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e Edition Edition MOSTLY SUNNY 68 • 55 | THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2020 | theworldlink.com Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink Brookings man found dead in boat basin THE WORLD CHARLESTON — At about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center received several reports of a subject who had fallen into the bay at the docks in Charleston and was unresponsive. Personnel from the Charleston Fire Department, Bay Cities Am- bulance, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Sheriff’s Office respond- ed to the scene. The victim was removed from the water and life saving efforts were unsuccessful. The victim has been identified as 64-year-old Lyle G. Mar- rington of Brookings. Family notifications have been made and the family has expressed their gratitude for the response of all first responders to the scene. Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni told The World there was nothing that pointed to foul play. The Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the several citizens who were extremely helpfully during this incident. Boats sit in the Charleston boat basin earlier this summer. Zach Silva, The World Jillian Ward, The World The World Newspaper Publisher Ben Kenfield scrubs graffiti off the paper’s sign, some of which read “fake news.” Police investigate more graffiti JILLIAN WARD The World COOS BAY — Coos Bay police are looking into two more graffiti cases, one at The World newspaper building and the other at Sunset Middle School. “Over the past several weeks, the Coos Bay Police Department has seen an increase in graffiti and criminal mischief calls,” read a department press release. “The graffiti has been found on various buildings, fences, sidewalks and business signs.” On Wednesday morning, the department was notified of new graffiti that appeared between 6:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. “The new graffiti was found at The World newspaper business located on Commercial Ave. in the downtown area of Coos Bay,” the release said. “The graf- fiti covered the front sidewalk and was also on (its) business sign.” The graffiti made “several offensive comments regarding The World newspaper, as well as city staff and city officials,” the release said. According to the newspaper’s publisher, Ben Kenfield, the tag- ging also covered the front stairs, while window chalk was used to write on the front door and windows around the building. Most of the tagging was done in sidewalk chalk. “It reflects the frustration in this community,” Kenfield said as he scrubbed graffiti off The World’s sign. “We have a micro- cosm of what’s happening in the country here in Coos Bay. “I think sometimes it’s hard to tell where to point the frustration and turn it into change.” Members of Safer as One — a grassroots organization standing for equality and a safer commu- nity — showed up to help scrub the chalk graffiti off The World’s stairs. “These are words of pain and people trying to speak out but not going about it in the most official way,” said one member, who asked to remain anonymous for her safety. “As someone who is trying to represent and speak with the many sub-communities, I wanted to make sure we are here to help.” She asked that people who wish to get messages out that include Black Lives Matter or #Justice4Saraya, a 14-year-old Black teen who was sentenced to juvenile prison for 11 years, to reach out to Safer as One. That way, the message can be put out “in a way that all the sub-com- munities can be equally repre- senting and be heard.” The Safer as One member said the organization is not associated with the graffiti, which included accusations of “fake news” and “stop black media censorship.” The tagging follows stories published by The World about a demonstration from Safer as One, efforts to put in a statue memorializing Alonzo Tucker — the victim of the only document- ed case of a Black man being lynched in Oregon — and Black Lives Matter protests. Contributed Photo Sunset Middle School was also hit with graffiti Tuesday night. Please see Graffiti, Page A2 Layoffs remain at high level WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1.3 million Ameri- cans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a historically high pace that shows that many employers are still laying people off in the face of a resurgent coronavirus. The persistently elevated level of layoffs are occurring as a spike in virus cases has forced six states to reverse their move to reopen businesses. Those six — Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan and Texas — make up one-third of the U.S. economy. Fifteen other states have suspended their re-open- ings. Collectively, the pullback has stalled a tentative recovery in the job market and is likely triggering additional layoffs. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the number of applications for unemployment aid fell from 1.4 million in the previous week. The figure has now topped 1 million for 16 straight weeks. Before the pandemic, the record high for weekly unemployment applica- tions was fewer than 700,000. The total number of peo- ple who are receiving jobless benefits dropped 700,000 to 18 million. That suggests that some companies are continuing to rehire workers despite job cuts by other employers. An additional 1 million people sought benefits last week under a separate program for self-em- ployed and gig workers that has made them eligible for aid for the first time. These figures aren’t adjusted for seasonal variations, so the government doesn’t in- clude them in the official count. Americans are seeking unem- ployment aid against the back- drop of a disturbing surge in con- firmed viral cases, with increases reported in 38 states. Case counts have especially accelerated in four states that now account for more than half of reported new U.S. cases: Arizona, California, Florida and Texas. Applications for unemploy- ment aid dropped last week in California and Florida, though in California they remained high, with more than 267,000 claims. That is more people than were applying each week for unem- ployment benefits in the entire country before the pandemic hit. Jobless claims also declined in Michigan and Colorado. Still, applications for benefits spiked in Texas, Nevada, Ten- nessee and Louisiana — states where confirmed cases of the virus are intensifying. They also jumped in New Jersey and New York, where the pandemic is mostly under control. The intensifying outbreaks and more stringent government restrictions have slowed econom- ic activity in much of the country and may weigh on hiring. The government’s jobs report for June showed a solid gain of 4.8 million jobs and an unemploy- ment rate that fell to 11.1% from 13.3%. Yet even so, the economy has regained only about one-third of the jobs that vanished in March and April. And the June jobs Please see Layoffs, Page A2 Violent protests costly for Portland businesses PORTLAND (AP) — Down- town businesses in Portland, Oregon, have sustained about $23 million in damages and lost customers because of violent nightly protests that have brought the city to its knees, authorities said Wednesday. At a police briefing, Depu- ty Chief Chris Davis said the intensity of the violence by an “agitator corps” and the length of the protests that are now in their sixth week are unprecedented in Oregon’s largest city. Davis made a sharp distinc- tion between Black Lives Matter protesters, whom he said were not violent, and a smaller group of people he repeatedly called “agitators.” “Quite frankly, this is not sustainable,” he said. “There’s a very big difference between protests and the kind of mayhem that we’ve seen every night. ... The Black Lives Matter move- ment is not violent. The story that we’re going to talk about today is about a small group of agitators that is attempting to hijack that message and use it as a cover for criminal activity.” Protesters have demonstrated for 41 consecutive nights against racial injustice and police brutal- ity following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneap- olis, and they are increasingly focusing their actions on federal properties, including Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in the heart of the downtown busi- ness district. Authorities have declared riots several times and used tear gas to disperse demonstrators. A recent- ly issued federal court order bans the police from using the tear gas unless a riot is declared, but crit- ics have challenged the police on what constitutes a riot and who makes the decision to designate a protest as an unlawful event. The police unleashed tear gas last week the day after Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill into law that banned the use of it unless a riot was declared. That prompt- ed Brown and Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek to publicly call on Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is also the police commissioner, to rein in the department and de-escalate its interactions with protesters. Davis defended the decision to use tear gas and said that the alternative was sending officers into a chaotic crowd, which would likely result in injuries to both officers and protesters. “I will be very happy if I can go the rest of my career without ever seeing us have to deploy C.S. gas,” he said, using another term for the substance. “The reason why we’re seeing more and more C.S. gas has to do with really unprecedented levels of violence that we’re see- ing and not that we’re trying to Please see Portland, Page A2

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Brookings man found dead in boat basinThe World

CHARLESTON — At about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center received several reports of a subject who had fallen into the bay at the docks in Charleston and was unresponsive.

Personnel from the Charleston Fire Department, Bay Cities Am-bulance, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Sheriff’s Office respond-

ed to the scene. The victim was removed from the water and life saving efforts were unsuccessful.

The victim has been identified as 64-year-old Lyle G. Mar-rington of Brookings. Family notifications have been made and the family has expressed their gratitude for the response of all first responders to the scene.

Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni told The World there was nothing that pointed to foul play.

The Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the several citizens who were extremely helpfully during this incident.

Boats sit in the Charleston boat basin earlier this summer.

Zach Silva, The World

Jillian Ward, The World

The World Newspaper Publisher Ben Kenfield scrubs graffiti off the paper’s sign, some of which read “fake news.”

Police investigate more graffitiJIllIAN WArdThe World

COOS BAY — Coos Bay police are looking into two more graffiti cases, one at The World newspaper building and the other at Sunset Middle School.

“Over the past several weeks, the Coos Bay Police Department has seen an increase in graffiti and criminal mischief calls,” read a department press release. “The graffiti has been found on various buildings, fences, sidewalks and business signs.”

On Wednesday morning, the department was notified of new graffiti that appeared between 6:30 p.m. and 8 a.m.

“The new graffiti was found at The World newspaper business located on Commercial Ave. in the downtown area of Coos Bay,” the release said. “The graf-fiti covered the front sidewalk and was also on (its) business sign.”

The graffiti made “several offensive comments regarding The World newspaper, as well as city staff and city officials,” the release said.

According to the newspaper’s

publisher, Ben Kenfield, the tag-ging also covered the front stairs, while window chalk was used to write on the front door and windows around the building. Most of the tagging was done in sidewalk chalk.

“It reflects the frustration in this community,” Kenfield said as he scrubbed graffiti off The World’s sign. “We have a micro-cosm of what’s happening in the

country here in Coos Bay.“I think sometimes it’s hard to

tell where to point the frustration and turn it into change.”

Members of Safer as One — a grassroots organization standing for equality and a safer commu-nity — showed up to help scrub the chalk graffiti off The World’s stairs. “These are words of pain and people trying to speak out but not going about it in the most

official way,” said one member, who asked to remain anonymous for her safety.

“As someone who is trying to represent and speak with the many sub-communities, I wanted to make sure we are here to help.”

She asked that people who wish to get messages out that include Black Lives Matter or #Justice4Saraya, a 14-year-old Black teen who was sentenced to juvenile prison for 11 years, to reach out to Safer as One. That way, the message can be put out “in a way that all the sub-com-munities can be equally repre-senting and be heard.”

