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Vermont ski resort president plead-

ed guilty Friday to providing false

documents during a failed plan to

build a biotechnology plant in New-

port using tens of millions of dollars

in foreign investors’ money.

In exchange for the guilty plea

from William Stenger, the former

president of Jay Peak Resort, the

federal government dropped nine

other fraud charges. The 72-year-

old faces up to five years in prison.

Stenger’s lawyer Brooks McAr-

thur said after the hearing that Mia-

mi businessman Ariel Quiros, the

former owner of Jay Peak and

Burke Mountain Resort, and his ad-

visor William Kelly, were career

con men and fraudsters who took

advantage of Stenger, who said he

had spent his life trying to improve

the economic conditions in the

Northeast Kingdom region of Ver-

mont.

In 2019, Quiros, Stenger and Kel-

ly were indicted criminally over a

failed plan to build the biotechnolo-

gy plant in Newport, Vt., using mil-

lions raised through the EB-5 pro-

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jects that create jobs in exchange

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immigrant investors to construct

and operate the biotechnology facil-

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MILITARY

ABOARD THE USS CARL

VINSON NEAR HAWAII — The

U.S. Navy exhibited the working

parts of its Large-Scale Exercise

2021 on Saturday, a display of

technology and sea power the Na-

vy’s highest-ranking officer said

makes its worldwide fleet too for-

midable and too diffuse to chal-

lenge.

“It’s a big ocean, the Pacific.

That’s a lot of battle space,” Adm.

Michael Gilday, chief of naval op-

erations, told reporters aboard the

aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.

“So, we want to come at a potential

adversary from many different

vectors, not just on the sea, but in

the air, under the sea, on the land

— the Marine Corps — in space

and in cyberspace.”

The generic-sounding, world-

wide Large-Scale Exercise 2021

crossed all those domains, with

live and virtual training, “leverag-

ing everything we have in the tool-

kit to present a very formidable

threat to anybody that might try to

hold our interests at risk,” Gilday

said.

The exercise started Aug. 3 and

concludes Monday. It took place

across 17 time zones and involves

elements of five numbered fleets

— the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th —

within U.S. Fleet Forces Com-

mand, U.S. Pacific Fleet and U.S.

Naval Forces Europe. About 36

vessels, from carriers to subma-

rines and including the Carl Vin-

son, are taking part in Large-Scale

Exercise 2021.

The Carl Vinson and some of its

strike group spearheaded 3rd

Fleet’s portion of the exercise

near Hawaii. As part of the exer-

cise, the 3rd Fleet command de-

ployed from San Diego to a tent

complex at Joint Base Pearl Har-

bor-Hickam.

Gilday gushed over the virtual

core of the exercise — computer-

generated scenarios and “ene-

mies” — and its utility.

“We can take geography — let’s

say geography in Northeast Asia

— and superimpose it wherever

we want, where we have ships op-

erating,” for example, he said.

“And then we can also add in

virtual ships into that same bat-

tlespace so it’s a much more ro-

bust, much more realistic training

for the kind of operations we want

to do,” he said.

This approach to training leaves

potential adversaries facing “a ho-

listic, numerically superior and

highly trained force,” he said.

In the real world, a lengthy up-

grade has turned the Carl Vinson

into the Navy’s cutting-edge carri-

er. Its flight deck has been retro-

fitted to accommodate F-35C

Lightning II stealth fighters and

CMV-22B Osprey tiltrotor air-

craft.

The Navy has dubbed the col-

lection of aircraft on the Carl Vin-

son as “the air wing of the future.”

Its other embarked aircraft in-

clude EA-18G Growlers, F/A-18E

and F-18F Super Hornets and the

E-20 Advanced Hawkeye.

“Deploying with this part of the

‘air wing of the future’ is unprece-

dented, I would say,” Capt. P.

Scott Miller, commander of the

Carl Vinson, told reporters Satur-

day.

“It’s an evolution of what naval

aviation is doing,” he said. “From

my perspective as the aircraft CO,

it’s been fairly seamless, integrat-

ing those forces together.”

The carrier air wing includes

about 70 airplanes, Cmdr. Tim Os-

borne, the vessel’s air boss, told

reporters.

From his perch above the flight

deck, Osborne oversees the

launching and retrieval of all air-

craft and tracks them up to 10

miles from the carrier.

The flight tempo has varied dur-

ing the exercise, from 50 up to 125,

he said.

“Today we’re looking at about

105 sorties total,” he said.

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A tiltrotor CMV22B Osprey lands on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson, on Saturday, as the carriersteamed north of Hawaii during LargeScale Exercise 2021.

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Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, talks with reporters inthe hangar deck of the USS Carl Vinson.

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Three

U.S. military sniper teams joined soldiers

from 13 other countries in Germany this

month to show off their shooting skills, learn

new techniques and vie for the title of best

sniper team.

The European Best Sniper Team Compe-

tition, hosted by U.S. Army Europe and

Africa and the 7th Army Training Com-

mand, challenges snipers’ mental and phys-

ical abilities. It is not just a shooting compe-

tition; snipers have to demonstrate other

critical battlefield skills, including stealth,

reconnaissance, fitness and the ability to

adjust under pressure.

“The amount of skillsets we learn experi-

encing these events are quite useful for how

we shape training in the future,” said Spc.

Matthew Meckley, from 3rd Battalion, 161st

Infantry Regiment, a Washington National

Guard unit that traveled to Hohenfels, Ger-

many, for the 10-day event.

Twenty-seven teams from 14 countries

participated in the 10-day competition,

which kicked off Aug. 5, said Command Sgt.

Maj. Michael Sanchez, the match president

of the competition. The two U.S. Army

teams that competed alongside the Wash-

ington National Guard unit were from the

Vicenza, Italy-based 173rd Airborne Bri-

gade and the Vilseck, Germany-based 2nd

Cavalry Regiment.

Sanchez said planning for the event start-

ed in October 2020 and continued until

three weeks before it began. The 2020 com-

petition was canceled because of the coro-

navirus pandemic.

Cpl. Chris Hawley, another competitor

with Washington-based 3rd Battalion, 161st

Infantry Regiment, said he has always

wanted to test his shooting skills in a Best

Sniper Competition.

“The most challenging part has been the

level of difficulty in applying [sniper]

skills,” Hawley said. “Sniper skills on a flat,

static range becomes harder when you are

doing it in less-than-ideal conditions, differ-

ent positions, things like that.”

Taking first place in the competition was

Slovenia, Team Lynx 01, with 2,237 out of

5,044 total points. Turkey came in second,

while Latvia took third place.

Other countries that competed were Bul-

garia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary,

Canada, Spain, Italy, Greece, Lithuania,

and Sweden.

14 countries compete in Army sniper contest in GermanyBY IMMANUEL JOHNSON

Stars and Stripes

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A U.S. soldier takes a firing position during the 2021 Best Sniper Team Competition atHohenfels Training Area, Germany, on Aug. 12.


GRAFENWOEHR, Germany

— Soldiers from 15 Army units

endured obstacle courses, land

navigation and marksmanship

drills in hopes of being crowned

the “best warriors” in Europe.

After several grueling days in

the annual Best Warrior compe-

tition, three of them emerged

triumphant Friday: Spc. Shaun

Lewis, the best soldier; Sgt.

Brent Grafmuller, the best non-

commissioned officer; and 1st

Lt. Jim Schooley, the best offi-

cer.

The competition pushes sol-

diers to their limits with tests of

their knowledge and their men-

tal and physical endurance.

“I am here to show my unit

that mechanics can do the same

thing as all these infantry guys

and combat arms guys,” said

Pfc. Jarrett Fastert, a wheeled-

vehicle mechanic and Rock

Rapids, Iowa, native from the

66th Military Intelligence Bri-

gade, Information Security

Command. “I wanted to push

myself (and) see what I was ca-

pable of.”

Another competitor from Io-

wa was excited to compete for

the first time and make it past

the battalion and brigade level.

“I think this is a great oppor-

tunity to get a bunch of training

events I wouldn’t necessarily

get with my company due to the

different cross-training we do

out here,” said 2nd Lt. David

Pinter, a company construction

officer with the 18th Military

Police Brigade, 21st Theater

Support Command.

The competition lasted nine

to 12 hours a day for five days,

and the award ceremony was

Friday.

After a combat fitness test

and weigh-in the first day, sol-

diers embarked on the slate of

events.

They took a written test and

vied for supremacy in tasks in-

cluding grenade throwing,

weapons assembly and aiding a

helicopter medical evacuation.

Lewis and Grafmuller will go

to Fort Lee, Va., where they will

represent U.S. Army Europe

and Africa, and compete

against other winners in the Ar-

mywide Best Warrior contest

for soldiers and NCOs.

Best Warriorsin Europe battleit out in Bavaria

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First Lt. Jim Schooley, from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, low crawls under barbed wire while participatingin the obstacle course circuit during the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Best Warrior competition inGrafenwoehr, Germany, on Aug. 9. Schooley won the best officer competition.

Sgt. Brent Grafmuller, from the 18th Military Police Brigade, fires anM17 pistol as part of the weapons qualification portion of the event.

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the pass can go through their re-

spective commands, Stewart’s

email said. They will need to share

with the Italian government their

birthdate, the type of vaccine they

received and other personal infor-

mation. Submissions could begin

as early as next week, the message

said.

People will eventually receive a

QR code allowing them to engage

in activities that may not be acces-

sible without the green pass under

Italian law, Stewart said.

U.S. Army Garrison Italy made

a similar announcement in a video

posted Thursday to its Facebook

page. Maj. Gen. Andrew Rohling,

the senior Army officer in Vicen-

za, said U.S. military members

Active-duty service members,

civilians and dependents assigned

to U.S. bases in Italy who have

been vaccinated now qualify for

an Italian “green pass,” military

officials have said.

Capt. James Stewart, the Naval

Support Activity Naples com-

manding officer, made the an-

nouncement in an email last week.

“This is a voluntary process for

those 12 and older but having a

green pass will likely make travel

within Europe easier and will

make it easier to dine in restau-

rants, go to movies, shop in stores,

etc.,” Stewart said in the Tuesday

email, which went out to tenant

command leaders. “This is cur-

rently the only process for Amer-

icans to get a green pass here in

Italy.”

People who want to apply for

and civilians would now qualify

for a green pass.

“But I have to be honest. This is

going to take some time,” Rohling

said. “Italian officials are not yet

sure how fast they can implement

that green pass system across Ita-

ly.”

It wasn't clear from the video

how the post will gather informa-

tion from people who want a green

pass or when it will begin accept-

ing the information.

Italian authorities agreed to

recognize the U.S. Centers for Dis-

ease Control and Prevention vac-

cination card as equivalent to the

green pass. However, some Amer-

icans have said that businesses

did not recognize their CDC cards

and turned them away.

Green passes mostly have been

used to ease travel between Eu-

ropean Union and Schengen Zone

countries.

Faced with a surge in COVID-19

cases fueled by the delta variant of

the coronavirus, Italy passed re-

strictions in July requiring a

green pass for entry into restau-

rants, pubs, gyms, sports arenas

and other venues. The restrictions

took effect Aug. 6.

The U.S. has several military in-

stallations across Italy, including

Aviano Air Base and Naval Air

Station Sigonella in Sicily.

Vaccinated US military personnel in Italy can get ‘green pass’BY ALISON BATH

Stars and Stripes

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People assigned to U.S. militaryinstallations in Italy qualify for theItalian digital green pass.

gusta University Medical Center in Geor-

gia on Aug. 5, according to a 2nd ID state-

ment.

Taylor was on leave in Georgia and was

scheduled to start his next duty assign-

ment, 2nd ID public affairs director Maj.

Mayra Nañez told Stars and Stripes on Fri-

day. She was unable to provide details

about the accident, Taylor’s age or home-

town.

Taylor enlisted in the Army in July 2008

and received training at Fort Jackson, S.C.

He started his third assignment with 2nd

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea —

A 2nd Infantry Division soldier has died

following an accident in a privately owned

vehicle, the command said Friday eve-

ning.

Staff Sgt. Jonathan Taylor, a human re-

source specialist with the Headquarters

and Headquarters Company, Division

Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Infantry Di-

vision Sustainment Brigade at Camp

Humphreys, was pronounced dead at Au-

ID in April 2020.

Taylor was “an excellent non-commis-

sioned officer who always set the example

for professionalism,” according to a state-

ment from battalion commander Lt. Col.

Jeffrey May.

“The soldiers and family members of

the Division Special Troops Battalion are

deeply saddened and shocked by the loss

of a member of our team who played a crit-

ical role in our success throughout his tour

in Korea,” he said. “He left a legacy of

leadership that will never be forgotten.”

Taylor was posthumously awarded the

military’s Meritorious Service Medal. He

is survived by his wife, Shameka Taylor,

two brothers, and parents.

Roughly 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed

in South Korea, the majority of them at

Camp Humphreys, roughly 40 miles from

Seoul. The base serves as the home to the

2nd Infantry Division, Eighth Army and

U.S. Forces Korea.

2nd ID soldier dies in vehicle accident while on leave in GeorgiaBY DAVID CHOI

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MILITARY


A Royal Navy sailor charged

with misdemeanor sexual assault

during a Guam port call was freed

Thursday on bond over prosecu-

tors’ objections that the man is a

flight risk.

Royal Navy representative Lt.

Cmdr. Oliver Clark appeared in

Guam Superior Court seeking the

release of Ashley James Mansell,

31, assigned to U.K. Carrier Strike

Group 21, the Guam Daily Post re-

ported Friday. Mansell has an “es-

sential role” in the strike group’s

mission, the representative told

the court.

The group, led by the aircraft

carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, ar-

rived in Guam on Aug. 6. It was

scheduled to leave Friday morn-

ing, Clark said in court.

Mansell, 31, was arrested

Wednesday and charged in a

criminal complaint with misde-

meanor criminal sexual conduct,

public drunkenness and felony

aggravated assault. A friend,

Fraser Malek, 28, was charged

with two counts of misdemeanor

assault.

The complaint alleges Mansell,

dancing with a woman Wednes-

day night at Club Icon in Tumon,

“bent over in front of the victim,

reached under the victim’s dress,”

and grabbed her between the legs.

Afterward, Mansell and Malek

fought with the woman’s friends

outside the club, the complaint

states. It alleges Mansell “sudden-

ly” punched one man in the jaw,

causing two fractures that re-

quired surgery.

Malek punched another man in

the head, causing him to lose con-

sciousness “for a couple of min-

utes,” and shoved a woman into

the roadway, causing numerous

bruises and abrasions, the com-

plaint alleges.

Guam Superior Court Judge Jo-

nathan Quan released the pair on

bond Thursday despite objections

by prosecutors, who described

Mansell as a potential flight risk,

according to a statement from

Guam Attorney General Leevin

Camacho’s office.

Quan released Mansell on

$10,000 bond and Malek on $2,500

and ordered them not to leave

their ship, the Post said. They are

required to check in with the pro-

bation department three times a

week, even at sea. A virtual ar-

raignment for both sailors is

scheduled Oct. 7, according to the

Post.

The court may issue arrest war-

rants if the two fail to appear for

scheduled hearings, Camacho

spokeswoman Carlina Charfauros

wrote Friday in an email to Stars

and Stripes. Quan said in court the

men could face extradition should

they fail to appear, according to

the Post.

The Royal Navy may seek to

have the case transferred to a

court in the U.K., the Post said.

UK sailors freed on bond after Guam fracasBY MATTHEW M. BURKE

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PACIFIC

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Nature

stepped in and helped firefighters sent to

put out a forest fire Thursday at Camp Han-

sen.

The blaze broke out around 1:30 p.m. fol-

lowing training at EOD1, an explosive ord-

nance disposal training site, a spokesman

from Okinawa prefecture’s Military Base

Affairs Division told Stars and Stripes by

phone Friday.

Firefighters rushed to the scene, but

when they arrived rain began to fall and

helped them extinguish the blaze, the

spokesman said.

Base firefighters kept watch at the site

until about 7 a.m. Friday, the prefectural

spokesman said.

Information on the extent of the fire was

unavailable that day.

A Marine spokesperson did not respond

to an email seeking more information Fri-

day. The Okinawa Defense Bureau, which

represents Japan’s Ministry of Defense on

the island, also did not respond.

Forest fires at ranges and disposal sites

aboard military installations are fairly com-

monplace, the spokesman said. Thursday’s

fire was the eighth so far this year on all Ma-

rine bases in Okinawa. Six of those have oc-

curred at Hansen.

There were 16 similar incidents on all

Marine bases in Okinawa last year, he said.

The spokesman expressed concern over

soil erosion that occurs when trees are de-

stroyed by fire.

“We understand such training must be

implemented,” he said. “We hope they con-

sider the environment and not impact the

daily lives of the Okinawan people.”

Some government spokespeople in Japan

customarily speak to the media on condition

of anonymity.

Rain helps putout forest fireat Marine baseon Okinawa

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE

AND MARI HIGA

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @[email protected]: @MariHiga21

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII —

During World War II, the Navy and Marine

Corps locked arms during the years-long

strategy of island-hopping toward Japan.

Navy ships would deliver an invasion

force of Marines to an island and support

their advance with naval gunfire.

Now the Marine Corps is experimenting

with an expeditionary model that will turn

that paradigm around, with Marines sup-

porting Navy ships at sea.

