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SUPER BOWL LIII: RAMS VS. PATRIOTS

LET THE SHOW BEGIN

TERRY PIERSON — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald was chosen Saturday as the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year after recording 20.5sacks, two short of the league’s single-season record.

Donald is named top The Patriots can’t rely

defensive player for on old plans to beat
second straight year McVay’s Rams
By Rich Hammond
Seventeen years ago, an upstart under-
rhammond@scng.com
dog led by a second-year head coach and
@Rich_Hammond on Twitter a young quarterback upset one of the
NFL’s juggernauts in the Super Bowl.
ATLANTA» Aaron Donald smiled and gig- It was a league-altering
gled this week, a departure from his yes-sir, moment, one that flipped
no-sir nature. Donald is all business, but the fortunes of both teams,
when business got done, Donald seemed and it gave rise to a defen-
to exhale. Opposing quarterbacks did not. sive strategy that would be
As recently as last August, nobody found emulated but never quite
humor in Donald’s situation. He didn’t matched by anyone else on
have the a new contract and the Rams the NFL’s biggest stage. Ryan
Kartje
didn’t have their star defensive lineman Few gave the Patriots
Columnist
in training camp because of that year-long and their young quarter-
dispute. Now, Donald is a millionaire, 135 back, Tom Brady, a chance
times over, and the Rams are in the Su- that night. They had no-
per Bowl. HARRY HARRIS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS where near the firepower of their oppo-
The odyssey ends today at Mercedes- Quarterback Roman Gabriel twice got the Los Angeles Rams into the playoffs,
playoffs nent, the Greatest Show on Turf Rams,
Benz Stadium, where the Rams will play in 1967and 1969, when they eventually seized up in frigid temperatures. who boasted a league MVP in Kurt War-
New England for the Vince Lombardi Tro- ner at quarterback and a fleet of weap-
phy. Donald earned more hardware Satur- ons previously unmatched in the NFL.
day night, when he won the NFL’s Asso-
ciated Press Defensive Player of the Year
Gabriel, the last great Los Angeles Rams So Patriots coach Bill Belichick devised a
plan to take away the Rams’ most impor-
award for a second consecutive year.
“It would be good,” Donald plainly said
quarterback, stands tall in franchise lore tant offensive player at any cost. If the
KARTJE » PAGE 3
this week, when asked what he thought of
potentially winning again. ATLANTA » He took an MVP award back
Donald didn’t attend the NFL awards home from Los Angeles, and a reputation
ceremony, because the Rams’ attention, for uncomplaining patience.
not to mention curfew time, got solely di- He took the aftereffects of “four or
rected to Patriots, but the next time he five” concussions, which,
cares about a personal achievement will the doctors say, caused a
be the first. stroke a few years ago.
He’s the third player to ever win defen- RAMS VS. PATRIOTS “There were three types
sive MVP honor in consecutive years? Sure. Today, 3:30p.m., of concussions,” he said. “It
He recorded 20.5 sacks this season, two Ch. 2, at Atlanta was a 1, 2 or a 3, depending
short of the NFL’s single-season record? on how many Excedrins you
OK. The league MVP chatter? Whatever. needed. Three Excedrins Mark
Notes: Today may Whicker
During a dizzying week of media, Donald and you might miss a game.”
be the last game for Columnist
deflected questions about himself. He only He took away arthri-
cared about the Super Bowl. Joyner with Rams. PAGE 4 tis that lives inside his hip,
“This is what I dreamed about,” Don- Capsule: Get an in-depth both knees and both shoulders.
ald said. “This is what I worked for. This is look at both teams before Today, Roman Gabriel takes acupunc-
what you train for, is to play in big games kickoff. PAGE 5 ture and consumes turmeric, which he
like this and have the opportunity to play Predictions: Read what swears by. He religiously visits his gym KEITH BIRMINGHAM — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
for a world championship. There was a lot our experts have to say in Little River, S.C. Rams coach Sean McVay is bringing his
RAMS » PAGE 4 about the game. PAGE 5 WHICKER » PAGE 4 new-look team to the Super Bowl today.

