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must end’ BY COREY DICKSTEIN Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — Looking to Trump’s new defense secretary solve the costly training injuries that have long-plagued its soldiers, signals troop drawdown ahead the Army is set to test technology popular with major sports programs BY TARA COPP AND MICHAEL WILNER to help the service build individual- McClatchy Washington Bureau ized approaches to its troops’ fitness workouts. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s The technology, force plates outfit- new defense secretary signaled to the military in ted with machine learning software, a late Friday message that he could be there to will be tested during the coming carry out one of the president’s early campaign months as part of a health and fit- promises — an overseas drawdown of forces in ness pilot program the Army is run- Iraq and Afghanistan. ning with new officers training at Fort Sill, Okla., service officials said. “This is the critical phase in which we transition The Army hopes the technology will our efforts from a leadership to supporting role,” fit into its new Holistic Health and acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said Fitness — or H2F — program that in a memo obtained by McClatchy. “We are not a it rolled out last month in an effort people of perpetual war — it is the antithesis of partially aimed at reducing the trove everything for which we stand and for which our of some 58,000 soldiers considered ancestors fought. All wars must end.” nondeployable, most often for train- ing-related injuries. Trump in a tweet Monday announced Miller Soldiers will conduct a series of as the replacement for fired Defense Secretary movements on top of the force plates Mark Esper. — 30-pound rectangular metal pan- In the memo to the Defense Department work- els that look like oversized bathroom force, Miller described at length the respect he scales — from which the software has for the institution and the sacrifices made by can predict specific injury vulner- thousands of men and women who have deployed abilities and help fitness experts to the Middle East since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. tailor training programs to reduce those risks, said Dr. Phil Wagner, He said, “ending wars requires compromise and the founder and CEO of Sparta Sci- partnership. We met the challenge; we gave it our ence, the company supplying the all. Now, it’s time to come home.” technology for the Fort Sill pilot. The It was the first indication of what direction the key factor is the massive accumula- Pentagon might take during Trump’s final weeks tion of data the Silicon Valley, Calif., in office, the uncertainty of which has raised company has collected from more concerns among career defense officials and the than 2 million scans via its force incoming Biden administration about what the plates, Wagner said. “The system gets better with more changes mean — whether he is rewarding loyal- data that comes in — the insights be- ists or trying to force through policies the depart- come more accurate and more spe- ment has resisted over the last four years. cific,” he said.

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Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller walks down the steps at the Pentagon during a ceremony welcoming Lithuanian Minister of 58,000 National Defence Raimundas Karoblis on Friday.

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BY COREY DICKSTEIN its range of air defense capabili- of the soldiers in the two new bat- earlier this year that Iron Dome missiles and even some aircraft, Stars and Stripes ties, the Army announced in a teries should arrive at Fort Bliss was already a “very capable and including helicopters and drones statement. by Monday. proven” anti-missile weapon, but at short ranges, according to WASHINGTON — The Army Iron Dome, built by Israeli de- Those soldiers will help Army he told lawmakers that it was not Rafael. Iron Dome’s interceptor on Friday activated two new air fense company Rafael Advanced Futures Command determine certain it could easily plug into missiles are built by U.S. defense defense artillery batteries at Fort Defense Systems, is designed to whether Iron Dome fits into the the Integrated Air and Missile contractor Raytheon. Bliss, Texas, charged with evalu- shoot down short-range projec- service’s plans for modernizing Defense platform. The Army said Friday that ating the two Iron Dome missile tiles launched within about 40 its approach to protection from Iron Dome’s manufacturer, it will conduct enough testing defense systems that the United miles and has proven a critical airborne threats. That approach is Rafael, touts the system as the to prepare Iron Dome to be de- States recently purchased from piece in Israel’s homeland de- built around a platform known as world’s most-used air defense ployed by late next year. At that Israel. fense system since it was first de- Army Integrated Air and Missile platform. The company claims point, the service will determine The units will spend several ployed in 2011. Defense, which aims to link all of Iron Dome has conducted more what role Iron Dome will have in months testing Iron Dome at The 2019 National Defense Au- its air defense interceptors to sen- than 2,500 intercepts of real- the Army’s future air and missile White Sands Missile Range, thorization Act requires the Pen- sors across a given battle space to world threats with a more than defense portfolio, according to N.M., near Fort Bliss to help the tagon to purchase the two Iron detect, track and destroy a threat, 90% success rate. the statement. Army determine whether the Dome batteries and begin testing Army officials have said. It can target rockets, mortars, [email protected] system should be integrated into them this year. The Army said all Gen. John “Mike” Murray said artillery shells, short-range cruise Twitter: @CDicksteinDC Sports: Data collected can predict risk of injury throughout entire bodies

FROM FRONT PAGE training programs, including “And then the machine learn- Recruit Training and Officer ing is able to identify patterns in Candidate School, “in a limited individuals through comparison fashion in order to assess” its use- with others. It can say you just did fulness, said Marine Capt. Sam your balance [assessment on the Stephenson, a spokesman for the force plate] and it’s immediately command. comparing against all these data The technology has also cap- points it already has, and it can tured the attention of some tell you, ‘You need to do X and Y lawmakers. The House-passed to address this issue you have.’ ” version of the 2021 National De- The methods have been suc- fense Authorization Act, which cessful with athletes, according sets annual policy and spending to Wagner. priorities for the Pentagon, would Sparta’s client list includes mandate the Defense Depart- teams in Major League Baseball, ment study force plate machine the National Football League learning’s applications for troops. and the National Basketball As- If the language is adopted in the sociation and major Division I final version of the NDAA, which collegiate programs, including must still be reconciled with the Clemson University, the defend- Senate version, it would require ing college football champion. the defense secretary to submit a For the past four years, Sparta report on the technology to Con- has also worked with the NFL, gress by September. collecting data during its annual “These technologies could pro- pre-draft scouting combine to vide accurate, actionable insights Sparta Science help teams assess the health of regarding the physical condition Marines at the School of Infantry at Camp Pendleton, Calif., use Sparta Science’s force plate system. potential draft picks. of each service member and cus- That is essentially what the tomized fitness programs for each Army wants to do. The thought is, service member to help minimize scan their athletes at least once a pany and its force plates before on we track them in basic train- if it can assess a service member’s injuries during combat, thereby week to document progress in leaving the Army but only be- ing and then as they progress.” vulnerability to injury — espe- increasing the medical readi- their training to prevent injury or came intimately familiar with the He said he believes if the tech- cially in key areas that commonly ness and the military lifecycle assess an injured person’s reha- technology after retiring. He said nology existed some three de- break down in the military such of service members,” the House bilitation progress, Wagner said. he believes it could help soldiers cades ago when he entered the as knees, ankles and backs — it version of the 2021 NDAA reads. His hope is the Army and other prolong their careers, if they so Army it could have helped the can avoid some of those nagging “The [House Armed Services] military services consider a simi- choose, or at least live more com- Army shape its approach to phys- musculoskeletal problems that Committee notes that there have lar approach. fortably with less physical issues ical training and save him from at keep troops sidelined and cost the been some elements of the mili- Retired Army Maj. Gen. Mal- after serving. least some of the nine surgeries Army an estimated $575 million tary services that have previously colm Frost envisions the Army Frost said he believes the force that he has undergone after years to treat each year. used this technology to increase adopting the use of the force plates could be integrated direct- of the strains from serving in the The technology is not new to readiness, decrease injuries and plates throughout all of its forma- ly into the Army’s H2F program, infantry. the military. Sparta has worked avoid a significant amount of ex- tions as low as the company level aiding the Army’s new teams of “We have been, for me for 30 with U.S. Special Operations penses related to unnecessary as part of its new H2F program, health and fitness experts being years [in the Army], doing physi- Command since at least 2016, and injuries.” which he helped craft before re- added to all of its brigades. More cal fitness the wrong way and it has recently begun other pilot For soldiers, the process is sim- tiring last year as the commander important would be ensuring new training my body the wrong way programs, including with the Ma- ple, Wagner said. of the Army’s Center for Initial soldiers coming into the service for the tasks that I needed to do rine Corps’ Training and Edu- A person performs a series of Military Training. begin receiving scans as early as an infantryman,” Frost said. cation Command. The Marines movements on the force plate, in- The Fort Eustis, Va.-based as possible, perhaps even at the “I’ve had back injuries and shoul- agreed to a five-year contract cluding balancing on each foot, a CIMT is the service’s lead for Military Entrance Processing der injuries and leg injuries that with Sparta this year to purchase series of jumps, and planks. Scans health and fitness matters and, Stations from where recruits ship has affected me for life in my an indefinite number of the force take less than five minutes to col- among other things, led the way to basic training, he said. readiness. And had I been con- plate systems for approximately lect the data, which can predict a in the creation of the new Army “This needs to be done through- ducting fitness the right way up $64,000 each, according to con- person’s injury risk throughout Combat Fitness Test. out the lifespan of a soldier,” Frost front than I would have been at a tract documents. their entire body, Wagner said. Frost, who now works as a stra- said. “Every single recruit should much, much better place.” The Corps’ is already using Athletic programs that have tegic adviser for Sparta Science, have to go through this and we can [email protected] the technology in initial entrance adopted Sparta’s technology often said he was aware of the com- start to set a baseline and going Twitter: CDicksteinDC PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 MILITARY DOD identifies 5 Americans killed in Egypt crash

BY CHAD GARLAND friends and loved ones of our fall- The four ghanistan and Iraq, U.S. Army further in- Stars and Stripes en during this most difficult time. others killed Central said. Along with a Com- formation They should know that their na- were part of bat Action Badge, and several to provide An Army doctor on his first tion will continue to honor their the aviation other awards and decorations, he about the overseas assignment and three sacrifice.” company, had earned an Air Medal and an status of veterans of the Afghanistan War The U.S. Army task force of which the Army Commendation Medal. the wound- were among the five Ameri- about 450 active duty, reserve MFO web- The youngest of the crew ed soldier, cans killed in a helicopter crash and National Guard troops is the site says con- members, Sherman was a crew spokesman in Egypt, the Pentagon said largest contingent of the Multina- sists of eight chief who enlisted in 2015 and Capt. Paul Saturday. tional Force and Observers. The Black Hawk arrived in Egypt last month. He O’Daniel A total of seven international peacekeeping mission is made helicopters had served in South Korea and said in a peacekeepers, including a French up of about 1,150 troops from 13 and a C-12 Garza Afghanistan previously, and his phone call Sherman air force officer and a Czech sol- countries and since 1981 has mon- Huron plane awards and decorations included Saturday. dier, were killed when the UH-60 itored com- for reconnaissance, transport, an Army The U.S. service member had Black Hawk they were traveling pliance with resupply, medical evacuation and Commenda- been reported to be in critical in crashed near the Red Sea re- the Israeli- other missions. tion Medal condition earlier in the week. sort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Egyptian Garza, a Black Hawk pilot, en- and an Army The cause of the crash remains Thursday. peace accord listed in the Army in 2005 and Achieve- under investigation, but MFO has One survivor, an American signed in commissioned in 2010. He arrived ment Medal. said it appears to have been a me- service member serving with the 1979. in Egypt in January, but had pre- “I join all chanical failure. Multinational Force and Observ- Its Egypt viously served on overseas tours Americans “These type of tragedies are ers mission, had been wounded headquar- in Iraq and Afghanistan. His in honoring felt through our entire nation,” and was medically evacuated. ters and lo- awards and decorations include their sac- Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy A Pentagon statement identi- gistical hub, the Meritorious Service Medal, rifice, as I said Friday. fied the five dead Americans as South Camp, an Air Medal with two oak leaf keep their Next month, Fort Campbell, Vandekamp the following: is located clusters, an Army Commendation loved ones in McKee Ky., will mark the 35th anniver- Capt. Seth Vernon on a bluff near Sharm el-Sheikh, Medal with two oak leaf clusters my prayers,” sary of an even deadlier aviation Vandekamp, 31, of Katy, Texas; overlooking the sea. and a Joint President-elect Joe Biden said tragedy that struck the U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dal- U.S. troops also operate remote Meritori- Thursday. contingent of the MFO in its early las Gearld Garza, 34, of Fayette- sites and conduct patrols in the ous Service The French air and space force years. ville, N.C.; region, the MFO website says, Medal. previously identified Lt. Col. Se- Some 248 members of the 101st Chief Warrant Officer 2 and an Army support element Ghabour, bastien Botta, a 21-year-veteran Airborne Division’s 3rd Battal- Marwan Sameh Ghabour, 27, provides aviation, logistics, medi- also a Black and deputy head of the liaison ion, 502nd Infantry Regiment re- from Marlborough, Mass.; cal and explosive ordnance dis- Hawk pilot, office of the MFO, as one of the turning from a deployment to the Staff Sgt. Kyle Robert posal personnel. commis- other service members killed in peacekeeping mission were killed McKee, 35, of Painesville, Ohio; Vandekamp, an Army doctor, sioned as the crash. along with eight crew members of and was assigned to the Task Force a warrant Czech army Sgt. Michaela the Arrow Air DC-8 jetliner they Sgt. Jeremy Cain Sherman, Sinai medical company. A 2017 officer two Ticha was also killed in the crash, were traveling in when it crashed 23, from Watseka, Ill. graduate of A.T. Still University years ago the Czech chief of the general staff shortly after taking off from a “It is with profound sadness Medical School in Missouri, he and arrived Ghabour said in a statement Thursday. refueling stop in Gander, New- that we mourn this tragic loss of joined the Army that year and in Egypt in January. It was his “We lost one of us,” Czech Gen. foundland, Canada on Dec. 12, life,” Col. David S. Sentell, com- arrived in Egypt last month on first overseas assignment. Ales Opata said. “I’m so sorry 1985. It was among the deadliest mander of Task Force Sinai, said his first overseas assignment, A helicopter repairer who en- ... Sincere condolences to the incidents for the storied division. in a statement. “Our thoughts and U.S. Army Central said in a listed in the Army in 2003, McKee family.” [email protected] prayers are with the families, statement. had served in South Korea, Af- U.S. Army Central had no Twitter: @chadgarland Drawdown: Staffers unsure about reason for last minute replacements

FROM FRONT PAGE “They aren’t letting us talk withdrawal from Afghanistan forces from Afghanistan or Ger- Top Biden transition officials about transition,” another cur- and Syria and the use of military many, where the U.S. military said that post-election upheav- rent defense official said. force to quell protests. has thousands of troops based, is al at the Defense Department, A White House spokesperson Each pushback has come at a much more likely to be the reason Trump’s firing of Esper and the did not respond to a request for cost. for the recent changes, Punaro resignations of top defense policy comment on the changes. Now-retired Air Force Gen. said. and intelligence chiefs that fol- “It’s helpful to decapitate the David Goldfein’s public resis- “There are certain things the lowed, amount to a final push to senior civilian leadership at the tance to creating a Space Force, president can do without the Con- politicize the military. Pentagon in preparation of some over cost and bureaucracy con- gress. One is to deploy troops; two The firings and resignations aggressive use of the military to cerns, is widely believed to be he can bring troops home,” Pun- come amid Trump’s refusal to MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP bolster the president’s claims that one of the reasons Trump did not aro said. “Troop levels in various acknowledge his electoral defeat he has won this election,” said select him to be Chairman of the locations is the most logical thing and authorize the federal gov- Acting Secretary of Defense one former defense official who Joint Chiefs of Staff. he could change with most recent ernment to begin preparing for a Christopher Miller speaks during has stayed close to the Pentagon’s Former Defense Secretary changes in personnel.” transition of power to President- a meeting with the Lithuanian current uniformed senior leader- James Mattis irked Trump by Punaro, like the former defense elect Joe Biden. The defense of- Minister of National Defence at ship. “That is probably the most convincing him not to withdraw official, also said it was more ficials and Biden’s team said that the Pentagon on Friday. worrisome, most extreme reason troops from Afghanistan in 2017, likely some of these last-minute gap could increase security risks they could be making these deci- and ultimately resigned over replacements were about reward- for the country. who wondered if there are major sions,” the official said. Trump’s announcement that U.S. ing staff that have remained in “In the 9-11 Commission re- policy changes — such as a rapid “Then the other extreme forces in Syria would depart in Trump’s favor. port, one of the things they talked withdrawal from Afghanistan or — which is also possible, in fact late 2018. “It really depends on the billet about was the impact of the delay new counterterrorism action in some people think it’s the most Esper fell out of favor with or the person,” Punaro said. “Al- of the transition period on our the Middle East or the Sahel, or likely, which is that this is just Trump when he pushed back on lowing people a chance to have a national security,” Jen Psaki, a even a potential use of military about score settling,” the official the use of active-duty forces to significant position, for example spokeswoman for the Biden tran- forces on U.S. soil to contest the said. “Once you got rid of Esper counter nationwide protests fol- they are bringing in some people sition team, told reporters on a election results — on the horizon the decks were cleared to get rid lowing the death of George Floyd in the chief management officer’s call Friday. before the president departs. of these other people that didn’t in Minneapolis police custody. office, a new deputy chief man- “Of course it’s of concern to “I don’t know what the end pass the loyalty test, and replace “I don’t see what the legal agement officer.” see the upheaval. It should be game is,” said one current defense them with people that could use order would be for the military “There’s some other people of concern to anybody because official who worked with policy the experience over the next 70 to get involved in something that coming in,” Punaro said. “These there shouldn’t be a politicization staff members at the Office of days to pad their résumé.” had to do with the elections,” said aren’t related to bring(ing) the of the military,” said Psaki, who the Secretary of Defense during In the past four years, the retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. troops home from Afghanistan or previously served in the Obama Trump’s time in office. “For me Pentagon has pushed back on Arnold Punaro, who has assisted (to) settle scores. These are really administration. that’s probably the most difficult decisions that senior military new administrations with Sen- positions that have been vacant The firing and quick replace- thing to try and figure out. The leaders hoped they could counsel ate confirmations since the late where they are giving people op- ment of Esper had worried long- instability and uncertainty com- the president to amend, such as 1990s. portunities to serve perhaps only time defense civilian staffers, plicates things.” the creation of the Space Force, Withdrawal of U.S. military 70 days.” Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 VIRUS OUTBREAK Fort Bliss imposes more safety measures

