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TOKYO — Submarines proliferating in the

South China Sea are increasing risks in al-

ready treacherous waters, security experts

said Friday, a day after the Navy announced

an undersea collision in the Indo-Pacific.

The USS Connecticut, a Sea Wolf-class

fast-attack submarine, was damaged Oct. 2,

when it collided with something while sub-

merged in international waters in the region,

the Navy said Thursday.

The statement, which did not describe the

object that was struck, said several sailors

suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Dam-

age to the Connecticut is still being assessed,

but the vessel has been moving on the surface

toward Guam since the incident.

A spokesman for the Hawaii-based Pacific

Sailors man the bridge aboard Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Alabama while conducting operations in the Pacific Ocean onJune 17. A collision involving the USS Connecticut on Oct. 2 in the Indo-Pacific has raised concerns about increased undersea activity

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The Army is a step closer to

fielding its “Dark Eagle” hyper-

sonic missile after equipping sol-

diers with ground launchers that

would fire the weapon at much

higher speed and with greater

precision than the service’s cur-

rent artillery systems.

The 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Ar-

tillery Regiment based at Joint

Base Lewis-McChord in Washing-

ton state was issued the first proto-

type hypersonic ground equip-

ment, the Army announced

Thursday.

“Today marks an important

milestone in equipping our na-

tion’s first hypersonic battery. …

Now, Soldiers can begin training,”

Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood, direc-

tor of the Army’s hypersonics pro-

gram, said in a statement.

The hardware included a bat-

tery operations center, four trans-

porter erector launchers, and

modified trucks and trailers need-

ed to support the Army’s Long

Range Hypersonic Weapon.

Still missing is the missile itself.

But the Army expects the weapon

U.S. Army

Prototype launchers for theArmy's new hypersonic missileare delivered Thursday at JointBase Lewis-McChord, Wash.

Army fields‘Dark Eagle’prototypelaunchers

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• S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Monday, October 11, 2021

BUSINESS/WEATHER

ROME — Thousands of demon-

strators marched down Rome’s

famous Via Veneto and other

streets on Saturday, some smash-

ing their way into a union office

and clashing with police as they

protested Italy’s new “Green

Pass” vaccination requirement

for employees to enter their offic-

es.

The certification is mandatory

beginning on Oct. 15 and applies to

public and private workplaces.

Both employees and employers

risk fines if they don’t comply.

Public sector workers can be sus-

pended if they show up five times

without a Green Pass. The pass is

already required in Italy to enter

museums, theaters, gyms and in-

door restaurants, as well as to take

long-distance trains and buses or

domestic flights.

The passes show that a person

has had least one COVID-19 vac-

cine dose, recovered from the vi-

rus in the last six months or tested

negative in the last 48 hours.

The protesters first held a noisy,

authorized protest Saturday in

Rome’s Piazza Del Popolo. Then

they left the vast square and

clashed with police as they headed

through Villa Borghese Park and

down the Via Veneto in an unau-

thorized march.

RAI State TV said demonstra-

tors numbered at least 10,000,

while organizers claimed 100,000

people. At least one protester was

injured, RAI said. Among the pro-

testers were proponents of an ex-

treme right-wing group, Forza

Nuova, Italian media reported.

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EUROPE

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Ger-

many — Hundreds of Afghans left

Ramstein Air Base late Saturday

as flights to the U.S. resumed fol-

lowing a three-week pause im-

posed after measles cases were

confirmed among evacuees.

“We really are excited to be fin-

ishing up this herculean effort,”

Ramstein installation commander

Brig. Gen. Josh Olson told Stars

and Stripes. “It’s taken much long-

er than expected but it’s an awe-

some ending to what’s been quite

an effort, quite an opportunity —

the world’s largest airlift for

124,000 people.”

Around 300 evacuees were on

board the specially chartered Om-

ni Air International flight that left

Ramstein, bound for Philadel-

phia.

The plane and personnel who

loaded the evacuees’ luggage,

much of it packed in reusable

shopping bags, were provided by

the 521st Air Mobility Operations

wing, led by Col. Adrienne Wil-

liams. The 86th Airlift Wing, led

by Olson, fed, clothed and shel-

tered the evacuees for the weeks

they were in Germany.

“It’s awesome that we are able

to provide a pathway to a new life

of freedom and opportunity,” Wil-

liams said as she and Olson waited

on the tarmac to say goodbye to

the first group of Afghans to head

to the U.S. again.

“We’re saving lives but we’re al-

so giving them another chance at

life.”

Officials at Ramstein expect to

fly around 1,000 evacuees a day to

the U.S. in the coming days, mean-

ing the roughly 9,000 Afghans who

have been housed in hastily erect-

ed camps at Ramstein and nearby

Rhine Ordnance Barracks should

all have left Germany in a little

over a week.

The first evacuees arrived at

Ramstein at the end of August af-

ter U.S. bases in the Middle East

that were temporarily housing

them reached capacity. Among

those airlifted out of Afghanistan

were American citizens, legal res-

idents, Special Immigrant Visa

holders, and their families.

When the flights resumed, only

a couple of the evacuees in Ger-

many were U.S. citizens, an offi-

cial told Stars and Stripes. He

asked not to be named because he

was speaking in an unofficial ca-

pacity.

The German government origi-

nally agreed to allow evacuees to

remain on U.S. military installa-

tions in the country for up to 10

days.

But in mid-September, flights

were abruptly halted when four

measles cases were discovered

among Afghans who had arrived

in the U.S. from overseas bases.

One case of the highly contagious

illness was detected in an Afghan

child in Germany, who went into

quarantine with her family.

Within days, U.S. military per-

sonnel in Germany began giving

measles, mumps and rubella shots

to the thousands of evacuees stuck

at Ramstein and ROB, both in the

Kaiserslautern area. Tens of thou-

sands of Afghans who were al-

ready in the U.S. were also vacci-

nated.

After the three-day inoculation

drive had been completed, the

U.S. Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention said evacuees in

Germany would have to quaran-

tine for three weeks before travel-

ing on to the U.S.

Germany agreed to accommo-

date the Afghans for longer than

initially anticipated, State Depart-

ment spokesman Andy Halus said

last month.

During the evacuees’ extended

time on Ramstein and ROB,

“we’ve been able to keep them bu-

sy with soccer games, cultural en-

gagement, English classes, and

more,” Olson said.

Bonds have formed, but “the Af-

ghans are very excited to continue

on to the U.S.,” he added.

They have undergone stringent

vetting, said Joe Giordono-Scholz,

aspokesman for the U.S. Embassy

in Berlin.

“Anybody traveling to the U.S.

from here would have the same or

even higher levels of screening

than a normal traveler would,” he

told Stars and Stripes.

As the first evacuees arrived at

the waiting plane on Saturday

night, an Afghan boy’s face lit up

as he walked the few steps from

the shuttle bus toward the Omni

Air International Boeing 777.

It wasn’t the aircraft that had

excited him, though. The young

boy had spotted an airman near

the bus. He broke away from the

group, gave a farewell fist-bump

to the American, and then ran up

the stairs and disappeared into the

plane.

Flights carrying Afghans to US resumeBY KARIN ZEITVOGEL

Stars and Stripes

JACOB WONGWAI/U.S. Air Force

An Afghan evacuee makes a peace or victory sign as he makes his way to a waiting area in a passenger terminal at Ramstein Air Base,Germany, before traveling to the United States, on Saturday.

JARED LOVETT/U.S. Air Force

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Manuel Villarreal, 691st Cyber OperationsSquadron virtual operations supervisor, offers his patch to an evacueeat Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Saturday.

EDGAR GRIMALDO/U.S. Air Force

Transportation Security Administration inspector Dale Wursten has anAfghan evacuee help take pictures of their family members beforeboarding flights to the United States from Ramstein Air Base.

[email protected]: @StripesZeit

“We’re saving lives but we’re alsogiving them another chance at life.”

Col. Adrienne Williams

U.S. Air Force


MILITARY

A Navy nuclear engineer and

his wife have been charged with

repeatedly trying to pass secrets

about U.S. nuclear submarines to

a foreign country, in an alleged

espionage plot discovered by the

FBI, according to court docu-

ments.

Authorities said Jonathan

Toebbe, who has a top-secret

clearance, “has passed, and con-

tinues to pass, Restricted Data as

defined by the Atomic Energy

Act ... to a foreign government ...

with the witting assistance of his

spouse, Diana Toebbe,” accord-

ing to a criminal complaint filed

in West Virginia and unsealed

Sunday.

The court papers say that in

December 2020, an FBI official

received a package that had been

sent to the foreign country con-

taining U.S. Navy documents, a

letter and instructions for how to

conduct encrypted communica-

tions with the person offering the

information.

The letter in the package said:

“Please forward this letter to

your military intelligence agency.

I believe this information will be

of great value to your nation. This

is not a hoax.”

The FBI then posed as spies for

the foreign country and began

communicating with the person,

suggesting a meeting, but the per-

son said both options were too

risky, noting that they were risk-

ing their life in offering the infor-

mation to the foreign govern-

ment.

Eventually, the undercover

FBI agent convinced Toebbe to

conduct a “dead drop” of infor-

mation in late June in West Vir-

ginia’s Jefferson County, accord-

ing to the charging papers.

His wife, Diana Toebbe, ap-

peared to be “acting as a lookout”

when he dropped off the material,

according to the court filing.

The FBI later recovered the

package Toebbe left behind, and

inside found a 16-gigabyte data

card. The card, authorities said,

“was wrapped in plastic and

placed between two slices of

bread on a half of a peanut butter

sandwich. The half sandwich was

housed inside of a plastic bag.”

The card contained details of

the design, operations and per-

formance of Virginia-class nucle-

ar submarine reactors.

Toebbe and his wife were

charged with conspiracy to com-

municate restricted data and

communication of restricted data.

The couple were arrested Satur-

day in West Virginia and are due

to make their first court appear-

ance on Tuesday.

Navy engineer, wife charged with trying togive submarine secrets to foreign country

The Washington Post

NAPLES, Italy — Twenty pal-

lets of extra donations originally

intended for Afghan refugees

went to two Catholic charities in-

stead in a giveaway by Naval Air

Station Sigonella and Italian air

force officials.

The donations were made

Thursday to an aid organization

and a soup kitchen in Acireale, a

commune of Catania, an NAS Si-

gonella statement said.

Items donated included cloth-

ing, personal hygiene products

and baby toiletries, said Lt. Drake

Greer, an NAS Sigonella spokes-

man.

Working with the Italian air

force and the Italian government,

NAS Sigonella served as a transit

site for evacuees prior to their re-

location as part of the U.S. State

Department’s Operation Allies

Refuge.

“Today’s solidarity initiative

shows the full partnership be-

tween NAS Sigonella and the Ital-

ian Air Force to reciprocate the

great generosity of the Sicilian

community,” said Alberto Lunet-

ta, the external relations director

for NAS Sigonella.

During the evacuations, NAS Si-

gonella hosted 4,283 travelers on

21 flights and provided lodging for

3,187 people at one time, the base

statement said.

As of Sept. 16, 100 evacuees re-

mained at the base. Flights to the

United States from overseas

bases, which were halted for

weeks because of small numbers

of measles cases found among

evacuees, were expected to re-

sume over the Columbus Day

weekend.

NAS Sigonella

Naval Air Station Sigonella and Italian air force officials donated 20 pallets of surplus contributions forAfghan evacuees to local charities in Sicily on Thursday.

Donation surplus for Afghan refugees atNAS Sigonella returned for local charity

BY ALISON BATH

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @TMSWatchdog

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban on

Saturday ruled out cooperation with

the United States to contain extre-

mist groups in Afghanistan, staking

out an uncompromising position on

a key issue ahead of the first direct

talks between the former foes since

America withdrew from the coun-

try in August.

Senior Taliban officials and U.S.

representatives are meeting this

weekend in Doha, the capital of Qa-

tar. Officials from both sides have

said issues include reining in extre-

mist groups and the evacuation of

foreign citizens and Afghans from

the country. The Taliban have sig-

naled flexibility on evacuations.

Taliban political spokesman Su-

hail Shaheen told The Associated

Press, however, that there would be

no cooperation with Washington on

containing the increasingly active

Islamic State group in Afghanistan.

The ISIS group operating in the

country, also known as ISIS-K, has

taken responsibility for a number of

recent attacks, including a suicide

bombing Friday that killed 46 mi-

nority Shiite Muslims and wounded

dozens as they prayed in a mosque

in the northern city of Kunduz.

“We are able to tackle Daesh in-

dependently,” Shaheen said, when

asked whether the Taliban would

work with the U.S. to contain the Is-

lamic State affiliate. He used an Ar-

abic acronym for ISIS-K.

ISIShas carried out relentless as-

saults on the country’s Shiites since

emerging in eastern Afghanistan in

2014. It is also seen as the terror

group that poses the greatest threat

to the U.S. for its potential to stage

attacks on American targets.

The weekend meetings in Doha

are the first since U.S. forces with-

drew from Afghanistan in late Au-

gust, ending a 20-year military pres-

ence as the Taliban overran the

country. The U.S. has made it clear

the talks are not a preamble to rec-

ognition.

The talks also come on the heels

of two days of difficult discussions

between Pakistani officials and U.S.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy

Sherman in Islamabad that focused

on Afghanistan. Pakistani officials

urged the U.S. to engage with Af-

ghanistan’s new rulers and release

billions of dollars in international

funds to stave off an economic melt-

down.

Pakistan also had a message for

the Taliban, urging them to become

more inclusive and pay attention to

human rights and minority ethnic

and religious groups.

Later on Saturday, Doha-based

Al-Jazeera English reported the

talks had kicked off. The news outlet

cited Ameer Khan Muttaqi, the Ta-

liban-appointed foreign minister

for Afghanistan, as saying the Tali-

ban had asked the U.S. to lift its ban

on the reserves of the Afghan cen-

tral bank.

Following Friday’s attack, Af-

ghanistan’s Shiite clerics assailed

the Taliban, demanding greater

protection at their places of wor-

ship. The ISIS-K affiliate claimed

responsibility and identified the

bomber as a Uyghur Muslim. The

claim said the attack targeted both

Shiites and the Taliban for their pur-

ported willingness to expel Uygh-

urs to meet demands from China. It

was the deadliest attack since U.S.

and NATO troops left Afghanistan

on Aug. 30.

Michael Kugelman, deputy di-

rector of the Asia Program at the

U.S.-based Wilson Center, said Fri-

day’s attack could be a harbinger of

more violence. Most of the Uyghur

militants belong to the East Turkes-

tan Islamic Movement, which has

found a safe haven in the border re-

gions of Pakistan and Afghanistan

for decades.

“If the (ISIS-K) claim is true, Chi-

na’s concerns about terrorism in

(Afghanistan) — to which the Tali-

ban claims to be receptive — will in-

crease,” he tweeted following the at-

tack.

Meanwhile, the Taliban on Satur-

day began busing Afghans who had

fled from the insurgents’ blitz take-

over in August and were living in

tents in a Kabul park back to their

homes in the country’s north, where

threats from ISIS-K are mounting

following the Kunduz attack.

ATaliban official in charge of ref-

ugees, Mohammed Arsa Kharoti,

said there are up to 1.3 million Af-

ghans displaced from past wars and

that the Taliban lack funds to orga-

nize the return home for all. He said

the Taliban have organized the re-

turn of 1,005 displaced families to

their homes so far.

Shokria Khanm, who had spent

several weeks in one of the tents in

the park and was waiting Saturday

to board the Taliban-organized bus

back home to Kunduz, said she isn’t

concerned about the growing

ISIS-K threat in the northern prov-

ince.

“At least there we have four

walls,” she said, but added that she

was nervous about the future after

fighting between the Taliban and

Afghan government troops had de-

stroyed her house.

“Winter is on the way. There is no

firewood. We need water and food,”

she said.

Taliban said theywon’t work with USto contain ISIS-K

BY KATHY GANNON

Associated Press


PACIFIC

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South

Korea — Less than half of South

Koreans believe it’s necessary to

reunify the war-divided peninsu-

la, the lowest percentage in over a

decade, according to a recent poll

by Seoul National University.

Roughly 44% of respondents to

the survey conducted between Ju-

ly and August said it is at least

somewhat necessary for North

and South Korea to reunify, said

the poll released Tuesday by the

university’s Institute for Peace

and Unification Studies.

The annual in-person poll sur-

veyed 1,200 people between the

ages of 20 and 74 and has a margin

of error of 2.8 percentage points.

The figure represents the low-

est number of people who believe

reunification is necessary since

the poll’s inception in 2007. The

number of respondents who think

it is not essential has been steadily

increasing, from around 16% in

2018 to 29% this year.

The younger generation played

a major role in the decline in sup-

port, according to university re-

searchers. Nearly 43% of respon-

dents between the ages of 20 and

39 said the South does “not really”

need to reunify with the North,

and 34% said the country does not

need to “at all.”

The generational divide is un-

surprising due to the social chang-

es over the past few decades, said

North Korean studies professor

Park Wongon of Ewha Womans

University in Seoul.

“Younger South Koreans have a

very different view of North Ko-

rea compared to the older gener-

ation,” Park told Stars and Stripes

by phone on Wednesday. “The

younger generation of South Ko-

reans haven’t seen North Korea as

the same nation and ethnicity —

they are seeing the North as a to-

tally different entity.”

The survey also asked partici-

pants the reason for their re-

sponses. Roughly 32% of those

who disfavored reunification cit-

ed “economic burdens” imposed

by North Korea, the highest per-

centage among the survey’s choic-

es.

Seoul is expected to absorb

much of the costs associated with

reunification. Previous govern-

ment estimates started at $1 tril-

lion, which, according to the

World Bank, amounts to over 60%

of the country’s gross domestic

product last year. Former South

Korean President Lee Myung-bak

called for a “reunification tax” in

2010, but the proposal was aban-

doned after facing public back-

lash.

Over 26% of the survey’s re-

spondents cited “social problems

that can arise after unification,”

and 21% said they opposed reuni-

fication because of differences in

the countries’ political systems.

South Koreans are also increas-

ingly pessimistic about the possi-

bility of reunification, the poll

said. Roughly 25% said they be-

lieve it is “impossible” while an-

other quarter think it will happen

after 30 years. Only 1.3% believed

reunification is possible within the

next five years.

The two Koreas remain sepa-

rated after the 1950-53 Korean

War, which ended with an armi-

stice agreement rather than a

peace treaty. South Korean Presi-

dent Moon Jae-in last month re-

peated his calls for formally end-

ing the conflict, which senior

North Korean official Kim Yo

Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong

Un, responded to as a “good idea.”

Poll: Only 44% thinkunifying Koreas crucial

BY DAVID CHOI

Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes reporter Yoo Kyong Changcontributed to this [email protected]: @choibboy

AARON KIDD/Stars and Stripes

A reunification banner hangs on a fence near the Demilitarized Zone inPaju, South Korea, on May 24, 2017.

“The younger generation of SouthKoreans haven’t seen North Koreaas the same nation and ethnicity.”

Park Wongon

North Korean studies professor

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South

Korea — North Korea on Thurs-

day downplayed its unresolved

history of abducting Japanese citi-

zens and called for new Prime

Minister Fumio Kishida to be

“discreet about his words and ac-

tions,” days after he raised the is-

sue with the U.S. president.

The abduction issue “was long

resolved perfectly and complete-

ly” after past summits with Tokyo,

North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign

Affairs said in a statement. Ja-

pan’s insistence on raising the is-

sue again is moot, it added.

