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NORFOLK, Va. — The police officers’ guns

were trained on the uniformed U.S. Army lieu-

tenant, his arms raised and palms outstretched

as he sat in his SUV under a brightly lit gas sta-

tion awning.

Lt. Caron Nazario had been pulled over in ru-

ral Virginia by the two officers, who repeatedly

demanded that he step out of the vehicle. Naza-

rio, who is Black and Latino, didn’t move and

continually asked, “What’s going on?”

“I’m serving this country, and this is how I’m

treated?” he said at one point.

“Yeah well, guess what? I’m a veteran, too,”

police officer Joe Gutierrez responded. “And I

know how to obey.” Nazario said he was afraid

to get out, to which Gutierrez replied: “You

should be.”

Within minutes, Nazario was pepper-

sprayed, struck in the knees to force him to the

ground and handcuffed. No charges were ever

filed.

Videos of the December incident taken by

the officers’ body cameras and Nazario’s cell-

phone became public earlier this month,

Windsor Police via AP

In this Dec. 5, 2020, frame from Windsor, Va., police body camera footage, Lt. Caron Nazario is helped by an EMT after he was pepper-sprayed by police during a traffic stop in Windsor. Nazario has sued the two officers involved, alleging his constitutional rights were violated.

Clear reminderRecorded traffic stop latest in history of police violence against vets, service members of color

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“I don’t think the uniform provokes in the same way thatit once did, but it absolutely doesn’t shield.”

Bryan Stevenson

executive director, Equal Justice Initiative

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy —

The 173rd Airborne Brigade

trained its drivers over the past

week on one of the Army’s latest

infantry vehicles, ahead of partici-

pation in the large-scale Defend-

er-Europe 21 and African Lion ex-

ercises later this year.

The Vicenza-based unit has

been using the Army Ground Mo-

bility Vehicle — described as a

“21st century Jeep” — since 2018.

But members of the 1st Battalion,

503rd Infantry Regiment are now

training a new batch of AGMV op-

erators at an Italian army base in

Pordenone, located just a few

miles from Aviano Air Base.

Army officials consider the all-

terrain AGMV a much-needed ad-

dition to global quick response

forces like the 173rd Airborne Bri-

gade and the 82nd Airborne Divi-

sion. The General Dynamics vehi-

cle can be slung beneath a UH-60

Black Hawk or carried inside a

CH-47 Chinook helicopter, and

delivered to a landing zone along

with the unit’s troops.

SEE TESTS ON PAGE 7

173rd Airbornetests new Armyvehicle aheadof exercises

BY NORMAN LLAMAS

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An Army Ground Mobility Vehicleis seen during training at LaComina Italian army base, southof Aviano Air Base, on Thursday.

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The U.S. Consumer Product

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The safety commission said in a

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The Navy can’t force an or-

thodox Jewish sailor aboard

the aircraft carrier USS Theo-

dore Roosevelt to shave his

beard — at least until the end of

the month.

A federal judge on Thursday

temporarily halted orders that

Petty Officer 3rd Class Ed-

mund Di Liscia shave this week

for the first time in more than

two years.

In 2018, the sailor received a

“no-shave chit” that has al-

lowed him to wear his beard in

uniform, in keeping with his

beliefs as a member of the or-

thodox Hassidic sect.

Di Liscia was told Wednes-

day by his superiors that he

must shave by Friday morning

and then regularly thereafter,

said a complaint filed Thurs-

day in U.S. District Court in

Washington, D.C., along with a

request for a temporary re-

straining order.

A lieutenant commander

aboard the carrier in the Pacif-

ic had informed the sailor in

writing that he could be puni-

shed for failing to shave in vio-

lation of a direct order.

“This action is extremely hu-

miliating and deeply jarring to

my psyche and soul,” Di Liscia

wrote in the counseling state-

ment, expressing regret that

the Navy wouldn’t accommo-

date his religious practices.

In the case, first reported by

Military.com, attorney Eric

Baxter with the Becket Fund

for Religious Liberty is repre-

senting Di Liscia and three oth-

er sailors with religious or

medical reasons not to shave.

The Navy typically cites safe-

ty concerns for requiring sail-

ors be smooth-cheeked, such as

the potential for a beard to in-

terfere with a gas mask’s seal.

But where a waiver has been

granted, it can only be sus-

pended in cases of imminent

threats and only for the dura-

tion of the threat, Baxter wrote

in court filings, noting that the

Navy has cited no such circum-

stances.

Di Liscia’s command insists

that he is required to shave be-

cause his temporary chit was

overturned when his request to

the chief of naval operations

for a permanent accommoda-

tion was denied late last year.

But Baxter argues that they are

separate requests, and that the

denial of one doesn’t invalidate

the earlier one.

That denial is

also under ap-

peal on reli-

gious freedom

grounds, Bax-

ter said, citing

the Religious

Freedom Res-

toration Act and the U.S. Con-

stitution. Orthodox Judaism re-

quires men not to cut the side

and edges of their hair as “an

expression of obedience and fi-

delity to God,” his court filing

stated.

Though the denial by the

deputy chief of naval oper-

ations cited safety concerns

and possible interference with

Di Liscia’s duties, such as hav-

ing to don a gas mask, it said

the chances of “negative conse-

quences” from an ineffective

seal are “relatively low,” the

court documents stated.

Di Liscia “has successfully

passed routine gas-mask-seal-

integrity tests while wearing

his beard,” Baxter said.

He was previously forced to

shave right after joining the

Navy, the sailor wrote in a

court declaration. He’d arrived

at boot camp with a full beard,

but when he sought to meet

with a chaplain about a reli-

gious accommodation, he was

told that doing so would get

him kicked out.

“Out of fear, I shaved,” Di

Liscia wrote. “I regretted that

decision and about five months

later, I sought and received a

no-shave chit.”

At a hearing Thursday, an at-

torney representing the De-

fense Department said the Na-

vy had instructed the command

not to force Di Liscia to shave

for now. But because the ship is

operating in the South China

Sea, the service had not re-

ceived confirmation that those

instructions had been received.

U.S. District Judge Timothy

Kelly gave the attorney until

Friday to report back on wheth-

er the order had been received,

and said that if the military also

confirms that Di Liscia will not

be required to shave or trim his

beard at least until April 29, the

temporary restraining order

wouldn’t be necessary. Other-

wise, Kelly said, he expected to

promptly issue the restraining

order to spare the beard.

An Orthodox Jewishsailor is allowed tokeep beard for now

BY CHAD GARLAND

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @chadgarland

Di Liscia

Shelby has ability and drive,

said Randi Smith, head coach of

the U.S. Para Archery National

Team from 2005 to 2018, in an arti-

cle posted on the United States

Olympic and Paralympic Mu-

seum’s website.

“He wanted to get better and he

would put in the effort,” Smith

said. “He listened to coaching and

listened to suggestions, and was

willing to try things out and see

what worked for him.”

Paralympic archers use alumi-

num bows and shoot at targets 50

meters away. During the qualifi-

cation round, archers shoot 72 ar-

rows and score based on how

close their shots get to the bull-

seye.

The former sailor isn’t con-

cerned about the coronavirus. He

was vaccinated in January and

February.

If Shelby makes it to Tokyo,

he’d like to drop in on the Navy,

which stations thousands of sail-

ors nearby at Yokosuka Naval

Base in Kanagawa prefecture, but

is unsure if the Paralympic sched-

ule will allow it.

“While we are there, we have a

strict schedule and we have to

stick to it,” he said. “When I go off

the Olympic compound, I need an

escort.”

He saw Chinese archery during

a tournament in Beijing in 2017

and hopes to see traditional Japa-

nese archers perform in Tokyo, he

said.

“I think I have a really good

chance to make the team again,”

he said.

A Paralympic archery cham-

pion who used to drive assault

boats for the Navy will vie for an-

other gold medal at the Summer

Olympics in Tokyo.

Andre Shelby, 54, of Jefferson-

ville, Ind., will compete against

15-20 other archers in a qualifica-

tion tournament next month that

will see three selected to travel to

Japan with the U.S. Paralympic

team.

The Tokyo Paralympics are

scheduled Aug. 24 through Sept.

5.

Shelby’s path to the games be-

gan when he was medically re-

tired from the Navy in 2004 fol-

lowing a motorcycle accident that

severed his spinal cord and left

him a paraplegic, he said in a tele-

phone interview Friday.

The injury ended an 18-year

military career that saw him serve

as a boatswain’s mate on numer-

ous warships, including in the

Persian Gulf. On his last vessel,

the dock landing ship USS Tortu-

ga, he was responsible for heavy

equipment such as assault boats.

The father of four, like many

whose service careers are ended

by injury, asked himself: “What

am I going to do now? How am I

going to take care of my family?”

At first it felt like there was “no

light at the end of the tunnel,” he

said, adding that support and

counseling made his transition

relatively smooth.

The 225-pound, 6-foot-tall for-

mer high school football player at-

tended events, some organized by

the Navy, where he participated

in sports adapted for disabled

people such as tennis, table tennis,

basketball, waterskiing and ar-

chery.

Meanwhile, he studied biotech-

nology and started working in a

microbiology laboratory until it

closed in 2015.

“At that point, I went full ar-

chery,” he said.

Shelby shoots arrows during

three-hour training sessions, four

days a week in preparation for the

games. He’s not a bowhunter and

confines his archery to the range,

he said.

The sport gives competitors

something to strive for, Shelby

said.

“In archery, you have to rely on

yourself and trust your confi-

dence,” he said. “You are always

looking to improve your shot and

get better.”

Shelby’s skills have taken him a

long way in the sport. He is the Pa-

rapan American champion and

won a gold medal at the Rio Para-

lympics, where he joined 4,327

other athletes representing 159

countries. In the championship

match, he scored a 10 with his fi-

nal shot to win the gold medal by

one point.

ANDRE MCINTYRE/U.S. Navy

Navy veteran Andre Shelby, seen here in 2011, will compete against 1520 other archers in a qualificationtournament next month that will see three selected to travel to Japan with the U.S. Paralympic team.

Navy veteran hopes for a repeat of hisParalympic archery success in Tokyo

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @SethRobson1

“In archery, youhave to rely onyourself andtrust yourconfidence.”

Andre Shelby

U.S. Paralympian gold medalist

MILITARY


The U.S. and Norway signed a revised

defense cooperation agreement Friday

that will allow the Americans to build fa-

cilities at three airfields and one naval

base in the country.

The agreement comes amid continuing

concerns of Russian military activities

along NATO’s borders, including in the

Arctic region.

Facilities will be built at Rygge Military

Air Station south of Oslo, Sola Military Air

Station on the southwestern coast, and

Evenes Military Air Station and Ramsund

Naval Station in the far north.

The updated agreement “confirms Nor-

way’s key position on the northern flank of

NATO,” Foreign Affairs Minister Ine

Eriksen Soreide said. “To ensure that

Norway and our Allies can operate togeth-

er in a crisis situation under difficult con-

ditions, we must be able to hold exercises

and train regularly here in Norway.”

The agreement gives the U.S. unimped-

ed access to specified facilities and areas,

Norway’s government said. It does not

change Norwegian policies that bar for-

eign forces from being stationed in the

country.

The facilities will be used by U.S., Nor-

wegian and allied forces.

The agreement reflects the U.S. “com-

mitment to reaffirming and reinvigorat-

ing America’s alliances to meet common

security challenges and protect shared in-

terests and values,” Secretary of State An-

tony Blinken said in a statement.

The agreement has to be ratified by the

Norwegian parliament before it takes ef-

fect.

US to build military facilities in NorwayBY CHAD GARLAND

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @chadgarland

STUTTGART, Germany — The

Defense Department is speeding

up coronavirus vaccine deliveries

to overseas bases, the top com-

mander in Europe said last week

as he faced questions about a slow

rollout that lawmakers blamed on

poor military planning.

U.S. European Command’s

Gen. Tod Wolters said he and his

counterpart in the Pacific, Adm.

Phil Davidson, have been press-

ing the Defense Department to

“accelerate the flow” of deliver-

ies.

“Up to this point we’ve probably

been a little bit off balance,” Wol-

ters said during testimony Thurs-

day before the House Armed Ser-

vices Committee.

The Pentagon has come under

criticism for how it has distributed

the vaccine, with overseas person-

nel voicing frustration over long

wait times compared to the faster

pace at U.S. installations.

“The word we are getting is

there has been insufficient plan-

ning for the storage and transpor-

tation of the Moderna and Pfizer

vaccines … I certainly hope this is

addressed because it impacts peo-

ple’s real lives,” Rep. Mike Turn-

er, R-Ohio, told Wolters.

Turner also said the Pentagon

should have had a better plan giv-

en the many months between the

start of the pandemic and the de-

velopment of vaccines.

“We knew this was coming,”

Turner said.

So far, 46% of Europe-based ac-

tive-duty troops in DOD’s Tier 1

group have been vaccinated, Wol-

ters said.

Tier 1 includes troops likely to

deploy, critical workers, first re-

sponders and those with health

conditions. Other service mem-

bers, civilians and family mem-

bers are still waiting for their first

shots.

At military vaccination sites in

the U.S., at least 40% of locations

have opened up shots to all eligible

beneficiaries who want them. Un-

like in Europe, shots are also avail-

able at U.S. pharmacies and off-

base vaccination centers.

Wolters said the situation

should improve soon. The military

in Europe will be able to adminis-

ter 18,000 shots per week by mid-

May, up from 3,500 per week,

Wolters said.

It planned to have an additional

“surge capacity” of 23,000 shots

per week, but the decision to sus-

pend use of the Johnson & John-

son vaccine could reduce that fig-

ure by 20%, Wolters said.

Military medical clinics are try-

ing to implement a Defense De-

partment plan to offer vaccines to

all eligible beneficiaries begin-

ning Monday, with at least an ini-

tial dose being administered by

mid-May.

There are 244,000 people eligi-

ble for the vaccine in Europe, ac-

cording to EUCOM. That includes

uniformed personnel, civilian

workers, family members and

military retirees.

EUCOM anticipates that by Ju-

ly all of those willing to be vacci-

nated will have received shots.

KEGAN KAY/U.S. Navy

Chief Petty Officer Wilder Fermangomez, left, and Petty Officer 1st Class Rolando Sol carry COVID19vaccines headed for the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower from Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily,in March.

Top leader says more vaccinescoming to Europe after scrutiny

BY JOHN VANDIVER

Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes reporter Jennifer H. Svancontributed to this report. [email protected]: @john_vandiver

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea

— Public tours to the Joint Securi-

ty Area at the Demilitarized Zone

between North and South Korea

will resume on Monday, U.N.

Command said Wednesday, more

than four months after general ac-

cess was suspended due to the cor-

onavirus pandemic.

The command coordinated with

South Korea’s Ministry of Unifica-

tion to resume tours for South Ko-

reans and international citizens,

according to a statement released

by the command.

The South Korean government

agreed to restart the tours provid-

ed its social distancing level fell

and U.S Forces Korea lowered its

health protection condition level

to Bravo across the country, a

USFK spokeswoman, Song Ho-

chong, said Thursday in an email

to Stars and Stripes.

Tours at Panmunjom, the truce

village at the center of the 155-

mile-long DMZ, will resume as be-

fore, but will be limited to 20 vis-

itors at a time, half the number be-

fore the suspension was imposed

Dec. 20.

Popular attractions include the

main building known as the Free-

dom House, the blue conference

room where the armistice was

signed in 1953, the tree that was

planted by President Moon Jae-in

and North Korean leader Kim

Jong Un in 2018 and the footbridge

where they had a private discus-

sion.

Kim and former President Do-

nald Trump shook hands between

two of the site’s iconic blue build-

ings during a historic impromptu

meeting in July 2019, during

which Trump stepped across the

border to become the first sitting

U.S. president to visit North Ko-

rea.

The site has been closed 16 of

the past 18 months.

South Korea suspended tours in

October 2019 after nearly a dozen

cases of the swine flu were discov-

ered near the tense border. Tours

resumed in November for two

months before coronavirus miti-

gation measures forced another

suspension.

Unlike the graduated restart in

November, which first permitted

South Korea residents to sign up

for the tour, this restart includes

all personnel affiliated with

USFK, Song said.

Those interested in additional

information or want to sign up are

encouraged to contact their local

USO office.

Tours to DMZ trucevillage will resume

BY MATTHEW KEELER

Stars and Stripes

AARON KIDD/Stars and Stripes

A South Korean soldier guards a door leading to the North Koreanside of the Joint Security Area during a tour in May 2017.

[email protected] Twitter: @MattKeeler1231

MILITARY


Marine Corps firefighters and

Japan Coast Guard members on

Okinawa received special recog-

nition recently for their part in

rescuing seven Marines carried

out to sea by a treacherous tide.

The Marines were kayaking

from seaside Camp Schwab, on

the island’s northeast coast, when

they were sucked out to sea, Tim-

othy Johnson, the Marine Corps

Installations Pacific regional dep-

uty fire chief, said Thursday by

phone. The incident ended with no

serious injuries.

The commander of Marine

Corps Installations Pacific, Brig.

Gen. William Bowers, presented a

letter of commendation Tuesday

to the 11th Regional Japan Coast

Guard, Nakagusuku Station, for

its part in the rescue, Marine

spokesman 1st Lt. Tim Hayes said

Thursday.

Bowers also met with members

of the Camp Schwab Fire Station

on April 9 and presented them

with a Commanding General Safe-

ty Award challenge coin.

“This could have been a great

tragedy for this base and its com-

munity,” he told the firefighters,

according to a Marine Corps state-

ment. “You all responded quickly,

confidently and professionally.”

The incident took place the

morning of Feb. 15, when the Ma-

rines left the Schwab beach in

their kayaks under sunny skies,

Johnson said. However, the wind

suddenly picked up and the outgo-

ing tide carried the seven out to

sea near Ginoza. Schwab firefight-

ers were called at 10:40 a.m.

Three Marines paddled back

against the tide, Johnson said. An-

other three made it to a small is-

land, called Frog Rock, and the

seventh, carried a little over a mile

out to sea, was lodged atop a reef.

Two firefighters jumped on jet

skis and raced out to the Marines,

Johnson said. They were met by

two rigid inflatable boats from the

Japan Coast Guard, also based at

Schwab. Together, they complet-

ed the rescue.

The Marines were treated by a

Navy corpsman and released at

the scene, Johnson said.

Eleven first responders from

Camp Schwab Fire Station partic-

ipated in the rescue, the Marine

statement said.

