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COLLEGE HOOPS John Thompson, 1st Black coach to win NCAA title, diesPage 22

VIRUS OUTBREAK US Navy in Japan reports 12 new cases as Tokyo’s declinePage 7

Russian jets fly within 100 feet of US bomber over Black Sea » Page 3

BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

The United States was thrust into World War II abruptly with the Japa-nese surprise attack on

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.

The Pearl Harbor-based de-stroyer USS Ward is credited with firing America’s first shot in the war, sinking a Japanese mini-submarine as it attempted to enter the harbor shortly before the main attack began.

The end of fighting in the Pa-cific war was not as definitive, with Japan still occupying terri-tory all the way from Manchu-ria in the north to as far south as New Guinea as of Aug. 15, 1945, when the emperor of Japan an-nounced the country’s surrender and ended the war.

Which U.S. Navy vessel fired the last salvo is less clear, though several ships contend for the title.

SEE SALVO ON PAGE 5

BY KIM GAMEL AND YOO KYONG CHANG

Stars and Stripes

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — A crash involving a U.S. military vehicle killed four South Koreans, prompting U.S. Forces Korea to temporarily suspend train-ing in the area, which is near the border with North Korea, officials said Monday.

An SUV carrying the four civilians rear-ended the armored personnel carrier — a tracked vehicle — at about 9:30 p.m. Sun-

day on a road near the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in the city of Pocheon, local police and fire officials said.

The four civilians were pronounced dead at the scene, a fire official said. The two sol-diers in the military vehicle were not seri-ously injured. One was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation but was cleared and released back to his unit, according to the 2nd Infantry Division.

USFK expressed “its deepest condo-lences” to the families and loved ones of the deceased and said the military was fully

cooperating with the South Korean police investigation into the crash.

“USFK is aware of the fatal accident near the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex,” the com-mand said in a statement. “Out of respect to those killed and their families, Eighth Army is temporarily suspending training in the area.”

Photos of the scene showed a camouflaged M577 Armored Command Vehicle that was mangled in the back, including damage to the right-side tracks.

SEE CRASH ON PAGE 4

Who fired the final salvo of World War II? Depends who’s calling the shots

Crash halts training4 South Koreans killed in collision with US armored vehicle, prompting military to suspend activity near northern range

Pocheon Fire Station

Emergency workers tend to the scene after a collision involving a U.S. armored personnel carrier and a civilian SUV that killed four South Koreans near the Rodriguez Live-Fire Complex in Pocheon, South Korea, on Sunday.

SOUTH KOREAMILITARY HISTORY

‘ As in almost every case of superlatives, it is often difficult to determine the first or the last for any event or action, because it would require searching and eliminating every other possibility. ’

Timothy Francissenior advisory historian at the

Naval History and Heritage Command

FACES Gaga makes case for masks, wins 5 VMAsPage 14

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T O D A YIN STRIPES

American Roundup ..... 11Classified .................. 13Comics ...................... 15Crossword ................. 15Faces ........................ 14Opinion .................16-17Sports .................. 18-24

BUSINESS/WEATHER

Military ratesEuro costs (Sept. 1) .............................. $1.16Dollar buys (Sept. 1) .........................€0.8170British pound (Sept. 1) ........................ $1.30Japanese yen (Sept. 1) ......................103.00South Korean won (Sept. 1) ..........1,152.00

Commercial ratesBahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3766British pound .....................................$1.3319Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3056China (Yuan) ........................................6.8452Denmark (Krone) ................................ 6.2414Egypt (Pound) ................................... 15.8405Euro ........................................ $1.1925/0.8386Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7503Hungary (Forint) .................................298.78Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.3592Japan (Yen) ...........................................106.08Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3054Norway (Krone) ...................................8.7489Philippines (Peso).................................48.46Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.69Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7504Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3608South Korea (Won) ..........................1,186.42

Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9030Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.07Turkey (Lira) ......................................... 7.3476(Military exchange rates are those available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., purchasing British pounds in Germany), check with your local military banking facility. Commercial rates are interbank rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, which is represented in dollars-to-pound, and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)

EXCHANGE RATES

INTEREST RATESPrime rate ................................................ 3.25Discount rate .......................................... 0.25Federal funds market rate ................... 0.093-month bill ............................................. 0.1030-year bond ........................................... 1.51

WEATHER OUTLOOK

Bahrain96/90

Baghdad114/78

Doha100/86

KuwaitCity

103/82

Riyadh103/81

Djibouti99/83

Kandahar93/66

Kabul78/64

TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC

Misawa78/70

Guam84/81

Tokyo83/73

Okinawa85/82

Sasebo89/81

Iwakuni84/80

Seoul79/69

Osan81/69 Busan

87/77

The weather is provided by the American Forces Network Weather Center,

2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.

Mildenhall/Lakenheath

63/49

Ramstein65/53

Stuttgart60/55

Lajes,Azores78/69

Rota83/66

Morón89/61 Sigonella

87/69

Naples80/65

Aviano/Vicenza67/57

Pápa64/47

Souda Bay84/75

TUESDAY IN EUROPE

Brussels63/52

Zagan58/54

Drawsko Pomorskie

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United to drop widely scorned ticket-change fees BY DAVID KOENIG

Associated Press

United Airlines said that it lis-tened to customers and is drop-ping an unpopular $200 fee for most people who change a ticket for travel within the United States.

“When we hear from custom-ers about where we can improve, getting rid of fees is often the top request,” United CEO Scott Kirby said in a video that was posted Sunday.

United’s move will put pres-sure on American Airlines and Delta Air Lines to drop their change fees, also $200 on domes-tic travel.

United said that it eliminated change fees for people who buy a standard or premium economy ticket for U.S. travel.

United also said that it will ex-tend a broad waiver of change fees — including for international travel — through Dec. 31. Cus-tomers who pay the lowest fares, called “basic economy,” can also

change tickets free because of the extended waiver announced Sunday.

And starting in January, it will let customers fly standby for free on other flights the same day as their booked flight.

The moves come as United and other airlines try desperately to lure people back to flying despite the ongoing coronavirus pandem-ic. U.S. air travel has recovered modestly since April, but passen-ger traffic remains down about 70% from a year ago.

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BY JOHN VANDIVER

Stars and Stripes

STUTTGART, Germany — A U.S. B-52 bomber’s maneuvers above the Black Sea were restrict-ed by two Russian fighter planes that flew in an “unsafe and un-professional manner” when they crossed within 100 feet of the Air Force’s long-range bomber, the military said.

Two Russian Su-27 Flankers intercepted the B-52 Stratofor-tress bomber while it conducted “routine operations” Saturday over international waters, U.S. Air Forces in Europe said in a statement.

“The Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional man-ner while crossing within 100 feet of the nose of the B-52 multiple times at co-altitude and while in afterburner causing turbulence and restricting the B-52’s ability to maneuver,” USAFE said in a statement.

The incident came as U.S. B-52 Stratofortresses and fighter escorts from several nations flew over all 30 NATO member states as part of a training mission that launched Friday. Multiple bomb-ers from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., were in Europe for that drill.

“Actions like these increase the potential for midair collisions, are unnecessary, and inconsis-tent with good airmanship and international flight rules,” said USAFE boss Gen. Jeff Harrigian said in a statement. “While the Russian aircraft were operating in international airspace, they jeopardized the safety of flight of the aircraft involved.”

The incident is one of several examples in recent years of Rus-sian intercepts of U.S. aircraft in the Black Sea and the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

In April and May, the U.S. ac-cused Russia of multiple unsafe intercepts involving fighters fly-

ing as close as 25 feet from a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnais-sance aircraft over the eastern Mediterranean. Russia has also lodged complaints about U.S. op-erations near its borders.

In response to the latest Black Sea incident, U.S. European Command in a statement Sunday said that “one unsafe intercept is too many.”

“Whether in the sky or on the

ocean, we expect the forces of every country to maintain safe and professional behavior at all times,” EUCOM said.vandiver.john@stripes.comTwitter: @john_vandiver

BY MATTHEW M. BURKEAND AYA ICHIHASHI

Stars and Stripes

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — U.S. bases on Okinawa com-pleted preparations Monday for Typhoon Maysak, a Category 4 storm expected to pass within 70 miles of Kadena Air Base on Tuesday morning, according to military spokespeople.

Maintenance and service per-sonnel finished policing base and unit facilities, boarded up build-ings, tied down loose equipment and deployed sandbags to com-bat flooding, Marine Corps and Air Force officials said. Activi-ties were postponed or canceled across the island.

Kadena Air Base declared Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 1-Caution at 3:45 p.m. Monday, meaning winds of up to 45 mph were occurring. The 18th

Wing Weather Flight’s wind-fore-cast timeline indicated destruc-tive winds of 58 mph or greater could occur by 8 p.m.

The typhoon is expected to pass 64 miles southwest of Kadena at 5 a.m. Tuesday, according to the 18th Wing Weather Flight. Sus-tained winds could exceed 138 mph by 9 a.m., with gusts higher than 167 mph.

To prepare for typhoons, the facility maintenance branch and camp services at Marine Corps Installations Pacific boards up certain facilities and essential services, spokesman 1st Lt. Tim Hayes wrote in an email to Stars and Stripes on Monday.

At readiness condition 1, “non-essential personnel are released and advised to begin implement-ing safety protocols in their pro-spective areas of shelter in order to prepare for the incoming ty-phoon,” he wrote.

Hayes said service members, civilian employees and their families have been encouraged to follow posted typhoon readiness guidelines, such as stocking up on food, water and flashlights.

The 18th Wing said it has passed information to airmen through command channels, the AtHOC interactive warning system, the Kadena Connect application, the Shogun Weather webpage and the Kadena Air Base Facebook page and would continue to do so until Maysak passes.

“Across the base, units prepared their facilities to withstand high winds by securing loose equip-ment, policing areas around their buildings, and placing sandbags at entryways,” spokeswoman Lt. Col. Christy Stravolo wrote in an email to Stars and Stripes. “Fam-ily housing members were also asked to tie down outdoor items that cannot be moved inside.”

Hayes said the Marine Corps expected no complications aris-ing from the coronavirus dur-ing the storm. The Marines, who have recorded more than 300 infections, have experienced the bulk of virus cases on the island, although most have recovered.

“There is no indication that the coronavirus has any impact” on the Marine Corps’ typhoon proto-cols and procedures on Okinawa, Hayes wrote.

Stravolo wrote that any recent arrivals to Okinawa still in quar-antine have necessary supplies to weather the storm and maintain contact with their units until the “all clear” is sounded.

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki called Maysak the first “very strong” typhoon of the year to target Okinawa and cautioned residents in disaster areas and low-lying regions to beware of landslides from heavy rain, ac-

cording to remarks posted Sun-day on the prefecture’s officialwebsite. He also called on people to stay away from the ocean andother waterways and to make ad-equate preparations.

“The ocean will stay verystormy until Tuesday and strongrain and high tides are expected,”Tamaki said. “Please use cau-tion when the strong rain warn-ing gets declared and follow the guidance when an evacuation is necessary.”

Tamaki said that if residentsare instructed to evacuate, theyshould go to a friend or relative’shouse rather than a public shelterdue to coronavirus concerns.

Approximately 180 flights have been canceled, impacting 9,200 people, Okinawa Times newspa-per reported Monday.burke.matt@stripes.comTwitter: @MatthewMBurke1ichihashi.aya@stripes.comTwitter: @AyaIchihashi

BY SUSANNAH GEORGE

The Washington Post

KABUL, Afghanistan — Three Afghans accused of involvement in the deaths of American troops in so-called “insider” attacks are among more than 300 high-value Taliban prisoners that the Af-ghan government is set to release to facilitate direct talks with the militant group, according to a se-nior Afghan official and a Kabul-based diplomat briefed on the matter.

The United States has not pub-licly objected to the expected release of the three prisoners;

instead, negotiators are exploring other options, including tempo-rarily placing the inmates under house arrest, the two officials said, both speaking on the condi-tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The U.S. response puts it at odds with its Western allies: France and Australia have publicly op-posed the release of at least three other prisoners accused of carry-ing out separate attacks against French and Australian nationals, including humanitarian workers.

Since a peace deal between the United States and the Taliban

was inked in February, U.S. of-ficials have applied consistent, intense pressure on the Afghan government to quickly release all those remaining of the 5,000 Tal-iban prisoners cited in the deal as a precondition to talks.

It was unclear what attacks the three prisoners are alleged to have been involved in or how many Americans were killed. Insider attacks are assaults by Taliban infiltrators of the Afghan security forces against foreign forces.

The State Department did not respond to questions about the prisoners. Resolute Support, the

U.S. military command in Kabul, and the Department of Defense referred questions to the State Department, which also declined to comment. The Afghan govern-ment said it could not immediate-ly provide further information on the matter.

A senior Afghan government of-ficial said he was “surprised” by Washington’s support for the re-lease of Taliban prisoners linked to the killings of U.S. and foreign forces. But he said the consensus among Afghan government offi-cials is that U.S. Afghan policy is now largely being dictated by the Trump administration’s desire to

show voters ahead of the Novem-ber presidential election that he is ending the war in Afghanistan.

“We understand the impor-tance of the election, of the cam-paign, but our only question is,‘At what cost?’ ” said the official, speaking on the condition of ano-nymity because he was not autho-rized to speak to the media.

The release of the 320 Talibanprisoners remains one of thefinal hurdles before formal ne-gotiations can start between themilitant group and the Afghangovernment. Afghan officials have said the talks will begin nextweek, but no date has been set.

WAR/MILITARY

US bases prepare as typhoon barrels toward Okinawa

Russian jets fly within 100 feet of US bomber

Afghans who killed Americans to be freed

JAMES CASON/U.S. Air Force

A Russian Su-27 Flanker intercepts a U.S. B-52 bomber over the Black Sea. Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner while crossing within 100 feet of the B-52, the U.S. Air Force said.

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Crash: S. Korea Defense Ministry pledges to help in investigation into deadly accidentFROM FRONT PAGE

South Korea’s Defense Minis-try also expressed condolences and promised to work with USFK and other relevant organizations to make sure “follow-up mea-sures are able to be properly im-plemented in accordance with the results of the investigation into the accident.”

The crash occurred in a sen-sitive area for the U.S. military. Residents in Pocheon, a moun-tainous area about 30 miles north of Seoul, have long complained about noise, unexploded ord-

nances and stray rounds from the range, which is used year-round.

In response, USFK has made a number of safety improvements to the 3,390-acre training com-plex, such as installing 16-foot berms behind targets and deploy-ing explosive ordnance disposal troops to help excavate stray mu-nitions in surrounding areas.

Some 28,500 American troops are stationed in South Korea, which remains technically at war with the North after their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice in-stead of a peace treaty.

Past accidents have stoked anti-American sentiment, especially the 2002 killing of two young South Korean girls who were crushed under a U.S. military ve-hicle in Yangju, north of Seoul.

Recent polls, however, have shown that public support is strong for the longstanding alli-ance between the countries de-spite recent disputes over defense cost-sharing and how to deal with the North amid stalled U.S.-led nuclear talks.gamel.kim@stripes.comTwitter: @kimgamelchang.kyong@stripes.com

MILITARY

Associated Press

BATH, Maine — The return of shipbuilders after a nine-week strike is going smoothly at Bath Iron Works, and the union and company have already begun meeting to get back on track.

The mediated discussions are aimed at both restoring trust and promoting efficiency to get caught up on the production of warships.

The General Dynamics sub-sidiary was already six months behind schedule on ship construc-tion before the double whammy of the pandemic and strike, which officially ended Aug. 23.

Tim Suitter, spokesperson for Machinists Local S6, said the initial meeting that included union President Chris Wiers and shipyard President Dirk Lesko seemed to go well on Friday. The

committee will meet again in the coming week, Suitter said.

“We’ve got a road ahead of us, but both sides are committed to working toward progress togeth-er,” Suitter said. “With the initial meeting, things look good.”

The company has expressed a hope that the discussions in which a federal mediator is present will improve performance and ensure a smooth transition of the new contract.

“We are glad to be back to build-ing ships for the U.S. Navy with a renewed focus and commitment to doing so together, on time, every time,” company spokesper-son David Hench said.

Workers began returning to their jobs after approving a three-year contract that they said addressed concerns in the previ-ous proposal over subcontractors,

work rules and seniority. Workers are receiving 3% raises each year, along with a signing bonus.

One of the sticking points is use of masks, which managers are required to wear at work. The company is recommending that production workers wear masks but they won’t be required to do so until Oct. 5.

The mask issue has been a tricky one. Some workers have pushed back, saying masks im-peded their work. Some even argued that a mask could pose a fire hazard in areas where weld-ing takes place.

The 63-day strike was the first in two decades at the shipyard.

The shipyard on the Kennebec River is one of the Navy’s largest shipbuilders, and it’s also a major employer in the state with 6,800 workers.

Shipbuilders’ return to Bath Iron Works after nine-week strike going smoothly

Guardsmen deliver supplies, Fort Polk cleans up after storm

BY COREY DICKSTEIN

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Some 6,200 Louisiana National Guard mem-bers have spent recent days deliv-ering tens of thousands of pounds of supplies to storm-stricken resi-dents dealing with widespread power outages and damage from Hurricane Laura, which barreled into the Gulf Coast last week.

By Monday morning, troops had distributed more than 70,000 liters of water, 39,000 prepack-aged military meals and 6,20 0 tarps throughout Louisiana, Guard officials said. Louisiana suffered the brunt of Laura’s damage after the Category 4 storm made landfall at Cameron, bringing 150 mph winds to the small coastal town about 30 miles east of the border with Texas be-fore continuing north.

Officials also reported that more than 300,000 Louisianans remained without power Monday primarily in south and central portions of the western half of the state. The storm was responsible for at least 18 deaths in Texas and Louisiana as of Monday, The As-sociated Press reported.

Louisiana’s National Guard said it had evacuated about 2,000 peo-ple and 20 pets since the storm’s arrival. It has also worked to pro-vide logistical support for federal and state responders, clear roads, remove debris and provide engi-neering teams to assess damage.

The Guard was prepared to activate more troops to “support civil authorities safeguarding the population, saving lives and pro-tecting critical infrastructure,” if needed, officials said.

Active-duty soldiers at the Ar-my’s Fort Polk in central Louisi-ana spent the weekend clearing downed trees and other debris spread across post by the hur-ricane, officials said. The Army post, home to one of the service’s primary training facilities, is about 70 miles north of Lake Charles, La., which saw some of the most extensive destruction caused by the storm.

Brig. Gen. Patrick D. Frank, the commander of Fort Polk and the Joint Readiness Training Center, wrote on Facebook late Sunday that JRTC was prepared to host its next rotation of troops for training in the coming days. Officials made the decision after the hurricane to cut training a few days short for some 4,500 troops

— mostly from 2nd Brigade Com-bat Team, 101st Airborne Divi-sion — who will return home thisweek. Those soldiers were movedfrom the field into buildings onthe installation last week aheadof the storm. Army officials said none of the soldiers were injured during the hurricane.

Fort Polk officials also report-ed damage to several buildings on post, including to some resi-dences and Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, which wasopen Monday only for inpatient and emergency services. Theyalso reported that power crews were working Monday to fix sev-eral destroyed power lines onpost, which remained partiallywithout electricity.

On Facebook, Fort Polk offi-cials said the installation’s com-missary and dining facilitieswere open Monday. The post’sArmy and Air Force Exchange Services was closed, as was its child and youth services, identi-fication card office and on-post schools.

The officials said gasoline wasavailable at the installation’s Ex-change-run gas station, and tapwater on the installation was safe to drink. Much of the region around Fort Polk remained underan advisory to boil water beforedrinking, the officials said.

Barksdale Air Force Base,about 120 miles north of FortPolk near Shreveport, was sparedthe brunt of the storm. A spokes-woman said Monday that debrisscattered across base by the hur-ricane had been cleared and op-erations at Barksdale had largely returned to normal.

Louisiana officials said portions of the state could face power out-ages and other impacts from thestorm for weeks longer. NationalGuard officials said they did not have an estimate for how longtroops would remain focused on hurricane relief efforts or when some service members wouldreturn to coronavirus-focusedoperations, including supporting testing centers and food banks.

“We’re going to be working re-ally, really hard on the power out-ages, on the water systems, on thehousing,” Louisiana Gov. JohnBell Edwards said Sunday at anews conference. “None of this is going to be easy. It’s not going tohappen as quickly as most peoplewould like, for sure.”dickstein.corey@stripes.comTwitter: @CDicksteinDC

‘ We’re going to be working really, really hard on the power outages, on the water systems, on the housing. ’

John Bell EdwardsLouisiana governor

Pocheon Fire Station

Emergency workers tend to the scene after a collision involving a U.S. armored personnel carrier and a civilian SUV that killed four South Koreans near the Rodriguez Live-Fire Complex in Pocheon, South Korea, on Sunday.

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FROM FRONT PAGE

“As in almost every case of superlatives, it is often difficult to determine the first or the last for any event or action, because it would require searching and eliminating every other possi-bility,” Timothy Francis, senior advisory historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command, said in a written response to a Stars and Stripes query about the last Navy ship to fire in the war.

The Concord patrolThe USS Concord, an Omaha-

class light cruiser, “probably did” fire the Navy’s last shot against a shore target, Francis said. The crew of the Concord certainly expressed little doubt about the ship’s place in history.

The Concord, named for the New England town famed for the minutemen and the “shot heard ’round the world” that began the American Revolution, had for much of 1944 and 1945 prowled the northern Pacific as part of a large task force of destroyers and cruisers that fired upon Japanese ships and shoreline.

As Imperial Japan’s ability to defend itself by sea and air di-minished, the task force’s as-saults grew bolder on the Kuril Islands, a roughly 800-mile-long archipelago running from north-ern Japan to what was then the Soviet Union.

Navy crews operating far north coped with frigid conditions.

