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‘Sins from the past’ How push

to cut costs
at surgery
centers led to
trail of death
Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia
Kaiser Health News and Indianapolis Star | USA
TODAY NETWORK

The surgery went fine. Her doctors

left for the day. Four hours later, Paulina
Tam started gasping for air.
Internal bleeding was cutting off her
windpipe, a well-known complication
of the spine surgery she had undergone.
But a Medicare inspection report
says nobody who remained on duty that
evening at the Northern California sur-
gery center knew what to do.
In desperation, a nurse did some-
thing that would not happen in a hospi-
tal.
She dialed 911.
By the time an ambulance delivered
Tam to the emergency room, the 58-
year-old mother of three was lifeless.
If Tam had been operated on at a hos-
pital, a few simple steps could have
TOP: Elmira High School was built on a polluted site once used by Remington Rand. The company’s successor, Unisys saved her life.
Corp., is working with school officials to clean hazards outside and under the building. KATE COLLINS/STAFF PHOTO But like hundreds of thousands of
other patients each year, Tam went to
one of the nation’s more than 5,600 sur-
Industrial legacy leaves pollution in S. Tier gery centers.
Such centers started nearly 50 years
ago as low-cost alternatives for minor

I
Tom Wilber Elmira Star-Gazette | USA TODAY NETWORK surgeries. They now outnumber hospi-
tals as federal regulators have signed off
n 1977, the Elmira School District paid one dollar for an abandoned industrial site on which on an ever-widening array of outpatient
procedures in an effort to cut federal
to build a new high school. z Even at a buck, this was no bargain. z The property, brokered health care costs.
through the Southern Tier Economic Growth Agency, was polluted from more than a centu- Thousands of times a year, these
centers call 911 as patients have compli-
ry of heavy industry. Yet another generation would pass with countless questions about cations ranging from minor to fatal. Yet
health risks and exposure before officials took a closer look. z Recent testing at the school, on no one knows how many people die as a
result, because no national authority
South Main Street, confirms problems ignored long ago remain a very real problem today.
See SURGERIES, Page 4A

The story of Elmira High School is similar to thou-

sands of sites statewide, including shopping centers,
residential neighborhoods and municipal water dis- The surgery center boom
tricts. 1988
They all are still managing often invisible risks from Surgery centers Annual revenue
chemical hazards from a bygone era. $5 billion
More than 30 sites in Chemung, Broome and Tomp-
kins counties represent public health or environmental $4 billion

threats, according to a Press & Sun-Bulletin/presscon-

$3 billion
nects.com review of the state’s database of Superfund
and brownfield sites. $2 billion
More than two-thirds of those involve TCE, a toxic 1,000
and carcinogenic industrial solvent used liberally $1 billion

through much of the 20th century as a cleaning agent $300M

and grease stripper for products ranging from printed
circuit boards to railroad locomotives. 2015
Whether due to errors in judgment, willful ignorance Surgery centers Annual revenue
5,475
or sheer naivete, chemical hazards were disposed of in $5 billion
the pre-regulatory era by dumping or flushing. Little $4.1B
thought was given to chronic spills from leaking indus- $4 billion
trial systems and leach fields.
$3 billion
Today, the results are hitting home. Nearly 1,000 res-
idences, businesses and public buildings in the South- $2 billion
ern Tier have been fitted with systems to prevent vapor
intrusion. More affected properties near the old and of- $1 billion
ten forgotten industrial sites are being found every
year. Demolition of the polluted Remington Rand factory
cleared the way for the Elmira High School in the late
SOURCE: MedPac Report to the Congress: Medicare
Payment Policy, covering several years
See POLLUTION, Page 8A 1970s. FILE PHOTO JIM SERGENT/USA TODAY

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BY THE NUMBERS REGIONAL St. Patrick’s Day comes early

Today Tomorrow
ELMIRA BINGHAMTON ITHACA City
Albany
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Syracuse 32 20 s 33 20 s
PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in ry’s Center, 112 10th St.
in inches in inches in inches NATIONAL Schuyler County get an early start on The invitation extends to March 16
Yesterday Trace Yesterday 0.05 Yesterday 0.01 Today Monday
Wednesday, March 14, with Celtic from 2-4 p.m. during the open house at
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dancing and Celtic rock music. Catholic Charities’ new offices in the
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SNOWFALL: totals for Elmira Billings 26 19 sn 35 14 c forming Arts Center, WPAC, in the for- tional grassroots effort aimed at making
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EXTREMES: High: 86°, McAllen, TX Low: -10°, Shelby, MT Charlotte, NC 61 34 s 59 44 pc ing WPAC operations. Doors will open at minute are physically abused by an in-
Chicago 48 32 s 45 34 r
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has received over a million dollars in up- one in four men have been victims of
Moon 9:11 p.m. 8:19 a.m.
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“The county plans to further invest in The steamboats of Seneca Lake will
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performers and thereby create addition- Emerson at the Montour Falls Public Li-
Key West 73 63 s 74 67 s al offerings not only for our residents, brary. The free talk will be at 7 p.m.
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showcases the facility, while providing a has open seats on its Sunday, March 11,
INTERNATIONAL Raleigh 55 32 s 53 35 s glimpse of the potential to improve the bus trip to the Orchid Extravaganza at
City
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Budapest 31 16 pc Melbourne 70 56 pc Sydney 80 70 pc Tucson
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When Kennedy Valve came to Elmira

Jim Hare
Special to Elmira Star-Gazette
USA TODAY NETWORK

“The future industrial success of El-

mira is assured. There is no longer doubt
of the fact that The Queen City of the
Southern Tier is to become one of the
most important manufacturing centers
of this section of the country … Elmira is
to be the future home of the well-known
firm, The Kennedy Valve Manufacturing
Company, and this city thereby be-
comes the gainer to the extent of 400
more wage earners.”
(Elmira Advertiser, Feb. 17, 1906). The
decision by Kennedy Valve to locate in
Elmira came after a vigorous competi-
tion over two years with twenty- one
other cities. According to the Advertiser,
“Elmira was chosen because of its un-
excelled natural commercial facilities,
among which the great shipping facili-
ties of four trunk line railroads stand our
prominently and because there was an
active Chamber of Commerce here with
a substantial working fund to back up
their efforts.”
Daniel Kennedy (1849-1928), the
founder of the company, emigrated
from Ireland in 1866, at the age of sev-
enteen. He settled in New York City. In
1877, he started making valves in a shop
on Gold Street in lower Manhattan. The Kennedy Valve’s factory floor is shown in the 1900s. PROVIDED PHOTO
business was immediately successful,
eventually occupying four floors of the
building. By 1890, the company, needing originally valued at $1,000 per acre.” Ar- the extent that Kennedy purchased the employees grow up in the business.”
more room, built a complete new plant not sold the plot to Kennedy Valve for old Bridge Co. plant on East Miller Kennedy’s home at 359 W. Church
in Coxsackie, New York. The business $400 per acre and “gave them for Street, the site of the former Ellis Smith Street was the site of his funeral. At the
continued to increase, the shipping fa- $8,000 a property valued at $20,000 Foundry, (site of F. M. Howell plant to- writing of this article, the home (circa,
cilities became inadequate and there and for which he paid $24,000 some day) for a Southside plant. At that point 1870) is being “stabilized” by Norb Miller
was no room for expansion. A new loca- years ago.” In addition Mr. Arnot had do- the company employed 1200 workers. Contracting with funds from a grant se-
tion was needed and Elmira was cho- nated $10,000 to the Chamber of Com- The Southside plant would close in cured by Historic Elmira Inc. and the
sen. merce development fund. 1954. The plant produced millions of Near Westside Neighborhood Associa-
An important issue to be resolved On July 11, 1906, ground was broken malleable iron pipe fittings each year. tion Inc., the current owner.
once the decision to locate here was for the new plant. The company an- The East Water Street. plant manufac- In 1962 the Grinnell Corporation pur-
made, was where to locate the plant. nounced that construction of the Elmira tured valves and fire hydrants of great chased Kennedy Valve. In 1963, Kenne-
Apparently rumors spread that it would plant would be awarded to local con- variety and sizes. dy Valve purchased the Mathews Hy-
be located on the old State Fair grounds tractors. The Elmira Evening Star re- Daniel Kennedy died on January 14, drant from R. D. Wood Manufacturing
near Elmira Heights or above Eldridge ported on June 22, 1907 that “Power 1928. His obituary noted that he was, Company. In 1969, the Grinnell Corpora-
Park. On the evening of March 1, 1906, at Turned On At The Enormous Plant of “still president of the corporation in ac- tion was purchased by ITT Fluid Tech-
a meeting in the Hotel Rathbun the The Kennedy Valve Company … It will tive charge of its policies and manage- nology and Kennedy Valve. Kennedy
question was answered. The company probably be nearly a month before the ment … He was naturally of a retiring Valve became a wholly owned subsid-
decided to purchase the East Water first heat is obtained in the foundry, but disposition … His philanthropies innu- iary. In 1988, the current owners,
Street site which had been offered to smoke is rolling from the power house merable, but were carried out anony- McWane, Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama
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Continued from Page 1A
tracks the tragic outcomes. An investi-
gation by Kaiser Health News and the
USA TODAY NETWORK has discovered
that more than 260 patients have died
since 2013 after in-and-out procedures
at surgery centers across the country.
Dozens — some as young as 2 — have
perished after routine operations, such
as colonoscopies and tonsillectomies.
Reporters examined autopsy records,
legal filings and more than 12,000 state
and Medicare inspection records, and
interviewed dozens of doctors, health
policy experts and patients throughout
the industry, in the most extensive ex-
amination of these records to date.
The investigation revealed:
z Surgery centers have steadily ex-
panded their business by taking on in-
creasingly risky surgeries. At least 14
patients have died after complex spinal
surgeries such as those that federal reg-
ulators at Medicare recently approved
for surgery centers. Even as the risks of
doing such surgeries off a hospital cam-
pus can be great, so is the reward. Doc-
tors who own a share of the center can
earn their own fee and a cut of the facil-
ity’s fee, a meaningful sum for opera-
tions that can cost $100,000 or more.
z Medicare requires surgery centers
to line up a local hospital to take their
patients when emergencies arise. In ru-
ral areas, centers can be 15 or more miles
away. Even when the hospital is close,
20 to 30 minutes can pass between a 911
call and arrival at an ER.
z Some centers are accused of over-
looking high-risk health problems and
treat patients who experts say should be
operated on only in hospitals, if at all. At
least 25 people with underlying medical
conditions have left surgery centers and
died within minutes or days, including
an Ohio woman with out-of-control
blood pressure, a 49-year-old West Vir-
ginia man awaiting a heart transplant
and several children with sleep apnea.
z Some centers risk lives by skimping
on training or lifesaving equipment.
Others have sent patients home before
they were fully recovered. On their
drives home, shocked family members
in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Georgia
discovered their loved ones were not
asleep but on the verge of death. Sur-
gery centers have been criticized in
cases where staff didn’t have the tools to
open a difficult airway or skills to save a
patient from bleeding to death.
Most operations in surgery centers
go off without a hitch. And surgery car-
ries risk, no matter where it’s done.
But Kaiser Health News and the USA
TODAY NETWORK found more than a
dozen cases where the absence of
trained staff or emergency equipment
appears to have put patients in peril.
And in cases similar to Tam’s, pa-
tients who had surgery in the upper
spine have been sent home too soon,
with the risk of suffocation looming.
In 2008, a 35-year-old Oregon father
of three struggled for air, pounding the
car roof in frustration while his wife
sped him to a hospital. A Dallas man col-
lapsed in his father’s arms waiting for an
ambulance in 2011. Another Oregon man
began to suffocate in his living room the
night of his upper-spine surgery in 2014.
A San Diego man gasped “like a fish,” his
wife recalled, as they waited for an am-
bulance on April 28, 2016.
None survived.
Many in the health care field — from
doctors to private insurance companies
to Medicare — have dismissed the
mounting deaths as medical anomalies
beyond the control of physicians.
Responding to lawsuits around the
nation, surgery centers have argued
that fatal complications were among
the known outcomes of such surgeries.
Two centers blamed patients for negli-
gence in their own deaths.
“There is nothing distinct or different
about the surgery center model that
makes the provision of health care any
more dangerous than anywhere else,”
said Bill Prentice, chief executive of the
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.
But Kenneth Rothfield, a physician
and board member of the Physician-Pa-
tient Alliance for Health & Safety, said
many surgery centers and physicians
push the envelope on how much can be
done in outpatient centers. “It’s impor-
tant to realize that surgery centers are
not hospitals,” he said. “They have dif-
ferent resources, different equipment.”
The first surgery center in the U.S.
opened in Phoenix in 1970, a place
where, for $90, a child could receive an
incision to relieve pressure on the inner
ear, The Arizona Republic reported at
the time. Taking such minor procedures
out of hospitals reduced the cost for pa-
tients and insurers because surgery
centers don’t require the same level of
staffing or lifesaving equipment.
Today, surgery centers outnumber
hospitals and perform scores of proce-
Scott and Sandy Van Veldhuizen’s son, Reuben, 12, died in 2016 after complications from a tonsillectomy at a surgery center
in Clive, Iowa. The center called 911 and Reuben was taken to the hospital, but it was too late. MICHAEL ZAMORA/USA TODAY NETWORK
About this story
A team of journalists based in
California, Indiana, New Jersey, Florida,
Virginia and Washington, D.C., worked
to tell this story in a partnership be-
tween USA TODAY NETWORK and Kai-
ser Health News, a non-profit news
service covering health and health pol-
icy. Reporters pored through thousands
of pages of court records and criss-
crossed the USA to talk to injured pa-
tients or families of the deceased. For
more than a year, using federal and
state open-records laws, reporters
gathered more than 12,000 inspection
records and 1,500 complaint reports,
as well autopsies, EMS documents and
medical records that became the foun-
dation for this report.
dures with approval from Medicare.
The expansion came despite linger-
ing safety concerns. In 2007, Medicare
noted that surgery centers “have neither
patient safety standards consistent
with those in place for hospitals, nor are
they required to have the trained staff
and equipment needed to provide the
breadth of intensity of care.” Some pro-
cedures are “unsafe” to be handled at
surgery centers, the report concluded.
The explosive growth of surgery cen-
ters — which receive $4.1 billion a year
from Medicare — has taken place under
circumstances some medical experts
consider unseemly. Federal law allows
surgery center doctors — unlike others
— to steer patients to facilities they own
rather than the full-service hospital
down the street. In some cases, doing so
could increase the risk to a patient but
double a physician’s profits.
Medicare advised centers to transfer
patients to hospitals when emergencies
arise. Only a third of surgery centers
participate in a voluntary effort to re-
port how often that happens. They sent
at least 7,000 patients to the hospital in
the year that ended in September 2017, a
KHN analysis of surgery center industry
data shows. Not all survive the trip.
James Long, 56, died after surgery in
a Colorado center in 2014. His family
was shocked that the center called 911.
“In the 21st century in the USA, a doc-
tor doing a surgery on a patient has to
call 911?” said Robin Long, his ex-wife,
who did not sue the center. “Give me a
break. … It’s just absolutely ignorant.”
Not always prepared
Patients enter hospitals with heart at-
tacks, gunshot wounds and traumatic
injuries. The doctors and nurses become
skilled at saving lives in emergencies.
Doctors in surgery centers may excel
at the procedures they perform most of-
ten. But the centers aren’t always pre-
pared and sometimes struggle in a cri-
sis, according to a review of Medicare
records and more than 70 lawsuits.
Health inspectors working on behalf
of Medicare have discovered 230 lapses
in rescue equipment or training regula-
tions at surgery centers since 2015.
A center in California had empty oxy-
gen tanks. One operating on children in
Arkansas didn’t have a pediatric trache-
otomy set to restore breathing. Another
lacked pediatric defibrillator pads to
shock hearts back into rhythm.
When emergency crews arrive, sur-
gery centers are not always prepared to
receive them.
In Florida, paramedics who rushed to
a surgery center after its usual operating
hours found a locked door while a pa-
tient inside gasped for breath. The 55-
year-old remains in a vegetative state.
In 2016, paramedics arrived at West
Lakes Surgery Center in Iowa as staff
tried to revive 12-year-old Reuben Van
Veldhuizen after he experienced com-
plications during a tonsillectomy, ac-
cording to a Medicare inspection report.
One paramedic told state inspectors
she had to ask who was in charge of the
resuscitation efforts. No one replied, the
report says. The boy made it to the hos-
pital 37 minutes after the surgery center
called 911. He was pronounced dead.
In court records responding to a law-
suit filed by the family, the surgery cen-
ter and anesthesiologist said Reuben’s
death was a result of “pre-existing con-
ditions, acts of others, or conditions
over which (Defendants) had no control
or responsibility.”
‘She never woke up’
While the thrum of a hospital con-
tinues through the night, some surgery
center doctors keep bankers’ hours.
That means patients whose surgeries
end later in the day are sometimes left in
the care of one or two nurses for up to
23 hours. Some patients have been sent
home to grapple with complications on
their own.
Spinal surgery patient McArthur Ro-
berson, 60, lost more than a quart of
blood during the operation and strug-
gled to breathe after surgery, his family
said in a lawsuit. He died on the way
home.
If he “had been observed in a hospital
overnight,” said Daniel Silcox, a spine
surgeon in Atlanta and expert for the
family in their lawsuit, “his death would
not have occurred.”
The surgery center denied wrongdo-
ing in the case, which reached a confi-
dential settlement in 2017.
Cecilia Aldridge said she also felt as if
the surgery center staff was rushing her
out the door after her 2-year-old daugh-
ter’s tonsil surgery in Arkansas in 2015.
A lawsuit filed by the parents said the
surgery center “discharged Abbygail too
early because a snow storm was moving
into the area.”
Abbygail turned blue in the car on the
way home. Her mother said she raced
into an emergency room, shouting for
help, her toddler in her arms.
“She never woke up,” Aldridge said
tearfully in an interview.
At-risk patients
Because surgery centers have less
safety equipment and staffing than hos-
pitals, industry leaders stress the im-
portance of selecting patients healthy
enough to fare well. Their predictions,
though, are not always correct.
Abbygail had sleep apnea, an irregu-
lar heartbeat and was very heavy for her
age, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit says Abbygail’s risk fac-
tors “were documented and known by
the Defendants,” including the doctor. It
said the toddler should have been oper-
ated on “in an inpatient setting under
hospital care and monitored overnight.”
Michael Marsh performed Abbygail’s
tonsillectomy at Executive Park Surgery
Center in Fort Smith, Ark.
The surgery center’s lawyer declined
to comment. The doctor’s lawyer did not
return email and voice messages. In
court documents responding to the
lawsuit, Marsh and the center denied
wrongdoing.
In the court filing, Marsh said the
toddler’s injuries were “the natural pro-
gression” of her illness. Executive Park
Surgery Center said in a court filing that
“no action on their part ... was a proxi-
mate cause of any damages or injury”
The case was settled.
In at least 25 cases, surgery centers
opened their doors to ailing and fragile
patients who died after simple proce-
dures such as tonsillectomies, retinal
repairs or colonoscopies, KHN and the
USA TODAY NETWORK found.
A widening niche
Such tragedies rarely find their way
into the discussion when Medicare de-
cides whether to approve new proce-
dures at surgery centers.
Take spinal surgery. Until 2015,
Medicare wouldn’t pay for it at surgery
centers. Then, the industry’s trade as-
sociation encouraged a letter-writing
campaign from surgery centers across
the nation.
In an email, a Medicare spokeswom-
an said the agency opened the spine
proposal to the public and received no
comments suggesting the procedures
would pose a threat to Medicare pa-
tients. Medicare approved 10 spine-sur-
gery codes to be billed at surgery centers
starting in 2015 and added more spinal
procedures for 2017.
By 2017, at least 14 patients had died
after such surgeries.
Paulina Tam’s death at Fremont Sur-
gery Center is documented in court and
EMS records and in a Medicare report
that concluded the center “failed to pro-
vide a safe environment for surgery.”
Upper-spine surgeries like Tam’s on
April 7, 2014, come with a risk of suffo-
cation for at least 24 hours, according to
the Medicare inspection report. Yet,
when Tam stopped breathing, the only
doctor present was a digestive health
specialist, the inspection report shows.
Medical experts say the first step in
helping such patients is removing the
surgical staples so pooled blood can dis-
perse. In Tam’s case, staff tried and failed
to insert a breathing tube through her
mouth and into her airway, the inspec-
tion report shows. A last-ditch remedy
would have been to punch a hole through
the front of her throat, but the gastroen-
terologist later told an inspector that he
“was not prepared” to do so.
The inability to perform the suffoca-
tion-rescue maneuver, the inspection
report says, amounted to the center’s
“failure to ensure patient safety.”
From the time a nurse called 911, it
took 24 minutes to get Tam to the near-
est hospital, EMS records show. She ar-
rived without a pulse.
The center did not return calls and
denied wrongdoing in a legal filing.
Tam’s surgeon declined to discuss the
case but filed records in court saying
Tam’s “carelessness and negligence”
caused her death. The case reached a
confidential settlement.
After Tam’s death, the center told
Medicare inspectors that a qualified
doctor would stay on-site after all up-
per-spine cases.
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Editorial Board
Neill Borowski, Executive Editor
Chris Kocher, Engagement Editor

www.stargazette.com/opinion
sgletters@stargazette.com

NY should pass the Child Victims Act

The trauma of childhood sexual abuse can fester
and grow well into adulthood.
Yet perpetrators of this heinous crime can escape
punishment in New York state if the statute of limita-
tions for child sex abuse crimes runs out before a vic-
tim reports it.
This shameful scenario happens far too often, be-
cause the majority of people who were sexually
abused as children suffer in silence and never report it.
For those who do speak up, it can be years or even dec-
ades before they find the strength to do so.
The Child Victims Act attempts to give those who
endured childhood sexual abuse a chance to seek jus-
tice. If approved, the legislation would raise the stat-
ute of limitations on child sexual abuse crimes to age
28 in criminal cases and age 50 in civil cases. The act
also would create a one-year window for survivors
previously restricted from coming forward because of
their age to sue their accusers.
Albany lawmakers should pass this measure. The
toll that childhood sexual abuse takes on people across
our state demands it. Adult survivors of childhood
sexual abuse have higher rates of problems with sub-
stance abuse, depression, suicide attempts and eating
disorders.
By passing the Child Victims Act, New York would
join seven other states who have already passed simi-
lar legislation. Sadly, versions of this bill have made
the rounds in Albany for decades, but none has ever
made it through the Assembly and the Senate. This
must change.
Opponents of the current legislation have ex-
pressed particular concern that the one-year window
for people previously restricted from coming forward
would create an overwhelming deluge of cases.
“This extraordinary provision would force institu-
tions to defend alleged conduct decades ago about
which they have no knowledge, and in which they had
no role, potentially involving employees long retired,
dead or infirm, based on information long lost, if it ever
existed,” the state’s Catholic Conference said in budget
testimony last month.
Our legal system places the burden of proof on the
accuser, not the defendant. As such, any argument
against this worthy legislation that is based on hard-
ship for the defense falls flat. Such arguments also
raise the suspicion that opponents are more worried
about their pockets than allowing victims of childhood
sexual abuse the opportunity to seek some modicum
of justice.
When it comes to childhood sexual abuse, we
should not be concerned about the inconvenience and
potential hit to the bank account that institutions
might face. Instead, we should take measures to help
survivors of childhood sexual abuse find solace.
This editorial originally appeared in the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

NRA has earned its disrespect

People are up in arms about all the corporations

severing ties with the NRA. But if you ask me, they
and their supporters have done everything they
could possibly do to make themselves look bad since
the Parkland shooting in Florida.
People are online spreading hoaxes about survi-
vors being actors, and saying people who watched
their friends get shot aren’t allowed to make com-
mentary because they aren’t “political experts.”
Wayne LaPierre goes out during CPAC and reminds
us that the real victims are him and the NRA, and that
they are the ones who should be worried.
The NRA is always talking about respecting its
rights, but if you want to receive respect, you have to
give it. And the NRA has never given respect to any-
one. They never want to listen to opposing views, or
compromise on even the most ridiculous stances,
like background checks for gun purchases, which is
almost universally supported, even by gun owners.
If the NRA wants to save face, they’re going to have
to actually change. And for an organization whose
members have never ideologically challenged them,
they might not be able to. So don’t expect things to
get better. The levee has officially broke.
ANDREW FISH
HORSEHEADS

Reed’s support isn’t from around here

Tom Reed recently announced that he had over a

million dollars for his re-election campaign. He fur-
ther stated he was “grateful to the hundreds of New
Yorkers who have invested their hard-earned mon- The CDC determined guns to be a public health threat and should be regulated in that context.
ey” in him. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO
The problem is, according to the Federal Election