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HIGH SCHOOLS
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GIRLS WATER POLO
San Juan Hills water polo team is seeded No. 2 to Valley View for the Division 5 playoffs.
San Juan Hills, Buena Park
and Katella spice up pairings
By Dan Albano
dalbano@scng.com
@ocvarsityguy on Twitter
A logjam atop one of the
toughest leagues in Orange
County didn’t alter the an-
ticipated selections Satur-
day for the CIF-SS Division
1 girls water polo playoffs.
The eye-popping excite-
ment from the release of
the postseason pairings in-
stead came from three fresh-
faced contenders in other di-
visions.
San Juan Hills in Divi-
sion 5, Buena Park in Divi-
sion 6 and Katella in Divi-
sion 7 earned their highest
seedings in school history,
combining for two No. 1s
and a No. 2 for three dif-
ferent leagues and a trio of
school districts.
Sea View League cham-
pion San Juan Hills claimed
the No. 2 seed behind Val-
ley View of Moreno Valley
while the Freeway League’s
Buena Park and the Orange
League’s Katella took No. 1
seeds.
“We couldn’t remember
any team from Buena Park
that has been ranked No. 1 in
CIF,” said Ted Clark, Buena
Park’s veteran coach who as-
sisting coach Shane LaFor-
Odds
PREGAME.COM LINE
NBA
Favorite Line (O/U)
at Toronto 10 (229 1/2)
at New York OFF (OFF)
at Boston 3 (227)
College Basketball
Favorite Line
at Clemson 14 1/2
at Purdue 12 1/2
at Villanova 11 1/2
at Creighton 6 Xavier
at IUPUI PK
at UConn 13
Stanford 5 at Cal
N. Kentucky 4 1/2
NHL
Favorite Line
at Washington -116/+106
at Montreal -160/+150
Calgary -114/+104
NFL
Super Bowl
Favorite Line (O/U)
New England 2 1/2 (56 1/2)
Tennis
WTA-ST. PETERSBURG LADIES
TROPHY
At Sibur Arena
St. Petersburg, Russia
Purse: $823,000
Surface: Hard-Indoor
Singles
Semifinals
Kiki Bertens (2), Netherlands, def.
Aryna Sabalenka (4), Belarus, 7-6 (5),
6-2. Donna Vekic (8), Croatia, def. Vera
Zvonareva, Russia, 6-2, 6-2.
WTA-TOYOTA THAILAND OPEN
At True Arena Hua Hin
Hua Hin, Thailand
Purse: $226,750
Surface: Hard-Indoor
Singles
Semifinals
Ajla Tomljanovic (6), Australia, def.
Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, 6-4, 6-1.
Dayana Yastremska (8), Ukraine, def.
Magda Linette, Poland, 6-4, 6-3.
Transactions
FOOTBALL
National Football League
Buffalo Bills: Promoted Chad Hall to
wide receivers coach. Named Ken
Dorsey quarterbacks coach.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NHL: Fined Ottawa F Zack Smith and
Tampa Bay F Nikita Kucherov $5,000
each for rough play during separate
games on Feb. 1.
Buffalo Sabres: Placed F Remi Elie on
waivers.
Calgary Flames: Recalled D Rinat Valiev
from Stockton (AHL).
Toronto Maple Leafs: Placed D Martin
Marincin on waivers.
American Hockey League
AHL: Suspended Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
F Jean-Sebastien Dea two games for
his actions in a Feb. 1 game against
Cleveland.
