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VIRUS OUTBREAK Signs of progress Coronavirus crisis is easing across Sun Belt

BY MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press

The torrid coronavirus summer across the Sun Belt is easing after two disas- trous months that brought more than 35,000 deaths. Whether the outbreak will heat up again after Labor Day and the re- sumption of school and football remains to be seen. Seven of the nine states along the nation’s Southern and Western rim are experiencing drops in three important gauges — new deaths, new cases and the percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus. Alabama is the only state in the region where all three numbers are rising; Mississippi’s deaths are up, but positive rates and cases are dropping. In Florida, where reported deaths from COVID-19 are running at about 114 a day on average, down from a peak of 185 in early August, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he is easing A cyclist wearing a mask to prevent the state’s 5-month-old ban on visitors to the spread of coronavirus rides by an nursing homes. entrance to the University of Miami in SEE PROGRESS ON PAGE 6 Coral Gables, Fla., on Aug. 25.

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DC task force targets monuments, prompting fierce blowback

BY ASHRAF KHALIL Some of the proposals in the report re- city — a city that belongs to the American as one of its epicenters. It released a 24- Associated Press leased Tuesday are definite non-starters, people — she ought to be ashamed for even page executive summary Tuesday. as many of the most prominent monuments suggesting them for consideration,” White Some of the group’s recommendations WASHINGTON — A task force com- and statues stand on federal land, outside House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany were widely expected; for example, Wood- missioned by the Washington, D.C., gov- D.C. government control. Still, the recom- said in a statement Tuesday. row Wilson High School has been a prime ernment has recommended renaming, mendations have already prompted fierce The task force, known as DCFACES candidate for a name change for years due relocating or adding context to dozens of reactions amid an ongoing national debate (District of Columbia Facilities and Com- to Wilson’s open public support for segre- monuments, schools, parks and buildings over America’s racial history. memorative Expressions), was formed by gation. Others are more controversial, such because of their namesakes’ participation “As long as President Trump is in the Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser over the as proposals to rename schools named for in slavery or racial oppression. Among the White House, the mayor’s irresponsible rec- summer in the face of a nationwide wave of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin targets are the Washington Monument and ommendations will go absolutely nowhere, protests over police brutality and systemic Jefferson Memorial. and as the mayor of our Nation’s capital racial inequities that included Washington SEE MONUMENTS ON PAGE 12 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES

Zoom stocks soar as more turn to virtual meetings Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9122 Euro costs (Sept. 3) ...... $1.16 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.30 Dollar buys (Sept. 3) ...... €0.8213 Turkey (New Lira) ...... 7.3885 Associated Press growth during the second quarter The company is one of the key British pound (Sept. 3) ...... $1.31 (Military exchange rates are those as more people paid for subscrip- beneficiaries of the virus pan- Japanese yen (Sept. 3) ...... 103.00 available to customers at military banking NEW YORK — A Zoom call has South Korean won (Sept. 3) ...... 1,157.00 facilities in the country of issuance tions, giving them more control demic as more people log on to Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the become an integral part of daily Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3769 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For life during the coronavirus pan- over virtual meetings. Zoom’s rev- its videoconferencing service to British pound ...... $1.3314 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., enue more than quadrupled from work from home. Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3085 purchasing British pounds in Germany), demic. On Tuesday, Wall Street China (Yuan) ...... 6.8345 check with your local military banking acknowledged as much by boost- the same time last year to $663.5 The company also reported a Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.2878 facility. Commercial rates are interbank million and profits blew past Wall rise in customers with less than Egypt (Pound) ...... 15.8506 rates provided for reference when buying ing the videoconferencing com- Euro ...... $1.1833/0.8451 currency. All figures are foreign currencies pany’s market value above that Street forecasts. 10 employees. Those customers Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7503 to one dollar, except for the British pound, of more established companies At the current level, Zoom’s now account for 36% of revenue, Hungary (Forint) ...... 302.62 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.3635 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) such as Citigroup, Boeing and market value exceeds the com- according to J.P. Morgan. That is Japan (Yen) ...... 106.22 Starbucks. bined value of two storied au- the riskiest customer segment and Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3056 INTEREST RATES Zoom shares rose 40.8% to tomakers, General Motors and could mean a pull back in revenue Norway (Krone) ...... 8.8272 Philippines (Peso)...... 48.65 Prime rate ...... 3.25 $457.69, pushing its market value Ford, and is more than double the once COVID-19 becomes less of a Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.73 Discount rate ...... 0.25 to more than $129 billion, after aggregate value of the nation’s threat and more people return to Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7505 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.09 Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3637 3-month bill ...... 0.10 the company reported explosive four biggest airlines. offices. South Korea (Won) ...... 1,188.14 30-year bond ...... 1.42 WEATHER OUTLOOK THURSDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY IN EUROPE FRIDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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BY ROSE L. THAYER Undersecretary James McPherson. Murray’s investigation will begin with Stars and Stripes Efflandt was to officially leave his posi- those allegations and continue through the tion as acting base commander Wednesday events of April 22 and the search efforts AUSTIN, Texas — The officer in charge to allow for Maj. Gen. John B. Richardson that continued through July 1. of Fort Hood has been replaced and has IV to fill the role. Richardson, who was the McCarthy said he saw a need for an addi- lost his next command as a new review of director of operations at Forces Command tional review after the Inspector General’s the base leadership’s response to the disap- at Fort Bragg, N.C., was announced for the Office from Army Forces Command told pearance and death of Spc. Vanessa Guil- job in March. Congress in July that one-third of the 53 len began, the Army announced Tuesday. Efflandt will “assist with the reintegra- Fort Hood soldiers they surveyed as part Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, the current tion of III Corps as they return from their of an inspection this summer said they ex- deputy commander for operations for III mission supporting Operation Inherent perienced sexual harassment at the base. Corps and Fort Hood, has served as the Resolve,” according to a news release from Murray will conduct his in-person re- base commander since his commander, Forces Command on the leadership chang- view of Fort Hood in mid-September after Lt. Gen. Pat White, deployed to Iraq a year es at Fort Hood. five civilians assigned to an independent ago. Efflandt, who had been announced to The new investigation announced Tues- review committee finish their in-person in- take command this summer of the 1st Ar- day began last month and is being led by spection that began Monday and is expect- mored Division and Fort Bliss, Texas, will Gen. John Murray, commander of Army ed to last for two weeks, McPherson said. instead stay at Fort Hood as the deputy Futures Command. He will look “at every The independent review was announced commander for support until all investiga- echelon of the command related to Vanessa by McCarthy in July and will report on tions stemming from Guillen’s death are Guillen,” McCarthy said. the command climate and culture at Fort complete. Murray’s investigation joins at least four ROSE L. THAYER/Stars and Stripes Hood. Their report is due Oct. 30. The nomination of a new commander for others at Fort Hood in response to Guillen, The Pentagon officials also noted Mur- Fort Bliss will be sent to Congress and an- Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, who has served who was killed April 22 in an arms room by ray’s review is separate from a command nounced in the coming days, Army Secre- as acting commander of Fort Hood for the a fellow soldier. It took Army criminal in- tary Ryan McCarthy said Tuesday. past year, has been replaced. vestigators more than two months to locate inquiry that is ongoing within Guillen’s “With respect to Gen. Efflandt, he will Guillen’s body in a shallow grave about 20 unit, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, which is stay at Fort Hood until the culmination of is next for him,” McCarthy said, speaking miles from the central Texas Army base. looking at similar issues, but on a smaller these investigations, and once the determi- at a press briefing alongside Army Chief Guillen had told her family that she ex- scale. nations are made, then we will know what of Staff Gen. James McConville and Army perienced sexual harassment on base. [email protected] Report: China plans to expand its military around the world

BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY capacity and capability for all Stars and Stripes naval classes,” the report states. More so, China “will signifi- WASHINGTON— China rap- cantly evolve” its nuclear forces idly built up its navy to become through modernizations, includ- the largest in the world and now ing growing its nuclear arsenal. plans to do the same with its nu- “Over the next decade, China will clear weapons arsenal as it sets expand and diversify its nuclear its sights on establishing more forces, likely at least doubling military bases and influence its nuclear warhead stockpile,” around the globe, according to a according to the new 200-page new Defense Department report report. released Tuesday. The report on China’s military The Chinese military is being power is provided to Congress used to advance the nation’s for- every year. In addition, the Penta- eign policy, particularly with re- gon’s 2018 National Defense Strat- spect to its global interests and egy has shifted the U.S. military’s its aims to revise aspects of the focus from counterterrorism op- international order, said Chad erations to “great-power compe- Sbragia, the deputy assistant sec- tition” with China and Russia. retary of Defense for China. The economic policies of China “Beijing very much intends or and its militarization of the South CYNTHIA CLARK/U.S. Navy believes it will have to use this China Sea and Russia’s efforts to The Chinese destroyer Qingdao pulls into Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during a 2013 port military instrument to advance undermine NATO and its nuclear visit. China’s navy has surpassed the U.S. Navy in number of ships. and defend its conception of Chi- arsenal are major concerns for nese sovereignty, security and the U.S. military, according to the developmental interests,” he said, National Defense Strategy. tary power at greater distances,” explaining the findings from the China’s leaders want to develop ‘ Their aspirations are not small, and the report states. The Chinese Pentagon’s annual report on Chi- their military to be “world-class” army “has likely considered loca- na’s military during an event with by 2049, which the Pentagon in- they’re not limited to a single geographic tions” for military bases in about the American Enterprise Insti- terprets to mean to be on par or location. This is global in scale. a dozen countries, according to tute, a think tank in Washington. better than other world powers ’ the report, including Thailand, Chad Sbragia His summary highlighted the such as the United States, accord- deputy assistant secretary of Defense for China Kenya, and the United Arab growth of the Chinese navy and ing to the report. Emirates. the country’s plans to increase its Defense Secretary Mark Esper, These networks of bases and capability of deploying nuclear who is traveling through the Indo- logistics overseas could interfere weapons. Pacific, has repeatedly stated that China into a ‘great modern social- resent the actual capability of the with American military opera- China now has the world’s China and the Indo-Pacific region ist country’,” Sbragia said. navy, but it does demonstrate the tions and also support Chinese of- largest navy with 350 ships and are his top priorities. China’s military has already ambitions of the country to grow fensive operations against the submarines, surpassing the 295 “It is unlikely that the [Commu- surpassed the United States in its military strength. The report United States, the report states. battle force ships in the U.S. Navy. nist] party will seek an end state three areas highlighted in the also states the military is restruc- “Their aspirations are not In last year’s Pentagon report on in which China remains in a posi- report: shipbuilding, land-based turing so it operates more as a China, its Navy was only stated to tion of military inferiority vis-a- conventional ballistic and cruise joint force. small, and they’re not limited to be the largest in the region. vis the United States or any other missiles, and integrated air de- China also wants to build more a single geographic location. This “China is the top ship-produc- rival. A permanent condition of fense systems. military bases around the world is global in scale,” Sbragia said. ing nation in the world by tonnage military inferiority is anathema However, Sbragia cautioned as they have done in Djibouti in [email protected] and is increasing its shipbuilding to the party’s goal to transform the number of ships does not rep- order to “project and sustain mili- Twitter: @caitlinmkenney PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 MILITARY Pioneering Black Marine veteran honored

BY J.P. LAWRENCE an interview with the Albany Times Union the rear, Anderson told the Times Union, Stars and Stripes in 2011. adding he still had bitter feelings about his Anderson later survived Japanese kami- time in the service. A 95-year-old veteran who was one of kaze attacks while en route to the island of He and other Montford Point Marines the nation’s first African American U.S. Iwo Jima. have since received the Congressional Gold Marines received a medal and a car pa- He hauled ammunition and supplies to Medal after it was authorized in 2011. rade from the New York Senate as a birth- infantry units while under fire during the “Unfortunately, Corporal Anderson, day present. Battle of Iwo Jima, the statement said. and many of the African Americans who The recognition was long overdue for The battle, which resulted in the Ameri- served at the time experienced racism and Ambrose “Cowboy” Anderson of Glovers- can capture of the island and its airfields, discrimination and did not get the recogni- ville, N.Y. , said a statement by state Sen. left about 25,000 Marine casualties and tion he and his colleagues deserved,” Te- Jim Tedisco, who on Friday presented him 7,000 dead, as well as an estimated 18,0000 disco said in the statement. with the New York State Liberty Medal, Japanese dead, according to U.S. figures. “I am proud and honored to help rectify JIM TEDISCO/Facebook one of the state’s highest honors for service The Associated Press photo of Marines that in some way with this long-overdue and valor. Ambrose ‘’Cowboy’’ Anderson, 95, left, planting the U.S. flag atop Mount Suriba- heartfelt recognition by the state of New Anderson served during World War II of Gloversville, N.Y., receives the New chi became one of the most enduring im- York for Ambrose Anderson’s courageous after joining the Marine Corps in 1943. York State Liberty Medal from state Sen. ages of the war. service,” he said. He was assigned to the segregated Camp Jim Tedisco on Friday. When the war ended, Anderson, a cor- In an interview with Albany’s ABC news Montford Point in Jacksonville, N.C., where poral, served in Japan during the U.S. affiliate, Anderson said that despite the many Black Marines endured prejudice under a racist captain, and white military occupation. hardships he faced, “I’d do it all again.” and racism, the statement said. personnel would say that Black service During the ensuing peace, Black Ma- [email protected] While in training, Anderson served members had tails like monkeys, he said in rines were forced to leave Navy ships from Twitter: @jplawrence3 Bush leaves dry dock on time after first overhaul

BY CHRISTIAN LOPEZ the pandemic kept us on schedule,” Jeff Stars and Stripes Burchett, project superintendent, said in the Navy statement. “They stepped The aircraft carrier USS George H. up their game, and it was incred- W. Bush recently left dry dock at Norfolk ible how they kept us going to make us Naval Shipyard, Va., after 18 months of successful.” its planned two-year overhaul. While the carrier is at the pier, a This is the Bush’s most extensive shipyard team will start restoring its maintenance period and marked its first living areas ahead of the final phase of time out of water since it was built, ac- the maintenance period and before the cording to a Navy statement Saturday. crew comes back on board, according Work on the 1,092-foot-long carrier to the Navy. began in 2006; it was commissioned in “I know how important undocking January 2009. Its overhaul was the most is to this availability,” Burchett said. complex undertaken at the shipyard to “What’s even more important is return- date, according to the Navy. ing the ship back to the Fleet to con- The Bush “undocked” on schedule duct its mission. There’s a quote from Saturday despite challenges surround- George H.W. Bush himself that we took ing the coronavirus pandemic; it moved on as the project team motto: ‘This is to a pier adjacent the USS Harry S. Tru- my mission and I will complete it.’” man, which arrived for maintenance Prior to arriving at the Norfolk in July, the Navy said. This is the first shipyard, the Bush took park in the time two carriers have shared a pier in Franco-American bilateral airwing the shipyard’s history. exercise Chesapeake 2018 with the U.S. Navy “We have been laser-focused through- French navy. out on getting Bush out of dock on time, [email protected] The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush leaves dry dock at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Va., and the folks that worked throughout Twitter: @CLopez_Stripes on Saturday after undergoing maintenance. US bases on Okinawa escape typhoon with no serious damage, injuries

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE day, packing 104 mph sustained downed trees during our initial rine Expeditionary Force, 1st Lt. ning and swift action” of III MEF AND AYA ICHIHASHI winds and 127 mph gusts. installation inspections follow- Ryan Bruce, said advanced prep- and Marine Corps Installations Stars and Stripes The storm knocked down trees ing Typhoon Maysak,” Marine aration and good communication Pacific, he wrote. on U.S. bases on Okinawa, in- spokesman 1st Lt. Tim Hayes down the ranks resulted in no in- In local communities, more CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — flicted minor damage to facilities told Stars and Stripes via email juries and little storm damage at than 37,000 Okinawa households Typhoon Maysak came and went and left some Marines on Camps Wednesday. “Facility mainte- Marine bases. lost power Tuesday as Maysak this week, punching Okinawa Schwab, Hansen and Foster with- nance crews continue their as- Marines identified and took pushed north, Okinawa Times with gusts as high as 101 mph, but out power into Tuesday evening, sessments today.” care of susceptible equipment newspaper reported. leaving only minor damage to U.S. Marine and Air Force officials Kadena Air Base reported and infrastructure ahead of the Eight local residents were in- bases and no injuries behind. said Wednesday. They reported minor damage at residential hous- storm and sheltered as many air- jured due to wind gusts and 580 Maysak approached the island no injuries. ing, office buildings and hangars, craft as they could in hangars at people were evacuated from their with the power of a Category 4 Maysak was well past when and downed trees, according to Marine Corps Air Station Futen- homes due to concerns over flood- hurricane but passed as a Cat- military installations on Okina- an email Wednesday from the ma, Bruce wrote in an email ing and landslides. egory 2, with sustained winds of wa entered the recovery phase, 18th Wing. Wednesday. Airlines canceled 266 flights 63 mph and gusts of 101 mph re- or “Tropical Cyclone Condition “Kadena Air Base did not sus- Aircraft that could not be safely Monday and another 244 Tues- corded at Nanjo in southern Oki- of Readiness 1-R,” at 4:45 p.m. tain any significant damage due sheltered were moved to suitable, day, impacting 18,900 people, the nawa just before midnight. Tuesday. The Marines and the to Typhoon Maysak,” the email alternate locations, he said. Times reported. At least 10 flights The eye of the storm came Air Force on Okinawa said it was said. “Kadena Air Base remains Bruce said all III MEF per- were canceled Wednesday due to within 77 miles of Kadena Air too early to place a dollar value on fully operational and steps are sonnel are accounted for since lingering high winds. Base at 4 a.m. Tuesday, its closest the storm damages. being taken to mitigate the dam- returning to the lowest level of [email protected] approach. Maysak was forecast to “Marine Corps Installations age. No aircraft were damaged typhoon readiness. “We attribute Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 make landfall on the Korean Pen- Pacific identified minor facil- during the storm.” the success of our typhoon prepa- [email protected] insula around midnight Wednes- ity damage to include some A spokesman for the III Ma- ration efforts to the careful plan- Twitter: @AyaIchihashi Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY Stepbrothers reconnect for first time since Family reunion 2001 while on deployment in Afghanistan

BY CHAD GARLAND based command worked to make Stars and Stripes ‘ Now here he is the reunion happen, the statement said. It served as a reminder for Staff Sgt. Johnathan “Ben” Cox in front of me, a leaders to care for their troops, had just joined the military and grown man in the said Rowland’s boss with the 2nd his stepbrother was still a baby General Support Aviation Battal- the last time the two had seen same uniform I’m ion, also known as the Mustangs. each other. “I want the Mustangs to under- When he shook hands with Pfc. wearing, on his first stand nothing is more important Tyler Rowland at Afghanistan’s deployment and Bagram Airfield in late July, it to Ivy Division leaders than our was their first meeting since 2001 me coming off my soldiers and their families,” said — the year the war began — an sixth. Lt. Col. Tyler Partridge, com- Army statement quoted Cox as ’ mander of the battalion, whose saying. Staff Sgt. Jonathan “Ben” Cox helicopters have recently been “Now here he is in front of me, ferrying relief supplies to areas a grown man in the same uni- of Parwan province devastated by flooding. form I’m wearing, on his first de- ring sides and is expected to see Cox’s chain of command also ployment and me coming off my American troops depart within accommodated the 20-minute sixth,” Cox said. the next year. A wheeled vehicle mechanic meeting, which took place as the The stepbrothers had been in with 1st Battalion, 3rd Security older sibling was preparing to de- touch before. When Cox heard Force Assistance Brigade, the Rowland was considering joining part Bagram with his Fort Hood, elder of the two brothers said he the Army, he offered some advice Texas-based unit, the statement was “floored” to see Rowland, from his own experience, sug- said. who is 18 years his junior and “I said, ‘Are you kidding me deployed as a helicopter repairer gesting his younger brother con- sider his long-term goals. right now? This is crazy!’ ” Cox with the 4th Combat Aviation Bri- said. “I never heard of this be- gade, 4th Infantry Division. “I told him being in the Army, one thing I regret is not changing fore. I was absolutely floored. I “It felt surreal,” said Rowland, was so ecstatic I didn’t know what who didn’t recognize Cox until my military occupation specialty,” said Cox, who said auto mechan- to say.” they clasped hands on the second Rowland’s mother was thankful floor of the passenger terminal ics was his passion. “Working on they had a chance to reconnect, at the sprawling American base cars is fun and all, but working Tyler Rowland her voice cracking as she spoke north of Kabul. “Actually meet- on Humvees and military equip- Staff Sgt. Jonathan “Ben” Cox, 3rd Security Force Assistance ing him for the first time, it was ment, you get burned out.” about the event, according to the Brigade, and Pfc. Tyler Rowland, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th amazing.” Both mechanically inclined statement. Infantry Division, met for the first time in almost 20 years on July 21 Their conflict-zone reunion soldiers grew up in Gig Harbor, “It was special,” she said. “I am at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. came in what might be the final Wash., where Rowland’s mother, so proud of both of them. They’re months of America’s longest war, Andi Larsen, helped raise Cox both so brave, and they are good as the Taliban and the Kabul gov- as his stepmother from the time his older brother Ben his whole about him and showing Tyler pic- men. They put the right things ernment inched toward peace he was five until he joined the entire life,” Larsen said in the tures, I kept him alive and made first. They deserved this.” talks under a U.S.-brokered deal Army. statement. “It was strange that Ben real for him.” [email protected] that seeks to reconcile the war- “Tyler has heard me talk about he never met him, but by talking Rowland’s Fort Carson, Colo.- Twitter: @chadgarland Philippine court orders US Marine’s early release in killing