Fund CDC research

Commission, most of his money came from PACs and
not “hard-working New Yorkers.” The FEC website
also lists many individual donors, and most of Reed’s
big donors came from places like Texas, Virginia and

other places outside of our district.
So it seems that it is not people in our district who
are using their “hard-earned money” to finance his
campaign, but people outside our district are using
their money to get Reed to do their bidding.
Another example of a Congressman who is bought
and paid for by special-interest groups, and does not
truly represent the people in his own district.
SID PARKS
HORNELL
Hollywood’s violence affects today’s culture
Once again, we grieve the loss of young, innocent
lives because of an evil, unstable young man. These
were young people who would have been laborers,
technicians, accountants, doctors, attorneys, a
spouse, a parent. Such a horrible and grievous waste.
In the ’50s, Hollywood produced TV such as “Fa-
ther Knows Best,” “Leave It to Beaver” and “The Lone
Ranger.” The sophisticated, enlightened critics of to-
day openly mock this “simple, provincial” viewing,
favoring increased violence and sexuality.
The average teenager today has viewed, condoned
and stored 20,000 “murders” by age 18. Not enough
action for you? Let’s spend hours playing violent
video games.
How has this affected today’s society compared to
the “simple, provincial, puritanical and backward”
folks of 50 years ago? It’s time to expose Hollywood
for its hypocrisy calling for oppressive gun control
while “feeding the beast.”
Mental illness and instability need to be prohib-
ited from firearms, but with equal protection and due
process. And I trust the Bill of Rights far more than
the knee-jerk reaction of so many of our politicians.
DOUGLAS MITCHELL
ADDISON
COMING MONDAY
Amy Goodman: Survivors teach country a lesson.
Kurt Bardella: Democrats could be in big trouble.
of gun violence
Your Turn
Dr. Najeeb Rehman
Guest Columnist
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) applies scientific research and findings to im-
prove people’s daily lives and responds to health
emergencies — something that distinguishes the CDC
from its peer agencies.
It has maintained the credence of scientific re-
search, and helped build and maintain the infrastruc-
ture for public health at federal, state and local levels.
It has helped reduce disease transmission and deaths
while protecting staff and patients, and along the way
saved immense health care dollars.
Like any other government organization, political
oversight and political influence on the CDC is expect-
ed. On the contrary, the public in general believes the
CDC is composed of and only run by scientists.
But politics does play a role in functioning of the
CDC. By the word “politics,” I do not simply mean par-
tisan politics, but rather it also implies a broader set of
policies and ideologies that play a role.
Public health seems to be at the crossroads of sci-
ence and politics. Daniel Defoe (1772) reported a stark
observation from 1665, the year of plague in London,
that could apply to many public health interventions
then and today: “This shutting up of houses was at
first counted a very cruel and unchristian method …
but it was a public good that justified a private mis-
chief.”
Science, public health and politics are not only
compatible, but I believe that all three are necessary
to improve the public’s health. In this complex three-
some relationship, public health would flourish only
when scientific evidence will guide the governmental
policies.
However, the intrusion of politics becomes danger-
ous when it is driven by ideologies and ignores or mis-
Science, public health and politics are not only
compatible, but I believe that all three are
necessary to improve the public’s health. In this
complex threesome relationship, public health
would flourish only when scientific evidence will
guide the governmental policies.
interprets the science, and then dictates health pol-
icies. This can be exemplified by the ideologic views
of the Second Amendment and pro-gun policies on
one side of the aisle.
In 1995, after undertaking extensive scientific re-
search of firearm injuries and deaths, the CDC con-
cluded that guns should be considered a public health
threat and therefore be regulated in that context. The
following year, due to lobbying efforts of National Ri-
fle Association, the Republicans in Congress stripped
CDC funding equal to its gun research expense and
thus practically strangled its research into firearm in-
juries and deaths.
It’s impossible to have an honest debate or an ef-
fective policy about gun violence prevention when we
can’t study the issue.
In these trying times, when many young lives are
lost due to a mass school shooting in Florida, while
our hearts are filled with grief and sorrow, at least I
can see a silver lining. This incident has reignited a
great national debate of gun rights and gun violence. I
call upon our legislators to please support sensible
gun control measures and fund the CDC to resume
gun violence research.
Don’t take me wrong, I love hunting and am a gun
owner myself. But I am a father as well, and at no cost
would I want to lose any of my children to such sense-
less gun violence. No, not my child.
Dr. Najeeb Rehman is a Horseheads resident.
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Pollution
Continued from Page 1A
In Elmira, contractors last summer
removed more than 6,500 tons of soil
tainted by PCBs and other chemical
hazards from under the school’s tennis
courts and south parking lot. Contam-
inated soil under the east parking lot
will be excavated and trucked to hazard-
ous waste landfills this summer. The fi-
nal phase of the cleanup, under the
school track and playing field, is yet to
be scheduled.
TCE fumes penetrating the school’s
foundation were detected in the build-
ing at the state safety threshold or
slightly below before a special system
was installed in 2014 to vent them from
beneath the property. Today, indoor air
tests are performed regularly to ensure
the system is working.
“These are sins from the past,” said
Andy Patros, a longtime Elmira resident
who was a teenager when plans for the
high school were announced. “We were
excited to have a brand new school, but
we were just kids. So we didn’t know.”
What Patros didn’t know, others sus-
pected. Patros remembers the reaction
of his future father-in-law who worked
at the plant when it was Remington
Rand, a business machine manufactur-
ing empire: “‘They’re going to build a
school there? They’re going to have to
take out a lot of dirt.’”
That assessment turned out to be
prophetic 40 years later.
The recent rush of work at the school
represents “an abundance of caution”
corresponding with capital improve-
ments that could not be done without
disturbing the pollution, district super-
intendent Hillary Austin said in a recent
interview. “The building is safe for peo-
ple to be in. I want people to know that.”
Remington Rand’s successor, Unisys,
is responsible for the cleanup. Company
spokesman Kevin Krueger declined to
discuss costs, but said Unisys will abide
by terms spelled out in a consent order
negotiated with the state Department of
Environmental Conservation in 2014.
“We realize our liability and we are step-
ping up,” Krueger said.
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
and trichloroethylene (TCE) are com-
mon 20th century pollutants. Exposure
to either can cause a range of ailments
from nerve damage to cancer.
Company, school and health officials
cite findings by state and federal agen-
cies published in 2003 showing “no ap-
parent public health hazard” at the El-
mira school because people are not like-
ly to come in contact with the buried
chemical hazards.
While the conclusion of the study —
prompted by concerns over cancer rates
of students and alumni — was a relief
for the school community, its findings
also left a nagging doubt. Overall, statis-
tics showed no unusual patterns of can-
cers, with the exception of an unex-
plained spike in testicular cancer
among students and recent graduates
from 1997 to 2000.
Patros’s son, Tom, was one of the tes-
ticular cancer cases. Although he was
successfully treated, it was a harrowing
ordeal.
“Who knows what caused it?” Patros,
a former Chemung County legislator, re-
cently reflected. “But this is the ques-
tion that stays with us.”
‘It’s personal’
A harbinger of bad news at the school
and elsewhere turned up in 1980 when
tests showed TCE pollution, eventually
traced to a Westinghouse Electric Corp.
manufacturing plant, had breached two
public wells serving the Elmira water
system.
In 1994, a municipal drinking water
well on Sullivan Street was fitted with
an “air stripper,” an aeration system that
runs non-stop to purge TCE from the
water. But the Kentucky Avenue well
field, which ended up on the federal En-
vironmental Protection Agency’s “na-
tional priorities list ” of the most pollut-
ed sites in the country, still remains off
line while the cleanup continues.
The scenario is sadly common
throughout the Southern Tier’s heavily
industrialized river valleys.
In Broome County, cleanup of Ves-
tal’s drinking water Well 1-1 is also ongo-
ing, after it, too, was added to the EPA’s
national priorities list and decommis-
sioned in 1990. The most recent phase
includes a $14.5 million project to re-
move contaminated soil and thermally
treat the ground at Stage Road, an in-
dustrial area near the town’s rail trail. A
review of the effectiveness of the clean-
up is due this spring.
Two other Vestal wells and four other
water systems collectively serving
about 80,000 residents in Broome
County municipalities of Endicott,
Johnson City, Kirkwood and Conklin
also depend on air strippers to safe-
Longtime Hillcrest resident Tom Tiffany was a driving force in the Hillcrest Environmental Action Team (HEAT), which
worked with state officials to understand and clean TCE pollution in his neighborhood. Tiffany’s advice to people
discovering contamination near their own homes: “Get informed.” KATE COLLINS/STAFF PHOTO
Sean Shumaker developed leukemia when he was 8 and died in 2012. His mother
suspects TCE made him sick; they lived in Hillcrest. PROVIDED PHOTO
guard against TCE contamination.
While the impact of TCE on water
supplies emerged in the late 1980s, it
would take 30 more years before health
officials would discover another hazard:
TCE fumes from polluted soil and
groundwater tables drifting into build-
ings, a danger known as “vapor intru-
sion.”
More than 600 Broome County
homes near the former IBM site in Endi-
cott and CAE Electronics in Hillcrest
were among the frontier of vapor intru-
sion discoveries in 2001.
IBM paid more than $14 million to
settle claims related to the pollution
hazard, and more than $70 million
cleaning its former circuit board plant —
now the Huron Campus — and nearby
residential area.
Hundreds of millions in state, federal
and private dollars are spent on others
investigations statewide.
Today, the TCE legacy is better un-
derstood, although far from solved. Reg-
ulators continue to uncover new haz-
ards as they realize the scope of vapor
intrusion across the Southern Tier.
“It’s changed the way we do things,”
said Martin Brand, deputy commission-
er of the state’s remediation program.
“It wasn’t a pathway we traditionally in-
vestigated. Now it’s part of the process.”
The process has changed. And so has
the public’s stake with pollution. What
once was thought of as a threat to out-
door water, air and soil now is a threat to
people’s living rooms. “It’s a little less
abstract when people learn about vapor
coming into their home,” Brand said.
“It’s personal.”
Addressing pollution that has
worked its way onto private property
has proven a difficult task. Funds are
limited. Records are scarce. Sometimes
investigators are welcomed. Other
times, not.
“When we determine where we want
to go in the community, our responsibil-
ity is to reach out to property owners,”
said Michael Basile, a public affairs offi-
cial with the federal Environmental Pro-
tection Agency. “Sometimes there is re-
luctance to give us access ... ‘You’re from
the government and you want to come
onto my property and drill a hole in my
cellar floor? No thank you’.”
The problem tends to be compound-
ed in rental properties, where migrant
populations are generally unaware of
the issue and absentee landlords may
be unmotivated to cooperate.
In coming weeks, 50 property own-
ers south of a federal Superfund Site in
Elmira Heights will get such letters from
the EPA seeking access to properties.
Extensive TCE contamination was
found flowing from the former Purolator
Products site, now owned by Motor
Components LLC, after Purolator exca-
vated and removed 461 buried drums in
the spring of 1992, according to DEC rec-
ords.
EPA technicians have already tested
about 200 nearby buildings and in-
stalled venting systems in more than 40
of them.
Similar investigations continue in
Tompkins County neighborhoods. The
largest, in the South Hill portion of Itha-
ca, covers 100 acres with a vast industri-
al legacy beginning with Morse Indus-
trial Corp. in 1906.
Hazards here, according to DEC rec-
ords, began with machines without drip
pans used to manufacture automotive
components and power transmission
equipment. In the mid-20th century,
when Borg-Warner Corp. operated the
plant, it was common practice to clean
oil from the floors with solvents and
flush the mess into the floor drains and
leaky sewer pipes.
More than 60 homes north and west
of the plant have been fitted with vapor
mitigation systems, yet work to clean
residual pollution from the path of the
sewer line along East Spencer Street has
been stalled due to easement issues
with the city of Ithaca, according to the
DEC file.
Less than two miles south, DEC offi-
cials continue efforts to pinpoint
boundaries of a toxic plume from the
former Ithaca Gun Factory. Systems
have been installed to vent TCE fumes
from under at least eight nearby resi-
dences.
In Broome County, officials are evalu-
ating boundaries of a TCE plume near
the Lowes parking lot in Vestal. Evi-
dence to date suggests the plume is not
affecting nearby buildings, according to
Mike Ryan, assistant director of remedi-
ation for the DEC. But it could limit fu-
ture development in that part of the ma-
jor retail hub.
Cancer threat
TCE is a pernicious polluter — sink-
ing into the water table, sticking to soil,
resisting cleanup and producing fumes
that move up through the ground and
into buildings.
As industry leaders began to recog-
nize how toxic the solvent was, TCE fell
from widespread use in the late 20th
century.
Yet it would take the federal govern-
ment — facing strong resistance from
the chemical lobby — until 2015 to offi-
cially recognize chronic exposure to
even low doses of TCE raises risks of
cancer and birth defects.
Quantifying the extent and impact of
its legacy at any given waste site, how-
ever, remains a challenge. Although the
state budgets $100 million a year for
cleanups of all polluted sites, there are
no state or federal budget dollars ded-
icated exclusively to TCE pollution. Pri-
vate companies under orders to clean
legacy sites are not required to disclose
expenses.
Nationally, the cost of addressing
TCE pollution is running into the “tens
of billions,” with no comprehensive list
or method to prioritize or assess sites,
according to Lenny Siegel, director of
the Center for Public Environmental
Oversight, a nonprofit organization that
facilitates public participation in
brownfield and Superfund cleanups.
Meanwhile, dramatic cuts proposed
to federal programs would shift even
more of the burden to states with lim-
ited budgets.
“What we’ve seen in many places is
the threat of vapor intrusion is discov-
ered and addressed only when redevel-
opment occurs,” Seigel said.
However, the discovery of vapor in-
trusion came with fear of life in the
Broome County communities of Endi-
cott and Hillcrest.
Lessons from the past
Parents in certain areas of Broome
County near industrial sites became
concerned when a seemingly dispro-
portionate number of children were
stricken with cancer in the 1990s.
Their fears were not imagined. Sub-
sequent studies by the Department of
Health and the Centers for Disease Con-
trol found unusual spikes in leukemia
and other cancers among children in
Hillcrest and the Town of Union, as well
as heart defects among some children in
the Town of Union.
Childhood cancer is a unique and ur-
gent flag. Children are not likely to
smoke or work in factories. In their short
lives, they are less likely to have moved
from place to place with different expo-
sure risks. They are not expected to get
cancer associated with aging, and their
small bodies are more vulnerable to the
ill effects of pollution.
Although falling short of identifying
a causal relationship with pollution,
statistical analysis by state and federal
health officials suggested some 14 child-
hood cancer cases in the vicinity of pol-
luted sites in Hillcrest and the Town of
Union were not likely due to chance
alone.
Regardless of the uncertainty about
their cause, the cancers became a po-
tent rallying point for communities and
elected officials urging more aggressive
action on solvent pollution that had
long been taken for granted at CAE Elec-
tronics and Triple City Metal Finishing
in Hillcrest, and at IBM in Endicott.
Tom Tiffany, a resident of Hillcrest, a
community in the Town of Fenton, was
on the front line of that fight.
“The biggest lesson? Get informed,”
Tiffany said recently. “Work together
and find experts if necessary. If we don’t
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Molinaro expected to run for governor
Joseph Spector
Albany Bureau
USA TODAY NETWORK
ALBANY – Dutchess County Execu-
tive Marc Molinaro plans to seek the Re-
publican nomination for governor after
handily winning a straw poll of GOP
leaders Friday.
Molinaro attended a closed-door
meeting of county GOP leaders in Sara-
toga, walking away with a convincing
victory in an informal survey of chair-
men and delegates.
State GOP chairman Ed Cox then told
reporters Molinaro announced to the
leaders he will run for governor, making
him the third Republican candidate in
the race to run against Democratic Gov.
Andrew Cuomo.
“He announced he was running —
loud and clear,” Cox told the USA Today
Network’s Albany Bureau.
He added, “As a prominent county
executive, he has been very successful
in a major county.”
A Molinaro campaign spokesman
would only say no announcement was
scheduled Friday.
“Marc is deeply grateful and humbled
by the support; there will be no formal
announcement today,” said the spokes-
man, David Catalfamo.
Molinaro won the straw poll with 55
votes to 23 votes for Syracuse Sen. John
DeFrancisco. Joe Holland, a former aide
under Gov. George Pataki, got five votes,
according to the state party.
Support for Molinaro
Former Erie County Executive Joel
Giambra dropped his bid for the GOP
nomination Thursday, but plans to seek
a third-party nomination.
Molinaro, 42, of Tivoli, was elected
Dutchess County executive in 2011 after
Continued from Page 8A
learn from our past we are bound to re-
peat our mistakes.”
News of multiple cases of sick and
dying children in the community was
both tragic and galvanizing.
Beth Shumaker, whose son Sean de-
veloped leukemia when he was 8, was at
ground zero of the crises. She suspected
TCE made Sean sick. But the Shumakers
— Beth, her husband Andy, Sean and his
two brothers, Stephen and Matt —
didn’t abandon their Hillcrest home.
“The sense of community was so
strong,” Beth recalled recently. “It was
our home, and we loved it there.”
Residents formed their own commit-
tee, the Hillcrest Environmental Action
Team (HEAT), to study the highly tech-
nical factors at play, and to have a voice
in the investigation and cleanup. It be-
gan with knowing what questions to
ask.
Shelves in the tiny neighborhood li-
brary were crowded with technical re-
ports from the DEC, Department of
Health and contractors testing the
sources of pollution at CAE Link and
Triple Cities Metal Finishing. To help
decipher them, the group enlisted Bruce
Oldfield, a science professor at nearby
Broome Community College. They edu-
cated themselves about “risk factors,”
“statistical significance,” “ground water
gradients” and “sub-slab depressuriza-
tion.”
With stakes mounting, the DEC and
state and federal health officials began
regular meetings with HEAT to discuss
testing schedules and cleanup plans.
Sean, who would become a public
face of the toll of childhood cancer and
the bravery of family and victims, was
treated with grueling chemotherapy,
and later radiation treatment. After suf-
fering a relapse, he died in 2012, but not
before attaining life goals of graduating
from Chenango Valley Highs School and
earning a degree at SUNY Broome.
Beth and Andy recently sold their
house in Hillcrest and moved to the
country to pursue their own dream. Al-
though Beth believes TCE is still a threat
in her old community, she has no re-
grets.
“Sean taught me that you have to live
without fear and regret,” she said.
Today, the Hillcrest cleanup has pro-
gressed. Every three or four months, a
DEC vehicle pulls up and a technician
collects a sample from a monitoring well
in Tiffany’s front yard, a sight that has
become as innocuous as a meter man.
Along the sidewalk, vents poke incon-
spicuously above pitched roofs and
brick chimneys, releasing vapors
sucked from below foundations by mo-
tors quieter than a whisper.
It will take years more before the TCE
pollution is completely gone, but the
Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro greets supporters after he delivered
his State of the County Address at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park
on Feb. 28. SETH HARRISON/USA TODAY NETWORK
serving in the state Assembly from 2007
through 2011. He was first elected to of-
fice at age 18 to the Tivoli village board.
The support was a quick turnaround
for Molinaro, who in January said he
would not run for governor.
But he continued to be encouraged to
enter the race by supporters and said in
recent week that he was reconsidering.
He attended Friday’s meeting vowing
to run a vigorous campaign against Cu-
omo, who is seeking a third term in No-
vember, county leaders said.
While Molinaro won the straw poll, it
was just a fraction of the total 435 dele-
gates who will convene in May to nomi-
nate the party’s gubernatorial candi-
date.
Who’s in?
DeFrancisco said he was undeterred
TCE pollution, spanning 300 acres of Endicott, started under IBM’s microelectronics campus, which is now owned by Huron
Real Estate Associates. IBM has spent more than $70 million on the cleanup. FILE PHOTO
sources have been eliminated and tests
in dozens of monitoring wells along
tree-lined sidewalks show residual lev-
els in groundwater levels continue to fall
as life goes on in the neighborhood
‘Wild West of dumping’
While sites like Hillcrest and Elmira
High School have a relatively robust rec-
ord of investigation, pollution and im-
pacts to people living near or over an un-
told number of undocumented sites re-
main mysteries.
“Many sites are not in the system, be-
cause the system has fallen apart,” said
Walter Hang, head of Toxics Targeting,
an Ithaca business that compiles and
sells environmental data to real estate
stakeholders and governments looking
to develop sites.
Hang, a prominent activist and stri-
dent DEC critic, recently walked along
the banks of a creek that exposed a
cross section of an old municipal dump
in the city of Ithaca. Rusted drums, a
crushed car and other industrial detri-
tus hang from the bank and are visible
from the west end of Wegmans parking
lot, looking east across the stream.
Directly above the dirt-covered de-
bris, rows of mobile homes, colorful and
well-kept, line the streets of Nates Floral
Estates.
stargazette.com z SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018 z 9A
by the straw poll and Molinaro’s loom-
ing entrance into the race.
DeFrancisco appeared to be fron-
trunner for the party’s nod before Moli-
naro’s change of heart.
“Senator DeFrancisco is running full
steam ahead toward the nomination,”
said Bill O’Reilly, a spokesman for De-
Francisco’s campaign. “We were happy
to be at the event in Saratoga, but it has
no bearing on the race whatsoever. Our
job is to keep taking the fight to Andrew
Cuomo. That’s all that matters.”
Several major GOP chairmen, includ-
ing in Suffolk, Erie and Monroe coun-
ties, appear poised to back Molinaro,
which would help his case at the con-
vention.
Some leaders have expressed con-
cern going with DeFrancisco because of
his long record in Albany, while they
said Molinaro has had a strong résumé
In 2015 and 2016, state officials un-
dertook “a limited investigation” to de-
termine if vapors from the landfill were
being released into the Estates, DEC
spokesman Sean Mahar said in a recent
email. Tests showed vapor concentra-
tions “at levels that would not require
mitigation.”
More tests are scheduled to begin
this spring, Mahar added.
Hang, who characterized the investi-
gations as “token and ineffective,” be-
lieves officials have conveniently ig-
nored the dump to allow development,
including a Lowes built on the opposite
side of the trailer park from Wegmans.
He pointed to pipes venting gases from
the landfill under the Lowes parking lot,
which are absent in the trailer park.
“They’ll just keep testing here and
there, without really accomplishing
anything,” he said.
The trailer park community consists
mostly of seniors. They enjoy potluck
dinners at the community hall, and
strolling over a foot bridge spanning the
creek bed to the nearby Wegmans.
Esther Herkowitz, a 10-year resident
of the park, likes the convenience, the
affordability and the neighbors. Her
concerns about the dump, however, be-
gan shortly after she moved in and en-
countered its unidentified contents a
few inches below the soil when trying to
as a county executive.
If Molinaro were to win the nomina-
tion, it would be the second county ex-
ecutive from the Hudson Valley to chal-
lenge Cuomo.
He beat then-Westchester County
Executive Rob Astorino in 2014.
Battling Cuomo
Monroe County GOP chairman Bill
Reilich said he voted for Molinaro at the
party meeting Friday, saying he believes
Molinaro is the best candidate to chal-
lenge Cuomo.
“I worked with him in the Assembly,”
said Reilich, a former assemblyman.
“He was a bright individual who under-
stood the issues, and I believe he has the
answers to the woes of New York state.”
Molinaro regularly knocks Cuomo’s
policies on Twitter, such as criticizing
him over the lack of local relief from un-
funded state mandates and the gover-
nor’s spending on update economic-de-
velopment initiatives.
“NYers can’t afford more taxes,” he
wrote Feb. 22. “Services can be more ef-
fective & efficient. We can make govern-
ment smaller & more effective, less ex-
pensive & more efficient. We can help
NYers & provide relief.”
Any of the GOP candidates would go
into the race as a heavy underdog,
though.
Republicans haven’t won a statewide
seat in New York since 2002, and New
York has twice as many enrolled Demo-
crats as Republicans.
Cuomo had $30 million in his cam-
paign coffers in January.
Molinaro had $36,000 in his county
executive campaign account and $100
in a gubernatorial campaign account he
opened last year.
plant her beloved rose bushes.
“I’ve been told ‘don’t plant vegeta-
bles.’ she said. “Don’t think that this soil
is anything but problematic.”
She later learned the dump was used
by the City of Ithaca before modern en-
vironmental regulations. “This was like
the wild west of dumping,” she said.
“Anybody could dump anything they
wanted here, no questions asked. Now
it’s difficult to get anyone here to speak
of it.”
She doesn’t dig there anymore.
Trailer park owner Elline Weiner
confirmed that residents are advised to
plant in raised beds rather than dig in
the soil. But she dismissed concerns
that the area posed health risks. “They
(the DEC) have tested here since 2000
and found nothing,” she said.
In February, Herkowitz received a
fact sheet in the mail notifying her of
upcoming tests to determine whether
the site is affecting groundwater, al-
though the status of the dump and re-
sults of previous investigations are not
listed on the state’s registry of hazard-
ous waste sites or potential sites.
Herkowitz is glad to see action, al-
though she believes it’s long overdue. “I
think this never would have happened
in a higher rent area,” she added.
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LIFE
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New designs on Haddish
EDWARDS/
WIREIMAGE “Girls Trip” star Tiffany Haddish, who famously
wore her own white Alexander McQueen dress
twice last year, is finally taking advantage of designer
loaners like this green lamé Maria Lucia Hohan gown
she wore to Thursday’s Cadillac Oscar pre-party in Los
Angeles. But she promises, “You will see the white dress
again.” (Just not at the Oscars. She says she’s leaning
toward a dress from a designer from Eritrea.)

NATION & WORLD WATCH

Authorities say man shot himself
to death near White House

WASHINGTON – A man shot him-

self to death Saturday near the fence
along the north side of the White
House, the Secret Service said. Presi-
dent Donald Trump and first lady Mel-
ania Trump were in Florida at the time.
The man was identified by the Se-
cret Service and the city’s Metropoli-
tan Police Department, but his name
was not immediately released.

More flooding expected as

nor’easter moves out to sea

BOSTON – People along the North-

east coast braced for more flooding
during high tides Saturday even as the
storm that inundated roads, snapped
trees and knocked out power to more
than 2 million homes and businesses
moved hundreds of miles out to sea.
Areas from Maryland to Maine re-
mained under flood warnings. Officials
in eastern Massachusetts, where doz-
ens of people were rescued from high
waters overnight, warned of another
round of flooding during high tides ex- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ ties to President Trump may prevent a unified report from his
pected around noon. Residents in oth- committee. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
er coastal areas, meanwhile, bailed out

Congress’ probes may not

basements and surveyed the damage
while waiting for power to be restored.
Authorities on Saturday reported
two deaths from the storm, bringing

answer collusion question

the total to at least seven.

Electrolux halts Tenn. project

after tariff announcement

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Electrolux has

put plans for a $250 million plant ex-
pansion in Tennessee on hold, and the
Swedish appliance maker is pointing
to President Donald Trump’s tariff ac-
tion as the reason.
The company’s investment plans,
announced in January, included mod-
ernizing and adding 400,000 square
feet to the Springfield plant. Construc-
tion was slated to begin later this year.
Florida python devours deer
that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more
NAPLES, Fla. – Researchers study-
ing invasive Burmese pythons in Flori-
da came upon something they’d never
seen before: an 11-foot-long python
had consumed an entire deer that
weighed more than the snake itself.
Biologist Ian Bartoszek told the Na-
ples Daily News that the fawn weighed
35 pounds; the snake 31.5.
Merkel’s fate hangs on vote
by potential coalition partner
Partisanship likely to
prevent clear answers
in Russia investigations
Erin Kelly
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Did the Trump
campaign collude with the Russians to
try to ensure that Donald Trump
would be elected president in 2016?
It’s one of the central questions of
congressional investigations into Rus-
sian meddling, but Congress is unlike-
ly to answer it when its investigations
conclude in the next few months, legal
experts say. “Will they provide Amer-
icans with a definitive answer on col-
lusion? Certainly not,” said Charles
Tiefer, a University of Baltimore law
professor. “People will be frustrated.”
A straightforward answer to the
question would require bipartisan-
ship, and that’s not something Con-
gress seems able to find, experts said.
Instead, the final reports from Con-
gress appear to be, at best, heading to-
ward conclusions that focus narrowly
on what Republicans and Democrats
can agree on: that Russia waged an ex-
tensive campaign to interfere in the 2016
election and must be stopped from do-
ing it again. Beyond that, Americans
should expect separate, partisan con-
clusions about whether the Trump cam-
paign and the Kremlin coordinated ef-
forts to elect Trump.
The House Intelligence Committee
has been bitterly divided along party
lines, and lawmakers on both sides ac-
knowledge that they probably will end
up issuing two separate reports: one
from the Republican majority and an-
other from the Democratic minority.
“I would expect a report from the ma-
jority that attempts to exonerate
Trump,” said Kathleen Clark, a profes-
sor of law at Washington University in
St. Louis and former counsel to the Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee.
The committee’s chairman, Rep. De-
vin Nunes, R-Calif., served on the
Trump transition team and has been a
strong supporter of the president.
On the flip side, Rep. Adam Schiff of
California, a former federal prosecutor
who is the committee’s senior Demo-
crat, already has outlined “ample evi-
dence” of collusion, which will likely be
the focus of a Democratic report.
Among the evidence that Schiff cited:
Donald Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law
Jared Kushner, and former campaign
chairman Paul Manafort met with a
Russian attorney at Trump Tower in
June 2016 after being promised “dirt” on
Democratic presidential candidate Hil-
lary Clinton.
Even the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee, which has operated in a much
more bipartisan way, appears unlikely
to agree on the issue of collusion.
While Congress is shying away from
the collusion issue, special counsel Rob-
ert Mueller appears to be investigating
it, along with whether President Trump
engaged in obstruction of justice by try-
ing to cover up evidence of collusion.
The congressional committees have left
the obstruction issue to Mueller.

