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Volume 79, No. 113 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Pentagon used Navigating an uncertain future money meant for medical gear on In Calif., Esper military supplies scrutinizes a Navy BY AARON GREGG in flux and warship AND YEGANEH TORBATI The Washington Post gutted by blaze WASHINGTON — A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon BY DAN LAMOTHE in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment The Washington Post has instead been mostly funneled SAN DIEGO — The amphibious to defense contractors and used warship USS Bonhomme Rich- for making things such as jet en- ard sits charred in a shipyard at a gine parts, body armor and dress pier in this city’s picturesque bay. uniforms. Two months after a fire turned The change illustrates how one the vessel into a towering inferno, taxpayer-backed effort to battle Navy officials still say they have the coronavirus, which has killed no clue when or whether it will more than 200,000 Americans, sail again. was instead diverted toward The ship, stretching 844 feet patching up long-standing per- long, has ceived gaps in military supplies. not budged The Cares Act, which Congress since the passed earlier this year, gave fire broke the Pentagon money to “prevent, out July 12, prepare for, and respond to coro- prompting a navirus.” But a few weeks later, four-day bat- the Defense Department began tle in which reshaping how it would award the hundreds money in a way that represented a of sailors major departure from Congress’s and civilian original intent. Esper firefight- The payments were made even ers doused though U.S. health officials be- flames that melted metal and lieve there are still major funding belched smoke for miles. Sailors gaps in responding to the pan- have begun repainting the hull demic. Robert Redfield, director to protect it from corrosion, and of the Centers for Disease Control hoses now stretch upward from and Prevention, said in Senate the pier into the hull to provide testimony last week that states ventilation. But those who have desperately need $6 billion to been inside describe a ship in distribute vaccines to Americans ruin, with gaping holes in the early next year. There remains a flight deck that allow sunlight to severe shortage of N95 masks at beam through several layers. numerous U.S. hospitals. These “I’m not going to lie — I was are the types of problems that the scared,” said Petty Officer 2nd money was originally intended to Class Hayley Craig, recounting address. her eight trips into the ship to “This is part and parcel of fight the fire. “I think everybody whether we have budget priori- was. You couldn’t really see noth- ties that actually serve our pub- ing. It was incredibly hot. I didn’t lic safety or whether we have a know your body could take that government that is captured by much heat.” special interests,” said Mandy The price to fully renovate Smithberger, a defense analyst at the ship is not yet clear, but its the Project on Government Over- replacement will probably cost sight, a watchdog group. several billion dollars, based on JEFFREY F. YALE/U.S.Navy The $1 billion fund is just a frac- comparisons with similar-size Contractors with Naval Sea Systems Command work to remove the aft mast aboard the amphibious tion of the $3 trillion in emergency ships. assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard in August. The structural integrity of the aft mast, located spending that Congress approved SEE NAVY ON PAGE 3 above the ship’s superstructure, was compromised during a fire in July. SEE PENTAGON ON PAGE 3 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9169 Bank shares slide on money laundering report Euro costs (Sept. 23) ...... $1.15 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.38 Dollar buys (Sept. 23)...... €0.8292 Turkey (Lira) ...... 7.6562 British pound (Sept. 23) ...... $1.25 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press Journalists, leaked government documents indicate JPMorgan Japanese yen (Sept. 23) ...... 102.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Sept. 23) ...... 1,134.00 documents show that the banks moved money for people and Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance The financial sector was hit for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3771 continued moving illicit funds companies tied to the massive Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For hard Monday following a report British pound ...... $1.2765 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., even after being warned of po- looting of public funds in Malay- Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3304 alleging that a number of banks purchasing British pounds in Germany), tential criminal prosecutions. sia, Venezuela and the Ukraine. China (Yuan) ...... 6.7771 check with your local military banking — JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.3442 The documents were obtained by The bank also processed more facility. Commercial rates are interbank Egypt (Pound) ...... 15.7802 Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank rates provided for reference when buying BuzzFeed News and shared with than $50 million in payments Euro ...... $1.1729/0.8526 currency. 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified ...... 13 Comics ...... 17 Crossword ...... 17 Faces ...... 15 Opinion ...... 16 Sports ...... 18-24 Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Pentagon: How money was to be used changed months after aid package passed

FROM FRONT PAGE sustainment, said her office has earlier this year to deal with the worked closely with Congress pandemic. But it shows how the and federal agencies to meet the blizzard of bailout cash was — in needs of both the medical and de- some cases — redirected to firms fense industries. that weren’t originally targeted “We are thankful the Con- for assistance. It also shows how gress provided authorities and difficult it has been for officials to resources that enabled the [ex- track how money is spent and — in ecutive branch] to invest in do- the case of Congress — intervene mestic production of critical when changes are made. The medical resources and protect Trump administration has done key defense capabilities from the little to limit the defense firms consequences of COVID,” Lord from accessing multiple bailout said in a statement. “We need to funds at once and is not requiring always remember that economic the companies to refrain from lay- security and national security are offs as a condition of receiving the very tightly interrelated and our awards. industrial base is really the nexus JEFFREY F. YALE/U.S. Navy Some defense contractors of the two.” were given the Pentagon money The Democratic-controlled Contractors with Naval Sea Systems Command work to remove the aft mast aboard the amphibious even though they had already House Committee on Appro- assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard in August. The structural integrity of the aft mast was dipped into another pot of bailout priations has made clear that the compromised during a fire in July. Defense Secretary Mark Esper toured the ship Friday during a three- funds, the Paycheck Protection Defense Department’s decision day trip to California. Program. to funnel the DPA funding to de- Congress, at President Donald fense contractors went against its Trump’s urging, is now debating intent in that section of the Cares Navy: whether to pass another massive Act, which was to spur the manu- Esper says, despite changes, aircraft stimulus package, and the Penta- facturing of personal protective gon and defense contractors have equipment. called for another $11 billion to be “The Committee’s expectation carriers will remain a centerpiece of fleet directed toward their programs. was that the Department would FROM FRONT PAGE The $1 billion fund was allocated address the need for PPE indus- significant way. under the Defense Production Act, trial capacity rather than execute The Bonhomme Richard’s uncertain future is Esper, speaking to sailors aboard the aircraft car- which allows Trump to compel the funding for the DIB (defense among the troubles the Navy has faced as the ser- rier USS Carl Vinson off the coast of California on U.S. companies to manufacture industrial base),” the committee vice attempts to change the way it fights, deploys Thursday, said the deployment of unmanned vessels products in the nation’s interest. wrote in its report on the 2021 de- and organizes. will make reaching the 355-ship goal possible. That Trump has described the law fense bill. Recent challenges include two ship collisions in amounts to a shift in what the Pentagon and Congress as a “tremendous hammer” and Pentagon officials counter that the Pacific that killed 17 sailors in 2017, a corrup- consider a warship. boasted in August that he has they have been fully transparent tion scandal in which several Navy officers were “Unmanned will enable us to grow the United “used the DPA more comprehen- with both Democrats and Repub- convicted of accepting bribes from a Malaysian de- States Navy well beyond 355 ships,” Esper said. “It sively than any president in histo- licans in Congress on their plans fense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” Francis, will add more lethality, survivability, capability, et ry.” His administration was under for the funds. and questions about the service’s ability to keep ships cetera, to the United States Navy and indeed to the intense pressure this spring to use Defense officials say the Pen- ready while meeting demands for deployments. joint force.” the law to address dire shortages tagon’s funding priorities were The service is a key part of the Pentagon’s plan to Despite the changes, aircraft carriers will remain in medical-grade masks and other influenced heavily by an indus- reorient itself after nearly 20 years of counterinsur- a centerpiece of the fleet, Esper said. His visit to the supplies. try study drawn up in 2018. The gency wars, with new high-tech aircraft, unmanned Carl Vinson highlighted some of the plans: The ship But in the months after the study, prompted by an early ex- vessels and weapons planned as China becomes the recently underwent 17 months of upgrades to allow it stimulus package was passed, the ecutive order from Trump and by primary focus of the military’s agenda. to fly F-35Cs, and it will be the first carrier to deploy Pentagon changed how the money economic adviser Peter Navarro But the Navy in some ways has lost control of its overseas with the jets next year. would be used. It decided to give and carried out in close consulta- future. The jets are seen as the centerpiece in many future defense contractors hundreds of tion with defense industry associ- The Navy has long touted its goal to expand to 355 formations in the China-centric approach. While millions of dollars from the fund, ations, pointed to several hundred warships to meet U.S. needs, and President Donald they do not carry as many weapons as other strike mostly for projects that have little supply chain shortfalls that could aircraft, such as the F/A-18 Super Hornet, they are to do with the coronavirus re- Trump has touted a similar plan for at least 350. But hamper the U.S. military’s ability harder to see on radar and collect more intelligence sponse. Defense Department law- Defense Secretary Mark Esper has scrutinized the to compete with China. with their sophisticated sensors. yers quickly determined that the Navy’s target, rejecting the service’s shipbuilding The Pentagon receives funding plan and launching a review this year by Deputy De- The ship’s commanding officer, Capt. Matthew funds could be used for defense Paradise, said in an interview that the changes to production, a conclusion that Con- under the Defense Production Act fense Secretary David Norquist to assess options. each year to shore up companies it Esper, in a three-day trip to California last week, the Carl Vinson include the adoption of reinforced gress later disputed. jet-blast deflectors capable of handling the F-35’s Among the awards: $183 million deems critical, but in much small- declined several interview requests from reporters er amounts — the 2020 allocation traveling with him, including about the naval force larger engines, new computers to assist in F-35 logis- to firms including Rolls-Royce tics and a renovated area near the hangar bay where and ArcelorMittal to maintain the was about $64 million. The money study. lithium ion batteries used on the aircraft are stored shipbuilding industry; tens of mil- is disbursed by the Pentagon’s in- But Esper’s public remarks reveal some clues to and charged. lions of dollars for satellite, drone dustrial policy office under the what could lie ahead. “We’re going nice and slow and making sure that and space surveillance technol- law’s Title III, which gives the The defense secretary, speaking Wednesday at the everyone is learning the new jet, and getting the band ogy; $80 million to a Kansas air- president broad authority to mo- Rand Corp. think tank in Santa Monica, Calif., said craft parts business suffering bilize domestic industry. that Norquist’s study was recently completed and back together for the first time in the work-up cycle,” from the Boeing 737 Max ground- Critics say it’s unclear why the that it considered a “wider, more ambitious range of Paradise said. ing and the global slowdown in air defense industry should have got- future fleet options.” Esper flew to the Carl Vinson in the back seat of travel; and $2 million for a domes- ten what amounts to a dedicated Officials from the Navy, Marine Corps and Joint an F/A-18 fighter and then met privately with naval tic manufacturer of Army dress bailout fund when few other sec- Staff and outside advisers examined what ships are officers involved in the F-35’s integration. uniform fabric. tors of the economy got the same available and what vessels are needed to retain domi- On Friday, Esper toured the charred Bonhomme DOD officials contend that treatment. nance given China’s modernization plans, Esper said. Richard in rubber boots, a mask and a hard hat. they have sought to strike a bal- And government data shows Then they launched war games to see the strengths His spokesman, Jonathan Rath Hoffman, said one ance between boosting American that at least 10 of the approximate- and weaknesses of each potential combination of concept Esper is considering the deployment of the medical production and support- ly 30 companies known to have ships. Marine Corps’ F-35s on amphibious ships such as ing the defense industry, whose received the Defense Depart- “The results are a game-changer that reflect a the Bonhomme Richard, complementing the air- health they view as critical to na- ment DPA funds also got loans good deal of serious work and effort based on facts craft deployed aboard carriers in an unconventional tional security. The Pentagon has through the Paycheck Protection and data,” Esper said. configuration. also lent its expertise to the De- Program, another relief package Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite said in a After touring the ship, Esper thanked sailors on the partment of Health and Human created by the Cares Act. That statement after Esper’s speech that “355 ships are pier for their efforts to save the ships. “We’re going to Services as it seeks to purchase program, overseen by the Small the minimum to which the Department of the Navy have a Bonhomme Richard for sure,” he said. billions of dollars in needed medi- Business Administration, offered should be aiming” and that he has been working with But Hoffman said afterward that Esper was ex- cal equipment. millions of firms forgivable loans Esper and Norquist to identify how best to achieve pressing to the crew his hope that the ship will Ellen Lord, undersecretary if they used the lion’s share on that objective. survive. The ship’s future, Hoffman said, is still of defense for acquisition and payroll. But how those ships are defined could change in a unclear. PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 MILITARY Air Force tests warfare networking system

BY WYATT OLSON when needed,” Rear Adm. James Aiken, Stars and Stripes leader of the exercise, said during the con- ference call. The U.S. Air Force is testing its lead- “We will accomplish this through joint ing-edge warfare networking system dur- all-domain operations which focus on ing the two-week Valiant Shield exercise training and improving leadership at all underway in Guam, a connect-everything levels, including individual personal profi- concept that is the service’s top modern- ciency, which sharpens command and con- ization priority. trol skills while challenging participants to The innovative approach is called the adapt to changing conditions as part of the Advanced Battle Management System, joint force.” and the scenarios taking place during Val- Baldwin said information shared and iant Shield are part of the third field test of processed under ABMS during Valiant the concept. Shield would be accessed and exchanged “The Advanced Battle Management Sys- via the cloud, online and through apps. tem, or ABMS, allows a joint force to use A KC-46 refueling aircraft and F-22s cutting-edge methods and technologies to from Hawaii will link with command and rapidly collect, analyze, and share infor- control in Guam as part of a scenario prac- mation and make decisions in real time,” ticing joint execution across air, land, sea, the Air Force said in a news release this space and cyberspace domains, Baldwin month. said. The goal of field testing during an exer- Sloane said that the ABMS tools being cise such as Valiant Shield is to throw “a tested will be applicable across U.S. joint dizzying array of information for partici- forces. pants to synthesize, just like they would see /U.S. Navy “So, for instance, I have the multi-do- in a real operation,” the release said. JAMES HONG main task force from the U.S. Army here in The concept received its first field test — The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam launches a Harpoon surface-to-surface Guam,” Sloane said. “They have liaisons at dubbed as “onramping” by the Air Force missile Saturday during a joint force sinking exercise targeting the decommissioned my long-range fires coordination cell that — in December at Eglin Air Force Base, frigate USS Curts as part of the Valiant Shield exercise near Guam. is living in Hawaii. We are all linked to- Fla. gether. We have the applications that they “The Advanced Battle Management The ABMS is focused on moving from which is intended to hone joint warfighting are sharing. We are using the Advanced System is a key effort for the U.S. Air and a “platform-centric to a network-centric capabilities. Battle Management System to coordinate Space force moving forward,” Col. Brian warfare approach” when it comes to joint Due to precautions over the coronavirus with the Navy as well, out at sea.” Baldwin, the Valiant Shield air expedition- all-domain command and control, Sloane pandemic, about 116 personnel are par- By sharing ABMS with the other servic- ary wing commander, said during a con- said. “We’re excited to introduce that into ticipating in the exercise remotely from es during the initial stages, “we eliminate ference call with reporters Friday. our exercise.” Hawaii. any sort of seams that may happen between “This is the number-one modernization This year’s Valiant Shield, which con- “The primary purpose of Valiant Shield services so that we’re a unified joint force priority for the U.S. Air and Space force,” cludes Friday, involves about 11,000 per- is to demonstrate the U.S. military’s com- able to integrate with our partners and al- Brig. Gen. Jeremy Sloane, commander of sonnel from the Navy, Air Force, Army mitment to preserving, securing and lies,” Sloane said. the 36th Wing at Andersen Air Force Base, and Marine Corps. Roughly 100 aircraft maintaining regional global stability while [email protected] Guam, said during the conference call. are involved in the U.S.-only exercise, remaining postured to respond, if and Twitter: @WyattWOlson Keesler to welcome Commander of Norfolk its final group of Naval Shipyard is ousted Air Force trainees BY WYATT OLSON which have faced persistent and Stars and Stripes substantial delays in ship main- tenance, according to a report by BY JAMES BOLINGER The commander of Norfolk the Government Accountability Stars and Stripes Naval Shipyard was relieved Office last month. Monday over loss in confidence in The report singled out Norfolk The final group of recruits expected to undergo his ability to command, the Navy as the only Basic Military Training at Keesler Air Force Base, said. one of the Miss., during the coronavirus pandemic will arrive Capt. Kai Torkelson was re- Navy’s four at the installation the last week of September, Air moved by Vice Adm. Bill Galinis, shipyards Force Magazine reported Monday. head of Naval Sea Systems Com- to have de- The recruit flight, the equivalent of an Army pla- mand, “due to a loss of confidence creased its toon, will graduate before Thanksgiving, the 2nd KEMBERLY GROUE/U.S. Air Force in his ability to command,” ac- number of Air Force commander, Maj. Gen. Andrea Tullos, cording to a statement released fully trained told the publication, which is part of the Virginia- Air Force trainees stand in formation while that day. production based Air Force Association. graduating from basic military training at Keesler Torkelson’s duties at the Vir- personnel “We’ll then take about 90 days to do an after-ac- Air Force Base, Miss., in August. ginia shipyard will be assumed over the past tion and a reassessment of how that operation went, by Rear Adm. Howard Markle, five-year and we will have plans, if asked and if necessary, to of recruits and the implementation of a surge sched- director of the Sea System Com- Torkelson period. resume BMT probably no earlier than February of ule. That schedule extended training from eight to mand’s Industrial Operations Torkelson next year,” she said, according to the report. 10 hours per day, six days a week. Directorate. was commissioned in 1991 and The Air Force sent its first group of recruits to At its maximum capacity, Keesler could accom- The decision to oust Torkelson was first trained in nuclear sub- train at Keesler in April to reduce trainee numbers modate 360 new recruits at one time. That expanded was based on his oversight of marines before transitioning to for social distancing purposes at Joint Base San capacity allowed the Air Force to bring as many as the shipyard’s output, not due to engineering in 2002, with stints Antonio-Lackland, the primary Air Force recruit 9,400 airmen into the service under pandemic con- a single specific incident, Naval at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard training base. ditions before the end of the fiscal year. Sea Systems Command spokes- in Washington and Pearl Har- Keesler was never meant to serve as alternative According to Tullos, Keesler will not be needed to man Rory O’Connor told USNI bor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, site for basic training beyond Oct. 1, the end of the meet the Air Force enlistment goals for fiscal year News on Monday. according to his official Navy fiscal year, Tullos said in May. The last recruit flight 2021, unless the coronavirus further impacts train- “The issues are related due to a biography. arrives prior to that deadline. ing sites at Lackland. loss of confidence in leadership to He took command of the Nor- Coronavirus precautions meant basic training “If we have challenges, and we see spikes and correct underlying performance folk shipyard in June 2018. was shortened to six weeks at Keesler and 7½ weeks outbreaks, and the [Centers for Disease Control and issues that affect Norfolk Naval Torkelson was among the first at Lackland. The Air Force reduced the overall Prevention] issues us guidance that causes us to lose Shipyard’s ability to meet ship five engineering duty officers to number of recruits it accepted during the pandemic our ability to use San Antonio as our full production maintenance schedules,” he told volunteer for assignment to Oper- but plans to increase that number in the next fiscal site, we’ll be prepared to reopen that capability and the news outlet. ation Iraqi Freedom, which began year. resume again next year,” she told the magazine. The Navy spent $2.8 billion in 2003, the biography said. Training at Lackland was trimmed by one week [email protected] from 2015 to 2019 to improve the [email protected] due to the training area layout, the reduced number Twitter: @bolingerj2004 performance of its shipyards, Twitter: @WyattWOlson Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY Marine journalist, Stripes reporter dies at age 84