The Navy’s Large-Scale Exercise 2021 in

the Hawaiian Islands has been the Corps’

first chance to test its expeditionary ad-

vanced base operations concept with a joint

force of Navy and Coast Guard vessels, ac-

cording to Lt. Col. Rollin A. Steele, execu-

tive officer of the 3rd Marine Regiment

based at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

Large-Scale Exercise 2021, which began

early this month and ends Monday, involves

training among five numbered fleets within

U.S. Fleet Forces Command, U.S. Pacific

Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Europe and

runs across 17 time zones.

Roughly 3,000 Marines are in the Hawai-

ian Islands participating in the exercise,

whose Navy contingent includes the air-

craft carrier USS Carl Vinson and elements

of its strike group.

The Marine Corps’ experimentation with

expeditionary advanced bases during the

exercise stems from Force Design 2030,

which among other things calls for the

transformation of Steele’s regiment into the

3rd Marine Littoral Regiment within the

next couple of years.

The new force design focuses on small

maneuvering units instead of large assault

forces, a change geared toward what U.S.

forces could need in a future conflict with

China in the far-flung spaces of the Indo-Pa-

cific.

“The whole point of [the Marine Littoral

Regiment] is: How can the Marine Corps

support the naval fleet in sea control and sea

denial?” Steele told Stars and Stripes during

an interview Thursday at Marine Corps

Base Hawaii.

They are testing approaches for that sup-

port during the exercise by deploying

groups of infantry from 1st Battalion, 3rd

Marines to two locations on Oahu and one

on the island of Kauai, Steele said. Once in

place, the units stealthily set up expedition-

ary advanced base operations, he said.

Under the littoral structure, the 1st Bat-

talion will be designated Littoral Combat

Team 3, he said.

One group loaded up rucksacks with sup-

plies, weapons and needed surveillance

equipment and marched across Oahu.

The second was transported to an Oahu

shoreline via amphibious hovercraft.

The third unit, flown to Kauai, experi-

mented with an intelligence-gathering sys-

tem called Network on the Move-Airborne,

which provides data in real time collected

by the entire joint force.

Steele compared a flight without network

on the move as similar to a passenger dis-

embarking a 10-hour commercial flight,

turning on a cell phone and being over-

whelmed by hours of missed calls, messag-

es and news.

“So, when we land on that objective, we

[already] have the most cutting-edge real-

time information and intelligence,” he said.

“If we need to adjust our plan, or adapt our

plan or confirm our plan, you know, we

could do that while we’re flying. We’re not

blind at some point.”

The two-pronged purpose of the expedi-

tionary advanced bases is to provide Navy

ships with surveillance information and to

provide precision fire.

A series of advanced bases “can free up

the ships to be in more important places,”

Steele said.

“We want to prevent any gaps, any blind

corners,” he said. “As the old saying goes, if

you defend everywhere, you defend no-

where. If I spread my defense out so thin to

cover everywhere, then I don’t really have

much of a defense because they’re not capa-

ble anymore.”

Marines at the advanced bases deploy

various sensors — predominantly drones

—— to provide maritime awareness to

ships and aircraft in the theater.

Part of the learning curve during this ex-

ercise is assessing just how much of that

surveillance equipment — along with all the

other needed sustainment supplies — Ma-

rines can feasibly carry in.

Marines trainwith Navy inHawaii drills

BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @WyattWOlson

JOSUE MARQUEZ/U.S. Marine Corps

A Marine with 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, calls for close air support duringLargeScale Exercise 2021 at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, on Wednesday.


NIJMEGEN, Netherlands —

The Sunset March that takes place

every evening in this Dutch city

has only one rule, Lt. Col. Sir Tim

Ruijling said.

“We walk in silence, dignified

and respectful,” the retired Royal

Dutch Air Force officer told 40

Americans and Europeans before

they set off to walk across the Over-

steek Bridge, which spans the

Waal River in Nijmegen near

where hundreds of 82nd Airborne

Division paratroopers crossed on

Sept. 20, 1944, in a daring action

during Operation Market Garden.

“When you walk, think about the

48 young Americans who gave

their lives for our freedom during

the crossing,” Ruijling said.

Dutch children still learn about

the World War II operation in

school, and when the Oversteek

Bridge was built in 2013, officials in

Nijmegen remembered it, too, in-

corporating 96 street lights — 48

pairs — in the bridge design, one

for each American soldier who

died in the crossing.

Every night at sunset, the lights

on the bridge illuminate pair by

pair at the pace of a slow march,

starting on the south bank of the

river and heading north, the same

direction the soldiers frantically

paddled in canvas dinghies, many

using the butts of their rifles as

oars, in a daring operation to cap-

ture Nijmegen’s bridges from the

Germans and retake the city.

And every evening since Oct. 19,

2014, a veteran has walked across

the bridge, starting at a memorial

on the south bank, near where the

American soldiers launched their

rickety boats into the swirling river

waters 77 years ago, ending on the

opposite sandy shore.

The smokescreen that was sup-

posed to shield them during the

crossing, which took place in broad

daylight, was blown away by a

breeze and they became sitting

ducks for enemy fire.

Forty-eight soldiers from the

504th Parachute Infantry Division

and the 307th Airborne Engineer

Battalion were killed in the oper-

ation, which Ruijling called “one of

the most heroic in the Second

World War.”

When Ruijling and other Dutch

military veterans started the Sun-

set March, a veteran would walk

alone across the bridge.

But word spread and, at first lo-

cals, but gradually people from all

over the world spontaneously

joined in or contacted the organiz-

ers of the march, asking if they

could walk in silence alongside the

veteran.

“There are still nights where you

walk alone, and that’s very spe-

cial,” Ruijling told Stars and

Stripes on Friday, when the 2,491st

Sunset March took place. “But it’s

also special that people from all

over the world want to walk with

you.”

The U.S. charge d’affaires and

acting ambassador to the Nether-

lands, Marja Verloop, and around

three dozen members of the Asso-

ciation of the U.S. Army’s Europe-

an region joined Ruijling and

Dutch civilians and military mem-

bers for Friday’s march.

At the head of the group, along-

side AUSA Europe president Tony

Williams, Verloop looked up at the

street lights and smiled as they lit

up, pair by pair.

Every veteran who leads a Sun-

set March is designated veteran of

the day and receives a certificate

commemorating their participa-

tion. On Friday, that honor went to

Williams, who served in the Army

for 23 years.

Sunday, Aug. 22, will mark the

2,500th Sunset March. Once again,

the lights on the Oversteek Bridge

will light up, pair by pair, as a vet-

eran walks alone or leads others

across the bridge to the memorial

to pay tribute to those who died

during the World War II crossing.

Sunset March honors US troops who freed Dutch city in WWIIBY KARIN ZEITVOGEL

Stars and Stripes

KARIN ZEITVOGEL/Stars and Stripes

U.S. charge d’affaires to the Netherlands, Marja Verloop, front left,walks alongside Association of the U.S. Army European regionpresident, Tony Williams, on the Oversteek Bridge in Nijmegen, theNetherlands, on Friday during the Sunset March.

WAR/MILITARY

KABUL, Afghanistan — Diplo-

mats waiting to fly out of Kabul on

Sunday morning spent their last

hours at work burning anything of

strategic or propaganda value —

including classified documents

and U.S. flags — as Taliban forces

closed in on the capital.

Several U.S. Embassy employ-

ees said they had little notice they

were leaving. They left personal

effects they didn’t need at their

desks before boarding military

helicopters and arriving at a sec-

tion of Hamid Karzai Internation-

al Airport reserved for official

flights.

Hundreds arrived in the early

morning darkness, with little to do

but follow the increasingly dire

news on their phones. Sometime

before sunrise, the Taliban took

Jalalabad, the country’s fifth-

largest city, cutting off Kabul from

the east and leaving the capital

airport as the only exit route under

government control. By midday,

news came of Taliban forces en-

tering Kabul’s outskirts.

The crowd awaiting U.S. gov-

ernment flights didn’t include Af-

ghans with Special Immigrant Vi-

sas, which are issued to save those

who worked with U.S. military

forces and government agencies

from Taliban retribution. Thou-

sands who have applied for the vi-

sa have been able to leave, but far

more remain. Many haven’t re-

ceived word on whether they’ll ev-

er be accepted. Others who did get

accepted weren’t able to get to Ka-

bul for processing before their

home cities were conquered by

the Taliban.

Several embassy workers at the

airport on Sunday, who insisted on

anonymity because they were not

authorized to speak publicly, said

the fate of Afghan colleagues con-

sumed their thoughts. They also

struggled to come to grips with

leaving their compound, a 36-acre

walled city of its own within the

capital.

“I walked around the embassy

for years,” one U.S. employee

said. “We look at this fortress and

you think, ‘This will never go

away. Impossible.’ And now it’s

gone.”

While talking, the embassy em-

ployee pulled out an American

flag from a backpack. The direc-

tive had already come down to de-

stroy U.S. flags, but the employee

said they just wanted to save

something.

The considerable distress in-

side the airport as people waited

anxiously for outbound flights still

paled in comparison to scenes a

few miles away in the city.

Cars clogged the streets, stuffed

and topped with beds, bicycles

and household goods. Cars

showed license plates from fara-

way provinces, reflecting the in-

flux of people displaced by Tali-

ban gains elsewhere. Hundreds

jostled to withdraw money from

banks; several ATMs in town had

run out of money.

The armed private security

guards and local police, normally

a fixture on Kabul’s streets, we-

ren’t there Sunday.

Several times, residents had lit-

tle more to say to a Stars and

Stripes reporter other than this:

“They are coming.”

US diplomats weregiven little noticeabout leaving Kabul

BY J.P. LAWRENCE, ZUBAIR BABAKARKHAIL

AND ERIK SLAVIN

Stars and Stripes

PHOTOS BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN/Stars and Stripes

Staff evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Kabul shortly after midnight on Sunday.

J.P. Lawrence and Zubair Babakarkhail reportedfrom Kabul; Erik Slavin reported from Ramstein-Miesenbach,[email protected]: @jplawrence3

Employees at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, prepare toboard a helicopter.


WAR ON TERRORISM

The Taliban entered the capital

early Sunday and an official in the

militant group said it would soon

announce the Islamic Emirate of

Afghanistan from the presidential

palace — a return rich in symbol-

ism to the name of the country un-

der the Taliban government oust-

ed by U.S.-led forces after the 9/11

attacks. The official spoke on con-

dition of anonymity because he

was not authorized to brief the

media.

The militants had earlier moved

into a city gripped by panic, where

helicopters raced overhead

throughout the day to evacuate

personnel from the U.S. Embassy.

Smoke rose near the compound as

staff destroyed important docu-

ments, and the American flag was

lowered. Several other Western

missions also prepared to pull

their people out.

Afghans fearing that the Tali-

ban could reimpose the kind of

brutal rule that all but eliminated

women’s rights rushed to leave

the country as well, lining up at

cash machines to withdraw their

life savings. The desperately poor

— who had left homes in the coun-

tryside for the presumed safety of

the capital — remained in the

thousands in parks and open

spaces throughout the city.

Though the Taliban had prom-

ised a peaceful transition, the U.S.

Embassy warned Americans late

in the day to shelter in place and

not try to get to the airport, where

it said there were reports of gun-

fire. The embassy also suspended

its own operations.

Still, U.S. Secretary of State An-

tony Blinken rejected compari-

sons to the U.S. pullout from Viet-

nam, as many watched in disbelief

at the sight of helicopters landing

in the embassy compound to take

diplomats to a new outpost at Ka-

bul International Airport.

“This is manifestly not Saigon,”

he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

The American ambassador was

among those evacuated, said offi-

cials who spoke on condition of

anonymity because they were not

authorized to discuss ongoing mil-

itary operations. He was asking to

return to the embassy, but it was

not clear if he would be allowed to.

As the insurgents closed in Sun-

day, President Ashraf Ghani flew

out of the country.

“The former president of Af-

ghanistan left Afghanistan, leav-

ing the country in this difficult sit-

uation,” said Abdullah Abdullah,

the head of the Afghan National

Reconciliation Council. “God

should hold him accountable.”

In a stunning rout, the Taliban

seized nearly all of Afghanistan in

just over a week, despite the bil-

lions of dollars spent by the United

States and NATO over nearly two

decades to build up Afghan secu-

rity forces. Just days earlier, an

American military assessment es-

timated it would be a month be-

fore the capital would come under

insurgent pressure.

The fall of Kabul marks the final

chapter of America’s longest war,

which began after the Sept. 11,

2001, terror attacks mastermind-

ed by al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden,

then harbored by the Taliban gov-

ernment. A U.S.-led invasion dis-

lodged the Taliban and beat them

back, though America lost focus

on the conflict in the chaos of the

Iraq War.

For years, the U.S. has been

looking for an exit for the war.

Washington under then-President

Donald Trump signed a deal with

the Taliban in February 2020 that

limited direct military action

against the insurgents. That al-

lowed the fighters to gather

strength and move quickly to seize

key areas when President Joe Bi-

den announced his plans to with-

draw all American forces by the

end of this month.

On Sunday, the insurgents en-

tered the outskirts of Kabul but

initially remained outside of the

city’s downtown. Meanwhile, Ta-

liban negotiators in the capital dis-

cussed a transfer of power, said an

Afghan official. The official, who

spoke on condition of anonymity

to discuss details of the closed-

doors negotiations, described

them as “tense.”

It remained unclear when that

transfer would take place and who

among the Taliban was negotiat-

ing. The negotiators on the gov-

ernment side included former

President Hamid Karzai, leader of

Hizb-e-Islami political and para-

military group Gulbudin Hekma-

tyar and Abdullah, who has been a

vocal critic of Ghani.

Karzai himself appeared in a

video posted online, his three

young daughters around him, say-

ing he remained in Kabul.

“We are trying to solve the issue

of Afghanistan with the Taliban

leadership peacefully,” he said,

while the roar of a passing helicop-

ter could be heard overhead.

Afghanistan’s acting defense

minister, Bismillah Khan Moham-

madi, didn’t hold back his criti-

cism of the fleeing president.

“They tied our hands from be-

hind and sold the country,” he

wrote on Twitter. “Curse Ghani

and his gang.”

The insurgents tried to calm

residents of the capital, insisting

their fighters wouldn’t enter peo-

ple’s homes or interfere with busi-

nesses. They also said they’d offer

an “amnesty” to those who

worked with the Afghan govern-

ment or foreign forces.

But there have been reports of

revenge killings and other brutal

tactics in areas of the country the

Taliban have seized in recent days

— and the reports of gunfire at the

airport raised the specter of more

violence. One female journalist,

weeping, sent voice messages to

colleagues after armed men en-

tered her apartment building and

banged on her door.

“What should I do? Should I call

the police or Taliban?” Getee Aza-

mi cried. It wasn’t clear what hap-

pened to her after that.

Many chose to flee, rushing to

the Kabul airport, the last route

out of the country as the Taliban

now hold every border crossing.

NATO said it was “helping to

maintain operations at Kabul air-

port to keep Afghanistan connect-

ed with the world.”

One Afghan university student

described feeling betrayed as she

watched the evacuation of the U.S.

Embassy.

“You failed the younger gener-

ation of Afghanistan,” said Aisha

Khurram, 22, who is now unsure

of whether she’ll be able to gradu-

ate in two months’ time. “A gener-

ation ... raised in the modern Af-

ghanistan were hoping to build the

country with their own hands.

They put blood, efforts and sweat

into whatever we had right now.”

Evacuated: Taliban await ‘peaceful transfer’ of power

Tameem Akhgar and Rahim Faiez reported fromIstanbul and Jon Gambrell from Dubai, UnitedArab Emirates. Associated Press writers KathyGannon in Guelph, Canada; Joseph Krauss inJerusalem; Matthew Lee in Washington; JamesLaPorta in Boca Raton, Florida; Aya Batrawy inDubai; and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed tothis report.

HAMED SARFARAZI/AP

Taliban fighters pose on the back of a vehicle in the city of Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturdayafter they took the province from the Afghan government.

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WAR ON TERRORISM

LONDON — The Taliban’s stunningly

swift advances across Afghanistan have

sparked global alarm, reviving doubts

about the credibility of U.S. foreign policy

promises and drawing harsh criticisms

even from some of the United States’ closest

allies.

As Taliban fighters entered Kabul and the

United States scrambled to evacuate its citi-

zens, concerns grew that the unfolding

chaos could create a haven for terrorists,

unleash a major humanitarian disaster and

trigger a new refugee exodus.

U.S. allies complain that they were not

fully consulted on a policy decision that po-

tentially puts their own national security in-

terests at risk — in contravention of Presi-

dent Joe Biden’s promises to recommit to

global engagement.

And many around the world are wonder-

ing whether they could rely on the United

States to fulfill long-standing security com-

mitments stretching from Europe to East

Asia.

“Whatever happened to ‘America is

back’?” said Tobias Ellwood, who chairs the

Defense Committee in the British Parlia-

ment, citing Biden’s foreign policy promise

to rebuild alliances and restore U.S. pres-

tige damaged during the Trump adminis-

tration.

“People are bewildered that after two

decades of this big, high-tech power inter-

vening, they are withdrawing and effective-

ly handing the country back to the people we

went in to defeat,” he said. “This is the irony.

