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FORT BENNING, Ga. — Dur-
ing 23 years in the Army — much
of it in the elite ranks of the 75th
Ranger Regiment — Jeff Strueck-
er saw combat in Panama, Iraq
and Afghanistan, but nothing
compared to the infamous Octo-
ber 1993 gunfight through the
streets of Mogadishu.
“I’d been to combat a couple of
times before Somalia and a lot of
times after, but I’ve never seen
heroism, I’ve never seen fighting,
like we saw among these guys on
the streets of Mogadishu, Soma-
lia,” said Struecker, one of 18 vet-
erans who fought in the battle offi-
cially known as Operation Gothic
Serpent and awarded the Silver
Star for valor Friday. “Nothing
came close to Somalia. I mean not
even close.”
The Silver Stars presented in a
ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga.,
for those who were serving 28
years ago in the 3rd Battalion,
75th Ranger Regiment were up-
grades of Bronze Star medals
with combat “V” for valor that the
Rangers were presented months
after returning from Somalia. The
Battle of Mogadishu, in which 18
American soldiers were killed,
was later made famous by the
best-selling book “Black Hawk
Down” and the movie of the same
name.
For Struecker, the honor was
“bittersweet” and unexpected.
He said others who fought in that
battle were more deserving of the
Silver Star, the nation’s third
highest honor for battlefield hero-
ics. He said he was particularly
proud to see some of the other
troops from that fight honored.
“It’s truly an honor,” said Sean
U.S. Army photo
Current U.S. Army Rangers look at photos of 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Rangers in action in Somalia in 1993 before 18 formermembers of the unit were awarded Silver Stars on Friday for their actions in the infamous Battle of Mogadishu that year.
Incomparable heroism‘Black Hawk Down’ Rangers receive Silver Stars 28 years after infamous Mogadishu battle
BY COREY DICKSTEIN
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“I’d been to combat acouple of times beforeSomalia and a lot oftimes after, but I’venever seen heroism, I’venever seen fighting, likewe saw among theseguys on the streets ofMogadishu, Somalia.”
Jeff Struecker
Army veteran, Silver Star recipient
MILITARY
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least
five civilians were killed in a bomb
blast outside a Kabul mosque Sun-
day, a Taliban official said. It was
the deadliest attack in the Afghan
capital since U.S. forces left at the
end of August.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility, but suspicion fell
on Islamic State extremists who
have stepped up attacks on the Ta-
liban in recent weeks, particularly
in an ISIS stronghold in eastern
Afghanistan.
An apparent roadside bomb
went off at the gate of the spraw-
ling Eid Gah Mosque in Kabul at a
time when a memorial service was
being held for the mother of chief
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah
Mujahid. Five people were killed,
said Qari Saeed Khosti, the
spokesman of the Interior Minis-
try.
The explosion underscored the
growing challenges the Taliban
face just weeks after they took
control of Afghanistan in a blitz
campaign, culminating in their
takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15.
During their 20-year insurgen-
cy, the Taliban themselves had
frequently carried out bombing
and shooting attacks, but are now
faced with trying to contain rival
militants using the same methods.
The growing security challenges
come at a time of an economic
meltdown, as the Taliban struggle
to run the country without the
massive foreign aid given to U.S.-
backed government they toppled.
Three suspects were arrested in
Sunday’s explosion in Kabul, said
Bilal Karimi, a Taliban spokes-
man. He said Taliban fighters
were not harmed.
Kabul mosquebombed in firstmajor attacksince US pullout
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AFGHANISTAN
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
MILAN — U.S. climate envoy
John Kerry said Saturday he
thinks “enormous progress” can
be made at the upcoming U.N. cli-
mate talks in Scotland but more
governments must come up with
concrete commitments in the next
30 days.
Kerry attended a preparatory
meeting in Milan where delegates
around the world sought to identify
where progress can be made be-
fore the U.N. climate change starts
in Glasgow on Oct. 31.
The 12-day summit aims to se-
cure more ambitious commit-
ments to limit global warming to
well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit
with a goal of keeping it to 2.7 de-
grees compared to pre-industrial
levels. The event also is focused on
mobilizing financing and protect-
ing vulnerable communities and
natural habitats.
“The bottom line is, folks, as we
stand here today, we believe we
can make enormous progress in
Glasgow, moving rapidly towards
the new goals that the science is
telling us we must achieve,” Kerry
said. That means achieving a 45%
reduction in carbon emissions in
the next 10 years.
“This is the decisive decade,’’
Kerry said.
Kerry, a former U.S. senator and
secretary of state, said that coun-
tries representing 55% of the
world’s gross domestic product —
Britain, Canada, Japan, the United
States and the 27 European Union
members — have submitted plans
that hit the 2.7 degreestarget by re-
ducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Monday, October 4, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 3
Enlisted soldiers with 20 years
of service who are under investi-
gation for misconduct can now be
considered for voluntary retire-
ment at a reduced grade instead
of a more punitive administrative
separation, the Army said.
“A retirement at a reduced
rank, rather than an administra-
tive discharge for misconduct,
would allow for the preservation
of a 20-year active federal service
retirement,” it said in a statement
Thursday.
The decision is aimed at giving
Army leaders more options for
handling cases of misconduct in-
volving career soldiers, as op-
posed to “all or nothing determi-
nations,” the statement said.
Previously, the Army could ei-
ther separate soldiers with or
without suspension for up to 12
months, or retire them with their
current ranks.
“A grade-reduced retirement,
rather than an administrative dis-
charge for misconduct, may be
appropriate considering the na-
ture of the misconduct versus the
totality of a Soldier’s service and
may also improve their post-mil-
itary employment opportunities,”
the statement said.
The Army has long allowed of-
ficers to retire at reduced ranks
in instances involving miscon-
duct.
Rank reductions for enlisted
soldiers can be either voluntary
or involuntary. Before any invol-
untary reduction, a soldier must
be given written notice and have
the opportunity to consult with a
lawyer and dispute such a move.
Any reduction is final and may
not be appealed, the service said.
The policy applies to soldiers in
the regular active Army, Reserve
and National Guard.
NOEL GERIG/U.S. Army
Soldiers stand in formation before a training event at Fort Knox, Ky.,on Sept. 9.
Army: Career enlistedsoldiers with misconductcan retire at lower rank
BY JOHN VANDIVER
Stars and Stripes
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea —
North Korea claimed to have launched a
new anti-aircraft missile Thursday, its
fourth missile test in recent weeks, as its
leaders signaled peaceful overtures amid
frozen relations.
The new surface-to-air missile displayed
“remarkable combat performance”
through “new key technologies,” the state-
run Korean Central News Agency reported
Friday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did
not appear to have inspected the test, ac-
cording to the report.
South Korea’s military, which typically
gives details of significant missile tests
shortly after they are conducted by the
North, said it was aware of the latest launch
but did not provide further insight.
North Korea’s production of surface-to-
air missiles is not a novel development; it
has tested the missiles in the past decade
and claimed they were successful.
At least three other missile variations
were launched by North Korea in recent
weeks. The communist regime in separate
tests last month fired a ballistic missile
from a train, launched long-range cruise
missiles capable of reaching Japan, and
test-fired a hypersonic short-range missile
off its eastern coast.
The latest test comes one day after Kim
said the inter-Korean communication lines
would reopen by early October. The lines
were reinstated in July after an extended
pause but were again severed after two
weeks in an apparent protest to joint U.S.-
South Korean military drills.
In a statement through KCNA on Thurs-
day, Kim said the restoration of the hotline
was an effort “for realizing the expectations
and desire of the entire Korean nation to see
the earlier recovery of the North-South re-
lations.”
His sister, Kim Yo Jong, relayed the same
sentiment in a separate statement last
month but added the U.S. and South Korea
needed to quit their “hostile policies”
against her country.
In her statement, Kim described the no-
tion of formally ending the 1950-53 Korean
War as a “good idea,” but noted that the dec-
laration would be meaningless if the cur-
rent “conflicted relationships and antag-
onistic relations” continued on the peninsu-
la.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in,
who has advocated for formally putting an
end to the Korean War throughout his presi-
dency, urged the two countries to “come to-
gether” in a speech before the United Na-
tions General Assembly in September.
The Koreas remain at war following the
signing of an armistice agreement, rather
than a peace treaty. Roughly 28,500 U.S.
troops are currently stationed in the South.
N. Korea: Anti-aircraft missile testedBY DAVID CHOI
Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes reporter Yoo Kyong Chang contributed to thisreport.choi.david@stripes.comTwitter: @choibboy
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The Navy College Program,
which enables students to re-
ceive academic credits for regu-
lar work and training, has per-
manently shut down in-person
counseling at overseas offices,
according to a program state-
ment.
The change finalizes a shift to
providing sailor counseling on-
line during the coronavirus pan-
demic through the Navy College
Virtual Education Center, the
statement said.
“Sailors interested in pursuing
off-duty educational opportuni-
ties will continue to have a wide
array of virtual services availa-
ble to them,” Lt. Cmdr. Adam
Walski, Navy Voluntary Educa-
tion director, said in the Sept. 27
statement. “More importantly,
services will not be interrupted
for those in need of education as-
sistance or counseling in any lo-
cation worldwide.”
The Navy had closed its last
four physical offices stateside in
2017, after closing 16 offices the
year before and 20 in 2009.
Navy officials said in 2017 that
the closures would save $2.3 mil-
lion. However, the services had
kept the college offices outside
the continental U.S. open.
Offices now providing virtual
services include Naval Station
Rota in Spain, and Naval Air Sta-
tion Sigonella and Naval Support
Activity Naples, both in Italy.
The change also affects offices in
Bahrain; Misawa, Yokosuka, At-
sugi, Sasebo and Okinawa, all in
Japan; Guam; Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba; and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Academic institutions already
on Navy bases within and outside
the U.S. remain in place, the
statement said.
Virtual services include call-in
and live chat with counselors
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern
time. There also is an automated
chatbot on the Navy College web-
site, or people may leave a ques-
tion or request a counselor to call
back using Issue Tracker in My-
Navy Education.
All virtual education center
customers will now use the My-
Navy Career Center toll-free
number, 1-833-330-MNCC, the
statement said.
LESLIE DICKEY/U.S. Navy
Roy Suber, an education counselor with the Navy College Virtual Education Center in Virginia Beach, Va.,assists a sailor over the phone last month.
In-person education counselingshut down for sailors overseas
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PAGE 4 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Monday, October 4, 2021
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE,
Japan — U.S. sailors and Japanese
security personnel checked out
new 9 mm handguns at this base
south of Tokyo on Friday morning,
ending nearly four decades of ser-
vice with Beretta M9 pistols.
As part of a servicewide transi-
tion, security officers have been
training with the SIG Sauer M18
pistol, which is replacing the M9.
The Navy adopted the M9 in 1985,
according to Yokosuka’s head of
security, Lt. Cmdr. Roel Rosalez.
At Yokosuka, the transition
meant more than 31,000 rounds
fired by approximately 350 securi-
ty officers as they became certi-
fied to use the new sidearm over
the course of nearly a month.
“For a single person, it’s roughly
about 12 to 16 hours [of training]
from beginning to end,” Petty Offi-
cer 1st Class Gasper Peña told
Stars and Stripes on Wednesday.
“It took us approximately two
weeks to accomplish all of the ac-
tual training and evolutions, and
then an additional two weeks on
the administrative side.”
Peña, an armory supervisor at
Yokosuka, said the Navy has been
transitioning toward the M18 for
nearly a decade, a process that was
delayed because the pistols initial-
ly lacked certain features, such as
an external safety catch.
“We’re talking 10 years ago;
that’s literally when I joined the
Navy,” Peña said. “Ten years lat-
er, we finally got them, and it’s a
really, really good weapon sys-
tem.”
Yokosuka is likely the first Navy
installation outside of the United
States to put the new weapons into
service, according to Rosalez and
Peña.
Other installations in Japan are
in “various stages of the transition
to M18s,” Cmdr. Katie Cerezo, spo-
keswoman for Naval Forces Ja-
pan, said in an email Friday. How-
ever, she could not comment on
specifics “as a matter of policy.”
A spokesperson for the Navy
Chief of Information could not be
immediately reached Friday for
comment regarding the M18’s rol-
lout across the service.
Advantages of the M18 over the
M9 include a lighter weight, easily
replaced components and a larger
magazine capacity.
Yokosuka security officers will
be carrying three, 17-round maga-
zines, meaning an increase of six
rounds per person over the three,
15-round magazines carried with
the M9.
Peña said security personnel at
Yokosuka score about 10% higher
on the range with the M18 than
they did with the M9.
“I think this weapon will be eas-
ier for sailors, as far as drawing
and using the weapon because it’s
lighter, smaller and more com-
pact,” Peña said. “It’s going to be
more comfortable when they’re
doing their daily duties.”
The new pistols are also approx-
imately $6 cheaper than the M9,
coming in at $580 per handgun.
Rosalez declined to reveal how
many pistols the base has ordered
but said there would be enough to
adequately arm security person-
nel.
The M18 and its larger M17 vari-
ant are customized versions of the
civilian-use SIG Sauer P320 pistol,
developed under SIG Sauer’s
Modular Handgun System pro-
gram. Over the past several years,
the Marines, Air Force and Army
have also begun to phase out their
older handguns for the SIG pistols.
In November 2020, the weapons
manufacturer delivered 200,000
M18s and M17s to the U.S. mili-
tary, a milestone that coincided
with the first month it had deliver-
ed handguns to all the armed ser-
vices, according to a news release.
The Army in 2017 was the first
service to begin using the M17 and
M18, after a $580 million contract
was awarded to SIG Sauer that
year. The contract called for a de-
livery of 480,000 pistols over 10
years to the Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard.
The Air Force began fielding the
pistols in 2019, and the Marines
followed suit in 2020.
Yokosuka issues M18,replacing Beretta M9
BY ALEX WILSON
Stars and Stripes
DANIEL BETANCOURT/Stars and Stripes
The Navy began issuing new SIG Sauer M18 pistols to security forcespersonnel at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Friday.
wilson.alex@stripes.comTwitter: @AlexMNWilson
The secret to being cool … is not trying to
be cool.
This was one of the tips that Hollywood
actor, comedian and musician Jack Black
had for service members gathered at USO
clubs worldwide during a virtual program-
ming event on Thursday.
Black is the star of movies such as
“School of Rock,” “Kung Fu Panda” and the
upcoming animated “Super Mario Bros”
film. He’s also a member of hard-rocking
duo Tenacious D.
He spoke on a video link that streamed
live to USO clubs in Grafenwoehr, Germa-
ny; Abu Dhabi; and Great Lakes, Ill. Mem-
bers of the military community also tuned
in from warships at sea and from home
computers on bases all over the world, ac-
cording to the USO.
Black told backstories to some of his fa-
mous roles, including the military themed
“Tropic Thunder,” in which he portrays a
comedian playing the part of a flatulent sol-
dier making a film within a film about the
Vietnam War alongside costars Ben Stiller
and Robert Downey Jr.
Closest to Black’s heart is “Tenacious D
in the Pick of Destiny,” which tells the story
of his and bandmate Kyle Gass’ battle with
evil, he said.
“Although it wasn’t a big hit at the time, it
got a cult following,” Black said, recalling
his band’s 2019 performance in front of
100,000 people at the Rock Am Ring concert
in Nuremberg, Germany. “I would recom-
mend starting a rock band.”
Black said he considered making a sequel
called “The Bong of Destiny.” He suggested
the film be made with minimal effort and
that the bong could allow people to travel
through time.
“Sometimes laziness leads to gold,” he
told the troops, joking that he looked like a
bearded cult leader. “They call it the path of
least resistance. It’s a spiritual path you can
go on.”
He answered a question from a viewer at
Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, who asked:
“How did you get so cool?”
“I guess from not trying to be cool,” Black
replied. “To answer that question, I have to
admit that you are right, I am cool. That is a
difficult thing to say and not seem uncool.
You have to use verbal aikido or jiujitsu be-
cause there is nothing so uncool as someone
who is always trying to be cool.”
Black thanked the troops for their cour-
age.
“I’m just a cowardly lion, which makes
me appreciate you even more,” he said.
“I’m grateful for your service all around the
world, not only protecting the country …
but also making the world a better place.”
Jack Black jokes around at virtual event hosted by USOBY SETH ROBSON
Stars and Stripes
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USO
Actor, comedian and musician Jack Blackanswers service members’ questionsduring a virtual USO event, on Thursday.
A Navy special warfare officer
and former operations director for
the Joint Special Operations Com-
mand has taken charge of U.S. na-
val assets in the Korean Peninsula.
Rear Adm. Mark Schafer, a Na-
vy SEAL, became the latest com-
mander of U.S. Naval Forces Ko-
rea on Wednesday, relieving Rear
Adm. Buzz Donnelly, a former air-
craft carrier commander who
served in the position for two
years.
“I am excited and honored to be
carrying on the legacy of this com-
mand and its rich history that
dates back to its establishment in
July 1957,” Schafer said during the
ceremony at the headquarters of
South Korea’s navy, according to a
press release. “The superiority of
the combined team is a testament
to Rear Adm. Donnelly’s leader-
ship.”
In departing remarks, Donnelly
said he “could not have asked for a
more professionally or personally
rewarding experience here in Ko-
rea,” according to the release. He
was awarded the Legion of Merit
during the change-of-command
ceremony by U.S. Forces Korea
commander Gen. Paul LaCamera.
“I am confident in the team that
Rear Adm. Schafer is inheriting
and am excited for what the future
holds for the Forces and Region
teams under his leadership,” Don-
nelly said.
Schafer represents all Navy as-
sets on the Korean Peninsula and
acts as a liaison between the two
allies’ navies. The New York na-
tive graduated from the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1994 and has served
with SEAL Team 2, SEAL Team 4
and the Naval Special Warfare De-
velopment Group.
Roughly 28,500 U.S. troops are
stationed in South Korea. The U.S.
Navy has one installation on the
peninsula, Chinhae Naval Base,
near Busan on the southern coast.
About 300 personnel are assigned
there.
Navy SEAL takes command of US naval forces in South KoreaBY DAVID CHOI
Stars and Stripes
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A huge, ancient burial mound
has been uncovered near an air
base in central Norway where
Americans and other NATO forces
regularly train, Norwegian media
reports said.
The mound near Orland Main
Air Station is over 130 feet in diam-
eter and was built some 3,000 years
ago, well before the Vikings
emerged, according to the Norwe-
gian Broadcasting Corp., known as
NRK.
Like the base, historians believe
one of the main functions of the
gravesite was to ward off enemies,
a sort of Bronze Age version of de-
terrence.
“This is a sensationally large
burial mound and it had exactly
the same function as today’s fight-
er base,” historian Daniel Johan-
sen said in an NRK report Wednes-
day.
The sheer size of the structure
would have made it clearly visible
from the sea, and it would have sig-
naled to foreigners that if the in-
habitants had enough manpower
to build such an impressive grave
for their dead, they’d also have the
same manpower to fight off ene-
mies, Johansen explained.
The burial mound is strategical-
ly located near the entrance of the
Trondheim Fjord, near what
would become Norway’s first cap-
ital city. The site and the nearby
Orland Main Air Station are about
330 miles north of the capital, Oslo,
on the Norwegian Sea.
Orland, home to Norway’s fleet
of F-35A Lightning II fighter air-
craft, is also where the first U.S. Air
Force bombers ever deployed to
Norway arrived earlier this year.
An expeditionary B-1 Lancer
bomb squadron and more than 200
personnel arrived from Dyess Air
Force Base, Texas, underscoring
the growing importance of the Arc-
tic region to U.S. defense strategy.
Excavators are still working to
uncover the full extent of the near-
by burial mound, whose builders
remain a mystery, as there are no
writings from the period it was
constructed, NRK said.
A cultural trail is being built in
the area that will allow visitors to
walk past the site.
“It is very nice to show off the ve-
ry large, beautiful cultural monu-
ments we have in the area, espe-
cially one that has not been availa-
ble before,” said local archaeolo-
gist Knut Stomsvik, who was
quoted by NRK. “We want people
to know a little about history and
get to know it.”
Burial moundunearthed nearNorway base
BY PHILLIP WALTER
WELLMAN
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A Norwegian F35 and a U.S. Air Force F22 Raptor stand on thetarmac after landing at Orland Main Air Station, Norway, in 2018.
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With Spain’s COVID-19 infection rate
falling significantly, U.S. Naval Station Rota
is easing restrictions and no longer requir-
ing vaccinated travelers to quarantine, the
base announced.
Quarantine now will be required only for
unvaccinated travelers of any age who
came from or through a country with a 14-
day incidence rate higher than 480 cases
per 100,000 residents, the base said on its
Facebook page. Those countries currently
include Great Britain, Serbia, Slovenia and
the United States.
