BY JOHN WILKENS

The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — Statues have been toppled. Flags have been lowered. America’s reck-oning with its history of racism has spread across the country and is now casting its eyes toward the sea.

Will the names of Navy ships be next?

Two of them have ties to the Civil War Con-federacy: the guided-missile cruiser Chan-cellorsville, named after a pivotal battle won by the South, and the Maury, a survey ship named after pioneering oceanographer Mat-

thew Fontaine Maury, who resigned from the U.S. Navy to join the Confederate Navy.

Two other ships, the carrier Carl Vinson

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Pathfinder-class survey ship USNS Maury , named after Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, the ‘Father of Modern Oceanography,’ who infamously resigned from the U.S. Navy to join the Confederates. Both the U.S. Senate and House passed defense authorization bills this month that include language calling on the Pentagon to strip its property of ties to the Confederacy — provisions that also apply to ships.LASHAWN SYKES/U.S. Navy

Marines endsearch for 8in CaliforniaAAV accident

Racial justice turnsto Navy ship names

Tides of change

A COMPLICATED HISTORYFor almost 160 years, the Navy mostly refrained from naming anything after a living person. That changed in 1973, when Carl Vinson, an influential Georgia legislator and segregationist, was selected for a carrier. Since then, it’s happened another 20 times. Among the honorees: Civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis, who had a new class of oilers named after him in 2016. The first one, which will also carry his name, is being built in San Diego. Lewis died July 17 at age 80.

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BY JOHN VANDIVER

Stars and Stripes

Eight service members are presumed dead, the Marine Corps said Sunday, as it called off a search and rescue operation three days after an accident off the coast of southern California.

Nine service members — in-cluding the seven missing Ma-rines, one missing sailor and one other Marine — died Thursday after an assault amphibious ve-

hicle sank during train-ing more than a half-mile from San Cle-mente Island, the Marines said.

“It is with a heavy heart, that I decided to conclude the search and rescue effort,” said Col. Christo-pher Bronzi, 15th Marine Expedition-ary Unit com-mander. “The steadfast

dedication of the Marines, sail-ors, and Coast Guardsmen to the persistent rescue effort was tremendous.”

All next-of-kin have been in-formed, the Marines said. The Defense Department has not yet named the Marines involved. The Marines said efforts still are under way to recover the bodies of the troops.

All 15 Marines aboard the ve-hicle at the time were assigned to the 15th Marine Expedition-ary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

The 15th MEU is based at Camp Pendleton.

Search and rescue efforts were supported the Navy and Coast Guard. The assault amphibious vehicle was operating in several hundred feet of water, which is

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‘ It is with a heavy heart that I decided to conclude the search and rescue effort. ’ Col.

Christopher Bronzi

15th MarineExpeditionary

Unit commander

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Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok’s US business BY TALI ARBEL

AND ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Microsoft is in advanced talks to buy the U.S. operations of TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national se-curity and censorship concerns, according to a person familiar with the discussions who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity to the negotiations.

The potential deal would be a victory for both companies, mak-ing Microsoft Corp. a major play-er in the social media arena and providing relief to TikTok and its parent company, Bytedance Ltd., a target of President Donald Trump’s.

Trump said Friday that he would take action as soon as Sat-urday to ban TikTok in the Unit-ed States. Trump’s comments aboard Air Force One came after published reports that the admin-

istration is planning to order Chi-na’s ByteDance to sell TikTok.

Microsoft declined to comment.

TikTok issued a statement Fri-day saying that, “While we do not comment on rumors or specula-tion, we are confident in the long-term success of TikTok.”

On Saturday it posted a short video from its U.S. General Man-ager Vanessa Pappas saying that “We’re not planning on going anywhere.”

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BY COREY DICKSTEIN

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — The Army Nation-al Guard will move most of its brigades under the command of its eight division headquarters, as it reorganizes its fighting formations to give the force more combat power and some soldiers new career op-portunities, officials said.

The Guard move will mark a substantial increase in the number of fully manned di-visions that the Army can deploy, as only the service’s 10 active-duty divisions are now filled out with subordinate units, said Lt. Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the director of the Army National Guard. The increase to 18 complete Army divisions comes at a time when service officials believe a major conflict with a near-peer rival — namely Russia or China — would require the em-ployment of full divisions, he said. For the last two decades, the Army has focused on its smaller brigade combat teams as its pri-mary fighting elements for counterterror-ism operations and deployments focused on assisting the forces of other nations.

“When you look at the [2018] National Defense Strategy and competition among near-peer competitors, peer competitors — that great power competition, there is a potential for large-scale combat operations … [and] it could actually be division level fights,” Hokanson said in an interview Thursday ahead of the Guard’s planned announcement Saturday. “We wanted to make sure that everything that the Army National Guard did was in support of the total Army and the NDS, and one issue was that our divisions are just headquarters they don’t have brigades under them.”

The National Defense Strategy, crafted by former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, guides the Pentagon on future planning, placing the potential for major conflict with rivals China and Russia as the nation’s pri-mary national security threat. For the two decades prior, the military had focused al-most exclusively on fighting transnational terrorist organizations, which the strategy defined as a lesser threat than those posed by nation-state competitors.

The Army National Guard now has eight headquarters elements stationed in Vir-ginia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Kansas, Indiana, California and New York, which are each made up of about 300 or so soldiers. Some have established relation-ships with subordinate units, but none are manned in the way the Regular Army has built its divisions, which boast about 20,000 soldiers.

After studying the formations, Hokan-son found the Army Guard had plenty of brigades and battalions to staff those divi-sions, which would allow the formations to train together and establish critical bonds should they be needed to deploy together into combat.

The actual division alignments have yet to be finalized. Last week, officials notified key lawmakers and stakeholders in the 54 U.S. states and territories that host Army Guard formations about the plans, Guard officials said. They will require governors and other top state leaders to agree to part-nerships with some units falling under the control of headquarters in other states.

But Hokanson said the new alignment will have no impact on the governors’ and state adjutant generals control of the forces assigned to their home states. He also said the National Guard has not asked Con-gress to provide additional funding for the changes.

The plan calls for more brigades to align with other divisions in their general re-gions of the nation.

In one example, Hokanson said New Mexico’s 1-200th Infantry Battalion would become part of the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team based in Washington state, which would become part of the 41st In-fantry Division based in California.

The new alignment, the general said, will actually provide new opportunities for sol-diers serving in units such as the 1-200th, where states have no higher headquarters in a combat unit. Under the reorganiza-tion, a battalion commander or a battalion sergeant major who performed well would have an opportunity for promotions to serve in higher commands within the new division — potentially even becoming a brigade commander or division command of a unit based in another state.

“So, if you’ve got a lieutenant colonel or

sergeant major out there in New Mexico, and one of them is absolutely, potentially the best battalion commander or senior [noncommissioned officer] in the entire division [right now] really wouldn’t mat-ter — there’s no opportunity for them to advance,” Hokanson said. “This would provide us the ability to better manage our talent across the National Guard by pro-viding opportunities to those officers and NCOs that demonstrate the greatest poten-tial and capability — we then give them the potential for opportunities beyond where they might normally get if they just stayed in their [home] state.”

He said he hopes to have all the National Guard divisions established in the coming months and reach initial operating capabil-ity — meaning they have trained enough

together to be certified as minimally effec-tive to deploy and fight as a unit — by Oct. 1, 2021.

Hokanson on Monday will receive a fourth star as he is promoted to the director of the National Guard, making him one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The new plan will then be overseen largely by his replace-ment, Maj. Gen. Jon Jensen, who is now ad-jutant general for Minnesota. Jensen will be promoted to lieutenant general and be-come Army Guard director also Monday.

Like the bigger Army, Hokanson point-ed out the National Guard has been heav-ily used during the last 20 years, at home — where Guard soldiers have respondedto myriad natural disasters, civil unrestand the recent coronavirus pandemic— and abroad, where they have regularly deployed to the Middle East and Afghani-stan. He wants those units to be well-pre-pared for the next kind of fight they couldencounter with a major military power.

“We never want to fight,” he said. “The goal is to prevent conflict.”

But if that fight does come, he wants theArmy Guard soldiers ready to deploy as afull division that has spent time working to-gether, instead of having to piece togethera division at the last minute. He compared it to a basketball team where the playershave spent years playing together as op-posed to a pick-up game where teammatesmight not know one another.

“When you go out on the playgroundand everyone picks players and you justgo versus having a team, and you may only practice once a month and two weeks overthe summer, but over the course of months and years you know your strengths andweaknesses, you’ve worked together and as a team, you would play much better to-gether,” Hokanson said. “That’s what we’re looking at with this.”dickstein.corey@stripes.comTwitter: @CDicksteinDC

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Army National Guard reorganizes its forces

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Michigan Army National Guard soldiers fire an M777 155 mm howitzer as part of a training exercise during Northern Strike 20 at Camp Grayling, Mich. , on July 25 .

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New York Army National Guard soldiers with the 152nd Brigade Engineer Battalion conduct demolition training last month at Fort Drum, N.Y .

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3 soldiers named Europe’s best warriors

Search: Marines halt water operations for assault amphibious vehicles as fleet probed

BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON Stars and Stripes

HOHENFELS, Germany —More than 30 soldiers from Army units across Europe battled it out in marksmanship, land naviga-tion and a ruck march last week to determine the three “best war-riors” in Europe.

The U.S. Army Europe’s Best Warrior Competition tested bat-tlefield and medical skills, endur-ance and fortitude with grueling physical challenges and a written test all crammed into a few short days.

“My favorite part is zeroing the weapons because I love firing,” said Sgt. Jason Sauer. Sauer said that during the competition he had to fire his weapon in order to adjust it, learn public affairs and throw grenades.

Pfc. Griffin Emrick, a combat medic specialist with the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, said he prepared for the event by focusing not just on physical training but also by studying ma-

terial for the written test. “My favorite part of the compe-

tition so far was interacting with the media because it is out of my comfort zone,” said Emrick. “I have never done it before, and I enjoy learning new things.”

This year’s U.S. Army Europe winners are Spc. Justin Rivard, for soldier of the year; Staff Sgt. William Mc Lain, for noncommis-sioned officer of the year; and 1st Lt. Quinn Guiterrez, for officer of the year.

Rivard, Mc Lain and Guiterrez will advance to represent U.S. Army Europe in the Army Best Warrior Competition at Fort Lee, Va.

“It is good to have my soldiers teach me some things because it is that circle leadership we in-still across the Army,” said 1st Lt. Jeffrey Lahn, a health services officer with the 30th Medical Bri-gade who helped soldiers train for the event and also competed.johnson.immanuel@stripes.com Twitter: @Manny_Stripes

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too deep for divers, the Marines said Friday.

“Basically the adjacent assault amphibious vehicles watched it go down and, as I said, 26 tons … the assumption is it went all the way to the bottom,” Lt. Gen. Joseph Osterman, the outgoing commanding general of I Marine Expeditionary Force, said at a Camp Pendleton news confer-ence Friday.

Gen. David Berger, comman-dant of the Marine Corps, during the news briefing said he had di-rected the immediate suspension of water operations for all assault amphibious vehicles as a precau-tion until they determine what caused Thursday’s accident.

Berger also said every assault amphibious vehicle in the fleet was going to be inspected. Oster-man said the Marines have more

than 800 assault amphibious vehicles.

Assault amphibious vehicles are used for storming beaches and have been integral to Marine Corps missions since World War II. The current version of the ve-hicle is nearly 50 years old but has had upgrades over the years. It was supposed to be replaced with a more modern vehicle about a decade ago, plans were canceled because of budget constraints.

The Marines who were aboard the vehicle when it sank were wearing their normal combat gear, which includes body armor, because of the training that they were doing on the island. They were also wearing flotation vests, according to Osterman. Some of the Marines were rescued be-cause they were floating.

San Clemente Island is about 70 miles west of San Diego and hosts communications equip-

ment overseen by the Navy for managing air space, ranges and operating areas, according to the official website for Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facil-ity, San Diego. There are more than a dozen ranges and opera-tional areas within a 60-mile ra-dius of the island, according to the website.

A Marine Expeditionary Unit is comprised of about 2,200 Ma-rines and sailors and broken out into four elements. Its Ground Combat Element has about 1,200 and includes a battalion landing team that consists of light ar-mored reconnaissance vehicles, artillery and assault amphibian vehicles, according to the 15th MEU official website.

Stars and Stripes reporter Caitlin Kenney contributed to this report.vandiver.john@stripes.comTwitter: @john_vandiver

Left: Soldiers from across U.S. Army Europe participate in a medical evacuation exercise .

Right: Staff Sgt. William Mc Lain, an explosive ordnance disposal specialist with the 16th Sustainment Brigade, fires at a range during the Best Warrior Competition in Hohenfels, Germany.

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Soldiers from across U.S. Army Europe participate in a medical evacuation exercise on Tuesday, during the Best Warrior Competition in Hohenfels, Germany.

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and the carrier John C. Stennis, are named after Southern U.S. congressmen who were staunch supporters of the Navy and also backed racial segregation.

Recent media reports said that Navy leaders privately have been discussing what to do about the ships amid a broader Depart-ment of Defense review of names and symbols that honor those who fought to preserve slavery or up-hold white supremacy.

Both the U.S. Senate and House passed $741 billion defense au-thorization bills last month that include language calling on the Pentagon to strip its property of ties to the Confederacy.

The House bill requires the changes to happen within one year, and the Senate bill, three. Negotiators from the two sides will meet to resolve that and other differences.

President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the legislation over the naming issue, calling it a misguided attempt to rewrite history. But both the House and Senate passed their bills with large-enough majorities to over-ride any veto, assuming no votes change during final tallying.

Although most of the attention so far has been on the 10 Army bases that are named after Con-federate officers — including Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas and Fort Ben-ning in Georgia — the bills in-clude provisions that also apply to ships.

If there are name changes, they would join a complicated and sometimes controversial his-tory that dates to America’s early days, when the Continental Con-gress first decided, in 1775, that it wanted a Navy.

“There are periods of time when the Navy stuck resolutely to its rules about how to name ships, and times when it has varied,” said Eric Wertheim, a Washing-ton, D.C., defense consultant and author who specializes in interna-tional naval fleets.

“It is absolutely one of those things inextricably linked to poli-tics, culture and the way people view history at any given time.”

The first ship in the Continental Navy fleet was a nod to the coun-try’s British ties. It was named Alfred, after the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great, according

to a report by the Naval History and Heritage Command.

In 1819, Congress put the sec-retary of the Navy in charge of naming ships, and the responsi-bility has rested there, more or less, ever since.

That legislation also put in place the idea that classes of ships should draw their names from specific categories. One group would be named after U.S. states, another after rivers and a third after major cities and towns. No two currently operating ships could carry the same name.

As years went by and wars went on, the Navy grew, creating more classifications and more naming categories: famous battles, de-ceased combat heroes, fish, birds and Medal of Honor recipients.

None of it has proved immune to human sentimentality, rivalry or political persuasion.

In 1869, a Navy secretary de-cided too many ships were being named for Native Americans and changed several of them to fig-ures from antiquity, such as Me-dusa, Goliath and Atlas.

Naming categories have been bounced around too. Attack sub-marines were named for fish, then cities, then states. Cruisers were named for cities, then states, then battles.

For a long time — almost 160 years — the Navy mostly refrained from naming any-thing after a living person. That changed in 1973, when Vinson, an influential Georgia legislator, got selected for a carrier.

Since then, it’s happened anoth-er 20 times, according to a July 16 report by the Congressional Re-search Service. Among the hon-orees was civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis, who had a new class of oilers named after him in 2016. The first one, which will also carry his name, is being built in San Diego. Lewis died on July 17 at age 80.

Naming decisions become con-troversial for a variety of reasons, but tend to upset traditionalists when established categories get ignored.

“Ship naming has become both political and stupid,” said Norman Polmar, a defense consultant and analyst who has written several articles about the process.

He cited as an example the decision in 2012 to name a lit-toral combat ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congress-

woman who was shot in the head a year earlier at an event in Tuc-son and had just retired to focus on her health.

In giving her that honor, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus applauded her courage while recovering and said, “She inspired the nation with remarkable resiliency and showed the possibilities of the human spirit.”

But, Polmar said, littoral com-bat ships are supposed to be named for regionally important cities and communities. Chang-ing the designations can dilute the meaning, he said.

Similarly, aircraft carriers in recent years have recognized mostly former presidents, along with two members of Congress. In January, the Navy said it would name one for Doris Miller, a Black mess attendant who re-ceived the Navy Cross for firing on Japanese planes during the at-tack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and was killed later in the war when a Japanese torpedo sunk the Lis-come Bay, an escort carrier. He would be the first Black and the first enlisted sailor to have a car-rier named after him.

“Doris Miller stood for ev-erything that is good about our nation,” Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said when he an-nounced the naming. “His story deserves to be remembered and

repeated wherever our people continue the watch today.”

Polmar agrees with the honor, just not the type of ship.

“He is a genuine hero, don’t get me wrong,” he said. “But we name destroyers for heroes. It all feels like we’re just making it up as we go. What are we doing?”

There’s a belief in some mari-time circles that changing the name of a ship is bad luck.

That’s never stopped the Navy.Hundreds of ships acquired

from other military branches or federal agencies over the years have received different moni-kers. During World War II, the names of new ships were regu-larly changed at the last minute to honor other ships recently lost in combat.

In 1971, while the submarine Redfish was under construction, its name was changed to honor late Congressman William H. Bates, a staunch Navy supporter. Adm. Hyman Rickover reported-ly explained the switch this way: “Fish don’t vote.”

In 1982, another submarine, the Corpus Christi, named after the city in Texas, had already launched when religious objec-tions — Corpus Christi is Latin for “body of Christ” — prompted a change to the “City of Corpus Christi.”

“The Navy generally refrains

from renaming its ships once they’ve entered service,” militarywriter Christopher Cavas noted in a recent Defense & AerospaceReport article tied to the currentcontroversy over Confederatelinks. “Politics and social mores certainly play a part in choosingthe names of new ships, and it is not unusual for a ship to be re-named one or more times prior toentering service, but it would be quite unusual for ships to be re-named in service due to changingsensitivities.”

But the sensitivities that are changing this time seem espe-cially potent, fueled by ongoing street protests about racial in-equality and police misconduct.Organizations across the country are reflecting on their histories and their heroes, and adjustingmonuments accordingly.

“We’ve seen throughout his-tory how our views of particularleaders change,” said Wertheim,the consultant and author, point-ing to the up-and-down reputa-tion of Civil War general and laterpresident Ulysses S. Grant as anexample. “Battles we glamorizedin the past, like those against theIndians, are no longer revered.”

He added, “We see things in a different light, and what’s accept-able changes with it. It’s all partof the evolution. That’s how his-tory works.”

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — A sui-cide car bomb and multiple gun-men attacked a prison in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, Afghan officials said, killing at least one person and injuring 20 others.

The gunbattle between Afghan

security forces and insurgents in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangar-har province, was ongoing Sun-day evening, and casualties were likely to rise, according to Attaul-lah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor.

No one claimed responsibility, but both the Taliban and the local

Islamic State group’s affiliate are active in eastern Afghanistan.

Sunday’s attack comes a day after the Afghan intelligence agency said a senior ISIS com-mander was killed by Afghan special forces near Jalalabad.

The Taliban declared a three-day cease-fire starting Friday .

Prison in east Afghanistan attacked

Justice: Many factors have played into Navy ship name decisions throughout history

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The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis steams through the Atlantic Ocean in October.

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BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS Stars and Stripes

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — With coronavirus on the rise again in Japan, 93% of the 8,300 students at Defense Depart-ment schools in mainland Japan will be taught in classrooms when school starts Aug. 24, a district superintendent said Friday.

Administrators with the De-partment of Defense Education Activity Pacific East District held a virtual town hall Friday after-noon to explain their plan to keep those students safe.

“I think that’s very assuring that they have confidence that we know what to do — that we will take care of our students,” Pacific East Superintendent Judy Allen said during the livestreamed town hall.

Families in the school district had the option of sending their children to schools or keeping them home to learn online and avoid exposure to the coronavi-rus. The decision window closed nine hours before the town hall went live.

The district had extended that deadline once, but several par-ents during the town hall asked for more time. They complained, in written comments during the livestream, that the town hall should have come before the deadline, so they could learn more about the environment their children are entering.

Allen said the deadline could

not be extended again because it would affect the ability to start school on time.

“To set up all those procedures and processes, it takes a lot of time,” she said. “We needed to have a cut-off point at some point in time because teachers have to be hired, they have to be put in place, the school has to be set up and we start on the 24th of August.”

The Federal Education Asso-ciation, a Washington, D.C.-based teachers union, recently urged parents to select DODEA’s vir-tual school option, saying that the planned precautions would not keep teachers and students safe from the coronavirus.

Some precautions such as social distancing and regular handwashing were previously publicized, but Allen and others used the town hall to provide fur-ther details.