BY SETH ROBSON Stars and Stripes ‘ He didn’t have The first Stars and Stripes re- political opinions. porter sent to cover the Vietnam War — Marine Gunnery Sgt. … It was always the Steve Stibbens — died Saturday relationships with in Dallas at age 84. Stibbens got his start in jour- people. That was nalism at age 12 as editor of The what he was about. Camp Woodland Springs Echo, ’ a mimeographed summer camp Suzanne Stibbens newspaper in Texas, according to daughter the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Asso- ciation and Foundation. He later For his work with Stars and Suzanne Stibbens worked as a $10-a-night proof- Stripes in Vietnam, Stibbens was reader with the Grand Prairie awarded a Bronze Star with “V” Former Stars and Stripes combat correspondent Steve Stibbens at work during an ambush in Vietnam in 1963. Stibbens was the newspaper’s first reporter sent to cover the Vietnam War. Daily News in Texas before en- device for valor. He was named listing in the Marines in 1953. 1963 Military Photographer of the Stibbens, whose real name was Year, and one of his photographs Cecil, picked up the nickname — showing a weary, unshaven “Steve” at boot camp after visit- Special Forces soldier — was ing a buddy’s Russian mother who picked by President Lyndon John- couldn’t pronounce his last name, son as “The President’s Choice,” said his daughter, Suzanne Stib- according to the biography. bens, of Arlington, Texas. Stibbens loved serving in His first assignment in uniform the Marines, according to his was as a clerk in South Korea but he soon became a correspondent daughter. with the 1st Marine Division at “He loved boot camp,” Suzanne Camp Pendleton, Calif. Stibbens said. “He loved every- In 1962, Stibbens joined the Pa- thing about it including the food.” cific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo Many of his contemporaries, and was the newspaper’s first re- such as war correspondents Jo- porter to set foot in Vietnam later seph Galloway and Peter Arnett, that year. went on to stellar careers. Stib- “Steve roamed the Mekong bens was less known but it didn’t Delta and the Central Highlands bother him, his daughter said. with Army Special Forces ‘A “In Saigon he and Peter Arnett teams’ and advisers until the Ma- would go get coffee every morn- rines arrived in 1965,” his biogra- ing,” Suzanne Stibbens said. “My phy states. dad would ask for ‘café au lait with Stibbens’ reports from that time milk.’ They laughed and told him Photos from U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association and Foundation are hardcore combat journalism ‘au lait’ means with milk.” from the tip of the spear. Stars and Stripes sent Stib- Left: Stibbens serves as a war correspondent for Stars and Stripes in Vietnam during the early 1960s. For a story headlined, “Special bens to the Philippines after he Right: Stibbens was awarded a Bronze Star medal with a V device for valor for his work during the war. Forces sergeant has nerve-wrack- returned from Vietnam. Gallo- ing job,” from Jan. 15, 1964, he way marked his friend’s death he again was named Military editor in Dallas. Other journalism of the 114th Aviation Company in photographed Koho tribesmen on Facebook by reposting photo- Photographer of the Year, accord- assignments included work as a Vietnam, 1963-72.” crossing a mountain stream and graphs, including one of Stibbens, ing to his biography. bureau chief at Gannett’s Florida But the veteran newsman, noted the “blood sucking leeches” in 1962, with Filipino freedom Stibbens left active duty in 1966 Today in Vero Beach, Fla., and as whose wife of 51 years, Lucy, died on surrounding trails. fighter Emilio Aguinaldo, the to join The Associated Press in a reporter at the San Diego Union, in 2010, didn’t talk much about the The report describes a battle country’s first president. Mobile, Ala., but continued service the Dallas Times Herald, News- war or its controversies, accord- with the Viet Cong near Dam Pao “Steve was fine company in a in the Marine Corps Reserve. week magazine and Texas Busi- ing to his daughter. in which a bazooka, wielded by a foxhole or a watering hole and we In early 1967, he was back in ness magazine. “He didn’t have political opin- Montagnard, misfired. The error will miss him greatly,” Galloway Vietnam for another year cover- Stibbens, whose photographs ions,” Suzanne Stibbens said. “He might have saved the life of an wrote. ing action on the Demilitarized appear in the Ken Burns’ “The did his job. It was always the re- American adviser from the Oki- In 1964, Stibbens joined Leath- Zone and at Khe Sanh as an AP Vietnam War” TV documentary, lationships with people. That was nawa-based 1st Special Forces erneck Magazine and spent an- war correspondent. wrote a book about the first heli- what he was about.” Group at whom the bazooka was other two years covering the He returned to the United copter unit in Vietnam: “Knights [email protected] pointed, Stibbens wrote. Marines in Vietnam. That year, States to become the AP’s photo Over the Delta: An Oral History Twitter: @SethRobson1 PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 MILITARY Pollution warning in place after fire near Aviano base

BY NORMAN LLAMAS dening and other activities that Stars and Stripes require touching the ground. It also instructed people to avoid AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy eating garden-grown vegetables, — An Italian ordinance advising or poultry and eggs produced at residents to avoid touching the home. grass and soil remained in place Air pollution levels four times Tuesday pending environmental above normal were reported Sun- testing, following a weekend fire day by the local environmental at a waste facility about 6 miles agency. Air quality had returned from the U.S. air base at Aviano. The blaze, which began Satur- to normal by Monday, the agency day evening, filled the sky with said, adding that regular outdoor activities could resume. dark smoke that could be seen for NORMAN LLAMAS/Stars and Stripes miles. One worker at the Servizio Aviano Air Base carried the Nettezza Urbana Ed Affini plant city warnings on its website. Smoke rises from a waste treatment plant in Aviano, Italy, on Sunday after a fire began the prior was injured, Italian media re- “It’s important to note that the evening. Twelve fire departments from local towns and responders from the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano ports said. city ordinance is still in effect Air Base had largely extinguished the fire by Monday. Twelve fire brigade teams from and the mayor is waiting for fur- nearby towns had largely extin- ther results on soil quality,” wing A tanker and four airmen from said. where the fire was centered, but guished the fire by late Monday. spokesperson Maj. Sarah Babcock the 31st Civil Engineering Squad- The Carabinieri is leading the not the full industrial site, where After the fire began, the Aviano said Tuesday. The Aviano mayor ron fire department supported the investigation into the cause of the normal business had resumed, municipality issued a warning to expects to retract the warning in Italian response, Babcock said. blaze at the site, the second since they said. residents to remain indoors, close the next day or two pending test “We’re extremely proud of the October last year, media reports [email protected] their windows, and avoid gar- results, she said. efforts these airmen played,” she said. They sealed off the area Twitter: @normanllamas Coast Guard member charged in Feds: NYPD officer, Army shipmate’s death found not guilty reservist worked as spy The Washington Post have served in the People’s Lib- BY ROSE L. THAYER ous situation.” eration Army, and that Angwang Through Hunter’s testimony and videos from NEW YORK — A New York po- Stars and Stripes has maintained relationships his cellphone, Henderson said he was able to prove lice officer assigned to a Queens AUSTIN, Texas — A Coast Guard member ac- Tucker and Hunter were actually trying to stop station house has been spying for with two officials at the Chinese cused of causing the January 2019 death of his Kelch from drunkenly going into the frigid water. the Chinese government, track- Consulate in New York. friend and fellow shipmate in Alaska was found “In the first four videos, they are goofing around,” ing local supporters of the Tibet- He reported to his contacts at not guilty of the charge during a court-martial that he said. an independence movement and the consulate about “the activities ended Thursday. As the videos progress, the joking stops. The men giving “intelligence” to Chinese of ethnic Tibetans” and worked A military judge in Alameda, became serious as they shouted and fought to keep officials, federal prosecutors al- to identify potential sources of Calif., found Seaman Ethan leged Monday. Kelch safe. information from within the com- Tucker, 22, not guilty of invol- While Hunter eventually made his way back to Baimadajie Angwang, 33, who munity to assist in the PRC’s untary manslaughter and neg- the ship, Tucker collapsed about halfway to the ship is also a ligent homicide in the death of on the side of a road. The people who found him the U.S. Army monitoring efforts, according to Seaman Ethan Kelch, 19, as a next morning testified when Tucker awoke, he im- reservist court papers filed in the Eastern result of the eight-day trial, ac- mediately said they needed to go back for Kelch, as a staff District of New York. cording to a news release from Henderson said. sergeant Angwang also tried to connect the Coast Guard Pacific Area. Kelch was found unresponsive following an stationed at one of his consulate contacts with Tucker pleaded guilty to air and ground search the next day and later pro- Fort Dix in influential members of the NYPD making a false statement, con- New Jersey, nounced dead from bleeding in his skull caused by by inviting the official to events, suming alcohol underage and blunt force trauma to the head, according to Tuck- has been prosecutors said. Tucker a general article that included er’s previously released charge sheet. charged much of the bad behavior that During the sentencing phase of the court-martial, with ille- At his arraignment in federal court in Brooklyn on Monday, occurred on that night, said Navy Cmdr. Justin Hen- Tucker spoke to the Kelch family for the first time gally acting Angwang derson, Tucker’s defense attorney. since the incident. as a foreign Angwang was ordered detained. “He was genuinely trying to take responsibility “It was extremely emotional. He was a wreck. agent, wire fraud and making His attorney can argue for bail at and be accountable for those actions,” Henderson He’s been in this unfulfilled mourning process for a false statements for lying on offi- a future proceeding. said. “We, the defense, proposed that plea so that he year and a half,” Henderson said. cial government forms about his Angwang, who is ethnically Ti- could take that level of responsibility.” Kelch was buried in Arlington National Cemetery contacts with China. betan, had been given asylum in The judge did find Tucker guilty of assault con- last month, according to the cemetery’s website. He’s also accused of obstructing the United States after overstay- summated by battery. Tucker, who is from Ludington, Mich., was ar- his national security background Tucker was sentenced to a bad-conduct dis- rested in August 2019 and he had originally faced a check, which helped conceal his ing a visa and claiming that he’d charge, reduction to paygrade E-1, and 14 months murder charge from the incident. Though he plead- spying efforts that began in 2014. been arrested and tortured by confinement. ed guilty to some of the charges against him, part of He faces a maximum of 55 China “due partly to his Tibetan Tucker and Kelch were crew members on the cut- the agreement was the prosecution would move for- years if convicted. ethnicity,” according to the crim- ter Douglas Munro, based out of Kodiak, Alaska. ward with the lesser charges of manslaughter and Angwang, a naturalized U.S. inal complaint. While the ship was in port for repairs at Dutch Har- negligent homicide. citizen, has been a member of He “violated every oath he took bor on the night of Jan. 26, 2019, the two men, along Tucker received three days credit for each of the the New York City police depart- in this country” including to his with Seaman Trevin Hunter, left the ship and went 85 days of pretrial confinement he’s already spent ment since 2016. As an Army re- country, the U.S. Army and the to a remote area along the water, Henderson said. in the brig, and will be released about January. servist, he had “secret” security “They went on a little hike out to a remote part He will begin his sentence at Naval Consolidated clearance. NYPD, Police Commissioner of the island where these three guys all got drunk,” Brig Miramar, where he previously served pretrial Federal investigators say sev- Dermot Shea said in a statement. he said. “They went out there, didn’t tell anybody confinement. eral members of Angwang’s fam- Angwang was assigned to the where [they were] going and had no emergency con- [email protected] ily have been members of the 111th Precinct located in Bay- tact capability. They put themselves in this danger- Twitter: @Rose_Lori Chinese Communist Party and side, Queens. Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 MILITARY At UN, Trump raps China as virus originator

BY DEB RIECHMANN spread. ly after he signed an executive Associated Press “The United Nations must hold order spelling out how the U.S. China accountable for their ac- will enforce the “snapback” of WASHINGTON — President tions,” Trump said. The president sanctions. “My actions today send Donald Trump on Tuesday de- also took aim at China’s environ- a clear message to the Iranian re- manded that the United Na- mental record and the United Na- gime and those in the internation- tions hold China accountable for tions itself. al community who refuse to stand the coronavirus pandemic as “Those who attack America’s up to Iran,“ he said. he defends his own handling of exceptional environmental re- The U.S. said it was reimpos- COVID-19 in America where the cord while ignoring China’s ram- ing sanctions on Iran for being death toll has reached 200,000. pant pollution are not interested in noncompliance with the 2015 “We have waged a fierce battle in the environment. They only nuclear deal between Tehran and against the invisible enemy — the want to punish America. And I global powers. But Trump in 2018 China virus — which has claimed will not stand for it,” Trump said. pulled out of the deal in which countless lives in 188 countries,” Earlier in his administration, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear Trump said in a prerecorded Trump hosted Chinese President program in exchange for billions address to the U.N. General As- Xi Jinping at his Florida club and of dollars in sanctions relief. sembly that lasted less than seven spoke warmly of their relation- Few U.N. member states be- minutes. ship, but the two nations now lieve the U.S. has the legal stand- “As we pursue this bright fu- regularly exchange angry words ing to restore the sanctions ture, we must hold accountable and take punitive actions against because Trump withdrew from the nation which unleashed this RICK BAJORNAS, UNITED NATIONS/AP each other. the agreement. The U.S. argues plague onto the world: China.” Trump is not popular at the it retains the right to do so as an While Trump blames China, President Donald Trump is seen on a video screen as his United Nations and his speech original participant in the deal he has been harshly criticized for prerecorded message is played during the 75th session of the this year comes at a time when and a member of the council. his administration’s track record United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday in New York. World U.N. members are pushing back Trump also highlighted agree- in battling the coronavirus, now leaders were kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic. against Washington. On Monday, ments the U.S. brokered between a top issue in his bid for reelec- Trump declared that all U.N. Israel and the United Arab Emir- tion. Democratic opponent Joe nation. Trump encouraged the social distancing. sanctions against Iran have been ates and Bahrain. The historic Biden claims Trump bungled reopening of U.S. society even as But Trump points to the virus’ reimposed, a move that most of agreements come as relations be- the response to COVID-19 and the virus was spreading rapidly origins in China and says the the rest of the world rejects as tween the Jewish state and Arab is responsible for the U.S. hav- and holds campaign rallies where Chinese government acted irre- illegal. nations are thawing as a push- ing more deaths than any other few wear face masks or practice sponsibly in allowing the virus to Trump’s statement came short- back against Iran. USFK to release virus Policies in place for military patients after 21 days children seeking citizenship despite test results BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY was passed in March. The sec- the agency was clarifying two Stars and Stripes tion states a child who was born conflicting rules about the defi- BY KIM GAMEL a week and receiving negative outside the United States can nition of “residence,” and issued Stars and Stripes results on two coronavirus tests WASHINGTON — Military automatically become a citizen the new guidance that military within a 24-hour span. Some pa- children who are not U.S. citi- if they are physically living in children would no longer be con- SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. tients had to remain in isolation zens and live overseas with their the United States with their par- sidered as residing in the United Forces Korea will release as- for nearly two months without American parents are finally able ent who is a citizen. USCIS will States, one of the ways for anyone ymptomatic coronavirus patients showing symptoms because they to obtain citizenship automati- again consider military children born overseas to obtain citizen- after three weeks in isolation continued to test positive. cally now that a new law is being who are living with an American ship automatically. even if they continue to test posi- USFK said Tuesday it has de- implemented by U.S. Citizenship parent stationed overseas to be The change caused widespread tive, officials said Tuesday, citing and Immigration Services, which cided to release patients after 21 considered as residing within the confusion about what it actu- research showing people are no days in isolation regardless of had changed the policy last year. United States. ally meant and who was affected, longer contagious after 20 days. their test results after close coor- USCIS announced Friday that The new policy also includes with some initial reporting inter- The policy change came as the dination with the U.S. Centers for it had updated its policy to imple- children living with a parent who preting the policy to mean that military has seen an influx of ser- Disease Control and Prevention ment the Citizenship for Children is a U.S. government employee military children were being de- vice members and other person- and the Korea Disease Control of Military Members and Civil stationed abroad and a spouse of nied citizenship. The law passed nel who tested positive after flying and Prevention Agency. Servants Act, almost a year after a service member or government in March was aimed at resolving to South Korea from the United “Recent medical research stud- the agency had changed how it de- employee stationed abroad, ac- the issue and stating military States for new assignments or re- ies have indicated that individuals termined the residency require- cording to the USCIS statement. turning from trips abroad. are no longer contagious after 20 ment for children living overseas. These military children “are children living overseas should To prevent further spread of days even though their COVID-19 It forced military families to file just as worthy of automatic citi- be considered as residing in the the virus, USFK implemented a test can remain positive beyond new paperwork and pay more zenship as any other children,” U.S. for obtaining citizenship. strict testing and two-week quar- this time,” it said, referring to the fees to gain citizenship for their Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., With the implementation of the antine process that begins as soon respiratory disease caused by the child. said in a statement Tuesday about law, USCIS is applying the new as travelers arrive. Previously, virus. The CDC says coronavirus Military children younger than the new policy. She sponsored the policy change to eligible children anybody who tested positive was patients may end isolation after 18 years old who are not citizens Senate’s version of the Citizenship who were younger than 18 years placed in a specially outfitted on- 10 to 20 days depending on the se- are able to acquire automatic citi- for Children of Military Members old on March 26, according to the base isolation facility until they verity of their symptoms. zenship under Section 320 of the and Civil Servants Act. statement. met a series of criteria, including [email protected] Immigration and Nationality Act, The reason that the USCIS [email protected] showing no symptoms for at least Twitter: @kimgamel according to the new law, which gave for changing the policy was Twitter: @caitlinmkenney

Bahrain says it broke up militant attack plot against foreigners this year

Associated Press The announcement came hours tinely claim breaking up plots by to have reinvoked all United Na- something long threatened by his DUBAI, United Arab Emirates after Saudi state television and a militants backed by Iran, did not tions sanctions on Tehran over its colleagues in Iran’s paramilitary — Bahrain said Monday it broke Bahraini local newspaper implied respond to requests for comment nuclear program — something Revolutionary Guard. up a plot by militants backed by the plot was new in their report- over the confusion. disputed by other world powers. Iran’s mission to the U.N. dis- Iran earlier this year to launch at- ing Sunday night, just days after The details of the plot became The militants reportedly sought missed Bahrain’s claim of Tehran tacks on diplomats and foreigners the island kingdom normalized public as tensions between Iran revenge for the U.S. drone strike being involved as just “another in the island nation home to the relations with Israel. Bahraini and the U.S. remain high after the that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. instance in a long line of prepos- U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. government officials, who rou- Trump administration claimed Qassem Soleimani in January, terous and false allegations .” PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK ‘Unfathomable’: US death toll hits 200K

BY CARLA K. JOHNSON ceeded and some have failed,” Associated Press said Dr. Cedric Dark, an emer- gency physician at Baylor Col- The U.S. death toll from the lege of Medicine in Houston who coronavirus topped 200,000 has seen death firsthand. “In the Tuesday, a figure nearly unimag- case of our country, we failed inable eight months ago when the miserably.” scourge first reached the world’s Worldwide, the virus has in- richest nation with its state-of- fected more than 31 million the-art laboratories, top-flight people and is closing in fast on 1 scientists and stockpiles of medi- million deaths, with over 965,000 cines and emergency supplies. lives lost, by Johns Hopkins’ “It is completely unfathomable count, though the real numbers that we’ve reached this point,” are believed to be higher because said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns of gaps in testing and reporting. Hopkins University public health For the U.S., it wasn’t supposed researcher. to go this way. The bleak milestone, by far When the year began, the U.S. the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world, had recently garnered recogni- was reported by Johns Hopkins, tion for its readiness for a pan- based on figures supplied by state demic. Health officials seemed health authorities. But the real confident as they converged on toll is thought to be much higher, Seattle in January to deal with the country’s first known case of in part because many COVID-19 JAE C. HONG/AP deaths were probably ascribed to the coronavirus, in a 35-year-old other causes, especially early on, Romelia Navarro, right, is comforted by nurse Michele Younkin as she weeps in July at the bedside of Washington state resident who before widespread testing. her dying husband, Antonio, in St. Jude Medical Center’s COVID-19 unit in Fullerton, Calif. had returned from visiting his The number of those dead from family in Wuhan, China. the virus is still climbing. Deaths respects stunning,” Dr. Anthony boasted of doing an “amazing” of the globe’s population but more But monitoring at airports was are running at close to 770 a day Fauci, the government’s top in- and “incredible” job against the than 20% of the reported deaths. loose. Travel bans came too late. on average, and a widely cited fectious-disease expert, said on scourge, adding: “The only thing Brazil is second with about Only later did health officials model from the University of CNN. we’ve done a bad job in is public 137,000 deaths, followed by India realize the virus could spread Washington predicts the U.S. toll The United States hit the relations because we haven’t been with approximately 89,000 and before symptoms show up, ren- will double to 400,000 by the end threshold six weeks before a pres- able to convince people — which Mexico with around 74,000. Only dering screening imperfect. of the year as schools and colleges idential election that is certain to is basically the fake news — what five countries — Peru, Bolivia, At the same time, gaps in lead- reopen and cold weather sets in. be in part a referendum on Presi- a great job we’ve done.” Chile, Spain and Brazil — rank ership led to shortages of test- A vaccine is unlikely to become dent Donald Trump’s handling of For five months, America has higher in COVID-19 deaths per ing supplies. Internal warnings widely available until 2021. the crisis. led the world by far in sheer num- capita. to ramp up production of masks “The idea of 200,000 deaths In an interview Tuesday with bers of confirmed infections and “All the world’s leaders took were ignored, leaving states to is really very sobering, in some a Detroit TV station, Trump deaths. The U.S. has less than 5% the same test, and some have suc- compete for protective gear. WHO unveils its plan for distributing vaccine