“We have a good group of fire-

fighters,” Johnson said. “This was

agreat success for all members in-

volved.”

The Schwab station responds to

at least five water emergencies

per summer, the statement added.

This incident was its fourth of the

year.

First respondersrecognized forOkinawa rescue

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE

Stars and Stripes

[email protected] Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1

ZACHARY LARSEN/U.S. Marine Corps

Members of the Camp Schwab Fire Station on Okinawa pose with the commander of Marine CorpsInstallations Pacific, Brig. Gen. William Bowers, far right, after receiving Commanding General SafetyAward challenge coins.

A recent commissioning ceremony in Sydney for

the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Supply has

gained attention, and some backlash, for including a

twerking dance crew.

A video posted on several of Australian Broadcast-

ing Corp.’s Facebook pages shows the beret-clad 101

Doll Squadron performing in front of uniformed Aus-

tralian navy personnel on April 10. A pan of the audi-

ence shows blank and uncomfortable expressions.

“The dance was performed prior to the commence-

ment of the commissioning formalities,” an Austra-

lian Department of Defence spokeswoman, who did

not wish to be named, told Stars and Stripes via email

on Thursday. “HMAS Supply and the Royal Austra-

lian Navy are committed to working with Australians

from all backgrounds in actively supporting local

charities and community groups.”

The spokeswoman said the dance routine hap-

pened before Chief of the Navy David Hurley arrived

for the ceremony. On Thursday, ABC posted an apol-

ogy on its website for video edits that seemingly

showed Hurley in the crowd of spectators.

The Royal Australian Navy did not respond Thurs-

day or Friday to queries from Stars and Stripes.

The since-deleted video on ABC Perth’s page had

garnered more than 7,000 comments and 1,000

shares as of Thursday afternoon.

The Sydney-based 101 Doll Squadron suspended or

made private its social media accounts after the

event and have been the target of violent accusations

of anti-feminism and disrespect to the military,

group director Maya Sheridan told Stars and Stripes

via email Friday.

“It was in no way meant to be disrespectful, and we

are hurt and disappointed it has been misconstrued

to appear that way,” she said. “With indigenous and

multi-racial members from a community-based

dance group, the dance itself was made up of chore-

ographic and musical elements that included refer-

encing blessings, the waves of the ocean and our ge-

ographical location where the fresh water meets the

sea, to name a few.”

Commenters on the video noted that the dance rou-

tine largely distracted from the main purpose of the

event, the launch of a new vessel.

“It is usually a highly respected ceremony, espe-

cially given the significance of a new vessel and the

cost involved,” Australian resident Dusty Bassinger

told Stars and Stripes Thursday over Facebook Mess-

enger. “I feel embarrassed and disappointed.”

He said he thinks the choice of entertainment also

detracts from women’s equality in the forces and a

culture of respect for women.

“What sort of message is it sending by including, in

a ceremony of this magnitude, a dance routine for the

dignitaries that is, by its design, sexually suggesti-

ve?” he said.

The HMAS Supply is a new auxiliary oiler replen-

ishment ship. The Supply-class ships will replace re-

tired vessels HMAS Success and HMAS Sirius, ac-

cording to the Royal Australian Navy’s website.

Australian navyscrutinized aftertwerking dancers

BY ERICA EARL

Stars and Stripes

Maya Sheridan

Dancers with the 101 Doll Squadron pose in frontof the HMAS Supply, a newly commisioned RoyalAustralian Navy ship, in Sydney, on April 10.

the toilet have also caused is-

sues, although that is not a com-

mon occurrence.

The 374th Civil Engineering

Squadron is considering several

base improvement projects that

include the residential towers,

Bucholz said. Tower 3004, for

example, is undergoing a

plumbing and wiring makeover.

Yokota’s residential towers

were last renovated in the 1990s,

but still have the plumbing sys-

tem from the 1970s, he said. Civil

engineering investigates re-

peated calls from the same resi-

dences to ensure a larger issue

isn’t at hand.

“In those cases, nine out of 10

times it has nothing to do with

objects flushed down the toilet,

but the conditions of the pipes,”

said Master Sgt. Charles Patter-

son, the operations engineering

superintendent.

The squadron speaks to new-

comers during the orientation

program, but plumbing isn’t an

issue big enough to prioritize at

the briefs, Bucholz said.

“The biggest takeaway is that

wipes clog the pipes,” he said.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan —

Residents of this Air Force in-

stallation in Tokyo need not sur-

render their favorite American

toilet paper brands, after all, the

commanding officer of the 374th

Civil Engineering Squadron

said Friday.

Flushable wipes and hygiene

products are the true culprits for

septic system backups that may

lead to clogged drains that result

in overflows in bathrooms and

sinks, Lt. Col. Bradly Bucholz

told Stars and Stripes. The news-

paper, provided information by

a contractor employee that Bu-

cholz said was incorrect, report-

ed Thursday that thicker-ply

American toilet paper was the

problem.

“Most of these pipes were

built in the ‘70s,” Bucholz said.

“These older pipe systems can

require frequent snaking and

can’t handle baby wipes, but any

toilet paper is meant to dissolve

and is fine to use.”

Large food scraps and oil go-

ing down the kitchen sink can al-

so clog plumbing, he said. Unat-

tended children flushing toys

and other bulky objects down

Civil engineers say UStoilet paper, not wipes,OK to use at Yokota

BY ERICA EARL

Stars and Stripes

[email protected] Twitter: @ThisEarlGirl

PACIFIC


AUSTIN, Texas — Army spouse Brittney Fourtner has

trouble moving around after multiple back surgeries and

found the carpet in her Fort Bragg, N.C., home especially dif-

ficult to navigate.

For eight months after moving in, she requested the hous-

ing office remove it. Then in August, she tripped on it, fell and

broke her back.

After her injury, the company sent workers to fix the car-

pet. They used duct tape and told Fourtner if she wanted the

carpet removed, it would cost her about $8,000.

AHouse bill introduced this month attempts to clarify that

private companies leasing to military fam-

ilies on bases cannot charge for needed up-

grades to meet a resident’s disability.

Fourtner, 30, said she knew federal law

already requires a company receiving fed-

eral assistance to make reasonable accom-

modations to housing to support a renter’s

disability. So she fought back.

Fourtner, who also suffers with a seizure

disorder, walks with the assistance of a

cane or walker, and occasionally uses a wheelchair. She said

the fall broke a vertebra in her back and required spinal fu-

sion surgery to repair.

“Finally, at that point, I had had enough,” she said.

Fourtner said she threatened to sue Corvias, the private

company that manages family housing at Fort Bragg, for vio-

lating federal law. The company conceded and removed

most of the carpet from the house.

An Army memo from Corvias stated Fourtner’s home,

with the carpet, was compliant with the Americans with Dis-

abilities Act.

In a statement, a spokeswoman for the company said it has

substantially increased the number of accessible and adapt-

able homes available to residents and works on a regular ba-

sis to provide accommodations at no cost.

“We are compliant and have a highly coordinated ap-

proach to supporting our residents’ needs in a thoughtful,

timely manner,” according to the statement.

The Military Housing Advocacy Network, a nonprofit that

helps military families with on-base housing problems, in-

cluding Fourtner’s, conducted a survey of 100 families who

need ADA-compliant housing or reasonable accommoda-

tions in their housing. It found that this practice of companies

charging military families for disability accommodations

happens across the country, across service branches and

leaves families living in housing that can limit a person’s in-

dependence.

Of those families, 46% said they were denied modifications

within their home and 20% said they were charged for the

work or forced to pay for materials, according to the survey.

Needs can range from grab bars in bathrooms, bathrooms

with higher toilets or walk-in showers, ramps or widened

doorways and hallways.

After seeing the survey results from the housing network,

Rep. Stephanie Bice, a newly-elected Republican from Okla-

homa and member of the House Armed Services Committee,

introduced The Protecting Military Families with Disabili-

ties Act.

“It has come to my attention that families are being

charged thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses by

private military housing contractors for needed ADA up-

grades to on-base housing units. That is unacceptable,” Bice

said. “Military families endure enough stress and financial

strain without having to bear the burden for required up-

grades to housing provided by the military for a disabled

family member.”

The proposed legislation is a one-paragraph bill to prevent

families from facing charges — beyond rent — for needed

ADA upgrades to their homes.

In many cases, modifications are necessary because most

bases have a small percentage of fully ADA-compliant

homes, so when families with a disabled member arrive,

there is limited availability, said Noelle Pacl, a Navy spouse

and advocate with the advocacy network. Some homes in-

cluded in this inventory are not fully compliant with ADA

regulations, but are described as “easily modified” to meet

requirements.

The Defense Department requires 5% of homes on bases

to be accessible or easily modified. However, the Marine

Corps has raised that standard to require 8% of homes be

compliant, according to the service.

About 140,000 military family members are enrolled in the

Exceptional Family Member Program, a mandatory pro-

gram for any military dependent with a special medical or

educational need, according to the Defense Department’s

Office of Special Needs. But not all family members in the

program require ADA housing or choose to live on base. A

service member’s rank and availability of housing at a base

can also play a role in what is available to the family. To ac-

cess on-base ADA homes, enrollment in the program is re-

quired.

Joy Strong, an Air Force spouse, said it’s not just about the

quality of life for families, but it also can improve readiness

when a service member’s family feels safe in their home.

When her family arrived at Whiteman Air Force Base in Mis-

souri last year, Strong said they were given a home referred

to as ADA-compliant, but the hallways were so narrow she

couldn’t navigate them with her wheelchair. Requests to

move to a more accessible home were denied.

Strong has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, which causes joints

throughout her body to dislocate frequently. One morning

she woke up with a dislocation in her neck. Because of the

narrow hallways and doorways, the paramedics couldn’t lay

her flat on a stretcher and carry her out of the bedroom. They

had to sit her up and risk paralysis, she said.

Strong has since moved into a more accessible home that

fits the wheelchair that she occasionally requires, but only

after fighting with Balfour Beatty and eventually taking her

request for a safer house to the company’s corporate lead-

ership. This was after the private company that manages the

housing for the base first attempted to get Strong to purchase

her own modifications for the home, such as mounting her

TV to the wall to make more room for a medical bed.

“My husband isn’t as scared, leaving me alone,” Strong

said. “If he has to [travel], or has something to do with his job,

he has a little bit less stress because if I’m in my wheelchair,

I’ll be able to get where I need to go.”

A spokesman for Balfour Beatty Communities said the

company does not charge residents with disabilities for rea-

sonable modifications.

“We take very seriously all our obligations to comply with

the applicable laws and our contractual obligations in regard

to the Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and

other similar state or local laws. We also actively support the

Department of Defense’s Exceptional Family Member Pro-

gram and the service members and their families who are

enrolled in that program and who identify themselves as

such to us,” according to the statement.

But Bice said cases of additional charges being pushed on-

to residences often go unnoticed and many families who en-

counter the fees don’t know they are unlawful.

“A family who is serving our country, who has family

members putting their life on the line, they’re having to deal

with the challenges of having to make military housing work

for their family and I think that for me, that’s the last thing

that these families should be worrying about. They’re likely

moving every couple of years, uprooting the family, new

schools, new communities. It’s a lot. And this is just one more

thing that they’re having to work through, and I want to make

sure that they’re not dealing with it,” she said.

Pacl said they are so grateful to have Bice’s support.

“I have seen firsthand the physical, mental and financial

hardships that military families with disabilities have strug-

gled with when attempting to get reasonable accommoda-

tions and/or modifications in their privatized military homes.

Military families with disabilities are entitled to federally

protected rights that should be clearly defined,” she said.

Bice’s bill has also received support from the Oklahoma

Veterans Council and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

Rep. Sara Jacobs, a Democrat from California and fellow

newcomer to the House, agreed to cosponsor the bill.

“[The proposed bill] is a straightforward, bipartisan bill

that prevents those who are serving our country from being

charged, potentially saving military families from signifi-

cant costs,” she said.

The housing network’s survey also caught the attention

last year of Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Thom Til-

lis, R-N.C. The senators requested each housing company

provide them information on their policies for residents with

disabilities.

In a letter to the senators, Corvias wrote the results of the

survey “are simply not consistent with our policies or com-

mon practices” and employees are trained to give all resi-

dent’s requests for modification or accommodation appro-

priate consideration. It also states the company is not re-

quired to follow the same laws as federally assisted housing,

and therefore able to charge residents for reasonable mod-

ifications.

The letter states requests to replace carpet with vinyl

plank flooring, such as Fourtner’s request, are common.

While the company believes this is not something for which it

should cover the cost, it wrote “our community will generally

pay to do so if the carpet is nearing the end of its usable life. If

the carpet is new, then we may ask the resident to pay for the

modification but will not ask that the home be returned to its

original condition.”

Fourtner said she requested the maintenance history of

her home and learned the carpet was about 12 years old.

She said she is happy to see legislation but worries about

enforcement. Even with all the reforms housing has faced

during the past two years, she said she still sees so many fam-

ilies face challenges that should be remedied.

“How are they going to make sure that these companies

are actually doing what they’re supposed to be doing?”

Fourtner asked.

Bill protects disabled fromcosts to upgrade base homes

BY ROSE L. THAYER

Stars and Stripes

CONNIE DILLON/U.S. Army

Renovations on Building 201, Colonels Row, at FortHamilton in New York are ongoing and ahead of schedule.

Bice

[email protected] Twitter: @Rose_Lori

“Military families endure enoughstress and financial strainwithout having to bear theburden for required upgrades tohousing provided by the militaryfor a disabled family member.”

Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla.

MILITARY


Weighing 6,000 pounds, it can carry a nine-mem-

ber infantry squad and all their gear from the landing

zone to their destination. This allows the troops to be

dropped further away from potential enemy fire and

then use the AGMVs to find an off-road avenue of ap-

proach that an adversary isn’t expecting. The troops

themselves also wouldn’t be fatigued once they reach

their destination.

“This vehicle’s very versatile, said Sgt. Devin L.

Cook, a section leader. “It can manage going up to 45

degrees sideways and up to 60 degrees uphill, with-

out rolling over.”

The vehicle has its share of fans and like many new

systems, its critics, who have said the occupants in-

side the unarmed, unarmored vehicle would be vul-

nerable to small-arms fire.

First Lt. Bandon C. Vance, a platoon leader, said

there are plans to mount weapons such as machine

guns on the vehicles.

“The way our AGMVs are configured at the mo-

ment, it’s not possible to mount a turret ... unless a kit

was installed to allow for that to happen,” he said.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Sys-

tems was awarded a $33.8 million contract in 2018 for

the production of AGMVs, as well as their associated

kits. This was the first award for the production and

fielding of the first set of vehicles.

“We awarded, in total, about $55M for 168 A-GMV

1.1s and associated kits. The 168 vehicles are spread

across three airborne [brigades]. With 59 going to the

173rd, 59 to the 2nd Battalion, 82nd Airborne Divi-

sion, and 50 going to the 4th Battalion, 25th Infantry

Division,” Steven M. Herrick, the GMV product lead

for the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army

for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, said via

email.

The Defender-Europe 21 exercise this spring will

include about 30,000 U.S. and allied troops in the Bal-

kan and Black Sea regions. African Lion, which is

scheduled to kick off in June, will be a multinational

exercise in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Ghana.

[email protected]: @normanllamas

NORMAN LLAMAS/Stars and Stripes

Sgt. Devin L. Cook, of Company D, 1st Battalion, 503rd Regiment, Vicenza, Italy, drives an Army GroundMobility Vehicle during training at La Comina Italian army base in Pordenone, a few miles south of AvianoAir Base, on Thursday.

Tests: New Army vehicle offersbetter protection, efficiency for troopsFROM PAGE 1

MILITARY

COCOA BEACH, Fla. — The

pilot of a restored World War

II-era plane made an emergen-

cy ocean landing Saturday dur-

ing the Cocoa Beach Air Show.

Witnesses told Florida Today

they heard the BM Avenger en-

gine sputtering down the beach

and knew something was off as

the plane slowly descended.

“It looked like (the pilot)

pulled up at the last moment

and avoided any spectators,

there were loads of people on

the water, and then I saw him

on top of the plane, it looked

like he was OK,” said Melanie

Schrader.

The pilot was not injured and

refused medical treatment.

The air show released a state-

ment saying the plane had a

mechanical issue and that res-

cue personnel were standing by

during the emergency landing.

The plane was a torpedo

bomber used by the U.S. Navy

during World War II. Accord-

ing to the Cocoa Beach Air

Show website, the plane under-

went extensive restoration be-

fore returning to flight last

year.

WW II-era planemakes emergencyocean landing

Associated Press

MALCOLM DENEMARK, FLORIDA TODAY/AP

The Valiant Air Command's TBM Avenger made an emergency landingin the ocean just offshore south of the former Officer's Club at PatrickSpace Force Base during the Cocoa Beach Air Show on Saturday inCocoa Beach, Fla.


sparking outrage and accumulat-

ing millions of views.

Nazario has sued the two offi-

cers, alleging his constitutional

rights were violated during the

traffic stop in the small Virginia

town of Windsor. Gutierrez has al-

so been fired.

The episode was a grim remind-

er to many Black Americans that

even being in military uniform

doesn’t necessarily protect them

from mistreatment by police. Fur-

ther, there’s a long history of vio-

lence against veterans and service

members of color, whose military

status was seen by some as a prov-

ocation.

“I don’t think the uniform pro-

vokes in the same way that it once

did, but it absolutely doesn’t

shield,” said Bryan Stevenson, ex-

ecutive director of the Alabama-

based Equal Justice Initiative.

“And there will be people who will

be provoked by Black achieve-

ment. … It can create a kind of a

desire to humiliate and demand

obedience.”

Thousands of Black men who

served in the Civil War, World

War I, and World War II were tar-

geted because of their service and

threatened, assaulted or lynched,

according to a 2017 Equal Justice

Initiative report.

One was Sgt. Isaac Woodard, a

uniformed World War II veteran

who was headed home on a bus in

1946. He was removed and beaten

by a white South Carolina police

chief, leaving Woodard perma-

nently blind.

In 1962, Cpl. Roman Ducks-

worth was killed by police while

riding a bus from Maryland to his

home in Mississippi. The bus driv-

er called a white police officer to

awaken Ducksworth, who had

fallen asleep, according to Jerry

Mitchell, founder of the Mississip-

pi Center for Investigative Re-

porting. The two struggled, and

the officer shot and killed Ducks-

worth.

