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In with the old

Army OKs WWII-era ‘pinks and greens’
as its everyday uniform for all soldiers
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
The uniform worn by the World
War II Army — “Army Greens”
— was adopted Sunday as the ser-
vice’s new service uniform.
Army officials have been dis-
cussing adoption of the retro-style
uniforms with pinkish-brown trou-
sers and dark olive jackets, known
as “pinks and greens,” for months,
as part of an effort to link soldiers
to the service’s history.
The uniforms were presented by
Program Executive Office Soldier
at the Association of the United
States Army’s annual exposition
in Washington, D.C., last year and
had the support of the Sgt. Maj. of
the Army Dan Dailey, who wore a
prototype at the Army-Navy game
last December.
The new uniform, which offi-
cials said would be “cost-neutral”
to enlisted soldiers and would not
come at an added cost to taxpayers,
is expected to be fielded to soldiers
reporting to their first units begin-
ning in summer 2020. All soldiers
will be required to have the uniform
for wear eight years after that.
SEE UNIFORM ON PAGE 2

The Army has announced that it is adopting an iconic uniform — the

“Army Greens” — as its new service uniform.
RON LEE /Courtesy of the U.S. Army

Koreas, US-led UNC discuss surveillance equipment as North criticizes joint drills
BY K IM GAMEL
Stars and Stripes
SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S.-led
United Nations Command and the two Ko-
reas discussed surveillance equipment in a
jointly patrolled area Monday as the three
sides pressed forward with efforts to ease
military tensions despite a lack of progress
in nuclear talks.
North Korea, meanwhile, criticized the
resumption by Washington and Seoul of
small-scale joint Marine exercises on the
divided peninsula.
Military officials from the UNC, Seoul
and Pyongyang held talks in the truce vil-
lage of Panmunjom two days after the Ko-
reas completed withdrawing troops and
firearms from 22 front-line guard posts as
part of a far-reaching military pact.
The main item on the agenda for Mon-
day’s trilateral session, which was held on
the South Korean side of Panmunjom, was
the operation of surveillance equipment in
the area, according to South Korea’s De-
fense Ministry.
New UNC commander Gen. Robert
Abrams, who also leads U.S. Forces Korea,
threw his support behind the comprehen-
sive military agreement during a visit to
the jointly patrolled area Saturday.
He also stressed that the U.S.-South
Korean alliance, which was forged in the
1950-53 Korean War, “remains ironclad.”
SEE KOREA ON PAGE 3

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MILITARY

Uniform: Army Blues will again be formal dress outfit

FROM FRONT PAGE
“The current Army Blues Uniform will re-
turn to being a formal dress uniform, while the
Army Greens will become the everyday busi-
ness-wear uniform for all soldiers,” the service
announced in a press release timed to coincide
with Veterans Day celebrations. There will be
no change to the Army’s field uniform, the re-
lease said.
Many consider the pinks and greens the
sharpest uniform in Army history, and it ap-
pears to have support among a large number
of soldiers.
An Army Times survey found more than 70
percent of respondents favored the idea of re-
turning to the WWII uniform.
Some soldiers have voiced reservations,
however, about adding yet another dress uni-
form to their wardrobe.
In late 2017, troops at Camp Zama in Japan
told Stars and Stripes they had concerns about
buying another new outfit so shortly after the
Army phased out green office clothes and an
older blue dress uniform two years earlier.
Enlisted soldiers will be able to purchase the
new uniform with their annual clothing allow-
ance, officials said in Sunday’s announcement.
Female soldiers will be able to choose from
versions with a skirt or pants. RON LEE /Courtesy of the U.S. Army
They will have additional shoe options, too.
Soldiers model the overcoat of the proposed pink and green daily service uniform as they salute during the National Anthem at
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Twitter: @chadgarland Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia during the Army-Navy game on Dec. 9.

Correction ND Guard strips some ROTC scholarship tuition funding

A Nov. 12 article about
stories in the National Vet-
erans Memorial and Muse-
um in Ohio contained a few
errors. The story should
have said John Glenn died
in 2016; contributor Leslie
Wexner was born in Day-
ton, Ohio; and Wes Moore
is president of the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Associated Press
FARGO, N.D. — Some National Guard
students attending North Dakota colleges on
ROTC scholarships are scrambling to find
ways to stay in school after the state Guard
announced it could no longer fund its share of
the program.
The students were expecting free tuition
that for years has been covered by a combina-
tion of federal and state funds. Lee Bushaw,
the Guard’s education services officer, said
the state no longer has enough money to cover
a shortfall created by both tuition increases
and a decline in federal support. Students
could be out as much as $5,000 for the spring
semester.
“We kept plugging the holes that were made
by the federal government,” Bushaw said.
“Now we can’t fix it.”
Kenneth Hardy, chief of education services
for the U.S. Army National Guard, said in the
last fiscal year about 30,000 soldiers nation-
ally have received money from their states to
supplement their federal payments from both
a tuition assistance program and the GI Bill.
He said the state funding allows soldiers to
take more classes and earn their degree more
quickly.
Hardy and Bushaw said it’s impossible to
tell if other states are having similar issues
because each has their own program and sep-
arate rules on applying the money.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018
PACIFIC
Report: US analysts locate
secret N. Korean missile sites
BY M ATTHEW LEE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. ana-
lysts said Monday they have
located more than half of an es-
timated 20 secret North Korean
missile development sites, high-
lighting the challenge the Trump
administration faces in ensuring
that North Korea complies with
any eventual agreement to end its
nuclear and missile programs.
The findings, which were re-
leased amid signs the administra-
tion’s negotiations with the North
have stalled, draw on commercial
satellite imagery and identify 13
secret facilities used to produce
missiles and related technology.
They suggest that Pyongyang is
continuing its missile work, even
though it has halted test launches
in what President Donald Trump
and his administration have
claimed as a success since his
historic June meeting with North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un in
Singapore.
Although the sites are not
launch facilities and in some
cases are rudimentary, the au-
thors of the report from the Cen-
ter for Strategic and International
Studies say they are hidden and
illustrate the scope of the North’s
weapons program and the coun-
Pence arrives in Tokyo for talks
BY M ARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
TOKYO — U.S. Vice President
Mike Pence arrived in Tokyo on
Monday to discuss North Korea
and other issues with Japanese
officials before heading to two re-
gional summits.
Pence is expected to also discuss
China’s growing regional influence
and bilateral trade with Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when
they meet Tuesday, officials said.
During a stopover in Alaska,
Pence told reporters that he
planned to “talk about our impor-
S. Korea sends 200 tons of tangerines to North in show of improved ties
BY HYUNG -JIN K IM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — South
Korea has airlifted 200 tons of
tangerines to North Korea in re-
turn for shipments of pine mush-
rooms by the North in September,
officials said Monday.
South Korean military planes
flew to Pyongyang, North Ko-
rea’s capital, on Sunday and Mon-
day to deliver the fruit from the
southern island of Jeju, accord-
ing to Seoul’s Defense Ministry.
The airlifts are another sign that
liberal South Korean President
Moon Jae-in is moving ahead
with efforts to improve ties with
North Korea despite stalemated
global diplomacy on the North’s
try’s determination to conceal its
military might.
“The dispersed deployment of
these bases and distinctive tac-
tics employed by ballistic missile
units are combined with decades
of extensive camouflage, con-
cealment and deception practices
to maximize the survival of its
missile units from pre-emptive
strikes and during wartime op-
erations,” they said.
The authors say that the sites,
which can be used for all classes
of ballistic missile, therefore
should be declared by North
Korea and inspected in any cred-
ible, verifiable deal that address-
es Pyongyang’s most significant
threats to the United States and
its allies.
North Korea analysts not in-
volved in the report said the find-
ings were not surprising given
Pyongyang’s past activities but
were still cause for concern. They
noted that Kim had not agreed to
halt either nuclear weapons or
missile development in negotia-
tions with Trump or Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo.
“The fact that North Korea has
continued to build nuclear weap-
ons and ballistic missiles in the
midst of high-level diplomacy
with China, South Korea, and the
U.S. should not come as a sur-
tant alliance, our economic rela-
tionship, current negotiations for
a free trade agreement of course,
and we’ll be focusing on our ongo-
ing commitment to the denuclear-
ization of the Korean Peninsula,”
Japan’s NHK public television
reported.
Pence said in a recent opinion
piece in the Washington Post that
America will soon begin nego-
tiations for “a historic trade agree-
ment with Japan.”
The two countries agreed in Sep-
tember to start negotiations on a bi-
lateral trade agreement. Talks are
expected to begin early next year.
nuclear program.
After a summit meeting be-
tween the Koreas in Pyongyang
in September, North Korea gave
South Korea 2 tons of pine mush-
rooms as a goodwill gesture.
Pine mushrooms are white and
brown fungi that are considered
a healthy delicacy in both Koreas
and other Asian countries. They
are one of the North’s most prized
regional products, and the coun-
try shipped them to South Korea
in 2000 and 2007 after previous
summit talks.
After their summit, North Ko-
rean leader Kim Jong Un also
gave Moon a gift of two dogs,
both white Pungsans. On Mon-
day, Moon tweeted that one of the
•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S
prise,” said Abraham Denmark,
the Asia program director at The
Wilson Center. “Despite all the
summitry, North Korea is just as
dangerous today as it was a year
ago.”
“Improving relations with
Pyongyang may be a laudable
goal, but any claim that the North
Korean nuclear and missile
threats have been solved is either
wishful thinking or purposefully
deceptive,” he said.
“Interesting but unsurprising
report,” said Kelsey Davenport,
director for nonproliferation
policy at the Arms Control As-
sociation. “Kim Jong Un only
committed voluntarily to halt
long-range missile tests.”
The report was released less
than a week after North Korea
abruptly called off a new round
of negotiations with Pompeo that
had been set for Thursday in New
York. The cancellation, which the
U.S. ascribed to scheduling is-
sues, followed threats from North
Korean officials to resume nucle-
ar and missile testing unless U.S.
sanctions are lifted.
The administration has said
repeatedly that sanctions will not
be lifted until a denuclearization
agreement is fully implemented.
President Donald Trump’s admin-
istration has reached a trade pact
with South Korea and another with
Mexico and Canada. Pence said in
the article that the new trade deals
“will put American jobs and Amer-
ican workers first.”
Pence also stressed American
commitment to the security and
prosperity of the Indo-Pacific re-
gion. Pence is to leave Tuesday to
attend a meeting of the Associa-
tion of Southeast Asian Nations in
Singapore and an Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation summit in
Papua New Guinea on behalf of
Trump.
dogs, named Gomi, gave birth to
six healthy puppies last Friday.
“Six dogs were added to a gift
of two dogs. I cannot help saying
it’s a big fortune and I hope that
South-North ties will be like this,”
Moon said.
Pungsan is a dog breed native
to North Korea and is best known
for its loyalty and bravery dur-
ing hunting. North Korea sent a
pair of Pungsans to South Korea
after the 2000 summit, and South
Korea gave two indigenous Jindo
dogs to the North.
Despite warming ties between
the Koreas, there have been no
major recent breakthroughs in
U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at strip-
ping North Korea of its nuclear
• F3HIJKLM
Robert B. Abrams, commander of United Nations Command,
Combine Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea, visits the Joint
Security Area.
Korea: South is moving
forward with efforts to
improve relations with North
FROM FRONT PAGE
“This visit demonstrates our
support to the ongoing implemen-
tation of the [Comprehensive Mil-
itary Agreement] between [South
and North Korea], he said in a
press release.
South Korea is pushing ahead
with efforts to improve relations
with the North even as U.S.-led
efforts to persuade the commu-
nist state to give up its nuclear
weapons have stalled.
The North canceled a planned
meeting with Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo last week, indicat-
ing disagreements continue over
how to implement a promise to
denuclearize the Korean Penin-
sula that was highlighted dur-
ing an unprecedented summit
in June between North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un and Presi-
dent Donald Trump.
North Korea also denounced
the resumption of joint U.S.-South
Korean Marine drills that previ-
ously had been suspended along
with larger war games to facili-
tate the diplomatic efforts. The
exercises infuriate the North,
which considers them a re-hears-
al for an invasion.
program.
According to officials in Seoul
and Washington, North Korea
recently postponed high-level
talks with the United States on
the North’s disarmament and on
setting up a second summit be-
tween President Donald Trump
and Kim.
After a provocative series of
nuclear and missile tests last
year, North Korea entered talks
with the United States and South
Korea this year, saying it’s willing
to deal away its growing nuclear
weapons arsenal. The North has
since taken measures such as dis-
mantling its nuclear test site and
parts of its rocket-engine testing
facility, but U.S. officials want it to
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DAVID C HAPMN /Courtesy of U.D. Force Korea
Trump announced after the
Singapore summit that the U.S.
would be “stopping the war
games,” calling them “provoca-
tive” and “very expensive.” But
American and South Korean of-
ficials insist that combined train-
ing at lower levels continue.
About 500 Marines from both
countries began practice maneu-
vers in the southeastern city of
Pohang on Nov. 5 as part of what
is known as the Korean Marine
Exchange Program.
Rodong Sinmun, the official
newspaper of North Korea’s rul-
ing Workers’ Party, said Monday
that the KMEP violated the bilat-
eral military agreement that was
reached on Sept. 19 and called for
hostilities to end.
The joint drills are “directly
against the inter-Korean mili-
tary agreement that promised to
eliminate practical threats of war
and fundamental hostile relations
from the Korean Peninsula,” it
said, according to the Reuters
news agency.
North Korea frequently de-
nounces military drills via its
state-run media.
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take more significant, irreversible
steps toward denuclearization.
Moon, who has met Kim three
times this year, believes that bet-
ter ties between the Koreas will
help resolve the nuclear issue.
South Korea’s Unification Min-
istry said Monday it has approved
a visit by seven North Koreans to
attend an academic forum in the
South later this week. The forum
is on regional issues, including Ja-
pan’s wartime mobilization of la-
borers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Seoul said Saturday that the two
Koreas have finished withdrawing
troops and firearms from some
of their front-line guard posts as
part of their agreements to lower
military tensions.
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MILITARY

Navy crew is safe after

ejecting over Philippine Sea
BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS
Stars and Stripes
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Two Navy
aviators are safe after ejecting from an F/A-18 Super
Hornet that “experienced a mechanical issue” over
the Philippine Sea on Monday morning, a Navy
statement said.
The Carrier Air Wing 5 aviators were “conduct-
ing routine operations” as part of their deployment
with the USS Ronald Reagan when the problem
arose, according to the statement.
After ejecting from the Super Hornet, the sailors
were picked up by search-and-rescue aircraft from
the Ronald Reagan and brought back aboard the
Yokosuka-based carrier. The jet crashed into the
ocean.
The crewmembers are in “good condition” and un-
dergoing medical evaluations, the statement said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The Ronald Reagan has resumed its regular
operations.
Last month, 12 people were injured when a Navy
MH-60 Seahawk helicopter crashed on the Ronald
Reagan’s flight deck in the Philippine Sea.
The cause of that crash Oct. 19 remains under
investigation, said Task Force 70 spokesman Lt.
Cmdr. Matt Knight.
“All patients from the Oct. 19 helicopter crash
have been released from the hospital in the Philip-
pines and are currently receiving any necessary fol-
low on care from Navy medical providers,” he said.
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Legion post removes Instagram

graphic after many complaints Courtesy of the US Navy

A man rescued at sea is lifted on a stretcher onto the USNS Trenton

in the Mediterranean Sea on June 12.
BY J.P. L AWRENCE
‘ It’s this type of seemingly funny, innocent
Stars and Stripes