As of Thursday, people at NS Rota’s fit-
ness center no longer had to wear a face
mask except when walking through the
center or spotting a workout partner using
free weights.
Mask wearing previously was required in
all cases other than while using cardio
equipment, according to an online post
Wednesday.
“High immunization rates, low test posi-
tivity rates, fewer hospitalizations and few-
er daily new cases all indicate that we are at
less risk now from COVID,” said Capt. Da-
vid Baird, NS Rota’s commanding officer.
The Spanish Health Ministry’s latest data
show just over 77% of Spain’s population is
fully vaccinated, and 90% of the population
12 and over has taken at least one dose.
The country’s current seven-day infec-
tion rate is 33 per 100,000 residents, accord-
ing to Reuters. There have been nearly 5
million infections and 86,397 deaths report-
ed in Spain since the pandemic began, the
health ministry said.
Nationwide, open-air stadiums can be at
100% capacity and indoor facilities at 80%
starting Thursday, Reuters reported. Peo-
ple will have to keep a minimum distance of
1.5 meters and wear a face mask.
Pandemic restrictions relaxed at US Naval Station Rota in SpainBY ALISON BATH
Stars and Stripes
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Ger-
many — Three graffiti-marked
concrete slabs that once symbol-
ized a divided world have been re-
located to a prominent place on
the largest U.S. Air Force base in
Europe, days before Germany
celebrates 31 years of reunifica-
tion on Sunday.
A small section of the Berlin
Wall now sits atop a grassy area
inside a busy traffic circle by the
Kaiserslautern Military Commu-
nity Center.
“Before, it was just kind of
tucked away in a small park” next
to the officers’ club, where “no
one really knew about it,” said
Staff Sgt. Allen Brewer, a vehicle
control officer at the 786th Civil
Engineering Squadron’s heavy
equipment shop.
The base commander, Brig.
Gen. Josh Olson, wanted to “move
the Berlin Wall more out in the
open so everyone can see it,”
Brewer said. The segment was
moved one piece at a time over
two days last month, he said.
Each slab weighs about 20,000
pounds and is about 12 feet tall.
Graffiti is displayed across one
side of the slabs, some with En-
glish messages such as “tear
down the wall” and “peace forev-
er.”
Brewer didn’t know Ramstein
had pieces of the wall until his
shop was tasked with moving it,
he said.
The Berlin Wall was construct-
ed in 1961 to separate communist
East Berlin from Western influ-
ences. It would stand for nearly
30 years, tearing apart the city,
the country, families and friends.
After the wall fell on Nov. 9,
1989, segments of it were donated
to individuals and institutions for
memorials or sold to collectors.
Brewer didn’t know how long
the three slabs have stood at Ram-
stein or how the base acquired
them. But the display had stood
next to the officers’ club since at
least 2004, according to a story in
the Kaiserslautern American, the
base newspaper.
“It’s kind of cool to see we ac-
tually have a piece of it,” Brewer
said. “Actually, three pieces of it.”
PHOTOS BY JENNIFER H. SVAN/Stars and Stripes
Chris Lembach, a civil engineer squadron worker at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, reinforces theconnecting pieces between three slabs of the Berlin Wall, on Friday.
Pieces of iconic Berlin Wall findnew home on Ramstein Air Base
BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
Concrete slabs from the Berlin Wall were recently moved to a morevisible location at Ramstein.
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EUROPE
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Marine Corps aviators are pre-
paring to fly two of their F-35B
Lightning II fighters from the Ja-
panese flattop JS Izumo, a test of
the warship’s newly acquired abil-
ity to carry the stealthy aircraft.
Plans to land and launch the
short-takeoff, vertical-landing
F-35s from the Izumo were an-
nounced Thursday by the Defense
Ministry, although they’d been
signaled by Marine Corps Com-
mandant Gen. David Berger dur-
ing a security dialogue last month.
The drills are scheduled to hap-
pen between Sunday and Thurs-
day in the Pacific Ocean and in-
volve jets from Marine Corps Air
Station Iwakuni, the ministry said
in its announcement. The Izumo
arrived at the coastal air station on
Thursday.
MCAS Iwakuni, about 50 miles
south of Hiroshima, is home to two
F-35B squadrons, Marine Fighter
Attack Squadron 121 and Marine
Fighter Attack Squadron 242.
The aircraft landing on the Izu-
mo will be from VMFA-242,
known as the “Bats,” according to
1st Marine Aircraft Wing spokes-
man Maj. Ken Kunze.
Marine aircraft controllers and
public affairs staff are already on
the Izumo ahead of the operation,
he said in a telephone interview
Friday.
“It’s a demonstration for the Ja-
panese as they begin to accept
F-35Bs and they begin carrier op-
erations,” he said. “This is … land-
ing on the Izumo and showing that
it is capable of handling them.”
The ship, commissioned in 2015
as a helicopter carrier, had heat-
resistant coating added to its deck
this year, enabling it to support
F-35B vertical landings.
Its sister ship, the JS Kaga, is
scheduled for a similar makeover
ahead of Japan’s acquisition of 42
F-35Bs, which are slated to arrive
sometime in the next five years.
U.S. CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor air-
craft made their first-ever landing
on the Kaga during the Keen
Sword drills off Japan’s coast in
October 2020.
Japan already operates the
F-35A, a conventional takeoff-
and-landing version of aircraft,
from Misawa Air Base in the coun-
try’s northeast.
Japan’s return to carrier oper-
ations for the first time since
World War II comes as China
builds its own fleet of flattops.
Beijing launched its first carrier,
the Liaoning, in 2012 and a second,
the Shandong, in 2017.
A third carrier, similar in size to
the Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford, is
under construction in Shanghai,
Naval News reported April. 15.
Marine pilots test Japan’s warship abilityBY SETH ROBSON
Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes reporter Mari Higa contributedto this report.robson.seth@stripes.comTwitter: @SethRobson1
CENTRAL TRAINING AREA, Okinawa
— The Marine Corps has taken a big step in
developing the commandant’s island-fight-
ing doctrine by coordinating simulated air
and surface strikes with sailors aboard an
aircraft carrier.
Exercise Noble Jaguar began Sept. 28 and
involved approximately 60 Marines from
the 3rd Marine Division, 12th Marine Re-
giment, rocket crews from 3rd Battalion,
12th Marines, and the 1st Marine Aircraft
Wing, regiment operations officer Lt. Col.
Joshua Montero told Stars and Stripes at
Camp Hansen, Okinawa, on Thursday.
For the first time, Navy planners and in-
telligence officers from the USS Carl Vinson
joined the staff at 3rd Marine Division head-
quarters for the exercise. Meanwhile, the
nearby carrier’s crew took part in the com-
munications exercise alongside other units
of the 7th Fleet.
“We’ll have a Navy or Marine aircraft up
in the air, find a target, communicate that,
sometimes through the Navy, sometimes
through the Air Force,” Montero said. “And
then eventually at our level, we’ll have all of
the missiles come on to the same [target], so
we’re combining those strikes together.”
“In my opinion, that’s varsity level stuff.
It’s not easy to do and the only way you can
get after it is to practice, and that’s what
we’re doing right now.”
Certain Marine and Navy communication
systems are compatible, while others are
not, Montero said. Developing the “patch-
es,” or establishing connections prior to any
engagement, is key to readiness.
“The main focus of this is communication;
how are we talking to each other and how
can we do workarounds when we run into
some issues,” he said.
The exercise, which was slated to end Fri-
day, began with the loading and offloading of
two M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket
Systems, or HIMARS, from the expedition-
ary fast transport ship USNS Brunswick,
Capt. Nathanael Wasik, the HIMARS pla-
toon commander, said Thursday.
The platoon headed into the Central
Training Area and set up a concealed fire di-
rection center under camouflage netting to
coordinate strikes against air, land and sea
targets.
Marines dispersed to make themselves
difficult to target. They had to sustain them-
selves for several days with a limited
amount of food, water and fuel.
All of this was part of the Corps’ new is-
land-fighting doctrine, known as expedition-
ary advanced base operations, Wasik said.
Commandant Gen. David Berger intro-
duced the doctrine in July 2019. It calls for
Marines to move inside the range of an ad-
versary’s “long-range precision fires” and
establish difficult-to-target forward bases.
This doctrine translates to seizing and
holding territory, supporting naval units at
sea, refueling, rearming and relaunching
aircraft and denying sea lanes to the adver-
sary.
The III Marine Expeditionary Force on
Okinawa has been developing each phase of
expeditionary advanced base operations,
month by month, with each exercise, Ma-
rine officials told Stars and Stripes previous-
ly.
Typically, a fire mission comes into the di-
rection center from higher headquarters,
Wasik said. His operations chief and fire di-
rection officer process the information and
then task out the launchers.
The radio crackled Thursday morning
with a fire mission.
Minutes later, a HIMARS barreled down
one of the training area’s paved roads. It
came to a sudden stop next to a concealed
joint light tactical vehicle. A motor hummed
as the rocket tubes rose off the bed.
Moments later, the tubes came back
down, and the truck barreled back down the
street to hide again. No rockets were fired in
this simulation.
“There’s always going to be some troubles
that we have to work through with commu-
nications,” Wasik said. “However, our guys
have done a really good job troubleshoot-
ing.”
Operations chief Sgt. William Botelho
said the platoon encountered no insur-
mountable problems during the exercise.
“We shoot; we move; we can’t be detected
and just use the terrain and our surrounding
area to hide us to the best of our ability,” he
said. “There’s always a way to work around
whatever challenge you’re presented with
and to accomplish the mission.”
Marines holdexercise withNavy carrieron Okinawa
BY MATTHEW M. BURKE
Stars and Stripes
FRANK ANDREWS/Stars and Stripes
A member of 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment readies an M142 High MobilityArtillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, during the Noble Jaguar exercise at CentralTraining Area, Okinawa, on Thursday.
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A judge on Thursday sentenced the for-mer head of prosthetics and orthotics atWalter Reed National Military MedicalCenter, Md., to eight months in prison andordered him to pay nearly $8,000 in restitu-tion for accepting cash and gifts from a mancourting government business.
David Laufer, 64, pleaded guilty last yearto accepting gratuities as a public official.As part of his sentence, Laufer is required toserve four months of home confinement af-ter he completes his prison term. Two othermen have been charged in the corruptionscheme.
For nearly a decade, Laufer worked asthe chief of the prosthetics and orthotics de-partment at Walter Reed, the most hal-lowed wing of the world’s preeminent mil-itary hospital, visited by presidents, digni-taries and celebrities alike. The Bethesdahospital serves U.S. service members, in-cluding some of the most grievously wound-ed troops, and was embroiled in scandal af-ter The Washington Post reported filthy liv-ing conditions and neglect among patientsin 2007.
As part of his job, federal prosecutorssaid, Laufer was involved with dictatingwhich businesses the department pur-chased its medical materials from, includ-ing Pinnacle Orthopedic Services in Ger-mantown, Md.
But from 2012 to 2016, prosecutors said,Laufer personally benefited from the mili-tary hospital’s official transactions withPinnacle — receiving cash, airline travel,lodging and entertainment tickets from thecompany in exchange for his business.
In total, Pinnacle received more than $25million in purchases from Walter Reed.
According to prosecutors, Laufer’s de-partment used Blanket Purchase Agree-ments to coordinate sales with Pinnacle – aprocess that allowed employees to buy ma-terials without charging a credit card orcreating a contract over each purchase.
Laufer said in his plea agreement that healso refused business from prosthetics andorthotics manufacturers and distributors,directing them to sell their products to Pin-nacle instead. The middleman company,which did not produce any components ofits own, would then sell those products at asignificant markup to Walter Reed.
Ex-Walter Reedprosthetics chiefgiven 8 months
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MILITARY
U.S. ARMY PHOTO
John M. Collett is presented the SilverStar on Friday at Fort Benning, Ga., byArmy Gen. Richard Clarke for actions inthe October 1993 Battle of Mogadishu.
Watson, a sergeant first class at the time
who would go on to retire as a command
sergeant major in 2015. “I believe that being
an awardee is actually a representation of
everybody in the position I was in. They
earned it — they’re the ones who really
earned this.”
The Army announced in July that 60 vet-
erans of the battle — mostly Army special
operators, many of whom have not been
named publicly — would receive award up-
grades for their actions in the fight. That in-
cludes 58 Silver Stars and two Distin-
guished Flying Crosses. Award ceremonies
are planned for other units in the future, Ar-
my officials said Friday.
The fightThe battle broke out as American special
operators — primarily Rangers, and other
elite soldiers from the 160th Special Oper-
ations Aviation Regiment and 1st Special
Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, or
Delta Force — set out to capture two top
lieutenants of warlord Mohamed Farrah
Aidid, who was responsible for attacks on
U.N. peacekeeping troops working to end
civil war in Somalia.
The assault force was inserted into the
city by helicopter, and another element was
to follow that group into the city in Hum-
vees, according to the Army, which said
many elements of the battle remain classi-
fied despite the enormous attention it has
received publicly.
Struecker, then a staff sergeant with the
Rangers’ 3rd Battalion, was leading a squad
assigned as the ground reaction force to
support the helicopter-borne troops enter-
ing Aidid’s stronghold in the Bakara Mar-
ket. The helicopter assault force went in
first to search for the warlord’s henchmen
and the ground force came into the market
later, according to the Army’s description
of the battle.
It was the Rangers’ seventh mission in
Somalia, but this one, Struecker said, was in
broad daylight in a well-defended part of
Mogadishu with an unknown number of
enemy fighters.
“This is the middle of bad-guy territory,
and we’re kicking down the door and walk-
ing into the heart of it,” he said. “You know
as soon as you get in it’s going to be a fight,
and it’s going to be a fight the whole time
that you’re in there, and it’s going to be a
fight until you get out. All of us knew that.
What I don’t think anyone anticipated was
the sheer numbers.”
That U.S. force of less than 200 operators
would find itself in a fight with some 10,000
to 12,000 well-armed Somali fighters. After
the assault force nabbed Aidid’s aides, mil-
itants attacked the troops and shot down
two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters with
rocket-propelled grenades — something
the Army had never seen before, officials
said.
It set off a frantic mission to secure the
locations of the downed Black Hawks and
recover wounded and fallen Americans.
U.S. special operators would spend 18 hours
running and fighting their way through the
city’s streets, according to the Army.
Struecker, 52, led his ground unit through
the city three times as the battle raged.
Their Humvees were “like bullet magnets,”
he recalled. His Silver Star citation credits
him with repeatedly sacrificing “his own
personal safety” to help other soldiers.
“We go back and forth, in and out of the
city all night long,” Struecker said. “The
Humvees are the biggest, easiest target to
hit out there, and so we’re losing guys right
around me.”
Dominick Pilla, a sergeant and machine
gunner, was just behind Struecker when he
was shot and killed — the first American
death in the battle. His Silver Star citation
credits Pilla with “suppressing numerous
enemy positions while under fire himself.”
His heroics, it added, saved “the lives of all
the other Rangers” with him at the time. He
was 21.
Meanwhile, Watson — a platoon sergeant
at the time who had entered the fight by hel-
icopter — moved his force toward one of the
downed Black Hawks, fighting their way
through the city. His Silver Star citation
credited him with securing the crash site
from enemy forces “until reinforcements
came the next morning.”
It was brutal work, Watson said. But he
was awed by the actions of the Rangers and
others around him.
“It was something to behold ... to watch
what was going on — the way they perform-
ed,” he said. “It was beyond compare.”
The falloutThree of the four pilots in the downed
Black Hawks would die, and the fourth was
captured and later released.
Two Delta Force operators — Master Sgt.
Gary Gordon and Sgt. 1st Class Randy
Shughart — were posthumously awarded
Medals of Honor for their actions to secure
the site of one of the Black Hawk crashes to
recover survivors. Both of those operators
were among the U.S. dead in the fight.
In all, 73 U.S. troops were injured in the
battle, according to the Army. The botched
mission left a long-lasting mark on Amer-
ican foreign policy after television news
broadcast images of a U.S. soldier’s body
dragged through Mogadishu’s streets as lo-
cals cheered.
The defense secretary at the time, Les
Aspin, would resign his post in wake of the
battle. Ultimately, then-President Bill Clin-
ton elected to end the mission to capture Ai-
did and he removed all U.S. forces from So-
malia by March 1994. U.S. troops would not
return to the country until 2007.
The book “Black Hawk Down” was pub-
lished in 1999, receiving high praise for its
detailed retelling of the battle. In 2002, the
movie brought the Battle of Mogadishu onto
American screens in the months after the
first U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in re-
sponse to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Struecker, who would commission as an
officer after 10 years of enlisted service and
serve as a chaplain until retiring as a major
in 2011, described the book as an “extraor-
dinarily accurate” accounting of the battle.
The movie, he said, followed the book close-
ly, though it took some liberties — blending
several events into a single incident or mul-
tiple characters into a single individual.
“What you see in the movie ‘Black Hawk
Down’ basically happened,” Struecker
said. “The difference, for those of us who
were there, right, is the violence. It isn’t
even close to the real thing — the level of
violence, of course.”
Watson said he rarely talks about his time
in Mogadishu, and he does not think about it
very often, either. Later, he deployed to Af-
ghanistan three times and saw combat
there. But, like Struecker, he said the fight-
ing there was incomparable to Mogadishu.
“I felt very fortunate that I never was in
the extreme position that I was in Somalia
ever again,” he said. “Was I prepared for it?
Yes, I was. I was very prepared. And it was a
lot. And, thankfully, [fighting] never, ever
occurred at that level again for me.”
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MILITARY
The Army on Friday presented 18 Silver Starmedals to former members of the Fort Ben-ning, Ga.-based 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Re-giment for their actions in Mogadishu, Soma-lia, on Oct. 3 and Oct. 4, 1993. The awards wereupgrades of the Bronze Star medals with com-bat “V” device for valor that the Rangers re-ceived shortly after the battle — among themost infamous fights in recent decades inwhich U.S. troops fought.
Those receiving the Silver Star on Fridaywere (ranks at the time of the battle):
Sgt. Alan BartonSgt. John C. BelmanStaff Sgt. Kenneth P. BoornSpc. James M. Cavaco*Spc. John M. CollettStaff Sgt. Michael CollinsSgt. James C. Joyce*Pfc. Brad M. Paulsen2nd Lt. Larry D. PerinoSpc. Robert R. Phipps IISgt. Dominick M. Pilla*Sgt. Randall J. Ramaglia Jr. Pfc. John D. StanfieldCpt. Michael SteeleSpc. Richard StrousStaff Sgt. Jeffrey D. StrueckerSpc. Joseph F. ThomasSgt. 1st Class Sean T. Watson
*Denotes posthumous award to Rangerswho died of wounds suffered in Somalia
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MACON, Ga. — A Marine who took the
stage at a Georgia rally for former Presi-
dent Donald Trump was not among the ser-
vice members shown lifting children over
an airport wall in Afghanistan in a photo
that began circulating in August, a spokes-
person tells The Telegraph of Macon.
The newspaper reports that Kelton Co-
chran, a spokesperson for the 24th Marine
Expeditionary Unit, said Lance Cpl. Hun-
ter Clark was not in the picture showing
multiple Marines lifting children over an
airport wall in Kabul during an airlift after
the U.S.-backed government fell to the Tali-
ban. Cochran didn’t say whether Clark
could have been in a different photo or vid-
eo.
The Telegraph reports the Defense De-
partment is investigating Clark’s attend-
ance at the Trump rally to determine if any
policies were violated. Active duty service
members aren’t usually allowed to speak at
partisan political events.
Trump called Clark to the stage during a
speech on Sept. 26 in Perry, Ga.
“We’re also honored to be joined by one
of the Marines who bravely served in Kabul
during the withdrawal and helped evacuate
children over the airport and over the air-
port wall,” the former president said.
Clark thanked the crowd.
“I am the guy that pulled the baby over
the wall, and it’s definitely probably one of
the greatest things I’ve ever done in my en-
tire life,” Clark said at the rally.
Attendees cheered and chanted “U-S-A.”
“Perry, Georgia, did a good job … You
grow them well in Perry, Georgia,” Trump
said.
USMC: Man at Trump rally not in Kabul photoAssociated Press
DETROIT — The destroyer
named for the late Sen. Carl Le-
vin was christened at a port in
Maine on Saturday morning by
the ship’s sponsors, Levin’s
three daughters.
The ceremony came two
months after Levin’s death at
age 87 in late July. Levin, a De-
troit Democrat, was Michigan’s
longest-serving senator, spend-
ing 36 years in office and 10
years as chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
“For the United States of
America, I christen thee Carl
Levin. May God bless this ship
and all who sail in her,” said Le-
vin’s daughters, Kate Levin
Markel, Laura Levin and Erica
Levin, moments before each
shattered a champagne bottle
over the ship as part of the tra-
ditional launching ceremony.
More than 100 guests and the
crew of the ship attended the
90-minute ceremony, including
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine,
who called Levin a dedicated
public servant whom she cher-
ished for 36 years in Senate.