Desks for students in kinder-garten through third grade will have plastic barriers to curb the virus’ spread, Allen said. Upper grades will not be provided desk guards, because older students “have more self-control,” she said and will rely instead on social distancing.

All students will be required to wear masks when social distanc-ing is not possible. Children do not have to wear masks during recess but will wash their hands before recess and be told to avoid touch-ing each other, Ronald Knight, the community superintendent

based at Yokosuka, said during the live event.

He said cafeteria lunches will be “grab and go,” and suggested students could bring sack lunches “to make sure you have a good, clean lunch to eat.” Glass parti-tions will be also installed in caf-eterias, and custodians will clean the cafeterias after each group of students rotates through.

Some schools will adjust school dismissal schedules differently “so we don’t have as much traf-fic in the hallways,” Knight said. Items that are difficult to clean will be removed from common areas and masks will be required when students and staff are mov-ing through hallways.

Students riding school buses must social distance themselves at bus stops and wear masks while on the bus. Riders will also dis-embark in an order that promotes social distancing, Knight said.

Most sports are canceled, but schools will still offer the low-contact sports of cross country, tennis, cheer and golf this year, Allen said. Other activities, such as dance or outdoor volleyball, may be offered as after-school clubs.

Until the 2020 school year, DODEA offered the virtual op-tion only to high school students; the kindergarten through eighth-grade version “is being designed as we speak,” Allen said. doornbos.caitlin@stripes.com Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

TOKYO — Coronavirus rule breakers will face “quick and ap-propriate action,” the command-er of U.S. Army Garrison Japan said in a video message Thursday after people from the garrison were seen partying in off-limits parts of Tokyo.

“It seems like a few members of our team are starting to lose focus,” Col. Thomas Matelski, who oversees Camp Zama and Sagami General Depot in Kana-gawa prefecture, said in his mes-sage on the garrison’s Facebook page.

U.S. Army Japan, which has been in an elevated health protec-tion status since late February, in-creased its coronavirus risk level to “substantial” Thursday after discovering three new cases in its community. The Army reported five other infections earlier in the week.

Maj. Gen. Viet X. Luong, com-mander of U.S. Army Japan, in his own video message Thursday

cited a “recent spike” in violations of coronavirus restrictions as one reason for returning to Health Protection Condition-Charlie. A record-breaking number of new cases daily in nearby Tokyo was another reason.

Luong did not elaborate on the spike in violations; Matelski omitted details but filled in some gaps in his video address to the garrison.

“Recently we have seen situ-ations with our youth and sol-diers in off-limits party areas in Tokyo,” Matelski said. “Some seem to think that rules are there to be broken. I can assure you that that is not the case.”

Central Tokyo is home to several popular entertainment and night-life districts, including Roppongi, Shinjuku and Shibuya, which are off-limits to U.S. personnel be-cause of coronavirus concerns.

Leadership will take quick ap-propriate action when situations like this occur, Matelski said in his video.

Penalties can range from an immediate 14-day restriction of

movement to action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, early return to the U.S. of depen-dents or being banned from mili-tary facilities in Japan, he said.

“I can’t emphasize how impor-tant individual decisions are and the impact that your decisions have on others in the communi-ty,” he said.

The garrison’s elevated health protection condition means that people who live and work on its facilities are limited to travel-ing in an area that includes most of Kanagawa prefecture, Ya-manashi prefecture and parts of Shizuoka and Tokyo prefectures, U.S. Army Japan spokesman Kevin Krejcarek said in a tele-phone interview Friday.

Those assigned to the garrison should only travel to nearby Yo-kosuka Naval Base, Naval Air Fa-cility Atsugi and Yokota Air Base for official business, he said.

The garrison has also stopped issuing guest passes, Krejcarek added.robson.seth@stripes.comTwitter: @SethRobson1

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — Money laundering is not a good idea, as a South Korean found out when he or she put banknotes in a wash-ing machine to remove possible traces of the coronavirus.

Officials say the loss was considerable.

The person living in Ansan city, near Seoul, placed an unspecified amount of 50,000-won ($42) bills in a washing machine earlier this year. Some of the money was se-riously damaged, and the person reached out to the Bank of Korea to find whether it could be ex-changed for new bills.

Under bank rules on the ex-change of damaged, mutilated and contaminated banknotes, the person was provided with the new currency totaling about $19,320 , the Bank of Korea said in a statement.

Bank official Seo Jee Woun said the number of 50,000-won bills the bank exchanged at half value was 507. She said the bank doesn’t count the number of bills that it cannot exchange because

the damage is too big.She said bank officials didn’t

know exactly how much money the person tried to wash.

She said the loss would still be “considerable.”

How much the central bankshould exchange in a situationlike this depends on how serious-ly banknotes are damaged. Thebank can provide the new cur-rency at face value if damage isminimal, but at half value or not at all if damage is significant.

The amount in question was con-dolence money given by relatives, friends and others during a familyfuneral, according to the bank.

The person has been only iden-tified by their family name Eom.Bank officials gave no further personal information citing pri-vacy law.

How about microwaving money?

According to the bank, another person, surnamed Kim, put billsin a microwave over similar coro-navirus concerns earlier thisyear. The bank exchanged Kim’s damaged money with the newcurrency worth $4,370 . Seo said Kim’s losses were not big.

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Leader calls out soldiers for partying in off-limits areas

S. Korean tries to wash money over virus fears

DODEA in Japan sheds light on safety measures ahead of in-person classes

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South Korean banknotes were damaged after being put in a washing machine in South Korea.

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Stars and Stripes

TOKYO — Japan’s capital recorded 292 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, a sharp drop after three consecutive days of record-breaking numbers.

The same day, the Marine Corps on Okinawa announced 15 new infections linked to a pair of clusters that broke out at Camp Hansen and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma after the Fourth of July weekend.

Cases in Tokyo have been on the rise since a nationwide state of emergency was lifted at the end of May. The city counted an all-time daily high of 472 infec-tions on Saturday, 463 on Friday and 367 on Thursday.

Tokyo now has 13,455 con-firmed coronavirus cases, ac-cording to national broadcaster NHK.

The new Marine cases on Oki-nawa “were previously identified as close contacts of individuals

who tested positive or were re-quired to test to exit [quaran-tine],” according to a Marine Corps statement issued Sunday.

Thirteen are from Camp Hansen; two are from MCAS Futenma.

“These 15 individuals have been in quarantine for over a week and were identified as a result of our policy to test all individuals prior to release from [quarantine] or due to close contact with a known positive,” the statement said.

On Saturday, the Marine Corps announced that eight people — seven from Camp Hansen and one from MCAS Futenma — had tested positive. Also that day, nearby Kadena Air Base an-nounced one new infection.

“This person had no contact with the on- or off-base communi-ty,” an 18th Wing statement said.

Thirteen people in Okinawa’s Marine community recovered from the illness over the week-end, according to the service.

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike issued a warning Saturday in an onlinevideo, urging people to wash theirhands, wear masks and visit busi-nesses that display special city-backed stickers with the image of a rainbow, which indicates goodsocial distancing.

Japan’s coronavirus death toll stood at 1,026 as of Saturday, ac-cording to the Kyodo news agen-cy. No deaths were reported on Sunday. news@stripes.com

Okinawa Marines report 15 new cases as infections ease in Tokyo

Ohio-based Lima Company Marines mark grim anniversary

BY DAN SEWELL

Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Jason Domin-guez vividly remembers his last conversation with David Kreuter, as they were doing an overnight security watch from a rooftop in western Iraq.

Marine Cpl. Dominguez and Sgt. Kreuter usually joked around, but this night 15 years ago was different. Kreuter proud-ly showed him a photo of his 7-week-old son.

“Wow, you’re a father!” Domin-guez exclaimed.

“Yeah, I am,” replied Kreuter, 26, who then talked excitedly about getting to see and hold baby Christian for the first time.

“His priorities in life had just shifted,” recalled Dominguez, who, like the rest of the Lima Company Marines, also looked forward to the end of their tour .

The next day, Aug. 3, Kreuter was among 15 people killed by a roadside bomb near the town of H aditha. Eleven of them were Lima Company Marines.

The Columbus, Ohio-based Re-serve unit was among the hard-

est-hit of the war in Iraq, losing 23 men after 180 deployed in early 2005. They held a reunion in 2015, and another was planned this month but had to be canceled amid coronavirus restrictions.

The first day of the reunion would have included a Marines-only workshop on coping with their painful memories and trauma all these years later, said Bryan Hillberg, a survivor who lives near the village of Waynes-ville in southwest Ohio.

“Some stuff is seared into your brain and some of it is just fuzzy,” said Hillberg, 39.

On Aug. 3, Hillberg’s head and shoulders were out of his amphib-ious assault vehicle as the lance corporal served as gunner for the second vehicle in the convoy, just ahead of the one hit by the bomb.

“When it blew, it shook every-thing,” he said. “I remember look-ing back and it flipped it and split it in a way that with all the dust and everything, the shape looked normal. I looked at my buddy and said ‘Thank God, they missed.’”

He quickly realized he was wrong.

Dominguez was two vehiclesback from the exploded one.

“You saw the orange ball of fireand you just knew,” Dominguezsaid.

It was the final blow of a deadlyweek in that area: Two Lima Com-pany Marines were also killedwhile clearing houses of possibleinsurgents, and six Marine snip-ers were lost when their outposts were overrun by insurgents.

Lima Marines who witnessedthe bombing were invited by their commanders to return totheir base and meet with counsel-ors, Hillberg said. They declined,some saying the World War IIMarines their company tracesroots to wouldn’t have left thebattle on Iwo Jima.

The following few days are thefuzzy ones. One day when theywere clearing houses, Hillbergsuddenly couldn’t go into the nextone. He told his team leader, who directed him to take cover near-by. Soon, tears were rolling down from behind his sunglasses.

“I was just bawling,” Hillbergsaid. “I cried it out … then we justpushed on.”

As school begins, parents see few positive options

BY JEFF AMY

Associated Press

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — John Barrett plans to keep his daugh-ter home from elementary school this year in suburban Atlanta, but he wishes she was going. Molly Ball is sending her teenage sons to school in the same district Monday, but not without feelings of regret.

As the academic year begins in many places across the country this week, parents are faced with the difficult choice of whether to send their children to school or keep them home for remote learning because of the coronavi-rus pandemic. Many are unhappy with either option.

“I definitely think it’s healthy for a child to go back to school,” said Ball, who feels her sons, Wil-liam and Henry, both at River Ridge High School in Georgia’s Cherokee County district, suf-fered through enough instability in the spring. “At the same time, I wish they weren’t going back to school right now. It’s very scary.”

Offering parents choices eases some of the problems facing schools. If some students stay home, that creates more space in buildings and on buses.

But the number of families with a choice has dwindled as the virus’s spread has prompted school districts to scrap in-per-son classes — at least to start the academic year — in cities includ-ing Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington, as well as parts of the South and Midwest where school is starting this week.

President Donald Trump has insisted that schools reopen so students can go back to their classrooms, but the Maryland pri-vate school where his son Barron is enrolled is among those under county orders to stay closed.

Montgomery County Health Officer Dr. Travis Gayles said his order to stay closed for in-person instruction through Oct. 1 and to conduct online classes will only

be reevaluated before Oct. 1 to de-termine whether it should be ex-tended, terminated or amended.

Gayles noted increases in transmission rates for COVID-19 — the disease caused by the virus — in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia, particu-larly in younger age groups.

“Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have based our decisions on science and data,” Gayles said in a release announcing the decision Friday. “At this point, the data does not suggest that in-person instruction is safe for students or teachers.”

Barron, 14, is due to enter ninth grade at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, M d., which is located in Montgomery County. The 2020- 21 school year is slated to begin Sept. 8.

St. Andrews has been prepar-ing for two different options: dis-tance learning or a hybrid model with students learning both on and off campus. The school had planned to make a final decision the week of Aug. 10 .

In Cherokee County, admin-istrators have stuck with plans to offer in-person school five days a week despite pressure from parents and teachers. The countywide district also rejected demands to require masks inside school buildings. The families of about 23% of Cherokee County’s 43,000 students have opted for them to learn remotely.

Parents are not the only ones who are struggling. Districts that offer two modes of instruction create new challenges for teach-ers as well, especially those in smaller districts who are being asked to educate students in per-son and online at the same time.

“The key is going to be the com-plexity, how they handle it,” said Allen Pratt, executive director of the National Rural Education As-sociation. “Is it going to be stan-dards-driven, what students need to move to the next grade level? Is it going to be equal to face-to-face or better than face-to-face?”

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U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Brian Hamilton of Columbus, Ohio, from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment exits after searching a school in Parwana near Haditha, Iraq, in 2005.

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India reports nearly 55K new infections

South Africa hits 500K but president hopeful

Thousands protest in Berlin against restrictions, masks

Associated Press

NEW DELHI — India reported nearly 55,000 new coronavirus cases Sunday and the Philippines recorded another daily high to surpass 100,000 total infections, while Florida braced for a tropi-cal storm that threatened to ham-per anti-disease efforts.

A curfew was imposed on Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, following a spike in infections.

Countries including the United States, India and South Africa are struggling to rein in their first wave of infections while South Korea and others where the dis-ease abated try to avert a second wave as curbs on travel and trade ease.

Governments worldwide have reported 684,075 deaths and 17.8 million cases, according to data gathered by Johns Hopkins University.

India’s 54,735 new cases were down from the previous day’s re-cord 57,118 but raised the total to 1.75 million. The month of July accounted for more than 1.1 mil-lion of those cases.

The major cities of New Delhi and Mumbai might have passed their peaks, said a government expert, Randeep Guleria. Sub-ways, cinemas and other public facilities are closed until Aug. 31.

The Philippines reported 5,032 new cases, raising its total to

103,185, with 2,059 deaths.On Saturday, leaders of Phil-

ippine medical organizations appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to reimpose a lockdown on the capital, Manila. They said the health system was in danger as personnel fall ill or quit due to fear or fatigue.

In Japan, the government re-ported 1,540 new cases, close to Friday’s record of 1,579.

The United States has the world’s biggest number of cases at 4.6 million, or one-quarter of the total, and 154,361 deaths.

In Australia, Premier Daniel Andrews of the southern state of

Victoria announced an 8 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew on Melbourne, a city of 5 million people. Schools statewide are to return to home-based teaching and day care cen-ters were closed.

Andrews said there were seven deaths and 671 new cases since Saturday.

“If we don’t make these chang-es, we’re not going to get throughthis,” Andrews said.

Also Sunday, China and SouthKorea reported more infections but spikes in both countries ap-peared to be trailing off.

China had 49 new confirmedcases, up from the previous day’s 45. Thirty were in Xinjiang in the northwest, where authoritiesare trying to contain an outbreak focused on the regional capital,Urumqi.

Three cases were found in stu-dents who returned from Rus-sia to Wuhan, the southern citywhere the pandemic began in De-cember. Most anti-disease con-trols were lifted after the rulingCommunist Party declared vic-tory over the disease in March.

Hong Kong reported 125 new in-fections as authorities tried to findthe source of its latest outbreak.The Chinese government said ateam of seven virus testing expertswas sent to the city to help.

South Korea reported 30new cases, raising its total to14,366 with 301 deaths, but saidonly eight were acquired in thecountry.

On Saturday, the leader of asecretive Korean church was ar-rested in an investigation intowhether the group hampered the anti-virus response after thou-sands of worshippers were infect-ed in February and March.

BY ANDREW MELDRUM

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has surpassed 500,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, but President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday he sees “promising signs” that the rapid growth of cases has stabilized and that the country’s strained health system is managing to cope.

Health Minister Zwelini Mkh-ize announced 10,107 new cases Saturday night, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 503,290, including 8,153 deaths. South Africa has now tallied more than 50% of all reported coronavirus infections in Africa’s 54 countries.

With a population of about 58 million, South Africa has the fifth-highest number of cases in the world, behind the U.S., Brazil, Russia and India, all countries with significantly higher popu-lations, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Ex-perts say the true toll of the pan-demic worldwide is much higher than confirmed cases, due to lim-ited testing and other reasons.

Ramaphosa, in a letter to the nation on Sunday, said despite the high number of confirmed cases, he sees some positive developments.

“After a rapid rise in infectionsover the last two months, the dailyincrease in infections appears tobe stabilizing,” said Ramaphosa.He said the number of new infec-tions has slowed in the provinces of the Western Cape, which in-cludes Cape Town, the EasternCape and Gauteng, which hoststhe major cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria.

South Africa’s hospitals havebeen stretched to the limit butin most provinces, they are suc-ceeding in providing treatment to COVID-19 patients, he said.

“The health system has so farhad sufficient capacity to copewith the number of admissions,”said Ramaphosa of the hard-hit provinces of Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. Hesaid, however, that in the East-ern Cape several public hospitals were overwhelmed and a special-ist team has been deployed tohelp.

He said his government is work-ing hard with “greatest urgency”to deliver adequate supplies ofpersonal protective equipment toareas where shortages have beenreported. South African authori-ties are also working to root out corruption in the purchase and distribution of medical equip-ment, he said.

BY GEIR MOULSON

Associated Press

BERLIN — Thousands protested Germany’s coronavirus restrictions Saturday in a Berlin dem-onstration marking what organizers called “the end of the pandemic” — a declaration that comes just as authorities are voicing increasing concerns about an uptick in new infections.

With few masks in sight, a dense crowd marched through downtown Berlin from the Brandenburg Gate.

Protesters who came from across the country held up homemade signs with slogans like “Corona, false alarm,” “We are being forced to wear a muz-zle,” “Natural defense instead of vaccination” and “We are the second wave.”

They chanted, “We’re here and we’re loud be-cause we are being robbed of our freedom!”

Police used bullhorns to chide participants to ad-here to social distancing rules and to wear masks, apparently with little success. They tweeted that they drew up a criminal complaint against the ral-ly’s organizer for failing to enforce hygiene rules, then said shortly afterward that the organizer had ended the march.

Police estimated about 17,000 people turned out. The demonstrators were kept apart from counter-protesters, some of whom chanted “Nazis out!”

Protesters continued to a subsequent rally on a boulevard running through the city’s Tiergarten park, which police estimated drew 20,000 people. Police declared that event over as organizers again failed to get demonstrators to wear masks or keep their distance.

Unlike the U.S., Brazil and Britain, Germany’s

government has been praised worldwide for its man-agement of the pandemic. The country’s death toll — just over 9,150 people out of more than 210,670 confirmed virus cases as of Saturday — is five times less than Britain’s, which has a smaller population.

“Thousands of #covidiots are celebrating them-selves in Berlin as ‘the second wave,’ without dis-tancing, without masks,” tweeted Saskia Esken, a co-leader of the Social Democrats, the junior party in Germany’s governing coalition.

“They are not just endangering our health, they are endangering our success against the pandemic and for the revival of the economy, education and society. Irresponsible!”

BIKAS DAS/AP

A couple wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus travel on a two wheeler in Kolkata, India, on Sunday .

MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP

People mostly without face masks attend a demonstration with the slogan “The end of the pandemic — freedom day” — against coronavirus restrictions in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday .

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Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — A flare-up of coronavirus cases in Green-wich is being partly blamed on a series of parties involving young people, whose families are not co-operating with efforts to conduct contact tracing, local officials said.

There were 41 new cases from July 19-25. Barbara Heins, an aide to Greenwich First Select-man Fred Camillo, told the Hart-ford Courant that half of those were individuals aged 10 to 19, mostly teens who attended many of the same parties.

“Many of the individuals they are contacting, including the young people and their families, they are not cooperating,” Heins said.

A Connecticut Department of Public Health spokesman said the agency was aware of the situation in Greenwich and was working with local contact tracers to track how far the virus has spread.

Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, whose private home is in Green-wich, has warned about the pit-falls of young people not social distancing. Several days ago, he and Acting Public Health Com-missioner Dr. Deidre S. Gifford issued a public statement ex-pressing concern about coronavi-rus cases among teens and young adults in Connecticut. Statistics from Connecticut and elsewhere show that 18- to 29-year-olds rep-resent substantial numbers of new COVID-19 infections in re-cent weeks.

Nearly half of all Connecticut residents who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 from July 19 to 25 were under age 30, according to state data.

“I know how frustrating this is for young people because you’ve been sort of quarantined for the last four or five months, and that’s not really the best place to be when you’re 17 years of age,” Lamont said Tuesday. “I’ve got to ask you to be very careful a little bit longer.”

Camillo said his office has been receiving more complaints about residents, especially younger people, having large gatherings, picnics, cookouts and swim par-ties without adhering to social distancing or wearing face masks. He said in his message, “You may be with friends and family but you don’t know who they all have had contact with.”

Alabama CLANTON — An Alabama

school system is using a new cleaning tool to combat the coro-navirus, without having to scrub desks, chairs and chalkboards.