BY EMILY RAUHALA guarantees for a slate of vaccine mies buy up stocks for their own effective vaccine, how do you The framework makes clear The Washington Post candidates. The idea is to discour- populations. divvy it up? that each participating country age hoarding and focus on vacci- The White House said this The WHO’s answer is a two- can decide whom to vaccinate The World Health Organization nating high-risk people in every month that the United States phase plan that will be closely first, but is based on the idea that on Monday will announce which participating country first. would not be joining, in part be- studied and assessed. doses for 3% of a country’s popu- countries have signed on to its “If and when we have an ef- cause the administration doesn’t In the first phase, doses will be lation could be used to vaccinate vaccine plan — and provide more fective vaccine, we must use it want to work with the WHO, and distributed proportionally, mean- medical workers first, and then details about how a vaccine, when effectively,” Tedros Adhanom will instead take a go-it-alone ing each participating country other high-risk groups. it is developed, will be doled out. Ghebreyesus, director general of approach. will get doses for a share of its “Providing each country with More than 170 countries are in the WHO, tweeted Sunday. “And To succeed, the facility must population: 3% to start, then up enough doses to start protecting talks to join the COVID-19 Vac- the best way to do that is to start attract wealthy nations. The to 20%. the health system and those at cines Global Access Facility, or by vaccinating some people in all proposed allocation framework, If supply is still limited after higher risk of dying is the best ap- Covax, which aims to develop and countries, rather than all people which was reviewed by The the 20% threshold is met, the al- proach to maximize the impact of distribute $2 billion in doses of a in some countries.” Washington Post ahead of its pub- location method will switch. In the small quantities of vaccines,” vaccine by the end of 2021. But Covax, which launched in lication, is part of that push. Phase 2, Covax will consider each said Mariangela Batista Galvao Under the plan, rich and poor June, is not getting the support The framework seeks to an- country’s COVID-19 risk level, Simao, the WHO’s assistant di- countries will pool money to pro- it hoped for as vaccine national- swer a question critical to every sending more doses to countries rector general for access to medi- vide manufacturers with volume ism takes hold and big econo- country: Once there’s a safe and at highest risk. cines and health products. Navy and Marine Corps announce several new patients at Japan bases

BY JOSEPH DITZLER exhibit no symptoms, according virus patients. The Marines started sentinel For example, members of one or Stars and Stripes to an email Tuesday from Maj. U.S. Forces Japan requires all testing after a conducting a high two units at Camp Foster might Ken Kunze, spokesman for Ma- new arrivals and travelers re- number of tests, and because test be selected for testing rather than TOKYO — The U.S. military rine Corps Installations Pacific. turning to Japan to test free of teams were “maintaining a high individuals from several units in Japan had recorded seven new The “sentinel” tests will include the coronavirus before exiting operational tempo,” according to across multiple bases. coronavirus infections as of 6 civilian personnel along with Ma- quarantine. Kunze’s email. The Marines ex- “People will know a few days p.m. Tuesday. rines and sailors, Kunze wrote. The two new patients the Ma- perienced two large viral clusters prior,” Kunze wrote. “A medi- Five of those patients are at At Yokosuka, home of the U.S. rines reported are new arrivals in July that continued to generate cal provider must input the test Yokosuka Naval Base, south of 7th Fleet, one person tested posi- to Okinawa and tested positive in new cases into August. request similar to another lab Tokyo, while the other two are tive who previously had contact quarantine, according to a Face- Additionally, the number of test so it will not be a surprise to at Marine Corps installations on with an infected person, accord- book post by the Marines. One new arrivals began to dip as the anyone. This will be handled at Okinawa. ing to a news release from the person is assigned to Camp Foster season for changing duty stations the unit level where a provider or On Monday, the Marines also base. The other four were in the and the other to Camp Kinser. and deploying units waned, he ‘surgeon’ is on staff.” started randomly testing 1% of mandatory, two-week quarantine Close contacts of both were wrote. Stars and Stripes reporter Matthew M. its personnel on the island twice required of new arrivals. All five also quarantined, although the The random tests will be done Burke contributed to this report. weekly to detect any potential are now in isolation, the release Marines provided no further in- among individual commands [email protected] viral spread among people who said. Yokosuka has eight corona- formation on them. rather than by base, Kunze wrote. Twitter: @JosephDitzler Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP Campus outbreak could delay plan to reopen San Diego

From wire reports reporting a now-debunked story about the mayor of Nashville, SAN DIEGO — The start of Tenn., supposedly concealing the semester at San Diego State the number of coronavirus cases University was, as always, a time linked to bars and restaurants in for students to make and renew the city since they were so low. friendships on and off its urban But on Monday night, Fox’s campus and enjoy the beach and Tucker Carlson said that “we the city’s unmatched August don’t know the truth” about the weather. Nashville case. The coronavirus meant far The story came from a Thurs- GREGORY BULL/AP fewer people returned to campus day report by Nashville’s Fox af- this year but the parties, cookouts As coronavirus cases grew at San Diego State University, San Diego county tried to argue that those filiate WZTV on “leaked emails” and other festivities that mark the cases — which have topped 800 among students — should be excluded from state tallies, like case that the station retracted late Fri- start of the fall semester went on numbers at prisons. Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the proposal before it was even formally delivered. as usual for a week or two, then day upon learning that they didn’t abruptly stopped as infections mean what its reporter thought Peterson is seeking a restraining Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Deb- Saturday. The resident had previ- quickly mounted. they did. order and preliminary injunction bie Dingell, both Michigan Dem- ously recovered from COVID-19 There have been larger out- A fact-check done Friday by to lift the 25% capacity limit. ocrats, made a surprise visit this in May. breaks at U.S. colleges but none The Nashville Tennessean de- month to an Amazon warehouse The long-term care facility may be more impactful than the bunked the WZTV reporting, Iowa in Romulus. The lawmakers said for veterans has since taken ad- one at San Diego State. which was retweeted by Donald they were asked to wait outside ditional precautions to control California has seen remarkable Trump Jr. and led to Tennessee DES MOINES — The Des for about 90 minutes before being further spread of the virus, in- recent success with the virus — Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Repub- Moines School board on Monday invited in for a tour. While they cluding testing all residents who the infection rate of 2.8% for the lican, to publicly call for an inves- night set a date for returning to waited, someone inside the build- live on the same floor as the posi- last week is the lowest since the tigation into Mayor John Cooper, school, but put off establishing a ing called the police on them. tive veteran and all staff mem- pandemic began, and hospitaliza- a Democrat. coronavirus infection rate that Tlaib on Monday tweeted video bers the resident had contact tions dropped to a level not seen would force the district to revert of part of the visit, showing Ama- with. No additional cases have since the first week of April. But New Mexico to online-only instruction. zon workers cleaning the facility been identified. Des Moines , Iowa’s largest dis- while she and Dingell waited. The More than 30 residents of the the campus outbreak may put SANTA FE — The U.S. Jus- trict with more than 33,000 stu- video includes police responding state-run facility with more than San Diego County over a state tice Department sided Monday dents, has been the state’s only to the site after being called by 200 beds have already died from threshold for cases that mandates with the father of a seventh grade school system that has refused Amazon in response to the law- the disease. many businesses close or restrict prep school student in a lawsuit Gov. Kim Reynolds’ order that makers’ surprise appearance. indoor operations. that challenges pandemic-related they hold at least half their class- The two were let in and were told limits on classroom capacity at Nebraska es in-person unless they have re- that they could not take video in- W isconsin private schools in New Mexico ceived a waiver because of high side the warehouse. OMAHA — Nebraska prison MADISON — State health of- as more restrictive than public infection rates. “Employee screening is poorly officials announced that five ficials are recommending against school guidelines. The Department of Education executed, cleaning is insufficient, more staffers in the Nebraska De- trick-or-treating as usual this Albuquerque-based U.S. Attor- has threatened to deem the dis- social distancing is often diffi- partment of Corrections recently Halloween because of the coro- ney John Anderson filed a state- trict not in compliance, potential- cult or impossible and Amazon’s tested positive for the coronavi- navirus pandemic. ment of interest that argues the ly forcing it to extend its school relentless quota system does not rus, as numbers from state health Going house-to-house and hav- state is violating the equal protec- year at a cost of about $1.5 million allow for breaks for adequate per- officials show 442 people have ing in-person contact is not a good tion clause of the U.S. Constitution a day. The board has argued that sonal hygiene,” Tlaib said. died and more than 41,000 have idea, according to the Wisconsin by limiting attendance at private a high prevalence of the coronavi- An Amazon spokeswoman tested positive for the virus. Department of Health Services. schools to 25% of building capac- rus statewide and in Polk County called the police appearance “an Four of the prison staffers test- If individual communities de- ity under a public health order. makes it unsafe to hold in-person unfortunate misunderstanding ing positive work at the Nebraska cide to go ahead with traditional The limit is set at 50% for pub- classes. when one of our night shift secu- State Penitentiary in Lincoln, the trick-or-treating, health officials lic schools under guidance from The board agreed on a 6 to 1 rity guards was not expecting ex- Nebraska Department of Correc- recommend leaving individual the Public Education Depart- vote to gradually start a hybrid ternal visitors to be filming on site tional Services said in a news re- treat bags on the porch for chil- ment, though only select groups plan of in-person and online and was not aware of the identity lease Sunday. The fifth works at dren to pick up. of elementary school and dis- courses, starting with pre-kin- of those filming at the entryway the Diagnostic Evaluation Center Some Wisconsin communities abled students have returned to dergarten on Oct. 12 and ending of the facility — the situation was in Lincoln. have scheduled trick-or-treat classrooms. with high school on Nov. 10. resolved and we toured the con- All five are self-isolating at times as usual, with suggestions The initial lawsuit was filed gresswomen through the site.” home, the release said. The lat- for taking precautions. Other earlier this month by Douglas Pe- Michigan est release brings the number of communities are conferring with terson, the father of a student at Massachusetts prison staffers across the state their local health departments Albuquerque Academy, after the Two U.S. lawmakers from Mich- infected to 132, the department before making a decision. school opted for online instruc- igan questioned the safety protec- BOSTON — A resident of a vet- said. tion in response to the state’s tions for Amazon employees after erans care center in Massachu- The state’s online virus tracker Tennessee public health order. The lawsuit touring a company warehouse in setts has tested positive for the on Monday showed that 41,083 asserts that the school could have their state, raising new criticisms coronavirus for a second time, in Nebraska have tested positive NASHVILLE — Fox News moved forward with classroom about working conditions at the e- state health officials announced since the outbreak began, includ- Channel’s Steve Doocy apologized instruction if it had the same 50% commerce giant during the coro- Monday. ing 1,162 from Friday through on Monday “for any confusion” in capacity limit as public schools. navirus pandemic. The positive test came back Sunday. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 NATION Senate GOP in line to quickly fill court seat

Associated Press nominee Joe Biden, vow a tough fight but need four GOP defec- WASHINGTON — Senate Re- tions to block consideration. So publicans have swiftly fallen in far, two Republicans have said line behind President Donald they oppose taking up a nomina- Trump’s push to fill the late Jus- tion at this time, but no others are tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Su- in sight. Under Senate rules, Vice BRETT COOMER, HOUSTON CHRONICLE/AP preme Court seat as one of the last holdouts, Sen. Mitt Romney, President Mike Pence can break A man walks through a street flooded by Tropical Storm Beta on Monday in Galveston, Texas. Beta was said Tuesday he supports a vote a tie vote. downgraded to a tropical depression Tuesday, but forecasters warned of heavy rainfall Tuesday on the despite Democrats’ objections it’s Senate Judiciary Chairman middle and upper Texas coast, which will cause significant flash flooding. too close to the Nov. 3 election. Lindsey Graham, who will shep- Trump, who will announce his herd the nomination through the nominee Saturday, is all but cer- chamber, said Republicans have tain to have the votes to confirm the support they need. Hearings Beta stalls over Texas coast as it his choice. could start in early October, aides “I guess we have all the votes said. we’re going to need,” Trump “The nominee is going to be weakens to a tropical depression told WJBX FOX 2 in Detroit on supported by every Republican Tuesday, “I think it’s going to in the Judiciary Committee,” BY JUAN A. LOZANO Street flooding was reported in was not expected to be another happen.” Graham, who faces his own tough Associated Press parts of Houston, but there were Hurricane Harvey or Tropical Conservatives are pushing for a reelection in South Carolina, told no reports of buildings being Storm Imelda. Harvey in 2017 vote before Election Day. Repub- Fox News. “We’ve got the votes to HOUSTON — Beta weakened flooded, Mayor Sylvester Turner dumped more than 50 inches of licans hold a slim 53-47 majority confirm the justice on the floor of to a tropical depression Tuesday said late Tuesday morning. Turn- rain on Houston, causing $125 bil- in the Senate, and a simple ma- the Senate before the election and as it parked itself over the Texas er urged residents to stay home lion in damage in Texas. Imelda, jority is needed for confirmation. that’s what’s coming.” coast, raising concerns of ex- and, if they couldn’t, to not drive which hit Southeast Texas last But with early voting for presi- Trump met with conservative tensive flooding in Houston and around the 70-some barricades year, was one of the wettest cy- dent already underway in several Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the areas further inland. that have placed throughout the clones on record. states, all sides are girding for a White House on Monday and told Beta made landfall late Mon- city. Turner, the Houston mayor, wrenching Senate battle. reporters he would interview day as a tropical storm just north The slow-moving storm was ex- said the city would pre-emptively Romney, R-Utah, backed up other candidates and might meet of Port O’Connor, Texas, and has pected to bring multiple rounds of close roads if needed, citing les- his decision by saying it’s not with Judge Barbara Lagoa when the distinction of being the first rain to Houston. sons learned from Imelda when “written in the stars” that the he travels to Florida later this time a storm named for a Greek “It’s going to be moving very hundreds of drivers were strand- court should have a liberal bent, week. Conversations in the White letter made landfall in the conti- slowly heading east and until it ed on flooded freeways. and Trump’s pick will tip the na- House and McConnell’s office nental United States. Forecast- clears and gets on the east side On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott tion’s high court to become more have been increasingly focused ers ran out of traditional storm of Houston, we’re going to have issued a disaster declaration for conservative. on Barrett and Lagoa, according names last week, forcing the use to deal with these rain bands,” 29 Texas counties ahead of Beta’s It’s “appropriate,” he told re- to a person granted anonymity to of the Greek alphabet for only the Turner said. arrival. porters at the Capitol, “for a nation discuss the private deliberations. second time since the 1950s. Beta was expected to eventu- Beta is forecast to dump heavy which is, if you will, center right, Barrett has long been favored By mid-morning Tuesday, Beta ally move over Louisiana, Arkan- rain on the southwestern corner to have a court which reflects a by conservatives, and those famil- was 15 miles east-northeast of sas and Mississippi later in the of Louisiana three weeks after set of right points of view.” iar with the process said interest Victoria, Texas, with maximum week, bringing the risk of flash the same area got pounded by Trump and Senate Majority inside the White House seemed sustained winds of 35 mph, the flooding. Hurricane Laura . Leader Mitch McConnell have to be waning for Lagoa amid con- U.S. National Hurricane Center Forecasters warned of heavy In Lake Charles, Mayor Nic launched one of the quickest con- cerns she did not have a proven said. The storm was moving to- rainfall Tuesday on the middle Hunter worried Beta’s rainfall firmation processes in modern record as a conservative jurist . ward the northeast at 2 mph and and upper Texas coast, which could set back efforts in his Loui- times. No court nominee in U.S. Democrats point to hypocrisy is expected to stall inland over will cause significant flash flood- siana community to recover after history has been considered so in Republicans trying to rush Texas through Wednesday. ing. Six to 12 inches of rain was Laura, which damaged about close to a presidential election. through a pick so close to the elec- The National Weather Service expected, with some isolated 95% of the city’s 30,000 struc- McConnell was holding private tion after McConnell led the GOP said areas south and east of Hous- areas of up to 20 inches, forecast- tures. Hunter said the worry of meetings at the Capitol and later in refusing to vote on a nominee ton had already seen 10 inches or ers said. another storm was “an emotional at GOP campaign headquarters of President Barack Obama in more of rain by midday Tuesday However, forecasters and of- and mental toll for a lot of our to assess next steps. February 2016, long before that because of Beta. ficials reassured residents Beta citizens.” Democrats, led by presidential year’s election. Huge wildfire threatening more than 1,000 homes in Calif. desert

BY CHRISTOPHER WEBER lope Valley foothill area, across Poindexter told ABC7. “You can Numerous studies in recent Sky Cornell with the Los Angeles Associated Press the San Gabriel Mountains from see everything is ash.” years have linked bigger U.S. County Fire Department. Los Angeles. Firefighters also battled fla- wildfires to global warming from About 1,100 homes and some LOS ANGELES — A wildfire The blaze that began Sept. 6 has reups near Mount Wilson, which the burning of coal, oil and gas, es- 4,000 residents remained under scorching its way through brush destroyed or damaged at least 29 overlooks greater Los Angeles pecially because climate change evacuation orders and the fire and timber from the mountains homes and other buildings, with and has a historic observatory has made California much drier. was only 17% contained, fire of- to the desert northeast of Los the toll rising to perhaps 85 when founded more than a century ago A drier California means plants ficials said. Angeles threatened more than damage assessment teams can and numerous broadcast antennas are more flammable. Evacuation warnings — mean- 1,000 homes on Tuesday as crews complete their work this week, that serve Southern California. Near Mount Wilson, firefight- ing residents should be prepared across the West battled dozens of authorities said. The fire was fueled by vegeta- ers set more than a mile of fires to flee if ordered — remained in other major blazes. Cheryl Poindexter lost her des- tion that hadn’t burned in decades designed to burn out the blaze’s effect for the Los Angeles suburb The Bobcat Fire in Southern ert home. and pushed by erratic winds over fuel and act as a brake on its of Pasadena, home of the Rose California was advancing at 1 to 2 “That fire came over the hill the weekend, although they had advance. Bowl and the annual Rose Pa- mph at times and threatened the so hard and fast that I turned died down by Monday, and were “We’ve got a fire here that is rade, and Wrightwood, a moun- Mojave Desert town of Pearblos- around and I barely got my eight expected to remain light through bigger than the city of Denver, tain community near several San som after burning into the Ante- dogs and my two parrots out,” Tuesday. and it did it in two weeks,” said Bernardino County ski resorts. Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION House to vote on bill Team member: Mueller to avert shutdown Associated Press out funds. Farmers are suffer- ing from low commodity prices WASHINGTON — The House was on track Tuesday to pass and the effects of higher tariffs ‘could have done more’ a government-wide temporary imposed by Trump. Trump an- funding bill to keep federal agen- nounced a new $13 billion al- cies fully up and running into lotment of bailout funding at a December and prevent a partial political rally in Wisconsin last In book, prosecutor critical of limits of Russia probe shutdown of the government after week; the provision would keep the current budget year expires the door open for additional elec- BY MATT ZAPOTOSKY break his silence about the in- structed justice — in part because at the end of the month. tion-eve pronouncements. AND SPENCER S. HSU vestigation that dogged Trump’s of a Justice Department legal The Democratic-controlled “The Trump administration The Washington Post presidency. Throughout the opinion that a sitting president chamber planned to vote despite has proven they cannot be trust- probe, Mueller and the others cannot be indicted, combined a mini-furor ignited when Demo- ed to distribute payments fairly,” WASHINGTON — A former were famously tight-lipped about with concerns over fairness, be- cratic leaders left out a provision said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, of prosecutor on special counsel what they were finding, and while cause if he faced no indictment, requested by President Donald Michigan, top Democrat on the Robert Mueller’s team writes in a some prosecutors have given in- Trump could not defend himself new book that the group failed to Trump and backed strongly by Agriculture Committee . terviews to reporters upon join- in court. Attorney General Wil- fully investigate President Don- Capitol Hill Republicans that The chairman of the Agricul- ing private law firms, they have liam Barr and then-Deputy At- ald Trump’s financial ties and would give the administration ture panel, Pat Roberts, R-Kan., revealed little about the special torney General Rod Rosenstein continued immediate authority to should have stated explicitly that counsel’s work. said before the report’s public re- is angry about the omission but it believed he obstructed justice; dole out Agriculture Department said Republicans are not going to The book, titled “Where Law lease that they evaluated the case farm bailout funds. he says the team’s efforts were spark a potential shutdown con- Ends,” holds little back, offer- themselves and determined that House passage would send the limited by the ever-present threat ing colorful observations about Trump could not be charged with frontation over it. measure to the GOP-controlled of Trump disbanding its office other members of the team, their obstruction. “I understand there are people and by its own reluctance to be Senate and a potential floor fight, targets and the White House Weissmann condemns Barr, upset with the Secretary and aggressive. but there’s no appetite on either — writing that all Trump White White House attorneys and oth- In a book that offers the most side for a government shutdown. what he has done or will do or House counsel members referred ers for enabling a “lawless” presi- detailed account yet of what hap- Democrats complain that the whatever with regards to (farm) to the Oval Office as the reality- dent. He confesses that the office pened behind the scenes during Trump administration has fa- funding,“ Roberts said. “But this free “Magic Kingdom.” He puts never overcame a key challenge: Mueller’s two-year investigation vored Southern states such as is desperately needed and there’s in more plain language many of “the president’s power to fire us of Russian interference in the Georgia — a key swing state 45 to 50 programs that would be the Mueller report’s conclusions and to pardon wrongdoers who 2016 election, Andrew Weiss- and home of Agriculture Secre- in danger, right in the middle of mann writes of his frustration and points to what he saw as the might otherwise cooperate.” the COVID thing, the farm crisis, tary Sonny Perdue — and larger that the special counsel did not team’s failures and the questions Weissmann is critical of Muel- producers in distributing bail- and the whole business.“ subpoena the president and oth- it left unanswered. ler for not stating plainly that erwise pulled punches for fear of “We still do not know if there he had concluded that Trump incurring Trump’s wrath. are other financial ties between obstructed justice, which Weiss- He lays particular blame on the president and either the Rus- mann believed the evidence Mueller’s top deputy, Aaron sian government or Russian oli- showed. Weissmann said in an Zebley, for stopping investiga- garchs,” Weissmann writes. “We interview with The Washington tors from taking a broad look at do not know whether he paid Post that he told Mueller that he Trump’s finances, and writes bribes to foreign officials to se- would have stated such a conclu- that he now wonders whether in- cure favorable treatment for his sion in the team’s final report. vestigators had “given it our all,” business interests, a potential “Director Mueller’s decision knowing they left many impor- violation of the Foreign Corrupt was to not make that conclusion, tant questions unanswered. Practices Act that would provide and by the way, I would have done “As proud as I am of the work leverage against the president. We it,” Weissmann said. “I told him our team did — the unprecedent- do not know if he had other Rus- why I would have done that.” ed number of people we indicted sian business deals in the works Weissmann said that while he and convicted and in record speed at the time he was running for believed it remained possible for for any similar investigation — I president, how they might have Trump to be charged after he know the hard answer to that sim- aided or constrained his cam- leaves office, he was noncommit- ple question: We could have done paign, or even if they are continu- tal on whether he should be. AP more,” Weissmann writes. ing to influence his presidency.” Barr has tasked U.S. Attorney Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is part of an effort Weissmann, a former federal Mueller ultimately concluded John Durham in Connecticut with that raised more than $20 million to help Florida felons who have prosecutor and Justice Depart- that he could not prove a criminal reviewing the Russia probe that completed their prison sentences vote in the 2020 election. ment supervisor who now teach- conspiracy between the Trump the special counsel’s office took es at New York University’s law campaign and the Russian gov- over with Mueller’s appointment. school and comments as a legal ernment to influence the 2016 Weissmann said in an interview analyst for MSNBC, is the first presidential election. He drew no that he has not been approached Bloomberg raises millions prosecutor on Mueller’s team to conclusion on whether Trump ob- by Durham. to help felons vote in Fla.

