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‘Why are you yelling’: Women still
face a political double standard
Clinton at cusp of
history, but obstacles
remain on landscape

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Hillary Clinton is poised to
break historic ground Tuesday,
but the latest research shows that
she and other women still traverse a more difficult political
landscape than men when they
run for office — and that those
differences exacerbate some of
the most serious challenges she

faces about honesty and likability.
While more than 100 men have
been nominated for president by
the nation’s dominant political
parties over the past 220 years,
when the polls in New Jersey
close Tuesday night, Clinton is
expected to become the first
woman to clinch the nomination

of a major party for the nation’s
highest office.
“It’s the ultimate treehouse
with a ‘no-girls-allowed’ sign
posted on it, and it would be absolutely wonderful to have her
break into the treehouse and take
the sign down,” former Colorado
congresswoman Patricia Schroeder says of the White House.

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Clinton speaks at a campaign
rally in Balboa Park on Thursday in San Diego.

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Voters overwhelmingly
rejected a referendum Sunday
that would have made Switzerland the world’s first country to
guarantee a generous monthly income to all 8.1 million residents.
Nearly 77% of the voters opposed the measure that would
mandate the government pay
$2,600 a month to each adult —
regardless of work status or
wealth — and $650 to each child.
Only 23% favored the referendum.
“The results demonstrate that
voters are satisfied with the way

our economy functions and don’t
think it needs to be revolutionized,” said Alain Berset, head of
the Federal Department of Home
Affairs.
The prospect of an unconditional basic income is being discussed in various cities in the
Netherlands, Finland, Canada,
New Zealand and other nations.
But Switzerland is the first country to actually vote on a guaranteed income on the national level.
Backers of the referendum
claimed the money would offer all
adults an option of reducing their
working hours while maintaining
a decent standard of living.
The government warned that
the $200 billion a year needed to
fund the plan would lead to tax
hikes and cuts in public spending.

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A brush fire burned more than
500 acres near Los Angeles,
forcing thousands to evacuate
over the weekend. Aircraft
were used to drop water on the
fire in the upscale neighborhood of Calabasas where it

has threatened homes. Below,
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Even so, Schroeder, 75, says the
gender-based hurdles and stereotypes she faced in her own bid for
the Democratic nomination in
1988 now are “more subtle, but
it’s more of the same.”
For instance, a report this
spring by the Barbara Lee Family
Foundation found that voters are
willing to support a male candidate they don’t like if they think
he is qualified. But they are less
likely to support a female candidate they think is qualified unless
they also like her. “For women
candidates, likability is linked to
electability, and that’s not the

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Ali and I, two homeboys from Louisville
Jim Cheng



Like a lot of kids growing up
in the 1960s, I idolized Muhammad Ali.
Not just because he was
heavyweight champion of the
world. Or that he was The Greatest of All Time. He was from
Louisville, like me.
I was not yet 4 when 22-yearold Cassius Clay upset Sonny
Liston to win the heavyweight
title. But even then, I was aware
that the Champ and I shared a
hometown. In TV interviews after his fights, he always would
say hi to his mother, Odessa, and

“all my kin in Louisville.”
By the time I became fully
aware of his status as the most
famous man in the world, he had
changed his name, become a
lightning rod for the Vietnam
War, was vilified for his refusal
to serve on religious grounds,
stripped of his title and not allowed to box.
I read every word of every story in The Courier-Journal tracing his comebacks and victories,
from training camp in Deer
Lake, Pa., to “the Thrilla in Manila” and beyond.
Sometime around 1975, fresh
from his victory over George
Foreman in “The Rumble in the
Jungle,” Ali came home to
Louisville to promote a new boxing school that would bear his
name and to stage an exhibition
with sparring partner and former champion (and fellow Louisvillian) Jimmy Ellis.
His bravado was on full display, even in an exhibition. He
put on a show using his still-considerable skills, moving, dancing

JIM CHENG

Jim Cheng captured this photo of Muhammad Ali with his daughters, the bride Rasheda
(foreground) and her twin and maid of honor Jamillah, on June 8, 1997, in Chicago.
and jabbing. Of course he demonstrated the Ali Shuffle and the
“rope-a-dope” that helped him
reclaim the title.
The other memorable moment from that night may or

may not have been a stunt. At
one point, Ali went down to the
canvas. Was it a slip, or did the
Champ take one on the chin?
We’ll never know because despite a photo array and screaming headlines in the next day’s
paper, Ali played it off as part of
the show, falling down in dramatic fashion several more
times in a matter of minutes.
Flash forward some two decades. In June 1997, I’m in Chicago, walking down my street

I shook his hand
and immediately
felt like a little
boy again. I
managed to blurt
out “You’ve been
my hero my
whole life, and
I’m from
Louisville…”

when I see a wedding party taking pictures on a patio just off
the street. The man in the morning coat is the Champ himself,
Muhammad Ali. His daughter,
Rasheda, was getting married,
with her twin, Jamillah, as her
maid of honor.
For a few precious minutes, I
was the only one watching. By
the time I came to my senses

and ran the block and a half to
my apartment to grab my camera and come back, a crowd had
gathered on this small section of
Dearborn Street.
I still was able to go up to the
wrought iron fence and shoot
some photos. Between wedding
photos, Ali would leave the

group and come over. Cars were
stopped in the middle of the
street and fans were crowding
the sidewalk as they recognized
the man in the formal wear,
shadowboxing and clowning
around. “Ain’t he ugly?” Ali
joked in a barely audible rasp
while boxing with a man in a
morning coat.
After screwing up my courage,
I shook his hand and immediately felt like a little boy again. I
managed to blurt out “You’ve
been my hero my whole life, and
I’m from Louisville …” The
Champ whose Parkinson’s made
him nearly silent by choice,
didn’t respond verbally. But I
saw his eyes light up.
A minute later, a member of
the wedding party, smiling behind his shades, said: “So you

and the Champ are homeboys,
huh?”
“I guess we are,” I said
proudly.
A year or so later, as an editor
for USA TODAY in the Washington, D.C., area, I was invited to a
book-signing event for Powerful
Prayers, a collection of Larry
King’s conversations on faith
with celebrities including Ali.
I had brought along photos
from the wedding in case I got to
meet the Champ again. I introduced myself to his wife, Lonnie,
who accepted my photos “to give
to the girls.”
She also brought her husband
over to see me. I don’t recall that
we had a conversation, but he
looked at a photo I took of him
and signed “Muhammad Ali” in
block letters at the bottom.
Now, Ali, who died Friday at
74, is forever silent. But he will
always be The Greatest. And we
will always be homeboys from
Louisville.

Jim Cheng is a copy editor at the
Gannett Design Studio in Louisville.

Women get edge
in trustworthiness
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case for men,” says Adrienne
Kimmell, executive director of
the non-partisan institute.
Voters view Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee
Donald Trump unfavorably by
record levels — 54% for her and
61% for him in the latest USA
TODAY/Suffolk University Poll —
but the study indicates that she is
more likely to lose votes as a result than he is.
In a study at Macalester College in St. Paul this year, an analysis of media coverage of Clinton,
Democratic rival Bernie Sanders
and Republican Ted Cruz came to
a similar conclusion. “Although

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Ted Cruz was often tagged for being not very likable, it didn’t seem
to be as much as a detriment to
him as it was for Hillary Clinton,”
says political science professor
Julie Dolan, the lead author of
the 2016 edition of Women and
Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence. “Clinton received
more personal coverage than did
Cruz, despite already being a
much better known political figure, and her coverage was much
more negative than his.”
When it comes to honesty and
trustworthiness, Americans automatically give an edge to women.
In a Pew Research Center Poll released in January, 31% said women were better at being honest
and ethical; just 3% said men
were better. But studies show
that women pay a higher price
than men when they aren’t seen
as honest, and have a harder time
regaining trust if they lose it.
That’s true in fields other than
politics. A not-yet-published
study by Wharton professor Mary-Hunter McDonnell and others
into disciplinary punishments
imposed by the American Bar Association, first reported by NPR,
found that female lawyers were
twice as likely as male lawyers to

be disbarred when accused of virtually identical infractions.
For Clinton, perceptions that
she can’t be trusted, stoked by ongoing investigations into her exclusive use of a private email
server when she was secretary of
State, are seen as one of her biggest liabilities in the campaign.
Nearly two-thirds of likely voters
in a CBS News/New York Times
poll last month said Clinton
wasn’t honest or trustworthy —
though those are the same dismal
ratings Trump received.
Now Trump routinely derides
Clinton as “Crooked Hillary.”
“When women are pushed off
of or fall off their honesty-andethical pedestal, it is very, very
hard for them to climb back up,
and that isn’t the case for men,”
Kimmell says. Male candidates
face lower expectations they will
be honest, and voters are quicker
to forgive them when they aren’t.
“You know that former governor of South Carolina who’s now
a member of Congress?” she asks,
a reference to Mark Sanford.
While governor, he was censured
by the South Carolina General
Assembly for personal misbehavior, then won a House election

JUSTIN SULLIVAN, GETTY IMAGES

Supporters cheer candidate Hillary Clinton during a Saturday rally in Fresno, Calif.
four years later. “If ‘he’ were a
‘she,’ that couldn’t happen.”
‘A SEA CHANGE’

To be sure, some barriers for
female candidates have been lowered. In a 2013 book He Runs, She
Runs, Dartmouth professor Deborah Jordan Brooks argues that
gender stereotypes don’t hurt
female candidates, especially as
more women seek and win office.
“When I started out in 1972, it
was practically impossible,” recalls California Sen. Barbara Boxer, retiring this year after four
terms in the Senate and five in
the House. “I lost a local county
supervisor race because people

“It’s the ultimate
treehouse
with a ‘no-girlsallowed’ sign
posted on it.”
Patricia Schroeder,
former Colorado congresswoman,
on Hillary Clinton’s run for
the White House.

wrote that I was abandoning my
children.” Her memoir, The Art of
Tough, was published last week
by Hachette. “There’s been a sea

change,” Boxer said. “But are
there still challenges; are there
still prejudices? Absolutely.”
In an interview with USA TODAY two years ago about her
memoir, Hard Choices, Clinton
predicted that a woman running
for president in 2016 would encounter a friendlier landscape
than she did in her 2008 bid. “It
feels different,” she said. “It feels
like our country, our society —

we’ve gone through a learning
process.” While there would be
“vestiges” of sexism, “I do believe
it would not be as reflexive. It
would not be as acceptable.”
Clinton starts out having surmounted some of the hurdles
female candidates typically encounter. “She’s not your typical
woman candidate in the sense
that the No. 1 thing most women
have to do running for executive
office is prove that they’re qualified, prove that they’re competent, and that is not something
that Hillary Clinton has had to
do,” says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who has studied gender politics.
Clinton’s four-year tenure
heading the State Department
also has an impact, she says. “Traditionally women have more
credibility on domestic issues
than foreign policy, and of course
she is perceived to be extremely

experienced on foreign policy.”
Still, Clinton faces the same dilemma as other female candidates in trying to come across as
decisive and impassioned without
being accused of being shrill.
Debbie Walsh, director for the
Center for American Women and
Politics at Rutgers University,
says commentary on Clinton’s demeanor on cable news shows and
Twitter proves the persistence of
bias. “I mean, the conversation
about ... ‘why don’t you smile’ and
‘why are you yelling at me?’ ” she
says. “The campaign is filled on
both sides with men doing a lot of
yelling, and that doesn’t seem to
get called out in the same way.”
After Trump accused Clinton
of playing “the woman card,” he
was asked on MSNBC’s Morning

Joe to address her response to
“deal me in” when it comes to issues such as equal pay and paid
family leave. He countered by
discussing not what she said but
how she said it. “I haven’t quite
recovered ... from her shouting
that message,” Trump replied.
Lake once did an experiment
with a pair of radio ads that contained the same content but had
a male voice on one version and a

female voice on another. While
the decibel levels were identical,
listeners rated the woman’s voice
as being significantly louder. “A
man is assertive where a woman
is aggressive,” Boxer says with an
edge of sarcasm.
STILL, SOME RESERVATIONS

Some voters continue to express
doubts about a woman as president. In a recent NBC News/Wall
Street Journal poll, one in five of
those surveyed said they were
“very uncomfortable” or had
“some reservations” about Clinton as the first female president.
(Trump faces challenges as
well: 6 in 10 said they were “very
uncomfortable” or had “some
reservations” about him serving
as president without having had
experience in the government or
serving in the military.)
In the survey, nearly one in five
said they were “comfortable”
with a woman as president, and
more than 1 in 5 said they were
“enthusiastic” about it. .
At a rally Friday, Clinton reprised language she used eight
years earlier, when she concededto Barack Obama. “Starting next
Tuesday,” she said, “we’re on our

way to breaking the highest and
hardest glass ceiling.”


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Ventura County firefighters examine burned hillsides in Calabasas, Calif., on Sunday. About 5,000 people were evacuated and local roads were closed.

Vehicle accident sparks blaze that has burned more than 500 acres, damaged houses
Wendy Leung

Ventura County (Calif.) Star

and Thomas Frank
USA TODAY

The thousands of residents
evacuated by the brush fire in a

residential area near Los Angeles
were allowed to return home
Sunday evening as crews reached
nearly full containment, fire department officials said.
The fire was 80% contained by
Sunday afternoon, according to
the Los Angeles County Fire
Department.

The fire, which burned about
515 acres, had threatened houses
in the hilly, affluent suburbs
northwest of Los Angeles.
The fire destroyed one commercial building, damaged two
homes and forced the closing of
some local roads.
Officials lifted all evacuation
orders for residents of Calabasas,
a city of about 23,000 in western
Los Angeles County, and Old
Topanga, although as many
683 residents may find their
homes without power, according to Southern California Edison.

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Fighting the blaze near the Los
Angeles and Ventura county lines

had not been easy.
“It’s an area with rugged topography. That’s our biggest concern,” said inspector Joey
Marron of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Temperatures near 100 degrees and overgrown brush fed
the flames that began at around
4 p.m. Saturday when a vehicle
hit a utility pole and knocked
down electrical lines.
About 400 firefighters were
fighting the blaze Sunday morning, Los Angeles County Deputy

Fire Chief John Tripp said. “The
fire is halfway up a mountain,” he
said.
Three firefighters were injured
fighting the blaze, but Marron
described the injuries as minor.
Fire crews from across the
area fought the blaze, using water-dropping aircraft that siphoned water from Lake
Calabasas.
Crews were expected to continue extinguishing embers in
hard-to-hike areas to reach full
containment, said Andy Olvera
an investigator with the department.

WWII vet revisits D-Day

IN BRIEF
RAMADAN BEGINS

French city treats
Wis. man as hero for
his paratrooper role
Meg Jones

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Muslim women perform an evening prayer called Tarawih, the
night before the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at
Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday.
TROPICAL STORM FORECAST
FOR FLORIDA’S GULF COAST

Tropical Storm Colin took aim
on Florida late Sunday, bringing
with it waves of rain, strong
winds, flooding and even the
threat of tornadoes as the National Weather Service issued a
round of flood watches and storm
warnings.
The National Hurricane Center said Colin had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and had
gained strength over the warm
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The
north-northeast system was expected to push its way just north
of Tampa by Monday, impacting
the state as far as the Big Bend

area before churning its way on
the other side to the Atlantic
Ocean by Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Colin, the third
named storm of the 2016 hurricane season, is also the earliest
third tropical storm of a season
on record.
— J.D. Gallop, Florida Today
IRAQI FORCES ADVANCE
TOWARD FALLUJAH

Iraqi forces supported by U.S.
airstrikes advanced Sunday toward Fallujah and pressed to retake the key western city from
the Islamic State, which has controlled it for nearly two years.
An Iraqi military commander,
Lt. Gen. Abdel Wahab al-Saadi,
said his forces have secured a

largely agricultural neighborhood
on the southern edge of the city,
the Associated Press reported. He
said Iraqi special forces are
poised to enter the main city, two
weeks after the offensive began.
The slow-moving Iraqi operation is hampered by tens of thousands of civilians still trapped in
the city, plus bombs and booby
traps set by the Islamic State.
— Thomas Frank
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the Associated Press reported.
The 60-year-old woman was diving at a popular dive spot in the
northern Perth suburb of Mindarie when the shark attacked,
Western Australia state Police Inspector Danny Mulligan said.

The
first thing Ralph Ticcioni noticed
was the faces of the paratroopers.
Sitting in two rows on the floor
of the C-47, the men clad in
World War II replica uniforms
looked up at Ticcioni, an original
paratrooper.
Seventy-two years ago Ticcioni
had looked at the soldiers sitting

across from him, who all wore on
their shoulders the double-A,
red-and-blue patch of the 82nd
Airborne, as they flew across the
English Channel on a C-47 on the
journey to Normandy. Their eyes
betrayed their anxiety as flak exploded around them, fear of the
unknown etched on their faces.
Not so this weekend in the
same skies over Ste. Mère-Église
as members of the Round Canopy
Parachute Team jumped out of
two C-47s painted in the D-Day
invasion markings to re-create, in
a small way, the June 6, 1944, assault on Normandy.
“Looking at the expressions on
their faces, they’re so calm,” said
Ticcioni, who was invited to fly
with the team and watch them
jump. Sitting on the floor next to
Ticcioni’s seat, Peder Ek smiled
and looked up at the D-Day veteran.“I can’t even tell you how excited I am to meet you,” said Ek, a
Swede. “It’s an honor.”
There was something Ek wanted to know — “you must have
been terrified?”
Ticcioni nodded. Yes, he was.
The 93-year-old New Berlin,
Wis., man survived the war,
though some of his buddies died in
combat and others were wounded.

He didn’t return to France until
last week, when the citizens of Ste.
Mère-Église, the village near
where Ticcioni landed as part of
the D-Day invasion, arranged for
him to come and participate in a
week-long commemoration. He
has been treated as a hero.
One day before the anniversary
of the invasion, Ticcioni spent
Sunday near La Fiere Bridge near
Ste. Mère-Église watching hun-

MEG JONES, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

Dozens of parachutists in World War II paratrooper replica
uniforms and gear fill the skies near Ste. Mère-Église, France,
on Sunday, one day before the 72nd anniversary of the start of
the D-Day invasion.

“Three hundred
and sixty
paratroopers
saved our lives. If
the Germans had
succeeded I
wouldn’t be here.”
Maurice Renaud, the son of
Ste. Mère-Église’s mayor during the
D-Day invasion

dreds of parachutists land in farm
fields in a re-creation of the 82nd
and 101st Airborne landings.
“Three hundred and sixty
paratroopers saved our lives,”
said Maurice Renaud, the son of
Ste. Mère-Église’s mayor during
the D-Day invasion. “If the Germans had succeeded I wouldn’t
be here today. They would have
burned down the town, which
they did in other places. And my
father being the mayor would
have been the first to die.”
On Sunday, Ticcioni received
the French Legion of Honor medal in a solemn ceremony along
with two other recipients — Gen.

Dwight Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan and four-star
Gen. John Nicholson. Ticcioni
didn’t know he was receiving the
prestigious honor until his name
was called. “I’m overwhelmed.
Completely surprised. I had no
idea,” Ticcioni said.
Ticcioni is a humble man who
speaks quietly about his World
War II experiences.
He recounted what it was like
to stand up in a plane while loaded down with gear, checking the

static line of the man in front of
him while the man behind him
checked his. Then seeing the light
inside the C-47 change to green
and stepping into the void as the
static line yanked open his
parachute.
Ticcioni watched the World
War II re-enactors in the C-47 do
the same thing, though without
the flak or grenades stuffed in
pockets.
“Boy, is this something,” Ticcioni said, after the parachutists
jumped out at 1,200 feet and the
C-47 turned back to an airport
near Cherbourg. “It brings back
memories.”


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ALABAMA Tuskegee: Three

veterinarians who graduated
from the Tuskegee University

School of Veterinary Medicine
are on Animal Planet’s new series
The Vet Life the Opelika-Auburn
News reported. The eight-episode
season stars doctors Diarra Blue,
Aubrey Ross and Michael Lavigne.

ALASKA Bethel: Only qualified

subsistence users will be able to
harvest chum and king salmon
from the Kuskokwim River,
KYUK-AM reported. The Federal
Subsistence Board closed federal
waters from Aniak to the mouth
of the Kuskokwim to all gillnets
under a state action, effective
June 1.

ARIZONA Casa Grande: The

Casa Grande Dispatch reported
that Danrick Builders plans to
build a 2,360-acre recreational
motorsports park near here.

ARKANSAS Jonesboro: A his-

toric building at Arkansas State
University here was rededicated

for use as a second site of the
New York Institute of Technology
College of Osteopathic Medicine,
the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
reported.

CALIFORNIA Long Beach:

Three more people have pleaded
guilty to bilking the government
of nearly $600 million in a billing
scheme involving Pacific Hospital
here, authorities said.

COLORADO Aspen: A former

sled dog was rescued after going
missing from a Snowmass Village
business for 10 days in the woods,
the Aspen Times reported.

CONNECTICUT Shelton: Shelton

High will award posthumous
honorary diplomas to Eddy Conklin and Kristjan Ndoj, the New
Haven Register reported. Conklin
died in a car accident in February.
Ndoj was fatally shot in a friend’s
driveway in March 2014.

DELAWARE Dover: An anony-

mous Facebook tip helped state
police identify a man and charge
him with repeatedly stealing
items from vehicles, authorities
said.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: As a

massive subway rebuilding project got underway, Metro Chief
Paul Wiedefeld urged commuters
to find alternative routes, The
Washington Post reported.

HIGHLIGHT: MICHIGAN

State hails its ale, 150 years and counting
Frank Witsil

Detroit Free Press

Christine Kole keeps a 2-liter
bottle of Vernors in the pantry
to settle her stomach whenever
it aches.
“It’s got a little spicy kick to
it,” said the 63-year-old Ferndale resident, who grew up
drinking the ginger ale first
made in Detroit. “You taste the

ginger in it, and it always makes
me sneeze when I first drink it.
It bubbles. That immediately
hits my nose.”
Vernors — which was originally Vernor’s, before the apostrophe was dropped decades
ago — is among the oldest continuously made soft drinks in
America. This week, it celebrates its 150th anniversary.
For many Vernors drinkers,
it’s a nostalgic celebration. Generations of Michiganders, like
Kole, grew up with the effervescent, caramel-colored elixir as a
beverage of choice, a special
treat on special occasions and
also as a general cure for whatever ailed them.
A few years ago on network
television, singer Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, was
making a recipe that required
Vernors and called the ginger
ale a “Detroit treasure.”
Vernors is no longer made in
Detroit, and the business has
suburb of Fishers, taking 200
jobs with it, The Star Press
reported.
IOWA Sioux City: The Hard
Rock Hotel & Casino is seeking
approval for a $5 million, nearly
8,000-square-foot addition to its
downtown casino, the Sioux City
Journal reported.
KANSAS Topeka: Republican

Gov. Brownback said that the
state is drought-free for the first
time in more than five years.
KENTUCKY Louisville: A new
Change.org online petition calls
for replacing a controversial
Confederate monument near the
University of Louisville with a
statue of Louisville-born boxing
legend Muhammad Ali, who died
Friday, The Courier-Journal reported.
LOUISIANA Shreveport: Residents of a local apartment complex were told they have less than
30 days to get out. The Times
reported that the financial institution that took ownership of
Chimney Hill apartment complex
says the buildings are structurally
unsafe.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Local
officials said the city’s outdoor
pool is scheduled to open for the
season on Monday.
MARY SCHROEDER, DETROIT FREE PRESS

Generations of Michiganders grew up with Vernors. This
week it celebrates its 150th anniversary.
changed hands many times. But
the drink has endured.
“Vernors is so unique,” said
Joel Stone, 60, the senior curator of the Detroit Historical Society. The historical museum

even has a small collection of
Vernors artifacts. “Putting it in
romantic terms, Vernors ties
back to good things people remember about their childhood.
Times were simpler then. If
you were a good boy on a hot
summer Saturday and you got
the grass cut, you got to have a
cold Vernors.”

NEW MEXICO Bernalillo: Two

MINNESOTA Duluth: Lake Su-

announced it will eliminate 48
jobs and close its Supplies Distribution Center here as part of
restructuring efforts first announced late last year, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.

perior College will offer free
tuition grants to Minnesota high
school seniors who enroll in
certain programs this fall, the
Duluth News Tribune reported.
To qualify, students must also
select one of LSC’s 84 qualifying
programs, maintain a 2.5 GPA
and participate in a mentoring
program.

public schools statewide will be

serving free weekday meals to
children this summer through
the Department of Education’s
summer food service program,
the Honolulu Star-Advertiser
reported.

IDAHO Caldwell: A reward of up

to $5,000 is being offered for
information leading to the arrest
and conviction of those responsible for poisoning dogs here. The
Humane Society of the United
States announced the offer after
reports that 14 stock and guard
dogs have been poisoned with 12
dying.

ILLINOIS Wheaton: Forest pre-

serve officials are asking drivers
to keep an eye out for turtles on
area roadways. The Daily Herald
reported that it’s nesting season.
That means more turtles are
crossing roads.

INDIANA Muncie: By year’s end,

glassmaker Ardagh Group will

close its Muncie headquarters
and relocate to the Indianapolis

MARYLAND Bloodsworth
Island: Nearly two dozen
adults and schoolchildren were
rescued and treated at an area
hospital after their boat sank
near Bloodsworth Island, The
Daily Times reported. Investigators were still piecing together
how the 40-foot vessel ended up
in an area banned from boat
traffic.
MASSACHUSETTS Springfield:

A 23-year-old man denied accusations that he committed two
bank robberies in a span of just
90 minutes earlier this week in
Springfield, The Republican reported.
MICHIGAN Sault Ste. Marie:

An 850-foot freighter has been
freed after being grounded on a
reef for a week in Whitefish Bay
off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
MLive.com reported. The Roger

NEW YORK Webster: Xerox has

TEXAS Austin: Thirty-one counties, including Austin, have been

declared a state of disaster by
Gov. Abbott because of the recent
flooding, Khou.com reported.
UTAH Springville: The Daily
Herald reported that Strap Tank
Brewing Co. will be the only
microbrewery in Utah County —
an area predominantly filled with
observant Mormons who do not
drink.
VERMONT Burlington: Josh
Blow, 28, pleaded no contest to
involuntary manslaughter in the
July 2014 death of Aiden Haskins,
2, who died from blunt force
trauma to the head and neck,
Burlington Free Press reported.
Blow was the live-in boyfriend of
Aiden’s mother, Ashley Stewart,
when the toddler died.

tal Tire will bring a $1.45 billion
investment to the area over 20
years, and add 2,500 jobs to the
local economy, the Magnolia
Gazette reported. The 915-acre
site will sit between Clinton and
Bolton.

MISSOURI Kansas City: Police

are investigating after two people
were found shot to death in a
car. The Kansas City Star reported that police found more than
20 shell casings near the vehicle.

MONTANA Butte: State and

NEBRASKA Crete: State Sen.

HAWAII Honolulu: Sixty-eight

people were killed in a head-on
collision on Interstate 25 in what
New Mexico State Police say was
a wrong-way accident.

TENNESSEE Smyrna: The body
of Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss, an elite
fighter jet pilot killed in a crash
here Thursday, was flown home
Saturday, The Tennessean reported. Onlookers braved rain, some
carrying American flags, others
wiping away tears, as a police
procession guided a white hearse
from Murfreesboro to Smyrna
Airport, which is just southeast of
Nashville.

MISSISSIPPI Clinton: Continen-

GEORGIA Warner Robins: A

MAINE Portland: Officials say
The Cat, a new ferry contracted
to transport passengers from
Portland to Nova Scotia, has
finished its sea trials in South
Carolina and is headed to Maine,
the Portland Press Herald reported. Ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
is scheduled to resume on
June 15.

To commemorate the anniversary, restaurants also plan to
serve specials made with Vernors. Among the public events:
the Detroit Historical Museum
is setting up a special exhibit
that opens Tuesday; an anniversary party is Saturday.
Kole remembers getting the
pop from her mom, now 91, as a
treat when she was a girl. She
says it was the one concoction
she could count on when she
was pregnant with each of her
three children. “It’s very comforting,” Kole said.

Blough was floated off Gros Cap
Reef Saturday morning. The
freighter ran aground May 27.
Food, water and other supplies

were taken by tugboat to the crew
earlier this week.

Negotiations that NASA announced could lead to launches
of a new Orbital ATK commercial
rocket from Kennedy Space Center as soon as 2019, Florida Today
reported.
Robins Air Force Base airman
was found not guilty of felony
murder and aggravated arson in
the death of a friend as part of
what authorities said was an
insurance fraud scheme, The
Telegraph reported.

RHODE ISLAND Providence:
The Rhode Island Department of
Environmental Management
warned homeowners statewide
that caterpillars may cause shortterm defoliation of trees over the
next few weeks.
SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston:
The Justice Department’s Office
for Victims of Crime is providing
a $3.6 million grant to help victims of the Emanuel AME
Church shooting, The Post and
Courier reported. The grant will
provide funds for costs relating to
medical care, funeral services,
mental health counseling and lost

wages.

federal officials reached a tentative agreement on the removal of
more contaminated mine waste
around Butte. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to finalize the agreement by
the end of the year, the Montana
Standard reported.

FLORIDA Cape Canaveral:

and took it to the Aquatic Gardens here.

Laura Ebke has switched her
affiliation from Republican to
Libertarian, the Omaha WorldHerald reported. “I got frustrated
with some of my colleagues who
don’t recognize civil liberties and
don’t seem to agree with getting
government out of people’s business,” she said.

NEVADA North Las Vegas: One

of three College of Southern
Nevada campuses is poised to add
North Las Vegas to its name,
school administrators said.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

In-state tuition at all seven state

community colleges will remain
at a five-year low of $200 per
credit hour, or about $6,000 per
year. The state universities will
raise tuition for the second
straight year, the Concord Monitor reported.

NEW JERSEY Freehold Town-

ship: As many as 20 people were
treated for injuries suffered at a
Dolan Twins show at the iPlay
America Event Center, the Asbury Park Press reported. At least
five were taken to Jersey Shore
University Medical Center in
Neptune after suffering heatrelated health issues. The Dolan
Twins, Grayson and Ethan Dolan,
are 16-year-old brothers who
have become a YouTube sensation.

NORTH CAROLINA Buxton:

Officials with Cape Hatteras
National Seashore say recent
record-breaking rain on Hatteras
Island has impacted beach ramps,
campgrounds and roads. The
campground’s online reservation
system for Cape Point has been
paused for a week.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: The

Head Start program here was
forced to cut staff and reduce the
number of students it can enroll
this fall, The Minot Daily News
reported. Director Karen
Knowles says budget woes in part
because of rising health insurance costs are to blame.

