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As its neighbors and the United States
grapple with the coronavirus, China is tak-
ing advantage of its improved strength to
up the ante in the South China Sea, a mar-
itime security expert says.
The only major country to grow its econ-
omy during the pandemic, Beijing on Fri-
day authorized its coast guard to fire on for-
action in the maritime territorial disputes,
but it may employ more aggressive tactics
short of that, according to Ian Chong, an as-
sociate professor of political science at the
National University of Singapore.
“The Chinese might feel they are in a
stronger position now relative to the other
claimants and the U.S. so they might as well
eign vessels and destroy “illegal structur-
es” in waters where Chinese territorial
claims are disputed by neighbors and, in
one case, rejected by an international
court.
Philippines Foreign Secretary Teodoro
Locsin Jr. characterized the move, in a
Wednesday tweet, as “a verbal threat of
war to any country that defies the law.”
China won’t likely attempt overt military
China escalating sea territory claims
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A Google executive told a Sen-
ate hearing last month that it
would likely make its search en-
gine unavailable in Australia if the
government goes ahead with a
draft law that would make tech gi-
ants pay for news content.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison
said he has spoken to Microsoft
chief executive Satya Nadella
about its search engine, Bing, fill-
ing the space.
“I can tell you, Microsoft’s pret-
ty confident” that Australians
would not be worse off, Morrison
told the National Press Club of
Australia.
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panies and what’s important to
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rules that are right for our peo-
ple,” Morrison said.
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second most popular search en-
gine, it has only a 3.6% market
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MILITARY
A Russian warplane conducted
a low pass near the USS Donald
Cook on Sunday in the Black Sea,
where the Navy has dispatched
three ships for exercises.
The Sukhoi Su-24 fighter-bom-
ber screeched past the U.S. de-
stroyer while it was operating in
international waters, the U.S. Na-
vy’s 6th Fleet said in a statement.
The Navy said it operates in the
Black Sea to reassure allies in the
region and “ensure security and
stability.”
USS Donald Cook is operating
alongside the destroyer USS Por-
ter and USNS Laramie, which is
refueling the warships during op-
erations.
Refueling at sea is fundamental
for the Navy, but doing it in the
Black Sea is “a new operational
model in a new year,” said Cmdr.
Matt Curnen, USS Donald Cook’s
commander. “Taking fuel at sea is
the most concrete way for us to
sustain independent operations.”
The arrival of three Navy ships
in the Black Sea could signal that
the service intends to bolster its
lyst with The Heritage Founda-
tion, a Washington think tank, said
last week.
A Navy P-8A aircraft also was
taking part in drills with the ves-
sels in recent days. But more Navy
ships and planes in the Black Sea
can also mean additional attention
from Russian forces, who routine-
ly track their movements.
The Navy didn’t immediately
lodge any formal public com-
plaints against the Russians for
the Su-24’s low pass, though the
service has criticized some Rus-
sian actions in the region in recent
years.
In August, a U.S. B-52 bomber’s
maneuvers above the Black Sea
were restricted by two Russian
fighter planes that flew in an “un-
safe and unprofessional manner”
when they crossed within 100 feet
of the Air Force’s long-range bom-
ber, the military said at the time.
In April and May, the U.S. ac-
cused Russia of multiple unsafe
intercepts involving fighters fly-
ing as close as 25 feet from a Navy
P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance
aircraft over the eastern Mediter-
ranean. Russia has also lodged
complaints about U.S. operations
near its borders.insula, annexed by force by Rus-
sia in 2014. But the time key allies
operated there last year declined
compared to 2019, a security ana-
presence there this year.
NATO has emphasized main-
taining a presence in the region,
which includes the Crimean Pen-
Russian jet flies low past US destroyerBY JOHN VANDIVER
Stars and Stripes
U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa
In this screenshot from Twitter, a Russian SU24 jet flies low past the U.S. Navy destroyer USS DonaldCook while it was operating in international waters in the Black Sea on Sunday, the U.S. 6th Fleet said.
[email protected]: @john_vandiver
A task force of four B-52H Stratofortress
bombers arrived Thursday at Andersen
Air Force Base, Guam, part of an ongoing
demonstration by the Air Force of its abil-
ity to move strategic assets around the
globe.
The B-52s, from the 96th Bomb Squad-
ron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., were
sent to “reinforce the rules-based interna-
tional order in the Indo-Pacific region”
through “strategic deterrence,” according
to an Air Force statement Friday.
Guam, at the eastern edge of the Philip-
pine Sea, is within easy range of the South
China Sea, where the United States and
China are engaged in a global rivalry.
The 96th Bomb Squadron last deployed a
task force there in December 2018, the Air
Force said. A bomber task force last de-
ployed to Guam in October with 200 airmen
from the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squad-
ron out of Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.
Task force missions help “maintain glob-
al stability and security while enabling
units to become familiar with operations in
different regions,” according to the Air
Force. The task force will train with and
support other U.S. forces in the region, as
well as those of allies and partners, accord-
ing to the Air Force. It did not specify how
long the squadron would remain on Guam.
“Deploying as a Bomber Task Force ex-
ercises our ability to produce agile, combat
power in any location we are needed,”
squadron commander Lt. Col. Christopher
Duff said in the statement.
“We remain ready to deploy to reach
anywhere in the world at any time,” he add-
ed.
The Air Force last year ended its 15-year
practice of keeping a continuous bomber
presence on Guam in favor of a less-pre-
dictable deployment system using bomber
task forces. The change aligned with the
2018 National Defense Strategy’s call for
strategic unpredictability.
Bomber task forces based in the U.S. de-
ploy cyclically to Guam. Adversaries
“watch us come and go,” said Pacific Air
Forces commander Gen. Kenneth Wils-
bach in a Sept. 9 call with reporters.
Last year, the Air Force rotated B-52s,
B-1 Lancers and B-2 Spirit bombers
through Guam, putting them to work on ex-
ercises with the Navy and the Japan Air
Self-Defense Force.
Bombers in the Indo-Pacific project U.S.
airpower in a region ripe with tension. To
the west, U.S. and Chinese forces criss-
cross the South China Sea, conducting ex-
ercises and demonstrating resolve — on
the U.S. part to maintain open seas, by Chi-
na to defend territorial claims, or test those
of Japan and Taiwan.
The State Department in July formally
rejected China’s claims to islands and reefs
in the South China Sea, claims that China
just as forcefully maintains as historic
rights.
“Strategic bomber missions validate the
credibility of our forces to address a di-
verse and complex global security environ-
ment,” the Air Force said in its statement.
Air Force deploys 4 B-52 bombersto Guam for ‘strategic deterrence’
BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS
Stars and Stripes
[email protected] Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
try to move the needle,” he said in a tele-
phone interview Monday.
The South China Sea and its vast natural
resources are the subject of territorial dis-
putes involving China, Taiwan, the Philip-
pines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Indo-
nesia. China also has overlapping claims
with Japan and Taiwan in the East China Sea.
“It’s interesting that there hasn’t been a
stronger reaction from Vietnam or Indone-
sia,” Chong said. Many governments are fo-
cused on fighting the coronavirus and don’t
have the resources to open other fronts, he
said.
“The economic pressure means they are
not looking for a fight right now,” he said.
The Chinese law might be a negotiating
tactic amid stalled negotiations by South
China Sea claimants on a code of conduct for
the disputed waters, Chong said.
“It might be the Chinese trying to put for-
ward a negotiating position that gets people
back to the status quo that already benefited
them,” he said.
The new law is “a smack in the face” of Phi-
lippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who
thought he could negotiate to keep Chinese
ships out of his country’s waters, according
to Paul Buchanan, an American security
analyst based in Auckland, New Zealand.
“That has now been proven to be a naive
hope,” he said in a telephone interview Mon-
day. Duterte, who has ordered the Philippine
navy not to join in freedom of navigation pa-
trols conducted by U.S. warships in the South
China Sea, will have to “put up or shut up”
when it comes to Chinese incursions, Bucha-
nan said.
“If he does not respond it will likely cause a
rift between him and his navy commanders,
if not the military as a whole,” Buchanan
said.
The latest Chinese move is “lawfare” said
Carlyle Thayer, an emeritus professor at the
University of New South Wales and lecturer
at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
“They keep moving goalposts to justify
their indisputable sovereignty over the
South China Sea,” he said in a telephone in-
terview Monday.
China has moved away from the “nine-
dash line” — based on an old map used to jus-
tify sea territory claims since the 1940s - and
now promotes a “four-sha” claim to the Pra-
tas Islands, Paracel Islands, Spratly Islands,
and the Macclesfield Bank area, he said, of
the features whose Chinese names all end in
“sha.”
“They have done it by drawing straight
base lines around all these disputed fea-
tures,” Thayer said. “They claim all the wa-
ter inside as territorial waters.”
The vast majority of those features are oc-
cupied by Vietnam, which has installed
structures that China could seek to remove
under its new law, he said.
“They have been trying to establish in the
public mindset that this is Chinese,” Thayer
said of the sea territory claims.
Claims: Professor labelsmoves by China as ‘lawfare’FROM PAGE 1
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MILITARY
KABUL, Afghanistan — Tali-
ban attacks in the Afghan capital
of Kabul are on the rise, with in-
creasing targeted killings of gov-
ernment officials, civil-society
leaders and journalists, a report
by a U.S. watchdog said Monday.
It comes as the Biden adminis-
tration plans to take a new look at
the peace agreement between the
United States and the Taliban
signed last February under for-
mer President Donald Trump.
The report said Taliban-initi-
ated attacks across Afghanistan
during the last quarter of 2020
were slightly lower than in the
previous quarter, but exceeded
those of the same period in 2019,
according to numbers provided
by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
“Enemy attacks in Kabul were
higher than during the previous
quarter,” the report quoted U.S.
forces. “They were much higher
than in the same quarter last
year.”
The Special Inspector General
for Afghanistan Reconstruction,
known as SIGAR, monitors the
billions of dollars the U.S. spends
in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
The Taliban unleashed a wave
of attacks in Afghanistan in De-
cember, including strikes in
northern Baghlan and southern
Uruzgan provinces over a two-
day period that killed at least 19
members of the Afghan security
forces. In Kabul, a roadside bomb
struck a vehicle, wounding two,
and a lawyer was shot in a target-
ed killing.
Resolute Support, the NATO-
led mission in Afghanistan, re-
ported 2,586 civilian casualties
from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 last year, in-
cluding 810 killed and 1,776
wounded, according to the SIGAR
report.
The report said the proportion
of casualties caused by impro-
vised explosive devices increased
by nearly 17% in this quarter, cor-
relating with an increase in mag-
netically attached IEDs or “sticky
bomb” attacks, the report said.
Despite the ongoing violence,
casualties across Afghanistan in
the last quarter of 2020 decreased
by 14%, compared to the previous
quarter. The quarter saw an ex-
ceptionally high number of casu-
alties for the winter months, how-
ever, when fighting normally sub-
sides.
The U.S. has been the prime
backer of the Afghan government
since it invaded the country soon
after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
and overthrew the Taliban, who
were running the country and
harboring al-Qaida leader Osama
bin Laden. The U.S. is still spend-
ing about $4 billion a year to assist
Afghan security forces.
The U.S. military said last
month that it had met its goal of
reducing the number of troops in
Afghanistan to about 2,500.
Senior U.S. commanders are
skeptical of the Taliban’s stated
commitment to peace, though
they have said they can accom-
plish their mission in Afghanistan
at that troop level.
“As the footprint of U.S. agen-
cies continues to shrink, it will be-
come more important that the
U.S. and other donors perform ag-
gressive and effective oversight of
its dollars and programs,” said
Special Inspector General for Af-
ghan Reconstruction John F. Sop-
ko.
US watchdog: Taliban attacks increased in KabulBY RAHIM FAIEZ
Associated Press
RAHMAT GUL/AP
Birds fly over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday.
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A
Marine who admitted assaulting
an Okinawa taxi driver after a
night of drinking in November
was given a three-year, suspend-
ed sentence by a Japanese court
Monday.
Lance Cpl. Jamison Michael
Bissett, 20, assigned to Camp
Hansen, pleaded guilty last week
to assault, obstruction of busi-
ness, making threats, larceny and
violation of Japanese traffic laws
for choking Hideki Enokawa, 61,
from behind on Nov. 7 on a trip to
the base.
Bissett then stole and crashed
the cab, totaling the vehicle, ac-
cording to police.
Naha District Court Judge Tat-
suto Sakamoto sentenced Bissett
to three years in a Japanese pris-
on with hard labor, but suspended
the sentence for four years. Bis-
sett will likely serve no additional
jail time unless he commits an-
other crime in Japan.
“It has been recognized that the
defendant committed these of-
fenses under the influence of al-
cohol and on the spur of the mo-
ment, one after the other, and did
not plot assaults and threats in or-
der to commit a taxi robbery,” Sa-
kamoto explained in court.
“The court is disinclined to im-
pose a prison sentence right away
when considering some favorable
circumstances for the defendant
where he has no prior criminal
record, has admitted to the facts
laid out in court, shown remorse
and promised to not commit more
crimes.”
A spokesperson for the Marine
Corps did not immediately re-
spond to requests Monday after-
noon from Stars and Stripes seek-
ing comment on Bissett’s future
on the island or in the Corps.
“He not only endangered the
victim's life and body but also
caused danger” to other vehicles
on the highway, Sakamoto said
while reading the verdict. “These
offenses caused great fear to the
victim as he would have if he
were to have been robbed. The
psychological distress should be
considered fully.”
Prosecutors had sought 3½
years with hard labor. Bissett’s
attorneys had asked for proba-
tion.
During the two-day trial last
week, the court heard how Bissett
had gone drinking with friends in
American Village, a Chatan tour-
ist hub, on the evening of Nov. 7.
After downing “at least four to
five beers and eight to 10 shots of
tequila,” he hailed a cab for the
long ride back to Hansen.
Just short of Hansen, at about
10:10 p.m., Bissett demanded to
be taken back to Chatan, accord-
ing to Enokawa’s statement read
in court. Bissett began choking
the driver, who eventually stop-
ped the cab and fled on foot, ac-
cording to testimony.
Police found Bissett in the cab,
which had struck the median,
with a head injury. He was arrest-
ed at a local hospital the next day
on a robbery charge. Police al-
leged that Bissett stole the equiv-
alent of about $100 from the taxi
driver’s change purse.
More charges followed Nov. 27,
and Bissett has been in custody
since his arrest.
Enokawa asked for the maxi-
mum sentence for his attacker.
Bissett got emotional at times and
pleaded guilty, claiming to have
no recollection of the incident.
“I don’t remember any of this;
it doesn’t sound like me,” he told
the court last week. “I thought I
went in the taxi with my friends,
but during the investigation, po-
lice said I was alone in the taxi,
and next thing I know, I was at the
hospital, and even that memory is
bits and pieces.”
Bissett also expressed remorse.
“I’d like to take this moment to
apologize to the taxi driver and
the company,” he said in closing
arguments Thursday. “I am very
sorry, and I will never, ever do
this kind of crime again.”
Okinawa court sentences Marine for drunken assaultBY MATTHEW M. BURKE
AND HANA KUSUMOTO
Stars and Stripes
[email protected]: @[email protected]: @HanaKusumoto
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South
Korea — Yongsan Garrison, once
the headquarters in Seoul of U.S.
Forces Korea and United Nations
Command, has surrendered near-
ly every important part of its ex-
istence to Camp Humphreys.
And now it’s giving up the bak-
ery, which produces iconic Amer-
ican products like Wonder Bread.
The Army and Air Force Ex-
change Service, headquartered at
Camp Market, west of downtown
Seoul in Bupyeong, is moving its
South Korea distribution center
and bakery to a new, improved fa-
cility at Humphreys. Camp Mar-
ket falls under Yongsan’s com-
mand jurisdiction.
The existing facilities occupy
buildings that date to the 1930s
and have served as the distribu-
tion center and bakery in South
Korea since 1975, according to a
Jan. 21 AAFES news release.
The move is part of the 2004
Yongsan relocation plan that has
transplanted most U.S. forces and
their commands in Seoul nearly
60 miles south to Humphreys.
AAFES said the modern facil-
ities will help the exchange oper-
ate more effectively, efficiently
and safely, save more than $2 mil-
lion over the next five years and
reduce the average travel dis-
tance between more than 200 oth-
er AAFES facilities in the region.
Camp Market, meanwhile, will
be returned to the South Korea
government.
The new bakery is expected to
cease operations at Camp Market
and resume production on Hum-
phreys seamlessly this summer.
Over the past 10 years, the bak-
ery has produced more than 13
million baked goods, including 5
million loaves of bread and about
6 million packs of buns, according
to AAFES. An oven that dates to
the 1970s, dubbed “Big Bertha,”
will be retired when the Camp
Market bakery closes its doors for
the last time.
The new state-of-the-art bak-
ery occupies roughly 25,000
square feet and will produce
name-brand products such as
Krispy Kreme pastries, bread,
buns, cakes, chips and tortillas
that will be distributed to U.S.
schools, commissaries, ex-
changes and dining facilities in
South Korea.
AAFES’ Korea distribution center moves to Humphreys, bakery nextBY MATTHEW KEELER
Stars and Stripes
[email protected]: @MattKeeler1231
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MILITARY
They called themselves the
“Black Rattlers” and the French
dubbed them “Men of Bronze,”
but the Army now officially recog-
nizes a historic Harlem unit by
what the enemy called them in
World War I — the “Hellfighters.”