FRANKFURT, Germany – German

Chancellor Angela Merkel is awaiting
the results of a vote by her potential
coalition partner – the center-left So-
cial Democrats – to learn if she will be
able to form a new government.
A majority “yes” vote means Merkel
would remain chancellor of Europe’s
largest economy for a fourth term.
Staff and wire reports
An ostrich opens wide in its
enclosure in the Opel zoo near
Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday.
MICHAEL PROBST/AP
Canada’s PM blasts Trump tariffs
Trudeau questions
how his nation poses
threat to security of US
Doug Stanglin
USA TODAY
Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau says President Donald
Trump’s planned steel and aluminum
tariffs are “absolutely unacceptable”
and would cause serious disruption of
markets on both sides of the border.
His comments on Friday came one
day after Trump announced plans to
slap a U.S. tariff of 25 percent on steel
imports and 10 percent on aluminum.
The prime minister noted that the
Trump administration indicated it
Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau says tariffs would hurt both
nations. ALICE CHICHE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
would impose the tariffs under a rarely
used provision of U.S. law that allows a
president to declare tariffs unilaterally
to counter threats to national security.
“It just makes no sense to highlight
that Canada and Canadian steel or alu-
minum might be a security threat to the
United States,” Trudeau said during an
event in Barrie, Ontario, The Canadian
Press reported.
“That’s why this is absolutely unac-
ceptable and it’s a point we’ve made
many times, that I’ve made directly with
the president,” he said. “It’s one that
we’re going to continue to engage with
all levels of the U.S. administration on.”
While Trump has routinely singled
out China for its steel and aluminum ex-
ports to the U.S., the president, in his re-
marks on Thursday, did not say specifi-
cally whether Canada and/or Mexico
would be subject to the new measures.
China accounts for 2.9 percent of
U.S. steel imports. Canada is the biggest
supplier, accounting for 16 percent of
U.S. steel imports, or $4.3 billion in 2017.

Penguin poop helps researchers find ‘supercolony’ in Antarctica

USA TODAY
A previously unknown “supercolo-
ny” of penguins has been discovered off
of the Antarctic Peninsula’s northern
tip.
The more than 1.5 million birds were
found after NASA satellite imagery of
the area showed large amounts of pen-
guin poop, also known as guano, in
2014.
Penguin activity there went largely
unnoticed because of how difficult it is
to get to the appropriately named Dan-
ger Islands. Even in the summer, the
ocean surrounding the area is packed
with thick sea ice, making ship travel
nearly impossible, the BBC reported.
When researchers were able to se-
cure a safe trip to the Danger Islands,
they found one of the largest groups of
Adélie penguins in the world and the
largest population on the Antarctic Pen-
insula, according to a report published
Friday in Scientific Reports.
Adélie Penguins, which can live be-
tween 11 to 20 years and have been
known to dive as deep as 575 feet, are
longtime residents of the continent.
But to find the penguins, counted us-
ing drones, thriving across Heroína Is-
land and Beagle Island was a surprise.
12A z SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018 z STAR-GAZETTE

Presidents of black colleges wait for

‘next step’ after Capitol Hill conference
Deborah Barfield Berry
Montgomery Advertiser
USA TODAY NETWORK

WASHINGTON – Dozens of presidents from black

colleges and universities met last week with members
of Congress, but said they’re waiting for what concrete
steps come next.
The conference came a week after Concordia Col-
lege in Alabama announced it would close its doors
this year. Rep Terri Sewell, D-Ala., said the closing is a
sign of the struggles facing historically black colleges
and universities.
“It says that lots of HBCUs have funding problems,”
said Sewell, whose state is home to several HBCUs.
“It’s just sad because that’s 100 jobs in my hometown
of Selma. ... Keeping our doors open for HBCUs that
have been such thriving part of our educational sys-
tem” is important.
Nearly 70 presidents of HBCUs attended a daylong
conference Tuesday hosted by Sen. Tim Scott and Rep.
Mark Walker of North Carolina, both Republicans. The Johnny Taylor speaks Tuesday after being named by President Donald Trump as chairman of the President’s
conference featured a panel with major companies, in- Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities during a ceremony at the White House.
cluding Google, and another one with lawmakers, in- SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE
cluding Sewell and other House and Senate members.
The conference is the second hosted by the law-
makers. Last year, more than 80 presidents attended. University in Alabama, agreed, saying the conference higher, the competition is getting stronger and ... we
The day before, they met with President Donald offered a good opportunity to build relationships with have to find ways to solve problems by reinforcing the
Trump in the White House. Several college leaders federal agencies. “There should be a next step … and value of this path from an education standpoint,” he
complained it was more of a photo op. what can actually be done,” she said. said. “I think we’re doing that and we’re going to save,
Rodney Ellis, chancellor of the Southern University The presidents laid out some of their concerns, in- in my opinion, more institutions if not all institutions
at Shreveport, called Tuesday’s conference a good first cluding the need for more resources. because of opportunities to bring folks together.”
step. Walker said resources are a major key to the success The White House also announced Tuesday the ap-
“It’s a great effort to at least connect us with oppor- at HBCUs. “Having their chance to have a front row pointment of Johnny Taylor, the former president of
tunities – the missing piece is what happens next,” El- seat with policy makers who are funding priorities is a the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, to lead the ad-
lis said. “There has to be some connectivity or action critical opportunity,” he said. ministration’s HBCU Initiative board of advisers.
that happens to really put us in position to take ad- Scott acknowledged the struggles of HBCUs in the “We have made great strides in strengthening
vantage of some of the things we hear.” wake of the Concordia news. HBCUs, a cherished and vital institution in our coun-
Charlotte Morris, interim president of Tuskegee “The reality of the situation is the price tag is getting try,” Trump said.

A better flu
vaccine is on its
way, experts say
Anne Saker
Cincinnati Enquirer
USA TODAY NETWORK

In as soon as five years, when you head out to get

your flu shot, your doctor might be offering a version
that would pack years of protection against the viral
infection that sickens thousands every winter.
Several prospects for the dreamed-of big weapon
against flu are showing promise in federal clinical
trials, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Nation-
al Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in
Washington.
Demand for a universal vaccine escalated this
year as the nation struggled through the worst flu
season in 10 years.
“I’ve made a universal influenza vaccine one of my
top priorities,” Fauci told the Cincinnati Enquirer. He
also is scheduled to testify before Congress this
month about the push.

“I think we’ve been very successful

with the annual vaccine. But because
(flu) changes and shifts every year,
we haven’t been able to find a
universal target.”
Carl Fichtenbaum
University of Cincinnati Health infectious-disease specialist

“It’s going to be an iterative process, with a gradu-

ally improving version of the vaccine,” Fauci said. “It
will be a long time before we have a vaccine that cov-
ers every single potential strain of flu. But before we
get there, we’ll have universal influenza vaccine 1.0
that will cover some major strains, and we’ll get that
in five years or so. Then a few years later, we’ll have
universal influenza vaccine 2.0.”
Dr. Carl Fichtenbaum, a University of Cincinnati
Health infectious-disease specialist who closely
watches flu, said he doesn’t want the distant possi-
bility of a universal vaccine to dissuade people from
getting the yearly shot.
“It’s what we need, but it is probably a while away
yet, so I don’t think it’s something we’re going to get
very soon,” he said. “I think we’ve been very success-
ful with the annual vaccine. But because (flu)
changes and shifts every year, we haven’t been able
to find a universal target. That universal target is de-
sirable, but not on the immediate horizon.”
Influenza is a wily creature, with dozens of varie-
ties. The strains take turns predominating every sea-
son, which is Oct. 1 to March 30. This year, a fierce
version called H3N2 took hold, and by early January,
the illness was widespread and severe in all 50
states. The effect was particularly hard on children;
by mid-February, nearly 100 children had died of flu.
In the late winter of every year, federal authorities
make an educated guess about what flu strain will
circulate the next season. Based on that guess, drug
makers manufacture seasonal vaccines to meet that
year’s flu. Sometimes, they guess right, and the vac-
cine’s effectiveness approaches 65 percent. This
year’s seasonal vaccine, however, didn’t land a heavy
punch and delivered only 35 percent effectiveness
against all flu strains.
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Uber, Lyft drivers actually earn less than

minimum wage, MIT survey suggests
Ashley May
USA TODAY
Minimum wage jobs bring home more profit than
working for Uber or Lyft, according to an analysis by
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Median profit for Uber and Lyft drivers is $3.37 per
hour before taxes, according to a survey of over 1,100
drivers by the MIT Center for Energy and Environmen-
tal Policy Research.
The data, published in a research brief, found that
74 percent of drivers earn less than the minimum
wage in their state. About a third of drivers actually
lose money when factoring in vehicle expenses, re-
searchers said.
“This paper provides one of the first detailed esti-
mates of ride-hailing profit,” researchers said. Survey
questions focused on self-reported revenue, mileage,
vehicle choices, operational cost parameters for insur-
ance, maintenance, repairs, fuel and depreciation.
Past studies have shown higher profits for Uber
drivers.
Uber spokesperson Michael Amodeo released a
statement questioning the accuracy of the findings:
“While the paper is certainly attention grabbing, its
methodology and findings are deeply flawed. We’ve
reached out to the paper’s authors to share our con-
cerns and suggest ways we might work together to re-
fine their approach.”
The company suggested one of the survey ques-
tions asking drivers to report on-demand activities
A new analysis by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology found that 74 percent of Uber and Lyft
drivers earn less than the minimum wage in their
state. But Uber and Lyft officials both raised
questions concerning the methodology of the
survey. MARK RALSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
could have resulted in low figures, because drivers
might not have reported total income. Uber’s chief
economist, Jonathan Hall, further criticized the paper
in a post published on Medium.
Lyft spokesperson Alexandra LaManna also re-
leased a statement on the MIT paper saying: “We will
“While the paper is certainly attention grabbing, its
methodology and findings are deeply flawed. We’ve
reached out to the paper’s authors to share our
concerns and suggest ways we might work together
to refine their approach.”
Michael Amodeo
Uber spokesperson
continue to engage with our driver community to help
them succeed. We have not yet reviewed this study in
detail, but an initial review shows some questionable
assumptions.”
Uber has been struggling to regain drivers’ favor for
quite some time. Its 180 Days of Change campaign at-
tempted to make drivers happier with a range of perks
that included an all-expense-paid opportunity to meet
with company’s CEO. Last summer, the company add-
ed a tipping option – following Lyft’s example.
Although drivers have still expressed a need for
more income, the low-cost alternative to taxis and car
ownership is making new inroads into other tradition-
al transportation avenues.
Last week, Uber announced its launch of Uber
Health, a desktop platform for health care providers
that allows doctors to provide rides for patients who
might otherwise miss their appointments because
they can’t get to them. Lyft has been working with
health care providers for the past few years through its
LyftConcierge business platform.

Obituaries
Evangelicals tell
Name
TODAY’S OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements social media: Stop
*Burns, Jack Henry
*Fish, William
73
96
Horseheads 01-Mar Sullivan’s
Middlebury Center, PA 28-Feb Carleton Funeral Home, Inc. censoring our posts
*Liberatore, Philip G. 89 Pine Valley 01-Mar Lynch Funeral Home Holly Meyer policy session, a slate of
Lincoln, M. Edward 82 Horseheads 03-Mar Barber Funeral Home Nashville Tennessean high-profile conserva-
*Scotton, Donna M. 71 Horseheads 28-Jan Lynch Funeral Home USA TODAY NETWORK
tives and religious right
*Shellenberger Kuczek, Scott 56 West Elmira 24-Feb Caywood’s Funeral Home & Gardens leaders, who are critical
* Additional information in display obituaries Conservatives say of the tech companies
Obituaries appear in print and online at www.legacy.com/obituaries/Star-Gazette tech giants like Face- pulling content, shared
book, Google and Twit- their experiences.
ter are censoring their Johnson also high-
Jack Henry Burns Philip G. Liberatore online posts and they lighted Internet Freedom
HORSEHEADS, NY - Passed away surrounded by PINE VALLEY - Philip G. Liberatore of Pine Val- want it to stop. Watch, the tracking ini-
his loving family on Thursday, March 1, 2018. Jack ley, NY passed away on Thursday March 1, 2018. National Religious tiative the association
Broadcasters, an evan- launched late last year
was born April 21, 1944 in Bradford, PA, son of He was born in Elmira, NY the son of the late gelical association of that includes several inci-
the late John Henry and Anna Mae Lowry Burns. Philip J. and Beatrice Liberatore on June 5, 1928. Christian communica- dents dating back to
He is also predeceased by his brother-in-law, John He was predeceased by his wife, Marilyn Blauvelt tors, has made it a prior- 2010.
Fletcher. He is survived by his loving wife of 48 Liberatore, in 1994. His surviving family include ity issue, said Jerry The examples listed of
years, Joan Page Burns; son, Kevin (Teri) Burns sons, Jim (Debbie) Liberatore of Pine Valley, NY; Johnson, NRB’s presi- content restricted by tech
with their children, Cassondra and Jack: daugh- Jan “J.K.” Liberatore of Horseheads, NY; Scott (Cas- dent and CEO. The asso- companies cover topics
ters, Jennifer (Daniel) Knapp and their children, sie) Liberatore of Pine Valley, NY; and daughter, ciation has started like opposing same-sex
Payton, Lainey and Boedi, and Jessica (Michael) Susan (John) Slovak of Pine Valley, NY; grand- tracking examples of marriage and illegal im-
social media and other migration.
Hintz and their daughter Montana; sister-in-law, children Krysti, Eric, Kym, Allyson, Jeremy, Justin, online platforms re- Facebook, Google and
Donna Fletcher; brother-in-law, John (Bonnie) Samantha, and Kara; several great grandchildren stricting Christian and Twitter did not immedi-
Page; nieces, Melissa (Tim) Tremba and their and one great great grandchild; sister-in-law Doris conservative view- ately respond to requests
children Taylor and Toby, and Debra Wood and (Charles) Kline; sister-in-law Betty Lindsay. He is points. for comment.
her daughter Ella; nephew, Brian (Alyssa) Page also survived by his companion of over 20 years, “We are calling on U.S. Rep. Marsha
and their children Makenna and Jake and several Lury Wallenbeck and her family; also his extended Silicon Valley to em- Blackburn, R-Tenn.,
cousins. Jack served his country honorably with family members Kyle Kohberger and Kyle Amberg. brace First Amendment praised the group’s initia-
principles,” Johnson tive and discussed her
the US Army, retired from Elmira Correctional Phil was a tireless worker whose family and com- said. 2017 run-in with Twitter
Facility and was a member of the Living Word munity were everything to him. He was employed He drove home that that made the Internet
Evangelical Free Church in Elmira. He will be by New York Telephone Co. (Verizon); a Veteran message for NRB mem- Freedom Watch list.
lovingly remembered for his laughter and en- of the Korean War serving his country with the bers Thursday at its an- Blackburn said the so-
joyed time spent with his family. Relatives and U.S. Army; a former Supervisor and Councilman nual four-day conven- cial media company
friends are welcome to Sullivan’s Funeral Home, of the Town of Veteran; former Scoutmaster of tion in Nashville. blocked her campaign
365 E. Franklin St. at Rt. 13, Horseheads, NY on BSA Troop 41 at Ridge Road School; a Director During the public video for inflammatory
language.
Monday, March 5, 2018 from 4PM - 6 PM with on the board of the Telco Federal Credit Union; In the ad, Blackburn,
Funeral Services at the conclusion of hours with life member of the Telephone Pioneers of Amer- who supports anti-abor-
Pastor Paul Moxon. He will be laid to rest with ica; member of Montour Falls Moose Club and tion policies, says she
military honors at the convenience of the family. the Pen-NY Mixers Chapter of the Family Motor helped stop the “sale of
Because Jack was a kind soul, in lieu of flowers, Coach Association. He enjoyed his time spent on baby body parts,” refer-
please consider doing a good deed for someone in the family farm in Pine Valley since 1937 and also encing a controversial
his memory. Condolences and words of comfort on Seneca Lake at the family cottage since 1948. and disputed 2015
He was an outdoorsman, a builder, a farmer, and Planned Parenthood case
may be expressed in Jack’s Book of Memories at
and subsequent congres-
www.sullivansfuneralhome.com all around jack–of-all-trades. He built the family sional action.
home in Pine Valley and started the Liberatore/ The social media plat-
Slovak Christmas Tree Farm in the 1950’s. He was form reversed its deci-
always working on a project and had one in the sion. At the time, a Twit-
wings. He leaves behind a legacy of wisdom and ter spokesman told the
practicality that he shared with his family who will DONNA M. USA TODAY Network
William Fish carry on his projects. He will be greatly missed by SCOTTON that “we believe that
there is room to refine our
MIDDLEBURY CEN- Scott Shellenberger all. It was Phil’s request that private services be HORSEHEADS,NY - policies around these is-
TER, PA - W. William held at the convenience of the family. Arrange- DONNA M. SCOTTON sues.”
Kuczek ments entrusted to the LYNCH FUNERAL HOME
“Bill” Fish, age 96, of Age 71 of Horseheads , On Thursday, Black-
Middlebury Center, WEST ELMIRA - 318 WEST BROAD STREET HORSEHEADS, NY. NY passed away on Jan- burn said her Twitter ex-
Kuczek, Scott P. Shellen- Words of condolence and memories may be shared perience shows that
PA, died on Wednes- uary 28 , 2018. A Cele-
berger, Age 56, passed at www.lynchsfuneralhome.com those in similar situa-
day, February 28, 2018. bration of Donna’s Life tions must speak out.
Friends may call on Sat- away Sat. Feb. 24, 2018 will be held on Thurs- “That’s the kind of
urday, March 10, 2018 at the Arnot-Ogden day March 8 , 2018 at stand that we have to
from 11 am to 1 pm at Medical Center. In 5:30 PM at Tanino’s take when tech over-
the Carleton Funeral
Home, Inc., Wellsboro,
honor of Scott’s wishes
all services will be held Make charitable Restaurant 1 Old Ithaca
Road Horseheads , NY
steps,” said Blackburn,
who is running for U.S.
PA. www.carletonfh.
com A memorial ser-
privately at his family’s
convenience. A com- donations. . Words of Condolence
and Memories may be
Senate.
NRB got its start nearly
plete obituary may 75 years ago taking on a
vice will follow at 1:00 shared at www.lyn- similar cause. At the
pm at the funeral home be viewed at www.cay stargazette.com/obituaries chsfuneralhome.com . time, NRB wanted to en-
with Rev. Thadius Sales woodsfuneralhome. Arrangements are en- sure that evangelical
and Curtiss Owlett offi- com trusted to the LYNCH preachers could continue
ciating. Interment will
View Central New York’s comprehensive FUNERAL HOME 318 to broadcast their mes-
sages on the radio despite
be in the Middlebury list of death notices and obituraries. WEST BROAD STREET
pressures by others to
Union Cemetery. HORSEHEADS , NY. stop them.

Here’s who gave money to Menendez’s defense fund
Herb Jackson
North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
Beating corruption charges was not
cheap for Sen. Bob Menendez.
Through Dec. 31, the Democrat from
Paramus spent nearly $4.5 million on
lawyers.
That money did not come from tax-
payers. It didn’t come from Menendez’s
campaign. And Menendez himself
couldn’t pay it: Among the 100 senators
in 2015, he was the 11th poorest, accord-
ing to the Center for Responsive Politics.
So Menendez got a lot of help from
his friends who gave more than $5.1 mil-
lion between early 2014, when federal
agents began investigating and he cre-
ated a legal defense fund, and the end of
last year.
Menendez was accused of accepting
political contributions and luxury travel
as bribes in exchange for using his office
to promote the personal and business
interests of his co-defendant and long-
time friend, Salomon Melgen, a Florida
ophthalmologist. Both denied the
charges.
Melgen was convicted separately on
charges of Medicare fraud in Florida. He
was sentenced to 17 years in prison on
Feb. 22.
An 11-week trial in Newark on the cor-
ruption charges ended in November
with a mistrial, and one juror said after-
ward the panel was deadlocked 10-2 in
favor of a “not guilty” verdict. On Jan.
24, the judge who presided over the trial
issued a ruling that acquitted Menendez
and Melgen on some of the most serious
charges. The following week, prosecu-
tors dropped the remainder of the case.
Menendez still faces an investigation
by the ethics committee in the Senate,
but no longer faces the threat of going to
prison.
Here’s who gave the most, based on
The Record’s analysis of disclosure re-
ports filed with the Internal Revenue
Service.
Here’s a rundown of all of the top do-
nors and some of their connections to
Menendez.
$205,000: Applied Cos. / Ironstate
Holdings
Members of the Barry family and em-
ployees of their real estate companies,
Applied and Ironstate, have been long-
time Menendez supporters. They are
major builders in Jersey City and Hobo-
ken, cities that benefited greatly from
projects Menendez helped steer their
way. Patriarch Joseph Barry, who gave
$10,000 in 2015, was sentenced to 25
months in federal prison in 2004 after
admitting he bribed Hudson County Ex-
ecutive Robert Janiszewski .
$100,000: Canoe Brook
Management
Canoe Brook is described on its web-
site as the investment office of the Gold-
berg, Klatt and Tyscher families, foun-
ders of Roseland Property Co., a “multi-
billion dollar” company that developed
along the Hudson waterfront when it
was sold in 2012. Principals from all
three families made contributions to
help Menendez defend himself from
what Carl Goldberg said were “political-
ly motivated charges.” The company
touts its “history of effective engage-
ment with state and local government
officials.”
Food insecurity increased for African-Americans
Lauren Castle
Arizona Republic
USA TODAY NETWORK
Though food insecurity was down for
many Americans in 2016, it increased
for one group: African-Americans, ac-
cording to a recent report by Bread for
the World.
African-Americans experienced a
1 percent increase in food insecurity, or
about 153,000 additional households,
the report, “Hunger and Poverty in the
African-American Community,” said.
Food insecurity is not having easy ac-
cess to affordable and nutritional food,
according to the Association of Arizona
Food Banks.
“While African-Americans make up
13 percent of the U.S. population, they
represent 22.5 percent of those experi-
encing hunger,” said Bread for the World
director of government relations Eric
$100,000: Inserra family /
ShopRite
Owners of nearly two dozen super-
markets in North Jersey and Rockland
County, N.Y., the Inserras also rank
among the top 20 campaign contrib-
utors to Menendez during his career in
Congress. Second-generation company
leader Lawrence Inserra Jr. is also chair-
man of board of the Hackensack Univer-
sity Medical Center Foundation.
$80,500 Lowenstein Sandler law
firm
The Roseland-based law firm of Lo-
wenstein Sandler has been the No. 1
contributor to Menendez throughout his
career in Congress, according to the
Center for Responsive Politics. The firm
employs the senator’s son. Of the 13 law-
yers who gave to the legal fund, the most
came from the chairman and managing
partner, Gary M. Mingens, who gave
$25,000. The chair of the firm’s bank-
ruptcy practice, Kenneth J. Rosen, gave
$20,000.
$80,000 Philip M. and Betsy
Darivoff
The Short Hills couple each gave the
maximum $10,000 each year from 2014
through 2017. Philip Darivoff is a former
Goldman Sachs executive who now
serves as chairman of the investment
firm DFG. He’s a national board member
of the America Israel Public Affairs
Committee.
$72,500 Federated Investors Inc.
Eight employees of the Pittsburgh
based investment company contributed
in 2015, and three of them gave again in
2016. The company’s lobbyist in Wash-
ington, Michael Hutton, is a former chief
of staff to Menendez.
$65,500 Nikos Mouyiaris / MANA
Products
Mouyuiaris, his relatives and em-
ployees at cosmetics manufacturer MA-
NA contributed to the defense fund in
each of the four years it operated. Mouy-
iaris is on the board of groups focused
on Greece and Cyprus, and gave
$800,000 to Rutgers University for
modern Greek studies. Menendez at-
tended a 2013 fund-raising dinner
where his gift to Rutgers was acknowl-
edged.
$62,500 Greenberg Traurig law
firm
The global firm with 2000 attorneys
in 38 locations and a Washington lobby-
ing practice with clients that include
Samsung, Bayer and the American
Trucking Associations. The top donor to
the defense fund, giving $30,000 over
three years, was Philip R. Sellinger, co-
managing shareholder in the firm’s Flor-
ham Park office. In 2012, Sellinger host-
ed a fund-raiser for Menendez at his
Morris Township home where the guest
of honor was Vice President Joe Biden.
$55,000 Grover and Patricia
Connell
Ranked among the 50 richest people
in New Jersey by njbiz.com in 2016, Gro-
ver Connell is a longtime political con-
tributor whose privately held company
in Berkeley Heights focuses on commer-
cial real estate, mining and finance,
among other things. He was also one of
A report from Bread for the World says food insecurity among African-Americans
is disproportionately high. SAM ERDMANN/SPECIAL TO ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Mitchell.
Bread for the World believes the in-
crease is “a direct result of poverty, and
racial and gender discrimination.”
stargazette.com z SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018 z 15A
the most reliable contributors, giving to
the fund each year from 2014 through
2017.
$54,000 NJ politicians /
Democratic leaders
This group includes Sen. Cory Book-
er, the Newark Democrat whose politi-
cal fund gave $10,000 each in 2015 and
2016; South Jersey political leader
George Norcross and his brother, Phil
Norcross, who each gave $10,000 in
2015; now-Gov. Phil Murphy, who gave
$10,000 that year; former West New
York Mayor and Assemblyman Sal Vega,
who gave $1,000 in 2015 and another
$1,000 in December after the trial was
over. Also giving $1,000 in December
were North Bergen Mayor and State
Sen. Nick Sacco and then-Assembly
Speaker Vincent Prieto of Secaucus.
$51,000 Tom James Company
Executives of the bespoke clothing
maker contributed over a three-year pe-
riod, with $20,000 coming in 2015 and
2016 from executive chairman Spencer
Hayes, who died in 2017.
$50,000 Harley and Marie Lippman
Harley Lippman is chief executive of-
ficer of the information technology
staffing firm Genesis10. He is also an ex-
ecutive committee member of AIPAC,
the pro-Israel advocacy group.
$50,000 Haim and Cheryl Saban
Israeli born film and television pro-
ducer Haim Saban, the founder of Sa-
ban Capital Group whose credits in-
clude 11 Power Rangers television series,
also gave $7 million to a super PAC that
supported Hillary Clinton’s presidential
campaign. Saban also sponsors a politi-
cal leadership training seminar through
AIPAC.
$50,000 Martin and Lauren Schor
Geller
Martin Geller is founder and presi-
dent of Geller & Company, a financial
services advisory firm; a board member
of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg BNA,
the financial news companies; and co-
owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basket-
ball team. He is also a member of the
Northeast Regional Council of AIPAC.
$45,000 Richard H. and Dvorah
Roberts
Lakewood pharmaceutical executive
Rich Roberts’ support for Republicans
included giving $750,000 to a super
PAC backing Mitt Romney in 2012 and
serving on a Jewish advisory council for
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
But according to the Lakewood Scoop,
he also hosted a lunch in 2015 for Me-
nendez the same day he and his wife
gave $10,000 each to the legal defense
fund, and another person at their ad-
dress with the occupation of “student”
gave $5,000. Roberts and his wife gave
another $20,000 the following year,
$40,000 Sheldon and Miriam
Adelson
Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson
and his wife gave $10 million to a super
PAC that supported Newt Gingrich’s los-
ing campaign for the Republican presi-
dential nomination in 2012, then donat-
ed $10 million to a pro-Romney PAC.
“We cannot end hunger in America if
we ignore communities or populations
where hunger is disproportionately
prevalent,” said Mitchell.
$40,000 KRE Property Mangement
The K in the company’s name is for
Kushner, and the company is run by
Jonathan Kushner, the son of Murray
Kushner, the estranged uncle of Trump
son-in-law Jared Kushner. Murray and
brother Charles Kushner had a public
split over running the family business
before Charles was convicted in 2005 of
illegal campaign contributions and wit-
ness tampering.
$40,000 David and Sylvia Steiner
David Steiner, a real estate developer,
is a former president of AIPAC.
$40,000 Florio, Perucci, Steinhardt
Fader
Florio is former Gov. Jim Florio, a
Democrat, and Steinhardt is Republican
State Committee chairman Doug Stein-
hardt. But most of the money came from
co-founder Michael Perucci.
$40,000 Spanish Broadcasting
System
Chairman and CEO and president
Raul Alcaron Jr. gave the maximum
$10,000 in 2014 and 2016, and he and
company executives have long been top
contributors to Menendez. During his
2006 campaign for Senate, Republicans
criticized Menendez for taking contri-
butions from Spanish Broadcasting in
1999 and then taking the company’s
side against a merger of two competing
Spanish-language media companies.
Menendez said he was opposed to con-
centration of media outlets, which he
called a “danger to democracy.”
$40,000 Panayiotis and Peter
Panicolaou
As a House member in 2002, Menen-
dez sponsored a resolution honoring Pa-
nayiotis Pananicolaou, a Brooklyn con-
tractor, for winning the Justice for Cy-
prus award from the Cyprus Federation
of America.
$40,000 Diaco family/ AJD
Construction
Leonardo-based construction com-
pany president Anthony J. Diaco and
three relatives all gave $10,000 in 2015
to the defense fund, and have supported
Menendez’s campaign accounts. Al-
though, Diaco also contributed in 2012
to Menendez’s opponent, Republican
state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos of Monmouth
County.
$40,000 Peter and Janine Lowy
Peter Lowy is the co-chief executive
officer of shopping mall owner West-
field Corp., and a founder of the Aus-
tralia-based Lowy Institute for Interna-
tional Policy.
$40,000 Michael and Jacqueline
Kempner
Michael Kempner of Cresskill is
founder and CEO of East Rutherford-
based MWW Group, a public relations
and lobbying firm who was a major
fund-raiser for both Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton. Along with contributing
to the legal fund in 2014 through 2016,
MWW was paid $25,000 in 2015 for
public relations services and rented the
legal fund a room for an event, accord-
ing to disclosure reports.
The organization says almost 50 per-
cent of all black children younger than 6
years old live in poverty. This is three
times higher than white children.
“African-Americans have always
been at the forefront of the struggle
against hunger and poverty,” said
Mitchell. “Now, more than ever, African-
Americans must continue to play a lead-
ing role. However, we need the right pol-
icies; we can reduce these numbers and
end hunger in the African-American
community.”
Bread for the World believes pro-
grams and policies that support female-
headed households, target men with
children who are not employed and do
not penalize married couples can help
reduce poverty levels and hunger.
Bread for the World is a Washington,
D.C.-based nonprofit organization that
works with the Bread for the World In-
stitute and the Alliance to End Hunger.
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DACA permits to expire despite court rulings

