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Water main break moves 22 MSU students to hotels

Break occurred late Friday night; 14 rooms still closed
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
A water main break in a
Mississippi State University
residence hall on Friday tem-
porarily moved 22 students to
hotels in Starkville.
A pipe in Oak Hall broke
around 8 p.m. Friday and
forced the building to close
overnight for repairs, MSU
Chief Communications Offi-
cer Sid Salter said. Students
were moved to the Hilton Gar-
den Inn and LaQuinta Inn and
Suites, both on Highway 12
north of campus. Repairing
the pipes shut off the water
for the entirety of Oak Hall,
disabling the fire suppression
system and requiring students
to evacuate, Salter said.
ity to hold 382 students, Salter
said, but did not say exactly
Oak Hall re- how many evacuated Friday
night.
opened Saturday
Several MSU students are
with the excep-
already staying in one of two
tions of 14 dam-
hotels the university rented for
aged rooms, and the fall semester, the Comfort
Salter
the 22 students in Suites on Russell Street and
those rooms are the Hampton Inn on Black-
still in the hotels, with no pre- jack Road to use as quarantine
dicted return date as of Sun- sites for positive COVID-19
day, Salter said. coronavirus cases. Last week
The dormitory has a capac- MSU reported 70 positive cas-
es among students after one
week of classes.
This is also not the first time
the university has had to close
residence halls in recent years
due to water main damage. In
January 2018, before students
had returned to campus for
the spring semester, the uni-
versity temporarily closed two
residence halls — Davenport
and Dogwood halls — due to
a water main break near the
buildings.

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to revise parole Keeping schools flowing smoothly
survives despite Summerville, ‘dedicated staff’ keep on top of school
cleaning through storms and pandemics
gov’s veto
‘Multiple bills that would BY ISABELLE ALTMAN

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W
hen Susie Summerville first started as
offender laws did not make head of Columbus Municipal School
District’s custodial services, she found
it past the finish line this a picture of herself in the hallway of what was
session and another bill that then Lee Middle School.
Summerville had graduated from Lee when it
would have reformed parole was a high school, and the senior year portraits of
her and her fellow classmates were still on display
for up to 2,000 prisoners 25 years later.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s still here,’” she
was vetoed by Gov. Tate recalled. “And then I went and saw some trophies
... from my class. They had a big trophy case and
Reeves. That shouldn’t be stuff, so I was like, ‘My God, that brings back
memories.’”
the last word. We know That was 15 years ago. Since then Lee has
been sold, and the district’s middle schoolers now
much needs to be done.’ attend Columbus Middle School on the other side
The Center for Public Policy
of town. Summerville works in that building, as
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS well as Columbus High School where her office
is, each of the six elementary schools and every
JACKSON — Mississip- other CMSD building, managing 30 custodial and
pi Gov. Tate Reeves killed a maintenance employees and working to keep the
bill but not an idea when he schools clean and safe for students and teachers.
vetoed the Mississippi Cor- See SUMMERVILLE, 6A
rectional Safety and Reha-
bilitation Act of 2020, which
would have made more in-
mates eligible for the possi-
bility of parole. Reeves
Advocates for criminal
justice changes are still saying Mississip-
pi needs to ease the moral and financial
burden of a prison system that is the sub-
ject of multiple lawsuits over safety and
sanitation and that is under investigation
by the U.S. Justice Department.
The push for change is coming from
groups across the political spectrum,
including the liberal Poor People’s Cam-
paign and the libertarian Mississippi Cen-
ter for Public Policy.
In an email last week, the Center for
Public Policy wrote about Mississippi
habitual-offender laws that keep people
imprisoned for years. It cited the case of
Tameka Drummer, who received a life
sentence in 2008 after she was pulled
over for an expired license plate in Alcorn
County and officers found a small amount
of marijuana in her car. Drummer was
sentenced as a habitual offender because
of previous convictions.
“Multiple bills that would have impact-
ed habitual offender laws did not make it Antranik Tavitian/Dispatch Staff
past the finish line this session and anoth- TOP PHOTO: Susie Summerville, the custodial supervisor for Columbus Municipal School District, poses for a
er bill that would have reformed parole for portrait on Friday at Brandon Central Services. Summerville has worked at CMSD for 15 years, overseeing 30
up to 2,000 prisoners was vetoed by Gov. custodial and maintenance employees whose duties have increased this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tate Reeves,” the center wrote. “That
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State police returning to Portland
Decision was made
after a deadly shooting
during a dispute
between protesters
and counter-protesters
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon
State Police will return to Portland
to help local authorities after the
fatal shooting of a man following
clashes between President Donald
Trump supporters and counter-pro-
testers that led to an argument be-
tween the president and the city’s
mayor over who was to blame for
the violence.
Protesters were back on the
streets for a demonstration Sun-
day night outside a public safety
building. Police declared an unlaw-
ful assembly and detained several
people after saying protesters were
seen throwing projectiles.
After Trump called Ted Wheel-
er, a Democrat, a “fool” and faulted
him for allowing mayhem to prolif-
erate in the liberal city, the visibly
angry mayor lashed out at the pres-
ident during a Sunday news confer-
ence, addressing him in the first
person through the TV cameras.
“That’s classic Trump. Mr.
President, how can you think that a
comment like that, if you’re watch-
ing this, is in any way helpful? It’s
an aggressive stance, it is not col-
laborative. I certainly reached out,
I believe in a collaborative manner,
by saying earlier that you need to
do your part and I need to do my
part and then we both need to be
held accountable,” Wheeler said.
“Let’s work together...Why don’t
we try that for a change?”
The testy news conference fol-
lowed a chaotic 24 hours in Port-
land that began when Saturday
evening when a caravan of about
600 vehicles packed with Trump
supporters drove through the lib-
eral city and was met with counter-
protesters. Skirmishes broke out
between the groups and, about 15
minutes after the caravan left the
city, a supporter of the right-wing
group Patriot Prayer was fatally
shot.
Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gib-
son identified the victim as Aaron
“Jay” Danielson. He called the
victim a “good friend,” but provid-
ed no further details. Danielson
apparently also went by the name
Jay Bishop, according to Patriot
Prayer’s Facebook page.
“We love Jay and he had such a
huge heart. God bless him and the
life he lived,” Gibson said in a Face-
book post.
Trump retweeted the victim’s
name and wrote, “Rest in peace
Jay!”
It wasn’t clear if the shooting was
related to the clashes in Portland,
which has become a flashpoint in
the national Black Lives Matter
protests since George Floyd was
killed in May and an increasing
centerpiece in Trump’s law-and-
order re-election campaign theme.
Late Sunday Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown released details of a plan to
address the violence in Portland
while protecting free speech. She
said the district attorney’s office
in Multnomah County, which in-
cludes Portland, will prosecute
serious criminal offenses and the
sheriff’s office will work with oth-
er agencies to hold people arrest-
ed for violent behavior and ensure
there is adequate jail space.
Also, Brown said Oregon State
Police will return to Portland to
help local police, and nearby law
enforcement agencies will also be
asked to assist.
“We all must come together—
elected officials, community lead-
ers, all of us—to stop the cycle of
violence,” the Democrat said in a
statement.
Trump and other speakers at
last week’s Republican National
Convention evoked a violent, dys-
topian future if Democratic pres-
idential hopeful Joe Biden wins in
November and pointed to Portland
as a cautionary tale for what would
be in store for Americans.
Police have released little infor-
mation about the fatal shooting and
Chief Chuck Lovell said Sunday
that investigators are still gather-
ing evidence, including surveil-
lance video from area businesses.
Earlier, the agency released a plea
for any information related to the
killing, including videos, photos or
eyewitness accounts.
Patriot Prayer is based in Wash-
ington state and was founded in
2016. Since early 2017, its support-
ers have been periodically com-
ing to Portland to hold rallies for
Trump, ratcheting up tensions long
before the national outrage over
Floyd’s death sparked more than
three months of protests here.
Portland has seen nearly 100
consecutive nights of Black Lives
Matter protests and many have
ended with vandalism to federal
and city property, including police
precincts, a county jail, the federal
courthouse and City Hall. In July,
Trump sent more than 100 federal
agents from the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security to safeguard
federal property — a move that in-
stead reinvigorated the protests.
Thousands of people clashed
with the federal agents each night
for two weeks, as agents lobbed
tear gas canisters and pepper spray
at the crowds and some protesters
tossed fireworks at the agents and
shined lasers in their eyes.
Those agents withdrew July 31
but smaller nightly protests have
continued in pockets of the city.
More than 600 people have been
arrested since late May.
On Sunday, Portland authorities
urged people to stay away from the
downtown as they try to de-esca-
late tensions.
Trump earlier Sunday appeared
to be encouraging his supporters
to move into Portland in the wake
of the shooting. After the shooting,
the president shared a video of his
supporters driving into Portland
and called those in Saturday’s cara-
van “GREAT PATRIOTS!”
Wheeler begged those who
wanted to come to Portland to
“seek retribution” to stay away.
“If you’re from out of town and
you’re reading something on social
media — if you’re reading any facts
on social media — they’re probably
wrong because we don’t have all
the facts yet,” Wheeler said. “This
is not the time to get hotheaded be-
cause you read something on Twit-
ter that some guy made up in his
mother’s basement.”