The Concord’s communica-tion officer, who had survived the sinking of the USS Helena near the Solomon Islands in 1943, held no notions of surviving in the event of abandoning ship in the waters of the Northern Pacific.

“If we were ever to get it up here, I wouldn’t even bother to go over the side,” the officer is quot-ed in the ship’s official history.

The U.S. dropped atomic bombs

on Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 in 1945, and many, including the crew aboard the Concord, were speculating on whether the Japanese would finally concede defeat after such an onslaught.

On Aug. 12, 1945, the larger task group was divided into three “prowling” patrols, which were to sweep the Kurils and destroy any vessels they encountered. Then, at a predesignated time in the night, the patrols were to com-mence simultaneous bombard-ment of three separate islands.

The Concord patrol, however, was delayed in reaching Suriba-chi Wan for the appointed time of bombardment because it encoun-tered, pursued and sank a six-ves-sel Japanese trawler group.

The Concord reached that northernmost Kuril island an hour late as a result, by which time the other two patrols were already wrapping up their bombardments.

“CONCORD blazed away with more than 500 rounds of 6-inch shells to help set nine fires, vis-ible far at sea, at Suribachi Wan, important military, fishing and cannery center,” wrote Concord Ensign R.P. Crossley in the offi-cial record.

The ship “fired the final naval gun salvo of World War II a few seconds after 8:06 P.M., August 12 (Japan time),” Crossley wrote.

In an account published in VFW Magazine, crew member Fred A. Lumb recalled the mo-ments after the captain of the Concord ordered the cease-fire. A few minutes later, the guns on all ships bombarding the island fell silent.

“About a minute later,” Lumb wrote, “Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Brand, the gunnery officer, high aloft in forward fire control, saw to it that one more round was fired by the Concord. Probably few who heard that shot really believed it

to be a hangfire, but none doubted that it was the last round of the bombardment.”

“It was this final shore bom-bardment that was the basis of the CONCORD crew’s proud claim that the cruiser fired the last salvo of the war against a shore target — a claim which undoubt-edly will long be the subject of mess-hall and wardroom debate,” the ship’s official history states.

Another possibilityThe USS Heermann, a Fletch-

er-class destroyer, may have pos-sibly shot down the last Japanese airplane of the war on Aug. 16, 1945.

The Heermann had entered service in 1943 and became a wartime legend after it and sev-eral other U.S. destroyers took on a far superior Japanese task force during the Battle off Samar in the Philippines in October 1944.

The Heermann was the only de-stroyer still afloat at battle’s end. It was sailing off the southeast coast of Tokyo on Aug. 15, 1945, when the crew received word

that Japan had surrendered, ac-cording to an account published by Naval History and Heritage Command.

About an hour after that news, gunners on the destroyer spotted a Yokosuka D4Y Suisei carrier bomber break through the cloud bank. The plane had no bombs or torpedoes attached to it, but it went into a shallow dive just off the Heermann’s port beam, indi-cating it was possibly a kamikaze suicide run.

The ship’s 5-inch guns hit the plane, which went into a spin and crashed into the sea.

“The dive-bomber may havebeen one of the last Japaneseplanes shot down in the war,” the Naval History account said.

But, as Francis notes, fightingcontinued in Manchuria, Chinaand Southeast Asia for weeksafter Aug. 15.

The last U.S. Navy actiontook place on Aug. 21, when twoChinese motorized junks, com-manded by a U.S. Navy officer,“engaged a Japanese junk nearShanghai in the last Navy surface action of the war,” Francis said.olson.wyatt@stripes.comTwitter: @WyattWOlson

Salvo: Historian says USS Concord probably fired last shot at shore

MILITARY

Photos provided by Harry and Jenni Olson

Crewmen of the USS Concord stand on the main deck below a statue of a minuteman mounted on the bulkhead, in this photo taken during the last 15 months of World War II.

U.S. National Archives

The USS Concord sits in waters off the Panama Canal Zone on March 14, 1944.

A sailor aboard the USS Concord undergoes a shellback initiation as the ship crosses over the equator in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

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NATION

Court OKs probe into Flynn case dismissal

House panel to subpoena USPS and DeJoy for records on mail delays

St. Louis officer dies after being shot by gunman

BY ANN E. MARIMOW

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — A federal judge can scrutinize the Justice Department’s decision to drop the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a federal appeals court ruled here Monday, allowing the legal saga to continue.

The divided decision from the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit gives U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan the go-ahead to question prosecutors’ unusual move to dismiss Flynn’s case ahead of sentencing. The re-tired general twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Rus-sian contacts before Trump took office in 2017.

In an 8-to-2 ruling, the court denied Flynn’s request, backed by the Justice Department, to shut down Sullivan’s planned re-view and appointment of a retired federal judge to argue against the government’s position.

The decision by the full court reverses an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the same court that ordered Sullivan to im-mediately close the case.

Judge Thomas Griffith said it would be premature for the ap-peals court to intervene before Sullivan had rendered a decision.

“Today we reach the unexcep-tional yet important conclusion

that a court of appeals should stay its hand and allow the district court to finish its work rather than hear a challenge to a deci-sion not yet made. That is a policy the federal courts have followed since the beginning of the Repub-lic,” Griffith wrote in a statement concurring with the court’s un-signed per curiam order.

Judges Karen Henderson and Neomi Rao filed separate dissents.

In May, Sullivan refused to im-mediately sign off on the Justice Department’s request to toss the case. Instead, he tapped John Gleeson, a retired New York fed-eral judge, to oppose the Justice Department.

Sullivan’s move prompted Flynn’s defense team to petition the D.C. Circuit to get involved midstream and force the judge’s hand. Sullivan hired his own law-yer to defend the court’s authority to investigate whether dismissing the case is in the public interest.

The extraordinary legal battle has raised unsettled questions

about the power of the courts tocheck the executive branch. Fed-eral rules require prosecutors toget permission from the presid-ing judge — or “leave of court” — to drop charges against a crim-inal defendant. Legal experts and former judges, however, disagree about the limits of Sullivan’s au-thority, and in practice, judgestypically defer to prosecutors.

But there is nothing typicalabout this case.

Flynn was the highest-levelTrump adviser convicted in spe-cial counsel Robert Mueller’sRussia investigation. Instead ofproceeding to sentencing, At-torney General William Barr ordered a review of the investiga-tion into Flynn and his dealingswith the Russian ambassador tothe United States. He then movedto drop the long-running case, saying new evidence showed FBI agents did not have a valid reasonto question Flynn, so any lies hetold did not amount to a crime.

Flynn’s lawyers told the appealscourt that Sullivan had no discre-tion to continue the case once thegovernment decided to drop it. They also asked the court to reas-sign the case, accusing Sullivanof bias in his choice of Gleeson to argue the other side. The retired federal judge called the JusticeDepartment’s attempt to undo theconviction politically motivatedand “gross abuse of prosecutorial power.”

BY JACOB BOGAGE

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The head of the House Oversight Commit-tee says the panel will issue sub-poenas to compel the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to turn over docu-ments on slowdowns in mail ser-vice and any communications DeJoy might have had with Pres-ident Donald Trump or members of his reelection campaign.

Committee Chair Carolyn Ma-loney, D-N.Y., plans to subpoena USPS on Wednesday after DeJoy refused to provide records re-quested last week by committee members during a hearing.

“I trust my Aug. 24 testimony before the Committee on Over-sight and Reform clarified any outstanding questions you had re-garding operational changes that I have implemented,” he wrote in a letter to Maloney on Aug. 28, two days after the deadline the committee imposed for USPS to voluntarily submit documents.

A Postal Service representa-tive did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

During the hearing, House members requested any analysis the Postal Service ran on the ef-

fect of the operational changesDeJoy instituted at the agency,which included eliminating extramail delivery trips and stricterdispatch schedules that havecaused mail and packages to pileup undelivered.

Postal workers from coast to coast and national union leadersalso say workers were told over-time hours would be eliminatedand that the directive was issued by the postmaster general. Memoscirculated to mid-level managersand obtained by The Washington Post stated that DeJoy planned to eliminate overtime hours.

“Carriers were ordered off thestreets at 5 o’clock whether you finished your route or you didn’t finish your route,” said Al Fried-man, president of the FloridaState Association of Letter Carri-ers. “That was everywhere. Thatwas all over Florida.”

A letter carrier in New Jersey told The Washington Post he wasordered to do the same thing.

DeJoy denied in sworn testi-mony that he’d ever given such an order and suspended some of thecost-cutting moves until after theNovember election.

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A St. Louis police officer who was a “hero” to his family died Sunday after being shot in the head by a barricaded gunman on the city’s south side, authorities said.

Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon, 29, had been with the department for 3 ½ years.

A second officer who was shot in the leg was treat-ed and released after the shooting around 6 p.m. Sat-urday in the South Grand neighborhood near Tower Grove Park, St. Louis Police Department spokes-woman Officer Michelle Woodling said.

The 43-year-old suspect was taken into custody Sunday morning, Woodling said.

Mayor Lyda Krewson said in a statement Sunday night that she was “heartbroken” at Bohannon’s death. “I’ve had the privilege of spending some time with his family under these extraordinarily chal-lenging circumstances. They’re wonderful people and immensely proud of the way he selflessly served and protected our community with distinction and honor for more than three years.”

“This is a horrific reminder of the dangers our brave men and women willingly face every day to keep us safe ... This is a terrible, senseless tragedy.”

A photo of a note police said came from Bohan-non’s family was posted on the department’s Twit-ter page after the announcement of his death. “He is a hero to many, but most importantly to his loving wife and three incredible children,” read the note that referred to Bohannon as “Bo” and asked for “prayers and support in the days ahead.”

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Chief

John Hayden said the gunman ordered a family out of their home at gunpoint and barricaded himself inside for almost 12 hours.

Officers were searching for another reported shooting victim when the gunman shot Bohannon in the head and the other officer in the leg, Hayden said.

While the man was barricaded inside, officers armed with rifles and a SWAT team assembled out-side. Police closed surrounding streets and warned residents to stay inside. Police used a bullhorn to order the suspect out and fired tear gas into the house, but fired no gunshots, the department said.

The man was taken into custody around 5:30 a.m. Police have released no details about how the stand-off came to an end.

DAVID CARSON, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/AP

St. Louis police officers line up and salute as the body of fallen Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon is brought to the morgue in St. Louis, on Sunday .

MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP

Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, leaves the federal court, Sept. 10, 2019, following a status conference in Washington.

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BY JENNIFER H. SVAN

Stars and Stripes

KAISERSLAUTERN, Ger-many — Two more Defense De-partment school students in the Kaiserslautern area have the coronavirus, officials said Mon-day as seven new infections were reported over the weekend in the city and the surrounding district, four of them in the U.S. military community.

The two new school cases were closely linked to a Kaiserslautern Middle School student who tested positive for the virus last week, said Stephen Smith, Depart-ment of Defense Education Ac-tivity-Europe spokesman. They involved a student at Sembach Elementary School and a second case at KMS, he said.

School officials learned of the positive test at Sembach on Satur-day and principal Barriett Smith notified families the following day, the DODEA-Europe spokes-man said. KMS learned of the second case among its students late last week. The school was closed Friday for cleaning, while Sembach was cleaned over the weekend, he said.

Both schools were open Mon-day, Smith said.

Public health officials are con-tacting families of anyone who was in close contact with the in-fected students, Smith said. They will likely be told to quarantine for 14 days or until they can pro-duce a negative test for the virus.

The number of people who are in isolation or quarantine as a re-

sult of the school cases cannot bemade public under Defense De-partment policy, health officials said.

Most DODEA-Europe schoolswelcomed students back to theclassroom a week ago Monday,but six schools — in Bahrain,Spain and Turkey — began theyear with distance learning only, due to health concerns.

Schools have the option of re-verting to remote learning iflocal health conditions worsen or an outbreak at a school forces it to close for six days or more, DODEA officials have said.

About 12% of the roughly 25,500DODEA students in Europe opted to attend virtual school this fall,data provided by the Defense De-partment education system show.

A number of measures havebeen put in place to reduce thespread of the coronavirus inDODEA schools, including a re-quirement for face masks to be worn in places where studentsand staff can’t be at least sixfeet apart. Parents had to sign a document agreeing to check their child’s temperature and moni-tor them for other symptoms of the virus every morning before school.

There were 82 active corona-virus cases in Kaiserslauternand the surrounding district asof Sunday. Thirteen of the cases, including four that were reported over the weekend, were in theU.S. military community, district commissioner Ralf Lessmeistersaid in a Facebook post.svan.jennifer@stripes.comTwitter: @stripesktown

BY JOSEPH DITZLERAND AYA ICHIHASHI

Stars and Stripes

TOKYO — The number of new coronavirus cases in Japan’s capital city fell to 100 on Monday, the lowest daily count in a week, according to public broadcaster NHK.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military in Japan reported 13 new infections Monday: 12 at Yokosuka Naval Base and one at the Marine Corps’ Camp Courtney on Okinawa. All the individuals who tested posi-tive were already in quarantine, according to those installations.

The new cases in Tokyo on Monday pushed the pandemic total to 20,817, according to NHK, which cited the Tokyo Metropoli-tan Government.

The daily count has been high-er than 100 for seven consecutive days; it peaked at 472 cases on Aug. 1. The metro area reported 95 cases on Aug. 24, according to the metro government website.

The seven-day moving average

of new cases in Tokyo fell from 275.3 on Aug. 20 to 197.7 on Sun-day, according to the metro gov-ernment website.

At Yokosuka, about 40 miles southwest of central Tokyo, seven new cases identified as close con-tacts tested positive for the virus, according to a base news release. Base spokesman Randall Bau-com said those seven were tested in quarantine.

Another five individuals had recently arrived in Japan and were in mandatory 14-day quar-antine when they tested positive, the Yokosuka release said.

Okinawa prefecture reported 23 new cases Monday, accord-ing to the Ryukyu Shimpo news-paper, which cited a prefectural official.

On its website, the prefecture reported 31 new coronavirus in-fections on Saturday and 33 on Sunday. A man in his 80s died Saturday in Okinawa city, the 27th death linked to the virus on the island, according to the prefecture. The prefecture also

reported three recent false posi-tives: one on Aug. 25 and two on Thursday.

Friday, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki extended to Sept. 5 a state of emergency just before the Okinawa Obon holiday started Monday. The holiday concludes on Wednesday.

“Please this year, have a quiet Obon; do not go to meet your grandpa and grandma,” Tamaki said during a press conference. Obon typically involves travel to visit family.

“We cannot afford to have an-other complete lockdown like April to May; our economy will not survive,” Tamaki said. “We have to live with coronavirus, and we must keep preventing the spread of the virus.”

Avoid crowded spaces, wash hands frequently and maintain social distancing “and maybe one day, we’ll have zero coronavirus,” he added.ditzler.joseph@stripes.comTwitter: @JosephDitzlerichihashi.aya@stripes.comTwitter: @AyaIchihashi

Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia recorded its deadli-est day of the pandemic Monday as the government urged hot spot Victoria state to announce plans to lift a lockdown on the country’s second-largest city.

Victoria’s health department reported 41 deaths from COVID-

19 and 73 new infections in the latest 24-hour period. While the deaths were a state and national high, the tally of new infections was Victoria’s lowest since 67 new cases were recorded on June 30 in the early weeks of the sec-ond wave of the pandemic, which has primarily been concentrated in the state capital, Melbourne.

Victorian Premier Daniel An-drews said only eight of the 41 fatalities occurred in the latest 24-hour period. The other 33 fa-talities occurred in aged care since late July and were reported on Sunday following a tightening of reporting obligations and a re-view of previous reporting, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said.

A six-week lockdown in the city is due to be relaxed on Sept. 13. But the state government has not said how it will be relaxed or given any assurances that it won’t be extended.

Victoria has recorded more than 19,000 cases, almost 80% of Australia’s more than 25,000 cases, according to a tally by

Johns Hopkins University. Thestate also accounts for the vast majority of Australia’s more than 650 deaths.

Australian Treasurer JoshFrydenberg said on Monday hedisagreed with the Victoriangovernment that it was too early to announce plans to reopen itseconomy.

VIRUS OUTREAK

Kaiserslautern’s schools still opendespite infections

AKIFUMI ISHIKAWA/Stars and Stripes

A woman walks by a U.S. Navy police boat patrolling near Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Thursday.

Tokyo’s cases decline as US Navy in Japan reports 12 new infections

Australia records its deadliest day; hot spot urged to reopen

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Associated Press

RUTLAND, Vt. — Some Ver-mont educators are wondering if remote learning could mean the end of snow days, the unexpected days off when weather conditions make it too hard for staff and chil-dren to reach school.

Bryan Olkowski, the superin-tendent of the Washington Cen-tral Supervisory Union, recently floated the idea at a school board meeting.

He said he brought it up light-heartedly, but it could be possible. Many school districts are work-ing to switch to at least part-time remote education this fall.

It’s unclear if those systems could work with less than a day’s notice.

David Younce, of the Vermont Superintendents Association, said he hasn’t heard any formal conversations on the topic, but called the idea “common sense commentary.”

“The ability to work and learn from home is going to become more and more normalized, I suspect,” Younce told the Rutland Herald. “I think that makes it much easier to make a decision.”

But he said any decisions to shift to remote learning for in-clement weather should be made in advance, such as noon the day before, to provide time for teach-ers, students and families to plan accordingly.

MassachusettsQUINCY — The city of Quincy

fined a wedding venue on Satur-day for violating limits on gath-erings. The rules are intended to cut down the spread of the coronavirus

The Neighborhood Club of Quincy received a $300 fine, The Patriot Ledger reported. A spokesperson for the club said it was hosting an outdoor wedding when rain and thunder motivated the general manager to move it indoors.

Quincy Health Department Commissioner Ruth Jones said she received a call there were more than 50 people at the venue. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker issued an order in early August limiting indoor gatherings to no more than 25 in a single, enclosed space.

CaliforniaVENTURA — A study shows

California’s stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus seems to have saved some wild-life, as decreased traffic resulted in fewer collisions with moun-tain lions, deer and other large animals.

A study by the Road Ecol-ogy Center at the University of California, Davis found traffic declined by about 75% after the

emergency health regulation went into effect in March, The Ventura County Star reports.

The number of animals struck and killed by vehicles also fell, including a 58% decrease in fatal crashes involving mountain lions between the 10 weeks before and 10 weeks after the order was in place.

IndianaINDIANAPOLIS — A north-

ern Indiana woman has filed a lawsuit against the distributor of a recalled hand sanitizer over the presence of toxic methanol, alleg-ing her children had severe side effects.

The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in St. Joseph County, seeks penalties. It names Texas-based 4e Brands North America, which distributes Blumen hand sani-tizer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found the prod-uct contained methanol, or wood alcohol, which can be deadly.

The company issued a volun-tary recall in July.

The Osceola woman claims her children’s side effects included headaches and vomiting. The lawsuit accuses the company of violating Indiana’s Products Li-ability Act and Deceptive Con-sumer Sales Act and seeks class action status.

IowaDES MOINES — The num-

bers on Iowa’s online coronavirus tracker varied widely this week-end because of a maintenance problem with the site.

The Iowa Department of Public Health reported Saturday morn-ing that 1,108 Iowans had died from COVID-19. Later in the day, the number of deaths fell to 894 before rebounding Saturday eve-ning to 1,109.

Several other key statistics also fluctuated on the state web-site Saturday. For instance, the number of cases of coronavirus dropped from 63,122 to 51,183 before being restored after 9 p.m. Saturday.

Department of Public Health spokeswoman Amy McCoy told the Des Moines Registe r by email late Saturday that the prob-lem appeared to be fixed.

North DakotaBISMARCK — North Dakota

reports one new death due to COVID-19, bringing the state’s death toll to 142 since the corona-virus pandemic began.

The North Dakota Department of Health on Sunday reported a Burleigh County woman in her 90s with underlying health condi-tions died.

Health officials also reported 219 newly confirmed cases on

Sunday, raising the total num-ber of infections in the state to 11,702 since the pandemic struck the state in mid-March. The Bismarck Tribune reports the number of active cases in North Dakota now totals 2,481, a new record high.

A total of 68 patients were hos-pitalized Sunday in North Dakota, up three from the previous day.

PennsylvaniaPHILADELPHIA — Temple

University has announced a two-week halt of in-person classes as Philadelphia officials called on all college and university students in the city to avoid all social gath-erings with people outside their households.

Temple officials said Sunday that new test results over the weekend had pushed the number of active COVID-19 cases from the 58 reported Friday to 103 ac-tive cases, most of them among people with no symptoms and a small number with mild to mod-erate flu-like symptoms.

University president Richard Englert said officials believe they are seeing “new cases that result from small social gatherings hap-pening off campus.“ He said that prompted the two-week “pause” on in-person classes and a contact tracing effort.

Temple said in-person classes were to go online starting Monday and continue online through Sept. 11, with only classes deemed es-

sential by college deans held in person.

TexasAUSTIN — Texas health of-

ficials on Saturday reported the number of deaths due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the coro-navirus, has surpassed 12,500 and the number of reported cases increased is now above 610,000.

There are 610,354 coronavirus cases and 12,510 deaths, accord-ing to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The true number of cases in Texas is like-ly higher because many people haven’t been tested and studies suggest people can be infected and not feel sick.

The number of reported cases rose by 3,759 and the total COVID-19 deaths is up by 90 from Satur-day, the department said.

The department also reported an estimated 98,326 active cases, a decline of 2,863 from the 101,189 reported Saturday.

UtahLOGAN — Utah State Uni-

versity plans to test nearly 300 students for COVID-19 after wastewater samples from four dormitories showed elevated lev-els of the coronavirus, school of-ficials said Sunday.

The 287 students who were to be tested Sunday and Monday live in the Rich, Jones, Morgan and Davis dorms on the campus

in Logan. There have been no re-ported positive tests for COVID-19 in those residence halls so far.