Dreamers wait for renewals, worry as related documents expire
Daniel Gonzalez
Arizona Republic
USA TODAY NETWORK
For the past four years, Nephtali Mo-
reno, an undocumented immigrant
from Mexico, has been granted deporta-
tion protection and a work permit
through the Deferred Action for Child-
hood Arrivals program.
But the Phoenix resident’s DACA per-
mit expires on March 16. Like thousands
of other “dreamers,” he will lose his de-
portation protections and work permits
— at least temporarily — despite a ruling
last week by the Supreme Court that es-
sentially allows the DACA program to
continue past the Monday termination
date set by the Trump administration.
The Supreme Court ruling was good
news for Moreno and other DACA recip-
ients. It means they can continue to ap-
ply for two-year renewals.
But U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services did not begin accepting renew-
als until Jan. 13. It takes three to five
months for USCIS to process renewals.
As a result, Moreno and others whose
DACA permits expire soon may still see
their lives upended because they
haven’t had time to send in renewal ap-
plications or because their applications
are still being processed.
The consequences could be severe.
Without a DACA permit, Moreno will
again be vulnerable to being detained
and deported by Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement, he will have to quit
his job, and he will lose his Arizona driv-
er’s license, which expires with his fed-
eral work permit.
“It does seem pretty overwhelming,”
Moreno said of the prospect of living
without his DACA permit.
On average, about 1,100 DACA per-
mits will expire daily beginning Mon-
day, based on data from U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services.
Taking longer to process
Typically, it takes USCIS at least 90
Nephtali Moreno, a DACA recipient from Mexico, has been granted deportation
protection and a work permit through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program. But his permit expires on March 16. Like thousands of other dreamers,
he will lose his deportation protections and work permits — at least temporarily.
NICK OZA/ARIZONA REPUBLIC
days to process DACA renewals, but
lately it has taken longer. The agency is
overwhelmed with a backlog of immi-
gration cases fueled by additional hur-
dles imposed under the Trump admini-
stration, said Stephan Yale-Loehr, who
teaches immigration law at Cornell Uni-
versity.
The longer processing time means
thousands of DACA recipients whose
permits expire in March, and possibly
later, are at risk of losing their work per-
mits and deportation protections until
their renewals come through.
“Technically, they won’t be able to
work until the DACA renewal comes
through, and so that poses problems for
both them and their employers, because
their employers technically cannot con-
tinue to legally employ them after their
DACA-issued work permit has expired,”
Yale-Loehr said.
And while ICE officials have said the
agency won’t specifically target DACA
recipients whose permits expire, if they
come across them during other enforce-
ment actions they won’t ignore them, he
said.
The uncertainty underscores why
Congress needs to pass legislation ad-
dressing the legal status of dreamers,
Yale-Loehr said.
When President Donald Trump an-
nounced in September that he was re-
scinding the DACA program, he argued
that former President Barack Obama
had created it unconstitutionally
through executive action. Trump gave
Congress six months to pass legislation
to address the legal status of undocu-
mented immigrants brought to the U.S.
as children, including nearly 800,000
approved for DACA, of which about
690,000 were enrolled at the beginning
of September.
But Republicans and Democrats in
Congress remain deadlocked over a so-
lution, complicated further by Trump’s
insistence that sharp cuts to legal immi-
gration and significant increases in bor-
der security and immigration enforce-
ment must now be part of any deal that
legalizes dreamers.
Judges rule against White House
A federal district court judge in Janu-
ary ruled the Trump administration im-
properly terminated DACA and issued a
temporary injunction blocking the gov-
ernment from ending the program. On
Feb. 13, a second federal judge reached a
similar conclusion.
In response to the first court order,
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Ser-
vices on Jan. 13 again began accepting
renewal applications from DACA recipi-
ents.
Moreno struggled to come up with
the $495 USCIS charges to process the
applications. He finally mailed his re-
newal application, but he expects to be
without his DACA permit for several
months once it expires March 16. His Ar-
izona driver’s license, which is tied to
his DACA permit, expires on the same
date.
He most likely will have to quit his job
earning $16 an hour working a night
shift assembling wall panels and roof
and floor frames for a construction com-
pany in Phoenix.
“My job is kind of in jeopardy right
now,” he said.
Moreno, 21, has lived in the U.S. for 16
years. Originally from Obregon, Sonora,
he was brought to the U.S. from Mexico
when he was 5.
He said he needs money to pay the
rent on a house he shares with his mom,
a sister, an uncle and his uncle’s par-
ents. “Economically it’s going to affect
me and my family,” Moreno said.

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Mekong River cruise offers exotic sights, flavors

Dan Fellner Special to Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – “Can you please
pass the tarantula?”
I was joking — sort of — at a restaurant in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city, after the
waiter brought two of the large and hairy deep-
fried arachnids to the table after the main course.
At first, I mainly just wanted to photograph
the dish popular in rural Cambodia, attrac-
tively presented on a plate with a lime
and spicy dipping sauce. But the rest
of our group dared me into taking
it a step further.
I bit. Literally. In two bites, I downed the crea-
ture — eight legs and all — to the laughter and ap-
plause of the group.
Welcome to the Mekong River in Vietnam and
Cambodia, which offers an unvarnished and fasci-
nating glimpse into the fabric of an exotic and wel-
coming culture that has changed little over the
centuries.
I recently spent a week cruising the Me-
kong River aboard the Scenic Spirit, a 2-
year-old, 68-passenger ship owned by
Scenic Cruises, an Australian
high-end line with a growing
presence in North Ameri-

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ca. Most of our passengers were from
Australia and England; I was one of five
Americans on the trip.
Mekong cruises offer a chance to sail
past ancient hilltop pagodas, floating
villages and seemingly endless fields of
rice, fruit plantations and sugar cane.
And you’ll do so in relative solitude
compared to cruises on more heralded
rivers in Europe like the Rhine, Danube
and Seine.
Indeed, during the Vietnam portion
of the trip, we didn’t encounter one oth-
er cruise ship, a pleasant difference
from river trips in Europe where there
are often so many ships parked in port
at one time that you need to walk across
several other vessels to reach your own.
Known as Southeast Asia’s “rice
bowl,” the Mekong is the lifeblood of
hundreds of millions of people who use
the river for trade, transportation, farm-
ing and fishing. The river traverses six
Asian countries — starting in China’s Ti-
betan Plateau before meandering
through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia and Vietnam, where it emp-
ties into the South China Sea.
We leisurely covered about 180 miles
over seven days on a small portion of the
river, sailing upstream from My Tho,
about a two-hour bus ride southwest of
Ho Chi Minh City, and disembarked in
Kampong Chan, Cambodia. Most of the
ship’s passengers booked post-cruise
land tours of Angkor Wat, the world’s
largest religious monument, in north-
western Cambodia.
Aside from the tarantula, I sampled
rice wine infused with a venomous co-
bra snake (the locals call it “Vietnamese
Viagra,”) and a fiery red chili pepper I
picked right off the vine that made a jal-
apeño from back home taste like a bland
cucumber in comparison.
As most of the villages we visited
didn’t have docking facilities for large
boats, the Scenic Spirit would drop an-
chor in the Mekong and we would take
sampans — long, narrow wooden boats
— into towns. Once on land, we rode
rickshaws, tuk-tuks and ox carts to see
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ular annual who will win/should win ex-
amination of the Oscars. It’s fun be-
cause it allows you to go with your head
and your heart. Everybody wins!
Actually, that’s not true. Only one in
each category does. Here’s who will win,
and who ought to.
BEST PICTURE
“Call Me by Your Name”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“Get Out”
“Lady Bird”
“Phantom Thread”
“The Post”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri”
SHOULD WIN: “Lady Bird”
WILL WIN: “Three Billboards”
WILD CARD: “Get Out”
There’s also some feeling that “The
Shape of Water” might win, but “Three
Billboards” simply has built too much
momentum in the preceding awards.
(No best-director nomination, true, but
it’s taking just about everything else.)
“Lady Bird” is, quite simply, the better
film, achieving everything director Gre-
ta Gerwig set out to do. There’s a notion
that the actors’ bloc of voters could
swing it to Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” (he’s
an actor, after all), but I don’t see it. I’d
like to, though.
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
Frances McDormand, “Three Bill-
boards”
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saorise Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Meryl Streep, “The Post”
WILL WIN: McDormand
SHOULD WIN: Ronan
WILD CARD: Streep
Don’t misunderstand: McDormand is
great, as she always is, capturing real
pain and rage as a grieving mother. But
Ronan was better. Her performance as a
high school senior flailing about in her
attempt to get out of Sacramento is the
most fully realized of a strong bunch.
Streep is always a possibility, but this
year, she really deserves to be. But
McDormand is picking up too many pre-
Oscar accolades to go home empty-
handed.
BEST ACTOR
Deep-fried tarantula is a Cambodian specialty. PHOTOS BY DAN FELLNER
The end of a school day in the rural
Cambodian village of Koh Chen.
the sights.
We visited an outdoor market in Sa
Dec, Vietnam, where they peddle every-
thing from live roosters to fresh red
snapper to roasted rat meat. It’s where
the locals go to buy their dinner each
day, unlike the touristy floating markets
you’ll find in Thailand.
There was a trip to a rural school, a
silk factory and the opulent Royal Pal-
ace in Phnom Penh, where the country’s
64-year-old King Norodom Sihamoni
resides.
I especially found meaningful a visit
to the home of a 70-year-old man who
had fought in the South Vietnamese
army alongside Americans. After the
war, he was sent to a “re-education
camp.” It was a stark reminder of the re-
Bobby (Willem Dafoe) manages the Magic Castle motel in “The Florida Project.”
A24
Gary Oldman stars in “Darkest Hour.”
WORKING TITLE FILMS
Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your
Name”
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom
Thread”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel,
Esq.”
WILL WIN: Oldman
SHOULD WIN: Chalamet
WILD CARD: Day-Lewis
This has been Oldman’s since the
minute he appeared on the screen as
Winston Churchill. Oldman is a terrific
actor, and he’s terrific here — but so is
his makeup and his manner. He cap-
tures Churchill, but Chalamet captures
something else. It’s a wholly original
character, a teenager finding first, head-
over-heels real love in an unexpected
place. And yes, what everyone says is
true: that final scene, wow. Day-Lewis is
great, always, and he’s said this is his
last role, so maybe he’ll get some sup-
port. But Chalamet is fantastic.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”
Laurie Metcalfe, “Lady Bird”
Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Wa-
A couple pose for pre-wedding photos
at the ruins of a 12th-century temple
in Kampong Cham, Cambodia.
gion’s tragic past. Despite all they have
endured, I found the Vietnamese some
of the friendliest people on the planet,
always quick with a smile.
As far as any lingering anti-American
sentiment from the war years, we never
experienced the slightest hint of it. Duc
Ho, one of our Scenic tour directors,
says attitudes of the Vietnamese people
changed dramatically in 1995 when —
Michael Shannon (left) and Michael
Stuhlbarg star in “The Shape of
Water.” PHOTO BY KERRY HAYES
ter”
WILL WIN: Janney
SHOULD WIN: Metcalfe
WILD CARD: Blige
Janney used to collect Emmys for
“The West Wing” as if they were Bed,
Bath & Beyond coupons. And she’s won
seemingly everything there is to win
leading up to the Oscars for her broadly
comic portrayal of Tonya Harding’s
monstrous mother. She’s plenty good,
but Metcalfe is great as the struggling,
constantly disappointed but fiercely
loyal mother in “Lady Bird.” Blige was
really good, but will voters recognize a
performance in a Netflix movie?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards”
Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Wa-
ter”
Christopher Plummer, “All the Money
in the World”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards”
WILL WIN: Rockwell
SHOULD WIN: Dafoe
WILD CARD: Plummer
I sort of hate making this pick —
Rockwell is my favorite living actor. But
his redemption arc is a little too pat in
thanks in large part to the work of Arizo-
na Sen. John McCain — the two coun-
tries re-established diplomatic rela-
tions.
“Before, people were really angry to-
ward Americans,” says Duc. “The
younger generation now thinks differ-
ently. It’s over. It’s history.”
While we waited on the Mekong to
clear immigration at the Vietnamese-
Cambodian border, Scenic brought on-
board a local dance troupe, which per-
formed a traditional acrobatic Vietnam-
ese lion dance. It’s believed the dance
brings good luck and fortune, not to
mention a chance for the ship’s passen-
gers to admire some delightfully ani-
mated costumes.
At Phnom Penh, we veered off the
Mekong to the Tonle Sap River to visit
Oudong, the former capital of Cambodia
and home to the country’s largest mon-
astery. Cambodia is a devoutly Buddhist
country and it was fascinating to learn
about the lives of the hundreds of
monks and nuns who live in Oudong.
In fact, one of our Scenic guides, Mao
(nicknamed “The Chairman,”) had
spent six years as a monk and offered
unique insights into the faith and the in-
tegral role it plays in Cambodians’ lives.
At the monastery, we sat on the floor
of a temple for a private blessing as two
monks wearing traditional saffron robes
chanted Buddhist prayers and tossed
jasmine flower petals at us. We also vis-
ited a monastery on a hilltop overlook-
ing the Mekong called Wat Hanchey,
home to novice monks, most of whom
are teenagers.
The Mekong is ideal for travelers
looking for a less crowded, more au-
thentic experience than is found on
many other river cruises. This year just
19 ships catering to foreign tourists are
cruising the river; most hold well fewer
than 100 passengers.
As for the tarantula, I survived with-
out even a hint of a stomach ache.
More importantly, after a week on the
Mekong, I’ve had a memorable taste of
rural life in a culture so remarkably dif-
ferent from our own.
Dan Fellner is a faculty associate at
Arizona State University and freelance
travel writer. Visit his website: global-
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Mildred (Frances McDormand) wants
justice in “Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri.” MERRICK MORTON
“Three Billboards.” Dafoe, meanwhile —
once the front-runner, if we’re going
with the horse-race metaphor — was
deeply layered as the manager of a run-
down motel, tough but empathetic. And
it was nice to see him play the good guy
for a change. Plummer stepped in for the
disgraced Kevin Spacey at the last min-
ute — after the last minute, actually —
on “All the Money in the World.” He’s
really good, and a vote for him could be
seen as a vote for the #MeToo and #Ti-
mesUp movements. But Rockwell, like
almost all things “Billboards,” has been
winning everything in sight.
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom
Thread”
Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of
Water”
WILL WIN: del Toro
SHOULD WIN: Gerwig
WILD CARD: Nolan
You can certainly say that “The
Shape of Water” is wholly the vision of
its director — it’s exactly what del Toro’s
insanely creative mind dreamed up,
right there on the screen. I know I’m
coming off as something of a “Lady
Bird” apologist, but I thought Gerwig
showed a greater connection with her
actors, giving the film an authentic feel
(and it’s a deceptively beautiful film).
Nolan’s command of the medium is
again on display, both in the way he put
“Dunkirk” together and his customary
realistic feel (he eschews computer-
generated images whenever possible).
But del Toro is the smart pick here.
Reach Goodykoontz at bill.goody-
koontz@arizonarepublic.com. Face-
book: facebook.com/GoodyOnFilm.
Twitter: @goodyk.
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A skunk is a skunk How to get cash for your