WBRC-TV reports that Chil-ton County School custodians will be armed with 18 backpack decontamination foggers for the 16 school buildings. The custodi-ans will be trained on how to use them this week.

“The foggers are a game chang-er as far as sanitizing,” Chilton

County School Maintenance Di-rector Freddy Smith said. “It’s got a 5-minute COVID kill, that’s what you’re looking at.”

Smith said the foggers usually are used in agriculture farming but are safe to use around stu-dents. He plans for custodians to spray bathrooms, common areas and door handles after every class change.

“Anytime that you take a chem-ical and atomize it out of a fogger, it’s more effective and doesn’t take near as much chemical,” Smith said.

The school system bought the foggers at $500 each using fed-eral coronavirus aid dollars.

Arizona WINDOW ROCK — Lawmak-

ers on the Navajo Nation have ap-proved a massive spending bill to respond to the coronavirus pandemic that includes money for water projects, power lines, broadband and casino employees who have been laid off.

The Navajo Nation Council passed the nearly $651 million in spending late Friday after dis-cussing it for more than 28 hours in a special session over three days. The money comes from the Navajo Nation’s share of $8 billion federal coronavirus relief fund-ing that was set aside for tribes.

“This was a collective effort that brought to the service all the underlying, systemic chal-lenges like lack of running water and access to electricity that are common throughout the Navajo Nation,” council Speaker Seth Damon said Saturday. “This legislation begins to directly ad-dress those obstacles we face, as Navajo people, in protecting the health of our own homes and communities.”

Navajo President Jonathan Nez has 10 days to act on the measure once it reaches him. It’s unclear whether he’ll keep the legisla-tion intact. Many of his proposals are reflected in the bill but not in the exact amounts he outlined to lawmakers.

Florida FORT LAUDERDALE — Par-

ents hoping to send their children to an actual school campus this fall may have to shell out money for a private school.

Despite pressure from the state and federal governments to open their campuses for the new year, most South Florida public schools plan to start off online only due to the continued surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths in South Flori-da. A few charter schools plan to offer in-person instruction, but most say they will begin online until conditions improve.

For private schools, it’s a differ-ent story.

“Most of the private schools we’ve heard from or about in recent weeks said they were planning to open for in-person learning at the beginning of the school year,” said Ron Matus, di-

rector of policy and public affairs for Step Up For Students, which offers scholarships for private school tuition.

Matus said applications in South Florida during the past month are up by a third. This comes as Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade school districts have each an-nounced they planned to offer all or most of their instruction online for at least the first few weeks of school.

Some large private schools planning to open in South Flori-da are Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, American Heritage in Plantation and Delray Beach, North Bro-ward Preparatory School in Co-conut Creek, St. Andrews School in Boca Raton, Cardinal Gibbons High in Fort Lauderdale and Saint John Paul II High in Boca Raton. They also plan to offer online op-tions for parents who aren’t ready for their children to return.

Georgia ATLANTA — COVID-19

spread quickly among unmasked youth at YMCA camp, the CDC finds.

About 260 cases of the corona-virus have been tied to attend-ees and staff at a North Georgia YMCA children’s camp in June, according to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the largest known superspread-ing events in the state.

The report details how COVID-19 spread rapidly among children and teens within the camp and raises questions about the effec-tiveness of safety protocols as school districts and colleges con-template reopening for in-person instruction this fall.

YMCA Camp High Harbour, identified in the report as Camp A, suffered an outbreak at its Lake Burton location in late June. As of July 10, about 85 cases of the virus had been linked to the camp, The Atlanta Journal-Con-stitution previously reported, a figure that has since tripled.

The CDC study of 597 campers and staff from Georgia found the camp did not follow its guidance to require campers wear masks, though staff did.

Three-quarters of the 344 at-tendees and staff for whom the CDC was able to obtain test re-sults tested positive for the virus.

Guam HAGATNA — The University

of Guam has announced that it will offer most courses online for the upcoming semester to limit the spread of COVID-19 because of surges in case numbers.

“In certain cases, limited-contact hybrid courses will be available and, only when it is absolutely required, face-to-face classes will be offered,” univer-sity Senior Vice President Anita Enriquez said.

The semester is scheduled to start Aug. 18 and the first day of classes is the following day.

The university implemented enrollment caps for online class-es and will continue standardized courses through Moodle, a free learning management system, the Pacific Daily News report-ed. Virtual tutoring will also be provided.

Students will also be able to choose pass, credit or no credit grading options instead of tradi-tional grading.

Lab-based courses and some graduate courses requiring stu-dents to meet with a team or com-plete research in their respective fields will be allowed.

Montana HELENA — Montana set aside

$50 million in federal coronavi-rus relief funding to help people make their rent or mortgage payments during the economic upheaval caused by coronavi-rus. But through the end of July the program has paid out just over $1.2 million, about 2.4% of the available funds, state figures show.

So far, about 750 Montana resi-dents have submitted valid appli-cations for the funding, a fraction of the 131,000 who have applied for unemployment at some point since mid-March as the pandem-ic ravaged the global economy.

Officials can’t pinpoint exactly why the program isn’t being used more, though Montana Depart-ment of Commerce spokeswoman

Emilie Ritter Saunders said one ofthe holdups is that a few landlords are not providing information the state needs to process the claims.John Sinrud, a lobbyist for the Montana Landlords Association,countered that some tenants whocould use the help aren’t seekingthe assistance, and that state poli-cies put up roadblocks.

The limited participation in theprogram has led Gov. Steve Bull-ock’s office to craft new plans tomake people aware of the money while also acknowledging it might need to reallocate the funds toother programs.

Montana is cautious about shift-ing the funds too soon because it’s bracing for an increased needwith the end of the $600 weeklyboost in unemployment benefits from the U.S. government and theexpiration of a federal moratori-um on evictions, the governor’soffice said.

New Hampshire CONCORD — The New Hamp-

shire Fish and Game Department says the coronavirus pandemicis contributing to an increase in problems with bears.

Bear project leader AndrewTimmins says complaints haveincreased in part because dryweather in spring and early sum-mer reduced natural food sources for bears, driving them into resi-dential areas. But the pandemicalso is playing a role in severalways: More people are stayinghome, which means more gar-bage bins full of food waste toattract bears. And bird watcherskept their feeders up longer intothe summer.

Timmins is reminding resi-dents to secure trash receptacles and garbage cans, take down birdfeeders and stop leaving pet foodoutside at night.

“Bears have an extremely acute sense of smell and long memories,so we really need the cooperationof residents and visitors this sum-mer and fall to prevent bears from returning to locations where they previously found food,“ he said. “Bears are much better off in thewild, and we need to do our partto not entice them near people with food attractants.”

VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP

Flare-up in cases traced back to young partygoers

MIGUEL ROBERTS, THE BROWNSVILLE (TEXAS) HERALD/AP

Tito’s Handmade Vodka, made in Austin, Texas, was at Brownsville, Texas, Sports Park on Saturday, to distribute hand cleanser sanitizer made by Tito’s to thousands of Brownsville residents to help fight the spread of COVID-19.

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NATION

Weakened Tropical Storm Isaias hits Fla.

Portland police declare protest unlawful assembly

Toddler orphaned by El Paso shooting grows up in shadow of virus

BY TAMARA LUSH AND DANICA COTO

Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Bands of heavy rain from Isaias lashed Florida’s east coast Sun-day while officials dealing with surging cases of the coronavirus kept a close watch on the weak-ened tropical storm.

Isaias was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm Saturday afternoon but was still expected to bring heavy rain and flooding as it crawled just off Florida’s Atlantic coast.

“Don’t be fooled by the down-grade,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSan-tis warned at a news conference after the storm — pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs — spent hours roughing up the Bahamas.

Upper-level winds took much of the strength out of Isaias, said Stacy Stewart, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurri-cane Center in Miami. The storm also slowed down considerably.

“We were expecting a hur-ricane to develop and it didn’t,” Stewart said Sunday. “It’s a tale of two storms. If you live on the west side of the storm, you didn’t get much. If you live east of the storm, there’s a lot of nasty weather there.”

Florida is on the west side of Isaias.

Authorities closed beaches, parks and virus testing sites, lashing signs to palm trees so they wouldn’t blow away. De-Santis said the state is anticipat-ing power outages and asked residents to have a week’s supply of water, food and medicine on hand. Officials wrestled with how to prepare shelters where people

can seek refuge from the storm if necessary, while also safely social distancing to prevent the spread of the virus.

Isaias put another burden on communities already hit by other storms and sickness.

In Palm Beach County, about 150 people were in shelters, said emergency management spokes-

woman Lisa De La Rionda. The county has a voluntary evacua-tion order for those living in mo-bile or manufactured homes, or those who feel their home can’t withstand winds.

“We don’t anticipate many more evacuations,” she said, adding that the evacuees are physically distant from each other and are

wearing masks, due to the virus.In Indian River County, north

of West Palm Beach, Fl a., emer-gency shelters were clearing outSunday after Isaias was down-graded to a tropical storm.

Officials told TCPalm news-papers that 38 people registeredat three schools used as shelters.Those areas now must be cleanedto ensure no traces of the coro-navirus remain as teachers and staff report Monday to preparefor the upcoming school year.

No one checked in with COVID-19 symptoms. Temperature checks were done at the door, of-ficials said, and isolation rooms were designated in case anyone came in with symptoms.

The storm’s maximum sus-tained winds declined steadily throughout Saturday, and wereat 65 mph at 11 a.m. EDT Sun-day, the U.S. National HurricaneCenter said. The storm’s centerwas located about 55 miles east-southeast of Fort Pierce, Fl a.

The center of the storm was forecast to travel near the state’seastern coast throughout the day, and fluctuations in strength arepossible into Tuesday, forecasterssaid.

Heavy rain, flooding and highwinds could batter much of the East Coast this week as the sys-tem is forecast to track up or justoff the Atlantic seaboard.

BY SARA CLINE

Associated Press

The Portland Police Bureau declared an unlawful assembly Saturday night when people gathered outside a police precinct in Oregon’s largest city and threw bottles towards officers, police said.

Until that point, federal, state and local law enforcement had been seemingly ab-sent from the protests Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The demonstrations — that for weeks ended with tear gas, fireworks shot towards buildings, federal agents on the street and injuries to protesters and of-ficers — have recently ended with chant-ing and conversations.

Activists and Oregon officials urged people at Saturday night’s protest in Port-land to re center the focus on Black Lives Matter, three days after the Trump admin-istration agreed to reduce the presence of

federal agents.Groups gathered Saturday evening in

various areas around downtown Portland to listen to speakers and prepare to march to the Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse.

One of the more popular events, “Re-centering why we are here — BLM,” was hosted by the NAACP. Speakers included activists as well as Oregon Sen. Jeff Merk-ley and Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty.

Merkley and Hardesty spoke about poli-cies they are putting forward, including to cut police funding and restrict chokeholds.

“The next thing we need you to do is vote like your life depends on it, because guess what, it does,” Hardesty said.

For the first time since the presence of federal agents in Portland diminished, law enforcement and protesters noticeably clashed Saturday night.

As one group of protesters gathered out-side the courthouse another marched to a precinct for the Multnomah County Sher-iff’s Office and Portland Police Bureau.

Police stated that protesters threw glass bottles and directed lasers at officers. Just

before 10 p.m., Portland police declaredan unlawful assembly and told people to disperse or they may be subject to use offorce or be arrested. Police could be seencharging, multiple times, at protesters in the area.

BY MORGAN LEE

Associated Press

An infant boy who survived a shooting last year that left his parents and 21 others dead now likes to thumb through picture books and dance to a Batman jin-gle with his grandmother, accord-ing to an uncle who helps care for the 1-year-old.

It will be years before Paul An-chondo learns what happened to his parents in an event that many El Paso residents still struggle to comprehend, Tito Anchondo said. Anchondo’s brother, Andre, and sister-in-law, Jordan, died in the shooting at a Walmart store.

“We’ve been putting collections together of my brother’s photos, his accomplishments, basically

trying to get as much information that we can and save it for” the boy, Gilbert said. “When he does get to that age, we can tell him, ‘You know what, like, this is what happened to your dad. ... Some-thing horrible happened to your mom and dad. But, you know, we’re still here.’ ”

Authorities say Jordan Anchon-do shielded the baby from gun-

fire, while her husband shielded them both. Paul suffered broken fingers and became the focus of public adulation as a seem-ingly miraculous survivor of the horror.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump vis-ited Paul in the hospital. His first birthday, during the coronavi-rus pandemic, was attended by

a drive-by caravan of cars and motorcycles.

Tito Anchondo said “baby Paul” won’t attend a series of events as-sociated with the anniversary ofthe Aug. 3, 2019, shooting becauseof concerns about the spread ofCOVID-19. Paul’s paternal grand-mother has health conditions that could make her extra vulnerableto the virus.

NOAH BERGER/AP

A Department of Homeland Security officer emerges from the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse after demonstrators lit a fire on Sunday in Portland, Ore.

WILFREDO LEE/AP

Beachgoers watch waves churned up by Tropical Storm Isaias near Jaycee Beach Park on Sunday in Vero Beach, Fla.

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NATION

BY JONATHAN LEMIRE AND ZEKE MILLER

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It’s getting late early.

President Donald Trump is privately reassuring Republicans anxious about his deficits to Dem-ocrat Joe Biden, noting there are three months until Election Day and reminding them of the late-breaking events that propelled his 2016 comeback.

But four years later, the dy-namics are very different.

Aides are increasingly wor-ried that the 2020 campaign may already be defined as a referen-dum on Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and will feature a historic shift to remote and early vote options. The presi-dent’s campaign is scrambling for a reset, pausing advertisements while struggling to find both a co-hesive message and a way to safe-ly put the president on the road in front of voters.

Trump added to the tumult by publicly wondering if the election should be delayed while making the unfounded claim that the tilt toward mail-in balloting would lead to widespread voter fraud. That suggestion drew a rare re-buke from Republicans, many of whom quietly warned the White House that it could be interpreted as an admission that the president was losing and could hurt their

chances of retaining the Senate.And they warned that time is

running out: The first state to hold early voting, the vital battle-ground of North Carolina, begins the process Sept. 4.

“He’s losing and the trajec-tory of the race is moving away from him,” said Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser on Republican John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and an opponent of Trump’s reelection. “People vote at a moment in time: Even if there is something of a political recov-ery for the president in October, that is irrelevant for those who already voted.”

A sudden halt in Trump’s ex-pensive television advertisements last week highlighted the cam-paign’s challenge. It came just two weeks after a staffing shake-up and two months after Trump’s previous campaign manager un-leashed a “Death Star” ad blitz on Biden that only coincided with the president’s support falling even further.

The campaign downplayed the ad pause, saying that the new campaign manager, Bill St-epien, wanted to analyze when and where Trump’s advertising message was being delivered. A significant amount of TV ad time has already been reserved from Labor Day until the election, and the campaign said it would reboot its advertising on Monday.

The purchase was made with

an eye on the new electoral cal-endar. The old adage that most of America doesn’t start paying at-tention to a campaign until Labor Day has been tossed aside in a year in which the novel coronavi-rus has killed more than 150,000 people in the U.S. and rewritten the rules of American society.

The new ad campaign will be a national buy but also target states that are among the earliest to vote. Trump campaign officials said the focus in August will be on states where more than half of the ballots will be cast before Election Day.

“The digital countdown clock on the wall may say 90-some days, but we all know the calendar is condensed with early voting,” said campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh.

Still, the Trump campaign has been wavering for weeks.

It has struggled to land effec-tive blows on Biden. Trump and his allies have recently sought to tie Biden to the extreme leftist elements of his party, an uneasy fit for a moderate who has been in the public eye for more than four decades.

The campaign has all but pulled the plug on competing in Michi-gan and, privately, acknowledges deficits in vital battleground states like Florida, Wisconsin and Arizona, though it insists the margins are manageable and smaller than what is reflected in public polling. They also down-played the chances of losing re-liably Republican states, though Trump did make a campaign stop in Texas last week.

BY MATTHEW LEE AND WILL WEISSERT

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Should for-mer Vice President Joe Biden win the White House in Novem-ber, America will likely be in for a foreign policy about-face as Biden reverses, dismantles or severely curtails many of President Don-ald Trump’s most significant and boldest actions.

From the Middle East to Asia, Latin America to Africa and, par-ticularly, Europe, and on issues including trade, terrorism, arms control and immigration, the pre-sumptive Democratic nominee and his advisers have vowed to unleash a tsunami of change in how the U.S. handles itself in the international arena.

With few exceptions, Ameri-cans could expect Biden to re-engage with traditional allies. Where the iconoclastic Trump has used blunt threats and insults to press his case, Biden, a former senator, would be more inclined

to seek common ground.Historically, U.S. foreign policy

hasn’t changed drastically as the presidency shifted between Dem-ocratic and Republican adminis-trations. Allies and adversaries stayed the same and a non-par-tisan diplomatic corps pursued American interests.

That changed with Trump. Under his “America First” policy, he viewed both allies and the for-eign policy establishment with suspicion, while speaking warmly of adversaries like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladi-mir Putin.

But Trump found it hard to make swift changes. Academics often say that American foreign policy is like an aircraft carrier: easy to order a wholesale change of direction from the bridge but far more difficult and time-con-suming to alter course.

Trump saw that when he was unable to extricate the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal for more than year. His well-publicized withdrawals from the Paris

Climate Accord and the World Health Organization won’t actu-ally become final until after the Nov. 3 election, if ever. His de-cision to redeploy thousands of troops from Germany could take years.

Trump’s initial problems may have reflected a lack of govern-mental experience by both him and his top advisers. That cre-ated a steep learning curve that was complicated by their intense distrust of national security institutions.

Biden, with his Senate and White House experience, may be better positioned to deliver on change swiftly.

Biden told reporters Tuesday in Delaware that he knows “how to get things done internationally.”

“I understand the national se-curity and intelligence issues,” he said. “That’s what I’ve done my whole life. Trump has no no-tion of it. None.”

Biden’s campaign also has as-sembled an experienced team of foreign policy advisers: Jake

Sullivan served as deputy assis-tant to President Barack Obama and policy planning director at the State Department. Nicho-las Burns had high-level foreign

policy positions under Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Tony Blinken was deputy secre-tary of state and deputy nationalsecurity adviser to Obama.

BY KEVIN FREKING

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The vote to renominate President Donald Trump is set to be conducted in private later this month, without members of the press present, a spokes-woman for the Republican Na-tional Convention said, citing the coronavirus.

While Trump called off the public components of the convention in Florida last month, citing spiking cases of the virus across the country, 336 delegates are scheduled to gather in Charlotte, N.C. , on Aug. 24 to formally vote to make Trump the GOP stan-dard-bearer once more.

Nominating conventions are traditionally meant to be media bonanzas, as political parties seek to leverage the attention the events draw to spread their message to as many voters as possible. If the GOP decision stands, it will be the first party nominating convention in modern history to be closed to reporters.

“Given the health restric-tions and limitations in place within the state of North Carolina, we are planning for the Charlotte activities to be closed to press Friday, August 21, to Monday, August 24,” a convention spokeswoman said. “We are happy to let you know if this changes, but we are working within the param-eters set before us by state and local guidelines regarding the number of people who can at-tend events.”

Clock is ticking for Trump campaign as early voting nears

EVAN VUCCI/AP

President Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak at a campaign rally June 20 at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla.

ANDREW HARNIK/AP

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event Tuesday at the William “Hicks” Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, Del.

Biden vows foreign policy changes if he wins White House

Renomination of Trump to be held in private

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NATION

Boston Marathon case renews debate over fair treatment

Associated Press

Connie Culp, the recipient of the first partial face transplant in the United States , has died at 57, almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation.

The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery had been performed in 2008, said Saturday that Culp died Wednesday at the Ohio clinic of complications from an infec-

tion unrelated to her transplant.Dr. Frank Papay, who is the

chair of Cleveland Clinic’s der-matology and plastic surgery institute and was part of Culp’s surgical team, called her “an in-credibly brave, vibrant woman and an inspiration to many.

“She was a great pioneer and her decision to undergo a some-times-daunting procedure is an

enduring gift for all of humanity,” Papay said in a statement.

Culp’s husband shot her in the face in 2004 in a failed murder-suicide attempt for which he was imprisoned for seven years. The blast destroyed her nose, shat-tered her cheeks and shut off most of her vision.

Culp underwent 30 operations to try to fix her face. Doctors took

parts of her ribs to make cheek-bones and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had countless skin grafts from her thighs. Still, she was left un-able to eat solid food, breathe on her own, or smell.

In December 2008, Dr. Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors in a 22-hour operation to replace 80% of Culp’s face with bone, mus-

cles, nerves, skin and blood ves-sels from a donor, Anna Kasper. It was the fourth face transplant in the world, though the otherswere not as extensive.

After the operation, her expres-sions were somewhat wooden andher speech was at times difficultto understand, but she could talk,smile, smell and taste her foodonce again.