How can you say America is back when

we’re being defeated by an insurgency

armed with no more than (rocket-propelled

grenades), land mines and AK-47s?”

As much as its military capabilities, the

United States’ decades-old role as a defend-

er of democracies and freedoms is again in

jeopardy, said Rory Stewart, who was a

British minister for international develop-

ment in the Conservative government of

Theresa May. “The Western democracy

that seemed to be the inspiration for the

world, the beacon for the world, is turning

its back,” Stewart said.

In comments Friday, Britain’s defense

secretary, Ben Wallace, predicted civil war

and the return of al-Qaida, the terrorist or-

ganization whose attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,

prompted the U.S.-led intervention in Af-

ghanistan.

“I feel this was not the right time or deci-

sion to make,” he told Sky News. “Of course

al-Qaida will probably come back, and cer-

tainly it would like that kind of breeding

ground.”

“Strategically, it causes a lot of problems,

and as an international community, it’s very

difficult ... what we’re seeing today,” he add-

ed.

On Saturday, Biden defended his decision

to withdraw, saying he had no choice given

the peace deal with the Taliban signed last

year by President Donald Trump.

“One more year, or five more years, of

U.S. military presence would not have made

adifference if the Afghan military cannot or

will not hold its own country. And an endless

American presence in the middle of another

country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to

me,” he said in a statement.

But the manner and implementation of

the withdrawal has left allies feeling be-

trayed, said Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, di-

rector of the German Council on Foreign

Relations. Germany’s government, which

withdrew its troops in June and is evacuat-

ing its embassy, has refrained from overt

criticism of the U.S. withdrawal.

Nonetheless, some German officials and

lawmakers are seething at Washington’s

failure to consult coalition partners such as

Berlin, Clüver Ashbrook said. Germany is

particularly concerned about the potential

for an exodus of Afghan refugees similar to

the influx of 2015, when more than 1 million

migrants, spurred largely by the war in Sy-

ria, surged into Europe, with many headed

for Germany.

“The Biden administration came to office

promising an open exchange, a transparent

exchange with its allies. They said the trans-

atlantic relationship would be pivotal,” she

said. “As it is, they’re paying lip service to

the transatlantic relationship and still be-

lieve European allies should fall into line

with U.S. priorities.”

“We’re back to the transatlantic relation-

ship of old, where the Americans dictate ev-

erything. ... ‘Yes we want to partner with

you, but in reality, we want to be able to tell

you what to do and when,’” she added.

U.S. draws criticism as Afghanistan teetersThe Washington Post

KABUL, Afghanistan — The

spectacular collapse of Afghanis-

tan’s military that allowed Taliban

fighters to reach the gates of Kabul

on Sunday despite 20 years of

training and

billions of

dollars in

American aid

began with a

series of deals brokered in rural

villages between the militant

group and some of the Afghan gov-

ernment’s lowest ranking offi-

cials.

The deals, initially offered early

last year, were often described by

Afghan officials as cease-fires, but

Taliban leaders were in fact offer-

ing money in exchange for govern-

ment forces to hand over their

weapons, according to an Afghan

officer and U.S. official.

Over the next year and a half, the

meetings advanced to the district

level and then rapidly on to provin-

cial capitals, culminating in a

breathtaking series of negotiated

surrenders by government forces,

according to interviews with over

a dozen Afghan officers, police,

Special Operations troops and oth-

er soldiers.

During just the past week, more

than a dozen provincial capitals

have fallen to Taliban forces with

little or no resistance. Early Sun-

day morning, the government-

held city of Jalalabad surrendered

to the militants without a shot

fired, and security forces in the

districts ringing Kabul simply

melted away. Within hours, Tali-

ban forces reached the Afghan

capital’s four main entrances un-

opposed.

The pace of the military collapse

has stunned many American offi-

cials and other foreign observers,

forcing the U.S. government to

dramatically accelerate efforts to

remove personnel from its Kabul

embassy.

The Taliban capitalized on the

uncertainty caused by the Febru-

ary 2020 agreement reached in

Doha, Qatar, between the militant

group and the United States call-

ing for a full American withdrawal

from Afghanistan. Some Afghan

forces realized they would soon no

longer be able to count on Ameri-

can air power and other crucial

battlefield support and grew re-

ceptive to the Taliban’s approach-

es.

The Doha agreement, designed

to bring an end to the war in Af-

ghanistan, instead left many Af-

ghan forces demoralized, bringing

into stark relief the corrupt im-

pulses of many Afghan officials

and their tenuous loyalty to the

country’s central government.

Some police officers complained

that they had not been paid in six

months or more.

The negotiated surrenders to

the Taliban slowly gained pace in

the months following the Doha

deal, according to a U.S. official

and an Afghan officer. Then, after

President Joe Biden announced in

April that U.S. forces would with-

draw from Afghanistan this sum-

mer without conditions, the capit-

ulations began to snowball.

As the militants expanded their

control, government-held districts

increasingly fell without a fight.

Kunduz, the first key city overrun

by the militants, was captured a

week ago. Days of negotiations

mediated by tribal elders resulted

in a surrender deal that handed

over the last government-con-

trolled base to the Taliban.

Soon after, negotiations in the

western province of Herat yielded

the resignation of the governor,

top interior ministry and intelli-

gence officials and hundreds of

troops. The deal was concluded in

a single night.

Over the past month, the south-

ern province of Helmand also wit-

nessed a mass surrender. And as

Taliban fighters closed in on the

southeastern province of Ghazni,

its governor fled under Taliban

protection only to be arrested by

the Afghan government on his way

back to Kabul.

The Afghan military’s fight

against the Taliban has involved

several capable and motivated

elite units. But they were often dis-

patched to provide backup for less

well-trained army and police units

that have repeatedly folded under

Taliban pressure.

An Afghan Special Forces offi-

cer stationed in Kandahar who had

been assigned to protect a critical

border crossing recalled being or-

dered by a commander to surren-

der. “We want to fight! If we sur-

render, the Taliban will kill us,”

the Special Forces officer said.

“Don’t fire a single shot,” the

commander told them as the Tali-

ban swarmed the area, the officer

later recounted. The border police

surrendered immediately, leaving

the Special Forces unit on its own.

Asecond officer confirmed his col-

league’s recollection of the events.

Unwilling to surrender or fight

outmatched, the unit put down

their weapons, changed into civil-

ian clothing and fled their post.

“I feel ashamed of what I’ve

done,” said the first officer. But he

said if he hadn’t fled, “I would have

been sold to the Taliban by my own

government.”

Several officers with the Kanda-

har police force said corruption

was more to blame for the collapse

than incompetence. “Honestly I

don’t think it can be fixed. I think

they need something completely

new,” said Ahmadullah Kandaha-

ri, an officer in Kandahar’s police

force.

LORENZO TUGNOLI/The Washington Post

Afghan Security forces parade in a base in April 2021 in Kabul.

Afghanistan’s militarycollapse: Illicit dealsand mass desertions

The Washington Post

ANALYSIS


MIAMI — A young mother had

just celebrated her first wedding

anniversary and was one of six

members of a Jacksonville

church to die over a 10-day span.

Another Florida woman had

just given birth to her first child,

but was only able to hold the new-

born girl for a few moments be-

fore dying.

A California man died a few

weeks shy of his 53rd birthday

while his wife was on a ventilator

at the same hospital in Oakland,

unaware of his passing on Aug. 4.

The COVID-19 death toll has

started soaring again as the delta

variant tears through the nation’s

unvaccinated population and fills

up hospitals with patients, many

of whom are younger than during

earlier phases of the pandemic.

The U.S. is now averaging

about 650 deaths a day, increas-

ing more than 80 percent from

two weeks ago and going past the

600 mark on Saturday for the first

time in three months.

Data on the the age and demo-

graphics of victims during the

delta surge is still limited, but

hospitals in virus hotspots say

they are clearly seeing more ad-

missions and deaths among peo-

ple under the age of 65.

Florida hospital officials are

seeing an influx of young, healthy

adults filling their wards across

the state, many requiring oxygen.

In the past week in Florida, 36%

of the deaths occurred in the un-

der-65 population, compared with

17% in the same week last year

when the state was experiencing

a similar COVID surge. Florida is

the national leader in coronavirus

deaths, averaging more than 150 a

day in the past week.

The younger patients mark a

shift from the elderly and frail,

many living in nursing homes,

who succumbed to the virus a

year ago before states made se-

niors a priority to get inoculated

first. More than 90 percent of se-

niors have had at least one shot,

compared to about 70 percent for

Americans under 65.

“There is a sense among

younger people that they are

somehow invincible,” said Dr.

Leana Wen, public health profes-

sor at George Washington Uni-

versity and former Baltimore

Health Commissioner. “Unfortu-

nately, though, some people who

are hospitalized are going to die

and that’s going to mean some

people who are younger; and as

you’ve seen these are people in

some cases who are leaving be-

hind young children.”

IMPACT CHURCH/AP

People wait for a COVID19 vaccination at an event held by Impact Church Aug. 8 in Jacksonville, Fla. Thechurch has lost seven members to COVID19 in the last few weeks, according to Pastor George Davis.

Virus claimsyounger victimsas delta surges

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A man was stabbed

and a reporter was attacked Saturday at a

protest against vaccine mandates on the

south lawn of Los Angeles’ City Hall after a

fight broke out between the protesters and

counterprotesters, the Los Angeles Police

Department and local media said.

About 2 p.m., a group of several hundred

people holding American flags, Trump

memorabilia and signs calling for “medical

freedom” arrived at City Hall for the rally,

the Los Angeles Times reported. A small

group of counterprotesters gathered near-

by.

About half an hour later, a fight broke out

between the protesters and counterprotes-

ters, the Times reported.

The LAPD said on its Twitter account

that it is “aware of 1 male that was stabbed &

is being treated by LAFD,” referring to the

Los Angeles Fire Department.

The man was taken to a nearby hospital,

where he is in serious condition, LAPD Offi-

cer Mike Lopez said.

“No arrests have been made but investi-

gation is on going,” the department tweeted.

Counterprotesters could be seen spray-

ing mace while members of the anti-vac-

cine rally screamed death threats, the

Times reported.

KPCC radio reporter Frank Stolze was

seen walking out of the park near City Hall

being screamed at by anti-mask protesters,

the Times reported. One man was seen

kicking him.

Stolze told a police officer he had been as-

saulted while trying to conduct an inter-

view, the Times reported.

Stolze later tweeted: “Something hap-

pened to me today that’s never happened in

30 yrs of reporting. In LA. @LAist. I was

shoved, kicked and my eyeglasses were

ripped off of my face by a group of guys at a

protest — outside City Hall during an anti-

vax Recall @GavinNewsom Pro Trump ral-

ly.”

Stolze added that he is in good condition.

Man stabbed, reporter attacked at protest at LA City HallAssociated Press

LONDON — An international

system to share coronavirus vac-

cines was supposed to guarantee

that low and middle-income coun-

tries could get doses without being

last in line and at the mercy of un-

reliable donations.

It hasn’t worked out that way. In

late June alone, the initiative

known as COVAX sent some

530,000 doses to Britain — more

than double the amount sent that

month to the entire continent of

Africa.

Under COVAX, countries were

supposed to give money so vac-

cines could be set aside, both as

donations to poor countries and as

an insurance policy for richer

ones to buy doses if theirs fell

through. Some rich countries, in-

cluding those in the European

Union, calculated that they had

more than enough doses available

through bilateral deals and ceded

their allocated COVAX doses to

poorer countries.

But others, including Britain,

tapped into the meager supply of

COVAX doses themselves, de-

spite being among the countries

that had reserved most of the

world’s available vaccines. In the

meantime, billions of people in

poor countries have yet to receive

a single dose.

The result is that poorer coun-

tries have landed in exactly the

predicament COVAX was sup-

posed to avoid: dependent on the

whims and politics of rich coun-

tries for donations, just as they

have been so often in the past. And

in many cases, rich countries don’t

want to donate in significant

amounts before they finish vacci-

nating all their citizens who could

possibly want a dose, a process

that is still playing out.

The U.S. never got any doses

through COVAX, although Cana-

da, Australia and New Zealand

did. Canada got so much criticism

for taking COVAX shipments that

it said it would not request addi-

tional ones.

In the meantime, Venezuela has

yet to receive any of its doses allo-

cated by COVAX. Haiti has re-

ceived less than half of what it was

allocated, Syria about a 10th. In

some cases, officials say, doses

weren’t sent because countries

didn’t have a plan to distribute

them.

British officials confirmed the

U.K. received about 539,000 vac-

cine doses in late June and that it

has options to buy another 27 mil-

lion shots through COVAX.

Rich nations dip into COVAX supply while poor wait for shotsAssociated Press

BRIAN INGANGA/AP

Kenyans queue to receive the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccinedonated by Britain Aug. 14 at the Makongeni Estate in Nairobi, Kenya.

VIRUS OUTBREAK


NATION

NEW YORK — A tour bus

bound for Niagara Falls ran off the

New York State Thruway and

rolled over in central New York,

sending more than 50 people to

hospitals, state police and a hospi-

tal said.

The bus landed on its side in the

grass along the highway’s west-

bound side near Weedsport, a vil-

lage about 25 miles west of Syra-

cuse. Some 57 people were

aboard, and all were taken to hos-

pitals for injuries ranging from

minor to serious, state police said.

It’s unclear why the bus veered

off the road, troopers said in a

news release. Police photos

showed papers and other items

strewn around the white bus as it

rested on the shoulder of the road.

Authorities said that the driver

of the JTR Transportation bus has

been identified as Fermin Vas-

quez, 66, of Wingdale, N.Y. JTR is

based out of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

State police said Vasquez was

among those taken to a hospital,

but didn’t elaborate on Vasquez’s

injuries.

The bus was headed to Niagara

Falls from Poughkeepsie in the

Hudson Valley, local reports said.

Juan Gil-Urrego told WSYR-TV

that his mother, Ximena Urrego,

had arranged the trip, one of many

she has planned to various desti-

nations as affordable excursions

for residents.

His mother was taken to a hos-

pital with glass in her eye and

needing back surgery, her son

said.

Tour bus crashes on NY Thruway, injuring more than 50 peopleBY JENNIFER PELTZ

Associated Press

which has ravaged nearly 845

square miles — an area the size of

Tokyo — and was 31% contained.

“The size is unimaginable, its

duration and its impact on these

people, all of us, including me, is

unbelievable,” said Johnnie

Brookwood, who was staying in

her third evacuation center.

Brookwood had never heard of a

road named Dixie when the wild-

fire began a month ago in the for-

QUINCY, Calif. — The danger

of new fires erupting across the

West because of unstable weather

conditions added to the burden al-

ready faced by overstretched

crews battling blazes across the

region.

Thunderstorms pushed flames

in Northern California on Satur-

day closer to two towns not far

from where the Dixie Fire last

week destroyed much of the small

town of Greenville, a gold rush-era

community.

The thunderstorms, which be-

gan Friday, didn’t produce much

rain but whipped up wind and cre-

ated lightning strikes, forcing

crews to focus on using bulldozers

to build lines and keep the blaze

from reaching Westwood, a town

of about 1,700 people. Westwood

was placed under evacuation or-

ders Aug. 5.

Wind gusts of up to 50 mph also

pushed the fire closer to Janes-

ville, a town of about 1,500 people,

east of Greenville, said Jake Ca-

gle, the operations chief at the east

zone of the fire.

“Very tough day in there yester-

day in the afternoon and the night

(crew) picked up the pieces and

tried to secure the edge the best

they could with the resources they

had,” he said in a briefing Satur-

day.

The fire was among more than

100 large wildfires burning in

more than a dozen states in the

West, a region seared by drought

and hot, bone-dry weather that

turned forests, brushlands, mead-

ows and pastures into tinder.

The U.S. Forest Service said

Friday it is operating in crisis

mode, fully deploying firefighters

and maxing out its support sys-

tem.

The roughly 21,000 federal fire-

fighters working on the ground is

more than double the number of

firefighters sent to contain forest

fires at this time a year ago, said

Anthony Scardina, a deputy for-

ester for the agency’s Pacific

Southwest region.

More than 6,000 firefighters

alone were battling the Dixie Fire,

estlands of Northern California.

Within three weeks, it exploded

into the largest wildfire burning in

the United States, destroying

more than 1,000 homes and busi-

nesses, including a lodge in

Greenville where Brookwood was

renting a room for $650 per month.

“At first (the fire) didn’t affect

us at all, it was off in some place

called Dixie, I didn’t even know

what it means,” Brookwood, 76,

said Saturday. “Then it was ‘Oh

no, we have to go, too?’ Surely

Greenville won’t burn. But then it

did — and now all we can see are

ashes.”

The cause of the fire has not

been determined. Pacific Gas and

Electric has said the fire may have

been started when a tree fell on its

power line.

A fast-moving fire broke out

Saturday afternoon east of Salt

Lake City, shutting down Inter-

state 80 and prompting the evac-

uation of Summit Park, a moun-

tain community of 6,600 people.

Fire officials said the blaze was

burning for about 3 square miles

and threatening thousands of

homes and power lines.

In southeastern Montana, fire-

fighters were gaining ground on a

pair of fires that chewed through

vast rangelands and at one point

threatened the Northern

Cheyenne Indian Reservation.