Associated Press on Sept. 11 that in addition to serv- IG: Census Bureau didn’t seek to shorten count ing their sentences, Florida felons TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Just Associated Press General report said. “This was the Trump administration and must pay all fines, restitution and days after Florida Gov. Ron De- the consensus view of the senior Congress were called into doubt. legal fees before they can regain ORLANDO, Fla. — The deci- Santis won a court victory to keep Bureau officials we interviewed.“ There was pressure from the their right to vote. With Bloom- sion to shorten by a month the felons from voting until they’ve Because of the pandemic, the Commerce Department to speed paid off fines, restitution and berg’s help, the Florida Rights 2020 head count of every U.S. Census Bureau got support last up operations, legislation in Con- court fees, Democratic billion- Restitution Council had raised resident was not made by the U.S. Census Bureau, and some agency spring from the Department of gress to extend the deadlines aire and former presidential can- about $5 million before Bloom- Commerce, which oversees the didate Michael Bloomberg has berg made calls to raise almost officials suspect it was made by stalled and President Donald the White House or the Depart- agency, to push back its dead- Trump issued a directive trying stepped in to help them pay off $17 million more, according to line from winding down the head the debts. ment of Commerce, according to to exclude people in the country Bloomberg advisers who weren’t count from the end of July to the Bloomberg is part of an effort a report from the bureau’s watch- illegally from the numbers used authorized to speak on the re- end of October. that raised more than $20 million dog agency. in redrawing congressional dis- cord because the announcement The extra time was contingent to help felons who have complet- The report by the Office of In- tricts, according to the Inspector hadn’t been made yet. spector General did not identify on Congress extending the dead- ed their prison sentences vote in General. The money is targeted for fel- who made the decision to shorten line for the Census Bureau turn- the presidential election. That’s At least two Census Bureau of- in addition to the $100 million he ons who registered to vote while the 2020 census from the end of ing in figures used to determine ficials interviewed by the Office has pledged to help Joe Biden win the law was in question and who October to the end of September, how many congressional seats Florida, a crucial state with 29 owe $1,500 or less. That accounts but it said bureau officials con- each state gets from Dec. 31 to of Inspector General believe the Electoral College votes that Pres- for about 31,100 people, Bloom- firm it was not made by them. the end of next April, according president’s order changed the ident Donald Trump hopes will berg advisers say, which could be The accelerated schedule “in- to the report. administration’s support for ex- keep him in the White House. critical in a year when polls show creases the risks to the accuracy At some point in July, though, tending the deadlines, the report A federal appellate court ruled Trump and Biden in a dead heat. of the 2020 Census,“ the Inspector support for the extensions from said. PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 WORLD EU tells UK to stop playing ‘games’ in Brexit trade talks Associated Press agreement to replace the open BRUSSELS — The European and unfettered economic rela- tions that are currently in place. ANDREW MEDICHINI/AP Union is pleading with Britain to stop playing “games” as time is The EU has repeatedly expressed Democratic Party leader Nicola Zingaretti waves after leaving a press conference in Rome on Monday. running out to clinch a free trade its exasperation at what it sees deal over the next month. as British stubbornness and re- The sides committed to a new fusal to compromise on some key meeting to discuss Britain’s plans points. Italy’s right makes inroads to disregard part of the withdraw- Without a deal on future trade al agreement it had signed with relations, chaos is expected at the the 27-nation EU amid acrimony borders on Jan. 1. Companies on that British Prime Minister Boris on Democrats in elections both sides are set to lose massive Johnson would even contemplate amounts of money as new red Associated Press to break an agreement he himself coast, giving the party known for also kept southern Puglia from signed. tape and tariffs will fundamen- its conservative, anti-migration flipping to the right. ROME — Italy’s center-right EU countries’ ministers for Eu- tally change business practices. parties made inroads in bas- stance a key regional win. The The League confirmed its ex- ropean affairs met in Brussels on Johnson’s proposed bill earlier tions of the left, but final results party’s candidate, Francesco Ac- pected victory in Veneto, where Tuesday, and German chairman this month that would disregard quaroli, ran with the backing of the governor, Luca Zaia, secured from regional elections Tuesday Michael Roth said the British part of the withdrawal treaty other center-right parties. another mandate with a whopping showed that the left-of-center plan was “extremely” worrisome dealing with trade between Ire- The biggest center-right party, 76% of the vote. Zaia was largely Democratic Party held on, giving since it “violates the guiding prin- land and the U.K. only added to stability for now to its partner- the League, also made a strong credited with having helped spare ciple of the withdrawal agree- the frustration. ship with the 5-Star Movement in showing in traditionally left-lean- Veneto the worst of the coronavi- ment,” which officially allowed the ruling national coalition. ing Tuscany with 40% of the vote. rus pandemic through aggressive the United Kingdom to leave the “Dear friends in London: Stop The right-wing Brothers of Italy But Democratic candidate Eu- testing and other public health bloc on Jan. 31. the games. Time is running out,” party did take the governorship genio Giani held off what would measures, while neighboring A transition period now runs Roth said ahead of the meeting. of Le Marche, a longtime center- have been a devastating defeat by Lombardy suffered more than until Dec. 31, during which time “What we really need is a fair left stronghold on Italy’s Adriatic winning 48.6%. The center-left any Italian region. both sides are negotiating a trade basis for negotiations.” Navalny says nerve agent was found ‘in and on’ his body

Associated Press and said the clothes taken off him Navalny has since posted several tripped in a supermarket and Saturday, and now the politician when he was hospitalized in Sibe- photos of himself in the hospital, broke my leg,” Navalny wrote. MOSCOW — Russian opposi- wants his clothes back. tion leader Alexei Navalny de- ria a month ago after collapsing saying he is recovering his ver- Russian police said they start- Since the inquiry hasn’t result- manded Monday that Russia on a Russian flight are “very im- bal, mental and physical abilities. ed a preliminary probe — an ed in a criminal case, “it can now return the clothes he was wearing portant material evidence. In a statement Monday, Naval- inquiry to determine whether a be argued that the Russian state “I demand that my clothes be ny blasted Russian authorities for criminal investigation should be on the day he fell into a coma in has officially decided to ignore carefully packed in a plastic bag not launching a criminal probe launched — after Navalny was Siberia, calling it “a crucial piece the poisoning of Navalny,” the of evidence” in the nerve agent and returned to me,” the 44-year- into what happened to him. hospitalized. politician’s spokeswoman Kira poisoning he is being treated for old politician and corruption in- “There is no criminal case in Navalny and his allies on Mon- at a German hospital. vestigator wrote. Russia, there is a ‘preliminary in- day argued that, according to Yarmysh said in a video state- In a blog post Monday, Navalny Last week, the Berlin hospital quiry regarding the fact of hospi- existing regulations, the inquiry ment on Monday. said the Novichok nerve agent reported taking him off a venti- talization.’ It looks as if I didn’t fall should have been completed in Police said Monday the inquiry was found “in and on” his body, lator as his condition improved. into a coma on a plane, but rather 30 days; those 30 days ran out on was still ongoing. Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD German cyberattack Taiwan’s president visits military base trail leads to Russia BERLIN — IT experts in- vestigating a cyberattack that Associated Press spokesman Wang Wenbin again paralyzed computer systems at a condemned the visit, calling it a major hospital in western Germa- PENGHU, Taiwan — Taiwan’s “political provocation that em- ny say one of the trails they are President Tsai Ing-wen visited a boldens Taiwan independence following leads to Russia, Ger- military base on one of Taiwan’s separatists and undermines man media reported Tuesday. outlying islands Tuesday in a dis- China-U.S. relations as well as The attack caused the failure of play of resolve following a recent peace and stability across the IT systems at Duesseldorf’s Uni- show of force by rival China. Taiwan Strait.” versity Hospital two weeks ago. A Tsai spoke to roughly a hundred China has increased its dip- woman who needed urgent admis- air force pilots and crew mem- lomatic and military pressure sion died after she had to be taken bers at the Penghu Magong Air on Tsai’s government over her to another city for treatment. Force base, where two pilots took refusal to agree to China’s insis- Authorities in North Rhine- off in Taiwan-produced Ching- tence that the island be consid- Westphalia told state lawmakers kuo Indigenous Defense Fighters ered a part of Chinese territory. that the software used to encrypt to greet her arrival. The vast majority of Taiwanese computer systems in an apparent Taiwan has the “ability” and reject the prospect of political ransom attempt originates with “resolve” to safeguard its terri- union with China under the “one a Russian hacker group, public tory, she said, while praising the country, two systems” framework broadcaster WDR reported. soldiers as being able to get up in in place in Hong Kong. WDR quoted investigators as the air within five minutes. Tsai has remained defiant in saying that the attack “may have “I know that having to face face of China’s anger. been part of a worldwide, com- JOHNSON LAI/AP the provocations of the People’s “I am confident in each one of mercial malware campaign.” Liberation Army surrounding Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, center, speaks Tuesday near Taiwan’s you, because as soldiers the Re- The attackers appeared to have Taiwan, and their actions in dis- Indigenous Defense Fighter jets displayed during a visit to the public of China’s air force, how intended to target the Heinrich turbing the area’s peace, in the Penghu Magong military air base in Penghu Island, Taiwan . can we let others throw their Heine University, to which the situation, everyone’s duty at the weight around in our own air- Duesseldorf hospital is affiliated, frontline air defense at Penghu and long-distance bombers, over U.S. official in two months. The space?” she said on Tuesday, and not the hospital itself. When has become heavier,” Tsai said. the Taiwan Strait on Friday and American health secretary vis- using Taiwan’s formal name. Duesseldorf police established “But I have faith in every indi- Saturday in what Beijing called a ited Taiwan in August. While China’s armed forces contact and said the hospital, vidual, that every one of our well- deliberate warning during a visit China considers Taiwan part of have an overwhelming numeri- and not the university, had been trained air force brothers and by a high level U.S. State Depart- its national territory and objects cal advantage over Taiwan, the affected, endangering patients, sisters is able to lift this heavy ment envoy to the island. to all official contact between island’s small but well-trained the perpetrators withdrew their responsibility,” she said. It was an unusually large dis- other countries and Taipei. high-tech force enjoys strong extortion attempt and provided a The Chinese air force flew play of force in response to the At a news conference Mon- support from the U.S., the island’s digital key to decrypt the data. 37 planes, including fighter jets second such visit by a high-level day, China’s Foreign Ministry chief ally. From The Associated Press PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Small plane crash lands on street, 2 injured

MOOSIC — A small PA plane on a flight from Vermont crash-landed on a resi- dential street in Pennsylvania, in- juring the pilot and a passenger. The single-engine aircraft was trying to land at Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton International Airport when the pilot apparently ha d en- gine trouble and brought the plane down on Stone Street, officials said. The plane took down power lines and left more than 500 cus- tomers without electricity. Witnesses described hearing a loud noise before the lights went out. The plane had damage to the nose, wings and landing gear. The pilot and the passenger sustained injuries that were not considered life-threatening, po- lice said. Their names were not released. Nobody was injured on the ground. The National Trans- portation Safety Board and the FAA were investigating. Man faces over 300 sex-related charges

RAEFORD — A North NC Carolina man is facing more than 300 separate counts for sex-related crimes involving a juvenile, authorities said. CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP Joshuah Taylor Bradshaw, 30, was apprehended by the FBI in Etta, Miss., Hoke County Sheriff A night at the symphony Hubert Peterkin said in a news release. People are socially distanced as they listen to the music of the Kansas City Symphony on the lawn at the Liberty Memorial on Saturday in Peterkin said that detectives Kansas City, Mo. went to a Raeford home Aug. 7 for a reported juvenile sexual as- The sculpture was burned in The species was removed from sault. Arrest warrants were ob- THE CENSUS tained, but Bradshaw left North Bowdoinham, on the property the federal endangered spe- Carolina, according to the news of former select board member The number of free loads of laundry community groups in Chicago of- cies list in 2015. They are fairly release. Theresa Turgeon, who said she’s fered if customers at a coin laundry filled out census forms. “If we don’t abundant on Maryland’s Eastern He was extradited from Missis- running for the town’s select fill it out, we lose the millions (of dollars) of funding that is necessary for Shore, but the species has been sippi and received 332 charges. board again. 2 our communities,” said Frances Velez, a volunteer at Mujeres Latinas en slow to expand its range. The counts include statutory sex- The large donkey sculpture was Accion — Latina Women in Action — who held a sign with the offer. Il- The Delaware Department of ual offense, taking indecent liber- built by Doug Chess, a local art- linois has a 70% census response rate, but Chicago is only at 60%. The deadline Natural Resources and Environ- ties with children, crimes against ist and bus driver, as a symbol of to fill out forms is at the end of September. mental Control and its partners nature and sexual exploitation the Democratic Party. It’s made hope to increase the species’ of a minor, the release said. The out of wood, wire, cardboard, numbers and secure its perma- alleged offenses occurred from Fiberglas and other materials. It Police arrest man who The derailment happened at nence. Squirrels captured from February through August. had been circulating to different the 14th Street and Eighth Av- Dorchester County, M d., will be lawns around Bowdoinham and stole moored houseboat enue station in Manhattan. In- released into the wildlife area in Snorkeler attacked, Richmond, and had been at Tur- terim New York City Transit southeastern Sussex County in geon’s since Friday. MINNEAPOLIS injured by bull shark president Sarah Feinberg said a Delaware. MN — Authorities said northbound A train hit debris as New kind of license a hooded man stole a houseboat it was pulling into the station. 3 accused in prison KEY WEST — A 30- moored off an island along the Feinberg said the 134 passen- FL year-old snorkeler from plate making debut Mississippi River in Minneapolis drug smuggling plot Atlanta, G a., was attacked by a gers on board the train were safe- before he was arrested at shore. shark in the Florida Keys. FRANKFORT — A ly evacuated. A fire department The boat was tied up off Nicol- COLDWATER — Two Andrew Eddy was in a private new kind of Kentucky spokesperson said three of the KY let Island along the river across MI adults and a teenager boat with his family exploring the license plate has started appear- riders suffered minor injuries. from downtown, where it was sto- were arrested for allegedly try- reefs at Sombrero Key Light when ing on vehicles across the state. One person was taken to a hos- len , the Star Tribune reported. ing to smuggle drugs into a south- he was bitten on the shoulder by a The biggest difference is in the pital for evaluation and the other Police officers grabbed the boat ern Michigan prison, according bull shark, Monroe County Sher- way the new plates are manufac- two declined treatment. a little more than an hour later to Michigan State Police. iff’s officials said. Family mem- tured. They’re digitally printed Police said the train derailed and brought the man to shore to The alleged plot at Lakeland bers immediately began first aid. on flat aluminum instead of tra- after someone threw debris from the north at Boom Island, witness Correctional Facility in Cold- Authorities said boaters in the ditional, embossed metal with a construction project onto the Chris Stellar said. Stellar pro- water was discovered over the area had spotted the bull shark raised letters and numbers, state tracks. A 30-year-old man was vided a photo to the newspaper weekend, authorities said. Pris- earlier. Witnesses described the transportation officials said. arrested and charges against him showing a police officer standing on officials asked state police to shark as eight to 10 feet in length. The Kentucky Transportation are pending. in the water and aiming a Taser investigate. Eddy was air lifted to a Miami Cabinet will save money on stor- at the suspect. A 33-year-old Adrian woman, hospital with a severe shoulder age space, bulk manufacturing State taking in more of her 15-year-old daughter and a injury. and unused inventory, the offi- a rare squirrel species cials said. 3 injured after subway 20-year-old man, also from Adri- an, were arrested and hit with Donkey sculpture on With digital technology, stan- hits debris and derails DAGSBORO — A rare multiple felony charges. Their front lawn burned dard and specialty license DE squirrel species is plates can be produced as need- NEW YORK — Three being released into a wildlife area names have not been released pending court appearances. BOWDOINHAM ed rather than having to be NY passengers suffered in Delaware. Authorities said an investiga- ME — A donkey sculpture mass-produced. minor injuries when a New York The Wilmington News Journal on a front lawn in a Maine town Kentucky Correctional In- City subway train derailed after reported that some Delmarva tion showed several prisoners was set on fire in what one law- dustries will continue making hitting construction debris that fox squirrels are being placed in were also allegedly involved, and maker called an act of “political the plates at the Kentucky State had been thrown onto the tracks, the Assawoman Wildlife Area in they’ll seek additional charges. terrorism.” Reformatory. authorities said. Dagsboro this month. From wire reports Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 FACES New this week: Public Enemy, Bonnaroo and ‘Enola Holmes’