“We are here to celebrate the
christening of a great ship and a
great namesake,” Collins said.
“It is fitting that the ships of the
U.S. Navy bear the names of
those who display uncommon
dedication to our nation. Today
that name Carl Levin joins that
illustrious roster.”
Retired Rep. Sander Levin,
Carl’s brother, spoke at the
event, saying it was an emotion-
al moment for the family.
“Our hope is in the years and
years to come, that this ship
will help us to remember him
and also as it sails the seas, hon-
or all that made Carl a remark-
able public servant and a glori-
ous human being,” Levin said.
The USS Carl M. Levin
launched over three days in
May, built by General Dynam-
ics at Bath Iron Works in
Maine. An Arleigh Burke-class
guided missile destroyer, the
ship is about 510 feet long,
weighs 7,500 tons and can trav-
el at a speed of over 30 knots.
The boat had been scheduled
to be christened July 24, but the
ceremony was postponed dur-
ing the final weeks of Levin’s
life.
“Being the namesake of this
great ship really was the high-
light of our dad’s career,” Mar-
kel said. “Dad’s connection to
this ship, its leaders and its
growing crew kept his spirits
high through his last days.”
In 2016, Levin told reporters
at the ship’s naming ceremony
in Detroit that the announce-
ment caught him off guard and
brought him to tears.
“I did not expect it. I didn’t
seek it,” Levin said at the time.
“It’s such an honor for me to be
connected with the men and
women who put on our uniform.
It’s too difficult to describe any
other way than overwhelming.”
Then-Secretary of the Navy
Ray Mabus, who knew Levin
from his years heading the
Armed Services panel, be-
stowed the honor in 2016, say-
ing he considered Levin to be
one of the “most influential”
members of the Senate.
“Destroyers are named for
heroes,” Mabus said in 2016.
“Carl Levin is an American he-
ro.”
Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Is-
land Democrat who was close to
Levin, spoke at Saturday’s cer-
emony, calling Levin a fearless
leader and devoted husband
and father.
“One of the greatest privileg-
es of my life was to serve with
and be mentored by Carl Le-
vin,” said Reed, who is chair-
man of the Armed Services
Committee. “He did it all with-
out fanfare, letting others pos-
ture and pontificate. He just
wanted to make a positive dif-
ference to the American peo-
ple.
“Carl always lead with de-
cency and integrity and he lead
from the front.”
Secretary of the Navy Carlos
Del Toro spoke at the event,
saying he did not know Levin
but pointed out that the ship
crest and its motto, “Tenacious
in the Fight” embodied Levin’s
life and career.
“He was fighting for all of us
all Americans, for liberty,” Del
Toro said.
The ship will carry a crew of
279, including 24 officers. Sea
trials are scheduled for early
next year, followed by the com-
missioning of the ship’s officers
in late 2022 or 2023 in Balti-
more. The home port for the
USS Carl M. Levin will be Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii.
Destroyer namedfor Sen. Carl Levinchristened in Maine
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ROBERT F. BUKATY/AP
Erica Levin, left, Kate Levin Markel, center, and Laura Levin, the daughters of late Sen. Carl M. Levin,DMichigan, smash champagne bottles to christen a warship named for the senator, Saturday, at Bath IronWorks in Bath, Maine.
TAIPEI, Taiwan —The Chinese
military flew 16 warplanes over
waters south of Taiwan on Sunday
as the United States expressed
concern about what it called Chi-
na’s “provocative military action”
near the self-governing island
that China claims.
China sent 38 warplanes into
the area on Friday and 39 aircraft
on Saturday, the most in a single
day since Taiwan began releasing
reports on the flights in Septem-
ber 2020. The flights came in day-
time and nighttime sorties, and it
wasn’t clear if China was planning
more flights on Sunday night.
A statement from U.S. State De-
partment spokesperson Ned Price
warned that China’s military ac-
tivity near Taiwan risks miscalcu-
lation and undermines regional
peace and stability.
“We urge Beijing to cease its
military, diplomatic, and econom-
ic pressure and coercion against
Taiwan,” the statement said.
It added that the United States,
Taiwan’s biggest supplier of
arms, would continue to help the
government maintain a sufficient
self-defense capability.
China and Taiwan split in 1949
during a civil war in which the
Communists took control of main-
land China and the rival National-
ists set up a government on Tai-
wan, an island of 24 million peo-
ple about 100 miles off the east
coast.
China has been sending mili-
tary planes into the area south of
Taiwan on a frequent basis for
more than a year.
US concerned after ‘provocative military action’ by ChineseAssociated Press
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NATION
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Alaska on Satur-
day activated emergency crisis protocols
that allow 20 medical facilities to ration care
if needed as the state recorded the nation’s
worst COVID-19 diagnosis rates in recent
days, straining the state’s limited health care
system.
The declaration covers three facilities that
had already announced emergency proto-
cols, including the state’s largest hospital,
Providence Alaska Medical Center in An-
chorage. The state’s declaration also in-
cludes the other two hospitals in Anchorage
and facilities across the nation’s largest but
sparsely populated state.
“Today’s action recognizes that Alaska has
an interconnected and interdependent
health care system, requiring the need for ac-
tivation of the state’s decision-making frame-
work. That framework includes a progres-
sion of conventional, contingency and crisis
standards,” the state health department said
in a statement announcing the activation.
“I want to stress that our health care facil-
ities in Alaska remain open and able to care
for patients. Alaskans who need medical care
should not delay seeking it, even during these
difficult times,” said Adam Crum, the state’s
health commissioner.
Factors that led the state to activate the cri-
sis of care standards include scarce medical
resources at some facilities, limited staff and
difficulty transferring patients because of
limited bed availability. Other factors in-
clude limited renal replacement therapy and
oxygen supplies.
According to data collected by Johns Hop-
kins University Center for Systems Science
and Engineering, one in every 84 people in
Alaska was diagnosed with COVID-19 from
Sept. 22 to Sept. 29. The next highest rate was
one in every 164 people in West Virginia.
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, which was
covered by the state’s announcement, on Fri-
day activated its own policy because of a
shortage of beds, staff and monoclonal anti-
body treatments, along with the inability to
transfer patients.
“The move to Crisis Standards of Care is
not something we take lightly,” Fairbanks
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Angelique Rami-
rez said in a statement. “This is in response to
a very serious surge of COVID in our com-
munity.”
The move came the same day the state re-
ported 1,044 new cases, 108 of them in the
Fairbanks area. The hospital says 35% of its
patients on Saturday were being treated for
COVID-19.
“This impacts all patient care, those with
broken bones, traumas, heart attacks,
strokes, COVID, anyone needing medical
care,” Ramirez said. “The care we are able to
provide is highly fluid and can change day by
day and even hour by hour depending on the
availability of resources within our system
and stateside.”
Alaska allows hospitals to ration careAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — The first
Women’s March of the Biden ad-
ministration headed straight for
the steps of the Supreme Court on
Saturday, part of nationwide pro-
tests that drew thousands to Wash-
ington to demand continued ac-
cess to abortion in a year when con-
servative lawmakers and judges
have put it in jeopardy.
Demonstrators filled the streets
surrounding the court, shouting
“My body, my choice” and cheer-
ing loudly to the beat of drums.
Before heading out on the
march, they rallied in a square
near the White House, waving
signs that said “Mind your own
uterus,” “I love someone who had
an abortion” and “Abortion is a
personal choice, not a legal de-
bate,” among other messages.
Some wore T-shirts reading sim-
ply “1973,” a reference to the land-
mark Roe v. Wade decision, which
made abortion legal for genera-
tions of American women.
Organizers say the Washington
march was among hundreds of
abortion-themed protests held
across the country Saturday. The
demonstrations took place two
days before the start of a new term
for the Supreme Court that will de-
cide the future of abortion rights in
the United States, after appoint-
ments of justices by President Do-
nald Trump strengthened conser-
vative control of the high court.
The day before the march, the
Biden administration urged a fed-
eral judge to block the nation’s
most restrictive abortion law,
which has banned most abortions
in Texas since early September.
It’s one of a series of cases that will
give the nation’s divided high
court occasion to uphold or over-
rule Roe v. Wade.
The Texas law motivated many
of the demonstrators and speak-
ers.
“We’re going to keep giving it to
Texas,” Marsha Jones of the Afiya
Center for Black women’s health
care in Dallas, pledged to the
Washington crowd. “You can no
longer tell us what to do with our
bodies!”
Alexis McGill Johnson, the
president of Planned Parenthood
nationally, told of women forced to
drive many hours across state
lines — sometimes multiple state
lines — to end pregnancies in the
weeks since the Texas law went in-
to effect.
“The moment is dark ... but that
is why we are here,” Johnson told
the crowd packed into Freedom
Plaza and surrounding streets.
With the upcoming Supreme
Court term, “No matter where you
are, this fight is at your doorstep
right now.”
In New York, Gov. Kathy Ho-
chul spoke at rallies in Seneca
Falls and then Albany. “I’m sick
and tired of having to fight over
abortion rights,” she said. “It’s set-
tled law in the nation and you are
not taking that right away from us,
not now not ever.”
MARY ALTAFFER/AP
Demonstrators rally to demand continued access to abortion during the March for Reproductive Justice,on Saturday, in New York. The first Women’s March of the Biden administration set its sights on theSupreme Court, part of nationwide protests demanding continued access to abortion.
Abortion is focus during Women’s MarchAssociated Press
MIAMI — Authorities say they
have found the body of a missing
Florida college student who disap-
peared a week ago. A mainte-
nance worker who entered her
apartment unauthorized the day
she disappeared and later killed
himself is the prime suspect.
Orange County Sheriff John Mi-
na said Saturday that authorities
found Miya Marcano’s body in a
wooded area near an apartment
building. Authorities said the 19-
year-old vanished on the same day
a maintenance man improperly
used a master key to enter her
apartment. Her family reported
her missing after she missed a
flight home to South Florida on
Sept. 24.
The sheriff previously said Ar-
mando Caballero, a maintenance
worker at the apartment complex
where Marcano lived and worked,
is considered the “prime suspect.”
Caballero, 27, apparently killed
himself; his body was found three
days after Marcano was last seen.
Marcano had repeatedly “re-
buffed” romantic advances by Ca-
ballero. Detectives spoke to Ca-
ballero after the Valencia College
student was reported missing, but
had no evidence to detain him at
that time. They obtained a war-
rant for his arrest after learning he
had entered her apartment before
she disappeared. His body was
then found inside a garage.
Cellphone records from Caball-
ero led them to the apartment
complex near where Marcano was
found and showed he was there for
about 20 minutes the night she
was reported missing, Mina said.
At one point, Caballero also previ-
ously lived at that apartment com-
plex.
“Nothing in the records indicate
that he ever returned there before
he killed himself,” he said, adding
deputies are not looking for any
other suspects.
The FBI and the Florida De-
partment of Law Enforcement
were among the hundreds of au-
thorities searching for Marcano.
Meanwhile, friends and family
held a prayer vigil and passed out
flyers desperate to find the mis-
sing teen.
“At this time, we cannot identify
a cause of death, so I don’t want to
speculate on that,” Mina said of
Marcano’s death during a news
conference Saturday.
Mina says they notified her par-
ents just hours ago, adding “our
hearts are broken.”
“Everyone wanted this outcome
to be different,” he said. “As a
sheriff, as a father, obviously we
are grieving at the loss of Miya.”
Body of missing Floridacollege student found
Associated Press
CHASITY MAYNARD/AP
Miya Marcano’s family — her father Marlon Marcano is center left —hosts a candlelight vigil at Arden Villas, on Friday, in Orlando, Fla.
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NATION
NEW YORK — Former Presi-
dent Donald Trump has asked a
federal judge in Florida to force
Twitter to restore his account,
which the company suspended in
January following the deadly
storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Trump’s attorneys on Friday
filed a motion in U.S. District
Court in Miami seeking a prelimi-
nary injunction against Twitter
and its CEO, Jack Dorsey. They
argue that Twitter is censoring
Trump in violation of his First
Amendment rights, according to
the motion.
Twitter declined to comment
Saturday on Trump’s filing.
The company permanently
banned Trump from its platform
days after his followers violently
stormed the Capitol building to
try to block Congress from certi-
fying Joe Biden’s presidential
win. Twitter cited concerns that
Trump would incite further vio-
lence. Prior to the ban, Trump
had roughly 89 million followers
on Twitter.
Trump was also suspended
from Facebook and Google’s You-
Tube over similar concerns that
he would provoke violence. Face-
book’s ban will last two years, un-
til Jan. 7, 2023, after which the
company will review his suspen-
sion. YouTube’s ban is indefinite.
In July, Trump filed lawsuits in
the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Florida
against all three tech companies
and their CEOs, claiming that he
and other conservatives have
been wrongfully censored. The
motion for a preliminary injunc-
tion was filed as part of Trump’s
case against Twitter.
Trump asks judge for his Twitter restoredAssociated Press
LM OTERO/AP
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on July11. He has asked a federal judge to force Twitter to restore his account, which had 89 million followers.
WASHINGTON — Under pressure from
centrist lawmakers, White House officials
are debating whether to drop many cher-
ished priorities from President Joe Biden’s
sprawling economic package or keep a
fuller range of initiatives in dramatically
reduced form, according to five people
with knowledge of internal discussions.
Even as Democratic leaders on Capitol
Hill haggle over the overall size of the mas-
sive budget package, White House officials
on the National Economic Council, the Do-
mestic Policy Council and the Council of
Economic Advisers have begun discussing
what policies could be reshaped or jetti-
soned should Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,
and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., insist on
trimming as much as $2 trillion from the
administration’s initial spending propos-
als, said the people familiar, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to discuss pri-
vate deliberations.
Desperate to find a compromise that can
win favor in a narrowly-divided Congress,
White House officials have begun contem-
plating painful trade-offs that could in-
volve shrinking key parts of their agenda.
Biden has pitched lawmakers on a compro-
mise that would include as much as $2.3
trillion in new spending, but Manchin has
said the package should top out at $1.5 tril-
lion — a position that would slash the ad-
ministration’s original agenda by more
than half.
The choices are stark: Should tackling
rising rates of homelessness be dropped in
favor of confronting climate change?
Should Democrats prioritize seniors over
the poor? Is it more important to reduce the
cost of child care or the cost of a school
lunch?
While many senior Democrats are urg-
ing Biden to choose a handful of programs
and execute them well, this option is com-
plicated by a lack of consensus about which
priorities should prevail. Meanwhile, no
lawmaker wants to see his or her favored
program cut entirely from the legislation.
But keeping a larger number of policy
initiatives also would entail difficult trade-
offs to bring down the overall price of the
package. Programs would have to be made
temporary or sharp limits would have to be
placed on who qualifies. Even Biden’s $2.3
trillion offer would require more than $1
trillion in cuts from his initial plan.
“The president and his team have to
make some very tough decisions here.
There will have to be some real serious
cuts to key priorities,” said Jim Manley,
who served as an aide to former Senate Ma-
jority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “The
cuts required are going to be really ugly
and really painful.”
Either path has major drawbacks. By
picking only a few programs to implement,
the White House likely would improve its
odds of ensuring lasting change through
achievements noticed by the public. In pri-
vate conversations, people close to the
White House have argued that choosing a
handful of key programs — and making
sure they reach tens of millions of people —
would help fortify their ability to withstand
attack under future GOP administrations.
The Affordable Care Act, which Repub-
licans failed to repeal after it extended
health insurance to millions, is an instruc-
tive example, key Democrats say. Social
Security and Medicare benefits — which
similarly reach a majority of Americans —
have also proved next to impossible for
conservatives to trim or dislodge. Several
officials in both the NEC and the CEA
share this view, according to four of the
people familiar with internal talks, but it is
not clear how widespread that view is held
within the administration — or if the presi-
dent himself agrees.
On Friday, the president said “even a
smaller bill can make historic invest-
ments” — though he did not indicate
whether he prefers a broader array of tem-
porary programs or a smaller number of
programs with permanent funding.
In an interview, former Obama adminis-
tration economist Jason Furman argued
that “if Congress needs to shrink the legis-
lation, it is much better to drop the lowest
priority programs than to try to do every-
thing.”
“As tempting as it may be to sunset pro-
grams in the hopes they are extended in the
future,” Furman said, “most of these pro-
grams are not popular enough to make ex-
tension inevitable or even likely.”
Another economist, speaking on condi-
tion of anonymity to reflect private conver-
sations, said she had relayed similar ad-
vice to the White House. Centrist House
Democrats in the New Democrat Coalition
have similarly urged the White House to
focus on executing a few programs, listing
the child tax benefit and expansion of Oba-
macare as among their priorities, accord-
ing to a spokesman for the group.
“What we’re telling them is: You start to
whittle down the top-line number, and sud-
denly you’re not doing any one particular
thing well,” this economist said. “You real-
ly don’t want to roll out a huge number of
programs all poorly.”
The challenge with pursuing this route,
however, is that it would require Demo-
crats to entirely ditch other programs that
key parts of the party believe require ur-
gent government investment.
If constrained to $1.5 trillion, Democrats
could only fully fund a handful of their
most important policy priorities. For in-
stance, Democrats would already come
close to reaching that number in spending
if, hypothetically, their plans consisted of
just three top priorities — tackling climate
change, creating a national paid leave pro-
gram, and extending a tax benefit that alle-
viates child poverty.
Economist Larry Summers, who served
under presidents Bill Clinton and Barack
Obama, pointed to Franklin Delano Roose-
velt’s New Deal as an example of “getting a
lot of things started” and hoping the effec-
tive ones persist. Summers also acknowl-
edged the potential drawbacks of such an
approach.
“The lesson of successful democracy is
you plant a lot of seeds, and some of them
grow really well and some of them don’t,”
Summers said. “The New Deal was a lot of
different programs, too.”
White House struggles with choices in economic plan cutsBY JEFF STEIN
The Washington Post
MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP
President Joe Biden arrives at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church inWilmington, Del., to attend a Mass, on Sunday.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Ex-officer accused ofstealing guns from work
NC NORTH TOPSAIL
BEACH — A former
North Carolina police officer has
been accused of stealing guns
from the police department where
he worked, authorities said.
In a news release, the North
Carolina State Bureau of Investi-
gation said former North Topsail
Beach police officer Mark Wil-
liam Ray Jr., 41, is charged with 15
counts of obtaining property by
false pretense, embezzlement,
and felony conversion, according
to an agency news release.
The SBI said the North Topsail
police chief asked the agency to
investigate suspected thefts of
several firearms being held as
evidence at the police depart-
ment. Agents determined that the
guns were sold or pawned at local
pawn shops.
Man sentenced for theftof lawmakers’ IDs
FL ORLANDO — A Florida
man has been sentenced
to six years and five months in
prison for stealing the identities of
local, state and federal officials in
a case involving more than
$50,000 in fraudulent payments,
authorities said.
Michael T. Watters, 51, of
Ocoee, was sentenced in Orlando
federal court, according to court
records.
According to court documents,
Watters created approximately 35
counterfeit driver licenses using
the stolen identities of current and
former lawmakers. Between De-
cember 2018 and May 2019, Watt-
ers used those counterfeit licenses
to pass about 265 counterfeit
checks as payment at various
stores in the Orlando area.
Prosecutors said Watters
caused total losses of $53,156.43 to
the affected businesses.
Council member pleadsguilty to accepting bribes
MI DETROIT — A mem-
ber of the Detroit City
Council pleaded guilty to conspir-
acy, admitting that he and an aide
accepted nearly $36,000 in bribes
related to oversight of towing.
Andre Spivey, 47, took the mon-
ey from an undercover agent or an
informant. He’s expected to re-
sign from office.
“Over the course of four years, I
received payments in hopes to
help an individual retain a city
contract,” Spivey told U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Victoria Roberts.
The city council is considering
changes to how the city hires tow-
ing companies by turning to com-
petitive bids.
Neighborhood troubled bye-scooters everywhere
IN EVANSVILLE — Mem-
bers of an Evansville
neighborhood group are getting
fed up with electric scooter “lit-
ter” and are asking city officials to
help with answers.
Old Evansville Historic Associ-
ation co-president Chuck Hudson
said each morning he has to re-
move e-scooters from the side-
walk outside his home, the Evans-
ville Courier & Press reported.
“I feel like it’s my responsibility
to make sure it’s safe, and of
course there are liability issues if I
know they’re there and I don’t do
anything about it,” Hudson said.
Resident Jeff Hayden said:
“Right now, we consider them
mechanical litter.”
Riders are not required to leave
scooters in any specific location in
Evansville, but a 2019 city council
ordinance does prohibit them
from being placed in curb ramps,
driveways, near fire hydrants or
emergency boxes and crosswalk
entries, according to the newspa-
per.
