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Feeding forcesof the future

Proposal envisions Air Force Academy

facility able to support troops in space

Some Air Force Academy cadets have proposed that the ser-

vice fund a facility to study farming techniques that could

someday be used on the moon to feed U.S. troops deployed

in space.

The cadet club USAFA Green designed an agricultural testing

facility for entry into the Air Force’s annual Spark Tank innovation

challenge. While it would be based in Colorado Springs, Colo., it

would allow research for “any environment,” they say.

The cadets envision a site to experiment with various farming

methods that they said could support airmen and Space Force

guardians deployed anywhere from the Middle East to Antarctica

and far beyond.

BY CHAD GARLAND

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A NASA employee checksplants in the Crop FoodProduction ResearchArea of the KennedySpace Center inFlorida in 2018.

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“Our warfighters will need to feed themselves inany terrestrial or extraterrestrial environment.”

Caroline HarshbargerCadet 2nd Class

Lawmakers should nix an effort in pend-

ing legislation that would pave the way for

online voting for military troops stationed

in remote areas, dozens of elections securi-

ty experts told senators in a letter this

week.

“We believe that service members de-

serve the highest standard of safe and ver-

ifiable voting,” reads the Oct. 13 letter sent

to members of the Senate Armed Services

Committee by democracy watchdog and

voting rights organizations and more than

two dozen individuals with backgrounds in

elections and cyber security. “For the fore-

seeable future, internet voting cannot meet

that standard, and places military voters’

votes — and the trustworthiness of elec-

tions themselves — at risk.”

The authors labeled moves toward on-

line voting “recklessly premature.”

At issue is language in the House-passed

version of the Fiscal Year 2022 National

Defense Authorization Act — the must-

pass annual bill that sets Pentagon policy

and spending priorities — which would in-

struct the Defense Department to begin

planning to provide “end-to-end electronic

voting services” to troops deployed in loca-

tions with “limited or immature postal ser-

vice.” End-to-end services would allow

voters to check if their ballots had been

received and counted. The House passed

its version of the bill last month. The Sen-

ate has yet to vote on its version.

In their letter, the signees warned that

the House language lacks clarity about

precisely who or what locations would

qualify for such internet voting. More so, it

Experts warn against online voting for service members overseasBY COREY DICKSTEIN

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SEE WARN ON PAGE 6

SECURITY CONCERN?The House-passed version of the 2022

National Defense Authorization Act instructs

the DOD to plan for “end-to-end electronic

voting services” to troops deployed in locations

with “limited or immature postal service.”

End-to-end services allow voters to check if

their ballots had been received and counted.

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BUSINESS/WEATHER

NEW YORK — Americans con-

tinued to spend at a solid clip in Sep-

tember even while facing sticker

shock in grocery aisles, car lots and

restaurants as snarled global sup-

ply chains slow the flow of goods.

Retail sales rose a seasonally ad-

justed 0.7% in September from the

month before, the U.S. Commerce

Department said Friday.

That was a stronger showing

than expected. Yet there are linger-

ing concerns as to how resilient

shoppers will be if prices continue

to head north and shortages lead to

frustration heading into the crucial

holiday season.

Consumer spending drives

about 70% of all U.S. economic ac-

tivity, and a sustained recovery

from a pandemic-induced reces-

sion will require their participa-

tion.

There is no evidence that Amer-

icans are pulling back, however,

and spending last month was heavy

everywhere, from clothing, sport-

ing goods and toy stores to car lots.

Some of the increased spending

by consumers is the direct result of

spiking prices. A gallon of gasoline

today costs about $1 more than it did

at this time last year so in many

cases, Americans aren’t buying

more, they’re just paying more.

The United States reported this

week that the prices consumers pay

rose 0.4% in September, and

they’re up 5.4% over the past 12

months, matching the fastest pace

since 2008. Gasoline, furniture,

cars and trips to the grocery store or

restaurant have all grown more ex-

pensive.

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The U.S. Navy has agreed to re-

view more than nine years’ worth

of “bad paper” discharges given to

thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan

war veterans with post-traumatic

stress disorder or certain other

trauma-related health conditions.

That announcement follows

preliminary court approval Tues-

day of a settlement of a 2018 law-

suit alleging that a Navy board had

improperly denied a Marine

Corps veteran’s request for a bet-

ter discharge status.

The suit was filed by Tyson

Manker and the National Veter-

ans Council for Legal Redress.

Manker, who served from 1999 to

2003 and earned multiple awards

and commendations, received an

other-than-honorable discharge

for smoking marijuana.

The settlement would require

the Navy to review discharge sta-

tus upgrade applications made to

the Naval Discharge Review

Board between March 2, 2012, and

the effective date of the settle-

ment.

The review applies to Navy and

Marine Corps veterans of the wars

in Iraq and Afghanistan era who

were given general or other-than-

honorable discharges and were

partially or fully denied upgrade

relief, the Navy said Wednesday.

The settlement also expands

reapplication rights for eligible

applicants who were discharged

and received an adverse review

board decision between Oct. 7,

2001, and March 2, 2012, the Navy

said. In addition, the Navy agreed

to provide discharge review board

members and staffers with annual

training in PTSD, traumatic brain

injuries, military sexual trauma

and other behavioral or mental

health conditions, according to the

settlement.

In the lawsuit, Manker contend-

ed that the review board had un-

fairly rejected his request for a

discharge status upgrade despite

evidence that he had developed

PTSD and a traumatic brain inju-

ry after returning from deploy-

ment to Iraq in 2003.

The board adjudicates applica-

tions from Navy and Marine Corps

veterans seeking to upgrade their

general or other-than-honorable

discharges.

Those discharges, also known

as “bad paper,” stigmatize veter-

ans and keep them from receiving

health care, education and other

military service benefits.

Other service branches also are

under scrutiny for similar dis-

charges, including the Air Force,

which was sued in September by

two veterans claiming discrimina-

tion against service members with

mental health conditions.

Manker’s lawsuit argued that

among other failings, the board

was not complying with a 2014

memorandum from then-Secreta-

ry of Defense Chuck Hagel direct-

ing military review boards to con-

sider PTSD and related conditions

as mitigating factors in an other-

than-honorable condition of ser-

vice.

A teleconference on the settle-

ment agreement is scheduled

Dec. 16, the Navy’s statement said.

Navy to review 9 years of ‘badpaper’ discharges

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The review applies toNavy and MarineCorps veterans of thewars in Iraq andAfghanistan era.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Ja-

pan — Sailors will be able to hone

their submarine tracking skills in a

virtual setting with the debut of a

new simulator at the home of the

U.S. 7th Fleet.

The Center for Surface Combat

Systems Detachment Yokosuka

cut the ribbon on its new anti-sub-

marine warfare trainer at 10 a.m.

Friday. The facility features a six-

chair simulator that enables sailors

to learn and improve their skills in

tracking enemy vessels.

The system also provides a more

cost-efficient and expedited meth-

od of training, according to Lt.

Cmdr. Michael Arnold, head of the

Yokosuka detachment. Training

sailors at Yokosuka saves weeks

and thousands of dollars over fly-

ing them to another U.S. facility, he

said.

“This brings advanced tactical

training directly to the waterfront,”

he told Stars and Stripes on Friday.

“The only comparable training you

can do is onboard your own ship.”

Training in the new area can take

a variety of formats: interactive 3D

models, simulated “gaming”

courses, instructor-led exercises

and the simulator itself. Officially

called a Virtual Operator Trainer,

the system offers realistic interfac-

es that emulate the actual process

of tracking a submarine.

Arnold said the trainer also can

use data from actual encounters

between deployed ships and sub-

marines to mimic real-world sce-

narios for added immersion.

“We can bring those tapes in

here and show the next ship that’s

going out that this is what to look

for,” he said. “These are the fre-

quencies and all this stuff for this

particular submarine; this is what

you should be looking for.”

Arnold said the six-seat setup is

temporary and he hopes to have a

full, 12-seat classroom completed

by the end of the year.

He declined to comment on the

project’s overall cost but said the

hardware and software for the full

12-seat suite cost approximately

$350,000.

The simulator will also eventual-

ly be used to mimic the Aegis Com-

bat System carried aboard Navy

destroyers. An advantage of the

simulator is that it can mimic the

operating systems of various ver-

sions of anti-submarine and Aegis

systems.

“All these ships all have sonar

systems, but they’re probably all

different,” Arnold said. “There are

different variants and versions of

the software. Our trainer can train

on those different variants, so that’s

an added benefit.”

Sailors training on virtual sys-

tems have been shown to retain

knowledge longer, develop stron-

ger skills and graduate faster, ac-

cording to a 2018 report by Naval

Sea Systems Command.

The Yokosuka facility is the third

to go operational out of seven

planned across the globe, the first

two being in Pearl Harbor and San

Diego. Future sites include Naval

Station Rota in Spain and Naval

Station Mayport in Florida.

The remaining systems are ex-

pected to be installed by 2023, ac-

cording to an April news release

from the Center for Surface Com-

bat Systems.

ALEX WILSON/Stars and Stripes

Sailors check out the anti­submarine warfare training simulator Friday at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan.

Yokosuka naval base unveilsanti-submarine warfare trainer

BY ALEX WILSON

Stars and Stripes

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The U.S. continues to observe ac-

tivity at North Korean nuclear sites

that is “inconsistent with full denu-

clearization,” the Defense Intelli-

gence Agency said in a report is-

sued Friday.

The conclusion, based on obser-

vations at the Yongbyon nuclear site

and elsewhere, echoes assessments

delivered to former President Do-

nald Trump by U.S. intelligence

agencies, despite Trump’s efforts to

engage in direct summit diplomacy

with North Korean leader Kim Jong

Un.

Although North Korea hasn’t

conducted nuclear tests since 2017,

it has “reversibly” dismantled parts

of its weapons of mass destruction

infrastructure, the Pentagon’s intel-

ligence arm found.

In recent years, “Kim has placed

a priority on the development and

demonstration of weapons that pro-

vide North Korea the means to

strike distant adversaries — includ-

ing the United States — with nucle-

ar weapons,” according to the DIA.

It said these goals reflect a strategy

focused on “deterrence and coer-

cion” that will see North Korea de-

velop and enhance capabilities

ranging from land-based and sub-

marine-launched ballistic missiles

to nuclear weapons, unmanned ae-

rial vehicles and cyberspace capa-

bilities.

The report noted that the closed

nature of the North Korean regime

makes data collection difficult. It as-

sessed that North Korea’s economy

had probably contracted in 2020 as

a result of COVID-19-related trade

disruptions.

About 20% to 30% of North Ko-

rea’s economy is allocated to the

military, the report said, adding that

Kim has prioritized modernization

of both nuclear and conventional

forces. North Korea now possesses

electronic warfare and counter-

space capabilities such as GPS and

satellite jammers. In addition, its

ballistic missiles could theoretically

disrupt orbiting satellites, the re-

port said.

These high-tech capabilities are

juxtaposed against long-standing

weaknesses, especially in terms of

the logistics required for “sustained

combat operations.” Although un-

derground roads and military facil-

ities would help the regime survive

in a conflict, North Korea may have

sufficient supplies for only two to

three months of “defensive combat

operations,” the defense agency

said.

The report described Kim as the

“linchpin” of North Korea’s mili-

tary, adding that his public state-

ments suggest that he has “sole re-

lease authority” for the country’s

nuclear weapons.

DIA: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un still pursuing nuclearization Bloomberg News

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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE,

Japan — The aircraft carrier USS

Ronald Reagan steamed into To-

kyo Bay and its homeport on Sat-

urday, ending a five-month de-

ployment, during which it covered

U.S. troops withdrawing from Af-

ghanistan.

Despite a spattering of rain, the

Reagan’s crew arrived to find live

music, food and hundreds of sail-

ors and family members — fanfare

that was largely missing from war-

ship homecomings since the pan-

demic began in March 2020.

However, with cases of CO-

VID-19 dropping and pandemic

restrictions loosened, the Reagan

was once again met by loved ones

at the pier holding signs that sport-

ed messages such as “We missed

you!” and “You’re my superhe-

ro!”

The crew lined the rails as the

Reagan approached its berth. The

approximately 4,500 crew mem-

bers began to disembark within

two hours.

The Reagan left Yokosuka in

May and headed to the Arabian

Sea to relieve the USS Dwight D.

Eisenhower. The carriers sup-

ported the U.S. withdrawal from

Afghanistan, which concluded

Aug. 31 and ended the longest war

in U.S. history.

Longer than the typical three-

month deployment by U.S. aircraft

carriers, the Reagan’s absence

proved a challenge for some at

home, several family members

told Stars and Stripes.

“I’m excited to have him home,”

said Zayra Garcia, wife to Reagan

sailor Petty Officer 3rd Class

Christopher Garcia.

During the Reagan’s deploy-

ment the ship and its strike group

covered more than 49,000 miles

over 150 days, according to Capt.

Fred Goldhammer, the Reagan’s

skipper. In that time, the Reagan’s

F/A-18 Super Hornets flew mis-

sions over Kabul to protect U.S.

and allied assets during the with-

drawal.

“We were there just in case as an

emergency measure if things

didn’t go according to plan or if

there were additional combat ac-

tions that were required to support

the evacuation,” Goldhammer

said at a news conference.

Outside of flight missions, the

Reagan’s sailors also provided lo-

gistics support to the U.S. with-

drawal and offered humanitarian

aid to civilians.

“As people were flown out of Af-

ghanistan through Bagram [air-

field] — they were going to all sorts

of different places — so we were

just making sure they had all their

health care needs, food, that kind

of thing,” Goldhammer told Stars

and Stripes. U.S. forces pulled out

of Bagram airfield on July 1.

Goldhammer said the Reagan

also worked with a variety of other

nations’ militaries during the de-

ployment, including the United

Kingdom, India, Pakistan, France

and Germany.

“It was pretty amazing to see

how many other different nations’

vessels were out there,” he said.

The Reagan was preceded into

the naval base by the cruiser USS

Shiloh, which returned to Yokosu-

ka on Wednesday. Another mem-

ber of the Reagan’s strike group,

the guided-missile destroyer USS

Halsey, returned to its homeport

in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Oct.

4.

USS RonaldReagan returnsto its homeport

DANIEL BETANCOURT/Stars and Stripes

The USS Ronald Reagan arrived at its homeport, Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Saturday after afive­month deployment. 

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Carrier steams into Japan ending 5-month deployment BY ALEX WILSON

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earthquake and tsunami that

struck northern Japan.

More than 9,000 Americans,

many of them dependents of ser-

vice members and government

employees, left voluntarily over

fears of radiation released from

the severely damaged Fukushima

MARINE CORPS AIR STA-

TION IWAKUNI, Japan — For

the first time at this base near Hi-

roshima, family members and

others in nonessential roles had to

participate in a three-day drill

that simulated an emergency

evacuation.

The drill, part of the larger Ac-

tive Shield exercise, meant proc-

essing more than 3,000 people for

a simulated evacuation at a con-

trol center set up Wednesday

through Friday at the North Gym,

the base’s operations officer, Maj.

Paul Cordes, told Stars and

Stripes by phone Thursday.

Active Shield is an annual test of

the base defense plan.

Past evacuation exercises were

voluntary. Not so this time, Cordes

said.

“In the event of a natural disas-

ter or external military threat, one

of the very first things we are go-

ing to do is evacuate our non-

emergency essential personnel to

a safe haven,” he said.

“We owe it to those folks who

are non-emergency essential per-

sonnel, as well as their sponsor

families. We owe them an evacua-

tion program that is thoughtfully

developed and soundly executed,

and this practice helps us to do ex-

actly that.”

The last mass evacuation of U.S.

personnel in Japan took place fol-

lowing the March 2011 Tohoku

Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

MCAS Iwakuni was not official-

ly part of that evacuation.

However, in a military scenario

— a clash with China, for example

— the base could be at risk, and

moving noncombatants out of

harm’s way could be a priority.

Cordes said the exercise aims to

provide active-duty service mem-

bers and emergency essential

personnel the peace of mind of

knowing that the base is looking

out for their families. Having that

peace of mind will help them to ef-

fectively do their job, he said.

“We are preparing our person-

nel to become familiar with the

program and the process with all

the paperwork so they can flow

right through the evacuation con-

trol center,” Cordes said, “and we

are also getting all those duty stan-

dards, volunteers and essential

workers at the evacuation control

center the experience of process-

ing those personnel on game day.

If that would come, it would be a

smooth process.”

To help prepare families for the

exercise, the base held briefings

at the base theater throughout

September and October to answer

questions and fill out paperwork.

During the exercise, the “eva-

cuees” didn’t have to bring their

pets with them, but they were ex-

pected to bring kennels, five-day

supply of food and records to

check-in with the veterinarian

treatment facility, Cordes said.

Blocks of 25 families are as-

signed an emergency evacuation

warden whose job is accounting

for those people and ensuring they

participate in the drill, he said.

Staff Sgt. Jessika Braden and

her family — husband, Michael,

and their 3-year-old son —

showed up for Thursday’s exer-

cise.

“I think it’s a lengthy process

but it’s a necessary process,” she

told Stars and Stripes at the con-

trol center. “Making sure all the

boxes are checked is important

for my dependents’ comfortability

when they go through this proc-

ess.

“I think this is good to have,”

she added. “You can never pre-

pare too much when a disaster or

an emergency happens.”

Marine base holds drill for families, nonessential personnelBY JONATHAN SNYDER

Stars and Stripes

DARIEN WRIGHT/U.S. Marine Corps

Family members and other nonessential personnel are processedthrough an evacuation control center during a mandatory three­dayexercise at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Wednesday. 

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Monday, October 18, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 5

Marines in Japan plan to re-

sume their annual birthday ball

celebrations this year despite

Commandant Gen. David Berger

canceling his soiree in Washing-

ton, D.C.

Berger announced his decision

Wednesday, citing an “abundance

of caution due to the COVID-19

pandemic,” Marine Corps spokes-

man Capt. Ryan Bruce wrote in an

email to Stars and Stripes a day

later.

Berger has canceled his birth-

day ball two years in a row be-

cause of the coronavirus.

“Marines have always thrived

under difficult circumstances and

the 246th year of the Corps is no

different,” Bruce said. “We en-

courage all Marines to celebrate

our birthday traditions and histo-

ry in ways that keep them safe and

healthy.”

The III Marine Expeditionary

Force, headquartered on Okina-

wa, Japan, plans to hold a ball this

year “unless otherwise directed

by higher headquarters or local

COVID-19 conditions prove pro-

hibitive,” III MEF spokesman 2nd

Lt. Zachary Voss wrote in an email

to Stars and Stripes on Friday.

The event is tentatively sched-

uled for the evening of Nov. 10 at

the Butler Officer’s Club in Camp

Foster’s Plaza Housing.

“The Marine Corps Ball is an

opportunity for Marines to com-

memorate the founding of the

Corps, reflect on our storied histo-

ry and build unit cohesion,” Voss

said. “It provides Marines the

chance to take a break from III

MEF’s high operational tempo

and enjoy a night of camaraderie

with peers, colleagues, and signif-

icant others.”

Balls for subordinate com-

mands on Okinawa are between

Oct. 22 and Dec. 9, Voss said. Miti-

gation measures for COVID-19

have been planned “to ensure the

safety and well-being of attend-

ees.”

The number of new cases of CO-

VID-19 at Marine bases on Okina-

wa has fallen as Marines and their

families are vaccinated, accord-

ing to a Wednesday bulletin by

Marine Corps Installations Pacif-

ic. More than 80% of the Marines

on Okinawa are vaccinated, ac-

cording to the bulletin.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwa-

kuni, 30 miles southwest of Hi-

roshima on the island of Honshu,

is also preparing to hold birthday

balls this year.

“We have not been told ‘no’ on a

ball,” base spokesman Maj. Josh-

ua Diddams said by phone Thurs-

day. “If we’re allowed to have a

ball, we will have one.”

The air station tentatively

scheduled its ball Nov. 5 at Iron-

Works South Gym, Diddams said.

About 900 guests from the head-

quarters and headquarters squad-

ron are expected.

The installation plans further

balls, two squadrons at a time, un-

til they are completed, he said.

COVID-19 mitigation measures

will be in place.

Marines in Japan ready for Corps birthdayBY MATTHEW M. BURKE

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layed Seoul’s desires.

Russia’s official stance on

North Korea has been similar to

that of China’s, in that both ex-

press a desire for peace on the

peninsula. However, the two al-

lies — key trading partners for

North Korea — have slow-walked

U.N. sanctions against the com-

munist regime and stymied U.S.

efforts to penalize Pyongyang for

developing its weapons program.

Kim Tae Woo, the former presi-

dent of the Korea Institute for Na-

tional Unification, cautioned that

Russia’s peace overtures are a

“strategic double-play,” a politi-

cal calculation that “will endan-

ger South Korea’s democracy”

and weaken its ties to the U.S.

“When we look at the strategic

map in Northeast Asia — China,

Russia and North Korea are

strengthening their collaboration

to confront the existing interna-

tional law led by the U.S.,” Kim

told Stars and Stripes by phone

Friday. “In this area, the conti-

nental power and marine powers

are confronting each other.”

Kim said the two allies are

“supporting North Korea behind

the curtain” and characterized

their international campaign as a

“new Cold War situation in this

region.”

Some political analysts have

been skeptical of Moon’s claims

that declaring an end to the war

would jump-start peace talks with

North Korea. Experts have wide-

ly questioned Pyongyang’s intent

to return to the negotiation table

and argued that an end to the war

would delegitimize the presence

of U.S. troops on the peninsula.

“North Korea’s intentions have

not changed,” Kim said. “They

have a very offensive and infil-

trating strategy towards South

Korea — a goal of a communized

unification.”