Students in those dorms mustquarantine until the test results are available, which could take upto four days. They are also asked to fill out a form to ensure they receive academic support, fooddeliveries and other resources.

Classes are scheduled to beginon Monday for about 28,000 undergraduate and graduatestudents.

Utah State is one of a smallhandful of schools using waste-water sampling to help safeguardagainst a COVID-19 outbreak,The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

NebraskaLINCOLN — The Nebraska

State Penitentiary in Lincoln has been placed under quarantineafter 29 inmates tested positivefor the coronavirus, officials saidSunday.

The positive cases were iden-tified by tests that were done Friday. Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Direc-tor Scott Frakes said the positivecases included inmates in four different housing units, so theentire prison was placed under quarantine.

Officials said roughly 600 in-mates were initially offered testsunder the voluntary program, and332 inmates agreed to be tested. The remaining inmates will be offered tests starting Sunday.

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

VIRUS OUTREAK ROUNDUP

Acceptance of virtual classrooms may mean demise of snow days

CHRIS PIZZELLO/AP

Nancy Kuo, top left, and Manoela Wunder, of the musical duo Masked Strings, perform a concert for their neighborhood Sunday in the Atwater Village section of Los Angeles. Kuo and Wunder have been performing as the Masked Strings since May .

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BY JACLYN PEISER

The Washington Post

In a week of escalating conflict after a Kenosha, Wis., police offi-cer shot Jacob Blake in the back, the city faced looting, arson, and a shooting at a protest that left two men dead and another seri-ously injured.

Now, Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says he worries that President Donald Trump’s planned trip to Kenosha this week will inflame those tensions again. In a Sunday letter, Evers urged Trump to cancel the trip.

“I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing,” Evers wrote. “I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together.”

Despite the governor’s plea, Trump still plans to visit Keno-sha on Tuesday, the White House

said.“The White House has been

humbled by the outreach of indi-viduals from Kenosha who have welcomed the president’s visit and are longing for leadership to support local law enforcement and businesses that have been vandalized,” the White House said in a statement to The Wash-ington Post. “President Trump looks forward to visiting on Tues-day and helping this great city heal and rebuild.”

Trump has recently sought to turn the violence in Kenosha and elsewhere to his political advan-tage, The Washington Post re-ported on Sunday. The president has blamed rioting and looting at Democratic lawmakers, includ-ing Evers, and accused Demo-cratic presidential candidate Joe Biden of supporting the law-lessness, though he’s repeatedly condemned destructive protests.

Trump also praised the armed civilians who have come to cit-ies like Portland and Kenosha, where police said a 17-year-old killed two protesters on Tuesday.

On his visit to Kenosha, the White House said Trump will “survey damage from recent riots” and meet with police. It is unclear if the president plans to meet with Blake’s family. Blake’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that they had not yet heard from the White House. Blake’s family spoke with Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., for “about an hour,” Crump said.

In his letter, Evers said a peace-ful weekend in Kenosha made him optimistic that the city had moved beyond violent clashes. But Trump’s visit could hinder that progress, he argued.

Associated Press

KENOSHA, Wis. — Most of the people arrested in demon-strations against police brutal-ity since the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha were not city residents, according to police.

Of the 175 people arrested during protests in Kenosha since Blake was shot in the back Aug. 23, leaving the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed, 102 have addresses outside of Kenosha, including 44 differ-ent cities, police said in a state-ment Sunday night.

Protesters have marched

in Kenosha every night since Blake’s shooting, with some protests devolving into vio-lence that has damaged build-ings and vehicles. Authorities say a teenager from northern Illinois shot and killed two pro-testers in Kenosha on Tuesday night.

Many of the arrests were for curfew violations, and also included possible charges for burglary, possession of illegal drugs and carrying concealed weapons without a permit, of-ficials said. More than 20 fire-arms have been seized.

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

NATION

Ore. state police to return after deadly shooting

Wisconsin governor urges Trump not to visit Kenosha

BY GILLIAN FLACCUS

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon State Police will return to Port-land to help local authorities after the fatal shooting of a man follow-ing clashes between President Donald Trump supporters and counter-protesters that led to an argument between the president and the city’s mayor over who was to blame for the violence.

Protesters were back on the streets for a demonstration Sun-day night outside a public safety building. Police declared an un-lawful assembly and detained several people after saying protesters were seen throwing projectiles.

After Trump called Ted Wheel-er, a Democrat, a “fool” and fault-ed him for allowing mayhem to proliferate in the liberal city, the visibly angry mayor lashed out at the president during a Sunday news conference, addressing him

in the first person through the TV cameras.

“That’s classic Trump. Mr. President, how can you think that a comment like that, if you’re watching this, is in any way help-ful? It’s an aggressive stance, it is not collaborative. I certainly reached out, I believe in a collab-orative manner, by saying earlier that you need to do your part and I need to do my part and then we both need to be held accountable,” Wheeler said.

“Let’s work together...Why don’t we try that for a change?”

The testy news conference fol-lowed a chaotic 24 hours in Port-land that began when Saturday evening when a caravan of about 600 vehicles packed with Trump supporters drove through the lib-eral city and was met with coun-terprotesters. Skirmishes broke out between the groups and, about 15 minutes after the caravan left the city, a supporter of the right-

wing group Patriot Prayer was fatally shot.

Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson identified the victim as Aaron “Jay” Danielson. He called the victim a “good friend,” but provided no further details. Dan-ielson apparently also went by the name Jay Bishop, according to Patriot Prayer’s Facebook page.

“We love Jay and he had such a huge heart. God bless him and the life he lived,” Gibson said in a

Facebook post.Trump retweeted the victim’s

name and wrote, “Rest in peace Jay!”

It wasn’t clear if the shoot-ing was related to the clashes in Portland, which has become a flashpoint in the national Black Lives Matter protests since George Floyd was killed in May and an increasing centerpiece in Trump’s law-and-order re-elec-tion campaign theme.

Late Sunday Oregon Gov. KateBrown released details of a plan to address the violence in Port-land while protecting free speech. She said the district attorney’s of-fice in Multnomah County, whichincludes Portland, will prosecute serious criminal offenses and thesheriff’s office will work withother agencies to hold people ar-rested for violent behavior andensure there is adequate jailspace.

PAULA BRONSTEIN/AP

Portland police make arrests on the scene of the nightly protests at a Portland police precinct Sunday, in Portland, Ore.

Police: Most of arrested at protest not from city

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NATION

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Within Presi-dent Donald Trump’s cam-paign, some privately feared the worst heading into the national conventions.

They worried that a strong showing by Democrat Joe Biden, combined with an underwhelm-ing performance by Trump, would lock in the certainty of a blowout loss that would essential-ly end the election by September.

But as the candidates move beyond trouble-free conventions and into the final phase of the 2020 election season, both sides acknowledge that the contest is tightening. And after months of running an almost entirely vir-tual campaign because of the pandemic, Biden has decided to launch a new phase of in-person events to help blunt any Trump gains.

“This campaign has always known that it’s going to be a close race, it’s going to be a tough race,” Biden’s senior adviser Anita Dunn said, noting that no Demo-cratic presidential candidate has earned more than 52.9% of the vote since 1964.

She added: “It’s a polarized na-tion, and we expect this kind of tightening.”

That leaves Democrats and Re-publicans preparing for a 64-day sprint to the finish that is widely expected to be one of the most turbulent and chaotic periods in modern American history.

Each side cast the other as an existential threat to America’s fu-ture as they offered voters starkly different versions of reality over the last two weeks of carefully scripted conventions.

Democrats attacked Trump as an incompetent racist with auto-cratic tendencies who is failing to protect the nation from the pan-demic as he actively undermines democracy. Republicans largely ignored the pandemic while at-tacking Joe Biden as a senile life-time politician controlled by his party’s far-left wing and incapa-ble of protecting suburban voters from mobs of protesters.

“America doesn’t feel like one country with all the chaos and di-vision,” former Democratic pres-idential contender Pete Buttigieg said in an interview.

“We should be ready for liter-ally anything in the next couple months,” he said. “2020 isn’t done serving up shocks and surprises.”

Rarely have such dire variables loomed over the closing weeks of an election.

A pandemic that has already killed 180,000 Americans shows little sign of slowing. A scuffling economy has pushed 28 million onto the unemployment rolls with

tens of thousands of businessesfeared permanently closed. Con-tinued police violence against un-armed Black people has sparked sweeping civil rights protests andnew incidents of protest-relatedviolence on the streets.

There are the natural disasters:A hurricane pummeled the GulfCoast last week, massive forestfires are burning California and powerful derecho winds slammed Iowa’s farming industry.

And what worries government watchdogs the most: Trump hasbeen openly undermining the in-tegrity of the election by raising unfounded concerns about vot-ing by mail in order to avoid longwaits at polling places during thepandemic.

Amid the chaos, Miles Taylor,a lifetime Republican who previ-ously served as chief of staff in-side the Trump administration’sDepartment of Homeland Secu-rity, warned there is nothing thatthe Republican president will notdo or say to defeat Biden.

“Put nothing past Donald Trump,” Taylor told The Associ-ated Press. “He will do anything to win. If that means climbing over other people, climbing overhis own people or climbing overU.S. law, he will do it. People are right to be concerned.”

Among the many crises shap-ing the fall campaign, racial ten-sions have emerged as a criticalfactor that could decide Trump’sfate.

Trump’s campaign believesit is benefiting from sometimesviolent protests in Wisconsin thatfollowed a white police officershooting Jacob Black, a Blackman, seven times, leaving himparalyzed. The president has re-peatedly cast protesters as angry mobs that threaten America’s suburbs, an argument with racistundertones aimed at strengthen-ing Trump’s diminished standingwith older voters and suburban women.

As part of his “law and order” message, Trump has consistent-ly sided with police over theirAfrican American victims. Heplans to visit the site of the latestviolent clash, Kenosha, Wis ., on Tuesday.

Civil rights leader Martin Lu-ther King III likened Trump’srhetoric on race — and his party’sefforts to make it more difficult to vote this fall — to the efforts ofRepublican leaders like RichardNixon prior to the passage of theCivil Rights Act of 1968. It’s un-clear if 2020 America will have as much tolerance for the mes-sage that resonated a half cen-tury ago.

“It’s just straight racism,” King said of Trump’s rhetoric and re-cord. “The hands of the clock are going backwards.”

Uncertainty marksfinal stretches of drive for presidency

Associated Press

George Floyd. Sacagawea. The guy who invented air conditioning.

Americans’ suggestions of suit-able statues for President Donald Trump’s planned National Gar-den of American Heroes are in, and they look considerably differ-ent from the predominantly white worthies that the administration has locked in for many of the ped-estals. The outside nominations are more activist, browner and far more indigenous.

Well, for the most part, anyway. The administration is also leav-ing open the possibility of a statue of Trump himself in the Trump-created statue park after receiv-ing what it said were “multiple nominations” of the president.

Trump ordered up the statue park during a Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore, and set up a task force on a 60-day deadline to get the idea going. He also mused in a tweet that it would be a “good idea” to carve his own face into that memorial.

The task force charged with ex-ecuting Trump’s vision said it sent out thousands of requests to state and local officials for suggestions, both for possible sites around the country and for heroes to honor. Its findings are due to be given to Trump by Tuesday.

Many of the nominations stand in stark contrast to the list the Trump administration came up with, which mandated inclusion of a few dozen mainstream and conservative figures, from John Adams to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and a few other Black leaders made the Trump administration’s hero list, but not anyone known for their Native American, Hispanic or Asian heritage.

Suggestions from many Repub-lican governors, by contrast, were heavy with civil rights leaders, while many local officials pushed for a broader definition for what it

means to be a hero.When Denver-area Doug-

las County Commissioner Lora Thomas got the solicitation for nominations, “For me and my fel-low commissioners, it was imme-diately a unanimous decision.“

They urged the task force to consider a statue to Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old high school senior shot to death last year while lunging at a gunman in his British literature class. Eight people were wounded in the attack in suburban Denver by two student gunmen at STEM School Highlands Ranch.

“A person of distinguished courage. Bravery. Good deeds. Noble,” Thomas said in a phone interview, reciting the diction-ary definitions of a hero. “Gosh darn it, if Kendrick Castillo isn’t a hero, I don’t know who is.”

Lehigh County, P a., Commis-sioner Amy Zanelli, meanwhile, suggested George Floyd, Breon-na Taylor and other Black Ameri-cans whose killings by police sparked massive street protests.

The summer protests also spun off a debate over statues around the country honoring slave-hold-ers and Confederates. Trump de-ployed federal forces to protect those monuments from protest-ers, embracing their defense as a law-and-order issue as he seeks reelection.

Most governors, including al-most every Democrat, dismissed the Trump administration’s re-quest for suggestions, accord-ing to the Interior Department’s website on Friday afternoon. It’s the latest example of governors ignoring White House requests — ranging from statues, to school openings to nursing homes test-ing — amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“I haven’t given it a moment’s thought,” Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly told The Associated Press. “I have other things to do.”

Some were highly critical of the effort as an ill-timed political

stunt.“We would encourage the

White House to spend their time on the response to the coronavi-rus,” said Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s spokeswoman Lyndsay Kensinger.

The Trump administration said it received “robust, biparti-san responses” from around the country.

“It’s a shame that some gover-nors are unwilling to celebrate and recognize the significant achieve-ments of their own residents who have heroically impacted our nation’s history,” Interior De-partment spokesman Ben Goldey said.

The list of heroes submitted by Republican governors included some obvious choices — civil rights hero Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, the first African Amer-ican Supreme Court justice, and Sacagawea, the Lewis and Clark expedition’s indispensable guide — that stick out for their lack of inclusion in Trump’s list.

Prominent Native Americans highlighted some state and local nominations.

“We have so much history in Montana and our country,” said Yellowstone County Commission-er John Ostlund, a Republican, talking about his board’s decision to nominate revered Crow Tribe leaders as well as cowboys, fa-mous explorers and others.

“It was a conscious decision to include all sides of our history. All of the history … I don’t want to erase anything,” Ostlund said.

The four federal agency heads that Trump specifically named to the heroes task force are white. Asked if that was appropriate for a diverse country, Goldey re-sponded, “Your question is com-pletely offensive.”

Goldey stressed that the task force would not be making the final cut for heroes. He repeated-ly declined to say who would be, however, including if it would be Trump making the pick.

Statue nominations for Trump’s planned heroes garden are in

DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP

A man draws an image of George Floyd during the funeral service for Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston.

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Shortage of wood halts boardwalk re-decking

MD OCEAN CITY — Ocean City is post-

poning plans to re-deck its iconic boardwalk because of a lumber shortage caused by the coronavi-rus outbreak.

The Daily Times of Salisbury reported that the boardwalk, which stretches over 30 blocks, is typically re-decked every 10 years or so.

When city workers began mak-ing inquiries to potential suppli-ers, they learned that it might cost double the $468,000 that had been budgeted for the first half of the project.

Lumber prices have more than doubled since April, as the coro-navirus prompted both a supply shortage and a spike in demand as people stuck at home embarked on home-improvement projects. Tariffs on Canadian lumber have also contributed to the price in-crease, experts said.

Suspect arrested in $1M poker champion theft

NV LAS VEGAS — Au-thorities in Nevada

have arrested an Arizona woman on suspicion of stealing about $1 million in cash, gambling chips and jewelry from an international poker champion and his father.

Svitlana Silva, 46, was charged with residential burglary and possession of stolen property val-ued at $100,000 or more, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Las Vegas police reported that poker champion Antonio Esfan-diari and his father Bejan Esfan-diari called authorities July 14 to report that several valuables were missing from their safe at their Panorama Towers condo-minium near the Strip, includ-ing $150,000 in cash and up to $500,000 in poker chips.

Silva lived with Bejan Esfandi-ari on and off for several months and had been left alone in the condo multiple times, accord-ing to the police report. She also had regularly used his iPhone and iPad which had similar pass-words to the key code on the safe, Bejan Esfandiari said.

Police said Silva used the cash and chips to gamble in high-stakes poker games and was tracked to a parking garage in Aria where she was arrested.

Shirtless man with spear cuts teen

NY NEW YORK — A shirtless man wield-

ing a homemade spear sliced a 15-year-old boy in the forehead Friday in a brazen attack in New

York City’s Times Square, police said.

Roland Pacheco, 52, is under-going a psychiatric evaluation while awaiting arraignment in a Manhattan court on assault, weapon possession and menacing charges.

Pacheco fled after attacking the boy, who was hospitalized and treated with stitches, only to be caught slashing tires a few blocks away, police said.

Officers used a stun gun to subdue Pacheco after he started swinging the weapon — a pocket knife attached to a broomstick — at them, police said.

Woman mauled to death by dog, man hospitalized

FL MARGATE — Offi-cials in Florida said an

84-year-old woman was mauled to death by her dog while a man was hospitalized with serious injuries.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the elderly woman Car-olyn Varanese was pronounced dead at the scene while Joseph Varanese, 57, was taken to North-

west Medical Center in Margate,Fl a., a Fort Lauderdale suburb.

The dog is now in the custodyof the Broward County AnimalCare and Adoption Center as po-lice investigate the cause of the late Friday attack.

The dog’s breed was not specified.

Streets to be named for 14 fallen Guard soldiers

ND BISMARCK — Streetsin a housing develop-

ment east of Bismarck have beendedicated to honor fallen NorthDakota National Guard soldiers.

The Bismarck Tribune re-ported the streets will be named after 14 soldiers in the Clear SkyAddition.

Maj. Gen. Alan Dohrmann of the North Dakota National Guardand Sen. Kevin Cramer spoke at the ceremony Friday, which was hosted by Bismarck Mayor Steve Bakken

Matt Geiger of Geiger Con-struction and Development said the development in the future willbe home to Heroes Park, a publicfacility that will include a monu-ment to the soldiers.

The ceremony and dedication of the streets are examples of ways to prevent a soldier’s namefrom “fading off in the distance,” said Harriet Goodiron. Her son,Cpl. Nathan Goodiron, of Manda-ree, was killed in Afghanistan in 2006.

AMERICAN ROUNDUP

The approximate amount a dog cost Mississippi county officials when it chewed a fiber optic cable to pieces. The cable connected a courthouse and a nearby Justice Court building in Amite County, Tim Wroten, the county’s sheriff, told the Enterprise-Journal. The wire was mostly

elevated but dipped to the ground by the front door of the Justice Court building, where the dog chewed it. The culprit was not caught in the act, but officials saw “his running mate” through the security camera, Wroten said.

Memorial recalls 2019 tornado that killed 23

AL BEAUREGARD — A new memorial in Beau-

regard remembers the nearly two dozen people killed when a dead-ly tornado swept through the east Alabama county last year.

The names and images of the 23 victims who died during the storm are etched into main layer of the stone monument, WSFA reports. The second layer is dedi-cated to the first responders and volunteers. At the top is a cross and the saying, Beauregard Strong, an expression that the community used to rally together as they rebuilt from the storm.

“It’s so beautiful, Tyesha Hart, who lost her 8-year-old daughter Mykhayla, told the station. “It gives me peace and solace.”

The monument was construct-ed at Providence Baptist Church

White woman slapped Black child, used slur

FL BOCA RATON — A white woman is facing

felony child abuse charges after police said she slapped an 11-year-old Black child and called him a racist slur after his go-kart bumped hers at a Florida amuse-ment park.

Boca Raton police said in court records that Haley Zager, 30, and the boy were driving go-karts at the Boomers amusement park Saturday night when they acci-dentally collided. They said Zager confronted the child after the ride and, in the presence of three Boomers employees, slapped him in the face, using a racist slur to justify the strike to bystanders.

Court records said Zager ad-mitted to officers that she struck the child, who had a swollen eye but denied using the slur. Police said they also found a container of pills in her underwear and charged her will illegal posses-sion of prescription drugs.

Commuter bus slams into divider, 16 hurt

NY NEW YORK — A com-muter bus slammed

into a divider at New York City’s main bus terminal on Saturday, injuring 16 people including one critically, the fire department said.

The New Jersey Transit bus crashed on an upper ramp at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, tossing passengers around and causing major dam-age to the vehicle’s front end.

“There were multiple patients laying on the floor, around the vehicle and then multiple patients that were still trapped inside of the vehicle,” EMS Deputy Chief Kevin Ramdayal said.

Eleven people were taken to hospitals for treatment, including one person who Ramdayal said had “severely critical” injuries. Others were treated at the scene.

The bus appeared to be leaving the terminal when it crashed, offi-cials said. No other vehicles were involved, and the crash caused the temporary closure of all New Jersey-bound lanes of the Lincoln Tunnel.

THE CENSUS

Like father, like son

$7K

VICKI VELLIOS BRINER, THE (HARRISBURG, PA.) PATRIOT-NEWS/AP

From wire reports

Ray Davies, left, of Holden, Maine cleans his ’82 Corvette while his son Robert Daries of Newton, Pa., cleans his ’72 Corvette LT-1 during the annual Corvettes at Carlisle event in Carlisle, Pa.

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WORLD

1st direct Israel-UAE flight lands

Diplomat tapped to be Lebanese PM vows reforms

Thousands trapped after train troubles in France

PARIS — Thousands of pas-sengers were trapped overnight on high-speed TGV trains haltedby electrical problems in south-western France, some pleadingfor water, food or fresh air.

Frustrated travelers raised at-tention to their plight on social networks, posting images of chil-dren sleeping on floors and de-scribing the challenge of staying masked for as much as 20 hours.

Several people were evacuatedfor medical reasons, broadcasterFrance-Info reported Monday.

National rail authority SNCFannounced problems on multiple routes starting Sunday afternoon, including a “major electrical sup-ply failure” that required exten-sive repair efforts.

770-pound crocodile caught in Australia

DARWIN, Australia — Wildliferangers have trapped a 14.5-footsaltwater crocodile at a tourist destination in Australia’s North-ern Territory, the biggest caughtin the area in years, a wildliferanger said Monday.