The Safer as One member said the organization is not associated with the graffiti, which included accusations of “fake news” and “stop black media censorship.”

The tagging follows stories published by The World about a demonstration from Safer as One, efforts to put in a statue memorializing Alonzo Tucker — the victim of the only document-ed case of a Black man being lynched in Oregon — and Black Lives Matter protests.

Contributed Photo

Sunset Middle School was also hit with graffiti Tuesday night.

Please see Graffiti, Page A2

Layoffs remain at high level

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1.3 million Ameri-cans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a historically high pace that shows that many employers are still laying people off in the face of a resurgent coronavirus.

The persistently elevated level of layoffs are occurring as a spike in virus cases has forced six states to reverse their move to reopen businesses. Those six — Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan and Texas — make up one-third of the U.S. economy. Fifteen other states have suspended their re-open-ings. Collectively, the pullback has stalled a tentative recovery in the job market and is likely triggering additional layoffs.

Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the number of applications for unemployment aid fell from 1.4 million in the previous week. The figure has now topped 1 million for 16 straight weeks. Before the pandemic, the record high for weekly unemployment applica-tions was fewer than 700,000.

The total number of peo-ple who are receiving jobless benefits dropped 700,000 to 18 million. That suggests that some companies are continuing to rehire workers despite job cuts by other employers.

An additional 1 million people sought benefits last week under a separate program for self-em-ployed and gig workers that has made them eligible for aid for the first time. These figures aren’t adjusted for seasonal variations, so the government doesn’t in-clude them in the official count.

Americans are seeking unem-ployment aid against the back-drop of a disturbing surge in con-firmed viral cases, with increases reported in 38 states. Case counts have especially accelerated in four states that now account for more than half of reported new U.S. cases: Arizona, California, Florida and Texas.

Applications for unemploy-ment aid dropped last week in California and Florida, though in California they remained high, with more than 267,000 claims. That is more people than were applying each week for unem-ployment benefits in the entire country before the pandemic hit. Jobless claims also declined in Michigan and Colorado.

Still, applications for benefits spiked in Texas, Nevada, Ten-nessee and Louisiana — states where confirmed cases of the virus are intensifying. They also jumped in New Jersey and New York, where the pandemic is mostly under control.

The intensifying outbreaks and more stringent government restrictions have slowed econom-ic activity in much of the country and may weigh on hiring. The government’s jobs report for June showed a solid gain of 4.8 million jobs and an unemploy-ment rate that fell to 11.1% from 13.3%.

Yet even so, the economy has regained only about one-third of the jobs that vanished in March and April. And the June jobs

Please see Layoffs, Page A2

Violent protests costly for Portland businessesPORTLAND (AP) — Down-

town businesses in Portland, Oregon, have sustained about $23 million in damages and lost customers because of violent nightly protests that have brought the city to its knees, authorities said Wednesday.

At a police briefing, Depu-ty Chief Chris Davis said the intensity of the violence by an “agitator corps” and the length of the protests that are now in their sixth week are unprecedented in Oregon’s largest city.

Davis made a sharp distinc-tion between Black Lives Matter protesters, whom he said were not violent, and a smaller group of people he repeatedly called “agitators.”

“Quite frankly, this is not sustainable,” he said. “There’s a very big difference between protests and the kind of mayhem that we’ve seen every night. ... The Black Lives Matter move-ment is not violent. The story that we’re going to talk about today is about a small group of agitators that is attempting to hijack that message and use it as a cover for criminal activity.”

Protesters have demonstrated for 41 consecutive nights against racial injustice and police brutal-ity following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneap-olis, and they are increasingly focusing their actions on federal properties, including Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in

the heart of the downtown busi-ness district.

Authorities have declared riots several times and used tear gas to disperse demonstrators. A recent-ly issued federal court order bans the police from using the tear gas unless a riot is declared, but crit-ics have challenged the police on what constitutes a riot and who makes the decision to designate a protest as an unlawful event.

The police unleashed tear gas last week the day after Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill into law that banned the use of it unless a riot was declared. That prompt-ed Brown and Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek to publicly call on Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is also the police commissioner,

to rein in the department and de-escalate its interactions with protesters.

Davis defended the decision to use tear gas and said that the alternative was sending officers into a chaotic crowd, which would likely result in injuries to both officers and protesters.

“I will be very happy if I can go the rest of my career without ever seeing us have to deploy C.S. gas,” he said, using another term for the substance.

“The reason why we’re seeing more and more C.S. gas has to do with really unprecedented levels of violence that we’re see-ing and not that we’re trying to

Please see Portland, Page A2

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find excuses to use it. And that would be irresponsible of us to somehow ratchet down the definition of a riot so we can get to use C.S. gas quicker.”

Earlier Wednesday, the president of the police union said he has no confi-dence that city leaders will move to stop the protests.

“Our officers have endured weeks of rocks, bricks, bottles, mortars,

and other objects hurled at them with hate,” union President Daryl Turner said. “Enough. The people who put on a badge and uniform every day are human beings.”

On Tuesday the U.S. attorney in Oregon an-nounced federal charges against seven protesters ac-cused of defacing a federal courthouse and assaulting federal officers.

Police have also arrest-ed two people on state charges of setting fire to a North Portland police precinct last week.

report reflected surveys of Americans that were conducted in the middle of that month — before the pandemic flared up again.

More recent data are worrisome. Spending on credit and debit cards issued by Bank of America fell in the week that ended June 27 compared with the previous wee, the bank said.

Restaurant visits have also leveled off nationally, including in states that haven’t begun to close down again, according to data from OpenTable, the reservations website.

“This suggests that renewed fears about the virus, rather than gov-ernment restrictions, are driving the pullback in activity,” said Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. econo-mist at Capital Economics, a forecasting firm.

Data from Kro-nos, which produces work-scheduling software for small businesses, re-

inforces evidence that the recovery of the job market is faltering.

In the week that ended July 4, layoffs among Kronos’ clients actually rose and hirings declined. Companies are now laying off an average of nearly three workers for every new hire, the company’s data shows. Those job cuts reflect permanent job loss-es, rather than temporary layoffs or furloughs. That suggests that even as many companies recall workers from furloughs, they are reducing their permanent payrolls.

And in the retail indus-try, the number of shifts worked changed little last week after steady increases in previous weeks. David Gilbertson, a vice presi-dent at Kronos, said this indicates that consumer de-mand in many cases hasn’t picked up enough to justify more employees.

“Everything that’s going to be open is open,” Gilbertson said. “Now, we just need more people to come in and start spending money before things can pick up again.”

“We request that who-ever did this, a commu-nity member most likely, step forward and let it be known,” said the woman.

Coos Bay Deputy Chief Chris Chapanar told The World that he isn’t sure the tagging is connected to other cases seen through-out the city.

He added that the city is looking to update its graffiti ordinance, which requires the property owner to have the tagging removed.

“We’re in the process of revisiting that ordinance, which is like a lot of ordi-nances — outdated and in need of a revision of some sort,” he said.

The City of Coos Bay provided The World with a graffiti cleanup kit to help remove the graffiti.

“I’m certainly not an-

gry,” Kenfield said. “It’s a sign of the times, I suppose … It was graffiti intended to send a message, not cause damage.”

The second instance of graffiti, at Sunset Middle School in Coos Bay’s Empire District, “showed a painted peace sign and ref-erenced ‘All Lives Matter,’” according to the police department’s press release.

“Officers responded to the area and photographed the graffiti. At this time, no suspect(s) responsible for this act has been identi-fied.”

Anyone with infor-mation about the crimes has been asked to call the department at 541-269-8911 or Coos Stop Crime at 541-267-6666.

“This isn’t something we want to tolerate in our community,” Chapanar said. “We don’t want of-fensive language defacing people’s property.

“It isn’t a good thing for our community.”

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South Coast Hospice continues care; thrift store remains closedThe World

COOS BAY — For those won-dering, South Coast Hospice is still operating, providing services daily to community members who require end-of-life care with dignity.

In addition to hospice services, the nonprofit organization also oper-ates the South Coast Hospice Thrift Store which, according to CEO Lorell Durkee, many have inquired about and want to know when it will reopen.

“The first thing we want our com-munity neighbors to know, is thank you,” Durkee said in a press release. “Thank you for the countless calls to ask when we’re opening and that you have donations. We love to hear that and glad that we are missed, but unfortunately still cannot reopen.”

“Although the Governor has lifted the closure on small businesses we fear it will return and with the increased number of COVID-19 cases across the State of Oregon, we still do not believe that the threat of the virus is contained and that places both our staff and our customers at risk,” Durkee added. “We continue to say that our staff are very important to us and hope to have all of them return and we are staying in commu-nication with all of them.”

Durkee said South Coast Hospice is reevaluating every two weeks the

possibility of reopening its thrift store and hopes to be open soon. The thrift store was set to reopen until the COVID-19 cases started to climb to unsafe numbers, which caused South Coast Hospice to re-think the decision.

“We thank everyone for doing their part to decrease the growing COVID cases across the state,” Durkee said. “Keep an eye out for further information to follow.”

The Pay It Forward program will continue. Member nonprofits and agencies can contact South Coast Hospice at the office, 541-269-2986 or email [email protected] to submit re-quests for needed items. Organizations that have not signed up yet for the program can contact them for a simple form to fill out and submit.

Meanwhile, there will be two staff members in the thrift store to provide security, work on projects and fulfill the needs of the Pay It Forward organizations. Staff has used the time the store has been closed to make changes both inside and out and are looking forward to being able to open the doors once again.

“We ask that people take their do-nations elsewhere for the moment,” Durkee said. “When we do open we will not have the open space for all the donations we expect.”