The Russian government sig-

naled its strong support of South

Korea’s campaign to declare a

formal end to the Korean War, de-

scribing it as a “trust-building

measure,” according to a South

Korean diplomat.

Ambassador Noh Kyu-duk,

South Korea’s special representa-

tive for Korean Peninsula Peace

and Security Affairs, traveled to

Moscow recently to discuss issues

on North Korea with Igor Morgu-

lov, the Russian deputy minister

of foreign affairs.

Following his meeting with

Morgulov on Thursday, Noh told

reporters the Russian diplomat

“reaffirmed the Russian govern-

ment’s commitment to play a con-

structive role for progress in the

Korean Peninsula peace process”

and that it supported South Ko-

rea’s position to officially declare

an end to the Korean War, accord-

ing to several South Korean

media outlets.

The United States and South

Korea technically are at war with

North Korea. The United Nations

Command — represented by the

U.S. and South Korea — along

with China and North Korea

signed an armistice agreement

following the 1950-53 Korean

War.

South Korean President Moon

Jae-in’s outgoing administration

in recent weeks renewed its calls

to declare an end to the war. In a

speech before the U.N. General

Assembly last month, Moon

urged the signatories to “stand to-

gether and proclaim an end to the

war” if they want to “make irre-

versible progress in denucleariza-

tion and usher in an era of com-

plete peace.”

National Security Office direc-

tor Suh Hoon recently held high-

level talks with President Joe Bi-

den’s national security adviser,

Jake Sullivan, at which Suh re-

S. Korea diplomat: Russiabacks ending Korean War

BY DAVID CHOI

Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes reporter Yoo Kyong Changcontributed to this report.

PACIFIC

TOKYO — Another U.S. mili-

tary base in Japan lowered its

health protection condition to the

second-lowest level, Alpha, the

second installation to do so as new

coronavirus cases decline across

the country.

Misawa Air Base, 400 miles

north of Tokyo, reverted to Alpha

on Friday as the number of new

cases in the surrounding commu-

nity continues to fall, the pressure

on local health-care facilities has

eased and vaccination rates on

and off the base have risen, base

spokesman Maj. Cody Chiles said

by phone Friday to Stars and

Stripes.

“The vast majority of service

members have been vaccinated”

in compliance with a Defense De-

partment directive mandating

COVID-19 vaccinations for all

service members, Chiles said. In

addition to Air Force personnel,

the Army, Navy and Japan Air

Self-Defense Force have person-

nel stationed at Misawa.

Chiles said the majority of civil-

ian DOD employees and family

members are also fully vaccinat-

ed. He declined to say how many

or what percentage of the popula-

tion is vaccinated.

He said “a few” service mem-

bers requested vaccination waiv-

ers on religious grounds and were

referred to a review board.

“Misawa was very fortunate,”

he said. “We had a very low num-

ber of COVID-19 cases over the

past year. I would say that can be

attributed to the remoteness of

our location, in addition to a very

thorough COVID-mitigation

process that had been in place.”

Most new cases at the air base

arrived with personnel from out-

side the area, he said.

Yokota Air Base, the headquar-

ters for U.S. Forces Japan in west-

ern Tokyo, moved to condition Al-

pha on Oct. 6. The lowest health

protection condition is O, or rou-

tine, and indicates no community

disease transmission.

Condition Alpha represents a

“limited health alert,” according

to Defense Department defini-

tions. In practical terms, it means

Misawa residents may travel any-

where throughout Japan, Chiles

said.

The change also means fully

vaccinated personnel may once

again visit bars, clubs and ka-

raoke establishments throughout

Japan. Unvaccinated personnel

are only authorized to visit those

places in Misawa city. Everyone

at Misawa, regardless of vaccina-

tion status, must wear a mask

while off base.

AARON KIDD/Stars and Stripes

U.S. bases in Japan reported six new cases of COVID­19 during the past week, while those in South Koreaannounced 31 infections between Sept. 30 and Oct. 7. 

Another US base lowers its healthstatus to permit traveling in Japan

BY JOSEPH DITZLER

Stars and Stripes

ditzler.joseph@stripes.comTwitter: @JosephDitzler

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MILITARY

warns that online votes could be vulner-

able to hackers.

“Although such a system may aim to en-

franchise service members, it can be sub-

verted and used to undermine free and fair

elections,” they wrote.

The authors — which include the orga-

nizations Common Cause, Protect Democ-

racy, Free Speech For People, Verified

Voting and the U.S. Vote Foundation — im-

plored lawmakers to find other solutions to

ensure service members overseas can

vote. Among them, they suggested auto-

matic voter registration for eligible service

members, automatic mailing of ballots to

registered troops, improved efforts to

track overseas ballots, and extending the

deadlines for military ballots to be re-

ceived in all states.

Last year, the Homeland Security De-

partment and the FBI issued warnings

about security problems with online voting

after determining the U.S. government

does not have the means to ensure the se-

curity of online voting. They recommend-

ed overseas Americans continue to vote

via mailed paper ballots.

Military voting for troops registered in

states where they don’t live or who have

been stationed overseas has long been a

problem. The Federal Voting Assistance

Program estimates that thousands of ser-

vice members routinely fail to receive ab-

sentee ballots, including about 90,000 in

the 2020 general election.

The experts’ letter comes almost one

year after the 2020 U.S. presidential elec-

tion, whose results have been challenged

by former President Donald Trump.

At a time of ongoing complaints about

the U.S. elections system, this is not the

time to pursue vulnerable online voting,

the authors wrote.

“We strongly oppose policies that pro-

mote or expand the electronic return of

voted ballots because of the serious and

unsolved security vulnerabilities,” the au-

thors wrote. “At a time when election secu-

rity and public confidence of our elections

are under attack, increased electronic re-

turn of voted ballots, known as internet

voting, is not safe or secure, and will un-

dermine confidence and trust in elec-

tions.”

Warn: 2 agencies warned about security issues with online voting last yearFROM PAGE 1

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — When a Marine

officer who repeatedly disrespected senior of-

ficials in videos he posted online about the U.S.

withdrawal from Afghanistan took the stand

in a military courtroom here Thursday, there

were two versions of the man on trial.

First, there was Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a

combat veteran who, in defiance of tradition

and direct orders, took to social media repeat-

edly to call out senior U.S. officials for their

handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

This Scheller acknowl-

edged that if he was going

to call out others, he had to be held accountable

for his own actions — willfully flouting mili-

tary discipline.

“We have a lieutenant colonel who decided

on his own it was appropriate to become the

voice of change,” said Lt. Col. Troy Campbell,

a Marine Corps prosecutor. In repeatedly es-

calating his rhetoric, Scheller “quit on his

command,” Campbell alleged.

Then there was Scheller the conservative

cause — a political vehicle for some lawmak-

ers to attack the Biden administration and its

handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The fact that Scheller disobeyed lawful orders

and leveled his criticism at civilian and mili-

tary leaders while he was in uniform, actions

that any administration would find intolera-

ble, mostly went unaddressed.

Testifying on his behalf were some of the

most controversial members of Congress, in-

cluding Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.,

who has no military experience. She told the

military court that President Joe Biden should

be impeached for his management of the U.S.

withdrawal from Afghanistan and questioned

why Scheller was on trial.

The court-martial highlighted the strains

on the military as it attempts to uphold a non-

partisan tradition at a time when national poli-

tics are polarized and many Americans are

questioning how U.S. military engagement in

Afghanistan ended in defeat after 20 years.

Jason Dempsey, a retired Army officer who

studies civil-military relations, said that there

are many reasons to be angry with generals

about how the war was prosecuted. But cases

like Scheller’s, he said, inject partisanship into

how the military and civilians interact in a way

that is unhealthy for the country.

“What you’re seeing is everybody trying to

get a piece of this last respected institution for

their own purposes,” said Dempsey, who is

now an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New

American Security. “People are going after

and using these members of the military to ad-

vance their own political arguments.”

Scheller, a 17-year infantry officer who

served in Iraq and Afghanistan, pleaded guilty

to contempt toward officials, disrespect to-

ward superior commissioned officers, willful-

ly disobeying a superior commissioned offi-

cer, dereliction in the performance of duties

and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen-

tleman. As part of his plea deal, Scheller

signed an 11-page stipulation of facts in which

Marine prosecutors detailed 27 instances in

which Scheller violated laws or regulations as

amilitary officer.

On Friday, Scheller was sentenced to a let-

ter of reprimand and $5,000 in forfeited pay.

The Marine Corps sought a stiffer docking of

pay but did not attempt to reduce his rank or

force him out with a negative discharge that

would mean a loss in benefits. Instead, he’ll re-

sign his commission.

Scheller burst into public view on Aug. 26,

hours after a suicide bomber from an Islamic

State affiliate detonated a device in Kabul, kill-

ing 13 U.S. service members and more than

170 Afghans as U.S. troops carried out a chaot-

ic and dangerous evacuation effort.

Sitting in his office in uniform at Camp Le-

jeune, Scheller recorded a video in which he

identified himself by rank and as the com-

mander of the Advanced Infantry Training

Battalion. He said he felt a “growing discon-

tent and contempt” for what he saw as “inepti-

tude” by senior U.S. officials overseeing the

war and its end.

“The reason that people are so upset on so-

cial media right now is not because the Marine

on the battlefield let someone down,” Scheller

said in the video, which he posted to Facebook

and LinkedIn. “That service member has al-

ways rose to the occasion and done extraor-

dinary things. People are upset because their

senior leaders let them down, and none of

them are raising their hands and saying, ‘We

messed this up.’ ”

Scheller was quickly removed from his job,

and he testified that his wife left him after the

first video appeared. But, despite orders to

stop, he continued to post his criticisms on so-

cial media, taking aim at officials that included

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; Gen. David

Berger, the commandant of the Marine Corps;

and Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the

chief of U.S. Central Command. At the same

time, Scheller said, he received support from

the families of some U.S. troops killed in com-

bat, junior enlisted Marines and lawmakers.

On Thursday, Scheller said that he knew he

was breaking the law and wanted to take re-

sponsibility for doing so. But in a fiery, 20-min-

ute statement, he also doubled down on his

comments, saying that his criticism was not

about politics and that he came to the conclu-

sion that senior leaders were unwilling to have

an honest discussion about their shortcom-

ings.

“This whole process, in my opinion, should

be a case study on how the system can turn on

someone who speaks out,” he said. “I truly

hope going forward that Marine Corps leaders

can better tolerate challenges to the system.”

Campbell challenged the implication that

the Marine Corps had immediately cast him

out. Scheller’s commanders sought several

times to intervene and correct Scheller’s be-

havior before throwing him in the brig for nine

days in pretrial confinement, the prosecutor

said.

In court, Greene and two other Republican

members of Congress — Reps. Louie Gohm-

ert, of Texas, and Ralph Norman, of South Car-

olina — were called by the defense to testify af-

ter Scheller already had pleaded guilty. They

sought to reframe the debate as not about

Scheller’s actions as an officer, but about the

failures and political motives of senior U.S. of-

ficials, raising some incidents that had nothing

to do with Afghanistan or Scheller.

Gohmert said that Gen. Mark Milley, chair-

man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, distanced him-

self from President Donald Trump after ap-

pearing alongside him in Washington’s La-

fayette Square in June 2020 following a clear-

ing of racial justice protesters by federal

security forces. Gohmert said that Milley

“read the writing on the wall” and did so for his

own political benefit. But the congressman

left out that there was broad outcry against

Milley at the time, and that the general later

apologized for creating “the perception of the

military involved in domestic politics.”

Gohmert, appearing outside the courthouse

Thursday evening, insisted that he was not

politicizing the case by appearing.

“I’m not here for politics,” Gohmert said.

“I’m here to help Stu Scheller.”

Scheller has previously distanced himself

from Trump, saying in a Facebook post last

month that while others told him to “kiss the

ring” and seek the former president’s help, he

didn’t want to and that “I hate” how Trump

“divided the country.”

In court, prosecutors objected several times

to testimony from Greene and Anthony Shaff-

er, a retired Army officer who testified on

Scheller’s behalf and previously advised the

Trump presidential campaign.

The judge overseeing the case, Col. Glen

Hines, sustained several objections by the

prosecution and said that it appeared the de-

fense team was raising political issues rather

than focusing on Scheller’s case.

Dempsey said that general officers should

consider how to avoid politicization of the mil-

itary as they handle sensitive cases like Schell-

er’s. Considering the moderate sentence,

Dempsey said, Scheller could have been rep-

rimanded without holding a court-martial that

brought in lawmakers.

“It was opening up the military justice sys-

tem for arguments that either should have tak-

en place on campaign stops or on the floor of

the House of Representatives,” he said. “It just

goes to indicate how much partisanship could

seep into the military.”

Apolitical tradition tested at court-martialBY DAN LAMOTHE

The Washington Post

In a screenshot from a video posted to Facebook, Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a Marinebattalion commander, calls for accountability for senior military and civilian leaders forfailures in Afghanistan, hours after a blast in Kabul killed 13 U.S. troops. 

ANALYSIS

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“Our warfighters will need to

feed themselves in any terrestrial

or extraterrestrial environment,”

Cadet 2nd Class Caroline Harsh-

barger says in a 2½-minute video

submitted last week.

The cadets’ proposal calls for a

facility with three areas to test dif-

ferent growing methods, includ-

ing a greenhouse focused on re-

searching aeroponics and hydro-

ponics, techniques that use air or

water, respectively, as a growing

medium instead of soil. Other ar-

eas would study mushroom culti-

vation and more traditional meth-

ods.

The video cites a renewed U.S.

focus on space, as evidenced by

the launch of the Space Force in

2019 and the creation of NASA’s

Artemis program, which aims to

take humans back to the moon for

a long-term stay and eventually to

Mars.

“As we get closer to having

bases on the moon and further

space exploration, it is vital we

have dependable and viable solu-

tions to grow food in space,” Cadet

1st Class John Subick says in the

video.

From early on, astronaut pro-

gram foods were based on mili-

tary survival rations or developed

with the services, according to the

National Air and Space Museum

website.

In 1962, John Glenn was the first

American to have a meal in space.

It consisted of applesauce packed

in an aluminum tube and sugar

tablets with water.

For later Gemini and Apollo

missions, freeze-dried meals were

developed and produced with the

help of the U.S. Army Laboratory

in Natick, Mass., the museum

website says.

Now, NASA’s Food Systems

Laboratory at Houston’s Johnson

Space Center and the Space Food

Research Facility in College Sta-

tion, Texas, develop and produce

space flight foods similar to mili-

tary meals ready to eat.

They’re meant to feed NASA as-

tronauts on the International

Space Station and the Orion

spacecraft, which is designed to

take crews to the moon and be-

yond.

NASA has also been research-

ing how to grow fresh food in

space, conducting experiments at

a desert test site in Arizona over a

decade ago and aboard the Inter-

national Space Station beginning

in 2014.

Astronauts first got to sample

freshly grown food on the space

station in 2015 after they grew red

romaine lettuce from seeds con-

tained in “rooting pillows” under

LED lights, according to NASA.

It might also be possible for a

Mars colony to one day farm the

red planet. After the release of the

2015 film “The Martian,” in which

Matt Damon plays a stranded

space botanist who grows potatoes

to survive, NASA said the soil

there does actually have the nutri-

ents needed to support plant life.

Harshbarger says in the Spark

Tank presentation video that the

USAFA Green cadets want their

proposed facility to be a hub for in-

dustry and university partners to

work on addressing food sustain-

ability issues for the Air Force.

It’s not the only Spark Tank sub-

mission related to both astrologi-

cal and gastrological issues.

A master sergeant at the Phoe-

nix-based 161st Air Refueling

Wing proposed restarting low-

gravity research using modular

kits to convert KC-135 Stratotank-

ers into something like the defunct

NASA research KC-135A, which

was dubbed the Vomit Comet.

“I call my innovation RALF, the

Reduced-gravity Aircraft Labora-

tory Framework,” the master ser-

geant said in his video submission.

Space: Cadets hoping to test methods for growing food in space

garland.chad@stripes.comTwitter: @chadgarland

NASA

The first growth test of crops in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station yielded great results.

SCOTT KELLY/NASA

Astronaut Scott Kelly nurseddying space zinnias back tohealth on the International SpaceStation.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK

MOSCOW — Russia is report-

ing its largest daily number of new

coronavirus infections, more than

70% up on the number a month

ago as the country faces a sus-

tained rise in cases.

The national coronavirus task

force said Sunday that 34,303 new

infections were recorded in the

previous day, compared with the

20,174 reported Sept. 19.

The death toll of 999 was barely

lower than the record 1,002 deaths

reported on Saturday.

Russian authorities have tried

to speed up the pace of vaccina-

tions with lotteries, bonuses and

other incentives, but widespread

vaccine skepticism and conflict-

ing signals from officials stymied

the efforts. The government said

last week that about 43 million

Russians, or some 29% of the

country’s nearly 146 million peo-

ple, are fully vaccinated.

Despite the mounting toll, the

Kremlin has ruled out a new na-

tionwide lockdown like the one

early on in the pandemic that bad-

ly hurt the economy, eroding

President Vladimir Putin’s pop-

ularity. Instead, it has delegated

the power to enforce coronavirus

restrictions to regional author-

ities.

Some of Russia’s 85 regions

have restricted attendance at

large public events and limited ac-

cess to theaters, restaurants and

other venues. Daily life is going on

largely as normal, however, in

Moscow, St. Petersburg and many

other Russian cities.

The highest concentrations of

cases are mostly in comparatively

urbanized western Russia and in

the developed areas along the Pa-

cific Coast such as Vladivostok

and Khabarovsk, but the sparsely

populated Siberian region of Sak-

ha and Chukotka in the extreme

northeast have also shown high

case rates of more than 150 infec-

tions per 100,000 people over a

seven-day period.

Overall, the coronavirus task

force has registered more than

7.99 million confirmed cases and

223,312 deaths — Europe’s high-

est death toll. The official record

ranks Russia as having the fifth-

most pandemic deaths in the

world following the United States,

Brazil, India and Mexico.

Russia sees sustained rise in new daily coronavirus infection numbersAssociated Press

ROME — Tens of thousands of

union members and other Italians

gathered in Rome to stand up

against rising fascism Saturday, a

week after right-wing extremists

forced their way into the head-

quarters of Italy’s most powerful

labor confederation while protest-

ing a COVID-19 certification re-

quirement for workplaces.

The head of the CGIL union con-

federation, Maurizio Landini, led

the protest with other labor lead-

ers under the slogan: “Never

again fascism.”

Organizers put the crowd as-

sembled in front of St. John Lat-

eran basilica for the protest at

about 100,000 strong.

Some participants waved flags

reading “Si Vax,” a direct retort to

the protesters armed with sticks

and metal bars who trashed

CGIL’s Rome headquarters on

Oct. 9. They were protesting a gov-

ernment requirement, which took

effect Friday, mandating proof of

vaccination, a negative test within

48 hours or proof of having reco-

vered from COVID-19 to access

places of employment.

Landini, CGIL’s secretary gen-

eral, has compared the assault on

the union headquarters to 1921 at-

tacks by the newly founded Fas-

cist party against union organiz-

ers. Fascist leader Benito Musso-

lini came to power the next year

and later brought Italy into World

War II as an ally of Nazi Germany.

Landini said Saturday’s event

was intended as “a demonstration

that defends democracy for every-

one. This is the topic.”

The head of the Italian General

Confederation of Labour trade

union, Luigi Sbarra, said an attack

against unions led by the far-right

Forza Nuova party “made the only

choice to be here, united against

all types of fascism.” He called for

the swift dissolution of the party

by Italian authorities.

ANDREW MEDICHINI/AP

Demonstrators take part in a march organized by Italy’s main labor unions, in Rome’s St. John Lateransquare on Saturday.

Rally in Rome targets fascists,counters vaccination protesters

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Mask rules, vac-

cination mandates and business

shutdowns have all landed in the

courts during the COVID-19 out-

break, confronting judges with

questions of science and govern-

ment authority. Now they are in-

creasingly being asked to weigh in

on the deworming drug ivermectin.

At least two dozen lawsuits have

been filed around the United States,

many in recent weeks, by people

seeking to force hospitals to give

their COVID-stricken loved ones

ivermectin, a drug for parasites that

has been promoted by conservative

commentators as a treatment de-

spite a lack of conclusive evidence

that it helps people with the virus.

Interest in the drug started rising

toward the end of last year and the

beginning of this one, when studies

— some later withdrawn, in other

countries — seemed to suggest iver-

mectin had some potential and it be-

came a hot topic of conversation

among conservatives on social

media.

The lawsuits, several of them fil-

ed by the same western New York

lawyer, cover similar ground. The

families have gotten prescriptions

for ivermectin, but hospitals have

refused to use it on their loved ones,

who are often on ventilators and fac-

ing death.

There has been a mix of results in

state courts. Some judges have re-

fused to order hospitals to give iver-

mectin. Others have ordered medi-

cal providers to give the medication,

despite concerns it could be harm-

ful.

In a September case on Staten Is-

land, state Supreme Court Judge

Ralph Porzio refused to order the

use of ivermectin in a situation

where a man sued a hospital on be-

half of his ill father, citing its unpro-

ven impact.

“This court will not require any

doctor to be placed in a potentially

unethical position wherein they

could be committing medical mal-

practice by administering a medi-

cation for an unapproved, alleged

off-label purpose,” he wrote.

In some cases, an initial order to

give the drug has been reversed lat-

er.

Hospitals have pushed back, say-

ing their standards of care don’t al-

low them to give patients a drug that

hasn’t been approved for COVID

and could potentially cause harm,

and that allowing laypeople and

judges to overrule medical profes-

sionals is a dangerous road to go

down.