An account connected to an
American Legion post asked
women online to thank vets by
exposing their breasts before
the content was removed Sunday
night after numerous complaints
to the national office.
The graphic featured the words
“THANK A VET SHOW THEM
YOUR BOOBS!” over an Ameri-
can flag and was posted on an In-
stagram account run by members
of American Legion Post 397 out
of Monterey Park, Calif.
Veteran service organizations
such as the American Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars, which
lobby federal lawmakers and pro-
mote community service through-
out the U.S., have long struggled
to overcome perceptions of their
local posts as hangouts for older
men, as they aim to recruit young-
er and female veterans.
“I have no desire to see anyone’s
boobs … and I’m a veteran,” Stacy
Pearsall, an Air Force veteran
and a well-known photographer of
veterans, posted in response to the
image. “Just sayin’ it being Vet-
erans Day and all … it’s this type
of seemingly funny, innocent post
that has women veterans steering
clear of the Legion and its posts.”
Someone posting using the
American Legion Post 397 ac-
count responded to Pearsall: “You
do you but thank you for your ser-
vice. You can probably steer clear
of other (veteran service organiza-
tions) as well that can throw jokes
Injured Air Force falcon
to make full recovery
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.
— An Air Force falcon named Au-
rora is expected to make a full re-
covery from injuries she suffered
at West Point during a prank be-
post that has women veterans steering
clear of the Legion and its posts.
around.”
Pearsall revealed herself as
a Legion member in a follow-up
post.
Sgt. Maj. Robert Hyatt, listed
as a NATO senior enlisted ad-
viser in his biography on the
alliance’s website, said in a Face-
book exchange with the American
Legion that such posts discour-
age him from contact with the
organization.
“Social media is a powerful
tool,” Hyatt wrote. “I’ve been
asked several times to join your
organization but things like this
make it difficult for me to serious-
ly consider being associated with
the American Legion. I hope one
day this will change.”
Hyatt said he originally thought
the post was from a strip club or
bar. He said the post moves against
efforts to stomp out sexual assault
and harassment in the military.
“Things like this aren’t mili-
tary humor,” Hyatt told Stars and
Stripes. “We should play an active
role in helping members of groups
like this to remember the values
of their former services and the
values their organizations want to
emulate.”
Multiple veterans reached out
to the American Legion’s national
fore the annual football game be-
tween the service academies.
The 22-year-old bird remains
on antibiotics and won’t attend
Air Force’s home game against
New Mexico on Saturday, accord-
ing to the school. The anticipa-
tion is she will be in attendance
’ Stacy Pearsall
Air Force veteran
headquarters about the post, ac-
cording to the organization.
American Legion Post 397 has
multiple people running the Ins-
tagram page, said Jeff Chen, first
vice commander at the post and a
Marine veteran.
“It was a generalized post to
show humor,” Chen told Stars
and Stripes. “The post got re-
moved, we serve a wide diversity
of veterans.”
After several veterans posted
screenshots of the image to the
American Legion National Head-
quarters Facebook page, the or-
ganization responded to each by
saying “Addressed. The post has
been taken down. Thanks for the
heads up.”
Pearsall thanked headquarters
for its response in a later post.
“One bad apple will not deter me
for the Legion mission. Stand for
something or fall for anything!”
Pearsall wrote.
Earlier this year, Denise Rohan
ended her one-year term as the
American Legion’s commander,
marking the first time the group
elected a woman since its found-
ing in 1919.
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on Nov. 22 when the Falcons host
Colorado State.
Army officials at West Point
apologized for the injuries the fal-
con suffered and promised a full
investigation..
From The Associated Press
Navy disputes claim
Trenton was slow to
respond to migrants
BY SCOTT WYLAND
Stars and Stripes
NAPLES, Italy — Some of the
42 migrants rescued in June by
the USNS Trenton in the Medi-
terranean Sea say 76 people died
because the vessel was slow to
respond, but the Navy insists it
acted as swiftly as possible.
Prosecutors in Sicily are re-
viewing a video that the Italian
newspaper La Repubblica pro-
duced last month in which six sur-
vivors say the Trenton appeared
to ignore the distressed dinghy
and did not help until after it sank,
according to news reports.
They contend that if the Tren-
ton had acted sooner, more lives
could have been saved, the Guard-
ian reported.
Navy officials say the Trenton
rescued the migrants as soon as
sailors spotted them in trouble.
“The Trenton would not have
ignored people in the water in
distress,” said Cmdr. Kyle Raines,
6th Fleet spokesman. “They con-
form to all international laws and
customs to render assistance at
sea.”
It’s possible the imperiled mi-
grants saw the Trenton before
the Trenton’s watch officer saw
them, Raines said. The sea was
rough enough that day to impede
the view from the ship’s deck at a
certain distance, he said.
The dinghy traveled from Libya
carrying 117 migrants, most of
them from sub-Saharan Africa.
The small boat started filling with
water and then sank on the morn-
ing of June 12.
Italian authorities have not
opened a formal investigation but
will talk to survivors to better un-
derstand what happened, Italian
prosecutor Fabio D’Anna told the
Guardian.
In the video, survivors say they
saw the Trenton when their boat
was still afloat and tried to get its
attention, but it sailed away and
didn’t return to rescue them until
half an hour after the boat sank,
the Guardian reported.
“We saw that ship, it was not
far away,’’ one survivor said. “We
saw the American flag. If they
had rescued us when we were all
still onboard, 76 people would not
have died.”
Another survivor said they tried
to “reach” the Trenton for an hour,
suggesting they made distress
calls that went unanswered.
But Raines said he has seen no
evidence to indicate anyone radi-
oed calls for help. The Trenton’s
officers could only act on what
they saw, he added.
The Trenton launched two in-
flatable boats and a fast rescue
boat to recover the migrants, who
were brought on board the vessel
and given food and water, Raines
said.
“This was a tragic experience
for the migrants,” Raines said.
“The Trenton did everything it
could upon locating them in dis-
tress to help save as many people
as possible.”
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018
WAR ON TERRORISM
Russia plays Afghanistan
broker due to US ‘failure’
BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW — A senior Rus-
sian diplomat said Monday that
Moscow is trying to be an Af-
ghan peace broker because it
considers the U.S. has failed in
Afghanistan.
Russia’s presidential envoy
for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov,
said a Moscow conference on Af-
ghanistan on Friday that brought
together representatives of the
Afghan authorities and the Tal-
iban marked an attempt to “take
a modest first step toward full-
fledged peace talks.”
Kabulov said Monday that
Russia’s efforts to help an Afghan
peace settlement have been driv-
en not by a desire to undercut the
U.S. efforts, but by legitimate se-
Security forces inspect the site of a deadly blast near a demonstration by hundreds of minority Shiites,
in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.
Suicide bomber kills 6 people at protest
demanding better security against Taliban
BY J.P. L AWRENCE
Stars and Stripes
KABUL, Afghanistan — A
bomb blast ripped through Kabul
in an area where hundreds of Af-
ghans had been protesting inse-
curity in the country.
At least six are dead and 20
more wounded, Basir Mujahid,
Kabul police spokesman told
Stars and Stripes.
The Islamic State’s regional af-
filiate, known as ISIS-Khorasan,
claimed responsibility for the at-
tack on social media. Video and
photos posted by local media show
several bodies strewn across the
street in front of the Kabul may-
or’s office.
The bomb blast went off near
where protesters had gathered to
demand that the Afghan govern-
curity concerns. He emphasized
that the continuing fighting in Af-
ghanistan threatens the interests
of Russia and its allies in Central
Asia.
“Afghanistan is close to our un-
derbelly so national interests of
Russia and its allies are at stake,”
Kabulov said at a briefing. “We
can’t just sit back and watch im-
passively what’s going on, and
we have let the U.S. know that it
doesn’t appear to be successful in
settlement efforts.”
Kabulov charged that “the
presence of the U.S. and NATO
hasn’t only failed to solve the
problem but exacerbated it,” not-
ing that the Taliban has steadily
expanded its foothold.
“The West has lost the war in
Afghanistan, and it’s reluctant to
acknowledge that obvious fact,”
ment take action to repel a Tal-
iban offensive in the southeastern
provinces of Ghazni and Uruz-
gan, local news agency Pajhwok
reported.
Over the past week, militants
launched attacks in three districts
home to many Hazara – a minor-
ity group that has faced years of
persecution, including under the
Taliban.
Almost 100 soldiers, including
50 elite commandos, have been
killed fighting a Taliban onslaught
in Ghazni recent days, according
to the New York Times.
Since the NATO-led coalition
transition from a combat mission
to one focused on training and
advising government forces, the
Taliban have shown overall terri-
torial gains, a government watch-
dog has found.
•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S
Kabulov said. “If they continue to
rely on force, it would only lead to
thousands more victims and fur-
ther ravage the country.”
He noted that regional powers,
including Russia, China, Pakistan
and Iran have a strong interest in
ending the conflict and should
play a more active role.
The U.S. Embassy sent a dip-
lomat to observe Friday’s confer-
ence in Moscow that was attended
by several members of Afghan-
istan’s government-appointed
Peace Council and the Taliban.
Envoys from China, India, Paki-
stan and the ex-Soviet nations of
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajiki-
stan and Uzbekistan also attend-
ed the meeting.
Taliban officials and Peace
Council members have met at
past forums elsewhere, and while
M ASSOUD HOSSAINI /AP
The government’s control or
influence of the country’s dis-
tricts in July reached its lowest
level since the U.S. began track-
ing district control in November
2015, said the latest report by the
Special Inspector General for Af-
ghan Reconstruction.
Recent Taliban attacks threat-
en districts long seen as among
the safest in Afghanistan, the
Times reported.
Many protesters in Kabul
on Monday told reporters from
TOLO News they marched on be-
half of their besieged relatives in
Ghazni and Uruzgan.
The bomb blast went off just as
the protesters were dispersing,
according to local media.
Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this
article.
lawrence.jp@stripes.com
Twitter: @jplawrence3
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, second left, speaks
as he attends a conference on Afghanistan bringing together
representatives of the Afghan authorities and the Taliban in Moscow,
Russia, on Friday.
no formal talks were ever held
they have had some face-to-face
discussions.
The Taliban has refused direct
talks with the Afghan govern-
ment, which it sees as a U.S. pup-
pet, saying it will only negotiate
the end of the 17-year war direct-
ly with Washington. The group
Afghan pilot writes
touching letter to wife of
slain mayor from Utah
BY SHARIF H ASSAN
The Washington Post
KABUL, Afghanistan — When
Maj. Brent Taylor, a reservist in
the Army National Guard and the
mayor of North Ogden, Utah, was
killed here Nov. 3 in an insider
attack, his friend and comrade
in arms, Afghan Air Force Maj.
Abdul Rahman Rahmani felt he
had to send a message to Taylor’s
family.
“He died on our soil but he died
for the success of freedom and
democracy in both of our coun-
tries,” Rahmani, 34, a helicopter
pilot, wrote the next day in a let-
ter he included in a tweet. It was
addressed to Jennie Ashworth
Taylor, the mayor’s wife and the
mother of their seven children.
“Jennie, please pass my words
to your seven children, whom I
consider as brothers and sisters
to my own five children, Taha,
Taiba, Tawab, Aqsa and Wahab,”
Rahmani wrote. “Tell them their
father was a loving, caring, and
compassionate man whose life
just wasn’t meaningful, it was
inspirational.”
He wrote that he considered
Taylor, 39, “a close friend” and a
leader “who was the first to volun-
teer for any tough assignment.”
Taylor’s brother-in-law, Jared
Pack, spotted the tweeted letter
and sent it to his sister. This week,
Pack said that Jennie Taylor was
“very touched” by Rahmani’s
words and that the whole family
was grateful. “It is nice to hear
that Brent’s colleagues loved him
as much as he loved them,” he
said.
Rahmani, who often posts on-
line, described himself in an
interview as one of a new genera-
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PAVEL G OLOVKIN /AP
reaffirmed that position in Mos-
cow, saying it would talk directly
to the U.S. to demand its pullout
from the country.
Kabulov said that he may meet
with the U.S. Special Representa-
tive for Afghanistan Reconcilia-
tion, Zalmay Khalilzad, later this
fall.
tion of Afghan military officers
who strongly believe in a partner-
ship with the United States.
He said he wrote the letter, in
part, to make clear that such in-
sider attacks do not represent the
sentiments of most Afghans to-
ward Americans.
“I wanted to convey two mes-
sages. One, the friendship that
Afghanistan and the United
States built in the last 17 years is
worth it. Second, I wanted to let
his family know that Major Tay-
lor did good things in Afghani-
stan,” Rahmani said.
Taylor was killed when a mem-
ber of the Afghan security forces
opened fire at a base in Kabul
where foreign troops train Af-
ghan forces. The shooter, who
also wounded another U.S. ser-
vicemember, was killed instantly.
Taylor, a Purple Heart recipi-
ent, had deployed twice in Iraq
and once before in Afghanistan.
His death shocked people across
Utah, where he had served as Og-
den’s mayor since 2013.
Rahmani said he and Taylor
had participated in several mis-
sions together, often talking about
the war and their lives.
“Family is everything,” he
wrote in the letter, quoting
Taylor.
Rahmani said he had lost eight
of his own family members, in-
cluding his father, in Afghani-
stan’s years of conflict.
“On behalf of my family and
Brent’s friends here in the Spe-
cial Mission Wing,” he wrote to
Taylor’s widow, “we pledge to
continue to work hard” until the
day when “peace will return to
our country and violence and ha-
tred no longer claim the lives of
both of our countrymen.”
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NATION
US bishops told
not to vote on
sex-abuse reforms
BY JEREMY ROEBUCK
Philly.com
BALTIMORE — The first
gathering of the nation’s Catho-
lic bishops since a summer wave
of anger and recrimination over
clergy sex abuse in the American
church opened Monday with a
stunning announcement:
The prelates would not vote
on a series of new accountability
measures — and it was the Vati-
can that ordered them to hold off.
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo,
president of the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, said he was
“disappointed” by Pope Francis’
11th-hour request. But DiNardo,
who leads the Galveston-Houston
archdiocese, explained that the
pontiff hoped to address global
reforms at a summit on sex abuse
scheduled for February in Rome.
“I remain hopeful that this addi-
tional consultation will ultimately
improve our response to the crisis
we face,” DiNardo said, adding
later: “We remain committed to
this specific program of greater
episcopal accountability.”
DiNardo’s announcement
seemingly pulled the rug out
from what was slated to be a
three-day reckoning for the prel-
ates on their own conduct amid a
Dems seek ways to
protect Russia probe
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Stepping
up Democratic efforts to shield
the Russia investigation, Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
said he would seek to tie a measure
protecting special counsel Robert
Mueller to must-pass legislation if
acting attorney general Matthew
Whitaker does not recuse himself
from oversight of the probe.
“Democrats in the House and
Senate are going to attempt to put
on must-pass legislation, mainly
the spending bill, legislation that
would prevent Whitaker from in-
terfering in any way with the Muel-
ler investigation,” Schumer told
The Associated Press Sunday.
Schumer sent a letter to the Jus-
tice Department on Sunday along
with House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi and other top Demo-
crats that calls for Lee Lofthus, an
assistant attorney general and the
department’s chief ethics officer,
to disclose whether he had advised
Whitaker to recuse himself from
oversight of the probe.
The Democrats cited Whitaker’s
past public statements, which have
included an op-ed article in which
he said Mueller would be straying
new low-point in a crisis that has
plagued the nation’s 196 Catholic
diocese for decades.
The toppling of bishops — in-
cluding Cardinal Theodore Mc-
Carrick, of Washington and his
successor, Donald Wuerl, the
onetime leader of Pittsburgh’s
diocese — over sex-abuse related
allegations and the Pennsylvania
grand jury report in August have
only fomented the fury among
Catholic faithful demanding ac-
countability from church leaders.
The bishops arrived in Bal-
timore on Monday expected to
debate a slate of reforms — in-
cluding new standards for bish-
op’s conduct in handling abuse
claims and establishing a lay
commission to investigate com-
plaints against problem bishops
— that they hoped would allow
them to better police themselves
and reassure a skeptical laity.
Some conference members in-
sisted direct action was needed
immediately. “We need as a con-
ference to take up this issue with-
out delay,” said Cardinal Blase J.
Cupich, archbishop of Chicago,
urging the group to take a non-
binding vote this week and con-
vene another meeting as soon as
possible after the February sum-
mit to cement the reforms.
outside his mandate if he investi-
gated President Donald Trump’s
family finances. In a talk-radio in-
terview he maintained there was
no evidence of collusion between
the Russia and the Trump cam-
paign during the 2016 election.
Whitaker, a Republican Party
loyalist and chief of staff to just-
ousted Attorney General Jeff Ses-
sions, was elevated Wednesday
after Trump forced Sessions out.
Whitaker has faced pressure
from Democrats to recuse himself
from overseeing Mueller based on
the comments, which were made
before he joined the Justice De-
partment last year.
The Mueller protection bill
would give any special counsel a
10-day window to seek review of a
firing and ensure that the person
was fired for good cause.
It’s unclear if Republicans
would agree to add the bill to the
spending legislation. Senate Ma-
jority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., has said there is no need for
it, but other Republicans, like Ari-
zona Sen. Jeff Flake and Maine
Sen. Susan Collins, have called
for the bill since Whitaker was
appointed.
•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S • Tuesday, November 13, 2018
President Donald Trump stands among the headstones during an American Commemoration Ceremony
on Sunday at Suresnes American Cemetery near Paris. While saying little, Trump’s presence was heard
loud and clear.
In Paris, Trump finds he’s still the
center of world’s attention, outrage
BY DAVID NAKAMURA
The Washington Post
PARIS — President Donald Trump likes to throw
Twitter bombs that explode in concentric circles
of offensiveness. He delivers speeches that contain
insults and falsehoods. He announces policies on a
whim, some constitutionally questionable.
But on a trip to Europe, the president hardly said
a word — and he still managed to outrage at almost
every turn.
Aside from a critical tweet aimed at French Presi-
dent Emmanuel Macron when
ANALYSIS Trump landed in Paris late Fri-
day — one based on an inaccurate
newspaper summary of an inter-
view Macron gave suggesting that he had called the
United States a threat — Trump didn’t throw any
sharp elbows at his peers here. It was still all about
him.
In this case, it was because of the images.
He looked uncomfortable and listless in a bilateral
meeting with Macron, whose sinewy energy stood in
stark contrast to Trump’s downbeat expression as the
French leader patted him on the thigh.
He was a no-show at a scheduled tour of a military
cemetery for Americans, while other world leaders
publicly paid homage to those who died on the bat-
tlefield. Instead, the president holed up at the U.S.
ambassador’s residence, announcing hours later that
he had spent a few hours making calls and attending
meetings — but not offering to whom or about what.
And on Sunday, Trump arrived separately from
the 60 other leaders at a World War I remembrance
at the Arc de Triomphe. He had no speaking role,
sitting stone-faced as Macron railed against the rise
of nationalism — a rebuke of Trump’s professed
worldview.
The overall takeaway to many was a president turn-
ing away from the world, a man occupying the office
of the leader of the free world who appeared with-
drawn and unenthusiastic on the global stage.
“Watching the event from France I cannot recall a
time when America seemed so isolated,” David Axel-
rod, who was a senior political adviser to President
Barack Obama, wrote on Twitter late Sunday. “Amer-
ica First feels like America Alone.”
In Washington, D.C., before he left for Paris, Trump
had been on a tear of executive actions after a mid-
term election in which Republicans lost control of the
House. He ousted Jeff Sessions as attorney general
and named a loyalist as his temporary replacement.
He banned a CNN correspondent from the White
House. And he signed a proclamation to deny asylum
to Central American migrants, one that is likely to
draw legal challenges.
But Trump displayed almost none of that kind of
JACQUELYN M ARTIN /AP
overt provocation here in Paris.
At a dinner for the world leaders late Saturday at
the presidential palace, the White House press pool
was kept outside, not allowed in even for the standard
“pool spray” in which they are permitted to enter for
a quick photo-op that often can lead to the kind of off-
the-cuff remarks from Trump that set cable news
chyrons ablaze and social media atwitter.
Trump did make some news at the dinner — but not
necessarily because he wanted to. It was the Turkish
government that released a photo of Trump with Pres-
ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has said he has pre-
sented evidence that Saudi journalist and Washington
Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Turkey
as part of a Saudi government assassination plot.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders grudgingly confirmed to reporters the next
day that the two leaders had been seated together and
had spoken about the journalist’s death.
Even on Twitter, Trump was relatively mum on for-
eign affairs during the trip. He tweeted happy birth-
day wishes to the U.S. Marine Corps on Saturday and
a Veterans’ Day greeting to the troops on Sunday. He
wrote several insensitive tweets about the forest fires
in California, and he repeated a falsehood he has said
before, implying that Democrats are trying to steal
elections in Florida after the state began a recount
in the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races in which
GOP candidates held narrow leads.
But Trump also wrote on Twitter that the World
War I ceremony was “Beautiful” and he thanked Ma-
cron. And in his 10-minute address at the Suresnes
American Cemetery in Paris where more than 1,500
U.S. troops are buried, Trump stuck closely to his pre-
pared remarks, which were respectful.
“It’s a wonderful two days we spent in France,” he
said. “This is certainly the highlight.”
Still, the outrage was widespread and swift.
Reacting to a video clip from a Washington Post re-
porter showing world leaders striding together along
the Champs-Elysees, with Trump not participating,
Michael Hayden, who served as director of the CIA
and the National Security Agency under President
George W. Bush, wrote on Twitter: “WHAT!!! (Actu-
ally, what the **** ,but you know what I mean.”
In Paris, the local newspapers were also highly
critical. Le Journal’s Sunday cover led with a close-
up photo of Trump pointing a finger and the headline,
“Why Trump threatens us.”
And Le Monde led its weekend edition with an even
more ominous bulletin: “The Europe-United States
Divorce: Tensions in the Western Family.” It was ac-
companied by a photo of Trump and German Chan-
cellor Angela Merkel, who is covering her face with
her hands.
Trump was not making a sound, but his presence
could still be heard loud and clear.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
NATION
Florida struggles to focus
on governor vote recount
BY K ELLI K ENNEDY
AND T ERRY SPENCER
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
— Mishaps, protests and litiga-
tion are overshadowing the vote
recount in Florida’s pivotal races
for governor and Senate, reviving
memories of the 2000 presiden-
tial fiasco in the premier political
battleground state.
All 67 counties are facing a
state-ordered deadline of Thurs-
day to complete their recounts,
and half had already begun. Many
other counties were expected
to begin the work Monday after
a weekend of recount drama in
Broward and Palm Beach coun-
ties, home to large concentrations
of Democratic voters.
The developments make this
a tumultuous political moment
in Florida. This recount process
is unprecedented even in a state
notorious for settling elections
by razor-thin margins. State of-
ficials said they weren’t aware of
any other time a race for gover-
nor or U.S. Senate required a re-
count, let alone both in the same
election.
In Broward County, the re-
count was delayed for hours Sun-
day because of a problem with
one of the tabulation machines.
That prompted the Republican
Party to accuse Broward’s super-
visor of elections, Brenda Snipes,
of “incompetence and gross
mismanagement.”
Broward officials faced further
headaches after acknowledging
the county mistakenly counted 22
absentee ballots that had been re-
jected. The problem seemed im-
possible to fix because dismissed
ballots were mixed in with 205
legal ballots and Snipes said it
Miss. senator ’public hanging’ remark draws rebuke
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — A newly
published video shows a white
Republican U.S. senator in Mis-
sissippi praising someone by say-
ing: “If he invited me to a public
hanging, I’d be on the front row.”
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who
faces a black Democratic chal-
lenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, said
Sunday that her Nov. 2 remark
was “an exaggerated expression
of regard” for a friend who invit-
ed her to speak, and “any attempt
to turn this into a negative conno-
tation is ridiculous.”
Mississippi has a bitter history
of racially motivated lynchings of
black people. The NAACP website
says that between 1882 and 1968,
there were 4,743 lynchings in the
United States, and nearly 73 per-
cent of the victims were black. It
says Mississippi had 581 during
that time, the most of any state.
A crowd of protesters gather outside the Broward County of
Supervisor of Elections Office as the statewide election recount is
underway on Sunday.
would be unfair to throw out all
the votes.
Gov. Rick Scott, the Republi-
can candidate for Senate, filed
suit against Snipes. He’s seeking
a court order for law enforcement
agents to impound all voting ma-
chines, tallying devices and bal-
lots “when not in use until such
time as any recounts.” The suit
accused Snipes of repeatedly fail-
ing to account for the number of
ballots left to be counted and fail-
ing to report results regularly as
required by law.
Juan Penalosa, executive di-
rector of the Florida Democratic
Party, accused Scott of “using
his position to consolidate power
by cutting at the very core of our
Hyde-Smith is challenged by
former congressman and former
U.S. agriculture secretary Mike
Espy.
“Cindy Hyde-Smith’s com-
ments are reprehensible,” Espy
campaign spokesman Danny
Blanton said in a statement Sun-
day. “They have no place in our
political discourse, in Mississippi,
or our country. We need leaders,
not dividers, and her words show
that she lacks the understanding
and judgment to represent the
people of our state.”
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant
appointed Hyde-Smith to tem-
porarily succeed Cochran, who
retired amid health concerns in
April. She will serve until the
special election is resolved.
Hyde-Smith and Espy each
received about 41 percent of the
vote in a four-person race Tues-
day to advance to the runoff. The
winner gets the final two years of
a term started by longtime Re-
•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S
CARL JUSTE,MIAMI HERALD/AP
democracy.”
Meanwhile, in Palm Beach
County, the supervisor of elec-
tions said she didn’t think her de-
partment could meet Thursday’s
deadline to complete that recount,
throwing into question what
would happen to votes there.
Both the state elections divi-
sion, which Scott runs, and the
Florida Department of Law En-
forcement have said they have
found no evidence of voter fraud.
That didn’t stop protests outside
Snipes’ office, where a mostly Re-
publican crowd gathered, holding
signs, listening to country music
and occasionally chanting “lock
her up,” referring to Snipes.
publican Sen. Thad Cochran.
Espy in 1986 became the first
African-American since Recon-
struction to win a U.S. House seat
in Mississippi, and if he defeats
Hyde-Smith, he would be the first
African-American since Recon-
struction to represent the state in
the U.S. Senate.
Hyde-Smith, who is endorsed
by President Donald Trump, is
the first woman to represent Mis-
sissippi in either chamber of Con-
gress, and after being appointed
is trying to become the first
woman elected to the U.S. Senate
from the state.
Lamar White Jr., publisher of
a left-leaning Louisiana news site
called The Bayou Brief, posted
the video Sunday on social media.
White told The Associated Press
he received the video late Satur-
day from “a very reliable, trusted
source,” but he would not reveal
the person’s name.
• F3HIJKLM
H YOSUB SHIN, ATLANTA JOURNAL-C ONSTITUTION /AP
Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp speaks
during a campaign stop at Peachtree DeKalb Airport on Monday.
Kemp-Abrams feud highlights
divide in Georgia landscape
BY BILL BARROW
Associated Press
ATLANTA — His election still
undecided, Republican Brian
Kemp is proceeding as a victori-
ous candidate and promising to
be a governor for all Georgians.
That might not be so easy.
Should his narrow lead hold-
over Democrat Stacey Abrams
and ultimately send him to the
governor’s mansion, Kemp would
face lingering questions about
how and why he oversaw his own
election as secretary of state. His
victory would be fueled by an even
starker than usual urban-rural di-
vide, with Abrams drawing most
of her votes in metro Atlanta and
smaller cities, and Kemp running
up massive margins in rural and
small-town Georgia, eclipsing 85
percent in some counties.
Then there’s his embrace of
President Donald Trump’s coarse
rhetoric, from Kemp warning
about “illegal votes” to his prom-
ise to “round up criminal illegals”
in his own pickup truck.
That all plays into what civil
rights leaders and observers
from both parties describe as a
bitter, race-laden contest that pit-
ted Abrams’ bid to become the
nation’s first black woman gover-
nor against Kemp’s fierce effort
to preserve his overwhelmingly
white party’s hold on a growing,
diversifying Deep South state.
“In the hypothetical scenario
that Brian Kemp becomes gov-
ernor,” said NAACP activist and
former congressional candidate
Francys Johnson, “then he and
Donald Trump will have both
won because they were able to
stoke the deepest darkest fears
among their base.”
Some Republicans acknowl-
edge the atmosphere even as they
defend Kemp from charges he ran
a racially and culturally divisive
campaign. “Some of this is be-
yond Brian Kemp’s control,” said
Brian Robinson, a former adviser
for outgoing Gov. Nathan Deal
and for Kemp’s vanquished GOP
primary rival. “Brian Kemp can-
not extricate himself from the na-
tional political environment that
now drives every election down
to the county level. You run for
coroner, you have to say whether
you want to ‘make America great
again.’ ”
For his part, Kemp notes “a
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very polarizing climate that
we’ve been in.” But he defends his
pledge to “put Georgians first”
— a rhetorical cousin to Trump’s
“America First” — and he rejects