Patriot Prayer no
stranger to protests
in Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore. —
The man who was fatally
shot in Portland, Oregon,
as supporters of President
Donald Trump skirmished
with Black Lives Matter
protesters was a support-
er of a right-wing group
called Patriot Prayer,
which doesn’t have a big
national footprint but is
well known in the Pacific
Northwest.
Patriot Prayer’s found-
er, Joey Gibson, has held
pro-Trump rallies repeat-
edly in Portland and oth-
er cities since 2016. The
events have drawn coun-
terprotesters from around
the region and had height-
ened tensions in Portland
long before Black Lives
Matter demonstrators
began nearly 100 days of
nightly protests over the
police killing of George
Floyd.
The shooting victim
was identified by Gibson
as Aaron “Jay” Danielson
of Portland. Photos taken
of the body show he was
wearing a Patriot Prayer
hat. Police have released
few details and pleaded
with the public on Sun-
day to come forward with
any information about the
shooting.
Danielson also went by
the name Jay Bishop, ac-
cording to a statement on
Patriot Prayer’s Facebook
page.
Gibson, a one-time Sen-
ate candidate, founded
Patriot Prayer in 2016. In
past interviews with The
Associated Press, Gibson
has said he and his group
are not a hate group and
simply want to exercise
their freedom of speech
without interference from
left-wing groups or pro-
testers.
The group became a
prominent presence in
Portland in the summer
of 2017, when Gibson or-
ganized a large rally in the
city less than a week after
a white supremacist fatally
stabbed two men who had
come to the defense of two
Black teenagers — includ-
ing one wearing a Muslim
head-covering — on a
light-rail train.
The defendant Jeremy
Christian, who was sen-
tenced to two consecutive
life sentences earlier this
year, had attended a Pa-
triot Prayer rally several
months before, but was
kicked out by organizers
for flashing Nazi hand
signs.
Patriot Prayer held sev-
eral other marches and
rallies in Portland in 2017
and 2018 and Gibson was
arrested for felony rioting
last summer on a charge
related to a brawl that
broke out between the
group’s supporters and
left-wing activists at a pub
after a May Day march in
the city.
He has pleaded not
guilty; a judge this week
denied his motion for a
change of venue at trial, ac-
cording to court records.
In a video that was
live-streamed on Face-
book last summer after
he was released on bail,
Gibson urged his support-
ers to “show up one hun-
dred-fold” at a rally sched-
uled for the following day
in Portland that was orga-
nized by the Proud Boys
— a group that’s been des-
ignated as a hate group by
the Southern Poverty Law
Center — and other right-
wing groups such as the
Three Percenters and the
American Guard.
Gibson told the AP he
was again present late Sat-
urday in Portland when
a caravan of about 600
Trump supporters drove
through the city, sparking
clashes in the streets with
Black Lives Matter dem-
onstrators.
SOURCE: AP

In aftermath of Hurricane Laura,
residents worry about help
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKE CHARLES, La. — In a mat-
ter of hours last week, Hurricane Lau-
ra tore through the tire shop Layla
Winbush’s family started just under a
year ago, reducing most of it to rubble
and scattering hundreds of tires across
the lot. The storm also damaged her
home, which now reeks of mold.
Federal and state officials are now
on the ground to help residents with
home repairs and hotel stays. But
Winbush said she feels alone, particu-
larly after seeing a video of President
Donald Trump, who visited the area
Saturday, joking with Gulf Coast offi-
cials that they could sell copies of his
signature for $10,000.
“We can’t depend on the president.
We can’t depend on nobody,” she said.
“We’ll just take what we have and get
it done.”
As evacuated Lake Charles resi-
dents began returning home, many
worried that they wouldn’t have
enough support from the both the
federal and state governments as they
face a rebuilding process certain to
take several months, if not longer.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards
on Sunday warned that residents were
in for a long recovery.
“We’re going to be working really,
really hard on the power outages, on
the water systems, on the housing,” he
said at a news conference. “But none of
this is going to be easy. It’s not going
to happen as quickly as most people
would like for sure.”
Crews were starting to take chain
saws to fallen trees and patch roofs, but
most homes in Lake Charles wrecked
by the storm were still untouched. The
Category 4 hurricane, which made
landfall Thursday just south of Lake
Charles near Cameron, Louisiana,
before abating nearly 12 hours later,
packed 150-mph (240-kph) winds and
a storm surge that officials said was as
high as 15 feet (4.5 meters) in some
areas.
So far 18 deaths in Texas and Lou-
isiana have been attributed to the
storm; more than half of those people
were killed by carbon monoxide poi-
soning from the unsafe operation of
generators.
The Federal Emergency Manage-
AROUND THE STATE
Police: Mississippi
child, mother shot
while on zoo trip
JACKSON — A 6 -year-
old girl who was on a trip
to visit the Jackson Zoo
with her mother and
another man has been
hospitalized for gunshot
wounds after she and her
mother were shot inside
a hotel room by the man.
Jackson Police De-
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‘I’m just going to sit here and do what I can do.
Maybe I’ll make it, maybe I won’t.’
ment Agency sent hundreds of work-
ers to the region to help with search
and rescue and other efforts. As of
Sunday, more than 52,500 people had
applied for FEMA assistance, and the
agency had conducted over 200 home
inspections and distributed more than
$650,000 in assistance, said Tony Rob-
inson, FEMA’s administrator for the
region. The Louisiana National Guard,
meanwhile, had handed out hundreds
of thousands of bottles of water and
meals and about 14,000 tarps, the gov-
ernor said.
But the needs were substantial. In
hard-hit Calcasieu Parish, some wait-
ed hours in line for tarps, water and
other supplies at distribution sites,
said parish spokesperson Tom Hoefer.
The entire parish had been without
power, and in many areas, including
the parish seat of Lake Charles that’s
home to more than 78,000 people, wa-
ter had not been flowing from taps, he
said. Several residents Sunday said
the water supply was still intermittent.
Crews will have to rebuild hun-
dreds of transmission towers along
with resetting downed power poles
and lines, clearing debris and assess-
ing damage, said Scott Aaronson, vice
president of security and prepared-
ness for the Edison Electric Institute,
the association of investor-owned elec-
tric companies in the U.S. The associ-
ation said roughly 409,000 customers
were still without power late Sunday as
a result of the storm.
Many people in Lake Charles were
still staying outside town, but James
Townley said he would remain in his
home, as he did during the storm.
The front of his trailer had been
blown away, leaving a single toilet ex-
posed to the elements.
Townley lay on a sofa in front of a
fan — connected to a neighbor’s gen-
erator — circulating hot, humid air.
The 56-year-old’s shirt was off, reveal-
ing scars from the open-heart surgery
he had several years ago. He said he
was out of medication for his heart and
kidneys and had requested aid from
FEMA — but not heard back.
partment Spokesman Braggs, 19, was shot in
Sam Brown said the ear- the shoulder at the hotel,
ly Sunday shooting in a Holiday Inn Express
Jackson was a result of & Suites. After shooting
a domestic dispute be- her and her daughter,
tween the girl’s mother, Perkins, 26, killed him-
Marlanque Braggs, and
self with a gunshot to the
Myles Perkins, the Clar-
ion Ledger reported. head, police said.
The three had trav- Police had no informa-
eled from north Missis- tion on the conditions of
sippi to Jackson for the the girl and her mother,
zoo visit, according to the newspaper reported.
police. SOURCE: AP
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Lakes Charles resident, James Townley
“I’m just going to sit here and do
what I can do,” he said. “Maybe I’ll
make it, maybe I won’t.”
One silver pickup truck winding
through Lake Charles’ streets carried
four generations of a single family —
six people inside the cab and three rid-
ing on the flatbed along with suitcases
and bags filled with belongings. The
family was visiting the homes where
they each lived for the first time since
the storm, assessing what they had
lost and what had been spared.
Driving the pickup was 53-year-
old Patricia Mingo Lavergne. She
was worried about how her home had
fared, but also where everyone would
sleep Sunday night.
When Lavergne parked outside the
house she shares with her husband,
a duplex just north of the train tracks
bisecting the city, several family mem-
bers began to pray and wipe away
tears.
The pecan tree that long shaded
her front yard had cracked and fallen
in front of the front door. Insulation
had burst through the ceiling and fall-
en in tufts over one bedroom. In an-
other room, she pulled out two draw-
ers filled with neatly folded clothes
saved for her daughter’s child, due in
January. She wiped a mix of sweat and
tears with her shirt.
Eventually, everyone in the family
was able to find a place to stay. They
have requested help from FEMA, but
Lavergne said she didn’t have a check-
ing account in which to receive federal
money.
“It’s frustrating,” she said. “I’ve
already been going through a lot and
this is a lot more on my shoulders.”
Winbush, 19, and her family were
staying with relatives in Beaumont,
Texas, over an hour’s drive away. Her
mother, Monique Benjamin, stood
with Winbush and two of her siblings
in front of what was left of the tire shop.
Benjamin and Winbush stayed
cheerful as they described all the ser-
vices the shop offered and the success-
es they had building it. The business is
insured.
Tues.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020 3A
Julia Reed,
chronicler of
Southern life
and food,
dies at 59
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREENVILLE— Julia Reed, who
wrote about food and culture in the
South and promoted her native Missis-
sippi Delta, has died. She was 59.
Reed died Friday of cancer, the edi-
tors of Garden & Gun magazine said in
a post on the magazine’s website. She
was a contributing editor to the maga-
zine, which chronicles life and culture
in the South, and had written numer-
ous books about the region, including
one about drinking and dining in New
Orleans.
In a tribute on the magazine’s web-
site, historian Jon Meacham described
her as a “tsunami of talent, charm, and
energy.”
“She could write about anything and
make it sing,” he said. “Her distinc-
tive voice was at once affectionate and
arch—a tough combination to pull off.”
Reed grew up in Greenville, Missis-
sippi, before embarking on a writing
career that took her to Washington,
D.C., New York and New Orleans. She
attended parties with the likes of for-
mer Secretary of State and Army Gen.
Colin Powell and former Vice President
Al Gore, but was a champion of her
native Mississippi, according to Mea-
cham.
She built a house near her parents
in Greenville and turned a local tama-
le festival into a gathering of writers,
chefs and artists to raise money for af-
fordable housing and development.
The governor of Mississippi and the
state’s Arts Commission named her a
cultural ambassador in 2019 in part for
her work with the festival, according to
Meacham.
A chapter in her book, “Julia Reed’s
South,” eventually led her to dedicate
an entire book on how to party and dine
in New Orleans, The Times Picayune/
New Orleans Advocate reported. She
called it “Julia Reed’s New Orleans:
Food, Fun and Field Trips for Letting
the Good Times Roll.”
In addition, Reed served on the
board of the Ogden Museum of Art in
New Orleans, the newspaper said.
Opinion
4A MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020
POSSUMHAW
The eastern
horse lubber
“The heaven of a grass-
hopper is the wheat field,
the heaven of man is the
same place, the very earth
itself where we get our food
and build our happiness.”
Mehmet Murat Ildan,
Turkish novelist and play-
wright
It seemed a long time
since we’d seen rain falling
across the fields or rain- Shannon Bardwell
drops dimpling the surface
of the lakes. Watching the hurricanes and tropical
storms develop we were hoping we might get a
slow gentle rain while not causing harm anywhere
else. The misting started last Tuesday. I spent
the morning running around collecting grocery
items, particularly fruits and vegetables. They run
out quickly. The checkout girl said she didn’t care
for pineapple and never had. I told her once you
stop eating sugary desserts, pineapple is amply
sweet as is the cantaloupe. She said she’d stopped
drinking cokes. She liked almond milk and water
to drink, but she still ate raisin bran: “It should be
pretty good for you, shouldn’t it?”
On the drive home the rain misted, then picked
up to a slight rain, then stopped altogether again.
The groceries were put away. Sam had washed a
load of clothes, dried, folded and put them away.
Afterwards, he stood at the window looking out
over the field, saying, “I wonder if I could get some
bushhogging in before the rain comes solid?”
Slowly he picked up the tractor keys, headed to the
tractor shed and out to the field.
I took the opportunity to check the perennial
garden and the flowerbeds. I’d been watering and
noticed the trees were suffering. Leaves were pale
and dust-covered from dirt kicked up on the gravel
road. Even the lake had a slight dust cover over
the surface. The crepe myrtle was losing leaves,
and they were falling into the goldfish pond. A rain
would be a good thing.
Opening the door to the greenhouse, I caught
movement out of the corner of my eye, something
dark. I looked carefully, not wanting to tangle with
a snake, a field mouse or anything creepy. Then I
spotted the creature. The largest grasshopper I’d
ever seen. He had remarkable colorings. I took off
to the house and returned with the phone, hoping
he’d still be there so I could get a picture. He was.
While I tried to move in close, he’d move away but
didn’t hop or fly. As I hovered over him my biggest
fear was he’d hop into my face. Mercifully, he
didn’t.
From the photograph, I was able to identify my
grasshopper as a “horse lubber.” They pretty much
reside all over the Southeast, varying slightly in
coloration. My horse lubber is black, with yellow
and red markings. He has pink wings he uses to
scare off predators by waving them around. The
horse lubber cannot fly, so he moves about walk-
ing, crawling and with short clumsy hops. This
would explain why my grasshopper remained right
where I left him. If you pick one up, they will hiss
and spit. Don’t do it. Males can grow to 4 inches.
Their habitat of choice is “weedy vegetation” and
“weedy fields,” which would explain why he had
chosen the Prairie homestead.
Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of Columbus at
msdeltachild@cdispatch.com.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Deeply troubled by continued
shootings
I abhor violence. I cannot
condone destruction of property.
There should be another way to
get one’s point across — and, in
fact, there always is. But let’s con-
sider some reality here, at least,
before we lock our minds down for
good.
Jacob Blake, a Black man, gets
shot in the back seven times from
as close a range as I can imagine.
While walking away. In front of
his 3 kids. He’s now paralyzed.
Does it really matter, given those
circumstances, that there may
have been a knife in his car? It
was not in his hand. Contrast with
Kyle Whittenhouse, the 17-year-
old white teen from Illinois who
was able to walk down the street
in Kenosha with his AR-15, shoot
three, and kill two. Video appears
to show Kenosha police driving
past Rittenhouse just after the
shooting, with his hands up, gun
visible, and driving on. He is now
still alive. The contrast is so stark
-— and flies in the face of logic. Of
the two, who was the more credi-
ble threat?
I am not a religious person, but
I was raised to know moral right
from wrong. This is so clearly
wrong. How is it that many are
more concerned about the violence
to property — as bad as that is —
than the consistent and dispropor-
tionate violence to Black people?!
Am I just a bleeding-heart liber-
al? Does that explain the tears on
my cheeks as I write this? Or am I
just a typical human showing nor-
mal human compassion to others
who so often don’t get it? It seems
so obvious to me it is the latter.
I sincerely hope voters do not
use the regrettable but relatively
small amount of property destruc-
tion in the face of the consistent
violence and disproportionate
violence to Blacks to justify their
vote to re-elect President Trump.
This is Trump’s America right
now — not Joe Biden’s. If they
do, I predict a re-elected Trump
will crash immediately through
the few remaining guard rails in
his way, furthering our dizzying
progression as a nation to full-on
autocracy. So much for no man
being above the law.
If I am right, then we will have
led ourselves into this trap, and
those who kept Trump in power
will have gotten not what they
deserved, but certainly what
they should have been cognizant
enough to foresee.
I cannot, in good conscience,
watch this happen without at-
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tempting to persuade those who to mislead. First, the unsupport-
wring their hands over a burned ed imputation of motive: Kamela
Target — which will no doubt be Harris dated Willie Brown for two
rebuilt — to focus instead on the years. He was then estranged from
violence done to innocent lives. his wife, and had been for more
Which is the greater and more than ten years. Their relationship
irreplaceable loss? was completely open. As Speaker
We can still take the moral high of the State Assembly, Brown
ground, as a nation — may we appointed her to the Unemploy-
never quite be too late for that. ment Insurance Appeals Board.
Paul Mack Now there was a political plum. He
Columbus then appointed her to the Medical
Assistants Commission, another
Thinks flag wording excludes job with long hours and no ap-
preciation. Eight years after they
too many broke up, she won her first elected
Even though I appreciate the
office. She was an assistant district
efforts of many fine artists, I can’t
attorney when she took those ap-
refrain from commenting on the
pointments, so it seems to me that
content of the two finalists for the
she was doing Brown a favor more
Mississippi state flag announced
than the other way around.
recently. Both of them include the
As attorney general, her office
seemingly universal phrase “In
required that she resist prisoner
god we trust”. We all know that
releases because of overcrowd-
this saying refers to the Christian
ing, as the prison system was her
god. We also all know that some
client. On the other hand, she
large segment of our population
helped create a program to reduce
does not believe in the Christian
recidivism and to help released
god, rather believing in other
prisoners return to society.
gods, sometimes many gods, and
In terms of prosecuting with a
sometimes no gods. This could
vengeance, she really went after
include many other religions or
banks that defrauded borrowers,
belief systems. Apparently this
and health care networks that
phrase was added to our currency
defrauded Medicare.
during the Eisenhower adminis-
In Trump’s first two years,
tration in the 1950’s as part of the
seasonally adjusted non-farm em-
demonization of atheistic com-
ployment increased by 5.1 million
munism. My major point is that
jobs, according to Forbes Maga-
people who belong to these other
zine. In his last two years, Presi-
groups can be just as moral, up-
dent Obama saw a 4.7 million job
standing and successful as many
increase. At the end of Obama’s
Christians. Yet in this instance
term the line on the graph was
they are summarily excluded from
rising. It continued to rise at the
inclusion in a statewide motto and
same rate, about 10%, for the next
emblem.
two years. Whose good policies
A common response from
were responsible?
supporters is “just move away
The U.S. poverty rate dropped
if you don’t like it.” To me, this
consistently every year from 2015
is un-American. The reason our
to 2017, according to the Census
country was founded over 200
Bureau. It has continued to decline
years ago was to be a big tent for
since. Again, whose policies?
all kinds of belief systems (hence
The stock market is at an all-
the motto: E Pluribus Unum).
time high, which is great for the
When a majority chooses a motto
8% of people who own 81% of the
for a state flag that excludes a
stock wealth, or even the next
substantial segment of the popu-
10% of the people who own 11%,
lation, this seems to automatically
according to Hurst Publications.
assign people with different belief
The rest of us can try to retire on
systems to a second class status.
our 14% that we all share.
I believe that any such motto
No one is suggesting that
on a statewide symbol should be
people not be allowed to vote in
inclusive of its entire population,
person. Those at high risk if they
not just a reflection of the beliefs of
contact COVID-19 don’t want to
the majority or of those in political
expose themselves to the poll
power.
workers and the rest of us wait-
Bill Parker
ing in line, so they would like the
Columbus
option to vote by mail. No one has
said you can’t vote in person, but
Clarifies points made in lots of places are limiting the abili-
previous letter ty of folks to vote by mail.
I just read an excellent example Bill Gillmore
in these letters to the editor of how Columbus
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Jeffrey Gore
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AROUND THE WORLD