“The way medicine works is, they

are the experts, the doctors and ...

the hospitals,” said Arthur Caplan,

professor of bioethics at New York

University’s Grossman School of

Medicine. “When you go there,

you’re not going to a restaurant. You

don’t order your own treatments.

“You can’t have a medical field

that’s subjected to having to prac-

tice according to patient demand

backed up by court orders. That is

positively horrible medicine” Ca-

plan said.

Ralph Lorigo doesn’t see it that

way. The attorney from Buffalo,

N.Y., filed his first of several iver-

mectin lawsuits in January after be-

ing approached by the family of an

80-year-old woman who was in the

hospital on a ventilator. His second

case was later that month, for a hos-

pitalized 65-year-old woman.

In both cases, judges ordered hos-

pitals to give the womenivermectin

as their families wanted. Both wom-

en survived their hospitalizations.

Lorigo, who has taken on numer-

ous cases since, is adamant that

ivermectin works. Health experts

and federal agencies have said that

any evidence of it being effective

against COVID-19 is slim and more

research needs to be done. Studies

are currently underway.

Lawsuits demanddubious ivermectinfor COVID patients

BY DEEPTI HAJELA

Associated Press

Monday, October 18, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 9

NATION

Some of the defendants charged

in the storming of the U.S. Capitol

are turning away defense lawyers

and electing to represent them-

selves, undeterred by their lack of

legal training or repeated warn-

ings from judges.

That choice already has led to

some curious legal maneuvers

and awkward exchanges in court.

A New York man charged in the

Jan. 6 insurrection wants to bill

the government for working on his

own case. A Pennsylvania restau-

rant owner is trying to defend her-

self from jail. A judge told another

New Yorker that he may have in-

criminated himself during cour-

troom arguments.

The right to self-representation

is a bedrock principle of the Con-

stitution. But a longtime judge cit-

ed an old adage in advising a for-

mer California police chief that he

would have “a fool for a client” if

he represented himself.

And Michael Magner, a New

Orleans criminal defense lawyer

and former federal prosecutor,

observed, “Just because you have

a constitutional right to do some-

thing doesn’t necessarily mean

that it’s smart.”

The decision by at least five de-

fendants to defend themselves is

bound to create a host of challeng-

es, particularly for those behind

bars. They risk getting themselves

in more legal trouble if they say

the wrong thing in court. They

have to sift through the mountain

of evidence investigators have col-

lected in the attack. And the strat-

egy is already testing judges’ abil-

ity to maintain control of their

courtrooms.

“I would never represent my-

self if I were charged with a

crime,” U.S. District Judge Royce

Lamberth told Alan Hostetter be-

fore allowing him to handle his

own defense against riot charges.

The judge warned the ex-police

chief that he has never seen any-

one successfully represent him-

self since his appointment to the

bench in 1987.

Hostetter was arrested in June

along with five other men on

charges that they conspired to

stop Congress from certifying Joe

Biden’s victory in the presidential

election. The indictment links four

of Hostetter’s co-defendants to the

Three Percenters, a wing of the

militia movement.

Hostetter, who began teaching

yoga after more than 20 years as

an officer, told Lamberth that the

“corruption of this investigation”

is one reason he wants to repre-

sent himself. His finances also

were a factor.

“I believe that it’s a governmen-

tal strategy and tactic that if they

can’t convict you, they at least

want to bankrupt and destroy

you,” Hostetter said.

Another defendant represent-

ing himself, Brandon Fellows of

upstate New York, recently un-

successfully petitioned U.S. Dis-

trict Judge Trevor McFadden to

release him from jail.

Video shows Fellows, who was

photographed wearing a fake or-

ange beard during the riot, with

his feet propped on a table in the

office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.

Fellows was locked up this sum-

mer for missing a mental health

evaluation appointment and ha-

rassing a probation officer.

Fellows took the stand to argue

for his release, brushing aside

warnings from the judge that he

could open himself to perjury

charges if he testified.

In doing so, Fellows may have

compounded his legal troubles.

Fellows told McFadden that he

used what he described as a “loop-

hole” he had read about online to

disqualify a different judge over-

seeing an unrelated case in New

York. Fellows said he listed a

phone number for that judge’s

wife as his own number in court

records to make it appear that he

knows the woman.

Fellows said he also asked the

public defender who represented

him before he rebuffed counsel in

the riot case if he should try to get

McFadden replaced by contacting

the judge’s family, but the lawyer

warned him that would get him ar-

rested.

In denying Fellows’ bid for re-

lease, McFadden told Fellows that

he admitted to likely obstructing

justice in the New York case and

considering it in his riot case.

McFadden, who was nominated

by President Donald Trump, also

jailed self-represented defendant

Pauline Bauer last month for fail-

ing to comply with court orders to

cooperate with probation officers

during her pretrial release.

Bauer was arrested in May

along with a friend who joined her

at the Capitol. Video from a police

officer’s body camera that cap-

tured Bauer saying to bring out

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-

Calif., to be hanged, the FBI says.

Bauer, who owns a restaurant in

rural Kane, Pa., has repeatedly in-

terrupted the judge during hear-

ings. She also has argued in vain

that the court doesn’t have any ju-

risdiction over her, expressing an

ideology that appears to comport

with the “sovereign citizens” ex-

tremist movement.

During a July 19 hearing, Bauer

told McFadden that she doesn’t

want “any lawyering from the

bench.” When the judge denied

her request to dismiss her charg-

es, she asked, “On what terms?”

“You don’t get to demand terms

from me,” replied McFadden.

McFadden appointed lawyers to

serve as standby counsel for Fel-

lows and Bauer and assist at the

defendants’ request.

U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/AP

This image from Metropolitan Police Department body worn camera video and contained in the Statementof Facts supporting an arrest warrant for Pauline Bauer, pointing second to left, was taken in the Rotundaof the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.

Risky business: Some Capitolriot defendants forgo lawyers

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Framed by

the Capitol, President Joe Biden

paid tribute Saturday to fallen law

enforcement officers and honored

those who fought off the Jan. 6 in-

surrection at that very site by de-

claring “because of you, democra-

cy survived.”

Biden spoke at the 40th Annual

National Peace Officers’ Memo-

rial Service to remember the 491

law enforcement officers who

died in the line of duty in 2019 and

2020. Standing where the violent

mob tried to block his own ascen-

sion to the presidency, Biden sin-

gled out the 150 officers who were

injured and the five who died in

the attack’s aftermath.

“Nine months ago, your broth-

ers and sisters thwarted an uncon-

stitutional and fundamentally un-

American attack on our nation’s

values and our votes. Because of

you, democracy survived,” Biden

said. “Because of these men and

women, we avoided a catastrophe,

but their heroism came at a cost to

you and your families.”

Hundreds of officers and their

families sat on chairs assembled

on the Capitol’s west front. Some

in the audience dabbed their eyes

as the president drew connections

with their loss and his own history

of grief, including the deaths of his

first wife and two children, com-

paring it to “losing part of your

soul.”

Biden also underscored the

heavy burden placed on law en-

forcement officers, and rebuked

the “defund the police” political

movement, saying that those gath-

ered before him would get “more

resources, not fewer, so you can do

your job.”

“We expect everything of you

and it’s beyond the capacity of

anyone to meet the total expecta-

tions,” Biden said. “Being a cop to-

day is one hell of a lot harder than

it’s ever been.”

Biden played up his working-

class roots, noting that he had

many childhood friends who went

on to become police officers, and

said he had spoken at the event

many times before. But while Bi-

den has sought to identify with the

uniformed services throughout

his political career, the organiza-

tion that ran Saturday’s event, the

National Fraternal Order of Po-

lice, endorsed Donald Trump in

the 2020 election and many rank-

and-file police officers supported

the former president.

Biden’s efforts to pass a police

overhaul bill to tighten practices

after the death of George Floyd in

Minneapolis collapsed, with con-

gressional negotiators announc-

ing in September that talks had

ended without an agreement. That

was a setback for the Democratic

president, who campaigned on the

need for policing changes and had

declared it an early priority.

Additionally, his agenda on gun

violence has largely stalled and

his initial pick to run the Bureau of

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

and Explosives stepped aside in

the face of staunch opposition.

More recently, Biden has ex-

pressed hope that he can still sign

a comprehensive police overhaul

bill into law, while exploring more

executive actions to help hold po-

lice officers accountable for

breaking the law.

Biden: ‘Democracysurvived’ Capitolriot due to police

BY JONATHAN LEMIRE

Associated Press

MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden place flowers on a wreathduring a ceremony honoring fallen law enforcement officers at the40th annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the U.S.Capitol in Washington on Saturday.

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NATION

Police: Woman raped ontrain, bystanders no help

UPPER DARBY, Pa. — A wom-

an was raped by a stranger on a

commuter train in suburban Phi-

ladelphia in the presence of other

riders who a police official said

“should have done something.”

Superintendent Timothy Bern-

hardt of the Upper Darby Police

Department said officers were

called to the 69th Street terminal

around 10 p.m. Wednesday. South-

eastern Pennsylvania Transporta-

tion Authority police found the

woman and arrested a man.

The episode was captured on

surveillance video that showed

other people on the train at the

time, Bernhardt said.

“There was a lot of people, in my

opinion, that should have inter-

vened; somebody should have

done something,” Bernhardt said.

Man, 41, who killed boy as

a teen granted paroleALBANY, N.Y. — Eric M. Smith,

who was 13 when he killed a 4-

year-old boy with a rock in western

New York, has been granted pa-

role, corrections officials said on

Saturday.

Smith, 41, was granted release

as early as Nov. 17, the Department

of Corrections and Community Su-

pervision said.

Smith was convicted of second-

degree murder in 1994 for luring

Derrick Robie into woods near the

younger boy’s home and striking

his head with a rock. Smith was

sentenced to nine years to life in

prison.

Police: 1 deputy killed, 2

wounded in bar ambushHOUSTON — A man with an

AR-15-style rifle ambushed three

constable deputies outside a Hous-

ton bar early Saturday, killing one

and leaving two others wounded,

authorities in Texas said.

The deputies were working se-

curity at the bar when two of them

responded to a witness’ report of a

suspected robbery outside around

2:15 a.m., according to Harris

County Precinct 4 Constable Mark

Herman. The two deputies were

trying to arrest someone when an-

other person ambushed them,

Herman’s office said in a state-

ment posted on Facebook.

University offers to rehire

professor after acquittalKNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The

University of Tennessee at Knox-

ville has offered to reinstate a pro-

fessor who was acquitted of feder-

al charges that had accused him of

hiding his relationship with a Chi-

nese university while receiving

NASA research grants, a letter ob-

tained by the Knoxville News Sen-

tinel says. The newspaper reports

that in the Oct. 14 letter, a tenured

engineering professor job was of-

fered to Anming Hu.

From The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As traffic fa-

talities spike in the COVID-19 pan-

demic, the federal agency in

charge of auto safety is struggling

with a growing backlog of safety

rules ordered by Congress that are

years overdue and could save

thousands of lives.

A governors’ highway safety

group says the United States faces

a“car crash epidemic” at the same

time that safety rules languish.

An Associated Press review of

rule-making by the National High-

way Traffic Safety Administration

under the last three presidents

found at least 13 auto safety rules

past due, including a rear seat belt

reminder requirement passed by

Congress in 2012 that was to be im-

plemented by 2015.

David and Wendy Mills wonder

whether their 16-year-old daugh-

ter would be alive today if the seat

belt warning rule had been in

place.

Kailee Mills was riding in the

back seat of a car to a Halloween

party in 2017 just a mile from her

house in Spring, Texas, when she

unfastened her seat belt to slide

next to a friend and take a selfie.

Moments later, the driver veered

off the road and the car flipped,

ejecting her.

She died instantly. Her three

friends who remained buckled

walked away with minor scrapes.

“Government should not take

this long to act on safety,” said Da-

vid Mills, who started a Houston-

area foundation in Kailee’s honor

aimed at promoting seat belt safe-

ty. The foundation keeps a list,

known as “Kailee’s Angels,” of

teenagers around the country who

died in car crashes after failing to

buckle up.

That rear seat belt rule, which it

is estimated could save hundreds

of lives each year, is now sched-

uled to start moving through the

cumbersome regulatory process

in January. The agency has repeat-

edly missed past deadlines, even

those promised in federal court.

The ever-growing rules backlog

is one of the biggest tests for the

federal agency since its founding

in 1970, when public pressure led

by safety activist Ralph Nader

spurred NHTSA’s mission to “save

lives, prevent injuries and reduce

economic costs due to road traffic

crashes.” Advocates worry that its

mission risks getting bogged down

under President Joe Biden, at a

time of increasing road accidents

during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In many cases, the delayed rules

are opposed by powerful industri-

es as expensive, outdated or re-

strictive. Other pending rules have

been slowed by bureaucracy or

taken a back seat to other priori-

ties. President Donald Trump

sidetracked at least four major

road safety proposals in develop-

ment, such as medical evaluations

of commercial truck drivers for

sleep apnea.

Among the rules awaiting

NHTSA’s action is one on side-im-

pact standards for child car seats,

originally due in 2014. In July, a

group of attorneys general from 17

states and the District of Columbia

wrote the Biden administration

urging immediate action and call-

ing the delays troubling and unac-

ceptable. Others would require

car manufacturers to maintain re-

cords of safety defects for at least

10 years and put into place anti-

ejection protection measures for

larger buses. Standards for self-

adjusting “smart” car headlights,

begun in 2018, are incomplete de-

spite car industry support.

“It’s frustrating,” said Jonathan

Adkins, executive director of the

Governors Highway Safety Asso-

ciation, which represents state

highway safety offices and says the

crashes are an epidemic. His

group has been advocating for rear

seat belt reminders since 2015, not-

ing at the time that fewer passen-

gers were buckling up in the back

when riding in Uber, Lyft and oth-

er for-hire vehicles.

The $1 trillion bipartisan infras-

tructure bill pending in Congress

could add to NHTSA’s docket with

its sweeping technological re-

quirements, from new breathalyz-

er devices to disable a car if a driv-

er is drunk to stiffer standards for

reporting safety recalls.

The 600-employee federal agen-

cy hasn’t had a permanent leader

since 2017. Steven Cliff, a former

deputy executive officer at the Cal-

ifornia Air Resources Board,

which regulates auto emissions, is

the temporary head.

“We need a NHTSA administra-

tor who is confirmed and has the

political ability to get some things

done,” Adkins said. “We’re in a bad

spot in traffic safety. We’ve got

work to do. And we need the ad-

ministration’s attention.”

NHTSA, a part of the Depart-

ment of Transportation, declined

to comment on the growing back-

log. The agency instead released a

list of steps it has taken to address

auto safety, including recently an-

nounced proposed fuel economy

standards that Biden has promot-

ed to confront climate change.

The agency points in part to

plans to require or set standards

for automatic emergency braking

systems on new passenger vehi-

cles and heavy trucks, a reversal

from the Trump administration,

and to move forward on some of the

delayed regulations, though it did

not offer guarantees on timing.

NHTSA has pledged to require

what it said are rigorous testing

standards for autonomous vehi-

cles, and set up a database to docu-

ment automated-vehicle crashes.

An estimated 38,680 people

were killed in traffic crashes in

2020, the most since 2007, even

though total miles driven dropped

at the beginning of the pandemic.

In the first three months of 2021,

8,730 people died in motor vehicle

traffic crashes, a 10.5% increase

from the same period last year.

Last year, over half of all crash

fatalities involved unbelted driv-

ers or occupants, the highest level

since 2012, according to NHTSA.

Auto safety rules years overdueAP review: At least 13 notimplemented as required

BY HOPE YEN

AND TOM KRISHER

Associated Press

MICHAEL WYKE/AP

David and Wendy Mills, parents of Kailee Mills, who was killed four years ago in an automobile accidentwhen riding in the back seat without a seat belt, hold a photo of their daughter in Spring, Texas. Kailee hadunfastened her seat belt to take a selfie just before the driver veered off the road and the car flipped. 

ORANGE, Calif. — Bill Clinton

was released Sunday from the

Southern California hospital where

he had been treated for an infection

and will head to New York to contin-

ue his recovery, a spokesman said.

The former president left the Uni-

versity of California Irvine Medical

Center around 8 a.m. with Hillary

Clinton on his arm. He gave a

thumbs-up when a reporter asked

how he was feeling. He and Hillary

then boarded a black SUV and de-

parted in a motorcade escorted by

the California Highway Patrol.

Clinton’s “fever and white blood

cell count are normalized, and he

will return home to New York to fin-

ish his course of antibiotics,” Dr. Al-

pesh N. Amin said in a statement

shared on Twitter by a Clinton

spokesman.

Clinton, 75, was admitted Tues-

day to the hospital with an infection,

officials said.

An aide to the former president

said Clinton had a urological infec-

tion that spread to his bloodstream,

but he is on the mend and never went

into septic shock, a potentially life-

threatening condition. The aide,

who spoke to reporterson the condi-

tion his name wasn’t used, said Clin-

ton was in an intensive care section

but wasn’t receiving ICU care.

Bill Clinton discharged from Calif. hospital, headed homeAssociated Press

Monday, October 18, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 11

AMERICAN ROUNDUP

New high-tech buoycoming to Buzzards Bay

MA BOSTON — A high-

tech buoy designed to

enhance maritime safety is being

installed in Buzzards Bay, state

environmental officials said.

The buoy that measures wave

height, wave period, wave direc-

tion and surface water temper-

ature every 30 minutes will be

placed about four nautical miles

southwest of Cuttyhunk Island,

according to a statement from the

state Department of Environmen-

tal Protection.

The buoy is a joint project in-

volving the state, the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-

istration, and the Northeastern

Regional Association of Coastal

Ocean Observing Systems.

“Adding this new buoy in Buz-

zards Bay will expand Cape Cod’s

marine safety network and help

ensure safe passage for mariners

traveling through these important

waters,” state Energy and Envi-

ronmental Affairs Secretary

Kathleen Theoharides said.

Snacking ‘Safeway Bear’shot, killed at campsite

CA LAKE TAHOE — A

black bear that was

caught on video snacking on food

in stores near Lake Tahoe was

shot and killed over the summer

when it refused to leave a Califor-

nia campsite, authorities said.

The black bear dubbed the

“Safeway Bear” was shot in Al-

pine County near the Nevada bor-

der, after a family was unable to

chase the bear away, the Califor-

nia Department of Fish and Game

announced.

The roughly 15-year-old male

bear first made the news last year

when it was recorded inside a Safe-

way and a Chevron convenience

store as well as in other stores on

Lake Tahoe’s North Shore.

Man jailed for settinggirlfriend on fire

NC KENANSVILLE — A

North Carolina man

was jailed on a $1 million bond af-

ter investigators said he set his

girlfriend on fire, a sheriff’s office

said.

The Duplin County Sheriff’s Of-

fice said in a news release that

deputies responded to a call in

which a woman said her boyfriend

doused her with rubbing alcohol

and set her on fire. The woman

suffered severe burns over a large

portion of her body, the sheriff’s

office said.

Deputies arrested Raeford Bell,

64, and charged him with assault

with a deadly weapon with intent

to kill inflicting serious injury.

State intends to scrapschool letter grades

LA BATON ROUGE —

Louisiana’s top school

board agreed to shelve letter

grades for public schools this year

because of the coronavirus out-

break, assuming the federal gov-

ernment signs off on the move as

expected.

The action from the state Board

of Elementary and Secondary

Education means that grades and

school performance scores that

are usually released in November

will be set aside amid classroom

upheaval and falling test scores

blamed on the pandemic.

The Advocate reported that

state Superintendent of Education

Cade Brumley said he’s confident

the waiver request will win feder-

al approval. At least 45 other

states have gotten federal clear-

ance to cancel school rating proce-

dures, and the U.S. Department of

Education encouraged states to

apply for waivers because of the

pandemic.

Man sentenced after sontook explosive to school

MI NEWAYGO — A man

whose son accidentally

detonated a homemade explosive

at a school in western Michigan

was sentenced to four years in

prison.

David Saylor Sr. didn’t have a

direct role in the incident that day,

though he “may have turned a

blind eye to his son’s actions cre-

ating these devices,” defense at-

torney James Scozzari said in a

court filing.

Saylor’s son brought a home-

made explosive to Newaygo High

School and accidentally detonated

it, injuring himself and others.

The teen lost both thumbs.

Saylor admitted that he and his

son designed and made explosives

for two years.

Vendor sells Nazi gear atmajor motorcycle rally

FL DAYTONA BEACH —

A vendor at a major mo-

torcycle rally in Florida briefly

sold hats emblazoned with Nazi

symbols, saying she considered

them a tribute to World War II vet-

erans who helped defeat the Ger-

mans.

The Daytona Beach

News-Journal reported that the

vendor was selling the hats em-

broidered with swastikas and a

skull-and-bones logo used by the

Nazi SS at a stand during Biketo-

berfest, an ongoing festival that

draws thousands of bikers to the

Daytona Beach area.

The vendor said she had sold the

hats at other biker rallies around

the country without complaint.

The woman, who would only give

her name Jenny, also sells rings,

wallet chains and hats without Na-

zi logos. The owner of the property

where Jenny was selling her

goods ordered her to remove the

Nazi merchandise and she com-

plied.

Man charged with runningunlicensed funeral home

OH TOLEDO — An Ohio

man accused of run-

ning unlicensed funeral oper-

ations was indicted on corpse

abuse and other charges weeks af-

ter authorities removed two bod-

ies from a Columbus building that

prosecutors allege he used for ma-

keshift funeral services.

Shawnte Hardin is charged

with 37 counts, mostly felonies.

They include representing him-

self as a funeral director while un-

licensed, tampering with records,

theft, passing bad checks, identity

fraud and engaging in a pattern of

corrupt activity. The list also in-

cludes a misdemeanor charge al-

leging a body wasn’t properly re-

frigerated or embalmed.