Associated Press With the blink-182’s Travis Barker in the executive producer Here’s a collection curated by chair, rapper and rocker Machine The Associated Press’ entertain- Gun Kelly is releasing his fifth ment journalists of what’s arriv- album on Friday. “Tickets to My ing on TV, streaming services Downfall” features 15 tracks, and music platforms this week. including collaborations with Halsey, Trippie Redd, blackbear Movies and Iann Dior. “Enola Holmes”: “Stranger — AP Music Editor Things” breakout Millie Bobby Mesfin Fekadu Brown gets her first starring role in a Netflix film, “Enola Holmes,” Television coming to the streamer Wednes- “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” re- day. Brown plays Sherlock’s turned for its third season Tues- ( Henry Cavill) little sister in this day on Fox. Astrophysicist Neil adaptation of the Nancy Springer deGrasse Tyson mystery series. hosts the series “Judy”: Miss out on Renee produced, writ- Zellweger’s Oscar-winning turn ten and directed as Judy Garland? Time to get by Ann Druyan, happy, because “Judy” is coming who worked to Hulu on Friday. Inspired by with her Carl Peter Quilter’s play “End of the Sagan, her late Rainbow,” “Judy” looks at some husband, on the of Garland’s last years of life, in groundbreak- late 1968 and early 1969 during Ty s o n ing 1980 “Cos- a series of shows in London when mos” documentary. The newest her star has faded in the U.S. and installment, created in partner- she’s seen as a tragic liability. ship with the National Geograph- Zellweger makes the late icon ic Channel, promises to reveal come alive again with profound “previously uncharted realms,” vulnerability, sadness and a wick- including worlds that humans edly dark sense of humor. Booze musings may one day inhabit. — AP Film Writer PBS’ “Frontline” series contin- Lindsey Bahr ues its three-decade tradition of examining the presidential can- Dylan revives radio show with episode about whiskey Music didates with “The Choice 2020: Public Enemy returns to leg- Trump vs. Biden.” The docu- BY JON BREAM ie Harris, and, of course, by Frank endary record label Def Jam in mentary offers what’s described more than two decades to release as “interwoven investigative bi- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Sinatra. “What You Gonna Do When the ographies” of President Donald Grid Goes Down?” The 17-track Trump and former Vice Presi- With his Never Ending Tour tem- Allison Janney calls into Dylan’s pro- album, out Friday, features a dent Joe Biden, looking at what porarily grounded and his compelling gram. And Sarah Silverman and Penn number of hot acts, including shaped the candidates’ lives, how Nas, Run-DMC, Mike D and Ad- each approaches power and their new album “Rough and Rowdy Ways” Jillette offer station IDs. Rock of Beastie Boys, George view of America’s future. The in stores, Bob Dylan is resurrecting Like a veteran DJ, Dylan riffs exten- Clinton, Rapsody, DJ Premier, two-hour film is available at pbs. Black Thought and Questlove of org/frontline and on YouTube. has “Theme Time Radio Hour” on sively, offering history of songs, corny The Roots, Cypress Hill, Ice-T, Amber Ruffin, a writer-per- PMD, YG and Daddy-O. former for “Late Night with Seth SiriusXM. jokes and tidbits about whiskey and The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Meyers,” is taking center stage On Monday, he premiered a new epi- hangovers. He even introduces an un- Festival, canceled in June, is with “The Amber Ruffin Show,” launching Virtual ROO-ALITY, debuting Friday on the Peacock sode in the series in which he delivers familiar word — sprechstimme, which a three-night live broadcast fea- streaming service. Ruffin ’s new 100 shows from 2006-09. Each fea- turing new performances as well show, she said, is a chance to do means half-sung, half-spoken. “I use as content from the Bonnaroo sketches, songs and jokes about tures a theme — baseball, weather, that (approach) sometimes myself,” he archive. The event starts at 5:30 “this terrible time we call now!” presidents, etc. — with songs and com- p.m. EDT from Thursday through — AP Television Writer said. Saturday on YouTube . Lynn Elber mentary about the particular topic. Much credit goes to Emmy-winning The new episode is about whiskey, Eddie Gorodetsky, the producer, writer inspired by the bard’s own brand, Post Malone leads Billboard noms and force behind this radio series as Heaven’s Door, which he introduced in well as Dylan’s top-notch research Associated Press nods. Malone, Eilish and Khalid will compete for the show’s big- 2018. Post Malone scored 16 2020 team. gest award, top artist, along with Instead of the usual hourlong pro- Billboard Music Awards nomina- Taylor Swift and Jonas Brothers. gram, Dylan delivered a double shot The whiskey episode premiered tions, dick clark productions and The 2020 Billboard Music Monday on SiriusXM channel 27 (“Deep NBC announced Tuesday. Malo- Awards will broadcast live from — two hours — of songs, poems, reci- ne’s nominations include top art- The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles pes and chatter about whiskey. Tracks”). Various old shows of “Theme ist, top male artist, top rap artist on Oct. 14 . The 2020 awards show and top streaming songs artist. was originally supposed to take There were boozy tunes sung by Van Time Radio Hour” will be broadcast on The multi-platinum 25-year-old place in April but was postponed Morrison, George Jones, Thin Lizzy, that channel until 2 a.m. Sept. 28. The star’s 2019 album “Hollywood’s because of the coronavirus. Bleeding” — which featured the These Billboard Awards reflect Tom Waits, the Stanley Brothers and whiskey episode is also available on hits “Circles,” “Wow” and “Good- the chart period of March 23, byes” — is up for top Billboard 2019, through March 14 . Eilish’s Julie London, by old blues figures in- bobdylan.com and streaming services 200 album while “Sunflower,” his “When We All Fall Asleep, Where cluding Byllye Williams and Wynon- starting on Friday. collaboration with Swae Lee from Do We Go?” — which won the the animated “Spider-Man: Into Grammy for album of the year — the Spider-Verse,” is nominated is up against Malone’s record for Bob Dylan is resurrecting his “Theme Time Radio Hour” on SiriusXM. Each program features a for top rap song, top collaboration top Billboard 200 album. Other and top streaming song. theme. The latest episode packed in songs, poems, recipes and chatter about whiskey. nominees include Ariana Grande Lil Nas X follows Malone with “Thank U, Next,” released in Oct. FRAZER HARRISON, GETTY IMAGES / TNS 13 nominations, while Billie Eil- 2018, and Swift’s “Lover,” not her ish and Khalid each scored 12 recent release “Folklore.” PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Lifetime high court seats no longer make sense Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY CHARLES LANE ly upset the balance of power among the if it were possible, the best alternative is to The Washington Post three branches,” Fishbaum wrote. end life tenure for federal judges in favor of EDITORIAL Using standard statistical methods and a specific term limit or a mandatory retire- rucial information about the assumptions, he estimated that there will ment age. Terry Leonard, Editor causes of the looming political be 25 new Supreme Court appointments Whether this must be done by amend- [email protected] battle over the Supreme Court, over the next century, compared with 47 ing the Constitution or whether a change Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor Ccan be found — of all places — in in the previous 100 years and 60 between in federal law could suffice is just one of [email protected] the May-June 2017 issue of Contingencies, 1869 and 1969. Meanwhile, average time many challenging questions such a pro- the official publication of the American on the bench could rise to 35 years, nearly posal would face. Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content Academy of Actuaries. [email protected] double what it was (18.1 years) in the cen- And that’s before you get into the re- In an article provocatively titled “The tury between World War I and the Trump ally fine points. Fishbaum modeled a plan Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation Supreme Court has a Longevity Problem,” administration. Only one president in the whereby eight current justices, plus a new [email protected] David Fishbaum of the management con- past century — one-termer Jimmy Carter appointee, received fresh terms, limited sulting firm Oliver Wyman explained how — made no Supreme Court appointments. Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital to 18 years each. This nearly doubled pre- a social achievement that the Founders Over the next century there is a 1 in 10 dicted turnover for the next century from [email protected] never imagined is destabilizing their con- chance that a two-term president will make 25 to 49. But it accomplished that at the stitutional design: Average life expectancy none, according to Fishbaum. cost of creating a 41% chance that a single has increased from roughly 40 years in the BUREAU STAFF “The lack of movement on the court will two-term president could appoint a court late 18th century to almost 79 years today. amplify the significance of every appoint- majority. 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In the wake of 87-year-old Justice members of the court have over how long Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News And when some of that power may be Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, they could they serve, and the accompanying incen- [email protected] transferred to a 49-year-old man with, on face near-permanent minority status at tive to “time” retirement for ideological CIRCULATION average, 33 years ahead of him — as oc- the Supreme Court. or partisan advantage, which is unseemly curred with President Donald Trump’s ap- The response some Democrats advocate — and, often, futile. Mideast pointment of Neil Gorsuch in 2017 — the — increasing the nine-member court’s le- An impartial rule that applied equally to Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager constitutional guarantee of judicial life gally authorized size and packing it with all would lower political tensions and cross [email protected] tenure begins to look less like insulation liberals — might avenge 2016 and resolve a major item off each individual jurist’s [email protected] against political pressure and more like a their short-term policy concerns while worry list. DSN (314)583-9111 way to enshrine the preferences of a tran- plunging the court, and the country, into The Founders did not design the U.S. po- Europe sitory presidential administration and Sen- even deeper division and crisis. litical system for a world in which vigorous Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager ate majority for decades. What the country needs — badly — is old age is the norm. 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Cyr is Clausen Distinguished Professor at stripes.com White House. Japan. Other partners are notably stronger Carthage College and author of “After the Cold War.” Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17 PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 SCOREBOARD/SPORTS BRIEFS Briefl y Sports Pro soccer Deals MLS Monday’s transactions on AFN EASTERN CONFERENCE BASEBALL W L T Pts GF GA Major League Baseball 49ers say Met Life Columbus 8 1 3 27 20 4 American League Philadelphia 7 2 3 24 21 11 BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Announced Go to the American Forces Orlando City 6 2 4 22 23 14 RHP Cody Carroll has cleared outright Toronto FC 6 2 4 22 20 14 waivers and will remain assigned to al- Network website for the most New York City FC 5 5 2 17 10 9 ternate training site. turf led to injuries up-to-date TV schedules. Montreal 5 6 1 16 18 20 KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned 3B New England 3 3 6 15 10 11 Kelvin Gutierrez to alternate training myafn.net New York 4 6 2 14 9 14 site. Activated RF Jorge Soler from the Nashville SC 3 5 3 12 9 13 10-day IL. Cincinnati 3 6 3 12 8 17 TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated RHP Associated Press 310 weeks in the top spot — and Inter Miami CF 3 7 2 11 11 15 Matt Shoemaker from the IL. Placed RHP Julian Merryweather on the 10-day IL ret- he reasserted his dominance be- College football D.C. United 2 5 5 11 11 17 The San Francisco 49ers con- Atlanta 3 7 2 11 12 17 roactive to Sept. 18. fore the French Open starts in six Chicago 2 7 3 9 12 22 National League tacted the NFL on Monday about WESTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed LHP Cole days. Schedule W L T Pts GF GA Hamels on the 10-day IL retroactive to the conditions of the playing sur- Sept. 18. Recalled RHP Bryse Wilson from Djokovic improved to 31-1 this Thursday’s game Seattle 6 2 3 21 26 10 face at MetLife Stadium after Sporting KC 6 4 2 20 23 18 alternate training site. year — with his only loss against SOUTH CHICAGO CUBS — Placed 2B Ildemaro several players went down with UAB (1-1) at South Alabama (1-1) FC Dallas 5 2 4 19 19 12 Pablo Carreno Busta in the fourth Minnesota United 5 4 3 18 23 19 Vargas on the 10-day IL retroactive to injuries in a victory over the New Friday’s game Portland 5 4 3 18 25 24 Sept. 20. round of the U.S. Open. That, of SOUTHWEST Colorado 4 4 4 16 20 20 COLORADO ROCKIES — Recalled OF York Jets. Middle Tennessee (0-2) at UTSA (2-0) course, was when Djokovic unin- Vancouver 5 7 0 15 17 24 Sam Hilliard from alternate training site. The new artificial surface was Saturday’s games LA Galaxy 4 4 3 15 16 17 Placed 3B Nolan Arenado on the 10-day tentionally hit a line judge in the EAST Los Angeles FC 4 5 3 15 25 27 IL retroactive to Sept. 20. Released RHP used in a game for the second Louisville (1-1) at Pittsburgh (2-0) Wade Davis. throat with a ball in a fit of anger Houston 3 3 6 15 20 19 time on Sunday. The 49ers play- Georgia Tech (1-1) at Syracuse (0-2) Real Salt Lake 3 4 5 14 17 21 LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Activated — resulting in him being thrown Temple at Navy (1-1), ppd. San Jose 2 5 5 11 17 33 OF Joc Pederson from the family medical ers complained before the game Texas St. (1-2) at Boston College (1-0) Note: Three points for victory, one emergency list. Optioned INF/OF Zach out. SOUTH point for tie. McKinstry to alternate training site. that the turf was “sticky.” Those Florida at Mississippi Wednesday, Sept. 16 MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned LHP complaints only grew louder after Campbell (0-2) at Appalachian St. (1-1) FC Dallas 4, Colorado 1 Braxton Garrett and RHP Robert Dugger Aranda optimistic Kentucky at Auburn Vancouver 3, Montreal 1 to alternate training site. Selected the defensive linemen Nick Bosa and UCF (1-0) at East Carolina Portland 1, San Jose 1, tie contract of RHP Brett Eibner from alter- Solomon Thomas, and running Baylor will play opener Georgia St. (0-1) at Charlotte (0-1) Friday, Sept. 18 nate training site. Notre Dame (2-0) at Wake Forest (0-2) Seattle 3, Los Angeles FC 0 NEW YORK METS — Recalled CF Guill- backs Raheem Mostert and Tevin Georgia Southern (1-0) at Louisiana- Saturday, Sept. 19 ermo Heredia from alternate training Coleman all had knee injuries, WACO, Texas — Baylor coach Lafayette (2-0) FC Dallas 3, Sporting Kansas City 2 site. Placed CF Jake Marisnick on the 10- Dave Aranda expressed optimism E. Kentucky (0-2) at The Citadel (0-2) New York City FC 0, New England 0, tie day IL. and quarterback Jimmy Garop- Miami 2, Atlanta 1 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed RHP Monday that his team will be able FIU at Liberty (1-0) Heath Hembree on the 10-day IL. Re- polo sprained his ankle. Tulane (1-1) at Southern Miss. (0-2) Cincinnati 1, New York 0 to play its Big 12 opener against Columbus 2, Nashville 0 called OF Mickey Moniak from alternate The Jets lost receiver Breshad Mississippi St. at LSU training site. Recalled RHP Ramon Rosso Kansas on Saturday after having UTEP (2-1) at Louisiana-Monroe (0-2) Toronto FC 2, D.C. United 2, tie from alternate training site. Optioned Perriman to a sprained left ankle Duke (0-2) at Virginia Orlando City 4, Chicago 1 RHP Adonis Medina to alternate training to call off a game last weekend be- Minnesota 2, Houston 2, tie in the game. South Florida (1-1) at FAU site. cause of positive COVID-19 tests Houston Baptist (0-2) at Louisiana Vancouver 2, Real Salt Lake 1 PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Claimed RHP San Francisco general man- Tech (1-0) Portland 6, San Jose 1 Carson Fulmer outright on waivers from that affected a position group. Florida St. (0-1) at Miami (2-0) Colorado 2, LA Galaxy 0 Baltimore. Recalled OF Jared Oliva from ager John Lynch contacted NFL Tennessee at South Carolina Sunday, Sept. 20 alternate training site. Placed OF Jason executive vice president of foot- Declining to discuss specifics, NC State (1-0) at Virginia Tech Philadelphia 4, Montreal 1 Martin on the 10-day IL. Transferred RHP Aranda said the Bears expected MIDWEST Wednesday’s games Yacksel Rios to the 45-day IL. ball operations Troy Vincent on Army (2-0) at Cincinnati (1-0) Montreal at New England ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated RF Monday about the condition of about five players back through Alabama at Missouri FC Dallas at Atlanta Dexter Fowler and RHP Giovanny Gal- the week at “the position that was SOUTHWEST Toronto FC at New York City FC legos from the 10-day IL. Designated RHP the field. The Niners will play Kansas St. (0-1) at Oklahoma (1-0) Orlando City at Sporting Kansas City Roel Ramirez for assignment. Optioned again at MetLife Stadium on Sun- affected,” as well as five or six Iowa St. (0-1) at TCU Minnesota at Columbus LF Justin Williams and RHP Nabil Cris- players back at other positions. Philadelphia at Cincinnati matt to alternate training site. day when they visit the New York Tulsa (0-1) at Arkansas St. (1-1) Houston at Chicago Texas (1-0) at Texas Tech (1-0) SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Desig- Giants. “We’re feeling pretty strong New York at Miami nated INF Justin Smoak for assignment. West Virginia (1-0) at Oklahoma St. (1-0) D.C. United at Nashville about our team being fortified Georgia at Arkansas Activated OF Alex Dickerson from the “They’re definitely looking into San Jose at Colorado paternity list. and being strengthened,” Aran- Stephen F. Austin (0-2) at SMU (2-0) LA Galaxy at Real Salt Lake it,” coach Kyle Shanahan said. North Texas (1-1) at Houston ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated OF da said. “The wild card in all it Seattle at Portland Dexter Fowler and RHP Giovanny Gal- “So hopefully at some time we get Vanderbilt at Texas A&M Vancouver at Los Angeles FC Kansas (0-1) at Baylor legos from the IL. Optioned OF Justin is going to be these tests that we Saturday’s games Williams and RHP Nabil Crismatt to the some answers back that can make Missouri St. (0-1) at Cent. Arkansas (1-1) take (this week). I feel confident Houston at Nashville alternate training site. Designated RHP our players feel a little bit more at FAR WEST Cincinnati at New York City FC Roel Ramirez for assignment. about (playing). But after you’ve Troy (1-0) at BYU (1-0) Sunday’s games ease playing there next week.” WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled been hit with one of these, you’re Montreal at New York OF Yadiel Hernandez from alternate The NFL says the field was in- New England at D.C. United training site. Selected the contract of very aware.” Miami at Philadelphia spected two days before the Gi- Tennis RHP Paolo Espino from alternate train- Aranda, the former LSU defen- Atlanta at Chicago ing site. Placed RHPs Aaron Barrett and ants-Steelers game on Sept. 14 Columbus at Toronto FC James Bourque on the 10-day IL. Trans- sive coordinator still waiting on Real Salt Lake at Minnesota ferred LHP Seth Romero from the 10-day and certified to be in compliance his Baylor debut, said some of the Italian Open Orlando City at FC Dallas IL to the 60-day IL. with all league policies. Also, Sporting Kansas City at Colorado FOOTBALL expected returning players were Monday Portland at Vancouver National Football League home teams must certify that At Foro Italico San Jose at Los Angeles FC ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated WR coming back from injury, concus- Rome their fields are in compliance Seattle at LA Galaxy KeeSean Johnson from the reserve/CO- sion protocol and “various other Purse: $3,465,045 VID-19 list. Placed TE Maxx Williams on with NFL rules 72 hours before Surface: Red clay the IR. things” and that they weren’t all Men’s Singles NWSL each game and the Jets did that DENVER BRONCOS — Placed DT related to COVID. Championship W L T Pts GF GA Dre’Mont Jones and WR Courtland Sut- before this game. Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Diego North Carolina 1 0 1 4 4 3 ton on the IR. Baylor released weekly testing Schwartzman (8), Argentina, 7-5, 6-3. Portland 1 0 0 3 3 0 CHICAGO BEARS — Released DB Mar- No one complained about the Women’s Singles results later Monday that include Chicago 1 1 0 3 5 3 qui Christian after he was reinstated field after the first game there. Championship Washington 1 1 0 3 3 3 from suspension by the NFL. Signed DB student-athletes and staff from Simona Halep (1), Romania, def. Karo- Sky Blue FC 1 1 0 3 3 5 Marqui Christian to the practice squad. Giants coach Joe Judge says his lina Pliskova (2), Czech Republic, 6-0, 2-1, multiple sports, not only football. Orlando 0 0 1 1 0 0 CINCINNATI BENGALS — Re-signed G team held several walk-throughs ret. Reign FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 Alex Redmond to the practice squad. There were four active cases, two Houston 0 1 0 0 3 4 CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed TE Kyle and two scrimmages on the field of them asymptomatic, and the Hamburg European Open Utah 0 1 0 0 0 3 Markway to the practice squad. before the opener, with no one Note: Three points for victory, one JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed DB 18 cases overall being monitored, Monday point for tie. Josh Nurse to the practice squad. Re- complaining about the surface. At Am Rothenbaum Saturday, Sept. 19 leased RB Craig Reynolds. included primary contacts. The Hamburg, Germany Orlando 0, North Carolina 0, tie MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed LB An- Receiver Golden Tate, who school reported three new cases Purse: $1,062,520 Sunday, Sept. 20 thony Barr on the IR. Waived DB Nathan missed the Giants’ first home Surface: Red clay Chicago 4, Sky Blue FC 1 Meadors. Signed DT Abdullah Anderson since last week. Men’s Singles Portland 3, Utah 0 to the practice squad. game with a hamstring injury, In other college football news: Round of 32 Saturday’s games TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived said he believes the lack of an off- Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, def. Taylor Washington at Chicago CB Mazzi Wilkins.  The Southeastern Confer- Fritz, United States, 6-4, 6-2. Reign FC at Utah TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed WR season program might have had a ence says it is providing its 14 Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. Gilles Orlando at Houston Chester Rogers, DB Breon Borders and bigger impact than the turf. Simon, France, 7-5, 6-2. Wednesday, Sept. 30 DB Greg Mabin to the practice squad. Re- schools wearable technology for Tommy Paul, United States, def. Kevin Reign FC at Portland leased DL Kobe Smith, DB Picasso Nelson “I can’t help but think that has football players intended to aid Anderson, South Africa, 6-4, 0-6, 6-4. Saturday, Oct. 3 and DB Maurice Smith from the practice something to do with it,” he said. Andrey Rublev (5), Russia, def. Tennys Washington at Sky Blue FC squad. with COVID-19 contact tracing. Sandgren, United States, 6-3, 6-3. Portland at Utah “But as far as MetLife field, I Men’s Doubles The SafeTags made by Kinex- Round of 16 think it is fine .” on can be worn like a wristband Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and Pro basketball Jets coach Adam Gase said Radu Albot, Moldova, def. Jamie Murray Golf at team facilities or attached to and Neal Skupski, Britain, 0-6, 7-5, 10-8. Sunday was the second time his equipment when used in games Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies, WNBA playoffs team played on the turf and they Germany, vs. Oliver Marach, Austria, and World rankings or practice. The conference says Raven Klaasen, South Africa, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Seeding in parentheses haven’t had any knee injuries. the devices already are being Through Sept. 20 All games played at Bradenton, Fla. Semifinals used by the NFL. 1. Dustin Johnson USA 10.24 (Best-of-five; x-if necessary) AP sportlight 2. Jon Rahm ESP 9.83 (7) Connecticut 1, (1) Las Vegas 0 Moving on after default, The SafeTags allow medical 3. Justin Thomas USA 8.84 Connecticut 87, Las Vegas 62 and athletic training staff to track 4. Rory McIlroy NIR 7.89 Tuesday: Game 2 Djokovic wins in Rome Sept. 23 5. Bryson DeChambeau USA 7.70 Thursday: Game 3 how close those wearing the de- 1952 — Rocky Marciano knocks out 6. Collin Morikawa USA 7.63 x-Sunday: Game 4 ROME — Fifteen days after vices have been to each other and Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round to 7. Webb Simpson USA 7.16 x-Tuesday, Sept. 29: Game 5 retain the world heavyweight title. 8. Xander Schauffele USA 6.66 (2) Seattle vs. (4) Minnesota he was defaulted from the U.S. for how long. Current CDC guide- 1979 — The Houston Oilers overcome 9. Brooks Koepka USA 5.95 Sunday: Game 1, ppd. Open, Novak Djokovic had plenty lines, which are being used by a 24-0 deficit to beat the Cincinnati Ben- 10. Patrick Reed USA 5.88 Tuesday: Game 1 11. Adam Scott AUS 5.21 Thursday: Game 2 to celebrate on Monday. the NCAA and Power Five con- gals 30-27 in overtime. Sunday: Game 3 1983 — Gerry Coetzee knocks out 12. Patrick Cantlay USA 5.11 13. Daniel Berger USA 5.01 x-Tuesday, Sept. 29: Game 4 Djokovic beat Diego Schwartz- ference schools, say a person who Michael Dokes in the 10th round to win Finals the WBA heavyweight title in Richfield, 14. Tony Finau USA 4.77 (Best-of-five; x-if necessary) man 7-5, 6-3 to win his fifth Italian was within 6 feet for at least 15 Ohio. 15. Tyrrell Hatton ENG 4.72 TBD vs. TBD Open title; he passed childhood minutes of a person who has test- 2007 — Green Bay’s Brett Favre wins 16. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 4.51 Friday, Oct. 2: Game 1 his NFL-record 150th game as a start- 17. Tommy Fleetwood ENG 4.50 Sunday, Oct. 4: Game 2 idol Pete Sampras for the sec- ed positive for the coronavirus is er, beating San Diego 31-24. His 240th 18. Matthew Wolff USA 4.39 Tuesday, Oct. 6: Game 3 ond-most weeks at No. 1 with 287 considered to be at risk and must straight start ties him for second on the 19. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 4.22 x-Thursday, Oct 8: Game 4 all-time list. 20. Matthew Fitzpatrick ENG 4.18 x-Sunday, Oct. 11: Game 5 — trailing only Roger Federer’s quarantine for 14 days. Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 NBA PLAYOFFS/AUTO RACING Air Bubba: Jordan, Hamlin partner on team for Wallace