Strike leader detained in Belarus as crackdown continues

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KYIV, Ukraine — Belar-
us’ authorities on Monday de-
tained the organizer of a strike
at a top industrial plant, part
of a methodical effort to stifle
weeks of protests demanding
the resignation of the coun-
try’s authoritarian leader of
26 years after an election the
opposition denounced as being
rigged.
President Alexander Lu-
kashenko has dismissed the
protesters as Western puppets
and rejected the European
Union’s offers of mediation.
After a ferocious crackdown
on demonstrators in the first
days after the Aug. 9 vote that
caused international outrage,
his government has avoided
large-scale violence against
demonstrators and sought to
end the protests with threats
and the selective jailing of ac-
tivists.
Anatoly Bokun, who leads
the strike committee at Be-
laruskali, a huge potash factory
in Soligorsk, was detained by
police Monday and is facing a
15-day jail sentence on charges
of organizing an unsanctioned
protest. The factory, which ac-
counts for a fifth of the world’s
potash fertilizer output, is the
nation’s top cash earner.
The Belaruskaili strike
committee spokesman, Gleb
Sandras, said authorities had
managed to halt a strike at the
factory that began two weeks
ago and all its potash mines are
now working.
He said that agents of Be-
larus’ State Security Commit-
tee, which still goes by the
Soviet-era name KGB, had
pressured workers to end the
labor action.
“KGB agents have inundat-
ed the factory, tracking down
the most active workers and us-
ing various means of pressure,”
Sandras told The Associated
Press in a telephone interview.
“The authorities have powerful
economic instruments. They
are blackmailing workers with
mass dismissals.”
Strikes at Belaruskali and
many other leading industrial
plants have cast an unprece-
dented challenge to Lukashen-
ko, who has kept the bulk of
the economy in state hands
and relied on blue-collar work-
ers as his main support base.
‘The authorities have powerful economic instruments. They are
blackmailing workers with mass dismissals.’
Belarus Deputy Prime Min-
ister Yuri Nazarov acknowl-
edged Monday that the strikes
posed a challenge, but said that
all major industrial plants have
resumed normal operations.
Bokun’s detention follows
the arrests of strike leaders
at two other major industrial
plants in Minsk. The organizer
of a strike at the Grodno Azot,
a major producer of nitrogen
fertilizers, fled to neighboring
Poland to escape detention.
Seeking to stem the pro-
tests, Belarusian prosecutors
have opened a criminal probe
against the opposition Coor-
dination Council, accusing its
members of undermining the
country’s security. Last week,
Belarusian courts handed 10-
day jail sentences to two coun-
cil members and summoned
several others for questioning,
including Svetlana Alexievich,
who won the 2015 Nobel Prize
in literature.
The U.S. and the European
Belaruskaili strike committee spokesman, Gleb Sandras
Union have criticized the Aug.
9 election that extended Lu-
kashenko’s rule as neither free
nor fair and urged Belarusian
authorities to engage in a dia-
logue with the opposition.
Following a fierce dispersal
of peaceful demonstrators in
the days after the vote that left
nearly 7,000 people detained,
hundreds injured by police rub-
ber bullets, stun grenades and
beatings and at least three pro-
testers dead, police stopped in-
terfering with the demonstra-
tions for the next two weeks,
but last week again cranked up
the pressure on demonstrators
and began breaking up rallies.
The Belarusian govern-
ment also cracked down hard
on the news media, deporting
some foreign journalists from
the country and revoking the
accreditation of many Belar-
usian journalists. Two Mos-
cow-based Associated Press
journalists who were covering
the recent protests in Belarus
were deported to Russia on
Saturday. In addition, the AP’s
Belarusian journalists were
told by the government that
their press credentials had
been revoked.
The Belarusian Association
of Journalists said over the
weekend that accreditation
rights were also taken away
from 17 Belarusians working
for several other media, includ-
ing Germany’s ARD television,
the BBC, Reuters, AFP, and
U.S.-funded radio Free Eu-
rope/Radio Liberty said five of
its journalists lost their accred-
itation.
The U.S. and the EU offi-
cials have strongly condemned
the media crackdown.
The detention of hundreds
of demonstrators didn’t deter
the opposition from mounting
another massive rally on Sun-
day, which saw an estimated
100,000 flood the streets of
the Belarusian capital amid a
heavy police presence.

