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Volume 79, No. 71 ©SS 2020 MONDAY, JULY 27, 2020

BY JEFF MARTIN

Associated Press

Protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities overnight, with demonstrators squaring off against agents outside a fed-eral courthouse in Portland, Ore. , forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles during unrest in California and Virginia.

A protester in Austin, Texas, who was apparently armed with a rifle was shot and killed after witnesses say he approached a car that had driven through a march against police violence. And someone was

shot and wounded in Aurora, Colo ., after a car drove through a protest there, authori-ties said.

The unrest Satur-day and early Sunday stemmed from the weeks of protests over racial injustice and the police treatment of peo-ple of color that flared

up after the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black and handcuffed, died after a white police of-ficer used his knee to pin down Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes while Floyd begged for air.

In Seattle, police officers retreated into a precinct station early Sunday, hours after large demonstrations in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Some demonstrators lingered after officers filed into the de-partment’s East Precinct around 1 a.m., but most cleared out a short time later, ac-cording to video posted online.

At a late-night news conference, Seattle police Chief Carmen Best called for peace. Rocks, bottles, fireworks and mortars were fired at police during the weekend unrest, and police said they arrested at least 45 people for assaults on officers, obstruction and failure to disperse. Twenty-one offi-cers were hurt, with most of their injuries considered minor, police said.

In Portland, thousands of people gath-ered Saturday evening for another night of protests over George Floyd’s killing and the presence of federal agents recently sent to

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BY ROBERT BURNS

Associated Press

WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. — In the topsy-turvy world of U.S. strate-gic bombers, older and uglier sometimes beats newer and snazzier.

As the Air Force charts a bomber future in line with the Pentagon’s new focus on potential war with China or Russia, the youngest and flashiest — the stealthy B-2, costing a hair-raising $2 billion each — is to be retired first. The oldest and stodgiest — the Vietnam-era B-52 — will go last. It could still be fly-ing when it is 100 years old.

This might seem to defy logic, but the elite group of men and women who have

flown the bat-winged B-2 Spirit accept the reasons for phasing it out when a next-generation bomber comes on line.

“In my mind, it actually does make

sense to have the B-2 as an eventual re-tirement candidate,” says John Avery, who flew the B-2 for 14 years from Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri. He and his wife, Jennifer, were the first married couple to serve as B-2 pilots; she was the first woman to fly it in combat.

The Air Force sees it as a matter of money, numbers and strategy.

The Air Force expects to spend at least $55 billion to field an all-new, nuclear-capable bomber for the future, the B-21 Raider, at the same time the Pentagon will be spending hundreds of billions of dollars to replace all of the other major

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As Air Force prepares to retire B-2, Vietnam-era B-52 soars on

Age before beauty

Above: A crew chief at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., marshals in a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber in 2017. The B-2, which entered service in 1993, is set to be the first aircraft retired by the Air Force as it charts a new future for its bomber force.

JOEL PFIESTER/U.S. Air Force

NUMBERS GAMEThe B-2’s viability suffers from the fact that only 21 were built, of which 20 remain, leaving little slack in the supply chain for unique spare parts. It is thus comparatively expensive to maintain and to fly. The stealth bomber is also seen as increasingly vulnerable against air defenses of emerging war threats like China and Russia.

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NATION Tropical Storm Hanna roars ashore, drenchesTexas Gulf CoastPage 11

VIRUS OUTBREAK North Korea locks down border city over suspected virus casePage 6

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Inside:� Oakland courthouse vandalized, set ablaze, Page 10

Protester in Texas shot, killed amid civil unrest

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BUSINESS/WEATHER

Military ratesEuro costs (July 27) .............................. $1.13Dollar buys (July 27) .........................€0.8403British pound (July 27) ........................ $1.24Japanese yen (July 27) ......................105.00South Korean won (July 27) ..........1,169.00

Commercial ratesBahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3767British pound .....................................$1.2789Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3424China (Yuan) ........................................ 7.0173Denmark (Krone) ................................6.3958Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.9903Euro ........................................ $1.1636/0.8594Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7519Hungary (Forint) ................................. 297.49Israel (Shekel) ..................................... 3.4124Japan (Yen) ........................................... 106.01Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3064Norway (Krone) ................................... 9.1655Philippines (Peso).................................49.37Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.79Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7507Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3830South Korea (Won) ..........................1,202.45

Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9223Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.66Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.8465(Military exchange rates are those available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., purchasing British pounds in Germany), check with your local military banking facility. Commercial rates are interbank rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, which is represented in dollars-to-pound, and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)

EXCHANGE RATES

INTEREST RATESPrime rate ................................................ 3.25Discount rate .......................................... 0.25Federal funds market rate ................... 0.093-month bill ............................................. 0.1030-year bond ........................................... 1.24

WEATHER OUTLOOK

Bahrain106/93

Baghdad124/89

Doha107/93

KuwaitCity

118/94

Riyadh112/88

Djibouti97/83

Kandahar107/77

Kabul97/67

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Misawa68/64

Guam87/80

Tokyo81/73

Okinawa93/82

Sasebo88/79

Iwakuni90/77

Seoul83/72

Osan80/73 Busan

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

Mildenhall/Lakenheath

71/53

Ramstein87/61

Stuttgart87/69

Lajes,Azores78/70

Rota81/71

Morón101/67 Sigonella

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Naples90/75

Aviano/Vicenza87/67

Pápa84/65

Souda Bay91/72

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Brussels82/61

Zagan82/67

Drawsko Pomorskie

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FAA: Check 737 engines that could shut down Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Safety regu-lators issued an emergency order directing airlines to inspect and if necessary replace a critical en-gine part on popular Boeing 737 jets after four reports of engines shutting down during flights.

The Federal Aviation Adminis-tration said that its order affected about 2,000 twin-engine passen-ger jets in the United States.

The FAA said operators must inspect any 737 that has been

parked for at least seven days or been flown fewer than 11 times since being returned to service. That’s because of reports that certain engine valves can become stuck in the open position.

Corrosion of the valves on both engines could lead to a complete loss of power without the ability to restart the engines, forcing pi-lots to land somewhere other than an airport, the FAA said in the order, dated Thursday.

Chicago-based Boeing Co. said that with planes being stored or

used less often during the coro-navirus pandemic, “the valve can be more susceptible to corrosion.” The company said it is providing inspection and parts-replacement help to airplane owners.

Major airlines typically fly their planes several times a day. They parked hundreds of planes, however, when the coronavirus pandemic triggered a collapse in air travel this spring and are bringing some of those planes back as passenger traffic has picked up slightly.

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BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

The Marine Corps wants to deploy mo-bile units to Okinawa armed with anti-ship and air-defense missiles that could help Japan defend against island incursions by China, the commandant of the Marine Corps said on Thursday.

“You want to deter, to prevent any poten-tial adversary from taking the next move,” Gen. David Berger said in comments pub-lished by Reuters.

“If you are looking out from China, that’s what you should see, a rock-solid alliance.”

Berger said the United States is in talks with Japan about the possible deployment, which is being spurred on by the U.S. shift

in national strategy away from counter-insurgency concerns and toward so-called “great power com-petition” with China and, to a lesser de-gree, Russia.

The mobile Ma-rine units under dis-cussion would not increase the number of troops hosted by Japan, Berger said. He intends to travel to Japan after the coronavirus restrictions are lifted, he said.

Berger wants to make Pacific-based Marines more mobile, with fewer aircraft, artillery and heavy armor in the service,

putting in place instead Marine littoral regiments tailored to deny adversaries control through the use of missiles and drones against invading vessels.

The U.S. has been under pressure by Okinawans for decades to reduce the num-ber of Marines on the small island, which hosts a sizable portion of the American forces stationed in Japan. An effort to re-locate Marines to Guam and Hawaii is in the works, and Berger’s vision of a more disseminated force dovetails well with the relocation.

Since taking command of the Marine Corps a year ago, Berger has focused on integrating the operations of the Marine Corps and Navy in the Pacific and cham-pioned the concept of Expeditionary Ad-vance Base Operations, which intends to

place Marines in smaller units in moreplaces throughout the Pacific.

About 22,000 Marines and sailors underMarine Corps Forces Pacific are deployedwest of the International Date Line at any given time.

The Marine Corps will have an op-erational littoral regiment in Okinawa by 2027, Berger told Reuters, with additionallittoral regiments in Guam and Hawaii.

The littoral regiment in Hawaii is ex-pected to have roughly 2,000 Marines, mostly coming from units already existingat Marine Corps Base Hawaii, a MarineCorps spokesman told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in May.

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BY JAMES BOLINGER

Stars and Stripes

The Air Force and Space Force are changing the look of name-tapes on their camouflage uniforms to make them easier to read, the Air Force announced Thursday.

The services will move to a lighter, three-color pattern for rank insignia lettering of occupational badges, nametapes and service identifiers that should make ranks and names easier to see on the Operational Camouflage Pattern — OCP — utility uniform.

“We received significant feedback that prompted this update,” Lisa Truesdale, the Air Force’s military force management policy deputy director, said in a statement. “The current rank insignia, badges, name and service tapes on the OCP uniform are some-times challenging to see against a seven-color background.”

The Army’s nametapes are much easier to see, Senior Airman Yong Hwa Song told Stars and Stripes on Friday at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. The spice brown thread color used by the Air Force obscures the letters against the camouflage back-ground, he said.

“Name tags are not that expensive,” Song said. “As long as there is a good transition period it won’t be too bad, and we can keep our old one till the transition period [is over].”

The current nametape, insignia and badges pattern will re-main authorized for wear, the statement said. Airmen graduat-ing from basic training will see new nametapes by October.

Additionally, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service has begun to stock the new three-color pattern, the statement said.

The Defense Logistics Agency, which manages the global sup-ply chain for the Defense Department has placed an order for the new name tapes, which should be in circulation by Novem-ber, the statement said.

The Air Force will retain the spice brown thread used for let-tering on name tapes and rank insignia, while the Space Force will use blue stitching. Stars and Stripes reporter Theron Godbold contributed to this report.bolinger.james@stripes.comTwitter: @bolingerj2004

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

China deployed at least eight fighter jets this month to an artificial island in the South China Sea as the United States and its allies conducted large-scale drills in the area, satellite images show.

The aircraft, including four that appear to be J-11B fighters and four that have the same dimensions as the JH-7 anti-ship fighter bomber, are visible in the images from July 17, according a report that day by the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia.

The aircraft were on a runway at Woody Island, China’s largest military base in the

Paracels, a group of islets in the northern part of the South China Sea that is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Chinese fighters have refueled at the base in the past, according to Ian Chong, an assistant professor in the National Uni-versity of Singapore’s political science department.

“Whether this detachment stays we don’t know, but it’s not something that’s without precedent,” he said in a telephone inter-view Thursday.

Fortifying its South China Sea installa-tions and having a permanent presence is among Beijing’s goals, Chong said.

“I suppose operationally basing [the fighter jets] there could cow some other

claimants,” he said. “But the islands them-selves are pretty vulnerable. If they don’t have enough of a presence with enough range to keep planes and ships away hav-ing just a few aircraft might not be that feasible.”

The deployment comes at a time of in-creasing friction in the region between Washington and Beijing. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 13 put the United States on record as rejecting sweeping claims to territory in the sea, as well as its claims to control access to the region. Such claims are “completely unlawful,” he said.

Two U.S. aircraft carriers — the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan — con-ducted drills in the South China Sea this

month.The carriers were joined July 17 by a

pair of Air Force B1-B Lancer bombersmaking overflights from Guam.

Last week, the Reagan and its strikegroup teamed up with naval forces fromJapan and Australia for further maneu-vers in the nearby Philippine Sea.

The Chinese fighter jets’ deployment to Woody Island shows Beijing can move as-sets around the region, Chong said.

“China is ramping up the robustness of its presence and quite willing to show oth-ers it is a force to be reckoned with in these waters,” he said.robson.seth@stripes.comTwitter: @SethRobson1

MILITARY

Marines eye mobile units in Pacific region

Berger

Chinese fighter jets spotted on tiny base in disputed South China Sea

THERON GODBOLD/Stars and Stripes

The Air Force is changing the name and insignia tapes on uniforms to make them more visible. An airman shows those tapes at Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Friday .

Air Force, Space Force tweak camo nametapes

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FROM FRONT PAGE

elements of the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The Air Force is also spending heavily on new fighters and refueling aircraft, and like the rest of the military it foresees tighter defense budgets ahead.

The B-2’s viability suffers from the fact that only 21 were built, of which 20 remain. That leaves little slack in the supply chain for unique spare parts. It is thus comparatively expensive to main-tain and to fly. It is also seen as in-creasingly vulnerable against air defenses of emerging war threats like China.

Then there is the fact that the B-52, which entered service in the mid-1950s and is known to crews as the Big Ugly Fat Fellow, keeps finding ways to stay relevant. It is equipped to drop or launch the widest array of weapons in the entire Air Force inventory. The plane is so valuable that the Air Force twice in recent years has brought a B-52 back from the grave — taking long-retired planes from a desert “boneyard” in Arizona and restoring them to active service.

Strategic bombers have a sto-ried place in U.S. military history, from the early days of the former Strategic Air Command when the only way America and the former Soviet Union could launch nucle-ar weapons at each other was by air, to the B-52’s carpet bombing missions in Vietnam.

Developed in secrecy in the 1980s, the B-2 was rolled out as a revolutionary weapon — the first

long-range bomber built with stealth, or radar-evading, tech-nology designed to defeat the best Soviet air defenses.

By the time the first B-2 was delivered to the Air Force in 1993, however, the Soviet Union had disintegrated and the Cold War had ended. The plane made its combat debut in the 1999 Kosovo war. It flew a limited number of combat sorties over Iraq and Af-ghanistan and has launched only five combat sorties since 2011, all in Libya.

The last was a 2017 strike no-table for the fact that it pitted the world’s most expensive and exotic bomber against a flimsy camp of Islamic State militants.

“It has proved its worth in the fight, over time,” says Col. Jeffrey Schreiner, who has flown the B-2 for 19 years and is commander of the 509th Bomb Wing at White-man, which flies and maintains the full fleet.

But after two decades of fight-ing small wars and insurgencies, the Pentagon is shifting its main focus to what it calls “great power competition” with a rising China and a resurgent Russia, in an era of stiffer air defenses that expose B-2’s vulnerabilities.

Thus the Pentagon’s commit-ment to the bomber of the future — the B-21 Raider. The Air Force has committed to buying at least 100 of them. The plane is being developed in secrecy to be a do-it-all strategic bomber. A prototype is being built now, but the first flight is not considered likely be-fore 2022.

The Air Force had planned to

keep its B-2s flying until 2058, but will instead retire them as the B-21 Raider arrives in this de-cade. Also retiring early will be the B-1B Lancer, which is the only one of the three bomber types that is no longer nuclear-capable. The Air Force has proposed to eliminate 17 of its 62 Lancers in the coming year.

The B-52, however, will fly on. It is so old that it made a mark on American pop culture more than 50 years ago. It lent its name to a 1960s beehive hairstyle that resembled the plane’s nosecone, and the plane featured promi-nently in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy, “Dr. Strangelove.”

More than once, the B-52 seemed destined to go out of style.

“We’re talking about a plane that ceased production in 1962 based on a design that was for-mulated in the late 1940s,” said Loren Thompson, a defense ana-lyst at the Lexington Institute, a Washington think-tank.

Rather than retire it, the Air Force is planning to equip the Boeing behemoth with new en-gines, new radar technology and other upgrades to keep it flying into the 2050s. It will be a “stand off” platform from which to launch cruise missiles and other weapons from beyond the reach of hostile air defenses.

In Thompson’s view, the Air Force is making a simple calcu-lation: The B-52 costs far less to operate and maintain than the newer but finickier B-2.

“They decided the B-52 was good enough,” he said.

Retire: B-52s still strong after decades

WAR/MILITARY

BY KATHY GANNON

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — A U.N. report says that over 6,000 Pakistani in-surgents, most belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Paki-stan group attacking Pakistani military and civilian targets, are hiding in Afghanistan.

The report released last week said the organization has linked up with the Afghan-based Is-lamic State affiliate and some of its members have even joined the ISIS group, which has its head-quarters in eastern Afghanistan.

The Afghan government did not respond to The Associated Press requests Sunday for comment.

The report said ISIS in Afghani-stan, known as ISIS in Khorasan province, has been hit hard by the Afghan Security Forces, as well as U.S. and NATO forces and even on occasion by the Taliban. The report was prepared by the U.N. analytical and sanctions monitor-ing team, which tracks terrorist groups around the world.

The report estimated the mem-bership of the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan at 2,200, and while its leadership has been depleted, it still counts among its leaders a Syrian national, Abu Said Mo-hammad al-Khorasani.

The report also said the moni-toring team had received informa-tion that two senior Islamic State commanders, Abu Qutaibah and Abu Hajar al-Iraqi, had recently arrived in Afghanistan from the Middle East.

“Although in territorial retreat, (the Islamic State) remains ca-pable of carrying out high-pro-file attacks in various parts of the country, including Kabul. It also aims to attract Taliban fight-ers who oppose the agreement with the United States,” said the report referring to a U.S. peace deal signed with the Taliban in February.

That deal that was struck to allow the U.S. to end its 19-year-involvement in Afghanistan also calls on the Taliban to guarantee that its territory will not be used by terrorist groups. The deal is

also expected to guarantee Tal-iban all-out participation in thefight against the Islamic State.

The second and perhaps themost critical part of that agree-ment calls for talks between theTaliban and Kabul’s politicalleadership.

Late on Saturday, the U.S. StateDepartment issued a statementsaying its peace envoy ZalmayKhalilzad was again shuttlingthrough the region seeking tojump start those negotiations, which have been repeatedly post-poned as both sides squabble over a prisoner release program.

The U.S.-backed deal calls for the Afghan government to release5,000 Taliban prisoners and theTaliban to free 1,000 governmentand military personnel as a so-called good will gesture ahead of talks. Until now, the governmentis refusing to release nearly 600 Taliban prisoners it calls high-profile criminals and have offered to free alternatives. The Taliban has refused.

“The parties are closer thanever to the start of intra-Afghan negotiations, the key next step to ending Afghanistan’s 40-year long war,” said the U.S. State Depart-ment statement. “Although sig-nificant progress has been made on prisoner exchanges, the issuerequires additional effort to fullyresolve.”

The Taliban’s political spokes-man earlier last week said it wasready to hold talks with Kabul’spolitical leaders after the Islamicholiday of Eid ul Adha, which is at the end of the month, providingthe prisoner release is completed.

A big worry for Pakistan is thepresence in Afghanistan of mili-tants, particularly linked to the TTP, Jamaat-al Ahrar or Lash-kar-e-Islam, as well as those withthe Baluchistan Liberation Army,which has taken responsibility for high profile attacks this month inthe southern Sindh province as well as in southwestern Baluch-istan Province. Several Pakistanmilitary personnel have beenkilled this month in southwestern Baluchistan province in battleswith insurgents.

UN: Anti-Pakistanmilitants hiding in Afghanistan

Associated Press

BEIRUT — A bomb that ex-ploded Sunday morning in a veg-etable market in a north Syrian border town controlled by Tur-key-backed opposition fighters killed eight and wounded 19, an opposition war monitor and the state news agency reported.

The blast scorched market

stalls and scattered produce in the town of Ras al-Ayn along the border with Turkey.

The state news agency SANA said the blast was caused by a car bomb, while the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion was caused by a motorcycle rigged with explosives.

The Observatory said some of the wounded are in critical condi-tion, adding that the dead includ-ed a woman and a child.

Turkey’s Defense Ministry blamed the attack on Kurdish insurgents, as it has in dozens of other such incidents.

Ankara has blamed explosions that killed and wounded dozens of

people in northeast Syria in recent months on Kurdish fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party , which has waged a decades long insurgency inside Turkey.

It views the Kurdish fighters as terrorists, though the same fighters had partnered with the United States against the Islamic State group.

Turkey controls most Syrian territory bordering its southernfrontier after a series of militaryoperations. Last October, Turkish troops crossed into Syria’s north-east, capuring the Ras al-Aynarea in driving Kurdish fightersaway from the border after the U.S. withdrew most of its forcesfrom the region.

Report: Blast in market of north Syrian border town kills several

THOMAS BARLEY/U.S. Air Force

A B-2 Spirit bomber, deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Miss. , is staged on the flightline at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in January 2019.