The “Harlem Hellfighters” is
now the official special designa-
tion for the 369th Sustainment Bri-
gade, the New York National
Guard said Friday. The unit traces
its lineage to the all-Black 369th
Infantry Regiment, which earned
the moniker over a century ago in
fierce fighting that’s been credited
with helping to break down racial
barriers.
The regiment was the first unit
of the American Expeditionary
Force in World War I that allowed
Blacks to serve.
But they were denied a send-off
parade with the 42nd Infantry Di-
vision, known as the “Rainbow Di-
vision,” after their commander
was told they couldn’t participate
because “black is not a color in the
rainbow.” The soldiers fought un-
der the French army because
white American troops refused to
fight alongside them.
They proved themselves in 191
days of continuous combat, suffer-
ing 1,500 dead and wounded. They
outpaced their French counter-
parts by 7 miles in at least one of-
fensive, and were the first French,
British or American soldiers to re-
ach the Rhine River at the end of
the war.
On their return home, the unit’s
3,000 soldiers were honored by
throngs of New Yorkers who turn-
ed up for a victory parade up 5th
Avenue in February 1919.
“Racial lines were for the time
displaced,” the New York Tribune
wrote. “The color of their skin had
nothing to do with the occasion.
The blood they shed in France was
as red as any other.”
Headquartered in the Manhat-
tan neighborhood of Harlem, the
regiment had earned 11 French ci-
tations and a unit Croix de Guerre,
France’s highest military honor,
which was also awarded to some
170 Hellfighters for individual acts
of gallantry.
One of them was Pvt. Henry
Johnson, a 5-foot-4-inch soldier
weighing 130 pounds, who fought
off some 20 Germans near his
unit’s trench line one night in May
1918.
He was wounded 21 times, but
denied a Purple Heart and disabil-
ity allowance after the war. Hailed
by former President Theodore
Roosevelt as one of the war’s five
bravest soldiers, he died destitute
in 1929. It would take another 86
years for the United States to rec-
ognize his bravery with a Medal of
Honor in 2015.
Afew years later, while working
on a display at the newly renovated
Harlem Armory in 2019, New York
State Military Museum director
Courtney Burns discovered the
unit’s nickname had never been
officially recognized.
“That was such a glaring error,”
the statement quoted Burns as
saying.
He notified Col. Seth Morgulas,
the 369th Sustainment Brigade’s
commander, who called the omis-
sion “crazy” and noted that Har-
lem River Drive, which runs by the
armory, had been renamed “Har-
lem Hellfighters Drive” in 2003.
Over about a year, officials gath-
ered materials needed to seek the
designation, for which the Army
requires a battalion or brigade to
show its nickname has been in use
for at least 30 years, or 50 years for
company-level designation, the
Guard said.
It wasn’t hard to verify the unit’s
claim, said Joseph Seymour, a his-
torian at the Army Center of Mili-
tary History at Fort McNair in
Washington. It’s just that nobody
had ever done so officially.
“They are a very famous unit,”
Seymour said in the statement. “It
is one of those things that everybo-
dy knew about, but because every-
body knew about it, they never
submitted a request for distinctive
designation.”
The request was approved in
September, memorializing the re-
giment’s historical nickname, said
the statement released days be-
fore the start of Black History
Month. The regiment joins over
700 units in the Army, some no
longer active, which have official
special designations, including 13
in the New York National Guard.
National Archives and Records Administration
Nine soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, were photographed upontheir return from World War I.
Army makes ‘Harlem Hellfighters’name official after over 100 years
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
[email protected]: @chadgarland
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany
— Some 4,700 troops from nine al-
lied and partner nations were
scheduled to arrive at the U.S. Ar-
my’s largest training area in Eu-
rope on Monday for an exercise
seeking to test the readiness of
U.S. troops to fight potential Rus-
sian aggression.
Forces from Bosnia-Herzegovi-
na, Georgia, Italy, Kosovo, Lithua-
nia, North Macedonia, Poland,
Romania and Slovenia will be in
Germany for the Combined Re-
solve XV exercise.
They’ll train with soldiers from
the 1st Armored Brigade Combat
Team, 1st Cavalry Division out of
Fort Hood, Texas, which last year
began a nine-month rotation in
Germany, the 7th Army Training
Center told Stars and Stripes by
email.
The multinational troops were
set to go into quarantine upon ar-
riving in Bavaria, the email said.
With the exercise taking place
for the second time in the shadow
of the coronavirus pandemic,
troops from all countries involved
are subject to strict efforts to pre-
vent illness, including restriction
of movement and regular testing,
the 7th ATC said in a separate
statement.
The exercise, which runs until
March 5, is part of Atlantic Re-
solve, an effort launched by the
United States in 2014 after Russia
annexed the Crimean Peninsula
and invaded eastern Ukraine.
It is designed to help the U.S.,
its partners and allies to build
“critical war fighting skills that
will enable the team to fight and
win,” said Col. Monte’ Rone, com-
mander of the 1st Cavalry Divi-
sion, in a statement.
It will take place at Grafen-
woehr and at the Joint Multina-
tional Readiness Center in Ho-
henfels, home to the only Army
combat training center outside
the continental U.S., the 7th ATC
said.
Live-fire exercises are expect-
ed to take place next week.
U.S. Army Europe and Africa
leads Atlantic Resolve’s land ef-
forts, which include rotating U.S.-
based units.
Other U.S. units set to take part
include the 101st Combat Aviation
Brigade, which is the current At-
lantic Resolve aviation rotation,
and units permanently stationed
in Germany. They include U.S.
Special Operations Command Eu-
rope forces and several units un-
der the Kaiserslautern-based 21st
Theater Sustainment Command,
the 7th Army Training Center
said in a statement.
US, 9 more nationsbegin Euro exerciseCombined Resolve
BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON
Stars and Stripes
JULIAN PADUA/U.S. Army
Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, conducttroop dismount reconnaissance training for a platoon externalevaluation at Hohenfels, Germany, on Jan. 26.
[email protected]: Manny_Stripes
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MILITARY
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan —
Some medical group patients at
the home of U.S. Forces Japan in
western Tokyo have been convey-
ing personal health information to
their care providers via social
media and personal email, a prac-
tice the group warns may be coun-
terproductive.
Sending personal health data by
email or Facebook messages, for
example, is prohibited under the
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, or HIPPA, the
374th Medical Group said Thurs-
day in a Facebook post.
Plus, information that comes
that way to the health care provid-
ers cannot be entered into an indi-
vidual’s health records, according
to the medical group.
“Our primary goal is to ensure
the health and safety of all of our
patients,” said the medical
group’s post. “Information re-
layed through non-authorized
methods may not get entered into
your personal health record, po-
tentially jeopardizing your
health.”
An air base spokesman de-
clined to specify what types of
questions people have been ask-
ing or whether those questions
concerned the coronavirus. A
COVID related phone lines from
getting tied up.”
Patients at Yokota can get infor-
mation from their providers
through appointment and clinic
hotlines, a visit to the emergency
room if necessary or by participa-
ting in question and answer ses-
sions on official Facebook pages,
Thrift said.
Yokota also has a medical group
hotline that’s not limited to CO-
VID-19 questions but serves as a
platform for patients asking ques-
tions related to the pandemic.
Patients may also use Secure
Messaging, a non-emergency
medical advice line that’s accessi-
ble at www.tricareonline.com.
Yokosuka Naval Base, home-
port south of Tokyo for the U.S.
7th Fleet, has not reported a pat-
tern of patients reaching out to
care providers by personal email
or social media, said Erika Figue-
roa, a spokeswoman for the naval
hospital there. But she said she
could see how that might happen.
“Patients deserve transparency
and access to information,” she
told Stars and Stripes by phone
Thursday. “But they need to do so
through the appropriate chan-
nels.”
ical concerns on that platform, ac-
cording to the website.
Elsewhere, Naval Hospital Oki-
nawa at the Marine Corps’ Camp
Foster has seen an increase in pa-
tient inquiries about the coronavi-
rus, but has not received many in-
quiries via personal email or so-
cial media, hospital spokesman
Joseph Andes said Friday.
“Most of the queries and the
calls we get from the general pub-
lic are COVID-19 related,” he
said. COVID-19 is a respiratory
illness caused by the coronavirus.
Naval Hospital Okinawa’s CO-
VID Care Line, a hotline designed
specifically to answer patients’
questions and concerns about the
coronavirus, receives about 30
calls per day, but sometimes gets
as many as 70, he said.
“These numbers usually ebb
and flow in relation to current CO-
VID-19 conditions on the island,”
Andes said. “It’s also great for pa-
tients because it keeps our non-
medical group representative was
not available for an interview, ac-
cording to spokesman 1st Lt.
Stuart Thrift.
HIPPA is the federal law that
protects sensitive patient health
information from disclosure with-
out the patient’s consent, accord-
ing to hippajournal.com.
Once a physician engages with
a patient on a non-official online
channel, privacy issues could
arise in discussing specific med-
Patients urged to keep info off social mediaBY ERICA EARL
Stars and Stripes
ERICA EARL/Stars and Stripes
The 374th Medical Group at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo hasseen a rise in patients using personal email and social media tocontact their medical providers, a practice that is prohibited underthe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
[email protected]: @ThisEarlGirl
“Patientsdeservetransparencyand access toinformation. Butthey need to doso through theappropriatechannels.”
Erika Figueroa
Yokosuka Naval Hospital
spokeswoman
TOKYO — The number of one-
day coronavirus infections in To-
kyo dropped to its lowest figure in
more than a month Monday, al-
though the government is likely to
extend a state of emergency there
and in Osaka, public broadcaster
NHK reported.
U.S. military installations in Ja-
pan reported nine individuals in-
fected between Friday evening
and 6:30 p.m. Monday, all but two
of them at Marine Corps bases on
Okinawa. Meanwhile, U.S. Forces
Korea announced 14 new cases,
mostly new arrivals to the penin-
sula over the previous two weeks.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Gov-
ernment announced 393 new in-
fections Monday, according to
NHK. That’s the lowest figure
since Dec. 21, also a Monday,
when the city reported 392 new
cases. The daily count had stood
above 500 since Dec. 29.
Monday figures are typically
low because many testing facili-
ties in the city are closed over the
weekend.
NHK reported that the national
government on Monday agreed to
consult with its panel of experts
on extending the state of emer-
gency that expires Thursday in
the Tokyo and Osaka areas. The
government declared the emer-
gency in Tokyo and three sur-
rounding prefectures Jan. 8 and
in seven more prefectures a week
later.
Under the emergency, busi-
nesses are asked to close earlier,
workers to telework and residents
to avoid travel outside the area.
The measures are largely volun-
tary.
Though new case numbers are
falling in Tokyo, medical facilities
are still strained and the propor-
tion of elderly residents at risk is
increasing, according to NHK.
About 26 miles southwest of To-
kyo, Naval Air Facility Atsugi re-
ported one new coronavirus case
Monday, an individual already in
quarantine after contact with an-
other infected person, base
spokesman Sam Samuelson told
Stars and Stripes by phone. The
base is monitoring 12 patients.
Sasebo Naval Base on Kyushu
island had one person test positive
on Saturday, according to a Face-
book post. The individual, who re-
cently arrived in Japan, came up
positive on the test required to ex-
it quarantine. The base is moni-
toring three patients.
On Okinawa, the Marines be-
tween Friday evening and Sunday
reported seven individuals had
tested positive: two at Camp Han-
sen on Sunday; two at Camp Fos-
ter and one at Hansen on Satur-
day; and one at Hansen and one at
Camp Kinser on Friday, accord-
ing to official Facebook posts.
South Korea on Sunday report-
ed 285 newly infected individuals,
104 of them in Seoul and 89 in
Gyeonggi province, home to
Camp Humphreys, the largest
U.S. base in the country.
USFK said a “Department of
Defense dependent” who lives in
Seoul and has access to Yongsan
Garrison tested positive Friday
before exiting quarantine, ac-
cording to a Monday news re-
lease. The individual remains in
isolation at Humphreys.
USFK said another 13 people
arriving in South Korea tested
positive for COVID-19, the coro-
navirus respiratory disease, be-
tween Jan. 15 and Friday, accord-
ing to another release Monday.
One service member and a de-
pendent arrived Wednesday at
Osan Air Base aboard the Patriot
Express, a government-chartered
air passenger service. Ten service
members and one civilian arrived
at Incheon International Airport
aboard commercial flights on Jan.
15, 19, 24, 26, Thursday and Fri-
day.
Nine tested positive on their
first mandatory test before enter-
ing quarantine; four tested posi-
tive on the mandatory test to exit
quarantine. All are in isolation at
either Humphreys or Osan.
Also Monday, USFK command-
er Gen. Robert Abrams extended
the military’s public health emer-
gency until April 27, which per-
mits installation commanders to
continue enforcing restrictions
aimed at curbing the virus’
spread.
The U.S. military in South Ko-
rea has reported 675 coronavirus
cases during the pandemic, only
76 of whom were infected locally.
Tokyo’s virus numbers lower; 23 new military cases in Japan, S. KoreaBY JOSEPH DITZLER
Stars and Stripes
[email protected]: @JosephDitzler
AKIFUMI ISHIKAWA/Stars and Stripes
Travelers wear masks inside a terminal at Narita International Airporteast of Tokyo last month. Though new coronavirus case numbers arefalling in Tokyo, medical facilities are still strained and the proportionof elderly residents at risk is increasing, according to NHK.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 7
VIRUS OUTBREAK
BERLIN — Pharmaceutical
company AstraZeneca has agreed
to supply 9 million additional dos-
es of its coronavirus vaccine to the
European Union during the first
quarter, the bloc's executive arm
said Sunday.
The new target of 40 million dos-
es by the end of March is still only
half what the British-Swedish
company had originally aimed for
before it announced a shortfall due
to production problems, trigger-
ing a spat between AstraZeneca
and the EU last week.
European Commission Presi-
dent Ursula von der Leyen said af-
ter a call with seven vaccine mak-
ers Sunday that AstraZeneca will
also begin deliveries one week
sooner than scheduled and ex-
pand its manufacturing capacity
in Europe.
“Step forward on vaccines,”
tweeted Von der Leyen, who has
come under intense pressure over
the European Commission's hand-
ling of the vaccine orders in recent
days.
The EU is far behind Britain and
the United States in getting its pop-
ulation of 450 million vaccinated
against the virus. The slow rollout
has been blamed on a range of na-
tional problems as well as slower
authorization of the vaccines and
an initial shortage of supply.
AstraZeneca's announcement
last week that it would initially
supply only 31 million doses to the
EU's 27 member states due to pro-
duction problems set off a fierce
dispute between the two sides,
with officials in Brussels saying
they feared the company was
treating the bloc unfairly com-
pared to other customers, such as
the United Kingdom.
On Friday, hours after regula-
tors authorized the vaccine for use
across the EU, the commission
said it was tightening rules on ex-
ports of coronavirus vaccines,
sparking an angry response from
Britain. The commission has since
made clear the new measure will
not limit vaccine shipments pro-
duced in the 27-nation bloc to
Northern Ireland, a U.K. territory
that was guaranteed unhindered
cross-border access to the Repub-
lic of Ireland under the post-Brex-
it deal between Britain and the
EU.
EU member states praised the
bloc's executive branch last year
for signing numerous deals with
vaccine makers, saying the joint
purchase using the combined
market weight of the entire bloc
had ensured a fair distribution for
all 27 countries at good prices.
Since then the mood among
many EU citizens toward Brussels
has soured, as countries outside
the bloc speed ahead in the race to
vaccinate their populations.
The British government hasn't
been shy about promoting its rela-
tive vaccine success, which has
helped distract from the fact that
the country remains top of the ta-
ble for deaths in Europe.
Germany has so far given at
least one dose to 2.2% of its popula-
tion. Britain has done the same for
13.2% of its citizens.
EU: AstraZeneca to supply 9M more dosesAssociated Press
FRANCOIS MORI/AP
French police officers check passengers of a train in Paris onMonday. France says it's closing its borders to people arriving fromoutside the European Union starting Sunday to try to stop the growingspread of new variants of the coronavirus and avoid a third lockdown.
It might be time to double up.
Three new, highly contagious
mutations of coronavirus with ori-
gins in the United Kingdom, Brazil
and South Africa are circulating in
the U.S. — upping the stakes in the
battle to stanch a pandemic that
has already claimed the lives of
more than 430,000 Americans.
It has led some public health ex-
perts, including Dr. Anthony Fau-
ci, chief medical adviser to Presi-
dent Joe Biden on COVID-19, to
recommend layering up on masks
or opting for a more protective N95
mask when going out in public.
Masks cover the mouth and nose
to limit respiratory droplets and vi-
rus particles from getting in or out,
Fauci, who also is the director of
the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, ex-
plained on NBC’s “Today” show.
“So if you have a physical cover-
ing with one layer, you put another
layer on, it just makes common
sense that it likely would be more
effective and that’s the reason why
you see people either double mask-
ing or doing a version of an N95,” he
said.
Dr. Matthew Sims, an infectious
disease specialist at Beaumont
Health in Michigan, said it’s a
strategy people should consider,
especially given the rate at which
these newer, more transmissible
variants appear to spread.
“The idea with double masking
... is that if the three layers in your
surgical mask are good, put on
three more layers, it holds it tighter
to your face, and that’s better,”
Sims said. “And it probably is be-
cause it’s just more filtration.”
Research published in the jour-
nal Matters found that when a ny-
lon layer is worn over a surgical-
style mask, it improves the fit and
effectiveness of filtration of virus
particles from a range of 53%-75%
to up to 90%.
