia a matou fuafuaga uma, a’o le vi’iga ma le
fa’afetai matou te momoli atu i Lau Afio, ona o mea silisili ua e
saunia mo i matou, amene.
Ae alo maia, o le a toe fa’aauau atu la tatou tala mo lenei aso,
ae ia manuia lou alo atu i faiva ma tiute o le a feagai ai.
Na muta mai la tatou tala, ina ua lagona e Keisi le o’omi o
lona lima e lona uso o Lulu.
O le taimi lea, o lo’o lagona lelei lava e Keisi tala o lo’o fai i
le va o Lulu ma le ali’i o ieremia.
Fai mai o lo’o fa’ataitaio mai lava Keisi mai totonu o lona
potu pogisa, “Ioe, e mafai ona ou o’omi, ioe e mafai ona ou
o’omi lou lima.”
Na toe fesili Lulu i a ieremia po’o ia lagona se mea, ae na tali
Ieremia, ou te le o mautinoa. Na toe fa’ataitaio mai fo’i Keisi,
“Ieremia, o lea ou te o’omia lou lima.”
“Keisi, fa’amalosi mai, e mafai ona e faia…fa’amalosi mai…
o’omi le lima o Ieremia….” Ae fa’alogo atu loa o sau le tala
mai le faitoto’a, “O a mea e fai?” na tali Lulu, “Na o’omi e Keisi
lo’u lima.”
“E tusa lava pe na tupu, ae le taulia, ona e mafai ona fa’alogo
Keisi, ona fai ai lea, ae fa’atalitali pea, pe toe tupu.”
Na fa’alogo atu nei Keisi ua sau le fesili, “O le a le uiga o lau
tala Ieremia?
Na lagona lelei lava e Keisi o lona to’alua o Loleni lea ua
alu ane i totonu o lona potu. Ua lagona e Keisi le gaogao o lona
manava i lea taimi, ma ua lagona fo’i lona fefe ma le popole tele
ona e leai se tasi o iloa le misitelio lilo a Loleni, ae ua na o ia
lava ua iloaina.
Na fa’apea le tala a Loleni, “E sa’o Ieremia, se i tatou
fa’atalitali ma va’ai pe mata ua mafai e Keisi ona minoi.” Fai
mai e fai ane tala ia a Loleni ma a’apa ifo ua u’u mai le lima o
Keisi ma sogi fa’asolosolo i ona tamatama’i lima.
Ae fai mai le tala a le isi lo’omatua o si o matou nu’u, “E
Leni, ulu i maukeni, o lou fa’alata ia i a Keisi, ia na o le me’i lava
le mea e te maua, fa’atalitali oe pe a toe malosi mai Keisi, e fana
oe i le fana meme’i.” E faia pea…
Rugby confident of originality
of the 2019 RWC logo design
LONDON (AP) — World Rugby performed “rigid and rigorous
tests” to ensure the originality of the logo used for the 2019 Rugby
World Cup in Japan, after Tokyo Olympic organizers scrapped
their original emblem following allegations of plagiarism.
The logo for the 2019 tournament — representing a rising sun
atop Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan — was unveiled in
central London on Tuesday. It was also announced that the event
will begin on Sept. 20, 2019, with the final on Saturday, Nov. 2.
Olympic organizers decided last month to scrap the logo for
the 2020 Games following allegations its Japanese designer might
have used copied materials. It was another embarrassment for
organizers, who had already withdrawn the initial design of the
main stadium for the 2019 tournament and 2020 Games following
public uproar over its skyrocketing cost estimate.
Brett Gosper, chief executive of World Rugby, said he had no
concerns about the rugby logo.
“We have done some rigid and rigorous tests to make sure that
this is something completely original,” Gosper told The Associated Press. “It’s a variation on our own rugby logo, so we’ve
already been through a thorough process in terms of the shaping,
the typing, and so on. This has been given a Japanese flavor.
“We are confident it is original and specific to us.”
The date of the draw for the pool stage of the 2019 Rugby
World Cup hasn’t been decided, but Gosper said World Rugby
“will do our best to push it closer” to the event itself.