any notion that he could take of-
fice under a cloud that would
make his job harder.
“It was a tough election,” Kemp
said as he stood in the governor’s
office two days after the Nov. 6
election, resigning as secretary of
state to focus on a January trans-
fer of power. He cited a “clear
and convincing” result — returns
showed him with 50.3 percent at
the time — and he pointed back to
his multiple terms as a state sena-
tor who represented what was
then a swing district: “I’m going
to serve this whole state and move
forward with the plans we have.”
Undeterred, Abrams’ cam-
paign filed a federal lawsuit Sun-
day asking a judge to delay the
vote certification deadline by one
day and make officials count any
votes that were wrongly rejected.
If successful, the suit would pre-
vent officials from certifying
county vote totals until Wednes-
day and could restore at least
1,095 votes that weren’t counted.
The campaign said thousands
more ballots could be affected.
“Stacey Abrams lost,” Kemp
spokesman Ryan Mahoney said,
“and her concession is long
overdue.”
Leading up to the election,
Abrams called Kemp “an archi-
tect of suppression.” Kemp says
he’s faithfully enforced state and
federal elections laws, though
that’s not convinced some voters.
Nina Durham, 50, a Powder
Springs resident was among a
small a group of protesters out-
side Deal’s office last week as
Kemp spoke. She said she didn’t
have confidence in the results.
Asked whether she could see
Kemp as her governor, Durham,
who is African-American, re-
plied, “No. He hasn’t represented
me as secretary of state.”
Unofficial returns show Kemp
leading by about 60,000 votes out
of more than 3.9 million votes
cast. That’s enough for a narrow
majority, but Abrams asserts that
enough uncounted absentee, early
and provisional ballots remain
to bring Kemp below a majority
threshold. That would trigger a
Dec. 4 runoff.
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NATION
Death toll rises as
search continues
for wildfire victims
BY GILLIAN FLACCUS
AND DON T HOMPSON
Associated Press
PARADISE, Calif. — As wild-
fires raged at both ends of the
state, officials released another
grim statistic: six more bodies
discovered in the burned-over
town of Paradise and outlying
areas, bringing the death toll
there to 29 and matching the re-
cord for the deadliest single blaze
in California history.
Statewide the death toll stood at
31, including two dead in South-
ern California, with authorities
still searching for bodies and 228
people unaccounted for.
Ten search teams were work-
ing in Paradise — a town of 27,000
that was largely incinerated
Thursday — and in surrounding
communities in Northern Cali-
fornia’s Sierra Nevada foothills.
Authorities called in a DNA lab
and anthropologists to help iden-
tify what in some cases were only
bones or bone fragments.
All told, more than 8,000 fire-
fighters battled wildfires that
scorched at least 400 square
miles of the state, with the flames
feeding on dry brush and driven
Some Southern California fire evacuations have been lifted
BY CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Associated Press
MALIBU, Calif. — Some of
the thousands of people who fled
Southern California’s huge wild-
fire were being allowed to return
home, and traffic was flowing
Monday on the major highway
through the area after a closure of
several days.
Repopulation of some neighbor-
hoods and the reopening of U.S.
101 west of Los Angeles began
late Sunday, marking positive de-
velopments even though forecasts
called for continuing critical fire
weather conditions.
Mandatory evacuations re-
mained in effect in many other
areas, however, including the
entire cities of Malibu and
Calabasas.
The so-called Woolsey fire
grew only slightly on Sunday to
just over 133 square miles and
firefighters by nightfall had in-
creased their containment of the
blaze to 15 percent.
Authorities planned to release
new damage assessments late
Monday morning, saying they ex-
pected the number of destroyed
buildings would be more than
the 177 previously reported. The
death toll stood at two.
Relief and heartache awaited
those starting to return home.
Eager to know the status of his
by winds that had a blowtorch
effect.
“This is truly a tragedy that all
Californians can understand and
respond to,” Gov. Jerry Brown
said Sunday. “It’s a time to pull
together and work through these
tragedies.”
California is requesting emer-
gency aid from the Trump ad-
ministration. President Donald
Trump has blamed what he called
poor forest management for the
fires.
The governor said that the fed-
eral and state governments must
do more forest management but
that climate change is the greater
source of the problem.
“And those who deny that are
definitely contributing to the
tragedies that we’re now witness-
ing and will continue to witness in
the coming years,” Brown said.
Drought and warmer weather
attributed to climate change, and
the building of homes deeper into
forests have led to longer and
more destructive wildfire sea-
sons in California. While Cali-
fornia officially emerged from a
five-year drought last year, much
of the northern two-thirds of the
Santos Alvarado, right, and his son, Ricky, recover a safe deposit
box from their destroyed home at Seminole Springs Mobile Home
Park on Sunday following devastating wildfires in the area in Agoura
Hills, Calif.
house, Roger Kelly, 69, defied
evacuation orders Sunday and
hiked back into Seminole Springs,
his lakeside mobile home commu-
nity in the Santa Monica Moun-
tains north of Malibu.
His got the thrill of finding his
house intact. But some a half-
block away were laid to waste,
as were dozens more, and virtu-
ally everything on the landscape
around the community had been
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A tattered flag flies over a burned-out home at the Camp Fire on Sunday in Paradise, Calif. Officials
discovered six more bodies in Paradise, bringing the death toll to 29.
state is abnormally dry.
In Northern California, where
more than 6,700 buildings have
been destroyed in the blaze that
obliterated Paradise, firefighters
contended with wind gusts up to
40 mph overnight, the fire jump-
ing 300 feet across Lake Oroville.
The state fire agency said Mon-
day that the fire had grown to 177
square miles and was 25 percent
contained.
The magnitude of the devasta-
tion was beginning to set in even
as the blaze raged on. Public
safety officials toured the Para-
dise area to begin discussing the
C HRIS PIZZELLO/AP
turned to ash.
“I just started weeping,” Kelly
said. “I just broke down. Your first
view of it, man it just gets you.”
The community where Kelly
and his wife have lived for 28
years and raised two children was
among the hardest hit.
The fire erupted Thursday
amid strong Santa Ana winds and
spread through communities in
western Los Angeles County and
• Tuesday, November 13, 2018
recovery. Much of what makes
the city function was gone.
“Paradise was literally wiped
off the map,” said Tim Aboudara,
a firefighters union representa-
tive. He said at least 36 firefight-
ers lost their own homes, most in
the Paradise area.
Others continued the desper-
ate search for friends or relatives,
calling evacuation centers, hos-
pitals, police and the coroner’s
office.
Sol Bechtold drove from shelter
to shelter looking for his mother,
Joanne Caddy, 75, a widow whose
house burned down along with
southeastern Ventura County.
Santa Ana winds, produced by
surface high pressure over the
Great Basin squeezing air down
through canyons and passes in
Southern California’s mountain
ranges, are common in autumn
and have a long history of fan-
ning destructive wildfires in the
region.
A lull Saturday gave firefight-
ers a chance to gain ground but
the winds returned Sunday, stok-
ing the fire again.
Los Angeles County Fire Chief
Daryl Osby stressed there were
numerous hotspots and plenty of
fuel that had not yet burned, but
at sunset he said there had been
huge successes despite “a very
challenging day.”
The fire’s cause remained
under investigation but Southern
California Edison reported to the
California Public Utilities Com-
mission that there was an outage
on an electrical circuit near where
it started as Santa Ana winds blew
through the region.
SoCal Edison said the report
was submitted out of an abun-
dance of caution although there
was no indication from fire offi-
cials that its equipment may have
been involved.
The two dead were severely
burned, their bodies discovered in
a car on a long residential drive-
way on a stretch of Mulholland
JOHN L OCHER /AP
the rest of her neighborhood in
Magalia, just north of Paradise.
She lived alone and did not drive.
As he drove through the smoke
and haze to yet another shelter,
he said, “I’m also under a dark
emotional cloud. Your mother’s
somewhere and you don’t know
where she’s at. You don’t know if
she’s safe.”
The 29 dead in Northern Cali-
fornia matched the deadliest sin-
gle fire on record, a 1933 blaze in
Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
Highway in Malibu, where most
of the surrounding structures had
burned. Authorities said investi-
gators believed the driver became
disoriented and the car was over-
come by fire.
Progress was made on the
lines of a smaller fire to the west
in Ventura County, which was
75 percent contained at about 7
square miles.
Three firefighters suffered
minor injuries on the Woolsey
fire, Osby said.
Fire officials say fire behav-
ior has changed statewide after
years of drought and record sum-
mer heat that have left vegetation
extremely crisp and dry. That
change has impacted the abil-
ity to move firefighting resources
around the state.
“Typically this time of year
when we get fires in Southern
California we can rely upon our
mutual aid partners in Northern
California to come assist us be-
cause this time of year they’ve
already had significant rainfall
or even snow,” said Osby, the LA
County fire chief.
With the devastation and loss
of life in the Northern California
fire, “it’s evident from that situ-
ation statewide that we’re in cli-
mate change and it’s going to be
here for the foreseeable future,”
he said.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
NATION
Hurricane Michael, more brutal than suspected
BY JOEL ACHENBACH,
K EVIN BEGOS
AND JASON SAMENOW
The Washington Post
MEXICO BEACH, Fla. — Gage
Wilson and David Segal, techni-
cians for the U.S. Geological Sur-
vey, were roaming the obliterated
city of Mexico Beach when they
spotted the missing sensor.
It was a barometer that USGS
employees had deployed in ad-
vance of Hurricane Michael, a
pressure gauge housed inside a
two-inch-diameter aluminum
tube. The employees had noted
the specific spot where it was to
measure the storm: “Barometer
located on the second light post
from Highway 98 in pier parking
lot.”
But there was no more light
post after Michael destroyed just
about everything here with a
massive storm surge and intense
winds when it made landfall Oct.
10.
The USGS desperately needed
that sensor to make an accurate
estimate of the storm surge that
barreled through Mexico Beach.
Eleven days after Michael hit, de-
molishing most buildings in this
seaside town, Wilson and Segal
found the shiny cylinder, propped
up vertically in front of the splin-
tered ruins of a house as if hoping
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someone would find it.
Using data from that instru-
ment and another sensor that
had been nailed to a pier piling,
the USGS on Oct. 25 concluded
the storm surge at Mexico Beach
had reached 15.55 feet, half a foot
higher than the previous esti-
mate. If you add the waves on top
of the surge, the water level here
reached 20.6 feet, or close to the
height of a two-story building.
That’s what people in the hurri-
cane business call “The Big One.”
The term has nothing to do with
physical scale — Michael was av-
erage-sized. But it was unusually
violent, among the four most-in-
tense hurricanes to hit the main-
land United States since records
began in 1851.
Mike Brennan, chief of the
hurricane specialist unit at the
National Hurricane Center, said JABIN BOTSFORD/The Washington Post
Hurricane Michael was violent in
two really different ways. Residents make their way across a washed-out road that faced the brunt of Hurricane Michael’s power.
“You had the violence of the
winds, the Category 4 winds in water above normally dry land equivalent to an EF3 tornado, and can create momentary wind
the eyewall there, but then you as the storm plows ashore. In this strong enough to destroy solidly speeds in excess of 200 mph.
had the violent storm surge that violent zone, propped against the constructed homes and lift cars Every hurricane has a different
was obviously powerful enough storm’s calm eye, the forward off the ground. The extreme wind footprint. Florence, for example,
to wipe buildings off their founda- speed of the hurricane adds to the damage in Panama City, on the hit the Carolinas in September
tion,” Brennan said. speed of its counterclockwise cir- left side of the eyewall, raises the as a broad, soggy Category 1 hur-
The unlucky people of Mexico culation. The overlap maximizes possibility that Michael generated ricane moving at a glacial pace
Beach suffered both the maxi- the surge. hurricane “mini-swirls,” which and triggering record flooding.
mum winds and the maximum In a storm as intense as Mi- are like tiny tornadoes, roughly Michael dropped modest levels of
storm surge — the rise in ocean chael, the eyewall’s winds are the diameter of a couple of houses, rain but was a speed demon.
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NATION
Survivors’ lifeline cut
short in Calif. shooting
BY K ATIE M ETTLER
The Washington Post
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. —
The first frantic message buzzed
Brendan Hoolihan’s phone at
about midnight Wednesday, and
for hours the messages continued
to flood his Snapchat group text.
He and his friends had created the
chain after the Las Vegas shoot-
ing massacre a year earlier, just in
case something unimaginable like
that ever happened again.
It had.
“There’s been a shooting at Bor-
derline,” a friend said, and Hooli-
han, 21, was shocked, because he
couldn’t believe this was happen-
ing to his friends a second time.
One year, two mass shootings.
Some in the group of 30 had
survived the Route 91 Harvest
festival attack, at which 58 peo-
ple were killed as they enjoyed a
country music concert. One of the
survivors was Hoolihan. Another
was 27-year-old Telemachus “Tel”
Orfanos.
The Snapchat group mes-
sage was where the friends had
been coordinating their plans for
Wednesday night, which included
a trip to Borderline Bar and Grill,
where Orfanos worked as a bounc-
er and promoter. Justin Meek
sent a group photo that included
Orfanos. On the dance floor, col-
lege-age regulars were working
the steps of the “Askin’ Questions”
line dance, swaying to the catchy
beat of this generation’s going-out
anthem: “A Little Party Never
Killed Nobody.”
Then, a gunman entered Bor-
derline and started shooting with a
Glock .45-caliber handgun. Bodies
Shooting victims remembered at church service, memorial
BY ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ
Los Angeles Times
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.
— As Sunday came in Thou-
sand Oaks, people turned to all
the things that brought them
comfort.
Following a week of double
tragedies — a bar shooting that
killed 12 and a fire that displaced
thousands — many flocked to
church and family.
At Ascension Lutheran, the
pews were packed with parishio-
ners during the morning service.
Pastor Tim Delkeskamp spoke
about the grief and suffering that
has rocked the community.
Children were called to the
altar and asked: “Have any of you
been scared in the last few days?
Have any of you felt confused?”
The kids and many adults said
yes.
Most were still trying to make
sense of so much loss in such lit-
tle time. Just days ago, Thousand
Oaks felt a long way from harm,
tucked away among knolls and
fell as the crowd busted through
windows, slid behind tables, ran
to hide in the attic. The tone in the
group chat changed instantly.
Eighty miles away in Orange
County, Hoolihan wondered
whether Orfanos, with whom he
had survived one mass shooting,
had made it through this one, too.
Meek had not texted anything
else. Neither had Orfanos.
Lifetime bond
Hoolihan and Orfanos were
strangers before the gunfire in
Las Vegas, when all around them
people were falling and fleeing
and bleeding as bullets streamed
toward the crowd through the
darkness, a shooter positioned
high above in the Mandalay Bay
Resort and Casino across the
street. They knew nothing about
each other, only that while others
were running away, they decided
to stay.
By the end of the night, they
had witnessed enough carnage to
bond them for a lifetime. They ex-
changed numbers and last names,
and for a year shepherded one an-
other through their toughest days
— at times overwhelming depres-
sion and intense post-traumatic
stress. Nobody else seemed to un-
derstand them.
Hoolihan had come to rely on
Orfanos’ steadfast assurances in
trying times. On Wednesday night
and into Thursday morning, as he
was facing another mass shooting
among his peers and needed to
hear his friend’s voice more than
ever, Orfanos wasn’t picking up.
In the group chat, information
came in bursts: some friends had
Ben Alexander, 4, of Westlake Village, places flowers next to a cross
in memory of mass murder victim Sgt. Ron Helus at a makeshift
memorial in Thousand Oaks, Calif., near the Borderline bar.
mountains. Now, nearly everyone
knew someone who was killed at
the bar, burned out by the fire or
displaced by evacuations.
“This is when we don’t let fear
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been spotted in the background of
television live shots at the scene.
Others had been interviewed
about what had happened.
When the shooting started at
Borderline, his friends had heard
that Orfanos was trying to help
others, just as he had done in Las
Vegas. Hoolihan braced himself
for the worst but hoped for the
best: Amid the mayhem, some-
body had spotted his friend out-
side the bar — alive.
First introduction
When the gunfire started in
Las Vegas, Orfanos and Hoolihan
helped topple a barricade so con-
certgoers could run into a parking
lot. Then they crawled between
cars, looking for people to help.
It was there, at eye level with
tires, that they quickly introduced
themselves.
They worked the field for hours,
loading the injured into the back
seats of Uber cars and using their
collective trauma training to stop
the victims’ bleeding and pack
their wounds. Orfanos, a Navy
veteran, used his flannel to make
a tourniquet. Hoolihan, in school
and training to be a police officer,
packed his shirt into an off-duty
officer’s gaping wound. Both had
to cover corpses.
The Wednesday after Route 91,
survivors from Ventura County,
Calif., gathered at the one place
that felt safe, that felt like home
— Borderline Bar and Grill.
Six months later, Orfanos invit-
ed Hoolihan to join his Borderline
friends at the Stagecoach country
concert in southern California. It
was the first and only time they
MEL MELCON /Los Angeles Times
have its way. Instead we love,”
Delkeskamp told his church after
sharing that his niece was also on
the dance floor the night of the
shooting.
• Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Brendan Hoolihan remembers Telemachus Orfanos as a friend who
would not leave anybody behind.
met up after Las Vegas.
Hoolihan quickly was adopted
into the greater “Borderline fam-
ily,” even though he had never
visited the beloved bar. Orfanos
invited Hoolihan to the 30-person
Snapchat group message, a place
to plan lodging and logistics — and
keep track of one another.
Finding out the worst
Alone in Orange County, the
Snapchat group message his only
connection to his adoptive Bor-
derline family in Thousand Oaks,
Calif., Hoolihan waited at home
for answers.
For most of the morning, those
on the chat had behaved as though
Orfanos would be OK. “Because
I know Tel will read this eventu-
ally,” one message began.
But by late morning, Orfanos
still hadn’t surfaced — not in the
group chat, not on his cellphone.
At 12:44 p.m., Hoolihan got the
call.
It was true that Orfanos had
been spotted outside the bar, safe
Two miles south at Borderline
Bar and Grill, yellow tape blocked
anyone from entering the neigh-
borhood bar that Ian David Long,
28, a troubled ex-Marine, turned
into a crime scene.
Dozens of shooting survivors
gathered beneath a giant oak tree.
They wore shirts paying tribute
to Thousand Oaks and their fa-
vorite bar. They held hands and
prayed, forming a circle led by a
local pastor.
“This morning this is our
church,” said Pastor Jim Crew of
Atmosphere Church, who attend-
ed the memorial. “I want you to
give someone next to you a hug. It
doesn’t matter if you don’t know
them.”
Mourners turned one corner of
the plaza into a colorful memori-
al. White wooden crosses formed
a line honoring every victim.
Among them: a sheriff’s sergeant,
a Marine, a coffee shop owner
and several college students and
bar employees. Each station was
covered with flowers, candles
and love notes.
PHILIP C HEUNG /For The Washington Post
and alive. But witnesses said he
ran back inside to help.
Somebody heard that Orfanos
had made himself vulnerable
while lifting others into the attic, a
space only employees knew exist-
ed. They heard that he had thrown
himself on top of someone as a
shield from the gunfire.
Hoolihan couldn’t be alone, so
he climbed into his car and drove
to Thousand Oaks to be with those
who knew Orfanos. On the way,
Hoolihan tracked down the phone
number for Orfanos’ mother.
“Is this Tel’s mom?” he asked
when she answered the phone.
When she said yes, he formally in-
troduced himself. He talked about
Las Vegas and how he consid-
ered her son to be one of his best
friends, a steady force, an impor-
tant part of his life.
“I loved your son a lot,” he said.
“He was one of the greatest people
I ever met.”
She started sobbing. Then she
apologized and said, “I’ve got to
go, honey,” before hanging up.
A group of survivors from last
year’s mass shooting at the Las
Vegas Route 91 Harvest music
festival drove in with a trunk full
of teddy bears.
“We’re here to simply give hugs
and show some love,” said Terry
Davis of Las Vegas.
Longtime friends Julie Fein-
stein and Kim Kennison, both 54,
comforted each other by meeting
for coffee. Both knew of fami-
lies who had lost children in the
shooting.
Kennison was also housing
friends who had been evacuated
due to the Woolsey fire. And Fein-
stein, who lives in Newbury Park,
was prepared to evacuate her
home at any moment.
Feinstein said she felt so over-
whelmed when the shooting hap-
pened. Then, within hours, like so
many of her neighbors, she had to
put her feelings aside and pack all
her belongings.
“I’m still trying to understand
what’s happened,” she said. “I
just feel this sadness and devasta-
tion for people around us.”
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018
WORLD
Britain pressured amid Brexit talks
BY LORNE COOK
AND JILL L AWLESS
Associated Press
BRUSSELS — Britain’s Euro-
pean Union partners on Monday
ratcheted up political pressure on
Prime Minister Theresa May amid
signs that some progress is being
made in Brexit negotiations.
Britain leaves the EU on March
29 — the first country ever to do
so — but a deal must be sealed in
the coming weeks to leave enough
time for the U.K. Parliament and
European Parliament to sign off.
At a meeting of EU affairs min-
isters in Brussels on Monday, the
bloc’s Brexit negotiator, Michel
Barnier, “explained that intense
negotiating efforts continue,
but an agreement has not been
reached yet.”
“Some key issues remain under
Images show acquitted woman leaving Pakistan
BY K ATHY GANNON
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani
government, already struggling
with a crisis surrounding Aasia
Bibi, a Christian woman acquit-
ted of blasphemy charges after
eight years on death row, now has
to deal with “fake” images on so-
cial media purporting to show
her leaving the country or out of
Pakistan.
Although it was unclear who
was behind the images, which
prompted death threats to a law-
maker shown in one photograph,
it was likely they were intended
to whip up radical religious fervor
over Bibi’s case.
Radical Islamists have blocked
Bibi’s freedom and demanded that
she be publicly executed. They’ve
also filed a petition to repeal her
Supreme Court acquittal. The
government says Bibi remains in
Pakistan, at a secret location for
her own protection, until the re-
view process is finished.
Prime Minister Imran Khan
Iran sticks to nuclear limit even as US oil sanctions bite
BY JONATHAN TIRONE
Bloomberg
Iran continued abiding by nu-
clear limits in its landmark ac-
cord with world powers even after
President Donald Trump aban-
doned the agreement, according
to international monitors.
In its first report since the U.S.
re-imposed oil and banking sanc-
tions on Nov. 5, the International
Atomic Energy Agency said Iran
is still allowing intrusive inspec-
tions while keeping its nuclear
capacity and material below
thresholds allowed under the
July 2015 deal, according to a 5-
page restricted report published
Monday and seen by Bloomberg
News.
The IAEA conducted snap in-
discussion,” he told them, ac-
cording to a statement from EU
headquarters.
The main obstacle to an agree-
ment is how to keep goods flow-
ing smoothly across the border
between EU country Ireland and
Northern Ireland in the U.K.
All parties have committed to
avoid a “hard border” with costly
and time-consuming checks that
would hamper business. Any new
customs posts on the border could
also re-ignite lingering sectarian
tensions.
“The ball is in the British court.
It is a question of a British politi-
cal decision,” France’s EU affairs
minister, Nathalie Loiseau, told
reporters at EU headquarters.
Belgian Foreign Minister Di-
dier Reynders agreed, saying that
the EU is “waiting for new news
from London.”
has warned radical religious
groups against using her plight to
further their political aims with
street protests.
He has defended the Supreme
Court judges who on Oct. 21 ac-
quitted the 54-year old mother of
five of blasphemy charges but has
also acquiesced to Islamists that
the acquittal be reviewed in an ap-
peal process.
Blasphemy is a highly charged
issue in Pakistan, where mere
allegations or accusations that
someone had insulted the Prophet
Muhammad can incite mobs into
a frenzy of violence. The charge
also carries the death penalty and
critics say the controversial blas-
phemy law is abused to settle reli-
gious scores.
Information Minister Fawad
Chaudhry slammed the “fake”
postings on Monday, one of which
claims to show Bibi meeting Pope
Francis. The photo is actually of
Bibi’s daughter from two years
ago. Bibi and her family have al-
ways maintained her innocence
and say she never insulted the
prophet.
spections “to all sites and loca-
tions in Iran which it needed to
visit,” according to the quarterly
report. “The agency continues
to verify the non-diversion of de-
clared nuclear material. Evalu-
ations regarding the absence
of undeclared nuclear material
and activities for Iran remained
ongoing.”
While the U.S. decision to drop
out of the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action between Tehran
and world powers has started to
bite Iran’s economy, the other
nations that joined the accord —
France, Germany, the U.K., Rus-
sia and China — all have vowed to
stand by it.
Countries including China,
India and South Korea won waiv-
ers from the U.S. to continue im-
•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S
“We have time but not so much,”
he added.
The EU is awaiting Barnier’s
signal as to whether sufficient
progress has been made to call an
EU summit to seal a deal.
Signs have emerged in recent
days that some progress is being
made behind the scenes.
Austrian EU affairs minister,
Gernot Bluemel — whose country
holds the EU’s rotating presidency
until the end of the year — said
“there is a certain dynamic in the
negotiations, but it is too early to
say how we are going to proceed
on that.”
On Thursday, Finnish Prime
Minister Juha Sipila said that
major progress was likely “within
a week,” based on his Brexit dis-
cussions with several EU leaders
who visited Helsinki.
“We’re going through crucial
A Pakistani Christian girl crosses a bridge in a poor Christian
neighborhood in Islamabad.
Chaudhry said the images mis-
identifying Bibi also prompted the
death threats to a lawmaker in
one photograph, Fazal Khan from
the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-
Insaf Party. The lawmaker’s
constituency is in a deeply con-
servative region in the country’s
northwestern.
“People can even be killed
porting Iranian oil, although the
State Department maintains they
must continue reducing volumes.
The European Union is trying to
develop a “special purpose ve-
hicle” to keep financial transac-
tions flowing. A reactor upgrade
promised under the nuclear
deal is also continuing with U.S.
acquiescence.
“The U.S. has left just enough
breathing room to continue imple-
menting the JCPOA from a tech-
nical level,” Ellie Geranmayeh,
a senior fellow at the European
Council on Foreign Relations,
said by phone on Monday. “What
we will see for at least the next
couple months is continued com-
pliance as Iran assess the new
cost-benefit analysis of staying in
the deal.”
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days now. We’re very close now,”
Sipila said.
Germany’s EU affairs minister,
Michael Roth, underlined Monday
that “the clock is ticking.”
“The room for maneuver is
very much limited and our British
friends know exactly where our
discussions are,” he said.
Domestic pressure has also in-
creased on May, after a transport
minister in her government re-
signed last week.
Jo Johnson, younger brother of
former Foreign Secretary Boris
Johnson, backed calls for a second
referendum on whether the coun-
try should leave the EU.
His call to test voter sentiment
further complicates matters for
May as she tries to strike a deal
with EU leaders that would pass
muster with her own cabinet and
win backing in Parliament.
B.K. BANGASH /AP
because of such fake postings,”
Chaudhry said. The pictures were
widely circulated on social media
in Pakistan and shared on several
local journalists’ groups, even a
police and a media group.
“We are trying to seek coop-
eration from Twitter and Face-
book against such fake news,”
Chaudhry added.
While U.S. officials have grudg-
ingly conceded Iran continues to
meet its nuclear obligations under
the accord — which capped the
capacity and production of mate-
rial that could be used in weap-
ons in return for sanctions relief
— they accuse Tehran’s govern-
ment of continuing its ballistic
missile program and of meddling
in Middle Eastern conflicts from
Syria to Yemen.
The IAEA report also says
that Iran has operated no more
than 5,060 centrifuges at its Na-
tanz enrichment plant; uranium
hasn’t exceeded the 3.7 percent
limit on enrichment purity; weap-
ons-grade uranium is 90 percent
enriched; the low-enriched ura-
nium stockpile hasn’t exceeded
662 pounds.
PAGE 13
UN warns against
returning Rohingya
SINGAPORE — The United
Nations refugee agency on Mon-
day cautioned against return-
ing ethnic Rohingya Muslims to
Myanmar from Bangladesh at
this time, urging that officials
be allowed to assess whether it is
safe for them to return.
The U.N. High Commissioner
for Refugees issued the warn-
ing after the Myanmar govern-
ment said Sunday that this week
it would begin repatriating the
more than 700,000 Rohingya who
have fled from the Rakhine state
in western Myanmar to Bangla-
desh to escape deadly violence
carried out by Myanmar security
forces.-
Woman tried after child
found living in car trunk
PARIS — A French woman is
on trial accused of hiding the ex-
istence of her toddler and depriv-
ing her of food and care, after a
garage mechanic discovered the
girl living in the trunk of her
mother’s car.
Rosa Maria Da Cruz went on
trial Monday in the central city
of Tulle on charges of repeated
violence against a minor causing
permanent disability, according
to a court official. The woman
faces up to 20 years in prison.
Authorities said the child was
about 2 years old, malnourished
and with severe developmental
problems when she was found,
according to state broadcaster
France-Info. The report said the
mother hid her pregnancy and
birth from her husband and three
other children, and kept the baby
in a basement and in the trunk of
the car.
The child, now nearly 7, is in
special care.
‘Trolleyman’ hailed for
ramming attacker
SYDNEY — A homeless man
who rammed a shopping cart at a
knife-wielding attacker who was
threatening police is being hailed
and rewarded for his actions, but
he insists he isn’t a hero.
Michael Rogers emerged from
a crowd of onlookers during the
attack Friday afternoon in down-
town Melbourne, Australia, in
which one person was fatally
stabbed and two others wounded.
Social media users have
dubbed Rogers “Trolleyman”
and an online fundraiser for him
by registered charity Melbourne