BY ROSE L. THAYER indiscipline of mask wear,” Ber- Stars and Stripes nabe said. Command Sgt. Maj. Michael AUSTIN, Texas — Fort Bliss Williams, the senior noncommis- commanders increased safety sioned officer of the 1st Armored measures at the base this week Division and Fort Bliss, said early to prevent further spread of the morning formations and physical coronavirus as the base hospital fitness training will continue be- prepares a 16-bed mobile inten- sive care unit to treat the growing cause both help with accountabil- number of patients within the El ity and readiness. Paso community. “Without maintaining proper “Without getting into details, accountability of our soldiers, we I can say active cases continue can’t properly take care of every- to rise on Fort Bliss,” Maj. Gen. one and make sure everyone is all Sean Bernabe, commander of the right. We’ll look our soldiers in 1st Armored Division and Fort the eye like leaders are supposed Bliss, said Tuesday night during to and make sure they are hold- an online town hall meeting to ad- ing up all right. We’ll talk to them dress concerns and explain new about their families and how their safety measures. children are doing,” he said. “The good news is I looked at Physical training will occur at the numbers this week, and while the squad level, no more than 10 active cases are on the rise still soldiers together, and they are on Fort Bliss, the rate of rise is told not to run in formation, Wil- not as steep as it was a week ago,” liams said. he said. “If we continue to double None of the changes will impact down on the basics, the wearing training, Bernabe said. of masks, the physical distancing, “We have a responsibility to the sanitization and hygiene, we continue to main our readiness,” might very well see the steepness he said. “We’ve done a very good of curve continue to lessen.” The William Beaumont job with keeping infection down In an order issued Thursday, Army Medical Center when it comes to training.” new safety measures include sol- and the El Paso diers wearing masks while riding Veterans Affairs Last week, Bernabe declared a in vehicles with people outside Healthcare System, public health emergency on base, of their immediate family and which are located in which increased capabilities of increasing the distance between the same facility at William Beaumont medical cen- soldiers during morning physi- Fort Bliss, Texas, have ter. Those new capabilities create cal training from 6 feet to 10. But partnered together flexibility in guidelines to ramp morning physical training will to open a VA-owned up care for more patients. continue. mobile intensive care “We’ve moved into the adjacent Last month, El Paso, the city unit. VA facility to expand critical care outside the gates of Fort Bliss, PHOTOS BY VINCENT BYRD beds into space normally oper- began to see a dramatic increase William Beaumont Army ated by the VA,” Col. Michael S. Medical Center in the number of coronavirus Oshiki, commander of William cases. Positive cases peaked Sat- Beaumont Army Medical Center, urday in the city, reaching 2,601 is partnering with the El Paso VA art environment, while allowing Overall, there have been 96,646 said during the town hall. new cases in a single day. Cases Healthcare System to expand its the William Beaumont Army cases of coronavirus reported The emergency declaration had been declining since then, capacity to treat patients eligible Medical Center to free up bed among service members, depen- also allows the hospital to adjust but rose Friday with 1,488 new for care through the Defense De- space,” said Dr. Paul Kim, execu- dents and civilian employees and its patient-to-provider ratio to ex- cases reported, which is higher partment or Department of Vet- tive director of the VA Office of contractors, according to Penta- pand the number of patients it can than the seven-day new case av- erans Affairs. Since October, the Emergency Management. gon information released Friday. serve, he said. However, it also erage of 1,405. base hospital has taken in several More than 40,000 veterans in Of those, 112 deaths have been lets the hospital accept volunteers dozen eligible patients. the El Paso area qualify to re- reported. Fort Bliss officials have de- to work in the facility with expe- clined to reveal the number of A VA-owned mobile intensive ceive services at William Beau- Bernabe said the new safety dited privileges. virus cases on base, only saying care unit arrived Monday from mont medical center, according measures update an Oct. 26 memo “We can bring volunteers from cases have increased in part be- Florida and could be operational to the El Paso VA. regarding coronavirus protocols. cause the base’s 25,000 soldiers as early as next week, according The Defense Department He said the new measures are a outside of the El Paso area, and are intertwined with the com- to a news release from the El Paso doesn’t release coronavirus data result of contact tracing at Fort get them on the front lines to take munity. Fort Bliss and El Paso VA, which has its main facility co- on specific locations, though it Bliss that shows the increased care of patients,” Oshiki said. began implementing a series of located within the Army medical has seen reported cases rise by cases stem from three main ways The hospital did not respond to measures last month to curb the center on base. more than 3,200 each week for that the virus is spreading: com- questions about how much they’ve spread, including a 10 p.m. curfew “VA’s mobile ICU hospital of- the past three weeks. In the pre- munity interaction, household been able to expand capacity or and limits on social gatherings. fers unique capabilities and af- vious three weeks, the weekly spread and workplace clusters. services through these changes. Now, Fort Bliss’s William fords veterans the same high number of new cases remained “Contact tracing indicates [email protected] Beaumont Army Medical Center standard of care in a state-of-the- below 2,200. [workplace spread] ties back to Twitter: @Rose_Lori CDC: Wearing a mask could keep you from catching virus

Associated Press ing that a wearer gets some protection. work best when worn by an infected person second person was largest — close to 70%. The agency’s guidance didn’t change. who might spread it by coughing, sneezing The study didn’t perfectly mimic most NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are It continues to advise Americans to wear or talking. real-world situations. For example, the taking a new tack to encourage Americans masks to stop the virus from spreading. Masks block about 60% of the amount of heads were closer together than six feet, to wear masks: They’re emphasizing re- “But now we’re saying here’s another virus that comes out of an infected person, and the exhaling mannequin head was cent research that a mask protects the per- reason” to do it, said Dr. John Brooks, chief the study found. doing more of a constant cough than regu- son who wears it. medical officer for the CDC’s COVID-19 But the researchers also found there was lar breathing. Previously, the Centers for Disease Con- emergency response. benefit when an uninfected person wear- But Brooks said the value of everyone trol and Prevention advised people to wear Agency officials were influenced by a re- ing a mask was unlucky enough to be near wearing masks is suggested by several masks because of evidence that it stops cent study led by Japanese researchers who an infected person who wasn’t wearing other studies of real-world situations — in- people who are infected with coronavirus used mannequin heads and artificial res- one. In that scenario, the amount of virus cluding one of customers in a Missouri hair — whether they know it or not — from pirators to simulate the spread of corona- the uninfected person inhaled fell by 37% salon, another on a U.S. aircraft carrier, spreading it to others. virus particles through the air, and assess — to 50% — if they wore a mask. and several others that tracked infections But this week the CDC posted a new sci- how well masks blocked transmission. When both people were wearing masks, and deaths in places that adopted mask entific brief discussing recent studies find- It confirmed earlier research that masks the decline in virus particles reaching the mandates. PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP New Mexico, Oregon governors impose new near-lockdowns Associated Press “I think that governors and mayors are, again, in a really PROVIDENCE— The gover- tough spot. The American popu- nors of Oregon and New Mexico lation is emotionally and econom- ordered near-lockdowns Friday ically exhausted,” said Dr. Megan in the most aggressive response Ranney, an emergency physician yet to the latest wave of coronavi- and professor at Brown Univer- rus infections shattering records sity in Providence, R.I. across the U.S., even as many of their counterparts in other states President Donald Trump asked show little appetite for reimpos- all Americans to remain “vigi- ing the hard-line restrictions of lant” but ruled out a nationwide last spring. “lockdown.” “We are in a life-or-death situa- “Hopefully, whatever happens tion, and if we don’t act right now, in the future, who knows which we cannot preserve the lives, we administration it will be, I guess can’t keep saving lives, and we time will tell, but I can tell you will absolutely crush our cur- this administration will not go to /AP rent health care system and in- a lockdown,” Trump said in his DAMIAN DOVARGANES first public remarks since his de- frastructure,” Democratic Gov. Evan Williams transports his pet cats, Oreo and Sherlock, as he arrives at Los Angeles International feat by President-elect Joe Biden. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Airport in Los Angeles from Hong Kong Friday. The governors of California, Oregon and Washington Governors in many states, such Mexico said in imposing a two- issued travel advisories Friday urging people entering their states or returning from outside the states to as New York, Maryland, Virginia week stay-at-home order. self-quarantine to slow the spread of the coronavirus, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown or- and Minnesota, have taken large- ly incremental measures over the dered a two-week “freeze” start- havior and not joined the dinner,” been in close contact with Siso- The Republican governor’s past few days, such as limiting ing Wednesday, under which all he said in a statement. lak but had tested positive for the executive order comes after in- the size of gatherings, making businesses will be required to The dinner, first reported Fri- virus. creased pressure from doctors, businesses close early, restrict- close their offices to the public day by the San Francisco Chron- The governor said he tested nurses and other health care ing capacity or cutting off alcohol and mandate work-from-home icle, included 12 people sitting negative for the virus on Nov. 2 professionals to require face cov- sales earlier in the evening. “to the greatest extent possible.” outside at the famed restaurant and 6. He has limited his appear- erings. The directive goes into Some economists say the cri- While most Oregon stores will in Napa County. It was in celebra- ances as the virus has surged. effect Saturday and will last until remain open, gyms, museums, sis has been falsely portrayed as tion of the 50th birthday of Jason Apart from his residence and the Dec. 13. pools, movie theaters and zoos a choice between the economy Kinney, a Newsom friend and Capitol, he only appeared in pub- Burgum said in a statement will be forced to close, and res- and public health. Instead, they political adviser. Newsom’s wife lic twice this week — at a press that doctors and nurses “need our taurants and bars will be limited argue that the economy cannot also attended. conference Tuesday in Carson help, and they need it now.” to takeout. Social gatherings will recover until the virus is brought According to the Chronicle, City and at the opening of a De- Burgum for months had avoid- be restricted to six people. under control and people are con- representatives for Kinney and partment of Motor Vehicles Of- ed statewide mandates regarding The Democratic governor fident enough to go shopping, eat Newsom declined to specify how fice in Reno on Monday . At both mask-wearing and business occu- warned that violators could face at restaurants and do other things many households the diners rep- events, attendees wore masks and pancies, instead stressing a per- fines or arrest. again. resented, but did not dispute that chairs were spread at least 6 feet sonal responsibility message. “For the last eight months, I Experts have argued, too, that it was more than three. apart. “Our situation has changed, and have been asking Oregonians to strict but relatively short lock- State guidelines limit gather- we must change with it,” Burgum follow to the letter and the spirit downs could ultimately result in ings, defined as “social situations New Mexico said in a video message posted at of the law, and we have not cho- less economic pain than the half- that bring together people from 10 p.m. Friday. sen to engage law enforcement,” measures employed now, which different households at the same SANTA FE— New Mexico is There were only nine staffed Brown said. “At this point in time, have only succeeded in dragging time in a single space or place,” putting on hold any new jury tri- intensive care beds and 160 unfortunately, we have no other out the crisis. to no more than three households. als and closing state motor vehi- staffed inpatient beds available in option.” Dr. Michael Fine, former di- It’s unclear if the rule applies to cle offices in response to surging the state on Friday. Both states had lockdowns earli- rector of Rhode Island’s Health restaurants, however, which fol- coronavirus infections across the er in the year, but the coronavirus Department, said the outbreak low different guidance. state. Texas is coming back with a vengeance requires more aggressive strate- The state Supreme Court on across the country, and the U.S. gies. Closing bars earlier in the Nevada Friday postponed the start of any AUSTIN — Texas on Friday is facing a long, dark winter. The evening, he said, “might have new civil and criminal jury trials surpassed 7,000 hospitalized pa- scourge is blamed for 10.7 million worked in July, but there’s not a CARSON CITY— Nevada Gov. until the end of the year. Excep- tients for the first time since early confirmed infections and almost chance they’ll work now. It’s like Steve Sisolak on Friday said he tions can be approved by the chief August, just days after becoming a quarter-million deaths in the taking an eyedropper to a forest has tested positive for COVID- justice. America’s first state to surpass U.S., with the closely watched fire.” 19 as the virus surges to record The state’s appellate, district, 1 million confirmed cases of the University of Washington model “Short of very profound lock- levels in the state and across the metropolitan and magistrate coronavirus. projecting nearly 439,000 dead downs, I don’t think we have a U.S. courts will remain open while fol- The Texas Department of State by March 1. chance of slowing the spread,” Sisolak said on a call with re- lowing guidelines to reduce risks Health Services said that there Deaths have climbed to about Fine said. porters he was not experiencing of virus transmission. were 7,083 people hospitalized in 1,000 a day on average. New cases any symptoms and was swabbed The Taxation and Revenue De- the state with COVID-19 as cases per day are soaring, reaching an- California for a rapid test on Friday morn- partment said it is closing down continue to rise. other all-time high on Thursday ing as a matter of routine. After field offices and its motor vehicle Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of more than 153,000. Hospitals SACRAMENTO — For months, it yielded a positive result, he division offices through Nov. 30. hasn’t indicated whether he will are getting swamped. Gov. Gavin Newsom has plead- also underwent molecular test- The state is offering a grace revert to tougher restrictions on Still, there is little will among ed with Californians to resist ing and his sample is still being period during the pandemic for businesses, instead emphasizing many governors and other elect- the temptation to socialize with processed. people to renew expired driver’s in recent days that new therapeu- ed officials for going back to the friends and relatives outside their “I’m a little tired, but I’ve been licenses and vehicle registrations, tics and vaccines are expected to kind of lockdowns and large- household. Turns out, he’s the one tired since March when we start- while expanding online services. become available soon. scale business closings seen last who couldn’t resist. ed fighting COVID,” Sisolak said. But others believe it is only spring. Some governors also con- Newsom acknowledged Fri- “I think this just puts a spotlight North Dakota a matter of time. In Houston, tinue to resist issuing statewide day he attended a birthday party on the fact that you can take all the county’s top elected official, mask rules. with a dozen friends on Nov. 6 at the precautions that are possible BISMARCK — North Dakota Judge Lina Hidalgo, criticized Among the reasons given: pub- the posh French Laundry restau- and you can still contract the Gov. Doug Burgum ordered a what she called a “vicious cycle lic fatigue, fear of doing more rant in wine country north of San virus. I don’t know how I got it, statewide mask mandate and im- of wishful thinking and unsus- damage to already-crippled Francisco. but we’re going to quarantine and posed several business restric- tainable reopenings.” businesses, lack of support from “While our family followed get through it.” tions late Friday in an effort to “We now know inevitably, Washington and the way efforts the restaurant’s health protocols Last week, the governor’s office contain the spread of the corona- another pullback is necessary, to tame the virus have become and took safety precautions, we announced an unnamed Carson virus that has stressed the state’s is going to be coming soon I’m fiercely politicized. should have modeled better be- City-based staffer who had not hospital capacity. sure,” Hidalgo said. Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 NATION Biden facing choice to back virus lockdown BY ALEXANDRA JAFFE deaths in the U.S., with the close- Associated Press ly watched University of Wash- ington model projecting nearly WASHINGTON — Joe Biden 439,000 dead by March 1. Deaths faces a decision unlike any other have climbed to about 1,000 a day incoming president: whether to on average. back a short-term national lock- JOHN BAZEMORE/AP Several states are beginning to down to finally arrest a raging bring back some of the restric- Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Sen. Kelly Loeffler gestures to supporters after speaking at a pandemic. tions first imposed during the campaign rally in Marietta, Ga., on Wednesday. For now, it’s a question the spring. But leaders in much of the president-elect would prefer to country are proceeding with cau- avoid. In the week since he de- tion, aware that Americans are feated President Donald Trump, already fatigued by virus-related RNC to spend at least $20 million Biden has devoted most of his disruptions. public remarks to encouraging Indeed, after Osterholm made Americans to wear a mask and his comments, a number of on Georgia’s Senate campaigns view the coronavirus as a threat Biden’s task force members went that has no regard for political out to publicly disavow lockdown BY ZEKE MILLER on the party’s massive ground in the Senate, and the RNC is mo- ideology. possibilities. Dr. Vivek Murthy, Associated Press game and data operation in the bilizing our grassroots army to But the debate has been livelier the former U.S. surgeon general among members of the corona- 2020 presidential race, which help keep them there.“ who’s serving as one of the co- WASHINGTON — Republi- virus advisory board Biden an- fought a large Democratic opera- Both candidates fell short of chairs on Biden’s coronavirus cans are flooding Georgia with nounced this week. One member, tion. The party said it organized the 50% threshold to win the advisory board, said the group is cash and field operatives as they Dr. Michael Osterholm, suggest- more than 2.6 million volunteers seats, and under state law the looking at a “series of restrictions look to keep Democrats from ed a four- to six-week lockdown and had more than 3,000 paid top two finishers will face off that we dial up or down” based on seizing control of the Senate with financial aid for Americans field staffers across key battle- head to head. The twin runoffs the severity of the virus in a given under President-elect Joe Biden’s whose livelihoods would be af- ground states. In Georgia alone, are expected to approach or even region. administration. fected. He later walked back his the RNC says it knocked on more exceed records spent on Senate “We’re not in a place where The Republican National Com- remarks and was rebutted by than 3 million doors, made more races, as the prospect of unified we’re saying shut the whole coun- mittee said Friday it is funding two other members of the panel than 8 million phone calls and Democratic control of Washing- try down. We’ve got to be more more than 600 staffers in the state who said a widespread lockdown registered at least 16,000 voters ton hangs in the balance. targeted,” Murthy said on ABC’s with an investment of at least $20 shouldn’t be under consideration. in the leadup to the presidential The Associated Press has not million ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs That’s a sign of the tough dy- “Good Morning America.” “If we election. called the presidential race in the for the seats held by GOP Sens. namic Biden will face when he don’t do that, what you’re going “Georgians are counting on Re- state, which is heading to a recount Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. is inaugurated in January. He to find is that people will become Democrats are eying victories for publicans to hold the line against with Biden holding a narrow lead campaigned as a more respon- even more fatigued. Schools won’t Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff the Democrats’ desire to raise over President Donald Trump. sible steward of America’s pub- be open to children and the econ- in the respective races to create taxes, pack the Supreme Court The RNC had already sent about lic health than President Donald omy will be hit harder, so we’ve a 50-50 tie in the chamber, which and give government control over 100 staffers to help with fixing Trump is and has been blunt got to follow science, but we’ve would be decided by Vice Presi- their health care,” RNC Chair small errors or omissions on vot- about the challenges that lie also got to be more precise.” dent-elect Kamala Harris. Ronna McDaniel said. “We need ers’ ballots, called “curing,” and ahead for the country, warning of Speaking on CNBC, Dr. Celine The GOP’s investment follows Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue assist with the recount. a “dark winter” as cases spike. Grounder, an infectious-disease But talk of lockdowns are espe- specialist at the NYU Grossman cially sensitive. For one, they’re School of Medicine and another nearly impossible for a president task force member, said that, Trump lauds COVID-19 vaccine progress to enact on his own, requiring bi- “as a group, really the consensus partisan support from state and is that we need a more nuanced approach.” Associated Press local officials. But more broadly, gressive action on the pandemic spread of the virus. “The crisis they’re a political flashpoint that “We can be much more target- or to coordinate with the Biden does not respect dates on the cal- WASHINGTON — Gliding could undermine Biden’s efforts ed geographically. We can also be team during the final two months endar, it is accelerating right now,” over significant challenges still to to unify a deeply divided country. more targeted in terms of what of his presidency will only worsen he said in a statement Friday. come, President Donald Trump “It would create a backlash,” we close,” she said. the effects of the virus and hinder During the campaign, Biden offered a rosy update on the race Trump said vaccines would said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior the nation’s ability to swiftly dis- pledged to make testing free and for a vaccine for the resurgent “arrive within a few weeks,” say- scholar at the Johns Hopkins Cen- tribute a vaccine next year. widely available; to hire thousands coronavirus as he delivered his ing they were ready and merely ter for Health Security who added As states impose new restric- of health workers to help imple- first public remarks since his awaiting approval — and would that such a move could make the tions in the face of rising casel- ment contact tracing programs; defeat by President-elect Joe be given “to high-risk individu- situation worse if people don’t oads, Trump asked all Americans and to instruct the Centers for Biden. He still did not concede als right away.” In fact, there’s no comply with restrictions. “Lock- to remain “vigilant.” But he ruled guarantee that Pfizer’s shot, the downs can have consequences Disease Control and Prevention the election. out a nationwide “lockdown” and front-runner, will get rapid autho- that diminish the value of such an to provide clear, expert-informed Trump spoke from the Rose appeared to acknowledge that rization for emergency use. Even approach.” guidelines to businesses, schools Garden Friday as the nation sets the decision won’t be his much if it does, there’s no information During his first public appear- and local officials on reopening in records for confirmed cases of longer. regions where they’ve closed. yet indicating if the vaccine works ance since losing the election, COVID-19, and as hospitaliza- “This administration will not But Biden himself fueled some in older adults or just younger, Trump noted on Friday that he tions near critical levels and fa- be going to a lockdown,” he said. wouldn’t support a lockdown. The of the confusion about his stance healthier adults. Nor does Pfizer talities climb to the highest levels “Hopefully whatever happens president, who has yet to public- on lockdowns during the cam- have a large commercial stock- since the spring. He said a vaccine in the future, who knows, which ly acknowledge Biden’s victory, paign. He initially told ABC he would ship in “a matter of weeks” administration it will be I guess pile already poised to ship; initial would likely reinforce that mes- would “listen to the scientists” if to vulnerable populations, though time will tell, but I can tell you batches of shots would be small sage to his loyal supporters once they advised him to shut down the the Food and Drug Administra- this administration will not go to and targeted to certain still-to- he’s left office. country, and then took a more nu- tion has not yet been asked to a lockdown.” be-determined populations. Still, the pandemic’s toll contin- anced position. grant the necessary emergency Biden, for his part, has not en- Trump took no questions Fri- ues to escalate. “There’s going to be no need, in approvals. dorsed a nationwide shutdown, day from reporters. He hasn’t The coronavirus is blamed for my view, to be able to shut down Public health experts worry but he appealed for Trump to answered questions since before 10.6 million confirmed infections the whole economy,” he said at a that Trump’s refusal to take ag- take “urgent action” to curtail the Election Day. and almost a quarter-million town hall in September. PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 NATION VMI announces an interim superintendent