OHIO Lorain: Shedding light on

the life of a lost loved one and
providing comfort to those in
mourning has become the specialty of Joseph Conley, 54, who
has written and delivered 159
eulogies since 1986, The Morning
Journal reported.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Months

after a March 30 tornado hit an
impoverished stretch of the city,
workers have made at least three
sweeps through the area to haul
away debris, but the neighborhood is still dotted with piles of
broken limbs, the Tulsa World
reported.

OREGON Salem: The Oregon

Humane Society recovered more
than a dozen pets from an RV at
Silver Falls State Park, authorities
said. The owner of the pets
agreed to relinquish them and
has not been charged with a
crime.

PENNSYLVANIA Beaver: The

Beaver County Times reported
that Patricia Russell discovered a
carpet python snake wrapped
around the roof of her vehicle in
WesBanco’s parking lot. Police
were called to capture the snake

VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: The
Virginian-Pilot reported that
Rodney Hahn, 55, broke the
world record for most pullups
done in 24 hours. He did 6,844
pullups and raised more than
$7,800 for the Navy SEAL Foundation, a non-profit that supports
SEALs and their families.
WASHINGTON Stevenson: The
Skamania County Sheriff’s Office
says a climber on Mount St. Helens had to be rescued after he slid

100 yards down the mountain
and fractured his ankle.
WEST VIRGINIA Bramwell: The
Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported that an exhibit “Outside the
Mine: Daily Life in a Coal Company Camp” opened at the Bramwell Train Depot. National Coal
Heritage Area spokesman Richard Bullins says the exhibit features artifacts and photographs
that show the lives of miners and
their families in coal towns.
WISCONSIN Mount Pleasant:
Rising water levels are eating
away at the Lake Michigan shoreline, with conditions most severe
this spring in a neighborhood of
Racine County where homes are
in danger of toppling into the
lake, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
reported.
WYOMING Riverton: The National Weather Service says
creeks and streams in much of
central Wyoming will be on the
rise. The Little Wind River near
here is expected to peak near
flood stage by Wednesday.
Compiled by Tim Wendel, with Carolyn
Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer,
Ben Sheffler, Mike B. Smith, Nichelle
Smith and Matt Young. Design by
Mallory Redinger. Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.


NEWS 5A

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

Obama
Congress faces tests, ticking clock
are piling up,
set to hit Bills
time is running out,
and election looms
the trail in
a big way
Donovan Slack

@donovanslack
USA TODAY

David Jackson
@djusatoday
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON An already unusual election is developing another
unique feature: an outgoing
president who is busy on the
campaign trail.
Little more than seven months
before the end of his administration, President Obama is poised
to become the most active lame
duck campaigner in history, offering a new twist on an often awkward role: a White House
occupant watching the election of

a successor.
“They usually wait to pretty
much close to the end, when it
really starts to heat up,” said Stephen Hess, a former aide to presidents Dwight Eisenhower and
Richard Nixon. “This man is in it
very early, which means he will
be in it very long.”
Obama has served notice he is
willing to work hard to elect a
Democratic successor — most
likely Hillary Clinton — and defend his own legacy, currently
under assault by Republican
nominee-in-waiting
Donald
Trump.
Trump’s attacks may well inspire toward “a record-breaking
amount of intensity, energy and
time invested on the campaign
trail.” said historian Gil Troy.
In the past, lame duck presidents have been inhibited from
campaigning too much, either because of low approval ratings or
friction with their party’s
nominees.
Obama has already made his
presence felt, frequently criticizing Trump as temperamentally
unfit for the presidency.
Trump, meanwhile, says that if
Obama campaigns again, he is
only too happy to return the favor: “Once they attack, then we’re
allowed.”

WASHINGTON Congress returns
from its Memorial Day recess this
week to a crucial test of its
leadership.
Republican leaders in both
chambers have set a goal of passing government spending bills individually and on time for the
first time since 1994 to demonstrate that they can make Congress work.
But Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and
House Speaker Paul Ryan, RWis., face many obstacles and
have precious little time to do
that with only roughly 40 days
left in session between now and
Sept. 30, when the current funding for the government runs out.
And tied up in the spending
battle is emergency funding to
fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus as temperatures rise and
mosquito populations flourish.
“The enemy of this Congress is
the calendar,” said Jim Dyer, who
worked as an aide in the George
H.W. Bush and Reagan White
Houses and for the House Appropriations Committee for 10 years.
“And if you take the calendar,
and then you add to it the election — where every movement
and every decision has electoral
implications — and then you add
into that toxic mix the notion
that some of these people may or

may not like each other ... and you
get an institution that’s really
kind of limping along.”
So far, only one of the 12
spending measures has passed
both chambers, legislation funding military construction and veterans affairs programs. But the
Senate and House passed different versions of that bill.
Right now, the versions are far
apart on Zika, with the Senate
passing $1.1 billion for the effort
and the House approving only
$622 million and redirecting
money for it from other programs.
Other bills pose problems.
In an unexpected implosion

L JIM LO SCALZO, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have only 40 days left in session before federal funding runs out.
two weeks ago, the House voted use bathrooms assigned to their from Obama’s directive, which
down a spending measure fund- birth gender.
the House also passed.
ing energy and water
Another from Florida
The energy bill failed, 112-305,
programs, which had
Republican Rep. Ron with 130 Republicans joining 175
been seen as one of the
DeSantis would have Democrats in voting it down.
least controversial. The

stopped the administra“You have Republicans proposdefeat left Ryan saying
tion from buying heavy ing conservative social amendhe would conduct “famwater from Iran, poten- ments, and now you have
ily discussions” to detertially undercutting the Democrats proposing progressive
mine how to proceed.
landmark nuclear deal social amendments, so you’re losAfter he accepted the
with that country and ing votes on both sides,” said Kengavel last fall, Ryan
inviting a veto by the neth Gold, director of the
promised to give rankWhite House. As part of Government Affairs Institute at
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the deal, Iran agreed to Georgetown University.
say in legislating, includsell off its excess heavy
He said that if Ryan can’t get
ing allowing lawmakers
water, a non-radioactive the spending measures through,
to offer more amendcomponent used in a it would be “very much a failure”
ments. But allowing lawtype of nuclear reactor for his 7-month-old speakership.
makers from both sides
that can also be used to
Ryan spokeswoman AshLee
of the aisle to file any
make
weapons-grade Strong said, “Family discussions
amendment they want
plutonium.
continue about the path forward
after bills hit the floor is
The House adopted on spending bills.”
what helped derail the
an amendment from

In the Senate, McConnell must
energy legislation and
New York Democratic protect his Republican majority
could sink any bills Ryan
Rep. Sean Patrick Malo- by trying to ensure senators are
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wants to get through.
ney upholding President not forced to take votes that
McConnell
The riders added to
Obama’s executive order could damage their re-election
the energy measure included an prohibiting federal contractors bids, Gold said.
amendment from North Carolina from discriminating on the basis
“People outside the Beltway
Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger of gender identity or sexual ori- don’t understand ‘OK, we got it
barring the Obama administra- entation. Republican Rep. Brad- passed in one chamber — we got
tion from restricting funding to ley Byrne of Alabama then it passed but the House didn’t,’ ”
his state over its controversial law introduced an amendment that Gold said. “The fact is they didn’t
requiring transgender people to would exempt religious groups pass the bills.”

#WITHOUTNEWS
NPR photographer
killed in Afghanistan
Afghan translator also died in attack
Daniel Bethencourt
Detroit Free Press

DETROIT David P. Gilkey, a former Detroit Free Press photographer and video editor who built a
career out of finding the human
side in dire conflicts, was killed

while on assignment for NPR in
Afghanistan on Sunday, NPR
news reported.
Gilkey was traveling with an
Afghan army unit when the convoy came under fire and his
vehicle was struck, NPR spokeswoman Isabel Lara said in a statement. An Afghan translator,
Zabihullah Tamanna, also was
killed. Two other NPR journalists
traveling with them were
unharmed.
“I cannot think of a better person to face danger with than Gilkey,” said former Free Press
reporter Joe Swickard, who traveled to Fallujah, Iraq, with Gilkey
in 2006. “He was at home on a
battlefield under fire, in military
situations. He kept his cool, and
never lost his artist’s eye.”
During his 11 years at the Free
Press, Gilkey became the “driving
force” behind a video series that
won the newspaper its first Emmy: Michigan Marines: Band of

Brothers, Swickard said. As a key
part of that series Gilkey and
Swickard followed the largest
unit of Marines from Michigan
and chronicled their daily lives in
Fallujah.
The project covered the soldiers’ daily routines, their cooking, living conditions, their
patrols and combat and their funerals. Gilkey stood out for his
ability to bond with his subjects.

That assignment was not without its own intense perils. While
following the Marines on patrol,
Swickard remembers sitting one
humvee behind Gilkey when a
rocket lifted Gilkey’s humvee into
the air, as it burst into flames.
Yet Gilkey emerged, “cleared
his head and started shooting
video,” Swickard said. “His dedication to getting the story was
extraordinary.”
In his work for NPR, Gilkey
traveled to conflicts across the
world, including numerous trips
to Iraq and Afghanistan. His work
has been recognized with numerous awards, including the prestigious George Polk Award. The
White House Photographers Association named Gilkey Still Photographer of the Year in 2011.
Contributing: The Associated Press

MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS, AP

David Gilkey,
a veteran
news photographer and
video editor
for NPR, at
Kandahar
Airfield. Gilkey and
translator
Zabihullah
Tamanna

were killed
Sunday while
on assignment in
southern
Afghanistan.

“His
dedication
to getting
the story
was extraordinary.”
Joe Swickard,
former Free Press
reporter who
traveled to
Fallujah, Iraq, with
Gilkey in 2006

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journalists who died reporting the news in 2015. Join us in raising
awareness of the threats journalists face around the world.
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YOUR SAY

Tracking the nation’s conversation

MUHAMMAD ALI

TOON TALK

He was a champion
in, outside the ring
LETTERS


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A BOXING CHAMP
Muhammad Ali’s fighting
record:

My friend and I had
arrived late at the thea-

ter in downtown Los Angeles to
see the rematch fight between

Muhammad Ali and Sonny
Liston. The crowd in the big
theater was pushy. Finally, we
got a seat as the fight was just
starting. I took off my coat, and
as I turned to put it on my seat,
I heard the crowd roar. I looked
around just in time to see Liston being counted out. There
were those who felt Liston
threw the fight. The thought
that stuck with me was that I
had just seen a true champion.
The years that followed proved
it to be true.
Out of all of his fights, he
proved his character the most
in his battle with Parkinson’s
disease. He never lost his zest
for life. A real champion of a
category we are not likely to see
again for a very long time.

Rest in peace Muhammad
Ali. My condolences to your
family and friends on their loss.
My mother died the same way.
Once you get sepsis, it’s an imminent death sentence.

Wins by KO

37
Wins

Kathy Welch

56

He was a man who “legitimized” the trash talking, flexing,
preening, screaming, narcissistic
style of athletes’ personal conduct that we suffer today.

Losses

5

George Gagner

Total fights

61
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@USATOPINION
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share how Muhammad Ali
impacted their lives.

is baffling to a civilized citizen.
Why does boxing exist? The

sport of going into a ring and
attempting to bang someone's
brains out and have people
cheer should have long been
dismissed. Ali has been likened
to one of the greatest athletes
who ever lived. This should not
be considered athletic prowess.
Sensible people should be
offended that humans would do
such things to one another.

Jean Mailer

Ali showed faith and courage,
in life and death. He is more of
an American and hero than
most men could ever dream of
being.

Muhammad Ali taught me
how to be unapologetically
black and Muslim, while being a good American.
@DawudWalid

Darrell Brown

Be proud of who you are and
your faith, against all odds.
Made me boxing fan

forever.

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82

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81

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82

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86

Raleigh

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Orleans

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77

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87

Jackson

Baton Rouge

Houston

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Columbus, Ohio
Corpus Christi, Texas
Dayton, Ohio
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Des Moines, Iowa
Duluth, Minn.

Durham, N.C.
El Paso, Texas
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Fort Smith, Ark.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Fresno, Calif.
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Hartford, Conn.
Indianapolis
Islip, N.Y.
Jackson, Miss.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Jefferson City, Mo.
Kansas City
Key West, Fla.
Knoxville, Tenn.
Laredo, Texas
Lexington, Ky.
Lincoln, Neb.
Little Rock, Ark.
Long Beach, Calif.
Louisville, Ky.
Lubbock, Texas
Madison, Wis.
Manchester, N.H.
Memphis, Tenn.
Milwaukee
Mobile, Ala.
Modesto, Calif.
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Bangor

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79

San Juan

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56

87

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Austin

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82

Pittsburgh

Montgomery

Brownsville

BALTIMORE

TUE

100

Hawaii

83

Nashville

Puerto Rico

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84

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Dallas

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Tulsa

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94

Phoenix

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Oklahoma
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Memphis

Montpelier

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Indianapolis

Jefferson City St. Louis
Wichita

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Santa Fe

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Albany

Cleveland

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Chicago

74

Detroit

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81

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74

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76

St. George

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79

Buffalo

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73

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58

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68

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Salt Lake City

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62

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82
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Duluth

71

78

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95

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MON

Blame the high heels and continually jumping off stages.
I went to one of his shows in the
‘80s, and the physical abuse he put
his body through was bound to
lead him to painkillers.

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I’m detecting shades of Michael
Jackson here.
These guys grow mentally
dependent on drugs that can kill
them if misused. And they prescribe themselves a death

sentence.

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MON

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Becoming addicted to pain
medication when injured is not the
same as a person who has not had
an injury yet becomes addicted.
I, as an injured person who has
lived 26 years in extreme pain due
to an on the job injury, feel Prince’s
pain and can understand. No
shame. No pain.

'fentanyl toxicity,' an overdose of
a painkiller,” Maria Puente does
an excellent job of explaining
the conundrum that underlies
the tragedies of fame, drugs and
death.Unfortunately, the treatment platform in America continues to be one of complete
abstinence.
In other countries, harm
reduction models have proved
to be an alternative for people
who are fearful of the shame and
guilt associated with labels and
rigidity. The same shame and
guilt make many people in
America reluctant to seek help.
Addiction should be treated like
any other illness. Hopefully, the
American Medical Association
will consider alternatives to the
current treatment platform in
the nation that is obviously not
working.

Yes, Muhammad Ali was a
great boxer, but he was an even
better humanitarian.

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In USA TODAY’s
article “Prince died of

Helen Nance

He made me proud of my religion.

The fascination of the
life of Muhammad Ali

LETTERS


Ali was a living symbol of
African strength, and he fought
for African liberation. In the
black community, his fights
stood for the reclamation of
African honor and respect. He is
beloved because he recognized
the suffering within his
community.

SOURCE USA TODAY Sports

Larry Palmer

Norco, Calif.

Prince’s death
was preventable

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St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Nashville, Tenn.
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Oklahoma City

Omaha, Neb.
Palm Springs, Calif.
Pensacola, Fla.
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Pittsburgh
Portland, Maine
Portland, Ore.
Providence, R.I.
Raleigh, N.C.
Rapid City, S.D.
Reno, Nev.
Richmond, Va.
Rochester, N.Y.
Sacramento, Calif.
San Antonio
San Jose, Calif.
Santa Fe, N.M.

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Cancun, Mexico
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Frankfurt
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
London
Mexico City
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Moscow
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NEWS 7A

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

OPINION
TODAY’S DEBATE LABOR MARKET

Our view
Opposing view
Trade bashing won’t save
Don’t fund federal
jobs, but retraining could do it job retraining
International trade has taken a
beating in this year’s presidential

campaign. Donald Trump and
Bernie Sanders regularly bash it
in their stump speeches, and even
Hillary Clinton turned against an
Asian trade agreement that she
championed while secretary of
State.
Given the evidence that trade
stimulates innovation, lowers
prices and offers consumers more
choice, this has been a big disappointment. It has infected both
parties and comes off as a highly
cynical ploy to win over voters by
playing with their emotions.
However, supporters of responsible trade need to understand why the electorate has
turned so sour and find ways to
help those left behind by
globalization.
The data show the problem:
Manufacturing employment has
fallen by nearly 5 million, or
about 28%, in the past two decades. Meanwhile, the recovery
from the Great Recession remains modest, evidenced by the
creation of just 38,000 jobs in
May.
But halting pending trade
deals, or even repealing existing
ones, is not the answer. The U.S.
does not have any commerce
agreements with China or Japan.

And yet those nations consistently maintain the largest trade surpluses with America. In fact, only
three of our 15 largest trade part-

Joseph Gerth

A

s a kid, I would sit with
my father in front of the
black-and-white RCA
television set, the rabbit
ears adjusted just so, and peer
through the snow on the screen
at the fight unfolding before us.
For my dad, who left home at
age 18 in 1942 and joined the Navy while war raged in both
Europe and the Pacific, the boxer
on the screen was nothing but a
loud-mouthed draft dodger.
It didn’t matter to him that the
boxer possessed lightning in his
hands and thunder in his fists, or
that he danced around the ring
like Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire.
He was someone Dad rooted
against, no matter who the man
was fighting — be it Joe Frazier or
Alfredo Evangelista.
I’d puff with pride when the
ring announcer would say something like, “Introducing, from

Louisville, Ky., he’s wearing red
trunks, he weighs 215 ... here is
Muhammad Ali.”
It was a generational thing.
The old man would cheer
when the other boxer landed a
blow. I’d let out a hoot when Muhammad Ali left his opponent flat
on his back or staggering against
the ropes.
‘STRIKE CITY’

For me, Ali was the personification of hope at a time when
Louisville needed just that.
A public relations or advertising guru in town had dubbed it
“The City of the Seventies” in a
bank’s marketing campaign, but it
was anything but that.
Downtown was ailing as folks
had moved to the suburbs, leaving once stately buildings to decay, be torn down and eventually
be replaced by parking lots.
Working-class neighborhoods
near downtown had been demolished and filled with bleak government-owned
apartment
complexes. Fourth Street, long
the city’s shopping and entertainment hub, was a ghost town.
Louisville was gaining its reputation as “strike city” because of
frequent work stoppages at Ford,
General Electric and other manufacturing companies around
town.
The city was being torn apart

by riots and protests over a federal judge’s order to integrate the
Jefferson County Public Schools,
which along with the old Louisville Board of Education had for
years adopted an unofficial policy
of “separate but equal.”
There wasn’t much to be proud
of in those days in Louisville.
Although Ali had long moved
his base of operations from Columbia Gym — where Joe Martin

PETER ACKERMAN, ASBURY PARK (N.J.) PRESS

Bricklaying apprentice in
Bordentown, N.J., in 2014.

ners — Canada, Mexico and
South Korea — have trade agreements with the United States.
What’s more, there is strong
evidence that technology is the
main reason for the decline in
manufacturing
employment.
Manufacturing output has continued to rise thanks to more
automated workplaces and a focus on higher-tech products.
The only real solution to the
decline is to train young people in
areas with a more promising outlook, and to retrain workers
who’ve lost jobs or fear they
might.
The good news is that, after

years of trial and error, government leaders are beginning to get
a sense of what works and what
doesn’t. To that end, President
Obama signed a bipartisan law
two years ago to eliminate notoriously overlapping or unproductive training programs and give
states more freedom to spend
jobs money as they see fit.
Virtually everyone agrees that
what works are apprenticeships
and similar programs that bring
employers into the process early
and have workers do much of
their learning on the job. Some
successful programs, like one in
Wisconsin known as WTRP/Big
Step, focus on glaziers, electricians, cement masons and other
traditional blue-collar trades.
Others are branching into
health care and other areas not
generally thought of as landing
spots for people without a college
education. Two large European
insurance companies — Aon and
the Zurich Insurance Group —
have apprenticeships for people
as claims adjusters and other positions in their industry.
We ought to double down on
approaches like these, instead of
erecting trade barriers that would

do terrible harm to the economy
or making futile efforts to limit
technological advance. Candidates for high office should be
candid about this. And they
should get behind programs that
might actually do some good.

ALI INSPIRED
HOPE, PRIDE
My father considered him a
loud-mouthed draft dodger.
It was our first real disagreement.

DAVID GOLDMAN, AP

A historical marker in Louisville stands outside Muhammad
Ali’s childhood home, where visitors have been paying respect.
taught him to punch and jab, and
bob and weave — and taken up
residence in rural Pennsylvania
or Michigan or Cherry Hill, N.J.,
Ali was still ours.
‘LOUISVILLE LIP’

In most of his fights, Ali was introduced as being from Louisville
even years after he moved away.
The Louisville Lip.
The Greatest of all Time.
And if you didn’t care about his
politics, he was something to be

proud of in a city that, at the time,
seemed to have little going for it.
If you did care about his politics, well …
He didn’t subscribe to the notion that a black man couldn’t or
shouldn’t be outspoken like he
was, or that a boxer should shut
up and let his fists talk for him.
Ali wouldn’t allow the government to tell him he had to join
the Army and participate in a war
with which he didn’t agree. He
stunned the folks like my father
when he explained why he
wouldn’t be inducted thusly:
“My conscience won’t let me
go shoot my brother, or some
darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big
powerful America. And shoot
them for what? They never called
me nigger; they never lynched
me; they didn’t put no dogs on
me. ... Shoot them for what?”
He made some people uncom-

fortable when he converted to Islam and gave up the name
Cassius Clay, which he called his
“slave name.” He rebelled and advanced civil rights.
Some anger like my father’s
still exists toward Ali. When Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo suggested placing a statue of
Ali in the Capitol, a number of
people emailed and wrote letters

opposed to the idea.
“Ali should NOT be in the Capitol,” one person wrote. “That is a
spot for statesmen — not for boxers and draft dodgers.”
Ali came into my consciousness long after he took Rome and
the world by storm, winning the
gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Olympic Games and after his battle
with the federal government over
his induction into the Army.
He gave me my first opportunity to really disagree with my father about something — him.
He came for me at a time when
he was in his 30s and his boxing
skills were beginning to fade,
when he used his guile rather
than physical superiority to beat
boxers much younger and stronger than he.
And he came at a time when
the city needed a hero.
Joseph Gerth is political writer
at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal.

Chris Edwards
The federal government has
funded job training programs
for decades, but they have never worked very well.
Examining these programs
in 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that
“little is known about the effectiveness of employment and
training programs.”
Other studies have come to
similar conclusions. If we can’t

show that programs work, why
fund them?
One of the problems is mismanagement. The word “boondoggle” was coined in the 1930s
to describe federal jobs programs, and a 2011 report by
Sen. Tom Coburn found that
the word still applies.
When federal training funds
flow to local governments and
contractors, they often get
wasted. Coburn found “excessive duplication, a lack of demonstrable
results,
and
outrageous examples (of )
waste, fraud, abuse and graft.”
The good news is that private markets provide vast job
training. U.S. organizations
spend more than $160 billion a
year on worker training and
development, according to the
Association
for
Talent
Development. And individuals

are taking charge of their own
training: Community colleges
award 1.3 million degrees and
certificates a year, many to students who pay their own way
without federal aid.
Another source of training is

temporary staffing firms, which
employ a rotating group of 16
million people a year in offices,
hospitals and industrial jobs.
They provide a great way to
gain on-the-job experience in
top companies, and they often
offer in-house training as well.
These days, job training and
education are moving online.
More than 7 million students a
year now take college courses
online. Online education has
filled the need for lower-cost
and flexible options in today’s
dynamic economy.
A new development is the
growth in mass open online
courses. Dozens of top universities, such as Harvard and
MIT, have teamed with MOOC
firms to provide hundreds of
certificate courses on everything from computer coding to
dairy farm management.
Federal job training programs have always been of dubious value, but in the Internet
era they have become obsolete.
Chris Edwards is editor of
DownsizingGovernment.org at
the Cato Institute.

Holdout Ryan sells out

on Trump for free
Christian Schneider
Citing the need for party “unity” going into the fall election,
House Speaker Paul Ryan ended
his holdout last week and finally
endorsed Donald Trump for
president. Perhaps this was inevitable, but it was jarring to see the
sellout executed for free.
During Ryan’s holdout, Trump
made no progress toward the
goals Ryan said he needed to see
from the presumptive GOP nominee. In fact, just in the 10 days before the endorsement, Trump
floated discredited conspiracy
theories about former Clinton
adviser Vince Foster’s death and
attacked the ethnicity of a judge
overseeing the Trump University
case.
Are these what pushed Ryan
toward capitulation?
Ryan is reminiscent of San
Francisco Giants fans who
cheered on Barry Bonds during
his desecration of America’s pastime. Normally sane fans defended Bonds simply because he
wore the right color jersey.
Now that Trump is wearing the
Republican jersey, conscious conservatives are losing their minds
defending someone who is
uniquely unqualified to lead the
nation. If there existed an organization called People Named Donald Trump, Trump wouldn’t be

cognitively stable enough to serve
as its president.
And there will be a long-term
price to pay. Any time Ryan details his positive conservative
agenda, the podium should feature a giant asterisk — that is,
House Republicans believe in the
pillars of conservatism right up
until the point when a puzzlingly
hirsute man-baby decides to

mock women, minorities and the
handicapped. When Ryan espouses political civility, ask him
about his endorsement of America’s most prominent Obama
birther. We now know that no
person exists who is so disgusting
that he is below Republican
appeasement.
Republicans are hoping that
supporting Trump is like breaking the speed limit — if everyone
does it, nobody will get busted.
Sure, Republicans may say their
ultimate goal is to stop Hillary
Clinton, but to replace her with
what? A Clinton donor who opposes reforming Social Security
and has publicly waxed poetic
about single-payer health care?
As president, Trump is just as
likely to hold a news conference
to sell Trump Tangy Barbecue
Sauce as he is to announce a plan

to rein in government.
And exactly what was the purpose of Ryan’s several-week nonendorsement period? It wasn’t
even long enough to earn him
credit in the footnotes of future
history books. He’ll earn plaudits
for delaying his Trump endorsement in the same way an arsonist
will get credit for waiting three
weeks to burn down a library out
of respect for the Dewey Decimal
System.
In 1984, George Orwell writes
that in his dystopia, “Nothing was
your own except the few cubic
centimeters inside your skull.”
Trump is now the proud owner of
the Republican Party’s great
minds. Let’s just hope he kept the
receipt so he can return them to
their rightful owners after his November decimation.
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AT&T, NOKIA TEAM UP TO
EXPAND LAB WORK ON 5G
AT&T is teaming with Nokia to
expand its ‘next generation 5G’
lab trial work. In addition to
previously announced trials in
Austin, AT&T has begun lab work
in Middletown, N.J.; Atlanta and
San Ramon, Calif. The companies have set their sights on
reaching speeds of at least 10
gigabits-per-second in trials this
year, above the more than 5
gigabits-per-second it is already
seeing in lab trials.
BOSE COMES OUT WITH FOUR
NEW WIRELESS HEADPHONES
Bose has introduced four wireless headphones, two of which
exploit the premium brand’s
noise-canceling technology. Bose
had been a relative laggard in
the increasingly crowded wireless-headphone space. The top
of the line is the QuietComfort 35
model that costs $349.95.

QUIETCOMFORT 35 BY BOSE

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If a customer wants to speak
Spanish at Leon’s Frozen Custard
in Milwaukee, a Spanish-speaking employee won’t be frowned
upon for answering back. The
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of its personnel policies to ensure
they are in compliance with civil
rights laws and federal guidelines, officials with the League of
United Latin American Citizens of
Wisconsin said. It was encouraging English-only transactions.
FRIDAY MARKETS
INDEX

CLOSE

Dow Jones industrials
Dow for the week
Nasdaq composite
S&P 500
T-bond, 30-year yield
T-note, 10-year yield
Gold, oz. Comex
Oil, light sweet crude
Euro (dollars per euro)
Yen per dollar

CHG

17,807.06 y 31.50
.4% y 66.16

4942.52 y 28.84
2099.13 y
6.13
2.51% y
0.07
1.70% y
0.10
$1240.10 x 30.30
$48.62 y
0.55
$1.1347 x 0.0199
106.68 y
2.23

SOURCES USA TODAY RESEARCH, MARKETWATCH.COM

Adam Shell

@adamshell
USA TODAY

Wall Street wants to know: If
not June, then when?
After a dud of a May jobs report that Wall Street says likely
rules out an interest rate hike later this month from the Federal
Reserve, traders start the week
once again trying to figure out the
Fed’s next move on interest rates
and wondering if the U.S. economy has enough energy to bust out
of its recent soft patch.

Blame what Wall Street pros
say was a “disastrous,” “miserable” and “dismal” new job count
of just 38,000 last month for
changing investors’ calculus on
the timing of the next rate hike
and putting them squarely back
in data-watch mode.
The Fed said earlier this month
that it would consider hiking
rates in coming months if data on
jobs and the broader economy
kept coming in strong. The May
jobs report — the weakest since
September 2010 — did not meet
that criteria.
So where does Wall Street go
from here?
First up, investors will be
closely following a well-timed
speech Monday from Fed chair
Janet Yellen. They will want to
know if Yellen thinks the weak
May jobs report was a one-off — a
soft patch, a stumble, an aberration — or whether it portends the
start of a weaker period for both
job creation and economic
growth?
Most important, they will be
listening for clues as to whether
the central bank’s rate-hike timetable has changed in a major way.

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JUSTIN LANE, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. A jobs report released the same day
showed a lower-than-expected number of people were added to payrolls last month.

Wall Street has all
but ruled out a June
interest rate hike.
And it is placing a
1-in-3 chance the Fed
moves in July. Some
money managers say
the Fed could hold off
until September.
“This (the jobs report) was
such a curve ball, not only to investors but to the Fed, too,” Brian
Needleman, a managing partner
and co-founder at Cornerstone
Financial Partners, told USA
TODAY. “The Fed will have to
take a wait-and-see approach”
before raising rates.
Wall Street has all but ruled

out a June hike. And it is placing a
1-in-3 chance the Fed moves in
July. Some money managers say
the Fed could hold off on a hike
until its September meeting.
The big jobs miss “creates a degree of uncertainty” as it relates
to the Fed but is not expected to
jolt the market out of its 18month trading range either to the
upside or downside, adds Ron
Sanchez, chief investment officer
at Fiduciary Trust. What it does,
he adds, is shift the debate to,
“Will they move in July?”
In the meantime, Sanchez
adds, the Fed will be monitoring
another potential risk: the vote in
Britain later this month on
whether to stay in or leave the
European Union.
A so-called “Brexit” could

cause market turmoil.
But a July hike isn’t a slam
dunk, either. The reason: The data-dependent Fed, Sanchez says,
“clearly needs to see more economic data and more labor data”
before pulling the trigger. A basic
prerequisite for a July hike, Wall
Street pros say, would be a drastic
rebound in the June jobs report,
with upward revisions to the

weak May count, as well as a Britain vote to stay in the EU.
Wall Street doesn’t want the
Fed to make the type of mistake it
made back in December, when it
raised rates for the first time in
nearly 10 years, despite early
signs of a slowing economy.
That initial rate hike was followed by a 12% stock market
drop.