BY JIM GOMEZ Manila. continue to have the status of conquering tor from New Bedford, Mass., was one of Associated Press The place of deten- colonials in our country,” Roque said. thousands of American and Philippine tion was agreed to Pemberton’s lawyer, Rowena Garcia military personnel who participated in MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine under the terms of the Flores, said his detention was shortened joint exercises in the country in 2014. He court has ordered the early release for treaty allies’ Visiting by authorities under a Philippine law that and a group of other Marines were on leave good conduct of a U.S. Marine convicted in Forces Agreement, also applies to Filipinos. If all of Pember- after the exercises and met Laude and her the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino although Laude’s fam- ton’s good-conduct merits in jail were ap- friends at a bar in Olongapo, a city known which sparked anger in the former Ameri- ily had demanded that plied, “he’s already overstaying,” she said for its nightlife outside Subic Bay, a former can colony. Pemberton be held in by phone. U.S. Navy base. The Regional Trial Court Branch 74’s an ordinary jail. Military spokesman Maj. Gen. Edgard Laude was later found dead, her head order Tuesday for the release of Lance “I deplore the short Arevalo said the military will help Bureau slumped in a toilet bowl in a motel room, Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton drew pro- Pemberton period of imprison- of Corrections jail personnel release Pem- where witnesses said she and Pemberton tests from the family and lawyers of Jen- ment meted on Pem- berton once it receives the court order. had checked in. A witness told investiga- nifer Laude, who was found dead in a berton, who killed a Filipino under the In December 2015, a judge convicted tors that Pemberton said he choked Laude motel room in Olongapo city, northwest of most gruesome manner,“ said presidential Pemberton of homicide, not the more se- after discovering she was transgender. Manila, after they met at a disco bar in Oc- spokesman Harry Roque, who once served rious charge of murder as prosecutors The killing reignited calls from left- tober 2014. as the Laude family’s lawyer. “Laude’s sought. wing groups and nationalists for an end to Pemberton has been held six years of death personifies the death of Philippine The Olongapo court judge said at the America’s military presence in the Philip- a maximum 10-year jail term, mostly in sovereignty.” time that she downgraded the charge be- pines at a time when the U.S. was reassert- a compound jointly guarded by Philip- “The light penalty imposed on Pem- cause factors such as cruelty and treach- ing its role in Asia, and Manila had turned pine and American security personnel at berton proves that despite the president’s ery had not been proven. to Washington for support amid an escalat- the main military camp in metropolitan independent foreign policy, Americans Pemberton, an anti-tank missile opera- ing territorial dispute with China. PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Unit limits movement after positive tests

BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON case numbers, local German On Wednesday, the Robert Koch Stars and Stripes ‘ Leadership is taking these precautions health officials said they agreed Institute reported 296 new cases with the U.S. military not to re- in Bavaria, which has recorded GRAFENWOEHR, Germany for the safety of its Soldiers, their families lease the information. 57,781 since the start of the pan- — The Vilseck-based 2nd Cav- Some health departments in demic. The state has been among alry Regiment this week imposed and the USAG Bavaria community. ’ other parts of Germany restrict the hardest hit in Germany. a 14-day restriction of movement Maj. John Ambelang identifying information but do Between March 31 and April for its soldiers after an unspeci- 2nd Cavalry Regiment spokesman release figures on U.S. military fied number of troops tested posi- 13 — roughly the height of the coronavirus cases, while some tive for the coronavirus. spread in the state — 2nd Cavalry other military commands, par- The restriction, which went Regiment soldiers were ordered into effect Tuesday in Vilseck assisting incoming and outgoing actly how many new infections ticularly in the Western Pacific to remain home as case totals in and Grafenwoehr, applies to soldiers will continue with limit- there were within the unit, citing region, routinely provide tallies Bavaria rose sharply. thousands of troops on- and ed personnel, the unit said. What Army policy in Europe. of new infections. The latest restrictions haven’t off-post and is “to allow for in- work must be done in-person will “There have been a small num- Germany has received praise caused any exercises to be can- creased testing and monitoring be determined by individual com- ber of personnel who have tested from world health authorities for celed, Ambelang said. for COVID-19,” regiment spokes- manders, Ambelang said. positive for COVID-19 in the 2d sharply curtailing coronavirus “Leadership is taking these man Maj. John Ambelang said in When not working, soldiers may Cavalry Regiment over the past cases after experiencing high precautions for the safety of its a statement. leave home to run “essential er- two weeks,” Ambelang said. numbers in late March and April. Soldiers, their families and the The effort also will allow the rands such as grocery shopping, The Amberg-Sulzbach health But the country has seen an in- USAG Bavaria community,” Am- unit time to complete contract medical and pharmacy appoint- authority, which oversees Vilseck, crease in recent weeks, prompting belang said. tracing, Ambelang said. ments, banks, postal services, or also declined to release how many warnings from health officials to Stars and Stripes reporter Marcus Mission-critical functions such vehicle maintenance and fuel- U.S. military cases there were in continue following guidelines on Kloeckner contributed to this report. as medical appointments, main- ing,” Ambelang said. the region Tuesday. While the social distancing, wearing masks [email protected] taining essential equipment and Ambelang declined to say ex- military provides the office with and hygiene. Twitter: Manny_Stripes Progress: Officials implore Mississippians not to get tired of doing what reduced cases

FROM FRONT PAGE includes Arizona, New Mexico, “Part of having a healthy soci- Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama ety is understanding that human and Georgia. beings seek affection,” DeSantis States across the region began said, his voice cracking at times to make progress against the as he wondered aloud whether virus after suspending or rolling his actions had contributed to back business reopenings and the suffering by separating the taking a harder line on mask- elderly from their loved ones. He wearing and social distancing. paused for about 20 seconds to Americans are now heading collect himself. into the Labor Day holiday week- The governor also said the num- end, the unofficial end of summer, ber of people in Florida hospitals knowing the threat isn’t gone as with COVID-19 is down nearly fall brings a return to school, col- 60% from its peak in July and lege and sports. that newly confirmed cases on “Although more people are Monday dropped below 2,000, the wearing masks and they’ve lowest daily total since mid-June. closed a couple bars, that in itself The U.S. leads the world in has not brought down the level of coronavirus deaths and con- transmission to the point where firmed infections after a spring you can safely open up schools, outbreak centered around New where you can safely open up col- York, followed by the summer leges, where you can hold sport- MIGUEL ROBERTS, THE BROWNSVILLE (TEXAS) HERALD/AP flareup across the Sun Belt. ing events,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, As of Tuesday, there were more a Baylor University infectious Jacobo Garcia, 70, visits his wife of 54 years, Aurora Garcia, on Tuesday at her bedside window at Fox than 25.3 million confirmed cases disease expert. Hollow Post Acute Nursing Home in Brownsville, Texas, amid the COVID-19 pandemic . and over 850,000 deaths world- Health experts pinned some wide, according to the tally by of the blame for the summer- Dr. Donald Williamson, presi- Perez, it was his final journey. more time to prepare, under a Johns Hopkins University, with time surge on Memorial Day and dent of the Alabama Hospital As- Perez died in late July at a deal with the union. the U.S. accounting for more than Fourth of July gatherings. Now sociation, said the state is seeing Phoenix hospital of complications  Millions of children across 6 million infections and 183,000 they worry that Labor Day will several warning signs since the from COVID-19, and his family Europe and beyond returned to contribute to the virus’s spread. of the dead. return of students to schools and brought his remains with them to school. In France and the Bal- About 68,000 of the U.S. deaths Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves colleges and the resumption of Mexico. kan countries, mask rules are in have come since the start of sum- and the state’s epidemiologist, Dr. high school football. He said the Because of coronavirus restric- mer, with the number of infec- Paul Byers, held a news confer- question is whether the state can tions, there was no traditional place for many children, while tions among Americans nearly ence Monday in which they im- avoid a spike that fills intensive open-casket ceremony inside a other nations have taken a more tripling during the same period. plored people to avoid big Labor care beds in hospitals. church and the rites were held relaxed stance. Some classrooms “It’s been a summer of fire, not Day parties. “If we were to see the same ef- outside in the cemetery. Only have plastic shields around desks ice,” said Dr. William Schaffner, “I think all we are is just a mo- fect from Labor Day, we would relatives were allowed to attend, and warning signs everywhere. an infectious-disease expert at ment away from us all forgetting be in worse shape than we were when normally the entire village  In India, many states re- Vanderbilt University in Nash- and getting tired of doing the after July Fourth,” said William- would be expected. laxed lockdown restrictions to ville, Tenn. “If anything, we’ve things that have gotten us this son. “It’s a higher baseline.” “We put him in an urn and then allow more businesses to reopen far,” Byers said. learned that this virus is even Diego Lozano, 28, of Phoenix, we buried the urn,” Lozano said. and ease economic pain, though nastier than we thought it was in Elsewhere around the South, is among those who had his sum- Among other coronavirus de- the country’s daily count of new the spring.” Alabama recorded more than mer travel plans changed by the velopments Tuesday: Texas alone amassed more 1,200 deaths in July and August. outbreak. Each year, he joins his  New York City, with 1.1 infections is the highest in the than 10,000 virus deaths in July Deaths are down from their late parents and grandfather in visit- million public school students, world. and August, Florida added over July peak but are trending up- ing relatives in the Mexican state delayed the start of in-person  Public tours of the White 7,6 0 0, and Califor nia recorded ward again, running at an aver- of Morelos. But for his grandfa- instruction for a week and a half House, halted nearly six months nearly 7,000. The Sun Belt also age of about 23 a day. ther, 75-year-old Lorenzo Lomas until Sept. 21 to give teachers ago, are set to resume Sept. 12. Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Army trained 4,500 senior ROTC cadets during the pandemic

BY COREY DICKSTEIN senior cadets, largely students at Stars and Stripes West Coast universities, are ex- pected to complete the training WASHINGTON — The Army in September and October, Evans managed to train more than half said. its rising senior ROTC cadets The general dubbed the rough- this summer in small clusters of ly 10-day training program Op- students at installations close to eration Agile Leader, a nod to their universities after the ser- the Army’s willingness to es- vice was forced to cancel its mas- chew long-held service norms in sive summer training programs an effort to mitigate the spread because of the coronavirus, the of the coronavirus. In a testa- leader of Army Cadet Command ment to the training program’s said Tuesday. moniker, Army leaders initially More than 4,500 senior cadets planned to host the camps during in July and August completed the the fall semester but ultimately unprecedented, abbreviated mili- chose to move them into the sum- SCOTT STURKOL/U.S. Army tary training programs meant mer before students returned to ROTC Cadet Mason Boucher with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point ROTC program and other to replace monthlong camps at campuses. cadets participate in field training Thursday, Aug. 13, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort Knox, Ky., required before One major success that the pro- commissioning into the Army, gram has seen thus far, Evans believe it could implement so- of them are doing a great job of no symptoms after contracting said Maj. Gen. John Evans, who said, is no confirmed coronavi- cial distancing and other safety that. Some of them are probably the virus, college students will is responsible for the service’s rus cases among its participants. requirements to keep those indi- struggling with that, to be honest. not take the pandemic seriously. roughly 20,000 ROTC cadets in About 50 or so cadets were sent viduals safe. I mean, I know what it was like Evans said ROTC cadre members 274 programs across the nation. home after displaying symptoms, “It would have been a monu- for me in college, and that first are attempting to “impress upon” The training was largely success- disclosing potential exposure to mental tragedy to have brought weekend in college is a big party cadets the need to follow proto- ful, Evans said, but it was ulti- the virus or testing positive for 10,000 cadets to Fort Knox,” for everybody. We’re seeing that cols because even if the virus has mately “a suboptimal solution” it immediately after arriving at Evans said. “Over the course all over the country.” little or no impact on them, they for preparing college students to their camps. of 100 days, we would have [the The New York Times has re- can spread it to others who could become second lieutenants re- Cadet Command asked its ca- coronavirus] everywhere. So I ported at least 26,000 coronavirus be more vulnerable. sponsible for leading soldiers in dets to self-isolate in their homes think [the cadets] understand in- cases, including 64 deaths, at over “We’re spending a lot of time spring 2021. for two weeks before traveling tuitively that we made the right 1,500 American four-year public talking about that,” he said. “We understand that we short- to their Operation Agile Leader decision for the right reasons.” and private institutions so far this Evans said he is in near-con- ed them on some training,” Evans camp location. They were then Evans said he is already pre- year. The worst breakouts were said in a phone interview. “But screened and, in some cases, stant communication with uni- paring for the possibility summer largely in southern schools, in- versity leaders, sharing the best what we did as we truncated the tested for exposure to the virus. cluding in Alabama, North Caro- training might not be able to re- practices the Army has found for training plan is we tried to focus Evans said the cadets then op- turn to normal next year. lina, Florida and Georgia. training soldiers during the pan- them on the tasks that we thought erated in bubble-like conditions Meanwhile, the Army is at- Among the college students demic. Despite several breakouts would be most essential for their during the training, limiting tempting to ensure the safety of who have contracted the virus are at installations around the world, development and progression as their exposure to others outside cadets returning to universities dozens of ROTC cadets. Evans officers.” the camp. in every state, including to doz- declined to provide specific num- the Army has been able to contin- Those tasks included weapons Evans said he believes if the ens of schools that have already bers of cases among Army ca- ue training its incoming recruits training, land navigation and Army had gone forward with its reported serious coronavirus out- dets per Pentagon policy, which with minimal delays, service of- physical fitness, which cannot typical Cadet Summer Train- breaks. But Evans admitted it will considers revealing detailed data ficials have said. easily be replicated in univer- ing programs, it would have cre- largely be up to cadets to follow on the virus’s spread a security “We can’t just wait for [the sity classrooms or virtual train- ated a major outbreak. Normally, guidelines meant to keep them concern. None of the cadets who coronavirus] to go,” Evans said. “I ing sessions. The Army expects some 10,000 ROTC cadets cycle safe, such as avoiding unneces- have contracted the virus have don’t think we can just stop what to rely heavily on classroom and through Fort Knox during the sary social functions, practicing reported serious symptoms or we’re doing in the educational virtual instruction this school summer months to attend their social distancing and wearing a required medical attention, the realm or in the training realm year to prepare its 6,500 senior monthlong training programs in face covering. general said. and just wait for it to go away.” cadets for their future jobs. Most groups of about 700 cadets. “We counsel them” on taking Officials worry that because [email protected] of the remaining roughly 2,000 Ultimately, the Army did not those precautions, he said. “Some young people often experience Twitter: @CDicksteinDC Tokyo’s streak of 100-plus reported cases continues into Wednesday

Stars and Stripes Tokyo on Wednesday reported personnel, civilian employees, On Okinawa, home to the brushed by Monday and Tuesday. that one person tested positive contractors and family members bulk of U.S. forces in Japan, a The prefecture reported 14 cases TOKYO — Japan’s capital city for the virus. The patient recently who return from travel outside prefectural health official on Wednesday but expects more reported another 141 coronavirus cases Wednesday, while the U.S. returned from the United States Japan or are new arrivals to the Wednesday said that testing was when it sizes up the week thus far military in Japan announced two through the city’s Haneda Inter- country. suspended while the island cleans on Thursday, the health official new infections. national Airport, where Japanese Although not reported by the up after Typhoon Maysak, which said. Wednesday was the ninth con- authorities administered a test U.S. military as of Wednesday, a secutive day that the Tokyo Met- for the virus, which was returned Japanese employee assigned to ropolitan Government reported Tuesday. Stars and Stripes at the Hardy more than 100 infections, accord- U.S. Army Japan, headquar- Barracks compound in central ing to public broadcaster NHK. tered 28 miles southwest of cen- Tokyo tested positive on Aug. 30. The rolling, seven-day average tral Tokyo, reported one new case The office worker, whose duties of new cases, however, has fallen Wednesday, also a person who re- lie outside the newspaper’s edito- steadily from 225.4 on Aug. 26 to cently traveled and was tested at rial and printing operations, had 196.7 on Tuesday. Haneda by Japanese authorities been teleworking and last visited The city of 13 million has re- upon returning to Japan, accord- the Army installation about 10 ported 21,128 confirmed corona- ing to an Army news release. That days earlier to carry out tasks virus cases during the pandemic, test was administered Tuesday. that could not be done remotely. of which more than 18,000 have Both individuals were already Central Tokyo is off limits to recovered and 364 have died. in a two-week quarantine, a re- U.S. military personnel, civilian Yokota Air Base in western quirement of any U.S. military employees and family members. PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP CDC directs halt to renter evictions to prevent spread

Associated Press nearly $3 billion in emergency contracts as the COVID-19 pan- WASHINGTON — The Trump demic surged in the spring. administration has issued a di- The Department of Health and rective halting the eviction of Human Services issued a state- certain renters though the end of ment Tuesday affirming that 2020 to prevent the spread of the the national stockpile has now coronavirus. reached its maximum capac- Federal, state and local gov- ity for the life-saving breathing ernments have approved eviction machines, with nearly 120,000 moratoriums during the course of the pandemic for many renters, available for deployment to state but those protections are expiring and local health officials if need. rapidly. A recent report from one Though the orders were billed think tank, the Aspen Institute, as a cost-saving measure, Demo- stated that more than 20 million crats said the cancellations show renters live in households that the White House vastly overspent have suffered COVID-19-related in its quest to fulfill President job losses, and concluded that Donald Trump’s pledge to make millions more are at risk of evic- the United States the “King of tion in the next several months. Ventilators.” The administration’s action The agency didn’t have an stems from an executive order estimate for how much taxpay- that President Donald Trump is- ers would save by canceling the sued in early August. It instruct- contracts because the terms and ed federal health officials to potential penalties for the early consider measures to temporar- terminations were still being ily halt evictions. The Centers for negotiated with the companies Disease Control and Prevention involved. followed up Tuesday by declaring HHS confirmed it was termi- that any landlord shall not evict nating contracts with ventilator any “covered person” from any manufacturers Hamilton Medi- residential property for failure to cal and Vyaire Medical, which pay rent. will result in the reduction of Renters covered through the 38,000 ventilators that had been executive order must meet four scheduled for delivery to the Na- criteria. They must have an in- tional Strategic Stockpile by the come of $198,000 or less for cou- end of 2020. ples filing jointly, or $99,000 for single filers, demonstrate they Florida JEFF CHIU/AP have sought government assis- MIAMI — A cyberattack and a tance to make their rental pay- People exercise while wearing masks in assigned spaces at a Barry’s Outdoors workout on the roof of a software glitch plagued Florida’s ments, affirmatively declare they building with Twin Peaks at rear during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco on Tuesday. are unable to pay rent because of largest school district during the COVID-19 hardships and affirm first two days of its virtual start announced Tuesday. giant MGM Resorts International seven-day averages of new cases they are likely to become home- to the school year, officials said Movie theaters and performing laid off about 18,000 employees smooths out anomalies in the less if they are evicted. Tuesday. arts centers will be able to open at at locations around the United data, including test result delays. Miami-Dade County Public 50% capacity beginning at 5 p.m. States. It followed months of ne- A laska Schools Superintendent Alberto Friday. Up to 100 people will be gotiations over worker safety and New York Carvalho said during a news con- allowed at indoor venues, or 250 job protections begun when ca- ANCHORAGE — The largest ference that the district suffered people at outdoor venues. sinos were closed in mid-March NEW YORK — New York City school district in Alaska to open a distributed denial of service All retail stores as well as because of the coronavirus postponed students’ return to for in-person classes has shifted attack Monday morning as a soft- churches and houses of worship pandemic. classrooms by more than a week to online learning only for three ware glitch blocked access to the will be able to increase capacity to keep working on coronavirus schools after five new cases of district’s servers, the Miami Her- from 50% to 75%. Local jurisdic- New Mexico safety precautions, announcing COVID-19 were confirmed. ald reported. The glitch and DDoS tions will still be able to decide the delay Tuesday after teachers The new infections emerged attack rendered multiple online not to open as much as the state SANTA FE — New Mexico said they might OK a strike over among three schools in the Mata- school district features useless plan allows. health officials reported 110 newly the city’s drive to open schools. nuska-Susitna Borough School and teaching nearly impossible. The governor said the state has confirmed cases of COVID-19 and The change came nine days District, Alaska Public Media The FBI and Secret Service continued to see declining num- eight related deaths Tuesday. before the nation’s largest public reported. have been called in and subpoe- bers in key health metrics. Mary- The Dona Ana County area school system was set to resume that includes Las Cruces led all Colony middle and high schools naed the school district’s internet land’s statewide posititivity rate teaching students face-to-face. counties in terms of new infec- plan distance learning until next provider, Carvalho said. He added is down to 3.39%, Hogan said. Now, instead of starting a mix tions with 32 cases. Cumulative Tuesday, while the district said that the glitch has been complete- of in-person and remote learning ly resolved and optimized. statewide deaths from the coro- an update is pending on how long Nevada on Sept. 10, the city’s more than Whoever conducted the cy- navirus now number 787. Pioneer Peak Elementary will be 1 million public school students berattack did not hack in or pen- LAS VEGAS — Tens of thou- The seven-day rolling average closed to in-person classes. will start remote-only classes The schools will be cleaned, etrate district servers, officials sands of working or furloughed of daily new cases in New Mexico Sept. 16. In-school instruction and public health officials will said. It wasn’t known who initi- employees at the two largest Las has decreased over the past two will begin Sept. 21. notify any families with children ated the attack, but Carvalho said Vegas casino companies will weeks, going from 156 new cases That time is to be spent finish- who are considered close con- he wants them prosecuted to the keep family health benefits until per day on Aug. 17 to 127 new ing virus-safety steps that were tacts of those who tested positive fullest extent of the law. March 1 under an agreement in- cases per day on Aug. 31. That’s for COVID-19. volving unions representing bar- according to an analysis by The already planned and working Maryland tenders and culinary workers, Associated Press of data collect- out some new provisions, includ- W ashington, D.C. officials said. ed by Johns Hopkins University ing random testing of 10% to 20% ANNAPOLIS — All businesses The pact, announced Monday, Center for Systems Science and of all students and staffers per WASHINGTON — The Trump in Maryland will be able to open affects about 36,000 union work- Engineering. month. That’s intended to get a administration is canceling some later this week as the state enters ers at 22 Las Vegas Strip proper- The rolling average of statewide handle on whether people with- of its remaining orders for ven- the third phase of its coronavirus ties, the unions said. daily deaths fell during the same out symptoms might be in schools tilators, after rushing to sign recovery plan, Gov. Larry Hogan It came the same day casino period from 4.1 to 3.6. Comparing and potentially infectious. Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 NATION Trump denounces violence in Kenosha visit