The communist regime admit-

ted to abducting 13 Japanese citi-

zens in the 1970s and 1980s. Al-

though then-North Korean leader

Kim Jong Il claimed in 2002 that

they were taken by rogue groups

motivated by patriotism, regional

governments widely believe they

were kidnapped by state agents to

provide cultural intelligence on

Japan.

In 2014, North Korea created a

special investigative committee to

track down Japanese citizens in its

country in exchange for loosened

sanctions. Pyongyang dissolved

the group two years later because

of the tense relations spurred by a

North Korean nuclear test.

The Japanese government has

identified 17 victims so far, but

many more are believed to have

been kidnapped. Five were repa-

triated in 2002 following negotia-

tions between the two countries.

Kishida, who took office on Oct.

4, campaigned on raising the issue

during his administration, includ-

ing the possibility of hosting a

summit with North Korea.

He mentioned the abductions

during a 20-minute call with Pres-

ident Joe Biden on Oct. 5, his first

conversation with a world leader.

Kishida asked for “continued un-

derstanding and cooperation to-

wards the immediate resolution”

of the issue, according to a readout

of the call from Japan’s Ministry

of Foreign Affairs. Biden respon-

ded by offering his support.

North Korea said in its state-

ment Thursday that Kishida’s

conversation had an “ulterior pur-

pose” and asked “what he is really

trying to get from the issue.”

“It is most likely that the [North

Korea-Japan] relations would be

set gloomier if the Japanese Prime

Minister makes a wrong start

from the beginning, as it is doing

now,” the statement said.

Japan’s chief cabinet secretary,

Hirokazu Matsuno, declined to

comment on the North’s statement

at a news conference Friday, but

said “we can’t absolutely accept

its claim that the abduction issue

has been resolved.”

The government’s position on

the matter has not changed, Mat-

suno said, and it will continue its

attempts to normalize relations

between Japan and North Korea

through a comprehensive agenda

that includes the abduction issue.

“Abduction is the most impor-

tant issue for the cabinet,” Matsu-

no said, adding that time is of the

essence due to the old age of the

abductees and their families.

N. Korea warns ‘gloomier’ Japan relations amid abductionsBY DAVID CHOI

AND HANA KUSUMOTO

Stars and Stripes

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Commuters in 2018 look at photos of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Koreans in 1977,displayed at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.


MILITARY

The 4th Security Force Assist-

ance Brigade out of Fort Carson, Co-

lo., and the 1st Cavalry Division

Combat Aviation Brigade out of

Fort Hood, Texas, will deploy with-

in the next three months to support

two different missions spread

across Europe, the Army an-

nounced Friday.

The assistance brigade, which is

aspecialized unit tasked to train and

advise partner nations, will support

security cooperation in Europe, the

Army said. Adviser teams from the

brigade will deploy to multiple loca-

tions, which were not identified by

the Army.

The Army’s announcement did

not specify the number of troops de-

ploying with the unit.

“The 4th SFAB provides special-

ized and experienced, purpose-dri-

ven U.S. Army leaders who aim to

increase interoperability in support

of [U.S. Army Europe and Africa]

security cooperation objectives,”

said Col. Robert Born, commander

of the 4th Security Force Assistance

Brigade.

The 1st Air Cavalry Brigade will

send about 2,000 troops to participa-

te in Operation Atlantic Resolve, a

nine-month training rotation in

partnership with more than a dozen

European countries, including Po-

land, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Ro-

mania. Troops will replace the 1st

Infantry Division Combat Aviation

Brigade from Fort Riley, Kan.

“Training to fight and win with

our European partners builds confi-

dence across the globe in NATO’s

combined lethality,” said Col. Reg-

gie Harper, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade

commander.

The training rotations began in

April 2014 and place about 7,000 sol-

diers across the region at any given

time, according to U.S. Army Eu-

rope and Africa.

Army sending aviation and assistance brigades to Europe over 3 monthsBY ROSE L. THAYER

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @Rose_Lori

TOKYO — Hovering an F-35B Lightning

II over the JS Izumo in the Pacific Ocean, a

Marine Corps test pilot pushed his control

stick forward and lowered the stealth fight-

er onto the warship’s deck.

The Oct. 3 landing — the first aboard a Ja-

panese carrier by a fixed-wing aircraft

since World War II — “felt identical” to

those on U.S. vessels, Lt. Col. Robert

Guyette told Stars and Stripes in a phone in-

terview Wednesday.

It’s a familiar feeling for Guyette, 41, the

executive officer for Marine Fighter Attack

Squadron 242 at Marine Corps Air Station

Iwakuni. The Phoenix native has flown all

three variants of the F-35 since transition-

ing from F/A-18 Hornets in 2012.

“I did a lot of testing for the U.S. ships,” he

said of the short takeoff, vertical landing

F-35B. Pilots typically hover 40-70 feet

above a ship before touching down, accord-

ing to Guyette.

“It is surprisingly easy,” he said of the

steps needed to execute a carrier landing in

an F-35B. “It’s simply pushing the stick for-

ward to go down.”

Sailors from the USS America amphib-

ious assault ship were on the Izumo’s deck

helping guide Guyette and his wingman,

Maj. Nicholas Dylan, as they landed and

launched their fighters once each.

Conditions off the southeast coast of the

Japan on Sunday weren’t particularly chal-

lenging, Guyette said. There were no high

winds or sea swells.

“I’ve worked with the America crew be-

fore in much more aggressive environ-

ments, such as rough sea and at night,” he

said.

The focus of Sunday’s test was on captur-

ing data for the Japanese, including the

amount of heat generated by the jet’s en-

gines on the Izumo’s deck.

There wasn’t an opportunity to hop out

and tour the ship, Guyette added.

“My focus was on just executing my

checklist and taxiing the aircraft into the

launch position,” he said.

There also wasn’t time to ponder the his-

torical significance of the operation.

“I don’t know that it’s at the Chuck Yeag-

er level, but there was a fair amount of work

that went into making this happen,”

Guyette said, name-dropping the legendary

Air Force test pilot who was first to break

the sound barrier in 1947.

Staff at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and

members of the Japan Maritime Self-De-

fense Force did a lot of preparation ahead of

the landing to make sure the test was effec-

tive and safe, Guyette said.

“As a test pilot, to do something for the

first time and make it look like it’s easy, and

it was because of all the preparation, that’s

pretty cool,” he said.

The Izumo is the latest non-U.S. warship

to host the F-35B. The Marine Corps jets

have been deployed to the Pacific with the

Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth air-

craft carrier, and U.S. jets conducted sea

trials aboard the Italian carrier Cavour this

spring. MCAS Iwakuni aviators have also

been working with Japan Air Self-Defense

Force F-35A pilots from Misawa Air Base,

Guyette said.

Pilot says Japan carrier landing ‘felt identical’ to those on US shipsBY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

TYLER HARMON/U.S. MARINE CORPS

Lt. Col. Robert Guyette holds up a JSIzumo patch after landing an F35BLightning II aboard the Japanese carrier.

WASHINGTON — Ray Odier-

no, a retired Army general who

commanded American and coali-

tion forces in Iraq at the height of

the war and capped a 39-year ca-

reer by serving as the Army’s

chief of staff, has died, his family

said Saturday. He was 67.

“The general died after a brave

battle with cancer; his death was

not related to COVID,” a family

statement said. “There are no oth-

er details to share at this time. His

family is grateful for the concern

and asks for privacy.”

Odierno died Friday; the family

declined to say where. It said fu-

neral and interment information

was not yet available.

President Joe Biden lauded

Odierno as a “hero of great integ-

rity and honor.” In a joint state-

ment, the president and first lady

Jill Biden recalled that Odierno

spoke at the funeral of their son

Beau, who served under Odierno

in Iraq and died of brain cancer in

2015.

“Ray was a giant in military cir-

cles — dedicated first and always

to the service members he com-

manded and served alongside,”

the Bidens said, adding that

Odierno and his wife, Linda, were

advocates for military children

and families.

“We stand with the Odierno

family and all our brave service

members who were shaped and

molded by General Odierno over

his lifetime of service,” they said.

At 6-foot-5, Odierno was an im-

posing figure. He played football

as a cadet at West Point and re-

tained a lifelong interest in the

sport. Army Secretary Christine

Wormuth wrote on Twitter Satur-

day evening that Odierno embod-

ied the values of West Point and of

the Army itself.

“A leader who was larger than

life, we will remember him always

for his selfless service to our na-

tion and to our soldiers in and out

of uniform,” she wrote.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Aus-

tin, who succeeded Odierno as the

top overall commander in Iraq in

2010, called him a confidant, a

friend and a powerful example.

“Ray was known for his loyalty

— to mission and to his people,”

Austin said in a statement. “He

cared deeply about the troops who

knew him as ‘General O,’ and he

and Linda looked after the fam-

ilies of those troops as if they were

their own.”

Odierno served three tours in

Iraq. After his first, in 2003-04 as

commander of the 4th Infantry Di-

vision, he was criticized by some

for overly aggressive tactics that

some believed fed an insurgency.

At an early high water mark, in

December 2003, his soldiers were

involved in the capture of Iraq’s

deposed president, Saddam Hus-

sein. That success gave hope to

quashing an emerging insurgen-

cy, but in 2004, the insurgency

gained greater momentum and

led to the deadly rise of al-Qaida in

Iraq.

Odierno returned to Iraq in

2006 and served for two years as

commander of Multi-National

Corps-Iraq. In 2008, he took over

as the top overall American and

coalition commander in Baghdad,

leaving in 2010 as combat was

winding down and as President

Barack Obama was adding troops

in Afghanistan.

Army general whocommanded in Iraqdies of cancer, 67

BY ROBERT BURNS

Associated Press

Stars and Stripes

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, center, is seen with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. MartinDempsey and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, before a White House ceremony in 2013.


MILITARY

to be ready by 2023. The Dark Eagle is de-

signed to fly 3,800 mph and hit targets 1,700

miles away with precision.

The U.S. is in a race with Russia and Chi-

na to develop hypersonic weapons systems

and the Pentagon has stepped up funding in

hopes of getting the edge.

Still, some security analysts say the U.S.

is trailing its adversaries in its development

of the weapons.

On Monday, the Russian Defense Minis-

try said it test-fired a hypersonic “Tsirkon”

missile for the first time from a submarine.

In speeches, President Vladimir Putin

has touted Russia’s advances in various hy-

personic systems as “invincible” weaponry.

The Pentagon has been involved in devel-

oping hypersonic weapons since the early

2000s.

But at the time, the U.S. was heavily in-

volved in Iraq and Afghanistan and funding

for such programs was relatively limited.

That has changed in recent years.

“This is due, in part, to advances in these

technologies in Russia and China, leading to

a heightened focus in the United States on

the strategic threat posed by hypersonic

flight,” a July Congressional Research Ser-

vice report said.

Both China and Russia “have conducted

numerous successful tests of hypersonic

glide vehicles and likely fielded an oper-

ational capability,” the report said.U.S. ARMY

The first prototype hypersonic hardware is delivered to soldiers of 5th Battalion, 3rdField Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade at Joint Base LewisMcChord,Wash.

Launchers: US in race with Russia,China to develop hypersonic systemsFROM PAGE 1

“Today marks animportant milestone inequipping our nation’sfirst hypersonic battery… Now, Soldiers canbegin training.”

Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood

Army hypersonics program director

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Fleet, contacted by Stars and

Stripes on Thursday, would not

say where the collision occurred.

However, an unnamed defense of-

ficial told U.S. Naval Institute

News it was the South China Sea.

Many Chinese submarines are

operating in the region, although

they are less capable than the nu-

clear-powered U.S. vessels, ac-

cording to Ian Chong, an associate

professor of political science at the

National University of Singapore.

Beijing has at least 57 diesel-

electric submarines and five nu-

clear attack versions, according to

a 2015 report by the Office of Na-

val Intelligence. The fleet is pro-

jected to add 14 more vessels, in-

cluding 11 nuclear attack subma-

rines, by 2030.

At least eight nuclear-powered

submarines that will be acquired

by Australia as part of the AUKUS

pact, formed with the United

States and Britain last month, are

expected to join those operated by

the U.S. and other nations beneath

the contested waters.

A sub-on-sub collision is among

many hazards in the South China

Sea that include submerged

equipment, fishing nets and sur-

face ships, Chong said by tele-

phone Friday.

“There is any number of things

they could be colliding with,” he

said.

The lack of major damage sug-

gests the Connecticut likely wasn’t

moving fast when the accident

happened, according to Chong.

“Submarines are being asked to

perform fairly risky kinds of oper-

ations anyway,” he said.

“In the South China Sea, we are

talking about much more shallow

waters. The risks are higher than

if they are in the middle of the Pa-

cific.”

The moderate to minor injuries

reported also indicate slow speed

at the time of the crash, said New

Zealand-based U.S. security ex-

pert Paul Buchanan.

“It could be that [the Connecti-

cut] was doing some seafloor map-

ping or surveillance,” he wrote in

an email Friday. “The fact that it

did not pick up the underwater ob-

ject with its sensors indicates that

they could have been jammed and

it was running slow but blind at

the time.”

Only China and Russia have the

capability of blinding an adver-

sary’s sonar systems and use it in

contested waters such as the

South China Sea, Buchanan said.

“Seawolf-class boats have ad-

vanced shallow water technolo-

gies, so that suggests that it was

running slow, blind and relatively

deep,” he said.

The submarine accident follows

a pair of deadly crashes involving

U.S. destroyers in the Western Pa-

cific four years ago.

In June 2017, the USS Fitzger-

ald collided with a Philippine-

flagged container vessel, killing

seven sailors in Japanese waters.

Two months later, 10 more sailors

died aboard the USS John S.

McCain when it collided with a

Liberian-flagged tanker near Sin-

gapore.

The Navy said the incident in-

volving the Connecticut will be in-

vestigated.

Risks: Slow speed likely saved sub from major damageFROM PAGE 1

PHOTOS BY JOSUE ESCOBO/U.S. Navy

Sailors assigned to Ohioclass ballisticmissile submarine USS Alabama man the control station whileconducting operations in the Pacific Ocean, on June 16.

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Lt. j.g. Justin Artis mans theperiscope aboard the USSAlabama.

TIMOTHY AGUIRRE/U.S. Navy

The Seawolfclass attack submarine USS Connecticut returns to portat Naval Base KitsapBremerton, Wash., in 2011.


VIRUS OUTBREAK

SAO PAULO — Bars in Sao Paulo

are full again for evening happy

hours, lawmakers in the capital of

Brasilia have nearly done away

with video sessions via Zoom, and

Rio de Janeiro’s beaches are

packed. Calls for strict social dis-

tancing seem but a memory.

Brazil appears intent on return-

ing to pre-pandemic normalcy,

even as its death toll tops 600,000,

according to official data on Friday

from the health ministry. Relief in

both COVID-19 cases and deaths

have been particularly welcome

given experts’ warnings that the

delta variant would produce anoth-

er wave of destruction in the coun-

try with the second-most victims.

So far, that hasn’t materialized.

The country’s average daily

death toll has hovered around 500

for a month, down sharply from

more than 3,000 in April. Almost

45% of the population is fully vacci-

nated, and a booster shot is being

administered to the elderly. A grea-

ter percentage of Brazilians are at

least partially vaccinated com-

pared to Americans or Germans,

according to Our World in Data, an

online research site.

Improvement has encouraged

mayors and governors to admit fans

into soccer matches, and let bars

and restaurants stay open until the

wee hours. Some are even contem-

plating the end of mask mandates,

which people often ignore already.

Marcelo Queiroga, Brazil’s

fourth health minister since the

pandemic hit, suggested in a press

conference on Friday that masks

should not be mandatory. “Why

would I pass a law to force people to

use condoms? Don’t even think of

it,” he said.

Rio’s mayor has announced

plans to bring back the city’s mas-

sive New Year’s Eve party on Copa-

cabana beach.

Gonzalo Vecina, a professor of

public health at the University of

Sao Paulo, told The Associated

Press in July that delta, which is

more contagious, would cause “a

new explosion” of cases within

weeks. He was hardly alone among

experts sounding the alarm.

Now, Vecina believes the high

number of Brazilians infected earli-

er this year with the gamma variant

— first identified in the Amazonian

city Manaus — may have slowed

delta’s advance.

“That isn’t a conclusion from a

study; it is a possibility we are rais-

ing in the face of what we are see-

ing,” Vecina said. “We are seeing

delta rise in countries that reopened

just as much as Brazil, and our num-

ber of cases is still going down, with

few very particular exceptions.”

Friday morning, on Copacabana

where Rio’s New Year’s party will

take place in less than three months,

activist group Rio da Paz held a me-

morial on its sands to mourn the

600,000 dead, with hundreds of

white kerchiefs strung on lines.

Across town, at a support group for

family members of the virus’ vic-

tims, Bruna Chaves mourned the

loss of her mother and stepfather.

“It’s not just 600,000 people who

are gone; it’s a lot of people who die

with them, emotionally,” Chaves

said in an interview. “It’s absurd

that people treat it like it’s a small

number. It’s a big number.”

Brazilians seeknormalcy; COVIDdeaths top 600K

BY MAURICIO SAVARESE

Associated Press

NAPLES, Italy — Nightclubs

will be allowed to reopen beginning

Monday across Italy for the first

time in more than a year and stadi-

ums will be able to hold events at

greater capacity, following the con-

tinued decline of COVID-19 case

numbers from their summer highs.

The national government ap-

proved the reopening and loosened

many restrictions on concerts and

other large gatherings Thursday.

Nightclubs, discos and dance

clubs can open at capacities of 50%

indoors and 75% outdoors, an Ital-

ian Council of Ministers statement

said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how

the decree would impact U.S. mil-

itary bases in Italy. Over the course

of the pandemic, commands have

taken time to evaluate new rules

before issuing guidance.

However, the commands gener-

ally have followed Italian law and

U.S. Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention recommendations.

People who want to visit a night-

club will have to show their green

pass health certifications, or the

CDC equivalent, indicating they

are fully vaccinated.

Those without a vaccination pass

must show a negative rapid antigen

test within the last 48 hours or a

negative molecular test within the

last 72 hours, or have a verified re-

covery from COVID-19 within the

last six months.

Other restrictions include man-

datory mask wearing indoors un-

less a person is dancing and a venti-

lation system in closed rooms, ac-

cording to the Italian decree.

The new rules also allow movie

theaters and concert halls to oper-

ate at full capacity. Stadiums may

allow 75% capacity outdoors and

60% indoors, according to the Cor-

riere della Serra newspaper.

Also, museums are no longer re-

quired to meet social distancing

guidelines, the Council of Ministers

statement said. But people attend-

ing museums and other venues

must continue to show their health

certifications and wear masks.

Venues that violate the rules risk

closure after a second violation, the

statement said.

In the meantime, Italian officials

will continue with measures de-

signed to encourage more people to

get vaccinated.

Starting Friday and through the

end of the year, all public and pri-

vate employees working in Italy

will have to prove they have green

pass certifications. Those who

don’t face an unpaid suspension but

won’t lose their jobs, a Sept. 16

Council of Ministers statement

said.

People found to be working with-

out health certificates could be

fined up to 1,500 euros, it stated.

It’s unclear how that decree im-

pacts U.S. military installations, in-

cluding NSA Naples, Naval Air Sta-

tion Sigonella, U.S. Army Garrison

Italy in Vicenza and Aviano Air

Base.