The 770-pound male was caught in the Flora River at a remote na-ture park 75 miles southwest of the Outback town of Katherine, said Katherine senior wildlife ranger John Burke.

25 poisoned, 5 critical, at illegal Norway rave

COPENHAGEN, Denmark— Some 25 people taking partin an illegal rave in a bunker inthe Norwegian capital, Oslo, were poisoned by carbon monoxide given off by portable generators, police said.

Five people — including two police officers who were first on the scene — were hospitalized incritical condition but their livesare not in danger, the Norwegiannews agency NTB said. Two of thefive were released from intensive care on Monday, NTB reported.

Up to 200 partygoers had gath-ered for the rave . From The Associated Press

BY ARON HELLER

Associated Press

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — A Star of David-adorned El Al plane has landed in Abu Dhabi after flying in from Israel, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli delegation in the first-ever direct commer-cial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates.

The Israeli flag carrier’s flight Monday marks the implementa-tion of the historic U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations be-tween the two nations and so-lidifies long-clandestine ties that have evolved over years of shared enmity toward Iran.

With the U.S. as matchmaker, Israel and the UAE agreed ear-lier this month to work toward normalization, which would make the UAE the third Arab nation to have full relations with Israel, after Egypt and Jordan.

Monday’s three hour, 20 min-ute flight saw the El Al plane fly through Saudi airspace and over the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh.

That signals the possibility the kingdom could regularly allow these flights, which would make them viable commercially. Oth-erwise, flights would need to take seven hours to detour, burning

more jet fuel. The American delegation in-

cludes President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as national security adviser Robert O’Brien, Mideast envoy Avi Berkowitz and envoy for Iran Brian Hook. Is-

rael was represented by national security adviser Meir Ben-Shab-bat and the director generals of several ministries, who will meet with their Emirati counterparts.

“While this is a historic flight, we hope that this will start an even more historic journey for

the Middle East and beyond,” Kushner told reporters before boarding the plane.

Ben-Shabbat said he was excit-ed about the trip and that the aim was to lay the groundwork for co-operation in areas like tourism, medicine, technology and trade.

Associated Press

BEIRUT — A Lebanese dip-lomat was appointed to form a new government on Monday after winning the backing of major political parties in the crisis-hit country, which is still reeling from a devastating explosion that killed and wounded thousands of people.

President Michel Aoun asked Lebanon’s ambassador to Ger-

many, Mustapha Adib, to form a new government after he secured 90 votes among the legislators in the 128-member parliament.

The consultations were being held hours before French Presi-dent Emmanuel Macron was due to arrive for a two-day visit, dur-ing which he is expected to press Lebanese officials to formulate a new political pact to lift the coun-try out of its multiple crises. At least 190 people died and 6,000

were injured in the Aug. 4 blast, which devastated the city’s port and caused widespread damage to residential and commercial areas in the capital.

The government resigned less than a week after the blast.

Adib told reporters his num-ber one priority will be to quickly form a government able to imple-ment crucial reforms to regain the trust of the Lebanese and in-ternational community.

He said he will form a Cabi-net of experts and will work with parliament to “put the country on track of improvement and to end the dangerous financial, econom-ic and social drainage.”

“The opportunity in front of our country is narrow, and the mission that I accepted is based on all political groups knowing that. The government should be formed very quickly,” he added.

NIR ELIAS, POOL/AP

Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, from left, U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien board the Israeli flag carrier El Al’s airliner at Ben-Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday .

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Associated Press

SRINAGAR, India — India said Monday that its soldiers thwarted “provocative” military move-ments by China’s military near a disputed border in the Ladakh re-gion months into the rival nations’ deadliest standoff in decades.

Local military command-ers from the two countries were meeting along the disputed fron-tier on Monday to resolve the is-sues, India’s defense ministry said. It said India was committed to dialogue, “but is also equally determined to protect its territo-rial integrity.”

The statement said China’s People’s Liberation Army on Saturday night “carried out pro-vocative military movements to change the status quo” and “violated the previous consensus arrived at during military and diplomatic engagements” to set-

tle the standoff in the cold-desert region.

In Beijing, foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said border forces were communicat-ing over recent matters but gave no details.

“Chinese border troops always act in strict compliance with the Line of Actual Control, and have never crossed the line for any ac-tivities,” Zhao told reporters at a daily briefing.

India’s defense ministry issued its statement after a gap of a day and did not give details of the na-ture of the new actions.

The statement said Indian troops “undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground.”

It said the activity took place on the southern bank of Pangong

Lake, a glacial lake divided by the de facto frontier between the rivals and where the India-China faceoff began in early May.

The disputed and undemar-cated 2,175-mile border between India and China stretches from the Ladakh region in the north to the Indian state of Sikkim. The two Asia giants fought a border war in 1962 that also spilled into Ladakh. The two countries have been trying to settle their border dispute since the early 1990s, without success.

The ongoing standoff high in the Karakoram mountains is over disputed portions of a pristine

landscape that boasts the world’s highest landing strip, a glacier that feeds one of the largest irri-gation systems in the world, and a critical link to China’s massive “Belt and Road” infrastructure project.

The faceoff began at three places. Soldiers at Pangong Lake ignored repeated verbal warn-ings, triggering a yelling match, stone-throwing and even fist-fights. By June, it escalated and spread north in Depsang and Galwan Valley, where India has built an all-weather military road along the disputed frontier.

Associated Press

SANAA, Yemen — The Saudi-led coalition allied with Yemen’sgovernment said Monday that itfoiled two attacks launched byIran-backed Houthi rebels, in-cluding an explosives-laden boatdispatched into the Red Sea nearinternational shipping lanes.

Coalition spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki said in a statement that the remotely controlled boat wasspotted late Sunday.

Yemeni officials said a blastkilled at least three people andwounded five others.

Al-Malki described the at-tempted boat attack as a “terrorist attack” threatening commercial shipping routes in the vital Bab al-Mandeb strait, used for oil ship-ments from the Gulf to Europeand goods from Asia to Europe.

He said the coalition also inter-cepted and destroyed a drone car-rying explosives over the Abha international airport in south-western Saudi Arabia on Sunday.He said some of the debris from the drone fell on the airport butcaused no casualties or damage,according to Saudi Arabia’s state-run news agency.

India says Chinese made moves close to disputed border

Saudis, allies foil attacks by Houthis

MUKHTAR KHA/AP

An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar-Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, India, earlier this summer.

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BY MESFIN FEKADU

Associated Press

Lady Gaga cleaned house at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, while The Weeknd took home the top prize — and both pop stars sent important messages to view-ers about the current state of the world: “Wear a mask” and “Jus-tice for Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor.”

Gaga won five honors Sunday, most of them for her No. 1 hit with Ariana Grande, “Rain on Me,” which the pop stars performed live for the first time.

“Wear a mask. It’s a sign of re-spect,“ Gaga said during one of her several appearances onstage as she accepted awards like artist and song of the year.

Gaga performed a medley of her songs, including “Stupid Love,” “Chromatica II” and “911.” She and Grande were joined by a

number of background dancers all wearing masks.

The Weeknd, the first per-former of the night, paid tribute to Blake and Taylor — two Black people who were shot by police officers — after winning video of the year and best R&B for “Blind-ing Lights.”

“It’s really hard for me to cel-ebrate right now and enjoy this moment, so I’m just going to say: justice for Jacob Blake and justice for Breonna Taylor,” he said.

The VMAs kicked off with an-other touching moment, as host Keke Palmer told viewers the show was dedicated to Chadwick Boseman, who died Aug. 28 after privately battling colon cancer for four years at age 43.

“We dedicate tonight’s show to a man whose spirit touched so many. He’s a true hero, not just on-screen,” Palmer said. “His

impact lives forever.”The Black Eyed Peas, who

closed the two-hour-plus show with Nicky Jam and Tyga, ended their set by saying, “Black Lives Matter.“ And R&B star H.E.R. won the video for good award for her protest anthem about police brutality and systemic racism, “I Can’t Breathe.”

“I’m super proud of everybody speaking out on social injustice,” H.E.R. said.

But most of the show was dedicated to fun performances

— some pre-taped, some filmed in various locations in New York City.

Pop all-stars BTS, who won four awards including best pop and best group, were top-notch during a pre-taped performance, which featured their signature, skilled choreography. The seven band members danced and sang in sharp suits, at some points with the backdrop of Times Square be-hind them.

Grande tied BTS with four wins. Her No. 1 duet with Justin

Bieber, “Stuck with U,” won bestmusic video from home — oneof two new awards MTV estab-lished as artists have made shiftsbecause of the pandemic. CNCOwon best quarantine performancefor “MTV Unplugged at Home.”

Megan Thee Stallion won besthip-hop for “Savage” and TaylorSwift won best direction for “The Man.” Maluma of Colombia wonbest Latin singer, and Doja Catwas named Push best new artist.

See videos and full results on-line at mtv.com/vma.

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

FACES

From wire reports

As Hollywood aims to relaunch moviego-ing worldwide, Christopher Nolan’s highlyanticipated “Tenet” earned more than $53million in its opening weekend across 41 international markets (including 32 in Eu-rope, the Middle East and Africa) on more than 20,000 screens.

The result was the biggest opening for the director in nine countries includingHolland, Ukraine and Hungary, the big-gest industry opening in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with $1.47 million and thesecond-biggest Hollywood film opening in Estonia, where the film was partially shot,with $340,000 grossed over the weekend.

Nolan’s film represents the first block-buster hopeful to be released during theCOVID-19 global pandemic.

The sci-fi mind-bender begins U.S.sneak preview screenings Monday night,in areas where indoor theaters are open,ahead of an official opening on Thursdayfor Labor Day weekend.

After numerous release-date delays andsavage reviews, 20th Century Studios’“The New Mutants,” a spinoff of the long-running “X-Men” franchise, opened to $7 million in 2,412 locations this weekend,which was enough to top the domestic boxoffice. It added $2.9 million in 10 interna-tional territories for a global debut of $9.9million, according to estimates from Com-score. Disney inherited the film in its take-over of 20th Century Fox.

More than 2,500 theaters were openthis weekend in the U.S., and the numberhits 3,000 with Canada included, per Com-score. That is nearly 50% of all locationsopen in the U.S. and Canada during thesame period in 2019.

‘Tenet’ theatrical debut a success

BY JAKE COYLE

Associated Press

The image that keeps replaying in my head since the death of Chadwick Bose-man is from early 2018. It was just days before “Black Panther” opened in the-aters and the exhilaration aroused by this long-in-coming cultural event was every-where around Boseman. Flocked by fans, he repeatedly paused for pictures until he was handed a months-old Black child whom he gently held, beaming.

Boseman’s family said that the actor, who died Aug. 28 at the age of 43, was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016. Did he know when he held that baby that he might not live long enough to see a child of his own raised? Did he know that in playing Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall and T’Challa — in so gracefully filling the screen with the dig-nity of Black lives — that he was helping to cradle another generation?

In a tragically brief but historically sweeping life as an actor, Boseman played men of public life and private pain. Before Friday, we didn’t know he, too, was bear-ing such a burden. That has only magni-fied his accomplishment, bringing him closer to the great figures whose shoes he wore on film. He played men who advanced a people’s progress, a trail he helped blaze himself. He played icons, and died one, too.

“There’s a lot to learn from Jackie Rob-inson. There’s a lot to learn from James Brown. There’s a lot to learn from Thur-good Marshall,” Boseman said that day 2 ½ years ago. “I would like to say that

some of those qualities have infused themselves into me at this point.”

Boseman started out as a playwright. He was raised in the manufacturing town of Anderson, S.C., the youngest of three boys. As a junior in high school, he wrote and staged a play inspired by the shooting death of a basketball teammate. Before he was a Hollywood star, he penned numer-ous hip-hop-infused plays: “Hieroglyphic Graffiti,” “Rhyme Deferred,” “Deep Azure” — and directed others. In New York, he performed with the National Shakespeare Company.

He compared his alma mater, Howard University, to his own personal Wakanda.

“If you have a blanketed idea of what it means to be of African descent and you go to Howard University, you’re meeting people from all over the diaspora — from the Caribbean, any country in Africa, in Europe,” Boseman said. “So you’re seeing people from all walks of life that look like you, but they sound different.”

That early development of an expan-sive, historical understanding of African American identity surely fed the grace and humility of Boseman’s most famous roles. It wasn’t until he was in his mid-30s, after a handful of brief television ap-pearances, that he landed his first leading role as Robinson in “42.” He was, from the start, a self-evident movie star with a rare, effortless charisma. Rachel Rob-inson, the Hall of Famer’s widow, said it was like seeing her husband again.

Boseman’s power wasn’t asked for or

worked up to. It was innate. It was there already. “When I hit the stage, people bet-ter be ready,” he says in “Get on Up.” “Es-pecially the white folk.”

During the filming of “Black Panther,” Boseman said he was communicating with two boys who had terminal cancer. They were hoping to make it long enough to see the film. “I realized they anticipat-ed something great,” Boseman said in a SiriusXM interview. The kids, Boseman said through tears, didn’t make it. But in his unjustly short career, Boseman held in his hands a world, illuminated on screen like never before.

Gaga doesn’t mask concernsSinger encourages compliance while winning 5 VMA trophies

MTV/AP

Shown in a video grab, Ariana Grande, left, and Lady Gaga perform “Rain On Me” on Sunday during the MTV Video Music Awards. Three of Gaga’s five awards were for the No. 1 hit.

AP

Chadwick Boseman, shown arriving at the Academy Awards in 2018 in Los Angeles, died Aug. 28 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43.

Chadwick Boseman didn’t just play icons; he was one

APPRECIATION

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Even before Hurricane Laura surged through Louisiana and Arkansas last month, disaster policy veterans warned that fed-

eral response might be hobbled by a Fed-eral Emergency Management Agency stretched to the limits by its front-line role in the coronavirus pandemic, California wildfires and damaging storms in Iowa.

While FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor has sought to portray the federal agency as playing a “support role,” with local and state emergency management taking the lead in disasters, it’s also clear that most Americans have come to expect that the federal government will be there for them to respond to a disaster like Laura. And as President George W. Bush learned after Hurricane Katrina, there is a severe political cost to pay when the government fails to meet those expectations.

Questions about the role of the federal government in American disaster relief policy have roots in another hurricane tragedy that took place over 50 years ago.

On the night of Aug. 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille’s nearly 200 mph winds drove a storm surge of up to 20 feet smack into the Mississippi Gulf Coast and coastal Louisiana. One of only three Category 5 hurricanes to hit the U.S. mainland in the 20th century, Camille killed more than 140 people in Mississippi. Another 113 died when the storm, downgraded to a tropi-cal depression, triggered flash floods and mudslides in central Virginia.

The storm, which was smaller but more powerful than Hurricane Katrina, firmly shifted disaster relief from states, localities and the Red Cross to the federal govern-ment. Today, victims of major disasters ex-pect that the federal government through FEMA will be there to help them rebuild their lives, a sentiment that we can trace to changes in the law brought about by Hur-ricane Camille and its aftermath.

It was a Democratic senator from In-diana who actually championed the idea that the federal government, not the states or volunteer organizations, should come to the relief of its citizens during natural disasters.

Sen. Birch Bayh had been pushing for a permanent federal disaster aid program since 1965, when the Palm Sunday torna-does struck six Midwestern states, killing 137 and injuring 1,200 in Indiana alone.

Help for Hoosier residents was very limited.

“The state had a rudimentary, Band-Aid kind of thing,” Bayh told me later. “ . . . But they were limited compared to the great purse strings of Uncle Sam.”

As President Lyndon Johnson launched his Great Society initiatives, Bayh also en-visioned a greater federal role for helping disaster victims. He was further encour-aged by the fact that Congress had passed a special law for extensive federal aid to the victims of the 1964 Alaska earthquake and would soon do the same for the victims of Hurricane Betsy.

Bayh’s constituents, however, did not receive this sort of help from the federal government. The tradition of federalism in disaster relief, the lobbying of the Red Cross to retain its role in providing for di-saster victims and the preferences of some in Congress to respond ad hoc to disasters (thus building up political capital with their grateful, disaster-struck colleagues), all worked against an expansive and per-manent federal disaster safety net.

Four years later, however, Camille changed the policy conversation.

Pragmatic politics and a desire to deliver much-needed aid to constituents propelled

the powerful Gulf Coast congressional delegation into action. Mississippians and Louisianans wrote their senators and rep-resentatives, pleading for federal aid and comparing their plight to the costs of the Vietnam War and the recent Apollo 11 mission.

One resident in the small Mississippi town of Waveland wrote Sen. James East-land, D-Miss., chair of the Senate Judicia-ry Committee, that the government should “use this moon landing monkey business spending to make our people decent here on earth.”

Eastland and two other conservative seg-regationist Mississippi Democrats — Sen. John Stennis, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Rep. William Colmer, chair of the House Rules Commit-tee — were joined by House Majority Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana. Together, they marshaled support from their colleagues for a bill specifically for Camille victims a few weeks after the storm.

Their efforts were also boosted by the endorsement of President Richard M. Nixon. Eager to burnish the president’s credentials with conservative Southerners, Nixon’s aides convinced him to stop on the coast on the way back from his summer so-journ at the Western White House, Nixon’s California vacation retreat, in September.

The first president to visit Mississippi since Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon was met by an audience of thousands of raptur-ous Mississippians — one sign read “NOT MANY REPUBLICANS HERE BUT LOTS OF NIXONCRATS.”

And yet, despite widespread political sup-port for relief, the legislation for Camille victims still fell short of the permanent na-tional policy that Bayh had envisioned.

But the politics of disaster relief once again shifted that fall thanks to the work of local and national civil rights activists, who protested the way that the relief effort extended the segregation and discrimina-tion they had been fighting in Mississippi for decades.

With Gov. John Bell Williams, the last openly segregationist governor of the state, heading state efforts, and with local Red Cross agencies dominated by white South-erners, there were plenty of examples of Black and poor victims of Camille being treated unfairly.

Activists revealed injustices ranging from state officials segregating buses car-

rying evacuees from the coast, to the RedCross policy of restoring disaster victimsonly to the status quo ante — meaning, ifyour house didn’t have indoor plumbingbefore the storm, you would still be stuck with an outhouse even after your house was rebuilt. In fall 1969, a report by the Ameri-can Friends Service Committee publicizedthese problems, generating a firestorm ofcriticism about the discriminatory policyadvanced at the state level and even by vol-unteer organizations.

The solution? A federal policy that en-sured equal treatment to all recipients, andBayh happened to have one.

Bayh’s proposal offered a program of ongoing federal disaster aid that satisfiedboth liberal and conservative demands. Itwas more equitable but also offered the leadership of such states as Mississippithe promise of subsidized reconstructionof coastal economies the next time a hur-ricane struck.

As Stennis said in support of Bayh’s bill,“It will give assurance to financial invest-ments and bonds and the insurance prob-lems and a great many other matters.”

Civil rights and Sun Belt developmentwere, for a moment, able to coexist in thebipartisan glow of disaster policy. As a re-sult, the Disaster Relief Act of 1970 signifi-cantly raised Americans’ expectations that the government would be there for them intimes of disaster.

As Bayh said when he introduced thelegislation, “I think the time has come when we should treat the citizens of thiscountry more compassionately when they are hit by a disaster.”

Among other policies still with us today, the act created the Disaster Unemploy-ment Assistance program for disaster vic-tims, the pot of money recently raided bythe Trump administration to attempt topatch part of the hole left by the failure to negotiate an extension of the federal pan-demic unemployment benefits.

Revised and expanded over the years, and paired with the newly created FEMAin 1979, the law has placed the federal gov-ernment squarely in the middle of 21st-century disaster politics and policy — a framework now being tested by repeateddisasters in 2020.Andrew Morris is associate professor of history at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and the author of a book on Hurricane Camille and the politics of disaster relief, forthcoming with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Federal response to disasters expected

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President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor listen during a Hurricane Laura briefing at FEMA headquarters in Washington.

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Bommarito Automotive Group Race 2Sunday

At Madison, ILLap length: 1.25 miles

(Start position in parentheses)1. (2) Josef Newgarden, Dallara-Chev-

rolet, 200 laps, Running.2. (4) Pato O’Ward, Dallara-Chevrolet,

200, Running.3. (3) Will Power, Dallara-Chevrolet,

200, Running.4. (18) Rinus Veekay, Dallara-Chevro-

let, 200, Running.5. (6) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 200,

Running.6. (10) Colton Herta, Dallara-Honda,

200, Running.7. (9) Felix Rosenqvist, Dallara-Honda,

200, Running.8. (15) Conor Daly, Dallara-Chevrolet,

200, Running.9. (1) Takuma Sato, Dallara-Honda,

200, Running.10. (16) Santino Ferrucci, Dallara-Hon-

da, 200, Running.11. (12) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-

Honda, 200, Running.12. (14) Alex Palou, Dallara-Honda,

200, Running.13. (5) Jack Harvey, Dallara-Honda,

200, Running.14. (11) Alexander Rossi, Dallara-Hon-

da, 200, Running.15. (20) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Hon-

da, 199, Running.16. (8) Simon Pagenaud, Dallara-Chev-

rolet, 199, Running.17. (13) Oliver Askew, Dallara-Chevro-

let, 199, Running.18. (21) Charlie Kimball, Dallara-Chev-

rolet, 199, Running.19. (19) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Chevro-

let, 199, Running.20. (23) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda,

198, Running.21. (22) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Chevro-

let, 197, Running.22. (17) Zach Veach, Dallara-Honda,

196, Running.23. (7) Marcus Ericsson, Dallara-Hon-

da, 190, Running.Race Statistics

Race Winner’s average speed: 162.594 mph.

Time of Race: 01:32:15.2431.Margin of Victory: 1.4356 seconds.Cautions: 2 for 5 laps.Lead Changes: 8 among 5 drivers.Lap Leaders: Sato 1-59, O’Ward 60-95,

Power 96-97, Newgarden 98-101, Sato 102-108, Herta 109-113, Power 114-151, Herta 152-156, Newgarden 157.