Associated Press announced in a news release Friday. niscing in class about her father’s Ku A new, permanent superintendent is Wins will be the first Black leader to Klux Klan membership. expected to be in place during the LEXINGTON, Va. — The Virginia Military Institute has selected a re- serve in that role, a school spokes- Earlier this month, the General summer of 2021, according to Fri- tired U.S. Army major general to man said. Assembly approved adding $1 mil- day’s news release. serve as its interim superintendent The move comes after VMI’s for- lion to the state budget to pay for an Wins graduated from VMI in 1985 amid a leadership shakeup that fol- mer superintendent, retired Gen. independent investigation into the and was commissioned into the Army lowed a newspaper article describing J.H. Binford Peay III, resigned last allegations. as a field artillery officer, accord- allegations of persistent racism at the month under pressure from the gov- The VMI Board of Visitors has ing to a biography provided by the school. ernor’s office following the publica- appointed a superintendent search school. In his final command, Wins Cedric Wins will step in to lead the tion of a Washington Post article that committee and will work with an ex- was the first Commanding General military college until a permanent described incidents such as lynching ecutive search firm to identify candi- of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities superintendent is chosen, the school threats and a white professor remi- dates over the next several months. Development Command. Wins GOP gains 2nd Dem US House seat in California Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Republican Young Kim defeated U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros on Friday in a Southern California district, the second GOP candidate to snatch a Demo- cratic-held seat in the state this year. The contest in the 39th Congressional District anchored in Orange County was a rematch from 2018, when Cisneros was one of seven Democrats who claimed GOP- held California districts that year. Kim overcame President Donald Trump’s poor performance in heavily Democratic California, where he got only one-third of the votes. In a video, Kim thanked supporters and added, with the election over, “I hope we can unite and move forward to address the issues that our nation faces.” “As an immigrant … I know that the promise of America is alive,” she added.

Kim, a former state lawmaker, was born MARK J. TERRILL/AP in South Korea and grew up in Guam. She joins Washington state’s Marilyn Strick- Young Kim speaks to supporters in the Rowland Heights section of Los Angeles earlier this month. land and California’s Michelle Steel as the first Korean American women elected to left in me,“ he added. was leading by about 100 votes in a back- edge. The seat was vacated earlier this Congress. Republicans set out this year to reclaim and-forth fight with Democrat Christy year by Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter Strickland, a Democrat, last week won at least some of the seats lost two years Smith. after he pleaded guilty to a federal corrup- the open 10th Congressional District ago. Republicans also held the open 50th Dis- tion charge. southwest of Seattle. Steel, a Republican, They have recaptured two, with wins trict seat anchored in San Diego County, The wins by Kim and Steel mark a sur- claimed the 48th District in Orange Coun- by Steel and Kim, and are leading in two which former U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa will prising turnaround in a state where Dem- ty on Tuesday from Democratic Rep. Har- others: the Central Valley’s 21st District, represent after winning his comeback bid ocrats hold every statewide office, have ley Rouda. where Republican former Rep. David Va- two years after deciding not to seek reelec- commanding majorities in the Legislature In a statement, Cisneros congratulated ladao was ahead of Democratic Rep. TJ tion in a neighboring district that has be- and congressional delegation, and a nearly Kim and said he would take time to con- Cox, and the 25th District north of Los An- come more Democratic. The 50th District 2-to-1 advantage over Republicans in reg- sider his future. “I’ve still got a lot of fight geles, where Republican Rep. Mike Garcia has a nearly 10-point GOP registration istered voters. US top diplomat arrives in France on touchy 7-nation tour

Associated Press as its president and ”For the moment, my counterpart is of honor at a Bastille Day military parade. much of his Republi- Mike Pompeo, until Jan. 20.,” Le Drian Trump later pulled out of the Paris global PARIS — U.S. Secretary of State Mike can Party — have not said on BFMTV, referring to the date when climate accord, a blow to Macron. Pompeo arrived in Paris on Saturday at accepted the results Trump’s term ends. “He’s coming to Paris. After France, Pompeo’s tour takes him the start of a seven-country tour of Europe of the American elec- I receive him.” to Turkey, Georgia, Israel, the United Arab and the Middle East, a trip that is certain tion, and the unusual That meeting will take place Monday, Le Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The to be awkward since all the nations on his circumstances will Drian said, suggesting that Pompeo also leaders of all of those countries have of- schedule have congratulated Joe Biden for likely overshadow the will meet with French President Emman- fered public congratulations to Biden. his victory in the U.S. presidential race. issues. uel Macron. Beside France, Turkey, Georgia and The trip is aimed at shoring up the pri- French Foreign The French president, who spoke with Qatar have had fractious relationships orities of the outgoing administration of Minister Jean-Yves Biden four days ago to offer congratula- with the Trump administration, and it was President Donald Trump. It will include Le Drian noted on Pompeo tions, has had a tense relationship with not clear whether Pompeo planned pub- visits to Israeli settlements in the West Friday the “difficult Trump. lic engagements with their leaders — or Bank that have been avoided by previous subjects” on the table, from the situation in Both leaders initially worked to woo whether he would take questions from secretaries of state. Iraq and Iran, terrorism, the Middle East each other with gestures of extravagance, the press, with whom he has had a frosty The United States’ top diplomat — as well and China. such as Macron making Trump the guest relationship. Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 NATION SpaceX delayed; Musk gets mixed COVID-19 results BY MARCIA DUNN ing site even if later tests came up Associated Press negative. Norm Knight, a deputy man- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ager at NASA, said the guidelines — SpaceX delayed its second as- are rigid for restricting access to tronaut flight by a day because of astronauts before flight in order high wind and weather conditions to keep them safe and healthy. that could jeopardize the recov- “No one’s above this access. ery and recycling of the rocket It doesn’t matter if you’re Elon booster, pushing the launch to Musk or Jim Bridenstine,” Knight Sunday. said at a news conference Friday Friday’s postponement news night. “If you have not met those came after SpaceX chief Elon protocols, or if any of those pro- Musk disclosed he had gotten CHRIS O’MEARA/AP tocols have been compromised, mixed test results for COVID-19 then we’re not going to let you Photographers set up remote cameras near a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Crew Dragon and was awaiting the outcome of capsule attached, as she sits on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A on Friday, at the Kennedy a more definitive test. near the crew.” Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA Administrator Jim Musk said via Twitter that he Bridenstine said anyone test- tested positive for coronavirus, confirmed he was not at Ken- “Knowing Elon the way I do, booster-landing platform enough ing positive for COVID-19 must then negative twice, then positive nedy. His company is based in they will figure out a way for time to get into position in the quarantine under NASA policy again. He said he wasn’t feeling and remain isolated. Officials too well the past few days — snif- Southern California, where he him to be very much connected,” Atlantic, given the rough seas in said contact tracing by SpaceX fles, cough, low fever — but cur- makes his home. He was inside Hurley told The Associated Press the wake of Tropical Storm Eta. found no link between Musk and rently had no symptoms. Kennedy’s Launch Control last from Houston. NASA and SpaceX are especially any personnel in close touch with “So ‘Elon Musk Tests Negative May for SpaceX’s first astronaut The upcoming crew flight eager to retrieve this first-stage the four astronauts, who remain for Covid’ is an equally correct flight last May. comes just three months after the booster; it will be used for the cleared for flight. title,” he tweeted. Four astronauts — three Amer- end of the test flight with Hurley next crew launch. “I can assure everyone that Musk said his first tests were icans and one Japanese — are and Bob Behnken, both NASA as- NASA turned over space sta- we’re looking good for the (crew) rapid tests, and he was awaiting scheduled to rocket to the Inter- tronauts. The four astronauts are tion ferry trips to SpaceX and launch and all of the critical per- the results of lab tests. The 15- national Space Station on Sunday going up for a full space station Boeing, which has yet to launch sonnel involved,” said SpaceX’s minute rapid tests are less sensi- night. stay of five to six months. They anyone, following the retirement Benji Reed, senior director for tive than the lab tests, which take One of t he test pi lots on SpaceX’s will be replaced in the spring by of the shuttle fleet in 2011. The human spaceflight. hours longer to process. first astronaut flight, Doug Hur- yet another crew launched by space agency is looking to save It wasn’t immediately known NASA and SpaceX representa- ley, said he’s certain Musk will SpaceX. big by no longer having to buy if Musk would be allowed at the tives wouldn’t say where Musk be involved with the launch — re- The latest launch was bumped seats on Russian Soyuz capsules Kennedy Space Center launch- was Friday, although officials gardless of where he is. a day in order to give SpaceX’s for U.S. astronauts. Whitmer seeks closure Nicaragua and Honduras of Great Lakes pipeline threatened by storm Iota Associated Press Central America and Mexico. BY JOHN FLESHER our economy and way of life.” Then it meandered across Cuba, Associated Press Michigan Attorney General ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — the Florida Keys and around the Dana Nessel said she filed a law- Tropical Storm Iota was brewing Gulf of Mexico before slogging TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. suit Friday to carry out Whitmer’s in the Caribbean Sea early Satur- ashore again near Cedar Key, — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whit- decision. day, threatening a second tropical mer took legal action Friday to Enbridge said there was “no strike for Nicaragua and Hondu- Fla., and dashing across Florida shut down a pipeline that carries credible basis” for Whitmer’s ras, countries recently ransacked and the Carolinas. oil beneath a channel linking two action. by a Category 4 Hurricane Eta. The Tampa Bay area was buf- of the Great Lakes. “Line 5 remains safe, as envi- The National Hurricane Center feted with gusty winds and rain, Whitmer’s office notified Ca- sioned by the 1953 Easement, and in Miami said Iota could bring and there was one U.S. death nadian company Enbridge Inc. Whitmer as recently validated by our fed- dangerous wind, storm surge and linked to Eta: In Bradenton that it was revoking an easement eral safety regulator,” said Vern as much as 30 inches of rainfall to Beach, Mark Mixon stepped into granted 67 years ago to extend catastrophic spill. his flooded garage as he was lay- Yu, the company’s president for Enbridge reached an agree- the two Central American coun- a roughly 4-mile section of the ing sandbags around his home liquids pipelines. ment with then-Gov. Rick Snyder, tries, approaching their coasts pipeline through the Straits of Wednesday evening and was Line 5 is part of Enbridge’s a Republican, in 2018 to replace as early as Monday. The system Mackinac. The revocation takes electrocuted, said Jacob Saur, di- Lakehead network of pipelines the underwater portion with a formed Friday afternoon. effect in 180 days, when the flow rector of public safety for Mana- that carries oil from western new pipe that would be housed The storm was located early of oil must stop. tee County. “Enbridge has routinely re- Canada to refineries in the U.S. in a tunnel to be drilled through Saturday about 340 miles south- Iota is already a record-setting fused to take action to protect our and Ontario. The pipeline carries bedrock beneath the straits. southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, system, being the 30th named Great Lakes and the millions of about 23 million gallons of oil and The company is seeking state and had maximum sustained Americans who depend on them natural gas liquids daily between and federal permits for the $500 winds of 40 mph . There were no storm of this year’s extraordi- for clean drinking water and good Superior, Wis., and Sarnia, On- million project, which is not af- coastal warnings or watches in ef- narily busy Atlantic hurricane jobs,” the Democratic governor tario, traversing parts of north- fected by Whitmer’s shutdown fect as of Saturday morning. Iota season. Such activity has focused said in a statement. “They have re- ern Michigan and Wisconsin. order. was moving to the west-southwest attention on climate change, peatedly violated the terms of the The underwater section be- The company says shutting at 5 mph. which scientists say is causing 1953 easement by ignoring struc- tween the Straits of Mackinac, down Line 5 would cause short- Iota could wreak more havoc wetter, stronger and more de- tural problems that put our Great which connects Lake Huron and ages of crude oil for refineries in a region where people are still structive storms. Lakes and our families at risk. Lake Michigan, is divided into in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania grappling with the aftermath of Eta was the 28th named storm “Most importantly, Enbridge two pipes that are 20 inches in and eastern Canada, as well as Eta. That system hit Nicaragua of this year’s hurricane season, has imposed on the people of diameter. Enbridge says they are propane shortages in northern last week as a Category 4 hurri- tying the 2005 record for named Michigan an unacceptable risk in good condition and have never Michigan. It also would boost cane, killing at least 120 people storms. Theta, the 29th, was of a catastrophic oil spill in the leaked. Environmental groups shipments of oil by rail or truck, as torrential rains brought flash weakening over the far eastern Great Lakes that could devastate contend they’re vulnerable to a Enbridge says. floods and landslides to parts of Atlantic Ocean. PAGE 10 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 WORLD Ethiopia’s Tigray leaders bomb airports

BY CARA ANNA ed in the northern Tigray region Fears of ethnic targeting are of ethnic profiling and discrimi- Communications and transport Associated Press on Nov. 4 has reportedly killed rising. The Tigray regional gov- nation has arisen,” the Ethiopian links with the northern Tigray hundreds on both the federal ernment, the Tigray People’s Human Rights Commission said region remain severed, making it NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government and regional govern- Liberation Front, in a statement in a statement Saturday. It has difficult to verify claims on both defiant Tigray regional govern- ment sides, sent well over 14,000 denied allegations that scores or visited 43 people in police cus- sides of the fighting. Desperate ment has fired rockets at two air- refugees fleeing into neighboring even hundreds of civilians were tody in the capital, Addis Ababa, families cannot reach relatives, ports in the neighboring Amhara Sudan and raised international “hacked to death” Monday in the and said “some of the detained and the United Nations and other region as a deadly conflict threat- alarm about a possible civil war at regional town of Mai-Kadra. The have reported that they have humanitarian organizations warn ens to spread into other parts of the heart of the Horn of Africa. massacre was confirmed by Am- been arrested only because of of disaster as food, fuel and other Africa’s second-most populous Each side regards the other as country. nesty International, which cited a their ethnicity.” supplies run short for millions of illegal, the result of a monthslong man helping to clear away bodies The international community people. The Tigray regional govern- falling out amid dramatic shifts as saying many of the dead were is warning against deadly ethnic A top TPLF official appeared ment in a statement on Tigray TV in power after Ethiopia’s Nobel ethnic Amharas. tensions. The U.N. office on geno- to confirm the federal govern- said such strikes will continue Peace Prize-winning Prime Min- “unless the attacks against us ister Abiy Ahmed took office two The statement by Tigray re- cide prevention has condemned ment’s claim that TPLF forces stop.” The federal government years ago. The Tigray regional gional president Debretsion Ge- reports of “targeted attacks sparked the conflict by attacking said the airports in Gondar and government, which once domi- bremichael asserted that the against civilians based on their a military base. Sekoutoure Ge- Bahir Dar were damaged in the nated the country’s ruling coali- allegations against the TPLF ethnicity or religion” in Ethio- tachew in a video discussion said strikes late Friday, asserting that tion, broke away last year and the forces, repeated by Abiy, are pia, warning that the rhetoric pre-emptive strikes were carried Tigray regional forces are “re- federal government now says its “being proliferated with the in- sets a “dangerous trajectory that out in self-defense against the pairing and utilizing the last of the ruling “clique” must be arrested tent to incite hatred toward (eth- heightens the risk of genocide, Ethiopian army’s Northern Com- weaponry within its arsenals.” and their well-stocked arsenal nic) Tigrayans in Ethiopia.” war crimes, ethnic cleansing and mand, calling it an “internation- The deadly fighting that erupt- destroyed. “A justified risk/threat of fear crimes against humanity.” ally known practice.” Outrage in Belarus, European Union after death of opposition supporter Associated Press ‘ KYIV, Ukraine — Thousands of people rallied The man was killed because in Belarus on Friday following the death of a 31- he wanted to live in a free year-old opposition supporter who died after he was reportedly beaten by security forces, and the Euro- country. But we will never obey pean Union condemned the violent crackdown that those who are ready to kill us. Belarusian authorities have continued to enforce ’ against peaceful protesters. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya opposition leader The man’s death on Thursday came after more than three months of mass anti-government pro- tests that were sparked by official election results that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lu- ment whereby such lawless, violent acts can take kashenko a sixth term in office. Opposition leaders place,” Peter Stano, the EU’s spokesman for foreign and some poll workers say the results were manipu- affairs and security policy, said in a statement. lated, and protesters have been calling for Lukash- Stano accused Lukashenko’s government of “ig- enko’s resignation. noring not only the fundamental rights and free- More than 17,000 people have been detained since doms of the Belarusian people, but also disregarding the Aug. 9 presidential election in Belarus, human their lives.” rights advocates have reported. Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who Thousands of people carrying flowers and can- challenged Lukashenko in August’s presidential dles formed human chains of solidarity in several election and received the second-most votes, called Belarus cities, including the capital, Minsk, to honor Bandarenka “a hero” and “an innocent victim of an the late opposition supporter, Raman Bandarenka, inhumane system.” who died at a Minsk hospital after several hours of “The man was killed because he wanted to live in PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD/AP surgery for serious injuries. Some of the banners a free country,” Tsikhnaouskaya, who is currently the demonstrators held said, “Stop killing us.” in exile in Lithuania, said in a video statement Fri- A baby is carried using a plastic container during rescue operations Ales Bialiatski, the head of the Viasna human day. “But we will never obey those who are ready to along a flooded village in the Cagayan valley region, northern rights center, said men in plainclothes who went to kill us.” Philippines, on Friday , due to Typhoon Vamco. a Minsk courtyard to remove red and white ribbons In an interview with state media on Friday, Lu- — a symbol of the protests in Belarus — detained kashenko did not mention Bandarenka’s death and Bandarenka in the yard on Wednesday evening. renewed his stance that the ongoing unrest is ille- They handed him over to police officers and Ban- gitimate. He likened it to the so-called “color revo- Vietnam readies for darenka was brutally beaten inside a van, Bialiatski lutions” that overthrew leaders in other post-Soviet said in a statement. countries. “As a result, Raman sustained a severe head in- “We unequivocally assess the events taking place typhoon evacuation jury and in grave condition was brought to the po- in the country after the elections as an attempt at an lice (department). An ambulance wasn’t called for unconstitutional coup on the patterns of, as they say two more hours. The doctors were unable to save now, color revolutions,” he said. “Any color revolu- Associated Press Video aired by national televi- Raman Bandarenka’s life,” Bialiatski said, calling tion makes the state weaker and the people poorer.” sion broadcaster VTV showed HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam- for a criminal investigation to hold those respon- A total of four people, including Bandarenka, high waves slamming into Ly sible for Bandarenka’s death accountable. are reported to have died since the protests began ese authorities on Saturday or- Son island, located about 15 miles Belarusian authorities have confirmed that Ban- in August as the result of the crackdown on dem- dered some 460,000 people in from shore, on Saturday after- darenka was brought to the hospital from a police onstrators and opposition supporters. No criminal the country’s central region to noon. About 1,000 people on the department in Minsk but denied responsibility for probes have been launched into the deaths. be ready for evacuation ahead of island who live by the sea were his death. Police maintained he was injured in a The Investigative Committee on Friday has halted Typhoon Vamco, after the storm moved to shelters farther inland. street fight. Belarus’ Investigative Committee said an inquiry into the death of Alexander Taraikovsky, killed at least 42 people and left Local authorities in other cen- Bandarenko also displayed signs of “alcohol intoxi- a protester who died on Aug. 10. The government 20 others missing in the Philip- tral provinces have been rein- cation.” An inquiry has been launched. maintains he was killed by an explosive device that pines, state television reported. forcing sea dikes and evacuating Bandarenka’s death elicited outrage both in Be- blew up in his hands, but his partner believes he was The typhoon, which is fore- elderly people and children to larus and abroad. The European Union condemned shot by police. cast to hit Vietnam on Sunday safe buildings to avoid casualties the violence. The EU already has imposed sanctions on Lu- morning, could pack winds of up from the typhoon, VTV said. “This is an outrageous and shameful result of the kashenko and several dozen officials over their role to 93 mph as it approaches the The country has also shut down actions by the Belarusian authorities, who have not in the security crackdown launched after the con- country’s already flood-battered five airports and suspended train only directly and violently carried out repression of tested election. Stano said Friday that the 27-nation central coast, according to the operations throughout the region, their own population, but also created an environ- bloc “stands ready to impose additional sanctions.” national weather agency. the broadcaster reported. Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 11 AMERICAN ROUNDUP W oman rescues ill swan by foot, car and subway