The fires were caused by heat

from coal seams, the deposits of

coal found in the ground in the ar-

ea, said Peggy Miller, a spokeswo-

man for the fires.

Smoke drove air pollution levels

to unhealthy or very unhealthy

levels in parts of Northern Califor-

nia, Oregon and Idaho.

In southeastern Oregon, two

wildfires started by lightning

Thursday near the California bor-

der spread rapidly through juni-

per trees, sagebrush and ever-

green trees.

The Patton Meadow Fire about

14 miles west of Lakeview, near

the California border, exploded to

11 square miles in less than 24

hours in a landscape sucked dry

by extreme drought. It was 10%

contained.

Thunderstorms, heat fuel wildfires burning across WestAssociated Press

EUGENE GARCIA/AP

CalFire firefighters and California Correctional Center inmates fight a spot fire on the side of HighwayCA36 between Chester and Westwood in Plumas County, Calif., on Friday.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The

National Hurricane Center said that

Fred regained its tropical storm status

in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday as

parts of the Caribbean were gearing up

for impacts from Tropical Storm Grace.

Fred was forecast to move across the

Gulf before reaching the coast Monday

night or Tuesday morning, forecasters

said. They said people from Alabama to

the central Florida Panhandle should

monitor the system’s progress.

A tropical storm watch was issued

from the Alabama/Florida border to

Ochlockonee, Fla. Fred’s maximum sus-

tained winds stood at 40 mph Sunday

morning.

Anticipating Fred, Florida Gov. Ron

DeSantis declared a state of emergency

for the state’s Panhandle region. And

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a state-

ment Saturday saying her administra-

tion was monitoring the weather and

“will be ready to act from the state level

if needed.”

Fred’s remnants were located early

Sunday about 350 miles south-southeast

of Pensacola, Fla., and moving north-

northwest at 9 mph.

Fred had been downgraded to a trop-

ical wave on Saturday. Tropical waves

can contain winds and heavy rain, but do

not circulate around a center point or an

“eye” like a tropical storm or hurricane.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Grace

was 55 miles southwest of St. Croix and

100 miles southeast of San Juan, Puerto

Rico on Sunday morning. Forecasters

said heavy rainfall from the system

would fall over parts of the Lesser and

Greater Antilles over the next few days.

Grace had maximum sustained winds

around 40 mph. The storm was moving

west-northwest at 16 mph.

Both Grace and Fred, regardless of

their storm status, posed a heavy rain

and flood threat, forecasters said.

Rainfall totals around 3 to 6 inches

were forecast from Grace for the Lee-

ward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto

Rico through Tuesday.

Fred was forecast to bring 4 to 8 inch-

es to the Big Bend of Florida and the

Panhandle from Sunday night into Tues-

day.

Fred again a tropical storm, heads to US coastAssociated Press


AMERICAN ROUNDUP

Woman uses laser sight toplay with cat, shoots man

WI KENOSHA — A Wis-

consin woman acciden-

tally shot a friend while using the

laser sight on a handgun to play

with a cat, authorities said.

A criminal complaint charging

the 19-year-old woman with negli-

gent use of a weapon said she was

visiting a Kenosha apartment

where a 21-year-old man had

brought a handgun.

The woman, who a witness said

had been drinking, picked up the

handgun, “turned on the laser

sight and was pointing it at the

floor to get the cat to chase it,”

when the gun went off, the com-

plaint said.

The man, who was standing in a

doorway, was shot in the thigh, au-

thorities said.

Large bull wanders ontofreeway, shuts down road

CA RANCHO CUCAMON-

GA — Traffic was halt-

ed on a Southern California high-

way when a bull that was grazing

along the shoulder wandered into

lanes.

Video aired by ABC 7 showed

the large bull meandering on

northbound Interstate 15 in Ran-

cho Cucamonga with two Califor-

nia Highway Patrol vehicles in

slow pursuit.

Highway patrol officers stop-

ped traffic and eventually cor-

ralled the animal off the highway

northeast of Los Angeles.

About an hour later, the Califor-

nia Department of Transportation

tweeted that the bull had been

“safely recovered .... And fed.” All

lanes were reopened.

It wasn’t clear where the bull

had come from or how it had got-

ten loose.

Man test-driving SUV withsalesman rear-ends truck

IN HOBART — A man is ac-

cused of driving more

than 100 mph while test-driving an

SUV — with an auto salesman

next to him in the vehicle — before

slamming into a semitrailer on a

northwestern Indiana highway.

LeDarien Gregory was charged

with kidnapping, auto theft, iden-

tity deception and operating a ve-

hicle without ever receiving a li-

cense, state police said.

The Hobart dealership sales-

man called 911 from inside the Kia

Borrego on Interstate 80 and re-

ported that he was being held

against his will by the driver who

refused to let him out.

Gregory, 29, of Hammond and

the salesman were injured and

taken to a hospital.

Pharmacy worker pleadsguilty to medication theft

VA NORFOLK — A former

pharmacy technician

pleaded guilty to fraudulently ob-

taining some 50,000 doses of

opioids and other prescription

medications.

Raj Parekh, acting U.S. Attor-

ney for the Eastern District of Vir-

ginia, said Justin Feliciano Agloro

“stole a large supply of prescrip-

tion medications from a hospital

that were intended for the treat-

ment of deserving patients.”

The 40-year-old Virginia Beach

man had worked at Sentara Nor-

folk General Hospital. His job was

ensuring that the hospital’s con-

trolled substance system was

stocked with the correct dosages.

But court documents allege he

stole medications and then falsi-

fied records to conceal those

thefts.

Authorities investigatepipe bomb found on road

AZ SIERRA VISTA — Co-

chise County author-

ities are investigating the discov-

ery of a pipe bomb on a road in

Sierra Vista.

They said a man called to say he

saw what appeared to be an explo-

sive device as he was walking near

an intersection.

County sheriff’s deputies and

the Arizona Department of Public

Safety responded to the scene and

say the small pipe bomb had wires

running from one end of a thread-

ed galvanized pipe with PVC end

caps.

Authorities redirected traffic

for about three hours while they

opened the bomb, which con-

tained smokeless and black powd-

ers with wires extending into the

bomb’s interior.

Sierra Vista police destroyed

the powder filler at the scene.

Pieces of the bomb were taken as

evidence.

2nd bald eagle deathblamed on rat poison

MA WESTBOROUGH —

A second bald eagle

has died in Massachusetts this

year after ingesting a highly toxic

poison meant to kill rats, state

wildlife officials said.

The female fledgling was found

in distress on the ground in Mid-

dlesex County in late July and

brought to the Tufts Wildlife Clin-

ic in Grafton where it died, the

state Division of Fisheries and

Wildlife said in a statement.

Toxicology tests on a liver sam-

ple from the raptor confirmed the

cause of death was lethal levels of

what the agency described as

“second-generation anticoagulant

rodenticide.”

The poison kills by preventing

blood from clotting normally, re-

sulting in fatal internal bleeding.

Wildlife can be poisoned either by

eating poisoned bait directly, or by

eating prey that has consumed the

bait.

McDonald’s settles suitover dog diaper masks

CA OAKLAND — An Oak-

land McDonald’s has

settled a lawsuit by employees

who said the owner gave them CO-

VID-19 masks made from dog

diapers and coffee filters.

The settlement requires the

franchise owner to provide masks

and gloves to all workers and pro-

vide other health and safety mea-

sures required by a judge last

year, such as regular temperature

checks.

The franchise owner didn’t ac-

knowledge any wrongdoing in the

settlement.

The measures will remain in

place for a year unless govern-

ment health agencies no longer

recommend them.

After the COVID-19 pandemic

began in March 2020, employees

asked for masks but received dog

diapers and coffee filters as a stop-

gap measure and when they even-

tually received masks intended

for one-time use they had to wear

them for several days, the employ-

ees alleged.

Former school workersentenced in fraud scam

AL MONTGOMERY — A

former public school

administrator was sentenced to

five years in prison and ordered to

pay more than $300,000 in restitu-

tion after pleading guilty to fraud,

prosecutors said.

Walter James III, who was an

assistant principal at Jeff Davis

High School in Montgomery at the

time, also will spend three years

on probation after he is released,

authorities said in a statement.

James, 50, portrayed himself as

the owner of a consulting firm

while also working for the school

system, news outlets reported. He

worked with others to submit in-

voices for professional develop-

ment services that never were

performed, authorities said.

A federal judge ordered James

to repay Montgomery’s school

system $314,000 for the three-year

scheme.

DUSTIN SAFRANEK, KETCHIKAN (ALASKA) DAILY NEWS/AP

Tlingit Elder Harvey Shields stands in prayer next to the 1,094foot BreakawayPlusclass cruise ship Norwegian Encore, during a ribboncutting ceremony at the Mill at Ward Cove in Ketchikan, Alaska. The ship was the first regular cruise to call at the new dock and passengerfacility.

Bon voyage!

THE CENSUS

4K The number of women who could get free firearm lessonshosted by a gun rights advocacy group based in Detroit. Le-

gally Armed in Detroit founder Rick Ector said the group hopes to provide les-sons to 4,000 women. The sessions will include a firearm instructor’s safetybriefing, use of a firearm, ammunition and range time. No prior firearms train-ing or experience is required, Ector said. The free lessons have been offered fora decade. Fifty women received training the first year and more than 1,900women participated last year, Ector added.

From The Associated Press


WORLD

HONG KONG — A pro-democ-

racy group that organized some of

the biggest protests during

months of political upheaval in

Hong Kong in 2019 is dissolving,

the group said Sunday.

The Hong Kong Civil Human

Rights Front, made up of a slew of

member organizations, said it

could no longer operate. The deci-

sion comes as the group faces a po-

lice investigation for possible vio-

lation of a national security law,

according to local media.

The group, which also orga-

nized an annual protest march

marking the semiautonomous ter-

ritory’s handover to China in 1997,

is the largest to disband amid a

sweeping crackdown on dissent in

the city. Earlier this week, the

city’s largest teachers’ union dis-

banded in light of what it said were

drastic changes in the political en-

vironment.

Rights group Amnesty Interna-

tional expressed its concern over

“the pattern of self-censorship

seen this week.” The London-

based organization said in a state-

ment this “signals a concerning

domino effect, as Hong Kong’s

draconian national security law

has triggered an accelerating dis-

appearance of independent civil

society groups from the city.”

The crackdown follows Beij-

ing’s imposition of the national se-

curity law on Hong Kong last year.

The legislation outlaws secession,

subversion, terrorism and foreign

collusion and has been used to ar-

rest more than 100 pro-democracy

figures since it was first imple-

mented a year ago, as well as the

closure of pro-democracy news-

paper Apple Daily.

The crackdown has virtually si-

lenced opposition voices in the

city — and drawn sanctions from

the United States against Hong

Kong and Chinese government of-

ficials.

Former leaders of the Civil Hu-

man Rights Front, Figo Chan and

Jimmy Sham, are currently in jail

on charges related to their activ-

ism.

While authorities have said the

law would not be applied retroac-

tively, a recent interview with a

Hong Kong police commissioner

suggested the group was being in-

vestigated for holding rallies in

the past year.

A statement by Hong Kong po-

lice on Sunday said they would

continue to spare no effort to in-

vestigate whether any organiza-

tion or individuals violated the na-

tional security law and other local

laws. It said they would pursue in-

dividuals regardless of a group’s

disbandment.

Hong Kong democracy group behind massive protests disbandsAssociated Press

soldiers cordoned the area.

A Lebanese military official

said the explosion occurred after

the army confiscated a warehouse

in Tleil where about 60,000 liters

BEIRUT — A warehouse where

fuel was illegally stored exploded

in northern Lebanon early Sun-

day, killing 20 people and burning

dozens more in the latest tragedy

to hit the Mediterranean country

in the throes of a devastating eco-

nomic and political crisis.

It was not immediately clear

what caused the explosion near

the border with Syria. Fuel smug-

gling operations have been ongo-

ing for months.

The Lebanese Red Cross said a

fuel tanker exploded and its teams

recovered 20 bodies from the site

in the border village of Tleil. In a

statement, it said it evacuated 79

people who were injured or suf-

fered burns in the blast. Hours af-

ter the blast, Lebanese Red Cross

members were still searching the

area for more victims as Lebanese

of gasoline were stored, and the or-

der was given to distribute the fuel

to residents of the area. Residents

had gathered to acquire the scarce

commodity, available only on the

black market at exorbitant prices

or not at all.

Outside the Salam hospital in

the northern city of Tripoli, a wom-

an collapsed after she was told her

son succumbed to his wounds.

“Oh my God. He has little kids,”

said the woman as she wept. “Why

did you leave me, Ahmad?”

A young man standing nearby

cried: “We will go to your homes

and burn you there,” a reference to

Lebanon’s political leaders,

blamed for decades of corruption

and mismanagement that has led

the country to bankruptcy.

At a hospital in Beirut, where

some of the burn victims were

brought, Marwa el-Sheikh from

Tleil was waiting for word about

her brother who was being treated

for burns, and her brother-in-law,

aretired soldier, who was still mis-

sing.

“Some people were burned be-

yond recognition,” she told the AP.

“They are the victims of the short-

comings and carelessness of our

politicians who led us to this.”

A nighttime video circulating

online showed residents gathered

at the site before the explosion, fill-

ing up gallons with fuel. AP foot-

age showed the charged remains

of what appears to be part of a

tanker that exploded. Lebanese

soldiers, a Red Cross vehicle and

other trucks could be seen in the

area.

Hospitals in northern Lebanon

were calling for blood donations of

all types. Lebanese Health Minis-

ter Hamad Hassan called on hos-

pitals in northern Lebanon and the

capital, Beirut, to receive those in-

jured by the explosion, adding that

the government will pay for their

treatment.

At least 20 dead, dozens hurt from fuel explosion in LebanonAssociated Press

STR/AP

Black smoke rises from the scene where a fuel tanker exploded inTleil village, north Lebanon, on Sunday.

LES CAYES, Haiti — A powerful magni-

tude 7.2 earthquake added to the misery in

Haiti, killing at least 304 people, injuring a

minimum of 1,800 others and destroying

hundreds of homes. People in the Carib-

bean island nation rushed into the streets to

seek safety and to help help rescue those

trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes,

hotels and other structures.

Saturday’s earthquake struck the south-

western part of the hemisphere’s poorest

nation, almost razing some towns and trig-

gering landslides that hampered rescue ef-

forts in two of the hardest-hit communities.

The disaster also added to the plight of Hai-

tians, who were already grappling with the

coronavirus pandemic, a presidential as-

sassination and deepening poverty.

The epicenter of the quake was about 78

miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince,

the U.S. Geological Survey said. The wide-

spread damage could worsen by early next

week, with Tropical Storm Grace predicted

to reach Haiti late Monday or early Tues-

day.

Aftershocks were felt throughout the day

and late into the night, when many people

now homeless or frightened by the possibil-

ity of their fractured homes collapsing on

them stayed in the streets to sleep — if their

nerves allowed them.

In the badly damaged coastal town of Les

Cayes, under darkness that was only punc-

tured by flashlights, some praised God for

surviving the earthquake.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he was

rushing aid to areas where towns were de-

stroyed and hospitals overwhelmed with in-

coming patients. A former senator rented a

private airplane to move injured people

from Les Cayes to Port-au-Prince for med-

ical assistance.

Henry declared a one-month state of

emergency for the whole country and said

he would not ask for international help until

the extent of the damages was known.

Jerry Chandler, director of Haiti’s Office

of Civil Protection, told reporters that the

death toll stood at 304 Saturday night. Res-

cue workers and bystanders were able to

pull many people to safety from the rubble.

Chandler said a partial count of structur-

al damage included at least 860 destroyed

homes and more than 700 damaged. Hospi-

tals, schools, offices and churches were also

affected.

On the tiny island of Ile-a-Vache, about

6.5 miles from Les Cayes, the quake dam-

aged a seaside resort popular with Haitian

officials, business leaders, diplomats and

humanitarian workers. Fernand Sajous,

owner of the Abaka Bay Resort, said by tele-

phone that nine of the hotel’s 30 rooms col-

lapsed, but he said they were vacant at the

time and no one was injured.

People in Les Cayes tried to pull guests

from the rubble of a collapsed hotel, but as

the sun set, they had only been able to re-

cover the body of a 7-year-old girl whose

home was behind the facility.

“I have eight kids, and I was looking for

the last one,” Jean-Claude Daniel said

through tears. “I will never see her again

alive. The earthquake destroyed my life. It

took a child away from me.”

Powerful quake inHaiti kills hundreds

Associated Press

JOSEPH ODELYN / AP

People gather outside the Petit Pas Hotel in Les Cayes which was destroyed by a7.2magnitude earthquake in Haiti on Saturday.


WORLD

TOKYO — Japan marked the 76th anni-

versary of its World War II surrender on

Sunday with a somber ceremony in which

Prime Minister Yosihide Suga pledged for

the tragedy of war to never be repeated but

avoided apologizing for his country’s aggres-

sion.

Suga said Japan never forgets that the

peace the country enjoys today is built on the

sacrifices of those who died in the war.

“We will commit to our pledge to never re-

peat the tragedy of the war,” he said in his

first speech at the event since becoming

prime minister.