He previously denied

allegations that he was running an

illegal funeral home, saying dur-

ing an interview with WBNS-TV

in Columbus that what he offered

was lower-cost services for trans-

porting and washing bodies.

Officer accused ofhaving sister shoot him

WA SHELTON — A De-

partment of Correc-

tions officer who was shot in in

Shelton was arrested and accused

of having his sister shoot him.

Community corrections officer

Christopher Floe called 911 and

said he had been shot by an un-

known person, KING-TV

reported. It sparked a search for a

“potentially armed and dangerous

person” in downtown Shelton.

Charging documents showed

investigators found inconsisten-

cies in Floe’s statement and that

when interviewed again he said he

talked his sister, Caroline Floe, in-

to shooting him.

Charging documents showed

that his sister told investigators

that her brother had asked her to

shoot him and provided her with a

gun.

Both were arrested and booked

into Mason County Jail on suspi-

cion of conspiracy to commit as-

sault, conspiracy to commit a

drive-by shooting, assault and oth-

er charges.

RANDY HOEFT, THE YUMA (ARIZ.) SUN/AP

A young girl riding the “Yo Yo” swings on the midway at the Yuma County Fair Fall Fest iin Yuma, Ariz., looks down at the ground from highabove.

Getting into the swing of things

THE CENSUS

90 The approximate number of Northern Pacific rattlesnakes awoman found under her Northern California home getting

ready to hibernate. Al Wolf, director of Sonoma County Reptile Rescue, said hecrawled under the mountainside home in Santa Rosa and found a rattlesnakeright away, then another and another. He got out from under the house,grabbed two buckets, put on long, safety gloves, and went back in. He crawledon his hands, knees and stomach, tipping over more than 200 small rocks. Heremoved 22 adult rattlesnakes and 59 babies when he first visited the home inthe Mayacamas Mountains. He returned another two times since and collected11 more snakes. He also found a dead cat and dead possum.

From The Associated Press

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NATION

LOS ANGELES — An 11th-

hour deal was reached Saturday,

averting a strike of film and tele-

vision crews that would have seen

some 60,000 behind-the-scenes

workers walk off their jobs and

would have frozen productions in

Hollywood and across the U.S.

After days of marathon negotia-

tions, representatives from the

International Alliance of Theatri-

cal Stage Employees and from the

studios and entertainment com-

panies who employ them reached

the three-year contract agree-

ment before a Monday strike

deadline, avoiding a serious set-

back for an industry that had just

gotten back to work after long

pandemic shutdowns.

“This is a Hollywood ending,”

union president Matthew Loeb

said. “Our members stood firm.”

The workers still must vote to

approve it, but the strike has been

called off with the tentative deal.

Many in Hollywood celebrated

the news.

“Good for @IATSE for stand-

ing your ground. And don’t forget

we got your back anytime you

need us,” comedian, actor and

writer Patton Oswalt said on

Twitter.

Another actor, comic and writ-

er, Yvette Nicole Brown, tweeted

“#UnionStrong!” along with a

link to a story reporting the agree-

ment.

“Congratulations IATSE broth-

ers and sisters!” Jennifer Garner

said on Instagram.

The effects of the strike would

have been immediate, with crews

not only on long-term productions

but daily series including net-

work talk shows walking off their

jobs. Shows with short turn-

arounds like soap operas would

also have felt immediate effects.

The union represents cinema-

tographers, camera operators, set

designers, carpenters, hair and

makeup artists and many others.

Union members said previous

contracts allowed their employ-

ers to force them to work exces-

sive hours and deny them reason-

able rest via meal breaks and suf-

ficient time off between shifts.

Leaders said the lowest paid

crafts were receiving unlivable

wages and streaming outlets in-

cluding Netflix, Apple and Ama-

zon were allowed to work them

even harder for less money.

IATSE’S statement Saturday

said the agreement “addresses

core issues, including reasonable

rest periods; meal breaks; a living

wage for those on the bottom of

the pay scale; and significant in-

creases in compensation to be

paid by new-media companies.”

Deal made to avert film and TV crew strikeAssociated Press

An obstacle to large-scale bit-

coin mining is finding enough

cheap energy to run the huge, pow-

er-gobbling computer arrays that

create and transact cryptocurren-

cy. One mining operation in cen-

tral New York came up with a nov-

el solution that has alarmed envi-

ronmentalists. It uses its own pow-

er plant.

Greenidge Generation runs a

once-mothballed plant near the

shore of Seneca Lake in the Finger

Lakes region to produce about 44

megawatts to run 15,300 computer

servers, plus additional electricity

it sends into the state’s power grid.

The megawatts dedicated to Bit-

coin might be enough electricity to

power more than 35,000 homes.

Proponents call it a competitive

way to mine increasingly popular

cryptocurrencies, without putting

a drain on the existing power grid.

Environmentalists see the plant

as a climate threat.

They fear a wave of resurrected

fossil-fuel plants pumping out

greenhouse gasses more for pri-

vate profit than public good. See-

ing Greenidge as a test case, they

are asking the state to deny renew-

al of the plant’s air quality permit

and put the brakes on similar pro-

jects.

“The current state of our climate

demands action on cryptocurren-

cy mining,” said Liz Moran of

Earthjustice. “We are jeopardiz-

ing the state’s abilities to meet our

climate goals, and we set the stage

for the rest of the country as a re-

sult.”

The former coal plant, in a tour-

isty region known for its glacial

lakes and riesling wines, was con-

verted to natural gas by Greenidge

and began producing electricity in

2017. Bitcoin mining at the plant,

which has a 106-megawatt capaci-

ty, started in earnest last year. The

company said it was “bringing a

piece of the world’s digital future”

to upstate New York.

Bitcoin miners unlock bitcoins

by solving complex, unique puz-

zles. As the value of Bitcoin goes

up, the puzzles become increas-

ingly more difficult, and it re-

quires more computer power to

solve them. Estimates on how

much energy Bitcoin uses vary.

Opponents are frustrated that

Greenidge applied to run a power

plant but are now operating a mine

that is taking up more of the plant’s

power.

Greenidge says mining was not

part of the plan when the plant

came back online and note they

continue to provide power to the

grid. From January through June,

Greenidge said it used 58% of its

power for mining.

Bitcoin-mining power plant raises ire of environmentalistsAssociated Press

JULIE JACOBSON/AP

A brief patch of early morning sunlight brightens the landscapearound the Greenidge Generation power plant Friday in Dresden, N.Y.A Bitcoin mining operation took over the plant, which now producesabout 44 megawatts to run 15,300 computer servers.

ATLANTA — One of the

world’s largest elevator towers

will soon be opened to test eleva-

tors of the future as well as cur-

rent ones high above the Atlanta

suburbs.

TK Elevators’ 420-foot tower is

set to become fully operational

early next year, company execu-

tives said last week on a tour of

the new research lab and elevator

testing facility.

“This is going to transform our

industry,” said Kevin Lavelle,

CEO of the company’s North

American operations.

It’s the largest elevator test tow-

er in the Western Hemisphere,

according to the company and

general contractor Brasfield &

Gorrie, which built it.

The tower with its multiple ele-

vator testing shafts looks down in-

to the nearby Atlanta Braves’ sta-

dium and offers stunning views of

the Atlanta skyline. It’s next door

to the company’s new North

American headquarters in Cobb

County, just northwest of the city.

Construction on the tower be-

gan in 2019 with 3,000 tons of

steel, and the structure is now in

place, with interior work still on-

going as TKE prepares to fully

open it in February.

Among concepts being tested in

the high-rise: twin elevators,

which use the same elevator shaft

but operate independently, with

one car above the other, Lavelle

said. Twin elevators save space

and are able to carry passengers

more efficiently, he said.

An environmental chamber

will be able to test how elevators

operate in extreme environments,

such as the arctic cold in Canada

and searing heat of other parts of

the world, said Steve Allen, vice

president of engineering.

TK Elevators, once part of the

German firm ThyssenKrupp, was

sold last year and became a sep-

arate company. It chose Atlanta

for its North American headquar-

ters partly because of the engi-

neering talent in the metro area

and engineering schools such as

the Georgia Institute of Technol-

ogy, Lavelle said.

The company invested more

than $200 million in its headquar-

ters complex, which will be home

to more than 900 workers.

As the company plans for a

grand opening of the tower in

February, it’s aiming to open up

much of the space to the public,

including students for tours of the

facility, Lavelle said. One reason

for that is to generate interest in

engineering and the elevator in-

dustry among students who might

one day enter the field, he said.

“I think we have a real opportu-

nity with the students,” Lavelle

said.

JEFF MARTIN/AP

TK Elevators’ North American operations new elevator testing facilityrises in Atlanta. The 420­foot­tall tower is set to become fullyoperational early next year.

New skyscraper lab will testelevators high above Atlanta

Associated Press

Monday, October 18, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 13

WORLD

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A

gang blamed for kidnapping five

priests and two nuns earlier this

year in Haiti is now accused of

kidnapping 17 missionaries from a

U.S.-based organization, includ-

ing a 2-year-old, police said Sun-

day.

The 400 Mawozo gang kid-

napped the group — which also in-

cluded some elderly people — in

Ganthier, a commune that lies

east of the capital of Port-au-

Prince, Haitian police inspector

Frantz Champagne said.

The gang, whose name roughly

translates to 400 “inexperienced

men,” controls the Croix-des-Bou-

quets area that includes Ganthier,

where they carry out kidnappings

and carjackings and extort busi-

ness owners, according to author-

ities. Haiti is once again struggling

with a spike in gang-related kid-

nappings that had diminished in

recent months, after President Jo-

venel Moïse was fatally shot at his

private residence on July 7 and a

7.2-magnitude earthquake killed

more than 2,200 people in August.

The missionaries were on their

way home Saturday from building

an orphanage, according to a

message from Ohio-based Chris-

tian Aid Ministries sent to various

religious missions.

“This is a special prayer alert,”

the one-minute message said.

“Pray that the gang members

would come to repentance.”

The message says the mission’s

field director is working with the

U.S. Embassy, and that the field

director’s family and one other

unidentified man stayed at the

ministry’s base while everyone

else visited the orphanage.

A senior U.S. official, speaking

on condition of anonymity, said

the United States is in touch with

Haitian authorities to try to re-

solve the case.

Gangs have demanded ransoms

ranging from a couple hundred

dollars to more than $1 million, ac-

cording to authorities. Last month,

a deacon was killed in front of a

church in the capital of Port-au-

Prince and his wife kidnapped,

one of dozens of people who have

been abducted in recent months.

Gang kidnaps a group ofUS missionaries in Haiti

Associated Press

LONDON — The man arrested

on suspicion of fatally stabbing a

long-serving British lawmaker

has been identified as Ali Harbi

Ali, according to several British

media outlets.

David Amess, who represented

Southend West in Essex for the

ruling Conservative Party, was at-

tacked Friday while meeting with

constituents in a church building

in his home district, about 40 miles

east of London.

Authorities say they are treat-

ing the killing as terrorism, poten-

tially motivated by Islamist extre-

mism. Police did not reveal the

man’s identity. But several media

outlets in Britain named the 25-

year-old suspect late Saturday

night, describing him as a British

national of possible Somali heri-

tage.

Police said Saturday evening

that a warrant of further detention

was granted, meaning detectives

have until Friday to question the

suspect regarding ties to terror-

ism. The BBC said that several

years ago Ali had been referred to

Prevent, the government’s coun-

terextremism program, but that

he was not known to the security

services.

The suspect was not on a terror-

ism watch list, authorities said. No

group has come forward claiming

responsibility for inspiring or di-

recting the attack.

Early Saturday, the counterter-

rorism division of London’s Met-

ropolitan Police force formally de-

clared the incident an act of ter-

rorism. “The early investigation

has revealed a potential motiva-

tion linked to Islamist extre-

mism,” a police statement said,

adding that police believe the man

acted alone.

“We are not seeking anyone else

in connection with the incident at

this time,” police said.

Amess died at the scene.

Suspect named indeadly attack onBritish lawmaker

The Washington Post

JOHN STILLWELL/AP

Conservative lawmaker DavidAmess in 2003 outside theHouses of Parliament inWestminster, London. Britishpolice say a man has beenarrested in the stabbing death ofAmess. 

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Jamie Lee Curtis stars in “Halloween Kills.” Curtis says horror movieshave come a long way in their representation of women.

Jamie Lee Curtis is a bona fide scream queen —

but fright flicks aren’t her thing.

The actress has been in — and survived — a dozen

horror movies, from being stalked by Michael Myers’

bogeyman in the “Halloween” films to trying to live

through “Prom Night” in the high school slasher.

The horror movie genre is in her blood, of course,

thanks to her mother Janet Leigh’s unforgettable role

in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”

But Curtis — who stars in “Halloween Kills,” the

latest installment of the franchise, which opened over

the weekend — isn’t into scary movies at all.

“I’m not an intellectual about horror films. I don’t

study them. I don’t like them. I haven’t watched any

of them. I couldn’t name any of them,” Curtis said.

Yet the actress, whose father was Hollywood star

Tony Curtis, is well-versed on the importance of her

mother’s role in the groundbreaking “Psycho,” wide-

ly considered to be the first Hollywood slasher mo-

vie.

Discussing Leigh’s infamous shower scene in the

1960 movie, Curtis, 62, said, “When Janet Leigh was

in a bra in ‘Psycho,’ it was shocking that she was seen

in a bed, getting off a bed in a bra. We’ve come a long

way, baby.

“That was shocking then. Her death, 20 minutes or

30 minutes, into the movie — shocking.”

Curtis, who co-starred with her mother in the 1980

supernatural horror “The Fog,” says of “Psycho” di-

rector Hitchcock: “He knew what he was doing.”

In “Halloween Kills,” Curtis reprises her role as

Laurie Strode — healing in the hospital from her fiery

battle with Michael Myers in 2018’s “Halloween.”

When she and the town of Haddonfield learn that the

masked bogeyman is still out there, they resolve to

hunt down and finally kill Michael.

The original “Halloween,” directed by John Car-

penter, shook audiences to their core in 1978.

“How do you make something terrifying? Take the

most ubiquitous ... idealization of an innocent girl: A

babysitter in a small Midwestern town on Halloween

night and what do you collide her with? This enigmat-

ic, evil inhuman form,” said Curtis.

Curtis can trace the line from the horror genre’s

treatment of “Psycho’s” Marion — a sexually liber-

ated woman with a penchant for thievery who’s made

to die for her sins — to its approach to Laurie, who

refuses to be a victim.

She pointed to a line in “Halloween Kills,” in which

her character — trapped in a hospital bed for much of

the film — notes that in order to defeat Michael, “‘We

fight. We always fight.’

“I think that’s where we’ve come. Women fight,”

said Curtis.

“We fight for everything. Women are fighters. And

we are finally being able to be recognized as such.

There’s a feeling of strength and empowerment that

women are showing all over the world. Not enough.

But it’s starting to come around. And I think this is a

good example of it.”

Frights just a day at workJamie Lee Curtis doesn’t watch horror movies despite starring in many

BY JAMI GANZ

New York Daily News

A work by British street artist

Banksy that sensationally self-

shredded just after it sold at auc-

tion three years ago fetched al-

most 18.6 million pounds ($25.4

million) on Oct. 14 — a record for

the artist, and close to 20 times its

pre-shredded price.

“Love is in the Bin” was offered

by Sotheby’s in London, with a

presale estimate of 4 million

pounds to 6 million pounds ($5.5

million to $8.2 million).

After a 10-minute bidding war

involving nine bidders, it sold for

three times the high estimate to an

undisclosed buyer.

The piece consists of a half-

shredded canvas in an ornate

frame bearing a spray-painted im-

age of a girl reaching for a heart-

shaped red balloon.

When it last sold at Sotheby’s in

October 2018, the piece was

known as “Girl With Balloon.”

Just as an anonymous European

buyer made the winning bid — for

1million pounds ($1.4 million) — a

hidden shredder embedded in the

frame by Banksy whirred to life,

leaving half the canvas hanging

from the frame in strips.

Sotheby’s received some criti-

cism at the time for failing to spot

the hidden shredder. But the 2018

buyer decided to go through with

the purchase, a decision that was

vindicated last week.

The work quickly became one of

Banksy’s most famous, and Sothe-

by’s sent it on tour to cities includ-

ing New York and Hong Kong be-

fore the auction.

Auctioneer Oliver Barker joked

that he was “terrified” to bring

down the hammer to end the sale.

There were jitters among Sothe-

by’s staff to the last that Banksy

had another surprise planned.

Cher sues Sonny Bono’s

heirs over revenueCher has sued the widow of her

former musical partner and ex-

husband Sonny Bono over royal-

ties for Sonny and Cher songs in-

cluding “I Got You Babe” and

“The Beat Goes On.”

In a federal lawsuit filed Oct. 13

in Los Angeles, Cher alleges that

former Rep. Mary Bono and other

defendants have attempted to ter-

minate provisions of business

agreements Cher and Sonny Bono

reached when they divorced in

1975 that entitled each to 50% of

songwriting and recording royal-

ties.

The lawsuit says that Sonny Bo-

no’s heirs filed notice in 2016 that

they were terminating some of his

song licensing agreements, but

they “did not terminate, and could

not have terminated” his agree-

ments with Cher.

The breach-of-contract lawsuit

alleges that the damages to Cher

total at least $1 million.

Mary Bono’s attorney said the

family’s moves are within their

rights and the law.

Other newsGary Paulsen, who inspired

young readers with novels about

the beauty and danger of the wil-

derness — most notably “Hatch-

et,” about a boy who learns to sur-

vive in the Canadian bush — while

drawing on his adventures as a

sled-dog racer and outdoorsman,

died Oct. 13 at his New Mexico

home. He was 82. The cause of

death was not reported.

Shredded Banksy artworkauctioned for $25.4 million

SOTHEBY’S AUCTION HOUSE/AP

Banksy’s “Love is the Bin” soldat auction for $25.4 million Oct.14 in London.

Associated Press

Adele is finally back, and it’s as

though she never left.

The British belter with the roof-

raising voice released her new

single, “Easy on Me,” on Oct. 14,

setting off a monthlong count-

down to the arrival of her long-

awaited fourth studio album, “30.”

A stately and dramatic piano

ballad in the classic Adele style,

“Easy on Me” finds the 33-year-

old singer contemplating her ex-

perience in a fraught relationship:

“There ain’t no room for a thing to

change / When we are both so

deeply stuck in our ways,” she

sings, her voice soaring yet slight-

ly crinkly around the edges, “You

can’t deny how hard I’ve tried / I

changed who I was to put you both

first / But now I give up.”

One presumes she’s singing

about her recent divorce from Si-

mon Konecki, with whom she

shares a young son.

Produced and co-written by

Greg Kurstin — who worked with

Adele on her 2015 single “Hello,”

which topped the Billboard Hot

100 for 10 straight weeks — “Easy

on Me” is the first offering from

“30,” set for release on Nov. 19.

In the song’s music video, which

also came out last week, Adele

portrays a woman driving away

from a home with her belongings

packed into a trailer.

The singer’s new album will fol-

low her 2015 blockbuster, “25,”

which has been certified 11-times-

platinum in the U.S. alone and won

five Grammy Awards, including

album of the year. (Each of

Adele’s LPs has been titled after

the age at which she wrote it.)

Inspired by what she called “the

most turbulent period” of her life

in an Instagram post, “30” will re-

portedly feature collaborations

with writers and producers in-

cluding Max Martin and Tobias

Jesso Jr., both of whom she’s

worked with before, as well as

newcomers Inflo, known for his

partnership with Danger Mouse,

and Ludwig Goransson, known for

his work with Childish Gambino

and his scoring work on films such

as “Black Panther.”

Adele back and channelingbreakup with ‘Easy on Me’

TNS

Adele has released the firstsingle, “Easy on Me,” from herupcoming album, “30.”

BY MIKAEL WOOD

Los Angeles Times

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OPINION

It appears that President Joe Biden’s

administration is finally taking “no”

for an answer from Iran. Since the

summer, Secretary of State Antony

Blinken has signaled that his patience is not

infinite when it comes to his offer to re-enter

the 2015 nuclear deal. In recent days, Blinken

went a bit further, saying, “We will look at ev-

ery option to deal with the challenge posed by

Iran.”

This formulation is a classic Washington

euphemism for the prospect of military ac-

tion. Former President Barack Obama would

use a version — “all options are on the table”

— during his administration’s negotiations

with Iran. It’s meant to placate allies like Is-

rael and Saudi Arabia, who worry the U.S. is

unwilling to back up its economic war on Teh-

ran with cruise missiles and cyberattacks if

Iran gets close to becoming a nuclear thresh-

old power. And it’s meant to remind Iran’s re-

gime that the U.S. is willing to use its military

might to prevent it from obtaining nuclear

weapons.

That is the intention of the Biden adminis-

tration’s rhetorical shift. The reality, howev-

er, is more troubling.

Allies and adversaries pay more attention

to America’s deeds than its words. The most

glaring deed in this respect is Biden’s with-

drawal and surrender to the Taliban in Af-

ghanistan. In that one feckless act, the world

saw a superpower humbled by a gang of fun-

damentalists, because its last two presidents

wouldn’t leave a few thousand troops in a

country to defend an elected government that

its blood and treasure made possible.

If the U.S. wouldn’t use its military to stave

off such a humiliation, would it risk a new war

to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weap-

ons?

The second reason Blinken’s talk of “every

option” won’t work is because the adminis-

tration still believes the 2015 nuclear deal

thwarted Iran’s nuclear ambitions. It’s worth

listening to recent a conversation between

Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the

Carnegie Endowment for International

Peace, and Rob Malley, the White House spe-

cial envoy for Iran. “Of course, we have to

prepare for a world, which we are doing now,

where Iran doesn’t have constraints on its nu-

clear program and we have to consider op-

tions to deal with that,” Malley said.