Recipient of first partial face transplant in the US has died

BY JIM MUSTIANAND WILSON RING

Associated Press

“Boston Strong” remains a “vibrant” rallying cry more than seven years after the marathon bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others, a federal appeals court noted as it threw out the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

But even as the ruling opened old wounds, it raised familiar questions about whether Tsar-naev can receive a fair hearing in the city where the bombs ex-ploded — a community that may now be asked to relive unspeak-able trauma.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that jurors were not adequately screened for bias ahead of Tsarnaev’s 2015 trial, describing media atten-tion in the case as “unrivaled in American legal history.”

The three-judge panel ordered a new penalty phase — this time with more searching questions for prospective jurors — to decide

whether the 27-year-old should be executed.

Tsarnaev “will spend his remaining days locked up in prison,” the judges made clear, “with the only matter remain-ing being whether he will die by execution.”

The Justice Department is ex-pected to appeal. Legal observ-ers predict prosecutors will turn straight to the U.S. Supreme Court without asking for a hearing be-fore the full 1st Circuit. The U.S. government recently resumed federal executions following a 17-year pause and, under President Donald Trump, has pursued capi-tal punishment in an increasing number of cases.

If Friday’s ruling stands, atten-tion will shift to whether an im-partial jury can be impaneled in a city still traumatized by the 2013 attack. Tsarnaev’s defense team may renew its request to transfer the case out of Boston, where they have long contended public opin-ion is immutably slanted.

Calif. wildfire spurs new evacuations Associated Press

BEAUMONT, Calif. — A wild-fire northwest of Palm Springs flared up Saturday, with evacu-ation ordered for thousands of people as firefighters fought the blaze in triple-degree heat.

An unspecified number of homes were in the path of the flames but were not in imminent danger, CalFire captain Fer-nando Herrera told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

The blaze, which began as two adjacent fires, was reported shortly before 5 p.m. Friday in Cherry Valley, an unincorporated area near the city of Beaumont in Riverside County. Flames leapt along brushy ridge tops and came close to homes while some 375 firefighters attacked it from the ground and air, authorities said.

The blaze, dubbed the Apple Fire, doubled in size overnight and is over 18 square miles.

About 7,800 people have been toldto evacuate over 2,500 homes,according to fire officials. Hun-dreds of people in foothill neigh-borhoods north of Beaumont fellunder mandatory evacuationorders.

One home has been destroyed.Herrera said firefighters were having difficulty assessing thedamage because the charredground was too hot to walk on.

RINGO H.W. CHIU/AP

A firefighter battles a brush fire at the Apple Fire in Cherry Valley, Calif., on Saturday .

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Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sat-urday said it detained an Iranian-American leader of a little-known California-based militant opposi-tion group for allegedly planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded more than 200 others.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry also alleged Jamshid Sharmahd of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran planned other attacks around the Islamic Republic amid height-ened tensions between Tehran and the U.S. over its collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

It was unclear how Sharmahd, 65, whom Iran accused of run-ning the opposition group’s Ton-dar militant wing, ended up detained by intelligence officials. The Intelligence Ministry called it a “complex operation,” with-out elaborating. It published a purported picture of Sharmahd, blindfolded, on its website.

The U.S. State Department, which mentioned how Sharmahd

earlier had been targeted for as-sassination in a recent report, acknowledged reports of his detention.

Iranian state television broad-cast a report on Sharmahd’s ar-rest, linking him to the 2008 bombing of the Hosseynieh Seyed al-Shohada Mosque in Shiraz. It also said his group was behind a 2010 bombing at Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s mausoleum in Tehran that wounded several people.

The Intelligence Ministry has not said what charges Sharmahd will face. Prisoners earlier ac-cused in the same attack were sentenced to death and executed.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokes-man Abbas Mousavi reacted to the news by criticizing the U.S. for allowing Sharmahd and oth-ers to live in America.

The U.S. “must be responsible for supporting terrorist groups which are inside of this country and carry out and lead terrorist acts against the Iranian people,” state TV quoted Mousavi as saying.

Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu railed Sunday at swelling protests against his rule, saying they are egged on by a biased media that distorts facts and cheers on the demonstrators.

Netanyahu has faced a wave of protests in recent weeks, with demonstrators calling for the long-serving, indicted leader to resign and panning his handling of the coronavirus crisis. Netan-yahu has painted the protests as dens of “anarchists” and “left-ists“ out to topple “a strong right-wing leader.”

The protests have largely been peaceful. In some cases they have ended with clashes between dem-onstrators and police. In others,

small gangs of Netanyahu sup-porters and individuals affiliated with far-right groups have as-saulted demonstrators.

In a six-minute rant at a meet-

ing of his Cabinet, Netanyahuslammed the media for “inflam-ing” the protests and for misrep-resenting incidents of violenceagainst the protesters.

SEOUL, South Korea — Tor-rential rain pounded most of South Korea over the weekend, leaving six people dead and seven others missing, officials said Sunday.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said the heavy rainfall triggered landslides in dozens of

places, flooded residential areas and roads, and damaged some riverside structures.

The ministry said the six dead people were either buried by mud or destroyed building parts fol-lowing landslides or swept away by swollen waters. Ministry of-ficials said one died on Saturday

and the other five on Sunday, all in the Seoul metropolitan area or the central region.

The Seoul area and the centralregion are expected to continueto receive heavy rain until Mon-day morning.

From The Associated Press

Heavy rain leaves 6 dead, 7 missing in South Korea

Netanyahu says media to blame for protests

ODED BALILTY/AP

Thousands of protesters chant slogans and hold signs during a protest against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his residence Saturday in Jerusalem.

Iran detains leader of Calif.-based group

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carries special meaning for a re-gion that grieved the death of her calf with her.

The southern residents frequent Puget Sound and are struggling to survive. Most pregnancies are not successful. Tahlequah’s baby was the first for the whales in three years. The southern resi-dents have since had two more calves . Both are still alive.

Woman sentenced on animal cruelty charges

MD WESTMIN STER — A Maryland woman

was sentenced to prison for ani-mal cruelty charges after 27 dogs were found dead, and another 27 were discovered in poor condi-tion, inside a home she rented with her husband.

Laura Filler was sentenced to 33 years , with all but seven years suspended, the Carroll County Times reported.

The sentencing comes more than a year after she and her hus-band were arrested following a search of the home by animal con-trol officers. The couple had been operating an unlicensed breeding operation, according to the coun-ty’s state’s attorney office.

Filler’s husband, John J. Rob-erts, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of aggravated animal cruelty in October. He was sentenced to

33 years, with all but 11 years suspended.

Norwegian flag removed over mistaken origins

MI ST. JOHNS — Owners of a Michigan bed and

breakfast removed a Norwegian flag outside of their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who thought that it was a Confederate flag.

Kjersten and Greg Offenecker, owners of The Nordic Pineapple, hung the flag opposite the Ameri-can flag after they moved into the Civil War-era mansion in 2018, the Lansing State Journal reported .

The red flag, with a blue cross superimposed on a white cross, is a nod to Kjersten Offenbecker’s grandfather, who was born in Norway. The Norwegian flag has

the same colors as the Confed-erate flag, but the patterns and symbols are different.

Several community members urged the couple to put the Nor-wegian flag back up, but the Of-fenbeckers say they won’t until they can figure out a way to make sure it is not mistaken for the Confederate flag.

African lion companions euthanized at zoo

CA LOS ANGELES — Two African lions that were

inseparable companions at the Los Angeles Zoo were euthanized due to declining health and age-related illness, officials said.

The male, Hubert, and female, Kalisa, both 21 , had lived at the LA Zoo for six years.

The zoo said in a statement that the lions’ quality of life had

diminished.Alisa Behar, curator of mam-

mals, said the pair had lived lon-ger than most lions do.

The average life expectancy for African lions in the wild is the mid-teens and 17 years in zoos.

Man mauled by grizzly in abandoned barn

MT GREAT FALLS — A Montana man was

hospitalized after being mauled by a grizzly bear in an abandoned barn, officials said.

Teton County Sheriff Keith Van Setten confirmed the attack on Shannun Rammell, 50, of theChoteau area .

Family friend Julie Brantley told the Great Falls Tribune that Rammell was looking for a bear after a neighbor reported seeing grizzly tracks in the area.

The family drove to a nearbyunoccupied farm and saw no signs of the animal until Ram-mell decided to check a barn,Brantley said.

Rammell startled the bear,which threw him up in the air, Brantley said. He suffered bitesand scratch marks on his shoulder and arms that required stitches.

Monday, August 3, 2020

AMERICAN ROUNDUP Man pleads guilty to transporting drugs

KS WICHITA — A Cali-fornia man pleaded

guilty to transporting 9 pounds of fentanyl and 8 pounds of heroin across Kansas on his way to de-livering the drugs in New York.

Mauricio Canas of Bermuda Dunes, Calif., pleaded guilty in a federal court in Wichita to in-terstate transportation in fur-therance of drug trafficking and using a phone in furtherance of drug trafficking, the U.S. attor-ney’s office said. Sentencing is set for Oct. 22.

The drugs were found when Canas was stopped on Aug. 21, 2019, in Thomas County for a traffic violation.

Firefighter delivers baby on 1st overnight shift

CT NEW HAVEN — A Connecticut firefighter

on her first overnight shift de-livered a baby at the home of a family who called for emergency assistance.

When a team from the Guilford Fire Department responded to the call , firefighter and paramed-ic Ashley Vargoshe, 28, handled the delivery of the baby boy, the New Haven Register reported.

Vargoshe, of Madison , started with the Guilford Fire Depart-ment in July, the department said on its website. She is a licensed paramedic and told the newspa-per she was working her first 24 hour shift since starting with the department.

For sale: 36K acres in Adirondacks for $180M

NY LONG LAKE — A 36,000-acre tract of

lakes and forest in the Adiron-dacks is on the market for $180 million.

The tract known as Whitney Park was owned by Saratoga Springs philanthropist and thor-oughbred racing owner Marylou Whitney, who died last year. Her widower, John Hendrickson, told the Wall Street Journal he plans to sell the estate, which includes the great camp Deerlands on Lit-tle Forked Lake near Long Lake.

Environmental groups have urged the state to acquire the land and add it to the permanent-ly protected Forest Preserve.

Orca pregnant again after death of calf

WA SEATTLE — An orca known as Tahlequah,

who raised worldwide concern when she carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles almost two years ago, is pregnant, scientists said.

John Durban, senior scientist of Southall Environmental As-sociates, and Holly Fearnbach, marine mammal research direc-tor for the nonprofit SR3, recently finished recording drone images of the endangered southern resi-dents and discovered pregnan-cies amid the J, K and L pods, The Seattle Times reported.

The pregnancies are not un-usual, but Tahlequah’s pregnancy

The approximate weight in pounds of a quahog that a Rhode Island boy found while clamming with his grandfather. Coo-per Monaco, 11, of Wakefield, R.I., donated the massive mol-lusk, which he found in the Weekapaug section of Westerly, to the University of Rhode Island’s Marine Science Research

Facility in Narragansett, the university said. Though the state Department of En-vironmental Management does not keep quahog records, a typical quahog grows to about 4 inches across, the university said. Monaco’s quahog was 5.75 inches across, and is believed to be one of the largest harvested in state waters.

2.5THE CENSUS

GREG EANS, THE (OWENSBORO, KY.) MESSENGER-INQUIRER/AP

John Montague, left, from Memphis, Tenn., negotiates a price for Nava jo jewelry and late 18th to early 19th century miniature oil paintings on ivory with Robert Hill of Nashville, Tenn., during opening day of the fourth annual American Indian Artifact Show in Owensboro, Ky. The show was the largest in the country this year.

Bargain hunting

From wire reports

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mad Ali, then Cassius Clay, titled “One Night in Miami”; Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s Apple TV+ meteorite documentary “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds”; “Pieces of a Woman,” Kornel Mundruczo’s fam-ily drama with Shia LaBeouf; and Glendyn Ivin’s “Penguin Bloom,” with Naomi Watts.

Some of the films will play first at the much smaller Venice Film Festival the week prior in

September. Toronto will also showcase new work from Mira

Nair, Thomas Vinterberg and Michel Franco.Toronto earlier announced that Spike Lee’s

filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway theatri-cal concert “American Utopia,” an HBO release, will open this year’s festival.

Monday, August 3, 2020

FACES

From wire reports

Actor Bryan Cranston has re-vealed that he contracted COVID-19. Now recovered, Cranston is donating plasma to aid scientific research and is encouraging oth-ers to do so.

In a July 30 Instagram post, the “Breaking Bad” star sought to boost the morale of those suf-fering from the illness.

“About now you’re probably feeling a little tied down, restrict-ing your mobility and like me, you’re tired of this,” he wrote, adding, “Well, I just want to en-courage you to have a little more patience. I was pretty strict in ad-hering to the protocols and still ... I contracted the virus.”

In the post, Cranston said he “was one of the lucky ones” be-cause his symptoms were mild.

“I count my blessings and urge you to keep wearing the damn mask, keep washing your hands, and stay socially distant,” he wrote. “We can prevail — but ONLY if we follow the rules to-gether. Be well — Stay well.”

880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April

Author Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth: The Biography” is coming out April 6, 2021, W.W. Norton & Company announced July 30. Its 880 pages are the finished result of an undertaking that predates not just Roth’s death in 2018, at age 85, but Roth’s retirement from public writing after 2010 and the involvement of Bailey.

Roth’s novels include “Ameri-can Pastoral,” “Portnoy’s Com-plaint” and many other works of classic, contentious fiction, and his dystopian “The Plot Against America,” about a fascist U.S. presidency in the 1940s, was adapted into an HBO series that aired this year. He had been thinking of a book about his life since the 1990s, originally asking University of Connecticut profes-sor Ross Miller to be his biogra-pher . But Roth and Miller, the

nephew of Roth’s friend Arthur Miller, had different ideas for thebook and parted ways in 2009.

Tamar Braxton confirms recent suicide attempt

Tamar Braxton confirmed July30 that she recently attemptedsuicide and blamed the cultureof reality TV for damaging hermental health and pushing her tothe point where she tried to take her own life.

“Over the past 11 years there were promises made to protectand portray my story, with the au-thenticity and honesty I gave,” the singer and reality-TV personality wrote in a long missive posted onsocial media. “I was betrayed, taken advantage of, overworked,and underpaid.”

“Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life!,” which had been set to debut July30 on WeTV, was pushed to a Sept.10 launch date after the singerand reality TV personality was found unconscious by boyfriend David Adefeso in a Los Angeleshotel room on July 16. She was subsequently hospitalized.

Other news

� Conservative author, com-mentator and radio host EricMetaxas is working on a pair of books, including a memoir abouthis youth and conversion to Chris-tianity. Salem Books announced July 30 that Metaxas’ “Fish Outof Water” will be published inFebruary. A second, untitled bookwill be released in fall 2021.

� Filmmaker Alan Parker, one of Britain’s most successful directors whose movies included “Bugsy Malone,” “Midnight Ex-press” and “Evita,” died July 31 in London after a long illness, hisfamily said. He was 76. Parker’sdiverse body of work includes“Fame,” “Mississippi Burning,” “The Commitments” and “Ange-la’s Ashes.” His movies won 10 Academy Awards and 19 BritishAcademy Film Awards.

Los Angeles Times

TV star Ellen DeGeneres fi-nally addressed criticisms of her show’s workplace culture, after months of anonymous complaints piled up from former and current employees who reported experi-encing racism and intimidation.

In a memo sent to the staff of the Warner Bros.-produced talk show, DeGeneres said that she and the studio would immedi-ately take steps to address the is-sues raised. Senior-level staffing changes were expected.

“As we’ve grown exponentially, I’ve not been able to stay on top of everything and relied on others to do their jobs as they knew I’d want them done,” DeGeneres said in the memo viewed by the Los Angeles Times. “Clearly some didn’t. That will now change and I’m committed to ensuring this does not happen again.”

DeGeneres was awarded theMedal of Freedom by PresidentBarack Obama in 2016, acknowl-edging the courage it took to comeout to a national audience as gayin 1997.

“I’m also learning that people who work with me and for me arespeaking on my behalf and mis-representing who I am and thathas to stop,” the comedian said.“As someone who was judged and nearly lost everything for justbeing who I am, I truly under-stand and have deep compassion for those being looked at differ-ently, or treated unfairly, notequal, or — worse — disregarded.To think that any one of you felt that way is awful to me.”

The statement addresses months during which reports have described mistreatment of the show’s crew and a toxicworkplace.

BY MESFIN FEKADU

Associated Press

It’s raining nominations for Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s “Rain on Me” at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, which will present new cat-egories focused on live performances and music videos created at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Gaga and Grande scored nine nominations each, including video of the year for their No. 1 dance hit. “Rain on Me” also is competing for song of the year, best collaboration, best pop, best cinematog-raphy, best visual effects and best choreography.

Billie Eilish and The Weeknd, the second-most-nominated acts with six, are also up for video of the year with “everything i wanted” and “Blind-ing Lights.” Others nominated for the top prize include Taylor Swift’s “The Man,” Future and Drake’s “Life Is Good” and Eminem’s “Godzilla,” which features late rapper Juice WRLD.

The VMAs will air live Aug. 30 from the Bar-clays Center in Brooklyn. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that “the event will follow all safety guidance, including limited or no audience.” This year’s show introduces two new categories reflect-ing the current pandemic times: best music video from home and best quarantine performance.

Grande and Justin Bieber’s No. 1 hit “Stuck with U” will compete for best music video from home along with Drake’s “Toosie Slide,” John Legend’s “Bigger Love,” 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Wildflow-er,” blink-182’s “Happy Days” and twenty one pi-lots’ “Level of Concern,” which topped the Billboard

rock songs chart for seven weeks and features the lyrics, “Will you be my little quarantine?”

R&B duo Chloe x Halle, who have successfully promoted their new album during the pandemic with impressive live performances mostly put on outside their new home, are nominated for best quarantine performance for “Do It” from MTV’s virtual prom “Prom-athon.” Other nominees in-clude Gaga’s “Smile” from the TV special “One World: Together At Home”; Legend’s “#togetherat-home” concert; DJ D-Nice’s “Club MTV presents #DanceTogether”; CNCO’s “MTV Unplugged At Home”; and Post Malone’s tribute to Nirvana.

Protest songs reflecting the Black experience created in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others also earned VMA nominations. R&B star H.E.R.’s “I Can’t Breathe,” Anderson.Paak’s “Lockdown” and Lil Baby’s “The Bigger Picture” all scored nomi-nations in the category of video for good.

Swift will also compete for video for good with her song about sexism, “The Man.” She scored five nominations overall, while Drake, Dua Lipa, J Bal-vin and Bieber earned four nominations apiece.

Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby earned three nods each, including bids for artist of the year. Their competition includes Gaga, Bieber, The Weeknd and Post Malone.

BTS, Harry Styles, Roddy Ricch, Post Malone, Future, Karol G and Doja Cat — who topped the charts this year with her smash “Say So” — also earned three nods each. Through Aug. 23, fans can vote online for VMA winners at mtv/vma/vote.

Cranston reveals he had virus

DeGeneres responds to reports of show’s toxic set

Toronto releases film festival lineup

Gaga, Grande top VMA nomsMTV adds quarantine categories to its awards show

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Inset photos, left to right: The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and sisters Halle and Chloe Bailey of R&B duo Chloe x Halle have received MTV Video Music Award nominations.

BY JAKE COYLE

Associated Press

The Toronto International Film Festival on July 30 unveiled a lineup bearing little in common with its normal barrage of awards contenders and pre-mier fall films, but features the directorial debut of Regina King and the latest documentaries from Frederick Wiseman and Werner Herzog.

Toronto, which is set to run Sept. 10-19, has plot-ted a largely virtual 45th edition due to the pan-demic. In normal years, TIFF is the largest film festival in North America. This year, it has drasti-cally scaled down its plans and scraped together 50 films or TV series from around the world, lean-ing on projects set to debut on streaming services or television this fall.

Some of the notable films include the 90-year-old Wiseman’s “City Hall,” a portrait of Boston’s City Hall; Regina King’s drama about a young Muham-

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BY ALEXANDER S. VINDMAN

Special To The Washington Post

After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian. I made the dif-ficult decision to retire because a

campaign of bullying, intimidation and re-taliation by President Donald Trump and his allies forever limited the progression of my military career.

This experience has been painful, but I am not alone in this ignominious fate. The circumstances of my departure might have been more public, yet they are little differ-ent from those of dozens of other lifelong public servants who have left this adminis-tration with their integrity intact but their careers irreparably harmed.

A year ago, having served the nation in uniform in positions of critical importance, I was on the cusp of a career-topping pro-motion to colonel. A year ago, unknown to me, my concerns over the president’s conduct and the president’s efforts to un-dermine the very foundations of our de-mocracy were precipitating tremors that would ultimately shake loose the facade of good governance and publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration.