Associated Press portrait of parts of the nation he leads, the president predicted that chaos would de- KENOSHA, Wis. — President Donald scend on cities across America if voters Trump stood at the epicenter of the latest elect Democrat Joe Biden to replace him eruption over racial injustice Tuesday and in November. came down squarely on the side of law en- Biden hit back, speaking to donors forcement, blaming “domestic terror” for the violence in Kenosha, Wis., and making on a fundraising call after Trump left no nod to the underlying cause of anger Kenosha. and protests — the shooting of yet another “Donald Trump has failed to protect Black man by police. America. So now he’s trying to scare the Trump declared the violence “anti- hell out of America,” Biden said. “Violence American.“ He did not mention Jacob isn’t a problem in Donald Trump’s eyes. Blake, who was left paralyzed after being It’s a political strategy.” shot in the back seven times by an officer The election is playing out in “anxious last week in Kenosha. times,” with “multiple crises,” Biden said. Soon after arriving in the city, a visit He included police violence in the list, made over the objections of state and local along with the coronavirus pandemic and leaders, Trump toured the charred re- its economic fallout, and said Trump re- mains of a block besieged by violence and fuses to address any of them honestly. fire. With the scent of smoke still in the air, Trump aides believe that his tough-on- he spoke to the owners of a century-old crime stance will help him with voters store that had been destroyed and contin- and that the more the national discourse is about anything other than the coronavirus, ued to link the violence to the Democrats, EVAN VUCCI/AP blaming those in charge of Kenosha and the better it is for the president. Wisconsin while raising apocalyptic warn- President Donald Trump speaks Tuesday as he tours an area that was damaged during Biden said after Trump’s Wisconsin ings if their party should capture the White demonstrations after a police officer shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. visit: “The vast majority of cops are hon- House. orable, decent and real. But the idea that “These are not acts of peaceful protest demonstrators, some holding American opted against it after the family asked that he wouldn’t even acknowledge the problem but, really, domestic terror,” said Trump. flags in support of the president, others a lawyer listen in. — and white nationalists are raising their And he condemned Democratic officials jeering while carrying signs that read Trump later added he felt “terribly” for heads all across the country.” for not immediately accepting his offer of Black Lives Matter. A massive police pres- anyone who suffered a loss, but otherwise Trump condemned unrest in Portland, federal enforcement assistance, claiming, ence, complete with several armored ve- only noted that the situation was “com- Ore., too, where a supporter was shot and “They just don’t want us to come.” hicles, secured the area, and barricades plicated” and “under investigation.” The killed recently — and an increase in shoot- The city has been the scene of protests were set up along several of the city’s only words acknowledging the concerns ings in cities including Chicago and New since the Aug. 23 shooting of Blake, who major thoroughfares to keep onlookers at of African Americans came from a pastor York — and tried to take credit for stopping was shot as he tried to get into a car while a distance from the passing presidential who attended Trump’s law enforcement the violence in Kenosha with the National police were trying to arrest him. Protests vehicles. roundtable. Guard. But it was Wisconsin’s Democratic have been concentrated in a small area of Offering federal resources to help re- Pressed by reporters, Trump repeatedly governor, Tony Evers, who deployed the Kenosha. While there were more than 30 build the city, Trump toured a high school pivoted away from assessing any sort of Guard to quell demonstrations in response fires set in the first three nights, the situa- that had been transformed into a heavily structural racism in the nation or its po- to the Blake shooting, and he had pleaded tion has calmed since then. fortified law enforcement command post. lice departments, instead blasting what he with Trump to stay away for fear of strain- Trump’s motorcade passed throngs of He said he tried to call Blake’s mother but saw as anti-police rhetoric. Painting a dark ing tensions further. After blasting Trump on violence, Biden pivots to schools

Associated Press and order” and Biden pushing a broad ref- ed Biden’s election would ensure similar ing to quell unrest or perhaps even feed it. erendum on Trump’s competence. scenes in U.S. cities across the country. It Biden’s team downplays such concerns, Joe Biden plans to hammer President “President Trump has no plan,” said was the latest rendition of a theme voiced insisting the former vice president simply Donald Trump on Wednesday for not Biden adviser Symone Sanders, preview- throughout the Republican National Con- must counter with steady warnings that helping the nation’s schools reopen safely ing the former vice president’s remarks on vention: “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s during the coronavirus pandemic, as the Trump is dangerously inept. They see that schools and the pandemic. “Instead,” she America.” as an umbrella argument for any number Democratic challenger tries to keep the continued, “he thinks that a fear-monger- Sanders previewed Biden’s retort and spotlight on the Republican incumbent’s of scenarios — including a discussion of ing campaign stoking violence is going to pivot. “To be clear, we are currently living how to reopen schools. handling of the outbreak and the nation’s help him.” in Donald Trump’s America, and folks have overall security. Trump’s cries of “law-and-order” and Biden, she said, “is demonstrating what to ask themselves across the country: Are “radical leftists” might work, said Biden’s Biden and his wife, Jill, a longtime college a safe America could look like” by talking you safe?” she said. With the U.S. COVID- campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond, professor and former high school teacher, to experts about school options in a pan- 19 death toll nearing 190,000, Sanders de- “if he was the only one talking.” But the will meet with public health experts to talk demic, while Trump tries to capitalize on clared the answer is “unequivocally” no. Louisiana congressman said Biden has a about school reopening options. Then the the fact that some racial justice protests Trump’s advisers argue that his stance candidate will deliver remarks — his sec- have led to property damage or turned into — which includes falsely accusing Biden of megaphone, too, and that Trump, even as ond speech in three days — outlining his violent clashes with counter-protesters. championing violent protesters and want- a “p.r. master,” cannot erase Americans’ ideas and accusing the president of making Trump put his approach on display ing to “defund the police” — shifts atten- own realities on coronavirus, systemic rac- the country less safe. again Tuesday on a trip to Kenosha, Wis., a tion away from the pandemic. They also ism or anything else. The event in Wilmington, Del., is the lat- city still reeling from protests and violence believe the tactics help Trump attract “Look, you can’t argue that the country est in a series of dueling efforts by Trump after another Black man, Jacob Blake, white voters in suburbs and exurbs, key is so screwed up only you can fix it when and Biden to cast the other as a threat to was shot by police. The president praised slices of his 2016 coalition. you’ve been president for almost four Americans’ day-to-day security. It will local law enforcement and toured a block Some Democrats have quietly worried years,” Richmond said in an interview. highlight their vastly different arguments, charred by protesters’ fire. He called the that recent violence might boost Trump’s “His argument is basically, ‘I broke the with Trump steering debate toward “law destruction “anti-American” and suggest- prospects, even as his maneuvers do noth- country. Now reelect me so I can fix it.’ ” PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 NATION Court shields Trump tax returns, likely until after election

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK they were pleased with the ruling. Associated Press A message seeking comment was left with Vance’s spokesperson. NEW YORK — A federal ap- Trump’s lawyers appealed to peals court Tuesday granted the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- President Donald Trump a tem- peals last month after a district porary reprieve in the long-run- court judge rejected their efforts ning fight over his tax returns, to invalidate a subpoena issued to barring Manhattan’s top pros- his accounting firm. A hearing on ecutor from getting the records the merits of the appeal is sched- while Trump’s lawyers embark uled for Sept. 25. on another bid to overturn the With Trump’s side certain to ANDREW HARNIK/AP subpoena seeking them. appeal an unfavorable ruling, With a temporary stay in place “Vance is unlikely to see the re- President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet supporters on the third day of the and Trump expecting a return to cords soon,” University of Rich- Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore on the Supreme Court, it’s unlikely mond law school professor Carl Wednesday, Aug. 26. that the case will be resolved or Tobias said. any tax returns will be turned The Supreme Court ruled in over before the November elec- July that the presidency in and of Melania Trump’s ex-adviser says tion. The three-judge panel ruled itself doesn’t shield Trump from after hearing brief arguments Vance’s investigation, but the from both sides. high court returned the case to she taped her calls for protection Trump’s lawyers argued that U.S. District Judge Victor Marre- a stay keeping the tax returns ro’s courtroom to allow Trump’s under wraps will protect him lawyers to raise other concerns Associated Press unlike them, the first lady is not a nia Trump, said Wolkoff was out from irreparable harm — such as about the subpoena. government employee. for revenge. leaks from secret grand jury pro- WASHINGTON — A former At that stage, Trump’s lawyers In an interview on MSNBC’s “Anybody who secretly tapes ceedings — while they appeal a friend and adviser of Melania argued that the subpoena was is- “The Rachel Maddow Show,” their self-described best friend lower-court ruling two weeks ago sued in bad faith, overly broad, Trump said Tuesday that she Wolkoff said, “I’ve been accused is, by definition, dishonest,” that granted Manhattan District might have been politically mo- made recordings of her conversa- Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office tivated and amounted to harass- tions with the first lady because of taping my friend, as the White Grisham said. access to Trump’s tax returns. ment. Marrero rejected those she needed evidence to protect House said, and how horrible of a “The book is not only full of mis- A lawyer for Vance’s office ar- claims. Consovoy told the judges herself amid questions about human being I am for doing that. truths and paranoia, it is based on gued that further delays to the Tuesday that he thought the in- the costs of President Donald “And they’re right. If she some imagined need for revenge. enforcement of a subpoena is- vestigation was an “arbitrary Trump’s inauguration. was my friend, it would be hor- Wolkoff builds herself up while sued nearly a year ago would only fishing expedition.” Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, rible. But Melania and the White belittling and blaming everyone hamper their investigation, which Trump has blasted the quest whose book “Melania and Me: House had accused me of crimi- she worked with, yet she still he said covers a wide range of for his financial records as a The Rise and Fall of My Friend- nal activity and publicly shamed managed to be the victim. Sadly, business dealings connected to “continuation of the most disgust- ship with the First Lady,” was re- and fired me and made me their this is a deeply insecure woman Trump’s company, the Trump ing witch hunt in the history of leased this week, helped produce scapegoat,” Wolkoff said. “At that whose need to be relevant defies Organization. our country.” Trump’s inauguration and later moment in time, that’s when I logic.” One of the three judges on the Carey Dunne, of the district worked for the first lady as an un- pressed record. She was no longer In the book, Wolkoff says she panel, John M. Walker Jr., said attorney’s office, said Trump and paid White House adviser. my friend, and she was willing to wished she had never met the that the subpoenas cover 11 en- his lawyers have long misrepre- Wolkoff left the White House let them take me down.” first lady, who is a former fashion tities engaged in business deal- sented the scope of the investi- in February 2018 when her con- Wolkoff said Melania Trump model. Wolkoff, a New York-based ings as far away as Europe and gation as focusing primarily on told her that White House attor- event planner, said they first met Dubai. hush money payments paid to tract was terminated. The White neys claimed there was no other in 2003 in the halls of Vogue mag- “The question at this juncture protect Trump from adultery al- House blasted the book as “full of choice but to turn her back on azine, where Wolkoff worked. is quite simple, but also quite im- legations before the 2016 election. mistruths and paranoia.” portant,” Trump lawyer William Vance’s lawyers have said they Separately, Wolkoff told The her friend because there was a Wolkoff devotes two of the Consovoy argued at the hearing. are legally entitled to extensive Washington Post that Mrs. Trump possible probe of the presidential book’s 11 chapters to planning “Will the president be given an records to aid a “complex finan- used private email accounts while inauguration committee. Wolkoff for the January 2017 inaugura- opportunity to appeal that rul- cial investigation.” at the White House. Others in the said she taped the first lady be- tion, describing the committee ing before his personal records Even if Vance does get Trump’s White House, including Trump’s cause “I was going to do anything responsible for raising money are disclosed to the grand jury tax records, those would be part daughter Ivanka and her hus- in my power to make sure that I to pay for several days of events and the status quo is irrevocably of a confidential grand jury inves- band, Jared Kushner, have been was protected.” as beset with organizational and changed?” tigation and not automatically be criticized for doing official busi- Stephanie Grisham, chief of communications issues that com- Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said made public. ness on private accounts — but, staff and spokesperson for Mela- plicated her work. Violent protests come ‘at increased cost,’ Portland police chief says

Associated Press that has repeatedly used tear gas “The families that live inside since Floyd’s death. page that the vandalism hurt a against the demonstrators. have done absolutely nothing to A supporter of the right-wing minority-owned business. PORTLAND, Ore. — Port- The fire was set with a bundle provoke a threat to their lives. As group Patriot Prayer was killed “Arson and terrorizing families land’s police chief has denounced protesters who broke windows of newspapers in a store housed I’ve stated repeatedly, the nightly Saturday amid clashes between with children does nothing ex- and set a fire to a business in on the ground floor of Wheeler’s violence is coming at increased dueling groups of protesters. A cept steal, and distract from, the the upscale apartment building building. There were no reports cost,” he said. “This is impacting caravan of Trump supporters, important message of the racial where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives, of major damage or injuries. the safety of our entire city and estimated at about 600 cars, en- justice movement. Organizations labeling the events an escalation Portland Police Chief Chuck urgent action is needed.” countered Black Lives Matter in the community who encour- in the street violence that Ore- Lovell said the demonstrators Portland has endured nearly protesters as they drove through aged or condoned these actions gon’s largest city has endured for also wound up targeting other 100 days of nightly unrest follow- the downtown and street fights are complicit,” he said. months. people who live in Wheeler’s ing the police killing of George broke out. Wheeler added: “The commu- The demonstration began late building and have had nothing to Floyd, including two weeks in Police have not announced an nity must rise up and say ‘enough Monday and stretched into the do with the protests. Previously, July when thousands of protest- arrest in the slaying of Aaron J. is enough’ and hold all of us ac- predawn hours of Tuesday, tar- the demonstrators have almost ers clashed with U.S. agents sent Danielson, 39, of Portland, and countable. We cannot truly move geting Wheeler, who is also police always clashed with police out- to protect the Mark O. Hatfield have disclosed no details about on together and make the positive commissioner and has been criti- side symbols of authority — po- Federal Courthouse. Local police what led up the shooting. changes we want to see until this cized for heading up a police force lice buildings and courthouses. have arrested hundreds of people Wheeler said on his Facebook violence is stopped. All violence.” Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Base sees first green sea turtle hatchlings

HONOLULU — Ha- HI waiian green sea turtle hatchlings appeared for the first time on an Oahu beach owned by the U.S. military, which wildlife experts believe may be partly a result of the coronavirus. Experts said there have never before been hatched eggs from the threatened turtle species on U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii Train- ing Area Bellows Beach, The Ho- nolulu Star-Advertiser reported. Experts could not conclusively say why the mother turtles used the mile-long expanse for the first time, but suspect the nest- ing occurred because the beach was empty due to state health restrictions. 54 guinea pigs rescued from hoarding situation

SEABECK — Dozens WA of guinea pigs were rescued from a home in Seabeck in what the Kitsap Humane Soci- ety called a “hoarding situation.” Fifty-four of the animals were moved from the home and 12 of them were pregnant at the time, KOMO-TV reported. Humane Society spokesperson Rhonda Manville said they would call it a hoarding situation that got out of hand because the animals were kept in poor, crowded condi- tions and they reproduce easily. (RANDY HOEFT, THE YUMA (ARIZ.) SUN/AP Manville said they received an anonymous tip , prompting an investigation. Waiting game She said that they don’t intend to criminally charge the owner A hunter sits in a field in the area of County 18th Street and Avenue 1E waiting for doves to fly overhead Tuesday morning in Yuma, Ariz. formally because he cooperated Tuesday was the first day of the 2020 early dove hunting season in Arizona. The season, for white wing and mourning dove, runs through during the rescue and surren- sundown on Sept. 15. dered all animals. 17 for crab fishing the next day THE CENSUS and theft of services charges. Police believe suspect around Blaine. He was last seen GBI said that Scarbrough used shot, killed accomplice on the boat, an 18-foot skiff, that The amount a group of buyers paid for James Hobbs’ excavator without day. a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in permission and caused “signifi- WILKINSBURG — Po- Shortly after that, the boat ran Phoenix. The sale went through after the cant damage” to the machine. PA lice in western Penn- out of fuel and Smith drifted into $7.25M buyers said they intended to preserve and Hobbs values the damage at sylvania believe a home invasion Boundary Bay, near the interna- restore the house. Built in 1952, Wright $12,000. suspect shot and killed an ac- tional border, the Skagit Valley designed the home for his son and daughter-in-law, David and Gladys Wright. A WALB-TV reported that Hobbs complice as they tried to flee the Herald reported. developer bought the house in 2012 with plans to tear it down. The plans drew was working for Scarbrough and scene, according to a preliminary Smith spent three nights drift- an outcry from architects and historical-preservation advocates. It was spared the left his excavator on the mayor’s investigation. ing with no food or water, Swin- wrecking ball when another developer bought it with the intent of preserving it, but land overnight. An incident re- The events unfolded when two omish Police Department Lt. Earl that plan was never realized due to opposition from surrounding residents. port said a worker noted the next men stopped a female at gunpoint Cowan said. He reached land Aug. day that the equipment had been and entered the home , Allegheny 20 and contacted his family. damaged. County Police said. “I’ll be candid — having Wal- St. Clair County deputies According to police, two armed Official apologizes for Mart come to the neighborhood, stopped the Challenger and ar- Gersh Autism buys male residents confronted the in- ‘fried chicken’ remark it ain’t gonna happen,” she said in rested Timothy Floyd King, 50, Mountain School truders and one of the suspects the interview. charging him with burglary and opened fire as he fled out the NEW ORLEANS She went on: “This is just a real- multiple vehicle thefts. GREENFIELD — A front door while the second in- — A New Orleans City ity, OK, and this is not putting any- Another man, Harold Lorenzo NH company that operates truder fled out the back door. LA body down: I think people in the Carey, 58, was arrested after a Council member apologized for schools and programs for people Officers found the body of a 29- Lower Nine like those greasy fried crash involving another stolen ve- describing a preference among with autism in several states has year-old man who was wearing a chicken” places, Nguyen said. hicle. He, too, is charged with bur- residents of part of her predomi- purchased New Hampshire’s ski mask nearby. glary and multiple vehicle thefts. nantly Black district for “greasy Crotched Mountain School. Detectives said the armed resi- Two other stolen vehicles were fried chicken” restaurants, com- 2 arrested after theft The Crotched Mountain Foun- dents did not return fire and the located in the East Lake section ments she made while discussing dation had said in June that it preliminary investigation sug- of 4 trucks from dealer of Birmingham. Authorities were the district’s slow business re- would close its Greenfield campus gested the dead man was struck still looking for suspects. covery 15 years after Hurricane by Nov. 1 after suffering financial by gunfire from his accomplice. PELL CITY — Police Katrina. AL arrested two men and hardship because of the corona- The Times-Picayune New Or- are looking for other suspects in Mayor charged after virus pandemic. Gersh Autism Crabber runs out of fuel; leans Advocate reported Council- the theft of four vehicles from an excavator damaged announced it will assume full stranded for several days member Cyndi Nguyen said her Alabama dealership. operational and financial respon- comments about constituents in Police told WBRC-TV that four NASHVILLE — A sibility for the day and board- MT. VERNON — A the Lower 9th Ward in an earlier people were dropped off at Mc- GA south Georgia mayor ing schools serving children and WA member of the Swi- story in the newspaper were taken Sweeney Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep- was arrested after a contractor adults on that date instead. monish Indian Tribal Community out of context. Ram in Pell City by someone alleged the mayor used an ex- Gersh Autism’s services include reported missing in mid-August The comments came when in a Dodge Challenger stolen in cavator without permission and education, therapy, independent is back home after spending sev- Nguyen responded to a question Georgia. The people broke into damaged it. living skills and recreation. It op- eral days stranded in a boat that about what kind of commerce the the dealership, stole keys and The Georgia Bureau of In- erates schools and programs in ran out of fuel followed by six neighborhood can realistically then drove off in three Dodge vestigation said that it had ar- New York, Washington state and days detained in Canada. support, given its shrunken popu- Ram pickups and a Jeep Grand rested Nashville Mayor Taylor Puerto Rico. Michael Smith Jr. set out Aug. lation since Katrina. Cherokee. Scarbrough on theft by conversion From wire reports PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 NATION New US sanctions imposed on tribunal prosecutor, aide

