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Syria has used
chemical weapons
Defense Secretary Hagel,
White House cite varying
degrees of confidence
that Syria has used chem-
ical weapons. 8A
uPressure growing on U.S.
to take action. 8A
Living presidents
join to hail Bush
Honor of a lifetime, he
says at dedication of his
presidential library and
museum. 3A
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APRIL 26 - 28, 2013
Congress is poised to end air-traf-
c-control furloughs that have de-
layed thousands of ights this week.
The Senate unanimously agreed
Thursday to allow the Federal Avia-
tion Administration (FAA) to shift
$253 million from other accounts so
it can end furloughs and keep towers
open at smaller airports nationwide.
The House is expected to rubber-
stamp the legislation today.
Lawmakers said the furloughs
could end immediately under the bill,
but the FAA said it wasnt clear how
quickly the controller schedules
could be changed.
This should prevent the onerous
delays that have been occurring and
that were only going to get worse as
the traveling season reached its peak
this summer, said Sen. Susan Col-
lins, R-Maine, who serves on the ap-
propriations subcommittee for
transportation.
Passenger, pilot and airline CEO
frustration grew as the furloughs
stacked up ights from New York to
Los Angeles for a fth straight day.
This is one of the worst ying ex-
periences ever, said Evan Shenkin, a
NewYork resident who changed Del-
ta ights twice Wednesday and
whose departure was delayed four
hours to y from Boston Logan to
JFKAirport in NewYork.
About 40% of delays this week
were a result of not enough control-
lers in towers, the FAAsaid, with 400
delays blamed on stafng Sunday,
1,200 delays blamed on stafng on
Monday, 1,025 on Tuesday and 863
on Wednesday.
The total number of delays, in-
cluding those for weather, more than
tripled from a year earlier, from
2,795 to 8,804 this week, according to
the National Air Trafc Controllers
Association, the union representing
furloughed workers.
On Thursday, the FAA warned of
delays from stafng shortages at the
three New York City-area airports
and regional centers for Southern
California, Chicago and Washington.
The furloughs of about 1,500 con-
trollers a day resulted from govern-
mentwide spending cuts that forced
the FAAto trim$637 million by Sept.
30. Transportation Secretary Ray La-
Hood and FAA Administrator Mi-
chael Huerta said they couldnt avoid
furloughs to shave $220 million and
the closure of towers at small air-
ports to save $25 million, along with
curbing training, travel and informa-
tion-technology spending.
The White House had signaled it
was prepared to x the FAA. Spokes-
man Jay Carney called the vote a
Band-Aid approach to the lingering
federal spending dispute between
Republican lawmakers and the Dem-
ocratic administration.
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said the
legislation would allow FAA to keep
open the towers, in a victory for air
travelers and communities
nationwide.
Contributing: Nancy Trejos
Senate gives FAA
the all-clear
to shift funds
to end furloughs
Bart Jansen and Susan Davis
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YOUARENOTFORGOTTEN
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Honor guard members salute Thursday in Waco, Texas, as they change shift before a memorial ser-
vice for first responders who died in last weeks fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. President
Obama lauded their courage and told family and friends that the nation shares their grief. 3A.
BELTSVILLE, MD. Six years have
passed since a roadside bomb set
Ronny Tony Porta on re in Iraq
when he was 20, and hes still trying
to nd his way home.
Each reection in the mirror
bears witness to why that is not
easy.
Every stranger who points or
stares, every teenager who mocks
with the word monster or couple
that whisper behind his back that
the disgurement is the price for
invading a country, tells Porta he
hasnt quite left the battleeld
behind.
This is home for me, says Por-
ta, 26, who grew up in suburban-
Washington Beltsville after his fam-
ily emigrated from Peru. But
sometimes, its kind of hard saying,
I amhome.
Two months ago, a man ap-
proached Porta in a Home Depot.
He stood studying the burns on
Portas face and asked if a car acci-
dent was to blame. Porta, wearing a
Marine Corps sweatshirt, said, no,
it was an IEDexplosion in Iraq.
What really stuck with Porta and
angers him still were the words the
man said next: Was it worth it? Is
it so difcult, Porta asks, to see that
those who volunteer in defense of
Whos going to
love me now?
vSTORY CONTINUES ON 7A
TonyPorta, disgured in Iraq, has sustained
additional wounds at home: stares, pointing,
even mocking. For this Marine and the many
war vets like him, the battle never ends.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 NEWS 2A
OBAMA ASKS SUPREME COURT
TO UPHOLD APPOINTMENTS
ASupreme Court battle over presi-
dential powers loomed closer Thurs-
day as the Obama administration
asked the justices to uphold appoint-
ments made without Senate consent.
The Justice Department request is
almost certain to make its way on to
the courts calendar later this year or
in 2014 because lower courts have is-
sued split decisions on the issue.
At stake is whether Obama or
any president can circumvent li-
busters of his nominees by appoint-
ing them while senators are out of
town. The sticking point in this case
is that the Senate reconvened every
few days in pro forma sessions
where no business was conducted.
Obama appointed three members
in January 2012 to the ve-member
National Labor Relations Board,
which had been stymied following
Senate Republicans refusal to con-
sider his nominees. The administra-
tion argued Obama had that
authority because the Senate was not
in session.
But the federal appeals court for
the District of Columbia ruled that
Obama lacked authority to make the
appointments in the middle of the
112th Congress. It reasoned that
Obamas action was a way around the
Senates advise-and-consent role.
That decision would dramatically
curtail the scope of the presidents
authority under the recess appoint-
ments clause, the Justice Depart-
ment argued. Richard Wolf
DROUGHT DIVIDE IS TAKING
SHAPE ACROSS THE USA
The nation is seeing a sharp divide
between dry and wet as summer ap-
proaches: While the eastern USA is
almost drought-free, drought con-
tinues to intensify in much of the
country west of the Mississippi River.
Many areas of the West are ending
the wet season with bleak spring
runof prospects and increasing
drought concerns, according to this
weeks U.S. Drought Monitor, a feder-
al website that tracks drought.
Every state west of the Mississippi,
except for Washington, is enduring
some level of drought. In all, 66% of
the western USAis in a drought, with
the worst conditions in Texas, Colo-
rado, Kansas and New Mexico. Na-
tionally, 47%of the contiguous U.S. is
in a drought.
The forecast for the next week to
10 days is for warmer- and drier-
than-normal conditions from the
western U.S. eastward into the cen-
tral and northern Plains, according to
the Drought Monitor. Doyle Rice
BOMB OUTSIDE PAKISTAN
POLITICAL OFFICE KILLS FIVE
A bomb exploded outside an elec-
tion ofce of one of Pakistans main
political parties, killing ve people
ahead of May 11 elections.
As the election approaches, mili-
tants have been attacking liberal, sec-
ular parties. The onslaught has raise
questions about whether the vote can
be considered valid if some main-
stream parties cant properly take
part.
The bomb was planted outside an
ofce used by the Muttahida Quami
Movement, senior police ofcial
Amir Farooqi said. He said nine peo-
ple were wounded by the bomb,
which was attached to a motorcycle.
Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ah-
san claimed responsibility for the at-
tack in a call to the Associated Press.
MISSISSIPPI MAN TIED TO RICIN
CASE GOES INTO HIDING
A Mississippi man whose home
was searched in the investigation of
poisoned letters sent to the president
and others is in hiding, but his attor-
ney said he is cooperating and the
FBI knows howto reach him.
Everett Dutschke, 45, had his
home and former business in Tupelo
searched in connection with the let-
ters, which allegedly contained ricin.
Charges initially led against a ce-
lebrity impersonator were dropped
this week. Attention turned to
Dutschke, who has ties to the former
suspect and a judge and senator who
the letters were addressed to.
A friend of Dutschkes told the As-
sociated Press Dutschke was just try-
ing to escape the news media.
Compiled fromstafand wire reports
KEVINFRAYER, AP
A woman is lifted out of the rubble
Thursday by rescuers at the site of a
building that collapsed Wednesday in
Savar, Bangladesh. The death toll
reached at least 275 people as crews
searched for injured and missing.
DEATHTOLL CLIMBS INCOLLAPSE
IN BRIEF
ta and North Dakota remain under as
much as a foot of snowin some spots.
Much of the existing snowcover in
the northern Plains and Upper Mid-
west will melt this weekend into
early next week, according to Accu-
Weather meteorologist Alex Sosnow-
ski. As this happens, he says the
Just in time for the spring ood
season, the federal sequester is
threatening to shut of funding for
hundreds of stream gauges used to
predict and monitor ood levels
across the country.
The U.S. Geological Survey will
discontinue operation of up to 375
streamgauges nationwide because of
budget cuts, the USGS notes on its
website. Additional stream gauges
may be afected if state and local
partners reduce their funding.
USGS is quick to point out it wont
shut down gauges now being used to
monitor the heavy oods in the Mid-
west. Robert Mason, deputy chief of
the USGS Ofce of Surface Water,
says the agency plans to prioritize
gauges used by the National Weather
Service for forecasting.
A total of 682 gauges have some
level of funding issues (some of the
gauges may not be shut of entirely).
The USGS, which operates about
95% of the gauges, is part of the U.S.
Department of the Interior.
Even though the operation of
most stream gauges is highly auto-
mated, the gauges still require peri-
odic instrument and ratings
calibration, communication adjust-
ments, battery replacement and site
maintenance (especially after high
water events), Mason says.
It is a highly eld and labor inten-
sive operation, Mason says. He says
the total yearly maintenance and up-
keep cost of all 8,000 gauges is
$150 million.
The shutof of the gauges could
start as early as Wednesday. Al-
though gauges have been shut of in
the past because of budget cuts, we
have just not faced this drastic a cut
in decades, if ever, Mason says.
Flooding kills more than 90 Amer-
icans each year, according to the Na-
tional Weather Service.
Flooding will remain a major con-
cern over the next few days and
weeks in the Midwest: Though ood-
ing on the Mississippi River is easing
slightly, ood fears are on the rise in
North Dakota and Minnesota, pri-
marily along the Red and Souris riv-
ers, the weather service says.
River levels on the Souris and Red
rivers in North Dakota are beginning
to increase as temperatures in the
60s and 70s allow the snowpack to
melt this weekend. Parts of Minneso-
water locked up in the snow (the
equivalent of 2 to 6 inches and in
some cases more) will be released.
Weather service hydrologists pro-
ject the Red River in Fargo to reach
major to near-record stages next
week because of melting snow and
minor rainfall events.
Agency to turn off up to 375
ood gauges because of cuts
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A newly discovered mouse hor-
mone may open the door to better
treatment for diabetes, researchers
suggested Thursday.
The hormone, called betatrophin,
triggers the growth of beta cells,
which produce insulin in the pancre-
as, but with diabetes either dont
function properly or become inefec-
tive.
Diabetes aficts more than 25 mil-
lion people nationwide, according to
the American Diabetes Association.
It is a condition that causes high
blood sugar that can lead to heart
disease, kidney failure and blindness.
In the journal Cell, a team led by
Harvards Peng Yi reports that beta-
trophin can produce a roughly seven-
teenfold increase in these cells.
This is really an amazing discov-
ery. Hormones with this kind of ef-
fect arent discovered very often, and
this opens a whole new pathway to
treating diabetes, says diabetes ex-
pert Jake Kushner of the McNair
Medical Institute at Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston, who was not
part of the study team. He cautioned
that the hormones efects, which the
study team sees as isolated to beta
cells, need to be thoroughly investi-
gated for safety.
The hormone was discovered al-
most by accident, as the Harvard
team investigated a research com-
pound that basically recreates what
happens in diabetes. The compound
short circuits the release of insulin in
response to increasing blood sugar.
When that happened to the mice in
the study, their production of the
hormone betatrophin ramped up and
spurred the growth of insulin pro-
ducing cells. Diabetics often need
daily insulin injections to compen-
sate for the condition. In type 2, or
adult-onset diabetes, the most fre-
quent kind, beta cells stop producing
enough insulin, and in juvenile dia-
betes, or type 1, about 10% of cases,
beta cells have died.
Of course, we are a long way from
a treatment. But if this could be used
in people, what I think it could mean
eventually is that instead of taking
insulin injections three times a day,
you might take an injection of this
hormone once a week or once a
month, says study senior author
Doug Melton of the Harvard Stem
Cell Institute, in a commentary pro-
vided by the university.
It will need to be established
(that) the molecule drives beta cell
replication in humans, says beta cell
expert Peter Butler of the University
of California-Los Angeles. He cau-
tions that a variety of compounds
have earlier been identied that drive
beta cell growth in young mice but
then did not have the same efect on
beta cells in people.
Newfound hormone holds hope for diabetes treatment
Dan Vergano
@dvergano
USATODAY
Hormones with this
kind of effect arent
discovered very often,
and this opens a whole
new pathway to
treating diabetes.
Jake Kushner of the McNair Medical
Institute at Baylor College of Medicine
DALLAS There were no unkind
words Thursday for George W. Bush,
whose presidency was marked by do-
mestic and global tumult.
As the nations ve living presi-
dents gathered here to help dedicate
the George W. Bush Presidential
Center, there was only praise for his
leadership and personality.
To know the man is to like the
man, President Obama said of his
predecessor. He is a good man.
Bush opened his remarks with wry
humor. He joked that there was a
time in his life when he wouldnt be
found in a library, much less found
one. Noting Alexander Hamiltons
concern that ex-presidents would
wander the nation like discontented
ghosts, Bush said, Actually, I think
we seempretty happy.
Bushs remarks grewmore serious.
In the end, leaders are dened by
the convictions that they hold, he
said. His chief conviction, he said:
The United States of America must
strive to expand the reach of
freedom.
Future generations, he said, are
going to nd out that we stayed true
to our convictions, that his admini-
stration raised school standards, low-
ered taxes, liberated nations from
dictatorships and made the tough
decisions required to keep the Amer-
ican people safe.
Tears lled his eyes as he conclud-
ed. It was the honor of a lifetime to
lead a country as brave and as noble
as the United States, he said, and he
believes its best days lie ahead.
Obama called the meeting of all
presidents a special day for our de-
mocracy. He said he needed their
advice shortly before his inaugura-
tion when they were last together.
Our clubs more like a support
group, Obama said. Its impossible
to truly understand the nature of the
job until its yours.
The current president said he
found a letter from Bush on his rst
inauguration day that demonstrated
his compassion and his generosity.
Obama, a frequent critic of what
he has called Bushs failed policies,
praised Bushs leadership after the 9/
11 attacks, his ght against AIDS in
Africa and his immigration and edu-
cation policies.
Of Bushs tenure as commander in
chief, Obama said, We share a pro-
found respect and reverence for the
nations military.
The ceremony was the rst gather-
ing of the ve men since January
2009, when they met at the White
House before Obamas inauguration.
Bush is 66; his father, George H.W.
Bush, 88; Obama, 51; Bill Clinton, 66;
and Jimmy Carter, 88.
The younger Bush gripped his fa-
thers hand during the invocation.
George H.W. Bush, who was hospital-
ized for a month last winter, was in a
wheelchair. He has a form of Parkin-
sons disease.
This is very special for Barbara
and me, George H.W. Bush said.
With help fromhis oldest son and his
wife, the senior Bush stood briey
during a standing ovation.
Mark Langdale, the Bush Centers
president, calls the museum a per-
sonal scrapbook of the 43rd presi-
dent and his wife.
The Bush Center, on the campus
of Southern Methodist University
Laura Bushs alma mater opens to
the public May 1. The center also in-
cludes the Bush Institute, a public
policy center.
Bush: It was the honor of a lifetime
JEWEL SAMAD AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Fromleft, President Obama and former presidents George W. Bush,
Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter arrive Thursday
for the George W. Bush Presidential Center dedication in Dallas.
Five presidents come
together to dedicate
library and museum
Judy Keen
@judykeen
USATODAY
The reghters responding to last
weeks re at a West, Texas, fertilizer
depot knewthe risky mix of fertilizer
and re. The mostly volunteer group
farmers, city employees, dads and
husbands rushed to help anyway.
They did so, knowing their fate
was tied to the mounds of ammoni-
um nitrate stocked in a shed for
spring planting.
In a deafening ash, they were
gone 10 reghters from ve de-
partments marking the second-
deadliest incident involving reght-
ers in Texas history and one of the
worst ever in the USA.
President Obama and hundreds of
fellow rst responders tried to con-
sole this community rocked by the
April 17 blast that killed 14 people
overall and injured more than 200.
This small towns family is bigger
now, Obama said Thursday during a
memorial service at Baylor Univer-
sity in nearby Waco, Texas.
To the families, the neighbors
grappling with unbearable loss, we
are here to say you are not alone. You
are not forgotten, Obama said to ap-
plause. We may not all live here in
Texas, but were neighbors too. Were
Americans too, and we stand with
you.
Obama spoke for 16 minutes, quot-
ing Scripture and lauding the men
whose ag-draped cofns stood be-
fore him. When you got to the
scene, you forgot fear and you fought
that blaze as hard as you could,
knowing the danger, Obama said.
Both the president and rst lady
Michelle Obama wiped away a tear as
bagpipes sounded Amazing Grace.
Nationally, the West blast was the
highest single-incident reghter fa-
tality count since 9/11, when 340 re-
ghters were killed responding to the
terrorist attacks in New York City,
according to the National Fire Pro-
tection Association.
Five of those killed in last weeks
blast were from the West Volunteer
Fire Department, and at least ve
other reghters were hospitalized.
Volunteer re departments such
as the one in West make up 78% of
the 1,900 departments in Texas and
nearly 70%of all departments across
the nation, said Chris Barron, execu-
tive director of the State Firemens
and Fire Marshals Association of
Texas.
The last incident involving so
many reghter fatalities was the
1947 explosion in Texas City of a ship
loaded with 2,300 tons of ammoni-
um nitrate, he said. That blast killed
27 volunteer reghters responding
to the initial re and more than 580
people. overall.
Unlike full-time re departments,
such as ones found in Dallas and
Houston, rural communities like
West rely on volunteer reghters
who juggle those duties with outside
jobs and are often less trained than
career reghters, Barron said. Of
the ve West volunteer reghters
killed in the blast, three had achieved
a moderate level of training known
as Fireghter 1 and two had no
certied training, Barron said.
This was just devastating for the
entire re service across the coun-
try, said Kimberly Quiros of the Na-
tional Volunteer Fire Council. To
lose so many in one incident has had
a devastating efect. Its really
horrible.
The impact has been felt most
sharply in West, a city of 2,800 resi-
dents where even the mayor is a vol-
unteer reghter. Everybody is at a
loss right now, said councilwoman
Cheryl Marak, whose husband, Mar-
ty, is a volunteer reghter but sur-
vived the blast. We got quite a few
funerals coming up. Its really bad.
The volunteers answered the call
at the West Fertilizer Company along
with four other reghters fromarea
departments who were taking an
evening training course at the West
Volunteer Emergency Medical Ser-
vice facility nearby.
Among the volunteers: Cody Dra-
goo, 50, who worked at the fertilizer
depot.
Capt. Kenneth Harris, a 30-year
veteran with Dallas Fire-Rescue who
lived in West, also showed up and
told the gathered reghters the
risks of having the re so close to the
combustible chemicals, West Mayor
Tommy Muska said.
They knew it was not going to be
good, he said.
On Harris orders, the reghters
were rolling up the hose and backing
the retruck out of the property
when the explosion hit, instantly kill-
ing the men on site, destroying near-
by homes and leaving a crater 93 feet
wide and 10 feet deep, Muska said.
Contributing: The Associated Press
JEWEL SAMAD, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Those attending a memorial service for the reghters at Baylor University in Waco, Texas a crowd
that included President Obama and the rst lady try to comfort each other Thursday.
ROD AYDELOTTE, WACOTRIBUNE HERALD, VIA AP
Members of the West volunteer re department carry the helmets of
fallen reghters during a tribute. The unit lost ve of its own.
FELLOW
FIREFIGHTERS
DEVASTATED
OVER LOSS IN
TEXAS BLAST
They knewwell the
huge risks but did their
duty, mourners recall
Rick Jervis
@MrRJervis
USATODAY
Among fatalities:
uWest Fire Department: Jimmy
Matus, 52; Cody Frank Dragoo, 50;
Joey Pustejovsky, 29; Douglas
Snokhous, 50; Robert Snokhous, 48.
uAbbott Fire Department:
Cyrus AdamReed, 29; Jerry Dane
Chapman, 26.
uMerkel unit: Perry Calvin, 37.
uBruceville-Eddy Fire Depart-
ment: Kevin Sanders, 33.
uDallas Fire Department:
Kenneth Harris, 52.
uOther victims: William"Buck"
Uptmor, 45; Judith Ann Monroe,
65.; Mariano Saldivar, 57.
A SAD DAY IN TEXAS
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USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
BOMBINGS IN BOSTON
NEW YORK Boston Marathon bomb-
ing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told
federal investigators that three days
after the attack on the race, he and
his brother planned to travel to New
York City and detonate their remain-
ing cache of explosives in Times
Square, Mayor Michael Bloomberg
and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
said Thursday.
The FBI relayed information
about the plot to New York authori-
ties after two interrogation sessions
with Tsarnaev in a Boston hospital.
We were informed, Bloomberg
said, that NewYork City was next on
their list of targets.
Kelly said Tsarnaev and his older
brother, Tamerlan, made a spur-of-
the-moment decision to take their
six remaining explosive devices
one pressure cooker and ve pipe
bombs to New York after carjack-
ing a vehicle late April 18, hours after
their photographs had been made
public by the FBI.
The plan fell apart, Kelly said,
when during a stop at a service sta-
tion to refuel, the vehicles owner es-
caped and called police. The call led
to a shootout with police that ended
in the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev,
while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was cap-
tured April 19 and taken to an area
hospital with a serious neck injury.
He was formally charged Monday in
connection with the Boston attacks
that killed three people and injured
more than 260 others.
Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was
photographed with friends in Times
Square on or near April 18, 2012, and
was again in New York City in No-
vember 2012. New York authorities
have identied some of the friends in
the photographs and are investigat-
ing those visits, Kelly said.
We dont know if those visits
were related in any way to what
(Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) described as
the brothers spontaneous decision
to target Times Square, the commis-
sioner said. Theres no evidence at
this time, however, to indicate that
NewYork City is currently a target of
another terrorist attack.
In Washington, meanwhile, ques-
tions were raised over whether the
FBI had adequate time to question
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev under the pub-
lic-safety exception that allows limit-
ed interrogation of terror suspects
about other possible threats.
The chairman of the House Intelli-
gence Committee suggested that a
federal magistrate interrupted the
interrogation to advise the suspect of
his rights to remain silent and con-
sult with counsel, just before he was
charged with terrorism ofenses that
carry a possible death penalty.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said
Thursday on MSNBC that he feared
that Judge Marianne Bowlers action
Monday at Tsarnaevs bedside could
have blocked federal law enforce-
ment from obtaining additional in-
formation from the suspect. Bowler
declined to comment through her of-
ce Thursday.
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md.,
the panels ranking Democrat, down-
played the suggestion, saying Tsar-
naev had been questioned for up to
15 hours before he was advised of his
rights. He also rejected some con-
gressional criticism of the FBIs han-
dling of a 2011 request by Russian
authorities to reviewTamerlan Tsar-
naevs possible ties to extremist
groups. Ruppersberger said the FBI
investigated for four months before
concluding that Tsarnaev represent-
ed no apparent threat.
Although the CIA, which received
the same request from Russia later
that year, submitted Tsarnaev for in-
clusion on terrorist watch lists, Rup-
persberger said Russian authorities
never responded to three separate
requests from the FBI for additional
information on Tsarnaev after it
closed its reviewin June 2011.
Contributing: Kevin Johnson and Donna
Leinwand Leger in Washington
NewYork City was next on hit list
Investigators:
Plot hatched
at last minute
Kevin McCoy
USATODAY
MARK LENNIHANAP
NewYork City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, left, and Mayor
Michael Bloomberg discuss the foiled plot to attack Times Square.
Leana Wen relives the Boston
Marathon bombing every day.
After four years in the emergency
room, Wen had seen her share of ac-
cidents, shootings, even amputations,
but she says nothing in her eight
years of medical training prepared
her for that day.
I am glad I was able to help, says
Wen, 30, a physician in her last year
of a four-year residency at Massachu-
setts General Hospital. I wish I
could have helped more. But I wish I
hadnt seen it.
More than a week later, Wen still
has nightmares. Every new alarm
beep takes her back to the day of the
bombing.
Wen was nearing the end of her
shift when a call came over the loud
speaker, announcing that the hospi-
tal was about to get two patients in-
jured in an explosion. With some
doctors arriving just as others were
about to leave, the hospital had twice
the usual number of physicians.
Minutes later, another call came
in: There had been two explosions.
All too quickly, the ER was full,
with patients in more distress than
Wen had ever seen. Some were silent;
some asked repeatedly about family.
Others cried and screamed.
At some point, I wanted to cry
with them, but I couldnt, Wen said.
There was blood everywhere. On
the oor, there were trails of it be-
hind the stretchers.
There was also soot from the ex-
plosions, and the smell of burned
clothing, and burned esh.
One of her most important jobs
was triage: deciding which patients
needed immediate treatment
With so much blood everywhere, it
wasnt always easy to identify just
where the bleeding was coming from.
Once she located the source of bleed-
ing, she worked to stop it, tying tour-
niquets on those in danger of
bleeding to death. She performed
CPRon patients without a pulse. She
ordered blood and uids to replace
what patients had lost.
Wen had been working since 7 a.m.
without a break before the bombing,
and she didnt get a break after. I
wasnt weak, she said, because my
adrenaline was so high.
Even as she rushed to save lives,
Wen kept an eye on the scene around
her, to make sure that there werent
other patients who needed her more.
A phone in the ER beeps with ev-
ery new patient. On Patriots Day,
those alarms never seemed to stop.
More than 30 of the 260-plus peo-
ple injured that day were sent to
Massachusetts General. Most
seemed to arrive within the rst 90
minutes, Wen said. At least four re-
quired an amputation.
Wen couldnt help worrying about
her own husband, who had gone to
the nish line to see friends. Wen and
her husband live just a block away
fromthe site of the explosion at Cop-
ley Square.
I was terried that the next per-
son I would be resuscitating would
be my husband, said Wen, who
didnt learn he was OK until two
hours later.
It was very difcult to see so
many peoples lives changed in one
day. Seeing all those young people
who were my age, who would have
very diferent lives moving forward, if
they had lives at all.
STEVENSENNE, AP
ERphysician Leana Wen, pictured here in August, says nothing in her eight years of medical training pre-
pared her for the mental anguish that would followthe Boston Marathon attacks.
Days later, nightmares
hard to shake for doctor
Medical school
doesnt train you
for everything
Liz Szabo
@LizSzabo
USATODAY
From quilts to cash, people across
the country are extending them-
selves to help those afected by the
Boston Marathon bombings.
Many are donating to The One
FundBoston, the charity announced
by Mayor Thomas Menino and Gov.
Deval Patrick. By Wednesday night, it
had raised $24.8 million. Donations
are intended for those most adverse-
ly afected by the April 15 bombings.
Administrator Ken Feinberg, who
handled payments from the 9/11 and
BP funds, plans to meet with the in-
jured and families of those killed to
decide howto use the money.
Some people are collecting money
for the family of 8-year-old Martin
Richard at the Salem Five Bank in
Salem, Mass.
Giving helps people ght of the
sadness of a tragedy, says Robert
Cialdini, a psychology professor at
Arizona State University. He has doc-
umented a phenomenon called the
helpers high. He says, Helping
others is mood-enhancing.
Group runs being held across the
country were launched by tness
blogger Brian Kelly of Concord, Calif.
In Memphis, the Breakaway Run-
ning store sold out of 300 Run for
Boston T-shirts and took orders for
500 more. The shirts come with a
$10 minimumdonation.
Jocelyn Hawkins Woods, 34, of
Memphis, who works part-time, took
part in a run the store sponsored and
donated money. At her church, she
says, Weve always been taught you
just go where youre needed, even if
its just a little something.
Grass-roots eforts and simple
ideas have snowballed.
Trish Johnson, 49, of Brookeld,
Wis., and daughter Bree, 21, are Irish
dancers. When they heard that Jane
Richard, Martin Richards 6-year-old
sister, had been learning Irish danc-
ing but nowhas lost a leg, they creat-
ed Wrapping Jane in Our Love, a
Facebook campaign to make T-shirts
from Irish dance schools into a quilt.
So far, they have 172 shirts and
pledges from 293 more schools in
several countries. Michael Flatley,
creator of the Lord of the Dance mu-
sical, sent two signed shirts.
Dozens of fundraisers for medical
bills have emerged on GoFundMe-
.com and GiveForward.com. A note
attached to one anonymous $5,000
donation said simply, Believe.
Bondi Band, a company in Lewis-
ton, Maine, that makes athletic head-
bands for women, has created ve
bands. One says No More Hurting
People Martin Richard the
handwritten words on a poster that
Martin is holding in a widely distrib-
uted photo. Proceeds go to The One
Fund and the Richard family.
Charitable campaigns
go viral after bombings
Melanie Eversley
USATODAY
BOSTON As Bostons Back Bay neigh-
borhood slowly comes back to nor-
mal, The Lenox Hotel, sandwiched
between the sites of the two explo-
sions, has an unusual story to tell.
Its about turning a hotel into a po-
lice command center and working
with local businesses in a shared ef-
fort. Its about feeding, housing, and
catering to special guests the fed-
eral, state and city ofcials who spent
days combing a blocks-long crime
scene for evidence of the April 15
bombings near the nish line of the
Boston Marathon.
It was second nature for our team
to shift gear and make sure anyone in
our building was taken care of, said
Scott Grigelevich, director of sales
and marketing. In some strange way,
we feel that our role was to take care
of these men and woman and get this
solved.
The bombings were so close to
The Lenox that people in the 11-story
building physically felt the blasts.
Everybody felt it, Grigelevich
said. Within minutes, the hotel,
whose 214 rooms had been sold out
because of marathon weekend, was
rushing to evacuate guests and staf
members. Within 15 minutes, the ho-
tel was cleared.
The action came shortly after
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and his older
brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, al-
legedly carried out two coordinated
explosions that rocked Boston, left
three people dead and more than 260
others injured.
The next day, however, staf mem-
bers were back in the hotel. Ofcials
investigating the bombings had asked
to use The Lenox as their staging
area. What they got, Grigelevich said,
was much more.
For eight straight days, the major-
ity of the hotels rooms were lled
with ofcials from the FBI, Boston
police, the Boston Fire Department,
the Army and other agencies.
Each day, the hotel served food to
more than 500 people round-the-
clock, aided by donations from local
businesses such as Smith & Wollen-
sky restaurant, The Colonnade Bos-
ton Hotel and Eastern Standard
Kitchen.
Investigators, working around-
the-clock were given meals that in-
cluded eggs, bacon, chicken ngers,
and macaroni and cheese. There was
also round-the-clock water and cof-
fee alongside Chinese food, steaks
and deli sandwiches.
City Table, one of the hotels two
restaurants, became a bufet-style
food room where ofcers could eat,
rest and watch reports on two televi-
sions and a large projector.
At Solas, the other hotel restau-
rant, which has doors that open onto
Boylston Street, ofcers spent time
cataloging all the evidence left by the
bombings.
Around the hotel, time stood still
as outdoor tables sat with half-eaten
lunches decaying for eight days.
Meanwhile, the ofcials being
served gave thousand of dollars in
tips. Stafers decided not to pocket
the money but instead donate it to
The One Fund, created to benet the
bombing victims.
Finally by Monday night, The Le-
nox, built in 1900, opened back up to
guests and restored City Table as a
regular bustling restaurant.
By the following afternoon, Solas
was lled with people eating and
laughing.
Boston hotel had
unusual role in
aftermath of blasts
Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
USATODAY
BOSTON Boston bombing victim
Heather Abbott of Newport, R.I.,
wants to run, do Zumba, and wear
high heels again.
Thats why Abbott, 38, decided
this week to let surgeons amputate
her left leg belowthe knee.
Doing so sets her free from a
mangled foot that might never
fully heal and allows a full life on a
prosthetic limb, she told reporters
Thursday fromBrighamand Wom-
ens Hospital here. She sat with her
leg extended and an IVin her arm.
The prosthetic is something Im
going to have to get used to, she
said, but I think I have a better
chance of living my life the way I
used to with it.
Abbott was among more than
260 injured after two bombs went
of April 15 near the nish line of
the Boston Marathon. Her foot was
amputated Monday. At least 14 oth-
er victims have had amputations.
A human resources manager for
Raytheon, she said shed been wait-
ing with friends to enter a bar
when she heard the rst explosion,
saw smoke and heard screaming.
Moments later a second bomb
went of. It blewa bunch of us into
the bar. I was on the ground. I felt
like my foot was on re. I couldnt
stand up. I was just screaming
Somebody please help me!
After trying for a week to save
Abbotts foot, surgeon Eric Bluman
now says he expects shell be able
to do everything she used to do.
She says she hasnt been angry
and hasnt thought about the sus-
pects but has focused on healing.
Friends and family have set up a re-
covery fund for her on a crowd-
funding website, GoFundMe.com.
She will get a temporary pros-
thesis in about six weeks, a perma-
nent one in four to six months.
Opting for amputation was dif-
cult, she said, but it was what I
needed to do. I just try not to think
about it too much. ... Eventually it
will get better.
Amputation was what I
needed to do, victimsays
G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Special for USATODAY
STEVENSENNE, AP
Heather Abbott was hurt in the
Boston Marathon bombings.
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USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 NEWS 5A
BOMBINGS IN BOSTON
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, MD. When
he rst came to America eight years
ago, construction worker Alvi Tsarni
lived with his brother, Anzor Tsar-
naev, and his family in a small apart-
ment in Cambridge, Mass. He spent a
lot of time with his nephews, Dzhok-
har and Tamerlan, whom he de-
scribed as happy young men.
They were just regular kids,
Tsarni, 48, says while sitting inside
his home in this suburb of Washing-
ton. They would go outside and play.
They liked music, dancing, playing
video games and the Internet.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was very
young and played a lot with the chil-
dren of another nearby Chechen
family in Cambridge, recalls Tsarni,
who lived with the family for a year.
The brothers didnt get into trouble
and lived an ordinary life, he says.
Tsarni didnt remember the Tsar-
naev brothers and their family as
very religious.
We were born Muslim, but we
werent practicing, says Tsarni, who
just started going to a Maryland
mosque two years ago. Their family
was not practicing. Nobody used to
pray. The younger one didnt pray, he
just partied.
Instead, the family focused on
school and making sure the children
got good grades.
I just told themto learn and study
if not youll have to work like me,
Tsarni says.
When news broke that the broth-
ers were being sought by authorites
for the Boston Marathon bombings,
Tsarni says he couldnt believe it
and he doesnt believe it now.
They would never do something
like this, he says. Theres no proof.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would have to
confess in front of the family for him
to believe that his nephews carried
out the pair of bombings, Tsarni says.
Adding to Tsarnis disbelief is his
inability to claim the body of Tamer-
lan Tsarnaev. The uncle says he
went to Boston for two days and
asked repeatedly to see the body as
well as to have it released. But noth-
ing happened.
Police ofcers and the FBI have
not given hima clear way to claimhis
nephew, Tsarni says. Meanwhile,
Tsarni has contacted several
mosques in New Jersey, Maryland,
and Boston, and all have refused to
bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The brothers father is on his way
from Russia to America. I am going
there to see my son and bury my old-
er one, Anzor Tsarnaev said in a
meeting with journalists. I have no
bad thoughts, Im not planning any
bombings, I dont want to do any-
thing. Im not ofended by anyone. I
want to know the truth, what hap-
pened. I want to work it out.
The suspects mother, Zubeidat
Tsarnaeva, who was charged with
shoplifting in the U.S. last summer,
says she has been assured by lawyers
that she would not be arrested but
says she was still deciding whether to
go to America.
Tsarnaeva, wearing a headscarf
and dressed all in black, says she now
regrets moving her family to the USA
and believes they would have been
better of in a village in her native
Dagestan.
You know, my kids would be with
us, and we would be, like, ne, she
says. So, yes, I would prefer not to
live in America now. Why did I even
go there? Why? I thought America is
going to protect us, our kids, its going
to be safe.
The brothers other uncle, Ruslan
Tsarni, who also lives in Montgomery
Village, recalls that Dzhokhar and
Tamerlan acclimated easily to Amer-
ica, grewup in a close family and had
a happy childhood lled with Che-
chen and American traditions.
Ruslan Tsarni blames the young
mens shift from typical partying
men to extremists on the growing in-
uence of their mother and an Arme-
nian he called Misha.
Contributing: The Associated Press
The Tsarnaev brothers: Just regular kids
Family members
say they enjoyed
normal childhood
Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
USATODAY
ALLISONSHELLEY, GETTY IMAGES
Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspects
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said their family was close.
The triggers for Tamerlan Tsar-
naevs transformation into a suspect-
ed terrorist may never be fully
known, but his alleged acts have al-
ready scarred American history.
As intelligence and law enforce-
ment ofcials in several countries
contribute to a prosecution of his
brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, in
the Boston Marathon bombings, a
more complex and troubling portrait
of the two terrorism suspects has
emerged that contradict the benign
impressions they left on friends and
casual acquaintances.
Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a
shootout with police on April 19, four
days after law enforcement ofcials
say he and his brother set of two
bombs that killed three and maimed
more than 260, some severely, near
the end of the Boston Marathon.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains hospi-
talized from wounds sufered in his
attempted getaway, has been charged
by federal authorities with conspir-
ing to use a weapon of mass destruc-
tion and could face the death penalty.
Their mother, Zubeidat, told re-
porters in Russia on Thursday that
she will never believe her sons com-
mitted the act. She told CNN sepa-
rately that she believed the bombing
was an elaborate hoax.
But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told
law enforcement ofcials that the
two had acted on their own and that
they were motivated by opposition to
U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. ofcials have said that Tamerlan
had frequently visited jihadist web-
sites. Both the CIA and FBI had
agged Tamerlan in 2011 after Rus-
sian security ofcials raised ques-
tions about Tamerlans suspected
terrorist ties. The FBI interviewed
him, but no further action was taken.
In initial questioning by law en-
forcement ofcials after his arrest,
Dzhokhar made reference to the rad-
ical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was
born in the United States and killed
by a CIA drone in Yemen in 2011, ac-
cording to two law enforcement of-
cials who are not authorized to
comment publicly. A judge read
Dzhokhar his Miranda rights Mon-
day, and he has stopped talking, ac-
cording to lawenforcement ofcials.
RADICALIZED IN RUSSIA?
Investigators are looking into wheth-
er Tamerlan, who spent six months
in Russias Caucasus region in 2012,
was inuenced by the religious ex-
tremists who have waged an
insurgency against Russian security
services in the area for years. The
brothers have roots in Dagestan and
neighboring Chechnya, but neither
spent much time in either place be-
fore the family moved to the United
States a decade ago.
Ruslan Tsarni, 42, an uncle of the
two young men told USA TODAY on
Thursday that the brothers loved
each other and that the Dzhokhar
followed Tamerlan around the house
when they were young boys.
That relationship is also why Tsar-
ni, a business consultant, said outside
his Montgomery Village, Md., home
that he now believes Tamerlan was
the plot leader and pulled in his
younger brother.
An expert in sibling relationships
says several factors may be at play for
the Tsarnaev brothers, including a
powerful bond and loyalty.
Anthropologist Ana Zentella, a
professor emeritus at the University
of California-San Diego, says their
culture, as do many others, tends to
place elder sons in particularly high
regard and esteem.
Many cultures regard gender and
age and status as important regula-
tors of social conduct, Zentella says.
Certainly, it wouldnt be surprising
that in a particular culture, the older
male would have more status and be
looked up to as a role model.
In 2007, Tsarni had a falling out
with the Tsarnaev brothers and their
mother.
During that time Tsarni said his
brother told him an Armenian man
named Misha, began visiting the
familys small Cambridge, Mass.,
apartment. The man would stay past
midnight and talk to the family about
Islam. When the Tsarnaev father
would object, the wife would brush
himof, Tsarni said.
People in the heavily Armenian
community of Watertown, Mass.,
said they doubted the story.
For an Armenian to convert to Is-
lam is like nding a unicorn in a
eld, said Nerses Zurabyan, 32, an
information technology director who
lives in nearby Cambridge. It would
be such a shock to the Armenian
community that everyone would
knowthis person.
Tsarni said he last spoke with Ta-
merlan in 2009. Gone was the hard-
partying, outgoing person he once
knew. In his place was a completely
diferent young man who dodged
questions about whether he was
working or in school and instead
talked about spirituality.
He would just say he was on a
path to God, Tsarni said of
Tamerlan.
The parents moved back to Russia
last year, Tsarni said.
In September 2011, Tamerlans ap-
plication for U.S. citizenship was de-
nied after a routine background
check agged the FBI interview,
while Dzhokhar, who was born in
Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Repub-
lic, received his.
The Tsarnaev family included two
daughters, Bella, born in 1988, and
Ailina, born in 1990. In 2003, the
family immigrated to the United
States, where they rented an apart-
ment on Norfolk Street in Cam-
bridge. The parents moved back to
Russia last year, Tsarni told USA
TODAY.
TYPICAL IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
While they lived in Cambridge, their
mother set up a spa out of the
cramped apartment, according to
Boston-born writer and yoga teacher
Alyzza Kilzer, who posted on Tumblr
and Salon about her experiences with
the family. She wrote that he and her
mother received facials from Zubei-
dat for roughly ve years, from 2007
to 2012.
In her spa visits, Kilzer described
Dzhokhar as friendly and easygo-
ing and that she always felt she was
treated kindly by himand his two sis-
ters. But Kilzer wrote she found Ta-
merlan unfriendly. Eventually, Kilzer
wrote, she stopped getting facials
fromZubeidat after the mother start-
ed quoting conspiracy theories that
the U.S. government purposefully
created the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to
make Americans hate Muslims.
Outwardly to others, the Tsarnaev
brothers were seen as modest and
athletic.
Tamerlan was a champion Golden
Gloves boxer. Dzhokhar was a wres-
tler at the Cambridge Rindge and
Latin School in Cambridge.
Both pursued higher education,
Tamerlan as a student for three se-
mesters at Bunker Hill Community
College from 2006 to 2008. Dzhok-
har was studying at the University of
Massachusetts campus in Dart-
mouth.
Larry Aaronson, a retired history
teacher at Cambridge Rindge and
Latin School, was the brothers
neighbor and got to know Dzhokhar
while taking photos of the high
school wrestling team and other
school activities.
Its completely out of his charac-
ter, Aaronson said of Dzhokhars al-
leged role in the bombings.
Everything about him was wonder-
ful. He was completely outgoing, very
engaged, he loved the school.
Dzhokhar was not overtly political
or religious, Aaronson says. He
spoke and acted like any other high
school kid.
And perhaps like many college
kids. Dzhokhars dorm mates at the
UMass campus described him as a
pot-smoking, joking partier, someone
they would never have suspected of
being capable of setting of a bomb
that killed innocent people.
Its like nding out your best
friend is a serial killer, said Jennifer
Mendez, who met Tsarnaev last year
in their freshmen dorm and partied
regularly with him. He was really so-
cial and hilarious. He was one of
those people who would crack one
joke and make your night.
Tamerlans life was less carefree.
In 2009, he was arrested for do-
mestic violence against a girlfriend at
the time, but the charges were dis-
missed, according to Stephanie Chelf
Guyotte, director of communications
for the Middlesex District Attorney
in Woburn, Mass. She would not
name the alleged victim.
Tamerlan married Katherine Rus-
sell, 24, who had converted to Islam,
in 2009 or 2010. They had a daugh-
ter, who is now3.
Russell worked long hours as a
home health care aide, said her law-
yer, Amato DeLuca, who told the As-
sociated Press that the widow knew
nothing of the terrorist attack.
Tamerlan and his family received
unspecied welfare benets fromthe
Massachusetts Department of Health
and Human Services until 2012,
when they became ineligible based
on income, according to Alec Loftus,
the agencys communications
director.
While preparing for a Golden
Gloves boxing competition in Salt
Lake City in 2009, Tamerlan told an
interviewer: I dont have a single
American friend. I dont understand
them.
He lamented the breakdown of
values and worried that people
cant control themselves.
In that interviewbefore the boxing
competition, published in 2010 in
The Comment, a Boston University
College of Communication maga-
zine, Tamerlan described himself as a
devout Muslim who also liked the
raunchy lm Borat, in which actor
Sasha Baron Cohen plays a sex-ob-
sessed TV reporter from Kazakhstan
on a mission to try to understand
American culture.
On Thursday, Zubeidat told re-
porters in Dagestan that she regret-
ted moving to the United States.
Why did I even go there? Why? I
thought America is going to, like, pro-
tect us, our kids, its going to be safe.
Contributing: Kevin Johnson, Sharon
Jayson, Donna Leinwand Leger; the Associ-
ated Press
What made these two tick?
Atroubling portrait is
emerging of Dzhokhar
and Tamerlan Tsar-
naev, the brothers sus-
pected in the Boston
Marathon bombings,
and it contradicts
what others close to
themhave said.
Chuck Raasch and
Yamiche Alcindor
USATODAY
AP
A photo released by the FBI on April 19 is believed to showDzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, and Tamerlan Tsar-
naev in the moments before the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15.
MUSA SADULAYEV, AP
Anzor Tsarnaev, left, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, parents of the Boston
bombing suspects, speak at a news conference in Russia on Thursday.
AP FILE PHOTO
Did radical cleric Anwar al-Aw-
laki inuence the Tsarnaevs?
For an Armenian
to convert to Islam
is like nding a
unicorn in a eld.
It would be such
a shock to the
Armenian
community that
everyone would
knowthis person.
Nerses Zurabyan
F
6A NEWS
USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
Did you hear the one about the
president and the correspondents
dinner?
Ayear ago, President Obama told a
ballroom full of journalists, politi-
cians and celebrities that the White
House Correspondents Dinner is
known as the prom of Washington,
D.C. a term coined by political re-
porters who clearly never had the
chance to go to an actual prom.
Ba-da-boom!
Presidents have many duties
commander in chief, party leader,
chief executive but this weekend,
Obama plays a unique role generated
by the media age: political comedian.
Obama will headline the annual
White House Correspondents Din-
ner on Saturday, seeking laughs and
trying to walk a ne line between be-
ing funny and being mean.
It just needs to be good-natured,
said Landon Parvin, who wrote din-
ner jokes for Presidents Reagan and
George W. Bush.
You dont want to grind any axes,
Parvin said.
There are three basic rules for
presidents-turned-temporary- come-
dians: Make fun of yourself, dont go
overboard in mocking your oppo-
nents, and wrap up with a tribute to
the free press (or, if youre angry with
the press, freedomand democracy).
This year, Obama faces an extra
challenge, a dinner shadowed in part
by tragedy. He performs just 12 days
after the Boston Marathon double
bombing that killed three people and
injured more than 260. Expect the
president to pay tribute to the vic-
tims and rst responders near the
end of his remarks.
Of all the rules for presidential
jokes, self-deprecation is probably
the most important. People really
seem to appreciate it when presi-
dents tell jokes on themselves, said
William Horner, University of Mis-
souri political science professor who
specializes in political humor.
In 2010, Obama opened his mono-
logue by saying, Its been quite a
year since Ive spoken here last; lots
of ups, lots of downs except for my
approval ratings, which have just
gone down.
Presidents can and do make
fun of their critics, in both Congress
and the press, and Obama seems es-
pecially enthusiastic about this rule.
His most famous attack came in
2011, against Donald Trump.
Obama, who released his Hawaii
birth certicate three days before,
said: No one is prouder to put this
birth certicate matter to rest than
the Donald. ... He can nally get back
to focusing on the issues that matter.
like, did we fake the moon landing?
What really happened in Roswell?
And where are Biggie and Tupac?
The president who that night
also joked that he was releasing an
ofcial birth video then mocked
Trumps decision-making skills on
Celebrity Apprentice.
Parvin, for one, thinks Obama may
have gone a little overboard on
Trump, saying: Hes the president of
the United States. He didnt have to
go after the individual just sitting
there. Of course, Obama fans and
Trump critics loved it.
As with any speech, a lot of plan-
ning goes into presidential comedy
routines. Current and past aides said
White House speechwriters gather a
long list of potential jokes. That proc-
ess includes outreach to professional
funny people, such as former Obama
speechwriter Jon Lovett, who went
on to be co-creator of the presiden-
tial situation comedy 1600 Penn.
Obamas staf whittles down the
list for presidential review. Obama
edits his favorites, sometimes adding
one-liners and asking for more jokes
on specic topics. The speech-writ-
ing teamthen generates a newdraft.
This year, expect jokes on congres-
sional Republicans and sequestra-
tion.
The sitting president almost al-
ways speaks at the dinner, which is
the largest press gathering of the year
and is televised. Reagan didnt make
it in 1981, but he had a good excuse:
He had been shot less than a month
before.
Still, Reagan did phone in some
comments. And, yes, he did joke
about the assassination attempt: If I
could give you just one little bit of ad-
vice, when somebody tells you to get
in a car quick do it.
In 2000, President Clinton pro-
duced a mockumentary about his
nal year in ofce. Called The Final
Days, the video showed a bored Clin-
ton washing the presidential limo
and making lunch for wife Hillary,
then a Senate candidate in NewYork.
In 2006, Bush stood side-by-side
with a dead-on impersonator, who
gave voice to what Bush was really
thinking. After Bush made a friendly
overture to the assembled reporters,
his doppelganger intoned: The
media really ticks me of the way
they try to embarrass me by not edit-
ing what I say. Well, lets get things
going, or Ill never get to bed.
Obama hopes to have last laugh Saturday
President tries his hand
at comedy at annual
Correspondents Dinner
David Jackson
USATODAY
People really seem to
appreciate it when
presidents tell jokes on
themselves.
William Horner, a political science
professor at the University of Missouri
SAUL LOEB, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
President Obama tells a birther
joke at last years dinner.