At no point in my career or life have I felt our nation’s values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment. Our national government during the past few years has been more reminiscent of the authoritarian regime my family fled more than 40 years ago than that of the country I have devoted my life to serving.

Our citizens are being subjected to the same kinds of attacks tyrants launch against their critics and political opponents. Those who choose loyalty to American values and allegiance to the Constitution over devotion to a mendacious president and his enablers are punished. The president recklessly downplayed the threat of the pandemic even as it swept through our country. The economic collapse that followed highlight-ed the growing income disparities in our society. Millions are grieving the loss of loved ones, and many more have lost their livelihoods while the president publicly be-moans his approval ratings.

There is another way.During my testimony in the House im-

peachment inquiry, I reassured my father, who experienced Soviet authoritarianism firsthand, saying, “Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth.” Despite Trump’s retaliation, I stand by that conviction. Even as I experience the low of ending my military career, I have also experienced the loving support of tens of thousands of Americans. Theirs is a chorus of hope that drowns out the spurious attacks of a dis-reputable man and his sycophants.

Since the struggle for our nation’s in-dependence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual is the pilot of their own destiny, when we come together, we change the world. We are stronger as a woven rope than as unbound threads.

America has thrived because citizens have been willing to contribute their voices and shed their blood to challenge injustice and protect the nation. It is in keeping with that history of service that, at this moment, I feel the burden to advocate for my values

and an enormous urgency to act.Despite some personal turmoil, I remain

hopeful for the future for both my familyand for our nation. Impeachment exposed Trump’s corruption, but the confluence ofa pandemic, a financial crisis and the stok-ing of societal divisions has roused the soul of the American people. A groundswell isbuilding that will issue a mandate to rejecthate and bigotry and a return to the idealsthat set the United States apart from therest of the world. I look forward to contrib-uting to that effort.

In retirement from the Army, I will con-tinue to defend my nation. I will demandaccountability of our leadership and call for leaders of moral courage and public servants of integrity. I will speak about theattacks on our national security. I will ad-vocate for policies and strategies that will keep our nation safe and strong against in-ternal and external threats. I will promotepublic service and exalt the contributionthat service brings to all areas of society.

The 23-year-old me who was commis-sioned in December 1998 could never haveimagined the opportunities and experienc-es I have had. I joined the military to serve the country that sheltered my family’s es-cape from authoritarianism, and yet the privilege has been all mine.

When asked why I had the confidenceto tell my father not to worry , my response was, “Congressman, because this is Amer-ica. This is the country I have served anddefended, that all my brothers have served,and here, right matters.”

To this day, despite everything that hashappened, I continue to believe in theAmerican Dream. I believe that in Ameri-ca, right matters. I want to help ensure thatright matters for all Americans.

Alexander Vindman, a career U.S. Army officer, served on the National Security Council as the director for Eastern European, Caucasus and Russian affairs, as the Russia political-military affairs officer for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as a military attache in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

BY SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN

Special to Stars and Stripes

Over the past year, media reports have identified a troubling trend of high cancer rates among mili-tary aviators. In one survey of

current and former military pilots, 56% of those who responded said they had cancer and 13% of them disclosed multiple can-cers. These clusters of cancer diagnoses have been reported at several military installations including Naval Air Weap-ons Station China Lake in California and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.

Unfortunately, we don’t know the full scope of the problem because there hasn’t been a comprehensive study on current and former military aviators. That means we don’t know what may be causing the cancer spikes or how many military bases have these cancer clusters. We don’t even know the rate of cancer among military aviators compared to that of the general population.

That’s why I introduced a bill in June with Sen. John Cornyn and a bipartisan group of senators that directs the Defense Department to conduct a study and iden-tify potential sources of cancer. This provi-

sion was included in the Senate version of this year’s defense authorization bill, cur-rently being reconciled with the House of Representatives.

Our bill will help us understand the full extent of this problem, but what we already know is startling.

� Four commanding officers who served at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake have died of cancer. Each of those officers had completed thousands of flight hours.

� A 2008 study by the Air Force titled “Cancer in Fighters” found six pilots and weapons systems officers for the F–15E Strike Eagle at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base — all between the ages of 33 and 43 — were diagnosed with forms of urogeni-tal cancers between 2002 and 2005. Each officer had completed at least 2,100 flight hours.

� Another Air Force study in 2010 re-ported a cluster of seven members of the Air Force Special Operations Command diagnosed with brain cancer among C-130 crew members between 2006 and 2009. Compare this spike to overall brain cancer rates, which affects only 6.5 out of 100,000 people nationwide.

While we’ve seen a handful of standalone studies of active duty pilots and crew, there

has been no comprehensive, multi-servicestudy by the Pentagon to determine why somany aviators and support personnel are getting sick.

Our bill would require the Defense De-partment to conduct a study of all branches of the military with aviators to determine if there is a higher incidence of cancers oc-curring for military aviators as comparedto that of similar age groups in the general population.

If the study determines a higher rate ofcancer among military aviators exists, the department would then have to identifycarcinogens associated with military flightoperations, environments where aviators might have been exposed to increased ra-diation and military locations with higherincidences of cancer.

Our armed forces take risks and make sacrifices every day. They shouldn’t havethe added concern that their jobs will givethem cancer. We’re hopeful that this bill,which has broad support from active dutyand retired military aviator groups, will bein the final defense bill and will be signedinto law later this year. It’s the least we cando to honor their service. Diane Feinstein is a Democratic senator from California.

Cancer studies in military pilots lacking

‘I still believe doing what’s right matters’

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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified before the House Intelligence Committee in November .

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Sports on AFN

Deals

Pro soccer

Golf

Saturday’s transactionsBASEBALL

Major League BaseballAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Selected the contract of C Bryan Holaday from alter-nate training site. Traded LHP Richard Bleier to Miami Marlins for a Player to be Named Later.

BOSTON RED SOX — Assigned C Jona-than Lucroy outright to their Pawtucket alternate training site.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed SS Tim Anderson on the 10-day IL. Recalled C Yermin Mercedes from the Schaumburg training facility.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Zack Littell on the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Jorge Alcala from alternate training site.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Selected the contract of RHP Jose Rodriguez from al-ternate training site. Optioned RHP Kyle Keller to alternate training site.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated RHP Masahiro Tanaka from the IL. Designated C Chris Iannetta for assignment.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Transferred RHP Brandon Brennan to the 45-day IL.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed C Kevan Smith on the 10-day IL. Recalled 3B Daniel Robertson from alternate training site.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned

3B Josh Rojas to alternate training site. Recalled 2B Andy Young from alternate training site.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Selected the con-tract of LHP Chris Rusin from alternate training site. Designated RHP Jhoulys Chacin for assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Mitch White from alternate training site. Optioned RHP Tony Gonsolin to alter-nate training site.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed CF Lorenzo Cain on the restricted list.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed 1B Eric Hosmer on the 10-day IL.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

NBA — Kiki VanDeWeghe, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations announced that Boston Celtics G Marcus Smart has been fined $15,000 for public criticism of officiating.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Waived DT Day-lon Mack and P Dom Maggio.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived WR Damion Jeanpiere, G Tyler Marz, C Fred-erick Mauigoa, RB Rodney Smith and LB Jason Ferris.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed QB Brandon Allen and K Tristan Vizcaino.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Released K Kai Forbath. Placed CB Saivion Smith on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Waived LS Joe For-tunato and LB Azur Kamara.

DETROIT LIONS — Placed QB Matthew Stafford on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed CB D.J. Hayden and TE James O’Shaughnessy on the Active/Physically Unable to Per-form list.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Waived WR Andre Patton, DT P.J. Johnson, T Koda Martin, S Roderic Teamer and TE’s Jared Rice and Andrew Vollert.

LOS ANGELES RAMS — Waived LB Daniel Bituli, RB James Gilbert, DE Greg Reaves and DT Sam Renner.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed LS Rex Su-nahara.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed LB Kiko Alonso and DB Johnson Bademosi ont the Active/Physically Unable to Per-form list.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed OL Nick Gates to a two-year contract extension. Signed K Chandler Catanzaro. Claimed WR Tony Brown off of waivers from the Cleveland Browns.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Waived LB Em-manuel Ellerbee.

St. Jude InvitationalSaturday

At TPC SouthwindMemphis, Tenn.

Purse: $10.5 millionYardage: 7,277; Par: 70

Third RoundBrendon Todd 64-65-69—198 -12Byeong Hun An 68-65-66—199 -11Rickie Fowler 64-67-69—200 -10Brooks Koepka 62-71-68—201 -9Justin Thomas 66-70-66—202 -8Phil Mickelson 67-70-66—203 -7Louis Oosthuizen 68-67-68—203 -7Matthew Fitzpatrick 70-64-69—203 -7Chez Reavie 66-67-70—203 -7C. Bezuidenhout 71-69-64—204 -6Joel Dahmen 72-67-65—204 -6Shane Lowry 68-69-67—204 -6Tom Lewis 73-70-61—204 -6Webb Simpson 69-66-69—204 -6Jason Day 68-67-69—204 -6Sungjae Im 67-68-69—204 -6Xander Schauffele 68-70-67—205 -5Daniel Berger 71-67-67—205 -5Jordan Spieth 68-69-68—205 -5Dustin Johnson 69-68-68—205 -5Scottie Scheffler 69-67-69—205 -5Cameron Champ 71-68-67—206 -4Nick Taylor 69-70-67—206 -4Hideki Matsuyama 68-71-67—206 -4Corey Conners 72-68-66—206 -4Sergio Garcia 67-71-68—206 -4Sung Kang 65-69-72—206 -4Abraham Ancer 67-75-65—207 -3Marc Leishman 70-69-69—208 -2Billy Horschel 70-70-68—208 -2Collin Morikawa 70-71-67—208 -2Keegan Bradley 68-70-70—208 -2J.T. Poston 70-68-70—208 -2Henrik Stenson 69-69-70—208 -2Andrew Landry 70-72-66—208 -2Kevin Streelman 71-66-71—208 -2Graeme McDowell 68-70-70—208 -2Matthew Wolff 69-74-65—208 -2Jason Kokrak 69-68-71—208 -2Mackenzie Hughes 68-71-70—209 -1Patrick Reed 71-69-69—209 -1Ryan Palmer 69-69-71—209 -1Bryson DeChambeau 67-73-69—209 -1Bubba Watson 68-70-71—209 -1Matt Kuchar 66-72-71—209 -1Erik van Rooyen 71-70-68—209 -1

The Ally ChallengeSaturday

At Grand Blanc, Mich.Purse: $2 million

Yardage: 7,085; Par: 72Second Round

Brett Quigley 69-64—133 -11Carlos Franco 70-64—134 -10Jim Furyk 68-66—134 -10Tommy Armour III 66-68—134 -10Glen Day 69-66—135 -9Woody Austin 68-68—136 -8Wes Short, Jr. 67-69—136 -8Kevin Sutherland 69-68—137 -7Jerry Kelly 69-68—137 -7Colin Montgomerie 69-68—137 -7Rod Pampling 68-69—137 -7Bernhard Langer 67-70—137 -7Kirk Triplett 70-68—138 -6Robert Karlsson 70-68—138 -6Fred Funk 71-67—138 -6Tom Lehman 70-68—138 -6Jeff Maggert 71-67—138 -6Retief Goosen 69-69—138 -6Ernie Els 69-69—138 -6David Toms 68-70—138 -6Bob Estes 68-70—138 -6Scott Parel 70-69—139 -5Mike Weir 70-69—139 -5Scott Dunlap 71-68—139 -5Scott McCarron 70-69—139 -5Joe Durant 71-68—139 -5Steve Pate 70-69—139 -5Tim Petrovic 70-69—139 -5Robin Byrd 71-68—139 -5Larry Mize 70-69—139 -5Tim Herron 73-66—139 -5Dudley Hart 71-69—140 -4Scott Hoch 70-70—140 -4Chris DiMarco 70-70—140 -4K.J. Choi 72-68—140 -4Kenny Perry 72-68—140 -4Shane Bertsch 68-72—140 -4Tom Gillis 67-73—140 -4Billy Andrade 66-74—140 -4

Drive On ChampionshipSaturday

At Toledo, OhioPurse: $1 million

Yardage: 6,856; Par: 72Second Round

Celine Boutier 68-71—139 -5Jodi Ewart Shadoff 67-72—139 -5Danielle Kang 66-73—139 -5Sarah Schmelzel 72-69—141 -3Yui Kawamoto 70-71—141 -3Sarah Burnham 70-72—142 -3Amy Olson 69-73—142 -3Minjee Lee 69-73—142 -3Lee-Anne Pace 68-74—142 -3Kelly Tan 71-72—143 -1Mina Harigae 71-72—143 -1Hee Young Park 70-73—143 -1Jasmine Suwannapura 74-70—144 EPerrine Delacour 73-71—144 ECaroline Masson 72-72—144 EBrittany Lang 72-72—144 EAnne van Dam 71-73—144 ECarlota Ciganda 70-74—144 EMel Reid 74-71—145 +1Yu Liu 73-72—145 +1Lexi Thompson 73-72—145 +1Gemma Dryburgh 73-72—145 +1Austin Ernst 73-72—145 +1Isi Gabsa 76-70—146 +2Lizette Salas 74-72—146 +2Brittany Altomare 74-72—146 +2Azahara Munoz 73-73—146 +2Peiyun Chien 73-73—146 +2Jiwon Jeon 73-73—146 +2Cristie Kerr 73-73—146 +2Ashleigh Buhai 73-73—146 +2

MLS is Back tournamentQuarterfinals

Thursday, July 30Philadelphia 3, Sporting Kansas City 1

Friday, July 31Orlando City 1, Los Angeles FC 1, Or-

lando City advances on penalties 5-4Saturday, Aug. 1

Minnesota United FC 4, San Jose 1Portland 3, New York City FC 1

SemifinalsWednesday, Aug. 5

Philadelphia vs. PortlandThursday, Aug. 6

Orlando City vs. Minnesota United FCFinal

Tuesday, Aug. 11Semifinal winners

Pac-12 players urge opt-out amid COVID-19 concerns

BY RALPH D. RUSSO

Associated Press

A group of Pac-12 football play-ers say they will not practice or play until their concerns about playing during the COVID-19 pandemic and other racial and economic issues in college sports are addressed.

The players posted a statement Sunday on The Players’ Tribune website and social media with the hashtag #WeAreUnited and sent out a press release. The release listed the names of 12 Pac-12 players from nine schools, includ-ing Oregon star safety Jevon Hol-land, and provided a statement from each one.

It says hundreds of players throughout the Pac-12 are con-cerned about the risks of COVID-19 and that the conference and NCAA lack transparency, unifor-mity and adequate enforcement infrastructure.

The Pac-12 on Friday released a revised football schedule for the upcoming season, which because of the pandemic is not guaranteed to be played. The new schedule pushes the start of the season back three weeks to Sept. 26 and in-cludes only 10 conference games. Officials across college football anticipate disruptions this season

related to COVID-19. The Atlantic Coast Conference and Southeast-ern Conference also announced last week plans to play truncated football seasons with delayed starts.

“We believe a football season under these conditions would be reckless and put us at needless risk,” the players said in their news release. “We will not play until there is real change that is acceptable to us.

The Pac-12 also announced Friday that 20 hours per week of mandatory team activities for football, including weight train-ing, meetings and unpadded walk-through practices, would be permitted to begin Monday. Preseason practice for Pac-12 schools can begin Aug. 17.

The states of Arizona and Cali-fornia, home to half the Pac-12 schools, have been hit by some of the most severe surges in COVID-19 cases over the last month. California-Berkeley has announced the fall semester will begin with all classes being taught online. USC said most of its classes will be online for the coming semester.

“Since the system is willing to risk our health and safety in the midst of the global pandemic, we must look out for each other,” Or-

egon State defensive back JaydonGrant said in a statement. “Withso much uncertainty aroundCOVID, we cannot wait until itstrikes the world of college foot-ball. We must act now to ensureour safety playing the game we all love, and that is why we areunited.”

The players’ list of demands addresses healthy and safetyprotections related to COVID-19;protection for all college sportsprograms from being eliminatedby budget cuts; racial injusticein college sports; and economicrights and compensation for col-lege athletes.

Among the specifics are:� Player-approved health and

safety standards enforced by a third party selected by playersto address COVID-19 and seriousinjury, abuse and death.

� 50% of a sport’s revenue dis-tributed evenly to athletes.

� Medical insurance for sixyears after college.

� Reduced pay of Pac-12 Com-missioner Larry Scott, coaches,administrators.

� 2% of revenue to supportfinancial aid for low-incomeBlack students and communityinitiatives.

� Use university endowmentfunds to protect all college sports.

Associated Press

DETROIT — One of the NFL’s standout quarterbacks is now on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

Matthew Stafford was put on the list by the Detroit Lions, ac-cording to the league’s trans-actions report Saturday. The reserve/COVID-19 list was creat-ed for players who either test pos-itive for COVID-19 or have been in close contact with an infected person. The 32-year-old Stafford is easily one of the most high-pro-file players to land there.

The Lions, citing NFL-NFLPA policy, have not been commenting on the medical status of players on that list. Stafford is entering his 12th season with Detroit after being drafted by the Lions with the No. 1 overall pick in 2009.

Stafford’s wife Kelly had sur-gery last year to remove a brain tumor.

Stafford played every game for the Lions from 2011-18, but back and hip injuries caught up with him and he missed half of last season. Detroit is coming off two straight bad seasons under coach Matt Patricia, who is under pres-sure to improve this year — if the NFL can even play amid the coro-navirus pandemic.

Also Saturday, Seattle put guard Chance Warmack on the

reserve/opt-out list, and Dal-las put defensive back Saivion Smith on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Jacksonville defensive end Lerentee McCray went on the re-serve/opt-out list too.

“With the health and safety of my family in mind, I have de-cided to opt out of the 2020 sea-son during these trying times in ‘Our Nation,’” McCray said. “I was honored to be involved in our team’s social justice efforts during this offseason, and I look forward to continuing to support those affected in any way I can.”

In other NFL news:� New York Jets linebacker

C.J. Mosley has opted out of play-ing this season because of family health concerns, two people fa-miliar with the decision told The Associated Press.

The 28-year-old Mosley was entering his second season with New York after signing as a free agent in 2019 following five years in Baltimore. He played in just two games last year for the Jets while dealing with a groin/core muscle injury.

The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Sat-urday because the team hadn’t announced Mosley’s decision. ESPN first reported that Mosley was opting out.

Mosley joins a growing list ofplayers who are choosing to notplay this season — if there is a season — amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

Hamilton moves closer to Schumacher’s record

SILVERSTONE, England— Lewis Hamilton held on to win the British Grand Prix onSunday despite a puncture on thelast lap to clinch an 87th careerwin and move within four of Mi-chael Schumacher’s Formula One record.

The championship leader’srecord-extending seventh Sil-verstone win saw him finish sixseconds ahead of Red Bull’s MaxVerstappen, who unexpectedlymoved up a place after Hamil-ton’s Mercedes teammate Valt-teri Bottas sustained a puncturewith three laps left.

With Hamilton so far ahead, Verstappen went in for a tire change in a bid to gain an extrapoint for the fastest lap but thatpit stop ultimately cost him vic-tory because Hamilton’s frontleft shredded with half a lap to go. Verstappen swallowed up most of the 25-second gap but ran out oftime.

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MLB

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 6 1 .857 —Baltimore 4 3 .571 2Tampa Bay 4 5 .444 3Toronto 3 4 .429 3Boston 3 6 .333 4

Central DivisionMinnesota 6 2 .750 —Detroit 5 3 .625 1Cleveland 5 4 .556 1AChicago 4 4 .500 2Kansas City 3 6 .333 3A

West DivisionHouston 4 4 .500 —Oakland 4 4 .500 —Seattle 4 5 .444 ALos Angeles 3 6 .333 1ATexas 2 5 .286 1A

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 6 3 .667 —Miami 2 1 .667 1Washington 3 4 .429 2Philadelphia 1 2 .333 2New York 3 6 .333 3

Central DivisionChicago 6 2 .750 —Milwaukee 3 3 .500 2St. Louis 2 3 .400 2ACincinnati 2 5 .286 3APittsburgh 2 6 .250 4

West DivisionColorado 5 2 .714 —Los Angeles 6 3 .667 —San Diego 6 3 .667 —San Francisco 5 4 .556 1Arizona 3 6 .333 3

Friday’s gamesDetroit 7, Cincinnati 2N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 1Chicago White Sox 3, Kansas City 2Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 3Minnesota 4, Cleveland 1San Francisco 9, Texas 2Seattle 5, Oakland 3Houston 9, L.A. Angels 6Atlanta 11, N.Y. Mets 10San Diego 8, Colorado 7Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 3Arizona 5, L.A. Dodgers 3Washington at Miami, ppd.