Homeless Collective had raised
more than $72,000 by Monday
morning. Shopping carts are
called “trolleys” in Australia.
Thief steals marked van
from police parking lot
LONDON — British police
said a man has been arrested
after a thief stole a marked police
van from the police department
parking lot.
Suffolk Police said Sunday the
police van had been taken from
Lowestoft police station 160 miles
northeast of London on Saturday
evening. It was found after it had
been abandoned 15 miles away in
Bungay early Sunday.
From The Associated Press
PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM
BUSINESS/WEATHER
Pabst, MillerCoors go to court in beer battle
BY IVAN MORENO
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Pabst Brew-
ing Co. and MillerCoors are going
to trial, with hipster favorite
Pabst contending that MillerCo-
ors wants to put it out of business
by ending a long-standing part-
nership through which it brews
Pabst’s beers.
The case has high stakes for
Pabst, whose lawyers argue that
the company’s very existence re-
lies on the partnership with Chi-
cago-based MillerCoors, which
produces, packages and ships
nearly all its products, which
include Pabst Blue Ribbon, Old
Milwaukee, Natty Boh and Lone
Star. MillerCoors, meanwhile,
says it’s not obligated to continue
brewing for Pabst and that Pabst
doesn’t want to pay enough to jus-
tify doing so.
The trial in Milwaukee County
Circuit Court is scheduled to go
through Nov. 30.
Pabst’s attorneys have said in
court documents and hearings
that MillerCoors LLC is lying
about its brewing capacity to
break away from Pabst and cap-
ture its share of the cheap beer
market by disrupting Pabst’s
ability to compete. At a March
hearing in which MillerCoors
tried to have the lawsuit dis-
missed, Pabst attorney Adam
Paris said “stunning documents”
obtained from MillerCoors show
that it went as far as hiring a con-
sultant to “figure out ways to get
rid of us.” MillerCoors has called
that a mischaracterization of the
consultant’s work.
The 1999 agreement between
MillerCoors and Pabst, which
was founded in Milwaukee in
1844 but is now headquartered
in Los Angeles, expires in 2020
but provides for two possible five-
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Riyadh Doha
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Djibouti
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Cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and Coors Light are stacked next to
each other in a Milwaukee liquor store. Pabst Brewing Company and
MillerCoors headed to trial Monday to settle a contract dispute.
Pabst needs 4 to 4.5 million barrels
brewed annually and claims MillerCoors is
its only option.
year extensions. The companies
dispute how the extensions should
be negotiated: MillerCoors ar-
gues that it has sole discretion
to determine whether it can con-
tinue brewing for Pabst, whereas
Pabst says the companies must
work “in good faith” to find a so-
lution if Pabst wants to extend the
agreement but MillerCoors lacks
the capacity.
Pabst needs 4 to 4.5 million bar-
rels brewed annually and claims
MillerCoors is its only option. It
is seeking more than $400 mil-
lion in damages and for Miller-
Coors to be ordered to honor its
contract.
During 2015 negotiations about
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Azores
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•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S • Tuesday, November 13, 2018
what it pays now. At the March
hearing, Paris said MillerCoors
knew Pabst couldn’t accept that
proposal “because it would have
bankrupted us three times over.”
In court filings, MillersCoors
said Pabst’s proposals to keep the
Eden facility open “were com-
mercially unreasonable” and that
Pabst sought “a windfall through
litigation” instead of offering to
pay enough to keep a facility open.
It also said the facility’s closing
was “to ensure the longer-term
sustainability” of MillerCoors be-
cause thousands of new brewers
have entered the market over the
past decade.
MillerCoors and Anheuser-
Busch, which have the biggest
IVAN MORENO/AP
U.S. market share at 24.8 per-
cent and 41.6 percent, respec-
tively, have been losing business
to smaller independent brewers,
imports, and wine and spirits in
recent years, according to the
Brewers Association.
“The beer market has shifted
and beer lovers are increasingly
demanding more variety, fuller-
flavor, and local products from
small and independent produc-
ers,” said Bart Watson, the Brew-
extending the contract, MillerCo-
ers Association’s chief economist.
ors announced it would close its
Overall U.S. beer sales have de-
brewing facility in Eden, N.C., and clined, with shipments down from
that it eventually might have to 213.1 million barrels in 2008 to
shutter another facility in Irwin- 204.2 million in 2017, according
dale, Calif. Pabst contends that to the Brewers Association.
MillerCoors refused to provide Pabst depends on MillerCoors
any information to substantiate its because the only other U.S. brewer
claim that it would no longer have with capacity to make its products
the capacity to continue brewing
is Anheuser-Busch, which doesn’t
Pabst’s beers, and that it wouldn’t do contract brewing, Paris said.
consider leasing the Eden facility
Paris said the report from the
and would only sell it for an “as- consultant MillerCoors hired in
tronomical” price. 2013 proves the company never
Pabst says MillerCoors intended to act in good faith.
wouldn’t agree to an extension Pabst’s attorneys say the report
unless Pabst paid $45 per barrel had sections focused on how to
— “a commercially devastating, “eliminate Pabst altogether” and
near-triple price increase” from noted that MillerCoors would
WEATHER OUTLOOK
TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
Seoul
60/36
Osan
Mildenhall/ 53/30 Busan
Lakenheath
55/47 60/47 Iwakuni
56/41
Brussels Sasebo
Ramstein
56/41 61/45
55/45
Stuttgart Pápa
53/37 60/42
Aviano/
Vicenza
61/50
Naples
67/46
Okinawa
75/64
Sigonella
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64/56 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
need to close two breweries “to be
sure they don’t have excess capac-
ity for contract manufacturing.”
MillerCoors’ attorney, Eric
Van Vugt, said in court that the
company didn’t rely on the con-
sultant’s report when it decided
to close Eden or when it has con-
templated closing the Irwindale
brewery.
“If we keep Irwindale open,
yes, we can supply their beer,”
Van Vugt said. “No one disputes
that. That’s the only factor that
we need to look at.”
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (Nov. 13) .........................$1.1646
Dollar buys (Nov. 13) ........................€0.8587
British pound (Nov. 13) ........................ $1.34
Japanese yen (Nov. 13) ...................... 111.00
South Korean won (Nov. 13) ......... 1,090.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................... 0.3769
British pound ........................................ $1.2903
Canada (Dollar)....................................... 1.3207
China (Yuan) ........................................... 6.9638
Denmark (Krone)................................... 6.6223
Egypt (Pound)........................................ 17.9114
Euro ............................................... $1.1264/.8878
Hong Kong (Dollar) ................................ 7.8342
Hungary (Forint).................................... 285.80
Israel (Shekel) ......................................... 3.6831
Japan (Yen)............................................... 113.82
Kuwait (Dinar) ........................................ 0.3043
Norway (Krone) ..................................... 8.4566
Philippines (Peso) .................................... 53.23
Poland (Zloty).............................................. 3.81
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .............................. 3.7509
Singapore (Dollar).................................. 1.3810
South Korea (Won) ............................ 1,136.82
Switzerland (Franc) .............................. 1.0096
Thailand (Baht) ......................................... 33.11
Turkey (Lira)............................................. 5.4526
(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 ................................................ 5.25
Discount rate .......................................... 2.75
Federal funds market rate ................... 2.20
3-month bill ............................................. 2.33
30-year bond ........................................... 3.42
Misawa
51/38
Tokyo
63/54
Guam
88/80
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
FACES
Republican Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, appears on “Saturday Night Live” Nov. 10 with comedian Pete Davidson.
‘The man is a war hero’
Comedian Davidson apologizes to politician Crenshaw, in person, on ‘SNL’
BY TRAVIS M. A NDREWS
The Washington Post
“Saturday Night Live” can be sharp, satir-
ical and even irreverent. The show, though,
isn’t generally apologetic. That’s what made
a segment from the Weekend Update seg-
ment on Nov. 10 so shocking: Pete Davidson
apologized in person to military veteran
Dan Crenshaw, who was elected Nov. 6 as a
Republican representative from Texas’ 2nd
Congressional District, for a joke he made
on the previous week’s show.
Some quick context: Davidson appeared
on Weekend Update on Nov. 3 and offered
some thoughts on various politicians, based
on appearance alone. He targeted Cren-
shaw, who wears an eye patch: “You may
be surprised to hear he’s a congressional
candidate from Texas and not a hit man in a
porno movie.” As the audience laughed, Da-
vidson added, “I’m sorry; I know he lost his
eye in war, or whatever.”
Reunited Spice Girls add shows as ticket demand skyrockets
From wire services
It seems British fans can’t get enough of
the soon-to-be-reunited Spice Girls.
The band that peaked in the 1990s has
added five shows to its planned reunion
tour next year after fans complained they
couldn’t buy tickets.
The Spice Girls added extra gigs in
London, Coventry and Manchester. The
reunion tour will now begin at Etihad Sta-
dium in Manchester on May 31.
The dates were added after tickets went
on sale Saturday morning and fans strug-
gled to get them for the existing shows.
Many complained of long waits in elec-
tronic queues.
The Spice Girls will be performing with-
out Victoria Beckham, who has launched a
successful career as a fashion designer.
They last performed together during the
2012 Olympics in London.
Satanic Temple sues over
deity’s portrayal on Netflix
Satan is getting a bad rap in Hollywood.
At least that’s one of the claims in an un-
usual copyright infringement lawsuit that
the Satanic Temple has brought against
•STA R S A N D
Many from both sides of the aisle de-
manded an apology on behalf of veterans.
Davidson remained quiet — until Nov.
10.
He slid over to the “Weekend Update”
desk and said, “So, umm, in what I’m sure
was a huge shock for people who know me, I
made a poor choice last week.
“I made a joke about Lieutenant Com-
mander Dan Crenshaw, and on behalf of the
show and myself, I apologize,” he said.
“... I mean this from the bottom of my
heart. It was a poor choice of words. The
man is a war hero and he deserves all the
respect in the world,” Davidson said. “And
if any good came from this, maybe it’s that
for one day, the left and the right finally
came together to agree on something: That
I’m a (expletive).”
Then, in one of the more shocking mo-
ments in modern “SNL” history, Crenshaw
himself slid into the frame and said, “You?”
The audience went nuts. As Davidson
Netflix and Warner Bros.
The Satanic Temple sued the media com-
panies in federal court over its portrayal of
a goat-headed deity in the show “Chilling
Adventures of Sabrina.” The group is seek-
ing at least $50 million in damages.
The way the show presents the deity Ba-
phomet isn’t accurate because it doesn’t
represent the temple’s values, the Satanic
Temple says in a lawsuit filed in New York
on Nov. 8.
The Satanic Temple, a Salem, Mass., or-
ganization that describes itself as a politi-
cal activism group that promotes certain
beliefs like free will, argues in the com-
plaint that Satan isn’t an evil being, but
rather “a literary figure symbolic of the
eternal rebel in opposition” and “meant to
be a rebel against God’s authority.”
In “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” the
show’s main character is half-witch and
half-human and is conflicted on whether
to join the Church of Night and leave her
human life behind.
“Defendants’ prominent use of it as the
central focal point of the school associated
with evil, cannibalism and possibly mur-
der is injurious to the Satanic Temple’s
business,” the lawsuit says.
ST R I P E S • F3HIJKLM
screenshot from youtube.com
thanked him for coming, Crenshaw thanked
him “for making a Republican look good.”
Davidson then offered another apology,
this time in person: “For people who don’t
know, the reason you’re wearing an eye
patch right now is that you lost your eye to
an IED in Afghanistan during your third
combat tour, and I’m sorry.”
Then Crenshaw’s cellphone started to
ring. His ringtone? “Breathin’,” by Ariana
Grande, Davidson’s pop star ex-fiancee.
“Ariana Grande,” laughed Davidson.
“Do you know her?” Crenshaw replied.
Crenshaw flipped the script by making a
few jokes about Davidson’s appearance.
Then, Crenshaw grew serious, encourag-
ing civilians and veterans to connect and
paying tribute to heroes like Davidson’s fa-
ther, a firefighter who died on 9/11.
“Tell a veteran, ‘Never forget,’ ” Cren-
shaw said.
“Never forget,” Davidson replied. “And
that is from both of us!”
Mars to provide Thanksgiving
meals for 24K in Hawaii
Bruno Mars will mark the end of his
massive “24K Magic World Tour” by pro-
viding meals to 24,000 Hawaii residents in
need for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Hawaiian-born singer announced
Sunday he has donated money for the food
to the Salvation Army’s Hawaiian and Pa-
cific Islands Division, which hosts an an-
nual Thanksgiving meal program to help
those in need.
Mars’s Sunday show at Aloha Stadium in
Honolulu was the last of his 200-date tour.
It was his third consecutive night at the
50,000-seat venue.
Other news
 Gunshots were fired during an inci-
dent on the Beverly Hills, Calif., set of a
music video for a song by rappers Tekashi
6ix9ine, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj on
Nov. 8. West and Tekashi were present at
the time, but Minaj was not, according to
TMZ, which was first to report the ordeal.
No one was injured, and a suspect has not
been identified. Production for the video
has since been ceased.
PAGE 15
‘The Grinch’
takes $66M
at box office
The Associated Press
You’re a mean one — and you’re
number one — Mr. Grinch.
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” sled-
ded past mixed reviews and made
off with $66 million for Universal
Pictures to top the weekend North
American box office, according
to studio estimates Sunday.
Last week’s top film, the Queen
biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,”
dropped to second with a $30.8
million weekend that brings its
overall take to $100 million.
Illumination, the Universal-
owned animators behind “The
Minions” and “Despicable Me,”
produced the latest interpretation
of Seuss’ 1957 book.
The war-horror hybrid “Over-
lord” was third in its first week-
end with $10.1 million. Disney’s
“The Nutcracker and the Four
Realms” brought in $9.5 million
and finished fourth in its second
week. The weekend’s other major
debut, “The Girl in the Spider’s
Web,” made just $8 million and
finished fifth.
Illumination’s “Grinch,” nar-
rated by Pharrell Williams, gives
the title character, voiced by
Benedict Cumberbatch, a back-
story in an orphanage and fills
out the story of his foil Cindy Lou
Who.
It’s the second Seuss adapta-
tion for Illumination. Its version
of “The Lorax” opened with a
comparable $70 million weekend
and went on to gross $348.8 mil-
lion worldwide.
“ ‘The Grinch’ is just the latest
in a string of over-performers,”
said Paul Dergarabedian, senior
media analyst for Comscore. The
industry has reached a cumula-
tive box office total of $10 billion
faster than in any other year, he
said.
 It’s a girl for supermodel Kate Upton
and her husband, Houston Astros pitcher
Justin Verlander. Upton used her Ins-
tagram site to announce the birth of the
couple’s first child — Genevieve Upton
Verlander — and the date, Nov. 7. The site
features a black-and-white photo of an in-
fant with her hand to her mouth.
 More than 200 items belonging to
Frank and Barbara Sinatra ranging from
movie scripts to jewelry are going up for
auction. Sotheby’s on Monday unveiled the
contents of Lady Blue Eyes: Property of
Barbara and Frank Sinatra, which will go
on the block in a series of auctions in New
York in December.
 Sarah Dessen, one of the country’s
most popular authors for teenagers, has
a new publisher. HarperCollins Publish-
ers announced Monday that it will release
Dessen’s “The Rest of the Story” on June
4. Dessen, whose many best-sellers include
“Saint Anything” and “The Moon and
More,” was previously published by Pen-
guin Random House. HarperCollins is de-
scribing the new novel as a “big-hearted,
sweeping” narrative of a girl reconnect-
ing with family members she hasn’t seen
in years. Financial terms for her deal with
HarperCollins weren’t disclosed.
PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM
AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Suburb features wavy,
accessible sidewalks
MI DEARBORN — Wavy
sidewalks in a Detroit
suburb aren’t a mistake — they’re
purposely engineered to comply
with the Americans with Dis-
abilities Act.
The sidewalks in Dearborn
peak between houses and slope
back down at the driveway level,
the Detroit Free Press reported.
“It’s very slight slopes, but
when you’re looking down the
streets, they appear to be wavy,”
said Public Works Director Jim
Murray. “But they’re slight waves
as opposed to being severe waves
in different places where they
were before.”
The ADA requires sidewalks
have a mild slope so people with
limited mobility can move safely.
Surprise! Large gator
found in a hot tub
MO
stumbled
KANSAS CITY — A
Missouri landlord
upon an unwanted
house guest while evicting a ten-
ant: a large alligator in a hot tub.
The tenant described the
150-pound reptile as “gentle as
a puppy” after animal control
workers were called to the Kan-
sas City home last Wednesday.
The workers also found two boa
constrictors and a rabbit.
The Kansas City Star reported
that a specialist removed the al-
ligator, which was at least 6 feet
long. The tenant, Sean Casey, said
he’d owned the alligator for four
years and named it Catfish. He
called the reptile “a big cuddly
lizard.”
3 arrested after cyclist
injured by booby trap
OR PORTLAND — Three
men authorities say set
up a booby trap on a walking and
bike path in Portland that injured
a female cyclist have been taken
into custody.
KOIN-TV reported that Justin
J. Jones, 23, Antonio R. Tolman-
Duran, 27, and Dakota E. Mur-
phy, 21, were arrested Friday and
face charges of assault and reck-
less endangering.
Portland police said a female
cyclist at about 11 p.m. ran into
material strung across the path. A
responding police officer spotted
woven string across the path, and
other officers found three men
suspected of putting the material
on the path and arrested them.
Professor on leave for
giving Nazi salute
CT BRIDGEPORT — Offi-
cials said a community
college professor in Connecticut
has been placed on leave after
faculty members reported that
he gave a Nazi salute during a
meeting.
A spokesman for the Connecti-
cut State Colleges and Universi-
ties System told The Hartford
Courant that Houstatonic Com-
munity College professor Charles
Meyrick has been placed on paid
leave, pending the outcome of an
investigation.
THE CENSUS
The number of years that passed before an Ohio man received his free ride on the Goodyear Blimp. Goodyear
17 Tire & Rubber Co. gave Keith Beckley a voucher for a free ride, with a friend, after he won a special MVP award
in 2001 during his senior season at northeast Ohio’s Carrollton High School. Weather problems and scheduling
conflicts kept Beckley and his then-girlfriend, Amanda, from taking their ride. Beckley forgot about the blimp
and moved on. However, his mother, Lori Burnside, kept the voucher and called Akron-based Goodyear. The
company arranged a ride over Akron in its Wingfoot Three blimp in October for Beckley and Amanda, who now is his wife.
Melting away
People cross a wet street as the first snow of the season melts upon hitting the pavement in downtown
Kansas City, Mo., last Thursday.
Faculty members say during
a recent meeting led by a CSCU
administrator, Meyrick became
agitated over efforts to eventu-
ally consolidate all 12 community
colleges into a single statewide
college.
They said Meyrick held his
arm in a prolonged Nazi salute
and stopped after campus police
were called.
•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S • Tuesday, November 13, 2018
to appear before a bail commis-
sioner on Sunday.
Cop allegedly boards
flight drunk, arrested
FL ST. PETERSBURG
— An off-duty Florida
police officer has been arrested
after allegedly being forced off an
airplane because he was drunk
and battered an airline staffer.
Pinellas County Sheriff’s of-
ficials said Derrick Gilbert, 51,
smelled of alcohol and was yelling
profanities at Allegiant Airlines
staff when deputies arrived at St.
Pete-Clearwater International
Airport on Friday. Authorities
said he initially refused to leave
the plane after staff said they
have a zero-tolerance policy for
intoxication.
Airline staff said Gilbert was
so drunk on the plane he couldn’t
find his seat, was slurring his
speech and appeared confused.
A witness said Gilbert pushed a
female airline staffer and later
angrily grabbed his own son, 18,
by the neck when the teen tried to
calm Gilbert.
Shore visitors to have
to go backcountry style
NC CAPE LOOKOUT NA-
TIONAL SEASHORE
— The National Park Service said
visitors to North Carolina’s un-
inhabited barrier islands should
plan on a trip without toilets after
recent storms damaged the rest-
rooms there.
Cape Lookout National Sea-
shore said on its Facebook page
that visitors needing a restroom
will have to go “backcountry style”
on Shackleford Banks and adopt
“Leave No Trace” guidelines:
Visitors must bring their own toi-
let paper and bury solid human
waste at least 200 feet from the
water, camp and trails.
Officials suggest visitors answer
nature’s call by using mainland
facilities before taking a ferry to
Shackleford Banks.
Grand jury charges wife
in killing of sergeant
C HARLIE RIEDEL /AP
LA GRETNA — A grand
jury has charged the
wife of a sheriff’s deputy in south-
eastern Louisiana in his killing,
but the woman contends her hus-
band shot himself in the head.
Local media reported that a Jef-
ferson Parish grand jury charged
Shantel Parria, 35, with second-
degree murder Thursday in the
GPS tracker with cash after fleeing from the TD Bank in shooting death of her husband, a
Providence on Saturday morning Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office
leads to robber’s arrest with the bag full of cash, a dye sergeant. Parria pleaded not guilty
pack and GPS tracker. during a court hearing Friday.
RI PROVIDENCE — Po-
lice said a quick-think-
ing bank teller helped them track
Police said officers were able to
nab the robber at a Dollar Store
Troy Smith suffered a single
gunshot to the head in the couple’s
Waggaman home. Parria called
thanks to the tracker, and he was
down a robber by slipping a arrested. Officials identified the 911 on June 17 and told operators
GPS tracking device in with the suspect as Adam Hanrahan, 33, that her husband shot himself in
money. of West Warwick. their house. Smith died at the hos-
The Providence Journal re- He’s charged with second-de- pital on June 24.
ported that the man hailed a taxi gree robbery and was expected From wire reports
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
WORLD
Covert operation
exposed causing
tensions in Israel
BY RUTH EGLASH
AND H AZEM BALOUSHA
The Washington Post
JERUSALEM — A senior Is-
raeli military officer and seven
militants, including a Hamas
commander, were killed over-
night Sunday after a covert op-
eration by Israel inside the Gaza
Strip appeared to have been ex-
posed, sparking an exchange of
fire, airstrikes and later a bar-
rage of rocket fire.
The hostilities could undermine
what had been promising signs
in recent days of calm returning
to the region after more than six
months of heightened tensions.
The Israeli military remained
tight-lipped over exact details of
the incident late Sunday night. A
statement from the army’s Gen-
eral Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi
Eisenkot only said a special force
had been engaged in a “very
meaningful operation for Israel’s
security.”
The army confirmed a covert
operation had been taking place
at least 2 miles inside the Gaza
Strip when the unit’s presence
was somehow exposed. An ex-
change of fire between the troops
and a group of Palestinian fight-
ers ensued, turning deadly and
leading to the Israeli unit’s call
for backup from the air.
A statement from the Izz ad-Din
al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ mil-
itary wing, said “Zionist enemy
special forces,” in a civilian car,
infiltrated 2 miles into Gaza, east
of the Palestinian town, Khan
Younis.
Nour Baraka, a local Hamas
leader, was “assassinated,” the
statement read. It also described
how the Israeli soldiers’ identities
were uncovered and how the unit
was “dealt with by our fighters.”
Witnesses in the area reported
Israeli military jets pounding tar-
gets as they aided in extracting
the soldiers.
Funerals for the Palestinians
will take place throughout the
day, Hamas said.
The Israeli army did not re-
lease the identity of the dead
soldier due to his involvement in
similar undercover operations,
but photographs said to be of him
and his family were distributed
on social media.
Speaking on Israeli army radio,
military spokesman Ronen Me-
nalis referred to the soldier as Lt.
Col. M., calling him “a real hero.”
Menalis said that despite being
injured he had been instrumental
in ensuring the safe return of the
undercover unit.
One other soldier was moder-
ately injured.
Menalis said such covert op-
erations into Palestinian territory
happened regularly.
Earlier, the army had told Is-
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Vietnam signs
Pacific Rim
trade pact
Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam’s
National Assembly on Monday
ratified a Pacific Rim trade deal
abandoned by U.S. President Don-
ald Trump, but still being pushed
forward by 11 other members.
The Comprehensive and Pro-
raeli media that the goal of this gressive Agreement for Trans-
specific operation was not a tar- Pacific Partnership or CPTPP
geted killing, a practice Israel has A DRIAN W YLD,THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
will take effect at the year’s end
utilized in the past to assassinate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes his seat for a session at the after Australia became the sixth
senior Hamas leaders. Paris Peace Forum in Paris, France, on Sunday. nation to ratify it last month.
Israel was still on high alert Trump pulled out of the pact
Monday morning, canceling just days after taking office last
schools in the communities sur-
rounding Gaza and suspending
Trudeau: Canadian intelligence year, saying multilateral trade
agreements cost American jobs
train services in the area. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
has heard Khashoggi tapes and that he would prefer bilateral
trade agreements.
cut short a trip to Paris over the The remaining 11 members ac-
Associated Press he had given the “tapes” to some
weekend to return to Israel. count for more than 13 percent
countries, but the Canadian lead-
Tensions between Hamas, the PARIS — Canadian Prime of the world’s gross domestic
er is the first since that announce-
militant Islamist group that rules Minister Justin Trudeau has be- product.
ment to officially confirm that his
the Gaza Strip, and Israel, which come the first Western leader to Vietnam is expected to be one
has maintained a strict land, air country’s intelligence has heard
acknowledge his country’s intel- the audio. of the members that would most
and sea blockade together with ligence agencies have listened to He added that he personally benefit from it with its strong
Egypt on the Palestinian enclave recordings of the killing of Saudi had not heard the recording. base of exports of cellphones, gar-
for more than a decade, have journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trudeau said he thanked Erdo- ments, shoes, seafood and agri-
intensified.
Trudeau, speaking in Paris on gan for “his strength in respond- cultural products. A government
Since March, thousands of Gaza
Monday, said “Canada has been ing to the Khashoggi situation” on study says the pact will boost
residents have staged weekly
fully briefed up on what Turkey the sidelines of the WWI centena- Vietnam’s GDP by 1.3 percentage
demonstrations at the fence with
Israel to protest the increasingly had to share.” ry ceremonies this weekend. points, while exports will also in-
On Saturday, Turkish Presi- Trudeau didn’t give details of crease by 4 percentage points by
harsh humanitarian conditions
for the strip’s 2 million residents. dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan said what was on the recording. 2035.
More than 200 Palestinians have
been killed in the protests, mostly
by Israeli sniper fire.
Israel calls the protests riots
and says they are a cover for
Hamas and other militant groups
in Gaza to infiltrate into Israel
to carry out terrorist attacks in
civilian communities along the
border.
Three deadly wars fought over
the past decade have only exacer-
bated the situation for both sides,
with civilian communities in
southern Israel subjected to ongo-
ing rocket-fire from the strip. The
army said there were 11 rounds
of rocket were fired overnight
Sunday.
More recently, since the pro-
tests started, Gaza militants have
taken to sending incendiary kites
and balloons across the border
igniting fires and destroying vast
swaths of agricultural land and
nature reserves.
Over the weekend, in a clear
effort to reduce the ongoing ten-
sions, Israel permitted Qatari
envoy to Gaza, Mohammad al-
Emadi, to enter the strip carrying
three suitcases filled with some
$15 million in cash.
The money to pay the long-
delayed salaries of the Hamas-
government’s civil servants was
part of an Egyptian-brokered
understanding between Hamas
and Israel. The goal was to ease
the humanitarian suffering and
reduce tensions.
On Sunday, tens of thousands
of public servants lined up at post
offices across Gaza Strip to final-
ly receive their salaries.
“I don’t care about the source
of this money,” said Mohammed
Sultan, 42, a teacher who has not
received a full salary for many
years.
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SHIFTING GEARS
Yukon XL Denali gets upgrades for 2019
BY EMMA JAYNE WILLIAMS
Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram
The distinctive GMC Yukon XL Denali
full-size SUV offers exclusive design, per-
formance, and interior amenities, and re-
ceives a few minor changes for the 2019
model year.
A new 10-speed automatic transmission
is now standard, and new Mastique ash
wood grains now accent the interior.
Yukon XL Denali has a wheelbase that
is 14 inches longer than the Yukon Denali,
with more than twice the cargo space be-
hind the third-row seat.
The XL Denali has signature Denali
styling including a unique chrome grille,
and exterior chrome accents. The XL De-
nali is available in rear-wheel drive start-
ing at $69,300 or all-wheel drive starting at
$72,300 (my tester).
The standard 6.2-liter V-8 engine with
Active Fuel Management produces a
more-than-sufficient 420 horsepower and
460 foot-pounds of torque.
EPA ratings are 14 mpg city/23 highway
for 2WD models, and 14 city/20 highway/16
combined for 4WD models.
Automatic Fuel Management allows
the engine to deactivate half the cylinders
under light load conditions to improve fuel
economy.
The electronically controlled transmis-
sion features tap-shift Driver Shift Control
for manual shifting, and Tow/Haul mode
for better control and improved cooling
when towing or hauling heavy loads.
The Ultimate Black Edition package
($1,000) added a polished single exhaust
tip, chrome mirror caps, premium car-
peted black floor mats with GMC logo,
and eye-catching 22-inch seven-spoke
•STA R S
black-painted wheels with chrome inserts
and black center caps, wearing all-season
black wall tires. The Roof Rack Cross Rail
package added $265.
Our vehicle’s Denali Ultimate package
($8,080) brought a rear-seat entertainment
system with Blu-Ray playback and two
DVD screens (second- and third-row ceil-
ing); power-retractable assist steps — black
with a chrome strip; a power sunroof with
manual shade; enhanced security with inte-
rior movement sensor, glass-break sensors