NATION / WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON Boston Red Sox fans
who trekked to Fenway Park for the
teams home opener this month
spied an unusual sight in the sunny
skies overhead: a small plane pulling
a banner that proclaimed Steve
Lynch For Oil Evil Empire.
The banner denouncing Demo-
cratic Rep. Stephen Lynch was the
handiwork of California billionaire
and Democratic fundraiser Thomas
Steyer, who has used his super PAC
to pour nearly $400,000 into Tues-
days Democratic primary for the
Senate that pits Lynch against Rep.
Ed Markey, D-Mass.
Steyer, a former hedge fund execu-
tive, was carrying out his pledge to
spend heavily to defeat Lynch over
the congressmans support of the
proposed Keystone XL pipeline,
which would transport oil from tar
sands in Canada to Texas reneries.
Nearly 1,000 miles away in
Charleston, S.C., a second Democrat-
ic super PAC is bombarding the air-
waves to inuence another special
election. The House Majority PAC
plans to spend as much as $500,000
on TV ads slamming ex-governor
Mark Sanford before the contest May
7 that pits the Republican against
Democratic newcomer Elizabeth
Colbert Busch.
In both contests, some of the big-
gest spending has come from Demo-
cratic outside groups racing to take
advantage of rules that many in their
party once denounced. Under a Su-
preme Court decision in 2010, unions
and corporations can pour unlimited
amounts into independent political
advertising.
The special elections have
emerged as test cases for Democrats
and activists eager to demonstrate
their political might before 2014 mid-
termcongressional elections.
Democrats learned the lesson of
what happened if there was no one to
ght back against outside Republican
money, said Andy Stone, a spokes-
man for the House Majority PAC.
In Massachusetts, environmental
activists are spending heavily to aid
Markey, the 18-term congressman
ahead of Lynch in polls to ll Secre-
tary of State John Kerrys vacant
Senate post. As of Thursday morning,
the League of Conservation Voters
and one of its political arms had
spent more than $770,000 to help
Markey.
Markey has built his career
around ghting climate change, said
Jef Gohringer, a League of Conser-
vation Voters spokesman. The
groups heavy investment is all
about letting our allies know that
there is a political force out there
that will have your back.
Lynch spokesman Conor Yunits
called his boss a strong friend of the
environment but said Lynch and
voters alike are focused on jobs,
families and the high cost of health
care.
For Steyer, addressing climate
change is issue No. 1.
Over the last ve to 10 years, its
dawned on me that this is the pre-
eminent issue of our time, on which
we will be judged by posterity, he
told USATODAY.
POOL PHOTOBY BARRY CHIN
Democratic Senate candidates Stephen Lynch, left, and Ed Markey
debate at the WBZ television studios in Boston on Monday.
Outside groups nancially
ex for special elections
Contests could work as
test cases for those out
to inuence 2014 races
Fredreka Schouten
USATODAY
TALLAHASSEE Cary Pigman, a Re-
publican member of the state House
of Representatives, sees uninsured
patients every shift as an emergency
room doctor in rural central Florida,
where nearly 30% of residents lack
coverage.
As Floridas legislative session
nears its end May 3, Pigman might be
expected to sympa-
thize with hospitals
and others urging the
Republican-led Leg-
islature to accept
$50 billion in federal
money over a decade
to extend Medicaid
coverage to 1 million
poor Floridians
but thats not the
case.
Pigman, 54, op-
poses taking the
money to expand the
state-federal health
insurance program
for the poor one of
the key ways the fed-
eral health law seeks to cover as
many as 27 million people nation-
wide beginning in 2014.
His top concern: the looming fed-
eral decit. We do not believe that
the money exists, the freshman law-
maker says. We have every reason to
be suspicious of any newmoney from
the federal government.
That view explains the uphill bat-
tle proponents of Medicaid expan-
sion face in Florida, which has the
third-largest percentage of unin-
sured after Texas and Nevada.
The optics of having a physician
in the ERoppose expanding coverage
for this population certainly isnt
great, but it shows how extremely
difcult it is for everyone to get their
heads around this issue this year,
says Lars Houmann, president and
CEO of Florida Hospital, a 22-hospi-
tal chain that includes the one where
Pigman works. The chain favors Me-
dicaid expansion.
When the U.S. Supreme Court up-
held the health law last year in re-
sponse to a challenge brought by
Florida and 25 other states the jus-
tices made the expansion of Medi-
caid voluntary. Of the 27 million
people projected to
gain coverage under
the law, 13 million are
expected to do so
through Medicaid.
Many gaining Medi-
caid coverage are
childless adults who
are not covered in
most states today.
Most of the 14
states rejecting Med-
icaids expansion are
in the Republican-
controlled South. To
date, 20 states and
the District of Co-
lumbia have agreed
to expand eligibility,
says consulting rmAvalere Health.
Florida is one of more than a doz-
en states still weighing the issue. And
just as it has an outsized impact on
presidential elections, it is likely to
play a major role in the success of the
2010 health law.
Florida is pivotal, as better than
one in 12 uninsured Americans is a
Floridian, says Sara Rosenbaum,
health policy professor at George
Washington University. Given the
extensive poverty among state resi-
dents, a Medicaid expansion would
have an enormous downward impact
on the number of uninsured
residents.
Floridas Statehouse, which Re-
publicans have controlled since the
1990s, remains deeply divided. Ex-
pansion supporters were jubilant in
February, when Republican Gov. Rick
Scott reversed his opposition and
said he favored expanding Medicaid
for at least three years while it is fully
funded by Washington. After that,
states assume a share of the costs, up
to 10%after 2019.
Within days, it was clear Republi-
can leaders in the Legislature would
not go along. Senate Republican lead-
ers thought they had found a middle
ground in early April, when they de-
vised a plan to use Medicaid funding
to enroll 1 million people in private
coverage. Under that scenario, Re-
publicans could argue they werent
expanding Medicaid; they were using
the money to expand residents
choice of private plans. However, the
House rejected the Senate plan on
Thursday, as most Republicans said
they didnt think the state should rely
on federal money at all.
Pressure on lawmakers is growing.
Florida Hospital this week began air-
ing commercials and using social net-
working sites to promote expansion
of Medicaid. Hospitals stand to gain
from having more paying patients.
They also fear a nancial double
whammy: If the state rejects the ex-
pansion, the health law will phase
out federal funding for the care of
uninsured patients.
The Service Employees Interna-
tional Union 1199, which represents
many health care workers, is holding
vigils in districts of GOP House
members likely to face close races
next year. We are urging Republican
House members to not put politics
and ideology over the needs of con-
stituents, says Monica Russo, presi-
dent of SEIUHealthcare Florida.
Also backing the expansion are in-
surers and consumer advocates, as
well as several leading business
groups, including the Florida Cham-
ber of Commerce and Associated In-
dustries of Florida.
The National Federation of Inde-
pendent Business, a small business
group that led one of the lawsuits
seeking to overturn the law, opposes
expansion. The Florida Medical As-
sociation has remained neutral.
State Rep. Travis Cummings, an
employee benets consultant and
board member of Orange Park Medi-
cal Center near Jacksonville, opposes
an expansion. Like Pigman, Cum-
mings says he doesnt trust Washing-
ton to meet its obligations, which
could leave Florida on the hook.
Both men support a House plan to
use $3 billion in state-only funding
over 10 years to give the disabled and
poor adults with children about
$2,000 a year to buy health insur-
ance, and charge them monthly pre-
miums of $25. The House plan also
would require able-bodied adults to
work at least 20 hours a week.
Democrats and hospital ofcials
say the plan would give people sub-
standard coverage that they couldnt
aford. It would extend coverage to
115,000 people, compared to the Sen-
ate plans 1 million. And adults with-
out children would get no help.
Pigman says its ironic that hospi-
tals and doctors groups that com-
plain about Medicaid reimburse-
ments are pushing for its expansion:
Be careful what you ask for.
Kaiser Health News is an editorially in-
dependent programof the Henry J. Kaiser
Family Foundation, a non-prot, non-
partisan health policy research organiza-
tion not afliated with Kaiser Permanente.
MITCHELL ZACHS, AP IMAGES FOR KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Physician Jose Hernandez examines Yatzia Mera at the Molina Clinic in West PalmBeach as Bibiana Ma-
dronero and son Santiago Mera wait. Florida is one of the states weighing Medicaid expansion.
Pivotal ght
over Medicaid
in Fla. nears
resolution
Phil Galewitz
Kaiser Health News
GANNETT
Cary Pigman is a doctor
and Florida lawmaker.
USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 NEWS 7A
the nation know it can carry a price?
Freedom is not free, he says, echo-
ing an age-old American refrain.
There has been a seismic shift in
howAmericans see Iraq and Afghani-
stan veterans compared with the bit-
terness that greeted those returning
from Vietnam. Yellow-ribbon car
magnets and handshakes in airport
concourses today are a far cry from
the anti-war demonstrators who
sneered at uniformed Americans
decades ago.
Recent wars have left more than
1,100 major burn victims and 1,700
amputees among the nearly 50,000
combat casualties, and about
400,000 troops or veterans with
post-traumatic stress disorder, mild
traumatic brain injury or both.
They arrive in an America more
supportive than in the past, but also
more mystied about who they are.
The scorched or dismembered or
emotionally distressed are even more
alien, pollsters say. Asked in 2011
whether they comprehend the prob-
lems troops or veterans face, 70% of
the public conceded to Pewresearch-
ers: not too well (or) not well at all.
PEOPLE DONT UNDERSTAND US
Just as the nation is still striving to
absorb the 3.4 million who fought in
Vietnam witness the Veterans Ad-
ministrations decision in 2009 to
compensate for lasting damage from
Agent Orange it might take dec-
ades to fathom the human cost for
the 2.2 million who served in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
Breaking down barriers to mental
health care and shepherding troops
through to civilian life are major pri-
orities for the Pentagon and VA. But
theyve yet to dissolve a stigma
against seeking therapy, a stubborn
resistance by many employers to hire
young veterans, or an alarming cross-
current of self-destruction. About 22
veterans commit suicide each day.
People dont understand us, Por-
ta says.
Sure, the older clientele at the
Shoprite down the street only shoot
sideways glances at his reconstructed
face when he picks through the vege-
tables there with this mother, Eva.
But he needs Xanax before going to
the Megamart 10 minutes away. The
customers there for some reason are
always more likely to stare, point or
even make comments.
Elsie Moore, a VA licensed clinical
social worker managing care of about
a hundred severely wounded veter-
ans, including Porta, says the nation
is on a learning curve about accept-
ing home the casualties of the Iraq
and Afghanistan Wars.
I dont knowthat all of regular so-
ciety is out there knowing what to do
about that, or how to handle it,
Moore says. Its all of us who have to
receive these folks home and make
them feel comfortable to be here.
This is their home.
Marine Corps Commandant
James Amos tracked Portas recovery
closely, got to know him and echoes
the same sentiments.
I just ask Americans to stop and
pause after they make their
rst stare, he says, and auto-
matically default to, Thats a
young man who has sufered.
And I ought to go up and say
thanks and just put my arm
around him.
BURNING INSIDE
It happened May 5, 2007, six
days before his mothers
birthday. Just before the
blast, Porta exchanged looks
with two other Marines in his
armored Humvee: Master
Sgt. Kenneth Mack, 42, of
Fort Worth and Cpl. Charles
Palmer II, 36, of Manteca,
Calif.
They were his best friends.
The three were part of a con-
voy carrying building supplies
in Al Anbar province when the bomb
exploded beneath their truck. Mack
and Palmer were killed in an instant.
Porta, in the drivers seat, was on re.
He remembers it all. The black-
ness inside an inferno. The strangely
painless exhaustion. The temptation
to just go ahead and die.
Then the drivers door opening,
the mystical presence of a long-de-
ceased godmother leading him away
from the burning truck, and his dead
Marine buddies urging himon.
Rescuers rushed to douse the
ames, and then the agony came. It
was like I was burning inside. I felt it
on my face. I felt it on my brain. It
felt like I was talking with re.
Something was dripping onto the
ground. It was my skin, he says,
strangely calm in the telling of that
horric detail.
Porta was scorched across his face
and all four limbs. In places, the re
burned through to muscle and bone.
His right arm was amputated at the
shoulder joint.
I wasnt sure he was going to live
when we saw him in intensive care,
Amos says. He was like a lot of our
burn patients and amputees, just
hanging on to life.
He quite literally lost his face and
underwent 128 surgeries, mostly at
Brooke Army Medical Center in San
Antonio, to rebuild it along with the
burned esh on his left armand both
legs. His left hand was saved with
some of the nger joints fused; sur-
geons made it possible for Porta to
retain the ability to grip. Doctors also
diagnosed him with PTSD and mod-
erate TBI. Plastic and reconstructive
surgeons at the non-prot UCLAOp-
eration Mend in Los Angeles rebuilt
Portas mouth, nose and around his
left eye, removing scar tissue cover-
ing his right eye.
His mother and, eventually,
younger sister, Natalie, now 23,
uprooted their lives fromBeltsville to
care for Porta during ve years of
surgery and convalescence in San
Antonio. The ordeal damaged his
parents marriage.
Parents arent ready to deal with
that, says Eva Porta, 43. Sometimes
we dont really knowwhat to do.
Tonys father could not be reached
for comment.
It was about four months after the
explosion when Porta dared to look
into the mirror. I couldnt see my-
self, he recalls. I thought, Whos
going to love me now?
THEN CAME LOVE
The woman he would marry would
not see his face for the rst year of
their online relationship.
Tony Porta and Deicy (pro-
nounced Daisy) Sanchez met through
friends on the Internet she a teen-
age nurse in Bogota, Colombia; he a
mysterious American in San Antonio
who had somehowbeen hurt.
He became like a living diary for
her, listening to her problems, with a
sweet voice and an afable laugh.
When they began using Skype, he
could see her, but she could not see
him. It clearly wasnt time for Tony
to reveal himself.
I have something to showyou, he
nally told her one day in August
2010 and sent her an e-mailed image
that revealed his burned features.
You dont have to say anything. If
you dont want to keep talking to me,
I understand.
She had nursed disgured children
in Colombia. Now the mystery about
her friend was solved.
I told him, Dont be so foolish,
she said.
They met in Peru. She came to the
USA in 2011. They married before a
justice of the peace in San Antonio
early last year. On May 10 last year,
Deicy Porta gave birth to a son. At
Tonys suggestion, the couple named
himKenneth Charles Porta, after the
two Marines who died in the explo-
sion. The birth came one day before
Porta nally received medical retire-
ment fromthe service in a ceremony
Amos attended.
The event was freighted with
meaning for Porta. He became a Ma-
rine in 2005 right out of high school,
grateful to serve a nation that had
welcomed his family. He became an
American citizen in that uniform.
And despite a life now fraught with
pain, limitations and endless medical
care, he says he has no regrets about
his service and will always love the
Marine Corps.
Last December, with a new family
and new dreams, Porta traded the
cloistered care at Brooks Army hos-
pital for the cul-de-sac home of his
parents in Beltsville.
There were harsh realities. Burn
victims were a common sight in
neighborhoods near the burn center.
People would even help carry his gro-
ceries. Not the case when Porta ven-
tured into the Maryland community.
Children would point and exclaim.
Adults, such as the man who in-
quired about whether it was worth
it, would intrude with questions.
A chiropractor near his home de-
clined to take himas a patient. While
waiting for his wife at a salon in the
Wheaton Mall, Tony chatted with a
woman nearby. When his infant son
began crying and Porta struggled
with one arm to gather him up, rath-
er than assisting him, the woman
stood and walked away.
The way they look at me was like
if I have a disease or something that
could be contagious, Porta says.
Instead of saying something, I
freeze, says Deicy Porta, 22. I want
to screamat them.
Often, she grabs his hand and
leads himaway.
Friends marvel at howpeople miss
the person beneath the ravaged skin.
Once, he starts talking to you ...
his scars disappear, and you do see
and feel that person of Tony Porta,
says James Williams, a physician as-
sistant at Brooke Army hospital.
Hes just a remarkable guy and very
brave.
Hes handsome on the inside,
Amos says. Theres not a kinder,
more faithful, loving young man than
Ronny Porta.
HEALING FROM THE INSIDE
The Veterans Afairs Medical Center
in Washington is a kind of sanctuary.
The mental health counseling, group
sessions, cognitive rehabilitation, oc-
cupational therapy and medical care
ofer a respite from the world
outside.
The VA helps with the relentless
task of simply living with Portas
wounds nightmares, headaches, in-
somnia, joint and limb pain, the way
his skin feels brittle as if its going to
break. Hes prone to aggressive scar-
ring, and rough newtissue constantly
threatens to narrow nose or ear ca-
nals or sight in his right eye.
He hopes someday to tolerate re-
actions about his appearance well
enough to attend college and study
social work, perhaps with the goal of
working with other vets to help ease
their transition back to the world.
What excites him most is moving
his family yet again, this time to tiny
Lovettsville, Va., farther away from
his home just outside of Washington.
He hopes to build a home there on a
7-acre parcel with help from a non-
prot group, the Semper Fi Fund.
Porta says he believes he will be
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
WORLD
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIR-
ATES The United States now be-
lieves with varying degrees of
condence that the Syrian govern-
ment has used chemical weapons
against its people, according to De-
fense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the
White House.
Hagel, speaking to reporters in
Abu Dhabi, also said the U.S. govern-
ment believes any use of chemical
weapons in Syria very likely originat-
ed with President Bashar Assad.
These announcements are the rst
U.S. indication of condence in
claims of Syrias chemical weapons
use, and represent a reversal for the
government.
President Obama has said the use
of chemical weapons by Syria, or the
transfer of stockpiles to terrorist
groups, would be a red line that
could trigger U.S. reaction.
White House and Pentagon of-
cials caution more proof is needed
before the United States escalates its
involvement in Syria, particularly the
use of any military force aimed at
ending a bloody civil war that has
claimed thousands of lives.
These ofcials, who spoke on con-
dition of anonymity, cited faulty in-
telligence about the use of weapons
of mass destruction such as in Iraq
which proved to be wrong as a rea-
son for the careful approach.
Our intelligence community does
assess with varying degrees of con-
dence that the Syrian regime has
used chemical weapons on a small
scale in Syria, specically the chemi-
cal agent sarin, White House legisla-
tive director Miguel Rodriguez wrote
in letters to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.,
and John McCain, R-Ariz.
Hagel said the decision to con-
clude chemical weapons use by the
Syrian government was reached in
the last 24 hours.
The intelligence community has
been assessing information for some
time on this issue, he said, adding
that intelligence is still being ana-
lyzed to determine when and under
what circumstances the weapons
were used. Any use of chemical
weapons by Assads forces violates
every convention of warfare, Hagel
said, since they represent uncon-
trollable, deadly weapons.
A White House ofcial said the
United States will be methodical,
rigorous and relentless as it seeks
more denitive proof about Syrias
chemical weapons use. The ofcial
did not give a timeline for action.
If evidence denitively shows the
Assad regime has used chemical
weapons, the ofcial said, the U.S. will
consult with its allies and decide on
the next steps. All options are on the
table, said the ofcial, who was not
authorized to speak publicly.
Assad in the past has accused rebel
forces of using chemical weapons.
The assessment about Syrias
chemical weapons use sparked a
sharp reaction on Capitol Hill, where
Republican and Democratic senators
cited it as evidence that Obamas red
line had been breached.
It is clear that red lines have
been crossed and action must be tak-
en to prevent larger scale use, said
Senate Intelligence Committee
Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-
Calif. She urged the United Nations
Security Council to take strong and
meaningful action against Syria.
McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham,
R-S.C., emerging from a national se-
curity brieng, said the chemical
weapons stocks must be secured and
aid should be provided to the Syrian
Opposition Council to drive out the
Assad regime.
I think its pretty obvious that a
red line has been crossed, McCain
said. NowI hope the administration
will consider what we have been rec-
ommending now for over two years
of this bloodletting and massacre,
and that is to provide a safe area for
the opposition to operate, to estab-
lish a no-y zone and provide weap-
ons to the people in the resistance
who we trust.
In his letter, Rodriguez wrote that
our standard of evidence must build
on these intelligence assessments as
we seek to establish credible and cor-
roborated facts. For example, the
chain of custody is not clear, so we
cannot conrmhowthe exposure oc-
curred and under what conditions.
The assessment of weapons use
relies in part on physiological evi-
dence, a senior defense ofcial said,
declining to be more specic.
Earlier this week, Hagel said he
doubted Syria had used the weapons
after an Israeli intelligence ofcer
had said so at a security conference.
Jackson reported fromWashington. Con-
tributing: Catalina Camia, Susan Davis and
JimMichaels in Washington.
U.S. shifts on Syria weapons claims
POOL PHOTOBY JIMWATSON
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, speaking in Abu Dhabi on Thursday,
says the U.S. has some condence that Syria used chemical weapons.
Still assessing
chemicals
use in attacks
TomVanden Brook
and David Jackson
USATODAY
ISTANBUL Groups representing Syri-
an rebels told USATODAYon Thurs-
day that they have amassed evidence
over months that proves President
Bashar Assad is using deadly chemi-
cal nerve agents despite President
Obamas red line threat.
Several groups including the Syri-
an Network for Human Rights say
Assad has been using weapons like
sarin gas far more frequently than
has been reported. Early this week,
an intelligence chief for the Israeli
Defense Forces said Israel concluded
Assad used themlast month.
In a report released exclusively to
USATODAY, the network said Syrian
human rights observers such as itself
have concluded that Assads forces
have used chemical weapons on 10
separate locations in Syria in four
provinces over the span of several
months starting in December.
Beginning at Homs, and then in
the suburbs of Damascus, and then at
two attacks inside Damascus in Jobar
neighborhood, activist Sami Ibra-
him, of the Syrian Network for Hu-
man Rights, told USATODAY.
Ibrahim says his group a Syrian
group of human rights activists that
collects victims accounts of the con-
ict can back up its claims of
chemical weapons use by Assad. Its
report says Assad has been using
diferent types of chemical weap-
ons, including sarin gas, on at least
two separate occasions in suburban
Damascus and Aleppo.
We have videos of those killed, we
have photos, we have testimony from
the eyewitnesses, from the doctors
inside the hospitals; they are speak-
ing inside the video, Ibrahim said of
his reports ndings.
President Obama has said the use
of chemical weapons would be a
game-changer in deciding whether
the U.S. would intervene in the 2-
year-old civil war. The United Na-
tions estimates up to 80,000 civilians
have been killed by Assads forces.
Videos contained in the networks
report show people sufering from
muscle spasms, foaming from the
mouth and with decreased pupil size.
USA TODAY could not verify the
videos independently. The videos
also included an alleged chemical
weapons attack in Aleppo, activists
close to rebel ghters in Turkey say.
Syrian opposition activist Hozan
Ibrahim, who is based in Berlin, says
two people died and were taken to
Turkey, which allowed opposition
forces there to verify that chemical
weapons were used.
The Syrian Network for Human
Rights says its ndings should be all
that is needed to get the West to
grant the rebels the military assis-
tance they have been asking for to
defeat Assad.
Rebels claimproof
of chemical attacks
Charles McPhedran
and Victor Kotsev
Special for USATODAY
JERUSALEM After Israels military
shot down a drone Thursday, Israeli
suspicion quickly fell on Hezbollah,
which denied sending the aircraft.
The militant Lebanese Hezbollah
group denied responsibility for send-
ing the drone in a one-line statement
that ashed as an urgent news bar on
the groups Al Manar TV.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, whose helicopter was
temporarily grounded as a result of
the situation, called the drone the
second one shot down by Israel in
the past six months a very serious
issue and said he viewed the inltra-
tion attempt with utmost gravity.
On my way here in the helicopter,
I was told that there is an inltration
attempt of a drone inside the skies of
Israel, Netanyahu said in the north-
ern Arab-Israeli town of Daliyat al-
Karmel. We will continue to do ev-
erything necessary to safeguard the
security of Israels citizens.
The incident was likely to raise al-
ready heightened tensions between
Israel and Hezbollah, a bitter enemy
that battled Israel to a stalemate dur-
ing a month-long war in 2006.
Tal Inbar, who heads Israels Space
Research Center at the Fischer Insti-
tute for Air &Space Strategic Studies,
said that even a drone with a small
amount of high explosives could be
directed to high-level Israeli targets,
including the countrys national gas
platformand power stations.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military
spokesman, said the unmanned air-
craft was detected as it was ying
over Lebanon and tracked as it ap-
proached Israeli airspace.
Lerner said the military waited for
the aircraft to enter Israeli airspace,
conrmed it was enemy, and then
an F-16 warplane shot it down. The
drone was shot down roughly 5 miles
of the coast of the northern Israeli
city of Haifa.
Daniel Nisman, intelligence man-
ager of the Middle East division of
Max Security Solutions, a Tel Aviv-
based geopolitical risk consulting
rm, said the drone incident has wid-
er ramications.
Iran is distributing military tech-
nology both to the Assad regime in
Syria and to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
So if Hezbollah is experimenting
with technology, it means Iran is ex-
perimenting as well, he said.
Nisman emphasized that Thurs-
days drone didnt catch the air force
of-guard. We know from Lebanons
own media that Israel was already
doing many over-ights over Leba-
non, and it will continue, he said.
Despite the provocation, which he
said might be Hezbollahs way of ex-
ing its political muscles prior to Leb-
anese elections slated for June,
Nisman doesnt expect an all-out re-
sponse fromIsrael.
Contributing: The Associated Press
Hezbollah denies sending drone downed by Israel
Michele Chabin
Special for USATODAY
The administration declined to
identify the locations or dates of
when chemical weapons may have
been deployed in Syria.
It also declined to detail what evi-
dence the United States has collected
that led to the assessment.
Obama appears to be aiming to
turn up the pressure on Assad with-
out committing to military action.
Obama does not want to acceler-
ate and just blindly walk into a set of
responses that arent properly coor-
dinated and thought out, said Aram
Nerguizian, a Middle East analyst at
Central Strategic and Intelligence
Studies in Washington.
The White House may continue to
push the pro-interventionist crowd
for patience, but the drumbeat for ac-
tion is likely to grow louder.
to recall the later-debunked intelli-
gence that showed Saddam Hussein
had weapons of mass destruction
the central underpinning of George
W. Bushs rationalization for going to
war.
An Iraq-style boots-on-ground in-
tervention is not under serious
consideration.
Obama aides made clear that the
intelligence communitys physiologi-
cal evidence that indicates Syrias use
of chemical weapons is a bar too low
to merit military action, such as im-
plementing a no-y zone.
Given the stakes involved and
what we have learned from our own
recent experience, intelligence as-
sessments alone are not sufcient
only credible and corroborated facts
that provide us with some degree of
certainty will guide our decision-
making and strengthen our leader-
ship of the international communi-
ty, Miguel Rodriguez, Obamas
liaison to Congress, wrote in a letter
to lawmakers
Thursday.
The Obama ad-
ministration is still
pushing for a U.N.-
led investigation
into the allegations,
and aides to the
president renewed
the call Thursday
for Assad to give the
United Nations
more direct access
into Syria some-
thing the Syrian
president has
resisted.
Concerns about
the way forward are
also coming from
Democrats.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
the chairman of the Senate Intelli-
gence Committee, said Thursday it
was clear that red lines have been
crossed, and action must be taken to
prevent larger-scale use.
Feinstein also ofered concerns
about a doomsday scenario emerging
as a result of the administrations an-
nouncement of its suspicion.
I am very concerned that with
this public acknowledgment, Presi-
dent Assad may calculate he has
nothing more to lose, and the likeli-
hood he will further escalate this
conict therefore increases, Fein-
stein said in a statement.
President Obama had drawn a red
line on the use or transfer of chemi-
cal weapons by Syrian President
Bashar Assads regime, calling such
actions unacceptable.
Now that the White House has ac-
knowledged that this line very likely
has been crossed, the response of
Obama and the international com-
munity could be critical, not just in
dealing with Syria, but also in main-
taining the presidents credibility in
Iran, where Obama is pushing the
regime to abandon its nuclear
program.
Intelligence indi-
cates that chemical
weapons have prob-
ably been used in
Syria, so the pres-
sure from the polit-
ical right for
decisive action by
the president will
only intensify.
Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz.,
has long advocated
a no-y zone to
stem the bloodshed
in Syria that has left
more than 70,000
dead.
Thursday, he
groused to reporters after being noti-
ed by the White House of the in-
telligence that sarin, a lethal nerve
agent, had probably been deployed.
Everything that the non-inter-
ventionists said that would happen in
Syria if we intervened has hap-
pened, McCain said. The jihadists
are on the ascendancy, there is chem-
ical weapons being used, the massa-
cres continue, the Russians continue
to be assisting Bashar Assad, and the
Iranians are all in. It requires the
United States help and assistance.
The shadowof the Iraq War looms
large for Obama.
Without uttering the I word, the
White House was quick on Thursday
NEWS ANALYSIS
SYRIANSTATE TV VIA AP
President Bashar Assad is ghting a rebellion in Syria and has warned the United States to stay out.
Calls for action
in Syria to grow
more insistent
President Obama, Aug. 20,
2012:
We have been very clear ... that
aredline for us is we start seeinga
whole bunch of chemical weapons
movingaroundor beingutilized.
President Obama, March 20,
2013:
The Assadregime must un-
derstandthat they will be held
accountable for the use of chem-
ical weapons or their transfer to
terrorists.
White House spokesman Jay
Carney on Tuesday:
Its important that we do what-
ever we can to monitor, investigate
andverify any credible allegations,
given the enormous consequences
for the Syrian people andgiven the
presidents clear statement that
chemical weapons use is
unacceptable.
President Obama
has drawn line
on chemical arms
Aamer Madhani
@AamerISmad
USATODAY
What has been said
MATT YORK, AP
McCain says the situation
requires U.S. help.
F
USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 NEWS 9A
CARACAS, VENEZUELA Venezuelan
opposition leader Henrique Capriles
Radonski said Thursday his move-
ment will boycott an audit of the
election results and push the govern-
ment to hold a newpresidential vote.
Capriles said the opposition would
not participate in the audit because
the National Electoral Council did
not meet its demand for an examina-
tion of registers containing voters
signatures and ngerprints.
He said the opposition would go to
the Supreme Court to challenge the
April 14 election, which was narrowly
won by Nicols Maduro, the hand-
picked successor of ex-president Hu-
go Chvez, an anti-American leader
who died fromcancer.
Capriles said hes not optimistic
the Supreme Court, which is packed
with allies of Chvez, would overturn
results of the election.
Capriles lost the presidential con-
test by fewer than 300,000 votes out
of more than 14.7 million cast. His
supporters have been calling for
mass demonstrations.
Capriles accuses Maduro of elec-
tion fraud and says the election agen-
cy is stalling on a recount, subverting
the will of the country.
Four of the agencys ve directors
are supporters of Maduro, and Ca-
priles, the governor of the state of
Miranda, has repeatedly questioned
their impartiality. Venezuelas elec-
tion agency said last week that it
would hold a recount but has given
fewdetails about the procedure.
The truth is that they stole the
election, Capriles said at a news con-
ference. We are not going to let
themmock us.
The drama is threatening to
plunge Venezuela, which has the
worlds largest oil reserves, into its
worst political crisis since 2004,
when the countrys opposition tried
to recall Chvez.
The more they drag out this re-
count, the more ammunition it gives
Capriles, said Risa Grais-Targow, a
Venezuela analyst with Eurasia
Group. And by doing so, the govern-
ment is also creating the suspicion
that they have something to hide.
Maduros prison minister, Iris Va-
rela, said this week she was preparing
a jail cell for Capriles, saying he
should be held responsible for post-
election violence in which at least
eight people have died.
Maduro and his supporters have
said that Capriles is putting the na-
tion on the edge of crisis by pitting
Venezuelans against one another. Ca-
priles denies the charge.
The country should remember
who are calling for divisions, Ca-
priles said. They are the same peo-
ple who for months lied to us about
the health of the president, who said
I was going to withdraw from the
presidential race, and who said there
wouldnt be a devaluation.
The country recently devalued the
currency to cope with high ination.
Contributing: The Associated Press
Venezuela opposition vows to boycott audit of vote
Challenger demands
newvote after
Chvez heir wins
Peter Wilson
Special for USATODAY
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 NEWS 11A
ALABAMATuscaloosa: Mayor Walt
Maddox is recommending the city
spend $48 million in federal grants
on infrastructure upgrades, housing
programs and improving businesses
and libraries.
ALASKAJuneau: Afederal judge
has denied Sarah Palins request for
$22,000 in attorney fees in a case
against her that was dismissed. U.S.
District Judge Timothy Burgess last
year dismissed a case in which activ-
ist Chip Thoma alleged Palin had
acted to silence himfor complaining
about tourist bus trafc around the
governors mansion in 2009.
ARIZONASedona: The Oak Creek
Watershed Council has been award-
ed a $253,000 grant to build a rest-
roomnear Slide Rock where poor
water quality has led to shutdowns of
the tourist area.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The state
Supreme Court says a man sen-
tenced to life in prison without pa-
role when he was 14 years old
deserves a newsentencing hearing.
Kuntrell Jackson was convicted in
the shooting death of a store clerk
during an attempted robbery in 1999.
CALIFORNIALos Angeles: Cali-
fornians can expect a dangerous
summer wildre season due to a dry
winter that has left the normally
green hills of spring parched and
tinder-dry, authorities warned. State
re crews have responded to more
than 680 wildres
since January.
COLORADOFort
Collins: Colorado
State University stu-
dents can nowget
credit for brewing and
drinking beer. CSUis
planning to install a
brewery in Lory
Student Centers
pub to provide
students hands-
on training.
According to the
Fort Collins
Coloradoan, CSU
sees a high de-
mand for stu-
dents who can
work in the mi-
crobrewery
industry.
CONNECTICUT Eneld: Aformer
state police dispatcher who killed a
motorcycle rider while driving and
texting has been sentenced to six
months in jail. WFSB-TVreported
Angel Rodriguez, 35, of Manchester
was sentenced for the accident that
killed Tanya Cheverier of Windsor.
DELAWARE NewCastle: Colonial
School District alerted 72 stafmem-
bers, including 58 teachers, who
could be laid ofif voters dont ap-
prove a tax increase in a June 4 refer-
endum. Athletics and extracurricular
activities would also be scaled back.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The D.C.
Tuition Assistance Grant program
might limit scholarship amounts
because of federal budget cuts and
surging demand, The Washington
Post reported.
FLORIDACaptiva Island: In May,
Austrian photographer Andreas
Franke plans to hang a series of pho-
tographs on Mohawk Veterans Me-
morial Reef, creating a temporary art
exhibit only accessible to divers. The
News-Press reports the ship has
become a popular dive site since the
July 2012 scuttling of the 165-foot
World War II Coast Guard cutter
Mohawk 30 in the Gulf of Mexico.
GEORGIASavannah: Country sing-
er Billy Currington has been indicted
on charges he threatened bodily
harmto a man over the age of 65. A
ChathamCounty grand jury indicted
Currington on charges of making
terroristic threats and abuse of an
elderly person. The indictment says
only that Currington threatened to
cause bodily harm to a man named
Charles Harvey Ferrelle on April 15.
HAWAII Honolulu: Anewreport by
the American Lung Association gives
the Big Island a failing grade for
particle pollution in the air. Thats
because one of the islands main
sources of particle pollution is vog,
or volcanic smog.
IDAHOCoeur dAlene: Ofcials are
considering joining three other cities
in outlawing discrimination based on
sexual orientation. City Councilman
Mike Kennedy is drafting an ordi-
nance based on a measure adopted
by Boise last year. In the past 15
months, Sandpoint and Moscowhave
also passed similar ordinances.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Gov. Quinn, a
Democrat, and city ofcials have
broken ground on Hope Manor II, a
Chicago housing complex designed
to help veterans at risk for homeless-
ness. The campus on the South Side
will have 73 units for veterans and
their families. Veterans living in the
complex will have access to job train-
ing, a business center and family
counseling. Its scheduled to open
next year.
INDIANADelphi: Work has begun
to restore 11 historic houses near
downtown as part of a state program
that helps communities pay for de-
velopment projects. The Journal &
Courier reported that grant money
fromthe Indiana Housing and Com-
munity Development Authority will
pay for the repairs such as newroofs,
electrical upgrades, newwindows
and removal of lead-based paint.
IOWAClear Lake: The city is tear-
ing down a 64-year-old, 500,000-
gallon water tower. Pieces of the
150-feet tower near the Clear Lake
Yacht Club with the words Clear
Lake will be saved in case the tower
is later memorialized.
KANSAS Salina: Mayor Barb Shirley
has joined 350 mayors who support
gay marriage. Shirleys announce-
ment that she had joined Mayors for
Freedomto Marry came six months
after Salina voters repealed protec-
tions fromdiscrimination for people
who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender, the Salina Journal
reported.
KENTUCKYLexington: Horse own-
er Marilyn Montavon says seven of
her mares are pregnant. She doesnt
own a stud. Montavon told WLEX-
TVshe found a horse she didnt own
in the pasture. Two mares have al-
ready foaled. Montavon said it ap-
pears someone dropped ofthe colt
about a year ago. She didnt notice
because she lives elsewhere and a
farmhand feeds the horses. The stud
is nowat friends farmin Illinois.
LOUISIANANewOrleans: The
Federal Emergency Management
Agency is giving Louisiana State
Universitys dental school $1.2 mil-
lion to x damage fromHurricane
Katrina and help prevent damage
fromfuture storms.
MAINE Portland: U.S. Sens. Susan
Collins and Angus King have
written a letter signed
by 13 other senators
asking the Depart-
ment of Defense to
buy only American-
made athletic foot-
wear for military
personnel. Collins, a
Republican, and
King, an indepen-
dent, say the mil-
itarys policy has placed jobs in
jeopardy in states such as Maine and
Massachusetts, where NewBalance
Athletic Shoe has ofces and plants.
MARYLANDOakland: The city
through Sunday is marking the 150th
anniversary of the burning by Con-
federate troops of a B&ORailroad
bridge over the Youghiogheny River
on April 26, 1863, a Civil War event
notable in part for its lack of blood-
shed. Historian John Rathgeb said
the bridge was rebuilt in ve days.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Neil
Diamond is donating this weeks
sales fromSweet Caroline to mara-
thon bombing victims after the tune
became a source of comfort following
the explosions at the Boston Mara-
thon. Sales fromDiamonds song are
up by 597%t, Nielsen SoundScan
said. Sweet Caroline sold 19,000
tracks this week.
MICHIGANShelby Township:
Testing on a 200-acre site formerly
owned by Ford Motor where chem-
ical solvents have been found shows
pollutants are more widely dispersed
than initially suspected, and possibly
afect a park and homes. Cleanup
costs are estimated at $150 million.
MINNESOTADuluth: Dozens of
migrating birds have died outside
Minnesota Powers ofce downtown
after crashing into the glass, accord-
ing to the Duluth News Tribune.
MISSISSIPPI Clarksdale: The Delta
Blues Museumwill be honored with
the National Medal for Museumand
Library Service fromthe Institute of
Museumand Library Services. The
National Medal will be presented at a
celebration in Washington on May 8.
The award celebrates institutions
that make a diference for individ-
uals, families and communities.
MISSOURI St. Louis: Thousands of
students fromaround the world have
converged for a robotics competition
at the Edward Jones Dome and
Americas Center. About 400
teams are in the competition,
which runs through Saturday.
MONTANAHelena: U.S.
Silver &Gold said it
is closing the
Drumlummon
mine because it
costs more to
produce an ounce
of gold than it is
worth. The company said during the
rst three months of 2013 the Drum-
lummon mine produced just over
2,100 ounces of gold and a cost of
nearly $2,300 per ounce. Gold closed
at $1,431 an ounce on Wednesday.
NEBRASKAFremont: An alligator
was found in the basement of a home
during a police search. The alligator
was less than 4 feet long. Two people
who were living with the alligator
were charged with possession of a
dangerous wild animal.
NEVADAReno: Amineral
with metallic crystals worth
an estimated $30,000 has
been stolen froma mining
museumdisplay at the
University of Nevada, Reno.
The mineral, called stib-
nite, is prized by col-
lectors for the long
slender bladed crystals
with a brilliant gray and
black metallic luster.
NEWHAMPSHIRE
Bethlehem: An anony-
mous donor has given a
record donation of
$1.5 million to the White
Mountain School.
NEWJERSEYEast Rutherford:
Seven months after scrapping a plan
for an Atlantic City casino, Hard
Rock International said it is investing
in the Meadowlands Racetrack with
an eye toward potentially expanding
the regions gambling oferings.
NEWMEXICOLas Cruces: Con-
tractor A.S. Homer Inc., will get a
$2.25 million incentive pay-
ment for nishing a major
highway project ahead of
schedule. The yearlong
reconstruction of the
Las Cruces in-
terchange
between In-
terstates 10
and 25 were
completed
60 days early.
NEWYORK
Poughkeepsie:
Kathryn Wasser-
man Davis, a globe-trotting philan-
thropist who donated $20 million to
the Hudson River environmental and
cultural preservation group Scenic
Hudson when she turned 100, has
died at 106.
NORTHCAROLINARaleigh: Gov.
McCrory announced the creation of
an innovation center housed in the
headquarters of the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources.
NORTHDAKOTABismarck: The
state Legislature has endorsed a
measure aimed at strengthening
penalties for drunken driving. Along
with increased nes and other penal-
ties, the legislation would require jail
time or community service work for
rst-time DUI ofenders who have a
blood-alcohol content of 0.16%.
Thats twice the states legal limit of
0.08%.
OHIONorth Jackson: The federal
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration has cited Extrudex
Aluminumfor eight safety violations
following the 2012 death of a worker
who was crushed by a hot metal rack
stacked with aluminum.
OKLAHOMAPoteau: LeFlore
County will not erect a Ten Com-
mandments monument on its court-
house lawn.
OREGONEugene: The City Council
voted in favor of allowing the home-
less to camp overnight on some city
property, but not parks, The Register-
Guard reported.
PENNSYLVANIAPhiladelphia:
Artist Lawrence Nowlan has been
chosen to create a statue in honor of
late boxing great Joe Frazier. It will
be erected by spring 2014 at an enter-
tainment complex near the citys
three sports stadiums. Frazier died of
liver cancer in November 2011.
RHODE ISLANDProvidence: Apoll
says Rhode Island is the second-most
stressed out state in the country. The
Gallup Poll released Wednesday says
Rhode Island follows only West Vir-
ginia on the list of the most stressed.
About 46%of Rhode Islanders say
they felt stressed.
SOUTHCAROLINANorth Charles-
ton: Anew, $40,000 monitoring
systemwill help larger ships arriving
at the Port of Charleston pass safely
under the Don Holt Bridge on In-
terstate 526 with real-time informa-
tion about the clearance between the
water and the bridge, which can vary.
SOUTHDAKOTAChamberlain:
Some parents and students in the
Chamberlain School District are
trying to persuade the school board
to allowa Native American honoring
song during May 19 graduation cere-
monies, the Argus Leader reported.
TENNESSEE Gatlinburg: It may be
only love, but its quite a show. The
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park has set June 6-13 as the Elk-
mont Firey Viewing Event. Arey
species known as Photinus carolinus
ashes synchronously to attract
mates. Thousands of visitors throng
the park each year to see the natu-
rally occurring show.
TEXAS College Station: ATexas
A&MUniversity research program
could put cash in a nders pocket for
something that washes ashore along
the Gulf of Mexico. Drift cards are
meant to study ocean currents. Peo-
ple who report the location of the
biodegradable notes are eligible to
win a $25 gift card.
UTAHOgden: Former governor
Jon Huntsman will deliver the
commencement speech today
to 4,300 Weber State gradu-
ates. He will also be awarded
an honorary degree.
VERMONT Har-
tland: Achurch
steeple thats sat
atop a church since
the mid-1850s has
been removed for
repairs. Acrane took
the 88-foot, 3,000-
pound white steeple ofof
the First Universalist Society church.
Minister Paul Sawyer told the Valley
News the congregation has raised
$93,000 for the renovations to the
steeple and interior of the church.
VIRGINIABirdsnest: Rewards
totaling $7,500 are being ofered for
information n the poisoning deaths
of ve bald eagles in March. Asixth
eagle that survived was set to be
released at Back Bay National
Wildlife Refuge in Virginia
Beach.
WASHINGTONSeattle:
Police investigating reports
that middle and high school
students were buying marijuana
froma house arrested three
people and seized eight
trays of marijuana
brownies, 99 marijuana
cigarettes, seven mari-
juana plants, four shot-
guns and six handguns.
WEST VIRGINIACharleston:
Ten parents will have to pay nes and
performcommunity service because
their children didnt go to school.
Kanawha County Circuit Court
Judge Duke Bloomned each parent
$211 and placed themon 90 days of
probation. They were all charged
with rst-ofense truancy after their
children had more than ve un-
excused absences, which ranged from
10 to 41 days. Asecond ofense could
bring jail time.
WISCONSINJanesville: A150-
year-old oak tree that has been a
landmark will be taken down to
make way for a highway expansion.
The tree is in the way of a planned
state Highway 26 expansion between
Milton and Fort Atkinson.
WYOMINGCheyenne: Athird-
grade teacher fromNatrona County
will visit schools in Brazil this sum-
mer as part of a trip sponsored by the
National Education Association
Foundation. Noelle Clark of Ev-
ansville Elementary School is one of
36 teachers fromacross the country
who have been named NEAPearson
Foundation Global Learning Fellows.
Compiled fromstafand wire reports by
Robert Robinson and Dennis Lyons. Design
by Michael B. Smith. Graphics by Bob Laird.
News fromacross the USA
AURORA Aurora Casket Co. became
the nations largest private casket
maker by producing beautiful fu-
neral products for humans.
Now it has launched a new line
of business: funeral products for
pets, on which Americans spend
more than $55 billion a year.
The Aurora-based casket maker
this week began selling more than
100 engraveable urns, memorial
boxes and pendants to honor de-
ceased cats, dogs and other pets.
Aurora is focused on delivering
solutions that help our customers
create healing moments for their
families, said Marty Strohofer, vice
president of marketing and product
development at Aurora.
A pet is a family member, and
our newproduct line ofers our cus-
tomers a solution for their
families.
Aurora Casket also is the rst
major funeral products company to
enter a market that has previously
been left to small specialty compa-
nies, according to Rodger Roeser of
the Eisen Agency, which represents
the casket maker.
The company didnt release rec-
ommended list prices, but a review
of retail websites shows urns gener-
ally start around $50.
The growth in the pet memorial
market is the latest sign of Ameri-
cans growing attachment to their
pets. Its also the latest way for
owners to show their love through
their wallets.
Overall spending on pets has
grown 29% in the past ve years
despite the recession, and its ex-
pected to grow an additional 4%
this year, to $55.53 billion, accord-
ing to the American Pet Products
Association (APPA).
Most of that is for food and sup-
plies. However, 41% of dog owners
and 30% of cat owners would buy
something following a pets death
most commonly a memorial stone
or urn according to the associa-
tions 2011-12 survey of pet owners.
The pet industry is recognizing
(a need), and providing pet parents
with more and more meaningful
ways and options to memorialize
their pets, said Tierra Bonaldi, AP-
PAspokeswoman.
The 2011-12 survey found 62%of
U.S. households have pets, vs. 56%
in its 1988 survey.
Major casket maker takes on pet project
HIGHLIGHT: INDIANA
Cindi Andrews
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Aurora Casket Co. began this week selling more than 100 engrave-
able urns, memorial boxes and pendants to honor pets.
VICKSBURG Police have charged
the brother of 10-year-old shooting
victimJerald Tucker Jr. and anoth-
er man with manslaughter after
learning the child was shot in the
back of the head while playing
video games in his living room.
Willie Willis, 20, who
lived with Tucker and
their father, and Joshua
Cofee, 21, of Vicksburg,
were arrested Wednes-
day, according to a state-
ment issued Thursday
fromthe Vicksburg Police Depart-
ment. Cofee has also been charged
with possession of a weapon by a
convicted felon.
Witnesses at the scene reported-
ly said Cofee and Willis were han-
dling a small-caliber gun in the
living roomof the house where
Jerald was playing a video game.
Police said the gun discharged,
striking himin the back of the head.
Police have said the shooting
appears to have been an accident.
The gun is believed to belong to
Willis, police said.
The gun believed used in the
Monday night shooting
was found the next day in
a creek behind the boys
home, police said.
Armstrong said Jer-
alds father, Jerald Tuck-
er Sr., was at work when
the shooting occurred, and he be-
lieves the boys mother is deceased.
This is a reminder of howdan-
gerous it is to have weapons in the
hands of irresponsible parties,
Armstrong said.
Emily Lane, The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-
Ledger
INFOCUS: MISSISSIPPI
10-YEAR-OLD SHOT DEAD PLAYINGVIDEOGAME
in America
STATE-BY-STATE
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
BEIJING With stars, speeches and
statuettes, the Beijing International
FilmFestival wrapped up its celebra-
tion this week of Chinas booming
lm market. But unlike Hollywood
award ceremonies, organizers of the
Chinese extravaganza were relieved
that the director of the best picture
failed to show.
In his acceptance speech at anoth-
er award ceremony this month, di-
rector Feng Xiaogang voiced what
everybody knows about Chinas cul-
tural environment: It is heavily cen-
sored and artists are chang under
the restraints.
In the past 20 years, every China
director faced a great torment, and
that torment is (censored), Feng
said, according to an Internet broad-
cast in which his use of the word
censorship was bleeped out.
Many times, when the censors or-
ders arrive, you feel they are ridicu-
lous, and dont know whether to
laugh or cry, continued Feng, whose
lm about a famine in Henan called
Back to 1942, won Tuesday.
Chinas lm industry is one of its
greatest growth areas. Ten screens
are built every day, and box ofce
takes leapt 30% to $2.74 billion in
2012 to become the second-highest
in the world after the USA, according
to the Motion Picture Association of
America.
Cinema in a totalitarian state is a
tricky thing for both the government
and artist, who seeks to inform, chal-
lenge and entertain. The nations rul-
ing Communist Party has spurred
rapid economic growth through mar-
ket capitalism, but unlike free market
democracies it blocks images or ideas
that threaten to disrupt social or-
der and the partys grip on power.