At least 434 cases of the U.K. var-
iant have been detected in the U.S.,
according to the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention. It is
estimated to be about 50% more
transmissible than previous
strains; scientists suggest it also
could be more deadly, though stud-
ies are ongoing to determine that.
Should you wear 2 masks?With new virus variants,some experts say yes
Detroit Free Press
PAGE 8 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Tuesday, February 2, 2021
TUSKEGEE, Ala. — Lucenia
Dunn spent the early days of the
coronavirus pandemic encourag-
ing people to wear masks and keep
a safe distance from each other in
Tuskegee, a mostly Black city
where the government once used
unsuspecting African American
men as guinea pigs in a study of a
sexually transmitted disease.
Now, the onetime mayor of the
town immortalized as the home of
the infamous “Tuskegee syphilis
study” is wary of getting inoculat-
ed against COVID-19. Among oth-
er things, she’s suspicious of the
government promoting a vaccine
that was developed in record time
when it can’t seem to conduct ade-
quate virus testing or consistently
provide quality rural health care.
“I’m not doing this vaccine right
now. That doesn’t mean I’m never
going to do it. But I know enough to
withhold getting it until we see all
that is involved,” said Dunn, who
is Black.
The coronavirus immunization
campaign is off to a shaky start in
Tuskegee and other parts of Ma-
con County. Area leaders point to
a resistance among residents
spurred by a distrust of govern-
ment promises and decades of
failed health programs. Many
people in this city of 8,500 have
relatives who were subjected to
unethical government experi-
mentation during the syphilis
study.
“It does have an impact on deci-
sions. Being in this community,
growing up in this community, I
would be very untruthful if I didn’t
say that,” said Frank Lee, emer-
gency management director in
Macon County. Lee is Black.
Health experts have stressed
both the vaccines’ safety and effi-
cacy. They have noted that while
the vaccines were developed with
record-breaking speed, they were
based on decades of prior re-
search. Vaccines used in the Unit-
ed States have shown no signs of
serious side effects in studies of
tens of thousands of people. And
with more than 26 million vacci-
nations administered in the U.S.
alone, no red flags have been re-
ported.
Alaska ANCHORAGE — Alaska health
officials have asked people who
prematurely signed up for vaccine
appointments to cancel them.
About 500 people in Anchorage
who registered by Saturday to re-
ceive vaccines at the city’s mass
vaccination site in the Alaska Air-
lines Center were ineligible be-
cause of their age or occupation,
Anchorage Daily News reported.
State officials said they are pri-
marily focused on vaccinating ol-
der adults over the next month.
More than 1,600 vaccine ap-
pointment slots were still availa-
ble Saturday.
Arizona WINDOW ROCK — Navajo Na-
tion health officials have reported
103 new COVID-19 cases and four
more deaths. The latest numbers
released Sunday raised the totals
to 28,325 cases and 1,018 known
deaths since the pandemic began.
The tribe has extended its stay-
at-home order with a revised
nightly curfew to limit the spread
of COVID-19.
The Navajo Department of
Health has identified 53 commu-
nities with uncontrolled spread of
the coronavirus, down from 75
communities in recent weeks.
The Navajo Nation is also lifting
weekend lockdowns to allow more
vaccination events.
Indiana INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana
health officials are making the
COVID-19 vaccine available to
those between ages 65 and 69.
The state Department of Health
announced the expansion Mon-
day, adding the new age group af-
ter previously making all resi-
dents ages 70 and older and health
care workers eligible for shots.
The vaccine is available at no
cost. Appointments will be availa-
ble in all 92 counties and can be
made at the website ourshot.in-
.gov or by calling the state’s 2-1-1
telephone assistance service.
Indiana officials have based
shot eligibility on age rather than
moving up teachers and other es-
sential workers as other states
have done. They cite statistics that
those ages 60 and older represent
93% of Indiana’s COVID-19 deaths
and 64% of hospitalizations, argu-
ing that vaccinating those people
will have the biggest impact.
Michigan ROYAL OAK — About 2,700
people were able to use an online
scheduling vulnerability to regis-
ter out-of-turn for COVID-19 vac-
cinations, according to a Detroit-
area health care system.
Beaumont Health said it has de-
termined a user publicly shared
an unauthorized pathway for
scheduling.
Beaumont’s information tech-
nology team detected and shut
down unusual activity Saturday
on its Epic electronic medical re-
cord system. Personal medical re-
cords were not compromised, and
users were not able to access hos-
pital records, Beaumont said.
The issue will not affect proper-
ly scheduled vaccine appoint-
ments, it added.
Missouri ST. LOUIS — St. Louis officials
are looking into concerns raised
after young and healthy people
were invited to a COVID-19 vacci-
nation clinic, but older people with
chronic health conditions were
not.
The clinic was set up Saturday
at Union Station. Jessi Kniffen, a
healthy 39-year-old who works
from home, told the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch she was surprised when
she got the invitation on Friday.
Kniffen thought she’d have a
much longer wait, since the early
shots are supposed to be for peo-
ple age 65 or older, with chronic
health conditions or with jobs that
put them at high risk.
Others who are elderly or have
underlying health conditions re-
ported not getting an invitation de-
spite registering with the city.
About 1,800 people ended up
getting doses at Union Station, the
site of the city’s first large-scale
vaccination event.
Nebraska LINCOLN — Nearly 47,000 dos-
es of coronavirus vaccines were
administered across Nebraska
last week as officials continue to
speed up distribution of the vac-
cines.
State officials said 46,806 doses
of the vaccine were administered
last week, which included two
days when more than 10,000 doses
were given to Nebraskans.
The state estimates that 3.25%
of Nebraska’s population has now
received both required doses of
the vaccine. And Nebraska said it
has administered 184,045 of the
254,000 doses of vaccine that it has
received. Most of those vaccines
have gone to health care workers
and residents of long-term care fa-
cilities, but in some parts of the
state, health officials have started
vaccinating people 65 and older
and other groups.
In central Nebraska, a group of
teachers were vaccinated in
Grand Island last week because
the Central District Health De-
partment had about 400 doses of
the vaccine left over after holding
two drive-through clinics for older
residents, and the medicine had to
be used quickly because it had al-
ready been thawed.
Vermont MONTPELIER — Vermont’s
largest city is continuing to mon-
itor its wastewater for any signs of
the new, more infectious strains of
COVID-19.
Burlington has been testing its
wastewater since August to mon-
itor COVID-19 levels and recently
starting testing for the U.K. varia-
nt, WCAX-TV reports.
Brian Lowe, the city's chief in-
novation officer, said the type of
test for the U.K. variant can also
detect other mutations of the vi-
rus.
Chittenden County has had
more than 500 new confirmed vi-
rus cases and two deaths in the last
two weeks.
WisconsinWhen a pharmacist discovered
57 vials of the Moderna vaccine
left to spoil outside a Wisconsin
clinic’s refrigerator in December,
the worker immediately suspect-
ed a colleague who had spread
false and outlandish claims, ac-
cording to court records.
For months, Steven Branden-
burg, the overnight pharmacist at
Aurora Medical Center in Graf-
ton, Wis., had said he thought the
vaccine would harm people, make
them infertile and implant them
with microchips.
Now, federal authorities say be-
lief in debunked claims went be-
yond the vaccine. The pharmacist,
who has agreed to plead guilty to
charges of attempting to try to
spoil the vaccine, also believes the
Earth is flat and that the sky is not
real, according to court docu-
ments.
His beliefs were revealed in a
search of Brandenburg’s phone,
computer and hard drive recently
unsealed in court by the FBI. The
documents include interviews
with Brandenburg and Aurora
Medical Center pharmacy techni-
cian Sarah Sticker, who told au-
thorities that she discovered the
unrefrigerated doses of the Mod-
erna vaccine at around 3 a.m. on
Dec. 26. The unsealed records
were first reported by the Daily
Beast.
Vaccine skepticismlurks in town notedfor syphilis studies
Associated Press
JAY REEVES/AP
Nurse Marianne Williams administers a COVID19 vaccine to a woman as a coworker looks on at thecounty health department in Tuskegee, Ala., on Jan. 25.
VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 9
NATION
The Congressional Budget Of-
fice expects the U.S. economy
will grow at a 4.6% annual rate
this year, with employment re-
turning to pre-pandemic levels in
2024.
The 10-year outlook issued
Monday said the economic recov-
ery from the coronavirus has
been boosted by an unpreceden-
ted wave of government spending
to combat the outbreak, such that
growth could pass its maximum
sustainable level in early 2025 be-
fore returning to a long-run aver-
age of 1.7%. Based on the CBO’s
projections, economic growth
would be the strongest since 1999.
Congress has spent $4 trillion to
keep the economy stable since the
pandemic shuttered schools, of-
fices, restaurants, gyms and other
businesses, leading to roughly 10
million job losses and an econom-
ic decline of 3.5% last year.
The CBO estimates factored in
the roughly $900 billion approved
in December, but they excluded
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion
plan because the projections are
based on current law.
Biden’s supporters can point to
the CBO’s projection of a three-
year recovery in hiring as a need
for more aid. But Republican law-
makers can simultaneously argue
that less money is needed to boost
the economy because the CBO es-
timates that the total economy
will return to its pre-pandemic
size in the middle of this year.
A group of 10 Republican law-
makers have countered the Biden
plan with a $618 billion proposal
that focuses on vaccinations, test-
ing and direct payments to indi-
viduals earning less than $50,000
and couples earning less than
$100,000. Biden is meeting with
the lawmakers on Monday, possi-
bly determining whether an aid
package can be supported by
members of both parties.
The CBO cautioned that its pro-
jections are highly uncertain, in
large part because of the pace of
the vaccination and the risk of
new variations of the coronavirus.
Budget office projects 4.6% growth in Biden’s first yearBY JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Instead of clos-
ing schools and giving students
snow days, the latest winter storm
is shutting down vaccination sites
and snarling other pandemic-re-
lated services in many states that
could see as much as a foot of snow
by Monday evening.
Lara Pagano, a meteorologist
with the National Weather Ser-
vice, said a nor’easter developing
off the mid-Atlantic coast will be a
“pretty slow mover” as it brings
heavy snow and strong winds
through Tuesday.
“It’s going to be a prolonged
event,” Pagano said.
As of Monday morning, some
areas had already gotten 3 to 5
inches of snow, with 6 inches in
parts of Pennsylvania, she said. In
parts of New Jersey, 7 inches al-
ready was reported as of Monday
morning.
In-person learning was can-
celed in school districts across the
Northeast on Monday, and many
COVID-19 vaccination sites were
closed. New York City Mayor Bill
de Blasio said city-run vaccination
sites would be closed Tuesday as
well but he hopes they can reopen
Wednesday.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont
said most vaccinations scheduled
for Monday were being post-
poned, but he wasn’t concerned
that any vaccine might go to
waste.
“The vaccines, kept refrigerat-
ed, are good for eight to 10 days, so
that’s not a problem,” Lamont
said. “And if this is three or four
weeks since your first vaccination,
if it gets put off a few days, don’t
worry, it will still stay very effec-
tive.”
The storm delayed the opening
of the Reggie Lewis Center in Bos-
ton’s Roxbury neighborhood,
which was supposed to open Mon-
day as a mass vaccination site for
residents age 75 and over. Mass
vaccination sites at Gillette Stadi-
um and Fenway Park were open
but with some changes, according
to CIC Health, which is operating
both sites.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
declared a state of emergency on
Sunday and closed all state gov-
ernment offices for nonessential
personnel.
Hundreds of flights were can-
celed at the region’s major air-
ports on Monday. Transportation
officials said on Twitter that 81%
of flights were canceled at New
York’s LaGuardia Airport and
75% at Newark Liberty Airport.
Amtrak canceled all Acela ser-
vice between Boston and Wash-
ington and Pennsylvanian service
between New York and Pitts-
burgh. Amtrak’s Northeast Re-
gional, Keystone Service and Em-
pire Service were operating on
limited or modified schedules.
All New Jersey Transit trains
and buses were suspended, except
for the Atlantic City Rail Line.
New York Waterway ferries were
suspended.
In recent days, a storm system
blanketed parts of the Midwest,
with some areas getting the most
snow in several years. Ohio,
Washington, D.C., and parts of
Virginia also received snow.
Snow and cold in Washington
led President Joe Biden to post-
pone a visit to the State Depart-
ment that had been planned for
Monday. A White House official
said Sunday that the visit would be
rescheduled for later in the week
when the agency’s staff and diplo-
mats could commute safely.
JOHN MINCHILLO/AP
Steve Kent skis through Times Square during a snowstorm, Monday, in the Manhattan borough of New York.
Major storm blankets Northeast,bringing more than foot of snow
Associated Press
During one of the most political-
ly divisive years in recent memo-
ry, the number of active hate
groups in the U.S. actually de-
clined as far-right extremists mi-
grated further to online networks,
reflecting a splintering of white
nationalist and neo-Nazi groups
that are more difficult to track.
In its annual report, to be re-
leased Monday, the Southern Pov-
erty Law Center said it identified
838 active hate groups operating
across the U.S. in 2020. That’s a
decrease from the 940 document-
ed in 2019 and the record-high of
1,020 in 2018, said the law center,
which tracks racism, xenophobia
and anti-government militias.
“It is important to understand
that the number of hate groups is
merely one metric for measuring
the level of hate and racism in
America, and that the decline in
groups should not be interpreted
as a reduction in bigoted beliefs
and actions motivated by hate,”
said the report, first shared exclu-
sively with The Associated Press.
The Montgomery, Ala.-based
law center said many hate groups
have moved to social media plat-
forms and use of encrypted apps,
while others have been banned al-
together from mainstream social
media networks.
Still, the law center said, online
platforms allow individuals to in-
teract with hate and anti-govern-
ment groups without becoming
members, maintain connections
with likeminded people, and take
part in real-world actions, such as
last month’s siege on the U.S. Cap-
itol.
White nationalist organizations,
asubset of the hate groups listed in
the report, declined last year by
more than 100. Those groups had
seen huge growth the previous
two years after being energized by
Donald Trump’s campaign and
presidency, the report said.
Bottom line, the levels of hate
and bigotry in America have not
diminished, said SPLC President
and CEO Margaret Huang.
“What’s important is that we
start to reckon with all the reasons
why those groups have persisted
for so long and been able to get so
much influence in the last White
House, that they actually feel em-
boldened,” Huang told the AP.
Report: Hategroups decline,migrate online
BY ARON MORRISON
Associated Press
JOHN LOCHER/AP
A member of the Proud Boys, right, stands in front of a counterprotester as members of the Proud Boys and other rightwingdemonstrators rally, in Portland, on Sept. 26.
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NATION
GRAND CHUTE, Wis. — Police
in a northern Wisconsin town
identified late Sunday a person
shot and killed at a mall and said
they were looking for a teenager in
connection to the shooting.
Jovanni J. Frausto, 19, died as a
result of the gunfire that erupted
around 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the
Fox River Mall in Grand Chute,
Police Officer Travis Waas said in
a statement. A second person who
was also shot went to a hospital
with non-life-threatening injuries
and was later released.
A 17-year-old who police be-
lieved to be armed and dangerous
is wanted in connection to the
case.
Police also said this was be-
lieved to be a targeted shooting.
Photos from the scene showed
officers, some in tactical gear,
staging outside the mall and what
appeared to be customers walking
out with their hands in the air.
Haylie Mirr, who works at a
mall restaurant called Box Lunch,
said she didn’t know anything
about the shooting, but said: “Peo-
ple just started running. We just
locked the doors, and we had four
customers in the store, we brought
them to our back room.”
They waited at least three hours
for the all-clear.
Police said they were interview-
ing witnesses and following leads.
No motive was immediately re-
leased.
It was the second recent mall
shooting in Wisconsin. In Novem-
ber, eight people were injured in a
shooting after a confrontation at a
mall in Wauwatosa, in suburban
Milwaukee. A 15-year-old boy was
arrested and charged.
Grand Chute is a town of about
22,000 on the outskirts of Apple-
ton, about 100 miles north of Mil-
waukee.
Police say1 killed atWis. mall,seek teen
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican
lawmakers in statehouses across
the country are moving swiftly to
attack some of the voting meth-
ods that fueled the highest turn-
out for a presidential election in
50 years.
Although most legislative ses-
sions are just getting underway,
the Brennan Center for Justice, a
public policy institute, has al-
ready tallied more than 100 bills
in 28 states meant to restrict vot-
ing access. More than a third of
those proposals are aimed at lim-
iting mail voting, while other bills
seek to strengthen voter ID re-
quirements and registration
processes, as well as allow for
more aggressive means to re-
move people from voter rolls.
“Unfortunately, we are seeing
some politicians who want to ma-
nipulate the rules of the game so
that some people can participate
and some can’t,” said Myrna Pé-
rez, director of the voting rights
and elections program at the
Brennan Center.
The proposals are advancing
not only in Texas and other tradi-
tional red states but also in such
places as Arizona, Georgia and
Pennsylvania that supported Do-
nald Trump four years ago, only
to flip for Joe Biden in November.
Many Republicans have said
the new bills are meant to shore
up public confidence after
Trump and his GOP allies, with-
out evidence, criticized the elec-
tion as fraudulent. Those claims
were turned away by dozens of
courts and were made even as a
group of election officials — in-
cluding representatives of the
federal government’s cyberse-
curity agency — deemed the 2020
presidential election the “the
most secure in American histo-
ry.”