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER » OCREGISTER.COM SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019
SOCCER
JSerra girls, Fullerton
boys receive No. 1 seeds
Staff report undefeated (15-0-3) and vision 7) received No. 1
won the Trinity League ti-
seeds in their divisions
Two Orange County girls tle last week with a score-
for the CIF-SS playoffs
soccer teams — JSerra and less draw against Santa that start Tuesday with
Costa Mesa — received the Margarita (9-4-8). wild-card games in some
No. 1 seed for their divi- The Division 1 bracketdivisions.
sions of the CIF Southern includes Los Alamitos (21- The boys playoff sched-
PHOTO COURTESY OF SAN JUAN HILLS WATER POLO
Section playoffs. 0-5), which is the No. 2 seed
ule has first-round games
The playoff pairings, and Surf League cham- on T hursday, second-
which were released Sat- pion, and Villa Park (17-1-
round games on Saturday
urday, had JSerra as the 1), the No. 4 seed and the
and then the quarterfinals
top seed in Division 1 and
Costa Mesa at No. 1 in Di-
vision 5.
North Hills League cham- on Feb. 13, semifinals on
pion. Upland (18-1-0) is the
No. 3 seed in Division 1.
Feb. 16 and championship
matches on Feb. 22-23.
The girls soccer playoffs
begin Monday with wild-
card games in some of the
divisions. For all of the di-
Costa Mesa (15-2-4),
which won the Orange
in the Division 5 bracket
Fullerton is 18-2-2 and
won the Freeway League
Coast League title, is joined
title.
Servite (13-2-7), which
tune. Buena Park features eight visions first-round games by Los Amigos (14-3-1), won the Trinity League
San Juan Hills (20-4) seniors and plenty of expe- are Wednesday and sec- the No. 3 seed and Gardentitle, is the No. 4 seed in
missed being playoff eligi- rience in tough games. The ond-round games Friday, Grove League champs. Division 1.
ble last season by one vic- Coyotes lost to La Habra in followed by the quarterfi- Also receiving top-four In Division 2, the No. 3
tory but stormed to its first the third-place game in the nals on Feb. 12, semifinals seeds were Sunny Hills (21-
seed is Santa Ana Valley
league crown under fourth- Freeway League tournament on Feb. 16 and champion- 1-4), No. 2 seed in Division
(16-3-3), which won the
year coach Ivan Buich. but beat the Highlanders ship games Feb. 22-23. 2, and St. Margaret’s (16-1-
Orange League title, and
“Lots of hard work,” said earlier in league and played JSerra, which features 4), No. 2 seed in Division 4.
the No. 4 seed is Godinez
Buich, who guided the San powers Sunny Hills and Troy last year’s Gatorade na- (15-2-2), the Golden West
Juan Hills boys to a CIF-SS close. tional player of the year Boys soccer League champion.
Division 5 runner-up finish The team is led by Isabella D’Aquila, is the Tustin (18-2-2), the Em-
in 2016. goalie Vanesa Navarrete defending champion in Fullerton (Division 3) pire League champs, is the
Buich has molded a team and center Rawzan Castel- Division 1. The Lions are and Fairmont Prep (Di- No. 2 seed in Division 4.
led by seniors Lacey Hall and lon, both seniors.
Caroline McClaskey and ju- “(LaFortune) has done a
nior Kimora Farry with great job,” said Clark, whose BOYS BASKETBALL
some impact freshmen, in- school will be building a new
cluding goalie Sarah McClas-
key, Ruby Hodge and Bailey
45-meter pool.
The eight selections for Mater Dei among eight teams
in Open Division for playoffs
VanBlarcom. Division 1 were, in order:
Katella (19-7) engineered top-ranked Laguna Beach
its a turnaround under sec- (26-1), Orange Lutheran, Dos
ond-year coach OJ Vazquez. Pueblos, Foothill, San Mar-
The Knights finished 3-15 in cos, Corona del Mar, New- By Steve Fryer
yon of Chatsworth; and St. divisions will be released
2017 but edged Santa Ana port Harbor and Mater Dei. sfryer@scng.com
John Bosco. today.