There was criticism that the draw for the 2015 tournament was
made too far in advance and didn’t reflect the world rankings when
the event started. England, Australia, Wales and Fiji were drawn
in the same pool, pitching together four teams in the top nine in the
rankings when the World Cup began.
“Hopefully we will try to get it a little bit closer to the event
itself,” Gosper said. “There are a number of issues we have to
deal with, and organizational things we have to consider before we
choose the date. We have an added complexity in that we have the
Olympics following soon after the Rugby World Cup, so we have
to get the phasing right in terms of ticketing.”
Gosper predicted Japan would host a “groundbreaking” World
Cup, after rugby in the country was boosted by the national team’s
34-32 win against South Africa in the pool stage last month. It
was the greatest upset in rugby history. “It will look very different,
feel very different, sound very different to any World Cup we have
ever had,” Gosper said. “It’s the first World Cup in Japan, the first
in Asia, the first in a Tier Two rugby market. It really will situate
rugby as a very strong global sport.”
Gosper said he met last week with a “couple of big Chinese
companies” interested in becoming involved in the 2019 tournament, but didn’t disclose any names.
Rugby Premiership match
to be played in New York
LONDON (AP) — With the NFL growing rapidly in the British
market, English rugby is going to give it a go in New York.
London Irish, a club formed in the British capital by Irishmen
in 1898, will travel across the pond to face league rival Saracens
in a regular-season game on March 12 at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.
“We have wanted to do this for a long time,” London Irish CEO
Bob Casey said Tuesday in a conference call. “New York is the
biggest sports market in the world and rugby one of the fastestgrowing sports in America. We feel it is a big opportunity.”
The New York area was chosen for the game because of its
large Irish community. The game will be played five days before
St. Patrick’s Day.
Saracens, the defending English Premiership champions, also
has something to offer American fans. The team’s fullback is
United States captain Chris Wyles, while international teammate
Hayden Smith is the Saracens lock.
The U.S. national team competed at the Rugby World Cup in
Britain this year but finished last in Pool B, losing all four of its
games. USA Rugby CEO Nigel Melville said the match at Red
Bull Arena will help boost the popularity of the sport, which
reportedly saw participation increase 81 percent from 2008 to
2013 in the United States. “Our sport continues to grow in the
United States, and we believe this event will be another big step
forward in the growth of the game,” Melville said in a statement.
The English Premier League explored the concept of playing a
39th game of its soccer season abroad, but opposition from supporters and FIFA stifled plans.
Meanwhile, the NFL’s popularity continues to grow in Britain.
On Sunday, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 34-31 victory over the
Buffalo Bills was watched by 84,021 spectators, the secondhighest attendance in the 13 games played at Wembley Stadium
since 2007. This Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will face the
Detroit Lions in another expected sellout.
Transferring the success of the NFL in Britain to rugby in
America may not be as easy, but Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty is hoping.
New Zealand’s Sonny Bill Williams catches the ball during a training session at Pennyhill Park,
in Bagshot, England, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.
New Zealand’s All Blacks will play Australia in the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday.
(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
TA L A
I
TAALOGA
Fa’aliliu: Toleafoa Haserota Auva’a
SAILI SIAMUPINI IPU O LE LALOLAGI
Ua fa’asalalauina mai i Enegali o le a su’e e le Springbox mai Aferika i Saute ma Pumas mai
Argentina le Pine Apa Memea i le aso Faraile nei mo le Iupu o le Lalolagi.
Ona su’e loa lea o le siamupini o le Ipu i o le Lalolagi 2015 i le va o Niu Sila All Blacks ma
Ausetalia Wallabies i le aso Toana’i i le taimi a Peretania.
O le au e faiaina i le sailiga siamupini o le a mauaina le Pine Siliva.
SAUNI ‘PACMAN’ I LE FUSUAGA MULIMULI
Ua taua e senetoa ia Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao, e le mafai ona ia tauaveina pulou nei, o le fusu,
o le taaloga basketball, o le polokiki, o le tama, o le toalua, a’o le mea lea o le a fai, o le polokiki.