“His skin color trumped his sta-

tus as a military officer,” Mitchell

said. “It goes throughout history.”

Rossano Gerald, a Black Army

sergeant who sued the Oklahoma

Highway Patrol after he was

pulled over with his young son and

subjected to a protracted search in

1998, said Nazario’s traffic stop

shows that nothing has changed.

“We have to keep reminding

people that this is not gone,” said

Gerald, who won a $75,000 legal

settlement three years after the

incident. “We’ve got to fight for

our rights.”

In his own case, Gerald said he

believes his active-duty military

status only fueled the trooper’s de-

sire to show his power.

“From my perspective, he

wanted to prove a point that he

was in control,” Gerald, a decorat-

ed veteran, said in an interview.

Gerald, who was not wearing

his uniform, handed over his mil-

itary ID along with his driver’s li-

cense and told the trooper to call

his commanding officer, per mil-

itary protocol.

Instead, Gerald and his son

were placed in a hot patrol car

while troopers repeatedly

searched his car. At one point, a

trooper asked the 12-year-old if he

had any weapons and conducted a

pat search of the child, the lawsuit

claimed.

The search turned up no evi-

dence of drugs, and Gerald was

given a warning ticket for failure

to signal a lane change.

Since the videos of Nazario’s

traffic stop became public, Virgin-

ia Gov. Ralph Northam has called

for an investigation by state po-

lice. And state Attorney General

Mark Herring has requested the

two officers’ personnel records

and use-of-force records from the

department, among other docu-

ments.

“Even if Nazario drapes his

body in the highest symbolic cap-

ital, that being United States mil-

itary attire, it doesn’t gain him

anything,” said K. Nyerere Turè,

an assistant professor of criminal

justice at Quinnipiac University.

Violence: Report found long history ofthreats against Black service membersFROM PAGE 1

CSPAN/AP

Sgt. Rossano Gerald testifies before Congress in Washington, onMarch 30, 2000. Gerald sued the Oklahoma Highway Patrol after hewas pulled over with his young son and subjected to a protractedsearch in 1998.

NATION

Carlil Pittman knows trauma

firsthand.

As the co-founder of the Chica-

go-based youth organization

GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood,

he grieved the loss of Delmonte

Johnson, a young community ac-

tivist, more than two years ago to

the very thing the teen fought

fiercely against: gun violence.

He’s also been angered and

frustrated by the onslaught of sto-

ries of Black Americans killed at

the hands of police across the na-

tion throughout the past year.

First, there was Breonna Tay-

lor, a Black woman who was fatal-

ly shot in her Louisville, Ky., home

last March. Then there was Ge-

orge Floyd, whose Memorial Day

killing by a Minneapolis officer

sparked global protests. Just last

week, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-

old Black man, was fatally shot by

a police officer during a traffic

stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. —

just minutes from where Floyd

died. And on Friday, Pittman

spent much of the day planning a

demonstration with other Chicago

organizers to protest the police

killing of 13-year-old Adam Tole-

do, who was Latino.

“We’re constantly turning on

the TV, Facebook, Twitter, Insta-

gram and seeing people that look

like us who are getting murdered

with no repercussions,” said Pitt-

man, an organizer for A New Deal

for Youth. “It’s not normal to see

someone get murdered by the

click of a video on your phone, yet

it has become the norm for our

people, our Black and brown com-

munities.”

Many Black Americans are fac-

ing a collective sense of grief and

trauma that has grown more pro-

found with the loss of each life at

the hands of police in America.

Some see themselves and their

children reflected in the victims of

police violence, heightening the

grief they feel. That collective

mourning is a great concern to ex-

perts and medical professionals

who consider the intersectionality

of racism and various forms of

trauma impacting communities of

color a serious public health crisis

facing America.

The racial trauma impacting

Black Americans isn’t new. It’s

built upon centuries of oppressive

systems and racist practices that

are deeply embedded within the

fabric of the nation. Racial trauma

is a unique form of identity-relat-

ed trauma that people of color ex-

perience due to racism and dis-

crimination, according to Dr. Ste-

ven Kniffley, a licensed psycholo-

gist and coordinator for Spalding

University’s Collective Care Cen-

ter in Louisville, Ky.

“A lot of cities across the coun-

try are realizing that racial trauma

is a public health issue,” Kniffley

said, citing health concerns such

as increased rates of suicide

among Black men, a life expectan-

cy gap and post-traumatic stress

disorder. “There’s no other way

that we can explain that except for

the unique experiences Black and

brown folks have based on their

identity, and more specifically,

when they encounter racism and

discrimination.”

Kniffley said each generation of

Black Americans since slavery

has faced its own unique iteration

of racism and discrimination,

which has manifested into a form

of intergenerational trauma.

“We’ve essentially handed

down 10 or 15 generations worth of

boxes of trauma that have yet to be

unpacked, and that’s what’s con-

tributing to a lot of those biological

and mental health related issues

that we’re having,” Kniffley said,

noting the trauma extends beyond

police violence.

Some community organizations

are working to address the trau-

ma, said Aswad Thomas, chief of

organizing for Alliance for Safety

and Justice, who runs Crime Sur-

vivors for Safety and Justice, a

network of more than 46,000

crime survivors from mostly

Black and Latino communities.

The group is releasing its first-ev-

er National Crime Victims Agen-

da next week to address collective

trauma.

Black Americans grieve over collective lossBY KAT STAFFORD

Associated Press

JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

Visitors browse a memorial to George Floyd as a new addition commemorating Daunte Wright is displayedoutside Cup Foods, on Wednesday, in Minneapolis, Minn.


NATION

INDIANAPOLIS — Members of Indianapo-

lis’ tight-knit Sikh community joined with city

officials to call for gun reforms Saturday as

they mourned the deaths of four Sikhs who

were among the eight people killed in a mass

shooting at a FedEx warehouse.

At a vigil attended by more than 200 at an

Indianapolis park Saturday evening, Aasees

Kaur, who represented the Sikh Coalition,

spoke out alongside the city’s mayor and other

elected officials to demand action that would

prevent such attacks from happening again.

“We must support one another, not just in

grief, but in calling our policymakers and

elected officials to make meaningful change,”

Kaur said. “The time to act is not later, but now.

We are far too many tragedies, too late, in doing

so.”

The attack was another blow to the Asian

American community a month after author-

ities said six people of Asian descent were

killed by a gunman in the Atlanta area and

amid ongoing attacks against Asian Americans

during the coronavirus pandemic.

About 90% of the workers at the FedEx

warehouse near the Indianapolis International

Airport are members of the local Sikh commu-

nity, police said Friday.

Kiran Deol, who attended the vigil in support

of family members affected by the shooting,

said loopholes in the law that make it easier for

individuals to buy guns “need to be closed

now,” and emphasized that anyone who tries to

buy a firearm should be required to have their

background checked.

“The gun violence is unacceptable. Look at

what’s happened ... it needs to be stopped,” De-

ol said. “We need more reform. We need gun

laws to be harder, stronger, so that responsible

people are the ones that have guns. That’s what

we want to bring awareness to.”

Satjeet Kaur, the Sikh Coalition’s executive

director, said the entire community was trau-

matized by the “senseless” violence.

“While we don’t yet know the motive of the

shooter, he targeted a facility known to be

heavily populated by Sikh employees,” Kaur

said.

There are between 8,000 and 10,000 Sikh

Americans in Indiana, according to the coali-

tion. Members of the religion, which began in

India in the 15th century, began settling in In-

diana more than 50 years ago.

One of the victims of Thursday night’s shoot-

ing was Amarjit Sekhon, a 48-year-old Sikh

mother of two sons who was the breadwinner

of her family.

Kuldip Sekhon said his sister-in-law began

working at the FedEx facility in November and

was a dedicated worker whose husband was

disabled.

“She was a workaholic, she always was

working, working,” he said. “She would never

sit still ... the other day she had the (COVID-19)

shot and she was really sick, but she still went

to work.”

In addition to Sekhon, the Marion County

Coroner’s office identified the dead as: Mat-

thew R. Alexander, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19;

Amarjeet Johal, 66; Jasvinder Kaur, 50; Jas-

winder Singh, 68; Karli Smith, 19; and John

Weisert, 74.

The coalition says about 500,000 Sikhs live in

the U.S. Many practicing Sikhs are visually dis-

tinguishable by their articles of faith, which in-

clude the unshorn hair and turban.

Authorities have not released a motive.

Sikhs urge reform after Ind. killingsAssociated Press

Police chief suspended,mocked Asians on Kauai

LIHUE, Hawaii — The police

commission on the Hawaii island

of Kauai has suspended the police

chief without pay for five days for

making discriminatory comments

after an investigation found he

mocked people of Asian descent.

The Kauai Police Department

said in a statement Friday that

Chief Todd Raybuck will be sus-

pended from April 26-30 for vio-

lating county policy. He will also

be required to complete Equal

Employment Opportunity anti-

discrimination training and cul-

tural sensitivity training.

The Garden Island newspaper

last month reported an investiga-

tion by the Kauai Police Commis-

sion found Raybuck on Nov. 13,

2019, relayed a story of meeting

someone of Asian descent in a res-

taurant in which he parodied the

person’s speech and mannerisms.

Police ask for help

identifying Ore. riotersPORTLAND, Ore. — Protesters

who smashed windows, burglar-

ized businesses and set fires dur-

ing demonstrations in Portland,

Ore., caused significant damage,

and authorities urged downtown

businesses to review security vid-

eo to help police apprehend more

rioters.

Police said they have arrested

four people so far after declaring a

riot Friday night during demon-

strations after police fatally shot a

man while responding to reports

of a person with a gun.

“This destruction does not align

with community values and has no

legitimacy. It is harming our city,

county and state,” Multnomah

County District Attorney Mike

Schmidt said in a statement Satur-

day. “There are multiple criminal

investigations underway to identi-

fy those responsible for last

night’s criminality.”

3 dead, 2 wounded in

shooting at Wis. tavernKENOSHA, Wis. — Authorities

in Wisconsin on Sunday pleaded

for help in locating a suspect who

opened fire at a tavern in a con-

frontation that left three people

dead and two people seriously in-

jured.

Kenosha Sheriff David Beth

said while the suspected shooter is

still at large, the public is not be-

lieved to be in danger. The suspect

apparently knew the victims and

targeted them, although it is not

clear whether the victims knew

him. The shooting happened at

Somers House Tavern in Kenosha

County after the suspect was

asked to leave the bar and then re-

turned and opened fire.

Officials were still working to

determine the identities of the

people who died. The two wound-

ed people were taken to hospitals.

From The Associated Press

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn.

— As protests intensified in the

Minneapolis suburb where a po-

lice officer fatally shot Daunte

Wright, a group of Black men

joined the crowd intent on keep-

ing the peace and preventing pro-

tests from escalating into vio-

lence.

Hundreds of people have gath-

ered outside the heavily guarded

Brooklyn Center police station

every night since Sunday, when

former Officer Kim Potter, who is

white, shot the 20-year-old Black

motorist during a traffic stop. De-

spite the mayor’s calls for law en-

forcement and protesters to scale

back their tactics, the nights have

often ended in objects hurled,

tear gas and arrests.

The Black men at the edge of

the crowd wear yellow patches on

protective vests that identify

them as members of the Minne-

sota Freedom Fighters, a group

formed to provide security in

Minneapolis’ north side neigh-

borhoods during unrest following

the death of George Floyd last

year. They are not shy about cast-

ing a forceful image — the

group’s Facebook page features

members posing with assault-

style weapons and describes it-

self as an “elite security unit” —

but on Friday the Freedom Fight-

ers didn’t appear to be armed and

said they intended only to en-

courage peaceful protesting.

As several people began to rat-

tle a fence protecting the Brook-

lyn Center police department, the

Freedom Fighters communicat-

ed to each other over walkie-talk-

ies. They declined to say how

many are in their group.

On recent nights, the Freedom

Fighters have moved through the

crowd in formation, wearing

body armor and dark clothing,

weaving past umbrella-wielding

demonstrators to create separa-

tion along a double-layer perim-

eter security fence. Their passive

tactics are intended to deescalate

the tension, preventing agitators

from pressing forward and pro-

voking the law enforcement offi-

cers standing at attention with

pepper-ball and less-lethal

sponge grenade launchers at the

ready.

“We can keep it peaceful,” said

Tyrone Hartwell, a 36-year-old

former U.S. Marine who belongs

to the group. “There’s always

somebody in the group that wants

to incite something,” adding that

throwing objects at the police

takes the focus away from their

calls for justice and saps energy

from the movement.

Minneapolis is on edge — si-

multaneously watching the trial

of former police officer Derek

Chauvin in Floyd’s death and

reeling from the shooting of

Wright. In the midst of that, Hart-

well said the Freedom Fighters

are trying to push the movement

for racial justice forward, while

keeping at bay the violence and

destruction that often acutely af-

fects minority communities.

“This is a very difficult time in

the history of this country,” said

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a Dem-

ocrat from California who joined

the protest on Saturday. “We

have to let people know that we

are not going to be satisfied un-

less we get justice in these cases.”

The Freedom Fighters formed

after the NAACP put out a call for

armed men to organize and pro-

tect their neighborhoods from

looting and arson following

Floyd’s death. Hartwell said

groups of white people had come

into predominantly Black com-

munities and harassed children.

Armed group tries to keep the peace in Minn.Associated Press

JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

The Rev. Jesse Jackson greets demonstrators during a protest over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright bya police officer during a traffic stop, outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Saturday inBrooklyn Center, Minn.


NATION

BOSTON — The sprawling

hacking campaign deemed a grave

threat to U.S. national security

came to be known as SolarWinds,

for the company whose software

update was seeded by Russian in-

telligence agents with malware to

penetrate sensitive government

and private networks.

Yet it was Microsoft whose code

the cyber spies persistently abused

in the campaign’s second stage, ri-

fling through emails and other files

of such high-value targets as then-

acting Homeland Security chief

Chad Wolf — and hopping unde-

tected among victim networks.

This has put the world’s third-

most valuable company in the hot

seat. Because its products are a de

facto monoculture in government

and industry — with more than

85% market share — federal law-

makers are insisting that Microsoft

swiftly upgrade security to what

they say it should have provided in

the first place, and without fleecing

taxpayers.

Seeking to assuage concerns,

Microsoft last week offered all fed-

eral agencies a year of “advanced”

security features at no extra

charge.

The SolarWinds hackers took

full advantage of what George

Kurtz, CEO of top cybersecurity

firm CrowdStrike, called “system-

atic weaknesses” in key elements

of Microsoft code to mine at least

nine U.S. government agencies —

the departments of Justice and

Treasury, among them — and

more than 100 private companies

and think tanks, including soft-

ware and telecommunications pro-

viders.

The SolarWinds hackers’ abuse

of Microsoft’s identity and access

architecture — which validates us-

ers’ identities and grants them ac-

cess to email, documents and other

data — did the most dramatic

harm, the nonpartisan Atlantic

Council think tank said in a report.

That set the hack apart as “a wide-

spread intelligence coup.” In near-

ly every case of post-intrusion mis-

chief, the intruders “silently

moved through Microsoft prod-

ucts “vacuuming up emails and

files from dozens of organiza-

tions.”

Thanks in part to the carte

blanche that victim networks

granted the infected Solarwinds

network management software in

the form of administrative privi-

leges, the intruders could move lat-

erally across them, even jump

among organizations. They used it

to sneak into the cybersecurity

firm Malwarebytes and to target

customers of Mimecast, an email

security company.

The campaign’s “hallmark” was

the intruders’ ability to imperson-

ate legitimate users and create

counterfeit credentials that let

them grab data stored remotely by

Microsoft Office, the acting direc-

tor of the Cybersecurity Infras-

tructure and Security Agency,

Brandon Wales, told a mid-March

congressional hearing. “It was all

because they compromised those

systems that manage trust and

identity on networks,” he said.

Microsoft officials stress that the

SolarWinds update was not always

the entry point; intruders some-

times took advantage of vulnera-

bilities such as weak passwords

and victims’ lack of multi-factor

authentication. But critics say the

company took security too lightly.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., verbally

pummeled Microsoft for not sup-

plying federal agencies with a level

of “event logging” that, if it had not

detected the SolarWinds hacking

in progress, would at least have

provided responders with a record

of where the intruders were and

what they saw and removed.

When Microsoft on Wednesday

announced a year of free security

logging for federal agencies, for

which it normally charges a premi-

um, Wyden was not appeased.

“This move is far short of what’s

needed to make up for Microsoft’s

recent failures,” he said in a state-

ment. “The government still won’t

have access to important security

features without handing over

even more money to the same com-

pany that created this cybersecur-

ity sinkhole.”

Even the highest level of logging

doesn’t prevent break-ins, though.

It only makes it easier to detect

them.

And remember, many security

professionals note, Microsoft was

itself compromised by the Solar-

Winds intruders, who got access to

some of its source code — its crown

jewels. Microsoft’s full suite of se-

curity products — and some of the

industry’s most skilled cyber-de-

fense practitioners — had failed to

detect the ghost in the network.

Across the industry, Microsoft’s

investments in security are widely

acknowledged. It is often first to

identify major cybersecurity

threats, its visibility into networks

is so great. But many argue that as

the chief supplier of security solu-

tions for its products, it needs to be

more mindful about how much it

should profit off defense.

“The crux of it is that Microsoft

is selling you the disease and the

cure,” said Marc Maiffret, a cyber-

security veteran who built a career

finding vulnerabilities in Micro-

soft products and has a new startup

in the works called BinMave.

Microsoft in hot

seat after hackAssociated Press

over to Rwandan authorities, ac-

cording to state-run media

there.

“Her deportation means a lot

in terms of justice delivery to

genocide victims,” said Thierry

Murangira, spokesperson for

the Rwanda Investigation Bu-

reau, according to The New

Times.

Munyenyezi is accused of sev-

en crimes connected to the geno-

cide, including murder and com-

plicity in rape, according to

Rwandan investigators. She will

be detained as investigations

continue and her case sent to

prosecutors, the newspaper re-

ported.

CONCORD, N.H. — A woman

who served a 10-year sentence in

U.S. prison for lying about her

role in the 1994 Rwandan geno-

cide to obtain American citizen-

ship, and then lost her bid for a

new trial, has been deported to

the East African nation and is

likely to face prosecution there.