As the Thrift Store provides 17% of South Coast Hospice’s revenue for patient care services, the organi-

zation is currently seeking financial donations to help them through the COVID-19 crisis. Contact Doreen Kelly at 541-297-3241 or [email protected] to help. South Coast Hospice is experiencing an increase in patient referrals and plans to continue to provide care and support to some of the area’s most vulnerable community members.

The South Coast Hospice care team staff will make home visits as necessary to limit exposure and will be available by phone 24/7. When visiting, team members will enter homes wearing eye protection, masks and gloves to prevent the spread of any virus to patients. Staff has been instructed to not report to work if they have symptoms of illness. South Coast Hospice is monitoring reports from the Oregon Health Authority, Coos Health and Wellness and the CDC for the latest information and following all state and federal guide-lines regarding COVID-19.

In addition, all bereavement and illness support groups, trainings, events and classes have been can-celed until it is safe to resume. Those in need of bereavement or grief support can call the office at 541-269-2986 and ask for Mia.

“Thank you for understanding and working with us to help our patients, their families and the community during this difficult time,” Durkee said.

Oregon reports four new COVID-19 deathsThe World

PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed four more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 224, the Oregon Health Authority reported today.

Oregon Health Authority reported 217 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Wednesday bringing the state total to 10,817.

The new cases are in the following counties: Baker (3), Clackamas (19), Clatsop (1), Columbia (1), Coos (2), Curry (1), Deschutes (3), Douglas (2), Harney (1), Hood River (1), Jackson (5), Jefferson (1), Josephine (2), Lane (10), Lincoln (3), Linn (8), Malheur (12), Marion (15), Morrow (10), Mult-nomah (30), Umatilla (43), Union (3), Wasco (1), Wash-

ington (31), Yamhill (9).Oregon’s 221st

COVID-19 death is an 85-year-old woman in Benton County who tested positive on May 31 and died on June 28, at her res-idence. She had underlying conditions.

Oregon’s 222nd COVID-19 death is a 55-year-old man in Mult-nomah County who tested positive on June 22 and died on June 28, at his res-idence. He had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 223rd COVID-19 death is a 91-year-old woman in Marion County who tested positive on June 18 and died on July 5, at her resi-dence. She had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 224th COVID-19 death is a

36-year-old man in Mult-nomah County who tested positive on June 3 and died on July 7, at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. He had un-derlying medical conditions.

Staying safe at playgrounds and parks

In counties approved to move to Phase 2 of re-opening, some local parks are starting to open their playgrounds. You can help keep the kids in your life safe by taking the follow-ing steps:

• Review the policies of your local park.

• Stay 6 feet from people who don’t live with you.

• Bring face coverings for your family to wear in case you need to share the playground.

• Bring your own food, water bottles and hand

sanitizer/wipes and take your trash with you when you leave.

• Wash your hands before and after visiting a playground.

For more information about reopening Oregon, visit coronavirus.oregon.gov.

Weekly Report releasedOn Wednesday, OHA

released its Weekly Report which showed that during the week of June 29 to July 5, 32,355 persons were tested for COVID-19 in Oregon with 5 percent recording a positive result.

COVID 19 continued to surge during that week with 1,910 new cases — an in-crease of 51 percent over the previous week. In addition, 11 Oregonians were reported to have died, one fewer than the previous week.

COQUILLE POLICE LOGJuly 7

5:45 a.m., assault report-ed, unknown address.

11:16 a.m., criminal trespassing/suspicious ve-hicle reported in the 1300 block of E. 15th St.

12:47 p.m., criminal trespassing reported at 505 N. Central, Coastal Coffee. Subject previously trespassed was just back out at location. Arrested Pius Hilsendager on charge of criminal trespass II.

Hilsendager was cited in lieu of custody.

1:08 p.m., criminal tres-passing at 611 N. Central Blvd., Fast Mart. Caller just observed subject trespass-ing at location. Arrested Pius Hilsendager on a charge of criminal trespass II, cited in lieu of custody.

4:06 p.m., traffic stop re-sulting in arrest on Highway 42 by Department of Motor Vehicles. Arrested passenger Jared Towns, 34, on a charge

of violation of a restraining order. Towns was transport-ed to the Coos County Jail.

8:52 p.m., criminal tres-passing reported in the 200 block of W. Highway 42.

9:01 p.m., theft report-ed in the 500 block of N. Collier St.

10:19 p.m., warrant service in the 800 block of N. Central Blvd. Arrested Skyler McNair, 38, on a Coquille Police Department warrant charging failure to

appear in the first degree on the original charges of criminal mischief I, theft I, unlawful entry into a motor vehicle and contempt of court/violation of a re-straining order. McNair was also arrested on Coos Bay Police Department war-rant charging two counts of forgery II, unlawful entry into a motor vehicle and criminal mischief II. McNair was cited in lieu of custody on all warrants.

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DEAR ABBY: My longtime friend “Bonnie” and I have been reconnecting during COVID, mostly via text and vid-eo chatting. She’s recently moved back to my area (she’s in the military), so we spent a weekend together helping her move in. It was exhausting and stressful, and her drinking concerned me. I know drinking is prevalent in the military, and as a relatively high-ranking officer, she’s under a lot of pressure all the time. I’m more aware of it because my sister is a recovering addict.

I’m a queer lady. Bonnie is gay, and over the last couple months I’ve been nursing a crush on her. She’s very supportive of my artwork, and over the years has been the one doing the work to keep our friendship alive despite our lives going in different directions.

I told her I had a crush on her during the stressful moving weekend and asked her to please not tell me about all the girls she texts. She responded that she does not return those feelings for me. But we talk on the phone for hours at night, and she calls me “Baby” sometimes. She also tells me I’m sexually magnetic. Our lives are intertwined enough that both our parents think we’re dating, and Bonnie frequently says things like, “My neighbor thinks we’re dating.”

How do I keep both our friendship and my sanity? -- CRUSHING IN PENN-SYLVANIA

DEAR CRUSHING: Regardless of what others might think, you and Bonnie are NOT dating, and she has told you plainly that she’s not physically attracted to you. She was honest with you, I’ll give her marks for that. Whether she’s being completely honest with herself, however, is anyone’s guess.

My advice is to stop allowing her to monopolize as much of your time as she has been. It isn’t good for you because it keeps you from looking for a companion who can reciprocate your feelings. If you continue as things are, you will only

subject yourself to more of the confusion you are feeling now.

DEAR ABBY: My wife of 46 years keeps telling me about her deprived childhood. Everybody else had a color TV; the one she grew up with was a black-and-white. Granny didn’t have a dryer; she had to use a clothesline. They didn’t have a car, and when they finally got one, it was a used car. Finally, they had a new car, but it was stolen two weeks later.

All the other girls had ballet lessons; all the other girls were in Brownies. When Granny finally signed her up, it was too late. My wife had to get a used Brownie uniform that didn’t fit, and they put her in a troop with Girl Scouts much older. She always wanted a swing-set, but never got one.

Is there counseling and group therapy for this self-pity condition? I’m laughing to myself and my tears are getting into my beer. -- HAD IT ROUGH, TOO

DEAR HAD IT: I would like to think your wife has it a lot better now, but to be married to someone as insensitive as you appear to be can hardly be an upper. Go pour yourself another pilsner before your tears dilute this one and bring you down further, Laughing Boy..

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New feelings for longtime friend are not reciprocated

Lottery dropoff kills funding for projectsCoos Bay channel deepening among impacted projects

BEND (AP) — A steep drop in lottery funds due to the COVID-19 crisis has killed the sale of $273 million in state bonds to pay for major projects in Oregon, the Bulletin newspaper of Bend reported Wednesday.

The 37 projects authorized by the Legislature at the end of the 2019 session include water sys-tem overhauls in Warm Springs and Salem, rehabilitating the Wallowa Lake Dam, a Deschutes Basin piping project, two af-fordable housing projects, a new YMCA for Eugene and deepening the Coos Bay channel.

“There’s not enough money — there is no repair,” said Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, a chair on the budget-writing Joint Ways and Means Committee.

In order to sell bonds, the state has to show a 4-to-1 ratio between forecast Lottery Fund revenue and the amount of debt in the bonds. That has not been a problem in previous budget cycles since the lottery was estab-lished in 1984.

Lottery sales sharply declined during the coronavirus crisis that arrived in Oregon at the end of February. The subsequent closing of businesses and the stay-home emergency order for residents kept customers away from venues that sell the state-sponsored games of chance. The Lottery said earlier this month that sales

for April were off by 90% com-pared to the year before.

The loss has left the state with a Lottery Fund bonding ratio of just over 3-to-1. That is too low.

“The State Debt Policy Advisory Commission has notified legislative leadership and the Governor there are no longer sufficient funds to issue lottery-backed bonds approved during the 2019 session,” said Nikki Fisher, a spokeswoman for Gov. Kate Brown.

Fisher said Brown and legisla-tive leaders are discussing “next steps” on the projects.

But legislative budget-writers said the nature of the bond sales is “all-or-nothing.” Unlike other discretionary spending that can be reduced to account for lower revenues, the lottery bonds are

authorized to be sold as a pack-age.

“It’s all or none,” said Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, a member of the Joint Ways and Means Com-mittee. “If we don’t sell one, we don’t sell any. The lottery revenue has just cratered. We already have debt service on projects funded in earlier cycles.”

The bonds were scheduled to be issued in spring 2021, with debt service on the sale beginning in the 2021-23 two-year budget cycle, known as the biennium.

Some of the major projects affected include:

• Affordable housing preserva-tion: $25 million

• Salem drinking water im-provements: $20 million

• Eugene YMCA: $15 million• Affordable Market Rate

Housing Acquisition Program: $15 million

• Levee Grant Program: $15 million

• Port of Coos Bay channel deepening project: $15 million

• Water supply development: $15 million

• Wallowa Lake Dam rehabili-tation: $14 million

• Southern Oregon Workforce Center, Roseburg: $10 million.