Ua faamaonia e le tamaloa lea e vaaia ana fusuaga (promoter) o Bob Arum i le Mike Coppingger
i le USA Today i le aso 23 Oketopa, i NYC i le vaiaso ua te’a, “Ua manao Pacman e oo atu i le aso
9 Aperila 2016 ua i ai sana paga la te fetaui mulimuli.”
E faatatau lea ia Me e fai ai le palota, e le manao foi la e faalavelave mai fusuaga i le faiga palota
i le tausaga fou, lea e manao ia Tim Bradley poo Terence Crawford.
Saunoa Michael Koncz e faapea, “E tatau ona fusu ia Aperila, ao le’i oo atu ia Me, e tele ana
faatosina e fai i totonu o le tolu vaiaso lea a’o le’i oo i le palota.”
O LE TALAAGA O ISRAEL FOLAU
O Israel Folau, fanau i le aso 3 Aperila 1989, o loo taalo nei i le New South Wales, Waratahs i le
Super Rugby 15 ma le NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes i Iapani.
O Folau na taalo muamua i le lakapi liki i le ‘Melbourne Storm’ (NRL) mai i le 2007 e oo i le
2008, lea na ia faatuina ai rekoki i sikoa i lena tausaga e tasi, ona alu lea taalo i le isi ‘au a Brisbane
‘Broncos’ i le isi tausaga e 2009 ma le 2010.
Sa taalo i le uigi poo le ‘center’ o le tausaga lava lena na ‘Australia Rugby League’ i le liki i taalo
ai i ‘Queenland’ i le ‘State Origin’ lea na ia faatuina ai foi, o ia o se tamaitiiti (17) i ‘au ia e lua.
Ia Tesema 2012, na faasalalau mai loa o le a alu i le lakapi Iuni e taaalo ma Waratahs.
O Folau na fanau i Minto, New South Wales i ona matua Tonga, ma sa aoga i le ‘Lurnea Public
School’ ia Westfield Sports High School, a’o le’i me’i mai le latou aiga i Brisbane i le 2004, lea na
aoga ai i le ‘Marsden State High School.
E sefulufitu (17) ona tausaga ae taalo loa i le liki (NRL) na ‘au faatasi ai ma isi tama tautaua i le
liki e pei uigi o le Steve Turner ma le faiaoga o Graig Bellamy.
UA LE FA’ASALAINA RICHIE McCAW
O le tala a Michael Cheika, “O Niu Sila lava le ‘au e numera tasi, ua fia sefulu nei o tausaga
o numera tasi lava le All Blacks, a fuafua i ai, na amata mai ina ua amata le ‘tour’ a atunuu pei o
Peretania, Aferika i Saute, ma Ausetalia i le 1910.”
“Lea ua ova ma le 100 tausaga, e taitasi lava se tausaga e faoa ai e Ausetalia toe se’e mai ia Niu
Sila i le isi tausaga,” o le tala lea a le faiaoga a Ausetalia i le au tusitala ma le vaega faasalalau.
“O Aferika i Saute e masani ona fai ma ave i ai le numera tasi, ao le isi tausaga e toe fao atu ai
e Niu Sila.”
Ae laki ia Richie McCaw i lana pu’e lea na faia i le latou taaloga ma Aferika i Saute, i lona
talilima lea na vaaia e Francois Louw i le taaloga.
Ua iloilo ‘ae nei e le komiti e iloiloina, na iloa ai e le’i fuafuaina le mea na faia e McCaw, o lona
tulilima na fetaui lelei ma le mea lea na alu ifo i ai lona ulu i le taimi o le taaloga.
SE’ESE’E ATU AMARI COOPER I LE VAEGA ‘ELITE’
O Amari Cooper o le tama muamua lea na piki e le Oakland Raiders i le tausaga nei, (4th pick
overall 2015) lea ua ono ana taaloga ae ua maua ana iata e 587.
Ma ua faatoa toe maua lea o WR i le ‘au lea a le Raiders talu mai 1987 ua mafai ona faalagolago
i ai se ‘au i le taimi nei.
I le taaloga o le aso Sa, lea na faatamaitiiti ona fai e Cooper i le latou taaloga, na matua’i fiu ai le
Safety a le Chargers o Jimmy Wilson, lea na sikoa ai A.C. i le 52 iata.