Malley’s comment is revealing. Like Oba-

ma, whom Malley served in his second presi-

dential term, the envoy presents the 2015 nu-

clear deal as a meaningful check on Iran’s nu-

clear ambitions. And while that deal did place

strict limits on the quantity and quality of ura-

nium Iran could enrich, most of these limits

were set to expire between 2025 and 2030.

More important, a library of nuclear plans

stolen in 2018 by Israel’s intelligence agency,

the Mossad, disclosed the extent to which

Iran had concealed military elements of its

program during the negotiations with the

Obama administration and five other nations.

As a result, the 2015 nuclear deal accounts

for only the nuclear sites Iran had declared,

and not the ones it hid for years from the in-

ternational community. The International

Atomic Energy Agency is now seeking access

for its inspectors to three sites revealed by the

Israeli operation. The Iranians have stone-

walled.

So, at best, the 2015 deal is a partial and

temporary constraint on Iran’s nuclear pro-

gram. Considering that Iran’s supreme lead-

er has said there will be no follow-on agree-

ment to address that deal’s weaknesses, it

erodes U.S. credibility to pretend a return to

the 2015 bargain would place Iran’s nuclear

program in a box.

The good news for Blinken, Biden and Mal-

ley is that there is another way to constrain

Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In fact, it’s been in

effect for several years now. Israel’s Mossad

has waged a remarkably successful intelli-

gence war of sabotage and assassinations

against Iran’s nuclear program with real suc-

cess. Yossi Cohen, who stepped down as

Mossad chief in the summer, was uncharac-

teristically candid at a recent Jerusalem Post

conference, saying Iran “is not even close to

acquiring a nuclear weapon” due to what he

called “long-standing efforts by some forces

in the world.”

What Cohen means is that even though

Iran has demonstrated the capability to en-

rich uranium to a high enough concentration

for a weapon, Israel has degraded its ability to

place that fuel in a warhead. Some of this suc-

cess is due to the CIA’s close coordination

with the Mossad under the Trump adminis-

tration. If Biden is serious about a plan B if

Iran diplomacy fails, he should instruct his

spies to enhance that partnership.

Sabotage and assassinations are of course

no panacea. Even the best intelligence oper-

ations are prone to human error. But they are

a better option than expecting a regime of fa-

natics to be cowed by vague talk of new op-

tions and nostalgia for a weak nuclear agree-

ment.

The US has no plan B on Iranian nukes. Israel does.BY ELI LAKE

Bloomberg Opinion

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering nationalsecurity and foreign policy.

Former President Donald Trump’s

continued lies about 2020 create a

huge headache for Republican lead-

ers such as Senate Minority Leader

Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky. The more

Trump prattles on, the harder it is to look the

other way from his bizarre and false claims.

The time will soon come when McConnell will

have to do what he has long avoided: directly,

publicly and forcefully rebut Trump’s lies

about election fraud.

Trump’s all-over-the-place political mess-

aging complicates matters. On one hand,

Trump endorses numerous candidates and

argues that his fans should put his friends in of-

fice. That helps the GOP when it is deployed on

behalf of Republican nominees, as was the

case on Wednesday in Virginia’s gubernato-

rial race. GOP leaders could live with Trump’s

rants if this were primarily what he was up to.

But it’s not. He is also increasingly focusing

on his false allegations that Democrats fraud-

ulently stole the 2020 election. Trump upped

the ante Wednesday by sending a message

warning that Republican voters will not turn

out in 2022 unless GOP leaders “solved” the

purported fraud. That’s a shot across Repub-

lican leaders’ bow that Trump clearly hopes

will lead to them to embark as willing sailors

on his suicide cruise into the rocks of fact and

public opinion. Most Republicans will ignore

Trump’s suggestion not to vote even as they

hold him in high esteem. They fear the Demo-

cratic agenda too much to do otherwise. But

Republicans could be torpedoed if even a

small portion stays home. That arguably hap-

pened in Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections

in January, when Democrats captured both

seats by narrow margins as Republicans vot-

ed at lower rates than Democrats. If President

Joe Biden recovers politically, that small voter

boycott could be the difference between Re-

publicans retaking the Senate and defeat.

McConnell has tried to turn a blind eye to

Trump’s fulminations. He excoriated Trump

after the impeachment vote in February but

has otherwise not actively attempted to con-

test or rebut Trump’s claims. He clearly hopes

the issue will go away on its own.

Trump’s statement shows those hopes are

naive. As long as Trump is politically active, he

will push his election fraud narrative to any-

one who listens. That will have an effect

whether McConnell likes it or not. The only

question remaining, then, is whether benign

neglect continues to be the optimal strategy.

McConnell would be wise to start preparing

to fight back. It takes time to demolish each of

the specific allegations that too many Repub-

licans believe to be true. But without that exer-

tion, those Republicans will continue to be-

lieve the election was stolen. And if they be-

lieve that, some might not vote at all. McCon-

nell should not take that risk.

He can start with the bully pulpit he com-

mands, the Senate floor. He can give a speech

—or better yet, a series of speeches — specifi-

cally demolishing each of Trump’s lies. He

can explain why Dominion’s voting machines

couldn’t have flipped votes as many Republi-

cans believe they did, and why post-election

hand checks of paper ballots would have

caught them if they did. He can painstakingly

show how election officials in large, Demo-

cratic-run cities may have been sloppy, but

they did not stuff the ballot box after the fact to

push Biden over the top. And he can conclu-

sively prove that demographically similar

communities behaved in the same way wheth-

er they were in swing states or safe states, and

whether mail-in balloting was a feature or a

bug of each state’s voting.

McConnell shouldn’t stop there. He should

enlist the support of leading figures whom

Trump backers trust, such as Fox News hosts

Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham or radio

stars such as Mark Levin. They should be

shown the facts in excruciating detail and told

that their tacit support for Trump’s lies could

give Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

D-Calif., more power after the midterms.

Their endorsement, and those of others like

them in other conservative spheres of influen-

ce, would force Republican voters to face the

facts. And that would force Trump to face the

music: His grift is up.

McConnell is one of the savviest political

strategists of the past half-century. He proba-

bly already knows this is a Rubicon he must

cross, even if that risks an open fight with

Trump. But he also knows that the facts are on

his side, and fear of Democratic victory in the

midterms will incline even ardent Trumpians

to hear him out. That should give him the cour-

age to fuel his cunning and do what he does

best: win.

McConnell must directly refute election fraud claimsBY HENRY OLSEN

The Washington Post

Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellowat the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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ACROSS

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4 PC program

7 Meager

12 Long of “Soul

Food”

13 Actor Ferrigno

14 Luau dances

15 Dawn goddess

16 Critter with

bristles

18 Flight stat

19 Hunter in the sky

20 Chicken —

22 Punk-rock

subgenre

23 “— good cheer!”

27 Scull need

29 Krakow’s country

31 Step

34 Western flick

35 Greek geom-

etry master

37 Family docs

38 Epsilon follower

39 Slangy suffix

41 Former mates

45 Castle barriers

47 Wish undone

48 Salon tool

with bristles

52 Bol. neighbor

53 Sleep problem

54 MLB stat

55 Second person

56 Party throwers

57 Objectivist Rand

58 Compass dir.

DOWN

1 Furtive type

2 Garlicky mayo

3 Flavor

4 Dog food brand

5 More indigent

6 Jewish holiday

7 Avoid

8 Tea holder

9 Foreman foe

10 Indian bread

11 Mao — -tung

17 Hen pen

21 Kin of “Presto!”

23 World-weary

24 Consume

25 “A Chorus

Line” song

26 Dime portrait

28 “Exodus” hero

30 “Alley —”

31 “— who?”

32 Calendar abbr.

33 Play segment

36 Entryway

37 Fitzgerald title

character

40 Actress Linney

42 Dental exam

pictures

43 Continental

cash

44 Musical transition

45 Some corp.

recruits

46 Tibia’s place

48 “So there!”

49 GI’s address

50 Connections

51 Pensioned

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SCOREBOARD

Saturday’s transactionsBASEBALL

National League

ATLANTA BRAVES — Reassigned LF Ter-rance Gore and LHP Dylan Lee to the minorleagues. Activated RHP Chris Martin and1B Johan Camargo.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Activated LHPJustin Bruihl and RHP Evan Phillips. Reas-signed LHP David Price and LF Billy McKin-ney to the minor leagues.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

BOSTON CELTICS — Waived Gs ChrisClemons, Theo Pinson and Garrison Math-ews and F Luke Kornet.

BROOKLYN NETS — Announced the con-tract conversion for Malik Fitts to a two-way contract. Waived F Devontae Cacok.

CHICAGO BULLS — Waived Fs StanleyJohnson and Troy Baxter Jr. Announced acontract conversion for F Tyler Cook to atwo-way contract.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Announcedthe contract conversion for C Tacko Falland G R.J. Nembhard to two-way con-tracts. Waived Gs Mitch Ballock, Kyle Guyand Justin James.

DALLAS MAVERICKS — Waived Gs CarlikJones and Tyrell Terry, Fs Reron Hunt, Jus-tin Jackson and E.J. Onu.

DENVER NUGGETS — Waived G NikStauskas.

DETROIT PISTONS — Waived Gs JaredCunningham, Cassius Stanley and DerrickWalton Jr.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — WaivedF/C Jordan Bell, Gs Avery Bradley, MychalMulder and Gary Payton II, G/F L.J. Figue-roa and F Axel Toupane.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Waived Gs DanteExum and Christian Vital.

INDIANA PACERS — Waived Fs Justin An-derson and Bennie Boatwright, C DerekCulver, Gs Nate Hinton, Keifer Sykes andTerry Taylor.

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Waived GNate Darling and F Harry Gilles III.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived Gs KrisDunn and David Stockton and F Matt Hurt.

MIAMI HEAT — Waived Gs JavonteSmart, Dru Smith and D.J. Stewart and FMicah Potter.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Waived Gs JalenLecque and Tremont Waters, F WenyenGabriel and C Javin DeLaurier.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — WaivedF Vincent Edwards.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Waived Gs Bran-don Knight, Brandon Goodwin and M.J.Walker and F Aamir Simms.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Waived FsMamadi Diakite, Justin Jaworski and Oli-vier Sarr and G Zavier Simpson.

ORLANDO MAGIC — Re-signed C Wen-dell Carter Jr. to a rookie scale extension.Waived Gs Jeff Dowtin and Hassani Gra-vett and Fs B.J. Johnson and Admiral Scho-field.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived G Sha-quille Harrison.

PHOENIX SUNS — Waived G ChassonRandle.

PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS — Waived FsMarquese Chriss and Patrick Pattersonand G Quinn Cook.

SACRAMENTO KINGS — Waived F Ema-nuel Terry.

TORONTO RAPTORS — Waived G AshtonHagans and Breein Tyree and F Ish Wain-right.

UTAH JAZZ — Announced the contractconversion for F Malik Fitts to a two-waycontract. Waived F Nino Johnson.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Waived CJaime Echenique and Gs Jordan Goodwinand Devontae Shuler.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated OLJosh Miles and DL Jordan Phillips from in-jured reserve. Placed OL Rodney Hudsonon injured reserve. Promoted TE Ross Tra-vis to the active roster from the practicesquad and OL Danny Isidora and LB JoeWalker to the active roster from the prac-tice squad as COVID-19 replacements.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Activated WRRashod Bateman and OL Tyre Phillips frominjured reserve. Promoted RB Le’Veon Belland OT Andre Smith to the active rosterfrom the practice squad.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed RBChristian McCaffrey and G Deonte Brownon injured reserve. Promoted P Ryan Win-slow and RB Spencer Brown to the activeroster from the practice squad. Signed GMichael Jordan from the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Promoted RB ArtavisPierce (COVID-19 replacement) and OLDieter Eiselen to the active roster from the

practice squad.CINCINNATI BENGALS — Promoted RB

Trayveon Williams (standard promotion)and LB Joe Bachie (COVID-19 replace-ment) to the active roster from the prac-tice squad. Placed G D’Ante Smith on in-jured reserve.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed T AlexTaylor to the active roster from the prac-tice squad. Promoted DT Sheldon Day andCB Herb Miller to the active roster from thepractice squad. Waived TE Connor Davisfrom injured reserve.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed TE JeremySprinkle and FB Nick Ralston to the activeroster. Waived T Brandon Knight.

DENVER BRONCOS — Activated WR Jer-ryu Jeudy and RB Mike Boone from injuredreserve. Placed DB Mike Ford on injuredreserve. Promoted WRs John Brown andTyrie Cleveland to the active roster fromthe practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS — Promote WR Geroni-mo Allison and CB Nickell Roby-Colemanto the active roster from the practicesquad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Promoted WRJuwann Winfree to the active roster as aCOVID-19 replacement.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed OT LaremyTunsil on injured reserve. Activated WR Ni-co Collins from injured reserve. ReleasedLB Joe Thomas. Promoted OLs Lane Taylorand Cole Toner to the active roster fromthe practice squad. Signed QB Jeff Driskelto the active roster.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed K Rodri-go Blankenship on injured reserve. Activa-ted WR T.Y. Hilton. Promoted K MichaelBadgley and S Jordan Lucas to the activeroster from the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Promoted GK.C. McDermott and WR Laquon Treadwellto the active roster from the practicesquad. Signed K Matthew Wright to the ac-tive roster.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - Promoted DE De-mone Harris to the active roster from thepractice squad.

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Activated QBMarcus Mariota from injured reserve.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — PromotedDE Breiden Fehoko and LB Cole Christianto the active roster from the practicesquad.

LOS ANGELES RAMS — Promoted DBDonte Deayon to the active roster from thepractice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated QB TuaTagovailoa from injured reserve. Promot-ed WRs Isaiah Ford and Kirk Merritt to theactive roster from the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted TELuke Stocker to the active roster from thepractice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — ActivatedLT Isaiah Wynn from the COVID-19 list.Promoted C/G James Ferentz to the activeroster from the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Activated LB CamBrown from injured reserve. Promoted WRDante Pettis and T Korey Cunningham tothe active roster from the practice squad.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Activated OTZach Banner from injured reserve. PlacedWR JuJu Smith-Schuster on injured re-serve.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Promoted WR—Phillip Dorsett and QB Jake Luton to theactive roster from the practice squad.Placed QB Russell Wilson and RB ChrisCarson on injured reserve. Activated CBTre Brown and C Ethan Pocic from injuredreserve.

WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — Pro-moted WR Antonio Gandy-Golden and TDavid Steinmetz to the active roster fromthe practice squad.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Waived LW DerekGrant and D Greg Pateryn.

BUFFALO SABRES — Claimed D ChristianWolanin off waivers from Los Angeles.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Recalled CJustin Danforth from Cleveland (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled C Ras-mus Kupari from Ontario (AHL). Placed LWBrendan Lemieux on the COVID-19 proto-col list.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled GConnor Ingram from Milwaukee (AHL).Placed G David Rittich on the COVID-19protocol list.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Sent RW TyceThompson to Utica (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned Fs MathialLaferriere and Keean Washkurak toSpringfield (ECHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned GAmir Mifakhov to Syracuse (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed GAlexander Bishop to a amateur contract.

DEALS PRO SOCCER

MLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

New England 20 4 6 66 59 36

Nashville 11 3 15 48 46 26

Philadelphia 12 7 10 46 40 29

Orlando City 12 8 9 45 42 41

Atlanta 11 9 9 42 39 33

D.C. United 12 12 5 41 49 41

CF Montréal 11 10 8 41 42 39

NYC FC 11 10 7 40 44 32

New York 10 11 7 37 34 30

Columbus 10 12 7 37 36 39

Inter Miami CF 9 15 5 32 25 47

Chicago 7 16 7 28 31 48

Toronto FC 6 16 7 25 34 56

Cincinnati 4 17 8 20 29 55

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

Seattle 17 6 6 57 49 25

Sporting KC 15 6 7 52 51 31

Colorado 14 6 9 51 42 31

Portland 14 11 4 46 46 46

Real Salt Lake 12 11 6 42 48 45

LA Galaxy 12 11 6 42 41 46

Minn. United 11 10 8 41 32 35

LA FC 10 12 7 37 43 42

Vancouver 9 9 10 37 35 38

San Jose 8 12 9 33 36 47

Houston 6 12 12 30 35 46

FC Dallas 6 13 10 28 39 47

Austin FC 7 18 4 25 29 45

Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.

Saturday’s games

Philadelphia 2, CF Montréal 2, tieLos Angeles FC 3, San Jose 1Columbus 4, Miami 0Chicago 2, New England 2, tieAtlanta 2, Toronto FC 0Nashville 0, D.C. United 0, tieOrlando City 1, Cincinnati 0Houston 2, Seattle 1Minnesota 1, Austin FC 0Real Salt Lake 3, Colorado 1LA Galaxy 2, Portland 1

Sunday’s games

New York City FC at New York Sporting Kansas City at Vancouver

Wednesday’s games

Chicago at Cincinnati CF Montréal at Orlando City New York City FC at Atlanta New England at D.C. United Toronto FC at Miami Los Angeles FC at FC Dallas Philadelphia at Minnesota Columbus at Nashville LA Galaxy at Houston Seattle at Colorado Vancouver at Portland Austin FC at San Jose

NWSL

W L T Pts GF GA

Portland 12 6 4 40 32 17

Reign FC 12 8 3 39 34 24

Washington 10 7 6 36 28 26

Chicago 10 8 5 35 27 28

Houston 9 8 5 32 31 29

North Carolina 9 8 5 32 28 20

Gotham FC 7 5 8 29 23 18

Orlando 7 9 7 28 27 31

Louisville 5 12 5 20 19 38

Kansas City 3 13 6 15 14 32

Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.

Saturday’s games

Louisville 3, Orlando 1Chicago 2, Kansas City 1Washington 2, Reign FC 0

Sunday’s games

Gotham FC at North Carolina Portland at Houston

Friday, October 22

Gotham FC at Kansas City

BNP Paribas Open Saturday

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

Surface: Hardcourt outdoorMen’s Singles

Semifinals

Cameron Norrie (21), Britain, def. GrigorDimitrov (23), Bulgaria, 6-2, 6-4.

Nikoloz Basilashvili (29), Georgia, def.Taylor Fritz (31), United States, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Men’s DoublesChampionship

Filip Polasek, Slovakia, and John Peers(7), Australia, def. Aslan Karatsev and An-drey Rublev, Russia, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Women’s DoublesChampionship

Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Elise Mertens(2), Belgium, def. Veronika Kudermetova,Russia, and Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan,7-6 (1), 6-3.

TENNIS

Andy’s Frozen Custard 335

NASCAR Xfinity SeriesSaturday

At Texas Motor SpeedwayFort Worth, Texas

Lap length: 1.50 miles(Start position in parentheses)

1. (10) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 200laps, 0 points.

2. (3) Daniel Hemric, Toyota, 200, 44.3. (5) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 200, 45.4. (6) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 200, 43.5. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 200, 42.6. (1) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 200, 40.7. (4) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 200, 41.8. (8) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 200, 33.9. (9) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 200, 38.10. (7) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 200, 27.11. (13) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 200, 33.12. (20) Riley Herbst, Ford, 200, 30.13. (11) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 200, 32.14. (22) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 200, 23.15. (32) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 200, 0.16. (26) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 200, 23.17. (39) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 200, 0.18. (24) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet,

200, 19.19. (15) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 200, 18.20. (21) Austin Hill, Toyota, 199, 0.21. (12) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 199, 16.22. (30) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, 199, 15.23. (23) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet,

199, 14.24. (16) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 199, 13.25. (25) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet,

199, 12.26. (38) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 198, 11.27. (35) Mason Massey, Toyota, 196, 10.28. (28) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 196, 0.29. (14) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 196,

11.30. (37) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 195, 7.31. (34) Jesse Little, Chevrolet, 195, 6.32. (31) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 193, 5.33. (18) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 171, 5.34. (36) David Starr, Ford, engine, 152, 3.35. (40) Cj McLaughlin, Chevrolet, sus-

pension, 145, 2.36. (19) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, elec-

trical, 108, 1.37. (27) Tanner Berryhill, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 100, 1.38. (29) Dylan Lupton, Toyota, accident,

100, 1.39. (17) Jade Buford, Chevrolet, accident,

81, 1.40. (33) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, engine, 37, 1.

Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 115.53mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 35 minutes, 48seconds.

Margin of Victory: 1.316 seconds.Caution Flags: 10 for 54 laps.Lead Changes: 8 among 5 drivers.Lap Leaders: A.Allmendinger 0-13;

A.Cindric 14-47; D.Hemric 48-71; J.Neme-chek 72; D.Hemric 73; J.Nemechek 74-144;D.Hemric 145-174; H.Burton 175-180; J.Ne-mechek 181-200

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,Laps Led): J.Nemechek, 3 times for 92 laps;D.Hemric, 3 times for 55 laps; A.Cindric, 1time for 34 laps; A.Allmendinger, 1 time for13 laps; H.Burton, 1 time for 6 laps.

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

Top 16 in Points: 1. A.Allmendinger, 3090;2. A.Cindric, 3087; 3. J.Allgaier, 3064; 4.N.Gragson, 3062; 5. D.Hemric, 3060; 6. J.Ha-ley, 3056; 7. H.Burton, 3041; 8. B.Jones, 3030;9. J.Burton, 2115; 10. M.Snider, 2091; 11.R.Herbst, 2067; 12. J.Clements, 2057; 13.T.Gibbs, 589; 14. R.Sieg, 580; 15. B.Brown,579; 16. M.Annett, 572.