NEW YORK — Ariel NY Cordova-Rojas went to New York’s Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens on Nov. 5 to cel- ebrate her 30th birthday. She ended up rescuing a swan with lead poisoning, taking it to a wildlife clinic by foot, car and subway with the help of both friends and strangers. Cordova-Rojas is trained in identifying and rescuing wildlife, the New York Times reported, having worked at the Wild Bird Fund clinic in Manhattan for five years. Cordova-Rojas told the Associ- ated Press the swan, named Bae, was being treated for lead poison- ing with antifungals and antibac- terial medications. It could take three weeks or up to two months before Bae returns to the refuge, Cordova-Rojas said. State employee accused of illegal Viagra scheme

FRANKFORT — A KY former Kentucky state government employee was ac- cused of running an illegal Vi- agra distribution scheme for more than four years and using his work email to communicate with customers. A federal grand jury indicted Howard Stanley Head Jr., of Franklin County, on conspiracy DAVID CRIGGER, BRISTOL (VA.) HERALD COURIER/AP and other charges for the scheme authorities say he ran from July 2015 to Oct. 2019, the Lexington Blowing in the wind Herald-Leader reported. Head, who worked for the Ken- Joe Blackwell, owner of J and B Lawn Care, blows leaves to a collection point at Washington and Lee Elementary School in Bristol, Va. . tucky Finance & Administration Cabinet at the time, is accused of ordering shipments of the erec- tile dysfunction drugs Sildena- Courthouse downtown. THE CENSUS Group. It is expected to bring fil and Tadalafil, sold under the The courthouse was built from thousands of Harley-Davidson brand names Cialis and Viagra, 1825 to 1827 and used for 80 years. The estimated cost of signs that will be placed on two motorcycle riders and enthusiasts from other countries and resell- The courthouse is named for its statues of Andrew Jackson in front of courthouses in In- to Delta County. ing them in smaller quantities. architect designer : Robert Mills dependence and Kansas City, Mo., to provide context to The planning process began is best known for the Washington $4K Jackson’s history, according to the Independence Exam- with a meeting at the U.P. state Monument, but also designed a Woman’s child shot in iner. The signs will note that the former president owned fairgrounds, The Daily Press number a courthouses and other slaves and approved a law forcing thousands of Native Americans from their land. reported. dispute over food order public buildings in South Caro- County voters recently rejected a proposal to remove the statues. The last time Harley riders lina before the Civil War. were in Escanaba for a rally was DETROIT — A Detroit in 2010. The rally will include MI woman shot and wound- Toddler shoots mom a parade and block party in Es- lighting of the National Christmas son, who own Pollo — A Gourmet ed her 20-month-old daughter with ‘unsecured’ gun canaba. The dates are July 22-24. during a dispute with a neighbor Tree on the Ellipse, the National Chicken Joint. They told the Cou- over a food delivery order. DYERSVILLE— A Park Service said, citing public rier Journal that their idea was Officials: Some license The girl was sitting in a car IA woman in eastern Iowa health concerns over COVID-19. to extend an olive branch to the on the city’s westside when she was hospitalized after being However, as with many other other side. renewal sites up-charge was struck, according to Detroit shot by her child, 2, according to events that have been closed to They posted their offer on the police. police. live audiences this year, the cer- Louisville restaurant’s Facebook MONTGOMERY — The child’s mother had arrived The shooting happened in Dy- emony will be available virtually, page — and then got some heat AL Alabama law enforce- home and confronted the neigh- ersville, the Telegraph Herald the park service said. It invited online. King said someone called ment officials cautioned people bor after learning her food order of Dubuque reported. Dyersville people to view the Dec. 3 event at threatening him if they didn’t re- to beware of third-party websites was taken. police revealed the shooting in thenationaltree.org. move the Facebook post. Instead when they renew their driver li- She pulled and fired a gun after a news release, but gave few de- The lighting and performances they decided to expand the pro- cense online. the neighbor allegedly grabbed a tails. Investigators determined would be available for streaming motion to their other restaurant, The Alabama Law Enforce- hammer, police said. the woman, 21, was shot by the throughout the holiday season, Six Forks Burger, and keep it ment Agency said in a news Police said she has a concealed toddler after the child found a the park service said. going through November. release that some third-party pistol license. Her daughter was handgun “that was left unse- So far, no one has taken advan- websites are charging people in critical condition at a hospital. cured,” police said. Restaurants offering tage of the offer. But if a Trump extra fees to renew their license The woman was taken by am- free food to Trump fans supporter visits, King said he’s online. The sites are not affiliated State reopening historic bulance to a Dubuque, then air- told his workers to make them with the state . lifted to an Iowa City hospital for feel welcome. LOUISVILLE — Two ALEA Secretary Hal Taylor courthouse for hearings treatment. Police said authorities restaurant owners in said one website charged a $50 are considering whether to file KY Kentucky who support Presi- Thousands of Harley administrative fee in addition to CAMDEN — One of charges in the case. SC South Carolina’s old- dent-elect Joe Biden are offering riders, fans to be in UP the agency’s $39 renewal fee. est cities is reopening a historic free food and drinks to support- The agency urged people to courthouse for court hearings No live audience invited ers of President Donald Trump, ESCANABA — Bikers go directly to ALEA’s Driver Li- for the first time in more than a to national tree lighting but with a catch: They have to MI are coming next year to cense Division at www.alea.gov century. turn in their “useless” Trump the Upper Peninsula. to renew their license online in- Camden has started holding WASHINGTON — No merchandise . The Escanaba area will be the stead of using a search engine to weekly Municipal Court hear- DC live audience will be The idea was hatched by Troy site of a three-day July rally by find the site. ings at the Historic Robert Mills invited this year to watch the King and his wife Selena John- the Great Lakes Harley Owners From wire reports PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 MUSIC

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TIME FOR REFLECTION With the Stones’ tour on hold, Keith Richards revisits a live set from his 1980s solo project, X-Pensive Winos

TNS Keith Richards, pictured in 2015, and the rest of the Rolling Stones scored a timely hit in April with the lockdown-minded “Living in a Ghost Town.”

BY MIKAEL WOOD Miffed that Jagger decided to make tion tricks, “Hollywood Palladium” Los Angeles Times a solo album instead of touring behind documents a sweaty night that was “Dirty Work,” Richards cut his own “just about the playing,” as the drum- eith Richards has been in the rock ’n’ roll business long solo record, “Talk Is Cheap,” then mer put it. enough to recognize hype. hit the road with the Winos, which “No trampolines, no laser lights,” he On the phone recently from a recording studio in New convened a wrecking crew of top-notch said. players: drummer Steve Jordan, gui- This year the Stones were forced York, the 76-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist recalled tarist Waddy Wachtel, bassist Charley to call off just such a high-tech outing the formation of a side project, the X-Pensive Winos, as a Drayton, keyboardist Ivan Neville, due to the pandemic. But after releas- “pivotalK moment” in his half-century-and-then-some career. Then he in- singer Sarah Dash and saxophonist ing a new single, the lockdown-minded terrupted himself, chuckling in his signature pirate- Bobby Keys. “Living in a Ghost Town,” in April, “Live at the Hollywood Palladium” the band has been slowly ramping up like rasp. captures the next-to-last gig of a brief remote work on a new studio album, its “Hmm, pivotal? I’m not so sure,” he said. “But U.S. tour and features impeccably first of original songs since “A Bigger it was an important part of the development of ... ragged renditions of every song from Bang” in 2005. Richards, who’s been whatever.” “Talk Is Cheap” — including “You writing in New York with Jordan and Richards has had time this year to ponder his jour- Don’t Move Me,” widely understood producer Don Was, said it’s been “a bit as a Jagger diss track — along with of a relief to just do what you do.” ney while at home in Connecticut, where he rode out assorted Stones tunes such as “Happy” “I was expecting to be on the road,” much of quarantine — “just ducking and diving, you and “Before They Make Me Run.” he said. “You get all geared up for know?” — with his wife, Patti Hansen, and their two As Richards acknowledges, the that, then — nope. So it’s like energy adult daughters. music won’t make you forget about the transference.” Rolling Stones. Yet it does reveal the What’s the priority for the Stones: “It’s sort of interesting in that it ain’t happened to nobody before in the guitarist expanding his vocabulary resuming the tour, or making the history of this planet,” he said of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Weren’t we with heavy grooves from funk and album? the lucky ones?” R&B; one highlight from the live album I think at the moment it probably has Yet he’s been thinking about the Winos in particular ahead of the is a slow-and-low “Make No Mistake” to be getting a record done, because I that showcases sultry duet vocals by don’t see the possibility of people get- deluxe Nov. 13 reissue of “Live at the Hollywood Palladium” (inset), an Dash, known for her work with Patti ting together in crowds in the foresee- oft-bootlegged concert set recorded in 1988. The Winos came together LaBelle. able months. So I think we work on the during what Richards has referred to as World War III in the Stones: “The last thing we wanted the Winos record. We’re just trying to figure out the period between 1986’s “Dirty Work” and 1989’s “Steel Wheels” to sound like was a Stones cover band,” how and when — the end of this year, Jordan said in a separate phone call. or January? when Richards and Mick Jagger were famously fighting over the band’s And in an era when rock tours were direction. super-sizing with ever flashier produc- CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 13 MUSIC REVIEWS FROM PAGE 12 Neil Young family as their lives play out in a fi ctional Califor- The reaction to “Ghost Town” was strong. The Return to Greendale (Reprise Records) song went top 5 on Billboard’s rock chart. nia town. It was a shot in the dark. We’d already recorded it Think of Neil Young’s 2003 record “Greendale” as the Some of the acting is almost a year before the pandemic, and we had it in venerable rocker’s take on “Our Town,” with a heavy groanworthy, to be sure, the can along with several other tracks that we were dose of weirdness, environmentalism and anti-war senti- but there’s a certain appeal to the quirkiness working on. Eerily prophetic. ment thrown in. and passion of the whole Your old friend Marianne Faithfull contracted “Return to Greendale” gives listeners, and viewers, COVID. Do you know how she’s doing? endeavor that draws you a chance to revisit the often overlooked Young record, in. Plus, Young and Crazy Marianne, my babe. She’s good. You think I’m gonna tour and rock opera fi lm. On the live album, Young and be the one (surviving) with the roaches? That’s Mari- Horse are at the top of his longtime collaborators Crazy Horse deliver versions their game, with Young anne. Made of stern stuff, that woman. of the record’s 10 songs that are largely faithful to the Have you feared catching it yourself? strutting the stage and originals. I’m impervious. I’m like Donald Trump — immune powerfully delivering the album from start to fi nish. But the true gem of this release is the full-length (laughs). Note the hollow laugh. Young fans looking for a passthrough of his greatest How closely have you been following the election? concert from Toronto included in a box set on Blu-ray. hits as part of the concert will be disappointed. This is Politics — I’ve seen too much of it to take much It’s by watching Young’s vision play out onstage, with nothing but “Greendale,” so be forewarned: if you’re not notice. Things can get a little hairy, but you’re talking actors above, beside and intertwined with the band, while open to Young’s esoteric side trips, this one may not be to the exiles on Main Street, man. We got thrown out portions of Young’s 2003 “Greendale” fi lm are sometimes for you. But if that’s just your thing, “Return to Green- of our own country for being too successful. Any nutty projected, that the storyline comes alive and is made dale” is a welcome look back. thing you can dream up, there it is. It’s just another more understandable. — Scott Bauer period now. The story follows multiple generations of the Green Associated Press Brian Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys have been bickering over Love’s support of Trump. Did the Stones ever fight about politics? Elvis Costello We have no political differences because we’re basi- cally apolitical. We’re just making music; we don’t give Hey Clockface (Concord) a s--- about the rest of the world. And I’m English and If Elvis Costello’s 33rd studio album sounds a bit all over the place, that’s I’m living in America, so I’m not gonna squeak hardly. because that’s where it was recorded. I’ll just squeak a little. The stupendously prolifi c English songwriter and former angry young Are you a U.S. citizen? man began work by cutting three solo songs in Helsinki in February. He Get the f--- out of here. I have a passport that says recorded nine more in Paris, working with musicians anchored by his U.K. But I think globally. longtime pianist, Steve Nieve. A citizen of the world. Finally, two tracks were written by trumpeter They don’t have a passport for it yet. Michael Leonhart in New York and recorded So, the X-Pensive Winos. How’d you explain the with guitarists Bill Frisell and Nels Cline, be- concept when you called guys to ask them to be in fore Costello completed them post-lockdown the band? in Vancouver. We don’t do concepts; we don’t have plans. All we Unsurprisingly, “Hey Clockface” lacks need is enthusiasm, and the rest will come. the cohesion of “Look Now,” 2018’s excellent If you were forming the band today, would you return to form with his band the Imposters. use the same name? Instead, it plays out as a melange of styles, a It was the X-Pensive Winos because they drank a sampler that relates to various whole crate of Lafite Rothschild that was sent to me. stages in Costello’s career. I had to leave ’em alone for one day, came back to the “I Do (Zula’s Song)” sessions and the whole goddamn case is gone. But I’d has a smoky jazz club vibe have given them another crate just to get the name. that recalls Chet Baker’s Ray Di Pietro At the top of the Palladium recording, you heartbreaking turn on “Almost describe the stage as one you’ve been thrown off Blue.” Elsewhere, the arrange- many times. Are you referring to when Chuck Berry ments bang and clatter with a claustrophobic booted you from playing with him in 1972? rage reminiscent of 1986’s “Blood & Choco- Probably. But I only remember Chuck giving me late.” “No Flag” bursts with bitterness and a black eye in a dressing room — wasn’t onstage, bile: “I’ve got a head full of idea and words exactly. I was in Chuck’s dressing room — he’d gone that don’t seem to belong to me,” he spews. “No out to deal with some business — and his guitar case sign for the dark place that I live / No God for the was open. I just wanted to have a look, see what he damn I don’t give.” was playing those days. I picked it up, he walked back The stylistic smorgasbord begins with “Revolu- in, saw me touching his guitar and biffed me. Quite tion #49,” a spoken-word piece that unspools like fi lm rightly, I thought — ax players don’t do that to each noir narration (“Life beats a poor man to his grave, other. love makes a poor man from a dagger / Love is the one Why doesn’t a guitarist want somebody else to thing we can save”). touch his guitar? The album hits a high point with the doomy, I don’t give a s--- who touches mine, quite honestly. impressively realized “Newspaper Pane,” But some guys get fussy. Chuck was like that about creating a dark, enveloping mood in many things, not just his guitar. which the jaunty New Orleans strut Eddie Van Halen died last month. Do you re- “Hey Clockface / How Can You member when Van Halen opened for the Stones in Face Me” feels strangely out of Florida in 1981? place. This is not Costello’s most I don’t remember a thing about Van Halen in those consistent work, but he still days. I appreciated the work later on and everything, does have a head full of ideas, but I’m not a virtuoso soloist. People that think the gui- with most worthy of exploring. tar player has to wail away somewhere on the top end — no. I’m a guitarist — I play chords, I play rhythm. — Dan DeLuca I use the guitar to project a song. I’ve never been out The Philadelphia Inquirer there, like, Wally’s Whistling Saw, and everybody’s supposed to be impressed. I’m not impressed by that kind of guitar playing. You want to listen to a guitar Kylie Minogue unusual Auto-Tune, play player, listen to (Andres) Segovia, for Christ’s sake. Or with speeds and even DISCO (BMG) Django Reinhardt. The rock players, they’re good and opaquely sample from they’ve all got their little thing going. But it’s never ’80s hits, as “Supernova” been my bag. It’s always a sure thing with Kylie Minogue — fun and goes all out funk. Lyri- Do you think about playing in the Stones differ- great grooves, that is. What’s more admirable is that even cally, Minogue — who is a ently from playing in the Winos? though she released one of the greatest pop albums of the co-writer on all the songs I just play Keith Richards. What I do appreciate is century nearly 20 years ago (“Fever,” for those pop hea- everyone that I’ve played with — from Brian Jones to thens out there), she keeps trying to outdo herself. Her — swings from searching Mick Taylor, Ronnie Wood, Waddy Wachtel and loads 15th album moves her closer to that goal post than ever for cosmic love to looking of others in between — how sympathetic they are to before. The 12-track set, simply titled “DISCO,” is a cohe- for the light of the stars me. One guitar player don’t make it for me — I need sive playlist for an exceptional dance-heavy experience. to wanting to dissolve the two or three guitars weaving in and out of each other. Three singles stand out from the dozen songs with their night away on the dance That’s what gets me off. I’m not interested in listening infectious hooks and synth-pop rhythms. “Say Some- fl oor. to solos or anything like that. I’ve heard it all before, thing” has engaging electric guitar riffi ng; “Magic” brings “DISCO” feels a bit like a fantasy electric blanket on a and it’s a variation on a goddamn theme. What inter- on hot staccato keys and handclaps on top of a hopeful cold night — it will bring comfort, but also shock you into ests me is how two guitar players can play together message; while “I Love It” is unabashed pure disco love. joy from time to time. — and how, with a bit of magic, they can sound like 15. The rest of the tracks mix Daft Punk-esque undertones — Cristina Jaleru It’s cheap at half the price. like “Dance Floor Darling” and “Real Groove” with some Associated Press PAGE 14 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 BOOKS New books for November 10 new releases suggest month will be interesting and informative