The results can prove almost com-
ical. Django Unchained, Quentin Ta-
rantinos rst picture to get a
cinematic release here, was pulled
just minutes into its screening across
China on April 11 without ofcial
explanation.
And an independent documentary
lm festival in southwestern China
was canceled at the eleventh hour
this month, like others in recent
years, forcing participants to gather
in hotel rooms for private screenings.
Hollywood appears undeterred.
With at U.S. box ofce receipts, the
lure of Chinas swelling middle class
sends U.S. studios hustling to grab
more of the yuan-denominated ac-
tion. The makers of Iron Man 3,
which launches soon, added scenes,
featuring Chinese actors and loca-
tions, just for the Chinese audience.
Paramount will cast four actors for
Transformers 4 through a Chinese
TV reality show. DreamWorks Ani-
mation CEO Jefrey Katzenberg
plans to make an Indiana Jones-style
cartoon set in Tibet.
China is the hottest place to be in
entertainment, said Peter Shiao,
founder of the Los Angeles and Beij-
ing-based entertainment company
Orb Media Group.
Despite ongoing difculties such
as Chinas annual cap of 34 foreign
releases on revenue-sharing deals,
and the many challenges of co-pro-
ducing movies, partly to get around
that limit Shiao insists that oppor-
tunities abound for people with origi-
nal, China-focused ideas.
Within ve years, he predicts, Chi-
nese movies and actors will enjoy a
global face-lift, as Western audi-
ences increasingly accept Asian faces
on-screen.
Just dont expect signicant
change to Chinas censorship system,
warned Shan Dongbing, vice presi-
dent of Le Vision Pictures, a Chinese
production-distribution company
that last week announced a $40 mil-
lion fantasy-action co-production
with Shiaos Orb Media.
It takes time for Chinese people
to get used to shots such as nudity
and strong violence in movies, said
Shan, just as nude paintings were
once frowned upon in China but are
nowwidely shown.
Chinas policies toward lm are
not bad, and in some aspects quite
open, but their implementation is
still lacking, as some ofcials fear the
publics reaction to any sensitive
matter, and may be more conserva-
tive than the people, said Shan, who
formerly worked as a censor at key
state enterprise China Film.
Plenty of critics dont hold back
their scorn for Chinas movie
controllers.
Again this month, the 10th Yun-
fest of independent lms in the
southwestern Dali city was canceled.
On the surface, strangling an in-
dependent lm festival doesnt ap-
pear to mean much, but put all of
these situations together and it
equals the suppression of all space
for spiritual growth and the stran-
gling of this nations soft power, said
attendee Cui Weiping, a cultural
commentator and professor at the
Beijing FilmAcademy.
Critics also gripe about the quality
of Chinese lms. But this year, sever-
al have out-performed Hollywoods
oferings, though the local lms are
helped by ofcial manipulation of
screening schedules to favor domes-
tic titles.
Contributing: Stephanie Zhou
FENGLI, GETTY IMAGES
Dancers performin front of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest during a light show
for the opening of the 3rd Beijing International FilmFestival last week in Beijing.
Lights! Action! Censors! A
double take on China lms
Booming industry rivals
Hollywood, but is not
without its erce critics
CalumMacLeod
USATODAY
CALUMMACLEOD, USA TODAY
A newChinese animation feature, Kun-
ta, bears a striking resemblance to
something Hollywood might conjure up.
The ancient Maya started building
their storied cities as early as 1000
B.C., two centuries earlier than sus-
pected, archaeologists reported
Thursday.
The city development was part of a
virtual construction boomin Central
America in that period. Until that
time, the Maya lived lives of hunter-
gatherers in individual camps or vil-
lages. The arrival of rulers, rituals
and religion led to urban centers
with newly built plazas and plat-
forms that set the pattern for the
New World until the arrival of
Europeans.
New radiocarbon date samples
fromthe ruined plazas and pyramids
of Ceibal, in modern-day Guatemala,
point to the Maya cities starting ear-
lier than thought, suggests a teamled
by archaeologist Takeshi Inomata of
the University of Arizona-Tucson.
Ceibals ceremonial complex (is)
the earliest in the Maya lowlands,
predating other examples by roughly
200 years, Inomata said. This also
means there was a drastic social
change at the time as the Maya
switched fromhunting to farming.
Anthropologists study the origins
of civilizations for clues to the ties
that bind us together. The Maya ofer
an interesting example of a society
that started building cities uninu-
enced by the Old Worlds Egyptian
and Fertile Crescent civilizations.
More than 6 million Maya people
still live in Central America. Ac-
counts of their ancestors jungle-
draped ruins have been objects of
popular fascination since the 1840s,
when U.S. explorer John Lloyd Ste-
phens, the father of American ar-
chaeology, wrote best-selling
accounts of these lost cities and
crumbling pyramid temples. More
recently, scholars have held a heated
debate, Inomata says, over whether
the ancient Maya cities sprang from
the even older Olmec civilization of
Mexicos Gulf Coast or started their
building habits on their own.
Instead, the famed pyramid-build-
ers of Central America probably owe
the beginnings of their city building
more to broad cultural changes tak-
ing place at the time, Inomata re-
ports in the journal Science.
The exciting thing about this
(study) is not about a cool nd as
much as about supplying a realistic,
practical, complicated, story on the
origins of things Maya, says archae-
ologist Lisa Lucero of the University
of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
who was not part of the study team.
Human history is complicated and
based on continual feedback from
neighbors, foreign or no.
Numerous other Maya sites and
related ones on the Pacic Coast
show signs of growing from towns to
ceremonial centers around 1000 B.C.
in Central America, pointing to a
broad owering of urban activity. In-
omata speculates that corn began
providing enough calories to trigger a
move to more settled existence.
Ancient Maya
civilizations roots
dig deeper in past
TAKESHI INOMATA, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Archaeologists uncover an early struc-
ture found on PlatformA-24 at Ceibal,
an ancient Maya site in Guatemala.
Dan Vergano
@dvergano
USATODAY
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
OPINION
Air travelers met the federal bud-
get sequester up close and personal
this week, and it was not a happy en-
counter. Tens of thousands of iers
faced delays, missed connections and
canceled ights, as spending cuts
forced unpaid leave for air trafc
controllers.
These bad air days, as the New
York Post dubbed them, began on
Sunday, a slow travel day, and grew
worse. On Wednesday, according to
the Federal Aviation Administration,
about 3,000 ights were delayed, 863
of thembecause of furloughs.
The stafng-related delays afected
only about 3% of all ights, but they
were galling for the passengers af-
fected. Almost as galling were the re-
actions from some members of
Congress who savaged the FAA for
making the cuts, as if Congress had
nothing to do with this mess.
The FAAs management of se-
questration is quickly going frombad
to worse, said Rep. Bill Shuster, R-
Pa., chairman of the House Trans-
portation and Infrastructure Com-
mittee. What else are you planning
to do that you havent told us about?
Rep. Hal Rogers, head of the House
Appropriations Committee, demand-
ed of FAAchief Michael Huerta.
Rogers surprise seemed about as
genuine as that of Capt. Renault in
Casablanca, who announces at Ricks
that he is shocked, shocked to nd
that gambling is going on in here,
moments before he accepts a pile of
chips.
No members of Congress should
be surprised at the havoc wrought by
the sequester. After all, they caused
it, and Transportation Secretary Ray
LaHood repeatedly warned them
about its consequences.
As long as the cuts afected rela-
tively powerless constituencies, few
lawmakers seemed to care. This
week, though, it hit well-heeled exec-
utives who travel, the powerful air-
line industry, and two unions that
represent FAA workers. Angry calls
poured into the ofces of lawmakers,
who in turn started blaming every-
one but themselves.
Truth is, the reason the nation is
facing dumb, indiscriminate cuts is
the inability of Congress and the
White House to head of the seques-
ter with a comprehensive budget
deal. Nowthat the cuts are kicking in,
whining about them is the height of
hypocrisy.
The FAA insists that the sequester
forces across-the-board cuts and that
the agency has done everything pos-
sible to avoid delays. Republicans say
thats not true. Its tough to sort out
whos right. This much is clear: De-
lays have afected 20%to 25%of dai-
ly ights this week, according to
FlightAware.com, up fromthe typical
15%. Particularly hard hit have been
Los Angeles International and the
three NewYork area airports.
The solution to the sequesters
meat-axe approach is what it has al-
ways been: sensible, exible cuts in
domestic programs, accompanied by
tax simplication and changes in the
big benet programs driving the na-
tions decits.
That doesnt seem to be in the
cards. Congress is looking for a quick
x to end the controller furloughs.
Such a x would be a relief to harried
iers, but using gimmicks to patch
problems as they arise is no way to
run a railroad, an airline system or a
government.
TODAY'S DEBATE FLIGHT DELAYS
Our view
Look in the mirror, Congress,
to find bad air day culprit
Lawmakers
denouncing
the controller
furloughs are
the ones who
caused them
This week, the White House
stooped to using Americans as
pawns in a crass game of political
chess. The administration chose to
cut essential air trafc control ser-
vices, inicting the most pain pos-
sible on our aviation system to
express opposition to budget
belt-tightening.
This disregard for the traveling
public indicates the administration
is attempting to score political
points rather than nding real sav-
ings in a bloated bureaucracy.
Sequestration was proposed by
President Obama. The House of
Representatives voted twice to re-
place it with better cuts that would
help balance the budget. That re-
mains a Republican goal, but se-
questration is the law.
The president is obligated to im-
plement it responsibly. Instead, his
agencies decisions defy logic.
A case in point is the Federal
Aviation Administration. A 5% re-
duction in FAAs operations bud-
get, which pays air trafc
controllers and includes $2.7 bil-
lion in non-personnel costs, should
not bring our aviation systemto its
knees.
This budget has grown more
than 100%since 1996, and a 5%re-
duction in this account approxi-
mates 2010 funding levels.
The FAAalso possesses exibili-
ty to responsibly manage seques-
tration without inserting a political
agenda. Accepting the theory that
the agency had to resort to fur-
loughs, its choices have maximized
impact on the aviation system.
The FAA chose not to exercise
its exibility to protect the most
critical air trafc control opera-
tions. It is furloughing the nations
approximately 15,000 air trafc
controllers at the same rate as the
other 32,000 FAAemployees.
Controllers at the largest, busi-
est facilities are being furloughed
as often as those at small facilities.
Controllers at the Chicago control
center, responsible for 3 million
operations a year, are being fur-
loughed at the same rate as con-
trollers at a small Iowa tower that
handles 1%of that workload.
These choices make little sense.
The president must do whats best
for the public. If he is willing to re-
move politics from the situation
and x the problemhe has created,
I amready to work with him.
But he must change course and
stop punishing the American pub-
lic to further his political agenda.
Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., is chair-
man of the House Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure.
Opposing view
FAAs decisions
maximize pain
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forum for better understanding
and unity to help make the USA
truly one nation."
Allen H. Neuharth,
Founder, Sept. 15, 1982
PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER
Larry Kramer
W
hen North Carolina legisla-
tors made moves this
month to establish an of-
cial state religion, observers might
have gotten the impression that
Americans were harkening back to
an era of intolerance. Thats not true.
The line between Christian and Jew
or Protestant and Catholic is now a
mere shadowof the line between Red
America and Blue America.
Religious tolerance is at an all time
high. One sign is the fact that inter-
faith marriages are at record levels.
I commissioned a nationally rep-
resentative survey of about 2,500
people in 2010 and found that nearly
45% of marriages in the decade be-
fore were interfaith matches. Thats
more than double the 20% rate for
couples married before the 1960s.
Intermarriage is found across
faiths. The 2001 American Religious
Identication Survey reported that
39% of Buddhists, 27% of Jews, 23%
of Catholics, 21% of Muslims, 18% of
Baptists and 12% of Mormons were
married to a spouse of a diferent
faith. Regardless of income level,
education, or geography, interfaith
marriage among Americans is on the
rise.
But the same is not true for mar-
riages across political parties. Among
all married people, 36% have inter-
faith marriages, but my survey by the
polling rm YouGov found that only
18% have a spouse with a diferent
political afliation.
Thats not much more than the
15% rate of interracial marriage re-
ported in 2012 by Pew.
PAUL RYANS MARRIAGE
During the election last fall, when
politics were heating up, The New
York Times reported on Paul Ryans
unusual cross-partisan marriage,
while advice columnists were bom-
barded with letters about whether
relationships between Democrats
and Republicans can work out. Sher-
ry Amatenstein, the dating columnist
for More magazine, wrote, Cant
blue and red singles ever all just get
along? In Obama-speak: Yes we can.
Perhaps we can. But we dont.
A January 2008 survey by the so-
cial networking site Engage.com
found that 85% of those polled are
open to dating someone outside their
party. At the same time, more mar-
RED DATES, BLUE DATES
JOE RAEDLE, GETTY IMAGES
Were more likely
to marry outside
our faiths than our
political parties
Naomi Schaefer Riley
ried Americans believe it is very im-
portant for a happy marriage that
spouses share the same religion than
say they should have the same race or
the same political views.
POLITICAL MAP
Why do we say a common religion is
more important than a common po-
litical outlook but then go out and
marry across religions more than
across political parties? There are
some obvious reasons. We are more
likely to live near, go to school with
and work with people of a similar po-
litical bent, so they are easier to ask
on a date. (The famous red-state/
blue-state election map certainly
leads to this conclusion.)
But the main reason could lie in
the way we date and how an increas-
ingly religiously unafliated society
thinks about religious belief.
The road to marriage is long these
days. The average age of rst
marriage is 27 for women and 29 for
men. Couples often spend years
living together before tying the knot.
Young adults want to nd out how
they will interact when theyre to-
gether all the time, what it will be like
to share chores and whether they can
tolerate each others families.
Religion plays less of a role. Par-
tially, it is a factor of meeting mates
in our 20s and 30s, our most secular
time in life, when we often stop going
to church or synagogue. Young adults
compartmentalize the religious as-
pects of their lives, considering reli-
gion an individual pursuit.
The modern emphasis on personal
spirituality over organized religion
might suggest that your beliefs are
between you and God. Checking in
on a partners beliefs seems too per-
sonal. More than half of interfaith
couples who intend to have kids
dont even bother to talk about how
they will be raised religiously.
Which makes you wonder what
they do talk about. It is hard to imag-
ine that young adults compartmen-
talize politics before tying the knot.
Most of us have a better idea of what
our friends and family think about
President Obama than about God.
Sitting around watching Jon Stewart
at night, politics has to come up in a
way that religion doesnt.
But are varying views on tax rates
or foreign policy really as signicant
as varying views on where we go
when we die? Of course, political
views can encompass more serious
disagreements about the permissibil-
ity of abortion or how wealth should
be distributed. Indeed, the point is
not that serious political diferences
can or should be ignored. Its that re-
ligious diferences often are.
Naomi Schaefer Riley is the author
of Til Faith Do Us Part: How Inter-
faith Marriage Is Transforming
America.
DAMIANDOVARGANES, AP
Delays have afected 20%to 25%of daily ights this week, according to FlightAware.com, up fromthe typical 15%.
Bill Shuster
Mounting evidence that Syria used
chemical weapons against rebel
forces leaves President Obama in a
difcult trap.
If Syria has crossed Obamas red
line against use of the weapons, as
the administration strongly indicated
Thursday, then failing to retaliate
would weaken U.S. credibility at the
worst possible moment. Iran and
North Korea would surely be con-
vinced that if Syria can use a weapon
of mass destruction despite U.S.
threats, then they can safely ignore
the United States warnings to halt
their increasingly menacing nuclear
programs. The Syrian regime would
be emboldened as well.
At the same time, any attack risks
drawing the U.S. into Syrias civil war
either step by step or in one huge
leap something Obama has been
wise to avoid because there appears
to be no good outcome.
Three advisories seemin order:
uDont rush to war. The ad-
ministrations announcement that
U.S. intelligence concurs with British,
French and Israeli assessments that
chemical weapons were used is im-
possible to dismiss. But so, too, was
the supposedly irrefutable intelli-
gence that Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction. The
administration now wants a clear,
factual, evidentiary basis to support
its intelligence. Good.
uAim carefully before ring.
Syrian President Bashir Assads
slaughter of up to 80,000 of his own
people has stirred calls for the U.S. to
counterattack, or at least funnel le-
thal aid to the rebels. And given such
carnage, who wouldnt want to help?
But those impassioned advocates
seem to forget that war is rarely as
easy as it seems at the outset, a lesson
taught fromVietnamto Afghanistan.
What would follow Assad is not at
all clear. A signicant faction of the
rebellion is linked to al-Qaeda, and
the presumed good guys dont get
along with each other. Nor is it clear
that any side can secure control, leav-
ing the civil war to roil and spread. If
the red line is proved to have been
crossed, the U.S. response needs to be
aimed at a clear, attainable objective.
uGet company. Obama drew his
red line last August not just out of
U.S. self-interest but also because use
of chemical weapons is banned by in-
ternational treaty the product of
more than a century of diplomatic ef-
fort and the horrors of World War I.
Multilateral enforcement is more
appropriate.
To be sure, the patient approach is
discomforting. More time means
more slaughter. Further, the admini-
strations plan for a thorough United
Nations investigation comes with an
unpleasant round-up-the-usual-sus-
pects feel. Russia and China, both Se-
curity Council members, will no
doubt continue to protect Assad re-
gardless of the evidence.
Prudence is nevertheless better
than the alternative. The administra-
tion cant let rogues like Assad tram-
ple over its red lines, but it neednt be
mindlessly impulsive in its response.
Our view
With Syria, be sure
before going to war
Evidence Assad
crossed red line
puts U.S. in bind
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GOODBYE, AL NEUHARTH
I just wantedtopassalongmycon-
dolencesfor Al Neuharth, USATO-
DAYsfounder, andthegreat paper
onMondaythat showedall the
thingsthat hedid.
In1988, I wasinhighschool and
decidedtopurchaseastudent
subscriptiontoUSATODAY. I readit
at lunchor instudyhall, andIve
beenasubscriber for the25years
since.
Eveninthisdayof theInternet, I
still liketoreadthenewspaper. I
knowImpart of adyingbreed.
I cant imagineadaywithout my
USATODAY, andfor that Idliketo
thankthefounder for havingthe
forethought tocreateanational
newspaper.
Dan Clarke
Rochester, N.H.
ADMIRATION FOR FOUNDER
Al Neuharthunderstoodthat abusy
Americahungeredfor news, but only
inbite-sizedportions.
ThatswhyandhowhecreatedUSA
TODAY, thenational newspaper tailor-
madefor asocietyonthego.
Neuharthsambitionsarebest
summedupinGeorgeBernard
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say, Why? But I dreamthingsthat
never were; andI say, Whynot?
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CUTS A POLITICAL PLOY
It isabsolutelyridiculousthat the
Federal AviationAdministrationcan-
not ndawaytoreducelabor costs
without affectingight schedules.
Therearebusyandslowtimes.
Scheduletheair trafficcontrollers
aroundthat (Aviationcutsarea
disgrace,Your SayThursday).
Obviously, thisisaridiculous
political ploytoadvancealiberal
agendathat goesall thewaytothe
WhiteHouse. Itsgottentothepoint
wherethepublicsafetycouldbeput
at risk. Thisiscompletelyunaccept-
able.
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New Hartford, Iowa
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GANNETT
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SECOND LOOK
E-COMMERCE
Time to level the playing
eld on collecting sales tax
The Senate is considering a bill to
allow states to collect sales tax on
more Internet purchases.
As a local small-business owner
having to compete with out-of-state
Internet companies that dont have
to pay corporate taxes in my state, I
think this measure is positive for
growing small businesses.
Josh Kettler
The law should stay simple and
merely extend a responsibility for
online retailers over a certain size to
be responsible for collecting and
remitting sales taxes to the states.
It should not impose rules on the
states for the design of their sales
taxes, or force the creation of sales
tax clearinghouses, as they will
happen on their own if there is a
demand.
James Oerichbauer
Look, lets get this straight. Taxing
e-tailers will not make me go to my
local store any more than I go now. I
will still shop online. Why? Because
its more convenient, and the prices
are still going to be lower.
This measure looks like an excuse
for the government to collect more
taxes, period.
David Hoang
The theory behind taxes is that
they go to a government providing
someone a service.
But a state provides no service to
an Internet seller with no physical
presence in the state.
Warren White
This is necessary. Internet sales
have taken way too much business
away from local retailers because
they can avoid paying the taxes.
Marty Beck
Ill still buy on the Internet. Even
with shipping and tax, its still much
cheaper for me.
Matt Bacon
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Online retail sales have increased
vefold during the past decade and are
forecast to top $300 billion by 2015.
E-GROWTH
Weaskedour followers onTwit-
ter whether their online shop-
ping habits would change if all
Internet sales weretaxed.
TWITTER
@USATOPINION
Its only fair for all business to get
taxedequally. Ill still buyproducts
online.
@Letti4U
Id shop less online because no
sales taxevens out theextraship-
pingcost for me.
@dgohar
Not at all. But asmyInternet shop-
ping increases, Ill probably con-
sider livinginastatewithlower In-
ternet salestax.
@AdamNeilJones
Government should spend less
time thinking of ways to take my
money and more time trying to
stopspendingmymoney.
@HeadshotJester
All Internet sales shouldbetaxed.
Its a painless way to generate
sorelyneededrevenue.
@jimeng52
I dont care about the taxes. As
longasI canget what I want deliv-
ered to my door and skip the
store, Ill pay.
@NatashaYahnee
It will discourage all online shop-
ping. Online shoppers are taking
risks by buying items with credit
cards, hoping an items quality is
good.
@RayLivosi
For more of this discussion, fol-
low @USATOpinion or search
#tellusatodayonTwitter.
Online shopping vs. brick-and-mortar stores
What does the future hold for the
NCAA, the governing body of
college sports? Will big football
schools break away?
There would be no better victory
than secession from the NCAA.
NCAA President Mark Emmert has
done more acts of evil than good
during his tenure.
Slavery was abolished from our
country more than 150 years ago.
Why does it still exist in the NCAA
where student-athletes are worked
to death in practice, in games, in
the classroom, yet receive little in
return?
Jordan Schubert
The NCAA has become a politi-
cally correct obstruction to college
athletics. Time for a major overhaul,
or it will go bye-bye.
Mervin Delgado
Im really surprised big football
schools havent split already.
Glen DeGelnor
The NFL should create a minor
league from February to June, and
let the kids decide if they want to
play for the college team or the
pre-NFL team. The NCAA monopoly
is a disgrace.
AndrewFisher
The rst school that should with-
draw from the NCAA is Penn State,
to protest having to vacate all those
victories because of the ring of Joe
Paterno. What did that punishment
solve? Nothing.
The Jerry Sandusky abuse scan-
dal had nothing to do with what
was happening on the eld. It was
a legal matter that was none of the
NCAAs business.
Joseph Pintar
Other schools Miami, Southern
Methodist University have had to
pay big time for their offenses. I
hate to say it, but Penn State prob-
ably deserved the death penalty
over the scandal.
This is one of the worst offenses
in the history of college sports, and
pretty horrible for society in
general.
Dave Russell
These institutions were created
for education and not sports. I can
see where the government could
step in and regulate sports at public
universities and private universities
that accept federal dollars, or that
play in a facility that was built or
maintained by public dollars or
travel across state lines to compete.
Rick Johnson
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WILFREDOLEE, AP
Alabama players celebrate after winning
the BCS title game in January.
Could college football powerhouses
break away fromNCAAoversight?
YOUR SAY Tracking the nations conversation
LETTERS
LETTERS@USATODAY.COM
While I understand
there is more efort
involved for small Internet busi-
nesses to collect state sales tax,
failing to tax themis unfair to
small brick-and-mortar retailers
who compete with these In-
ternet companies.
Local merchants also operate
on thin margins and can have
greater overhead, yet must pay
sales tax.
Many retailers provide the
same goods and services as on-
line businesses do, and consum-
ers purchase themonline to save
the cost of sales tax.
Its time for a retail sales tax
on Internet purchases to level
the playing eld.
Sandra Wade
Chapin, S.C.
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59/43pc
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4/44s
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59/29pc
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I/35pc
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58/35pc
8oton kouge
82/Ipc
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2/43t
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5/44pc
|ndlonopo|ls
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Fort Voyne
2/40pc
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Co|umbus
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87/5pc
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84/72pc
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Fort Myers
88/5pc
Sorosoto
87/5pc
St. Petersburg
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Or|ondo
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Dover
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Vl|mlngton
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Hortford
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Co|orodo
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3/38pc
Denver
5/39pc
Pueb|o
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Durongo
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Aspen
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Fresno
87/58s
8okersfle|d
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Lureko
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Loke 1ohoe
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90/8s
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Montgomery
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34/Isf
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For two wealthy Americans who
admitted involvement in ofshore tax
evasion, the diference between a
prison termand probation on Thurs-
day came down to having tried to do
the right thing.
The sentencings, handed down in
federal courtrooms roughly 1,200
miles apart in West PalmBeach, Fla.,
and Manhattan, involved a military
doctor from Jupiter, Fla., and a wid-
owed PalmBeach heiress and charity
benefactor. The two are the latest of
dozens netted in the four-year feder-
al crackdown on hiding income from
the IRS in Switzerland and other tax
havens.
The physician, Michael Canale, 62,
pleaded guilty in New York federal
court last December to willful failure
to notify the IRS about Swiss bank
accounts that in 2010 held nearly
$1.5 million. His lawyers argued in a
sentencing memorandum that Ca-
nale was punished enough by paying
more than $1 million in back taxes
and penalties, plus accepting a felony
conviction that forced him to retire
from his Department of Veterans Af-
fairs medical post after nearly 30
years of military service.
While acknowledging that Canale
made a serious mistake, attorney
Robert Fink wrote that his client in-
herited the account from his father,
who gave orders to keep it secret.
Citing Canales long career, the de-
fense lawyer characterized him as a
genuine American hero, who has
served his country selessly as a
combat military doctor by helping
countless Army personnel and civil-
ians around the world.
However, the Manhattan U.S. At-
torneys ofce argued Canale evaded
at least $216,000 in federal taxes on
income from an account his father
originally opened at Swiss banking
giant UBS and later shifted to Wege-
lin &Co., another Swiss bank. Canale
knewabout the account since at least
1993, and inherited it in 2000, court
records show.
He could have, at any time, ceased
his criminal conduct by disclosing
the account or even simply closing
the account. He chose to do none of
those things, wrote Assistant U.S. At-
torney Jason Cowley.
Noting that Canales control of the
funds was disguised by the bank ac-
count name Wanderlust Foundation,
Cowley argued that U.S. District
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for one defendant
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Shares of trou-
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more than 6%
after hours fol-
lowing billionaire
investor George
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that hes bought
a 7.9% stake in
the company.
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month and rehired his predecessor,
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through cash after a new retail
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revenue increased 22% to $16.1 bil-
lion. Amazon earned 18 cents a
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Southwest is ending its free ride
for no-shows.
The airline said Thursday it would
launch a new no-show policy in
which some iers will forfeit their
fares if they fail to show up for a
ight next month, so its not stuck
taking of with empty seats at the last
minute.
Passengers whove booked the
cheapest Wanna Get Away or Ding
fares on or after May 10, 2013, for
trips on or after Sept. 13, will forfeit
their fare if they simply dont show
up at the airport rather than cancel-
ing or re-booking. The rest of their
itinerary will also be canceled.
Its not a fee, Gary Kelly, South-
wests CEO said. All we need our
customers to do is simply cancel
their reservation (before the sched-
uled departure time), which puts us
in the position of nding a replace-
ment customer for that seat.
Southwest is the last remaining big
U.S. carrier that doesnt charge cus-
tomers for changing their ight
plans. News of when the no-show
policy kicks in comes after United
and US Airways raised their fees for
changing non-refundable tickets by
$50 to $200 in recent days.
Southwest, which carries more do-
mestic passengers than other U.S. air-
lines, detailed the news as it reported
earnings for the rst quarter of the
year.
It said it had net income of $59
million for the rst three months of
the year, a drop fromthe $98 million
it brought in during that period in
2012. Still, the carrier had record op-
erating revenue at the start of the
year of $4.1 billion, a 2.3% increase
over the rst quarter of 2012.
United Airlines, meanwhile, said
Thursday that it lost $417 million in
the rst three months of 2013.
That worked out to $1.26 per
share, and was a consecutive quarter-
ly loss for United, the nations largest
airline. Uniteds performance stood
in stark contrast to other major carri-
ers, which earned prots at the start
of the year despite the rst quarter
traditionally being a slowtime for the
airline industry.
None of us is happy with our rst-
quarter nancial results, Jef Smi-
sek, Uniteds CEO, said in a call with
investors and the media. We still
have much work ahead of us ... but
were condent were on the right
path.
Southwest, which is merging with
fellow low-cost carrier AirTran, has
been the most consistent in the in-
dustry when it comes to making a
prot. It continues to difer from
most of its bigger network peers by
not charging for the rst two checked
bags or to change a reservation. But it
is no longer the cheapest airline, and
its also starting to mirror its larger
competitors by charging fees for
some perks.
In January, for instance, it said it
would begin letting passengers pay
$40 to be in group A, which boards
rst, important since Southwest
doesnt assign seats. Previously, iers
could be in the group by purchasing a
special business-class ticket or being
in the loyalty program.
Furlough
talks, 1A
Can Congress
agree to help
FAA end air
traffic control
furloughs that
are delaying
flights?
Southwest: Showup, or cancel
Fliers booking
cheapest fares will
forfeit if they dont
Charisse Jones
@charissjones
USATODAY
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TAX-EVASION CASES
PROVIDE LESSON
Whenever you make a
major purchase, you
need to think about the
worst-case scenario.
Sure, you may be getting
a great price on that house, and its
right next to a lovely sanctuary for
two-headed woodpeckers. But might
there be some hidden danger youre
overlooking?
If you own a bond fund and you
probably do youve done well with
it. But bond funds come with a long-
termrisk: rising interest rates, which
will hurt your funds price. How
much? It depends on the fund you
own. But you can get a decent idea of
how risky your fund is with a mea-
sure called duration.
Investors have poured a net $1.1
trillion into bond funds since March
2009, according to the Investment
Company Institute, the mutual fund
trade group. Currently, $3.4 trillion
sits in bond funds, or about 26% of
the industrys $13 trillion in assets
hardly a mania, or for that matter,
particularly improvident.
Bonds, which are long-term IOUs
issued by corporations and govern-
ments, pay a set amount of interest
until they mature, at which point the
issuer returns the principal. And for
decades, they have been a sturdy bal-
ance to stock funds. Not only does
the interest from bonds help smooth
out a portfolios total returns, but
bond prices tend to move in the op-
posite direction from stocks, bufer-
ing sharp downfalls. The past decade,
bond funds have gained an average
4.8% a year, vs. 8.5% for diversied
U.S. stock funds.
Flight to safety of bonds can hit turbulence
Although bond funds
have been stalwart,
hidden dangers can lurk
John Waggoner
jwaggoner@usatoday.com
USATODAY
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vSTORY CONTINUES ON 2B
This year the Dow nally broke
through the 14,000 barrier for the
rst time since October 2008, but no
thanks to the risk-averse Millennials.
The Millennial generation, which
ranges in age from 18 to 34, has been
raised during the stock market crash
and the Great Recession. No wonder
two-thirds of them save the cash left
over fromtheir paychecks and 18%of
them pay of debt, according to a re-
cent study by market research rm
Lab42.
Most of their debt is credit cards
and student loans. Although they are
considered responsible, its unclear
how well they will manage debt as
they take on mortgages and other
major loans, says Gauri Sharma, CEO
of Lab42.
Its also unclear how well they will
invest for their future. Now, 43% of
them describe themselves as conser-
vative investors, according to a study
released in February by management
consulting rmAccenture.
They grew up seeing boom-and-
bust cycles, and therefore are fairly
skeptical about aggressive invest-
ments, says Alex Pigliucci, global
managing director of Accenture
Wealth and Asset Management
Services.
Also called Generation Y, the Mil-
lennials face a new retirement world
that puts most of their retirement fu-
ture on their own shoulders. Unfor-
tunately, as young American workers
have watched their income fall since
the recession, they dont have much
money to put away for retirement.
And if they continue to shy away
from well-diversied retirement in-
vestments, they are ignoring one of
their advantages. Because they have
decades before they will retire, they
can easily tolerate market volatility
and make the most of their
investments.
Even if the smart, tech-savvy gen-
eration of Millennials are told about
the benets of the stock market, they
still may have no appetite for risk.
They are scared of the market and
understandably so, says Alan Moore,
a nancial planner and founder of
Serenity Financial Consulting in Mil-
waukee. Many have seen their par-
ents lose 50% of their retirement
savings in six months.
Moore understands the problems
that Millennials face, because he is
25 and many of his clients are mem-
bers of his own generation. And if
they are only willing to invest 40%of
their savings in stocks at a young age,
vs. 80%, he tells them that they will
have to consider other options to
boost their retirement savings, such
as saving more, buying a smaller
home, or working longer.
But saving for retirement does not
create much top-of-mind awareness
among Gen Y. With Millennials that
I talk to, retirement is so far ofthat it
doesnt seem to be something that
needs to be talked about now, says
Jinnie Regli, a Millennial who is a cli-
ent service administrator at Milli-
man, a consulting and actuarial rm.
In fact, many of them, 41%, say va-
cations and travel are the most im-
portant reasons for saving money,
while 31% put retirement at the top
of their savings list, according to a re-
cent report by LIMRA, an industry-
sponsored research group.
When it comes to nancial issues,
Millennials have more immediate
needs than retirement or vacation.
About half, 52%, have student loan
debt that averages $37,100, and 45%
have credit card debt that on average
totals $5,448, according to a study re-
leased last year by ING Retirement
Research Institute.
For Millennials, life is a balancing
act between saving money and pay-
ing down debt. Regli advises them to
contribute whatever they can to their
retirement accounts. Never think
that anything you contribute is too
small, she says. And if your plan of-
fers a match, remember that not con-
tributing to the plan is like throwing
away free money.
2B MONEY
USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
The hidden danger is this: Bond
prices fall when interest rates rise.
We havent had a period of sustained
rising rates since the Carter admini-
stration. Rates peaked on Sept. 30,
1981, when the yield on the 10-year
Treasury note topped out at 15.84%.
Bond yields have been falling
and prices rising fairly steadily
since then. The bellwether 10-year T-
note yielded 1.71%Thursday, not ter-
ribly far from its all-time low of
1.40%in July.
Youre not likely to see a spike in
rates anytime soon. Interest rates, ul-
timately, are an indicator of demand
for loans, and loan demand is deader
than George Washingtons grand-
mother. According to Moodys Ana-
lytics, 34% of companies in the
Standard & Poors 500-stock index
have reported rst-quarter earnings.
Those companies have seen a 1.5%
rise in sales and a 3.5% yearly in-
crease in operating income.
Those companies arent going to
rush out and build a new factory or
hire scads of workers. And they cer-
tainly arent going to take out a loan
to do either. In fact, given that the
German 10-year government bond
yields 1.24% and the 10-year Japa-
nese government bond yields 0.58%,
you could argue that theres roomfor
Treasuries to go a bit lower.
Another reason you wont see
rates go higher soon: the Federal Re-
serve, which is using its immense
power to buy long-term bonds and
keep a lid on long-term rates. The
Fed is unlikely to cease its tactics un-
til unemployment falls below7%. Its
7.7% now, a gure that masks the
massive number of people who have
given up looking for full-time work.
Nevertheless, its hard to look at
current yields and think that they
will stay this low forever. (And, yes,
many Japanese probably said the
same thing in 1990.) At 1.71%, a 10-
year Treasury wont protect you
from ination. And, as you can see
fromthe chart, the current 10-year T-
note is exquisitely vulnerable to ris-
ing rates. (For the morbidly curious,
the 10-year note has yielded an aver-
age 6.6%since its debut in 1962.)
The question, then, is how vulner-
able your bond fund is to rising rates.
Long-term bonds get hit harder by
rising rates than shorter-term ones.
As you can see from the chart, if in-
terest rates rise 1 percentage point, to
3%, the value of a 10-year T-note
would fall 8.6%. A 30-year bonds
price would fall nearly 20%. But a 3-
year bonds price would fall 2.8%.
Bear in mind that if you hold an
individual Treasury bond to maturi-
ty, you get your money back. Youll
only lose money if you sell. Funds are
priced every day, however, and their
value varies daily as well.
If you look at a funds prospectus
or annual report or look it up on a
website, such as www.morningstar
.com youll typically nd two mea-
sures of interest-rate vulnerability.
One is average maturity, which tells
you howlong it will be before the av-
erage bond in the portfolio matures.
A more accurate measure, howev-
er, is duration, which takes into ac-
count the value of the bonds and
several other complex factors. Con-
sider a fund with a duration of 3.5
years. If interest rates rise 1 percent-
age point, you can expect that the
funds portfolio will fall by 3.5%; if
rates fall a point, the portfolio will
gain 3.5%.
If you expect rates to rise, then
you should consider funds that keep
their duration short. (Technically,
money market funds are ultra-short
duration bond funds, and they have
very little price risk.) Todd Rosen-
bluth, director of ETF research at
Standard & Poors Capital IQ, likes
SPDR BarCap Short-Term High-
Yield Bond ETF (ticker: SJNK). It
has a duration of 2.9 years and has
yielded 5.9%the past 12 months.
The catch theres always a catch
is that the fund invests in high-
risk, low-quality bonds. While the
fund might have below-average inter-
est rate risk, it does carry economic
risk. If the economy falls back into
recession, some of the bond issuers
could default, and that would cause
the funds price to fall.
Another fund to consider is Van-
guard Short-term Corporate Bond
Index ETF (VCSH), which has a 12-
month yield of 2.1%, according to
Morningstar. Its duration is 2.8 years,
but its portfolio is much higher quali-
ty than the SPDRofering.
In these days of lowrates, all bond
funds come with some risks. If you
look carefully at duration and credit
quality, however, at least you wont
wake up to any unpleasant surprises.
Check duration, credit quality
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T-NOTE YIELDS
Court Judge Denise Cote should im-
pose a sentence that includes at
least some substantive termof incar-
ceration in order to deter others
who would engage in similar
misconduct.
Cote sentenced Canale to six
months in federal prison, substan-
tially less than the 24-to-30 months
called for under federal sentencing
guidelines. But she indicated that ac-
cepting defense arguments for pro-
bation would not provide the
deterrent efect sought by the gov-
ernment. Canale was also ned
$100,000, ordered to pay more than
$216,000 in restitution and perform
400 hours of community service pro-
viding rehabilitative medical care.
Like Canale, Palm Beach heiress
Mary Estelle Curran, 79, pleaded
guilty in January to ling two years
of false tax returns on a UBS account
that concealed up to $43 million
fromthe IRS.
Like Canales attorneys, her law-
yers argued that Curran sufered -
nancially by paying nearly $21.7
million in penalties, plus more than
$667,716 in overdue taxes and inter-
est on income in an account under
the name Flognet Foundation.
Curran, like Canale, inherited the
account in her case from her hus-
band, Mortimer, who opened it and
controlled it through overseas bank-
ers until his death.
And like Canale, the lawyers de-
picted Curran as a lifelong giver and
benefactor to national philanthro-
pies such as the Red Cross, and local
charities such as the Early Childhood
Center in Palm Beach and a West
53rd Street soup kitchen in
Manhattan.
The similarities ended there.
Strong mitigating circumstances
favoring Mrs. Curran ... make this far
from the typical ofshore tax case,
defense attorneys Roy Black and Na-
than Hochman wrote in a sentencing
memorandum to U.S. District Judge
Kenneth Ryskamp in West Palm
Beach.
When Curran learned in 2008 that
the UBS account could be subject to
federal taxes, she hired an attorney
with the aim of coming clean to the
IRS.
But that attorney delayed for ap-
proximately one month, Currans
current lawyers wrote. As a result,
federal investigators already had ob-
tained Currans name and account
data from UBS before she contacted
them.
UBS agreed to give U.S. authorities
information about thousands of pre-
sent and former American clients
under a deferred-prosecution deal.
The agreement, which also included
a $780 million payment, settled alle-
gations that UBS sent its bankers on
secret trips to the U.S. to help cus-
tomers hide assets. The one-month
delay in disclosing Currans informa-
tion to the IRS made her ineligible
for a leniency program, resulting in
approximately $13 million in extra
penalties, her attorneys wrote.
Mrs. Curran received no immuni-
ty from prosecution and has been
subject to the highest possible (IRS
disclosure) penalty even though she
made a good-faith efort to come
clean to the tax agency, her attorneys
wrote.
The U.S. Attorneys ofce in South
Florida does not oppose the proba-
tion sentence recommended by a
probation ofcer who examined the
case, Currans attorneys noted.
Ryskamp sentenced Curran to one
year of probation and almost in-
stantly terminated the punishment.
Calling the case unfortunate, he
urged her to le a pardon request
with the White House.
The judge said, Youve now been
on probation for ve seconds, said
defense attorney Nathan Hochman.
In my 25 years of practice as a pros-
ecutor and a defense attorney, this
sentencing was unprecedented.
Atale of two tax-evasion cases
vCONTINUED FROM1B
DEBBIE SCHATZ, PALMBEACHDAILY NEWS
Mary Estelle
Curran had her
probation cut to
ve seconds in
sentencing for tax
evasion.
Strong mitigating
circumstances favoring
Mrs. Curran ... make this
far from the typical
offshore tax case.
Defense attorneys Roy Black and Nathan
Hochman wrote in a sentencing
memorandum to U.S. District Judge Kenneth
Ryskamp in West Palm Beach.
Starbucks gave its investors anoth-
er shot of nancial cafeine late
Thursday after putting up another
quarter of strong prots, continuing
the companys string of growth.
The cofee chain reported 25.9%
higher net income of $390.4 million
on 11.3% higher revenue of $3.6
billion.
Including a 3-cents-a-share gain
from a sale of a stake in a Mexican
joint venture, the earnings were 51
cents a share, matching expectations
for a 48-cents-a-share prot.
Shares of Starbucks gained in reg-
ular trading ahead of its after-the-
close earnings release, adding 67
cents to close at $60.50. In after-
hours trading, the stock fell nearly
3%. Shares of Starbucks are up 12.8%
this year.
Starbucks has never been better
positioned, CEO Howard Schultz
said in the earnings release.
Investors were hoping Starbucks
could keep up its string of strong rev-
enue gains, making it a contrast to
other companies struggling to grow
amid the sluggish economy.
So far, with nearly half the compa-
nies in the Standard & Poors 500
having reported results, revenue
growth is coming in at 2.9%, says
S&PCapital IQ.
Starbucks revenue has grown by
more than 10%for each of the last six
quarters, including 10.6% growth in
the December quarter.
The company is positioned to ben-
et from increased discretionary
spending on small items as well as
the rise in specialty cofee, says Jim
Yin, analyst at S&P Capital IQ, in a
report.
That stronger top-line growth
along with cost controls has trickled
to the bottom line. The company has
been consistently delivering higher
net income, including a 13.1% in-
crease in the December quarter and
an 18.5% boost in net income in the
April quarter of 2012.
Additionally, the company raised
its expectations for earnings for the
year, bumping them to $2.12 to $2.18
a share, up from the $2.06 to $2.15 it
previously said it was shooting for.
Continued strength in our U.S.
operations, despite ongoing uncer-
tainty in the macro environment, has
fueled our performance, said Troy
Alstead, chief nancial ofcer, in the
statement.
Strong growth in U.S. locations
was a key part of the report. The
company posted 7% higher sales at
U.S. locations open at least a year.
Starbucks is continuing to adjust its
loyalty program, and in the U.S., the
number of visits and the amount
consumers spent each visit rose. In
the critical Asia-Pacic region, sales
at stores open at least a year rose 8%.
Its just the latest strong quarter in
what is expected to be a strong scal
year ending in September. The com-
pany should see sales at stores open
at least a year post 7% growth in the
Americas and an even stronger 11%
in China, Yin says.
The company is also beneting by
jumping into the single-cup home-
cofee-brewing business, he says.
Starbucks
earnings get
another shot
of espresso
Double-digit increases
in prot and revenue
Matt Krantz
@mattkrantz
USATODAY
A2013 survey of 500 social-mediausers who are also Millennials (ages 18-34) and
manage their own nances foundthat 60%currently have debt. Other ndings:
50% 49% 34% 33% 10%
have credit
carddebt
are paying
student
loans
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car loans
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MILLENNIAL DEBT
Millennials avoid risk when saving
Can Y generation
build enough cash
before they get old?
Christine Dugas
@christinedugas
USATODAY
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NEW YORK It seems counterintui-
tive, but constant calls for a stock
market correction might be bullish
for stocks, assuming the much-feared
drop never materializes.
Thats the bullish theory outlined
by SamStovall, chief equity strategist
at S&P Capital IQ in the rms latest
market outlook. Stovall says that in
addition to the solid start to the rst-
quarter prot-reporting season,
where nearly 68% of companies in
the Standard & Poors 500-stock in-
dex have topped forecasts, vs. the
long-term average of 63%, stocks
might get an added boost from the
succession of failed attempts to trig-
ger a correction.
The inability by the bears to spark
a thrust lower, Stovall says, may be
adding to the condence of the bulls
that the summer of 2013 could avoid
a 5%-plus decline. Investors fear a
Spring Swoon, similar to the drops
of 16%, 19.4% and 9.9%, respectively,
in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Since hitting
a record of 1593.37 on April 11, the
S&P 500 has been down no more
than 2.6% on a closing basis. Since
the bull began in March 2009, there
have been 17 drops of 5% or more,
with an average drop of 8.3%, Be-
spoke Investment Group says.
Despite correction fears, if such a
drop doesnt occur, it could pave the
way for the market to make a run at
its recent peak. The market looks
less and less like it is tracing out a ...
top, says Stovall, adding that the
market would have to climb 1%above
its newpeak for bears to discard the
pullback theme and postpone a pull-
back until later in the year.
What to watch
Bullish driver: A correction that never comes?
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@adamshell
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ported an adjusted rst-quarter
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A: Dot-coms were the fad invest-
ment of 1999, and Apple was the fad
stock of 2012. Gold, though, was all
the rage in 2011.
The yellow metal caught on as
investors gured it was the best way
to avoid the ravages of ination. But
just as dot-com stocks and Apple
stock have crashed, gold is now the
latest formerly do-no-wrong invest-
ment to stumble.
The SPDR Gold Shares exchange
traded fund, the investment which
many investors jumped into during
the gold craze, is sufering a mighty
decline.
Shares of the gold ETF topped
out at nearly $185 a share in August
2011. But since then, the price of
bullion has been falling precipi-
tously, losing 24%fromthat point.
The recent downturn in gold is
yet another example of why the
metal, while popular from time to
time during periods of economic
worries, is a poor long-term invest-
ment.
Gold had down years 30% of the
time since 1992, vs. 22%of the time
for the Standard & Poors 500, says
Ken Winans of Winans Interna-
tional.
The direction is lower, says Jef-
frey Gundlach of DoubleLine.
The price of gold is determined
solely on what others are willing to
pay; theres no underlying income
or earnings generated by the metal.
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a poor long-term investment
Q: Is it time to bail out
of gold?
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
The overhauled 2013
Nissan Sentra isnt as
ugly outside as the pre-
vious version.
The high-end Sentra
models have very nicely nished
interiors.
Navigation is only $650, instead of
being available only as part of a
$2,000 to $3,000 package, in the way
most car companies force-feed their
buyers.
Bluetooth (in models where its
available) does a commendable job
nding and making friends with your
phone, as well as accessing the music
you might have stored there.
Theres more space inside than
youd expect in a compact sedan, es-
pecially for rear-seat riders.
The trunks bigger than it used to
be and more accessible.
Prices are lower than some rivals
stickers.
Those are solid attributes of the
car, which went on sale last October,
replacing a Sentra that seemed 100
years old, though Nissan insists it
was only 6 years of age.
But they arent compelling attri-
butes. Nothing to match, say, Hyun-
dai Accents sexy styling, Ford Focus
Euro-crisp handling, Honda Civics
seemingly indestructible reputation
(despite Civics horrible stumbles on
the 2012 redesign that had to be xed
fast for the 2013).
And whatever allure the Sentras
attributes have is seriously undercut
by a dreadful drivetrain and front
seats that have lumbar bulges tai-
lored by a sadist, with no adjustment
knob or lever to moderate the pain.
Physiques difer, of course, and
yours might t the seats better. But it
seems plain wrong to give you no
lumbar adjustment in a car that the
automaker says is meant to draw
more upscale buyers more like the
ones youd see hovering around Civ-
ics in a Honda showroom. The ones
who like a premiumtouch or two and
come from households averaging
$70,000 annually or so, instead of
Sentras $50,000-$60,000 range.
Never mind whether the other
guys let you manipulate the seats
bulge (Civic doesnt). Its the right
thing to do. And Sentras redesign
could have incorporated the feature
during development at low cost, and
thus one-upped rivals.
Likewise, it seems incorrect not to
ofer a power seat at any price. Or not
to have Bluetooth standard.
And mileage-madness is insuf-
cient reason to cut power and rene-
ment from the greasy parts that
make the car go.
The 2013 Sentra is hobbled with a
1.8-liter four-cylinder rated 130
horsepower and 128 pounds-feet of
torque. The 2012 had a 2-liter four-
banger good for 140 hp, 147 lbs.-ft.
That car weighed 100-plus pounds
more, but still seemed to scoot a little
better than the newone.
New one has a better miles-per-
gallon rating: 30 to 34 in city/high-
way mix, vs. predecessors 27 or 30.
But its not worth the compromise
in driving feel, in Test Drives view.
The new engine is done no favors
by the Nissan-beloved CVT(continu-
ously variable-ratio automatic trans-
mission), which sends the already
coarse-voice powerplant into parox-
ysms of amplied strain when the
driver asks to accelerate.