NSA Naples officials are aware

of the decree and “will make every

effort to align with Italian policy,”

said Lt. Jamie Moroney, a base spo-

keswoman.

“NSA Naples will communicate

our way ahead on this matter in the

near future,” she said.

New COVID-19 cases in Italy

have steadily declined since the

last week of August, according to

Italian Health Ministry website da-

ta.

The ministry reported 2,938 new

cases and 41 deaths on Thursday.

There have been nearly 4.69 mil-

lion cases and 131,198 deaths in Ita-

ly since the pandemic began.

The ministry reported Friday

that 79.6% of the population 12 and

older is fully vaccinated.

Sicily, which was put into the

country’s “yellow zone” in August

after a rise in cases, will return to

the “white zone” Saturday. That

means restrictions, such as manda-

tory mask wearing outdoors if so-

cial distancing could not be main-

tained, will be lifted.

Italy reopening nightclubsas it loosens restrictions

BY ALISON BATH

Stars and Stripes

KENT HARRIS/Stars and Stripes

Italians and Americans dance the night away at a nightclub nearAviano Air Base, Italy, prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Italy isreopening discos and nightclubs on Monday.

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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa —

U.S. military and health officials are

urging people to turn out for their

seasonal flu shots as bases across the

Pacific begin to offer the vaccine.

“While flu activity was historical-

ly low during the 2020-21 flu season,

we could see flu activity surge this

season, with relaxed COVID-19 mit-

igation strategies, increased travel,

and the reopening of schools and

business,” the medical director for

the National Foundation of Infec-

tious Diseases, Dr. William Schaffn-

er, said Thursday in Bethesda, Md.

The head of the Centers for Dis-

ease Control and Prevention, Dr.

Rochelle Walensky, speaking

alongside Schaffner, urged every-

one ages 6 months and older to get

vaccinated.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is not

over, and the risk of both flu and CO-

VID-19 circulating could put addi-

tional strain on hospitals and fron-

tline health care professionals,” she

said.

These sentiments were echoed by

officials at U.S. Naval Hospital Oki-

nawa, which began offering the flu

vaccine to hospital staff on Oct. 1 and

everyone else on a walk-in basis on

Oct. 4.

“I recommend it because it adds

greater protection as far as reduc-

tion of getting an illness or disease,”

Navy Lt. Trevor Spellman, the vac-

cination deputy officer in charge,

told Stars and Stripes during a re-

cent tour of the vaccination site. “It

impacts the workforce and man-

ning,” he said. “If someone gets sick

for a number of days, someone else

may have to cover for them.”

The hospital on Camp Foster is

accepting patients 6 months and ol-

der from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a

week through Oct. 24, said spokes-

man Joe Andes.

Other area installations already

offering the flu vaccine include Yo-

kosuka Naval Base, homeport of the

7th Fleet near Tokyo, and Osan Air

Base, headquarters for the 51st

Fighter Wing near Seoul, South Ko-

rea. At Yokosuka, patients can re-

ceive the shot at multiple locations

and times until Oct. 16. The vaccine

push ends Oct. 16, but the hospital

will accept people after that. Osan is

offering the shots at its on-base im-

munization clinic, and active-duty

troops can walk in between 7 a.m.

and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Others, ages 3 and older, can get vac-

cinated at the base gym from noon to

6p.m. Oct. 14-15.

Meanwhile, hospitals at other

bases appear to still be awaiting

their vaccine supply. Camp Hum-

phreys — the largest U.S. military

installation in South Korea — ex-

pects to start the shots next month. A

spokeswoman for the 65th Medical

Brigade, Emily Yeh, said it will in-

form the community via its Face-

book page once they are available.

The Branch Health Clinic at Marine

Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan,

has scheduled a shot drive for 1 p.m.

to 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, 9, 17 and 23.

Vaccines will also be available by

appointment. Yokota Air Base —

home of U.S. Forces Japan, 5th Air

Force and the 374th Airlift Wing in

Tokyo — is still “determining the

best method to roll out the flu shot as

supply comes available,” an un-

named wing spokesman said via

Facebook Messenger.

Pacific bases offer flu shots as officials warn of tough seasonBY FRANK ANDREWS

Stars and Stripes

[email protected] Twitter: @FrankAndrrws


NATION

ATLANTA — A massive man-

hunt is underway after a young offi-

cer was shot and killed early Satur-

day outside his Georgia police sta-

tion, officials said.

Dylan Harrison, 26, was working

his first shift as a part-time officer

with the Alamo Police Department

when he was gunned down outside

the station at approximately 1 a.m.,

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

spokeswoman Natalie Ammons

said at a Saturday afternoon news

conference.

Harrison is survived by his wife

and their 6-month-old child, offi-

cials said.

A manhunt is underway for 43-

year-old Damien Anthony Fergu-

son, who goes by “Luke,” according

to the GBI. A “Blue Alert” was is-

sued for the Alamo man and a

$17,500 reward is being offered for

information leading to his capture.

Such alerts are issued when a sus-

pect accused of killing or seriously

injuring a law enforcement officer

remains at large.

“Officer Harrison was a part-

time Alamo police officer working

his first shift with the department

last night,” Ammons said, adding

that he was also a full-time Oconee

Drug Task Force agent in nearby

Dodge County.

Officials have not released any

details about what led to the deadly

shooting. Harrison had been in law

enforcement since 2018. His body is

being taken to the GBI Crime Lab

near Decatur for an autopsy.

Tributes for the slain police offi-

cer poured in on Saturday morning

as the news of Harrison’s death

spread.

“Our sincerest thoughts, prayers

and condolences to the family,

friends and co-workers of Officer

Dylan Harrison who was killed in

the line of duty last night in Alamo,”

Telfair County Sheriff Sim David-

son wrote in a Facebook post. “We

are sincerely grateful for his ser-

vice.”

Harrison was the first Alamo offi-

cer killed in the line of duty, accord-

ing to the Officer Down Memorial

Page that tracks law enforcement

deaths.

Anyone with information about

the shooting or Ferguson’s where-

abouts is asked to call the GBI at 1-

800-597-8477 or submit tips to the

agency’s website.

Georgia police officer shot and killed on his first shiftThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Foes of Texas’ strict abortion

ban are taking aim at companies

that donated money to the bill’s

sponsors, hoping consumers will

pressure corporate America to

join the fight against a surge of re-

strictions.

The television and digital ads

that began this past week by the

groups Corporate Accountability

Action and American Bridge 21st

Century, the Democratic Party’s

opposition research arm, high-

light AT&T’s contributions to

Texas Republican lawmakers.

There are plans to expand the

campaign to Florida, where a sim-

ilar abortion proposal has been in-

troduced.

Abortion rights supporters in

Texas are confronting the nation’s

strictest abortion law in one of the

most populous states, as well as a

conservative-majority U.S. Su-

preme Court and a wave of GOP

lawmakers who want their states

to be next. Democrats and their

allies on this issue are looking for

new ways to harness frustration

into leverage.

“This is a moment in our coun-

try where there is no middle

ground. You really can’t be on the

sidelines,” said Cecile Richards,

past president of Planned Parent-

hood and current co-chair of

American Bridge 21st Century.

The Texas law greatly slowed

the number of abortions, forcing

clinics to turn away hundreds of

women and leading patients to

seek the procedure in other

states, which has created growing

backlogs.

Texas had roughly two dozen

abortion clinics before the law

took effect Sept. 1. At least six

clinics resumed performing abor-

tions after six weeks of pregnancy

after a federal judge blocked the

law on Wednesday, according to

the Center for Reproductive

Rights. But late Friday, an ap-

peals court allowed the restric-

tions to resume pending further

arguments. The Biden adminis-

tration, which had sued, has until

Tuesday to respond.

The ads in Texas aim at AT&T,

which Corporate Accountability

Action found donated more than

$645,000 over the past two years

to nearly 22 lawmakers who spon-

sored the measure. The Dallas-

based telecom company also do-

nated thousands to Democratic

lawmakers.

In Florida, the group is criticiz-

ing corporations such as Walt Dis-

ney for its $262,000 in donations

to among the more than two dozen

lawmakers who sponsored pro-

posed abortion restrictions over

the past two years. NBC Univer-

sal gave $83,500 to those legisla-

tors, and some $88,000 in Texas,

CAA found.

AT&T said in a statement it

does not take a position on the is-

sue of abortion or endorse the law

known as Senate Bill 8, and gave

money to legislators on both sides.

Representatives for NBC and

Walt Disney, which have also do-

nated to Democrats at other

times, did not immediately re-

spond to email messages seeking

comment.

Texas abortion law foes target corporate donorsBY LINDSAY WHITEHURST

Associated Press

Monday’s federal holiday dedi-

cated to Christopher Columbus is

highlighting the ongoing divide be-

tween those who view the explorer

as a representative of Italian

American history and others hor-

rified by an annual tribute that ig-

nores native people whose lives

and culture were forever changed

by colonialism.

Spurred by national calls for ra-

cial equity, communities across

the United States took a deeper

look at Columbus’ legacy in recent

years — pairing or replacing it

with Indigenous Peoples Day.

On Friday, President Joe Biden

issued the first presidential proc-

lamation of “Indigenous Peoples’

Day,” the most significant boost

yet to efforts to refocus the federal

holiday celebrating Columbus.

But activists, including mem-

bers of Native American tribes,

said ending the formal holiday in

Columbus’ name has been stymied

by politicians and organizations fo-

cusing on Italian American heri-

tage.

“The opposition has tried to

paint Columbus as a benevolent

man, similar to how white suprem-

acists have painted Robert E. Lee,”

Les Begay, Diné Nation member

and co-founder of the Indigenous

Peoples’ Day Coalition of Illinois,

said, referring to the Civil War

general who led the Confederate

Army.

Columbus’ arrival began centu-

ries of exploration and coloniza-

tion by European nations, bringing

violence, disease and other suffer-

ing to native people already living

in the Western Hemisphere.

“Not honoring Indigenous peo-

ples on this day just continues to

erase our history, our contribu-

tions and the fact that we were the

first inhabitants of this country,”

Begay said.

Across the country, tension over

the two holidays has been playing

out since the early 1990s. Debates

over monuments and statues of the

Italian explorer tread similar

ground, as in Philadelphia where

the city placed a box over a Colum-

bus statue last year in the wake of

the murder of George Floyd, a

Black man, by a white Minneapolis

police officer. Protesters opposing

racial injustice and police brutali-

ty against people of color rallied for

months in summer 2020.

Philadelphia lawyer George Bo-

chetto, who has been fighting

Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney’s

administration to uncover the stat-

ue, said Saturday thatmany felt ef-

forts to remove it were an attack on

Italian American heritage.

Kenney previously signed an

executive order changing the

city’s annual Columbus Day holi-

day to Indigenous Peoples Day.

Monday will be the first city holi-

day under the new name.

“We have a mayor that’s doing

everything he can to attack the Ital-

ian American community, includ-

ing canceling its parade, removing

statues, changing the Columbus

Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples

Day by fiat,” Bochetto said.

Kenney spokesperson Kevin

Lessard said the statue should re-

main boxed up “in the best interest

and public safety of all Philadel-

phians.”

Some feel a split day causes fur-

ther harm. Activists plan a small

protest outside the Robert V. Den-

ney Federal Building, calling for

an outright end to the holiday in

Columbus’ name at all levels of

government.

“It’s patently absurd to honor In-

digenous people and the man who

tortured and murdered their an-

cestors,” said Jackson Meredith,

an organizer. “As far as we’re con-

cerned, we’re going to keep pro-

testing it until Columbus Day is

abolished.”

Legacies of Columbus, native people still at odds

TYLER LARIVIERE, CHICAGO SUNTIMES/AP

City municipal crews help guide the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park as it is removed by a cranein Chicago on Aug. 24, 2020.

Associated Press


NATION

WASHINGTON — In the fran-

tic bid to avert a default on the na-

tion’s debt, Senate Republican

leader Mitch McConnell held a

position of unusual power — as the

one who orchestrated both the

problem and the solution.

McConnell is no longer the ma-

jority leader, but he is exerting his

minority status in convoluted and

uncharted ways, all in an effort to

stop President Joe Biden’s domes-

tic agenda and even if doing so

pushes the country toward grave

economic uncertainty.

All said, the outcome of this debt

crisis leaves zero confidence there

won’t be a next one. In fact,

McConnell engineered an end to

the standoff that ensures Con-

gress will be in the same spot in

December when funding to pay

America’s bills next runs out. That

means another potentially devas-

tating debt showdown, all as the

COVID-19 crisis lingers and the

economy struggles to recover.

The crisis has cemented

McConnell’s legacy as a master of

misdirection. He’s the architect of

the impasse and the one who re-

solved it, if only for the short term.

More battles are to come as Demo-

crats narrow Biden’s big agenda, a

now-$2 trillion expansion of

health, child care and climate

change programs, all paid for with

taxes on corporations and the

wealthy that Republicans oppose.

To some Republicans, McCon-

nell is a shrewd leader, using ev-

ery tool at his disposal to leverage

power and undermine Biden’s pri-

orities. To others, including Do-

nald Trump, he is weak, having

“caved” too soon. To Democrats,

McConnell remains an infuriating

rival who has shown again he is

willing to break one institutional

norm after another to pursue Re-

publican power.

Biden, in comments made via

video Saturday to the Democratic

National Committee’s fall meet-

ing, hinted at the damage McCon-

nell could inflict not just on that

agenda but also on the party’s

broader case to the electorate. The

president urged activists at the

virtual meeting to keep making

the case for government solutions,

even as Republicans try to under-

cut that message.

“Just as the Republican Party

today offers nothing but fear, lies

and broken promises, we have to

keep cutting through the Republi-

can fog that government is the

problem, and show that we the

people are always the solution,”

Biden said.

The debt showdown left Demo-

crats, who control Washington,

portrayed as big spenders, willing

to boost the nation’s now-$28.4

trillion debt to pay the bills. But

both parties have contributed to

that load because of past decisions

that leave the government rarely

operating in the black.

Republicans risk recrimina-

tions from all sides of their deeply

divided party. In easing off the cri-

sis, McConnell insulated his Re-

publicans from further blame, but

infuriated Trump and his allies,

who are eager to skewer the Ken-

tucky senator for giving in.

Once a routine vote to ensure

the nation’s bills are paid, raising

the debt limit has become a politi-

cal weapon, particularly for Re-

publicans, to rail against govern-

ment spending. The tea party

class of Republicans a decade ago

brought the nation to the brink of

default over the issue and set a

new GOP strategy.

In this case, McConnell made it

clear he had no demands other

than to disrupt Biden’s domestic

agenda, the now-$2 trillion pack-

age that is the president’s signa-

ture legislation but is derided by

Republicans as a “socialist tax-

and-spending spree.”

In muscling Biden’s agenda to

passage, Democrats are relying

on a complicated procedure, the

budget reconciliation process,

which allows 51 votes for approv-

al, rather than the 60 typically

needed to overcome Senate objec-

tions. In the 50-50 split Senate,

Vice President Kamala Harris

gives Democrats the majority

with her ability to cast a tiebreak-

ing vote.

The debt raising vote has rarely

been popular, and both parties

have had to do it on their own, at

times. But McConnell struck new

legislative ground trying to dictate

the terms to Democrats.

McConnell orchestrated the

way around the problem by allow-

ing the traditional vote on Thurs-

day night and even joining 10 oth-

er Republican senators in helping

Democrats reach the 60-vote

threshold needed to ease off the

crisis.

McConnell uses

debt standoff to

undermine Biden

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, RKy., walks to the chamber for a vote Thursday at the Capitol inWashington. Senate leaders announced an agreement to extend the government’s borrowing authority intoDecember, temporarily averting a default that experts say would have decimated the economy.

Associated Press

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. —Maryland police announcedfirst-degree murder charges onSaturday against a resident of asenior living community aftertwo staff members were shot in-side the facility a day earlier.

Roy Batson, 63, remains incustody on a no-bond status,Prince George’s County policesaid in a news release.

Batson, of Capitol Heights, isaccused of killing 46-year-oldMackeda Evans, of Temple

Hills, and 46-year-old MichelleBoateng, of Capitol Heights, onFriday at the Gateway Villagesenior living community inCapitol Heights, just outside ofWashington. Batson workedand lived at the complex, policesaid.

The preliminary investiga-tion found that Batson had con-fronted Evans on Friday morn-ing about a prior dispute be-tween the two in October over aviolation notice, police said. Headmitted to going to his apart-

ment, retrieving a gun and re-turning to the first-floor officearea and shooting both victims,police said.

Gateway Village is one of 310communities in 25 states run byNational Church Residences,which describes itself as “thenation’s largest provider of af-fordable senior housing andservices.” Its website says theapartment complex about ahalf-mileeast of Washington in-cludes studio and one-bedroomunits for “seniors age 62+.”

Resident charged with killing 2at Maryland senior community

BILL O’LEARY/AP

Police respond to the scene of a shooting at a senior living communityon Friday in Capitol Heights, Md.

Associated Press

PLANTERSVILLE, Texas — A 3-year-

old Texas boy who was missing for four

days was found alive in a wooded area Sat-

urday and seemed to be in good health, au-

thorities said.

Christopher Ramirez was found follow-

ing a tip from a citizen and was being taken

to a hospital for evaluation, according to

Grimes County Sheriff Don Sowell. It’s not

yet clear how the child survived after he

wandered off while playing with a family

dog in the yard of his family’s home in

southeastern Texas.

“He’s drinking lots of water, but he’s

good,” Sowell said. “He’s alive, laughing,

cutting up, crying. His mom is crying. He’s

in good shape.”

The child disappeared Wednesday after-

noon from his yard near Plantersville,

about 60 miles northwest of Houston. He

was found not far from where authorities

had been searching, Sowell said.

“Hardly no clues to go on, we were run-

ning on prayers, four-wheel drive and over-

drive to be honest with you because we had

nothing else,” Sowell said. “We had nothing

else.”

3-year-old Texas boy, missing for 4 days, is found aliveAssociated Press


AMERICAN ROUNDUP

Border agents seizedisguised gold at airport

FL FORT LAUDERDALE

— U.S. Customs and

Border Protection found nearly six

pounds of gold that was painted

black being smuggled into a Flor-

ida airport.

The undeclared gold was dis-

guised as belt buckles, bracelets

and keychains and is valued at

about $170,000, officials said. It

was found at Fort Lauderdale-Hol-

lywood International Airport.

“Gold is one of the top ten items

smuggled globally, either to evade

import duties or to launder the il-

licit profits of Transnational Crim-

inal Organizations,” Stephen Ba-

log, the agency’s acting Fort Lau-

derdale port director, said in a

news release.

The passenger with the black

painted gold was arriving from

Colombia.

State police helicoptercrash-lands, pilot injured

LA GONZALES — A Loui-

siana State Police pilot

suffered minor injuries when his

helicopter crash-landed near Ba-

ton Rouge, the agency said.

Amechanical failure apparently

forced an emergency procedure to

get the 1986 Bell 206 B-3 helicopter

to the ground, Lt. Melissa Matey

said in a news release.

She said the helicopter was sig-

nificantly damaged in the accident

at the South Louisiana Regional

Airport, which is about 15 miles

southeast of Baton Rouge in Gon-

zales.

State will streamline,extend assisted death law

CA SACRAMENTO — Cal-

ifornia will streamline

and extend its assisted death law

under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin

Newsom that reduces the time un-

til terminal patients can choose to

be given fatal drugs.