BY BETHANNE PATRICK ‘We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at in November. At 768 pages and a list price of $45, it will Special to The Washington Post challenge your shelves and your wallet. Only a few people Harvard and a Half Century of Silence’ already know if this volume holds the “intimacy and in- e can’t guarantee much these days, but one Becky Cooper trospection” claimed in its jacket copy, but given Obama’s thing we can guarantee is November will be Sometimes investigating a murder becomes about story, the book looks promising. interesting. So are each of the books on this more than that murder. Cooper found that out while an ‘Ready Player Two’ Wlist, which range from a much anticipated undergraduate at Harvard University in 2009, after she autobiography to an unsettling diary. heard about the 1969 death of a graduate student named Ernest Cline (Nov. 24) ‘The Best of Me’ Jane Britton. As Cooper unraveled Britton’s story over If, like many of us, the course of a decade, she discovered a great deal about you started hoping for David Sedaris misogyny and silence at one of our nation’s most revered a sequel the minute you Sedaris selected the pieces for this collection spanning institutions. put down Cline’s “Ready a career that started out snarky (“Jesus Shaves”) and has ‘The Office of Historical Corrections: Player One” in 2011, turned, of late, somewhat sweet (“Now We Are Five”). you’ll be thrilled with Longtime fans and astute readers will understand that A Novella and Stories’ “Ready Player Two,” the title doesn’t refer entirely to the author; he has chosen Danielle Evans which picks up the story and arranged works to highlight his funny, often dysfunc- Evans’ celebrated short story collection “Before You of Wade Watts, the win- tional and always loving parents, siblings and partner, Suffocate Your Own Fool Self” came out in 2010. Unlike Hugh — the people he believes are the best of him. ner of OASIS founder some writers, who would follow a collection with a novel, James Halliday’s fi end- ‘White Ivy’ Evans has chosen instead to release a novella and stories, ishly clever contest. showcasing her continued command of short fi ction. The Now Watts discovers Susie Yang title novella manages to combine George Orwell’s bu- another “Easter egg” This month’s most exciting debut fi ction, longlisted reaucratic chill from “1984” with Toni Morrison’s elegant from Halliday, a new for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, centers on judgments from “Beloved.” puzzle and a new quest Chinese American Ivy Lin. Taught young by her grand- that might change the mother to thieve and pilfer, Ivy’s punishment when ‘Moonflower Murders’ world — if Watts is up to caught by her mother is to be sent back to China. Once Anthony Horowitz the challenge. Ivy returns to the U.S. as an adult, she ingratiates herself Horowitz (“The Sentence Is Death”), whose writing with a “golden boy” she admired years before — and her always demonstrates historical curiosity, serves up a deli- ‘Wuhan Diary: Dispatches past catches up to her. cious novel in time for Thanksgiving weekend reading. from a Quarantined City’ ‘Uncomfortable Conversations “Moonfl ower Murders” with a Black Man’ starts in an English Fang Fang (Nov. 24) country house-turned- With so much about hotel. When a fi ctional Emmanuel Acho COVID-19 still a mys- Golden Age classic This book from the former NFL player and current Fox tery, this fi rst-person holds a clue to the book’s Sports analyst provides a new voice in the dialogue about account of how the racism. ‘You cannot fi x a problem you do not know you central crime, Horowitz winds up writing that coronavirus initially have,” writes Acho, acknowledging that racism in our na- spread feels indispens- tion is a problem that we all have to discuss, ready or not, entire book and includ- able. The acclaimed poet if we are going to repair its devastating effects. ing it, with delightful fair-play murder-mys- and novelist blends a ‘Dearly: New Poems’ tery results. knowledge of the virus’ Margaret Atwood ‘A Promised Land’ ground-zero location From the start of her inimitable career, Atwood has — her hometown — with been a poet, and she’s one of the few contemporary writ- Barack Obama (Nov. 17) literary talent. Since the ers whose poetry and prose receive equal amounts of The fi rst volume of virus has already spread praise. “Dearly,” which collects her fi rst new poems in presidential memoirs everywhere, Fang’s book 10 years, covers love and loss (Atwood’s partner, writer from the 44th man to is less a cautionary tale Graeme Gibson, died in 2019), humanity and nature. hold that offi ce prom- than an important docu- Also: zombies. She’s keeping us on our toes, as usual. ises to boost book sales ment for posterity. Frampton reflects on his rise, fall and resurrection in new memoir

BY MARK KENNEDY moments in rock ’n’ roll history, a pal singer and guitarist for the Herd at age machine. Associated Press of both Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, 16 and then co-founded Humble Pie. He reveals that he wore satin pants aided by David Bowie and, at one point, a His good looks turned him into a heart- because each pair sold helped fuel his When Peter Frampton was a child, he potential member of the Rolling Stones. throb. He calls his looks the “bane of my girlfriend’s drug habit. But he’s remark- busted his father on Christmas morning He hung out with The Kinks and recorded existence” and says they “always got in ably diplomatic — bland, even — describ- giving him an acoustic guitar dressed with Small Faces. the way.” ing his contemporaries. as Santa: “And from 3:30 in the morning He was dangled out He was enjoying some modest suc- What was Keith Moon like? on Christmas when I was 8 years old, I a fourth- fl oor window cess as a solo artist when he followed up Frampton writes, “Keith was a lovely haven’t stopped playing since.” by Keith Moon and his four studio albums with a double live man — not when he was out of it, but the So recalls the singer-songwriter and John Entwistle from album, buoyed by the hits “Show Me the rest of the time he was a lovely guy, a very guitarist whose album “Frampton Comes The Who. He was Way” and “Baby, I Love Your Way.” (He warm person.” Alive!” became a monster hit in the mid- serenaded by Eddie did his fi rst bump of coke while making And Jimi Hendrix: “He wasn’t just 1970s in his new memoir, “Do You Feel Van Halen. He was that live LP.) good, he was amazing:” Like I Do?” friendly with Beatles. Frampton’s prose often suffers from Frampton was a compelling fi gure on The breezy and polite look back fol- “I have to say your an inability to recognize the wheat from the way down, when he was urged to push lows an important musical fi gure’s rise knees do buckle a bit the chaff, spending three times longer on out an album too soon to capitalize on in the 1960s, triumph and fall in the ’70s the fi rst time you meet a few performances with the Cincinnati “Frampton Comes Alive!” and resurrection in the ’80s. It’s a tale of ‘one,’ ” he writes. Ballet as it does on his times with Jagger. Writes Frampton: “It was so hurtful talent, mismanagement, drugs, loss and A profi le emerges of an earnest and He also has a odd lack of curiosity, often when everything crashed” and “I should redemption. perfectionist musician — “I’m my own ending an anecdote with “I don’t know have used the word ‘no’ a lot more .” “Who else has had the career arc, the worst critic” — who suffered long-term what happened there” or “I don’t know He ends the book with his battle with crazy ups and downs, that I’ve had?” he clinical depression and was a binge why.” inclusion body myositis, a progressive writes. “I’ve been to the moon and back drinker. Frampton explains how he came His inner guitar geek is on display as muscle disorder which threatens to without a rocket. But I’ve always managed to champion the talk box and how he had he peppers his memories with references weaken his fi ngers and, in turn, silence to stay optimistic.” three wives. to gear — P90 type pickups, the Studer his guitar. But he faces it with the opti- Frampton fi nds himself at fascinating Frampton began his career as the lead 2-track, the 3M M79 24-track analog mism he’s always managed. Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 15 CROSSWORD AND COMICS NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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“Gunston Street” is drawn by Basil Zaviski. Email him at [email protected], and online at gunstonstreet.com. PAGE 16 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 GADGETS & TECH Meet the new kid The Solo, a 3-wheeled, 1-passenger electric vehicle, is coming to America

BY ROB NIKOLEWSKI “There are just so many things The San Diego Union-Tribune that you do solo,” Rivera said. “You go get your coffee solo, you here’s a new kid on the go to the gym solo, you go visit zero-emissions vehicle friends solo. This is a purpose- block — and it has three built vehicle and it fi ts beauti- Twheels. fully between passenger cars The Solo, from Canadian on one end of the spectrum and designer and manufacturer micro-mobility (scooters, electric ElectraMeccanica, is a single- bikes, etc.) on the other end.” passenger all-electric vehicle Powered by a 17.3 kWh battery with a range of 100 miles and a that turns a single rear wheel, top speed of 80 mph. It retails for the Solo features a heated seat, $18,500, and people in a select Bluetooth stereo, rear-view few U.S. cities on the West Coast camera, power steering, power and in Arizona can see it for brakes and air conditioning. ELECTRAMECCANICA/TNS themselves. For safety, it has front and rear crumple zones, side-impact pro- The Solo is an electric, zero-emissions single-passenger vehicle with three wheels produced by The car is slightly more than Canadian designer and manufacturer ElectraMeccanica. 10 feet long and 57.5 inches wide tection, torque-limiting stability at the front wheels — consid- control and a roll bar. ElectraMeccanica is based in One potential drawback: While it a very tough sell,” Drury said. In fact, ElectraMeccanica erably smaller than a typical a conventional four-wheeled “If you’re looking for cheap, will soon come out with a fl eet passenger vehicle. For example, Vancouver, B.C., but the Solo is manufactured in China by the electric vehicle is eligible for a reliable transportation, you’re version of the Solo. It’s the same a 2020 Honda Accord sedan is federal tax credit of up to $7,500 probably not set up to have an size as the existing vehicle but 192.2 inches long and 73.3 inches Zongshen Industrial Group at a mammoth factory in Chongqing. and a rebate in California of up EV (electric vehicle) charging the hatchback is removed to wide. to $2,000, the Solo receives no station in your house or apart- create more space for cargo to “When you’re driving it, you The fi rst production shipments of Solos arrived in the U.S. last federal tax credit and a Cali- ment building so you’ve got that serve commercial customers for feel like you’re sitting in the month, with some of the vehicles fornia rebate of just $750 — the logistical nightmare to deal with. food delivery, security guards, cockpit of a fi ghter jet or in a For- sent to retail kiosks such as the same as an electric motorcycle. And if you’re well-to-do, you mechanics going to job sites that mula One car,” said Paul Rivera, Westfi eld UTC site. That’s because the Solo is cat- probably already drive a Tesla.” don’t require a lot of tools, etc. CEO of ElectraMeccanica. “It’s “People can go see it, they can egorized as a motorcycle in the Last year, Mercedes Benz “We think that’s going to be really cool and really different.” go feel it, touch it and schedule a eyes of the U.S. government and announced it would stop selling a home run,” Rivera said. “We But a big part of the marketing test drive,” Rivera said. the state of California. the all-electric Smart car, which also intend to create a sharing strategy for the Solo is based on Like Tesla, customers don’t Ivan Drury, who looks at auto- had two seats, in North America, program for the vehicle as well, effi ciency and practicality. drive the vehicle off a lot but motive trends as senior manager largely due to slow sales. with partners. So there’s three The company quotes statistics place a pre-order to have it at Edmunds.com, is skeptical “Small doesn’t sell in Ameri- parts of our ecosystem.” showing that each day, 119 mil- delivered at a later date. The Solo about the single-seater’s pros- ca,” Drury said. ElectraMeccanica also plans lion North Americans commute requires a $250 deposit, which is pects. Rivera said he thinks the to launch an assembly operation using personal vehicles — and refundable. “That’s a hefty premium,” Smart car EV didn’t cut it “be- in either the Nashville, Tenn., or 105 million of them commute Rivera would not say how Drury said of the Solo’s smaller cause it didn’t make enough of a Phoenix, Ariz., area to serve the alone. many deposits have been made amount of government incen- statement” aesthetically. “I think U.S. market while the facility The Solo looks to attract “early for the Solo but said “the waiting tives, especially when cost-con- we offer a uniquely styled vehicle in China will supply vehicles to adopters” — consumers who are list is pretty long” and estimated scious drivers have plenty of and it’s really cool-looking and Europe and Asia. “It just makes attracted to the latest technology an order placed today would used cars on the market that are different-looking.” Plus, he said a lot of sense that we have a — looking for an option in an probably get delivered “well into priced at $15,000 and lower. the Solo offers enough space to made-in-the-USA product,” urban environment. the middle of next year.” “There’s a lot there that makes carry luggage or groceries. 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BY SONIA RAO might experience intermittent The Washington Post cravings for more space content that even a random infl ux of ith everything moon news can’t satiate. Not to burning on Earth, worry! Remember all those other literally and fi gu- recent shows we mentioned? Wratively, Hollywood They’re available to stream has turned to space. This isn’t by online. Here’s a closer look at any means a new fascination, as each one. any frequent consumer of Ben Affl eck’s cheeky “Armageddon” ‘Space Force’ Showtime DVD commentary will tell you. Steve Carell co-created this (Just us? Cool.) Remember how series about the sixth branch of From left: Tim Heidecker, John C. Reilly and Fred Armisen star in “Moonbase 8,” a workplace comedy enraptured we were by the in- the U.S. armed forces with Greg about astronauts who are training in isolation at a NASA camp in Arizona for their first lunar mission. genuity with which Matt Damon Daniels, his boss from “The Of- grew potatoes on Mars? Remem- fi ce.” Joining Carell’s General lampooning corporate culture ber Matthew McConaughey and Mark R. Naird on screen are Dr. and bureaucracies through the the bookshelf tesseract thing? Adrian Mallory (John Malkov- lens of an interplanetary cruise Of course, space movies are ich), the Space Force’s chief sci- ship that, after accidentally veer- complicated and a separate entist, and F. Tony Scarapiducci ing off course, has a three-year entity from space television, (Ben Schwartz), the social media journey back to Earth but only now created by folks who appear director, among other characters eight weeks’ worth of supplies. to have taken the lull in time played by Fred Willard and Lisa Hugh Laurie plays Ryan between those famous space Kudrow. The show should’ve Clark, a British actor hired to movies as some sort of challenge done gangbusters, right? pose as the Avenue 5’s captain to produce content. — the ship is actually helmed When Showtime’s “Moonbase But “Space Force” didn’t quite hit the mark, with critics refer- by an engineer who dies in the 8” premiered Nov. 8, i t became pilot — and is accompanied by at least the fi fth television series ring to it as “a massive misfi re” Josh Gad portraying the ship’s about astronauts to premiere this and “astonishingly bad.” It’s on billionaire owner, Herman Judd. year. (That’s not even count- this list, however, because of Mr. Zach Woods and Suzy Naka- ing other space-based shows Malkovich and his “heroic ef- mura round out the cast as other such as HBO Max’s “Raised by forts,” as The Washington Post’s Avenue 5 employees, all of whom Wolves.”) Hank Stuever wrote. bumble around while attempt- “Moonbase 8” features Fred “This is something of a revela- ing to maintain order onboard. Armisen, Tim Heidecker and tion to those of us who run rather John C. Reilly as incompetent hot or cold on Malkovich; until In February, HBO renewed the HBO Max astronauts training for their the COVID-19 shutdown, I was wacky series for a second season. fi rst lunar mission at a NASA still considering forming a sup- (Streams on HBO Max) In “Avenue 5,” Hugh Laurie is at the helm of an interplanetary cruise camp in the Arizona desert. The port group of viewers agonized ‘The Right Stuff’ ship that veers off course and doesn’t have enough supplies to last Showtime series is framed as a by his work in HBO’s “The New the three-year journey back to earth. workplace comedy, with Michael Pope,” Stuever continued. “For- Loosely based on Tom Wolfe’s “Skip” Henai (Armisen), Scott get all that. Here, he’s the real 1979 book of the same name, “Rook” Sloan (Heidecker) and hero.” (Streams on Netfl ix) “The Right Stuff” takes view- Robert “Cap” Caputo (Reilly) ers back to the early days of the having been stationed together in ‘Avenue 5’ space program and follows seven isolation for months. The humor “Avenue 5” is already the test pilots who will eventually is dry and subtle; much of its suc- second show on this list to ar- become the fi rst American as- cess hinge s upon your feelings rive from an acclaimed creator: tronauts. The series streams on toward Armisen (who seems to Armando Iannucci, best known Disney +, signaling a much tamer be given more to do than Reilly). for the evergreen political satire telling of the story than Philip The six episodes will be “Veep.” His second series for Kaufman’s 1983 feature adapta- released weekly, meaning you HBO takes on a similar tone, tion (and, per Stuever, a more fi ctionalized version, too). Among the show’s leads are Jake McDorman (as Alan Shepa- rd), Patrick J. Adams (as John Glenn) and Aaron Staton (as Wally Schirra) — a trio making this one of those “hey, I remem- ber that guy!” kind of shows, depending on your consumption of “Greek,” “Suits” and “Mad Netflix Men,” respectively. Have fun, kids. (Streams on Disney +) Steve Carell plays General Mark R. Naird in Space Force, a series about the newest branch of the armed forces co-created with Greg ‘Away’ Daniels, Carell’s boss from “The Office.” A disclaimer to those who get easily invested in television: those two series, also served as is less concerned with the physi- “Away” was recently canceled by an executive producer on the cal obstacles involved and more Netfl ix, meaning the single sea- newest one. so with Emma’s emotional ties son available to stream will also Created by Andrew Hinderak- to Earth — namely, her husband, be its last. But the show might er, “Away” stars Hilary Swank as Matt (Josh Charles), a former Disney+ still be worth a watch for fans of former Navy pilot Emma Green, astronaut stuck on Earth thanks the “Friday Night Lights” and who is tasked with command- to a medical condition, and their “The Right Stuff” is loosely based on Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book about “Parenthood” brand of famil- ing a three-year space mission teenage daughter, Alexis (Talitha the early days of the space program and follows the seven test ial emotional turmoil, as Jason launching from the moon. As one Bateman), a high school fresh- pilots who eventually became the first American astronauts. Katims, a creative force behind might expect of a Katims show, it man. (Streams on Netfl ix) PAGE 18 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander The invisible COVID symptom: Anxiety Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY KATHLEEN PARKER The coronavirus has self well to even small gatherings during EDITORIAL Washington Post Writers Group a pandemic. But, then, maybe our trials brought restlessness will make us all more creative — and more Terry Leonard, Editor COLUMBIA, S.C. mindful of our blessings. s I lay myself down to sleep on back. It hovers over us like [email protected] Given the stakes, it’s difficult to under- Thursday night, I began my Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor a bird of prey, scouting for stand why some people prefer to put them- usual review of the universe, the [email protected] selves and others at risk than to take the meaning of life, the interminable a vulnerable form of life. Managing Editor for Content A simplest precautions. We’ve heard the man- Tina Croley, election and, of course, COVID-19. [email protected] My eyes would not close. I reminded my- tra hundreds of times: Wear a mask, avoid large gatherings, socially distance. We’ve Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation self to breathe. to COVID-19, but even doctors and scien- also heard that if everyone would play nice [email protected] Then I did something my pre-pandemic tists are doing it. I’ve heard CNN’s San- self would have considered a waste of time: (and keep to themselves) for two straight jay Gupta say dozens of times, “the virus Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital I downloaded a meditation app. It down- weeks, we’d be able to get the pandemic [email protected] doesn’t care.” loaded so slowly I fell asleep before it fin- under control. Two weeks is nothing. I’d like not to care about COVID-19 in ished. Clever. And, yet, there are those who’d rather return, but we must. The challenge for BUREAU STAFF I’m no stranger to anxiety, having ex- follow President Donald Trump’s example scientists, doctors and political leaders is perienced it twice weekly for more than of roaming mask-free and cite his rapid Europe/Mideast to sustain a manageable level of concern 30 years as the next column deadline ap- recovery from COVID than surrender to Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief without inducing extra anxiety. I’d like to proached. But my current anxiety is of a what they consider misguided groupthink. [email protected] tell you that yoga does the trick for me, +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 different order and reminds me of living in This attitude may be Trump’s most diabol- but it’s really vodka. Apparently, drink- California. Stay with me. ical contribution to the United States. Pacific ing is on the rise, and smoking is making When I lived in San Jose directly over the Being a curious sort, I’ll sometimes ask Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief a comeback, according to Marlboro maker [email protected] San Andreas fault in the mid-1980s, I was people why they’re not wearing a mask, a +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 always slightly anxious, if unconsciously. I Altria. Google searches for “anxiety” in the past week reached a 16-year high, ac- risky proposition in itself. Here in the Bible had a baby, and my workplace was 10 miles Belt, many say they’ve put everything in Washington from home. What if an earthquake hit and cording to the data-analytical company Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief God’s hands. But the gift of free will was I couldn’t get to him? I would have sprinted DataTrek. Meanwhile, searches for “res- [email protected] taurant” and “mall” are, shall we say, predicated upon an assumption of intelli- (+1)(202)886-0033 all the way home, obviously. gent life. Predictions of ongoing spikes in Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News Not until I moved back east did I real- underperforming. infections and death rates are based on [email protected] ize the extent of my earthquake stress. In From here, the news gets pretty dreary. current trends of idiotic behavior, but it Florida, where hurricanes provide plenty We’re entering the holiday season and the CIRCULATION of warning, I began to notice that I was flu season, and many are contending with isn’t ordained that we commit stupidity. Mideast more relaxed. I felt my shoulders drop an celebrating in the absence of friends and Besides, the alternative to voluntary acqui- Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager inch or two. They’d been hanging around loved ones. The Centers for Disease Con- escence is far worse. President-elect Joe [email protected] my ears like boulders of worry for four trol and Prevention says we should only Biden has promised to encourage mask [email protected] gather outdoors, which is fine if you hap- mandates and order lockdowns if he has DSN (314)583-9111 years. I slept better than I had in years and began each day grateful that the ground pen to live in southern climes. the authority. Europe was firm. But what about folks up north, if any are I’m no more inclined than the next ren- Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager The coronavirus has brought restless- left? Most seem to have migrated to South egade to fall in line, but what say we buck [email protected] up and end this thing quickly? [email protected] ness back. 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The Washington Court of Ap- Additional contacts stores looted, ostensibly to de- stripes.com/contactus dampen what Durkan serenely called the peals has held that “temporary takings are Dmand better law enforcement — “block-party atmosphere,” the two mur- subject to the same categorical treatment OMBUDSMAN Seattle’s government chose to turn 16 city ders and other shootings and injuries did. as permanent takings where a regulation blocks into an exploration of the delights of So, on July 1 the city reoccupied CHOP, denies all use of the property.” Ernie Gates life without law. The fun paled after three where Seattle’s police chief said she was Furthermore, the 14th Amendment says weeks, and now the city might get an ex- “stunned by the amount of graffiti, gar- no state shall “deprive any person of life, The Stars and Stripes ombudsman protects the free flow pensive lesson about existing law. bage, and property destruction,” adding liberty, or property, without due process of of news and information, reporting any attempts by the On June 8, Seattle’s police department military or other authorities to undermine the newspaper’s that “we don’t even know how much trauma law.” The absence of law was a CHOP as- independence. The ombudsman also responds to concerns abandoned its precinct building in the people were experiencing.” And some of piration, one facilitated by the city provid- and questions from readers, and monitors coverage for fair- Capitol Hill neighborhood. Into the vacu- CHOP’s casualties — including businesses ing CHOP with beds, medical equipment ness, accuracy, timeliness and balance. The ombudsman welcomes comments from readers, and can be contacted um flowed visionaries who settled on the cut off from suppliers and customers, and and barriers to seal off streets from public by email at [email protected], or by phone at name Capitol Hill Organized Protest (or others denied the enjoyment of their prop- access. 202.886.0003. Occupying Protest), declared CHOP a “no- erty — headed to court, armed with facts While a government’s failure to protect cop” zone and instituted what they termed and the U.S. Constitution. an individual from private violence does a “loose form of governance and justice.” The plaintiffs charge that the city “ad- not constitute a violation of the due process Stars and Stripes (USPS 0417900) is published week- days (except Dec. 25 and Jan. 1) for 50 cents Monday Living in the streets and a seven-acre park, opted a policy supporting the CHOP occu- guarantee, there is an exception when a through Thursday and for $1 on Friday by Pacific Stars and some citizens of this spontaneous republic pation, acting with deliberate indifference local government acts to restrict the indi- Stripes, Unit 45002, APO AP 96301-5002. Periodicals of virtue, some carrying guns, organized a toward those suffering harms from it.” It is vidual’s freedom to act on his own behalf. postage paid at San Francisco, CA, Postmaster: Send address changes to Pacific Stars and Stripes, Unit 45002, “replacement police force.” federal law that local governing bodies can Or when there is a “state-created danger” APO AP 96301-5002. The city government, according to the be sued when “the action that is alleged — when a local government acts with “de- This newspaper is authorized by the Department of businesses, homeowners and other plain- to be unconstitutional implements or ex- liberate indifference” to a “known or obvi- Defense for members of the military services overseas. However, the contents of Stars and Stripes are unofficial, tiffs in a lawsuit, supplied CHOP with ecutes a policy statement, ordinance, regu- ous danger.” and are not to be considered as the official views of, or “medical equipment, washing/sanitation lation, or decision officially adopted and The mills of justice grind slowly, so this endorsed by, the U.S. government. As a DOD newspaper, facilities, portable toilets, nighttime light- Stars and Stripes may be distributed through official chan- promulgated by that body’s officers.” This litigation will live a lot longer than CHOP nels and use appropriated funds for distribution to remote ing, and other material support.” Mayor can involve the direct participation of local did. If the suit results, properly, in finan- locations where overseas DOD personnel are located. Jenny Durkan tweeted to advertise how officials in a deprivation of a constitutional cial restitution for CHOP’s victims and fi- The appearance of advertising in this publication does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Defense tickled she was about the “new community right, or the setting in motion of acts by nancial pain for Seattle taxpayers, CHOP or Stars and Stripes of the products or services advertised. garden popping up” in the park. CHOP, others that the government knew or should will have been, on balance, a net public Products or services advertised shall be made available for she said, “is not a lawless wasteland” but have known would inflict constitutional benefit. Beyond demonstrating to Seattle purchase, use or patronage without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical “a peaceful expression of our community’s injury. The city’s policy of “no response” voters the cost of electing childish people handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor collective grief and their desire to build by police within CHOP should itself suffice like Mayor Durkan and kindred spirits on of the purchaser, user or patron. a better world.” Asked how long CHOP to establish liability, before tabulating the the city council, the suit can warn progres- © Stars and Stripes 2020 would exist, Durkan said, “I don’t know. material and moral support the city gov- sive governments from coast to coast that We could have the Summer of Love.” ernment gave to this embryonic utopia. there is a price to be paid for pandering to stripes.com Not exactly. CHOP’s sandbox revolution- The injuries claimed by the plaintiffs in- the carriers of fashionable passions. Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 19 SCOREBOARD/NBA