BY MATTHEW LEE with withering criticism from them. Associated Press Richard Dicker, the international justice director at Human Rights Watch, called it “a stunning per- WASHINGTON — The Trump administration version of U.S. sanctions, devised to penalize rights Wednesday imposed sanctions on the chief pros- ecutor of the International Criminal Court and one abusers and kleptocrats, to persecute those tasked of her top aides for continuing to investigate war with prosecuting international crimes.” crimes allegations against Americans. “The Trump administration has twisted these Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the sanctions to obstruct justice, not only for certain moves as part of the administration’s pushback war crimes victims, but for atrocity victims any- against the tribunal, based in The Hague, for in- where looking to the International Criminal Court ANDREW HARNIK/AP vestigations into the United States and its allies. for justice,” he said. The sanctions include a freeze on assets held in the In March 2019, Pompeo ordered the revocation People watch fireworks near the Washington Monument on Aug. U.S. or subject to U.S. law and target prosecutor or denial of visas to ICC staff seeking to investigate 27, the fourth day of the Republican National Convention. It has Fatou Bensouda and the court’s head of jurisdiction, been recommended that plaques be added to some monuments allegations of war crimes and other abuses by U.S. Phakiso Mochochoko. explaining that their namesakes owned slaves. He said the court, to which the United States has forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere. He also said never been a party, was “a thoroughly broken and he might revoke the visas of those who seek action corrupt institution.“ against Israel. Monuments: DC mayor “We will not tolerate its illegitimate attempts to Prosecutors have been conducting a preliminary subject Americans to its jurisdiction,” Pompeo told inquiry since 2015 in the Palestinian territories, reporters at a State Department news conference. In including Israel’s settlement policy, crimes al- has little power to control addition to the sanctions imposed on Bensouda and legedly committed by both sides in the 2014 Gaza Mochochoko, Pompeo said people who provide them conflict and Hamas rocket attacks aimed at Israeli with “material support” in investigating Americans civilians. what happens on federal land could also face U.S. penalties. The court was created to hold accountable perpe- Pompeo had previously imposed a travel ban on trators of war crimes and crimes against humanity Bensouda and other tribunal employees because of FROM FRONT PAGE recent recommendations that in cases where adequate judicial systems were not its investigation into allegations of torture and other and “The Star-Spangled Banner” plaques be added to the Jeffer- crimes by Americans in Afghanistan. available. The U.S. has not joined the ICC because composer Francis Scott Key. son and Washington monuments , Human rights groups and others have condemned of concerns the court might be used for politically For the multiple statues and explaining that their namesakes the administration’s moves against the court and motivated prosecutions of American troops and monuments on federal land, the were longtime slave-owners. Wednesday’s announcement was immediately met officials. committee advises Bowser to ask Bowser, in a Tuesday tweet, said the federal government to “re- she looked forward to reviewing move, relocate, or contextualize” the recommendations from the landmarks such as the Washing- task force, which she had tasked Bar betting on Chicago, NY violence probed ton Monument, Jefferson Memo- with “evaluating public spaces to rial and the statue of Christopher ensure the namesake’s legacy is Associated Press cities, Newsday reported Tues- “Let the shooting sprees begin!“ Columbus outside Union Station. consistent with #DCValues.” day. The winner would take home the newspaper reported. The The task force, in its summary, Bowser has very little power to MELVILLE, N.Y. — Authori- an unspecified cash prize. Cliffton’s Instagram page is explained that it focused on “key control what happens on federal ties are investigating a Long Is- The betting is “not only sick- private. disqualifying histories, including land. She and the D.C. Council land bar that posted on Instagram ening, but also appears illegal The Long Island bar also re- participation in slavery, systemic fought for years to have a statue that it was taking bets on whether under the Alcoholic Beverage fused to let representatives of the racism, mistreatment of, or ac- of former Confederate general Chicago or New York City would Control law,“ the State Liquor Au- State Liquor Authority conduct an tions that suppressed equality Albert Pike removed; they were see more shootings over Labor thority said in a statement to the inspection this week, the newspa- for, persons of color, women and unsuccessful because the statue Day weekend. newspaper. per reported, which the agency LGBTQ communities and vio- sits on federal land. In June, hun- The Cliffton, a bar in Pa- The state’s alcohol and bever- says is itself grounds to revoke lation of the DC Human Rights dreds of protesters toppled the tchogue, New York, shared pho- age law prohibits gambling at the bar’s liquor license. Act.” Pike statue while officers from tos of a paper grid hung in the bar establishments with a liquor li- Brian Neal, owner of The Cliff- The report doesn’t go into detail the Metropolitan Police Depart- with patrons placing bets on the cense, with few exceptions. ton, did not return a request for about how “re-contextualizing” ment looked on and kept their number of shootings in the two The caption of the post read, comment from the newspaper. would work, but there have been distance. Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD Saudi Arabia: Flights from Germany says Russia’s UAE can fly over kingdom

BY ISABEL DEBRE bin Farhan al-Saud wrote on Navalny poisoned with Twitter that the kingdom’s “firm Associated Press and established position toward DUBAI, United Arab Emir- the Palestinian cause and people ates — Saudi Arabia announced will not change.” He did not, how- Soviet-era nerve agent Wednesday that flights to and ever, name Israel in his tweet. from the United Arab Emirates Israeli Prime Minister Benja- Alexei Navalny “from all countries” will now be BY GEIR MOULSON Mass says the German govern- min Netanyahu praised the an- able to use its airspace — a state- ment hopes Navalny will be able nouncement in an online video, Associated Press ment apparently allowing fly- to make a complete recovery ners in the European Union and signaling it involved his country. NATO about the test results. He overs by Israel following a deal to BERLIN — Germany’s for- quickly. “For years, I have been work- said that it will consult with its normalize UAE-Israel relations. eign minister says the Russian Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ing to open the skies between partners in light of the Russian The vaguely worded statement ambassador has been summoned spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said Israel and the East,” he said, response “on an appropriate joint avoided naming Israel directly. hailing the “tremendous break- and told that Berlin expects a full in a statement that testing by a and transparent investigation of response.” Germany will also The announcement, however, through” that Israeli planes can special German military labora- came just days after the kingdom Russian opposition leader Alexei contact the Organization for the now fly cheaply and quickly from tory at the Charite’s request had allowed the first direct Israeli Navalny’s poisoning. Prohibition of Chemical Weap- Israel to the Emirati capital of now shown “proof without doubt ons, he added. commercial passenger flight to Foreign Minister Heiko Maas Abu Dhabi and skyscraper-stud- of a chemical nerve agent from Navalny’s allies in Russia have use its airspace to reach the UAE. ded city of Dubai. Avoiding Saudi said it is important that those re- the Novichok group. insisted he was deliberately poi- Any direct flight between the two airspace would add around four sponsible are found and held to “It is a dismaying event that soned by the country’s authori- nations would need to use Saudi hours to the journey. account for the sickening of Rus- Alexei Navalny was the victim of ties, accusations that the Kremlin airspace to be commercially Earlier this week, Jared Kush- sian President Vladimir Putin’s an attack with a chemical nerve rejected as “empty noise.” viable. ner, the U.S. president’s son-in- fiercest critic. agent in Russia,” Seibert said. “To poison Navalny with Novi- The statement makes no men- law and senior adviser, flew with Mass spoke after the German “The German government con- chok in 2020 would be exactly the tion of the kingdom’s rival, Iran, a high-level Israeli delegation to government said new testing had demns this attack in the strongest same as leaving an autograph at nor Qatar, which Saudi Arabia is the UAE on the first direct com- proven the presence of the Soviet- terms.” a crime scene, like this one,” Na- currently boycotting. Flights be- mercial passenger flight between era nerve agent Novichok in sam- Germany demanded a response valny’s longtime ally and strate- tween those countries to the UAE the two countries, a Star of David ples from Navalny, who is being from the Russian government. gist Leonid Volkov said in a tweet would, in theory, not need to use emblazoned on the jet’s tail. The treated at the Charite, a Berlin The Kremlin said Wednesday that featured a photo of Putin’s the kingdom’s airspace. flight traversed Saudi airspace, hospital. it hadn’t been informed yet of name and a signature next to it. The official Saudi Press Agency signaling at least acquiescence Novicok is a class of nerve Navalny being poisoned with a In the Charite’s latest update, said the move comes in response for the breakthrough U.S.-bro- agents identified in a 2018 attack nerve agent. the hospital said Navalny was still to a “request by the UAE” to open kered agreement by the United on a former Russian spy and his Seibert said the German gov- in an induced coma but in stable routes to and from the country. Arab Emirates to normalize rela- daughter in England. ernment would inform its part- condition. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal tions with Israel. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 FACES Venice becomes first COVID-era film festival A villain rises

Associated Press Venice is reclaiming its place ‘Mulan’ star Lee enjoyed playing as a top cultural destination with the opening of the Venice Film bad guy after years of heroic roles Festival — the first major in- person cinema showcase of the BY PETER SBLENDORIO coronavirus era after Cannes canceled and other international New York Daily News festivals opted to go mostly online “Mulan” made a villain out of Jason Scott Lee. this year. The actor, long known for his hero roles, including as martial arts Italian director Andrea Segre, icon Bruce Lee, enjoyed playing the central antagonist in Disney’s whose documentary of an ethere- new live-action adaptation of the 1998 animated classic. ally empty Venice during lock- “It’s fun because you can break through a lot of the barriers of hav- down was screened Tuesday, said ing to play the hero,” Lee, 53, said. “There are some darker places the festival is sending the mes- and some deeper areas that you want to play in that you don’t get to sage that despite the risks and when you play the hero. ... Putting on that mask of being the villain complications, “we need theaters and carrying it through was exhilarating.” for cinema.” Like the original, the new movie follows the courageous Hua “It’s like if you say to a painter Mulan, who, disguised as a man, joins the Chinese military to spare that he can show his painting, or her ailing father from having to serve in a war against invaders. his fresco, only through the web,” Lee’s character, Bori Khan, is the leader of those opposing war- Segre said in an interview on the riors. The character replaces the hulking Shan Yu, who was the pri- Lido. “It’s exactly the same for us: mary bad guy in the 1998 movie. Without the theater, our art has a Lee wanted to bring a fresh identity to his “Mulan” villain, and handicap, it has a big handicap.” introduced a complex character who’s motivated by the death of his The 77th edition of the world’s father. “For me, Bori Khan was about representing his culture. ... It oldest film festival, opening was a culture that was kind of being stomped on by the Chinese Em- Wednesday, looks nothing like its pire and being pushed out from their native lands,” Lee explained. predecessors, however. The pub- “For me, Bori Khan’s quest was not only to avenge his father, but also lic is being barred from the red to avenge the land that was taken away, and reviving and empower- carpet, Hollywood stars and films ing his own people.” are largely absent and face masks The new film, which stars Yifei Liu as Mulan, will debut Friday on are required indoors. Also, seats Disney+ for $29.99, which enables unlimited viewing of the movie. are reserved and spaced apart for Lee is delighted by the film’s integrity and the strength of the fa- all screenings. milial relationships depicted in it — and the opportunity to wreak The Sept. 2-12 festival marks It- havoc on the screen. aly’s return to the art world stage “My character really is the motivating factor for a lot of the action after it became the first country DISNEY ENTERPRISES/TNS that takes place,” Lee said. “Without Bori Khan pushing the issues, in the West to be slammed by they probably wouldn’t have anything to rub up against. I like the fact COVID. Jason Scott Lee plays the villainous Bori Khan in “Mulan.” that he’s key in that process.”

TNS Netflix TNS TNS Smith, ‘Fresh Prince’ cast ‘Tiger King’ star Baskin to Weiss, Benioff line up first Dolly Parton says it’s time reuniting for anniversary join ‘Dancing with the Stars’ post-‘Thrones’ TV project to listen to Christmas music HBO Max is getting “The Fresh Carole Baskin is joining the cool cats David Benioff (above left) and D.B. Dolly Parton is already in a yuletide Prince of Bel-Air” gang back together. and kittens on the next season of “Danc- Weiss (right) are leaving Westeros for mood and hoping that others will join Will Smith and the rest of the “Fresh ing with the Stars.” outer space. Announced Tuesday, The her after listening to her newly released Prince” cast reunite Sept. 10 for a 30th The reality TV star who became a pop “Game of Thrones” showrunners have version of “Mary, Did You Know?” anniversary special. The special will run culture sensation with Netflix’s docuse- lined up their first TV project since the The song, which was written by Mark on HBO Max on or near Thanksgiving. ries “Tiger King” is joining the new crop HBO fantasy series concluded last year. Lowry and Buddy Greene, was first re- The “Fresh Prince” reunion is de- of celebrity dancers, which includes TV As part of their lucrative deal with Net- corded by Michael English on his self- signed to promote a streaming library of and film actress Anne Heche, former flix, Weiss and Benioff will partner with titled debut solo album in 1991. reruns. HBO Max has exclusive stream- NBA star Charles Oakley and Back- Alexander Woo (“The Terror: Infamy” “ ‘Mary, Did You Know?’ is one of the ing rights to all six seasons of the show. street Boys singer AJ McLean. to write and produce a series inspired by greatest, sweetest, well-written songs It launched Smith’s acting career, with The new season premieres stateside the “The Three-Body Problem” trilogy that I’ve ever had the chance to sing on,” the Grammy-winning rapper starring on ABC on Sept. 14. of novels by Chinese author Liu Cixin. Parton says. “When I was recording it, as a teen from West Philadelphia sent to On the Netflix series “Tiger King,” The first book in the Hugo Award-win- I got very emotional. It is to me what live with rich relatives in California. Baskin, who owns a big cat refuge, ning series, which is enormously popu- Christmas is about, and I’m proud to be The special will include series regu- sought to shut down Joseph Maldonado- lar in China, opens during the Cultural able to sing it for my upcoming album.” lars Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Passage’s breeding of big cats. Revolution, as an imprisoned student You can listen to the song on all the Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Al- Other contestants are cheer team uses a covert military operation to make usual streaming sites and on YouTube. fonso Ribeiro, as well as DJ Jazzy Jeff coach Monica Aldama, “Bachelorette” contact with an alien race and encour- “Mary, Did You Know?” is the lead (Jeffrey A. Townes). star Kaitlyn Bristowe, NFL star Ver- age them to invade Earth. single from “A Holly Dolly Christmas,” James Avery, who played Philip non Davis, actresses Skai Jackson and The team of executive producers the country music legend’s first holiday Banks, Smith’s uncle, died in 2013. Also Justina Machado, TV host Jeannie Mai, also includes Rian Johnson, director of album in 30 years. The album, which fea- missing from the lineup announced actor/musician Jesse Metcalfe, rapper “Knives Out” and “Star Wars: The Last tures Parton collaborating with Michael Monday: Janet Hubert, whom Reid re- Nelly, TV host Nev Schulman, real es- Jedi,” and Bernadette Caulfield, who Buble, Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus, placed as Aunt Viv halfway through the tate agent Chrishell Stause and Olympic worked closely with Benioff and Weiss Jimmy Fallon, Willie Nelson and brother show’s run. figure skater Johnny Weir. on “Game of Thrones.” Randy Parton, is due out Oct. 2. From The Philadelphia Inquirer From The Associated Press From The Los Angeles Times From The Mercury News Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Biden should offer a plan to stop protest violence Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY HENRY OLSEN or cede the initiative to Trump. He might ocrats should hope he is. Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff Special to The Washington Post be tempted to do the latter, expecting that He could even use such an effort to place Trump’s bravado and lack of empathy will the onus back on Trump. Imagine this: A EDITORIAL ormer Vice President Joe Biden not end the rioting and might even result hundred Democratic mayors and gover- has delivered the public and un- in a shocking, Kent State-like moment that nors, wearing masks and practicing social Terry Leonard, Editor equivocal denunciation of the re- makes Americans retch in repulsion. But distancing, gather at Biden’s home in Wilm- [email protected] Fcent rioting and looting many had it’s never a good idea to let your fate rest in ington, Del., to announce a united plan to Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor longed for. Too bad for him that it’s likely to your enemy’s hands. end the violence that includes a pledge to [email protected] be too little, too late. That’s why Biden has to do something arrest and prosecute anyone caught riot- In fairness, Biden has previously de- Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content more. His unique political talent has placed ing, looting or injuring others. The group nounced the violence that has plagued himself at the center of the Democratic then turns to Trump and asks for discrete, [email protected] many cities all summer. His speech on Party, ideologically speaking. As a sena- nonviolent aid from the federal govern- Managing Editor for Presentation Monday simply added a high-profile proc- Sean Moores, tor and vice president, this enabled him to ment: intelligence-sharing from the FBI, [email protected] lamation to his public record that is impos- broker deals to pass important legislation. use of federal prosecutors to charge and sible to miss. No one can fairly attack Biden Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital As the party’s nominee, he should use his prosecute federal crimes, financial assis- for winking at rioters. [email protected] ability now to bring together Democratic tance to help strapped localities pay for the Unfortunately for him, that’s not the mayors and governors to work out a com- increased burden. The list can go on, but sole issue he has to deal with. So long as the political purpose is clear: Democrats BUREAU STAFF the rioting continues, and so long as it oc- mon rhetorical and practical approach to end the violence. take the lead on front lines, while Trump Europe/Mideast curs almost exclusively in cities controlled by Democrats, Biden’s pronouncements Doing this would put an end to the idea provides support that’s needed to get the Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief job done. He would be foolish to refuse, [email protected] won’t matter much. Many Americans just that Biden is a weak man controlled by the +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 want the lawlessness to stop. If Biden’s party’s left. It would show that even with- and the credit for ending the nation’s pain statements don’t stop the agitators or give out the presidency’s powers, he can lead goes to Biden. Pacific forcefully and bring people together. 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Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist of the purchaser, user or patron. ing strength of cancel culture and affili- Consider also the evolution of internet and a professor of economics at George Mason ated movements? Here is the fundamental communication. For all of its diversity, University; he writes for the blog Marginal © Stars and Stripes 2020 Revolution. This column does not necessar- point: With the rise of social media and there are significant trends toward cen- ily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or stripes.com low-cost communications, virtually every- tralization. The English language is more Bloomberg LP and its owners. Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17 OPINION Boseman left his accent mark on ‘Black Panther’ BY KAREN ATTIAH authoritative, respectable, worthy of being The Washington Post listened to, you needed to speak in the same accent as the very people who helped n an emotional tribute to actor to subjugate Ghanaians. Chadwick Boseman, who passed away “Black Panther” is proof that isn’t true. on Friday at age 43, director Ryan And today, more and more Black creators ICoogler revealed the moment that he of African heritage are finding their way knew he wanted to make “Black Panther.” onto the big and small screen, and bring- It was while watching Boseman act in an ing African accents and languages with unfinished cut of “Captain America: Civil them. War” — speaking his lines in Xhosa with It was affirming to see that, in the bril- South African actor John Kani. liant and provocative HBO series “I May “Chad and John began conversing in Destroy You,” the main character, Arabel- a language I had never heard before,” la, played by the show’s writer and creator Coogler said. “It sounded familiar, full of Michaela Coel, goes home to her Ghana- the same clicks and smacks that young ian household, where her mother speaks black children would make in the States. Twi and Twi-accented English. Arabella’s The same clicks that we would often be brother even teases her for not knowing chided for being disrespectful or improp- enough of her own language. On television, er. But, it had a musicality to it that felt an- the American sitcom “Bob Hearts Abisho- cient, powerful, and African.” la” is about a White man who falls in love

Boseman’s commitment to speaking CHRIS PIZZELLO, INVISION/AP with a Nigerian nurse. My mother, who Xhosa on camera was one of the reasons grew up in Nigeria, always tries to catch Coogler signed on to direct the film. It was Chadwick Boseman, a cast member in “Black Panther,” poses at the premiere of the the show when it comes on, chuffed to see just one way Boseman helped show that film in Los Angeles in January 2018. Boseman died Friday at age 43. Nigerian accents and immigrant culture centering Africanness — putting African represented on an American sitcom. aesthetics, language and accents front and of colonialism. The fictional kingdom of wanted to base the accents on Xhosa from “Black Panther” now holds its place in center — is a fight worth having. Wakanda is supposed to be a powerful Af- South Africa, but some of it sounded Nige- history as one of the most successful super- It was only after his death that the world rican nation, one that is self-sufficient — a rian, others sounded more Ugandan. It was hero movies of all time, grossing more than learned that Boseman had been fighting representation of what could have been very confusing, and I understand perfect- $1 billion in global box office sales. But to colon cancer for four years, including while if African nations had not been colonized ing an accent is difficult, but oh, my good- many of us, Boseman and Coogler’s artis- playing T’Challa. Alongside his health bat- and plundered for their resources by out- ness, it was so messy!” tic commitment to centering Africanness tles, he was fighting Marvel itself to ensure side powers. Marvel would have under- As a first-generation American with was the true victory. It’s why Boseman’s Africa wasn’t presented through a colonial mined one of the central motifs of “Black roots in Ghana, I recognize what Bose- sudden death hurts so much in this mo- lens. In 2018, he told the Hollywood Re- Panther” if it had gotten its way and forced man did to champion a fantasy rendering ment. When icons and heroes pass on, it is porter that Marvel initially thought that its actors to adopt British accents, to mimic of Africanness on a big screen may have always painful. But it feels especially cruel the accents would be “too much.” “I felt the tongue of one of Africa’s most powerful been messy to our ears. But it was impor- to lose Boseman so suddenly in a year in the exact opposite — like, if I speak with a colonizers. tant for global Black culture. Back in 2009, which the fight for Black life and against British accent, what’s gonna happen when Boseman worked with a dialect coach when I lived in Accra, Ghana, as a media white supremacy has gone global. I go home? It felt to me like a dealbreaker,” for his role, to take on a Xhosa accent to researcher, I remember attending radio Our Black Panther has gone to be with he said. “I was like, ‘No, this is such an im- match the heritage of Kani, who played his journalism classes where the instructors the ancestors. But we can take comfort portant factor that if we lose this right now, father, T’Chaka, in the films. Kenyan ac- lectured aspiring radio presenters in the that Boseman opened a portal, proving what else are we gonna throw away for the tress Lupita Nyong’o spoke in her native class to approximate the accent of Queen’s that future stories rooted in Africanness sake of making people feel comfortable?’ ” Kenyan accent. The other accents were English. (The instructors tried to correct and Blackness deserve to be fought for. In choosing to fight for African accents, “all over the place” as Kenyan journal- my American accent, too). The message Karen Attiah is The Washington Post’s Global Boseman was fighting against the legacies ist Larry Madowo said at the time. “They they were sending was clear: To be seen as Opinions Editor. Trump’s choking hazard: Cutting off intel to Congress