BY JENNA FRYER it,” Hamlin said. Associated Press Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 winner and a top contender CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Denny for this year’s Cup title, will be Hamlin has joined Charlotte part of a single-car Toyota entry Hornets owner Michael Jordan to aligned with Joe Gibbs Racing. form a NASCAR team with Bubba Hamlin has raced his entire ca- Wallace as the driver, a high-pro- reer for Gibbs. file pairing of a Black majority “Eleven years ago I met Mi- team owner and the only Black chael Jordan at a then-Charlotte driver at NASCAR’s top level. Bobcats game and we became The partnership was an- fast friends,” Hamlin wrote. “Not nounced Monday night in coor- long after, I joined Jordan Brand dinated social media posts by as their first Jordan and Hamlin, with Wallace NASCAR adding his own comment. The athlete. Our posts showed a picture of Jordan friendship MARK J. TERRILL/AP alongside a firesuit-clad Hamlin has grown Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, center left, draws up a play during a time out. The Heat hold a in a motorhome at a race track. over the 2-1 series lead going into Wednesday’s conference finals game with the Boston Celtics. “Historically, NASCAR has years and struggled with diversity and now we are there have been few Black own- ready to take ers,” Jordan said . “The timing it to the next Celtics looking to use anger seemed perfect as NASCAR is level. evolving and embracing social “Deciding change more and more.” Wallace on the driver Jordan becomes the first Black was easy — to even the series with Heat principal owner of a full-time Cup it had to be team since Hall of Famer Wen- Bubba Wallace.” dell Scott drove his own race car Wallace is the only Black driv- BY TIM REYNOLDS Scoreboard film session, on-court work and in 495 races from 1961 to 1973. er in the Cup Series and this sea- Associated Press then more meetings set for the Scott’s 1964 victory at the Jack- son used his platform to push for evening. sonville 200 is the only win by a racial equality. The 27-year-old LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. “Our spirit is right, our head Black driver in Cup history. successfully urged NASCAR to — Getting angry worked wonders Playoffs is right, our energy is there, so I The NBA great, who earlier ban the display of the Confeder- for the Boston Celtics. CONFERENCE FINALS think we’re responding the right this year pledged $100 million ate flag at its events. Their first win in these Eastern (Best-of-seven; x-if necessary) Eastern Conference way,” Miami wing Jae Crowder over 10 years for initiatives com- Wallace is winless in 105 Cup Conference finals just happened Miami 2, Boston 1 said. “We’re just trying to get bating systemic racism, said the starts over four seasons, but he to come two nights after Marcus Miami 117, Boston 114, OT Miami 106 Boston 101 better and trying to see how we move into NASCAR is another has six career victories in the Smart sparked a loud and emo- Boston 117, Miami 106 Wednesday: Game 4 (AFN-Sports, 2:30 can play a complete game, play step toward racial equality. Truck Series. He’s been ham- tional series of shouting matches a.m. Thursday CET; 9:30 a.m. Thursday a complete 48-minute game and “I see this as a chance to edu- pered by mid-level equipment inside the Celtics’ locker room, all JKT) Friday: Game 5 be as sharp as we can be on both cate a new audience and open driving the No. 43 for Hall of of that starting only a few seconds x-Sunday, Sept. 27: Game 6 ends of the court. With that being more opportunities for Black peo- Famer Richard Petty . after the Miami Heat won to take x-Tuesday, Sept. 29: Games 7 Western Conference said, I think we took the loss, we ple in racing,” Jordan said. “Bubba has shown tremen- a 2-0 lead in the series. L.A. Lakers 2, Denver 0 took the adversity in a good way. Jordan joins former NBA play- dous improvement since joining That lead is down to 2-1 now, L.A. Lakers 126, Denver 114 Sunday: L.A. Lakers 105, Denver 103 And we’re still taking it in.” er Brad Daugherty, a partner at the Cup Series and we believe Boston playing brilliantly in Tuesday: Game 3 Some of the numbers posted JTG Daugherty Racing, as the he’s ready to take his career to a Game 3 and leading wire-to-wire Thursday: Game 4 (AFN-Sports, 3 a.m. Friday CET; 10 a.m. Friday JKT) so far in the East finals are more only Black owners at NASCAR’s higher level,” Hamlin said. “He to take a bunch of newfound mo- x-Saturday, Sept. 26: Game 5 than a little overwhelming. elite Cup level. deserves the opportunity to com- mentum into Game 4 of the series x-Monday, Sept. 28: Game 6 x-Wednesday, Sept. 30: Game 7 They’re also simultaneously “Michael and Bubba can be a pete for race wins and our team on Wednesday night. puzzling, at least from the Celtics’ powerful voice together, not only will make sure he has the re- “I’ve always been saying that perspective. in our sport, but also well beyond sources to do just that.” before you see the rainbow, it has There have been 17 instances to storm,” Smart said Monday, Likewise, when they’re doing of someone scoring to give his speaking about the post-Game 2 whatever they’re trying to do, team a double-digit lead at some dustup for the first time publicly. we have something to say about point in the first three games of “For us, that was a storm that we that.” the series; all 17 of those have had to go through. We found our The Celtics’ anger was no se- been done by Boston. The Celt- happy place.” cret and was displayed at least ics have yet to trail by more than It’s now Miami’s turn to find somewhat publicly; reporters eight, have led by as much as 20 a happy place — though an un- near their locker room heard the and have been in front for 75% happy place would seem more commotion after Game 2, with of the first 149 minutes played in appropriate. The Heat never led Smart being the one who lit the this matchup. in Game 3, got themselves into fuse. But it’s the Heat still leading a double-digit hole for the third “He’s the guy that keeps us the series, which is why Boston consecutive game in this series going and keeps us inspired, is seeking to show up for Game and fourth straight overall, and keeps us being competitive,” Bos- 4 with the same aggression that because of a scheduling quirk, ton’s Grant Williams said. “... You carried them in Game 3. now get to sit around and stew for just have to follow his lead and “I think each game is its own three full off days before getting trust that we have a lot of guys on entity, so it is what it is. We’re a chance to atone for what went this team that can do a lot of great all on the same schedule,” Celt- wrong Saturday. things. He’s just going to compete ics coach Brad Stevens said. “We “Look, there’s two teams com- his butt off and we follow that know we’re going to have to play peting against each other,” Miami standard.” the best game that we’ve played CHUCK BURTON/AP coach Erik Spoelstra said. “So as The Heat didn’t have a vis- in Game 4 of this series to have much as you want to say, ‘Hey, it’s ible — or audible — blowup after a chance to win. That’s just the Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan practices waving the green just about us and we just have to Game 3, took Sunday off to rest way series work. That’s the way flag before a NASCAR All-Star race in 2010 at Charlotte Motor do X, Y and Z,’ the Boston Celtics physically and mentally, then the playoffs work. You have to get Speedway in Concord, N.C. Denny Hamlin is starting his own race have something to say about that. got back to work Monday with a better every game.” car team in partnership Jordan and Bubba Wallace as the driver. PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 MLB ROUNDUP Mariners win to help A’s claim AL West