A CVT under throttle revs the en-
gine high and keeps it there until the
car sort of catches up. Anormal auto-
matic, a good one, steps elegantly
through gear ratios, allowing engine
speed to rise and fall as the drivers
right foot commands.
Ah, you say, but the CVT surely
must be why the new Sentra engine
uses less fuel. Nope. The previous
one was saddled with a CVT, as well.
The test car recorded a decent
mileage reading (by Test Drives lead-
foot standards) in the mid-20s. But in
large part that was because the Sen-
tra was just no fun to drive briskly.
The unpleasant underhood com-
plaints discouraged enthusiasm.
If you drive especially gently, and
engine noise is a price youll pay for
better mpg, and youre willing to buy
an up-level version of Sentra to get
the good interior and the navi and
the Bluetooth, then the new Sentra
might seema solid partner.
But its disappointing to have to
portray it thus.
Nissan has seemed distinctive, in
the way Chrysler always has, by being
feistier, more fun, more roguish than
the bigger makers.
Nissan (known as Datsun back
then) gave us the Datsun 510 sedan
in the late 1960s, regarded at the
time as a poor mans BMW. It deliv-
ered to our shores the 1970 Datsun
240Z afordable and sophisticated
sports car.
More recently, Nissan gave us
Porsche 911 performance for half the
price in the GT-R. Its Leaf battery
car, while not everybodys path to
bliss, blazes newtrails.
So its sad to see Nissan backing
away from the edge as it does with
the 2013 Sentra redesign.
Cars should be safe, of course, but
the very next priority should be that
they are fun and satisfying to drive.
Sentra isnt.
NISSANVIA WIECK
Not ugly. Affordable.
Roomy. But oh so ho-hum.
Wheres that
Nissan spunk?
James R. Healey
jhealey@usatoday.com
USATODAY
TEST
DRIVE
EVERY
FRIDAY
Drivetrain: Coarse, noisy
Styling: Bigimprovement
Interior: Nicely done, but seat
shape wont t all.
uWhat? Remake of front-drive,
four-door compact, to be more com-
petitive with Honda Civic, Toyota
Corolla, Hyundai Elantra and the like.
uWhen? On sale since October.
uWhere? Made at Aguascalien-
tes, Mexico.
uHowmuch? From$16,780,
including shipping for base S model
with six-speed manual, to $23,490 for
SLtop model with all factory options.
Nissan dealer accessories add another
$1,690. High-end SLtest car (leather,
navigation, alloy wheels) was $22,400.
Special FEfuel-economy models
go into production in December and
will be $400 more than similar non-
FE. You get 1 mile per gallon more on
the highway; Nissan gets to advertise
a 40-mpg car.
uWhat makes it go? 1.8-liter,
four-cylinder gasoline engine rated
130 horsepower at 6,000 rpm, 128
pounds-feet of torque at 3,600 rpm.
Base S has manual transmission;
others have automatic CVT(continu-
ously variable-ratio transmission).
uHowbig? Similar to Civic,
Corolla. The Sentra is 182.1 inches
long (182.5 in. SRsport model), 69.3
in. wide, 58.9 in. tall on a 106.3-in.
wheelbase. Weighs 2,822 to 2,851 lbs.
Rated to carry about 900 lbs. of peo-
ple, cargo, accessories, depending on
model. People space, 95.9 cubic feet.
Trunk, 15.1 cu. ft. Turning circle
diameter 34.8 ft.
uHowthirsty? Manual trans-
mission rated 27 miles per gallon in
the city, 36 mpg on the highway, 30
mpg in city/highway mix. CVTrated
30/39/34. FEfuel-economy model
will be rated 30/40/34. Test car trip
computer registered 26.3 mpg (3.8
gallons per 100 miles) in normal
suburban driving (because it wasnt
much fun to drive vigorously). Burns
regular, holds 13.2 gallons.
uOverall: Coarse drivetrain,
back-breaking seats kill the appeal.
NISSANSENTRA DETAILS
Whatever allure the
Sentras attributes
have is seriously
undercut by a
dreadful drivetrain
and front seats that
have lumbar bulges
tailored by a sadist.
What stands out ...
General Motors CEODan Akerson
received total compensation last year
of $11.1 million, GM said in a federal
ling Thursday a 44.1%jump from
his total in 2011.
But $2 million of that was in re-
stricted stock options that Akerson
earned in 2011 and was granted in
2012, but that he cant touch for at
least two years.
Akersons base salary remained
the same as it was in 2011 $1.7 mil-
lion. The big jump came in stock
awards, which totaled $9.3 million
last year, up 57% from his stock
awards in 2011.
Akersons miscellaneous compen-
sation last year was $70,149, up from
$55,514 the year before.
During 2012, under Akerson:
uGlobal sales rose 2.9% to 9.29
million vehicles.
uNet income fell 32.7% to $6.19
billion, mainly due to losses in
Europe.
uThe net change in stock price
from the end of 2011 to the end of
2012 was 42.2%, closing out 2012 at
$28.83. Stock in the reorganized,
post-Chapter 11 GM, was issued in
November 2010 for $35.
Other top GM executives com-
pensation in 2012:
uGM CFO Daniel Ammann got a
9.1% salary increase, to $750,000 last
year, and additional stock awards
that brought his total compensation
to $4.8 million, up 36.5%.
uStephen Girsky, vice chairman
and troubleshooter currently trying
to turn around money-losing Opel in
Europe, got the same base salary as a
year earlier $600,000 and about
the same stock, for a total of $5.4 mil-
lion, an increase of 2.6%.
uMary Barra, senior vice presi-
dent in charge of global product de-
velopment, got a salary of $750,000,
stock awards of $3.9 million and mis-
cellaneous other compensation of
$28,445, for a total of $4.9 million. It
was her rst year in that job.
uTimothy Lee, vice president of
global manufacturing and president
of international operations, was paid
a salary of $750,000, stock awards of
$4.7 million and miscellaneous of
$619,851, a total of $6.6 million. It
was his rst year in the position.
ARNE DEDERT, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
GMCEODan Akerson received
$11.1 million in 2012.
Pay for
GMCEO
surges
44%
Stock options
provide a boost
James R. Healey
USATODAY
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Public transportation is going
green.
People who want to celebrate
Earth Day week by commuting in a
vehicle powered by a cleaner-burning
fuel should hop on the bus.
More than a third of the nations
city transit buses are now powered
by fuels other than diesel. Thats up
from fewer than 10% a decade ago,
according to the American Public
Transportation Association citing
January 2011 data.
That compares with about 9 mil-
lion passenger automobiles in the
USA that ran on alternative fuels in
2010, according to the U.S. Energy
Administration; thats less than 3%of
the total.
Transit agencies across the nation,
spurred by federal incentives for buy-
ing and using greener vehicles and by
the potential savings of switching
from diesel, are transitioning to bus-
es that run on compressed natural
gas, propane, diesel-electric hybrids
and biodiesel. In total, there are
more than 66,200 city buses in the
country.
Many people get their rst intro-
duction to alternative fuels via public
transit, say industry ofcials such as
Steve Myers, transit director of Lee
County Transit in Fort Myers, Fla.
About half the agencys 60 xed-
route buses are diesel-electric hy-
brids, meaning they run on diesel at
start-up, then switch to electric
power.
The system has seen a 24% de-
crease in fuel usage by the hybrids
compared with its diesel buses.
There has also been a 50%reduction
in engine combustion gases and a
90% reduction in particulates, car-
bon monoxide and hydrocarbons,
Myers says.
The system started phasing in hy-
brids in 2010. Obviously, theres al-
ways budget pressure, How can we
reduce fuel usage? he says. Also,
the political will was there for us to
make the change, and to spend a lit-
tle more to obtain air-
quality benets and long-
term environmental
benets.
The hybrids cost sig-
nicantly more than die-
sel-powered buses. A
35-foot diesel bus costs
$316,188, vs. $549,041 for
the basic hybrid package, says Joann
Haley, marketing manager at Lee
County Transit. But we recoup that
through fuel economy and through
reduced brake and engine mainte-
nance, Myers says.
APTA President Michael Melan-
iphy says transit agencies are attract-
ed by the long-term economic
benets, by the environmental im-
pacts and by the energy-independ-
ence aspect. Public transit is a good
incubator when it comes to alterna-
tive fuels, he says. Some transit
agencies were early adopters of the
fuels, starting about two decades ago,
and have demonstrated that they can
be used with safety and efciency,
Melaniphy says.
Milo Victoria, CEO and general
manager of Omnitrans in the San
Bernardino Valley, says the agency
began using compressed natural gas
in 1997, well before the state began
requiring all transit buses to run on
alternative fuels in 2005. There
were some unknowns, he says.
They (alternative fuels) had no track
record for service reliability.
Now, Omnitrans 160 buses, which
carry 52,000 riders a day, all run on
compressed natural gas. Victoria says
start-up costs were high, including
the costs of building new pumps. He
says the agency nowpays $1.30 a gal-
lon for compressed natural gas, com-
pared with $4 a gallon for diesel.
John Felmy, chief economist for
the American Petroleum Institute,
says about 3% of the nations trans-
portation industry nowruns on com-
pressed natural gas. Some trucking
operations have started to look at
this, he says. The problem is, it
costs a lot to convert a truck, $70,000
to $80,000. What weve seen is a slow
adaptation.
He says natural gas is about a
quarter of the cost of diesel. Just
about every municipality is trying to
use natural gas for their buses, be-
cause its so much cheaper than die-
sel, he says.
Los Angeles LA Metro operates
the nations largest eet of com-
pressed natural gas buses 2,200
vehicles, according to APTA.
Transits embrace of alternative
fuels is helping to build public aware-
ness of the fuels and helping to build
out the fueling infrastructure, says
Todd Mouw, vice president of sales
and marketing at Roush CleanTech, a
Livonia, Mich., rm that designs and
develops propane fuel systems for
vehicles.
You get people riding these buses,
and theyre like, Wow, Im riding a
propane bus, he says.
The Flint Mass Transportation
Authority in Michigan has truly em-
braced alternative fuels: It has 260
buses; some run on propane, some
on compressed natural gas, some on
a diesel-electricity hybrid and one on
hydrogen. Our plans call for us to re-
duce our use of diesel fuel by 60%
by 2018, says general manager Edgar
Benning.
The agency serves seven counties
that were battered by the loss of auto
manufacturing jobs. We had 86,000
auto jobs. Today we have 6,000, Ben-
ning says. With our economy here,
for us to be sustainable, we needed to
nd a way to reduce our exposure to
the instability of the prices when it
comes to foreign oil.
Alternative fuels best friend: Buses
Transit leads
way for trend
Larry Copeland
@bylarrycopeland
USATODAY
OMNITRANS
Omnitrans in San
Bernardino Val-
ley, Calif., began
using compressed
natural gas in
1997. NowOm-
nitrans 160 bus-
es all run on it.
The agency pays
$1.30 a gallon for
compressed natu-
ral gas, compared
with $4 a gallon
for diesel.
You get people riding these
buses, and theyre like, Wow,
Imriding a propane bus.
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$549,041
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 SECTION C
Baseball/American League u8-9C
Kansas City 8, Detroit 3 (10)
Boston 7, Houston 2
N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 3
Chicago White Sox 5, Tampa Bay 2
Texas 2, Minnesota 1
Baltimore at Oakland
L.A. Angels at Seattle
National League u8-9C
Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 4
L.A. Dodgers 3, N.Y. Mets 2
Washington 8, Cincinnati 1
Chicago Cubs 4, Miami 3
Colorado at Arizona
Basketball/NBA playoffs u4C
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Chicago 79, Brooklyn 76
Memphis 94, L.A. Clippers 82
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SPORTSLINE
1. OT Eric Fisher
to Kansas City Chiefs
2. OT Luke Joeckel
to Jacksonville Jaguars
3. DE Dion Jordan
to Miami Dolphins
4. OT Lane Johnson
to PhiladelphiaEagles
5. DE Ziggy Ansah
to Detroit Lions
TOP FIVE
FIRST WORD
IMLIKE, OH, MY GOD,
ITS HANK AARON!
Ray Lewis, telling USA TODAY Sports
about his reaction to hearing from
Aaron and Julius Erving for their work
on the United Athletes Foundation.
Lewis added hes humbled to be a
part of anything that they do.
TODAYS NAMES TO KNOW
JON JONES, DOUG MCDERMOTT,
JEREMY LIN, STEPHEN CURRY,
JUSTIN VERLANDER, DOC RIVERS
CHARLES LECLAIRE, USA TODAY SPORTS
Smith celebrated his moms birthday.
NFL DRAFT
CHIEFS BEEF UP INNEWERA
Fisher adds heft
to ofensive line
as Reid revamps
Lindsay H. Jones
@ByLindsayHJones
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JERRY LAI, USA TODAY SPORTS
Defensive end
Dion Jordan of
Oregon went
No. 3 overall to
the Dolphins,
who traded
with the Raid-
ers to move up
fromthe No. 12
slot in the rst
round.
BRAD PENNER, USA TODAY SPORTS
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell introduces ofensive tackle Eric Fisher of Central Michigan after he
was picked No. 1 overall by the Chiefs. The drafts rst seven picks were ofensive or defensive linemen.
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West Virginia quarterback Geno
Smith, who took to Twitter before the
NFL draft Thursday to wish his mom
happy birthday.
LAST WORD
I THINK THE PENALTIES ARE
GROSSLY UNFAIR. I THINK ITS
BORDERLINE SHAMEFUL.
Matt Kenseth, a day after getting
docked 50 points and having his
crew chief suspended for six races by
NASCAR after his winning car last
week failed an inspection. His
Joe Gibbs Racing
team is appeal-
ing the penalties.
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KANSAS CITY, MO. Good luck telling
Andy Reid that the 2013 NFL draft
wasnt sexy.
In selecting left tackle Eric Fisher
with the No. 1 overall pick in the draft
Reids rst as coach of the Kansas
City Chiefs Reid showed hell al-
ways be an ofensive lineman at
heart.
In the 3
1
2 months since his 14-
year tenure with the Philadelphia Ea-
gles ended, Reid has worked to rein-
vent his career through a partnership
with an old friend, general manager
John Dorsey, with splashy moves
such as a trade for quarterback Alex
Smith and a new
contract for star
wide receiver
Dwayne Bowe
and nowdrafting
Fisher.
Reid wants
the Chiefs to
play with fury
and light em
up on the score-
board, he told
USA TODAY
Sports on the eve
of the draft.
Fisher, he said
Thursday, ts that vision.
Hes not going to run from any-
body; thats not his makeup, Reid
said. Youve got to be tough to play
that position. Youre going to be chal-
lenged, you have to make sure to rise
up and play good, physical football,
and he has all that.
Reids new job in Kansas City has
meant a back seat when it comes to
the NFLdraft. Literally.
As the Chiefs crisscrossed the
country to visit prospects, from
Mount Pleasant, Mich., to work out
Fisher, to College Station, Texas, to
see Luke Joeckel, and to Florida,
Utah and Oregon to see top defensive
linemen, Reid always found himself
in the back of the Chiefs private
plane. The ights to see the ofensive
linemen were the most uncomfort-
able, with Reid wedged into tiny
seats alongside ofensive line coach
Andy Heck and assistant line coach
Eugene Chung all former colle-
giate ofensive linemen.
It was hard to get in; it was crow-
bar material, says Reid, using an
imaginary crowbar and sound efects
to pantomime the unloading process.
It was real tight.
Go ahead, make your own weight
jokes here. Reid will join in.
Those plane rides and scouting
trips were bonding experi-
ences for the new staf, es-
pecially for old friends
Reid and Dorsey, reunited
for the rst time since
both were with the
Green Bay Packers in
the 1990s. They rib each
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
NHL
USADA CHIEF: ARMSTRONG
HAS EVIDENCE AGAINST UCI
The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping
Agency wants Lance Armstrong
to come forward with information
detailing the alleged complicity of
cyclings governing body in his dop-
ing. Travis Tygart appeared at a
hearing in Paris on Thursday on ways
to improve the ght against doping.
USADAs scathing report exposing
systematic doping by Armstrong and
his teams led to the rider being
stripped of his seven Tour de France
titles and banned fromelite sport for
life. Cycling body UCI has been
accused of covering up suspicious
samples from Armstrong, accepting
nancial donations from him and
helping him avoid detection in dop-
ing tests. During the hearing, Tygart
said he had evidence of the UCIs in-
volvement in this afair and Arm-
strong could hold the key to revealing
the extent of that.
MASSON SHOOTS 64 TO LEAD
NORTH TEXAS LPGA SHOOTOUT
LPGAtour rookie Caroline Masson
shot a bogey-free 7-under-par 64 on
Thursday to take a two-stroke lead
over Carlota Ciganda after the rst
round of the inaugural North Texas
LPGA Shootout in Irving, Texas. In-
bee Park, the No. 1 womens player
in the world, was in a group at 67.
While Masson, 23, has made one of
ve cuts in her rst LPGAseason, she
played on the Ladies European Tour
the last three years and won the 2012
South African Womens Open. She
closed with a curling putt fromabout
18 feet on the ninth hole, her longest
birdie putt of the day. Ciganda was
the top rookie and top money-winner
on the European tour last year. Tay-
lor Coleman, 16, a high school soph-
omore fromSan Antonio, shot 68.
SELIG: MLB WONT INTERRUPT
SEASON FOR OLYMPICS
Major League Baseball wont change
its schedule to boost the sports
chances of getting back into the
Olympics. Baseball was an Olympic
medal sport from 1992 to 2008, then
was dropped for last years London
Games. In an efort to boost the
chance of readmission for 2020, the
international baseball and softball
federations are merging. Interna-
tional Olympic Committee President
Jacques Rogge says baseball should
make its top athletes available, as in
basketball and hockey. We cant stop
our season in August, MLB Com-
missioner Bud Selig said Thursday.
Do I wish I could? Yes. But is it prac-
tical? No. The IOCboard meets next
month to select one or more sports
for consideration by Septembers
IOCgeneral assembly.
NBA OFFICIAL OK WITH KOBES
FASCINATING TWEETS
A headache for his coach, Kobe Bry-
ants tweets during a Los Angeles
Lakers playof game were a hit at the
NBA ofce. Deputy commissioner
Adam Silver thought Bryants on-
line commentary was fascinating
and he missed Bryants live tweeting.
Unable to sit on the bench after a
season-ending torn Achilles, Bryant
appeared to spend most of Sundays
91-79 loss to the San Antonio Spurs
online, ofering analysis of what he
was seeing. Lakers coach Mike
DAntoni called Bryant a fan when
asked about the in-game tweets. NBA
players are prohibited from posting
on social media during games. Silver
says he doesnt think that rule needs
to cover injured players, as long as
they arent on the bench.
uThe NBA committee deciding
whether the Sacramento Kings
should be sold and relocated to Seat-
tle will hold a meeting via conference
call Monday. The committee will
consist of 12 league owners. Whenev-
er the committee issues a recom-
mendation, NBA owners will have at
least seven business days to review
the report before a vote can take
place. The Maloof family has had an
agreement since January to sell a
65%controlling interest in the Kings
to a Seattle group led by hedge-fund
manager Chris Hansen. Sacramen-
to Mayor Kevin Johnson helped
put together a competing counterof-
er complete with a new arena plan
and an ownership group headed by
software tycoon Vivek Ranadive.
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during Thursdays rst round.
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USADAs Travis Tygart, above, wants
Lance Armstrong to come forward.
Eastern Conference
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
z-Pittsburgh 47 35 12 0 70 157 116
y-Boston 46 28 13 5 61 127 102
x-Washington 47 26 18 3 55 146 128
y-Montreal 47 28 14 5 61 145 125
y-Toronto 47 26 16 5 57 144 129
y-Ottawa 46 24 16 6 54 111 100
y-N.Y. Islanders 47 24 17 6 54 138 137
y-N.Y. Rangers 47 25 18 4 54 126 112
...................................................................................................
Winnipeg 48 24 21 3 51 128 144
New Jersey 47 19 18 10 48 112 125
Philadelphia 47 22 22 3 47 131 140
Buffalo 47 20 21 6 46 123 142
Carolina 47 19 24 4 42 125 152
Tampa Bay 47 18 25 4 40 145 145
Florida 47 14 27 6 34 107 168
Western Conference
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
z-Chicago 46 35 6 5 75 151 98
x-Anaheim 46 29 11 6 64 134 112
x-Vancouver 46 26 13 7 59 124 111
y-St. Louis 47 28 17 2 58 128 114
y-Los Angeles 47 26 16 5 57 130 116
y-San Jose 47 25 15 7 57 122 113
Detroit 47 23 16 8 54 121 115
Minnesota 46 25 18 3 53 118 120
...................................................................................................
Columbus 47 23 17 7 53 117 118
Dallas 47 22 21 4 48 130 139
Phoenix 46 20 18 8 48 116 123
Calgary 47 19 24 4 42 127 157
Edmonton 46 17 22 7 41 112 131
Nashville 47 16 22 9 41 110 136
Colorado 46 15 24 7 37 110 145
d-division leader; x-clinched division; y-clinched playoff
berth; z-clinched conference
Thursdays results
Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Islanders 1
N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 3 (OT)
Ottawa 2, Washington 1 (OT)
New Jersey 3, Pittsburgh 2
Toronto 4, Florida 0
Detroit 5, Nashville 2
Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0
Montreal 4, Winnipeg 2
St. Louis 4, Calgary 1
Columbus 3, Dallas 1
Anaheim at Vancouver
Todays games
N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 7
Edmonton at Minnesota, 8
Calgary at Chicago, 8:30
Colorado at Phoenix, 10
Saturdays games
New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 3
Detroit at Dallas, 7
Nashville at Columbus, 7
Florida at Tampa Bay, 7
Boston at Washington, 7
Philadelphia at Ottawa, 7
Montreal at Toronto, 7
Minnesota at Colorado, 7:30
Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7:30
Chicago at St. Louis, 8
Phoenix at Anaheim, 10
Vancouver at Edmonton, 10
San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30
Sundays game
Ottawa at Boston, 7
End of regular season
Wednesdays results
Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 2
Detroit 3, Los Angeles 1
Chicago 4, Edmonton 1
Phoenix 2, San Jose 1
STANDINGS
DETROIT Some of the Detroit Red
Wings who have done so much to
build the franchises lengthy run of
consecutive playof appearance are
doing plenty to keep the streak alive.
Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk
scored and Henrik Zetterberg con-
tributed two assists to pace the De-
troit Red Wings to a 5-2 win against
the Nashville Predators that moved
Detroit closer to qualifying for the
postseason for the 22nd consecutive
season.
Everyone in that (Detroit) room
is proud and they know about the
streak, and everybody in that room
doesnt want it to end on their
watch, Predators coach Barry Trotz
said.
George Hebert Walker Bush was
president, the Furby was the hot toy
and gas was $1.34 a gallon the last
time the Red Wings didnt make the
playofs in 1990.
The Red Wings need one point in
the nal game Saturday against the
Dallas Stars to clinch a berth in the
Western Conference playofs.
Were playing like we shouldve
been playing all year, said Franzen,
who has seven goals in the last seven
games.
The Red Wings had struggled to
score goals the last few weeks, but
they have scored 12 goals en route to
the three consecutive wins.
We were playing real well before
we started winning, Detroit coach
Mike Babcock said. We would lose
1-0 or lose in a shootout.
We would play good teams and
nd a way to self-destruct, or we
couldnt get to three (goals). If you
look at every game we win, we get to
three.
Franzen says the teams defensive
play is generating ofense.
Were coming back hard, Fran-
zen said. Were tracking like crazy
out there and making it hard for the
other teams, and were creating turn-
overs. That creates a lot of ofense for
us.
The Predators didnt make it easy
on the Red Wings, claiming leads of
1-0 and 2-1.
Detroit didnt take charge of the
game until Franzen and Patrick
Eaves scored goals 2:40 apart in the
second period.
Datsyuk added an insurance goal
with less than a minute left in the pe-
riod and had two assists.
Valtteri Filppula and Justin Abdel-
kader also scored for Detroit, which
has been giving up an average of 1.5
goals a game in regulation over the
last 10 games.
I think we have gotten a lot better
as a team, Babcock said.
RICK OSENTOSKI, USA TODAY SPORTS
Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard stops a shot by Predators right wing Chris Mueller on Thursday night.
Howard limited Nashville to two goals to pick up the victory.
REDWINGS CLOSE IN
Victory puts Detroit
in position to keep
playofstreak alive
Kevin Allen
@ByKevinAllen
USATODAYSports
The New York Rangers and Otta-
wa Senators lled out the Eastern
Conference playof picture Thursday,
but positioning remains at stake.
The Westerns nal spots remain
up in the air.
What will be decided in the nal
weekend of the NHLseason:
Final two berths in West: The
Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota Wild
and Columbus Blue Jackets are in
contention. The Wild will clinch with
a win today or Saturday. The Red
Wings need one point in their nale.
The Blue Jackets need a win and help
fromthe Red Wings or Wild.
First in the Northeast Divi-
sion: The Boston Bruins, who have a
game in hand, and Montreal Cana-
diens both won Thursday. The Cana-
diens have one more non-shootout
win, the rst tiebreaker. Whoever
loses the battle will nish fourth.
Fourth in the Western Confer-
ence: The St. Louis Blues can clinch
with a victory against the Chicago
Blackhawks. If they lose in regula-
tion, the winner of the Los Angeles
Kings-San Jose Sharks gets the spot.
The Blues also can clinch if they get a
point and the Sharks beat the Kings.
Scoring titles: Washington Capi-
tals winger Alex Ovechkin moved
three goals ahead of Tampa Bay
Lightning center Steven Stamkos on
Thursday. Stamkos faces the Florida
Panthers, the leagues worst defen-
sive team, in the season nale. Light-
ning teammates Martin St. Louis and
Stamkos are in the mix for most
points.
Karlsson back: Senators de-
fenseman Erik Karlsson returned 10
weeks after having surgery to repair a
torn Achilles tendon. He played more
than 27 minutes and had eight shots,
an assist and a plus 2 rating.
World championships: The
USAs hopes for its rst medal since
2004 in the world championships
will depend on a skilled defensive
corps. Defensemen Matt Carle
(Lightning), Justin Faulk and Jamie
McBain (Carolina Hurricanes), Jef
Petry (Edmonton Oilers), Matt Hun-
wick (Colorado Avalanche) and Chris
Butler (Calgary Flames) were among
the rst 15 players named to the U.S.
teamthat will compete in Stockholm
and Helsinki starting May 4.
The forwards are Colorados Paul
Stastny, the Nashville Predators
Craig Smith and Bobby Butler, Tam-
pa Bays Nate Thompson, Florida
Panthers Nick Bjugstad, Hamilton
(Ontario) Bulldogs (American Hock-
ey League) player Danny Kristo and
Kontinental Hockey League player
Tim Stapleton. The goalies are Tam-
pa Bays Ben Bishop, plus Cal Heeter
of the AHLs Adirondack (Glens Falls,
N.Y.) Phantoms.
Lots to play for on nal weekend
Mike Brehmand Kevin Allen
@ByMikeBrehm, @ByKevinAllen
USATODAYSports
GEOFF BURKE, USA TODAY SPORTS
Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson,
warming up before Thursdays game vs.
the Capitals, says hes not 100%.
Flyers 2, Islanders 1
NewYork Islanders 0 1 01
Philadelphia 1 0 12
First period Scoring: 1. Philadelphia, Briere 6 (Schenn,
Gagne) (power play), 11:41.
SecondperiodScoring: 2. NewYork Islanders, Tavares 28
(Carkner), 1:37.
Third period Scoring: 3. Philadelphia, Lauridsen 2 (Man-
ning), 13:29.
Shots ongoal:
NewYork Islanders 4 8 1022
Philadelphia 13 6 1130
Power-play opportunities: NewYork Islanders 0-of-1, Phila-
delphia 1-of-3. Goalies: New York Islanders, Poulin (30
shots, 28 saves; record: 1-3-0), Philadelphia, Bryzgalov (22
shots, 21 saves; record: 19-17-3). Referees: Jackson, McCau-
ley. Linesmen: Murray, Pancich. Att: 19,798.
Rangers 4, Hurricanes 3
NewYork Rangers 2 0 1 14
Carolina 0 2 1 03
First periodScoring: 1. NewYork Rangers, Stepan 17 (Ha-
gelin, Callahan), 3:19. 2. New York Rangers, Brassard 12
(Hagelin, Del Zotto), 15:52.
Second period Scoring: 3. Carolina, Tlusty 22 (Skinner,
Bergeron) (power play), 4:51. 4. Carolina, Ruutu 3 (West-
garth), 7:51.
ThirdperiodScoring: 5. Carolina, Tlusty 23 (Staal), 0:49. 6.
New York Rangers, Richards 11 (Del Zotto) (power play),
17:03.
Overtime Scoring: 7. NewYork Rangers, Callahan 15 (Ste-
pan, McDonagh), 2:55.
Shots ongoal:
NewYork Rangers 9 16 12 138
Carolina 11 4 2 421
Power-play opportunities: NewYork Rangers 1-of-3, Caro-
lina 1-of-2. Goalies: NewYork Rangers, Lundqvist (21 shots,
18 saves; record: 23-16-3), Carolina, Ellis (38 shots, 34 saves;
record: 6-8-2). Referees: LaRue, Joannette. Linesmen: Cher-
rey, McElman. Att: 17,172.
Bruins 2, Lightning0
TampaBay 0 0 00
Boston 0 2 02
First periodScoring: None.
Second period Scoring: 1. Boston, Seidenberg 3 (Mar-
chand, Seguin), 4:22. 2. Boston, Paille 10 (Campbell, Thorn-
ton), 13:31.
ThirdperiodScoring: None.
Shots ongoal:
TampaBay 9 9 1230
Boston 4 8 1224
Power-play opportunities: Tampa Bay 0-of-3, Boston 0-
of-1. Goalies: Tampa Bay, Lindback (24 shots, 22 saves; rec-
ord: 10-9-1), Boston, Rask (30 shots, 30 saves; record: 19-
9-4). Referees: Morton, OHalloran. Linesmen: Sericolo, Rac-
icot. Att: 17,565.
Devils 3, Penguins 2
Pittsburgh 1 1 02
NewJersey 0 1 23
First period Scoring: 1. Pittsburgh, Cooke 7 (Morrow, Sut-
ter), 8:52.
Second period Scoring: 2. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 11 (Letang,
Fleury) (power play), 14:01. 3. NewJersey, Zajac 7 (Elias, Vol-
chenkov), 18:33.
Third period Scoring: 4. New Jersey, Clarkson 15 (Elias,
Kovalchuk) (power play), 3:01. 5. New Jersey, Kovalchuk 11
(Sullivan, Greene), 13:50.
Shots ongoal:
Pittsburgh 6 5 718
NewJersey 12 7 1332
Power-play opportunities: Pittsburgh 1-of-3, NewJersey 1-
of-2. Goalies: Pittsburgh, Fleury (32 shots, 29 saves; record:
22-8-0), NewJersey, Hedberg (18 shots, 16 saves; record: 6-
9-3). Referees: Furlatt, Martell. Linesmen: Morin, Nansen.
Att: 16,122.
Maple Leafs 4, Panthers 0
Toronto 2 2 04
Florida 0 0 00
First period Scoring: 1. Toronto, Komarov 4 (McClement,
Liles), 5:39. 2. Toronto, MacArthur 8 (Frattin, Gunnarsson),
14:32.
SecondperiodScoring: 3. Toronto, Kessel 18 (Kadri), 1:41.
4. Toronto, Kessel 19 (Kadri, Lupul), 4:41.
ThirdperiodScoring: None.
Shots ongoal:
Toronto 11 5 117
Florida 5 13 1634
Power-play opportunities: Toronto 0-of-1, Florida 0-of-3.
Goalies: Toronto, Reimer (34 shots, 34 saves; record: 19-7-5),
Florida, Markstrom(17 shots, 13 saves; record: 7-14-1). Ref-
erees: Hasenfratz, St. Laurent. Linesmen: Amell, Cormier.
Att: 16,484.
RedWings 5, Predators 2
Nashville 2 0 02
Detroit 1 3 15
First period Scoring: 1. Nashville, Fisher 10 (Clune, Smith),
1:46. 2. Detroit, Filppula 9 (Franzen, Cleary), 6:53. 3. Nash-
ville, Smith 4 (Fisher, Weber) (power play), 12:30.
Second period Scoring: 4. Detroit, Franzen 14 (Brunner,
Datsyuk), 1:01. 5. Detroit, Eaves 2 (Tootoo), 3:41. 6. Detroit,
Datsyuk 15 (Zetterberg, Kronwall) (power play), 19:13.
Third period Scoring: 7. Detroit, Abdelkader 10 (Zetter-
berg, Datsyuk), 16:01.
Shots ongoal:
Nashville 9 6 722
Detroit 12 13 1338
Power-play opportunities: Nashville 1-of-5, Detroit 1-of-4.
Goalies: Nashville, Mason (38 shots, 33 saves; record: 1-
6-1), Detroit, Howard (22 shots, 20 saves; record: 20-13-7).
Referees: LEcuyer, Lee. Linesmen: Cameron, Devorski. Att:
20,066.
Senators 2, Capitals 1
Ottawa 0 1 0 12
Washington 0 0 1 01
First periodScoring: None.
Second period Scoring: 1. Ottawa, Silfverberg 10 (Karls-
son, Michalek), 12:35.
Third period Scoring: 2. Washington, Ovechkin 32 (Jo-
hansson, Green), 8:31.
Overtime Scoring: 3. Ottawa, Gonchar 3 (Karlsson, Al-
fredsson) (power play), 0:47.
Shots ongoal:
Ottawa 7 9 23 241
Washington 10 6 4 020
Power-play opportunities: Ottawa 1-of-5, Washington 0-
of-1. Goalies: Ottawa, Anderson (20 shots, 19 saves; record:
12-8-2), Washington, Neuvirth (41 shots, 39 saves; record: 4-
4-2). Referees: Pollock, Peel. Linesmen: Driscoll, Miller. Att:
18,506.
Blues 4, Flames 1
Calgary 0 1 01
St. Louis 0 3 14
First periodScoring: None.
Second period Scoring: 1. St. Louis, Reaves 3 (Cracknell,
Bouwmeester), 3:21. 2. Calgary, Baertschi 3 (Hudler), 7:58. 3.
St. Louis, McDonald 7 (Stewart, Polak), 10:00. 4. St. Louis,
Steen 8 (Stewart) (power play), 15:27.
Third period Scoring: 5. St. Louis, Reaves 4 (Porter, Crack-
nell), 2:10.
Shots ongoal:
Calgary 8 3 819
St. Louis 5 11 420
Power-play opportunities: Calgary 0-of-4, St. Louis 1-of-5.
Goalies: Calgary, MacDonald (20 shots, 16 saves; record: 8-
8-1), St. Louis, Elliott (19 shots, 18 saves; record: 13-8-1). Ref-
erees: Pochmara, Dwyer. Linesmen: Galloway, MacPherson.
Att: 15,302.
Canadiens 4, Jets 2
Montreal 0 1 34
Winnipeg 1 1 02
First period Scoring: 1. Winnipeg, Wright 2 (Thorburn),
9:10.
Second period Scoring: 2. Montreal, Bourque 7 (Galche-
nyuk, Eller), 9:54. 3. Winnipeg, Wheeler 19 (Little, Byfuglien),
14:43.
Third period Scoring: 4. Montreal, Gallagher 14 (Eller, Ti-
nordi), 2:07. 5. Montreal, Desharnais 10 (Subban, Markov)
(power play), 7:57. 6. Montreal, Desharnais 11 (Pacioretty,
Subban), 10:50.
Shots ongoal:
Montreal 8 11 1130
Winnipeg 5 9 1125
Power-play opportunities: Montreal 1-of-4, Winnipeg 0-
of-2. Goalies: Montreal, Price (25 shots, 23 saves; record: 21-
13-4), Winnipeg, Pavelec (30 shots, 26 saves; record: 21-
20-3). Referees: Rooney, Walsh. Linesmen: Kovachik, Nel-
son. Att: 15,004.
Blue Jackets 3, Stars 1
Columbus 1 0 23
Dallas 0 1 01
First period Scoring: 1. Columbus, Atkinson 7 (Comeau,
Dubinsky), 0:19.
SecondperiodScoring: 2. Dallas, Benn 12 (Cole, Whitney)
(power play), 8:43.
Third period Scoring: 3. Columbus, Letestu 13 (Dubinsky)
(power play), 7:56. 4. Columbus, Atkinson 8 (Johnson, Prout)
(power play), 18:20.
Shots ongoal:
Columbus 12 10 1335
Dallas 10 15 732
Power-play opportunities: Columbus 2-of-4, Dallas 1-of-3.
Goalies: Columbus, Bobrovsky (32 shots, 31 saves; record:
20-11-6), Dallas, Lehtonen (35 shots, 32 saves; record: 15-
14-3). Referees: Kozari, Walkom. Linesmen: Brisebois,
Heyer. Att: 16,918.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 SPORTS 3C
Barnes storms to early Zurich lead
AVONDALE, LA. Ricky Barnes birdied
six of the last eight holes Thursday at
rain-softened TPC Louisiana to take
a one-stroke lead in the Zurich
Classic.
Barnes nished the opening round
with an eagle, seven birdies and a bo-
gey for an 8-under-par 64. Boo
Weekley and Lucas Glover were a
stroke back, and D.A. Points and
Morgan Hofmann each shot 66.
Defending tournament champion
Jason Dufner shot 70, and 2011 win-
ner Bubba Watson had a 73. They
played alongside 2007 Zurich winner
Nick Watney, who shot 69.
Ernie Els and Rickie Fowler
topped the group at 67.
Barnes missed the cuts in seven of
his previous eight events. He jump-
started his round with the eagle on
the par-5 second hole, hitting a 3-
wood from294 yards to 12 feet.
Barnes, whose wife gave birth to a
daughter Monday, birdied the par-5
11th, had four consecutive birdies on
Nos. 13-16 and nished with a birdie
on the par-5 18th. He hit all 14 fair-
ways in regulation and had 26 putts.
The stage might be set for another
Barnes-Glover shootout, similar to
the duos battle in the nal three
rounds of the 2009 U.S. Open at
Bethpage in New York. Glover even-
tually overtook Barnes in the nal
round to win his only major
championship.
Glover birdied his rst four holes,
playing the back nine rst, to get to 6
under. After a bogey on the sixth, he
closed with consecutive birdies on
the eighth and ninth holes.
Weekley, who was ghting a sinus
infection, made a 27-foot putt on the
nal hole to climb into a tie for
second.
Crowded leaderboard:
Eighty-four players were at 1 under
or better, with 30 players within four
shots of the lead. Heavy rain that
spawned at least two tornadoes in
the NewOrleans area Wednesday left
the courses normally rm greens
soft and defenseless, and that led to a
rst-round scoring average of 71.33, a
half-shot better than a year ago.
Young master: Guan Tianlang,
the 14-year-old Chinese amateur
playing on a sponsor exemption,
opened with a par 72, highlighted by
a 5-wood he hit to within a foot on
the par-3 17th. He nished 58th in
the Masters after becoming the
youngest player to make the cut at
Augusta National and said Thursday
he would play in a U.S. Open qualier
in Dallas in two weeks.
Interested bystander: A
three-legged gator made an appear-
ance in the rst round. He spent
some time in the 14th fairway, made
tracks in a bunker (he did not rake it
afterward) and posed for quite a
fewphotos. On Golf Channels broad-
cast, Nick Faldo suggested the gator
might be the answer to slow play on
the PGA Tour as in, hit it and get
moving.
GOLF
GERALD HERBERT, AP
A three-legged alligator got a good look at the action as he crossed the 14th fairway at TPC Louisiana.
Big rst-round nish
gives himone-shot edge
The Associated Press
CHRIS GRAYTHEN, GETTY IMAGES
Ricky Barnes, whos going for his
rst PGA Tour victory, led by a
stroke after the rst round.
Creighton forward Doug McDer-
mott announced plans Thursday to
return for his senior season. McDer-
mott said turning down the NBA
draft, where he probably would have
been a second-round pick, to return
for 2013-14 was a tough decision.
McDermott, who averaged 23.2
points and 7.7 rebounds, will be with
the Bluejays as they transition into
the new Big East Conference. Along
with Creighton, the reformed league
will begin with a lineup of the old Big
Easts Catholic 7 DePaul, George-
town, Marquette, Providence,
St. Johns, Seton Hall and Villanova
plus Butler and Xavier. McDer-
mott helped pilot Creighton (28-8) to
the Missouri Valley regular-season
and tournament titles last season.
The Bluejays beat eventual Final
Four team Wichita State twice at the
end of the season. Scott Gleeson
uCoach Eddie Jordan an-
nounced Thursday the signing of his
rst basketball recruit at Rutgers.
Guard-forward Craig Brown agreed
to play for the Scarlet Knights.
Brown averaged 18.0 points and 8.0
rebounds as a sophomore last season
at Broward College in Davie, Fla. Jor-
dan calls the 6-5 Miami native Brown
a high-character young man who
works hard, both in the gym and in
the classroom. Jordan was intro-
duced as the coach of the scandal-
marred program Tuesday. He re-
placed Mike Rice, who was red
after videos showed him throwing
balls at players and using slurs.
VERLANDER LEAVES GAME
WITH INJURED THUMB
Right-hander Justin Verlander left
the Detroit Tigers home game
against the Kansas City Royals on
Thursday with what the team de-
scribed as cracked skin on his right
thumb. Verlander allowed one
earned run in seven innings before
departing. Verlander, who is day-to-
day, allowed eight hits and didnt
seem to be laboring too much when
he left the mound in the seventh, but
rookie Bruce Rondon came in from
the bullpen the following inning, re-
placing Verlander and making his
major league debut. Verlander, 30,
has made at least 30 starts every sea-
son since 2006, when he was the
American League rookie of the year.
NFL WINS RULING TO CLOSE
COUNTERFEIT GEAR WEBSITES
The NFL won a court order to shut
down the operators of nearly 1,500
China-based websites accused of sell-
ing fake NFL merchandise. In a law-
suit, the league accused the websites
of selling counterfeit jerseys, head-
wear and other merchandise bearing
the leagues trademarks or those of
its 32 teams. The ruling also gives the
NFLthe ability to learn the identities
of those running the websites and
more about their nances. The
league says it has used similar law-
suits to disable more than 2,500 web-
sites. No one showed up in court to
counter the NFLs claims.
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Creightons Doug McDermott said it was
a tough call to put ofthe NBA.
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Tigers starter Justin Verlander is day-
to-day with cracked skin on his thumb.
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NEW YORK There might not be an
appropriate word for just how much
of an underdog Chael Sonnen is to
Jon Jones on Saturday.
Its big enough that Ultimate
Fighting Championship President
Dana White thinks a win by Sonnen
(27-12-1 mixed martial arts, 6-5 UFC)
against Jones (17-1, 11-1), the UFCs
light heavyweight champion whos
widely considered the worlds sec-
ond-best ghter, would be the biggest
upset in his companys history.
Odds in Jones favor are more than
10-1, and even Sonnen acknowledges
the almost otherworldly level Jones
is at ahead of their UFC 159 main
event at Prudential Center in New-
ark (10 p.m. ET, pay-per-view).
Ive watched very little of his
tapes, because every time you watch
Jon, hes kicking somebodys (butt),
Sonnen told USA TODAY Sports on
Thursday. It wasnt doing a lot for
me. I would have far more compli-
ments than I would have insults
about him. But Ive got my skills, too.
Ive been at this a long time.
Sonnen has had one of the biggest
career resurgences in MMA history,
going from middle-of-the-pack mid-
dleweight to star. Much of it has been
due to his ability to draw interest in
ghts with his talk. At his longtime
home at middleweight, through two
unsuccessful title ghts with champi-
on Anderson Silva, he was a near-
constant sound bite.
The knock on him ghting Jones
has been that he talked his way into
it, given he hasnt fought at 205
pounds in nine years. Lately, though,
his talk has been highly complimen-
tary toward Jones, unlike what he
ever had to say about Silva. Sonnen
says its not gamesmanship, and hes
not trying to sell a ght in which hes
a heavy underdog.
I just answer the questions. I
dont manufacture conict, Sonnen
says. I would never try to sell a ght.
Im not going to disparage a guy and
create a fake animosity to try to get
$50. This is what it is. This is a super-
ght, the two baddest dudes in the
world in a steel cage until one of us
has had enough. If that interests you,
its Saturday night and its only on
pay-per-view.
But there he goes, selling a ght,
apparently by not selling a ght, us-
ing a dichotomy that might be like no
other in the sport.
White says interest in the headlin-
er has to do with people wanting to
see if Sonnen can do what no one else
has been able to do, given Jones
dominance throughout his career.
The question becomes, Can
Chael Sonnen do something?
White says. Jon Jones is in the best
shape Ive ever seen him in. It shows
me two things. One, he respects
Chael Sonnen. And No. 2, if theres
anyone on earth he doesnt want to
lose to, its Chael.
And Sonnen says hes as ready as
hes ever been and the one thing
missing from his rsum is a world
title.
You cant retire without a world
title. You can just quit, Sonnen says.
Ive never thought about quitting.
Ive never thought past this ght. ...
Everythings on the line.
Morgan also writes for MMAJunkie.com
JOHNLOCHER, AP
Chael Sonnen, above, is considered at least a 10-1 underdog against Jon Jones for their UFC 159 ght.
SONNENACCEPTS ROLE
AS HUGE UNDERDOG
Veteran ghter
has sights set on
stopping Jones
John Morgan
@MMAjunkiejohn
USATODAYSports
When it comes to surveilling Ma-
jor League Baseball chatter, Carol
Langley is presumably better
equipped than CIA headquarters in
Langley. Its hard to imagine the CIA
being able to pick up everything she
does.
Take Foxs Cincinnati Reds-Wash-
ington Nationals game Saturday,
when Langley will eavesdrop on ev-
erything Reds second baseman
Brandon Phillips will utter and, as
usual, listen in on the plate umpire
both will be miked. When Langley
comes across comments that dont
give away team strategy, wont em-
barrass anyone and dont include
profanity, she can deemthemdeclas-
sied and put themon-air.
Producers such as Langley are the
key to getting inside sports during
live event coverage: TV networks
miking players and coaches.
The NFL doesnt allow networks
to do that, although the leagues NFL
Films has long had such access. In
sports including MLB, wearing mikes
is voluntary. Meaning, Langley
swears, shed never take home tapes
of miked players, umps or managers
and, say, play themat parties.
Oh, no, Id get in big trouble, she
says. Were obligated to destroy the
tapes. If it came out that they were
played publicly, Wed never get any-
body to wear themagain, she says.
Langley, who in 1994 became the
rst woman to produce MLB game
coverage on a national network, says
the objectives of miking players and
coaches has changed in recent years.
Managers are miked less often.
Wed prefer to get players to bring
viewers closer to the game, she says.
And, candidly, fewer managers are
comfortable with it now. We dont
ask themmuch anymore.
Partly thats because broadcasters
and managers might have diferent
takes on what should be ofered up to
the public and what might be giv-
ing away too much.
Plus, compared to more self-con-
scious managers, Langley says, Once
players get their mikes on, they al-
most forget they have them.
Prominent players who have worn
Fox mikes include catcher A.J. Pier-
zynski, shortstop Jimmy Rollins
and outelder Shane Victorino.
But Langley says she doesnt hear
much thats surprising from players.
Thats probably the result of them
knowing somebody is listening. ... But
I sometimes hear them talk about
some goofball in the stands wearing
something crazy, she says.
While players and managers vol-
unteer, plate umpires have been re-
quired by MLB to wear mikes over
the last several years. At rst it was
obvious they werent loving being
miked but did it because baseball
asked themto, she says.
While Lampley will produce Sat-
urdays game while listening to
miked comments during commercial
breaks, shell focus solely on listening
to what mikes pick up during Foxs
MLB All-Star Game and playof ac-
tion and pass on what could be
aired to the game producer and di-
rector. The casual atmosphere of the
all-star exhibition, she says, is so
much fun because you hear how
these superstars are in awe of each
other. ... Its amazing to hear.
Unfortunately, not all of that can
be aired. The mikes on players today
which are the size of a pinkie n-
gertip while the transmitters are the
size of lighters can pick up plenty
of ambient noise. Meaning, even if
miked players dont swear, their
mikes can pick up others who do.
Its unfortunate, because some-
times what theyre talking about is
compelling, but you cant edit out all
the f-bombs, Langley says.
Still, Langley says shes hopeful to
reach the holy grail using live au-
dio so viewers can listen in on what
theyre seeing: Itd be great if we had
a player we trusted enough to sneak
in live audio. A guy like Brandon
Phillips Id trust to not say something
stupid. But thats absolute taboo right
now.
Miking up
MLBno
easy task
Foxs Langley monitors
chatter before it airs
Michael Hiestand
mhiestand@usatoday.com
USATODAYSports
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Carol Langley began producing Major
League Baseball games in 1994.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
NBA PLAYOFFS
There have been trainers at the
wheel when hauling their horses in
trailers to the Kentucky Derby (see
Chip Woolley with Mine That Bird in
2009). Four-time Derby winner
D. Wayne Lukas rides shotgun in a
super-sized truck when his horses
van fromChurchill Downs to Pimlico
for the Preakness Stakes and the sec-
ond leg of the Triple Crown.
But Rudy Rodriguez rode in the
back of a trailer so he could see up
close and personal how 3-year-old
gelding Vyjack was doing on his 12-
hour trip fromFair Hill training cen-
ter in Maryland to Churchill Downs,
where they arrived about 3:30 a.m.
Sunday. Vyjack briey was at pastoral
Fair Hill from Rodriguezs Aqueduct
base to get a little spa treatment en
route to Louisville after the Gotham
Stakes winner lost for the rst time
in ve races with a close third in the
Wood Memorial.
Thats the kind of hands-on care
owner David Wilkenfeld covets with
Rodriguez, a former jockey who nev-
er got the big horse to ride but was
prized as an exercise rider.
It just shows his level of dedica-
tion, Wilkenfeld said by phone from
New York. Thats just a glimpse of
howhes been going out of the way to
train this horse and to be with this
horse. He commuted back and forth
to Fair Hill like six hours a day, some-
times to be with the horse two hours.