Suddenly, some gray days for U.S. labor
Paul Davidson

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and 400 hiring managers

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Fed speech Monday
may hint at whether
June hike is a goner

Dismal jobs report
blamed on temps,
Salary sticker shock Trump and more

42%

Business class
at new heights

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jobs report ‘curve ball’

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of college seniors expect to
earn more than $50,000 at
their first job; 23% of
companies pay this amount.

UNITED

In a flash, the U.S. labor market
appeared to morph Friday from a
reliable race car into a creaky
bicycle.
Not only did the economy create just 38,000 new jobs in May,
its weakest showing since 2010,
but the Labor Department revised down employment gains for
the previous two months by
59,000. That cut average monthly
gains in 2016 to about 150,000

from 209,000 last year. Why have
employers suddenly throttled
back hiring? And is this the new
baseline for a labor market that’s

been a pillar of the economy?
The short answer: Job growth
is expected to slow somewhat
now that the economy is approaching full employment, but
gains the past two months have
been suppressed by myriad temporary factors, from odd weather
patterns to Donald Trump.
“The trend of job growth has
downshifted,” says Stuart Hoffman, chief economist of PNC Financial Services Group.
But Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, says
Friday’s meager total “significantly overstates the slowdown.”
Hoffman and Zandi agree that

ACTUAL JOB GROWTH
TUMBLES BELOW ESTIMATES

300

Consensus
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estimate
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160,000

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the 4.7% unemployment rate
means there are fewer available
workers to fill job openings, slowing hiring. Employers are struggling to find high-skilled workers
in particular, a problem they’ve
faced for several years because of
mismatches between job requirements and the talents of laid-off
employees. It looms larger amid a
shrinking pool of workers.
Lauren Griffin, senior vice
president of Adecco Staffing, says
employer demand and placements have remained strong. But

she says it’s tougher to find workers, particularly in fields such as
technology and engineering, and
so openings are taking longer to
fill this year.
v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B

Redstone mess shows pitfalls of dual-class shares
Shareholders helpless
in battle for control
of Viacom and CBS
Michael Wolff

@MichaelWolffNYC

USA TODAY

Dual-class share
structures are an
anomaly of corporate governance in
which one class
holds a minority of a company’s
shares but casts a majority of its
DIA

votes. Sumner Redstone, at 93 in
a deeply diminished capacity and,
according to claims by personal
and business intimates, completely out of it, is still in theory
calling the shots at Viacom and
CBS, companies at which he owns

about 10%, but with his special
class of stock votes 80%. In other
words, in an ultimate demonstration of the perils of dual-class
shares, these two major public
companies are controlled by …
well, that’s the mystery now being
extensively litigated. Nobody
knows who is in actual control.
The entire premise of good corporate governance is to impose
logic and transparency on management so that shareholders can
accurately evaluate and their in-

ROBYN BECK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Sumner Redstone, 93, owns
about 10% but votes 80%.
terests can be fairly represented
in a company’s decision-making
process. To say that the Redstone
companies represent an inver-

sion of that ideal is itself a comical understatement. This is the
Hieronymus Bosch of corporate
governance, bizarre and perverse
— and in plain sight of helpless
shareholders and an amazed
public.
Viacom and CBS, with Redstone’s chosen executives and often
disenfranchised
family

members fighting over control of
his yet-still-breathing corpus, are
less like modern corporations
and more like an 18th-century
royal court. Redstone, with his
extensive symptoms of dementia,
including vast memory loss, uncontrollable rages, incontinence,
feeding tubes and sexual mania,
spelled out in court documents, is
mad King George.

Up until recently, his companies were run in a kind of construct of mental capacity, in
which his family and lieutenants
insisted that, with Redstone hidden from view, they knew his desires. The dual class of shares not
only gave outsize control to one
man, but now it effectively gave it
to people claiming to speak for
him. Transparency reached
something near zero.
Then, outsiders in the form of
girlfriends/caregivers began to
wrestle for control — representing that they knew what the man
they were shielding from the
view of others wanted. That
spooked his lieutenants and famv STORY CONTINUES ON 2B


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How the new overtime rules will
affect your business, employees

empt or non-exempt:
uNon-exempt employees are
covered by FLSA and, by extension, most state and city labor
laws. They must be paid at least
federal and state minimum wage
and receive overtime pay of 1.5
times their regular hourly rate
when they work more than 40
hours in a week.
uExempt employees are not
entitled to overtime pay but must
meet certain criteria for pay and
job responsibilities.

Rhonda Abrams
@RhondaAbrams
Special for
USA TODAY

Beginning in December, about 4.2
million more Americans will qualify for
overtime pay under
new rules from the Department
of Labor. If you own a small business and have full-time employees, there’s a good chance these
rules will apply to you.

Hourly workers, lower-wage
earners and non-managerial
workers now must be paid 1.5
times their hourly wage when
they work more than 40 hours in
a week. Under the new rules,
overtime will be paid to many
more workers, including those on
salary.
In a nutshell, here’s what the
new rules do:
uIncrease the minimum salary threshold at which a full-time
salaried worker can be exempt
from overtime rules from
$23,660 to $47,476 annually, or
from $455 to $913 weekly.
uThis level will be adjusted
every three years.
uEmployers can include nondiscretionary bonuses and commissions to comprise up to 10%
of the salary level.
SMALL
BUSINESS

HOW IT ALL STARTED
In the 1930s, in the midst of the
Great Depression, workers were
often badly mistreated. To help
protect workers, the Fair Labor
and Standards Act (FLSA) was
enacted.

The FLSA of 1938:
uEstablished a maximum
number of hours for the regular
workweek (44 hours in 1938; 40
hours today).
uSet an eight-hour workday.
uEstablished a national mini-

Growth
expected
to slow
v CONTINUED FROM 1B

Zandi expects monthly job
growth to average 175,000 the
rest of 2016. Hoffman forecasts
average gains of 150,000. Yet
economists also point to a hodgepodge of temporary forces that
resulted in payroll advances of
just 123,000 in April and 38,000
in May. Among them:
uThe Verizon strike. The
now-settled walkout idled 35,000
employees last month.
uFunky weather. High winter temperatures led employers
to hire more workers early this
year, especially in construction,
retail and hotels, Zandi says. So
they needed to hire less in April
and May.

uMarket turbulence. Financial markets have bounced
back after stocks sold off and corporate borrowing costs spiked in
January and February, but it
takes time for firms to respond by
reining in hiring and investment,
Zandi says. Some big banks have
brought on fewer workers because the market plunge doused
mergers and initial public offerings, says Jeanne Branthover, of
executive recruiting firm DHR
International. “If they don’t have
as many deals, they don’t need as
many people,” she says.
uPolitical
uncertainty.
Many businesses grow hesitant to
hire because of the uncertainty
generated by a presidential election. But Trump, the presumptive
GOP nominee, has intensified the
paralysis, says Bernard Baumohl,
of The Economic Outlook Group.
Trump has called for imposing
tariffs on China and lowering taxes, fomenting CEO fears of trade
wars and bigger budget deficits,
Baumohl says.
Branthover says some financial
service firms are conserving their
2016 hiring budgets and plan to
add workers at year-end after the
election clarifies the landscape.
uWeak economy. The labor

market may finally be feeling the
impact of a weak economy the
past two quarters, says economist
Scott Anderson of Bank of the
West. The good news: The economy is expected to rebound in the
current quarter.

HOW TO RESPOND
TO THE NEW RULES

GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO

If you employ salaried, full-time workers who are paid less
than $913 per week, you’ll need to decide how to respond to
these new rules. Some options:
1. Keep salaries the same, but eliminate or reduce overtime. Monitor activity and hours to limit overtime.
2. Raise salaries to the new minimum, enabling you to require unpaid overtime of
qualified employees.
3. Keep salaries the same,
and pay overtime. This is financially beneficial if overtime is limited or irregular
and current pay is at the
low end of the present
minimum. Be careful tracking employees’ hours.
GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO
4. Lower wages, but pay Rules start in December.
overtime. This results in
your expenses staying the same, but will certainly create disgruntled employees and high turnover.
5. Hire more employees. If you regularly need a lot of
overtime from current employees, you may want to consider
hiring additional hourly workers to pick up the extra hours.

mum wage (25 cents in 1938;
$7.25 today).
uRequired time-and-a-half
pay for overtime.
uLimited child labor.

EXEMPT VS. NON-EXEMPT
The purpose of the Fair Labor
and Standardsd Act is to protect
workers from being exploited, but
businesses need flexibility, so
FLSA exempts bona fide salaried
executive, administrative and
professional (EAP) employees
and outside sales and many technology employees from overtime
pay requirements.
After all, it would be silly to require employers to pay overtime
to a top corporate executive making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Once a business has an employee, it’s critically important to
know whether that worker is ex-

WHAT DROVE THE CHANGE
In 1975, the Fair Labor and Standards Act’s overtime provisions
protected 62% of all full-time
workers; today, overtime provisions protect only 8% of full-time
workers.
The minimum exempt salary
threshold was last changed in
2004, when rules regarding executive and managerial jobs were

loosened, resulting in many more
employees being legally considered exempt.
Some businesses took advantage of these new rules, resulting
in some employees being named
“supervisors,” especially in fast
food and retail jobs, where they
regularly work more than 40
hours a week without additional
pay.
On the other hand, many may
question the new minimum
threshold.
After all, a white-collar supervisory or administrative job paying $20 an hour, or about
$41,600, may be considered a
good job in many parts of the
country.
Often, employers and employees alike would view having employees working some overtime
to complete tasks or to respond
to email as fair, not requiring
overtime pay.
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Viacom, CBS play game of thrones
v CONTINUED FROM 1B

ily. They argued, on the contrary,
that he had given them the goahead to take back control, hence
they forcibly ejected the remaining girlfriend/caregiver, Manuela

Herzer. In court, she argued that
he could not take control from
her because he lacked the capacity to do so.
His lieutenants and family
might have reasonably argued
that he did not have the capacity
to give control to Herzer in the
first place (along with the $70
million he also reportedly gave
her). But, alas, they couldn’t make
that argument, because they had
been running his companies under the premise that he was yet in
control. To refute that now meant
they’d have been lying to shareholders (shareholders might not
have been able to equitably vote
their shares, but they do have the
right to know who was actually
voting the voting shares), inviting
suits and SEC investigations.
In court, his lieutenants and
family, showing a videotape with
a monosyllabic Redstone sputtering obscenities and unable to remember
his
given
name
(Rothstein), managed to avoid a
finding of incompetence (but not
an affirmative finding of competency). On that thin basis, Redstone’s daughter, Shari, who has
spent much of her adulthood estranged from her father, recently
used her father’s theoretical control — and what one of his doctors has characterized as a “legal

mental capacity” — to remove
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman
and one of his allies from the
trust that, up until then, Dauman
controlled. He would have legitimately assumed Redstone’s control after his death. (In theory,
Dauman, if he had acted first in
Redstone’s name, might have
been able to remove Shari Redstone from the trust).
Dauman has been joined in his
suit by one of Redstone’s granddaughters, a direct beneficiary of
the trust. He now argues that,
contrary to his recent position
with regard to Herzer, that Redstone, held incommunicado, is
being unlawfully manipulated by
his daughter, who will now be
able to run the empire, even
though her father has repeatedly
cast her out — and even though
her father only owns 10% of the
empire anyhow.

ANDREW BURTON, GETTY IMAGES

Until recently, there was little transparency about how Viacom was run. Above, its NYC office.

2012 PHOTO BY ROBYN BECK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman claims Sumner Redstone
is being manipulated.

Voting control by a minority
shareholder is generally thought
to have started, or at least become
respectable, when The New York
Times went public in the 1960s.
The idea here was that the longtime owners of the paper, the
Sulzberger family, would remain
as the institution’s stewards, with
their vote sheltering it from
short-term Wall Street demands.
This structure was adopted by
many other newspaper companies, including The Wall Street

Journal and The Washington
Post. Then it was adopted by the
mogul class, interested less in
editorial protections then efficient power, giving Rupert Murdoch and Redstone absolute
control over vast companies with
a small percentage of the stock.
Now dual shares have became a
favorite structure for tech companies, among them Google and
Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg
might one day be Sumner
Redstone.
While control in such companies can pass seamlessly — it did
at The New York Times, although
the company’s fortunes have
surely lagged under its system of
family inheritance, and another
generation is now preparing to do

battle with itself — the far more
likely result is a fraught and operatic game of thrones. In the Murdoch house, for instance, four
votes, each in the hands of his
four adult children, without a tiebreaking mechanism, will determine, or be unable to determine,
who controls the less than 20%
stake in the Murdoch companies
that controls 100%.

As the age of moguls ends —
moguls who, by a fluke of personality and circumstance, were able
to use other people’s money to
create vast empires over which
they had personal control —
many of their relatives and cronies will, as they always have, do
anything it takes to hold on to
that unique and happenstance
power. And, less because of dementia and more because of the
nature of absolute and illogical
power, we will see many more
messes like the one playing out
now on a daily basis around Sumner Redstone.
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Socially
responsible
funds give
your 401(k)
a conscience
What investors should know as more
retirement plans begin offering SRIs

I

t may not happen today or Robert Powell
tomorrow, but soon you
Special for USA TODAY
may get the chance to invest in a socially responsible investment in your 401(k)
plan.
That’s because the Labor
Department this fall issued
guidance easing the fiduciary burden for selecting these funds
for 401(k)s, according to a Plansponsor article by Fred Reish,

a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath.
At the moment, most 401(k)s don’t offer socially responsible investment (SRI) funds — those that apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors to management — as
an option. Offering such funds had been problematic, according to Reish. Investment committee members could easily get
sued by plan participants if the SRI didn’t perform as expected. And, there never really has been enormous demand for
SRI funds from 401(k) participants.
But all that may change now. One, Millennials, who are now
starting to save for retirement, may be more interested than
Boomers and Gen X in SRIs. Two, SRIs may be consistent
with the culture of a socially conscious or environmentally
sensitive company, according to Reish.
So how might you evaluate whether to invest in an SRI fund
in your 401(k), and how might you decide if it’s a good investment? Here’s what experts had to say.

IS IT REALLY AN SRI FUND?

Your first order of business: Determine whether the SRI fund is
really an SRI fund. Unfortunately,
that’s not easy.
“Basically, there is no ‘SRI flag’
that funds have to fly to indicate
whether they are SRI or not,” says
Brooks Herman, head of research
for BrightScope in San Diego. “So

there are a lot of personal judgment calls and digging through
fund prospectuses when looking
at the list.”
Others agree.
“There is a lot of greenwashing
going on out there with all kinds

of asset managers claiming to offer ‘green funds’ when they really
aren’t,” says Robert Eccles, chair-

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A socially responsible investment applies environmental and social factors to management.
man of Arabesque Asset Management in London. Ask your
employee benefits department
for the criteria used to select the
SRI.
“The company will have done
some basic due diligence,” says
Christine Russell, a consultant
with Christine Russell Retirement Consulting in Philadelphia.
Note, too, that methodologies
for determining whether a fund
qualifies as “sustainable investing” are still being developed, Eccles says. He recommends using
Morningstar for research.
Also, ask yourself if the fund
fits into your definition of an SRI.
Russell says participants should
consider the fund’s investing criteria: What is the investment
avoiding (tobacco stocks, for example) and/or what is it supporting (solar energy stocks)?
“Then participants decide
whether this philosophy matches
up with their own,” Russell says.
Eccles also recommends the
following due diligence: First, determine how transparent the
fund’s methodology is.
“While no one is going to give

away the ‘secret sauce’ in their investment strategy, one should be
skeptical about descriptions that
are largely qualitative with a lot of

flowery language around sustainability,” he says. “Look for some
numbers and phrases such as
‘material ESG factors,’ which
show there is some degree of
rigor.”
And two, look at the composition of the investment committee
and the fund’s trustees.
“Is there anybody who has
‘sustainability credentials,’ or are
they all traditional financial, accounting and legal types?”
EVALUATE THE SAME AS ANY
OTHER INVESTMENT OPTION.

How do you go about selecting
the investments for your 401(k)
plan today? Use the same approach with SRIs. Examine the
fund’s long-term performance,
manager tenure, fees and expenses, its investment objective
and philosophy, its underlying
holdings and how it fits in with
your other investments, Russell
says. Does it, for instance, help
you further diversify your portfolio, or does it duplicate the objectives of other funds?
CONSIDER IT A
SATELLITE FUND.

As a rule, you shouldn’t invest
more than 5% of your 401(k) in a
specialty fund, including an SRI.

“The typical investor should
invest a modest percentage of his
or her assets here,” Eccles says.
In general, you might invest
the bulk of your assets in a core
fund, such as a target-date or target-risk fund, and then a smaller
amount in satellite funds.
THE OPTION MIGHT
ALREADY BE AVAILABLE.

Surprise! You might already be
able to invest in SRI funds if you
have a brokerage account option
as part of your 401(k). That’s because the brokerage account
gives you access to all sorts of investments, including SRI funds.
A DOSE OF REALITY.

Now truth be told, it might
take some time before plan sponsors include SRI funds as a 401(k)
investment option, according to
Jerry Bramlett, a defined contribution consultant in Austin.
“Having implemented hundreds of 401(k) plans over three
decades,” he says, “I cannot remember once being asked for a
socially responsible fund.”
Robert Powell is editor of Retirement
Weekly, contributes regularly to USA

TODAY and MarketWatch. Got questions about money? Email Bob at


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TRAVEL
United taking international
business class to new heights

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Only need
oxygen
masks for
minutes
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Special for USA TODAY

PHOTOS BY UNITED

The Polaris experience is designed to be restful, from the lie-flat seats inside suite-like pods to the “Do Not Disturb” signs to the
lavender pillow mist and gel-cooled pillows. It is United’s biggest product overhaul in a decade.

Airline hoping
amenities will
win back travelers
Charisse Jones

@charissejones
USA TODAY

United unveiled its new international business class cabin
Thursday, a revamping that it
hopes will help it win back coveted corporate travelers who may
have turned away from the carrier as its performance struggled in
the wake of its bumpy merger
with Continental.
The new Polaris business class
will ferry passengers traveling on
long-haul intercontinental flights

starting Dec. 1.
In an interview, United CEO
Oscar Munoz said that the upgraded service, from a new custom designed seat to exclusive
airport lounges, marks the carrier’s biggest product overhaul in a
decade. It also builds on a series
of other moves, from upgrading
the overall fleet to bringing back
free snacks in coach, meant to restore confidence in the airline.
In order to win “back the trust
of not only our employees and
our customers ... we have to make
some serious investment,” Mu-

International business-class fliers can grab a shower or a nap
inside one of nine new airport lounges before takeoff.
noz said. “And we’ve been doing
that. ...You’ve got to put your
money where your mouth is.”
Business travelers and others
who buy seats in the front of the
plane play a vital role in bolstering an airline’s bottom line, potentially accounting for 25% to
45% of a flight’s revenue, according to travel industry analyst
Henry Harteveldt. United hopes
this new offering will boost its
share of that segment of the traveling public.
“That is of course the obvious
intent,” Munoz said. “I want to
win back customers and have that
revenue share perk up. But at the
same time we want to provide a

win for the customer, and that’s
the reason for the focus on sleep.”
The Polaris experience is designed to be restful, from the lieflat seats inside suite-like pods, to
the “Do Not Disturb” signs to the
lavender pillow mist and gelcooled pillows available if a passenger wants one. Flight attendants will receive special training
and expedite the serving of meals
to ensure passengers can rest
without interruption.
Before takeoff, international
business-class fliers can grab a
shower or a nap inside one of
nine new airport lounges, the first
of which is set to open at Chicago
O'Hare on Dec. 1. Unlike typical

airline clubs, including United’s,
which are open to members who
pay an annual fee, buy a day pass
or anyone with a first or businessclass ticket, the new lounges will
be exclusively for those traveling
in the Polaris cabin.
Many of the offerings, whether
it's the pajamas that passengers
can request on flights lasting
more than 12 hours to the lie-flat
seats or the seasonal in-flight
menus, can be found on other airlines. But Munoz says that United's emphasis on rest, along with
heightened service and perks will
add up to a distinctive

experience.
“The individual components
may be like others, but at the end
of the day, it’s the way you deliver
the product that has us excited,”
he says.
The new offering could also
help United better compete with
international carriers such as Etihad and Emirates, which are
known for their luxe service, and
have been expanding their presence in the U.S. Those overseas
carriers are engaged in a battle
with several major U.S. airlines
who argue that they receive unfair subsidies from their Gulf-region governments.
“It clearly provides the frequent traveler an option,” Munoz
says.

Suitcase packed? Now take out half your stuff!
Christopher
Elliott

GETTY IMAGES/
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Special for
USA TODAY

Airlines will collect more luggage
fees this summer

than in any other in
the history of modern aviation.
At least they will if the current trends hold. Last year,
American carriers pocketed
$3.8 billion in luggage fees, up
$275 million from 2014. (Never
mind whether the fees are related
to the cost of transporting your
luggage.)
Maybe this isn’t the summer to
overpack.
But this isn’t the story you’re
expecting. It’s not a “how-to”
about folding your clothes more
efficiently or lightening your load
by jamming everything into a
jacket that you wear on the plane.
I’ve written that one time or two,
and I really hate reruns. Instead,
I’m just going to tell you what to
leave home.
Oddly, the things travelers
leave behind are the same things
they forget. Depending on which
survey you read, the top items left
behind are your toothbrush, your
technology and accessories such
as a phone charger. Travelers tell
me those are exactly the items
you should leave behind.

“This may sound gross, but I’ve
stopped packing a toothbrush
and toothpaste,” says Chelsea
ON
TRAVEL
EVERY
MONDAY

Dowling, who works for a marketing agency in Chicago. “I got
tired of the TSA confiscating my
toothpaste tubes. I’ve started either asking the hotel front desk
for these or stopping by a local
drug store when I arrive.”
Good point. Why pack an old
toothbrush and a half-used tube
of toothpaste that will probably
just be confiscated when you can
just pick up a fresh one at your
destination?
“Toiletries,” agrees Francesca
Montillo, who runs culinary tours
to Italy. “I used to pack full-size
bottles of shampoos, conditioners, deodorants, toothpaste, perfumes, hand lotion, sunblock and
the list goes on and on! You
would be shocked to find how
much all those items weigh ...

Now, I leave all those things behind and just head to a store
when I reach Italy.”
And that’s not the only thing

travelers are leaving at home.
“This summer when I travel I’ll
leave behind my heavy laptop,”
says Lisa Batra, the owner of a
kids’ clothing company in Newtown, Pa. In fact, she’s downsized
everything, shedding books and
other gadgets and downloading
everything onto a tablet computer.
“The baggage fees and weight
requirements vary so much, so
packing light and just the essentials is the way to go,” she says.
But that’s not the only reason
to dump your technology, including all of those pesky chargers
and wires.

The pros say other gadgets
such as standalone cameras and
phones don’t just bulk up your
baggage, but they can take away
from the vacation. Bruce Poon
Tip, the founder of G Adventures,
a tour operator based in Toronto, leaves both his laptop
and his camera behind
when he travels for leisure. “I don’t mind keeping in touch and replying
to occasional emails,” he
says, “but if I have my laptop
I work on everything.”
His rule of thumb? Less
is more.
would

have
Who
thought that the most
common things left in a
hotel room should have
been left at home in the first
place? Not me. I spend about 300
days out of every year on the
road, but only a small fraction flying. Like most Americans, I drive
to my destination.
I’ve shed the massive digital
camera, the video camera, the
bulky laptop. My Samsung S7
takes better pictures than the
four 4-pound camera I’ve relied
on. Oh, and the portable vacuum
cleaner I thought we needed to
keep the car tidy.
“After you pack your bag, take
50% of it out,” he says. Remove
the non-essential items. “Leave it
at home. You can buy anything
you really need while in another
location, and support local economies at the same time.”
Elliott is a consumer advocate and
editor at large for National Geographic
Traveler.

Q: How long will supplemental oxygen last after the
masks drop in an emergency?

— John A., N.J.
A: On typical airliners oxygen
generators will last 10 to 14 minutes. That is more than enough
time to descend to 10,000 feet or
the lowest altitude above the terrain. Airplanes can descend very
rapidly, which means the need for
supplemental oxygen lasts only a
few minutes.
Q: We test seat belts every
time we fly, but how do we
know that the oxygen masks
will actually come down and
work?
— Terry Miller, Idaho Falls,
Idaho
A: The oxygen system is tested
during certain maintenance
checks. The interval between
these checks varies from airplane
to airplane.
Most modern jets use oxygen
generators located in the passenger service units. They are very
reliable. The release for the door
is operated by a pressure switch
when the cabin altitude reaches
14,000 feet, or by the pilots via a
switch in the flight deck.
Q: If the bag on the oxygen
mask “may not fully inflate,”
why is there a bag?

— R. B., Monterey, Calif.
A: The bag allows for oxygen to
collect prior to being inhaled, and
during exhalation. How much the
bag inflates depends on the frequency and amount of breaths
taken.
A passenger oxygen system is a
continuous flow system. When
activated, the chemical generator
produces oxygen for the designed
time at a continuous rate; the bag
allows for expansion and contraction as you breathe.
Q: Could an electrical problem result in the transponder
being shut off, communications being cut off, and the oxygen being cut off ?
— Roy, Galesburg, Mich.
A: No, the function of the pilot
oxygen system is independent of
the electrical system. The passenger oxygen is also independent of
electricity and uses individual oxygen generators.
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WHAT TO TAKE
ON YOUR TRIP
This summer, you’ll probably drive to your vacation.
Here’s what to add to your
car without bulking it up.
u A Wi-Fi hotspot. Every
member of your family will
thank you, and you won’t

spend a fortune stopping
at McDonald’s or Starbucks
for their “free” hotspot. Try
the ZTE Mobley Vehicle
Wi-Fi Hotspot, which plugs
directly into your car’s OBD
II. It’s included with AT&T’s
data plans, which cost
anywhere from $10 to $30
per month.
u A clever trip computer.
Try an application like Metromile (metromile.com), a
pay-per-mile car insurance
provider, which offers a
device that plugs into your
onboard computer and lets
you track the number of
miles you’ve driven, figure
out what those mysterious
diagnostic warnings mean
and even locate your car
when you forget where you
parked. Costs vary based
on your state of residence.
u And don’t forget the
coffee! I admit, I travel with
a fairly large French press,
but they come in smaller
sizes that easily fit your
luggage, or your trunk. One

of the highest-rated is Bodum’s Travel Press
(bodum.com), a $30 personal-size press that holds
15 ounces. That’s plenty of
good coffee.


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APPRECIATION

Ali champion of justice, peace
Legend made greatest mark in fights outside of ring
Jon Saraceno

@jonnysaraceno
Special for USA TODAY Sports

2006 PHOTO BY THE (LOUISVILLE) COURIER-JOURNAL

FIRST WORD
MUHAMMAD ALI
WAS THE GREATEST.
PERIOD. IF YOU JUST ASKED
HIM, HE’D TELL YOU. HE’D TELL
YOU HE WAS THE DOUBLE
GREATEST; THAT HE’D ‘HANDCUFFED LIGHTNING, THROWN
THUNDER INTO JAIL.’ BUT
WHAT MADE THE CHAMP THE
GREATEST — WHAT TRULY SEPARATED HIM FROM EVERYONE
ELSE — IS THAT EVERYONE ELSE
WOULD TELL YOU PRETTY
MUCH THE SAME THING.”
From a statement by President
Obama and first lady Michelle
Obama on the death of Ali.

When Muhammad Ali died at 74 on Friday,

the once-strident, generation-defining voice
of defiance that seemed cruelly muted to a
barely audible whisper by Parkinson’s disease
was silenced forever.
Or was it?
Won’t America always hear Ali’s words —
the rhyme and the reason — ringing in its collective consciousness?
For more than a half-century, Ali gave a
voice to millions who otherwise would have
had none. Death might have defeated “The

Greatest” — Ali, the Muslim name he changed
to from Cassius Clay, means “Praiseworthy
One” — but not the principles of freedom, justice and peace for which he stood.
“He was such a great man (that) boxing
should be the last thing you want to remember about him,” former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who lost to Ali in the
famed “Rumble in the Jungle” in 1974, told
USA TODAY Sports.
“The rest of us were just boxers. This man
brought something (far greater). ... I think Ali
was basically misunderstood. He didn’t want
to make any political statement — he just
wanted to be recognized as a man. It’s really
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NBA FINALS

WARRIORS WALTZ TO 2-0

Cavs no match

in 33-point rout,
face long odds

MAGIC NUMBER

$400,000

Sum paid by Ali in the mid-1970s
for property in western Michigan
once owned by gangster Al Capone and associates, according
to the “Detroit Free Press.”

Sam Amick

@sam_amick
USA TODAY Sports

ALMOST LAST WORD
“WE’VE GOT A GAME IN
ABOUT 40 MINUTES, AND HE’S
DOING MAGIC TRICKS!”
Michigan State basketball coach
Tom Izzo, on Ali’s visit to the Spartans locker room before a game
against defending national
champion Connecticut in 2000.
Michigan State won 85-66.
LAST WORD
“MUHAMMAD ALI KNEW
HOW TO
BE A

FRIEND,
AND
THAT’S
ONE OF
THE HARDEST
THINGS
TO COME
BY.”
Pro basketball legend
Bill Russell,
GARRETT ELLWOOD, in a stateNBAE/GETTY IMAGES
ment via
the NBA, on his 56-year friendship
with Ali.
MUHAMMAD ALI EDITION
Our 56-page special edition
remembers the heavyweight
boxing champion, civil rights
activist and legend through the
voices who knew him best, including President Obama, trainer
Angelo Dundee, Joe Frazier,
George Foreman, Kareem AbdulJabbar, Ken Norton, Charles
Barkley, Billy Crystal and others.
Available on newsstands and at
sportsspecials.usatoday.com or
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Draymond Green, who scored 28 points, shoots over J.R. Smith in the Warriors’ 110-77 victory.