Beatrice Munyenyezi, who a

U.S. judge said “was actively in-

volved” in the killing of Tutsis in

Rwanda, was convicted and sen-

tenced in 2013 in New Hamp-

shire. It was her second trial; the

first jury could not reach a ver-

dict. Munyenyezi served a 10-

year sentence in Alabama and

had faced deportation.

She lost her latest court battle

in March, when

the 1st U.S. Cir-

cuit Court of

Appeals upheld

a federal dis-

trict judge's re-

jection of her

petition chal-

lenging how the

jury was in-

structed during her trial in fed-

eral court in New Hampshire.

Her lawyer, Richard Guerrie-

ro, confirmed in an email Satur-

day that Munyenyezi had been

deported to Rwanda. She ar-

rived Friday and was handed

US deports woman who liedabout role in Rwandan genocide

Associated Press

Munyenyezi

SEOUL, South Korea — The

United States and China, the

world’s two biggest carbon pollu-

ters, agreed to cooperate to curb

climate change with urgency, just

days before President Joe Biden

hosts a virtual summit of world

leaders to discuss the issue.

The agreement was reached by

U.S. special envoy for climate John

Kerry and his Chinese counter-

part Xie Zhenhua during two days

of talks in Shanghai last week, ac-

cording to a joint statement.

The two countries “are commit-

ted to cooperating with each other

and with other countries to tackle

the climate crisis, which must be

addressed with the seriousness

and urgency that it demands,” the

statement said.

China is the world’s biggest car-

bon emitter, followed by the Unit-

ed States. The two countries pump

out nearly half of the fossil fuel

fumes that are warming the plane-

t’s atmosphere. Their cooperation

is key to a success of global efforts

to curb climate change, but frayed

ties over human rights, trade and

China’s territorial claims to Tai-

wan and the South China Sea have

been threatening to undermine

such efforts.

Noting that China is the world’s

biggest coal user, Kerry said he

and Chinese officials had a lot of

discussions on how to accelerate a

global energy transition. “I have

never shied away from expressing

our views shared by many, many

people that it is imperative to re-

duce coal, everywhere,” he said.

Biden has invited 40 world lead-

ers, including Chinese President

Xi Jinping, to the April 22-23 sum-

mit. The U.S. and other countries

are expected to announce more

ambitious national targets for cut-

ting carbon emissions ahead of or

at the meeting, along with pledging

financial help for climate efforts

by less wealthy nations.

The joint statement said the two

countries “look forward to” next

week’s summit. Kerry said Sunday

that “we very much hope that (Xi)

will take part” in the summit but

it’s up to China to make that deci-

sion.

According to the U.S.-China

statement, the two countries

would enhance “their respective

actions and cooperating in multi-

lateral processes, including the

United Nations Framework Con-

vention on Climate Change and the

Paris Agreement.”

U.S. EMBASSY SEOUL/AP

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, left, talks with South Korean Foreign MinisterChung Euiyong on Saturday at the Foreign Minister's residence in Seoul, South Korea.

US, China agree to cooperateon climate crisis with urgency

Associated Press


AMERICAN ROUNDUP

Fish falls from sky onto trucker’s windshield

NC HIGH POINT — A

truck was rolling down

a highway in North Carolina when

its windshield was struck by a fish.

The Charlotte Observer report-

ed that the unlucky fish had been

caught by a hungry bird and then

dropped from the sky.

Video above the truck’s wind-

shield shows the moment the bird

flies by and drops the fish.

The video lacks sound, so it’s

unclear how the driver reacted.

But the truck can be seen pulling

to the side of the highway with a

layer of slush on its windshield.

Pot growing equipmentmay have caused blast

CA LOS ANGELES —

Equipment from a

marijuana grow in a Los Angeles

home’s garage may have caused

an explosion that shattered the

structures, trapping one man in

the debris and sending another to

the hospital with critical burn in-

juries, authorities said.

More than a dozen nearby

homes were evacuated after the

explosion in the San Fernando

Valley neighborhood and several

sustained damage from debris,

the Los Angeles Fire Department

said in a statement.

Authorities said that an inspec-

tion of the home and garage

wreckage found evidence of a

marijuana grow. They also said

the explosion was not caused by a

natural gas leak or a lab to extract

THC, the psychoactive chemical

that causes marijuana’s high.

Festival planned tocelebrate KFC founder

KY CORBIN — The south-

ern Kentucky town of

Corbin is planning a festival that

will celebrate a famous face and

former resident: Colonel Harland

Sanders, who developed the se-

cret recipe for Kentucky Fried

Chicken.

The city’s first Colonel Fest is

scheduled for April 24 and will

feature dozens of vendors set up

along Main Street along with

shows and other activities that fo-

cus on Sanders and his creation,

the Times-Tribune reported.

One event, the Finger Lickin’

Chicken .5K, will have participa-

nts run 820 feet, eat a piece of Ken-

tucky Fried Chicken and then run

an additional 820 feet.

Some other events include a

Colonel Sanders look-alike con-

test, a fried chicken cooking con-

test, an eating contest and a chick-

en costume contest.

Airport sees more travel,guns in carry-on bags

OR PORTLAND — Travel

is increasing in Ore-

gon and so are the instances of

Transportation Security Adminis-

tration agents finding guns in car-

ry-on luggage, officials said.

At the Portland International

Airport, travel increased in

March, especially during spring

break, KOIN reported.

From March 18 through April 4,

the airport had more than 545,000

travelers, which was 22% higher

than expected.

Five loaded guns were found in

carry-on luggage in March at PDX

and one so far in April, TSA said.

Woman arrested afterpostal service carjacking

MI DETROIT — A 40-

year-old woman was ar-

rested in connection with the car-

jacking of a U.S. Postal Service

van in Detroit.

Sadie Lakisha Hawkins was

charged with carjacking, un-

armed robbery, receiving and

concealing stolen property and

unlawful driving away of an auto-

mobile, according to the Wayne

County prosecutor’s office.

A postal worker was pulled

from the van on the city’s westside

and the vehicle was taken. Detroit

police arrested Hawkins.

Cop burned when hit byMolotov cocktail

MO STE. GENEVIEVE

— A Ste. Genevieve

police officer was recovering from

serious burns he suffered when

his uniform caught fire after a

man threw a Molotov cocktail at

him, police said.

The officer was responding to a

disturbance call when he encoun-

tered the man outside his parents’

home holding a bottle filled with

flammable liquid, police said.

The man lit the bottle and re-

fused the officer’s orders to drop

it. The officer used his Taser on

the man but “it was ineffective,”

Police Chief Eric Bennett said.

When the Molotov cocktail was

thrown at the officer, it broke on

his arm, burning his arms, legs

and torso. He rolled on the ground

to extinguish the flames while the

suspect’s family tried to help him

with an outdoor water faucet, Ben-

nett said.

Cops called on Black teenpracticing ROTC drill

NC RALEIGH — A Black

North Carolina teenag-

er who was practicing an ROTC

routine with a replica rifle was

shocked when neighbors called

the police on him.

WRAL reported that Jathan

Walthour had recently joined the

team at Sanderson High School in

Raleigh.

In one 911 call, a resident re-

ports that a man was outside with

a gun and “walking up and down

our cul-de-sac.”

Walthour said his training from

a community program called ‘Po-

lice Explorers’ had taught him

how to properly handle the situa-

tion when officers arrived.

“I placed the gun down on the

ground and walked away from it,”

he said. “And I kept my hands vis-

ible, away from my pockets and

things because the officers recom-

mend you keep your hands where

the officers can see you.”

Police have suggested that the

teen practice his ROTC drills in

his backyard.

Historic train depot to berestaurant, music venue

MS NATCHEZ — The city

of Natchez is giving

new life to a historic train depot.

The Natchez Mayor and Board

of Aldermen voted to approve a

lease for a train depot on Broad-

way Street to be renovated into a

restaurant and entertainment

space, The Natchez Democrat re-

ported.

Church Hill Music LLC has

agreed to invest more than $1 mil-

lion worth of improvements at the

facility, City Attorney Bryan Call-

away told The Democrat.

The company plans to add a

small amphitheater, and possibly

a children’s playground.

Bridge run returns afterlast year’s cancellation

FL MARATHON — The

Seven Mile Bridge Run

in the Florida Keys is back after

being canceled last year because

of the coronavirus pandemic.

The race is set with protocols in

place to mitigate potential CO-

VID-19 transmission, officials

said. Monroe County deputies will

halt traffic for three hours along

the the Seven Mile Bridge, the

longest span of 42 bridges that run

over water in the Keys.

Registration was only opened to

the 1,500 runners who had signed

up for the canceled 2020 competi-

tion, race director Ginger Sayer

said. About 1,000 entrants have

registered.

Runners will begin in socially

distanced groups of 10 and be re-

quired to wear masks before and

after the race, Sayer said.

GREG EANS, THE (OWENSBORO, KY.) MESSENGERINQUIRER/AP

Phil Jarred, left, purchases a 6pack of cauliflower plants from vendor Danny Collins with Kissingtree Gourds & More on the opening day of the2021 season of the Owensboro Regional Farmers’ Market in Owensboro, Ky.

In the market for cauliflower

THE CENSUS

342 The amount in pounds of meth seized by U.S. Customs andBorder Protection near Port Angeles, Wash. A Border Patrol

agent and agency dog responded to a site where suspicious bags were seennear the beach, the agency said in a news release. Officials said the dog foundthe bags, which contained the methamphetamine worth nearly $1.7 million.

From The Associated Press


VIRUS OUTBREAK

PARIS — France is imposing en-

try restrictions on travelers from

four countries — Argentina, Chile,

South Africa and Brazil — in hopes

of keeping out especially contagious

coronavirus variants, the govern-

ment has announced.

The restrictions include manda-

tory 10-day quarantines with police

checks to ensure people arriving in

France observe the requirement.

Travelers from all four countries

will be restricted to French nation-

als and their families, EU citizens

and others with a permanent home

in France.

France previously suspended all

flights from Brazil. The suspension

will be lifted next Saturday, after 10

days, and the new restrictions “pro-

gressively” put in place by then, the

government said. The flight suspen-

sion for Brazil will be lifted followed

by “drastic measures” for entering

France from all four countries, plus

the French territory of Guiana,

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves

Le Drian said.

The four countries “are the most

dangerous in terms of the number of

variants that exist and in the evolu-

tion of the pandemic in these coun-

tries,” Le Drian said Saturday on the

France 3 television station.

The list of countries subject to

tougher border checks could be ex-

tended, he said.

Under the new restrictions, trav-

elers must provide an address for

where they plan to observe the 10-

day confinement period and police

will make visits and fine those who

are found in violation, the govern-

ment said.

Along with the mandatory quar-

antine, France is requiring more

stringent testing for the coronavi-

rus. Travelers must show proof of a

negative PCR test taken less than 36

hours instead of 72 hours before

they boarded a flight, or a negative

antigen test less than 24 hours prior.

Variant fears lead

France to restrict

some travelers Associated Press

FRANCOIS MORI/AP

Passengers are checked by French police officers prior to boarding their plane at Charles de GaulleAirport in Roissy, north of Paris.

PORTLAND — As states

around the country lift COVID-19

restrictions, Oregon is poised to go

the opposite direction — and many

residents are fuming about it.

A top health official is consider-

ing indefinitely extending rules

requiring masks and social dis-

tancing in all businesses in the

state.

The proposal would keep the

rules in place until they are “no

longer necessary to address the ef-

fects of the pandemic in the work-

place.”

Michael Wood, administrator of

the state’s department of Occupa-

tional Safety and Health, said the

move is necessary to address a

technicality in state law that re-

quires a “permanent” rule to keep

current restrictions from expir-

ing.

“We are not out of the woods

yet,” he said.

But the idea has prompted a

flood of angry responses, with ev-

eryone from parents to teachers to

business owners and employees

crying government overreach.

Wood’s agency received a re-

cord number of public comments,

mostly critical, and nearly 60,000

residents signed a petition against

the proposal.

Opponents also are upset gov-

ernment officials won’t say how

low Oregon’s COVID-19 case

numbers must go, or how many

people would have to be vaccinat-

ed, to get the requirements lifted

in a state that’s already had some

of the nation’s strictest safety mea-

sures.

“When will masks be unneces-

sary? What scientific studies do

these mandates rely on, particu-

larly now that the vaccine is days

away from being available to ev-

eryone?” said state Sen. Kim

Thatcher, a Republican from

Keizer, near the state’s capital.

“Businesses have had to play

‘mask cop’ for the better part of a

year now. They deserve some cer-

tainty on when they will no longer

be threatened with fines.”

Wood said he is reviewing all the

feedback to see if changes are

needed before he makes a final de-

cision by May 4, when the current

rules lapse.

Besides mask and distancing re-

quirements, Oregon’s proposal in-

cludes more arcane workplace

rules regarding air flow, ventila-

tion, employee notification in case

of an outbreak, and sanitation pro-

tocols.

Ore. bucks mask trend with permanent ruleAssociated Press

TOKYO — Japanese Prime

Minister Yoshihide Suga asked

the U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc.

for additional supplies of the CO-

VID-19 vaccine to speed up his

country’s inoculation drive,

which lags behind many other na-

tions.

Suga, after holding talks with

President Joe Biden at the White

House, wrapped up his Washing-

ton visit on Saturday with a phone

call to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.

Taro Kono, a Cabinet minister

tasked with vaccinations, told a

Japanese television talk show

Sunday that the two sides have

“practically reached an agree-

ment” over the vaccines.

Suga requested Bourla provide

additional supplies that would

cover all eligible recipients by

September, as well as to ensure

the stable and prompt delivery of

the ongoing vaccine shipments,

Japanese officials said Sunday.

No details were released.

According to the officials,

Bourla told Suga that Pfizer

planned to closely coordinate

with the Japanese government to

discuss the requests.

Japan, with its domestic vac-

cine development still in the early

stages, has to rely on imports and

has signed agreements with Pfiz-

er, AstraZeneca and Moderna.

The Pfizer vaccine is the only one

Japan has approved so far.

Japan’s government says it has

secured 314 million doses, enough

to cover its entire population by

the end of this year. That includes

144 million doses from Pfizer.

Inoculations started in mid-

February and have covered less

than 1% of the population. The

slow process is hampered by the

shortage of vaccines amid export

controls by the European Union.

Kono has said the pace of the

vaccine shipments is expected to

pick up beginning in May. Ad-

dressing concerns about the

shortage of medical workers ad-

ministering the jabs, the govern-

ment recently revised a law to

recruit nurses who have retired

or are on leave to temporarily

help with the vaccinations.

The rise in cases led the gov-

ernment to issue an alert status

for Tokyo and nine other urban

prefectures. It has also fueled

doubts about whether or how the

July 23-Aug. 8 Tokyo Olympics

can go ahead.

Japan added 4,532 cases on Sat-

urday for a total of 525,218 since

the pandemic began, with 9,584

deaths.

Japan asks Pfizer formore doses of vaccine

Associated Press

KYODO NEWS/AP

An elderly man receives a shot of Pfizer’s COVID19 vaccine inNagoya, Aichi prefecture, central Japan on April 14.

WASHINGTON — The United

States will likely move to resume

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vac-

cine this coming week, possibly with

restrictions or broader warnings af-

ter reports of some very rare blood

clot cases, the government’s top in-

fectious diseases expert said Sun-

day.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, in a series of

news show interviews, said he ex-

pects a decision when advisers to the

Centers for Disease Control and Pre-

vention meet Friday to discuss the

pause in J&J’s single-dose vaccine.

Fauci, who is President Joe Bi-

den’s chief medical adviser, said he

believed that federal regulators

could bring the shots back with re-

strictions based on age or gender or

with a blanket warning, so that it is

administered in a way “a little bit dif-

ferent than we were before the

pause.”

Fauci expectsJ&J vaccine tobe reinstalledlater this week

Associated Press


WORLD

Merkel’s bloc pressuredto end power struggle

BERLIN — Pressure mounted

Saturday on the two contenders

hoping to lead German Chancellor

Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc

into September’s national election

to end their power struggle and

agree which of them will run to

succeed her.

Armin Laschet, the leader of

Merkel’s Christian Democratic

Union, and Markus Soeder, the

head of its smaller Bavarian sister

party, the Christian Social Union,

have both declared their interest

in running for chancellor.

Germany’s parliamentary elec-

tion Sept. 26 will determine who

succeeds Merkel, who isn’t seek-

ing a fifth term after nearly 16

years in power. Laschet and Soed-

er are the governors of Germany’s

two most populous states, North

Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria re-

spectively.

The center-left Social Demo-

crats nominated Finance Minister

Olaf Scholz as their candidate for

chancellor months ago. The envi-

ronmentalist Greens are to an-

nounce a candidate Monday.

From The Associated Press �

YANGON, Myanmar — Myan-

mar’s junta on Saturday released

more than 23,000 prisoners to

mark the traditional new year ho-

liday, including at least three po-

litical detainees, and the military

leader behind the February coup

confirmed he would attend a re-

gional summit later this month.

It wasn’t immediately clear if

those released included pro-de-

mocracy activists who were de-

tained for protesting the coup.

State broadcaster MRTV said that

junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung

Hlaing had pardoned 23,047 pris-

oners, including 137 foreigners

who will be deported from Myan-

mar. He also reduced sentences

for others.

Early prisoner releases are cus-

tomary during major holidays,

and this is the second batch the

ruling junta has announced since

taking power.

A spokesman for Thailand’s

Foreign Ministry in Bangkok said

Saturday that junta chief Min

Aung Hlaing has confirmed he

will attend a summit meeting of

the Association of Southeast Asian

Nations — ASEAN — expected to

be held on April 24.

Myanmar juntapardons prisoners

Associated Press

AP

Anticoup protesters release balloons with posters reading “WeSupport NUG” that stands for “national unity government” during thewelcoming NUG balloons campaign on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar.

MOSCOW — A doctor for im-

prisoned Russian opposition lead-

er Alexei Navalny, who is in the

third week of a hunger strike, says

his health is deteriorating rapidly

and the 44-year-old Kremlin critic

could be on the verge of death.

Physician Yaroslav Ashikhmin

said Saturday that test results he

received from Navalny’s family

show him with sharply elevated

levels of potassium, which can

bring on cardiac arrest, and

heightened creatinine levels that

indicate impaired kidneys.

“Our patient could die at any mo-

ment,” he said in a Facebook post.

His personal physicians have

not been allowed to see him in pris-

on. He went on hunger strike to

protest the refusal to let them visit

when he began experiencing se-

vere back pain and a loss of feeling

in his legs. Russia’s state penitenti-

ary service has said that Navalny is

receiving all the medical help he

needs.