Some in the neighborhood
group suggest geofencing just out-
side the historic district to stop the
scooters once they zip inside the
restricted area and revoking li-
censes of scooter companies.
Report: Jet was slowerthan usual before crash
CT FARMINGTON — A
small jet that crashed
into a building in Connecticut,
killing four people, was going
slower than usual as it took off
from an airport runway, while
witnesses saw a puff of smoke and
noticed the aircraft was having
trouble gaining altitude, accord-
ing to a preliminary investigation
report.
The report by the National
Transportation Safety Board also
said the plane’s parking brake was
found to be on, although it was not
clear when it was activated.
The report did not say what may
have caused the Sept. 2 crash in
Farmington, which remains un-
der investigation.
The twin-engine Cessna 560XL
was to have flown from Robertson
Airport in Plainville to Dare
County Regional Airport in Man-
teo, N.C. But it crashed into a man-
ufacturing building shortly after
takeoff and burst into flames, au-
thorities said.
County chooses new sitefor Confederate tribute
MS GREENWOOD —
Supervisors in one
Mississippi county have chosen a
new site for a Confederate monu-
ment after more than a year of dis-
cussion, but the site will need state
approval and it’s unclear how
much the move will cost.
The stone monument with mul-
tiple Confederate soldiers has
stood since 1913 outside the Le-
flore County Courthouse in
Greenwood, and it’s one of about
50 Confederate monuments on
public property in Mississippi.
The majority-Black Leflore Coun-
ty supervisors voted in June 2020
to move it to a less prominent spot
— a decision made amid interna-
tional protests over racial injus-
tice after police in Minneapolis
killed a Black man, George Floyd.
Supervisors voted to move the
monument to Fort Pemberton
Memorial Park, the Greenwood
Commonwealth reported.
Sheriff’s deputy chargedover gun threats
CA SAN FRANCISCO —
An off-duty San Fran-
cisco sheriff’s deputy is facing
criminal prosecution after author-
ities said he threatened to shoot
partygoers at a potluck, damaged
furnishings and grabbed a teen in
an inappropriate manner.
San Francisco’s district attor-
ney, Chesa Boudin, announced
that his office charged Dominic
Barsetti, 32, with four counts of fe-
lony criminal threats, one count of
misdemeanor vandalism and one
count of misdemeanor sexual bat-
tery.
Witnesses said Barsetti inap-
propriately grabbed an 18-year-
old and pulled her hair. When con-
fronted by fellow party attendees,
authorities said the deputy picked
up a guitar and swung it around,
ripped down a curtain, damaged a
bookcase, and broke a tank con-
taining a large lizard. He then
threatened to get his gun and
shoot people there.
Senate to vote on stifferanimal abuse penalties
WI MADISON — The state
Senate is scheduled to
vote on a bill that would increase
animal abuse penalties.
Right now the penalty for ani-
mal abuse is a $500 forfeiture. For
abuse resulting in mutilation, dis-
figurement or death the maxi-
mum penalty is three-and-a-half
years in prison.
Under the Republican-author-
ed bill, animal abuse that results
in death or grievous bodily harm,
defined as fractured bones, deep
cuts, burns, starvation or being
left out in the cold, would be guilty
of a felony punishable by up to six
years in prison. Someone who
knows his or her actions may re-
sult in such injuries would be
guilty of a felony punishable by up
to three-and-a-half years.
MIKE SIMONS, TULSA (OKLA.) WORLD/AP
Randy Willsey with the City of Catoosa, paints the Blue Whale, a waterfront structure on old Route 66, in Catoosa, Okla.
I’ve got my eye on you
THE CENSUS
18M The approximate amount in dollars to be given to 27 WestVirginia health centers to strengthen health care infrastruc-
ture and assist health care in medically underserved communities, U.S. Sen.Joe Manchin said. The funding is distributed through the U.S. Department ofHealth and Human Services under the American Rescue plan, Manchin said. Itwill be used to support expansion and renovation projects and support CO-VID-19 testing, treatment and vaccinations, Manchin said in a news release.
From The Associated Press
PAGE 12 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Monday, October 4, 2021
WASHINGTON — The future
of abortion rights is in the hands
of a conservative Supreme Court
that is beginning a new term Mon-
day that also includes major cases
on gun rights and religion.
The court’s credibility with the
public also could be on the line,
especially if a divided court were
to overrule the landmark Roe v.
Wade decision from 1973 that es-
tablished a woman’s right to an
abortion nationwide.
The justices are returning to
the courtroom after an 18-month
absence caused by the coronavi-
rus pandemic, and the possible
retirement of 83-year-old liberal
Justice Stephen Breyer also
looms.
It’s the first full term with the
court in its current alignment.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the
last of former President Donald
Trump’s three high-court appoin-
tees, is part of a six-justice conser-
vative majority. Barrett was nom-
inated and confirmed last year
amid the pandemic, little more
than a month after the death of
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Trump and Republicans who
controlled the Senate moved
quickly to fill the seat shortly be-
fore the 2020 presidential elec-
tion, bringing about a dramatic
change in the court’s lineup that
has set the stage for a potentially
law-changing term on several
high-profile issues.
With abortion, guns and reli-
gion already on the agenda, and a
challenge to affirmative action
waiting in the wings, the court will
answer a key question over the
next year, said University of Chi-
cago law professor David Strauss.
“Is this the term in which the cul-
ture wars return to the Supreme
Court in a big way?” Strauss said.
No issue is bigger than abor-
tion.
The justices will hear argu-
ments Dec. 1 in Mississippi’s bid
to enforce a ban on most abortions
after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Low-
er courts blocked the law because
it is inconsistent with high court
rulings that allow states to regu-
late but not prohibit abortion be-
fore viability, the point around 24
weeks of pregnancy when a fetus
can survive outside the womb.
Mississippi is taking what con-
servative commentator Carrie Se-
verino called a “rip-the-Band-
Aid-off” approach to the case by
asking the court to abandon its
support of abortion rights that
was laid out in Roe and the 1992
case of Planned Parenthood v.
Casey.
Mississippi is among 12 states
with so-called trigger laws that
would take effect if Roe is over-
turned and ban abortion entirely.
By a 5-4 vote in early Septem-
ber, the court already has allowed
a ban on most abortions to take ef-
fect in Texas, though no court has
yet ruled on the substance of the
law.
But that vote and the Mississip-
pi case highlight the potential risk
to the court’s reputation, said Da-
vid Cole, the American Civil Lib-
erties Union’s legal director. The
arguments advanced by Missis-
sippi were considered and reject-
ed by the Supreme Court in 1992,
Cole said.
“The only difference between
then and now is the identity of the
justices,” he said.
Jeff Wall, a top Justice Depart-
ment lawyer under Trump, said
the court could sharply expand
gun rights and end the use of race
in college admissions, but only
abortion is likely to move public
perception of the court.
“I still don’t think that’s going to
create some groundswell in the
public, unless it’s accompanied by
some kind of watershed ruling on
abortion,” Wall said.
In early November, the court
will take up a challenge to New
York restrictions on carrying a
gun in public, a case that offers
the court the chance to expand
gun rights under the Second
Amendment. Before Barrett
joined the court, the justices turn-
ed away similar cases, over the
dissents of some conservative
members of the court.
More than 40 states already
make it easy to be armed in pub-
lic, but New York and California,
two of the nation’s most populous
states, are among the few with
tighter regulations.
A case from Maine gives the
court another opportunity to
weigh religious rights in the area
of education. The state excludes
religious schools from a tuition
program for families who live in
towns that don’t have public
schools.
Since even before Ginsburg’s
death, the court has favored reli-
gion-based discrimination claims
and the expectation among legal
experts is that parents in Maine
who sued to be able to use tax-
payer money at religious schools
will prevail, though it’s not clear
how broadly the court might rule.
Abortion, religion,guns top big termfor Supreme Court
BY MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
MIAMI — Miami Beach wants
to turn down the volume in the
city’s South Beach party neigh-
borhood, citing increasingly rau-
cous crowds, public drinking and
growing violence, but efforts to
curb the carousing have raised
complaints about racism, clas-
sism and business practices along
one of the nation’s most glamorous
waterfronts.
The 10-block stretch of Ocean
Drive known for art deco hotels,
restaurants and bars is sand-
wiched between two areas that
cater to more affluent tourists.
The tension has been bubbling for
years as party crowds grew from a
few weekends a year into a year-
round presence. The situation
worsened during the pandemic
when city officials closed the main
drag to vehicles and allowed res-
taurants to offer more outdoor
seating, which invited a carnival
atmosphere on the street.
More than 1,000 people were ar-
rested during this year’s spring
break, when the city imposed a
rare 8 p.m. curfew. Authorities
sent military style vehicles to dis-
perse predominantly Black
crowds with rubber bullets,
prompting criticism from Black
activists and spawning a parody
on “Saturday Night Live.”
“We cannot accept this as our
normal,” Mayor Dan Gelber said.
“What we have called an enter-
tainment district has become an
incredible magnet for crime and
disorder, and whatever it provides
in revenue is just not worth the
heartache.”
Last month, the city increased
the number of police and code-en-
forcement officials covering the
neighborhood to their largest
number in history. The mayor
called it a stop-gap measure, say-
ing the city cannot afford to in-
crease the number of police per-
manently.
His long-term proposal would
rebrand the blocks known as the
entertainment district by hosting
higher-end concerts and fairs, fo-
cusing on family-friendly events
and marketing the city’s often-
overlooked but impressive mu-
seums and symphony. He also
wants to limit loud music and halt
alcohol sales at 2 a.m.
The area has waxed and waned
over many decades. It fell into de-
cline after a midcentury heyday,
but TV shows like “Miami Vice”
made it cool again in the 1980s,
and supermodels gathered at
fashion designer Gianni Versace’s
oceanfront estate in the 1990s.
More recently, rap lyrics have im-
mortalized South Beach.
The Ocean Drive closure, which
remains in effect as the city maps
out its future, has wrought finan-
cial havoc on hotels and restau-
rants.
Tom Glassie, longtime owner of
the Avalon Hotel, has been meet-
ing with city officials and resi-
dents for the past two years, wres-
tling with “what do we want to be
when we grow up.”
“The nightlife took over. We
were the best nightlife,” he said.
“There was nothing wrong with
that, but it just got overbranded”
and eclipsed arts and culture.
The mayor’s proposal also seeks
to increase office and residential
space, as well as cut the number of
bars and clubs.
Zoning regulations allow both
residential and commercial
spaces, but no buildings can be
taller than five levels, which de-
ters investors who would rather
build luxury high-rises. In addi-
tion, the art deco facades that pro-
vide glamorous backdrops have
historic building protections,
making the cost of renovations
prohibitive for some developers.
Instead, low-end bars and hook-
ah lounges flourish while blocks
away, several high-end New York
restaurateurs have opened new
businesses.
Other businesses like the leg-
endary Clevelander hotel and bar
and the Mango’s nightclub com-
plain that they have been caught
in the crosshairs and unfairly
lumped in with bars and night-
clubs that cause trouble.
“We’re tired of being made into
the bad guy, to continue to blame a
30-year-old business that is one of
the largest taxpayers in the city
and one of the largest employers,”
said Joshua Wallack, chief operat-
ing officer of Mango’s Tropical
Cafe.
“People come off these cruise
ships dreaming of dancing salsa at
Mango’s.”
Alexander Tachmes, attorney
for the Clevelander, accused the
mayor of “really turning up the
heat on the Ocean Drive anti-busi-
ness rhetoric” last summer and
essentially trying to siphon off es-
tablished businesses while the
city attempts to rebrand and court
more cultural businesses.
The Clevelander sued the city
over the 2 a.m. alcohol ban in May
and won a temporary injunction
until a trial starts this fall. The
owners also sought in court to
have Ocean Drive reopened, argu-
ing that pandemic restrictions
were no longer necessary, but
they were unsuccessful.
LYNNE SLADKY/AP
City of Miami Beach code enforcement and police officers patrol along Ocean Drive on Sept. 24, in MiamiBeach, Fla.
Party crowds spark effort tolower volume in South Beach
BY KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press
NATION
Monday, October 4, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 13
AFGHANISTAN/WORLD
SEOUL, South Korea — North
Korea has warned the U.N. Secu-
rity Council against criticizing
the isolated country’s missile
program, in a statement Sunday
that included unspecified threats
against the in-
ternational
body.
During an
emergency
closed-door
meeting of the
top U.N. body
Friday, France
circulated a pro-
posed statement that expresses
concern over North Korea’s mis-
sile launches and calls on it to ful-
ly implement council resolutions
that ban its ballistic missile fir-
ings.
On Sunday, Jo Chol Su, a senior
North Korean Foreign Ministry
official, warned the U.N. council
it “had better think what conse-
quences it will bring in the future
in case it tries to encroach upon
the sovereignty” of North Korea.
Jo also accused the U.N. body
of a “double-dealing standard”
because it doesn’t equally take is-
sue with similar weapons tests by
the United States and its allies,
according to the statement circu-
lated by state media.
After a six-month hiatus, North
Korea resumed missile tests in
September, launching newly de-
veloped missiles including nu-
clear-capable weapons that
place South Korea and Japan,
both key U.S. allies, within their
striking distances. The country
still offered conditional talks
with South Korea, in what some
experts call an attempt to pres-
sure Seoul to persuade Washing-
ton to relax crippling economic
sanctions on it.
Under multiple U.N. Security
Council resolutions, North Korea
is banned from engaging in any
ballistic missile activities as the
country aims to mount nuclear
weapons on its ballistic missiles.
North Korea has argued its nu-
clear program is meant to cope
with U.S. military threats, though
Washington has said it has no
hostile intent toward Pyongyang.
Despite its recent launches,
North Korea maintains a 2018
self-imposed moratorium on a
long-range missile directly
threatening the American home-
land, a sign that it still wants to
keep alive chances for future di-
plomacy with the U.S.
U.S. officials have urged North
Korea to return to talks without
preconditions, but the North has
argued it won’t do so unless the
Americans drop their “hostile
policy,” in an apparent reference
to the sanctions and regular mil-
itary drills between Washington
and Seoul.
N. Korea threatens leading UNbody after emergency meeting
BY HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
Jo Chol Su
The area around the mosque
was cordoned off by the Taliban,
who maintained a heavy security
presence. Later in the afternoon
the site was cleaned. The only sign
of the blast was slight damage to
the ornamental arch by the en-
trance gate.
While attacks in Kabul have so
far been rare, ISIS militants have
stepped up attacks against the Ta-
liban since their mid-August take-
over, and in recent weeks have
shown signs of expanding beyond
the east and closer toward the cap-
ital.
ISIS maintains a strong pres-
ence in the eastern province of
Nangarhar, where it has claimed
responsibility for several killings
in the provincial capital of Jalala-
bad.
In late August, an ISIS suicide
bomber targeted American evac-
uation efforts at Kabul’s interna-
tional airport. The blast killed 169
Afghans and 13 U.S. service mem-
bers and was one of the deadliest
attacks in the country in years.
FELIPE DANA/AP
Taliban fighters walk at the entrance of the Eid Gah Mosque after anexplosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday.
Attack: Kabul attack 1st since AugustFROM PAGE 1
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FACES
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem,
Mary J. Blige and Kendrick La-
mar will perform for the first time
on stage together at the Pepsi Su-
per Bowl Halftime Show.
The NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation
announced Sept. 30 that the five
music icons will perform on Feb.
13 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood,
Calif. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Lamar
are Southern California natives.
Dre emerged from the West
Coast gangster rap scene along-
side Eazy-E and Ice Cube to help
form the group N.W.A, which
made a major mark in the hip-hop
culture and music industry with
controversial lyrics in the late
1980s. Dre is responsible for
bringing forth rap stars such as
Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and
Lamar. Dre also produced Blige’s
No. 1 hit song “Family Affair.”
“The opportunity to perform at
the Super Bowl Halftime show,
and to do it in my own backyard,
will be one of the biggest thrills of
my career,” Dre said in a state-
ment. He added that their half-
time performance will be an “un-
forgettable cultural moment.”
The Super Bowl returns to the
Los Angeles area for the first time
since 1993. It’s the third year of
collaboration between the NFL,
Pepsi and Roc Nation.
Roc Nation and Emmy-nomi-
nated producer Jesse Collins will
serve as co-producers of the half-
time show. The game and halftime
show will air live on NBC.
The five music artists have a
combined 44 Grammys.
Roc Nation founder Jay-Z said
in a statement that their show will
be “history in the making.”
The artists join a list of celebrat-
ed musicians who have played
during Super Bowl halftime
shows, including Beyoncé, Ma-
donna, Coldplay, Katy Perry, U2,
Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Jen-
nifer Lopez, Shakira and most re-
cently The Weeknd.
Super Bowl Halftime Show goes supernovaDre, Snoop, Eminem, Blige, Lamar to perform
AP
This combination of photos shows, from left, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Dr.Dre, who will perform for the first time together on stage at the 2022 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show.
BY JONATHAN LANDRUM, JR. Associated Press
Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney
Co. settled her lawsuit Sept. 30 over the
streaming release of “Black Widow,” bring-
ing a swift end to the first major fight be-
tween a studio and star over recent changes
in rollout plans for films.
Johansson filed the lawsuit in Los An-
geles Superior Court two months ago, say-
ing the streaming release of the Marvel mo-
vie breached her contract and deprived her
of potential earnings.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but
the two sides released a joint statement in
which they pledged to continue working to-
gether.
“I am happy to have resolved our differ-
ences with Disney,” said Johansson, who
has played Natasha Romanoff, aka Black
Widow, in nine movies going back to 2010’s
“Iron Man 2.” “I’m incredibly proud of the
work we’ve done together over the years
and have greatly enjoyed my creative rela-
tionship with the team. I look forward to
continuing our collaboration.”
Alan Bergman, chairman of Disney Stu-
dios Content, said he is “pleased that we
have been able to come to a mutual agree-
ment.”
“We appreciate her contributions to the
Marvel Cinematic Universe and look for-
ward to working together on a number of
upcoming projects,” Bergman said.
The lawsuit said Johansson’s contract
guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release,
with her potential earnings tied to the box
office performance of the film.
But as it has with other recent releases
since the coronavirus pandemic began, Dis-
ney released the film simultaneously in the-
aters and through its streaming service Dis-
ney+ for a $30 rental.
Delayed more than a year because of CO-
VID-19, “Black Widow” debuted to a what
was then a pandemic-best of $80 million in
North America and $78 million from inter-
national theaters on July 9. But theatrical
grosses declined sharply after that. In its
second weekend in release, the National As-
sociation of Theater Owners issued a rare
statement criticizing the strategy.
Johansson, Disneysettle lawsuit over‘Black Widow’ film
Associated Press
While the pandemic put most singers’ ca-
reers on hold, it may have led to Arlo Parks
being embraced even more passionately.
The 20-year-old West Londoner touched
many people in the right way at exactly the
right time. With her naturally soothing, ear-
thy voice and refreshingly uncynical, poetic
writing style, her mid-pandemic singles
“Hope” and the depression-leashing “Black
Dog” comforted listeners with messages of
self-love and in-this-togetherness.
The success of those songs has made
Parks’ first U.S. itinerary one of the hottest
tours by a pop music newcomer this fall. It
also may be the warmest.
“People are telling me now how much the
music has impacted their lives, and it’s so
beautiful to hear,” Parks said. “Moments
where my music offers someone a crutch
like that very much makes me feel like what
I’m doing is useful and purposeful.”
Her favorite example may have been
from a fan who told her about their serious-
ly ill mother also becoming a fan: “She
didn’t actually speak English, but somehow
my music soothed her and put her at ease,”
marveled the singer, speaking by phone
from a festival last month.
That story undersells the value of Parks’
lyrics, though. She isn’t just a poetic song-
writer; she’s a genuine poet. Several of her
songs are instilled with moments of spoken-
word prose.
“Poetry and songwriting are completely
intermingled in my mind,” she said. “I start-
ed out writing poetry and short stories, so
I’ll probably always be doing that. I usually
write just to write and without any sort of
melody in my head.”
Her writing prowess shines when paired
with melodies. In the somber electro-jazz-
pop groover “Black Dog” — named for a
Winston Churchill-coined term for depres-
sion — she sings, “I’d lick the grief right off
your lips / You do your eyes like Robert
Smith / Sometimes it seems like you won’t
survive this.”
Or in “Hope,” the refrain goes, “You’re
not alone like / You think you are / We all
have scars / I know it’s hard.”
While both songs were released during
the pandemic, Parks believes she could
have created them anytime.
“A song like ‘Hope,’ for example, was
written while we were all stuck inside, but I
wasn’t writing so much about that or the life
I was living,” she said. “I was thinking more
about moments before that when I felt alone
or my friends felt alone. I wanted it to be a
mantra for someone struggling in any kind
of struggle, to let them know we all go
through it.”
Parks grew up in the Hammersmith area
of London with a Nigerian dad and a Cha-
dian-French mother.