Suga did not offer an apology to the Asian

victims of Japanese aggression across the re-

gion in the first half of the 20th century — a

precedent set by the country’s previous lead-

er, Shinzo Abe, who was frequently accused

of trying to whitewash Japan’s brutal past.

In a largely domestic-focused speech, Su-

ga listed damage inflicted on Japan and its

people, including the U.S. atomic attacks on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the firebombing of

Tokyo and other cities and the fierce battle of

Okinawa, and mourned for them.

Emperor Naruhito, in contrast, expressed

“deep remorse” over his country’s wartime

actions in a carefully nuanced speech that

followed the footsteps of his father, who de-

voted his 30-year career to making amends

for a war fought in the name of Hirohito, the

current emperor’s grandfather. Naruhito al-

so said he hoped that people can put their

hearts together to overcome the difficulty of

the pandemic while seeking happiness and

peace for all.

Amid Tokyo’s surging coronavirus infec-

tions, about 200 participants, reduced from

about 6,000 before the pandemic, mourned

for the dead with a minute of silence. Masks

were required, and there was no singing of

the national anthem.

Japan marks 76th anniversary of WWII surrenderAssociated Press

TOKYO — Torrential rain trig-

gered a mudslide and more floods

across Japan on Sunday, leaving

three people presumed dead and

forcing the evacuation of dozens of

residents.

A mudslide early Sunday hit a

house in Okaya City in the central

Japanese prefecture of Nagano,

burying eight residents. Three of

the people were presumed dead

when rescue workers found them,

and two others were injured, ac-

cording to the Fire and Disaster

Management Agency. The other

three people were safely rescued.

On Friday, a mudslide in Naga-

saki killed one person, injured an-

other and left two others missing,

while a separate mudslide in Hi-

roshima left one person seriously

injured.

By Sunday, dozens of people in

flooded areas in the southern Ky-

ushu region as well as Hiroshima

were rescued, the disaster man-

agement agency said.

Heavy rain has dumped on

southwestern Japan since last

week. The Japan Meteorological

Agency said more rain is expected

in the coming days as a front is

stuck above the Japanese archi-

pelago.

Nearly 200 municipalities un-

der high risks of floods or mud-

slides have issued evacuation in-

structions, affecting more than 4

million residents, though there is

no penalty for those who ignore.

More than 500 homes around

the country have been damaged

by floods and mudslides, the di-

saster management agency said.

AP

People wade through a flooded road after torrential rain, watched byJapan Ground SelfDefense Force personnel, foreground Sunday inTakeo, Saga prefecture, southwestern Japan.

Japan hit with more flooding, mudslidesAssociated Press


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OPINION

We hunkered down, worked from

home, wore masks, shopped

online, did virtual school (the

whole time), joined a pandemic

pod, avoided large gatherings, ate outside, and

my husband and I got vaccines the second we

were eligible. Yet, as I write this, our 8-year-

old daughter is upstairs in her room, under a

fort of blankets, with a sore throat, fever,

cough and a confirmed case of COVID.

Where did we go wrong?

Summer camp.

It seemed like such a good idea, and if you

ask our daughter, it was. In fact, those seven

weeks were the best of her entire pandemic

experience. It was a small group of 10 kids, all

wearing masks and banded together in a “su-

per session” that was supposed to last eight

weeks. My daughter says it felt like they’d

known each other forever by Day 3. But on

Aug. 5, a Thursday, we got word that one of the

kids had tested positive for COVID, and the

whole camp section was shutting down, effec-

tive immediately. That meant no final week,

no goodbyes, no culminating cardboard boat

race.

We were handed a letter that said we had to

quarantine until Aug. 17, unless our child re-

ceived a negative COVID test, taken no earlier

than Sunday, the 8th. We got an appointment

right away, assuming it would lead to faster

freedom. By the afternoon of the 9th, however,

our daughter had developed a fever, and had a

scratchy throat. Both persisted into the next

day, when she took a rapid PCR test, and the

doctor called us with the bad news that night.

Now, she’s holed up in her bedroom, stead-

ily worsening, and taking video calls and tab-

let time under the fort she built out of her bed-

covers in the morning, when she was feeling

better. Her dad and I wear a mask around her,

and she, around us and the dog — the pandem-

ic puppy we brought home exactly one year

ago. I just finished disinfecting all the shared

surfaces and am alternating between re-

signed acceptance and rank anxiety: CO-

VID-19 is in my house. It is in my child, the one

person I fervently hoped it would never touch.

And it is likely in me, waging battle with my

vaccine-boosted cells. I can’t yet tell if the

scratchiness in my own throat is sympathetic

or real, and I can’t get tested yet to search for a

“breakthrough” case of COVID.

Ialso can’t imagine how elementary school

is going to work in the fall, with no vaccine yet

available for the under 12 set.

Damn you, delta.

Don’t get me wrong: I know it’s time for kids

to go back in person; the sheer happiness those

weeks of on-site camp brought my daughter

convinced me of that. But I’m far from certain

that schools are ready for the reality.

Returning to classrooms of two dozen or

more kids and cafeteria lunches sounds like

the perfect science fair project. Hypothesis: If

the delta variant of COVID is more contagious

than the version that shuttered schools and

now the most prevalent, then collecting un-

vaccinated children together will provide a

fertile breeding ground.

Those districts that will be doing blind,

group testing of K-5 classrooms had better be

ready to reinstitute virtual schooling for two

weeks at a time when the positives start rolling

in. And the districts that are still waffling over

whether to wear masks indoors need to ask

themselves whose interests they’re serving.

It’s certainly not the kids’.

Delta has caused a surge in pediatric CO-

VID-19 cases, with numbers rapidly rising

throughout July to now. In the week ending

June 24, states reported 8,447 child COVID

cases; in the week ending Aug. 5, they were up

to 93,824. And in the week ending Aug. 12, my

daughter — whose fever will rise above 104

later tonight and stay that way through to the

next morning — will be among the thousands.

Don’t you dare tell me kids aren’t at risk.

We’re only a few days in and don’t yet know

what the full illness will look like for her. She’s

not one of those kids who gets COVID and

shows no symptoms; that much is clear. She’s

miserable, her little body hot all over, her head

congested and her throat on fire. What’s un-

clear is whether she’s one of those kids who

has a flu-like experience that runs its course in

a week or two, or if she’s among the kids who

get pneumonia or multisystem inflammatory

syndrome or long COVID, with its potential

for lasting neurological effects.

My husband and I had been hoping our pre-

cautions meant we’d never have to find out. At

least we can say we made the effort. It’s a cold

comfort.

We did everything right. Our kid still got COVIDBY TRICIA BISHOP

The Baltimore Sun

Tricia Bishop is The Baltimore Sun’s opinion editor.

President Joe Biden has said he is de-

termined to use every tool at his dis-

posal to drive up coronavirus vacci-

nation rates. And he has been true to

his word, requiring vaccinations for 4 million

federal employees and contractors. Workers

who refuse must submit to regular testing,

masking and distancing. He also announced

mandatory vaccinations for 1.3 million active-

duty military by mid-September and an-

nounced a small-business tax credit for em-

ployers to offer paid time off so that workers

and their families can get vaccinated.

Those actions were singularly important.

But with cases spiking and hospitals once

again filling up, there’s a lot more Biden can

and should do to drive up vaccination rates.

Let’s first dispel one myth: The president

has no explicit power to unilaterally issue a na-

tional vaccine mandate. Federal constitution-

al authority is limited, while states hold the pri-

mary public-health powers, including com-

pelling vaccinations. Every state, for example,

currently requires childhood vaccinations as

acondition of attending school.

But the president could take several steps

right away that are lawful and relatively easy

to achieve. Just as he mandated wearing

masks during interstate or international air,

bus and train travel, Biden could also require

proof of vaccination or a recent negative test.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki indi-

cated such conversations are in their early

stages. The 1944 Public Health Service Act

grants the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention broad powers to prevent trans-

mission of communicable diseases into the

United States and between states. Though the

Biden administration would need to be pru-

dent and avoid overreach, such as regulating

car passengers traveling within the U.S.

He could similarly require vaccinations or a

recent negative test for accessing federal in-

door properties, such as museums and federal

offices. He could extend the military vaccine

mandate to the Reserve force, covering hun-

dreds of thousands more people. The Defense

Department requires that immunization pro-

tocols for Reserve forces be consistent with

active forces, and special requirements dur-

ing pandemic influenza could be analogized to

COVID-19.

While there is a rising tide of businesses,

universities and states requiring proof of vac-

cination, many are waiting for full approval of

the vaccines and the administration’s support

for vaccine passports. The Justice Depart-

ment and Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission have both ruled that vaccine

mandates are lawful even under an emergen-

cy use authorization, but many businesses and

universities fear litigation or public backlash.

Given that data makes clear that the vac-

cines are safe and effective, full approval

should arrive soon. In the meantime, the Bi-

den administration can finally support vacci-

nation credentialing systems. New York

Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Key to

NYC” pass relies on a hodgepodge of creden-

tials — its own system, New York state’s Ex-

celsior Pass and the CDC’s white paper immu-

nization card (which can be easily falsified).

The Biden administration should develop a

uniform vaccination verification system that

is secure, confidential and reliable. France’s

pass sanitaire requires proof of vaccination or

a negative test for participation in much of

public life. While not without backlash, it dra-

matically increased vaccination levels. Italy’s

green pass is also proving successful.

Beyond these simple measures, Biden

could use federal health funds to leverage vac-

cinations. The CDC could, for example, finan-

cially support states, businesses and universi-

ties to implement vaccination campaigns, in-

cluding mandates. The Supreme Court deter-

mined that Congress can withhold federal

dollars from states, but it can’t be too coercive.

Congress used highway funds to leverage

states to raise the minimum drinking age to 21.

It’s unclear just how far Biden can go without

congressional authorization, but he might use

funding to incentivize vaccine mandates, es-

pecially in high-risk settings such as hospitals,

cruise ships and long-term care facilities.

Adozen states, including Florida and Texas,

have laws restricting localities or businesses

from requiring proof of vaccination. The ad-

ministration could compensate entities that

are penalized under these anti-vaccination

laws. Psaki said that if Florida Republican

Gov. Ron DeSantis withheld school superin-

tendents’ pay if they mandated masks, the ad-

ministration could reimburse their costs. The

same could be done for fines tied to vaccine

mandates. While potentially costly, federal

payments would be temporary, as many state

laws are predicated on the emergency use sta-

tus of vaccines, which will soon be granted full

approval.

Biden may be the first president to mandate

a vaccine throughout the federal workforce.

That’s bold. But as the pandemic tests the lim-

its of our health system, social fabric and econ-

omy, the president can do still more to get us

back to normal.

Biden still has many options to boost vaccination ratesBY LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN

Special to The Washington Post

Lawrence O. Gostin is a professor and faculty director of theO’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at George-town Law. He is also director of the World Health OrganizationCollaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights andauthor of the forthcoming book “Global Health Security.”


SCOREBOARD


ACROSS 1 Alamo rival

5 Comedian

Margaret

8 Former U.N.

leader Annan

12 Olympic race

14 Grand tale

15 Conspicuous

16 Actress

Campbell

17 Retrieve

18 Personally gave

20 Cosmetics

mogul Lauder

23 Slithery

24 Oboe insert

25 Marked

28 Palindromic

constellation

29 Shire of “Rocky”

30 Sean, to Yoko

32 More offbeat

34 Rani’s dress

35 Automatons,

for short

36 Crouch

37 Bellyflop

aftermath

40 Big Apple sch.

41 Corp. leaders

42 Father at

Boys Town

47 Museo display

48 Covert, as

a motive

49 Smooch

50 Mormon church,

for short

51 Scat queen

Fitzgerald

DOWN 1 Bowling

alley inits.

2 Kilmer of

“Top Gun”

3 Nest egg

acronym

4 Drooped

5 Casual talk

6 Sweetie

7 Broadcasting

8 “Songbird”

performer

9 Pundit’s piece

10 Common quit-

ting time

11 Chilled

13 Nest setting

19 Pond growth

20 Notable time

21 Feudal laborer

22 Blue shade

23 Those girls,

in French

25 Loyal

26 Jacob’s twin

27 Nickelodeon’s

“Explorer”

29 Boxing stats

31 Little louse

33 Demeans

34 Cube side

36 “Auld

Lang —”

37 Wound cover

38 Lima’s land

39 Oodles

40 D.C. base-

ball team

43 Honorary

legal deg.

44 Baseball’s

Hodges

45 ISP giant

46 New Deal agcy.

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FACES

Marlon Wayans has transformed into a

white woman for “White Chicks,” a ba-

by for “Little Man,” seven people for

“Sextuplets” and a streaker in a time

loop for “Naked.”

“I can’t wait to just play a regular Black man,” he

says.

He gets his wish in the new Aretha Franklin biopic

“Respect,” in which he plays Ted White, the singer’s

first husband and manager.

The cast also includes Jennifer Hudson as Fran-

klin, Forest Whitaker, Audra McDonald, Marc Ma-

ron, Mary J. Blige, Tituss Burgess and Tate Donovan.

Wayans says taking on dramatic roles such as this

one is a breeze, compared to comedy. He also took a

dramatic turn in “Requiem for a Dream” (2000).

“I find drama to be a fun vacation from comedy,”

he says. “Comedy is so hard — we just make it look so

easy. But it requires so much time and energy. Dra-

ma is a ‘lay off the gas, putting the car in cruise con-

trol.’”

He says he enjoys being able to dig into his emo-

tions. “I like tapping into that when it comes to dra-

ma, to unlock pain and allow myself to be vulnera-

ble.” He says that requires trusting the script, the di-

rector and his co-stars.

He’d love to be a leading man in dramas — along

with comedies, thrillers and action movies.

“I’m working my behind off to be something so dy-

namic, something we’ve never seen,” says Wayans,

48. “That takes time. I’ve been working on this 40

years now. I’ve grown into my grown-man looks, can

grow a beard, can be dangerous. I can do all this. Peo-

ple look at my filmography and say, ‘Wow, the guy

can do anything and everything and does a great job

at it.’”

Wayans was quickly attracted to the dynamic

script and the idea of taking on a different kind of role

in “Respect.”

“It’s a departure from anything I’ve ever done,” he

says. “(White is) the villain and the leading man at the

same time.

“He was dangerous, sweet, a little crazy, romantic,

a guardian, a lot of different things. I wanted to take

an unlikable character and make him lovable, then

make him hard to hate. I wanted him to be complex. I

didn’t want to just play a bad guy. I wanted to play a

guy who is damaged and insecure.”

White loved Franklin, and Franklin loved White,

Wayans says. “We wanted to show that story. We

thought that would resonate more with the audi-

ence.”

Director Liesl Tommy felt the same way about

Wayans’ approach to the character.

Preparing for the role was challenging, Wayans

says, because not a lot has been written about White,

and there isn’t a lot of video of him.

Even with limited research opportunities — he

read “Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin” —

Wayans was able to capture some of White’s cadence

while also creating his own interpretation.

“I’m glad there wasn’t a lot of research,” he says. “I

didn’t have to do an impression.”

Wayans says the role was more of a commitment

than a challenge.

“I just had to do the work,” he says. “I came to work

prepared. I worked with my acting coach, worked

with my vocal coach and worked with my movement

coach.”

While basking in his biggest dramatic role, Wayans

remains firmly planted in comedy. A new stand-up

special, “Marlon Wayans: You Know What It Is,” be-

gins streaming Thursday on HBO Max.

“Here I have this drama coming out, and the next

week I have some hilarious stand-up in the market,”

he says. “That’s just me. I do it all and love it all.”

Wayans says what he loves about his comedy now

is that the more he performs, the more personal it be-

comes, making it more relatable to audiences.

“I’m talking about real stuff,” he says of his stand-

up. “I’m not reaching for the comedy anymore; it’s

coming to me. It gets easier when you start being

truthful.”

Wayans’ mother died in 2020. He says he talks

about her onstage as a way of honoring her.

“I’m maturing as a comedian, as an actor and as a

human,” he says. “I’m ready for everything coming

my way. You gotta own it. I set out as a kid to be great,

to try to be a legend. I look at how my career has gone,

step by step, brick by brick, I’m gonna get there.”

STEWART COOK

Comedic actor Marlon Wayans plays Ted White, Aretha Franklin’s husband and manager, in “Respect.”

A dramatic departureMarlon Wayans branches out from comedy genre in ‘Respect’

BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tony Bennett has retired from

performing, his son and longtime

manager Danny Bennett has con-

firmed.

Just a week after the legendary

crooner joined frequent collabo-

rator Lady Gaga for two sold-out

shows at Manhattan’s Radio City

Music Hall, his son says that the

95-year-old performer will no

longer return to the stage and that

upcoming tour dates are canceled.

The much-anticipated New

York shows — “One Last Time: An

Evening With Tony Bennett and

Lady Gaga” — were being billed

as the singer’s final shows in the

Big Apple. He was, however, still

scheduled to keep touring and

performing at other venues along

the East Coast.

But after an announcement that

Bennett would cancel the remain-

der of his 2021 tour, his son said

that the singer was effectively re-

tiring from the stage.

“There won’t be any additional

concerts,” Danny Bennett told Va-

riety. “This was a hard decision

for us to make, as he is a capable

performer. This is, however, doc-

tors’ orders.”