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OPINION

WASHINGTON

The philosopher’s task is to facili-

tate clear thinking by making

clarifying distinctions. People are

not always grateful for this ser-

vice, as Socrates discovered. The political

philosopher’s task is to clarify contested

concepts, such as patriotism. Regarding

this, Steven B. Smith has drawn intelligent

distinctions that might have some on the

right and left competing for the pleasure of

serving him a cup of hemlock.

Patriotism is a species of loyalty and a

form of love. In “Reclaiming Patriotism in

an Age of Extremes,” Smith, a Yale philoso-

pher, argues that many on the right profess

to love the United States but misunderstand

— or, worse, reject — the essence of what

makes this creedal nation distinctive. And,

Smith says, the patriotism that many on the

left profess — on those occasions when they

warily, gingerly embrace the idea — is a

cold, watery affection for an abstraction. It

is loyalty to a hypothetical United States that

might be worthy of their love-as-loyalty.

Some on the right mistake their com-

pound of grievances and resentments for

patriotism. This mentality — separating

“real” or “true” Americans from the rest —

is akin to the ethno-nationalism that festers

in Europe. It also is a sibling of the left’s

identity politics of group memberships: In

the right’s identity politics, the nation is the

only group that matters. Patriotism under-

stood as ethnic or racial solidarity disap-

pears into truculent nationalism. “Like any

virtue,” Smith writes, “loyalty has its path-

ologies.” Of which, ethno-nationalism is

one.

If patriotism is loyalty and a form of love,

then a so-called patriotism that is not an ex-

pression of happiness — if it is not professed

cheerfully — is a faux patriotism. Today, for

many on the right, patriotism is a grim tab-

ulation of regrets about things lost, and ani-

mosity toward those who supposedly

caused the losses. What some on the left call

patriotism is often an agenda-cum-indict-

ment, a determination to make the United

States less awful than they say it has been,

and is.

“For progressives,” Smith writes, “patri-

otism is not so much loyalty to an already es-

tablished nation, but an aspiration to a coun-

try still to be accomplished.” And: “Progres-

sivism has become less concerned with im-

proving on the past than with erasing it.”

Smith is being delicate.

Because applause is often the echo of a

platitude, people are forever applauding the

notion that “dissent is the highest form of

patriotism,” partly because they think Tho-

mas Jefferson said it, although there is no

evidence he did. Of course, dissent can be

patriotic. But a constant curdled dissent, in

the form of disdain for the nation’s past that

produced its present, is incompatible with

patriotism.

Those who believe that the nation’s real

founding was the arrival of slaves in 1619,

that the American Revolution was fought to

defend slavery, that the nation remains sat-

urated with “systemic racism,” that the eco-

nomic system has always been fundamen-

tally exploitive, that the social order is rot-

ten with injustice and that even the nation’s

most revered historical figures are unwor-

thy of respect — those who think like this

can be credited with moral earnestness, but

not with patriotism: They cannot love what

they will not praise.

Smith wonders why those he calls “new

age progressives” call themselves progres-

sives “when their theory of history is often

anything but.” It is not an optimistic narra-

tive of the nation’s upward trajectory; it is a

counternarrative of “victimization and irre-

deemability.”

Smith says that new age progressives who

prefer cosmopolitanism to patriotism “lack

a core value of patriotism, a sense of loyalty

to a particular tradition and way of life.”

Cosmopolitanism “lacks passion and inten-

sity. It is a joyless disposition.” And “even at

its best, cosmopolitanism is indifferent to

the actual ties of loyalty and affection that

bind people to home and country.”

Patriotism, too, is a disposition — a “pecu-

liarly conservative” one. It is “akin to grat-

itude” and “rooted in a rudimentary, even

primordial love of one’s own: the customs,

habits, manners, and traditions that make

us who and what we are.” Patriotism sug-

gests “an extended family,” which we love

because it has “nurtured and sustained us

through good times and bad.”

“Patriotism,” Smith argues, “is a learned

disposition. It is not indoctrination into an

ideology, but a component of an educated

mind.” Hence it is bad citizenship to teach

American history as a litany of indictments.

Although he thinks patriotism “must be

taught,” he also says “it is an ethos, a shared

habit,” something “felt,” what Abraham

Lincoln called “the mystic chords of memo-

ry.” Smith’s book will help prevent patriot-

ism from fading to something only dimly re-

membered.

Many guilty of misunderstanding patriotismBY GEORGE F. WILL

Washington Post Writers Group

In March, the boy’s hockey team at

Minnesota’s Hill-Murray School was

on the way to defending its cham-

pionship title. But on the verge of the

state tournament, it got bad news: A player

from a previous opponent had tested posi-

tive for COVID-19. Under state rules, Hill-

Murray was subject to a quarantine that

would run past its first tournament match.

It didn’t matter that both teams wore

masks during the game, or that no Hill-

Murray player spent more than a few sec-

onds in proximity to the infected student.

Hill-Murray was out.

That might sound like a reasonable pre-

caution. Youth sports have been connected

to COVID outbreaks, and public health of-

ficials have recently blamed them for

spreading new variants. Yet this blame is

largely misplaced: Studies have shown

that COVID isn’t spread on the field of

play, but rather in the social gatherings

associated with competition. With reason-

able precautions, the games should be able

to go on without asking America’s young

athletes to give up an activity crucial to

their well-being.

Sports are woven intimately into Amer-

ican childhood. Prior to the pandemic, 73%

of American kids aged 6 to 12, and 69%

aged 13 to 17, played a team or individual

sport on a casual basis. More formal par-

ticipation, such as league play, was also

substantial, with 42% of 13-to-17-year-olds

getting involved. Overall, the numbers

were growing: 3.4 million kids played or-

ganized basketball in 2019, up 2% over

2018, and 408,000 played softball, up 12%.

The benefits of such participation go

well beyond having a good time. Sports

promote physical health, including by re-

ducing the risk of cancer and hyperten-

sion. They also boost mental health: Two

decades of research suggest that students

who regularly exercise have lower rates of

depression. More physical activity is also

associated with improved academic per-

formance. Perhaps more important, active

kids are more likely to become active

adults, and to pass along their good habits.

The pandemic interrupted this virtuous

cycle. This month, Jordan Metzl, a sports-

medicine physician, told an online gather-

ing of the American Academy of Pediat-

rics California that the suspension of youth

sports has already taken a significant

physical and mental toll. Such shutdowns

have “taken away how kids define them-

selves,” he said, citing data on increased

rates of depression and anxiety, as well a

reduction in fitness levels.

If COVID was being transmitted at high

rates during athletic competitions, these

suspensions might still be justifiable. But a

growing body of evidence suggests it isn’t.

The National Football League spent last

season carefully tracking player move-

ments with the assistance of the CDC. Af-

ter 256 games and 623,000 COVID tests

administered to players and staff, it found

zero cases of on-field transmission. In-

stead, most cases were community expo-

sures.

Youth sports are likely to be just as safe.

“Most local outbreaks are due to contact in

the locker room or on the sidelines or from

other social engagements outside of the

sport itself,” explains Dr. Jennifer May-

nard, a sports and family physician at the

Mayo Clinic. “The general consensus is

that there are many more positives than

drawbacks in getting athletes back en-

gaged.”

State officials and school administrators

should recognize that suspending youth

sports won’t do much to stop the spread of

COVID — but could very well do harm to

student athletes. Above all, policy makers

need to stop singling out youth sports in

areas where restaurants, bars and other

businesses are reopening. A more rational

approach is to acknowledge the benefits of

youth sports and issue public health guid-

ance about the need to play them respon-

sibly — including by wearing masks, main-

taining distancing in locker rooms, limiting

team social gatherings, reducing carpool-

ing and taking other common-sense pre-

cautions.

Researchers are only now beginning to

understand the pandemic’s toll on Amer-

ica’s youth. Addressing that damage will

likely be a generational challenge. For

now, let the kids take the field and play.

Canceling youth sports has taken a toll on athletesBY ADAM MINTER

Bloomberg Opinion

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Adam Minter is the author of“Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade” and“Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” Thiscolumn does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorialboard or Bloomberg LP and its owners.


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FACES

Corinne Foxx spent her entire

childhood getting embarrassed

by her dad, just like you. He just

happened to be famous.

The 27-year-old daughter of actor Jamie

Foxx had an unusual upbringing, but now

she has a rare opportunity as well: to flame

her dad on Netflix for eight episodes in her

new show, “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me.”

The sitcom stars Jamie Foxx as the afore-

mentioned “Dad,” Brian Dixon, a cosmetics

brand owner in Atlanta recalibrating his life

after his teenage daughter moves in with

him. Corinne is an executive producer.

“For years, my dad and I have been shar-

ing our funny stories of our little mishaps as

father and daughter and him embarrassing

me, and we’d told these stories for so long

that we finally got to a point where we were

like, ‘why not take these stories and make

them episodes?’ That’s kind of what we did:

we took these stories from our personal

lives and turned them into a television

show,” Corinne Foxx told the Daily News.

“It’s literally my diary come to life.”

“Dad Stop Embarrassing Me,” which

premiered Wednesday on Netflix, doesn’t

just stick to the father-daughter relation-

ship between Brian and Sasha (Kyla-

Drew). To properly represent her full child-

hood, Corinne added in Brian’s dad, played

by David Alan Grier; his sister, played by

Porscha Coleman; and his best friend (Jo-

nathan Kite), the only one who doesn’t live

with them but might as well, given how of-

ten he’s in their fridge.

“This was the right time to show the

younger generation how we did it,” Grier,

staging an “In Living Color” reunion with

Foxx to play his father, joked to The News.

The sitcom takes on some real-world is-

sues, including policing and religion, but

mostly it’s a fun glimpse into a chaotic fam-

ily and, like Corinne Foxx said, her personal

diary. Some episodes, like one about her

first date with a boy, were pulled almost di-

rectly from reality. Others were creations of

the writers room, with Foxx working every

session to perfect the meta world.

She also spent time with 16-year-old Ky-

la-Drew, giving her details and stories

about her real-life dad but also encouraging

her to make Sasha her own; this isn’t a docu-

mentary, she insisted.

“Dad Stop Embarrassing Me” leans to-

ward heartwarming, rather than cringey.

It’s clear that all of the embarrassing com-

ments and actions are made in good faith.

“(My dad) is just a dad who wants to un-

derstand his daughter. Sometimes he goes

to extreme lengths, but it’s all out of love,”

Foxx told The News.

“I will give my dad so many props be-

cause even if he didn’t know how to talk to a

teenage girl, he always tried. He always

showed up. He always gave 100%. I feel like

that is what fueled the embarrassing mo-

ments, but also why we have such a strong

relationship now.”

Coleman, who plays Brian’s sister, Chel-

sea, said that sibling bond is the same she

has with her older brother, who’s almost ex-

actly the same age as Jamie. For her, every-

thing about the Dixons makes sense.

“It’s not that you’re watching a Black

family. You’re just watching a family,” said

Coleman, who has been friends with Jamie

Foxx for more than a decade. “That’s grand-

pa, that’s the niece, that’s the father, that’s

the best friend who comes in the kitchen

and just eats whatever he wants to eat. Ev-

eryone has someone they can relate to.”

That best friend, Johnny, plays two roles:

Brian’s best friend and also a fellow dad of a

teenage girl, Sasha’s best friend Zia. While

Brian is still learning how to raise a teenag-

er after Sasha’s mom died, Johnny is well-

versed in all the tricks, including the hidden

GPS tracking programs to put on her cell-

phone. But even that is well-meaning.

“Johnny means well. The fact that he

tracks his daughter on her phone, I call him

a helicopter parent but with a drone be-

cause she doesn’t know. But he has good in-

tentions,” Kite, who plays the goofy police

officer, said. “He’s loyal, whatever Brian is

up to. That’s how my friends are. I’m not

saying whether it’s good or bad, but whatev-

er one of us is up to, we’re all on board. We

all had that idea. Let’s go.”

Netflix

KylaDrew and Jamie Foxx star as a fatherdaughter duo with fairly typical teensanddads issues in “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me.”

TV show a true family affair‘Dad Stop Embarrassing Me’ reflects reality for Jamie Foxx and his daughter Corinne

BY KATE FELDMAN

New York Daily News

Members of the Monkees, R.E.M., Dash-

board Confessional and The Black Keys are

turning out for a virtual tribute concert next

month for Adam Schlesinger, who died of

COVID-19 a year ago.

“Adam Schlesinger, A Musical Celebra-

tion, Virtual Show” will premiere May 5 on

the Rolling Live platform, with proceeds go-

ing to MusiCares and the venue The Bow-

ery Electric.

Schlesinger, a prolific songwriter, was

best known for his band Fountains of

Wayne but was a producer and writer for

several projects, including the television se-

ries “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” whose star, Ra-

chel Bloom, is booked for the tribute.

Others who will perform or pay tribute

include Courtney Love, Sean Ono Lennon,

Drew Carey, Chris Carrabba of Dashboard

Confessional, Peter Buck of R.E.M., Patrick

Carney of the Black Keys, Micky Dolenz of

the Monkees, James Iha of Smashing

Pumpkins, Ben Lee and Taylor Hanson.

The lineup is expected to expand.

The tribute is being organized by Jody

Porter, Schlesinger’s former bandmate in

Fountains of Wayne.

“This is a proper musical send-off for my

soul brother with a bunch of talented and

groovy guests that would make Adam

wince,” Porter said.

‘In the Heights’ to open

Tribeca Film Festival in JuneThe big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel

Miranda’s “In the Heights” will kick off the

Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, two days

before the film opens in theaters and begins

streaming.

Set in New York’s Washington Heights,

Jon M. Chu’s “In the Heights” will premiere

across every New York borough, festival or-

ganizers said Friday.

Tribeca — canceled last year due to the

pandemic — is planning a festival begin-

ning June 9 to take place in open-air venues

around the city.

Warner Bros. will release “In the Heights

on June 11 in theaters and on HBO Max. The

Tribeca Film Festival runs June 9-20.

Lopez, Rodriguez split upJennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez told

the “Today” show April 15 in a joint state-

ment that they are calling off their two-year

engagement.

“We have realized we are better as

friends and look forward to remaining so.

We will continue to work together and sup-

port each other on our shared businesses

and projects,” it said.

The couple started dating in early 2017.

Tribute planned forAdam Schlesinger

From wire reports

The great-grandchildren of Guccio Gucci, who founded

the luxury fashion house that bears his name a century ago

in Florence, are appealing to filmmaker Ridley Scott to re-

spect their family’s legacy in a new film that focuses on a

sensational murder.

“The House of Gucci,” starring Lady Gaga and Adam

Driver, is based on a book about the 1995 murder-for-hire of

one of Gucci’s grandchildren, Maurizio, and the subse-

quent trial and conviction of his ex-wife. Patrizia Reggiani,

portrayed by Lady Gaga, served 16 years in prison for con-

tracting the murder.

One of Maurizio’s second cousins, Patrizia Gucci, is wor-

ried that the film goes beyond the headline-grabbing true-

crime story and pries into the private lives of the Guccio

Gucci heirs.

“We are truly disappointed. I speak on behalf of the fam-

ily,’’ Gucci told The Associated Press on April 14. “They are

stealing the identity of a family to make a profit, to increase

the income of the Hollywood system....Our family has an

identity, privacy. We can talk about everything. but there is

a borderline that cannot be crossed.”

Patrizia Gucci said her family will decide what further

action to take after seeing the film, which is based on the

book “The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder,

Madness, Glamour and Greed,” by Sara Gay Forden.

Patrizia Gucci said paparazzi photos from the “House of

Gucci” set have not been at all reassuring.

“My grandfather was a very handsome man, like all the

Guccis, and very tall, blue eyes and very elegant. He is be-

ing played by Al Pacino, who is not very tall already, and

this photo shows him as fat, short, with sideburns, really

ugly. Shameful, because he doesn’t resemble him at all,”

Patrizia Gucci said.

Jared Leto’s Paolo Gucci, meanwhile, is shown with un-

kempt hair, and a lilac corduroy suit not at all in line with his

daughter’s recollections. “Horrible, horrible. I still feel of-

fended,’’ she said.

Gucci heirs worry over family depiction in Ridley Scott filmBY COLLEEN BARRY

Associated Press


SCOREBOARD/HIGH SCHOOL

TENNIS

Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters

SaturdayAt Monte Carlo Country Club

Monte Carlo, MonacoPurse: Euro 2,082,960

Surface: Red clayMen’s Singles

SemifinalsStefanos Tsitsipas (4), Greece, def. Da

niel Evans, Britain, 62, 61. Andrey Rublev (6), Russia, def. Casper

Ruud, Norway, 63, 75. Men’s Doubles

SemifinalsNikola Mektic and Mate Pavic (2), Croa

tia, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, and Horacio Zeballos (4), Argentina, 36, 75, 104.

Daniel Evans and Neal Skupski, Britain,def. Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal (1), Colombia, 76 (0), 26, 104.

MUSC Health Women’s OpenSaturday

At Family Circle Tennis CenterCharleston, S.C.Purse: $235,238

Surface: Red clayWomen’s Singles

SemifinalsOns Jabeur, Tunisia, def. Danka Kovinic,

Montenegro, 63, 60. Astra Sharma, Australia, def. Maria Ca

mila Osorio Serrano, Colombia, 76 (5), 61. Women’s Doubles

SemifinalsCaty McNally and Hailey Baptiste, Unit

ed States, def. Elixane Lechemia, France,and Ingrid Neel, United States, 60, 62.

AUTO RACING

Truck ToyotaCare 250Saturday

At Richmond RacewayRichmond, United States.

Lap length: 0.75 miles(Start position in parentheses)

1. (18) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 250laps, 59 points.