BY DAVID IGNATIUS panel, argued that this approach would intelligence professional. He lasted until bled some intelligence professionals, who Washington Post Writers Group help ensure that information “is not mis- February, when he, too, was canned, after said the Chinese and Iranian efforts were understood or politicized” and would avoid allowing a Feb. 13 briefing of the House far less aggressive and effective than the WASHINGTON “additional unauthorized disclosure or Intelligence Committee by Shelby Pier- Kremlin’s. The damage was done: Trump he political strangulation of the misuse.” son, his election security chief. Trump was was embarrassed, his aversion to Congress intelligence community by the These bland phrases implied that Con- irate that Pierson had described continu- on election security heightened. Trump administration hasn’t gress had previously mishandled informa- ing Russian influence operations, accord- Hoping to preserve some amount of been a sudden snap of the rope, T tion — an allegation for which there’s little ing to one official who heard his tirade. congressional briefing, Sen. Marco Rubio, but a slow, suffocating squeeze — choking evidence. Indeed, according to congressio- Trump said he would appoint Ratcliffe R-Fla., floated the idea Monday that the off the normal flow of unbiased informa- nal officials, an unfazed Ratcliffe had indi- as Maguire’s successor, but the DNI post Senate Intelligence Committee might be tion the country needs. cated that his office planned oral briefings was initially held on an acting basis by The latest chapter in this sad story is about election security, until that pledge Richard Grenell, a political loyalist serv- briefed orally, even if Trump spurned unfolding this week, as President Donald was suddenly reversed in phone calls Fri- ing as ambassador to Germany. During Schiff and the House panel. Rubio shared Trump’s new director of national intelli- day and in Saturday’s letter. Grenell’s tenure, there was another dust- that proposal with Sen. Mark Warner, of gence, John Ratcliffe, tries to limit briefings “I suspect the president found out that up over Russian election interference, this Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Sen- of Congress about election interference by more briefings were planned for Congress time involving William Evanina, a career ate committee. But several senior members Russia and other nations in the final two and had a fit,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., officer who heads the National Counterin- of Congress said that proposal probably months before Election Day. Congress is chairman of the House Intelligence Com- telligence and Security Center. wouldn’t fly. fighting back — struggling to breathe, you mittee, speculated in an interview on Mon- Evanina issued an anodyne statement “I don’t think you can cherry-pick over- could say — but it seems unlikely that the day. Dismissing the claim that written July 24 that described current meddling by sight based on who you like and which chokehold will be eased significantly. reports would be sufficient, Schiff argued: the Kremlin: “Russia continues to spread party is in control,” said Warner. He ar- What’s driving this latest assault on “If they can rely on carefully worded docu- disinformation in the U.S. that is designed gued that this approach would vitiate the intelligence is the same obsession that ments instead of briefings, they can write to undermine confidence in our democrat- idea of checks and balances that’s at the has haunted Trump for nearly four years things that are literally accurate but are ic process and denigrate what it sees as an heart of congressional oversight. — namely, that Russia interfered to try to deeply misleading.” anti-Russia ‘establishment’ in America.” The most troubling result of Trump’s as- help him win the presidency in 2016. The Trump’s effort to gain political control After he was questioned by members of sault on intelligence and its oversight is the intelligence community’s reporting to over the intelligence community — and Congress what that bland language meant, debilitating effect on career professionals. Congress that this pro-Trump meddling suppress reporting about Russian interfer- Evanina issued a second statement Aug. 7 When they see top officials such as Coats, is continuing in 2020 so infuriated Trump ence — goes back more than a year. making it clearer: “We assess that Russia Gordon, Maguire and others departing that he fired acting DNI Joseph Maguire The process began when Daniel Coats is using a range of measures to primarily in February and now appears to be muz- was fired as DNI last summer after re- denigrate former Vice President Biden and after public disagreements with Trump, zling reporting by Ratcliffe and his staff. peated public disagreements with Trump what it sees as an anti-Russia ‘establish- they become careful. They begin to trim Ratcliffe wrote the House and Senate about the scope of Russian interference ment.’ … Some Kremlin-linked actors are their judgments, avoid controversial fights, Intelligence committees on Saturday that in the 2016 race. Intelligence profession- also seeking to boost President Trump’s play it safe. rather than continue with oral classified als hoped Coats would be replaced by his candidacy on social media and Russian That’s what the politicization of intel- briefings, his office “will primarily meet deputy, Sue Gordon, a CIA career officer. television.” ligence does — it makes it dangerous for its obligation … through written finished But she resigned after it became clear she Evanina said that China and Iran were career officers to tell the truth. For an intelligence products.” Ratcliffe, himself a wouldn’t get the job. meddling, too, and that they both opposed intelligence service, that is the road to former member of the House intelligence Trump then appointed Maguire, another Trump. That attempt at equivalency trou- corruption. PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 SCOREBOARD/NFL

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Tuesday’s transactions NEW YORK METS — Recalled RHP Ariel Jurado from alternate training site. Des- BASEBALL ignated RHP Hunter Strickland for as- American League signment. Placed IF Eduardo Nunez on BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Selected the the 45-day IL. contract of IF Dilson Herrera from alter- PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed LHP nate training site. Recalled OF DJ Stewart Adam Morgan on the 10-day IL. Activated from alternate training site. Designated RHP David Phelps. OF Mason Williams for assignment. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Activated CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHP OF Anthony Alford. Recalled IF Ke’Bryan Zach Plesac from alternate training site. Hayes from alternate training site. Op- DETROIT TIGERS — Recalled OF Travis tioned OF Jason Martin and LHP Brandon Demeritte from alternate training site. Waddell to alternate training site. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Signed RHP Miguel Yajure to alternate training site. Akeem Bostick to a minor league con- Activated LHP Zack Britton and C Kyle Hi- tract. Activated RHP Ryan Helsley from gashioka from the IL. Designated IF Jordy the 10-day IL. Designated RHP Jesus Cruz Mercer for assignment. for assignment. Optioned LHP Rob Ka- SEATTLE MARINERS — Claimed RHP minsky to alternate training site. Walker Lockett off waivers. Added IF SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Recalled 3B Ty France and C Luis Torrens to the ac- Daniel Robertson from alternate training tive roster. Optioned C Joe Hudson and site. IF Donovan Walton to alternate training FOOTBALL site. Outrighted RHP Zac Grotz to Ta- National Football League coma (PCL). Reactivated RHP Kendall ARIZONA CARDINALS — Waived CB Graveman from the 10-day IL. Optioned Jalen Davis. OF Braden Bishop to alternate training BALTIMORE RAVENS — Waived LB site. John Daka, WR Michael Dereus and C TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed IF Yandy Sean Pollard. Diaz on the 10-day IL. Recalled IF Nate CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed G Lowe from alternate training site. Chris Reed on the COVID-19 list. TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled IF Ander- DETROIT LIONS — Released WR Ge- son Tejeda from alternate training site. remy Davis. Signed LT Taylor Decker to Activated LHP Brett Martin from the 10- a six-year contract. Claimed DT Albert day IL. Activated RHP Luke Farrell from Huggins off of waivers from Houston IL and he remains an option at alternate Texans. training site. Selected the contract of OF HOUSTON TEXANS — Waived QB Alex Eli White from alternate training site. McGough and DT Albert Huggins. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent RHP Ken- INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released dall Williams to the Los Angeles Dodgers FB Roosevelt Nix. Released OT Andrew as one of the two players to be named Ronal and TE Ian Bunting from injured later in the Aug. 31 trade with RHP Ross reserve with settlements. Stripling. Sent OF Alberto Rodriguez to JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Waived TE STEPHEN B. MORTON/AP Seattle as the player to be named later Charles Jones from injured reserve with in the Aug. 27 trade with RHP Taijuan settlements. Waived RB Leonard Four- Walker. Designated 1B Daniel Vogelbach nette. The Jaguars play before a full house on Dec. 16, 2018 against the Washington Redskins in Jacksonville, for assignment. Optioned RHP Jacob LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Placed WR Fla. The Jaguars, along with Cincinnati, Miami, Tampa Bay and maybe a few others, might be best Waguespack to alternate training site. Tyrell williams on injured reserve. Activated LHP Robbie Ray and SS Jona- Waived LB Sharif Finch, DB Nick Nelson equipped to handle the NFL’s drastic reduction in the number of fans. They’ve dealt with it for years. than Villar. and G Jordan Roos. Released C Jordan National League Devey and RB Rod Smith. ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Recalled MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived S Jer- IF Josh Rojas from alternate training site. emiah Dinson, DE Avery Moss, CB Deat- Selected the contracts of RHP Artie Le- rick Nichols and LB James Crawford. Re- leased WRs Chester Rogers and Ricardo Crowd: Simulated noise will fill void wicki, LHP Joe Mantiply and RHP Keury Mella from alternate training site. Louis. CHICAGO CUBS — Activated IF Kris NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed DB Logan Bryant and OF Steven Souza Jr from the Ryan. FROM BACK PAGE and others won’t. But those deci- IL. Added IF/OF Jose Martinez, OF Cam- NEW YORK JETS — Waived K Brett Ma- eron Maybin and LHP Josh Osich to the her. New-age videoboards and top- DID YOU KNOW ? sions were dictated by state and active roster. Placed RHP Tyler Chatwood SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Waived DE local guidelines, not the league. on the 10-day IL retroactive to Aug. 31. James Lockhart. of-the-line sound systems are Optioned CF Albert Almora Jr. to alter- TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed K taking center stage and assum- Home-field advantage was hardly “When I first came into the nate training site. Designated RHP Casey Ryan Succop. Waived K Elliott Fry. NFL, they were like, ‘Well, we’re Sadler for assignment. WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — ing the all-important role of help- a big factor last season. Home CINCINNATI REDS — Activated RHP Waived WR Darvin Kidsy. Acquired T Da- teams posted their second-lowest playing in these stadiums and it’s Archie Bradley and LF Brian Goodwin. vid Sharpe and 2021 seventh-round draft ing hype players in home venues. Optioned LF Mark Payton and RHP Jose selections from Las Vegas Raiders in ex- Those extras could spill into winning percentage since the loud and it’s the NFL,’ ” Jaguars De Leon to alternate training site. Sent change for a 2021 sixth-round selection. living rooms as several teams, AFL-NFL merger in 1966, going coach Doug Marrone said. “And CF Nick Senzel on a rehab assignment to HOCKEY I’m thinking, ‘Wait a minute, I’ve alternate training site. National Hockey League including Jacksonville, are 132-123-1. That’s just a little over COLORADO ROCKIES — Activated OF BUFFALO SABRES — Named Matt Ellis been in the SEC for two years. We Kevin Pillar. Optioned LHP Phillip Diehl to director of player development. launching phone apps designed to .500, and only ahead of the 1972 alternate training site. SOCCER provide in-stadium experiences average more people.’ You know LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed INF Major League Soccer season, when home teams went a what I’m saying? It’s louder in the Justin Turner on IL retroactive to Aug. 29. LOS ANGELES FC — Loaned M Alejan- to those watching from couches combined 90-87-5. Activated INF Edwin Rios and LHP Alex dro Guido to San Diego Loyal SC of USL SEC than it is in the NFL.” Championship through the end of 2020 and comfy chairs. Wood from the 10-day IL. SOURCE: Associated Press Rowdy crowds are hardly the MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned OF Je- season. Want to see player introduc- sus Sanchez to alternate training site. MINNESOTA UNITED — Signed M tions? Want to experience a mili- only benefit to playing at home. Outrighted LHP Josh Smith to alternate Emanuel Reynoso via transfer from Boca to 80 decibels will sound like Visiting teams in Denver deal with training site. Recalled IF Jazz Chisholm Juniors of the Argentine Superliga to a tary flyover just before kickoff? from alternate training site. Activated designated player contract. altitude. In Jacksonville, Tampa The Jaguars are giving fans at relative silence for anyone accus- OF Starling Marte. tomed to a raucous, three-hour Bay and Miami in September, it’s MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed 3B home a peek at both through their Jedd Gyorko on the bereavement list. Sunday afternoon. sweltering heat and humidity. In Pro soccer new app. Optioned RHP Trey Supak to alternate “I’m a defensive guy, so I need Buffalo, Chicago, Green Bay and training site. Recalled CF Tyrone Taylor The television product, mean- from alternate training site. Selected the fans,” Philadelphia Eagles cor- New England in December, it’s while, might not look a whole lot contract of RHP Phil Bickford from alter- MLS nerback Nickell Robey-Coleman freezing temperatures. nate training site. different aside from empty ven- MINNESOTA TWINS — Activated RHP EASTERN CONFERENCE said. “I love my fans. That’s a “I think there’ll always be some Michael Pineda from the restricted list. W L T Pts GF GA ues or sparse crowds. The NFL’s Toronto FC 5 1 3 18 14 8 big edge. People don’t know how home-field advantage for all the Activated CF Bryon Buxton from the 10- TV partners are expected to add day IL. Designated RHP Juan Minaya for Columbus 5 1 2 17 12 2 much it affects offense. It affects teams just because (of) different assignment. Optioned LF LaMonte Wade Philadelphia 4 1 3 15 12 8 fan reaction to broadcasts. Jr. to alternate training site. Orlando City 4 2 2 14 15 10 receivers, especially when the surfaces, different ways the field Montreal 4 3 1 13 11 9 For players and fans on hand, momentum is on the defensive plays, the way the wind blows in New England 2 1 5 11 7 6 the voids will be filled by simu- New York 3 3 2 11 7 9 side. It becomes a mental game, each stadium. There’ll always Atlanta 3 4 0 9 7 8 lated crowd noise. The NFL is ex- Pro basketball New York City FC 3 5 0 9 6 8 almost. Fans yelling, crowd going be a little bit of that,” Green Bay Cincinnati 2 4 2 8 6 12 pected to allow 80 decibels piped crazy, people are just raving. You Packers general manager Brian Nashville SC 2 4 1 7 4 8 in, a number many teams are al- WNBA Chicago 2 5 1 7 8 14 can get caught up in that.” Gutekunst said. D.C. United 1 4 3 6 8 13 ready using during training camp Miami Dolphins offensive Still, the thought of a Lambeau EASTERN CONFERENCE Inter Miami CF 1 6 0 3 6 11 practices and scrimmages. W L Pct GB WESTERN CONFERENCE coordinator Chan Gailey ques- Leap into empty stands, or no x-Chicago 11 6 .647 — W L T Pts GF GA General managers, coaches Connecticut 8 9 .471 3 Sporting KC 5 2 1 16 18 12 tioned how the piped-in noise will Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, Indiana 5 12 .294 6 Seattle 4 1 2 14 13 5 and team officials are prepar- be monitored. or few, if any, Terrible Towels is Washington 4 11 .267 6 Minnesota United 3 2 2 11 14 11 ing to play with that simulated Atlanta 4 13 .235 7 Portland 3 2 2 11 12 14 “Who controls the volume on hard to imagine. New York 2 14 .125 8½ Real Salt Lake 2 1 4 10 11 8 crowd noise. Normal conversa- that?” Gailey said. “If you get a “It’s going to show if you really WESTERN CONFERENCE FC Dallas 2 1 3 9 7 4 tion is about 60 decibels. Double W L Pct GB Los Angeles FC 2 2 3 9 16 15 homer that slips that volume a love football or not because with- x-Seattle 13 3 .813 — San Jose 2 2 2 8 12 13 that for a rock concert. Eighty little bit louder on third down, I’m out fans, it’s still a football game x-Las Vegas 12 4 .750 1 LA Galaxy 2 3 2 8 10 13 decibels equate to being in heavy x-Los Angeles 12 4 .750 1 Colorado 2 3 2 8 10 14 not sure I’m for that a lot.” at the end of the day,” Miami Dol- x-Minnesota 11 5 .688 2 Houston 1 2 4 7 11 13 traffic or next to a lawn mower. Home-field advantage was Phoenix 10 7 .588 3½ Vancouver 2 6 0 6 7 16 phins rookie cornerback Noah Dallas 6 10 .375 7 Note: Three points for victory, one Anything above 85 is considered hardly a huge factor in 2019. Igbinoghene said. “You’ve got x-clinched playoff spot point for tie. dangerous, depending on the du- Home teams posted their second- Monday’s games Tuesday’s game your teammates. You’ve got your Chicago 100, Indiana 77 Montreal 1, Toronto FC 0 ration of the exposure, the num- lowest winning percentage since coaches. I feel like that’s all you Minnesota 96, Los Angeles 78 Wednesday’s games ber of times exposed and the use Tuesday’s games Miami at Atlanta the AFL-NFL merger, going 132- really need. Connecticut 70, New York 65 Chicago at Cincinnati of hearing protection. 123-1. That’s just a touch over “Yes, fans are a big part of the Atlanta 102, Indiana 90 Philadelphia at Columbus Phoenix 92, Las Vegas 85 D.C. United at New York According to the Guinness .500, and only ahead of the 1972 sport. The fans make the sport Wednesday’s games Minnesota at Houston Book of World Records, Kansas season, when home teams went a what it is, I feel like. But that’s Minnesota at Chicago New York City FC at New England Los Angeles at Dallas Orlando City at Nashville City’s Arrowhead Stadium holds combined 90-87-5. just the reality we’re in right now, Washington at Seattle FC Dallas at Sporting Kansas City the record for the loudest NFL Nonetheless, it’s become the Thursday’s games Seattle at Real Salt Lake so we’ve got to adjust and we’ve Atlanta at New York LA Galaxy at Portland game. Chiefs fans registered 142.4 hot topic across the NFL this got to come together as a team Las Vegas at Connecticut San Jose at Los Angeles FC decibels on Sept. 29, 2014, while week. Buffalo Bills coach Sean Indiana at Phoenix Saturday’s games and hype ourselves up.” Friday’s games Sporting Kansas City at Houston hosting the New England Patriots McDermott made headlines by Chicago at Washington Atlanta at Orlando City AP pro football writer Rob Maaddi and Minnesota at Dallas Toronto FC at Vancouver on Monday Night Football. saying “it’s honestly ridiculous” Sports Writers Steve Megargee and Seattle at Los Angeles Colorado at San Jose Going from 80,000 die-hards that some teams will allow fans Steven Wine contributed. Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 SPORTS BRIEFS/US OPEN Briefl y Chargers’ safety James Murray pulls one out of the fire out for season COSTA MESA, Calif. — Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James will miss the season after Comes back from match point, two sets down to beat Nishioka having surgery to repair a menis- cus tear in his right knee. James had surgery on Tues- BY HOWARD FENDRICH thousands of dollars during this day after he sustained the injury Associated Press tournament but were assigned to during a scrimmage on Sunday. seeded players because of the ban NEW YORK — This is was the It is the second time in five sea- on spectators. sort of match Andy Murray came sons that James has had a season The Murray match provided back for, the sort of competition end due to a knee injury. He tore the most entertainment in the and comeback he always lived for, the meniscus in his left knee as afternoon of Day 2 at Flushing the reason he went through two a sophomore at Florida State in Meadows, where his lengthy hip operations and all the hard victory was followed in Ashe 2016 during the team’s second work that followed. game and missed the rest of the by a straight-set win for Serena And it was the type of vintage Williams. year. Murray performance — undaunt- In other NFL news: She then went out and sat in the  ed by a deficit, adjusting on the stands herself to watch her older Running back Joe Mixon fly, muttering all the way — that signed a four-year, $48 million sister, Venus, take on 20th-seed- was too compelling not to watch, ed Karolina Muchova at night. contract extension through the so while there are no fans allowed Muchova won 6-3, 7-5, making 2024 season on Wednesday, keep- into this U.S. Open because of the it the first loss for Venus in the ing him with a Cincinnati Bengals pandemic, fellow pros made their opening round in New York in 22 team that took a chance on him. way into the stands to see the pop- appearances. The Bengals drafted Mixon ular 2012 champion save a match In night play, 2019 men’s run- in the second round in 2017 out point Tuesday and, eventually, ner-up Daniil Medvedev beat of Oklahoma, where he was sus- win. Federico Delbonis 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. pended for punching a woman Playing his first Grand Slam Three-time champion Kim Cli- in the face. The Bengals drew a match in nearly 20 months, toil- jsters, mounting a career come- backlash with the choice, prompt- ing on his metal hip for 4 hours, back and playing her first match ing owner Mike Brown to ac- 39 minutes in Arthur Ashe Stadi- at a major in eight years, lost to knowledge they were “taking a um, Murray put together his 10th Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 7-5, risk” on Mixon because he’s so career comeback from two sets 6-1. talented. down and beat Yoshihito Nishioka Thiem, a three-time major  Taylor Decker has agreed to 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-4. runner-up, and Muguruza, a two- a six-year, $85 million deal with “It was pretty emotional time Grand Slam champion but the Detroit Lions that includes straight after the match finished, never in New York, advanced ear- $37.5 million guaranteed, agent when I got back to the locker lier, as did 2014 U.S. Open cham- Jonathan Feinsod confirmed room — sort of look at my phone, pion Marin Cilic, 2017 U.S. Open Tuesday. see the messages from family champion Sloane Stephens, reign- Decker joined the Lions as a and friends, the team and stuff. ing Australian Open champion first-round draft pick out of Ohio They’re the people that have kind Sofia Kenin, No. 9 seed Johanna State in 2016. He became the first of seen me go through everything, Konta and No. 16 Elise Mertens. Detroit rookie offensive tackle to been there, seen the tough times,” A player who can appreci- start all 16 games since 2001. In said Murray, who next plays 15th- ate Murray’s journey perhaps four seasons, he’s played in 55 seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime, a as much as anyone is Andrey games for the Lions. 20-year-old from Canada. Kuznetsov, a 29-year-old Rus- SETH WENIG/AP  Running back Leonard “I don’t know how many of us sian who missed about 2 ½ years Fournette is now a free agent. actually believed I’d be back kind Britain’s Andy Murray reacts after winning a point Tuesdays against because of his own hip injury. Fournette went unclaimed after of winning matches like that.” Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka during their first-round match at the US Kuznetsov eliminated Sam Quer- Jacksonville waived him Mon- Murray’s big concern after the Open in New York. Murray won 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-4. rey 6-4, 7-5 (6), 6-2, becoming day. Fournette’s representatives match was whether he could get the first unranked man to win a responded by formally filing a permission to use the ice bath in for blisters on his two big toes by They included Novak Djokovic, Grand Slam match since Nicolas grievance against the Jaguars in the Ashe locker room (he later a trainer during a medical time- Dominic Thiem, Naomi Osaka, Kiefer at Wimbledon in 2007. an effort to recoup the $4.17 mil- said he did). out. “That’s by far the most tennis Garbine Muguruza and others, Murray is a former No. 1- lion in base salary he was initially “They said it’s for emergencies. I’ve played since 2019, really.” some noshing while sitting on ranked player whose résumé also guaranteed for this season. Blues For me, this is an emergency right And so many of the sport’s big- the balconies of their personal includes two Wimbledon champi- trade goalie Allen to Montreal, now. My body hurts,” said the 33- gest names were there to witness “lounges” — Ashe suites that onships and two Olympic singles clear salary cap space year-old Murray, who was treated it. normally bring in hundreds of gold medals. Blues trade goaltender US Open scoreboard Allen to the Canadiens The St. Louis Blues traded 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6). Basilashvili (22), Georgia, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. Serena Williams (3), United States, def. goaltender Jake Allen to the Mon- Tuesday Daniel Evans (23), Britain, def. Thiago Ugo Humbert, France, def. Yuichi Su- Kristie Ahn, United States, 7-5, 6-3. treal Canadiens on Wednesday in At USTA Billie Jean King Seyboth Wild, Brazil, 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (5). gita, Japan, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Katerina Sin- National Tennis Center Jeffrey John Wolf, United States, def. Daniil Medvedev (3), Russia, def. Fed- iakova, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-2. a move that clears valuable sal- New York Guido Pella (29), Argentina, 6-2, 0-6, 6-3, erico Delbonis, Argentina, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. Ons Jabeur (27), Tunisia, def. Katarzyna ary cap space to try to keep their Purse: $21,656,000 6-3. Salvatore Caruso, Italy, def. James Kawa, Poland, 6-2, 7-6 (6). Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Vasek Pospisil, Canada, def. Philipp Duckworth, Australia, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, def. Bar- Stanley Cup-winning captain. (seedings in parentheses): Kohlschreiber, Germany, 7-6 (4), 7-5, 7-6 Women’s Singles bara Haas, Austria, 6-1, 6-2. First Round (3). Garbine Muguruza (10), Spain, def. Nao Aryna Sabalenka (5), Belarus, def. St. Louis received a third- Men’s Singles Roberto Carballes Baena, Spain, def. Hibino, Japan, 6-4, 6-4. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6- Elise Mertens (16), Belgium, def. Laura Oceane Dodin, France, 7-6 (1), 6-4. and a seventh-round pick in this Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, def. Sam Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov, Spain, def. Jil Querrey, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-2. 3. Siegemund, Germany, 6-2, 6-2. year’s draft in exchange for Allen Roberto Bautista-Agut (8), Spain, def. Amanda Anisimova (22), United States, Teichmann, Switzerland, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Sumit Nagal, India, def. Bradley Klahn, Iga Swiatek, Poland, def. Veronika Kud- United States, 6-1, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Tennys Sandgren, United States, 6-4, 6-4, def. Viktoriya Tomova, Bulgaria, 7-5, 7-5. and a 2022 seventh-rounder. Get- 7-6 (3). Sorana Cirstea, Romania, def. Christina ermetova (29), Russia, 6-3, 6-3. Dominic Thiem (2), Austria, def. Jaume Karolina Muchova (20), Czech Republic, ting Allen’s $4.35 million cap hit Munar, Spain, 7-6 (6), 6-3, ret. Milos Raonic (25), Canada, def. Leon- McHale, United States, 6-4, 7-5. ardo Mayer, Argentina, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def. Liud- def. Venus Williams, United States, 6-3, 7- off the books is more significant Emil Ruusuvuori, Finland, def. Aljaz Be- 5. dene, Slovenia, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, def. Gianlu- mila Samsonova, Russia, 6-2, 6-3. ca Mager, Italy, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 3-6, 6-2. Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgium, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Asia Mu- because it increases the chances Casper Ruud (30), Norway, def. Macken- Grigor Dimitrov (14), Bulgaria, def. Tom- Zhang Shuai (25), China, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. hammad, United States, 6-1, 6-2. of re-signing pending free-agent zie McDonald, United States, 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, my Paul, United States, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1. Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, def. Mon- 6-3, 6-2. Sloane Stephens (26), United States, defenseman Alex Pietrangelo. Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, def. Hugo ica Puig, Puerto Rico, 6-3, 6-7 (0), 6-0. def. Mihaela Buzarnescu, Romania, 6-3, Karen Khachanov (11), Russia, def. Jan- Dellien, Bolivia, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. Johanna Konta (9), Britain, def. Heather nik Sinner, Italy, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-0, 7-6 6-3. The 30-year-old Pietrangelo, Corentin Moutet, France, def. Jiri Vese- Watson, Britain, 7-6 (7), 6-1. Patricia Maria Tig, Romania, def. Ku- (4). ly, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5. Katrina Scott, United States, def. Nata- who lifted the Cup in Boston last Andrey Rublev (10), Russia, def. Jeremy rumi Nara, Japan, 6-1, 6-0. Ernesto Escobedo, United States, def. lia Vikhlyantseva, Russia, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Caty McNally, United States, def. Vikto- year after St. Louis won its first Chardy, France, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 7-6 (3), 6-2, 6-3. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, def. Claire Andy Murray, Britain, def. Yoshihito ria Kuzmova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-1. Richard Gasquet, France, def. Ivo Karlo- Liu, United States, 6-2, 6-4. Bernarda Pera, United States, def. Za- title in franchise history, was ex- Nishioka, Japan, 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4), vic, Croatia, 7-6 (0), 7-6 (4), 6-1. Sofia Kenin (2), United States, def. Ya- pected to be among the top play- 6-4. Christopher Oconnell, Australia, def. nina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-2, 6-2. rina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (4), 6-0. Norbert Gombos, Slovakia, def. Radu Laslo Djere, Serbia, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-4. Alize Cornet, France, def. Lauren Davis, Sachia Vickery, United States, def. Tay- ers available when free agency Albot, Moldova, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. Alex de Minaur (21), Australia, def. An- United States, 6-3, 1-6, 6-0. lor Townsend, United States, 6-2, 6-4. opens in October. Pietrangelo Gregoire Barrere, France, def. Taro Dan- drej Martin, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5. Madison Keys (7), United States, def. Maria Sakkari (15), Greece, def. Ste- iel, Japan, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. Matteo Berrettini (6), Italy, def. Go Soe- Timea Babos, Hungary, 6-1, 6-1. fanie Voegele, Switzerland, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. has said he wants to stay with the Marin Cilic (31), Croatia, def. Denis Kud- da, Japan, 7-6 (5), 6-1, 6-4. Leylah Annie Fernandez, Canada, def. Ekaterina Alexandrova (21), Russia, def. la, United States, 6-7 (3), 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, 6-3. Frances Tiafoe, United States, def. An- Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 6-4, 7-5. Kim Clijsters, Belgium, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1. Blues. Felix Auger-Aliassime (15), Canada, dreas Seppi, Italy, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, def. Nina Sto- Donna Vekic (18), Croatia, def. Kristyna — Associated Press def. Thiago Monteiro, Brazil, 6-3, 6-7 (7), John Millman, Australia, def. Nikoloz janovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-3. Pliskova, Czech Republic, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4. PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 3, 2020 MLB SCOREBOARD