In China’s Xinjiang,
forced medication
accompanies lockdown
BEIJING — When
police arrested the mid-
dle-aged Uighur woman at
the height of China’s coro-
navirus outbreak, she was
crammed into a cell with
dozens of other women in
a detention center.
There, she said, she
was forced to drink a
medicine that made her
feel weak and nauseous,
guards watching as she
gulped. She and the
others also had to strip
naked once a week and
cover their faces as guards
hosed them and their cells
down with disinfectant
“like firemen,” she said.
“It was scalding,”
recounted the woman
by phone from Xinjiang,
declining to be named out
of fear of retribution. “My
hands were ruined, my
skin was peeling.”
The government in Chi-
na’s far northwest Xinjiang
region is resorting to
draconian measures to
combat the coronavirus,
including physically lock-
ing residents in homes,
imposing quarantines of
more than 40 days and
arresting those who do
not comply. Furthermore,
in what experts call a
breach of medical ethics,
some residents are being
coerced into swallowing
traditional Chinese medi-
cine, according to govern-
ment notices, social media
posts and interviews with
three people in quarantine
in Xinjiang. There is a
lack of rigorous clinical
data showing traditional
Chinese medicine works
against the virus, and one
of the herbal remedies
used in Xinjiang, Qingfei
Paidu, includes ingredi-
ents banned in Germany,
Switzerland, the U.S. and
other countries for high
levels of toxins and carcin-
ogens.
The latest grueling
lockdown, now in its 45th
day, comes in response
to 826 cases reported in
Xinjiang since mid-July,
China’s largest caseload
since the initial outbreak.
But the Xinjiang lockdown
is especially striking
because of its severity,
and because there hasn’t
been a single new case of
local transmission in over
a week.
Harsh lockdowns have
been imposed elsewhere
in China, most notably in
Wuhan in Hubei province,
where the virus was first
detected. But though
Wuhan grappled with over
50,000 cases and Hubei
with 68,000 in all, many
more than in Xinjiang,
residents there weren’t
forced to take traditional
medicine and were gen-
erally allowed outdoors
within their compounds
for exercise or grocery
deliveries.
The response to an
outbreak of more than 300
cases in Beijing in early
June was milder still, with
a few select neighbor-
hoods locked down for a
few weeks. In contrast,
more than half of Xinji-
ang’s 25 million people
are under a lockdown
that extends hundreds of
miles from the center of
the outbreak in the capital,
Urumqi, according to an
AP review of government
notices and state media
reports.
Even as Wuhan and the
rest of China has mostly
returned to ordinary life,
Xinjiang’s lockdown is
backed by a vast surveil-
lance apparatus that has
turned the region into a
digital police state. Over
the past three years, Xinji-
ang authorities have swept
a million or more Uighurs,
Kazakhs and other
ethnic minorities into
various forms of detention,
including extrajudicial
internment camps, under
a widespread security
crackdown.
After being detained
for over a month, the Ui-
ghur woman was released
and locked into her home.
Conditions are now better,
she told the AP, but she
is still under lockdown,
despite regular tests show-
ing she is free of the virus.
Once a day, she says,
community workers force
traditional medicine in
white unmarked bottles
on her, saying she’ll be
detained if she doesn’t
drink them. The AP saw
photos of the bottles,
which match those in
images from another Xin-
jiang resident and others
circulating on Chinese
social media.
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COVID-19 TESTING FOR TEACHERS

Antranik Tavitian/Dispatch Staff

Alexius Ellis, Private First Class, takes down the information of a patient during a drive-through COVID-19 test for
teachers and other school staff on Friday at the Lowndes County Health Department. Members of the US Army
stationed around north Mississippi were given the mission to help facilitate testing, which Mississippi Depart-
ment of Health set up in cities throughout the state. MSDH Emergency Response Coordinator Curtis D. Jernigan
said Gov. Tate Reeves and MSDH wanted to provide the testing for teachers at the beginning of the school year
as districts around the state work to make schools safe for students during the COVID-19 pandemic. “(Testing) is
just one thing that schools couldn’t provide, so we wanted to make sure we provided it,” Jernigan said.

Summerville
Continued from Page 1A
That was always a big part of
her job, but she has to monitor
them constantly, making sure the
district has enough paper towels,
as pandemic puts all those items
in higher demand.
Starting in May, the custodial
staff, who had been sent home
with fewer hours after the pan-
demic shut schools down state-
wide in March, came back to
the schools for annual summer
cleaning.
“We have to take every piece of
furniture, everything out of every
classroom, wax strip the floors,
clean it, and then put it back in
after the floors are dry,” Sum-
merville said. “We do that every
summer. The first day school is
out, that’s when we start.
“On top of that, (there) was
COVID,” she added. “They kept
us abreast of (Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention) guide-
lines, what we had to do. I met
with all the custodians and told
them, ‘OK, y’all, it’s a different
ballgame.’”
Now the staff wear masks,
increase their walk-throughs of
classrooms and bathrooms and
spend their time constantly wiping
down door handles, light switches,
desks and other “hot spots” in the
buildings that tend to have multi-
ple people touch them throughout
the day, she said.
While COVID-19 makes this
year unique, Summerville added
this is not the only time the custo-
dial staff has tackled a big job. She
remembers how on the morning of
Feb. 23, 2019, a group of custodial
staff completed a major cleaning
project on the Hunt campus, which
housed the district’s alternative
school.
“We had cleaned the whole
strip, washed the floor,” she said.
“It was so pretty. … Everybody
was so proud, over there working
half a day on Saturday.”
That night, an EF-3 tornado
touched down in Columbus, de-
stroying the Hunt campus.
“I got a call, and I go over
there,” she remembered. “It was
ruined. The work we had done. It
was ruined.”
Summerville said she was just
glad that the tornado hit after all
her staff had gone home. As it
was, they were back at work the
next day, along with a crowd of
volunteers, moving what equip-
ment they could salvage out of the
building and preparing rooms at
CHS for the Hunt Success Acade-
my students to attend Monday.
That’s all in addition to the day-
to-day cleaning and maintenance
of nine schools, and a central
office building for administration
staff and other district property
and equipment.
“I have people ask, ‘What do
y’all do?’” she said. “But they don’t
know the depth of it, what you
really, really do, to keep things
flowing smoothly. … I’m just glad
I’ve got some dedicated people.”
Prior to working for CMSD,
Summerville worked in real
estate and ran her own business.
A lifelong Columbus resident,
with parents, an adult son and
two grandchildren still in the
area, she’s also been involved
in the community, volunteering
with the local NA ACP and the
Mayor’s Unity Picnic every year.
She helped organize the first
ever senior citizen Thanksgiving
luncheon, during which a group of
volunteers delivered Thanksgiv-
ing meals to homebound citizens,
more than 25 years ago.
She chose to work for the
district so she would have more
benefits after retirement, she said.
She said she really likes being
able to see students every day.
“They see you out somewhere,
they’ll go, ‘You coming to my
school?’” Summerville recalled
laughing. “... A lot of times you
develop a rapport with some of the
kids.”
Now though, the students stay
in their classrooms throughout the
day to minimize traffic throughout
the buildings and hopefully keep
COVID-19 from spreading.
Instead of chatting with stu-
dents, Summerville spends her
days trying to stay on top of sup-
plies. That was always a big part
of her job, but now she has to con-
stantly monitor supplies, making
sure the district has enough paper
towels, hand sanitizer, cleaning
supplies and toilet paper as the
pandemic puts all those supplies
in higher demand. She’s also had
to order new supplies, such as a
Clorox machine custodians run
through rooms twice a week, san-
itizing the buildings and getting
rid of airborne germs.
Summerville says she couldn’t
do it without her staff, who have
been supportive since the pan-
demic began.
“They have a high morale,” she
said. “It’s not like everybody, when
I say, ‘We need to do this, we need
to do this,’ says, “Aw.’ They (say),
‘OK, OK, we got it. Extra cleaning
in the restrooms.’ So they were
very on board with everything
that I asked them to do. That was a
good thing. … Everybody’s doing
their part. I’m so proud of them.”