AUTO RACING

PRO BASKETBALL

WNBA playoffsx-if necessary

Finals(Best-of-five)

No. 6 Chicago 2, No. 5 Phoenix 1Chicago 91, Phoenix 77 Phoenix 91, Chicago 86, OT Friday: Chicago 86, Phoenix 50 Sunday: at Chicagox-Tuesday: at Phoenix

The CJ Cup at SummitPGA TourSaturday

At Las Vegas

Purse: $9.75 MillionYardage: 7,431; Par: 72

Third RoundRickie Fowler 66-66-63—195 -21Rory McIlroy 68-67-62—197 -19Abraham Ancer 70-65-63—198 -18Robert Streb 61-72-65—198 -18Adam Scott 68-63-67—198 -18Tyrrell Hatton 67-65-67—199 -17Keith Mitchell 62-64-73—199 -17Cameron Smith 66-67-67—200 -16Ian Poulter 66-67-67—200 -16

GOLF

Oct. 18

1924 — Harold “Red” Grange accountsfor six touchdowns in Illinois’ 39-14 winover Michigan. Grange returns the open-ing kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown. Hefollows with touchdown runs of 66, 55 and40 yards in the first 12 minutes of thegame. Grange later passes for anothertouchdown and returns another kick for atouchdown.

1968 — Bob Beamon of the United Statesshatters the world record in the long jumpat the Summer Olympics in Mexico City.Beamon’s leap of 29 feet and 2 1-2 inchesbetters the mark by one foot, 9 3-4 inches.The previous record, 27-4 3-4, was held bySoviet jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan andRalph Boston.

1977 — Reggie Jackson hits three con-

secutive home runs, all on the first pitch,to lead the New York Yankees to the WorldSeries championship over Los Angeles insix games.

1992 — Miami and Washington are tiedfor No. 1 in The AP Top 25 football poll. It’sthe first tie at the top in 51 years and thethird since the poll started in 1936.

2009 — Tom Brady, Patriots, throws sixtouchdown passes — five in one quarter,an NFL mark, in a 59-0 win in the snowagainst Tennessee.

2016 — Chicago Blackhawks forwardMarian Hossa became the 44th NHL playerto reach 500 career goals. The 37-year-oldHossa slid a power-play backhanderthrough the legs of Philadelphia goalten-der Michal Neuvirth at 5:04 of the secondperiod, giving the Blackhawks a 4-0 lead.Chicago won 7-4.

AP SPORTLIGHT

NFL

American ConferenceEast

W L T Pct PF PA

Buffalo 4 1 0 .800 172 64

New England 2 3 0 .400 96 92

N.Y. Jets 1 4 0 .200 79 154

MIami 1 5 0 .167 99 177

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Tennessee 3 2 0 .600 132 130

Houston 1 4 0 .200 89 141

Indianapolis 1 4 0 .200 108 128

Jacksonville 1 5 0 .167 116 172

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Baltimore 4 1 0 .800 136 117

Cincinnati 3 2 0 .600 114 100

Cleveland 3 2 0 .600 142 114

Pittsburgh 2 3 0 .400 94 112

West

W L T Pct PF PA

L.A. Chargers 4 1 0 .800 142 116

Denver 3 2 0 .600 102 76

Las Vegas 3 2 0 .600 113 120

Kansas City 2 3 0 .400 154 163

National ConferenceEast

W L T Pct PF PA

Dallas 4 1 0 .800 170 117

Washington 2 3 0 .400 123 155

Philadelphia 2 4 0 .333 137 152

N.Y. Giants 1 4 0 .200 103 139

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Tampa Bay 5 1 0 .833 195 144

Carolina 3 2 0 .600 115 87

New Orleans 3 2 0 .600 127 91

Atlanta 2 3 0 .400 105 148

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Green Bay 4 1 0 .800 120 122

Chicago 3 2 0 .600 84 100

Minnesota 2 3 0 .400 113 109

Detroit 0 5 0 .000 98 138

West

W L T Pct PF PA

Arizona 5 0 0 1.000 157 95

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

San Francisco 2 3 0 .400 117 119

Seattle 2 3 0 .400 120 126

Thursday’s game

Tampa Bay 28, Philadelphia 22

Sunday’s games

Jacksonville 23, Miami 20Cincinnati at Detroit Green Bay at Chicago Houston at Indianapolis Kansas City at Washington L.A. Chargers at Baltimore L.A. Rams at N.Y. Giants Minnesota at Carolina Arizona at Cleveland Dallas at New England Las Vegas at Denver Seattle at Pittsburgh Open: N.Y. Jets, Atlanta, New Orleans,

San Francisco

Monday’s game

Buffalo at TennesseeThursday, Oct. 21Denver at ClevelandSunday, Oct. 24Atlanta at MiamiCarolina at N.Y. GiantsCincinnati at BaltimoreKansas City at TennesseeN.Y. Jets at New EnglandWashington at Green BayDetroit at L.A. RamsPhiladelphia at Las VegasChicago at Tampa BayHouston at ArizonaIndianapolis at San FranciscoOpen: Buffalo, Jacksonville, L.A. Char-

gers, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Minnesota

Injury reportMONDAY

BUFFALO BILLS at TENNESSEE TITANS —BUFFALO: DNP: RB Taiwan Jones (hamstr-ing), DT Star Lotulelei (not injury related -resting player), CB Siran Neal (illness), WREmmanuel Sanders (not injury related -resting player). LIMITED: LB Matt Milano(hamstring). FULL: C Ryan Bates (ankle), GJon Feliciano (elbow). TENNESSEE: DNP: LBBud Dupree (knee), CB Kristian Fulton(hamstring), RB Jeremy McNichols (an-kle), LB Monty Rice (groin). LIMITED: RBKhari Blasingame (shoulder), G RodgerSaffold (shoulder). FULL: WR A.J. Brown(hamstring), CB Caleb Farley (illness), RBDerrick Henry (not injury related - restingplayer), WR Julio Jones (hamstring), T Tay-lor Lewan (toe), WR Chester Rogers(groin), DT Teair Tart (toe), WR Nick West-brook-Ikhine (hamstring).

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE PREVIEW

The Brooklyn Nets look

like such a title favorite

that James Harden felt

the need for a reminder

they aren’t a title team.

“We’re not the target. The de-

fending champions are the tar-

gets,” Harden said. “They won

last year. We’re trying to catch

them.”

It’s easy to forget about the Mil-

waukee Bucks. They have the

NBA crown, but none of the drama

of some other top contenders in

the Eastern Conference, where

the situations with Ben Simmons

in Philadelphia and Kyrie Irving

in Brooklyn were the biggest sto-

ries leading into the season.

Those two teams finished ahead

of Milwaukee in the regular sea-

son, but the Bucks ousted the Nets

in the second round and went on to

win their first NBA title in 50

years.

Giannis Antetokounmpo went

home and celebrated in Greece.

Khris Middleton and Jrue Holi-

day went to Japan and won an

Olympic gold medal.

Now they are back together

again, quietly working toward a

repeat amid all the noise around

them.

The Nets won’t allow Irving to

play or practice with them until he

is vaccinated, instead of letting

him play in road games while he is

ineligible to play at home because

of New York’s vaccination man-

date.

Kevin Durant and Harden

might still be

good enough

with a potent

roster around

them, but the

Nets — and

their rivals —

know they

aren’t the

same team

without Irv-

ing’s talents.

“Probably the team took the

best decision for them to keep the

players as locked in as possible

and not take that outside noise to

affect the team as they go for a

championship run,” Anteto-

kounmpo said. “They have a great

team. Do I know if it’s right or

wrong? I don’t know. I’ve got to

think about it. But at the end of the

day, I think everybody’s entitled to

their own opinion. But Kyrie’s a

great player.”

The 76ers, who had the best re-

cord in the East last season, have

been without Simmons for almost

the entire preseason while the All-

Star guard stayed away in hopes of

a trade. He finally arrived in Phi-

ladelphia this week.

Even if those teams are weak-

ened, it seems like a stronger con-

ference than a season ago. Miami

got Kyle Lowry. The surprising

New York Knicks added Kemba

Walker and Evan Fournier. The

Chicago Bulls could be poised for

a move with DeMar DeRozan and

Lonzo Ball.

“A lot of teams in our confer-

ence have gotten better. We have

to get better,” said Knicks coach

Tom Thibodeau, whose team fin-

ished a surprising fourth last sea-

son.

Eyes on EmbiidJoel Embiid was putting togeth-

er an MVP-type season in Phila-

delphia last season before he was

hurt. The 76ers might need him to

be great again without knowing

what they’ll get from Simmons.

Better BrooklynDurant had little help when

both Harden and Irving were hurt

during the series against the

Bucks. But with the additions of

Patty Mills, Paul Millsap, James

Johnson and the unretired La-

Marcus Aldridge, the Nets look

deep enough to overcome any ab-

sences this season.

Top seed slumpThe 76ers went out in the sec-

ond round last season, making it

five straight years that the No. 1

seed couldn’t win the East. Cleve-

land was last to do it, in 2016.

Coaching changesThe four teams with new coach-

es range from playoff clubs to re-

building ones. Ime Udoka takes

over for Brad Stevens in Boston,

Carlisle is back for a second stint

in Indiana, Wes Unseld Jr. comes

home to Washington and Jamahl

Mosley gets his chance in Orlan-

do.

Kevin Durant, pictured, and fellow former league MVP JamesHarden will be relied on to carry the Brooklyn Nets as long as

the team is without unvaccinated point guard Kyrie Irving.

AP PHOTOS

Bucks have title; 76ers, Nets have dramaBY BRIAN MAHONEY

Associated Press

Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers, pictured, must figure out howto reintegrate forward Ben Simmons with the team after the All­Starmissed almost the entire preseason in hopes of forcing a trade. 

Antetokounmpo

A look at the East, in predictedorder of finish:

Playoff bound1. Brooklyn — With former MVPs

and scoring champions Durantand Harden healthy, the Nets maynot even need a Big Three.

2. Milwaukee — If Antetokounm-po dominates like he did in the NBAFinals, a third MVP award in fouryears is possible.

3.  Miami  — Heat never foundtheir top form after reaching NBAFinals in the bubble, but got bothmore rest and more talent duringthis longer offseason.

4. Philadelphia — Could be any-where from 1 with Simmons to 8without him, so put the 76ers in themiddle for now.

5. Atlanta — Trae Young and theimproving Hawks are a team onthe rise after reaching the East fi-nals.

6. New York — Added good scor-ing punch to what was a top defen-sive team in Thibodeau’s first sea-son.

Into the Play-in7. Boston — Getting Al Horford

back in green should pay off for theCeltics.

8. Chicago — Count on Zach La-Vine and Lonzo Ball providing plen-ty of highlights.

9. Indiana — Getting Rick Carlisleinto a locker room that had frictionbetween players and coach lastseason is a major move.

10. Charlotte — Were tough foranyone last season when Rookie ofthe Year LaMelo Ball and GordonHayward were both healthy.

Facing long odds11. Toronto — Being home again

should make Raptors a playoffcontender again, even withoutLowry.

12. Washington — Lost a great in-dividual talent in Russell West-brook but could be a better teamwith newcomers such as SpencerDinwiddie and Kyle Kuzma.

13.  Cleveland  — Collin Sextonand Darius Garland will shoot themto some wins, just not quiteenough.

14.  Detroit  — No. 1 pick CadeCunningham takes his place on aPistons team that has some goodyoung pieces.

15.  Orlando  — Magic tradedaway their best players last sea-son and might be years away fromcontending again.

Monday, October 18, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 19

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Florida 2 2 0 0 4 10 5

Buffalo 2 2 0 0 4 7 2

Toronto 3 2 1 0 4 7 5

Tampa Bay 3 2 1 0 4 11 13

Detroit 2 1 0 1 3 9 8

Boston 1 1 0 0 2 3 1

Ottawa 2 1 1 0 2 4 5

Montreal 3 0 3 0 0 3 10

Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Pittsburgh 3 2 0 1 5 15 9

Carolina 2 2 0 0 4 9 5

Columbus 2 2 0 0 4 10 3

Washington 2 1 0 1 3 6 3

N.Y. Rangers 3 1 1 1 3 6 9

New Jersey 1 1 0 0 2 4 3

Philadelphia 1 0 0 1 1 4 5

N.Y. Islanders 2 0 2 0 0 4 11

Western Conference

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Minnesota 2 2 0 0 4 5 3

St. Louis 1 1 0 0 2 5 3

Colorado 2 1 1 0 2 7 7

Dallas 2 1 1 0 2 4 5

Arizona 2 0 1 1 1 3 10

Chicago 3 0 2 1 1 7 13

Nashville 2 0 2 0 0 5 7

Winnipeg 2 0 2 0 0 4 8

Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Edmonton 2 2 0 0 4 8 4

Seattle 3 1 1 1 3 8 9

Vancouver 3 1 1 1 3 8 10

San Jose 1 1 0 0 2 4 3

Los Angeles 2 1 1 0 2 8 5

Anaheim 2 1 1 0 2 5 3

Vegas 2 1 1 0 2 6 9

Calgary 1 0 1 0 0 2 5

Thursday’s games

Buffalo 5, Montreal 1 Ottawa 3, Toronto 2 Columbus 8, Arizona 2 Florida 5, Pittsburgh 4, OT Dallas 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT Carolina 6, N.Y. Islanders 3 Tampa Bay 7, Detroit 6, OT Seattle 4, Nashville 3 Los Angeles 6, Vegas 2

Friday’s games

New Jersey 4, Chicago 3, OTVancouver 5, Philadelphia 4, SOMinnesota 2, Anaheim 1

Saturday’s games

Buffalo 2, Arizona 1, SOFlorida 5, N.Y. Islanders 1Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 2Columbus 2, Seattle 1, OTToronto 3, Ottawa 1Boston 3, Dallas 1Detroit 3, Vancouver 1Tampa Bay 2, Washington 1, OTN.Y. Rangers 3, Montreal 1Carolina 3, Nashville 2St. Louis 5, Colorado 3San Jose 4, Winnipeg 3Edmonton 5, Calgary 2Minnesota 3, Los Angeles 2

Sunday’s game

Dallas at Ottawa

Monday’s games

N.Y. Rangers at TorontoSeattle at PhiladelphiaAnaheim at CalgarySt. Louis at Arizona

Tuesday’s games

Colorado at WashingtonDallas at PittsburghFlorida at Tampa BaySan Jose at MontrealSeattle at New JerseyVancouver at BuffaloColumbus at DetroitLos Angeles at NashvilleN.Y. Islanders at ChicagoWinnipeg at MinnesotaAnaheim at Edmonton

Scoreboard

NHL

an assist, Michael Bunting scored

his first for his hometown team

and host Toronto beat Ottawa.

Wayne Simmonds also scored

for Toronto, and Jack Campbell

made 20 saves.

Josh Norris scored for Ottawa.

Anton Forsberg made 26 saves.

Sharks 4, Jets 3:Jasper Weath-

erby scored the tying goal in his

NHL debut and William Eklund

set up the go-ahead score in his

first career game to lead host San

Jose past Winnipeg.

Andrew Cogliano, Tomas Hertl

and Rudolfs Balcers also scored

for San Jose.

Adin Hill made 20 saves in his

debut with the Sharks.

Pierre-Luc Dubois, Andrew

Copp and Jansen Harkins scored

for the Jets, who lost their second

straight game to open the season.

Bruins 3, Stars 1: Brad Mar-

chand scored twice, Jake DeBrusk

broke a 1-all tie early in the third

period and host Boston opened the

season with a win over Dallas.

Nick Foligno, Erik Haula and

David Pastrnak each had assists,

and Jeremy Swayman stopped 27

shots for the Bruins, who never

trailed.

Luke Glendening scored for

Dallas and Braden Holtby kept the

Stars close with 37 saves.

Penguins  5,  Blackhawks  2:

Drew O’Connor scored his first

NHL goal, Danton Heinen got his

third in three games and host Pitts-

burgh scored four times in the first

period in a win over Chicago.

Marc-Andre Fleury started

against his former team, allowed

WASHINGTON — This was

more like it for the Tampa Bay

Lightning.

They needed to stage another

comeback, but this time the two-

time defending Stanley Cup cham-

pions followed a familiar recipe

when it mattered most.

Andrei Vasilevskiy was perfect

after allowing Alex Ovechkin’s

733rd career goal, Steven Stamkos

scored in overtime and Tampa Bay

came back to beat the Washington

Capitals 2-1 Saturday night.

Two nights after a furious,

three-goal comeback to win 7-6 in

OT at Detroit, the Lightning stuck

to their championship process and

were rewarded with a hard-fought

victory.

“We can run and gun, for sure —

we’ve done that in the past,” Stam-

kos said after scoring with 14.2 sec-

onds left in overtime. “What’s

made us successful the last couple

years is the ability to play in these

types of games: In close games, re-

ly on our good goaltending, rely on

our special teams, rely on our solid

5-on-5 play, and we saw a lot of that

tonight.”

It came at the cost of two more

injuries: 2019 MVP Nikita Kuche-

rov and top-pairing defenseman

Jan Rutta left and did not return.

Kucherov, who missed the en-

tire 2021 regular season after a hip

surgery, doubled over in pain dur-

ing the third period and exited the

ice.

Vasilevskiy, the reigning playoff

MVP who’s considered the best

goaltender in hockey, allowed only

Ovechkin’s goal late in the second

period with his countryman using

Norris Trophy finalist Victor Hed-

man as a screen. Vasilevskiy stop-

ped Ovechkin several times in the

third, including one save with the

thinnest part of his stick.

He also came up big on a 4-on-3

penalty kill in OT with Mikhail Ser-

gachev in the box for cross-check-

ing.

Rangers 3, Canadiens 1:Alexis

Lafreniere snapped a third-period

tie with a power-play goal in his

first NHL game back home, and

visiting New York beat Montreal

for its first victory under new

coach Gerard Gallant.

Lafreniere, the top pick in the

2020 draft, scored for the Rangers

just 26 seconds after Jonathan

Drouin pulled Montreal even.

New York broke the ice in the

second period on its fourth power-

play opportunity. Lafreniere’s

shot deflected off Chris Kreider,

then Alexander Romanov, before

sliding across the goal line. Kreid-

er was credited with the goal, his

third of the season.

Maple  Leafs  3,  Senators  1:

Alexander Kerfoot had a goal and

four goals on 10 shots, and lasted

less than 12 minutes. Kevin Lank-

inen stopped 15 shots in relief.

Blues 5, Avalanche 3: David

Perron scored two goals, Jordan

Binnington stopped 29 shots and

visiting St. Louis held on for a win

over Colorado.

Justin Faulk had a goal and an

assist for the Blues.

Colorado trailed 4-1 when Tyson

Jost scored at 14:36 of the third and

J.T. Compher made it a one-goal

game at 16:18. The Avalanche ap-

peared to tie it with 2:49 left but a

replay review determined it was

scored with a kicking motion.

Blue Jackets 2, Kraken 1 (OT):

Patrick Laine scored at 2:16 of

overtime to give host Columbus a

come-from-behind win over Seat-

tle.

Eric Robinson scored, and Elvis

Merzlikins stopped 19 shots for his

second win for the Blue Jackets.

Brandon Tanev scored for Seat-

tle. Philipp Grubauer made 23

saves.

Panthers 5, Islanders 1: Sam

Bennett got his second career hat

trick, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped

28 shots and host Florida topped

New York for a 2-0-0 start for the

seventh time in the franchise’s 28

seasons.

Jonathan Huberdeau got the

500th point of his career for Flor-

ida.

Ilya Sorokin stopped 24 shots for

the Islanders, who failed to get a

point out of their first two games

for only the second time in the last

15 years. It also happened in 2016-

17.

Red Wings 3, Canucks 1: Tho-

mas Greiss made 40 saves and host

Detroit made an early lead stand

up in a win over Vancouver.

Robby Fabbri and Filip Zadina

scored for Detroit, which also got

an empty-net goal from Sam Gagn-

er with 58 seconds remaining to

provide a two-goal cushion.

Hurricanes 3, Predators 2: An-

drei Svechnikov scored with 6:00

left in the third period, and Teuvo

Teravainen added a late empty-

net goal as visiting Carolina edged

Nashville.

Ryan Johansen and Filip Forsb-

erg scored for the Predators.

Sabres 2, Coyotes 1 (SO):Tage

Thompson and Artuu Ruotsalai-

nen scored in the shootout, helping

host Buffalo beat Arizona.

Cody Eakin scored in the second

period for the Sabres, and Dustin

Tokarski made 20 saves before

stopping two of three shots in the

tiebreaker.

Wild 3, Kings 2:Frederick Gau-

dreau, Victor Rask and Ryan Hart-

man scored in the second period

and visiting Minnesota held on for

a win over Los Angeles.

Cam Talbot started for the sec-

ond straight night and made 29

saves. He stopped 57 of 60 shots to

win back-to-back games against

Anaheim and Los Angeles.

Oilers  5,  Flames  2: Connor

McDavid scored three goals for his

11th career hat trick in host Ed-

monton’s victory over Calgary.

Andrew Mangiapane and Elias

Lindholm scored for the Flames,

who have lost a record 12 straight

season openers.

ROUNDUP

Stamkos scores in OT, Lightning top CapsAssociated Press

NICK WASS/AP

Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos celebrates his winning goal in overtime against the Capitalson Saturday in Washington. The Lightning rallied to 2­1 victory just two nights after a furious, three­goalcomeback to win 7­6 in OT at Detroit.

PAGE 20 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Monday, October 18, 2021

NFL/COLLEGE FOOTBALL

LONDON — The Jacksonville

Jaguars ended their 20-game los-

ing streak when Matthew Wright

kicked a 53-yard field goal as time

expired in a 23-20 victory over the

Miami Dolphins on Sunday in

London.