In last year’s presidential elec-
tion, nearly 70% of all ballots cast
nationwide came before Election
Day, with an estimated 108 mil-
lion people voting through the
mail, early in-person or by drop-
ping off absentee ballots. The
surge came after states expanded
access to mail voting and early
voting, with a few states sending
absentee ballots to all registered
voters in response to the corona-
virus pandemic that raised safety
questions about large crowds at
the polls.
In Texas, the nation’s largest
Republican-controlled state, the
2020 presidential election was
considered a resounding success
by almost any measure. Millions
took advantage of early in-person
voting to shatter the state’s turn-
out record. There were no re-
ports of widespread system melt-
downs, voter disenfranchisement
or fraud.
But some GOP lawmakers
there are seeking new criminal
offenses to deter voter fraud,
even though actual fraud is ex-
ceedingly rare. Other bills would
prohibit independent groups
from distributing application
forms for mail-in ballots and clar-
ify who can request an applica-
tion. In September, the state sued
Harris County, home to Demo-
cratic-leaning Houston, to stop
officials from sending mail ballot
applications to the more than 2
million registered voters there.
Texas Rep. Jacey Jetton, a Re-
publican, said he hopes lawmak-
ers will pass new regulations for
verification of voters’ identity for
mail-in voting to ensure “elec-
tions are accurate and that people
feel it is conducted in such a way
they are getting a fair, accurate
election result.”
Thomas Buser-Clancy, senior
staff attorney for the ACLU of
Texas, said the state already is
known as a “voter suppression
state,” noting that Texas does not
allow online voter registration or
broad mail voting.
“I think it is fair to call Texas a
voter suppression state where
election laws are largely aimed at
making it harder, more difficult
and scary for individuals to exer-
cise their fundamental right to
vote,” he said.
A bill to eliminate no-excuse
mail voting has been introduced
in Pennsylvania, though the pro-
posal would need approval from
the state’s Democratic governor.
In Arizona, Republicans have in-
troduced bills that would elimi-
nate the state’s permanent early
voting list, require mail ballots to
be notarized, require mail-in bal-
lots to be hand-delivered to a vot-
ing location and allow lawmakers
to overturn presidential election
results.
In Georgia, where Biden’s win
was verified in three separate tal-
lies, Republicans in the GOP-con-
trolled Legislature are gearing up
to impose new barriers on mail
voting, which was used heavily
by Democrats in the presidential
and Senate run-off elections.
A Republican senator has in-
troduced a bill that would require
voters to make copies of their
photo ID and mail it to election
officials twice in order to cast an
absentee ballot.
GOP lawmakerscall for toughervoting protocol
Associated Press
MATT SLOCUM/AP
A Chester County, Pa., worker transports mailin and absentee ballotsto be processed at West Chester University, on Nov. 4.
"Unfortunately,we are seeingsome politicianswho want tomanipulate therules of thegame..."
Myrna Perez
director at Brennan Center
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Police in
Rochester released two body-
camera videos Sunday of officers
restraining a distraught 9-year-
old girl who was handcuffed and
sprayed with what police called a
chemical “irritant.”
The Democrat and Chronicle
reported that prior to the release
of the videos, Rochester Mayor
Lovely Warren expressed her
concern for the “child that was
harmed during this incident that
happened on Friday.”
“I have a 10-year-old child, so
she’s a child, she’s a baby. This
video, as a mother, is not anything
you want to see,” Warren went on
to say.
A total of nine officers and su-
pervisors responded to the report
of “family trouble” on Friday. The
girl can be heard in the body-cam-
era videos from officers at the
scene screaming frantically for
her father as the officers try to re-
strain her.
At a news conference Sunday,
Deputy Police Chief Andre An-
derson described the girl as sui-
cidal.
“She indicated she wanted to
kill herself and she wanted to kill
her mom,” he said.
Officers tried to force the girl in-
to a patrol car but she pulled away
and kicked at them. In a statement
Saturday, the police department
said this action “required” an offi-
cer to take the girl down to the
ground. Then, the department
said, “for the minor’s safety and at
the request of the custodial parent
on scene,” the child was hand-
cuffed and put in the back of a po-
lice car as they waited for an am-
bulance to arrive.
Police said the girl disobeyed
commands to put her feet in the
car. An officer was then “re-
quired” to spray an “irritant” in
the handcuffed girl’s face, the de-
partment said Saturday.
At Sunday’s news conference,
Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sul-
livan described the irritant as pep-
per spray. She declined to defend
the officers’ actions.
“I’m not going to stand here and
tell you that for a 9-year-old to
have to be pepper-sprayed is OK.
It’s not,” Herriott-Sullivan said. “I
don’t see that as who we are as a
department, and we’re going to do
the work we have to do to ensure
that these kinds of things don’t
happen.”
Police said the girl was eventu-
ally taken to Rochester General
Hospital, “where she received the
services and care that she need-
ed,” and was later released to her
family.
The Rochester Police Depart-
ment has faced scrutiny since the
death of Daniel Prude last year af-
ter officers put a hood over his
head and pressed his face into the
pavement.
Videos show Rochester officers pepper-spraying 9-year-oldAssociated Press
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Maker of ‘Bernie’ mittensjoins teddy bear maker
VT The teacher who creat-
ed the recycled wool
mittens that U.S. Sen. Bernie
Sanders wore to the presidential
inauguration — engendering
countless memes — is partnering
with the Vermont Teddy Bear
Company to create a whole mitten
line to meet soaring demand, with
some of the proceeds going to
Make-A-Wish Vermont.
Jen Ellis, a Vermont elemen-
tary school teacher who has a side
business making mittens out of re-
cycled wool, gave Sanders a pair
as a gift, and he wore them to Pres-
ident Joe Biden’s inauguration.
His fashion look, also featuring a
winter jacket made by Burton
Snowboards, sparked countless
memes prompted by the photo
taken by Agence France-Presse:
The former presidential candi-
date could be found on social
media timelines taking a seat on
the subway, the moon and the
couch with the cast of “Friends,”
among other creative locales.
Sanders raised at least $1.8 mil-
lion from merchandise for char-
ities stemming from the Jan. 20
image of him seated with his arms
and legs crossed, clad in his brown
parka and the recycled wool mit-
tens. Sanders put out so-called
“Chairman Sanders” merchan-
dise, including T-shirts, sweat-
shirts and stickers, on his cam-
paign website.
8 hurt after SUV crashesinto busy supermarket
TX HOUSTON — Eight
people were hurt after
an SUV crashed into a busy Hous-
ton supermarket, police said.
Shoppers were in a Fiesta Mart
in south Houston when the vehicle
went through the store’s front
doors, said Kevin Deese, com-
mander of the Houston police de-
partment’s vehicular crimes divi-
sion. Eight people were hit either
by the SUV or by debris, police
said.
A 9-year-old child was hurt and
another person suffered a head in-
jury, but all the individuals who
were hurt are expected to survive,
Deese said.
Investigators are still trying to
determine why the vehicle
crashed into the store, but the
driver showed signs of being im-
paired, Deese said.
Detroit to start yearlongarts, culture celebration
MI DETROIT — A year-
long celebration of arts
and culture in Detroit will focus on
the city’s contribution to Ameri-
can creativity.
The UNDEFEATED began
Feb. 1 with the city hosting a week
of virtual events to start Black
History Month.
Mayor Mike Duggan will call
for a citywide read of the Detroit-
based novel “Black Bottom
Saints.” He was expected to inter-
view author Alice Randall about
her tale of Detroit when the city’s
Black Bottom neighborhood
thrived.
The UNDEFEATED campaign
is made possible in part by
$176,000 in support from the Troy-
based Kresge Foundation and
comes as artists have been hit
hard by the COVID-19 pandemic,
not just by illness but by the loss of
income, according to the Office of
Arts, Culture and Entrepreneur-
ship which began an emergency
grants program last spring.
Police: Teacher tried tohire someone to kill mom
KY LOUISVILLE — Law
enforcement officials
said an eastern Kentucky teacher
was arrested after allegedly at-
tempting to hire someone to kill
his mother.
The Louisville Courier Journal
reported that Bill G. Reynolds, 41,
of Olive Hill, faces a solicitation of
murder charge and is being held
in a Carter County detention cen-
ter. Reynolds worked as a special
education teacher for a middle
school and as a bus driver for Car-
ter County Schools. He has since
been suspended.
The Kentucky State Police said
Reynolds paid a person, who was
not named but has been identified
as a cooperating witness, $10,000
to kill his mother.
Court records show that Rey-
nold’s mother had filed a lawsuit
last year, claiming that he illegally
attempted to claim his parents’
property. The lawsuit says Rey-
nold’s parents were intending to
give the property to their son after
their death. The suit claims, how-
ever, that Reynolds stole the pa-
perwork after his father died and
tried to claim the property.
2 arrested in more than80 metro home robberies
NM ALBUQUERQUE —
Two suspects were
arrested for allegedly being in-
volved in more than 80 home bur-
glaries in the Albuquerque area,
according to police.
They said Jesse Mascareno-
Haidle, 18, and a 17-year-old boy
were arrested after a police detec-
tive launched a detailed investiga-
tion into dozens of home invasions
in the metro Albuquerque area.
Police said the two suspects are
accused of several home burglar-
ies and stealing vehicles from
many of the residences.
Albuquerque TV station KOB
reported that police found a pat-
tern with many of the incidents.
That included homes backed up to
open space, which allowed bur-
glars to enter the homes from un-
locked back doors or windows in
the middle of the night.
Group of whales in Gulfof Mexico is a newspecies
LA NEW ORLEANS — The
tiny group of endan-
gered whales that make the Gulf
of Mexico their home turned out to
be a previously undiscovered spe-
cies.
The best count is that there are
about 33 of the long, slender filter
feeders — and definitely fewer
than 100 of them. They’re listed as
endangered in the United States
and as critically endangered by
the International Union for Con-
servation of Nature.
They were classified as one of
three of Bryde’s (pronounced
BROO-duhs) whale subspecies,
but many scientists suspected
they were actually something dif-
ferent.
Pamela Rosel of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration recently published con-
firmation that it’s a previously un-
known species.
Black cheerleader kickedoff team; coach quits
KS OTTAWA — A white
woman has resigned as
the head cheer coach at a private
Kansas university after a Black
cheerleader said she was kicked
off the squad over an argument
about her nearly 3-foot-long
braids.
The Kansas City Star reported
that Casey Jamerson said in a
statement that continuing to coach
at Ottawa University, which is
about 50 miles southwest of Kan-
sas City, would likely be “a dis-
traction” for the team, staff and
community.
Talyn Jefferson, 20, previously
told The Star she refused to re-
move a hair bonnet during cheer-
leading practice because she wor-
ried her long braids could hit a
teammate in the face. A junior
from Lawrence, she said she was
kicked out of practice and off the
squad.
The issue gained attention after
Jefferson’s friend tweeted about
the incident. The tweet describes
the coach saying that the braids
“weren’t collegiate” and that Jef-
ferson should not have gotten
them.
After renovation, historiclighthouse to reopen
FL ST. GEORGE ISLAND
— After a much-needed
renovation, a historic lighthouse
in Florida is ready to reopen.
The Cape St. George Light-
house was in need of numerous re-
pairs, including extensive paint-
ing and replacement of all win-
dows in the lantern room.
The 72-foot lighthouse on St.
George Island was slated to for-
mally reopen with a ribbon-cut-
ting ceremony.
The Panama City New Herald
reported that the recent repairs,
completed in mid-January, were
in part assisted by a $24,000 grant
from the Florida Lighthouse Asso-
ciation. The total cost of the work
was pegged at about $100,000. Of-
ficials said the nonprofit St. Ge-
orge Lighthouse Association fund-
ed most of the rest.
JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO, BAY AREA NEWS GROUP/AP
Visitors stop to look at ladybugs at Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, Calif. During the winter months, visitors at the park can seelarge colonies of ladybugs along Stream Trail.
A ladybug’s life
THE CENSUS
300 The number of roosters Las Vegas police seized that they sus-pect were used for cockfighting. Police also arrested at least
one person at the scene on drug-related charges. More charges are expected tobe filed related to animal cruelty, police said. City animal cruelty detectives andClark County animal control officers rescued the animals during a raid at ahouse in northeast Las Vegas. Police said cockfighting is a cruel, violent sportin which roosters are forced to fight until one of them dies. It is illegal to partici-pate, attend or promote such events, they said.
From The Associated Press
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WORLD
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar —
Myanmar’s military staged a coup
Monday and detained senior poli-
ticians including Nobel laureate
Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp re-
versal of the significant, if uneven,
progress toward democracy the
Southeast Asian nation has made
following five decades of military
rule.
An announcement read on mil-
itary-owned Myawaddy TV said
the military would take control of
the country for one year. It said
the seizure was necessary be-
cause the government had not act-
ed on the military’s claims of fraud
in November’s elections — in
which Suu Kyi’s ruling party won
a majority of the parliamentary
seats up for grabs — and because
it allowed the election to go ahead
despite the coronavirus pandem-
ic.
The takeover came the morning
the country’s new parliamentary
session was to begin and follows
days of concern that the military
was plotting a coup. The military
maintains its actions are legally
justified — citing a section of the
constitution it drafted that allows
it to take control in times of nation-
al emergency — though Suu Kyi’s
party spokesman as well as many
international observers have said
it amounts to a coup.
It was a dramatic backslide for
Myanmar, which was emerging
from decades of strict military
rule and international isolation
that began in 1962. It was also a
shocking fall from power for Suu
Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate who
had lived under house arrest for
years as she tried to push her
country toward democracy and
then became its de facto leader af-
ter her National League for De-
mocracy won elections in 2015.
For some, Monday’s takeover
was seen as confirmation that the
military holds ultimate power de-
spite the veneer of democracy.
The first signs that the military
was planning to seize power were
reports that Suu Kyi and Win My-
int, the country’s president, had
been detained before dawn.
Myanmar’s military takespower in coup, detains Suu Kyi
Associated Press
SAKCHAI LALIT/AP
Thai riot police try to avoid stones thrown by members of WeVolunteer, a network of Thai prodemocracy protest security guards,who joined Myanmar protesters during a protest Monday.
MOSCOW — Moscow braced for more
protests seeking the release of jailed oppo-
sition leader Alexei Navalny, who faces a
court hearing Tuesday after two weekends
of nationwide rallies and thousands of ar-
rests in the largest outpouring of discontent
in Russia in years.
Tens of thousands filled the streets across
the vast country Sunday, chanting slogans
against President Vladimir Putin and de-
manding freedom for Navalny, who was
jailed last month and faces years in prison.
Over 5,400 protesters were detained by au-
thorities, according to a human rights
group.
One of those taken into custody for sever-
al hours was Navalny’s wife, Yulia, who was
ordered Monday to pay a fine of about $265
for participating in an unauthorized rally.
While state-run media dismissed the
demonstrations as small and claimed that
they showed the failure of the opposition,
Navalny’s team said the turnout demon-
strated “overwhelming nationwide sup-
port” for the Kremlin’s fiercest critic. His
allies called for protesters to come to the
Moscow courthouse on Tuesday.
Navalny, 44,was arrested Jan. 17 upon re-
turning from Germany, where he spent five
months recovering from nerve-agent poi-
soning that he blames on the Kremlin. He
faces a prison term for alleged probation vi-
olations from a 2014 money-laundering con-
viction that is widely seen as politically mo-
tivated.
More Moscow protests planned to demand Navalny’s releaseAssociated Press
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 13
WORLD
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At
least five people died in an attack
on a Mogadishu hotel by Somalia’s
al-Shabab rebels that was ended
early Monday by security forces,
according to the Somali police
force.
The siege of the Afrik hotel end-
ed after a gunbattle that lasted for
more than eight hours, and all four
rebel attackers were killed, Soma-
li police spokesman Sadiq Adan
Ali said.
The rebels exploded hand gre-
nades and rocket-propelled gre-
nades in their attempt to repulse
the police forces who were closing
in on them, he said.
In addition to those killed, 15
people were injured and have
been hospitalized, health author-
ities said.
Al-Shabab claimed responsibil-
ity for the attack through their An-
dalus radio and Somalimemo
website.
Among the dead are Gen. Mo-
hamed Nur Galal, a well-known
retired army veteran who lived in
the hotel. Another general and
more than 100 civilians were res-
cued from the hotel, which is near
the strategic K-4 junction on the
road to the capital city’s interna-
tional airport, said Ali.
The road leading to the airport
was reopened Monday, and forces
are cleaning the destruction
caused by the explosion of a vehi-
cle at the entrance to the hotel,
which started the attack Sunday.
Somali forces repelrebel hotel attack
Associated Press
FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH/AP
Ambulances and security forces gather on the street outside the Afrikhotel in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, on Sunday.
PARIS — French lawmakers
tackled a bill Monday to dig up
radical Islam by its roots in the
country, beliefs that authorities
maintain are creeping into public
services, associations, some
schools and online with the goal
of undermining national values.
The bill is broad and contro-
versial, with 1,700 proposed
amendments, and guarantees
heated debate for weeks in the
lower house.
Interior Minister Gerald Dar-
manin, a right-leaning member of
Macron’s centrist party, took up
the mission with zeal. Darmanin
wrote a short book to be released
in days, “Manifesto for Secular-
ism,” a fundamental value of
France that the bill he sponsored
is meant to protect.
The text applies to all religions,
but some Muslims say the legisla-
tion once again points the finger
at Islam. Other critics say the bill
covers ground already addressed
in current laws while far-right
leader Marine Le Pen says the
bill doesn’t go far enough or even
name the enemy: radical Islam.
Lawmakers debate bill to rout out radical Islam in FranceAssociated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand
— A cyclone caused flooding as it
crossed Fiji, requiring rescues of
residents and sending thousands
of people into shelters in the Pacif-
ic archipelago. At least one person
died and five others are missing.