Valley this winter for the Or- The group’s order matched @SteveFryer on Twitter Mater Dei won the Open At end of the pool play,
ange League title. Katella re- the rankings entering the Division championship last the winners of each pool
turns to the playoffs for the week and not the three-way Mater Dei was among season. will advance to the Open
first time since 2011. tie atop the Trinity League. the eight teams selected to The Open Division this Division championship at
“It’s been really exciting to Santa Margarita finished the CIF Southern Section’s season is being played as Cal Baptist University on
see these girls grow and ex- tied for first with Orange elite Open Division for the a pool play format. Pool Feb. 23.
cel,” said Vazquez, a former Lutheran and Mater Dei boys basketball playoffs. A will consist of seeded Wild-card round games
assistant at Mater Dei and and won a card draw for the The eight-team field: teams No. 1, 4, 5, 8 and Pool are Wednesday in divisions
Katella product. league’s top seed but wasn’t Bishop Montgomery of B will consist of teams No. that need the games. First-
Katella has leaned on selected for Division 1. The Torrance; Centennial of 2, 3, 6 and 7. round games are Friday.
seniors Raquel Enriquez Eagles claimed the No. 1 seed Corona; Etiwanda; Mater Boys basketball pool All Open Division teams
(goalie), center Chantal Diaz, in Division 2, one spot ahead Dei; Rancho Christian of play pairings for the Open receive placement in the
defender Rosa Zamora and of South Coast League cham- Temecula; Rancho Verde of Division and brackets for CIF State basketball tour-
attacker Berenice Rumbo. pion San Clemente. Moreno Valley; Sierra Can- the nine 32-team playoff nament.
Golf College basketball NFL
Youngstown St. 72, Detroit 70 Wagner 71, LIU Brooklyn 59
PGA TOUR-WASTE MEN Alcorn St. 76, Southern U. 64 West Virginia 79, Oklahoma 71 MVP WINNERS
MANAGEMENT PHOENIX OPEN Appalachian St. 85, Louisiana-Monroe 84 Yale 89, Dartmouth 68
TOP 25 Auburn 84, Alabama 63 The NFL Most Valuable Players named
At TPC Scottsdale
Austin Peay 74, Jacksonville St. 71
by The Associated Press in balloting by a
No. 1 Tennessee 93, Texas A&M 76 WOMEN
Scottsdale, Ariz. nationwide panel of the media:
Underdog No. 2 Duke 91, St. John’s 61 Belmont 82, UT Martin 67
Purse: $7.1 million 2018 — Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City,
No. 3 Virginia 56, Miami 46 Bethune-Cookman 74, NC Central 64
Clippers Yardage: 7,261; Par: 71 TOP 25 QB
No. 4 Gonzaga 85, San Diego 69 Campbell 83, Longwood 62
Third Round No. 1 Baylor 96, Texas Tech 37 2017 — Tom Brady, New England, QB
Memphis Indiana 79, No. 6 Michigan St. 75, OT Charleston Southern 90, SC-Upstate 71
No. 2 UConn 65, Cincinnai 55 2016 — Matt Ryan, Atlanta, QB
Oklahoma City Rickie Fowler ................. 64-65-64—193 -20 No. 7 Kentucky 65, Florida 54 Coastal Carolina 96, Lou.-Lafayette 79
Matt Kuchar ....................67-65-65—197 -16 No. 3 Louisville 76, Clemson 44 2015 — Cam Newton, Carolina, QB
No. 8 Nevada 93, Boise St. 73 Coll. of Charleston 54, Towson 53
Justin Thomas ............... 64-66-68—198 -15 Coppin St. 73, Morgan St. 71 No. 8 Stanford 75, Cal 50 2014 — Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay, QB
No. 9 No. Carolina 79, No. 15 Louisville 69
Byeong Hun An .............. 66-68-66—200 -13 No. 11 Kansas 79, No. 16 Texas Tech 63 Drexel 67, Elon 63 No. 12 Texas 76, Oklahoma 67 2013 — Peyton Manning, Denver, QB