Saturday’s gamesMinnesota 3, Cleveland 0N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 2Chicago White Sox 11, Kansas City 5L.A. Angels 5, Houston 4, 10 inningsBaltimore 5, Tampa Bay 4, 11 inningsOakland 3, Seattle 2, 10 inningsSan Francisco 7, Texas 3Philadelphia at Toronto, ppd.Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 1L.A. Dodgers 11, Arizona 2Colorado 6, San Diego 1Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 3Washington at Miami, ppd.St. Louis at Milwaukee, ppd.

Sunday’s gamesTampa Bay at BaltimoreCincinnati at DetroitChicago White Sox at Kansas CityCleveland at MinnesotaPhiladelphia at Toronto, ppd.Texas at San FranciscoHouston at L.A. AngelsOakland at SeattleBoston at N.Y. YankeesN.Y. Mets at AtlantaWashington at Miami, ppd.St. Louis at Milwaukee, 2, ppdPittsburgh at Chicago CubsSan Diego at ColoradoL.A. Dodgers at Arizona

Monday’s gamesCleveland at CincinnatiPhiladelphia at N.Y. YankeesChicago White Sox at MilwaukeePittsburgh at MinnesotaKansas City at Chicago CubsOakland at SeattleN.Y. Mets at AtlantaSan Francisco at ColoradoL.A. Dodgers at San Diego

SaturdayYankees 5, Red Sox 2

Boston New York ab r h bi ab r h biBenintendi lf 3 1 0 0 LMhu 2b-1b 4 0 0 0Pillar dh 4 1 2 0 Judge rf 3 1 1 1Devers 3b 4 0 1 0 Torres ss 4 0 0 0Bogaerts ss 4 0 1 1 Stanton dh 4 0 0 0Moreland 1b 4 0 0 0 Voit 1b 4 1 2 0Vazquez c 4 0 1 0 Wade 2b 0 0 0 0Verdugo rf 4 0 0 0 Tauchmn lf 4 1 3 0Bradley Jr. cf 2 0 0 0 Sanchez c 3 1 1 0Lin 2b 4 0 1 0 Urshela 3b 3 1 1 4 Gardner cf 3 0 0 0Totals 33 2 6 1 Totals 32 5 8 5Boston 002 000 000—2New York 140 000 00x—5

E—Torres (3). LOB—Boston 8, New York 7. 2B—Bogaerts (1). HR—Judge (4), Urshela (2). SB—Urshela (1), Tauchman 2 (2). IP H R ER BB SOBostonGodley L,0-1 3B 6 5 5 2 1Mazza 2C 1 0 0 2 3Brasier 1 0 0 0 0 2Osich 1 1 0 0 0 1New YorkTanaka 2C 4 2 1 1 3Avilan 1B 0 0 0 0 2Nelson W,1-0 3 0 0 0 2 4Hale S,1-1 2 2 0 0 1 3

T—3:07. A—0 (47,309).

Braves 7, Mets 1New York Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biNimmo cf 2 1 0 0 Acuna Jr. rf 5 2 2 2McNeil 3b 3 0 1 0 Albies 2b 4 0 1 1Alonso 1b 5 0 1 0 Freeman dh 2 1 0 0Conforto rf 4 0 2 0 Ozuna lf 4 1 2 2Cano 2b 3 0 2 1 Duvall lf 0 0 0 0Cespdes dh 4 0 0 0 Adams 1b 4 0 1 0Do.Smith lf 2 0 0 0 Swanson ss 3 2 1 0Ramos c 4 0 0 0 Camargo 3b 4 0 0 0Rosario ss 4 0 0 0 Inciarte cf 4 0 1 1 Flowers c 3 1 1 1Totals 31 1 6 1 Totals 33 7 9 7New York 000 010 000—1Atlanta 230 011 00x—7

DP—New York 0, Atlanta 1. LOB—New York 11, Atlanta 6. 2B—Cano (2), Flowers (1), Acuna Jr. (3). HR—Ozuna (3), Acuna Jr. (1). SB—Swanson (3). SF—Cano (1). IP H R ER BB SONew YorkWacha, L, 1-1 4 7 5 5 2 5Kilome 4 2 2 2 0 5AtlantaToussaint 4 3 0 0 3 5Jackson C 2 1 1 1 1Tomlin, W, 1-0 2B 0 0 0 0 3Minter 1 1 0 0 0 2O’Day 1 0 0 0 1 0

HBP—Toussaint (Do.Smith), Wacha (Flowers), Kilome (Swanson), O’Day (Nimmo). T—3:21.

Athletics 3, Mariners 2 (10)Oakland Seattle ab r h bi ab r h biSemien ss 5 0 0 0 Crawfrd ss 5 1 1 0Chapman 3b 5 0 0 0 Nola c 4 1 2 0Laureano cf 4 0 0 0 Gordon pr 0 0 0 0Canha lf 3 1 1 0 Hudson c 0 0 0 0Olson 1b 3 0 0 0 Lewis cf 3 0 1 0Pinder 2b 3 1 1 2 Seager 3b 3 0 1 2Davis dh 4 0 1 0 White 1b 3 0 0 0Kemp pr-dh 0 1 0 0 Mrmoljos lf 4 0 0 0Piscotty rf 4 0 2 0 Long Jr. 2b 4 0 0 0Murphy c 2 0 0 0 Voglbch dh 2 0 0 0Grssman ph 1 0 1 1 Lopes ph-dh 2 0 0 0Allen c 0 0 0 0 Moore rf 4 0 0 0Totals 34 3 6 3 Totals 34 2 5 2Oakland 000 000 200 1—3Seattle 002 000 000 0—2

E—Pinder (1). DP—Oakland 0, Seattle 2. LOB—Oakland 6, Seattle 6. 2B—Canha (1), Grossman (2). HR—Pinder (1). IP H R ER BB SOOaklandFiers 6 4 2 2 1 3Diekman 1 0 0 0 0 1Petit 1 0 0 0 0 1Soria, W, 1-0 1 1 0 0 2 3Hendriks, S, 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 1SeattleKikuchi 6 3 0 0 1 9Margevicius, BS, 0-1 2 2 2 2 1 4Magill 1 0 0 0 2 1Altavilla, L, 1-1 1 1 1 0 0 1

WP—Magill. T—3:11.

Rockies 6, Padres 1San Diego Colorado ab r h bi ab r h biTatis Jr. ss 3 0 0 0 Dahl cf 4 1 1 0Machado 3b 3 0 0 0 Story ss 3 1 2 1Pham dh 3 0 1 0 Blackmn rf 4 0 2 1Profar 2b 4 0 0 0 Arenado 3b 4 0 1 0Myers rf 4 0 0 0 Kemp dh 3 2 1 1Grisham cf 3 1 1 1 McMhon 1b 3 0 0 0France 1b 2 0 0 0 Hampson lf 4 1 1 0Naylor ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Owings 2b 4 1 3 1Mejia c 3 0 1 0 Butera c 3 0 0 1Olivares lf 3 0 0 0 Totals 29 1 3 1 Totals 32 6 11 5San Diego 000 000 010—1Colorado 031 110 00x—6

E—Lucchesi (1). DP—San Diego 2, Col-orado 1. LOB—San Diego 4, Colorado 6. 2B—Mejia (1). HR—Grisham (3), Kemp (1), Story (4). SB—Owings (1). SF—Butera (1). IP H R ER BB SOSan DiegoLucchesi, L, 0-1 1C 6 3 3 1 3Quantrill 4B 4 3 3 2 4Perdomo 2 1 0 0 0 1ColoradoFreeland, W, 2-0 6 2 0 0 1 4Almonte 2 1 1 1 0 4Kinley 1 0 0 0 2 2

T—2:50.

Twins 3, OIndians 0Cleveland Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h biHernandez 2b 3 0 0 0 Kepler rf 4 0 0 0Ramirez 3b 4 0 0 0 Polanco ss 4 0 0 0Lindor ss 3 0 1 0 Cruz dh 3 0 1 0C.Santana 1b 4 0 0 0 Rosario lf 3 1 1 1Reyes dh 4 0 0 0 Garver c 2 0 0 0Zimmer cf 2 0 1 0 Arraez 2b 3 0 0 0D.Santana rf 3 0 0 0 Sano 1b 3 2 2 2Leon c 3 0 0 0 Adrianza 3b 0 0 0 0Johnson lf 3 0 0 0 Gnzlez 3b-1b 3 0 2 0 Buxton cf 3 0 0 0Totals 29 0 2 0 Totals 28 3 6 3Cleveland 000 000 000—0Minnesota 001 110 00x—3

DP—Cleveland 1, Minnesota 0. LOB—Cleveland 5, Minnesota 4. HR—Sano 2 (2), Rosario (2). SB—Zimmer (1). IP H R ER BB SOClevelandCarrasco, L, 1-1 6 6 3 3 1 5Cimber 1 0 0 0 0 1C.Hill 1 0 0 0 0 0MinnesotaMaeda, W, 2-0 6 1 0 0 1 6May, H, 1 1 1 0 0 1 1Stashak, H, 1 1 0 0 0 1 2Rogers, S, 3-3 1 0 0 0 0 2

HBP—Carrasco (Garver), C.Hill (Cruz). WP—Carrasco. T—2:40.

Cubs 4, Pirates 3Pittsburgh Chicago ab r h bi ab r h biFrazier 2b 4 0 1 0 Happ cf-lf 4 1 2 1Newman ss 4 1 2 0 Rizzo 1b 3 0 0 0Bell 1b 4 0 0 0 Baez ss 3 2 1 1Moran dh 4 1 1 2 Schwrber lf 4 1 2 2Reynolds lf 3 1 2 0 Almra Jr. cf 0 0 0 0Polanco rf 3 0 0 1 Contreras c 3 0 2 0Evans 3b 3 0 0 0 Heyward rf 4 0 1 0Heredia pr 0 0 0 0 Hoerner 2b 2 0 0 0Dyson cf 3 0 0 0 Bote 3b 4 0 0 0Osuna ph 1 0 0 0 Caratini dh 3 0 0 0Murphy c 2 0 0 0 Tucker ph 1 0 0 0 Stallings c 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 6 3 Totals 30 4 8 4Pittsburgh 000 000 003—3Chicago 002 000 02x—4

DP—Pittsburgh 1, Chicago 0. LOB—Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 7. 2B—Frazier (1), Reynolds (2), Happ (2), Contreras (4). HR—Moran (5), Happ (3), Baez (3), Schwarber (2). IP H R ER BB SOPittsburghKeller, L, 1-1 2C 5 2 2 1 1Stratton 1B 0 0 0 0 2Brubaker 3 1 0 0 1 3Feliz 0 2 2 2 1 0Del Pozo 1 0 0 0 1 0ChicagoChatwood, W, 2-0 6C 3 0 0 2 11Jeffress, H, 1 1 0 0 0 0 1Ryan B 3 3 3 0 1Wick, S, 1-1 C 0 0 0 1 0

Feliz pitched to 4 batters in the 8th. HBP—Brubaker (Contreras). WP—Keller, Chatwood. T—3:11. A—0 (41,649).

Giants 7, Rangers 3Texas San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h biAndrus ss 3 1 1 0 Ystrzski cf-rf 1 2 0 1Solak lf-2b 3 0 0 0 Dickrson lf 1 1 0 0Odor 2b 2 0 0 0 Slater ph-lf 3 0 1 0Garcia lf 0 0 0 0 Solano 2b 5 0 2 3Calhn ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Belt 1b 3 1 0 1Gallo rf 3 1 1 0 Longoria 3b 4 1 3 2Frazier 1b 4 0 1 2 Sandval dh 2 0 0 0Chirinos c 4 0 1 0 Pence dh 2 0 0 0S.Heinmn cf 4 1 1 1 Crawford ss 1 1 0 0Kinr-Falfa 3b 4 0 0 0 T.Hneman c 3 1 1 0Refsnder dh 4 0 2 0 Duggar rf 2 0 0 0 Ruf ph 1 0 0 0 Dubon cf 1 0 0 0Totals 32 3 7 3 Totals 29 7 7 7Texas 200 000 001—3San Francisco 202 001 02x—7

DP—Texas 1, San Francisco 2. LOB—Texas 6, San Francisco 10. 2B—Andrus (1), Gallo (2), Longoria (2), T.Heineman (1). HR—S.Heineman (1). SB—Andrus (1), Gallo (2), Frazier (1). IP H R ER BB SOTexasLyles, L, 0-1 4 3 4 4 5 1Martin 1B 1 1 1 2 1Palumbo B 0 0 0 2 1Goody B 0 0 0 0 0Chavez 1 1 0 0 0 0Herget 1 2 2 2 2 1San FranciscoSmyly 4 3 2 2 2 7S.Anderson C 1 0 0 2 0Baragar, W, 2-0 B 0 0 0 0 1Garcia, H, 2 1 1 0 0 0 1Rogers, H, 3 1 0 0 0 0 1Gott, H, 1 1 1 0 0 0 0Selman 1 1 1 1 0 3

Smyly pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. HBP—Herget (Crawford). WP—Lyles. T—3:29.

White Sox 11, Royals 5Chicago Kansas City ab r h bi ab r h biRobert cf 6 2 4 2 Mrrifld lf-2b 5 1 3 2Moncada 3b 5 2 3 0 Soler rf 5 0 2 0Abreu 1b 6 1 2 0 Perez c 5 0 0 0Grandal c 5 2 2 2 McBrm dh 3 1 1 0Encrncion dh 5 1 1 0 Heath ph 1 0 0 0Goins pr-dh 0 1 0 0 Franco 3b 4 0 1 0Jimenez lf 6 1 4 4 Phillips ph 1 1 1 0Garcia ss 5 1 4 1 Mondesi ss 4 1 2 0Engel rf 6 0 1 0 Hrnandz ph 1 0 1 0Madrigal 2b 5 0 0 0 O’Hearn 1b 4 1 3 2 Cordero ph 1 0 1 1 Starling cf 3 0 0 0 Lopez 2b 2 0 0 0 Mejia lf 2 0 0 0Totals 49 11 21 9 Totals 41 5 15 5Chicago 410 020 004—11Kansas City 000 003 101— 5

E—O’Hearn (1), Newberry (1), Mer-rifield (1), Mondesi (4). DP—Chicago 1, Kansas City 2. LOB—Chicago 15, Kansas City 12. 2B—Robert 2 (3), Jimenez (2), Grandal (1), Mondesi (2), O’Hearn (2), McBroom (2), F.Cordero (2). HR—Jimenez (2), Robert (2), Merrifield (3). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoGonzalez 3C 5 0 0 3 6J.Cordero B 0 0 0 0 0Foster, W, 1-0 1 1 0 0 0 1Fry C 3 3 3 0 0Cishek C 2 1 1 0 1Bummer 1B 1 0 0 0 3Heuer 1B 3 1 1 0 2Kansas CityBolanos, L, 0-2 1C 5 5 5 2 1McCarthy 1C 4 0 0 0 0Newberry 1C 4 2 1 1 2Zimmer 3 3 0 0 1 3Sparkman C 4 4 2 0 0Speier B 1 0 0 0 0

WP—Fry, Bolanos. T—3:44.

Orioles 5, Rays 4 (11)Tampa Bay Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h biDiaz 3b 5 1 2 0 Hays cf 5 0 0 0Brosseau 1b 3 1 2 1 Alberto 2b 5 0 1 0Choi ph-1b 2 0 0 0 Santnder rf 5 0 0 0Tsutsugo lf 4 1 0 0 Nunz 1b-3b 4 2 1 1Martinez dh 4 0 2 1 Smith Jr. lf 4 2 2 0Adames ss 3 0 0 0 Mullins lf 0 0 0 0Lowe ph-2b 1 0 0 1 Iglesias ph 1 0 0 0Renfroe rf 3 0 0 0 Holaday 1b 0 1 0 0Kiermr ph-cf 2 0 1 1 Severino dh 3 0 1 1Zunino c 5 0 0 0 Ruiz 3b-lf 2 0 1 2Margot cf-rf 5 0 0 0 Sisco c 4 0 1 0Wndle 2b-ss 3 1 1 0 Velzquez ss 3 0 0 0 Stewart ph 1 0 0 0 Valaika ss 1 0 1 1Totals 40 4 8 4 Totals 38 5 8 5Tampa Bay 000 001 030 00—4Baltimore 000 202 000 01—5

E—Adames (4), Armstrong (1). DP—Tampa Bay 0, Baltimore 2. LOB—Tampa Bay 9, Baltimore 10. HR—Brosseau (1), Nunez (1). SB—Smith Jr. (1), Ruiz (1). SF—Ruiz (1). S—Severino (1). IP H R ER BB SOTampa BayGlasnow 4 C 3 2 2 3 5Richards 2 B 4 2 2 1 2Anderson 1 0 0 0 0 1Castillo 1 0 0 0 0 2Drake L,0-2 1 C 0 1 1 1 1Roe 0 1 0 0 0 0BaltimoreLeBlanc 5B 4 1 1 1 3Phillips H,1 1C 1 1 1 0 2Armstrong H,2 B 1 2 0 1 1Castro BS,0-1 1B 2 0 0 0 1Scott 1B 0 0 0 2 2Lakins Sr. W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 1

Roe pitched to 1 batter in the 11th. WP—Glasnow, Scott. T—3:50.

Angels 5, Astros 4 (10)Houston Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biSpringer cf 4 1 2 3 Fletcher ss 3 0 1 1Altuve 2b 5 0 2 0 Goodwin cf 5 0 1 1Bregman 3b 4 0 1 0 Rendon 3b 4 0 1 1Tucker lf 4 0 0 0 Upton lf 3 0 0 0Gurriel 1b 5 0 2 0 Hermsillo lf 1 0 0 1Correa ss 5 0 0 0 Pujols dh 4 0 0 0Reddick rf 4 2 2 1 Rengifo 2b 4 1 2 0Toro dh 5 0 0 0 Castro c 4 0 1 1Maldonado c 2 0 1 0 Walsh pr 0 0 0 0Brantley ph 1 0 0 0 Stassi c 0 0 0 0Stubbs c 1 0 1 0 Ward rf 4 2 2 0Straw pr 0 1 0 0 Thaiss 1b 4 2 1 0Garneau c 0 0 0 0 Totals 40 4 11 4 Totals 36 5 9 5Houston 000 000 103 0—4Los Angeles 000 002 011 1—5

E—Fletcher (1), Rendon (2). DP—Hous-ton 0, Los Angeles 1. LOB—Houston 11, Los Angeles 7. 2B—Reddick (3), Cas-tro (2). 3B—Ward (1). HR—Reddick (1), Springer (2). SB—Straw (3). SF—Fletcher(2), Hermosillo (1). IP H R ER BB SOHoustonGreinke 5C 3 2 2 0 4Taylor 1B 1 0 0 0 2Pressly C 2 1 1 1 1Bailey B 0 0 0 0 0Osuna H,1 B 1 1 1 0 0Sneed BS,0-1 C 1 0 0 0 1N.Rodriguez L,0-1 C 1 1 0 1 1Los AngelesCanning 6 6 1 1 2 5Pena H,1 2 1 0 0 0 3Robles BS,1-2 1 4 3 3 0 1Ramirez C 0 0 0 1 1Buchter W,2-0 B 0 0 0 1 1

Canning pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. WP—Sneed, Canning. T—3:58.

Dodgers 11, Diamondbacks 2Los Angeles Arizona ab r h bi ab r h biMuncy 2b 4 1 0 0 K.Marte 2b 3 0 1 0Betts rf 3 1 1 0 Jay ph-lf 1 0 0 0Hernandez rf 1 1 1 0 Vargas 1b 3 1 0 0Seager ss 4 1 2 0 S.Marte cf 3 0 1 0Taylor ss 1 1 1 3 Varsho cf 1 0 0 0Turner dh 5 1 1 2 Escobar 3b 4 0 1 1Pederson lf 4 2 1 1 Walker dh 4 1 1 0Pollock cf 4 1 1 2 Peralta lf 3 0 0 0Rios 3b 5 1 1 2 A.Young 2b 0 0 0 0Smith c 4 0 1 0 C.Kelly c 3 0 1 1Beaty 1b 4 1 1 1 Ahmed ss 3 0 0 0 Locastro rf 3 0 0 0Totals 39 11 11 11 Totals 31 2 5 2Los Angeles 000 350 030—11Arizona 100 100 000— 2

E—Vargas (1). DP—Los Angeles 1, Arizona 0. LOB—Los Angeles 5, Arizona 3. 2B—Betts (4), Seager (3), Walker (5).3B—Turner (1). HR—Rios (2), Beaty (1), Pollock (2), Taylor (1). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesUrias, W, 1-0 6 5 2 2 1 5Graterol 1 0 0 0 0 1Santana 1 0 0 0 0 1McGee 1 0 0 0 0 2ArizonaWeaver, L, 0-2 4 7 6 6 3 5Lopez 1 2 2 2 0 1Clarke 3 2 3 3 1 2Widener 1 0 0 0 0 1

Weaver pitched to 3 batters in the 5th. T—2:49.