Points: Dixon 416, Newgarden 320, O’Ward 297, Sato 274, Herta 250, Pagen-aud 237, Rahal 236, Power 226, Ferrucci 216, Rosenqvist 208.

Belgian Grand PrixSunday

At Spa-Francorchamps, BelgiumLap length: 7.00 kilometers

(Start position in parentheses)1. (1) Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain,

Mercedes, 44 laps, 1:24:08.761, 25 points.2. (2) Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mer-

cedes, 44, +8.448 seconds, 18.3. (3) Max Verstappen, Netherlands,

Red Bull Racing Honda, 44, +15.455, 15.4. (4) Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Re-

nault, 44, +18.877, 13.5. (6) Esteban Ocon, France, Renault,

44, +40.650, 10.6. (5) Alexander Albon, Thailand, Red

Bull Racing Honda, 44, +42.712, 8.7. (10) Lando Norris, Great Britain,

McLaren Renault, 44, +43.774, 6.8. (12) Pierre Gasly, France, Scuderia

Toro Rosso Honda, 44, +47.371, 4.9. (9) Lance Stroll, Canada, Racing

Point BWT Mercedes, 44, +52.603, 2.10. (8) Sergio Perez, Mexico, Racing

Point BWT Mercedes, 44, +53.179, 1.11. (11) Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Scuderia

Toro Rosso Honda, 44, +1:10.200.12. (16) Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa

Romeo Racing Ferrari, 44, +1:11.504.13. (14) Sebastian Vettel, Germany,

Ferrari, 44, +1:12.894.14. (13) Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Fer-

rari, 44, +1:14.920.15. (17) Romain Grosjean, France, Haas

Ferrari, 44, +1:16.793.

16. (19) Nicholas Latifi, Canada, Wil-liams Mercedes, 44, +1:17.795.

17. (20) Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas Ferrari, 44, +1:25.540.

18. (18) Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari, did not finish, 9.

19. (15) George Russell, Great Britain, Williams Mercedes, did not finish, 9.

20. (7) Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, McLaren Renault, did not finish.

Driver Standings1. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mer-

cedes, 132 points.2. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red

Bull Racing Honda, 95.3. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes,

89.4. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 45.5. Lance Stroll, Canada, Racing Point

BWT Mercedes, 40. Manufacturers Standings

1. Mercedes, 221.2. Red Bull Racing Honda, 135.3. Racing Point BWT Mercedes, 63.4. McLaren Renault, 62.5. Ferrari, 61.

CarShield 200NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series

SundayAt Madison, Ill.

Lap length: 1.25 miles(Start position in parentheses)

1. (17) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 160 laps, 49 points.

2. (2) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 160, 48.3. (4) Austin Hill, Toyota, 160, 34.4. (15) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 160, 45.5. (13) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 160, 33.6. (19) Raphael Lessard, Toyota, 160, 33.7. (1) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 160, 47.8. (11) Grant Enfinger, Ford, 160, 29.9. (18) Ty Majeski, Chevrolet, 160, 30.10. (14) Tanner Gray, Ford, 160, 27.11. (5) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 160, 33.12. (8) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 160, 30.13. (10) Derek Kraus, Toyota, 160, 24.14. (3) Matt Crafton, Ford, 160, 29.15. (16) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 160,

22.16. (29) Danny Bohn, Toyota, 160, 21.17. (21) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet,

160, 20.18. (22) Tate Fogleman, Chevrolet, 160,

19.19. (25) Clay Greenfield, Toyota, 160, 18.20. (31) Kyle Donahue, Toyota, 160, 0.21. (30) Tyler Hill, Chevrolet, 159, 16.22. (24) Dawson Cram, Chevrolet, 158,

15.23. (12) Chandler Smith, Toyota, 157, 14.24. (6) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 157, 33.25. (23) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 157,

12.26. (26) Bryant Barnhill, Chevrolet, 156,

11.27. (33) Roger Reuse, Chevrolet, 151, 10.28. (28) Natalie Decker, Chevrolet, 150,

9.29. (32) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 148,

8.30. (20) Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet,

garage, 145, 7.31. (27) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet,

accident, 124, 6.32. (7) Christian Eckes, Toyota, garage,

121, 21.33. (9) Johnny Sauter, Ford, vibration,

22, 4.Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 99.684 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, .0 minutes, 23 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.881 seconds.Caution Flags: 5 for 23 laps.Lead Changes: 7 among 5 drivers.Lap Leaders: Z.Smith 0-45; T.Gilliland

46-121; S.Mayer 122-131; S.Creed 132; S.Mayer 133-146; S.Creed 147-160

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): T.Gilliland, 2 times for 75 laps; Z.Smith, 1 time for 45 laps; S.Mayer, 2 times for 24 laps; S.Creed, 2 times for 15 laps; S.Boyd, 1 time for 1 lap.

Wins: S.Creed, 3; Z.Smith, 2; G.Enfinger, 2; A.Hill, 1; M.Crafton, 1.

Top 16 in Points: 1. A.Hill, 549; 2. Z.Smith, 521; 3. B.Moffitt, 516; 4. B.Rhodes, 483; 5. S.Creed, 475; 6. C.Eckes, 471; 7. M.Crafton, 449; 8. G.Enfinger, 422; 9. T.Ankrum, 413; 10. T.Gilliland, 411; 11. D.Kraus, 398; 12. T.Gray, 342; 13. R.Lessard, 338; 14. S.Friesen, 314; 15. J.Sauter, 311; 16. T.Majeski, 275.

Sunday’s transactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Acquired two

players to be named later from Atlanta in exchange for LHP Tommy Milone. Re-called LHP Keegan Akin from alternate training site.

BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled IF Bobby Dalbec from alternate training site. Re-leased IF Marco Hernandez.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed LHP Gio Gonzalez on the 10-day IL retroactive to Aug. 27. Recalled RHP Dane Dunning from alternate training camp.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Beau Burrows to alternate training site.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned 1b Tay-lor Jones to alternate training site.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHP Carlos Hernandez from alternate training site.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned LHP Lewis Thorpe to alternate training site.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Deivi Garcia and RHP Albert Abreu from alternate training site. Optioned RHP Brooks Kriske and RHP Deivi Garcia to al-ternate training site.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned C Austin Allen to alternate training site.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled RHP Seth Frankoff and C Joe Hudson from al-ternate training site. Optioned RHP Zac Grotz to alternate training site. Optioned OF Braden Bishop to alternate training site and will remain on taxi squad. Trans-ferred RHP Matt Magill to the 45-day IL.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Traded first IF/DH Jose Martinez to the Chicago Cubs in ex-change for two players to be named later or cash considerations. Recalled LF Randy Arozarena from alternate training site.

TEXAS RANGERS — Signed RHP Jerad Eickhoff to a minor-league contract.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned

LHP Matt Grace to alternate training site.ATLANTA BRAVES — Designated IF

Matt Adams for assignment.CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned RHP to al-

ternate training site. Designated C Josh Phegley for assignment.

CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RF Aris-tides Aquino to alternate training site.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Acquired RHP Mychal Givens from Baltimore in ex-change for IF Tyler Nevin and IF Terrin Vavra and player to be named later or cash considerations.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Tony Gonsolin from alternate train-ing camp. Optioned RHP Josh Sborz to alternate training camp.

MIAMI MARLINS — Designated RHP Je-sus Tinoco for assignment. Activated RHP Sandy Alcantara from the IL.

NEW YORK METS — Placed LHP Steven Matz and RHP Dellin Betances on the IL. Recalled RHP Drew Smith and RHP Frank-lyn Kilome from alternate training camp. Recalled FHP Ariel Jurado as the 29th man.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled IF Will Craig from alternate training site. Placed LF Bryan Reynolds on the pater-nity list.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Acquired IF/DH Mitch Moreland from Boston in exchange for minor league IF Hudson Potts and OF Jeisson Rosario. Optioned RHP Michel Baez to alternate training site. Activated RHP Trevor Rosenthal.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released TE Ryan Becker, OL Steven Gonzalez, CB Zane Lewis and DL Adam Shuler.

CAROLINA PANTERS — Placed DB Der-rek Thomas on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived WR Da-mion Willis with a failed physical desig-nation. Waived C Casey Dunn from IR.

DENVER BRONCOS — Claimed OT Dar-rin Paulo off waivers.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed RB Dwayne Washington on the reserve/CO-VID-19 list.

NEW YORK JETS — Claimed WR D.J. Montgomery off waivers.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed WR DeAndre Thompkins. Waived CB Alexan-der Myres and TE Dax Raymond.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed WR J.J. Nelson on IR. Re-signed DE Alex Barrett.

BMW ChampionshipSunday

At Olympia Fields Country ClubOlympia Fields, Ill.

Yardage: 7,366; Par: 70y-playoff winFinal Round

y-Jon Rahm, $1,710,000 75-71-66-64—276 -4D. Johnson, $1,026,000 71-69-69-67—276 -4H. Matsuyama, $551,000 67-73-69-69—278 -2J. Niemann, $551,000 72-71-68-67—278 -2Tony Finau, $384,750 70-71-73-65—279 -1M. Fitzpatrick, $337,250 70-75-68-67—280 EJason Kokrak, $337,250 74-71-69-66—280 ESebastian Muir $285,000 70-75-67-69—281 +1Brendon Todd, $285,000 73-68-71-69—281 +1L. Griffin, $247,000 70-73-70-69—282 +2M. Hughes, $247,000 69-73-69-71—282 +2B. Hun An, $192,375 73-74-68-68—283 +3P. Cantlay, $192,375 71-68-75-69—283 +3Brian Harman, $192,375 72-73-69-69—283 +3Rory McIlroy, $192,375 70-69-73-71—283 +3Paul Casey, $147,250 73-72-71-68—284 +4T. Hatton, $147,250 73-70-71-70—284 +4Bubba Watson, $147,250 72-70-70-72—284 +4M. Wolff, $147,250 72-71-74-67—284 +4Joel Dahmen, $106,780 71-77-71-66—285 +5C. Morikawa, $106,780 76-73-68-68—285 +5S. Scheffler, $106,780 75-72-72-66—285 +5C. Smith, $106,780 75-73-68-69—285 +5R. Werenski, $106,780 74-72-70-69—285 +5Daniel Berger, $69,469 73-74-69-70—286 +6R. Henley, $69,469 74-69-70-73—286 +6Kevin Kisner, $69,469 72-70-70-74—286 +6L. Oosthuizen, $69,469 72-69-74-71—286 +6Carlos Ortiz, $69,469 70-74-72-70—286 +6X. Schauffele, $69,469 73-70-74-69—286 +6Adam Scott, $69,469 72-69-70-75—286 +6Justin Thomas, $69,469 73-74-71-68—286 +6Gary Woodland, $49,129 75-70-74-68—287 +7Abraham Ancer, $49,129 70-74-70-73—287 +7Corey Conners, $49,129 76-69-70-72—287 +7D. Frittelli, $49,129 72-75-69-71—287 +7B. Horschel, $49,129 70-71-74-72—287 +7Danny Lee, $49,129 73-72-74-68—287 +7B. Steele, $49,129 72-71-75-69—287 +7

NW Arkansas ChampionshipSunday

Pinnacle Country ClubRogers, ArkansasPurse: $2.3 million

Yardage: 6,438; Par: 71a-amateur

Final RoundAustin Ernst 65-65-63—193Anna Nordqvist 64-62-69—195Angela Stanford 66-66-65—197Nelly Korda 67-63-67—197Jenny Shin 67-63-68—198Sei Young Kim 65-64-69—198Inbee Park 67-67-65—199Katherine Kirk 65-68-66—199Linnea Strom 67-68-65—200Kristy McPherson 68-66-66—200Carlota Ciganda 68-68-65—201Pernilla Lindberg 69-66-66—201Jodi Ewart Shadoff 67-67-67—201Mi Hyang Lee 67-67-67—201Morgan Pressel 70-67-65—202Yealimi Noh 68-69-65—202Charlotte Thomas 68-67-67—202Maria Fassi 67-67-68—202Caroline Hedwall 69-64-69—202Esther Lee 64-69-69—202Pajaree Anannarukarn 68-71-64—203Emma Talley 70-68-65—203Lindsey Weaver 70-67-66—203Patty Tavatanakit 69-68-66—203Caroline Masson 68-69-66—203In Gee Chun 67-70-66—203Annie Park 69-67-67—203

MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GAToronto FC 5 0 3 18 14 7Columbus 5 1 2 17 12 2Philadelphia 4 1 3 15 12 8Orlando City 4 2 2 14 15 10New England 2 1 5 11 7 6New York 3 3 2 11 7 9Montreal 3 3 1 10 10 9Atlanta 3 4 0 9 7 8New York City FC 3 5 0 9 6 8Cincinnati 2 4 2 8 6 12Nashville SC 2 4 1 7 4 8Chicago 2 5 1 7 8 14D.C. United 1 4 3 6 8 13Inter Miami CF 1 6 0 3 6 11

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GASporting KC 5 2 1 16 18 12Seattle 4 1 2 14 13 5Minnesota United 3 2 2 11 14 11Portland 3 2 2 11 12 14Real Salt Lake 2 1 4 10 11 8FC Dallas 2 1 3 9 7 4Los Angeles FC 2 2 3 9 16 15San Jose 2 2 2 8 12 13LA Galaxy 2 3 2 8 10 13Colorado 2 3 2 8 10 14Houston 1 2 4 7 11 13Vancouver 2 6 0 6 7 16

Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s gamesOrlando City 3, Atlanta 1Philadelphia 4, D.C. United 1New York City FC 3, Chicago 1Columbus 0, Cincinnati 0, tieNew York 1, New England 1, tieFC Dallas 3, Minnesota 1Sporting Kansas City 1, Colorado 1,

tieLA Galaxy 3, San Jose 2Real Salt Lake 4, Portland 4, tie

Sunday’s gamesNashville 1, Miami 0Seattle 3, Los Angeles FC 1

Tuesday’s gamesMontreal at Toronto FC

Pro basketball

AP sportlight

Cycling

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBChicago 10 6 .625 —Connecticut 7 9 .438 3Indiana 5 10 .333 4½Washington 4 11 .267 5½Atlanta 3 13 .188 7New York 2 13 .133 7½

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBSeattle 13 3 .813 —Las Vegas 12 3 .800 ½Los Angeles 12 3 .800 ½Minnesota 10 5 .667 2½Phoenix 9 7 .563 4Dallas 6 10 .375 7

Saturday’s gamesLas Vegas 80, New York 63Seattle 88, Chicago 74Dallas 82, Indiana 78

Sunday’s gamesConnecticut 76, Washington 63Phoenix 83, Minnesota 79Los Angeles 84, Atlanta 79

Monday’s gamesChicago at IndianaLos Angeles at Minnesota

Tour de FranceSunday

2nd StageAt Nice

A 115.5 miles from Nice Haut Pays to Nice

1. Julian Alaphilippe, France, Deceun-inck-Quickstep, 4:55:27

2. Marc Hirschi, Switzerland, Team Sunweb, same time..

3. Adam Yates, Great Britain, Mitchel-ton-Scott, :01 behind

4. Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, CCC Team, :02

5. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia, Co-lombia, EF Pro Cycling, same time.

Overall Standings(2 stages)

1. Julian Alaphilippe, France, Deceun-inck-Quickstep, 8:41:35

2. Adam Yates, Great Britain, Mitchel-ton-Scott, :04

3. Marc Hirschi, Switzerland, Team Sunweb, :07

4. Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia, Co-lombia, EF Pro Cycling, :17

5. Tadej Pogacar, Slovakia, UAE Team Emirates, same time.

Sept. 11931 — Lou Gehrig hit his third grand

slam in four days as the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 5-1.

1975 — Tom Seaver struck out Manny Sanguillen in the seventh inning to be-come the first pitcher to strike out at least 200 batters in eight consecutive seasons. Seaver recorded 10 strikeouts in the Mets’ 3-0 triumph over Pittsburgh.

BY DOUG FERGUSON

Associated Press

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. —Even with a pair of silver trophiesin his possession, Jon Rahm stillcouldn’t believe what happenedSunday in the BMW Champion-ship. And he only saw half of it.

Rahm was on the range on theother side of the Olympia Fieldsclubhouse, preparing for a playoff that no one really expected, whenDustin Johnson rolled in a 45-foot birdie putt down the ridge forbirdie to force a playoff.

Moments later, Rahm faced a putt even longer and more diffi-cult on the 18th — just outside 65feet that he had to send at nearlya 90-degree angle to the top of the ridge. From there, it was a replayof Johnson’s putt as it headeddown the slope, kissed off the pinand disappeared into the cup.

“I still can’t believe what just happened,” he said.

Neither could Johnson, goingfor his second straight victory. Hecould only laugh, at his putt andRahm’s winner.

“I played an unbelievable putt,got in the playoff and then Jonmade an even more ridiculousputt on top of me,” said Johnson, who kept his No. 1 ranking .

The putts overshadowed a com-mand performance by Rahm,who closed with a 66-64 weekend . His only bogey on the weekendcame on the fifth hole Saturdaywhen he spaced out and pickedup his ball from the green with-out marking it.

“That stretch of waiting for DJ,him making the putt, going in the playoff, me making the putt, then trying to stay mentally in it justin case he made the last putt, it’s been a roller coaster, but so muchfun,” Rahm said.

All he could think about on the 18th green in the playoff wasfinding a way to get to the next hole, knowing he had a putt fromone end of the green to the other and Johnson had a 30-footer. Andthen it was over.

CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP

Jon Rahm reacts after making his putt on the first playoff hole of the BMW Championship on Sunday.

Rahm hits66-footerin playoff

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outside linebacker Bud Dupree spent the offseason and the early days of camp refining their hand placement, a crucial element of their intricate battles with oppos-ing offensive linemen.

Here’s the thing though: Watt already excels in that depart-ment. His daily tangles with teammates Chukwuma Okora-for and Zach Banner are often a series of three-second clinics in which Watt slips past the mas-sive tackles, each of whom have at least 100 pounds on him.

While Watt is quick to praise both for their development, he also offers an important caveat that hints at a self-confidence that’s has bubbled under the sur-face for years but has rarely let show publicly.

“I trust my abilities, and it doesn’t matter who they put out there,” Watt said.

Watt says it matter of factly, a reminder that he’s well aware of the line between confidence and arrogance. Unless of course it comes to trash-talking the other guys in the locker room. Then, the player Dupree called “a sav-age” comes roaring to life.

With the Steelers forced to hold training camp at Heinz Field rather than St. Vincent College because of the COVID-19 pan-demic, they’ve been forced to get

creative when it comes to team bonding.

Defensive end Cam Heyward opted to start a “Spikeball” league. The game, a mixture of volleyball and handball, pits pairs of teammates against each

other. Watt hooked up with defen-sive tackle Tyson Alua-lu and well, let’s just say things have gone well.

“We are just point-blank un-stoppable,” Watt said with a laugh.

It’s a descriptor Watt hopes ap-plies to the Steelers defense in 2020. Watt and Dupree helped set the tone for a group that led the NFL in sacks and takeaways and with all but one starter returning, the stakes are high. Really high.

Another performance such as the one he put together last sea-son could put Watt in line for a massive payday when the team approaches him about a contract extension next summer.

Cleveland’s Myles Garrett and the Chargers’ Joey Bosa both received nine-figure contracts during the summer, and Watt

has more sacks through his firstthree seasons (34 ½) than both ofthem.

Yet Watt demures when pressed on what he might be looking toaccomplish over the next fivemonths.

“I’ll never publish my individ-ual goals,” he said. “I just want to be able to be a game-wrecker. I want to be able to be somebodythat the other team has to scheme around.”

It’s already happening in a way. Coach Mike Tomlin points out“Watt is a handful for one man on NFL playing surface,” which in some ways can make it difficultto evaluate Okorafor and Ban-ner’s development. Most weeks, they won’t be facing someone onthe other side of the line of scrim-mage quite like Watt.

Now, the youngest member of the Watt family is the one withthe brightest future, one he isn’ttaking for granted. He spent most of his life trying to keep up withJJ and Derek. It taught him thediscipline necessary to thrive.And that hasn’t changed, no mat-ter how brightly the spotlight might shine.

“I always had the plan that Iwanted to enter the NFL,” hesaid, “and I had the blueprintfrom both my brothers of justwanting to put my head down andwork as hard as I possibly can.”

Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jaguars moved another step clos-er to purging Tom Coughlin’s tu-multuous tenure in Jacksonville.

The team waived running back Leonard Fournette on Monday, a stunning decision many outsid-ers view as the latest in a series of head scratchers that could help the franchise tank the season and get the No. 1 draft pick.

“If that’s the case, then the re-alization is if that happens, then I’m not going to be here,” coach Doug Marrone said. “At the end of the day, if I don’t win enough games or do enough with this team, I don’t foresee me still being employed. I’m doing ev-erything I can to make sure we have the best team to make sure we win football games. That’s as simple as I can be on it.”

Coughlin wanted Fournette as the centerpiece of his old-school, run-first philosophy. It worked in 2017, although it became clear that Fournette needed to be a bet-ter pro. He was fined repeatedly for being late and skipping man-datory functions.

The Jaguars spent months try-ing to trade Fournette, the fourth overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft who’s coming off a career year. He was on the block during the NFL draft and again over the summer.

“We couldn’t get anything, a fifth, a sixth, anything,” Marrone said.

So they dumped the 25-year-old former LSU star one day after trading former Pro Bowl defensive

end Yannick Ngakoue to Minneso-ta in exchange for a second-round draft pick in 2021 and a condition-al fifth-rounder in 2020. Jackson-ville also traded Jalen Ramsey, fellow cornerback A.J. Bouye and defensive end Calais Campbell in the last 10 months.