Ua amata ona faigata tele lenei tama, i le defense a isi ‘au ona o le lelei o ona lima ma atamai o
lea tagata i lana tulaga i oo mai i le taimi nei i le lelei tele o ana mea e tamoe i ai (routes).
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Universal Crossword
Edited by Timothy E. Parker October 28, 2015
ACROSS
1 Money used
in Thailand
6 Foot bottom
10 Secluded
lowland
14 Universally
accepted
principle
15 Ear-related
16 Letts live
here
17 More
pressing
matters
20 Havana
residue
21 A bundle
22 Speaks
from the
soapbox
23 Large
stringed
instrument
25 “Meet Me
___ Louis”
26 Flavor
enhancer
28 Dresses like
a justice
32 Spinachlike
plant
34 Notable
time periods
35 “___ been
meaning to
tell you ...”
38 Certain
sailing
vessel
42 TV revenue
source
43 Donated,
temporarily
44 Student’s
scribblings
45 Tops to go
with skirts
48 A taste
for life
10/28
49 Surrealist
Joan
51 Arrangement
containers
53 Emulate
Sherlock
Holmes
55 Circumstance’s
partner
56 Rat-a-___
(drum sound)
59 Gets belted
often
62 Moisturizer
additive
63 Up to
the task
64 Type of ray
65 Mythical
monster
66 Not new
67 Rathskeller
staple
DOWN
1 Rum-soaked
cake
2 Allies’
opponents
3 First-rate
4 ___ out
(get all
dressed up)
5 Aroma
6 Too lenient
with
7 Mayberry sot
8 Fleur-de-___
(symbol on
Quebec’s
flag)
9 Sound
rebound
10 Reacts to
a bad joke,
perhaps
11 Hits the
weight room
12 Everglades
flier
13 Roll call
refusals
18 Actor’s gig
19 Checks
for fit
24 Carve, as
into memory
26 Chesterfield,
e.g.
27 Rainless
and dusty
29 Stops
introducing
evidence
30 Tolkien
flesh-eater
31 Cry in “A
Christmas
Carol”
33 Small mound
35 Part of the
alimentary
canal
36 Some
sweater
necks
37 While
lead-in, once
39 “The Matrix”
hero
40 Serengeti
antelope
41 Stuff that
seeps
45 Sultanate
on Borneo’s
coast
46 Brought forth
47 “It’s all the
____ to me”
49 Haggard of
Nashville
50 Blithering
sort
52 Sends junk
mail online
53 “It’s now or
never” time
54 Old
Testament
twin
55 Rock heap
57 “Spumante”
lead-in
58 “Better you
___ me!”
60 Abbreviated
wts.
61 Budgetary
excess
PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER
10/27
© 2015 Universal Uclick
www.upuzzles.com
FISH STORY By Carl Cranby
Wednesday,
October 28,
2015
Happy Birthday: You can make things happen this year if you are determined, precise and particular
about who you do business with and what you strive to obtain. A no-nonsense approach will help clear the
way for success. Show everyone what you are capable of doing and you will become the go-to person.
Romance is on the rise. Your numbers are 4, 15, 22, 28, 31, 39, 42.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Choose to use your entrepreneurial mind. Start your own moneymaking
business or find new outlets for the skills you’ve already mastered. Plan to do something that will inspire you
to believe in your abilities and what you have to offer. ✸✸✸
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let your heart lead the way. Use your creative imagination and sense of
practicality to get the quality you want in whatever you pursue. A business trip will offer interesting alternatives that you hadn’t considered in the past. ✸✸✸
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t make assumptions. What you see is not what you get. Get the
lowdown, discuss your options, and be ready to adapt to whatever situation you face. Being able to roll
with the punches will help you excel. ✸✸✸
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Put detail, precision and originality into gear and make things happen.
Your contributions will be welcome and position you well for future projects. Your great memory and experience will separate you from any competition you encounter. ✸✸✸✸
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t let emotional matters interfere with your ability to do your job. Use your
ingenuity and you will come up with solutions to any problems you face if you are willing to make the necessary changes. Don’t give in to emotional manipulation. ✸✸
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Reconsider the way you’ve been living and you’ll find suitable alternatives.