in the rear quarter glass and gate window,
vehicle inclination sensor, theft-deterrent
2019 GMC Yukon XL Denali
Base price: $69,300 (rear-wheel drive),
$72,300 (all-wheel drive)
Price as tested: $81,940 (includes $1,295
destination charge)
Powertrain: 6.2-liter V-8
Transmission: 10-speed automatic
Power/torque: 420 horsepower/460
foot-pounds
EPA fuel economy rating: 14 mpg city/23
highway (2WD); 14/20/16 combined (4WD)
TNS
A N D ST R I P E S • Tuesday, November 13, 2018
system, door/gate lock shields (blocks ac-
cess to “slim jim”-type unlocking devices),
and self-powered horn (sounds completely
different from the vehicle horn); advanced
Adaptive Cruise Control with Forward Au-
tomatic Braking; four-wheel antilock disc
brakes; and an additional nine months of
SiriusXM Radio and SiriusXM NavTraffic
(a three-month trial is standard).
The rear seat entertainment system had
an HDMI/MHL connector, dedicated USB
ports, and digital headphones.
Cruise control automatically disengages
when the traction control system needs to
limit wheelspin on slippery surfaces.
A hands-free power liftgate opened
by passing a foot under the rear bumper,
pressing a button on the key fob or press-
ing a button in the cockpit. That gives ac-
cess to the massive cargo area with 39.3
cubic feet behind the third row, 76.7 cubic
feet behind the second row, and 121.1 cubic
feet with both rows down — enough room
for a blow-up mattress and luggage, or lots
of flea market/antiquing finds.
The heated second-row seats had power-
release fold-and-tumble buttons in the
cargo area, along with fold-flat buttons for
the third row.
The cockpit was driver-friendly, with a
customizable eight-inch color Driver In-
formation Center for displaying warning
messages and vehicle information such as
fuel range, fuel economy, tire pressure, oil
life, and more.
An adjustable, programmable Head-Up
Display included cruise control informa-
tion and various warnings and messages
such as low-fuel information, collision
alert, speed, and navigation directions.
In addition to a power tilt/telescopic
steering wheel, power-adjustable pedals
2019 GMC Yukon Denali
Jim Fets for GMC
helped the driver find the most comfort-
able driving position — especially helpful
for a short person in a large vehicle.
A GMC Infotainment System with eight-
inch color multitouch display included nav-
igation, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto,
Bluetooth streaming audio and phone
(voice-activated), rear-seat reminder, and
Shop app. Shop offers a catalog of third-
party apps to download to the radio, using
the available 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot (con-
nection for up to seven devices) or a mobile
device.
Bose CenterPoint Surround Sound with
SurroundStage, 10 speakers strategically
placed throughout the cabin, and AudioPi-
lot noise-compensation technology provid-
ed concert-like sound for all passengers.
OnStar Safety and Security is standard
with a month’s trial, and offers 24/7 prior-
ity connection to trained advisors to help in
the event of a crash, locate a stolen vehicle,
provide navigation assistance, and provide
aid in the form of roadside assistance.
GMC Connected Services, also stan-
dard for a month’s trial, offers services
such as vehicle diagnostics, dealer main-
tenance notifications, and more. Several
subscription options are available for both
systems.
The cargo area was versatile, with a lift-
up folding floor that became a barrier be-
hind the second row of seats, and exposed
a large shallow bin with low removable/ad-
justable dividers to separate items and help
hold them in place.
My Yukon XL Denali was very attrac-
tive, roomy, comfortable — even the third
row had lots of leg and head room (34.5/38.5
inches) — and versatile for hauling people
(seven) and/or lots of cargo.
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OPINION
The GOP’s new voter wellspring
BY H ENRY OLSEN
Special to The Washington Post
T
uesday’s midterm elections were
important for the country’s fu-
ture. They were also crucial for
the Republican Party’s future.
The GOP’s massive losses in traditionally
Republican suburbs have set it irretriev-
ably on a new path. Either it re-creates a
William McKinley-style coalition based on
the working-class voter or it dies.
The party’s devastation in traditional,
high-income suburban bastions is unmis-
takable. Nearly every House seat it lost
was in these areas. Districts in suburban
Atlanta, Houston and Dallas that voted for
Mitt Romney in 2012 by between 15 and
24 points went Democratic. Districts that
Republicans had held for decades outside
Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia
fell. The blue tide even swept away a GOP
seat in Oklahoma City. This trend was
more than a coastal fad.
Republicans are used to being the party
of the upper middle class, and their natu-
ral reaction will be to prioritize regaining
these lost ancestral homes. But they should
resist that urge, at least insofar as it would
conflict with efforts to serve another, cru-
cial part of the evolving GOP coalition:
working-class, Obama-Trump voters.
Those voters turned out in droves Tues-
day, and their unexpected loyalty to their
new party saved the GOP’s bacon. Their
support captured two Minnesota House
seats and rescued a number of other Re-
publican candidates. They also propelled
North Dakota’s Kevin Cramer, Indiana’s
Mike Braun, Missouri’s Josh Hawley and
probably Florida’s Rick Scott to victory
in the Senate; had they not voted Republi-
can, at least two of these seats would have
stayed Democratic, and the post-election
Getting Washington out of Washington
BY M ITCH DANIELS
Special to The Washington Post
A
griculture Secretary Sonny Per-
due announced in August that
he wanted to move the Economic
Research Service and the Na-
tional Institute of Food and Agriculture out
of Washington, to places where the type of
scholarship they rely on is centered. Now
the department is considering proposals
submitted by interested parties to host the
headquarters for those subagencies.
You might assume that such a move would
be regarded as a common-sense exercise in
sound administrative and academic prac-
tice. But you would be wrong — at least in
the eyes of the client organizations that seek
funding from these mini-bureaucracies.
Their protests came promptly and loudly
after Perdue’s announcement.
The Housing Assistance Council com-
plained that moving the Economic Research
Service away from Washington “is yet an-
other way rural voices will be out of ear-
shot.” The National Sustainable Agriculture
Coalition wrote that the plan meant “Amer-
ica would experience a disastrous reduction
in its agricultural research capacity.” You’d
have thought someone had suggested mov-
ing the Washington Monument.
But what exactly is so unthinkable, es-
pecially these days, about dispersing more
of the federal government’s sprawling as-
sets somewhere into the 99.998 percent of
America’s land mass that isn’t the District
of Columbia? The Economic Research Ser-
vice and the National Institute of Food and
Agriculture together comprise less than 1
percent of total Agriculture Department
employees, a large majority of whom al-
ST R I P E S • Tuesday, November 13, 2018
story line would be much different.
Their votes also secured key governor-
ships — in Ohio and Florida (pending a
recount), specifically — for the party, pre-
serving its control over redistricting there
after the 2020 Census.
Nonetheless, their importance remains
drastically underappreciated by the GOP
leadership. On Tuesday, in most states
Obama-Trump voters’ support was high
but still below 2016 levels. Had the party
been willing to embrace them rather than
ignore them, that support could have in-
creased further, perhaps allowing Matt
Rosendale to prevail in Montana’s Senate
race. At least five House seats with large
numbers of these voters also narrowly went
Democratic. Overlooking these places was
a mistake.
Last Tuesday’s results should force the
GOP to court these crucial voters more ag-
gressively. That will mean looking at what
they value and making a concerted effort
to meet their concerns.
These voters, whom I label TIGRs
(Trump Is Great Republicans), like the
president’s focus on jobs first and fore-
most. They don’t want entitlements to be
cut; they depend on Social Security and
Medicare much more in retirement than
high-income suburbanites whose home eq-
uity and 401(k)s can cushion their golden
years. They need protection against unfair
Chinese trade practices and competition
from undocumented immigrants. They are
also suspicious of overseas military adven-
tures, which should not surprise anyone
given that their sons and daughters are
more likely than others to fight in them.
The TIGRs need to know they are wel-
come in the GOP. They already know Pres-
ident Donald Trump welcomes them, and
it was surely his unwavering energy and
ready work elsewhere in the country. The
Centers for Disease Control, one of the more
respected and effective federal agencies, is
headquartered in Atlanta.
The idea of getting Washington out of
Washington has come up periodically for
decades. In 2002, I was part of a small group
in the George W. Bush administration as-
signed to study whether the government’s
various units with a relationship to what
came to be called “homeland security”
should be gathered together in a new Cabi-
net-level department. Ultimately, President
Bush decided that taking this step would be
wise, and he commissioned a draft of the
necessary legislation.
I proposed locating the new agency any-
where but D.C., for what seemed to me some
highly logical reasons:
First, given that the Department of
Homeland Security would make an attrac-
tive terrorist target, prudence would dic-
tate not placing it immediately adjacent to
Washington’s many existing targets.
Second, technology has rendered distance
and physical place less important than ever.
Enterprises of all kinds now operate per-
fectly well across multiple locations as data
moves instantly, and teleconferencing has
advanced to a “same room” feel.
Third, locating DHS somewhere other
than in Washington would have made much
better economic sense. Under the govern-
ment’s statutory geographic compensation
formula, the savings in salary and ben-
efits alone would have been significant, to
say nothing of other operating expenses. A
GS-13 Step 2 employee who is paid $100,203
in D.C. would cost less than $91,000 in Kan-
sas City or Indianapolis.
focus on their concerns in the final month
of the campaign that brought them out. But
the party needs to ensure their loyalty be-
yond the man in the Oval Office.
Republican leaders in Congress should
create a clear legislative agenda to ad-
dress these concerns. They should make
passage of something such as the Raise
— Reforming American Immigration for
Strong Employment — Act to reduce im-
migration a top priority. They should pro-
pose measures cracking down on Chinese
trade practices that steal U.S. jobs and in-
dustrial secrets, measures that would re-
place or supplement the president’s crude
(and often counterproductive) use of tar-
iffs to bring the Chinese to the negotiat-
ing table. If Republicans are going to push
a new tax cut, they should build it around
a payroll-tax reduction for below-median-
income workers or expand on Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio’s idea for enhanced, refund-
able child tax credits.
Suburban-friendly planks should be part
of this platform, too, but not to the extent
they conflict with TIGR priorities. After
all, based on data from the Voter Study
Group’s 2016 VOTER Survey, I estimate
that there are about 5.9 million TIGRs and
3 million Romney-Clinton voters. Come
2020, the GOP will need to gain only a dozen
or so seats to retake the House, a mark it
can easily meet by focusing on working-
class Democratic districts and some close,
mixed seats that Republican candidates
barely lost last week. Republicans should
not write off the suburbs, but they need to
recognize that so long as Trump is in the
White House, their ability to retake them
will be limited.
Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and
Public Policy Center and author of “The Working
Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return
of Blue-Collar Conservatism.”
You can guess how far the idea got. The
chemical weight of lead is insufficient to
describe that particular balloon. The idea
might have seemed far-fetched back then,
but it should be less so today.
Washington is becoming unlivable. Its
cost-of-living index has exploded: Housing
prices have doubled since 1988 and are up
a third just since the end of the recession. A
meal at a midrange restaurant costs almost
half again above the national average.
Commutes have stretched to Seattle or
Silicon Valley dimensions. Traffic gridlock,
with its attendant pollution and lost produc-
tivity, ranks with the nation’s three worst
areas.
Leaving aside all the security and admin-
istrative advantages, relocating bureaucra-
cies can offer important intangible pluses.
Parts of the nation now estranged from the
federal government — and cynical about
it — might feel more invested and sympa-
thetic if more of its officials were seen as
neighbors and not as faraway, arrogant
paper-pushers.
Then again, the idea of relocating federal
bureaucracies could be one of those sen-
sible choices that Washington finds simply
unthinkable, such as reforming Social Se-
curity before it implodes.
Maybe it’s just as well. A friend recalls a
lighthearted moment in the Senate chamber
in the 1980s, during an especially pomp-
ous and boring oration, when someone in
the back suggested moving the capital to
Omaha. Sen. Robert Dole, always ready
with a quip, replied: “What have you got
against Omaha?”
Mitch Daniels, a Washington Post contributing
columnist, is president of Purdue University and a
former governor of Indiana.
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Sunday: New Yok 3, Columbus 0, New 16. (23) Michael McDowell, Ford, 311. 10. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India, 70
point for a 25th-place vote, and previous Duffy Waldorf, $53,750 68-65-69-71—273 -11 laps, +1 lap, 1.
York advances on 3-1 aggregate Kenny Perry, $47,500 71-69-68-66—274 -10 17. (7) Erik Jones, Toyota, 310.
ranking: Western Conference 11. Brendon Hartley, New Zealand, Scu-
Record Pts Pv Scott Parel, $45,000 71-69-68-67—275 -9 18. (25) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 310.
Seattle 3, Portland 2, 4-4 aggregate; 19. (28) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 310. deria Toro Rosso, 70 laps, +1 lap.
1. Alabama (61) 10-0 1525 1 Brandt Jobe, $37,500 69-69-67-71—276 -8 12. Carlos Sainz, Spain, Renault, 70
Portland advanced on 4-2 penalty kicks C.Montgomerie, $37,50069-73-68-66—276 -8 20. (31) David Ragan, Ford, 310.
2. Clemson 10-0 1459 2 Sunday: Sporting Kansas City 4, Real laps, +1 lap.
3. Notre Dame 10-0 1406 3 Glen Day, $30,000 66-70-65-76—277 -7 21. (27) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 310.
Salt Lake 2, Sporting KC advances on 5-3 22. (29) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 310. 13. Pierre Gasly, France, Scuderia Toro
4. Michigan 9-1 1327 4 Billy Andrade, $26,250 71-68-66-73—278 -6 Rosso, 70 laps, +1 lap.
aggregate 23. (2) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 309.
5. Georgia 9-1 1288 5 Tom Lehman, $26,250 71-70-71-66—278 -6 14. Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgium, McLar-
Conference Championships 24. (33) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 309.
6. Oklahoma 9-1 1188 6 M. A.l Jimenez, $23,125 69-75-69-66—279 -5 25. (34) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 309. en, 70 laps, +1 lap.
7. West Virginia 8-1 1111 7 Home-and-home
Kirk Triplett, $23,125 73-70-69-67—279 -5 26. (32) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 308. 15. Esteban Ocon, France, Force India,
8. Washington St. 9-1 1052 10 Eastern Conference
Paul Broadhurst, $19,53170-71-66-73—280 -4 27. (38) D.J. Kennington, Toyota, 306. 70 laps, +1 lap.
9. Ohio St. 9-1 1050 8 First leg
Sunday, Nov. 25: New York at Atlanta Bart Bryant, $19,531 71-70-69-70—280 -4 28. (39) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 306. 16. Sergey Sirotkin, Russia, Williams, 69
10. LSU 8-2 1019 9 Jeff Maggert, $19,531 67-71-71-71—280 -4 29. (11) Paul Menard, Ford, 303. laps, +2 laps,
11. UCF 9-0 983 11 Second leg
Thursday, Nov. 29: Atlanta at New Tom Pernice Jr., $19,531 71-68-71-70—280 -4 30. (5) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, acci- 17. Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren,
12. Syracuse 8-2 787 13 Lee Janzen, $17,188 67-73-72-69—281 -3 dent, 285. 69 laps, +2 laps,
13. Texas 7-3 726 15 York
Western Conference Ken Tanigawa, $17,188 74-70-64-73—281 -3 31. (36) Tanner Berryhill, Toyota, acci- 18. Lance Stroll, Canada, Williams, 69
14. Utah St. 9-1 689 14 Rocco Mediate, $16,250 73-72-69-70—284 E dent, 283.
15. Florida 7-3 575 19 First leg laps, +2 laps,
Sunday, Nov. 25: Sporting Kansas City Jay Haas, $15,625 70-70-70-75—285 +1 32. (14) Kurt Busch, Ford, accident, NR. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Re-
16. Penn St. 7-3 542 21 272.
17. Washington 7-3 501 20 at Portland Billy Mayfair, $15,000 67-74-74-71—286 +2 nault, 32 laps, DNF.
Scott Dunlap, $14,375 73-73-72-69—287 +3 33. (3) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, acci- NR. Marcus Ericsson, Sweden, Sauber-
18. Iowa St. 6-3 497 23 Second leg dent, 262.
19. Cincinnati 9-1 344 25 Thursday, Nov. 29: Portland at Sport- Ferrari, 20 laps, DNF.
34. (4) Ryan Blaney, Ford, garage, 237. Driver Standings
20. Kentucky
21. Utah
7-3
7-3
337
307
12
NR
ing Kansas City
MLS Cup
Mayakoba Classic 35. (16) Clint Bowyer, Ford, accident, 1. Lewis Hamilton, 383
PGA Tour 133. 2. Sebastian Vettel, 302
22. Boston College 7-3 254 17 Saturday, Dec. 8 36. (26) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, acci-
23. Boise St. 8-2 147 NR Sporting Kansas City-Portland winner Sunday 3. Kimi Raikkonen, 251
At El Camaleon GC at the Mayakoba dent, 96. 4. Valtteri Bottas, 237
24. Northwestern 6-4 136 NR at Atlanta-New York winner 37. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, accident, 95.
25. Mississippi St. 6-4 133 18 Resort 5. Max Verstappen, 234
38. (35) JJ Yeley, Toyota, oil leak, 88. 6. Daniel Ricciardo, 158
Others receiving votes: Army 128, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
UAB 78, Fresno St. 61, Michigan St. 31, NC Sunday Purse: $7.2 million
39. (37) Timmy Hill, Ford, oil leak, 40.
Race Statistics
7. Nico Hulkenberg, 69
State 30, Buffalo 29, Pittsburgh 28, Duke Yardage: 6,987; Par: 71 8. Sergio Perez, 58
20, Texas A&M 16, Iowa 8, Arizona St. 6, Red Bulls 3, Crew 0 Final
Average Speed of Winner: 98.354 mph. 9. Kevin Magnussen, 55
Time of Race: 3 hours, 10 minutes, 20 10. Fernando Alonso, 50
Stanford 3, Auburn 3, Troy 1. Columbus 0 0—0 M. Kuchar, $1,296,000 64-64-65-69—262 -22 seconds. Margin of Victory: 0.501 sec-
New York 1 2—3 Danny Lee, $777,600 65-66-67-65—263 -21 11. Esteban Ocon, 49
onds.
First half—1, New York, Muyl, 4 (Long), 12. Carlos Sainz, 45
Coaches Top 25 17th minute.
J.J. Spaun, $417,600 69-65-65-66—265 -19
R. Werenski, $417,600 65-66-67-67—265 -19
Caution Flags: 10 for 61 laps.
Lead Changes: 17 among 9 drivers. 13. Romain Grosjean, 35
The Amway Top 25 football poll, with Second half—2, New York, Royer, 12 Brice Garnett, $288,000 68-67-65-66—266 -18 Lap Leaders: K. Harvick (P) 1-72; C. El- 14. Charles Leclerc, 33
first-place votes in parentheses, records (Adams), 73rd; 3, New York, Royer, 13 Jim Furyk, $233,100 69-65-66-67—267 -17 liott (P) 73-78; R. Blaney 79; C. Elliott (P) 15. Pierre Gasly, 29
through Nov. 10, total points based on 25 (Kaku), 76th. Pat Perez, $233,100 66-67-67-67—267 -17 80-83; K. Busch (P) 84-135; R. Blaney 136; 16. Stoffel Vandoorne, 12
points for first place through one point Goalies—Columbus, Zack Steffen, Jon M. Truex Jr. (P) 137-143; K. Busch (P) 144- 17. Marcus Ericsson, 9
Scott Piercy, $233,100 67-68-70-62—267 -17
for 25th, and previous ranking: Kempin; New York, Luis Robles, Ryan 224; C. Elliott (P) 225-230; R. Blaney 231; B. 18. Lance Stroll, 6
H. Varner III, $233,100 65-69-68-65—267 -17 19. Brendon Hartley, 4
Record Pts Pvs Meara. Keselowski 232-243; M. Truex Jr. (P) 244;
1. Alabama (64) 10-0 1624 1 C. Champ, $165,600 68-62-69-69—268 -16 20. Sergey Sirotkin, 1
A—22,789. Adam Hadwin, $165,600 65-67-68-68—268 -16 B. Keselowski 245-264; K. Harvick (P) 265;
2. Clemson (1) 10-0 1561 2 E. Jones 266-276; K. Busch (P) 277-288; R. Manufacturers Standings
3. Notre Dame 10-0 1490 3 Whee Kim, $165,600 68-63-66-71—268 -16 1. Mercedes GP, 620
Newman 289; K. Busch (P) 290-312.
4. Michigan 9-1 1415 4 Atlanta United 3, NYC FC 1 A. Lahiri, $165,600 65-66-69-68—268 -16
Aaron Wise, $165,600 71-65-63-69—268 -16 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, 2. Ferrari, 553
5. Georgia 9-1 1369 5 New York City 1 0—1 Laps Led): Kyle Busch (P) 3 times for 116 3. Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer, 392
6. Oklahoma 9-1 1273 6 E. Grillo, $129,600 65-68-67-69—269 -15 laps; Kevin Harvick (P) 2 times for 73 laps; 4. Renault, 114
Atlanta 2 1—3 A. Favela, $108,000 67-67-70-66—270 -14
7. West Virginia 8-1 1173 8 First half—1, Atlanta, Martinez, 32 Kurt Busch (P) 1 time for 52 laps; Brad Ke- 5. Haas Ferrari, 90
8. Ohio State 9-1 1135 7 Tony Finau, $108,000 69-65-67-69—270 -14 selowski 2 times for 32 laps; Chase Elliott 6. McLaren Renault, 62
9. Washington State 9-1 1119 9 (penalty kick), 25th minute; 2, Atlanta, Rickie Fowler, $108,000 66-68-69-67—270 -14
Almiron, 13, 42nd; 3, New York City, Cha- (P) 3 times for 16 laps; Erik Jones 1 time 7. Force India Mercedes, 48
10. LSU 8-2 1078 10 S. Jaeger, $108,000 65-69-68-68—270 -14 for 11 laps; Martin Truex Jr. (P) 2 times 8. Sauber Ferrari, 42
11. Central Florida 9-0 1042 11 not, 2, 45th. C.T. Pan, $108,000 67-69-68-66—270 -14
Second half—4, Atlanta, Martinez, 33 for 8 laps; Ryan Blaney 3 times for 3 laps; 9. Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda, 33
12. Syracuse 8-2 849 13 Abraham Ancer, $74,880 65-68-67-71—271 -13 Ryan Newman 1 time for 1 lap. 10. Williams Mercedes, 7
13. Utah State 9-1 698 16 (Remedi), 83rd. Ryan Armour, $74,880 67-67-71-66—271 -13
14. Texas 7-3 662 19 Goalies—New York City, Sean John- Jason Dufner, $74,880 69-66-72-64—271 -13
son, Brad Stuver; Atlanta, Brad Guzan,
College basketball
15. Penn State 7-3 646 20 Billy Horschel, $74,880 71-66-69-65—271 -13
16. Florida 7-3 604 21 Alec Kann.
J.T. Poston, $74,880 65-69-68-69—271 -13
17. Washington 7-3 591 18 Yellow Cards—Atlanta, Escobar, 44th;
Si Woo Kim, $55,440 71-67-68-66—272 -12
18. Iowa State 6-3 403 25 Robinson, 61st. New York City, Chanot,
6th; Herrera, 40th; Moralez, 74th; Cal- Chez Reavie, $55,440 67-68-68-69—272 -12
19. Utah 7-3 387 24 Lafayette 59, Binghamton 50
20. Cincinnati 9-1 383 23 lens, 88th. Vaughn Taylor, $55,440 69-68-65-70—272 -12
Bud Cauley, $42,880 65-68-71-69—273 -11
Sunday’s men’s scores Marist 72, Navy 48
21. Kentucky 7-3 318 12 EAST Northeastern 58, Fordham 54
22. Boston College 7-3 309 14 James Hahn, $42,880 66-67-70-70—273 -11
Sporting KC 4, Russell Henley, $42,880 66-69-68-70—273 -11 Boston College 74, St. Francis Brook- Robert Morris 67, La Salle 39
23. Mississippi State 6-4 219 15 lyn 69 Seton Hall 84, UTSA 53
Kramer Hickok, $42,880 64-68-74-67—273 -11
24. Boise State
25. Alabama-Birmingham9-1
8-2 129 NR
102 NR
Real Salt Lake 2 Sung Kang, $42,880 65-70-71-67—273 -11
Boston U. 94, Emerson 57 Towson 78, UMass 53
UConn 85, Ohio St. 53
Colgate 73, Cornell 57
Others receiving votes: Northwestern Real Salt Lake 0 2—2 Scott Langley, $42,880 69-67-69-68—273 -11 Dartmouth 82, Loyola (Md.) 80 West Virginia 95, NJIT 50
87; Fresno State 64; Army 58; Buffalo 56; Kansas City 2 2—4 K.-Hoon Lee, $42,880 66-66-72-69—273 -11 Rutgers 95, Drexel 66 SOUTH
Virginia 44; Duke 38; North Carolina State First half—1, Kansas City, Rubio, 10 Steve Marino, $42,880 70-64-70-69—273 -11 Towson 93, Wesley (DE) 66 Charlotte 85, Wofford 63
37; Pittsburgh 30; Texas A&M 29; Michi- (Gutierrez), 14th minute; 2, Kansas City, Seth Reeves, $42,880 68-69-69-67—273 -11 UConn 94, UMKC 66 Clemson 68, Lipscomb 26
gan State 20; Auburn 19; Troy 17; Appa- Salloi, 12 (Gutierrez), 19th. Tyler Duncan, $32,400 73-65-70-66—274 -10 SOUTH Florida St. 63, Florida 56
lachian State 14; Missouri 13; San Diego Second half—3, Real Salt Lake, Sauce- Kelly Kraft, $32,400 69-64-68-73—274 -10 Alabama 81, Appalachian St. 73 Georgia 85, Winthrop 39
State 10; Wisconsin 7; Arizona State 2; do, 4 (Plata), 60th; 4, Kansas City, San- J. Vegas, $32,400 68-66-71-69—274 -10 Alabama St. 97, LaGrange 63 Georgia Tech 71, Appalachian St. 53
Tennessee 1. chez, 5 (penalty kick), 67th; 5, Real Salt Kevin Chappell, $25,200 65-70-69-71—275 -9 Duke 94, Army 72 Kentucky 91, Southern U. 41
Lake, Kreilach, 15 (Plata), 72nd; 6, Kansas Joel Dahmen, $25,200 69-69-68-69—275 -9 East Carolina 84, Lamar 78, OT LSU 62, N. Colorado 57
City, Salloi, 13, 90th. Oscar Fraustro, $25,200 66-70-71-68—275 -9 FAU 80, UCF 79 Maryland 82, Dayton 71
Tennis Goalies—Real Salt Lake, Nick Riman-
do, Andrew Putna; Kansas City, Tim Me-
Brian Gay, $25,200
J. Lovemark, $25,200
68-63-76-68—275 -9
71-66-69-69—275 -9
Florida St. 80, Tulane 69
Howard 99, Central Penn College 71
Miami 75, Hartford 62
Morehead St. 84, Gardner-Webb 69
lia, Adrian Zendejas. D. McCarthy, $25,200 72-64-69-70—275 -9 Louisiana Tech 76, Sam Houston St. 69 NC State 78, Kent St. 61
Yellow Cards—Kansas City, Rubio, G. Woodland, $25,200 65-73-72-65—275 -9 Marshall 76, Hofstra 72 South Carolina 94, Alabama St. 38
Mississippi St. 77, Hartford 59 Tennessee 97, Presbyterian 49
Nitto ATP Finals 63rd; Espinoza, 82nd. Real Salt Lake, Her-
rera, 49th; Beckerman, 64th.
D. Bozzelli, $18,096 64-67-71-74—276 -8
N. Kentucky 99, Wabash 59 Wake Forest 62, Richmond 48
C. Davis, $18,096 68-68-72-68—276 -8
Sunday A—19,918. J.B. Holmes, $18,096 69-68-71-68—276 -8 Savannah St. 105, Middle Georgia 95 MIDWEST
At O2 Arena VMI 98, Goucher 34 Ball St. 67, Cleveland St. 62
Chris Kirk, $18,096 72-66-67-71—276 -8 Virginia 76, George Washington 57 Indiana 59, Oakland 32
London Adam Schenk, $18,096 66-70-70-70—276 -8
Purse: $8.5 million (Tour Final)
Surface: Hard-Indoor Deals Josh Teater, $18,096
Sam Ryder, $16,704
67-67-69-73—276 -8
69-68-69-71—277 -7
MIDWEST
Creighton 75, ETSU 69
Iowa 93, Green Bay 82
Iowa St. 70, N. Illinois 60
Marquette 102, N. Iowa 61
Michigan St. 75, ETSU 53
Round Robin
Singles Michigan St. 106, Florida Gulf Coast 82 N. Dakota St. 56, New Hampshire 51
Group Lleyton Hewitt Sunday’s transactions Nedbank Challenge Missouri St. 83, Stetson 70
N. Dakota St. 82, UC Santa Barbara 63
Nebraska 87, SC-Upstate 64
New Mexico St. 66, W. Michigan 54
Kevin Anderson (4), South Africa, def.
Dominic Thiem (6), Austria, 6-3, 7-6 (10). BASKETBALL Sunday Nebraska 87, SE Louisiana 35 Northwestern 84, Duke 58
Kei Nishikori (7), Japan, def. Roger Fe- Gary Player Country Club Ohio St. 107, Purdue Fort Wayne 61 Ohio 95, UNC-Wilmington 72
National Basketball Association
derer (2), Switzerland, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Yardage: 7,831; Par: 72 SOUTHWEST Purdue 66, Harvard 65
WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Assigned G Final Southern Miss. 74, SMU 64 South Dakota 96, Incarnate Word 43
Standings: Anderson 1-0 (2-0, 13-9), Chasson Randle to Capital City (NBAGL).
Nishikori 1-0 (2-0, 13-9), Thiem 0-1 (0-2, Lee Westwood, England 71-69-69-64—273 TCU 79, Oral Roberts 62 Xavier 70, Tennessee Tech 60
HOCKEY Sergio Garcia, Spain 64-71-71-70—276 FAR WEST SOUTHWEST
9-13), Federer 0-1 (0-2, 9-13). Arizona 82, Cal Poly 61
National Hockey League L. Oosthuizen, South Africa 69-67-72-69—277 Houston Baptist 92, McMurry 41
ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned D Da- Ross Fisher, England 71-72-67-70—280 Hawaii 90, Humboldt State 54 Oklahoma St. 76, UC Riverside 51
Fed Cup kota Mermis to Tucson (AHL). Haotong Li, China 71-70-75-65—281 North Texas 68, Hawaii 51
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 92, Utah Valley 63
TCU 96, MVSU 47
ECHL Matt Wallace, England 69-72-73-67—281 Texas A&M 73, Jacksonville 53
WORLD GROUP Seattle 82, Bryant 59 Texas Tech 86, Louisiana-Monroe 42
Final ECHL — Suspended Allen’s David Ma- Thomas Detry, Belgium 75-66-68-73—282
Vanderbilt 82, Southern Cal 78 FAR WEST
Czech Republic 3, United States 0 kowski one game and fined him an un- Aaron Rai, England 72-68-75-68—283
Washington St. 89, Nicholls 72 Auburn 79, New Mexico 76
O2 Arena disclosed amount for his actions in Nov. D. Fichardt, South Africa 74-67-71-72—284
Baylor 65, Arizona St. 59
Prague 10 game against Kansas City. Chris Paisley, England 72-75-70-67—284 Denver 92, Air Force 66
Surface: Hard-Indoor COLLEGE L. Bjerregaard, Denmark 75-70-75-65—285 Sunday’s women’s scores Gonzaga 63, E. Washington 51
Sunday D. Burmester, South Africa 72-71-70-72—285 EAST Portland St. 80, San Jose St. 51
LOUISVILLE — Fired football coach B. Grace, South Africa 70-71-74-70—285
Reverse Singles Boston College 89, St. Peter’s 57 Sacramento St. 88, Cal Poly 85
Bobby Petrino, quarterbacks coach Nick M. Lorenzo-Vera, France 68-73-72-72—285
Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, Bucknell 75, Quinnipiac 58 Saint Mary’s 70, Washington St. 64
def. Sofia Kenin, US, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5. Petrino, linebackers coach Ryan Beard, Andrea Pavan, Italy 71-70-75-69—285 California 75, Penn St. 58 San Diego 58, Hawaii 50
Doubles defensive line coach L.D. Scott and direc- Also Dartmouth 66, Vermont 42 Southern Cal 86, Long Beach St. 50
Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Sin- tor of football operations Andy Wagner. Martin Kaymer, Belgium 76-69-71-71—287 Drexel 51, Saint Joseph’s 34 Stanford 115, Idaho 71
iakova, Czech Republic, vs. Danielle Col- Named Lorenzo Ward interim football R. McIlroy, Northern Ireland 72-71-73-71—287 George Washington 64, Princeton 49 UCLA 59, Rice 50
lins and Nicole Melichar, US, not played. coach. P. Harrington, Ireland 73-73-73-69—289 Holy Cross 71, Rider 61 Washington 81, N. Arizona 59
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NHL
Scoreboard
Second Period—4, Winnipeg, Scheifele
Eastern Conference 9 (Trouba), 2:58. 5, New Jersey, Coleman
Atlantic Division 5 (Severson), 3:45. 6, Winnipeg, Ehlers 4
GP W L OT Pts GF GA (Wheeler, Scheifele), 7:54. 7, Winnipeg,
Tampa Bay 17 12 4 1 25 63 48 Perreault 3 (Little, Connor), 12:47.
Toronto 17 11 6 0 22 58 46 Shots on Goal—New Jersey 13-12-11—
Boston 17 10 5 2 22 53 41 36. Winnipeg 11-10-7—28.
Montreal 17 9 5 3 21 58 55 Power-play opportunities—New Jer-
Buffalo 17 9 6 2 20 53 52 sey 0 of 3; Winnipeg 0 of 1.
Ottawa 18 7 8 3 17 62 76 Goalies—New Jersey, Schneider 0-3-0
Detroit 17 7 8 2 16 47 60 (28 shots-23 saves). Winnipeg, Helle-
Florida 14 6 5 3 15 47 45 buyck 7-5-1 (36-34).
Metropolitan Division A—15,321 (15,321). T—2:30.
Columbus 17 9 6 2 20 56 58
Philadelphia 17 9 7 1 19 57 60
N.Y. Islanders 16 8 6 2 18 49 42 Bruins 4, Golden Knights 1
N.Y. Rangers 17 8 7 2 18 50 54 Vegas 0 1 0—1
Pittsburgh 15 7 5 3 17 51 47 Boston 2 1 1—4
Washington 16 7 6 3 17 54 56 First Period—1, Boston, Heinen 2
Carolina 17 7 7 3 17 47 52 (Bjork), 2:54. 2, Boston, Lauzon 1 (Moore,
New Jersey 15 6 8 1 13 45 54 Kuraly), 17:51.
Second Period—3, Boston, Marchand 6
Western Conference (Pastrnak, Bergeron), 0:58. 4, Vegas, Ea-
kin 5 (Tuch), 10:55.
Central Division Third Period—5, Boston, Pastrnak 16
GP W L OT Pts GF GA (Krug, Krejci), 16:08 (pp).
Nashville 16 13 3 0 26 56 35 Shots on Goal—Vegas 15-12-11—38.
Minnesota 17 11 4 2 24 54 44 Boston 11-17-9—37.
Winnipeg 16 10 5 1 21 51 42 Power-play opportunities—Vegas 0 of
Dallas 17 9 6 2 20 50 48 4; Boston 1 of 7.
Colorado 17 8 6 3 19 59 50 Goalies—Vegas, Subban 0-3-0 (37
St. Louis 15 6 6 3 15 52 51 shots-33 saves). Boston, Halak 6-1-2 (38-
Chicago 17 6 8 3 15 49 64 37).
Pacific Division A—17,565 (17,565). T—2:31.
Vancouver 18 10 6 2 22 60 62
Calgary 18 10 7 1 21 56 56
San Jose 18 9 6 3 21 56 55 Panthers 5, Senators 1
Arizona 16 8 7 1 17 45 39
Edmonton 17 8 8 1 17 46 54 Ottawa 1 0 0—1
Anaheim 18 7 8 3 17 42 53 Florida 0 5 0—5
Vegas 18 7 10 1 15 44 54 First Period—1, Ottawa, Dzingel 9 (La-
Los Angeles 16 5 10 1 11 33 50 joie, Tierney), 18:35 (pp).
Note: Two points for a win, one point Second Period—2, Florida, Barkov 4
for overtime loss. Top three teams in (Dadonov, Hoffman), 3:05. 3, Florida, Hu-
each division and two wild cards per berdeau 4 (Trocheck, Yandle), 6:01 (pp). MICHAEL D WYER /AP
conference advance to playoffs. 4, Florida, Barkov 5 (Hoffman, Kiselev-
Saturday’s games ich), 14:57. 5, Florida, Brouwer 3 (Scev- Bruins goalie Jaroslav Halak, right, and Joakim Nordstrom celebrate after defeating the Vegas Golden
Philadelphia 4, Chicago 0 iour, Lammikko), 16:03. 6, Florida, Vatra-
Buffalo 4, Vancouver 3, SO no 5 (Huberdeau, Kiselevich), 18:11. Knights on Sunday in Boston. Halak stopped 37 shots in the 4-1 win.
Nashville 5, Dallas 4, OT Shots on Goal—Ottawa 10-7-18—35.
Boston 5, Toronto 1 Florida 7-22-11—40.
Florida 4, N.Y. Islanders 2
Pittsburgh 4, Arizona 0
Montreal 5, Vegas 4
Power-play opportunities—Ottawa 1
of 5; Florida 1 of 3.
Goalies—Ottawa, McKenna 0-1-0 (40
Roundup