American League Yankees 5, Rays 3 East Division Tampa Bay New York W L Pct GB ab r h bi ab r h bi Tampa Bay 25 12 .676 — Choi 1b 3 0 0 0 LeMhieu 2b 4 2 2 2 New York 20 14 .588 3½ Renfroe ph 1 0 0 0 Voit 1b 4 1 2 0 Toronto 18 16 .529 5½ O’Grady 1b 0 0 0 0 Hicks cf 4 0 1 0 Baltimore 16 19 .457 8 B.Lowe 2b 4 0 0 0 Frazier rf 4 1 1 0 Boston 12 24 .333 12½ Wendle 3b 3 0 0 0 Gardner lf 0 0 0 0 Central Division Meadows rf 4 0 0 0 Urshela 3b 4 1 2 2 Chicago 22 14 .611 — Tstsgo dh 3 0 0 0 Tchmn lf-rf 3 0 1 0 Cleveland 22 14 .611 — Brosseau ph 1 0 0 0 Sanchez dh 3 0 0 0 Minnesota 21 16 .568 1½ Adames ss 3 2 3 1 Hgashka c 3 0 0 0 Detroit 17 16 .515 3½ Kiermaier cf 3 1 1 2 Wade ss 3 0 0 0 Kansas City 14 22 .389 8 Margot lf 3 0 0 0 West Division Perez c 1 0 0 0 Oakland 22 12 .647 — Arzarena ph 1 0 0 0 Houston 19 15 .559 3 Smith c 0 0 0 0 Seattle 15 22 .405 8½ Totals 30 3 4 3 Totals 32 5 9 4 Texas 13 21 .382 9 Tampa Bay 000 020 100—3 Los Angeles 12 24 .333 11 New York 101 003 00x—5 E—Adames (6). DP—Tampa Bay 1, New York 1. LOB—Tampa Bay 2, New York 3. National League 2B—Adames (13), Urshela (6). HR—Kier- East Division maier (3), Adames (5), LeMahieu 2 (4). W L Pct GB IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta 21 14 .600 — Tampa Bay Miami 16 15 .516 3 2 Richards 4 ⁄3 5 2 2 0 5 Philadelphia 16 15 .516 3 1 Thompson L,1-2 1 ⁄3 3 3 3 0 1 New York 15 21 .417 6½ Reed 2 1 0 0 0 2 Washington 12 21 .364 8 KEITH SRAKOCIC/AP Central Division New York Chicago 21 14 .600 — Tanaka W,1-1 6 3 2 2 1 7 St. Louis 14 13 .519 3 Loaisiga H,2 1 1 1 1 0 2 Chicago Cubs center fielder Ian Happ makes a catch of a sacrifice fly ball by the Pirates’ Erik Gonzalez Milwaukee 16 19 .457 5 Britton H,1 1 0 0 0 0 1 Cincinnati 15 21 .417 6½ Chapman S,1-2 1 0 0 0 0 1 during the sixth inning of the Cubs’ 8-7 win Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh 10 23 .303 10 HBP—Tanaka (Wendle). T—2:39. West Division IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles 27 10 .730 — Orioles 9, Mets 5 Marlins 3, Blue Jays 2 Dodgers 6, Diamondbacks 3 Detroit San Diego 22 15 .595 5 New York Baltimore Toronto Miami San Francisco 18 19 .486 9 Arizona Los Angeles Fulmer 3 3 0 0 2 6 ab r h bi ab r h bi 1 ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi Norris W,3-1 2 ⁄3 4 1 1 0 5 Colorado 17 19 .459 9½ 2 Arizona 14 22 .389 12½ Locastro lf 3 0 1 0 Betts rf 4 1 1 0 Nimmo cf 4 0 2 0 Mullins cf 4 1 2 0 Biggio 2b 4 1 1 0 Dckerson lf 4 0 0 0 Garcia H,3 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Monday’s games Marte 2b 4 0 1 0 Seager ss 3 2 1 0 Ramos ph 1 0 0 0 Sntnder rf 4 1 2 3 Grichuk cf 4 0 0 0 Brinson rf 0 0 0 0 Cisnero 1 1 0 0 1 2 Walker 1b 4 0 0 0 Pollock dh 5 1 2 0 Conforto rf 5 0 1 0 Iglesias dh 5 1 2 1 Villar ss 4 0 0 1 Marte cf 4 2 1 1 Funkhouser 1 0 0 0 1 0 Baltimore 4, Toronto 3, 11 innings Smith 1b 4 0 0 0 Nunez 1b 5 2 2 4 Seattle 2, L.A. Angels 1 Escobar 3b 4 0 1 0 Muncy 1b 4 1 2 0 Grrro Jr. dh 4 0 2 0 Cooper dh 4 0 2 1 R.Garcia 1 1 0 0 1 1 Calhoun rf 3 1 0 0 Taylor cf 4 1 2 4 Cano 2b 4 2 2 1 Sisco c 5 0 1 0 Tellez 1b 3 1 1 0 Joyce rf-lf 3 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 McNeil lf 4 1 3 0 Mntcstle lf 4 0 0 0 Milwaukee Atlanta 6, Boston 3 Ahmed ss 4 1 1 2 W.Smith c 2 0 0 0 Gurriel Jr. lf 3 0 1 0 B.Adrsn 3b 4 0 1 0 Lindblom L,1-3 5 6 4 4 3 4 An.Young dh 3 0 0 0 Hernndez lf 3 0 0 1 Alonso dh 3 0 0 1 Ruiz 3b 3 1 1 0 Shaw 3b 2 0 0 0 Diaz 1b 3 0 0 0 Kansas City 2, Cleveland 1 Gllorme 3b 4 1 2 1 Valaika 2b 4 2 4 1 Arcia 1 2 2 2 0 0 Chicago White Sox 8, Minnesota 5 Varsho cf 4 0 0 0 Rios 3b 3 0 0 1 Fisher rf 1 0 0 1 Rojas ss 3 0 1 0 Topa 2 2 2 2 0 2 Kelly c 3 1 1 1 Lux 2b 3 0 0 0 Gimenez ss 4 1 1 2 Vezquez ss 3 1 1 0 Hrndz ph-rf 1 0 1 0 Chsholm ss 0 0 0 0 Miami 5, N.Y. Mets 3 Sanchez c 2 0 0 0 Bickford 1 4 4 4 0 2 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 5 Totals 32 3 5 3 Totals 31 6 8 6 McGuire c 3 0 0 0 Alfaro c 3 0 0 0 Davis ph 1 0 0 0 Berti 2b 2 1 2 1 HBP—Lindblom (Schoop), Bickford Philadelphia 8, Washington 6 Arizona 001 000 002—3 2 (Jones,Bonifacio). WP—Bickford. T— Los Angeles 101 022 00x—6 Totals 36 5 11 5 Totals 37 9 15 9 Totals 29 2 6 2 Totals 30 3 7 3 Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 5 New York 021 002 000—5 3:34. San Diego 6, Colorado 0 E—Ahmed (5), Escobar (2). DP—Ari- Toronto 100 100 000—2 zona 1, Los Angeles 0. LOB—Arizona 5, Baltimore 320 003 10x—9 Miami 001 001 01x—3 Tuesday’s games Los Angeles 11. 2B—Pollock (9), Taylor 2 DP—New York 0, Baltimore 1. LOB— Miami 3, Toronto 2 E—Villar (5), Hernandez (2). DP—To- Cubs 8, Pirates 7 (11) (6), Seager (8). HR—Kelly (2), Ahmed (4). New York 6, Baltimore 8. 2B—McNeil ronto 1, Miami 2. LOB—Toronto 4, Miami N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 3 SF—Hernandez (1), Rios (1). (8), Iglesias (12), Sisco (4), Valaika (2). 5. 2B—Biggio (8), Gurriel Jr. (9), Rojas (3), Chicago Pittsburgh Baltimore 9, N.Y. Mets 5 HR—Cano (7), Gimenez (1), Nunez 2 (9), ab r h bi ab r h bi IP H R ER BB SO Santander (11). SB—Guillorme (2). SF— Cooper (4), Berti (3). HR—Berti (2), Marte Atlanta 10, Boston 3 (1). SF—Fisher (1). Detroit 12, Milwaukee 1 Arizona Alonso (1). S—Mullins (3), Velazquez (3). Happ cf 6 1 3 2 Gnzalez ss 4 0 1 1 Bryant 3b 6 1 2 0 Tcker cf-rf 6 0 1 0 Cleveland 10, Kansas City 1 Al.Young L,1-2 5 6 4 2 5 4 IP H R ER BB SO IP H R ER BB SO Payamps 2 1 2 1 2 2 Rizzo 1b 5 0 0 0 Nwman 2b 5 0 1 0 Minnesota 3, Chicago White Sox 2 New York Toronto Texas 6, Houston 5, 10 innings Mella 1 1 0 0 1 1 Merryweather 2 0 0 0 1 3 Baez ss 6 2 1 1 Bell 1b 4 0 0 0 Jurado 4 9 5 5 0 2 1 Schwrber lf 5 1 1 2 Stallings c 5 1 1 0 Oakland at Seattle, ppd. Los Angeles Ray 3 ⁄3 4 2 1 1 4 Kilome L,0-1 3 5 4 4 1 2 2 Contreras c 4 2 1 0 Moran dh 4 2 2 0 St. Louis 16, Cincinnati 2 Urias W,3-0 6 4 1 1 0 5 Yamaguchi, L, 1-3 2 ⁄3 3 1 1 0 3 Hughes 1 1 0 0 0 1 Heyward rf 3 0 2 1 Hayes 3b 5 3 2 2 Philadelphia 6, Washington 0 McGee 1 0 0 0 0 1 Miami Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh 7, 11 innings Wood 1 0 0 0 0 2 Baltimore Martinez dh 3 0 0 0 Frazier lf 4 1 1 2 2 Wojciechowski 5 7 3 3 1 5 Hernandez 2 2 1 1 1 2 Cartni ph-dh 2 0 1 0 Osuna rf 4 0 1 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Arizona 3 Alexander ⁄3 1 2 2 2 0 1 Eshelman W,3-0 1 2 2 2 0 0 Smith 4 3 1 1 2 3 San Francisco 23, Colorado 5 Jansen S,10-11 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 1 Mybin pr-dh 0 0 0 0 Alford pr-cf 1 0 0 1 Fry H,4 1 1 0 0 0 1 Bleier 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Wednesday’s games HBP—Wood (Locastro). T—2:46. 2 Kipnis 2b 3 0 1 2 Harvey 1 1 0 0 0 2 Hoyt, W, 1-0 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Hoerner 2b 1 1 0 0 N.Y. Mets at Baltimore Scott 1 0 0 0 0 0 Kintzler, S, 8-8 1 0 0 0 0 1 Toronto at Miami Totals 44 8 12 8 Totals 42 7 10 7 Indians 10, Royals 1 HBP—Hughes (Santander). WP—Ki- Hernandez pitched to 1 batter in the Chicago 110 130 000 11—8 Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees lome. T—2:59. 3rd. T—2:40. Atlanta at Boston Cleveland Kansas City Pittsburgh 010 004 010 10—7 Detroit at Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h bi E—Gonzalez 2 (3). DP—Chicago 1, Cleveland at Kansas City Ce.Hrndz 2b 6 1 1 0 Mrrifld 2b 4 0 0 0 Braves 10, Red Sox 3 Cardinals 16, Reds 2 Pittsburgh 2. LOB—Chicago 10, Pitts- burgh 12. 2B—Baez (7), Moran (5), Hayes Chicago White Sox at Minnesota Ramirez 3b 3 1 2 2 Dozier lf 4 1 1 1 Atlanta Boston St. Louis Cincinnati Texas at Houston Freeman 3b 0 0 0 0 Soler rf 4 0 1 0 (1), Osuna (1), Newman (4). HR—Happ San Diego at L.A. Angels Lindor ss 5 1 2 2 O’Hearn 1b 4 0 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi (10), Schwarber (10), Hayes (1). SB—Riz- Oakland at Seattle, ppd. Santana 1b 5 1 1 0 Franco 3b 4 0 1 0 Swanson ss 5 1 2 1 Verdugo rf 5 1 2 1 Wong 2b 4 4 4 2 Votto 1b 2 1 2 1 zo (1), Maybin (1). SF—Heyward (2), Gon- San Francisco at Colorado Mercado lf 0 0 0 0 McBrm dh 4 0 0 0 Freeman 1b 3 2 1 1 Vazquez c 4 0 1 0 Bader cf 1 0 0 0 Barnhart 1b 1 0 0 0 zalez (1). Ozuna dh 5 3 3 6 Devers 3b 3 0 1 1 St. Louis at Cincinnati Reyes dh 5 2 5 1 Lopez ss 4 0 2 0 Edmn lf-2b 7 1 3 1 Cstllanos rf 2 0 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Naquin rf 4 0 0 1 Starling cf 3 0 1 0 Markakis lf 4 1 0 0 Bgaerts ss 4 1 1 0 Gdschdt 1b 2 3 1 0 Goodwin rf 3 0 1 0 d’Arnaud c 5 1 3 0 Chavis 1b 4 0 0 0 Chicago Washington at Philadelphia Naylor lf-1b 5 2 2 1 Viloria c 3 0 1 0 Knzner ph-c 2 1 2 2 Dvdsn dh-p 4 0 0 0 1 Riley 3b 5 0 2 1 Bradley cf 3 0 1 1 Lester 5 ⁄3 8 5 5 3 3 Thursday’s games R.Perez c 4 1 2 3 Miller dh-3b 6 3 4 7 Suarez 3b 2 0 1 0 Hedges c 1 0 0 0 Duvall rf 5 0 0 0 Munoz dh 4 0 1 0 Rea, H, 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Texas (Lynn 4-1) at Houston (Greinke DeJong ss 6 0 2 0 Farmer 3b 2 0 0 0 2 DeShields cf 4 1 2 0 Cmargo 2b 5 1 1 0 Lin lf 4 1 1 0 Ryan, H, 3 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 2-0) Molina c-1b 6 0 3 1 Mstakas 2b 3 0 0 0 2 Totals 42 10 17 10 Totals 34 1 7 1 Inciarte cf 4 1 2 1 Arauz 2b 3 0 0 0 Winkler, BS, 0-1 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 N.Y. Yankees (Happ 1-1) at N.Y. Mets Elledge p 0 0 0 0 Aquino lf 2 0 0 0 2 Totals 41 10 14 10 Totals 34 3 8 3 Wick ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 (TBD) Cleveland 320 001 310—10 Crpntr 3b-1b 5 2 1 0 Garcia ss 4 0 1 0 Kansas City 000 001 000— 1 Atlanta 200 002 150—10 Osich 1 0 1 0 0 1 San Diego (TBD) at L.A. Angels (He- Boston 002 000 010— 3 Fowler rf 3 1 1 2 Akyama cf 3 0 0 0 2 aney 2-2) LOB—Cleveland 9, Kansas City 6. 2B— Jeffress, W, 3-1 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 Reyes 2 (8), R.Perez (1), Franco (12). HR— DP—Atlanta 1, Boston 0. LOB—Atlanta O’Neill ph-lf 2 0 1 0 Lrenzen cf 0 1 0 0 Toronto (Walker 3-2) at Boston (Perez 7, Boston 7. 2B—Riley (4), Swanson (11), Thmas cf-rf 5 1 1 0 Casali c 4 0 3 1 Pittsburgh Lindor (6), Reyes (8), R.Perez (1), Ramirez Kuhl 4 6 4 3 2 3 2-4) (8), Dozier (4). SF—Naquin (1). Munoz (1), Bogaerts (7). HR—Ozuna 3 Totals 49 16 23 15 Totals 32 2 8 2 Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas (11). St. Louis 621 022 120—16 Bashlor 1 2 2 2 0 0 2 City (Duffy 2-2) IP H R ER BB SO Neverauskas 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati 000 001 001— 2 1 Oakland at Seattle, ppd. Cleveland DP—St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 1. LOB—St. Hartlieb 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Chicago Cubs (Mills 3-2) at Pittsburgh Plesac, W, 2-1 6 4 1 1 0 6 Atlanta Rodriguez 1 1 0 0 0 1 Anderson, W, 2-0 6 6 2 2 1 8 Louis 13, Cincinnati 10. 2B—Miller (5), (Brubaker 0-0) Leone 1 1 0 0 0 0 Goldschmidt (7), Edman (5), Wong (2), Stratton 1 1 1 0 0 0 Washington (Sanchez 1-4) at Philadel- Quantrill 2 2 0 0 0 2 Minter, H, 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 Crick, L, 0-1 1 1 1 0 0 0 Greene 1 2 1 1 0 2 Thomas (1), Suarez (4), Goodwin (1), phia (Elfin 2-1) Kansas City Casali (2). HR—Miller 2 (4), Votto (6). Rea pitched to 1 batter in the 7th, 1 Ynoa 1 0 0 0 1 0 Arizona (Weaver 1-5) at L.A. Dodgers Harvey, L, 0-2 1 ⁄3 6 5 5 1 0 Osich pitched to 2 batters in the 10th, 2 IP H R ER BB SO (Kershaw 4-1) Ca.Hernandez 3 ⁄3 2 0 0 1 2 Boston Kuhl pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. WP— 1 Adams 1 ⁄3 4 3 3 0 0 Weber 4 4 2 2 0 2 St. Louis Rodriguez. T—4:10. 2 Rosario 1 ⁄3 5 2 2 0 2 Taylor 1 0 0 0 1 1 Kim W,2-0 5 3 0 0 2 4 2 Tuesday Zuber 1 0 0 0 1 2 Stock, L, 0-0 ⁄3 3 2 2 1 1 1 Helsley 1 2 1 1 1 0 3 Rangers 6, Astros 5 (10) Giants 23, Rockies 5 WP—Adams, Zuber. T—3:10. A—0 Brice ⁄ 0 0 0 0 1 Webb 1 2 0 0 1 1 (37,903). Hart 2 7 6 6 0 1 Meisinger 1 0 0 0 2 1 Texas Houston Springs 1 0 0 0 0 1 San Francisco Colorado Elledge 1 1 1 1 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi HBP—Weber (Freeman), Anderson Twins 3, White Sox 2 (Bradley Jr.). WP—Anderson(2), Stock. Cincinnati Choo dh 4 1 0 0 Springer cf 4 0 0 0 Ystrzski rf 4 1 2 1 Tapia lf 4 1 1 2 2 Kner-Flfa 3b 5 2 3 0 Altuve 2b 5 2 3 0 Chicago Minnesota T—3:05. Gray L,5-2 ⁄3 5 6 6 3 1 Dggar ph-rf 2 0 0 0 Pillar cf 3 0 0 0 Davidson 2 3 2 2 1 0 Trevino c 3 0 0 0 Brantley lf 4 1 2 4 Dckerson lf 6 5 5 6 E.Diaz c 2 0 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi 2 Sims 1 ⁄3 5 3 3 0 2 Gallo rf 4 0 0 0 Straw pr 0 0 0 0 Longoria 3b 5 1 2 1 Arenado 3b 2 0 0 0 Anderson ss 4 1 3 0 Sano 1b 5 0 0 0 Phillies 6, Nationals 0 2 Rbertson 3b 2 1 1 0 Fuentes 3b 1 0 1 1 Bradley 1 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 2 Solak 2b 5 0 2 1 Gurriel 1b 5 0 0 0 Grandal c 3 0 0 0 Polanco ss 5 1 2 0 Washington Philadelphia Thornburg 1 3 2 2 1 2 Andrus ss 4 1 1 1 Tucker dh 5 0 1 0 Belt 1b 3 3 3 0 Blckmon rf 2 0 0 0 Abreu 1b 4 1 1 0 Cruz dh 3 1 3 0 Sndvl ph-1b 3 1 1 0 Hillrd pr-rf 1 0 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Jones 1 3 2 2 0 1 Taveras cf 3 1 0 0 Correa ss 4 0 2 1 Encrncn dh 4 0 0 0 Gnzlz rf-2b 3 0 0 0 Iglesias 1 2 1 0 1 0 Guzman 1b 4 0 2 1 Reddick rf 4 0 0 0 Flores dh 4 2 1 0 Murphy 1b 4 0 0 0 Jimenez lf 4 0 1 2 Rosario lf 4 0 2 0 Trner ss 3 0 0 0 McCthn dh 4 1 1 3 Ruf ph-dh 1 1 0 0 Kemp dh 4 1 1 0 Soto lf 3 0 0 0 Hoskins 1b 4 1 2 0 HBP—Jones (Wong), Elledge (Loren- Rivera pr-1b 0 0 0 0 Toro 3b 4 1 2 0 Solano 2b 6 2 4 6 MMhn 2b-ss 4 0 1 0 Robert cf 4 0 0 0 Adranza 3b 4 0 0 0 Kendrick dh 4 0 1 0 B.Harper rf 2 0 1 0 zen). T—3:27. White lf 3 0 0 0 Garneau c 3 1 1 0 Crawford ss 6 3 3 6 Hmpn ss-cf 4 2 2 2 Mazara rf 4 0 1 0 Buxton cf 4 0 2 1 Difo pr 0 0 0 0 Realmuto c 3 0 1 1 Dietrich ph 1 0 0 0 Mldnado c 0 0 0 0 Bart c 5 2 3 1 Wlters c-2b 2 1 0 0 Sanchez 3b 3 0 0 0 Vargas 2b 1 0 0 0 Cabrera 3b 4 0 1 0 Segura 2b 3 0 0 0 Heineman lf 0 1 0 0 Dubon cf 5 1 2 2 Madrigal 2b 3 0 1 0 Cave ph-rf 2 1 1 0 Thames 1b 4 0 0 0 Grgrius ss 5 1 1 0 Tigers 12, Brewers 1 Totals 36 6 8 3 Totals 38 5 11 5 Totals 52 23 27 23 Totals 33 5 6 5 Jeffers c 2 0 0 0 Eaton rf 4 0 0 0 Gosselin lf 2 0 0 0 Texas 200 100 001 2—6 Arraez ph 1 0 1 1 Detroit Milwaukee San Francisco 322 117 250—23 Gomes c 3 0 1 0 Bruce ph-lf 2 1 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Houston 000 001 300 1—5 Colorado 001 010 021— 5 Avila c 1 0 0 0 Garcia 2b 3 0 1 0 Haseley lf 0 0 0 0 E—Valdez (2), Correa (1), Maldonado E—Solano (6), Bart (2), McMahon Totals 33 2 7 2 Totals 35 3 11 2 Taylor cf 2 0 0 0 Bohm 3b 4 2 2 2 Reyes rf-cf 6 2 4 5 Gamel rf 2 0 1 0 (2). DP—Texas 2, Houston 4. LOB—Texas (5). LOB—San Francisco 9, Colorado 6. Chicago 200 000 000—2 Quinn cf 4 0 0 0 Schoop 2b 3 1 2 1 Mathias rf 1 0 0 0 6, Houston 7. 3B—Guzman (1). HR—An- 2B—Solano 2 (12), Belt 2 (8), Dickerson Minnesota 000 011 10x—3 Totals 30 0 4 0 Totals 33 6 8 6 Cabrera dh 5 0 1 0 Yelich dh 4 1 2 1 drus (1), Brantley (2). SB—Choo (5). S— 2 (3), Crawford (6), Dubon (2), Tapia (2). E—Abreu (5). DP—Chicago 0, Minne- Washington 000 000 000—0 Cndelario 1b 4 0 1 2 Urias ss 0 0 0 0 Maldonado (2). 3B—Yastrzemski (4). HR—Dickerson 3 (7), sota 1. LOB—Chicago 5, Minnesota 11. Philadelphia 000 024 00x—6 Goodrum ss 5 0 0 0 Hiura 2b 4 0 1 0 Crawford (4), Hampson 2 (4). SB—Craw- 2B—Jimenez (6), Arraez (4), Cruz (5). E—Garcia (2). DP—Washington 0, Phil- Jones cf 2 1 0 0 Smoak 1b 4 0 1 0 IP H R ER BB SO ford (1). SF—Dubon (2), Tapia (2). 3B—Cave (1). adelphia 1. LOB—Washington 6, Phila- Dmrtte pr-rf 1 2 1 0 Nttnghm ph 1 0 0 0 Texas IP H R ER BB SO IP H R ER BB SO delphia 12. 2B—Garcia (2), Hoskins (8), Stewart lf 3 1 2 1 A.Garcia cf 3 0 1 0 Garcia 1 1 0 0 1 2 Bohm (4). HR—Bohm (1), McCutchen (4). Bnfacio pr-lf 1 1 0 0 Tylor ph-cf 1 0 0 0 Lyles 5 6 3 3 1 2 San Francisco Chicago SB—B.Harper (4), Gomes (0). Goody BS,1-2 1 1 1 1 0 2 Gausman, W, 2-2 5 2 2 2 1 5 Keuchel 5 7 1 0 2 4 Greiner c 5 2 1 2 Narvaez c 3 0 1 0 1 Hernandez W,5-0 2 2 0 0 0 0 Suarez 2 ⁄3 2 2 2 2 2 Crdro, L, 0-2, BS, 0-1 1 3 2 2 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO Castro 3b 5 2 2 1 Sogard 3b 4 0 0 0 2 2 Montero S,7-7 1 1 1 0 0 0 Peralta 1 ⁄3 2 1 1 1 1 Marshall ⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 Washington Arcia ss-p 4 0 1 0 1 Detwiler ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Corbin, L, 2-2 5 5 2 2 3 2 Peterson lf 4 0 1 0 Houston Colorado 1 2 3 Totals 40 12 14 12 Totals 35 1 9 1 3 Cishek 1 0 0 0 0 3 Finnegan ⁄ 3 4 3 2 0 Valdez 7 5 3 3 3 8 Gray, L, 2-4 2 ⁄ 9 7 7 0 1 2 1 3 Detroit 002 202 042—12 Santos 2 ⁄3 4 2 2 2 2 Minnesota Bacus ⁄ 0 0 0 1 0 Paredes H,3 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 J.Diaz ⁄3 6 7 7 1 2 Pineda 6 6 2 2 1 4 Guerra 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 3 2 Milwaukee 000 001 000— 1 Pressly BS,6-9 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 Kinley 1 ⁄3 3 2 2 0 0 Thielbar, W, 1-0 1 1 0 0 0 2 R.Harper ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 E—Narvaez (2). DP—Detroit 0, Mil- Taylor L,1-1 ⁄3 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 Hoffman ⁄3 2 4 4 2 0 Romo, H, 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia waukee 1. LOB—Detroit 7, Milwaukee 12. Scrubb ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2 Butera 1 ⁄3 3 1 1 0 1 Wisler, S, 1-1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Nola, W, 3-2 8 2 0 0 3 9 2B—Castro (2), Reyes (6). 3B—Castro (1). Lyles pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. HBP—Kinley (Bart). WP—Kinley. T— Cordero pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. Neris 1 2 0 0 0 1 HR—Stewart (3), Reyes (3), Greiner (2), HBP—Valdez (Choo). WP—Valdez(2). 3:48. WP—Thielbar. T—3:12. T—3:14. Yelich (9). T—3:28. Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 MLB Giants rout Rockies as Dickerson has 3 homers