Starting Jan. 1, the waiting peri-

od required between the time a pa-

tient makes separate oral requests

for medication will drop to 48

hours, down from the current min-

imum 15 days. Earlier this year,

New Mexico also reduced its wait-

ing period to 48 hours.

The California legislation also

eliminates the requirement that

patients make a final written attes-

tation within 48 hours of taking the

medication.

City leaders unearthmementos from 1972

MS COLUMBUS— Lead-

ers of an eastern Mis-

sissippi city have opened a time

capsule that local residents buried

nearly 50 years ago in anticipation

of this year’s bicentennial celebra-

tion.

Columbus was founded in 1819

in what was considered at the time

to be Alabama. It became part of

Mississippi and was incorporated

in 1821.

The metal box with books and

other mementos was put into the

ground at Leigh Mall on Aug. 22,

1972, a year before the mall’s open-

ing, The Commercial Dispatch re-

ported.

Items pulled from the box in-

cluded water-damaged 1972 year-

books from Caldwell High School,

Lee High School and Mississippi

State College for Women, which is

now Mississippi University for

Women. The box also held a Co-

lumbus phonebook; the 1972 Sears

fall/winter catalog; the Aug. 22,

1972, edition of the newspaper; and

a large box full of photos.

Push to drop creek’sracist name gains traction

IL DEPUE — Efforts to

change the roughly 200-

year-old racist name of a creek in

northern Illinois have gained trac-

tion.

An 11-mile waterway in the De-

Pue area was named Negro Creek

after the DePue area’s first Black

settler built a cabin at the mouth of

the creek in 1829, according to the

The (Peoria) Journal Star.

Former resident Amy Urban-

owski is among those pushing for

the name change. She has received

support from the Bureau County

Board and a local NAACP branch.

She sent the details to the U.S.

Board on Geographic Names,

which approves such changes. In

the coming weeks, the agency will

consider changing the name to

Adams, the surname of the Black

pioneer. Records of a first name

haven’t been located.

“Changing the name of the creek

is important,” she said, “because

it’s good to reflect on how the

names of towns and villages are all

historically and respectively

named after people, not their

race.”

Woman sent to prison forSocial Security fraud

NC NEW BERN — A fed-

eral judge has sen-

tenced a North Carolina woman to

more than five years in prison for

using her Social Security Adminis-

tration position to direct benefits

into nine separate bank accounts

that she had access to.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in

New Bern said Stephanie Chavis,

45, of Saint Pauls, was also ordered

to pay almost $761,000 in restitu-

tion.

Prosecutors said Chavis used

her credentials as an operations

supervisor at the Fayetteville of-

fice of the Social Security Admin-

istration to access the accounts of

more than 60 people and used the

information to generate fraudu-

lent payment requests.

3 convicted in woman’sdeath cleared on DNA

WV HUNTINGTON —

Three men who were

convicted of killing a woman in

West Virginia 19 years ago were

cleared of charges in the case after

new DNA evidence was presented.

Special Prosecutor Thomas Ply-

male dismissed all charges against

brothers Philip and Nathaniel Bar-

nett and Justin Black, The Herald-

Dispatch of Huntington reported.

Deanna Crawford, 21, was found

beaten and strangled Aug. 8, 2002,

in a secluded area of Cabell Coun-

ty, but her death went unsolved.

Five years later, Brian Dement

gave police conflicting statements

implicating himself and the other

three men during an interrogation

in another case.

Black went to court in 2016 to ask

for additional DNA testing. That

testing indicated another man was

at the scene, as his DNA was found

on a cigarette butt and in semen,

but the man denied ever being to

the area where Crawford was

found.

Plymale said the man, who has

not been charged in Crawford’s

death, will likely not face prosecu-

tion.

City urged to use bottledwater due to lead risk

MI DETROIT — Michigan

urged residents of Ben-

ton Harbor to use only bottled wa-

ter for cooking and drinking, a ma-

jor shift in response to the city’s

elevated levels of lead.

The state recently said it would

distribute free water and filters in

the southwestern Michigan city.

But federal regulators now are re-

viewing how effective the filters

are in removing lead from water at

certain levels, according to the

health department.

The state said more than 15,000

cases of water will be delivered in

coming days to the predominantly

Black and mostly low income com-

munity.

She didn’t know how long it

would take. Filters so far have

been given to more than 2,600

homes, the department said.

ALAN WARREN, THE (OWENSBORO, KY.) MESSENGERINQUIRER/AP

Rex Marsh washes up a V807 Forty & Eight train vehicle on Friday morning, in front of his home in Owensboro, Ky., as he gets it ready to be inthe West Side Nut Club’s Fall Festival parade on Saturday in Evansville. The train vehicle was built in 1934 to honor World War I veterans andhas been in parades all across the country.

Getting the parade on the right track

THE CENSUS

116 The speed a Florida man was going, in miles per hour, in hisTesla before crashing into a house and being arrested and

charged with two counts of vehicular homicide. Vaughn Mongan, 43, didn’thave his car in autopilot mode when he ran a stop sign, hit an embankment,went airborne and crashed into a house, killing one of its occupants, accordingto the Florida Highway Patrol. One of the three passengers in the car also died.Mongan and two other passengers were seriously injured, the department said.Mongan was driving in a residential neighborhood in a 30 mph zone.

From The Associated Press


WORLD

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s

president on Sunday vowed to de-

fend the island from China’s ris-

ing pressure for reunification, af-

ter a week of unprecedented ten-

sions with Beijing.

Speaking at the island’s Nation-

al Day celebrations, a rare show

of Taiwanese defense capabilities

in the annual parade underlined

Tsai Ing-wen’s promise to resist

Chinese military threats.

“We will do our utmost to pre-

vent the status quo from being

unilaterally altered,” President

Tsai said.

“We will continue to bolster our

national defense and demonstrate

our determination to defend our-

selves in order to ensure that no-

body can force Taiwan to take the

path China has laid out for us,”

the Taiwanese leader added.

China claims Taiwan as part of

its national territory although the

island has been self-ruled since it

split from the communist-ruled

mainland in 1949 after a long civil

war.

Tsai emphasized the island’s

vibrant democracy in contrast

with Beijing’s deeply authoritar-

ian, single-party Communist

state.

“The path that China has laid

out offers neither a free and dem-

ocratic way of life for Taiwan, nor

sovereignty for our 23 million

people,” Tsai said.

Surveys show Taiwanese over-

whelmingly favor their current

de facto independent state and

strongly reject unification with

China, which has vowed to bring

the island under its control, by

military force if necessary.

Tsai rarely singles out China in

her public speeches, but in this

speech acknowledged the in-

creasing tensions that Taiwan

faces as Chinese military harass-

ment intensified in the past year.

Since September of last year, Chi-

na has flown fighter jets more

than 800 times toward Taiwan.

Since last Friday, China has

sent a record-breaking number of

fighter jets toward international

airspace close to Taiwan.

The island has strengthened its

unofficial ties with countries like

Japan, Australia and the U.S. in

the face of these perceived

threats.

Following the address, Tai-

wan’s Ministry of National De-

fense showed off a range of weap-

onry including missile launchers

and armored vehicles while fight-

er jets and helicopters soared

overhead. These included a for-

mation of F-16, Indigenous De-

fense Fighters and Mirage 2000s,

which left wide white contrails in

their wake.

The show of air power was fol-

lowed by a group of CM32 tanks,

followed later by trucks carrying

missile systems.

CHIANG YINGYING/AP

Taiwan military vehicles are driven in a parade during National Day celebrations Sunday in front of thePresidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan.

Taiwan rejectsChina’s call forreunification

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s two

main power plants were forced to

shut down after running out of

fuel, the state electricity company

said Saturday, leaving the small

country with no government-pro-

duced power.

Lebanon is grappling with a

crippling energy crisis made

worse by its dependency on fuel

imports. Erratic power supplies

have put hospitals and essential

services in crisis mode. The Leba-

nese increasingly depend on pri-

vate operators that also struggle

to secure supplies amid an un-

precedented crash of the national

currency.

The shortage of diesel and fuel,

along with an antiquated infras-

tructure, has worsened power

cuts that have been a fixture for

years. Blackouts that used to last

for three to six hours could now

leave entire areas with no more

than two hours of state power a

day.

On Saturday, the state electric-

ity company said the Zahrani

power plant in the country’s south

was forced to shut down because

of fuel shortage; the main plant in

the north was shut down on

Thursday.

Electricite De Liban said the

shutdown reduces the total power

supply to below 270 megawatts,

which means a major drop in the

stability of the grid. It said it

would reach out to fuel facilities

in the country’s north and south to

see if they can procure enough

fuel to bring back power. It added

that a new shipment of fuel from

Iraq is expected next week.

But the company, responsible

for most of the government’s

debts, is dependent on credit from

the country’s central bank, which

is struggling with dwindling re-

serves.

The government has gradually

raised prices of fuel and diesel as

the central bank cut back on sub-

sidizing dollars for imports, add-

ing to the hardships in Lebanon,

where about three quarters of the

population has plunged into pov-

erty over the last year.

With prices soaring and unem-

ployment at a record high, many

families have given up private

generators and a few hours of

state power a day is all they get.

On Saturday, distributors of gas

canisters used for cooking and

heating stopped operating, saying

subsidy cuts amid black-market

currency fluctuations meant they

were selling at a loss.

The energy sector has been a

huge drain on state coffers for

decades.

The electricity company has

annual losses of up to $1.5 billion,

and has cost the state more than

$40 billion over the past decades.

Energy sector reforms have been

a key demand by the World Bank

and the International Monetary

Fund.

To help alleviate the crisis, Le-

banon has received fuel ship-

ments from Iran via Syria. Iraq

has also made a swap deal with

the government that has helped

Lebanon’s state electricity com-

pany stay operational for days.

The new Lebanese government

is also negotiating supplies of

electricity from Jordan and natu-

ral gas from Egypt, also through

Syria. But those deals are likely to

take months.

Lebanon’s 2 main state power plants shut down, out of fuelAssociated Press

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germa-

ny — Speeding fines in Germany

are set to double next month and

punishments for other traffic vio-

lations will become tougher, with

some potentially leading to a driv-

er losing their license, govern-

ment officials and Germany’s

largest roadside assistance ser-

vice said Friday.

Under the new rules, which take

effect next month, driving just 10

kph over the limit in town will earn

a heftier fine — 30 euros, or

around $35, compared to 15 euros

now, said the German Automobile

Club, or ADAC.

Fines for driving 10 to 12 kph

over the limit in town will double

from 35 euros to 70 euros, or

around $40 to $80, and from 30 to

60 euros on the highway.

German rules allow only a mar-

gin of error of 2-3 kph — less than

2 mph — before a vehicle is con-

sidered to be speeding.

Fines for speeding on highways

and other roads outside German

city limits, which are generally

about 5-10 euros lower, are also

doubling.

Not all sections of the German

autobahn allow vehicles to travel

at unlimited speeds.

The new rules, which were

agreed to after weeks of negotia-

tions between the federal and

state governments, also call for

fines of up to 320 euros for drivers

who use the emergency lane on

highways. They could also lose

their licenses for at least a month.

German traffic rules require

drivers to pull to the left or right,

creating a lane for emergency ve-

hicles, when traffic is moving at

“walking speed” on highways or

multi-lane roads outside urban ar-

eas. The lane has to be kept free

for emergency vehicles if traffic

comes to a standstill.

The emergency lane, or Ret-

tungsgasse, is not on the shoulder,

which also has to remain free of

vehicles.

The cost of parking illegally will

also go up. Blocking another car in

for more than an hour will cost

drivers 50 euros starting in No-

vember, compared with 35 euros

currently. In Germany, parking

across from a garage or driveway

can be considered blocking some-

one else in.

Other parking violations, such

as leaving a gas or diesel car in a

spot for electric or car-share vehi-

cles, will also result in fines as

high as 50 euros, or around $65.

Speeding, illegal parking fines set to go up sharply in GermanyBY KARIN ZEITVOGEL

AND MARCUS KLOECKNER

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @StripesZeit


WORLD

German police confirmed Fri-day an investigation into an “al-leged sonic attack” targeting U.S.Embassy staff in Berlin, who areamong the roughly 200 cases of amysterious illness reported byU.S. diplomats and intelligence of-ficers stationed around the world.

As of August, at least two U.S.government employees based inGermany have logged symptoms

like dizziness, nausea and severeheadaches, according to numer-ous media reports. These areamong the signs of “Havana Syn-drome,” an affliction named afterthe Cuban capital where suchcases were first reported.

The U.S. Embassy in Berlincould not immediately be reachedfor comment early Saturday. AState Department spokesman de-clined to discuss specific cases but

said that various governmentagencies were “actively workingto identify the cause of these inci-dents and whether they may be at-tributed to a foreign actor” andthat the Department “is focusedon providing care for those affect-ed.”

Berlin police did not release fur-ther information about theirprobe.

Cases of Havana Syndrome

have been reported everywherefrom Russia to China to Colombiato Uzbekistan and even the UnitedStates itself. Two cases were re-ported in the Washington area,and in July, Austrian authoritiessaid they were working withAmerican officials to investigatearound 20 cases among U.S. Em-bassy staff in Vienna, reportedlythe largest hotbed outside Cuba.

Havana Syndrome encompass-

es a wide range of physical andcognitive symptoms, some as se-vere as extensive memory lapses.In the brain scans of some embas-sy staff in Cuba, tissue damage re-sembled those seen after bomb ex-plosions or car accidents.

Since its emergence five yearsago, the condition has confoundedmedical experts. Government of-ficials refer to potential cases as“anomalous health incidents.”

Germany probes possible sonic attack on US EmbassyThe Washington Post

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE,Canary Islands — A new river of la-va belched Saturday from the LaPalma volcano, spreading more de-struction on the Atlantic Ocean is-land where more than 1,000 build-ings have already been engulfed orbadly damaged by streams of mol-ten rock.

The partial collapse of the volcan-ic cone overnight gave birth to a newlava stream that started to follow a

similar path down the Cumbre Viejaridge toward the western shore ofthe island to the ocean.

Authorities said the new lava flowis within the area that was hastilyevacuated following the Sept. 19eruption, when 6,000 residentswere forced to flee their homes andfarms.

Police let residents whose homescould now be in danger make tripsto save what they could. Trucks en-tered the exclusion zone Saturday

and left with mattresses, furnitureand other belongings.

Emergency official Miguel ÁngelMorcuende said experts wereclosely watching the delta of newland being formed off the island’scoast since the main lava flow reac-hed the sea last week. He said thatparts of it could collapse, causing ex-plosions and large waves, but thatwould not pose a danger since theimmediate area is already evacuat-ed.

DANIEL ROCA/AP

A volcano continues to spew out lava on La Palma, one of Spain’sCanary Islands, in the early hours of Sunday.

New river of lava belches from La Palmavolcano, threatens even more buildings

Associated Press


FACES

Richard Stanton, the elite Brit-

ish cave diver who helped lead the

mission to save 12 boys and their

soccer coach from a flooded cave

in Thailand in 2018, isn’t much for

movies.

“I’ve got no interest in films,”

says Stanton. “I can’t remember

the last time I went to the cinema.”

Stanton, 60, is partial to “Apollo

13” — a good thing, since its direc-

tor, Ron Howard, is making a mo-

vie about Stanton and the other

divers who made possible the

Tham Luang cave rescue. (Viggo

Mortensen is playing Stanton.)

But Stanton has, in fact, been to

the movies lately. A lot. Within

days of its premiere at the Tellu-

ride Film Festival last month,

Stanton had seen “The Rescue,”

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and

Jimmy Chin’s riveting non-fiction

account of the underwater ordeal,

five times. At first, he says, it was

“a bit weird.”

“We were just like, ‘Well, that’s

it, then,’” says Stanton, a retired

firefighter prone to pragmatism.

“But the more I’ve seen it, the

more intricate and the more lay-

ers I’ve realized are woven togeth-

er. It’s a hugely intricate story.”

“The Rescue,” which National

Geographic opened in theaters

Oct. 8, is the fullest, most detailed

and most heart-pounding docu-

mentary portrait of just how a

global coalition — and a handful of

cave-diving hobbyists — swam 13

people to safety after they had

been stuck inside the Tham Luang

cave for 16 days. It was trying just

to find the boys, a 2½ hour dive

from the mouth of the cave, and

harder still to get them out. With

the world watching and monsoon

rains in the forecast, Stanton and

other volunteering divers swam

each out individually while they

were sedated. For any normal per-

son, the kind of diving Stanton

does for fun is too panic-inducing

to jump into while conscious.

“We love this story for the same

reasons it captured the hearts and

minds of the whole world. It’s got

all the right ingredients — an im-

possible rescue against all odds,”

says Vasarhelyi. “And it’s got

these characters.”

“The Rescue” is Vasarhelyi and

Chin’s follow-up to “Free Solo,”

their Oscar-winning documentary

about rock climber Alex Hon-

nold’s rope-less assent of Yose-

mite’s El Capitan. Their latest is

likewise a tense and charming

portrait of people with an extreme

and rare obsession. But this time,

instead of rappelling alongside

their subjects (Chin is a world-

class climber), they were assem-

bling the film after the fact and

navigating a much lower altitude.

“We wanted them to show us

how they did it, down to the small-

est detail. Those details matter to

us,” says Chin, who’s married to

Vasarhelyi, with two children.

The filmmakers went through

the decision-making process in

lengthy on-camera interviews

with Stanton and others, including

John Volanthan and Dr. Richard

Harris, an Australian diver and

anesthetist who sedated the boys.

The filmmakers also shot re-cre-

ations with the divers in Pinewood

Studios. One thing Stanton had no

interest in: Acting.

“All we said we’d do is we’d turn

up with exact equipment we had

in Thailand and do exactly what

we did there,” says Stanton.

The cave rescue was immedi-

ately followed by a rush for life

rights. National Geographic land-

ed those to the divers. Rights to the

boys’ stories, steered by the Thai

government, ended up with Net-

flix. Next year, the streamer will

release a miniseries. Howard’s

big-screen drama “Thirteen

Lives” is also due out in 2022.

The competing interests made

it, Vasarhelyi says, “a rights quag-

mire.” She and Chin wanted to

capture the full picture of the op-

eration but there were limitations

— and not just because some, like

the soccer team, couldn’t appear

on camera. They were piecing the

film together during the pandem-

ic, and it wasn’t until this spring

that Vasarhelyi was able to travel

to Thailand, visit the cave and

meet with other prominent figures

in the ordeal.

But the backbone of “The Res-

cue” is the British cave divers,

whose very particular expertise

led them to the cave. To Stanton,

the film captures for the first time

just how difficult and risky a task it

was.

“It’s not just the diving, per se.

It’s the whole thing,” says Stanton.

“And taking that massive respon-

sibility. And trying to persuade a

foreign government to do some-

thing that was, on paper, quite lu-

dicrous.”

To Vasarhelyi and Chin, “The

Rescue” represents a disparate

swath of humanity — some 5,000

were involved in the operation —

coming together for one purpose.

And how supreme dedication to

one passion can lead to something

greater.

“They’re the people you might

not think twice about or think

they’re oddballs,” says Chin. “But

in fact, they may have found the

secret. And in this film, they use it

for a very noble purpose.”

Documentingthe impossible

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/AP photos

The National Geographic documentary film “The Rescue,” chronicling the 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boysand their soccer coach, trapped deep inside a flooded cave.

‘The Rescue’ puts focus on risks, solutionsof 2018’s perilous underwater cave rescue

BY JAKE COYLE

The Associated Press

“The Rescue” shows how diver volunteers led each member of theboys soccer team and the coach out individually, while sedated.