• Deschutes Basin Board of Control piping project: $10 million

• Warm Springs water improve-ments: $7.8 million

• Blue Mountain Community College Facility for Agricultural Resource Management: $6.5 million

• Oregon Coast Aquarium: $5 million

United warns 36,000 workers could be laid offAssociAted Press

United Airlines is warn-ing 36,000 employees — nearly half its U.S. staff — they could be furloughed in October, the clearest signal yet of how deeply the virus pandemic is hurt-ing the airline industry.

The outlook for a recovery in the airline industry has dimmed in just the past two weeks, as infection rates rise in much of the U.S. and some states impose new quarantine requirements on travelers.

Airlines say they must shrink to match falling travel demand. Ameri-can Airlines executives have said they could have 20,000 more employees than the airline will need this fall.

United told employ-ees Wednesday that not everyone who gets a layoff notice will be furloughed. The company said job

losses could be reduced if enough employees accept buyouts or early retirement by a deadline next week.

The buyouts come at a price too, however. United said it would take a $300 million charge in the second quarter to cover voluntary departures so far. The company said it was unable to estimate the cost of workforce reductions for the rest of the year.

If every U.S. airline matched United’s worst-case scenario of furloughs, it could be extrapolated to about 240,000 lost jobs nationwide, given Unit-ed’s share of the domestic market.

Helane Becker, an ana-lyst for Cowen, predicted Wednesday that U.S. airlines will end 2020 with 150,000 to 200,000 fewer employees than they had at the end of 2019 — much bigger losses than she expected back in April.

The notices that United sent out are meant to com-ply with a law requiring employers warn workers at least 60 days before mass job cuts.

The furloughs could include up to 15,000 flight attendants, 11,000 custom-er service and gate agents, 5,500 maintenance workers and 2,250 pilots.

“The United Airlines projected furlough num-bers are a gut punch, but they are also the most honest assessment we’ve seen on the state of the in-dustry,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Associa-tion of Flight Attendants. “This crisis dwarfs all oth-ers in aviation history, and there’s no end in sight.”

United executives said any furloughs will take effect on or shortly after Oct. 1. United can’t lay off workers any sooner — that’s a condition of the $5 billion it got as its share of

$25 billion in federal aid to help airlines cover payroll costs for six months.

The flight attendants’ union and other airline labor groups are lobby-ing Congress for another $25 billion to protect jobs through next March. But a senior United execu-tive expressed doubt that Congress would approve the spending in an election year.

United has already cut capital spending by $2.5 billion and convinced thousands of employees to take unpaid leave. It has hoarded cash after raising billions in new borrowing — including mortgaging its MileagePlus fre-quent-flyer program.

But with ticket sales sagging again, the Chi-cago-based airline is still losing about $40 million a day, executives said.

Layoffs are “the last option left to protect the long-term interests of the company,” said the senior United official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.

Executives said the notices covered 45% of the airline’s U.S. staff, most of whom are represented by unions. They would

have reinstatement rights if United’s fortunes improve. Another 1,300 manage-ment and support staff will be laid off Oct. 1, the company said. Including international employees, United has a work force of about 95,000.

Air travel in the U.S. plunged about 95% from March 1 until mid-April, then began a slow recov-ery. The number of U.S. air travelers around the July 4 weekend was the highest since mid-March, but was still down about 70% from a year ago.

In recent weeks, the number of new reported cases of COVID-19 has roughly doubled to about 50,000 a day, with cases rising in Texas, Florida and California. Last month, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Chicago announced requirements that people arriving from states with high infection rates go into quarantine for 14 days, throwing up a new roadblock to travel.

United’s bookings for flights at its hub in Newark, New Jersey, have slumped badly since the region’s governors announced the quarantine requirements, falling 84%

from a year earlier. That compares with a 73% decline in bookings for United’s other destinations.

Executives of other airlines have predicted their companies will be much smaller in October, and that air travel might not return to pre-pandemic levels for several years.

Delta Air Lines recently told employees that it will send layoff notices to more than 2,500 of its 14,000 pi-lots, but it has not publicly discussed the outlook for other workers. American has not said whether it has issued layoff notices, but executives have encour-aged workers to take buy-outs. Southwest Airlines said Wednesday it has not issued layoff warnings.

Germany’s Lufthansa has warned that it might cut 22,000 jobs, Air France last week announced plans to eliminate 7,500 jobs, and Latin America’s two largest carriers have filed for bankruptcy protection.

The International Air Transport Association estimates that global carri-ers could lose $84 billion this year. The airline trade group is lobbying gov-ernments to provide more financial help for carriers.

Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcyNEW YORK (AP) — Brooks Brothers,

the 200-year-old company that dressed nearly every U.S. president, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, the latest major clothing seller to be toppled by the coronavirus pandemic.

Founded in New York in 1818, Brooks Brothers survived two world wars, the Great Depression and even managed to stay afloat as dress standards eased in the office. But the pandemic pushed it into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with so many stores closed and, with millions working from home, a crisp suit pushed to the very bottom of shopping lists.

Brooks Brothers will permanently close more than a quarter of its 200 stores.

The retail sector was under severe pressure even before the pandemic. Rival Barneys New York filed for bankruptcy protection late last year. Since COVID-19 began to spread in the U.S, J.Crew,Nei-man Marcus,J.C. Penney and other nation-al retail chains have followed suit.

The virus has hollowed out spending in many places and the accelerated the shift to online shopping, mostly to the benefit of big retailers like Walmart, Target and Amazon.com. Stores have begun to open in some parts of the country, but millions of people are still hunkered down at home. There are regions in the U.S. that are now

getting hit with a wave of infections and some companies like Apple are shutting down stores again in those areas.

Brooks Brothers said Wednesday that it will continue operations as it restruc-tures and is looking to reopen shops that are not being closed permanently. The company employed 4,000 people in March, before it furloughed about a third of its workers.

Jonathan Pasternak, a bankruptcy lawyer at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, said that even before the pandemic, Brooks Brothers’ store expansion and the cost of making clothes in the U.S. had created a financial burden, but he does not believe the company will disappear.

“The good thing about Brooks Broth-ers: It’s a very strong brand,” he said.

The company has a storied history, dressing at least 40 American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, who was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat when he was assassinated in 1865. Brooks Broth-ers’ two-button suits were a favorite of President John F. Kennedy.

But its cultural influence has been broad.

Clark Gable wore Brooks Brothers and Jennifer Aniston appeared on the cover of GQ magazine wearing nothing but a red, white and blue Brooks Brothers tie.

Health official: Trump rally likely led to virus surge in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of participants and large protests “likely con-tributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday.

Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday. By comparison, during the week before the June 20 Trump rally, there were 76 cases on Monday and 96 on Tuesday.

Although the health de-partment’s policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gath-erings “more than likely” contributed to the spike.

“In the past few days,

we’ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,” Dart said.

Trump’s Tulsa rally, his first since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., at-tracted thousands of people from around the country. About 6,200 people gath-ered inside the 19,000-seat BOK Center arena — far fewer than was expected.

Dart had urged the cam-paign to consider pushing back the date of the rally, fearing a potential surge in the number of cases.

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the campaign went to great lengths to ensure that those who attended the rally were protected.

“There were literally no health precautions to speak of as thousands looted, rioted, and protested in

the streets and the media reported that it did not lead to a rise in coronavirus cases,” Murtaugh said in a statement. “Meanwhile, the President’s rally was 18 days ago, all attendees had their temperature checked, every-one was provided a mask, and there was plenty of hand sanitizer available for all.

“It’s obvious that the media’s concern about large gatherings begins and ends with Trump rallies,” he said.

Although masks were provided to rally goers, there was no requirement that participants wear them, and most didn’t.

A reporter who attended the Trump rally is among those who have tested positive for COVID-19, along with six of Trump’s campaign staffers and two members of the Secret Service who worked in advance of the rally.

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Supreme Court: Some businesses can refuse to offer free birth controlWASHINGTON (AP)

— The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women with-out free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination.

In both cases the court ruled 7-2, with two liberal justices joining conser-vatives in favor of the Trump administration and religious employers.

In the more prominent of the two cases, involving President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the justices greenlighted changes the Trump admin-istration had sought. The administration announced in 2017 that it would allow more employers to opt out of providing the no-cost birth control coverage required under the law, but lower courts had blocked

the changes.The ruling is a signifi-

cant election-year win for President Donald Trump, who counts on heavy sup-port from evangelicals and other Christian groups for votes and policy backing. It was also good news for the administration, which in recent weeks has seen headline-making Supreme Court decisions go against its positions.

In one of those earlier cases, the court rejected Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants. In another, the justices said a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employ-ment.

Another particularly im-portant decision for Trump is ahead. The justices are expected to announce Thursday whether Con-gress and the Manhattan

district attorney can see the president’s taxes and other financial records he has fought to keep private.

In its second big ruling on Wednesday, the court sided with two Catholic schools in California in a decision underscoring that certain employees of religious schools can’t sue for employment discrimi-nation.

Lay teachers whose contracts had not been renewed had sued their schools. But Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion: “When a school with a religious mission entrusts a teacher with the responsibility of educating and forming stu-dents in the faith, judicial intervention into disputes between the school and the teacher threatens the school’s independence in a way that the First Amend-ment does not allow.”

The court’s birth-con-

trol decision was cheered by conservative groups, and White House spokes-woman Kayleigh McE-nany joined in. “Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a big win for religious freedom and freedom of conscience,” she said in a statement.