“My parents weren’t musicians but were
lovers of music, so there was a lot of funk,
soul and French music in the house,” she
said, “and a lot of freedom for me to be cre-
ative.”
Arlo (real name: Anaïs Marinho) was
crafting music in her bedroom by her mid-
teens. Her 2019 EP “Sophie” generated vi-
ral traction, leading to her being named best
breakthrough artist at last year’s Brit
Awards. And she just won the Mercury
Prize for best British album for her full-
length debut, “Collapsed in Sunbeams.”
Much like her American peer Billie Eil-
ish, Parks said she continues to do a lot of
her writing and demoing in her bedroom,
even though she now has access to studios.
“I feel completely comfortable there, and
there’s a natural intimacy to the space that
makes you feel like you can be, say, do what-
ever you want,” she explained.
“You’re free to trust your space and ex-
periment, and you often challenge yourself
more there. People relate to that environ-
ment, I think; it’s universal and it makes you
sound more human and relatable.”
Arlo said she is excited to see “the rest of
America” this fall after previous trips to
Miami and Los Angeles.
While she remains concerned about CO-
VID-19 safety on tour, she feels committed
to performing on stage.
“I think my music is meant to be heard in
a communal space,” she said.
JUSTIN TALLIS, AFP/TNS
British singersongwriter and poet Arlo Parks poses for a portrait at The Church of TheHoly Innocents in West London, England, on Feb. 25. Parks is touring the U.S. this fall.
BringingcomfortBritain’s Arlo Parks feels‘useful and purposeful’on first US music tour
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OPINION
WASHINGTON
Often the spy business is about be-
trayal. But for the CIA in Afghan-
istan, even amid the catastrophic
U.S. withdrawal in August, the
story in recent months has largely been
about keeping faith with its local partners.
Nearly every one of the agency’s secret allies
got out safely, knowledgeable sources said.
The Afghanistan War was a painful failure
for the United States, as our military com-
manders told Congress last week. The CIA’s
role bookended that drama, at the dawn and
sunset: The agency was first into Afghanis-
tan after 9/11, working with tribal allies to
topple the Taliban. And its officers and Af-
ghan agents were among the last out, work-
ing undercover to evacuate as many Amer-
icans and Afghans as possible.
The CIA made its own terrible mistakes in
the war on terror. The worst was torturing al-
Qaida prisoners, but two decades of drone at-
tacks and other counterterrorism operations
were corrosive and shocked consciences, at
home and abroad. But among former offi-
cers, the rescue of so many Afghan allies has
generated a quiet buzz of satisfaction. Two
former officers who served in Afghanistan
told me the agency had rescued more than
20,000 Afghan partners and their families.
The agency refused to comment on num-
bers.
The CIA’s allies remained a cohesive force
even as the Afghan military collapsed, the
sources said. They provided security at Ka-
bul airport during the evacuation. And they
conducted covert missions “outside the
wire,” sometimes posing as taxi drivers, to
rescue Americans who were stranded or too
frightened to make their way to the airport.
The knowledgeable source said that through
such operations, the CIA team managed to
rescue 2,000 U.S. citizens, 4,000 local staff
from the U.S. Embassy, and 1,500 NGO
workers and foreign journalists.
George Tenet, who was CIA director when
the war began, described the covert Afghan-
American bond in an interview Thursday:
“Agency officers who served in Afghanistan
knew they had an immense debt to the Af-
ghans who helped us stop al-Qaida. The Unit-
ed States has not been attacked in 20 years.
That’s no accident. When our Afghan part-
ners needed us most, we had a sacred obliga-
tion to them and their families. The message
is that the agency honors its commitments.”
The CIA’s Afghan partner force was
recruited during the earliest days of the war.
Initially, the operatives were known as the
“Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams,” or
CTPT. Hundreds of these recruits would op-
erate from bases in southern and eastern Af-
ghanistan under the command of a handful
of CIA officers. They were sometimes known
as the “tiger stripes,” because of their uni-
forms. Eventually, many of the Afghans be-
came part of Afghanistan’s intelligence ser-
vice, known as the National Directorate of
Security. Critics have charged that the NDS
engaged in extrajudicial killings and other
abuses.
Extricating the CIA’s allies after 20 years
of war was a tricky business. Because they
had worked so closely with the United States,
they were especially vulnerable to retalia-
tion. Some received threatening phone calls
and email messages.
When President Joe Biden decided in
April that he would withdraw from Afghan-
istan, CIA Director William J. Burns made a
secret trip to Kabul where he began laying
the foundations to evacuate the covert part-
ners. Afghan operatives in remote locations
gradually moved toward the capital. By
June, volunteers at CIA headquarters in
Langley, Va., were preparing the paperwork
for Special Immigrant Visas and plans for re-
location.
As the Taliban advanced this summer, the
danger increased. A team in Kandahar was
rescued by plane just as the Taliban
breached the airport perimeter. Other
groups came by road, sneaking with their
families toward Kabul.
A gathering point was the CIA’s secret
“Eagle Base,” about three miles from the Ka-
bul airport. This had been the agency’s hub
during the war; now it was a transit point in
the evacuation. Afghans and their families
reached the base and then were transported,
often by helicopter, to the airport. But their
work wasn’t done.
With the fall of Kabul and the Afghan mil-
itary’s collapse on Aug. 15, the U.S. military
needed help securing the airport and con-
ducting rescue operations. They turned in
part to the CIA force. After the chaotic disas-
ter on Aug. 16, when desperate Afghans
clung to a departing C-17 and fell to their
deaths, the CIA partner force helped U.S.
troops clear panicked Afghans from the run-
ways and restore order. They also helped se-
cure several secret gates at the airport for
covert entry.
Spy stories don’t usually have happy end-
ings, and this one doesn’t really, either. The
heroism of the evacuation is a source of
pride. But Kabul is controlled today by the
Taliban, and many decent Afghans feel like
prisoners in their homes.
For former CIA officers who served in Af-
ghanistan alongside brave partners, though,
this is about closing a circle — one that began
and ended with trust.
Inside the CIA’s effort to rescue its Afghan alliesBY DAVID IGNATIUS
Washington Post Writers Group
Twenty-five years of hospice volun-
teering has taught me that the
most important thing we can af-
ford people is their dignity.
That lesson formed the backbone of “In
America: Remember,” my art installation
that for the past three weeks blanketed
Washington’s National Mall with 700,000
fluttering white flags, each one representing
an American lost to the coronavirus pan-
demic. The art is an effort to reclaim the dig-
nity of 700,000 people who have become re-
duced to a single number, a number too large
to fathom.
My project began with outrage. I was out-
raged we had elected officials who would de-
value the lives of the elderly, the poor and
people of color in their approach to manag-
ing the pandemic. I was outraged we had al-
lowed the death toll here in the United States
to become so large as to be incomprehensi-
ble.
But the deeper meaning came when I
heard the stories. In person, they poured out.
Many visitors used the Sharpies we offered
them to write their own dedications directly
onto the flags. With each of their stories, my
anger gave way to their outcries of grief.
Jennie and Thomas from northern Missis-
sippi came to commemorate a flag for the
person who had given them COVID-19. They
survived. He died.
“I wasn’t allowed in, but my heart never
left your side,” one mourner wrote on a flag.
“My husband passed on our 23rd anniver-
sary,” wrote another. “He’s more than a sta-
tistic. He’s my best friend.”
A loved one begged Kitty to get the vac-
cine, but Kitty dismissed her: “God will pro-
tect me.” The flag dedicator noted, “The vac-
cine is from God, you passed the end of July.”
Ralph was a World War II veteran, a musi-
cian and 99 years old. “He refused a ventila-
tor asking that it be saved for a younger per-
son.”
“Calloused hands, soft heart, keeper of the
dad jokes,” they wrote of Paul K.
Apryl was, by all accounts, a badass.
And Mikey, Mikey liked turtles.
I knew people would bring their grief,
their own outrage, their anger. I did not real-
ize what the art would give back, in its own
way, providing loved ones solace or cathar-
sis as it provided dignity to the virus’ victims.
As one woman described it upon seeing the
flag dedicated to her mother, “After months
of mourning, I finally, finally feel the weight
beginning to lift from my shoulders.”
Not only has this art helped individual
people in their grief; it has also created com-
munity. So many of these deaths happened
in isolation, and families mourned in isola-
tion. But in the midst of 20 acres of flags,
loved ones know they are no longer mourn-
ing on their own. One woman who lost her fa-
ther said to me, “All this time, I thought I was
grieving alone, but now I see that I was in the
company of many.” Another said, “Knowing
where his flag is is almost like having him
back on earth.”
Now, just as these flags are about to disap-
pear from the Mall, I want to thank the many
families who brought this installation to life,
with their stories and their emotions and
their humanity. The power of art is not in my
hands as an artist. It is in the souls of those
who experience it.
Art is not an elective; it is an imperative.
When words fall on un-listening ears, it is
time for art to fill the void. The last time a
project of this scale cloaked the Mall was the
exhibition of the AIDS Quilt, which made
America look at last at the disease’s victims,
and at how cruelly it had shunned them. That
act of public, participatory art rocked the
status quo. Will this one do the same?
Will it push us to ask what we have learned
from this national tragedy? Experts beyond
my field — doctors, public health research-
ers, politicians — will have to provide the an-
swers to that question. For all its power, pub-
lic art cannot on its own erase health inequi-
ties, or vaccinate the world, or heal the dy-
ing.
But what I have learned is that art can in
equal measure tend to intimate, personal
grief and send a message to our society as a
whole. That message is this: Give people the
dignity they deserve. Please don’t make me,
or the next artist, do this again. I don’t want to
plant any more flags.
What the 700,000 flags I put on the Mall really meanBY SUZANNE BRENNAN FIRSTENBERG
Special to The Washington Post
Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg is a social practice artist.
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ACROSS
1 Bummer
5 Purse
8 Slightly open
12 July’s stone
13 Lawyers’ org.
14 Judicial garb
15 Reunion
attendee
16 U.S. region with
abandoned
factories
18 Damp cleaner
20 Exhausted
21 Jai —
23 Season opener?
24 Trash cans
28 Taxpayer IDs
31 Singer DiFranco
32 Actress
MacDowell
34 Snip
35 At hand
37 Keeps up
39 — Majesty
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51 Pond growth
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54 Applaud
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6 Dhabi preceder
7 React in horror
8 Garden shelters
9 “Home Alone”
actor
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11 On pension
(Abbr.)
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19 Jessica of
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22 River of Pakistan
24 Author Brown
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26 Be a tourist
27 Sororal
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resident
30 Map lines (Abbr.)
33 Summers in Paris
36 Passionate
38 Assault
40 “King Kong”
studio
42 Optimist’s credo
43 Undraped
44 Austen heroine
46 “Legally
Blonde” role
47 “Zounds!”
48 Atlas pages
50 Still, in verse
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SCOREBOARD
PRO FOOTBALL
NFL
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 94 44
Miami 1 2 0 .333 45 82
New England 1 2 0 .333 54 51
N.Y. Jets 0 3 0 .000 20 70
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 71 84
Houston 1 2 0 .333 67 76
Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 56 80
Jacksonville 0 4 0 .000 74 115
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Cincinnati 3 1 0 .750 92 75
Baltimore 2 1 0 .667 82 85
Cleveland 2 1 0 .667 86 60
Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 50 66
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Denver 3 0 0 1.000 76 26
Las Vegas 3 0 0 1.000 90 72
L.A. Chargers 2 1 0 .667 67 60
Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 92 95
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Dallas 2 1 0 .667 90 69
Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 64 64
Washington 1 2 0 .333 67 92
N.Y. Giants 0 3 0 .000 56 74
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Carolina 3 0 0 1.000 69 30
New Orleans 2 1 0 .667 73 42
Tampa Bay 2 1 0 .667 103 88
Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 48 94
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Green Bay 2 1 0 .667 68 83
Chicago 1 2 0 .333 40 77
Minnesota 1 2 0 .333 87 78
Detroit 0 3 0 .000 67 95
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Arizona 3 0 0 1.000 103 65
L.A. Rams 3 0 0 1.000 95 62
San Francisco 2 1 0 .667 86 74
Seattle 1 2 0 .333 75 79
Sunday’s games
Carolina at Dallas Cleveland at Minnesota Detroit at Chicago Houston at Buffalo Indianapolis at Miami Kansas City at Philadelphia N.Y. Giants at New Orleans Tennessee at N.Y. Jets Washington at Atlanta Arizona at L.A. Rams Seattle at San Francisco Baltimore at Denver Pittsburgh at Green Bay Tampa Bay at New England
Monday’s game
Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers Thursday, Oct. 7
L.A. Rams at Seattle Sunday, Oct. 10
N.Y. Jets vs Atlanta at London, UK Denver at Pittsburgh Detroit at Minnesota Green Bay at Cincinnati Miami at Tampa Bay New England at Houston New Orleans at Washington Philadelphia at Carolina Tennessee at Jacksonville Chicago at Las Vegas Cleveland at L.A. Chargers N.Y. Giants at Dallas San Francisco at Arizona Buffalo at Kansas City
NFL Injury ReportNEW YORK — The National FootballLeague injury report, as provided by theleague (DNP: did not practice; LIMITED:limited participation; FULL: Full participa-tion):
MONDAYLAS VEGAS RAIDERS at LOS ANGELES
CHARGERS — LAS VEGAS: QUESTIONABLE:RB Josh Jacobs (ankle). FULL: CB NateHobbs (shoulder), S Dallin Leavitt (con-cussion), CB Trayvon Mullen (shoulder),DE Carl Nassib (toe), LB Denzel Perryman(achilles, quadricep), S Roderic Teamer(ankle), DT Solomon Thomas (knee). LOSANGELES CHARGERS: OUT: Dt Justin Jones(calf). QUESTIONABLE: CB Chris Harris(shoulder), LB Kenneth Murray (ankle).FULL: WR Keenan Allen (ankle), LB Joey Bo-sa (foot, ankle), S Alohi Gilman (hip), S Der-win James (toe, shoulder), LS Matt Over-ton (calf).
SOCCER
MLS
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
New England 20 4 5 65 57 34
Nashville 11 3 13 46 46 26
Orlando City 11 8 9 42 41 41
D.C. United 12 12 4 40 49 41
CF Montréal 11 10 7 40 40 37
NYCFC 11 10 6 39 44 32
Philadelphia 10 7 9 39 33 26
Atlanta 10 9 9 39 37 33
New York 9 11 7 34 33 30
Columbus 9 11 7 34 32 36
Inter Miami CF 9 12 5 32 25 41
Chicago 7 15 6 27 28 43
Toronto FC 5 15 7 22 31 53
Cincinnati 4 15 8 20 28 52
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Seattle 15 5 6 51 41 22
Sporting KC 14 6 7 49 47 29
Colorado 13 4 9 48 38 24
Portland 13 10 4 43 44 44
Real Salt Lake 11 11 6 39 45 44
LA Galaxy 11 11 5 38 38 44
Minnesota 10 9 8 38 30 32
Vancouver 9 8 10 37 34 34
LAFC 9 12 6 33 39 40
San Jose 8 11 9 33 35 44
FC Dallas 6 13 10 28 39 47
Houston 5 11 12 27 31 41
Austin FC 7 17 4 25 29 44
Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.
Saturday’s games
Austin FC 2, Real Salt Lake 1CF Montréal 2, Atlanta 1Orlando City 2, D.C. United 1New York 1, Cincinnati 0Minnesota 0, FC Dallas 0, tieVancouver 3, San Jose 0
Sunday’s games
Nashville at New York City FCColumbus at PhiladelphiaChicago at Toronto FCHouston at Sporting Kansas CityMiami at PortlandLos Angeles FC at LA GalaxyColorado at Seattle
NWSL Glance
W L T Pts GF GA
Portland 12 5 2 38 29 13
Reign FC 11 7 2 35 30 19
North Carolina 8 6 5 29 23 13
Chicago 8 7 5 29 22 24
Orlando 7 6 7 28 24 24
Washington 7 7 5 26 21 25
Houston 7 7 5 26 24 23
Gotham FC 6 5 7 25 20 16
Louisville 4 10 5 17 15 31
Kansas City 2 12 5 11 10 30
Note: Three points for victory, one pointfor tie.
Saturday’s games
Orlando at Chicago ppd.Houston at Kansas City ppd.Reign FC at Portland ppd.
Wednesday’s games
Louisville at North CarolinaWashington at Gotham FCHouston at Portland
Saturday, Oct. 9
Gotham FC at OrlandoLouisville at WashingtonNorth Carolina at Houston
PRO BASKETBALL
WNBA playoffs
(x-if necessary)Semifinals(Best-of-5)
No. 6 Chicago 1, No. 1 Connecticut 1Tuesday, Sept. 28: Chicago 101, Connec-
ticut 95, 2OTThursday, Sept. 30: Connecticut 79, Chi-
cago 68Sunday’s game: Connecticut at Chicago,
1 p.m.Wednesday’s game: Connecticut at Chi-
cago, TBAx-Friday’s game: Chicago at Connecti-
cut, TBANo. 2 Las Vegas 1, No. 5 Phoenix 1
Tuesday, Sept. 28: Las Vegas 96, Phoenix90
Thursday, Sept. 30: Phoenix 117, Las Ve-gas 91
Sunday’s game: Las Vegas at Phoenix, 3p.m.
Wednesday’s game: Las Vegas at Phoe-nix, TBA
x-Friday’s game: Phoenix at Las Vegas,TBA
Finals(Best-of-5)
Sunday, Oct. 10 Wednesday, Oct. 13 Friday, Oct. 15 x-Sunday, Oct 17 x-Tuesday, Oct. 19
Saturday’s TransactionsBASEBALL
Major League BaseballAmerican League
MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP JohnGant on the 10-day IL. Recalled LHP CharlieBarnes from St. Paul (Triple-A East).
NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Al-bert Abreu to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Tri-ple-A East). Recalled SS Andrew Velaz-quez from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled 2B Dono-van Walton from Tacoma (Triple-A West).Optioned RHP Wyatt Mills to Tacoma. Re-instated RHP Andres Munoz from the 60-day IL. Placed RHP Joe Smith on the 10-dayIL.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled RHP ChrisMazza from Durham (Triple-A East). Op-tioned RHP Louis Head to Durham.
National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS — Placed RHP Tommy
Nance on the 10-day IL. Selected the con-tract of RHP Joe Biagini from Iowa (Tri-ple-A East) and signed him to a majorleague contract.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Named BillSchmidt general manager. Promoted Dan-ny Montgomery to vice president and as-sistant general manager of scouting andZack Rosenthal to vice president and as-sistant general manager of baseball oper-ations and assistant general counsel. Re-instated RHP Chi Chi González from the 10-day IL. Optioned RHP Peter Lambert to Al-buquerque (Triple-A West).
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHPMitch White from Oklahoma City (Triple-AWest). Placed LHP Clayton Kershaw on the10-day IL.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent 2B TimLopes outright to Nashville (Triple-A East).Reinstated 1B Rowdy Tellez from the 10-day IL. Optioned 1B Keston Hiura to Nash-ville.
NEW YORK METS — Signed RHP ClaudioScotti to a minor league contract. Rein-stated RHP Robert Gsellman from the 60-Day Injured List. Optioned RHP Tylor Me-gill to Syracuse (Triple-A East). Recalled3B Brandon Drury from Syracuse and des-ignated for assignment.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Recalled RHPSeranthony Dominguez from Lehigh Val-ley (Triple-A East). Placed RHP ConnorBrogdon on the 10-day IL.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled SSOneil Cruz from Indianapolis (Triple-AEast). Placed RHP Tanner Anderson on the10-day IL, retroactive to Oct. 1.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled RHPJames Norwood from El Paso (Triple-AWest). Optioned RHP Pedro Avila to El Pa-so.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — ReinstatedLHP Jake McGee from the 10-day IL. Op-tioned SS Thairo Estrada to Sacramento(Triple-A West).
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed LHPJosh Rogers on the 10-day IL. ReinstatedRF Gerardo Parra from the 10-day IL.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated LBDennis Gardeck from the injured reserve/designated for return list. Promoted SChris Banjo and OL Eric Smith to the activeroster from the practice squad.
BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed DE DerekWolfe on injured reserve.
BUFFALO BILLS — Promoted CB Cam Le-wis to the active roster from the practicesquad.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Promoted SKenny Robinson and RB Rodney Smith tothe active roster from the practice squad.
DALLAS COWBOYS — Promoted RB NickRalston, TE Jeremy Sprinkle, DT AustinFaoliu and DT Justin Hamilton to the activeroster from the practice squad. Rein-stated WR Malik Turner from injured re-serve.
DENVER BRONCOS — Promoted LB Cur-tis Robinson and OL Austin Schlottmannto the active roster from the practicesquad.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed WR Mar-quez Valdes-Scantling on injured reserve.Promoted WR Equanimeous St. Brown tothe active roster from the practice squadas a COVID-19 replacement.