CHARLES SYKES, INVISION/AP

Codirectors Jimmy Chin andElizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi attendthe New York Premiere of “TheRescue” Oct. 5 in New York.

A lot of people aren’t laughing at Dave Chap-

pelle’s new comedy special.

The stand-up comic wrapped his new Netflix

offering, “The Closer,” by promising that he

was “done” with jokes about the queer commu-

nity, but not before a monologue of anti-trans

comments that have drawn ire and disgust.

“Gender is a fact,” Chappelle said during the

special, which hit Netflix on Oct. 5.

He also labeled himself “team TERF”

(trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and

praised “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling

for her anti-trans stance.

“In our country, you can shoot and kill a [ex-

pletive], but you better not hurt a gay person’s

feelings,” Chappelle said, specifically talking

about rapper DaBaby.

The so-called jokes drew rebuke online, in-

cluding from “Dear White People” executive

producer Jaclyn Moore, who swore not to work

with Netflix again “as long as they continue to

put out and profit from blatantly and danger-

ously transphobic content.”

GLAAD also criticized both the streaming

service and the comedian, pointing out that this

is not the first time he has made such com-

ments.

“Dave Chappelle’s brand has become syn-

onymous with ridiculing trans people and oth-

er marginalized communities,” GLAAD said

in a statement Oct. 6. “Negative reviews and

viewers loudly condemning his latest special is

a message to the industry that audiences don’t

support platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes.

We agree.”

A spokesperson for Netflix declined to com-

ment.

Rachel Maddow undergoing

treatment for skin cancerMSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow revealed

Oct. 6 that she was diagnosed with skin cancerafter her partner noticed an odd mole.

Maddow, 48, said she and Susan Mikulawere at a baseball game “a couple months ago”when Susan pointed out that a mole on her neckhad changed.

“Long story short, Susan was right,” Mad-dow said during her show. “I went to the der-matologist ...did a biopsy, turns out it was skincancer.”

The anchor said she underwent surgery atNYU Langone on Oct. 8.

“I am going to be absolutely fine. I’m going tobe totally fine,” she said.

Maddow urged people, especially those withmoles, to get regular checks by doctors.

Chappelle slammed for anti-trans rhetoric in Netflix specialFrom wire reports

MATHIEU BITTON/Netflix

Dave Chappelle is getting a lot ofnegative reactions to his Netflixstandup routine “The Closer.”


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OPINION

Nations, like people, have reputa-

tions, and in both cases there can

be gaps between the rep and the

reality. China is known as the sage

of nations, strategically patient, thinking in

terms of centuries while the West flits about

like a toddler in a toy store. Current events are

forcing a reappraisal, however, as China ca-

reens wildly — and very dangerously — from

one bad decision to the next.

Start with the Chinese Communist Party’s

authoritarian U-turn after a generation in

which China’s gradual opening produced ex-

traordinary growth and modernization. Un-

der the power-hungry leader Xi Jinping —

who is abandoning the term limits honored by

his recent predecessors to hold the reins in-

definitely — the CCP is exerting state control

over economic activity in ways that are rat-

tling the confidence of global investors. Ag-

gressive moves to stifle the internet have

drained more than $1 trillion in value from

Chinese tech companies this year. In July, the

State Department warned U.S. businesses of a

souring commercial climate in Hong Kong

since Beijing’s crackdown there.

Domestically, the CCP is flailing to defuse

the demographic time bomb unleashed by the

party’s foolhardy decision in 1979 to limit Chi-

nese families to a single child. A preference

for boys has created a nation of bachelors,

which thwarts government efforts to reverse

the damage. Runaway health costs and de-

clining growth are the likely consequences of

an aging population.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative to create a

21st-century infrastructure for eastern trade

looks increasingly like a scheme to saddle

weaker partners with debt while keeping Chi-

na’s construction industry occupied. Mean-

while, the unmanageable domestic debt

racked up to overbuild infrastructure at home

has financial markets around the world quak-

ing.

This from a government that continues to

oppress the Buddhists of Tibet while forcing

Uyghur Muslims into concentration camps.

Fearful of losing its grip, Xi’s Communist Par-

ty has slammed the brakes on an open China

and is pulling the nation back toward tyranny.

China’s problems would be China’s prov-

ince but for one important fact. Xi appears to

be flirting with his worst decision yet, one like-

ly to cause worldwide pain, or worse. In recent

days, China has been filling the skies over Tai-

wan with warplanes, leading Taiwan’s de-

fense minister to warn that Beijing may be

preparing to exert control over the breakaway

island by force.

Defeated by the Communists in a long civil

war, the Chinese Nationalist government fled

to Taiwan in 1949, and the status of the island

has been in dispute ever since. Relatively

open and democratic, Taiwan raced ahead of

the communist mainland in its economic vi-

tality. But as China appeared to be catching

up, many observers believed that a peaceful

reunification might lie somewhere in the fu-

ture. That would be the patient strategy — to

let China grow in terms of human rights and

economic freedom, thus making Beijing’s

“one China” policy palatable.

But with Xi and the CCP swinging back in

the authoritarian direction, the prospect of a

peaceful resolution is receding, replaced by

shows of force. The United States is commit-

ted to protecting Taiwan from invasion. A

small number of U.S. military trainers have

been dispatched to improve the readiness of

Taiwan’s army, and the recent decision in

Washington to sell nuclear submarines to

Australia is a further sign of concern about

Beijing’s intentions.

The possibility of a shooting war between

the world’s leading economies over Taiwan,

so unlikely before Xi, now cannot be ignored.

Though the Chinese leader boasts of his na-

tion’s unstoppable rise, Xi’s swelling record of

poor choices suggests that he fears the future

and will act impulsively to try to change it.

This nation that supposedly thinks in centu-

ries is now issuing sweeping fiats on a seem-

ingly weekly basis. Xi is causing the world to

recalculate the risks of doing business with

such an unpredictable nation. The “narrative

of China’s inexorable rise can and should be

challenged,” analyst Logan Wright of the

Rhodium Group wrote with colleagues in

2020. “Growth in China continues to depend

upon increasingly inefficient state-led and

bank-financed investment. … China’s poten-

tial growth and productivity growth are slow-

ing. Demographic changes mean a shrinking

labor force in the coming decade, and produc-

tivity has been hampered by a financial sys-

tem that continues to keep bloated state-own-

ed enterprises and local government firms

afloat.”

Xi, 68, won’t last forever. But as long as he is

ruler, the United States and its allies must

move carefully to limit global exposure to Chi-

nese mismanagement and deploy every tool

short of war to deter rash action by China

against Taiwan. A whole new way of thinking

is required. Western policy has long been

shaped by China’s rapid ascent, but that could

be child’s play compared with confronting a

China in decline.

Think in terms of managing China’s declineBY DAVID VON DREHLE

The Washington Post

Washington Post columnist David Von Drehle is the author of“Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.”

International travel is finally starting to

recover from the COVID-19 slump.

As of August, demand for cross-bor-

der flights was still down about 69% rel-

ative to 2019 levels, according to the Interna-

tional Air Transport Association. But that

marked a notable improvement from the pri-

or month — the sixth straight, in fact. That’s

despite a wave of COVID-19 linked to the delta

variant that weighed on demand for domestic

flights in both the U.S. and China. Cross-bor-

der travel restrictions are becoming increas-

ingly manageable and coherent. That is, for

the vaccinated, as I learned on a recent trip to

France. And that’s a boon to both airlines and

aerospace manufacturers.

The approach taken by the European

Union, which has been open for international

travel since June, is a blueprint for the world.

The bloc’s member states can set their own

entry requirements, and these vary depend-

ing on the traveler’s country of origin, but in

general, people who are vaccinated don’t need

much extra paperwork. The U.S. has finally

reciprocated: Beginning in November, the

government will allow air travel by most vac-

cinated foreigners — including those from 33

previously banned countries — provided they

can present a recent negative COVID test. Un-

vaccinated international visitors will largely

be turned away from here on out. Asia is mov-

ing at a slower pace but is showing signs of pro-

gress: Singapore’s quarantine period for vis-

itors from certain countries has been short-

ened to 10 days from 14.

Despite this relaxation in rules, the percep-

tion persists that international travel is a logis-

tical nightmare best avoided. I myself was

prepared for the worst when I traveled in late

September. It was my third attempt at resche-

duling a 2020 vacation, and were it not for an

expiring hotel credit, I might have stayed

home. Even people who work in the aerospace

industry were surprised to hear I would at-

tempt a European sojourn. Would I even get

into France and, if so, what would I be allowed

to do there? But the experience turned out to

be incredibly smooth and left me optimistic

about the recovery in international travel.

To enter France as a vaccinated American,

I simply needed to show proof of having re-

ceived a full COVID-19 vaccine regimen ap-

proved by the EU and sign a health declara-

tion form. That was it. No test, no quarantine.

France requires a health pass to do just about

anything, including check into a hotel, eat in a

restaurant or go to a museum. It can be proof

of vaccination, evidence of recovery from CO-

VID-19 or negative results from a recent test.

This was my biggest source of worry, because

the EU uses a digital COVID certificate with a

scannable QR code that’s more secure and

verifiable than the cumbersome squares of

paper issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention.

But France set up a system for foreigners to

have their local vaccination certificates con-

verted into a European pass. The process was

clunky and a little frustrating, but it worked: I

got my digital pass the day we departed.

Health passes really are the ideal way to reo-

pen international leisure travel. I felt perfectly

comfortable doing touristy things knowing ev-

eryone around me had been screened, too.

It was ultimately easier to travel to France

than to return to the U.S. Even vaccinated

Americans need a recent negative test. The

new international protocols proposed by the

U.S. introduce yet more headaches. Foreign

visitors will have to provide phone numbers

and email addresses for contract tracing —

even though the U.S. has no national contact-

tracing system. New York City, San Francis-

co, New Orleans and other tourist destinations

require proof of vaccination for indoor activ-

ities, but the U.S. hasn’t bothered to create an

internationally compatible health pass. Are

local proprietors prepared to check foreign

vaccine records? Do they even know what

those look like?

One thing is clear: People are willing to put

up with an awful lot to visit far-flung corners of

the world — particularly if they’ve been sep-

arated from their family or business contacts

for a year and a half, or are in desperate need

of a vacation. News of the more relaxed U.S.

travel restrictions sent demand for tickets

soaring in Europe.

The doomsayers about the domestic travel

recovery turned out to be wrong. Now, inter-

national travel is set to snap back faster than

expected as well.

International travel is easier than you might thinkBY BROOKE SUTHERLAND

Bloomberg Opinion

Brooke Sutherland is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist coveringdeals and industrial companies. This column does notnecessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board orBloomberg LP and its owners.


ACROSS

1 Thompson of

“Love Actually”

5 Enjoy Aspen

8 Russian ruler

12 Severe decline

14 Forearm bone

15 Crunchy salad

morsels

16 Two of a kind

17 Yoga pad

18 Clef type

20 Meager

23 Greet

24 Nightclub

of song

25 Soup dumplings

28 Garden tool

29 Major artery

30 Aachen article

32 Spiral seashells

34 Make over

35 Miami- — County

36 West Pointer

37 Sci-fi robots

40 Balm target

41 “It can’t be!”

42 Explosive units

47 Abound

48 Give courage to

49 Back talk

50 Fanatic

51 Wail

DOWN

1 Catchall abbr.

2 Scratch

3 “O Sole —”

4 Radcliffe

grad

5 Espy

6 Family

7 Moments

8 Elvis’ birthplace

9 Thick chunk

10 Blue dye source

11 Exceptional

13 Sports figure?

19 Broadway

star Moreno

20 Learning ctr.

21 Geezer

22 Mimic

23 Singer Lena

25 Lumberjacks,

e.g.

26 Must have

27 Faction

29 Slightly

31 “Kidding!”

33 Figures of

speech

34 With full attention

36 “Arrivederci!”

37 Pixels

38 Mother of Zeus

39 Singles

40 Pride parade

initialism

43 Ostrich’s kin

44 Prefix with meter

45 Just out

46 NBC weekend

show

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SCOREBOARD

PRO FOOTBALL

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA

Buffalo 3 1 0 .750 134 44

Miami 1 3 0 .250 62 109

N.Y. Jets 1 3 0 .250 47 94

New England 1 3 0 .250 71 70

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Tennessee 2 2 0 .500 95 111

Houston 1 3 0 .250 67 116

Indianapolis 1 3 0 .250 83 97

Jacksonville 0 4 0 .000 74 115

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Baltimore 3 1 0 .750 105 92

Cincinnati 3 1 0 .750 92 75

Cleveland 3 1 0 .750 100 67

Pittsburgh 1 3 0 .250 67 93

West

W L T Pct PF PA

Denver 3 1 0 .750 83 49

L.A. Chargers 3 1 0 .750 95 74

Las Vegas 3 1 0 .750 104 100

Kansas City 2 2 0 .500 134 125

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA

Dallas 3 1 0 .750 126 97

Washington 2 2 0 .500 101 122

N.Y. Giants 1 3 0 .250 83 95

Philadelphia 1 3 0 .250 94 106

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Carolina 3 1 0 .750 97 66

Tampa Bay 3 1 0 .750 122 105

New Orleans 2 2 0 .500 94 69

Atlanta 1 3 0 .250 78 128

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Green Bay 3 1 0 .750 95 100

Chicago 2 2 0 .500 64 91

Minnesota 1 3 0 .250 94 92

Detroit 0 4 0 .000 81 119

West

W L T Pct PF PA

Arizona 4 0 0 1.000 140 85

L.A. Rams 4 1 0 .800 141 116

San Francisco 2 2 0 .500 107 102

Seattle 2 3 0 .400 120 126

Thursday, Oct. 7

L.A. Rams 26, Seattle 17 Sunday’s games

N.Y. Jets vs Atlanta at London, UK Denver at Pittsburgh Detroit at Minnesota Green Bay at Cincinnati Miami at Tampa Bay New England at Houston New Orleans at Washington Philadelphia at Carolina Tennessee at Jacksonville Chicago at Las Vegas Cleveland at L.A. Chargers N.Y. Giants at Dallas San Francisco at Arizona Buffalo at Kansas City

Monday’s game

Indianapolis at Baltimore Thursday’s game

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia Sunday, Oct. 17

Miami vs Jacksonville at London, UK Cincinnati at Detroit Green Bay at Chicago Houston at Indianapolis Kansas City at Washington L.A. Chargers at Baltimore L.A. Rams at N.Y. Giants Minnesota at Carolina Arizona at Cleveland Dallas at New England Las Vegas at Denver Seattle at Pittsburgh Open: N.Y. Jets, Atlanta, New Orleans,

San Francisco Monday, Oct. 18

Buffalo at Tennessee

NFL Injury ReportMONDAY

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS at BALTIMORERAVENS — INDIANAPOLIS: OUT: DE KwityPaye (hamstring), T Braden Smith (foot/thumb) RB Jordan Wilkins (illness), CBRock Ya-Sin (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: SKhari Willis (ankle/groin). DNP: DE Kemo-ko Turay (ankle). LIMITED: LB Daius Leo-nafe (ankle). FULL: RB Nyheim Hines(shoulder), C Ryan Kelly (groin), QB Car-son Wentz (ankle). BALTIMORE: OUT: TRonny Stanley (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: SDeShon Elliot (quadricep), S Geno Stone(thigh), T Alejandro Villanueva (knee).DNP: DE Calais Campbell (NIR-restingplayer), OLB Pernell McPhee (NIR-restingplayer), WR Sammy Watkins (NIR-restingplayer).

SOCCER

MLS

Eastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

New England 20 4 5 65 57 34

Nashville 11 3 14 47 46 26

Philadelphia 12 7 9 45 38 27

Orlando City 11 8 9 42 41 41

D.C. United 12 12 4 40 49 41

NYCFC 11 10 7 40 44 32

CF Montréal 11 10 7 40 40 37

Atlanta 10 9 9 39 37 33

New York 10 11 7 37 34 30

Columbus 9 12 7 34 32 39

Inter Miami CF 9 14 5 32 25 43

Chicago 7 16 6 27 29 46

Toronto FC 6 15 7 25 34 54

Cincinnati 4 16 8 20 29 54

Western Conference

W L T Pts GF GA

Seattle 17 5 6 57 48 23

Sporting KC 15 6 7 52 51 31

Colorado 13 5 9 48 38 27

Portland 14 10 4 46 45 44

Real Salt Lake 11 11 6 39 45 44

LA Galaxy 11 11 6 39 39 45

Minnesota 10 9 8 38 30 32

Vancouver 9 9 10 37 35 38

LAFC 9 12 7 34 40 41

San Jose 8 11 9 33 35 44

FC Dallas 6 13 10 28 39 47

Houston 5 12 12 27 33 45

Austin FC 7 17 4 25 29 44

Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.

Saturday’s games

New York 1, Miami 0 Philadelphia 2, Cincinnati 1 Seattle 4, Vancouver 1

Sunday’s game

Colorado at Minnesota

NWSL

W L T Pts GF GA

Portland 12 6 2 38 31 16

Reign FC 11 7 2 35 30 19

North Carolina 9 6 5 32 26 14

Washington 8 7 6 30 24 25

Gotham FC 7 5 8 29 23 18

Chicago 8 7 5 29 22 24

Houston 8 7 5 29 27 25

Orlando 7 7 7 28 26 27

Louisville 4 12 5 17 16 37

Kansas City 2 12 5 11 10 30

Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.

Saturday’s games

Gotham FC 3, Orlando 2Washington 3, Louisville 0

Sunday’s games

North Carolina at HoustonChicago at Reign FCPortland at Kansas City

DALLAS COWBOYS — Promoted FB NickRalston and TE Jeremy Sprinkle to the ac-tive roster from the practice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS — Activated CB Ro-nald Darby from injured reserve. Promot-ed WR Tyrie Cleveland to the active rosterfrom the practice squad. Placed TE AlbertOkwuegbunam on injured reserve.

DETROIT LIONS — Promoted TE ShaneZylstra to the active roster from the prac-tice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed CB JaireAlexander on injured reserve. ActivatedDL Tyler Lancaster from the reserve/CO-VID-19 list. Promoted G Ben Braden andWR Equanimeous St. Brown to the activeroster from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed QB BrettHundley to the active roster.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed OT MarcusCannon on injured reserve.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Promoted KMatthew Wright to the active roster fromthe practice squad.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Activated LB Wil-lie Gray from injured reserve. Waived LBDarius Harris. Promoted DE Demone Har-ris to the active roster from the practicesquad.

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Activated CB Kei-sean Nixon and RB Jalen Richard from in-jured reserve. Placed CB Damon Arnette,TE Derek Carrier and CB Trayvon Mullen oninjured reserve.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated D tackleRaekwon Davis from injured reserve. Pro-moted WR Isaiah Ford and DE JabaalSheard to the active roster from the prac-tice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted CBTye Smith to the active roster from thepractice squad. Promoted G Dakota Dozierand CB Parry Nickerson to the active ros-ter as COVID-19 replacements. Waived WRDan Chisena.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — PromotedDB Myles Bryant, OL James Ferentz, OLAlex Redmond and OL Will Sherman to theactive roster from the practice squad.Placed OL Trent Brown on injured reserve.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed WRKenny Stills to the active roster. ReleasedDL Christian Ringo. Promoted OT JordanMills to the active roster from the practicesquad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Promoted T KoreyCunningham to the active roster from thepractice squad. Placed OL Jonatthan Har-rison on the practice squad injured list.