is a skunk
The Great Outdoors
Rick Marsi
Guest columnist
A skunk is a skunk… is a skunk.
I didn’t used to think this was true
about skunks. I used to think skunks
could be different, their personalities
molded by geographical circumstance.
Your urban skunk, for example, knows
garbage cans. Your suburban skunk fa-
vors front lawns. Country skunks don’t
know about Hefty trash bags but can
pounce on a mouse like a cat.
But these differences are superficial.
When it comes to survival, every skunk
in the world keeps time with the same
metronome. As proof I offer evidence
gathered on Skunk Day 2018, which
took place this past week.
It started off like a normal day – gray,
dreary dawn; sleepy thoughts; foggy
voice of a cat meowing “food.”
An hour later, as I walked down the
driveway to retrieve our garbage cans, I
saw tracks in mud underneath our bird
feeder.
They were skunk tracks – five toes
on each pad, with long claws on the
forefeet. Around the feeder they
snaked, proving a skunk had come
down in the night to scrounge sunflow-
er seeds and cracked corn.
The weather was mild, and the tim-
ing was right. Every year at this time,
male skunks leave their dens to seek
females. They can leave their dens ear-
lier, during a thaw in January, for exam-
ple, but these forays are short-lived and
focus on just finding food. The minute a
thaw ends, skunks retreat under rock
piles, inside hollow logs or within cul-
vert pipes.
As the days grow longer, skunks be-
come ready to face harsher weather. In-
creasing daylight sends a message to
the pituitary gland in a male skunk’s
brain, which, in turn, tells the skunk to
find females. Once this message has
been received, neither blizzards nor
sub-zero temperatures can keep
skunks from roaming.
A striped skunk roaming the late
winter woods. RICK MARSI
Later that day, walking in woods at a
friend’s house, I saw tracks again by a
stream. The skunk had been cantering,
not fast like a horse, but a mere three or
four miles per hour. This is what coun-
try skunks do when they’re loping
along hunting food. The speed of their
gait and its rocking motion produces a
set of tracks in which pairs of paw
prints alternate, each pair aiming off at
a slant.
Not having seen a skunk track for
ages, I thought back to that morning,
impressed. Two skunks in one day. I’d
been blessed.
But that skunk would not be the last.
On my way home that night, I saw two
more on the road. One was a village
skunk; the other of rural persuasion.
Both were ambling down the shoulder,
not quite cantering, just strolling with
amorous purpose.
What timing, I thought. They are out
everywhere. A skunk is a skunk is a
skunk.
life insurance policy
Savvy Senior
Jim Miller
Columnist
Q: I have a life insurance policy that
I’ve been paying on for years that I real-
ly don’t need any longer. I’ve been
thinking about letting it lapse, but I’ve
heard that I can actually sell it for a nice
payout. What can you tell me about
this?
A: Selling a life insurance policy,
even a term life policy that you don’t
want or need any longer – a transaction
known as a “life settlement” – has be-
come a popular option among retirees
in recent years that could use some ex-
tra cash. Here’s how it works.
A life settlement is the sale of an ex-
isting life insurance policy to a third
party company for cash. Life settle-
ments are typically best suited for peo-
ple over age 65 who own a policy with a
face value of $100,000 or more or
someone younger who has experienced
a significant change in health.
Historically, if an owner of a life in-
surance policy decided they no longer
needed it, they would either let the pol-
icy lapse or turn it in for a meager cash
surrender value. But now, with the life
settlement option, you can actually sell
your policy for more than the cash sur-
render value would be, but less than its
net death benefit.
Once you sell it, the life settlement
company then becomes the new owner
of the policy, pays the future premiums
and collects the death benefit.
How much money you can expect to
get with a life settlement will depend on
your age, health and life expectancy,
the type of insurance policy, the premi-
um costs and the cash value of your
policy. You may be able to receive four
to eight times more than the policy cash
surrender value.
If you’re interested in a life settle-
ment here are some things you should
know.
» Shop around: Because payout can
vary, to ensure you get the best price for
your policy get quotes from several
companies. Also, find out what broker
and transaction fees you’ll be required
to pay. Coventry, the nation’s first and
largest provider of life settlements, of-
fers some of the highest cash payouts
for life insurance policies. To get start-
ed, visit CoventryDirect.com or call
888-858-9344. To search for other pro-
viders or brokers, the Life Insurance
Settlement Association provides a di-
rectory at LISA.org.
» Be prudent: Life settlements are
regulated in most states. Find out from
your state insurance commissioner
(see NAIC.org for contact information)
if the life settlement company you’re
interested in is properly licensed.
» Protect your privacy: When you
sell your life insurance policy, you will
have to sign a waiver authorizing the
release of medical and other personal
information so that the buyer can de-
termine how much to offer for your pol-
icy. Before accepting any offer, make
sure that the company has procedures
in place to protect the confidentiality of
your information.
» Understand the tax implica-
tions: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act re-
cently updated the tax treatment of a
life settlement to be treated the same as
the surrender of a policy back to the in-
surance company.
Other options
If you want to keep your life insur-
ance policy but could use some extra
cash, you may have some other op-
tions. For example, some life settle-
ment companies may allow you to keep
part of the policy’s death benefit while
eliminating your premium obligations.
You can also ask your life insurer if you
can borrow against your policy, or if
you’re in poor health, see if you’re eligi-
ble for accelerated death benefits. You
should also find out if you’re able to
convert the cash value of your policy
into an immediate annuity (through a
1035 Exchange), which would make
regular payments to you for a set num-
ber of years or for the rest of your life.
Send your senior questions to: Savvy
Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK
73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim
Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today
show and author of “The Savvy Senior”
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A healthy diet can
provide all the
nutrients you need
Ask the Doctors
Elizabeth Ko and Eve Glazier
Q: Doctors and nutritionists are now
saying that taking vitamin and mineral
supplements is worthless. But many of
the foods we eat are fortified with vita-
mins and minerals. Are those additives
worthless? If not, how are they differ-
ent than taking a multivitamin?
A: While it's true that there's a new
awareness regarding dietary supple-
ments, including multivitamins, the
conclusion has never been that they are
worthless. In some cases, vitamins and
minerals can help to fill specific gaps in
nutrition.
For example, vegans, who don't eat
food sources that naturally contain vi-
tamin B12, and older adults, who can
lack adequate stomach acids to absorb
it, need the vitamin in a supplement
form. Taking a folic acid supplement
before and during pregnancy can pre-
vent the baby from developing certain
brain and spinal cord defects. And indi-
viduals on restricted-calorie diets can
turn to supplements to bolster their vi-
tamin intake.
However, when it comes to the
sweeping health claims made by many
vitamin manufacturers, which range
from vague statements about an im-
proved well-being to unproven claims
about lower rates of an array of dis-
eases and conditions, it's a different
story. Multiple studies in recent years
have shown them to be empty promises
at best. There is also potential for harm
for individuals using mega-doses of vi-
tamins.
Your question touches on the vita-
mins and minerals added to our foods
in the United States. While the practice
has become widespread and, at times,
questionable, it had its start in legiti-
mate health concerns. In the 1920s, in
response to an epidemic of goiter
among school children in Ohio, a push
was made to add iodine to salt. Goiter is
the visible swelling of the thyroid
gland, with iodine deficiency its pri-
mary cause.
With iodine added to much of the
salt in this country, goiter is no longer
common. The addition of vitamin D to
milk in the 1930s grew out of an effort to
prevent rickets, a childhood disease in
which young bones fail to grow proper-
ly. Vitamin D is crucial to the absorp-
tion of calcium, and children who didn't
get enough had weak and soft bones
that sometimes led to skeletal deformi-
ties, like bowed legs. When the proc-
essed food industry took off, much of
the nutritional value was routinely
stripped out of foods. In the early
1900s, vitamin B deficiencies were
common and pellagra, a disease
marked by diarrhea and skin rashes,
was common.
In severe cases pellagra could lead to
dementia, and in the early decades of
the 20th century, it caused tens of
thousands of deaths, particularly in the
South. This led to the fortification of ce-
real flours and products with B vita-
mins and iron in the 1930s, and the start
of a decline in pellagra cases in the U.S.
Today, it seems to us that the multivita-
min and supplement industry, with re-
tail sales topping $36 billion in 2017, is a
cynical enterprise. In order to persuade
people to buy its products, the industry
must first frighten us into believing
that our food sources are somehow in-
herently flawed or inadequate.
But as studies increasingly show,
and as more Americans are coming to
understand, you can get the nutrients
you need with a balanced diet ground-
ed in real rather than processed foods.
Glazier is an internist and assistant
professor of medicine at UCLA Health.
Ko is an internist and primary care
physician at UCLA Health.
Woman’s platonic friend
doesn’t understand ‘no’
Ask Amy
Amy Dickinson
Dear Amy: I am a 58-year-old wom-
an, divorced with three grown kids.
I live on a small farm by myself out in
the country. I am independent. I don’t
feel the need to go out all the time.
I have a male friend who I have
known for 40 years. He and I dated
when I was 20. We were sexually inti-
mate.
He calls me frequently. The problem
is I no longer feel ANY sort of physical
attraction toward him, but he is still
very attracted to me. We have a great
time talking at dinner or watching a
movie, but then he wants to become
physical, and I demur each time.
I have even told him I am no longer
interested in sex at all, but he just ig-
nores it and says things like, “Once we
start, I know you’ll enjoy it.”
I have (so far) been able to hold my
ground but it is getting harder because
of the pressure he exerts to be physical.
I truly enjoy his company, so I hate to
just start saying no to all his invita-
tions. I don’t want to hurt his feelings
either, by saying that I don’t find him
physically attractive. I need a good line
for next time to let him know I enjoy his
friendship but only in a strictly platonic
way!
– No Sex in the Country
Dear No Sex: How’s this: “Dude.
Stop. No means no. Do you get that?”
You have already offered all sorts of
explanations to guard his ego. You do
not owe him any further explanation
about anything. If he can’t handle being
platonic and strictly nonsexual friends
with you, then you shouldn’t spend
time with him.
Dear Amy: I have a friend, “Shelly,”
with whom I have had a warm relation-
ship for many years. We met more than
two decades ago when we were both
engaged to our future-husbands, who
were friends.
Over the years, we drifted apart, but
always reconnected quickly the few
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A couple of years ago Shelly’s hus-
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age children and few financial re-
sources.
Because of my own health issues, I
have not been in touch (other than
through a condolence card) since she
was widowed, but I think of her and her
children often.
This past Christmas, I expressed
that sentiment in a card to her and in-
cluded a $100 gift card to a popular
family steakhouse in her area, adding
that I hoped that she and her family
could use it for a fun dinner outing. My
husband, “Brent,” personally handed
the card to her after a Christmas party
that I was unable to attend.
Without opening the card, she said
that she was going to call me to catch up
on things. That was weeks ago, and I
have heard nothing from her.
Do you think that my gift offended
her? Her silence makes me wonder if I
did something wrong.
– Wondering
Dear Wondering: The last time I
gave someone a gift card contained in
another card, I experienced some pret-
ty major anxiety about it, because giv-
ing a gift card is like enclosing a $100
bill – you can’t know for sure if it has
been received, spent or redeemed, un-
less the recipient tells you. I’ve received
Christmas cards at busy times that I’ve
put in my backpack and forgotten to
open until Easter.
You should contact her. Cop to your
own anxiety. Say, “This is awkward, but
Brent assured me that he handed you a
card at the Christmas party. I’m a little
nervous because I had enclosed a gift
card, and I just want to make sure that
Brent did get it to you. If so, great. And
I’m very eager to catch up. I think about
you and the kids so often and regret
that I haven’t been in closer touch.
That’s on me, and I’d like to remedy
that.”
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Bon Jovi: Sambora, Such
say yes to Rock Hall reunion
Chris Jordan
Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY
Emails have been exchanged and the
answer is yes.
Ex-members Richie Sambora and
Alec John Such will be joining the rest
of Jersey’s Bon Jovi on stage at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
ceremony on Saturday, April 14, at the
Public Hall in Cleveland.
“We’ve exchanged emails and (Sam-
bora’s) looking forward to coming, as is
Alec Such,” said Jon Bon Jovi during the
“iHeartRadio Icons With Bon Jovi”
broadcast on Feb. 21 at the iHeartRadio
Theater in New York City. “I talked to Al
as well, so they been invited to not only
come and celebrate but to perform with
us.”
Sambora exited the band in 2013 and
original bassist Such departed in 1994.
“We took that journey together in
certain times and I think it’s wonderful
that we can reenact that, not only for us
but for the fans,” said drummer Tico
Torres of the Rock Hall reunion in a
conference call with reporters on Feb.
23.
Torres said he spoke with Such.
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Q: I recently had two
five-card majors and
opening values opposite
a two-no-trump opener
twice in one week -- after
never having had this
problem before in my life.
I was not really sure how
to bid it, in terms of look-
ing for the best slam or a
grand slam.
A: A simple approach
is to transfer to spades,
then jump to six hearts.
Or you could transfer to
hearts and bid spades to
keep the auction low,
find a fit (or not), then
follow up with Key-card
Blackwood, or with five
no-trump as a choice of
slams.
Q: As dealer, I picked
up this hand: ♠ A-4, ♥ 8-
7-6-5-3-2, ♦ A-7, ♣
K-10-6, and because of
the outside honors, I re-
luctantly opened one
heart. When my partner
showed game-forcing
values and a fit with a
Crossword Answer
jump to two no-trump, I need to act? Say you pass
signed off at game and and hear one no-trump
actually made six. Was to your left, and partner
one heart the right open- bids two diamonds.
ing bid, or was I just What should you do now
lucky that my partner over a two-heart bid on
had so much help? your right?
A: It is generally more A: I'd overcall if the
important to have trump club three were the king;
length than strength. also, you could persuade
Your opening bid was im- me to act if the diamond
peccable, and the sixth four were the ace. A two-
trump is a great asset in level overcall should be
any slam sequence. six cards or a really good
Things are very different five with opening values,
when considering pre- but sometimes I fall from
empting, by the way. For grace. On the auction you
the record, give me the give, a call of three dia-
club ace instead of the monds is pessimistic; a
king, and I might rebid bid of three clubs (if
three of my major to played as lead-directing,
show extras. This hand with diamond fit) makes
has great slam potential good sense.
once you have 10 or more Email bobbywolff
trumps. @mindspring.com.
Q: Holding ♠ J-2, ♥ 9-
7-6, ♦ Q-8-4, ♣ A-Q-10-
7-3, I'm sure you would
not overcall two clubs
over one heart, but how
much more would you
Ways of getting the word out
Terry and Kim Kovel
Before the days of ra-
dio, television and com-
puters, political candi-
dates spread their vote-
seeking messages with
reports in newspapers,
printed literature, ban-
ners, stickpins, ban-
danas, ribbons and even
cigar boxes, ceramic fig-
urines and tableware,
sewing supplies and
more. Metal buttons
were used by the
mid-1800s and printed
Scrabble Answer
celluloid buttons were
created in 1896. Less-ex-
pensive metal tabs and
even paper stickers are
now used. Studies show
the candidate with the
best slogan wins more
often than his or her op-
ponent. Successful slo-
gans have been “bor-
rowed” and used by oth-
er later politicians. “A
clean sweep” represent-
ed by a man sweeping
the globe to get rid of op-
ponents is seen for can-
didates in elections in
HOROSCOPE
Aries (March 21-April 19).
One scientific tweet claim-
ing that men are six times
likelier to be struck by light-
ning than women spurred a
long stream of questions. A
claim you make today will do
the same.
Taurus (April 20-May 20).
Often what’s needed is just
to act. Sometimes thinking
is more important. And then
there are the times when it
gets “meta.” Thinking into
the thinking will be neces-
sary. Observe the thoughts.
Open them for inquiry.
Gemini (May 21-June 21).
You’ve strong feelings about
something others don’t
seem fazed by. It doesn’t
mean that your feelings are
incorrect or that no one
would share them. You’re in
one situation with a few peo-
ple. Get a larger sample.
Cancer (June 22-July 22).
Some of the best speakers in
the world had terrible ner-
vousness about it, including
Mark Twain, Winston Chur-
chill and even Abraham Lin-
coln. So you’re in good com-
pany when the nerves hit
and you go on and do it any-
way.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Magi-
cians, politicians, filmmakers
and entertainers of all kinds
learn to control the perspec-
tive of others, drawing at-
tention to what they want
others to experience. You’ll
be called on to do this to
some extent today.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Read your surroundings with
attention so you can capital-
ize on opportunities that
others don’t notice. Howev-
er decent your plan may be,
you also need that backup
plan. It wouldn’t hurt to re-
verse-engineer the situa-
tion, either.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It’s
nicer to have supportive
people around you. It helps.
Sometimes it makes all the
difference. But when they’re
not around or they’re not
acting right, just remember
that it’s not their job to be-
lieve in you; it’s yours.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Someone disappointed you,
but instead of condemning
the person, you tried to un-
derstand the situation, and
that got you over your dis-
appointment. The maturity
you gained back there will
help you with today’s situa-
tion.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You might detach from
others slightly today, but it’s
not because you don’t care.
It’s about giving others the
room they need to handle
what matters without get-
ting in the way of the lesson.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
Some say the people around
you are a random matter,
and others believe that fate
has a hand in it and that you
cross paths with people for a
reason.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
The way to learn anger man-
agement is to get angry and
then manage it. If you don’t
often get angry, you have
less practice. Though you
can’t always choose how to
feel, sometimes you can. It’s
the crux of today’s chal-
lenge.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20).
Those who don’t like con-
frontation may not under-
stand the euphoria some get
from being in the heat of the
battle.
Jumble Answer
Russia and India in the forgotten. A pair of metal
1800s. Brooms, dustpans buttons shaped like
and whisk brooms were whisk brooms held pic-
popular symbols used on tures of two unfamiliar
buttons and printed ads older men. They were
in the 1888 presidential presidential candidates
campaign of Grover Grover Cleveland and
Cleveland vs. Benjamin Benjamin Harrison. The
Harrison (Cleveland pins sold together at a
lost), but the actual Hakes auction for just
printed words of the slo- $209. There were more
gan do not appear very recent buttons, including
often. “Clean Sweep” (Alf Lan-
Vintage campaign don, 1936) and “Clean
collectibles are often House” (Thomas Dewey,
missed because the em- 1944 and 1948).
blem’s meaning has been More at kovel.com.
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Y
ou have a job offer —
awesome! Your work
is done, right? After all,
you’ve made it through the re-
sume pile/interview/second in-
terview gauntlet and emerged
as the winner. Not so fast,
champ … you still have some
work to do. The job offer is just
the start of the next phase: ne-
gotiating. This is your chance
to get as much compensation
as you can while you prepare
to start this new phase of your
career.
Let’s review the most im-
portant questions to ask as
you start to negotiate salary
and/or benefits with your new
employer:
1. How are employees
reviewed, and how
is this tied to salary
increases?
This question lets you know
what you can expect down
the line and what you should
negotiate up front. If the salary
seems low and the company
is unlikely to budge very much
during this first phase, you can
start making your plan — and
your case — for an increase
later on.
If raises at this company
are tied to good performance
reviews, you can go in to the
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of achieving an “excellent” (or
whatever the metric is), and
can talk with your manager to
set specific goals so you’ll be
in good shape when it comes
time to talk about a pay bump.
2. Besides the base
pay, are any benefits
negotiable?
This gives you a sense of
the playing field. If you can’t
negotiate time off, insurance
coverage or other benefits,
there’s no point in spending
your time and energy on those
points.
It also lets you push a bit on
the salary, if nothing
else is up for discussion.
Knowing what’s flexible and
what’s not will help you target
your negotiation.
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3. What is the fiscal year
for this company?
This question is a good one
to ask because it’ll tell you
when your next window for
negotiation or a raise will be. If
you’re starting at the beginning
of a year and the company’s
fiscal year starts in January,
then you’ll have a straightfor-
ward year before an increase.
be waiting significantly longer
than a year for a potential sal-
ary increase. That gives you a
bit of leverage to say, “Since it
will be more than a year until
I’m eligible for a salary review,
I’m hoping we can start with a
slightly higher initial salary.”
4. Can you send me
employee benefit costs?
The company should be able
to send you a one-pager or a
packet outlining the basic ben-
efits offered by the company
(insurance, vacation time, etc.)
and any related employee con-
tributions/costs. Benefits aren’t
usually highly negotiable, but
you can use this information as
part of your proposed salary.
As you get started with the
job offer negotiation process,
the most important part is
having as much information as
possible at your disposal. That
way, you can make realistic
requests and have a good idea
of how far you can push with
your negotiation — or when
you should retreat and live to
negotiate another day.
Kate Lopaze is a career advice
journalist for TheJobNetwork.com
where this article was originally
published. She investigates and
writes about current strategies,
tips, and trending topics related to
all stages of one’s career.

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26,999
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27,999
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SILVER, 2.5L, PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, 2WD, AIR, AUTO 21,000 MILES
$
14,999 GRAY, 2.5L I4, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 30,000 MILES WHITE PLATINUM, 3.5V6, LEATHER, MULTI-PANEL VISTA ROOF, 20”ALLOYS, NAVI, 3RD SEAT, DUAL AC 17,000 MILES
$
27,999
2017 FORD FUSION SE $
13,999
2014 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
14,999 WHITE, 2.5L I4, STONE CLOTH, 17”ALLOYS, PSEATS, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 25,000 MILES
SUNSET, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 23,000 MILES
2017 FORD FUSION SE $
13,999
2014 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
14,999 WHITE GOLD, 2.5L I4, 17”ALLOYS, DUAL PSEATS, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 18,000 MILES
KARAT GOLD, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REVERSE SENSING, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES

FOCUS
2016 FORD FUSION S $
13,999
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE FWD $
15,999 BRIGHT BLUE, 2.5L 4CYL, PWIND, ALLOYS, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 18,000 MILES
BLACK, 2.5L, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, 2WD, AIR, AUTO 12,000 MILES
2016 FORD FUSION SE $
13,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 SILVER, 2.5L, 17”ALLOYS, DUAL PWR SEATS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 20,000 MILES
MAGNETIC, 2.0LECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 28,000 MILES
2016 FORD FUSION SE $
13,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 MAGNETIC, 2.5L, 17”ALLOYS, REVERSE SENSING, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES 2014 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
MAGNETIC, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 28,000 MILES
2015 FORD FUSION SE 8,999
$
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 BLACK, 2.5L, SPOILER, 18”ALLOYS, REMOTE START, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, AIR, AUTO 10,000 MILES
$
13,999 RUBY RED, MOONROOF, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
30,000 MILES
BLACK, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 24,000 MILES
2015 FORD FUSION SE LUXURY PKG 9,999
$
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 GRAY, 2.0L ECO, LEATHER, MOONROOF, 18”WHEELS, MY FORD TOUCH, HEATED PSEAT, AIR, AUTO 27,000 MILES
$
13,999 BRIGHT RED, 16”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
25,000 MILES
BLACK, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES
2016 FORD FUSION SE
$
9,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 WHITE, 2.5L, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 7,000 MILES
$
14,999 WHITE, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
20,000 MILES
BLACK, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES
2017 FORD FUSION S
$
9,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 WHITE, 2.5L I4, STONE CLOTH, 16”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 8,000 MILES
$
15,999 SILVER, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
20,000 MILES
RUBY RED, 2.0L ECO, TOW PKG, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES
2017 FORD FUSION SE HYBRID (dr)
$
9,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 BLACK, 2.0L I4, 17”ALLOYS, DUAL CLIMATE CONTROL, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
$
15,999 GRAY, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, REVERSE SENSING, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
25,000 MILES
RUBY RED, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 28,000 MILES
2017 FORD FUSION SE
$
9,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 MAGNETIC, 1.5L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 6,000 MILES
$
16,999 BLACK, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
21,000 MILES
RUBY RED, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES
2017 FORD FUSION SE
$
9,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 RUBY RED, 2.5L 4CYL, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 8,000 MILES
$
16,999 BLACK, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD FOCUS SE 5DR HATCHBACK
22,000 MILES
SILVER, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES
2017 FORD FUSION SE AWD LUXURY PKG (ndr)
$
9,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 SILVER, 2.0L, LEATHER, MOONROOF, 18”WHEELS, HEATED PSEAT, AIR, AUTO 12,000 MILES
$
19,999 BRIGHT RED, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2016 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR (dr)
22,000 MILES
SILVER, 1.6L ECO, ALLOYS, PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 28,000 MILES WHITE, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, REAR VIEW CAMERA, AIR, AUTO 25,000 MILES
$
10,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2015 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
SILVER, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 23,000 MILES MAGNETIC, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 19,000 MILES
$
10,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2015 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
KARAT GOLD, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, REAR CAMERA, AIR, AUTO 28,000 MILES
GOLD, ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 17,000 MILES
$
10,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2015 FORD FOCUS SE 5DR HATCHBACK $
10,999
FIESTA
SUNSET, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES
SILVER, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 19,000 MILES
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2015 FORD FOCUS SE 5DR HATCHBACK
SUNSET, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 28,000 MILES
TECTONIC, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 23,000 MILES
$
10,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2016 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
SUNSET, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 25,000 MILES
SILVER, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
$
11,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2015 FORD FIESTA SE 4DR 2016 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
BRIGHT BLUE, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES RUBY RED, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 31,000 MILES
$
8,999 WHITE, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, ALLOYS, AIR, AUTO 16,000 MILES
$
11,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2016 FORD FIESTA SE 4DR (dr) 2016 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
WHITE PLATINUM, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 24,000 MILES SILVER, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 29,000 MILES
$
9,999 TECTONIC, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 2,000 MILES
$
11,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
15,999 2016 FORD FIESTA SE 4DR 2016 FORD FOCUS SE 5DR HATCHBACK
WHITE, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES BLACK, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES
$
9,999 RUBY RED, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 9,000 MILES
$
11,999
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999 2015 FORD FIESTA SE 5DR HATCHBACK 2016 FORD FOCUS SE 5DR HATCHBACK (dr)
SUNSET METALLIC, 1.6LECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES SILVER, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
$
9,999 TECTONIC, SUNROOF, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, REAR CAMERA, AIR, AUTO 19,000 MILES
$
11,999
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999 2017 FORD FOCUS SE 4DR
MAGNETIC, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 18,000 MILES MAGNETIC, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 4,000 MILES
$
12,999
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999 2017 FORD FOCUS SE 5DR HATCHBACK (dr)
WHITE, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 23,000 MILES BLACK, ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 4,000 MILES
$
12,999
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999
BLACK, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 26,000 MILES
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999
MUSTANG
SILVER, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PWR LIFTGATE, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 24,000 MILES
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 (dr) $
16,999
F-150
SILVER, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, BACK UP CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 18,000 MILES
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999
MAGNETIC, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, MYTOUCH, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 17,000 MILES
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999
RUBY, 1.6L ECO, PWR PANO ROOF, REAR CAMERA, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 18,000 MILES 2014 FORD MUSTANG CPE $
12,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 $
16,999 WHITE, 3.7V6, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, 5SP 36,000 MILES
WHITE, 1.6L ECO, PWR PANO ROOF, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 23,000 MILES 2014 FORD MUSTANG CPE $
12,999
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 2013 FORD F150 XLT SUPERCAB 4X4 $
22,999
15,000 MILES
$
16,999 GRAY, 3.7V6, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, TECH PKG, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2014 FORD MUSTANG CPE
37,000 MILES
BLUE, 3.5V6 ECO, RUN BOARDS, TONNEAU COVER, 18”CHROMES, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 37,000 MILES
12,999
SILVER, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO $
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 2014 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 $
26,999
BLACK, 1.6L ECO, PANO MOONROOF, 17”ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES
$
16,999 BRIGHT RED, 3.7V6, 18”BLACK ALLOYS, SPOILER, PSEAT, TECH PKG, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES
2016 FORD MUSTANG CPE (dr) BLUE JEANS, 5.0V8, CHROME PKG, 18”WHEELS, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 33,000 MILES
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 (dr)
$
16,999 2017 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
27,999
15,000 MILES
$
17,999 YELLOW, 3.7V6, 18”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2016 FORD MUSTANG CPE
20,000 MILES
BLUE JEANS, 2.7 V6 ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUSIE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 16,000 MILES
16,999
SUNSET, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO $
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 2017 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
28,999
12,000 MILES
$
17,999 YELLOW, 3.7V6, 18”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2016 FORD MUSTANG CPE
21,000 MILES
BRIGHT BLUE, 3.5V6, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
16,999
SUNSET, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, HEATED PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO $
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 2017 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
28,999
SUNSET, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, HEATED PSEAT, REVERSE SENSING, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 16,000 MILES
$
17,999 YELLOW, 3.7V6, 18”ALLOYS, SPOILER, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2016 FORD MUSTANG CPE PREMIUM (dr)
15,000 MILES
MAGNETIC, 3.5V6, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 12,000 MILES
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4
$
19,999 2017 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
28,999
BLACK, 1.6LECO, PANO VISTA ROOF, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 18,000 MILES
$
17,999 YELLOW, 2.3L I4 ECO, LEATHER, HEAT-COOL PSEAT, 18”ALLOYS, SPOILER, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 20,000 MILES
2016 FORD MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE PREMIUM (dr) RACE RED, 3.5V6, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
2016 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4
$
19,999 2016 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (ndr) $
28,999
17,000 MILES
$
17,999 YELLOW, 2.3L I4 ECO, LEATHER, HEAT-COOL PSEAT, 18”ALLOYS, SPOILER, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 14,000 MILES
2017 FORD MUSTANG CPE BLACK, 3.5V6 ECO, 145”WB, 17”ALLOYS, BEDLINER, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 29,000 MILES
21,999
MAGNETIC GRAY, 1.6L ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO $
2015 FORD ESCAPE SE 4X4 2016 FORD F150 XTR CREW CAB 4X4 (ndr) $
28,999
SILVER, 1.6L ECO, PANO MOONROOF, 17”ALLOYS, PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 14,000 MILES
$
17,999 LIGHTNING BLUE, 2.3L ECO, 18”GRAY ALLOYS, SPOILER, PSEAT, REVERSE SENSING, ENHANCED SECURITY PKG, AIR, AUTO 4,000 MILES
WHITE, 2.7L V6 ECO, 145”WB, 18”CHROME ALLOYS, STEP BARS, AIR, AUTO 25,000 MILES
2017 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
29,999
RACE RED, 2.7L V6 ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
2017 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
29,999
MAGNETIC, 5.0V8, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
2017 FORD F150 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
29,999
BLACK, 3.5 V6 ECO, 17”ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, BLUETOOTH, AIR, AUTO 12,000 MILES

TAURUS EXPLORER
2017 FORD F150 KING RANCH CREW 4X4 (n) $
44,999
WHITE PLATINUM-TAN, 3.5V6 ECO, LEATHER, TWIN MOONROOF, NAVI, TOW PKG, 20”ALLOYS, AIR, AUTO 13,000 MILES