The Grammy-winning musi-

cian, whose chart-topping career

spans seven decades, told AARP

Magazine this year that he had

been living with Alzheimer’s dis-

ease for the last four years.

“His continued health is the

most important part of this,” his

son explained. “And when we

heard the doctors — when Tony’s

wife, Susan heard them — she

said, ‘Absolutely not.’ He’ll be do-

ing other things, but not those up-

coming shows. It’s not the singing

aspect but, rather, the traveling.

Look, he gets tired. The decision is

being made that doing concerts

now is just too much for him. We

don’t want him to fall on stage, for

instance — something as simple as

that.”

Danny Bennett, who has man-

aged his father for more than 40

years, said that he still has the

voice that has earned him 20

Grammys — including a Lifetime

Achievement Award.

“We’re not worried about him

being able to sing. We are worried,

from a physical stand point…

about human nature,” he added.

“Tony’s 95.”

Bennett’s six-date fall tour had

been scheduled to begin Sept. 25.

Bennett cancels concerts,retires from performing

New York Daily News

AP

Tony Bennett, shown in 2019,has canceled his fall and winter2021 tour dates, effectivelyretiring from touring.

Actor Gina Carano was can-

celed earlier this year. Now,

backed by conservative media

company the Daily Wire, the for-

mer MMA star is planning a re-

turn to the screen, the Los Angeles

Times has confirmed.

Carano, who lost her job on

“The Mandalorian” and her UTA

agent after Disney, via Lucasfilm,

deemed some of her social media

posts “abhorrent,” will star in an

action-thriller based on the Eric

Red novel “White Knuckle.”

As yet untitled, this is the movie

Carano announced with Daily

Wire founder Ben Shapiro in Feb-

ruary, just days after her high-

profile ouster from “The Manda-

lorian.” The company is aiming to

release the film in the first quarter

of next year, with a trailer due in

February.

In the flick, she’ll play a woman

who survives a murder attempt by

a serial-killer trucker, then part-

ners with another trucker to get

her revenge by taking down the

killer. Filming is planned for Octo-

ber.

Early this year, Lucasfilm and

many others slammed Carano for

her previous social media posts,

including one that compared be-

ing a Republican

today to being a

Jew during the

Holocaust, a post

she removed.

Carano’s ab-

sence from “The

Mandalorian,”

however, isn’t

expected to have

much of an impact on the Disney+

series, which is due to deliver a

third season next year on the

streaming service.

After Carano’s expulsion from

the series, the performer struck a

deal almost immediately with the

Daily Wire to produce and star in a

film. Simultaneously, the conser-

vative company announced its

new entertainment-industry am-

bitions.

“This is just the beginning ...

welcome to the rebellion,” Carano

said on social media in February

as she retweeted Shapiro’s tweet

promoting the new venture.

Carano is out for revenge infirst film since ‘Mandalorian’

Los Angeles Times

Carano


SCOREBOARD/SPORTS BRIEFS

SOCCER

MLS

Eastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

New England 13 3 4 43 37 23

NYCFC 9 5 4 31 34 18

Orlando City 8 4 6 30 28 23

Philadelphia 7 5 7 28 25 19

Nashville 6 2 10 28 26 17

D.C. United 8 7 3 27 27 21

CF Montréal 7 7 5 26 26 25

Columbus 6 6 6 24 21 23

New York 5 9 4 19 22 24

Atlanta 3 6 9 18 21 25

Chicago 4 9 5 17 20 29

Inter Miami CF 4 9 4 16 15 28

Cincinnati 3 7 7 16 18 30

Toronto FC 3 10 6 15 24 40

Western Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

Sporting KC 11 4 4 37 35 20

LA Galaxy 11 6 2 35 30 28

Seattle 9 3 6 33 26 14

Colorado 9 4 4 31 25 17

Minnesota 7 6 5 26 21 22

Real Salt Lake 6 6 6 24 27 20

Portland 7 8 2 23 23 29

LAFC 6 7 5 23 24 25

San Jose 5 7 7 22 21 27

FC Dallas 5 8 6 21 23 27

Houston 3 7 9 18 20 28

Vancouver 3 7 8 17 19 28

Austin FC 4 10 4 16 13 21

Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.

Saturday’s games

LA Galaxy 1, Minnesota 0 New York City FC 2, Miami 0 New England 2, Toronto FC 1 CF Montréal 2, New York 1 Colorado 3, Houston 1 Sporting Kansas City 2, FC Dallas 0 Real Salt Lake 1, Austin FC 0

Sunday’s games

Los Angeles FC at Atlanta Columbus at Chicago D.C. United at Nashville Seattle at Portland

Tuesday’s games

Colorado at LA Galaxy Minnesota at San Jose

Wednesday’s games

D.C. United at New England Toronto FC at Atlanta CF Montréal at Cincinnati New York City FC at Philadelphia Chicago at Miami Columbus at New York Orlando City at Nashville Portland at Sporting Kansas City Seattle at FC Dallas Vancouver at Austin FC Houston at Real Salt Lake

Friday, Aug. 20

San Jose at LA Galaxy

Saturday, Aug. 21

Sporting Kansas City at Minnesota Seattle at Columbus Chicago at Orlando City CF Montréal at Philadelphia Atlanta at D.C. United Cincinnati at New England New York City FC at New York Toronto FC at Miami FC Dallas at Houston Portland at Austin FC Real Salt Lake at Colorado Los Angeles FC at Vancouver

NWSL

W L T Pts GF GA

Portland 9 3 2 29 21 8

North Carolina 6 4 3 21 17 9

Orlando 5 4 6 21 18 17

Gotham FC 5 2 5 20 13 8

Chicago 6 6 2 20 15 20

Washington 5 5 4 19 17 17

Reign FC 6 7 1 19 17 15

Houston 5 6 3 18 17 20

Louisville 4 6 2 14 10 18

Kansas City 1 9 4 7 7 20

Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.

Saturday’s games

Portland 1, Orlando 1, tie Kansas City 1, Reign FC 0

Sunday’s games

Louisville at Gotham FC Chicago at North Carolina

Wednesday’s game

Chicago at Louisville

Saturday, Aug. 21

Kansas City at North Carolina Gotham FC at Reign FC

Sunday, Aug. 22

Orlando at Washington

Wednesday, Aug. 25

Louisville at Kansas CityGotham FC at Portland

PRO BASKETBALL

WNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB

Connecticut 14 6 .700 —

Chicago 10 10 .500 4

New York 10 11 .476 4½

Washington 8 10 .444 5

Atlanta 6 13 .316 7½

Indiana 4 16 .200 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB

Seattle 16 5 .762 —

Las Vegas 15 6 .714 1

Minnesota 12 7 .632 3

Phoenix 9 10 .474 6

Dallas 9 12 .429 7

Los Angeles 6 13 .316 9

Friday’s games

No games scheduled.

Saturday’s games

No games scheduled.

Sunday’s games

Connecticut at DallasSeattle at ChicagoAtlanta at PhoenixWashington at Las VegasNew York at MinnesotaIndiana at Los Angeles

Monday’s games

No games scheduled.

TENNIS

Rogers Cup

SaturdayAt Aviva Centre

TorontoPurse: $2,850,975

Surface: Hardcourt outdoorMen’s Singles

SemifinalsReilly Opelka, United States, def. Stefa-

nos Tsitsipas (3), Greece, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (4),6-4.

Daniil Medvedev (1), Russia, def. JohnIsner, United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Men’s DoublesSemifinals

Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic (1), Croa-tia, def. Horia Tecau, Romania, and KevinKrawietz (4), Germany, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (12).

Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe Sa-lisbury (3), Britain, def. Sander Gille andJoran Vliegen, Belgium, 6-3, 7-5.

National Bank Open

SaturdayAt IGA Stadium & Aviva Centre

MontrealPurse: $1,835,490

Surface: Hardcourt outdoorWomen’s Singles

SemifinalsKarolina Pliskova (4), Czech Republic,

def. Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, 6-3, 6-4. Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Jessica Pegula,

United States, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Women’s Doubles

SemifinalsAndreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Darija Ju-

rak (6), Croatia, def. Magda Linette, Po-land, and Bernarda Pera, United States,7-5, 6-4.

Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and LuisaStefani (5), Brazil, def. Veronika Kuderme-tova, Russia, and Elena Rybakina, Kazakh-stan, 6-2, 6-3.

Saturday’s TransactionsBASEBALL

Major League BaseballAmerican League

BOSTON RED SOX — Returned LHP ChrisSale from injury rehab assignment withWorster (Triple-A East) and reinstatedhim from the 60-dal IL. Reinstated C Chris-tian Vasques from the bereavement list.Optioned RHP Yacksel Rios to Worcester(Triple-A East). Optioned C Connor Wongto Worcester (Triple-A East).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RF KyleTucker on the 10-day IL. Reinstated 1B YuliGurriel from the 10-day IL.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Mi-chael Pineda on the 10-day IL. ReinstatedRHP Ralph Garza Jr. from St. Paul (Triple-AEast).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Signed freeagent RHP Sal Romano to a minor leaguecontract.

OAKLAND A’S — Placed SS Elvis Andruson paternity list. Recalled INF Vimael Ma-chin from Las Vegas (Triple-A West).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Selected the con-tract of LHP Adam Conley from Durham(Triple-A East). Designated RHP Evan Phil-lips for assignment.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent RHP A.J.Cole to Florida Complex League (FCL) on arehab assignment. Sent RHP Carl Edwardsto Buffalo (Triple-A East) on a rehab as-signment. Acquired OF Mallex Smith fromCincinnati.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent RHP

Luke Weaver on a rehab assignment to Re-no (Triple-A West).

ATLANTA BRAVES — Released RHPShane Greene.

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed RHP Adbert Al-zolay on the 10-day IL. Reinstated RHP Tre-vor Megill from Iowa (Triple-A East).Signed RHP Ryan Cardona. Sent LHP KyleRyan to Iowa (Triple-A East) outright.

CINCINNATI REDS — Signed RHP RyanCardona. Signed RHP Donovan Benoit.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — ReinstatedINF/OF Zach McKinstry from OklahomaCity (Triple-A West). Placed LHP JulioUrias on IL. Sent C Anthony Bemboom andRHP Kevin Quackenbush to Oklahoma City(Triple-A West) outright.

MIAMI MARLINS — Reinstated RHP JorgeGuzman and LHP Sean Guenther fromJacksonville (Triple-A East). DesignatedShawn Morimando for assignment.Placed RHP Zach Pop on the 10-day IL, ret-roactive to August, 11.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — ReinstatedLHP Aaron Ashby from Nashville (Triple-A

East).NEW YORK METS — Placed RHP Drew

Smith on the 10-day IL. Optioned OF AlbertAlmora Jr. to Syracuse (Triple-A East). Re-instated RHPs Geoff Hartlieb and JakeReed from Syracuse.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — ReinstatedLHP Baily Falter from the 10-day IL. Desig-nated RHP David Paulino for assignment.Optioned OF CF Mickey Moniak to LehighValley (Triple-A East). Recalled RHP ado-nis Medina from Lehigh Valley.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled RHPShea Spitzbarth from Indianapolis (Tri-ple-A East).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent RHP TreyWingenter to Arizona Complex league(ACL) on a rehab assignment.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Recalled LHPSammy Long From Sacramento (Triple-AWest). Returned from rehab assignmentand reinstated from 60-day IL. OptionedINF Thairo Estrada to Sacramento. PlacedRHP Jay Jackson on the 10-day IL. Rein-stated 3B Evan Longoria from the 60-dayIL.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Sent RHP MilesMikolas on a rehap assignment to Peoria(High-A Central).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent RHP TreyWingenter to Arizona Complez League(ACL) on a rehab assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — ClaimedRHP Patrick Murphy off waivers from theToronto Blue Jays. Released C Rene Riv-era.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed OT Jason Pe-ters.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed OG Ted Lar-sen.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Activated TLe’Raven Clark from the physically unableto perform (PUP) list. Waived WR AdrianKillins. Waived TE Caleb Wilson.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Acquired MLBJoe Schobert from Jacksonville for a 2022sixth-round draft pick. Waived OLB TegrayScales and DE Calvin Taylor.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived TE DonnieErnsberger.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed D JanisMoser to a three-year entry-level con-tract.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

NASHVILLE SC — Loaned MF Irakoze Do-nasiyano to OKC Energy FC of the USLChampionship League.

DEALS

PRO FOOTBALL

NFL preseason

Saturday’s games

Chicago 20, Miami 13Denver 33, Minnesota 6Baltimore 17, New Orleans 14Cleveland 23, Jacksonville 13Cincinnati 19, Tampa Bay 14N.Y. Jets 12, N.Y. Giants 7Houston 26, Green Bay 7Kansas City 19, San Francisco 16L.A. Chargers 13, L.A. Rams 6Las Vegas 20, Seattle 7

Sunday’s game

Carolina at Indianapolis

Thursday, Aug. 19

New England at Philadelphia

Friday, Aug. 20

Cincinnati at WashingtonKansas City at Arizona

Saturday, Aug. 21

Buffalo at ChicagoN.Y. Jets at Green BayAtlanta at MiamiBaltimore at CarolinaDetroit at PittsburghTennessee at Tampa BayHouston at DallasIndianapolis at MinnesotaDenver at SeattleLas Vegas at L.A. Rams

Sunday, Aug. 22

N.Y. Giants at ClevelandSan Francisco at L.A. Chargers

Monday, Aug. 23

Jacksonville at New Orleans

Wyndham ChampionshipPGA TourSaturday

At Sedgefield Country ClubGreensboro, N.C.

Yardage: 7,131; Par: 70Purse: $6.4 Million

Third RoundRussell Henley 62-64-69—195 -15 Tyler McCumber 65-67-66—198 -12 Branden Grace 66-69-64—199 -11 Roger Sloan 71-64-64—199 -11 Kevin Kisner 65-68-66—199 -11 Kevin Na 68-64-67—199 -11 Scott Piercy 64-66-69—199 -11 Rory Sabbatini 66-64-69—199 -11 Adam Scott 66-70-64—200 -10 Hudson Swafford 64-69-67—200 -10 Kevin Streelman 66-66-68—200 -10 Justin Rose 66-65-69—200 -10 Tyler Duncan 69-62-69—200 -10 Webb Simpson 65-65-70—200 -10 Will Zalatoris 68-68-65—201 -9 Brendon Todd 69-67-65—201 -9 Ben Taylor 68-68-65—201 -9 Adam Hadwin 64-71-66—201 -9 Sungjae Im 66-68-67—201 -9 Si Woo Kim 66-68-67—201 -9 Sung Kang 64-69-68—201 -9 Sebastián Muñoz 66-67-68—201 -9 Harry Higgs 70-67-65—202 -8 K.H. Lee 67-68-67—202 -8 Cameron Percy 67-67-68—202 -8 John Augenstein 68-65-69—202 -8 Chris Kirk 64-69-69—202 -8 C.T. Pan 68-69-66—203 -7 Anirban Lahiri 67-69-67—203 -7 Nick Taylor 65-71-67—203 -7 Aaron Wise 66-70-67—203 -7 Byeong Hun An 69-66-68—203 -7 Denny McCarthy 65-69-69—203 -7 Mackenzie Hughes 70-63-70—203 -7 Brian Stuard 65-66-72—203 -7 Sepp Straka 66-71-67—204 -6 Matt Kuchar 66-67-71—204 -6 Alex Smalley 68-64-72—204 -6 Johnson Wagner 68-69-68—205 -5 Brice Garnett 69-68-68—205 -5 Kevin Tway 66-71-68—205 -5 Russell Knox 74-63-68—205 -5 Beau Hossler 68-69-68—205 -5 Mark Hubbard 67-70-68—205 -5 Brian Gay 70-66-69—205 -5 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 66-68-71—205 -5 David Lingmerth 68-67-70—205 -5 Harold Varner III 67-67-71—205 -5 Jhonattan Vegas 65-68-72—205 -5 Sam Ryder 68-65-72—205 -5 Chesson Hadley 68-69-69—206 -4

Matt Jones 69-68-69—206 -4 Rob Oppenheim 66-71-69—206 -4 Bubba Watson 67-69-70—206 -4 Jason Dufner 71-65-70—206 -4 Keith Mitchell 67-68-71—206 -4 Camilo Villegas 68-67-71—206 -4 Tommy Fleetwood 66-68-72—206 -4

Scottish OpenLPGA TourSaturday

At Dumbarnie LinksFife, Scotland

Purse: $1.5 millionYardage: 6,573; Par:71

Third RoundRyann O'Toole 68-71-68—207 -9 Charley Hull 69-69-69—207 -9 Ariya Jutanugarn 69-66-72—207 -9 Ashleigh Buhai 71-70-67—208 -8 Atthaya Thitikul 68-70-70—208 -8 Anna Nordqvist 70-71-69—210 -6 Lydia Ko 70-72-69—211 -5 Celine Boutier 70-71-70—211 -5 Marina Alex 69-71-71—211 -5 Yealimi Noh 68-72-71—211 -5 Kelsey MacDonald 68-71-72—211 -5 Perrine Delacour 72-72-68—212 -4 Jasmine Suwannapura 67-74-71—212 -4 Sarah Schmelzel 68-71-73—212 -4 Su Oh 73-72-68—213 -3 Pajaree Anannarukarn 73-71-69—213 -3 Esther Henseleit 75-68-70—213 -3 Leona Maguire 71-72-70—213 -3 Bronte Law 69-74-70—213 -3 A Lim Kim 71-71-71—213 -3 Karolin Lampert 71-71-71—213 -3 Cheyenne Knight 70-72-71—213 -3 Jeongeun Lee6 71-68-74—213 -3 Yuka Saso 67-72-74—213 -3

Shaw CharityPGA Champions Tour

SaturdayAt Canyon Meadows Golf & Country Club

Calgary, Alberta, CanadaYardage: 7,086; Par: 70

Purse: $2.35 MillionSecond Round

Doug Barron 64-64—128 -12Steve Flesch 64-65—129 -11Stephen Ames 64-65—129 -11Billy Mayfair 62-67—129 -11Brandt Jobe 65-66—131 -9David McKenzie 68-64—132 -8Ken Duke 65-67—132 -8Gibby Gilbert III 68-65—133 -7Alex Cejka 67-66—133 -7Tim Herron 67-66—133 -7Paul Stankowski 67-66—133 -7Billy Andrade 66-67—133 -7Mike Weir 63-70—133 -7

GOLF

Ali’s grandson winspro boxing debut

TULSA, Okla. — Nico Ali Walsh

made a successful pro debut Sat-

urday night, winning in the first

round and then paying homage to

his grandfather, Muhammad Ali.