Don’t be afraid to say “no” to demands. You’ll do better if you surround yourself with positive people. Learn
to accept yourself for who you are. ✸✸✸✸✸
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t put up with bullies or people looking for handouts. Protect your health,
your heart and your bank account. Be willing to make changes that will improve your life and free you from
the people who bring you down or hold you back. ✸✸✸
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Put your mark on whatever you do. Your way of doing things will pay off and
draw interest from someone who can help you advance. Celebrate with someone special. ✸✸✸
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Spend time at home making personal and stylistic changes that will
bring you joy. Don’t overdo it physically or let indulgence take over. Rest, relaxation and enjoying what you
have will give you the boost you need to recharge. ✸✸✸
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Explore different options and look at new possibilities. Form closer bonds
with the people you know you want in your life and make a point to offer incentives to those who contribute
to your world. Love is in the stars. ✸✸✸✸✸
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look over your personal papers and negotiate legal or contractual partnerships and you will find a way to move forward. Making a couple of alterations will do you good. Don’t let
emotions well up. Tame your temper by taking on a physical challenge. ✸✸
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stick close to home or make plans to spend time with someone you love.
Your best offers and suggestions will come from those you have a close relationship with already. Good
fortune will result from a solid partnership. ✸✸✸✸
Birthday Baby: You are determined, persuasive and fussy. You are practical and competitive.
Dear Abby
by Abigail Van Buren
BOYFRIEND TAKES DISTRUST TO FRIGHTENING EXTREMES
DEAR ABBY: I’m madly in love with a man I’ve been dating for almost a year, but I don’t think he’s in
love with me. He claims he’s been hurt twice from two failed marriages. He keeps giving me mixed signals.
He questions me about my male friends constantly. He shows up at my apartment without calling in hopes
that he will catch me with another man. During his last drive-by, he saw me in my car at midnight listening to
music while surfing the Web on my phone. Of course, he thought I was on the way out to a boyfriend’s house
because I had my gym bag and a grocery bag in the front seat with me. He ordered me to open my bags so
he could see if I had any overnight clothes inside. After he saw there were no clothes, he calmed down. I
don’t know if I should keep this relationship going or if I should abandon ship. Could you please let me know
how I should handle my situation? -- MIXED SIGNALS IN VIRGINIA
DEAR MIXED SIGNALS: You may be madly in love with this man, but unless you have agreed that your
relationship with him is exclusive, he should not be grilling you about your friendships with your male friends.
That he comes over with no notice hoping to catch you cheating is more than a little sick, and what he pulled
during his midnight prowl is off the charts. It is important that you understand the only way he will ever overcome his insecurities and inability to trust will be with professional help. He is so messed up that you could
enter a convent and he would mount a security camera at the back door to make sure you weren’t going
out on him. Not only should you abandon ship, you should run like heck once you reach dry land. Hasn’t it
occurred to you that this may be the reason two wives left him?
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
DEAR ABBY: I am older than my wife by 10 years. We have been married six years, and we have six children between us. We tried for another, but my wife miscarried.
I decided to have a vasectomy because my wife was determined to have a baby without regard for my
wishes or the extreme stress happening in our lives at the time. Begrudgingly, I am going to have it reversed,
even though the cost of the procedure is more than we can afford right now. I believe we have other, more
important issues to put the money toward. This is a hot topic, and it always leads to fights. I don’t know if our
relationship will last much longer if it isn’t resolved. Advice, Abby? -- ANGUISHED IN AUSTIN
DEAR ANGUISHED: Put that vasectomy reversal on hold. What you and your wife need far more is to
resolve the problems in what is clearly a very troubled marriage. Do not consider surgery until these matters
have been put to rest because whatever is going on, another baby is NOT the answer.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
DEAR ABBY: One person handles the money for our family reunion every year. Only that one person
knows how much comes in and how much is spent. We all would like copies of the treasurer’s report, but he
refuses. Is this right for a treasurer of any organization? -- PUZZLED PENNY IN NORTH CAROLINA
DEAR PENNY: No, it isn’t. If you think this relative may be behaving dishonestly, the rest of the family
should agree that another individual will receive the monies for the next reunion and provide an accounting
when the family is all together again.
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