Calendar Slam in
Djokovic’s sights
French title puts him
halfway to history
Nick McCarvel

@NickMcCarvel
Special for USA TODAY Sports
PARIS The last time a men’s tennis player held all four major titles at once, Richard
ANALYSIS Nixon was president,
the Beatles were still
together and the
United States had
landed on the moon
for the first time a month earlier.
Suffice to say: It’s been a while.
Putting into context what Novak Djokovic did Sunday in the
French Open is a complicated

process: He completed the career
Grand Slam and became the first
man to win the Australian Open,
French Open, Wimbledon and
U.S. Open in a 12-month span
since Rod Laver in 1969.
“If people recognize where

SUSAN MULLANE, USA TODAY SPORTS

Novak Djokovic savors his
first French Open title.

Roger Federer is in the pantheon
of tennis players and what he’s
achieved, you can say to them,
‘This is something Roger hasn’t
been able to do.’ I think that’s a
statement,” Jim Courier, a former
world No. 1, told USA TODAY
Sports. “It’s already a statement
enough when the last time it was
done in men’s tennis was 1969.
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Combined regular-season
games played by the San Jose
Sharks’ Joe Thornton (1,367) and

Patrick Marleau (1,411) before
making the
Stanley
Cup
Final for
the first
time this
year

AP FILE PHOTO

Muhammad Ali, shown with Martin Luther King Jr., refused military induction
in 1967 because of his religious beliefs.

OAKLAND As the Golden State
Warriors readied themselves for
Game 2 of the NBA Finals against
the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday, there was concern internally
about the notion of overconfidence and how it threatened to
haunt them.
Game 1 on Thursday had been
so easy, so effortless when compared to their Western Conference finals battle against the
Oklahoma City Thunder that it
would only be natural to let up in
the kind of way that might invite
trouble from LeBron James & Co.
After all, Game 2 bounce-back
wins — nine in a row after trailing
in a seven-game series since 2009
— were James’ calling card.

So much for that. And, at this
rate, so much for the notion of
the Cavs dethroning the defending champs.
The Warriors’ 110-77 win put
the Cavs in the kind of hole from
which few teams have ever found
their way out, as they will attempt
to become the fourth team of 32
in Finals history to win it all after
trailing 2-0. The overall playoff

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NBA

Varejao a friendly
foe to Cavaliers
Jeff Zillgitt

@jeffzillgitt
USA TODAY Sports

Anderson Varejao
knew he had a good chance of
playing in the 2016 NBA Finals.
He just didn’t know he would
be with the Golden State Warriors. He had spent his entire career with the Cleveland Cavaliers
until they dealt him to the Portland Trail Blazers at the trade
deadline.
The Blazers cut Varejao, who
cleared waivers and signed with
Golden State, and he is the first
player in NBA history to play for
both finalists in the same season.
“I never thought this would
happen,” Varejao said. “It’s
strange. … But now I’m part of the
Warriors, and I’m going to do
whatever I can to help this team
win a championship.”
Before the 2011 collective bargaining agreement, Varejao could
have rejoined the Cavaliers 30
days after being waived, as onetime Cavs center Zydrunas Ilgauskas did in 2010. The Cavaliers traded Ilgauskas, the
Washington Wizards waived him
and he went back to the Cavs. But
the 2011 CBA closed that
loophole.
Now, Varejao could get a ring
no matter the outcome. If the
Warriors win, he will get one. If
the Cavs win, they could elect to
reward him for his contributions

this season.
“Andy’s a big part of our organization,” Cavs coach Tyronn
Lue said. “He had the longest tenure there for a while, and he was a
big part of what we’ve done over
the last couple years, so it was
hard losing Andy. And everyone
on our side has a great deal of respect for Andy.
“Just for him to get back to the
Finals again with a different team
is going to be different for everyone. Our guys still have a great relationship with Andy, and we still
respect him a lot.”
Drafted by the Orlando Magic
OAKLAND

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The Warriors’ Klay Thompson drives to the basket against the
Cavaliers’ Iman Shumpert in the third quarter.

BOB DONNAN, USA TODAY SPORTS

Anderson Varejao is the first player in NBA history to play for
both NBA Finals teams in the same season.
in 2004, Varejao was traded to
Cleveland that summer and became a fixture in the Cavs lineup.
He averaged 6.8 points and 6.7 rebounds per game in 2006-07, the
season the Cavs lost to the San
Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals.
He had his best season in 201314 at 8.4 points and 9.7 rebounds
per game. Injuries have slowed

his career. From 2010-11 through
2012-13, he didn’t play more than
31 games in a season. In 2012-13,
Varejao averaged 14.1 points and
14.4 rebounds through 25 games.
But he was diagnosed with a
blood clot in his lung and needed
surgery.
In Cleveland, he became one of
LeBron James’ closest teammates. When James returned to
Cleveland, he wanted his friend
to stick around, and Varejao
signed a three-year, $30 million
extension at the start of 2014-15.
When the Cavs traded Varejao
to acquire Channing Frye in February, James was glad to get Frye
but disappointed to lose Varejao.
“That’s the worst part of the business when it comes to this game,”
James said then.
The trade didn’t impact their
friendship, though James was not

happy when a referee called a foul
on Kevin Love and James
thought Varejao flopped in Game
1.
“Good things happen to good
people,” James said before the
start of the series. “So either way
he would have been part of the

Finals. He’s done so much in his
career. He’s sacrificed a lot. For
him to be in this position is great
for him (and) for his family. No
matter what has happened, he
would have been here anyways.”
Varejao was beloved in Cleveland for his gritty, do-what-ittakes style and his long, curly
hair.
“I’m pretty sure I still have a lot
of fans in Cleveland, guys who respect what I did for the city, for
the team,” he said.
He also anticipates another
faction of fans, who might not be
thrilled he joined Golden State.
“I know there’s going to be
guys who think I’m a traitor because I came to the Warriors,” he
said. “It’s not that I said I wanted
to be a Warrior. They wanted me
as well. It’s part of the business,
the same way that I accepted that
they traded me. I’m fine with
that. I’m here now.”

Defending champs
in strong position
v CONTINUED FROM 1C

history is even more daunting, as
244 of 261 teams that trailed 2-0
in a seven-game series have gone

on to lose.
And to think, the Warriors
barely even needed back-to-back
MVP Stephen Curry to get the
job done.
Forward Draymond Green,
who did his best Curry impression (28 points, five three-pointers) while playing the tough
defense for which he’s known, led
the way.
But with Curry sitting and celebrating on the Warriors bench
for much of the third quarter,
Green and a motley crew that included Leandro Barbosa, Andre
Iguodala, Harrison Barnes and
Klay Thompson went on a 30-16
run without him that put them
up 82-62 entering the fourth.
James (19 points, nine assists,
eight rebounds) and the Cavs,
who struggled again to penetrate
Golden State’s superior switching
defense (35.4% shooting), are
clearly outmatched here.
Their alleged Big Three was ef-

fectively neutralized, as James
was mostly contained, Kyrie Irving had 10 points (on 5-for-14
shooting) and forward Kevin
Love missed five of seven shots
before leaving with concussionlike symptoms in the third quarter.
There will be clarity in the

coming days as to whether Love
will be able to play in Game 3 on
Wednesday, but it mattered little
that he wasn’t there Sunday.
The Cavs defense put them in
prime position early, as they led
21-19 after the first quarter despite James missing all five of his
shots and going scoreless in the
first quarter of a Finals game for
the first time in his career.
Having held Curry and
Thompson to a combined 20
points in Game 1, the Warriors’
dynamic duo had just five points
combined to that point (2-for-7
shooting) as Golden State missed
14 of 23 shots and coughed up six
turnovers to the Cavs’ one.
Tristan Thompson willed his
way to some key early baskets,
and Cleveland survived its own
shooting woes (8-for-25).

IN BRIEF
TRUCK SERIES DRIVER HAS
MAJOR FACIAL SURGERY

DENNIS WIERZBICKI, USA TODAY SPORTS

Jake Arrieta fell to 9-1 on the season

after losing to the Diamondbacks.

DIAMONDBACKS HAND
CUBS’ ARRIETA HIS FIRST LOSS

Jake Arrieta had been winning
at such a remarkable rate it was
almost jarring to see the reigning
National League Cy Young Award
winner lose a game. It finally happened. Arrieta’s franchise-record
streak ended at 20 wins Sunday
when Patrick Corbin and the
struggling Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Chicago Cubs
3-2. “Well, it was a good run,” Arrieta said. One that stretched over
24 regular-season starts since he
took the loss in Cole Hamels’
no-hitter for the Philadelphia
Phillies at Wrigley Field on July
25. Arrieta did lose to the New
York Mets in the NL Championship Series and was 2-1 in the
playoffs. Arrieta (9-1) lasted five
innings, allowing three runs and
nine hits. He threw 108 pitches
and struck out a season-high 12
while walking one. The Cubs lost
for the second time in 12 games
and went 8-2 on their homestand.
Both losses came in starts by Arrieta after they won 23 in a row
with him on the mound. “Obviously, Jake is a human. He’s going
to give it up sometimes,” catcher

Miguel Montero said. Arrieta,
however, had been unbeatable
during a historic run that placed
him among the game’s best. The
20 consecutive winning decisions
tied him with Roger Clemens
(1998-99) for third most in the
majors since 1913.

Australian driver Matt Mingay
was in serious but stable condition Sunday after having surgery
for facial injuries. Mingay crashed
during a trucks race Saturday at
Belle Isle in Detroit. His family
said he had surgery Saturday
night, according to a statement
from the Stadium Super Truck
Series. Mingay remained at Detroit Receiving Hospital. Mingay’s
truck overturned during the third
lap of the race, which was suspended after a long delay. Driver
Paul Morris, another Australian, provided more details on
Mingay’s condition Sunday. “He’s
lost a fair bit of his lower face, jaw
and all his bottom teeth, but he
has no permanent injuries,” Morris said. The SST circuit features
high-horsepower trucks designed
to take flight off jumps. Races
have ramps set up throughout the
course, and trucks can be
launched 20 feet in the air, covering more than 150 feet.

VENEZUELA, MEXICO EARN
COPA AMERICA VICTORIES

Josef Martinez slotted a leftfooted shot under goalkeeper Andre Blake in the 15th minute,
and Venezuela beat 10-man Jamaica 1-0 in their Group C opener in the Copa America soccer
tournament Sunday in Chicago.
Jamaica midfielder Rodolph
Austin was ejected in the 23rd
minute, receiving a straight red
card for a studs-up tackle on Venezuela’s Tomas Rincon.
uRafa Marquez and Hector
Herrera scored late goals to lift
Mexico past Uruguay 3-1 in an
opening-round match in Glendale, Ariz. Marquez’s close-range
shot in the 84th minute broke a
1-1 tie, and Herrera’s header from
just outside the net added another score in extra time.

TALIB SHOT IN LEG, WILL MISS WHITE HOUSE TRIP
Pro Bowl cornerback Aqib Talib likely will be released from
Medical City Dallas Hospital on
Monday after he was shot in the
lower right leg Sunda, the Denver
Broncos said. The Broncos also
confirmed on Twitter he wouldn’t
travel with the team to the White
House on Monday, when President Obama will honor the
squad for winning Super Bowl 50.
Broncos vice president of public relations Patrick Smyth
tweeted Sunday that Talib was

“doing OK.” The Broncos expect
him to make a full recovery.
Talib was shot at a Dallas
nightclub, according to multiple

reports, but a Medical City
spokesman would not confirm
the nature of his hospital visit.
WFAA reported Talib was one of
three people shot at Vlive Club
early Sunday. Dallas police confirmed they were investigating a
shooting in the vicinity of the
club. KUSA reported the gunshot
wound was accidental.
Talib, 30, has been with the
Broncos since 2014 and is a
three-time Pro Bowl selection.
The incident is the latest in a series of off-the-field issues that
have marked Talib’s pro career.

became the oldest tour winner
this year by more than five years
and the first to successfully defend a title since Inbee Park
won the KPMG Women’s PGA for
the third consecutive time last
year. Nordqvist finished at 17-under 196 on Stockton Seaview’s
Donald Ross-designed Bay
Course to tie the tournament record that Annika Sorenstam set
in 1998 and matched in 2005.
Nordqvist opened with rounds of

64 and 68. Nordqvist is the first
European winner on the tour
since Suzann Pettersen won

the Manulife LPGA last June. Japan’s Nomura, a two-time winner
this year, was the previous oldest
at 23.
LATE BIRDIES GIVE MCCARRON
FIRST CHAMPIONS TITLE

Scott McCarron won the Principal Charity Classic for his first
PGA Tour Champions title, birdieing the final three holes for a 7under-par 65 Sunday and a onestroke victory. The 50-year-old
finished at 15-under 201 at Wakonda Club in Des Moines to
edge Miguel Angel Jimenez
and Billy Andrade. Making his
17th start on the 50-and-older
tour, McCarron won for the first
time since the 2001 Bellsouth
Classic for the last of his three
PGA Tour titles. Andrade shot 68
after posting a course-record 63
Saturday and Jimenez 67.
ENGLAND’S FITZPATRICK
VICTORIOUS IN SWEDEN

NORDQVIST REPEATS AS
CHAMP IN LPGA CLASSIC

Anna Nordqvist successfully
defended her ShopRite LPGA

Classic title, closing with a 7-under-par 64 Sunday in Galloway
Township, N.J., for a one-stroke
victory over Haru Nomura, who
shot 66. The 28-year-old Swede

USA TODAY Sports

ANDREW SHURTLEFF, AP

East Carolina, above, celebrates
Sunday after advancing to the NCAA
baseball super regionals. Also
clinching trips: Florida, Louisville,
Miami (Fla.), Florida State, TCU and
Boston College.

England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick
won the Nordea Masters for his
second European Tour title,
shooting 1-under-par 71 Sunday
for a three-stroke victory. The 21year-old finished at 16-under 272
at Bro Hof Slott in Stockholm. He
won the British Masters in November. Denmark’s Lasse Jensen was second after a 68, and
Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts
was third at 12 under after a 70.

MARK J. REBILAS, USA TODAY SPORTS

Three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Aqib Talib has been with
the Broncos since 2014.

HARRISON, FLANAGAN WIN
HURDLES, HALF-MARATHON

Sally Pearson finished seventh
in her first competitive 100-meter hurdles race in a year after a
serious wrist injury, far behind an
up-and-coming American who
looks in prime shape to take the
Australian’s Olympic title. Kendra Harrison, 23, won in 12.46
seconds in the Diamond League
event Sunday in sunny Birmingham, England, showing her stunning victory in Eugene, Ore., last
week — in 12.24, the second-fastest time ever — was no one-off.
“To be doing as well as I am, I’m
just really blessed,” Harrison said.
Pearson trailed at 13.25, a time
she described as “disgusting.”
uU.S. Olympian Shalane
Flanagan won the women’s half
marathon in 1 hour, 7 minutes,
51 seconds in the Rock ’n’ Roll
Marathon on Sunday in San Diego, breaking her personal best by
40 seconds. It was the secondfastest half marathon by an
American this year. Amy Cragg,
who beat Flanagan in the U.S.
Olympic trials marathon in February, finished two minutes behind Flanagan but still ran a
personal-best 1:09:51. Rock ’n’
Roll San Diego will be their only
race before the Olympic marathon in August.
From staff and wire reports

SPORTS 3C

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

ENDING CTE IS WHAT MATTERS
Answers from
study will eclipse
NFL controversy
Nancy Armour


USA TODAY Sports

BOSTON Something was lost in
the furor over who made what
phone calls when and why the
NFL went back on its word.
The day is coming when former players won’t have to wait for
an autopsy to explain the mood
swings, the memory loss, the depression and, in the very worst of
cases, the urge to kill themselves.
That breakthrough will lead to
others. An explanation for why
some people exposed to repetitive head trauma get chronic
traumatic encephalopathy and
others do not and a test to indicate which group someone falls
into. Treatments that can slow
the progression of the disease

that has reduced dozens of former football players — and soccer
players and hockey players and
members of the military — to
shadows of themselves.
Maybe even stop CTE
completely.
“If we succeed in our goals,
then it’s a game changer,” Robert
Stern, the clinical core director of
Boston University’s Alzheimer’s
Disease and CTE Center, said last
week after announcing the start
of the seven-year study the NFL
is accused of trying to quash.
The NFL has much to answer
for when it comes to the concussion crisis. But if the CTE study
Stern is leading delivers on its
promise, the attempts to derail it
will be the league’s worst failing.
Building on other research, the

STEVEN SENNE, AP

“If we succeed in our goals, then it’s a game changer,” says Robert Stern, who leads a CTE study.

GREG M. COOPER, USA TODAY SPORTS

The NFL is accused of trying to quash a study on CTE.
new study is intended to identify
a diagnostic test for CTE. A group

of 240 males — half of whom

played in the NFL, 60 who played
in college and 60 who had no exposure to repetitive head trauma

— will be put through a three-day
battery of tests, including brain
imaging, spinal taps and samples
of blood and saliva.
The NFL players and the control group will be retested after
three years.
The tests, which begin next
month, will be done at four sites
across the country. Experts in every aspect related to repetitive
head trauma are involved.
“I think we’re going to really
learn a lot and discover a tremendous amount of information that
will give us some of the answers
of what is CTE in lifetime and,
yes, we can diagnose it,” said Martha Shenton, director of the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and another of the
study’s lead researchers.
“The pathophysiology is anoth-

er question,” Shenton added, referring to the progression of a
disease. “But you can’t look at the
pathophysiology until you have
an entity that you can identify.”
The $16 million study was supposed to be funded as part of the
NFL’s $30 million grant to the

National Institutes of Health. But
the league balked at it, according
to ESPN, because it is being led
by Stern, a critic of the NFL who
submitted an affidavit in support
of the former players in the classaction lawsuit over concussions.
But in a sign of the study’s importance and potential impact,
the NIH funded it anyway, using
taxpayer dollars.
“I’m really just thrilled that it’s
funded. That’s really it,” Stern
said, declining to further the fray
with the NFL. “Controversies are
not the focus of what I’m doing.
I’m trying to get those answers as
quickly as possible.”
That, after all, is what it’s all
about.
The damage to former players
has already been done, and the
time for trying to dodge the fallout is long over. What matters
now is finding treatment so the
suffering can be lessened and, ultimately, eliminated. Researchers
are getting close, with the timeline already shrinking from decades to years.
What the NFL fails to realize is
answers — transparency — only
help its cause. The sooner doctors
can tell someone he will or won’t
be at risk for CTE, the better it is
for the long-term future of the

NFL. But that’s not possible without first being able to diagnose
the disease while someone’s alive,
and researchers are confident
this study will allow them to do
that.
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Power (and wife) relieved to see skid end

Amid tough season,
driver gives Penske
desired Detroit win
Mike Brudenell

@MikeBrudenell
USA TODAY Sports

Liz Power
stood by the pit wall
at Belle Isle on Sunday, a plastic water
bottle in her hands
and a look of sheer terror on her
face.
She twisted the bottle into a
grotesque shape as husband Will
Power, the Team Penske ace

who’d gone winless in the Verizon
IndyCar Series for a year, led
Race 2 of the Chevrolet Dual in
Detroit.
She does it every race.
She goes through the agony
and ecstasy with her Australian
husband, who’d gone through the
wringer this season at Penske.
A few laps later, Will Power
ended a 19-race winless streak
and his wife released her grip and
breathed again.
He charged across the finish
line in his No. 12 Chevrolet in first
place.
ANALYSIS

DETROIT

RAJ MEHTA, USA TODAY SPORTS

Will Power said of his win Sunday, “It’s very satisfying. Been a
tough season. I kind of kept the pace, kept plugging away.”
“It’s been a weekend we’ve
been knocking on the door,” Will

Power said later. “It’s very satisfying. Been a tough season. I kind of

kept the pace, kept plugging

away.”
Before the race Sunday, team
owner Roger Penske said in the
pits that it had been a rough
weekend for his drivers. Juan
Pablo Montoya finished a teamhigh third Saturday in Race 1 to
Sebastien Bourdais.
Penske wanted a win in the
Motor City, and Power delivered,
beating teammate Simon Pagenaud and Andretti Autosport’s
Ryan Hunter-Reay to the finish
in a tough battle.
“It’s great,” said Power, who
was a man on a mission Sunday
to prove he still had it. “Roger this
morning — he was very keen. He
said one of us needed to win, and
for Chevrolet.
“Believe me, I’m very happy to
be the one.”
The pressure was certainly on
Power, who’d been snakebit this
season, to perform.
If Power could get into a crash,
he would. If something could fall
off his car, it did.
Montoya even suggested after
he and Power almost collided in
Race 1 on Saturday that Power
was desperate and was driving

crazy and said he would talk to
him about it.
Was he pressing?

“No, I don’t feel I was pressing,” Power replied at the postrace news conference. “Is that
what (Montoya) said? I don’t
know what that means. A button
or something?”
Power said he was just racing
as normal.
“I’ve changed nothing, honestly,” he said. “It’s just circumstance, you know, that puts you in
a position to win a race. It’s not
pressing. I didn’t have an issue at
all.”
Power was asked if his conversation with Montoya was robust.
“Yes, we did (meet),” Power
confirmed. “You know, we’re
teammates. That move (on Saturday) was for the win at the time.
Obviously, he didn’t want to give
up the lead. We’re both going for
the corner. We touched a little.
You know, it’s fine. It’s racing.
“At the end of the day, we’re
teammates, but we compete on
the track. It’s all good.”
Liz Power put the water bottle
down as her husband took the
checkered flag Sunday.
She reckoned it was all good,
too.

Brudenell writes for the Detroit Free
Press, part of the USA TODAY
NETWORK.

Rain forces NASCAR to postpone Pocono race
Monday event will be first in two years
Jeff Gluck

@jeff_gluck
USA TODAY Sports
LONG POND, PA . Day-long rain
and mist at Pocono Raceway
forced NASCAR to postpone the
Sprint Cup Series race scheduled
for Sunday afternoon.
The Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400 was rescheduled for
noon ET Monday. It still will air
on Fox Sports 1. It is the first
Monday race since Texas Motor
Speedway’s event was postponed
in April 2014.
The Sunday forecast called for
rain for most of the afternoon
with severe storms — including
wind, hail and lightning —
possible.
Pocono was the site of a lightning-related death in 2012 when
a fan in the parking lot was struck
and killed shortly after the conclusion of a race. Nine others
were injured.

Though NASCAR sent its fleet
of Air Titans and jet dryers out

onto the track in heavy mist Sunday morning, the precipitation
never let up.
NASCAR had been relatively
lucky with the weather this season, avoiding any major problems
aside from Charlotte Motor
Speedway’s Sprint Showdown
and Camping World Truck Series
races getting postponed for a day.
Races at Richmond International Raceway and Charlotte
were postponed because of rain
last season, but both were Saturday night races that ended up
running Sunday.
Also, the summer race at Michigan International Speedway was
rain-shortened and races at Bristol Motor Speedway in April,
Daytona International Speedway
in July and Phoenix International Raceway in November experienced significant weather delays.
Brad Keselowski will start
from the pole, and Pocono Raceway is expected to hold a moment
of silence for Muhammad Ali,
who died Friday.

MATTHEW O’HAREN, USA TODAY SPORTS

Air Titans unsuccessfully attempt to dry the track at Pocono Raceway on Sunday. The Axalta
“We Paint Winners” 400 was rescheduled for noon ET Monday.

4C SPORTS

E6

MLB SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East
Baltimore
Boston
Toronto
New York
Tampa Bay

W
32
33
31
26
25

L
23
24
27
30
30

Pct.
.582
.579

.534
.464
.455

GB
—
—
21/2
61/2
7

Strk.
W-1
L-1
W-1
L-1
W-3

Central
Cleveland
Kansas City
Chicago
Detroit
Minnesota

W
31
30
29
28

16

L
24
26
28
28
40

Pct.
.564
.536
.509
.500
.286

GB
—
11/2
3
31/2
151/2

Strk.
W-5
L-4
L-3
W-3
L-3

West
Texas
Seattle
Houston
Los Angeles
Oakland

W
34
31
28
26
25

L
22
25
30
30
32

Pct.
.607
.554
.483
.464
.439

GB
—

3
7
8
91/2

Strk.
W-3
L-3
W-3
W-1
L-3

Last
10
6-4
4-6
8-2
4-6
4-6
Last
10
6-4
6-4
2-8
5-5
4-6
Last
10
8-2
3-7

8-2
5-5
5-5

Home
21-11
19-12
14-14
13-12
11-15

Away
11-12
14-12
17-13
13-18
14-15

Home
17-12
19-7
13-12
15-12
9-18

Away
14-12
11-19
16-16
13-16

7-22

Home
21-9
12-14
17-14
12-17
13-16

Away
13-13
19-11
11-16
14-13
12-16

Home
15-11
15-12
14-16
15-14
6-23

Away
19-12
16-12
16-11
13-15
10-17

Home
22-8
16-11
15-16
15-15
14-16

Away
17-8
14-15
15-11
11-16
7-20

Home
16-11
16-12
10-15
9-20
13-16

Away
19-13
15-15
14-16
16-14
10-18

NATIONAL LEAGUE
East

Washington
New York
Miami
Philadelphia
Atlanta

W
34
31
30
28
16

L
23
24
27
29
40

Pct.
.596
.564
.526
.491
.286

GB
—
2

4
6
171/2

Strk.
W-1
L-1
W-1
W-1
L-4

Central
Chicago
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Cincinnati

W
39
30
30
26
21

L
16
26
27
31

36

Pct.
.709
.536
.526
.456
.368

GB
—
91/2
10
14
19

Strk.
L-1
L-1
W-2
L-1
L-1

West
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Colorado
Arizona
San Diego

W
35
31
24
25
23

L
24
27
31
34
34

Pct.
.593
.534
.436
.424
.404

GB
—
31/2
9
10
11

Strk.
L-2

W-3
L-4
W-1
W-2

Last
10
6-4
5-5
5-5
2-8
4-6
Last
10
8-2
3-7
6-4
5-5
6-4
Last
10
5-5
6-4
3-7
4-6
4-6

SUNDAY’S RESULTS
American League
Detroit 5, Chicago White Sox 2

Cleveland 7, Kansas City 0
Tampa Bay 7, Minnesota 5
Baltimore 3, N.Y. Yankees 1
National League
Washington 10, Cincinnati 9
Philadelphia 8, Milwaukee 1
L.A. Dodgers 12, Atlanta 6
Colorado at San Diego
Interleague
L.A. Angels 5, Pittsburgh 4

Toronto 5, Boston 4
Houston 5, Oakland 2
Texas 3, Seattle 2
Miami 1, N.Y. Mets 0
Arizona 3, Chicago Cubs 2
St. Louis 6, San Francisco 3

MONDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
GS

Pitchers

2016 Statistics
Pct.
WHIP
ERA

W-L

Kansas City at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. ET

KC: Duffy (L)
BAL: ()

4
0

(Line: OFF)
1.000 1.12
3.44
.000
.00
.00

1-0
0-0

L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. ET

LAA: Shoemaker (R)
NYY: Tanaka (R)

10
11

3-6
3-1

.333
.750

IP

K

36.2
0.0

40

(Line: NYY -160)
1.43
5.50
52.1
1.00
2.78
71.1

53
56

Toronto at Detroit, 7:10 p.m. ET

(Line: DET -114)
6-2
.750
1.16
5-1

.833
1.22

3.06
3.24

70.2
41.2

45
44

Houston at Texas, 8:05 p.m. ET

(Line: TEX -113)
3-3
.500
1.32
5-0
1.000 1.11

4.84
3.09

61.1
70.0

45
47

(Line: SEA -105)
.600
1.35
4.27
.000
3.00
7.36

52.2
3.2

47
7

(Line: CHC -255)
.667
1.02
2.29
.200
1.51
7.07

70.2
35.2

69
24

N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. ET

(Line: NYM -113)
.875
1.05
2.60
.714
1.45
4.36

55.1
64.0

53
47

Atlanta at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. ET

(Line: SD -126)
.667
1.17
3.86
.667
1.69
2.53

44.1
21.1

21
15

(Line: LAD -130)
1.21
2.99
69.1
1.13
4.20
15.0

44
14

TOR: Happ (L)
DET: Fulmer (R)

11
7

HOU: Fiers (R)
TEX: Lewis (R)

10
11

Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. ET

CLE: Bauer (R)
SEA: Paxton (L)

7
1

3-2
0-1

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chi. Cubs at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. ET

CHC: Lester (L)
PHI: Morgan (L)

11
7

NYM: Matz (L)
PIT: Niese (L)

9
11

ATL: Perez (R)
SD: Friedrich (L)

8
4

6-3
1-4
7-1
5-2
2-1

2-1

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. ET

COL: Chatwood (R)
LAD: Bolsinger (R)

11
3

6-4
1-2

.600
.333

INTERLEAGUE
Tampa Bay at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. ET

TB: Archer (R)
ARI: Ray (L)

12
11

3-7
2-4

(Line: TB -116)
.300

1.52
4.75
.333
1.67
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RESULTS, UPCOMING GAMES

Saturday
American League
BOS 6, TOR 4
DET 7, CHW 4
HOU 6, OAK 5 (12)
TB 7, MIN 4
CLE 7, KC 1
NYY 8, BAL 6
TEX 10, SEA 4
National League
CHC 5, ARI 3
MIL 6, PHI 3
CIN 6, WAS 3
NYM 6, MIA 4

STL 7, SF 4
LAD 4, ATL 0
SD 4, COL 3
Interleague
PIT 8, LAA 7

Tuesday
American League
KC at BAL, 7:05
LAA at NYY, 7:05
TOR at DET, 7:10
HOU at TEX, 8:05
CLE at SEA, 10:10
National League
CHC at PHI, 7:05
NYM at PIT, 7:05
STL at CIN, 7:10
ATL at SD, 10:10
COL at LAD, 10:10
Interleague
MIA at MIN, 8:10
OAK at MIL, 8:10
WAS at CHW, 8:10
TB at ARI, 9:40
BOS at SF, 10:15

Wednesday
American League
TOR at DET, 1:10
KC at BAL, 7:05

LAA at NYY, 7:05
HOU at TEX, 8:05
CLE at SEA, 10:10
National League
CHC at PHI, 1:05
ATL at SD, 3:40
NYM at PIT, 7:05
STL at CIN, 7:10
COL at LAD, 10:10
Interleague
TB at ARI, 3:40
MIA at MIN, 8:10
OAK at MIL, 8:10
WAS at CHW, 8:10
BOS at SF, 10:15

Rangers 3, Mariners 2

Tigers 5, White Sox 2

Seattle
Texas

Chicago
Detroit

000 200 000 — 2
000 030 00X — 3

ab r h bi bb so avg

Seattle
4 0 0 0 0 0 .243
Aoki cf
Gutierrez dh
2 0 0 0 1 1 .256
Lind ph
1 0 0 0 0 1 .246
Cano 2b
4 1 1 0 0 1 .289
Cruz rf
4 1 1 2 0 1 .289
Lee 1b
4 0 0 0 0 0 .305
3 0 0 0 0 2 .289
Seager 3b
Iannetta c
2 0 1 0 1 0 .222
Romero lf
2 0 0 0 0 1 .200
S. Smith ph
1 0 0 0 0 1 .263
Sardinas ss
2 0 0 0 0 1 .200
1 0 0 0 0 1 .152
O’Malley ph
Totals
30 2 3 2 2 10
u Batting — HR: Cruz (13); RBI: Cruz 2
(40); GIDP: Cruz.
u Fielding — E: Romero (1); Sardinas (2).