Liberal groups and Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, decried the deci-sion, which she called a “fundamental misreading” of the health care law. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said the decision will make it “easier for the Trump-Pence Adminis-tration to continue to strip health care from women.”

The Trump administra-tion is still seeking to over-turn Obama’s Affordable Care Act in its entirety. It has joined Texas and other Republican-led states in calling on the justices to

do just that. The case is scheduled to be argued in the court term that begins in October.

Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority of the court, said in Wednesday’s decision that the administration has the authority to make its birth-control coverage changes and followed appropriate procedures in doing so.

The government has estimated that the rule changes would cause be-tween 70,000 women and 126,000 women to lose contraception coverage in one year.

Justice Ruth Bader Gins-burg cited those numbers in dissenting.

“Today, for the first time, the Court casts totally aside countervailing rights and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights to the nth degree,” she wrote in a dissent joined by Jus-

tice Sonia Sotomayor.Birth control coverage

has been a topic of conten-tion since the health care law was passed.

“The ACA’s contracep-tive mandate ... has existed for approximately nine years. Litigation surround-ing that requirement has lasted nearly as long,” Thomas wrote.

Initially, churches, syna-gogues and mosques were exempt from the contra-ceptive coverage require-ment. The Obama admin-istration also created a way by which religiously affili-ated organizations includ-ing hospitals, universities and charities could opt out of paying for contracep-tion, but women on their health plans would still get no-cost birth control. Some groups complained the opt-out process itself violated their religious beliefs, and years of legal wrangling followed.

Biden proposes ‘Buy American’ campaignAssociAted Press

Launching an economic pitch expected to anchor his fall pres-idential campaign, Democratic candidate Joe Biden is proposing sweeping new uses of the federal government’s regulatory and spending power to bolster U.S. manufacturing and technology firms.

Biden calls for a $400 billion, four-year increase in government purchasing of U.S.-based goods and services plus $300 billion in new research and development in U.S. technology concerns. Among other policies expected to be announced Thursday, he proposes tightening current “Buy American” laws that are intended to benefit U.S. firms but can be easily circumvented by govern-ment agencies.

An outline released by Biden’s campaign also touts his long-standing promises to strengthen workers’ collective bargaining rights and repeal Republican-backed tax breaks for U.S. corporations that move

jobs overseas.“This will be the largest mobi-

lization of public investments in procurement, infrastructure and (research and development) since World War II,” senior adviser Jake Sullivan told The Associ-ated Press, with the campaign promising additionally that Biden would require that effort in domestic markets before negoti-ating any new international trade deals.

The former vice president will discuss the proposals Thursday at a metal works concern in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. It’s the first of a series of addresses Biden plans as he shifts his line of attack against President Don-ald Trump to the economy. It’s political turf the Republican in-cumbent once considered a clear advantage before the coronavirus pandemic curbed consumer ac-tivity and drove unemployment to near-Depression levels.

An opening emphasis on manufacturing and labor policy is no coincidence: Biden wants to capitalize on his union ties

and deliver on oft-made claims he can win back working-class voters who fueled Trump’s upset win four years ago.

Biden will continue in coming weeks with an energy plan to combat the climate crisis and a third package on what the campaign has dubbed the “caring economy,” with a focus on making child care and elder care more affordable and less of an impediment to working-age Americans. Campaign aides told reporters that all of Biden’s policies would target immediate recovery from the pandemic recession and address systemic inequalities Biden says are “laid bare” by the nation’s ongoing reckoning with racism.

“What’s going on here, we need to build back, not just to where we were but build back better than we’ve ever been,” Biden told the Internation-al Brotherhood of Electrical Workers on Wednesday. “We’re going to take a monumental step forward for the prosperity, power, safety and dignity of all

American workers.”The Democrat’s agenda carries

at least some rhetorical echoes of Trump’s “America First” philosophy, but the former vice president’s aides describe his approach as more coherent. They cast Trump’s imposition of tariffs and uneven trade negotiations with other nations as a slap-dash isolationism compromised further by tax policies that enrich multinational corporations. The Biden campaign also pointed to an uptick in foreign procurement and continued outsourcing of jobs by U.S.-based corporations during Trump’s presidency.

Republicans nonetheless have made clear they will attack Biden on trade and the economy, fram-ing the Democratic establishment figure as a tool of the far left on taxes and a willing participant in decades of trade policy that gutted American workers. Trump also has lampooned Biden as “weak on China.”

On trade, at least, it’s a similar line of attack Biden withstood from the Democratic primary

runner-up, Sen. Bernie Sand-ers, and one that Trump used effectively against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Biden voted for the North American Free Trade Agree-ment in the Senate in 1994, an anchor of Trump’s criticism and Sanders’ attacks before that. One of Trump’s signature achieve-ments is an overhaul of NAFTA, which he accomplished with backing from many Democrats on Capitol Hill. Since the 1990s, including during two presidential campaigns, Biden has advocated tighter controls in future trade deals, and he’s promised to have organized labor and the environ-mental movement at the table.

The campaign’s outline ahead of Thursday emphasizes that Biden wants a resurgence in U.S. markets before engaging in new trade deals abroad. That includes joining the Trans-Pacific Partner-ship that Biden advocated when he served as President Barack Obama’s vice president. Trump opposed TPP as a 2016 candi-date. China is not a TPP member.

Floyd told police he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times in the moments before he died, the officer who pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck dis-missed his pleas, saying “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk,” accord-ing to transcripts of body camera video recordings made public Wednesday.

The transcripts for the body camera videos of officers Thomas Lane and J. Kueng provide the most detailed account yet of what happened as police were taking Floyd into custody on May 25, and reveal more of what was said after Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed, was put on the ground.

“You’re going to kill me, man,” Floyd said, according to a transcript of Lane’s body camera video.

“Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk,” said Derek Chau-vin, the white officer who held his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes, even after Floyd stopped moving.

“They’ll kill me. They’ll kill me. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,” Floyd said.

Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, had no immediate comment Wednesday.

The transcripts were made public Wednesday as part of Lane’s request to have the case against him dismissed. Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, said in a memorandum that there isn’t proba-ble cause to charge his client, based on all of the

evidence and the law.Gray painted an image

of a rookie officer who trusted Chauvin, a senior officer, after Floyd had been acting erratically, struggling and hurting himself during an arrest. Gray said that once Floyd was on the ground, Lane had asked twice if officers should roll Floyd on his side, and Chauvin said no.

Gray also submitted the body camera footage itself, but that was not immediately made public. The transcripts show Floyd appearing coopera-tive at times but becom-ing agitated as he begged not to be put in a squad car, saying repeatedly he was claustrophobic.

“Oh man, God don’t leave me man, please man, please man,” he begged, later adding: “I’ll do anything y’ll tell me to, man. ... I’m just claus-trophobic, that’s it.”

Gray wrote that Floyd started to thrash back and forth and was “hitting his face on the glass in the squad car and began to bleed from his mouth.” Officers brought Floyd to the ground and, “the plan was to restrain him so he couldn’t move and hurt himself anymore,” Gray wrote.

Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. Lane, Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter. Lane was holding Floyd’s legs at the time, Kueng was at Floyd’s midsection and Thao was watching near-by bystanders. All four officers were fired.

Court rules on Trump tax returnsWASHINGTON (AP)

— The Supreme Court issued a mixed verdict Thursday on demands for President Donald Trump’s financial records that will keep his tax returns, bank-ing and other documents out of the public eye for the time being.

The court rejected broad arguments by Trump’s lawyers and the Justice De-partment that the president is immune from inves-tigation while he holds office or that a prosecutor must show a greater need than normal to obtain the records.

By 7-2 votes, the jus-tices upheld the Manhattan district attorney’s demand for Trump’s tax returns, but kept a hold on Trump’s financial records that Con-gress has been seeking for more than a year.

Trump, the only pres-ident in modern times who has refused to make his tax returns public, didn’t immediately regard the outcome as a victory even though it is likely to prevent Trump’s opponents in Congress from obtaining potentially embarrassing personal and business records ahead of Election Day.

The documents have the potential to reveal details on everything from possible misdeeds to the true nature of the presi-dent’s vaunted wealth – not to mention uncomfortable disclosures about how he’s spent his money and how much he’s given to charity.

“This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a political-ly corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration!” Trump lashed out on Twitter.

The rejection of Trump’s claims of presidential immunity marked the latest instance where Trump’s broad assertion of ex-ecutive power has been rejected.

Trump’s two high court appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kava-naugh, joined the majority in both cases along with Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberal jus-tices. Roberts wrote both opinions.

“Congressional subpoe-nas for information from the President, however, implicate special concerns regarding the separation of powers. The courts below did not take adequate ac-count of those concerns,” Roberts wrote in the con-gressional case.

The ruling returns the case to lower courts, with no clear prospect for when it might ultimately be resolved.

The tax returns case also is headed back to a lower court, but Trump’s major arguments have now been rejected. Because the grand jury process is confidential, Trump’s taxes normally would not be made public.

Justice Samuel Alito, who dissented with Justice Clarence Thomas in both cases, warned that future presidents would suffer be-cause of the decision about Trump’s taxes.

“This case is almost certain to be portrayed as a case about the current President and the current political situation, but the case has a much deeper significance,” Alito wrote. “While the decision will of course have a direct effect on President Trump, what the Court holds today will also affect all future Pres-idents—which is to say, it will affect the Presidency,

and that is a matter of great and lasting importance to the Nation.”

Manhattan District At-torney Cyrus Vance Jr. said his investigation, on hold while the court fight played out, will now resume.

“This is a tremendous victory for our nation’s system of justice and its founding principle that no one — not even a presi-dent — is above the law. Our investigation, which was delayed for almost a year by this lawsuit, will resume, guided as always by the grand jury’s solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts, wherev-er they may lead,” Vance said.