Authorities said Monday that
over 10,000 people were sheltering
at 300 evacuation centers after Cy-
clone Ana made landfall Sunday on
the main islands of Viti Levu and
Vanua Levu. The cyclone created
flooding across both islands, in-
cluding in the capital, Suva.
The National Disaster Manage-
ment Office said a 49-year-old man
drowned, while four fishermen
and a toddler were missing.
Office Director Vasiti Soko said
a river near Suva burst its banks,
and crews needed to rescue villag-
ers from their homes.
Fiji was still recovering from an
even more powerful cyclone that
hit in December. That storm, Cy-
clone Yasa, killed four people.
Soon after Cyclone Ana made
landfall, wind gusts were hitting 87
miles per hour, according to the Fi-
ji Meteorological Service.
Cyclone causesflooding in Fiji
Associated Press
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OPINION
The Democratic Party has before it
a choice between two economic
policies: a big increase in the fed-
eral minimum wage, to $15 an
hour from $7.25; and a per-child cash benefit
of several thousand dollars a year. The deci-
sion will have major implications, for the fu-
ture of both the party and the U.S. economy.
The cash benefit is clearly the better option.
One problem with the minimum wage
hike is that it is not clear how many people
are harmed and how many low-skilled work-
ers will lose their jobs, especially in poorer,
lower-wage states such as Mississippi,
where $15 is the median hourly wage. Advo-
cates point to papers suggesting that mini-
mum wage hikes do not boost unemploy-
ment, yet a recent survey suggests that the
preponderance of the research shows job
losses.
Or consider Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen. She supports the proposed hike, as
she noted in her confirmation hearing last
week, yet in 2014 she endorsed the view that
a minimum wage hike would lead to signifi-
cant job loss. Maybe now she knows better,
but if the 2014 Janet Yellen could have been
so fooled, then perhaps this debate is not so
settled.
Why then push so hard for a policy with
such murky outcomes? It would raise the
wages of many workers, destroy the jobs of
some low-skilled workers, and perhaps low-
er the hours and thus pay of many other
workers.
The burden of the minimum wage is un-
clear as well. Perhaps it leads to higher retail
prices, although many proponents suggest it
comes largely out of business profits. This
too is unclear, and again raises questions
about the wisdom of pushing so hard for such
a non-transparent set of reallocations and
transfers.
In contrast, consider the plan for cash
grants to families with children. Under one
proposed plan, these grants would be be-
tween $3,000 and $3,600 a year, depending
on the age of the child.
The benefits here are obvious and trans-
parent, namely that families are better off
when they have more money. Perhaps some
families would use that money in self-de-
structive ways, but this basic view — that
more money increases the chance for better
outcomes — is not really contested.
There is a second obvious and non-contes-
table benefit: namely, that these cash trans-
fers will make it easier to raise children and
thus, over some longer run, lead to more chil-
dren. (If you are not convinced that is a real
gain, I would refer you to Matt Yglesias’s
most recent book.) I, for one, am very glad
my parents decided to bring me into the
world, and it is harder to think of a more
transparent gain than that.
It is perfectly valid to ask how much the
federal government should spend on family
cash transfers, given the current govern-
ment debt. But whatever your opinion, the
comparison is straightforward and the up-
front cost of the policy is easy to measure.
The beneficiaries are the families and the
children, and the losers are those who will
pay additional future taxes at the margin.
There are only few other factors to compli-
cate that basic comparison.
Many people, including in President Joe
Biden’s administration, seem to believe that
instituting both of these policies is not only
possible but also desirable. That doesn’t
mean both should be adopted. If one of these
policies is better than the other, and both of
them cost something, it would be better to
discard the lesser idea and invest everything
in the better policy.
In this case, that would mean abandoning
the minimum wage hike and doing more
with the cash transfer to families. It is unlike-
ly that the value of the cash transfers dimin-
ishes much at the margin, because for so
many families a child remains a financial
burden even after some extra cash in hand.
Advocates for these policies can often
lapse into a kind of left-wing Lafferism
(spending on social programs is self-financ-
ing), which is about as compelling as right-
wing Lafferism (tax cuts are self-financing).
Neither version can survive an encounter
with a reality in which free lunches are in
short supply.
The Biden administration surely recog-
nizes that all of its major policy proposals in-
volve trade-offs. The costs of any specific
program must be weighed against potential
benefits elsewhere. Cash transfers to fam-
ilies for their children are a better and more
transparent set of benefits than an increase
in the minimum wage. As Democrats debate
the merits of these two options, they should
also keep in mind that what’s at stake is the
economic identity of their party.
Focus on families, not on raising minimum wageBY TYLER COWEN
Bloomberg Opinion
Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is aprofessor of economics at George Mason University and writesfor the blog Marginal Revolution. His books include “BigBusiness: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.”
With the electoral eviction of Do-
nald Trump from the Oval Of-
fice, Republicans had a shot at
redemption and resurrection.
They missed and failed — and deserve to
spend the next several years in political pur-
gatory. The chaos now enveloping what’s left
of the Grand Old Party after four years of ca-
tering to an unstable president is theirs to
own. Where conservatism once served as a
moderating force — gently braking liberal-
ism’s boundless enthusiasm — the former
home of ordered liberty has become a half-
way house for ruffians, insurrectionists and
renegade warriors.
What does Donald Trump have on these
people, one wonders? The continuing loyalty
of so many to a man so demonstrably danger-
ous can’t be explained by “the base,” a word
never more aptly applied. What secrets were
shared by Trump and House Minority Lead-
er Kevin McCarthy, who, after blaming
Trump for the Jan. 6 mob attack, visited
Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week to make
amends. It seems that The Don, yet another
appropriate nickname, need only purse his
button lips and whistle to summon his lap-
dogs to Palm Beach, there to conspire for the
next Big Lie.
The party’s end was inevitable, foreshad-
owed in 2008 when little-boy Republican
males, dazzled by the pretty, born-again,
prolife Alaska governor, thought Sarah Palin
should be a heartbeat away from the presi-
dency. The dumbing down of conservatism,
in other words, began its terminal-velocity
plunge, with a wink and a pair of shiny red
shoes. Palin cast a spell as potent as the poppy
fields of Oz, but turned the U.S. into her own
moose-poppin,’ gum-smackin’ reality show.
Forget Kansas. We’re not in America any-
more.
Eight years of Barack Obama added insult
to injury and paved the way for Donald
Trump — a gaudier, cinematic version of the
thrillah from Wasilla. Seizing upon our every
worst instinct, he turned Palin’s lipsticked
pig into a herd of seething, primitive barbar-
ians. Now the Department of Homeland Se-
curity is warning of more violence by domes-
tic extremists, presumably from the ranks of
the mob and QAnon conspiracists who
stormed the Capitol with blood on their
minds.
For Donald Trump, you went down this
road? Either Trump has a stockpile of in-
criminating videos or today’s Republicans
are the weakest, wimpiest, most pathetic
crop of needy nincompoops in American his-
tory. Suddenly, the “good ones” are worried
about their newest member, Rep. Marjorie
Taylor Greene, a QAnon-promoting female
version of Trump — only without the charm.
You begin to see how this monster mutates
like a certain virus into ever-more-danger-
ous versions of itself. Among other things,
Greene embraces the conspiracy theory that
the Sandy Hook Elementary School mas-
sacre and the slaughter at Marjory Stone-
man Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.,
were staged. One struggles for words, but I’ll
settle for creep.
Recently unearthed video shows Greene
chasing David Hogg, the Parkland student
who rose to public prominence as a gun con-
trol activist after the shooting, goading him to
respond to her insinuation that his ability to
get appointments with U.S. senators when
she couldn’t obviously meant he was a public
relations spawn and not a survivor of a ter-
rorist attack. I confess to early uncertainty
about Hogg, who was preternaturally adept
at media management and public speaking,
suddenly materializing from the fog of hor-
ror. But the notion that he was somehow com-
plicit in a manufactured act of mass murder
is beyond the pale even for the farthest right.
Good work, GOP. You got yourself a live
one. Naturally, Greene has been assigned to
the Education and Labor Committee.
Going forward, not only will House Re-
publicans be associated with a colleague who
“liked” a Twitter post calling for Nancy Pelo-
si’s murder. They’ll be attached to QAnon,
which promotes the extraordinary fiction
that Trump was leading a war against Satan-
worshiping pedophiles and cannibals, whose
leadership includes Hillary Clinton, Barack
Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and, oh,
by the way, yours truly, as well as U2’s Bono.
Republicans, you own all of this. The party
isn’t doomed; it’s dead. The chance to move
away from Trumpism toward a more-re-
spectful, civilized approach to governance
that acknowledges the realities of a diverse
nation and that doesn’t surrender to the
clenched fist, has slipped away. What comes
next is anybody’s guess. But anyone who
doesn’t speak out against the myths and lies
of fringe groups, domestic terrorists and
demagogues like Trump, deserves only de-
feat — and a lengthy exile in infamy.
The GOP made its choice, gets the death it had comingBY KATHLEEN PARKER
Washington Post Writers Group
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 15
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ACROSS
1 Docile
5 Eyeglass frames
9 Scoundrel
12 Actor Neeson
13 “Superfood”
berry
14 “— you kidding?”
15 Cheater’s ref-
erence
17 Director Howard
18 Missing
19 Kennedy or
Roosevelt
21 Rainbow-shaped
24 Dick Tracy’s love
25 Thailand, once
26 Used Google
30 Medit. nation
31 Audition CDs
32 Chest-beating
beast
33 Parts
35 Ship’s staff
36 “I’m a klutz!”
37 British nobles
38 Egypt’s Mubarak
40 Fly high
42 “This tastes
awful!”
43 Fudge seller
48 Roman 1051
49 Loyal
50 Actor Epps of
“This Is Us”
51 Vigor
52 Bloodline sharers
53 Golfer McIlroy
DOWN
1 Pampering,
for short
2 Vacuum’s lack
3 Avril follower
4 Insignia
5 Stadium cheers
6 “Cold As Ever”
rapper
7 Fannie —
8 Tot tenders
9 Crafty poker
player
10 Yankee nickname
11 Contradict
16 Turf
20 PC key
21 Unrepaired
22 Get up
23 Port vessel
24 New Mexico
resort
26 D.C. VIPs
27 911 responder
28 Duel tool
29 Morning droplets
31 Portrays
34 Calendar abbr.
35 Arrow on a com-
puter screen
37 24 hours
38 Camel feature
39 Leer at
40 Rebuff
41 Rhyming tributes
44 Shapiro of NPR
45 Med. plan
46 Rowing need
47 Snoop
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FACES
Prince Harry on Monday accepted an
apology and damages from the publisher of
British tabloid The Mail on Sunday and its
online version, MailOnline, in a libel lawsuit
relating to articles about his relationship
with the British armed forces.
Harry sued Associated Newspapers for
libel over two articles published in October
that claimed he had snubbed the Royal Ma-
rines after stepping down as a senior royal.
The articles claimed that Harry had “not
been in touch” with the force since his last
appearance as an honorary Marine in
March, and that military leaders were con-
sidering replacing him as Captain General
of the Royal Marines.
Harry had served for a decade in the Brit-
ish army. His lawyers said in court docu-
ments that he was “frustrated and sad-
dened” because the articles would diminish
his credibility with veterans.
Harry and his wife, Meghan, stepped
down as working royals and moved to the
U.S. in early 2019. His honorary military ti-
tles were put on hold, and they were due to
be reviewed in March as part of the monar-
chy’s review of the couple’s departure ar-
rangements.
Harry will donate the damages to the In-
victus Games Foundation, a charity for
wounded or sick servicemen and women
that he founded, lawyer Jenny Afia added.
The amount of the damages was not dis-
closed.
Evan Rachel Wood accuses ex
Marilyn Manson of abuseActress Evan Rachel Wood accused ex-
fiance Marilyn Manson of abusing her “for
years,” naming him as the man she has re-
ferred to in conversations about being a sur-
vivor of domestic violence.
Wood, 33, has long spoken of the abuse
she suffered at the hands of an unnamed ex,
including testifying before a House Judici-
ary Subcommittee in an effort to get the
Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights
passed in all 50 states.
The couple went public with their rela-
tionship in 2007, when she was 19 and he
was 38, and got engaged in 2010, but split
later that year.
Several other women stepped forward
with similar allegations against the singer
Monday, including one who claimed Man-
son “gets off on ruining people’s lives.”
Prince Harry getsapology, damages in UK libel lawsuit
From wire reports
If his new movie, “Our Friend,” makes
audiences cry, Jason Segel can sympathize.
He recalls being on an airplane and
watching a movie that made him break
down so uncontrollably that it got the atten-
tion of a woman seated next to him.
“I was weeping, full-on weeping, crying
so hard, and this woman couldn’t resist try-
ing to find out what I was crying at. And she,
like, peeked over and it was ‘Dreamgirls.’
This grown man, bawling his eyes out to
‘Dreamgirls,’” the actor said, laughing, in a
recent interview.
“Our Friend,” now playing in theaters
and streaming on demand, covers emotion-
al territory. Segel plays Dane, the best
friend of married couple Matt and Nicole
(played by Casey Affleck and Dakota John-
son). When Nicole is diagnosed with termi-
nal cancer, Dane moves in with the family
to help them during the time she has left.
It’s based on the true story of an experi-
ence written about by journalist Matthew
Teague in 2015 for Esquire. He wanted to
write about what going through a death is
really like.
“I felt so unprepared to meet death, even
caring for somebody who was dying and
that I felt even almost betrayed by the cul-
ture. In a way, I feel like we don’t discuss
this very openly or very honestly,” said
Teague.
Production on the film wrapped before
the pandemic, but Affleck understands that
it will strike a chord with viewers about
grief and loss.
“I think a lot of movies are probably going
to be seen through the lens of the experi-
ence that we’ve all shared over the last year,
whether or not they were intended to be
about those things,” said Affleck.
Johnson hopes it will remind others to
“feel a bit more grateful and a bit more com-
passionate with themselves and others.”
From experiencing his own loss, Teague
offers advice on what to say to those who
know someone who is going through it.
“It’s hard to know what to say. And I think
sometimes the best thing you can do is just
be there and just offer yourself in some way
and to not expect some emotional reaction.
Even now, years have passed. I’ll be in a res-
taurant and someone will come up and say,
‘I’m so sorry for your loss.’ And I feel like
there’s an expectation that I reciprocate
emotionally in some way. And so something
I learned is just let people grieve on their
own terms.”
GRAVITAS VENTURES
Jason Segel and Dakota Johnson tug on viewers’ heartstrings in the touching movie “Our Friend.”
A far cry from tough guys‘Our Friend’ stars know their emotional film comes at a vulnerable time
BY ALICIA RANCILIO
Associated Press
Tony Bennett has been quietly
hiding his Alzheimer’s disease for
four years.
The 94-year-old crooner was di-
agnosed in 2016 and has been con-
tinuing to work through his symp-
toms, AARP Magazine reported
Monday.
Bennett’s wife, Susan, said his
family decided to come forward
with his diagnosis without his in-
put because he is no longer able to
make such decisions.
“He would ask me, ‘What is Alz-
heimer’s?’” she
told AARP.
“I would ex-
plain, but he
wouldn’t get it.
He’d tell me,
‘Susan, I feel
fine.’ That’s all
he could proc-
ess — that phys-
ically he felt great. So, nothing
changed in his life. Anything that
did change, he wasn’t aware of.”
His wife and one of his sons,
Danny, have essentially taken
over for him, taking care of the
day-to-day operations and keep-
ing Bennett as comfortable as pos-
sible.
Bennett’s musical career dates
back seven decades: his first hit,
“Because of You,” was released in
1951, five years after he returned
from fighting in World War II. His
fame catapulted in the early 1980s
after a near-fatal drug overdose
and several poorly-selling al-
bums.
The raspy-voiced musician has
spent the more recent years of his
career with Lady Gaga, with the
pair releasing their “Cheek to
Cheek” album in 2014 with a se-
quel rescheduled to this spring.
“Cheek to Cheek” was named best
traditional pop vocal album at the
2015 Grammys and the two per-
formed live on stage together. Two
singles, “Anything Goes” and “I
Can’t Give You Anything but
Love,” were met with critical ac-
claim.
Gaga knew about Bennett’s con-
dition, according to AARP, and
helped carry him through inter-
views and the documentary.
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s can
include serious memory loss, con-
fusion, disorientation, mood and
behavior changes, paranoia and
difficulty speaking, swallowing
and walking, according to the Alz-
heimer’s Association.
The “I Left My Heart In San
Francisco” singer has 18 Grammy
wins and 36 nominations to his
name, beginning in 1962 with re-
cord of the year and best male solo
vocal performance.
“Singing is everything to him,”
his wife said. “Everything. It has
saved his life many times. ... If he
ever stops singing, that’s when
we’ll know.”
Bennett has been secretly battling Alzheimer’s for 4 yearsBY KATE FELDMAN
New York Daily News
Bennett
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 19
SCOREBOARD/GOLF
DEALS
Sunday’s transactionsBASEBALL
Major League BaseballAmerican League
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed toterms with INF Hanser Alberto on a minorleague contract.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to termswith SS Andrelton Simmons on a one-yearcontract.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
DETROIT LIONS — Acquired QB JaredGoff, a 2021 third-round pick, 2022 first-round pick and 2023 first-round pick fromLOs Angeles Rams in exchange for QBMatthew Stafford.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed OL Jonot-than Harrison to a reserve/futures con-tract.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned D KyleCapobianco to Tucson (AHL).
BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled C CaseyMittelstadt from the taxi squad.
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled CDrew Shore and G Alex Nedeljkovic fromtaxi squad.
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled RWReese Johnson from the taxi squad.
DETROIT RED WINGS — Designated CChase Pearson for assignment to taxisquad.
LOS ANGELES KINGS — Designated RWArthur Kaliyev and D Austin Strand for as-signment to taxi squad. Assigned LWs Bo-kondji and Samuel Fagemo to Ontario(AHL.
MONTREAL CANADIENS — DesignatedRW Corey Perry for assignment on the taxisquad.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled Fs Jesp-er Boqvist and Mikhail Maltsev from thetaxi squad. Designated RW Nicholas Mer-kley for assignment on the taxi squad.
NEW YORK RANGERS — Waived D TonyDeAngelo.
OTTAWA SENATORS — Recalled D ArtemZub from the taxi squad.
COLLEGE HOCKEY
Sunday’s scores
East
Providence 3, New Hampshire 2Bentley 6, Air Force 3
PRO FOOTBALL
NFL playoffsWildcard Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 9Buffalo 27, Indianapolis 24 Los Angeles Rams 30, Seattle 20 Tampa Bay 31, Washington 23
Sunday, Jan. 10Baltimore 20, Tennessee 13 New Orleans 21, Chicago 9 Cleveland 48 Pittsburgh 37
Divisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 16
Green Bay 32, Los Angeles Rams 18 Buffalo 17, Baltimore 3
Sunday, Jan. 17Kansas City 22, Cleveland 17 Tampa Bay 30, New Orleans 20
Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 24
AFCKansas City 38, Buffalo 24
NFCTampa Bay 31, Green Bay 26
Super BowlSunday, Feb. 7At Tampa, Fla.
Tampa Bay vs. Kansas City
NFL injury reportNEW YORK — The National Football
League injury report, as provided by theleague (DNP: did not practice; LIMITED:limited participation; FULL: Full participa-tion): Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Tampa Bay
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS at TAMPA BAYBUCCANEERS — CHIEFS: OUT: T Eric Fisher(Achilles), LB Willie Gay (ankle, knee).QUESTIONABLE: RB Le'Veon Bell (knee),CB Rashad Fenton (foot), CB L'JariusSneed (concussion), WR Sammy Watkins(calf). DNP: WR Sammy Watkins (calf).FULL: RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire (ankle,hip), CB Rashad Fenton (foot), QB PatrickMahomes (toe), T Mike Remmers (groin),T Andrew Wylie (ankle). BUCCANEERS:DOUBTFUL: WR Antonio Brown (knee), SJordan Whitehead (shoulder, knee). QUES-TIONABLE: LB Lavonte David (hamstring),S Antoine Winfield (ankle). DNP: DT SteveMcLendon (not injury related), LB JasonPierre-Paul (knee). LIMITED: WR MikeEvans (knee), DT Vita Vea (ankle). FULL:WR Chris Godwin (elbow).
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Sunday's scoresAt Torrey PinesSan Diego, Calif.
Purse: $7.5 millionSouth Course
Yardage:7,818; Par: 72Final Round
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Men’s Top 25 faredNo. 1 Gonzaga (17-0) beat San Diego 90-
62; beat Pepperdine 97-75.No. 2 Baylor (16-0) beat Kansas St. 107-
59; beat Auburn 84-72.No. 3 Villanova (11-1) beat Seton Hall 80-
72.No. 4 Michigan (13-1) did not play.No. 5 Texas (11-3) lost to No. 24 Oklaho-
ma 80-79.No. 6 Houston (15-1) beat Tulane 83-60;
beat SMU 70-48.No. 7 Iowa (12-4) lost to No. 19 Illinois 80-
75.No. 8 Virginia (11-3) beat Syracuse 81-58;
lost to No. 20 Virginia Tech 65-51.No. 9 Alabama (14-4) beat Kentucky 70-
59; lost to No. 24 Oklahoma 66-61.No. 10 Texas Tech (12-5) lost to No. 11
West Virginia 88-87; beat LSU 74-71.No. 11 West Virginia (11-5) beat No. 10
Texas Tech 88-87; lost to Florida 85-80.No. 12 Missouri (11-3) lost to Auburn 88-
82; beat TCU 102-98, OT.No. 13 Ohio St. (14-4) beat Penn St. 83-79;
beat Michigan St. 79-62.No. 14 Wisconsin (13-5) beat Maryland
61-55; lost to Penn St. 81-71.No. 15 Kansas (11-6) beat TCU 59-51; lost
to No. 18 Tennessee 80-61.No. 16 Florida St. (10-3) beat Miami 81-59;
lost to Georgia Tech 76-65.No. 17 Creighton (13-4) beat Seton Hall
85-81; beat DePaul 69-62.No. 18 Tennessee (12-3) beat Mississippi
St. 56-53; beat No. 15 Kansas 80-61.No. 19 Illinois (11-5) beat No. 7 Iowa 80-
75.No. 20 Virginia Tech (13-3) beat Notre
Dame 62-51; beat No. 8 Virginia 65-51.No. 21 Minnesota (11-6) lost to Purdue
81-62.No. 22 Saint Louis (7-2) lost to Dayton 76-
71.No. 23 UCLA (13-3) beat Oregon St. 57-52.No. 24 Oklahoma (11-4) beat No. 5 Texas
80-79; beat No. 9 Alabama 66-61.No. 25 Louisville (10-4) lost to Clemson
54-50.
Women’s Top 25 faredHow women’s Top 25 teams fared last
week:No. 1 Louisville (16-0) beat Miami 79-76;
beat North Carolina 79-68.No. 2 NC State (11-1) lost to Virgina Tech
83-71, OT.No. 3 UConn (11-1) lost to No. 19 Arkan-
sas 90-87; beat No. 17 DePaul 100-67.No. 4 South Carolina (14-1) beat No. 21
Mississippi St. 75-52; beat Alabama 87-63.No. 5 UCLA (10-2) beat Arizona St. 60-57.No. 6 Stanford (14-2) beat Washington
St. 77-49; beat Washington 74-48.No. 7 Maryland (12-2) lost to No. 14 Ohio
St. 88-86; beat Michigan St. 92-52.No. 8 Texas A&M (16-1) beat Auburn 84-
69; beat No. 22 Georgia 60-48.No. 9 Baylor (12-2) beat TCU 82-49; beat
Iowa St 85-77.No. 10 Arizona (11-2) did not play.No. 11 Oregon (11-3) did not play.No. 12 Michigan (10-1) did not play.No. 13 South Florida (10-1) did not play.No. 14 Ohio St. (10-1) beat No. 7 Maryland
88-86; beat No. 16 Indiana 78-70.No. 15 Kentucky (13-4) beat Alabama 81-
68; beat Missouri 61-55.No. 16 Indiana (10-4) lost to No. 14 Ohio
St. 78-70; beat Michigan St 79-67.No. 17 DePaul (9-4) lost to No. 3 UConn
100-67.No. 18 Gonzaga (15-2) beat Pacific 77-65;
beat Saint Mary’s (Cal) 79-52.No. 19 Arkansas (13-6) lost to No. 22 Ge-
orgia 75-73; beat No. 3 UConn 90-87; beatAuburn 77-67.
No. 20 Tennessee (12-3) beat Mississippi68-67; beat Florida 79-65.
No. 21 Mississippi St. (8-5) lost to No. 4South Carolina 75-52.
No. 22 Georgia (13-4) beat No. 19 Arkan-sas 75-73; lost to LSU 60-52; lost to No. 8Texas A&M 60-48.
No. 23 Northwestern (9-3) beat Iowa 87-80.
No. 24 West Virginia (13-2) beat TexasTech 73-53; beat TCU 79-70.
No. 25 South Dakota St. (13-2) did notplay.
Sunday’s men’s scores
East
Bucknell 92, Lehigh 68 CCSU 85, St. Francis (Pa.) 77 Colgate 78, Holy Cross 60 Delaware 75, Elon 70 Fairleigh Dickinson 95, Bryant 84 Mount St. Mary’s 76, Sacred Heart 64 NJIT 69, UMBC 65 New Hampshire 71, Binghamton 65, OT Siena 63, Marist 50 Stony Brook 63, Hartford 49 Syracuse 76, NC State 73 Tulane 81, Temple 64 William & Mary 75, Towson 74
South
Hofstra 89, UNC-Wilmington 83 James Madison 73, Drexel 64 NC A&T 67, Florida A&M 65 UAB 63, Middle Tennessee 52
Midwest
Chicago 72, Missouri St. 46 Drake 78, Illinois St. 76, OT Evansville 70, Valparaiso 52 Indiana St. 60, Bradley 57 N. Michigan 91, Lake Superior St. 70 Ohio St. 79, Michigan St. 62 Rutgers 64, Northwestern 56 S. Illinois 71, N. Iowa 68 Sioux Falls 74, Minnesota St. 62 St. John’s 75, Marquette 73
Southwest
Houston 70, SMU 48 North Texas 79, Rice 53 Stephen F. Austin 78, Sam Houston St. 68
Far West
E. Washington 68, Sacramento St. 60 Hawaii 62, UC Irvine 61 Nevada 89, UNLV 60 UC Riverside 71, UC San Diego 59 Washington St. 77, Washington 62
Sunday’s women’s scores
East
Army 79, Colgate 45 Bucknell 73, Lehigh 68 Dayton 68, St. Bonaventure 51 Drexel 58, Northeastern 56 Hofstra 59, UNC-Wilmington 48 La Salle 69, UMass 63 Mass.-Lowell 46, Albany (NY) 31 Rhode Island 50, Saint Joseph’s 48, OT Rider 45, Monmouth (NJ) 31 Stony Brook 62, Hartford 49 Syracuse 81, Notre Dame 69
South
Clemson 69, Wake Forest 66 Coll. of Charleston 65, James Madison 63 Elon 83, Delaware 61 Fordham 73, Davidson 55 Kentucky 61, Missouri 55 LSU 75, Mississippi 66, OT Liberty 78, Jacksonville 52 North Florida 80, North Alabama 77 Richmond 67, George Mason 52 South Carolina 87, Alabama 63 Tennessee 79, Florida 65 Tulane 71, Temple 69 Virginia Tech 73, North Carolina 69
Midwest
Baylor 85, Iowa St. 77 Bellarmine 62, Kennesaw St. 60 Indiana 79, Michigan St. 67 Iowa 94, Minnesota 68 Loyola of Chicago 55, S. Illinois 46 Missouri St. 74, Valparaiso 73 Oklahoma 80, Kansas St. 78 Penn St. 80, Purdue 70 UConn 100, DePaul 67 Villanova 90, Butler 53 Wisconsin 69, Illinois 57
Southwest
Arkansas 77, Auburn 67 Texas A&M 60, Georgia 48
Far West
Oregon St. 84, Utah 74 Santa Clara 66, Pepperdine 57 Southern Cal 65, Arizona St. 57 Stanford 74, Washington 48
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Great Ocean Road OpenATP Tour
MondayAt Melbourne Park
Melbourne, AustraliaPurse: $311,665
Surface: Hardcourt outdoorMen’s SinglesRound of 64
Corentin Moutet, France, def. FrancesTiafoe, United States, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Egor Gerasimov, Belarus, def. Lloyd Har-ris, South Africa, 6-3, 7-5.
Mackenzie McDonald, United States,def. Richard Gasquet (14), France, 7-6 (2),7-5.
Federico Coria, Argentina, def. Radu Al-bot, Moldova, 7-6 (3), 6-4.
Tommy Paul (15), United States, def.Cameron Norrie, Britain, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3.
Marton Fucsovics (16), Hungary, def.Marco Cecchinato, Italy, 7-6 (8), 6-3.
Jason Kubler, Australia, def. Lorenzo So-nego (9), Italy, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Pedro Sousa, Portugal, def. Li Tu, Austra-lia, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Albert Ramos-Vinolas (12), Spain, def.Blake Mott, Australia, 6-2, 6-4.
Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, def. SumitNagal, India, 6-2, 6-2.
Alex Bolt, Australia, def. Thanasi Kokki-nakis, Australia, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Harry Bourchier, Australia, def. MarcPolmans, Australia, 6-4, 6-4.
Adrian Mannarino (10), France, def. Mi-kael Ymer, Sweden, 7-5, 6-2.
Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Marin Cilic(11), Croatia, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8).
Yarra Valley ClassicWTA Tour
Melbourne, AustraliaPurse: $442,020
Surface: Hardcourt outdoorWomen’s Singles
Round of 64Greet Minnen, Belgium, def. Olga Dani-
lovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-4. Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Clara Burel,
France, 6-4, 6-3. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (11), Russia,
def. Misaki Doi, Japan, 6-1, 6-4. Alison van Uytvanck, Belgium, def. Hsieh
Su-wei, Taiwan, 6-2, 6-0. Nadia Podoroska (14), Argentina, def.
Francesca Jones, Britain, 6-1, 6-3.Vera Zvonareva, Russia, def. Kristyna
Pliskova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3. Women’s Singles
Round of 32Danielle Collins (13), United States, def.
Nina Stojanovic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-1.Petra Martic (7), Croatia, def. Vera Lap-
ko, Belarus, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def. Don-
na Vekic (9), Croatia, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2.Karolina Pliskova (3), Czech Republic,
def. Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italy, 6-3, 6-2.
Marketa Vondrousova (8), Czech Re-public, def. Varvara Gracheva, Russia, 6-4,6-0.
Serena Williams (5), United States, def.Daria Gavrilova, Australia, 6-1, 6-4.
Murray River OpenATP Tour
MondayAt Melbourne Park
Melbourne, AustraliaPurse: $311,665
Surface: Hardcourt outdoorMen’s SinglesRound of 64
Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, def. LasloDjere (12), Serbia, 6-3, 6-4.
Aleksandar Vukic, Australia, def. Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, 6-4, 7-5.
Aljaz Bedene (13), Slovenia, def. Yasuta-ka Uchiyama, Japan, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5).
Christopher O’Connell, Australia, def.Dominik Koepfer, Germany, 5-7, 6-4, 6-1.
Max Purcell, Australia, def. NorbertGombos, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-4.
Kwon Soon Woo, South Korea, def. An-drej Martin, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4).
Kevin Anderson, South Africa, def. Feli-ciano Lopez (16), Spain, 6-4, 7-5.
Stefano Travaglia, Italy, def. RobertoCarballes Baena, Spain, 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2).
Salvatore Caruso, Italy, def. AndreasSeppi, Italy, 7-5, 7-6 (5).
TENNIS
AP SPORTLIGHT
Feb. 2 1876 — The National League forms, con-
sisting of teams in Philadelphia, Hartford,Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, St.Louis and New York.
1936 — Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, HonusWagner, Christy Mathewson and WalterJohnson are the first members elected tothe Baseball Hall of Fame.
1977 — Toronto’s Ian Turnbull scores fivegoals to set an NHL record for defense-men.
SAN DIEGO — Patrick Reed
was so unaffected by a rules con-
troversy a day earlier that he won
the Farmers Insurance Open by
five shots, the biggest margin in
his nine career PGA Tour victo-
ries.
Reed closed with a 4-under 68 at
Torrey Pines, making an eagle on
the par-5 sixth and finishing off his
dominating Sunday with a birdie
on the 18th.
The former Masters champions
finished at 14 under. He shared
the first-round lead with Alex No-
ren, was in a group one shot off the
lead in the second round and then
shared the third-round lead with
Carlos Ortiz.
Reed said staying mentally
strong, as well as good play with
his wedge and putter, were able to
“keep me in the golf tournament
and really allowed me to have a
fun stroll up 18.”
Saturday, on the par-4 10th
Reed hit a 190-yard shot out of a
bunker with a TV replay showing
the ball bounced once before set-
tling into the rough. Without wait-
ing for an official, Reed picked up
the ball to see if it was embedded.
Reed told the official that no one in
his group, as well as a nearby vol-
unteer, saw it bounce. He was
awarded a free drop and saved par
in a round of 70.
On Sunday, Reed jump-started
his round with a 45-foot eagle putt
on the No. 6 to get to 12 under and
followed with a birdie on the par-4
seventh. His only bogey was on the
par-3 eighth.
“I knew today was going to be a
grind, especially with that leader-
board and seeing how many big
names were right around there at
the top. I knew you were going to
have to go out and play on of-
fense.”
GREGORY BULL / AP
Patrick Reed reacts after makinghis putt for par on the 14th holein the final round of the FarmersInsurance Open at Torrey Pines,Sunday, in San Diego.