Texas
ab r h bi bb so avg
4 0 2 1 0 1 .390
Profar dh
Desmond cf
4 0 0 0 0 2 .305
Mazara rf
4 0 1 0 0 0 .304
Beltre 3b
4 0 0 0 0 2 .274
Odor 2b
3 0 1 0 0 0 .268
3 1 0 0 0 1 .206
Moreland 1b
3 1 0 0 0 0 .293
Andrus ss
3 1 1 1 0 1 .235
Hoying lf
1 0 0 1 1 0 .284
Wilson c
29 3 5 3 1 7
Totals
u Batting — SF: Wilson (2); RBI: Hoying
(3); Profar (3); Wilson (15).
u Fielding — E: Hoying (1).
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Seattle
7 4 3 1 1 7 4.13
Iwakuma L,4-5

1 1 0 0 0 0 2.16
Vincent
Texas
7 3 2 2 2 6 4.53
Holland W,5-4
2
Bush H,4
/3 0 0 0 0 2 1.69
1
Diekman H,15
/3 0 0 0 0 1 1.74
Dyson S,7
1 0 0 0 0 1 1.95
Iwakuma pitched to 1 batters in the 8th.
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Iwakuma
27; 89-61; Vincent 4; 20-14; Holland 25; 9260; Bush 3; 14-9; Diekman 1; 4-3; Dyson 3;
8-8
uUmpires — HP: Wolf; 1B: Lentz; 2B: Cederstrom; 3B: Cooper
uGame data — T: 2:30. Att: 37,616.

100 001 000 — 2
001 040 00X — 5

ab r h bi bb so avg
Chicago
4 0 0 0 0 0 .270
Eaton cf
Coats lf
4 0 0 0 0 3 .000
Abreu 1b

4 1 1 1 0 1 .251
Frazier 3b
4 1 1 1 0 2 .219
Lawrie 2b
4 0 0 0 0 1 .246
Garcia rf
4 0 0 0 0 2 .242
3 0 1 0 0 0 .224
Rollins dh
Avila c
2 0 1 0 1 0 .222
Saladino ss
3 0 1 0 0 1 .256
32 2 5 2 1 10
Totals
u Batting — 2B: Saladino (3); Rollins (8);
HR: Frazier (18); Abreu (7); RBI: Frazier (40);
Abreu (30) LOB: 4.
u Fielding — DP: 1.
ab r h bi bb so avg
Detroit
5 1 2 0 0 1 .315
Kinsler 2b
3 2 1 0 2 0 .414
Maybin cf
4 1 1 1 1 2 .307
Cabrera 1b
4 0 2 0 0 1 .352
V. Martinez dh
3 1 1 1 1 0 .256

J. Martinez rf
Castellanos 3b
4 0 1 1 0 1 .315
Romine 3b
0 0 0 0 0 0 .120
J. Upton lf
4 0 2 2 0 1 .220
McCann c
4 0 1 0 0 0 .178
Iglesias ss
3 0 1 0 0 2 .232
Totals
34 5 12 5 4 8
u Batting — 2B: Cabrera (11); J. Upton
(12); Maybin (2); S: Iglesias (2); RBI: J. Martinez (34); Castellanos (33); Cabrera (34); J.
Upton 2 (14); GIDP: Maybin LOB: 10.
u Baserunning — SB: Iglesias (4).
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Chicago
Quintana L,5-6
42/3 9 5 5 3 4 2.58
11/3 1 0 0 0 1 3.93
Gonzalez
Jennings
2 2 0 0 1 3 2.16
Detroit
Verlander W,5-5 7 5 2 2 1 8 3.97
1 0 0 0 0 1 5.51
Greene H,2

1 0 0 0 0 1 3.38
Rodriguez S,17
IBB: Cabrera (by Quintana). Batters faced;
pitches-strikes: Quintana 25; 103-57; Gonzalez 5; 23-16; Jennings 9; 30-17; Verlander
27; 104-76; Greene 3; 15-11; Rodriguez 3;
9-6
uUmpires — HP: Nauert; 1B: Kellogg;
2B: Tumpane; 3B: Porter
uGame data — T: 3:09. Att: 29,086.

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

Angels 5, Pirates 4

Rays 7, Twins 5

Diamondbacks 3, Cubs 2

Marlins 1, Mets 0

Los Angeles
Pittsburgh

Tampa Bay
Minnesota

Arizona
Chicago

New York
Miami

100 000 220 — 5
120 001 000 — 4

ab r h bi bb so avg
Los Angeles
5 1 1 0 0 0 .311
Escobar 3b
Calhoun rf
4 1 2 0 0 1 .306
4 0 1 0 0 0 .311
Trout cf
3 1 1 3 0 0 .238
Pujols 1b
Giavotella 2b
4 0 0 0 0 2 .274
Street p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
3 1 1 0 1 1 .245
Ortega lf
4 0 0 0 0 0 .203
Perez c
Santiago p
1 0 0 0 0 1 .333
Robinson ph
1 0 0 0 0 1 .233
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Guerra p

0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Alvarez p
Cron ph
1 1 1 1 0 0 .251
Guerra p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Ryan ss
Petit ss
4 0 2 1 0 0 .243
35 5 9 5 1 7
Totals
u Batting — 2B: Calhoun (11); Cron (7);
Petit 2 (7); HR: Pujols (12); SF: Pujols (2); RBI:
Cron (25); Pujols 3 (39); Petit (6) LOB: 5.
u Baserunning — SB: Ortega (4).
u Fielding — DP: 2.
ab r h bi bb so avg
Pittsburgh
3 1 1 0 2 0 .267
Mercer ss
Harrison 2b
5 0 1 1 0 1 .316
3 0 1 1 2 2 .308
Polanco lf
4 0 2 1 0 0 .284
Kang 3b
Figueroa pr
0 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Marte cf

4 0 1 1 1 1 .326
5 0 0 0 0 2 .258
Rodriguez 1b
2 1 0 0 2 1 .324
Joyce rf
Stewart c
4 1 2 0 0 0 .196
Cole p
2 1 1 0 0 1 .217
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Feliz p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Watson p
Jaso ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .289
Totals
33 4 9 4 7 8
u Batting — 2B: Mercer (8); Kang (7); S:
Cole (2); RBI: Harrison (27); Marte (21); Polanco (38); Kang (22); GIDP: Kang; Rodriguez LOB: 11.
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Los Angeles
Santiago
4 4 3 3 4 4 5.07
1 1 0 0 1 0 5.68
Guerra
Alvarez
1 3 1 1 0 1 4.23
12/3 0 0 0 0 3 5.14
Guerra W,1-0

Street S,6
11/3 1 0 0 2 0 0.90
Pittsburgh
Cole
62/3 6 3 3 1 4 2.85
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 2.61
Feliz H,13
Watson L,1-2 BS,2 1 2 2 2 0 2 4.50
1 1 0 0 0 1 3.38
Hughes
WP: Guerra. IBB: Marte (by Street). HBP:
Kang (by Santiago). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Santiago 21; 90-55; Guerra 5;
19-11; Alvarez 5; 17-11; Guerra 5; 28-16;
Street 6; 14-5; Cole 27; 102-67; Feliz 1; 4-2;
Watson 5; 17-15; Hughes 4; 11-9
uUmpires — HP: Barrett; 1B: Iassogna;
2B: Scott; 3B: Davidson
uGame data — T: 3:07. Att: 27,754.

010 201 012 — 7
103 000 010 — 5

ab r h bi bb so avg
Tampa Bay
4 0 1 0 0 3 .128
Mahtook cf
Franklin ph
0 0 0 0 1 0 .000
4 0 0 1 0 1 .243

Miller ss
4 3 3 3 1 1 .281
Longoria 3b
Morrison 1b
5 2 2 3 0 0 .258
Pearce dh
4 0 3 0 0 0 .316
3 0 0 0 1 0 .193
Dickerson lf
0 0 0 0 0 0 .171
Jennings lf
Souza Jr. rf
4 1 1 0 0 1 .259
Conger c
2 0 0 0 1 1 .203
0 0 0 0 0 0 .162
Motter pr
0 1 0 0 1 0 .182
Casali c
Beckham 2b
3 0 0 0 0 3 .180
Totals
33 7 10 7 5 10
u Batting — 2B: Souza Jr. (9); HR: Morrison 2 (7); Longoria 2 (14); S: Beckham (1);
SF: Miller (1); RBI: Morrison 3 (18); Miller
(18); Longoria 3 (34); GIDP: Souza Jr..
u Baserunning — CS: Pearce (2).
u Fielding — E: Miller (9).
ab r h bi bb so avg
Minnesota

4 2 2 1 0 0 .335
Nunez 3b
Dozier 2b
5 0 0 0 0 2 .206
4 0 1 1 1 2 .281
Mauer dh
Park 1b
5 1 1 1 0 2 .217
3 1 1 1 2 1 .327
Grossman lf
Escobar ss
3 0 0 0 1 2 .248
3 0 0 0 2 1 .194
Kepler rf
Suzuki c
4 1 1 0 0 2 .227
4 0 3 1 0 0 .250
Buxton cf
Totals
35 5 9 5 6 12
u Batting — 3B: Buxton (3); HR: Grossman (3); Nunez (7); Park (10); S: Escobar (1);
Nunez (2); RBI: Grossman (10); Nunez (22);
Buxton (4); Park (19); Mauer (21).
u Baserunning — SB: Nunez (12).
u Fielding — E: Buxton (2).
Pitching
ip h r er bb so era
Tampa Bay
5 7 4 4 3 7 4.94
Smyly

2 1 0 0 3 3 3.19
Ramirez
1 1 1 1 0 1 3.86
Cedeno W,3-1
BS,3
Colome S,15
1 0 0 0 0 1 1.08
Minnesota
52/3 7 4 4 2 8 4.79
Duffey
Pressly
11/3 0 0 0 1 1 4.50
1 1 1 1 0 0 2.63
Kintzler
2
Jepsen L,2-5
/3 2 2 2 2 1 6.26
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.92
Abad
WP: Pressly. IBB: Kepler (by Ramirez). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Smyly 26; 10262; Ramirez 10; 34-19; Cedeno 4; 19-11; Colome 2; 9-6; Duffey 24; 94-58; Pressly 5; 19-9;
Kintzler 4; 17-10; Jepsen 6; 36-21; Abad 1;
6-3
uUmpires — HP: Little; 1B: Barrett; 2B:
Barksdale; 3B: Hernandez
uGame data — T: 3:19. Att: 25,510.

020 010 000 — 3
010 001 000 — 2

ab r h bi bb so avg
Arizona
5 1 1 0 0 4 .288
Bourn cf
Gosselin 2b
4 0 1 0 1 2 .250
3 0 1 1 2 1 .261
Goldschmidt 1b
5 0 0 0 0 3 .270
Lamb 3b
Herrmann c
4 1 3 0 0 1 .293
Owings ss
3 1 2 0 0 1 .285
0 0 0 0 0 0 .201
Ahmed ss
4 0 1 2 0 2 .265
Tomas lf
Drury rf
2 0 0 0 2 2 .283
Corbin p
3 0 1 0 0 2 .310
1 0 0 0 0 0 .234
Weeks Jr. ph
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Clippard p
Ziegler p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals
34 3 10 3 5 18

u Batting — 2B: Tomas (12); S: Ahmed
(2); RBI: Goldschmidt (34); Tomas 2 (21)
LOB: 10.
u Baserunning — SB: Goldschmidt (7);
Owings (8); CS: Corbin (1).
ab r h bi bb so avg
Chicago
4 0 0 0 0 0 .303
Fowler cf
Zobrist 2b
3 0 0 0 1 1 .326
4 0 1 0 0 2 .274
Bryant 1b
Soler lf
3 0 0 0 0 0 .211
Warren p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
3 1 1 1 0 0 .252
Baez 3b
1 0 0 0 0 0 .280
La Stella ph
Russell ss
4 0 0 0 0 1 .236
Szczur rf
3 0 1 0 0 1 .347
0 0 0 0 1 0 .251
Rizzo ph
4 1 1 0 0 0 .207
Montero c
Arrieta p

1 0 1 1 0 0 .231
Cahill p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .333
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Grimm p
1 0 0 0 0 1 .238
Ross ph
Wood p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Heyward rf
0 0 0 0 0 0 .223
31 2 5 2 2 6
Totals
u Batting — 2B: Arrieta (1); HR: Baez (4);
S: Arrieta (1); RBI: Arrieta (5); Baez (12) LOB:
6.
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Arizona
Corbin W,3-5
7 5 2 2 0 5 4.73
1 0 0 0 1 0 2.38
Clippard H,6
1 0 0 0 1 0 3.00
Ziegler S,11
Chicago
Arrieta L,9-1
5 9 3 3 1 12 1.80
12/3 0 0 0 2 4 2.45
Cahill

1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 3.48
Grimm
Wood
11/3 1 0 0 1 2 2.45
2
Warren
/3 0 0 0 1 0 2.66
IBB: Drury (by Wood). HBP: Soler (by Corbin). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Corbin 27; 90-63; Clippard 5; 18-10; Ziegler 4;
13-8; Arrieta 23; 108-69; Cahill 7; 33-21;
Grimm 1; 5-3; Wood 6; 21-12; Warren 3;
11-5
uUmpires — HP: Morales; 1B: Gibson;
2B: Wendelstedt; 3B: Barry
uGame data — T: 3:00. Att: 41,596.

Nationals 10, Reds 9

Phillies 8, Brewers 1

Dodgers 12, Braves 6

Washington 000 532 000 — 10
Cincinnati
050 000 301 — 9

Milwaukee
Philadelphia

Atlanta

Los Angeles

Washington
ab r h bi bb so avg
5 1 2 1 0 0 .167
Revere lf
Taylor cf
5 0 1 0 0 2 .197
5 2 3 0 0 1 .249
Harper rf
Murphy 2b
5 3 3 3 0 0 .384
5 2 3 2 0 1 .350
Ramos c
Rendon 3b
5 0 0 0 0 0 .259
Robinson 1b
4 1 1 1 0 1 .196
Espinosa ss
3 1 0 0 1 1 .196
1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Roark p
Drew ph
1 0 1 1 0 0 .189
Solis p
2 0 0 0 0 1 .000
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Rivero p
Kelley p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000

Papelbon p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
41 10 14 8 1 7
Totals
u Batting — 2B: Robinson (3); Taylor (6);
HR: Murphy (10); Ramos (8); SF: Robinson
(2); RBI: Robinson (10); Revere (8); Drew (7);
Murphy 3 (37); Ramos 2 (31) LOB: 6.
u Baserunning — SB: Taylor (7).
u Fielding — E: Revere (2); DP: 1.
Cincinnati
ab r h bi bb so avg
4 1 3 2 1 1 .303
Holt cf
Votto 1b
3 1 0 0 2 1 .221
Phillips 2b
5 1 3 1 0 1 .268
Bruce rf
3 2 1 3 2 1 .280
5 1 1 0 0 2 .265
Duvall lf
Suarez 3b
3 1 1 0 0 1 .239
Smith p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hamilton ph
1 0 0 0 0 1 .248
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ohlendorf p

Wood p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Cozart ph
1 0 0 0 0 1 .303
De Jesus Jr. ss
5 1 1 2 0 2 .211
4 1 2 0 0 1 .244
Barnhart c
Moscot p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Wright p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ramirez p
Waldrop lf
2 0 0 0 0 1 .333
36 9 12 8 5 13
Totals
u Batting — 2B: De Jesus Jr. (3); Phillips
(11); HR: Bruce (13); S: Wright (1); Moscot
(2); RBI: Holt 2 (6); De Jesus Jr. 2 (9); Phillips
(26); Bruce 3 (40); GIDP: Votto LOB: 7.
u Baserunning — SB: Phillips (4).
u Fielding — E: Barnhart (5); De Jesus Jr.
(1).
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Washington
3 7 5 5 1 3 3.21
Roark

3 1 0 0 1 6 1.59
Solis W,1-1
1
Rivero
/3 2 3 3 1 1 5.19
12/3 0 0 0 0 2 1.80
Kelley H,5
Papelbon S,15
1 2 1 1 2 1 3.18
Cincinnati
32/3 5 5 5 1 3 8.02
Moscot
11/3 4 3 1 0 0 7.20
Wright L,0-2
2
Ramirez
/3 4 2 2 0 1 5.40
11/3 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Smith
Ohlendorf
1 1 0 0 0 0 4.21
1 0 0 0 0 1 3.72
Wood

Milwaukee
ab r h bi bb so avg
4 0 0 0 1 1 .307
Villar ss
Gennett 2b
5 0 2 0 0 1 .232

4 0 2 0 0 1 .316
Lucroy c
Marinez p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
1 0 1 0 0 0 .273
Hill ph
Carter 1b
5 0 1 0 0 2 .222
Santana rf
3 1 0 0 1 3 .242
Nieuwenhuis cf
4 0 0 0 0 3 .207
4 0 2 0 0 1 .316
Perez 3b
Flores lf
3 0 2 1 1 0 .222
Peralta p
1 0 0 0 0 1 .056
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ramirez p
Presley ph
1 0 1 0 0 0 .218
Barnes p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Maldonado c
1 0 0 0 0 0 .108
36 1 11 1 3 13
Totals
u Batting — S: Peralta (1); RBI: Flores (10);
GIDP: Carter LOB: 12.

u Baserunning — SB: Gennett (2); Villar
(21).
u Fielding — E: Peralta (2); DP: 1.
ab r h bi bb so avg
Philadelphia
Herrera cf
5 2 4 0 0 0 .317
4 0 0 1 0 0 .234
Galvis ss
Franco 3b
3 2 1 1 1 0 .250
4 1 2 1 0 0 .298
Joseph 1b
Paredes rf
4 1 2 3 0 0 .286
4 1 2 1 0 0 .286
Rupp c
Asche lf
3 1 1 0 1 1 .167
Araujo p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
D. Hernandez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
4 0 1 1 0 0 .255
Hernandez 2b
Nola p
2 0 0 0 0 1 .048
Goeddel ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .248
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Murray p

Bourjos rf
1 0 0 0 0 0 .193
Totals
35 8 13 8 2 2
u Batting — 2B: Joseph (2); 3B: Hernandez (4); HR: Paredes (2); Rupp (4); Franco
(10); S: Galvis (3); RBI: Paredes 3 (6); Galvis
(19); Hernandez (13); Rupp (12); Franco (31);
Joseph (7); GIDP: Rupp LOB: 6.
u Baserunning — SB: Herrera (7); Asche
(1).
u Fielding — DP: 1.
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Milwaukee
41/3 7 6 5 2 1 6.79
Peralta L,3-7
2
/3 2 2 2 0 1 5.79
Ramirez
Barnes
1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
2 3 0 0 0 0 2.77
Marinez
Philadelphia
6 8 0 0 2 9 2.65
Nola W,5-4
Murray
1 1 0 0 0 1 2.65
1 1 1 1 1 2 3.60
Araujo

D. Hernandez
1 1 0 0 0 1 2.67

000 000 010 — 1
101 150 00X — 8

200 001 021 — 6
214 110 30X — 12

Atlanta
ab r h bi bb so avg
3 0 0 0 1 0 .239
Smith cf
Ogando p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Vizcaino p
Castro ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .191
5 1 1 0 0 0 .314
d’Arnaud ss
Freeman 1b
3 0 0 0 0 2 .246
Gant p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Inciarte ph
2 0 0 0 0 0 .202
3 2 2 1 1 0 .287
Francoeur lf
Markakis rf

4 1 3 2 0 1 .248
Garcia 3b
4 1 2 1 0 0 .235
4 0 2 1 0 0 .211
Pierzynski c
K. Johnson 2b
4 0 1 0 0 1 .221
Wisler p
2 0 0 0 0 2 .045
Snyder 1b
2 1 1 1 0 1 .250
37 6 12 6 2 7
Totals
u Batting — 2B: d’Arnaud (6); Garcia (3);
Francoeur 2 (8); HR: Snyder (1); RBI: Snyder
(1); Garcia (10); Pierzynski (11); Francoeur
(15); Markakis 2 (31); GIDP: Pierzynski.
u Fielding — E: Garcia (8).
ab r h bi bb so avg
Los Angeles
Utley 2b
4 1 1 1 1 1 .268
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hatcher p
Coleman p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
5 2 3 4 0 0 .286
Seager ss
Thompson rf
3 2 1 0 2 2 .279

3 1 1 1 1 0 .284
Gonzalez 1b
Van Slyke 1b
1 0 0 0 0 0 .091
Kendrick 3b
5 1 2 1 0 0 .227
Pederson cf
4 1 1 1 1 1 .226
4 2 1 3 1 2 .192
Grandal c
Hernandez lf
5 1 2 1 0 1 .220
Kazmir p
3 1 2 0 0 1 .143
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Howell p
Fien p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Barnes ph
1 0 0 0 0 1 .125
Totals
38 12 14 12 6 9
u Batting — 2B: Hernandez (5); Gonzalez
(8); Utley (10); HR: Grandal (5); Hernandez
(4); Seager 2 (14); RBI: Grandal 3 (19); Hernandez (10); Pederson (26); Seager 4 (35);
Gonzalez (28); Utley (20); Kendrick (11).
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Atlanta
Wisler L,2-6

4 9 8 8 3 5 3.98
Gant
2 3 1 1 1 2 6.17
1 2 3 3 2 1 4.10
Ogando
Vizcaino
1 0 0 0 0 1 1.52
Los Angeles
5 7 3 3 1 5 4.46
Kazmir W,5-3
11/3 1 0 0 1 1 5.40
Howell
2
Fien
/3 0 0 0 0 0 6.23
1 3 2 2 0 1 5.79
Hatcher
Coleman
1 1 1 1 0 0 3.09

IBB: Franco (by Peralta). Batters faced;
pitches-strikes: Peralta 22; 86-53; Ramirez
3; 13-7; Barnes 4; 11-7; Marinez 8; 31-22; Nola 28; 103-69; Murray 3; 13-8; Araujo 5; 2013; D. Hernandez 4; 17-11
uUmpires — HP: Culbreth; 1B: Reynolds;
2B: Gonzalez; 3B: Bucknor
uGame data — T: 3:05. Att: 24,259.

Kazmir pitched to 2 batters in the 6th. Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Wisler 24;
101-59; Gant 9; 39-25; Ogando 7; 34-19;
Vizcaino 4; 14-11; Kazmir 23; 85-55; Howell

5; 20-11; Fien 1; 4-4; Hatcher 6; 22-17; Coleman 4; 18-12
uUmpires — HP: West; 1B: De Jesus; 2B:
Ripperger; 3B: Danley
uGame data — T: 3:17. Att: 47,950.

Indians 7, Royals 0

Orioles 3, Yankees 1

Astros 5, Athletics 2

Kansas City
Cleveland

New York
Baltimore

Oakland
Houston

WP: Ramirez. IBB: Espinosa (by Moscot).
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Roark 16;
62-40; Solis 11; 50-35; Rivero 4; 15-8; Kelley
5; 12-12; Papelbon 7; 27-15; Moscot 18; 7648; Wright 9; 27-17; Ramirez 5; 22-13; Smith
4; 14-10; Ohlendorf 4; 15-9; Wood 3; 12-8
uUmpires — HP: Eddings; 1B: Nelson;
2B: Diaz; 3B: Blaser
uGame data — T: 3:27. Att: 21,422.

000 000 000 — 0

100 130 20X — 7

Kansas City
ab r h bi bb so avg
4 0 1 0 0 1 .257
Escobar ss
Merrifield 2b
4 0 1 0 0 1 .328
3 0 1 0 0 1 .321
Hosmer 1b
Butera 1b
1 0 0 0 0 1 .300
2 0 0 0 0 1 .279
Perez c
Cruz c
2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
3 0 0 0 0 2 .191
K. Morales dh
Orlando rf
3 0 0 0 0 1 .333
2 0 0 0 1 0 .333
Fuentes lf
Cuthbert 3b
3 0 0 0 0 0 .261
2 0 0 0 1 1 .265
Dyson cf
Totals
29 0 3 0 2 11
u Batting — 2B: Escobar (8); GIDP: Perez
LOB: 4.

u Baserunning — SB: Dyson (11).
u Fielding — PB: Cruz (1); DP: 1.
ab r h bi bb so avg
Cleveland
4 1 2 2 0 2 .223
Santana 1b
Kipnis 2b
4 1 1 0 0 0 .271
Ramirez 3b
0 0 0 0 0 0 .317
Lindor ss
3 1 2 3 0 0 .313
Napoli dh
4 1 1 1 0 1 .239
Chisenhall rf
4 0 0 0 0 1 .278
Davis lf
4 0 0 0 0 1 .256
Gomes c
4 0 1 0 0 1 .176
Gimenez c
0 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Naquin cf
2 2 2 1 1 0 .351
Uribe 3b
2 0 0 0 1 1 .237
0 1 0 0 0 0 .269
Martinez pr
31 7 9 7 2 7
Totals

u Batting — 2B: Gomes (7); Naquin (3);
3B: Kipnis (2); HR: Lindor (6); Naquin (3); Napoli (14); Santana (10); SF: Lindor (3); RBI:
Lindor 3 (29); Naquin (7); Napoli (42); Santana 2 (27); GIDP: Kipnis LOB: 3.
u Fielding — DP: 1.
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
Kansas City
Young L,2-6
42/3 6 5 5 1 5 6.37
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 2.08
Wang
12/3 2 2 2 1 0 4.85
Alexander
11/3 1 0 0 0 2 1.86
Moylan
Cleveland
6 2 0 0 2 6 3.84
Kluber W,5-6
McAllister
2 0 0 0 0 2 3.43
Adams
1 1 0 0 0 3 2.35
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Young 21;
82-54; Wang 1; 6-4; Alexander 7; 25-17;
Moylan 5; 15-11; Kluber 21; 82-55; McAllister
6; 21-16; Adams 4; 18-15
uUmpires — HP: Davis; 1B: Drake; 2B: C.
Torres; 3B: Holbrook
uGame data — T: 2:21. Att: 16,747.

NL LEADERS
BATTING
Murphy, Washington
Braun, Milwaukee
Yelich, Miami
RUNS
Bryant, Chicago
Zobrist, Chicago
Polanco, Pittsburgh

.384
.337
.328
40
39
39

001 000 000 — 1
000 000 03X — 3

New York
ab r h bi bb so avg
5 1 1 0 0 2 .278
Ellsbury cf
Gardner lf
4 0 3 0 0 0 .237
1 0 0 0 0 1 .268
Beltran ph
Rodriguez dh

4 0 2 1 0 1 .211
4 0 0 0 0 3 .249
Castro 2b
McCann c
3 0 0 0 1 0 .220
4 0 2 0 0 0 .245
Headley 3b
Gregorius ss
4 0 2 0 0 0 .268
3 0 0 0 1 0 .250
Refsnyder 1b
Parmelee 1b
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
4 0 0 0 0 1 .195
Hicks rf
Totals
36 1 10 1 2 8
u Batting — 2B: Gardner 2 (7); RBI: Rodriguez (17); GIDP: Refsnyder.
u Fielding — E: Ellsbury (2).
Baltimore
ab r h bi bb so avg
5 0 0 0 0 1 .236
Jones cf
Rickard rf
3 0 1 0 0 1 .249
1 0 0 0 0 1 .377
Kim ph
Machado ss
2 0 0 0 2 1 .308
Trumbo dh

3 1 0 0 1 3 .292
Davis 1b
3 1 1 0 1 1 .215
2 0 0 0 2 2 .289
Reimold lf
4 0 0 0 0 1 .259
Schoop 2b
3 1 2 0 1 1 .571
Pena c
0 0 0 0 0 0 .217
Alvarez 3b
1 0 0 0 0 0 .111
Janish 3b
1 0 1 0 0 0 .211
Flaherty ph
1 0 1 2 0 0 .287
Wieters ph
29 3 6 2 7 12
Totals
u Batting — RBI: Wieters 2 (24); GIDP:
Schoop.
u Fielding — E: Machado (7); PB: Pena
(1).
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
New York
5 2 0 0 6 5 2.58
Sabathia
Yates H,2
1 0 0 0 0 2 3.68

11/3 2 2 2 1 3 3.54
Betances L,2-4
H,14
2
/3 2 1 0 0 2 2.25
Chapman BS,1
Baltimore
6 7 1 1 2 5 3.52
Gausman
McFarland W,1-1 2 3 0 0 0 2 3.86
1 0 0 0 0 1 1.11
Britton S,17
Sabathia pitched to 1 batters in the 6th.
WP: Gausman. HBP: Janish (by Sabathia).
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Sabathia
23; 111-68; Yates 3; 13-9; Betances 7; 32-19;
Chapman 4; 12-11; Gausman 27; 104-70;
McFarland 8; 25-17; Britton 3; 14-10
uUmpires — HP: Knight; 1B: Tichenor;
2B: Miller; 3B: Randazzo
uGame data — T: 3:26. Att: 28,807.