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LeBlanc (quadricep), T Jason Peters (not South QUESTIONABLE: S Budda Baker (groin), injury related), RB Miles Sanders (knee). returning up-to-date TV schedules. Indianapolis 6 3 0 .667 242 177 RB Kenyan Drake (ankle), CB Dre Kirk- GIANTS: OUT: RB Devonta Freeman (an- myafn.net Tennessee 6 3 0 .667 249 235 patrick (thigh), S Deionte Thompson kle). QUESTIONABLE: WR Golden Tate Houston 2 6 0 .250 193 242 (knee), TE Maxx Williams (ankle). FULL: (knee), CB Isaac Yiadom (calf). LIMITED: Jacksonville 1 7 0 .125 179 247 WR Larry Fitzgerald (not injury related), WR Sterling Shepard (toe, hip). FULL: North C Lamont Gaillard (illness), WR DeAndre S Logan Ryan (not injury related), TE College football Pittsburgh 8 0 0 1.000 235 161 Hopkins (not injury related), DT Corey Kaden Smith (concussion), DT Leonard Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 227 142 Peters (not injury related), QB Chris St- Williams (not injury related). to Miami Cleveland 5 3 0 .625 206 237 reveler (illness). SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS at NEW OR- Cincinnati 2 5 1 .313 194 214 CINCINNATI BENGALS at PITTSBURGH LEANS SAINTS — 49ERS: OUT: RB Tevin BY TIM REYNOLDS Friday’s scores West STEELERS — BENGALS: OUT: DT Geno At- Coleman (knee), LB Demetrius Flanni- SOUTH Kansas City 8 1 0 .889 286 183 kins (not injury related), T Bobby Hart gan-Fowles (hamstring), WR Deebo Sam- Associated Press FAU 38, FIU 19 Las Vegas 5 3 0 .625 218 229 (knee), CB Darius Phillips (groin), WR uel (hamstring), CB K’Waun Williams (an- MIDWEST Denver 3 5 0 .375 174 217 John Ross (foot), CB LeShaun Sims (con- kle). QUESTIONABLE: WR River Cracraft Cincinnati 55, East Carolina 17 L.A. Chargers 2 6 0 .250 205 216 cussion). DOUBTFUL: RB Joe Mixon (foot). (quadricep), WR Trent Taylor (back). MIAMI — Udonis Haslem an- Iowa 35, Minnesota 7 NATIONAL CONFERENCE QUESTIONABLE: T Jonah Williams (sting- LIMITED: WR River Cracraft (quadricep). nounced Friday that he’s return- East er). LIMITED: T Jonah Williams (stinger). FULL: WR Trent Taylor (back). SAINTS: Schedule W L T Pct PF PA FULL: CB Mackensie Alexander (illness), QUESTIONABLE: RB Dwayne Washington ing for an 18th season with the Philadelphia 3 4 1 .438 186 205 C Trey Hopkins (concussion), RB Samaje (back). LIMITED: QB Drew Brees (right Miami Heat, and left the door Sunday’s game Washington 2 6 0 .250 153 188 Perine (knee). STEELERS: QUESTIONABLE: shoulder), C Erik McCoy (elbow). FULL: WEST Dallas 2 7 0 .222 204 290 DE Isaiah Buggs (ankle), G Kevin Dotson T Ryan Ramczyk (back), WR Michael open for extending his career California at UCLA N.Y. Giants 2 7 0 .222 168 219 (illness), CB Mike Hilton (shoulder), RB Thomas (ankle, hamstring). after that. South Anthony McFarland (illness). LIMITED: SEATTLE SEAHAWKS at LOS ANGE- New Orleans 6 2 0 .750 244 200 DE Isaiah Buggs (ankle), CB Mike Hilton LES RAMS — SEAHAWKS: OUT: CB Sha- Only five NBA players have Tampa Bay 6 3 0 .667 250 203 (shoulder). FULL: DE Isaiah Buggs (an- quill Griffin (concussion, hamstring), DT spent a career of that length Tennis Atlanta 3 6 0 .333 243 251 kle), CB Mike Hilton (shoulder). Bryan Mone (ankle), C Ethan Pocic (con- Carolina 3 6 0 .333 210 226 DENVER BRONCOS at LAS VEGAS RAID- cussion). QUESTIONABLE: RB Chris Car- with one North ERS — BRONCOS: OUT: LB Joseph Jones son (foot), CB Quinton Dunbar (knee), franchise. Linz Open Green Bay 6 2 0 .750 253 204 (calf). QUESTIONABLE: CB Bryce Cal- WR Penny Hart (knee), RB Carlos Hyde Chicago 5 4 0 .556 178 190 lahan (ankle), T Demar Dotson (groin, (hamstring), DE Benson Mayowa (ankle), Dirk Nowit- Friday Detroit 3 5 0 .375 197 240 hand), WR Jerry Jeudy (shoulder), T Jake DE Alton Robinson (illness), WR Freddie At Intersport Arena Linz Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 217 234 Rodgers (shoulder), WR Diontae Spencer Swain (foot), LB K.J. Wright (ankle). No zki spent 21 Linz, Austria West (shoulder). FULL: CB A.J. Bouye (con- Data Reported. RAMS: QUESTIONABLE: years with Purse: $225,500 Seattle 6 2 0 .750 274 243 cussion), CB Bryce Callahan (ankle), TE C Brian Allen (knee), LB Leonard Floyd Surface: Hardcourt indoor Arizona 5 3 0 .625 234 180 Noah Fant (ankle), WR Tim Patrick (ham- (knee), LB Terrell Lewis (shoulder). DNP: Dallas, Kobe Women’s Singles L.A. Rams 5 3 0 .625 193 152 string), G Austin Schlottmann (ribs), S DE Michael Brockers (not injury related), Bryant 20 Quarterfinals San Francisco 4 5 0 .444 225 207 Justin Simmons (not injury related), WR DT Aaron Donald (not injury related). Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, Thursday, Oct. 12 Diontae Spencer (shoulder). RAIDERS: FULL: G David Edwards (abdomen), LB years with def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6- Indianapolis 34, Tennessee 17 OUT: DT Maurice Hurst (ankle). DOUBT- Leonard Floyd (knee), RB Darrell Hen- the Los An- 3, 6-1. Sunday’s games FUL: T Kolton Miller (ankle). QUESTION- derson (quadricep), WR Cooper Kupp Ekaterina Alexandrova (4), Russia, def. Houston at Cleveland ABLE: G Gabe Jackson (illness). LIMITED: (oblique), T Andrew Whitworth (back). geles Lakers, Nadia Podoroska (6), Argentina, 6-2, 6-1. Jacksonville at Green Bay DE Arden Key (foot), CB Keisean Nixon TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS at CARO- Tim Duncan Elise Mertens (2), Belgium, def. Veron- Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants (groin), T Sam Young (knee, ankle). FULL: LINA PANTHERS — BUCCANEERS: QUES- ika Kudermetova (5), Russia, 6-4, 6-1. Tampa Bay at Carolina S Johnathan Abram (groin), DT Maliek TIONABLE: CB Carlton Davis (knee), G Ali spent 19 with Haslem Women’s Doubles Washington at Detroit Collins (shoulder), WR Bryan Edwards Marpet (concussion), WR Jaydon Mick- San Antonio, Semifinals Buffalo at Arizona (ankle), S Jeff Heath (hip), RB Alec Ingold ens (not injury related). DNP: DE Jason Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Sinia- Denver at Las Vegas (ribs), CB Trayvon Mullen (hamstring), Pierre-Paul (knee), DE Ndamukong Suh John Stock- kova (1), Czech Republic, def. Irina Bara, L.A. Chargers at Miami DE Carl Nassib (knee), TE Darren Waller (not injury related). LIMITED: CB Carlton ton spent 19 with Utah and Reg- Romania, and Sara Sorribes Tormo (3), Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (back). Davis (knee), WR Tyler Johnson (not in- Spain, 6-3, 3-6, 10-5. San Francisco at New Orleans HOUSTON TEXANS at CLEVELAND gie Miller spent 18 with Indiana. Seattle at L.A. Rams jury related), G Ali Marpet (concussion). BROWNS — TEXANS: OUT: RB David FULL: LB Shaquil Barrett (shoulder), LB Baltimore at New England Johnson (concussion), G Senio Kele- Haslem doesn’t play regularly Sofia Open Lavonte David (knee), WR Chris Godwin Open: Kansas City, N.Y. Jets, Atlanta, mete (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: LB and hasn’t for years: He got into Dallas Dylan Cole (back), DE Charles Omenihu (finger), TE Rob Gronkowski (not injury Friday related), DT Steve McLendon (shoulder), Monday’s game (hamstring). BROWNS: QUESTIONABLE: just four games last season and At Arena Armeec Sofia WR Scott Miller (hip, groin), CB Sean Sofia, Bulgaria Minnesota at Chicago LB Jacob Phillips (knee). DNP: LB Sione has scored 76 points in the last Thursday’s game Takitaki (hand, not injury related), CB Murphy-Bunting (groin). PANTHERS: Purse: $325,615 OUT: RB Reggie Bonnafon (ankle), RB Surface: Hardcourt indoor Arizona at Seattle Denzel Ward (not injury related). LIMIT- four seasons combined. His im- Sunday, Nov. 22 ED: G Joel Bitonio (elbow), T Jack Conklin Christian McCaffrey (shoulder), T Rus- Men’s Singles sell Okung (calf), DE Stephen Weatherly pact on the team comes from Semifinals Atlanta at New Orleans (knee), LB Jacob Phillips (knee), G Wyatt Jannik Sinner, Italy, def. Adrian Man- Cincinnati at Washington Teller (calf), C J.C. Tretter (knee). FULL: (finger). QUESTIONABLE: S Jeremy Chinn what he says and does in the narino (5), France, 6-3, 7-5. Detroit at Carolina TE Austin Hooper (abdomen), WR Jarvis (knee), DE Yetur Gross-Matos (ankle), DE Vasek Pospisil, Canada, vs. Richard New England at Houston Landry (hip). Marquis Haynes (shoulder), CB Donte locker room, and that’s why Heat Gasquet, France, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-0. Philadelphia at Cleveland JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS at GREEN Jackson (toe), DE Austin Larkin (groin). coach Erik Spoelstra lobbied for Men’s Doubles Pittsburgh at Jacksonville BAY PACKERS — JAGUARS: OUT: LB Da- DNP: DT Bravvion Roy (not injury relat- Semifinals Tennessee at Baltimore kota Allen (ankle), DT Doug Costin (con- ed). FULL: DE Brian Burns (groin), S Jer- Haslem to come back. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, and Edouard Miami at Denver cussion), QB Gardner Minshew (right emy Chinn (knee), RB Mike Davis (toe), “He’s just an incredible rock Roger-Vasselin (1), France, def. Marin N.Y. Jets at L.A. Chargers thumb), RB Devine Ozigbo (hamstring), DE Yetur Gross-Matos (ankle), DE Mar- Cilic, Croatia, and Tomislav Brkic, Bos- Dallas at Minnesota WR Laviska Shenault (hamstring). quis Haynes (shoulder), CB Donte Jack- of stability and leadership and nia-Herzegovina, 7-5, 6-4. Green Bay at Indianapolis QUESTIONABLE: S Josh Jones (chest), C son (toe). mentorship,” Spoelstra said dur- Kansas City at Las Vegas Brandon Linder (back). LIMITED: S Josh WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM at Open: Buffalo, Chicago, N.Y. Giants, Jones (chest). FULL: WR D.J. Chark (ill- DETROIT LIONS — WASHINGTON: OUT: ing the NBA Finals last month. San Francisco ness), CB Chris Claybrooks (shoulder), QB Kyle Allen (ankle), T Geron Christian “That’s at all levels. It’s not just Deals Monday, Nov. 23 LB Kamalei Correa (hip), TE Tyler Eifert (knee), WR Dontrelle Inman (hamstring), L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay (not injury related), DE Adam Gotsis (not LB Jared Norris (hamstring). QUESTION- to our young players. It’s to our injury related), G Andrew Norwell (calf), ABLE: WR Jeff Badet (hamstring), K veteran players. And he provides Friday’s transactions NFL injury report TE James O’Shaughnessy (not injury re- Dustin Hopkins (right groin). FULL: WR lated), T Cam Robinson (knee), S Andrew Jeff Badet (hamstring), LB Thomas Davis just great guidance and mentor- BASEBALL NEW YORK — The National Football Wingard (core muscle injury). PACKERS: (not injury related), RB Antonio Gibson ship to this head coach as well. I Major League Baseball League injury report, as provided by the OUT: TE John Lovett (knee). DOUBTFUL: (shoulder). LIONS: OUT: WR Kenny Golla- National League league (DNP: did not practice; LIMITED: CB Jaire Alexander (concussion, hand). day (hip). QUESTIONABLE: WR Jamal love him.” MIAMI MARLINS — Named Kim Ng limited participation; FULL: Full partici- QUESTIONABLE: CB Kevin King (quad- Agnew (ribs), G Joe Dahl (back), LB Jar- general manager. pation): ricep), S Will Redmond (shoulder), S rad Davis (knee), TE T.J. Hockenson (toe), So will this be the end? FOOTBALL SUNDAY Vernon Scott (shoulder), WR Darrius T Halapoulivaati Vaitai (foot), DT Nicho- “Spo told me don’t answer that National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS at NEW ENGLAND Shepherd (shoulder), WR Equanimeous las Williams (shoulder). FULL: T Tyrell BUFFALO BILLS — Placed LB Del’Shawn PATRIOTS — RAVENS: OUT: DT Calais St. Brown (knee), TE Robert Tonyan (an- Crosby (ankle), CB Mike Ford (hip), DE question,” Haslem said at his an- Phillips on injured reserve. Campbell (calf). DOUBTFUL: CB Jimmy kle), G Rick Wagner (knee). LIMITED: CB Everson Griffen (not injury related), LB nouncement, held inside one of CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed DE Smith (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: LB L.J. Jaire Alexander (concussion, hand), CB Christian Jones (knee), S Jayron Kearse Stephen Weatherly and RB Reggie Bon- Fort (finger), RB Mark Ingram (ankle), LB Kevin King (quadricep), S Will Redmond (ankle), CB Jeff Okudah (ankle, groin), DT the Subway restaurants he owns nafon on injured reserve. Matt Judon (calf). DNP: DT Calais Camp- (shoulder), S Vernon Scott (shoulder), Danny Shelton (chest), QB Matthew Staf- in South Florida. “Spo said we’ll CHICAGO BEARS — Placed DE Roy Rob- bell (calf), DE Derek Wolfe (not injury WR Darrius Shepherd (shoulder), WR ford (neck), S Tracy Walker (foot). ertson on injured reserve. related). LIMITED: LB L.J. Fort (finger). Equanimeous St. Brown (knee), G Rick MONDAY continue to talk about it.” CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed G Chris FULL: RB Mark Ingram (ankle), LB Matt Wagner (knee). FULL: T David Bakhtiari MINNESOTA VIKINGS at CHICAGO By NBA rule, the Heat cannot Hubbard on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Judon (calf). PATRIOTS: QUESTIONABLE: (chest), RB Tyler Ervin (wrist), RB Aaron BEARS — VIKINGS: DNP: RB C.J. Ham DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed DT Walter LB Ja’Whaun Bentley (groin), S Terrence Jones (calf), TE Marcedes Lewis (knee), (shoulder, not injury related), TE Irv negotiate with Haslem until Nov. Palmore ont the reserve/COVID-19 list. Brooks (illness), LB Shilique Calhoun LB Preston Smith (shoulder). Smith (groin). LIMITED: CB Cameron 20 and the earliest he can sign his MIAMI DOLPHINS — Promoted DT (knee), S Cody Davis (calf), S Kyle Dug- LOS ANGELES CHARGERS at MIAMI Dantzler (concussion). FULL: DE Ifeadi Benito Jones and TE Chris Myarick to the ger (ankle), K Nick Folk (back), CB Ste- DOLPHINS — CHARGERS: OUT: DE Joey Odenigbo (shoulder), WR Adam Thielen new contract — his ninth with the active roster as COVID-19 replacements. phon Gilmore (knee), DT Lawrence Guy Bosa (concussion), RB Justin Jackson (shoulder). BEARS: DNP: DT John Jenkins Heat — is Nov. 22. It’ll be a one- MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Acitvated G (shoulder, elbow, knee), RB Damien Har- (knee). QUESTIONABLE: T Bryan Bulaga (ankle), TE Cole Kmet (groin), S Sherrick Pat Elflein for injured reserve. ris (ankle, chest), WR N’Keal Harry (con- (back), RB Troymaine Pope (neck), G McManis (hand), RB David Montgomery year deal worth $2,564,753. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released cussion), TE Ryan Izzo (hamstring), CB Trai Turner (groin). FULL: TE Stephen (concussion), C Sam Mustipher (knee), TE Dylan Cantrell from the practice Jonathan Jones (illness), G Shaquille Ma- Anderson (foot), T Bryan Bulaga (back), T Jason Spriggs (knee), QB Mitchell Haslem’s next appearance for squad. Placed OL Caleb Benenoch on in- son (calf), DE John Simon (elbow), T Joe RB Troymaine Pope (neck), G Trai Turner Trubisky (right shoulder). LIMITED: S the Heat will make him the oldest jured reserve. Thuney (ankle), DE Deatrich Wise (knee, (groin). DOLPHINS: QUESTIONABLE: RB Tashaun Gipson (foot), LB Barkevious NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived TE Eric hand), T Isaiah Wynn (ankle). Matt Breida (hamstring), CB Jamal Perry Mingo (shoulder), WR Allen Robinson player in franchise history. His Tomlinson and G Kenny Wiggins. Signed BUFFALO BILLS at ARIZONA CARDI- (foot), TE Durham Smythe (concussion). (knee), LB Roquan Smith (back). FULL: final appearance this past season OT Kyle Murphy, CB Montre Hartage and NALS — BILLS: OUT: RB Taiwan Jones FULL: S Kavon Frazier (shoulder), CB TE Jimmy Graham (not injury related), RB Alfred Morris to the active roster. (hamstring), LB Del’Shawn Phillips Byron Jones (achilles), RB Patrick Laird DT Akiem Hicks (not injury related), LB was Aug. 14, at 40 years and 66 Placed RB Devonta Freeman on injured (quadricep). QUESTIONABLE: T Cody Ford (ankle), DE Shaq Lawson (shoulder), CB Danny Trevathan (not injury related), days old. That’s three days young- reserve. (ankle), S Micah Hyde (ankle). LIMITED: T Jamal Perry (foot), TE Adam Shaheen DT Brent Urban (shin, thumb), LB Josh SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Activated Cody Ford (ankle), QB Jake Fromm (not (shoulder), TE Durham Smythe (concus- Woods (ankle, calf). er than Juwan Howard was when WR Kendrick Bourne from the reserve/ COVID-19 list. he played his final Heat game on April 17, 2013. Pro soccer Haslem was one of three 40- Pro baseball somethings to play in the NBA MLS playoffs winner Game 2: Teams TBD Philadelphia vs. lower-seeded play-in Western Conference last season: Vince Carter was 43 MLB calendar Play-in winner Tuesday, Dec. 1 when he retired after the sea- Eastern Conference Western Conference Teams TBD Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to offer Friday, Nov. 20 Saturday, Nov. 22 son and Jamal Crawford, 40, 2021 contracts to unsigned players on Wednesday, Dec. 2 (9) Montreal at (8) New England Sporting Kansas City vs. San Jose Teams TBD appeared in one game with the their 40-man rosters. (10) Inter Miami CF at (7) Nashville SC Minnesota United vs. Colorado Conference Championships 2021 First Round Portland vs. FC Dallas Brooklyn Nets during the NBA Jan. 15 — International amateur sign- Eastern Conference Tuesday, Nov. 24 Sunday, Dec. 6 restart at Walt Disney World. ing period opens. Saturday, Nov. 21 Seattle vs. Los Angeles FC Game 1: Teams TBD Feb. 1-19 — Salary arbitration hear- Orlando City vs. New York City FC Conference Semifinals Game 2: Teams TBD Crawford is about 2 ½ months ings, Scottsdale, Ariz. Columbus vs. New York Eastern Conference MLS Cup older than Haslem and is un- Feb. 17 — Voluntary reporting date for Tuesday, Nov. 24 Sunday, Nov. 29 Saturday, Dec. 12 pitchers, catchers and injured players. Toronto FC vs. higher-seeded play-in Game 1: Teams TBD Teams TBD signed for next season. PAGE 20 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 SPORTS BRIEFS/PAUL HORNUNG Briefl y Browns’ Hubbard out after testing positive