Trevor Lawrence connected on

a short slant pass to Laviska She-

nault Jr. and the Jags (1-5) called

timeout with 1 second remaining

after the Dolphins (1-5) gambled

on a fourth-and-1 from their 46

and came up short.

Lawrence threw for 319 yards

and a touchdown as he and coach

Urban Meyer finally earned their

first NFL victories — even if it re-

quired a trip to Europe to get it

done in a “home” game at Totten-

ham Hotspur Stadium.

The Dolphins lost their fifth

consecutive game, spoiling the re-

turn of Tua Tagovailoa, who made

his first start in a month. The sec-

ond-year quarterback threw two

touchdown passes to Jaylen Wad-

dle.

Wright had tied the game at 20

on a 54-yard field goal with 3:40

remaining.

The Dolphins took a 20-17 lead

when Tagovailoa finished a seven-

play, 91-yard drive with a 2-yard

touchdown pass to Waddle with

10:22 left in the game. Waddle

caught the ball and stuck it over

the goal line as cornerback Nevin

Lawson tackled him.

Jacksonville grabbed a 17-13

lead early in the third quarter on

James Robinson's 1-yard run after

he rumbled 24 yards on the previ-

ous play. The drive included a 29-

yard reception by Jamal Agnew

and an unnecessary roughness

penalty on Miami safety Jevon

Holland.

Tagovailoa and the Dolphins of-

fense started hot, scoring on their

first drive, but squandering two

other chances from inside the

Jacksonville 10, settling for field

goals both times.

On the opening drive, Tagovai-

loa completed eight of 10 passes

and finished a 75-yard opening

drive with a 6-yard slant to Jaylen

Waddle to put Miami ahead 7-0.

They converted three third downs

including a 20-yard reception by

tight end Mike Gesicki and Tago-

vailoa's 7-yard scramble to the 6,

setting up Waddle's touchdown.

The Jaguars answered with big

plays of their own, when Law-

rence connected with Agnew for a

24-yard gain on their first play

from scrimmage. The drive

stalled, though, when Dan Arnold

dropped a third-down pass at the

16-yard line. The Jags settled for a

40-yard field goal from Matthew

Wright — their first field goal of

the season — to make it 7-3.

After field goals of 33 and 24

yards by Jason Sanders, the Jag-

uars forced a three-and-out and

got the ball back on the Miami 49

with 1:45 left in half, down 13-3.

Lawrence then finally exploited

Miami's depleted secondary,

launching a perfect pass to Mar-

vin Jones Jr. in the end zone for a

28-yard TD pass with backup cor-

nerback Noah Igbinoghene in cov-

erage to make the score 13-10 with

40 seconds left in the half.

Miami played without starting

cornerbacks Xavien Howard and

Byron Jones, who were both out

injured.

Jags hit 53-yard FGon last play to topDolphins, end skid

BY KEN MAGUIRE

Associated Press

MATT DUNHAN/AP

Jaguars kicker Matthew Wright, center, celebrates after hitting a fieldgoal to win the game against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The pres-

sure, Purdue coach Jeff Brohm

said, was all on No. 2 Iowa.

The Hawkeyes started the sea-

son with six consecutive wins and

the program had ascended to its

highest ranking since 1985.

“For us,” Brohm said, “let’s go

out there and swing, and keep

swinging, and hope for the best.”

The Boilermakers connected,

just as they’ve been doing against

the Hawkeyes in recent seasons.

Aidan O’Connell threw for 374

yards and accounted for three

touchdowns, David Bell had a ca-

reer-best 240 yards receiving, and

Purdue continued its recent mas-

tery over Iowa with a 24-7 upset

Saturday.

The Boilermakers (4-2, 2-1 Big

Ten) have won four of their last five

games against the Hawkeyes (6-1,

3-1). The loss ended Iowa’s 12-

game winning streak, including

nine consecutive in Big Ten play.

Purdue beat its highest ranked

opponent on the road since a victo-

ry at No. 2 Notre Dame in 1974. It

was the second time in four seasons

Purdue has knocked off a No. 2-

ranked team. The Boilermakers

won at home against second-

ranked Ohio State in 2018.

“Basically they outdid us in ev-

ery category,” Iowa coach Kirk Fe-

rentz said. “The bottom line is we

didn’t get it done.”

The Hawkeyes tried to be posi-

tive heading into their bye week.

Their Big Ten West Division title

hopes are still there, and they could

still find themselves in the College

Football Playoff picture if they win

out.

“Our goals are all in front of us at

this point,” quarterback Spencer

Petras said. “One thing we can’t do

is be undefeated, but everything

else is out there for our taking.

We’ve done a lot of good the first

seven weeks, a lot of bad, most of

that today. We have to regroup.”

But, Ferentz said, they had no

answer for the Boilermakers, who

took control of the game early.

They never let Iowa’s offense get

into a rhythm, and they kept the

ball away from a defense that came

in leading the nation in takeaways

and turnover margin.

“We knew if we found a way to

get a lead it would definitely help

us,” Brohm said.

Purdue was 9-for-16 on third

down, and two of the Boilermakers’

touchdown drives lasted 10 plays.

“They came out ready to roll,”

Iowa linebacker Jack Campbell

said.

O’Connell was 30 of 40 passing

with two touchdowns, and he also

ran for a score. He got the most

work on a day when Purdue used

backup quarterbacks Jack Plum-

mer and Austin Burton in select sit-

uations. All three were in on differ-

ent plays during the Boilermakers’

first-quarter drive that ended with

O’Connell’s 6-yard touchdown run

for a 7-0 lead.

“It was just so fun,” O’Connell

said, comparing the quarterback

shuffle to line changes in hockey.

O’Connell threw a 3-yard touch-

down pass to TJ Sheffield in the fi-

nal minute of the first half to give

Purdue a 14-7 halftime lead. He

threw a 21-yard TD pass to Bell in

the fourth quarter.

“Sometimes when you try to use

some creativity, it works,” Brohm

said of the quarterback changes.

“Sometimes it looks (bad). We took

some chances with it, and fortu-

nately today it worked.”

Bell had 11 receptions. He has a

combined 37 catches for 558 yards

and five touchdowns against Iowa

in three seasons.

“I think the reason he’s been able

to exploit them is he’s one of the

best receivers in the country,”

Brohm said.

O’Connell said the quiet Bell is

“so destructive of a player for a de-

fense.”

Bell didn’t know how many

yards he had until he heard it from

his mother after the game.

“It was definitely nice hearing it

from her,” Bell said.

CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP

Purdue quarterback Aidan O'Connell, right, celebrates with wide receiver David Bell after scoring on a6­yard touchdown run during the first half against Iowa on Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa.

O’Connell, Bell leadPurdue past Iowa

BY JOHN BOHNENKAMO

Associated Press

AP Top 25 Fared

Saturday

No 1. Georgia (7-0) beat No. 11 Kentucky30-13. Next: vs. No. 20 Florida, Saturday,Oct. 30.

No 2. Iowa (6-1) lost to Purdue 24-7. Next:at Wisconsin, Saturday, Oct. 30.

No 3. Cincinnati (6-0) beat UCF 56-21.Next: at Navy, Saturday.

No 4. Oklahoma (7-0) beat TCU 52-31.Next: at Kansas, Saturday.

No 5. Alabama (6-1) beat Mississippi St.49-9. Next: vs. Tennessee, Saturday.

No 6. Ohio St. (5-1) did not play. Next: atIndiana, Saturday.

No 7. Penn St. (5-1) did not play. Next: vs.Illinois, Saturday.

No 8. Michigan (6-0) did not play. Next:vs. Northwestern, Saturday.

No 9. Oregon (5-1) beat California 24-17,Friday. Next: at UCLA, Saturday.

No 10. Michigan St. (7-0) beat Indiana 20-15. Next: vs. No. 8 Michigan, Saturday, Oct.30.

No 11. Kentucky (6-1) lost to No. 1 Geor-gia 30-13. Next: at Mississippi St., Satur-day, Oct. 30.

No 12. Oklahoma St. (6-0) beat No. 25Texas 32-24. Next: at Iowa St., Saturday.

No 13. Mississippi (5-1) beat Tennessee31-26. Next: vs. LSU, Saturday.

No 14. Notre Dame (5-1) did not play.Next: vs. Southern Cal, Saturday.

No 15. Coastal Carolina (6-0) did notplay. Next: at Appalachian St., Wednes-day.

No 16. Wake Forest (6-0) did not play.Next: at Army, Saturday.

No 17. Arkansas (4-3) lost to Auburn 38-23. Next: vs. Ark.-Pine Bluff, Saturday.

No 18. Arizona St. (5-2) lost to Utah 35-21.Next: vs. Washington St., Saturday, Oct.30.

No 19. BYU (5-2) lost to Baylor 38-24.Next: at Washington St., Saturday.

No 20. Florida (4-3) lost to LSU 49-42.Next: vs. No. 1 Georgia, Saturday, Oct. 30.

No 21. Texas A&M (5-2) beat Missouri 35-14. Next: vs. South Carolina, Saturday.

No 22. NC State (5-1) beat Boston College33-7. Next: at Miami, Saturday.

No 23. SMU (6-0) did not play. Next: vs.Tulane, Thursday, Oct. 21.

No 24. San Diego St. (6-0) beat San JoseSt. 19-13, OT, Friday. Next: at Air Force, Sat-urday.

No 25. Texas (4-3) lost to No. 12 Oklaho-ma St. 32-24. Next: at Baylor, Saturday,Oct. 30.

Scoreboard

Monday, October 18, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 21

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Saturday’s scores

EAST

Alfred 38, St. John Fisher 35Anna Maria 28, Alfred St. 17Bentley 34, S. Connecticut 20Bloomsburg 44, Lock Haven 0Bowdoin 21, Amherst 14Bowie St. 51, Virginia St. 44Brockport 26, Utica 14Bryant 18, St. Francis (Pa.) 17Buffalo 27, Ohio 26Case Western 53, Bethany (WV) 0Catholic 30, Coast Guard 7Charleston (WV) 48, Concord 3Christopher Newport 28, Montclair St. 0Colby 28, Middlebury 14Columbia 23, Penn 14Cortland 48, Hartwick 3Dartmouth 38, New Hampshire 21Dean 39, Keystone 36Delaware Valley 61, FDU-Florham 7Endicott 24, Husson 17Fordham 66, Bucknell 21Franklin & Marshall 41, Juniata 13Frostburg St. 41, Wheeling Jesuit 17Gallaudet 23, SUNY Maritime 9Gannon 14, Seton Hill 10Grove City 41, St. Vincent 29Harvard 30, Lafayette 3Hobart 10, RPI 9Holy Cross 48, Georgetown 14Indiana (Pa.) 48, Slippery Rock 21Ithaca 17, St. Lawrence 0Kean 20, College of NJ 7Kings (Pa.) 51, Albright 12Kutztown 20, Shippensburg 3Lebanon Valley 31, Alvernia 10Lincoln (Pa.) 17, Elizabeth City St. 14Maine 27, William & Mary 16Mass.-Dartmouth 26, Westfield St. 16Merchant Marine 56, MIT 34Mercyhurst 27, Edinboro 20Merrimack 43, LIU Brooklyn 5Moravian 21, Dickinson 14NC State 33, Boston College 7New Haven 30, American International 14Pace 39, Franklin Pierce 31, 2OTPlymouth St. 36, Fitchburg St. 0Princeton 56, Brown 42Rochester 14, Buffalo St. 7Sacred Heart 27, CCSU 17Salisbury 24, Rowan 7Salve Regina 35, Nichols 20Shepherd 38, Millersville 13Springfield 56, Norwich 7Stevenson 37, Misericordia 0Stonehill 31, St. Anselm 22Stony Brook 34, Delaware 17Towson 28, Rhode Island 7Trinity (Conn.) 45, Bates 7UNC-Pembroke 14, W. Virginia St. 13Uconn 21, Yale 15Ursinus 18, McDaniel 14Villanova 17, Albany (NY) 10W. New England 23, Curry 10Wesleyan (Conn.) 36, Tufts 35West Chester 42, East Stroudsburg 24West Liberty 52, Fairmont St. 31Westminster (Pa.) 66, Waynesburg 14Widener 30, Wilkes 13Williams 35, Hamilton 7Worcester St. 28, Mass. Maritime 24

SOUTH

Alabama 49, Mississippi St. 9Albany St. (Ga.) 28, Benedict 6Alcorn St. 24, MVSU 12Belhaven 44, Sul Ross St. 0Berry 59, Sewanee 0Birmingham Southern 28, Centre 21Brevard 20, Lagrange 10Bridgewater (Va.) 27, Apprentice 7Charleston Southern 35, Hampton 5Chattanooga 21, ETSU 16Davidson 70, Presbyterian 35Emory & Henry 37, Hampden-Sydney 13Erskine 24, Bluefield South 19Fayetteville St. 55, Johnson C. Smith 12Ferrum 24, Shenandoah 23Florida A&M 35, Alabama A&M 31Furman 24, The Citadel 14Georgia 30, Kentucky 13Grambling St. 34, Texas Southern 20Huntingdon 30, Averett 25Jackson St. 28, Alabama St. 7James Madison 19, Richmond 3

Kennesaw St. 14, NC A&T 0Kentucky St. 76, Edward Waters 36LSU 49, Florida 42Lenoir-Rhyne 59, Carson-Newman 0Louisiana-Monroe 31, Liberty 28Mars Hill 32, Limestone 3Maryville (Tenn.) 31, NC Wesleyan 26McNeese St. 35, Northwestern St. 17Miles 34, Lane 31Mississippi 31, Tennessee 26Mississippi College 20, Shorter 7Monmouth (NJ) 34, Campbell 17Morehead St. 31, Butler 8Morehouse 51, Fort Valley St. 3Newberry 14, Catawba 7Norfolk St. 42, Va. Lynchburg 14North Alabama 42, Robert Morris 31North Carolina 45, Miami 42North Greenville 42, Delta St. 34, 2OTPittsburgh 28, Virginia Tech 7Prairie View 35, Bethune-Cookman 29Randolph Macon 58, Guilford 0S. Virginia 31, Greensboro 14SC State 37, Morgan St. 14SE Louisiana 61, Houston Baptist 24Samford 27, Wofford 24Savannah St. 49, Clark Atlanta 14Shaw 20, Livingstone 9South Carolina 21, Vanderbilt 20St. Thomas (Minn.) 38, Stetson 7Tennessee St. 20, Tennessee Tech 13, OTTulsa 32, South Florida 31Tusculum 37, Virginia-Wise 21UAB 34, Southern Miss. 0VMI 45, Mercer 7Valdosta St. 42, West Alabama 17Virginia 48, Duke 0Virginia Union 38, Chowan 31W. Kentucky 43, Old Dominion 20West Georgia 30, West Florida 26Winston-Salem 41, St. Augustines 0

MIDWEST

Adrian 36, Alma 21Albion 49, Kalamazoo 0Allegheny 38, Hiram 13Augsburg 37, Macalester 29Augustana (SD) 32, Wayne St. (Neb.) 24Aurora 49, Eureka 7Baldwin Wallace 49, Muskingum 10Ball St. 38, E. Michigan 31Bemidji St. 22, Minn. St. (Moorhead) 19Bethel (Minn. ) 21, Concordia (Moor.) 16Buena Vista 50, Nebraska Wesleyan 7Carleton 30, St. Scholastica 14Cent. Michigan 26, Toledo 23, OTCent. Oklahoma 24, Fort Hays St. 14Chicago 47, Cornell (Iowa) 21Cincinnati 56, UCF 21Coe 27, Loras 20Concordia (Wis.) 24, St. Norbert 14DePauw 24, Ohio Wesleyan 7Denison 45, Kenyon 7Dubuque 41, Simpson 28Ferris St. 35, Grand Valley St. 28Findlay 21, Ohio Dominican 14Franklin 45, Bluffton 6Glenville St. 35, Alderson-Broaddus 21Greenville 42, Westminster (Mo.) 14Gustavus Adolphus 33, Hamline 21Hanover 51, Defiance 0Heidelberg 52, Otterbein 19Hope 31, Olivet 16Illinois College 38, Lawrence 37Illinois Wesleyan 14, Millikin 0Iowa St. 33, Kansas St. 20John Carroll 27, Ohio Northern 17Kentucky Wesleyan 23, Walsh 13Knox 49, Grinnell 28Lake Erie 33, Hillsdale 14Lake Forest 42, Ripon 7Lakeland 63, Concordia (Ill.) 7Lindenwood (Mo.) 28, Indianapolis 20Marietta 35, Wilmington (Ohio) 7Marist 20, Dayton 17McKendree 51, Quincy 48Miami (Ohio) 34, Akron 21Michigan St. 20, Indiana 15Michigan Tech 21, N. Michigan 14Minn. Duluth 33, Concordia (St.P.) 13Minn.-Morris 42, Crown (Minn.) 35Minnesota 30, Nebraska 23Minnesota St. 58, Upper Iowa 0Missouri S&T 37, William Jewell 16Missouri Southern 30, Cent. Missouri 28Missouri St. 37, Indiana St. 7Missouri Western 57, Northeastern St. 24Monmouth (Ill.) 63, Beloit 3

Mount St. Joseph 28, Manchester 0Mount Union 63, Capital 0Murray St. 32, SE Missouri 31N. Dakota St. 20, Illinois St. 0N. Illinois 34, Bowling Green 26Neb.-Kearney 42, Emporia St. 35North Central 77, Elmhurst 7North Park 33, Carthage 30Northern St. 36, Minot St. 35Northwestern 21, Rutgers 7Notre Dame (Ohio) 52, WV Wesleyan 14Pittsburg St. 59, Lincoln (Mo.) 7Purdue 24, Iowa 7Rose Hulman 62, Anderson (Ind.) 7S. Dakota St. 41, W. Illinois 17S. Illinois 31, North Dakota 28SW Baptist 27, Truman St. 21Saginaw Valley St. 31, Northwood (Mich.)

13Sioux Falls 34, Mary 14South Dakota 34, N. Iowa 21St. John’s (Minn.) 56, St. Olaf 0Texas A&M 35, Missouri 14Texas Tech 41, Kansas 14Tiffin 27, Ashland 21Tuskegee 29, Central St. (Ohio) 0UT Martin 28, E. Illinois 17W. Michigan 64, Kent St. 31Wartburg 67, Luther 0Washburn 17, NW Missouri St. 16Washington (Mo.) 31, Augustana (Ill.) 7Wayne St. (Mich.) 16, Davenport 3Wheaton (Ill.) 48, Carroll (Wis.) 13Winona St. 26, SW Minnesota 14Wis. Lutheran 49, Rockford 41Wis.-La Crosse 24, Wis.-Platteville 23Wis.-River Falls 41, Wis.-Eau Claire 24Wis.-Stout 37, Wis.-Stevens Pt 12Wis.-Whitewater 32, Wis.-Oshkosh 13Wisconsin 20, Army 14Wittenberg 44, Oberlin 27Wooster 44, Wabash 41

SOUTHWEST

Abilene Christian 24, Lamar 17Angelo St. 34, Texas-Permian Basin 14Auburn 38, Arkansas 23Baylor 38, BYU 24E. Kentucky 38, Cent. Arkansas 35Hardin Simmons 34, E. Texas Baptist 0Harding 46, Henderson St. 21Howard Payne 21, Southwestern (Texas)

17Incarnate Word 38, Nicholls 21Mary Hardin-Baylor 49, Texas Lutheran 3McMurry 48, Austin 13Oklahoma 52, TCU 31Oklahoma Baptist 47, East Central 20Oklahoma St. 32, Texas 24Ouachita Baptist 34, Ark.-Monticello 0S. Arkansas 34, Arkansas Tech 17SE Oklahoma 43, NW Oklahoma 10Southern U. 34, Ark.-Pine Bluff 7Texas A&M Comm. 58, W. New Mexico 0Texas A&M Kingsville 51, Lincoln Oaklan-

ders 21Trinity (Texas) 46, Millsaps 0Troy 31, Texas State 28UTEP 19, Louisiana Tech 3UTSA 45, Rice 0

FAR WEST

Air Force 24, Boise St. 17Chadron St. 45, Adams St. 35Chapman 42, California Lutheran 13Colorado 34, Arizona 0Colorado Mesa 55, Fort Lewis 3Colorado Mines 44, S.D. Mines 24Colorado St. 36, New Mexico 7E. Washington 71, Idaho 21Fresno St. 17, Wyoming 0George Fox 49, Puget Sound 28Lewis & Clark 43, Willamette 41Linfield 52, Pacific (Ore.) 23N. Arizona 59, S. Utah 35N.M. Highlands 28, CSU-Pueblo 21Nevada 34, Hawaii 17Portland St. 31, Idaho St. 10Sacramento St. 28, Montana 27San Diego 13, Drake 10Tarleton St. 41, Dixie St. 20UC Davis 32, N. Colorado 3UCLA 24, Washington 17Utah 35, Arizona St. 21Utah St. 28, UNLV 24Washington St. 34, Stanford 31West Texas A&M 44, E. New Mexico 24Whitworth 31, Pacific Lutheran 17

Scoreboard

BOISE, Idaho — Brad Roberts

rushed for 138 yards and two

touchdowns, Air Force’s defense

turned in another stifling per-

formance and the Falcons

knocked off Boise State 24-17 Sat-

urday night.

Air Force (6-1, 3-1 Mountain

West Conference), which hasn’t

started a season this well since

2002 when the Falcons began the

season 6-0 before finishing 8-5,

snapped a four-game losing streak

to the Broncos.

After giving up two touchdowns

on Boise State’s first three posses-

sions, Air Force’s defense took

over.