RBI
Arenado, Colorado
Rizzo, Chicago
Bryant, Chicago
Bruce, Cincinnati
HITS
Murphy, Washington
Marte, Pittsburgh

Segura, Arizona
HOME RUNS
Arenado, Colorado

44
40
40
40
81
70
70
17

200 000 000 — 2
000 011 12X — 5

Oakland
ab r h bi bb so avg
5 0 0 0 0 2 .231
Crisp lf
Lowrie 2b
4 0 0 0 1 2 .308
5 1 3 0 0 1 .281
Vogt c
Valencia 3b
3 1 1 0 1 1 .343
3 0 0 0 0 1 .234
Davis dh
Butler ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .241

3 0 2 2 1 0 .230
Alonso 1b
Semien ss
3 0 2 0 1 0 .235
3 0 0 0 0 2 .151
Coghlan rf
Smolinski ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .233
4 0 0 0 0 1 .248
Burns cf
Totals
35 2 8 2 4 10
u Batting — 2B: Vogt (13); Alonso (10);
RBI: Alonso 2 (12) LOB: 10.
u Fielding — E: Semien (5); Dull (2); Rzepczynski (2).
ab r h bi bb so avg
Houston
4 1 0 1 1 0 .288
Springer dh
Altuve 2b
4 0 2 0 1 1 .330
Correa ss
4 0 1 1 1 2 .267
Rasmus rf
5 0 0 0 0 1 .224
Gattis c
4 1 1 1 1 1 .248
Valbuena 3b
3 0 2 0 1 0 .226
White 1b

4 0 0 0 0 1 .217
C. Gomez cf
4 2 2 1 0 0 .191
Kemp lf
3 0 1 0 0 1 .235
Marisnick rf
0 1 0 0 1 0 .183
35 5 9 4 6 7
Totals
u Batting — 2B: Correa (9); C. Gomez (9);
HR: Gattis (9); C. Gomez (1); RBI: Gattis (23);
Springer (36); Correa (32); C. Gomez (6)
LOB: 12.
Pitching
ip h r er bb so era
Oakland
5 5 1 1 1 5 5.77
Gray
1
Coulombe BS,1
/3 2 1 1 0 0 4.70
Dull L,1-1
1 1 1 0 1 0 2.64
2
/3 0 0 0 1 1 2.59
Doolittle
Rzepczynski
1 1 2 1 3 1 3.60
Houston
McCullers W,3-1 7 8 2 2 3 9 4.23

1
Sipp H,6
/3 0 0 0 1 0 3.54
2
Neshek H,8
/3 0 0 0 0 0 2.89
1 0 0 0 0 1 0.34
Harris S,1
WP: McCullers. IBB: Gattis (by Doolittle).
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Gray 21;
69-49; Coulombe 3; 11-6; Dull 6; 23-12; Doolittle 3; 16-8; Rzepczynski 8; 31-14; McCullers
32; 108-69; Sipp 2; 10-4; Neshek 2; 6-4; Harris 3; 11-8
uUmpires — HP: Blakney; 1B: Foster; 2B:
Winters; 3B: Wegner
uGame data — T: 3:05. Att: 30,817.

Duvall, Cincinnati
Story, Colorado
Cespedes, New York
STOLEN BASES
Villar, Milwaukee
Marte, Pittsburgh
Hamilton, Cincinnati

16
15
15
21
18
13

000 000 000 — 0
000 010 00X — 1

ab r h bi bb so avg
New York
4 0 1 0 0 2 .211
De Aza cf
Cabrera ss
4 0 0 0 0 2 .267
4 0 1 0 0 3 .206
Granderson rf
4 0 0 0 0 3 .279
Walker 2b
Conforto lf
3 0 1 0 0 1 .247
Loney 1b
3 0 1 0 0 1 .333
3 0 0 0 0 1 .214
Flores 3b
3 0 0 0 0 0 .179
Rivera c
Harvey p
2 0 0 0 0 2 .125
Cespedes ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .277
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Bastardo p
31 0 4 0 0 15
Totals

u Batting — 2B: Granderson (9) LOB: 4.
ab r h bi bb so avg
Miami
Suzuki rf
4 0 1 0 0 0 .313
Prado 3b
3 0 0 0 0 1 .305
Yelich lf
3 0 1 0 0 0 .328
3 0 0 0 0 0 .314
Ozuna cf
Bour 1b
3 0 0 0 0 1 .242
Phelps p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .500
Ramos p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
3 1 2 0 0 1 .310
Dietrich 2b
Rojas 2b
0 0 0 0 0 0 .254
Realmuto c
3 0 1 1 0 0 .301
Hechavarria ss
3 0 0 0 0 0 .243
2 0 0 0 0 0 .190
Fernandez p
C. Johnson 1b
1 0 0 0 0 1 .238
28 1 5 1 0 4

Totals
u Batting — 2B: Dietrich (11); RBI: Realmuto (15) LOB: 3.
u Baserunning — CS: Suzuki (2).
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
New York
7 4 1 1 0 3 4.95
Harvey L,4-8
Bastardo
1 1 0 0 0 1 3.91
Miami
Fernandez W,9-2 7 4 0 0 0 14 2.29
Phelps H,13
1 0 0 0 0 0 2.20
1 0 0 0 0 1 1.88
Ramos S,18
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Harvey 25;
104-70; Bastardo 3; 9-7; Fernandez 25; 10073; Phelps 3; 13-10; Ramos 3; 12-9
uUmpires — HP: Estabrook; 1B: DeMuth;
2B: Fagan; 3B: Gibson
uGame data — T: 2:17. Att: 28,196.

Blue Jays 5, Red Sox 4
Toronto
Boston

103 001 000 — 5
000 000 013 — 4

Toronto

ab r h bi bb so avg
4 1 1 1 0 1 .229
Bautista rf
Donaldson dh
3 1 0 0 1 1 .250
4 1 1 2 0 0 .248
Encarnacion 1b
Smoak 1b
0 0 0 0 0 0 .275
3 1 1 1 1 1 .197
Martin c
Saunders lf
4 0 0 0 0 0 .289
4 0 0 0 0 2 .211
Travis 2b
Pillar cf
4 0 0 0 0 0 .237
3 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Dominguez 3b
Barney ss
1 1 1 1 2 0 .327
Totals
30 5 4 5 4 5
u Batting — HR: Barney (3); Bautista (12);
Encarnacion (12); Martin (4); RBI: Barney (9);
Bautista (38); Encarnacion 2 (46); Martin
(15); GIDP: Bautista LOB: 2.
ab r h bi bb so avg
Boston
Betts rf

3 0 0 0 1 1 .285
Pedroia 2b
3 1 1 0 1 0 .316
4 0 0 0 0 0 .345
Bogaerts ss
Ortiz dh
4 0 1 1 0 1 .340
Castillo pr
0 1 0 0 0 0 .500
Shaw 3b
4 0 0 0 0 2 .284
3 1 1 1 1 0 .282
Ramirez 1b
Bradley Jr. cf
4 0 1 1 0 1 .323
Young lf
4 1 2 1 0 0 .295
3 0 0 0 0 1 .217
Vazquez c
Hernandez ph
1 0 0 0 0 1 .235
Totals
33 4 6 4 3 7
u Batting — 2B: Ortiz (26); Ramirez (10);
Pedroia (16); HR: Young (4); RBI: Bradley Jr.
(38); Ortiz (54); Ramirez (33); Young (10)
LOB: 5.
u Fielding — DP: 1.
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching

Toronto
8 2 2 2 3 5 2.41
Estrada W,4-2
Osuna
1 4 2 2 0 2 1.71
Boston
Rodriguez L,1-1 52/3 4 5 5 3 0 5.40
Hembree
21/3 0 0 0 1 4 1.93
1 0 0 0 0 1 6.24
Buchholz
Estrada pitched to 1 batters in the 9th. WP:
Estrada. Batters faced; pitches-strikes:
Estrada 29; 110-75; Osuna 7; 29-18; Rodriguez 23; 99-56; Hembree 8; 37-25; Buchholz
3; 8-7
uUmpires — HP: Barber; 1B: Kulpa; 2B:
Conroy; 3B: Meals
uGame data — T: 2:44. Att: 35,823.

Cardinals 6, Giants 3
San Francisco 000 201 000 — 3
001 004 01X — 6
St. Louis
San Francisco
ab r h bi bb so avg
5 0 2 0 0 1 .266
Span cf
Panik 2b
4 0 0 0 0 1 .246
3 1 1 0 1 1 .235

Duffy 3b
Belt 1b
3 0 1 0 1 0 .298
4 0 0 1 0 2 .266
Crawford ss
Blanco lf
3 1 0 0 1 1 .252
3 1 1 2 0 1 .205
Parker rf
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Strickland p
Lopez p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
Gearrin p
Gillaspie ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .176
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Osich p
Kontos p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
3 0 1 0 0 1 .246
Brown c
Peavy p
2 0 0 0 0 2 .222
1 0 0 0 0 0 .176
Williamson lf
Tomlinson ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .301
33 3 6 3 3 10

Totals
u Batting — HR: Parker (2); RBI: Crawford (31); Parker 2 (5); GIDP: Tomlinson
LOB: 7.
u Fielding — E: Crawford (3); DP: 1.
ab r h bi bb so avg
St. Louis
4 1 3 1 0 0 .281
Carpenter 3b
4 1 2 1 0 1 .328
Diaz ss
Holliday lf
3 1 0 0 1 1 .254
0 0 0 0 0 0 .254
Hazelbaker lf
Piscotty rf
3 1 0 0 0 0 .311
3 1 2 1 1 1 .325
Adams 1b
4 0 1 1 0 0 .256
Molina c
G. Garcia 2b
3 0 0 1 0 1 .452
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Siegrist p
Oh p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
1 0 1 0 0 0 .250
Gyorko ph
Rosenthal p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000

Grichuk cf
4 1 1 1 0 1 .219
1 0 0 0 0 1 .182
Martinez p
Broxton p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
2 0 0 0 0 0 .222
Wong 2b
Totals
32 6 10 6 2 6
u Batting — 2B: Carpenter (17); Diaz (16);
Grichuk (9); S: Martinez (2); RBI: Adams (27);
Carpenter (36); G. Garcia (5); Diaz (30); Molina (21); Grichuk (26); GIDP: Grichuk LOB: 6.
u Fielding — E: Martinez (1); DP: 1.
ip h r er bb so era
Pitching
San Francisco
Peavy L,2-6
5 5 4 4 2 5 6.41
0 1 1 0 0 3.48
Strickland
1 0 0 0 0 5.40
Lopez BS,1
Gearrin
2 1 0 0 0 1 2.45
1
Osich
/3 3 1 1 0 0 4.34
2
Kontos

/3 0 0 0 0 0 3.52
St. Louis
6 4 3 3 2 7 3.76
Martinez W,6-5
1
Broxton H,5
/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.98
2
/3 1 0 0 1 1 2.38
Siegrist H,4
1 0 0 0 0 2 1.76
Oh H,9
1 1 0 0 0 0 3.32
Rosenthal S,10
Lopez pitched to 1 batters in the 6th. WP:
Siegrist. HBP: Piscotty (by Strickland). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Peavy 21; 8159; Strickland 1; 1-0; Lopez 1; 3-2; Gearrin 7;
22-15; Osich 4; 9-6; Kontos 2; 6-3; Martinez
25; 100-60; Broxton 2; 3-1; Siegrist 4; 16-9;
Oh 3; 10-7; Rosenthal 3; 11-8
uUmpires — HP: Hoye; 1B: Fairchild; 2B:
Joyce; 3B: Hudson
uGame data — T: 3:05. Att: 44,907.

AL LEADERS
BATTING
Martinez, Detroit
Bogaerts, Boston
Ortiz, Boston
RUNS
Betts, Boston

Kinsler, Detroit
Bogaerts, Boston
RBI
Ortiz, Boston
Cano, Seattle
Encarnacion, Toronto
HITS
Bogaerts, Boston
Altuve, Houston
Pedroia, Boston
HOME RUNS
Trumbo, Baltimore
Frazier, Chicago
Ortiz, Boston
Cano, Seattle
STOLEN BASES
Altuve, Houston
Nunez, Minnesota
Davis, Cleveland
Ellsbury, New York
Burns, Oakland

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SPORTS 5C

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016
GYMNASTICS

MIKULAK WINS, BUT TEAM FAR FROM SET

Selection committee
has tough task with
trials coming next
Nancy Armour


USA TODAY Sports

Imagine trying to
cram 500 jigsaw pieces into a
100-piece puzzle.
Welcome to the U.S. men’s
gymnastics selection committee’s
nightmare.
The Olympic qualifying process is halfway complete, and
there’s no more clarity than when
it began. Actually, there might be
even less.
Sam Mikulak and Jake Dalton,
penciled in for the five-man Rio
team by pretty much everyone
before nationals, lived up to the
expectations. Mikulak won his
fourth consecutive U.S. title Sunday, and he did so in the kind of
commanding fashion that would
make him an all-around contender in Brazil. Dalton was third and
also finished in the top three on
vault, floor and still rings.
After that, however, very little
went according to form.
Donnell Whittenburg, a medalist in last year’s world championships and the leader after prelims,
dropped into a tie for fifth after
falls on high bar and pommel
horse. John Orozco, a 2012 Olympian, was 10th, while reigning
Olympic all-around bronze medalist Danell Levya wasn’t even
among the 13 who automatically
qualified for trials.

Leyva, who was 16th, made the
HARTFORD

MADDIE MEYER, GETTY IMAGES

Sam Mikulak was second in parallel bars en route to winning his fourth U.S. all-around title. His
commanding performance makes him a near-lock for the Olympic team.
trials as an at-large pick.
Meanwhile, veteran Chris
Brooks, a perennial alternate, was
as solid and steady as a metronome in finishing second. Fellow
bubble dwellers Paul Ruggeri and
Marvin Kimble made strong
cases for themselves, too, as did
Yul Moldauer, who won the
NCAA title in April as a freshman.
“It’s not surprising, because we
know we have so much depth, but
it is surprising it got so mixed up
at the end,” Dalton said. “But it’s
great for the team, because it’s
showing how strong we are.”

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Rich Dodgers can
afford to be artful
Willing to gamble,
club eats $35 million
in dumping Crawford

Gabe Lacques

@GabeLacques
USA TODAY Sports

When
embattled
Frank
McCourt sold the Los Angeles
Dodgers in 2012, the city hailed
the inclusion of basANALYSIS ketball legend Magic
Johnson in the new
ownership group.
Four years later,
it’s clear managing
partner Mark Walter is the franchise’s true magic man.
His deep pockets can make bad
contracts, ill-conceived gambles
and impetuous decisions vanish
into thin air, the latest example
coming Sunday, when the Dodgers designated outfielder Carl
Crawford for assignment.
The Dodgers still owe Crawford $35 million for the rest of
this season and 2017. In essence,
Crawford’s contract was the poison pill the Boston Red Sox insisted the Dodgers ingest when
they sent Adrian Gonzalez, Josh
Beckett and Nick Punto west in a
nine-player 2012 deal that altered
the course of two franchises.
Gonzalez was the cornerstone

the Dodgers needed after years of
neglect under McCourt, and he
has not disappointed, producing a
.809 on-base-plus-slugging percentage in four seasons.
But to get him, the Dodgers
took on $32 million-plus owed
Beckett and about $108 million
due Crawford, already in a steep
health and production decline in
just the second year of a sevenyear $142 million deal.
When the Dodgers acquired
Crawford, it seemed inevitable
this day would come. What we
didn’t realize was the Dodgers’
willingness to eat salary with the
volume and enthusiasm their
fans inhale Dodger Dogs.
A front office led by Andrew
Friedman and an all-star cast of
lieutenants endeavors to operate
efficiently and creatively, yielding
enhancements such as Japanese
right-hander Kenta Maeda and
outfielder Trayce Thompson. Yet
as Friedman and Co. exploit market inefficiencies on one hand, on
the other the franchise does not
shy away from the big bet.
Consider their forays into the
international market, where draft
position doesn’t matter and fi-

nancial might — and the willingness to pay steep penalties to
Major League Baseball — means
the world.
uThey guaranteed Yasiel Puig
$42 million just weeks after Walter and Co. bought the team.
uThey guaranteed $62.5 million (almost half of it in a signing
bonus) to another Cuban outfielder, Hector Olivera, in 2015.
uThey signed Cuban infielder
Alex Guerrero to a four-year,
$28 million deal in 2013 and designated him for assignment last
week.
uThey signed Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarruena to a
five-year, $25 million contract in
2014 and have twice suspended
him for insubordination.
uThey signed Cuban righthander Yaisel Sierra to a $30 million deal, and he might ultimately
profile as a reliever, not a starter.
As one of the richest clubs in a
$10 billion industry, the Dodgers
have proved there are far fewer
ramifications to miss very badly
on a big investment.
Take Olivera. The power-hitting Cuban didn’t even get 100
minor league plate appearances
before the Dodgers determined
he was a bust. So they spun him
off to the Atlanta Braves three
months after signing him, shrugging off $30 million sunk into a
player who never made it anywhere near Chavez Ravine.

Puig turned out better, producing a .925 OPS in 2013 and an AllStar first half in 2014. He faded
badly, however, and beset by injury has just a .248/.306/.406 slash
line this year and last. As he plays
his way toward the margins of the
roster, it’s not hard imagining,
perhaps via trade, the Dodgers
eat some of his salary, too.
Remember Andre Ethier? He
got an $85 million extension two
months into the Walter era but
has been on the disabled list all
season and, at 35, it’s hard to
imagine him central to the club’s
2017 plans. No matter — he’s still
owed $20 million.
It’s possible the aforementioned players will stick around
for the duration of their deals,
and many of them provided
meaningful returns on the investments in them.
Yet as the Dodgers strive to
build what club President Stan
Kasten often calls a long-term,
sustainable baseball empire, it’s
also clear there will be many
more days like Sunday, when
Crawford was ejected with a
$35 million parachute.

Because of the unforgiving
three-up, three-count format in

team finals, picking the Rio squad
is not as easy as simply taking the
top five after scores from nationals and trials are combined. The
Olympic trials are June 23 and 25
in St. Louis.
Teams need three big scores on
each of the six events, so the selection committee will be crunching numbers to make sure the
strengths and weaknesses of their
five balance out.
It’s why only the top two after
trials are guaranteed spots in Rio

— but only if they’re also in the
top three on at least three events.
It’s also why someone such as
Brooks, whose best events are
ones in which the Americans are
strong, has been passed over before in favor of someone who can
put up a big score on, say, pommel horse, a U.S. weakness.
“I’ve thought I’ve made my
case for that many times and ended up in the alternate position,”
Brooks said when asked if he
thinks he’s convinced the committee he needs to be on this U.S.
team. “I need to continue proving

myself as a worthy competitor.”
For years, the U.S. men have
said they have so much depth
that there were a dozen guys who
could make a world or Olympic

team. In reality, however, it was
really more like six or seven, with
one spot actually up for grabs.
But between some of the big
names struggling and the unexpected impressive performances,
there are about a dozen possible
scenarios, using 10 gymnasts.
Mikulak, the first man to win four
U.S. titles since Blaine Wilson
won five in a row from 1996 to
2000, is the only one who could
be considered a lock right now.
“They are not making it any
easier on us,” national team coordinator Kevin Mazeika said. “But
that’s a good thing.”
There’s a good chance trials
will only make the headache
worse. Some who had great meets
here will get flustered at the
thought of an Olympic berth being so close. Some who struggled
will be motivated to redeem
themselves.
Leyva, for one, fully intends to
make life miserable for the committee. He has a history of rallying after poor meets, including in
London, where he was on the allaround podium two days after the
Americans finished a disappointing fifth in the team competition.
“That’s a pretty big comfort,”
Leyva said, his voice hard with
determination. “People tend to
forget about that. I don’t mind

being the underdog.”
In other words, buckle up.
Nothing is close to being settled.
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Deadline be darned

Pitching market thin, so White Sox strike early with Shields
Bob Nightengale


USA TODAY Sports

The Chicago White Sox knew
the standard protocol was to wait
six weeks, deciding what to do
much closer to the trade deadline.
But they couldn’t afford to stay
patient.
They knew that summer might
offer the worst inventory of available starting pitching at the trade
deadline in decades.
A year ago, the likes of David
Price, Johnny Cueto, Cole Hamels, Mike Leake, Scott Kazmir,
Alex Wood and J.A. Happ were
traded in July.

This year, the market is so ugly
that 36-year-old Rich Hill of the
Oakland Athletics could be the
best of the bunch. Perhaps by a
long shot.
So the White Sox feared if they
waited any longer, after losing 17
of their last 23 games, they could
be out of the race by the time the
Aug. 1 deadline rolled around.
So they kick-started the market, buying low on struggling San
Diego Padres starter James
Shields, a move that might prove
impetuous or incredibly forwardlooking.
The White Sox gave up two
fringe prospects in pitcher Erik
Johnson and shortstop Fernando
Tatis Jr. and are paying just
$27 million of the remaining
$61 million owed on Shields’ contract. If Shields pitches great
down the stretch and decides to
opt out of his contract, the White
Sox are on the hook for only
$5 million, according to a person
with direct knowledge of the deal.
He spoke to USA TODAY Sports
on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to
publicly divulge financial details.
Shields, 2-7 with a 4.28 ERA
this year, is no longer the ace who

led the Kansas City Royals to
their first pennant in 29 years in
2014. Yet he’s the only pitcher in
the major leagues who has
pitched at least 200 innings the
last two seasons, stretching to
nine his streak of 200 inningsplus seasons. He’s back in the
American League Central, where
he went 27-17 with a 3.18 ERA
over 2013 and 2014, and no longer is needed to carry a staff.
“He has proven he can be an

JAKE ROTH, USA TODAY SPORTS

James Shields was 2-7 with the Padres before Saturday’s trade.
elite starter in the American
League historically, but that’s not
necessarily what we’re asking of
him,” White Sox general manager
Rick Hahn said. “With the way
our rotation sets up for the next
few years, we just need him to be
a nice, stabilizing presence in the
middle of it. He has a very long
track record of durability and
performance.”
Good luck finding that in this
year’s emaciated trade market.
It’s no wonder that the New
York Yankees, if they’re out of the

race, might be sellers for the first
time since 1989, when they traded
Rickey Henderson to the Oakland
Athletics and Mike Pagliarulo to
the Padres.
Yankees starters Nathan Eovaldi and Michael Pineda, who
are a year away from free agency,
could be available. If the Yankees
are not in striking distance of first
place by Aug. 1 — and at 26-30,
their most compelling race might
be with the Tampa Bay Rays to
avoid the cellar — they will have
every contender calling about
their relief power trio of Aroldis
Chapman, Andrew Miller and
Dellin Betances.
You don’t think Theo Epstein
and the Chicago Cubs — and almost every other contender —
won’t salivate at the thought of
having one of them anchor their
bullpen in October?
“Frankly, we felt (pitching) was
going to be fairly difficult to address in the coming weeks leading up to the trade deadline,”
Hahn said. “Given the supply and
demand out there, we felt it was
an important one to move on
early.”
It’s little wonder the Padres,

who are 23-34 this season after
going 74-88 in 2015 following a
trade and free agent spree, are so
popular. Starters Andrew Cashner and Tyson Ross — the latter
trying to come back from an inflamed shoulder — and the entire
San Diego bullpen are available.
Of course, so are high-priced outfielders Matt Kemp and Melvin
Upton Jr.
“We haven’t been good enough
the last year and a half as a group,
as a team, as an organization,” Padres GM A.J. Preller said. “We
talk about it a lot.”
Those talks have always been
kept private.
Padres executive chairman
Ron Fowler went public. He
blasted his players, calling them
“miserable failures,” on their flagship station, The Mighty 1090,
three days before the Shields
trade.
“We rolled the dice on some
major league signings, major
league trades,” Fowler told host
Dan Sileo. “We collectively have
to look at that and say it didn’t
come together as well as we
wanted.”
The Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers and
Los Angeles Angels soon might
be singing in the same choir, hoping to know by August whether

they are contenders or are simply
fooling themselves.
The White Sox jumped in first.
We might not have to wait long
to know who’s next.
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6C SPORTS

Djokovic
climbs
up major
ladder
v CONTINUED FROM 1C

What Novak has done and is doing warrants a big jaw drop from
sports fans.”
Djokovic dropped 14,000 jaws
inside Court Philippe Chatrier,
winning in four sets against world
No. 2 Andy Murray. It was a victory that further cemented him
as the best tennis player in the
world, and it reignited the discussion: Is he the best ever?
Djokovic is halfway to the calendar Grand Slam — winning all
four majors in the same year —

after his victory at Roland Garros.
Courier, in 1992, was the last to
win the first two majors consecutively in men’s tennis.
Djokovic continues to sneak up
on Federer (17), Rafael Nadal (14)
and Pete Sampras (14) in the major titles column. His count: 12.
“He is getting close to Federer
and close to Nadal,” said one of
his coaches, Marian Vajda. “He is
one of the best players (in history). This is a very, very special
Grand Slam to win. We’ll see
what the future brings. I don’t
know if he can get to 17, but he is
at 12, so this is an important time
to enjoy.”
At one point in his career, Djokovic said he rued the fact that he
was a part of the Federer-Nadal
era. Flailing and frustrated, he
was left wondering if he would
ever break through the ceiling
that Roger and Rafa had so carefully built.
“I realized that in life everything happens for a reason,” Djokovic said Sunday, his trophy next
to him. “You’re put in this position with a purpose, a purpose to
learn and grow and evolve. I realized that I needed to get stronger
and accept the fact that I’m competing with these two tremendous champions.”
While Federer and Nadal have
spent much of their careers setting records, Djokovic is busying
himself with breaking them.
While they, Murray, Stan Wawrinka and others continue to
challenge Djokovic, his destiny in

tennis seems to be within his
control.
Can he win the calendar Grand
Slam? The Golden Slam (with an
Olympic gold added in)?
“I really think everything is
achievable in life,” Djokovic said.
“Whether or not I can reach a calendar Slam, that’s still a possibility.”
Djokovic drew a heart in the
clay, thanking the Parisian fans as
he laid in it. It was an ode to Gustavo Kuerten, a three-time winner here. Kuerten thinks Djokovic has a shot at going 4-for-4 in
2016, too.
“Every time you ask if he’s going to win the tournament, I say,
‘If he’s in it, he is the favorite,’ ”
Kuerten said. “He will be the favorite the next couple of years.”
That is perhaps the most dangerous thought: As Federer
(back) and Nadal (wrist) fight injuries and Murray (10-24 lifetime
against Djokovic) has a difficult
time solving Djokovic, the 29year-old Serbian only looks to do
more.
Courier said the calendar Slam
— which Serena Williams was
two matches away from completing in 2015 — becomes a discussion after Wimbledon, and
of course only if Djokovic wins
there.
And then for Djokovic? The
sky is the limit.
“If he gets into calendar Slam
position, you saw how difficult it
was to close this match out trying

to do something he’s never done
before,” Courier said. “If he gets
to the U.S. Open, he’ll be in that
position again in trying to do
something that he — and he’s
done almost everything — has
never done. That hits different
people different ways. It hit Serena hard. But he certainly has the
game to get it done.”
Williams lost to Garbine Muguruza in Saturday’s women’s final, falling short of tying Steffi
Graf’s Open-era record of 22
Grand Slam titles.
As the major titles continue to
pile up, Djokovic is becoming the
foe that rivals don’t want to face.
“What he has achieved the last
12 months is phenomenal,” Murray, his voice cracking, said on
court of Djokovic. “Winning all
four of the Grand Slams in one
year is an amazing achievement.”

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

McGirt wins Memorial
GOLF

First PGA Tour title
comes in 165th start
Steve DiMeglio

@Steve_DiMeglio
USA TODAY Sports

DUBLIN, OHIO A few years back
William McGirt took to heart
some advice from Tiger Woods.
Sunday he grabbed hold of his
first championship hardware
from Jack Nicklaus.
McGirt knocked in a 6-footer
for par on the second playoff hole
to defeat Jon Curran and win the
Memorial at Muirfield Village.
With a bogey-free 1-under-par 71
and then two pars in the playoff,
McGirt won his first PGA Tour title in his 165th start.
He and Curran, who shot 70
and was trying to win his first
Tour title in 55 starts, ended regulation play at 15 under.
It was the third consecutive
year a first-time winner won at
Jack’s place, as McGirt joins Hideki Matsuyama (2014) and David Lingmerth (2015) in that
span.
McGirt, who said he had played
so many different mini tours
throughout his years that he
couldn’t recall all of them, said it
was “pretty darn cool to get win
No. 1” on the PGA Tour.

JOSE MAIORANA, USA TODAY SPORTS

William McGirt, left, celebrates Sunday with his caddie.
“It’s been year after year of
practice and getting your nose
bloodied and learning from it,”
said McGirt, 36, who earned a
three-year exemption and trips to
the U.S. Open, PGA Championship and 2017 Masters with his
victory. “I wondered for years if
I’d ever get to the PGA Tour.
Then when I got out here I wondered if I’d ever win.
“I kind of had the jitters with
the golf swing but felt great with
the putter. ... The putter saved me
this week.”
It was the second playoff loss
on the Tour for Curran, who fell
in the 2015 Puerto Rico Open to

Alex Cejka. While disappointed
that he lost, he gathered more experience that will guide him going forward.
“It’s tough to be in a playoff,”
said Curran, who was Keegan
Bradley’s golf teammate in high
school. “It’s kind of surreal sometimes. It might not be for a lot of
guys, but for me it was kind of
surreal for me to be here at really
the biggest stage I’ve been on and

to be in a playoff.”
Dustin Johnson (71) finished
one shot out of the playoff and in
third at 14 under. At 13 under
were world No. 3 Rory McIlroy
(68), J.B. Holmes (69), Gary

Woodland (73) and Matt Kuchar
(73).
McGirt began the day one shot
out of the lead and one of 20 players within four shots of the lead.
He was one of six who held at
least a share of the lead in the final round, which was delayed for
90 minutes by foul weather.
While he only made one birdie
— coming on the par-5 fifth — he
made two clutch par saves in the
playoff, the first from a greenside
bunker, the second from nasty
rough to the left of the green.
Advice from Woods has helped
McGirt. When he lost the 2012
RBC Canadian Open by one shot,
he admitted to Woods that he had
not looked at the scoreboards
during the final round.
Woods, in so many words, got
his point across and punctuated
his counsel by telling McGirt he
was an idiot.

“After the discussion, I’ve
looked every chance I’ve had,”
said McGirt, who added that
since he spoke with Woods he always had wanted to know where
he stood when he was on the golf
course.
The so-called Big Three —
world No. 1 Jason Day, No. 2 Jordan Spieth and McIlroy — had
varying degrees of success. Day
finished with a 74 and in a tie for
27th. Spieth shot 73 and fell to a
tie for 57th.


USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

SPORTS 7C

Bisping goes from heel to hero
E6

Middleweight wins
Rockhold’s title

Martin Rogers


USA TODAY Sports

INGLEWOOD, CALIF.