Wearing trunks made for his

grandfather, Ali Walsh knocked

down his outmatched opponent

midway through the first round

before the middleweight fight was

finally stopped at 1:49 of the round

with Ali Walsh landing unanswer-

ed punches to the head.

“It’s been an emotional journey,

this whole ride,” Ali Walsh said.

“Obviously, my grandfather, I’ve

been thinking about him so much.

I miss him.”

The fight between Ali Walsh, a

21-year-old college student, and

Jordan Weeks was notable not be-

cause of anything the two had

done in the ring, but because Ali

Walsh was trying to follow in his

grandfather’s large footsteps into

boxing.

Still, Ali Walsh looked compe-

tent for a relative novice and dis-

played good hand speed and pow-

er against Weeks, an MMA fighter

who had been stopped in his last

boxing match.

Byron wins pole for

Brickyard 200 road raceINDIANAPOLIS — William

Byron got some help this week

preparing for NASCAR’s first

road race at Indianapolis.

It paid off Sunday.

The 23-year-old North Caroli-

nian captured the pole for the

Brickyard 200, posting a fast lap of

100.044 mph on the 14-turn, 2.439-

mile road course at Indianapolis

Motor Speedway. It’s the first time

Cup Series drivers will use the

twisting road course instead of the

traditional 2.5-mile oval.

Chase Briscoe, who won last

year’s Xfinity Series road race at

Indy, will start second on Sunday

after going 99.561 mph. Betting fa-

vorites Chase Elliott, the reigning

Cup champ, and Kyle Larson, who

shares the points lead, will start

third and fourth.

Former West Germany

soccer great Müller dies MUNICH — Gerd Müller, the

Bayern Munich and former West

Germany forward known as “Der

Bomber” for his scoring-prowess,

has died. He was 75.

The Bavarian club announced

his death on Sunday, with club

president Herbert Hainer saying

it was “a sad, dark day for FC

Bayern and all its fans.”

Müller scored 566 goals for

Bayern between 1964 and 1979,

helping the team to four German

titles, four German Cup wins and

three European Cup victories in

that time. He still holds the record

for the most goals scored in the

Bundesliga with 36.

BRIEFLY

Associated Press


COLLEGE FOOTBALL/MLB

leaned on his defense, which

bailed him out on several hard-hit

balls.

Pavin Smith caught a liner from

Adam Frazier and then stepped on

first to double off Pham in the

fourth. There was a line drive

snagged by Gilbert off Eric Hosm-

er to end the fifth. Third baseman

Drew Ellis made a diving catch in

the seventh. David Peralta made a

leaping grab at the wall on Austin

Nola’s long fly ball in the eighth.

Gilbert needed just three pitch-

es to get through the eighth, set-

ting up a dramatic ninth. Marte

caught a line drive for the final out

while charging from center field.

“I tried to tune out as much as I

could,” Gilbert said. “But that last

inning, I heard everything.”

Among those celebrating the

first Diamondbacks no-hitter at

home was Gilbert’s family. They

were also on hand for his debut in

relief on Aug. 3.

Gilbert didn’t play baseball in

2020 after the minor league sea-

son was wiped out by the pandem-

ic. He spent the summer learning

to be an electrician from his dad,

making some extra money while

occasionally crawling around at-

tics and in between walls.

“I’d rather be doing this than

pulling wires,” Gilbert said with a

grin. “No offense, Dad.”

It was a stunning performance

for the Diamondbacks, who have

the worst record in the big leagues

this season. It’s the third no-hitter

in franchise history and first since

Edwin Jackson on June 25, 2010.

Second-year catcher Daulton

Varsho caught Gilbert one night

after hitting a game-winning

homer.

“That was so fun to do that to-

night,” Varsho said.

Gilbert (1-1) struck out five and

walked two. The sixth-round pick

out of Southern California in 2015

had spent his entire career in the

minor leagues until being called

up a few weeks ago. He was mak-

ing his fourth appearance.

“It was weird, I wasn’t nervous

at all,” Gilbert said. “I felt like I

should have been. I don’t know

why. I just kept going out there

and doing my thing. I was really

nervous before the game, leading

up to the game. But after the three-

pitch eighth inning, I was like,

‘This is possibly going to hap-

pen.’ ”

The Chicago Cubs threw the

majors’ most recent no-hitter with

a combined effort June 24. The

other no-hitters this year were

thrown by San Diego’s Joe Mus-

grove (April 9), Carlos Rodón of

the Chicago White Sox (April 14),

Baltimore’s John Means (May 5),

Cincinnati’s Wade Miley (May 7),

Detroit’s Spencer Turnbull (May

18) and the New York Yankees’

Corey Kluber (May 19).

In addition, Arizona’s Madison

Bumgarner pitched a seven-in-

ning hitless game in a doublehead-

er on April 25 that is not recog-

nized as a no-hitter by Major

League Baseball.

Most of those gems were thrown

before MLB cracked down on the

use of sticky foreign substances by

pitchers in late June.

It’s been a brutal series for the

Padres, who are struggling to keep

up in the playoff race. San Diego

still occupies the second NL wild-

card spot but has fallen 10 games

behind the NL West-leading San

Francisco Giants.

“You’ve got to tip the cap to Gil-

bert. It was obviously a special

night for him,” Padres manager

Jayce Tingler said. “We’ve been a

part of two of them this year, and

it’s a lot funner being on the other

side, that’s for sure. Frustrating

night. The balls we did hit hard

were right at guys or they made

really good plays or fly balls were

on the track.”

The Diamondbacks jumped out

to a 5-0 lead in the first inning off

Musgrove (8-8), who needed 39

pitches to slog through nine bat-

ters. Josh VanMeter doubled to

lead off the game and Marte

brought him home with another

double.

David Peralta had an RBI single

and then the 25-year-old Ellis had

the big blow when he smacked

Musgrove’s hanging breaking ball

into the left field seats.

Revolving doorGilbert was the 15th different

Diamondbacks starting pitcher

this season, which extends a club

record. The previous high was 12,

which has happened four times.

Gem: D-backs’ Gilbert tosses no-noFROM PAGE 24

MATT YORK/AP

Diamondbacks pitcher TylerGilbert celebrates his nohitteragainst the San Diego Padres,Saturday, in Phoenix. It wasGilbert's first career start.

RALPH FRESO/TNS

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Tyler Gilbert throws against the San Diego Padres during the third inning atChase Field on Saturday, in Phoenix.

Oklahoma running back Ken-

nedy Brooks maximized his time

while sitting out last season due to

COVID-19 concerns.

Brooks, who rushed for 2,067

yards and 18 touchdowns his first

two years with the Sooners, re-

fined his game while Oklahoma

compiled a 9-2 season that ended

with a Cotton Bowl win over Flor-

ida.

Now that he’s vaccinated, he’s

ready to jump back into action.

“I’d probably say I’m more ex-

plosive than I was a year ago,”

Brooks said. “Definitely worked

on my strength and my first step.

Also catching the ball. I worked on

everything — my strengths and

my weaknesses. It’s all coming to-

gether. I’m going to take it day by

day and stay consistent.”

Brooks adds his smooth run-

ning style to an offense that fea-

tures Heisman candidate quarter-

back Spencer Rattler. As a fresh-

man, Brooks ran for 1,056 yards

and 12 touchdowns and averaged

8.9 yards per carry. The next sea-

son, he ran for 1,011 yards and six

scores and averaged 6.5 yards per

attempt.

He comes back with a different

perspective. He said he saw

things more like a fan when he

watched games on television.

“It was kind of frustrating,” he

said. “I could kind of see the side

where they want the teams to do

certain things and it’s hard when

you’re not out there doing it. It was

fun seeing it from a certain point

of view.”

He also worked on the mental

game, considering how he would

handle various situations.

“It was more going on what the

defense was doing, how they were

rotating, what the coverages

were, how they set up with blitzes

coming,” he said.

Brooks hasn’t had much contact

since the 2019 season, but he feels

he already has shaken off any

rust.

“I totally feel comfortable,” he

said. “This is something I’ve been

doing for a very long time. There

are always things to improve on.

I’m always going to be able to get

better. But at the same time you’re

just comfortable when you play

the game of football for so long.”

Brooks is needed because the

position has been hit with numer-

ous issues. Last year’s top rusher,

Rhamondre Stevenson, has

moved on to the NFL. TJ Pledger

transferred to Utah and Seth

McGowan and Mikey Henderson

are no longer with the program af-

ter having legal issues.

Brooks likely will split time

with Eric Gray, a transfer from

Tennessee, and Marcus Major.

Gray rushed for 772 yards last

season and caught 30 passes for

254 yards. He gained 1,680 yards

from scrimmage in two seasons

with the Volunteers.

“He’s a great competitor,”

Brooks said. “He goes out there

and gives it his all. He can catch

the ball, runs well. He’s explosive.

He does everything right.”

Gray's approach has left an im-

pression on Brooks.

“He’s definitely taught me a lot

about the receiving game, about

making people miss,” Brooks

said. “From my perspective, he

has helped me in taking every

play and making it just that one

play and nothing more.”

SUE OGROCKI/AP

Oklahoma running back Kennedy Brooks (26) is back on the fieldafter sitting out last year with COVID19 concerns. Fully vaccinated,Brooks adds his dynamic skillset to an offense that already featuresHeisman candidate quarterback Spencer Rattler.

Safety SoonerOklahoma RB Brooks back, ‘more explosive’ aftersitting out last season with COVID-19 concerns

BY CLIFF BRUNT

Associated Press


MLB

American League

East Division

W L Pct GB

Tampa Bay 71 46 .607 _

Boston 68 51 .571 4

New York 64 52 .552 6½

Toronto 62 54 .534 8½

Baltimore 38 77 .330 32

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Chicago 68 49 .581 _

Detroit 58 61 .487 11

Cleveland 56 59 .487 11

Minnesota 51 66 .436 17

Kansas City 49 66 .426 18

West Division

W L Pct GB

Houston 70 46 .603 _

Oakland 68 49 .581 2½

Seattle 63 55 .534 8


Texas 41 76 .350 29½

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GB

Atlanta 61 56 .521 _

Philadelphia 61 56 .521 _

New York 59 57 .509 1½

Miami 50 67 .427 11

Washington 50 67 .427 11

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Milwaukee 71 47 .602 _

Cincinnati 63 55 .534 8

St. Louis 60 56 .517 10

Chicago 52 67 .437 19½

Pittsburgh 42 75 .359 28½

West Division

W L Pct GB

San Francisco 75 42 .641 _


San Diego 66 53 .555 10

Colorado 52 65 .444 23

Arizona 38 80 .322 37½

Saturday’s games

Boston 16, Baltimore 2Detroit 6, Cleveland 4Oakland 8, Texas 3Minnesota 12, Tampa Bay 0St. Louis 9, Kansas City 4N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 5, 10 inningsHouston 8, L.A. Angels 2Seattle 9, Toronto 3Pittsburgh 14, Milwaukee 4, 7 innings, 1st gameMilwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 0, 7 innings, 2nd gamePhiladelphia 6, Cincinnati 1Miami 5, Chicago Cubs 4Atlanta 12, Washington 2L.A. Dodgers 2, N.Y. Mets 1, 10 inningsArizona 7, San Diego 0Colorado 4, San Francisco 1

Sunday’s games

Baltimore at BostonCleveland at DetroitN.Y. Yankees at Chicago White SoxSt. Louis at Kansas CityTampa Bay at MinnesotaOakland at TexasHouston at L.A. AngelsToronto at SeattleAtlanta at WashingtonCincinnati at PhiladelphiaMilwaukee at PittsburghChicago Cubs at MiamiColorado at San FranciscoSan Diego at ArizonaL.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets

Monday’s games

L.A. Angels (Suarez 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (TBD)Baltimore (Harvey 6-11) at Tampa Bay

(Yarbrough 6-4)Cleveland (Quantrill 3-2) at Minnesota (Jax 3-1)Houston (Odorizzi 5-6) at Kansas City

(Hernández 3-1)Oakland (Montas 9-8) at Chicago White

Sox (Keuchel 7-6)Atlanta (Toussaint 1-2) at Miami (TBD)Chicago Cubs (Steele 2-1) at Cincinnati

(Miley 9-4)San Diego (Weathers 4-5) at Colorado

(Senzatela 2-9)N.Y. Mets (Hill 6-4) at San Francisco

(Gausman 11-5)Pittsburgh (Crowe 3-7) at L.A. Dodgers

(Price 4-1)Tuesday’s games

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 2Toronto at WashingtonBaltimore at Tampa BayL.A. Angels at DetroitSeattle at TexasCleveland at MinnesotaHouston at Kansas CityOakland at Chicago White SoxToronto at WashingtonAtlanta at MiamiChicago Cubs at CincinnatiMilwaukee at St. LouisSan Diego at ColoradoPhiladelphia at ArizonaN.Y. Mets at San FranciscoPittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers

Scoreboard

LOS ANGELES — An Ohio woman sought a

protective order against Los Angeles Dodgers

pitcher Trevor Bauer last year after accusing

him of punching and choking her without con-

sent while they were having sex, according to a

report by The Washington Post.

The allegations of sexual misconduct detailed

in the story Saturday are similar to recent allega-

tions by a California woman against Bauer, who

is on paid administrative leave by Major League

Baseball.

According to sealed court records and other

documentation obtained by the Post, the Ohio

woman said Bauer struck and choked her with-

out her consent while they were having sex. He

also allegedly sent her a text message from a

phone number known to be registered to Bauer

saying he doesn’t “feel like spending time in jail

for killing someone.”

“And that’s what would happen if I saw you

again,” Bauer allegedly wrote, according to the

Post, prompting the woman to seek the protec-

tive order in June 2020.

The protective order in Ohio was the result of

an ex parte proceeding, which means it was is-

sued without a hearing from the other side. The

protective order in California involving Bauer

was issued the same way.

The Ohio woman tried in 2017 to show police

photographs of injuries to her eyes, but instead

she was arrested for underage drinking, accord-

ing to a police report obtained by the Post, which

said the report did not indicate whether her alle-

gations were investigated. The newspaper did

not disclose the woman’s age except to say she

was a legal adult at the time.

The Post obtained photographs showing

bruises on her face and blood in her eyes.

Bauer tweeted a statement Saturday disput-

ing the Post’s report, calling it a “false narra-

tive.” He said the newspaper had contacted

“hundreds” of his female friends and acquaint-

ances.

“Despite my representatives providing a

wealth of contradictory evidence, documents,

statements, and background information show-

ing the pattern of disturbing behavior by this

woman and her attorneys, The Washington Post

opted to ignore much of this information and to

run a salacious story disseminating defamatory

statements, false information, and baseless alle-

gations,” Bauer wrote.

Bauer’s lawyer and agent, Jon Fetterolf, and

agent Rachel Luba said in a statement that

Bauer and the woman were in a consensual rela-

tionship from 2016-19 and that she pursued him,

filing a “bogus protection petition” while “de-

manding $3.4 million for her to ‘remain silent.’ ”

Report: Woman sought protective order against Bauer

BRYNN ANDERSON/AP

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher TrevorBauer disputed a report by the WashingtonPost regarding an Ohio woman who sought aprotective order last year against him.

Associated Press

BOSTON — Chris Sale got the

win in his first big league game in

two years, and the Boston Red Sox

hit five homers in a 16-2 defeat of the

Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.

The 32-year-old Sale (1-0) com-

pleted his return from Tommy John

surgery by pitching five innings,

giving up two runs on consecutive

homers by Austin Hays and Trey

Mancini in the third.

“Today was a special day for me

and a lot of other people,” he said.

“Like I said, this game was ripped

out of my hands. I had a hole in my

chest for two years. I’ll be complete-

ly honest, I took days for granted. ...

Through all of this I’ve had a huge

perspective change. I can tell you

one thing, I’m not wasting another

day of my big league career.”

Rafael Devers got Boston off to a

fast start with a three-run homer in

the first against Jorge López (3-13).