“We really settled in after the

first three series and made some

big plays when we really needed

them,” Air Force coach Troy Cal-

houn said. “We were able to keep

them out of the end zone and came

up with some key stops, even at

the end of the game to hold them to

just a field goal.”

Boise State (3-4, 1-2) lost its

third home game of the season, the

first time that has happened since

1998. It’s also the first time the

Broncos have lost three straight at

home since 1997.

“Everyone knows what the

standard is here, whether it’s on

the road or at home,” Boise State

coach Andy Avalos said. “The

standard is the competitive nature

and the standard we have on the

field is that it gives us an opportu-

nity to be successful. … We had

some opportunities and we didn’t

execute.”

After the win, Air Force players

lingered on the field, taking selfies

on Boise State’s famed blue turf

and relishing a victory in Boise for

only the second time in the pro-

gram’s history.

And Calhoun tried to keep the

win — and Air Force’s best start in

his tenure — in perspective.

“It’s trite — and I say it over and

over — but it’s one game,” Cal-

houn said. “We need to enjoy this

one, but we need to get better and

have some things we need to fix.

We made a good number of mis-

takes, but we hung in there and

persevered.”

STEVE CONNER/AP

Air Force running back Brad Roberts, right, carries the ball againstBoise State during the second half of Saturday’s game.

Roberts powers Air Forceto victory over Boise State

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The one big

weakness of Wisconsin’s other-

wise outstanding defense this sea-

son has been its inability to force

turnovers.

But the Badgers finally pro-

duced a takeaway at a critical mo-

ment Saturday late in the fourth

quarter and outlasted a pesky Ar-

my team 20-14.

Army (4-2) trailed 13-7 and had

the ball when Leo Chenal deliver-

ed a punishing hit that knocked

the ball loose from quarterback

Jabari Laws. Wisconsin’s Keeanu

Benton recovered the fumble at

Army’s 1-yard line with 2:55 re-

maining.

On the next play, Graham Mertz

scored on a quarterback keeper

for his second touchdown run of

the night.

“It was definitely the game-

changing moment we needed,”

Benton said.

Wisconsin (3-3) entered the

weekend having allowed the sec-

ond-fewest yards per game of any

Football Bowl Subdivision pro-

gram, but the Badgers were

among the nation’s worst teams at

forcing turnovers.

Laws’ fumble was Wisconsin’s

fourth takeaway of the season.

“We always want to be going for

that ball,” said Chenal, who also

had a career-high 17 tackles. “We

need to be creating more turn-

overs than we are right now.”

Army cut the lead to 20-14 on

A.J. Howard’s 6-yard touchdown

run with 38 seconds left, but Jack

Sanborn recovered the ensuing

onside kick to seal the victory.

“When we practiced it this

week, I actually messed up that

exact same play and our onside

team recovered it in practice,”

Sanborn said. “I told everyone

that I got it out of the way that day

and that Saturday I would get it. I

knew it was coming my way.”

Wisconsin’s Braelon Allen

rushed for 108 yards on 16 carries,

including a 33-yard touchdown.

This marked the second straight

game in which Allen rushed for at

least 100 yards. The 17-year-old

freshman ran for 131 yards and a

touchdown on 18 carries last week

in a 24-0 victory at Illinois.

Chenal, Wisconsin outlast persistent ArmyBY STEVE MEGARGEE

Associated Press

MORRY GASH/AP

Wisconsin’s Leo Chenal hits Army’s Tyhier Tyler for a loss during thefirst half of Saturday’s game in Madison, Wis.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

In the Southeastern Confer-

ence, the coach on the hot seat can

change week to week.

Welcome, Dan Mullen.

Florida’s man had a lot of ex-

plaining to do

Saturday after

the 20th-ranked

Gators lost to

LSU and last

week’s coach-in-

big-trouble Ed

Orgeron.

The Florida-

LSU rivalry of-

ten bends to-

ward the bizarre. In fact, it was

last season’s game decided by a

thrown shoe that seemed to start

the precipitous drop in confidence

among Gators fans with their

fourth-year coach.

Off a two-game losing streak,

LSU (4-3) pummeled the Gators

on the ground. The Tigers ran for

almost as many yards (321, includ-

ing 287 by Tyrion Davis-Price) as

they had in their three previous

games combined (327).

Florida fans have been exasper-

ated with defensive coordinator

Todd Grantham for a while, but

Mullen has stood by one of the

highest-paid assistant coaches in

the country ($1.8 million per

year).

“I don’t like to jump to conclu-

sions,” Mullen told reporters

when asked about the possibility

of an in-season change. “I like to

have facts.”

As poorly as the Gators’ defense

played Saturday, there was a lot of

talk about the side of the ball that

is Mullen’s specialty.

Why has it taken so long for

Mullen to turn the offense over to

Anthony Richardson?

The freshman rallied the Gators

in the second half, but the damage

done by the defense was too much

to overcome. Richardson threw

three touchdown passes and ran

for a score, but did throw two in-

terceptions.

Richardson has looked like the

Gators’ most talented quarter-

back since early in the season, but

a hamstring injury kept him out of

aclose loss to Alabama last month.

He was healthy enough to play in a

loss to Kentucky, but only threw

one pass and ran five times while

spelling Emory Jones as the Ga-

tors managed 13 points.

“I love everybody labeling peo-

ple. He’s a young quarterback

that’s learning and developing,”

Mullen said of Richardson.

“That’s a good label for him.”

Starting with last season’s loss

to a similarly damaged LSU team,

Florida has gone 2-6 against Pow-

er Five teams. The victories are

against Vanderbilt and Tennessee

but it does include two competi-

tive games against Alabama, one

in the SEC championship.

Georgia’s ascent to juggernaut

is also not making life easier on

Mullen.

Still, he is 33-13 at Florida with

three appearances in New Year’s

Six Bowls. The odds are high that

even if the Gators (4-3) stumble to

something like 7-5, Mullen will be

safe.

The situation is way more mud-

dled for two other coaches at pro-

gram’s with national champion-

ship pedigree.

Just when it looked like Scott

Frost had Nebraska moving in the

right direction, the Cornhuskers

(3-5) lost at Minnesota in yet an-

other game that was there for the

taking.

Frost is 5-17 in games decided

by one possession in over four sea-

sons at his alma mater. To get to

bowl eligibility for the first time

under Frost, Nebraska needs to go

3-1 against Purdue, Ohio State,

Wisconsin and Iowa.

Nebraska has been torturing its

fans with excruciating losses, but

it might not be worse than what

Miami has done lately.

The Hurricanes (2-4) let anoth-

er one slip away in improbable

fashion at North Carolina, leaving

Manny Diaz at 16-14 in two-and-a-

half seasons leading the The U.

“There’s a really good team in

that locker room,” Diaz told re-

porters. “We just don’t have a good

record. We are what our record

says we are. But there’s a good

team in there. If we stay the

course, it’s going to show.”

As for Mullen, all he had to do

was look across the field Saturday

to see how quickly things change

in the SEC.

Beating Florida provided at

least a temporary reprieve to Or-

geron. Just two years removed

from a national championship, Or-

geron is going to need a few more

performances from his team like it

had against Florida to avoid being

fired.

Reality bites IowaOnly the biggest Iowa fans be-

lieved the Hawkeyes 6-0 start was

built on a sustainable foundation.

That doesn’t mean the Haw-

keyes didn’t deserve their mo-

ment as the No 2 team in the coun-

try, but it was clear at some point

the Turnover Fairy would not

make an appearance and a team

ranked 121st in the country in

yards per play (4.65) was going to

need to score without a bunch of

help.

Purdue rolled into Iowa City

having scored only 13 points in

each of its last three games, but

the Boilermakers added to their

rich history of giant killing by

handing the Hawkeyes their first

loss.

Purdue’s David Bell was un-

stoppable with 240 yards receiv-

ing, and the Boilermakers beat a

team ranked in the top two for the

13th time in school history. Nine of

those have come as an unranked

team. The last before Saturday

was in 2018 at home against Ohio

State.

The Hawkeyes are still well po-

sitioned to win the Big Ten West,

but unless they can reconjure

some of the magic that made them

an unlikely top-five team, Iowa as

a Cinderella CFP contender is not

something that needs much con-

sideration.

Georgia continued to cement it-

self as the clear No. 1 in the coun-

try against No. 11 Kentucky, but

who’s No. 2?

No. 3 Cincinnati would be the

safe choice. The Bearcats extend-

ed the nation's second-longest

home winning streak to 24 games.

Don’t be surprised if No. 4 Okla-

homa jumped the Bearcats. Caleb

Williams has the Sooners’ offense

clicking like a vintage Lincoln Ri-

ley attack. OU’s defense is also

looking vintage Riley era, and

that’s not a good thing.

Stay tuned Sunday.

Lane trainCombine Lane Kiffin and Ten-

nessee, and you are bound to get

some mayhem.

Kiffin’s return to Knoxville as

Ole Miss coach was a marathon

game won by the 13th-ranked Re-

bels. The wild affair was marked

by an epidemic of injuries that

may or may not have been ploys to

slow down two fast-paced offenses

and Tennessee fans showering the

field with trash after a close spot

went against the Vols late in the

fourth quarter.

Kiffin is now the most entertain-

ing man in college football. Love

him or hate him, he embraces the

show.

“I don’t know if I’m more excit-

ed that we found a way to win or

that I didn’t get hit with the golf

balls that they were throwing at

me,” he told ESPN, holding up the

yellow golf ball.

Around the countryWilliams looks like OU’s next

Heisman contender, but a quar-

terback who didn’t make his first

start until the seventh game is not

winning the trophy. ... Washington

State won its third straight game,

coming from behind to beat Stan-

ford. Now the focus in Pullman be-

comes coach Nick Rolovich, who

could lose his job if he does not

comply with a vaccine mandate

that covers state university em-

ployees. Rolovic has applied for an

exemption. Asked whether he

knew if he would still be coaching

his team next week, he told report-

ers after the game: “I do not.” ...

On Friday night, Oregon edge

rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux, the

potential No. 1 overall NFL Draft

pick in 2022, played a dominant

second half to help the Ducks hang

on to beat Cal. On Saturday, Ala-

bama edge rusher Will Anderson,

the potential top pick in the 2023

draft, went off for four sacks

against Mississippi State. ... No. 12

Oklahoma State’s defense is legit.

The Cowboys held Texas to 14

yards over its final six drives to

erase a 24-13 deficit. ... One con-

founding home loss against West-

ern Michigan has kept Pitt from

getting much attention, but after

crushing Virginia Tech, the Pan-

thers are the clear favorites in the

ACC Coastal. And how about some

Heisman hype for QB Kenny

Pickett? ... Louisiana-Monroe

pulled off one of the biggest upsets

of the season. The Warhawks, with

65-year-old Terry Bowden in his

first year as head coach, knocked

off Liberty and NFL prospect Ma-

lik Willis as a 33-point underdog.

... Arizona’s losing streak hit 18

games against Colorado. The

Wildcats have played half a sea-

son under new coach Jedd Fisch

and have yet to score 20 points in a

game. ... Ohio’s Armani Rogers set

a record that can never be a bro-

ken, breaking off a 99-yard run

against Buffalo, the longest in

NCAA history for an quarterback.

Mullen scrutinized;No. 2 Iowa upset

BY RALPH D. RUSSO

Associated Press

MATTHEW HINTON/AP

LSU running back Tyrion Davis­Price races for a touchdown against Florida in the second half of an NCAAcollege football game in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday.

TOP 25 TAKEAWAYS

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MLB PLAYOFFS

teammate Kiké Hernández said. “Has that ev-

er happened before?”

It has now.

Hernández, who Boston manager Alex Cora

referred to Friday night as “en fuego” after a

two-homer performance in Game 1, remained

on fire Saturday. He had two hits, highlighted

by a solo homer in the fourth inning.

Hernández has been this postseason’s hot-

test hitter, leading all players with 16 hits, five

homers and four doubles. His nine extra-base

hits are also the most in these playoffs and tied

a Red Sox postseason record with Mike Lowell

(2007), Kevin Youkilis (2007) and David Ortiz

(2004 & 2007). His five homers are also tied for

most in team history with Ortiz (2004, 2013)

and Todd Walker (2003).

“The importance of the game is allowing me

to stay focused and stay locked in,” Hernández

said.

Red Sox starter Nathan Eovaldi permitted

five hits and three runs in 5 1/3 innings.

The Astros captured a 5-4 win in the series

opener as they rallied behind homers from

Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa before falling

into the huge hole early in this one.

“That’s a tough team," Cora said. "It’s never

comfortable with them because they’re a

swing away from getting back in the game.”

The Red Sox were up 9-0 when Houston got

on the board with an RBI double by Kyle Tuck-

er with two outs in the fourth. The Astros cut

the lead to 9-3 when Yuli Gurriel followed with

single to right field that scored two more.

Gurriel and Jason Castro added solo homers

in the ninth off Darwinzon Hernandez before

Ryan Brasier got the final out.

“At the end, it was a little too close for com-

fort, but we got it done,” Hernández said.

Manager Dusty Baker isn't sure how long

García will be out, but he said that he'd been

dealing with this issue “on and off" but didn't

tell anyone about it.

“It wasn’t bothering him enough not to

pitch,'" Baker said. “We’ll make a determina-

tion in a couple of days."

The injury to García is another blow to a

Houston team trying to reach the World Series

for the second time in three years. The Astros

are already reeling after an injury to staff ace

Lance McCullers Jr. that kept him off the ros-

ter for this series.

They won the championship in 2017, a crown

tainted by the team’s sign-stealing scandal.

When McCullers went out, Baker said the

team would just have to “hit more” to absorb

the loss.

So what is he asking from his offense now?

“Do some more," he said with a chuckle

while shaking his head. “You don’t have much

choice, so we just have to do some more. That’s

all."

Grand: First multi-slam game in postseason historyFROM PAGE 24

TONY GUTIERREZ/AP

Astros second baseman Jose Altuve can't get a glove on a single by Boston's J.D. Martinezduring the seventh inning in Game 2 of the ALCS, Saturday, in Houston. The Red Sox won 3­2.

ATLANTA — A couple of clutch

swings from breakout slugger

Austin Riley got the underdog At-

lanta Braves off to a fast start in

the NL Championship Series.

Riley homered and drove in the

winning run with a single in the

bottom of the ninth inning to give

Atlanta a 3-2 victory over the Los

Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 on

Saturday night.

Blake Treinen struck out Fred-

die Freeman to open the ninth be-

fore giving up Ozzie Albies’ bloop

single to center field. Albies stole

second and Riley followed with his

line drive into the left-field corner.

“That was my mindset — put

something in play and see what

happens,” Riley said after deliver-

ing the first walk-off hit of his ca-

reer.

The 24-year-old slugger spread

his arms in celebration as he

rounded first base before getting

mobbed by teammates in a happy

swarm that carried into shallow

center field.

“You dream of that as a little

kid,” Riley said.

Albies told first-base coach Eric

Young Sr. he would be taking off to

steal second so he could get in

scoring position.

“I knew (Riley) was going to do

the job,” Albies said.

“As soon as he hit it, I took off. I

started yelling, screaming all the

way to home plate.”

Riley also homered in the

fourth. The third baseman set ca-

reer highs across the board for NL

East champion Atlanta this year in

his third major league season, bat-

ting .303 with 33 homers, 107 RBIs

and an .898 OPS in a league-lead-

ing 160 games.

“He’s come a long way in a short

time, I feel like. Even last year, I

think that he didn’t have all these

tools. He can beat you in so many

ways now, and he always had that

power, but now he’s putting to-

gether such good at-bats,” Dodg-

ers infielder Trea Turner said.

“He’s a polished hitter and hats

off to him because I think he’s got-

ten to the point where he’s been a

really good player and there’s a

reason why fans are chanting

MVP for him.”

Riley’s big game was especially

important as Braves first base-

man Freddie Freeman struck out

four times against four different

Los Angeles pitchers after having

only one four-strikeout game in

the regular season.

Atlanta manager Brian Snitker

said Riley has proven he can take

that lead role.

“I think that kid has definitely

taken the next step forward,”

Snitker said.

The teams are meeting in the

NL Championship Series for the

second consecutive season. The

Dodgers rallied from a 3-1 deficit

to win last year’s playoff in seven

games before also winning the

World Series.

Game 2 is Sunday night in At-

lanta before the series shifts to Los

Angeles.

The wild-card Dodgers wasted

a scoring opportunity in the top of

the ninth. Will Smith got two outs

before walking Chris Taylor.

Pinch-hitter Cody Bellinger hit a

soft single to right field, but Taylor

got caught and tagged out in a run-

down between second and third

that started with right fielder Joc

Pederson’s throw to shortstop

Dansby Swanson.

“I thought if he would have kept

going, he might have had a chance

at third,” Riley said. “But that was

a great play by Dansby. Just being

able to get out of that inning there

was huge.”

Corey Knebel worked one in-

ning as the Dodgers’ opener in a

bullpen game, giving up one run.

Eddie Rosario led off with a single,

stole second, moved to third on Al-

bies’ groundout and scored on

Knebel’s wild pitch to Riley.

The Dodgers, who won 18 more

games than Atlanta during the

regular season, pulled even in the

second on AJ Pollock’s two-out

double and Taylor’s RBI single.

Will Smith’s homer in the

fourth, his third of the postseason,

gave the Dodgers a 2-1 lead. Ri-

ley’s two-out homer off Tony Gon-

solin in the fourth tied it.

The Dodgers outhit the Braves

10-6 but left runners on base in

each of the first seven innings ex-

cept the fourth. Los Angeles hit-

ters were 1-for-8 with runners in

scoring position.

Riley’s game-winning single in 9th lifts Braves

JOHN BAZEMORE/AP

The Braves’ Austin Riley hits the game­winning RBI single to scoreteammate Ozzie Albies during the ninth inning in Game 1 of the NLCSon Saturday against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Atlanta.

BY CHARLES ODUM

Associated Press

Playoffsx-if necessary

WILD CARDAmerican League

Boston 6, New York 2National League

Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 1DIVISION SERIES

(Best-of-five)American League

Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1Tampa Bay 5, Boston 0Boston 14, Tampa Bay 6Boston 6, Tampa Bay 4, 13 inningsBoston 6, Tampa Bay 5

Houston 3, Chicago 1Houston 6, Chicago 1Houston 9, Chicago 4Chicago 12, Houston 6Houston 10, Chicago 1

National LeagueLos Angeles 3, San Francisco 2

San Francisco 4, Los Angeles 0Los Angeles 9, San Francisco 2San Francisco 1, Los Angeles 0Los Angeles 7, San Francisco 2Thursday: Los Angeles 2, San Francisco

1Atlanta 3, Milwaukee 1

Milwaukee 2, Atlanta 1Atlanta 3, Milwaukee 0Atlanta 3, Milwaukee 0Atlanta 5, Milwaukee 4

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES(Best-of-seven)

American LeagueHouston 1, Boston 1

Friday: Houston 5, Boston 4Saturday: Boston 9, Houston 5Monday: at Boston AFN-Sports, 2 a.m.

Tuesday CET; 9 a.m. Tuesday JKTTuesday, Oct. 19: at Boston AFN-Sports,

2 a.m. Wednesday CET; 9 a.m. WednesdayJKT

x-Wednesday, Oct. 20: at Boston AFN-Sports, 10 p.m. Wednesday CET; 5 a.m.Thursday JKT

x-Friday, Oct. 22: at Houstonx-Saturday, Oct. 23: at Houston

National LeagueAtlanta 1, Los Angeles 0

Saturday: Atlanta 3, Los Angeles 2Sunday: at AtlantaTuesday, Oct. 19: at Los Angeles AFN-

Sports, 10:30 p.m. Tuesday CET; 5:30 a.m.Wednesday JKT

Wednesday, Oct. 20: at Los Angeles AFN-Sports, 2 a.m. Thursday CET; 9 a.m. Thurs-day JKT

x-Thursday, Oct. 21: at Los Angeles AFN-Sports, 2 a.m. Friday CET; 9 a.m. Friday JKT

x-Saturday, Oct. 23: at Atlantax-Sunday, Oct. 24: at Atlanta

Scoreboard

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J.D. Martinez and Rafael Devers helped the

Red Sox have a grand old time in Houston.

Boston became the first team to slug two

grand slams in a postseason game, with Mar-

tinez and Devers connecting in the first two innings

of a 9-5 win over the Astros on Saturday that tied their

AL Championship Series at one game apiece.

Game 3 is Monday night in Boston. It’s the first of

three consecutive home games for the Red Sox, back

in the playoffs for the first time since winning the

2018 World Series after downing Houston in the

ALCS.

Martinez made it 4-0 with his opposite-field shot off

rookie Luis García with two outs in the first. It was the

first career playoff slam for the four-time All-Star,

who began his career with the Astros.

“That situation, the pressure is on him, it’s not on

me to come through there," Martinez said. “It’s the

first inning. He has bases loaded. I’m trying to tell

myself that, trying to stay relaxed and just looking for

a pitch so I can just put a barrel on it."

García exited with right knee discomfort after

walking the first batter of the second inning. Jake

Odorizzi took over, and shortly after a 13-minute de-

lay while the right-hander warmed up on the field,

Devers connected with one out for slam No. 2.

“J.D.'s swing was huge to get us on the board early,

and then Raffy, same thing, another granny,” red-hot

Boston gets slams from Martinez, Deversto even ALCS at 1-1 with win over Astros

BY KRISTIE RIEKEN

Associated Press

SEE GRAND ON PAGE 23

AP photos

Top: Red Sox designated hitter J.D. Martinez celebrates with RafaelDevers after hitting a grand slam during the first inning on Sunday.Above: Astros starting pitcher Luis Garcia, right, leaves the game withmanager Dusty Baker Jr. during the second inning in Houston.

MLB PLAYOFFS

Grand game