SECTION B VISIT SAMOA NEWS ONLINE @ SAMOANEWS.COM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2017 CLASSIFIEDS • CARTOONS • ALOHA BRIEFS & MORE ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Scherzer, Kluber win Cy Young Awards by C M wide margins Y K Max Scherzer heard his about winning three times, I name and thrust his arms in the can’t even comprehend it at this air, shouting and smiling big point.” before turning to kiss his wife. Scherzer was 16-6 with a Corey Kluber, on the other career-best 2.51 ERA this year. hand, gulped once and blinked. The 33-year-old righty struck Two aces, two different out a league-leading 268 for the styles — and now another Cy NL East champion Nationals, Young Award for each. and in an era noted for declining The animated Scherzer pitcher durability, he eclipsed of the Washington Nationals 200 innings for the fi fth straight coasted to his third Cy Young, season. He had to overcome a winning Wednesday for the variety of ailments to get there, second straight year in the and Washington’s training staff National League. He breezed was high on his thank-you list. past Los Angeles Dodgers ace “Everybody had a role in FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2017, fi le photo, Washington Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer stands Clayton Kershaw, drawing 27 keeping me out on the fi eld,” he in the dugout during the team’s baseball game against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park in of the 30 fi rst-place votes in said. “I’m very thankful for all Washington. Scherzer of the Washington Nationals coasted to his third Cy Young Award, winning balloting by members of the their hard work.” Wednesday, Nov. 15, for the second straight year in the National League. Baseball Writers’ Association Kershaw has won three NL (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) of America. Cy Youngs and was the last Kluber’s win was even more pitcher to win back-to-back. of a runaway. The Cleveland He was 18-4 with a league-best Indians ace took 28 fi rst-place 2.31 ERA and 202 strikeouts. votes, easily outpacing Chris This is his second runner-up Sale of the Boston Red Sox for fi nish. Stephen Strasburg of the his second AL Cy Young. Nationals fi nished third. Scherzer yelled “yes!” when Kluber missed a month of his award was announced on the season with back pain and MLB Network, a reaction still easily won the AL award in keeping with his expres- over Sale and third-place fi n- sive reputation. He showed isher Luis Severino of the New that intensity often this year, York Yankees. Kluber led the whether he was cursing under majors with a 2.25 ERA, and his breath like a madman during his 18 wins tied for the most in his delivery or demanding — baseball. He added to the Cy also with expletives — that Young he won with the Indians manager Dusty Baker leave him in 2014 and is the 19th pitcher in the game. to win multiple times. Just a little different than The 31-year-old Kluber was the pitcher they call “Klubot.” especially dominant down the Kluber was stoic as ever when stretch, closing out the season announced as the AL winner. by going 11-1 to help Cleveland He swallowed hard but other- win the AL Central. He and wise didn’t react, only showing Minnesota’s Ervin Santana tied the hint of a smile moments for the major league lead with C M later when answering questions. fi ve complete games — nobody Y K Not that he wasn’t thrilled. else had more than two. “Winning a second one Kluber and Scherzer both maybe, for me personally, had rough outings in the play- kind of validates the fi rst one,” offs. Kluber gave up nine runs Kluber said. over two starts in an AL Divi- Scherzer’s win moves him sion Series against the Yankees, into rare company. He’s the 10th and Scherzer blew a save in the pitcher with at least three Cy decisive Game 5 of an NL Divi- Youngs, and among the other sion Series against the Cubs. nine, only Kershaw, Roger Cle- Scherzer said he couldn’t mens and Roy Halladay aren’t even watch the League Cham- in the Hall of Fame — Kershaw pionship Series, although he did and Halladay aren’t yet eligible. tune in for the World Series. “That’s why I’m drinking “That will eat at me this a lot of champagne tonight,” whole offseason,” he said. Scherzer said. Voting for the awards was Scherzer earned the NL completed before the post- honor last year with Wash- season began. ington and the 2013 American The fi nal BBWAA honors League prize with Detroit. will come Thursday when the “This one is special,” he MVP awards are announced in said. “When you start