Associated Press last week’s game at Washington. Tate said he “just got caught up in the CLEVELAND — The Browns came moment” when he twice screamed “throw back from their bye week healthier than me the ball” into cameras during a loss to they’ve been in a month only to have an the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 2. unexpected scare.  Four Miami Dolphins assistant coach- Two days before facing Houston, Cleve- es will miss Sunday’s game against the Los land placed offensive lineman Chris Hub- Angeles Chargers because of COVID-19 DAVID RICHARD/AP bard on the COVID-19 list after shutting protocols. down its facility and delaying practice Fri- The Cleveland Browns placed offensive tackle Chris Hubbard (74) on the COVID-19 Sidelined will be defensive line coach list after shutting down their facility and delaying practice to do contact tracing Friday. day to do contact tracing that fortunately Marion Hobby, quarterbacks coach Robby didn’t turn up any other “high-risk“ cases. Brown, quality control coach Kolby Smith this season after two straight 1,000-yard continuing for a second year and are con- Hubbard will miss Sunday’s game and outside linebackers coach Austin against the Texans. He had started Cleve- campaigns. tinually evaluating how to manage through Clark, the team said Friday. the impact of the pandemic in 2021.” land’s past three games at right guard for  Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy is It remains to be seen whether fans will Wyatt Teller, who is back and will play MLS plans full 2021 schedule handing off play-calling duties, after all. be allowed to attend 2021 matches. after missing three games with a strained Nagy said Friday he’s giving that job to Major League Soccer intends to open calf. offensive coordinator Bill Lazor in an ef- its 2021 season as planned in early March Alaska Anchorage ends hockey Once they learned of Hubbard’s positive fort to lift an offense that ranks among the but will remain nimble because of the test, the Browns — who had already been NFL’s worst. coronavirus. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Alaska Anchorage adhering to intensive protocols this week Nagy announced the decision after prac- The league plans to play an entire reg- will not field a men’s hockey team this sea- after a staff member tested positive for the tice, saying it was a difficult and necessary ular season while working around the son, likely ending the Seawolves’ status as coronavirus last weekend — immediately move to make. international calendar, which was made an NCAA Division I program. began contact tracing. The Bears (5-4) have lost three in a row busier because of events pushed back by Alaska Anchorage notified the Western The team said “zero high-risk contacts heading into their game against the Min- the pandemic. Collegiate Hockey Association on Friday were identified,” and that Hubbard was the nesota Vikings at Soldier Field on Monday “Based on the crowded international cal- that it is opting out of this season, part of only player going on the COVID-19 list. night. Chicago then has a bye. endar next year, we are targeting to start the university’s decision to halt all indoor In other NFL news:  The Detroit Lions have ruled out wide our season in early March as usual. The winter sports due to health risks associ-  Subdued, contrite and sounding ready receiver Kenny Golladay for Sunday’s restrictions on our ability to have fans in ated with the COVID-19 pandemic. to take responsibility for his actions, New game against Washington because of a hip our stadiums this year contributed to very Alaska Anchorage announced earlier York Giants receiver Golden Tate apolo- injury. significant financial losses,” MLS Presi- this year it plans to drop its men’s hockey, gized Friday for an outburst that caused Golladay also missed last weekend’s loss dent Mark Abbott said. “Like all leagues, men’s and women’s skiing and women’s coach Joe Judge to leave him home before at Minnesota. He’s played just five games we are concerned about those restrictions gymnastics teams to save money. Golden: Hornung played on four championship teams with Packers

FROM BACK PAGE NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said In July 2016, Hornung sued equipment in a statement that Hornung “thrilled a manufacturer Riddell Inc., saying football generation of NFL fans with his versatil- helmets he wore during his professional ity, athleticism and personality.” Goodell career failed to protect him from brain added that Hornung was “instrumental in injury. Hornung suffered multiple concus- growing the popularity of the Packers and sions with the Packers and had been diag- the National Football League.” nosed with dementia, the lawsuit said. His talent was noticed even in the White Hornung won the 1956 Heisman Tro- House. Hornung almost missed the Pack- ers’ 1961 title game when he was sum- phy at Notre Dame. He was the NFL MVP moned to duty by the Army, but a call from in 1961 and played on four championship Lombardi to President John F. Kennedy teams (1961, ’62, ’65 and ’66). led to Hornung being granted leave. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame Said Kennedy in arranging the leave, in 1986. “Paul Hornung isn’t going to win the war Hornung and another of the league’s top on Sunday, but the football fans of this stars, Detroit’s Alex Karras, were suspend- country deserve the two best teams on the ed for 1963 by Commissioner Pete Rozelle field that day.” for betting on NFL games and associating Hornung scored 19 points — then a title with undesirable persons. They returned game record — on one touchdown rushing, to the NFL the next year. three field goals and four PATs in the Pack- Hornung won the Heisman as a quar- ers’ 37-0 win over the New York Giants. terback. But he switched to halfback in the AP In 1965, Hornung scored five touch- pros and was one of the NFL’s most dy- downs against the Baltimore Colts in a 42- namic players in Green Bay. Green Bay Packers running back Paul Hornung, center, goes through the line during an intersquad game on Aug. 10, 1959, in Green Bay, Wis. 27 victory. Playing alongside numerous future Hall Hornung was on the first Super Bowl of Famers, the blond, fun-loving Hornung Hornung already was on the team when his nine-year career with 760 points on 62 team for the 1967 game, but a pinched nerve was a favorite of Packers coach Vince Lombardi arrived in Green Bay in 1959. touchdowns, 66 field goals and 190 extra sidelined him, and he chose not to enter the Lombardi, who thought of the young star The Packers made Hornung the first pick points. game when given the chance in the fourth as a son and singled him out for praise and of the 1957 draft after he won the Heisman For three straight seasons from 1959-61, quarter. He was the only Packer who didn’t chastisement. Frequent fines for missing Trophy for a Notre Dame team that went Hornung led the NFL in scoring. In 1960 he play in that Super Bowl as Green Bay beat curfew were forgiven once the game start- 2-8. totaled 176 points, which stood as a league the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 and ed, especially when the dashing No. 5 got Hornung teamed with bruising fullback record until LaDainian Tomlinson broke it were led by Hornung’s favorite drinking close to the end zone. Jim Taylor for one of the NFL’s great- 46 years later. Hornung later pointed out pal, wide receiver Max McGee. “In the middle of the field he may be only est backfields. They were known for the that his record came in 12 games, while Hornung was selected by New Orleans slightly better than an average ballplayer,” unstoppable power sweeps led by guards Tomlinson needed 16. in the 1967 expansion draft, a heartbreak- Lombardi once said, “but inside the 20- Jerry Kramer and Fuzzy Thurston. But Hornung also passed for two touch- ing moment for Lombardi. But Hornung yard line he is one of the greatest I have Hornung was also a force as a passer, downs in 1960, meaning he had a hand in never played a game for the Saints, instead ever seen. He smells that goal line.” blocker, receiver and kicker. He finished 188 points, an average of 15.6 per game. retiring. Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 21 NFL Saints’ D-Line gaining steam at season’s midpoint

BY BRETT MARTEL Associated Press METAIRIE, La. — One week after battering Tampa Bay’s Tom Brady into one of the worst games of his career, a New Orleans Saints pass rush led by previously unher- San Francisco 49ers (4-5) alded reserve Trey Hendrickson at New Orleans Saints (6-2) aims to muster a similar effort against San Francisco backup AFN-Atlantic ALEX GALLARDO/AP Nick Mullens. 10:25 p.m. Sunday CET “The work’s not done. We’re 6:25 a.m. Monday JKT Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is among the high draft picks making a huge impact only eight games in. So I’m hun- around the league, especially on offense. gry,” Hendrickson said when asked about his career-best 7 ½ at the line of scrimmage by both sacks this season, which ranks Davenport and Jordan. third in the NFL. “I don’t think Brady completed less than 60% anybody in a race wants to take of his passes, releasing numer- third. But, that’s why I’m fortu- ous throws as he was about to get League’s rookies shining nate enough to have an opportuni- knocked down. ty to keep getting them these next “We were fortunate enough to eight games.” be a part of the keys to victory, Halfway through the season, getting after the quarterback and the Saints have had nine players affecting Tom, getting them off despite virus limitations combine for 22 sacks — with eight the spot,” Hendrickson said. “So, of those sacks coming in just the when you’re doing something like past two games. That leaves them that, and being successful at it, BY DAVE CAMPBELL of the 11 pass-catchers taken in the top 50 picks. slightly off the pace of last season, and the team’s winning, it feels Associated Press “I’ve never really looked at it as me being the when they had 50 sacks. But New good when we’re rolling and it’s a rookie, the new guy. I always try to take everything Orleans also had to play its first huge help in the secondary, too.” If ever there were a year in the NFL when new- like a veteran takes it,” said Jefferson, who leads all four games without starting end Jenkins said another factor con- comers could be forgiven for a lack of progress, this first-year players with 627 receiving yards. “Not Marcus Davenport because of his tributing to the Saints’ pass rush virus-altered season would be it. trying to have that rookie mindset. Not waiting for elbow and toe injuries. is improved coverage of opposing Spring practices vanished, making rookie devel- somebody to lead me in the right direction.” Former Cal star Cameron Jor- receivers early in their routes. opment across the league more difficult. Plenty of Claypool, who has 444 yards and five touchdowns dan, who has led the Saints in sacks “Pass rush and coverage always first-year players had growth that was stunted by the for the NFL’s only undefeated team, recently theo- for the past five seasons, has been go hand in hand; you show me a lack of in-person learning and exhibition games. rized that the absence of a normal preseason might limited to 2 ½ sacks by opposing great D-line that can get a rush on “We had a virtual draft, virtual offseason. Vir- have actually helped more than hurt. offensive fronts that are scheming the quarterback, I’m going to show tual is for the birds,” Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon “The urgency increases when you’re getting to stop him with double teams. But you a secondary that doesn’t give Gruden said. “I think it doesn’t help get these young ready for a regular-season game,” Claypool said. “I increasingly, the Saints are find- a quarterback quick options,” Jen- guys ready as it did in years past.” knew I had to have the playbook down before the ing ways to make opponents pay kins said. “When we play well as a Talent is talent, though. Midway through the 2020 first game, so that forced me to study more.” for that. secondary, our D-line can win.” season, numerous newbies are making significant Kansas City’s Clyde Edwards-Helaire, a college Defensive tackle David Ony- Saints coach Sean Payton cred- impacts. Pandemic or not, these guys can play — teammate of Burrow and Jefferson, was the only emata has three sacks, while line- its defensive line coach Ryan and right away. running back taken in the first round. He’s on pace backer Demario Davis and safety Nielsen for the unit’s ability to “A guy that’s played in every game is pretty well for a 1,000-yard season on the ground. Fellow ball Malcolm Jenkins have taken down work in sync even as substitutions caught up at this point,“ said Dolphins offensive co- carriers D’Andre Swift (Detroit Lions), Jonathan QBs on blitzes a couple of times are made to keep players fresh. ordinator Chan Gailey, whose team has won both Taylor (Indianapolis Colts) and Antonio Gibson apiece. Last weekend, the line thrived de- games since turning the quarterback job over to (Washington Football Team) have each been inte- The 49ers’ beat-up offensive spite the absence of starting tackle Tua Tagovailoa after Ryan Fitzpatrick allowed him gral parts of their respective offenses, as has the line has allowed 23 sacks. Mul- Sheldon Rankins, who is out sev- to ease in. undrafted king of the 2020 class, James Robinson of lens, who has appeared in five eral weeks with a knee sprain. The level of skill coming from the major college the Jacksonville Jaguars. games and started three because The Saints’ defensive front also programs, particularly in the passing game, has Offensive linemen lately have had a steeper climb of injuries to Jimmy Garoppolo, has often been able to stifle op- never been more apparent. With this salary cap to NFL success because of the prevalence of spread has been taken down nine times. ponents’ running games, ranking system that magnifies the value of rookie-level con- schemes in college that keep them in two-point It hasn’t helped that a few top second in the NFL against the rush tracts, the demand for young stars has also never stances, but the Dolphins are starting three rookies 49ers skill players have been in- (allowing 80.3 yards per game). been higher. up front for the first time in team history. Tristan jured lately, with running back “We’ve got a good rotation Three of the first six picks in the draft were quar- Wirfs has been a bulwark at tackle for the Tampa Raheem Mostert (ankle) missing going,” Payton said. “When you terbacks, and Joe Burrow (Cincinnati Bengals), Bay Buccaneers, as has Mekhi Becton for the win- the past three games and star tight look at the total snap counts Tagovailoa and Justin Herbert (Los Angeles Char- less New York Jets. end George Kittle (foot) going out they’re playing, it requires a lot of gers) can count as instant successes. Burrow has Cornerback is probably the toughest position to for possibly the rest of the season energy.” five games with 300-plus passing yards, one short of master, and the Vikings have felt this pain as much two games ago. While Hendrickson is having a Andrew Luck’s record for Indianapolis in 2012. as any team with two rookies — Jeff Gladney and “Each week gets more and more breakout year professionally, he For Burrow, the first overall selection from na- Cameron Dantzler — in the starting lineup. Safeties important to protect and to contin- had also put up eye-catching num- tional champion LSU, the progress was palpable by are better positioned for quicker impacts, and two ue to get better, whether it’s tech- bers in college at Florida Atlantic, the final drive of an otherwise-uninspiring debut in second-round picks in the NFC South have been in- nique, communication, scheme, most notably his school-record a three-point defeat by the Chargers on Sept. 13. stant hits: Antoine Winfield Jr. for the Buccaneers whatever it is,” Niners offensive 14 ½ sacks as a junior in 2015. “That really calmed my nerves and let me know and Jeremy Chinn for the Carolina Panthers. tackle Mike McGlinchey said. “Sacking the quarterback is that I could play at this level,” Burrow said. Washington defensive end Chase Young, the sec- “But there’s not more pressure to something special at any level of Herbert will square off against Tagovailoa on ond overall pick, has come as advertised as a pass protect Nick. He’ll be fine and he playing. But doing it in the NFL Sunday when the Chargers visit the Dolphins, just rusher, applying plenty of pressure and drawing does his job as good as anybody.” is completely different,” said the seventh NFL game since 1967 pitting two rookie frequent double teams. He has 3 ½ sacks, a decent The Saints’ defensive front also Hendrickson, a third-round draft starters at quarterback who were both taken in the total but hardly satisfactory for a certain someone has demonstrated that when it choice in 2017. top six picks of the draft. Herbert has passed for expecting him to lead the league. doesn’t get sacks, it can still make “There’s a lot more that goes 2,146 yards for the second-highest total in league “My mom, she gave me like a C-plus,” Young said QBs less effective as passers. into it. And I’ve been fortunate history over a player’s first seven games, and the last week. “Take that on the chin and keep moving. In a 38-3 demolition of the Buc- enough to learn from the guys like Chargers are second in the NFL in total yards. Got to respect what she says.” caneers last Sunday night, Brady, Cam and (former teammate) Alex The wide receiver class has largely delivered on There’s still time to make a stronger impression. who was sacked three times in the Okafor on how to study film and its promise, too, with Jerry Jeudy (Denver Broncos), “I feel like in all phases of my game, I can get bet- game, often looked uncomfort- dissect things. You didn’t have to CeeDee Lamb (Dallas Cowboys), Justin Jefferson ter: run, pass, play recognition, hand usage — just able throwing the ball. He was do that at FAU, but as far as just (Minnesota Vikings), Tee Higgins (Bengals) and everything,” Young said. “I hope people don’t go to intercepted three times, including getting after the quarterback, this Chase Claypool (Pittsburgh Steelers) the standouts sleep this second half.” once by Onyemata on a ball batted is something I was born to do.” PAGE 22 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 15, 2020 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Virus again scrambles Pac-12 slate