BY DENNIS GEORGATOS coincided with a couple of rough Associated Press nights at the plate. It’s a bad com- bination. We’ve got to put the two DENVER — Alex Dickerson together, that’s for sure.” hit three home runs and matched San Francisco starter Kevin a career high with six RBIs, high- Gausman (2-2) went five innings lighting one of the biggest offen- and allowed two hits and two sive shows ever at Coors Field as runs, both on solo home runs by the San Francisco Giants beat the Garrett Hampson. Colorado Rockies 23-5 on Tues- Catcher Drew Butera pitched day night. the last two innings for the Rock- “That’s by far the best game ies. It was the seventh career I’ve ever had in my life,” said pitching appearance for the po- Dickerson, who just missed hit- sition player and the first since ting a fourth home run in his final 2018 as a member of the Kansas at bat in the ninth, settling for a City Royals. 414-foot double that reached the Dickerson touched off his warning track in center, the deep- power display — the first multi- est part of the field. homer game of his career — with “I don’t think I’ve seen that a towering first-inning solo shot many barreled balls from one guy that landed in the third deck in one game before,” said Bran- overlooking right field. The 480- don Crawford, who also homered foot drive off Jon Gray (2-4) was among his three hits and had six the longest home run by a Giants RBIs. “I thought he got that last DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP player since at least 2015. one, too. That would have been The San Francisco Giants’ Alex Dickerson connects for a solo home run off Rockies starting pitcher Jon He followed with a two-run pretty cool.” Gray. Dickerson had three homers, six RBIs and 16 total bases in a 23-5 win Tuesday in Denver. drive in the second inning and a Dickerson finished with 16 three-run homer off Jairo Diaz in total bases (three homers, two as him is an incredible honor.” formances to go around, up and The 27 hits by the Giants were San Francisco’s seven-run sixth doubles), tying the Giants’ fran- Donovan Solano also had four down the lineup,” San Francisco the second most ever allowed by inning, its biggest of the night. chise record set by Willie Mays hits and six RBIs. Brandon Belt manager Gabe Kapler said. the Rockies, matching the Cubs’ Crawford also had a three-run on April 30, 1961 at the Milwau- homer in the sixth. and Joey Bart added three hits The 23 runs were the third- hit total in the 1995 game. kee Braves. Dickerson doubled and scored “It’s incredible company,” Dick- apiece as the Giants collected 27 most allowed by the Rockies in “We’ve got to circle the wag- in between his last two homers, erson said. “The things he did hits and scored in every inning team history. The Chicago Cubs ons a little bit here,” Colorado drew a walk in the eighth inning, in his career and everything he except the ninth in winning for scored 26 against Colorado on manager Bud Black said. “With and doubled to the center-field means to San Francisco, to even the 10th time in 13 games. Aug. 18, 1995, and the Cincinnati the pitching, we’ve had a couple warning track off Butera in the be mentioned in the same breath “There were plenty of good per- Reds scored 24 on May 19, 1999. of rough nights on the mound, ninth. Roundup Miller time: Cards’ player has 7 RBIs in romp of Reds