Underdog Branden Grace ...............67-64-69—200 -13 ETSU 77, Chattanooga 64 No. 15 Gonzaga 66, Saint Mary’s 52 2012 — Adrian Peterson, Minnesota, RB
No. 12 Virginia Tech 47, No. 23 N.C. State 24
Gary Woodland...............68-67-66—201 -12 FIU 75, Louisiana Tech 69 No. 23 Iowa St. 81, Kansas St. 52 2011 — Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay, QB
Wake Forest Arkansas 90, No. 19 LSU 89
Bubba Watson ................66-67-68—201 -12 Pepperdine 79, No. 25 BYU 65 2010 — Tom Brady, New England, QB
No. 20 Iowa St. 65, Texas 60 Florida A&M 63, NC A&T 39
Minnesota Harold Varner III ............ 64-71-68—203 -10
No. 22 Mississippi St. 81, Mississippi 75 Florida Gulf Coast 73, Jacksonville 60 OTHER MAJOR SCORES 2009 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis,
Georgetown Martin Laird ....................65-68-70—203 -10
No. 25 Florida St. 59, Georgia Tech 49 Furman 74, Mercer 63 QB
Trey Mullinax .................. 67-64-72—203 -10 Boise St. 80, Nevada 65
Gardner-Webb 82, UNC-Asheville 81, OT 2008 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis,
Cameron Smith .............. 67-65-71—203 -10 OTHER MAJOR SCORES CS Bakersfield 59, Grand Canyon 46
Wright St Jason Kokrak ................... 73-66-65—204 -9 Georgia St. 81, Georgia Southern 72 QB
USC 93, Washington St. 84 Grambling St. 79, Ark.-Pine Bluff 55 California Baptist 100, Seattle 83 2007 — Tom Brady, New England, QB
E. Carolina Chris Stroud ......................71-66-67—204 -9
Washington 69, UCLA 55 High Point 85, Hampton 69 Colorado St. 55, Air Force 48 2006 — LaDainian Tomlinson, San Diego,
Sungjae Im ....................... 69-68-67—204 -9
Chez Reavie...................... 71-69-64—204 -9 BYU 67, Loyola Marymount 49 Jackson St. 61, MVSU 57 E. Washington 64, N. Arizona 62 RB
at Ill.-Chicago Charley Hoffman............. 66-68-70—204 -9 CS Northridge 83, Cal Poly 65 Idaho 82, S. Utah 70 2005 — Shaun Alexander, Seattle, RB
James Madison 104, UNC-Wilmington 95
Tom Hoge.......................... 67-68-69—204 -9 California Baptist 75, Seattle 64 La Salle 66, Richmond 58 Idaho St. 58, Portland St. 57 2004 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis,
J.B. Holmes ....................... 69-68-68—205 -8 Colorado 73, Oregon 51 Long Beach St. 59, Cal St.-Fullerton 53 QB
Lamar 84, McNeese St. 75
Jhonattan Vegas ............. 70-69-66—205 -8 Colorado St. 85, Air Force 53 Liberty 77, NJIT 57 Loyola Marymount 83, San Diego 57 2003 — Peyton Manning, Indianapolis,
Underdog
Brandon Harkins ............. 70-66-69—205 -8 E. Washington 82, S. Utah 79 Montana St. 74, Montana 52 and Steve McNair, Tennessee, QBs
Lipscomb 102, North Alabama 80
Boston Denny McCarthy ..............69-65-71—205 -8 Fresno St. 82, New Mexico 70 New Mexico 82, Fresno St. 73
Middle Tennessee 79, UAB 78 2002 — Rich Gannon, Oakland, QB
Ollie Schniederjans ........ 67-69-69—205 -8 Grand Canyon 72, CS Bakersfield 59 Pacific 87, Portland 77
Edmonton Murray St. 67, Tennessee Tech 63 2001 — Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
Nick Watney ..................... 67-69-69—205 -8 Sacramento St. 77, Weber St. 62
at Carolina Idaho St. 69, Portland St. 67 New Orleans 89, Incarnate Word 72 2000 — Marshall Faulk, St. Louis, RB
Russell Henley ................. 68-68-69—205 -8 San Diego St. 69, San Jose St. 68
Montana 83, Montana St. 78 Norfolk St. 80, Howard 78 1999 — Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