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PACIFIC

USFJ crew must test negative to leave quarantine

USMC on Okinawa reports 72 new infections over three days

BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS

Stars and Stripes

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — U.S. military person-nel newly arrived in Japan must test negative for the coronavirus before they exit a mandated two-week quarantine, according to a new policy announced Friday by U.S. Forces Japan.

Since March, all incoming De-fense Department personnel have been required to spend 14 days on restricted movement, which typi-cally means they’re confined to their home or base lodging. This applies to new arrivals as well as travelers returning to Japan.

Under the new policy, people must test negative for the corona-virus before leaving quarantine, even if their 14 days are complet-ed, USFJ spokeswoman Maj. Ge-nieve White told Stars and Stripes on Friday.

Those who test negative before their two weeks have ended will still continue to quarantine until the 14-day requirement is met, according to a USFJ statement is-sued Friday afternoon.

White said the policy took ef-fect for those beginning quaran-tine on Friday; however, people already under restriction may be exempt. USFJ notified base com-manders of the coming change Thursday, and time is needed to set up processes to comply with it, she said.

“There’s going to be an extra burden on testing capabilities with so many in the queue,” White said. “We’re doing what we can.”

The policy change comes after Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono on Tuesday told reporters that the United States had ar-ranged to test its personnel before they leave quarantine, according to a translation of a news conference posted to the ministry’s website.

“I understand that they will firmly carry it out as it is ex-tremely important to prevent spread of infectious disease and maintain readiness among the U.S. military,” he said.

At the time of Kono’s statement, the U.S. was not requiring tests

for those completing quarantine. “I think those who are posi-

tive but have no symptoms arespreading the infection,” he said.“I think tests are important inthat sense, too.”

Kono raised the issue after amilitary family tested positive after taking a commercial flightfrom Tokyo to Marine Corps AirStation Iwakuni on July 13. Re-ports also surfaced in Japanesemedia of inbound U.S. personnelquarantined in city hotels in Oki-nawa, a practice the U.S. ended.

The number of people in quar-antine each week who are affiliat-ed with the U.S. military in Japanwas unavailable Friday. Testingwill take place between the 10thand 13th days of quarantine to allow time to process the tests,White said.

Some U.S. personnel are al-ready being tested after the 14-day period, however. On Friday,one person at Yokosuka testedpositive after 14 days in quaran-tine, according to a post on theinstallation’s Facebook page. The base had nine active coronaviruscases as of Friday.

The 14-day period is based onguidance from the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention. Theexact incubation period for thecoronavirus is unknown, but pa-tients with similar viruses take be-tween two and 14 days to developsymptoms, according to the CDC.

Scientists believe patients maybe contagious for between 10 and20 days, according to the CDC.

On Tuesday, Kono said Japan and the U.S. had discussed re-quiring coronavirus tests beforetravelers left for Japan, but thatwould have been more complicat-ed “since it would involve a greatnumber of people to do it when leaving the U.S.,” he said.

Japanese officials are testing U.S. military travelers upon theirarrival at Japanese airports. Ofthe nine active cases at Yokosuka,seven were discovered throughairport tests.Stars and Stripes reporter Hana Kusumoto contributed to this report.doornbos.caitlin@stripes.comTwitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE

Stars and Stripes

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Marine Corps on Okina-wa reported 41 new coronavirus cases on Friday and another 31 over the weekend, bringing to 225 the total from two clusters dis-covered after the Fourth of July weekend.

The 41 infections announced Friday were identified through the Marine Corps’ trace-and-test process and involve personnel attached to Marine Corps Instal-lations Pacific and III Marine Expeditionary Force on Okina-wa, spokesman Maj. Ken Kunze wrote Friday in an emailed state-ment to Stars and Stripes.

Twenty-seven of those cases stem from a cluster outbreak at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, while the other 14 are at Camp Hansen, site of the other outbreak.

Some have been in quarantine since July 12, but most have been restricted since July 18, the state-ment said. All have been moved into isolation.

“All of those individuals were from batch testing that has been pending, one as far back as 12 July,” Kunze wrote. “With the high volume of test results that

have been pending since last week, this wasn’t a surprise.”

On Saturday, 23 new infections were announced by Marine Corps Installations Pacific. Twenty-two of those cases, which were iden-tified through the trace-and-test process, are related to the Camp Hansen cluster and one recently arrived from the United States, according to a statement posted on Facebook.

“These 22 individuals have been in quarantine for at least a week,” the statement said.

The new arrival is listed as attached to Camp Courtney be-cause that is where the person’s sponsor works or is stationed, Kunze wrote in an email Sunday to Stars and Stripes.

“This individual has been in [restriction of movement] in base housing since July 10, and has had limited contact with any person-nel,” the Marine statement said.

On Sunday, eight new infec-tions were announced by Marine Corps Installations Pacific. Seven belong to the Camp Hansen clus-ter and have been in quarantine “for nearly two weeks” due to the Marines’ policy to “test all individuals in quarantine” with “close contact” to infected per-sons before being released, a statement said.

The other individual works at Camp Foster and was a close con-tact of someone who recently test-ed positive in the MCAS Futenma cluster, Kunze wrote in his email Sunday.

Since Friday, 82 Marines in-volved in the cluster outbreak have been released from isolation after recovering, according to the Marine Corps. They join 27 oth-ers released earlier last week.

To date, the service has report-ed 116 cases at Camp Hansen and 109 at MCAS Futenma.

The statement Kunze emailed on Friday implored Marines to “diligently adhere to strict hy-giene recommendations,” main-tain social distance and always wear a mask.

“Our focus remains on stopping the spread as we continue to con-duct mission essential training in support of regional security and stability,” it said.

The 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base also announced a new posi-tive case Friday. The individual tested positive before leaving the 14-day quarantine period man-dated upon arrival on Okinawa and had no contact with anyone on or off base, a wing statement said.burke.matt@stripes.comTwitter: @MatthewMBurke1

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The Marine Corps on Okinawa has reported a total of 225 coronavirus infections from two clusters discovered on the island after Fourth of July weekend. Many of those have since recovered.

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VIRUS OUTBREAK

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong near the bor-der with South Korea under total lockdown after a person was found there with suspected COVID-19 symptoms, saying “the vicious virus” may have entered the coun-try, state media reported Sunday.

If the person is officially de-clared a coronavirus patient, he or she would be North Korea’s first confirmed case. The North has steadfastly said it has had no cases of the virus, a claim questioned by outside experts.

The lockdown was declared Fri-day afternoon. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the suspected virus patient is a runaway who fled to South Korea three years ago before illegally crossing the border into the North early last week.

KCNA said respiratory secre-tion and blood tests showed the person “is suspected to have been infected” with the coronavirus. It said the person was placed under quarantine. People who had been in contact with the suspected pa-tient and those who had been to Kaesong in the last five days were also quarantined.

Describing its anti-virus efforts as a “matter of national existence,” North Korea earlier this year shut down nearly all cross-border traf-fic, banned foreign tourists and mobilized health workers to quar-antine anyone with symptoms. But the Kaesong lockdown is the first such known measure taken in a North Korean city to stem the pandemic.

Foreign experts have said that a coronavirus outbreak in North Korea could cause dire conse-quences because of its fragile public health care infrastructure and chronic lack of medical sup-plies. They are also skeptical about North Korea’s claim of hav-ing had no infections because the

country shares a long, porous bor-der with China, its biggest trading partner, where the world’s first known virus cases were reported in December.

Kaesong, a city with an esti-mated population of 200,000, is located just north of the heavily fortified land border with South Korea.

During an emergency Politburo meeting Saturday, Kim also de-clared a state of emergency in the Kaesong area and “clarified the determination of the Party Cen-tral Committee to shift from the state emergency anti-epidemic system to the maximum emer-gency system and issue a top-class alert,” KCNA said.

It quoted Kim as saying there was “a critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country.” Kim said he took “the preemptive mea-sure of totally blocking Kaesong City and isolating each district and region from the other” on Friday afternoon after getting the report on it, according to KCNA.

Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said a thorough lock-down in Kaesong would make it difficult for a potential virus out-break to spread beyond the city. But he said virus fears would en-gulf North Korean leaders.

“The anxiety and fears about COVID-19 spreading in the North Korean leadership would be much bigger than outsiders can roughly speculate because the country lacks test kits and has virtually no facilities to treat virus patients,” Cheong said.

The Politburo meeting also dis-cussed the “loose guard perfor-mance” at the border area where the suspected patient crossed over to North Korea, KCNA said.

It said that Kim and other lead-ers were briefed on the results of an investigation of a military unit responsible for the border cross-ing and discussed administering “a severe punishment.”

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — During a typical summer, newly arrived airmen and their fami-lies would be scurrying around the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo registering ve-hicles, completing school paper-work and setting up cellphone and cable TV service.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, however, newcomers must spend their first two weeks in Japan under quarantine. That’s prompted the Air Force to change the way it receives them.

At Yokota, new arrivals are sur-veyed on their needs before going straight to a house, apartment or other lodging, Carla Tyson, in-terim flight chief for the base’s Airmen and Family Readiness Center, said Friday.

Tyson is coordinating a Stress Treatment and Resiliency Team that links those in quarantine with folks who can help them, such as the USO, chaplains and military family life counselors.

The Air Force declined to give exact numbers of airmen arriv-ing at Yokota this summer. Tyson

said, however, that between 10 and 130 people are in quarantine at the base any given week.

When people arrive at the base, they’re met by their sponsor or first sergeant and get a welcome package containing points of con-tact and a survey asking them about their immediate needs and how often they’d like to be con-tacted, Tyson said.

Most people request certain foods or reading materials, she said. Some want to be contact-ed every other day and others prefer to reach out if they need something.

Air Force 1st Lt. Jessica Snow, who recently arrived at Yokota to start a job with 5th Air Force, completed quarantine last week.

“It’s two weeks of no work,” she said. “I slept and watched TV, so I liked it. I [quarantined] by myself but I had a coworker that [quar-antined] with her husband and two kids, so it was a bit tougher.”

Snow said she did most of her in-processing electronically.

“I used my computer to make sure I got my housing stuff done, anything with work, so when I got off of [quarantine] I was pretty much good to go,” she said.

People under quarantine have internet access without restric-tions on communication, Tysonsaid.

They can leave their place ofresidence only to do activities ofshort duration such as laundry,pet walking or “wellness breaks” in the yard, according to infor-mation in an email from Yokota spokeswoman Kaori Matsukasa on Friday.

“Personnel in [quarantine]must avoid social gatherings andall public locations including gymnasium where reasonablyexpected to have other peoplepresent,” the email said.

In the past, sponsors would have escorted new arrivals tovarious spots around base. Now,Tyson, said, they’re focused onhelping them during quarantine.

“Even with the restrictions of movement, they can still be in balance and have everything they need for those two weeks,”she said. “Our goal is that their emotional, social and spiritualneeds are met.”Stars and Stripes reporter Theron Godbold contributed to this report.robson.seth@stripes.comTwitter: @SethRobson1

N. Korea locks down city over suspected case

Air Force tweaks the way it welcomes troops to Tokyo

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Carla Tyson, interim flight chief for the Airmen and Family Readiness Center at Yokota Air Base in Japan, coordinates a Stress Treatment and Resiliency Team that links those in quarantine with people who can help them, such as the USO, chaplains and military family life counselors.

BY MOGOMOTSI MAGOME

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s COVID-19 response is marred by corruption allegations around its historic $26 billion eco-nomic relief package, as the coun-try with the world’s fifth- highest number of COVID-19 cases brac-es for more.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a wide-ranging

investigation into claims that un-scrupulous officials and private companies are looting efforts to protect the country’s 57 million people.

“More so than at any other time, corruption puts our lives at risk,” he said in a national address last week.

Food for the poor, personal pro-tective equipment for health work-ers and grants for those laid off have all been affected, he said.

South Africa is seen as the best-prepared of any country in sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19, but years of rampant corruption have weakened institutions, including the health system. In October, the head of the government’s Special Investigating Unit said fraud, waste and abuse in health care si-phoned off $2.3 billion a year.

South Africa now has more than 434,000 confirmed virus cases — well over half of the continent’s

total — and over 6,600 deaths . Public hospitals struggle and some health workers are openly scared. More than 5,000 of them have been infected.

While nurses and others plead for more protection, overpricing scams for badly needed supplies are on the rise. After inflating face mask prices by up to 900%, companies Sicuro Safety and Hennox Supplies admitted guilt and were fined.

At health workers union Hospersa, general secretary Noel Desfontaines welcomed the gov-ernment’s acknowledgement of the trouble.

“The health minister tells us that enough money has been dis-tributed for PPE to provinces, but when we go to hospitals we do not see this,” Desfontaines said. “In some cases, it has been purchased but it does not reach the people it was intended for.”

South Africa warns COVID-19 corruption puts ‘lives at risk’

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VIRUS OUTBREAK

BY JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press

PARIS — France’s coronavirus infection rate crept higher Satur-day and Spain cracked down on nightlife but German authorities were confident enough to send a cruise ship out to sea with 1,200 passengers for a weekend test of how the cruise industry can begin to resume.

French health authorities said the closely watched “R” gauge is now up to 1.3, suggesting that in-fected people are contaminating 1.3 other people on average. That means the virus still has enough victims to keep on going instead of petering out.

France’s daily new infections are also rising — up to 1,130 on Friday. Health authorities warned that the country is going back-ward in its battle against the pan-demic, which has already killed at least 30,195 people in the coun-try and that infection indicators now resemble those seen in May, when France was coming out of its strict two-month lockdown.

“We have thus erased much of the progress that we’d achieved in the first weeks of lockdown-easing,” health authorities said, adding that the French appear to be letting down their guard dur-ing their summer vacations and those testing positive are making less of an effort to self-isolate.

They appealed for a return to “collective discipline,” asking people to work from home and get tested if they have any suspicions of infection.

In Spain, Catalonia became

the latest region to crack down on nightlife, trying to tamp down on new infection clusters. The wealthy northeast region home to Barcelona ordered all night-clubs to close for 15 days and put a midnight curfew on bars in the greater Barcelona area and other towns around Lleida that have be-come contagion hot zones.

Spain has reported more than 900 new daily infections for the last two days as authorities warn that the country that lost over 28,000 lives before getting its outbreak under control could be facing the start of a second major outbreak.

Despite the concerns, some European countries kept up their gradual reopenings Saturday.

Swimming pools and gyms in England were back in business as public health officials extolled the benefits of exercise in fighting COVID-19. Britain announced a fresh attack on obesity as part of the move, hoping that a fitter nation might be able to minimize the impact of future waves of the virus.

A German cruise ship set sail for the first time since the indus-try was shut down. “Mein Schiff 2” sailed from the port of Ham-burg toward Norway on Friday night, and passengers will spend the weekend at sea with no land stops before returning to Germa-ny on Monday. The ship had only 1,200 people on board compared with its normal 2,900 capacity.

But with many other cruise companies now looking toward trips in 2021, interest was sure to be high in how Germany, which

has been praised for its handling of the pandemic, can kick off the struggling cruise industry.

In other parts of the world, the pandemic appeared to have the upper hand.

India, which has the world’s third-highest infections behind the United States and Brazil, re-ported its death toll rose by 740 to 30,601. It saw a surge of more than 49,000 new cases, raising its total to over 1.2 million. The

Home Ministry issued an adviso-ry calling for Independence Day celebrations on Aug. 15 to avoid large gatherings.

South Africa, Africa’s hardest-hit country, reported more than 13,000 new cases, raising its total to over 408,000.

South Korea on Saturday re-ported more than 100 new coro-navirus cases for the first time in four months. The 113 new cases included 36 workers returning

from Iraq and 32 crew membersof a Russian freighter.

Worldwide, more than 15.7 mil-lion infections and over 640,000 deaths have been reported, ac-cording to data compiled fromgovernment announcements byJohns Hopkins University. Ex-perts say all those figures under-state the true toll of the pandemic, due to limited testing and otherissues.

France going backward as daily rates rise

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Beachgoers enjoy the sun Saturday at the Plage des Catalans in Marseille, southern France.

Associated Press

PHOENIX — This year’s wild-fire season has been an extra challenging one for firefighters. Not only have crews had to battle some massive fires around Ari-zona, they have had to deal with changes in their routine due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pre-pandemic firefighters had their own way of life including routine morning briefings, re-spectful handshakes and com-munity meals, according to the Arizona Republic.

But now, every meal is pre-packaged and firefighters have to eat 6 to 10 feet apart, crew mem-bers wave at each other instead of shaking hands and they at-tend virtual briefs on their smart phones or radios instead of mas-sive and crowded in-person ones.

On top of that, Arizona has had a tough wildfire season due to a wet winter and dry summer con-ditions which fed massive fires across the state.

“This is the biggest impact that I’ve seen to the wildland fire-

fighting,” Quentin Johnson, who has worked 30 years for the U.S. Forest Service, told the Republic.

Efforts to mitigate COVID-19 cases among firefighters have been successful so far, according to fire officials.

Arizona State Forestry spokes-person Tiffany Davila said that only one crew member tested positive for COVID-19 in May and has since quarantined and recovered.

The moment a firefighter gets symptoms for COVID-19, they are

isolated from crews and tested. Before the pandemic, firefight-

ers had gatherings of hundreds of people for daily briefings where they discuss an operations plan, a weather forecast, fire behavior analysis and a safety message.

Now the briefing is recorded and broadcast on the internet, and firefighters get the link on their phone or device to watch it alone.

Firefighters are getting their temperatures taken every day be-fore they get on the line.

“I can’t even describe how

drastically different the environ-ment is, as far as camp and howwe do things,” said Steve Best, a 33-year firefighting veteran who recently worked on a wildfirenear Tucson that charred nearly120,000 acres before it was fullycontained.

“There’s no salad bars or goget-your-own coffee or drinks oranything,” Best added. “Some-body’s handing you stuff. They’re constantly sanitizing, everybody’swearing face masks. It’s just avery, very radically different en-vironment than I’ve ever seen.”

Associated Press

NEW YORK — More than 100 bars and restaurants in the New York City area were flagged for coronavirus social distancing vi-olations this weekend, and some now face the possible suspension of their liquor licenses, Gov. An-drew Cuomo said Sunday.

The violations, for issues such as people crowding outside and workers not wearing masks, were

handed out by a new state police and liquor authority enforcement task force inspecting establish-ments in the city and on Long Is-land, Cuomo said.

The state’s liquor authority board will meet Monday to re-view the 105 violations and de-cide on the possible suspension of some licenses. Last week, the board yanked 10 licenses for so-cial distancing violations.

Speaking to reporters on a con-ference call, Cuomo said the state tallied three deaths from corona-virus on Saturday while hospital-izations for the disease fell to 637, the lowest total since mid-March.

The number of new coronavirus cases in the state also remained low. Of 53,568 tests performed Saturday, just 536 — or about 1% — returned a positive result, Cuomo said.

The governor, a Democrat, chastised newspaper editorial writers who’ve urged the state to hasten the reopening of business-es and other aspects of normal so-ciety. Cuomo said the deliberate measures he’s implemented have worked to quell the virus while other states continue to see mas-sive spikes.

Residents from 31 states, in-cluding Texas and Florida, must

quarantine for 14 days when ar-riving in New York because thosestates have a seven-day rollingaverage of positive tests exceed-ing 10% or positive case totals ex-ceeding 10 per 100,000 residents.

“Don’t get cocky don’t get ar-rogant,” Cuomo warned NewYorkers. “There are still threats that are out there. You still havethe national threat, and then you have the compliance challenge.”

Pandemic poses extra challenge for Arizona firefighters

More than 100 New York City bars cited for distancing violations

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VIRUS OUTBREAK

BY LISA MASCARO Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday that Republicans were set to roll out the next COVID-19 aid package Monday and as-sured there was backing from the White House after he and President Donald Trump’s top aide met to salvage the $1 trillion proposal that had floundered just days before.

Mnuchin told reporters at the Capitol that extending an expir-ing unemployment benefit — but reducing it substantially — was a top priority for Trump. The sec-retary called the $600 weekly aid “ridiculous” and a disincentive for people to go back to work. He also promised a fresh round of $1,200 stimulus checks would be coming in August.