Associated Press lanta bullpen took it from there, allowing just one run over the SEATTLE — Marco Gonzales final six innings to push the host threw eight shutout innings, Evan White broke the game open with a step closer to a third straight NL a three-run homer in the seventh East title. and the Seattle Mariners beat the Tyler Matzek (4-3) pitched two Houston Astros 6-1 on Monday hitless innings for the win, and night. Darren O’Day and Chris Martin Seattle’s victory clinched the each worked a scoreless frame. AL West title for Oakland, end- Will Smith escaped a bases-load- ing Houston’s three-year run ed jam in the eighth, and Mark atop the division. The win also Melancon claimed his 11th save. improved the Mariners’ slim Atlanta could clinch the divi- hopes of catching the Astros for sion title as soon as Tuesday. second place in the division and Blue Jays 11, Yankees 5: a guaranteed playoff spot. Seattle Rookie Alejandro Kirk became is three games behind Houston the first catcher 21 or younger with six remaining. since Johnny Bench with at least It was just the third win for the four hits that included two for Mariners in their past 27 meet- extra bases, and Toronto beat vis- ings with the Astros over the last iting New York. two seasons. Kirk, who played at Class A last Houston starter Lance McCull- season and made his debut Sept. ers Jr. (3-3) didn’t allow a hit until 12, singled in the third off Mi- Tim Lopes’ one-out double in the chael King, doubled in the fourth sixth — but things quickly unrav- against Jonathan Loaisiga, sin- eled. Ty France had an RBI dou- gled in the fifth off Nick Nelson ble and McCullers’ night ended and hit an opposite-field homer to when White turned on a hanging right in seventh off Chad Green ELAINE THOMPSON/AP 2-2 curveball and lined it over for his first four-hit game. the left-field wall for his seventh Seattle Mariners right fielder Tim Lopes dives to catch a fly ball from the Houston Astros’ Alex Bregman Bench accomplished the feat as home run and a 4-0 lead. during the Mariners’ 6-1 win Monday in Seattle. part of a five-hit game at Phila- Seattle added two more off delphia on Aug. 3, 1969, accord- reliever Brandon Bielak in the Brad Hand pitched the ninth for inning off Brandon Woodruff number to one for their first divi- ing to STATS. eighth on Kyle Seager’s deep his 14th save in 14 tries. (2-5), who had repeatedly es- sion title since 2010. Royals 4, Cardinals 1: Maikel fly into the left-field corner that Angels 8, Rangers 5: Jared caped threats. The Reds pulled DeGrom (4-2) pitched seven in- Franco hit the go-ahead single Michael Brantley couldn’t track Walsh hit his first career grand away in the eighth against Drew nings of two-run ball, striking out with two outs in the sixth inning down. slam during host Los Angeles’ Rasmussen . 14 to match his career high for and the Kansas City bullpen shut Gonzales (7-2) pitched out of seven-run fourth inning in a win Cubs 5, Pirates 0: Jon Lester the second time this season. He down visiting St. Louis from the trouble. He stranded runners at over Texas. scattered four hits over six in- allowed four hits and walked two. fourth inning on. second in the second, fourth and Max Stassi had a two-run single nings and Chicago inched closer Peter Fairbanks began with Alex Gordon and Jorge Soler sixth innings. He allowed seven 2 in the final home game of the fifth to its first NL Central title since 1 ⁄3 scoreless innings, Josh Flem- also drove in runs for the Roy- hits and struck out six. He’s won consecutive losing season for the 2017 with a win at Pittsburgh. ing (4-0) allowed a run in three als, who returned for their final five straight decisions. Angels (24-31), who have won 12 Lester (3-2) struck out one and innings as the bulk man and Nick homestand after getting swept in Indians 7, White Sox 4: Carlos of 18 overall after taking three of walked one in his first victory Anderson closed for his sixth Milwaukee. Santana’s two-run homer snapped four from the Rangers. since Aug. 11. He retired the first save. Carlos Hernandez allowed one a tie and Jose Ramirez homered 2 again as host Cleveland moved Walsh extended his hitting nine batters he faced and kept the Nationals 5, Phillies 1: Bryce run over 3 ⁄3 innings before giv- closer to clinching a playoff berth streak to 13 games when he lowest-scoring team in the majors Harper was hitless in his return ing way to Jake Newberry, Scott — and delayed Chicago’s likely mashed a sinker from Kyle Gib- in check. Only two of the Pirates’ from back stiffness and Phila- Barlow, Josh Staumont (2-1) and AL Central title. son (2-6) 450 feet over the ficus four hits left the infield. delpia manager Joe Girardi was Jesse Hahn, who combined to The Indians cut their magic trees behind the center-field Kyle Schwarber doubled twice ejected in the third inning of a allow one hit — a two-out single number to one. fence at the Big A. and drove in a pair of insurance loss at Washington. by Paul Goldschmidt — without a 1 After the White Sox scored four Reds 6, Brewers 3: Eugenio runs in the eighth. Javy Baez Harper went 0-for-4 with three walk over the next 4 ⁄3 innings . times in the fifth inning against Suarez hit a two-run homer, Luis drove in a run with a surprise strikeouts as the designated hit- Rockies 7, Giants 2: Kevin Aaron Civale (4-5), Santana came Castillo won his fourth straight bunt and Victor Caratini added ter, dropping his average to .254. Pillar homered against his for- to the plate in the bottom half. start, and host Cincinnati moved an RBI double. The third-place Phillies fell to mer team and German Marquez With Ramirez on first after a above .500 for the first time since Rays 2, Mets 1: Nate Lowe 27-27 and with six games left. Gi- pitched six strong innings to snap one-out walk, Santana pulled a 2- opening day. homered and scored both runs rardi and center fielder Roman a five-game losing streak as Colo- 1 sinker from Jace Fry (0-1) over The Reds (28-27) won for the against NL Cy Young Award Quinn were ejected in the third rado won at San Francisco. the left-field wall and into the eighth time in nine games. Mil- contender Jacob deGrom, and inning for arguing a call by plate In the opener of an eight-game empty bleachers to make it 6-4. waukee (26-27) had its season- visiting Tampa Bay overcame 16 umpire Junior Valentine. road trip to end the season, the Nick Wittgren struck out the high four-game winning streak strikeouts to move closer to an AL Braves 5, Marlins 4: Austin Rockies knocked around Johnny side in the seventh and James Ka- snapped. East title. Riley’s two-run double capped a Cueto for seven earned runs in 1 rinchak worked the eighth before Suarez connected in the sixth The Rays trimmed their magic wild first inning and the deep At- 4 ⁄3 innings. Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 MLB Scoreboard Home team American League Monday Rays 2, Mets 1 IP H R ER BB SO Colorado in Series East Division Mariners 6, Astros 1 Tampa Bay New York Marquez W,3-6 6 5 1 1 1 3 W L Pct GB ab r h bi ab r h bi C Houston Seattle Estevez 1 1 1 1 1 z-Tampa Bay 36 19 .655 — Tsutsugo dh 4 0 1 0 Nimmo rf 2 0 0 0 Almonte B 0 0 0 0 0 z-New York 31 23 .574 4A ab r h bi ab r h bi Arzrea pr-dh 0 0 0 0 McNeil lf 4 0 2 1 Givens 1 0 0 0 2 0 Straw cf 4 0 0 0 Crawford ss 4 1 1 0 to be based Toronto 28 26 .519 7A B.Lowe 2b 4 0 1 0 Davis 3b 3 0 0 0 Kinley 1 0 0 0 0 1 A Altuve 2b 3 0 2 0 Moore 2b 3 1 0 0 Baltimore 23 31 .426 12 Adames ss 3 0 0 0 D.Smith 1b 4 0 0 0 San Francisco Boston 20 34 .370 15A Bregman 3b 4 0 0 0 Lewis cf 1 1 0 0 N.Lowe 1b 3 2 1 1 Cano 2b 4 0 0 0 B Brantley lf 4 0 3 0 Seager 3b 4 1 1 2 Cueto L,2-2 4 8 7 7 3 4 Central Division Wendle 3b 4 0 2 0 Alonso dh 4 0 0 0 Peralta 1C 1 0 0 1 1 Gurriel 1b 4 0 0 0 France dh 4 1 2 1 Margot lf 3 0 0 1 Rosario ss 3 0 0 0 on seeding z-Chicago 34 20 .630 — Tucker dh 4 0 2 0 Marmlejs lf 4 0 0 0 S.Anderson 1 0 0 0 0 2 z-Minnesota 33 22 .600 1A Kiermaier cf 3 0 0 0 Gimenez ph 1 0 0 0 Coonrod 1 0 0 0 0 3 Correa ss 4 1 1 0 Torrens c 4 0 0 0 Phillips rf 3 0 0 0 Heredia cf 2 1 0 0 Cleveland 30 24 .556 4 Reddick rf 4 0 1 1 White 1b 3 1 1 3 Cahill 1 0 0 0 0 1 Detroit 22 30 .423 11 Zunino c 3 0 0 0 Ramos c 3 0 2 0 HBP—Cueto (Blackmon), Estevez (So- BY RONALD BLUM Maldonado c 4 0 0 0 Lopes rf 3 0 1 0 Totals 30 2 5 2 Totals 30 1 4 1 Kansas City 22 32 .407 12 Ervin rf 0 0 0 0 lano), Kinley (Dickerson). WP—Givens. Associated Press West Division Tampa Bay 010 100 000—2 T—3:33. Totals 35 1 9 1 Totals 30 6 6 6 New York 000 010 000—1 x-Oakland 33 20 .623 — Houston 000 000 001—1 Houston 27 27 .500 6A LOB—Tampa Bay 6, New York 6. 2B— NEW YORK — The higher Seattle 000 000 42x—6 Wendle (8), B.Lowe (8). HR—N.Lowe (3). Blue Jays 11, Yankees 5 Seattle 24 30 .444 9A E—Altuve (4). DP—Houston 1, Seattle seeded team reaching the World SB—Wendle (6), Phillips (2), Arozarena New York Toronto Los Angeles 24 31 .436 10 1. LOB—Houston 8, Seattle 4. 2B—Tucker (2), Kiermaier (7). SF—Margot (1). Texas 19 35 .352 14A (11), Altuve (8), Correa (9), Lopes (12), ab r h bi ab r h bi Series will have last at-bats in France (3). HR—White (7). IP H R ER BB SO LeMahieu 2b 4 0 2 0 Biggio 3b 3 2 0 0 Games 1 and 2 and if needed IP H R ER BB SO Tampa Bay Wade 2b 0 1 0 0 Bichette ss 5 2 2 2 National League C Games 6 and 7, not necessarily Houston Fairbanks 1 0 0 0 1 2 Judge rf 4 0 1 0 Hrnandez rf 5 1 2 2 East Division McCullers Jr. L,3-3 6C 3 4 0 2 7 Thompson 1 1 0 0 0 1 Tauchman rf 1 0 1 3 Gurriel dh 5 0 0 0 the team with the best record. W L Pct GB B Fleming W,3-0 3 3 1 1 1 2 Stanton dh 5 0 1 0 Grichuk cf 4 2 2 2 Paredes 0 0 0 0 0 B Atlanta 32 22 .593 — Bielak 1 3 2 2 1 1 Castillo H,3 1 0 0 0 0 1 Voit 1b 4 0 0 0 Guerrero 1b 3 0 3 3 The specification was con- Miami 28 26 .519 4 Sherriff H,0 1 0 0 0 1 1 Kratz 1b 0 0 0 0 Villar 2b 4 0 0 0 tained in the July 23 agreement Seattle Anderson S,5-5 1 0 0 0 0 1 Philadelphia 27 27 .500 5 Gonzales W,7-2 8 7 0 0 1 6 Torres ss 2 2 0 0 Kirk c 4 3 4 1 between Major League Baseball New York 24 30 .444 8 Gerber 1 2 1 1 0 1 New York Hicks cf 3 0 1 0 Davis lf 3 1 0 0 Washington 21 32 .396 10A HBP—Bielak (Moore). T—2:34. deGrom L,4-2 7 4 2 2 2 14 Urshela 3b 4 1 2 2 and the players’ association to Central Division Castro 1 1 0 0 1 2 Sanchez c 4 0 0 0 expand the playoffs following a Chicago 32 22 .593 — Royals 4, Cardinals 1 Diaz 1 0 0 0 1 0 Gardner lf 3 1 0 0 St. Louis 26 25 .510 4A Thompson pitched to 3 batters in the Totals 34 5 8 5 Totals 36 11 13 10 regular season shortened due to New York 010 000 103— 5 Cincinnati 28 27 .509 4A St. Louis Kansas City 3rd, Fleming pitched to 2 batters in the the new coronavirus. A copy of Milwaukee 26 27 .491 5A ab r h bi ab r h bi 6th. HBP—Fleming (Nimmo). T—3:00. Toronto 005 401 10x—11 Pittsburgh 15 39 .278 17 Wong 2b 3 0 0 0 Merrifield rf 4 1 2 0 E—Sanchez (3), LeMahieu (5), Biggio the deal was obtained by The As- (5). DP—New York 1, Toronto 2. LOB—New West Division Edman 3b 3 0 1 0 Mondesi ss 4 1 1 0 Cubs 5, Pirates 0 Gldshmdt 1b 4 0 1 0 Perez c 4 1 1 0 York 7, Toronto 6. 2B—Hicks (9), Stanton sociated Press. z-Los Angeles 38 16 .704 — (6), Tauchman (6), Guerrero Jr. 2 (12), z-San Diego 34 20 .630 4 DeJong ss 4 0 0 0 Soler dh 3 0 1 1 Chicago Pittsburgh This year’s change means a No. A Molina c 4 0 2 0 Heath pr-dh 0 0 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Kirk (1). 3B—Guerrero Jr. (2). HR—Grichuk San Francisco 26 27 .491 11 (10), Kirk (1). SB—LeMahieu (3). 1 seed from one league with fewer Colorado 24 29 .453 13A Carpenter dh 4 1 1 1 Franco 3b 3 1 2 2 Happ cf-lf 5 0 1 0 Reynolds cf 4 0 1 0 Arizona 20 34 .370 18 O’Neill lf 2 0 0 0 Dozier 1b 3 0 1 0 Rizzo 1b 4 1 1 0 Hayes 3b 4 0 2 0 IP H R ER BB SO regular-season wins than a lower x-clinched division B.Miller ph 1 0 0 0 Gordon lf 4 0 0 1 Contreras c 3 1 0 0 Gonzalez ss 4 0 0 0 New York seed from the other league would Fowler rf 4 0 1 0 Starling cf 3 0 0 0 Schwarber lf 4 1 2 2 Moran 1b 3 0 0 0 King L,1-2 2C 5 5 5 1 6 z-clinched playoff berth Carlson cf 3 0 0 0 Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 Sunday’s games Hamltn pr-cf 0 1 0 0 Oliva ph 1 0 0 0 Loaisiga 1 5 4 3 2 0 have the “home-field advantage” Totals 32 1 6 1 Totals 31 4 8 4 Bryant 3b 1 0 0 0 Bell dh 3 0 0 0 Baltimore 2, Tampa Bay 1 Nelson 2 2 1 1 1 2 St. Louis 010 000 000—1 Bote 3b 3 0 1 1 Polanco rf 1 0 0 0 B for the World Series should they Cleveland 7, Detroit 4 Green 1 1 1 1 0 2 Kansas City 000 012 01x—4 Heyward rf 3 0 1 0 Stallings c 3 0 0 0 Ottavino 1 0 0 0 0 2 both win pennants. In the event Boston 10, N.Y. Yankees 2 DP—St. Louis 1, Kansas City 1. LOB—St. Baez ss 4 0 1 1 Frazier 2b 3 0 0 0 Cincinnati 7, Chicago White Sox 3 Louis 7, Kansas City 6. 2B—Dozier (4), Soler Kipnis 2b 2 1 0 0 Osuna lf 3 0 1 0 Toronto both pennant winners have the Milwaukee 5, Kansas City 3 (7). HR—Carpenter (4). SB—Mondesi (20). Shoemaker 3 3 1 1 2 1 Hoerner 2b 1 0 0 0 B same seed, regular-season win- Houston 3, Arizona 2 IP H R ER BB SO Caratini dh 2 0 1 1 Zeuch W,1-0 3 1 1 1 1 0 Murphy 1C 2 0 0 0 1 Toronto 6, Philadelphia 3 St. Louis Mrtinz ph-dh 2 0 0 0 ning percentage would decide Texas 7, L.A. Angels 2 Font C 2 3 3 2 0 Wainwright L,5-2 5C 6 3 3 2 7 Totals 34 5 8 5 Totals 29 0 4 0 B which team is “home” for the first San Francisco 14, Oakland 2 B Chicago 010 010 030—5 Yamaguchi 0 0 0 0 1 Webb 1 0 0 0 0 2 Loaisiga pitched to 8 batters in the San Diego 7, Seattle 4, 11 innings Gallegos C 2 1 1 1 2 Pittsburgh 000 000 000—0 two games. Minnesota 4, Chicago Cubs 0 Elledge B 0 0 0 0 0 DP—Chicago 2, Pittsburgh 1. LOB— 4th, Nelson pitched to 4 batters in the 6th. T—3:56. Under an agreement reached Miami 2, Washington 1, 1st game Kansas City Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 4. 2B—Schwarber 2 Washington 15, Miami 0, 2nd game Hernandez 3C 4 1 1 3 4 (6), Caratini (7). last week between MLB and the Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 0 Newberry B 0 0 0 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO Braves 5, Marlins 4 union, all World Series games Colorado 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Barlow 1 1 0 0 0 1 Chicago Miami Atlanta St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 Staumont W,2-1 2 0 0 0 0 2 will be played at Globe Life Field Hahn H,5 1 0 0 0 0 1 Lester W,3-2 6 4 0 0 1 1 ab r h bi ab r h bi Monday’s games Ryan H,4 1 0 0 0 1 0 in Arlington, Texas, the new L.A. Angels 8, Texas 5 Holland S,6-6 1 1 0 0 0 1 Dickerson lf 4 0 1 0 Acuna cf-rf 3 1 1 1 WP—Gallegos, Newberry. T—2:55. Jeffress 1 0 0 0 0 1 Brnson ph-rf 0 0 0 0 Freeman 1b 3 0 0 0 ballpark of the out-of-contention Cleveland 7, Chicago White Sox 4 Winkler 1 0 0 0 0 3 Tampa Bay 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Marte cf 5 1 1 0 Ozuna lf 4 1 1 0 Texas Rangers. Pittsburgh Aguilar 1b 5 1 2 1 Inciarte cf 0 0 0 0 Toronto 11, N.Y. Yankees 5 Nationals 5, Phillies 1 Brubaker L,1-3 6C 4 2 2 1 9 Kansas City 4, St. Louis 1 Harrison pr 0 0 0 0 d’Arnaud dh 4 0 1 1 Home-field advantage in the Davis 1 1 1 1 0 1 Joyce rf-lf 4 1 0 0 Duvall rf-lf 4 1 1 0 Seattle 6, Houston 1 Philadelphia Washington World Series generally rotated ab r h bi ab r h bi Cederlind 0 3 2 2 1 0 B.Andrsn 3b 5 0 1 1 Albies 2b 4 1 2 1 Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 3 Tropeano 1B 0 0 0 0 1 Haseley lf-cf 4 0 1 0 Stvenson rf 5 1 1 0 Cooper dh 4 0 1 1 Riley 3b 4 0 1 2 between the leagues through Washington 5, Philadelphia 1 Davis pitched to 3 batters in the 8th, Rojas ss 2 1 1 0 Flowers c 2 0 0 0 Chicago Cubs 5, Pittsburgh 0 B.Harper dh 4 0 0 0 Turner ss 4 1 1 0 2002. At the behest of then-Com- Bohm 1b 2 0 1 0 Soto lf 2 1 0 0 Cederlind pitched to 4 batters in the 8th. Berti 2b 1 0 0 0 Swanson ss 3 1 1 0 Atlanta 5, Miami 4 HBP—Brubaker (Kipnis). WP—Cederlind. Alfaro c 4 0 2 1 missioner Bud Selig and Fox, Colorado 7, San Francisco 2 Gregorius ss 4 0 1 0 Cabrera 1b 3 2 2 1 Segura 3b 3 0 0 0 Holt dh 4 0 2 1 T—2:58. Totals 34 4 9 4 Totals 31 5 8 5 Tuesday’s games Miami 300 000 010—4 home-field advantage went to Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Bruce rf 4 0 1 0 Suzuki c 3 0 0 0 Knapp c 2 0 0 0 Garcia 2b 4 0 0 1 Angels 8, Rangers 5 Atlanta 410 000 00x—5 the All-Star Game winner from N.Y. Yankees at Toronto Kingery 2b 3 0 1 0 Kieboom 3b 2 0 0 0 DP—Miami 1, Atlanta 1. LOB—Miami 2003-16. Home field for Games 1, Tampa Bay at N.Y. Mets Quinn cf 1 0 0 0 Hrrisn pr-3b 1 0 0 0 Texas Los Angeles 10, Atlanta 5. 2B—Dickerson (5), Riley (7), Baltimore at Boston Moniak lf 2 1 1 0 Robles cf 3 0 1 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Swanson (14), Acuna Jr. (10). SB—Marte 2, 6 and 7 was based on winning Detroit at Minnesota Totals 29 1 6 0 Totals 31 5 7 3 Taveras cf 3 1 0 0 Fltchr 2b-3b 5 1 2 0 (5), Rojas 2 (5). percentage from 2017-19. St. Louis at Kansas City Philadelphia 000 010 000—1 Calhoun dh 4 0 0 0 Walsh 1b 4 1 1 4 IP H R ER BB SO Houston at Seattle Washington 200 001 20x—5 Knr-Falfa 3b 4 1 2 1 Trout cf 4 0 1 0 The League Championship L.A. Angels at San Diego Miami E—Knapp (1), Wheeler (1), Moniak (1). Gallo rf 3 0 0 0 Rendon 3b 4 0 1 0 Rogers L,1-2 4 8 5 5 2 6 Series and Division Series also Texas at Arizona DP—Philadelphia 0, Washington 2. LOB— Solak lf 4 2 3 1 Rengifo 2b 0 0 0 0 Stanek 2 0 0 0 1 3 Oakland at L.A. Dodgers Philadelphia 8, Washington 8. 2B—Kingery Odor 2b 4 0 0 0 Ohtani dh 2 2 0 0 Vincent 1 0 0 0 0 1 will be played at neutral sites Philadelphia at Washington, 2 (4), Stevenson (2). SB—Turner (10). Tejeda ss 4 0 1 1 Upton lf 1 1 0 0 Hoyt 1 0 0 0 0 1 this year. The AL Championship Milwaukee at Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO Dietrich 1b 4 1 1 2 Adell rf 0 0 0 0 Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Mathis c 4 0 0 0 Ward rf-lf 3 1 0 0 Atlanta Series will be in San Diego and Philadelphia Stassi c 4 1 2 2 Ynoa 3 5 3 3 1 1 Miami at Atlanta Wheeler L,4-1 5C 5 3 2 3 7 the NL Championship Series in Colorado at San Francisco Simmons ss 4 1 1 1 Matzek W,4-3 2 0 0 0 2 3 Parker C 2 2 1 2 1 O’Day H,2 1 0 0 0 1 1 Wednesday’s games Rosso 1C 0 0 0 0 2 Totals 34 5 7 5 Totals 31 8 8 7 Arlington, while the AL Division Texas 111 002 000—5 Martin H,6 1 1 0 0 0 2 L.A. Angels (Barria 1-0) at San Diego Washington Greene H,9 C 2 1 1 1 1 Series will be in Los Angeles and (Paddack 4-4) Los Angeles 010 700 00x—8 Sanchez W,3-5 5 4 1 1 4 6 E—Tejeda (3). DP—Texas 2, Los An- W.Smith H,6 B 0 0 0 1 0 San Diego and the NL Division Chicago White Sox (Giolito 4-3) at Suero H,5 1 0 0 0 0 2 Melancon S,11-12 1 1 0 0 0 0 Cleveland (Plesac 4-2) geles 0. LOB—Texas 4, Los Angeles 5. Finnegan H,4 1 1 0 0 1 1 2B—Tejeda (4), Solak (10). 3B—Trout (2). HBP—O’Day (Berti). WP—Ynoa. T— Series in Houston and Arlington. Texas (Benjamin 1-1) at Arizona Harris 1 0 0 0 0 2 HR—Kiner-Falefa (3), Dietrich (5), Walsh 3:30. Under the agreement, the divi- (Young 2-4) Hudson 1 1 0 0 1 2 (8). SB—Solak (6), Taveras (6). N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-2) at Toronto HBP—Suero (Bohm), Wheeler (Kie- sion champions in a league will IP H R ER BB SO Reds 6, Brewers 3 (Ray 2-5) boom). T—3:48. be ranked as the first, second and Houston (Greinke 3-2) at Seattle (Mar- Texas Milwaukee Cincinnati gevicius 1-3) Indians 7, White Sox 4 Gibson L,2-6 4 5 8 7 4 4 ab r h bi ab r h bi third seeds in order of winning Tampa Bay (Glasnow 4-1) at N.Y. Mets Herget 1 0 0 0 0 1 Chicago Cleveland Evans 1 2 0 0 0 1 Garcia cf 4 0 0 0 Akiyama lf 4 1 1 0 percentage, and the second-place (Matz 0-5) Yelich lf 2 0 1 0 Cstellnos rf 4 1 1 0 Baltimore (Kremer 1-0) at Boston (Eo- ab r h bi ab r h bi Goody 1 1 0 0 1 2 teams will be ranked fourth, fifth Chavez 1 0 0 0 0 1 Braun dh 4 0 0 0 Votto 1b 3 0 0 0 valdi 3-2) Anderson ss 5 1 1 0 Lindor ss 5 1 2 0 Vogelbach 1b 3 1 1 0 Farmr pr-ss 0 1 0 0 and sixth seeds in the same man- Detroit (Mize 0-2) at Minnesota (Mae- Moncada 3b 4 0 0 0 Hrnandz 2b 3 2 2 1 Los Angeles Hiura 2b 4 0 0 0 Suarez 3b 3 1 2 2 da 5-1) Grandal c 4 1 1 0 Ramirez 3b 3 2 2 3 Bundy W,6-3 5 5 3 3 2 3 Gyorko 3b 3 1 1 1 Mstks 2b-1b 3 1 2 3 ner, followed by the wild-card St. Louis (Martinez 0-2) at Kansas City McCann c 1 0 0 0 Santana 1b 3 1 1 2 Milner C 2 2 2 0 0 Peterson rf 4 1 2 2 Winker dh 2 0 0 0 teams as seventh and eighth seeds (Duffy 3-4) Abreu 1b 4 1 1 2 Reyes dh 3 0 0 1 Andriese H,2 1B 0 0 0 0 0 Arcia ss 3 0 1 0 Aqno ph-dh 2 0 1 0 Oakland (Manaea 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers Jimenez lf 4 1 3 2 Naquin rf 4 0 0 0 Mayers S,1-3 2 0 0 0 0 3 Sogard ph 1 0 0 0 Goodwin cf 2 0 0 0 in order of winning percentage. (Urias 3-0) Enaracion dh 4 0 0 0 R.Perez c 4 0 0 0 HBP—Gibson (Upton). T—3:00. Narvaez c 2 0 0 0 Senzel ph-cf 2 0 0 0 Robert cf 2 0 0 0 Naylor lf 4 1 3 0 Higher seeds will host all Philadelphia (Eflin 3-2) at Washington Taylor ph 1 0 0 0 Galvis ss-2b 3 0 0 0 Mazara rf 4 0 1 0 Mrcdo pr-lf 0 0 0 0 Nottinghm c 0 0 0 0 Casali c 3 1 1 1 games in a best-of-three round, (Fedde 2-3) Madrigal 2b 4 0 2 0 DeShlds cf 3 0 0 0 Rockies 7, Giants 2 Totals 31 3 6 3 Totals 31 6 8 6 Milwaukee (Houser 1-5) at Cincinnati Totals 36 4 9 4 Totals 32 7 10 7 with No. 1 playing No. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 (Bauer 4-4) Colorado San Francisco Milwaukee 000 010 002—3 Chicago 000 040 000—4 ab r h bi ab r h bi vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5. Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-4) at Pitts- Cleveland 310 020 10x—7 Cincinnati 000 002 04x—6 burgh (Williams 1-8) E—Ramirez 2 (5). DP—Chicago 0, Tapia lf 5 0 0 0 Dickerson lf 4 1 3 1 DP—Milwaukee 1, Cincinnati 2. LOB— Under the July 23 deal, Division Miami (Sanchez 3-2) at Atlanta (Fried Cleveland 1. LOB—Chicago 9, Cleveland Pillar cf 5 2 2 1 Belt 1b 4 0 1 0 Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 4. 2B—Peterson Series matchups would have had 7-0) 6. 2B—Grandal (7), Naylor 2 (3), Ramirez Blackmon dh 3 1 1 0 Solano 2b 4 0 2 1 (1), Moustakas (6), Castellanos (11). Colorado (Castellani 1-3) at San Fran- (11). HR—Jimenez (14), Ramirez (16), Story ss 4 1 0 0 Ruf dh 5 0 0 0 HR—Gyorko (9), Peterson (2), Suarez the highest advancing seed play cisco (Webb 2-4) Santana (6). SF—Reyes (3). Fuentes 1b 5 1 2 1 Crawford ss 3 0 0 0 (14), Casali (6), Moustakas (6). McMahon 3b 2 1 1 1 Longoria 3b 4 0 0 0 the lowest advancing seed, but Thursday’s games IP H R ER BB SO IP H R ER BB SO E.Diaz c 4 0 1 2 Dubon cf 3 0 0 0 as MLB and the union negotiated Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Chicago Hilliard rf 4 1 1 0 Bart c 3 0 0 0 Milwaukee N.Y. Yankees at Toronto Dunning 4 6 4 4 1 5 Woodruff L,2-5 5C 4 2 2 2 9 the neutral site “bubble” agree- Hampson 2b 4 0 1 1 Flores ph 1 0 0 0 B Baltimore at Boston Fry L,0-1 1 1 2 2 1 3 Tromp c 0 0 0 0 Claudio 1 0 0 0 0 1 Detroit at Kansas City Cordero 2 2 1 1 2 0 Rasmussen C 3 4 4 1 2 ment, they agreed to replace that Basabe rf 3 1 0 0 B Houston at Texas Foster 1 1 0 0 0 1 Totals 36 7 9 6 Totals 34 2 6 2 Topa 1 0 0 0 0 with a fixed bracket. Oakland at L.A. Dodgers Cleveland Colorado 201 130 000—7 Cincinnati The sides decided they did not Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Civale W,4-5 6 8 4 4 3 6 San Francisco 000 010 100—2 Castillo W,4-5 6C 4 1 1 3 9 Colorado at San Francisco Wittgren H,10 1 0 0 0 0 3 E—Story (8), Solano (11). DP—Colo- Garrett H,5 C 0 0 0 1 1 want a team whose series had N.Y. Mets at Washington Karinchak H,8 1 0 0 0 1 2 rado 0, San Francisco 1. LOB—Colorado 7, Iglesias H,1 C 0 0 0 0 0 Miami at Atlanta Hand S,14-14 1 1 0 0 0 2 San Francisco 11. 2B—Hilliard (2), Dicker- Jones 1 2 2 2 0 2 finished having to wait to find out Milwaukee at St. Louis T—3:14. son (7). HR—Pillar (2), Dickerson (9). WP—Woodruff. T—2:56. which city it would travel to. PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, September 23, 2020 NHL/NFL/HIGH SCHOOL Oilers’ Draisaitl wins Hart Trophy as first German named MVP