The case was argued by telephone in May because of the coronavirus pan-demic.

The fight over the congressional subpoenas has significant implications regarding a president’s power to refuse a formal request from Congress. In a separate fight at the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., over a congressional demand for the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn, the adminis-tration is making broad arguments that the presi-dent’s close advisers are “absolutely immune” from having to appear.

In two earlier cases over presidential power, the Supreme Court acted unanimously in requiring President Richard Nixon to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor and in allowing a sexual ha-rassment lawsuit against Clinton to go forward.

In those cases, three Nixon appointees and two Clinton appointees, respectively, voted against

the president who chose them for the high court. A fourth Nixon appointee, William Rehnquist, sat out the tapes case because he had worked closely as a Justice Department official with some of the Water-gate conspirators whose upcoming trial spurred the subpoena for the Oval Office recordings.

The subpoenas are not directed at Trump himself. Instead, House committees want records from Deut-sche Bank, Capital One and the Mazars USA ac-counting firm. Mazars also is the recipient of Manhat-tan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s subpoena.

Appellate courts in Washington, D.C., and New York brushed aside the president’s arguments in decisions that focused on the fact that the subpoe-nas were addressed to third parties asking for records of Trump’s business and financial dealings as a private citizen, not as president.

Two congressional committees subpoenaed the bank documents as part of their investiga-tions into Trump and his businesses. Deutsche Bank has been one of the few banks willing to lend to Trump after a series of corporate bankruptcies and defaults starting in the early 1990s.

Vance and the House Oversight and Reform Committee sought records from Mazars concerning Trump and his businesses based on payments that Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, arranged to keep two women from airing their claims of decade-old extramarital affairs with Trump during the 2016 presidential race.

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NASCAR moves Watkins Glen race to DaytonaCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) —

NASCAR will move its August road course race from Watkins Glen in upstate New York be-cause of state health restrictions, and the event will shift instead to the road course at Daytona International Speedway.

The move means the Cup Series will make its debut on Daytona’s road course, which is used by the IMSA sports car se-ries and incorporates part of the famed 2.5-mile oval. The race on Aug. 16 was necessary to move from Watkins Glen because NA-SCAR cannot meet New York’s quarantine requirements for out-of-state visitors.

“This is an unprecedented

time in the history of our nation and Watkins Glen International,” racetrack President Michael Prin-tup said. “The dynamic situation we are all confronting is impact-ing our daily lives and activities in unimaginable ways.”

NASCAR will return to Day-tona two weeks later as sched-uled for the regular season finale on the oval. The Aug. 29 event is unchanged from the original 2020 schedule that has been patched back together following a 10-week shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.

NASCAR said Wednesday it will determine if fans are allowed at Cup races on a market-by-mar-ket basis, in accordance with

local and state guidelines.NASCAR is expected to run

its Nov. 8 season finale as sched-uled, barring changes to health protocols during the 10-week playoff series.

The revisions announced Wednesday cover six Cup races at three tracks. Michigan Inter-national Speedway will host a doubleheader before NASCAR’s debut on the Daytona road course. After that race, Dover International Speedway will host a doubleheader, and the playoff field will be finalized the next week at Daytona.

NASCAR was not scheduled to compete on the road course at Daytona until next February

in the exhibition Busch Clash to kick off the season. But many of the ideas for next year’s schedule have been forced into the present as NASCAR attempts to com-plete its 38-race schedule.

The All-Star race next Wednes-day night at Bristol Motor Speed-way will be the fourth midweek race since NASCAR resumed on May 17 and just the second time in event history the race won’t be held at Charlotte Motor Speed-way. Track officials shifted the race to Tennessee, where up to 30,000 fans will be able to attend, because North Carolina is not allowing large gatherings.

Pocono already hosted Cup races on consecutive days, so

Michigan and Dover make for three doubleheader weekends this season. The Cup Series also had its first doubleheader with IndyCar last weekend at India-napolis Motor Speedway.

NASCAR has adopted one-day shows without practice or qualifying, and the starting lineups have been set by random draws or inversions based on the last race’s finishing order. Many of the elements NASCAR was forced into trying in 2020 could be seen on next year’s schedule.

NASCAR will race Sunday at Kentucky Speedway. It will be the 13th Cup race since NASCAR resumed racing eight weeks ago.

Stanford elimintes 11 varsity sportsAssociAted Press

Stanford was already facing some difficult financial choices as it tried to support one of the nation’s largest athletics departments.

The coronavirus pandemic forced a dramatic and painful decision: Faced with a nearly $25 million deficit next year, Stanford became the first known Power Five school to eliminate athletic programs because of the pandemic, announcing Wednesday that 11 of its 36 varsity sports will be shuttered next year.

The school will discontinue men’s and wom-en’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling after the 2020-21 academic year. Stan-ford also is eliminating 20 support staff positions.

“As you can imagine this has been a heart-breaking day for all of us, especially with those student-athletes and coaches involved,” athletic director Bernard Muir said. “We came to this decision only after exhausting all other viable alternatives. It recently became painfully clear we would not remain financially stable and sup-port 36 varsity sports at a nationally competitive level, which is what we desire.”

The pandemic shut down sports in March, including the massive revenue-generating NCAA basketball tournaments. With no March Madness, the NCAA was short $375 million scheduled to be distributed to its member schools, which are already facing questions about enrollment levels and tuition shortfalls.

Fall sports like football are still in question for some schools; the Ivy League, hours after Stanford’s announcement, called off all fall sports. But some tough choices have already been made.

At least 171 sports programs from four-year schools have been cut since the pandemic began in the United States, according to research by The Associated Press. Of those disbanded teams, 51 are from 18 Division I schools. One conference in Division II and one in Division III suspended fall sports competitions and at least 18 small colleges across Division III and the NAIA won’t compete this fall.

Stanford’s decision to drop sports is likely the first of many by Power Five schools across the country.

“If it can happen at Stanford, it can happen any place,” Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. “They’re the broadest, most successful program in the history of college athletics and so to see them drop a third of their program is a shocking thing.”

Stanford originally projected a deficit of $12 million for the 2021 fiscal year, a number that more than doubled as it faced fewer donations, sponsorships and ticket sales. Muir said the $25 million deficit for 2021 would likely double if the football season is canceled.

The school projected a shortfall of nearly $70 million over the next three years due to the pandemic and estimated it would cost more than $200 million to sustain the 11 sports that will be cut.

“We’ve been punching above our weight for quite some time,” Muir said. “It just became more acute .and became such a large issue we had to take this measure.”

Stanford has one of the nation’s largest ath-letics departments, offering double the national average of 18 varsity sports.

Earlier this year, football coach David Shaw, basketball coach Jerod Haase and members of the athletics executive team took voluntary pay cuts to help defray some of the financial hit caused by the pandemic. Stanford also saved close to $5 million with expense-cutting mea-sures and asked some of its programs to limit long-distance travel in an attempt to shore up the budget shortfall.

“We had a structural deficit coming in, so I don’t want to pin this all on COVID. That’s not the case,” Muir said. “When we realized coming off COVID, we knew we were going to take a financial hit. To blame this all on COVID would not be accurate, but it certainly contribut-ed to the growing deficit.”

The contracts of 24 coaches in the 11 sports will be honored, as will the scholarships for the more than 240 athletes affected. All support staff who have been let go will get severance pay.

Ivy League postpones fall sportsAssociAted Press

The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I con-ference to suspend all fall sports, including football, leaving open the possibility of moving some seasons to the spring if the coronavirus pandemic is better controlled by then.

“We simply do not believe we can create and maintain an environment for intercollegiate athletic competition that meets our requirements for safety and acceptable levels of risk,” the Ivy League Council of Presidents said in a statement.

“We are entrusted to create and maintain an educational environment that is guided by health and safety considerations. There can be no greater responsi-bility — and that is the basis for this difficult decision.”

Though the coalition of eight academically elite schools does not grant athletic scholarships or compete for an NCAA football championship, the move could have ripple effects throughout the big business of college sports.

It was the Ivy League’s March 10 decision to scuttle its postsea-son basketball tournament that pre-ceded a cascade of cancellations. All major college and professional sports were halted within days.

Football players in the Power Five conferences have already begun workouts for a season that starts on Aug. 29, even as their schools weigh whether to open their campuses to students or continue classes remotely. More than a dozen prominent programs from Clemson to LSU to Okla-homa have reported positive tests among their athletes in the few weeks since voluntary workouts began. Some have temporarily shut down the workouts, incluid-ng Ohio State and North Caroli-na on Wednesday alone.

Dr. Chris Kratochvil, the chair of the Big Ten’s infectious disease task force, said there is no “hard deadline” for a decision on sports.

“Of course, we watch every-thing that’s going on,” said Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, whose league has schools in five states from West Virginia to Iowa and Texas. “But we’re going to go forward and do our own eval-uation, and so far our scientists and medical people are telling us that we should stay the course, and learn as we go and move slowly and evaluate as we go.”

The Ivy League announcement affects not just football but soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country, as well as the fall portion of winter sports like basketball. Wednesday’s decision means Har-vard and Yale will not play football in 2020, interrupting a rivalry known as The Game for the first time since the two World Wars.

“This news is disappointing for all of us,” Harvard athletic direc-tor Erin McDermott said. “While the Fall 2020 experience will be unlike any other, I am confident

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Storied track meet will be held at 7 sitesGENEVA (AP) — In a track

and field season almost entirely wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, athletes and orga-nizers are setting new marks in creativity.

On Thursday, the storied Weltklasse meet will broadcast near-live from Zurich in an am-bitious mix of social distancing and technological innovation.

Only a few of the 30 athletes that will share the $200,000 prize fund on an eight-event program will actually be in the city’s Letzigrund Stadium. Others will start and compete simulta-neously, three athletes or teams per event, in one of six empty stadiums scattered across Europe and the United States.