2. (12) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 250, 0.3. (30) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 250, 34.4. (23) Chandler Smith, Toyota, 250, 34.5. (19) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 250, 32.6. (8) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 250, 37.7. (1) Ben Rhodes, Toyota, 250, 45.8. (3) Grant Enfinger, Toyota, 250, 48.9. (40) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 250, 0.10. (2) Austin Hill, Toyota, 250, 40.11. (9) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 250, 26.12. (13) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 250,

30.13. (4) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 250, 25.14. (6) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 250, 28.15. (29) Derek Kraus, Toyota, 250, 26.16. (25) Spencer Davis, Ford, 250, 21.17. (14) Hailie Deegan, Ford, 250, 20.18. (7) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 250, 19.19. (10) Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet,

250, 18.20. (28) Danny Bohn, Toyota, 250, 17.21. (34) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 250, 0.22. (27) Timothy Peters, Chevrolet, 250,

15.23. (5) Raphael Lessard, Chevrolet, 249,

22.24. (11) Tanner Gray, Ford, 249, 13.25. (31) Dawson Cram, Chevrolet, 248, 12.26. (36) Jett Noland, Chevrolet, 247, 11.27. (26) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 247, 10.28. (15) Chase Purdy, Chevrolet, 245, 9.29. (39) Ryan Reed, Chevrolet, 245, 8.30. (32) Keith McGee, Chevrolet, 244, 7.31. (21) Cory Roper, Ford, 243, 6.32. (38) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 240, 5.33. (37) Josh Reaume, Toyota, 240, 4.34. (35) Howie DiSavino III, Chevrolet,

221, 3.35. (22) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, accident,

212, 2.36. (20) Codie Rohrbaugh, Chevrolet, ac

cident, 195, 1.37. (17) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, hand

ling, 186, 1.38. (33) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet, ga

rage, 168, 1.39. (24) Tate Fogleman, Chevrolet, acci

dent, 82, 1.40. (16) Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, reargear,

44, 1.Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 77.075mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 25 minutes, 58seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.307 seconds.Caution Flags: 11 for 79 laps.Lead Changes: 9 among 6 drivers.Lap Leaders: B.Rhodes 02; G.Enfinger 3

73; K.Busch 7499; J.Nemechek 100144;B.Rhodes 145; J.Nemechek 146197;B.Rhodes 198; M.Crafton 199209; C.Smith210233; J.Nemechek 234250

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,Laps Led): J.Nemechek, 3 times for 114laps; G.Enfinger, 1 time for 71 laps;K.Busch, 1 time for 26 laps; C.Smith, 1 timefor 24 laps; M.Crafton, 1 time for 11 laps;B.Rhodes, 3 times for 4 laps.

Wins: J.Nemechek, 2; B.Rhodes, 2.Top 16 in Points: 1. J.Nemechek, 270; 2.

B.Rhodes, 250; 3. S.Creed, 216; 4. A.Hill, 196;5. M.Crafton, 190; 6. S.Friesen, 183; 7. G.Enfinger, 179; 8. Z.Smith, 165; 9. T.Gilliland,164; 10. J.Sauter, 141; 11. C.Hocevar, 139; 12.C.Smith, 129; 13. A.Self, 129; 14. R.Lessard,121; 15. B.Moffitt, 102; 16. T.Gray, 100.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula

A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top15 Finishes,Average Running Position While on LeadLap, Average Speed Under Green, FastestLap, Led Most Laps, LeadLap Finish.

MLS

Eastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

D.C. United 1 0 0 3 2 1

Montreal 1 0 0 3 4 2

Chicago 0 0 1 1 2 2

New England 0 0 1 1 2 2

Cincinnati 0 0 1 1 2 2

Nashville 0 0 1 1 2 2

Orlando City 0 0 1 1 0 0

Atlanta 0 0 1 1 0 0

New York 0 1 0 0 1 2

Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 0

Toronto FC 0 1 0 0 2 4

Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0

New York City FC 0 1 0 0 1 2

Inter Miami CF 0 0 0 0 0 0

Western Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

Kansas City 1 0 0 3 2 1

Houston 1 0 0 3 2 1

Seattle 1 0 0 3 4 0

Los Angeles FC 1 0 0 3 2 0

FC Dallas 0 0 1 1 0 0

Colorado 0 0 1 1 0 0

LA Galaxy 0 0 0 0 0 0

Real Salt Lake 0 0 0 0 0 0

San Jose 0 1 0 0 1 2

Portland 0 0 0 0 0 0

Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0

Minnesota United 0 1 0 0 0 4

Austin �FC 0 1 0 0 0 2

NOTE: For the 2020 season, MLS will de

termine standings using points per game.NOTE: Three points for victory, one point

for tie.

Friday’s games

Houston 2, San Jose 1Seattle 4, Minnesota 0

Saturday’s games

Montreal 4, Toronto FC 2Atlanta 0, Orlando City 0, tieLos Angeles FC 2, Austin FC 0Sporting Kansas City 2, New York 1D.C. United 2, New York City FC 1Colorado 0, FC Dallas 0, tieCincinnati 2, Nashville 2, tieNew England 2, Chicago 2, tie

Sunday’s games

LA Galaxy at MiamiPhiladelphia at ColumbusPortland at Vancouver

Friday, April 23

Orlando City at Sporting Kansas City

Saturday, April 24

Cincinnati at New York City FCMontreal at NashvilleVancouver at Toronto FCFC Dallas at San JoseSeattle at Los Angeles FCReal Salt Lake at MinnesotaMiami at PhiladelphiaD.C. United at New EnglandChicago at AtlantaAustin FC at ColoradoHouston at Portland

Sunday, April 25

New York at LA Galaxy

Tuesday, April 27

Atlanta at PhiladelphiaToroonto at Cruz Azul

Wednesday, April 28

Columbus at MonterreyPortland at America

SOCCER

Saturday’s TransactionsBASEBALL

Major League BaseballAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHPDean Kremer to alternate training site.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Sent OF Nick Williams outright to alterante training site.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled LHPSam Hentges from alternate training site.Optioned OF Ben Gamel to alternate training site.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed LHP BlakeTaylor on the 10day IL. Recalled RHP PeterSolomon from alternate training site.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled LHPsRichard Lovelady, Justin Steele and RHPPedro Strop from alternate training site.Traded CF Nick Heath to Arizona for RHPEduardo Herrera.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled LHP Devin Smeltzer from alternate training site.Optioned LHP Lewis Thorpe to the alternate training site.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHPBrooks Kriske from alternate training site.Optioned RHP Michael King to alternatetraining site.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled CF KevinKiermaier from the 10day IL. OptionedRHP Chris Mazza to alternate training site.

TEXAS RANGERS — Activated LF WillieCalhoun and INF Brock Holt from the 10day IL. Optioned LHP Wes Benjamin andINF Anderson Tejeda to alternate trainingsite.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled INFSantiago Espinal from alternate trainingsite.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Designat

ed RHP Jeremy Beasley for assignment.Acquired OF Nick Heath from a KansasCity in exchange for RHP Eduardo Herrera.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled RHP BryseWilson from alternate training site. Selected the contract of INF Sean Kazmar Jr. andLHP Jesse Biddle from alternate trainingsite. Placed LHP Sean Newcomb and OFEnder Inciarte on the 10day IL. OptionedRHP Kyle Wright to alternate training site.

CHICAGO CUBS — Activated RHPs Brandon Workman and Dan Winkler from theCOVID19 IL. Optioned LHP Justin Steeleand returned RHP Pedro Strop to alternatetraining site. Sent C Tony Wolters outrightto alternate training site.

CINCINNATI REDS — Designated RHPCam Bedrosian for assignment. ActivatedRHP Sonny Gray from the 10day IL. Recalled LF Mark Payton from alternatetraining site. Placed 2B Alex Blandino onthe 10day IL.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Recalled LHP Lucas Gilbreath from alternate training site.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled LHPAlex Vesia from alternate training site.Optioned INF/OF Matt Beaty to alternatetraining site.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed OFChristian Yelich on the 10day IL, retroactive to April 14. Recalled RHP Eric Yardleyfrom alternate training site.

NEW YORK METS — Activated INF J.D. Davis from the 10Day IL. Optioned INF JoséPeraza to alternate site. Activated LHP

Stephen Tarpley as the team’s 27th mantoday. Assigned RHP Franklyn Kilome outright to alternate site.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned RHPKodi Whitley to alternate training site. Activated LHP Kwang Hyun from the 10dayIL.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Selected the contract of LHP Nick Ramirez from alternatetraining site. Placed RHP Dan Altavilla onthe 10day IL. Transferred LHP MattStrahm from the 10day IL to the 60day IL.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

NBA — Fined the Toronto Raptors$25,000 for failing to comply with leaguepolicies governing player rest and injuryreporting.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed OL Trystan ColonCastillo and LB Kristian Welchto exclusive rights contracts for the 2021season.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled D HunterDrew and LW Maxim Golod from San Diego(AHL) and assigned them to the taxisquad. Assigned G Olle Eriksson and RWJacob Perreault to San Diego (AHL).

BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled RW StevenFogarty from Rochester (AHL) and G Michael Houser from the minor league taxisquad.

CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned D Alex Petrovic and C Adam Ruzicka to Stockton(AHL) from the taxi squad. Assigned LWJustin Kirkland from Stockton (AHL) to thetaxi squad.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed RWCarson Meyer to a onyear entrylevelcontract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G KevinBoyle from Grand Rapids (AHL) to the taxisquad. Loaned G Kaden Fulcher from thetaxi squad to Grand Rapids (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Loaned Ds LucasCarlsson and Brady Keeper, C Aleksi Heponiemi, RW Cole Schwindt and LW ScottWilson to Syracuse (AHL) from the taxisquad.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Loaned G Michael McGiven to Laval (AHL) from the taxisquad.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled RW Marian Studenic and D Matt Tennyson fromthe minor league taxi squad.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Recalled LWCarsen Twarynski from the minor leaguetaxi squad.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled LW NathanWalker from the minor league taxi squad.

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Loaned LW Alexander Barabanov to San Jose (AHL) from thetaxi squad.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

COLUMBUS CREW SC — Signed D SaadAbdulSalaam from Major League Soccer’s waiver list.

COLLEGETENNESSEE — Named Samantha Wil

liams assistant women’s basketballcoach/recruiting coordinator.

DEALS

April 19 1897 — John J. McDermott wins the firstBoston Marathon in 2 hours, 55 minutes, 10

seconds. 1930 — Clarence DeMar wins the Boston

Marathon for a record seventh time, in2:34:48.2.

AP SPORTLIGHT

GOLF

RBC Heritage

PGA TourSaturday

At Harbour Town Golf LinksHilton Head, S.C.

Purse: $7.1 millionYardage: 7,121: Par: 71

Third RoundStewart Cink 63-63-69—195 -18Collin Morikawa 65-68-67—200 -13Emiliano Grillo 68-64-69—201 -12Matt Wallace 65-72-65—202 -11Sungjae Im 68-65-69—202 -11Webb Simpson 71-68-64—203 -10Matt Fitzpatrick 71-64-68—203 -10Harold Varner III 66-68-69—203 -10Corey Conners 67-64-72—203 -10Christiaan Bezuidenhout 70-69-65—204 -9Daniel Berger 67-71-66—204 -9Kevin Streelman 67-71-66—204 -9Maverick McNealy 71-67-66—204 -9Charley Hoffman 68-69-67—204 -9Brian Harman 67-70-67—204 -9Billy Horschel 66-67-71—204 -9Matt Kuchar 70-68-67—205 -8Camilo Villegas 69-68-68—205 -8Chris Kirk 70-67-68—205 -8Abraham Ancer 69-66-70—205 -8Rory Sabbatini 70-69-67—206 -7Danny Willett 68-71-67—206 -7Tom Lewis 72-67-67—206 -7Russell Henley 69-70-67—206 -7Brian Stuard 70-68-68—206 -7Will Zalatoris 68-67-71—206 -7Denny McCarthy 73-67-67—207 -6Brendon Todd 70-70-67—207 -6Alex Noren 71-68-68—207 -6Robert MacIntyre 70-67-70—207 -6Adam Schenk 68-69-70—207 -6Michael Thompson 68-67-72—207 -6Shane Lowry 70-65-72—207 -6Tom Hoge 67-67-73—207 -6Cameron Smith 62-71-74—207 -6Wesley Bryan 68-66-75—209 -4

Lotte Championship

LPGASaturday

At Kapolei Golf ClubKapolei, Oahu

Purse: $2 millionYardage: 6,586; Par: 72

a-amateurFinal Round

Lydia Ko 67-63-65-65—260 -28Inbee Park 71-66-67-63—267 -21Sei Young Kim 67-68-67-65—267 -21Leona Maguire 68-67-65-67—267 -21Nelly Korda 65-68-63-71—267 -21Jenny Shin 69-70-67-63—269 -19Wei-Ling Hsu 67-73-63-66—269 -19Sarah Schmelzel 69-69-65-66—269 -19Yuka Saso 64-64-71-70—269 -19A Lim Kim 70-64-70-66—270 -18Amy Yang 69-68-64-69—270 -18Matilda Castren 71-69-65-66—271 -17Esther Henseleit 71-68-66-66—271 -17Georgia Hall 70-68-66-67—271 -17Klara Spilkova 69-68-67-67—271 -17Hannah Green 70-67-66-68—271 -17Austin Ernst 69-68-68-67—272 -16Yu Liu 68-69-68-67—272 -16So Yeon Ryu 65-68-71-68—272 -16Lexi Thompson 68-67-67-70—272 -16Hyo Joo Kim 68-65-69-70—272 -16Alison Lee 70-67-71-65—273 -15Kelly Tan 72-69-66-66—273 -15Jennifer Kupcho 68-69-70-66—273 -15Caroline Masson 74-65-66-68—273 -15Luna Sobron Galmes 69-64-70-70—273 -15Su Oh 73-68-66-67—274 -14Angela Stanford 69-70-67-68—274 -14Paula Reto 69-67-69-69—274 -14Brooke M. Henderson 68-68-68-70—274 -14Linnea Strom 69-67-67-71—274 -14

Champions Chubb ClassicPGA Senior Tour

SaturdayAt Tiburon Golf Club

Naples, Fla.Purse: $1.6 million

Yardage: 6,881; Par: 72Second Round

Robert Karlsson 6666—132 12

Fred Couples 6369—132 12

Alex Cejka 6865—133 11

Steve Stricker 6667—133 11

Bernhard Langer 6568—133 11

Gene Sauers 6669—135 9

Kevin Sutherland 7066—136 8

Miguel Angel Jiménez 6967—136 8

Glen Day 6869—137 7

Tim Petrovic 6770—137 7

Vijay Singh 7068—138 6

Scott Parel 7068—138 6

David McKenzie 6969—138 6

Marco Dawson 6969—138 6

Billy Mayfair 6969—138 6

David Toms 6870—138 6

They drove nine hours on a bus

each way from Misawa to Yokota

and back. They slept on Yokota

High School’s gym floor. And they

competed in day-long rain at Yo-

kota’s Bonk Field.

Edgren track and boys soccer

coaches and players said they

could not have been happier just

to compete against schools they

thought they wouldn’t see this

spring due to the coronavirus pan-

demic.

“It was a very rewarding day,”

Eagles track and field coach Tim

Schwehr said. “It’s been so long,

being cut off from the rest of the

world at Misawa. To be able to

compete and really put purpose

behind all the training was worth

it.”

The Eagles track team went up

against host Yokota, Zama and

Kinnick, while the boys soccer

team played two matches against

the host Panthers, losing 9-1 and

6-0 on the school’s grass pitch.

It was the first competition for

Edgren sports teams this spring,

after losing the entire 2020 spring

season to the pandemic. DODEA

headquarters gave the OK for Ed-

gren’s teams to travel late last

week.

“The traveling part is always

hard, and with COVID, it stresses

people out even more,” Eagles se-

nior midfielder Ethan Hovenkot-

ter said, using the name of the dis-

ease caused by the coronavirus.

“But with all of that and the result,

we were still happy just to play one

last time.”

Watching his track athletes

warming up, Schwehr said he no-

ticed now their excitement

ramped up as the track meet be-

gan. “It really energized them for

their own races,” Schwehr said.

One of the marquee events of

the day was the girls 1,600-meter

run, featuring the top two Far East

virtual cross country meet finish-

ers, Yokota’s Reagan Cheramie

and Edgren’s Morgan Erler, and

the 2019 Far East champion Aiko

Galvin of Yokota.

The three runners turned it into

a match race, leaving the field far

behind, and played leapfrog

through three laps until Galvin

turned it on at the end, winning in

5 minutes, 36.20 seconds.

It was a race that any of the

three could have won, Schwehr

said. “She (Erler) got boxed in a

couple of times, but we know what

we need to work on,” he said.

Galvin continues to work her

way back into shape from a hip

flexor injury, her father and coach

Dan Galvin said.

Eaglesthrilled totravel formeet, game

BY DAVE ORNAUER

Stars and Stripes


NHL

East Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Washington 45 29 12 4 62 160 135

Pittsburgh 44 28 13 3 59 150 122

N.Y. Islanders 44 27 13 4 58 126 105

Boston 42 24 12 6 54 119 107

N.Y. Rangers 44 22 16 6 50 146 115

Philadelphia 44 20 18 6 46 128 161

New Jersey 43 14 23 6 34 106 145

Buffalo 44 11 26 7 29 107 152

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Carolina 43 29 10 4 62 140 104

Florida 45 28 12 5 61 143 123

Tampa Bay 44 29 13 2 60 149 115

Nashville 46 24 21 1 49 121 130

Chicago 45 21 19 5 47 127 139

Dallas 43 17 14 12 46 122 109

Columbus 46 15 22 9 39 114 154

Detroit 46 16 24 6 38 103 145

West Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Colorado 43 30 9 4 64 154 101

Vegas 43 30 11 2 62 142 96

Minnesota 43 27 13 3 57 132 115

Arizona 45 20 20 5 45 121 141

St. Louis 43 19 18 6 44 124 135

San Jose 44 18 22 4 40 118 149

Los Angeles 42 16 20 6 38 114 127

Anaheim 45 14 24 7 35 101 142

North Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Toronto 44 28 12 4 60 145 117

Winnipeg 45 27 15 3 57 144 120

Edmonton 43 26 15 2 54 137 120

Montreal 42 19 14 9 47 125 119

Calgary 44 19 22 3 41 116 129

Vancouver 37 16 18 3 35 100 120

Ottawa 45 15 26 4 34 122 164

Saturday’s games

N.Y. Rangers 6, New Jersey 3 Washington 6, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 3, Buffalo 2 Ottawa 4, Montreal 0 Arizona 3, St. Louis 2 Chicago 4, Detroit 0 Edmonton 3, Winnipeg 0 Florida 5, Tampa Bay 3 Carolina 3, Nashville 1 Minnesota 5, San Jose 2 Dallas 5, Columbus 1

Sunday’s games

Washington at Boston N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey Pittsburgh at Buffalo Vegas at Anaheim N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia Toronto at Vancouver Los Angeles at Colorado, ppd

Monday’s games

Carolina at Tampa Bay Columbus at Florida Detroit at Dallas Chicago at Nashville Minnesota at Arizona Montreal at Edmonton Ottawa at Calgary San Jose at Vegas

Tuesday’s games

Boston at Buffalo Carolina at Tampa Bay Columbus at Florida N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders New Jersey at Pittsburgh Detroit at Dallas Colorado at St. Louis, ppd Toronto at Vancouver Anaheim at Los Angeles

Wednesday’s games

Nashville at Chicago Minnesota at Arizona San Jose at Vegas Montreal at Edmonton

Game-winning goals

Name Team GP GW

Auston Matthews Toronto 40 9

Connor McDavid Edmonton 42 8

Gabriel Landeskog Colorado 41 7

Mark Stone Vegas 42 7

Leon Draisaitl Edmonton 42 6

Alex Ovechkin Washington 40 6

Max Pacioretty Vegas 41 6

Mikko Rantanen Colorado 43 6

Alex DeBrincat Chicago 40 5

Nikolaj Ehlers Winnipeg 44 5

Robby Fabbri Detroit 30 5

Jake Guentzel Pittsburgh 43 5

Brayden Point Tampa Bay 43 5

Frank Vatrano Florida 44 5

Jakub Vrana Washington 40 5

Josh Anderson Montreal 38 4

Ross Colton Tampa Bay 17 4

William Karlsson Vegas 43 4

Scoreboard

TAMPA, Fla. — Brandon Mon-

tour, Patric Hornqvist and Jonath-

an Huberdeau scored in the first

period, and the Florida Panthers

beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-3

Saturday night.