No sooner
had Michael Bisping claimed one
crown Saturday night than he
found himself in immediate danger of losing another.
For close to a decade the British middleweight has been the
Ultimate Fighting Championship’s resident heel, a willing bad
guy known more for his loud and
boorish behavior than any real
likelihood of becoming a
superstar.
That changed Saturday when
the 37-year-old suddenly became
the top dog in the middleweight
division with a huge upset by
knocking out Luke Rockhold with
a pair of power punches just after
the midway point of Round 1 in
UFC 199’s main event.
And in that instant, he was given a firsthand example of a prin-

ciple so ingrained that it should
probably be etched in the Constitution — America loves a winner.
It doesn’t matter if he curses and
boasts and acts like an (expletive),
an admission Bisping was content to own up to.
Just win, baby, and you can do
what you (expletive) want.
The use of the expletives is an

attempt to give insight into what
to expect from Bisping the fighter. The man from Manchester
likes a swear word the way David
Beckham appreciates his hairbrush — it is a necessary tool in
the brand and persona.
Now, remarkably, Bisping is
not only a champion but also,

quite possibly, no longer the go-to
bad guy after years of being
roundly booed whenever he
stalked the octagon or held a
microphone.
That was the only thing he lost,
that derision and disdain, this
time seeing the crowd at The Forum swallow its jeers and show
its appreciation. In an instant,
with the punches that crumpled
Rockhold, Bisping might have
morphed into a Rocky-type figure, the underdog who somehow
made his dreams come true
against the odds.
In the moments that followed
his finest hour, Bisping didn’t yell
for Adrian (though he did, quite
sweetly, invite his family into the
octagon to celebrate with him).
Instead, he laughed and joked
and bragged and swore and, most
important, made fun of himself,

calling himself an (expletive) and
an (expletive) and (expletive)
while enjoying the moment.

“I know I’m an (expletive),” he
said. “I can’t help it. But I am just
an average guy, and this is the
greatest thing, apart from my
family, that could ever have happened to me.”
Bisping taunted Rockhold, too,
unable to shed the braggadocio
after all of this time, sniping that
continued into the post-fight
news conference more than an
hour later and probably all the
way to a rematch down the line.
But you can get away with it
when you’re the champ, and The
Forum chuckled along with him,
enjoying the irony and respecting
the journey.
It was the strangest of roads
trodden, too, a career’s worth of
struggle boiled into a mere two
weeks of preparation.
Bisping only got his chance because Chris Weidman pulled out
with a late neck injury. Weidman
and Rockhold were initially slated to repeat their clash from De-

cember at UFC 196, which

resulted in Rockhold destructively yanking away the title.
“This has been a lifetime’s
work, and I understand why people didn’t believe in me, but I
knew I could do it,” Bisping said.
“I have been considered a bad guy
over the course of my career. I
know I have. I have acted like an
idiot. I know I’ve said things, and
I look back and cringe at some of
the things I have said in the past.
And I will cringe at some of the
things I said tonight.
“Everyone wants to be liked,
come on, but as a fighter we are
trying to generate hype and money. Whether people like you or
not, the last thing you want is an
indifferent clap when you walk
in.”
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FOR THE RECORD
NBA

June 4

All Times ET

FINALS
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
Golden State 2, Cleveland 0

June 2: Golden State 104, Cleveland 89
Sunday: Golden State 110, Cleveland 77
Wednesday: Golden State at Cleveland, 9
p.m.
Friday: Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m.
x-June 13: Cleveland at Golden State, 9
p.m.
x-June 16: Golden State at Cleveland, 9
p.m.
x-June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 8
p.m.

Warriors 110, Cavaliers 77
CLEVELAND

James 7-17 4-4 19, Love 2-7 0-0 5, T.Thompson 3-8 2-2 8, Irving 5-14 0-0 10, Smith 2-6
0-2 5, Jefferson 4-6 4-6 12, J.Jones 0-0 0-2 0,
Frye 0-1 0-0 0, Mozgov 1-3 3-4 5, Williams
0-3 0-0 0, Dellavedova 2-9 2-2 7, Shumpert
1-3 0-0 3, D.Jones 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 28-79
16-24 77.

GOLDEN STATE

Barnes 2-7 1-2 5, Green 11-20 1-1 28, Bogut
1-4 0-0 2, Curry 7-11 0-0 18, K.Thompson 613 1-1 17, Iguodala 3-6 1-3 7, Ezeli 2-3 2-2 6,

Speights 1-2 0-0 3, Livingston 3-4 1-1 7,
Clark 3-4 0-0 7, Rush 0-0 0-0 0, Barbosa 5-7
0-0 10. Totals 44-81 7-10 110.
Cleveland
21 23 18 15 — 77
Golden State 19 33 30 28 — 110
3-Point Goals—Cleveland 5-23 (Dellavedova 1-2, Shumpert 1-3, Love 1-4, Smith
1-4, James 1-5, Williams 0-2, Irving 0-3),
Golden State 15-33 (Green 5-8, K.Thompson 4-8, Curry 4-8, Speights 1-1, Clark 1-2,
Iguodala 0-2, Barnes 0-2, Barbosa 0-2).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland
34 (James 8), Golden State 46 (Curry 9). Assists—Cleveland 15 (James 9), Golden
State 26 (Livingston, K.Thompson, Green 5).
Total Fouls—Cleveland 19, Golden State
20. A—19,596 (19,596).

NHL

May 30: Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2
June 1: Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 1, OT
June 4: San Jose 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT
Monday: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m.
Thursday: San Jose at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.
x-Sunday: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m.
x-June 15: San Jose at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.

At Glendale, Ariz.

UNC Wilmington (41-18) vs. South Carolina
(45-16), 6 p.m.

Ecuador vs. Peru, 10 p.m.

GROUP C
Venezuela
Mexico
Uruguay
Jamaica

Sunday
At Chicago

GP W D
1 1 0
1 1 0
1 0 0
1 0 0

L GF GA Pts
0 1 0 3
0 3 1 3
1 1 3 0
1 0 1 0

GP W D
1 1 0
1 0 1
1 0 1
1 0 0

L GF GA Pts
0 2 0 3
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 1
1 0 2 0

At Dick Howser Stadium
Tallahassee, Fla.
Sunday

Mexico 3, Uruguay 1

Thursday
At Philadelphia

South Alabama 7, Southern Miss. 5, USM
eliminated
Florida State 18, South Alabama 6, FSU advances

Uruguay vs. Venezuela, 7:30 p.m.

At Pasadena, Calif.

Mexico vs. Jamaica, 10 p.m.

GROUP D

GP W D
0 0 0
0 0 0

0 0 0
0 0 0

L GF GA Pts
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0

Monday
At Orlando, Fla.

At Santa Clara, Calif.
Argentina vs. Chile, 10 p.m.

June 4

Costa Rica 0, Paraguay 0

Tuesday
At Chicago

United States vs. Costa Rica, 8 p.m.

At Pasadena, Calif.

Colombia vs. Paraguay, 10:30 p.m.

GROUP B

GP W D
1 1 0
1 0 1
1 0 1
1 0 0

L GF GA Pts
0 1 0 3
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 1
1 0 1 0

Georgia Tech 7, UConn 5, UConn eliminated
Florida 10, Georgia Tech 1, Florida advances

Long Beach State 5, FAU 1, FAU eliminated
Miami 9, Long Beach State 8, Miami advances

WNBA
All Times ET
EASTERN CONFERENCE

At Jim Patterson Stadium
Louisville, Ky.
Sunday

Atlanta
New York
Chicago
Indiana

Washington
Connecticut

W
6
4
4
4
3
1

L
2
3
4
4
6
7

Pct
.750
.571
.500
.500
.333
.125

GB
—
1½

2
2
3½
5

Los Angeles
Minnesota
Dallas
Seattle
Phoenix
San Antonio

W
7
7
3
3
2
1

L
0
0
4
5
5
5

Pct
1.000

1.000
.429
.375
.286
.167

GB
—
—
4
4½
5
5½

Saturday’s Games

At Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
Gainesville, Fla.
Sunday

At Alex Rodriguez Park at
Mark Light Field
Coral Gables, Fla.
Sunday

Panama vs. Bolivia, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles 74, San Antonio 61
Minnesota 80, Dallas 63

Sunday’s Games

Indiana 88, Connecticut 77
Washington 86, Atlanta 79
New York 86, Seattle 78

Wright State 7, Ohio State 3, OSU eliminated
Louisville 3, Wright State 1, Louisville advances

At Hawkins Field
Nashville, Tenn.
Sunday

UC Santa Barbara 5, Xavier 2
Game 5 — Washington (33-22) vs. Xavier
(31-29)

Monday

Game 6 — UC Santa Barbara (39-18) vs.
Game 5 winner, TBA
x-Game 7 — UC Santa Barbara vs. Game 5
winner, 9 p.m.

At Dudy Noble Field
Starkville, Miss.
Sunday

Louisiana Tech 6, Cal State Fullerton 2, CSF
eliminated

Mississippi State (43-16) vs. Louisiana Tech
(42-19)

Monday

x-Mississippi State vs. Louisiana Tech, 7:30
p.m.

COLLEGES
NCAA Division I Baseball
Regionals
All times ET
Double Elimination;
x-if necessary
At Davenport Field
Charlottesville, Va.
Sunday

William & Mary 5, Virginia 4, Virginia eliminated
East Carolina 8, William & Mary 4, ECU advances

Colombia 2, United States 0

Clemson 15, West Carolina 3, WCU eliminated
Game 6 — Oklahoma State (38-20) vs.
Clemson (44-19)
x-Game 7 — Oklahoma State vs. Clemson,
7 p.m.

At Glendale, Ariz.

Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Panama

At Doug Kingsmore Stadium
Clemson, S.C.
Sunday

Monday

Venezuela 1, Jamaica 0

No games scheduled

Copa America
All Times ET
FIRST ROUND
Top two in each group
advance
GROUP A

Peru
Brazil
Ecuador
Haiti

Monday

Brazil vs. Haiti, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games

SOCCER

June 3

South Carolina 23, Rhode Island 2, URI
eliminated
South Carolina 10, UNC Wilmington 1

Wednesday
At Orlando, Fla.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

All Times ET
STANLEY CUP FINAL
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 1

Colombia
Costa Rica
Paraguay
United States

Columbia, S.C.
Sunday

Peru 1, Haiti 0
Brazil 0, Ecuador 0

At Doak Field at Dail Park
Raleigh, N.C.
Sunday

Coastal Carolina 4, N.C. State 0, comp. of
susp. game
N.C. State 17, Navy 1, Navy eliminated

Monday

Coastal Carolina (46-15) vs. N.C. State (3721), 1 p.m.
x-Coastal Carolina vs. N.C. State, 7 p.m.

At Carolina Stadium

At Swayze Field
Oxford, Miss.
Sunday

Tulane 4, Utah 1, Utah eliminated
Boston College 6, Tulane 3, Boston College
advances

At Alex Box Stadium
Baton Rouge, La.
Sunday

Rice 7, Southeastern Louisiana 2, comp. of
susp. game
Southeastern Louisiana 3, Utah Valley 2,
UVU eliminated
LSU 4, Rice 2

Monday

Game 5 — Southeastern Louisiana (40-20)
vs. Rice (36-23), 3 p.m.
Game 6 — LSU (44-18) vs. Game 5 winner, 8
p.m.

Tuesday

x-Game 7 — Game 4 winner vs. Game 5
winner, TBA

At M.L. ‘‘Tigue’’ Moore Field
Lafayette, La.
Sunday

Louisiana-Lafayette 10, Arizona 2
Sam Houston State (42-21) vs. Arizona 6,

Sam Houston State 5, Sam Houston State
eliminated

Monday

Game 6 — Louisiana-Lafayette (43-19) vs.
Arizona (40-21), 2 p.m.
x-Game 7 — Louisiana-Lafayette vs. Arizona, 8 p.m.

At Charlie and Marie Lupton
Baseball Stadium
Fort Worth, Texas
Sunday

Arizona State 6, Gonzaga 3, Gonzaga
eliminated
Texas Christian 8, Arizona State 1, Texas
Christian advances

At Blue Bell Park
College Station, Texas
Sunday

Game 5 — Minnesota (35-21) vs. Wake Forest (35-26)
Game 6 — Texas A&M (47-14) vs. Game 5
winner

Monday

x-Game 7 — Texas A&M vs. Game 5 winner,
9 p.m.

At Don Law Field at Rip Griffin
Park
Lubbock, Texas

Sunday

Dallas Baptist 5, New Mexico 3, UNM eliminated
Dallas Baptist 10, Texas Tech 6

Monday

Game 7 — Texas Tech (43-17) vs. Dallas
Baptist (44-18), 3 p.m.

NCAA Softball
Women’s World Series
At ASA Hall of Fame Stadium
Oklahoma City
All Times ET
Double Elimination;
x-if necessary
Sunday

Florida State 1, Michigan 0, Michigan eliminated
LSU 4, Georgia 1, Georgia eliminated
Auburn 8, Florida State 7, 8 innings, Auburn
advances to championship series
Game 12 — Oklahoma (54-7) vs. LSU (5217)

Monday

x-Game 14 — Oklahoma vs. LSU, 7 p.m. or
Championship: Auburn (56-10) vs. Oklahoma, if Oklahoma wins Game 12, 8 p.m.

TENNIS
French Open
At Stade Roland Garros

Sunday’s results from Paris
Surface: Clay; Purse: $35.9 million
Men’s Singles — Championship: Novak
Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Andy Murray (2),
Britain, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4;
Women’s Doubles — Championship: Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic (5),
France, def. Ekaterina Makarova and Elena
Vesnina (7), Russia, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4;

AUTO RACING
NASCAR-Sprint CupAxalta "We Paint Winners"
400 Lineup for r
ace Monday
At Pocono Raceway
Long Pond, Pa.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses)

1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 181.726 mph.
2. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 181.400.
3. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 181.316.
4. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 181.192.
5. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 180.759.
6. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 180.563.
7. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 180.047.
8. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet,

179.605.
9. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 179.472.
10. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 179.451.
11. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 178.941.
12. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 178.827.

13. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 179.444.
14. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 179.379.
15. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 179.151.
16. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 178.980.
17. (78) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 178.763.
18. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 178.391.
19. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 178.370.
20. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 178.363.
21. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 178.235.
22. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 178.140.
23. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 178.123.
24. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 178.108.
25. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, 177.267.
26. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 177.207.
27. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 177.204.
28. (95) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 176.974.
29. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 176.929.
30. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 176.640.
31. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 176.450.
32. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
176.298.
33. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 175.709.
34. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 175.466.
35. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 174.659.

36. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 173.157.
37. (55) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 173.117.
38. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 169.157.
39. (32) Jeb Burton, Ford, 166.664.
40. (98) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 164.087.

IndyCar-Chevrolet Dual II
At Detroit
Lap length: 2.35 miles
(Start position in parentheses)

1. (8) Will Power, Chevrolet, 70, Running
2. (1) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 70, Running
3. (2) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 70, Running
4. (17) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 70,
Running
5. (4) Scott Dixon, Chevrolet, 70, Running
6. (21) Conor Daly, Honda, 70, Running
7. (6) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 70, Running
8. (12) Sebastien Bourdais, Chevrolet, 70,
Running
9. (22) Marco Andretti, Honda, 70, Running
10. (16) Takuma Sato, Honda, 70, Running
11. (7) Graham Rahal, Honda, 70, Running
12. (18) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 70, Running
13. (15) Gabby Chaves, Honda, 70, Running
14. (3) Helio Castroneves, Chevrolet, 70,
Running
15. (13) Carlos Munoz, Honda, 70, Running
16. (11) Charlie Kimball, Chevrolet, 70, Running

17. (5) Mikhail Aleshin, Honda, 70, Running
18. (20) Spencer Pigot, Chevrolet, 67, Running
19. (9) Jack Hawksworth, Jack, Honda, 48,
Mechanical
20. (10) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 33,
Contact
21. (14) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 0, Contact
22. (19) Max Chilton, Chevrolet, 0, Contact
Race Statistics
Winners average speed: 96.414 mph.
Time of Race: 1:42:22.2672.
Margin of victory: 0.9203.
Cautions: 3 for 9 laps.
Lead changes: 5 among 6 drivers.
Lap Leaders: Simon Pagenaud 1-40, Helio

Castroneves 41-50, Sebastien Bourdais 5158, Graham Rahal 59, Alexander Rossi 60,
Will Power 61-70.
Point standings: Pagenaud 357, Dixon 277,
Castroneves 271, Newgarden 259, Rossi
242, Munoz 242, Power 240, Kanaan 240,
Montoya 233, Kimball 227.

BETTING LINE
Home team in CAPS
Pregame.com Line
National Hockey League
Monday
Favorite
SAN JOSE

Line
-133

Underdog
Pittsburgh

Line
+123

DEALS
BASEBALL
American League

BOSTON RED SOX — Placed C Ryan Hanigan and LF/C Blake Swihart on the 15-day
DL. Optioned RHP Noe Ramirez to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled OF Rusney Castillo and RHP
Heath Hembree from Pawtucket. Selected
the contract of C Sandy Leon from Pawtucket.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms
with 3B Irving Falu on a minor league contract.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent RHP Kyle Gibson to Rochester (IL) for a rehab assignment.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHP J.B.
Wendelken to Nashville (PCL). Reinstated
RHP Sonny Gray from the 15-day DL.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Released RHP Joel
Peralta.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed OF Brandon
Guyer on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Nick
Franklin from Durham (IL).
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Ryan

Tepera to Buffalo (IL). Recalled 3B Matt
Dominguez from Buffalo.

National League

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OF David Peralta to Reno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.
ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed RHP Mike Foltynewicz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
Wednesday. Recalled RHP Mike Grant from
Gwinnett (IL).
COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent LHP Boone Logan to Albuquerque (PCL) for a rehab assignment.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Designated OF
Carl Crawford for assignment. Assigned
OF James Ramsey outright to Oklahoma
City (PCL). Recalled C Austin Barnes from
Oklahoma City (PCL).
MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned RHP Cody Hall
to New Orleans (PCL). Recalled RHP Brian
Ellington from New Orleans.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Returned 3B Colin
Walsh to Oakland.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned INF Emmanuel Burriss outright to Lehigh Valley (IL).

SPORTS ON TV
Times Eastern. Programs live unless noted. Check local listings.

AUTO RACING: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400, in Long Pond, Pa. (Fox Sports 1, noon)
COLLEGE SOFTBALL: NCAA World Series, Game 14 (if necessary),
in Oklahoma City (ESPN, 7 p.m.) or NCAA World Series, Championship, Game 1, in Oklahoma City (ESPN, 8 p.m.)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia
(ESPN2, 7 p.m.)

NHL: Stanley Cup Final, Game 4, Pittsburgh at San Jose (NBC,
8 p.m.)
SOCCER: Copa America Centenario, group stage, Panama vs. Bolivia, in Orlando (Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.); Argentina vs. Chile, in Santa
Clara, Calif. (Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.)
TENNIS: ATP Stuttgart, ATP s-Hertogenbosch, or WTA s-Hertogenbosch (Tennis Channel, 5 a.m.)

GOLF
PGA Tour - Memorial Tournament

At Muirfield Village Golf Club
Dublin, Ohio
Purse: $8.5 million
Yardage: 7,392; Par 72
Final
(x-won on second playoff hole)
x-William McGirt (500), $1,530,000 ..............70-68-64-71—273 (-15)
Jon Curran (300), $918,000 ............................68-67-68-70—273 (-15)
Dustin Johnson (190), $578,000 .....................64-71-68-71—274 (-14)
J.B. Holmes (109), $334,688 ...........................71-68-67-69—275 (-13)
Matt Kuchar (109), $334,688 ..........................66-66-70-73—275 (-13)
Rory McIlroy (109), $334,688 ..........................71-66-70-68—275 (-13)
Gary Woodland (109), $334,688 ..................68-65-69-73—275 (-13)
Keegan Bradley (80), $246,500......................68-69-70-69—276 (-12)
Patrick Reed (80), $246,500 ............................68-71-69-68—276 (-12)
Kevin Streelman (80), $246,500 .....................67-68-69-72—276 (-12)
Byeong Hun An, $158,667...............................71-70-69-67—277 (-11)
Roberto Castro (58), $158,667 .......................70-70-71-66—277 (-11)
Tony Finau (58), $158,667 ...............................70-69-70-68—277 (-11)
Marc Leishman (58), $158,667.......................69-71-69-68—277 (-11)
Charl Schwartzel (58), $158,667....................68-69-72-68—277 (-11)

John Senden (58), $158,667............................69-70-68-70—277 (-11)
Emiliano Grillo (58), $158,667.........................67-66-70-74—277 (-11)
Adam Hadwin (58), $158,667 ........................70-66-67-74—277 (-11)
Webb Simpson (58), $158,667.......................69-70-66-72—277 (-11)
Matt Jones (48), $88,643.................................71-68-68-71—278 (-10)
Smylie Kaufman (48), $88,643 .......................71-67-71-69—278 (-10)
Phil Mickelson (48), $88,643 ...........................68-69-69-72—278 (-10)
Kyle Reifers (48), $88,643 ................................71-67-71-69—278 (-10)
Brendan Steele (48), $88,643..........................65-67-75-71—278 (-10)
Soren Kjeldsen, $88,643 ..................................71-69-64-74—278 (-10)
Robert Streb (48), $88,643 ..............................68-73-64-73—278 (-10)
Zac Blair (42), $59,075 ........................................69-67-68-75—279 (-9)
Scott Brown (42), $59,075 ...................................69-67-69-74—279 (-9)
Jason Day (42), $59,075......................................66-71-68-74—279 (-9)
David Hearn (42), $59,075 .................................66-73-72-68—279 (-9)
John Huh (42), $59,075 .......................................69-69-67-74—279 (-9)
David Lingmerth (42), $59,075 ..........................68-73-68-70—279 (-9)
Jason Dufner (36), $45,900 ................................68-70-70-72—280 (-8)
Lucas Glover (36), $45,900.................................70-67-73-70—280 (-8)
Brian Harman (36), $45,900..............................68-70-69-73—280 (-8)
Russell Henley (36), $45,900..............................68-70-69-73—280 (-8)
Geoff Ogilvy (36), $45,900.................................68-69-70-73—280 (-8)
Bud Cauley (30), $34,000 ...................................69-73-66-73—281 (-7)
Bryson DeChambeau, $34,000.........................72-67-69-73—281 (-7)
Patton Kizzire (30), $34,000 ...............................73-67-70-71—281 (-7)
Ben Martin (30), $34,000....................................69-71-69-72—281 (-7)
George McNeill (30), $34,000 ...........................71-71-69-70—281 (-7)
Ryan Ruffels, $34,000 ..........................................67-71-70-73—281 (-7)
Daniel Summerhays (30), $34,000 ...................72-67-70-72—281 (-7)
Hudson Swafford (30), $34,000 ........................66-71-69-75—281 (-7)

Jonas Blixt (25), $25,500....................................71-69-69-73—282 (-6)
Hiroshi Iwata (25), $25,500................................75-67-70-70—282 (-6)
Kevin Chappell (22), $21,930 ............................71-70-70-72—283 (-5)
Jason Gore (22), $21,930...................................72-67-71-73—283 (-5)
Charles Howell III (22), $21,930 ........................72-70-72-69—283 (-5)
Ryan Moore (22), $21,930 ..................................70-67-70-76—283 (-5)
Rafa Cabrera Bello, $19,822 .............................69-73-71-71—284 (-4)
K.J. Choi (17), $19,822 ........................................68-69-69-78—284 (-4)
Jim Furyk (17), $19,822........................................69-70-72-73—284 (-4)

Danny Lee (17), $19,822 .....................................66-75-68-75—284 (-4)
Jamie Lovemark (17), $19,822 ..........................69-72-70-73—284 (-4)
Alex Cejka (13), $18,955 ....................................70-72-68-75—285 (-3)
Spencer Levin (13), $18,955...............................73-69-70-73—285 (-3)
Jordan Spieth (13), $18,955...............................70-68-74-73—285 (-3)
Harold Varner III (13), $18,955 .........................68-67-71-79—285 (-3)
Jason Bohn (9), $18,360......................................67-71-71-77—286 (-2)
Anirban Lahiri (9), $18,360 ................................70-72-69-75—286 (-2)
Rod Pampling (9), $18,360.................................72-70-73-71—286 (-2)
Russell Knox (7), $18,020....................................73-69-70-75—287 (-1)
Camilo Villegas (6), $17,765 ................................69-72-72-75—288 (E)
Bubba Watson (6), $17,765 .................................72-70-74-72—288 (E)
Daniel Berger (4), $17,510.................................69-73-76-71—289 (+1)
Luke Donald (3), $17,340 ...................................67-73-78-72—290 (+2)
Ken Duke (1), $16,915 ........................................72-70-72-77—291 (+3)
Freddie Jacobson (1), $16,915.........................72-68-77-74—291 (+3)
Scott Piercy (1), $16,915.....................................70-71-75-75—291 (+3)
Brian Stuard (1), $16,915 ..................................69-72-77-73—291 (+3)
George Coetzee, $16,490.................................71-69-77-75—292 (+4)
Si Woo Kim (1), $16,235 ...................................71-69-80-73—293 (+5)

Kevin Na (1), $16,235.........................................71-71-74-77—293 (+5)

Kelly Tan, $9,021 ........................................................70-70-68—208 (-5)
Marissa L Steen, $9,021............................................67-73-68—208 (-5)
a-Elizabeth Wang ....................................................73-66-69—208 (-5)
Paula Reto, $9,021 ....................................................64-75-69—208 (-5)
Ayako Uehara, $9,021 ..............................................68-70-70—208 (-5)
Maude-Aimee Leblanc, $9,021 ...............................66-72-70—208 (-5)
Katherine Kirk, $9,021...............................................66-72-70—208 (-5)
Ssu-Chia Cheng, $9,021...........................................68-69-71—208 (-5)
Xi Yu Lin, $9,021 .........................................................67-69-72—208 (-5)
Gaby Lopez, $9,021 ..................................................68-67-73—208 (-5)
Catriona Matthew, $9,021 .......................................65-70-73—208 (-5)
Lee Lopez, $6,431......................................................70-69-70—209 (-4)
Brooke M. Henderson, $6,431.................................69-70-70—209 (-4)
Wei-Ling Hsu, $6,431 ...............................................69-68-72—209 (-4)
Hee Young Park, $5,361 ..........................................70-71-69—210 (-3)
Hannah Collier, $5,361 ............................................71-68-71—210 (-3)
Kelly W Shon, $5,361 ................................................70-69-71—210 (-3)
Amelia Lewis, $5,361 ................................................66-73-71—210 (-3)
Ilhee Lee, $5,361........................................................71-67-72—210 (-3)
Giulia Sergas, $5,361 ...............................................70-68-72—210 (-3)
Daniela Iacobelli, $5,361 .........................................68-68-74—210 (-3)

LPGA Tour - Shoprite Classic

Champions Tour - Principal Charity Classic

At Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club (Bay Course)
Galloway, N.J.

Purse: $1.5 million
Yardage: 6,179; Par: 71
Final
Anna Nordqvist, $225,000 ...................................64-68-64—196 (-17)
Haru Nomura, $138,191 ......................................65-66-66—197 (-16)
Karine Icher, $100,248...........................................68-62-69—199 (-14)
Christina Kim, $77,549...........................................69-66-65—200 (-13)
Jing Yan, $62,419 ...................................................67-69-66—202 (-11)
Annie Park, $39,116................................................67-73-63—203 (-10)
Mika Miyazato, $39,116........................................70-69-64—203 (-10)
Brittany Lang, $39,116 ...........................................69-70-64—203 (-10)
In-Kyung Kim, $39,116...........................................69-66-68—203 (-10)
Christel Boeljon, $39,116 ......................................66-68-69—203 (-10)
Danielle Kang, $26,555 ...........................................67-69-68—204 (-9)
Jacqui Concolino, $26,555 ......................................68-66-70—204 (-9)
Na Yeon Choi, $26,555 ............................................67-64-73—204 (-9)
Charley Hull, $19,577................................................73-66-67—206 (-7)
Jennifer Song, $19,577 .............................................69-70-67—206 (-7)
Sakura Yokomine, $19,577 ......................................67-72-67—206 (-7)
Beatriz Recari, $19,577.............................................66-72-68—206 (-7)
Kim Kaufman, $19,577.............................................68-69-69—206 (-7)
Samantha Richdale, $19,577 ..................................68-68-70—206 (-7)
Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $19,577....................................66-69-71—206 (-7)
Mariajo Uribe, $19,577 ............................................69-65-72—206 (-7)
Sarah Kemp, $13,955...............................................71-69-67—207 (-6)
Ashleigh Simon, $13,955 .........................................71-69-67—207 (-6)
Sandra Gal, $13,955................................................72-67-68—207 (-6)
Jenny Shin, $13,955..................................................70-69-68—207 (-6)
Lizette Salas, $13,955...............................................67-71-69—207 (-6)
Celine Herbin, $13,955.............................................70-67-70—207 (-6)

Pernilla Lindberg, $13,955 ......................................69-68-70—207 (-6)
Karrie Webb, $13,955...............................................67-70-70—207 (-6)
Ai Miyazato, $13,955................................................64-71-72—207 (-6)
Gerina Piller, $9,021..................................................68-73-67—208 (-5)
Cydney Clanton, $9,021 ..........................................72-68-68—208 (-5)
Mi Hyang Lee, $9,021 ...............................................70-70-68—208 (-5)

At Wakonda Club
Des Moines, Iowa
Purse: $1.75 million
Yardage: 6,831; Par: 72
Final
Scott McCarron, $262,500....................................68-68-65—201 (-15)
Billy Andrade, $140,000........................................71-63-68—202 (-14)
Miguel Angel Jimenez, $140,000 ........................68-67-67—202 (-14)
Joe Durant, $93,625...............................................69-65-71—205 (-11)
Duffy Waldorf, $93,625 .........................................71-67-67—205 (-11)
Tom Lehman, $66,500 ...........................................67-68-71—206 (-10)
Rocco Mediate, $66,500 ........................................69-67-70—206 (-10)
Tom Byrum, $50,167 .................................................69-70-68—207 (-9)
Jeff Sluman, $50,167 ...............................................71-68-68—207 (-9)
John Inman, $50,167 ................................................65-71-71—207 (-9)
Bart Bryant, $38,500.................................................69-71-68—208 (-8)
Tom Pernice Jr., $38,500...........................................70-70-68—208 (-8)
Fran Quinn, $38,500 .................................................70-70-68—208 (-8)
Gary Hallberg, $31,500 ............................................67-70-72—209 (-7)
Greg Kraft, $31,500 ..................................................71-71-67—209 (-7)
Jerry Smith, $31,500..................................................68-71-70—209 (-7)
Tommy Armour III, $21,016 .....................................72-68-70—210 (-6)
Scott Dunlap, $21,016 ..............................................69-75-66—210 (-6)

David Frost, $21,016 .................................................70-73-67—210 (-6)
Paul Goydos, $21,016..............................................72-69-69—210 (-6)
Jay Haas, $21,016 ....................................................72-70-68—210 (-6)
Jeff Hart, $21,016......................................................71-70-69—210 (-6)
Skip Kendall, $21,016 ...............................................70-70-70—210 (-6)
Sandy Lyle, $21,016 ..................................................71-71-68—210 (-6)
Wes Short, Jr., $21,016 .............................................71-69-70—210 (-6)
Grant Waite, $21,016 ..............................................73-68-69—210 (-6)
Todd Hamilton, $21,016...........................................67-67-76—210 (-6)
Mike Goodes, $14,175..............................................67-71-73—211 (-5)
Brandt Jobe, $14,175................................................70-70-71—211 (-5)
Jean-Francois Remesy, $14,175..............................72-72-67—211 (-5)
Willie Wood, $14,175 ...............................................70-70-71—211 (-5)
Glen Day, $11,550 ....................................................72-69-71—212 (-4)
Jesper Parnevik, $11,550 ........................................73-68-71—212 (-4)
Craig Parry, $11,550 .................................................68-72-72—212 (-4)

Joey Sindelar, $11,550 .............................................71-68-73—212 (-4)
Rod Spittle, $11,550..................................................73-69-70—212 (-4)
Jay Don Blake, $9,275...............................................69-73-71—213 (-3)
Fred Funk, $9,275.......................................................71-72-70—213 (-3)
Scott Parel, $9,275.....................................................73-72-68—213 (-3)
Steve Pate, $9,275 .....................................................74-68-71—213 (-3)
Kirk Triplett, $9,275....................................................69-72-72—213 (-3)
Michael Allen, $7,700................................................74-69-71—214 (-2)
Woody Austin, $7,700...............................................72-71-71—214 (-2)
Olin Browne, $7,700 ..................................................70-71-73—214 (-2)
Doug Garwood, $7,700 ............................................70-71-73—214 (-2)
Jose Coceres, $5,600 ................................................72-73-70—215 (-1)
Gibby Gilbert III, $5,600 ...........................................73-72-70—215 (-1)

Bob Gilder, $5,600.....................................................68-76-71—215 (-1)
Mike Grob, $5,600.....................................................70-72-73—215 (-1)
Neal Lancaster, $5,600.............................................70-71-74—215 (-1)
Miguel Angel Martin, $5,600 ..................................73-66-76—215 (-1)
John Riegger, $5,600.................................................67-73-75—215 (-1)
Bob Tway, $5,600.......................................................72-70-73—215 (-1)

Web.com Tour - Corales Puntacana Resort

At Corales Golf Club
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Purse: $625,000
Yardage: 7,668; Par: 72
Final
Dominic Bozzelli, $112,500 ......................................69-63-64-68—264
Roberto Diaz, $46,667 ..............................................69-63-68-68—268
Sam Ryder, $46,667...................................................70-64-65-69—268
Blake Adams, $46,667 ..............................................65-64-67-72—268
Albin Choi, $23,750 ....................................................69-66-67-67—269
Jeff Gove, $23,750 .....................................................68-66-68-67—269
Bryan Bigley, $18,828 ................................................68-67-68-67—270
Zack Sucher, $18,828.................................................67-68-71-64—270
Matt Fast, $18,828 .....................................................68-64-66-72—270
Seamus Power, $18,828 ...........................................66-69-66-69—270
Joel Dahmen, $12,031 ...............................................67-64-70-70—271
Stephan Jaeger, $12,031..........................................66-62-69-74—271
Nicholas Lindheim, $12,031 .....................................69-67-65-70—271
Trey Mullinax, $12,031 ..............................................68-66-67-70—271
Jin Park, $12,031 ........................................................65-72-68-66—271
Bhavik Patel, $12,031................................................69-66-68-68—271

Josh Teater, $12,031..................................................66-65-71-69—271
Kevin Tway, $12,031 ..................................................71-67-67-66—271

European Tour - Nordea Masters

At Bro Hof Slott Golf Club
Stockholm
Purse: $1.67 million
Yardage: 7,511; Par: 72
Final
Matthew Fitzpatrick England ..................................68-65-68-71—272
Lasse Jensen, Denmark ............................................72-69-66-68—275
Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium .......................................70-66-70-70—276
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“The rest of us were just boxers. This man
brought something (far greater).”