“We’re prepared to move quick-ly,” Mnuchin said after he and Mark Meadows, the president’s acting chief of staff, spent several hours with GOP staff at the Capi-tol. He said the president would “absolutely” support the emerg-ing Republican package.

Mnuchin’s optimistic assess-

ment came before Democrats weighed in publicly on the up-dated proposal, which remained only a starting point in negotia-tions with House and Senate lead-ers in the other party. He said he recently called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minor-ity Leader Chuck Schumer ahead of shuttle negotiations next week on the broader deal.

The White House and Senate Republicans were racing to re-group after plans to introduce a $1 trillion virus rescue bill col-lapsed Thursday amid GOP in-fighting over its size, scope and details. It was expected to bring $105 billion to help schools re-open, new money for virus test-ing and benefits for businesses, including a fresh round of loans, tax breaks and a sweeping liabil-ity shield from COVID-related lawsuits.

As Republicans struggled, the White House team downplayed the differences with the GOP senators as overblown and said Trump was focused on providing relief.

“The president has been very clear. He wants to make sure that the American people have what

they need during this unprec-edented time,” Meadows said, “to make sure not only the money is there but the programs.”

The expiration of the $600 weekly jobless benefits boost had been propelling the Republicans to act. Democrats already ap-proved their sweeping $3 trillion plan from Pelosi two months ago. But with millions of Americans about to be suddenly cut off from the aid starting Saturday, they were bracing to prevent social and economic fallout.

The White House floated plans to cut the additional aid back to $100 a week, while Senate Repub-licans preferred $200, with gen-eral agreement about phasing out the flat boost in favor of one that ensures no more than 70% of an employee’s previous pay.

Mnuchin also said the $1,200 direct payments would be based on the same formula from the earlier aid bill. Individuals mak-ing $75,000 or less, for example, received the full amount and those making more than $75,000 received less than $1,200 depend-ing on their income. Individuals earning above $100,000 did not qualify for the payment.

“We’ll get the majority of them out in August and those will help people,” Mnuchin said.

The administration officials said the overall package re-mained at $1 trillion, apparently on par with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s origi-nal draft.

Democrats had warned time was running out, saying Republi-cans were in disarray.

The jobless benefit officially expires July 31, but due to the way states process unemploy-ment payments, the cutoff was effectively Saturday. Other aid, including a federal eviction mora-torium on millions of rental units,

also expires at month’s end. The GOP plan was not expect-

ed to come to a vote but serve as a counter-offer to Democrats. That strategy enabled McConnell, whodid not have full support from his GOP majority, to avoid having toendure a failed outcome. But it also gave Democrats some lever-age in insisting on their priorities as part of any final deal.

The path ahead remaineduncertain, but both sides were scrambling to reach a deal.

McConnell, who spent time over the weekend in his home stateof the Kentucky, said Friday hehoped a package could be agreedon “in the next few weeks.”

BY COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press

BOSTON — For students head-ing to Colby College in Maine this fall, coronavirus testing is expected to be a routine part of campus life. All students will be required to provide a nasal swab every other day for two weeks, and then twice a week after that. All told, the college says it will provide 85,000 tests, nearly as many as the entire state of Maine has since the pandemic started.

Colby, a private school of 2,000 students, joins a growing number of colleges announcing aggres-sive testing plans to catch and iso-late COVID-19 cases before they spread. Harvard University says all students living on campus will be tested when they arrive and then three times a week. Boston University plans to test most stu-dents at least once a week.

But whether colleges should be testing every student — and whether there’s capacity for it — is a subject of debate. Some colleges plan to test students only if they show symptoms or come into close contact with someone who has tested positive. But some researchers say that approach could quickly cause outbreaks caused by students who don’t show symptoms.

As universities hurry to make plans for virus testing, federal officials are warning that they could overload labs that process tests for hospitals. In a call with

governors last Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said too many colleges are signing contracts with com-mercial labs, which threatens to “jam up the capacity” of the system.

Instead, Azar said colleges should develop testing operations in their own labs, especially at big research universities.

Virus testing is just one of many safety measures colleges are planning as they look to re-open. Many also plan to reduce class sizes, limit dorm capac-ity, require masks and ban large gatherings. By testing, colleges hope to identify sick students and place them in isolation spaces to prevent further spread of the virus.

For months, university leaders have argued that testing is cru-cial to a safe reopening. But with limited guidance from federal officials, colleges have created a patchwork of strategies based on advice from state agencies and on research from their own health experts.

Dozens of universities plan to test students when they arrive,

but after that initial screening, some plan to focus on students with symptoms. Some otherschools say they will test randomsamples of students, while someplan to test all students at various intervals.

Of particular concern for col-leges is the risk that studentscould arrive on campus carry-ing the virus without knowing it. Some are asking students to gettested before they arrive. Itha-ca College recently announced that students from more than 20states with higher virus rates will be barred from campus.

Even with testing, several colleges have already seen out-breaks among athletes and otherstudents who returned to campusthis summer. The University of North Carolina paused football workouts this month after 37 ath-letes, coaches and staff memberstested positive.

Some, however, say widespread testing isn’t an option.

A month ago, Boise State Uni-versity said students living oncampus would face mandatory testing when they arrived. But as cases spiked this month, theschool scrapped the plan, sayinglocal testing capacity had become “significantly strained.”

And at Randolph College, a school of 600 students in Lynch-burg, Va., officials Thursday can-celed plans for in-person classes this fall. A key factor, they said, was their inability to test large numbers of students.

Congress close to approval of second round of relief

Colleges vary widely in strategies for virus testing

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President Donald Trump meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, left, last week in Washington. Republicans are set to roll out the next COVID-19 aid package.

CHARLES KRUPA/AP

James Robson, a biomedical engineering graduate student, sits in the new COVID-19, on-campus testing lab Thursday at Boston University in Boston.

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Cuomo: NY hospitalizations at new low since mid-March

VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP

From wire reports

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that the state’s COVID-19 hospitaliza-tions and ICU patients were at a new low since mid-March, and urged its residents to continue following the protocols that fu-eled New York’s declining coro-navirus numbers.

The latest statewide figures indicated hospitalizations on Fri-day were down to 646, the lowest figure since March 18, while the number of patients in intensive care units stood at 149 — the least since March 15.

“It’s essential that we stay vigi-lant by social distancing, wearing masks and washing our hands as this pandemic is far from over,” said the governor, sounding a cautionary note despite the de-cline. “I urge everyone to stay New York tough and New York smart.”

While the news was hearten-ing, Cuomo said this was no time for New Yorkers to become over-confident in the war against the lethal virus.

The latest New York state death toll stood at 25,103 with the latest 10 victims included in Saturday’s numbers.

The figures for New Yorkers testing positive also remained low, with slightly more than 1% of the 71,466 tests returned Friday indicating coronavirus infection.

“New York’s numbers continue to show progress in the midst of alarming increased in COVID-19 cases throughout the country and a renewed need to ensure compli-ance with state guidance here at home,” said Cuomo.

California LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles

County health officials on Satur-day reported 3,628 new COVID-19 cases and 53 related deaths, high numbers that in part reflect reporting delays in the state’s electronic laboratory system.

The total number of cases in the county now stands at 172,325, with a cumulative 4,351 deaths, officials said in a statement. There have been 446,148 con-firmed cases in California, and 8,406 people have died statewide.

The majority of new positive cases in L.A. County are occur-ring in people under the age of 50, officials said.

As the surge in cases con-tinues, health officials have in-creased their efforts to persuade people to take steps to prevent

the spread of the coronavirus, in-cluding wearing masks, avoiding gatherings and adhering to social distancing.

“I know these are frustrat-ing times and that we want life to return to normal. We want to join our friends for dinner inside a restaurant and gather with ex-tended family for a summer bar-becue,” said L.A. County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer. “Unfortunately, we just are not at a point where those activities are safe.”

Georgia ATLANTA — Georgia Demo-

cratic Senate candidate Jon Os-soff says he’s in isolation with his wife, who contracted COVID-19.

The 33-year-old candidate said his wife, Dr. Alisha Kramer, has mild coronavirus symptoms and that he’s showing symptoms, too. He said he was tested Saturday and is awaiting results while self-quarantining.

Ossoff’s campaign communi-cations director, Miryam Lip-per, said on Twitter that he “has not held or participated in an in-person campaign event in over a month and will remain in isola-tion until medical professionals clear both him and” his wife.

Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Just weeks

away from the ringing of the schoolhouse bell, scores of people rallied at the state Capitol on Sat-urday against the state’s require-ment that schoolchildren must wear face coverings this fall to discourage transmission of the highly contagious and potentially deadly coronavirus.

In a state where the numbers of cases of COVID-19 are rising, if not as quickly as they are surging in several other states, the protes-tors took aim at Gov. J.B. Pritz-ker’s broadside this week that people who forego face coverings are “the enemy.”

“I don’t think all this pressure needs to be put on the kids,” said Adam Dunn of Decatur, whose kids are out of school. “They need freedom to go play, have a childhood.”

The “Million Unmasked March,” which took its name from the social-justice march a quarter-century ago, drew about 250 people, including a stalwart group of counter-demonstrators who periodically let loose their own shouted protests from across

the street.It came a day after Pritzker put

four of Illinois’ 102 counties on “warning level” status for dan-gerously increased numbers of COVID-19, which officials traced to “risky behavior” such as large gatherings and out-of-state travel.

The rally touched on the rights of “citizen-children,” questioned the severity of COVID-19 in youngsters and their ability to pass it on, and raised the imprac-ticality of expecting young kids to attend a full day of school without touching, fidgeting with, or even trading masks.

But it was Pritzker’s provoca-tive denunciation this week of doffing face coverings as a po-litical statement that set off the crowd. The Democrat said, “The enemy is not the mask. If you’re not wearing a mask in public, you’re endangering everyone around you, so the enemy is you.”

Maryland BALTIMORE — Maryland

confirmed 1,288 new coronavi-rus cases Saturday, the largest single-day increase in new con-firmed cases since May 19, when 1,784 cases were reported.

It is Maryland’s 12th straight day of adding more than 500 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel

coronavirus, and brings the state up to 83,054 total cases.

The state also reported 11 more deaths Saturday. The confirmed death toll from the disease or complications from it since March has reached 3,304.

The number of people currently hospitalized because of COVID-19 in Maryland increased by 12 to 545 people, with 157 in intensive care, according to state data.

North Carolina CHARLOTTE — Two more

male inmates at a North Carolina prison with among the highest number of COVID-19 cases have died after testing positive for the virus, state prison officials said.

One offender at Albemarle Correctional Institution in Stan-ly County died at an unnamed hospital Friday, the Department of Public Safety said in a news release, while another housed at the prison died at a hospital Thursday.

Eight state prisoners with COVID-19 have died since the pandemic began, according to de-partment data. Three were serv-ing their sentences at Albemarle, which has reported over 100 posi-tive cases to date.

The inmates who most re-cently died were hospitalized in early July and had tested positive weeks ago. Both died from preex-

isting conditions complicated bythe virus. Citing privacy and con-fidentiality rules, officials haven’treleased the names of the prison-ers who have died. The offenderwho died Thursday was in hisearly 60s, while the inmate whodied Friday was in his early 70s.

The Division of Prisons is cur-rently working to test every in-mate in the state’s more than 50prisons.

Wisconsin MADISON — Wisconsin con-

firmed 13 new COVID-19 deathson Saturday, bringing the state-wide death toll to 891.

The latest figures from the state Department of Health Ser-vices show there were 953 newlyreported cases Saturday, bringingthe state’s total to nearly 48,000.

On Saturday, the seven-day av-erage of new cases was 912. Thatwas three fewer than on Friday,which was the highest seven-day average since the outbreak began.

A total of 856,398 people have been tested for the coronavi-rus, including 14,201 reported Saturday.

The number of people who have ever been hospitalized in thestate was 4,370 on Saturday, up 43from Friday.

JUSTIN L. FOWLER, THE (SPRINGFIELD, ILL.) STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER/AP

Protesters in the “Million Unmasked March” try to overshadow a counter protest across the street from the Illinois State Capitol on Saturday, in Springfield, Ill. The protesters gathered in front of the Abraham Lincoln Statue to voice their opposition to guidelines that children be required to wear face masks when they return to school during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — A protest through the streets of downtown Oakland, Calif. , in support of racial justice and police reform turned violent when “agitators“ among the demonstrators set fire to a courthouse, vandalized a po-lice station and shot fireworks at officers, authorities said.

About 700 demonstrators par-ticipated in what started as a peaceful march Saturday night but then some broke from the larger group and smashed win-dows, spray-painted graffiti and pointed lasers at officers, the Oakland Police Department said on Twitter. Several tweets called for peace and asked organizers to “help us provide safe spaces and safe places for demonstrators.”

Several fires were set in the downtown area, including one at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse that was quickly con-tained. Police said protesters at one point were “breaking win-dows and chanting racial slurs at residents.” Photos tweeted by the department showed broken glass and paint splattered on the police headquarters building.

Video posted by police showed a man kicking down barricades in front of the building after an “un-lawful assembly” was declared by police around 11:30 p.m. and officers asked the crowd to dis-perse. Police said they made sev-eral arrests but did not provide details. There were no immediate reports of injuries to protesters or officers.

The protest began earlier Sat-urday evening with groups such as the “Wall of Moms,” similar to a group that formed in Portland, Ore. , as protesters faced off with U.S. agents deployed to that city

to guard a federal courthouse. President Donald Trump had sent the federal agents to clamp down on protests that have oc-curred nightly since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.

Elsewhere, Seattle police de-clared a riot Saturday following large demonstrations in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and deployed flash bangs and pepper spray to try to clear an area near where weeks earlier people had set up an “occupied protest zone” that stretched for several blocks.

Via Twitter, police said they had made more than two dozen arrests for assault on officers, ob-struction and failure to disperse. They also said they were “inves-tigating a possible explosive dam-age” to the walls of the city’s East Precinct police station.

Authorities said rocks, bottles, fireworks and mortars were thrown at officers as they at-tempted to clear the area over the course of several hours stretch-ing into Saturday night. One of-ficer was hospitalized with a leg injury caused by an explosive.

Earlier, protesters in Seattle broke through a fence where a youth detention facility was being built, with some people setting a fire and damaging a portable trailer, authorities said.

Thousands of protesters had initially gathered peacefully near downtown in a show of solidar-ity with fellow demonstrators in Portland, Ore. , where tensions with federal law enforcement have boiled over during protests stemming from the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Initially, there was no sign of

law enforcement near the Seattle march. Later, Seattle Police said via Twitter that about a dozen people breached the construction site for the King County youth de-tention facility. Also, police said protesters broke out windows at a King County court facility.

Earlier this week King County Executive Dow Constantine, in response to long-standing de-mands by community activists, said he would work to eliminate

youth detention centers in the county by 2025.

After the fire at the construc-tion site, authorities said they had ordered people to leave a differ-ent area, in a section of CapitolHill, near downtown, where the East Precinct is. At least one per-son broke through a fence line at the precinct, authorities said, andmoments later a device explosive that left an 8-inch hole in the sideof the precinct.

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — A city dump truck was set on fire as protesters faced off with police in Virginia’s capital during a demonstration in support of protesters on the other side of the country in Portland, Ore .

Virginia State Police and Richmond police worked to clear the crowd of several hun-dred demonstrators late Sat-urday. City police declared an “unlawful assembly” around 11 p.m., and what appeared to be tear gas was deployed to disperse the group.

Protesters had been plan-ning for days the demonstra-tion that was called “Richmond Stands with Portland,” news outlets reported, in an appar-ent reaction to ongoing ten-sions between protesters and U.S. agents at the federal courthouse in Oregon’s largest

city.Weeks of nationwide unrest

have struck several U.S. cit-ies since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.

Saturday’s protest in Rich-mond started at a park and then demonstrators marched to police headquarters, ac-cording to news outlets.

Police tweeted a photo of rocks, batteries and other items the department said were thrown at its officers during the protest. A video also showed an officer extin-guishing a mattress on fire in the middle of a road.

Glass windows were also shattered at a Chipotle restau-rant and a Virginia Common-wealth University dorm, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

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Unrest: Protesters defy orders to leave as arrest threatened

Protesters set fire to Calif. courthouse, vandalize police station

CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AP

A protester holds a burnt flag in front of a mural during a protest Saturday, in Oakland, Calif.

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the city by President Donald Trump. Protesters breached a fence surrounding the city’s fed-eral courthouse building where the agents have been stationed.

Police declared the situation to be a riot and at around 1:20 a.m., they began ordering people to leave the area surrounding the courthouse or risk arrest, saying on Twitter that the violence had created “a grave risk” to the pub-lic. About 20 minutes later, federal officers and local police could be seen attempting to clear the area and deploying tear gas, however, protesters remained past 2:30 a.m., forming lines across inter-sections and holding makeshift shields as police patrolled and closed blocks abutting the area. Multiple arrests were made, but it wasn’t immediately clear how

many.In the Texas capital of Austin, a

protester was shot and killed Sat-urday night after witnesses say he approached a car that had driven through a march against police violence. In video streamed live on Facebook, a car can be heard honking before several shots ring out and protesters start scream-ing and scattering for cover. Po-lice could then be seen tending to someone lying in the street.

Michael Capochiano, who at-tended the protest, told the Aus-tin American-Statesman that the slain protester had a rifle and that the car’s driver fired sev-eral shots at him before speeding away. Police said the driver was detained and was cooperating with investigators.

In the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colo. , meanwhile, a protester shot

and wounded someone after a car drove through a crowd marching on an interstate highway, police said. The wounded person was

taken to a hospital in stable con-dition. Police didn’t release many details about the shooting, includ-ing whether the person who was

shot had been in the car. Policesaid on Twitter that demonstra-tors also caused “major damage,”to a courthouse.

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP

Demonstrators try to topple a steel fence during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Saturday, in Portland, Ore.

Fires set, windows broken during raucous Va. protest

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Tropical Storm Hanna drenches Texas coast

Hawaii prepares for winds, rain as hurricane nears

Police corral crowds as US Consulate in China closes

BY JOHN L. MONE AND NOMAAN MERCHANT

Associated Press

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A day after roaring ashore as a hur-ricane, Hanna lashed the Texas Gulf Coast on Sunday with high winds and drenching rains that destroyed boats, flooded streets and knocked out power across a region already reeling from a surge in coronavirus cases.

Downgraded to a tropical storm, Hanna hovered over the U.S.-Mexico border in the morn-ing with winds near 50 mph , the National Hurricane Center said. It was expected to unload as much as 18 inches of rain on parts of South Texas and northeastern Mexico.

Daniel Brown, a senior hurri-cane specialist, urged people in flooded areas to shelter in place.

Shelters were opened in hotels, schools and gyms. In Hidalgo County, Texas, a community building known as the “Dome” was set aside for evacuees who had tested positive for COVID-19 or were exposed to the virus. The county instructed those who needed shelter to bring masks and hand sanitizer if they could.

Coastal states scrambled this spring to adjust emergency hur-ricane plans to account for the virus, and Hanna loomed as the first big test.

Gov. Greg Abbott said Saturday that some people in need of shel-ter would be given hotel rooms to keep them apart from others.

“We cannot allow this hurri-

cane to lead to a more catastroph-ically deadly event by stoking additional spread of COVID-19 that could lead to fatalities,” he said.

The first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season blew ashore as a Category 1 storm late Saturday afternoon with winds of 90 mph not far from Port Mansfield, which is about 130 miles south of Corpus Christi.

Parts of South Texas had gotten at least 9 inches of rain, including Cameron County, which includes Brownsville.

In the Pacific Ocean, mean-while, Hurricane Douglas closed in on Hawaii over the weekend.

Corpus Christi is in Nueces County, where health officials made headlines when they re-vealed that 60 babies tested posi-tive for COVID-19 from July 1 to July 16. Farther south in Cameron County, more than 300 new cases have been reported almost daily for the past two weeks. The past week has also been the county’s deadliest of the pandemic.

Sherry Boehme, who lives in a condo along the beach in Corpus Christi, said the storm’s approach increased the anxiety she has felt during the pandemic. The 67-year-old woman has mostly stayed at home because of health problems related to chronic lung disease.

“It’s almost like a double wham-my to us,” Boehme said Saturday by phone. “I think it’s made a lot of people nervous. ... We’ll get through it. Everybody is good and strong and sticks together.”