Parole
Continued from Page 1A
shouldn’t be the last word.
We know much needs to
be done.”
The Republican gov-
ernor wrote in his July 8
veto message that he had
received calls from law
enforcement officers and
prosecutors concerned
about the release of in-
mates with violent histo-
ries.
“While the spirit of
Senate Bill 2123 is well-in-
tentioned, I believe the
scope of its proposed ex-
pansion of parole eligibili-
ty presents problems that
have not been fully con-
sidered by all stakehold-
ers and as drafted would
threaten public safety,”
Reeves wrote.
Mississippi has one of
the highest incarceration
rates in the U.S., and the
Justice Department an-
nounced its investigation
in February, weeks after
outbursts of violence led
to the death and injury
of several inmates. More She said Parole Board eligible for parole after
than 70 inmates have died members, who are nomi- serving 25% of their sen-
in Mississippi prisons nated by the governor and tence. Those convicted
since late December. confirmed by the state of violent offenses and
During an Aug. 20 Senate, would consider sentenced between July
news conference, repre- statements from crime 1, 1995, and June 30, 2014,
sentatives from the Poor victims. would have become eligi-
People’s Campaign and “As we all know, parole
ble for parole after com-
other groups sharply crit- eligibility makes prisons
icized Reeves for vetoing safer by restoring incen- pleting 50% of their sen-
the parole bill. tives and hope to people tence or after 20 years,
Alesha Judkins is the serving long sentences whichever comes first.
Mississippi director of behind bars,” Judkins The bill would have
FWD.us, a group that pub- said. allowed people convicted
lished a report last year FWD.us was formed in of most violent offenses
saying that Mississippi’s 2013 by Facebook found- after July 1, 2014, to be-
habitual offender laws are er Mark Zuckerberg and come parole-eligible after
causing “extreme” prison other technology and serving 50% of their sen-
sentences. Judkins said business executives. The tence served or after 30
Aug. 20 that the vetoed group says on its website years, whichever is less.
bill would have brought that it focuses on “fixing The bill also would have
Mississippi in line with the failed immigration allowed parole hearings
states such as Texas, and criminal justice sys-
for those 65 and older who
Utah and Louisiana that tems that have locked too
have broad parole eligi- many out of the American have served 10 years of
bility. dream for too long.” their sentences. Habitual
“The governor’s claim Senate Bill 2123, which offenders, sex offenders
that the bill goes too far passed with bipartisan and inmates sentenced
and eliminates protec- support, said people con- for capital murder would
tions are misleading,” victed of nonviolent of- not have been eligible for
Judkins said. fenses could become parole.

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ANDRA ESPINOZA-HUNTER TO OPT OUT OF 2020-2021 SEASON
Andra Espinoza-Hunter takes a shot against West Virginia on Dec. 8, 2019 at Humphrey Coliseum.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Riley, Swanson help Braves to wild 12-10 win over Phillies
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA —
Austin Riley homered,
doubled and drove in
three runs in Atlanta’s 10-
run second inning, Dans-
by Swanson also went
deep and the Braves held
on for a wild 12-10 victo-
ry over the Philadelphia
Phillies on Sunday night.
Nick Markakis and
Marcell Ozuna each add-
ed three hits and two
RBIs for the first-place
Braves, who avoided a
three-game sweep and
moved three games
ahead of the Phillies and
Miami in the NL East. Ev-
ery Atlanta starter got at
least one hit and scored at
least one run.
Andrew McCutchen,
Rhys Hoskins, Didi Gre-
gorius and Roman Quinn
homered for the Phillies,
whose five-game winning
streak was snapped.
The teams combined
for 28 hits in a game that
took 4 hours, 13 minutes.
Every Braves batter
scored at least once in
the second, which started
innocently enough when
Markakis grounded out to
pitcher Jake Arrieta (2-4).
But Arrieta wouldn’t get
another out while facing
the next seven batters,
and he was lifted for David
Hale after Marcell Ozu-
na’s RBI infield single that
made it 5-0.
Hale, making his first
appearance with the Phil-
lies since being acquired
from the Yankees on
Aug. 21, surrendered an
RBI single to Travis d’Ar-
naud, a two-run double
to Markakis and, finally,
a two-run drive to deep
left-center by Riley that
put the Braves ahead 10-0.
The Phillies got a run
back in the bottom of the
frame on Gregorius’ solo
shot to right before scor-
ing six runs in the third
off starter Tommy Milone.
Atlanta Braves third baseman Johan Camargo collides with Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto Sunday
after throwing for a double play during the ninth inning at Citizens Bank Park.
McCutchen’s RBI double,
Hoskins’ two-run homer
to left, Gregorius’ two-
run triple to right and Phil
Gosselin’s RBI groundout
gave Philadelphia hope.
The Phillies actually got
the go-ahead run to the
plate in the frame. But Mc-
Cutchen, batting for the
second time in the inning,
grounded out with run-
ners on first and second.
The Braves got some
more breathing room in
the fifth on Ozuna’s two-
out RBI single to left that
made it 11-8.
But the Phillies closed
within a run in the eighth
on back-to-back one-out
solo homers by Quinn and
McCutchen off lefty Will
Smith. Smith escaped
more trouble by getting
Hoskins and Harper to fly
out.
Swanson cleared the
MISSISSIPPI STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
wall in center in the ninth
for a two-run cushion for
Mark Melancon, who
pitched a scoreless ninth
for his sixth save in seven
opportunities.
Hoskins went deep
for the fourth time in six
games.
Milone allowed seven
runs in 2-1/3 innings in his
first start with the Braves
after being acquired ear-
lier on Sunday from the
Orioles for two players to
be named. Atlanta is hop-
ing the 33-year-old lefty
can provide some help to
the rotation. Milone is the
11th different starter the
Braves have used this sea-
son, and most of them ha-
ven’t had much success.
Left-hander Max Fried is
5-0 with a 1.35 ERA, and
the other 10 Braves start-
ers are a combined 1-10
with a 7.23.
Jim Lytle/Dispatch file photo
A.J. Minter (1-0)
pitched 1 2/3 scoreless in-
nings for the victory.
Arrieta lasted just 1-1/3
innings and gave up seven
runs on six hits with three
walks and no strikeouts.
Freddie Freeman ex-
tended his hitting streak
to 13 consecutive games
with a two-run single in
the second.
Phillies manager Joe
Girardi was ejected by
second-base umpire Bill
Welke in the ninth after
arguing a foul ball call off
the bat of Ender Inciarte.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Braves: CF Ronald
Acuna Jr. (right ham-
string tightness) was lift-
ed after the Braves batted
in the second inning. Acu-
na scored on Freeman’s
single. … OF Adam Du-
vall (sore left Achilles) re-
THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Mis-
sissippi State senior guard
Andra Espinoza-Hunter is
opting out of the 2020 sea-
son over COVID-19 con-
cerns.
Espinoza-Hunter an-
nounced her intentions
via Twitter Sunday af-
ternoon, writing: “After
considerable thought and
long discussions with my
family, I have decided it is
in my best interest to opt
out of the upcoming wom-
en’s basketball season due
to COVID-19 concerns. To
my incredible teammates,
who are my lifelong
friends and will forever
have a special place in my
heart, I am going to miss
playing with you all this
season, but I’ll be cheer-
ing you on as you chase
your dream of bringing
Mississippi State its first
National Championship.”
A one-time UConn
transfer, the New York
native would have been
one of three seniors on
the 2020 roster includ-
ing Bowling Green grad-
uate transfer Caterrion
Thompson and Yemiyah
Morris. In two seasons at
MSU, Espinoza-Hunter
played in 77 games -- in-
cluding 20 starts -- and
averaged 6.9 points and
Bill Streicher/USA TODAY Sports
turned to the lineup after
missing Saturday’s game.
Phillies: LHP Ranger
Suarez threw a bullpen
session on Sunday and
could be activated soon.
Suarez was 6-1 with a 3.14
ERA in 37 games last sea-
son but hasn’t pitched in
2020.
UP NEXT
Braves: Open a three-
game series at Boston on
Monday night. Braves
LHP Max Fried (5-0,
1.35) opposes RHP Colten
Brewer (0-2, 4.57).
Phillies: Begin a
four-game home set with
Washington on Monday
night. Phillies RHP Spen-
cer Howard (0-1, 6.17) fac-
es RHP Erick Fedde (1-2,
3.57).
SPORTS LINE
662-241-5000
B
SECTION
1.1 assists per game. She
also boasted a prolific 36.7
percent clip from 3-point
range.
“I fully support and re-
spect Andi’s decision to
opt out this season,” MSU
coach Nikki McCray-Pen-
son said. These are diffi-
cult times, and personal
health and safety is of the
upmost importance to us
all right now.”
Espinoza-Hunter be-
came the first non-football
player at MSU to publicly
reveal her intentions to sit
out the 2020 season. The
MSU athletic department
previously confirmed ju-
nior cornerback Tyler Wil-
liams would not play this
year, while junior wide
receiver Taury Dixon re-
vealed his intentions to sit
out the season and trans-
fer upon his graduation.
The Bulldogs are head-
ing into their first year
under the guidance of
McCray-Penson following
longtime coach Vic Schae-
fer’s departure to Texas
earlier this offseason.
MSU finished the 2019
season 27-6 with a run to
the Southeastern Confer-
ence Tournament Finals.
In March ESPN ranked
MSU No. 3 nationally in
its Way-Too-Early Top 25
for the 2020-21 season be-
hind South Carolina and
Stanford.
BEN’S BURNING
QUESTIONS
How MSU will
handle its
crowds, QB
update, Chase
opts out
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Foot-
ball is back.
Saturday night, an Aus-
tin Peay team flush with
Mississippi State con-
nections, including head
coach Marquase Lovings,
opened the 2020 cam-
paign with a 24-17 loss to
Central Arkansas.
A n d
while I’ll
concede I
was only
able to
watch the
game in
spurts due
to a prior en- Portnoy
g a ge m e nt ,
there was something oh so
refreshing about watching
CJ Evans Jr. take an option
pitch 75 yards to the house
on the game’s first play
from scrimmage.
That said, let’s get into
this week’s questions:
Did you see the FCS
opener last night and
how the crowd regula-
tions worked? Do you
think it’s feasible for
FBS teams to do the
same?
As mentioned, I only
caught a few glimpses of
last night’s game, but it
seems measures put in
place for fan attendance
worked — though we’ll
probably know more two
weeks from now during
which time any COVID-19
issues could arise.
The Mississippi State
athletic department
announced a slew of
COVID-19 related safety
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Jon Rahm makes the biggest putt to win a thriller at BMW