SUPERDUTY
2016 FORD TAURUS SE $
14,999 2015 FORD EXPLORER FWD
SILVER, 3.5V6, 18”ALLOYS, DUAL PWR SEATS, SYNC, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 21,000 MILES RUBY RED, 3.5V6, 3RD SEAT, 18”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, 2WD, AIR, AUTO 25,000 MILES
$
19,999
2016 FORD TAURUS SE $
15,999 2015 FORD EXPLORER BASE 4X4
BLACK, 3.5V6, 18”ALLOYS, DUAL PWR SEATS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 19,000 MILES BLACK, 3.5V6, 3RD SEAT, 18”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 33,000 MILES
$
21,999
2016 FORD TAURUS SE (dr) $
15,999 2015 FORD EXPLORER BASE 4X4
MAGNETIC, 3.5V6, 18”ALLOYS, DUAL PWR SEATS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 12,000 MILES RUBY RED, 3.5V6, PSEAT, 18”ALLOYS, 3RD SEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 24,000 MILES
$
22,999
2015 FORD TAURUS SEL $
15,999 2015 FORD EXPLORER BASE 4X4
BLACK, 3.5V6, LEATHER, 18”ALLOYS, HEATED PSEATS, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 23,000 MILES RUBY RED, 3.5V6, PSEAT, 18”ALLOYS, 3RD SEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
$
22,999 2014 FORD F250 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 LONGBED
BLUE JEANS, 6.2V8, XTR PLUS PKG, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, 18”WHEELS, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 31,000 MILES 25,999 $
2015 FORD TAURUS SEL $
15,999 2015 FORD EXPLORER BASE 4X4
SILVER, 3.5V6, MOONROOF, 18”ALLOYS, REMOTE START, DUAL PWR SEATS, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 20,000 MILES RUBY RED, 3.5V6, 3RD SEAT, 18”ALLOYS, PSEAT, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 24,000 MILES
$
22,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr)
WHITE, 6.2V8, 160”WB, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 34,999
25,000 MILES
$
2017 FORD TAURUS SEL (dr) $
18,999 2015 FORD EXPLORER BASE 4X4
BLACK, V6, LEATHER, HEATED PSEAT, NAVI, REAR CAMERA, 18”ALLOYS, AIR, AUTO 17,000 MILES BLACK, 3.5V6, TOW PKG, 18”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 15,000 MILES
$
22,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 FX4 (dr)
BRIGHT RED, 6.2V8, 160”WB, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, OFF ROAD PKG, AIR, AUTO 16,000 MILES
$
35,999
2015 FORD EXPLORER BASE 4X4 $
22,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW 4X4 LONGBED (dr)
BLACK, 3.5V6, 18”ALLOYS, PSEAT, CRUISE, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO
2015 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4
13,000 MILES
BLACK, 6.2V8, 8FT BED, BEDLINER, REAR CAMERA, ALLOYS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 17,000 MILES
$
35,999
RUBY RED, 3.5V6, 18”ALLOYS, DUAL PWR SEATS, CRUISE, 3RD SEAT, DUAL AC 29,000 MILES
$
23,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr)
BLACK, 6.2V8, 160”WB, BEDLINER, ALLOYS, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 12,000 MILES
$
35,999
2015 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4 $
23,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr)
WHITE, 3.5V6, 3RD SEAT, 18”ALLOYS, HEATED PSEAT, CRUISE, DUAL AC
2015 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4
28,000 MILES
BLUE JEANS, 6.2V8, 160”WB, 18”WHEELS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 14,000 MILES
$
35,999
LINCOLN 24,999
$
BRIGHT BLUE, 3.5V6, LEATHER, 18”ALLOYS, 3RD, HEATED PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, DUAL AC 21,000 MILES 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr) $
35,999
BRIGHT RED, 6.2V8, 160”WB, 18”WHEELS, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 17,000 MILES
2015 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4 $
25,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW CAB 4X4 (dr)
MAGNETIC, 3.5V6, LEATHER, DUAL MOONROOF, QUADS, 18”ALLOYS, PWR LIFTGATE, NAVI, DUAL AC 29,000 MILES
2015 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4 WHITE, 6.2V8, 160”WB, BEDLINER, REAR CAMERA, PWIND, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 14,000 MILES
$
35,999
CARIBOU, 3.5V6, DUAL PANEL MOONROOF, 20”ALLOYS, 3RD SEAT, REAR CAMERA, DUAL AC 24,000 MILES
$
25,999 2016 FORD F250 XLT CREW 4X4 DIESEL SPECIAL EDITION (n) $37,999
BLACK, 6.7DIESEL, 156”WB, PSEAT, REAR CAMERA, STEP BARS, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 35,000 MILES
2015 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4 $
25,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW 4X4 DIESEL LONGBED (ndr) $42,999
2015 LINCOLN MKZ RESERVE AWD $
17,999 DARKSIDE METALLIC, 3.5V6, LEATHER, DUAL MOONROOF, 20”ALLOYS, PWR LIFTGATE, HEATED PSEAT, DUAL AC 28,000 MILES
WHITE, 6.7L DIESEL, 176”WB, PWIND, CRUISE, REAR CAMERA, AIR, AUTO 23,000 MILES
MAGNETIC, 2.0L I4 ECO, LEATHER, MOONROOF, HEAT-COOL PWR SEATS, AIR, AUTO 34,000 MILES
2016 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4 $
26,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW 4X4 DIESEL LONGBED (dr) $43,999
2015 LINCOLN MKC PREMIER $
19,999 BLACK, 3.5V6, LEATHER, DUAL MOONROOF, 18”ALLOYS, NAVI, REMOTE START, 3RD, DUAL AC 30,000 MILES
WHITE, 6.7L, 176”WB, 18”ALLOYS, BEDLINER, PWIND, CRUISE, REAR CAMERA, AIR, AUTO 19,000 MILES
SILVER SAND, 2.0L I4, LEATHERETTE, HEATED PSEAT, ALLOYS, CRUISE, 2WD, AIR, AUTO 20,000 MILES
2017 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4 (dr) $
27,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW 4X4 DIESEL LONGBED (dr) $43,999
2016 LINCOLN MKZ SELECT $
19,999 WHITE, 3.5V6, 18”ALLOYS, TOW PKG, 3RD SEAT, PSEAT, CRUISE, DUAL AC 17,000 MILES
BLACK, 6.7L, 176”WB, 18”WHEELS, PWIND, CRUISE, BOXLINK, AIR, AUTO 13,000 MILES
MAGNETIC, 2.0L ECO, LEATHER, ROOF, 19”POLISHED ALLOYS, HEATED PSEAT, AIR, AUTO14,000 MILES
2016 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4X4 (n) $
27,999 2017 FORD F250 XLT CREW 4X4 DIESEL LONGBED (ndr) $43,999
2017 LINCOLN MKZ PREMIERE $
20,999 WHITE PLATINUM, 2.3L I4 ECO, LEATHER, DUAL MOONROOF, 18”ALLOYS, NAVI, CRUISE, DUAL AC 23,000 MILES
WHITE, 6.7L, 176”WB, 9900#GVWR PKG, REAR CAMERA, PSEAT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTO 12,000 MILES
BLACK, 2.0L I4, LEATHERETTE, REMOTE START, 18”ALLOYS, HEATED PWR SEATS, AIR, AUTO 22,000 MILES
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Sports
Ithaca’s Anderson, Raiders’ Li place in top 15
Andrew Legare
Elmira Star-Gazette
USA TODAY NETWORK
Ithaca High School sophomore Car-
ter Anderson and Horseheads junior
Shoonhsin Li delivered top-15 overall
finishes Saturday to lead Section 4
swimmers during the finals of the New
York State Public High School Athletic
Association Boys Swimming and Diving
Championships.
Anderson finished 13th overall in the
500-yard freestyle at the Nassau Coun-
ty Aquatic Center in East Meadow, on
Long Island. Li placed 14th in the 200 in-
dividual medley and 17th in the 100 but-
Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson has played in the Super Bowl, but he says he’ll always remember what it was like
hearing his name called in a spring training baseball game with the Yankees. DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN/NORTHJERSEY.COM
Russell Wilson gets
moment, but no hit
Strikeout doesn’t dim achievement of QB’s lifelong baseball dream
On the NBA
Steve Popper
North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – N.J.
TAMPA, Fla. - Russell Wilson has
plied his trade on the biggest stage in
sports, quarterbacking in the Super
Bowl with the spectacle of 80,000 fans
in attendance and a worldwide audi-
ence tuning in for what is almost a na-
tional holiday.
So it may seem odd that hearing his
name echo through the stands at George
M. Steinbrenner Field before a crowd
about one-tenth the size brought a spe-
cial feeling to him.
“I’ll always remember when they an-
nounced my name and they call you up
there,” Wilson said. “You get to go up to
the plate and the crowd’s going crazy,
the Yankees fans. I used to go crazy for
Derek Jeter when he walked up to the
plate. To have that feeling and that ex-
perience I’ll never ever forget that and
it’ll always be a memory of mine forev-
er.”
Classified
We DeIiver
RESULTS!!!
terfly.
Anderson again lowered his top time
in the 500 freestyle, posting a swim of 4
minutes, 42.81 seconds during Satur-
day’s consolation finals. He had a prelim
time of 4:44.04 and came into the meet
with a top swim of 4:50.44, which had
him seeded 35th.
With Federation and public schools
athletes competing together, Ander-
son’s finish Saturday was 10th among
public schools.
Li also lowered his time Saturday, fin-
ishing in 1:56.74 in the consolation finals
of the IM, which put him ninth among
public schools swimmers. He had a seed
time of 1:57.02 and completed Friday’s
Wilson talks with media after practice before a spring training game against the
Phillies at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Feb. 26. BUTCH DILL/USA TODAY SPORTS
It’s a feeling that is magical enough
even to the most jaded athlete that Jeter
had the tape of the late Bob Sheppard
announcing his name still serving as his
introduction even after Sheppard
passed away.
prelim in 1:57.03.
In the butterfly, Li’s time in the con-
solation finals was 52.11 seconds, which
was 13th among public schools.
Maine-Endwell junior Nathan Medi-
na swam in the bonus finals of the 100
freestyle and ended up 25th overall in
48.51 seconds.
Ithaca senior Timothy Hector placed
28th overall in the 100 backstroke with a
time of 54.52 in the bonus finals.
Also on Saturday, Maine-Endwell
competed in three relays. That included
the 200 medley relay, with the Spartans
replacing Syosset as first alternate after
posting the 31st-fastest time in prelims
Friday. M-E took advantage of the op-
And for Wilson, to hear it in this
spring training game was the culmina-
tion of a childhood dream. That he
stepped in and struck out wasn’t going
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z Boone ready to dive into the
Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. 4C
portunity, finishing 25th overall. The
team of Noah Brizzolara, Thomas Guil-
foyle, Medina and Dean Plaskon had a
bonus finals time of 1:38.41 after a turn-
ing in a 1:40.05 in prelims.
In the 200 freestyle relay bonus race,
M-E’s Medina, Julian Layton, Brizzolara
and Plaskon had a time of 1:30.13, which
was 24th overall.
Ithaca’s team of Evan Stevens, Sam
Glaubitz, Hector and Anderson had a
time of 3:17.25 in the bonus finals of the
400 freestyle relay, good for 23rd over-
all. One spot behind that group was M-
E’s Plaskon, Layton, Brizzolara and Me-
dina in 3:17.94.
Rob Centorani
Columnist
Binghamton Press &
Sun-Bulletin
Norwich
sophomore
possesses
‘will to win’
Raise your hand if you had the No. 5
seed in the 99-pound Division II brack-
et ascending to the top step of the
awards podium Saturday night.
And if you called that one, well
done.
Dante Geislinger, a Norwich sopho-
more, not only won Section 4’s lone ti-
tle at last week’s New York State Public
High School Athletic Association
Wrestling Championships, he did so in
dominant fashion.
A first-time participant in the state
meet, Geislinger pinned his first two
opponents, avenged three losses to
Central Valley Academy’s Mason Bush
with a 6-2 win in the semifinals and
defeated Camden’s Devin Coleman,
9-4 in the at Albany’s Times Union
Center.
“I didn’t know what to expect and
ended up beating him, 6-2,” fifth-seed-
ed Geislinger said of his semifinal vic-
tory over No. 1 Bush, who earned 3-0,
2-1 and 4-0 wins against Geislinger
during the 2017-18 season. “It was a
great match.”
In the final, Geislinger rallied from a
2-0 first-period deficit with a five-
point move in the second period that
propelled him to victory. He became
the third wrestler from Norwich to win
a state title, joining current Bingham-
ton University teammates Tristan Ri-
fanburg, who won three state titles,
and Frankie Garcia, who won two. Ri-
fanburg and Garcia won their most re-
cent titles as seniors in 2015.
“(Geislinger’s) willing to work on
anything, really,” said Norwich assis-
tant coach Cole Rifanburg, Tristan’s
brother. “He listens well and he goes
and goes. He just has that will to win.”
See CENTORANI, Page 3C
Norwich’s Dante Geislinger, top,
wrestles Camden’s Devin Coleman in
the 99-pound Division II state final
Saturday night at the Times Union
Center in Albany.
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LOCAL SCOREBOARD
SECTION 4 TOURNAMENTS Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton 72, Jefferson 54 Saturday, Feb. 24 tion: Tied 77. End Of 1st Overtime: Tied 87. Hershey 23 27 4 4 54 157 193 Charlotte at Hartford, 3 p.m.
Deposit/Hancock 63, Edmeston 47 1-Bainbridge-Guilford 58, 8-Spencer-Van Et- 3-pointers: Cornell 9-26 (Morgan 6-14, Da- Toronto at Belleville, 3 p.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL Franklin 63, Margaretville 48 ten 35 vis 1-2, Julian 1-3, Gordon 1-4, Brown 0-1, North Division Iowa at Manitoba, 3 p.m.
CLASS AA South Kortright 52, Worchester 37 5-Greene 57, 4-Odessa-Montour 53 McBride 0-1, Gettings 0-1); Harvard 12-25 W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Tucson at Cleveland, 3 p.m.
Semifinals Quarterfinals 3-Watkins Glen 68, 6-Elmira Notre Dame 40 (Bassey 4-5, Towns 3-6, Juzang 2-4, Haskett Toronto 39 15 1 1 80 184 122 Ontario at San Jose, 3 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 27 Friday, Feb. 23 2-Moravia 62, 7-Unatego 25 1-2, Baker 1-2, Johnson 1-4, Djuricic 0-2). Re- Syracuse 35 18 2 3 75 180 149 Springfield at Providence, 3:05 p.m.
1-Ithaca 60, 4-Binghamton 49 1-Newfield 82, 8-Hunter-Tannersville 35 Semifinals bounds: Cornell 30 (Julian 12); Harvard 39 Rochester 27 15 9 6 69 170 157 Laval at Rochester, 3:05 p.m.
3-Corning 51, 2-Elmira 43 4-Delhi 73, 5-Morris 58 Wednesday, Feb. 28 (Juzang 11). Assists: Cornell 13 (Gordon, Get- Utica 29 18 6 4 68 166 160 Texas at San Antonio, 4 p.m.
Championship 3-Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton 59, 6-Deposit/Han- 1-Bainbridge-Guilford 47, 5-Greene 34 tings 4); Harvard 20 (Bassey, Juzang 5). Laval 21 27 6 2 50 159 193 Lehigh Valley at Hershey, 5 p.m.
Saturday, March 3 cock 53 3-Watkins Glen 62, 2-Moravia 32 Belleville 22 33 1 3 48 142 213 Utica at Binghamton, 5:05 p.m.
1-Ithaca at 3-Corning, 8 p.m. 2-South Kortright 50, 7-Franklin 47 Championship WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Binghamton 18 29 6 3 45 134 177 WB/Scranton at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.
CLASS A Semifinals Sunday, March 4 AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT Western Conference San Diego at Stockton, 8 p.m.
Semifinal Tuesday, Feb. 27 1-Bainbridge-Guilford (21-1) vs. 3-Watkins First Round Central Division
Friday, Feb. 23 1-Newfield 58, 4-Delhi 43 Glen (16-5), 1 p.m. at SUNY Cortland Wednesday, Feb. 28 Syracuse 3, Binghamton 2
2-Johnson City 74, 3-Union-Endicott 62 2-South Kortright 52, 3-Gilbertsville-Mt. Up- UMBC 73, Mass.-Lowell 65 W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Binghamton ..... 1 0 1 - 2
CLASS D Manitoba 34 15 4 3 75 192 138
Championship ton 46 First round Quarterfinals Syracuse ..... 0 0 3 - 3
Saturday, March 3 Chicago 29 18 6 2 66 172 153 First period:1. Binghamton, Lappin 20 (Roo-
Saturday, March 3 Championship Wednesday, Feb. 21 G. Rapids 31 20 1 6 69 183 167
1-Maine-Endwell (11-7) vs. 2-Johnson City Saturday, March 3 8-Newfield 53, 9-Morris 22 At Cross Insurance Arena, Portland, ney), 10:52. Penalties: Kennedy Bng (high-
Iowa 26 17 7 4 63 168 164 sticking), 4:36; Thomas Syr (hooking), 7:34;
(12-8), at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial 1-Newfield vs. 2-South Kortright, 6 p.m. at SU- 5-Franklin 57, 12-Worchester 28 Maine Rockford 28 24 3 3 62 176 183
Arena, Binghamton, 3:30 p.m. NY Oneonta 4-Stamford 70, 13-Richfield Springs 33 Maine vs. UMBC, Noon Pietila Bng (hooking), 13:04; Lynch Syr
Milwaukee 27 24 4 1 59 157 179
CLASS B South Kortright 57, 14-Laurens 13 Stony Brook vs. New Hampshire, 2:15 p.m. Cleveland 18 29 4 3 43 133 181 (roughing), 15:27; Thomson Bng (cross-
Quarterfinals GIRLS BASKETBALL 6-Deposit/Hancock 60, 11-Charlotte Valley 29 Albany vs. Vermont, 6 p.m. checking), 18:20.
Friday, Feb. 23 CLASS AA 7-Candor 68, 10-Gilboa 37 Binghamton vs. Hartford, 8:15 p.m. Pacific Division Second period: No scoring. Penalties: Strait
3-Oneonta 71, 6-Chenango Valley 60 Semifinals 2-Southern Cayuga 55, 15-Hunter-Tanners- Semifinals W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Bng (tripping), 14:47; Bournival Syr (tripping),
4-Waverly 59, 5-Norwich 57 Friday, Feb. 23 ville 22 Sunday, March 4 Tucson 30 17 3 1 64 161 138 17:02.
2-Seton Catholic Central 80, 7-Whitney Point 2-Horseheads 58, 3-Binghamton 49 Quarterfinals At Cross Insurance Arena, Portland, San Diego 29 19 1 0 59 162 142 Third period: 2. Binghamton, MacDonald 15
45 Wednesday, Feb. 28 Saturday, Feb. 24 Maine Stockton 26 18 2 3 57 157 140 (Bertschy, Lappin), 7:49 (PP). 3. Syracuse, Pe-
1-Owego 75, 8-Dryden 50 1-Elmira 77, 4-Ithaca 37 1-Delhi 56, 8-Newfield 35 Maine—UMBC-UMass Lowell winner vs. Ontario 27 19 3 1 58 146 140 ca 10 (Dumont, Joseph), 10:10 (PP). 4. Syra-
Semifinals Saturday, March 3 4-Stamford 68, 5-Franklin 56 Stony Brook-New Hampshire winner, 2 p.m. Texas 29 20 5 3 66 168 173 cuse, Verhaeghe 11 (Condra, Volkov), 11:21
Tuesday, Feb. 27 Championship 3-South Kortright 46, 6-Deposit/Hancock 36 Albany-Vermont winner vs. Binghamton- S. Antonio 27 22 8 0 62 150 163 (PP). 5. Syracuse, Condra 7 (Peca, Walcott),
2-Seton Catholic Central 62, 3-Oneonta 41 1-Elmira (18-2) vs. 2-Horseheads (15-6), at 2-Southern Cayuga 67, 7-Candor 63 Hartford winner, 4:30 p.m. San Jose 23 22 3 3 52 126 148 13:03. Penalties: Lynch Syr (hooking), 0:52;
Wednesday, Feb. 28 Corning, 6 p.m. Semifinals Championship Bakersfield 21 21 8 1 51 136 160 Thomson Bng (tripping), 3:58; Yan Syr (hook-
1-Owego 61, 4-Waverly 40 CLASS A Wednesday, Feb. 28 Friday, March 9 ing), 6:58; Speers Bng (tripping), 8:25; Strait
At Higher-Seeded School NOTE: Two points are awarded for a Bng (cross-checking), 9:46; Thomson Bng
Championship Semifinals 2-Southern Cayuga 46, 3-South Kortright 36
Tuesday, Feb. 27 Semifinal winners, 4 p.m win, one point for an overtime or (tripping, fighting), 14:05; Dumont Syr (fight-
Saturday, March 3 1-Delhi 60, 4-Stamford 33
2-Seton Catholic Central (20-2) vs. 1-Owego 1- Seton Catholic Central 89, 4-Johnson City Championship WOMEN’S LACROSSE shootout loss. ing), 14:05.
(17-4), at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial 59 Saturday, March 3 Boston College 14, Binghamton 2 Thursday’s Games Shots: Binghamton 9-14-5-28; Syracuse 7-6-
Arena, Binghamton, 7:15 p.m. 2-Maine-Endwell 45, 3-Union-Endicott 42 1-Delhi (20-1) vs. 2-Southern Cayuga (19-2), 4 Binghamton ..... 1 1 - 2 No games scheduled 11-24. Power plays: Binghamton 1-5; Syra-
CLASS C Championship p.m. at SUNY Oneonta Boston College ..... 11 3 - 14 Friday’s Games cuse 2-8. Goalie: Binghamton, Appleby 9-
First round Saturday, March 3 Binghamton (3-2, 0-0): Skye Schumacher San Jose 2, Bakersfield 1, OT 12-2 (24 shots-21 saves); Syracuse, Ingram 16-
2-Maine-Endwell vs. 1-Seton Catholic Central WB/Scranton 4, Grand Rapids 2 9-2 (28 shots-26 saves). Referee: Brandon
Tuesday, Feb. 20 COLLEGES 1-0, Callon Williams 1-0, Brianne Arthur 0-1,
Belleville 1, Utica 0 Schrader, Peter Tarnaris. Linesmen: Brian Oli-
Sidney 71, Newark Valley 55 (17-3), at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Emily Yoo 0-1.
Elmira Notre Dame 68, Oxford 49 Arena, Binghamton, 1 p.m. BASEBALL Boston College (7-0, 1-0): Sam Apuzzo 4-0, Syracuse 3, Binghamton 2 ver, Rob Sauda. A: 5,178.
Lansing 48, Greene 39 CLASS B Binghamton 5, Richmond 4 Tess Chandler 3-0, Sheila Rietano 2-1, Kaileen Tucson 5, Cleveland 1
Unadilla Valley 72, Watkins Glen 52 Quarterfinals Binghamton ..... 000 000 410 - 5 6 2 Hart 1-0, Emma Schurr 1-0, Dempsey Arse- Springfield 5, Hartford 4, OT SUNDAY’S EVENTS
Quarterfinals Friday, Feb. 23 Richmond ..... 100 000 021 - 4 9 3 nault 1-0, Brooke Troy 1-0, Tara Schurr 1-0, Jor- Lehigh Valley 7, Hershey 6
Providence 6, Charlotte 3 PRO HOCKEY
Friday, Feb. 23 2-Owego 73, 7-Dryden 28 Binghamton (3-4): Jacob Wloczewski, Jake dan Lappin 0-1.
Bridgeport 4, Laval 2 Utica at Binghamton, 5:05
1-Walton 52, 8-Sidney 47 Saturday, Feb. 24 Miller (5, W), Joe Orlando (8, S) and Jason Shots: Binghamton 14; Boston College 26.
Milwaukee 4, Rockford 1 LOCAL BASKETBALL
4-Tioga 72, 5-Elmira Notre Dame 56 3-Waverly 51, 6-Whitney Point 18 Agresti. Ground balls: Binghamton 14; Boston Col-
Chicago at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Binghamton at Elmira, 4:15
6-Lansing 54, 3-Moravia 49 4-Norwich 48, 5-Oneonta 39 Richmond (5-4): Tim Miller, Foster Roy (5, L), lege 16. Draws: Binghamton 7; Boston Col-
Ontario at San Diego, 10 p.m. COLLEGE BASEBALL
7-Unadilla Valley 69, 2-Union Springs 60 Semifinals Balducci (7), Looney (9) and Johnson. lege 11. Saves: Emma Jehle (BU) 4, Taylor Binghamton at Richmond, noon
Semifinals Wednesday, Feb. 28 Passuello (BU) 2; Lauren Daly (BC) 6. Saturday’s Games
MEN’S BASKETBALL COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Tuesday, Feb. 27 1-Susquehanna Valley 53, 4-Norwich 35 Providence at Hartford, 3 p.m.
Harvard 98, Cornell 88 (2OT) Binghamton vs. Troy at Orlando, 9 a.m.
4-Tioga 58, 1-Walton 52 2-Owego 61, 3-Waverly 57 PROFESSIONAL Rochester at Toronto, 4 p.m.
Cornell (11-15): Gettings 6-14 11-14 23, Ju- Binghamton vs. Delaware at Orlando, 11:30
7-Unadilla Valley 50, 6-Lansing 41 Championship WB/Scranton at Rockford, 7 p.m.
lian 4-9 1-3 10, Morgan 12-22 4-5 34, McBride AHL a.m.
Championship Saturday, March 3 Utica at Hershey, 7 p.m.
0-4 2-2 2, Davis 3-6 0-0 7, Abdur-Ra’oof 0-2 COLLEGE MEN’S TENNIS
Sunday, March 4 2-Owego (13-9) vs. 1-Susquehanna Valley Eastern Conference Laval at Syracuse, 7 p.m.
0-0 0, Warren 1-4 2-2 4, Boeheim 0-1 0-0 0, Binghamton at NJIT, 2
4-Tioga vs. 7-Unadilla Valley 3 p.m. at SUNY (22-0), at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Atlantic Division Milwaukee at Grand Rapids, 7 p.m.
Cortland Arena, Binghamton, 5:30 p.m. Brown 0-1 0-0 0, Gordon 2-8 3-3 8. Totals W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Bridgeport at Belleville, 7 p.m.
CLASS D CLASS C 28-71 23-29 88. Lehigh Val. 36 15 3 4 79 205 174 Charlotte at Springfield, 7:05 p.m. MONDAY’S EVENTS
First round First round Harvard (16-12): Lewis 11-13 7-9 29, Towns WB/Scrantn 33 16 4 1 71 180 155 Binghamton at Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m. COLLEGE MEN’S LACROSSE
Tuesday, Feb. 20 Wednesday, Feb. 21 7-11 3-4 20, Johnson 2-5 0-0 5, Bassey 4-6 6-6 Providence 33 18 3 2 71 162 134 Iowa at Manitoba, 8 p.m. Canisius at Binghamton, 4
Hunter-Tannersville 41, Milford 39 7-Unatego 50, 10-Walton 37 18, Juzang 5-13 8-8 20, Perez 0-0 0-0 0, Baker Charlotte 31 24 0 3 65 191 169 Chicago at Texas, 8 p.m. COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Morris 77, Charlotte Valley 54 8-Spencer-Van Etten 52, 9-Unadilla Valley 39 1-4 0-0 3, Djuricic 0-4 0-0 0, Haskett 1-3 0-0 3. Bridgeport 27 22 5 3 62 151 149 Bakersfield at Stockton, 9 p.m. Binghamton vs. Czech National Team at Or-
Delhi 76, Sharon Springs 36 Quarterfinals Totals 31-59 24-27 98. Hartford 26 25 5 3 60 158 194 Sunday’s Games lando, 11 a.m.
Halftime: Harvard 35-33. End Of Regula- Springfield 26 28 2 1 55 164 182