... But he didnt want to miss a day of
personally getting on the horse.
After Rodriguez won eight of 11
starts early in his three-year training
career, and perhaps because he had
worked for 2008 Derby-winning
trainer Rick Dutrow, who is out of
racing as he ghts a 10-year suspen-
sion for a series of rules violations,
New York and now Kentucky regula-
tors apparently started wondering if
Rodriguez was inappropriately
hands-on.
Rodriguez served a 20-day suspen-
sion this spring for two instances in
2012 of overages of the therapeutic
medication and anti-inammatory
agent known as Banamine, akin to
Aleve in humans, in his horses on
race day. Its commonly used and in
the past could be given up to four
hours before race time in Kentucky.
He is appealing a third Banamine
overage so far of the charts he and
his attorney think it was sabotage.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Com-
mission required Rodriguez to ap-
pear before its license review
committee before it would give hima
license in the commonwealth. The
KHRC licensed him under the stipu-
lation he pay for 24-hour surveil-
lance cameras in the barn and stall
where Vyjack would be at Churchill
Downs. That was OKwith Rodriguez,
who rst broached the subject.
Indeed, he earlier installed securi-
ty cameras in his main barn at Aque-
duct and said he had tried to get
them hooked up in another barn
where he has overow horses and
where the lly with the extremely
high level of Banamine was housed.
There are four cameras in the raf-
ters, including two in Vyjacks stall, in
trainer Dale Romans Churchill barn,
where the gelding is stabled.
Rodriguez, 41 next Wednesday, is
used to scrutiny. He said New York
investigators followed himfor almost
a year early in his training career.
When his veterinarians gave horses
injections, Rodriguez said the investi-
gators sealed the syringes and nee-
dles for testing later.
We win at a very high percent,
said the 22% career winner as a
trainer. I dont knowwhy, but thank
God. You know, people on the race-
track always think youre cheating.
They dont realize how hard you put
in the work, stay in the barn and see
your horses and try to pay attention
to everything and do the right thing.
... They followed me for almost a year.
They found nothing.
I have nothing to hide. And you
know, its a good thing they did (in-
stall cameras). I got my cameras in
New York. How do you defend
yourself if you dont have anything to
look at, the people in the barn?
Rodriguezs friends are incensed
by what they say was selective treat-
ment. Hes a staple of NewYork rac-
ing; everyone knows Rudy, said
Romans, who calls Rodriguez a barn
rat. I dont think the commission
shouldve singled Rudy out. Its
ridiculous.
Rodriguez wont let it sap his joy of
being in the Derby with Vyjack.
This experience Im living, its
hard to imagine it was going to hap-
pen to us, said Rodriguez, whose
brother Gustavo is his top assistant.
Its amazing. I consider myself very,
very lucky since I came to this coun-
try. This country is a place you want
to be.
ROAD TO THE KENTUCKY DERBY
Vyjack helps keep trainer Rodriguez centered
Jennie Rees
@cj_jenni
USATODAYSports
ADAMCOGLIANESE, NYRA, VIA AP
Vyjacks four career wins include the GothamStakes on March 2.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
MIAMI 3, MILWAUKEE 0
Game 1: Miami 110, Milwaukee 87
Game 2: Miami 98, Milwaukee 86
Thursday: Miami 104, Milwaukee 91
Sunday: at Milwaukee, 3:30
x-Tuesday: at Miami, TBA
x-May 2: at Milwaukee, TBA
x-May 4: at Miami, TBA
NEW YORK 2, BOSTON 0
Game 1: NewYork 85, Boston 78
Game 2: at NewYork 87, Boston 71
Today: at Boston, 8
Sunday: at Boston, 1
x-Wednesday: at NewYork, TBA
x-May 3: at Boston, TBA
x-May 5: at NewYork, TBA
INDIANA 2, ATLANTA 0
Game 1: Indiana107, Atlanta90
Wednesday: Indiana113, Atlanta98
Saturday: at Atlanta, 7
Monday: at Atlanta, 7:30
x-Wednesday: at Indiana, TBA
x-May 3: at Atlanta, TBA
x-May 5: at Indiana, TBA
CHICAGO 2, BROOKLYN 1
Game 1: Brooklyn 106, Chicago 89
Game 2: Chicago 90, Brooklyn 82
Thursday: Chicago 79, Brooklyn 76
Saturday: at Chicago, 2
Monday: at Brooklyn, 7
x-May 2: at Chicago, TBA
x-May 4: at Brooklyn, TBA
WESTERN CONFERENCE
OKLA. CITY 2, HOUSTON 0
Game 1: OklahomaCity 120, Houston 91
Wednesday: Okla. City 105, Houston 102
Saturday: at Houston, 9:30
Monday: at Houston, 9:30
x-Wednesday: at OklahomaCity, TBA
x-May 3: at Houston, TBA
x-May 5: at OklahomaCity, TBA
SAN ANTONIO 2, L.A. LAKERS 0
Game 1: San Antonio 91, L.A. Lakers 79
Wed.: San Antonio 102, L.A. Lakers 91
Today: at L.A. Lakers, 10:30
Sunday: at L.A. Lakers, 7
x-Tuesday: at San Antonio, TBA
x-May 2: at L.A. Lakers, TBA
x-May 4: at San Antonio, TBA
DENVER 1, GOLDEN STATE 1
Game 1: Denver 97, Golden State 95
Game 2: Golden State 131, Denver 117
Today: at Golden State, 10:30
Sunday: at Golden State, 9:30
Tuesday: at Denver, TBA
x-May 2: at Golden State, TBA
x-May 4: at Denver, TBA
L.A. CLIPPERS 2, MEMPHIS 1
Game 1: L.A. Clippers 112, Memphis 91
Game 2: L.A. Clippers 93, Memphis 91
Thursday : Memphis 94, L.A. Clippers 82
Saturday: at Memphis, 4:30
Tuesday: at L.A. Clippers, TBA
x-May 3: at Memphis, TBA
x-May 5: at L.A. Clippers, TBA
FIRST-ROUND PLAYOFF SCHEDULE
(Best-of-seven; times p.m. Eastern; x-if necessary)
THUNDER 105, ROCKETS 102
Houston 28 27 17 30 102
Oklahoma City 29 28 21 27 105
Houston Harden 9-24 17-20 36, Parsons 7-23 0-0 17,
Asik 3-6 3-4 9, Lin 3-7 0-0 7, Beverley 7-13 0-0 16, Delfino
4-13 0-0 11, Smith 3-3 0-0 6, Garcia 0-1 0-1 0, Brooks 0-1
0-0 0. Totals 36-91 20-25 102.
OklahomaCity Durant 10-257-829, Ibaka5-62-212,
Perkins 2-3 0-0 4, Westbrook 10-26 8-10 29, Sefolosha 4-9
0-0 11, Jackson 2-4 0-0 6, Martin 3-9 1-2 10, Collison 1-2
2-24, Fisher 0-10-00, Liggins 0-00-00. Totals 37-8520-24
105.
3-point goals: Houston 10-35 (Parsons 3-10, Delfino 3-
10, Beverley 2-4, Lin 1-3, Harden 1-7, Garcia 0-1), Oklaho-
ma City 11-35 (Sefolosha 3-7, Martin 3-7, Jackson 2-4, Du-
rant 2-9, Westbrook 1-7, Fisher 0-1). Fouled out: None. Re-
bounds: Houston 65 (Asik 14), Oklahoma City 47 (Ibaka
11). Assists: Houston 16 (Beverley, Harden 6), Oklahoma
City 20 (Durant 9). Total fouls: Houston 23, Oklahoma City
22. Technicals: Smith, Houston defensive three second,
Oklahoma City defensive three second 2. Att.: 18,203 .
WEDNESDAYS LATE GAME
The Boston Celtics will have to x
their ofensive woes if theyre to get
back in this series with the NewYork
Knicks. And it starts with defense.
If we dont get stops, Celtics
coach Doc Rivers said, then we cant
play, because we dont have ability to
walk the ball up the oor under pres-
sure and run our ofense.
Boston is a much better team
pushing the ball in transition before
the opposition sets up its defense,
and that style of play has been miss-
ing since point guard Rajon Rondos
season-ending knee injury Jan. 25.
That left the Celtics without a player
who had complete command of the
halfcourt ofense.
Rondo is the rare point guard who
can dominate a game without scor-
ing. He knows how to run the of-
fense, how to keep the defense
guessing and where to get Paul Pierce
and Kevin Garnett the ball. Thats
missing right now, and its obvious as
the Knicks have stymied Bostons of-
fense and taken a 2-0 series lead.
Game 3 is today (8 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Rivers long ago this season
stopped lamenting Rondos absence.
Its who we are, so I dont worry
about it, Rivers said. Listen, we are
who we are. We cant apologize for
that. Thats what weve been left with.
I think its good enough to win.
Without Rondo, Avery Bradley
handles the ball the majority of the
time. But as Rivers points out, Brad-
ley is a strong defender and improv-
ing scorer, but he is not a point guard.
The game is not as difcult as we
make it at times, Rivers said. We
were walking the ball up the oor un-
der an amazing amount of pressure.
Thats where the Knicks clearly
turned up their pressure.
The Knicks know the best way to
stop Bostons ofense is to score, and
they are partly responsible for the
Celtics shortcomings. New York has
scored and increased the defensive
intensity when necessary, pressuring
Bostons guards and preventing easy
entry passes to Garnett and Pierce.
When Rondos out there, theyre
in a certain ow. When hes not out
there, they dont know who to go to
in certain situations (and) they dont
know what plays theyre running,
Knicks guard J.R. Smith said. Thats
a credit to a great point guard like
Rondo. Whenever hes in the game, it
seems like he knows two, three plays
ahead of time what he wants to do.
Were doing a great job to make
sure they dont have time to think
about it.
Defense can help
Celtics ofense
Jeff Zillgitt
@JeffZillgitt
USATODAYSports
KEVINHOFFMAN, USA TODAY SPORTS
Celtics coach Doc Rivers says an im-
proved ofense hinges on getting stops
on defense against the Knicks.
It has to be white-ag night at Sta-
ples Center today, right?
All those injuries, preceded by
weeks of scratching and clawing to
get into the playofs only to have the
medical chart grow so impossibly
long once they got there, helped lead
the Los Angeles Lakers to a 2-0 de-
cit against the San Antonio Spurs in
their Western Conference rst-
round series. This is classic silver-lin-
ing time, that point of surrender
where a battered team takes pride in
the way it fought but knows in its
heart of hearts that the end is near.
Or, according to Lakers center
Dwight Howard, not at all.
Were not going to go down, a de-
ant Howard told USA TODAY
Sports. Were going to ght. Theres
no (mentality of ): Were going to go
down ghting. Were going to ght.
Were going to keep ghting. Weve
got a lot of bodies, some strong play-
ers, so were just going to keep
ghting.
For the Lakers, the injury toll
keeps mounting:
uStarting shooting guard Kobe
Bryant is now the teams most reli-
able tweeter after an April 13 Achilles
tendon tear ended his season.
uStarting point guard Steve
Nashs status for Game 3 is doubtful
after he aggravated a hamstring inju-
ry in Game 2 and had a cortisone
shot in his hip Thursday.
uStarting small forward Metta
World Peace often looks like the
Leaning Tower of Pisa on jump shots
because of the ripple efects of late
March surgery to repair torn menis-
cus in his left knee. Hes shooting
33.9%since his April 9 return.
uBackup point guard Steve
Blake, who had lled some of the
void so admirably, strained his right
hamstring in Game 2 and is out
indenitely.
uReserve shooting guard Jodie
Meeks missed Game 2 with a
sprained left ankle and is doubtful for
Game 3.
uAnd though it has not been con-
rmed, its a safe assumption that
pounding headaches and rising stress
levels are the normfor Lakers gener-
al manager Mitch Kupchak and
coach Mike DAntoni after their sea-
son went south.
No teamcan apply pressure in the
playofs like the Spurs, the four-time
champions who have bounced back
from various ailments to click at the
perfect time.
San Antonio forward TimDuncan
turned 37 on Thursday and spent the
night before battling like he, and not
Howard, was the one who was a dec-
ade younger.
Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili
shrugged of recent injuries (ankle
and hamstring, respectively) and
combined for 41 points.
Theyre a terric team, obvious-
ly, Nash said of the Spurs. Theyre
extremely well-coached and well-
versed, and (they) have a lot of expe-
rience. So you cant make a lot of mis-
takes against this team. And when we
are, in many ways, trying to nd our-
selves regardless of the injuries, and
you compound everything with that,
its a tall order.
Its not just the Spurs trusty old
trio these days, though. Second-year
small forward Kawhi Leonard was
the bane of World Peaces painful ex-
istence, adding 16 points and seven
rebounds while making general man-
ager R.C. Buford and coach Gregg Po-
povich look smart yet again for their
underrated move to bring himto San
Antonio.
For World Peace, who was adjust-
ing the electronic nerve stimulation
machine sensors on his recovering
left knee while speaking to news re-
porters after Game 2, Leonard is one
of the many obstacles to what ap-
pears to be a near-impossible
comeback.
I mean, yeah, I cant really run
like I want to, you know? World
Peace said. But truthfully, I dont
give a (expletive). I still want to win.
Thats not going to keep us (from
winning).
Thats not going to keep me from
from coming out on top this year.
Thats our goal. Thats it. Theres no
excuse.
LAKERS VOWTOFIGHT
GARY A. VASQUEZ, USA TODAY SPORTS
Lakers point guard Steve Nash, left, and his backup, Steve Blake, are
injured. Nash is doubtful for todays Game 3; Blake is out.
Center Howard says
injuries, 2-0 decit
can be overcome
SamAmick
@sam_amick
USATODAYSports
HEAT 104, BUCKS 91
Miami 21 27 30 26 104
Milwaukee 30 20 18 23 91
Miami James 9-14 2-4 22, Haslem 5-6 2-2 12, Bosh
7-14 2-5 16, Chalmers 2-6 3-6 7, Wade 1-12 2-4 4, Battier
1-4 0-0 2, Allen 8-14 2-2 23, Andersen 5-5 1-2 11, Cole 3-4
0-0 7. Totals 41-79 14-25 104.
Milwaukee Mbah a Moute 3-5 6-8 12, Ilyasova 7-12
0-0 15, Sanders 7-10 2-4 16, Jennings 5-15 5-7 16, Ellis 2-9
2-4 7, Udoh 0-1 0-0 0, Redick 4-7 0-0 11, Dunleavy 4-8 2-2
11, Daniels 1-2 0-0 2, Dalembert 0-2 1-4 1, Smith 0-0 0-0 0,
Henson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 33-72 18-29 91.
3-point goals: Miami 8-19 (Allen 5-8, James 2-4, Cole
1-1, Bosh 0-1, Battier 0-2, Chalmers 0-3), Milwaukee 7-26
(Redick 3-6, Ilyasova 1-2, Dunleavy 1-3, Ellis 1-6, Jennings
1-7, Mbah a Moute 0-1, Henson 0-1). Fouled out: None.
Rebounds: Miami 52 (Bosh 14), Milwaukee 47 (Sanders
11). Assists: Miami 31 (Wade 11), Milwaukee 23 (Jennings
8). Total fouls: Miami 24, Milwaukee 21. Att.: 18,165.
BULLS 79, NETS 76
Brooklyn 17 17 18 24 76
Chicago 19 22 24 14 79
Brooklyn Wallace 2-8 0-0 5, Evans 0-2 0-0 0, Lopez
8-16 6-6 22, Williams 5-14 5-5 18, Johnson 6-14 2-2 15,
Blatche 3-9 1-2 7, Watson 1-8 0-0 2, Stackhouse 0-3 1-2 1,
Humphries 2-4 0-0 4, Brooks 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 28-8115-17
76.
Chicago Deng 9-23 2-3 21, Boozer 9-15 4-5 22, Noah
0-7 1-2 1, Hinrich 5-12 2-2 12, Butler 1-5 1-2 4, Mohammed
2-3 1-2 5, Gibson 2-6 0-0 4, Robinson 2-3 2-3 7, Belinelli 1-4
1-23, Teague0-00-00, Cook 0-00-00. Totals 31-7814-21
79.
3-point goals: Brooklyn5-21(Williams 3-8, Johnson1-4,
Wallace 1-5, Stackhouse 0-2, Watson 0-2), Chicago 3-15
(Robinson 1-2, Butler 1-3, Deng 1-6, Belinelli 0-1, Hinrich
0-3). Fouledout: None. Rebounds: Brooklyn 49 (Evans 12),
Chicago 60 (Boozer 16). Assists: Brooklyn 15 (Williams 4),
Chicago 17 (Deng, Boozer 3). Total fouls: Brooklyn 19, Chi-
cago 15. Technicals: Blatche. Att.: 21,672.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 SPORTS 5C
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is giving his
nephew the biggest break of his
NASCAR career, but it isnt because
of what he sawfromhimin a car.
It was in a ring.
When Jefrey Earnhardt made his
mixed martial arts debut last year at
a honky-tonk in Charlotte and
emerged victorious from the steel
cage, his uncle witnessed a force of
will he thought was lacking.
That was really what got me real-
ly interested to know him better,
Dale Earnhardt Jr. told USA TODAY
Sports. You can imagine how dedi-
cated you have to be to the training.
So I knowinside himhe has that dis-
cipline. That was the big question
mark I had with Jefrey, was whether
he had (that) type of motivation.
When JR Motorsports elds a
No. 5 Chevrolet with CorvetteParts
.net sponsorship for Jefrey Earn-
hardt in todays Nationwide Series
race at Richmond International
Raceway, itll mark another example
of the teams commitment to show-
casing younger talent.
Jefrey Earnhardt will be racing at
a 0.75-mile oval with plenty of family
history. His grandfather, Dale Earn-
hardt, and uncle have six wins each at
Richmond. Earnhardt Jr. will make
his 28th Cup start there Saturday.
But the Richmond debut of the
fourth-generation driver (the second
to compete in a NASCAR national
touring series since AdamPetty) also
will signal the thawing of a once-
frosty relationship between Earn-
hardt Jr., 38, and his nephew, 23.
The surprise call Jefrey received
to drive for JRMa fewweeks ago was
the latest of increased interaction
this season with his uncle (who text-
ed Nice beard after watching Jef-
rey in a TV interview at Phoenix
International Raceway).
We denitely have gotten a lot
closer, Jefrey Earnhardt told USA
TODAYSports. It was a lack on both
parts to really reach out, but its cool.
I really cant thank him enough for
giving me the opportunity.
I think the fans are pretty
pumped about it.
But there was a time it seemed far
from likely Jefrey would have a
chance to carry on the legacy. In a
USA TODAY Sports story in 2007,
Earnhardt Jr. questioned the com-
mitment of his nephew to running
the K&N East Series for Dale Earn-
hardt Inc.
He wont come around me, be-
cause he knows Ill jerk a knot in his
(butt), Earnhardt Jr. said then.
His focus wasnt where it needed
to be, Earnhardt Jr. says nowof Jef-
rey. I dont think he grew up antici-
pating to be a race car driver. So
these opportunities are thrust at him,
and hes thrown into these cars, and
hes around all these distractions.
Just around that time, too, hes just
starting to go girl crazy.
His priorities werent where they
needed to be, and that was the most
frustrating part, because that really
was his chance.
After ranking fth as a K&Nrookie
in 2007, Jefrey nished 15th in 2008,
the nal year for DEI, and his career
stalled out. He made his Nationwide
debut in 2009 but has made only 15
starts since.
I was denitely a kid and not right
on the path, he said. I denitely
didnt appreciate the opportunity I
had enough. I dont want to say it was
given to me, because I want to think I
earned it being the driver I am. I de-
nitely think had I worked a little
harder for it I denitely would have
went about it diferently.
Earnhardt also matured while
training four hours daily in jiujitsu
and other disciplines for two months
before his MMAdebut last May.
Earnhardt said he had several of-
fers to continue ghting but put
MMA on hold while racing was the
priority. Limited by sponsorship, he
has started ve of six races in 2013
with a best nish of 20th at Phoenix.
Id sure like to see him get some
opportunities, Earnhardt Jr. said. I
know somewhere inside of him is
that mentality that he needs to be
able to succeed in this sport.
NEPHEW
EARNSSHOT
Dedication leads to big break
in Juniors Nationwide ride
Nate Ryan
@nateryan
USATODAYSports
MIKE DINOVO, USA TODAY SPORTS
Jefrey Earnhardts dedication to mixed martial arts training im-
pressed his uncle Dale Earnhardt Jr., above.
His focus wasnt
where it needed to
be.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., on nephew Jefreys start
in NASCAR
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RICHMOND, VA. When an NFL of-
fensive lineman is agged for hold-
ing, is he cheating?
The majority of people would like-
ly say no. In the NFL, a penalty is a
penalty and nothing more; every fan
and player knows the consequence
for holding is the loss of 10 yards.
Cheating implies something more
sinister.
But in NASCAR, the line is less
clear.
When Martin Truex Jr. failed a
postrace inspection at Texas Motor
Speedway (a piece of debris was
lodged in his shock, making the front
too low), it was the equivalent of
holding.
When NASCARtook away some of
Truexs points and ned his crew
chief, though, some assumed the
teammust have cheated.
How about the Penske Racing
cars? NASCARslammed the teams of
Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano
with points deductions, nes and
suspensions for alleged infractions,
also found at Texas. Were they cheat-
ing or simply trying to push the lim-
its as an ofensive lineman might?
An appeals panel will answer that
question Wednesday.
And just this week, NASCAR is-
sued one of the largest penalties in its
history after it found a part in Kansas
Speedway winner Matt Kenseths en-
gine weighed 2.7 grams less than it
should a part assembled for the
No. 20 Toyotas engine before it ar-
rived in Kenseths garage at Joe
Gibbs Racing.
How big are we talking? Try 50
points docked from Kenseth and a
$200,000 ne and six-race suspen-
sion for crew chief Jason Ratclif.
Plus, Gibbs cant collect owner points
on the No. 20 for six races or count
Kenseths win toward his Chase for
the Sprint Cup hopes.
Although the consensus in the ga-
rage was Kenseths situation was an
unfortunate error that provided no
performance advantage, many will
still look at it as an attempt to skirt
the rules because NASCARs harsh
penalties indicate the presence of a
sneaky act.
Since his team was penalized, Ke-
selowski has heard plenty of fans ask,
Does this mean youre a cheater?
After all, NASCARsaid the cars rear-
end housings were outside the spirit
of the rules.
I dont think that (label) is fair,
because you look at the best players
in the NBA Michael Jordan com-
mitted fouls, and you dont see situa-
tions where the fans in the NBA look
at him and call him a cheater, Kese-
lowski said Thursday. Its just kind
of part of the game. When youre
pushing to the limits, sometimes
things just step over, whether its in-
tentional or not.
At times when teams go over the
line, its cheating an attempt to
gain a performance advantage illegal-
ly. Other times its an innocent
mistake.
NASCAR, though, doesnt judge
intent. It treats what Toyota Racing
Development termed a simple mis-
take with Kenseths engine in the
same way as if a team had been
caught blatantly doing something il-
legal to go faster.
Kenseth called the penalties
grossly unfair and borderline
shameful because they were so
heavy-handed; the punishment did
not t the crime, he said.
In other words, he got a 15-yard
penalty when 5 yards would have suf-
ced (he didnt argue the legality of
the part, just the intent).
What makes dening cheating
more confusing is that when NAS-
CARenforces penalties its a guessing
game as to how severe they will be.
The rule book does not spell out a
specic consequence for each
infraction.
NASCAR thinks it needs to send a
message when it comes to certain
areas of the car to discourage teams
that might be willing to cheat.
But in the interest of transparency,
NASCAR would be better of follow-
ing the NFLs lead for on-eld infrac-
tions by clearly dening what makes
a cheater, what doesnt and how
much each penalty is worth.
CHEATINGLINESFUZZY
Punishments
should be
spelled out
in rule book
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Brad Keselowski, whose car is shown at Texas Motor Speedway, doesnt think the cheater label is fair.
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Sprint Cup
Toyota Owners 400
Time/TV: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET, Fox
Site: Richmond, Va.
Race distance: 300 miles, 400 laps.
Fast facts: Jimmie Johnson leads the
season standings, 37 points aheadof
Kasey Kahne. Defendingseries champion
BradKeselowski is third, 38 points behind
Johnson. ... Denny Hamlin, fromnearby
Chestereld, is sittingout his fourth race in
arowafter breakingavertebrain alast-
lapwreck in Fontana, Calif. Brian Vickers is
makinghis thirdstart in Hamlins No. 11
Toyota. ... Clint Bowyer won the September
race at the track.
Other series
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mond, Va. Time/TV: Today, 7:30 p.m. ET,
ESPNews.
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the Sprint Cup standings.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
BOXING
The last time Sergio Gabriel Marti-
nez fought in his homeland of Argen-
tina, he was a mostly unknown
27-year-old local ghter better
known for his rst sport, soccer,
whose only venture out of the coun-
try resulted in his being knocked out.
On Saturday, Maravilla returns
under much diferent circumstances.
A conquering hero, boxings WBC
and lineal middleweight champion,
one of the top two or three pound-
for-pound ghters on the planet, de-
fender of the bullied and downtrod-
den and, yes, a homegrown rock star
handsome, humble and hellbent to
showhis countrymen what they have
missed for the last 11 years.
Martinez, now 38, will put his
WBC 160-pound title on the line
(HBO, 8:30 p.m. ET/PT) against un-
defeated Englishman Martin Murray,
30, who is pretty much where Marti-
nez was in 2002 ghting outside of
Europe for the rst time with only a
draw against then-middleweight
champion Felix Sturmon his rsum.
During a conference call Wednes-
day, Martinez predicted, un-Sergio-
like, howthe ght would end.
I have respect for Martin, but
there is no doubt in my mind that
this ght is going to end by knock-
out, Martinez (50-2-2, 28 KOs) said
through an interpreter. My training
for this ght has been the best I have
ever had, and my condence is at the
absolute highest level.
Heady words for a humble man
who grew up in one of the poorest
barrios in Buenos Aires and became
what his promoter, Lou DiBella, says
is one of the two greatest middle-
weights to come out of Argentina.
(Carlos Monzon is the other.)
DiBella has seen what his meal
ticket has become in Argentina. I
was going through customs, and a
couple thousand people recognized
me, and I havent been here since I
was a kid, he said. It shows you the
star power of Sergio Martinez and
what he means in this country. In the
cab coming fromthe airport, I passed
I dont know how many billboards,
trucks, buses with Sergios image on
it. He really is like a rock star here.
Yet DiBella doesnt expect his
ghter to change his routine.
The atmosphere is charged and
everyone knows about the ght, but I
dont expect to see much of Sergio,
he said. If you knowSergio, he takes
ght week very seriously. He likes to
keep to himself and get his head into
the ght. Hes not changing his way
even though hes home in Argentina.
Asked if the quiet, reserved Marti-
nez, who has spent years ghting bul-
lying at schools and online, gets the
credit he deserves outside of Argenti-
na, DiBella said, People are getting a
chance to see a Hall of Fame ghter,
and in my mind one of the greatest
middleweights whos ever lived.
Does he get the credit hes due?
Maybe not, but its coming more and
more, and Saturday night in his
homeland there will be 40,000-plus
people in the stadium to show him
the love and respect he deserves.
Martinez solidied his place
among the great middleweights
when he thoroughly outfought un-
beaten and much younger Julio Ce-
sar Chavez Jr. in September in Las
Vegas, though he had to survive a
shaky 12th round.
He gets no love but plenty of re-
spect from Murray (25-0-1, 11 KOs).
Sergio is a great ghter, and I have
nothing but the utmost respect for
him, Murray told news reporters.
All that being said, though, I didnt
come here to lose. I have had a great
training camp, and I feel that this is
my time. Whatever Sergio brings on
Saturday night, I will be ready for it.
Murrays promoter, former 140-
pound champion Ricky The Hit-
man Hatton, says his ghter has the
attitude needed to dethrone Marti-
nez, who has been a champion since
beating Kelly Pavlik three years ago.
Like any great ghter, everyones
reign comes to an end, and I truly be-
lieve Sergios will come to an end Sat-
urday night, Hatton said. I have
seen a change in Martin this week.
He is nasty right now. He knows the
task at hand, and he has never looked
as good as he has for this ght.
Hell need to be better than ever to
hang with Martinez, who stopped the
last two Brits he faced, Darren Bark-
er and MatthewMacklin.
At 38, though, Martinez knows his
days are numbered. He refused to
speculate how much longer he will
ght. However, his longtime friend
and adviser, Sampson Lewkowicz,
might have the answer to that.
Hopefully we can get one more
good year, Lewkowicz said, Sergio
promised his mother he would not
ght at age 40.
MARTINEZ PROMISES KNOCKOUT
Murray says
hell dethrone
champion
Bob Velin
@BobVelin
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ED MULHOLLAND, USA TODAY SPORTS
Sergio Martinez, right, ghting MatthewMacklin in 2012, says his condence is high ahead of his bout against Martin Murray on Saturday.
If Saturday nights Danny Gar-
cia-Zab Judah junior welterweight
title ght at Brooklyns Barclays
Center has as many reworks as
Thursdays nal news conference,
it should be one heck of a ght.
It was decided by Golden Boy
Promotions, Judah said, to keep
the ghters teams separate and
not allowJudah into the event.
Later, when an incensed Judah
nally got to the podium, he
pushed Golden Boy President Os-
car De La Hoya out of way and told
the assembled media, Its insane!
Ive been locked downstairs in the
basement, no food and no water.
Why you doing this to me?
Judah went on a rant, blaming
Garcias father-trainer, Angel, for
instigating it, calling him a dope-
head and a drug addict.
Garcia (25-0, 16 KOs) and Judah
(42-7, 29 KOs) will ght for Gar-
cias WBA and WBC titles on
Showtime (9 p.m. ET).
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NFL DRAFT
other and have found a common tar-
get in Chiefs media relations boss
Ted Crews, who afectionately calls
the duo Laurel and Hardy.
I dont think you saw it the last
couple of years in Philadelphia, said
Chiefs ofensive coordinator Doug
Pederson, who has known Reid since
1995. The way you see Andy now is
the way I knew him way back when
in Green Bay and my rst few years
in Philadelphia. Theres a ne line be-
tween having fun and getting your
work done, and he knows how to do
that. Its very refreshing for all of us
to see himlike that shoulders back,
chest out, eyes are up. Hes just blow-
ing and going. Its a great feeling for
all of us really.
The big, hearty, guttural laughs
havent stopped in the three months
since Reid was hired, and they have
come as a welcome sound to those
closest to Reid and to those in the or-
ganization who had endured of-eld
heartbreak and on-eld struggles
over the last nine months.
In December, linebacker Jovan
Belcher killed his girlfriend at home
and committed suicide in the parking
lot of teamheadquarters. Four weeks
later, the season ended with a 2-14
record.
The murder-suicide deeply
scarred Chiefs players and coaches,
especially former coach Romeo
Crennel and general manager Scott
Pioli, who witnessed Belchers death.
Crennel was red the day after the
regular season ended, and Piolis r-
ing followed a fewdays later.
The Chiefs organization desper-
ately needed a culture change, and
Reid, whose son Garrett died from a
drug overdose in August, needed a
fresh start after 14 years in Philadel-
phia. They found it in each other.
We were looking for a spark, and
Andy Reid fell right in our laps,
Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson
said. What happened last year, the
difcult season and the tragedy that
happened with our teammate, its al-
most like getting back to football, get-
ting to the 2013 season, is going to be
key for us. Football is a getaway for
us, and Andy Reid is going to help us
through that.
Reid barely took a weekend of af-
ter nishing the Eagles season with a
4-12 record and being red a day lat-
er and then accepting the Chiefs job.
He had seen peers benet from a
break. Jef Fisher climbed Mount Ki-
limanjaro in his year ofbetween jobs
in Tennessee and St. Louis. Mike
Shanahan spent many hours during
his year between jobs in Denver and
Washington watching football, gain-
ing a new perspective on ofenses
and a newgeneration of players.
Yet Reid wanted to coach, and he
wanted to coach right away.
If Reid had any qualms about re-
linquishing the type of control he
held for so many years in Philadel-
phia, they are forgotten. Reid has
been intimately involved in the draft
process over the last fewmonths, but
he is comfortable if not relieved
that it is Dorsey making the nal call
on each draft pick this week.
In the last two months, as the
Chiefs have reshaped their roster by
trading a second-round pick for
Smith, re-signing Bowe and signing
free agents including cornerbacks
Sean Smith and Dunta Robinson,
Dorseys phone has been the one
ringing nearly non-stop.
I have full trust in him, Reid said.
We were together for a long time at
Green Bay, and weve stayed in touch,
stayed friends since. At draft time, I
would always call and talk to him.
There arent that many guys you can
trust in the business, so I would
bounce stufofhim.
Now they exchange ideas from in-
side Reids second-oor ofce at
Chiefs headquarters or inside the
draft room Dorsey set up down the
hall. Reid and Dorsey meet at least
three times a day, when they rst ar-
rive about 6:30 a.m. and before they
leave the building about 7:30 p.m.,
but Reid has been free to focus on
coaching those already on the roster.
I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It
has allowed me to do football, and so,
not that I didnt trust the guys before
(in Philadelphia), I was just asked to
do more. Here, not only did I want to
get back into coaching, but that was
Clarks plan for the whole thing,
Reid said, referring to owner Clark
Hunt. And I really hadnt done that
for the last fewofseasons. Like, may-
be the last 14.
Reid inherited a roster in Kansas
City that included six Pro Bowlers
from last season, and he and Dorsey
thought they solved their quarter-
back problem by acquiring Smith, a
former No. 1 overall pick, from the
San Francisco 49ers in exchange for
Kansas Citys second-round pick.
Thats a pretty good second-
round draft pick, Dorsey says.
Thats howImlooking at it as a per-
sonnel guy. Where else can you get a
starter in the second round?
Fisher is the rst pick of the Reid-
Dorsey era and part of the duos plan
to try to compete in the AFC West
right away. Thats the message play-
ers have received in their meetings
with Reid and from watching the
teams ofseason moves.
Hes going to tell you howhe feels
about this coming season, and all op-
timism and all the pieces we have to
put together in this one year, John-
son says. He knows that in the NFL
there is a sense of urgency to win,
and he knows this is not a rebuilding
process this is kind of a reloading
year for us.
Reid, Dorsey remake Chiefs
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Thursday was graduation day in
the football business, time for the
best and brightest from the college
crop to start making a living.
But in the back of my mind, as I
watched one rst-round pick after
another bearhug Commissioner Rog-
er Goodell on the stage at Radio City
Music Hall during the NFL draft, I
wondered: How many of these guys
will wind up broke?
Weve heard too many cases of in-
stant football millionaires who wind
up bankrupt for assorted reasons:
squandering cash on an extravagant
lifestyle. Bad investments. Child-sup-
port issues. Extended obligations for
family. Acareer-ending injury.
Throughout the league, if you
knewthe number of guys in nancial
trouble, it would blow your mind,
former Washington Redskins coach
Joe Gibbs told USATODAYSports.
Although the NFL and players
union dont have concrete numbers,
in 2009, Sports Illustrated contended
that 80% of former players face -
nancial difculties within two years
after retirement.
With the average NFL career
spanning roughly three years and the
inherent risk that the next play could
be the last, sound nancial strategy is
as important as the newplaybook.
Two years ago, Gibbs partnered
with Strayer University and conduct-
ed a nancial seminar in Orlando for
115 rookies. In December, they held a
seminar at Redskins headquarters,
drawing about a dozen players. He
has talked with players union chief
DeMaurice Smith about developing a
broad educational program.
In lieu of that, Ive formed a panel.
Some of their straight-talk advice for
rookies:
PLAN FOR YOUR POST-FOOTBALL
CAREERS NOW
In your 20s, you think its going to
last forever, Hall of Fame quarter-
back Fran Tarkenton said. I dont
care how much you make. If you re-
tire from football in your 30s, youll
still have to live for another 40 to 50
years.
Tarkenton, 73, is a product of a dif-
ferent era he got a $3,500 bonus
and $12,500 salary as a rst-round
pick in 1961. But he also developed an
entrepreneurial spirit and has start-
ed more than two dozen businesses
and has launched a self-help web-
site with Ofce Depot geared to small
business owners.
He says time management is key
for players.
Theyve got to work out, but
theyve got to get their minds going,
too, he said. So theyve got to read
the right things. None of us are too
busy.
WRITE YOUR OWN CHECKS
The best thing I did was manag-
ing my own nances, said Keyshawn
Johnson, drafted No. 1 overall in
1996. In NFL retirement, he formed
a group, which includes approxi-
mately 10 active and former players,
that has invested in Panera Bread
franchises.
Some hard-luck stories include
players who granted advisers power-
of-attorney or other means to act on
their behalf when dealing with their
money leaving them vulnerable to
being ripped of.
They also need to know that sexy
investments arent the right invest-
ment, he said. Sometimes, guys are
like, Im going to support my homey
(in a music project), who Ive known
since he was doing tracks in his
garage.
BE WARY
The $40 million lost by nancial
adviser Jef Rubin money invested
by 31 former and current NFL play-
ers in an illegal Alabama casino pro-
ject is a classic example. At least 18
of the players who lost money were
at one time clients of prominent
agent Drew Rosenhaus, whose role
could prompt discipline from the
NFLPlayers Association.
Those deals out there. It seems
natural, Gibbs said. You have the
money, and you trust somebody.
Last week, Yahoo Sports revealed
that Miami Dolphins defensive end
Jared Odrick has led a lawsuit
against a nancial rm, Success
Trade, and an adviser with Jade
Management for their role in an al-
leged Ponzi scheme.
Odrick is said to be among 30 ath-
letes who invested.
Since taking over the players
union leadership, Smith has empha-
sized personal nance. Its an ongo-
ing challenge.
I guarantee you every head coach
in the NFL is sensing it, Gibbs said.
You see a guy in your ofce whos
unhappy, and as you get to talking to
him, it comes out. Financial stress is
not conducive to playing your best ...
and it hurts everything around you.
PLAYERS MUST STAYSTEP
AHEADINFINANCIAL GAME
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MLB SCORES
AMERICANLEAGUE
East W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Boston 15 7 .682 W-2 7-3 8-4 8-5 7-2
Baltimore 12 9 .571 2
1
/2 L-1 6-4 9-6 7-5 5-4
NewYork 12 9 .571 2
1
/2 W-1 6-4 7-6 6-4 6-5
TampaBay 10 12 .455 5 L-1 6-4 4-8 8-4 2-8
Toronto 9 14 .391 6
1
/2 L-1 3-7 3-7 5-8 4-6
Central W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Kansas City 11 8 .579 W-1 5-5 5-3 4-2 7-6
Detroit 10 10 .500 1
1
/2 L-1 5-5 2-3 5-3 5-7
Minnesota 9 9 .500 1
1
/2 L-2 5-5 4-4 5-5 4-4
Chicago 9 12 .429 3 W-2 4-6 4-6 6-5 3-7
Cleveland 8 11 .421 3 L-1 4-6 3-2 2-6 6-5
West W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Texas 15 7 .682 W-2 7-3 11-5 7-2 8-5
Oakland 13 9 .591 2 L-1 4-6 11-2 6-4 7-5
Los Angeles 8 12 .400 6 L-1 6-4 4-8 6-6 2-6
Seattle 8 15 .348 7
1
/2 L-2 3-7 6-11 4-6 4-9
Houston 7 15 .318 8 L-1 3-7 6-12 4-8 3-7
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Atlanta 15 6 .714 L-1 5-5 8-1 6-2 9-4
NewYork 10 10 .500 4
1
/2 L-1 4-6 5-4 7-5 3-5
Washington 11 11 .500 4
1
/2 W-1 4-6 6-6 7-6 4-5
Philadelphia 9 14 .391 7 L-3 3-7 5-4 6-8 3-6
Miami 5 17 .227 10
1
/2 L-1 3-7 3-12 2-8 3-9
Central W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
St. Louis 13 8 .619 W-3 6-4 5-3 4-2 9-6
Pittsburgh 13 9 .591
1
/2 W-3 7-3 5-3 8-4 5-5
Cincinnati 13 10 .565 1 L-1 7-3 3-6 12-4 1-6
Milwaukee 11 9 .550 1
1
/2 L-1 9-1 5-3 7-5 4-4
Chicago 7 14 .333 6 W-1 3-7 4-7 3-5 4-9
West W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Colorado 14 7 .667 W-1 7-3 8-4 9-3 5-4
San Francisco 13 9 .591 1
1
/2 L-2 5-5 9-3 8-4 5-5
Arizona 12 9 .571 2 W-2 5-5 5-4 5-4 7-5
Los Angeles 10 11 .476 4 W-1 3-7 4-8 4-5 6-6
San Diego 6 15 .286 8 W-1 4-6 4-11 2-7 4-8
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Kansas City 8, Detroit 3 (10) Texas 2, Minnesota1
N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 3 L.A. Angels at Seattle
Boston 7, Houston 2 Baltimore at Oakland
Chi. White Sox 5, TampaBay 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia4 Colorado at Arizona
L.A. Dodgers 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Chicago Cubs 4, Miami 3
Washington 8, Cincinnati 1
THURSDAYS RESULTS
TODAYS GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
2013 Statistics
Pitchers GS W-L Pct. WHIP ERA IP BA
Torontoat N.Y. Yankees, 7:05ET (Line: NYY, -105)
TOR: Johnson (R) 4 0-1 .000 1.88 6.86 19.2 .329
NYY: Nova(R) 3 1-1 .500 1.84 6.14 14.2 .339
Houstonat Boston, 7:10ET (Line: BOS, -230)
HOU: Bedard(L) 3 0-1 .000 1.54 6.17 11.2 .222
BOS: Dempster (R) 4 0-2 .000 1.13 3.38 24.0 .186
Clevelandat Kansas City, 8:10ET (Line: K.C., -165)
CLE: Kazmir (L) 1 0-0 .000 3.30 16.20 3.1 .471
KC: Santana(R) 4 2-1 .667 1.07 2.48 29.0 .239
Texas at Minnesota, 8:10ET (Line: TEX, -120)
TEX: Grimm(R) 2 1-0 1.000 1.50 2.70 10.0 .268
MIN: Diamond(L) 2 1-1 .500 1.35 4.35 10.1 .308
TampaBay at ChicagoWhite Sox, 8:10ET (Line: CWS, -155)
TB: Hernandez (R) 4 1-3 .250 1.30 4.74 24.2 .229
CWS: Peavy (R) 4 2-1 .667 1.14 3.20 25.1 .250
Baltimore at Oakland, 10:05ET (Line: OAK, -125)
BAL: Chen (L) 4 1-2 .333 1.17 3.38 24.0 .253
OAK: Milone (L) 4 3-1 .750 1.26 4.26 25.1 .270
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10ET (Line: LAA, -150)
LAA: Wilson (L) 4 1-0 1.000 1.50 4.13 24.0 .228
SEA: Harang(R) 2 0-2 .000 1.76 10.24 9.2 .333
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati at Washington, 7:05ET (Line: WAS, -135)
CIN: Bailey (R) 4 1-1 .500 1.16 3.24 25.0 .220
WAS: Zimmermann (R) 4 3-1 .750 1.07 2.67 27.0 .230
ChicagoCubs at Miami, 7:10ET (Line: MIA, -105)
CHC: Feldman (R) 3 0-3 .000 1.79 4.50 14.0 .263
MIA: LeBlanc (L) 4 0-3 .000 1.88 6.27 18.2 .338
Philadelphiaat N.Y. Mets, 7:10ET (Line: NYM, -135)
PHI: Kendrick (R) 4 1-1 .500 1.34 3.28 24.2 .271
NYM: Gee (R) 4 1-3 .250 1.58 5.95 19.2 .291
Pittsburghat St. Louis, 8:15ET (Line: STL, -190)
PIT: Sanchez (L) 3 0-2 .000 2.29 11.12 11.1 .351
STL: Lynn (R) 4 3-0 1.000 1.27 3.68 22.0 .222
Coloradoat Arizona, 9:40ET (Line: ARI, -130)
COL: Nicasio (R) 4 2-0 1.000 1.62 5.31 20.1 .266
ARI: McCarthy (R) 4 0-2 .000 1.85 7.06 21.2 .367
SanFranciscoat SanDiego, 10:10ET (Line: S.F., -115)
SF: Lincecum(R) 4 2-0 1.000 1.37 3.97 22.2 .205
SD: Cashner (R) 1 0-1 .000 1.20 4.05 13.1 .196
Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10ET (Line: LAD, -160)
MIL: Burgos (R) 1 1-0 1.000 1.00 1.80 5.0 .263
LAD: Beckett (R) 4 0-3 .000 1.28 4.68 25.0 .260
INTERLEAGUE
Atlantaat Detroit, 7:08ET (Line: DET, -130)
ATL: Maholm(L) 4 3-1 .750 .87 1.03 26.1 .165
DET: Sanchez (R) 4 2-1 .667 1.13 1.75 25.2 .223
RESULTS, UPCOMINGGAMES
Wednesday Saturday Sunday
American League American League American League
TOR 6, BAL 5 (11) TOR at NYY, 4:05 TOR at NYY, 1:05
CWS 3, CLE 2 BAL at OAK, 4:05 HOUat BOS, 1:35
HOU10, SEA3 TEX at MIN, 4:10 TB at CWS, 2:10
BOS 6, OAK 5 HOUat BOS, 7:10 CLE at KC, 2:10
DET 7, KC5 TB at CWS, 7:10 TEX at MIN, 2:10
TB 3, NYY0 CLE at KC, 7:10 BAL at OAK, 4:05
TEX11, LAA3 LAAat SEA, 10:10 LAAat SEA, 4:10
National League National League National League
CIN1, CHC0 CINat WAS, 1:05 PHI at NYM, 1:10
STL 4, WAS 2 PHI at NYM, 1:05 CHCat MIA, 1:10
COL 6, ATL 5 (12) PIT at STL, 4:15 CINat WAS, 1:35
ARI 3, SF 2 (10) CHCat MIA, 7:10 PIT at STL, 2:15
PIT 5, PHI 3 COL at ARI, 8:10 MIL at LAD, 4:10
NYM7, LAD3 (10) SF at SD, 8:40 SF at SD, 4:10
SD2, MIL 1 MIL at LAD, 9:10 COL at ARI, 4:10
Interleague Interleague
ATL at DET, 1:05 ATL at DET, 8:05
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING
TorHunter, Detroit .367
MiCabrera, Detroit .367
Mauer, Minnesota .366
Lowrie, Oakland .366
CDavis, Baltimore .356
Altuve, Houston .353
CSantana, Cleveland .352
RUNS
Crisp, Oakland 20
AJackson, Detroit 20
AJones, Baltimore 18
Ellsbury, Boston 16
Jennings, Tampa Bay 16
Lowrie, Oakland 16
RBI
Napoli, Boston 26
CDavis, Baltimore 22
Fielder, Detroit 21
MiCabrera, Detroit 19
MarReynolds, Cleveland 19
NCruz, Texas 17
HOME RUNS
Arencibia, Toronto 8
CDavis, Baltimore 7
MarReynolds, Cleveland 7
Cano, New York 6
Morse, Seattle 6
Rios, Chicago 6
STOLEN BASES
Ellsbury, Boston 10
Crisp, Oakland 7
RDavis, Toronto 5
AJackson, Detroit 5
Jennings, Tampa Bay 5
McLouth, Baltimore 5
Reddick, Oakland 5
Reyes, Toronto 5
CYoung, Oakland 5
PITCHING
MMoore, Tampa Bay 4-0
Lester, Boston 4-0
Buchholz, Boston 4-0
Darvish, Texas 4-1
Masterson, Cleveland 4-1
STRIKEOUTS
Darvish, Texas 49
FHernandez, Seattle 37
Scherzer, Detroit 36
Peavy, Chicago 33
Dempster, Boston 33
Sabathia, New York 32
Masterson, Cleveland 30
SAVES
JiJohnson, Baltimore 8
Nathan, Texas 6
Reed, Chicago 6
Perkins, Minnesota 6
Wilhelmsen, Seattle 6
Rivera, New York 6
Janssen, Toronto 6
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BATTING
CJohnson, Atlanta .397
Choo, Cincinnati .392
AdGonzalez, Los Angeles .375
Segura, Milwaukee .356
Harper, Washington .351
DanMurphy, New York .347
MEllis, Los Angeles .343
RUNS
CGonzalez, Colorado 19
JUpton, Atlanta 19
Carpenter, St. Louis 18
Choo, Cincinnati 18
Rutledge, Colorado 18
RBI
Buck, New York 22
Phillips, Cincinnati 21
Braun, Milwaukee 20
Frazier, Cincinnati 18
Sandoval, San Francisco 18
Tulowitzki, Colorado 17
Goldschmidt, Arizona 16
JUpton, Atlanta 16
Utley, Philadelphia 16
DWright, New York 16
HOME RUNS
JUpton, Atlanta 11
Buck, New York 7
Fowler, Colorado 7
Harper, Washington 7
Braun, Milwaukee 6
Frazier, Cincinnati 6
Gattis, Atlanta 6
Rizzo, Chicago 6
Tulowitzki, Colorado 6
STOLEN BASES
ECabrera, San Diego 6
McCutchen, Pittsburgh 6
Segura, Milwaukee 6
DWright, New York 6
SMarte, Pittsburgh 5
Revere, Philadelphia 5
Rutledge, Colorado 5
PITCHING
Harvey, New York 4-0
Wainwright, St. Louis 4-1
STRIKEOUTS
ABurnett, Pittsburgh 42
Harvey, New York 39
Samardzija, Chicago 39
Wainwright, St. Louis 37
Kershaw, Los Angeles 35
Bumgarner, San Francisco 34
SAVES
Grilli, Pittsburgh 9
Romo, San Francisco 8
Kimbrel, Atlanta 8
RBetancourt, Colorado 7
RSoriano, Washington 6
Henderson, Milwaukee 5
League, Los Angeles 5
Through Wednesdays games
LEADERS
Dodgers 3, Mets 2
Los Angeles 100 000 002 3
NewYork 000 001 001 2
Los Angeles ab r h bi bbso avg
Crawfordlf 3 1 1 0 0 0 .307
Punto 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .360
Gonzalez 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .355
Kempcf 3 1 2 1 1 1 .266
Ethier rf 4 0 1 1 0 0 .236
Uribe 3b 1 0 1 1 3 0 .190
Hernandez c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .067
Sellers ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .204
Ryu p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .333
Hairston ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .167
Jansen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
League p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 29 3 6 3 4 4
uBatting 2B: Punto (1). RBI: Kemp
(10); Ethier (7); Uribe (4). GIDP: Hernan-
dez 2; Sellers. TeamLOB: 4.
uFieldingE: Sellers (3). DP: 1.