Scoreboard

BY GREG BEACHAM

Associated Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Hansel Robles gave up a go-ahead homer to George Springer with two outs in the ninth, and the Los Ange-les Angels looked crushed. Their leaky bullpen had blown another late lead and put them on course for another discouraging loss.

For the first time in this short season, the Angels responded to their relievers’ woes with some clutch offense of their own.

And they even did it twice.Matt Thaiss scored on Michael

Hermosillo’s bases-loaded sacri-fice fly in the 10th inning, and the Angels snapped their three-game skid with a 5-4 victory over the Astros on Saturday night.

Jason Castro delivered a tying RBI double in the ninth for the Angels, who improved the majors’ worst record to 3-6 despite wast-ing a two-run lead in the ninth. The win seemed uncommonly important for the Angels, whose dreams of a quick start have been undone by a bullpen that has been among the majors’ worst.

When Robles gave up homers to Josh Reddick and Springer in the ninth, the Angels had ample reason to lose their focus and faith. Manager Joe Maddon saw none of it.

“We’ve been through this sev-eral times already this season,” Maddon said. “We’re very close to being in great shape, and (then) we’re just in mediocre shape. We’ve just got to nail those wins down. ... Hopefully this will energize us a bit going into tomorrow.”

The Angels did it by manufac-turing two late runs against the Astros, whose own relief woes are mostly centered around health. Those worries are even worse after closer Roberto Osuna left abruptly in the ninth with an apparent arm injury.

“It’s scary,“ Springer said of Osuna’s departure. “This is a league-wide thing. I think you’re seeing a lot of guys throughout the league start to get injured, a lot of pitchers. It’s scary, especial-ly when it hits home. Osuna has been an absolute anchor for us.”

After starters Zack Greinke and Griffin Canning turned in outstanding performances, both bullpens blew leads in disheart-ening fashion.

Los Angeles led 3-1 entering the ninth, but Robles had another discouraging outing. The Angels’ closer gave up two homers and the first hit of the season by backup catcher Garrett Stubbs, who kept the game alive for Springer.

Angelsrally, top Astrosin 10th

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ATLANTA — Ronald Acuna Jr. shook off a slow start by driving in two runs with two hits, including his first homer, and the Atlanta Braves beat Michael Wacha and the New York Mets 7-1 on Satur-day night for their fourth straight win.

The Mets have lost four straight, including the first two games of the four-game series between the NL East rivals.

Marcell Ozuna hit a two-run homer, his third, off Wacha (1-1) in the first inning.

Acuna led off the game with his 18th strikeout, the most in the majors, before emerging from his funk. He doubled in a run in the second for his first RBI as the Braves stretched the lead to 5-0.

Acuna lined his first homer into the left-field seats in the sixth off right-hander Franklyn Kilome, who gave up two runs in his major league debut.

Following the homer and fake high fives with teammates in the dugout, he emerged for a curtain call, raising both arms to the fan cardboard cutouts in the stands.

“You want to keep as many tra-ditions as possible even though the fans aren’t here,” Acuna said through a translator. “You want to ... try to make it as much fun as possible.”

Acuna hit 41 homers and had 37 stolen bases in 2019. He struggled during the first eight games, but manager Brian Snitker said he saw signs a breakout was coming.

“I could feel it the last few days, here and there there were signs,” Snitker said. “He’s been working hard, I know that. He’s been here early every day.”

Making his first start since April 20, 2019, Braves right-hand-er Touki Toussaint allowed no runs on three hits and three walks in four innings.

Orioles 5, Rays 4 (11): Pinch-hitter Pat Valaika singled in the winning run in the 11th inning, and host Baltimore handed Tampa Bay its fourth straight loss.

Newcomer Brian Holaday scored the deciding run after making a sensational diving catch

in the top of the 11th to start an in-ning-ending double play. Holaday was added to the roster to replace Richard Bleier, who was traded after midnight on Saturday.

Holaday advanced from second to third on a sacrifice bunt off Oli-ver Drake (0-2), and with two outs came home on Valaika’s opposite-field liner to right off Chaz Roe.

Yankees 5, Red Sox 2: Gio Ur-shela hit his first big league grand slam, Aaron Judge homered for a career-high fourth straight game and host New York won its fifth straight.

Nick Nelson (1-0) pitched three hitless innings to win his major league debut. At 6-1, the Yankees are off to their best start since 2003.

Judge homered in the first in-ning off Zack Godley (0-1), a 455-foot drive to left-center. Urshela hit his second homer of the season an inning later for a 5-0 lead.

Twins 3, Indians 0: Miguel Sano homered twice and Kenta Maeda pitched six scoreless innings in his home debut for Minnesota.

Eddie Rosario added a solo homer for the Twins, who got an-other strong start from a veteran newcomer to its rotation. Maeda (2-0) retired 13 of the first 14 bat-ters he faced and didn’t allow a hit until Bradley Zimmer beat out a weak ground ball to second base in the fifth inning.

White Sox 11, Royals 5: Gio Gonzalez made his first start for hot-hitting Chicago more than 16 years after it drafted him, and the veteran responded by holding host Kansas City scoreless into the fourth inning.

Eloy Jimenez hit a three-run homer and finished with a career-high four hits, and rookie Luis Robert had four hits while finish-ing a triple shy of the cycle, lead-ing a White Sox barrage of 21 hits in all.

Rockies 6, Padres 1: Kyle Freeland pitched six innings of two-hit ball and was backed by the superb defense of Trevor Story and Nolan Arenado as host Colorado beat San Diego.

Freeland (2-0) allowed a two-out single to Tommy Pham in the first and then retired 13 in a row

before Francisco Mejia’s double in the sixth. The left-hander struck out four and walked one in throw-ing an economical 83 pitches.

Story contributed at the plate as well with a solo shot in the fourth.

Dodgers 11, Diamondbacks 2: Chris Taylor hit a three-run homer, A.J. Pollock and Edwin Rios added two-run shots and visiting Los Angeles rolled past Arizona.

The bottom of the Dodgers’ order showed big power in the fourth inning when Rios — who was hitting seventh — smashed a two-run homer over the 413-foot sign in center field. Two batters later, Matt Beaty ripped another homer that barely stayed fair down the right-field line.

Cubs 4, Pirates 3: Tyler Chat-wood matched a career high with 11 strikeouts in another ter-rific performance, and host Chi-cago used the long ball to beat Pittsburgh.

Javier Baez, Kyle Schwarber and Ian Happ hit home runs as the Cubs won for the fifth time in six games. Chicago has homered in each of its first eight games for the first time since 1958. Schwarber’s two-run shot in the eighth made it 4-0.

The Pirates got three in the ninth on Colin Moran’s two-run homer off Kyle Ryan and Gregory Polanco’s run-scoring groundout.

Athletics 3, Mariners 2 (10): Pinch-hitter Robbie Grossman lined an RBI double to score Tony Kemp in the top of the 10th inning to lift visiting Oakland.

The A’s snapped a three-game losing streak, escaping a major jam in the bottom of the ninth inning before Grossman came through in the 10th. Hitting for Ryan Murphy, Grossman lined a pitch from Dan Altavilla (1-1) into the right-center field gap to easily score Kemp.

Giants 7, Rangers 3: Donovan Solano hit a two-run single for an early lead and host San Francisco overcame an injury to starting pitcher Drew Smyly.

Smyly experienced discom-fort in his left index finger while pitching to Rob Refsnyder leading off the fifth.

MLB

BY RONALD BLUM

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Baseball Com-missioner Rob Manfred says he’s confident his sport can get through the regular season and postseason without being stopped by the coronavirus, though not every club might play all 60 games and winning percentage could be used to determine playoff teams.

During an interview Saturday with The Associated Press, Man-fred said Major League Baseball knows which player introduced COVID-19 into the clubhouse of the Miami Marlins. Miami and Philadelphia both postponed games for an entire week.

“I think that if everybody does what they are supposed to do, we can continue to play, have a cred-ible season and get through the postseason,” Manfred said.

Just 1 ½ weeks into a pandemic-delayed regular season shortened from 162 games per team to 60, the coronavirus has forced 19 postponements in 11 days, includ-ing St. Louis’ three-game week-end series at Milwaukee.

The virus also prompted at least two more players to opt out Satur-day: Brewers All-Star outfielder Lorenzo Cain and Miami second baseman Isan Diaz.

At least 18 Marlins players have been infected along with three St. Louis Cardinals. One St. Louis player has an inconclusive test.

Manfred had what he said was a constructive conversation Fri-day with union head Tony Clark, and expects stepped-up efforts by players and teams to adhere to special virus protocols put in place by MLB and the players’ association.

“It is what the public health ex-perts have been saying from the beginning about this, that there is no one big magic fix,” Manfred said. “The protocols are a series of little things that people need to do. We’ve had some problems. In order to be better, it’s another series of little things. I think it’s peer pressure. I think it’s players taking personal responsibility. I think it’s the union helping us like Tony Clark helped us yesterday. And I think it’s us managing more aggressively.”

Still, he does expect more issues.

“I don’t think it’s realistic to think that we’re not going to have any more positive tests,” Manfred said. “We’re going to be fluid. We think it’s manageable.”

Miami, which last played July 26 at Philadelphia, was set to re-sume its schedule Tuesday at Bal-timore. The Phillies are due back Monday at Yankee Stadium.

Toronto missed its weekend series against the Phillies. Blue Jays pitcher Matt Shoemaker was

against a bubble-environmentsuch as the NBA and MLS are using and understood Manfred’s urging of stricter adherence.

“I don’t take Rob’s commentsas a personal attack at all be-cause I know we are doing betterand some teams might not be, sohopefully they do better,” Shoe-maker said. “If guys are going out to clubs or bars that is irre-sponsible to say the least, if that’swhat happened. We have guys notdoing that which is great from ateam standpoint. We want to playbaseball.”

The entire Cardinals-Brew-ers series at Miller Park wasscrapped. After two St. Louisplayers tested positive, the wholeCardinals team was given rapidstests Friday and saliva sampleswere sent to an MLB laboratory.

St. Louis will play four gamesat Detroit from Tuesday throughThursday, including a double-header Wednesday, rather thantwo games at Comerica Park fol-lowed by two at Busch Stadium.

“We feel confident by the time we get to Detroit on Monday,that we will have control of this,“Cardinals president of baseballoperations John Mozeliak said. “The thinking was that we’re fly-ing there and it just didn’t make sense to just then fly back and beon a plane again.“

MLB-mandated monitors havebeen accompanying teams on theroad since Wednesday in an ef-fort to cause stricter adherence tothe protocols.

“I think it’s a top-down thing,” Yankees pitcher James Paxtonsaid. “I think that if your leader-ship is showing how important itis and you’ve got the front officelike we have here taking it veryseriously, I think that then that’lltrickle down to the players takingit seriously.”

Given all the schedule changes,MLB is considering whether ac-tive rosters should remain at 30rather than decrease to 28 onThursday, as scheduled. No deci-sion has been made.

“This is kind of a day-to-day thing right now,” Manfred said.“You’ve just got to get up in the morning and figure out a way tokeep going through another day to stay safe for people.”

There’s a chance not all teamswill be able to get in 60 regular-season games.

“We’ve got to be flexible onthat,” Manfred said. “Look, thisis one of the reasons that we re-visited the issue off the expandedplayoffs. If it turns out that someguys play 60, some guys play 58,they have this new thing calledwinning percentage. We can sortthat out.”

Manfred expectscomplete seasonCommissioner: ‘If everybody does what they are supposed to do, we can continue to play’

Acuna breaks out with first HRRoundup

JOHN BAZEMORE/AP

The Braves’ Ronald Acuna Jr. follows through on an RBI double on Saturday against the New York Mets.

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NBARoundup

Raptors restart with 11thstraight win over Lakers

Associated Press

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Kyle Lowry had 33 points and 14 rebounds and the defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors restarted their season by beat-ing the slow-starting Los Angeles Lakers for the 11th straight time, 107-92 on Saturday night.

OG Anunoby scored 23 points for the Raptors, the second-place team in the Eastern Conference, who haven’t lost to Los Angeles since the 2014-15 season.

Lowry had a strong second half to help turn back a surge by the Lakers, the Western Conference leaders who are 1-1 in the restart. The Lakers’ magic number for clinching the top seed in the West remains at one.

Lowry’s biggest shot was a three-pointer from the right wing for a 97-86 lead with 3:01 to play.

“He was vintage Kyle tonight,” coach Nick Nurse said. “He was scoring and flying around and taking charges and competing and getting us some critical buck-ets. He was great.”

Lowry was all for a full-speed reentry.

“Nick says he’s going to kind of ease us back in and use it as an ex-hibition,” Lowry said. “We’ve got too many competitive guys that want to go out there and play and hoop and win games, especially against the guys like the Lakers and with the team that’s No. 1 in the West. The competitive juices get going.”

LeBron James had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Anthony Davis had just 14 points after he scored 34 in a win against the Los Angeles Clippers in their first game back on Thursday night. Kyle Kuzma scored 16.

The Lakers shot only 35.4% from the field.

Clippers 126, Pelicans 103: Paul George made three straight three-pointers in the opening min-utes and scored 28 points for Los Angeles against New Orleans.

Los Angeles broke a franchise record by making 25 of 47 three-pointers, with George making 8 of 11. The Clippers also tied a team record for three-pointers in a half and fell one short of the NBA re-cord by hitting 16 of 24 in racing to a 77-45 lead.

Los Angeles made its first six three-pointers to take a 20-6 lead.

Kawhi Leonard had 24 points o help the Clippers bounce back from a 103-101 loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lak-ers on Thursday night in their first game of the restart.

The Pelicans had a minor scare midway through the first half when rookie Zion Williamson stepped on Reggie Jackson’s foot and appeared to slightly roll his right ankle while driving to the basket, ending up on his backside .

He got up with a slight limp and was subbed out, then returned for the start of the second half.

Williamson finished with seven points and four rebounds in 14 minutes. Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 15 points for New Orleans.

Pacers 127, 76ers 121: T.J. Warren scored a career-high 53 points, Victor Oladipo added 15 after reversing course on opting out of the NBA restart and Indi-ana beat Philadelphi.

A sixth-year player acquired from Phoenix in an offseason trade, Warren was 20-for-29 from the field and 9-for-12 from three-point range in his first game with at least 50 points.

The Pacers took control of the fifth seed in the Eastern Confer-ence by breaking a tie with the 76ers and winning the season series. Both teams have clinched playoff spots.

Joel Embiid had 41 points and 21 rebounds for the 76ers. Tobias Harris scored 30 points, and Ben Simmons had 19 points and 13 rebounds.

Thunder 110, Jazz 94: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 19 points, Chris Paul added 18 and Oklahoma City rolled past Utah

in their first game of the restart.The teams were to meet on

March 11 in Oklahoma City, but everything changed when Utah center Rudy Gobert’s COVID-19 test came up positive right be-fore the tip. That night, the NBA announced it would shut down indefinitely.

Steven Adams had 16 points and 11 rebounds, Danilo Gal-linari added 15 points and the Thunder shot 53% from the field. Oklahoma City moved within a half-game of the Jazz for fourth place in the Western Conference standings and within 1 ½ games of Denver for third.

Heat 125, Nuggets 104: Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo each scored 22 points to help Miami beat Denver in the first restart game for both teams.

Heat center Meyers Leonard stood during the national an-them, saying it was out of respect for the U.S. military, while all the coaches and players around him kneeled. His brother, Bai-ley Leonard, served two tours in Afghanistan with the Marines. Leonard wore a Black Lives Mat-ter T-shirt over a jersey that said “Equality.”

Eastern ConferenceAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBx-Toronto 47 18 .723 —x-Boston 43 22 .662 4x-Philadelphia 39 27 .591 8ABrooklyn 30 35 .462 17New York 21 45 .318 26A

Southeast Divisionx-Miami 42 24 .636 —Orlando 31 35 .470 11Washington 24 41 .369 17ACharlotte 23 42 .354 18AAtlanta 20 47 .299 22A

Central Divisionx-Milwaukee 54 12 .818 —x-Indiana 40 26 .606 14Chicago 22 43 .338 31ADetroit 20 46 .303 34Cleveland 19 46 .292 34A

Western ConferenceSouthwest Division

W L Pct GBx-Houston 41 24 .631 —Dallas 40 28 .588 2AMemphis 32 34 .485 9ASan Antonio 28 36 .438 12ANew Orleans 28 38 .424 13A

Northwest Divisionx-Denver 43 23 .652 —x-Utah 42 24 .636 1x-Oklahoma City 41 24 .631 1APortland 30 37 .448 13AMinnesota 19 45 .297 23

Pacific Divisionx-L.A. Lakers 50 15 .769 —x-L.A. Clippers 45 21 .682 5ASacramento 28 37 .431 22Phoenix 27 39 .409 23AGolden State 15 50 .231 35

Friday’s gamesOrlando 128, Brooklyn 118Phoenix 125, Washington 112Portland 140, Memphis 135, OTMilwaukee 119, Boston 112San Antonio 129, Sacramento 120Houston 153, Dallas 149, OT

Saturday’s gamesMiami 125, Denver 105Oklahoma City 110, Utah 94L.A. Clippers 126, New Orleans 103Indiana 127, Philadelphia 121Toronto 107, L.A. Lakers 92

Sunday’s gamesWashington at BrooklynPortland at BostonSan Antonio at MemphisSacramento at OrlandoMilwaukee at HoustonDallas at Phoenix

Monday’s gamesToronto at MiamiDenver at Oklahoma CityIndiana at WashingtonMemphis at New OrleansSan Antonio at PhiladelphiaL.A. Lakers at Utah

SaturdayRaptors 107, Lakers 92

L.A. LAKERS — A.Davis 2-7 9-9 14, James 7-15 4-7 20, McGee 1-3 1-2 3, Caldwell-Pope 2-7 0-1 5, Green 0-7 0-2 0, Kuzma 5-13 3-4 16, Morris 3-10 0-0 6, Smith 0-1 0-0 0, Howard 2-2 1-2 5, Caruso 3-6 4-4 11, Cook 0-0 0-0 0, Waiters 4-11 2-2 12. Totals 29-82 24-33 92.

TORONTO — Anunoby 8-9 4-4 23, Siakam 5-17 3-3 15, Gasol 3-7 2-2 8, Lowry 8-16 12-15 33, VanVleet 5-11 0-0 13, Hol-lis-Jefferson 0-1 0-0 0, Watson 0-0 0-0 0, Boucher 0-1 0-0 0, Ibaka 2-6 0-0 4, Powell 3-12 2-2 8, T.Davis 1-2 0-0 3, Thomas 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 35-84 23-26 107.

L.A. Lakers 21 23 26 22— 92Toronto 23 18 31 35—107Three-point Goals—L.A. Lakers 10-

40 (Kuzma 3-7, James 2-5, Waiters 2-6, A.Davis 1-3, Caruso 1-3, Caldwell-Pope 1-4, Morris 0-5, Green 0-6), Toronto 14-34 (Lowry 5-9, Anunoby 3-3, VanVleet 3-7, Siakam 2-4, Gasol 0-2, Ibaka 0-2, Powell 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 40 (James 10), Toronto 51 (Lowry 14). Assists—L.A. Lakers 17 (James 5), To-ronto 24 (VanVleet 11). Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 25, Toronto 28.

Pacers 127, 76ers 121PHILADELPHIA — Harris 12-29 3-3 30,

Simmons 8-14 3-6 19, Embiid 15-23 10-12 41, Milton 0-1 0-0 0, Richardson 2-4 0-0 4, Horford 4-9 1-1 10, Korkmaz 0-4 3-3 3, Thybulle 1-2 0-0 3, Burks 3-4 0-0 9, Neto 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 46-93 20-25 121.

INDIANA — J.Holiday 2-9 1-2 6, Warren20-29 4-4 53, Turner 4-5 0-0 9, A.Holiday 5-10 4-5 15, Oladipo 6-14 1-2 15, Leaf 2-7 0-2 4, McDermott 4-7 2-2 10, Sampson 2-6 0-0 4, McConnell 3-6 4-4 10, Sumner 0-2 1-2 1. Totals 48-95 17-23 127.

Philadelphia 29 26 32 34—121Indiana 35 26 20 46—127Three-point Goals—Philadelphia 9-25

(Burks 3-3, Harris 3-8, Embiid 1-5, Kork-maz 0-4), Indiana 14-34 (Warren 9-12, Oladipo 2-6, A.Holiday 1-3, J.Holiday 1-5, Leaf 0-2, McDermott 0-2, Sumner 0-2). Fouled Out—Philadelphia None, Indi-ana 1 (Turner). Rebounds—Philadelphia 55 (Embiid 21), Indiana 34 (Oladipo 7). Assists—Philadelphia 20 (Embiid, Sim-mons 4), Indiana 31 (A.Holiday 10). TotalFouls—Philadelphia 30, Indiana 25.