“It’s going to fall to me as to who those best players are,” Marrone said. “At the end of the day, I’ve got to be able to field a team that I believe gives us the best chance to win. That’s what my role is and that’s what I’m doing.”

Still, no one expected Jackson-ville to part ways with Fournette less than two weeks before the opener.

He is due $4.17 million inguaranteed salary this season ifsomeone claims him. If he clearswaivers, he would become a free agent.

Last year was Fournette’s bestseason. He topped 1,600 yards from scrimmage in 15 games,carrying 265 times for 1,152yards and catching 76 passes for 522 yards. He scored only threetouchdowns. He also fumbled justonce in 341 touches.

Fournette has 2,631 yards rush-ing, 1,009 yards receiving and 19 touchdowns in three seasons since he was now-fired personnelchief Coughlin’s first draft pick since returning to Jacksonville.

Watt

Step: Steelers’ Watt brimming with confidence

Jaguars waive RB Fournette

MARK ZALESKI/AP

After failing to find a trade partner for months, the Jacksonville Jaguars have waived 25-year-old running back Leonard Fournette, a decision that gets the team closer to purging Tom Coughlin’s tenure.

SPORTS BRIEFS/NFL

Associated Press

The San Diego Padres acquired Mike Clevinger in a multiplayer deal with the Cleveland Indians on Monday, bolstering their rota-tion with another bold move ahead of baseball’s trade deadline.

San Diego got Clevinger, out-fielder Greg Allen and a player to be named from Cleveland for a package of young players that included outfielder Josh Naylor, right-hander Cal Quantrill and catcher Austin Hedges.

Led by Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego is going for its first playoff appearance since 2006. The ac-quisition of Clevinger is the Pa-dres’ fifth trade since Saturday.

San Diego acquired veteran catchers Jason Castro and Aus-tin Nola in a pair of deals Sunday, making Hedges expendable. First baseman Mitch Moreland came over in a trade with Boston, and the Padres added reliever Trevor Rosenthal in a deal with Kansas City.

The 29-year-old Clevinger strengthens a rotation that has had a few stumbles lately, includ-ing Garrett Richards going two or fewer innings in consecutive starts and opening-day starter Chris Paddack struggling before bouncing back with a strong per-formance on Sunday at Colorado.

Clevinger went 13-4 with a 2.71 ERA in 21 starts last year. The long-haired right-hander also is contractually controlled through the 2022 season.

Cleveland is in the mix for the AL Central title, but Clevinger may have wore out his welcome when he was caught breaking COVID-19 protocols a couple weeks ago, leading to a trip to the team’s alternate training site.

Clevinger and teammate Zach Plesac left the team’s Chicago hotel, socialized outside the team’s “bubble,” missed cur-few and caused a rift inside the clubhouse. Clevinger returned to Cleveland’s rotation on Wednes-day, pitching six effective innings in a victory over Minnesota.

Clevinger is the third front-line starter traded away by Cleveland in the past year. Trevor Bauer was shipped off to Cincinnati at the 2019 deadline, and two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber to Texas in December.

The Indians also got infielder Gabriel Arias, left-hander Joey Cantillo and infielder Owen Mill-er in the Clevinger deal.

All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor’s future looms over the Cleveland franchise. He has turned down several contract ex-tensions from the club, which has acknowledged it can’t compete with what other teams can offer him as a free agent.

Lindor is under contractual control through 2021, so the In-dians have to weigh chasing a World Series title — they haven’t won one since 1948 — or dealing the popular star before he walks.

Ewan slaloms to sprint win; Alaphilippe leads

SISTERON, France — Austra-lian rider Caleb Ewan slalomed through the bunch to win a sprint finish and claim the third stage of the Tour de France on Monday.

Julian Alaphilippe held onto the yellow jersey that he claimed with a dramatic stage victory a day earlier.

With about 100 meters to go, Ewan trailed five other riders before slinging himself through a narrow slice of road near the ad-vertising barriers. Then — after more than five hours in the sad-dle — Ewan darted to the left to overcome Sam Bennett and claim his fourth career stage win in the Tour by more than a wheel.

Ewan’s top speed in the finale reached 42.7 mph.

Bennett crossed second and Nizzolo came third — both with the same time as Ewan.

16 players will sit out next Auburn practices

AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn ex-pected to return to practice Mon-day minus 16 players sidelined after positive COVID-19 tests.

Coach Gus Malzahn said Sun-day night that the Tigers had five positives early in the week and four more after additional testing Thursday. With contact tracing, seven others who had close con-tact with them face a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

“We had two position groups where we did not have enough guys,” coach Gus Malzahn said Sunday night.

Malzahn said players didn’t want to attend meetings Thursday after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The Tigers are scheduled to open the season on Sept. 26 against Kentucky.

Briefl y

Wheeling, dealing Padres bolster rotation, acquire Clevinger from Indians

TONY DEJAK/AP

The San Diego Padres acquired Indians pitcher Mike Clevinger, pictured, outfielder Greg Allen and a player to be named from Cleveland for a package of young players on Monday.

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MLB SCOREBOARD American League

East Division W L Pct GBTampa Bay 24 11 .686 —New York 19 13 .594 3½Toronto 18 14 .563 4½Baltimore 14 19 .424 9Boston 12 22 .353 11½

Central DivisionChicago 21 13 .618 —Cleveland 21 13 .618 —Minnesota 20 15 .571 1½Detroit 16 16 .500 4Kansas City 13 21 .382 8

West DivisionOakland 22 12 .647 —Houston 19 14 .576 2½Seattle 14 22 .389 9Texas 12 21 .364 9½Los Angeles 12 23 .343 10½

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 20 14 .588 —Miami 14 15 .483 3½Philadelphia 14 16 .467 4New York 15 19 .441 5Washington 12 19 .387 6½

Central DivisionChicago 20 14 .588 —St. Louis 12 13 .480 3½Milwaukee 15 18 .455 4½Cincinnati 15 19 .441 5Pittsburgh 10 21 .323 8½

West DivisionLos Angeles 26 10 .722 —San Diego 21 15 .583 5Colorado 17 17 .500 8San Francisco 17 19 .472 9Arizona 14 21 .400 11½

Sunday’s gamesN.Y. Yankees 8, N.Y. Mets 7, 8 innings,

1st gameN.Y. Yankees 5, N.Y. Mets 2, 8 innings,

2nd gameDetroit 3, Minnesota 2Tampa Bay 12, Miami 7St. Louis 7, Cleveland 2Boston 9, Washington 5Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 2, 10

inningsToronto 6, Baltimore 5L.A. Dodgers 7, Texas 2Seattle 2, L.A. Angels 1, 10 inningsOakland at Houston, ppd.Chicago Cubs 10, Cincinnati 1Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 1San Diego 13, Colorado 2San Francisco 4, Arizona 1Atlanta 12, Philadelphia 10

Monday’s gamesBaltimore at TorontoSeattle at L.A. AngelsTampa Bay at N.Y. YankeesAtlanta at BostonCleveland at Kansas CityChicago White Sox at MinnesotaMiami at N.Y. MetsSt. Louis at CincinnatiWashington at PhiladelphiaPittsburgh at MilwaukeeSan Diego at Colorado

Tuesday’s gamesToronto (TBD) at Miami (TBD)Tampa Bay (TBD) at N.Y. Yankees

(Tanaka 0-1)Atlanta (Anderson 1-0) at Boston

(TBD)N.Y. Mets (TBD) at Baltimore (TBD)Detroit (Fulmer 0-0) at Milwaukee

(Houser 1-3)Cleveland (Clevinger 1-1) at Kansas

City (TBD)Chicago White Sox (Keuchel 5-2) at

Minnesota (Pineda 0-0)Texas (Lyles 1-3) at Houston (TBD)Oakland at SeattleSt. Louis (Hyun Kim 1-0) at Cincinnati

(Gray, 5-1)Chicago Cubs (Lester 2-1) at Pitts-

burgh (Kuhl 1-1)Washington (Corbin 2-2) at Philadel-

phia (Nola 3-2)San Francisco (TBD) at Colorado (Gray

2-3)Arizona (Young 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers

(Urias 2-0)

SundayBraves 12, Phillies 10

Atlanta Philadelphia ab r h bi ab r h biAcuna Jr. cf 1 1 1 0 McCthn dh 5 2 2 2Inciarte cf 4 0 0 0 Hoskins 1b 4 2 2 2Swanson ss 5 2 1 2 Harper rf 4 0 0 0Freeman 1b 3 1 1 2 Realmuto c 4 1 1 0Ozuna dh 5 1 3 2 Segura 3b 5 1 3 1d’Arnaud c 5 1 1 1 Grgrius ss 5 2 2 3Markakis rf 5 1 3 2 Gosselin lf 4 0 0 1Duvall lf 6 1 1 0 Kingery 2b 4 0 0 0Riley 3b 4 2 2 3 Quinn cf 4 2 3 1Camargo 2b 4 2 2 0 Totals 42 12 15 12 Totals 39 10 13 10Atlanta 0(10)0 010 001—12Philadelphia 0 16 100 020—10

E—Gosselin (1). DP—Atlanta 2, Phila-delphia 0. LOB—Atlanta 13, Philadelphia 5. 2B—Riley (3), Markakis (9), Camargo (7), Hoskins (7), McCutchen (4). 3B—Gre-gorius (2). HR—Riley (6), Swanson (5), Gregorius (5), Hoskins (5), Quinn (2), Mc-Cutchen (4). IP H R ER BB SOAtlantaMilone 21⁄3 8 7 7 0 2Jackson 1 2 1 1 2 1Minter, W, 1-0 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 4Martin, H, 2 1 0 0 0 0 1Greene, H, 4 1 1 0 0 0 0Smith, H, 2 1 2 2 2 0 0Melancon, S, 6-7 1 0 0 0 0 0PhiladelphiaArrieta, L, 2-4 11⁄3 6 7 7 3 0Hale 12⁄3 3 3 3 0 0McClain 1 2 1 1 1 1Romero 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1Parker 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 3Velasquez 2 1 0 0 3 2Hembree 2⁄3 2 1 1 1 1Morgan 1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0

Jackson pitched to 4 batters in the 4th, McClain pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. HBP—Melancon (Realmuto). WP—Jackson. T—4:13.

Padres 13, Rockies 2San Diego Colorado ab r h bi ab r h biGrisham cf 5 3 3 2 Tapia lf 3 1 1 0Tatis Jr. ss 4 3 3 1 Story dh 4 0 0 0Garcia 2b 0 0 0 0 Arenado 3b 3 1 2 0Machado dh 5 0 2 1 E.Diaz ph-c 1 0 0 0Hosmer 1b 5 1 2 3 Blckmon rf 3 0 0 0Mateo rf 0 0 0 0 Wltrs ph-2b 1 0 0 0Crrth 2b-ss 5 2 3 2 McMn 2b-ss 4 0 1 1Myers rf 4 0 0 0 Hpsn ss-cf 4 0 0 0Nylor rf-1b 1 1 1 2 Funts 1b-3b 4 0 1 0France 3b 4 1 1 0 Hllrd cf-rf 3 0 1 0Profar lf 5 1 2 1 Butera c-1b 4 0 1 0Hedges c 3 1 0 1 Totals 41 13 17 13 Totals 34 2 7 1San Diego 320 001 232—13Colorado 000 002 000— 2

E—Hosmer (2). DP—San Diego 0, Colorado 2. LOB—San Diego 5, Colorado 7. 2B—Tatis Jr. 2 (8), Arenado (7). 3B—Grisham (2). HR—Hosmer (7), Cronen-worth (4), Profar (5), Grisham (8), Naylor (1). SB—Tatis Jr. (7). SF—Hedges (1). IP H R ER BB SOSan DiegoPaddack W,3-3 6 5 2 0 1 8Pagan 1 1 0 0 0 2Quantrill 1 0 0 0 0 1Guerra 1 1 0 0 1 1ColoradoCastellani L,1-2 2 6 5 5 1 2Gonzalez 4 2 1 1 1 3J.Diaz 1 3 2 2 0 1Pazos 2⁄3 4 3 3 0 0Diehl 11⁄3 2 2 2 0 1

HBP—Castellani (Tatis Jr.). T—3:07.

Blue Jays 6, Orioles 5Baltimore Toronto ab r h bi ab r h biAlberto 2b 5 0 1 0 Biggio 2b 5 0 1 1Santander rf 4 0 0 0 Grichuk cf 3 2 1 1Iglesias dh 5 0 2 1 Shaw 3b 3 0 1 0Nunez 1b 4 1 2 0 Hrnndez rf 5 1 2 2Sverino c 4 1 2 1 Grrro Jr. dh 3 0 1 1Mntcastle lf 4 2 3 3 Tellez 1b 4 0 1 1Mullins cf 0 0 0 0 Gurriel Jr. lf 3 1 0 0Wllims cf-lf 4 0 1 0 Panik ss 2 1 0 0Ruiz 3b 3 1 1 0 Espinal pr 0 1 0 0Vlazquez ss 2 0 0 0 McGuire c 2 0 0 0Totals 35 5 12 5 Totals 30 6 7 6Baltimore 010 003 001—5Toronto 000 120 012—6

DP—Baltimore 0, Toronto 2. LOB—Baltimore 8, Toronto 8. 2B—Nunez (8), Grichuk (6), Shaw (2). 3B—Williams (1). HR—Mountcastle 2 (2). SB—Velazquez (3). SF—Grichuk (1). S—Velazquez (2), McGuire 2 (4). IP H R ER BB SOBaltimoreLopez 42⁄3 3 3 3 3 3Fry 21⁄3 1 0 0 0 3Harvey, H, 1 2⁄3 1 1 1 1 0Scott, BS, 1 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0Sulser, L, 1-4, BS, 5-8 2⁄3 1 2 2 3 0TorontoRoark 5 8 4 4 2 5Kay 1 1 0 0 0 1Reid-Foley 2 1 0 0 0 2Bass, W, 2-1 1 2 1 1 1 0

Roark pitched to 3 batters in the 6th. HBP—Roark (Nunez). T—2:58.

Cubs 10, Reds 1Chicago Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h biHapp cf-lf 5 2 2 3 Votto 1b 3 1 1 1Rizzo 1b 4 1 1 0 Cstllanos rf 4 0 0 0Baez ss 4 1 0 0 Winker dh 4 0 0 0Schwrber lf 5 2 2 5 Suarez 3b 3 0 0 0Almora cf 0 0 0 0 Mstakas 2b 4 0 1 0Contreras c 4 0 0 0 Garcia ss 4 0 0 0Heyward rf 3 2 2 2 Payton lf 3 0 0 0Kipnis dh 5 0 0 0 Akiyama cf 3 0 2 0Bote 3b 2 1 1 0 Barnhart c 3 0 0 0Hoerner 2b 3 1 0 0 Totals 35 10 8 10 Totals 31 1 4 1Chicago 000 221 104—10Cincinnati 000 001 000—1

LOB—Chicago 6, Cincinnati 7. 2B—Aki-yama (3). HR—Schwarber 2 (9), Heyward 2 (5), Happ 2 (9), Votto (5). SB—Bote 2 (2), Akiyama (2). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoChatwood 21⁄3 2 0 0 0 0Rea 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1Quintana, W, 1-0 3 2 1 1 1 6Tepera 1 0 0 0 3 2Ryan 1 0 0 0 0 0Underwood Jr. 1 0 0 0 0 3CincinnatiCastillo, L, 0-5 5 5 4 4 1 7Stephenson 2 2 2 2 1 2Kuhnel 1 0 0 0 0 2De Leon 2⁄3 1 4 4 4 2Davidson 1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0

HBP—Castillo (Hoerner). T—3:26.

Cardinals 7, Indians 2Cleveland St. Louis ab r h bi ab r h biHernandez 2b 4 0 1 0 Wong 2b 3 0 0 0Ramirez 3b 3 0 0 0 Edman lf-3b 4 0 2 0Lndor ss 4 0 1 0 Glchmdt 1b 4 1 1 0Santana 1b 4 0 0 0 Miller dh 4 0 0 0F.Reyes dh 3 1 0 0 DeJong ss 4 2 3 0Naquin rf 3 1 1 2 Molina c 4 1 2 1Luplow lf 3 0 0 0 Crpnter 3b 2 1 0 0R.Perez c 3 0 0 0 Bader cf 1 0 0 0DeShlds cf 3 0 1 0 Fowler rf 3 2 2 3 Carlson cf-lf 3 0 1 2Totals 30 2 4 2 Totals 32 7 11 6Cleveland 020 000 000—2St. Louis 041 000 11x—7

DP—Cleveland 1, St. Louis 1. LOB—Cleveland 3, St. Louis 3. 2B—Naquin (6), Hernandez (12), Fowler (2), Goldschmidt (5), DeJong 2 (4). HR—Naquin (2), Fowler (4). SB—Edman (1). IP H R ER BB SOClevelandCivale L,3-4 6 8 5 5 2 3Hill 1 1 1 1 0 0Cimber 2⁄3 2 1 1 0 0Leone 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1St. LouisWainwright W,3-0 9 4 2 2 2 9

T—2:24.

Yankees 8, Mets 7 (8)First game

New York New York ab r h bi ab r h biNmmo cf-lf 4 1 0 0 LeMu 3b-2b 2 1 1 0Conforto rf 5 0 2 2 Estrada 2b 0 1 0 0Davis 3b 4 1 1 0 Voit dh 4 1 2 2Rosario ss 1 0 0 0 Hicks cf 3 1 1 2Do.Sth lf-1b 4 1 1 0 Tchman rf 3 2 0 1Cano dh 4 2 2 2 G.Snchez c 4 0 0 0Alonso 1b 3 0 1 2 Ford 1b 3 1 1 1Marisnick cf 1 0 0 0 Gardner lf 4 0 0 0McNeil 2b 4 0 1 0 Mercer ss 1 0 0 0Ramos c 3 1 2 1 Ushl ph-3b 3 0 1 1Gmnz ss-3b 2 1 0 0 Wde 2b-ss 2 1 1 0Totals 35 7 10 7 Totals 29 8 7 7New York (N) 000 223 00—7New York (A) 100 100 51—8

E—Gimenez (1). DP—New York (N) 2, New York (A) 0. LOB—New York (N) 12, New York (A) 5. 2B—Do.Smith (12), Con-forto (7), Voit (3), Ford (4). HR—Cano (5), Hicks (3). IP H R ER BB SONew York (N)Porcello 5 4 2 2 2 2Wilson 1 0 0 0 1 1Hughes 2⁄3 1 4 0 1 0Diaz, L, 1-1, BS, 2-6 1 2 2 1 1 0New York (A)King 32⁄3 6 2 2 1 3Kriske 11⁄3 2 5 5 3 4Heller 2 2 0 0 1 4Green, W, 3-2 1 0 0 0 1 3

HBP—Heller (Alonso), Hughes (Estra-da). WP—Diaz, Kriske(2). T—3:22.

Yankees 5, Mets 2 (8)Second game

New York New York ab r h bi ab r h biLeMhu dh 4 0 1 0 McNeil lf 4 1 1 0Voit 1b 4 0 0 0 Conforto rf 4 0 1 1Hicks cf 2 0 1 0 D.Smith 1b 4 0 2 1Grdner pr-cf 1 1 0 0 Davis 3b 3 0 0 0Frazier rf 3 1 1 0 Gmenez 3b 0 0 0 0Urshela 3b 2 0 0 0 Ramos ph 1 0 0 0Tchman lf 2 1 0 0 Cano 2b 3 0 1 0Kratz c 3 0 1 0 Alonso dh 3 0 0 0G.Snhz ph-c 1 1 1 4 Rosario ss 3 1 0 0Wade ss-2b 4 1 1 1 Mrisnick cf 3 0 1 0Estrada 2b 2 0 1 0 A.Snchez c 2 0 0 0Ford ph 1 0 0 0 Gllorme ph 0 0 0 0Mercer ss 1 0 0 0 Totals 30 5 7 5 Totals 30 2 6 2New York (A) 001 000 04—5New York (N) 000 001 01—2

E—Voit (1), Rosario (1). DP—New York (A) 1, New York (N) 2. LOB—New York (A) 8, New York (N) 6. HR—Wade (1), G.Sanchez (6). IP H R ER BB SONew York (A)Garcia 6 4 1 0 0 6Holder, W, 1-0 12⁄3 2 1 0 1 2Cessa, S, 1-1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1New York (N)Lugo 32⁄3 4 1 1 2 7Shreve 21⁄3 2 0 0 2 2Familia 1 0 0 0 0 0Dr.Smith, L, 0-1 1 1 4 3 2 1

WP—Lugo. T—2:45.

Pirates 5, Brewers 1Pittsburgh Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h biGonzalez ss 3 1 1 0 Urias 3b 5 1 1 0Frazier lf 2 0 1 1 Yelich lf 4 0 0 0Newman 2b 4 1 2 1 Gyorko 1b 3 0 2 0Bell 1b 4 1 1 2 Peterson rf 0 0 0 0Polanco dh 4 1 1 1 Braun dh 4 0 0 0Tucker rf 4 0 0 0 Hiura 2b 4 0 1 1Riddle 3b 4 0 0 0 Mathias rf 3 0 1 0Murphy c 4 0 1 0 Smak ph-1b 1 0 0 0Martin cf 4 1 0 0 Arcia ss 4 0 0 0 Gamel cf 2 0 1 0 Nttinghm c 3 0 0 0 Narvz ph-c 1 0 0 0Totals 33 5 7 5 Totals 34 1 6 1Pittsburgh 010 210 100—5Milwaukee 001 000 000—1

E—Riddle (3), Bell (2). DP—Pittsburgh 1, Milwaukee 0. LOB—Pittsburgh 4, Mil-waukee 13. HR—Polanco (5), Bell (4). IP H R ER BB SOPittsburghBrault 3 3 1 0 1 5Crick 1 1 0 0 0 1Tropeano W,1-0 22⁄3 2 0 0 2 2Hartlieb H,3 11⁄3 0 0 0 1 3Rodriguez 1 0 0 0 1 0MilwaukeeWoodruff L,2-3 5 4 4 4 3 7Claudio 12⁄3 1 1 1 0 2Yardley 1⁄3 2 0 0 0 0Feyereisen 2 0 0 0 0 2

HBP—Tropeano (Braun), Hartlieb (Hi-ura). WP—Brault, Hartlieb. T—3:13.