Associated Press Bohm’s solo shot to left field for his sec- Indians 10, Royals 1: Zach Plesac re- ond homer of the season and J.T. Real- turned to the team with six solid innings CINCINNATI — Brad Miller homered muto’s RBI single off Nationals starter after being punished for breaking corona- twice and drove in a career-high seven Patrick Corbin (2-3) gave the Phillies a virus protocols, and Cleveland won at Kan- runs, and the St. Louis Cardinals pounded two-run lead in the fifth. sas City. Sonny Gray on the way to a 16-2 defeat of Orioles 9, Mets 5: Renato Nunez hit Plesac (2-1) allowed a run and four hits, the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday.their third two home runs, Anthony Santander also striking out six and walking none. He straight win. went deep and Baltimore dealt visiting Miller sparked St. Louis’ six-run first pitched for the first time since Aug. 8 after New York its fifth straight loss. getting caught breaking curfew. inning against Gray (5-2) with a two-run Nunez hit a three-run drive off Mets double that glanced off the glove of div- Twins 3, White Sox 2: Byron Buxton newcomer Ariel Jurado to give the Orioles returned with a bang and so did Michael ing first baseman Joey Votto and bounced an early lead. After New York made it 5- down the line. He hit a two-run shot in the Pineda, rallying Minnesota past visiting all, Santander’s 11th homer of the season Chicago to snap a six-game losing streak. second, an RBI single in the fifth and an- capped a three-run sixth against Franklyn other two-run homer in the eighth. Buxton came off the injured list and had Kilome (0-1). two hits, including the go-ahead single in Kolten Wong went 4 for 4 and scored four Marlins 3, Blue Jays 2: Starling Marte times as the Cardinals set season highs for the seventh inning. celebrated his Miami debut with a tie- Rangers 6, Astros 5 (10): Elvis Andrus runs and hits with 23. Kwang Hyun Kim breaking homer in the eighth inning in a (2-0) pitched five scoreless innings for the hit a tying solo homer in the ninth inning win over visiting Toronto. and Texas got two runs in the 10th on a win. Marte, who was acquired in a trade with balk and two errors to win at Houston. It was the worst loss of the season for the Arizona on Monday, drove a 1-0 pitch from Scott Heineman started the 10th on free-falling Reds, who have dropped three Shun Yamaguchi (1-3) deep to left-center second base and advanced to third on a straight and four of five. for his third homer. He also reached on an groundout by Shin-Soo Choo. The Rang- Yankees 5, Rays 3: New York closer error in the sixth and scored from first on Aroldis Chapman threw a 101 mph fastball Garrett Cooper’s double. ers took the lead when he scored on a balk near the head of pinch-hitter Michael Bros- by Blake Taylor (1-1). The balk was called BRYAN WOOLSTON/AP Braves 10, Red Sox 3: Marcell Ozuna seau while closing out his first save of the hit three home runs in a game for the first when the rookie stepped off the mound as season, prompting the benches to empty The St. Louis Cardinals’ Brad Miller runs time in his career and finished with six Heineman took off as if he was heading after the Yankees ended a six-game losing the bases after hitting a two-home run RBIs, leading Atlanta in a rout at Boston. home. streak against Tampa Bay. during the eighth inning of the team’s Ozuna, who was 3-for-5, hit a two-run Dodgers 6, Diamondbacks 3: Chris Chapman’s first pitch to Brosseau with 16-2 win at Cincinnati on Tuesday. homer in the first inning, a solo shot in the Taylor drove in a season-high four runs two outs in the ninth inning whizzed past seventh and a three-run blast in the eighth. and Julio Urias pitched six innings of Brosseau’s head, and umpires met before persing to their respective clubhouses. It was the eight-year veteran’s second mul- four-hit ball in host Los Angeles’ victory issuing warnings to both benches amid a Phillies 6, Nationals 0: Aaron Nola tihomer effort in the last 10 games and the over Arizona. Taylor, AJ Pollock and Max budding rivalry that’s been dominated this tossed two-hit ball over eight innings, An- 10th of his career. Muncy had two hits apiece as the Dodgers season by Tampa Bay. drew McCutchen hit a three-run homer Tigers 12, Brewers 1: Victor Reyes had opened a six-game homestand with their Chapman struck out Brosseau to end it, and Alec Bohm also went deep to lead host four hits and five RBIs, and Detroit won at third straight victory. and Brosseau began walking toward the Philadelphia past Washington. Milwaukee for its sixth straight victory. Cubs 8, Pirates 6 (11): Ian Happ sin- visiting dugout before turning back to ex- Nola (4-2) threw 113 pitches in his latest The Tigers moved back above .500 at gled home Nico Hoerner in the 11th inning, change words with someone on the Yan- dominant outing before he yielded to Hec- 17-16, but it lost starting outfielder JaCoby leading Chicago to a win at Pittsburgh. kees. The dugouts and benches emptied tor Neris for the ninth. He struck out nine Jones to a fractured left hand. Jones was hit Happ also led off the game with a home and players gathered near home plate, but and allowed two or fewer runs for the fifth by a pitch from Phil Bickford in the eighth run. He finished with three hits and two they mostly kept their distance before dis- time this season. inning in the reliever’s big league debut. RBIs for the NL Central leaders. 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Associated Press and Laughton redirected Ivan Provorov’s shot at 12:20 to pull TORONTO — The Philadelphia Philadelphia within 3-2 in the Flyers and their big boy pants are best-of-seven second-round se- sticking around the Toronto bub- ries. Game 6 is Thursday in the ble for at least one more game. Toronto bubble. Scott Laughton scored on a “In games like this, you need redirect in overtime after Phila- everyone pulling the rope and delphia blew a late two-goal lead, moving in the right direction,” helping the Flyers stave off elimi- van Riemsdyk said. “Everyone ROD AYDELOTTE,WACO TRIBUNE HERALD/AP nation with a 4-3 win over the did their job and played their role New York Islanders on Tuesday tonight.” Duke defensive end Chris Rumph II, left, was overlooked in a conference with a lot of good defensive night. Canucks 2, Golden Knights 1: ends last year. His 13 ½ tackles for loss and 6 ½ sacks were only good enough for third-team all-ACC. Philadelphia pulled it out after At Edmonton, Alberta, Elias Pet- blowing a late two-goal and coach terson scored the go-ahead goal Alain Vigneault called on his top early in the third period, Thatcher players to “put on their big boy Demko made 42 saves in his first pants” for Game 5. Some stars are overlooked NHL playoff start and Vancouver “The big boy pants is something staved off elimination by beating they’re aware of,” Vigneault said. Veags in Game 5 of their second- “They don’t need me to motivate round series. because of team struggles them. They’re a group the moti- The Western Conference top- vates themselves. They’re got a seeded Golden Knights outshot BY RALPH D. RUSSO lot pride and a lot of compete.” the Canucks 43-17 and only Associated Press Claude Giroux and James van cracked Demko once, on a high- Riemsdyk responded to their light reel goal by defenseman ll-Americans and col- coach’s urging with their sticks, Shea Theodore in the second. lege football award scoring their first postseason Brock Boeser also scored for Van- winners are overwhelm- goals after New York went up 1-0 couver and got the primary assist Aingly chosen from teams on Josh Bailey’s first-period goal. on Pettersson’s goal by taking the with the winning records. Matt Niskanen added his first shot the 21-year-old Swede de- Makes sense, of course. Good playoff goal early in the third pe- flected past Robin Lehner. teams have the most good players riod to put the Flyers up 3-1. Because of Demko’s dominant and — as the saying goes — to the The scrappy Islanders made a performance in net and timely winner goes the spoils. big push late, though, tying it on scoring, there will be a Game 6 The good players on the not-so- goals by Brock Nelson and Derick on Thursday night. The Canucks good teams tend to get lost in the Brassard 93 seconds apart. joined the Colorado Avalanche shuffle, overlooked through no “The third period we were and Philadelphia Flyers as teams fault of their own. coming,” New York coach Barry down 3-1 this round to force a Six players who will stand out Trotz said. Game 6. The winner of this series even if their teams don’t turn it Flyers goalie Carter Hart, who will face the winner of Stars-Ava- around in 2020 after having los- stopped 29 shots, made some lanche in the Western Conference ing records in 2019:. spectacular saves in overtime final. Rakeem Boyd, RB, Arkansas: Boyd is a former “Last Chance U” star who went from junior college to Arkansas. Scoreboard After a promising 2018, Boyd was a breakout star in the Southeastern Con- ference with 1,133 yards rushing and Stanley Cup playoffs Tuesday eight touchdowns last season. The production was remarkable considering CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS Flyers 4, Islanders 3 (OT) (Best-of-seven; x-if necessary) how inept the Razorbacks were in the N.Y. Islanders 0 1 2 0—3 EASTERN CONFERENCE passing game. It’s unlikely this will be At Toronto Philadelphia 0 2 1 1—4 (6) N.Y. Islanders 3, (1) Philadelphia 2 Second Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Bai- a quick turnaround for new coach Sam N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 0 ley 3 (Eberle, Barzal), 1:20 (pp). 2, Phila- delphia, Giroux 1 (Couturier, Myers), Pittman, but the former offensive line Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OT 15:45. 3, Philadelphia, van Riemsdyk 1 coach does have a star back in Boyd N.Y. Islanders 3, Philadelphia 1 (Konecny, Laughton), 18:18. MICHAEL WOODS/AP N.Y. Islanders 3, Philadelphia 1 Third Period—4, Philadelphia, Nis- to lean on. Tuesday: Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Island- kanen 1 (Konecny, Hayes), 4:32. 5, N.Y. Chris Rumph II, DE, Duke: The Arkansas’ Rakeem Boyd carries against Western Kentucky last ers 3, OT Islanders, Nelson 6 (Mayfield, Bai- Thursday: Game 6 (AFN-Sports2, 1 ley), 15:46. 6, N.Y. Islanders, Brassard 1 fourth-year junior speed rusher was November. Boyd was a breakout star in the SEC with 1,133 yards a.m. Friday CET; 8 a.m. Friday JKT) (Cizikas, Clutterbuck), 17:19. overlooked in an Atlantic Coast Confer- rushing and eight touchdowns last season despite the Razorbacks x-Saturday, Sept. 5: Game 7 Overtime—7, Philadelphia, Laughton 4 (2) Tampa Bay 4, (4) Boston 1 (Giroux, Provorov), 12:20. ence with lots of good defensive ends lacking a strong passing attack to take the pressure off of him. Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2 Shots on Goal—N.Y. Islanders 4-9-12- last year. His 13.5 tackles for loss and Tampa Bay 4, Boston 3, OT 7—32. Philadelphia 11-11-6-4—32. Tampa Bay 7, Boston 1 Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Is- 6.5 sacks were only good enough for Pooka Williams, RB, Kansas: Wil- part of a disappointing season for the Tampa Bay 3, Boston 1 landers 1 of 4; Philadelphia 0 of 2. Blue Raiders, who failed to get bowl eli- Goalies—N.Y. Islanders, Varlamov 9-2- third-team all-ACC. It should be an- liams’ first two seasons with the Jay- Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2, 2OT 1 (32 shots-28 saves). Philadelphia, Hart other strong year along the defensive hawks have produced 2,186 yards gible for the first time since 2014. The WESTERN CONFERENCE 8-4-0 (32-29). At Edmonton, Alberta T—3:07. line in the conference, but the 6-foot-4, rushing at 6.0 yards per carry and 10 6-foot-1, 200-pound senior has NFL (1) Las Vegas 3, (5) Vancouver 2 235-pound Rumph has a chance to be touchdowns. And just six victories. potential if he can replicate his sopho- Las Vegas 5, Vancouver 0 Canucks 2, Golden Knights 1 Vancouver 5, Las Vegas 2 the most productive of the bunch. With only one nonconference game more year, when he had 107 tackles, Vancouver 0 1 1—2 Las Vegas 3, Vancouver 0 Darius Stills, NT, West Virginia: this season, it’s doubtful Kansas will eight for loss and four interceptions. Las Vegas 5, Vancouver 3 Vegas 0 1 0—1 Can’t truly call Stills underrated after Tarron Jackson, defensive end, Tuesday: Vancouver 2, Las Vegas 1 Second Period—1, Vegas, Theodore 5 crawl out of the Big 12 cellar, but Wil- Thursday: Game 6 (AFN-Sports2, 3:45 (Smith, Stone), 15:12. 2, Vancouver, Bo- he was named Big 12 preseason de- Coastal Carolina: Jackson led the Sun eser 4 (Miller, Hughes), 15:36. liams should give opposing defenses a.m. Friday CET; 10:45 a.m. Friday JKT) fensive player of the year. He had 14.5 Belt in sacks last year with 10 and x-Friday: Game 7 Third Period—3, Vancouver, Petters- headaches. (3) Dallas 3, (2) Colorado 2 son 7 (Miller, Boeser), 3:19. tackles for loss and seven sacks last returns for his senior season as a con- Shots on Goal—Vancouver 6-4-7—17. Reed Blakenship, S, Middle Ten- Dallas 5, Colorado 3 Vegas 10-18-15—43. year, helping a rebuilding team put a tender to be the conference defensive Dallas 5, Colorado 2 Power-play opportunities—Vancouver up respectable five victories. At 6-1, nessee: A season-ending ankle injury player of the year. The Chanticleers Colorado 6, Dallas 4 0 of 3; Vegas 0 of 2. Dallas 5, Colorado 4 Goalies—Vancouver, Demko 1-0-0 (43 285, he isn’t the typical hulking nose limited Blankenship to seven games have had three losing seasons since Colorado 6, Dallas 3 shots-42 saves). Vegas, Lehner 7-3-0 (17- last season and he was still second- Wednesday: Game 6 15). guard, but few linemen in the country moving to FBS, but they will look to x-Friday: Game 7 T—2:28. are tougher to block. team all-Conference USA. His loss was break through behind Jackson. Thursday, September 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 NBA PLAYOFFS Scoreboard Celtics take 2-0 lead over Raptors Playoffs At Lake Buena Vista, Fla. FIRST ROUND Best-of-seven; x-if necessary EASTERN CONFERENCE Milwaukee 4, Orlando 1 Tatum, Smart pace Orlando 122, Milwaukee 110 Milwaukee 111, Orlando 96 Milwaukee 121, Orlando 107 Boston’s 102-99 win Milwaukee 121, Orlando 106 Milwaukee 118, Orlando 104 Toronto 4, Brooklyn 0 BY TIM REYNOLDS Toronto 134, Brooklyn 110 Toronto 104, Brooklyn 99 Associated Press Toronto 117, Brooklyn 92 Toronto 150, Brooklyn 122 Boston 4, Philadelphia 0 LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Boston 109, Philadelphia 101 Boston 128, Philadelphia 101 — Marcus Smart didn’t like a Boston 102, Philadelphia 94 call that went against him late in Boston 110, Philadelphia 106 Miami 4, Indiana 0 the third quarter, a moment that Miami 113 Indiana 101 made it seem like the Toronto Miami 109, Indiana 100 Miami 124, Indiana 115 Raptors were taking control Miami 99, Indiana 87 WESTERN CONFERENCE against the Boston Celtics. L.A. Lakers 4, Portland 1 So, in the fourth quarter, he Portland 100, L.A. Lakers 93 L.A. Lakers 111, Portland 88 took matters into his own hands. L.A. Lakers 116, Portland 108 Smart changed the game with L.A. Lakers 135 Portland 115 L.A. Lakers 131, Portland 122 16 points in a dazzling three-min- L.A. Clippers 4, Dallas 2 L.A. Clippers 118, Dallas 110 ute stretch early in the fourth, Dallas 127, L.A. Clippers 114 Jayson Tatum led everybody with L.A. Clippers 130, Dallas 122 Dallas 135, L.A. Clippers 133, OT 34 points and the Celtics have L.A. Clippers 154, Dallas 111 the reigning NBA champions in L.A. Clippers 111, Dallas 97 Denver 4, Utah 3 serious trouble. Boston topped Denver 135, Utah 125, OT Utah 124, Denver 105 Toronto 102-99 on Monday night, Utah 124, Denver 87 taking a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Utah 129, Denver 127 Denver 117, Utah 107 Conference semifinal matchup. Denver 119, Utah 107 “Once I saw the first one go in, Tuesday: Denver 80, Utah 78 Houston 3, Oklahoma City 3 I knew,” Smart said. MARK J. TERRILL/AP Houston 123, Oklahoma City 108 He was right. Houston 112, Oklahoma City 98 The Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum, left, works against the Toronto Raptors’ OG Anunoby, center, as Oklahoma City 119, Houston 107, OT Smart made five three-point- Oklahoma City 117, Houston 114 Robert Williams III helps against the pressure in Boston’s 102-99 win Tuesday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Houston 114, Oklahoma City 80 ers in a span of 3:04, turning the Oklahoma City 104, Houston 100 last of those into a four-point play Wednesday: Game 7 Smart scored 19 points, Walker game.” Toronto scored only nine points CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS as the Celtics erased what had (Best-of-seven; x-if necessary) had 17 and Jaylen Brown scored The Raptors had the Celtics in the next 10:39, and missed 23 Eastern Conference been a 12-point deficit late in the 16 for Boston. under control late in the third of its final 28 shots overall. But Miami 1, Milwaukee 0 third. Kemba Walker scored 11 Miami 115, Milwaukee 104 OG Anunoby had 20 points quarter, taking a 12-point lead — just when things looked like they Wednesday: Game 2 of Boston’s final 16 points from for the Raptors, who got 19 from t he moment u m seem i ng l i ke it had had gone totally awry, the Rap- Friday: Game 3 there, the last of them a stepback Sunday, Sept. 6: Game 4 Fred VanVleet — who missed a swung on an overturned call that, tors scored five straight to make x-Tuesday, Sept. 8: Game 5 jumper in the final minute, and 28-footer as time expired. Serge correctly, went Toronto’s way. A it a 95-92 game with 3:35 left, and x-Thursday, Sept. 10: Game 6 x-Saturday, Sept. 12: Game 7 the Celtics added to a season of Ibaka and Pascal Siakam scored layup by VanVleet, followed by a they got within one on a pair of Boston 2, Toronto 0 mastery over the Raptors. 17 points apiece and Kyle Lowry free throw from Siakam after of- free throws by Lowry with 1:01 Boston 112, Toronto 94 Tuesday: Boston 102, Toronto 99 Not only do they lead the series added 16 for Toronto. ficials reversed a call that he said remaining. Thursday: Game 3 (AFN-Sports, 12:30 2-0, but they’re 3-0 against To- “The shots are there,” Lowry he fouled Smart, gave the Raptors They didn’t score again. And a.m. Friday CET; 7:30 a.m. Friday JKT) Saturday: Game 4 ronto in the NBA’s restart bubble said. “We just have to make them. a 78-66 lead with 2:46 left in the just as last year against Milwau- x-Monday, Sept. 7: Game 5 x-Wednesday, Sept. 9: Game 6 and 5-1 against it this season. ... All we’ve got to do is get one third. kee, Toronto is in an 0-2 hole. x-Friday, Sept. 11: Game 7 Western Conference L.A. Clippers vs. Denver Thursday: Game 1 (AFN-Sports, 3 a.m. Friday CET; 10 a.m. Friday JKT) Nuggets edge Jazz, complete comeback from 3-1 down Saturday: Game 2 Monday, Sept. 7: Game 3 Wednesday, Sept. 9: Game 4 BY BRIAN MAHONEY x-Friday, Sept. 11: Game 5 advanced to face the second-seeded Los An- x-Sunday, Sept. 13: Game 6 Associated Press geles Clippers in the Western Conference x-Tuesday, Sept. 15: Game 7 semifinals. Tuesday LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jamal Mur- “Before the series started, I felt it was going Celtics 102, Raptors 99 ray helped a heartbroken Donovan Mitchell to be an interesting series. But after 3-1 I off the floor for a handshake and hug, a show didn’t think it was going to be this interest- BOSTON — Brown 5-13 3-3 16, Tatum 8-17 14-14 34, Theis 1-5 0-0 3, Smart 6-13 of respect between players who had a memo- ing,” Jokic said. “So I’m glad that we won the 1-1 19, Walker 6-18 4-5 17, Ojeleye 0-3 0-0 rable battle in the bubble. 0, Williams 1-2 0-0 2, Williams III 5-5 1-2 game and I’m glad that we won the series.” 11, Wanamaker 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-76 23- They traded historic offensive fireworks for Mitchell scored 22 points and Rudy Gobert 25 102. six games, before Game 7 turned into an old- TORONTO — Anunoby 7-12 2-3 20, finished with 19 points and 18 rebounds after Siakam 6-16 4-4 17, Gasol 2-4 2-2 6, Lowry fashioned defensive struggle. a huge second half for the Jazz. 5-16 6-8 16, VanVleet 8-22 0-0 19, Boucher “It was a great battle. I don’t know what else 0-1 0-0 0, Ibaka 7-12 0-0 17, Davis 0-2 0-0 0, Murray shot only 7-for-21, far off his per- Powell 1-5 2-2 4. Totals 36-90 16-19 99. to say. I’m speechless,” Murray said. formances of the past three games. So the Boston 28 22 20 32—102 Toronto 28 20 30 21— 99 The ending left everyone out of words. Nuggets turned more to Jokic, their All-Star Three-Point Goals—Boston 15-38 Nikola Jokic made the tiebreaking basket center who tossed in a short hook shot in the (Smart 6-11, Tatum 4-7, Brown 3-8, Walker 1-8, Ojeleye 0-3), Toronto 11-40 (Anunoby with 27 seconds left and the Denver Nuggets lane after Utah had tied it at 78. 4-6, Ibaka 3-5, VanVleet 3-12, Siakam 1-4, advanced to the second round of the playoffs, “That’s when you need Nikola to step up,” Gasol 0-2, Powell 0-2, Lowry 0-7). Fouled Out—Boston None, Toronto 1 (Gasol). beating the Utah Jazz 80-78 on Tuesday night Malone said. Rebounds—Boston 44 (Theis 9), Toronto when Mike Conley’s three-pointer spun out at Murray and Mitchell became the first pair 41 (Ibaka 9). Assists—Boston 18 (Tatum 6), Toronto 25 (Lowry, VanVleet 7). Total the buzzer. of players to have two 50-point games in the Fouls—Boston 20, Toronto 19. The Nuggets became the 12th team in NBA same series, but the men in the middle were MARK J. TERRILL/AP Nuggets 80, Jazz 78 history to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a se- the biggest factors in this one. ries, but only after they blew a 19-point lead UTAH — Ingles 3-10 0-0 7, O’Neale 2-6 The Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell, front, and After a quiet first half in which Mitchell was 0-0 5, Gobert 8-13 3-4 19, Conley 2-13 3-4 in this game. the Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray greet all the Jazz had going, Gobert began dominat- 8, Mitchell 9-22 2-2 22, Morgan 0-2 1-4 1, “A lot of teams would have just given in, es- Niang 2-4 0-0 6, Clarkson 4-9 1-1 10. Totals each other after the Nuggets edged the Jazz ing the paint, keeping possessions alive on of- 30-79 10-15 78. pecially when you consider we’ve been here 80-78 Tuesday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., to fense and stopping Denver drives on defense. DENVER — Grant 1-5 0-0 3, Millsap 1-1 0-0 2, Jokic 12-23 4-4 30, Morris 3-8 0-0 7, 57 days away from our families,” Denver win their series after being down 3-1. But the Nuggets prevailed in their third Murray 7-21 2-2 17, Craig 3-9 0-0 7, Porter coach Michael Malone said. Game 7 in the last two years, having defeated Jr. 3-7 3-5 10, Plumlee 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 1-9 1-2 4. Totals 31-83 10-13 80. After Jokic’s basket, the Jazz got the ball “We fought hard and came back. I’d go to San Antonio in the first round last year before Utah 21 15 24 18—78 to Mitchell following a timeout. The Nuggets getting knocked out by Portland. They played Denver 26 24 15 15—80 war with any one of these guys in the locker Three-Point Goals—Utah 8-34 (Niang stole it from him and raced down for a fast room, any one of these coaches. We could’ve three more do-or-die games in the bubble to 2-4, Mitchell 2-8, O’Neale 1-4, Clarkson break, but Torrey Craig missed the layup. extend their stay. 1-5, Ingles 1-5, Conley 1-6, Morgan 0-2), easy chalked it up in the first half. We have Denver 8-31 (Jokic 2-5, Grant 1-3, Por- Utah rebounded and pushed the ball up the Denver controlled the first half and had a ter Jr. 1-3, Morris 1-4, Craig 1-5, Harris floor to Conley, whose jumper looked good all grit and fight. That’s all you can really ask 19-point lead a minute into the third quarter. 1-5, Murray 1-6). Fouled Out—None. Re- bounds—Utah 48 (Gobert 18), Denver 46 the way until it fell out. for.” Mitchell then scored nine straight points be- (Jokic 14). Assists—Utah 16 (Conley 7), “It looked good, man. Sometimes, it’s just Jokic had 30 points and 14 rebounds and Denver 21 (Morris 5). Total Fouls—Utah fore Conley hit a three-pointer that cut it to 14, Denver 18. the way it works,” Mitchell said. Murray scored 17 points. No. 3 seed Denver 55-48. S TARS AND STRIPES Thursday, September 3, 2020 F3HIJKLM Comeback complete Nuggets rally from 3-1 series defi cit SPORTS to eliminate Jazz » NBA playoffs, Page 23

NFL Home-field advantage?

Two Jaguars fans are surrounded by empty seats prior to a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Dec. 1 in Jacksonville, Fla. The Jaguars will play in front of a limited number of fans this year because of the pandemic, which may closely resemble past seasons.

SAM GREENWOOD, GETTY IMAGES/TNS Roar of crowd, full stadiums aren’t an option this season

BY MARK LONG “One of the unfortunate advantages of Associated Press being in a smaller market like Jacksonville is we have to get a little more creative in JACKSONVILLE, Fla. terms of how we create that home-field ad- he jokes write themselves: The vantage,” Jaguars President Mark Lamp- Jacksonville Jaguars are going ing said. “We’d have to do that if it’s normal to play home games in front of capacity or not.” a significantly reduced number Twenty-one of the NFL’s 32 teams have Tof fans this season. ruled out spectators for the start of the sea- “How’s that different than any other son, with Buffalo, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, year?” Minnesota and San Francisco the latest Don’t laugh. The Jaguars — along with to announce plans Tuesday. At least eight Atlanta, Cincinnati, Miami, Tampa Bay are preparing to host a limited number of and others — might be better equipped to fans. handle the NFL’s drastic change in home- The bottom line: home-field advantages town support. They’ve dealt with it for created by generations of fandom — most years. notably and noticeable in Green Bay, Kan- Videoboard enhancements? Player-gen- sas City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pitts- erated content? On-field celebrations rec- BRIEN AHO/AP burgh and Seattle — could be momentarily ognizing community heroes and military wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson acknowledges fans prior to a game against the veterans? Some NFL teams have been Cleveland Browns on Sept. 29 in Baltimore. Whether teams allow a limited number of Teams are adjusting. doing those and more for decades to help fans to attend games this year depends on state and local guidelines, not the league. offset fewer butts in seats. SEE CROWD ON PAGE 18 So far, 21 teams have ruled out spectators, while eight are allowing a limited number.

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