HOUSTON TEXANS — Activated K Ka’imiFairbairn and DB A.J. Moore from injuredreserve. Promoted LB Hardy Nickerson
and QB Jeff Driskel to the active rosterfrom the practice squad.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed G Quen-ton Nelson on injured reserve. Promoted SIbraheim Campbell and QB Brett Hundleyto the active roster from the practicesquad.
LOS ANGELES RAMS — Activated LB Og-bonnia Okoronkwo from injured reserve.Promoted RB Buddy Howell and LB JustinLawler to active roster from the practicesquad. Waived DB J.R. Reed.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed C/G MichaelDeiter on injured reserve. Promoted CCameron Tom to the active roster from thepractice squad.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted G Da-kota Dozier and CB Parry Nickerson to theactive roster from the practice squad.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — ActivatedWR N’Keal Harry from injured reserve. Pro-moted DB Myles Bryant and LB Jahlani Ta-vai to the active roster from the practicesquad.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Promoted WRKenny Stills and OT Jordan Mills to the ac-tive roster from the practice squad. Acti-vated OL Will Clapp from injured reserve.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Activated WR JohnRoss from injured reserve.
NEW YORK JETS — Waived RB JoshAdams. Activated S Ashtyn Davis and SSharrod Neasman from the injured resevelist. Promoted OL Isaiah Williams to theactive roster from the practice squad.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Activated CBJosiah Scott and OL Jack Driscoll from in-jured reserve.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Promoted WRCody White and OT Chaz Green to the ac-tive roster from the practice squad.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Activated DLMaurice Hurst form injured reserve.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Activated TE Col-by Parkinson and OT Cedric Ogbuehi frominjured reserve. Placed RB Rashaad Pennyon injured reserve. Promoted WR CodyThompson to the active roster from thepractice squad.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed CBPierre Desir. Waived DB Khalil Davis.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Promoted DLAmani Bledsoe and FB Tory Carter to theactive roster from the practice squad.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
BUFFALO SABRES — Released Fs Domin-ic Franco, Mason Jobst, Michael Mersch,Brendan Warren and Ryan Scarfo, Ds NickBoka, Matthew Cairns, Mitch Eliot, JoshTeves and Peter Tischke, and Gs MichaelHouser and Mat Robson from tryouts.
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Sent Gs BeckWarm, Eetu Makiniemi, Cs Blake Murray,David Cotton, Fs Stelio Mattheos, DominikBokk and D Jesper Sellgren to Chicago(AHL).
EDMONTON OILERS — Sent Ds MarkusNiemelainen, Michael Kesselring, PhilKemp and G Olivier Rodrigue to Bakers-field (AHL). Released Fs Brad Malone,James Hamblin, Luke Esposito, AdamCracknell and D Vincent Desharnais.
FLORIDA PANTHERS — Sent Fs KarchBachman, Henry Bowlby, Grigori Denisen-ko, Aleksi Heponiemi, Logan Hutsko, Jus-tin Nachbaur, Serron Noel, Cole Schwindt,D Max Gildon and G Evan Fitzpatrick toCharlotte (AHL). Waived F Zac Dalpe, DNoah Juulsen and G Sam Montembeaultfor the purpose of assignment to Char-lotte.
MONTREAL CANADIENS — Released GKevin Poulin and LW Danick Martel.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned F RyanSchmelzer, Ds Jeremy Groleau and Mi-chael Vukojevic and G Mareks Mitens toUtica (AHL).
ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned G Will Cran-ley to Ottawa (OHL). Assigned D TysonGalloway to Calgary (WHL). Assigned CZachary Bolduc to Quebec (QMJHL). Re-leased Ds Josh Wesley and Griffin Luce.Sent Cs Keean Washkurak, Nathan Todd,Nolan Stevens, Tanner Kaspick, Fs AlexeiToropchenko, Matthew Peca, HughMcGing and Mathias Laferriere to Spring-field (AHL).
SEATTLE KRACKEN — Released F ScottWilson. Waived Ds Cale Fleury, GustavOlofsson, Connor Carrick and G AntoineBibeau. Sent C Luke Henman to Charlotte(AHL).
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS — Sent Cs PaulCotter, Ben Jones, and Lucas Elvenes and FPavel Dorofeyev to Henderson (AHL).
DEALS AUTO RACING
Sparks 300 at TalladegaNASCAR-Xfinity Series
SaturdayAt Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega, Ala.Lap length: 2.66 miles
(Start position in parentheses)1. (19) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 107
laps, 40 points.2. (7) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 107, 38.3. (1) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 107, 44.4. (6) Daniel Hemric, Toyota, 107, 34.5. (29) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet, 107,
0.6. (8) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 107, 34.7. (14) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 107, 44.8. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 107, 38.9. (3) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 107, 28.10. (40) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 107, 27.11. (17) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 107, 26.12. (26) Jade Buford, Chevrolet, 107, 25.13. (23) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, 107, 36.14. (24) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 107, 23.15. (39) Joey Gase, Toyota, 107, 22.16. (38) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 107, 21.17. (33) Santino Ferrucci, Toyota, 107, 20.18. (18) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet,
107, 19.19. (35) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, 107,
18.20. (25) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet,
107, 17.21. (32) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 107, 16.22. (11) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 107, 0.23. (30) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 106, 14.24. (15) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 104,
13.25. (9) Harrison Burton, Toyota, acci-
dent, 101, 22.26. (16) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 101, 20.27. (13) Riley Herbst, Ford, accident, 101,
25.28. (34) Jason White, Toyota, accident,
101, 9.29. (31) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, ac-
cident, 93, 8.30. (4) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 88, 8.31. (10) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 88, 11.32. (37) Caesar Bacarella, Chevrolet, ac-
cident, 88, 5.33. (22) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 88, 4.34. (36) Cj McLaughlin, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 88, 3.35. (27) Mason Massey, Toyota, acci-
dent, 88, 2.36. (20) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, ga-
rage, 73, 0.37. (21) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, en-
gine, 50, 1.38. (12) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, accident,
24, 1.39. (5) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 24, 1.40. (28) David Starr, Toyota, engine, 20, 1.Race Statistics were not immediately
available.
Chicago Fall Tennis Classic
SaturdayAt XS Tennis Village
ChicagoPurse: $565,530
Surface: Hardcourt outdoorWomen’s Singles
SemifinalsGarbine Muguruza (2), Spain, def. Mar-
keta Vondrousova, Czech Republic, walk-over.
Ons Jabeur (6), Tunisia, def. Elena Ryba-kina (5), Kazakhstan, 6-4, 3-2, ret.
Women’s DoublesQuarterfinals
Nicole Melichar, United States, andDemi Schuurs (5), Netherlands, def. HsiehSu-wei, Taiwan, and Elise Mertens (1), Bel-gium, walkover.
Women’s DoublesSemifinals
CoCo Vandeweghe and Caroline Dole-hide, United States, def. Andreja Klepac,Slovenia, and Darija Jurak (6), Croatia, 6-3,6-4.
Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, and An-drea Petkovic, Germany, def. Nicole Meli-char, United States, and Demi Schuurs (5),Netherlands, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Sofia Open
SaturdayAt Arena Armeec Sofia
Sofia, BulgariaSurface: Hardcourt indoor
Men’s SinglesSemifinals
Gael Monfils (2), France, def. Marcos Gi-ron, United States, 7-5, 6-0.
Jannik Sinner (1), Italy, def. Filip Kraji-novic (5), Serbia, 6-3, 7-5.
Men’s DoublesSemifinals
Ken Skupski and Jonny O’Mara, Britain,def. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, andRoman Jebavy, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-1.
Oliver Marach and Philipp Oswald (3),Austria, def. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico,and Andres Molteni, Argentina, 2-6, 7-5,10-6.
TENNIS
GOLF
Sanderson Farms Championship
PGA Tour
SaturdayAt Country Club of Jackson
Jackson, Miss.Purse $7 million
Yardage: 7,461; Par: 72Third Round
Sahith Theegala 64-67-67—198 -18 Cameron Tringale 71-66-62—199 -17 Denny McCarthy 69-65-65—199 -17 Sam Burns 68-66-65—199 -17 Cameron Young 67-65-67—199 -17 Seth Reeves 71-66-63—200 -16 Trey Mullinax 70-66-64—200 -16 Aaron Wise 68-66-67—201 -15 Roger Sloan 66-67-68—201 -15 Corey Conners 67-69-66—202 -14 Andrew Landry 68-68-66—202 -14 Nick Hardy 70-66-66—202 -14 C.T. Pan 68-67-67—202 -14Hayden Buckley 67-65-70—202 -14 Nick Watney 65-66-71—202 -14 Grant Hirschman 70-67-66—203 -13 Russell Knox 71-66-66—203 -13 Si Woo Kim 66-71-66—203 -13 Harold Varner III 65-71-67—203 -13 Stephan Jaeger 68-66-69—203 -13 Will Zalatoris 70-61-72—203 -13 Matthew Wolff 68-71-65—204 -12 Taylor Moore 67-71-66—204 -12 Kevin Streelman 68-68-68—204 -12 Nate Lashley 70-66-68—204 -12 Henrik Norlander 68-66-70—204 -12
ShopRite ClassicLPGA TourSaturday
At Seaview, Bay CourseGalloway, N.J.
Purse: $1.75 millionYardage: 6,190; Par: 71
Second RoundInbee Park 66-65—131 -11Jin Young Ko 66-65—131 -11Patty Tavatanakit 68-65—133 -9 Brittany Lincicome 67-67—134 -8 Nanna Koerstz Madsen 66-68—134 -8 Su Oh 70-65—135 -7 Perrine Delacour 67-68—135 -7 So Yeon Ryu 65-70—135 -7Jodi Ewart Shadoff 65-70—135 -7 Stacy Lewis 70-66—136 -6Marissa Steen 68-68—136 -6 Andrea Lee 68-68—136 -6Cheyenne Knight 67-69—136 -6
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MLB
LOS ANGELES — One last game, one last
chance for the streaking Los Angeles Dodg
ers to grab a share of their ninth consecutive
NL West title.
The playoffbound Dodgers (10556)
must beat Milwaukee again on Sunday and
hope the rival firstplace Giants (10655)
lose again to San Diego to tie for the title.
That would send them and the Giants to a
deciding Game 163 in San Francisco on
Monday.
“If we don’t win, it doesn’t matter what
anyone else does,” third baseman Justin
Turner said.
Julio Urías became the Dodgers’ first 20
game winner since Clayton Kershaw in
2014, pitching onerun ball into the seventh
inning as Los Angeles beat the Brewers 83
on Saturday night to extend the NL West
race to the final day of the regular season.
“The only focus for us is to win tomor
row,” manager Dave Roberts said. “That’s
all we can control.”
The Giants lost 32 to San Diego earlier
Saturday, reducing their lead to one game.
The Dodgers were watching before their
game began.
“There was a good buzz going around the
clubhouse heading into the game knowing
the opportunity for us,” Turner said.
In San Francisco, a sellout crowd of
40,760 was ready to celebrate the Giants’
first division crown since 2012, but the Pa
dres spoiled the party, sending the raucous
group to the exits in a state of disbelief.
“Obviously, we wanted to win the game
and not have to rely on somebody else,” Gi
ants third baseman Evan Longoria said. “I
think right now, the focus turns to tomorrow
and just doing what we’ve done the whole
year, trying to erase the day before and go
out there and win the next game.”
San Fracisco’s sevengame winning
streak ended, and the Giants’ magic number
remained at one.
The Dodgers or the Giants are guaran
teed to have the most wins of a team that
fails to finish first, bettering the 1909 Chica
go Cubs and 1942 Brooklyn Dodgers, who
had 104 wins each.
Los Angeles won its 14th consecutive
home game, tying a 100yearold franchise
record.
Urías (203) gave up one hit, struck out
seven and walked two over 61⁄�3 innings in his
32nd start of the regular season, becoming
the majors’ only 20game winner this
year. The 25yearold lefthander retired 16
in a row after allowing a double to Eduardo
Escobar in the first.
“The focus, adrenaline and energy level
was all at peak position knowing what was at
stake,” Urías said through a translator.
Urías left in the seventh as part of a dou
ble switch, handing the ball to Roberts, who
grabbed his arm to chat before the pitcher
walked off to a standing ovation from the
crowd of 49,705.
“He just said, ‘Great job, great season,’ ”
Urías said. “I was very pleased and very
happy with the ovation of the crowd.”
He finished his first full season in the rota
tion with a 2.98 ERA and 195 strikeouts.
“It’s a dream season. Very blessed and ve
ry thankful,” Urías said. “I was very blessed
all year to stay healthy.”
Kershaw won 21 games in 2014, when he
earned the last of his three Cy Young
Awards. He watched from the dugout. Urías
became the fourth Mexicanborn pitcher to
win 20 games in the majors, joining former
Dodger Fernando Valenzuela and Milwau
kee’s Teddy Higuera (both 1986) and Este
ban Loiaza of the Chicago White Sox (2003).
Urías hasn’t lost since June 21 at San Die
go. He’s 110 with a 2.03 ERA since then.
“It’s a feather in his cap winning 20
games. Those are hard to come by these
days,” Roberts said. “It’ll be something he’ll
always remember and be proud of.”
The Dodgers got a threerun homer from
Turner in the first, a tworun blast by AJ
Pollock in the fourth, and a solo shot by Co
rey Seager in the fifth, giving them 17 home
rs in their last four games. Max Muncy’s
RBI double in the eighth made it 81.
Trea Turner went 2for4 to extend his ca
reerhigh 18game hitting streak and all but
lock up the NL batting title with a .328 aver
age. His closest competition, former Wash
ington teammate Juan Soto, went 0 for 3
against Boston, dropping his average to .315.
Trea Turner will become the first Dodger
to win a batting crown since Tommy Davis
claimed backtoback titles in 1962 and ’63.
Christian Yelich’s fielder’s choice groun
dout scored Willy Adames, who walked, to
give the NL Centralchampion Brewers an
early lead. Urías walked Adames again with
two outs in the sixth before Escobar struck
out swinging to end the inning.
Adames homered off David Price in the
ninth for the Brewers’ first hit and first run
since the first inning. Tyrone Taylor added
an RBI single. Escobar doubled for his
1,000th career hit in the inning.
Dodgers extend NL West race to final dayUrías becomes first 20-gamewinner for LA since Kershaw in2014 in 8-3 defeat of Brewers
BY BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
ASHLEY LANDIS/AP
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias (7) pitched onerun ball into the seventh inningto lead his team in an 83 defeat of the Milwaukee Brewers Saturday in Los Angeles.
TORONTO — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 47th
home run and the Toronto Blue Jays pressed their AL
wildcard chase to the final day of the regular season
by thumping the Baltimore Orioles 101 Saturday.
The Blue Jays launched five homers while Alek Ma
noah allowed one hit over seven innings to help Toron
to close within one game of wild card coleaders Boston
and the New York Yankees.
“It’s October baseball and we’re trying to make a
push,” Manoah said. “We’re just focused on controll
ing what we can control.”
Toronto remained tied with Seattle after the Mari
ners rallied to beat the Angels 64 later Saturday. Both
teams need a win and a loss by either the Red Sox or
Yankees on Sunday to force one of several tiebreaker
scenarios Monday.
The Blue Jays are 20 to start October after going
209 in September.
“The level of confidence that we’re playing with
right now is amazing,” Manoah said. “Everything is
kind of clicking, our bullpen, our starters, our offense.”
George Springer, Teoscar Hernández, Bo Bichette
and Danny Jansen all went deep for Toronto. The Blue
Jays lead the majors with a franchiserecord 258 home
runs, topping the 257 they hit in 2010.
Mitch Haniger drove in five runs and his twoout,
tworun single in the eighth inning gave the Mariners
the lead as they took their playoff hopes to the final day.
Haniger had an RBI single in the third inning,
clubbed his 39th homer in the fifth and came through
with the bases loaded in the eighth after Seattle blew a
31 lead.
“Putting the team up by two there was was fun. It
was good,” Haniger said. “Trying to win every single
game, win every single pitch. Every pitch is so mea
ningful, so every run that we can bring across the plate
is huge, especially in these last couple games, this last
series with so much on the line. That was a good feel
ing.”
Jays, Mariners win to stay in WC raceAssociated Press
JON BLACKER, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hits a tworun homerun, one of five for the Blue Jays, in a 101 defeat ofthe Baltimore Orioles on Saturday in Toronto.
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MLB
American League
East Division
W L Pct GB
x-Tampa Bay 100 61 .621 _
Boston 91 70 .565 9
New York 91 70 .565 9
Toronto 90 71 .559 10
Baltimore 52 109 .323 48
Central Division
W L Pct GB
x-Chicago 93 68 .578 _
Cleveland 79 82 .491 14
Detroit 76 85 .472 17
Kansas City 74 87 .460 19
Minnesota 72 89 .447 21
West Division
W L Pct GB
x-Houston 94 67 .584 _
Seattle 90 71 .559 4
Oakland 86 75 .534 8
Los Angeles 76 85 .472 18
Texas 60 101 .373 34
National LeagueEast Division
W L Pct GB
x-Atlanta 87 73 .544 _
Philadelphia 82 79 .509 5½
New York 77 84 .478 10½
Miami 66 95 .410 21½
Washington 65 96 .404 22½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
x-Milwaukee 95 66 .590 _
y-St. Louis 90 71 .559 5
Cincinnati 82 79 .509 13
Chicago 70 91 .435 25
Pittsburgh 61 100 .379 34
West Division
W L Pct GB
z-San Francisco 106 55 .658 _
z-Los Angeles 105 56 .652 1
San Diego 79 82 .491 27
Colorado 74 86 .463 31½
Arizona 51 110 .317 55
x-clinched divisiony-clinched wild cardz-clinched playoff berth
Saturday’s games
Tampa Bay 12, N.Y. Yankees 2Toronto 10, Baltimore 1Boston 5, Washington 3Texas 7, Cleveland 2Minnesota 4, Kansas City 0Chicago White Sox 5, Detroit 4Houston 10, Oakland 4Seattle 6, L.A. Angels 4San Diego 3, San Francisco 2, 10 inningsMiami 3, Philadelphia 1Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 6Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 5Chicago Cubs 6, St. Louis 5Arizona 11, Colorado 2L.A. Dodgers 8, Milwaukee 3
Sunday’s games
Boston at WashingtonCleveland at TexasTampa Bay at N.Y. YankeesBaltimore at TorontoDetroit at Chicago White SoxL.A. Angels at SeattleMinnesota at Kansas CityOakland at HoustonCincinnati at PittsburghSan Diego at San FranciscoColorado at ArizonaMilwaukee at L.A. DodgersPhiladelphia at MiamiChicago Cubs at St. LouisN.Y. Mets at Atlanta
Monday’s games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s games
AL Wild Card #2 at AL Wild Card #1
Scoreboard
HOUSTON — Yordan Alvarez
and Kyle Tucker hit two of the
Houston Astros’ four homers in a
104 win over the Oakland Athlet
ics to lock up homefield advantage
in the AL Division Series.
With the win, the AL West cham
pion Astros will have host the first
two games in their bestoffive
matchup against the AL Central
champion White Sox next week.
Houston owns the tiebreaker be
tween the teams, winning five out
of seven against Chicago this sea
son.
Phil Maton (60) loaded the
bases with two outs in the fifth but
induced a groundout by Seth
Brown to earn the win.
Paul Blackburn (14) was tagged
for a seasonhigh six runs on seven
hits in two innings.
White Sox 5, Tigers 4: Lucas
Giolito tuned up for the playoffs
with a solid start, Yoán Moncada
hit a goahead, tworun homer in
the eighth inning and host Chicago
beat Detroit for its sixth straight
win.
Giolito finished his dominant
second half by pitching five in
nings, allowing one run and two
hits.
Cubs 6, Cardinals 5: Ian Happ
drove a twoout, tworun homer in
the ninth inning to sour what could
be Jon Lester’s final career start,
lifting Chicago to a win at St. Louis.
Braves 6, Mets 5:Joc Pederson
hit a solo homer off Carlos Carras
co (15) in the third inning, William
Contreras went deep with a two
run shot off Carrasco in the fourth
and host Atlanta beat New York.
Rangers 7, Indians 2: Jordan
Lyles closed his season by allowing
only two hits in seven innings and
rookie Jonah Heim broke a fourth
inning tie with a threerun home
run to help host Texas beat Cleve
land.
Pirates 8, Reds 6: Bryan Rey
nolds had four hits, raising his bat
ting average above .300, to help
Pittsburgh rally from a fiverun
deficit and beat visiting Cincinnati.
Twins 4, Royals 0: Griffin Jax
and a trio of relievers combined on
a threehitter and visiting Minne
sota blanked Salvador Perez and
Kansas City.