Frank Vatrano and Anthony

Duclair also scored, and Sam Ben-

nett had two assists to help Florida

jump one point ahead of Tampa

Bay for second place in the Cen-

tral Division. Sergei Bobrovsky

stopped 28 shots.

“I feel like it’s a fun game, it’s a

lot of emotions and two good

teams battling for points,’’ Florida

defenseman Markus Nutivaara

said. “I love to play in these

games.’’

Brayden Point, Erik Cernak and

Mathieu Joseph scored for the

Lightning. Victor Hedman had

two assists to top 400 for his ca-

reer. Andrei Vasilevskiy had 27

saves in his first loss on home ice

this season in 15 starts.

Wild 5, Sharks 2: Mats Zucca-

rello had a goal and an assist, and

Minnesota stayed hot at home.

Joel Eriksson Ek, Zach Parise,

Kirill Kaprizov and Nico Sturm al-

so scored on a night when 12 dif-

ferent Wild players had at least

one point. Kaapo Kahkonen made

26 saves as Minnesota won its

third straight and improved to 17-

4-0 at home this season.

Blackhawks 4, Red Wings 0:

Malcolm Subban made 29 saves

for his second shutout of the sea-

son, leading Chicago to the road

win.

Patrick Kane had a goal and an

assist for the Blackhawks, who

were coming off a 4-1 loss to last-

place Detroit on Thursday night.

Alex DeBrincat, Wyatt Kalynuk

and Pius Suter also scored, and

Vinnie Hinostroza had three as-

sists.

Rangers 6, Devils 3: Pavel

Buchnevich scored three times on

his 26th birthday, and New York

beat visiting New Jersey for their

third win over their Hudson River

rivals in five days.

It was Buchnevich's first career

hat trick. Artemi Panarin added a

goal and three assists as the Rang-

ers improved to 12-4-3 in their last

19 games.

Capitals 6, Flyers 3: Alex

Ovechkin scored twice to move

within one goal of Marcel Dionne

for fifth place on the NHL’s career

goals list as Washington earned

the road win.

Dmitry Orlov, Evgeny Kuznet-

sov, Conor Sheary and Anthony

Mantha each added goals for the

Capitals.

Penguins 3, Sabres 2: Tristan

Jarry stopped 27 shots as visiting

Pittsburgh eliminated Buffalo

from playoff contention.

Oilers 3, Jets 0: Mike Smith

stopped 26 shots in his third shut-

out of the season, sending Edmon-

ton to the road victory.

Coyotes 3, Blues 2: Darcy

Kuemper stopped 20 shots in his

return to the lineup, and host Ari-

zona rallied for the win.

Stars 5, Blue Jackets 1: Joe Pa-

velski had a goal and an assist, and

host Dallas scored four times in

6½ minutes in the second period.

Senators 4, Canadiens 0:

Drake Batherson had two goals

and an assist for last-place Otta-

wa, which had dropped five of six

before the win at Montreal.

Montour, Panthers down LightningAssociated Press

CHRIS O’MEARA / AP

Florida Panthers defenseman Markus Nutivaara (65) takes the puck from Tampa Bay Lightning centerYanni Gourde during the second period of the Panthers’ 53 win Saturday in Tampa.

ROUNDUP

RALEIGH, N.C. — Jani Hakanpaa scored

his first goal with Carolina to break a tie in the

third period and the Hurricanes beat the Nash-

ville Predators 3-1 Saturday night.

Hakanpaa, a defenseman acquired Monday

at the trade deadline from the Anaheim Ducks,

was in his second game with Carolina. Sudden-

ly, he’s on a team with one of the best records in

the NHL.

“It was a real nice feeling and the together-

ness that these guys have in here in the locker

room that shows up on the ice like that,” he

said. “I’m just trying to soak it all in and enjoy it

and work as hard as all the other guys.”

Hakanpaa blasted in a shot with 11:05 left af-

ter receiving the puck when Vincent Trocheck

won a face-off.

“He put it on a silver platter for me so I was

trying to get it on net,” Hakanpaa said.

Hakanpaa didn’t have a goal in any of his 42

games with Anaheim this season. This tally

marked just his second goal in 49 career games

in the NHL.

Now he has a game-winner with his new

team.

“That’s the best way to feel part of a group,

for sure, when you contribute like that,” Hurri-

canes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “It came

at a great time for us, obviously.”

Jaccob Slavin scored in the first period and

Andrei Svechnikov had an empty-net goal for

the Hurricanes, who completed a season-high

homestand at 5-2-1.

Roman Josi scored for Nashville, which has

lost back-to-back games for the first time in

more than a month. Juuse Saros had 45 saves.

Hurricanes goalie Alex Nedeljkovic stopped

27 shots. He played for the first time since an

April 8 shutout of the Florida Panthers.

“You have to have good practice habits be-

cause that’s what’s going to translate over to

the game,” Nedeljkovic said.

The Hurricanes are 6-0-0 vs. Nashville this

season, with five of the outcomes in regulation.

“We just have to get to playing to our identity

for 60 minutes,” Josi said.

Carolina’s first goal came on its 24th shot on

net in the first period. Morgan Geekie deliver-

ed a pass to Slavin, who was between the cir-

cles.

“To be up after that period was great,” Slavin

said.

Hakanpaa leads Hurricanes past Predators

GERRY BROOME / AP

Carolina Hurricanes right wing AndreiSvechnikov, left, tries to score againstNashville Predators goaltender Juuse Saroswhile defenseman Ben Harpur, right,defends in the Hurricanes’ 31 win Saturday.

BY BOB SUTTON

Associated Press


NBA

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB

Philadelphia 39 17 .696 —

Brooklyn 38 18 .679 1

Boston 31 26 .544 8½

New York 30 27 .526 9½

Toronto 23 34 .404 16½

Southeast Division

W L Pct GB

Atlanta 30 26 .536 —

Miami 28 28 .500 2

Charlotte 27 28 .491 2½

Washington 23 33 .411 7

Orlando 18 38 .321 12

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Milwaukee 35 21 .625 —

Indiana 26 29 .473 8½

Chicago 23 33 .411 12

Cleveland 20 36 .357 15

Detroit 17 40 .298 18½

Western Conference

Southwest Division

W L Pct GB

Dallas 30 25 .545 —

Memphis 29 26 .527 1

San Antonio 27 28 .491 3

New Orleans 25 31 .446 5½

Houston 14 42 .250 16½

Northwest Division

W L Pct GB

Utah 42 15 .737 —

Denver 36 20 .643 5½

Portland 32 23 .582 9

Oklahoma City 20 36 .357 21½

Minnesota 15 42 .263 27

Pacific Division

W L Pct GB

Phoenix 40 16 .714 —

L.A. Clippers 39 19 .672 2

L.A. Lakers 35 22 .614 5½

Golden State 28 29 .491 12½

Sacramento 22 34 .393 18

Saturday’s games

L.A. Lakers 127, Utah 115, OT Chicago 106, Cleveland 96 Washington 121, Detroit 100 Boston 119, Golden State 114 Memphis 128, Milwaukee 115 San Antonio 111, Phoenix 85

Sunday’s games

Indiana at Atlanta New Orleans at New York Brooklyn at Miami Houston at Orlando Oklahoma City at Toronto Portland at Charlotte Sacramento at Dallas Minnesota at L.A. Clippers

Monday’s games

Cleveland at Detroit Chicago at Boston Golden State at Philadelphia Houston at Miami Oklahoma City at Washington Phoenix at Milwaukee San Antonio at Indiana Memphis at Denver Utah at L.A. Lakers

Tuesday’s games

Brooklyn at New Orleans Charlotte at New York Orlando at Atlanta L.A. Clippers at Portland Minnesota at Sacramento

Wednesday’s games

Brooklyn at Toronto Chicago at Cleveland Golden State at Washington Oklahoma City at Indiana Phoenix at Philadelphia Atlanta at New York Utah at Houston Detroit at Dallas Miami at San Antonio Denver at Portland Memphis at L.A. Clippers Minnesota at Sacramento

Leaders

Through Saturday

Scoring

G FG FT PTS AVG

Beal, WAS 47 514 331 1462 31.1

Curry, GS 49 500 271 1521 31.0

Rebounds

G OFF DEF TOT AVG

Capela, ATL 49 230 469 699 14.3

Gobert, UTA 56 191 568 759 13.6

Scoreboard

BOSTON — Jayson Tatum got

into a shootout with Stephen Curry,

and Celtics came out on top.

Tatum scored 44 points — the

second-highest total in his career

— and Kemba Walker made a

three-pointer with 24 seconds left

to help Boston beat the Golden

State Warriors 119-114 on Saturday

night.

“He’s incredible,” Walker said.

“He can score with the best of

them. He’s making the right plays

out there. He was unbelievable. We

needed every bucket he had to-

night.”

Curry scored 47, including a

three-pointer to cut Golden State’s

deficit to two points with 19 sec-

onds left. But he missed a shot from

just inside half court on the War-

riors’ next possession, dooming

their last chance for a win.

The Celtics earned their sixth

straight victory and their eighth in

their last nine.

“It took everything,” said Walk-

er, who scored 26 points and

grabbed his eighth rebound after

Golden State’s last shot and

bounced the ball vigorously in cele-

bration as the clock ran out. “It was

a hard-fought game. We knew it

was going to be tough. These guys

are playing so well. Obviously

they’ve got one of the best players

in the world. He’s incredible.”

Andrew Wiggins scored 22

points and Draymond Green had

10 rebounds for the Warriors, who

had won four in a row and led by as

many as 16 points in the second

quarter before Boston ran off 21 of

the next 23 points to take the lead in

the third.

Wizards 121, Pistons 100:Rus-

sell Westbrook had his 25th triple-

double of the season, Bradley Beal

scored 37 points and host Washing-

ton beat Detroit.

Westbrook finished with 15

points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in

the fourth straight win for the Wiz-

ards (23-33), who continued their

late-season push.

Westbrook has 17 triple-doubles,

10 shy of Oscar Robertson’s record.

Isaiah Stewart and Frank Jack-

son each scored 19 points for the

Pistons. Josh Jackson scored 17 as

Detroit failed in its attempt to win

consecutive games for only the

third time this season.

Grizzlies 125, Bucks 115:

Grayson Allen shot 7-for-10 from

three-point range and scored 26

points to lead six Memphis players

in double figures in a win at Mil-

waukee.

The Grizzlies have beguntheir

longest road trip in two decades by

winning on back-to-back nights.

They started their seven-game

road swing Friday with a 126-115

victory at Chicago.

Dillon Brooks had 21 points for

Memphis. The Grizzlies also got 17

from Jonas Valanciunas, 16 from

Desmond Bane, 15 from Xavier

Tillman and 13 from Ja Morant.

Kyle Anderson had eight points,

eight rebounds and eight assists.

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 28

points, 11 rebounds and eight as-

sists for the Bucks.

Spurs 111, Suns 85: Rudy Gay

scored 19 points, Drew Eubanks

added 13 points and 13 rebounds in

his first start of the season and

short-handed San Antonio had a

surprisingly dominant win at

Phoenix.

The Spurs were playing without

a handful of their main rotation

players, including leading scorer

DeMar DeRozan, but still con-

trolled almost the entire game. The

6-foot-9 Eubanks has had an in-

creased role over the past few

weeks and finished with his second

double-double in the past four

games.

The Suns had their 10-game

home winning streak snapped and

fell to 40-16 for the season. They’re

about to enter a difficult part of

their schedule with 12 of their final

16 games on the road.

Bulls 106, Cavaliers 96: Nikola

Vucevic scored 25 points, Lauri

Markkanen added 16 off the bench

and host Chicago beat Cleveland to

snap a five-game losing streak.

Denzel Valentine had 13 points

off the bench as the Bulls’ reserves

accounted for 45 points.

Chicago was playing for a sec-

ond straight game without All-Star

Zach LaVine, who is in the NBA’s

health and safety protocol and not

with the team.

Colin Sexton and Darius Gar-

land had 22 points apiece as the

Cavaliers dropped their second

straight and fourth in five games.

MICHAEL DWYER / AP

Boston Celtics Tristan Thompson, left, and Marcus Smart defend against the Golden State Warriors’Stephen Curry, who had 47 points in a 119114 loss at Boston on Saturday.

Celtics slip past Warriorsdespite Curry’s 47 points

Associated Press

ROUNDUP

LOS ANGELES — Dennis

Schröder hit the tying basket to

force overtime and finished with

25 points, and the Los Angeles

Lakers held off the Utah Jazz 127-

115 on Saturday in a game be-

tween short-handed teams.

Schröder got by Royce O’Neale

for a layup with 3 seconds remain-

ing to tie it at 110 and force over-

time after the Lakers got out-

scored 28-16 in the fourth.

Andre Drummond added 27

points and Kentavious Caldwell-

Pope had 25 points for Los An-

geles, which blew a 14-point lead

early in the fourth before outscor-

ing the Jazz 17-5 in the extra ses-

sion.

“We clicked on all cylinders

and we didn’t allow adversity to

get us out of our game,” Drum-

mond said. “The chemistry is get-

ting there.”

NBA-leading Utah was without

injured starters Donovan Mitch-

ell, Mike Conley and Rudy Gob-

ert. Mitchell will be out at least a

week with a sprained right ankle

he sustained in a win over Indiana

on Friday night. An MRI showed

there was no structural damage.

Jordan Clarkson led the Jazz

with 27 points against his former

team. Ersan Ilyasova added a sea-

son-high 20 points before fouling

out in overtime and Joe Ingles had

20 points and a career-high-tying

14 assists.

“We’re missing four pretty im-

portant guys,” Ingles said. “For

most of the game, we did a pretty

good job. We were one stop away

from winning the game.”

Injured Lakers superstars An-

thony Davis and LeBron James

watched in street clothes. But the

team had new addition Drum-

mond and Markieff Morris back

in the lineup, along with Kyle

Kuzma and Schröder. All four had

been dealing with various ail-

ments.

Lakers stopNBA leadingJazz in OT

BY BETH HARRIS

Associated Press

MARK J. TERRILL / AP

Utah Jazz forward GeorgesNiang, left, shoots past LosAngeles Lakers forward KyleKuzma during the Lakers’127125 overtime win Saturdayin Los Angeles.


SPORTS BRIEFS/NFL

overall pick JaMarcus Russell af-

ter his third season in the NFL. But

moves like it are happening more

frequently, with the Cardinals

trading away 2018 first-rounder

(No. 10) Josh Rosen after one sea-

son in order to take Kyler Murray

first overall in 2019.

In all, four of

the five quarter-

backs taken with

top five picks

from 2016-18

changed teams

this offseason.

Darnold was one

of three to get

traded, joining

the top two picks

in the 2016 draft:

No. 1 selection

Goff dealt from

the Rams to De-

troit for 2009 top

pick Stafford,

and No. 2 choice

Wentz from Phi-

ladelphia to Indi-

anapolis. Trubisky, the third over-

all pick by Chicago in 2017, was

signed as a free agent to be a back-

up in Buffalo to Josh Allen. Only

2018 No. 1 pick Baker Mayfield re-

mains with his original team as he

enters his fourth season with Cle-

veland.

“It’s really unprecedented,

what’s happening with possible

franchise guys that are moving,”

Rams coach Sean McVay said.

Later this month. several more

teams will hope they found their

franchise guy, with Jacksonville,

the Jets and San Francisco all ex-

pected to take quarterbacks with

the first three picks on Aug. 29,

something that has happened only

twice (1971, 1999) in the common

draft era. Clemson’s Trevor Law-

rence is expected to go first to the

Jaguars, then Wilson as the re-

placement for Darnold at No. 2.

If that happens, the Niners

would have their choice of Ohio

State’s Justin Fields, Alabama’s

Mac Jones and North Dakota

State’s Trey Lance, with the other

two potentially going later in the

top 10 to teams like Atlanta, De-

troit or Denver. And don’t forget

another quarterback-needy team

willing to trade up such as New

England, Washington or Chicago.

San Francisco made the big

move because of the desire to find

one of the handful of quarterbacks

that can turn a good team into a

Super Bowl contender on an an-

nual basis.

“It’s a risk every single year you

go into an NFL season without one

of those top five guys,” said coach

Kyle Shanahan, who traded the

No. 12 pick and two future first-

round choices to move up to No. 3.

“It’s very tough to win in this

league and there’s only a few

quarterbacks that you’re going to

win because of just the quarter-

back. Very few, and even those

guys still need a good team around

them. You’ve got to take risks.

This is a risk we were willing to

take.”

Shanahan lost a Super Bowl fol-

lowing the 2019 season to one of

those quarterbacks as Patrick Ma-

homes led a fourth-quarter come-

back to deliver the Chiefs the title.

Mahomes is by far the most suc-

cessful of the 22 quarterbacks tak-

en in the top 10 of the past 10

drafts, a rate that is double what it

had been in the common draft era.