Tigers 3, Twins 2Minnesota Detroit ab r h bi ab r h biKepler rf 5 0 1 0 Reyes rf 4 1 1 0Polanco ss 4 1 2 1 Schoop 2b 4 1 2 1Cruz dh 2 0 0 0 Cabrera dh 4 0 2 1Sano 1b 3 0 0 0 Cndlario 1b 3 1 1 1Cave cf 3 0 0 0 Gdrum ss 3 0 0 0Arraez 2b 4 0 0 0 Jones cf 3 0 0 0Gonzalez 3b 3 1 0 0 Stewart lf 2 0 0 0Wade Jr. lf 3 0 0 0 Bnfcio ph-lf 1 0 0 0Rosario ph 1 0 0 0 Greiner c 3 0 0 0Avila c 2 0 1 0 Paredes 3b 3 0 0 0Adrnza ph 1 0 0 0 Jeffers c 1 0 1 0 Totals 32 2 5 1 Totals 30 3 6 3Minnesota 011 000 000—2Detroit 100 101 00x—3

LOB—Minnesota 8, Detroit 3. 3B—Reyes (2). HR—Polanco (3), Candelario (4), Schoop (8). IP H R ER BB SOMinnesotaMaeda, L, 4-1 6 6 3 3 0 8Thielbar 2 0 0 0 0 4DetroitMize 3 2 2 2 2 4Alexander, W, 2-1 32⁄3 2 0 0 0 3Jimenez, H, 1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1Farmer, H, 5 1 0 0 0 0 1Soto, S, 2-2 1 1 0 0 0 0

HBP—Mize 3 (Sano,Cruz,Cave). WP—Mize. T—2:41.

Rays 12, Marlins 7Tampa Bay Miami ab r h bi ab r h biWendle 2b 6 1 1 1 Berti cf-3b 3 1 0 0Choi 1b 6 1 2 0 Dckerson lf 4 2 1 1Y.Diaz 3b 2 2 0 0 Cooper 1b 5 2 2 4Brssu ph-3b 2 0 1 0 Andrson 3b 2 0 0 0Tsutsugo dh 4 2 2 2 Joyce ph-rf 2 0 1 1Adames ss 5 1 2 4 Brnsn rf-cf 4 1 1 1O’Grdy lf-cf 5 2 2 0 Villar 2b 4 0 2 0Renfroe rf 5 1 1 1 Rojas ss 3 0 1 0Kiermaier cf 2 2 1 2 L.Diaz dh 4 0 0 0Arzarena lf 1 0 0 0 Wallach c 3 1 1 0K.Smith c 3 0 1 1 Totals 41 12 13 11 Totals 34 7 9 7Tampa Bay 300 270 000—12Miami 000 111 400— 7

E—Renfroe (2), Villar (5), Anderson (5), Rojas (1). DP—Tampa Bay 1, Miami 1. LOB—Tampa Bay 8, Miami 6. 2B—Choi (9), O’Grady (1), Renfroe (5), Tsutsugo (3), K.Smith (1), Wallach (1), Cooper (3). HR—Wendle (2), Tsutsugo (5), Adames (4), Kiermaier (1), Dickerson (4), Brinson (1), Cooper (1). SB—O’Grady (1), Renfroe (2). IP H R ER BB SOTampa BaySnell, W, 3-0 5 4 2 2 2 5Banda 1 5 5 5 3 1Slegers 2 0 0 0 0 2Sherriff 1 0 0 0 0 0MiamiAlcantara, L, 1-1 4 6 8 5 2 2Dugger 1 5 4 4 1 0Leibrandt 2 0 0 0 2 0Y.Garcia 1 1 0 0 0 1Vincent 1 1 0 0 0 0

Banda pitched to 5 batters in the 7th, Alcantara pitched to 3 batters in the 5th. HBP—Alcantara (Y.Diaz), Banda (Rojas). WP—Alcantara. T—3:26.

Dodgers 7, Rangers 2Los Angeles Texas ab r h bi ab r h biBetts dh 3 0 2 2 Choo lf 4 0 1 0Seager ss 5 1 2 2 Solak 2b 3 0 0 0Muncy 3b 3 1 1 0 Trevino dh 3 0 0 0Blnger 1b-cf 4 1 1 2 Gallo rf 3 0 0 0Pollock cf 4 0 0 0 Frazier 3b 4 0 0 0Beaty ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Knr-Flfa ss 4 1 1 0Pederson rf 3 0 0 0 Guzman 1b 4 0 1 0Hrndez ph-rf 2 0 1 0 Taveras cf 4 1 2 0Taylor lf 4 1 1 0 Mathis c 3 0 2 1Smith c 3 3 1 1 Lux 2b 4 0 2 0 Totals 36 7 11 7 Totals 32 2 7 1Los Angeles 112 101 010—7Texas 001 100 000—2

E—Santana (1). DP—Los Angeles 2, Texas 1. LOB—Los Angeles 10, Texas 8. 2B—Lux (1). HR—Seager (9), Smith (4), Bellinger (10). SB—Bellinger (3). SF—Bet-ts (1), Mathis (1). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesGonsolin 3 3 1 1 3 5Gonzalez 12⁄3 2 1 1 0 1Floro 1 2 0 0 0 1Alexander W,2-0 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 0Santana 2 0 0 0 0 1TexasGibson L,1-4 5 5 5 5 4 8Goody 2⁄3 1 1 1 1 0Rodriguez 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2Garcia 2⁄3 2 1 1 1 2Herget 11⁄3 2 0 0 0 2

Floro pitched to 4 batters in the 6th. HBP—Gibson (Muncy), Gonzalez (Tre-vino). WP—Gonsolin. T—3:40.

Red Sox 9, Nationals 5Washington Boston ab r h bi ab r h biTurner ss 5 1 3 0 Verdugo lf 5 1 1 0Soto lf 5 0 2 1 Devers 3b 4 3 4 3Cabrera dh 4 0 0 1 Martinez dh 4 0 1 0Thames 1b 4 1 1 1 Lin pr-dh 0 0 0 0Gomes c 4 1 2 0 Bgaerts ss 4 1 2 2Eaton rf 5 0 1 1 Pillar rf 5 2 2 0Harrison 3b 3 1 1 1 Plawecki c 4 1 2 2Garcia 2b 3 0 0 0 Brdly Jr. cf 5 0 1 0Robles cf 4 1 1 0 Dalbec 1b 4 1 2 2 Peraza 2b 4 0 0 0Totals 37 5 11 5 Totals 39 9 15 9Washington 002 120 000—5Boston 323 000 01x—9

E—Garcia (2). DP—Washington 1, Bos-ton 0. LOB—Washington 10, Boston 10. 2B—Gomes 2 (4), Pillar (7), Verdugo (9), Martinez (11), Plawecki (3). 3B—Eaton (1). HR—Harrison (3), Thames (2), Bo-gaerts (8), Devers 2 (6), Dalbec (1). SB—Plawecki (1). SF—Cabrera (2). IP H R ER BB SOWashingtonVoth, L, 0-4 2 6 5 5 1 3Guerra 2 5 3 3 0 2Bacus 21⁄3 1 0 0 1 1Doolittle 2⁄3 2 0 0 0 0Hudson 2⁄3 1 1 1 1 0Harper 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1BostonGodley 42⁄3 8 5 5 1 3Osich, W, 1-1 11⁄3 2 0 0 0 1J.Taylor, H, 1 1 0 0 0 1 2Brasier, H, 4 1 0 0 0 1 1Brice 1 1 0 0 0 1

HBP—Godley (Harrison), Hudson (Martinez). T—3:26.

White Sox 5, Royals 2 (10)Kansas City Chicago ab r h bi ab r h biMerrifield cf 4 1 2 2 Andrsn ss 5 0 0 0Dozier rf 5 0 0 0 Jimenez lf 5 0 0 0Soler dh 4 0 1 0 Grandal 1b 4 1 1 0Strlng pr-dh 0 0 0 0 Dyson pr 0 1 0 0O’Hearn 1b 4 0 0 0 Abreu dh 4 1 1 0Franco 3b 3 0 1 0 McCann c 4 1 1 1Gordon lf 2 0 0 0 Robert cf 4 1 1 3Mondesi ss 4 0 0 0 Mendick 3b 4 0 0 0Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 Engel rf 2 0 1 0Gallagher c 2 1 1 0 Mzara ph-rf 1 0 0 0McBrom ph 1 0 0 0 Mdrigal 2b 4 0 3 1Viloria c 1 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 5 2 Totals 37 5 8 5Kansas City 000 001 010 0—2Chicago 011 000 000 3—5

E—Franco (4). DP—Kansas City 0, Chi-cago 1. LOB—Kansas City 7, Chicago 10.2B—Gallagher (4), McCann (1). HR—Mer-rifield (7), Robert (9). SB—Merrifield (7),Madrigal (1). IP H R ER BB SOKansas CityBubic 51⁄3 6 2 2 2 8Newberry 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1Staumont 1 0 0 0 1 1Zimmer 1 0 0 0 0 0Holland 1 1 0 0 0 3Zuber L,1-2 1⁄3 1 3 2 1 1ChicagoDunning 5 0 0 0 1 7Cordero H,6 2⁄3 2 1 1 0 1Marshall H,7 11⁄3 0 0 0 1 2Cishek BS,0-2 1 1 1 1 0 1Colome 1 2 0 0 1 0Fry 2⁄3 0 0 0 2 1Foster W,3-0 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—Newberry (Mazara). T—3:38.

Giants 4, Diamondbacks 1San Francisco Arizona ab r h bi ab r h biYstrzmski rf 3 1 0 0 Calhoun rf 3 0 0 0Dkerson lf 4 1 2 2 K.Marte 2b 4 0 1 0Duggar pr-lf 0 0 0 0 S.Marte cf 4 0 0 0Longoria 3b 4 0 1 2 D.Peralta lf 4 0 0 0Belt 1b 4 0 0 0 Walker 1b 4 0 0 0Solano 2b 3 0 0 0 Escobar 3b 3 1 2 1Sandoval dh 4 0 1 0 Ahmed ss 3 0 0 0Crawford ss 4 1 1 0 Lamb dh 2 0 0 0Dubon cf 4 0 1 0 Varsho c 1 0 0 0Tromp c 2 0 0 0 Young ph 0 0 0 0Flores ph 1 0 1 0 Kelly c 1 0 0 0Rickard pr 0 1 0 0 Bart c 1 0 0 0 Totals 34 4 7 4 Totals 29 1 3 1San Francisco 100 000 030—4Arizona 000 000 100—1

E—Walker (1). DP—San Francisco 0, Arizona 1. LOB—San Francisco 5, Arizona4. 2B—Flores (5). HR—Dickerson (4), Es-cobar (4). SB—Yastrzemski (2). IP H R ER BB SOSan FranciscoCueto 62⁄3 3 1 1 3 6Watson W,1-0 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0Rogers H,7 1 0 0 0 0 1Coonrod S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0ArizonaClarke 5 1 1 1 1 7Ginkel 1 0 0 0 0 2Guerra 1 0 0 0 0 1Crichton L,2-2 1⁄3 2 2 2 0 1Bradley 2⁄3 2 1 1 0 0Rondon 1 2 0 0 0 3

HBP—Bradley (Yastrzemski). T—2:55.

Mariners 2, Angels 1 (10)Seattle Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biCrawford ss 4 0 0 0 D.Fltchr 2b 2 0 0 0Haggerty 3b 4 0 1 0 Rengifo 2b 2 0 1 0Lewis cf 3 2 1 1 Ohtani dh 4 0 1 0Seager dh 4 0 0 0 Trout cf 2 0 0 0Mrmlejos lf 3 0 1 0 Rendon 3b 4 0 0 0Lopes ph-lf 1 0 1 1 Goodwin lf 4 0 0 0White 1b 4 0 1 0 Pujols 1b 4 1 2 0Fraley rf 4 0 0 0 Wlsh pr-1b 0 0 0 0Gordon 2b 3 0 2 0 Adell rf 4 0 0 0Hudson c 1 0 1 0 Bmboom c 3 0 0 0Odom c 2 0 0 0 Smmons ss 4 0 1 1Lng Jr. ph-2b 2 0 0 0 Totals 35 2 8 2 Totals 33 1 5 1Seattle 000 000 100 1—2Los Angeles 000 000 100 0—1

E—Gordon (2). DP—Seattle 1, Los An-geles 1. LOB—Seattle 5, Los Angeles 10. 2B—Pujols (5). HR—Lewis (8). SB—Ohtani(5), Rengifo (1). IP H R ER BB SOSeattleDunn 6 1 0 0 4 6Misiewicz, BS, 0-1 1 2 1 1 0 2Hirano 1 1 0 0 1 1Williams, W, 1-1 1 1 0 0 1 1Y.Ramirez, S, 1-1 1 0 0 0 1 2Los AngelesCanning 8 4 1 1 1 7Buttrey 1 1 0 0 0 2Quijada, L, 0-1 1⁄3 2 1 0 0 1Pena 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0

WP—Williams(2). T—3:27.

RICK SCUTERI/AP

The San Francisco Giants’ Evan Longoria runs after hitting a two-run single against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the eighth inning during the Giants’ 4-1 win Sunday in Phoenix.

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Sanchez’s slam helps Yankees take 2 from Mets

BY LARRY FLEISHER

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Gary Sanchez and Aaron Hicks — among the few remaining regulars healthy enough to be in the Yankees’ lineup — made sure the Bronx Bombers held serve at home.

Sanchez delivered the first pinch-hit, extra-innings grand slam in Yankees history, Deivi Garcia made a strong impression in his big league debut and New York beat the crosstown Mets 5-2 to complete a doubleheader sweep Sunday night.

The Yankees stormed back in the opener, erasing a five-run def-icit with two outs in the seventh to win 8-7 in eight innings. Hicks lined a tying, two-run homer in the seventh, and Gio Urshela hit a game-ending single off Edwin Diaz an inning later.

Sanchez had been in a 1-for-18 slump and is still batting just .134 this season.

“I’m excited for him,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “He means so much to this team. I’m really happy for him to take the air out of one.”

The Yankees won the final three games of this five-game Subway Series, snapping a seven-game skid. Sanchez blasted a 2-2 fastball from Drew Smith into the left field bleachers for a 5-1 lead. It was his first career pinch-hit homer and second career grand slam.

“I’ve been very anxious to con-tribute to the team,” Sanchez said through a translator. “Especially when you’re going through a rough patch and you’re not help-ing the team.”

Garcia took a shutout into the sixth until allowing Dominic Smith’s tying single. Smith’s hit

came after Jeff McNeill reachedon an error by first baseman Luke Voit, who had the ball kick off theheel of his glove into right field.

Garcia allowed four singles,struck out six, walked none andthrew 75 pitches in six innings.At 21 years, 103 days, Garcia be-came the youngest pitcher to startin the majors in the abbreviated60-game game season.

Garcia got a huge hug from vet-eran batterymate Erik Kratz in the dugout after his outing wasdone — the 40-year-old Kratzcaught Garcia often in Triple-Alast year and thinks highly of theyoung right-hander. Kratz callsGarcia son and Garcia calls Kratz“padre,” Garcia said.

Jonathan Holder (1-0) allowedan RBI single to Michael Conforto and in the eighth. Luis Cessa re-tired pinch-hitter Wilson Ramoswith the bases loaded for hisfourth career save. Mets’ right-hander Seth Lugo allowed onerun on four hits in 3 2/3 innings .

Tyler Wade homered in thethird to give the Yankees a 1-0lead. The Yankees left the basesloaded in the fourth and stranded two in the fifth.

In the first game, The Yankeestrailed 7-2 with two outs in finalinning of the seven-inning gamebefore rallying against Jared Hughes and Diaz.

Mets third baseman AndresGimenez made a throwing error, and Hughes walked a batter and plunked another to load the bases before Luke Voit hit a check-swing, two-run single against the shift to pull within 7-4.

Another run scored on Diaz’swild pitch before Hicks lined atwo-out, 3-2 fastball just over thewall in right for his third homer of the season.

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ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright turned back the clock with a com-plete game on his 39th birthday as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cleveland Indians 7-2 on Sunday.

Wainwright threw a four-hitter for his 23rd career complete game and first in four years. The Cardi-nals snapped a four-game skid in which they scored six total runs.

Dexter Fowler homered and had three RBIs for St. Louis, which stopped Cleveland’s four-game winning streak. The Indians had won nine in a row on the road.

Wainwright (3-0) settled in after allowing Tyler Naquin’s two-run homer in the second in-ning. The right-hander struck out nine and walked two, going the distance for the first time since July 2016 against the Marlins. He threw 122 pitches, most in the ma-jors this season, and gave a much-needed breather to a Cardinals bullpen that worked 15 1/3 innings in the previous two games.

Dodgers 7, Rangers 2: Cody Bellinger and Los Angeles set the National League record for home runs in a month, powering its way to a win at Texas.

Bellinger’s two-run drive gave the Dodgers 57 long balls in Au-gust after solo shots from Corey Seager and Will Smith.

White Sox 5, Royals 2 (10): Prized rookie Luis Robert hit his first game-ending homer, a three-run drive in the 10th inning that lifted Chicago to a win over visit-ing Kansas City.

Dane Dunning threw five no-hit innings before being pulled from his second major league start, and the surging White Sox won for the 11th time in 13 games

to move into a first-place tie with Cleveland in the AL Central.

Rays 12, Marlins 7: Willy Adames hit a grand slam, help-ing surging Tampa Bay finish a three-game sweep at Miami.

Joey Wendle, Yoshi Tsutsugo and Kevin Kiermaier also went deep for the Rays, who have won 12 of their last 14 to move an American League-best 13 games over .500.

Giants 4, Diamondbacks 1: Johnny Cueto pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Alex Dickerson homered and had two RBIs, and San Francisco won its first road series.

Cueto was sharp in his last start before the trade deadline, allowing a run on three hits in 6 2/3 innings.

Pirates 5, Brewers 1: Josh Bell and Gregory Polanco hom-ered off Brandon Woodruff and Pittsburgh won at Milwaukee.

Bell broke a 1-all tie in the fourth with a towering, two-run blast that hit an SUV parked well above the wall in right-center as part of a promotion.

Padres 13, Rockies 2: Eric Hosmer started San Diego’s power surge with his three-run homer in the first, Chris Paddack threw six efficient innings and the Padres rolled at Colorado.

Hosmer’s homer was one of five for San Diego, which ranks second in the majors with 66 homers this season. Jake Cronenworth added a two-run drive in the seventh be-fore Jurickson Profar and Trent Grisham lined solo shots in the eighth. Josh Naylor finished it off with a two-run shot in the ninth.

Cubs 10, Reds 1: Kyle Schwarber, Jason Heyward and

Ian Happ became the first start-ing outfield to hit multiple homers in the same game, and Chicago routed host Cincinnati for a split of their four-game series.

Schwarber hit the first and last of the Cubs’ season-high six homers, belting a solo drive in the fourth inning against Luis Castil-lo (0-5) and a grand slam off Jose De Leon in the ninth.

Tigers 3, Twins 2: Jonathan Schoop hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning, and host Detroit finished off a three-game sweep.

Tyler Alexander (2-1) pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings of relief for the Tigers, who handed Kenta Maeda (4-1) his first loss of the year.

Blue Jays 6, Orioles 5: Teos-car Hernandez hit a two-run single with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting host Toronto to its fourth straight win.

Hernandez came up with the bases loaded and grounded a single into left field. Pinch runner Santiago Espinal scored easily and Randal Grichuk slid in safely just ahead of the throw by left fielder Mason Williams.

Red Sox 9, Nationals 5: Bobby Dalbec hit a two-run homer in his major league debut, leading host Boston to the win.

Mariners 2, Angels 1 (10): Pinch hitter Tim Lopes drove in Kyle Lewis with the tiebreaking run in the 10th inning, sending Seattle to the road victory.

Braves 12, Phillies 10: Aus-tin Riley homered, doubled and drove in three runs in Atlanta’s 10-run second inning, Dansby Swanson also went deep and the Braves held on for a wild victory at Philadelphia.

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SCOTT KANE/AP

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright threw a complete-game four-hitter on his 39th birthday in the Cardinals’ 7-2 defeat of the Cleveland Indians on Sunday in St. Louis.

ADAM HUNGER/AP

The Yankees’ Gary Sanchez hits a grand slam off the Mets’ Drew Smith during the eighth inning of the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday in New York. The Yankees took both games, 8-7 and 5-2.

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BY JOSEPH WHITE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — John Thompson, the imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a “Hoya Paranoia” power-house and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, has died. He was 78

His death was announced in a family statement released by Georgetown on Monday. No de-tails were disclosed.

“Our father was an inspiration to many and devoted his life to de-veloping young people not simply on but, most importantly, off the basketball court. He is revered as a historic shepherd of the sport, dedicated to the welfare of his community above all else,” the statement said. “However, for us, his greatest legacy remains as a father, grandfather, uncle, and friend. More than a coach, he was our foundation. More than a leg-end, he was the voice in our ear everyday.”

One of the most celebrated and polarizing figures in his sport, Thompson took over a moribund Georgetown program in the 1970s and molded it in his unique style into a perennial contender, cul-minating with a national champi-onship team anchored by center Patrick Ewing in 1984.

Georgetown reached two other title games with Thompson in charge and Ewing patrolling the paint, losing to Michael Jordan’s North Carolina team in 1982 and to Villanova in 1985.