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA FIELDS,
Ill. — Even with a pair
of silver trophies in his
possession, Jon Rahm
still couldn’t believe
what happened Sunday
in the BMW Champion-
ship. And he only saw
half of it.
Rahm was on the
range on the other side
of the Olympia Fields
clubhouse, preparing
for a playoff that no one
really expected, when
Dustin Johnson rolled
in a 45-foot birdie putt
down the ridge for birdie
to force a playoff.
Moments later, Rahm
faced a putt even longer
and more difficult on
the 18th — just outside
65 feet that he had to
send at nearly a 90 -de-
gree angle to the top of
the ridge. From there, it
was a replay of Johnson’s
putt as it headed down
the slope, kissed off the
pin and disappeared into
the cup.
“I still can’t believe
what just happened,” he
said.
Neither could John-
son, going for his sec-
ond straight victory. He
could only laugh, at his
putt and Rahm’s winner.
“I played an unbeliev-
able putt, got in the play-
off and then Jon made
an even more ridiculous
putt on top of me,” said
Johnson, who at least
kept his No. 1 ranking in
the world and in the Fe-
dEx Cup.
The putts overshad-
owed a command per-
formance by Rahm,
who closed with a 66 -64
weekend on an Olympia
Fields course that played
like the toughest test in
golf. His only bogey on
the weekend came on
the fifth hole Saturday
when he spaced out and
picked up his golf ball
from the green without
marking it.
There was the 6 -iron
from 218 yards for his
third shot on the par-5
15th after his tee shot
went into the trees and
barely came out, setting
up a key birdie. There
was his 30 -foot birdie
putt on the par-3 16th
for a two-shot lead that
Johnson erased with two
birdies of his own, none
bigger than the last one.
“That stretch of wait-
ing for DJ, him making
the putt, going in the
playoff, me making the
putt, then trying to stay
mentally in it just in case
he made the last putt,
it’s been a roller coaster,
but so much fun,” Rahm
said.
He put behind him
the one-shot penalty
that even on Saturday
he worried would come
back to haunt him, and
he thought about it brief-
ly when Johnson had the
long birdie putt on the
18th in regulation.
All he could think
about on the 18th green
in the playoff was find-
ing a way to get to the
next hole, knowing he
had a putt from one end
of the green to the oth-
er and Johnson had a
30 -footer.
And then it was over.
Rahm won for the sec-
ond time this year, and
for the 11th time world-
wide in his four years as
a pro. His first win came
at Torrey Pines when
he made a 60 -foot eagle
putt and wound up win-
ning by three.
“I think we all want
the flashy finish, may-
be not the stress that
comes with it,” Rahm
said. “But I set out with
myself to enjoy even the
uncomfortable moments
we had out there today.
And man, it was fun.”
The course that all
week felt like a U.S.
Open delivered the kind
of excitement typical of
the Masters.
Rahm tore through
the back nine Sunday on
his way to a 64, the low-
est round of the week, to
finish at 4-under 276.
Johnson, a 54-hole
leader for his third
straight tournament and
coming off an 11-shot
victory last week at the
TPC Boston, birdied
three of his opening four
holes to open a three-
shot lead, dropped a pair
of shots around the turn
and then delivered in the
clutch with his 45-foot
birdie putt on the last
hole for a 67.
Johnson goes into the
Tour Championship as
the No. 1 seed, meaning
he will start the chase
for the $15 million prize
at East Lake at 10 -under
par, two ahead of Rahm,
who moved up seven
spots to the No. 2 seed.
Joaquin Niemann, the
21-year-old from Chile,
also made a spirited run
with a 67 and was in the
lead until a bogey on the
14th and no birdies the
rest of the way. He tied
for third with Hideki
Matsuyama, who had a
69. Tony Finau closed
with a 65 to finish three
behind. They were the
only five players under
par at Olympia Fields.
Mackenzie Hughes
had reason to celebrate,
too.
Needing a par on the
18th to move into the top
30 in the FedEx Cup, he
put his approach into the
front bunker, splashed
out to 5 feet and raised
both arms when the par
putt dropped.
Niemann also moved
into the top 30, though
he was chasing victory
all day.
Adam Long and
Kevin Streelman were
bumped out, and Long
suffered the worst of
those fates. He was pro-
jected 30th in the FedEx
Cup until Corey Conners
three-putted from 5 feet
for double bogey on the
final hole. That allowed
Billy Horschel to move
up enough spots on the
leaderboard to move to
the 30th and final spot
by three points over
Long.
Tiger Woods missed
all the action. He made
double bogey on his
17th hole for a 71, mak-
ing this the first time he
was over par in all four
rounds of a tournament
since the Bridgestone
Invitational in 2010.
Woods failed to reach
the Tour Championship
for the second straight
year. He now gets two
weeks off before the U.S.
Open at Winged Foot,
and Olympia Fields
proved to be a good test
for that.

Leonard leads Clippers past Doncic, Mavs to reach 2nd round

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKE BUENA VIS-
TA, Fla. — The Los An-
geles Clippers knocked
him around and shut his
teammates down, and
still Luka Doncic kept
coming.
Kawhi Leonard wasn’t
worried, because nothing
rattles him in the postsea-
son.
“This is playoff bas-
ketball and everything is
not going to go your way,”
Leonard said. “You’re
going to have downs and
ups. Just got to keep play-
ing.”
Now his team will keep
playing into the second
round.
Leonard had 33 points
and 14 rebounds and the
Clippers eliminated Don-
cic and the Dallas Maver-
icks with a 111-97 victory
Sunday in Game 6 of the
first-round series.
Doncic capped a su-
perb first postseason with
38 points, nine rebounds
and nine assists, keep-
ing it interesting into the
fourth quarter even while
playing without injured
teammate Kristaps Por-
zingis.
But with Leonard
reaching the 30-point
mark for his career-best
fifth straight playoff game
and a strong defensive ef-
fort, the Clippers simply
had too many answers.
“I’m proud of our team,
how we fight,” Doncic
said. “I think we fight un-
til the end. The Clippers
have an amazing team so
it was hard, but I think we
gave everything.”
The No. 2 seed in the
Western Conference ad-
vanced to a second-round
meeting with either
Denver or Utah. The
sixth-seeded Jazz were
trying to close that se-
ries out in six games later
Sunday.
Paul George and Ivica
Zubac added 15 points
apiece for the Clippers,
who turned up their de-
fense in this one after win-
ning Game 5 with the best
offensive performance in
their postseason history,
when they shot 63% and
romped to a 154-111 vic-
tory.
Perhaps it was too
much to ask to be that
sharp again after a four-
day layoff, but they didn’t
need to be even while
playing most of the game
without starting forward
Marcus Morris, who was
ejected for a flagrant foul
against Doncic in the first
quarter.
Leonard also had sev-
en assists and five steals.
The Clippers said he was
the first player in at least
the last 20 postseasons
with 30 points, 10 re-
bounds, five assists and
five steals in a game.
“You can tell he was
the one guy that shoots to
close out a series,” Clip-
pers coach Doc Rivers
said. “He was calm. He
got us in place.”
The Mavericks had
only two field goals in
the first six minutes of
the third quarter, both by
Doncic, and by the time
he made the second the
Clippers had opened the
half with a 20-3 run that
turned a six-point lead ... Dorian Finney-Smith tion didn’t factor into the ida prep star at Winter
into a 77-54 lead. scored 16 points. decision to give him a Park High School.
But Doncic wouldn’t flagrant foul 2 Sunday, an “It was funny, I usual-
quit, with a 3-pointer and MORE ON MORRIS automatic ejection. ly bring, like, a notepad.
two three-point plays in Trouble between the “Of course not,” Foster I didn’t have anything.
the final 1:28 to cut it to Mavs and Morris started said. I just kind of sat and
85-74. in the opener, when Don- watched the game,” Riv-
He made another 3
that trimmed it to 88-82
cic was called for palming DOC’S DAY OFF ers said. “You still coach
the ball and Morris tried Rivers spent part of
with 9:27 to play but Dal- during the game. Not
to take it out of his hands. the Clippers’ day without
las couldn’t get any clos- him, but just both teams
He ended up grabbing a game Saturday watch-
er. Los Angeles began and you watch what you
Doncic, starting a scrum ing his son Austin help
putting the ball in Leon- can do and I got a little
that led to the ejection the Houston Rockets beat
ard’s hands and he deliv- of Porzingis. Morris lat- Oklahoma City in Game 5 mental scouting in. But
ered with eight straight er denied trying to hurt of their series. It was the more importantly it was
Clippers points before Doncic, who battled a first game Rivers attend- a great detox for me just
consecutive 3-pointers by sprained left ankle, when ed in the bubble but hard- to sit there and enjoy bas-
Reggie Jackson pushed it he stepped on his foot. ly his first time watching ketball in a gym that I’ve
to 105-89. But referee Scott Fos- his son play at Disney. been a fan, a spectator, lit-
Dallas was in its first ter said Morris’ reputa- Austin Rivers was a Flor- erally hundreds of times.”
postseason since 2016 but
quickly learned about the
physicality, mixing it up
with Morris on multiple
occasions.
The Clippers led by
two when Morris was
ejected for swinging his
arm down and striking
a driving Doncic in the
head or neck area. The
Clippers picked up their
defense in the second pe-
riod, limiting the Mavs to
17 points and 33.3% shoot-
ing to open a 57-51 advan-
tage at the break.
TIP-INS
Clippers: Patrick Bev-
erley had a pregame
workout before sitting out
for the fifth straight game
with a left calf strain. Riv-
ers said the guard had a
good practice Saturday
and was getting closer to
returning but just wasn’t
ready yet.
Mavericks: Porzingis
missed his third straight
game with torn carti-
lage in his right knee.