NEW YORK JETS — Promoted DB Jarrod

Saturday’s transactionsBASEBALL

Major League BaseballAmerican League

TEXAS RANGERS — Announced RHPMike Foltynewicz elected free agency af-ter clearing outright waivers. Sent RHPsHunter Wood and OF Jason Martin out-right to Round Rock (Triple-A West).

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named

Mike Fetters bullpen coach, Dave McKayfirst base coach, Tony Perezchica thirdbase coach and Luis Ureta promoted tonew role on the staff. Chris Cron coach,Robby Hammock quality control & catch-ing coach, Matt Herges pitching coach,Drew Hedman co-hitting coach and RickShort co-hitting coach will not return tothe Major League coaching staff.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Fired third basecoach Joey Cora.

BASKETBALLGOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Waived G

Langston Galloway.FOOTBALL

National Football LeagueARIZONA CARDINALS — Promoted OL

Danny Isidora and TE Ross Travis to the ac-tive roster from the practice squad. Pro-moted CB Jace Whittaker to the active ros-ter as a COVID-19 replacement.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Activated CB Ken-dall Sheffield from injured reserve.Waived TE Parker Hesse. Promoted WR Ju-wan Green and CB Chris Williamson to theactive roster from the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed CB Taron John-son to a three-year contract extensionthrough 2024.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Promoted RBRodney Smith and S Kenny Robinson tothe active roster from the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed RB DavidMontgomery on injured reserve. Activa-ted LB Danny Trevathan from injured re-serve. Promoted RB Ryan Nall to the activeroster from the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Activated S Ri-cardo Allen to the active roster from in-jured reserve. Placed G Xavier Su’a-Filo oninjured reserve.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Activated LBAnthony Walker from injured reserve.Signed DE Joe Jackson to the practicesquad and promoted him to the active ros-ter. Promoted S Jovanted Moffat to the ac-tive roster from the practice squad.

Wilson and TE Kenny Yeboah to the activeroster from the practice squad. ActivatedLB Blake Cashman from injured reserve.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Promoted OTLe’Raven Clark to the active roster as aCOVID-19 replacement.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed WR Co-dy White to the active roster. Promoted SKarl Joseph to the active roster from thepractice squad. Released G Rashaad Cow-ard.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Place TE Ge-orge Kittle on injured reserve. Signed WRTravis Benjamin to the active roster. Pro-moted TE Tanner Hudson and QB NateSudfeld to the active roster from the prac-tice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — ActivatedLB Cam Gill from injured reserve. Promot-ed TE Codey McElroy and CB Rashard Rob-inson to the active roster from the prac-tice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Activated WRMarcus Johnson from injured reserve.Signed OLB John Simon to the active rosterfrom the practice squad. Promoted DL Ca-raun Reid and DB Jamal Carter to the ac-tive roster from the practice squad.Waived OLB Sharif Finch.

WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — Pro-moted WR Antonio Grandy-Golden to theactive roster from the practice squad.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Released CJustin Scott and LW Tristan Mllin. As-signed C Tyler Sikura, RW Carson Meyer,LW BrendanGaunce, Cs Josh Dunne andTyler Anle to Cleveland (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Loaned D AndreasBorgman to Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned F DanRenouf, F Jonatan Berggren and D LukeWitkowski to Grand Rapids (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned Fs AdamBeckman and Marco Rossi and Ds CalenAddison to the Iowa (AHL). Recalled G An-drew Hammond from Iowa.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled F GregMcKegg from Hartford (AHL).

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Assigned DJuuso Riikola and C Michael Chaput toWilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Signed F James Nealto a one-year contract. Assigned G ColtenEllis, F Dakota Joshua and D Scott Perunov-ich to Springfield (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Assigned RWWilliam Lockwood and C Carson Focht toAbbotsford (AHL).

DEALS

Drive For The Cure 250Saturday

At Charlotte Motor Speedway RoadCourse

Concord, N.C.Lap length: 2.28 miles

(Start position in parentheses)1. (14) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 68

laps, 135.5 rating, 49 points.2. (1) Austin Cindric, Ford, 68, 124.4, 35.3. (3) Daniel Hemric, Toyota, 68, 120.4, 54.4. (5) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 68, 112.1,

48.5. (6) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 68, 94.2, 42.6. (10) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 68, 91.2,

46.7. (37) Preston Pardus, Chevrolet, 68,

79.3, 30.8. (13) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 68, 76.0,

37.9. (2) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 68, 79.0,

28.10. (15) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 68, 94.8,

28.11. (17) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 68, 77.5,

26.12. (11) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 68,

75.8, 32.13. (7) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 68, 75.8, 28.14. (20) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 68, 84.2,

23.15. (8) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 68, 78.0,

29.16. (19) Jade Buford, Chevrolet, 68, 64.2,

21.17. (35) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 68,

65.7, 20.18. (40) Austin Hill, Toyota, 68, 77.2, 0.19. (23) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 68, 56.7, 18.20. (32) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 68,

62.0, 17.21. (12) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 68, 96.5, 26.22. (16) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 68,

55.7, 15.23. (24) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, 68,

56.5, 14.24. (36) Stefan Parsons, Chevrolet, 68,

46.0, 13.25. (28) Sage Karam, Chevrolet, 68, 81.8,

12.26. (25) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 68, 71.3, 11.27. (4) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 68,

66.2, 10.28. (30) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 67, 36.0, 9.29. (29) Will Rodgers, Toyota, 67, 68.0, 8.30. (26) Matt Mills, Toyota, 67, 35.0, 7.31. (33) Spencer Boyd, Ford, 67, 35.0, 0.32. (18) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 66, 51.2, 5.33. (21) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet,

accident, 63, 56.7, 4.34. (9) Riley Herbst, Ford, suspension, 61,

77.5, 7.35. (34) Loris Hezemans, Ford, electrical,

59, 38.3, 2.36. (27) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, axle, 47,

53.0, 1.37. (22) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 30, 26.2, 1.38. (31) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, accident,

28, 47.8, 1.39. (38) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, suspen-

sion, 19, 28.3, 0.40. (39) Gray Gaulding, Chevrolet, rear-

gear, 10, 24.3, 1.Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 74.4mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 7 minutes, 14 sec-onds.

Margin of Victory: 3.192 seconds.Caution Flags: 7 for 13 laps.Lead Changes: 6 among 5 drivers.Lap Leaders: A.Cindric 0-7; D.Hemric 8-

20; N.Gragson 21; A.Cindric 22-36; D.Hem-ric 37-40; T.Gibbs 41-47; A.Allmendinger48-68

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,Laps Led): A.Cindric, 2 times for 22 laps;A.Allmendinger, 1 time for 21 laps; D.Hem-ric, 2 times for 17 laps; T.Gibbs, 1 time for 7laps; N.Gragson, 1 time for 1 lap.

Wins: A.Allmendinger, 5; A.Cindric, 5;T.Gibbs, 3; J.Allgaier, 2; N.Gragson, 2; J.Ber-ry, 2; J.Haley, 1; J.Burton, 1; M.Snider, 1;B.Brown, 1.

Top 16 in Points: 1. A.Allmendinger, 3050;2. A.Cindric, 3044; 3. J.Allgaier, 3021; 4.N.Gragson, 3017; 5. D.Hemric, 3016; 6. J.Ha-ley, 3015; 7. H.Burton, 3008; 8. B.Jones, 3003;9. J.Burton, 862; 10. J.Clements, 668; 11.R.Herbst, 660; 12. M.Snider, 657; 13.T.Gibbs, 589; 14. B.Brown, 574; 15. R.Sieg,557; 16. M.Annett, 534.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula

The formula combines the following cat-egories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes,Average Running Position While on LeadLap, Average Speed Under Green, FastestLap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

AUTO RACING

GOLF

Shriners Children's OpenPGA Tour

SaturdayAt TPC Summerlin

Las VegasPurse: $7 Million

Yardage: 7,255; Par: 71Third Round

Adam Schenk 64-65-66—195 -18 Matthew Wolff 64-67-65—196 -17 Andrew Putnam 67-64-66—197 -16 Sam Burns 66-63-68—197 -16 Chad Ramey 63-65-69—197 -16 Sungjae Im 63-65-70—198 -15 Harry Hall 66-65-68—199 -14 Adam Hadwin 67-64-68—199 -14 Lanto Griffin 72-64-64—200 -13

Cognizant Founders CupLPGA Tour

SaturdayAt Mountain Ridge Country Club

West Caldwell, N.J.Purse: $3 million

Yardage: 6,612; Par: 71

Third RoundJin Young Ko 63-68-69—200 -13Elizabeth Szokol 68-71-65—204 -9 Yuka Saso 67-70-67—204 -9 Lindsey Weaver 68-67-69—204 -9 So Yeon Ryu 67-66-71—204 -9

Constellation Furyk & FriendsPGA Tour Champions

SaturdayAt Timuquana Country Club

Jacksonville, Fla.Purse: $2 million

Yardage: 6,949; Par: 72Second Round

Phil Mickelson 66-67—133 -11Miguel Angel Jiménez 70-65—135 -9Steve Flesch 69-66—135 -9 Matt Gogel 66-69—135 -9

PRO BASKETBALL

WNBA Playoffs

(x-if necessary)Finals

(Best-of-5)No. 6 Chicago, No. 5 Phoenix

Sunday's game: Chicago at Phoenix Wednesday's game: Chicago at Phoenix Friday's game: Phoenix at Chicago x-Sunday, Oct 17: Phoenix at Chicago x-Tuesday, Oct. 19: Chicago at Phoenix

BNP Paribas Open

SaturdayAt Indian Wells Tennis Garden

Indian Wells, Calif.Purse: $8,359,455

Surface: Hardcourt outdoorMen’s SinglesRound of 64

Reilly Opelka (16), United States, def. Ta-ro Daniel, Japan, 7-5, 6-3.

Hubert Hurkacz (8), Poland, def. AlexeiPopyrin, Australia, 6-1, 7-5.

Diego Schwartzman (11), Argentina, def.Maxime Cressy, United States, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5.

Daniel Evans (18), Britain, def. Kei Nishi-kori, Japan, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Frances Tiafoe, United States, def. Se-bastian Korda (32), United States, 6-0, 6-4.

Roberto Bautista Agut (15), Spain, def.Guido Pella, Argentina, 7-5, 6-3.

Casper Ruud (6), Norway, def. RobertoCarballes Baena, Spain, 6-1, 6-2.

Denis Shapovalov (9), Canada, def. Va-sek Pospisil, Canada, 3-0, ret.

Cameron Norrie (21), Britain, def. Ten-nys Sandgren, United States, 6-4, 5-7, 6-0.

Grigor Dimitrov (23), Bulgaria, def. Da-niel Altmaier, Germany, 6-4, 6-2.

Tommy Paul, United States, def. Dusan

Lajovic (28), Serbia, 6-2, 6-3.Aslan Karatsev (19), Russia, def. Salva-

tore Caruso, Italy, 6-0, 6-2.Lloyd Harris (26), South Africa, def. Ale-

jandro Davidovich Fokina, Spain, 6-3, 6-3.Daniil Medvedev (1), Russia, def. Mack-

enzie McDonald, United States, 6-4, 6-2.Filip Krajinovic (27), Serbia, def. Marcos

Giron, United States, 7-6 (2), 7-5.Andrey Rublev (4), Russia, def. Carlos

Taberner, Spain, 6-3, 6-4.Women’s Singles

Round of 64Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, def. Garbine

Muguruza (5), Spain, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.Ons Jabeur (12), Tunisia, def. Anastasija

Sevastova, Latvia, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3.Tamara Zidansek (26), Slovenia, def.

Ana Konjuh, Croatia, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, def. Sara Sor-

ribes Tormo (28), Spain, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.Karolina Pliskova (1), Czech Republic,

def. Magdalena Frech, Poland, 7-5, 6-2.Amanda Anisimova, United States, def.

Camila Giorgi (30), Italy, 6-4, 6-1.Anett Kontaveit (18), Estonia, def. Marti-

na Trevisan, Italy, 6-3, 5-2, ret.Barbora Krejcikova (3), Czech Republic,

def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.Coco Gauff (15), United States, def. Car-

oline Garcia, France, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-1.

Paula Badosa (21), Spain, def. DayanaYastremska, Ukraine, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.

Danielle Collins (22), United States, def.Lauren Davis, United States, 6-1, ret.

Daria Kasatkina (20), Russia, def. AstraSharma, Australia, 3-4, ret.

Angelique Kerber (10), Germany, def.Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 6-1,6-7 (4), 7-5.

Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, def. Ma-ria Sakkari (6), Greece, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.

Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, def. MayarSherif, Egypt, 6-3, 6-0.

Bianca Andreescu (16), Canada, def. Ali-son Riske, United States, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2.

TENNIS


COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Saturday’s scoresEAST

Alfred 24, Hartwick 21Alfred St. 35, SUNY Maritime 20Amherst 17, Middlebury 10Bates 33, Tufts 10Bentley 26, Pace 0Bethany (WV) 28, Thiel 7Bridgewater (Mass.) 49, Worcester St. 13Brown 31, Colgate 10California (Pa.) 38, Gannon 17Carnegie Mellon 34, Westminster (Pa.) 10Castleton 21, Dean 13Catholic 30, WPI 7Charleston (WV) 20, Glenville St. 9College of NJ 14, Montclair St. 9Columbia 22, CCSU 20Concord 20, West Liberty 16Cortland 31, Brockport 10Dartmouth 24, Yale 17, OTDelaware St. 56, Va. Lynchburg 6Delaware Valley 48, Kings (Pa.) 15Duquesne 39, Bryant 34East Stroudsburg 27, Millersville 7Elon 33, Maine 23Endicott 45, W. New England 21FDU-Florham 33, Lebanon Valley 27, 2OTFordham 56, Wagner 7Framingham St. 35, Fitchburg St. 0Gallaudet 34, Keystone 14Grove City 56, Geneva 7Harvard 24, Cornell 10Husson 21, Curry 14Indiana (Pa.) 58, Clarion 21Ithaca 37, Rochester 14Kean 24, Rowan 17Kutztown 34, Bloomsburg 7Lafayette 27, Bucknell 0Lycoming 44, Misericordia 16Marist 34, Stetson 3Marshall 20, Old Dominion 13, OTMass.-Dartmouth 26, Mass. Maritime 10Merchant Marine 49, Norwich 14Michigan St. 31, Rutgers 13New Haven 56, St. Anselm 7Penn 20, Lehigh 0Plymouth St. 16, W. Connecticut 13Princeton 31, Monmouth (NJ) 28RPI 24, Buffalo St. 16Rhode Island 22, Delaware 15Robert Morris 31, Charleston Southern 24SMU 31, Navy 24Sacred Heart 20, Merrimack 10Salve Regina 48, New England 6Seton Hill 19, Mercyhurst 17Shepherd 75, Lock Haven 21Shippensburg 34, West Chester 18Slippery Rock 49, Edinboro 13Springfield 60, Coast Guard 0St. Francis (Pa.) 55, LIU Brooklyn 10St. John Fisher 28, Morrisville St. 23Stonehill 25, American International 0Towson 21, Stony Brook 14Trinity (Conn.) 34, Hamilton 7Umass 27, Uconn 13Union (NY) 37, St. Lawrence 7W. Virginia St. 38, WV Wesleyan 3Wake Forest 40, Syracuse 37, OTWash. & Jefferson 63, St. Vincent 22Wesleyan (Conn.) 38, Bowdoin 35Widener 37, Alvernia 7Wilkes 31, Albright 28William Paterson 48, Christopher New-

port 28Williams 42, Colby 0

SOUTH

Alabama St. 35, Ark.-Pine Bluff 15Albany St. (Ga.) 30, Edward Waters 0Alcorn St. 24, Grambling St. 20Benedict 24, Miles 21Berry 49, Millsaps 21Birmingham Southern 43, Hendrix 6Bowie St. 14, Chowan 3Brevard 31, Maryville (Tenn.) 0Campbell 42, Gardner-Webb 28Catawba 33, Carson-Newman 27Clark Atlanta 21, Allen 12E. Kentucky 30, Abilene Christian 15ETSU 48, The Citadel 21Fayetteville St. 15, Shaw 12Ferrum 14, Bridgewater (Va.) 10Florida 42, Vanderbilt 0Florida A&M 30, SC State 7Florida St. 35, North Carolina 25Fort Valley St. 35, Central St. (Ohio) 14Furman 42, Wofford 20Georgia 34, Auburn 10Georgia St. 55, Louisiana-Monroe 21Georgia Tech 31, Duke 27Huntingdon 48, S. Virginia 20Jackson St. 61, Alabama A&M 15Jacksonville St. 28, Stephen F. Austin 24Kennesaw St. 34, Hampton 15Kentucky 42, LSU 21

Lenoir-Rhyne 38, Tusculum 31Liberty 41, Middle Tennessee 13Livingstone 21, St. Augustines 7MVSU 20, Bethune-Cookman 14Mars Hill 40, Barton 32Mercer 34, W. Carolina 24Methodist 34, Lagrange 17Mississippi 52, Arkansas 51Morehead St. 38, Presbyterian 30Morehouse 31, Tuskegee 15NC A&T 38, North Alabama 34NC Wesleyan 21, Greensboro 0Newberry 37, Virginia-Wise 14Notre Dame 32, Virginia Tech 29Randolph Macon 34, Emory & Henry 31Rhodes 55, Sewanee 13SE Louisiana 58, Nicholls 48SE Missouri 30, Austin Peay 14Savannah St. 39, Erskine 6Shenandoah 52, Guilford 25Tennessee 45, South Carolina 20Tennessee Tech 27, NC Central 16Texas Southern 35, Southern U. 31Troy 27, Georgia Southern 24UAB 31, FAU 14UCF 20, East Carolina 16UNC-Pembroke 34, Wheeling Jesuit 28UT Martin 48, Murray St. 24UTEP 26, Southern Miss. 13UTSA 52, W. Kentucky 46VMI 37, Chattanooga 34, OTValdosta St. 55, Delta St. 0Villanova 28, James Madison 27Virginia 34, Louisville 33Virginia St. 35, Elizabeth City St. 7Virginia Union 32, Lincoln (Pa.) 0Washington & Lee 42, Apprentice 13West Alabama 44, Shorter 7West Florida 52, North Greenville 10West Georgia 40, Mississippi College 21William & Mary 31, Albany (NY) 24Wingate 35, Limestone 17Winston-Salem 26, Johnson C. Smith 12

MIDWEST

Adrian 21, Albion 7Akron 35, Bowling Green 20Alma 28, Kalamazoo 3Augustana (SD) 37, Upper Iowa 20Ball St. 45, W. Michigan 20Bemidji St. 42, Concordia (St.P.) 14Benedictine (Ill.) 54, Lakeland 40Bethel (Minn. ) 49, Hamline 7Bluffton 32, Anderson (Ind.) 20Carroll (Wis.) 34, North Park 26Cent. Michigan 30, Ohio 27Cent. Missouri 45, Emporia St. 38Central 55, Coe 21Concordia (Moor.) 34, Macalester 27Concordia (Wis.) 41, Eureka 32Cornell (Iowa) 35, Lawrence 24Davenport 18, N. Michigan 13Dayton 28, Drake 10DePauw 17, Wittenberg 14Dubuque 31, Nebraska Wesleyan 14E. Michigan 13, Miami (Ohio) 12Elmhurst 28, Millikin 7Findlay 31, Kentucky Wesleyan 19Grand Valley St. 70, Northwood (Mich.) 9Greenville 35, Northwestern (Minn.) 23Gustavus Adolphus 72, St. Scholastica 7Heidelberg 44, Marietta 21Hillsdale 20, Walsh 3Indiana St. 37, W. Illinois 27