Halak saves 37 for Bruins

Detroit 4, Carolina 3, SO shots-35 saves). Florida, Reimer 2-4-1
Ottawa 6, Tampa Bay 4 (35-34).
N.Y. Rangers 5, Columbus 4, SO A—11,192 (19,250). T—2:36.
Calgary 1, Los Angeles 0
Sunday’s games
Minnesota 3, St. Louis 2 Coyotes 4, Capitals 1
Florida 5, Ottawa 1 Arizona 1 2 1—4
Arizona 4, Washington 1 Washington 0 1 0—1
Winnipeg 5, New Jersey 2 First Period—1, Arizona, Hinostroza 4
Boston 4, Vegas 1 (Panik, Strome), 16:56 (pp).
San Jose 3, Calgary 1 Second Period—2, Arizona, Panik Associated Press “It’s tough, we got into penalty Senators, and Mike McKenna
Colorado 4, Edmonton 1 4, 11:57. 3, Washington, Backstrom 4
Monday’s games trouble there with all those 5-on- stopped 35 shots in his first start
Chicago at Carolina
(Ovechkin, Bowey), 12:41. 4, Arizona, BOSTON — After a rough cou-
Galchenyuk 3 (Ekman-Larsson, Perlini), 3’s,” Subban said. “We didn’t get of the season.
Vancouver at N.Y. Rangers 14:38 (pp). ple of seasons, Jaroslav Halak is
Columbus at Dallas the results we wanted.” Wild 3, Blues 2: Mikael Gran-
Nashville at Anaheim
Third Period—5, Arizona, Stepan 4 at the top of his game again.
(Keller, Galchenyuk), 18:28. One day after his second hat lund scored his 10th goal of the
Tuesday’s games Shots on Goal—Arizona 12-5-5—22. Halak stopped 37 shots to help
Pittsburgh at New Jersey trick of the season, Pastrnak season in the third period to lift
Vancouver at N.Y. Islanders
Washington 10-16-13—39. the Boston Bruins to a 4-1 victory
Power-play opportunities—Arizona 2 scored on the power play for his visiting Minnesota to its fifth win
Florida at Philadelphia of 6; Washington 0 of 2. over the Vegas Golden Knights on
Tampa Bay at Buffalo Goalies—Arizona, Kuemper 3-3-1 (39 Sunday night. league-leading 16th goal to cap in six games.
Arizona at Detroit
Washington at Minnesota
shots-38 saves). Washington, Holtby 5-
“We’ve seen it from Day 1,” the scoring with 3:52 left. Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves,
5-2 (21-18).
Montreal at Edmonton A—18,506 (18,277). T—2:26. Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said Coyotes 4, Capitals 1: Rich- and the Wild won for the 10th
Toronto at Los Angeles
Nashville at San Jose of Halak, who signed with the ard Panik and Alex Galchenyuk time in their last 12. They com-
Wednesday’s games Wild 3, Blues 2 Bruins in July after four seasons each had a goal and an assist, and pleted a franchise-record seven-
Washington at Winnipeg
St. Louis at Chicago Minnesota 0 2 1—3 the Arizona Coyotes became the game road trip at 5-2.
Boston at Colorado St. Louis 1 1 0—2 with the New York Islanders. “I
Anaheim at Vegas First Period—1, St. Louis, Sundqvist 3 couldn’t sit here and tell you that latest team to take advantage of Jets 5, Devils 2: Mark Scheif-
(Barbashev), 19:01.
he would be leading the league in host Washington’s penalty-killing ele had two goals and an assist to
Second Period—2, Minnesota, Parise
Sunday 7 (Niederreiter, Brodin), 1:19. 3, Minne- goals-against or save percentage, struggles. lead host Winnipeg.
Avalanche 4, Oilers 1 sota, Eriksson Ek 1 (Greenway, Coyle),
but the guys are just confident in Galchenyuk and Vinnie Hi- Nikolaj Ehlers added a goal and
1:44. 4, St. Louis, Pietrangelo 3 (Schwartz,
Colorado 2 2 0—4 O’Reilly), 9:37. front of him.” nostroza each scored on the man an assist, and Jack Roslovic and
Edmonton 0 0 1—1 Third Period—5, Minnesota, Granlund advantage for Arizona, which Mathieu Perreault also scored
First Period—1, Colorado, Rantanen 6 10 (Zucker), 7:43. Halak had to play back-to-back
(MacKinnon, Landeskog), 0:26. 2, Colora- Shots on Goal—Minnesota 8-6-4—18. games this weekend with Tuukka snapped a three-game skid in for the Jets. Connor Hellebuyck
do, Soderberg 6 (Calvert, Barrie), 15:33. St. Louis 9-10-12—31. the third game of a four-game stopped 34 shots.
Second Period—3, Colorado, Kerfoot Power-play opportunities—Minnesota Rask on personal leave from the
3 (Girard, Soderberg), 5:06 (pp). 4, Colo- 0 of 2; St. Louis 0 of 2. team and won both while allow- trip. Washington has allowed six Blake Wheeler had two assists,
rado, Barrie 1 (MacKinnon, Rantanen), Goalies—Minnesota, Dubnyk 8-3-2 (31 power-play goals in its past four extending his point streak to 10
10:56. shots-29 saves). St. Louis, Johnson 2-3-0 ing only two goals.
Third Period—5, Edmonton, Rattie 2 (18-15). “I had a good sleep last night,” games. games (two goals, 17 assists).
(Lucic, Larsson), 9:20. A—16,735 (19,150). T—2:32.
Shots on Goal—Colorado 12-10-6—28. Halak said. “It’s different when Darcy Kuemper made 38 saves Sharks 3, Flames 1: Joe Pav-
Edmonton 9-10-8—27. you play at home and you can for the Coyotes, whose top-ranked elski had a goal and two assists,
Power-play opportunities—Colorado
1 of 2; Edmonton 0 of 3. sleep in your own bed.” penalty kill improved to 20 of its Martin Jones stopped 29 shots,
Goalies—Colorado, Varlamov 5-5-2 (27 Halak was the odd man out last 21 after two kills against a and host San Jose snapped a two-
shots-26 saves). Edmonton, Talbot 5-7-1
(15-12), Koskinen 3-1-0 (13-12). for the New York Islanders two Capitals power play that entered game skid.
A—18,347 (18,641). T—2:14.
years ago and spent 27 games in Sunday ranked second in the Evander Kane and Joonas Don-
the minors before being called NHL. skoi each had a goal and an assist
Sharks 3, Flames 1 Panthers 5, Senators 1: Alek- for the Sharks, who had lost four
Calgary 0 1 0—1 back up at the end of the season.
San Jose 1 1 1—3 After two subpar seasons, he is in sander Barkov scored twice dur- of their previous six.
First Period—1, San Jose, Kane 6 (Don- the top three in goals against and ing Florida’s five-goal second Avalanche 4, Oilers 1: Semyon
skoi, Pavelski), 0:50.
Second Period—2, San Jose, Donskoi save percentage and has only one period and the host Panthers won Varlamov stopped 26 shots to help
4 (Pavelski, Kane), 1:28. 3, Calgary, Mo- regulation loss. their fourth straight. visiting Colorado snap a five-
nahan 9 (Jankowski), 6:02.
Third Period—4, San Jose, Pavelski 8 David Pastrnak scored again, Frank Vatrano, Troy Brou- game losing streak.
(Meier, Hertl), 19:08. and Danton Heinen, Jeremy Lau- wer and Jonathan Huberdeau Mikko Rantanen, Carl Soder-
Shots on Goal—Calgary 8-8-14—30.
San Jose 12-11-6—29. zon and Brad Marchand also had also scored, and James Reimer berg and Tyson Barrie each had
Power-play opportunities—Calgary 0 made 33 saves. Reimer started a goal and an assist, and Alexan-
of 0; San Jose 0 of 3. goals as Boston won for the fourth
Goalies—Calgary, Smith 5-6-1 (28 time in six games. Halak has won in place of Roberto Luongo, who der Kerfoot also scored for the
shots-26 saves). San Jose, Jones 8-4-1 was given the night off after play- Avalanche, who led 4-0 midway
(30-29). all three starts against the Gold-
A—17,562 (17,562). T—2:21. en Knights while allowing a total ing in Saturday’s 4-2 win over the through the second period.
of five goals. New York Islanders. Ty Rattie scored in Edmonton’s
Jets 5, Devils 2 TERRY RENNA /AP
Cody Eakin scored for Vegas Mike Hoffman had two as- fourth straight loss. Cam Talbot
New Jersey 1 1 0—2
Winnipeg 2 3 0—5 Panthers goaltender James and Malcolm Subban finished sists and has points in 12 straight stopped 12 of 15 shots before he
First Period—1, Winnipeg, Roslovic 1 Reimer celebrates Sunday after with 33 saves. The Golden games, one short of Pavel Bure’s was replaced 5:06 into the second.
(Byfuglien), 3:02. 2, Winnipeg, Scheifele beating the Ottawa Senators 5-1 Knights lost for the third time in franchise record of 13. Mikko Koskinen came on and fin-
8 (Wheeler, Ehlers), 3:31. 3, New Jersey,
Seney 1 (Bratt, Severson), 7:15. in Sunrise, Fla. four games on their road trip. Ryan Dzingel scored for the ished with 12 saves.
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NBA
Scoreboard
Three-Point Goals—Atlanta 13-37
Eastern Conference (Prince 5-8, Young 4-8, Bazemore 3-5, Len
Atlantic Division 1-4, Poythress 0-1, Bembry 0-2, Spellman
W L Pct GB 0-3, Carter 0-3, Huerter 0-3), L.A. Lakers
Toronto 12 1 .923 — 14-38 (Stephenson 3-5, Caldwell-Pope
Philadelphia 8 6 .571 4½ 3-6, James 3-9, Ball 2-3, Hart 2-7, Kuzma
Boston 7 6 .538 5 1-6, McGee 0-1, Rondo 0-1). Fouled Out—
Brooklyn 6 7 .462 6 None. Rebounds—Atlanta 44 (Len 11), L.A.
New York 4 10 .286 8½ Lakers 48 (McGee 9). Assists—Atlanta 25
Southeast Division (Young 12), L.A. Lakers 28 (Ball 11). Total
Charlotte 7 6 .538 — Fouls—Atlanta 23, L.A. Lakers 23. Techni-
Orlando 6 7 .462 1 cals—Bazemore. A—18,997 (18,997).
Miami 5 7 .417 1½
Washington 3 9 .250 3½
Atlanta 3 10 .231 4 Trail Blazers 100, Celtics 94
Central Division BOSTON — Tatum 9-18 4-4 27, Hay-
Milwaukee 10 3 .769 — ward 3-7 0-0 7, Horford 4-14 2-4 10, Irving
Indiana 8 6 .571 2½ 9-24 0-0 21, Brown 2-7 2-2 7, Theis 0-1 0-
Detroit 6 6 .500 3½ 0 0, Morris 5-11 0-0 13, Baynes 1-1 0-0 2,
Chicago 4 9 .308 6 Smart 0-3 0-0 0, Rozier 3-7 0-0 7. Totals
Cleveland 1 11 .083 8½ 36-93 8-10 94.
PORTLAND — Layman 3-3 0-0 8, Aminu
Western Conference 3-8 2-4 11, Nurkic 8-14 2-2 18, Lillard 7-15
3-3 19, McCollum 6-15 1-1 14, Leonard 3-
Southwest Division 8 0-0 8, Collins 3-6 0-0 6, Curry 3-5 0-0 9,
W L Pct GB Stauskas 1-4 0-0 3, Turner 2-8 0-0 4. Totals
San Antonio 7 4 .636 — 39-86 8-10 100.
Memphis 7 4 .636 — Boston 21 16 33 24— 94
New Orleans 6 6 .500 1½
Houston 5 7 .417 2½ Portland 26 28 29 17—100
Dallas 4 8 .333 3½ Three-Point Goals—Boston 14-42 (Ta-
Northwest Division tum 5-9, Morris 3-6, Irving 3-10, Rozier
Portland 10 3 .769 — 1-3, Hayward 1-3, Brown 1-4, Smart 0-1,
Denver 9 4 .692 1 Theis 0-1, Horford 0-5), Portland 14-
Oklahoma City 7 5 .583 2½ 36 (Curry 3-4, Aminu 3-7, Layman 2-2,
Utah 6 6 .500 3½ Leonard 2-3, Lillard 2-7, Stauskas 1-3,
Minnesota 4 9 .308 6 McCollum 1-6, Collins 0-1, Turner 0-3).
Pacific Division Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Boston
M ARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ /AP 42 (Hayward 9), Portland 55 (Nurkic 17).
Golden State 11 2 .846 —
L.A. Clippers 7 5 .583 3½ Assists—Boston 19 (Irving 6), Portland 22
The Lakers’ Tyson Chandler, right, celebrates with teammate LeBron James after Chandler blocked a L.A. Lakers 7 6 .538 4 (Lillard 12). Total Fouls—Boston 16, Port-
shot from the Hawks’ Trae Young as time expired during Sunday’s game in Los Angeles. The Lakers won Sacramento 7 6 .538 4 land 14. Technicals—Boston coach Celt-
Phoenix 2 10 .167 8½ ics (Defensive three second). A—19,712
107-106. Atlanta has just one win on the road this season. Saturday’s games (19,393).
Toronto 128, New York 112
L.A. Clippers 128, Milwaukee 126, OT Bucks 121, Nuggets 114
Roundup New Orleans 119, Phoenix 99
Chicago 99, Cleveland 98 MILWAUKEE — Middleton 8-12 2-2 21,
Antetokounmpo 11-16 0-5 22, Lopez 10-17

James, Lakers clip Hawks

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — LeBron James scored 26 points
and dunked for the winning basket in the final sec-
onds, lifting the Los Angeles Lakers to a 107-106 vic-
tory over the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night.
Kyle Kuzma added 18 points for the Lakers’ fifth
win in six games.
Kuzma’s layup tied the game at 104-all with 1:34
to go.
Kent Bazemore was called for a technical at the
end of that play and Kuzma made the free throw for
a 105-104 lead.
Vince Carter dunked to put the Hawks back up
106-105.
James got fouled at the other end and missed
both. But the Lakers got the offensive rebound and
Kuzma charged into the paint amid three defenders
for a shot from the left side. It missed.
James was waiting on the right, dunking for a 107-
106 lead.
Taurean Prince led the Hawks with 23 points,
Bazemore added 21 and Trae Young had 20 for
Atlanta.
Rockets 115, Pacers 103: James Harden scored
a season-high 40 points and Chris Paul added 26 to
help Houston to its first home win of the season.
Clint Capela had 18 points and seven rebounds for
the Rockets, who had lost the last two games of a
season-long five-game road trip, dropped their first
four home games.
Houston was up by 10 with about four minutes left
after five quick points by the Pacers, but Harden
made two free throws after that to stretch the lead.
The Pacers got within 8 on a basket by Cory Joseph
with about 90 seconds left, but Paul made a layup a
few seconds later to put the game out of reach.
Victor Oladipo had 22 for the Pacers, who have
lost three of their last four games. Bojan Bogdanovic
added 20 points and had six assists, and Darren Col-
lison had 13 points.
Hornets 113, Pistons 103: Tony Parker scored
24 points, Kemba Walker had 24 points and seven
assists in the win for visiting Charlotte.
Cody Zeller added 14 points to help the Hornets
win for the third time in four games.
Andre Drummond had 23 points and 22 rebounds
for the Pistons, and Reggie Bullock had a career-
high 23 points, hitting six three-pointers. Detroit
has lost six of eight after a 4-0 start.
Detroit’s Blake Griffin was given a flagrant-2 foul
and ejected with 7:06 to play for a shoulder check on
Malik Monk.
DAVID Z ALUBOWSKI /AP
The Bucks’ Brook Lopez, right, hits a three over
the Nuggets’ Mason Plumlee on Sunday in Denver.
Lopez had a career-high eight three-pointers and
28 points in Milwaukee’s 121-114 win.
Bucks 121, Nuggets 114: Brook Lopez had a
career-high eight three-pointers and 28 points to
help Milwaukee snap an eight-game skid in Denver.
All five Bucks starters scored in double figures
and four of them had 20 or more points in Milwau-
kee’s first win at the Pepsi Center since 2010.
Trail Blazers 100, Celtics 94: Damian Lillard
had 19 points and 12 assists and host Portland won
for the seventh time in its last eight games.
Jayson Tatum matched his regular-season career
high with 27 points and Kyrie Irving added 21 for
the Celtics. They finished 1-4 on their road trip.
Magic 115, Knicks 89: At New York, Terrence
Ross scored 22 points, Nikola Vucevic had 21 points
and 14 rebounds, and Orlando won its second
straight and for the fourth time in five games.
Harlem native Mo Bamba played his first NBA
game at Madison Square Garden and had 15 points
and eight rebounds.
Memphis 112, Philadelphia 106, OT
Washington 116, Miami 110
Golden State 116, Brooklyn 100
San Antonio 96, Houston 89
Dallas 111, Oklahoma City 96
L.A. Lakers 101, Sacramento 86
Sunday’s games
Charlotte 113, Detroit 103
Houston 115, Indiana 103
Orlando 115, New York 89
Milwaukee 121, Denver 114
Portland 100, Boston 94
L.A. Lakers 107, Atlanta 106
Monday’s games
Orlando at Washington
New Orleans at Toronto
Philadelphia at Miami
Brooklyn at Minnesota
Dallas at Chicago
Phoenix at Oklahoma City
Utah at Memphis
San Antonio at Sacramento
Golden State at L.A. Clippers
Tuesday’s games
Charlotte at Cleveland
Houston at Denver
Atlanta at Golden State
Wednesday’s games
Cleveland at Washington
Philadelphia at Orlando
Chicago at Boston
Detroit at Toronto
Miami at Brooklyn
Memphis at Milwaukee
New Orleans at Minnesota
New York at Oklahoma City
Utah at Dallas
San Antonio at Phoenix
Portland at L.A. Lakers
Sunday
Hornets 113, Pistons 103
CHARLOTTE — Batum 2-6 0-0 5, Wil-
liams 3-9 1-2 10, Zeller 5-11 4-4 14, Walker
9-17 4-4 24, Lamb 4-6 0-0 10, Bridges 3-4
2-2 8, Kidd-Gilchrist 2-3 1-2 5, Hernango-
mez 4-6 0-0 9, Graham 0-0 0-0 0, Parker
11-18 0-0 24, Monk 0-5 4-4 4, Bacon 0-0 0-0
0. Totals 43-85 16-18 113.
DETROIT — Robinson III 2-9 0-0 5,
Griffin 4-16 2-3 10, Drummond 9-16 5-7
23, Jackson 6-15 5-6 19, Bullock 7-13 3-3
23, Johnson 2-9 0-0 4, Pachulia 1-2 0-0 2,
Smith 3-12 0-0 7, Calderon 0-3 0-0 0, Gal-
loway 4-9 0-0 10. Totals 38-104 15-19 103.
Charlotte 24 27 32 30—113
Detroit 27 22 26 28—103
Three-Point Goals—Charlotte 11-
28 (Williams 3-7, Parker 2-2, Lamb 2-2,
Walker 2-5, Hernangomez 1-2, Batum 1-
4, Bridges 0-1, Zeller 0-1, Kidd-Gilchrist
0-1, Monk 0-3), Detroit 12-45 (Bullock 6-
9, Galloway 2-6, Jackson 2-8, Smith 1-6,
Robinson III 1-6, Calderon 0-2, Johnson
0-3, Griffin 0-5). Fouled Out—Zeller. Re-
bounds—Charlotte 46 (Bridges, Batum
8), Detroit 51 (Drummond 22). Assists—
Charlotte 24 (Walker 8), Detroit 21 (Jack-
son 7). Total Fouls—Charlotte 26, Detroit
18. Technicals—Walker, Griffin. Ejected—
Griffin. A—15,133 (20,491).
Lakers 107, Hawks 106
ATLANTA — Prince 9-13 0-0 23, Spell-
man 1-7 0-0 2, Len 8-16 0-0 17, Young 8-18
0-0 20, Bazemore 7-12 4-4 21, Bembry 3-6
3-4 9, Poythress 0-1 0-0 0, Plumlee 1-3 2-3
4, Lin 2-7 2-2 6, Carter 2-6 0-0 4, Huerter
0-6 0-0 0. Totals 41-95 11-13 106.
L.A. LAKERS — James 10-20 3-7 26, Kuz-
ma 8-18 1-1 18, McGee 3-9 2-4 8, Ball 2-5
2-2 8, Ingram 3-8 4-6 10, Chandler 2-4 0-0
4, Rondo 1-4 0-0 2, Stephenson 3-7 2-2 11,
Caldwell-Pope 4-8 0-0 11, Hart 3-9 1-2 9.
Totals 39-92 15-24 107.
Atlanta 22 31 22 31—106
L.A. Lakers 28 24 32 23—107
0-0 28, Bledsoe 4-10 3-3 12, Brogdon 7-13
3-3 20, Ilyasova 3-5 0-0 6, Henson 1-3 0-0 3,
Connaughton 1-3 0-0 2, DiVincenzo 1-3 0-
0 2, Snell 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 48-84 8-13 121.
DENVER — Hernangomez 3-5 0-0 8, Mill-
sap 6-14 8-11 25, Jokic 7-14 2-2 20, Murray
7-16 0-0 14, Harris 5-14 3-5 15, Plumlee 0-1
1-2 1, Lyles 7-11 0-0 16, M.Morris 2-6 0-0 5,
Beasley 4-8 0-0 10. Totals 41-89 14-20 114.
Milwaukee 33 30 36 22—121
Denver 35 24 29 26—114
Three-Point Goals—Milwaukee 17-
34 (Lopez 8-13, Brogdon 3-3, Middleton
3-5, Snell 1-1, Henson 1-2, Bledsoe 1-3,
Antetokounmpo 0-1, Connaughton 0-2,
DiVincenzo 0-2, Ilyasova 0-2), Denver 18-
38 (Millsap 5-8, Jokic 4-8, Hernangomez
2-3, Beasley 2-4, Lyles 2-5, Harris 2-6,
M.Morris 1-2, Plumlee 0-1, Murray 0-1).
Fouled Out—Ilyasova. Rebounds—Mil-
waukee 41 (Antetokounmpo 9), Denver
39 (Millsap 8). Assists—Milwaukee 27
(Antetokounmpo 8), Denver 27 (M.Morris
10). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 17, Denver
16. A—19,520 (19,520).
Magic 115, Knicks 89
ORLANDO — Iwundu 3-8 0-0 7, Martin
2-10 2-2 7, Vucevic 10-17 0-0 21, Fournier
5-13 0-0 12, Augustin 3-7 0-0 9, Frazier Jr.
0-1 0-0 0, Birch 2-3 0-0 4, Bamba 5-11 4-5
15, Briscoe 0-1 0-0 0, Simmons 3-9 3-3 9,
Grant 3-6 0-0 9, Ross 8-12 1-1 22. Totals
44-98 10-11 115.
NEW YORK — Dotson 2-4 0-0 5, Vonleh
2-6 0-0 4, Robinson 2-3 0-0 4, Ntilikina 0-3
0-0 0, Hardaway Jr. 2-12 3-4 7, Knox 4-11
7-10 17, Hezonja 3-9 4-6 12, Kanter 7-15
2-2 16, Burke 5-13 0-0 10, Mudiay 1-4 1-3
3, Trier 3-8 3-3 9, Baker 0-0 2-2 2. Totals
31-88 22-30 89.
Orlando 30 35 22 28—115
New York 10 30 20 29— 89
Three-Point Goals—Orlando 17-42
(Ross 5-8, Augustin 3-5, Grant 3-6, Fourni-
er 2-6, Iwundu 1-2, Bamba 1-3, Vucevic
1-3, Martin 1-5, Frazier Jr. 0-1, Simmons
0-3), New York 5-28 (Hezonja 2-3, Knox
2-6, Dotson 1-2, Vonleh 0-1, Kanter 0-1,
Ntilikina 0-2, Trier 0-2, Mudiay 0-2, Burke
0-3, Hardaway Jr. 0-6). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Orlando 50 (Vucevic 14), New
York 56 (Kanter 15). Assists—Orlando 31
(Grant 8), New York 13 (Burke 5). Total
Fouls—Orlando 21, New York 21. Tech-
nicals—Iwundu, Orlando coach Magic
(Defensive three second), Simmons.
A—19,812 (19,812).
Rockets 115, Pacers 103
INDIANA — Bogdanovic 6-11 5-5 20,
Young 6-9 1-2 13, Turner 3-7 3-3 9, Col-
lison 5-10 0-1 13, Oladipo 7-24 5-6 22,
McDermott 1-2 1-1 4, Sabonis 4-4 3-6 11,
O’Quinn 0-0 0-0 0, Joseph 2-4 0-0 5, Evans
2-7 2-2 6. Totals 36-78 20-26 103.
HOUSTON — Ennis III 0-3 0-2 0, Tucker
4-6 0-0 12, Capela 8-9 2-5 18, Paul 8-13 5-7
26, Harden 9-20 14-15 40, Hartenstein 2-4
0-0 4, Clark 2-5 1-1 6, Gordon 3-14 1-2 9.
Totals 36-74 23-32 115.
Indiana 31 23 27 22—103
Houston 32 44 26 13—115
Three-Point Goals—Indiana 11-29
(Bogdanovic 3-5, Collison 3-5, Oladipo 3-
10, McDermott 1-2, Joseph 1-3, Young 0-2,
Evans 0-2), Houston 20-47 (Harden 8-18,
Paul 5-8, Tucker 4-6, Gordon 2-9, Clark
1-4, Ennis III 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Re-
bounds—Indiana 35 (Oladipo 10), Hous-
ton 38 (Clark 8). Assists—Indiana 24
(Oladipo 7), Houston 18 (Harden 9). Total
Fouls—Indiana 22, Houston 22. Techni-
cals—Indiana coach Pacers (Defensive
three second) 2, Oladipo, Houston coach
Rockets (Defensive three second), Hard-
en. A—18,055 (18,500).
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
AUTO RACING/COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Kyle Busch (18) leads Brad Keselowski on lap 120 of Sunday’s race in Avondale, Ariz. Busch won for
the eighth time this year to tie Kevin Harvick for the most Cup victories.
Four-way title showdown set
Busch matches Harvick
with eighth win of season
BY JENNA FRYER
Associated Press
AVONDALE, Ariz. — The
three most dominant drivers of
this NASCAR season will fitting-
ly race each other for the champi-
onship, a chance for Kyle Busch,
Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex
Jr. to settle which team is truly
the best.
It was Busch who claimed the
latest round, winning for the
eighth time this year Sunday to
tie Harvick for the most Cup vic-
tories. His win at ISM Raceway
outside of Phoenix was the final
qualifying event for next week’s
finale at Homestead-Miami
Speedway, where it will be win-
ner-take-all between NASCAR’s
so-called Big Three and the driv-
er once called “Sliced Bread.”
Busch, Harvick and reigning
series champion Martin Truex
Jr., coined The Big Three be-
cause of how they dominated the
regular season, advanced into the
championship round as expected.
Joey Logano, nicknamed “Sliced
Bread” before his NASCAR debut
at age 18 because he was predict-
ed to be “the best thing since ...,”
has the fourth spot.
The field is two Ford drivers,
two Toyota drivers and repre-
sents four organizations. Chevro-
let was shut out of the finale.
“I don’t know how you could
pick a favorite necessarily,”
Busch said. “I would predict this
is the best four, the closest four
that have been in our sport in a
long time.
Busch and Harvick have gone
win-for-win all year, and Busch
could have controlled Harvick’s
fate late in the race when he was
lined up against Harvick team-
mate Aric Almirola on a restart.
An Almirola victory would have
eliminated Harvick from the
Kevin Harvick leads Chase Elliott on lap four during Sunday’s
NASCAR Cup Series race in Avondale, Ariz. Harvick qualified for
next week’s finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway along with Joey
Logano, Martin Truex Jr., and Kyle Busch.
playoffs, which Busch acknowl-
edged considering.
“I did think about it,” Busch
said. “But I’m here to win the
race. They always want it to play
out naturally.”
Now Busch might just have the
momentum to take the title.
“I’d like to think it gives us a lot
[of momentum] but I don’t know,
talk is cheap,” Busch said. “We’ve
got to be able to go out there and
perform and just do what we need
to do.”
Harvick was the favorite to
win Sunday and started from the
pole but an early flat tire made
Sunday’s race more eventful than
Harvick expected.
He found himself racing late
against Stewart-Haas Racing
teammates Kurt Busch and Aric
Almirola for the fourth transfer
spot to Homestead, but Busch was
wrecked late and Almirola had to
win the race to snatch the berth
away from Harvick.
“We kept ourselves in position
all day and there at the end, it was
just like everybody wrecking and
all over the place,” Harvick said.
“We just needed to stay out of
•STA R S A N D ST R I P E S
PHOTOS BY RICK SCUTERI /AP
trouble and try to find a safe spot
there.”
Brad Keselowski and Kyle Lar-
son, both already eliminated from
the playoffs, finished second and
third. Almirola was fourth and
Harvick fifth.
Harvick was stripped of his
berth to Homestead that he’d
earned by winning a week ago
at Texas when NASCAR ruled
his car was illegal. The penalty
forced him to requalify and he
had to do it without his crew chief
or car chief. But he’s a nine-time
winner at this track, was fastest
in practice, started on the pole
and led the first 72 laps before his
tire went flat.
That put Harvick back in 30th
and one lap down, and he had to
work his way back to the front the
rest of the race. He was aided by
a flurry of mistakes by the other
ontenders. Clint Bowyer had a
flat tire that caused him to wreck,
Kurt Busch was wrecked and that
accident collected Chase Elliott,
who earlier had been penalized for
speeding on pit road. Kurt Busch
also had been penalized early in
the race for passing the pace car.
• F3HIJKLM
Top 25 roundup
No. 4 Duke pulls away
from Army in 2nd half
Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. — Zion Wil-
liamson had 27 points and 16 re-
bounds, and No. 4 Duke pulled
away to beat Army 94-72 on
Sunday.
Cameron Reddish finished with
25 points and a third freshman
— RJ Barrett — had 23 while
Williamson added six blocked
shots and four assists for the Blue
Devils (2-0).
Playing five days after routing
No. 2 Kentucky in the Champions
Classic, they shot 49 percent but
couldn’t shake the Black Knights
until the final 10 minutes, finally
pulling away with an 11-0 run
keyed by three-pointers from
Barrett and Reddish.
Matt Wilson scored 15 points
and Tommy Funk added 10 for
Army (1-1), and Funk hit back-
to-back threes to pull the Black
Knights to 67-61 with just over 12
minutes left.
Reddish hit a driving layup, and
he and Barrett each hit threes
on consecutive possessions to
push the lead into double figures
for good. Reddish added another
three to stretch the lead to 78-61
with just over 9 minutes left, and
the Blue Devils eventually went
up by 20 on Williamson’s stickback
with less than 4 minutes to play.
No. 5 Virginia 76, George
Washington 57: Kyle Guy and
Ty Jerome scored 20 points each
and Virginia rolled over visiting
George Washington.
Guy scored 17 in the first half,
matching the Colonials’ total,
as Virginia (2-0) opened a 42-17
lead at the break. He and Jerome
had outscored the Colonials 27-26
when they both got an extended
break midway through the sec-
ond half with Virginia comfort-
ably ahead.
The Colonials (0-3) attempted
to make a run in the second half,
making six of their first nine
shots, including four three-point-
ers. They got within 42-25 by
scoring the first eight points after
halftime, but Virginia scored the
next six and the visitors never
threatened again.
No. 10 Michigan State 106,
Duke’s Zion Williamson, left, drives to the basket against Army’s
Ben Kinker during the first half of Sunday’s game in Durham, N.C.
PAGE 27
Florida Gulf Coast 82: Nick Ward
had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and
Joshua Langford added 18 points
to lead host Michigan State.
The Spartans (1-1) were barely
challenged in their home opener
and rebounded comfortably from
a season-opening loss to Kansas.
Michigan State led 59-35 at half-
time on the strength of a dominat-
ing performance on the boards.
Troy Baxter and Christian Car-
lyle led FGCU (1-2) with 20 points
apiece.
No. 17 Florida State 80, Tu-
lane 69: At New Orleans, Ter-
ance Mann had 21 points and
10 rebounds, PJ Savoy added 14
points and Florida State wore
down a feisty and seemingly im-
proved Tulane squad.
Tulane was buoyed by the
debut of freshman Kevin Zhang,
who scored 24 points, including
10 points during a mid-second-
half surge that briefly pulled the
Green Wave as close as 62-56.
But Christ Koumadje’s dunk
sparked a 10-0 Seminoles run
that included layups by Mann and
Trent Forest, and FSU maintained
a double-digit lead for most of the
final seven minutes. Forrest fin-
ished with 13 points and Mfiondu
Kabengele scored 12 for Florida
State (2-0).
Samir Sehic scored 19 points
for Tulane (0-1), but took only
four shots in the second half and
missed all of them.
No. 18 Mississippi St 77,
Hartford 59: Quinndary Weath-
erspoon scored a season-high 22
points for host Mississippi State.
Tyson Carter added 14 points
for the Bulldogs (2-0), and Aric
Holman had 12 points and eight
rebounds.
Jason Dunne led Hartford (0-3)
with 17 points, and John Carroll
added 16.
No. 20 TCU 79, Oral Roberts
62: Alex Robinson scored 23
points, Desmond Bane added 22
and the host Horned Frogs never
trailed after struggling in the
opener.
TCU (2-0) was sluggish open-
ing the season as a ranked team
for the first time in 20 years.
G ERRY BROOME /AP
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NFL
American Conference Rivers leads Chargers
East