A day aftercontroversy,Reed wins atTorrey Pines
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NBA
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Philadelphia 15 6 .714 —
Brooklyn 13 9 .591 2½
Boston 10 8 .556 3½
New York 9 12 .429 6
Toronto 8 12 .400 6½
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Atlanta 10 9 .526 —
Charlotte 9 11 .450 1½
Orlando 8 13 .381 3
Miami 7 12 .368 3
Washington 4 12 .250 4½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 11 8 .579 —
Indiana 11 9 .550 ½
Cleveland 9 11 .450 2½
Chicago 7 11 .389 3½
Detroit 5 15 .250 6½
Western Conference
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Memphis 8 6 .571 —
San Antonio 11 9 .550 —
Houston 9 9 .500 1
Dallas 8 12 .400 3
New Orleans 7 11 .389 3
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Utah 15 5 .750 —
Denver 12 8 .600 3
Portland 10 8 .556 4
Oklahoma City 8 10 .444 6
Minnesota 5 14 .263 9½
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
L.A. Clippers 16 5 .762 —
L.A. Lakers 15 6 .714 1
Phoenix 10 8 .556 4½
Golden State 11 9 .550 4½
Sacramento 8 11 .421 7
Saturday’s games
Portland 123, Chicago 122 Houston 126, New Orleans 112 Miami 105, Sacramento 104 Charlotte 126, Milwaukee 114 L.A. Lakers 96, Boston 95 Memphis 129, San Antonio 112 Phoenix 111, Dallas 105 Golden State 118, Detroit 91
Sunday’s games
L.A. Clippers 129, New York 115 Denver 128, Utah 117 Toronto 115, Orlando 102 Philadelphia 119, Indiana 110 Washington 149, Brooklyn 146 Minnesota 109, Cleveland 104
Monday’s games
Charlotte at Miami L.A. Lakers at Atlanta Houston at Oklahoma City Minnesota at Cleveland New York at Chicago Portland at Milwaukee Sacramento at New Orleans Memphis at San Antonio Phoenix at Dallas Detroit at Denver
Leaders
Through Jan. 30
Scoring
G FG FT PTS AVG
Beal, WAS 14 173 106 486 34.7
Durant, BKN 15 155 104 458 30.5
Lillard, POR 18 164 131 533 29.6
Embiid, PHI 16 141 152 453 28.3
Rebounds
G OFF DEF TOT AVG
Drummond, CLE 18 79 186 265 14.7
Capela, ATL 16 78 154 232 14.5
Gobert, UTA 19 73 194 267 14.1
Ayton, PHO 18 64 163 227 12.6
Assists
G AST AVG
Harden, BKN 16 177 11.1
Doncic, DAL 19 179 9.4
Paul, PHO 18 156 8.7
Jokic, DEN 19 166 8.7
Young, ATL 18 155 8.6
Scoreboard
INDIANAPOLIS — Doc Rivers
threw a changeup at the Indiana
Pacers on Sunday night.
It turned out to be the perfect
call.
With his team trailing by 16
early in the fourth quarter, the
Philadelphia 76ers coach
switched to a zone defense —
throwing off the Pacers and fuel-
ing an incredible closing run that
ended with the Sixers rallying for
a 119-110 victory.
“We were calling it our John
Chaney matchup zone and it was
great,” Rivers said, referring to
the trailblazing Temple coach
who died Friday. “What it did was
stop their movement. You miss a
couple threes early in a zone in the
NBA and it becomes tough all of a
sudden.”
Indiana never figured it out or
recovered — even with All-Star
center Joel Embiid sitting out for
Philadelphia because of a sore
back.
Instead, the 76ers outscored the
Pacers 31-6 over the final eight
minutes to earn their sixth win in
seven games.
Tobias Harris led Philadelphia
with 27 points and eight rebounds.
Furkan Korkmaz added 17 points,
including the two biggest baskets
of the game — a 17-footer with 2:30
to play that finally gave the 76ers
the lead and a 19-footer on the en-
suing possession to make it 109-
106.
But Harris thought this one was
all about Philadelphia’s surprise
defense.
“Probably five minutes and I’m
not kidding,” Harris said when
asked how much time the 76ers
had spent talking about zone de-
fense this season. “It was in prep-
aration for another team. But it got
us talking out there and defensive-
ly and that’s something we always
say on defense. We’ve got to com-
municate more.”
Malcolm Brogdon scored 25
points and Domantas Sabonis had
21 in a game they dominated for al-
most 3½ quarters. Indiana
seemed to be cruising when Aaron
Holiday’s basket with 8:16 to play
made it 104-88. But the Pacers on-
ly netted one more basket — and
the 76ers took control.
In the zone: 76ers down PacersBY MICHAEL MAROT
Associated Press
DARRON CUMMINGS / AP
Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris shoots against Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner during the76ers’ 119110 win at Indianapolis on Sunday. Harris had 27 points and eight rebounds for Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON — Bradley Beal
and Russell Westbrook hit three-
pointers in a wild 3.8-second se-
quence in the final seconds to help
the Washington Wizards stun Ke-
vin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets
149-146 on Sunday night.
Westbrook had 41 points, 10 re-
bounds and eight assists, and NBA
scoring leader Beal had 37 points.
In the fourth quarter, Beal had 22
points and Westbrook had 15. Du-
rant, second in the NBA in scoring,
also had 37 points.
With Washington down 146-141,
Beal hit a three-pointer with 8.1
seconds left. Garrison Matthews
deflected Joe Harris’ inbounds
pass to Westbrook and he made a
three with 4.3 seconds left for a 147-
146 lead.
Kyrie Irving found Timothe Lu-
wawu-Carbarrot under the basket
with 2.9 seconds left, but his layup
attempt spun around the rim and
failed to drop. Beal added two free
throws with 0.7 seconds left as the
Wizards broke a four-game losing
steak and improved to a still NBA-
worst 4-12.
Harris scored a career-high 30
points, and Irving had 26 for
Brooklyn. The Nets had won four in
a row. James Harden sat out be-
cause of a thigh contusion, the first
game he has missed since being
traded from to Brooklyn on Jan. 13.
The Wizards are 1-4 since re-
suming play after a 13-day layoff
that included six postponements
due to COVID-19 related issues.
Nuggets 128, Jazz 117: Nikola
Jokic matched his career high with
47 points and host Denver ended
Utah’s winning streak at 11.
Jokic was 17-for-26 from the
field, hit all four of his three-point
attempts, made 9 of 10 free throws
and had 12 rebounds and five as-
sists. He scored 33 points in the
first half.
Clippers 129, Knicks 115: Ka-
whi Leonard scored 28 points and
Los Angeles rang up the highest
point total of the season against the
NBA’s leading defense, winning at
New York for its 10th victory in 11
games.
The Clippers shredded the NBA
leaders in fewest points allowed
per game to break away after lead-
ing by one after two quarters. They
surpassed the 102.7 points per
game the Knicks had been allow-
ing with their first basket of the fi-
nal quarter.
Raptors 115, Magic 102: Pas-
cal Siakam had 30 points and 10 re-
bounds in Toronto’s victory over
visiting Orlando.
Kyle Lowry had 12 points and 14
assists, and Aaron Baynes added
eight points and 16 rebounds to
help the Raptors snap a three-
game losing streak.
Timberwolves 109, Cavaliers
104: Malik Beasley scored 23
points and rookie Anthony Ed-
wards had 23 in his second straight
start in Minnesota’s victory over
visiting Cleveland.
The Timberwolves snapped a
three-game losing streak and won
for just the third time in 17 games.
Wizards’ last-minute rally shocks Nets
NICK WASS / AP
Washington Wizards guardBradley Beal, right, goes to thebasket Sunday as Brooklyn Netsforward Kevin Durant defends.
Associated Press
ROUNDUP
.00038%An NBA’s team’s odds over the past25 seasons when trailing by 5 or morepoints in the final 10 seconds of agame. Counting the Wizards' win onSunday, teams in that situation are9-for-23,498.
SOURCE: basketball-reference.com
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 21
NHL/TENNIS
East Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Washington 9 6 0 3 15 35 29
Philadelphia 10 7 2 1 15 35 31
Boston 8 5 1 2 12 25 17
Pittsburgh 9 5 3 1 11 29 34
New Jersey 9 4 3 2 10 23 26
Buffalo 10 4 4 2 10 30 32
N.Y. Islanders 9 3 4 2 8 19 24
N.Y. Rangers 8 2 4 2 6 22 25
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida 6 5 0 1 11 22 16
Columbus 10 4 3 3 11 24 28
Carolina 6 5 1 0 10 18 10
Dallas 6 4 1 1 9 23 14
Tampa Bay 6 4 1 1 9 19 14
Chicago 10 3 4 3 9 26 31
Nashville 8 4 4 0 8 20 24
Detroit 10 2 6 2 6 20 35
West Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
St. Louis 9 6 2 1 13 32 29
Colorado 10 6 3 1 13 36 23
Minnesota 10 6 4 0 12 29 28
Vegas 7 5 1 1 11 23 17
Los Angeles 8 3 3 2 8 25 26
Anaheim 10 3 5 2 8 16 27
Arizona 8 3 4 1 7 20 22
San Jose 8 3 5 0 6 22 31
North Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Toronto 10 7 2 1 15 33 29
Montreal 8 5 1 2 12 33 22
Vancouver 11 6 5 0 12 40 37
Winnipeg 8 5 3 0 10 29 25
Edmonton 11 5 6 0 10 38 41
Calgary 7 3 3 1 7 20 17
Ottawa 9 1 7 1 3 2244
Saturday’s games
Buffalo 4, New Jersey 3, SOPhiladelphia 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OTPittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 4, OTWashington 4, Boston 3, OTCarolina 4, Dallas 1Edmonton 4, Toronto 3, OTColorado 5, Minnesota 1St. Louis 6, Anaheim 1Vancouver 4, Winnipeg 1Florida 3, Detroit 2, OTTampa Bay 4, Nashville 3Calgary 2, Montreal 0
Sunday’s games
New Jersey 5, Buffalo 3Florida 3, Detroit 2Carolina 4, Dallas 3, SOChicago 3, Columbus 1Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OTSt. Louis 4, Anaheim 1Minnesota 4, Colorado 3, OTEdmonton 8, Ottawa 5
Monday’s games
Boston at WashingtonNashville at Tampa BayPittsburgh at N.Y. RangersVancouver at MontrealCalgary at WinnipegVegas at San Jose, ppd
Tuesday’s games
Buffalo at N.Y. IslandersDallas at ColumbusNew Jersey at PittsburghVancouver at MontrealArizona at St. LouisCalgary at WinnipegCarolina at ChicagoMinnesota at ColoradoAnaheim at Los AngelesOttawa at Edmonton
Scoreboard
Scoring leaders
Through Jan. 31
GP G A PTS
Connor McDavid, EDM 11 8 14 22
Leon Draisaitl, EDM 11 6 15 21
Nathan MacKinnon, COL 10 2 12 14
Mitchell Marner, TOR 10 5 9 14
James van Riemsdyk, PHI 10 5 8 13
Nicklas Backstrom, WSH 9 5 8 13
6Assists by Edmonton OIlers forwardLeon Draisaitl in an 8-5 defeat of theOttawa Sentators Sunday. He was anassist off the NHL record held byEdmonton great Wayne Gretzky (donethree times) and Detroit's Billy Taylor(in 1947).
SOURCE: Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Australia — Se-
rena Williams found a silver lining
in the delayed start to the Austra-
lian Open, the season-opening
Grand Slam tournament that is
starting three weeks later than
usual because of the COVID-19
pandemic.
Time.
Time to recover from an
Achilles injury that ended her run
at last year’s French Open before
her second-round match. Extra
time with her daughter, albeit in
hotel quarantine.
The 39-year-old American, a
seven-time Australian Open
champion, restarted her lengthy
quest for a 24th Grand Slam sin-
gles title with a 6-1, 6-4 win over
Daria Gavrilova on Monday in a
tuneup tournament at Melbourne
Park.
There are six tournaments be-
ing staged this week to give play-
ers some chance at competitive
tennis before the first major of the
year starts next Monday. Williams
is playing in the Yarra Valley
Classic, along with top-ranked
Ash Barty and defending Austra-
lian Open champion Sofia Kenin.
The fifth-seeded Williams said
she was “pushing the limits” just
being fit enough to compete at
Melbourne Park.
“I needed every time — I don’t
think I would have been here if it
was during the regular season,”
she said.
Williams played an exhibition
match against Naomi Osaka in
Adelaide last Friday in her first
post-quarantine action.
Against Gavrilova on Margaret
Court Arena, she wore a long-
sleeve shirt throughout the match
during a relatively cool summer
day in Melbourne and later said
she achieved what she had aimed
to achieve for a second-round en-
counter — mainly the 1½ hours on
court.
Serena rollsin Australiantuneup event
BY JOHN PYE
Associated Press
HAMISH BLAIR / AP
United States’ Serena Williamscelebrates after defeatingAustralia’s Daria Gavrilova 61,64 Monday during a tuneupevent for the Australian Open.
EDMONTON, Alberta — Con-
nor McDavid had a goal and four
assists, linemate Leon Draisaitl
had six assists and the Edmonton
Oilers outscored the skidding Ot-
tawa Senators 8-5 on Sunday
night.
McDavid has eight goals this
season, tied for the league lead
with Vancouver’s Brock Boeser,
and leads the points race with 22
— one ahead of Draisaitl.
Draisaitl was an assist off the
NHL record held by Edmonton
great Wayne Gretzky (done three
times) and Detroit’s Billy Taylor
(in 1947). The German forward
leads the NHL in assists with 15,
one more that McDavid.
Dominic Kahun, James Neal,
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Tyson
Barrie, Darnell Nurse and Kailer
Yamamoto also scored for the Oil-
ers. Stuart Skinner made 33 saves
in his NHL debut, handing Ottawa
its eighth straight defeat.
The teams will complete the
two-game set in Edmonton on
Tuesday night.
It took eight seconds for the Oil-
ers to score. Off a faceoff win by
Draisaitl in the Senators’ zone,
Kahun took the pass from his cen-
ter and fired a shot toward the net.
The puck deflected off Ottawa for-
ward Josh Norris’ stick and went
past goaltender Matt Murray.
Hurricanes 4, Stars 3 (SO):
Vincent Trocheck zipped a shot
past Anton Khudobin’s glove in
the shootout and James Reimer
denied Jamie Benn’s final shot,
helping host Carolina beat Dallas.
Nino Niederreiter scored at
17:25 of the third period to force
overtime and the shootout for the
Hurricanes, who squandered a 2-1
lead to start the third period, but
hung on to beat the Stars for the
second time in two nights.
Jordan Staal and Brock McGinn
also scored for Carolina. The Hur-
ricanes returned Thursday from a
pause due to COVID-19 concerns
that led to four games being post-
poned. Carolina won all three
games in its return.
Reimer finished with 26 saves
for the Hurricanes, including five
in overtime.
Flyers 4, Islanders 3 (OT): Joel
Farabee had a hat trick, Kevin
Hayes scored on a power play 4:23
into overtime and Philadelphia
beat visiting New York for a week-
end sweep.
James van Riemsdyk had three
assists to help the Flyers win their
fourth straight. They also beat the
Islanders in overtime Saturday.
Devils 5, Sabres 3: Michael
McLeod and Miles Wood each
scored twice in New Jersey’s win
at Buffalo.
Wood assisted on McLeod’s go-
ahead goal midway through the
third period. Andreas Johnsson
also scored to help the Devils
avenge a shootout loss Saturday in
the opener of the back-to-back set.
Panthers 3, Red Wings 2: Pa-
tric Hornqvist, Aaron Ekblad and
Carter Verhaeghe scored and
Chris Driedger made 32 saves in
Florida’s victory over visiting De-
troit.
Anthony Mantha scored with
1:48 remaining to pull the Red
Wings within a goal after the Red
Wings pulled Thomas Greiss to
add an extra skater. Detroit pulled
its goaltender again, but couldn’t
get another shot past Driedger.
Wild 4, Avalanche 3 (OT):Jonas
Brodin scored 18 seconds into
overtime to lift depleted Minneso-
ta past visiting Colorado. Victor
Rask scored his second goal of the
game for the Wild to tie it with 7:26
left in regulation. Jordan Green-
way also scored and set up the
winner with a pass from the end
line.
Blues 4, Ducks 1: Brayden
Schenn scored twice, Ville Husso
made 25 saves for his first NHL
victory and the St. Louis won at
Anaheim. Schenn is one of the
NHL’s hottest players with six
goals in his last seven games. He
also has four assists in that span.
Blackhawks 3, Blue Jackets 1:
Kevin Lankinen made 32 saves
and short-handed Chicago beat
beat visiting Columbus.
Patrick Kane and Philipp Ku-
rashev each had a goal and an as-
sist for the Blackhawks, and Pius
Suter also scored Chicago im-
proved to 1-1 on a four-game
homestand after losing 2-1 to the
Blue Jackets on Friday night.
JASON FRANSON / AP
Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid, left, and Ottawa Senators defender Erik Gudbranson battle forthe puck. McDavid had a goal and four assists during the Oilers’ 85 win Sunday in Edmonnton, Alberta.
McDavid, Draisaitl leadOilers’ rout of Senators
Associated Press
ROUNDUP
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MLB/COLLEGE BASKETBALL
NEW YORK — Major League
Baseball has proposed a one-
month delay in starting spring
training due to the coronavirus
pandemic and pushing back open-
ing day to April 28, two people fa-
miliar with the plan told The As-
sociated Press.
Under the plan presented to the
players' union on Friday, the regu-
lar season would be cut from 162
games to 154.
Also, the playoffs would be ex-
panded from 10 teams to 14, the
designated hitter would extend to
the National League for the sec-
ond straight season and MLB
would keep the experimental
rules for seven-inning double-
headers and beginning extra in-
nings with a runner on second
base.
All players would report for
spring training on March 22, back
from the current calendar that
calls a voluntary reporting date of
Feb. 17 for pitchers, catchers and
injured players, and Feb. 22 for
others.
Opening day would be pushed
back 27 days from its currently
scheduled April 1 and the regular
season would end Oct. 10 instead
of Oct. 3. The postseason would
extend into November.
The people familiar with the
plan spoke on condition of ano-
nymity Sunday because no an-
nouncements were made. The
sides have not discussed the pro-
posal with each other since MLB
made it.
A day before the plan was pre-
sented, Commissioner Rob
Manfred said he would like to
know by his regular Monday call
with owners if the union had in-
terest in delaying the start of
spring training.