The change came following the

2011 CBA that implemented a roo-

kie wage scale, which increased

the value of quarterbacks on roo-

kie contracts. This will be the sev-

enth straight season with multiple

QBs going in the top 10, more than

doubling the previous longest

streak in the common draft era of

three years.

The hit rate on those quarter-

backs hasn’t been extremely high,

however, with none of the 11

picked from 2011-16 still on the

team making that selection; two of

them picked in the past four drafts

— Trubisky and Rosen — already

are gone.

Some of those QBs who have

moved on had some level of suc-

cess, with 2011 No. 1 overall selec-

tion Cam Newton winning an

MVP and taking Carolina to the

Super Bowl. And 2012 top pick An-

drew Luck putting together a sus-

tained stretch of success before an

early retirement in 2019 due to in-

juries.

Others who are still on their cur-

rent teams have shown promise,

with Allen leading Buffalo to the

AFC title game last season, May-

field winning Cleveland’s first

playoff game in 26 years, and

Murray and Offensive Rookie of

the Year Justin Herbert showing

flashes of stardom.

For others such 2020 top 5 picks

Joe Burrow and Tua Tagovailoa,

or 2019 first-rounder Daniel

Jones, it might still be too early to

judge.

Others never reached their lofty

expectations with the teams that

drafted them whether because of

injuries (Robert Griffin III) or

poor play (Trubisky, Blake Bor-

tles and Blaine Gabbert).

For 2012 No. 8 pick Ryan Tanne-

hill, it took changing teams from

Miami to Tennessee for him to live

up to his billing, something the

Panthers hope will be replicated

with Darnold.

“I think in this offense ..., with

the weapons we have around him,

that he can take that next step with

us,” GM Scott Fitterer said.

If not, the Panthers could soon

be looking for a replacement in the

top 10 of the draft.

Teams: QB movement ‘unprecedented’FROM PAGE 24

RICK BOWMER / AP

BYU quarterback Zach Wilson could be an option at No.2 for the NewYork Jets as they look to replace former 2018 No. 3 overall selectionSam Bradford, who was dealt to Carolina this offseason.

Jones

Fields

LONDON — A group of elite

clubs split European soccer on

Sunday with plans to walk away

from the Champions League to

create a breakaway competition,

drawing an angry response and

the threat of legal action from UE-

FA.

The move to walk away from the

existing structures in an apparent

grab for more money and power

includes Real Madrid, Barcelona,

the American owners of Liverpool

and Manchester United, Juventus

and AC Milan. No German or

French clubs have signed up.

The Super League plans, which

were first leaked in January, have

escalated into a greater threat to

implement them on the eve of UE-

FA’s planned announcement of a

new format for the Champions

League. While the long-standing

existing competition that grew

from the European Cup would in-

crease to 36 teams and add more

games as desired by the wealth-

iest clubs, they remained frustrat-

ed that UEFA would not grant

more control of the sale of televi-

sion and commercial rights.

Still, the European Club Associ-

ation’s board, which is led by Ju-

ventus chairman Andrea Agnelli,

and the UEFA clubs’ competitions

committee on Friday had signed

up to expanding the Champions

League from 2024 ahead of ratifi-

cation by the UEFA executive

committee on Monday.

Now UEFA has announced it

has “learned that a few English,

Spanish and Italian clubs may be

planning to announce their cre-

ation of a closed, so-called Super

League.” The plan was called a

“cynical project, a project that is

founded on the self-interest of a

few clubs” in a statement from

UEFA jointly with the leagues and

national governing bodies from

England, Spain and Italy.

The creation of a 20-team an-

nual competition would include 15

top clubs as permanent members

based on plans seen in January by

the AP. The five other teams

would vary each season, although

the qualification method has not

been determined.

The competition would begin

with two groups of 10 teams, with

the top four from each group ad-

vancing to the quarterfinals.

The games — apart from the fi-

nal — would be played in midweek

like the current Champions

League, allowing them to still play

in domestic competitions.

Yankees’ Bruce to retire

after Sunday’s gameNEW YORK — Jay Bruce had

seen enough. Having made the

New York Yankees’ opening-day

roster, he couldn’t stomach his

poor start to the season.

So the three-time All-Star out-

fielder decided to retire at age 34

after Sunday’s game against Tam-

pa Bay.

“Just the consistent underper-

formance for me,” he said. “Felt

like I wasn’t able to do it at a level

that was acceptable for myself.”

Bruce informed Yankees man-

ager Aaron Boone of his decision

during a 20-minute meeting in the

manager’s office on Friday, then

made a public announcement be-

fore Sunday’s game.

In other MLB news:

■ The Washington Nationals

placed right-handed pitcher Ste-

phen Strasburg on the 10-day in-

jured list Sunday because of right

shoulder inflammation.

The 2019 World Series MVP

was set to start against the Arizona

Diamondbacks.

“We shut him down, put him on

the IL,” manager Dave Martinez

said.

JON SUPER / AP

Players from Liverpool and real Madrid react at the end of theChampions League quarterfinal match on April 14. Both teams areamong those reported to be forming a rival league.

BRIEFLY

Euro clubs planrival soccer league

Associated Press


MLB

American League

East Division

W L Pct GB

Boston 10 4 .714 _

Baltimore 7 8 .467 3½

Tampa Bay 7 8 .467 3½

Toronto 7 8 .467 3½

New York 5 9 .357 5

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Kansas City 8 5 .615 _

Cleveland 7 7 .500 1½

Chicago 6 8 .429 2½

Minnesota 6 8 .429 2½

Detroit 6 9 .400 3

West Division

W L Pct GB

Los Angeles 8 5 .615 _

Seattle 9 6 .600 _

Oakland 8 7 .533 1

Houston 7 7 .500 1½

Texas 6 9 .400 3

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GB

New York 6 4 .600 _

Miami 7 7 .500 1

Philadelphia 7 7 .500 1

Washington 5 7 .417 2

Atlanta 6 9 .400 2½

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Cincinnati 9 5 .643 _

Milwaukee 8 6 .571 1

St. Louis 7 7 .500 2

Chicago 6 8 .429 3

Pittsburgh 6 9 .400 3½

West Division

W L Pct GB

Los Angeles 13 2 .867 _

San Francisco 8 6 .571 4½

San Diego 9 7 .563 4½

Arizona 5 10 .333 8

Colorado 4 11 .267 9

Friday’s games

Cincinnati 10, Cleveland 3Tampa Bay 8, N.Y. Yankees 2Baltimore 5, Texas 2Oakland 3, Detroit 0L.A. Angels 10, Minnesota 3Seattle 6, Houston 5Toronto at Kansas City, ppd.Chicago White Sox at Boston, ppd.Atlanta 5, Chicago Cubs 2Philadelphia 9, St. Louis 2Miami 4, San Francisco 1Washington 1, Arizona 0Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 1L.A. Dodgers 11, San Diego 6, 12 inningsN.Y. Mets at Colorado, ppd.

Saturday’s games

Toronto 5, Kansas City 1, 1st game, Kan-sas City 3, Toronto 2, 2nd game

Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Yankees 3Oakland 7, Detroit 0Cincinnati 3, Cleveland 2, 10 inningsBoston 7, Chicago White Sox 4Baltimore 6, Texas 1Houston 1, Seattle 0Minnesota at L.A. Angels, ppd.Chicago Cubs 13, Atlanta 4N.Y. Mets 4, Colorado 3, 1st game, Col-

orado 7, N.Y. Mets 2, 2nd gameSt. Louis 9, Philadelphia 4Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 1Miami 7, San Francisco 6, 10 inningsL.A. Dodgers 2, San Diego 0Washington 6, Arizona 2

Sunday’s games

Tampa Bay at N.Y. YankeesChicago White Sox at BostonCleveland at CincinnatiToronto at Kansas CityBaltimore at TexasDetroit at OaklandMinnesota at L.A. Angels, ppd.Houston at SeattleChicago White Sox at BostonArizona at WashingtonSt. Louis at PhiladelphiaSan Francisco at MiamiPittsburgh at MilwaukeeN.Y. Mets at ColoradoL.A. Dodgers at San DiegoAtlanta at Chicago Cubs

Monday’s games

Chicago White Sox (Giolito 1-0) at Bos-ton (Eovaldi 2-1)

Tampa Bay (Fleming 0-1) at Kansas City(Duffy 2-0)

Texas (Arihara 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Bun-dy 0-1)

Minnesota (TBD) at Oakland (Luzardo0-1)

L.A. Dodgers (May 1-0) at Seattle (Mar-gevicius 0-1)

San Francisco (Gausman 0-0) at Phila-delphia (Anderson 0-1)

St. Louis (Flaherty 2-0) at Washington(Ross 1-0)

Milwaukee (Woodruff 0-0) at San Diego(Musgrove 2-1)

Scoreboard

NEW YORK — Sluggish to start their AL title

defense, the Tampa Bay Rays have found their

bearings in the Bronx.

“This venue can motivate you really quick,”

manager Kevin Cash said.

Manuel Margot hit a tiebreaking tworun

homer, Tyler Glasnow overcame cramps and

poor control to pitch five innings of onerun ball

and the Rays held off the struggling New York

Yankees 63 Saturday.

Tampa Bay won its second straight in this se

ries after enduring a 38 stretch, improving to 78

overall. The reigning AL champions are 41

against New York this season and 71 at Yankee

Stadium since the start of 2020. They have won

seven straight series against New York, including

last year’s Division Series, and taken 17 of 22

games since September 2019.

The Yankees dropped to an ALworst 59, the

latest into a season New York has been at the bot

tom of the league since a 917 start in 1991, per

Elias Sports. Fans in the Bronx again booed the

Bombers as they lost their fourth straight, but the

crowd was more restrained a day after some hur

led baseballs and other items on the field late in an

82 loss to the Rays.

“I felt like we were much more in the fight to

day, which is at least a good thing,” New York

manager Aaron Boone said. “But we don’t want

moral victories right now.”

Dodgers 2, Padres 0: Mookie Betts made an

outstanding diving catch and Clayton Kershaw

starred on the mound and at the plate for visiting

Los Angeles.

Kershaw (31) struck out eight while working

six innings of threehit ball. He also drew a bases

loaded walk against Yu Darvish (11) in the fifth,

leading the Dodgers to their eighth straight win.

Justin Turner hit a solo homer in the ninth.

With runners on second and third, Tommy

Pham hit a sinking liner to center that looked as if

it was going to tie the game. But Betts got over for

a terrific diving grab, and then pounded on his

chest in celebration.

Darvish was terrific for San Diego, allowing

one hit in seven innings. He struck out nine and

walked two.

Mets 4, Rockies 3, 1st ; Rockies 7, Mets 2,

2nd:New York pitcher Jacob deGrom struck out

nine straight batters against host Colorado, falling

one shy of matching Tom Seaver’s major league

record, and finished with 14 strikeouts to win the

doubleheader opener.

German Márquez pitched a twohitter for his

second career complete as Colorado won the

nightcap, stopping a sevengame losing streak

and the Mets’ fourgame winning streak. Josh

Fuentes broke open the game with a threerun

homer in the fifth off Jacob Barnes.

Coming off a 14strikeout performance in a 30

loss to Philadelphia, deGrom (10) became just

the ninth pitcher to strike out as many as nine in a

row. New York rallied to win a series opener de

layed a day by snow when pinchhitter Jonathan

Villar hit a tying double off Daniel Bard (01) in

the seventh inning and Dominic Smith had a sac

rifice fly.

Cubs 13, Braves 4: Kris Bryant and Willson

Contreras each homered twice, and host Chicago

won on an afternoon when Atlanta returned Sean

Kazmar Jr. to the major leagues for the first time

in 13 years.

Javier Báez and David Bote also homered for

the Cubs. who stopped a threegame losing

streak.

Kazmar, a 36yearold infielder, pinch hit in the

fifth inning, grounding into a 463 double play.

Kazmar had not played in the major leagues since

Sept. 23, 2008, with the San Diego Padres.

The gap between big league appearances was

the longest since that of righthander Ralph Wine

garner, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Wine

garner played on June 23, 1936, for the Cleveland

Indians and did not return to the majors until July

7, 1949, with the St. Louis Browns — a span of 13

years and 14 days.

Astros 1, Mariners 0: Zack Greinke pitched

eight sharp innings, rookie Taylor Jones drove in

the only run and depleted Houston ended a six

game losing streak and snapped host Seattle’s

threegame winning streak.

Greinke (21) allowed four hits and walked

none. He finished the game with 2,705 career

strikeouts. His teammate, Justin Verlander (18th

at 3,013), and the Washington Nationals’ Max

Scherzer (22nd at 2,808) are the only active play

ers ahead of him on the career list.

Nationals 6, Diamondbacks 2: Yan Gomes

homered off Luke Weaver (11), drove in two runs

and became the first major league catcher to

throw out Tim Locastro on a steal attempt after 29

consecutive swipes to start his career, and host

Washington strung together consecutive wins for

the first time this season.

Erick Fedde (11) tied his career high with nine

strikeouts in five innings for the Nationals.

Blue Jays 5, Royals 1, 1st; Royals 3, Blue Jays

2, 2nd: Steven Matz (30) held host Kansas City

without a hit into the sixth inning, and Jonathan

Davis and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered for vis

iting Toronto in the opener.

Matz allowed only a pair of walks before Nicky

Lopez’s blooper to left with one out in the sixth.

In the nightcap, the Royals followed spotstart

er Ervin Santana with four relief pitchers before

Salvador Perez’s twoout, walkoff homer.

Cardinals 9, Phillies 4: Yadier Molina hit two

home runs, doubled and drove in four runs, and

Nolan Arenado and Paul DeJong also homered

for visiting St. Louis.

The Cardinals won for just the second time in

their past seven games, breaking the game open

with six runs in the third off Matt Moore (01).

Red Sox 7, White Sox 4: Wearing their new

blueandyellow uniforms, host Boston beat Chi

cago when Marwin Gonzalez homered to key a

fourrun rally in the eighth inning.

The uniforms — lacking any red — honor the

Boston Marathon with the colors that stretch

across the finish line of the famous race. The Red

Sox were was the first of seven big league teams

that will don a new City Series look this season.

Athletics 7, Tigers 0:Matt Olson, Aramís Gar

cía and Mark Canha each homered and host Oak

land shut out Detroit for a second straight game

and won its seventh win in a row.

Cole Irvin (12) struck out six, didn’t walk a bat

ter and allowed four hits in six innings to earn his

first victory since joining the A’s.

Reds 3, Indians 2 (10):Josh Naylor lined into a

triple play in the eighth inning, then let a routine

grounder roll through his legs at first base with

two outs in the ninth that led to host Cincinnati’s

tying run before pinchhitter Tyler Stephenson’s

single off Oliver Perez (01) in the 10th won it.

Sonny Gray made his first appearance of the

season for the Reds after being sidelined with a

muscle strain in his back. He gave up two runs

and six hits, striking out six in 4 1⁄�3 innings.

Marlins 7, Giants 6 (10): Jorge Alfaro hit a

gameending, tworun double, and host Miami

rallied from tworun deficits in the ninth and 10th

innings.

San Francisco led 53 before RBI singles in the

ninth by Alfaro and Starling Marte.

Brandon Belt’s runscoring double against Yi

mi García (21) put the Giants ahead 65 in the

10th.

Jazz Chisholm walked with one out in the bot

tom half, joining the the pandemicrules automat

ic runner to give the Marlins two on. Chad Wal

lach flied out, and Alfaro lined a double that

bounced to the leftfield wall.

Orioles 6, Rangers 1: Trey Mancini had a tie

breaking RBI double in the eighth inning for vis

iting Baltimore.

The Orioles got all their runs against three re

lievers after Texas rookie starter Dane Dunning

threw six scoreless innings.

Brewers 7, Pirates 1: Brett Anderson pitched

seven effective innings and host Milwaukee built

a big lead early and breezed past Pittsburgh.

Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a leadoff single in the first

inning and the Brewers went on to score five

times, with every run coming with two outs. Bra

dley, who had three hits, tripled and scored in the

second as Milwaukee made it 70.

ROUNDUP

Rays blast AL-worst YankeesAssociated Press

FRANK FRANKLIN II / AP

Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez, right, reacts as Rays Manuel Margot, center, and AustinMeadows celebrate Margot’s tworun home run in the fourth inning on Saturday.

DID YOU KNOW?

Four of the five QBs taken with top five picks from

2016-18 changed teams this offseason. With three

trades — the Jets sent 2018 No. 3 pick Sam Darnold to

Carolina, Rams’ 2016 top selection Jared Goff to

Detroit for 2009 top pick Matt Stafford, and 2016

No. 2 choice Carson Wentz going from Philly to

Indianapolis — and Mitch Trubisky, third overall

pick by Chicago in 2017, signing as a free agent in

Buffalo, only 2018 No. 1 pick Baker Mayfield

remains with his original team, Cleveland.

SOURCE: Associated Press

SPORTS

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Cellar-dwelling Yanks’ struggles continue ›› MLB, Page 23

One after another, quarterbacks once believed

to be franchise cornerstones after being top

five draft picks changed addresses this off-

season in staggering succession.

Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff were part of a swap

of former No. 1 overall picks. Carson Wentz and Sam

Darnold were traded away by teams that had re-

cently tried to build around those passers.

Mitchell Trubisky had to settle for a backup

contract deal after flaming out in Chicago.

Those were part of a growing pattern

around the league as teams have never

been more willing to use high draft picks

on quarterbacks, and never been quicker

to cut ties when those investments don’t

pay off.

The cycle will continue later this month

when quarterbacks are expected to be

drafted with the top three picks and a

chance that a record five could go in the

top 10 as the lure of a top passer on an

affordable rookie deal is too enticing to

pass up.

The Jets will get back on the rookie

quarterback roller coaster three years

after trading up to take Darnold with

the third pick. With New York holding

the second selection in a quarterback-

heavy draft, general manager Joe Dou-

glas dealt Darnold to Carolina and now

has his eyes on another potential franchise

QB, likely BYU’s Zach Wilson.

“We felt like this was the best decision for

the entire organization moving forward,”

Douglas said, “and hitting the reset but-

ton.”

The resets are coming quicker than

ever, with the Jets’ decision to trade Da-

rold after his third season the quickest a

team has moved on from a top 5 quarter-

back since the Raiders cut 2007 No. 1

Clockwisefrom top: NFLquarterbacksJared Goff,Sam Darnold,Mitch Trubisky, andCarsonWentz.

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