BY DAVID BRANDT Associated Press The Pac-12’s football schedule has been scrambled for a second consecutive week, with positive COVID-19 tests leading to the cancellation of Saturday’s Cali- fornia at Arizona State and Utah at UCLA games. Instead, Cal will play UCLA on Sunday at the Rose Bowl. The game will kick off at 9 a.m. PT and the teams will have had less than two full days to pre- pare for each other. In a season where every plan is tentative, the Pac-12’s quick adjustment is unprecedented. Friday’s announcements from the West Coast capped the most tumultuous week of COVID-19 disruptions of the college football season. Fifteen of the 59 games (25%) originally scheduled for Week 11 were called off. The Sun Devils’ home opener was nixed because of several pos- itive COVID-19 tests among the team’s players and coaching staff, including head coach Herm Ed- wards. The school said the posi- /AP tive tests put the football team AARON DOSTER below 53 available scholarship Cincinnati quarterback Desmond Ridder hands off to running back Gerrid Doaks during the first half of Friday night’s game against East players, which is the minimum Carolina in Cincinnati. Ridder accounted for four touchdowns in the No. 7 Bearcats’ 55-17 victory over the Pirates. allowed according to the league’s cancellation policy. “The cancellation of a game is very difficult to accept for all of us, but it is the right decision Ridder, No. 7 Bearcats roll over ECU under the circumstances,” Ari- zona State athletic director Ray Anderson said in a statement. “In BY JEFF WALLNER In Cincinnati’s three-point victory at East rates 3, but lost a fumble at the 5. Six plays every case we continue to con- sider the health, safety and wel- Associated Press Carolina last year, the Pirates scored 43 later, however, Bearcats linebacker Jarell fare of our student-athletes as our points and piled up 638 yards. The Bearcats White returned an interception 26 yards for CINCINNATI — Desmond Ridder had an- were motivated to prevent a repeat. a touchdown. number one priority.” other big game, and Cincinnati’s defense got Later Friday, Utah also deter- ECU had 293 total yards on Friday, more After punting on three of its first four pos- revenge. than 100 yards below its season average. sessions, East Carolina (1-6, 1-5) drove 58 mined it didn’t have the minimum Ridder threw for 327 yards and three touch- “The defense had an edge, a chip on their yards in three plays, pulling to 14-7 on Keaton number of scholarship players downs and ran for another score to help No. 7 shoulder,” said James Wiggins, the senior Mitchell’s 18-yard run. available for the game because Cincinnati rout East Carolina 55-17 on Friday cornerback who had five tackles and his first Ridder’s 16-yard scramble on third-and-12 of positive COVID-19 cases and night. the resulting isolation of players Cincinnati (7-0, 5-0 American Athletic) ex- interception of the season. set up Jerome Ford’s 24-yard touchdown run, under contact tracing protocols. tended its school-record home winning streak The offense got off to a fast start with and Tre Tucker’s 45-yard touchdown recep- A few hours later, the Pac-12 to 19 games, the fourth-longest streak among Ridder’s 33-yard touchdown pass to Michael tion highlighted a 28-point second quarter. announced Cal would play at FBS schools, and kept its hopes alive for a Col- Young to cap a 79-yard drive on their opening After passing for 535 yards against the UCLA and next week’s UCLA at lege Football Playoff berth. possession. Bearcats last season, Holton Ahlers threw for Oregon game would be bumped Ridder has accounted for 17 touchdowns in “Desmond Ridder is a talented quarter- 87 yards Friday with three interceptions. He back from Friday to Saturday. the past four games, including nine rushing back,” East Carolina coach Mike Houston was sacked four times. “It’s an unconventional year TDs. said. “He makes them go. I think he’s an NFL “There was definitely a different feel than and we’re excited to host the “Once plays break down and I see a hole, I type quarterback.” last year,” Bearcats coach Luke Fickell said. Bears at the Rose Bowl on Sun- just go,” Ridder said. “The offensive line has The Bearcats’ offense produced 653 total “There was only one time he had an opportu- day,” UCLA athletic director done a great job. The preparation has been yards and averaged nearly 10 yards per play. nity to scramble around. I give the front guys Martin Jarmond said. good.” Cincinnati had second-and-goal at the Pi- a lot of credit to keep him inside the pocket.” Meanwhile, the Southeastern Conference announced it will use Dec. 19, the day of its con- ference championship game, as Iowa hammers Minnesota a make-up date for regular-sea- Associated Press “It takes 11 guys to stop a good son games. The SEC postponed offensive football team,” said four games this week, including MINNEAPOLIS — Tyler Good- Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, who’s two that could not be immedi- son rushed for a career-high 142 16-6 against Minnesota. “Not one ately rescheduled because two of yards and two touchdowns on 20 guy’s going to do it. I think that’s the teams involved already have carries, and Iowa beat Minnesota make-up games set for Dec. 12. 35-7 on Friday to keep the Floyd what we saw today.” The SEC also decided that it of Rosedale trophy for a sixth The Hawkeyes (2-2) had to wait will allow schedule adjustments consecutive season. to hoist the 98-pound bronze pig to be made on Monday nights. Jack Koerner and Riley Moss until they reached the locker room Teams will be permitted to find each intercepted Tanner Morgan out of respect to virus protocols. opponents if their scheduled op- for the Gophers quarterback’s Minnesota’s Mohamed Ibrahim ponent for the coming Saturday first two-interception game in rushed for 144 yards on 33 car- can’t play. Those hastily sched- two years, and Zach VanValken- ries, but the junior tailback who STACY BENGS/AP uled matchups can only be made burg had three of the team’s four entered the game with the high- between teams already sched- Iowa offensive lineman Justin Britt lifts running back Tyler Goodson sacks. Iowa’s defense has a streak est rushing average in the FBS uled to play each other and no re- after Goodson scored a touchdown against Minnesota on Friday of 11 consecutive games with at didn’t come close to controlling matches will be permitted. night. Goodson rushed for 142 yards and two TDs. least one interception. the game like the past two weeks. Sunday, November 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 23 THE MASTERS Scoreboard

Saturday At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Purse: $11.5 million Yardage: 7,475; Par: 72 Second Round a-amateur Jon Rahm 69-66—135 -9 Abraham Ancer 68-67—135 -9 Cameron Smith 67-68—135 -9 Justin Thomas 66-69—135 -9 Dustin Johnson 65-70—135 -9 Hideki Matsuyama 68-68—136 -8 Patrick Reed 68-68—136 -8 C.T. Pan 70-66—136 -8 Patrick Cantlay 70-66—136 -8 Sungjae Im 66-70—136 -8 Danny Willett 71-66—137 -7 Tommy Fleetwood 71-66—137 -7 Justin Rose 67-70—137 -7 Louis Oosthuizen 68-70—138 -6 Sebastian Munoz 70-68—138 -6 Dylan Frittelli 65-73—138 -6 Paul Casey 65-74—139 -5 Tiger Woods 68-71—139 -5 Scottie Scheffler 71-68—139 -5 Corey Conners 74-65—139 -5 Brooks Koepka 70-69—139 -5 Phil Mickelson 69-70—139 -5 Webb Simpson 67-73—140 -4 Xander Schauffele 67-73—140 -4 Jazz Janewattananond 69-71—140 -4 Rickie Fowler 70-70—140 -4 Billy Horschel 70-70—140 -4 Si Woo Kim 70-71—141 -3 Charles Howell III 71-70—141 -3 Kevin Na 73-68—141 -3 Rory McIlroy 75-66—141 -3 Victor Perez 70-71—141 -3 a-John Augenstein 69-72—141 -3 Bernhard Langer 68-73—141 -3 Lee Westwood 68-74—142 -2 Matt Wallace 69-73—142 -2 Marc Leishman 70-72—142 -2 Brandt Snedeker 71-71—142 -2 Shugo Imahira 72-70—142 -2 Adam Scott 70-72—142 -2 C. Bezuidenhout 69-73—142 -2 Cameron Champ 68-74—142 -2 Mike Weir 71-72—143 -1 Ian Poulter 72-71—143 -1 a-Andy Ogletree 73-70—143 -1 Shane Lowry 74-69—143 -1 Bubba Watson 74-69—143 -1 Chez Reavie 71-72—143 -1 Bernd Wiesberger 71-72—143 -1 Tony Finau 69-75—144 E Bryson DeChambeau 70-74—144 E CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP Jimmy Walker 71-73—144 E Charl Schwartzel 73-71—144 E Rafael Cabrera Bello 73-71—144 E Jon Rahm, of Spain, watches his putt on the first green during the third round of the Masters on Saturday in Augusta, Ga. Rahm completed Jordan Spieth 74-70—144 E the second round with a 6-under-par 66 Saturday morning to grab a share of the lead. Sung Kang 75-69—144 E Matthew Fitzpatrick 74-70—144 E Zach Johnson 73-71—144 E Nick Taylor 72-72—144 E Collin Morikawa 70-74—144 E Missed cut Matt Kuchar 70-75—145 +1 Henrik Stenson 71-74—145 +1 Gary Woodland 72-73—145 +1 Graeme McDowell 72-73—145 +1 Adam Hadwin 74-71—145 +1 Andrew Putnam 73-72—145 +1 Rahm joins large lead pack Byeong-Hun An 72-73—145 +1 Max Homa 70-75—145 +1 Justin Harding 75-71—146 +2 BY DOUG FERGUSON that ball will get to the hole and hopefully finds it, Brendon Todd 73-73—146 +2 A quick look Larry Mize 70-77—147 +3 Associated Press and it did,” Rahm said of his par chip. “It was huge. Kevin Kisner 71-76—147 +3 Lanto Griffin 74-73—147 +3 A chip-in is always a huge boost of confidence.” Tyrrell Hatton 73-74—147 +3 AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jon Rahm had two meaningful It was the second consecutive year there was a Matthew Wolff 70-77—147 +3 shots at the par 5s on the back nine Saturday morn- LEADING: John Rahm completed Jason Day 70-78—148 +4 five-way share of the lead through 36 holes. Jason Kokrak 71-77—148 +4 ing, one for birdie and the other for par, that allowed The cut was at even-par 144, a Masters record and a 6-under 66 Saturday morning to join Tyler Duncan 77-71—148 +4 him to cap a 6-under 66 and join a five-way share of a-James Sugrue 77-71—148 +4 a reflection of how rain has affected this Masters in a lead pack that also included Dustin J.T. Poston 73-75—148 +4 the lead after 36 holes at the Masters. November. It caused a delay of nearly three hours Joinson, Justin Thomas, Abraham a-Lukas Michel 76-74—150 +6 Fred Couples 77-73—150 +6 Tiger Woods remained in the mix with one birdie at the start of the tournament that caused the open- Ancer and C.T. Pan at 9 under. Francesco Molinari 72-78—150 +6 and seven pars to complete a 71, leaving him four ing two rounds to need an extra day to finish, and it TRAILING: Hideki Matsuyama, Pat- Nate Lashley 75-76—151 +7 Lucas Glover 77-74—151 +7 shots behind. Bryson DeChambeau gets two more made Augusta National as vulnerable as ever. rick Reed, C.T. Pan, Patrick Cantlay Sandy Lyle 78-73—151 +7 rounds after making the cut on the number, and Sixty players made the cut — it would have been a-Yuxin Lin 79-73—152 +8 and Sungjae Im were all one shot be- Jose Maria Olazabal 78-80—158 +14 then revealing he felt so shaky Thursday night that 68 if the Masters still had the 10-shot rule — and hind the leaders at 8 under. There were Andrew Landry 78-82—160 +16 he had an additional test for the coronavirus. a-Abel Gallegos 79-81—160 +16 it looked as though the third round would have no 27 players bunched within five shots, Vijah Singh WD As the sun broke through the clouds when the trouble finishing. and 60 players made the cut. Erik van Rooyen WD second round ended, it revealed a Masters that even The record 36-hole score of 130 that Jordan Spi- TIGER TALES: Tiger Woods’ sec- without spectators was shaping up to be as exciting eth posted in 2015 was never threatened. But a lea- ond-round 71 included one birdie and as always. derboard has rarely been so bunched, leading to so seven pars. The defending champion Ten players were separated by one shot going into many possibilities at the halfway point. was four shots off the lead with two the final two rounds, and 27 players were separat- That included Woods, who won his fifth green rounds to go. ed by five shots, a list that includes everyone from jacket last year by coming from behind for the first MASTERS RECORD: Bernhard Woods and Phil Mickelson to Masters newcomers time in a major. He didn’t get the most out of his Langer made the cut at 3-under 141. Abraham Ancer and C.T. Pan. round. Woods holed a tough par putt at the 11th to At 63, he’s the oldest player to make Rahm joined the lead pack at 9-under 135 with a resume his round, and wisely laid up on both par 5s the cut in tournament history, break- wedge to 5 feet for birdie on the par-5 13th to re- when the morning conditions made the course feel ing the mark set by Tommy Aaron in sume his second round, but the next par 5 meant longer than it was. just as much. 2000. His only birdie came on the 15th when he laid up SHOT OF THE DAY: With heavy morning air, dew on the ground and and hit wedge to about 12 feet below the cup. On Friday, Jus- mud occasionally attaching itself to the golf ball, he “The golf course is playing long right now. The air tin Thomas hit a pitch from pine straw chose to lay up and was immediately satisfied with is heavy. The ball is not really flying like it was yes- left of the eighth green that rolled over his decision when the ball came off the club and trav- terday,” Woods said. the huge mounds, past the pin, and eled shorter than he imagined. But he overcooked Woods also pointed out the lack of wind, and the then rolled down another slope toward his wedge and went over the green. His fourth shot warm temperatures approaching 80 degrees in the the hole for a short birdie putt. didn’t reach the putting surface. afternoon. That would make it even more difficult NOTEWORTHY: The cut was at Needing to get up-and-down for bogey, he chipped to dry out the course, even with the sub-air system, even-par 144, a Masters record. CURTIS COMPTON in for par to keep a clean card and join the others at although the greens were getting faster. QUOTEWORTHY: “See ball, hit ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/AP 135 who finished the round Friday — Dustin John- Among those who missed the cut were Matt ball, see putt, hole putt, go to the next. Abraham Ancer, of Mexico, son and Justin Thomas, Ancer and Cameron Smith. Kuchar and Henrik Stenson, along with Tyrrell Yeah, he makes it seem so simple or shared the lead and was one “It’s not like you’re always trying to make it, but it’s Hatton, who has moved into the top 10 in the world makes it look so simple at times.” Rory of 27 players within five shots the type of shot where I’m really just looking to start but who has missed the cut in all three majors this McIlroy on Dustin Johnson. through two rounds. it on the right line and land it on the green, because year. — Associated Press S TARS AND STRIPES Sunday, November 15, 2020 SPORTS

PAUL HORNUNG

1935-2020 Golden Boy

Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Paul Hornung, the dazzling “Golden Boy” of the Green Bay Packers whose singular ability to generate points as a runner, receiver, quarterback and kicker helped turn the team into an NFL dynasty, died Friday. He was 84. Hornung’s family confirmed his death to the Louisville Sports Commission and to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. SEE GOLDEN ON PAGE 20

Notre Dame quarterback Paul Hornung imitates the posture of the Heisman Trophy he received on Dec. 12, 1956, at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City. Hornung, the dazzling “Golden Boy” who helped turn the Green Bay Packers into an NFL dynasty, died Friday. He was 84. AP

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