Olympic sprint champion Ally-son Felix will race in California, while world 200-meter champion Noah Lyles and Olympic triple jump gold medalist Christian Taylor will be in Florida.

The highest pressure race at the “Inspiration Games” is per-haps for the staff at Switzerland’s public broadcaster and timing officials.

Technicians in Zurich will receive images transmitted on a slight delay from the U.S., France, the Netherlands, Por-tugal and Sweden that must be synchronized within two minutes

for broadcast during the 90-min-ute show.

“This is something that has never been done before,” Swiss Timing executive Alain Zobrist said.

Zobrist’s team will monitor false starts — from “pressure curves” on the starting blocks relayed to Zurich — and photo finishes.

“I was totally on board with the concept,” said Felix, who will line up in the 150 meters against Olympic 400-meter champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo in Flori-da and Mujinga Kambundji in Zurich. “Thought it was super creative just adapting to what’s going on in the world right now.”

Taylor was equally enthusi-astic during a news conference held online from the athletes’ homes and training bases.

“If this is what the new normal is for this period then let’s attack it full on,” the reigning Olympic and world champion said.

Simply running on an actual track surface — Felix in Califor-nia, Taylor in Florida — will be different with training facilities closed during the pandemic.

“In California, pretty much ev-erything is locked down,” Felix said. “You can’t get on a track without jumping a fence.”

Olympic pole vault champion Kat Stefanidi is now back in the

United States after an unsched-uled long stay in her native Greece. She had returned for an Olympic torch event in March.

“After six canceled flights, six failed attempts, we were able to get back to the U.S.” Stefanidi said, describing eight weeks of uncertainty as “super stressed.”

Stefanidi, like Felix, will com-pete in California against Sandi Morris in Florida and Angelica Bengtsson in Sweden.

The men’s sprinters will most-ly congregate in Florida, with Lyles lining up there in the 200 against Christophe Lemaitre in Zurich and Churandy Martina in the Netherlands.

Bradenton also hosts the only event with all three athletes at the same site: a 100-yard dash that includes 2019 world champion-ship medalist Andre De Grasse.

The winner of each event gets $10,000, second place is worth $6,000, and third gets $4,000.

Four months in the planning, the most complete track meet of the outdoor season is not expected to be a template for the near future.

“I don’t think the model or the format we are executing now ... will be a serious format,” Weltklasse director Andreas He-diger said, adding it is the “only possibility we have now to bring the best athletes together.”

MLS event starts after poignant moment

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Nani called it beautiful and emotional.

He wasn’t talking about either goal he played a part in during Orlando City’s 2-1 victory over Inter Miami on Wednesday night.

Nearly 200 players took the field for an 8-minute, 46-second moment of silence to protest racial injustice before Major League Soccer’s return to action. Players wore black T-shirts, black gloves and black face-masks emblazoned with Black Lives Matter. The shirts had varying slogans that included Black And Proud, Silence Is Vio-lence and Black All The Time.

The players walked toward midfield, raised their right arms one at a time and held the pose so long that some could be seen stretching fatigued muscles afterward.

It was a poignant moment that put two of the nation’s most prominent changes over the last four months — masks and move-ments — at the forefront of the sport’s return.

“I felt for a couple of min-utes,” Nani said shortly after scoring the go-ahead goal in the seventh minute of stoppage time. “We all want to change the world. We want a better world — no differences, no discrimination. ... Everyone in the world should stop for a couple of minutes and think about our children and teach them how to be a better person and create a better world.”

The group setting the tone was formerly called the Black Players Coalition of MLS but changed its name this week to Black Players for Change. Originally announced on Juneteenth, the group started in the wake of George Floyd’s death with the hope of combating systemic racism both in soccer and the players’ communities. The league and the players’ union endorsed the organization.

Several other players from Orlando City and Inter Miami took a knee near midfield during the demonstration.

The two in-state teams deliv-ered their own moment of silence by taking a knee along with the referee and the line judges just before the opening kick.

The national anthem was not played before or after the demon-stration. MLS previously said it would not be played because no fans were in attendance.

Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes. Prosecutors said that a police officer had his knee on the neck of Floyd for 7 minutes, 46 seconds — not the 8:46 that has become a symbol of police brutality.

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Golf’s Ryder Cup is postponed until 2021DOUG FERGUSONAssociated Press

Seth Waugh knows how a Ryder Cup is supposed to look and how it should sound.

In his first week as CEO at the PGA of America, Waugh was in the 72-foot high grand-stand behind the first tee at Le Golf National outside Paris. Flags were waving. Fans were singing. Players were trying to conceal their nerves. That’s what he expects for the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

Next year.The inevitable became reality

Wednesday when Ryder Cup officials postponed the Septem-ber matches until next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic that made it increasingly unlikely the loudest event in golf could have spectators.

“A Ryder Cup with no fans is not a Ryder Cup,” Waugh said.

The Ryder Cup was scheduled for Sept. 25-27 at Whistling Straits along the Lake Michigan shore. Because of a reconfigured schedule created by golf being shut down for three months, the matches would have been held one week after the U.S. Open.

Now, the Ryder Cup will move to Sept. 24-26, 2021, the second

time in the last two decades it was postponed. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks led the 2001 matches to be postponed two weeks before they were set to be played.

Waugh, the former CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas, called it “the most complicated deal of my career” because of so many moving parts.

The decision mean Europe’s next home Ryder Cup set for Italy has been pushed back until 2023. The European Tour thrives on Ryder Cup revenue.

And it affects the PGA Tour, which already has lost millions this year while trying to keep canceled tournaments solvent. The Presidents Cup in 2021 at Quail Hollow in North Carolina was a sellout in corporate hos-pitality, and it now gets pushed back a year.

Quail Hollow instead will host the Wells Fargo Championship next spring, and that event will move to the TPC Potomac in 2022 during the Presidents Cup year.

“It was very clear that once we reset the schedule, there were challenges,” PGA Tour Commis-sioner Jay Monahan said. “They did absolutely everything they could to play the Ryder Cup and play it with fans. When it was

clear that was something they were unable to do, we came to the table and were about to reach the right outcome for players and fans.”

Franco Chimenti, president of the Italian Golf Federation, told The Associated Press the post-ponement gives Rome more time to prepare the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club.

“We would have been ready (by 2022), and now we’ll be ready by 2023,” Chimenti said. “We’re about to inaugurate the course. We don’t have prob-lems.”

Among the issues caused by the pandemic was travel by Eu-ropean fans, who would have had to spend a month in quarantine — two weeks both coming and going — for three days of match-es. The environment at the Ryder Cup is unlike any other in golf, with distinctive tones of cheering from Europeans and Americans, hour-by-hour tension over 28 matches from the opening tee shot Friday morning until the final putt Sunday afternoon.

“The Ryder Cup is uniquely about the fans,” Waugh said. “We didn’t want to build Lambeau Field, get hopes up and then have to cancel.”

There is no guarantee moving

it back a year will change any-thing. The PGA Tour resumed its schedule a month ago and has not allowed spectators for at least seven events. The PGA Cham-pionship on Aug. 6-9 in San Francisco will be the first major without fans.

Waugh raised the notion of can-celing the Ryder Cup if the coro-navirus situation hasn’t changed by next September, though he was “betting on science.”

The Americans, who won the last Ryder Cup on home soil in 2016, changed their qualifying because of the three-month shutdown that allowed Steve Stricker six captain’s picks. With the postponement, the U.S. and European teams are reviewing their criteria. Europe said its Ryder Cup points earned since last September have been frozen until next year.

Players had urged all along for the Ryder Cup to be postponed if fans couldn’t be there.

“The decision to reschedule is the right thing to do under the circumstances,” Stricker said. “At the end of the day, we want to stage a Ryder Cup that will rival all other Ryder Cups in my home state of Wisconsin, and now we have the opportunity to showcase the event as it was

meant to be seen.”The move does nothing to

ease a crowded golf schedule for 2021. The Summer Olympics already were postponed with hopes Tokyo can host them next summer. Golf also has three other cups on the calendar — the Walker Cup and Curtis Cup for amateurs, and the Solheim Cup on the LPGA Tour, which is scheduled to finish on Labor Day next summer at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.

When the Ryder Cup was postponed because of 9/11, that led to the Solheim Cup in Minnesota and the Ryder Cup in England being played in consecutive weeks in 2002. The Solheim Cup then moved to odd-numbered years.

Next year “is shaping up to be an incredible year for golf,” LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan said. “The LPGA looks forward to staging the Solheim Cup over Labor Day weekend at Inverness Club in Ohio, and the Ryder Cup just a few weeks later at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin will cap an amazing month for golf fans in the Midwest. We are excited for this doubleheader op-portunity to celebrate all the great golfers, male and female, who play for the USA and Europe.”

that we will find positive opportunities in this chal-lenging time. We will keep moving forward through this painful but temporary experience, together.”

The league said it has not yet determined whether some seasons can be moved to the spring. But the conference noted that its schools already are limiting gatherings, visitors and travel for students and staff.

“As athletics is expected to operate consistent with campus policies, it will not be possible for Ivy League teams to participate in intercollegiate athletics competition prior to the end of the fall semester,” the league said.

Ivy League schools are spread across seven North-eastern states that, as of mid-July, have seen some success at mitigating the spread of COVID-19. But most of those states still ban large gatherings; under the Massachusetts reopen-ing plan, Harvard would not be allowed to have fans in the stands until a vaccine is developed.

Harvard has already announced that all classes for both semesters will be held virtually; dorms will be open only to freshmen and seniors. Yale said it would limit its dorms to 60% capacity and said most classes would be conducted remotely. Princ-eton will also do most of its teaching online, with dorms at half capacity.