BY STEPHEN WHYNO Associated Press Scoreboard EDMONTON, Alberta — The Stanley Cup Final is in Edmon- Stanley Cup Final ton, and Oilers star Leon Drai- (Best-of-seven; x-if necessary) saitl made history Monday night. At Edmonton, Alberta Dallas 1, Tampa Bay 1 Only it had more to do with Dallas 4, Tampa Bay 1 his home country than his home Monday: Tampa Bay 3, Dallas 2 Wednesday: Game 3 (AFN-Sports2, 2 arena. a.m. Thursday CET; 9 a.m. Thursday JKT) Draisaitl became the first Ger- Friday: Game 4 Saturday: Game 5 man player to win the Hart Tro- x-Monday, Sept. 28: Game 6 phy as MVP after leading the x-Wednesday, Sept. 30: Game 7 league in scoring with 110 points Monday in 71 games. He also won the Ted Lightning 3, Stars 2 Lindsay Award for most outstand- Dallas 0 1 1—2 ing player as voted by peers. Tampa Bay 3 0 0—3 Draisaitl joins former NBA star First Period—1, Tampa Bay, Point 10 (Hedman, Kucherov), 11:23 (pp). 2, JASON FRANSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Dirk Nowitzki as the only Ger- Tampa Bay, Palat 9 (Hedman, Kucherov), man players to earn MVP honors 14:22 (pp). 3, Tampa Bay, Shattenkirk 2 (Coleman, Cirelli), 15:16. Dallas Stars forward Blake Comeau, left, is checked by Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov in one of the four major North Second Period—4, Dallas, Pavelski 10 during the second-period of the Lightning’s 3-2 win Monday in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final in American professional sports (Radulov, Klingberg), 14:43 (pp). Third Period—5, Dallas, Janmark 1 Edmonton, Alberta. Kucherov had two first-period assists in the game. leagues. (Klingberg, Radulov), 5:27. “Dirk was obviously someone Shots on Goal—Dallas 6-18-5—29. Tampa Bay 14-5-12—31. that I look up to, someone that I Power-play opportunities—Dallas 1 of admire: the way he presents him- 5; Tampa Bay 2 of 4. Goalies—Dallas, Khudobin 13-7-0 (31 self and the way he really has shots-28 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy achieved everything that there is 15-5-1 (29-27). T—2:40. Bolts, Kucherov get even to achieve for a professional ath- lete in North America,” Draisaitl said. Tampa Bay takes advantage of power plays to top Dallas, tie series Draisaitl finished ahead of Col- After backstopping a Winnipeg orado Avalanche center Nathan team with an injury-ravaged blue Associated Press MacKinnon and New York Rang- line, he finished ahead of Boston’s Bay scored the opening goal. broken or something,” Kuch- Tuukka Rask and Tampa Bay’s Game 3 is Wednesday night. erov insisted. “I went back in the ers winger Artemi Panarin in vot- EDMONTON, Alberta — Niki- Andrei Vasilevskiy in voting by Joe Pavelski and Mattias Jan- room and changed it, nothing bad ing by the Professional Hockey ta Kucherov and the Tampa Bay general managers. mark scored for Dallas on passes happened.” Writers Association. He scored Lightning got themselves up off The 27-year-old American, from John Klingberg, with Alex- On its second power play in 43 goals, and his 67 assists were the ice to get even in the Stanley a career high despite the regular who had said one of his goals was Cup Final. ander Radulov also assisting on Game 2, Tampa Bay cycled the to win the Vezina, said, “It almost both. puck to set up Kucherov’s pass season being cut short. After the Lightning got knocked Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck feels like getting a little bit of a “After that, we really got back to Point to open the scoring 11:23 around in Game 1, and Kucherov won the Vezina Trophy as top monkey off my back.” to what makes us successful as a into the game. Three minutes took some more hard hits early goaltender, Nashville’s Roman Josi won his first Norris at age team, we got pucks deep, we were later with a a man advantage in Game 2, he had the primary Josi got the Norris Trophy as the 30 after setting career highs with good on the forecheck, we got again, Palat finished a nice pass- assists on power-play goals by best defenseman, and Colorado’s 16 goals, 49 assists and 65 points. Brayden Point and Ondrej Palat some good opportunities,” said ing sequence, taking advantage of Cale Makar won the Calder Tro- He finished ahead of Washing- in the first period. Kevin Shat- Lightning defenseman Victor a half-open net and another setup phy as rookie of the year. ton’s John Carlson and Tampa tenkirk then scored for an early Hedman, who had two assists. “I by Kucherov. Draisaitl is the second Oilers Bay’s Victor Hedman. three-goal lead and Tampa Bay liked the way we responded ... to “It’s easy to explain: we lost player to win the Hart in the past Makar edged out Vancouver held on for a 3-2 victory over the close them out.” faceoffs and we were turning the four years following Connor Mc- defenseman Quinn Hughes in Dallas Stars on Monday night. Kucherov left the bench mo- puck over and we were taking David, who is widely considered a tight race for the Calder. The “It was a tough start I guess,” mentarily early in the game after penalties,” Dallas interim head the best hockey player in the 21-year-old played 21 minutes a Kucherov said. “It’s the playoffs, slamming into the boards dur- coach Rick Bowness said. “It was world. Draisaitl played with and game and was the Avalanche’s you have to play, it doesn’t matter ing a collision with defenseman an even game until we started without McDavid this season and second-leading scorer behind what happened.” Jamie Oleksiak after trying to taking penalties. It’s faceoffs, produced even more. MacKinnon. All of the Lightning’s goals block a shot. Kucherov had al- turnovers and penalties — things “I think Connor and I have a Like Draisaitl, Makar was came in a span of four shots in less ready ended up on the ice twice you can’t afford to do against an very healthy, great, competitive (virtually) presented the award than four minutes against Anton before, when he was popped by elite team like that.” relationship and we just try and by Wayne Gretkzy on an awards Khudobin, who made a Stanley Stars captain Jamie Benn and Shattenkirk scored less than a make each other better every show with an Oilers flare. That Cup Final-record 22 saves in the when he drew a high-sticking minute after Palat to make it 3- day,” Draisaitl said. made it even more special. third period for the Stars in their penalty against Janmark. He was 0. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 27 Hellebuyck is the first player “To have Wayne Gretzky give 4-1 win in Game 1. It was the first back quickly. shots for the Lightning. Khudobin from the Jets/Atlanta Thrash- it to me, that was pretty cool,” time in seven games that Tampa “I left because my visor was had 28 saves. ers franchise to win the Vezina. Makar said. DODEA Europe offers idle athletes new 8-event sport

BY KENT HARRIS Football and volleyball are out this fall other teams. admits she’s not sure what to expect. But Stars and Stripes because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of the events are fairly standard to the goal is to keep students active while Enter an eight-event team competition most sports fans. But others — throwing a maintaining social distancing. Whomever stands atop of the virtual po- that bears at least some resemblance to a basketball from one’s knees or sitting with “It’s an opportunity for kids to enjoy the diums after the European Athletics Fitness heptathlon or decathlon. Schools have an legs bent at a 90-degree angle against a camaraderie of a team, have the opportu- Games season concludes in October might opportunity to field as many five-boy, five- wall for as long as possible — are not typi- nity to play some sports and bring some end up in very select company. girl or three-boy/three-girl teams as they cal events. Competitions will take place spirit to the schools,” Clemmons said. Not only is it the first time that DODEA can support. within 4-hour time blocks on Fridays or She didn’t rule out the possibility of hav- Europe will have such a competition, it Everyone on those teams will compete in Saturdays beginning this week, with each ing similar events in the winter or spring might be the last if there’s a vaccine for the 200 meters, a 3,200-meter relay (with- school limited to one team in each category sports seasons depending on the situation. COVID-19. out batons), pushups for 1 minute, standing reaching the finals on Oct. 24. Athletes will “Let’s take it one step at a time like we’re “It came about in response to the ques- broad jump, kneeling basketball throw, compete only at their schools for the entire doing with everything else,” she said. tion: What are we going to do if we can’t play wall sitting, sit-ups for 2 minutes and a pro- season. “We’ll see.” volleyball and football?,” DODEA Europe agility test. Times and scores will be added Clemmons said only a handful of schools [email protected] athletic director Kathy Clemmons said. up, posted online and compared against all around Europe are not participating. She Twitter: @kharris4stripes Wednesday, September 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 NFL Scoreboard

American Conference Coaches, teams hit with fines East W L T Pct PF PA Buffalo 2 0 0 1.000 58 45 New England 1 1 0 .500 51 46 Miami 0 2 0 .000 39 52 N.Y. Jets 0 2 0 .000 30 58 South Hefty punishments Tennessee 2 0 0 1.000 49 44 Indianapolis 1 1 0 .500 48 38 Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 57 53 Houston 0 2 0 .000 36 67 issued for violation of North Baltimore 2 0 0 1.000 71 22 Pittsburgh 2 0 0 1.000 52 37 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 41 68 league mask mandate Cincinnati 0 2 0 .000 43 51 West Kansas City 2 0 0 1.000 57 40 Las Vegas 2 0 0 1.000 68 54 BY ARNIE STAPLETON L.A. Chargers 1 1 0 .500 36 36 Denver 0 2 0 .000 35 42 Associated Press National Conference NFL coaches thumbed their collective — East and exposed — noses at the NFL’s mask man- W L T Pct PF PA date in Week 2. Dallas 1 1 0 .500 57 59 Washington 1 1 0 .500 42 47 The league responded with hefty fines of N.Y. Giants 0 2 0 .000 29 43 Philadelphia 0 2 0 .000 36 64 $100,000 per coach and $250,000 per club. South The first three to get fined were Denver’s New Orleans 1 1 0 .500 58 57 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 54 51 Vic Fangio, San Francisco’s Kyle Shanahan Atlanta 0 2 0 .000 64 78 and Seattle’s Pete Carroll, according to a per- Carolina 0 2 0 .000 47 65 North son with knowledge of the punishment who Chicago 2 0 0 1.000 44 36 spoke to The Associated Press on condition Green Bay 2 0 0 1.000 85 55 Detroit 0 2 0 .000 44 69 of anonymity because the coaches were not Minnesota 0 2 0 .000 45 71 West identified. Arizona 2 0 0 1.000 54 35 The punishment was meted out a week L.A. Rams 2 0 0 1.000 57 36 Seattle 2 0 0 1.000 73 55 after the NFL reminded team personnel on San Francisco 1 1 0 .500 51 37 the sidelines about the rules for wearing face DON WRIGHT/AP Thursday, Sept. 17 Cleveland 35, Cincinnati 30 coverings during the coronavirus pandemic, Denver Broncos head coach Vic Fangio walks the sideline without a mask during the first Sunday, Sept. 20 lest they put the fledgling season at risk. Tennessee 33, Jacksonville 30 half of Sunday’s game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh. Fangio received a $100,000 fine. Chicago 17, N.Y. Giants 13 More coaches and clubs can expect simi- Green Bay 42, Detroit 21 Tampa Bay 31, Carolina 17 lar punishments as the memo last week from daily COVID-19 tests, are exempt from the noring face covering and physical distanc- Buffalo 31, Miami 28 Troy Vincent, who oversees the league’s foot- San Francisco 31, N.Y. Jets 13 face covering requirements. ing requirements will put the 2020 season at L.A. Rams 37, Philadelphia 19 ball operations, was largely ignored through- Some coaches such as Belichick, McDaniels risk.” Dallas 40, Atlanta 39 Pittsburgh 26, Denver 21 out the weekend. and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin wore their The rules don’t apply to players, but all other Indianapolis 28, Minnesota 11 Among other offenders: Patriots coach Bill masks or gaiters over their mouths but not individuals with bench area access, including Arizona 30, Washington 15 Baltimore 33, Houston 16 Belichick and his offensive coordinator Josh noses. Others such as Carroll, Spagnuolo and coaches and members of the club medical Kansas City 23, L.A. Chargers 20, OT McDaniels, Chiefs defensive coordinator Seattle 35, New England 30 Fangio wore their face coverings around their staff, are required to wear face coverings at Monday’s game Steve Spagnuolo, Colts coach Frank Reich and chins or necks, exposing both their mouths all times. Las Vegas 34, New Orleans 24 Rams coach Sean McVay. Thursday’s game and noses. Failure to do so, Vincent warned in his Miami at Jacksonville The scenes were similar Sunday with head In his strongly worded memo, Vincent said memo, “will result in accountability measures Sunday’s games Houston at Pittsburgh coaches and assistants apparently finding teams “must remain vigilant and disciplined being imposed against offending individuals Tennessee at Minnesota it too hard to keep their faces covered as re- in following the processes and protocols put in and/or clubs. The face covering must be worn Cincinnati at Philadelphia Chicago at Atlanta quired under the league’s COVID-19 proto- place by not only the league, union and clubs, as designed so that it securely fits across the Washington at Cleveland cols with either a mask, gaiter or face shield. but also by state and local governments.” wearer’s nose and mouth to prevent the trans- Las Vegas at New England L.A. Rams at Buffalo Players, who, like the coaches, are subject to Vincent added: “Becoming careless or ig- mission of the virus.” San Francisco at N.Y. Giants N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis Carolina at L.A. Chargers Tampa Bay at Denver Detroit at Arizona Dallas at Seattle Home: Raiders come back from early 10-point deficit Green Bay at New Orleans Monday, Sept. 28 Kansas City at Baltimore FROM BACK PAGE night,” Gruden said. “He made ond TD run, the Raiders took 3-yard TD pass to Ingold and a Monday “Hopefully our fans, even some some plays today that very advantage of a pass interference perfectly placed 15-yarder to Zay Raiders 34, Saints 24 though they couldn’t be here to- few guys that I’ve coached could call against Janoris Jenkins and Jones. The TD was capped by New Orleans 10 7 0 7—24 night, hopefully see something make. I tip my hat to him.” iced the game with a 54-yard field Jones gathering his teammates Las Vegas 0 17 7 10—34 Picking apart the New Orleans goal by Daniel Carlson. and pretending to give them all First quarter they like,” coach Jon Gruden said. NO—FG Lutz 31, 11:01. “We can’t wait to get them back in defense with short passes, the “We got to do a better job coach- hand sanitizer. NO—Kamara 1 run (Lutz kick), 3:51. Raiders controlled the clock and ing,” Saints coach Sean Payton Nicholas Morrow then inter- Second quarter this place. It’s such a great place Las—Ingold 3 pass from Carr (Carlson to see a game.” kept Drew Brees and the Saints said. “I don’t think it’s going to cepted Brees late in the half, set- kick), 8:55. off the field. Las Vegas convert- be a real pleasant film to watch NO—Cook 6 pass from Brees (Lutz That was one of the few things ting up Daniel Carlson’s 28-yard kick), 5:22. that didn’t go right for the Raid- ed 10 of 17 third downs and also — for some of our star players as field goal that made it 17-17. Las—Jones 15 pass from Carr (Carlson well.” kick), 1:44. ers (2-0), who overcame an early went for it successfully twice on Las—FG Carlson 28, :00. 10-point deficit to the Saints (1-1) fourth down. Third quarter Unmasked men Las—Waller 1 pass from Carr (Carlson and opened the season with two The Raiders even survived a Averting disaster kick), 9:58. fumbled pitch by Jalen Richard Both head coaches often did Fourth quarter straight wins for the fourth time by stopping the Saints and then The Raiders almost had a big not properly wear masks on the Las—Richard 20 run (Carlson kick), in the past 25 seasons. blunder on the opening drive of 7:43. scoring on the ensuing drive on a sideline despite an edict earlier in NO—Kamara 3 run (Lutz kick), 4:33. “This organization means the third quarter when Carr fum- Las—FG Carlson 54, 1:05. 20-yard run by Richard. the week to do so. A person with everything to me,” Carr said. bled a snap on third down from NO Las After being gashed on the knowledge of the punishment First downs 26 28 “They’ve stuck behind me the 1. Alec Ingold recovered for Total Net Yards 424 375 through some hard times. ground early, the Raiders did told The Associated Press that Rushes-yards 19-112 35-116 Las Vegas and Carr threw a 1- a good job against Brees, who at least three coaches have been Passing 312 259 Through some times our team, yard TD to Waller on fourth down Punt Returns 0-0 1-5 struggled without his injured No. fined $100,000 for violating the Kickoff Returns 2-64 2-46 we struggled, there’s no doubt to give the Raiders their first lead league’s rules that they wear face Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-6 about it. But when you can get on 1 receiver, Michael Thomas. of the game at 24-17. Comp-Att-Int 26-38-1 28-38-0 coverings on the sideline. Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 3-23 the other side of things, be 2-0, as Brees went 26-for-38 for 312 Punts 3-36.3 2-40.0 the Las Vegas Raiders, that’s a yards with one touchdown and a Gruden wore his mask like a Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Tale of two quarters Penalties-Yards 10-129 3-13 pretty cool thing.” key interception at the end of the chin strap, and Payton sported Time of Possession 23:42 36:18 Carr was in control for most first half that set up a field goal his gaiter like a turtleneck. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS The Raiders’ first game in Las RUSHING—New Orleans, Kamara 13- of the night, completing 28 of for the Raiders. Vegas didn’t get off to a great start Gruden apologized while re- 79, Murray 3-14, Harris 1-11, T.Hill 2-8. Las “If there’s one thing I wish I vealing for the first time that he Vegas, Jacobs 27-88, Richard 2-26, Carr 38 passes for 282 yards. Dar- with the Saints driving for scores 3-3, Booker 3-(minus 1). ren Waller had 12 receptions for could take back from the game on their first two drives to take a had contracted the coronavirus. PASSING—New Orleans, Brees 26-38- 1-312. Las Vegas, Carr 28-38-0-282. 103 yards as Carr’s most trusted it would be that,” Brees said. 10-0 lead on Kamara’s first TD “I’ve had the virus. I’m doing RECEIVING—New Orleans, Kamara 9- option. “Otherwise, we had a lot of men- run. The Raiders punted on their my best,” Gruden said. “I’m very 95, Smith 5-86, Harris 3-23, Montgomery 2-25, Murray 2-19, Cook 2-13, Sanders Carr engineered four straight tal errors. I felt like we were not first two drives before Carr and sensitive about it. I’m calling the 1-18, Trautman 1-17, J.Hill 1-16. Las Ve- scoring drives in the second and playing as fast and just as sure the offense got going in the sec- plays. I just want to communicate gas, Waller 12-103, Renfrow 3-37, Jacobs 3-17, Edwards 2-42, Ingold 2-5, Moreau 1- third quarters to turn a 10-0 defi- and confident.” ond quarter. in these situations. I apologize. If 31, Agholor 1-19, Jones 1-15, Booker 1-6, Ruggs 1-4, Witten 1-3. cit into a 24-17 lead. After the Saints cut the deficit Carr went 14-for-18 for 139 I get fined, I will have to pay the MISSED FIELD GOALS—None. “Derek Carr was awesome to- to 31-24 on Alvin Kamara’s sec- yards in the quarter, throwing a fine.” S TARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, September 23, 2020 F3HIJKLM Now it’s a best-of-fi ve Lightning even Stanley Cup Final SPORTS with Stars at 1 game apiece » Page 22

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DAVID BECKER, ABOVE, AND ISAAC BREKKEN, BELOW/AP Above: Raiders quarterback Derek Carr throws against the New Orleans Saints during the second half of Monday’s game at the Raiders’ new stadium in Las Vegas. Below: Raiders coach Jon Gruden celebrates his team’s 34-24 victory. Gruden didn’t wear his mask over his nose and mouth despite an edict from the league to do so. Housewarming Raiders win first game in new home

BY JOSH DUBOW Associated Press ‘ Hopefully our fans, even though they LAS VEGAS — Derek Carr couldn’t be here tonight, hopefully see and the Las Vegas Raiders de- something they like. livered a performance worthy of ’ their fancy new home. Jon Gruden Too bad none of their fans were Raiders coach, on the fi rst game in their new stadium in Las Vegas able to see it in person. Carr threw three touchdown passes and the Raiders gave their the New Orleans Saints 34-24 on lowing the Raiders’ move from new fans in Las Vegas plenty to Monday night. Oakland without any fans because celebrate even if they weren’t al- The new $2 billion stadium in of the COVID-19 pandemic. lowed in the stadium by beating the desert held its first event fol- SEE HOME ON PAGE 23

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