J.D. Martinez hit a three-run homer

and Bobby Dalbec added a solo shot

during a seven-run fifth inning —

right after Sale left to a loud ovation.

The Orioles dropped their 10th

straight game.

Yankees 7, White Sox 5 (10):

Joey Gallo hit a two-run shot in the

10th inning for his second homer of

the game, sending the Yankees to

the win at Chicago.

Two days after Tim Anderson’s

game-ending drive lifted the White

Sox to a 9-8 victory in the Field of

Dreams game in Iowa, the teams

delivered another dramatic ending.

Astros 8, Angels 2:Jake Meyers

hit the first two home runs of his ca-

reer, including a grand slam, and

Houston shook off Shohei Ohtani’s

major league-leading 39th homer to

win at Los Angeles.

Mariners 9, Blue Jays 3:Toronto

center fielder George Springer de-

parted with an ankle injury in a loss

at Seattle.

Braves 12, Nationals 2:Ozzie Al-

bies homered for the fourth straight

game for Atlanta, and Dansby

Swanson had two homers and six

RBIs in a win at Washington.

Cardinals 9, Royals 4: Nolan

Arenado homered and drove in four

runs, leading St. Louis to a win at

Kansas City, its fifth straight win.

Phillies 6, Reds 1: Matt Moore

and the Philadelphia bullpen took a

no-hitter into the eighth inning in a

win over visiting Cincinnati.

Tigers 6, Indians 4: Miguel Ca-

brera is still looking for his 500th ca-

reer homer, but his leadoff walk

sparked host Detroit’s two-run

eighth inning.

Dodgers 2, Mets 1 (10): Cody

Bellinger hit a tiebreaking double

in the 10th inning to lift Los Angeles

to a win at New York after Will

Smith homered in the seventh for

the first hit off Mets starter Taijuan

Walker.

Rockies 4, Giants 1: Kyle Free-

land pitched six strong innings to

win his third straight start, and Col-

orado snapped host San Francisco’s

six-game winning streak.

Twins 12, Rays 0: Kenta Maeda

pitched six effective innings for

host Minnesota, and Luis Arraez hit

a two-run homer.

Athletics 8, Rangers 3: Third

baseman Matt Chapman hit two of

Oakland’s five solo homers and

made a spectacular diving catch

running into the outfield in a win at

Texas.

Marlins 5, Cubs 4: Magneuris

Sierra hit a tiebreaking single in the

eighth inning, sending host Miami

to the victory.

Pirates 140, Brewers 46:Roo-

kie Aaron Ashby and three reliev-

ers combined on a four-hitter, lead-

ing Milwaukee to a split of a day-

night doubleheader at Pittsburgh.

In the first game, Kevin Newman

tied a major league record with four

doubles, and the Pirates snapped an

eight-game losing streak.

Sale wins in return for Red SoxFormer All-Star lastpitched in 2019, beforehis Tommy John surgery

Associated Press

MICHAEL DWYER/AP

Chris Sale started for the first time in two years in Boston’s 162 rout Saturday of Baltimore in Boston.

ROUNDUP


NFL

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Being better on

defense shouldn’t be that challenging for the

Tennessee Titans following a season where

it would be tough to be much worse.

After their preseason opener, the Titans

look like a completely different unit after an

offseason makeover.

Even without outside linebacker Bud Du-

pree, their top free-agent signee, and top

draft pick cornerback Caleb Farley,Tennes-

see did more than just pressure the quarter-

back while getting off the field on third

down. It smothered the Atlanta Falcons in a

23-3 win Friday night featuring backups for

much of the game.

“We have a standard on our football team

that we try to live to, a certain way we want to

play in all three phases, and defensively they

did that,” coach Mike Vrabel said Saturday.

The Titans played only three starters from

last year’s defense, with safety Kevin Byard

playing five snaps, linebackers Rashaan

Evans in for six and Jayon Brown for nine

before heading to the bench.

The defense featured a handful of the

players Tennessee hopes will fix some of the

issues from last season: Jackrabbit Jenkins

started at cornerback with Amani Hooker, a

fourth-round pick in 2019, at safety and Kris-

tian Fulton, a 2020 second-round pick out of

LSU, at cornerback.

Even with Atlanta starting A.J. McCarron

at quarterback instead of Matt Ryan, differ-

ences on defense were easy to see even as the

Titans didn’t tap the defensive playbook, in-

stead letting players just play.

Tennessee not only was worst in the NFL

at getting off the field on third downs last sea-

son (51.8%), it was the league’s worst in that

category in years. Yet the Titans held the

Falcons to 2-for-12 (16.7%) on third down.

Tennessee ranked last in the NFL in sacks

until the regular season finale ,when they

piled up enough sacks to finish ahead of

Jacksonville and Cincinnati in that catego-

ry. Against Atlanta, the Titans had five

sacks.

Rookie linebacker Rashad Weaver, a

fourth-round pick out of Pittsburgh, helped

lead the defense with 1½ sacks. He also had

two hits on the quarterback and a tackle for

loss.

Vrabel did notice some tackling issues.

“Missed tackles, guys leaving their feet.

But they did fly around. They were produc-

tive. We got our hands on some footballs,”

Vrabel said. “These rushers finished when

they realized which quarterback was in the

game finally and started, you know, not run-

ning by the quarterback and being able to

control them.”

Overall, Tennessee’s backups held the

Falcons to just 138 yards total offense after

giving up 398.3 yards a game in 2020, and the

Titans didn’t allow a drive longer than five

plays until the second half.

Linebacker David Long also intercepted a

pass. Tennessee led the NFL in 2020 in turn-

over margin with 23 takeaways.

“David has had a really good camp,” Vra-

bel said. “You see how comfortable he is.

He’s developing a role.”

Makeover seems

to have done trick

for Titans defense

CURTIS COMPTON, ATLANTA JOURNALCONSTITUTION/AP

Titans defensive tackle Trevon Coley and linebacker Rashad Weaver sack Falconsquarterback AJ McCarron during Tennessee’s 233 preseason win Friday.

BY TERESA M. WALKER

Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh

Steelers offensive line coach

Adrian Klemm says all five posi-

tions remain up for grabs along

the team’s revamped offensive

front.

At the same time, Klemm said

Saturday he’d like to see a starting

five emerge and spend extended

time together during the Steelers’

next preseason game in a week

Saturday at home against Detroit.

“I’d like to settle in,” Klemm

said. “We have two more presea-

son games before our regular

game. I wouldn’t say it’s settled,

because we have a different li-

neup almost every day. I think

we’re in a good position with cer-

tain people in certain spots. Obvi-

ously, it would be nice if we can

get those guys in there and have

some cohesiveness for the next

couple weeks.”

The line will primarily be

tasked with protecting Ben

Roethlisberger, back for his 18th

NFL season. Pittsburgh also

seeks to improve the league’s

worst rushing attack. The team

selected Alabama standout run-

ning back Najee Harris in the first

round of the 2021 draft to provide

a boost.

Roethlisberger will make his

preseason debut next Saturday

after sitting out the Hall of Fame

game win over Dallas and the

Steelers’ second exhibition game

against Philadelphia.

“We know there are high ex-

pectations for them, but at the

same time, they’ve been asked to

do a good amount and they’ve all

been up for it,” Klemm said.

Maurkice Pouncey, David De-

Castro and Alejandro Villanueva

combined for 17 Pro Bowls, but

they are no longer with the team.

DeCastro was released and Poun-

cey retired, while Villanueva and

Matt Feiler both left in free agen-

cy. Pittsburgh surrendered a

NFL-low 14 sacks last season.

Kendrick Green, the team’s

2021 third-round pick, is now in

the mix at center, along with vet-

erans J.C. Hassenauer and B.J.

Finney.

“I think (Green) has played

himself into a nice position, and

he’s definitely in contention, if not

the guy on opening day,” Klemm

said. “He’s getting more comfort-

able at the position and he’s done

a nice job for a guy coming in and

having the type of pressure and

expectations we have of him.”

Chukwuma Okorafor is expect-

ed to shift to left tackle, Kevin

Dotson could play his second NFL

season at left guard, and Zach

Banner, who tore an ACL during

Week 1 last season, is expected to

be the right tackle.

Dotson, who made four starts at

right guard last season, missed

the beginning of training camp

with an ankle injury, but he

played Thursday at Philadelphia

and took first team snaps at left

guard on Saturday. Veteran Trai

Turner, a five-time Pro Bowler

signed before training camp has

also been working with the first

team at left guard.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin

said Dotson worked with the first-

team because Turner was given

the day off.

“Sometimes when you give a

guy a day off, it gives other guys

an opportunity to elevate,” Tom-

lin said. “(Dotson) performed

well in the game, but I wouldn’t

anoint him just yet.”

Veterans Rashaad Coward and

Joe Haeg have earned first-team

work at guard and tackle, respec-

tively. Dan Moore Jr., the team’s

fourth-round pick in 2021, also

saw first-team snaps at right tack-

le on Saturday after working on

the left side for most of camp.

“(I’ve seen) significant

growth,” Tomlin said of Moore.

“He doesn’t perform like a young

guy. We’re going to challenge him

this week, let him play on the right

side and look at some of his posi-

tional versatility.”

It will be a challenge for the en-

tire group as Pittsburgh seeks to

find the next five members ofits

offensive line.

“There’s nothing set in stone,”

Klemm said. “You’d like to have it

settled, but this happens every-

where. I think it’s going to be

great for them in the long term in

terms of the development of the

group as a whole. We still have a

ways to go.”

Steelers seek starters, consistency on new OLBY DAN SCIFO

Associated Press

RICH SCHULTZ/AP

Steelers offensive tackle Joe Haeg, left, battles the Eagles’ BrandonGraham during a preseason game on Thursday. Haeg is among theplayers competing for a starting spot on PIttsburgh’s rebuilt line.


NFL

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With one deep strike,

Trey Lance showed why the San Francisco 49ers in-

vested so heavily to draft him this offseason. With a

few shakier moments in his preseason debut, Lance

showed why the Niners aren’t rushing to make him

their starter.

Lance threw an 80-yard touchdown pass that led to

loud cheers from San Francisco fans, and also

showed some rookie traits in his preseason debut

during the 49ers’ 19-16 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs

on Saturday night.

“It was fun,” Lance said. “Obviously left a lot of big

plays out there. I wish I would have taken advantage

of the opportunities that were given a few times. ...

But it’s awesome to be out there playing again.”

San Francisco traded three first-round picks to

draft Lance third overall in April to be its quarter-

back of the future. But it also still has incumbent Jim-

my Garoppolo, so how soon that future comes re-

mains to be seen.

Lance had an up-and-down first performance with

a few off-target throws, three sharp passes that were

dropped by his receivers, and four sacks behind a

spotty offensive line.

But he also delivered that perfectly placed deep

pass.

“There was some good and some bad,” coach Kyle

Shanahan said. “By no means was it perfect. Good

first day. I didn’t want it to go perfect for him.”

Chad Henne threw a TD pass to Byron Pringle af-

ter a short cameo by Patrick Mahomes to begin the

game, and rookie Shane Buechele scored on a 1-yard

keeper with 1:14 to play to win it for Kansas City.

On the first play of his second possession, Lance

faked a handoff and rolled to his left on a staple play

in Shanahan’s offense. With Brandon Aiyuk open in

front of him, Lance stopped on the hash mark and

threw a strike nearly 40 yards downfield to the right

side of the field for the TD pass to Trent Sherfield.

“Being able to play with Trey is an amazing thing,”

Sherfield said. “He’s a real phenom. He’s going to be

really, really good in this league.”

That was the only TD for the 49ers in Lance’s eight

drives. He also led San Francisco to one field goal and

got it out of the shadow of its goal posts with a 34-yard

pass to Charlie Woerner from his end zone.

Lance even got two opportunities late in the half to

run the two-minute offense, but had little success.

The 49ers managed just one first down on the two

possessions and Lance nearly threw an interception

to Rashad Fenton.

Lance finished 5-for-14 for 128 yards and the one

TD and didn’t run the ball once despite excelling at

that in college at North Dakota State.

Garoppolo went 3-for-3 for 26 yards on his one

drive that ended in a punt.

JED JACOBSOHN/AP

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance passes while under pressure from Chiefs defensive endDemone Harris during a 1916 preseason loss Saturday to Kansas City in Santa Clara, Calif.

Lance throws long TD passin 49ers’ loss to ChiefsRookie QB is 5-for-14 for 128 yards, but is sacked four times in preseason debut

BY JOSH DUBOW

Associated Press

TONY AVELAR/AP

Lance, left, celebrates with offensive tackle MikeMcGlinchey after throwing an 80yard touchdownpass to wide receiver Trent Sherfield.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Trevor

Lawrence’s professional debut

opened with a sack and a fumble,

hardly ideal but not overly con-

cerning for the Jacksonville Jag-

uars.

The No. 1 overall pick in the NFL

draft rebounded, delivering a cou-

ple of impressive throws and some-

what salvaging his first preseason

game — a 23-13 loss to the Cleve-

land Browns on Saturday night.

Lawrence started over Gardner

Minshew and completed 6 of 9 pas-

ses for 71 yards in two series. The

most important part for Jackson-

ville: the former Clemson star left

TIAA Bank Field healthy. There

had to be some worry after Law-

rence was sacked on the team’s

first play.

“Obviously the first play’s not

kind of what you wanted for a first

play,” Lawrence said. “But after

that I thought we did a good job.”

Lawrence was taken down again

on his second drive but responded

with his best throw: a 35-yarder to

Marvin Jones on third down. That

one came after Lawrence held the

ball longer than quarterbacks nor-

mally get away with in the NFL.

“Everybody reminding me it’s a

20-game season so a 19-game sea-

son left,” first-year Jaguars coach

Urban Meyer said. “Just disap-

pointed offensively. I don’t like

slow offenses. ... I don’t want to be

one of those slow, wallowing offens-

es. We’ll get that fixed.”

Meyer lamented having just 120

yards of offense at halftime — Cle-

veland had 240 — and a failed

fourth-down run on Lawrence’s

second drive.

Lawrence failed to lead Jackson-

ville to points. The biggest take-

away was his offensive line, a veter-

an unit that failed to handle the

Browns’ backups.

“Concerning? Yeah, everything’s

concerning,” Meyer said. “It’s my

job to be concerned.”

Cleveland held out most of its

starters, including quarterback

Baker Mayfield, running back Nick

Chubb, receivers Jarvis Landry

and Odell Beckham Jr., cornerback

Denzel Ward, and defensive ends

Myles Garrett and Jadeveon Clow-

ney.

Meyer, also making his NFL de-

but, countered by playing every

starter except receiver DJ Chark

(finger) and left guard Andrew

Norwell (elbow).

So what should have been an ad-

vantage for the Jaguars looked

more like a mismatch. The Browns,

widely considered a playoff conten-

der after finishing 11-5 last season,

dominated both lines of scrimmage

and moved the ball up and down the

field.

“This is a part of the process,”

Cleveland coach Kevin Stefanski

said. “We focus really on the work,

and I thought the guys did a nice job

competing out there and we’ve got

another one next week.”

STEPHEN B. MORTON/AP

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, left, tries to avoida tackle by during a 2313 preseason loss Saturday to Cleveland.

Lawrence debutswith sack, fumblein loss to Browns

BY MARK LONG

Associated Press “Obviously thefirst play’s notkind of what youwanted for a firstplay. But afterthat I thoughtwe did a goodjob.”

Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence

On being sacked on his first play


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PHOENIX — There was Theodore, Bum

pus and Bobo. Now there’s Tyler Gilbert.

An aspiring electrician, the Diamond

backs lefthander delivered a shocker for

the history books Saturday night.

Gilbert became the fourth pitcher — and

first in 68 years — to throw a nohitter in his

initial big league start, leading Arizona over

the San Diego Padres 70 with the record

tying eighth nohitter in the majors this sea

son.

The last to accomplish the feat in his first

start was Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis

Browns on May 6, 1953.

Bumpus Jones also did it in

his major league debut with

the Cincinnati Reds on Oct.

15, 1892, and Theodore Brei

tenstein threw one in his

first start for the Browns on

Oct. 4, 1891.

The eight nohitters

matched the mark set in

1884, the first year overhand

pitching was allowed.

Gilbert struck out Trent

Grisham and HaSeong Kim in the ninth in

ning before Tommy Pham lined out to cen

ter fielder Ketel Marte. Joyous Diamond

backs players threw their gloves in the air

and rushed the mound, mobbing the sur

prising hero who spent six seasons in the

minors and was selected in the TripleA

portion of the Rule 5 draft last winter.

He had pitched three times in relief for a

total of 32⁄�3 innings since making his major

league debut this month.

“Crazy,” Gilbert said. “It’s not going to hit

me for probably another day. I don’t know

what just happened.”

The 27yearold Gilbert threw 102 pitch

es, including 64 strikes, against a San Diego

lineup missing injured star Fernando Tatis

Jr. Gilbert rarely delivered his fastball

above 90 mph, but he effectively peppered

the Padres with breaking pitches and

Arizona Diamondbacks catcher DaultonVarsho, left, and starting pitcher TylerGilbert celebrate Gilbert’s nohitteragainst the San Diego Padres, Saturday,in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 70.

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Gem ofa debutDiamondbacks’ Gilbert throws

no-hitter in first career start

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Asociated Press

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MLB

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