NATIONAL SCOREBOARD

NBA Vegas
GP
64
W
41
L
18
OT
5
Pts
87
GF GA
222 178
L.A. Dodgers vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale,
Ariz., 3:05 p.m.
20. Stanford
21. Wisc.-Green Bay
20-9 213 20
26-3 175 21
30. (51) Cole Custer, Ford, 185.982.
31. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 185.312. BETTING LINE
All Times EST San Jose 65 35 21 9 79 194 180 San Diego (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox at Glen- 22. North Carolina St. 22-7 106 22 32. (32) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 185.027. Pregame.com Line
EASTERN CONFERENCE Los Angeles 65 36 24 5 77 189 160 dale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. 23. Syracuse 22-7 82 24 33. (15) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 183.418. NBA
Anaheim 65 32 21 12 76 180 180 Seattle vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m. 24. Michigan 21-8 52 NR 34. (72) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 182.272. Sunday
Atlantic Division Calgary 66 32 25 9 73 185 195 Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 25. Mercer 27-2 43 25 35. (23) Gray Gaulding, Toyota, 179.241. Favorite Line O/U Underdog
W L Pct GB Edmonton 64 27 33 4 58 181 213 3:10 p.m. Others receiving votes: DePaul 25; Florida 36. (00) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, at ATLANTA 21⁄2 2221⁄2 Phoenix
Toronto 44 17 .721 — Vancouver 65 24 32 9 57 176 214 Colorado vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:10 Gulf Coast 19; Oklahoma State 14; Belmont 176.292. at WASHINGTON 31⁄2 2081⁄2 Indiana
Boston 44 19 .698 1 Arizona 63 19 34 10 48 153 208 p.m. 13; LSU 13; Central Michigan 11; Marquette 9; 37. (55) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 173.628. at TORONTO 9 2191⁄2 Charlotte
Philadelphia 34 27 .557 10 Oakland vs. San Diego (ss) at Peoria, Ariz., Virginia 9; Buffalo 7; Miami (Fla.) 5; Purdue 3; New Orleans 31⁄2 2231⁄2 at DALLAS
New York 24 39 .381 21 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for Philadelphia 1 2091⁄2 at MILWAUKEE
overtime loss. Top three teams in each divi- 3:10 p.m. West Virginia 2; Central Florida 1; Minnesota
Brooklyn 20 43 .317 25 1; Quinnipiac 1. New York 2 215 at SACRAMNTO
Southeast Division
sion and two wild cards per conference ad-
vance to playoffs.
GOLF at LA CLIPPERS 8 226 Brooklyn
HSBC Women’s World Championship
W L Pct GB Sunday’s Games COLLEGE Women’s Basketball Scores
Saturday Par Scores
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Sunday
Washington 36 27 .571 — Nashville at Colorado, 3 p.m.
Miami 32 30 .516 3½ Philadelphia at Florida, 3 p.m. BASKETBALL EAST Saturday Favorite
at WICHITA ST 1
Line Underdog
Cincinnati
Charlotte 28 35 .444 8 Chicago at Anaheim, 4 p.m. USA Today Men’s Top 25 Poll Buffalo 74, Bowling Green 38 At Sentosa Golf Club (Tanjong Course)
Orlando 19 43 .306 16½ Vegas at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Dartmouth 88, Columbia 77 Singapore SMU 81⁄2 at SOUTH FLORIDA
The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s col- at MEMPHIS 13 East Carolina
Atlanta 19 44 .302 17 Detroit at Minnesota, 7 p.m. lege basketball poll, with first-place votes in Delaware 81, Towson 55 Purse: $1.5 million
Drexel 71, Coll. of Charleston 57 at TULSA 11⁄2 Temple
Winnipeg at Carolina, 7 p.m. parentheses, records through Feb. 25, points Yardage: 6,718; Par: 72 at HOUSTON 16 UCONN
Central Division Harvard 91, Cornell 57
Columbus at San Jose, 9 p.m. based on 25 points for a first-place vote Third Round at UCF 6 ⁄2
1
Tulane
W L Pct GB Monday’s Games through one point for a 25th-place vote and Northeastern 58, Hofstra 54
Cleveland 36 25 .590 — Nelly Korda 70-66-65- 201 -15 William & Mary 1 Towson
Calgary at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. previous ranking: MIDWEST Hofstra 5 UNC-Wilmington
Indiana 35 27 .565 1½ Akron 62, Ohio 59 Danielle Kang 68-64-70- 202 -14
Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Record Pts Pvs Brooke M. Henderson 68-72-65- 205 -11 Milwaukee 11⁄2 Ill.-Chicago
Milwaukee 33 29 .532 3½ Ottawa at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. 1. Virginia 26-2 785 2 Ball St. 88, E. Michigan 63
Detroit 29 33 .468 7½ Minjee Lee 71-66-68- 205 -11 Oakland 6 IUPUI
Arizona at Edmonton, 9 p.m. 2. Michigan State 28-3 781 1 Cent. Michigan 72, Toledo 67 Michelle Wie 67-73-66- 206 -10
Chicago 21 41 .339 15½ 3. Duke 24-5 690 5 Miami (Ohio) 58, Kent St. 35 National Hockey League
N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Jin Young Ko 72-67-67- 206 -10
4. Xavier 25-4 683 4 N. Iowa 64, Loyola of Chicago 39 Sunday
WESTERN CONFERENCE Tuesday’s Games Jessica Korda 68-70-68- 206 -10 Favorite Line Underdog Line
Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. 5. Villanova 25-4 670 3 UMKC 59, Chicago St. 47 Marina Alex 69-67-70- 206 -10
Southwest Division 6. Kansas 23-6 644 8 W. Michigan 85, N. Illinois 66 at FLORIDA OFF Philadelphia OFF
Vegas at Columbus, 7 p.m. Jenny Shin 71-68-68- 207 -9 Nashville -127 at COLORADO +117
W L Pct GB Montreal at New Jersey, 7 p.m. 7. Gonzaga 27-4 593 6 SOUTH Charley Hull 70-68-69- 207 -9
8. Purdue 26-5 587 9 at ANAHEIM OFF Chicago OFF
Houston 48 13 .787 — Detroit at Boston, 7 p.m. Arkansas St. 80, Louisiana-Monroe 73 Ha Na Jang 70-68-69- 207 -9 Las Vegas -115 at NEW JERSEY +105
San Antonio 36 26 .581 12½ 9. North Carolina 22-7 550 10 Coastal Carolina 66, Appalachian St. 51 Lydia Ko 71-71-67- 209 -7
Florida at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. 10. Cincinnati 25-4 492 11 Winnipeg -114 at CAROLINA +104
New Orleans 35 26 .574 13 Carolina at Minnesota, 8 p.m. James Madison 70, William & Mary 64 a-Atthaya Thitikul 70-71-68- 209 -7 at MINNESOTA OFF Detroit OFF
Dallas 19 44 .302 30 11. Wichita State 23-5 436 12 Lamar 80, McNeese St. 72 Jeong Eun Lee 69-70-70- 209 -7
Dallas at Nashville, 8 p.m. 12. Texas Tech 22-7 421 7 at SAN JOSE -150 Columbus +140
Memphis 18 43 .295 30 Colorado at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Liberty 57, High Point 49 Lizette Salas 71-67-71- 209 -7
13. Michigan 24-7 384 16 Chella Choi 68-69-72- 209 -7
Northwest Division Washington at Anaheim, 10 p.m. 14. Ohio State 24-7 378 15 Longwood 90, Winthrop 60
Radford 56, Campbell 36 Ariya Jutanugarn 68-74-68- 210 -6
15. Auburn 24-5 316 13
Portland
W
36 26
L Pct
.581
GB
— 16. Rhode Island 23-4 301 18 South Alabama 70, Georgia St. 69 Eun-Hee Ji
Moriya Jutanugarn
67-75-68- 210 -6
70-71-69- 210 -6
TRANSACTIONS
Troy 95, Georgia Southern 80
Oklahoma City
Minnesota
37
38
27
28
.578
.576
—
—
MLB 17. Tennessee
18. Clemson
21-7 290
21-7 248
19
17 SOUTHWEST
Sung Hyun Park
Madelene Sagstrom
68-73-69- 210 -6
68-72-70- 210 -6
Saturday’s Sports Transactions
BASEBALL
Denver 34 28 .548 2 All Times EST 19. West Virginia 21-8 223 21 Incarnate Word 58, Abilene Christian 46 Hyo Joo Kim 72-68-71- 211 -5
20. Saint Mary’s 27-4 195 20 American League
Utah 32 30 .516 4 Spring Training TOURNAMENT Shanshan Feng 70-70-71- 211 -5
21. Nevada 25-5 170 22 BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms
AMERICAN LEAGUE America East Conference In Gee Chun 68-72-71- 211 -5 with INF Danny Valencia on a minor league
Pacific Division 22. Arizona 22-7 166 14 Quarterfinals Austin Ernst 71-67-73- 211 -5
W L Pct. 23. Middle Tenn. 23-5 81 24 contract.
W L Pct GB Maine 65, UMBC 43 Cristie Kerr 70-67-74- 211 -5 TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms
Golden State 49 14 .778 — New York 8 1 0.889 24. Creighton 20-9 66 NR New Hampshire 71, Stony Brook 54 Angela Stanford 76-66-70- 212 -4
Boston 7 3 0.700 25. Kentucky 20-9 60 NR with RHP Nick Tepesch on a minor league
L.A. Clippers 33 28 .541 15 American Athletic Conference Anna Nordqvist 75-67-70- 212 -4
Kansas City 5 2 0.714 Others receiving votes: Houston 51; Arizona Amy Yang 74-68-70- 212 -4 contract.
L.A. Lakers 27 34 .443 21 First Round
Sacramento 19 43 .306 29½ Detroit 6 3 0.667 State 22; TCU 17; Butler 14; Virginia Tech 12; Inbee Park 73-70-70- 213 -3 COLLEGE
Houston 6 3 0.667 Florida 10; North Carolina State 10; Nebraska Temple 72, Wichita St. 59 FAU — Named Brian White athletic director.
Phoenix 19 45 .297 30½ Jennifer Song 65-75-73- 213 -3
Cleveland 6 3 0.667 8; Florida State 7; Loyola Ill. 7; New Mexico Atlantic 10 Conference Jacqui Concolino 73-71-70- 214 -2
Sunday’s Games Chicago 5 4 0.556 State 7; Miami Fla. 6; St. Bonaventure 6; Okla- Semifinals So Yeon Ryu 69-75-70- 214 -2
Phoenix at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. George Washington 58, Dayton 53
Charlotte at Toronto, 6 p.m.
Tampa Bay
Minnesota
5
4
5
4
0.500
0.500
homa 4; Louisiana-Lafayette 3; Arkansas 2;
Seton Hall 2; Texas A&M 2. Saint Joseph’s 58, Saint Louis 49
Nicole Broch Larsen
Mirim Lee
70-73-71- 214 -2
69-74-71- 214 -2
ON THIS DATE
Indiana at Washington, 6 p.m. Los Angeles 4 4 0.500 Atlantic Coast Conference Sei Young Kim 70-72-72- 214 -2 March 4
New Orleans at Dallas, 7 p.m. Baltimore 4 5 0.444 Men’s Basketball Scores Semifinals Jodi Ewart Shadoff 71-70-73- 214 -2 1960 — Phil Latrielle of Middlebury scores
Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Seattle 3 5 0.375 Louisville 64, NC State 59 Caroline Masson 70-70-74- 214 -2 an NCAA-record 10 goals in a 13-2 victory
Saturday Angel Yin 73-73-69- 215 -1
Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers, 9 p.m. Toronto 3 6 0.333 Notre Dame 90, Florida St. 80 over Colgate. Latrielle, a three time All-Amer-
New York at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Oakland 2 5 0.286 EAST Carlota Ciganda 71-74-70- 215 -1 ican, would score a record 250 goals in the 85
Providence 61, St. John’s 57 Big 12 Conference
Monday’s Games Texas 2 5 0.286 Mi Hyang Lee 72-72-71- 215 -1 games of his collegiate ice hockey career.
Saint Joseph’s 78, La Salle 70 Quarterfinals Pornanong Phatlum 74-68-73- 215 -1
Detroit at Cleveland, 7 p.m. TCU 90, Oklahoma 83 1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadel-
NATIONAL LEAGUE Syracuse 55, Clemson 52 Sandra Gal 72-75-69- 216 E
Milwaukee at Indiana, 7 p.m. phia Warriors registers his fifth straight 50-
VCU 83, Fordham 58 Horizon League Jane Park 75-69-72- 216 E point game with 58 against the New York
Phoenix at Miami, 7:30 p.m. W L Pct.
Second Round
Boston at Chicago, 8 p.m. Chicago 6 1 0.857 MIDWEST Lexi Thompson 75-69-72- 216 E Knicks and sets a season scoring record with
Milwaukee 7 2 0.778 Cent. Michigan 84, W. Michigan 71 IUPUI 56, Oakland 49 Hyejin Choi 71-73-72- 216 E 3,921 points.
Memphis at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Su Oh 68-76-72- 216 E
Orlando at Utah, 9 p.m. Miami 6 2 0.750 Kansas St. 77, Baylor 67 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 1968 — Joe Frazier wins the vacant New
Xavier 65, DePaul 62 Quarterfinals Sarah Jane Smith 75-70-72- 217 +1 York world heavyweight title with an 11th-
Portland at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. San Diego 5 3 0.625 Katherine Kirk 74-69-74- 217 +1
Tuesday’s Games Washington 4 4 0.500 SOUTH Siena 71, Niagara 60 round TKO of Buster Mathis at Madison
Florida 80, Kentucky 67 Candie Kung 71-72-74- 217 +1
Atlanta at Toronto, 7 p.m. Los Angeles 4 5 0.444 Patriot League Brittany Lincicome 73-73-72- 218 +2 Square Garden.
Miami at Washington, 7 p.m. San Francisco 4 5 0.444 Georgia Tech 64, Wake Forest 56 First Round 1981 — Guy LaFleur of the Montreal Cana-
LSU 78, Mississippi St. 57 Brittany Altomare 72-73-73- 218 +2
Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Colorado 3 5 0.375 Holy Cross 66, Colgate 47 Pernilla Lindberg 73-71-74- 218 +2 diens scores his 1,000th point with a goal in a
Houston at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. St. Louis 3 5 0.375 Miami 69, Virginia Tech 68 Lafayette 66, Boston U. 61 Ashleigh Buhai 75-67-76- 218 +2 9-3 rout over the Winnipeg Jets.
Denver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. New York 3 6 0.333 SOUTHWEST Summit League Georgia Hall 73-76-70- 219 +3 1990 — Hank Gathers, one of two Division I
New York at Portland, 10 p.m. Atlanta 3 6 0.333 Texas 87, West Virginia 79, OT First Round Mi Jung Hur 75-72-72- 219 +3 players to lead the nation in scoring and re-
Brooklyn at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Cincinnati 3 6 0.333 TOURNAMENT South Dakota 83, Fort Wayne 32 Alena Sharp 75-75-70- 220 +4 bounding in the same season, dies after col-
New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Pittsburgh 2 5 0.286 America East Conference In-Kyung Kim 75-72-73- 220 +4 lapsing during Loyola Marymount’s West
Arizona 3 7 0.300 First Round Kim Kaufman 75-73-73- 221 +5 Coast Conference tournament game against
Philadelphia 2 8 0.200 UMBC 89, Mass.-Lowell 77 Megan Khang 75-72-74- 221 +5 Portland. He was 23.
AUTO RACING Karine Icher 78-71-73- 222 +6 2004 — Mianne Bagger makes sports histo-
NHL Saturday’s Games
Baltimore 4, Philadelphia (ss) 2
Big Ten Conference
Semifinals NASCAR - Pennzoil 400 Lineup Tiffany Chan 74-74-76- 224 +8 ry at the Women’s Australian Open as the first
All Times EST Friday’s qualifying; race Sunday Haru Nomura 78-72 - WD transsexual to play in a pro golf tournament.
Miami 1, N.Y. Mets 0 Michigan 75, Michigan St. 64
EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 3 At Las Vegas Motor Speedway 2011 — Miikka Kiprusoff becomes the first
Northeast Conference
Atlanta 9, St. Louis 2 Tshwane Open Leading Scores goalie in 25 years to stop two penalty shots in
Atlantic Division Semifinals Las Vegas
Tampa Bay 7, Detroit 4 Saturday a game and finishes with 37 saves, leading
LIU Brooklyn 78, Fairleigh Dickinson 77 (Car number in parentheses) Calgary past Columbus 4-3.
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 8, Houston 1 At Pretoria Country Club
Tampa Bay 66 45 17 4 94 240 182 Wagner 75, Robert Morris 64 1. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 191.489 mph. 2013 — Gonzaga, the small Northwest
Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia (ss) 3 Southern Conference 2. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 190.248. Waterkloof, South Africa
Boston 62 39 15 8 86 207 157 Toronto 13, Minnesota 8 school that has delivered big NCAA tourna-
Toronto 66 39 20 7 85 218 185 Quarterfinals 3. (41) Kurt Busch, Ford, 190.067. Purse: $1.25 million
L.A. Dodgers 14, Arizona 6 ment wins, is on top of The Associated Press’
Florida 62 31 25 6 68 185 198 UNC Greensboro 72, The Citadel 58 4. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 189.980. Yardage: 7,081; Par: 71 Top 25 for the first time. Riding the best rec-
Detroit 64 26 28 10 62 169 189 Chicago White Sox 9, Kansas City 5 5. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 189.447. Third Round
Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 4 ord in Division I at 29-2, the Bulldogs become
Montreal 64 25 29 10 60 166 198 USA Today Women’s Top 25 Poll 6. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 189.175. G. Coetzee, South Africa 67-64-68-199 the 57th school to be ranked No. 1 since the
Ottawa 63 22 31 10 54 173 223 San Diego 10, Oakland 4 7. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 189.148.
The top 25 teams in the USA Today women’s M. Korhonen, Finland 68-64-69-201 AP poll began in January 1949.
Buffalo 65 20 34 11 51 154 211 San Francisco (ss) 13, Cleveland 4 8. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 189.102. Sam Horsfield, England 68-69-64-201
college basketball poll, with first-place votes 2013 — Brittney Griner scores a Big 12 sin-
San Francisco (ss) 9, Texas 4 9. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota, 188.719. Felipe Aguilar, Chile 65-67-71-203
in parentheses, records through Feb. 26, gle-game record 50 points in her final regular-
Metropolitan Division Milwaukee 6, Colorado 5 10. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 188.640. Scott Jamieson, Scotland 67-69-67-203
points based on 25 points for a first-place season game at Baylor and leads the Bears to
GP W L OT Pts GF GA L.A. Angels vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., late 11. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 188.469. E. Van Rooyen, South Africa 68-68-67-203
vote through one point for a 25th-place vote a 98-50 win over Kansas State.
Washington 64 36 21 7 79 198 191 Sunday’s Games and previous ranking: 12. (21) Paul Menard, Ford, 188.442. Thomas Aiken, South Africa 65-71-67-203
Boston vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 1:05 2015 — Russell Westbrook becomes the
Philadelphia 65 34 20 11 79 196 189 Record Pts Pvs 13. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 188.838. Victor Perez, France 69-68-68-205
Pittsburgh 65 36 25 4 76 212 198 p.m. first player since Michael Jordan in 1989 to
1. Connecticut (32) 29-0 800 1 14. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 188.712. Shaun Norris, South Africa 66-72-67-205 have four consecutive triple-doubles and the
New Jersey 65 33 24 8 74 191 196 Detroit vs. Washington at West Palm Beach, 2. Mississippi State 30-0 766 2 15. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 188.607. Adilson da Silva, Brazil 67-72-66-205
Columbus 65 32 28 5 69 172 184 Fla., 1:05 p.m. D. van Tonder, South Africa 67-72-66-205 first since Jordan that year to have back-to-
3. Baylor 28-1 731 3 16. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 188.442. back triple-doubles with at least 40 points.
Carolina 65 29 25 11 69 174 195 Houston vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m. 4. Notre Dame 27-2 692 4 17. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 188.363. Sebastian Gros, France 69-70-66-205
NY Islanders 65 29 29 7 65 211 234 Miami vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 5. Louisville 29-2 687 5 Scott Vincent, Zimbabwe 68-69-69-206 Westbrook sets career highs with 49 points
18. (19) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 187.865. and 16 rebounds, and adds 10 assists, helping
NY Rangers 65 29 30 6 64 186 207 p.m. 6. Oregon 27-4 636 7 19. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 187.846. Laurie Canter, England 73-64-69-206
Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 7. Texas 23-5 613 8 J. Kruyswijk, South Africa 69-69-68-206 the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Philadel-
WESTERN CONFERENCE 20. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 187.441. phia 76ers 123-118 in overtime.
1:05 p.m. 8. South Carolina 23-6 552 6 21. (95) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 187.305. Matthew Carvell, South Africa 69-69-68-206
Central Division Tampa Bay vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 9. UCLA 23-6 543 10 Connor Syme, Scotland 70-68-68-206 2017 — Marit Bjoergen wins world champi-
22. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 187.246. onship gold in the 30-kilometer classical race
1:05 p.m. 10. Oregon State 23-6 504 11 23. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 187.162. Jens Dantorp, Sweden 70-69-67-206
GP W L OT Pts GF GA as Norway completes a sweep of women’s
Nashville 64 41 14 9 91 210 165 Toronto vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 11. Florida State 24-5 476 12 24. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 186.413.
12. Tennessee 23-6 433 14 Also cross-country ski titles at the world champi-
Winnipeg 64 38 17 9 85 217 173 1:05 p.m. 25. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 187.650.
Washington vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, 13. Missouri 23-6 400 9 P. Newcomb, United States 67-72-72-211 onships in Lahti, Finland. Bjoergen takes her
Dallas 65 37 23 5 79 193 171 26. (43) Darrell Wallace Jr., Chevrolet,
Minnesota 65 36 22 7 79 200 189 Fla., 1:10 p.m. 14. Ohio State 24-6 374 15 Julian Suri, United States 65-74-72-211 record 18th career gold medal and fourth of
15. Duke 22-7 324 16 187.546. the championships. No country had won all
Colorado 64 35 24 5 75 202 189 Cleveland vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 27. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
St. Louis 66 35 26 5 75 180 176 16. Texas A&M 22-8 304 18 women’s cross-country gold medals at a sin-
p.m. 17. Maryland 23-6 278 13 186.916.
Chicago 64 27 29 8 62 180 186 Kansas City vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., gle world championships since Russia in
18. Georgia 24-5 245 19 28. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 186.335. 1997, when there were only five events, rath-
3:05 p.m. 19. South Florida 24-6 238 17 29. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 186.123.
Pacific Division er than the current six.