NewYork ab r h bi bbso avg
Tejadass 3 1 1 0 1 0 .217
Murphy 2b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .346
Wright 3b 2 0 0 1 1 2 .300
Dudalf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .273
Byrdrf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .246
Parnell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Davis 1b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .174
Recker c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .100
Turner ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .323
Cowgill cf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .182
Valdespin ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .279
Hefner p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Lagares ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Lyon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Rice p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Baxter rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .259
Totals 31 2 5 2 4 11
uBatting 2B: Byrd (5). HR: Davis (4).
SF: Wright. RBI: Wright (17); Davis (7).
GIDP: Byrd. TeamLOB: 7.
uFieldingDP: 4.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Los Angeles
Ryu 7 3 1 1 3 8 3.41
Jansen W,1-0 1 1 0 0 1 2 1.50
League S,6 1 1 1 1 0 1 4.00
NewYork
Hefner 7 3 1 1 3 4 5.14
Lyon
2
/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.15
Rice L,1-1
2
/3 2 2 2 1 0 2.45
Parnell
2
/3 1 0 0 0 0 1.08
WP: Ryu. IBB: Kemp (by Rice). HBP: Craw-
ford (by Hefner). Batters faced; pitches-
strikes: Ryu 27; 109-70; Jansen 5; 20-13;
League 4; 22-14; Hefner 25; 93-56; Lyon
2; 9-6; Rice 5; 18-8; Parnell 2; 10-6.
uUmpires HP: Randazzo; 1B: Tim-
mons; 2B: Winters; 3B: Wegner.
uGame dataT: 2:59. Att: 24,851.
Pirates 6, Phillies 4
Pittsburgh 000 001 230 6
Philadelphia 000 102 010 4
Pittsburgh ab r h bi bbso avg
Marte lf 5 2 2 0 1 3 .333
Inge 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .333
Jones ph 1 0 1 2 0 0 .298
Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
McCutchen cf 4 1 1 0 1 0 .235
Sanchez 1b 4 1 2 3 0 0 .278
McKenry c 4 0 1 1 1 1 .316
Alvarez 3b 5 0 2 0 0 1 .188
Tabatarf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .147
Wilson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Walker ph-2b 2 0 1 0 0 1 .260
Barmes ss 3 1 0 0 0 1 .140
McDonaldp 2 0 2 0 0 0 .375
Snider rf 3 1 1 0 0 1 .309
Totals 40 6 14 6 3 9
uBatting 2B: Jones (5). HR: Sanchez
(3). S: Barmes. SF: Sanchez. RBI: Jones 2
(11); Sanchez 3 (11); McKenry (5). Team
LOB: 13.
uFieldingE: McDonald(1).
Philadelphia ab r h bi bbso avg
Rollins ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .258
Frandsen 3b 3 2 1 0 1 0 .313
Utley 2b 3 1 1 0 1 1 .309
Howard1b 4 1 2 2 0 1 .284
Nix rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Mayberry ph-rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .255
Brown lf 3 0 2 2 0 1 .243
Carreracf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .083
Kratz c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .185
Lee p 2 0 1 0 0 0 .182
Youngph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .312
Aumont p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Durbin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Valdes p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.00
Galvis ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .219
Totals 32 4 7 4 3 7
uBatting 2B: Frandsen (2); Howard
(6); Brown 2 (3). SF: Brown. RBI: Howard 2
(9); Brown 2 (8). TeamLOB: 5.
uBaserunning SB: Utley (4). CS: Lee
(1).
uFieldingE: Frandsen (1); Utley (4).
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Pittsburgh
McDonald 5 5 3 3 3 4 4.38
Wilson W,2-0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1.29
Watson S,1 2 2 1 1 0 1 3.00
Philadelphia
Lee 7 10 3 3 1 7 3.03
Aumont L,1-3
1
/3 3 3 3 0 1 4.05
Durbin
2
/3 0 0 0 2 0 4.05
Valdes 1 1 0 0 0 1 9.28
J.McDonald pitched to 3 batters in the
6th. WP: Wilson; McDonald. IBB:
McCutchen (by Durbin). HBP: Barmes (by
Aumont). Batters faced; pitches-strikes:
McDonald 22; 87-50; Wilson 6; 24-15;
Watson 8; 19-17; Lee 33; 122-82; Aumont
5; 23-13; Durbin 4; 22-9; Valdes 4; 15-10.
uUmpires HP: Carlson; 1B: Muchlin-
ski; 2B: Knight; 3B: Iassogna.
uGame dataT: 3:30. Att: 33,443.
Royals 8, Tigers 3
Kansas City 001 100 010 5 8
Detroit 100 110 000 0 3
Kansas City ab r h bi bbso avg
Gordon lf 6 1 2 4 0 3 .337
Escobar ss 5 1 2 0 1 0 .295
Butler dh 3 0 3 1 1 0 .254
Dyson pr-dh 2 1 0 0 0 0 .250
Hosmer 1b 5 0 2 0 0 1 .288
Cain cf 4 2 2 1 0 0 .359
Moustakas 3b 4 0 1 0 1 0 .154
Francoeur rf 4 1 1 0 1 0 .243
Perez c 3 0 1 1 0 1 .274
Johnson pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .154
Kottaras c 0 1 0 1 1 0 .250
Getz 2b 4 1 0 0 0 0 .228
Totals 40 8 14 8 5 5
uBatting 2B: Escobar (5); Hosmer
(3); Cain (6); Moustakas (3). HR: Gordon
(2). S: Getz. SF: Cain; Perez. RBI: Gordon 4
(15); Butler (14); Cain (10); Perez (6); Kot-
taras (2). GIDP: Escobar. TeamLOB: 10.
uBaserunning SB: Escobar (4); Dy-
son (4); Moustakas (1).
uFieldingDP: 2.
Detroit ab r h bi bbso avg
Jackson cf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .277
Hunter rf 4 0 2 1 0 0 .373
Cabrera3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .361
Fielder 1b 3 1 0 0 1 1 .311
Martinez dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .187
Peraltass 3 0 0 1 0 1 .299
Kelly lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .095
Avilac 4 0 0 0 0 2 .177
Infante 2b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .284
Totals 32 3 5 3 3 7
uBatting2B: Jackson (4). SF: Peralta.
RBI: Hunter (10); Cabrera (20); Peralta
(10). GIDP: Fielder. TeamLOB: 3.
uFieldingE: Infante (2). DP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Kansas City
Shields 8 5 3 3 3 4 3.09
Collins W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.17
Holland 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.14
Detroit
Verlander 7 8 2 1 1 4 1.95
Rondon BS,1 1 3 1 1 0 0 9.00
Coke L,0-3 1
1
/3 1 4 4 4 1 9.45
Downs
2
/3 2 1 1 0 0 3.00
B.Rondon pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.
WP: Shields (3); Coke. IBB: Francoeur (by
Coke); Escobar (by Coke). Batters faced;
pitches-strikes: Shields 30; 108-67; Col-
lins 3; 19-10; Holland 3; 15-11; Verlander
29; 96-69; Rondon 6; 19-12; Coke 9; 33-
14; Downs 4; 12-8.
uUmpires HP: B. Welke; 1B: ONora;
2B: Johnson; 3B: Culbreth.
uGame dataT: 3:08. Att: 30,321.
Padres 2, Brewers 1
Milwaukee 000 000 001 1
SanDiego 000 110 00x 2
Milwaukee ab r h bi bbso avg
Aoki rf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .260
Segurass 4 0 0 0 0 0 .356
Braun lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .274
Lucroy c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .227
Weeks 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .169
Gomez cf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .324
Betancourt 3b 4 0 2 1 0 0 .279
Prince pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Maldonado 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .194
Estradap 2 0 0 0 0 1 .167
M. Gonzalez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Schafer ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .136
Gorzelanny p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Badenhopp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 34 1 7 1 1 4
uBatting 2B: Gomez (4); Betancourt
(4). RBI: Betancourt (15). TeamLOB: 7.
uBaserunningSB: Weeks (4).
uFielding E: Weeks 2 (3). PB: Lucroy
(2). DP: 1.
SanDiego ab r h bi bbso avg
Cabrerass 3 0 0 0 1 2 .273
Venable cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .246
Headley 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .160
Quentin lf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .233
Amaristalf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .229
Alonso 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .263
Denorarf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .323
Gyorko 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .233
Hundley c 3 1 1 0 0 1 .311
Volquez p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Kotsay ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .318
Guzman ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .237
Gregerson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Street p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 28 2 5 1 2 5
uBattingHR: Quentin (1). S: Volquez.
RBI: Quentin (5). TeamLOB: 5.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Milwaukee
EstradaL,2-1 6
1
/3 5 2 1 2 3 3.86
M. Gonzalez
2
/3 0 0 0 0 2 4.05
Gorzelanny
2
/3 0 0 0 0 0 1.86
Badenhop
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 3.86
SanDiego
Volquez W,1-3 7 5 0 0 0 3 6.39
Gregerson H,3 1 0 0 0 1 1 1.93
Street S,3 1 2 1 1 0 0 6.43
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Estrada
26; 92-60; M. Gonzalez 2; 9-6; Gorzelan-
ny 2; 4-3; Badenhop 1; 2-1; Volquez 26;
94-61; Gregerson 4; 12-8; Street 5; 18-13.
uUmpires HP: Emmel; 1B: Dreckman;
2B: Fagan; 3B: Darling.
uGame dataT: 2:32. Att: 17,205.
Rangers 11, Angels 3
Texas 000 902 000 11
Los Angeles 000 000 030 3
Texas ab r h bi bbso avg
Kinsler 2b 3 1 1 1 1 1 .282
Garcia2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Andrus ss 5 1 2 0 0 1 .235
Berkman dh 4 2 2 4 1 0 .345
Beltre 3b 3 2 0 0 2 0 .241
Cruz rf 4 2 3 3 0 0 .300
Martin ph-rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .231
Pierzynski c 4 1 1 1 1 0 .299
Gentry cf 4 1 1 0 1 3 .242
Murphy lf 5 1 1 1 0 1 .195
Moreland1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .206
Totals 381111 10 6 7
uBatting 2B: Andrus (1). HR: Berk-
man (2); Cruz (5). RBI: Kinsler (13); Berk-
man 4 (14); Cruz 3 (17); Pierzynski (11);
Murphy (7). TeamLOB: 6.
uBaserunningSB: Gentry (4).
uFieldingDP: 3.
Los Angeles ab r h bi bbso avg
Bourjos cf 3 1 1 1 1 1 .317
Trout lf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .271
Pujols dh 3 0 1 0 0 1 .267
Conger pr-dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 .222
Hamilton rf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .225
Shuck rf 1 0 1 1 0 0 .417
Trumbo 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .313
Kendrick 2b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .299
Romine pr-ss 1 0 0 0 0 0 .067
Harris ss-2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .278
Iannettac 3 1 1 0 1 1 .263
Jimenez 3b 4 1 1 0 0 3 .333
Totals 33 3 9 2 3 14
uBatting 2B: Harris (2); Iannetta (4).
RBI: Bourjos (8); Shuck (1). GIDP: Conger;
Harris 2. TeamLOB: 6.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Texas
Darvish W,4-1 6 3 0 0 2 11 1.65
Lowe 1
2
/3 4 3 3 1 1 4.82
Kirkman
1
/3 1 0 0 0 1 4.82
Frasor 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.84
Los Angeles
Roth L,1-1 3
1
/3 6 5 5 2 2 7.56
Carpenter
1
/3 2 4 4 2 1 108.0
Maronde 1
1
/3 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
Kohn 1 3 2 2 0 1 9.00
Williams 3 0 0 0 1 2 2.51
WP: Carpenter. Batters faced; pitches-
strikes: Darvish 22; 100-68; Lowe 8; 35-
19; Kirkman 2; 8-5; Frasor 4; 13-10; Roth
18; 75-46; Carpenter 5; 19-8; Maronde 5;
22-13; Kohn 6; 25-17; Williams 10; 36-25.
uUmpires HP: Hirschbeck; 1B: David-
son; 2B: Reynolds; 3B: Hoye.
uGame dataT: 3:22. Att: 37,154.
NEW YORK Derek Jeter wasnt giving an
inch at his news conference Thursday.
The NewYork Yankees shortstop thinks
hell return this season after his second
ankle break. He also said he would be
the player he used to be and move the
way he was moving when he was
healthy last season.
His message: To the fans, Ill be back
soon.
Jeter was in good spirits, but he had
also received his get-out-of-Tampa card.
He said he would be with the teamfor at
least its current homestand, a welcome
respite from the drudgery of rehabbing
by himself at the teams Florida training
complex.
Ive been stuck in a training room
pretty much for the last ... when did the
team leave (spring training)? I dont
even know how many weeks Ive been
going to the training room and doing
physical therapy and rehab, Jeter said.
So Im happy to be out of there. But,
yeah, of course, I keep saying frustrat-
ing. Thats probably the biggest thing.
When I went to see the doc (last
week), I thought he would say it was
something diferent. Tape it up. Lets
go. But it wasnt the case. It didnt feel
too good for quite some time. Imlaugh-
ing and smiling and happy that Im up
here. But Im still upset that I cant
play.
The original break sufered in last
years playofs and the second Jeter
doesnt know when he did it after re-
porting to Tampa havent made him
ponder his baseball mortality.
Me breaking my ankle wasnt just
because I was getting older, Jeter said.
I played on something that I probably
shouldnt have played on, and it ended
up breaking. It wasnt because of my
advanced age that my ankle broke.
It would be a little diferent if my
body started breaking down. Then you
might think about, I dont know how
much longer I can do this. But this was
just a freak thing that happened.
Jeter wasnt in a walking boot at the
news conference, but he said he had
otherwise been wearing the boot even
though he didnt think he needed it.
He just has to wait for the healing to
take its course. Right now, theres really
not much I can do, Jeter said. Ill just
sort of play it by ear.
When will he be back?
I have a date in my mind when Im
going to be back.
Heyman writes for The (Westchester County,
N.Y.) Journal-News
KATHY WILLENS, AP
Derek Jeter, who sufered a setback last week in his rehab fromankle sur-
gery, likely wont return to the Yankees until after the All-Star break.
Injured Jeters vow:
Ill be back soon
Brian Heyman
USATODAYSports
WEDNESDAYS
LATE GAME
Nationals 8, Reds 1
Cincinnati 000 100 000 1
Washington 024 000 02x 8
Cincinnati ab r h bi bbso avg
Choocf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .378
Cozart ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .195
Votto 1b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .293
Phillips 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .264
Bruce rf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .263
Frazier 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .253
Heisey lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .176
Mesoraco c 1 0 0 0 2 1 .278
Arroyo p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hoover p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Paul ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .321
Ondrusek p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 27 1 1 1 3 7
uBattingHR: Votto (4). RBI: Votto (9).
GIDP: Cozart. TeamLOB: 2.
uFieldingE: Votto (2); Mesoraco (2).
Washington ab r h bi bbso avg
Span cf 5 0 3 3 0 0 .289
Lombardozzi 3b 5 0 0 0 0 0 .294
Harper lf 3 1 2 1 1 0 .364
Werth rf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .259
LaRoche 1b 4 1 0 0 0 1 .159
Desmondss 4 1 2 1 0 0 .282
Espinosa2b 4 2 2 3 0 0 .177
Suzuki c 3 1 1 0 1 0 .256
Gonzalez p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .286
Bernadinaph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .059
Soriano p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 35 8 12 8 2 2
uBatting 2B: Harper (5); Espinosa
(6). 3B: Span (1). HR: Harper (8); Espinosa
(2). S: Gonzalez. RBI: Span 3 (8); Harper
(16); Desmond (6); Espinosa 3 (6). Team
LOB: 6.
uBaserunning SB: Span (3). CS: Des-
mond(1).
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Cincinnati
Arroyo L,2-2 6 9 6 5 1 2 4.24
Hoover 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.86
Ondrusek 1 3 2 2 1 0 5.14
Washington
Gonzalez W,2-1 8 1 1 1 2 7 4.50
Soriano 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.00
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Arroyo29;
92-63; Hoover 3; 15-10; Ondrusek 6; 22-
13; Gonzalez 27; 112-78; Soriano 3; 10-4.
uUmpires HP: Nauert; 1B: Fletcher;
2B: Drake; 3B: Holbrook.
uGame dataT: 2:23. Att: 24,748.
RedSox 7, Astros 2
Houston 011 000 000 2
Boston 401 020 00x 7
Houston ab r h bi bbso avg
Grossman cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .222
Altuve 2b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .348
Castro c 3 0 1 1 1 1 .250
Pena1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .197
Carter dh 4 1 1 0 0 2 .222
Martinez lf 4 0 3 0 0 0 .357
Dominguez 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .247
Ankiel rf 2 0 0 0 1 2 .205
Gonzalez ss 3 1 1 0 0 1 .292
Totals 32 2 7 1 2 11
uBatting 2B: Carter (1); Gonzalez
(3). RBI: Castro (4). GIDP: Dominguez 2.
TeamLOB: 5.
uBaserunningSB: Gonzalez (2).
uFieldingE: Ankiel (1). PB: Castro (4).
DP: 1.
Boston ab r h bi bbso avg
Ellsbury cf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .281
Navarf 3 1 0 0 2 2 .310
Pedroia2b 3 1 1 1 1 0 .301
Ortiz dh 4 3 3 2 0 0 .550
Napoli 1b 4 0 1 0 0 3 .273
Carplf 4 2 2 1 0 0 .438
Gomes lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .188
Saltalamacchiac 4 0 2 2 0 0 .237
Middlebrooks 3b 4 0 1 1 0 2 .169
Drewss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .119
Totals 34 7 11 7 4 8
uBatting 2B: Ellsbury (6); Napoli
(11); Carp(4); Middlebrooks (3). HR: Ortiz
(1). RBI: Pedroia (8); Ortiz 2 (5); Carp (4);
Saltalamacchia 2 (8); Middlebrooks (11).
GIDP: Pedroia. TeamLOB: 7.
uBaserunningSB: Pedroia(5).
uFieldingDP: 2.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Houston
Humber L,0-5 4
2
/3 10 7 7 3 5 7.99
Blackley 1
1
/3 0 0 0 1 2 8.31
Cisnero 2 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Boston
Buchholz W,5-0 7
2
/3 6 2 2 2 10 1.19
Miller
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 5.79
Bard 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Humber
26; 88-50; Blackley 5; 24-16; Cisnero 7;
27-18; Buchholz 29; 109-65; Miller 1; 4-2;
Bard4; 18-10.
uUmpires HP: McClelland; 1B:
Meals; 2B: Hudson; 3B: Baker.
uGame dataT: 2:59. Att: 30,093.
Yankees 5, Blue Jays 3
Toronto 210 000 000 3
NewYork 013 100 00x 5
Toronto ab r h bi bbso avg
Davis dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .260
Kawasaki ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .235
Bautistarf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .180
Encarnacion 1b 4 1 1 2 0 0 .212
Cabreralf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .253
Arencibiac 4 0 1 0 0 2 .267
Rasmus cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .225
Lawrie 3b 4 1 2 1 0 1 .167
Izturis 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .162
Totals 34 3 7 3 1 6
uBatting 2B: Kawasaki (1). HR: En-
carnacion (5); Lawrie (1). RBI: Encarna-
cion 2 (14); Lawrie (4). GIDP: Kawasaki.
TeamLOB: 5.
uFieldingDP: 1.
NewYork ab r h bi bbso avg
Gardner cf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .253
Francisco dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .103
Cano 2b 4 1 1 3 0 0 .322
Wells lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .293
Cervelli c 3 1 1 1 0 0 .269
Suzuki rf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .239
Nunez ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .173
Overbay 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .221
Nix 3b 3 1 2 0 0 0 .261
Totals 32 5 9 5 2 4
uBatting HR: Cano (7); Wells (6);
Cervelli (3). RBI: Cano 3 (17); Wells (10);
Cervelli (8). GIDP: Overbay. TeamLOB: 6.
uBaserunningSB: Suzuki (1).
uFieldingE: Overbay (1). DP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Toronto
Buehrle L,1-1 5
1
/3 7 5 5 0 3 6.35
Lincoln 1 1 0 0 1 0 0.00
Cecil 1
2
/3 1 0 0 1 1 1.38
NewYork
KurodaW,3-1 6 6 3 3 1 3 2.79
Chamberlain
H,2
1 1 0 0 0 0 4.91
Robertson H,2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.35
RiveraS,7 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.25
HBP: Cervelli (by Buehrle). Batters faced;
pitches-strikes: Buehrle 24; 99-67; Lincoln
5; 13-9; Cecil 6; 14-8; Kuroda 25; 103-65;
Chamberlain 4; 10-8; Robertson 3; 14-9;
Rivera3; 13-9.
uUmpires HP: Schrieber; 1B: Fair-
child; 2B: Kellogg; 3B: Conroy.
uGame dataT: 2:46. Att: 31,445.
Cubs 4, Marlins 3
Chicago 100 101 001 4
Miami 120 000 000 3
Chicago ab r h bi bbso avg
DeJesus cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .273
Castro ss 4 0 1 1 0 1 .275
Rizzo 1b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .173
Soriano lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .272
Schierholtz rf 4 2 2 1 0 0 .313
Castillo c 4 0 1 1 0 2 .323
Valbuena3b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .237
Barney 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .129
Jackson p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Borbon ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500
Rondon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Campp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Marmol p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 34 4 6 4 0 9
uBatting2B: DeJesus (7); Schierholtz
(8); Castillo (4). HR: Schierholtz (3); Val-
buena (4). RBI: Castro (8); Schierholtz (9);
Castillo (5); Valbuena(9). TeamLOB: 4.
Miami ab r h bi bbso avg
Pierre lf 5 1 1 1 0 0 .195
Polanco 3b 3 1 1 0 2 0 .289
Stanton rf 5 0 1 1 0 1 .200
Mahoney 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .286
Ruggiano cf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .224
Brantly c 2 0 0 1 1 0 .228
Valaikass 3 0 0 0 0 1 .273
Solano 2b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .243
Slowey p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Dobbs ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .246
Qualls p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Dunn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Cishek p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Kearns ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .211
Totals 31 3 6 3 5 5
uBatting S: Valaika; Slowey. RBI:
Pierre (2); Stanton (4); Brantly (8). Team
LOB: 9.
uBaserunningSB: Pierre 2 (5).
uFieldingE: Solano (3).
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Chicago
Jackson 6 5 3 3 4 4 4.76
Rondon 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.35
CampW,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8.00
Marmol S,2 1 1 0 0 1 1 4.35
Miami
Slowey 6 5 3 3 0 6 2.43
Qualls 1
1
/3 0 0 0 0 2 3.60
Dunn
2
/3 0 0 0 0 0 2.45
Cishek L,1-3 1 1 1 1 0 1 5.40
IBB: Dobbs (by Jackson). HBP: Brantly (by
Jackson); Soriano (by Slowey). Batters
faced; pitches-strikes: Jackson 28; 100-
59; Rondon 3; 6-5; Camp3; 14-9; Marmol
5; 18-10; Slowey 25; 112-76; Qualls 4; 15-
11; Dunn 2; 6-4; Cishek 4; 12-10.
uUmpires HP: Nelson; 1B: Wolf; 2B:
Blaser; 3B: Joyce.
uGame dataT: 3:00. Att: 15,394.
White Sox 5, Rays 2
TampaBay 100 100 000 2
Chicago 300 002 00x 5
TampaBay ab r h bi bbso avg
Jennings cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .226
Roberts 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .260
Zobrist ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .253
Longoria3b 4 0 1 1 0 2 .266
Rodriguez 1b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .286
Loney ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .327
Duncan dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 .184
Joyce ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .185
Johnson lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .185
Lobaton c 2 1 2 1 1 0 .222
Molinaph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .233
Fuldrf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .156
Totals 31 2 5 2 4 9
uBatting HR: Lobaton (1). RBI: Lon-
goria (11); Lobaton (3). GIDP: Duncan.
TeamLOB: 6.
Chicago ab r h bi bbso avg
De Azalf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .235
Keppinger 2b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .202
Rios rf 2 2 1 0 2 0 .303
Dunn dh 4 1 1 2 0 0 .108
Konerko 1b 4 0 1 1 0 2 .233
Gillaspie 3b 1 0 0 1 2 1 .298
Ramirez ss 4 0 1 0 0 2 .284
Flowers c 3 0 0 0 0 3 .200
Wise cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .105
Totals 29 5 7 5 4 12
uBatting 2B: De Aza (5); Keppinger
(2); Ramirez (6). HR: Dunn (4). SF: Gillas-
pie. RBI: Keppinger (6); Dunn 2 (8); Koner-
ko (12); Gillaspie (2). TeamLOB: 5.
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
TampaBay
Hellickson L,1-2 6 5 5 5 4 8 4.31
Wright 1 2 0 0 0 1 1.93
Gomes 1 0 0 0 0 3 4.15
Chicago
Sale W,2-2 7 4 2 2 4 7 4.09
LindstromH,2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.79
ReedS,7 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.90
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Hellickson
26; 111-68; Wright 5; 21-13; Gomes 3;
16-10; Sale 28; 104-67; Lindstrom3; 11-8;
Reed4; 11-8.
uUmpires HP: Cuzzi; 1B: Barrett; 2B:
Guccione; 3B: Hallion.
uGame dataT: 2:52. Att: 15,056.
Rangers 2, Twins 1
Texas 010 010 000 2
Minnesota 000 000 100 1
Texas ab r h bi bbso avg
Kinsler 2b 5 0 3 0 0 0 .301
Andrus ss 5 0 1 1 0 0 .233
Berkman dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .323
Beltre 3b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .241
Pierzynski c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .296
Cruz rf 3 0 2 1 1 0 .313
Murphy lf 2 0 0 0 2 2 .190
Moreland1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .208
Martin cf 3 1 1 0 0 0 .238
Gentry ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .235
Totals 35 2 10 2 3 5
uBatting 2B: Kinsler (2); Andrus (2);
Beltre (5). RBI: Andrus (8); Cruz (18). Team
LOB: 9.
uBaserunningCS: Cruz (1).
uFieldingDP: 2.
Minnesota ab r h bi bbso avg
Dozier 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .236
Mauer c 3 0 0 0 1 0 .351
Willinghamlf 4 1 1 1 0 0 .235
Morneau 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .236
Parmelee rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .226
Plouffe 3b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .224
Carroll pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .235
Arciadh 2 0 0 0 0 0 .150
Doumit ph-dh 2 0 0 0 0 0 .197
Hicks cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .086
Florimon ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 .258
Ramirez ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .357
Escobar pr-ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 .480
Totals 33 1 8 1 1 2
uBatting 2B: Dozier (1). HR: Willing-
ham (3). RBI: Willingham (10). GIDP: Do-
zier; Willingham. TeamLOB: 6.
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Texas
Tepesch W,2-1 6
2
/3 5 1 1 0 1 2.53
Ross
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.96
Scheppers 1 2 0 0 1 0 0.00
Nathan S,7 1 1 0 0 0 1 1.08
Minnesota
Worley L,0-3 5 6 2 2 2 3 6.38
Roenicke 2 3 0 0 1 1 1.69
Duensing 1
2
/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.84
Fien
1
/3 1 0 0 0 0 4.70
IBB: Mauer (by Scheppers). Batters
faced; pitches-strikes: Tepesch 24; 90-
65; Ross 1; 3-3; Scheppers 5; 21-10; Na-
than 4; 13-10; Worley 21; 102-63; Roen-
icke 10; 35-22; Duensing 4; 16-12; Fien 3;
4-3.
uUmpires HP: Bellino; 1B: Barrett; 2B:
Marquez; 3B: DiMuro.
uGame dataT: 2:53. Att: 25,459.
Mets 7, Dodgers 3
Los Angeles 100 002 000 0 3
NewYork 000 011 001 4 7
Los Angeles ab r h bi bbso avg
Schumaker lf-rf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .107
M. Ellis 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .343
Gonzalez 1b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .375
Kempcf 3 1 1 3 1 1 .250
Ethier rf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .235
Belisario p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Sellers ss 1 0 0 0 0 0 .216
Hairston 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .172
A. Ellis c 3 0 0 0 1 2 .304
Punto ss 3 0 0 0 0 2 .381
Jansen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
League p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Kershawph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .182
Wall p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Lilly p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Howell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Crawfordlf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .306
Cruz lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .087
Totals 33 3 4 3 3 10
uBatting HR: Kemp (1). S: Kershaw.
RBI: Kemp3 (9). TeamLOB: 4.
NewYork ab r h bi bbso avg
Tejadass 4 0 1 1 0 1 .212
Murphy 2b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .347
Wright 3b 4 0 1 1 1 1 .309
Buck c 5 1 1 0 0 3 .271
Davis 1b 4 1 1 0 1 2 .169
Byrdrf 3 1 1 0 1 2 .246
Dudalf 3 1 2 0 2 0 .275
Lagares cf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .250
Valdespin ph-cf 2 1 1 4 0 0 .286
Harvey p 2 1 1 0 0 0 .200
Turner ph 0 0 0 1 0 0 .333
Hawkins p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Rice p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Atchison p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Baxter ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .269
Parnell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 35 7 11 7 6 10
uBatting 2B: Byrd (4); Duda (3); Har-
vey (1); Baxter (2). HR: Valdespin (1). S: Te-
jada; Byrd. SF: Turner. RBI: Tejada (7);
Wright (16); Valdespin 4 (6); Turner (4).
TeamLOB: 9.
uBaserunning SB: Wright (6). CS:
Wright (1).
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Los Angeles
Lilly 5 6 1 1 2 7 1.80
Howell H,1
1
/3 0 1 1 2 0 5.87
Belisario H,4 1
2
/3 0 0 0 0 2 3.60
Jansen H,6 1 1 0 0 0 1 1.64
League BS,1 1 2 1 1 0 0 3.38
Wall L,0-1
1
/3 2 4 4 2 0 15.75
NewYork
Harvey 6 4 3 3 1 7 1.54
Hawkins 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.70
Rice 1
1
/3 0 0 0 0 1 0.87
Atchison
2
/3 0 0 0 1 0 3.60
Parnell W,1-0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1.17
WP: Harvey. Batters faced; pitches-
strikes: Lilly 23; 86-56; Howell 3; 15-6; Bel-
isario 5; 24-18; Jansen 4; 17-11; League 4;
12-6; Wall 5; 15-4; Harvey 23; 90-66;
Hawkins 3; 8-6; Rice 4; 12-8; Atchison 3;
14-7; Parnell 4; 17-10.
uUmpires HP: Wegner; 1B: Randaz-
zo; 2B: Timmons; 3B: Winters.
uGame dataT: 3:37. Att: 24,130.
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Just as the skeptics predicted,
were nding out the truth about the
Baltimore Orioles.
Oh, not that one.
The Orioles are in Oakland this
weekend to face the Athletics in a
matchup of last seasons biggest sur-
prises. And the question the As and
Os are raising is at what point do
they become considered just plain,
good teams rather than upstarts.
Right now, according to Athletics
manager Bob Melvin, who is at least
lauding the competition.
They just have a good team, Mel-
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the American League East entering
play Thursday. Last year, a bit of a
surprise, but certainly not this year.
Everyone around the league looks at
them as one of the better teams in
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Oakland was 13-9, second in the
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But that hasnt translated into
doom.
The reason we won so many one-
run ballgames was because of our
bullpen and our starting pitching,
Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy says.
Weve got the same guys.
Hardys point is that these teams
are much better prepared to be con-
tenders. They believe they belong.
Their lineups and rosters are more
settled now than a year ago at this
time, when they were shufing
through players in search of the right
combination.
Baltimore used 52 players a year
ago, Oakland 50. Thats unlikely to
happen again.
Theyre picking up right where
they left of, Melvin says of the
Orioles. Another year of experience
for guys like (Matt) Wieters and
Adam Jones; these guys are really
good players now, All-Stars.
The Orioles also have 2012s late-
season sensation Manny Machado at
third base all season and Chris Davis
entrenched at rst base and lead-
ing the AL with a .740 slugging per-
centage after bouncing among
rst, left eld, right eld and DH last
year.
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elder Coco Crisp, shortstop Jed
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home runs and 16 RBI in the Orioles 12-9 start.
Everyone around the league looks at
themas one of the better teams in the
league.
Athletics manager Bob Melvin, on the Orioles
Alook at other series to watch this
weekend:
uToronto Blue Jays at NewYork
Yankees: The unforgivingAL East is the
wrongplace to have an injury-ravaged
roster; this four-game set matches
teams trottingout Eduardo Nunez and
Munenori Kawasaki at shortstoprather
than Derek Jeter andJose Reyes.
Todays pitchingmatchupfeatures
Torontos Josh Johnson (6.86 ERA, 1.88
walks andhits per inningpitched) vs.
Ivan Nova(6.14 ERA, 1.84 WHIP).
uAtlanta Braves at Detroit Tigers:
The Braves have livedupto their pre-
season billing, andthe Tigers project-
edvulnerability an unsettledbullpen
has emerged. Bruce Rondon made
his major league debut Thursday
against the Kansas City Royals and
coughedupaleadfor Justin Verlander,
before veteran Phil Coke lost the game
in the 10th inning.
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Cardinals: Surprises aboundin the NL
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playingbetter than .500 ball. The
Pirates have won seven of their last
eight as they reboundfroma1-5 start,
while the Cardinals come in off a
three-game roadsweepof the Wash-
ington Nationals. Pirates catcher Rus-
sell Martin startedthe season 0-for-17
but is batting.387 (12-for-31) with two
homers in his last nine games.
uPhiladelphia Phillies at NewYork
Mets: The Mets havent nishedahead
of the Phillies since 2006, aspan that
includedlate-season collapses by New
York in 2007 and2008. Now, the Mets
are a.500 teamplayinghost to a9-14
Phillies squadthat keeps ndingways
to lose. Saturday marks the season
debut of Mets starter Shaun Marcum,
who has been out with biceps andneck
ailments.
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NFL DRAFT
A look at the first round of the NFL
draft Thursday, with analysis by USA
TODAY Sports Nate Davis:
1. Kansas City Chiefs: Eric Fisher,
T, Central Michigan
uThe new MAC daddy, Fisher be-
comes the highest-drafted player
ever from the Mid-American Confer-
ence and first non-quarterback at
No. 1 since T Jake Long went to the
Miami Dolphins in 2008. He might
have a bit more upside and nasti-
ness than Luke Joeckel. If the Chiefs
keep franchise-tagged T Branden
Albert, theyll enter the season with a
solid set of bookends.
2. Jacksonville Jaguars:
Luke Joeckel, T, Texas A&M
uNew Jags general manager Dave
Caldwell seemingly takes the best
player on his board and two tack-
les top the draft for the first time
rather than addressing an anemic
pass rush or any number of areas on
a deficient roster. Joeckel becomes
an immediate friend to embattled
third-year QB Blaine Gabbert and RB
Maurice Jones-Drew, who is coming
off a season-ending foot injury.
3. Miami Dolphins (fromRaiders):
Dion Jordan, DE, Oregon
uOakland GM Reggie McKenzie
ships out the first Round 1 pick of his
tenure to stockpile some much-need-
ed picks to replenish his roster. Miami
spurns the opportunity to replace
departed Jake Long to take Jordan,
a rangy pass rusher who used to
play tight end. Hell likely begin as a
pass-rush specialist behind starting
defensive ends Jared Odrick and
Cameron Wake, who will be happy
to see fewer double teams.
4. Philadelphia Eagles:
Lane Johnson, T, Oklahoma
uA converted tight end and quarter-
back, Johnson has rare athleticism
for his position and might wind up as
the best tackle of this draft. He
should fit seamlessly into new coach
Chip Kellys high-velocity offense,
which demands great movement
skills from its linemen.
5. Detroit Lions: Ziggy Ansah,
DE, BYU
uThe Lions lost both of last seasons
starting tackles and defensive ends
but dont get a shot at one of the
drafts elite tackles. So they take
Ansah to bolster their pass rush. It
helps that the Detroit coaching staff
worked with the Ghana native during
Senior Bowl week. He is extremely
raw and has a limited football back-
ground. But he wont see many dou-
ble teams if Ndamukong Suh and
Nick Fairley continue to crush pockets
from the inside.
6. Cleveland Browns:
Barkevious Mingo, DE, LSU
uThe Browns opt for a pass rusher
rather than an upgrade to their
secondary. Mingo needs to bulk up,
and AFC North teams will doubtless
run at him at every opportunity in
2013. But he will also put some stress
on Joe Flacco, Ben Roethlisberger
and Andy Dalton and gives Cleve-
land a nice young duo of edge play-
ers along with free agent addition
Paul Kruger.
7. Arizona Cardinals: Jonathan
Cooper, G, North Carolina
uThe Cardinals needed tackle help,
but Cooper is a nice consolation
prize and should solidify a line that
will be better with T Levi Brown, who
is back from a triceps muscle injury
that cost him the 2012 season. Coop-
er ought to keep new QB Carson
Palmer fairly clean while providing
daylight for recently signed RB Rash-
ard Mendenhall.
8. St. Louis Rams (fromBills):
Tavon Austin, WR, West Virginia
uThe Rams clearly entered the night
needing wideout and safety help but
werent in position to get a prime
prospect at No. 16 or 22. So they jump
up to Buffalos spot to get Austin. The
dynamic playmaker weighs 175
pounds but should fill the shoes of
departed Danny Amendola and
serve as QB Sam Bradfords top
target.
9. NewYork Jets: Dee Milliner,
CB, Alabama
uThe Jets missed out on Austin and
the top pass rushers, who wouldve
filled obvious gaps. But they had
another void after dealing all-pro CB
Darrelle Revis to the Buccaneers.
Milliner will team with Antonio Cro-
martie and Kyle Wilson to give the
Jets another tough trio to combat
Tom Brady and a revitalized Dolphins
passing game.
10. Tennessee Titans: Chance
Warmack, G, Alabama
uSupport QB Jake Lockers devel-
opment or address the worst de-
fense in franchise history? The Titans
opt for the former, and Warmack
regarded in some circles as the
drafts best pure football player
should flourish under the tutelage of
coach Mike Munchak, a Hall of Fame
guard himself.
11. San Diego Chargers:
D.J. Fluker, T, Alabama
uNone of the drafts elite blockers
fell into the hands of new GM Tom
Telesco, but Fluker is no slouch. He
probably doesnt have the feet to
protect QB Philip Rivers blind side,
but he should hold down the fort on
the right side for a decade.
12. Oakland Raiders (fromDol-
phins): D.J. Hayden, CB, Houston
uHayden ran a sub-4.4 in his pro
day 40 after he was nearly killed last
year by a practice collision that
sheared a blood vessel in his heart.
He is charged with defending Peyton
Manning and Philip Rivers as a rook-
ie, but you can bet hes more than
happy to be alive for such opportuni-
ties.
13. NewYork Jets (fromBucca-
neers): Sheldon Richardson,
DT, Missouri
uThis is the selection the Jets ac-
quired from the Bucs in this draft as
part of the Darrelle Revis swap, and
New York, under new GM John Idzik,
takes a defensive lineman in Round 1
for the third consecutive year (Mu-
hammad Wilkerson, 2011; Quinton
Coples 2012).
14. Carolina Panthers:
Star Lotulelei, DT, Utah
uThe Carolina D-line suddenly is
scary with pass-rushing demons
Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy
flanking Lotulelei, who could also
suck up blocks in front of defensive
rookie of the year MLB Luke Kuechly.
Had Lotuleleis heart been pumping
at full efficiency at the combine, he
mightve gone off the board much
earlier.
15. NewOrleans Saints:
Kenny Vaccaro, S, Texas
uRather than tinker with a front
seven thats converting to a 3-4
scheme, the Saints go for the drafts
best safety in Vaccaro. He has range
to cover tight ends such as Tony
Gonzalez and Greg Olsen and wont
be afraid to put a lick on the Steven
Jacksons and Doug Martins of the
world.
16, Buffalo Bills (fromRams):
E.J. Manuel, QB Florida State
uManuel becomes the first passer
off the board, bypassing more-
hyped Geno Smith and Ryan Nassib,
the former Orange quarterback who
seemed a natural to reunite with
ex-Syracuse head coach Doug Mar-
rone in Buffalo. But Manuel has all of
the skills a modern offensive coor-
dinator would want: arm strength,
mobility and smarts.
17. Pittsburgh Steelers:
Jarvis Jones, LB, Georgia
uJones had 14
1
2 sacks for Georgia in
2012 but now will be charged with
replacing James Harrison. Jones
should enable LaMarr Woodley to
remain effective on the left side,
assuming he rebounds after a dis-
appointing 2012 season.
18. San Francisco 49ers (from
Cowboys): Eric Reid, S, LSU
uThe Niners entered with a league-
high 13 picks and surrender a third-
rounder to Dallas in order to jump
for the LSU star, who will try to take
over at free safety after all-pro Dash-
on Goldson left for Tampa Bay in
free agency. Reid joins one of the
leagues toughest defenses.
19. NewYork Giants:
Justin Pugh, T, Syracuse
uNot a buzzy choice, but its hard to
question the track record of GM Jerry
Reese. Pugh played tackle for the
Orange but might start out at guard
in New York. Hell have excellent
mentors in David Diehl and Chris
Snee. Either eventually could be dis-
placed by Pugh, and starting
LG Kevin Boothe should have his
antenna up, too.
20. Chicago Bears:
Kyle Long, G, Oregon
uKyle is the son of Hall of Fame
DE Howie Long and brother of Rams
DE Chris Long. Kyle eschewed foot-
ball for baseball as a youngster
before resurfacing on the football
field with the Ducks.
21. Cincinnati Bengals:
Tyler Eifert, TE, Notre Dame
uA bit of a surprise that Cincy goes
for the tight end given 2010 first-
rounder Jermaine Gresham is al-
ready on the roster. But the Bengals
recent postseason failures have
proved the offense needs more pop
and cant solely rely on WR A.J.
Green.
22. Atlanta Falcons (fromRed-
skins through Rams):
Desmond Trufant, CB,
Washington
uThe Falcons have made some
intriguing moves in free agency RB
Steven Jackson, DE Osi Umenyiora
but the cupboard was awfully bare
at cornerback after the departures of
Dunta Robinson and Brent Grimes.
Trufant should start immediately.
23. Minnesota Vikings:
Sharrif Floyd, DT, Florida
uFloyd, slotted at No. 3 in many
mock drafts, should benefit from the
wisdom of veterans Kevin Williams
and Jared Allen, who have 19 com-
bined NFL seasons. Playing along-
side them, Floyd, who excels as an
interior pass rusher, should make an
instant impact.
24. Indianapolis Colts:
Bjoern Werner, DE, Florida State
uIndianapolis goes defense a year
after rebuilding the other side of the
ball. Werner was a defensive end for
the Seminoles but will probably
stand up in the Colts 3-4 scheme
while replacing franchise sacks lead-
er Dwight Freeney.
25. Minnesota Vikings (from
Seahawks): Xavier Rhodes,
CB, Florida State
Rhodes joins Chris Cook as another
big-bodied corner in a secondary
charged with defending Calvin John-
son and Brandon Marshall on a
regular basis (not to mention the
fleet of wideouts Green Bay rolls out).
26. Green Bay Packers:
Datone Jones, DE, UCLA
uGM Ted Thompson waits to fill his
hole at running back, instead reload-
ing a defense he overhauled in the
2012 draft. With D-linemen B.J. Raji
and Ryan Pickett both currently un-
signed beyond 2013, Jones provides
an insurance policy.
27. Houston Texans:
DeAndre Hopkins, WR, Clemson
uFinally, the Texans grab an intrigu-
ing wingman for Andre Johnson, who
will be 32 this season. Hopkins legs
have enough juice to make him dan-
gerous on the boundaries.
28. Denver Broncos: Sylvester
Williams, DT, North Carolina
uWilliams might not offset the pass
rush loss of DE Elvis Dumervil, but he
could generate push up the middle
that helps free both LB Von Miller
and DE Derek Wolfe on the outside.
29. Minnesota Vikings (from
Patriots): Cordarrelle Patterson,
WR, Tennessee
uQB Christian Ponder suddenly has
two formidable pass catchers on the
outside electric Patterson and free
agent addition Greg Jennings, who
will be asked to take the rookie un-
der his wing.
30. St. Louis Rams (fromFalcons):
Alec Ogletree, ILB, Georgia
uOgletree has caused some head-
aches off the field, but he can create
havoc on it. He should line up next to
MLB James Laurinaitis and roam
freely behind a D-line that features
three first-rounders.
31. Dallas Cowboys (from49ers):
Travis Frederick, C, Wisconsin
uDallas winds up with Frederick, a
center who wasnt projected as a
first-rounder in most circles. However,
its rarely a bad idea to pick a Bad-
gers blocker, especially given the
Cowboys difficulties running the ball
in 2012.
32. Baltimore Ravens: Matt Elam,
S, Florida
The Super Bowl champions retool at
safety rather than opting for LB Manti
Teo or a wide-bodied nose tackle.
JERRY LAI, USA TODAY SPORTS
BYUs Ziggy Ansah, center, smiles with former Lions great Barry Sanders, right,
and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after being drafted by Detroit at No. 5.
FIRST-ROUND
ANALYSIS
NEW YORK Though it wasnt the or-
der many expected for most of the
past few months, it was nonetheless
the historical development that was
anticipated for Eric Fisher and Luke
Joeckel in the rst round of the NFL
draft.
Fisher went to the Kansas City
Chiefs with the rst overall pick, and
Joeckel, whom many had pegged as
the Chiefs target, was selected by the
Jacksonville Jaguars.
For the rst time in draft history,
ofensive tackles were taken with the
top two picks. And it was nearly a hat
trick. Oklahomas Lane Johnson
went No. 4 to the Philadelphia Eagles
right after the Miami Dolphins trad-
ed up to grab defensive end Dion Jor-
dan of Oregon.
Sure, that doesnt have the sizzle
of, say, last years Andrew Luck/Rob-
ert Grifn III combo, but dont try
telling that to Fisher and Joeckel,
who were thrilled it happened the
way it did.
Thats awesome. Three tackles in
four picks, thats a lot of love for the
big boys up front, which we dont
usually get, Fisher said. Im so ex-
cited right now. Its been great com-
petition with all of these tackles. It
always kept me hungry. I wanted to
be No. 1 in this, and the fact that just
happened is just awesome.
Fisher told his mother, Heidi, to
put in for retirement a fewweeks ago
after watching her wake up each
morning at 5 to get to her job, which
is in the warranty department of
Volkswagen.
Shes been through a lot in her
life, and the fact shes going to live a
happy life from here on out is great,
Fisher said.
Joeckels life was pretty happy
Thursday, too. Hes David Caldwells
rst pick as the Jaguars new general
manager and will be charged with
helping to protect Blaine Gabbert,
Chad Henne or whoever lines up un-
der center for Jacksonville in coming
seasons.
Jaguars left tackle Eugene Mon-
roe, the eighth overall pick in 2009,
has been put on notice. But, obvious-
ly, tackle was the strength of this
draft, and the Jaguars werent going
to ignore it.
The Eagles, meanwhile, werent
going to ignore the best t for them.
Johnson is an athletic player who
makes a ton of sense for Chip Kellys
system. Hes a 6-6, 303-pounder who
can move and get out in space to
block, which is what Kelly needs his
linemen to do.
The fast-paced ofense there at
Oregon ts what we did at Oklaho-
ma, getting 100 plays a game, up-
tempo, Johnson said. Its some-
thing theyve never seen in the NFL,
so theyre all getting excited for it.
For a moment, when the Dolphins
were on the clock at No. 3, Johnson
found himself thinking about life in
Miami. Then he heard Jordans name
called.
It kind of just took your breath
away, he said.
It was a breathtaking moment in a
rst round that had plenty of them,
despite the big guys that dominated
the top.
Tackles not a sexy position,
Johnson said, but its a position of
dire need, and when you have a good,
solid ofensive line, it really benets a
team as far as passing and running
the ball.
Tackles rule
night: Fisher,
Joeckel go
rst, second
Mike Garafolo
@MikeGarafolo
USATODAYSports
NEW YORK Geno Smith was one of
the rst people waiting in the Radio
City Music Hall green room to hug
former Florida State quarterback EJ
Manuel when the Bufalo Bills called
his name with the 16th overall pick.
The Bills traded down from No. 8
overall and still were able to get their
man, the rst quarterback selected in
the 2013 draft ahead of Smith and
Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib,
who played for new Bills coach Doug
Marrone in college.
Geno was one of the rst guys
who came over to me and gave me a
hug. That denitely says a lot about
Genos character, Manuel said.
Whatever team gets him, Im look-
ing forward to it.
Say this for the 2013 quarterbacks:
They might have been denigrated as
being a weak class, but they stand
together.
I think were all going to denite-
ly carry that chip on our shoulder be-
ing that competitor after all we heard
that was going in the media, Manuel
said. Imjust a little excited. Imat a
loss for words.
Manuel broke down in tears at the
culmination of his dream and the
long journey his mother, Jackie, has
made back fromher breast cancer di-
agnosis before his senior season with
the Seminoles.
I was thinking about my mother,
what shes battled through. Shes in
remission and cancer-free right
now, said the quarterback, who
compiled a 25-6 record at Florida
State, third best in school history.