Indianapolis 57, McKendree 28Iowa 23, Penn St. 20John Carroll 38, Capital 7Kent St. 48, Buffalo 38Knox 42, Beloit 0Lake Forest 48, Illinois College 13Lindenwood (Mo.) 33, Quincy 28Manchester 22, Defiance 0Martin Luther 35, Crown (Minn.) 18Michigan 32, Nebraska 29Michigan Tech 30, Wayne St. (Mich.) 27Minn. Duluth 31, Mary 27Minn. St. (Moorhead) 29, Minot St. 17Minn.-Morris 41, Finlandia 20Missouri 48, North Texas 35Missouri Southern 52, Lincoln (Mo.) 32Monmouth (Ill.) 40, Chicago 37Mount St. Joseph 28, Franklin 14Mount Union 63, Wilmington (Ohio) 0N. Dakota St. 34, N. Iowa 20N. Illinois 22, Toledo 20NW Missouri St. 20, Pittsburg St. 19Neb.-Kearney 35, Missouri Western 14North Central 64, Carthage 13Northern St. 52, Winona St. 49Notre Dame (Ohio) 23, Frostburg St. 21Ohio Dominican 34, Ashland 24Ohio St. 66, Maryland 17Ohio Wesleyan 34, Hiram 17Ripon 52, Grinnell 8Rockford 35, Concordia (Ill.) 13Rose Hulman 31, Hanover 21S. Illinois 42, S. Dakota St. 41, OTS.D. Mines 42, Fort Lewis 7SW Baptist 55, William Jewell 10San Diego 52, Butler 21Simpson 68, Luther 34Sioux Falls 35, SW Minnesota 7South Dakota 20, North Dakota 13St. John’s (Minn.) 50, Augsburg 0St. Norbert 68, Wis. Lutheran 0St. Olaf 23, Carleton 14St. Thomas (Minn.) 20, Valparaiso 13Tiffin 35, Lake Erie 17Trine 35, Olivet 14Truman St. 38, Missouri S&T 21Wabash 49, Oberlin 20Wartburg 58, Loras 21Washburn 23, Fort Hays St. 20, OTWashington (Mo.) 38, Ill. Wesleyan 22Wayne St. (Neb.) 35, Minnesota St. 24Wheaton (Ill.) 45, Augustana (Ill.) 0Wis.-La Crosse 30, Wis.-Oshkosh 21Wis.-River Falls 56, Wis.-Stevens Pt 20Wis.-Stout 38, Wis.-Eau Claire 34Wis.-Whitewater 65, Wis.-Platteville 21Wisconsin 24, Illinois 0Youngstown St. 41, Missouri St. 33

SOUTHWEST

Ark.-Monticello 42, NW Oklahoma 23Arkansas Tech 38, Oklahoma Baptist 35Baylor 45, West Virginia 20Harding 49, S. Nazarene 10Henderson St. 59, East Central 24Midwestern St. 30, Texas A&M Kings. 13Northwestern St. 21, Houston Baptist 17Oklahoma 55, Texas 48Ouachita Baptist 30, SW Oklahoma 10SE Oklahoma 38, S. Arkansas 24Saginaw Valley St. 20, Texas A&M Com-

merce 17, OTSam Houston St. 41, Lamar 7TCU 52, Texas Tech 31Texas A&M 41, Alabama 38Texas State 33, South Alabama 31, 4OTTrinity (Texas) 27, Centre 7Tulsa 35, Memphis 29

FAR WEST

Air Force 24, Wyoming 14Boise St. 26, BYU 17CSU-Pueblo 42, Chadron St. 17Cent. Washington 45, W. Oregon 14Chapman 57, Whittier 14Colorado Mesa 49, Adams St. 14Colorado Mines 41, Black Hills St. 20Colorado St. 32, San Jose St. 14E. Washington 63, N. Colorado 17George Fox 44, Willamette 14Idaho 42, Portland St. 35Idaho St. 27, UC Davis 17Linfield 42, Whitworth 7Montana 31, Dixie St. 14Montana St. 45, Cal Poly 7Nevada 55, New Mexico St. 28Pacific (Ore.) 69, Puget Sound 6Pacific Lutheran 38, Lewis & Clark 37Redlands 51, La Verne 7Sacramento St. 41, S. Utah 20San Diego St. 31, New Mexico 7UCLA 34, Arizona 16Utah 42, Southern Cal 26Washington St. 31, Oregon St. 24West Texas A&M 31, Angelo St. 15Western St. (Col.) 45, N.M. Highlands 38

Scoreboard

MATT GENTRY/AP

Notre Dame kicker JonathanDoerer, right, and Jay Bramblettcelebrate the winning field goalSaturday at Virginia Tech.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The last

thing No. 24 SMU needed was to fall

too far behind against a methodical

Navy team.

The moment the Mustangs

seemed like they might be in trou-

ble, Bryan Massey turned the game

around with a kickoff return for a

touchdown.

“I thought that gave us a little bit of

momentum back,” SMU coach Son-

ny Dykes said. “The thing I was most

proud of our guys about doing, they

just kept their head down, never

looked at the scoreboard. We talk to

them all the time about doing that.”

Tanner Mordecai threw for 324

yards and two touchdowns, and the

Mustangs rallied from a 14-point

second-quarter deficit to beat the

Midshipmen 31-24 on Saturday.

Massey’s return began the come-

back, and SMU’s defense held firm

for most of the second half.

The Mustangs (6-0, 2-0 AAC) had

the game tied by halftime and went

up 31-24 on a 22-yard TD pass from

Mordecai to Jordan Kerley with 8:19

remaining. Navy then turned the

ball over on downs twice.

“That was heartbreaking for our

young men and the program to play

the 24th-ranked team here and be

up 21-7,” Midshipmen coach Ken

Niumatalolo said. “We were feeling

pretty good about where we were.”

Mordecai threw a 66-yarder to

Reggie Roberson on fourth-and-1 to

open the scoring, but Navy (1-4, 1-2)

answered with the next 21 points.

Chance Warren tied the game

with a 23-yard scoring run, then Tai

Lavatai threw the first touchdown

pass of the season for the Midship-

men, 37 yards to Kai Puailoa-Rojas

on a flea-flicker.

Two turnovers in the second

quarter helped Navy. Mordecai was

intercepted in the end zone to stop a

scoring threat, and Diego Fagot re-

turned a fumble 20 yards for a touch-

down and a 21-7 lead.

The Midshipmen never had a

chance to get comfortable, though.

After Massey's return, Tre Siggers

scored on a 2-yard run to tie it with

1:54 left in the half.

Air Force 24, Wyoming 14:Brad

Roberts had 33 carries for 140 yards

and a touchdown to lead the host Fal-

cons.

Haaziq Daniels finished 7-for-10

passing for 110 yards, including a 13-

yard touchdown to Micah Davis that

gave Air Force (5-1, 2-1 Mountain

West) the lead for good at 21-14 with

5:46 left in the third quarter.

JULIO CORTEZ/AP

SMU quarterback Tanner Mordecai threw for 324 yards and twotouchdowns to help rally the Mustangs past Navy on Saturday.

ACADEMIES

Navy stalls, can’tfinish upset of SMU

Associated Press


COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Big 12 (Oklahoma-Texas) and

Southeastern Conference (Arkan-

sas-Mississippi), and a top-five

slugest (Penn State-Iowa) in the

Big Ten.

At night, No. 14 Notre Dame and

No. 9 Michigan needed late field

goals to win from behind before

Texas A&M topped them all with a

stunning upset.

Over the last two weeks, 10

teams ranked in the top 15 have

lost, including seven in the top 10.

A 2021 season that so many fans

feared would be long march to the

same old, same old, with super

teams turning the College Foot-

ball Playoff race into a foregone

conclusion, has now gone full tilt.

Defending national champion

Alabama succumbed to a shaky

defense and an offense that mis-

fired at the most inopportune

times. And the Tide was taken

down by a backup quarterback.

A&M’s Zach Calzada came in to

the game with five touchdown

passes and four interceptions

since taking over for the injured

Haynes King in Week 2, and then

threw three TDs with one pick

against ’Bama.

All shook upToss the Tide on the pile of title

contenders whose championship

hopes have already taken a hit. A

playoff without Alabama, Ohio

State and Clemson is a very real

possibility.

When the new AP college foot-

ball poll comes out on Sunday, the

top three could very well look like

this:

No. 1 Georgia

No. 2 Iowa

No. 3 Cincinnati.

Depth chargeAt a time when quarterback

depth has never been harder to ac-

cumulate in college football, sev-

eral of the biggest games of Week

6 were decided by backups signal-

callers.

No. 6 Oklahoma remained un-

beaten behind freshman Caleb

Williams, who rallied the Sooners

from three scores down in the sec-

ond half against No. 21 Texas.

The highest-scoring game be-

tween the Red River rivals might

have birthed a new star and rele-

gated preseason Heisman Trophy

hopeful Spencer Rattler to second

string.

In Iowa City, No. 4 Penn State

controlled the first half against the

third-ranked Hawkeyes, but lost

quarterback Sean Clifford to an

undisclosed injury for the entire

second half and couldn’t hold on

without him.

Notre Dame started Jack Coan,

switched to Tyler Buchner, and

then went back to Coan after

Buchner was hurt to rally for a win

at Virginia Tech.

And, of course, Calzada, who led

two late scoring drives against

Alabama.

Oklahoma’s saga seems like

something we have never seen be-

fore in college football.

Rattler came into the season as

the presumptive Heisman favor-

ite, a prospective first-round NFL

draft pick and one of the most

marketable players in the country

in this first season that college ath-

letes can be paid endorsers.

Last month, the third-year

sophomore was given two cars by

a local dealership as part of a deal

for use of his name, image and

likeness.

Rattler has cashed in off the

field, but been only solid on it.

Coming into the Saturday, he was

completing 76% of his passes, with

10 touchdowns and four intercep-

tions.

Rattler looked rattled against

the Longhorns as Texas raced out

to a 21-point first-quarter lead.

Williams is the five-star recruit

from Washington D.C., who OU

fans were chanting for a few

weeks ago as the offense sputtered

in a low-scoring home victory over

West Virginia.

More of a dual-threat, Williams

has been used to supplement OU’s

offense, which has lacked explo-

sive plays with Rattler.

Williams broke a 66-yard touch-

down run the first half and then

coach Lincoln Riley turned over

the offense to him in the second

half.

With Williams, the offense sud-

denly looked like recent units led

by Heisman winners Baker May-

field and Kyler Murray that put up

video-game numbers.

Williams passed for 212 yards.

He was spectacular at times and

looked a little like a freshman in

the biggest game of his life at other

times.

But Rattler wasn’t done for the

day. He came in on a 2-point con-

version halfway through the

fourth quarter and connected with

Drake Stoops to make it 41-all.

“I had confidence in both of my

guys or I wouldn’t have put Caleb

in the game for long stretches and

I wouldn’t have put Spencer in on

the most important play of the

game,” Riley said.

It appears Riley has a quarter-

back controversy on his hands for

the first time in his career. After

the game, he declined to commit to

a starter next week against TCU.

He also declined to let Williams

do a quick postgame interview

with ESPN sideline reporter Holly

Rowe. Riley’s policy is freshman

don’t speak to the media, which

seems even more silly in the day

and age of NIL.

Having a quarterback capable

of coming off the bench to win a

game is becoming more rare in

college football. Experienced

players tend to transfer out, look-

ing for playing time and leaving a

lot of teams with backups that

leave a lot to be desired.

Not everyone is as lucky as Ok-

lahoma to have a player as good as

Williams, who can make up for not

knowing exactly what he is doing

by being one of the most talented

players on the field.

That was the case for Penn

State. The Nittany Lions lost back-

up Will Levis to the transfer portal

in the offseason. He is now the

starter at Kentucky.

Penn State coach James Fran-

klin tried to find a graduate trans-

fer to fill out a thin depth chart, but

was left with Ta’Quan Roberson

behind Clifford.

Roberson is a 5-foot-11 sopho-

more who was a borderline four-

star prospect out of high school.

Maybe in another setting, and not

on the road against one of the best

defenses in the country, Roberson

could have managed the situation.

Against the Hawkeyes, the Nit-

tany Lions could barely get a snap

off cleanly and managed only

three points in the second half.

“We didn’t have an issue with

the crowd noise until we lost

Sean,” Penn State coach James

Franklin said.

Offense continues to be a grind

for Iowa, but the Hawkeyes are

unbeaten with nothing but Big

Ten West opponents left on the

schedule. If you haven’t noticed,

outside of Iowa, there is not a ton

to get excited about in the Big Ten

West.

While Oklahoma deciphers

which quarterback to play, Penn

State will hope an open week fol-

lowed by a trip to Illinois will be

enough to get Clifford back to full

health.

Games against No. 7 Ohio State,

No. 9 Michigan and No. 11 Michi-

gan State loom. With Clifford, the

Nittany Lions are still Big Ten

contenders.

Without him ... maybe they

could make a trade for Rattler?

Around the countryNow that Alabama’s record

winning streak against unranked

teams is over, the longest active

streak belongs to Notre Dame at

36. ... Another chance for a break-

through victory slipped away

from Nebraska against No. 9 Mi-

chigan. Scott Frost’s team is unde-

niably better than it has been, but

he is 0-10 against ranked teams in

four seasons at his alma mater ...

There has been a lot of justifiable

love for Texas’ Bijan Robinson,

but Michigan State’s Kenneth

Walker III is probably the top

Heisman contender among run-

ning backs right now. Walker had

233 yards, including a school-re-

cord 94-yard run, as the Spartans

improved to 6-0 against Rutgers.

... Among second-year coaches,

only Michigan State’s Mel Tucker

has done a better job of turning

around a team than Baylor’s Dave

Aranda. The Bears pounded West

Virginia to improve to 5-1. ... En-

couraging sign for Tennessee in

Year 1 under coach Josh Heupel:

The Volunteers (4-2) have scored

at least 40 points in back-to-back

SEC games for the first time since

2016. .. We can put away all the

“What if BYU goes unbeaten?”

conversations after four turnovers

against Boise State. ... Most disap-

pointing team in the country? How

about preseason No. 10 North Car-

olina? Tar Heels coach Mack

Brown is now 0-11 against Florida

State. ... On the other end of the

ACC, No. 19 Wake Forest beat Sy-

racuse in overtime to improved to

6-0 for the first time since 1944.

Tilt: Tidejust latesthigh-rankedteam to fallFROM PAGE 24

JEFFREY MCWHORTER/AP

Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Williams (13) puts on the Golden Hat after coming off the bench to lead the Sooners to a 5448 win over Texas atthe Cotton Bowl, Saturday, in Dallas. The freshman may have forced a quarterback controversy upon head coach Lincoln Riley with his play.


COLLEGE FOOTBALL

COLLEGE STATION, Texas —

Seth Small made a 28-yard field

goal as time expired and Texas

A&M shocked top-ranked Alaba-

ma 41-38 on Saturday night to end

the Crimson Tide’s winning streak

at 19 games.

Defending national champion

Alabama (5-1, 2-1 Southeastern

Conference) had scored 21

straight points — capped by a TD

reception and two-point conver-

sion grab by Jameson Williams —

to take a 38-31 lead with five min-

utes to go.

The Aggies (4-2, 1-2) tied it at 38

when Zach Calzada connected

with Ainias Smith for a 25-yard

touchdown strike with three min-

utes left. Calzada was hit as he

threw the strike and had to be

helped off the field but returned

for the next drive after a visit to the

medical tent.

Calzada returned after Texas

A&M forced a punt to orchestrate

the winning drive, highlighted by a

17-yard pass to Isaiah Spiller be-

fore Small finished it off to send

fans streaming onto the field to cel-

ebrate.

“I’m proud of our guys,” Aggies

coach Jimbo Fisher said. “We

made plays at critical times.”

Calzada threw for 285 yards and

three touchdowns, as the former

backup played like a star. Devon

Achane returned a kickoff 96

yards for a TD in the third quarter

and A&M’s defense got after Bryce

Young all night.

“This is a great win,” Achane

said. “It shows us that we’re capa-

ble of doing great things.”

Smith finished with 85 yards re-

ceiving and two scores and Jalen

Wydermyer had 73 yards receiv-

ing and a TD to help the Aggies to

what certainly is their biggest win

since Fisher took over in 2018.

The Crimson Tide hadn’t lost

since falling 48-45 to Auburn on

Nov. 30, 2019.

“Everyone needs to remember

how they feel and not forget it,”

Alabama coach Nick Saban said.

It’s the first time Saban has lost

to one of his assistants after enter-

ing the game a perfect 24-0 in those

games. He’d beaten Fisher four

times, the most of any of his former

staffers before the former Florida

State coach finally ended the

streak on his 56th birthday.

“It doesn’t mean anything to

me,” Fisher said about ending the

former assistants streak. “Our

football team is learning to play

against other great football teams

and have success. That’s what

matters to me.”

Texas A&M entered the season

ranked sixth and gunning for Ala-

bama after the Crimson Tide

handed them their only loss last

season. But by last week it looked

as if this would be a lost season for

the Aggies after consecutive de-

feats by Arkansas and Mississippi

State sent them tumbling out of the

Top 25.

But instead of falling into a big-

ger hole this week, they pulled off

the upset to snap an eight-game

skid against Alabama. It’s their

first win in the series since Johnny

Manziel’s spectacular perform-

ance led them to a 29-24 win in

2012 on the road when the Crimson

Tide was also ranked first.

“We had a couple of tough weeks

... (but) you’re defined by how you

respond to adversity,” Fisher said.

SAM CRAFT/AP

Running back Isaiah Spiller dives for a touchdown in Texas A&M’s4138 upset Saturday of No. 1 Alabama in College Station, Texas.

Texas A&M stunsNo. 1 Alabama onlast-second kick

BY KRISTIE RIEKEN

Associated Press 100Alabama’s winning streak againstunranked teams that was snappedSaturday by Texas A&M. The CrimsonTide’s last loss to an unranked teamwas Nov. 17, 2007, when it fell to ULMonroe in Nick Saban’s first season ascoach at Alabama.

SOURCES: Associated Press, sports-reference.com

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa was

in victory formation and the emo-

tion was about to spill over as dusk

settled over Kinnick Stadium.

Spencer Petras took the last

snap, took a knee and took off, ap-

parently thinking he could get off

the field before the students and

other fans pouring out of the seats

could catch him Saturday.

He barely made it to midfield.

That’s where he and his teammates

were swarmed and the mosh pit

formed on the Hawkeyes logo to

celebrate the No. 3 Hawkeyes’

hard-earned 23-20 victory over

fourth-ranked Penn State.

“It’s a pretty special place when

the lights go on and the sun goes

down,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz

said.

Petras threw a 44-yard touch-

down pass to Nico Ragaini to com-

plete the Hawkeyes’ comeback

from a two-touchdown deficit, all

accomplished while the Nittany Li-

ons’ offense did next to nothing af-

ter quarterback Sean Clifford was

knocked out of the game.

Iowa (6-0, 3-0) took control of the

Big Ten West with its 12th straight

victory and thrust itself into the

College Football Playoff conversa-

tion.