Marlins 3, Phillies 1: Jesús Lu
zardo struck out a careerhigh 11
and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a three
run homer to help host Miami beat
Philadelphia.
Diamondbacks 11, Rockies 2:
Pavin Smith reached base five
times and host Arizona chased An
tonio Senzatela (410) with a six
run first inning.
Astros clinchhome-fieldedge againstWhite Sox
Associated Press
ROUNDUP
WASHINGTON — Christian
Vázquez tripled home the tiebreak
ing run in the ninth inning and the
Boston Red Sox moved to the brink
of a postseason berth with a 53 win
over the Washington Nationals on
Saturday.
Boston is tied with the new York
Yankees for the top AL wild card
entering the final day of the regular
season. The Red Sox were sending
ace Chris Sale to the mound Sunday
against the Nationals needing a vic
tory to punch a playoff ticket. If they
win, they’ll host Tuesday’s wild
card game regardless of New
York’s outcome because Boston
won the season series 109.
“We know what that means if we
win,” Boston manager Alex Cora
said.
Brandon Lowe hit three home
runs and the Toronto Blue Rays
rolled to a 122 blowout that pre
vented the Yankees from clinching
a playoff spot Saturday. Instead,
they fell into a tie with Boston atop
the AL wildcard standings.
If the Red Sox lose Sunday, they
will still be assured entry into a tie
breaker game Monday. Boston is a
game ahead of Toronto and Seattle.
“Total team effort,” Cora said. “It
wasn’t easy. ... It hasn’t been easy all
season.”
Tanner Houck pitched five per
fect innings, striking out eight, but
Washington tied it at 1 in the eighth
inning on Juan Soto’s long, bases
loaded sacrifice fly to center off
Austin Davis (12).
J.D. Martinez led off the ninth
with a walk for Boston, and Váz
quez drilled a ball to right off closer
Tanner Rainey (13) that easily
scored pinchrunner José Iglesias
for a 21 lead with two outs. Travis
Shaw singled to drive in Vázquez,
then Kiké Hernández homered into
the Red Sox bullpen against Mason
Thompson to push the lead to 51.
The Nationals’ Andrew Steven
son hit a tworun homer in the ninth
before Hansel Robles finished the
game for his 14th save.
Washington loaded the bases
with one out in the eighth after cen
ter fielder Hunter Renfroe lost a fly
ball in the twilight, leading to a dou
ble, and Adam Ottavino walked
two. Soto hit a soaring ball to deep
center to tie it, but Josh Bell fol
lowed with a soft lineout to end the
threat.
Soto said he thought Davis was
“lucky” the ball was an out instead
of a grand slam. Soto also said Davis
was “talking trash” during the at
bat.
Rafael Devers’ 36th homer of the
season put Boston in front 10 in the
fourth. Devers struck out against
Rainey with the bases loaded and
two out in the eighth.
Houck zipped through the Na
tionals’ lineup, needing just 53
pitches to strike out eight among
the 15 consecutive outs he record
ed. Washington hit one ball out of
the infield before Houck was lifted
for pinchhitter Christian Arroyo in
the sixth.
Houck, a 25yearold rookie,
twice threw 90 pitches among his 13
starts this season. Both came in late
August. He had not thrown more
than 42 pitches in his last three ap
pearances, all of which were in re
lief.
Before the game, Cora said there
were no limitations on Houck, who
pitched five innings three times
earlier this season. He pitched into
the sixth once, on Aug. 29.
With a chance to pitch his team
into the postseason, New York
starter Jordan Montgomery in
stead was rocked for a careerworst
seven earned runs in 22⁄�3 innings.
He gave up a pair of threerun
homers to Lowe, who also went
deep in the seventh against Michael
King.
Even with the embarrassing de
feat before a booing home crowd of
41,648, the streaky Yankees (9170)
can still punch their AL wildcard
ticket Sunday with a victory over
Tampa Bay in the scheduled regu
larseason finale.
Another loss, and it gets dicey.
“We've got to win. It's as simple as
that,” veteran outfielder Brett
Gardner said. “Here we are going
into Game 162 not knowing what
the future is.
“It's not ideal. But it's nice know
ing that we still have a chance,” he
added. “The way the season has
gone, it kind of makes sense that it
would come down to the very last
day. Seems about right.”
New York is assured at least a tie
breaker game next week that could
put the team in the playoffs for the
fifth straight season. But after drop
ping the first two games of this se
ries, the Yankees no longer control
their own destiny to host the wild
card game. Now they need a Boston
loss to do so.
“Just a bad day for us and we've
got to get over it quickly,” Yankees
manager Aaron Boone said.
Lowe batted in the eighth with an
opportunity to match the major
league record of four home runs in
a game. He evaded a 93 mph fast
ball from Joely Rodríguez that was
way inside, then grounded out to
first base.
NICK WASS/AP
Boston’s Enrique Hernandez (5) celebrates his tworun home run with Bobby Dalbec, second from right,and Travis Shaw during the ninth inning of the Red Sox’s a 53 win Saturday at Washington.
Red Sox rally in 9th, moveto the brink of postseasonVázquez triples in go-ahead run in the 9th against Nationals; Yanks lose to Rays
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Monday, October 4, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 21
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Saturday's scores
EAST
Amherst 24, Tufts 21Anna Maria 55, Keystone 35Assumption 35, Franklin Pierce 28Bentley 34, St. Anselm 21Bowie St. 44, Johnson C. Smith 7Bridgewater (Mass.) 42, Fitchburg St. 0Brockport 34, St. John Fisher 7Bryant 36, Brown 29Bucknell 21, Cornell 10California (Pa.) 37, Mercyhurst 0Carnegie Mellon 47, Bethany (WV) 7Catholic 23, MIT 13Charleston (WV) 38, Notre Dame (Ohio)
28Colgate 28, Georgetown 21College of NJ 15, William Paterson 14Cortland 58, Morrisville St. 7Delaware 20, Albany (NY) 15Delaware St. 33, Wagner 27, 2OTDelaware Valley 32, Lycoming 7Dickinson 24, McDaniel 6Duquesne 37, Merrimack 14Edinboro 17, Seton Hill 7Endicott 34, Curry 27FDU-Florham 27, Widener 3Fairmont St. 31, Concord 27Fordham 42, Lafayette 41Framingham St. 33, Plymouth St. 0Frostburg St. 51, UNC-Pembroke 21Gallaudet 42, Dean 35Grove City 38, Waynesburg 0Hamilton 27, Colby 14Harvard 38, Holy Cross 13Howard 22, Sacred Heart 17Indiana (Pa.) 28, Gannon 23Ithaca 28, Hobart 21James Madison 23, New Hampshire 21Johns Hopkins 66, Franklin & Marshall 10Juniata 24, Moravian 17Kean 27, Christopher Newport 20Kenyon 27, Allegheny 13Kings (Pa.) 10, Alvernia 7Kutztown 21, East Stroudsburg 14Mass. Maritime 16, Westfield St. 8Merchant Marine 31, WPI 28Millersville 31, Lock Haven 29Misericordia 31, Albright 20Monmouth (NJ) 54, Gardner-Webb 17Muhlenberg 54, Gettysburg 19Navy 34, UCF 30New England 28, Nichols 19New Haven 28, Pace 14Norwich 24, Coast Guard 21Ohio St. 52, Rutgers 13Penn St. 24, Indiana 0Princeton 24, Columbia 7RPI 38, Rochester 22Rhode Island 27, Stony Brook 20SUNY Maritime 19, Castleton 16Salisbury 27, Montclair St. 7Shepherd 59, Shippensburg 27Slippery Rock 75, Clarion 0St. Francis (Pa.) 27, Morgan St. 14St. Vincent 42, Case Western 40Susquehanna 62, Ursinus 23Temple 34, Memphis 31Texas Tech 23, West Virginia 20Toledo 45, Umass 7Trinity (Conn.) 28, Middlebury 0Union (NY) 30, Buffalo St. 17Utica 16, Hartwick 10W. Connecticut 34, Mass.-Dartmouth 19W. Michigan 24, Buffalo 17W. New England 41, Salve Regina 3W. Virginia St. 45, Alderson-Broaddus 13Washington & Jefferson 24, Geneva 20Wesleyan (Conn.) 27, Bates 24West Chester 21, Bloomsburg 20West Liberty 20, Glenville St. 19Westminster (Pa.) 49, Thiel 14Wheeling Jesuit 38, WV Wesleyan 0Wilkes 21, Stevenson 14Williams 28, Bowdoin 3Yale 34, Lehigh 0
SOUTH
Alabama 42, Mississippi 21Albany St. (Ga.) 31, Miles 3Appalachian St. 45, Georgia St. 16Auburn 24, LSU 19Barton 31, Carson-Newman 17Birmingham Southern 49, Sewanee 0Brevard 27, Greensboro 7Campbell 48, North Alabama 31Centre 42, Hendrix 21Chattanooga 45, W. Carolina 17Chowan 73, Winston-Salem 7Clemson 19, Boston College 13Coastal Carolina 59, Louisiana-Monroe 6Davidson 35, Stetson 28E. Kentucky 20, Tarleton St. 3ETSU 27, Wofford 21East Carolina 52, Tulane 29Edward Waters 37, Morehouse 13Elizabeth City St. 19, Livingstone 13Elon 20, Richmond 7Erskine 59, Va. Lynchburg 13FAU 58, FIU 21Fayetteville St. 46, Lincoln (Pa.) 9Florida A&M 28, Alabama St. 0Florida St. 33, Syracuse 30Fort Valley St. 24, Benedict 14Georgia 37, Arkansas 0Georgia Southern 59, Arkansas St. 33Grambling St. 37, Alabama A&M 28Huntingdon 48, Methodist 21Incarnate Word 38, Northwestern St. 27Kennesaw St. 31, Jacksonville St. 6Kentucky 20, Florida 13Lane 71, Texas College 0Liberty 36, UAB 12Louisiana-Lafayette 20, South Alabama
18MVSU 17, NC Central 16Mars Hill 28, Newberry 22Maryville (Tenn.) 38, S. Virginia 17Mercer 45, Samford 42Middle Tennessee 34, Marshall 28Millsaps 42, Rhodes 21Mississippi College 42, North Greenville
21Morehead St. 45, Dayton 38, OTMurray St. 22, E. Illinois 6NC A&T 41, Robert Morris 14NC State 34, Louisiana Tech 27NC Wesleyan 17, Averett 9
Nicholls 48, Houston Baptist 17Norfolk St. 47, Hampton 44, OTNorth Carolina 38, Duke 7Ohio Dominican 32, Kentucky Wesleyan
30Pittsburgh 52, Georgia Tech 21Randolph Macon 44, Ferrum 21SC State 42, Bethune-Cookman 35SE Louisiana 38, McNeese St. 35Savannah St. 21, Kentucky St. 17Shaw 27, Virginia Union 7Shenandoah 34, Bridgewater (Va.) 27South Carolina 23, Troy 14Tennessee St. 24, Austin Peay 22Tennessee Tech 28, SE Missouri 17The Citadel 35, VMI 24Trinity (Texas) 27, Berry 6Tuskegee 21, Clark Atlanta 0Valdosta St. 49, Shorter 13Vanderbilt 30, Uconn 28Virginia St. 33, St. Augustines 9Virginia-Wise 35, Lenoir-Rhyne 28Wake Forest 37, Louisville 34Washington & Lee 32, Hampden-Sydney
30West Alabama 38, West Georgia 20West Florida 39, Delta St. 33Wingate 43, Tusculum 35
MIDWEST
Allen 46, Central St. (Ohio) 34Augsburg 56, St. Olaf 28Augustana (Ill.) 17, North Park 14Aurora 70, Wis. Lutheran 29Ball St. 28, Army 16Bemidji St. 49, Minot St. 35Benedictine (Ill.) 41, St. Norbert 34Bethel (Minn. ) 34, Gustavus Adolphus 9Carleton 24, Macalester 10Carthage 63, Millikin 42Cent. Oklahoma 69, Lincoln (Mo.) 28Central 49, Wartburg 24Chicago 45, Knox 10Cincinnati 24, Notre Dame 13Concordia (Wis.) 41, Rockford 7DePauw 57, Hiram 7Drake 6, Butler 3Dubuque 31, Buena Vista 16Emporia St. 35, Washburn 30Eureka 38, Concordia (Ill.) 13Ferris St. 67, Northwood (Mich.) 25Findlay 37, Lake Erie 10Fort Hays St. 42, Neb.-Kearney 35Grand Valley St. 49, Saginaw Valley St. 17Greenville 21, Martin Luther 14Grinnell 40, Beloit 13Hamline 34, St. Scholastica 18Hanover 49, Anderson (Ind.) 0Hillsdale 24, Tiffin 21Hope 67, Kalamazoo 0Illinois 24, Charlotte 14Illinois Wesleyan 52, Elmhurst 3Indianapolis 77, SW Baptist 10Iowa St. 59, Kansas 7Iowa Wesleyan 69, Crown (Minn.) 28John Carroll 29, Muskingum 7Kent St. 27, Bowling Green 20Lindenwood (Mo.) 31, Truman St. 21Loras 21, Simpson 13Manchester 27, Franklin 24Marist 27, Valparaiso 24, OTMary 49, Northern St. 42McKendree 52, William Jewell 10Miami (Ohio) 28, Cent. Michigan 17Michigan 38, Wisconsin 17Michigan St. 48, W. Kentucky 31Michigan Tech 31, Davenport 7Minn. Duluth 26, Minn. St. (Moorhead) 21Minn.-Morris 38, Westminster (Mo.) 35Minnesota 20, Purdue 13Minnesota St. 58, Concordia (St.P.) 10Missouri St. 41, Illinois St. 20Monmouth (Ill.) 42, Lawrence 0Mount St. Joseph 45, Bluffton 27Mount Union 55, Otterbein 0N. Dakota St. 16, North Dakota 10N. Illinois 27, E. Michigan 20N. Iowa 34, Youngstown St. 7N. Michigan 26, Wayne St. (Mich.) 19NW Missouri St. 30, Missouri Western 7Nebraska 56, Northwestern 7Nebraska Wesleyan 28, Luther 21
North Central 62, Carroll (Wis.) 7Northwestern (Minn.) 16, Finlandia 13Ohio 34, Akron 17Ohio Northern 34, Marietta 33Oklahoma 37, Kansas St. 31Olivet 33, Alma 10Pittsburg St. 20, Missouri Southern 16Quincy 31, Missouri S&T 28Ripon 24, Illinois College 13Rose Hulman 63, Defiance 14S. Dakota St. 55, Dixie St. 7S. Illinois 31, W. Illinois 30, OTSW Minnesota 20, Upper Iowa 14Sioux Falls 28, Augustana (SD) 26South Dakota 38, Indiana St. 10St. John's (Minn.) 49, Concordia (Moor.)
0Tennessee 62, Missouri 24Trine 36, Adrian 20Wayne St. (Neb.) 38, Winona St. 21Wheaton (Ill.) 40, Washington (Mo.) 10Wis.-Eau Claire 25, Wis.-Stevens Pt 15Wis.-La Crosse 45, Wis.-River Falls 23Wis.-Oshkosh 35, Wis.-Platteville 32Wis.-Whitewater 37, Wis.-Stout 6Wittenberg 24, Ohio Wesleyan 23Wooster 28, Oberlin 24
SOUTHWEST
Angelo St. 62, W. New Mexico 3Ark.-Monticello 18, SW Oklahoma 16Arkansas Tech 51, S. Nazarene 41Belhaven 42, Texas Lutheran 35Cent. Arkansas 42, Abilene Christian 21Cent. Missouri 41, Northeastern St. 10E. Texas Baptist 27, Southwestern (Tex-
as) 17East Central 38, S. Arkansas 17Hardin Simmons 24, McMurry 21Harding 31, Oklahoma Baptist 7Henderson St. 27, SE Oklahoma 24Howard Payne 73, Sul Ross St. 30Mary Hardin-Baylor 56, Austin 0Mississippi St. 26, Texas A&M 22Oklahoma St. 24, Baylor 14Ouachita Baptist 64, NW Oklahoma 17Rice 24, Southern Miss. 19SMU 41, South Florida 17Sam Houston St. 21, Stephen F. Austin 20Texas 32, TCU 27Texas A&M Commerce 72, Fort Lauder-
dale Soaring Eagles 6Texas Southern 69, North American Stal-
lions 0UTEP 28, Old Dominion 21UTSA 24, UNLV 17
FAR WEST
Air Force 38, New Mexico 10Arizona St. 42, UCLA 23Baldwin Wallace 51, Capital 0Black Hills St. 45, Fort Lewis 17CSU-Pueblo 19, Colorado Mesa 13California Lutheran 35, La Verne 14Cent. Washington 30, Midwestern St. 20Chadron St. 46, N.M. Highlands 16Colorado Mines 20, Western St. (Col.) 14E. New Mexico 52, Lincoln Oaklanders 6E. Washington 34, Montana 28George Fox 27, Pacific Lutheran 14Hawaii 27, Fresno St. 24Linfield 56, Puget Sound 7Montana St. 40, N. Colorado 7N. Arizona 48, Idaho St. 17Nevada 41, Boise St. 31Oregon St. 27, Washington 24Pacific (Ore.) 49, Willamette 19Pomona Pitzer 56, Whittier 3Portland St. 20, S. Utah 13Redlands 22, Claremont Mudd 19S.D. Mines 45, Adams St. 42San Diego 27, St. Thomas (Minn.) 24San Jose St. 37, New Mexico St. 31Southern Cal 37, Colorado 14Stanford 31, Oregon 24, OTUC Davis 27, Idaho 20W. Oregon 41, West Texas A&M 38Washington St. 21, California 6Weber St. 38, Cal Poly 7Whitworth 35, Lewis & Clark 17
OTHER
Monroe Mustangs 56, Post UniversityEagles 15
Scoreboard
BARRY REEGER/AP
Penn State cornerback Joey Porter Jr., center, celebrates a fourthdown stop on Indiana in the first half Saturday in State College, Pa.The fourthranked Nittany Lions won 240.
Bennett threw 11 passes. Geor-
gia hammered away with its run-
ning game (273 yards on 56 car-
ries) and let its ridiculous defense
do the rest.
Arkansas managed 162 yards
and nine first downs.
Georgia has shut out consecu-
tive Southeastern Conference op-
ponents for the first time since
1980, the last time the Bulldogs
won a national championship.
Alabama turned Lane Kiffin’s
return to Tuscaloosa into a laugh-
er with a similar approach to Ge-
orgia. Instead of getting into a race
with Matt Corral and Ole Miss'
high-scoring offense, the Tide
went old school.
“It started to feel like the classic
Alabama pound the football,” run-
ning back Brian Robinson told re-
porters.
Robinson carried 36 times for
210 yards and four touchdowns. It
was 42-7 Crimson Tide early in the
fourth quarter before Ole Miss
tacked on a couple of touchdowns.
There were drama filled upsets
elsewhere.
Stanford knocked off No. 3 Ore-
gon in overtime. Kentucky beat
No. 10 Florida with a late goal-line
stand. Mississippi State handed
No. 15 Texas A&M its second
straight loss, a week before Alaba-
ma comes to College Station.
If ever there was a season for a
Group of Five team to make a case
to be in the College Football Play-
off, it might be this year.
And No. 7 Cincinnati might be
that team. Desmond Ridder and
the Bearcats made themselves
right at home at Notre Dame.
Through the first four weeks of
the season, 25 ranked teams lost,
the most in poll history. By the end
of Saturday, nine more had gone
down.
There are 128 major college
football teams that appear to be
ready to provide fans a season of
twists and turns and unpredict-
ability.
Not Alabama and Georgia.
They are here to crush every-
thing in their paths on the way to
Dec. 4 and the SEC championship
game.
Harbaugh watchUnder coach Jim Harbaugh No.
14 Michigan had not won a game in
which it was not
favored.
The strange
streak ended as
the Wolverines
pulled way from
struggling Wis-
consin in the sec-
ond half.
The story here
might be more about how the
Badgers, one of the most consis-
tent programs in the country in re-
cent years, could be heading for
one of their worst seasons in years.
Wisconsin is 1-3 for the first
time since 1990, when it finished 1-
10.
But that’s not fair to Michigan
and Harbaugh. The Wolverines
were embarrassed in their last
two trips to Madison, a place they
hadn’t won since 2001.
Even more than the losses to
Ohio State, getting manhandled
by Wisconsin appeared to be a
turning point in the wrong direc-
tion in Harbaugh's seven-year ten-
ure.
“Against a tough, physical team,
I thought our team played really
physical,” Harbaugh said. “We
matched it every bit.”
Harbaugh took a pay cut after
last season, helping to put himself
firmly on the hot seat coming into
2021.
Michigan still seems limited of-
fensively and somewhat untested
on defense. Tougher opponents lie
ahead in the Big Ten. Maybe start-
ing next week at Nebraska with
the Cornhuskers showing signs of
improvement.