Hanna came nearly three years after Hurricane Harvey blew ashore northeast of Corpus Christi. Hanna was not expected to be as destructive as Harvey, which killed 68 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in dam-age in Texas.

More than 180,000 custom-

ers were without power Sunday morning throughout South Texas, including Corpus Christi, Harlin-gen and Brownsville, according to AEP Texas.

The Coast Guard helped rescue a couple without injuries after their sailboat began taking on water Saturday evening in a har-

bor near Corpus Christi. Mexico’s northeasternmost

states, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, also took precautions aheadof the storm. Tamaulipas disinfect-ed shelters to try to avoid spread-ing COVID-19, authorities said.

BY AUDREY MCAVOY Associated Press

HONOLULU — Hawaii prepared for the on-slaught of Hurricane Douglas on Sunday, with pre-dictions of high winds, rain and storm surge.

Douglas weakened Saturday to a Category 1 hur-ricane as it approached Hawaii, but officials warned people should not be lulled into complacency.

“Douglas is continuing a gradual, slow, weakening trend, which in itself is good news, but the bad news is that this hurricane is going to come very close to the islands even as it’s weakening,” said Robert Bal-lard, the science and operations officer at the Cen-tral Pacific Hurricane Center. “And we do expect significant impacts as it makes its point of closest approach or possible landfall as it comes through.”

Oahu, home to the state’s largest city, Honolulu, was placed under a hurricane warning with the storm beginning to impact the island as early as late morning. The Big Island, Maui and Kauai were under tropical storm warnings.

Maximum sustained winds decreased to about 90 mph as of Saturday.

“We know that it is weakening as it approaches, but it still will have significant impact on each island,” Hawaii Gov. David Ige said at a news conference.

State health department officials contacted each of the 625 people who were currently in isolation or quarantine as of Friday because they are either COVID-19 positive or have been in contact with someone who is. Every one of those indicated they would shelter-in-place and not seek refuge at a hur-

ricane shelter.“That gives a sigh of relief,” said Honolulu Mayor

Kirk Caldwell. Hawaii has some of the lowest coronavirus infec-

tion rates in the nation, but COVID-19 numbers have been rising in recent weeks. Every day since Thurs-day, Hawaii has reported record highs of newly con-firmed cases, including 73 on Saturday.

Caldwell said at the same news conference that 13 shelters were to open at 9 a.m. Sunday around Oahu, well ahead of the hurricane impacting the island, anywhere from midday into the evening. People will have to wear face coverings to be admitted and will have to wear them unless they are eating, drinking or sleeping.

President Donald Trump issued an emergency declaration for Hawaii because of the hurricane, di-recting federal assistance to supplement state and local response efforts.

BY SAM MCNEIL Associated Press

CHENGDU, China — Moving trucks and vehicles with diplo-matic plates pulled out of a U.S. Consulate in southwest China on Sunday, as its impending clo-sure over rising bilateral tensions drew a steady stream of onlook-ers for the second straight day.

People stopped to take selfies and photos, jamming a sidewalk busy with shoppers and families with strollers on a sunny day in the city of Chengdu. A little boy posed with a small Chinese flag before plainclothes police shooed him away as foreign media cam-eras zoomed in.

The capital of Sichuan prov-ince, along with Houston, Texas, has found itself in the limelight of international politics as China and the U.S. exchanged tit-for-tat orders last week to close each oth-er’s consulates in the two heart-land cities.

Police in Chengdu have shut the street and sidewalk in front of the consulate and set up metal barriers along the sidewalk on the other side of the tree-lined road.

Uniformed and plainclothes officers kept watch on both sides of the barriers after scattered

incidents following the Chengduannouncement on Friday, includ-ing a man who set off firecrack-ers and hecklers who cursed at foreign media shooting video andphotos of the scene.

A man who tried to unfurl abanner or sign late Sunday thathe called an open letter to theChinese government was quickly taken away.

Earlier, a bus left the consulate grounds and what appeared to beembassy staff spoke with plain-clothes police before retreatingback behind the property’s solidblack gates. It wasn’t clear who orwhat was on the bus.

Three medium-size trucks ar-rived and left a few hours later, and cars with diplomatic platesdeparted in between.

China ordered the closing ofthe Chengdu consulate in retalia-tion for a U.S. order earlier in the week to close the Chinese Consul-ate in Houston.

The U.S. alleged that the Hous-ton consulate was a nest of Chi-nese spies who tried to steal datafrom facilities in Texas, includ-ing the Texas A&M medical sys-tem and the University of TexasMD Anderson Cancer Center inHouston. China said the allega-tions were “malicious slander.”

GODOFREDO A. VASQUEZ, HOUSTON CHRONICLE/AP

A man holds the front on his umbrella as he fights heavy rain and wind on Seawall Boulevard on Saturday, in Galveston, Texas. Outer bands of Hurricane Hanna are affecting the Houston and Galveston areas.

CALEB JONES/AP

A worker puts reinforcements on boarded storefront windows in the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu on Saturday as Hurricane Douglas approaches.

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Civil rights icon Lewis remembered in hometown BY KIM CHANDLER

Associated Press

TROY, Ala. — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congress-man John Lewis was remem-bered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a vision that “good trouble” could change the world.

The morning service in the city of Troy in rural Pike County was held at Troy University, where Lewis would often playfully re-mind the chancellor that he was denied admission in 1957 because he was Black, and where decades later he was awarded an honor-ary doctorate.

Lewis, who became a civil rights icon and a longtime Geor-gia congressman, died July 17 at the age of 80.

Saturday morning’s service was titled “The Boy from Troy,” the nickname the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave Lewis at their first meeting in 1958 in Montgomery. King had sent the 18-year-old Lewis a round-trip bus ticket because Lewis was interested in trying to attend the then-all-white university in Troy, just 10 miles from his family’s farm in Pike County.

It was the first of six days of memorials and services.

On Sunday, his flag-draped cas-ket was to be carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where the one-time “Freedom Rider” was among civil rights demonstrators beaten by state troopers in 1965. He was also to lie in repose at the state Capitol in Montgomery. After another memorial at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where he will lie in state, funeral services will be held in Georgia.

At the Troy University service, his brothers and sisters recalled Lewis — who was called Robert at home — as a boy who practiced preaching and singing gospel songs and was scared of thunder. And as a young man who left with

a mind to change the world. “I remember the day that John

left home. Mother told him not to get in trouble, not to get in the way … but we all know that John got in trouble, got in the way, but it was a good trouble,” his brother Samuel Lewis said.

“And all of the troubles that he got himself into would change the world,” Samuel Lewis said.

Lewis’s casket was in the university’s arena where attend-ees were seated spaced apart and masks were required for entry because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The John Lewis I want you to know about is the John Lewis who would gravitate to the least of us,” his brother Henry Grant Lewis said. Even as a busy congress-man, he always made time to at-tend family functions or to make a surprise appearance at a school or birthday party.

His brother said on the day Lewis was sworn in to Congress that they exchanged a thumbs- up. He later asked Lewis what he was thinking when they did. “He said, ‘I was thinking this is a long way from the cotton fields of Alabama,’” Henry Grant Lewis

recalled. Those cotton fields were in

then-segregated Pike County, where Lewis as a child winced at the signs designating “whites only” locations.

At his 1958 meeting with King, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and civil rights lawyer Fred Gray, Lewis talked about the possibil-ity of a lawsuit to try to integrate the university at Troy, Gray re-cently recalled. The lawsuit ul-timately did not happen because of concerns about retaliation his parents would face in the major-ity-white county.

“Even before he met Dr. King, he was interested in doing some-thing about doing away with seg-regation. And he did it all his life,” Gray told The Associated Press.

Lewis was one of 10 children born into a sharecropping family. His parents saved enough money to buy their own farm where the Lewis children worked the fields and tended the animals. A young Lewis was less fond of field work — often grousing about the gruel-ing task — but eagerly took on the job of tending the chickens while practicing preaching.

In his autobiography, “Walking

with the Wind,” Lewis described how as a youngster he longed to go the county’s public library, but wasn’t allowed because it was for whites only.

“Even an eight-year-old could see there was something terribly wrong about that,” Lewis wrote.

He would eventually apply for a library card there, know-ing that he would be refused, in what he considered to be his first official act of resistance to racial apartheid.

In 1955, he heard a new voice on the radio: King, who was lead-ing the Montgomery bus boycott about 50 miles away.

Lewis became a leader of the Freedom Riders, often facing vio-lent and angry crowds, and was jailed dozens of times. In 1961, he was beaten after arriving at the same Montgomery station where he arrived three years earlier to meet King. In 1965, his skull was fractured on the bridge in

Selma when law enforcement of-ficers beat civil rights marchers in a melee that became known as Bloody Sunday.

President Barack Obama in2011 awarded Lewis the Presi-dential Medal of Freedom, sayinghe was “an American who knewthat change could not wait for some other person or some othertime.”

Last year, Lewis announced he had been diagnosed with ad-vanced pancreatic cancer.

His sister Rosa Tyner told The Associated Press that about aweek before his death she askedhim about possibly seeing an-other doctor, but that he declined.“He said, ‘No, I’m at peace. I’m atpeace and I’m ready to go,’” shesaid.

His sister Ethel Mae Tynersaid Saturday that, “this not agoodbye. It’s just a different kindof hello.

“Rest well, Robert. Rest well.”

BRYNN ANDERSON/AP

The casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lies in repose during a service celebrating “The Boy from Troy” at Troy University on Saturday in Troy, Ala.

JOHN BAZEMORE/AP

A military honor guard carries the casket of Rep. John Lewis during a memorial service at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church on Saturday in Selma, Ala.

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BY TIA GOLDENBERG

Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel — Police said Sunday they arrested more than a dozen Israelis in country-wide protests the previous night that drew thousands of people in a growing and persistent show of force against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his han-dling of the coronavirus crisis.

Thousands of people demon-strated outside Netanyahu’s offi-cial residence in Jerusalem and hundreds gathered in a seaside park in Tel Aviv, demanding Ne-tanyahu’s resignation and slam-ming his response to the crisis.

For the first time since the wave of protests began weeks ago, hundreds also assembled outside Netanyahu’s private home in the upscale coastal town of Caesarea, where heavy security greeted them. Demonstrators across bridges and intersections waved black flags, the symbol of one of the movements behind the protests that is demanding Netan-yahu’s ouster.

The protests are emerging as among the biggest challenges to Netanyahu’s lengthy rule since demonstrations over the cost of living in 2011 drew hundreds of thousands to the streets. They come following what critics say is Netanyahu’s fumbling of the coronavirus response and in the shadow of Netanyahu’s corrup-tion trial, which resumed earlier this month.

At a press conference last week that coincided with protests, Ne-tanyahu addressed the surging protests, warning demonstrators: “Do not drag the country into an-archy, violence, vandalism.”

Critics say police have been heavy-handed in trying to clear out the protests, using water can-nons to drive them out and in some cases causing injury.

Police fired water cannons on protesters at the Jerusalem pro-test and said 12 people were ar-rested there for being involved in disturbances. Two other people were arrested in separate loca-tions for attacking protesters with pepper spray and a knife.

Associated Press

MOSCOW — President Vladi-mir Putin said the Russian navy will get 40 new ships and vessels this year, as he attended a naval parade in St. Petersburg on Sun-day marking the Navy Day in Russia.

The parade in St. Petersburg and the nearby town of Kro-nshtadt featured 46 ships and vessels and over 4,000 troops and aimed to “demonstrate the grow-ing power of our navy,” Putin said Friday.

He said 40 ships and vessels of different classes will enter ser-

vice this year, and that the Rus-sian navy will be equipped withhypersonic weapons to boost itscombat capabilities.

The Kremlin has made mili-tary modernization its top prior-ity amid tensions with the Westthat followed Moscow’s 2014 an-nexation of Crimea.

DMITRI LOVETSKY/AP

A warship floats along the Neva River during the Navy Day parade Sunday in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Putin promises new ships for Russian navy

Israeli protests lead to clashes, arrests

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Gunshots kill two while neighbors film rap video

LA BATON ROUGE — Two men were killed after

gunfire erupted as a group gath-ered in a Louisiana neighborhood to film a rap music video, accord-ing to authorities.

When Baton Rouge police were called to the scene they found D’Andre Mills, 25, and Landon Johnson, 31, suffering from gun-shot wounds, police spokesman Sgt. L’Jean McKneely said . The victims were taken to a hospital where they later died.

Police said a group had been shooting a rap video in a Baton Rouge neighborhood when the shooting happened. Neighbors said more than a dozen people had gathered on their street, but the group dispersed before police arrived, The Advocate reported.

“The sad thing is nobody stayed on the scene,” the newspa-per quoted McKneely as saying. “Zero witnesses.”

Police did not say whether the two victims were involved with making the music video.

Rare leopard frogs found living in new area

AZ FLAGSTAFF — A rare frog was found in cen-

tral Arizona, beyond its known range in the Southwest.

A U.S. Forest Service volunteer recently photographed a Chirica-hua leopard frog in an earthen stock tank near the town of Camp Verde in central Arizona, the agency said . Biologists later con-firmed that at least 10 of the frogs were living there.

The aquatic frogs were thought to be only in eastern Arizona, western New Mexico and north-ern Mexico but historically were more widespread. The frogs’ numbers have declined because of habitat loss, disease and predators.

Audrey Owns of the Arizona Game and Fish Department said the frogs could have moved into lower elevations in Camp Verde because they were seeking pro-tected habitats or warmer tem-peratures that guard them from

fungal disease.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-

vice listed the frogs as threatened in 2002 .

Police arrest man for setting fires in a church

DE GLASGOW — A Dela-ware man was accused

of setting multiple fires inside a church sanctuary.

The Delaware State Fire Mar-shal’s office arrested Thomas Loftis III in connection with the blaze that erupted at Reach Church , news outlets reported.

He was captured just hours after the office released images that showed the suspect and a car they believed he used during the alleged arson, The Delaware News Journal reported.

No one was injured during the blaze, but the fire caused approx-

imately $250,000 in damages.Loftis was charged with arson,

burglary and criminal mischief. Rev. Chuck L. Betters previously said Reach Church was planning to reopen for in-person servicesin August.

Officials offer reward for murder of panther

FL TALLAHASSEE —Wildlife officials are of-

fering a reward of up to $5,000 forinformation about the intentional killing of an endangered Floridapanther.

A female panther was found dead east of Immokalee in CollierCounty on March 8, during theopening weekend of the spring turkey hunting season in south Florida.

A forensic examination of thepanther carcass and other evi-dence indicated that the pantherwas intentionally killed and par-tially mutilated a day earlier, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser-vation Commission officials said.

Florida panthers are protected under the Endangered SpeciesAct. Intentionally killing a Flori-da panther is punishable by up toone year in federal prison and afine of up to $100,000.

AMERICAN ROUNDUP Road to be closed while radioactive soil cleared

MO HAZELWOOD — A portion of a St. Louis

County road will be closed for a year and a half, in part to remove radioactive soil along a contami-nated creek.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch re-ported that the 18-month closure of a stretch of Pershall Road in Hazelwood also will allow for the replacement of a bridge.

The U.S. Army Corps of En-gineers has been removing soil along the north St. Louis County creek for many years. Radioac-tive waste was illegally dumped there decades ago, causing envi-ronmental damage and creating health concerns for people who lived near the creek.

Last year, a report released by a federal agency confirmed that people who lived near Coldwater Creek could face a higher risk of certain types of cancer.

Lawyers who volunteer at poll to earn credit

OH COLUMBUS — Law-yers who volunteer

as poll workers could earn con-tinuing education credit hours in exchange, under a program announced by the Ohio Supreme Court and the state elections chief as the state faces a poll worker shortage because of the coronavi-rus pandemic.

To earn the four hours of credit under the initiative, participating attorneys must complete training at local election boards and work the entire voting day. Workers typically serve from 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., when polls close.

“I can think of no greater op-portunity for lawyers in Ohio to give back to our state than to get involved on election day and help fill the urgent need for poll workers,“ Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor said.

Ohio ’s licensed attorneys must earn 24 continuing education hours every two years.

Coast Guard rescues man from capsized boat

FL ST. PETERSBURG — The U.S. Coast Guard

rescued a commercial fisherman who was clinging to a cooler in the Gulf of Mexico after his boat capsized, the day after evacuat-ing a boy and his father from the same vessel.

According to a news release, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew dispatched from Air Sta-tion Clearwater rescued Robert Heart, 48, who was clinging to a cooler in 3- to 4-foot seas. He was still near the 36-foot boat, which was almost entirely under the surface. He was taken to a Tampa hospital for medical evaluation.

Heart had declined help a day earlier, when the Coast Guard Cutter Diamondback responded to the Jenny Lynn to medically evacuate a boy who had fallen ill onboard. Heart told the crew that the boat was no longer work-ing under its own power and that a sister vessel was on its way to help. The Coast Guard is now in-vestigating what went wrong on the boat’s ill-fated trip.

Wild and wet

The height in feet of Floyd, the oldest and tallest giraffe at the San Francisco Zoo, who died recently. The male reticulated gi-raffe, 18, had joint degeneration from aging and had suffered a “significant decline in health,“ a zoo statement said. Floyd was born in 2002 at the Albuquerque Zoo in Texas and transferred

to the San Francisco Zoo in 2004. Over his lifetime, Floyd produced 11 offspring and had 24 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, who can be found all over the United States. The reticulated giraffe is considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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People participate in white water rafting at Riversport Adventures, an outdoor sports center in Oklahoma City.

From wire reports

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“Peter was asked why did he call the band Fleetwood Mac. He said, ‘Well, you know I thought maybe I’d move on at some point and I wanted Mick and John (McVie) to have a band.’ End of story, explaining how generous he was,”

said Fleetwood, who described Green as a standout in an era of great guitar work.

Indeed, Green was so fundamental to the band that in its early days it was called Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac.

He was barely out of his teens when he got his fi rst big break in 1966, replacing Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers .

In the Bluesbreakers he was reunited with Fleetwood, a former colleague in Peter B’s Looners. Mayall added bass player McVie soon after.

Monday, July 27, 2020

FACESHBO adapting Coates bestseller into special

A stage production of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me,” his prize-winning book about racism and police violence, is being adaptedby HBO for a special this fall.HBO announced Thursday theprogram will feature readingsfrom “Between the World and Me” and will be directed by Apol-lo Theater Executive ProducerKamilah Forbes, who handled the stage show in 2018 at the cel-ebrated performance center inHarlem. Coates’ book, publishedin 2015, is structured as an open letter to his son about what to ex-pect as a Black person living in the U.S. “Between the World andMe” was a bestseller that won the National Book Award and re-ceived new attention this summer when Black Lives Matter protestsled to a surge in sales for booksabout race and racism.

Russell Wilson, Ciara welcome baby boy

Seattle Seahawks quarterbackRussell Wilson and his pop starwife Ciara are now parents to ababy boy. The couple announced Friday the birth of their sonnamed Win Harrison Wilson onInstagram. They both shared from their accounts that their son was born Thursday and weighed8 pounds, 1 ounce.

Ciara posted video footage from the hospital of her holding herbaby shortly after his birth. The singer sang “Happy Birthday” tohim while sporting a black mask.

Win is the second child for thecouple, who married in 2016.Ciara gave birth to Sienna Prin-cess Wilson the following year.Ciara has a young son from aprevious relationship with rapper Future.

Other news� Singer-actors Demi Lovato

and Max Ehrich are engaged.The couple made the announce-ment on Instagram on Thursday, both posting a photo of them-selves kissing on the beach. Lo-vato also posted a picture of herring. Lovato and Ehrich begandating this year. Ehrich, 29, has earned multiple Daytime Emmynominations for his work in “TheYoung and the Restless,” has ap-peared on various TV shows and films and has also released music.Grammy-nominated Lovato, 27,has released a number of goldand platinum albums and singles,first marking a breakthrough inthe Disney Channel musical TVfilm “Camp Rock.“� Mel Gibson spent a week in

a Los Angeles hospital in Aprilafter testing positive for COVID-19, his representative said Friday.The actor and director has com-pletely recovered and is doing “great” according to the rep. He also said Gibson has tested negative “numerous times” sincethen. Gibson, 64, is the latest in a long string of high profile figuresto go public with coronavirus di-agnoses and recoveries includingTom Hanks, Rita Wilson, George Stephanopoulos and the singerPink.From The Associated Press

Associated Press

Taylor Swift created a new album while in isola-tion and released it Friday.