“This was like the biggest of the

big-time, which was pretty awe-

some,” Ragaini said. “You don’t get

moments like this every day, taking

advantage of the opportunity. It

was a mentally draining game for

sure, and physically draining.

“On the sideline, I was so emo-

tionally drained that I almost

teared up out there because we

care about each other so much. We

all want each other to succeed.”

An hour after the game, Ferentz

choked up as he reflected on his

players’ locker room celebration.

“It’s fun,” he said, pausing.

“That’s what they’re supposed to

do.”

Penn State (5-1, 2-1) lost for the

first time in 10 games and headed

back to Happy Valley with a list of

injuries that could make its path

through the rest of the season diffi-

cult.

“It’s just a bump in the road,”

Nittany Lions defensive end Ar-

nole Ebiketie said. “We have to get

better.”

The Hawkeyes managed to

come back in the biggest game at

Kinnick Stadium since then-No. 1

Iowa beat then-No. 2 Michigan in

1985.

MATTHEW PUTNEY/AP

Iowa wide receiver Desmond Hutson celebrates with fans on the field after Iowa beat Penn State 2320Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa. It was the Hawkeyes’ 12th consecutive victory.

Hawkeye hoopla: No. 3 Iowaslips past No. 4 Penn State

BY ERIC OLSON

Associated Press

OXFORD, Miss. — Matt Corral promised it would

be different this time against No. 13 Arkansas.

The Mississippi quarterback, who threw six inter-

ceptions last year against the Razorbacks, delivered,

leading the Rebels to a wild victory that was sealed by

the defense.

Sam Williams and Tavius Robinson pressured Ar-

kansas quarterback KJ Jefferson on a potential

game-winning two-point conversion and No. 17 Mis-

sissippi held on 52-51 Saturday after allowing a touch-

down on the final play of regulation.

Arkansas (4-2, 1-2 SEC) scored on a 9-yard pass

from Jefferson to Warren Thompson as time expired

to pull within a point and decided to go for the win.

Jefferson rolled right and under extended pressure

from Williams and Robinson, overthrew Treylon

Burks in the end zone.

“However it works, it’s a win,” Rebels coach Lane

Kiffin said. “Obviously, it’s a huge play at the end. Of-

fensively, we did well. I’ve been in games like this be-

fore and it’s a lot better when you win.”

Ole Miss (4-1, 1-1) took the lead with 1:07 remaining

as Corral threw a 68-yard touchdown pass to Braylon

Sanders, accompanied by a soaring clipboard flip by a

trailing Kiffin, racing down the home sideline.

The Razorbacks answered with a 9-play, 75-yard

touchdown drive to set up the decisive two-point play.

“We had three options on the two-point play,” Ar-

kansas coach Sam Pittman said. “We could pitch, pass

or run and we felt confident. They made the play.”

The frantic final two minutes capped an over-

whelming offensive performance by both teams with

1,287 total yards and 14 touchdowns.

Corral accounted for four touchdowns, two on runs

of 5 and 7 yards and was 14-for-21 for 287 yards pass-

ing.

No. 17 Mississippi edges No. 13 ArkansasBY CHRIS BURROWS

Associated Press


BOXING/NFL

LAS VEGAS — After three

fights featuring nine combined

knockdowns and a wealth of unfor-

gettable moments, Tyson Fury fi-

nally ended his epic heavyweight

rivalry with Deontay Wilder with

one last valedictory punch.

Fury got up from the canvas

twice in the fourth round and even-

tually stopped Wilder with a dev-

astating right hand in the 11th

round, retaining his WBC title Sat-

urday night in the thrilling conclu-

sion to a superlative boxing trilogy.

Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) finished

Wilder for the second straight time

in their three bouts, but only after a

back-and-forth event featuring

five combined knockdowns and

several apparent moments of im-

minent defeat for both men. Wil-

der ultimately ended up facedown

on the canvas at 1:10 of the 11th

round after a chopping right hook

fired from high in the air by the 6-

foot-9 Fury.

“It was a great fight,” said Fury,

the sport’s lineal heavyweight

champion and a former unified

world champ. “It was worthy of

any trilogy in the history of the

sport. He’s a top fighter, and he

gave me a real (test) tonight.”

Wilder (42-2-1) was knocked

down in the third round and ap-

peared to be on his way out, but he

improbably rallied to knock down

Fury twice in the final minutes of

the fourth. The British champion

was profoundly shaken, but he also

gathered himself and fought on.

“He caught me twice in the

fourth round, but I was never

thinking, ‘Oh, this is over,’ ” Fury

said. “He shook me, put me down,

but that’s boxing, and that’s life as

well. It’s not how many times you

get knocked down. You’ve got to

keep fighting and keep moving for-

ward.”

Fury knocked down Wilder

again with a concussive right hand

midway through the 10th, but Wil-

der recovered and even stunned

Fury in the final seconds of the

round.

Fury persevered — and after the

referee jumped in to wave it off in

the 11th, Fury climbed onto the

ropes in weary celebration before

afrenzied crowd of 15,820 at T-Mo-

bile Arena on the south end of the

Las Vegas Strip.

Fury then broke into a rendition

of “Walking in Memphis,” in keep-

ing with his post-fight tradition of

serenading his crowds.

“I haven’t seen the actual knock-

out tonight, but I felt it,” Fury said.

“I hit him with a solid, crunching

right hook to the temple, and shots

like that, they end careers. He defi-

nitely took some punishment, so

we’ll see what he can do in the fu-

ture.”

Wilder absorbed enormous pun-

ishment and appeared to be phys-

ically drained for much of the bout,

but the veteran American champ

showed his toughness while still

throwing power shots on weary

legs. Fury landed 150 total punches

to Wilder’s 72, with Fury connect-

ing 52 times in the final three

rounds alone.

The fight likely concluded one of

the most memorable rivalries in

recent boxing history — a trilogy

defined by two remarkable dis-

plays of pugilistic tenacity. Fury

said the rivalry is “done now, done

for good.”

Any three-fight series is a rarity

in the fractured modern sport, but

Fury and Wilder brought out the

best in each other through a rivalry

spanning nearly three calendar

years.

They met first in late 2018 in

downtown Los Angeles, where

Wilder knocked down Fury twice

in the late rounds of an excellent

fight otherwise controlled by Fury.

The second knockdown in the 12th

round left Fury flat on his back and

motionless while Wilder celebrat-

ed, but Fury improbably rose and

reached the bell in a bout judged a

split draw.

The second fight was in Las Ve-

gas in February 2020, and Fury’s

dominance was much clearer. The

British champ battered Wilder un-

til the seventh round, when Wil-

der’s corner threw in the towel on a

one-sided victory and Fury

claimed Wilder’s WBC belt.

In this climactic third meeting,

Wilder was somehow even tougher

— and he repeatedly came close to

beating Fury, a superior techni-

cian.

Fury appeared to be in control

until late in the fourth, when Wil-

der landed a powerful right hand

squarely to the top of Fury’s head.

Fury staggered and eventually fell

to the canvas, only to get up and

then be put down again moments

later amid the crowd’s stunned

roars.

Fury survived the round, and

both fighters landed damaging

shots without a knockdown in the

fifth and sixth. Fury hurt Wilder in

the seventh with a series of punch-

es that sent Wilder sprawling back

against the ropes.

Another damaging right hand

from Fury swept Wilder’s legs out

from under him in the 10th, but

Wilder finished the round, even

hurting Fury late.

It ended with one more right

hand from close range. Wilder re-

ached for the ropes on his way

down, but landed facedown with

his eyes glassy.

Fury stops Wilder in 11thin heavyweight thriller

CHASE STEVENS/AP

Tyson Fury, of England, knocks down Deontay Wilder in aheavyweight championship boxing match Saturday in Las Vegas.

BY GREG BEACHAM

Associated Press “It was worthy ofany trilogy in thehistory of thesport. He’s a topfighter, and hegave me a real(test) tonight.”

Tyson Fury

Heavyweight champ

LONDON — Matt Ryan threw for 342

yards and two touchdowns and the Atlanta

Falcons held on and closed out the New

York Jets in a 27-20 victory Sunday in the

NFL’s return to London.

The Falcons (2-3) built a 20-3 halftime

lead and eventually grounded out the victo-

ry despite allowing the Jets to stick around

by losing two fumbles.

But Zach Wilson and New York had trou-

ble moving the ball, which has been the sto-

ry of the season for the rookie quarterback.

He finished 19-for-32 for 192 yards and no

touchdowns with one interception.

Atlanta rookie tight end Kyle Pitts, taken

two spots after Wilson at No. 4 overall in the

draft, had his best game with nine recep-

tions for 119 yards and his first touchdown.

Ryan completed 33 of 45 passes with no

interceptions.

The Jets (1-4) battled back in the second

half with rushing TDs from Ty Johnson and

Michael Carter, but couldn’t pull off the

comeback.

Carter’s 2-yard run and Jamison Crowd-

er’s catch on the 2-point conversion

trimmed the Falcons’ lead to 20-17 with 6:55

remaining.

The team then finally found the dagger

drive it has been missing, driving 75 yards

on nine plays, ending with Mike Davis’ 3-

yard run. On second-and-goal, Davis took

the handoff, spun and got a collective push

from his offensive linemen to get into the

end zone to extend the lead to 27-17 with

2:19 to play.

The scoring drive included a 39-yard re-

ception by Pitts, followed by Olamide Zac-

cheaus’ 15-yard catch and dive for a first

down to New York 24 on third-and-13.

Matt Ammendola’s 49-yard field goal

made it 27-20, but the Jets’ onside kick was

recovered by receiver Olamide Zaccheaus

— sealing Atlanta’s victory.

Cordarrelle Patterson continued doing a

little of everything for the Falcons. The run-

ning back/wide receiver/kick returner had

seven receptions for 60 yards and ran for 54

yards on 14 carries.

After Patterson’s 17-yard reception to the

Jets 2 in the first quarter, Atlanta got a mis-

match with defensive end John Franklin-

Myers covering Pitts on first-and-goal.

Ryan hit Pitts near the back right corner of

the end zone to make it 10-0.

London stallingLondon hasn’t been kind to rookie quar-

terbacks. With Wilson’s loss, they are 0-5 in

the English capital since the NFL started

staging regular-season games here in 2007.

It was the second London game for both

teams, but their first at Tottenham.

The NFL will hold another game at Tot-

tenham next Sunday when the Jacksonville

Jaguars face the Miami Dolphins.

Ryan, Pitts lead Falcons past JetsBY KEN MAGUIRE

Associated Press

ALASTAIR GRANT/AP

Falcons tight end Kyle Pitts, left, iscongratulated by Lee Smith after catchinghis first touchdown pass on Sunday.


MLB PLAYOFFS

WILD CARD

American LeagueBoston 6, New York 2

National LeagueLos Angeles 3, St. Louis 1

DIVISION SERIES

(Best-of-five)x-if necessary

American LeagueTampa Bay 1, Boston 1

Thursday: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 0Friday: Boston 14, Tampa Bay 6Sunday: at BostonMonday: at Boston AFN-Sports, 1 a.m.

Tuesday CET; 8 a.m. Tuesday JKTx-Wednesday: at Tampa Bay AFN-

Sports, 11 p.m. Wednesday CET; 6 a.m.Thursday JKT

Houston 2, Chicago 0Thursday: Houston 6, Chicago 1Friday: Houston 9, Chicago 4Sunday: at Chicago x-Monday: at Chicago AFN-Sports 10

p.m. Monday CET; 5 a.m. Tuesday JKTx-Wednesday: at Houston AFN-Sports 4

a.m. Thursday CET; 11 a.m. Thursday JKT

National LeagueSan Francisco 1, Los Angeles 1

Friday: San Francisco 4, Los Angeles 0Saturday: Los Angeles 9, San Francisco 2Monday: at Los Angeles AFN-Sports 4

a.m. Tuesday; 11 a.m. Tuesday JKTTuesday: at Los Angeles AFN-Sports 3

a.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m. Wednesday JKTx-Thursday: at San Francisco AFN-

Sports 3 a.m. Friday; 10 a.m. Friday JKT

Milwaukee 1, Atlanta 1Friday: Milwaukee 2, Atlanta 1Saturday: Atlanta 3, Milwaukee 0Monday: at Atlanta AFN-Sports 7 p.m.

Monday; 2 a.m. Tuesday JKTTuesday: at Atlanta AFN Sports 11 p.m.

Tuesday; 6 a.m. Wednesday JKTx-Thursday: at Milwaukee AFN Sports 11

p.m. Thursday; 6 a.m. Friday JKT

ScoreboardMILWAUKEE — Max Fried

says his strategy in pressure situa-

tions is to avoid making too much

of the moment.

The approach that worked so

well for the Atlanta Braves left-

hander in the regular season also

is paying dividends in the playoffs.

Fried pitched six sharp innings

and Atlanta’s bullpen held on after

manager Brian Snitker’s quick

hook, sending the Braves over the

Milwaukee Brewers 3-0 Saturday

to tie their NL Division Series at a

game apiece.

The best-of-five series heads to

Atlanta for Game 3 on Monday.

“He was phenomenal — all you

could ask for,” said the Braves’

Austin Riley, who homered in the

sixth inning. “He came out,

pounded the zone. He’s been do-

ing that since the All-Star break.”

Once Fried was pulled, it got

more dicey for Atlanta.

The Brewers brought the tying

run to the plate against the Braves

bullpen in each of the last three in-

nings but couldn’t get a key hit.

They couldn’t do much of any-

thing against Fried, who has al-

lowed just one earned run over 29

innings in his last four starts.

Fried struck out nine, gave up

three hits and didn’t walk any-

body. Milwaukee didn’t get a run-

ner in scoring position until Willy

Adames hit a two-out double in the

sixth, and Fried responded by

striking out Eduardo Escobar.

“He’s just a really good pitcher,

executing a lot of pitches,” Brew-

ers manager Craig Counsell said.

“It spells a tough night for the of-

fense.”

Fried went 7-0 with a 1.46 ERA

over his last 11 regular-season

starts while pitching his best down

the stretch.

He produced arguably Atlanta’s

biggest pitching performance of

the regular season Sept. 25. The

Braves had lost to San Diego earli-

er that day in the resumption of a

suspended game. Hours later,

Fried threw a three-hit shutout to

stabilize the team’s division lead.

Fried delivered again Saturday

as Atlanta bounced back from a

2-1 loss in Game 1.

“You just try to focus and real-

ize that this is the same game

we’ve been playing all year,”

Fried said. “The stakes might be a

little bit higher, but you go out

there and make the pitch that

you’re supposed to make, that’s

going to trump all.”

MORRY GASH/AP

Braves pitcher Max Fried struck out nine and gave up three hits andno runs through six innings in Atlanta’s win Saturday in Milwaukee.

Fried helps Bravesblank Brewers, geteven in NLDS series

BY STEVE MEGARGEE

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — With some

mighty swings, solid pitching and

defensive gems that have defined

the Dodgers’ success the past dec-

ade, the defending World Series

champions are headed home in

prime playoff position having

grabbed momentum away from

the division-winning Giants.

Fittingly, this NL Division Se-

ries between rivals has become a

back-and-forth fight.

Julio Urías shut down San Fran-

cisco and contributed an RBI sin-

gle for his cause, Cody Bellinger

and AJ Pollock delivered two-run

doubles to break it open in the

sixth, and Los Angeles pounded

the Giants 9-2 on Saturday night to

even the series between baseball’s

two winningest teams at one game

apiece.

Dodgers manager Dave Ro-

berts declared earlier in the day,

“We’re going to play this game es-

sentially like a do or die,” and the

reigning champs did just that by

continuing to add on all game, in-

cluding Will Smith’s leadoff

homer in the eighth.

Now, NL West runner-up Los

Angeles — second place despite

106 wins to San Francisco’s 107 —

is going to Chavez Ravine with a

chance to ride this win and hand

ace Max Scherzer the ball next.

“It’s a good feeling,” Roberts

said. “It’s interesting how the nar-

rative changes from game to

game. Right now, it’s a three-game

series, we have home-field advan-

tage and we have Max on the

mound. I like where we’re at.”

The best-of-five set shifts to

Dodger Stadium for Game 3 on

Monday night all square, hardly a

surprise considering how close

these clubs played for months.

The Giants edged Los Angeles for

the division on the final day and

took the season series 10-9 but

were outscored overall 80-78.

“It’s great to win one on the

road,” Dodgers star Mookie Betts

said. “Julio pitched a great game.

Any type of atmosphere like this,

he’s going to come ready to pitch.”

Urías hit an RBI single in the

second to give Los Angeles the

lead, and Betts followed with a

run-scoring single.

And those “Let’s go, Giants!”

chants were suddenly competing

against the fired-up Los Angeles

faithful’s “Let’s go, Dodgers!” in a

boisterous, largely orange sellout

crowd of 42,275.

“It was exciting to get the team

going, I think they fed off that,”

Urías said through an interpreter.

San Francisco answered right

back in the bottom half when

Urías walked Wilmer Flores lead-

ing off and gave up Brandon

Crawford’s single. Flores ad-

vanced on Evan Longoria’s deep

flyball to center and scored on a

sacrifice fly by Donovan Solano.

Urías hardly looked rattled.

Leading up to his start, the 25-

year-old lefty stressed how facing

these Giants would take an im-

mense focus — and the 20-game

winner sure looked the part from

first pitch in outdueling San Fran-

cisco All-Star right-hander Kevin

Gausman.

Urías went unbeaten in his final

17 regular-season starts since

June 21, going 11-0 during that

stretch that included a Sept. 4 vic-

tory here at raucous Oracle Park.

He struck out five and walked one

over five innings Saturday, giving

up one run on three hits.

“I’ve never seen him not having

his stuff. He always has it,” Giants

infielder Wilmer Flores said.

PHOTOS BY JOHN HEFTI/AP

Above: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Will Smith, right, is congratulated by third base coach Dino Ebel afterhitting an eighthinning home run in a 92 win against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday in San Francisco. Below: Julio Urías had an RBI single and allowed three hits and one run in five innings to get the win.

Artful Dodger: Urías hits,pitches team past GiantsLos Angeles evens NLDS series at 1-1 with 9-2 win

BY JANIE MCCAULEY

Associated Press


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The last time the No. 1 team in the countrylost to an unranked team was 2008.

The last time Alabama lost to an un-ranked team was 2007.

Texas A&M snapped both those streaks andbrought true chaos to this college football sea-son.

The Aggies dragged a two-game losing streakinto Kyle Field on Saturday night, looking likeone of the most disappointing teams in the coun-try.

Then Texas A&Mbeat the mightyCrimson Tide, scor-ing almost as manypoints in a walk-offvictory (41) as the Ag-gies had in three pre-vious games (42)against Power Fiveopponents.

“We knew the last two weeks that we didn’tplay to the best of our ability,” A&M defensiveback Antonio Johnson told reporters. “We knewthis week was an opportunity.”

A&M’s upset, the biggest victory ofJimbo Fisher’s tenure inCollege Station and thefirst over Nick Saban byone of his former assist-ants in 25 tries, capped yetanother thrilling Saturday in aseason that is trying hard to make upfor the pandemic-plagued mess of 2020.

Saturday afternoon featured back-and-forthoffensive outburst between ranked teams in the

Full tiltWith Texas A&M’s upset of Alabama, a season manyexpected to be more of the same has gone sideways

BY RALPH D. RUSSO

Associated Press

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“We knew thisweek was anopportunity.”

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Texas A&M defensive back

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