Popper
Continued from Page 1C
to dim that and maybe that’s a little hint
of what baseball means to little boys
and grown men, too.
Wilson may have arrived at Yankees
camp with a goal of learning, soaking in
some of the traditions of the team and
trying to impart some of his own lessons
learned through the rigors of the Na-
tional Football League to the team.
But when his week of batting practice
and infield drills, bringing back some of
the feelings of seven years earlier when
he gave the game up to concentrate on
football, was good enough to believe, he
cleared it with the Seattle Seahawks
front office and head coach Pete Carroll
and asked for a chance to get in the
game.
So he went up to the plate for the first
time in a game since June 25, 2011, when
he was playing second base for the Colo-
rado Rockies Class A Asheville Tourists
and grounded into a double play at the
hands of Chasen Shreve - who hap-
pened to be in the clubhouse with him
this week as a member of the Yankees’
bullpen.
His thoughts weren’t as much on that
seven-year gap as they were about what
it would have meant to his father, Benja-
min Wilson III, who had played baseball
Centorani
Continued from Page 1C
Section 4 improves
Section 4 performed better than last
year in the team race. In Division I, Sec-
tion 4 finished 10th out of 11 teams, up
one spot from the previous year. In Divi-
sion II, Section 4 finished third – behind
sections 3 and 6 -- up two spots from
last year.
Additionally, Norwich placed second
among individual teams with 67 points
– seven behind Central Valley Academy.
Tioga was fourth with 45, two spots
ahead of Walton/Delhi, which had 41.5.
In Division I, juniors Trentyn Rupert
(285) of Newark Valley and Devin
Woodworth (120) placed third and
fourth, respectively. Horseheads senior
Chris Eames finished fifth at 170 and
Corning freshman Chase Daudelin was
sixth at 126.
Division II saw Walton/Delhi junior
Chandler Merwin and Tioga sophomore
Brady Worthing fall in close finals at 113
and 120, respectively. Susquehanna Val-
ley senior Richie Knapp placed third at
195; Oneonta senior LeRoy Williams
(285), Norwich senior Brennan Slater
(182) and Walton/Delhi junior Caleb
Robinson (120) finished fourth; Norwich
sophomore Mikey Squires (126), Tioga
junior Austin Lamb (138) and Norwich
freshman Tyler Rice (220) placed fifth;
and Bainbridge-Guilford/Afton/Har-
pursville senior Ben Bivar (138) and Nor-
wich senior Ty Rifanburg (170) placed
sixth.
That means Section 4 should return
nine state place-winners. Throw in
standouts such as Tioga junior John
Worthing, BGAH freshman Brody Olek-
TV HIGHLIGHTS
Schedule subject to change and/or
blackouts.
AUTO RACING
3:30 p.m.
FOX — NASCAR Monster Energy Cup
Series, Penzoil 400
GOLF
5 a.m.
GOLF — European PGA Tour, Tshwane
Open
Noon
GOLF — PGA Tour, WGC-Mexico Cham-
pionship
2 p.m.
NBC — PGA Tour, WGC-Mexico Champi-
onship
4:30 p.m.
GOLF — Champions Tour, Cologuard
Classic
MLB
1 p.m.
MLB — Spring training, Houston vs. St.
Louis
YES — Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees
NBA
8 p.m.
ESPN — Philadelphia at Milwaukee
and football at Dartmouth and who had
taught him the game before passing
away in 2010.
“I think back to my dad,” Wilson said.
“I think back to all the hard work you put
into something, your whole life you train
to get to this place, this level, and every-
thing else. Obviously playing football
and baseball, to be able to put the jersey
on.
“Funny story, my uncle Al, he’s lived
in New York for years and years and
years. And he wears the Yankee hat no
matter where he goes. The only place he
doesn’t wear it is in the courtroom and
in the pool. But everywhere he goes he
wears it, even when he comes to the
Seahawks games. I just think about the
people that have really meant a lot to me
in my life. Just to have this opportunity
to play with a great organization, to do
this and to really be a part of this family,
it’s been great.”
When he stepped in against Max
Fried, who was the No. 7 overall pick in
the 2012 draft, he heard the roar of the
crowd. But he also heard the voice of his
father.
So when Fried tried to deliver a fast-
ball down the middle Wilson swung and
swung hard, fouling it back. He then
took a slow curve for strike two, but took
two pitches before striking out swinging
on a 93 mile per hour fastball.
What he heard in his head, what his
father would have told him, were les-
sak and Norwich junior Eli Rodriguez, all
of whom dealt with injury or illness dur-
ing the season, and Section 4 wrestling
would appear to be strong heading into
next season.
“We need depth in our lineups, so
we’re not forfeiting as many weight
classes,” Chenango Forks coach Rick
Gumble said when asked to assess Sec-
tion 4’s future. “It’s a problem in upstate
with our population decreases.”
Gumble added he thinks wrestling is
making a comeback in the area.
“I see it my hallways,” he said. “Some
kids feel if they didn’t start wrestling at
a young age that it’s not a sport they get
into right away. I think that’s a false
statement. Kris Borelli for us, he only
has two years of wrestling and he placed
third in the section. As coaches, we have
to get more kids involved and keep the
elite kids on the trajectory they’re on
now.”
Bad call?
I’ll be the first to admit a lack of un-
derstanding when it comes to what con-
stitutes a takedown, but it appeared
Brady Worthing was on the wrong end
of a blown call in his 120-pound title
match against Trent Svingala of Maple
Hill.
I had a perfect angle on Svingala’s
upper-body throw on the edge of the cir-
cle in the first period. Worthing was out
of bounds and at best, Svingala had one
leg inbounds. The head referee ruled no
takedown, but after conferring with his
partner, Svingala was awarded two
points in a match he won, 3-2.
Too many conferences
It’s not something I noticed as much
the past two years, but there were a lot
9 p.m.
YES — Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers
MSG/MSG+ — New York at Sacramento
NBA G-LEAGUE
3 p.m.
MSG — Westchester at Lakeland
NHL
5 p.m.
MSG+ — Vegas at New Jersey
7 p.m.
NBCSN — Detroit at Minnesota
SOCCER
8:30 a.m.
NBCSN — Premier League, Brighton vs.
Arsenal
9:30 a.m.
FS1 — Bundesliga, Cologne vs. Stuttgart
11 a.m.
NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester
City vs. Chelsea
Noon
ESPN2 — Women She Believes Cup, U.S
vs. France
FS1 — Freiburg vs. Bayern Munich
5 p.m.
ESPN — MLS, Los Angeles FC at Seattle
7:30 p.m.
FS1 — MLS, New York City FC at Sports-
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sons that he was happy to have fulfilled
even without a hit.
“Well, first of all he would have been
pumped up because I was ready to go
the first pitch,” Wilson said. “I wasn’t up
there to just look around and just hang
out in the box. I was going for it. He
would have liked that. The second thing
he would have said to me is don’t ever
strike out looking. I didn’t strike out
looking, I’ll tell you that.”
The Yankees certainly don’t need him
as a gate attraction, not with Aaron
Judge and Giancarlo Stanton already
being tracked as the heart of a modern
day Murderer’s Row, and their own real
spring sensation in Miguel Andujar.
And Wilson was certainly not interested
in just being a celebrity sighting playing
in a fantasy camp.
Across the state in Port St. Lucie an-
other former quarterback, Tim Tebow,
was continuing his own attempt to re-
kindle his baseball career that halted in
high school - striking out on three pitch-
es against Max Scherzer, but singling
later for the Mets. Wilson said he is root-
ing for Tebow, but he was focused on his
own chance - that first pitch.
“I was ready to roll,” Wilson said. “I
just missed it. If I would’ve connected
with that one it would have been gone a
long way. So it’s part of baseball. It’s
fun.”
“He walked straight into my office
this morning with a smile on his face,
of conferences between coaches and
referees last weekend.
The longest involved Bivar in his 11-3
semifinal win over Chase Runfola of
Letchworth. BGAH coach Brandon Mac-
Naught correctly argued that Bivar
should have been given a point after
Runfola false-started for the third time
from the bottom position.
But it went on and on. Referees
talked, coaches talked, a rules interpret-
er was called over and it probably took
10 minutes to make a call.
I’m not snapping on the coaches. It’s
their right to dispute calls and they
should advocate for their wrestlers.
That said, it happened way too much.
I can’t think of anyone in any sport who
attends events to see coaches and refer-
ees talk.
It was almost as if Bivar and Runfola
wrestled two matches, the one before
the delay and the one after. Wrestling
needs a constant flow, not only for com-
petitors but spectators.
Not sure what the solution is, but nu-
merous stoppages are not good for the
sport.
Tournament of Champions
The Windsor Christmas Tournament
bills itself as the “Tournament of Cham-
pions” and that was the case this year.
Four wrestlers who made the finals in
Windsor won Division II state champi-
onships: Geislinger, Honeoye Falls-Li-
ma’s Anthony Noto (106), Mount Sinai’s
Michael Zarif (138) and Phoenix’s Ross
McFarland (170).
Zarif lost, 3-2 to Bivar the 138-pound
final in Windsor.
The runner-up finishes for Merwin
and Worthing – both of whom gained
at-large berths to the tournament --
were better than their performances in
ing Kansas City
10 p.m.
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RUGBY
2 p.m.
NBCSN — English Premiership, Worces-
ter Warriors vs. Leicester Tigers
6 p.m.
ESPNEWS — USA Sevens Finals
TRACK & FIELD
4 p.m.
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onships
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1 p.m.
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2 p.m.
CBS — Missouri Valley championship
ESPNEWS — SMU at South Florida
3 p.m.
ESPN — Atlantic Sun Tournament final
4:30 p.m.
CBS — Big Ten Tournament final
ESPNU — Tulane at UCF
9:30 p.m.
like, ‘Yeah, let’s do this,’” Yankees man-
ager Aaron Boone said. “I was excited. I
told (Aaron Judge), we’re going to hit for
you here with Russell. I think the guys
got a big kick out of it. He had a pretty
good at-bat, man. He even came up to
me later like, ‘Gosh, I just missed that
first one. You’ve got to go see my swing
on it. Did you see it?’ I’m like, ‘I know. I
was sitting here watching.’ Good bat
speed.
“That kid that came in throwing,
pretty good velo and broke him off a
pretty good curveball for strike two also,
then works his way back in the count.
Pretty competitive at-bat for a guy that
hasn’t been there against a pitcher in a
long time. I think he really enjoyed it. He
got his juices flowing and I think he rep-
resented himself very well.”
He dressed afterward and Tyler Aus-
tin, who had delivered the two-run,
walk-off homer in the Yankees 6-5 win,
waited patiently for the crowd around
Wilson to make room for him to get to
his locker next to Wilson’s. He will be in
camp for one more day before returning
to his own real world Sunday morning,
but was content with one at-bat.
“Oh yeah,” he said when asked if he’d
have liked one more chance. “But you
know, we set a plan. You trust the plan. I
also wanted other guys to make sure
they get at-bats. These guys are trying
to win a world series. I got one at bat, so I
trust it.”
Windsor, where Merwin placed fifth
and Worthing fourth.
McFarland’s path to a state title in-
cluded a third-period pin of Norwich’s
Ty Rifanburg in a semifinal Saturday
morning. Rifanburg trailed by four in the
third period when he tried a desperate
move. McFarland countered, put a bear
hug on Rifanburg and pancaked him.
Rifanburg laid on the mat for several
minutes after the match and departed in
a wheelchair.
Cole Rifanburg said Saturday night
his brother suffered a concussion but
was feeling better.
Nickerson has company
From 2001-05, Chenango Forks’ Troy
Nickerson won five state champion-
ships, unprecedented in state history
until last weekend.
Long Beach senior Jacori Teemer
won his fifth straight state title, defeat-
ing Fox Lane’s Matt Grippi, 8-2 in the
152-pound final.
Odds ’N Ends
Of the 90 state titles awarded the
past three seasons, Section 4 has won
two. … Knapp pinned four of his five op-
ponents last weekend, the lone excep-
tion a 6-5 semifinal loss to eventual
champion Doug Simmons of Canastota.
… Tioga senior Stephen Taylor placed
sixth among NYSPHSAA wrestlers. He
didn’t qualify for the fifth-place match,
but runner-up Jayson Gomez of Eagle
Academy is from a PSAL school, so Tay-
lor appeared on the NYSPHSAA podi-
um. … Sixteen of Saturday’s 30 champi-
ons were top seeds, six were second
seeds, two third seeds, one fourth seed,
four fifth seeds (including Geislinger)
and one sixth seed.
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11:30 p.m.
ESPNU — MAAC Tournament semifinal
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1 p.m.
FS2 — Big East Tournament quarterfinal
2 p.m.
ESPN2 — ACC Tournament final
2:30 p.m.
ESPNU — AAC Tournament quarterfinal
3 p.m.
FS1 — Big 12 Tournament semifinal
3:30 p.m.
FS2 — Big East Tournament quarterfinal
4:30 p.m.
ESPN2 — SEC Tournament final
5:30 p.m.
FS1 — Big 12 Tournament semifinal
6:30 p.m.
ESPNU — AAC Tournament quarterfinal
7 p.m.
ESPN2 — Big Ten Tournament final
FS2 — Big East Tournament quarterfinal
9 p.m.
ESPN2 — Pac-12 Tournament final
9:30 p.m.
FS2 — Big East Tournament quarterfinal
4C z SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018 z STAR-GAZETTE
Boone ready for Yanks-Red Sox rivalry
Steve Popper
Columnist
North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – N.J.
FORT MYERS, Fla. – On the night that
he was traded to the Yankees, July 31,
2003, Aaron Boone sat in the clubhouse
in Cincinnati and was saying his good-
byes to his teammates from the only team
he’d ever played for, when Tim Naehring,
a former Red Sox player who was working
in the Reds’ front office, approached.
“That night I’m kind of hanging out in
our clubhouse in Cincinnati with some
buddies, guys on the team, just hanging
out, kind of saying goodbye, shooting the
breeze,” Boone said. “Timmy Naehring
was sitting with us. He was our field coor-
dinator, farm director, not sure what his
title was. Obviously played in Boston. He
said, ‘You have no idea what you’re walk-
ing into right now.’
“You know, I consider myself a fan of
the game, pretty good knowledge of what
the heck’s going on. Sure enough, he was
right. I remember my first trip to Fenway,
into Boston in some time in August. It
was another level, but so much fun. Obvi-
ously in 2003 that was a pretty good peak
time to that rivalry, but it was something
that was fun to be a part of. It was an hon-
or to get to play where it matters like that,
especially in a game in August. I under-
stand it’s a big deal.”
Boone was a part of that peak for a
short time, but a huge role, playing just 54
games for the Yankees and then the play-
offs. But he delivered an 11th-inning,
walk-off home run in Game 7 of the
American League Championship Series
to cap a wild series, sending the Red Sox
home without a championship one more
time, the final nail in the Curse of the
Bambino that had lasted 85 years before
it finally turned the following season.
Boone never played for the Yankees
again after that 2003 season, departing
the rivalry almost as soon as he entered
it. In his trips to Fenway Park in the years
since with other teams and then as an
ESPN analyst the fans were congenial, al-
lowing him to avoid the “Bucky F-ing
Dent” status.
It’s hard to imagine a more amiable
baseball man than Boone or one with
Gymnastics
continues
amid scandal
Maggie Hendricks
USA TODAY
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. – Fans,
mostly tween and teenage girls, filled
the stands at the Sears Centre in sub-
urban Chicago as gymnasts from
around the world hoped to start their
season with a win at the American
Cup.
Reigning world champion Morgan
Hurd went through her pre-bars ritual
of repeating a script she says before
every routine, and then got to work.
Here, as Hurd nailed her routines,
it’s not obvious that USA Gymnastics
is in the middle of one of the ugliest pe-
riods in the sport's history. The testi-
monies of repeated sexual abuse by
former USA Gymnastics national team
doctor Larry Nassar’s over 250 victims
is still echoing in the minds of anyone
who heard it just two months ago.
Jordyn Wieber was part of a group
who testified before a congressional
committee about her abuse on
Wednesday night. On Friday, Aly Rais-
man, one of the most decorated gym-
nasts in American history, filed suit
against USA Gymnastics and the
USOC over their inaction toward Nas-
sar.
There’s no doubt USA Gymnastics
and the USOC are changed from Nas-
sar’s crimes. But gymnastics? Gym-
nastics is the same.
Gymnastics is still the sport of
tough, tiny athletes who push their
boundaries to their absolute limits.
Hurd moved to the senior level in
2017, taking sixth at the national
championships before upsetting the
field and winning the world champi-
onships in the all-around last year.
She’s been outspoken about her re-
solve to continue to compete in the
face of Nassar’s crimes.
The United States’ dominance in
gymnastics has not waned. Gymnasts
like Hurd, O’Keefe and Ragan Smith,
the U.S. all-around champion who was
injured in warm-ups at the 2017
worlds, still have Olympic gold as their
goal.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone was a part of the peak in the rivalry in 2003 when he played in 54 games and the playoffs
for the Yankees. JONATHAN DYER/USA TODAY SPORTS
deeper roots in far more places than the
Bronx. His grandfather, Ray Boone, had
played briefly for the Red Sox and then
served as a scout for the organization for
30 years. If Boone is hard not to like, in-
serting himself into this rivalry again cer-
tain is a good way to help the dislike grow.
As he sat in the dugout before the Yan-
kees won a Grapefruit League game over
the Red Sox 5-3, he sounded hopeful.
“Maybe I’m delusional,” Boone said. “I
mean, honestly I’ve been treated well.
They’ve won three championships since
those days. I think it always feels a little
more good-natured. That’s maybe by the
wayside now that I’m back here. I’ve al-
ways enjoyed going to Boston. I know a
number of people from (Red Sox CEO)
Sam Kennedy on down. So the organiza-
tion has treated me well. I’ve had for the
most part good dealings.”
Fair enough. But that was in the broad-
cast booth or stopping in with the Cleve-
land Indians. But that will be tested now
as Boone is managing the Yankees with
both teams entering the season with high
Teams scurrying to find next Foles
Lindsay H. Jones
USA TODAY
INDIANAPOLIS – A handful of NFL
teams arrived at the scouting combine
this week looking for a starting quar-
terback. Yet plenty of others are now
asking themselves if they need to find
a better backup.
They can thank the Philadelphia
Eagles and their understudy-turned-
Super-Bowl-MVP Nick Foles for this
newfound quarterback dilemma.
The Eagles proved that with the
right roster, coaching staff and, yes, a
reliable Plan B QB, a season doesn’t
have to be lost even if the team's top
passer is. And in a league famous for a
copycat mentality of successful for-
mulas, bolstering the backup role sud-
denly seems like a more urgent matter.
“I think it's really hard for quarter-
backs to stay healthy for 16 games. It's
a physical game. These guys are taking
some shots and, a lot of times, they
don't see them coming," said Miami
Dolphins coach Adam Gase said.
“If we can get into a situation where
we have two guys that we feel confi-
dent about, that's going to benefit us."
Gase's team saw its 2017 season de-
railed before it truly began when quar-
terback Ryan Tannehill suffered a torn
anterior cruciate ligament during a
non-contact play in training camp.
While the Dolphins had confidence in
backup Matt Moore, who went 2-1
down the stretch in 2016 and got the
team into the playoffs, Miami opted to
lure Jay Cutler out of his brief retire-
ment last summer to replace Tanne-
hill. But the move failed, with the Fins
finishing 6-10.
Now Gase and Co. are counting on
Tannehill’s return but also considering
the addition of another quarterback,
perhaps a rookie early in the draft.
But finding another Foles won't be
an easy task.
Case Keenum, a journeyman who
had his best season in 2017 after be-
coming the starter in Minnesota, isn’t
likely to sign somewhere to be a back-
up after leading the Vikings to the NFC
Championship Game. AJ McCarron
went 2-1 in relief of injured Bengals
expectations, the sort of expectations
that can raise the temperature of the ri-
valry once again.
It may not surface on a day like this, a
sunny 77 degree afternoon in spring
training when many of the Yankees who
will figure most prominently in the rivalry
were left back in Tampa. There was no
Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton or Gary
Sanchez, not even Russell Wilson sent on
the two-hour bus ride south for this
game.
It wasn’t CC Sabathia or Masahiro Ta-
naka on the mound for the Yankees, in-
stead sending Chance Adams down to
make the start. If it was an opportunity
for Boone to give a break to some of his
stars, it also gave him a chance to give
some of the younger players a hint of
what the rivalry would be like - even if the
crowd at JetBlue Park seemed more in-
terested in the pricy lobster rolls than in
booing the Yankees. The loud singalong
with Sweet Caroline was as close to reg-
ular season as it got.
“I think there’s something to that,”
Nick Foles celebrates with daughter Lily after leading the Eagles to victory last
month in the Super Bowl. MARK J. REBILAS/USA TODAY SPORTS
starter Andy Dalton in 2015 and nearly
led Cincinnati past the Steelers in post-
season. But McCarron didn’t fight to hit
free agency this year only to hold anoth-
er clipboard.
A good backup also doesn't come
cheaply (or without risk). Mike Glennon
signed a three-year, $45 million deal
with the Chicago Bears last year, essen-
tially to be a bridge quarterback — ulti-
mately to subsequently drafted Mitchell
Trubisky. But Glennon bombed in four
starts before giving way to the rookie
and will be released when the NFL's
league year begins.
Foles was obviously a far better in-
vestment, signing a two-year, $11 million
contract ($7 million guaranteed) last
year as Philadelphia's Carson Wentz in-
surance policy, which ultimately paid
off so handsomely. And, in the grand
scheme, that deal pales to the going rate
for starting quarterbacks, which now
exceeds $25 million annually.
Boone said. “I think anyone who comes
up with this organization understands
the Red Sox-Yankee thing. So I do think
it’s good experience for those guys. But
you don’t get too far ahead of yourself ei-
ther. You do understand that it’s early
March and today is just another day in
our process of being ready in a few
weeks.”
But in April when the Yankees head to
Boston for the first meeting, the friend-
ship between Red Sox rookie manager
Alex Cora and Boone, former co-workers
as analysts at ESPN, not to mention the
Red Sox fans and Boone the mood figures
to shift.
“Hopefully (it will be) fun,” Boone said.
“And hopefully they are meaningful
games because of where we’ll be and
they’ll be in the standings. That’s the
goal. We understand that they’re one of
the elite teams in the league that’s going
to create a great challenge. So hopefully,
all year long they’re meaningful games as
a result of where both of us hopefully are
in the standings.”
"You’ve got to have one to win, and
they’re hard to find. They’re an asset,"
said Chargers general manager Tom
Telesco. "The Eagles did a great job hav-
ing a quarterback like Nick Foles come
in and play the way he did. We all try and
do that.
"We all try and have a backup quar-
terback that’s good enough to come in
and take you to the promised land. It’s
hard to do, but it’s all of our goals to have
that guy. The supply isn’t as always as
big as you’d like.”
The Chargers have relied on veteran
Kellen Clemens for years behind Philip
Rivers, who has started 192 consecutive
regular-season games, now the longest
active streak in the NFL. But this could
finally be the year Telesco seriously
looks at an upgrade behind Rivers while
maybe finding a potential successor.
“With the quarterback position,
you’re always looking,” he said.

Thomas sets course record at
WGC-Mexico Championship
Steve DiMeglio
USA TODAY
MEXICO CITY – Golf is a funny game.
Justin Thomas, a winner of last
week’s Honda Classic and the No. 3-
ranked player in the world, was totally
lost in Thursday’s first round of the
World Golf Championships-Mexico
Championship, saying afterward that
he felt helpless and had never felt worse
standing over the ball.
On Friday, he found something on the
practice range.
On Saturday, he set the course rec-
ord.
Thomas, the reigning FedExCup
champion and PGA Tour player of the
year, made eight birdies and an eagle to
offset a lone bogey en route to a 9-un-
der-par 62 at the Club de Golf Chapulte-
pec. Jordan Spieth held the previous
course record with a 63 in last year’s
third round of the WGC-Mexico Cham-
pionship.
“Obviously, it was a great day,”
Thomas said. “Who knows what’s going
to happen, but I’m definitely moving in
the right direction.”
Thomas, who started the sun-
splashed day on the 10th tee and 11 shots
out of the lead, has a chance to win his
eighth title in his last 31 PGA Tour starts
as he stood four shots behind pace-set-
ter Shubhankar Sharma through 54
holes.
While he did his best work of the
week in the third round, Thomas started
moving in the right direction Friday af-
ter a phone call to his father, Mike, a PGA
professional and his son’s coach. Thom-
as sent his father videos of his swing
and then put in a longer practice session
before the second round.
“I don’t think I’ve ever done that dur-
ing a tournament,” said Thomas, who is
seeking his first WGC title. “My dad, as
sad as it is, was making fun of me be-
cause I called him and I said, ‘I’m going
out to practice,’ and he said, ‘I’ve never
heard you say I’m going out to practice
Fans support NASCAR’s
relationship with the NRA
Mike Hembree
USA TODAY
LAS VEGAS – Five months after the
Las Vegas Boulevard shooting that
killed 58 people and sent the nation into
another round — and not the last — of
gun-control debate, visitors still walk by
the Mandalay Bay hotel/casino and stop
to look at the 32nd-floor window where
the gunman perched.
Some take photos.
This week, NASCAR fans in town for
Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway have joined the curious as
they visit the Vegas Strip and wonder
about sudden violence on a huge and
largely inexplicable scale.
“It makes it even more real to see the
place where it happened,” said Nancy
Willimon, a fan from Phoenix. “You
think about stuff like that and that it can
never happen where you are, but it
seems so random now. It’s still hard to
imagine what happened here.”
The latest mass shooting, Feb. 14 at a
high school in Parkland, Fla., marked a
turning point of sorts on one front of the
gun discussion. Several companies
have cut financial ties with the National
Rifle Association, and some stores that
sell guns have announced changes in
their policies.
The debate touched the NASCAR
world. The NRA is a co-sponsor, along
with Bass Pro Shops, of the Aug. 18 Mon-
ster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at
Bristol Motor Speedway.
BMS officials say they have no inten-
tion of dropping the NRA as a sponsor.
“This has been a good long-standing
partnership and we plan to continue,”
the track said in a statement.
The NRA has had a presence in NAS-
CAR circles for years. It has co-spon-
sored Bristol’s popular night race since
2016 and has been a financial contrib-
utor to Speedway Children’s Charities, a
Charlotte-based motorsports charity.
After 26 people were killed by a gun-
man at a church in rural Texas last No-
vember, Texas Motor Speedway, which
held a NASCAR race the same day,
Justin Thomas made eight birdies and an eagle to offset a lone bogey on Saturday. ORLANDO RAMIREZ/USA TODAY SPORTS
instead of warm up before a tourna-
ment.’ There’s a difference.”
And it certainly made a difference.
He and his father figured out that Thom-
as’ arms were going away from his body
on the downswing, something he said
he’s never done before, and he spent 40
minutes hitting golf balls trying to have
his arms hug his body on the down-
swing.
“I’ve always been pretty good at being
able to figure something out, just finding
some way to get it around, and I just was
having a hard time with that Thursday,”
said Thomas, who won five times last
Kyle Busch celebrates after winning the 2017 race at Bristol Motor Speedway,
sponsored by Bass Pro Shops and the National Rifle Association.
RANDY SARTIN/USA TODAY
changed its victory lane procedures to
eliminate the traditional firing of hand-
guns by the race winner. Track Presi-
dent Eddie Gossage said he made the
change out of respect for the victims.
A TMS official said Friday there are
no plans to eliminate the celebratory
gun firings from future victory lane cer-
emonies at the Fort Worth speedway.
The NRA also has been a TMS race
sponsor.
Fans in Las Vegas for this week’s race
generally support racing’s relationship
with the NRA.
“I don’t know that anything needs to
change,” said Bobby Hines, a Denny
Hamlin fan from Tulsa. “I know every-
body doesn’t like the NRA, but they do
some good things as far as gun safety
and the like. I don’t see any reason why
NASCAR shouldn’t be involved with
them. Ending that sponsorship won’t
change anything in the wider world.”
James Contresas, 19, of Henderson,
Nev., a Las Vegas suburb, said he was
saddened by the Parkland school shoot-
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season and has two wins this season.
“But then that practice session yester-
day helped me out a little bit to where I
hit some better shots in the second
round, and then today I finally hit some
nice solid irons.”
And a pretty good 5-wood, too. He
used the club to drive the 316-yard first
hole — his 10th of the day — and then
canned a 25-footer for eagle. He said his
best swing of the day — and the tourna-
ment — came on the par-3 seventh
when he hit a 6-iron from 235 yards out
to 9 feet and made the birdie putt.
Now that Thomas has adjusted his
ing.
“I agree that we need some kind of
change as far as controlling what peo-
ple get what kinds of guns,” he said.
“But I don’t know that having the NRA
involved in NASCAR has anything to
do with that one way or the other. It’s
tough to see those kids and those fam-
ilies go through that, but I don’t see a
real connection between the two.”
Sacramento resident Lillie Hender-
son, who described herself as a “life-
long Kevin Harvick fan,” said mass
shootings have changed her thinking
on guns but not to the extent that dra-
matic changes are needed.
“I don’t see the need for people to
have these military-type weapons,
and with the number of shootings
we’ve had something needs to be
done,” she said. “But I don’t think we
need to upset the whole apple cart. I’m
not sure how I feel about the NRA, but I
don’t know that they should be chased
out of the sport.”
swing, he has revised his goals.
“With how I hit it Thursday and Fri-
day, it was kind of hard to say let’s go out
and post a low one because I really
didn’t have very much control of my
game,” Thomas said of his thoughts be-
fore the third round. “I was kind of tell-
ing myself I’d have liked to get it to 10
under somehow by the end of the tour-
nament. Got a pretty good jump start on
that.
“I may have to reset that goal a little
bit.”
BRIEFS
FIFA panel adds video review to
soccer laws ahead of World Cup
ZURICH – FIFA’s rule-making panel
approved adding video review to the
laws of soccer on Saturday, clearing
the way for its use at the World Cup in
June. The panel, known as IFAB, voted
unanimously to begin updating the
game’s written rules to include video
assistant referees (VAR).
The decision “represents a new era
for football with video assistance for
referees helping to increase integrity
and fairness in the game,” the panel
said in a statement.
FIFA must take a further decision on
using VAR at the World Cup in Russia,
which kicks off June 14.
Neymar undergoes successful
surgery on injured right foot
SAO PAULO – Neymar has success-
fully undergone surgery on his injured
right foot, the Brazilian soccer confed-
eration said Saturday.
The 26-year-old Paris Saint-Ger-
main and Brazil forward was injured
Feb. 25 in a French league game
against Marseille.
Neymar was signed by PSG for a
world record 222 million euros ($260
million) from Barcelona last year. The
operation was to repair a cracked fifth
metatarsal in his right foot.
Larson rolls to Xfinity Series win
at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
LAS VEGAS – Kyle Larson over-
came strong wind and two late restarts
Saturday to win the NASCAR Xfinity
Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speed-
way. Larson earned his ninth career
Xfinity victory and his first in Vegas,
where he finished second in the Xfinity
and Cup series races last year.
The 25-year-old Californian
claimed the lead early on in his Chip
Ganassi Racing Chevrolet, and avoid-
ed any late-race fuel trouble when
Ryan Reed blew a tire with 16 laps to go.
Christopher Bell finished second in
his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, and Jus-
tin Allgaier was third. Ryan Blaney, the
pole-sitter for Sunday’s Monster Ener-
gy Cup series race, came in fourth
ahead of Elliott Sadler in fifth.
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