The pop star made the surprise announcement Thursday on Instagram. “folklore,” her eighth record, comes less than a year after she dropped “Lover.”

“Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening, but there is something I hadn’t planned on that DID happen. And that thing is my 8th studio album, folklore. Surprise,” she wrote. “Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into. I wrote and recorded this music in isolation.”

“Folklore” features Bon Iver, Aaron Dessner of The National and frequent collaborator Jack

Antonoff.“Before this year I probably would’ve over-

thought when to release this music at the ‘perfect’ time, but the times we’re living in keep reminding me that nothing is guaranteed. My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world. That’s the side of un-certainty I can get on board with,” Swift wrote.

The music video for the song “Cardigan” also premiered at midnight Eastern. Swift said because of the coronavirus pandemic, they took extra safe-ty precautions while filming.

“The entire shoot was overseen by a medical in-spector, everyone wore masks, stayed away from each other, and I even did my own hair, makeup, and styling,” Swift wrote, ending the post with a laughing emoji.

Swift drops surprise album, ‘folklore’

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“Folklore” is Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album.

BY DAVID BAUDER

Associated Press

Regis Philbin, the genial host who shared his life with television viewers over morning coffee for decades and helped himself and some fans strike it rich with the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” has died at 88.

Philbin died of natural causes Friday night, according to a statement from his family pro-vided by spokesman Lewis Kay.

Celebrities routinely stopped by Philbin’s eponymous syndicated morning show, but its heart was in the fi rst 15 minutes, when he and co-host Kathie Lee Gifford — on “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee” from 1985-2000 — or Kelly Ripa — on “Live! with Regis and Kelly” from 2001 until his 2011 retirement — bantered about the events of the day. Viewers laughed at Philbin’s mock indignation over not getting the best seat at a restaurant the night before, or being henpecked by his part-ner.

“Even I have a little trepidation,” he told The Associated Press in 2008, when asked how he does a show every day. “You wake up in the morning and you say, ‘What did I do last night that I can talk about? What’s new in the paper? How are we gonna fi ll that 20 minutes?’”

“I’m not gonna say it always works out bril-liantly, but somehow we connect more often

than we don’t,” he added.Ripa and her current partner, Ryan

Seacrest, called Philbin “the ultimate class act, bringing his laughter and joy into our homes every day.”

“There are no words to fully express the love I have for my precious friend, Regis,” Gifford said Saturday on Instagram. “I sim-ply adored him and every day with him was a gift.”

Philbin logged more than 15,000 hours on the air, earning him recognition in the Guin-ness Book of World Records for the most broadcast hours logged by a TV personality, a record previously held by Hugh Downs.

“Every day, you see the record shattered, pal!” Philbin would tell viewers. “One more hour!”

He was host of the prime-time game show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” briefl y tele-vision’s most popular show at the turn of the century. ABC aired the family friendly pro-gram as often as fi ve times a week. It gener-ated around $1 billion in revenue in its fi rst two years and helped make Philbin himself a millionaire many times over.

Philbin’s question to contestants, “Is that your fi nal answer?” became a national catch-phrase. Philbin was even a fashion trendset-ter; he put out a line of monochromactic shirts and ties to match what he wore on the set.

“You wait a lifetime for something like that and sometimes it never happens,” Philbin

told the AP in 1999.In 2008, he returned briefl y to the quiz

show format with “Million Dollar Password.” He also picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award from the daytime Emmys.

In the 2008 AP interview, Philbin said he saw “getting the best out of your guests” as “a specialty. ... The time constraints mean you’ve got to get right to the point, you’ve got to make it pay off, go to commercial, start again. Play that clip. Say goodbye.” He gave his desktop a decisive rap.

“And make it all conversational.”

Everyman TV personality, host Regis Philbin dies at 88

AP

Regis Philbin, left, and Kelly Ripa appear on Regis’ farewell episode of “Live! with Regis and Kelly” on Nov. 18, 2011, in New York.

Influential Fleetwood Mac guitarist Green dies at 73Associated Press

Peter Green, the dexterous blues guitar-ist who led the fi rst incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in a career shortened by psychedelic drugs and mental illness, has died at 73.

A law fi rm representing his family, Swan Turton, announced the death in a statement Saturday. It said he died “peacefully in his sleep.”

Green, to some listeners, was the best of the British blues guitarists of the 1960s. B.B. King once said Green “has the sweetest tone I ever heard. He was the only one who gave me the cold sweats.”

Green also made a mark as a composer with “Albatross,” and as a songwriter with “Oh Well” and “Black Magic Woman.”

He crashed out of the long-running band af-ter four years. Even so, Mick Fleetwood said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2017 that Green deserves the lion’s share of the credit for the band’s success.

The three departed the next year, forming the core of the band initially billed as “Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac featuring (guitarist) Jeremy Spencer.”

The band’s early albums were heavy blues-rock affairs marked by Green’s fl uid, evoca-tive guitar style and gravelly vocals. Notable singles included “Oh Well” and the Latin-fl a-vored “Black Magic Woman,” later a hit for Carlos Santana.

But as the band fl ourished, Green became increasingly erratic, even paranoid. Drugs played a part in his unraveling.

Green left Fleetwood Mac for good in 1971.

In his absence, the band’s new line-up, in-cluding Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, gained enormous suc-cess with a more pop-tinged sound.

In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with other past and present members of Fleetwood Mac.

Green

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The ink is still drying on a $1.95 billion deal between the United States and Pfizer to deliver 100 million doses of an experimental

coronavirus vaccine to Americans as soon as this winter. The contract is the largest awarded by “Operation Warp Speed,” the Trump administration’s ambitious plan to accelerate the production of a vaccine, and arrives on the heels of billions of dollars channeled to other pharmaceutical firms.

It’s a potential milestone in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, but the fate of a government intervention in the fight against cancer provides an important cau-tionary note: Vaccine development can’t come in a vacuum. It needs to be combined with addressing the social and political factors that exacerbate disease and limit the access of many Americans to basic medical care.

In the mid-20th century, there was no room for the federal government in bio-medical research. Even after the extensive mobilization of the federal government in drug and vaccine development during World War II, the medical establishment resisted this role continuing in peacetime. The American Cancer Society opposed calls for a “Manhattan Project” to cure cancer, despite the widespread public sup-port it garnered in the immediate after-math of the war.

The most striking public health success of the 1950s, the polio vaccine, was devel-oped by a voluntary organization, the Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which had joined its Republican allies in Congress to blast the idea of federal spend-ing on polio as a “totalitarian” idea.

The savvy efforts of Mary Woodard Lasker broke this impasse. An ardent New Dealer and medical philanthropist, Lask-er advocated for national health care and birth control and firmly believed that the government needed to assume responsibil-ity for health care alongside other social welfare programs.

Yet in 1948, Lasker and other activists failed in their campaign for national health insurance. Opposition from the American Medical Association and business groups defeated President Harry S. Truman’s na-tional insurance plan. With the escalation of the Cold War, the political prospects of future bills also looked bleak.

Faced with this setback, Lasker charted a new path: federal investment in biomedi-cal research.

She came to see medical research as a powerful means of fostering the nation’s health. The successes of polio vaccination and antibiotics lent credence to her ambi-tions and helped her avoid the politically fraught issues surrounding medical care. Her motto — “If you think research is ex-pensive, try disease!” — echoed through the halls of Congress.

Cancer, the most dreaded disease of the 20th century, provided Lasker with an ideal target. Most experts were hesitant to say that cancer could be cured, but Lasker embraced a new approach to treating the disease: chemotherapy. Unlike surgical or radiological treatments, chemotherapy suggested that drugs could be developed to eradicate cancer just as antibiotics attacked bacteria — cutting off cancer at is biologi-cal roots. When such work quickly over-whelmed charities and hospitals, Lasker pushed the government to get involved.

Through astute lobbying that focused on boosting funding rather than building new government agencies, Lasker’s new coalition of legislators, administrators and doctors reshaped the National Cancer In-stitute in the 1950s. Although founded to-ward the end of the New Deal, the institute had taken a back seat to private anticancer efforts. Yet, by the end of the decade, Lask-

er and her allies had quintupled its budget and pushed it to the forefront of the nation’s cancer research effort.

As Lasker’s efforts proved politically successful, advocates for research on other diseases followed suit in demanding feder-al support.

But legislators were not satisfied to support free-ranging scientific inquiry. They wanted results — and quickly. And although they were willing to invest heav-ily in these efforts, accountability was fre-quently lacking. Critics of its expansion pointed out that the National Institutes of Health had no plans for managing re-search. In one infamous incident, Stanford University appeared to have spent federal research funds on a decorative pool for its medical center.

This drove the leadership of the Na-tional Cancer Institute to unveil what Life magazine termed a “super-plan” to combat leukemia in 1964 — the Special Virus Leu-kemia Program. The institute embraced the idea that cancer had viral causes, which was scientifically controversial, but offered the allure of a planned and acceler-ated solution to the disease.

From 1964 to 1978, the National Can-cer Institute spent more than $6 billion on the effort to develop a cancer vaccine, more than was later spent on the Human Genome Project. To accelerate research, the institute turned to military planning methods devised by Rand Corp. Just as these methods were criticized for becom-ing unmoored from reality when they were deployed by the military in Vietnam, crit-ics charged that the institute was becom-ing cut off from the biological reality of cancer. For example, there was no known human cancer virus during all the years of the program’s operation.

Despite their critics, the planning ap-proaches used for a cancer vaccine in the 1960s formed the backbone of the “war on cancer” of the 1970s, which promised to produce a cure for cancer in time for the nation’s 1976 bicentennial. This initiative promised that the government would go beyond sponsoring biological research; it would translate that research into thera-pies. Like Operation Warp Speed, the Na-tional Cancer Institute relied upon large contracts with private companies to ac-celerate the speed of its efforts, especially through the expanded Virus Cancer Pro-gram, its vaccine research arm.

But this strategy had consequences. Time spent investigating vaccines was time spent not looking at the environmen-tal, behavioral or social roots of cancer. Tobacco companies, seeking to deflect at-tention from the link between cigarettes and lung cancer, were ardent proponents of viral cancer theories. In contrast, en-

vironmental health activists and epidemi-ologists started to emphasize that cancer’sroots would be better addressed throughlegal regulation of tobacco and public health measures that could have a more immediate impact.

Indeed, throughout the 1970s, cancerrates continued to climb, as the NationalCancer Institute failed to produce a vac-cine. In 1978, the war on cancer was aban-doned as a “medical Vietnam” and the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s dismissedthe idea that the federal government shoulddirect biomedical research.

Nonetheless, the dream of a cancer vac-cine was not entirely misplaced. The linkbetween liver cancer and infection byhepatitis B had been identified in Taiwanjust as the war on cancer ended, and a vac-cine followed shortly. The National CancerInstitute later played a vital role in the de-velopment of the human papillomavirusvaccine in the 1990s, a virus linked to manycancers. Yet the challenges of producingand distributing these vaccines shows that their benefits need a strong public healthinfrastructure to be fully realized.

Similar issues surround any prospec-tive coronavirus vaccine. Alex Azar, thesecretary of health and human services, claims that the vaccine will be made avail-able free to all Americans. However, given the complexities of producing, testing and distributing hundreds of millions of doses, even a free vaccine may still fail to reach those mired in the chronic inequalities of our health care system in a timely fashion.These details have not been discussed aspart of Operation Warp Speed, which has emphasized the creation of vaccines alone.

We have no doubt of the link between thenew coronavirus and the disease COVID-19 or of the urgency of developing a vac-cine, but the lessons of the National CancerInstitute’s super plan for a cancer vaccinematter in this conversation. These efforts,however well-meaning, led the governmentand scientists to fail to take actions, frombanning smoking to accelerating vaccine distribution to improving access to care, that might have saved many more lives inthe moment.

Focusing on vaccine development in thelaboratory and clinical trials, and not thebroader constellation of social factors andpolicy failures that have enabled, and con-tinue to sustain, the spread of the coronavi-rus, reduces the chances of minimizing the damage done by the pandemic. We must have a strategy that addresses both the so-cial and biological realities of the disease.Robin Wolfe Scheffler is associate professorin the science, technology, and society program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology andauthor of “A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of Molecular Medicine.”

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John Burkhardt, left, senior vice president of drug safety R&D and head of the Pfizer Groton site, speaks at a news conference at Pfizer Groton on the company’s research to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, as Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont stands by to answer questions, on Wednesday in Groton, Conn.

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SCOREBOARD/NHL

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Sports on AFN

Deals

Saturday’s transactionsBASEBALL

Major League BaseballOFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER — Sus-

pended Washington Nationals C Tres Barrera for 80 games following a posi-tive test for a performance-enhancing substance, a violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX — Claimed LHP Ste-

phen Gonsalves off waivers from the New York Mets and optioned him to Red Sox Alternate Training Site.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHP Zach Plesac from Columbus Clippers (IL). Placed OF Tyler Naquin on the 10-day IL retroactive to July 22. Optioned RHP Hunter Wood to Indian Alternate Training Site.

DETROIT TIGERS — Claimed RHP Car-son Fulmer off waivers from Chicago White Sox.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled INF Taylor Jones. Palced INF Aledmys Diaz on the 10-day IL.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Selected the contract of RHP Brady Singer from Roy-als Alternate Training Site. Optioned C Meibrys Viloria to Royals Alternate Training Site.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Signed LHP Fernando Abad to a minor league con-tract. Optioned OF Clint Frazier and RHP Ben Heller to the Yankees Alternate Site.

National LeagueCINCINNATI REDS — Recalled OF Aris-

tides Aquino and RHP Tejay Antone from Reds Alternate Training Site. Placed C Tucker Bernhart on the paternity list. Placed 1B Matt Daivdson on the 10-day IL.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed C Tres Barrera on the restricted list.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Waived LB Mi-chael Onuoha.

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Signed CB’s Damon Arnette and Amik Robertson, WR’s Henry Ruggs III and Bryan Edwards, G John Simpson, RB Lynn Bowden Jr., and LB Tanner Muse to Rookie Contracts.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived QB Jake Rudock. Released WR Ricardo Louis.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released DB Lenzy Pipkins.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Acquired in a trade from the New York Jets S Jamal Adams and a 2022 fourth-roud pick for S Bradley McDougald, a 2021 first and third-round pick, and a 2022 first-round pick.

Auto racing

Kansas Lottery 250NASCAR Xfinity Series

SaturdayAt Kansas Speedway

Kansas City, Kan.Lap length: 1.50 miles

(Start position in parentheses)1. (2) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 175 laps,

52 points.2. (4) Austin Cindric, Ford, 175, 55.3. (5) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 175, 51.4. (16) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 175, 33.5. (7) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 175, 48.6. (12) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 175, 42.7. (9) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 175, 36.8. (1) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 175, 29.9. (8) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 175, 33.10. (11) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 175,

41.11. (22) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet,

175, 26.12. (17) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet,

175, 25.13. (3) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 175, 25.14. (6) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 175, 27.15. (10) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 174,

23.16. (37) Colin Garrett, Toyota, 174, 21.17. (13) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet,

174, 20.18. (28) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevro-

let, 174, 19.19. (21) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 174, 0.20. (24) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 174, 17.21. (19) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 174, 16.22. (33) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 173, 15.23. (27) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 173, 0.24. (15) David Starr, Chevrolet, 173, 13.25. (30) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, 173, 12.26. (32) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 171, 11.27. (29) Kody Vanderwal, Chevrolet,

171, 10.28. (34) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 171, 9.29. (31) Chad Finchum, Toyota, 171, 8.30. (36) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet, 171, 7.31. (20) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 171, 6.32. (26) Ja Junior Avila, Toyota, 170, 5.33. (14) Jesse Little, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 165, 4.34. (23) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, oil-

leak, 91, 0.35. (18) Dexter Bean, Chevrolet, ga-

rage, 43, 2.36. (35) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet,

garage, 33, 1.37. (25) Stephen Leicht, Toyota, trans-

mission, 26, 1.Race statistics

Average speed of race winner: 126.394 mph.

Time of race: 2 hours, 4 minutes, 37 seconds.

Margin of victory: .405 seconds.Caution flags: 5 for 22 laps.Lead changes: 9 among 5 drivers.Lap leaders: M.Annett 0; B.Jones 1-9;

A.Cindric 10-126; R.Chastain 127; R.Sieg 128-144; A.Cindric 145-157; H.Burton 158-165; R.Sieg 166-173; A.Cindric 174; B.Jones 175

Leaders summary (driver, times led, laps led): A.Cindric, 3 times for 131 laps; R.Sieg, 2 times for 25 laps; B.Jones, 2 times for 10 laps; H.Burton, 1 time for 8 laps; R.Chastain, 1 time for 1 lap.

Wins: C.Briscoe, 5; A.Cindric, 3; N.Gragson, 2; H.Burton, 2; B.Jones, 2; J.Haley, 1; A.Allmendinger, 1.

Top 16 in points: 1. A.Cindric, 722; 2. C.Briscoe, 718; 3. N.Gragson, 666; 4. R.Chastain, 662; 5. J.Haley, 592; 6. H.Burton, 587; 7. J.Allgaier, 586; 8. M.Annett, 510; 9. B.Jones, 500; 10. R.Herbst, 410; 11. R.Sieg, 408; 12. B.Brown, 374; 13. J.Clements, 342; 14. D.Hemric, 326; 15. M.Snider, 325; 16. A.Labbe, 301.

NASCAR driver rating formulaA maximum of 150 points can be at-

tained in a race.The formula combines the following

categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Fin-ishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish

e.p.t 200NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series

SaturdayAt Kansas Speedway

Kansas City, Kan.Lap length: 1.50 miles

(Start position in parentheses)1. (12) Matt Crafton, Ford, 134 laps, 57

points.2. (3) Christian Eckes, Toyota, 134, 44.3. (13) Grant Enfinger, Ford, 134, 34.4. (18) Tanner Gray, Ford, 134, 33.5. (9) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 134, 32.6. (15) Austin Hill, Toyota, 134, 35.7. (11) Derek Kraus, Toyota, 134, 37.8. (2) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 134, 0.9. (10) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 134, 48.10. (1) Chase Purdy, Chevrolet, 134, 34.11. (16) Raphael Lessard, Toyota, 134, 28.12. (4) Brennan Poole, Toyota, 134, 0.13. (17) Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet,

134, 24.14. (29) Spencer Davis, Toyota, 134, 23.15. (30) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet,

134, 22.16. (19) Tyler Hill, Chevrolet, 134, 21.17. (22) Tate Fogleman, Chevrolet, 134,

20.18. (23) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 134, 19.19. (25) Ryan Huff, Toyota, 133, 0.20. (6) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 133, 21.21. (26) Robby Lyons, Chevrolet, 133, 0.22. (34) Travis Pastrana, Chevrolet,

132, 0.23. (37) Kevin Donahue, Toyota, 130, 14.24. (32) Ray Ciccarelli, Chevrolet, 130, 13.25. (35) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 129,

12.26. (8) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, ga-

rage, 118, 18.27. (14) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 94, 27.28. (33) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, ac-

cident, 92, 14.29. (24) Codie Rohrbaugh, Chevrolet,

garage, 91, 8.30. (5) Ty Majeski, Chevrolet, garage,

90, 7.31. (28) Clay Greenfield, Toyota, ga-

rage, 90, 6.32. (31) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet,

garage, 87, 5.33. (7) Johnny Sauter, Ford, accident,

83, 5.34. (27) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, acci-

dent, 82, 5.35. (21) Natalie Decker, Chevrolet, ac-

cident, 82, 5.36. (20) Cory Roper, Ford, accident, 77, 5.37. (36) Bryan Dauzat, Chevrolet, elec-

trical, 61, 5.Race statistics

Average speed of race winner: 102.016 mph.

Time of race: 1 hour, 58 minutes, 13 seconds.