But while Ivy League football remains a quaint extracurricular activity, the

sport drives millions in reve-nues for Power Five schools. According to USA Today, the Longhorns football program brought Texas more than $144 million in 2018.

Losing football would be a heavy blow for most schools.

At a White House sum-mit on reopening schools earlier Wednesday, Presi-dent Donald Trump asked University of Alabama chancellor Finis St. John if the Crimson Tide will play football this year.

“I can promise you. We are planning to play the season at the University of Alabama,” St. John said. “Understand that creates great difficulties and complexities, and we are hoping for that. It’s import-ant to a lot of people. But we’re doing our best on that one.”

MLS players had weeks to decide what to do prior to the MLS is Back tour-nament at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex at Disney World.

The league’s teams are sequestered in resorts for the duration of the World Cup-style tournament, which began with a Group A match that was the first meeting between two Sun-shine State teams.

FC Dallas withdrew Monday after 10 players and a coach tested positive for COVID-19. A day later, Nashville SC’s status was thrust into doubt with five confirmed positive tests.

Nashville was supposed

to play Chicago in the second game of a double-header Wednesday but it was postponed.

MLS shut down because of the coronavirus pan-demic on March 12, after the league’s teams had each played two regu-lar-season games.

The reboot had a con-siderably different feel — without fans and with plenty of concern even amid a safety bubble.

“Today we made the noise,” Orlando coach Oscar Pareja said.

But 25 teams that include nearly 700 players plus coaches, trainers and other support staff do ev-erything right for a month? And what’s the threshold for more positive tests?

The NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball surely have a close eye on

what’s happening outside Orlando.

The NBA should get an up-close look. The league already has part of its bubble established at the sprawling ESPN venue. NBA team flags fly on every flagpole, and some areas have been sanitized and cordoned off for bas-ketball’s return later this month.

MLS is using three fields near the back of the complex, two of the ones the NFL used for Pro Bowl practices the last four years. The league mandated masks for ev-eryone other than play-ers. Miami star Rodolfo Pizarro, though, wore one during warmups. Soc-cer balls knocked out of bounds were wiped down before being placed back into the mix.

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Golf’s Ryder Cup is postponed until 2021DOUG FERGUSONAssociated Press

Seth Waugh knows how a Ryder Cup is supposed to look and how it should sound.

In his first week as CEO at the PGA of America, Waugh was in the 72-foot high grand-stand behind the first tee at Le Golf National outside Paris. Flags were waving. Fans were singing. Players were trying to conceal their nerves. That’s what he expects for the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

Next year.The inevitable became reality

Wednesday when Ryder Cup officials postponed the Septem-ber matches until next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic that made it increasingly unlikely the loudest event in golf could have spectators.

“A Ryder Cup with no fans is not a Ryder Cup,” Waugh said.

The Ryder Cup was scheduled for Sept. 25-27 at Whistling Straits along the Lake Michigan shore. Because of a reconfigured schedule created by golf being shut down for three months, the matches would have been held one week after the U.S. Open.

Now, the Ryder Cup will move to Sept. 24-26, 2021, the second

time in the last two decades it was postponed. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks led the 2001 matches to be postponed two weeks before they were set to be played.

Waugh, the former CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas, called it “the most complicated deal of my career” because of so many moving parts.

The decision mean Europe’s next home Ryder Cup set for Italy has been pushed back until 2023. The European Tour thrives on Ryder Cup revenue.

And it affects the PGA Tour, which already has lost millions this year while trying to keep canceled tournaments solvent. The Presidents Cup in 2021 at Quail Hollow in North Carolina was a sellout in corporate hos-pitality, and it now gets pushed back a year.

Quail Hollow instead will host the Wells Fargo Championship next spring, and that event will move to the TPC Potomac in 2022 during the Presidents Cup year.

“It was very clear that once we reset the schedule, there were challenges,” PGA Tour Commis-sioner Jay Monahan said. “They did absolutely everything they could to play the Ryder Cup and play it with fans. When it was

clear that was something they were unable to do, we came to the table and were about to reach the right outcome for players and fans.”

Franco Chimenti, president of the Italian Golf Federation, told The Associated Press the post-ponement gives Rome more time to prepare the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club.

“We would have been ready (by 2022), and now we’ll be ready by 2023,” Chimenti said. “We’re about to inaugurate the course. We don’t have prob-lems.”

Among the issues caused by the pandemic was travel by Eu-ropean fans, who would have had to spend a month in quarantine — two weeks both coming and going — for three days of match-es. The environment at the Ryder Cup is unlike any other in golf, with distinctive tones of cheering from Europeans and Americans, hour-by-hour tension over 28 matches from the opening tee shot Friday morning until the final putt Sunday afternoon.

“The Ryder Cup is uniquely about the fans,” Waugh said. “We didn’t want to build Lambeau Field, get hopes up and then have to cancel.”

There is no guarantee moving

it back a year will change any-thing. The PGA Tour resumed its schedule a month ago and has not allowed spectators for at least seven events. The PGA Cham-pionship on Aug. 6-9 in San Francisco will be the first major without fans.

Waugh raised the notion of can-celing the Ryder Cup if the coro-navirus situation hasn’t changed by next September, though he was “betting on science.”

The Americans, who won the last Ryder Cup on home soil in 2016, changed their qualifying because of the three-month shutdown that allowed Steve Stricker six captain’s picks. With the postponement, the U.S. and European teams are reviewing their criteria. Europe said its Ryder Cup points earned since last September have been frozen until next year.

Players had urged all along for the Ryder Cup to be postponed if fans couldn’t be there.

“The decision to reschedule is the right thing to do under the circumstances,” Stricker said. “At the end of the day, we want to stage a Ryder Cup that will rival all other Ryder Cups in my home state of Wisconsin, and now we have the opportunity to showcase the event as it was

meant to be seen.”The move does nothing to

ease a crowded golf schedule for 2021. The Summer Olympics already were postponed with hopes Tokyo can host them next summer. Golf also has three other cups on the calendar — the Walker Cup and Curtis Cup for amateurs, and the Solheim Cup on the LPGA Tour, which is scheduled to finish on Labor Day next summer at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.

When the Ryder Cup was postponed because of 9/11, that led to the Solheim Cup in Minnesota and the Ryder Cup in England being played in consecutive weeks in 2002. The Solheim Cup then moved to odd-numbered years.

Next year “is shaping up to be an incredible year for golf,” LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan said. “The LPGA looks forward to staging the Solheim Cup over Labor Day weekend at Inverness Club in Ohio, and the Ryder Cup just a few weeks later at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin will cap an amazing month for golf fans in the Midwest. We are excited for this doubleheader op-portunity to celebrate all the great golfers, male and female, who play for the USA and Europe.”

that we will find positive opportunities in this chal-lenging time. We will keep moving forward through this painful but temporary experience, together.”

The league said it has not yet determined whether some seasons can be moved to the spring. But the conference noted that its schools already are limiting gatherings, visitors and travel for students and staff.

“As athletics is expected to operate consistent with campus policies, it will not be possible for Ivy League teams to participate in intercollegiate athletics competition prior to the end of the fall semester,” the league said.

Ivy League schools are spread across seven North-eastern states that, as of mid-July, have seen some success at mitigating the spread of COVID-19. But most of those states still ban large gatherings; under the Massachusetts reopen-ing plan, Harvard would not be allowed to have fans in the stands until a vaccine is developed.

Harvard has already announced that all classes for both semesters will be held virtually; dorms will be open only to freshmen and seniors. Yale said it would limit its dorms to 60% capacity and said most classes would be conducted remotely. Princ-eton will also do most of its teaching online, with dorms at half capacity.

But while Ivy League football remains a quaint extracurricular activity, the

sport drives millions in reve-nues for Power Five schools. According to USA Today, the Longhorns football program brought Texas more than $144 million in 2018.

Losing football would be a heavy blow for most schools.

At a White House sum-mit on reopening schools earlier Wednesday, Presi-dent Donald Trump asked University of Alabama chancellor Finis St. John if the Crimson Tide will play football this year.

“I can promise you. We are planning to play the season at the University of Alabama,” St. John said. “Understand that creates great difficulties and complexities, and we are hoping for that. It’s import-ant to a lot of people. But we’re doing our best on that one.”

MLS players had weeks to decide what to do prior to the MLS is Back tour-nament at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex at Disney World.

The league’s teams are sequestered in resorts for the duration of the World Cup-style tournament, which began with a Group A match that was the first meeting between two Sun-shine State teams.

FC Dallas withdrew Monday after 10 players and a coach tested positive for COVID-19. A day later, Nashville SC’s status was thrust into doubt with five confirmed positive tests.

Nashville was supposed

to play Chicago in the second game of a double-header Wednesday but it was postponed.

MLS shut down because of the coronavirus pan-demic on March 12, after the league’s teams had each played two regu-lar-season games.

The reboot had a con-siderably different feel — without fans and with plenty of concern even amid a safety bubble.

“Today we made the noise,” Orlando coach Oscar Pareja said.

But 25 teams that include nearly 700 players plus coaches, trainers and other support staff do ev-erything right for a month? And what’s the threshold for more positive tests?

The NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball surely have a close eye on

what’s happening outside Orlando.

The NBA should get an up-close look. The league already has part of its bubble established at the sprawling ESPN venue. NBA team flags fly on every flagpole, and some areas have been sanitized and cordoned off for bas-ketball’s return later this month.

MLS is using three fields near the back of the complex, two of the ones the NFL used for Pro Bowl practices the last four years. The league mandated masks for ev-eryone other than play-ers. Miami star Rodolfo Pizarro, though, wore one during warmups. Soc-cer balls knocked out of bounds were wiped down before being placed back into the mix.

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