The reasoning behind the delay
would be to gain time for more
vaccinations and better assess the
health situation.
Seven teams in each league
would make the playoffs, and only
the division winner with the best
record would receive a bye in the
best-of-three first round. There
would be a selection show in
which the seeded teams would be
able to, in order of percentage, se-
lect their first-round opponent.
The three advancing teams in
each league and the one with a
bye would advance to the best-of-
five Division Series, starting the
traditional rounds of the postsea-
son.
While the plan says players
would receive 100% of pay if all
154 scheduled games are played,
Manfred would have an expanded
right to stop spring training, the
regular season or the postseason
under certain conditions. Those
would be if government restric-
tions prevent five or more teams
from playing home games even
without fans, if government rules
restrict travel in the United
States, if Manfred determines af-
ter consultation with medical ex-
perts and the union there is an un-
reasonable safety risk to players
or staff or if the number of regular
major leaguers unavailable be-
cause of COVID-19 undermines
completive integrity.
Each team would start with 18
scheduled days off, and each team
would be allowed to be scheduled
up to 12 split doubleheaders.
Players usually are reluctant to
agree to split doubleheaders be-
cause of the lengthy day at the
ballpark each entails
The regular season would be
compressed to 154 games in 166
days from 162 games in 186 days.
The World Series would be
scheduled to end in the Nov. 10
range, with the exact time de-
pending on discussions with
broadcast partners.
As part of the plan, owners
would guarantee a postseason
players’ pool of 60% of the gate of
the first two first-round games
plus $80 million for the remainder
of the postseason, matching the
2019 pool.
Players previously rejected a
proposal teams made Jan. 5 for
expanded playoffs in exchange
for extending the DH to the Na-
tional League.
Last season was cut from 162
games per team to 60, and the
postseason was expanded to 16
teams and ended Oct. 27 when the
Los Angeles Dodges beat the
Tampa Bay Rays in World Series
Game 6. Players received 60/
162nds of their salaries.
No fans were allowed during
the regular season last year,
which because of the pandemic
started July 23 rather than March
26. About 11,000 fans per game at-
tended the NL Championship Se-
ries and World Series, both played
at the neutral site in Arlington,
Texas. In a deal for expanded 16-
team playoffs in 2020, MLB guar-
anteed a postseason players’ pool
of $50 million.
Delayed starton the tableMLB proposes 154-game season beginning April 28,with 14-team playoffs that would last into November
BY RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Rick
Barnes has a message for anyone
wanting to count out the South-
eastern Conference this season.
Not so fast.
His 18th-ranked Tennessee Vol-
unteers routed No. 15 Kansas 80-
61 Saturday clinching a 5-4 win in
the Big 12/SEC Challenge. It’s just
the second time the SEC has won
this nonconference showdown
created as a chance at improving
resumés in late January.
The last time the SEC won this
event was in 2018 when it sent a
league-record eight teams to the
NCAA Tournament. The SEC has
had 15 tournament teams since
that season, second-most in the
country in that span.
“I am glad we won the chal-
lenge, I really am,” Barnes said.
“If there is enough talk about our
league not being very good and
people talking arguably the Big 12
or the Big 10 being the best league,
the fact is we were able to win 5-4
... yes I think it’s great for our
league.”
Kentucky isn’t leading the SEC
as usual with the Wildcats (5-10)
struggling through the longest
skid of coach John Calipari’s ten-
ure. Florida wound up postponing
four games. The Gators’ Keyontae
Johnson, the SEC preseason play-
er of the year, collapsed on the
court during a Dec. 12 game and
hasn’t played since.
Tennessee, the preseason pick
to win the SEC, lost three games to
drop to fourth in the league.
Not a good sign for a league that
had been showing signs of improv-
ing depth beyond Kentucky and
Florida with its national titles. The
SEC had the top pick in the 2020
NBA draft — Georgia’s Anthony
Edwards — and lottery picks from
Auburn, Alabama, Vanderbilt.
“Everybody thinks that our
league is down,” Barnes said. “I do
not know what league is up and
what league is down. I really don’t.
I just know that the Big 12 has
some terrific teams. I know that
we’ve got some terrific teams.
There’s so much balance right
now in college basketball.”
With the calendar flipping to
February, the SEC is showing
signs of strengthening.
Florida could join Alabama,
Missouri and Tennessee in The
Associated Press rankings Mon-
day after turning in the biggest up-
set of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
The Gators knocked off No. 11
West Virginia 85-80 and are now
7-3 since losing Johnson.
Coach Mike White said the Ga-
tors had to revamp everything of-
fensively and deal with their emo-
tions.
“We came back down to Earth a
little bit,” White said. “We’ve got-
ten to work, and we’ve gotten bet-
ter. We’ve got a ways to go, but
we’re obviously better than we
were a couple weeks ago.”
Alabama was picked to finish
fifth in the SEC. But second-year
coach Nate Oats has the Crimson
Tide chasing their first regular
season championship since 2002.
The Crimson Tide even swept
Kentucky for the first time since
1988-89, the last time the Wildcats
had a losing record. The Tide won
10 straight until a 66-61 loss on the
road to No. 24 Oklahoma Satur-
day, which Oats expects will get
his players’ attention in a way he
couldn’t while they kept winning.
“If we can learn from it, it’ll end
up helping us in the long run,”
Oats said
Not only was Tennessee expect-
ed to win the SEC,it was projected
to reach its first Final Four with
Barnes having an experienced
roster featuring a trio of five-star
recruits. But freshman Jaden
Springer missed three games, and
the Vols lost those to Alabama,
Florida and Missouri.
Now Springer is back, and soph-
omore Josiah-Jordan James said
Tennessee got a confidence boost-
er beating Kansas
“To be the team we want to be at
the end of the year holding the na-
tional trophy we need to become
that team,” James said.
CAITIE MCMEKIN / AP
Tennessee players, from left, E.J. Anosike, Uros Plavsic andJosiahJordan James celebrate after beating Kansas on Saturday.
SEC out to showleague isn’t down
BY TERESA M. WALKER
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Marcus Sasser
scored 19 points and No. 6 Hous-
ton beat SMU 70-48 on Sunday for
its eighth straight win.
After scoring just three points
in a victory over Tulane on Thurs-
day, Sasser opened 0-for-5 against
the Mustangs. He bounced back
and made five of his final 10 shots.
“My teammates kept telling me
every time I went to the bench,
‘Keep shooting the ball,’ ” Sasser
said. “Coach (Kelvin Sampson)
tells me all the time he doesn’t
care how many I miss, just keep
shooting. Even when I am off to a
bad start like that, I keep shooting
and gaining confidence because
my teammates put that confi-
dence in me even though I miss.”
Justin Gorham had nine points
and 17 rebounds for the Cougars
(15-1, 10-1 American Athletic Con-
ference), who won their 20th con-
secutive home game. Reggie Cha-
ney added 10 points.
They won despite shooting only
34%.
“I thought our offense was
great the first half, we just weren’t
making open shots,” Sampson
said. “Look at how many open
shots we missed, look at how
many shots around the rim we
were missing. I told our guys,
‘Don’t worry about that, you’ll
make them.’”
Houston outrebounded SMU
45-33 and committed 10 turn-
overs.
“Our defense has been getting
better,” Sampson said. “There are
three core tenets of our program
— our defense, our rebounding
and taking care of the ball. I
thought we were outstanding in
all three areas.”
Kendric Davis led the Mus-
tangs (9-4, 5-4) with 11 points. Fe-
ron Hunt and Yor Anei each
scored 10 points for SMU, which
made 32% percent of its shots.
The Cougars led 28-24 at half-
time, then went on a 14-3 run,
capped by Gorham’s three-point
play with 16 minutes left.
No. 13 Ohio State 79, Michi
gan State 62: E.J. Liddell had 20
points and eight rebounds to lead
the host Buckeyes past the skid-
ding Spartans.
Justin Ahrens added 17 for
workmanlike Ohio State (14-4, 8-4
Big Ten), which has won three in
a row and six of seven.
Joshua Langford scored 14
points for Michigan State (8-6,
6-2), which was coming off an em-
barrassing 30-point loss to Rutg-
ers on Thursday that followed a
long COVID-19 layoff.
TOP 25 ROUNDUP
Houstonwins 8thstraight
Associated Press
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 23
NFL
Ultimately, the Chiefs and Buc-
caneers are in the Super Bowl in
part because they figured it out as
well as anybody.
They adhered to strict mask
mandates inside the facility. They
avoided large gatherings once
they left. They spread out to eat
meals, held meetings in small
groups and paid whatever it took
for cutting-edge tracking sys-
tems.
They held the health of the guy
next to them in the same regard as
their own.
“We had to take care of each
other. We couldn’t go out there
and do things we normally do,”
Kansas Citywide receiver Mecole
Hardman said. “We did a real
good job of protecting each other,
and it did bring us together. We
all had to be locked in.”
According to the NFL, there
were 922,220 tests administered
from Aug. 1 to the end of the regu-
lar season, resulting in 256 posi-
tive tests among players and 432
among other staff members. But
many of those positive tests could
be traced to a few teams and a
handful of outbreaks, which all
but crippled some of them for
large parts of the season.
The Titans had an outbreak in-
volving 24 players and personnel
that caused two postponements
and wiped out their bye week.
The Ravens had issues heading
into a Thanksgiving showdown
with Pittsburgh that they ulti-
mately played without quarter-
back Lamar Jackson in the fol-
lowing week. The Broncos had to
play a game without any quarter-
back whatsoever, and general
manager John Elway and CEO
Joe Ellis also were affected by an
outbreak that sent an assistant
coach to the hospital.
Violations of the COVID-19
protocols were costly in more lit-
eral ways. The Raiders were
fined $1.2 million and docked a
sixth-round pick for violations,
while the Saints lost a seventh-
rounder and $500,000. Tennessee
was fined $650,000 for three sep-
arate violations, the Patriots
$350,000 for their issues, and Bal-
timore $250,000 for its outbreak.
All of which make the problems
of the Chiefs and Bucs seem
downright trivial.
Kansas City had eight players
on the active roster land on the
COVID-19 list, including Hard-
man and starting linebacker An-
thony Hitchens, both of whom
missed games. They also had a
couple of staff members test posi-
tive, including strength coach
Rick Rubin and Burkholder, the
very same man who worked with
the NFL to develop testing proto-
cols.
Tampa Bay had 11 players on
the active roster land on the list,
including running back Ronald
Jones and linebacker Devin
White, who missed the Bucca-
neers’ regular-season finale and
wild-card win over Washington.
But compared to other teams
around the league, the Chiefs and
Bucs had modest problems. Four
of the Chiefs and four of the Bucs
who landed on the COVID-19 list
didn’t miss a game, and both
teams are — knock on wood — ex-
pected to be at full strength when
they meet in the Super Bowl on
Feb. 7 in Tampa, Fla.
“I think our guys have done a
great, great job of being ac-
countable to each other with CO-
VID all year, and will continue to
do that,” Tampa Baycoach
Bruce Arians said. “We’ve talk-
ed about family and friends test-
ing before they ever enter your
home; making sure everybody’s
tested and being very, very
smart about it.”
Arians and his Kansas City
counterpart, Andy Reid, point to a
few reasons their teams have re-
mained safe this season, one of
the biggest being luck. The fact is
even the biggest hypochondriac
could catch the virus without
even knowing it.
The other main reason is lead-
ership. It’s easy to follow the ex-
ample of Tom Brady, with six Su-
per Bowl rings behind him and
the Hall of Fame in front of him,
when he demands the Bucca-
neers mask up.
The same with Patrick Ma-
homes, the reigning Super Bowl
MVP, when he tells the Chiefs to
skip the family gatherings around
the holidays.
“Like, getting a haircut before
the game — I had to get my barber
tested, or go to the barber shop
when no one is there,” Mahomes
said. “You can’t risk getting CO-
VID or anything like that. And
then, after games when I would
usually hang out with the guys,
hang out with different people, or
even hang out with my family, I
had to kind of prevent that as
much as possible or keep it very
minimal. I mean, it does take a toll
on you.”
Then again, the toll is a little
easier to bear when you are part
of a team capable of winning a
championship.
Season: Bucs, Chiefshandled pandemic wellFROM PAGE 24 “We did a real good
job of protecting eachother, and it did bringus together. We allhad to be locked in.”
Mecole Hardman
Kansas City Chiefs wide reciever
There was a regular-season
shootout and a playoff master-
piece the first season that Patrick
Mahomes and Tom Brady met on
a football field.
Brady came out ahead in those
two meetings, but Mahomes has
gotten the edge the past two times
they met.
Now as they are set to meet on
football’s biggest stage of the Su-
per Bowl, it’s time to look back at
those first four games when they
shared a field.
While their teams split those
contests, Mahomes has put up the
better numbers with his 109.2 pas-
ser rating and 11-3 touchdown to
interception ratio outpacing Bra-
dy’s 86 rating with six TDs and
five interceptions.
But the matchup features the
most accomplished quarterback
ever to play the game who is still
thriving at age 43 in Brady against
the young gun who is rewriting re-
cord books at age 25.
“Could you imagine if Michael
Jordan had gotten his team to the
(NBA) Finals when he was older
against a young LeBron James?”
CBS game analyst Tony Romo
said. “It would be the greatest
thing in the history of sports. ... I
think we actually might have that
game.”
Here’s a look at the past meet-
ings between Brady and Ma-
homes:
Chiefs 27, Bucs 24 at Tampa,
Nov. 29, 2020: Mahomes and
Tyreek Hill jumped all over Tam-
pa Bay early with TD passes of 75
and 44 yards in the first quarter.
Hill had seven catches for 203
yards in the first period, the third-
most yards in any quarter for a
player in the past 40 years. Ma-
homes added a 20-yard TD pass to
Hill in the third quarter to make it
a 17-point game. Mahomes threw
for 462 yards and three TDs, with
Hill leading the way with 13 catch-
es for 269 yards.
Chiefs 23, Patriots 16 at New
England, Dec. 8, 2019: Ma-
homes and the Chiefs clinched the
AFC West and snapped New En-
gland’s 21-game home winning
streak. Mahomes injured his hand
on the second drive of the game
yet finished with 283 yards pass-
ing and a TD.
Brady struggled, going 19 of 36
for 169 yards, a touchdown and in-
terception. Bashaud Breeland
sealed the win when he knocked
away Brady’s fourth-down pass
attempt to Julian Edelman in the
end zone with just over a minute to
play.
Patriots 37, Chiefs 31, OT, at
Kansas City, Jan. 20, 2019: The
only previous postseason meeting
between the star QBs was a clas-
sic, with Brady and the Patriots
coming out victorious in overtime
in the AFC title game to set up his
sixth championship.
“Overtime, on the road against a
great team,” Brady said. “They
had no quit. Neither did we. We
played our best football at the end.
I don’t know, man, I’m tired. That
was a hell of a game.”
Patriots 43, Chiefs 40, at New
England, Oct. 14, 2019: The first
meeting between Brady and Ma-
homes was a shootout, with Brady
staking the Patriots to a 24-9 half-
time lead.
Mahomes responded with four
TD passes in the second half and
gave the Chiefs the lead with a 75-
yarder to Tyreek Hill with 3:03 to
play.
Brady responded with a 65-yard
drive including a 16-yard pass to
James White and 39-yarder to
Gronkowski. That set up Stephen
Gostkowski’s winning field goal
on the final play that gave Brady
his record 200th victory as a start-
ing QB.
“It’s tough to slow those guys
down, they’ve been scoring a lot of
points all year,” Brady said.
“They’re gonna be pretty tough to
stop. Glad we had our last shot and
glad we took advantage of it.”
PHOTOS BY MATT LUDTKE, ABOVE, AND ED ZURGA, BELOW/AP
This season’s Super Bowl matchup between the Buccaneers and Chiefs features the most accomplishedquarterback to play the game in Tampa Bay’s 43yearold Tom Brady, top, against Kansas City’s younggun Patrick Mahomes, below, already rewriting record books at age 25. Brady and Mahomes are 22 incareer headtohead matchups.
Super Bowl QBs have historyBY JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
Brady, Mahomes are 2-2 in their previous matchups
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The Kansas City Chiefs had a pretty good idea what kind of
COVID-19 protocols they would have to wade through in
defense of their Super Bowl championship the moment
they finally gathered for in-person training camp.
One of their own helped to devise them.
It was Chiefs vice president of sports medicine and performance
Rick Burkholder who worked hand in hand with the NFL, physicians
and other trainers in developing
the testing, social distancing and
tracing parameters that would ul-
timately allow the league to play
its full 256-game regular-season
schedule. And it was Burkholder
who helped the Chiefs navigate
the season with few positive tests
and just one postponement — the
fault of the other team — as they
closed in on a Super Bowl repeat.
“I think in the spring and early summer, many of us had a lot of
uncertainty about how this was going to unfold,” Chiefs chairman
Clark Hunt said. “I don’t think we knew for sure you could play foot-
ball safely, that the virus would not be passed on the football field.
Those were things we just didn’t know, and it was a process to figure
out how to do this.”
Pushing through pandemic
/
Chiefs, Buccaneers ride (mostly) COVID-clear season to Super BowlBY DAVE SKRETTA
Associated Press
NFL
Top right: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady holdsthe George Halas Trophy after beating the Packers 3126 in theNFC Championship in Green Bay, Wis. on Jan. 24. Below: KansasCity Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, celebrates with theLamar Hunt Trophy after defeating the Buffalo Bills 3824 in theAFC Championship, Jan. 24, in Kansas City, Mo.
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