Margin of victory: 0.324 seconds.Caution flags: 9 for 38 laps.Lead changes: 15 among 9 drivers.Lap leaders: C.Purdy 0; C.Eckes 1-6;

Z.Smith 7-33; A.Hill 34-35; B.Rhodes 36; A.Hill 37-40; Z.Smith 41-63; S.Friesen 64-66; M.Crafton 67; B.Moffitt 68-71; S.Creed 72-77; B.Moffitt 78-84; T.Gray 85-87; S.Creed 88-99; A.Hill 100-112; M.Crafton 113-134

Leaders summary (driver, times led, laps led): Z.Smith, 2 times for 50 laps; M.Crafton, 2 times for 23 laps; A.Hill, 3 times for 19 laps; S.Creed, 2 times for 18 laps; B.Moffitt, 2 times for 11 laps; C.Eckes, 1 time for 6 laps; T.Gray, 1 time for 3 laps; S.Friesen, 1 time for 3 laps; B.Rhodes, 1 time for 1 lap.

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

Top 16 in points: 1. A.Hill, 394; 2. B.Rhodes, 351; 3. C.Eckes, 344; 4. Z.Smith, 344; 5. B.Moffitt, 325; 6. M.Crafton, 321; 7. G.Enfinger, 320; 8. S.Creed, 319; 9. D.Kraus, 294; 10. T.Gilliland, 289; 11. T.Ankrum, 267; 12. J.Sauter, 236; 13. T.Gray, 230; 14. S.Friesen, 218; 15. R.Lessard, 217; 16. T.Majeski, 194.

Golf

3M OpenPGA TourSaturday

TPC Twin CitiesBlaine, Minnesota

Yardage: 7,431; Par: 71Third Round

Michael Thompson 64-66-68—198 -15Richy Werenski 63-67-68—198 -15Charl Schwartzel 66-68-66—200 -13Tony Finau 65-66-69—200 -13Max Homa 65-72-64—201 -12Cameron Tringale 69-70-63—202 -11Denny McCarthy 68-70-64—202 -11Alex Noren 67-69-66—202 -11Harris English 70-65-67—202 -11Ryan Moore 65-70-67—202 -11Nick Watney 65-69-68—202 -11Cameron Davis 67-66-69—202 -11Charles Howell III 71-65-67—203 -10Emiliano Grillo 71-68-64—203 -10Adam Long 68-72-63—203 -10Talor Gooch 66-65-72—203 -10Xinjun Zhang 65-67-71—203 -10Matthew Wolff 65-68-70—203 -10Robert Garrigus 66-71-67—204 -9Si Woo Kim 71-65-68—204 -9Robby Shelton 68-68-68—204 -9Hank Lebioda 69-70-65—204 -9Patrick Rodgers 66-68-70—204 -9Danny Lee 67-68-69—204 -9Doug Ghim 70-68-67—205 -8Bernd Wiesberger 73-66-66—205 -8Matthias Schwab 70-67-68—205 -8Brice Garnett 70-67-68—205 -8Pat Perez 70-69-66—205 -8Austin Cook 67-70-68—205 -8Dylan Frittelli 68-67-70—205 -8Kyle Stanley 66-74-65—205 -8K.J. Choi 71-67-68—206 -7Chris Kirk 66-71-69—206 -7Tim Wilkinson 70-69-67—206 -7Tom Lewis 68-71-67—206 -7Bronson Burgoon 66-70-70—206 -7Tom Hoge 69-67-70—206 -7Jason Dufner 68-72-66—206 -7Bo Hoag 65-73-69—207 -6Stewart Cink 69-68-70—207 -6Brandon Hagy 70-69-68—207 -6Luke List 68-72-67—207 -6Henrik Norlander 70-70-67—207 -6

Pro soccer

MLS is Back tournamentKnockout StageSaturday, July 25

Orlando City 1, Montreal 0Philadelphia 1, New England 0

Sunday, July 26Toronto FC vs. New York City FCSporting Kansas City vs. Vancouver

Monday, July 27San Jose vs. Real Salt LakeSeattle vs. Los Angeles FC

Tuesday, July 28Columbus vs. Minnesota UnitedPortland vs. Cincinnati

QuarterfinalsThursday, July 30

Philadelphia vs. Team TBDFriday, July 31

Orlando City vs. Team TBDSaturday, Aug. 1

Teams TBDSemifinals

Wednesday, Aug. 5Quarterfinal winners

Thursday, Aug. 6Quarterfinal winners

FinalTuesday, Aug. 11

Semifinal winners

NWSL Challenge CupAt Herriman, Utah

SemifinalsWednesday, July 22

Houston 1, Portland 0Chicago 3, Sky Blue 2

ChampionshipSunday, July 26

Houston vs. Chicago

Pro basketball

WNBAAt Bradenton, Fla.

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBWashington 1 0 1.000 —Connecticut 0 0 .000 ½New York 0 1 .000 1Atlanta 0 0 .000 ½Chicago 0 0 .000 ½Indiana 0 1 .000 1

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBSeattle 1 0 1.000 —Los Angeles 1 0 1.000 —Las Vegas 0 0 .000 ½Phoenix 0 1 .000 1Minnesota 0 0 .000 ½Dallas 0 0 .000 ½

Saturday’s gamesSeattle 87, New York 71Los Angeles 99, Phoenix 76Washington 101, Indiana 76

Sunday’s gamesConnecticut vs. MinnesotaChicago vs. Las VegasDallas vs. Atlanta

Monday’s gamesNo games scheduled

Tuesday’s gamesWashington vs. ConnecticutLos Angeles vs. ChicagoMinnesota vs. Seattle

Wednesday’s gamesPhoenix vs. IndianaNew York vs. DallasAtlanta vs. Las Vegas

Thursday’s gamesSeattle vs. WashingtonChicago vs. MinnesotaConnecticut vs. Los Angeles

BY JOHN WAWROW

Associated Press

Sorry, Drew Doughty.It’s difficult to find anyone —

from Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Ken Dryden to French-born Ava-lanche forward Pierre Edouard Bellemare — supporting Dough-ty’s assertion that these expanded NHL playoffs won’t produce, as the Los Angeles Kings defense-man put it in April, “a real” Stan-ley Cup winner.

“I could not agree less,” Bel-lemare said. “The level of play might take a day or two to get to the competitiveness, but this Stanley Cup playoff is going to be the toughest ever.”

Not only are teams, such as the previously injury-depleted Ava-lanche, far healthier than they were when the season was paused in March, everyone is faced with the same challenge of restarting from a standstill.

“You don’t have any team that played 82 games and feels unbe-lievable because they had a great season. That was 12 weeks ago, 14 weeks ago. I mean, this is gone,” Bellemare said. “So, every team’s going to have to from Day 1 cre-ate its own momentum.”

Three months ago, Doughty questioned what the format would resemble and how the regular season ended with 189 games remaining.

“I’m just not a huge fan of it, as much as I want to play,” said Doughty, whose Kings didn’t qualify for the expanded 24-team playoff.

In light of the concerns, players earned praise for demanding the four traditional playoff rounds be best-of-seven series to preserve the integrity of the postseason.

It will be a postseason like no other since the Stanley Cup was first awarded to the Montreal Hockey Club in 1893. The field of 24 is the NHL’s largest ever, while the crowds will be the smallest — with no fans allowed to attend.

There will be a preliminary round split in two parts. The top four teams in each conference will compete in a round-robin series to determine first-round seeding, while the remaining 16 compete in best-of-five elimina-tion series. What previously took 16 victories to hoist the Cup, this year’s champion could become the NHL’s first 19-game winner.

Dryden won six championships in eight seasons with Montreal in the 1970s, and the most games the Canadiens played in one post-season during that span was 20, in 1971, his rookie season. By comparison, the ’76 Canadiens needed only 13 games to win the title, with Dryden finishing 12-1 and allowing just 25 goals.

“Those who don’t win may say,

‘We were on our way. We did ev-erything right during the regu-lar season. We were poised for the playoffs and we didn’t havea chance to be that team that wecreated,’ ” Dryden said.

“That isn’t the point. The pointis the Stanley Cup playoffs area test. And they’re a test of eachplayer and of each team findingan answer for the circumstancespresented,” he said. “That’s what competition is. That’s what com-petitors are asked to respond to. And those who do it best win.” AP hockey writer Stephen Whyno, and AP sports writers Teresa M. Walker, Aaron Beard and Dan Gelston contributed.

NHL scoreboard

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

EASTERN CONFERENCE At Toronto

N.Y. Rangers vs. CarolinaSaturday, Aug. 1: Game 1Monday, Aug. 3: Game 2Tuesday, Aug. 4: Game 3x-Thursday, Aug. 6: Game 4x-Saturday, Aug. 8: Game 5

Florida vs. N.Y. IslandersSaturday, Aug. 1: Game 1Tuesday, Aug. 4: Game 2Wednesday, Aug. 5: Game 3x-Friday, Aug. 7: Game 4x-Sunday, Aug. 9: Game 5

Montreal vs. PittsburghSaturday, Aug. 1: Game 1Monday, Aug. 3: Game 2Wednesday, Aug. 5: Game 3x-Friday, Aug. 7: Game 4x-Saturday, Aug. 8: Game 5

Columbus vs. TorontoSunday, Aug. 2: Game 1 (AFN-Sports2,

3 a.m. Monday CET; 10 a.m. Monday JKT)Tuesday, Aug. 4: Game 2Thursday, Aug. 6: Game 3x-Friday, Aug. 7: Game 4x-Sunday, Aug. 9: Game 5

WESTERN CONFERENCEAt Edmonton, AlbertaChicago vs. Edmonton

Saturday, Aug. 1: Game 1Monday, Aug. 3: Game 2Wednesday, Aug. 5: Game 3x-Friday, Aug. 7: Game 4x-Saturday, Aug. 8: Game 5

Winnipeg vs. CalgarySaturday, Aug. 1: Game 1Monday, Aug. 3: Game 2Tuesday, Aug. 4: Game 3x-Thursday, Aug. 6: Game 4Saturday, Aug. 8: Game 5

Arizona vs. NashvilleSunday, Aug. 2: Game 1Tuesday, Aug. 4: Game 2Wednesday, Aug. 5: Game 3x-Friday, Aug. 7: Game 4x-Sunday, Aug. 9: Game 5

Minnesota vs. VancouverSunday, Aug. 2: Game 1 (AFN-Sports2,

4:30 a.m. Monday CET; 11:30 a.m. JKT)Tuesday, Aug. 4: Game 2Thursday, Aug. 6: Game 3x-Friday, Aug. 7: Game 4x-Sunday, Aug. 9: Game 5

Round robin(Determines playoff seedings)

x-if necessaryEASTERN CONFERENCE

Sunday, Aug. 2: Boston vs. PhiladelphiaMonday, Aug. 3: Tampa Bay vs. Wash-

ingtonWednesday, Aug. 5: Boston vs. Tampa

BayThursday, Aug. 6: Philadelphia vs.

WashingtonSaturday, Aug. 8: Washington vs. Bos-

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

delphiaWESTERN CONFERENCE

Sunday, Aug. 2: Colorado vs. St. Louis(AFN-Sports2, 12:30 a.m. Monday CET;7:30 a.m. JKT)

Monday, Aug. 3: Vegas vs. DallasWednesday, Aug. 5: Dallas vs. ColoradoThursday, Aug. 6: St. Louis vs. VegasSaturday, Aug. 8: Colorado vs. Vegasx-Sunday, Aug. 9: St. Louis vs. Dallas

Players say noasterisk neededPostseason may be toughest ever

• S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S •PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM

BY DAVE SKRETTA

Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was on every call in-volving the NFL Players Associa-tion and took a significant role in putting in place the return-to-play protocols for training camp.

So while he acknowledges “some risk” in returning to the team facility on Saturday, when Mahomes joined rookies and se-lect veterans for the start of his camp, he also felt comfortable in knowing the environment would be as safe as possible.

“I think the NFLPA did a good job getting all the players on the call and being prepared to be in the building and everything that entailed,” said Mahomes, who like the rest of NFL players did the entire offseason remotely. “They’re really taking this thing

seriously. They’re tak-ing social distancing and wear-ing a mask seriously, so we’re not hurting each other or hurting the people out in the commu-nity with us

being here.”The Chiefs and Texans, who

meet in NFL’s regular-season opener, were given the go-ahead to allow rookies to report to train-ing camp last Monday. But the week mostly involved COVID-19 testing for the rookies, and the veterans will likewise go through a similar period of testing before they begin more typical meetings and workouts.

That slow ramp-up is the first part of an acclimation period unique to this season. The play-ers’ board of representativesvoted 29-3 on Friday to adoptseveral changes to the collective bargaining agreement that pro-vided for new training camp androster rules, economics and theprotocols for operating amid thecoronavirus pandemic. The ac-climation period takes the placeof four preseason games and pro-hibits padded practices until themiddle of August.

“I thought the executive com-mittee did a great job of gettingprotection for the guys that arehigh risk, protection for the guysthat voluntarily opted out and pro-tection for the guys on the field,”said Mahomes, who recentlysigned a record 10-year exten-sion with the Chiefs after leadingthem to their first Super Bowl in 50 years last season.

Monday, July 27, 2020

FROM BACK PAGE

Some students thrived on their own when schools turned to on-line learning in the spring as the coronavirus surged. Others craved a return to the classroom where they could prosper among their peers.

Same thing with the NFL.Self-starters could flourish even

when the COVID-19 crisis forced them to work remotely, but play-ers also had to navigate through more free time than ever.

These peculiar circumstances placed “a greater accountability on players to prepare, but on the coaches as well,” Packers quar-terback Aaron Rodgers said.

“There has to be a real stream-lined approach to the most impor-tant parts of those installs and the finer details are at a premium. I think it’s probably making the coaches better coaches and at the same time ... you expect great ac-countability” from the players, Rodgers said.

“I think that’s the beauty of this time,” Rodgers added. “It re-ally separates the guys who are the self-motivated self-starters and the guys who maybe need a little more direction. And those guys that need more direction are going to be better in the set-ting where we’re all together. The other guys are going to be more ready to rock and roll once Day 1 comes.”

While the players will get extra time to ramp up their football fit-ness with the league agreeing to scrap the preseason schedule, some coaches don’t think they’ll be that far behind compared to other years.

Denver Broncos defensive co-ordinator Ed Donatell said the virtual offseason led to a burst of creativity among coaches and the discovery of new teaching tools to better connect with players.

“First of all, we’re teachers. We’re not professors. We want to get everybody to be an A stu-dent or at least a B student. What I can tell you is we have every-body where they’ll have all the tools they’ll need when they hit the field. We can’t tell you how it

will be physically. We’ve just cre-ated ways to use film and create interaction, have them talking to each other.

“It’s a very big plus. This is going to help us when people are away from us in the future,” Do-natell added. “It’s going to help us adapt. It’s hard to put somebody ahead of somebody. This is the game of football. Even in a nor-mal year, everything we do to this point, there’s one other piece. It’s called ‘when you put on the pads.’ You start running into each other, making tackles, avoiding tackles, breaking tackles. We don’t know that piece. There’s a lot that re-mains to be seen.”

New Broncos offensive coor-dinator Pat Shurmur said the downside to Zoom meetings was that you couldn’t read a player’s body language, but Donatell said the upside was being able to see so many faces at once.

“You have to be engaged be-cause you can be called on at any time,” Donatell said. “Another cool thing is I’m looking at an-other screen and I can see every-one’s faces. It’s easier to see 15 or 20 than if you’re looking around the room. We can read if they’re engaged and if they’re learning. You can feel that as a teacher.”

Some members of Donatell’s defensive staff discovered tools that helped them engage with the players. DBs coach Renaldo Hill used Prezi presentation software that “just makes it more interest-ing, things are popping in and off the screen and engaging guys more,” Donatell said. Defensive assistant Chris Beake brought in Kahoot!, a game-based learning platform that features user-gen-erated multiple choice quizzes.

“We found ways to develop dif-ferent kinds of quizzes to create the interaction,” Donatell said. “These guys are still being com-pelled to a high level of learning to get them ready and just creating interaction. This also was a time when everybody in our country’s healing. Everybody misses their work. ... This was a time we can get on that screen and cut it up a little bit, have some fun.”

NFL

DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP

Broncos defensive coordinator Ed Donatell, 63, said the virtual offseason led to a burst of creativity among coaches, the discovery of new teaching tools and a better connection with players.

Payoff: Self-startersmade most of free time

Mahomes knows risk, feels safe

Mahomes

ADAM HUNGER/AP

New York Jets strong safety Jamal Adams sacks Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr during the first half on Nov. 24 in East Rutherford, N.J. The Jets traded Adams to the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday.

Seahawks acquire AdamsBY DENNIS WASZAK JR.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jamal Adams’ wish was finally granted: He’s leaving New York in a stunning trade.

The Jets dealt the disgruntled star safety to the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday, splitting with a gift-ed player whose relationship with the franchise quickly deteriorated because of a contract dispute.

The Jets received a massive haul in the deal Saturday, send-ing a 2022 fourth-round draft pick along with Adams to the Se-ahawks for a 2021 first-rounder, a 2022 first-rounder, a 2021 third-rounder and safety Bradley Mc-Dougald — pending physicals.

Both teams confirmed the trade details, and the Seahawks

welcomed Adams to the team in a Twitter post.

“Let’s get it!!!” Seattle quarter-back Russell Wilson tweeted.

The deal ended a contentious several months for Adams and the Jets, a situation that increas-ingly appeared headed for a di-vorce when the two-time Pro Bowl selection criticized owner-ship early in the week and then took shots at coach Adam Gase and general manager Joe Doug-las in an interview with the Daily News published Friday.

“To NY & especially the Jets fans, I love you & will always love you.” Adams wrote in a Twitter post. “You all will hold a special place in my heart forever. When I came into the league, you em-braced me & watched me grow! We went through it all together.

Thank you for the Luv & support these 3 years. #Prez Out.”

Adams followed that up with a message to the Seahawks andtheir fans in a Twitter post thatincluded a graphic of the safety inhis new team’s uniform.

“You have a man on a mission,”he wrote, “a man all in on win-ning a Super Bowl, being the bestleader & teammate he can be, & a man who will give everything hehas to the city of Seattle and to the12s all across the world. Thankyou for believing in me!”

The 24-year-old former LSUstar was drafted sixth overall by the Jets in 2017. He quickly es-tablished himself as a fan favoriteand one of the best players at hisposition, being selected for thelast two Pro Bowls and makingthe All-Pro squad last year.

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Associated Press

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Former UFC middle-weight champion Robert Whit-taker earned his first victory in two years Sunday, winning a unanimous decision over Darren Till on Fight Island.

Veteran heavyweight Fabrício Werdum finished Alexander Gus-tafsson by armbar submission midway through the first round, and Maurício “Shogun” Rua got an entertaining split-decision vic-tory over fellow Brazilian veteran Antônio Rogério Nogueira in the last of four UFC shows in two weeks from the mixed martial arts promotion’s fan-free bubble in the Middle East.

The main event was a messy, technical fight that turned into an encouraging step forward for Whittaker (21-5), who ended the victory with a smile and a horrifi-cally bloody cut above his left ear.

Whittaker won his middle-weight belt in 2017, but the Aus-tralian brawler defended it just once and missed significant time with injuries. He lost the title last October to New Zealand’s Israel Adesanya, and Whittaker then withdrew from a scheduled come-back fight because he felt burned out on MMA.

He didn’t have an easy return, but the ex-champ still handled his matchup with Till (18-3-1), the touted British prospect.

“That fight was so stressful,” Whittaker said. “I hope the fans and everybody can appreciate it. That was one of the most techni-cal fights I’ve ever had to fight. We both knew each other’s strengths. I had to really adapt on the go.”

The 38-year-old Rua (27-11-1) and the 44-year-old Nogueira (23-10) put on an entertaining performance in their third fight in a rivalry that began 15 years ago. Rua won all three of those

bouts, but he barely won this live-ly striking matchup, triumphing 29-28 on two cards.

Nogueira said he probably will retire after this defeat, although his reluctance was visible. The twin brother of fellow UFC vet-eran Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira has been a pro MMA fighter for 19 years, including the last 11 in the UFC.

“I know I can (still) fight very well, but I think it’s time for the new generation to come,” Noguei-ra said.

Werdum (24-9-1) earned his first victory since 2017 with an impressive submission of Gus-tafsson (18-7), the former light heavyweight title contender who briefly retired last year.

On the undercard, welterweight Khamzat Chimaev set a UFC record with his second victory in only 10 days, finishing welter-weight Rhys McKee with punches just 3:09 into the first round.