talking the AL and NL. Page B2 samoa news, Thursday, November 16, 2017 Cowboys’ Elliott drops appeal, will serve rest of 6-game ban FRISCO, Texas (AP) — week turned down his request Dallas Cowboys running back for an injunction while the case Ezekiel Elliott is ending his was being heard. The same legal fi ght with fi ve games court ruled against New Eng- remaining on a six-game sus- land quarterback Tom Brady pension over alleged domestic last year over his four-game violence. suspension in the “Defl ategate” Elliott’s agents said case. Unlike Elliott, Brady had Wednesday the decision by last won a lower-court ruling that year’s NFL rushing leader “is in delayed the suspension for a no way an admission of wrong- year. doing.” Elliott had a hearing “This decision arises from a set in a federal appeals court practical assessment of the cur- on Dec. 1, four games into the rent legal landscape,” agents suspension. Rocky Arceneaux and Frank Wednesday was the 96th Salzano said. day since Commissioner Roger “This decision is in no way Goodell announced the suspen- an admission of any wrong- sion. Elliott served the fi rst game doing, and Mr. Elliott is pleased in Dallas’ 27-7 loss to Atlanta that the legal fi ght ... resulted in last weekend. By accepting the disclosing many hidden truths six-game ban, Elliott is eligible regarding this matter, as well to return for the fi nal two games as publicly exposing the NFL’s of the regular season: Dec. 24 at mismanagement of its disci- home against Seattle and Dec. plinary process.” 31 at Philadelphia. A Texas judge granted an The defending NFC East injunction that kept Elliott champion Cowboys (5-4) are eligible early in the season, three games behind the divi- agreeing with NFL Players sion-leading Eagles (8-1), who Association lawyers who argued visit Sunday night. A year after that investigators withheld key being the top seed in the NFC evidence from Goodell, and that FILE - In this Th ursday, Nov. 9, 2017, fi le photo, Dallas Cowboys NFL football star Ezekiel Elliott at 13-3, Dallas faces a diffi cult the appeal hearing was unfair walks out of federal court in New York. Elliott has dropped his appeal on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, task staying in playoff conten- because arbitrator Harold Hen- with fi ve games remaining on his six-game suspension over alleged domestic violence. Th e 22-year- tion until Elliott returns. derson refused to call Goodell old Elliott was suspended in August aft er the league concluded following a yearlong investigation The 22-year-old Elliott was and Thompson as witnesses. that he had several physical confrontations in the summer of 2016 with Tiff any Th ompson, his girl- suspended by Goodell in August The NFL contended all along friend at the time. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) after the league concluded fol- that the league followed federal lowing a yearlong investigation law as it relates to labor agree- that he had several physical ments and the commissioner’s confrontations in the summer of power to discipline players. 2016 with Tiffany Thompson, A federal appeals court in his girlfriend at the time. New Orleans tossed Elliott’s Prosecutors in Ohio didn’t lawsuit in Texas on the grounds pursue the case, citing con- that it was fi led prematurely. fl icting evidence. Elliott denied The case moved to New York the allegations under oath because the NFL had already during his NFL appeal. fi led there.After a visiting fed- “Our vigilant fi ght on behalf eral judge granted a tempo- of Ezekiel once again exposed rary restraining order that kept the NFL’s disciplinary process Elliott on the fi eld two more as a sham and a lie,” the NFL weeks, the judge assigned to Players Association said in a the case rejected all of Elliott’s statement. “They hired sev- arguments in denying his eral former federal prosecu- request for an injunction. tors, brought in ‘experts’ and An emergency stay made imposed a process with the him eligible for one game stated goal of ‘getting it right,’ against Kansas City before yet the management council the latest ruling denying an refuses to step in and stop injunction. repeated manipulation of an “Mr. Elliott’s desire for clo- already awful League-imposed sure is in his best interest, as system.” well as the best interests of his The suspension prompted teammates, family and friends,” weeks of court hearings in three Elliott’s attorneys said. “Mr. states resulting in three legal Elliott will maximize his time reprieves that kept Elliott on the away from the game and come fi eld.The 2nd U.S.