Improud of her. Shes been working
the past four weeks, even though
shes been undergoing some more ra-
diation treatment.
Manuel, who is 6-5 and
237 pounds, gives Marrone the op-
tion of adding read-option to what
gures to be a creative Bills attack.
Turns out, Marrone sure can
scheme the screen game the
smokescreen, that is, considering
most had the former Syracuse coach
linked to a reunion with his former
quarterback, Nassib. Manuel was one
of ve quarterbacks the Bills worked
out, along with Smith and Nassib.
Said Marrone: I dont think I was
very conicted. There are a lot of
good quarterbacks in the draft, and
we were able to take the best quarter-
back that we felt t us.
Manuel became the third rst-
round Bills quarterback drafted and
the rst since J.P. Losman went 22nd
overall in 2004 in the franchises
quest to nd that long-sought succes-
sor to Hall of Famer JimKelly.
I felt it would be either the Bills,
Cleveland, Philadelphia or the Jets,
Manuel said. Bufalo ended up trad-
ing back, and Imexcited.
He said he will be content to go in
and learn the ofense and compete
with veteran Kevin Kolb, whom the
Bills signed this ofseason.
But he wont deny that hes proud
of being the only quarterback select-
ed in the rst round.
Its denitely something Im go-
ing to be proud of, Manuel said. Im
going to go in and work hard and
learn the ofense from Coach Mar-
rone. Whatever guy wins the starting
job on Day One, thats going to be the
guy.
MANUEL ISFIRST QBSELECTED
Bills choose
passer over
Smith, Nassib
JimCorbett
@ByJimCorbett
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JERRY LAI, USA TODAY SPORTS
EJ Manuel is introduced as the No. 16 overall pick by the Bills.
Bignames that werent selectedin the
rst roundof the NFL draft Thursday:
uQB Geno Smith: Widely viewedas
the drafts best passer, he couldgo at
the topof the secondroundto the
Jacksonville Jaguars.
uLB Manti Teo: Maybe he is viewed
as atwo-down player after all. The
linebacker-deprivedMinnesotaVikings
passedon himthree times.
uRB Eddie Lacy: No runningback
was draftedin Round1 for the rst time
since 1963, but Lacy will surely provide
some power to someones backeld
today.
uQB Matt Barkley: His attitude
seems to be intact, but its hardto
argue that he shouldnot have gone
pro in 2012.
Nate Davis
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COLLEGES
Although Jerry Tarkanian spent
much of his career ghting the
NCAA, the former UNLVcoach takes
no joy in the recent legal and public
relations struggles of collegiate
sports governing body. In fact, at 82
and after two strokes, the newly
elected Hall of Fame coach doesnt
even followthe news of game-chang-
ing lawsuits and botched
investigations.
Its a little too late for him, says
his son, Danny Tarkanian. He prob-
ably doesnt understand the magni-
tude of whats come out the past two
or three years with the NCAA. And
even if he did, it didnt do him any
good.
Things that my dad warned about
in the past are now coming true. I
think now people are realizing my
dad was right at the time.
A handful of highly publicized le-
gal challenges fromantitrust to defa-
mation has created a perception that
the NCAAhas not faced a more peril-
ous time. News media criticism has
followed, but so has a sense that
things are worse than theyve ever
been, says Jo Potuto, a Nebraska law
professor and former member of the
committee on infractions.
This is despite the NCAAs asser-
tion that its volume of legal cases is
no higher than normal for an organi-
zation its size and no higher than it
has been in recent years.
But in the years since 1977, when
Tarkanian rst took the NCAA to
court for lack of due process in its
enforcement proceedings and more
than 20 years later collecting
$2.5 million in a settlement of anoth-
er case, suing the NCAA has become
more common than it once was. Ex-
perts in sports law and lawyers in-
volved in pending cases agree the
culture is diferent now.
Sonny Vaccaro, a longtime shoe
marketing executive, remembers
coaches living in fear of NCAA inves-
tigators. They were not always aware
of charges against them, and Tarka-
nians case showed the process
which has since changed was
largely stacked in the NCAAs favor.
One, its very hard to win. And
two, you dont have the resources to
ght an organization like the NCAA,
Danny Tarkanian says. I think (Tar-
kanians civil suit) opened the door to
say, Hey, you can actually beat the
NCAA if you ght them long
enough.
Among its 15 pending lawsuits, the
NCAA faces a lawsuit led on behalf
of a group of former college athletes,
including UCLA star Ed OBannon,
challenging whether the association
and member schools have the right
to prot for use of players names
and likenesses into perpetuity with-
out compensating them. A federal
judge in California is scheduled to
conduct a hearing to determine
whether the case can be certied as a
class-action suit in June.
Among former coaches suing the
NCAA is Todd McNair, a former
Southern California assistant football
coach who has alleged defamation in
an investigation that resulted in a
major infractions case against the
school.
A nine-year-old suit led by for-
mer University of Bufalo mens bas-
ketball coach Tim Cohane could call
into question whether the NCAA can
ever be considered a state actor.
Lets be honest, a rising tide raises
all boats, says David Ridpath, assis-
tant professor of sport administra-
tion at Ohio University. People are
getting more brave, and you see
whats going on with McNair at USC.
It empowers people.
Asked about the associations
pending litigation in a news confer-
ence during the Final Four this
month, NCAA President Mark Em-
mert said, If youre not getting sued
today, youre not doing anything.
DEFENSE MODE
Since joining the NCAA in March
2011, Donald Remy has looked at the
volume of cases handled in recent
years by the NCAA and determined
its current slate is no more or less
than it faced annually in the past dec-
ade. Remy, the associations general
counsel and vice president for legal
afairs, says the NCAAs 15 cases in-
clude three brought by the associa-
tion and three in which it is the
defendant dating to 2004. Remy says
four of the 12 cases are on appeal
from decisions granted in the associ-
ations favor.
For an organization this size, the
litigation it faces, I think its consis-
tent with other organizations this
size and that has this visibility, he
tells USATODAYSports.
That has meant spending to de-
fend the association. According to
the NCAAs federal tax returns, the
association spent a total of $69.1 mil-
lion from its 2002 scal year to 2011.
The NCAAhas not yet led its tax re-
turns for its 2012 scal year, and it
declined to provide a gure for its le-
gal expenses for the year in advance
of its ling, which is not required un-
til July.
Among the pending lawsuits, none
looms larger than the OBannon case.
Filed in 2009, the suit alleges that the
NCAA, video-game maker Electronic
Arts and Collegiate Licensing Co.
the leading collegiate trademark and
licensing rm violated antitrust
laws.
According to the plaintifs suit,
the defendants conspired to set at ze-
ro the compensation football and
mens basketball players could re-
ceive for use of their names, likeness-
es and images while they are in
school. The plaintifs allege a form
the athletes signed relinquishes the
use of their names, likeness and im-
ages in rebroadcasts of games, TV
contracts and in video-game and ap-
parel sales.
In June, U.S. District Judge Clau-
dia Wilken is scheduled to conduct a
hearing on the plantifs bid for class-
action certication. If granted, the
class-action status could potentially
bring thousands of former and cur-
rent football and mens basketball
players into the case and put billions
of dollars in damages at stake.
The OBannon case seems to be
calling into question the structure
that has been developed over the last
50 years, says Richard Southall, di-
rector of the College Sport Research
Institute at the University of North
Carolina. The fundamental organi-
zational question or institutional
question that the OBannon case is
raising is, Is that a fair and equitable
system?
GETTING COURTS INVOLVED
The NCAAs status as a private or-
ganization gives it wide latitude to
create and administer its own rules,
but several pending lawsuits allege
its failure to do so resulted in harmto
other parties. To varying degrees,
that includes cases led by McNair,
Cohane and others.
Generally speaking, courts wont
intervene in the afairs of a voluntary
association like the NCAA unless it
refuses to followits own rules or vio-
lates established statutory law, says
a person who has extensive experi-
ence with the NCAA. Lawsuits with
no merit get dismissed pretty quickly.
So when you see a number of high-
prole suits against the NCAA, it
conrms the belief of many people in
the industry that the NCAA wont
follow its own rules and feels its
above the law.
The person asked not to be identi-
ed out of fear the NCAA might re-
taliate if the persons identity were
revealed.
McNair led a defamation lawsuit
in 2011 after a major infractions case
for which he received a one-year
show-cause penalty that he alleges
has efectively left himunable to nd
a job as a college football coach.
In November, a Los Angeles Supe-
rior Court judge decided to unseal
documents that show an NCAA staf
member and two non-voting mem-
bers of the committee on infractions
sought to inuence voting members
of the committee. Judge Frederick
Shaller said the e-mails showed ill
will or hatred toward McNair, ac-
cording to a CBSSports.com report
citing the judges decision.
The NCAA is appealing the
decision.
While Cohanes case isnt as well-
known as McNairs, it stands to have
a bigger impact. Cohane was forced
to resign in 1999 after the NCAA, re-
lying on an investigation by the
school and the Mid-American Con-
ference, found relatively minor
charges primarily watching
recruits work out in a gym.
Cohanes suit alleges that seniors
were told their diplomas were in
jeopardy unless they cooperated with
the school and NCAA in implicating
him. Since initially ling suit in 2004,
Cohane has seen the case dismissed
by a lower court before an appeals
court overturned that decision three
years later.
At issue is whether the NCAA can
be considered a state actor, which
would require it to provide due proc-
ess under the 14th Amendment.
Since the 1988 Supreme Court ruling
in NCAA v. Tarkanian, courts have
upheld that the NCAA is not a state
actor. The appellate court decision in
Cohanes case, which the NCAA tried
to bring before the Supreme Court,
says the district court was wrong to
interpret the Tarkanian case as say-
ing the NCAA can never be consid-
ered a state actor when it investigates
a state school.
He wants to ensure this doesnt
happen again to other people, says
Sean OLeary, Cohanes attorney. He
would like to see the NCAA held ac-
countable for destroying his coaching
career. The reason why this case is so
important is because the NCAAis in-
capable of xing itself.
While not discussing the cases
specically, Remy and the associa-
tion remain condent in their posi-
tion in cases where the association
has been sued as a result of the en-
forcement, infractions or eligibility
processes.
When those determinations in
those types of cases dont go their
way, they try to get redress in the
courts, Remy says. Oftentimes the
courts will nd that the NCAAs de-
terminations have been, one, consis-
tent with the constitution and
bylaws, and two, not violative of any
law or sufcient to justify any claim
that somebody may have brought
against us.
Remy says he intends to vigorous-
ly defend the NCAA in its pending
lawsuits. There are not any attempts
to settle any open cases, he said.
Thats no diferent fromthe stance
that led Tarkanians case to the na-
tions highest court, where the
NCAAs win has set precedent it has
relied upon for the 25 years since
then.
Ten years after the case ended,
Tarkanian settled a civil suit with the
NCAAfor $2.5 million. Vaccaro sawit
as a bit of vindication for the coach
who was one of the rst to challenge
the association.
The public now knows whats
happening, Vaccaro says. They nev-
er knew before. They just assumed
that Jerry must have done
something.
CHALLENGINGTHE NCAA
No longer
is governing
body invincible
Rachel George
@RachelAGeorge
USATODAYSports
ROBERT DEUTSCH, USA TODAY SPORTS
Jerry Tarkanian rst challenged the NCAA in 1977, when he took it to court claiming lack of due process in enforcement proceedings.
CHRIS CARLSON, AP
Todd McNair, left, is alleging defamation by the NCAA in a probe that
resulted in a major infractions case against Southern California.
People are getting
more brave, and
you see whats
going on with
McNair at USC. It
empowers people.
David Ridpath, assistant professor of sport
administration at Ohio University
NEW YORK Dee Milliner didnt make
a bold statement when asked about
replacing Darrelle Revis.
No, the New York Jets rst-round
pick saved that for the question
about facing TomBrady.
Its always a good challenge to go
up against one of the greatest quar-
terbacks in our division. Im looking
forward to that, the former Alabama
cornerback said. Hopefully, I get my
hands on a couple of his balls and
take themback.
The Jets had two early picks
Nos. 9 and 13 with which to re-
build a defense that has undergone
plenty of change since general man-
ager John Idzik took over with the
release of a few veterans and, of
course, the trade of Revis to the Tam-
pa Bay Buccaneers.
Thats exactly what Idzik did with
the selection of Milliner. The Jets
took Missouri defensive tackle Shel-
don Richardson with the second of
those picks, the one they acquired
fromthe Bucs.
They did not take a quarterback.
They also didnt move up to grab
wide receiver Tavon Austin, whom
many thought they would chase.
They stayed put and made decisions
for the long run.
They also got two players Idzik
said were rated in the teams top four
on their board, hoping to make Bra-
dys life miserable.
Everybody wants a piece of Tom
Brady and guys of their stature,
Richardson said. They dont get
touched a lot, really, or throw picks.
So weve got to make himdo that.
Milliner was a question mark for
many teams because of multiple sur-
geries during his time at Alabama.
The latest was a torn labrum that re-
quired shoulder surgery this ofsea-
son. Some wondered why the Jets
took a player who had a bunch of sur-
geries to come in and help replace
one repaired ligament in Revis knee.
I know the questions are going to
come. Whoever, not just me, whoever
wouldve come in was going to get
asked the same thing, Milliner said.
I can only control what I can do. I
cant focus on replacing somebody,
because if you focus on that, youre
going to mess up on other things.
Still, Milliner received a nice ova-
tion from Jets fans in the rafters at
Radio City Music Hall.
Richardson, on the other hand,
was booed because the fans wanted
an edge pass rusher. That was ne. I
had a mixed crowd, boos and yays,
he said with a grin. You can change
that in one game.
Dolphins surprise: Miami
Dolphins GM Jef Ireland pulled the
rst stunner of the draft.
Ireland traded with the Oakland
Raiders to move up fromNo. 12 over-
all to No. 3 the Dolphins also gave
up the 42nd overall pick to land
Oregon pass rusher Dion Jordan.
After Ireland lost left tackle Jake
Long to the St. Louis Rams in free
agency, everyone inside Radio City
Music Hall was thinking he was mov-
ing up to take Oklahoma left tackle
Lane Johnson only to see the Dol-
phins grab the speedy pass rusher
with tremendous upside.
For the rst time in draft history,
the rst half-dozen picks were ofen-
sive tackles or pass rushers.
Its become a passing league
where you have to protect quarter-
backs and you have to sack them,
said Jordan, who had 14
1
2 sacks at
Oregon. I was surprised.
Jordan, 6-6, 248 pounds, has a long
wingspan that has brought compari-
sons to Dolphins great Jason Taylor.
Being compared to a guy like him
that has great athletic ability and has
sacked quarterbacks for a long time
is great. ... My main attribute is get-
ting after quarterbacks, Jordan says.
Jordan is expected to line up with
Pro Bowl pass rusher Cameron Wake
on the opposite side and compete for
a starting job with Jared Odrick.
Contributing: JimCorbett
NFL NOTES
Jets pick isnt focused on replacing Revis
I cant focus
on replacing
somebody, because
if you focus on that,
youre going to
mess up on other
things.
Dee Milliner, on replacing Darrelle Revis
Mike Garafolo
@mikegarafolo
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uAmerican League
Baltimore Orioles: Recalled P Zach
Britton from Norfolk (International/
AAA).
Boston Red Sox: Recalled C Ryan La-
varnway fromPawtucket (International/
AAA).
Los Angeles Angels: Recalled P Barry
Enright from Salt Lake City (Pacific
Coast/AAA).
OaklandAthletics: ActivatedIF Adam
Rosales from the 15-day disabled list.
Optioned IF Andy Parrino to Sacramen-
to (Pacific Coast/AAA).
Toronto Blue Jays: Placed 1B Adam
Lindonthe paternity list. RecalledP Brad
Lincoln from Buffalo (International/
AAA).
uNational League
ColoradoRockies: PlacedIF ToddHel-
ton on the 15-day disabled list. Recalled
IF Ryan Wheeler from Colorado Springs
(Pacific Coast/AAA).
Miami Marlins: Claimed P Duane Be-
low off waivers from Detroit and op-
tioned him to New Orleans (Pacific
Coast/AAA).
Basketball
uNational Basketball Association
NBA: Fined Boston Celtics coach Doc
Rivers $25,000 for public criticismof offi-
ciating, following Tuesdays game.
Football
uNational Football League
San Diego Chargers: Claimed LB D.J.
Smith off waivers from Green Bay.
Signed WR Danario Alexander.
Hockey
uNational Hockey League
Edmonton Oilers: Assigned P Teemu
Hartikainen to Oklahoma City (AHL).
Signed GFrans Tuohimaa to a two-year
entry-level contract.
Nashville Predators: Recalled F Joo-
nas Rask from Milwaukee (AHL). As-
signedF FilipForsbergandF Austin Wat-
son to Milwaukee.
St. Louis Blues: Activated G Jaroslav
Halak from the injured list.
College
La Salle: Agrees to terms with mens
basketball coach John Giannini on a
multiyear contract extension.
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International League (AAA)
Thursdays results
Pawtucket 8-0, Buffalo 0-3
Rochester 6-10, Syracuse 5-5
Gwinnett 1, Louisville 0
Columbus 4, Scranton/W.-Barre 1
Toledo 9, Durham 7
Indianapolis 5, Lehigh Valley 1
Norfolk 2, Charlotte 0
Todays games
Pawtucket at Buffalo, 6:05
Gwinnett at Louisville, 6:35
Rochester at Syracuse, 7
Toledo at Durham, 7:05
Columbus at Scranton/W.-Barre, 7:05
Norfolk at Charlotte, 7:15
Lehigh Valley at Indianapolis, 7:15
Pacific Coast League (AAA)
Thursdays results
Albuquerque 10, Round Rock 5
Nashville 5, Memphis 2
Iowa 9, Omaha 3
New Orleans at Oklahoma City
Fresno at Reno
Colorado Springs at Tucson
Salt Lake at Sacramento
Tacoma at Las Vegas
Todays games
New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 8:05
Albuquerque at Round Rock, 8:05
Memphis at Nashville, 8:05
Iowa at Omaha, 8:05
Fresno at Reno, 9:35
Tacoma at Las Vegas, 10:05
Colorado Springs at Tucson, 10:05
Salt Lake at Sacramento, 10:05
Eastern League (AA)
Thursdays result
New Britain 4, New Hampshire 1
Todays games
Erie at Altoona, 6:30
Richmond at New Britain, 6:35
Akron at Binghamton, 7:05
Portland at Trenton, 7:05
Harrisburg at Bowie, 7:05
New Hampshire at Reading, 7:05
Southern League (AA)
Thursdays results
Jackson 6, Chattanooga 2
Tennessee 2, Pensacola 1
Huntsville 13, Mississippi 8
Jacksonville 7, Mobile 6 (13)
Montgomery 11, Birmingham 3
Todays games
Mobile at Jacksonville, 7:05
Jackson at Chattanooga, 7:15
Pensacola at Tennessee, 7:15
Mississippi at Huntsville, 7:43
Birmingham at Montgomery, 8:05
Texas League (AA)
Thursdays results
Midland 6, Corpus Christi 0
Arkansas 9, Tulsa 6
San Antonio 2, Frisco 1
Northwest Arkansas 6, Springfield 2
Todays games
Corpus Christi at Frisco, 8
San Antonio at Midland, 8
Northwest Arkansas at Tulsa, 8:05
Arkansas at Springfield, 8:09
Carolina League (A+)
Thursdays results
Lynchburg 15, Winston-Salem 8
Myrtle Beach 5, Frederick 2
Salem 7, Wilmington 3
Carolina 4, Potomac 1
Todays games
Carolina at Frederick, 7
Potomac at Myrtle Beach, 7:05
Lynchburg at Salem, 7:05
Winston-Salem at Wilmington, 7:05
California League (A+)
Thursdays results
Stockton at Visalia
Modesto at San Jose
Bakersfield at High Desert
Rancho Cuca. at Inland Empire
Lancaster at Lake Elsinore
Todays games
Inland Empire at Lancaster, 10
Stockton at High Desert, 10:05
San Jose at Modesto, 10:05
Lake Elsinore at Rancho Cuca., 10:05
Visalia at Bakersfield, 10:15
Florida State League (A+)
Thursdays results
Brevard County 3, Dunedin 2
Palm Beach 5, Jupiter 0
Fort Myers 5, Charlotte 3
Bradenton 9, St. Lucie 1
Daytona 5, Lakeland 3
Todays games
Bradenton at St. Lucie, 6:30
Tampa at Clearwater, 6:30
Jupiter at Palm Beach, 6:35
Dunedin at Brevard County, 6:35
Lakeland at Daytona, 7:05
Charlotte at Fort Myers, 7:05
Midwest League (A)
Thursdays results
Clinton 3, Lake County 2
Dayton 11, Peoria 5
Fort Wayne 6, Kane County 4
Beloit 7, South Bend 4
Wisconsin 7, West Michigan 4
Lansing 6, Quad Cities 2
Bowling Green 4, Burlington 2
Cedar Rapids 16, Great Lakes 7
Todays games
Clinton at Lake County, 6:30
Peoria at Dayton, 7
Kane County at Fort Wayne, 7:05
South Bend at Beloit, 7:30
Great Lakes at Cedar Rapids, 7:35
West Michigan at Wisconsin, 7:35
Lansing at Quad Cities, 8
Burlington at Bowling Green, 8:05
South Atlantic League (A)
Thursdays results
Hagerstown 4-2, Augusta 0-3
Hickory 4, Greensboro 2
Asheville 3, Lexington 0
Rome 8, Kannapolis 6
Savannah 7, Delmarva 2
Greenville 12, Lakewood 1
West Virginia 7, Charleston 0
Todays games
Delmarva at Greenville, TBA
Hickory at Hagerstown, 6:35
Rome at Greensboro, 7
Lakewood at Asheville, 7:05
Kannapolis at Charleston, 7:05
Augusta at Lexington, 7:05
West Virginia at Savannah, 7:05
BASEBALL
BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy
Thursdays results fromBucharest, Ro-
mania:
uPurse: $610,500 Surface: Clay
Singles Second round: Janko Tip-
sarevic (1), Serbia, def. Santiago Giral-
do, Colombia, 6-3, 6-3; Victor Hanescu,
Romania, def. Mikhail Youzhny (4), Rus-
sia, 6-4, 6-3; Florian Mayer (5), Germa-
ny, def. David Goffin, Belgium, 7-6 (7-2),
1-6, 6-3; Guillermo Garcia-Lopez,
Spain, def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine,
1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles Quarterfinals: Lukas
Dlouhy, Czech Republic, andOliver Ma-
rach, Austria, def. Dominic Inglot, Britain,
and Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-2,
6-4; Andreas Seppi, Italy, and Viktor
Troicki, Serbia, def. Martin Emmrich,
Germany, and Jarkko Nieminen, Fin-
land, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3); Max Mirnyi, Belarus,
and Horia Tecau (1), Romania, def. Vic-
tor Hanescu, Romania, and Gilles Mull-
er, Luxembourg, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2.
Barcelona Open
BancSabadell
Thursdays results from Barcelona:
uPurse: $2.83 million Surface: Clay
Singles Thirdround: Nicolas Alma-
gro (4), Spain, def. Marcel Granollers
(15), Spain, 6-3, 6-4; Juan Monaco (7),
Argentina, def. Jeremy Chardy (10),
France, 6-0, 7-6 (13-11); Thomaz Belluc-
ci (16), Brazil, def. Dmitry Tursunov, Rus-
sia, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; Martin Klizan (11), Slo-
vakia, leads Philipp Kohlschreiber (8),
Germany, 6-1, 6-7 (2-7), 4-3, suspended.
Doubles Quarterfinals: Robert
Lindstedt, Sweden, and Daniel Nestor
(3), Canada, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia,
and Marcelo Melo, Brazil, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6).
Porsche Grand Prix
Thursdays results fromStuttgart, Ger-
many:
uPurse: $795,707 Surface: Clay
Singles Second round: Li Na (2),
China, def. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croa-
tia, 6-1, 6-2; Angelique Kerber (3), Ger-
many, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova,
Russia, 6-0, 6-4; PetraKvitova(5), Czech
Republic, def. Julia Goerges, Germany,
2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2; Ana Ivanovic, Serbia,
def. Nadia Petrova (8), Russia, 6-4, 6-3;
Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, def.
Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, 7-5, 6-4;
Maria Sharapova (1), Russia, def. Lucie
Safarova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7),
6-3; SabineLisicki, Germany, def. Jelena
Jankovic, Serbia, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5; Bethanie
Mattek-Sands, USA, def. Sara Errani (4),
Italy, 6-0, 4-6, 6-1.
Doubles Quarterfinals: Angelique
Kerber andAndreaPetkovic, Germany,
def. Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany,
and Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, 7-6
(10-8), 6-2.
Grand Prix de SAR
La Princesse Lalla Meryem
Thursdays results from Marrakech,
Morocco:
uPurse: $235,000 Surface: Clay
Singles Second round: Mandy Mi-
nella, Luxembourg, def. Kaia Kanepi (4),
Estonia, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; Kristina Mlade-
novic (7), France, def. Yulia Putintseva,
Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-3; Lourdes Domin-
guez Lino, Spain, def. Tsvetana Pironko-
va (9), Bulgaria, 1-6, 6-4, 6-3; Silvia Sol-
er-Espinosa, Spain, def. Olga Puchkova,
Russia, 6-0, 6-3; Kiki Bertens (5), Nether-
lands, def. Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 7-6
(7-0), 4-6, 6-4; Francesca Schiavone (6),
Italy, def. Simona Halep, Romania, 6-3,
6-2.
Doubles Quarterfinals: Olga Sav-
chuk, Ukraine, and Chanelle Scheep-
ers, SouthAfrica, def. DanielaHantucho-
va, Slovak Republic, andAnabel Medina
Garrigues (1), Spain, 6-4, 6-3; Lourdes
Dominguez Lino, Spain, and Arantxa
ParraSantonja, Spain, def. PaulaKania,
Poland, and Ioana Raluca Olaru, Roma-
nia, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5); Petra Martic, Croatia,
and Kristina Mladenovic (4), France,
def. Sandra Klemenschits, Austria, and
Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, 4-6, 6-3, 10-8.
TENNIS
Major League Soccer
Eastern W L T Pts GF GA
Kansas City 4 2 2 14 8 5
Houston 4 2 1 13 11 8
Montreal 4 1 1 13 7 5
New York 3 4 2 11 13 12
Philadelphia 3 2 2 11 10 10
Columbus 2 2 3 9 9 7
Toronto 1 2 4 7 9 10
Chicago 2 4 1 7 6 12
New England 1 3 2 5 2 6
D.C. United 1 5 1 4 4 10
Western W L T Pts GF GA
Dallas 6 1 1 19 13 7
Los Angeles 3 1 2 11 10 4
Salt Lake 3 3 2 11 7 7
Portland 2 1 4 10 11 9
Chivas USA 3 3 1 10 10 9
San Jose 2 3 3 9 6 9
Vancouver 2 3 2 8 7 9
Colorado 2 4 2 8 6 8
Seattle 1 3 2 5 3 5
Saturdays games
New York at Toronto, 2
Chicago at Montreal, 4
Dallas at Vancouver, 6
Philadelphia at New England, 7:30
D.C. United at Columbus, 7:30
Portland at Kansas City, 8:30
Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 9
San Jose at Chivas USA, 10:30
Sundays game
Colorado at Houston, 5
National Womens
Soccer League
Todays game
Seattle at Kansas City, 10:35
Saturdays games
Sky Blue FC at Washington, 7
Boston at Western New York, 7:35
Portland at Chicago 8
English Premier League
GP W T L GF GA Pts
x-Man. United 34 27 3 4 78 35 84
Man. City 32 20 8 5 59 30 68
Arsenal 34 18 9 7 65 35 63
Chelsea 33 18 8 7 66 35 62
Tottenham 33 18 7 8 58 41 61
Everton 34 14 14 6 51 38 56
Liverpool 33 13 12 9 61 42 51
West Brom 33 13 6 14 43 44 45
Swansea 33 10 12 11 11 43 42
West Ham 34 11 9 14 40 47 42
Fulham 33 10 10 14 44 52 40
Southampton 34 9 12 13 47 54 39
Norwich 34 8 14 12 33 53 38
Sunderland 34 9 10 15 38 45 37
Stoke 34 8 13 13 30 41 37
Newcastle 34 10 7 17 43 60 37
Aston Villa 34 8 10 16 36 63 34
Wigan 33 8 7 18 37 60 31
QPR 34 4 12 18 29 56 24
Reading 34 5 9 20 37 65 24
x-clinched championship
uHome teams in CAPS
Saturdays games
West Ham at MANCHESTER CITY
Fulham at EVERTON
West Brom at SOUTHAMPTON
Norwich at STOKE
Tottenham at WIGAN
Liverpool at NEWCASTLE
Sundays games
Queens Park Rangers at READING
Swansea at CHELSEA
Manchester United at ARSENAL
Mondays game
Sunderland at ASTON VILLA
Spanish Primera Liga
GP W T L GF GAPts.
Barcelona 32 27 3 2 99 33 84
Real Madrid 32 22 5 5 83 30 71
Atl. Madrid 32 21 5 6 57 25 68
Real Sociedad 32 15 10 7 57 39 55
Valencia 32 15 8 9 52 46 53
Mlaga 32 14 8 10 45 37 50
Real Betis 32 14 6 12 48 49 48
Vallecano 32 14 3 15 41 52 45
Getafe 32 12 8 12 39 48 44
Espanyol 32 11 10 11 42 42 43
Sevilla 32 12 6 14 48 46 42
Levante 32 11 7 14 35 51 40
Valladolid 32 10 9 13 41 45 39
Athletic Bilbao 32 10 6 16 35 57 36
Osasuna 32 8 8 16 26 36 32
Dep. Corua 32 7 9 16 43 64 30
Granada 32 7 8 17 28 51 29
Mallorca 32 7 7 18 34 64 28
Zaragoza 32 7 6 19 29 51 27
Celta Vigo 32 7 6 19 31 47 27
Todays game
Osasuna at RAYO VALLECANO
Saturdays games
Celta Vigo at LEVANTE
Barcelona at ATHLETIC BILBAO
Real Madrid at ATLETICO MADRID
Mallorca at REAL ZARAGOZA
Sundays games
Granada at ESPANYOL
Getafe at MALAGA
Sevilla at VALLADOLID
Valencia at REAL SOCIEDAD
Mondays game
Deportivo La Coruna at REAL BETIS
Italian Serie A
Saturdays games
Bologna at ATALANTA
Udinese at CAGLIARI
Napoli at PESCARA
Sundays games
Genoa at CHIEVO
Inter Milan at PALERMO
Siena at ROMA
Fiorentina at SAMPDORIA
Juventus at TORINO
Catania at AC MILAN
Mondays game
Lazio at PARMA
German Bundesliga
Todays game
Hannover at GREUTHER FUERTH
Saturdays games
Nuremberg at HOFFENHEIM
Werder Bremen at BAYER LEVERKUSEN
Freiburg at BAYERN MUNICH
Stuttgart at AUGSBURG
Moenchengladbach at WOLFSBURG
Dortmund at FORTUNA DUESSELDORF
Sundays games
Eintracht Frankfurt at MAINZ
Hamburger SV at SCHALKE
SOCCER
PGA Tour
Zurich Classic
First round Thursday
uCourse: TPC Louisiana (par-72, 7,425
yards), Avondale, La.
uPurse: $6.6 million; a-amateur
Ricky Barnes........................34-3064 (-8)
Boo Weekley.......................32-3365 (-7)
Lucas Glover .......................31-3465 (-7)
D.A. Points ...........................33-3366 (-6)
Morgan Hoffmann............31-3566 (-6)
Charlie Beljan.....................32-3567 (-5)
Matt Jones ..........................31-3667 (-5)
Luke Guthrie .......................34-3367 (-5)
Ernie Els................................34-3367 (-5)
Rickie Fowler .......................32-3567 (-5)
Billy Horschel ......................32-3567 (-5)
Chris Kirk .............................33-3467 (-5)
Stephen Ames....................31-3667 (-5)
Jimmy Walker ....................34-3367 (-5)
Bobby Gates.......................32-3567 (-5)
Matt Every...........................34-3468 (-4)
Harris English .....................36-3268 (-4)
Graham DeLaet.................36-3268 (-4)
Jason Kokrak......................33-3568 (-4)
Kevin Stadler ......................34-3468 (-4)
Jason Bohn .........................33-3568 (-4)
Brian Davis..........................33-3568 (-4)
Justin Rose ..........................33-3568 (-4)
Gary Woodland ................32-3668 (-4)
Tommy Gainey...................33-3568 (-4)
J.J. Henry .............................34-3468 (-4)
Trevor Immelman..............33-3568 (-4)
Chad Campbell .................34-3468 (-4)
Chris DiMarco.....................35-3368 (-4)
James Driscoll ....................34-3468 (-4)
Nick Watney.......................34-3569 (-3)
Bob Estes .............................33-3669 (-3)
Keegan Bradley .................33-3669 (-3)
Scott Brown.........................35-3469 (-3)
Justin Bolli............................36-3369 (-3)
Tag Ridings..........................35-3570 (-2)
Jason Dufner.......................35-3570 (-2)
Stuart Appleby ...................35-3570 (-2)
Sean OHair.........................34-3670 (-2)
Brandt Jobe.........................38-3270 (-2)
Greg Chalmers...................36-3470 (-2)
Doug LaBelle II ....................37-3370 (-2)
Alistair Presnell ...................36-3470 (-2)
D.H. Lee ................................35-3570 (-2)
Andrew Svoboda ...............33-3770 (-2)
Jin Park.................................34-3670 (-2)
Jerry Kelly.............................35-3570 (-2)
Brendan Steele...................36-3470 (-2)
Nicolas Colsaerts ...............33-3770 (-2)
Ryan Palmer........................34-3670 (-2)
Ken Duke..............................35-3570 (-2)
Richard H. Lee.....................34-3670 (-2)
Jeff Maggert .......................36-3470 (-2)
Chris Stroud.........................33-3770 (-2)
Steve LeBrun........................35-3570 (-2)
Lee Williams........................34-3670 (-2)
Brad Fritsch..........................38-3270 (-2)
D.J. Trahan...........................37-3471 (-1)
Fabian Gomez....................38-3371 (-1)
Chez Reavie ........................35-3671 (-1)
Nicholas Thompson...........34-3771 (-1)
Jonas Blixt............................37-3471 (-1)
Rory Sabbatini ....................35-3671 (-1)
Retief Goosen.....................36-3571 (-1)
David Lynn...........................35-3671 (-1)
Jeff Gove .............................35-3671 (-1)
Brian Stuard........................35-3671 (-1)
Charley Hoffman...............36-3571 (-1)
Rod Pampling.....................35-3671 (-1)
Billy Mayfair ........................35-3671 (-1)
Aaron Watkins ...................36-3571 (-1)
Jim Herman ........................35-3671 (-1)
Shawn Stefani ....................36-3571 (-1)
Cameron Percy...................35-3671 (-1)
Luke List................................35-3671 (-1)
John Senden .......................34-3771 (-1)
Cameron Tringale..............35-3671 (-1)
Scott Stallings .....................35-3671 (-1)
James Hahn........................38-3371 (-1)
Roberto Castro...................35-3671 (-1)
David Hearn........................34-3771 (-1)
Henrik Norlander...............37-3471 (-1)
John Peterson .....................37-3471 (-1)
Zack Fischer ........................35-3671 (-1)
John Merrick.........................36-3672 (E)
David Toms ...........................35-3772 (E)
Kyle Stanley...........................37-3572 (E)
Michael Bradley...................36-3672 (E)
Mike Weir ..............................37-3572 (E)
Joey Snyder III ......................36-3672 (E)
Brendon de Jonge...............33-3972 (E)
Martin Flores ........................34-3872 (E)
Patrick Reed..........................36-3672 (E)
Matt Fast ...............................37-3572 (E)
Michael Letzig ......................37-3572 (E)
Hunter Haas .........................37-3572 (E)
Erik Compton........................38-3472 (E)
Charlie Wi .............................37-3572 (E)
Jesper Parnevik....................36-3672 (E)
Justin Hicks............................36-3672 (E)
Josh Teater............................36-3672 (E)
Colt Knost..............................36-3672 (E)
Scott Langley ........................39-3372 (E)
a-Guan Tianlang .................37-3572 (E)
Eric Meierdierks....................37-3572 (E)
Camilo Villegas.................36-3773 (+1)
Lee Janzen .........................38-3573 (+1)
Jeff Overton .......................36-3773 (+1)
Aaron Baddeley................39-3473 (+1)
Bubba Watson ..................36-3773 (+1)
Justin Leonard ...................36-3773 (+1)
Joe Ogilvie .........................38-3573 (+1)
Charles Howell III ..............38-3573 (+1)
Steven Bowditch................34-3973 (+1)
Marcel Siem.......................36-3773 (+1)
Peter Tomasulo..................36-3773 (+1)
Ken Looper .........................37-3673 (+1)
Ross Fisher..........................37-3673 (+1)
Kevin Sutherland...............37-3673 (+1)
David Lingmerth................37-3673 (+1)
Robert Streb.......................35-3873 (+1)
Seung-Yul Noh...................38-3573 (+1)
Thorbjorn Olesen..............37-3673 (+1)
Derek Ernst .........................37-3673 (+1)
Tim Herron .........................38-3674 (+2)
Gary Christian ...................39-3574 (+2)
Scott Piercy .........................36-3874 (+2)
Robert Allenby...................38-3674 (+2)
Johnson Wagner...............38-3674 (+2)
Ben Crane...........................36-3874 (+2)
Brian Harman ....................37-3774 (+2)
Darron Stiles ......................39-3574 (+2)
George McNeill .................40-3474 (+2)
Casey Wittenberg.............38-3674 (+2)
Jon Curran..........................38-3674 (+2)
Shane Lowry.......................38-3674 (+2)
Vaughn Taylor ...................41-3475 (+3)
Andres Romero..................38-3775 (+3)
K.J. Choi...............................37-3875 (+3)
Scott Gardiner ...................37-3875 (+3)
David Mathis .....................39-3675 (+3)
John Rollins ........................39-3675 (+3)
Andres Gonzales ..............41-3475 (+3)
Daniel Summerhays .........39-3776 (+4)
Jordan Spieth ....................36-4076 (+4)
Ben Kohles..........................35-4176 (+4)
Greg Owen.........................39-3776 (+4)
Michael Thompson...........40-3676 (+4)
Troy Matteson....................37-3976 (+4)
Donald Constable.............41-3576 (+4)
Jake Narro.........................38-3977 (+5)
Will Claxton.......................38-3977 (+5)
Robert Karlsson.................37-4077 (+5)
Paul Haley II .......................39-3877 (+5)
Jonathan Byrd...................39-3978 (+6)
Steve Marino.....................39-4180 (+8)
LPGA
North Texas LPGA Shootout
First round Thursday
uCourse: Las Colinas Country Club
(par-71, 6,410 yards), Irving, Texas
uPurse: $1.3 million; a-amateur
Caroline Masson................32-3264 (-7)
Carlota Ciganda ...............34-3266 (-5)
Mi Jung Hur ........................35-3267 (-4)
Felicity Johnson..................34-3367 (-4)
Mo Martin ...........................36-3167 (-4)
Kristy McPherson ...............36-3167 (-4)
Inbee Park...........................33-3467 (-4)
a-Taylor Coleman ..............37-3168 (-3)
Christina Kim......................34-3468 (-3)
Hee Young Park.................34-3468 (-3)
Moira Dunn.........................34-3569 (-2)
Haeji Kang..........................34-3569 (-2)
Jessica Korda .....................34-3569 (-2)
Azahara Munoz.................35-3469 (-2)
Angela Stanford................35-3469 (-2)
Yani Tseng...........................33-3669 (-2)
Karlin Beck...........................37-3370 (-1)
Na Yeon Choi......................36-3470 (-1)
Kathleen Ekey .....................36-3470 (-1)
Veronica Felibert ................34-3670 (-1)
Julieta Granada.................35-3570 (-1)
Marcy Hart ..........................34-3670 (-1)
Vicky Hurst...........................35-3570 (-1)
Sara Maude Juneau..........36-3470 (-1)
Cristie Kerr ...........................37-3370 (-1)
I.K. Kim..................................33-3770 (-1)
Brittany Lincicome..............35-3570 (-1)
Kayla Mortellaro................35-3570 (-1)
Suzann Pettersen ...............37-3370 (-1)
Hee Kyung Seo ...................35-3570 (-1)
Jiyai Shin..............................34-3670 (-1)
Amanda Blumenherst ........35-3671 (E)
Christel Boeljon....................35-3671 (E)
Silvia Cavalleri .....................36-3571 (E)
Chella Choi ...........................36-3571 (E)
Shanshan Feng....................36-3571 (E)
Meaghan Francella.............37-3471 (E)
Caroline Hedwall ................36-3571 (E)
Daniela Iacobelli .................36-3571 (E)
Karine Icher...........................34-3771 (E)
Jennifer Johnson..................36-3571 (E)
Moriya Jutanugarn .............35-3671 (E)
Sarah Kemp..........................35-3671 (E)
Ryann OToole......................39-3271 (E)
So Yeon Ryu ..........................37-3471 (E)
Lizette Salas..........................35-3671 (E)
Nicole Smith .........................32-3971 (E)
Kris Tamulis...........................36-3571 (E)
Lexi Thompson.....................36-3571 (E)
Michelle Wie.........................35-3671 (E)
Nicole Castrale..................37-3572 (+1)
Austin Ernst ........................36-3672 (+1)
Jodi Ewart Shadoff ...........36-3672 (+1)
Maria Hjorth ......................37-3572 (+1)
Pat Hurst .............................35-3772 (+1)
Eun-Hee Ji ..........................38-3472 (+1)
Mindy Kim..........................37-3572 (+1)
Victoria Elizabeth..............37-3572 (+1)
Candie Kung......................37-3572 (+1)
Brittany Lang.....................36-3672 (+1)
Ilhee Lee..............................35-3772 (+1)
Jee Young Lee....................37-3572 (+1)
Rebecca Lee-Bentham.....35-3772 (+1)
Stacy Lewis.........................39-3372 (+1)
Lisa McCloskey ..................34-3872 (+1)
Sydnee Michaels...............38-3472 (+1)
Jane Park ...........................36-3672 (+1)
Thidapa Suwannapura...40-3272 (+1)
Wendy Ward.....................37-3572 (+1)
Julia Boland .......................36-3773 (+2)
Esther Choe........................37-3673 (+2)
Paula Creamer ..................37-3673 (+2)
Laura Davies......................37-3673 (+2)
Natalie Gulbis ...................39-3473 (+2)
Hee-Won Han....................36-3773 (+2)
Nicole Jeray.......................38-3573 (+2)
Lorie Kane ..........................37-3673 (+2)
Maude-Aimee Leblanc ....37-3673 (+2)
Paige Mackenzie ..............38-3573 (+2)
a-Haley Mills ......................37-3673 (+2)
Paola Moreno....................36-3773 (+2)
Becky Morgan....................37-3673 (+2)
Anna Nordqvist.................35-3873 (+2)
Ji Young Oh........................37-3673 (+2)
Jin Young Pak ....................37-3673 (+2)
Pornanong Phatlum.........39-3473 (+2)
Beatriz Recari ....................38-3573 (+2)
Giulia Sergas.....................35-3873 (+2)
Sarah Jane Smith..............38-3573 (+2)
Marina Stuetz....................38-3573 (+2)
Momoko Ueda..................35-3873 (+2)
Lindsey Wright...................36-3773 (+2)
Amy Yang...........................38-3573 (+2)
Sun Young Yoo ..................38-3573 (+2)
Heather Bowie Young......40-3373 (+2)
Dori Carter .........................40-3474 (+3)
Irene Cho............................36-3874 (+3)
Numa Gulyanamitta........37-3774 (+3)
Sophie Gustafson..............37-3774 (+3)
Amy Hung...........................36-3874 (+3)
Tiffany Joh...........................37-3774 (+3)
Taylore Karle ......................37-3774 (+3)
Cindy LaCrosse..................39-3574 (+3)
Ai Miyazato........................38-3674 (+3)
Belen Mozo ........................38-3674 (+3)
Se Ri Pak .............................39-3574 (+3)
Stacy Prammanasudh .....38-3674 (+3)
Stephanie Sherlock...........38-3674 (+3)
Jenny Shin...........................39-3574 (+3)
Jennifer Song.....................38-3674 (+3)
Alison Walshe ....................37-3774 (+3)
Jacqui Concolino...............36-3975 (+4)
Sandra Gal.........................38-3775 (+4)
Juli Inkster...........................38-3775 (+4)
Mika Miyazato...................38-3775 (+4)
Brooke Pancake ................37-3875 (+4)
a-Madison Pressel ............38-3775 (+4)
Jennifer Rosales ................37-3875 (+4)
Dewi Claire Schreefel .......36-3975 (+4)
Sandra Changkija ............38-3876 (+5)
Jennifer Gleason...............39-3776 (+5)
Meena Lee..........................39-3776 (+5)
Mi Hyang Lee.....................40-3676 (+5)
Catriona Matthew............37-3976 (+5)
Gerina Piller .......................38-3876 (+5)
Laura Diaz..........................40-3777 (+6)
Mina Harigae....................36-4177 (+6)
Katherine Hull-Kirk............40-3777 (+6)
Song-Hee Kim....................40-3777 (+6)
Amelia Lewis......................38-3977 (+6)
Reilley Rankin.....................37-4077 (+6)
Sophia Sheridan...............38-3977 (+6)
Lauren Doughtie ...............41-3778 (+7)
Katie Futcher......................39-3978 (+7)
Danielle Kang....................40-3878 (+7)
Pernilla Lindberg...............39-3978 (+7)
Morgan Pressel .................38-4078 (+7)
Jane Rah.............................39-3978 (+7)
a-Casey Grice....................41-3879 (+8)
Alena Sharp.......................40-3979 (+8)
Karen Stupples ..................37-4279 (+8)
Kim Welch..........................40-3979 (+8)
Jennie Lee..........................39-4180 (+9)
Mariajo Uribe..........................41-38WD
PGA European Tour/Asian
Tour
Ballantines Championship
First round Thursday
uCourse: Blackstone Resort (par-72,
7,281 yards), Seoul, South Korea
uPurse: $2.88 million
Note: Play suspended due to darkness;
round to be completed today
Jean-Baptiste Gonnet.......32-3567 (-5)
Johan Edfors.......................31-3667 (-5)
Kieran Pratt.........................35-3267 (-5)
Kim Gi-whan.......................35-3267 (-5)
Matthew Baldwin ..............34-3367 (-5)
Peter Lawrie........................33-3568 (-4)
Lee Jung-Hwan ..................35-3368 (-4)
Tommy Fleetwood...........through 17 (-4)
Louis Oosthuizen..............through 16 (-4)
David Howell ......................35-3469 (-3)
Kim Dae-sub.......................36-3369 (-3)
Fabrizio Zanotti..................36-3369 (-3)
Ryu Hyun-woo ....................35-3469 (-3)
Rikard Karlberg..................33-3669 (-3)
Espen Kofstad.....................36-3470 (-2)
Stephen Gallacher.............36-3470 (-2)
Marc Warren ......................36-3470 (-2)
YE Yang................................35-3570 (-2)
Romain Wattel ...................35-3570 (-2)
Hwang Jung-gon ...............36-3470 (-2)
Berry Henson ......................34-3670 (-2)
Peter Whiteford..................37-3370 (-2)
Web.Com Tour
South Georgia Classic
First round Thursday
uCourse: Kinderlou Forest Golf Club
(par-72, 7,781 yards), Valdosta, Ga.
uPurse: $650,000
Ryan Spears........................33-3366 (-6)
Philip Pettitt, Jr. ...................33-3467 (-5)
Troy Merritt .........................31-3667 (-5)
Bhavik Patel ........................34-3367 (-5)
Ariel Canete........................33-3568 (-4)
Dusty Fielding.....................34-3468 (-4)
Tyrone Van Aswegen........33-3568 (-4)
Woody Austin.....................36-3268 (-4)
Duffy Waldorf ....................35-3368 (-4)
Will MacKenzie..................34-3468 (-4)
Alexandre Rocha...............32-3668 (-4)
Scott Gutschewski..............34-3468 (-4)
Daniel Chopra....................35-3469 (-3)
Byron Smith.........................36-3369 (-3)
Mathew Goggin ................33-3669 (-3)
Chesson Hadley.................33-3669 (-3)
Adam Mitchell ....................34-3569 (-3)
Adam Hadwin....................36-3369 (-3)
Andrew D. Putnam.............37-3269 (-3)
Hudson Swafford ..............36-3369 (-3)
Michael Putnam.................34-3569 (-3)
Jason Gore .........................34-3569 (-3)
Ben Martin ..........................34-3569 (-3)
Sung Kang...........................35-3469 (-3)
Andrew Loupe....................33-3669 (-3)
Nick Rousey ........................34-3569 (-3)
Corey Nagy.........................35-3469 (-3)
Wes Roach..........................35-3469 (-3)
Camilo Benedetti ...............33-3770 (-2)
Edward Loar........................35-3570 (-2)
John Daly.............................34-3670 (-2)
D.J. Brigman ........................33-3770 (-2)
George Bryan .....................35-3570 (-2)
Brent Witcher......................35-3570 (-2)
Benjamin Alvarado............34-3670 (-2)
Lee Bedford.........................36-3470 (-2)
Brett Wetterich ...................34-3670 (-2)
Miguel Angel Carballo .....34-3670 (-2)
Jonathan Hodge................35-3570 (-2)
Si Woo Kim..........................35-3570 (-2)
GOLF
Chicago at Montreal (NBCSN, 4 p.m.)
TRACK AND FIELD: Penn Relays, in Philadel-
phia (NBC, 1 p.m.); Drake Relays, in Des Moines
(ESPN2, 8 p.m.)
SUNDAY
COLLEGE BASEBALL: South Carolina at LSU
(ESPN, 3 p.m.); Stanford at Oregon (ESPNU,
3:30 p.m.); North Carolina vs. N.C. State
(ESPNU, 7 p.m.)