Harbaugh has become a coach
defined by his failures, despite
quite a bit of success. It is unlikely
he will deliver on the hype he ar-
rived with in Ann Arbor this sea-
son, but Michigan is better and
Harbaugh deserves credit for
that.
Around the countryAfter losing to Bo Nix and No. 22
Auburn, LSU is 8-7 since winning
the 2019 national championship
game. The Tigers’ remaining SEC
schedule includes five teams that
were ranked coming into the
weekend and unbeaten Kentucky.
Things are about to get tense for
coach Ed Orgeron. ... All alone in
first-place in the Pac-12 North sits
Oregon State after a walk-off field
goal against Washington. ... No. 6
Oklahoma showed some signs of
finding itself offensively against
Kansas State ahead of the Red
River game against Texas. The
Sooners got a few more explosive
plays against Kansas State, They'll
need them next week against Bi-
jan Robinson and Texas. ... A top-
five matchup in Iowa City is likely
next week after No. 5 Iowa and No.
4Penn State had impressive victo-
ries. ... It was great victory for Cin-
cinnati, but the Bearcats’ oppo-
nents are not doing them any fa-
vors. Penn State shut out Indiana,
Cincinnati’s other Power Five vic-
tory. Within the American Athlet-
ic Conference, winless Navy upset
UCF. The Bearcats are going to
need SMU to separate itself from
the rest of the American or they
will be at risk of not facing another
Top 25 team during the regular
season.
Chaos: Tide, Bulldogssteady amid upsetsFROM PAGE 24
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Top 25 FaredNo. 1 Alabama (5-0) beat No. 12 Missis-
sippi 42-21. Next: at No. 15 Texas A&M, Sat-urday.
No. 2 Georgia (5-0) beat No. 8 Arkansas37-0. Next: at No. 22 Auburn, Saturday.
No. 3 Oregon (4-1) lost to Stanford 31-24,OT. Next: vs. California, Friday, Oct. 15.
No. 4 Penn St. (5-0) beat Indiana 24-0.Next: at No. 5 Iowa, Saturday.
No. 5 Iowa (5-0) beat Maryland 51-14, Fri-day. Next: vs. No. 4 Penn St., Saturday.
No. 6 Oklahoma (5-0) beat Kansas St. 37-31. Next: at Texas, Saturday.
No. 7 Cincinnati (4-0) beat No. 9 NotreDame 24-13. Next: vs. Temple, Friday.
No. 8 Arkansas (4-1) lost to No. 2 Georgia37-0. Next: at No. 12 Mississippi, Saturday.
No. 9 Notre Dame (4-1) lost to No. 7 Cin-cinnati 24-13. Next: at Virginia Tech, Satur-day.
No. 10 Florida (3-2) lost to Kentucky 20-13. Next: vs. Vanderbilt, Saturday.
No. 11 Ohio St. (4-1) beat Rutgers 52-13.Next: vs. Maryland, Saturday.
No. 12 Mississippi (3-1) lost to No. 1 Ala-bama 42-21. Next: vs. No. 8 Arkansas, Sat-urday.
No. 13 BYU (5-0) beat Utah st. 34-20, Fri-day. Next: vs. Boise St., Saturday.
No. 14 Michigan (5-0) beat Wisconsin 38-17. Next: at Nebraska, Saturday.
No. 15 Texas A&M (3-2) lost to Mississip-pi St. 26-22. Next: vs. No. 1 Alabama, Sat-urday.
No. 16 Coastal Carolina (5-0) beat Loui-siana-Monroe 59-6. Next: at Arkansas St.,Thursday.
No. 17 Michigan St. (5-0) beat W. Ken-tucky 48-31. Next: at Rutgers, Saturday.
No. 18 Fresno St. (4-2) lost to Hawaii 27-24. Next: at Wyoming, Saturday, Oct. 16.
No. 19 Oklahoma St. (5-0) beat No. 21Baylor 24-14. Next: at Texas, Saturday, Oct.16.
No. 20 UCLA (3-2) lost to Arizona St. 42-23. Next: at Arizona, Saturday.
No. 21 Baylor (4-1) lost to No. 19 Oklaho-ma St. 24-14. Next: vs. West Virginia, Sat-urday.
No. 22 Auburn (4-1) beat LSU 24-19. Next:vs. No. 2 Georgia, Saturday.
No. 23 NC State (4-1) beat Louisiana Tech34-27. Next: at Boston College, Saturday,Oct. 16.
No. 24 Wake Forest (5-0) beat Louisville37-34. Next: at Syracuse, Saturday.
No. 25 Clemson (3-2) beat Boston Col-lege 19-13. Next: at Syracuse, Friday, Oct.15.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Tai Lava-
tai returned from a two-game inju-
ry absence to lead Navy back from
a 13-point fourth-quarter deficit
and a 34-30 win over Central Flor-
ida on Saturday for the Midship-
men’s first victory this season.
With Navy trailing 30-27, Diego
Fabot knocked the ball out of Bran-
don Johnson’s hands after a 20-
yard reception and Taylor Robin-
son recovered at the Midshipmen
47. Eleven plays and over five min-
utes later, Isaac Ruoss ran in from
the 4-yard line to give Navy the
lead with 3:09 left.
UCF quickly went down the
field down to the Midshipmen 12,
but Robinson, who dropped a
would-be interception two plays
earlier, came up with a pick in the
end zone on fourth down with 24
seconds remaining.
The victory was the first for Na-
vy (1-3, 1-1) in three meetings with
the Knights (2-2, 0-1) since joining
the American Athletic Conference
in 2015, the final league team the
Midshipmen were winless
against.
Bijan Nichols kicked his second
field goal and Lavatai, who missed
the previous two games, ran for his
second touchdown of the game af-
ter Navy entered the fourth quar-
ter trailing 30-17.
Lavatai and Ruoss had 21 car-
ries each as the Midshipmen ran
for 348 yards led by 85 from Carli-
nos Acie.
Daniel Taylor recovered a
blocked punt in the end zone for a
Navy TD in the first half.
UCF freshman Mikey Keene,
making his first start in place of the
injured Dillon Gabriel, was 16-
for-26 passing for 178 yards and
two TDs to Johnson.
Air Force 38, New Mexico 10:
Brad Roberts ran for 142 yards and
scored twice as the Falcons scored
on their first four drives to build a
big early lead then coasted to a win
at New Mexico.
Air Force’s defense contributed
four takeaways and four sacks —
3½ by Vince Sanford.
The Falcons (4-1, 1-1 Mountain
West) limited the Lobos (2-3, 0-1)
to 189 total yards, 143 in the second
half after Air Force had already
pushed its lead to 31-0 early in the
third quarter.
DeAndre Hughes ran for 89 and
a touchdown for the Falcons.
New Mexico quarterback Terry
Wilson Jr. was 13-for-21 for 142
yards and a touchdown pass.
In two games against the Lobos,
Roberts has 319 yards on 57 car-
ries and five touchdowns.
“I don’t know if it’s anything in
particular,” he said. “The offen-
sive line just does its job and opens
up a crease for me and I just try and
run as fast as I can. You can see the
defense and you can see them huff-
ing and puffing and you know you
kind of got ’em where you want
’em. It’s my favorite thing to look at
them and to know they’re tired and
that we can keep pounding the
rock.”
Air Force showed its ground-
and-pound offense can control the
ball against lesser opponents, but
it put the ball on the ground twice
and was fortunate to recover both.
Bigger and tougher tests await the
Falcons
“We just have to keep getting
better,” Calhoun said. “We have
some really great challenges up in
front of us.”
Ball State 28, Army 16: Justin
Hall returned the opening kickoff
99 yards for a touchdown, Drew
Plitt threw two TD passes and the
host Cardinals beat the Black
Knights to snap a three-game los-
ing streak.
Plitt was 17-for-28 passing for
233 yards with no interceptions
and Hall finished with seven re-
ceptions for 78 yards.
After Hall’s kickoff return, Ar-
my was stopped on short on a
fourth-and-2 and on the next play,
Plitt hit Jayshon Jackson down the
right sideline for a 44-yard touch-
down and Carson Steele added a 2-
yard TD run to give Ball State (2-3)
a 21-0 lead with 4:48 left in the first
quarter.
Tyhier Tyler scored on a 4-yard
run early in the second quarter and
added a 2-yard touchdown run just
before halftime to trim the deficit
to 21-14 but the Black Knights (4-1)
would get no closer.
Plitt connected with Yo’Heinz
Tyler on an 18-yard pass that gave
the Cardinals a two-touchdown
lead midway through the third
quarter.
Tyler had 24 carries for 63 yards
as Army finished with 36 yards
rushing on 26 attempts.
JULIO CORTEZ/AP
Navy fullback Isaac Ruoss runs against UCF during the first half of the Midshipmen’s 3430 win Saturdayin Annapolis, Md. Ruoss scored the goahead touchdown and Navy rushed for 348 yeards.
Navy scores 17 points infourth quarter to top UCF
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ACADEMIES
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The de-
fense kept giving Alabama back the
ball, and the offense repeatedly de-
livered it into Brian Robinson Jr.’s
hands. It was a simple but oh so ef-
fective formula.
Robinson rushed for career highs
of 171 yards and four touchdowns,
and No. 1 Alabama mostly throttled
the nation’s top offense in a 42-21
victory Saturday over No. 12 Missis-
sippi.
Bryce Young passed for a couple
of touchdowns for the Crimson Tide
(5-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference)
but the ’Bama defense and ground
game stole some of the thunder
from a matchup of the two leading
Heisman Trophy contenders com-
ing into the game.
“It was a great opportunity for us
today to show how physical we can
play for 60 minutes,” said Robinson,
a fifth-year senior who carried 36
times in his first 100-yard game.
The Crimson tide turned to Rob-
inson to play keep away from Matt
Corral and the offense of the Rebels
(3-1, 0-1), who had breezed through
three nonconference games before
an open date but had some gambles
that backfired.
Nick Saban improved to 24-0
against his former assistants, but
ex-offensive coordinator Lane Kif-
fin didn’t help his own cause with
three failed fourth-down calls in the
first half. Saban turned the tables
with two touchdowns on fourth-
down plays.
“I’m sure I got killed by going for
it on fourth down, but that’s analyt-
ics,” Kiffin said. “We believe in our
players, and it doesn’t work all the
time. When it doesn’t work and you
follow the book, it doesn’t look
good.”
Young completed 21 of 27 passes
for 241 yards and was intercepted
once for Alabama, which led 28-0 at
halftime. Oddsmakers had him as
the second-leading Heisman candi-
date, behind only Corral. The Re-
bels star ran for a touchdown but
was mostly held in check by a team
he torched last season. Corral also
passed for a touchdown, completing
22 of 32 passes for 213 yards while
losing a fumble.
Robinson’s 4 TDs
lift No. 1 AlabamaCrimson Tide’s defense dominates No. 12 Mississippi
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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia’s deter-
mination to win its top-10 matchup
against Arkansas on the ground had
nothing to do with which quarter-
back started for the Bulldogs.
Instead, it was all about taking
what the Razorbacks defense gave
and the Bulldogs just kept taking
and taking. And that made it even
easier for the Georgia defense to
dominate.
Zamir White rushed for two
touchdowns and recovered a
blocked punt for another score, and
the No. 2 Bulldogs pounded No. 8
Arkansas 37-0 on Saturday in the
Georgia’s second consecutive shut-
out.
The Bulldogs (5-0, 3-0 Southeast-
ern Conference) raced to a 21-0 lead
in the first quarter despite playing
without quarterback JT Daniels,
who was held out with a right lat in-
jury.
Stetson Bennett filled in for Da-
niels and passed for only 72 yards as
Georgia relied on its running game
and top-rated defense to beat the
Razorbacks (4-1, 1-1).
“They were basically challenging
us, could we run the ball,” Bennett
said. “They said we couldn’t but we
said we could today.”
The Bulldogs rushed for 273
yards.
No. 2 Georgia, Whitethwart No. 7 Arkansas
BY CHARLES ODOM
Associated Press
Monday, October 4, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 23
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The last
pass of the day by Desmond Ridder
was a celebratory heave way up in-
to stands toward the Cincinnati
fans who came to Notre Dame to
see their Bearcats make a state-
ment.
Cincinnati wanted to use the first
top-10, regular-season matchup in
program history as a chance to
show it belongs among the nation’s
best before heading into its Amer-
ican Athletic Conference schedule.
Mission accomplished.
Ridder threw two touchdown
passes and ran for score late in the
fourth quarter as No. 7 Cincinnati
capitalized on its big opportunity
and beat the No. 9 Fighting Irish 24-
13 on Saturday in a game the Bear-
cats hope can be the centerpiece of
a College Football Playoff resume.
“We didn’t just beat a top-10
team, we beat a top-five program,”
Cincinnati coach Luke Fickell said.
No team from outside the Power
Five conferences has reached the
playoff in its seven seasons. Never
even came close.
To break that barrier, the Bear-
cats almost certainly need to go un-
defeated and this trip to Notre
Dame (4-1) looked like the toughest
test on their schedule. Not to men-
tion the grandest stage they’ll ap-
pear on this season.
“It’s still midseason, so we got a
lot of games left to play, but it obvi-
ously is a big win against a top-10
team,” Ridder said. “Hopefully, we
keep this going.”
Cincinnati was not quite dom-
inant, but it was plenty good
enough in its first trip to South
Bend since 1900 to snap the Fight-
ing Irish’s 26-game home winning
streak.
“I don’t think we let the stage get
too big for us,” Ridder said.
When told by coaches how loud
the crowd can be at Notre Dame
Stadium this week, Ridder quipped
that it wouldn’t be for long.
The senior delivered, going 19-
for-32 for 297 yards. He hooked up
with Alec Pierce six times for 144
yards, and was at his best after the
Irish cut the lead to 17-13 with 8:20
left in the fourth quarter.
Ridder went 3-for-3, with a bullet
down the middle for 36 yards to Le-
onard Taylor, on the ensuing drive.
He capped it off with a 6-yard TD
run around left end that made it 24-
13 with 5:08 left.
“That’s the Desmond Ridder fac-
tor,” Fickell said.
Cincinnati took advantage of
three turnovers by the Irish in the
first half to jump out to 17-0 lead.
The miscues by Notre Dame were
killers.
Ahmad Gardner picked off an ill-
advised throw under pressure by
Jack Coan that ended the Fighting
Irish’s first and best drive of the
half.
DeShawn Pace’s interception of
Notre Dame freshman Tyler
Buchner set up Cincinnati in the
red zone and Ridder flipped a 1-
yard pass to Taylor to make it 7-0
early in the second quarter.
Chris Tyree fumbled the ensuing
kickoff back to the Bearcats and the
Bearcats turned that into a 23-yard
field goal by Cole Smith.
Ridder and Cincinnati put to-
gether its best first-half drive late
in the second quarter, going 80
yards for a touchdown. Ridder
found Tre Tucker for a 27-yard
score that beat Irish All-America
safety Kyle Hamilton.
The Bearcats were up 17-0 with
40 seconds left in the first half and
for the third time Cincinnati fans,
decked in red in the upper reaches
of the south end zone, were chant-
ing “Let’s Go Bearcats!”
After the postgame celebration
died down, Ridder belted out a
“How ’bout them Bearcats!” when
he entered the interview room and
talked about how it “sounded like a
home game.”
It looked like one at the end, too.
Cincinnati waved its giant black
and red flags and Lambeau-leaped
over the wall behind the corner of
the end zone to take selfies with
their fans.
Notre Dame’s Drew Pyne, who
took over last week in the second
half against Wisconsin when Jack
Coan went out with an ankle injury,
came off the bench in the third
quarter again for the Irish — this
time just to provide a spark.
Pyne was OK, showing some Ian
Book-ish mobility and getting rid of
the ball a little more quickly than
Coan. The sophomore was 9-for-22
for 143 yards and his 32-yard touch-
down pass to Braden Lenzy with
8:20 left in the fourth quarter cut
the lead to 17-13.
DARRON CUMMINGS/AP
Cincinnati quarterback Desmond Ridder runs for a 6yard touchdown past Notre Dame’s JD Bertrandduring the second half of Saturday’s game in South Bend, Ind. Cincinnati won 2413.
Ridder, Cincinnati makestatement at Notre Dame
BY RALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press
STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford’s
comeback victory that stunned Ore-
gon was enough of a roller-coaster
that coach David Shaw felt the need
to apologize to his parents and any
other fans older than 70 for the emo-
tional toll.
The Cardinal overcame a blown
lead and had their banged-up quar-
terback stage an improbable rally
before finally prevailing over the
third-ranked Ducks.
Tanner McKee threw a TD pass
on an untimed down at the end of
regulation to tie the game and anoth-
er on the opening possession of over-
time to lead Stanford to a 31-24 victo-
ry Saturday.
“The key word is resilience,”
Shaw said. “It’s the mark of a suc-
cessful team, it’s the mark of a suc-
cessful person. How can you with-
stand the storms that life gives you?
... Our guys took it on the chin quite a
bit but we fought back and made
some big plays.”
McKee came back after leaving
for a play on the final drive of regu-
lation with injured ribs to tie it on a
2-yard pass to Elijah Higgins after a
holding penalty by Oregon (4-1, 1-1
Pac-12) in the end zone extended the
game one play.
McKee then gave the Cardinal
(3-2, 2-1) the lead with a 14-yarder to
John Humphreys in overtime. Stan-
ford then forced Anthony Brown to
throw an incomplete pass on fourth-
and-8 to seal its fourth win against
an Ducks team ranked in the top 10
since 2009 and set off a wild on-field
celebration with the students and
players.
“We were all on cloud nine. Just
pure joy,” linebacker Gabe Reid
said. “There were a lot of ups and
downs. We tried to say consistent
with our energy and our passion. We
like to think we deal with adversity
well.”
Oregon appeared poised for its
first 5-0 start in eight years when it
rallied from 10 points down at half-
time to take a 24-17 lead early in the
fourth quarter on Brown’s second
TD run of the game.
But then McKee delivered the big
plays late and Stanford capitalized
on three Ducks penalties on the
game-tying 87-yard drive in the fi-
nal 1:59 of regulation.
“We had some bright moments,
but certainly not enough to over-
come some of our own mistakes,”
coach Mario Cristobal said. “We
didn’t play with enough discipline
today and we didn’t coach with
enough discipline today. It ends up
costing us the game.”
McKee left the game for one play
on the drive after being hit in the ribs
by Kayvon Thibodeaux on a play
ruled targeting. Oregon was then
called for another roughing the pas-
ser penalty and the holding penalty
in the end zone on what appeared to
be the final play.
The Cardinal got the untimed
down and McKee delivered with the
pass to Higgins. Shaw opted for the
extra point and the game went to OT.
“He’s a gritty dude,” Higgins said
about McKee. “That’s what we ex-
pect out of him and he expects out of
himself.”
The Ducks struggled to move the
ball early with only one first down on
the opening three drives and one
score in the first half. Brown threw
the first INT of the season for Ore-
gon on the second drive before get-
ting going a bit in the second half.
“It’s not good enough,” Brown
said. “A team as good as ours can’t
make mistakes like this. Can’t shoot
ourselves in the foot.”
JED JACOBSOHN/AP
Stanford’s Elijah Higgins catches a touchdown against Oregon’s DJJames on the final play of regulation on Saturday. Stanford won in OT.
Stanford rallies tostun No. 3 Oregon
BY JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
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SPORTSSprint to the finish
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No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Georgia are not here for
the chaos.
On another college football Saturday sprin-
kled with surprises, including three top-15 teams
losing to unranked opponents, the Crimson Tide and Bull-
dogs left no doubt about who are the two best teams in the
country.
The Crimson Tide buried No. 12 Mississippi by halftime
and the Bulldogs were up three touchdowns on No. 8 Arkan-
sas before the first quarter was over.
“I don’t want to simplify this, but they just whipped us
physically,” Arkansas coach Sam Pittman said.
That has been a theme for Georgia.
The Bulldogs have not been threatened since their open-
er against Clemson. Arkansas was hoping to make a state-
ment after it bullied both Texas and Texas A&M, but Ge-
orgia outclassed the Hogs in just about every way.
And the Bulldogs did it with their backup quarterback.
Stetson Bennett started for JT Daniels, but it hardly mat-
tered.
Top: Alabama RB Brian Robinson Jr. (4) runs for a touchdown against Mississippi during the second half of the Crimson Tide’s 4221 win on Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Right: Georgia running back Zamir White (3) breaks throughthe Arkansas line as he runs for a touchdown during the second half Saturday in Athens, Ga. The Bulldogs won 370.
PHOTOS BY VASHA HUNT, TOP, AND JOHN BAZEMORE, RIGHT/AP
Rising to the topAmid chaos, Alabama, Georgia are drama free
BY RALPH D. RUSSO
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