AP source: Jaguars signed, opting to turn down Vikings rotational depth at

trading Ngakoue to
Vikings for 2 picks
JACKSON V ILLE,
Fla. (AP) — Disgruntled
pass-rusher Yannick Ngak-
oue is headed north, far
away from Jacksonville.
A person familiar with
the trade says the Jaguars
agreed to send Ngakoue to
the Minnesota Vikings on
Sunday for a second-round
draft pick in 2021 and a
conditional fifth-rounder in
2022. The person spoke to
The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity be-
cause the deal has not been
formally executed with the
league.
The person said Ngak-
oue agreed to rework his
2020 salary to get out of
Jacksonville. Ngakoue
still has to sign his one-
year franchise tender with
the Jaguars to make the
deal happen. He had been
the league’s only fran-
chise-tagged player un-
an offer that would have
guaranteed him $17.8 mil-
lion this season.
He will now make rough-
ly $13 million in 2020, the
person said.
Ngakoue made it clear
on several occasions this
year that he no longer want-
ed to play in Jacksonville,
even sparring with the team
owner’s son on Twitter. And
Ngakoue left millions on
the table to make it happen.
He will give the Vikings
a young, proven pass-rush-
er opposite star Danielle
Hunter, one whose work
ethic and intensity have al-
ways been among the most
respected in Jacksonville’s
locker room. Ngakoue also
should ease the loss of four-
time Pro Bowler Everson
Griffen, who signed a one-
year deal with Dallas earlier
this month.
Ifeadi Odenigbo has
been in line to take over
for Griffen after a break-
out performance in 2019,
but now he will give the
arguably the most import-
ant defensive spot.
Odenigbo didn’t seem to
approve of the trade, simply
tweeting “Fools gold” on
Sunday.
Ngakoue could have
signed a long-term deal
with the Jags last summer
and would have earned
about $40 million guar-
anteed between 2019 and
2020. Instead, he will make
roughly $15 million over
those two seasons.
The 25-year-old Ngak-
oue didn’t believe Jackson-
ville’s front office showed
him enough respect con-
sidering what he did since
joining the organization as
a third-round draft pick in
2016.
He has 37 1/2 sacks and
14 forced fumbles in four
seasons. The speedy strip-
sack specialist made the
Pro Bowl in 2017 and was
an alternate the past two
seasons. He clearly out-
played his $3.84 million
rookie contract.

Former MSU standout Moreland traded from Red Sox to Padres
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — The San
Diego Padres made an-
other big move to try and
end their playoff drought,
acquiring slugger Mitch
Moreland in a trade Sun-
day with Boston.
The Padres haven’t
been to the postseason
since 2006. They current-
ly have the second-most
wins in the NL, trailing
only division rival Los An-
geles.
Moreland adds even
more power to an already
potent San Diego lineup.
On top of that, he brings
big-game experience.
He’s been in the postsea-
son in seven of his past 10
seasons.
“Being able to add his
Jimmie Johnson proud of ending NASCAR career with 7 titles
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAYTONA BEACH,
Fla. — Long after a fire-
works extravaganza lit
up Daytona International
Speedway and well after
William Byron and his
Hendrick Motorsports
team ended their celebra-
tion in victory lane, Jim-
mie Johnson found a mo-
ment to reflect.
On his night. On his
emotions. On his legacy.
He pretty much covered
them all.
Johnson posted a pic-
ture on Instagram of his
battered No. 48 Chevro-
let, which was caught up
in a late-race wreck and
knocked out of playoff con-
tention in the regular-sea-
son finale Saturday. The
crash meant his racing ca-
reer would end without a
record-setting eighth Cup
Series championship.
Portnoy
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measures on Aug. 21 —
including that it will sell
beer (!!) beginning this
fall. Among the measures
included in the announce-
ment were that patrons
will be required to wear
face coverings during all
movement throughout
the stadium and when
not able to maintain rec-
ommended physical dis-
tance from people not in
their same household,
all queued lines at gates,
concession stands and
merchandise booths must
follow social distancing
measures and that hand
sanitizer stations will be
spread throughout con-
courses.
At present, venues in
Mississippi are slated
to allow 25 percent ca-
pacity in stadiums as a
whole, while club levels
will be limited to 50 per-
cent capacity following
an executive order from
makeup, character, that
will blend in really well
into this clubhouse,” Pa-
dres manager Jayce Tin-
gler said. “There’s a pos-
itive buzz, energy going
around.”
As part of the deal, the
Red Sox acquired a pair
of prospects from San
Diego, outfielder Jeisson
Rosario and infielder
Hudson Potts.
It’s the second straight
day the Padres have made
a splashy move. On Sat-
urday, they bolstered
their bullpen by acquir-
ing Trevor Rosenthal in
a trade with the Kansas
City Royals.
Asked if general man-
ager A.J. Preller might be
done, Tingler responded:
“I would say we’ll wait
“7 it is,” he wrote. “I’m
damn proud of that in case
you were wondering.”
Johnson was running
near the front of the pack
most of the night and was
in position to make the
playoffs until Denny Ham-
lin and Joey Logano made
contact and started a multi-
car melee that collected
Johnson and nine others
with less than two laps
to go. Logano slammed
into Bubba Wallace, who
slid sideways and nearly
wrecked Byron.
Logano tried to
straighten his car, but Matt
DiBenedetto rammed
into his rear bumper and
caused him to lose control
for good. Johnson looked
like he might escape the
carnage, but Logano spun
into Matt Kenseth, who
made a hard right into
Johnson’s driver-side door.
Gov. Tate Reeves. This, of
course, falls in line with
what virtually every other
Southeastern Conference
school has done thus far.
In short, if FCS pro-
grams with far less re-
sources can pull this off,
those in the FBS and SEC
should also be able to do
so.
Where does the Missis-
sippi State quarterback
battle stand after two
weeks of competition?
Stanford graduate
transfer K.J. Costello
arrived at MSU as the
presumed starter, and
it appears the Bulldogs
are heading that way as
fall camp enters its third
week.
Head coach Mike
Leach said Saturday
that he’s not altogether
close to naming a starter,
but there’s begun to be
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and see. .. He doesn’t
sleep and he’s relentless.”
Moreland, who turns
35 on Sept. 6, was leading
the Red Sox with eight
homers, 21 RBIs and a
.328 batting average.
He’s made 19 starts at
first base this season and
three more as a designat-
ed hitter.
Tingler envisions Mo-
reland being in the lineup
as a DH and spelling first
baseman Eric Hosmer.
The struggling Red
Sox became sellers at the
looming trade deadline
after entering Sunday in
last place in the AL East.
“We basically felt, giv-
en where we stand and
where we are in 2020,
and then the importance
of depth and talent in the
Johnson sat on pit
road in his mangled mess
during a red flag and sure-
ly realized that the “sto-
rybook ending” he talked
about a day earlier was
gone.
“The last couple of
months, we’ve been really
getting our act together
and running well,” John-
son said after finishing
17th and missing the final
postseason berth by six
points. “Definitely disap-
pointed to not be in the
playoffs. That was the No.
1 goal to start the year.”
Johnson would have
been safely in the 16-car
field had he not missed a
race following a positive
test for COVID-19 and
had a second-place finish
thrown out at Charlotte
after failing post-race in-
spection.
He noted both setbacks
some separation between
Costello and sophomore
Garrett Shrader and
freshman Will Rogers.
“I think that K.J. is
ahead,” Leach said. “But
we’re trying to see as
much as we can out of
Shrader and Will at the
same time. But again,
we’re going to have to
pare that down too.”
With four weeks until
the season opener against
LSU, who I’ll get to in
a second, it’s expected
Leach will begin to siphon
reps more toward the trio
of Costello, Shrader and
Rogers. Perhaps the most
intriguing piece of all of
this is where Rogers falls
on the depth chart.
I’ve written on the sub-
ject a couple times since
camp opened, but if Rog-
ers supplants Shrader for
the No. 2 spot, this quar-
terback room gets inter-
esting quickly.
farm system, that there
was a level of talent (in
return) where it made
sense to move him,” Bos-
ton chief baseball officer
Chaim Bloom said.
Moreland earned his
lone All-Star selection in
2018, the same season he
helped the Red Sox win a
World Series title. He had
memorable a pinch-hit,
three-run homer in Game
4 to spark Boston to a 9-6
win over the Los Angeles
Dodgers.
“We’ll never forgot
what happened coming
off the bench in Game 4,”
Boston general manager
Brian O’Halloran said.
Originally a 17th-
round pick by Texas in
2007, Moreland is hitting
.253 over his career with
after another disappoint-
ment at Daytona, a track
at which he has won seven
times over two decades.
He also has now crashed
43 times at the historic
venue.
Johnson handled the
latest one with grace and
dignity — no surprise giv-
en the way he has gone
about his business in an
often-glaring spotlight.
He walked to victory lane
to congratulate Byron
and his team, including
crew chief Chad Knaus.
Johnson and Knaus were
together for all seven titles
in the 48.
“I feel awful,” Knaus
said. “Let’s be quite
honest, right? Jimmie
shouldn’t be in this posi-
tion. … That hurts. I hate
it for Jimmie. He’s one of
my best friends. He was
the first guy that came by
“You’ve got to make
some tough decisions,”
Leach said in regard to
how to split the reps go-
ing forward. “This is dif-
ferent than a P.E. class.
You’ve got to invest in the
reps in the guys that are
going to be important to
you to go out and win.”
What impact does
Ja’marr Chase’s opt-out
have on Mississippi
State’s week one game
against LSU?
We’ll have more on this
as we get to game week
and actually previewing
this contest, but man, los-
ing Chase hurts.
Perceived as a top-
five NFL draft pick come
2021, Chase is among the
most prolific receivers in
the country after he to-
taled 1,780 yards and 20
touchdowns a season ago.
174 homers, 491 runs
scored and 580 RBIs. The
left-handed hitter was a
Gold Glove winner at first
in 2016.
Tingler knows More-
land from their days to-
gether in Texas. Tingler
spent 13 seasons with
the Rangers organization
before joining the Padres
this season.
“A lot of people would
describe him as a kind of
a throwback, a grinding
type,” Tingler said. “He’s
a big, lumbering man
and he’s hard-nosed. He
doesn’t back down. His
play shows. He’s respect-
ed among his peers and
people in the game for
who he’s been and what
he’s done over his last 10
years in the league. He
pit road and looked up at
me, revved up the engine,
gave me a thumbs-up.
He means the world to
me. He’s a great man and
brother of mine.
“It hurts me, but it is
what we do. We compete.
We’ve got to go do what we
need to do.”
Johnson will do the
same down the stretch,
looking to end a winless
streak that’s now stretched
to 120 races. His last victo-
ry came in June 2017. The
draught led to Johnson’s
breakup with Knaus and a
new crew chief, Cliff Dan-
iels.
“Cliff Daniels and these
guys on my team, they
pour their guts out for me,”
Johnson said. “There’s 10
races left, 10 trophies to go
chase and we’ll have to fo-
cus our efforts there.”
Regardless of how
Sunday, images of
LSU’s depth chart from
last season with crossed
out names of players that
have since departed cir-
culated on social media.
With Chase now out of
the equation, the Tigers
are expected to return
just six starters from last
season’s dominant nation-
al championship team.
For MSU, LSU’s loss is
its gain. The Bulldogs are
expected to have a histor-
ically porous defense this
season as they rebuild
from last year’s unit, and
not having to see a play-
maker of Chase’s caliber
week one helps a second-
ary whose most experi-
enced corner is sopho-
more Martin Emerson.
MSU is going to be far
from dominant defensive-
ly in 2020, and it’s prob-
ably fair to assume this
year’s group finishes as
one of the three worst in
MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020 3B
blends into what we’re
about.”
Potts, a 21-year-old
third baseman, is a career
.256 hitter with 57 home
runs and 224 RBIs in 423
minor league games. Ro-
sario, a 20-year-old out-
fielder, has a .264 average
with seven homers and 93
RBIs in 289 games in the
minors.
“Both these guys have
a chance to be really ex-
citing players,” Bloom
said. “Very high upside,
both of them. Pretty ac-
complished minor league
players playing at (high)
levels where they’re very
young last year.”
it plays out, Johnson al-
ready has left an indelible
mark on stock-car racing.
He won five consecutive
championships (2006-
10), forcing other drivers
and teams to play catch-
up, and added two more
(2013, ’16) years after the
unprecedented run. He’s
a first-ballot Hall of Famer
with a racing career that
will be hard to match, let
alone top, for anyone mov-
ing forward.
“The last three years
have been tough. We all
know that,” Johnson said.
“I think we’ve shown some
bright spots, and Cliff has
done a really good job of
leading this team and tak-
ing this team in the right
direction. I think we can
show that and close out
the year.”
the SEC. But heading into
Week 1 against an LSU
team that is replacing as
much as it is, there has
to be some semblance of
confidence.
Ben’s best:
Throughout quaran-
tine I’ve tried to spend
time watching a slew
of classic movies that I
hadn’t previously seen.
But I’ll save that for an-
other day.
Among my favorite
subgenres of flicks are
the R-rated comedies
between 2000 and 2015.
Here are my top picks
from that era:
1. Wedding Crashers
2. The Hangover
3. Old School
4. Forgetting Sarah
Marshall
5. Superbad
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Murray outduels Mitchell, sets up first Game 7 in the bubble