Hiestands take: UNC is ranked No. 1 in the
USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll; N.C. State is
ranked No. 11 but has the longest active
winning streak in Division I college baseball
at 15.
COLLEGE MENS LACROSSE: Atlantic Coast
Conference championship game, Virginia/
Maryland winner vs. Duke/North Carolina
winner, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (ESPNU, 1 p.m.)
EQUESTRIAN: Rolex Championships, in
Lexington, Ky. (same-day tape, NBC, 4 p.m.)
GOLF: PGA European Tour, Ballantines Cham-
pionship, final round (same-day tape, Golf
Channel, 9 a.m.); Champions Tour, Liberty
Mutual Legends of Golf, final round (CBS,
1 p.m.); PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, final round
(Golf Channel, 1 p.m., and CBS, 3 p.m.); LPGA,
North Texas Shootout, final round (Golf Chan-
nel, 3 p.m.)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Toronto at New
York Yankees (TBS, 1 p.m.); Tampa Bay at
Chicago White Sox (WGN, 2 p.m.); Atlanta at
Detroit (ESPN, 8 p.m.)
Hiestands take: ESPNs marquee prime-time
game might be a preview of the World Series.
MOTOR SPORTS: NHRA Mello Yello Drag
Racing Series, Spring Nationals (ESPN2, 2p.m.)
NBA: Eastern Conference, first round, Game 4,
New York at Boston (ABC, 1 p.m.); Eastern
Conference, first round, Game 4, Miami at
Milwaukee (ABC, 3:30 p.m.); Western Confer-
ence, first round, Game 4, San Antonio at Los
Angeles Lakers (TNT, 7 p.m.); Western Confer-
ence, first round, Game 4, Denver at Golden
State (TNT, 9:30 p.m.)
POLO: U.S. Open Polo Championship, in
Wellington, Fla. (NBCSN, 2:30 p.m.)
Hiestands take: TV exposure could lead to
more youngsters taking up the sport in back-
yards and playgrounds.
SOCCER: Mexican Primera Division, Atlas at
Puebla (same-day tape, ESPN2, 5 p.m.)
TODAY
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Texas at Baylor (Fox
Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.)
COLLEGE MENS LACROSSE: Atlantic Coast
Conference semifinals, in Chapel Hill, N.C.,
Virginia vs. Maryland (ESPNU, 5 p.m.) and
Duke vs. North Carolina (ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.)
Hiestands take: The Blue Devils and Tar
Heels are the hottest teams in the country.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL: California at Arizona
State (ESPNU, 10 p.m.)
Hiestands take: A top-10 matchup, with the
Sun Devils ranked No. 5 and the Golden Bears
No. 10 in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll.
GOLF: PGA European Tour, Ballantines Cham-
pionship, second round, in Seoul (same-day
tape, Golf Channel, 9 a.m.); Champions Tour,
Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, first round, in
Savannah, Ga. (Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m.); PGA
Tour, Zurich Classic, second round, in New
Orleans (Golf Channel, 3 p.m.); LPGA, North
Texas Shootout, second round, in Irving, Texas
(same-day tape, Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.)
Hiestands take: A chance to see Guan
Tianlang, the 14-year-old amateur who made
the cut in the Masters, in what might be the
last PGA Tour event he plays this year as he
plans to return soon to his native China.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Regional cov-
erage, Atlanta at Detroit or Toronto at New
York Yankees (MLB Network, 7 p.m.); Chicago
Cubs at Miami (WGN, 7 p.m.)
MOTOR SPORTS: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series,
Toyota Owners 400, in Richmond, Va., practice
(Speed, noon and 2:30 p.m.), qualifying
(Speed, 5:30 p.m.); NASCAR Nationwide Series,
qualifying for ToyotaCare 250, in Richmond
(ESPN2, 4 p.m.)
NBA: Eastern Conference, first round, Game 3,
New York at Boston (ESPN, 8 p.m.); Western
Conference, first round, Game 3, San Antonio
at Los Angeles Lakers (ESPN, 10:30 p.m.);
Western Conference, first round, Game 3,
Denver at Golden State (ESPN2, 10:30 p.m.)
Hiestands take: A key game for the Celtics,
down 0-2 in the series. It will be the teams first
home game since the April 15 bombings in
Boston, but coach Doc Rivers says he wont
draw on that to motivate players. I dont use
tragedy for sports, he said.
NFL: Draft, rounds 2-3, in New York (ESPN and
NFL Network, 6:30 p.m.; ESPN2, 8 p.m.)
NHL: Calgary at Chicago (NBCSN, 8 p.m.)
SATURDAY
BOXING: Heavyweights, Chris Arreola vs.
Bermane Stiverne, in Ontario, Calif.; Luis Carlos
Abregu vs. Antonin Decarie, for vacant WBC
Silver welterweight title, and Sergio Martinez
vs. Martin Murray, for WBC middleweight title,
in Buenos Aires (HBO, 8:30 p.m.); Peter Quillin
vs. Fernando Guerrero, for WBO middleweight
title, and Danny Garcia vs. Zab Judah, for
WBA/WBC super lightweight title, in Brooklyn,
N.Y.; Amir Khan vs. Julio Diaz (same-day tape),
in Sheffield, England (Showtime, 9 p.m.)
Hiestands take: In HBOs first-ever boxing
from a South American venue, Brazilian
Martinez returns home, and he has lost only
once in the last 12 years.
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Alabama-Birmingham
at Southern Mississippi (Fox Sports Net,
7:30 p.m.); Texas at Baylor (ESPNU, 9 p.m.)
COLLEGE MENS LACROSSE: Loyola (Md.) at
Johns Hopkins (ESPNU, 2 p.m.); Big City Classic,
in East Rutherford, N.J., Princeton vs. Cornell
(ESPNU, 4 p.m.) and Notre Dame vs. Syracuse
(ESPNU, 6:30 p.m.)
COLLEGE SOFTBALL: Georgia at Florida
(ESPNU, noon)
GOLF: PGA European Tour, Ballantines Cham-
pionship, third round (same-day tape, Golf
Channel, 9 a.m.) Champions Tour, Liberty
Mutual Legends of Golf, second round (CBS,
1 p.m.); PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, third round
(Golf Channel, 1 p.m., and CBS, 3 p.m.); LPGA,
North Texas Shootout, third round (Golf
Channel, 3 p.m.)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Regional cov-
erage, Cincinnati at Washington, Atlanta at
Detroit or Philadelphia at New York Mets (Fox,
12:30 p.m.); regional coverage, San Francisco
at San Diego (MLB Network, 8:30 p.m.) or
Milwaukee at Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB
Network, 9 p.m.)
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS: UFC 159, in Newark,
light heavyweight champion Jon Jones vs.
Chael Sonnen, preliminary bouts (FX, 8 p.m.),
main card (pay-per-view, 10 p.m.)
Hiestands take: Sonnen on his overall strate-
gy: When I step off that plane in New Jersey,
Im taking over that state. And my first order of
business is to beat the bejesus out of Jon
Jones. Sounds as if hell be a charismatic ruler.
MOTOR SPORTS: NHRA Mello Yello Drag
Racing Series, qualifying for Spring Nationals,
in Baytown, Texas (ESPN2, 3 p.m.); NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series, Toyota Owners 400 (Fox,
7:30 p.m.); Supercross, in Salt Lake City (Speed,
9:30 p.m.)
Hiestands take: In a test of the sports
drawing power, NHRA will get live coverage
rather than taped coverage shunted into
some other time slot Saturday and Sunday.
If it draws, NHRA might get more live cov-
erage.
NBA: Eastern Conference, first round, Game 4,
New Jersey at Chicago (TNT, 2 p.m.); Western
Conference, first round, Game 4, Los Angeles
Clippers at Memphis (TNT, 4:30 p.m.); Eastern
Conference, first round, Game 4, Indiana at
Atlanta (ESPN, 7 p.m.); Western Conference,
first round, Game 4, Oklahoma City at Hous-
ton (ESPN, 9:30 p.m.)
Hiestands take: NBA TV carriers ESPN/ABC
and TNT just hope for more on-air playoff
tonnage so they can run more ads. Both
networks will be rooting for Atlanta and
Houston, who are each down 0-2 in their
series.
NFL: Draft, rounds 4-7, in New York (ESPN and
NFL Network, noon)
NHL: New Jersey at New York Rangers (NBC,
3 p.m.); Detroit at Dallas (NBCSN, 7 p.m.);
Montreal at Toronto (NHL Network, 7 p.m.);
San Jose at Los Angeles (NBCSN, 10:30 p.m.)
SOCCER: English Premier League, West Ham
at Manchester City (ESPN2, 7:30 a.m.); MLS,
JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY SPORTS
Guan Tianlang, 14, takes on the
Zurich Classic this week.
FORD MCCLAVE, USA TODAY SPORTS
The Rolex Three-Day Event, which features dressage, cross-country
and show-jumping disciplines, wraps up Sunday in Lexington, Ky.
FOLLOWCOLUMNIST
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SPORTS ON TV
Arena Football League
Todays game
Chicago at Iowa, 8:05
Saturdays games
Utah at Cleveland, 7
Jacksonville at Philadelphia, 7:05
San Jose at New Orleans, 8
Tampa Bay at Spokane, 10
Sundays games
San Antonio at Pittsburgh, 2
Orlando at Arizona, 6
FOOTBALL
American Hockey League
Conference quarterfinals (best-of-5)
uProvidence vs. Hershey
uSpringfield vs. Manchester
uSyracuse vs. Portland
uBinghamton vs. W-B/Scranton
uTexas vs. Milwaukee
uToronto vs. Rochester
uGrand Rapids vs. Houston
uCharlotte vs. Oklahoma City
Todays games
Hershey at Providence, 7:05
Texas at Milwaukee, 8
Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 8
Grand Rapids at Houston, 8:05
Saturdays games
Rochester at Toronto, 3
Manchester at Springfield, 7
W-B/Scranton at Binghamton, 7:05
Portland at Syracuse, 7:30
Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 8
Texas at Milwaukee, 8
ECHL
Conference semifinals (best-of-7)
uFlorida leads Reading (2-1)
uCincinnati leads Gwinnett (2-1)
uOntario leads Idaho (2-1)
uAlaska, Stockton tied (1-1)
Wednesdays results
Cincinnati 5, Gwinnett 0
Florida 4, Reading 1
Ontario 2, Idaho 1
Thursdays result
Alaska at Stockton
Todays games
Reading at Florida, 7:30
Gwinnett at Cincinnati, 7:35
Ontario at Idaho, 9:10
Alaska at Stockton, 10:30
Saturdays games
Reading at Florida, 7
Gwinnett at Cincinnati, 7:35
Ontario at Idaho, 9:10
Sundays game
Alaska at Stockton, 9
HOCKEY
Home teams in caps.
National Basketball Assoc.
First round Today
Favorite Line Underdog
BOSTON 3 New York
San Antonio 3 L.A. LAKERS
GOLDEN STATE 1 Denver
First round Saturday
Favorite Line Underdog
ATLANTA 2 Indiana
Oklahoma City 3 HOUSTON
CHICAGO NL Brooklyn
MEMPHIS NL L.A. Clippers
National Hockey League
Today's games
Favorite Line Underdog
BUFFALO -110 N.Y. Islanders
MINNESOTA -185 Edmonton
CHICAGO -220 Calgary
PHOENIX -150 Colorado
uMLB lines, 8C
TODAYS LINE
NBA Development League
Playoffs Championship (best of 3)
uRio Gr. Valley leads Santa Cruz (1-0)
Thursdays result
Rio Grande Valley 112, Santa Cruz 102
Saturdays game
Santa Cruz at Rio Grande Valley, 8
BASKETBALL
Womens lacrosse
uIntercollegiate Women's Lacrosse
Coaches Association Division I Top 20:
Rank, school (1st) W-L Pts LW
1. Maryland (20) 17-0 400 1
2. Florida 16-1 372 3
3. North Carolina 13-2 367 2
4. Northwestern 13-2 314 4
5. Syracuse 12-3 311 5
6. Penn State 11-4 295 6
7. Duke 11-4 267 9
8. Georgetown 11-3 251 8
9. Notre Dame 11-3 205 7
10. Stony Brook 13-2 194 10
11. Denver 15-1 191 11
12. Loyola (Md.) 9-6 163 13
13. Massachusetts 15-2 147 12
14. Stanford 10-4 111 15
15. Navy 16-1 106 14
16. Pennsylvania 9-4 91
17. Connecticut 13-1 83
18. Princeton 9-5 82 17
19. Virginia 8-8 74 16
20. Boston College 11-6 65 18
Others receiving votes: Cornell, James
Madison, Johns Hopkins
Womens water polo
uCollegiate Water Polo Association
Division I Top 20:
Rank, school Pts LW
1. Stanford 100 1
2. Southern California 96 2
3. Arizona State 90 3
4. UCLA 85 4
5. California 80 5
6. UC-Irvine 73 6
7. Hawaii 72 7
8. San Diego State 65 8
9. San Jose State 58 9
10. Long Beach State 55 10
11. Loyola Marymount 43 11
11. Princeton 43 12
13. UC-San Diego 38 15
14. Cal State-Northridge 35 13
15. Indiana 31 14
16. UC-Santa Barbara 28 16
17. Hartwick 25 17
18. UC-Davis 15 18
18. Michigan 15 19
20. Pacific 7 20
Others receiving votes: Iona 1.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
Lets Go Places.
Not just the ones you can find on a map,
but the ones you can find in your heart.
Lets go beyond everything we know,
and embrace everything we dont.
And once weve reached our destination, lets keep going.
Because inspiration doesnt favor those who sit still.
It dances with the daring.
And rewards the courageous with ideas.
Ideas that excite, challenge, even inspire.
Ideas that take you places youve never imagined.
Ideas big enough and powerful enough
to make the heart skip a beat.
And in some cases, two.
Prototype shown with options. 2013 Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
#LetsGoPlaces
PHOTOS BY ZADE ROSENTHAL, MARVEL
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) must once again call on his friends as he faces a terrorist named The Mandarin in Iron Man 3.
SUMMER MOVIE
PREVIEW
SUMMER MOVIE
PREVIEW
Cinematic sequels andprequels are ahallmark of warm-
weather months, andthis summers cropoffers plenty of dj
vu. Marvel Comics character Wolverine unsheathes his claws
for his secondsolo movie, Iron Man suits upfor athirdadven-
ture, andVin Diesel revs uphis Fast &Furious engines for
asixth time. USATODAYs Brian Truitt looks at the highlights.
More prequels/sequels
Re-enter Monsters and Trek franchises 2D
COMING
MAY3:
Calendar listings and
capsule descriptions of dozens
of summers topmovies.
Iron Man 3
(opens May 3)
STARS: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth
Paltrow, Ben Kingsley
DIRECTOR: Shane Black
PLOT: Tony Stark (Downey) has to
use all his smarts when the interna-
tional terrorist The Mandarin
(Kingsley) attacks.
WHATS CLASSIC: Stark has to de-
pend on the loyal supporting cast
from the two previous Iron Man
icks, including love interest Pepper
Potts (Paltrow) and James
Rhodey Rhodes (Don Chea-
dle). Tony wants his friends
close to him, Cheadle says.
WHATS NEW: Kingsleys
Mandarin is one seriously
bad guy, but at least Rhodey
gets some updated armor this
time around.
Whenever theres sun,
theres a sequel (or 10)
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 SECTION D
Hats, juleps
and horses:
Its that time
in Louisville 4D
Off to the
races in
Derby City
LAURA BLY, USA TODAY
USA SNAPSHOTS

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show episodes at a time.
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Source Harris Poll of 2,496 adults (1,209 of
whombinge view)
CATHY PAYNE AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY
LIFELINE
Rhodey (Don
Cheadle) suits
up in some-
thing new.
NEW YORK When director Diane
Paulus led a tribe of happy hippies to
Broadway in 2009 in her gorgeous
revival of Hair, they shattered the
fourth wall and invited viewers to
join their journey from innocence to
knowledge a trip that encom-
passed extremes of decadence and
heartache but somehow left you ex-
hilarated and full of joy.
The approach and efect are much
the same in Paulus new
staging of Pippin, the
nal and best musical
production of this
season, which opened
Thursday at the Music
Box Theatre. Here, though, she and
her extravagantly talented cast have
left the Age of Aquarius far behind
them.
Roger O. Hirson and Stephen
Schwartzs fanciful reimagining of
the coming-of-age of Charlemagnes
eldest son rst opened on Broadway
in 1972, just months after the original
Hair ended its four-year run; and
anyone who has heard, or seen pho-
tos from, the former shows much-
loved cast recording could attest to
its lingering glimmers of ower
power.
But Pippins driving conceit a
performing troupe guides the title
character, and the audience, on his
path to self-discovery demands a
more structured sense of showbiz
razzle-dazzle. So do Schwartzs score,
a richly melodic mlange of pop and
jazzier musical theater inuences,
and Bob Fosses original choreogra-
phy, a dazzling parade of controlled
carnality.
Paulus, working with Fosse prot-
g Chet Walker and Gypsy Snider of
the Montreal-based troupe Les 7
doigts de la main, adds to that mix a
circus element, incorporating acro-
batics, sword-throwing and other, of-
ten comical evocations of derring-do.
The result is a combination of epic
theater, burlesque and soulful spec-
tacle that recaptures the shows shiny
allure and its poignance while mak-
ing it seementirely fresh.
The awless company is led by
Patina Miller as the Leading Player, a
role introduced by the great Ben Ve-
reen and typically played by a man,
and Matthew James Thomas as Pip-
pin. The young stars work beautifully
as both partners and foils: Miller,
with her lithe body and megawatt
smile, makes the Player both tempt-
ress and condante, guiding Pippin
with her sirens voice and sharp, sinu-
ous dancing through a string of se-
ductive but nally unfullling life
choices.
Thomas brings to his part a sweet-
ly robust tenor and an earnestness
betting a naif with vague ambitions
but little idea of what he truly wants.
He and Rachel Bay Jones, the droll
actress cast as Pippins love interest,
Catherine, relay a soft warmth that
nicely juxtaposes the glittering preci-
sion of other ensemble members.
Other standouts include a lus-
ciously limber Charlotte dAmboise,
as Pippins scheming stepmother,
and Andrea Martin, who nearly stops
the showas his preternaturally perky
and movingly devoted grandma.
This Pippin also ofers a new end-
ing, with a twist that provides all the
thrills and chills the Leading Player
promises us earlier. By that point,
she and her colleagues have delivered
all the magic they guarantee in the
opening number, and then some.
Myla Lerner, one of the shows producers,
is married to USATODAYpublisher
Larry Kramer.
JOANMARCUS
Patina Miller, center, is the Leading Player guiding a journey of discovery for Pippin and the audience.
Pippin: Seasons best musical, jazz hands down
Revival takes originals
verve to daring heights
THEATER
REVIEW
ELYSA
GARDNER
PIPPIN eeee
Starring: Patina Miller, Matthew James
Thomas, Rachel Bay Jones, Charlotte
dAmboise, Andrea Martin
Music Box Theatre
She was the scrappy sewer who
could. Michelle Lesniak Franklin
stitched her way to victory on Lifetime
Thursday night
as the Project
Runway Season 11
champion. Catch-
ing the eye of
judges Heidi Klum,
Nina Garcia,
Zac Posen and,
back for the finale,
Michael Kors was
Franklins Pacific
Northwest geek-
chic aesthetic, as
she puts it. Im incredibly tenacious,
and I work really hard, and nothing
slays me, says Franklin, 34.
Olivia Barker
RUNWAY HAS A NEW NO. 1
BARBARA NITKE, LIFETIME
Monsters University
(June 21)
STARS: Billy Crystal, John Goodman,
Steve Buscemi
DIRECTOR: Dan Scanlon
PLOT: The college-comedy prequel
to Monsters, Inc. nds Wazowski
(Crystal) and Sullivan (Good-
man) as rivals.
WHATS CLASSIC: Crystal says
Wazowski is not the coolest-
looking guy in the world,
and hes a little guy, but
hes so much fun.
WHATS NEW: Creat-
ing a campus of
monsters in search
of education gives
the lm a broader
appeal.
Star Trek Into Darkness
(May 17)
STARS: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto,
Benedict Cumberbatch
DIRECTOR: J.J. Abrams
PLOT: Captain Kirk (Pine), Mr. Spock
(Quinto) and the crew search for
John Harrison (Cumberbatch), a
dangerous fugitive.
WHATS CLASSIC: Abrams takes the
young, reimagined Enterprise squad
from Trek in 2009 and tosses its
members into a world of epic action
for a newgeneration. The fun of it is
balancing that incredible intimacy
with that crazy scope.
WHATS NEW: This brand-new fam-
ily will be sorely tested by Harrison.
20THCENTURY FOX
Hugh Jackman is back, and sharper than ever, in his 13th year of playing Wolverine.
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Even more hot summer sequels
and prequels await franchise fans.
Fast & Furious 6 (May 24)
STARS: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker,
Dwayne Johnson
DIRECTOR: Justin Lin
PLOT: They escaped Agent Hobbs
(Johnson) in 2011s Fast Five, but
Dominic Toretto (Diesel) and Brian
OConner (Walker) are enlisted to
take down a gang led by Owen Shaw
(Luke Evans).
WHATS CLASSIC: Diesel continues
as the franchises strong-jawed face.
WHATS NEW: Doms old ame Letty
(Michelle Rodriguez) returns, and
Evans is an antagonist with a very
specic philosophy in how he ap-
proaches his work, Lin says.
The Hangover Part III (May 24)
STARS: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms,
Zach Galianakis, Heather Graham
DIRECTOR: Todd Phillips
PLOT: The Wolfpack returns to
where it all began Las Vegas
when Phil (Cooper) and Stu
(Helms) take their pal Alan (Gali-
anakis) back to Sin City after his fa-
ther dies.
WHATS CLASSIC: Phillips continues
to put his characters through the
most outrageous situations poor
Stu has already lost a tooth and
added a face tattoo, and the third
movie features the worst situation
yet, the director says. Its fun to
torture them.
WHATS NEW: Melissa McCarthy
appears as Alans equally left-footed
love interest, Phillips says, and
John Goodman takes a turn as the
movies heavy, Marshall, a guy men-
tioned in the rst Hangover who
had money stolen by Leslie Chow
(Ken Jeong).
Despicable Me 2 (July 3)
STARS: Steve Carell, Al Pacino, Kris-
ten Wiig
DIRECTORS: Pierre Cofn and Chris
Renaud
PLOT: In this animated sequel to the
2010 original, a former supervillain
with a heart of bronze, Gru (Carell),
is settling into home life with his
adopted children when hes recruited
to help foil a newbad guy (Pacino).
WHATS CLASSIC: For Carell, the
hardworking Minions sum up the
cartoon franchise as a whole: silly but
with a large amount of heart.
WHATS NEW: Not only does he have
a diferent foe, but Gru also struggles
with a change in status quo. His kids
are getting older, and they are inter-
ested in having a mom and having
Gru start to date and explore that
world, Carell says.
Red 2 (July 19)
STARS: Bruce Willis, John Malko-
vich, Helen Mirren
DIRECTOR: Dean Parisot
PLOT: Ex-CIA agent Frank Moses
(Willis) and his teamof retired assas-
sins and a roped-in customer-
service lady (Mary-Louise Parker)
hunt down a nuclear device.
WHATS CLASSIC: The old operatives
still have their mojo, Parker says.
They know whats coming. They
maybe just cant run as fast.
WHATS NEW: Anthony Hopkins is
on board, Parker says, and Catherine
Zeta-Jones is a former agent who has
a history with Frank. Shes the per-
fect femme fatale.
Kick-Ass 2 (Aug. 16)
STARS: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe
Grace Moretz, JimCarrey
DIRECTOR: JefWadlow
PLOT: The youngsters Kick-Ass (Tay-
lor-Johnson) and Hit-Girl (Moretz)
try to balance their school lives with
their moonlighting as superheroes.
WHATS CLASSIC: Fromthe foul lan-
guage to the violence, 2010s Kick-Ass
was the punk-rock version of conven-
tional superhero icks, and that aes-
thetic continues in the sequel.
WHATS NEW: Carrey is the most
high-prole addition to the cast, and
his hero, Colonel Stars and Stripes
with a cracked nose and thick
New York accent gave the movie
a boost, Taylor-Johnson says. He
brings the kookiness that Nic Cage
had in the rst one.
SUMMER MOVIE
PREVIEW
Get
your
claws
into . . .
ZADE ROSENTHAL, PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Zachary Quinto is Spock, with
Chris Pine starring as Kirk.
FRANK MASI, SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
Frank Moses (Bruce Willis)
leads killers out of retirement.
MELINDA SUE GORDON, WARNER BROS. PICTURES
Ed Helms, left, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galianakis hang out.
UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND ILLUMINATIONENTERTAINMENT
Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) has
a big talk with the little kids.
DISNEY/PIXAR
Say hello to Wazowski (voiced by
Billy Crystal), fellowmonsters.
DESPINA SPYROU, SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse
(Ethan Hawke) noware married.
GILES KEYTE, UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Vin Diesel goes fast and furious
after a gang in sixth installment.
Before Midnight (May 24)
STARS: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater
PLOT: Nine years passed between the
time Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Del-
py) spent a memorable night in Vien-
na in Before Sunrise and when they
meet again in France in Before Sun-
set. The new lm picks up with them
almost a decade later. Theyre mar-
ried with kids but have some drama
going on during a trip to Greece.
WHATS CLASSIC: Midnight main-
tains the mood and tone of the rst
two movies, Hawke says. Theyre all
chapters of the same novel.
WHATS NEW: While Sunrise and
Sunset were largely about romance
and the possibility of what could be,
we felt like to play that trick again
would be too much, Hawke says. It
was time to dive into real-life issues.
The Wolverine (July 26)
STARS: Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee,
Svetlana Khodchenkova
DIRECTOR: James Mangold
PLOT: The clawed member of the X-
Men is persuaded to go to Japan,
where he is presented with the possi-
bility of losing his fantastic anti-aging
healing factor.
WHATS CLASSIC: This is Jackmans
seventh movie and second solo
lm in 13 years of playing the role
of Wolverine. Theres not a day on
set where I feel like Ive completely
gotten to the bottomof who he is.
WHATS NEW: Mangold says, Its
really about the fortunes, the loves,
the losses and the issues of the char-
acters within the lm.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
It might take a glass of champagne
or two to get through The Big
Wedding.
The nuptials of this afuent blend-
ed family unlike any actual collec-
tion of humans on earth are hardly
a cause for celebration.
The cobbled-together
story is forced, formu-
laic and not believable.
Though the movies
contrivances are miti-
gated by a few laughs from Robin
Williams as a recovering alcoholic
priest and Robert De Niro as a randy
sculptor, most of the cast members
are playing versions of characters
theyve played before.
Diane Keaton is Ellie, the dafy,
adventurous ex-wife of Don (De Ni-
ro). Susan Sarandon is Bebe, Dons
dafy, adventurous girlfriend and
Ellies best friend.
Don and Ellie have three grown
children. The youngest, who was
adopted from Colombia, is getting
married. But the vows cant be made
without a lot of clumsily executed
and farcical shenanigans.
There are a few comic zingers
in the dialogue by writer/director
Justin Zackham (who wrote The
Bucket List), but the slapstick physi-
cal humor falls completely at.
The all-star cast may have simply
wanted to work together in scenic
surroundings. But its unclear why a
British actor, Ben Barnes, was cast to
play a Colombian and speak awkward
Spanish when there are plenty of
good Latino actors around.
Though most everyone rolls his
eyes about Don, the patriarch of the
successful but neurotic Grifn family,
they all get along remarkably well.
The women cant stop paying each
other compliments, and the kids ac-
cept Bebe as a de facto stepmom.
Those kids are Alejandro (Barnes),
the impending groom; Lyla (Kather-
ine Heigl), a lawyer who obsessively
checks her phone for messages from
the boyfriend she dumped; and Jared
(Topher Grace), a doctor and 30-
year-old virgin looking for love.
Now in his 20s, Alejandro was giv-
en up for adoption as a child in Col-
ombia by his mother, Madonna
(Patricia Rae), who wanted him to
have the best opportunities. But
when she shows up for the wedding,
she brings her 20-year-old daughter,
Nuria (Ana Ayora), who speaks per-
fect English and seems to have been
well-educated in her homeland.
In any event, Alejandro is now set
to marry Missy (Amanda Seyfried, in
a role thats essentially the exuberant
bride she played in Mamma Mia!).
Missys parents, Mufn (Christine
Ebersole) and Barry (David Rasche),
are social climbers who worry about
having beige children. These rac-
ists are referred to as good friends of
the super-liberal Grifns, though its
unlikely that could occur in the real
world. But then, little that happens
here bears resemblance to reality.
To make matters more far-fetched,
the ultra-religious Madonna doesnt
approve of divorce, so exes Don and
Ellie agree to pretend they are still
husband and wife. But Zackham
didnt even bother to keep the moth-
ers ultra-conservative character con-
sistent. One minute she sternly
insists on traditional values, the next
shes all hot, bothered and envious at
the sounds of noisy lovemaking.
The Big Wedding is a sloppy afair,
with only partially formed characters
and ridiculous scenarios that strain
credulity and patience.
STARS Robert De Niro, Diane
Keaton, Robin Williams, Susan
Sarandon, Amanda Seyfried,
Ben Barnes, Katherine Heigl,
Topher Grace
DIRECTOR Justin Zackham
DISTRIBUTOR Lionsgate
RATING R for language, sexual
content and brief nudity
RUNNING TIME 1 hour, 30 minutes
Opens today nationwide
THE BIG WEDDING eeEE
Why dont they forget The Big Wedding and just elope?
We wouldnt have to see
these bland characters
BARRY WETCHER, LIONSGATE
Don (Robert De Niro) and Ellie (Diane Keaton) pretend theyre still
married so as not to ofend their adopted sons religious birth mother.
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PUIG
DANIEL SMITH, UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Stars and Stripes (Jim
Carrey) teams with
Hit-Girl (Chloe
Grace Moretz).
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PENSIONE GUERRATO
VENICE, ITALY
This B&B run by two brothers is
decorated with antiques and curiosi-
ties theyve picked up around the
globe, particularly Bali. Theyve had
fun with this place. The common
rooms have all kinds of treasures,
Meyers says. Animal lovers will be
particularly pleased. Not only are
they pet-friendly, theyll give you a
5 euro discount if you bring your dog.
pensioneguerrato.it
B&B FASHION HOUSE
BARCELONA
The eight-room bed-and-breakfast
ofers a stylish retreat from the bus-
tle of Barcelona. Its in the residential
Eixample neighborhood and run by
charismatic Italian owners. This is
like living in somebodys house.
Theres a big, plant-lled veranda
where you can hang out and have a
bottle of Spanish red at night and feel
like youre removed from the city,
Meyers says. bcnfashionhouse.com
MICHELBERGER HOTEL
BERLIN
Ever-trendy Berlin has no shortage
of stylish hotels, but this one in the
former East Berlins Friedrichshain
neighborhood ofers both funky de-
sign and a busy scene with art exhib-
its and dance parties. Its a very cool,
kind of grungy and gritty area. It
wont feel like a standard business
hotel, Meyers says. Instead, expect a
postmodern experience with rough
concrete walls and eclectic design
throughout. michelbergerhotel.com
ANTICA DIMORA
FLORENCE, ITALY
In a historic, tourist-friendly city like
Florence, its hard to nd a stylish
budget hotel. This six-bedroom B&B
near the University of Florence of-
fers a hint of luxury, with four-poster
beds, original artwork and fresh ow-
ers. Its a beautiful place, its charm-
ing. It has a boutique vibe. We call
it a cheapo deluxe, Meyers says.
anticadimorarenze.it
PANTONE HOTEL
BRUSSELS
This hostelry, named for the color
identication system, is an homage
to design, with each oor decorated
in its own shade. Very modern, very
sleek and still very centrally located.
Its anything but dull, Meyers
says. Although rooms are small, they
have a modern feel. A public bike-
share rack just outside the door
makes it easy to get around town.
pantonehotel.com
GOLDMAN 25HOURS
FRANKFURT
As a business center, Frankfurt can
sometimes feel stufy, but this eccen-
tric hotel with rooms designed by
Frankfurt artists is fun. Rooms might
feature bold patterns and funky col-
lages. Its not for the faint of heart,
Meyers says. Its nice to nd a hotel
with a sense of humor in a city like
Frankfurt. 25hours-hotels.com
F6 DESIGN HOTEL
GENEVA
In a city lled with bureaucrats
and other business travelers, this
minimalist-chic hotel is a breath of
fresh air, Meyers says. Its decked
out in tangerine and lime colors.
Amenities include a TV room with
plexiglass stools, a gym and a sauna.
Unlike other cities, rates are often
lower on weekends, when business
travelers are gone. hotel-f6.ch/en
STYLOTEL
LONDON
This redesigned hotel has traded in
Londons all-too-familiar chintz for
a sleek, space-age look featuring
aluminum-covered walls and plenty
of metals in the design. You feel like
youre going to be beamed up to your
room, Meyers says. Plus, its location
minutes from Paddington Station
makes it easy to get to the airport
on the Heathrow Express train.
stylotel.com
HOTEL DESIGN DE LA SORBONNE
PARIS
While there are cheaper rooms in
Paris, this redesigned hotel across
from Sorbonne University ofers hip,
stylish rooms, each with its own Mac
computer. Its near the Luxembourg
Gardens and Notre Dame. Great lo-
cation, super-central, and its still a
small place with prices that have not
gone out of control, Meyers says.
Its really cute. They have impecca-
ble design. hotelsorbonne.com
LIVING LOUNGE HOSTEL
LISBON, PORTUGAL
While many of Europes youth hos-
tels have an impersonal, institutional
feel, this budget choice has style. Ev-
erythings been designed with air:
polka dots, bubbles. Its never bor-
ing, Meyers says. One common
room has a garden design, with fake
grass and a park bench. Another is
decorated with grafti. The place is
super-cool. lisbonloungehostel.com
Saving money in Europe doesnt mean sacrificing style, says TomMeyers, founder of EuroCheapo.com,
which spotlights independent budget hotels across the continent. The best budget boutique hotels incorpo-
rate some local design elements or the work of local artists, he says. Theyre unpredictable. Meyers shares
with Larry Bleiberg for USATODAYsome favorite spots whose rates are about 125 euros ($163) per night.
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SVENLAURENT
Color themes on each oor and
a central Brussels location give
the sleek Pantone Hotel vibrancy.
PENSIONEGUERRATO.IT
An Italian vacation gets some global air at Venices Pensione Guerrato, which is decorated with treasures fromthe owners world travels.
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5 Olive Garden staple
10 Two-stroke drumbeat
14 Serve the tea
15 John who was
Made in England
16 Ring Nebulas
constellation
17 Type of saxophone
18 Word with
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supervision
19 Hemingways
posthumous
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20 Get a bad situation
under control
23 Wails like a banshee
24 Fancy marble
25 Dole out, as duties
28 Attorneys assignment
30 Caucus group
31 Ghostbusters
goop
33 Bygone ostrich kin
36 Travolta comedy
40 Poes night
41 Rosy-cheeked
42 Native Peruvian
43 Fine cotton
44 Empty-___ (one whose
kids have left home)
46 Guesstimate word
49 Finishes in the money,
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51 Displays level-
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58 Security system part
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43 Club on the green
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temperature-wise
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around its neck
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stealer
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wood
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with a beachball
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TRAVEL
Add Crystal Cruises to the list of
lines cracking down on smokers.
The luxury operator announced
this week that it would ban smoking
in all indoor areas except for Con-
noisseur Club smoking lounges. Out-
side smoking would be limited to
designated spaces. The revised policy,
which will begin with the rst sail-
ings of 2014, eliminates smoking in
all cabins and nightclubs. Smoking
already is banned on cabin balconies
and in Crystal casinos.
Crystals changes come a year after
its rival luxury line, Silversea,
stamped out smoking in cabins. Oth-
er cruise lines that have nixed pufng
in cabins and most public areas in-
clude Carnival, Holland America,
Norwegian and Princess.
Gene Sloan
Crystal Cruises
clears the air
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The worlds largest Native Ameri-
can cultural event, celebrating its
30th anniversary this year, is expect-
ed to draw more than 100,000 spec-
tators to Albuquerque this weekend.
The Gathering of Nations Pow-
wow, which kicked of Thursday and
ends with the crowning of Miss Indi-
an World and dance competition
awards on Saturday night, showcases
Native American and indigenous cul-
ture with more than 700 tribes and
3,000 Native American singers and
dancers wearing traditional regalia.
In addition, more than 800 Native
American artisans and craftsmen will
be displaying and selling their work.
Events are held at the University
of New Mexico Arena. Tickets cost
$17 a day, $34 for a two-day pass, or
$50 for a two-day pass with VIP seat-
ing and can be purchased at the door.
Info: gatheringofnations.com
Laura Bly
30th Powwow
unites tribes
TODD KENT, GATHERINGOF NATIONS
More than 100,000 spectators are ex-
pected at Gathering of Nations Powwow.
LOUISVILLE California transplant-
turned-Kentucky Derby Museum
tour guide Olivia Nash, now in her
third year at the University of Louis-
ville, is an enthusiastic student of all
things Derby City including the
proper pronunciation of the towns
name. Its looavull, she instructs
visitors to storied Churchill Downs.
Like molasses in your mouth.
Of course, Nashs version is likely
to spark some amiable arguments
among her fellow residents. Reect-
ing the Ohio River citys melange of
Southern and Midwestern sensibil-
ities, interpretations range from
luhville to looeyville to the occa-
sional, usually frowned-upon lewis-
ville all of which show up on a
popular souvenir T-shirt.
But next Saturday, when millions
of worldwide fans raise their mint ju-
leps in a salute to the 139th Kentucky
Derby and what novelist John Stein-
beck called a race, an emotion, a tur-
bulence, an explosion one of the
most beautiful and violent and satis-
fying things I have ever experienced,
there will be no disagreement with
Nashs other Run for the Roses les-
son. The best part of the Derby, she
says, is that anything can change at
the drop of a (big and ouncy) hat.
And, like those greatest two min-
utes in sports, Louisville itself is full
of surprises from the countrys
largest collection of Victorian homes
and a museum dedicated to 21st-
century art (housed in a hip, 90-
roomhotel dubbed 21c Museum) to a
vibrant restaurant, theater and music
scene that helped propel the town
atop Lonely Planets 10 U.S. travel
destinations for 2013 list.
BEYOND CHICKEN AND WHISKEY
Louisville is the birthplace of the
hot brown (a curiously beloved,
open-faced sandwich of white bread,
turkey and bacon smothered in Mor-
nay sauce) and the home of KFC
founder Colonel Harland Sanders,
whose gravesite in Cave Hill Ceme-
tery still draws mourners bearing
buckets of drumsticks.
But these days, notes Louisville-
based writer and editor Zach Ever-
son, the landlocked citys status as a
UPS hub translates to just-of-the-
boat ceviche and a culinary-ob-
sessed culture that demands its food
be fresh, local and killed gently, and
honors its farmers by hanging their
portraits on restaurant walls. One of
the newest restaurant entrants, Milk-
Wood, ofers whats described as
comfort bar food with an Asian pan-
try. Located at the Actors Theatre of
Louisville, its name pays homage to
Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood a
play that reminds MilkWoods celeb-
rity chef, Edward Lee, of his adopted
home in its portrayal of what Lee
calls an authentically one-of-a-kind
community, rich in history but also
looking toward the future.
In such neighborhoods as up-and-
coming NuLu (New Louisville, a
seven-block stretch of East Market
Street) and the Highlands (which
both U.S. Senate Republican leader
Mitch McConnell and late gonzo
journalist Hunter S. Thompson have
called home), visitors can nd every-
thing from vinyl records and hand-
blown glass jewelry to candles and
candy fashioned from the states sig-
nature spirit.
Louisville produces an estimated
third of Kentuckys bourbon, and the
citys 5-year-old Urban Bourbon
Trail lists 19 establishments where
Mad Men-esque cocktails reign su-
preme. Though its not yet on the
trail, a favorite of BourbonBlog.com
founder Tom Fischer is Majids St.
Matthews. Here, regulars belly up to
the bar for tobacco Manhattans
crafted from Larceny bourbon in-
fused with, yes, cherry pipe tobacco.
HATS OFF TO SPRING FASHION
If bourbon is one constant in an
evolving Louisville, Derby hats are
another. From March through Derby
Day on May 4, brightly hued cha-
peaus sprout like exotic spring ow-
ers in shop windows across the city
and resisting the charms of a feather-
and-lace fascinator is futile.
Just ask Louisvillian Stephanie
Benson, who has ducked into the
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
on a break between business
meetings.
Benson has never attended the
citys most famous race, though she
has been to the Kentucky Oaks, a
llies-only contest held the Friday
before the Derby. And as the owner
of more than a dozen Derby-worthy
hats already, she doesnt really need
that $1,200 number with the hot
pink, umbrella-sized brim.
But a hometown gal (and her out-
of-town admirer) can always dream.
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Mine That Bird, with Calvin Borel at the reins,
wins the 135th Kentucky Derby at Churchill
Downs. Crowds will ll the stands next Saturday
for the greatest two minutes in sports.
At Derby time, Louisvilles
hospitality hits its stride
The 139th horse race is the focus but
food, drink and fashion are sure bets
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left, and
Stephanie
Benson admire
a $1,200
Derby hat at
the Kentucky
Museumof
Art and Craft.
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Bourbons Bistro on the Urban
Bourbon Trail serves more than
130 diferent bourbons.
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Take another lap around the track
with a photo tour of Louisville.
LAURA BLY, USA TODAY
A likeness of KFCs Colonel Har-
land Sanders greets visitors at
Why Louisville on Market Street.
The worlds most famous Thor-
oughbred race draws an estimated
160,000 spectators for the initial
installment of the Triple Crown
the rst Saturday in May, and the
80,000 or so revelers who cram
into Churchill Downs raucous
ineld do not bring your chil-
dren, tour guide Olivia Nash
warns with a wink temporarily
transformit into Kentuckys third-
largest city.
It may be too late to nab a bar-
gain airfare, but because Louisville
is within a days drive of an esti-
mated two-thirds of the U.S. popu-
lation, a last-minute Derby trip is
still doable. Some winning tips:
BOOK ACROSS THE RIVER. Most
in-town hotels are booked solid,
even at three times their normal
rates. But look across the Ohio
River in such nearby Indiana
towns as Jefersonville and artsy
NewAlbany, dubbed the Brooklyn
of Louisville, or call 888-568-4784
for current availability. Or check
for home rentals on such sites
as Airbnb.com, HomeAway.com
and locally owned KentuckyDerby
HomeRental.com.
GET THERE EARLY. Gates open at
8 a.m. for general admission,
standing-room-only ineld tickets
at $40 per person. As of this week,
reserved Derby grandstand seats
were still available in a new Sec-
tion 110 venue for $499 or $550
per person, including food and
drinks. Note: Enhanced security
after the Boston bombings will
mean more wanding at the gates
and a longer list of banned items.
CANT MAKE IT ON DERBY DAY?
Racing season runs Saturday to
June 30, Oct. 27 to Nov. 30, and,
new in 2013, Sept. 6 to 29. Dawn
at the Downs (Tuesday-May 2)
lets visitors enjoy breakfast in
Millionaires Row while watching
Kentucky Derby contenders dur-
ing morning workouts.
GET CULTURED. The adjacent Ken-
tucky Derby Museumis open year-
round and features photos, lms,
exhibits (dont miss Anna Nicole
Smiths and Cyndi Laupers strik-
ing Derby garb) and guided tours.
Info: Churchilldowns.com;
DerbyMuseum.org; GotoLouisville.com
Travel tips to get you on track
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ION House. (HD) (TV14) House. (HD) (TV14) Psych. (HD) (TVPG) Psych. (HD) (TVPG)
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AMC The Italian Job. eee(PG-13) (AL, V) The Sentinel. ee(2006) (HD)
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BET Daddys Little Girls. ee(From 7:00) Friday After Next. eWith Ice Cube. (2002) Beauty.
Bravo Married to Medicine. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. ee(Starts 9:15) (2003) How Lose.
Cartoon Shrek. eee(From 7:00) Venture. Family Guy. Family Guy. Cleveland. Dynamite. Boondocks.
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Comedy Dinner. Jeff Dunham: Minding. Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy. (N) (TV14) Dumb & Dumber. ee
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Disney Monsters, Inc.. eee(2001) (G) (HD) Jessie. Austin. Austin. Austin. Austin.
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Lifetime Movie Another Mans Wife. (2011) (NR) (TV14) (HD) Lies and Deception. ee(2005) (NR) (HD)
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Comedy Dumb & Dumber. ee Amy Schumer. Tosh.0. Futurama. Futurama. Futurama.
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DisXD Buttowski. Buttowski. Ninja. Max Steel. Slug Terra. Suite Life. Suite Life. Suite Life.
E! The 40-Year-Old Virgin. eee(From 7:00) (2005) What-Ryan. Jonas. What-Ryan. Jonas.
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Food Cupcake Wars. (N) (HD) Chopped. (N) (HD) Restaurant: Impossible. Iron Chef America. (HD)
FX Iron Man. (From 5:46) Iron Man 2. ee(Starts 8:51) With Robert Downey Jr. (2010) Iron Man 2.
Gala Los Tres Alegres Compadres. With Jorge Negrete. (1951) (NR) Vecinos. Accin La Jugada
GSN Are You Smarter. Are You Smarter. Newlywed. Newlywed. Newlywed. Newlywed.
Hallmark Remember Sunday. (2013) Remember Sunday. (2013) (NR) (TVPG) (HD) Frasier. Frasier.
HBO Safe House. (From 7:00) Game of Thrones. (N) Veep. (N) VICE. Game of Thrones.
HGTV Extreme Homes. (TVG) You Live in What? (TVG) House Hunters. Hawaii Life. Hawaii Life.
History Ax Men. (HD) (TV14) Ax Men. (N) (HD) (TV14) Vikings. (HD) (TV14) Vikings. (HD) (TV14)
ID Dateline on ID. (TV14) Dateline on ID. (N) (TV14) Unusual Suspects. (TV14) Dateline on ID. (TV14)
IFC Lethal Weapon 3. eeeWith Mel Gibson. (1992) (HD) Lethal Weapon 4. ee(1998) (HD)
Lifetime Obsessed. e(From 7:00) Army Wives. (N) (TVPG) The Client List. (N) (TV14) Obsessed. (Starts 11:01)
Lifetime Movie The Hunt for the I-5 Killer. (2011) (NR) (TV14) (HD) The Familiar Stranger. e(2001) (TVPG) (HD)
Movie Channel War Horse. eee(2011) (PG-13) (AS, V) The Deer Hunter. eeee(1978)
MTV Teen Mom 2. (TVPG) Teen Mom 2. (HD) (TVPG) Girl Code. Awkward.. Awkward..
Nat. Geo. Wicked Tuna. (TV14) Wicked Tuna. (N) (HD) Brain. Brain. Wicked Tuna. (HD)
Nick See Dad. Wendell. Free Willy. eeeWith Jason James Richter. (1993) (HD) Friends.
OWN Oprahs Lifeclass. (TVPG) Oprahs Lifeclass. (N) Oprah: Where Now? Oprahs Lifeclass. (TVPG)
Oxygen Snapped. (TVPG) Snapped. (N) (TVPG) Snapped. (TVPG) Snapped. (TVPG)
Science They Do It? They Do It? They Do It? They Do It? They Do It? They Do It? They Do It? They Do It?
Showtime The Borgias. Nurse Jack. Nurse Jack. Nurse Jack. The Borgias. (N) (HD) The Borgias. (HD)
Spike National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Underworld. eeWith Kate Beckinsale. (2003) (HD)
Starz Da Vincis Demons. Total Recall. eeWith Colin Farrell. (2012) Da Vincis Demons.
Sundance Rectify. Adjusting to life outside of prison. (TV14) Adaptation. eeeWith Nicolas Cage. (2002)
Syfy Resident Evil: Afterlife. e The Scorpion King. eeWith The Rock. (2002) V for Vendetta. eee
TBS Bruce Almighty. eeWith Jim Carrey. (2003) Bruce Almighty. eeWith Jim Carrey. (2003)
TCM They Live by Night. eee(1949) (NR) You Only Live Once. (Starts 9:45) (NR) Fonda on Fonda.
TLC American Gypsy Wedding. American Gypsy Wedding. Welcome to Myrtle Manor. American Gypsy Wedding.
TNT NBA Basketball: Spurs at Lakers NBA Basketball: Denver Nuggets at Golden State Warriors. (N)
Travel Trip Flip. (N) Waterparks. Doomsday on Wheels. (N) Extreme Survival Bunkers. Mud People. (TVPG)
TruTV Pawn. Pawn. Pawn. Pawn. Pawn. Pawn. Pawn. Pawn.
TV Land Gold Girls. Gold Girls. Raymond. Raymond. Raymond. Raymond. Raymond. King.
USA Law & Order: SVU. Law & Order: SVU. Law & Order: SVU. Bad Boys. eee(1995)
VH1 The Women of SNL. Im Married to A ... (TV14) Im Married to A ... (TV14) Im Married to A ... (TV14)
WE CSI: Miami. (TV14) CSI: Miami. (TV14) CSI: Miami. (TVPG) CSI: Miami. (TV14)
WGNAmerica How I Met. How I Met. How I Met. How I Met. News/Nine. Replay 30 Rock. 30 Rock.
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ESPN2 SportsCenter Special. (N) 30 for 30. (HD) 30 for 30. (HD)
ESPNU College Baseball: Tar Heels at Wolfpack. 30 for 30. (HD)
Golf PGA Tour Golf: Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Final Round. (HD) Golf Central.
NBA NBA GameTime. (N) (HD) NBA GameTime. (N) (HD)
NBCSports Heads-Up Poker. (TVPG) Heads-Up Poker. (TVPG) Heads-Up Poker. (TVPG) Heads-Up Poker. (TVPG)
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