Clippers 126, Pelicans 103NEW ORLEANS — Ingram 5-11 2-2 14,

Williamson 3-7 1-2 7, Favors 5-7 2-4 12, Ball 2-6 1-2 7, Holiday 2-7 0-0 4, Hart 2-3 0-0 5, Hayes 4-5 1-1 9, K.Williams 0-0 0-2 0, Melli 2-9 4-6 8, Alexander-Walker 6-7 1-2 15, F.Jackson 5-15 1-2 11, Moore 0-2 0-0 0, Redick 2-6 5-5 11. Totals 38-85 18-28 103.

L.A. CLIPPERS — Leonard 6-16 10-11 24,Morris Sr. 4-9 0-0 9, Zubac 1-2 4-8 6, Bev-erley 3-6 0-0 9, George 8-17 4-5 28, Coffey1-2 0-0 3, Mann 1-5 0-0 3, Patterson 1-6 0-0 3, Green 3-6 0-0 9, Noah 0-1 4-4 4, McGrud-er 2-3 0-0 4, R.Jackson 5-9 2-2 15, Shamet 2-5 3-5 9. Totals 37-87 27-35 126.

New Orleans 25 20 21 37—103L.A. Clippers 37 40 26 23—126Three-point Goals—New Orleans 9-30

(Alexander-Walker 2-3, Ball 2-4, Redick 2-4, Ingram 2-5, Hart 1-2, F.Jackson 0-3, Holiday 0-3, Melli 0-6), L.A. Clippers 25-47 (George 8-11, R.Jackson 3-4, Beverley 3-5, Green 3-5, Shamet 2-5, Leonard 2-6, Coffey 1-2, Morris Sr. 1-2, Patterson 1-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New Orleans 48 (Favors 9), L.A. Clippers 48 (Zubac 9). As-sists—New Orleans 24 (F.Jackson 6), L.A. Clippers 23 (Leonard 5). Total Fouls—New Orleans 23, L.A. Clippers 28.

Thunder 110, Jazz 94UTAH — Ingles 3-6 0-0 7, O’Neale 3-5

2-2 10, Gobert 5-6 0-2 10, Conley 3-9 5-5 12, Mitchell 5-15 3-3 13, Bradley 3-8 0-0 6, Morgan 1-2 2-2 4, Niang 3-10 0-0 7, Tucker 1-1 0-0 2, Clarkson 4-17 1-2 11, Mudiay 2-5 5-6 9, Oni 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 34-87 18-22 94.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Gallinari 5-10 3-3 15, Gilgeous-Alexander 6-12 5-6 19, Adams 7-10 2-5 16, Dort 2-8 0-0 5, Paul 7-11 3-3 18, Diallo 3-6 1-1 9, Ferguson 0-2 0-0 0, Nader 1-1 0-0 2, Noel 1-1 1-2 3, Roberson 0-0 0-0 0, Muscala 0-2 0-0 0, Bazley 4-6 0-0 10, Schro-der 5-8 3-4 13. Totals 41-77 18-24 110.

Utah 15 27 20 32— 94Oklahoma City 29 37 20 24—110Three-point Goals—Utah 8-31 (O’Neale

2-4, Clarkson 2-5, Oni 1-2, Conley 1-3,Ingles 1-4, Niang 1-7, Mitchell 0-4), Okla-homa City 10-26 (Diallo 2-2, Bazley 2-3, Gilgeous-Alexander 2-5, Gallinari 2-6, Dort 1-5, Schroder 0-2). Fouled Out—Utah1 (Bradley), Oklahoma City None. Re-bounds—Utah 35 (Gobert 7), Oklahoma City 47 (Adams 11). Assists—Utah 17 (Conley, Ingles, Mitchell 4), Oklahoma City 19 (Paul 7). Total Fouls—Utah 21, Oklahoma City 21.

Heat 125, Nuggets 105MIAMI — Butler 6-11 10-11 22, Crowder

3-4 0-0 9, Adebayo 7-12 8-10 22, Nunn 5-7 0-0 11, Robinson 5-9 4-4 17, Hill 0-0 0-0 0, Olynyk 8-11 0-0 20, Iguodala 1-2 0-0 3, Jones Jr. 0-2 1-2 1, Dragic 2-7 9-10 13, Herro 3-7 0-0 7. Totals 40-72 32-37 125.

DENVER — Millsap 3-9 1-2 8, Porter Jr.4-11 1-1 11, Jokic 7-16 4-6 19, Craig 4-7 0-0 10, Morris 3-7 7-8 13, Bates-Diop 0-0 0-0 0, Bol 2-4 1-1 5, Dozier 3-11 0-0 6, Grant 7-14 4-5 19, Vonleh 1-1 0-0 2, Plumlee 3-4 1-1 7, Daniels 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 39-89 19-24 105.

Miami 28 28 38 31—125Denver 26 31 22 26—105Three-point Goals—Miami 13-29

(Olynyk 4-6, Crowder 3-4, Robinson 3-7,Iguodala 1-2, Nunn 1-2, Herro 1-4, Dragic0-3), Denver 8-35 (Craig 2-5, Porter Jr. 2-8, Daniels 1-3, Millsap 1-3, Grant 1-4, Jokic 1-5, Morris 0-2, Dozier 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 38 (Adebayo9), Denver 38 (Jokic 7). Assists—Miami 29 (Butler 7), Denver 28 (Jokic 6). TotalFouls—Miami 28, Denver 32.

ASHLEY LANDIS, POOL/AP

The Raptors’ Serge Ibaka shoots against the Lakers’ Anthony Davis during the second half on Saturday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

KEVIN C. COX, POOL/AP

The Clippers’ Reggie Jackson shoots against the Pelicans’ Frank Jackson on Saturday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

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Stanley Cup qualifiers(Best-of-five)x-if necessary

EASTERN CONFERENCE At Toronto

N.Y. Rangers 0, Carolina 1Saturday: Carolina 3, N.Y. Rangers 2Monday: Carolina vs. N.Y. RangersTuesday: N.Y. Rangers vs. Carolinax-Thursday: N.Y. Rangers vs. Carolinax-Saturday, Aug. 8: Carolina vs. N.Y.

RangersFlorida 0, N.Y. Islanders 1

Saturday: N.Y. Islanders 2, Florida 1Tuesday: N.Y. Islanders vs. FloridaWednesday: Florida vs. N.Y. Islandersx-Friday: Florida vs. N.Y. Islandersx-Sunday, Aug. 9: N.Y. Islanders vs.

FloridaMontreal 1, Pittsburgh 0

Saturday: Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT

Monday: Pittsburgh vs. MontrealWednesday: Montreal vs. Pittsburghx-Friday: Montreal vs. Pittsburghx-Saturday, Aug. 8: Pittsburgh vs.

MontrealColumbus vs. Toronto

Sunday: Toronto vs. ColumbusTuesday: Toronto vs. ColumbusThursday: Columbus vs. Torontox-Friday: Columbus vs. Torontox-Sunday, Aug. 9: Toronto vs. Colum-

busROUND ROBIN

(determines Stanley CupPlayoff seeding)

Sunday: Boston vs. PhiladelphiaMonday: Tampa Bay vs. WashingtonWednesday: Boston vs. Tampa BayThursday: Philadelphia vs. Washing-

tonSaturday, Aug. 8: Washington vs. Bos-

tonSunday, Aug. 9: Tampa Bay vs. Phila-

delphiaWESTERN CONFERENCE

WEST QUALIFYING ROUND(Best-of-5)Edmonton

Chicago 1, Edmonton 0Saturday: Chicago 6, Edmonton 4Monday: Edmonton vs. ChicagoWednesday: Chicago vs. Edmontonx-Friday: Chicago vs. Edmontonx-Saturday, Aug. 8: Edmonton vs. Chi-

cagoWinnipeg 0, Calgary 1

Saturday: Calgary 4, Winnipeg 1Monday: Calgary vs. WinnipegTuesday: Winnipeg vs. Calgaryx-Thursday: Winnipeg vs. CalgarySaturday, Aug. 8: Calgary vs. Winni-

pegArizona vs. Nashville

Sunday: Nashville vs. ArizonaTuesday: Nashville vs. ArizonaWednesday,: Arizona vs. Nashvillex-Friday: Arizona vs. Nashvillex-Sunday, Aug. 9: Nashville vs. Ari-

zonaMinnesota vs. Vancouver

Sunday: Vancouver vs. MinnesotaTuesday: Vancouver vs. MinnesotaThursday: Minnesota vs. Vancouverx-Friday: Minnesota vs. Vancouverx-Sunday, Aug. 9: Vancouver vs. Min-

nesotaROUND ROBIN

(determines Stanley CupPlayoff seeding)

Sunday: Colorado vs. St. LouisMonday: Las Vegas vs. DallasWednesday: Dallas vs. ColoradoThursday: St. Louis vs. Las VegasSaturday, Aug. 8: Colorado vs. Las Ve-

gasx-Sunday, Aug. 9: St. Louis vs. Dallas

SaturdayFlames 4, Jets 1

Winnipeg 1 0 0—1Calgary 0 3 1—4

First Period—1, Winnipeg, Copp 11 (Kulikov, Lowry), 8:51.

Second Period—2, Calgary, Gaudreau 19 (Monahan, Lindholm), 7:06 (pp). 3, Calgary, Rieder 5 (Brodie), 12:51 (sh). 4, Calgary, Backlund 17 (Mangiapane, Lu-cic), 18:14 (pp).

Third Period—5, Calgary, Mangiapane 18, 18:19 (en).

Shots on Goal—Winnipeg 7-6-5—18. Calgary 9-18-6—33.

Power-play opportunities—Winnipeg 0 of 7; Calgary 2 of 4.

Goalies—Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 31-21-5 (32 shots-29 saves). Calgary, Talbot 12-10-1 (18-17).

A—0 (18,641). T—2:26.

Canadiens 3, Penguins 2Montreal 1 1 0 1—3Pittsburgh 0 2 0 0—2

First Period—1, Montreal, Kotkaniemi 7 (Byron, Kulak), 11:27.

Second Period—2, Montreal, Suzuki 14, 6:53. 3, Pittsburgh, Crosby 17 (Guent-zel, Schultz), 9:55. 4, Pittsburgh, Rust 28 (McCann, Hornqvist), 12:34 (pp).

Overtime—5, Montreal, Petry 12, -2:57.Shots on Goal—Montreal 6-13-4-12—

35. Pittsburgh 18-8-8-7—41.Power-play opportunities—Montreal

0 of 2; Pittsburgh 1 of 7.Goalies—Montreal, Price 28-25-6 (41

shots-39 saves). Pittsburgh, Murray 20-11-6 (35-32).

A—0 (18,819). T—3:01.

Islanders 2, Panthers 1Florida 0 0 1—1N.Y. Islanders 1 1 0—2

First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Pageau 27 (Brassard), 12:00.

Second Period—2, N.Y. Islanders, Beauvillier 19 (Toews, Bailey), 3:39 (pp).

Third Period—3, Florida, Huberdeau 24 (Weegar, Barkov), 0:23.

Shots on Goal—Florida 9-14-5—28. N.Y. Islanders 11-7-10—28.

Power-play opportunities—Florida 0 of 1; N.Y. Islanders 1 of 3.

Goalies—Florida, Bobrovsky 23-20-6 (28 shots-26 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Var-lamov 20-14-6 (28-27).

A—0 (18,819). T—2:25.

Blackhawks 6, Oilers 4Chicago 4 2 0—6Edmonton 1 1 2—4

First Period—1, Edmonton, McDavid 35 (Klefbom, Draisaitl), 2:34 (pp). 2, Chi-cago, Strome 13, 5:51. 3, Chicago, Toews 19 (Kubalik, Kane), 7:56 (pp). 4, Chicago, Saad 22 (Kubalik, Maatta), 9:17. 5, Chica-go, Toews 20 (Kubalik, Saad), 12:57.

Second Period—6, Edmonton, Drai-saitl 44 (Nugent-Hopkins, McDavid), 4:13 (pp). 7, Chicago, Kubalik 31 (Dach, Keith), 6:32 (pp). 8, Chicago, Kubalik 32 (Toews, Keith), 17:35 (pp).

Third Period—9, Edmonton, Neal 20 (McDavid, Nugent-Hopkins), 16:07 (pp). 10, Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 23 (Klef-bom, McDavid), 16:43.

Shots on Goal—Chicago 16-16-10—42. Edmonton 8-12-9—29.

Power-play opportunities—Chicago 3 of 6; Edmonton 3 of 4.

Goalies—Chicago, Crawford 17-20-3 (29 shots-25 saves). Edmonton, Koskinen 18-13-3 (19-18), Edmonton, Smith 19-13-6 (23-18).

A—0 (18,641). T—2:27.

Hurricanes 3, Rangers 2N.Y. Rangers 0 1 1—2Carolina 1 1 1—3

First Period—1, Carolina, Slavin 7 (Aho, Teravainen), 1:01.

Second Period—2, Carolina, Aho 39 (Vatanen, Svechnikov), 6:29. 3, N.Y. Rang-ers, Zibanejad 42 (Kreider, Lindgren), 14:26 (pp).

Third Period—4, Carolina, Necas 17 (Niederreiter, Slavin), 10:51 (sh). 5, N.Y. Rangers, Staal 3 (Panarin, Zibanejad), 18:05.

Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 4-15-7—26. Carolina 12-11-14—37.

Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Rang-ers 0 of 7; Carolina 1 of 7.

Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 10-13-3 (37 shots-34 saves). Carolina, Mrazek 22-16-2 (26-24).

A—0 (18,819). T—2:28.

NATHAN DENETTE, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP

The Montreal Canadiens’ Jeff Petry, left, celebrates along with Brendan Gallagher after scoring against Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray during OT in Toronto on Saturday.

Monday, August 3, 2020

NHL

Associated Press

TORONTO — Jeff Petry scored at 13:57 of overtime, Carey Price made 39 saves and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Saturday night in Game 1 of their best-of-five quali-fying round series.

Petry picked up a loose puck in the right faceoff circle and ripped a shot past goalie Matt Murray.

The game was played at empty Scotiabank Arena in the NHL’s return following a 142-day ab-sence after COVID-19 ground the sport to a halt.

Jonathan Drouin had a chance to win it for Montreal in overtime on a penalty shot when he was held on a breakaway, but the puck rolled off the end of his stick and dribbled wide.

Pittsburgh’s Conor Sheary also failed on a penalty shot with 3:03 left in regulation, missing the net. The game was the first NHL post-season contest with two penalty shots since March 29, 1923.

Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Nick Suzuki scored to give 12th-seed-

ed Montreal a 2-0 lead early in the second period.

The fifth-seeded Penguins ral-lied midway through the period with Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust connecting in a 2:39 span.

Montreal killed off a 5-on-3 power play for 1:32 early in the third period despite sustained pressure. Both teams then failed to connect on 5-on-4 advantages, with Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin coming closest from the slot.

Blackhawks 6, Oilers 4: Rook-ie winger Dominik Kubalik had two goals and three assists to help Chicagobeat host Edmonton in Game 1 of the best-of-five quali-fying round series.

The game was played in front of tarps, massive video screens, and empty seats at Rogers Place, which is hosting the 12 Western Conference teams as the NHL completes the 2019-20 season.

Islanders 2, Panthers 1: Semyon Varlamov stopped 27 shots and New York opened the series in Torontowith a victory over Florida.

Anthony Beauvillier scored ona power play at 3:39 of the sec-ond period. The goal came a littleover a minute after Florida’s MikeMatheson was penalized for a hitto the head on defenseman John-ny Boychuk, who did not return.

Hurricanes 3, Rangers 2: Se-bastian Aho had a goal and an as-sist in Carolina’s opening victoryover New York in Toronto.

Jaccob Slavin scored 1:01 sec-onds in on Carolina’s first shot ongoal. Martin Necas also scored and Petr Mrazek stopped 24shots. Mika Zibanejad and Marc Staal scored for the Rangers.

Flames 4, Jets 1: JohnnyGaudreau and Mikael Backlundscored power-play goals to leadCalgary past Winnipeg in theopener of their qualifying roundseries in Edmonton, Alberta.

Tobias Rieder had a short-handed goal and Andrew Man-giapane added an empty-netterfor Calgary. Cam Talbot stopped17 shots.

Game 2 in the best-of-5 seriesis Monday.

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limited to the benches side of the ice. These electronic banners will feature team logos, as well as vid-eos of each team’s fans chanting.

In each of the end zones are NHL Eastern Conference ban-ners book-ending a banner that reads “Stanley Cup Qualifiers 2020.”

The remainder of the arena is as is, with the 19 Maple Leafs player banners, from Frank Ma-hovlich in the west end to Doug Gilmour in the east, and Turk Broda smack dab in the middle.

Behind them are the Raptors banners, including the 2019 NBA championship, and beyond the row of Maple Leafs Stanley Cup banners.

Outside the arena, the streets are generally bare of people, with Maple Leaf Square fenced off and with security personnel at each entrance. The largest crowd was the line of about eight people awaiting entry into the provincial liquor store in the shopping plaza across the street from the arena.

Inside, there were reminders of the pandemic: the ice crew wearing masks, disinfection of benches at intermission and the din of piped-in crowd noise filling the air.

On the top banner of the video scoreboard at center, are the words: “#WeSkateForBLACK-LIVES.” Minnesota’s Mathew

Dumba made a pregame speech in Edmonton on behalf of the Hockey Diversity Alliance he and several other Black players started recently.

“Racism is everywhere, and we need to fight against it,” Dumba said. “We will fight against injus-tice and fight for what is right. I hope this inspires a new genera-tion of hockey players and hockey fans because Black lives matter, Breonna Taylor’s life matters. Hockey is a great game, but it could be a whole lot greater, and it starts with all of us.”

Dumba kneeled during the U.S. anthem, with Black players Mal-colm Subban and Darnell Nurse standing with a hand on each of his shoulders.

In Toronto, the NHL debuted

a video honoring those involvedin racial justice issues front-linehealthcare workers, which wasbroadcast just before the anthems of the game between Montrealand Pittsburgh.

With teams lined up at the blueline and at their benches, the video narrator particularly ad-dressed the Black Lives Mattermovement.

“When an issue is bigger thanthe game, we must speak out starting with three words we needto get comfortable saying: BlackLives Matter,” the narrator said.“We must be clear about what weskate for. We skate for black lives. And even in an empty arena, wenever skate alone. Together, wemust be part of the movement toend racism.”

Canadiens beat Penguins 3-2 in overtime in Game 1

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The Minnesota Wild’s Matt Dumba takes a knee during the national anthem while flanked by the Oilers’ Darnell Nurse, right, and Chicago Blackhawks’ Malcolm Subban before an NHL Stanley Cup playoff game in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday.

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No lack of intensity as NHL playoffs get underway

Above: The New York Rangers’ Ryan Strome, left, fights with the Carolina Hurricanes’ Justin Williams during the first period of the NHL’s first game since March 11. Frank Gunn, The Canadian Press/AP

BY JOHN WAWROW ANDSTEPHEN WHYNO

Associated Press

TORONTO

Players watching the open-ing minutes of the first NHL game in several months mar-veled at the familiar feeling from half a continent away.

“Not necessarily laughing but just (no-ticing) how intense it was right away,” Vancouver’s Tyler Toffoli said.

If the first game is any indication, hockey hasn’t missed a beat.

The most unusual playoffs in league history got underway Saturday with games in the Canadian cities of Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta. The dynamics

are far different than usual: It’s the mid-dle of summer and all games are being played in empty arenas. But the big hits and fight from Game 1 provided ample evidence the Stanley Cup is still on the line.

“It was a boxing match back and forth,” New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist said after a 3-2 loss to the Car-olina Hurricanes in Toronto in the NHL’s

first game since March 11.Carolina’s Jaccob Slavin carved his

name into history 61 seconds in with the first NHL goal ever scored in August. Teammate Justin Williams fought Ryan Strome a couple of minutes later, and the Hurricanes took a big step by taking a 1-0 lead in their best-of-five qualifying round series.

The Oilers and Chicago Blackhawks

picked right up with five goals in the first 13 minutes of their Game 1 in Edmon-ton. The New York Islanders didn’t lose a stingy step in keeping the high-scoring Florida Panthers in check with a 2-1 win.

The wall-to-wall hockey on opening day also had the Montreal Canadiens against the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Winnipeg Jets against the Calgary Flames.

At Scotiabank Arena, the first dozen or so rows are covered in grey and white tarp, with the NHL shield on four of them and Toronto in all capital letters on an-other four.

Above them are electronic banners with NHL logos on them and a TV view-ing platform at center ice, all of them

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‘ It was a boxing match back and forth. ’Henrik Lundqvist

New York Rangers goaltender