New England
W
7
L T
3 0
Pct
.700
PF
280
PA
236
to sixth straight win
Miami 5 5 0 .500 199 256 OAKLAND, Calif. — Philip
Buffalo 3 7 0 .300 137 251
N.Y. Jets 3 7 0 .300 208 254 Rivers took nearly 20 minutes to
South complete his first pass, the Los
Houston 6 3 0 .667 216 184
Tennessee 5 4 0 .556 168 151 Angeles Chargers got gashed on a
Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 260 239 long fake punt and the offense put
Jacksonville 3 6 0 .333 160 199
North up a season low in yards.
Pittsburgh 6 2 1 .722 279 209 Despite a few hiccups along the
Cincinnati 5 4 0 .556 235 288
Baltimore 4 5 0 .444 213 160 way, the Chargers still managed
Cleveland 3 6 1 .350 218 263 to pull off a win over the Raiders
West
Kansas City 9 1 0 .900 353 240 for their longest winning streak
L.A. Chargers 7 2 0 .778 240 186 in nine years.
Denver 3 6 0 .333 205 213
Oakland 1 8 0 .111 147 272 Rivers overcame the slow start
to throw two touchdown passes,
National Conference Melvin Gordon gained 165 yards
East and the Chargers won their sixth
W L T Pct PF PA
Washington 6 3 0 .667 176 175 straight game.
Dallas 4 5 0 .444 181 171 “You got to win these games,”
Philadelphia 4 5 0 .444 198 183
N.Y. Giants 1 7 0 .125 150 205 Rivers said. “Just find a way to
South win them. It doesn’t matter.”
New Orleans 8 1 0 .889 330 232
Carolina 6 3 0 .667 241 232 Rivers found his stride in time
Atlanta 4 5 0 .444 244 254 to throw an 11-yard TD pass to
Tampa Bay 3 6 0 .333 232 291
North Keenan Allen in the second quar-
Chicago 6 3 0 .667 269 175 ter to give the Chargers the lead
Minnesota 5 3 1 .611 221 204
Green Bay 4 4 1 .500 223 216 for good
Detroit 3 6 0 .333 202 244

L.A. Rams
West
9 1 0 .900 335 231
Chargers 20, Raiders 6
Seattle 4 5 0 .444 219 192 L.A. Chargers 0 10 7 3—20 JOHN SLEEZER, THE K ANSAS CITY STAR /AP
Arizona 2 7 0 .222 124 225 Oakland 3 0 0 3— 6
San Francisco 2 7 0 .222 207 239 First Quarter
Oak—FG Carlson 46, 2:51. Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill takes control of the end zone television camera after catching a
Thursday’s game
Pittsburgh 52, Carolina 21 Second Quarter touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes in the second quarter on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.
Sunday’s games LAC—FG Badgley 27, 5:47.
New Orleans 51, Cincinnati 14 LAC—Allen 11 pass from Rivers
(Badgley kick), :24.
Cleveland 28, Atlanta 16
Kansas City 26, Arizona 14 Third Quarter Mahomes throws 2 TDs Barkley, Bills light up Defense forces 4 TOs
LAC—Gordon 66 pass from Rivers
Tennessee 34, New England 10
Washington 16, Tampa Bay 3
(Badgley kick), 12:32.
Fourth Quarter
as Chiefs beat Cardinals listless Jets in laugher as Redskins stop Bucs
Indianapolis 29, Jacksonville 26 Oak—FG Carlson 30, 14:49.
Buffalo 41, N.Y. Jets 10 LAC—FG Badgley 41, 7:12. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. TAMPA, Fla. — Washington
Chicago 34, Detroit 22 A—54,750. Mahomes will always have some — Matt Barkley had just put the yielded 501 yards and forced
L.A. Chargers 20, Oakland 6 LAC Oak
Green Bay 31, Miami 12 First downs 16 16 special TV footage of the Kansas finishing touches on a stunning Tampa Bay to punt once all day.
L.A. Rams 36, Seattle 31 victory when he jogged over to Sounds like a blueprint for a lop-
Dallas 27, Philadelphia 20
Total Net Yards 335 317 City Chiefs celebrating his re-
Rushes-yards 26-113 22-114
Open: Minnesota, Denver, Baltimore, Passing 222 203 cord-setting touchdown pass in a the sideline, found his mother in sided loss, yet there the Redskins
Houston the stands and handed her his were in the visiting locker room
Monday’s game
Punt Returns 2-15 3-8 win over the Cardinals.
Kickoff Returns 2-41 5-96
N.Y. Giants at San Francisco Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0 That’s because Tyreek Hill was well-deserved game ball. celebrating a victory that kept
Thursday, Nov. 15 Comp-Att-Int 18-26-1 24-37-0 It was quite a moment for the them alone atop the NFC East.
Green Bay at Seattle Sacked-Yards Lost 1-1 4-40
the one recording it.
Sunday, Nov. 18 Punts 4-42.8 3-54.0 Mahomes threw for 249 yards Bills quarterback, who looked That’s what four takeaways,
Houston at Washington Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 nothing like a guy who had no job three of them foiling scoring op-
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville Penalties-Yards 6-70 6-55
with two TD strikes to Hill, but
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants Time of Possession 28:50 31:10 it was the second one that sent and an uncertain future just a few portunities, will do for a team
Dallas at Atlanta INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS weeks ago. that struggles to score points.
Cincinnati at Baltimore RUSHING—Los Angeles, Gordon 18-
the Chiefs’ first-year starter past
Carolina at Detroit 93, Ekeler 3-19, Watt 2-2, Rivers 1-1, Hall of Famer Len Dawson for the Barkley sparked Buffalo’s bum- “We gave up some yards. They
Tennessee at Indianapolis M.Williams 1-0, Benjamin 1-(minus 2). bling offense with two touchdown had great time of possession and
Denver at L.A. Chargers Oakland, Martin 15-61, Townsend 1-42, single-season TD record. It was
Oakland at Arizona Richard 3-7, Bryant 1-2, Carr 2-2. the 31st for Mahomes — with six passes, LeSean McCoy broke out some great drives, but we were
Philadelphia at New Orleans PASSING—Los Angeles, Rivers 18-26- of a season-long slump with 113 able to keep them out of the end
Minnesota at Chicago 1-223. Oakland, Carr 24-37-0-243. games yet to play — and it helped
Open: Buffalo, San Francisco, Miami, RECEIVING—Los Angeles, Allen 6-57, lift Kansas City to a 26-14 victory yards rushing and a pair of TD zone,” coach Jay Gruden said.
New England, Cleveland, N.Y. Jets Gordon 5-72, Ty.Williams 4-46, Green 2-30, runs, and the Bills embarrassed “You’ve got to keep playing until
Monday, Nov. 19 Gates 1-18. Oakland, Richard 5-52, Cook over the Cardinals and another
Kansas City vs L.A. Rams at Mexico 4-52, LaFell 4-47, Roberts 3-39, Martin 3- game closer to the No. 1 seed in the New York Jet. the drives are over, and good
City 31, Bryant 3-17, Carrier 1-5, D.Harris 1-0. “For me, I knew I could play in things will happen. We did that.”
the playoffs.
Hill celebrated the score by this league,” Barkley said. “I feel Alex Smith threw for 178 yards
leaping into the stands, then com- like I was made to play football and one touchdown, while Dustin
mandeering the CBS camera — and [today] was an example of Hopkins kicked three field goals
earning him an unsportsmanlike going out there and doing what I for the Redskins (6-3), who im-
conduct penalty from the officials was made to do.” proved their turnover differential
and a sharp rebuke from coach to plus-11 and won despite playing
Bills 41, Jets 10 with a makeshift offensive line
Andy Reid. Buffalo 14 17 7 3—41
New York 0 3 7 0—10
because of mounting injuries.
Chiefs 26, Cardinals 14 First Quarter
Arizona 7 0 7 0—14
Buf—McCoy 28 run (Hauschka kick), Redskins 16, Buccaneers 3
14:11.
Kansas City 10 10 0 6—26 Buf—Croom 0 fumble recovery (Haus- Washington 3 3 0 10—16
First Quarter chka kick), 2:12. Tampa Bay 0 3 0 0— 3
KC—Hill 37 pass from Mahomes (But- Second Quarter First Quarter
ker kick), 14:04. Buf—FG Hauschka 54, 13:52. Was—FG Hopkins 43, :10.
Ari—Johnson 9 pass from Rosen (Daw- Buf—Dawkins 7 pass from Barkley Second Quarter
son kick), 8:03. (Hauschka kick), 7:58. TB—FG Catanzaro 33, 2:03.
KC—FG Butker 45, 3:00. Buf—McCoy 1 run (Hauschka kick), :42. Was—FG Hopkins 43, :20.
Second Quarter NYJ—FG Myers 55, :00. Fourth Quarter
KC—FG Butker 46, 12:29. Third Quarter Was—Doctson 6 pass from A.Smith
KC—Hill 14 pass from Mahomes (But- NYJ—Crowell 5 run (Myers kick), 6:32. (Hopkins kick), 14:07.
ker kick), 5:31. Buf—Z.Jones 8 pass from Barkley Was—FG Hopkins 26, 12:03.
Third Quarter (Hauschka kick), :33. A—52,667.
Ari—Johnson 1 run (Dawson kick), Fourth Quarter Was TB
7:48. Buf—FG Hauschka 31, 2:44. First downs 15 29
Fourth Quarter A—77,982. Total Net Yards 286 501
KC—Ware 3 run (pass failed), 10:14. Buf NYJ Rushes-yards 25-116 24-103
A—76,712. First downs 23 12 Passing 170 398
Ari KC Total Net Yards 451 199 Punt Returns 0-0 1-8
First downs 21 20 Rushes-yards 46-212 18-83 Kickoff Returns 1-19 0-0
Total Net Yards 260 330 Passing 239 116 Interceptions Ret. 2-55 0-0
Rushes-yards 25-94 23-118 Punt Returns 5-59 1-15 Comp-Att-Int 19-27-0 29-41-2
Passing 166 212 Kickoff Returns 1-33 6-142 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-8 2-8
Punt Returns 3-8 2-0 Interceptions Ret. 2-45 0-0 Punts 5-49.4 1-44.0
Kickoff Returns 3-89 2-22 Comp-Att-Int 16-26-0 17-34-2 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 4-2
Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-39 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-8 3-19 Penalties-Yards 8-52 5-50
Comp-Att-Int 22-39-2 21-28-0 Punts 4-43.5 7-44.6 Time of Possession 28:49 31:11
Sacked-Yards Lost 5-42 5-37 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Punts 5-49.4 5-46.6 Penalties-Yards 4-30 1-10 RUSHING—Washington, Peterson 19-
Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Time of Possession 39:22 20:38 68, Bibbs 3-28, A.Smith 2-16, M.Harris 1-4.
Penalties-Yards 3-30 8-63 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Tampa Bay, Barber 13-61, Fitzpatrick 8-
Time of Possession 31:47 28:13 RUSHING—Buffalo, McCoy 26-113, 35, Wilson 2-7, Rodgers 1-0.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS M.Murphy 14-69, McKenzie 3-32, Barkley PASSING—Washington, A.Smith 19-
RUSHING—Arizona, Johnson 21-98, Ed- 3-(minus 2). New York, Cannon 4-30, Mc- 27-0-178. Tampa Bay, Fitzpatrick 29-41-
monds 2-7, Rosen 1-(minus 1), J.Nelson Guire 6-30, Crowell 7-19, McCown 1-4. 2-406.
1-(minus 10). Kansas City, Hunt 16-71, PASSING—Buffalo, Barkley 15-25-0- RECEIVING—Washington, M.Harris 5-
Mahomes 4-21, Hill 1-20, Ware 2-6. 232, Thomas 1-1-0-15. New York, McCown 52, Reed 4-51, Doctson 4-46, Floyd 2-15,
PASSING—Arizona, Rosen 22-39-2-208. 17-34-2-135. Bibbs 2-13, Peterson 2-1. Tampa Bay,
Kansas City, Mahomes 21-28-0-249. RECEIVING—Buffalo, Z.Jones 8-93, Rodgers 8-102, Godwin 7-103, Jackson
JOHN HEFTI /AP RECEIVING—Arizona, Johnson 7-85, Foster 3-105, Holmes 1-22, McKenzie 1- 5-67, M.Evans 3-51, Humphries 2-53,
Fitzgerald 6-50, Seals-Jones 5-51, Logan 14, Dawkins 1-7, McCoy 1-5, Thomas 1-1. O.Howard 1-15, Brate 1-14, Barber 1-5,
Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen is tackled by Raiders Nick 2-14, Kirk 2-8. Kansas City, Hill 7-117, New York, Enunwa 4-18, Herndon 3-34, Wilson 1-(minus 4).
Kelce 6-46, Robinson 3-30, Hunt 2-25, McGuire 3-27, Crowell 2-18, Kearse 2-16, MISSED FIELD GOALS—Tampa Bay,
Nelson, left, and Ahtyba Rubin during the second half on Sunday. Conley 1-22, Ware 1-7, Sherman 1-2. Peake 1-11, Leggett 1-6, Cannon 1-5. Catanzaro 30, Catanzaro 48.
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NFL
Luck, Ebron lead Colts Trubisky throws 3 TDs, Brees passes Favre with
past struggling Jaguars Bears beat Lions 3 TDs, Saints cruise
INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew CHICAGO — Mitchell Trubisky CINCINNATI — Drew Brees
Luck started Sunday by carving locked in right from the start, and the Saints rocked Paul Brown
up Jacksonville’s staunch de- whether he was firing downfield Stadium from the opening drive,
fense. He finished it by playing or making the right read under- scoring every time they got the
the eager spectator. neath the defense. ball except for the last one.
After throwing three first-half It added up to one of his best Then they cranked up the
touchdown passes and picking up performances as a pro, not to music in the locker room until the
only two first downs in the sec- mention a rare win for Chicago cinderblock walls were vibrating.
ond half, he celebrated when the against Detroit and an NFC North For New Orleans, it was as
Colts’ defense delivered the de- rival. much fun as it gets in the NFL.
cisive turnover with 90 seconds Trubisky threw for a career- Brees threw three touchdown
left to preserve a victory over the high 355 yards and three touch- passes in a blistering first half,
Jaguars. downs, and the first-place Bears moving ahead of Brett Favre for
“We played well enough in the snapped a 10-game losing streak second place on the career list,
first half to put some points on against division foes. and New Orleans rolled to its
the board,” Luck said. “Then we Chicago jumped out to a 26-7 eighth straight victory.
survived.” halftime lead with Trubisky and Brees led the Saints to touch-
Barely survived, that is. Allen Robinson leading the way, downs on all five first-half pos-
Trailing by three, Jacksonville and the Bears went on to surpass sessions. His 17-yard TD to
marched into field goal range. their win total from last year with Michael Thomas with 2 seconds
Rashad Greene Sr. went down their third straight victory. left in the half gave him 509 ca-
at the Colts’ 23, and the Jaguars Though he threw for six touch- reer touchdown passes, one more
were setting up for at least a tying downs against Tampa Bay earlier than Favre.
field goal. this season, Trubisky had one of Up next: Peyton Manning’s re-
Greene was ruled down before his best games. cord 539.
the ball squirted out, but the call He completed 23 of 30 passes “If you play long enough, I guess
was overturned, giving the ball and finished with a 148.6 rat- those things happen,” Brees said.
and the game to the Colts. M ATT LUDTKE /AP ing. He also ran for a 4-yard “I consider myself very grateful,
Last year’s AFC runner-ups the touchdown. very blessed.
Jags have lost five straight, six of Packers running back Aaron Jones breaks away for a 67-yard run
seven and are last in the division. during the first half against the Dolphins on Sunday in Green Bay, Wis. Bears 34, Lions 22 Saints 51, Bengals 14
Detroit 0 7 3 12—22 New Orleans 7 28 10 6—51
Colts 29, Jaguars 26 Jones helps Packers Mayfield throws 3 TDs, Chicago 13 13 8 0—34 Cincinnati 7 0 0 7—14
First Quarter First Quarter
Jacksonville 7 9 7 3—26 Chi—Cohen 3 run (kick failed), 11:22. NO—Thomas 7 pass from Brees (Lutz
Indianapolis 14 15
First Quarter
0 0—29 run away from Dolphins Chubb has record run Chi—Al.Robinson 36
Trubisky (Parkey kick), :38.
pass from kick), 6:30.
Cin—Ross 2 pass from Dalton (Bullock
Ind—Ebron 53 pass from Luck (Vinat- Second Quarter kick), 1:56.
ieri kick), 11:26. GREEN BAY, Wis. — For a CLEVELAND — Before he Chi—Miller 45 pass from Trubisky Second Quarter
Jac—Moncrief 80 pass from Bortles rolled out of bed, Baker May-
(Lambo kick), 2:58. change, it was the Packers in a (kick failed), 11:24. NO—Ingram 28 pass from Brees (Lutz
Chi—Trubisky 4 run (Parkey kick), kick), 13:33.
Ind—Ebron 2 run (Vinatieri kick), :00. runaway. field had a premonition of near 8:14. NO—Kamara 4 run (Lutz kick), 5:34.
Second Quarter
Ind—Ebron 12 pass from Luck (Vinat- Aaron Jones ran for career perfection. Det—Johnson 1 run (Prater kick), 1:05. NO—Kamara 1 run (Lutz kick), 1:22.
Third Quarter NO—Thomas 17 pass from Brees (Lutz
ieri kick), 9:19. highs of 145 yards and two scores, More than a hunch. Det—FG Prater 52, 13:23. kick), :02.
Jac—Fournette 1 run (kick blocked),
5:53. Aaron Rodgers and Davante “When I woke up this morning, Chi—Al.Robinson 26 pass from Third Quarter
Trubisky (T.Burton pass from Trubisky), NO—FG Lutz 29, 9:04.
Ind—Alie-Cox 1 pass from Luck (Mack Adams connected for two touch- I was feeling pretty dangerous,” 2:50. NO—Brees 1 run (Lutz kick), 2:25.
run), 1:46. Fourth Quarter Fourth Quarter
Jac—FG Lambo 28, :05. down passes and Green Bay beat the Browns rookie quarterback Det—Golladay 5 pass from Stafford NO—FG Lutz 42, 10:41.
Third Quarter the Miami Dolphins. said with a smile and a hint of ar- (pass failed), 8:30. NO—FG Lutz 41, 7:17.
Jac—Fournette 1 pass from Bortles Det—Johnson 13 pass from Stafford Cin—Driskel 27 run (Bullock kick),
(Lambo kick), 6:25. The Packers (4-4-1) pulled away rogance. “I just woke up feeling (pass failed), 7:21. 4:42.
Fourth Quarter really dangerous.”
Jac—FG Lambo 55, 4:03. in the second half, sandwiching A—61,393. A—52,492.
Det Chi NO Cin
A—57,473. scoring drives around cornerback Someone should have warned First downs 24 20 First downs 33 13
Jac Ind
First downs 24 17 Bashaud Breeland’s interception the Atlanta Falcons. Total Net Yards 305 402 Total Net Yards 509 284
Rushes-yards 24-76 22-54 Rushes-yards 47-244 16-110
Total Net Yards 415 366 deep in Miami territory. Mayfield threw a season-high Passing 229 348 Passing 265 174
Rushes-yards 34-91 23-81
Passing 324 285 “We got the run game going. three touchdown passes and rook- Punt Returns 1-11 1-18 Punt Returns 1-2 0-0
Kickoff Returns 3-61 2-23 Kickoff Returns 0-0 6-107
Punt Returns 1-1 1-6 We had a lot more balance, which ie Nick Chubb streaked 92 yards Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-12 Interceptions Ret. 2-107 0-0
Kickoff Returns 3-108 1-7 Comp-Att-Int 25-42-2 23-30-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-27-0 14-23-2
Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0 we hadn’t had all season,” said for a TD as Cleveland ended a
Sacked-Yards Lost 6-45 1-7 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 4-24
Comp-Att-Int 27-39-0 21-29-1 four-game losing streak with its
Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 0-0 Rodgers, who was 19 of 28 for 199 Punts 4-39.0 3-48.0 Punts 0-0.0 4-39.3
best performance in years. Fumbles-Lost 3-1 0-0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0
Punts 3-46.0 3-46.0 yards. Penalties-Yards 6-41 6-46 Penalties-Yards 1-5 4-26
Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Mayfield outplayed Falcons
Penalties-Yards 8-61 7-45 Jason Sanders tied a Dolphins Time of Possession 32:00 28:00 Time of Possession 39:46 20:14
star quarterback Matt Ryan. He INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Time of Possession 35:10 24:50 franchise rookie record with RUSHING—Detroit, Johnson 14-51, Ze- RUSHING—New Orleans, Ingram 13-
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—Jacksonville, Fournette 24- four field goals, but Miami (5-5) completed his first 13 passes and nner 1-12, Stafford 2-9, Blount 6-4, Bel- 104, Kamara 12-56, D.Washington 11-47,
lore 1-0. Chicago, Howard 11-21, Trubisky T.Hill 4-24, Line 2-13, Brees 2-3, Bridgewa-
53, Westbrook 2-13, Yeldon 3-12, Bortles couldn’t find the end zone finished 17-for-20 for 216 yards. 3-18, Cohen 7-15, Mizzell 1-0. ter 3-(minus 3). Cincinnati, Mixon 11-61,
2-8, Hyde 3-5. Indianapolis, Wilkins 1-53,
Mack 12-29, Hines 3-3, Ebron 1-2, Luck 5- PASSING—Detroit, Stafford 25-42-2- Driskel 2-35, Dalton 1-8, Bernard 2-6.
(minus 2), Rogers 1-(minus 4). Packers 31, Dolphins 12 Browns 28, Falcons 16 274. Chicago, Trubisky 23-30-0-355.
RECEIVING—Detroit, Golladay 6-78,
PASSING—New Orleans, Brees 22-25-
0-265, T.Hill 0-1-0-0, Bridgewater 0-1-0-0.
PASSING—Jacksonville, Bortles 26-38- Atlanta 0 10 0 6—16
0-320, Cooke 1-1-0-4. Indianapolis, Luck Miami 3 6 3 0—12 Riddick 6-60, Johnson 6-38, M.Jones 3- Cincinnati, Dalton 12-20-2-153, Driskel 2-
Green Bay 7 7 14 3—31 Cleveland 7 7 14 0—28 55, Toilolo 1-16, T.Jones 1-12, Roberts 1-9, 3-0-45.
21-29-1-285. First Quarter
RECEIVING—Jacksonville, Fournette First Quarter Powell 1-6. Chicago, Al.Robinson 6-133, RECEIVING—New Orleans, Thomas 8-
GB—D.Adams 7 pass from Rodgers Cle—Higgins 28 pass from Mayfield Cohen 6-29, Miller 5-122, T.Burton 4-40, 70, Kamara 4-46, Ingram 3-58, Kirkwood
5-56, Yeldon 5-51, O’Shaughnessy 5-46, (Joseph kick), 4:36.
Westbrook 5-30, Moncrief 3-98, Bell 2-27, (Crosby kick), 6:07. Braunecker 1-20, Howard 1-11. 2-45, Arnold 2-25, Carr 2-20, Watson 1-1.
Mia—FG Sanders 37, 1:18. Second Quarter MISSED FIELD GOALS—Chicago, Par- Cincinnati, Boyd 3-65, Uzomah 3-23, Ross
Greene 1-11, Bohanon 1-5. Indianapolis, Atl—FG Tavecchio 40, 12:18.
Inman 4-41, Hilton 3-77, Ebron 3-69, Doyle Second Quarter key 41, Parkey 34. 2-39, Bernard 2-30, Mixon 2-24, Core 2-17.
GB—A.Jones 2 run (Crosby kick), 14:53. Atl—Jones 1 pass from Ryan (Tavec-
3-36, Hines 3-19, Alie-Cox 2-28, Mack 2-9, chio kick), 5:04.
Grant 1-6. Mia—FG Sanders 25, 10:29.
Mia—FG Sanders 47, 2:49. Cle—Chubb 13 pass from Mayfield (Jo-
MISSED FIELD GOALS—Jacksonville, seph kick), :55.
Lambo 52. Indianapolis, Vinatieri 52. Third Quarter
Third Quarter
Mia—FG Sanders 40, 11:43. Cle—Johnson 11 pass from Mayfield
GB—A.Jones 10 run (Crosby kick), (Joseph kick), 10:27.
9:33. Cle—Chubb 92 run (Joseph kick), 8:45.
GB—D.Adams 25 pass from Rodgers Fourth Quarter
(Crosby kick), 7:25. Atl—Hooper 3 pass from Ryan (pass
Fourth Quarter failed), 4:24.
GB—FG Crosby 38, 8:53. A—62,144.
A—78,076. Atl Cle
Mia GB First downs 25 19
First downs 19 21 Total Net Yards 382 427
Total Net Yards 294 377 Rushes-yards 19-71 29-211
Rushes-yards 23-131 25-195 Passing 311 216
Passing 163 182 Punt Returns 1-5 1-6
Punt Returns 0-0 1-19 Kickoff Returns 2-42 4-69
Kickoff Returns 5-97 2-34 Interceptions Ret. 1-33 0-0
Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-26 Comp-Att-Int 38-52-0 17-21-1
Comp-Att-Int 23-37-1 19-28-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-19 0-0
Sacked-Yards Lost 6-50 2-17 Punts 3-39.3 4-46.8
Punts 2-38.5 2-18.5 Fumbles-Lost 4-2 1-0
Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 1-5 7-38
Penalties-Yards 3-10 6-45 Time of Possession 31:23 28:37
Time of Possession 32:03 27:57 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Atlanta, Coleman 11-44,
RUSHING—Miami, Gore 13-90, Drake 8- Ryan 3-13, I.Smith 4-11, Ridley 1-3. Cleve-
27, Carroo 1-14, Osweiler 1-0. Green Bay, land, Chubb 20-176, Mayfield 6-20, John-
A.Jones 15-145, Greene 1-26, Rodgers 6- son 3-15.
21, J.Williams 3-3. PASSING—Atlanta, Ryan 38-52-0-330.
PASSING—Miami, Osweiler 23-37-1- Cleveland, Mayfield 17-20-0-216, Hilliard
AJ M AST/AP 213. Green Bay, Rodgers 19-28-0-199. 0-1-1-0.
RECEIVING—Miami, Amendola 7-72, RECEIVING—Atlanta, Hooper 10-56, G ARY L ANDERS/AP
Colts tight end Eric Ebron, right, Parker 5-43, Stills 2-26, Gore 2-12, Drake Jones 7-107, Sanu 6-47, I.Smith 4-15, Rid-
2-11, Carroo 1-20, Derby 1-13, Ballage ley 3-37, Coleman 3-19, Paulsen 2-13, Sau-
celebrates a touchdown with 1-6, Gesicki 1-5, O’Leary 1-5. Green Bay, bert 1-17, Hall 1-12, Hardy 1-7. Cleveland, Saints quarterback Drew Brees dives in for a touchdown in the
quarterback Andrew Luck during Valdes-Scantling 6-44, D.Adams 4-57, Johnson 4-31, Chubb 3-33, Callaway 2-39, second half on Sunday in Cincinnati. Before that, Brees threw three
A.Jones 3-27, Kendricks 2-24, St. Brown Perriman 2-33, Landry 2-22, Higgins 1-28,
the first half on Sunday. 2-3, Lewis 1-30, Graham 1-14. Njoku 1-18, Hilliard 1-6, Charles 1-6. touchdown passes and past Breet Favre on the career list.
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NFL