BY BRIAN MAHONEY

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Tom Thibodeau is com-ing back to the New York Knicks, who are still seeking the success they enjoyed when he was an assistant two decades ago.

The Knicks are finishing a deal to make Thibodeau their coach, a person with knowledge of the details said Saturday.

No contract has been signed but a deal is expected to be announced next week, the person told The Associat-ed Press, speaking on condition of an-onymity because negotiations were ongoing.

ESPN first reported that the Knicks and Thibodeau were completing a five-year contract.

When they do, the 2011 NBA Coach of the Year in Chicago will become the 13th

different person to coach the Knicks since Jeff Van Gundy resigned early in the 2001-02 season.

Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford was told during his team’s scrimmage at Walt Disney World against the Los Angeles Lak-ers on Saturday that Thibodeau, his long-time friend and confidant, was going to get the New York job.

“Look, he’s one of my closest friends,” Clifford said. “He’s one of the best coach-es in the league and he understands New York. He was in New York for a long time.

New York is a different animal. He under-stands the fan base. He understands the New York media and he’s a great, great coach. So, he’ll do great there and it’s a great hire on their part.”

Thibodeau was an assistant under Van Gundy, who led the Knicks to the 1999 NBA Finals and into the postseason in every season he was there. New York has reached the playoffs just three times since Van Gundy’s departure.

The Knicks went 21-45 this season, miss-ing the playoffs for a seventh straight year. Mike Miller finished the season as interim

coach after David Fizdale was fired 22 games into the season.

New Knicks President Leon Rose then interviewed a number of candidates be-fore choosing Thibodeau from a field that included Jason Kidd, former Brooklyn coach Kenny Atkinson and Miller, who im-pressed Rose while going 17-27 before the season was suspended in March.

San Antonio assistants Will Hardy and Ime Udoka were also candidates. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said both will get their opportunities but praised the choice of Thibodeau.

“Tommy’s a seasoned veteran who it goes without saying understands what wins andwhat loses. He knows how to put a program together, create a culture and be demand-ing — and at the same time, make peopleaccountable,” Popovich said.

“It’s easy to demand things, but to makepeople accountable and want to play the right way is not something that’s easy for everybody to do. But Tom knows it insideand out and he’ll be a great choice to or-ganize the situation there, develop a plan,start the culture, stick to it, be persistent and get after it. So it’s a great choice.”

2011 Coach of the Yearwill return to Big Apple

Source: Thibodeau to be next Knicks coachNBA/MMA

JIM MONE/AP

The New York Knicks are reportedly finishing a deal to bring former assistant Tom Thibodeau back to the Big Apple as the team’s next head coach. Thibodeau, the 2011 NBA Coach of the Year in Chicago, was an assistant under Jeff Van Gundy, who led the Knicks to the 1999 NBA Finals and into the postseason in every season he was there. Thibodeau will be the 13th different person to coach the Knicks since Van Gundy resigned early in the 2001-02 season.

‘ New York is a different animal. He understands the fan base. He under-stands the New York media and he’s a great, great coach. ’

Steve CliffordOrlando Magic coach,

on Tom Thibodeau

Ex-UFC champ Whittaker back on track with decision

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American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBBaltimore 1 1 .500 —Boston 1 1 .500 —New York 1 1 .500 —Tampa Bay 1 1 .500 —Toronto 1 1 .500 —

Central DivisionChicago 1 1 .500 —Cleveland 1 1 .500 —Detroit 1 1 .500 —Kansas City 1 1 .500 —Minnesota 1 1 .500 —

West DivisionHouston 2 0 1.000 —Los Angeles 1 1 .500 1Oakland 1 1 .500 1Texas 1 1 .500 1Seattle 0 2 .000 2

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 1 1 .500 —Miami 1 1 .500 —New York 1 1 .500 —Philadelphia 1 1 .500 —Washington 1 1 .500 —

Central DivisionSt. Louis 2 0 1.000 —Cincinnati 1 0 1.000 AChicago 1 1 .500 1Milwaukee 1 1 .500 1Pittsburgh 0 2 .000 2

West DivisionSan Diego 2 0 1.000 —Los Angeles 2 1 .667 ½Colorado 1 1 .500 1San Francisco 1 2 .333 1½Arizona 0 2 .000 2

Thursday’s gamesN.Y. Yankees 4, Washington 1, 6 inningsL.A. Dodgers 8, San Francisco 1

Friday’s gamesCincinnati 7, Detroit 1Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 4Cleveland 2, Kansas City 0Boston 13, Baltimore 2Texas 1, Colorado 0Minnesota 10, Chicago White Sox 5Houston 8, Seattle 2Oakland 7, L.A. Angels 3, 10 inningsN.Y. Mets 1, Atlanta 0Chicago Cubs 3, Milwaukee 0Miami 5, Philadelphia 2St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4San Diego 7, Arizona 2L.A. Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1

Saturday’s gamesBaltimore 7, Boston 2Chicago White Sox 10, Minnesota 3Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 1L.A. Angels 4, Oakland 1Houston 7, Seattle 2Colorado 3, Texas 2Kansas City 3, Cleveland 2, 10 inningsDetroit 6, Cincinnati 4Washington 9, N.Y. Yankees 2Milwaukee 8, Chicago Cubs 3St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 1Philadelphia 7, Miami 1San Francisco 5, L.A. Dodgers 4Atlanta 5, N.Y. Mets 3, 10 inningsSan Diego 5, Arizona 1

Sunday’s gamesKansas City at ClevelandToronto at Tampa BayBaltimore at BostonMinnesota at Chicago White SoxSeattle at HoustonL.A. Angels at OaklandMiami at PhiladelphiaN.Y. Yankees at WashingtonDetroit at CincinnatiPittsburgh at St. LouisMilwaukee at Chicago CubsColorado at TexasArizona at San DiegoAtlanta at N.Y. MetsSan Francisco at L.A. Dodgers

Monday’s gamesL.A. Angels (Canning 0-0) at Oakland

(Bassitt 0-0)Toronto (TBD) at Washington (TBD)Atlanta (Foltynewicz 0-0) at Tampa

Bay (Glasnow 0-0)N.Y. Yankees (Happ 0-0) at Philadel-

phia (Arrieta 0-0)Baltimore (Wojciechowski 0-0) at Mi-

ami (López 0-0)Chicago White Sox (Cease 0-0) at

Cleveland (Civale 0-0)Kansas City (TBD) at Detroit (TBD)Seattle (Graveman 0-0) at Houston

(James 0-0)N.Y. Mets (Wacha 0-0) at Boston (TBD)Arizona (Weaver 0-0) at San Diego

(TBD)Chicago Cubs (Lester 0-0) at Cincin-

nati (Miley 0-0)Milwaukee (Houser 0-0) at Pittsburgh

(Brault 0-0)Tuesday’s games

N.Y. Yankees at PhiladelphiaToronto at WashingtonAtlanta at Tampa BayBaltimore at MiamiChicago White Sox at ClevelandKansas City at DetroitN.Y. Mets at BostonSt. Louis at MinnesotaArizona at TexasL.A. Dodgers at HoustonColorado at OaklandSeattle at L.A. AngelsChicago Cubs at CincinnatiMilwaukee at PittsburghSan Diego at San Francisco

SaturdayAstros 7, Mariners 2

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HBP—Walker (Correa), Shaw (Gurriel). T—2:53.

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DP—Los Angeles 1, Oakland 1. LOB—Los Angeles 2, Oakland 6. 2B—Simmons (1), Fletcher (1), La Stella (1), Piscotty (1). HR—Upton (1). SB—Grossman 2 (2). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesBundy W,1-0 6 C 3 1 1 0 7Middleton B 1 0 0 1 0Buttrey H,1 1 2 0 0 0 0Robles S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 1OaklandManaea L,0-1 4 C 5 4 4 0 3Wendelken B 0 0 0 0 0Luzardo 3 1 0 0 1 2Trivino 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—Bundy (Grossman). WP—Mid-dleton. T—2:27.

Phillies 7, Marlins 1Miami Philadelphia ab r h bi ab r h biVillar 2b 3 0 1 0 McCtchn lf 5 0 0 0Aguilar dh 4 0 0 0 Haseley lf 0 0 0 0Dickerson lf 4 0 0 0 Hoskins 1b 2 1 0 0Ramirez rf 4 0 0 0 Harper rf 2 1 1 0Anderson 3b 2 1 1 0 Realmuto c 4 1 1 3Cooper 1b 3 0 1 0 Segura 3b 3 0 1 0Rojas ss 3 0 2 1 Grgorius ss 4 1 1 1Wallach c 3 0 0 0 Kingery 2b 2 1 0 0Berti cf 3 0 1 0 Gosselin dh 3 2 3 3Quinn cf 4 0 0 0 Totals 29 1 6 1 Totals 29 7 7 7Miami 000 010 000—1Philadelphia 010 002 31x—7

DP—Miami 1, Philadelphia 4. LOB—Mi-ami 4, Philadelphia 7. 2B—Rojas (1). HR—Gregorius (1), Gosselin 2 (2), Realmuto (1). IP H R ER BB SOMiami Smith 3 1 1 1 6 3Neidert 2 B 1 0 0 1 0Vesia L,0-1 C 1 2 2 1 1Stanek 1 3 3 3 1 1Tarpley 1 1 1 1 0 0Philadelphia Wheeler W,1-0 7 5 1 1 2 4Hunter 1 1 0 0 1 1Guerra 1 0 0 0 0 2

T—2:54.

Cardinals 9, Pirates 1Pittsburgh St. Louis ab r h bi ab r h biNewman ss 4 0 0 0 Wong 2b 4 2 1 0Reynolds lf 3 0 0 0 Edman 3b 5 0 1 2Frazier 2b 4 0 0 0 Gldsmdt 1b 5 2 2 1Bell 1b 4 1 1 0 DeJong ss 4 2 2 2Moran dh 3 0 1 0 Carpnter dh 4 0 1 2Gonzalez ph 1 0 0 0 Molina c 4 1 1 0Evans 3b 3 0 0 0 Wieters c 0 0 0 0Heredia cf 3 0 0 0 Fowler rf 3 0 1 1Murphy c 2 0 1 1 Thms ph-rf 1 0 0 0Tucker rf 3 0 0 0 O’Neill lf 3 0 1 1 Bader cf 2 2 0 0Totals 30 1 3 1 Totals 35 9 10 9Pittsburgh 010 000 000—1St. Louis 100 200 42x—9

E—Crick (1). LOB—Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 6. 2B—Carpenter (1). 3B—Edman (1). HR—Goldschmidt (1). SB—Bader (1). IP H R ER BB SOPittsburghWilliams L,0-1 3 C 5 3 3 1 3Stratton 1 B 0 0 0 0 1Turley 1 0 0 0 0 0Crick C 2 4 0 1 2Erlin 1 B 3 2 2 0 1St. LouisWainwright W,1-0 6 3 1 1 1 5Gant H,1 1 C 0 0 0 1 1Webb 1 0 0 0 0 1Ponce de Leon B 0 0 0 0 0

Webb pitched to 2 batters in the 9th. HBP—Wainwright (Evans), Williams (Bader), Erlin (Bader). WP—Williams. T—2:55. .

Rays 4, Blue Jays 1Toronto Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h biBichette ss 5 0 1 0 Choi 1b 3 1 1 1Biggio 2b 3 0 2 0 Lowe lf-2b 4 1 2 2Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 1 0 Diaz 3b 2 0 1 0Guerrero dh 4 0 1 0 Smith c 0 0 0 0Shaw 1b 3 0 1 0 Tsutsgo dh 4 0 0 0Grichuk cf 4 0 1 0 Wndle 2b-3b 4 0 0 0Hernandez rf 4 0 0 0 Margot rf-lf 3 0 0 0McGuire c 4 1 1 1 Kiermaier cf 3 0 0 0Espinal 3b 2 0 0 0 Adames ss 3 0 0 0Panik ph-3b 2 0 0 0 Perez c 1 0 0 0 Brosseau pr 0 1 0 0 Zunino c 1 0 1 0 Rnfroe pr-rf 0 1 0 0Totals 35 1 8 1 Totals 28 4 5 3Toronto 000 000 100—1Tampa Bay 000 001 03x—4

DP—Toronto 1, Tampa Bay 0. LOB—To-ronto 9, Tampa Bay 4. 2B—Choi (1). 3B—Lowe (1). HR—McGuire (1). IP H R ER BB SOTorontoShoemaker 6 3 1 1 2 4Cole 1 0 0 0 0 0Gaviglio L,0-1 B 2 3 3 2 1Moran C 0 0 0 0 1Tampa BayYarbrough 5 B 4 0 0 1 1Roe C 1 0 0 0 1Fairbanks BS,0-1 C 2 1 1 1 2Anderson W,1-0 1 B 1 0 0 0 0Drake S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 1

T—2:47.

White Sox 10, Twins 3Minnesota Chicago ab r h bi ab r h biGarver c 3 1 2 0 Anderson ss 4 1 0 0Donldson 3b 4 0 1 0 Moncada 3b 4 0 1 1Cruz dh 4 1 1 3 Abreu 1b 5 1 2 0Polanco ss 4 0 0 0 Encrncion dh 4 1 1 2Sano 1b 4 0 0 0 Cllins ph-dh 0 0 0 0Rosario lf 4 0 1 0 Jimenez lf 5 1 2 1Whitefield pr 0 0 0 0 Delmnico rf 2 0 0 0Gonzalez rf 3 0 0 0 Engel ph-rf 2 1 1 0Kepler cf 4 0 0 0 Robert cf 4 1 1 0Adrianza 2b 3 1 1 0 McCann c 4 2 3 2 Garcia 2b 4 2 3 4Totals 33 3 6 3 Totals 38 10 14 10Minnesota 000 003 000— 3Chicago 001 041 40x—10

E—Anderson (1). DP—Minnesota 0, Chicago 1. LOB—Minnesota 5, Chicago 8. 2B—Moncada (2). HR—Cruz (1), Garcia 2 (2), Encarnacion (1), Jimenez (1), Mc-Cann (1). IP H R ER BB SOMinnesotaDobnak, L, 0-1 4 3 1 1 2 3Littell 1 4 4 4 0 1Smeltzer 2 6 5 5 1 5Wisler 1 1 0 0 1 2ChicagoKeuchel, W, 1-0 5 B 3 2 2 0 1Cishek 1 1 1 1 0 0Bummer, H, 1 C 0 0 0 1 1Marshall 1 1 0 0 1 2Lambert 1 1 0 0 0 1

Cishek pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. T—3:17.

Brewers 8, Cubs 3Milwaukee Chicago ab r h bi ab r h biSogard 3b 3 1 1 1 Bryant 3b 5 0 0 0Yelich dh 5 1 1 2 Rizzo 1b 3 1 0 0Hiura 2b 5 0 1 0 Baez ss 4 1 2 0Smoak 1b 5 1 2 1 Schwrber lf 3 1 1 2Garcia rf 5 1 1 0 Cntreras dh 3 0 1 1Narvaez c 3 2 1 1 Heyward rf 4 0 0 0Cain cf 4 2 3 1 Caratini c 3 0 1 0Gamel lf 4 0 1 2 Kipnis 2b 4 0 1 0Arcia ss 4 0 0 0 Happ cf 3 0 0 0Totals 38 8 11 8 Totals 32 3 6 3Milwaukee 010 212 200—8Chicago 100 020 000—3

DP—Milwaukee 1, Chicago 1. LOB—Mil-waukee 7, Chicago 9. 2B—Cain (1), Nar-vaez (1), Kipnis (1). 3B—Gamel (1). HR—Smoak (1), Yelich (1), Schwarber (1). IP H R ER BB SOMilwaukeeBurnes 3 B 2 1 1 3 6Suter W,1-0 2 C 3 2 2 0 3Williams 1 1 0 0 1 1Phelps 1 0 0 0 1 0Yardley 1 0 0 0 0 1ChicagoDarvish L,0-1 4 6 3 3 0 5Underwood Jr. 1 1 1 1 0 1Wieck 1 1 2 2 1 2Norwood 1 3 2 2 0 0Brothers 1 0 0 0 1 2Maples 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—Burnes (Baez), Darvish (Nar-vaez), Underwood Jr. (Narvaez), Williams (Contreras). WP—Darvish. T—3:36. .

Orioles 7, Red Sox 2Baltimore Boston ab r h bi ab r h biHays cf 5 1 2 0 Benintndi lf 5 0 0 0Alberto 2b 5 2 3 1 Martinez dh 4 0 2 0Iglesias ss 5 1 2 1 Devers 3b 5 0 0 0Santander lf 4 0 1 2 Morelnd 1b 4 1 1 1Velazquez lf 0 0 0 0 Peraza 2b 4 0 0 0Nunez dh 4 1 1 2 Verdugo rf 4 1 3 0Severino c 4 0 0 0 Brdley Jr. cf 4 0 2 0Davis 1b 3 0 0 0 Plawecki c 3 0 1 1Valaika 3b 4 1 1 0 Lin ss 2 0 0 0Mullins rf 3 1 0 0 Bgrts ph-ss 2 0 0 0Totals 37 7 10 6 Totals 37 2 9 2Baltimore 320 000 200—7Boston 000 002 000—2

E—Santander (1), Devers (2). DP—Bal-timore 0, Boston 1. LOB—Baltimore 5, Boston 10. 2B—Alberto (1), Nunez (2), Santander (2). HR—Moreland (1). IP H R ER BB SOBaltimoreCobb, W, 1-0 5 B 4 1 1 0 6Fry B 3 1 1 0 0Castro, H, 1 B 0 0 0 0 1Bleier 1 C 1 0 0 0 2Givens 1 B 1 0 0 0 2

BostonPerez, L, 0-1 5 6 5 4 2 2Hembree 1 0 0 0 0 0Covey 2 3 2 2 0 2Osich 1 1 0 0 0 1

HBP—Cobb (Plawecki), Bleier (Marti-nez). WP—Bleier, Perez. T—3:01.

Rockies 3, Rangers 2Colorado Texas ab r h bi ab r h biDahl cf 5 0 1 1 Choo lf 4 0 1 1Story ss 5 0 1 0 Andrus ss 2 1 0 0Arenado 3b 2 1 1 0 Santana cf 5 0 0 0Blackmon rf 4 1 0 0 Gallo rf 4 0 2 1Kemp dh 3 0 1 1 Odor 2b 5 0 1 0McMahon 1b 4 0 0 1 Frazier 3b 3 0 1 0Owings 2b 4 0 0 0 Calhoun dh 4 0 0 0Hampson lf 4 1 1 0 Guzmán 1b 4 1 1 0Butera c 3 0 1 0 Mathis c 1 0 1 0Solak ph 1 0 1 0 Trevino c 1 0 0 0 Totals 34 3 6 3 Totals 34 2 8 2Colorado 000 200 100—3Texas 000 010 001—2

E—Odor (0), Minor (1). LOB—Colorado 8, Texas 12. 2B—Hampson (1). 3B—Mathis (1). SB—Dahl (1). S—Butera (1). IP H R ER BB SOColoradoGray 4 C 3 1 1 3 3Bard, W, 1-0 1 B 2 0 0 0 1Estévez, H, 1 1 1 0 0 2 1J.Díaz, H, 1 1 1 0 0 0 2Davis, S, 1-1 1 1 1 1 1 1TexasMinor, L, 0-1 5 3 2 1 1 6Farrell 1 B 2 1 1 1 1Goody C 0 0 0 1 0Gibaut 1 0 0 0 0 2Vólquez 1 1 0 0 0 0

HBP—J.Díaz (Frazier). WP—J.Díaz. T—3:34.