George Foreman, on Muhammad Ali

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Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini says of Muhammad Ali, shown training in 1972, “He brought psychological warfare (to boxing) before anybody knew what it was.”

Ali used platform to make
difference around world
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simple: ‘Just let me eat and sleep
where I want.’ ”
Ali died of medical complications related to his debilitating
disease at a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital, not far from his home in
Paradise Valley, Ariz.
Quite simply, there has never
been an athlete before, or since,
who shook America by the collar
and made the nation pay attention the way Ali did.
As Ali himself said: He was
black, and he was beautiful. He
backed up his then-fathomable
public boasting with monumental
triumphs, in and out of the boxing ring.
“He brought psychological
warfare (to boxing) before anybody knew what it was,” former
lightweight champion Ray “Boom
Boom” Mancini told USA TODAY
Sports. “He was a genius.”
But it was out of the ring as an

indefatigable fighter for justice
and equality for all people where
Ali was historically incomparable.
He was a forceful proponent of
civil rights, black empowerment
and social justice.
He will be remembered not so
much because he was the first
man to win the heavyweight
crown on three occasions or for
his magnetic aura but as someone
who boldly sabotaged his career
at its zenith. He walked away
from one of the most powerful
positions in sports when he willingly was stripped of his heavyweight crown in 1967 for refusing
military induction during the
Vietnam War.
As Cassius Clay, which Ali
called his “slave name,” he was
raised a Baptist in a lower-mid-

1972 AP PHOTO

Ali and ABC sportscaster Howard Cosell had a two-man act
over the years that was beneficial to both of their careers.
dle-class neighborhood of Louisville and had limited formal
education. He was an enormously
gifted, dedicated athlete who was
encouraged to take up the sport
by a Louisville policeman who

operated a boxing gym.
Thus began an unprecedented,
extraordinary journey from humble beginnings in the segregationist South to gold medalist in the
light heavyweight division in the
1960 Rome Games to worldwide
acclaim as a conqueror of Sonny
Liston, Foreman and Joe Frazier
in epic ring confrontations.
As Clay, he stunned the boxing
world in 1964 with an upset of
heavyweight champion Liston, a
7-1 favorite, in Miami Beach. Subsequently, befriended by civil
rights activist Malcolm X, Clay
changed his name to Ali and his

allegiance to the Nation of Islam.
Eventually, his metamorphosis
prompted Ali to eschew his blackseparatist views of the turbulent
1960s and seek spiritual enlightenment by adopting the non-violent values of traditional Islam.
The seminal moment came
April 28, 1967, when Ali steadfastly refused to step forward — on
three separate occasions — for his
Army induction. He had asked
the government to reclassify him
as a conscientious objector based
on his religion. The Justice Department denied his request.
It had been his religious and
social convictions that led Ali to
famously conclude, “Man, I ain’t
got no quarrel with them Viet

Cong,” later explaining, “No Viet
Cong ever called me a nigger.”
Ali was arrested. The World

Muhammad Ali
Born: Jan. 17, 1942, in Louisville
Died: Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Nicknames: The Greatest; the Louisville Lip; the People’s Champion
Education: Central High School in Louisville
Family: Survived by wife Lonnie; daughters Rasheda and Jamillah (twins), Laila, Maryum, Hana, Khaliah and Miya and sons
Muhammad Jr. and Asaad
Hall of Fame: Inducted in 1990 into the International Boxing Hall
of Fame
Boxing career: 56-5, 37 KOs; heavyweight champion 1964-67,
1974-78, 1978-79
Humanitarian efforts: Include helping secure the release of 15
U.S. hostages in Iraq during the first Gulf War; making goodwill
missions to Afghanistan and North Korea; delivering medical
supplies to an embargoed Cuba; meeting with Nelson Mandela
after his release from prison in South Africa
Honors: Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2005; Liberty Medal
from the National Constitution Center, 2012; Amnesty International’s Lifetime Achievement Award; United Nations Messenger
of Peace, 1998; USA TODAY Sports’ athlete of the 20th century
Funeral: 2 p.m. ET Friday at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville.
Open to the public as well as streamed live at www.alicenter.org.
The funeral will be in the Muslim tradition, led by an imam, but
will include religious leaders from many other faiths. Former
president Bill Clinton, sportscaster Bryant Gumbel and comedian
Billy Crystal will be among those who will eulogize Ali.
Rachel Shuster

Boxing Association quickly defrocked him as champion, and
state commissions rescinded his
license to fight.
He did not box for 31⁄2 years.
His triumphant comeback was
completed Oct. 26, 1970, when he
bludgeoned Jerry Quarry with a
third-round stoppage to reclaim
the lineal title in Atlanta (Georgia
had no boxing commission).
For three decades, Ali courageously battled Parkinson’s disease without complaining or
seeking pity. Exceedingly frail
with an eerie stillness in recent
years, he endured muscle tremors, a wobbly gait and slurred
speech, but he refused to hide his
challenges from the public, instead serving as a source of
inspiration.
His medical diagnosis was

made public in 1984, but Ali began to suffer symptoms years earlier. The world got a vivid glimpse
into his courageous life at the
1996 Summer Games in Atlanta,
where Ali, with trembling hands,
lit the Olympic caldron.
All the while, Ali was donating
considerable time and effort to
social causes and charitable missions throughout the world.
Among his efforts was the establishment of the Muhammad
Ali Parkinson Research Center in

Phoenix and the Muhammad Ali
Center, an educational and cultural institute in Louisville.
The planet is now a little less
humane, a little less compassionate and a lot less fun than it used
to be when Muhammad Ali floated through the world like a butterfly and stung like a bee.

NHL

Jones could be special acquisition
Kevin Allen


USA TODAY Sports

SAN JOSE Whether the San Jose
Sharks come back to win the
Stanley Cup Final, the offseason
acquisition of goalie Martin
Jones has to be considered one of
the top trades in their history.
As their appearance in the Final proves, Jones has changed
this team’s outlook today — and
for years to come.
The Sharks dialed up their determination in the 3-2 overtime
win in Game 3, but Jones’ play is
the primary reason this series is
2-1 and not 3-0. The Sharks are
playing in their first Cup Final.
Before this series, I said the
Pittsburgh Penguins owned so

much speed and offensive might
that Jones would need to post at
least a .935 save percentage to
beat them.
In Game 3, the 26-year-old
stopped 40 of 42 shots for a .952
save percentage. Jones has
stopped 106 of 113 shots in this
series for a .938 save percentage.
He had a .918 save percentage in
the regular season.
Jones plays with a discreet
cockiness that fuels San Jose. He
owns an aura of self-confidence
that suggests he’s always in control. With him in net, the Sharks
have faith games will never get
out of hand, regardless of whether they are at their best. Jones
has refused to allow the Penguins
to build an insurmountable lead.
In Game 3, Pittsburgh grabbed
two one-goal leads, but Jones
never let it get to two.
“He’s really calm,” San Jose
forward Chris Tierney said. “Everyone says the same thing about

Game 4 Monday
Pittsburgh Penguins at San
Jose Sharks, 8 p.m. ET, NBC

him — you see it on the ice and
away from the rink — he’s the
same guy. He comes in and does
his thing. He never panics, never
has too much to say. It’s pretty
calming to have a guy like him
around.”
Sharks general manager Doug
Wilson gave up their 2016 firstround pick and a prospect to acquire Jones from the Boston Bruins last summer. The Bruins had
acquired Jones from the Los Angeles Kings in the Milan Lucic
deal.
Not many of last summer’s acquisitions have had such a drastic
impact on one team. The Sharks
gave Jones a three-year contract
worth $3 million a season in
June, and that makes him one of
the league’s best goalie bargains.

When the Sharks traded goalie
Antti Niemi’s rights during the
2015 draft, they hoped to acquire
a goalie who could elevate their
competitive swagger.
Jones had been Jonathan
Quick’s prized understudy in Los
Angeles, but no one was sure how
he would perform as a No. 1.
“That was the million-dollar
question,” San Jose coach Peter
DeBoer said. “You never know

how a guy is going to handle the
starting job playing every night
until you throw him into it.”
The Sharks played 21 of their
first 34 games on the road, and
they had to deal with injuries to
players such as Logan Couture.
“We were under heavy pressure in a lot of those games,” DeBoer said. “(Jones) just kept
playing well. Even when he didn’t
play well, he bounced back quickly. It didn’t bother him. I think
that’s when we started to see
what he was capable of.”

Now the Sharks trust in his
ability to keep them alive in a
playoff series.
“We have all of the confidence
in the world in him, because he
makes key saves,” San Jose captain Joe Pavelski said.
The Sharks’ acquisition of Joe
Thornton in 2005 for Marco
Sturm, Brad Stuart and Wayne
Primeau is the most important
trade in franchise history. Thornton became the face of the franchise and is still playing at an elite
level.
The Jones trade is unlikely to
ever surpass the magnitude of
that acquisition. But if Jones is a
difference-maker for years to
come, this 2015 deal with the

Bruins could someday end up as
the No. 2 trade in Sharks history.
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SECTION D

MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

Lost in
‘Zootopia’
Meet the
characters
who didn’t
make the cut
3D
DISNEY STUDIOS

LIFELINE
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Buddies Ben Affleck and Matt
Damon share secrets and what
looks like a good time at the
Guys Choice Awards in Culver
City, Calif. The actors/producers
accepted the award for guys of

the decade at Saturday’s event.

The sad
intersection
of fame,
drugs and
death

FRAZER HARRISON, GETTY IMAGES, FOR SPIKE TV

THEY SAID WHAT?
THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES
“Bullying someone who has
struggled publicly with body
issues is pretty mean. thank god
I’m in a place in
my life where
I feel empowered to address
your nasty
comments
instead of
letting them
destroy me.
so. on behalf
of anyone
JEROD HARRIS,
WIREIMAGE anywhere who
struggles with
body image, STOP IT. my body
is not your business ...”

— Kesha, posted in a powerful,
expletive-laden, grammatically
creative note on Instagram
Saturday in response to a
body-shamer
STYLE STAR

Tyson Beckford
is one of very
few people who
can pull off a
lavender suit.
The bearded
model/actor
rocked the
ensemble,
and skull
slippers, to
the Veuve
Clicquot
Polo Classic
Saturday in
New York.
JAMIE MCCARTHY, GETTY
IMAGES, FOR VEUVE
CLICQUOT

TWEET TALK
STARS SOUND OFF
ON TWITTER

Seth MacFarlane: Dear
housecats: Nothing is as
urgent as you think it is.
Piers Morgan: I hope people
don’t make me sound too
perfect when I die. No coats
of sugar please.
Olivia Wilde: Turns out toddlers
don’t consider rainy days to be
sloth days reserved for Netflix
and sweatpants. Their loss.
Mario Lopez: Some people
come in our life as blessings.
Others come in our life as
lessons...
Compiled by Carly Mallenbaum

USA SNAPSHOTS©

How old are
your shoes?
14% of people have
shoes at least

20
years
old

NOTE Most pairs aged 5-9 years.
Women average 30 pairs overall; men, 11.

SOURCE Alliance Data “Strictly Shoes”
survey of 1,152 people
TERRY BYRNE AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY

MARC DUCREST, MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL

Prince was found dead in an elevator at his home on April 21. Police say he died from an overdose of the synthetic opiate fentanyl.

Addiction can take
hold on a star who
rarely hears ‘no’
Maria Puente

@usatmpuente
USA TODAY

As the old rock song Déjà
Vu goes, “We have all been
here before.”
Once again headlines
are full of the news of a
superstar’s drug overdose. Once again, experts on addiction are
rushing to use a celebrity
death to draw down on the
failures of the culture, law enforcement and the medical
system to prevent another talented artist from ending up in
an early grave because of addiction.
It was shocking when Prince
was found dead, alone in an elevator, on April 21 at his Paisley
Park compound in Carver County, Minn., outside Minneapolis. It

was shocking when reports began
surfacing that investigators were

JEFF KRAVITZ, FILMMAGIC

Clockwise from left, actor Heath Ledger died in 2008;
musician Jimi Hendrix, 1970; singer Amy Winehouse, 2011;
actor Cory Monteith, 2013; comedian Chris Farley, 1997; actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2014. All died of substance abuse.

exploring what role painkillers
might have played in his
death and how he obtained
them, since Prince had always prided himself on
healthy living.
Now it’s official: Prince
died, at age 57, of an accidental
“self-administered” overdose of a
powerful synthetic opiate, fentanyl, according to the Midwest
Medical Examiner’s Office in
Minnesota, which did the
autopsy.
So, once again we are asking:
Why, after all the alarms sounding for decades, does this keep
happening? Why is there a
straight line from, say, Elvis
Presley in 1977 to Michael
Jackson in 2009 to Whitney Houston in 2012 to
Prince Rogers Nelson in
2016?

Shame, stigma, denial,
fear, profit, pain — all and
more are being blamed for this
mournful intersection of fame,
money, addiction and death.
Even other celebrities sometimes miss the mark in understanding addiction, such as Kiss
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MOVIES

‘Ninja Turtles’ plods but wins the race
Sequel hits No. 1,
but it trails the
original by far
Bryan Alexander

@BryAlexand
USA TODAY

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Out of the Shadows won the weekend box office with $35.3 million,
according to studio estimates. But
it was a shell of its former self.
The sequel fell short of 2014’s
first Ninja Turtles reboot with
producer Michael Bay, which
opened with $65 million on its
way to $493 million worldwide.

“In 2014, people were running
out to see Ninja Turtles out of
nostalgia for the past movies and
the TV show,” says Jeff Bock, box
office analyst for Exhibitor Relations. “But the fans are clearly not
as enthusiastic about one movie
every two years.”
In TMNT2, the sewer-dwelling

LULA CARVALHO

Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello take to the skies in
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
crime fighters did get better audience reaction. Moviegoers gave
the 2014 version a B grade on
CinemaScore, while the 2016 sequel received an A-. But critics
still loathed Out of the Shadows,
branding it with a lowly 37% approval rating on review aggregate
site RottenTomatoes.
The latest installment of the
X-Men franchise, X-Men: Apocalypse, was No. 2 with $22.3 mil-

lion in its second weekend to
bring its total to $116.5 million.
The romantic drama Me Before
You, starring Game of Thrones’
Emilia Clarke and The Hunger
Games’ Sam Claflin, had a strong
third-place debut with $18.3 million. The modestly budgeted
love story based on Jojo Moyes’

best-selling novel was strong
counterprogramming to the big
summer releases.

“Me Before You was a true
bright spot in this weekend’s box
office derby that clearly struck a
chord with audiences,” “This paid
off big.” It faltered with critics, receiving a 55% positive rating on
RottenTomatoes, but scored an A
with audiences on CinemaScore.
Alice Through the Looking
Glass took fourth with $10.7 million ($50.8 million total) in its
second weekend. The sequel to
2010’s Alice in Wonderland has
disappointed domestically since
opening Memorial Day weekend.
The animated Angry Birds
Movie rounded out the top five
with $9.8 million. The PG-rated
screen adaptation of the popular
game app has earned $86.7 million in three weeks.
The music mockumentary
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping from the comedy trio known
as the Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva
Schaffer) landed out of the top
five in its opening weekend, ranking No. 8 with $4.6 million.
Final numbers are out Monday.

2D LIFE

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

TELEVISION

‘Rizzoli & Isles’ is closing the
book on its crime-fighting duo
TNT’s switch to
edgier fare sends
friends to reruns

Maura Isles
(Sasha Alexander, left)
and Jane
Rizzoli (Angie
Harmon) are
there when a
shooting
happens in
the season
premiere of
Rizzoli &
Isles.

Lorena Blas

@byLorenaBlas
USA TODAY

Rizzoli & Isles is about to start
its final chapter on TNT.
The network’s most-watched
series, a crime drama based on
characters from Tess Gerritsen’s
book series, returns Monday for
its seventh and final season.
The cancellation comes as a new
programming team is rebranding
TNT away from meat-and-potatoes cop and legal shows toward
edgier series, such as thrillers
Animal Kingdom, based on a 2010
film and starring Ellen Barkin as a
crime boss (due June 14), and
Good Behavior, starring Downton
Abbey’s Michelle Dockery as a con
artist. Both series focus on flawed
characters, a contrast to Rizzoli’s
do-gooder leads.
TNT, the No. 3 cable network
behind Fox News and ESPN, is
averaging 1.8 million viewers this
year, down 5%. Last summer, Rizzoli averaged 7.6 million viewers,
including DVR-delayed viewing.
After these last 13 episodes,
fans will have to watch reruns to
get their fix of fast, witty banter
between tough detective Jane
Rizzoli, played by Angie Harmon,

and geeky medical examiner
Maura Isles, played by Sasha
Alexander.
Though contracts may have
been a factor, TNT chief Kevin
Reilly, announcing the show’s exit
last January, said “It felt like it
was time.” (The series will end
with 105 episodes, above the magic number required for an afterlife in syndication.)
And while ending production
is not easy for cast and crew, the
R&I stars note the milestone is
significant.

RIZZOLI
& ISLES
TNT,
MONDAY,
9 ET/PT

PHOTOS BY DOUG HYUN, TURNER

Rizzoli’s executive producer says Harmon (above) and Alexander were a hit because they portray “great female friendships.”

“A hundred episodes is a really
huge feat these days,” Harmon
says. “It’s a very fickle business.”
Alexander says that while she
knew “our pilot had TV magic ...
after a few seasons you start to

deal with, naturally, the politics of
any studio or network of just television business.”
Executive producer Jan Nash,
who says the final episodes “will
take advantage of the fact that
we do get to say goodbye,” credits
the series’ endurance to its twin
perspectives and a cast that
“brings a degree of joy to their
work that you can really see when
you watch it.”
But she has one main theory
about the show’s appeal: “Great
female friendships. There are a
few, mostly in comedies, now —
but there have not been great

Always
‘on the
verge’
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singer Gene Simmons, who had
to apologize after he called
Prince’s death “pathetic” in an interview with Newsweek. “(David)
Bowie was the most tragic (death)
of all because it was real sickness,” Simmons said. “(Prince’s)
drugs killed him. What do you
think, he died from a cold?”
Some of those who have succumbed still speak to us, poignantly, from the grave. Scott

Weiland, former frontman of one
of the biggest bands of the 1990s,
Stone Temple Pilots, once said his
life was a daily boxing match with
his demons.
“I’m still on the verge all the
time,” he told USA TODAY in
2011, noting that he was always
shadowed — at home and on the
road — by a friend entrusted with
keeping him sober. “I swore, of
course, never to go back to heroin, but I never thought that alcohol would be the real nightmare
that it actually is. And it’s legal.”
Weiland died in 2015, age 48, of
a toxic mix of drugs, including cocaine, ethanol and the amphetamine MDA. He was open about
his problems with addition, even
writing about it in his autobiography. He worked at trying to overcome his addictions, and he still
ended up dead of an overdose.
But it is possible to recover,
just not easy, says Jamie Lee Curtis, writing in an essay on Huffington Post last month that she
could relate to the reports of
Prince’s “toxic” death, because
she was once toxic, too.
“I, too, waited anxiously for a
prescription to be filled for the
opiate I was secretly addicted to.
I, too, took too many at once. I,
too, sought to kill emotional and
physical pain with painkillers.
Kill it. Make it stop,” she wrote.

“I, like all of you, mourn the passing of a great artist but I also
mourn the passing of potential
artists past and present, caught in
this deadly vise.”
For comedian Marc Maron, Alcoholics Anonymous helped save

ROBYN BECK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Fans mourn Prince after the singer was found dead at age 57. The cause was an accidental overdose.

SCOTT OLSON, GETTY IMAGES

him from addiction, but it was
hard work.
“If you would have told me
back then that I wouldn’t desire a
drink or that I wouldn’t desire to
do drugs at some point in my life,
I don’t think I would have believed you,” he said in Slate in
2013. “Even with therapy and
A.A. it took me 26 years to get 14
years in a row sober. I was in and
out, in and out.”
Shame is a powerful incentive
to deny anything is wrong, says
addiction specialist Clare Wais-

mann of the Waismann Method
Treatment Center in Beverly
Hills, which specializes in treating opiate dependence.

“I believe one of the main
causes of all these overdoses is the
word ‘addiction’ carries negative
connotations and associations ...
as if addiction was a living, breathing entity caused by a lack of morals, lack of strength or a flawed
character,” Waismann says. “This
stigma that society has created
keeps the ones that need help
alone, hopeless and ashamed.”

The special problem for celebrities, says Paul Earley, an addiction-medicine specialist and
medical director of Georgia Professionals Health Program, is that
no one wants to say no to them,
not even doctors.
“Everyone is starstruck; they
have problems confronting and
pushing a celebrity to get proper
treatment,” Earley says. “Physicians and friends feed their substance use to be close to the
celebrity aura. And then the celebrity dies.”
Plus, celebs could have more
trouble in the recovery process,
says Matt Torrington, an addiction-medicine research physician
who’s on the staff of the Avalon
Malibu substance abuse treatment center in California.
“It is challenging for a celebrity
to attend group support meetings, for instance, because of a
lack of anonymity and fear of exposure,” he says. “If (having)
money is not an issue, they may
never hit rock bottom, and nothing stops them until finally, a
tragedy occurs.”

Like Heath Ledger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cory Monteith,
Amy Winehouse, Chris Farley,
River Phoenix, Janis Joplin, John
Belushi, Jimi Hendrix and, now,
like Prince.
Thus, Prince becomes the lat-

female friendships that have been
at the forefront” of a drama since
Cagney and Lacey.”
Still, the series has not been
afraid to test its leads’ relationship. At the end of Season 2, Rizzoli shot and injured Isles’ Irish
Mob-boss father, whose identity
had only recently been revealed
to Isles. It took time for the two
to regain each other’s trust.
But in true Rizzoli tradition,
Monday’s premiere resolves the
cliffhanger at the end of Season 6.
“The shooting will have repercussions on these characters’
lives,” Nash says. “By the time we
get to the end of the show, we will
have really explored who these
characters are — mostly who
Jane and Maura are — what matters to them and what does that
mean for them going forward.”
est emblem of a surging problem
in America with prescription
painkiller abuse, one that results
in thousands of deaths each year,

most of them unremarked in the
media and mourned only by their
own families.
Lessons can be learned, we are
told by the experts, but will they?
After all, they haven’t so far.
“We need another Betty Ford,”
says Richard Blondell, who specializes in prescription opioid addiction at the University at
Buffalo’s medical school. When
the former first lady announced
in the 1970s that she was addicted to alcohol and painkillers, people sat up and listened because
“she had the ear of people in power,” he says.
“Sure, many have died before
and many will die again, but those
who have learned these lessons
(parents of dead children) are not
the ones who sit in Congress or
state office and have the power to
change the system,” Blondell says.
Epidemics of deadly drug addiction are not new in the USA,
says Timothy Huckaby, a recovering fentanyl addict and specialist
in pain management and addiction medicine and president of
the Florida Society of Addiction
Medicine.
“The sad truth is that this
keeps happening because individuals and companies are making
huge profits from exploiting a
segment of our society that has a
brain-reward circuit sensitivity to
these brain-altering substances,

and once they develop this powerful and often deadly disease
called addiction, they have no
ability to resist the exploitation,”
Huckaby says.
Torin Finver, director of the
Addiction Medicine Fellowship at
the University at Buffalo and a recovering cocaine addict, says there
is hope (therapy and medications
such as methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone). But addiction is an illness centered in the
part of the brain that drives instinct and leads to “manipulative”
behaviors such as lying, cheating
and stealing, which in turn leads
to shame and guilt, he says.
“Celebrities and people in power, because of their smarts and
prestige, keep the lies going longer,” Finver says. “When they are
finally found out and coerced,
hopefully, into proper care, they
are further along in their disease
and often even more difficult to
treat.”


LIFE 3D

USA TODAY
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

The trustfund Gerbil
Jerks were
not able to

cash in.

MOVIES

LOST
CHARACTERS
OF
‘ZOOTOPIA’
FOUND
It’s a
jungle
out there,
and not
every
animal
made the
cut. But
you can
meet
them
now.

Bryan Alexander
@BryAlexand
USA TODAY

Pity the Gerbil Jerks of
Zootopia.
Fans of the animated Disney
hit, which has made more than

$1 billion at the box office
worldwide, never saw the rambunctious twosome onscreen —
nor characters like the Old Goat,
a sheep-to-wolf transformer or
tough Razorback cops.
Directors Byron Howard and
Rich Moore cut them from the
all-animal metropolis in the final
version of Zootopia. Even the
most sophisticated animal society
can be a cruel world in Hollywood.
But the deleted creatures will
star as extras on Zootopia’s
Blu-ray and digital HD release
Tuesday.
“Just because these characters
aren’t in the movie doesn’t mean
we don’t love them,” Howard
says. “We want people to know
how fun they were.”
The directors placed 64 species
in Zootopia. But a major story
switch changed the film’s primary
protagonist from Nick Wilde, the

con-artist fox voiced by Jason
Bateman, to Judy Hopps, the first
bunny in Zootopia’s police force
(Ginnifer Goodwin). This killed
off some in the Nick-centric

world.
“We had these characters
whose sole purpose was to make
Nick’s life more difficult,” Howard
says. “These had to come out to
make room for Hopps.”
That included the Gerbil Jerks,
two unapologetically mean-spirited mammals driving a tiny Italian sports car who would appear
out of nowhere, run over Nick’s
tail, giggle and high-five each other. The Gerbil Jerks were a hit in
initial screenings.
“The Gerbil Jerks were trustfund gerbils that had nothing better to do than harass Nick,”
Moore says. “We were getting
laughs with these guys, but with

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The elite
Razorbacks

police force
is missing
in action.

The Old
Goat, right,
is checking
meters
elsewhere.

the story turned to Judy’s point of view, they
didn’t fit.”
The Razorbacks, an
elite police force, also
didn’t fit into the retooled
world. Fearfully called
Sniffers for their sense of
smell, this buzz-cut crew kept
pressure on Nick but had to go.
Another Nick story line featured
his discovery of a villainous sheep
called Wooly who disguised himself as a wolf with the aid of a powerful corset (to hold in excess
wool) and a shady lupine costume.
Even the feeble Old Goat
couldn’t make the cast after the
directors tried her out in various
roles in early versions.
Old Goat seemed to have found
a home as a walker-wielding meter maid Hopps meets on her first
lowly assignment.

“The Old Goat was supposed
to be a vision of Hopps’ future if
she didn’t get out of that job,”

Howard says. “But we felt she was
gilding the lily.” The Old Goat,
too, was digitally sacrificed.
But the directors don’t fret
about the deleted characters’
well-being. They’re in a better
movie place.
“They are the stars of their
own movies somewhere, where
they get lots of screen time and a
beautiful close-up,” Moore says.
“Somewhere, these characters
are the Anna and Elsa of their
own movies.”