Vrabel’s Titans rout Pats

BY TERESA M. WALKER
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tom
Brady added another big chunk
of NFL history to his résumé.
The Tennessee Titans made
sure the Patriots quarterback
didn’t finish his 300th game by
hitting him over and over again.
The Titans sacked Brady three
times and hit him six more times
as they beat New England 34-10
Sunday, snapping a seven-game
skid against the Patriots in Mike
Vrabel’s first game as head coach
against the team he helped win
three Super Bowls.
It was the most sacks allowed in
a game this season by the Patri-
ots (7-3), and coach Bill Belichick
pulled Brady for Brian Hoyer mid-
way through the fourth quarter.
“You got to make Tom blink,
and if you make him blink and
have to go to a second read you
got a chance,” Vrabel said of his
former teammate. “But if you let
him rip it to the first guy he looks
at, it’s going to be a long day.”
Asked if he thought Brady was
effective, Belichick said to ask
Brady.
“It was just a bad day for all of
us,” Brady said.
Only Brett Favre (326) has
played in more games, both reg-
ular season and postseason, as
a quarterback than Brady. The
three-time NFL MVP also need-
ed only three touchdown passes to
tie Peyton Manning (579) for the
NFL record for most TD passes
all time for both the regular sea-
son and postseason.
Titans 34, Patriots 10 said. “Tackle him, hit him and
New England 3 7 0 0—10 make him feel it.”
Tennessee 17 7 3 7—34
First Quarter Marcus Mariota capped each
Ten—Smith 4 pass from Mariota (Suc- of the first two drives with TD
cop kick), 11:29.
NE—FG Gostkowski 52, 9:19. passes, and Derrick Henry ran
Ten—C.Davis 23 pass from Mariota for a pair of TDs. Ryan Succop
(Succop kick), 5:58.
Ten—FG Succop 33, 2:35. also added two field goals as the
Second Quarter Titans (5-4) scored a season high
NE—Develin 1 run (Gostkowski kick),
12:49. in points after jumping out to
Ten—Henry 1 run (Succop kick), 1:09.
a 17-3 lead in the first quarter.
Third Quarter
Ten—FG Succop 31, 4:15. They now have beaten both of
Fourth Quarter
Ten—Henry 10 run (Succop kick), 7:13. last season’s Super Bowl teams in
A—69,363. Nashville.
NE Ten
First downs 16 23 The loss snaps a six-game
Total Net Yards 284 385 winning streak going into New
Rushes-yards 19-40 36-150
Passing 244 235 England’s bye. The Patriots, who
Punt Returns 2-30 3-42 routed the Titans 35-14 in Janu-
Kickoff Returns 3-74 2-78 M ARK Z ALESKI /AP
Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 ary, also lost to Tennessee for the
Comp-Att-Int 23-43-0 17-25-0 first time since Dec. 16, 2002. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady sits on the turf after
Sacked-Yards Lost 3-23 2-14
Punts 6-49.7 5-48.2 Darius Jennings opened the being sacked by the Tennessee Titans in the second half.
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 3-0 game with a 58-yard kickoff re-
Penalties-Yards 4-31 4-35
Time of Possession 27:03 32:57 turn, and Mariota capped the Edelman to turn the ball over. go cheap,” Lewis said. “You get
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—New England, Michel 11-31, drive with a 4-yard TD pass to On the very next play, Vrabel your [expletive] kicked.”
Patterson 4-11, Hoyer 1-2, Develin 1-1, Jonnu Smith. The Titans never called his own trick play with
Brady 1-0, White 1-(minus 5). Tennessee,
Henry 11-58, D.Lewis 20-57, Mariota 2-21, trailed again. Jennings throwing to a wide-open Rare Brady catch
Fluellen 3-14. The Titans came in with the Mariota for a 21-yard gain.
PASSING—New England, Brady 21-41-
0-254, Edelman 1-1-0-6, Hoyer 1-1-0-7. NFL’s stingiest scoring defense Hoyer replaced Brady on the Brady’s catch was just the
Tennessee, Mariota 16-24-0-228, Jen- and also leading the league in next drive. third of his career and first since
nings 1-1-0-21.
RECEIVING—New England, Edelman fewest touchdowns allowed in the Dec. 6, 2015, when he caught a
9-104, White 5-31, Gordon 4-81, Dorsett red zone. They held the Patriots 36-yarder from Danny Amen-
2-18, Hollister 1-17, D.Allen 1-10, Brady 1-
to a pair of 52-yard field-goal at-
Ex-Pats connections dola against Philadelphia. At 41,
6. Tennessee, C.Davis 7-125, Smith 3-45,
Batson 2-36, D.Lewis 2-11, Mariota 1-21, tempts by Stephen Gostkowski, Tennessee fired coach Mike Brady became the oldest player
Firkser 1-11, Jennings 1-0.
MISSED FIELD GOALS—New England, who missed his second wide left. Mularkey after the January with a catch since Jerry Rice had
Gostkowski 52. playoff loss and hired Vrabel to 30 at the age of 42. Brady slipped
James Develin scored on a 1-yard
TD run early in the second, which try to recreate the Patriots’ win- at the end and said he didn’t know
Brady left having thrown for pulled New England within 17-10. ning ways with the Titans. Vrabel what happened.
254 yards and no TD passes. The Brady looked ready to pull off hired Dean Pees, a former Patri- “It was ‘fish out of water,’ ”
Titans outgained the Patriots another amazing comeback, driv- ots linebackers coach and defen- Brady said.
385-284, holding New England to ing the Pats to the Titans 37. The sive coordinator, as his defensive Mariota also has three recep-
just 40 yards rushing. Linebacker Titans stopped Brady a yard shy coordinator. General manager tions, including catching his own
Wesley Woodyard, who had 1 ½ of the first down after catching Jon Robinson, who started in New pass in the playoffs last January.
sacks, said that allowed them to a pass from Julian Edelman. A England, signed cornerback Mal- Vrabel said Mariota got up faster
get after Brady. false start followed, then Logan colm Butler and running back than Brady did. Mariota said he
“Coach Vrabel said make them Ryan, a former New England cor- Dion Lewis in free agency. had one thought on his reception:
pay for everything,” Woodyard nerback, broke up a Brady pass to “That’s what happens when you “Just catch it.”

Rams 36, Seahawks 31

Rams make late stand against Seattle Seattle
L.A. Rams
14 0 7 10—31
7 10 3 16—36
First Quarter
Sea—Vannett 8 pass from Ru.Wilson
(Janikowski kick), 11:16.
BY GREG BEACHAM from Jacksonville late last month, made up for La—Everett 10 pass from Goff (Zuer-
lein kick), 6:41.
Associated Press his costly unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in Sea—Penny 18 run (Janikowski kick),
the third quarter by stripping Wilson of the 3:42.
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Rams ball and then recovering the fumble, setting Second Quarter
were still reeling from the mass shooting less La—FG Zuerlein 35, 14:48.
up Cooks’ run for a 12-point lead. La—Gurley 17 run (Zuerlein kick),
than five miles from their training complex Wilson threw three touchdown passes, 2:48.
when wildfires consumed the nearby hills, rushed for 92 yards and nearly rallied the Third Quarter
forcing a canceled practice and the evacua- La—FG Zuerlein 37, 9:44.
Seahawks (4-5) all the way back after his Sea—Lockett 23 pass from Ru.Wilson
tion of many players and coaches from their fumble. (Janikowski kick), 4:20.
homes. Wilson hit Mike Davis for a short TD catch Fourth Quarter
La—Higbee 10 pass from Goff (run
At the close of a horrific week in Thousand to cap a 90-yard drive with 1:56 to play. After failed), 14:54.
Oaks, a comeback victory over the Seattle Se- the Seattle defense held, he got the Seahawks Sea—FG Janikowski 33, 9:52.
ahawks somehow seemed both more trivial to the Los Angeles 35 before throwing four La—FG Zuerlein 20, 7:34.
La—Cooks 9 run (Zuerlein kick), 5:49.
and even sweeter to these resilient Rams. straight incompletions in the final minute. Sea—M.Davis 3 pass from Ru.Wilson
Brandin Cooks rushed for a 9-yard touch- “I think the whole stadium was nervous on (Janikowski kick), 1:56.
down with 5:49 to play on the first snap after A—72,755.
that last drive, [but] it didn’t work out,” Wilson Sea La
Dante Fowler forced and recovered a fumble said. First downs 29 25
by Russell Wilson, and the Rams bounced Wilson also threw TD passes to Nick Van- Total Net Yards 414 456
back from their first loss of the season with a Rushes-yards 34-273 23-149
nett and Tyler Lockett , but the Seahawks have Passing 141 307
36-31 victory Sunday. lost two straight after winning four of five. Punt Returns 1-9 2-22
M ARK J. TERRILL /AP
Jared Goff was forced from his home dur- Seattle took the lead with Lockett’s TD Kickoff Returns 1-21 2-31
Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0
ing the week, but he passed for 318 yards and Rams wide receiver Brandin Cooks scores catch in the third quarter, but only because Comp-Att-Int 17-26-0 28-39-0
two touchdowns as the Rams (9-1) swept the against the Seahawks during the second half their drive was kept alive by an unsportsman- Sacked-Yards Lost 4-35 2-11
season series with their division rivals. Sunday in Los Angeles. Punts 3-55.0 2-44.5
like conduct penalty against Fowler after a Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0
“It’s just been a tough week for the whole third-down stop. Penalties-Yards 7-56 10-102
city, the whole area up there,” Goff said of the turvy game with just enough big plays. Al- “I knew I had to go out there and redeem Time of Possession 30:37 29:23
Rams’ weekday hometown, one hour north- though the perfect season ended last week in INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
myself,” Fowler said. RUSHING—Seattle, Penny 12-108,
west of downtown Los Angeles. “Hoping New Orleans, Los Angeles still has never lost Ru.Wilson 9-92, M.Davis 11-58, Lockett
today provided a little bit of joy and regularity back-to-back games under coach Sean McVay. Gurley’s gains 1-18, Prosise 1-(minus 3). Los Angeles,
for those people.” “It means a lot, (because) there’s a lot of trag- Gurley 16-120, Woods 3-17, Cooks 1-9,
Goff 3-3.
Todd Gurley rushed for 120 yards and a edy that’s been going on,” said Aaron Donald, Gurley scored his NFL-leading 17th touch- PASSING—Seattle, Ru.Wilson 17-26-0-
score as Los Angeles moved into commanding who had 2{ sacks of Wilson after evacuating his down in the second quarter on a 17-yard run. 176. Los Angeles, Goff 28-39-0-318.
RECEIVING—Seattle, Lockett 5-67,
position for its second consecutive NFC West family during the week. “We’ve all been affect- He also scored a TD in his franchise-record Baldwin 5-39, M.Davis 4-22, E.Dickson 1-
title, but only after plenty of late drama in a ed by it. We had to move ourselves, so to win a 13th consecutive game, extending his fran- 24, Moore 1-16, Vannett 1-8. Los Angeles,
rivalry that’s never lacking in excitement. game like this, a divisional game, we’re trying chise record. He is the fourth player in league Cooks 10-100, Kupp 5-39, Woods 4-89,
Gurley 3-40, Higbee 3-25, Everett 2-15,
Gerald Everett and Tyler Higbee caught TD to give people something to smile about.” history to score a TD in each of his team’s first M.Brown 1-10.
passes for the Rams, who survived a topsy- Fowler, the pass-rush specialist acquired 10 games. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.
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NFL/SPORTS BRIEFS
Briefly

Bengals fire DC
Austin after rout
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — The Bengals
have fired defensive coordinator
Teryl Austin, a day after their
historically bad performance in a
51-14 loss to the Saints.
New Orleans scored on every
possession except the last one —
when it took a knee in field-goal
range — during its rout at Paul
Brown Stadium.
The Bengals (5-4) have given
up 500 yards in three straight
games — a first in the Super Bowl
era — and are on pace to give
up an NFL record for yards in a
season.
It’s the second straight year the
Bengals have fired a coordina-
M ATT SLOCUM /AP tor during the season. Last year,
the Bengals fired offensive co-
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, top, hurdles over Philadelphia Eagles defensive back Tre ordinator Ken Zampese after an
Sullivan during the first half Sunday in Philadelphia.
0-2 start last year. Coach Marvin
tative settlement Monday in the
biggest lawsuit brought against
the league over concussions and
other head injuries.
The lawsuit, consolidated in
federal court in Minnesota and by
far the largest facing the league,
involves more than 100 former
players who accused the NHL
of failing to better prevent head
trauma or warn players of risks
while promoting violent play that
led to their injuries.
The total monetary value of the
potential settlement was not dis-
closed. It is expected to be far less
than the billion-dollar agreement
reached between the NFL and its
former players on the same issue;
according to a settlement docu-
ment posted by Forbes last week,
the total value is $18.9 million,
which includes $22,000 for each
player involved in the lawsuit,

Elliott, Prescott lift Cowboys

BY ROB M AADDI
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Ezekiel
Elliott and Dak Prescott left the
defending Super Bowl champions
wondering how their season went
wrong.
Elliott had 151 yards rushing
and his go-ahead 1-yard touch-
down run in the fourth quarter
helped the Dallas Cowboys beat
the Philadelphia Eagles 27-20 on
Sunday night.
The Eagles fell to 4-5 with their
third straight loss at home while
the Cowboys improved to 4-5.
Washington leads the NFC East
at 6-3.
“All of us need to look in the
mirror,” Philadelphia coach Doug
Pederson said. “Are we doing
enough? Are we giving enough?
You have to strain yourself to
make plays. We didn’t do it. Each
person, each coach, each player
in the locker room has to look at
yourself and decide every day to
give your best.”
The Cowboys gave their all to
give embattled coach Jason Gar-
rett a week off from questions
about his job security.
“You can imagine the way
Jason Garrett, his resolve before
the game,” Cowboys owner Jerry
Jones said. “I asked him before
the game, ‘you feeling any pres-
sure?’ [Garrett replied] ‘It just
makes me want to go out and do
more to turn this thing.’ ”
Prescott had 270 yards passing,
tossed for one touchdown and also
ran for a score. Elliott also had a
TD reception.
“It was absolutely mandatory
that we went and got this win,”
Elliott said. “We wanted to keep
our hopes up for winning this di-
vision and making the playoffs.”
Carson Wentz threw a pair of
TD passes to Zach Ertz, but his
pass to Ertz on fourth down fell a
yard short of a first down at the
Cowboys 29 with 1:09 left. The
Eagles got the ball back at their
32 with 40 seconds left and drove
to the Cowboys 32 for the final
play. Wentz completed a pass to
Ertz inside the Dallas 10. Ertz
lateraled to Golden Tate but he
was tackled for no gain to end it.
“We just didn’t execute,” said
Wentz, who finished 32-for-44 for
360 yards with one interception.
“We all got to look in the mirror
and ask what can we do better.”
It was a defensive battle into the
third quarter before the offenses
went back-and-forth.
Elliott ran in from the 1 to give
Dallas a 27-20 lead after Prescott
completed passes of 24 yards to
Amari Cooper and 23 yards to
Allen Hurns on the drive.
Coming off a bye, the Eagles
were listless in the first half and
trailed 13-3 before rallying to tie
it on Wentz’s 15-yard TD pass
to Ertz late in the third quarter.
Wentz connected with Jordan
Matthews for 18 yards on third-
and-11 to extend the drive. He
hit him again for 12 yards on the
next play and found Ertz a few
plays later.
Prescott tossed a 7-yard TD
pass to Elliott to give Dallas a 20-
13 lead on the ensuing possession.
Elliott accounted for 57 of the 75
yards on the drive.
But the Eagles answered. Wentz
hit Nelson Agholor, who made an
excellent catch for a 51-yard gain
to the Cowboys 8. Wentz found
Ertz in the back of the end zone
for a 1-yard TD pass to tie it at
20-20.
Prescott engineered a 75-yard
drive in the final 90 seconds of
the first half to send the Eagles
into the locker room to a chorus
Lewis got a two-year contract ex- The NHL said it would not ac-
tension after the 2017 season. knowledge any liability for any of
the players’ claims. A spokesman
Saints sign Marshall said there would be no comment
after losing WR Bryant until after the opt-in period of 75
of boos from a frustrated crowd. days for players.
Michael Gallup turned a METAIRIE, La. — Saints coach Attorneys for the retired play-
screen pass on third-and-15 at Sean Payton says the Saints have ers say the settlement would in-
the Cowboys 35 into a 25-yard signed veteran receiver Brandon clude a cash payment for players
gain. Prescott connected with Marshall. who choose to participate; neuro-
Cole Beasley for 21 yards and hit Marshall’s addition adds depth logical testing and assessment for
Hurns for 17 yards to the Eagles to an offense that already leads players paid for by the league; an
1. Prescott then sneaked in for the NFL in scoring with 36.7 administrative fund to pay for the
the score. points per game and ranks in the costs and up to $75,000 in medi-
top five in yards per game with cal treatment for players who test
After hearing it from their fans,
413.9. positive on two or more tests.
the Eagles came out with a stop
Last week, the Saints signed re- The settlement would also set
on defense and the offense drove ceiver Dez Bryant, but he tore his
up a “Common Good Fund” avail-
to the Cowboys 11 before having Achilles in only his second prac-
able to support retired players in
to settle for Jake Elliott’s 26-yard tice and never played a game for need. The Forbes document said
field goal.
New Orleans. the fund would be $2.5 million.
Cowboys 27, Eagles 20 The Seattle Seahawks released
Dallas 3 10 0 14—27
Marshall on Oct. 30 after he’d Atlanta United wins
Philadelphia 0 3 10 7—20 appeared in Seattle’s first seven
First Quarter games this season, catching 11 first playoff series
Dal—FG Maher 25, 6:59.
Second Quarter passes for 136 yards and one ATLANTA — Josef Martinez
Dal—FG Maher 31, 3:41. touchdown. But his involvement
Phi—FG J.Elliott 56, 1:33. scored two goals and Atlanta
Dal—Prescott 1 run (Maher kick), :19. in the offense dropped after Week United won the first playoff series
Third Quarter 3 and he had just two catches for in franchise history, knocking off
Phi—FG J.Elliott 26, 9:36.
Phi—Ertz 15 pass from Wentz (J.Elliott 16 yards in his last four games. New York City FC 3-1 in the sec-
kick), 2:08.
Fourth Quarter
ond leg of the Eastern Conference
Dal—E.Elliott 7 pass from Prescott Eagles CB Darby out for semifinals Sunday.
(Maher kick), 11:42. Atlanta won the two-game se-
Phi—Ertz 1 pass from Wentz (J.Elliott season with torn ACL
kick), 7:27. ries 4-1 on aggregate, finishing
Dal—E.Elliott 1 run (Maher kick), 3:19. PHILADELPHIA — Eagles off the visiting team with Marti-
A—69,696.
Dal Phi cornerback Ronald Darby has a nez’s second goal on a breakaway
First downs 23 23 torn ACL and will miss the rest of in the 83rd minute.
Total Net Yards 410 421
Rushes-yards 28-171 16-71 the season. In other MLS playoff games:
Passing 239 350 Darby was injured in the sec- Red Bulls 3, Crew 0, Red
Punt Returns 1-0 2-11 ond half of Philadelphia’s 27-20
Kickoff Returns 0-0 4-93 Bulls advanced On 3-1 aggre-
Interceptions Ret. 1-28 0-0 loss to Dallas on Sunday night. gate: Daniel Royer scored twice
Comp-Att-Int 26-36-0 32-44-1 The Eagles already lost safety
Sacked-Yards Lost 4-31 2-10 in a 2:44 span late in the second
Punts 4-40.8 2-44.0 Rodney McLeod to a season-end- half, and host New York beat Co-
Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 ing knee injury. Starting corner-
Penalties-Yards 5-37 0-0
lumbus to advance to the Eastern
Time of Possession 33:22 26:38 back Jalen Mills and starting Conference finals.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS nickel cornerback Sidney Jones The Red Bulls overturned a
RUSHING—Dallas, E.Elliott 19-151,
Prescott 6-9, R.Smith 2-8, Heath 1-3. didn’t play against the Cowboys first-leg deficit and likely will
Philadelphia, Adams 7-47, Clement 5-13, because of injuries. free the U.S. Soccer Federation to
Wentz 2-7, Smallwood 2-4.
PASSING—Dallas, Prescott 26-36-0-
Mills isn’t expected to return this hire Crew coach Gregg Berhalter
270. Philadelphia, Wentz 32-44-1-360. week, but Jones is a possibility. to run the U.S. national team.
RECEIVING—Dallas, Cooper 6-75,
E.Elliott 6-36, Beasley 4-37, Swaim 3-13, Sporting KC 4, Real Salt Lake
Hurns 2-40, Gallup 2-34, Schultz 2-21,
R.Smith 1-14. Philadelphia, Ertz 14-145,
NHL, players reach deal 2, KC advanced on 5-3 aggre-
Agholor 5-83, Jeffery 4-48, Matthews 3- in consussion suit gate: Daniel Salloi scored two
40, Smallwood 3-30, Tate 2-19, Clement goals and Kansas City beat Real
1-(minus 5).
MISSED FIELD GOALS—Dallas, Maher The NHL and attorneys for Salt Lake for Sporting’s first play-
42. retired players announced a ten- off win in five years.
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