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS advancing to face the
Los Angeles Clippers.
L AK E BUENA VIS - The Clippers fin-
TA, Fla. — The Ja- ished off the Dallas
mal Murray-Donovan Mavericks in six games
Mitchell duel will be on the same court a few
settled in the first Game hours earlier.
7 in the bubble. Denver is trying to
Murray extended his become the 12th team
torrid run with 50 more to rally from a 3-1 deficit
points, leading the Den- to win a series and the
ver Nuggets to a 119 -107 first since 2016, when
victory over the Utah the Cleveland Cavaliers
Jazz on Sunday night. completed the only one
Murray had his sec- of those comebacks that
ond 50 -point game came in the NBA Finals.
of the series to equal The Nuggets won the
Mitchell, who finished
opener, but the Jazz won
with 44 in this one. No the next three games
player has ever had and were in good shape
more in an entire post- to finish it in Game 5,
season. holding a 15 -point lead
They will go at it in the third quarter.
one more time Tuesday Murray led the
night, with the winner charge back in that
game, finishing with points for the Jazz, but ed 5 of 6 but were just TIP-INS
42 points, and then was Rudy Gobert and Jor- trying to keep up as the
a sizzling 17 of 24 in dan Clarkson were each Jazz hit their first seven Nuggets: Gary Har-
Game 6, going 9 for 12 only held to 11. shots. Conley made a ris got his first action in
behind the 3-point arc. A seventh game be- 3-pointer from the cor- the series after recov-
Mitchell also hit tween the third-seeded ner while falling down ering from a right hip
nine 3-pointers and in- Nuggets and No. 6 Jazz to beat the shot clock
creased what was the seems fitting. Though and then later banked muscle strain. He fin-
NBA’s top-scoring aver- Denver won all three in one, keeping Utah ished with four points.
age in these playoffs at meetings during the rolling even on the pos- ... Torrey Craig walked
37.6 points per game. regular season, the to- sessions when Denver off the floor with a towel
In the fourth quar- tal margin was just 11 defended well.
ter alone, Murray out- points. But the Jazz left plen- covering his face after
scored Mitchell 21-17, The Jazz came into ty of points on the board being hit while battling
helping prevent the Jazz the day topping all by going 3 for 9 on free for rebound position in
from ever getting close teams in the postseason throws, so their lead the third quarter but
enough to have a real in field goal percentage was only six. Murray
stayed in the game after
chance of finishing the and 3-point percent- then heated up on his
series. age, and ranking third way to a 14-point sec- the previous play was
Murray had a little in scoring with 121.8 ond quarter and Utah under review.
more help, with Nikola points per game. And shot just 4 for 16 as the Jazz: Utah finished 18
Jokic scoring 22 points they looked early as if Nuggets surged to a
of 36 (50%) from 3-point
and Jerami Grant add- they would eclipse all 10 -point advantage be-
ing 18. those numbers. fore taking a 61-56 lead range. ... Georges Niang
Mike Conley had 21 The Nuggets start- to the locker room. scored 10 points.

Comics & Puzzles

DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
I cut off
contact with
a friend I’ll call
“Mick” after my
wife and I had our
first child. He was
a gambling addict,
an alcoholic and
a serial abuser of
women. He was
violent when he
ZITS drank and once
broke my nose
because of some
perceived slight.
Mick had a
troubled childhood
Dear Abby
and then served
in the Army in Afghanistan and
Iraq. By the time he returned
home, his mental health was
extremely compromised, and I
believe this is what led to most,
if not all, of his issues and
shortcomings.
I have always believed that,
GARFIELD at heart, Mick is a good person.
As someone who suffers from
mental illness myself, I feel
I can understand his issues
on some level. I would like to
reconnect with him, but I need
to protect myself and my family,
both emotionally and physically.
How might I approach rekin-
dling a relationship with Mick in
a safe and reasonable way? —
MISSING A FRIEND
DEAR MISSING: Drop that
idea. You are not a therapist,
and you can’t “fix” what’s
CANDORVILLE wrong with Mick. The man is a
violent abuser,
and you have no
proof that he has
sought counsel-
ing for his issues.
Offering the hand
of friendship to
someone who
broke your nose
because he had
been drinking
could be danger-
ous for you and
your family. Your
first responsibility
is THEIR safety.
DEAR ABBY:
My friend and I
befriended the
most adorable older couple.
They invite us over and they
love lunching together. They are
terrific company, and we always
enjoy our time with them.
During our last visit, they
were cooking lunch, and it was
apparent that they don’t wash
their hands when preparing
food. Because of the corona-
virus, we aren’t comfortable
eating at their house anymore.
We would be happy to bring
something over, but they are
set in their ways and like to
prepare their own food. We
tried saying we can’t stay for
lunch, but once we are with
them, they start putting out
the food. What advice can you
give us? — STAYING SAFE IN
CALIFORNIA
DEAR STAYING SAFE: Go on-
line and check to see whether
you can pick up the coronavirus
from food. One would think
that if the food is hot, the virus
wouldn’t survive the cooking
process. Have you considered
inviting them to your place
instead?
If you think this charming
couple’s food puts you at risk
of catching something unpleas-
ant — like salmonella — the
next time you are invited, lower
your risk by bringing food for
all of you. If they argue, tell
them you are reciprocating their
hospitality, which may have
been one-sided if you have
eaten there often. However, if
they question you further, tell
them the truth. While it may
cool the relationship, it will in-
crease your chances of staying
healthy.
DEAR ABBY: My brother
passed away recently. I bought
a small life insurance policy
24 years ago to provide for his
final expenses and to help his
widow at the time of death.
After paying for expenses, I
plan to leave what’s left to his
widow. My husband is nudging
me to deduct the premium I
paid for the policy, but I don’t
feel comfortable about it. I’m
not sure what I should do. Any
suggestions? — WONDERING
IN THE MIDWEST
DEAR WONDERING: This
was YOUR brother and this is
your sister-in-law. Tune your
“helpful” husband out and
follow your conscience.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug.
31). There’s a difference be-
tween being spontaneous and
reactive. You’ll have bright ideas
and follow through without fear
to create experiences that ele-
vate you and delight your crew.
Even so, this year sees you as
less reactive in your decisions,
pausing for as long as it takes
for wisdom to set in. Sagittarius
BABY BLUES and Scorpio adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 8, 40, 12,
22 and 18.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Transitions are disruptive, but
don’t let that stop you from
making a change. You’ll be so
glad you seized the opportunity,
and then it won’t take you very
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
long to settle into a new groove.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
When you slip into that certain
mindset, it’s as though you can
fix anything. From the smallest
decision to the grandest long-
term plan, there are no prob-
lems that resist clear thinking.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). When it’s not convenient,
practical or safe to travel in the
typical ways, micro travel may
be just as fortifying. There is so
much you haven’t seen in your
own backyard.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
How productive you are today
will have everything to do with
the amount of interference you
get from yourself. Why would
you interfere with your own
work? A wonderful question that
only you know the answer to.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Emotions come and go. Moods
settle in for a handful of min-
utes or hours or days. Today,
you have a talent for shaking
off certain feelings and turning
them around before they settle
into full-blown moods.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
It takes guts to be assertive,
but the alternative is that you
let your wishes, preferences
and needs go unknown and
run the risk of later becoming
unsatisfied or disgruntled.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You know that the way you talk
to yourself profoundly impacts
your mood, and yet, often, you
are not aware of the particulars.
Today, there will be obvious
benefits to listening in closely to
that you-to-you dialogue.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Is it really possible to
organize your thoughts, and
if so, how so? Alphabetical?
First come, first served? By
numerical urgency level? You’ll
intuitively stumble upon the
best way and have astounding
clarity for the effort.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You’ll find a simple path to
feeling better. You’ll pause to
reflect on what happened, what
you felt about it and whether
there might be another way to
think about it than the reaction
that caused you so much pain.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). To irrationally anticipate
future threats or dangers is just
an overactive version of the
related rational skill. Consider
your vigilance a talent, and then
rely on outside opinions to keep
yourself in check.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Words that follow lines of
logic and heart connect you to
humanity -- illogical, heartfelt
words perhaps even more so.
Logic without heart is practically
useless, if not dangerous today.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You are trying to have more
discipline around something.
The occasional lapses don’t
mean too much. What makes a
difference is what you do most
often and persistently. Also that
you don’t quit.

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