Nationals 9, Yankees 2New York Washington ab r h bi ab r h biLeMahieu 2b 3 0 1 1 Turner ss 5 0 0 0Estrada 2b 1 0 1 0 Eaton rf 5 1 1 0a-Ford ph 1 0 1 0 Castro 2b 4 0 1 0Judge rf 5 0 0 0 Kendrick 1b 4 1 1 1Torres ss 4 0 0 0 Cabrera 3b 4 2 3 2Stanton dh 3 1 2 1 Suzuki c 4 2 2 0Hicks cf 4 0 1 0 Kieboom dh 4 1 1 0Voit 1b 4 0 0 0 Robles cf 4 1 3 4G.Sánchez c 4 0 0 0 Taylor lf 3 1 1 1Urshela 3b 4 1 1 0 Gardner lf 3 0 0 0 Totals 36 2 7 2 Totals 37 9 13 8New York 001 100 000—2Washington 030 220 11x—9

E—King (1), Torres (0), Kendrick (1), Castro (0), Turner 2 (0), Finnegan (1). DP—New York 1, Washington 2. LOB—New York 9, Washington 5. 2B—Urshela (1), Stanton (1), Robles (1), Kendrick (1), Cabrera (1). 3B—Castro (1). HR—Stanton (1), Robles (1), Cabrera (1), Taylor (1). IP H R ER BB SONew YorkPaxton, L, 0-1 1 5 3 3 1 1King 3 B 4 4 4 0 2Holder 1 B 2 0 0 0 1Hale B 0 0 0 0 0Heller 1 1 1 1 0 0Avilán 1 1 1 1 0 2WashingtonFedde 4 4 2 1 1 3Rainey, W, 1-0 1 0 0 0 1 0Harper 2 1 0 0 0 4Bourque 1 1 0 0 0 0Finnegan 1 1 0 0 0 0

Paxton pitched to 5 batters in the 2nd. WP—Harper. T—3:13.

Tigers 6, Reds 4Detroit Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h biGoodrum ss 5 0 2 0 Winker dh 2 0 0 0Schoop 2b 5 1 3 0 Ervin ph-dh 0 0 0 0Cabrera dh 5 1 1 2 VnMeter ph 0 0 0 0Cron 1b 5 0 2 1 Votto 1b 4 1 2 1Stewart lf 3 0 0 0 Suárez 3b 5 0 0 0Candlario 3b 4 0 0 0 Moustks 2b 4 0 1 0Maybin rf 3 0 0 0 Cstllanos rf 4 0 1 0Reyes ph-rf 1 0 0 0 Akiyama lf 3 0 0 0Romine c 4 1 2 1 Senzel cf 3 1 0 0Lugo pr 0 1 0 0 Galvis ss 3 1 1 2Greiner c 0 0 0 0 Casali c 4 1 1 1J.Jones cf 4 2 2 2 Totals 39 6 12 6 Totals 32 4 6 4Detroit 100 000 302—6Cincinnati 120 000 100—4

E—Schoop (1). DP—Detroit 1, Cincin-nati 0. LOB—Detroit 7, Cincinnati 8. 2B—Cron (1). HR—Romine (1), Cabrera (1), J.Jones (1), Votto (1), Galvis (1), Casali (1). SB—Senzel (1). IP H R ER BB SODetroit Nova 5 3 3 3 4 2Alexander 1 C 2 1 1 0 1Garcia B 1 0 0 1 0B.Farmer, W, 1-0 1 0 0 0 1 1Jiménez, S, 1-1 1 0 0 0 1 1Cincinnati Castillo 6 6 1 1 1 11Stephenson, H, 1 B 2 2 2 0 1Lorenzen, BS, 0-1 C 1 1 1 0 1Garrett 1 0 0 0 0 2Iglesias, L, 0-1 1 3 2 2 0 2

T—3:01.

Padres 5, Diamondbacks 1Arizona San Diego ab r h bi ab r h biK.Marte 2b 4 0 1 0 Tatis Jr. ss 3 1 1 0Peralta lf 4 0 0 0 Machado 3b 4 1 1 2S.Marte cf 4 1 2 0 Pham lf 2 1 1 0Escobar 3b 4 0 0 0 Profar 2b 3 0 0 0Walker dh 4 0 1 1 France 1b 4 1 1 0Calhoun rf 3 0 1 0 Myers dh 3 1 1 3Vogt c 2 0 0 0 Olivares rf 3 0 1 0Cron ph 1 0 0 0 Hedges c 4 0 0 0C.Kelly c 0 0 0 0 Grisham cf 3 0 1 0Lamb 1b 3 0 0 0 Ahmed ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 32 1 5 1 Totals 29 5 7 5

Arizona 000 100 000—1San Diego 000 300 200—5

E—Stammen (1). DP—Arizona 1, San Diego 0. LOB—Arizona 5, San Diego 7. 2B—K.Marte (1), Walker (1), S.Marte (1), Olivares (1), Tatis Jr. (1). HR—Myers (1),Machado (1). SB—Pham 2 (2). IP H R ER BB SOArizona Ray L,0-1 3 C 4 3 3 3 7Crichton 1 B 1 0 0 1 2Chafin 1 0 0 0 1 2Rondón B 2 2 2 1 1Widener 1 C 0 0 0 1 1San Diego Lamet W,1-0 5 5 1 1 1 8Strahm H,1 1 B 0 0 0 0 0Stammen H,1 1 C 0 0 0 0 1Yates 1 0 0 0 0 2

Lamet pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. T—3:18.

Royals 3, Indians 2Kansas City Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h biMerrifield rf 4 0 1 0 C.Hrnndz 2b 4 1 1 0Mondesi ss 4 0 0 0 Ramírez 3b 4 0 1 1Soler dh 4 1 1 1 Lindor ss 5 0 1 0S.Pérez c 4 1 1 1 C.Santna 1b 3 0 0 0Gordon lf 4 0 0 0 Reyes dh 4 0 0 0Phillips pr-lf 0 1 0 0 Johnson rf 3 0 0 0McBroom 1b 3 0 1 0 Mercado cf 4 0 0 0Mejia ph-3b 0 0 0 0 R.Pérez c 4 0 0 0Franco 3b-1b 3 0 0 1 Allen pr 0 0 0 0Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 B.Zimmer lf 3 1 1 0Starling cf 3 0 1 0 Totals 32 3 5 3 Totals 34 2 4 1Kansas City 200 000 000 1—3Cleveland 002 000 000 0—2

LOB—Kansas City 3, Cleveland 8. 2B—Merrifield (1). HR—Soler (1), S.Pérez (1).SF—Franco (1). S—Mejia (1). IP H R ER BB SOKansas City Singer 5 3 2 2 2 7Kennedy 2 0 0 0 0 1Rosenthal 1 0 0 0 0 2Barlow W,1-0 1 1 0 0 2 2Holland S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 3Cleveland Clevinger 7 4 2 2 0 6Wittgren 1 1 0 0 0 0Karinchak L,0-1 2 0 1 0 1 1

HBP—Holland (B.Zimmer). WP—Sing-er(2). T—2:52.

Giants 5, Dodgers 4San Francisco Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biSlater lf 1 1 0 0 Muncy 1b 3 0 0 0Crawford ss 1 0 0 0 Betts rf 5 0 0 0Solano 3b 5 0 1 2 Bellinger cf 5 2 1 0Flores 2b 4 1 1 1 Turner 3b 4 1 2 1Ruf 1b 4 0 1 1 Seager ss 4 0 1 2Sandoval 1b 0 0 0 0 Taylor dh 3 0 2 0Pence dh 3 0 0 0 Pederson lf 2 0 1 0Ystrmski cf-lf 4 1 2 0 Hrnándz 2b 4 0 0 0Davis rf 4 1 1 0 Barnes c 1 0 1 0Dubón ss-cf 4 0 0 0 Ríos ph 1 0 0 0Heineman c 3 1 1 0 Smith c 1 1 1 1 Totals 33 5 7 4 Totals 33 4 9 4San Francisco 111 200 000—5Los Angeles 100 000 021—4

E—Heineman (1), Solano (1). DP—SanFrancisco 3, Los Angeles 0. LOB—SanFrancisco 6, Los Angeles 8. 2B—Yastr-zemski (1), Solano (1), Turner 2 (4). HR—Flores (1), Smith (1). IP H R ER BB SOSan Francisco Webb 4 6 1 1 1 2Baragar W,1-0 2 0 0 0 0 1S.Anderson 1 0 0 0 1 3Watson C 1 2 0 0 0Rogers H,1 B 1 0 0 0 0Gott S,1-1 1 1 1 1 0 0Los Angeles Wood L,0-1 3 3 3 3 3 4Santana 2 3 2 2 0 3Kelly 1 0 0 0 1 2Treinen 1 0 0 0 0 1McGee 1 1 0 0 0 3Floro 1 0 0 0 0 0

Webb pitched to 1 batter in the 5th.HBP—Webb (Muncy), Santana (Pence), Watson (Muncy), Rogers (Pederson).WP—Wood. T—3:16.

Braves 5, Mets 3 (10)Atlanta New York ab r h bi ab r h bi

Acña Jr. cf-rf 5 0 0 0 McNeil 3b 4 1 0 1Albies 2b 5 0 0 0 Davis lf 3 0 0 0Freeman 1b 3 0 0 0 Marsnick cf 2 0 1 0Ozuna dh 4 1 1 1 Alonso 1b 5 0 1 0Duvall rf-lf 4 2 1 1 Céspdes dh 4 0 1 0Swanson ss 4 1 1 1 Núñez pr-dh 1 0 0 0Camargo 3b 4 1 2 0 Canó 2b 3 0 0 0Riley lf 3 0 1 0 Giménez 2b 1 0 0 0Inciarte pr-cf 1 0 0 1 Do.Smith ph 0 0 0 1A.Jackson c 2 0 0 0 Ramos c 4 0 1 0Adams ph 1 0 1 0 Conforto rf 3 1 3 0Culberson pr 0 0 0 0 Rosario ss 4 1 2 1Contreras c 1 0 1 1 Nimmo cf-lf 3 0 0 0Totals 37 5 8 5 Totals 37 3 9 3Atlanta 010 000 001 3—5New York 000 020 000 1—3

E—McNeil (0). DP—Atlanta 0, New York2. LOB—Atlanta 4, New York 10. 2B—Con-treras (1), Conforto (1). 3B—Rosario (1). HR—Duvall (1), Ozuna (1). SB—Núñez (1). SF—McNeil (1), Do.Smith (1). IP H R ER BB SOAtlantaFried 5 2 2 2 2 5Tomlin 1 1 0 0 0 2Minter 1 1 0 0 0 2O’Day 1 1 0 0 0 2L.Jackson W,1-0 2 4 1 0 0 0New York Matz 6 2 1 1 1 7Familia H,1 1 0 0 0 0 0Betances H,1 C 1 0 0 0 1Wilson H,2 B 1 0 0 0 1Díaz BS,1-2 1 1 1 1 0 2Strickland L,0-1 B 3 3 2 0 0Dr.Smith C 0 0 0 0 1

Tomlin pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. HBP—Fried (Nimmo). T—3:21.

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ARLINGTON, Texas — Daniel Bard has a new perspective after more than seven years away from the major leagues, and a win after one outing for the Colorado Rockies.

The hard-throwing Bard, whose control troubles ran him out of baseball, pitched 1 1⁄3 score-less innings in relief while twice getting out of jams as the Rock-ies beat the Texas Rangers 3-2 on Saturday.

“He said three words — that was fun,” Colorado manager Bud Black said.

Bard’s last big league appear-ance had been for Boston on April 27, 2013, 11 months after his last win.

“It’s been a long wait. It feels good,” the 35-year-old Bard said. “Just trying to soak it in and enjoy every moment.

Bard took over for starter Jon Gray with two on and two outs in the fifth. The right-hander, with his fastball in the upper 90s mph, worked around two more runners in the sixth, getting Willie Cal-houn on an inning-ending flyout to cap an 11-pitch at-bat.

Bard threw 20 of his 25 pitches for strikes.

“The stuff is there. ... What a great story,” Black said.

Angels 4, Athletics 1: Dylan Bundy pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning in his Angels debut and Justin Upton homered to lead visiting Los Angeles past Oakland.

Bundy (1-0) allowed one run, three hits, no walks and hit one batter in 6 2⁄3 innings as part of an impressive first start after being acquired from Baltimore in a trade last December.

Upton hit a solo homer off Sean Manaea, and Andrelton Simmons and David Fletcher also had run-scoring hits for Los Angeles.

Astros 7, Mariners 2: Lance McCullers Jr. was solid in his re-turn from Tommy John surgery, Yuli Gurriel and George Springer homered and host Houston beat Seattle for the 15th straight time.

McCullers (1-0) yielded five hits and two runs in six innings in his first game since the 2018 play-offs. He got double plays from his defense to escape jams in the first two innings before settling in to get the win, striking out six.

Brewers 8, Cubs 3: Christian Yelich and Justin Smoak hit long home runs, umpires intervened before a shouting match between the teams got too serious and vis-iting Milwaukee powered past Chicago.

Without fans at Wrigley Field, players from both NL Central rivals could be heard shouting toward each other from their dug-outs before the start of the fourth inning.

All-Star catcher Willson Con-treras seemed to be barking the loudest from the warning track in front of the Cubs dugout, and several players from both sides popped out onto the dirt near their benches. Umpires jumped in and calmed things down quick-ly before players could cross the

foul lines.Milwaukee’s bats broke loose

against Yu Darvish and the Cubs bullpen. Smoak launched a tow-ering solo shot off the right-field scoreboard in the fifth. Yelich drove a two-run blast high into Wrigley’s center-field batter’s eye in the sixth.

Cardinals 9, Pirates 1: Paul Goldschmidt homered, Adam Wainwright pitched six solid in-nings and host St. Louis cruised past Pittsburgh.

Wainwright (1-0) pitched out of a bases loaded, no-out jam in the second, giving up just one run. He retired 14 of the final 15 batters he faced as the Cardinals beat the Pirates for the 12th time in their last 13 games.

White Sox 10, Twins 3: Leury García homered from both sides of the plate, helping Dallas Keuchel and host Chicago pound Minnesota.

Edwin Encarnación hit a two-run drive as the White Sox bounced back nicely after losing 10-5 to the reigning AL Central champions on Friday night. Eloy Jiménez and James McCann also went deep .

Keuchel allowed two runs in 5 1⁄3 innings in his White Sox debut after agreeing to a $55.5 million, three-year contract in December. The veteran left-hander threw 73 pitches, 47 for strikes.

Nelson Cruz connected for Min-nesota, which hit a major league-record 307 homers last year.

Orioles 7, Red Sox 2: Antho-ny Santander and Renato Núñez each drove in two runs and visit-ing Baltimore held off Boston to even their season-opening series.

Hanser Alberto finished with three hits. Austin Hays and José Iglesias added two apiece.

Alex Cobb (1-0) was steady in his first start since April 2019 after missing most of last season with a hip injury that required surgery. After Boston pounded out 17 hits in its 13-2 win on Fri-day, Cobb mostly kept the Red Sox off balance, allowing just four hits and one run while striking out six in 5 1⁄3 innings of work.

Martin Pérez (0-1) lasted just five innings in his Red Sox debut, giving up five runs on six hits and walking two.

Royals 3, Indians 2 (10): Greg Holland struck out the top of Cleveland’s batting order to strand the tying run at second base, and Maikel Franco hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning for visiting Kansas City in the third major league game decided by the debated extra-inning runner rule.

With Greg Allen on second, Holland fanned César Hernán-dez and José Ramírez before get-ting All-Star Francisco Lindor to chase strike three in the dirt for the final out and the most unique save of his career.

The Royals could be heard whooping it up as they poured out of the dugout, with Mike Matheny posting his first win as Kansas City’s manager.

Tigers 6, Reds 4: Miguel Ca-brera passed two superstars with one home run, and JaCoby Jones hit a two-run shot in the ninth in-ning off Raisel Iglesias to rally visiting Detroit past Cincinnati.

Cabrera salvaged his four-strikeout day with a two-run homer in the seventh that broke a tie with Adrian Beltre for 30th place on the career list.

Cabrera now has 478 home runs. The two RBIs boosted Ca-brera past Hall of Famer Cal Rip-ken Jr. and into 25th place on the career RBI list with 1,696.

Rays 4, Blue Jays 1: Brandon Lowe’s two-run triple snapped an eighth-inning tie and sent hist Tampa Bay over Toronto.

Lowe, a first-time AL All-Star in 2019, hit a drive into the gap in right-center field off reliever Sam Gaviglio (0-1). The right-hander later balked, allowing Lowe to score the third run of the inning.

Nick Anderson (1-0), the third of four Rays pitchers who fol-lowed starter Ryan Yarbrough, retired four of five batters he faced to get the win.

Giants 5, Dodgers 4: Gabe Kapler got his first win as the San Francisco manager as Wilmer Flores homered for a win over host Los Angeles.

After getting outscored 17-2 in the first two games, the Giants took advantage of Dodgers start-er Alex Wood’s struggles to avoid their first 0-3 start since 2012. They scored in each of the first

four innings to snap a six-game skid against their NL West rivals.

The Giants lined up near the mound and bumped elbows to celebrate. Kapler and his socially distanced coaching staff did so with a bottle of wine in the club-house afterward.

Phillies 7, Marlins 1: Phil Gos-selin homered twice, J.T. Real-muto added a three-run drive and Didi Gregorius went deep again to back Zach Wheeler in host Phila-delphia’s victory over Miami.

Wheeler (1-0) tossed five-hit ball and struck out four in seven innings after signing a $118 mil-lion, five-year deal in free agency. The 30-year-old Wheeler, who spent his first seven seasons with the New York Mets, pitched only days after his wife gave birth to their son.

Braves 5, Mets 3 (10): Mar-cell Ozuna hit a tying homer off shaky closer Edwin Díaz with two outs in the ninth inning, Dan-sby Swanson scored automatic runner Adam Duvall with a lead-off single in the 10th and visiting Atlanta beat New York.

New York loaded the bases in the bottom of the 10th with no outs against Luke Jackson (1-0). Pinch-hitter Dominic Smith managed a sacrifice fly, but Jack-son recovered and retired Wilson Ramos to end it.

Ozuna, signed to an $18 mil-lion, one-year free agent deal in January, energized Atlanta’s struggling offense with his op-

posite-field drive against Díaz.Ozuna went with a 3-2 fastball justoff the outside corner and roped itout to right field for his first home run with the Braves.

Nationals 9, Yankees 2: Vic-tor Robles had three hits and fourRBIs, including a homer, helpinghost Washington beat New Yorkwithout scratched starter Ste-phen Strasburg and despite fiveerrors.

Asdrúbal Cabrera and MichaelA. Taylor also homered for Wash-ington, which lost 2019 WorldSeries MVP Strasburg to a nerveissue in his pitching hand two days after putting slugger JuanSoto on the COVID-19 injured list because he tested positive for theillness.

Filling in for Strasburg, ErickFedde allowed a pair of runs infour innings, including GiancarloStanton’s second homer in twogames.

Padres 5, Diamondbacks 1: Manny Machado and Wil Myers homered to back Dinelson Lamet, who pitched brilliantly into thesixth inning of host San Diego’svictory over Arizona.

Lamet (1-0) held the Diamond-backs to one run and five hits while striking out eight and walk-ing one.

Myers’ three-run homer in thefourth was the Padres’ first ofthe year and highlighted a roughsecond time through the order for Arizona left-hander Robbie Ray.

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Bard earns win in first game since ’13

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Rockies pitcher Daniel Bard pitched 1 1⁄3 scoreless innings in relief against the Rangers on Saturday. His last big league appearance had been for Boston on April 27, 2013.

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Brewers teammates line up for elbow bumps with closer Eric Yardley, left, after defeating the Cubs on Saturday in Chicago.

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BY ARNIE STAPLETON

Associated Press

Players are reconvening for a training camp unlike any other, and the ramifications of their remote offseason will soon become apparent.

When the NFL scrapped regu-lar offseason training for virtual OTAs and videoconferences because of the coronavirus crisis, some players applauded and others plodded. Coaches had to get creative to re-place face-to-face instruction, and many dis-covered teaching tools they’ll continue using even after the pandemic ends.

Training camps won’t be normal. No pre-season games. No fans at practice. Daily COVID-19 tests for players, coaches, staff, media. And a slow ramp-up to padded prac-tices in a few weeks.

Players have been preparing on their own for months, aside from quarterbacks such as graybeard Tom Brady and greenhorn Drew Lock, who gathered their new receivers to work on their timing, something the players union ultimately discouraged.SEE PAYOFF ON PAGE 20

JEFF HAYNES, ABOVE, AND JACK DEMPSEY, RIGHT/AP

Above: Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says quarantining during the coronavirus separates the self-motivated players from the players who need more direction from the coaches.Right: Denver Broncos quarterback gathered his receivers during the pandemic to work on their timing.

PAYOFFTeams seeing fruitsof virtual offseason

‘ This is going to help us when people are away from us in the future. It’s going to help us adapt. ’

Ed DonatellDenver Broncos

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