At 6-foot-10, with an ever-pres-ent white towel slung over his shoulder, Thompson literally and figuratively towered over the Hoyas for decades, becoming a patriarch of sorts after he quit coaching in 1999.

One of his sons, John Thompson III, was hired as Georgetown’s coach in 2004. When the son was fired in 2017, the elder Thompson — known affectionately as “Big John” or “Pops” to many — was at the news conference announc-ing Ewing as the successor.

Along the way, Thompson said what he thought, shielded his play-ers from the media and took posi-tions that weren’t always popular. He never shied away from sensi-tive topics — particularly the role of race in both sports and society — and he once famously walked off the court before a game to pro-test an NCAA rule because he felt it hurt minority athletes.

“I’ll probably be remembered for all the things that kept me out of the Hall of Fame, ironically, more than for the things that got

me into it,” Thompson said the day he was elected to the Hall in 1999. Thompson became coach of the Hoyas in 1972 and began re-making a team that was 3-23 the previous season. Over the next 27 years, he led Georgetown to 14 straight NCAA tournaments (1979-92), 24 consecutive post-season appearances (20 NCAA, 4 NIT), three Final Fours (1982, 1984, 1985) and won six Big East tournament championships.

Employing a physical, defense-focused approach that frequently relied on a dominant center —Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo were among his other pupils — Thompson compiled a 596-239 record (.715 winning percentage). He had 26 players drafted by the NBA.

Off the court, Thompson was both a role model and a lightning rod. A stickler for academics, he kept a deflated basketball on his desk, a reminder to his players that a degree was a necessity be-cause a career in basketball re-lied on a tenuous “nine pounds of air.”

COLLEGE BASKETBALL/NHL

Thompson, first Black coach to win NCAA title, diesCoached Georgetown to 1984 championship

1NCAA men’s basketball titles for John Thompson

at Georgetown. His Hoyas were 1-2 in NCAA

championship games.

By the numbers

SOURCE: Associated Press

14Consecutive NCAA

tournaments his teams reached at Georgetown from 1979-92, including

three Final Fours.

.715Thompson’s winning

percentage at Georgetown, with a 596-239 record that including 26 players who were drafted by the NBA.

Associated Press

TORONTO — Jean Gabriel Pageau scored the go-ahead goal 7:18 into the third period and the New York Islanders moved within one win of advancing to the East-ern Conference finals with a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Fly-ers on Sunday night.

Brock Nelson scored twice, both set up by Josh Bailey, and the Islanders gained a 3-1 lead of the best-of-seven second-round series with Game 5 set for Tues-day night. New York is seeking to make its first conference finals appearance since 1993, when the Islanders lost to Montreal to six games.

Backup goalie Thomas Greiss stopped 36 shots in making his first start of the playoffs.

Sean Couturier and Ivan Prov-orov scored for the East’s top-seeded Flyers, who were coming off a 3-1 loss on Saturday. Phila-delphia lost consecutive games for the first time since an 0-3-1 skid from Dec. 31-Jan. 7.

Flyers goalie Brian Elliott stopped 30 shots in place of Cart-er Hart. It was Elliott’s third ap-pearance this postseason, and second start.

Stars 5, Avalanche 4: Radek Faksa had a goal and two assists, Roope Hintz scored the last of three power-play goals by Dal-las and the Stars beat Colorado in Edmonton, Alberta, to take 3-1 series lead in the Western Con-ference semifinal series.

Dallas, which led 3-0 in the first period before the Avalanche had their first shot on goal, saw its margin cut to one before Hintz was patient with the puck about 7½ minutes into the third period. There were only a couple of sec-onds left on a power play when he scored on the Stars’ seventh shot during that segment after initially waiting for some traffic to clear.

Dallas then got a gift goal only 32 seconds later when Colorado rookie defender Cale Makar, who had scored late in the second pe-riod, tried to clear a puck from

behind his own net and flubbed the attempt. Stars rookie Denis Gurianov knocked it in for a 5-2 lead.

Golden Knights 5, Canucks 3: Max Pacioretty scored twice and added an assist, and Vegas ral-lied for three goals in the third period and beat Vancouver in Edmonton.

The Golden Knights took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven second-round series. With a win in Game 5 on Tuesday, Vegas can elimi-nate the Canucks, the last Cana-

dian team from the postseason.William Karlsson, Nate

Schmidt, and Chandler Stephen-son also scored for the Golden Knights. Goalie Marc-AndreFleury made 27 saves and earnedhis third win of the playoffs.

Shea Theodore added two as-sists, giving him four goals and 10assists in the playoffs.

Bo Horvat, Elias Pettersson,and Tyler Toffoli scored for Van-couver. Jacob Markstrom, in his14th start, made 28 saves in theloss.

FRANK GUNN, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP

New York Islanders center Brock Nelson, far left, scores past Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Brian Elliott as Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov defends during the third period of the Islanders’ 3-1 win Sunday in a Stanley Cup Eastern Conference playoff game in Toronto.

Islanders squeak past Flyers

Stanley Cup playoffsCONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)EASTERN CONFERENCE

At Toronto(6) N.Y. Islanders 3, (1) Philadelphia 1N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 0Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OT N.Y. Islanders 3, Philadelphia 1Sunday: N.Y. Islanders 3, Philadelphia

1Tuesday: Game 5x-Thursday: Game 6x-Saturday, Sept. 5: Game 7

(2) Tampa Bay 3, (4) Boston 1Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2Tampa Bay 4, Boston 3, OTTampa Bay 7, Boston 1 Saturday: Tampa Bay 3, Boston 1Monday: Game 5 (AFN-Sports2, 1 a.m.

Tuesday CET; 8 a.m. Tuesday JKT)x-Wednesday: Game 6x-Thursday: Game 7

WESTERN CONFERENCEAt Edmonton, Alberta

(1) Las Vegas 3, (5) Vancouver 1Las Vegas 5, Vancouver 0Vancouver 5, Las Vegas 2 Las Vegas 3, Vancouver 0Sunday: Las Vegas 5, Vancouver 3Tuesday: Game 5x-Thursday: Game 6x-Friday: Game 7

(3) Dallas 3, (2) Colorado 1Dallas 5, Colorado 3Dallas 5, Colorado 2Colorado 6, Dallas 4 Sunday: Dallas 5, Colorado 4Monday: Game 5 x-Wednesday: Game 6x-Friday: Game 7

SundayGolden Knights 5, Canucks 3

Vegas 2 0 3—5Vancouver 1 2 0—3

First Period—1, Vegas, Pacioretty 4 (Theodore, Stone), 9:28 (pp). 2, Vancou-ver, Pettersson 6 (Hughes, Miller), 11:15 (pp). 3, Vegas, Stephenson 2 (Theodore, Martinez), 13:19.

Second Period—4, Vancouver, Horvat 9 (Edler, Miller), 4:07. 5, Vancouver, Tof-foli 2 (Hughes, Miller), 11:26 (pp).

Third Period—6, Vegas, Schmidt 2 (Merrill), 2:52. 7, Vegas, Pacioretty 5 (Schmidt), 7:02. 8, Vegas, Karlsson 3 (Stone, Pacioretty), 8:29.

Shots on Goal—Vegas 11-14-8—33.Vancouver 8-12-11—31.

Power-play opportunities—Vegas 1 of 2; Vancouver 2 of 5.

Goalies—Vegas, Fleury 3-0-0 (31 shots-28 saves). Vancouver, Markstrom8-5-1 (33-28).

Stars 5, Avalanche 4Colorado 0 2 2—4Dallas 3 0 2—5

First Period—1, Dallas, Klingberg 2(Faksa, Comeau), 6:18. 2, Dallas, Faksa 3 (Heiskanen, Hintz), 8:33 (pp). 3, Dallas, Benn 4 (Pavelski, Radulov), 10:45 (pp).

Second Period—4, Colorado, Nichush-kin 1 (Makar, Burakovsky), 13:24. 5, Colo-rado, Makar 3 (MacKinnon, Rantanen),19:34 (pp).

Third Period—6, Dallas, Hintz 2 (Faksa,Klingberg), 7:30 (pp). 7, Dallas, Gurianov8, 8:02. 8, Colorado, Nichushkin 2 (Girard, Burakovsky), 11:24. 9, Colorado, Namest-nikov 2 (Kadri, Girard), 19:56.

Shots on Goal—Colorado 5-17-15—37. Dallas 10-8-11—29.

Power-play opportunities—Colorado 1 of 5; Dallas 3 of 6.

Goalies—Colorado, Hutchinson 0-0-0 (3 shots-3 saves), Colorado, Francouz2-4-0 (26-21). Dallas, Khudobin 7-4-0 (37-33).

Islanders 3, Flyers 1Philadelphia 1 0 0—1N.Y. Islanders 0 2 1—3

First Period—1, Philadelphia, Pitlick 2 (Laughton, Niskanen), 14:18.

Second Period—2, N.Y. Islanders, Mar-tin 3 (Eberle, Barzal), 7:12. 3, N.Y. Island-ers, Komarov 1 (Brassard), 19:54.

Third Period—4, N.Y. Islanders, Lee 6 (Pulock, Eberle), 3:41 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 9-6-12—27. N.Y. Islanders 10-15-4—29.

Power-play opportunities—Philadel-phia 0 of 1; N.Y. Islanders 1 of 2.

Goalies—Philadelphia, Hart 7-4-0 (29 shots-26 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Varlamov 9-2-0 (27-26).

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Los Angeles Clippers knocked him around and shut his teammates down, and still Luka Doncic kept coming.

Kawhi Leonard wasn’t worried, because nothing rattles him in the postseason.

“This is playoff basketball and every-thing is not going to go your way,” Leonard said. “You’re going to have downs and ups. Just got to keep playing.”

Now his team will keep playing into the second round.

Leonard had 33 points and 14 rebounds and the Clippers eliminated Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks with a 111-97 vic-tory Sunday in Game 6 of the first-round series.

Doncic capped a superb first postseason with 38 points, nine rebounds and nine as-sists, keeping it interesting into the fourth quarter even while playing without injured teammate Kristaps Porzingis.

But with Leonard reaching the 30-point mark for his career-best fifth straight playoff game and a strong defensive ef-fort, the Clippers simply had too many answers.

“I’m proud of our team, how we fight,“Doncic said. “I think we fight until theend. The Clippers have an amazingteam so it was hard, but I think we gave everything.”

The No. 2 seed in the Western Confer-ence advanced to a second-round meetingwith either Denver or Utah. Game 7 of that series will be played Tuesday.

Leonard also had seven assists and fivesteals. The Clippers said he was the firstplayer in at least the last 20 postseasons with 30 points, 10 rebounds, five assistsand five steals in a game.

Celtics 112, Raptors 94: Jayson Tatum and Marcus Smart each scored 21 points, Kemba Walker added 18 points and 10 as-sists and Boston beat Toronto in Game 1 ofthe Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The Celtics improved to 4-1 against the Raptors this season — no other team hasbeaten the reigning NBA champions morethan twice — and both of their meetingsin the NBA’s restart bubble at Walt Disney World have been one-sided. The Raptors are 11-0 at Disney against everybody else.

Kyle Lowry had 17 points for defending champion Toronto.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Jamal Murray-Donovan Mitchell duel will be settled in the first Game 7 in the bubble.

Murray extended his torrid run with 50 more points, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 119-107 vic-tory over the Utah Jazz on Sun-day night.

Murray had his second 50-point game of the series to equal Mitchell, who finished with 44 in this one. No player has ever had more in an entire postseason.

They will go at it one more time Tuesday night, with the winner advancing to face the Los Ange-les Clippers.

Mitchell was disappointed the Jazz had missed a chance to wrap up the series in Game 5, but un-derstands the interest in seeing he and Murray square off in the ultimate contest.

“As a fan perspective I see it and I respect it, but I can’t tell you as a player that I want to play Game 7 if we’re up 3-1,” he said. “I don’t think anybody wants to do that but we’re here, so play the hand that you’re dealt and we’re going to go out there and execute and do what we’ve got to do.”

Mike Conley had 21 points for the Jazz, but Rudy Gobert and Jordan Clarkson were each held to 11.

A seventh game between the

third-seeded Nuggets and No. 6Jazz seems fitting. Though Den-ver won all three meetings dur-ing the regular season, the total margin was just 11 points.

The Jazz came into the day top-ping all teams in the postseason in field goal percentage and three-point percentage, and rankingthird in scoring with 121.8 pointsper game.

It will be the third straightGame 7 for the Nuggets, who beatSan Antonio before losing to Port-land last year.

50-50: Michael Jordan (twice), Wilt Chamberlain and Allen Iver-son are the only other players with two 50-point games in the same postseason.

PlayoffsAt Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

FIRST ROUNDBest-of-seven; x-if necessary

EASTERN CONFERENCEMilwaukee 4, Orlando 1

Orlando 122, Milwaukee 110Milwaukee 111, Orlando 96Milwaukee 121, Orlando 107 Milwaukee 121, Orlando 106Milwaukee 118, Orlando 104

Toronto 4, Brooklyn 0Toronto 134, Brooklyn 110Toronto 104, Brooklyn 99Toronto 117, Brooklyn 92Toronto 150, Brooklyn 122

Boston 4, Philadelphia 0Boston 109, Philadelphia 101Boston 128, Philadelphia 101Boston 102, Philadelphia 94Boston 110, Philadelphia 106

Miami 4, Indiana 0Miami 113 Indiana 101Miami 109, Indiana 100Miami 124, Indiana 115Miami 99, Indiana 87

WESTERN CONFERENCEL.A. Lakers 4, Portland 1

Portland 100, L.A. Lakers 93L.A. Lakers 111, Portland 88L.A. Lakers 116, Portland 108L.A. Lakers 135 Portland 115L.A. Lakers 131, Portland 122

L.A. Clippers 4, Dallas 2L.A. Clippers 118, Dallas 110Dallas 127, L.A. Clippers 114L.A. Clippers 130, Dallas 122Dallas 135, L.A. Clippers 133, OTL.A. Clippers 154, Dallas 111Sunday: L.A. Clippers 111, Dallas 97

Utah 3, Denver 3Denver 135, Utah 125, OTUtah 124, Denver 105Utah 124, Denver 87Utah 129, Denver 127Denver 117, Utah 107Sunday: Denver 119, Utah 107Tuesday: Game 7

Houston 3, Oklahoma City 2Houston 123, Oklahoma City 108Houston 112, Oklahoma City 98Oklahoma City 119, Houston 107, OTOklahoma City 117, Houston 114Houston 114, Oklahoma City 80Monday: Game 6x-TBD: Game 7

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)

Eastern ConferenceMilwaukee vs. Miami

Monday: Game 1Wednesday: Game 2Friday: Game 3Sunday, Sept. 6: Game 4x-Tuesday, Sept. 8: Game 5x-Thursday, Sept. 10: Game 6x-Saturday, Sept. 12: Game 7

Boston 1, Toronto 0Sunday: Boston 112, Toronto 94Tuesday: Game 2Thursday: Game 3Saturday: Game 4x-Monday, Sept. 7: Game 5x-Wednesday, Sept. 9: Game 6x-Friday, Sept. 11: Game 7

SundayNuggets 119, Jazz 107

DENVER — Grant 6-9 2-2 18, Millsap 1-3 2-2 5, Jokic 7-15 5-5 22, Morris 4-6 2-2 10, Murray 17-24 7-9 50, Craig 2-3 3-4 8, Por-ter Jr. 1-7 0-0 2, Plumlee 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 1-4 2-2 4. Totals 39-71 23-26 119.

UTAH — Ingles 1-4 2-2 5, O’Neale 1-4 2-4 5, Gobert 3-8 5-11 11, Conley 7-13 3-4 21, Mitchell 14-25 7-7 44, Bradley 0-1 0-0 0, Morgan 0-0 0-0 0, Niang 3-6 2-2 10, Clark-son 5-14 0-0 11. Totals 34-75 21-30 107.Denver 30 31 27 31—119Utah 36 20 23 28—107

Three-Point Goals—Denver 18-36 (Mur-ray 9-12, Grant 4-7, Jokic 3-5, Craig 1-2, Millsap 1-2, Harris 0-2, Porter Jr. 0-5), Utah 18-36 (Mitchell 9-13, Conley 4-6, Niang 2-4, O’Neale 1-3, Ingles 1-4, Clarkson 1-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Denver 43 (Porter Jr. 12), Utah 30 (Gobert 11). As-sists—Denver 22 (Jokic 9), Utah 20 (Con-ley 6). Total Fouls—Denver 24, Utah 20.

Clippers 111, Mavericks 97L.A. CLIPPERS — Leonard 14-23 4-4

33, Morris Sr. 4-5 0-0 9, Zubac 6-8 3-3 15, George 6-19 1-2 15, Shamet 3-7 0-0 9, Cof-fey 0-2 0-0 0, Mann 0-0 0-0 0, Green 3-5 1-1 7, Harrell 2-4 0-0 4, McGruder 0-0 0-0 0, R.Jackson 5-9 0-0 14, Williams 1-9 3-3 5. Totals 44-91 12-13 111.

DALLAS — Finney-Smith 6-11 2-3 16, Hardaway Jr. 4-15 0-0 10, Kleber 3-10 1-2 9, Burke 2-10 2-2 6, Doncic 15-28 4-8 38, J.Jackson 0-1 1-2 1, Kidd-Gilchrist 1-1 0-0 2, Reaves 0-0 0-0 0, Marjanovic 4-7 0-0 8, Cleveland 0-0 0-0 0, Curry 3-7 0-0 7. Totals 38-90 10-17 97.L.A. Clippers 29 28 28 26—111Dallas 34 17 23 23— 97

Three-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 11-29 (R.Jackson 4-7, Shamet 3-6, George 2-7, Leonard 1-4, Williams 0-4), Dallas 11-37 (Doncic 4-9, Finney-Smith 2-5, Kleber 2-6, Hardaway Jr. 2-11, Curry 1-3, Burke 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Clip-pers 52 (Leonard 14), Dallas 42 (Burke, Doncic 9). Assists—L.A. Clippers 22 (George, Leonard 7), Dallas 20 (Doncic 9). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 21, Dallas 15.

Celtics 112, Raptors 94BOSTON — Brown 6-18 2-3 17, Tatum

9-18 1-1 21, Theis 3-8 7-7 13, Smart 6-10 4-4 21, Walker 6-11 2-2 18, Langford 1-2 0-0 2, Ojeleye 1-5 0-0 3, Poirier 0-0 0-0 0, Wil-liams 0-0 0-0 0, Williams III 5-5 0-2 10, Wa-namaker 2-6 1-2 7. Totals 39-83 17-21 112.

TORONTO — Anunoby 4-6 3-4 12, Siakam 5-16 3-4 13, Gasol 3-7 1-2 7, Lowry 5-12 6-9 17, VanVleet 3-16 3-4 11, Hollis-Jefferson 0-0 0-0 0, Boucher 1-1 0-0 2, Ibaka 4-10 4-4 15, Davis 2-4 2-2 7, Powell 4-12 0-0 10, Thomas 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-84 22-29 94.Boston 39 20 29 24—112Toronto 23 19 31 21— 94

Three-Point Goals—Boston 17-39 (Smart 5-9, Walker 4-7, Brown 3-9, Wanamaker 2-4, Tatum 2-5, Ojeleye 1-3, Theis 0-2), Toronto 10-40 (Ibaka 3-7, Powell 2-5, Van-Vleet 2-11, Anunoby 1-3, Davis 1-3, Lowry 1-5, Gasol 0-3, Siakam 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Boston 50 (Theis 15), Toronto 40 (Ibaka 9). Assists—Boston 25 (Walker 10), Toronto 22 (Lowry, VanVleet 8). Total Fouls—Boston 22, Toronto 24.

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The Los Angeles Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard fouls the Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic on Sunday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Leonard had 33 points and 14 rebounds in the Clippers’ 111-97 series-clinching Game 6 victory.

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The Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray dives for a loose ball behind Utah Jazz’s Mike Conley (10) Sunday, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Murray had his second 50-point game of the series as the Nuggets attempt to become the 12th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit to win a series and the first since 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers completed the only one of those comebacks that came in the NBA Finals.

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BY WILL GRAVES

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PITTSBURGH

T.J. Watt reads the stories from his rookie year in 2017 and can’t help but laugh a little. Sure, the Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker is more reserved

than older brother JJ — the high-profile defensive end for the Houston Texans — but then again, who isn’t?

Still, Watt looks back at his words (or lack thereof) and admits his reticence was part of his master plan and not necessarily a distillation of his personality.

“I was very shy and didn’t want to say a lot at all,” Watt said on Tuesday. “I just wanted to work and soak up as much information as I possibly could and gain the trust of my teammates.”

Funny how reaching the Pro Bowl twice in your first three seasons and developing a reputation

as one of the most relentless edge rushers in the NFL has a way of getting you to loosen up.

The player who spoke only in benign platitudes is slowly pulling back the layers. Check your TV for proof. Yes, that was Watt starring alongside brothers JJ and

Derek and mom Connie in a series of Subway commer-cials. Yes, that was Watt playing co-host on the game show “Ultimate Tag.”

Watt says he’s just “dipping his toe in the water” and he’s quick to point out that he’s determined not to let his budding celebrity overshadow the importance of his day job.

“First and foremost, it will always be me being a football player,” Watt said. “When it comes to me doing those shows and the Subway commercials and things along those lines, obviously, I’ve seen J.J. (Watt) do that stuff for years, and it’s fun to put myself out of my own comfort zone and try new things.”

That goes for on the field as well as off it. Watt racked up a career-best 14 ½ sacks in 2019, his No. 90 often a blur on its way to the quarterback. Still, he believes

he remains a work in progress. He and fellow

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Steelers linebacker Watt ready to step into spotlight

High Wattage‘ I just want to be able to be a game-breaker. ’

TJ WattSteelers’ two-time Pro Bowl linebacker

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