Jon Rahm ...........................67-68-70—205 -8
N. Arizona 86, Idaho 73 North Texas 73, Charlotte 66 San Francisco 57, Santa Clara 49
Xander Schauffele ........... 67-72-67—206 -7 1998 — Terrell Davis, Denver, RB
Russell Knox......................71-66-69—206 -7 New Mexico St. 83, Chicago St. 39 Old Dominion 80, Rice 76 UC Davis 70, CS Northridge 54
1997 — Brett Favre, Green Bay, QB, and
Hideki Matsuyama.......... 68-69-69—206 -7 Oregon St. 81, Utah 72 Radford 80, Winthrop 61 UC Riverside 73, UC Santa Barbara 60
Barry Sanders, Detroit, RB
Underdog Bud Cauley ........................68-72-66—206 -7 Pacific 66, Pepperdine 59 SE Louisiana 91, Nicholls 70 UNLV 77, Utah St. 56
1996 — Brett Favre, Green Bay, QB
Webb Simpson.................. 67-69-70—206 -7 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 86, San Francisco 80 Samford 92, W. Carolina 81 Alabama St. 58, Texas Southern 51
Rams 1995 — Brett Favre, Green Bay, QB
Chesson Hadley................ 71-65-70—206 -7 San Diego St. 67, San Jose St. 56 South Alabama 81, Troy 75 Houston 69, SMU 68
1994 — Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
David Hearn ...................... 67-68-71—206 -7 Santa Clara 69, Portland 63, OT South Carolina 86, Georgia 80 Marshall 79, UTSA 72
Hunter Mahan.................. 70-68-69—207 -6 UC Davis 84, UC Riverside 71 South Florida 84, Memphis 78 North Texas 68, Charlotte 63 1993 — Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB
1992 — Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
Zach Johnson ....................71-67-69—207 -6 UC Irvine 82, Long Beach St. 80 Rice 48, Old Dominion 42
Southern Miss. 74, FAU 72
J.T. Poston .........................65-74-68—207 -6 Utah St. 82, UNLV 65 Cent. Michigan 76, Buffalo 65 1991 — Thurman Thomas, Buffalo, RB
Tyrrell Hatton ................... 66-71-70—207 -6 Stetson 92, Kennesaw St. 75
Weber St. 75, Sacramento St. 65 Kent St. 73, Akron 58 1990 — Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
Emiliano Grillo .................. 67-73-67—207 -6 Temple 75, Tulane 67
Arkansas St. 84, UALR 83 Miami (Ohio) 81, W. Michigan 62 1989 — Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
Danny Lee ..........................72-68-67—207 -6 Tennessee St. 79, SE Missouri 50
Baylor 90, TCU 64 UTSA 116, Marshall 106, OT New Mexico St. 87, Chicago St. 66 1988 — Boomer Esiason, Cincinnati, QB
Jimmy Walker .................. 72-69-66—207 -6
Houston Baptist 73, Texas A&M-CC 72 VCU 79, George Mason 63 Ohio 94, Ball St. 62 1987 — John Elway, Denver, QB
Beau Hossler .....................70-71-66—207 -6
Carlos Ortiz .......................70-68-70—208 -5 Kansas St. 75, Oklahoma St. 57 W. Kentucky 76, UTEP 59 South Dakota 71, Purdue Fort Wayne 49 1986 — Lawrence Taylor, New York
Adam Hadwin ...................72-67-69—208 -5 Northwestern St. 80, Cent. Arkansas 75 William & Mary 84, Delaware 63 Temple 65, Wichita St. 40 Giants, LB
1985 — Marcus Allen, Los Angeles
Kevin Streelman ............... 71-67-70—208 -5 Prairie View 81, Alabama A&M 65 Wofford 99, The Citadel 61 Toledo 76, Bowling Green 56
Scott Piercy ...................... 66-71-71—208 -5 Wright St. 66, IUPUI 59 Raiders, RB
Purdue Fort Wayne 82, Oral Roberts 81 Albany (NY) 64, Binghamton 50
Max Homa .........................70-68-71—209 -4 Sam Houston St. 94, Stephen F. Austin 72 American U. 66, Holy Cross 49 Appalachian St. 80, Louisiana-Monroe 58 1984 — Dan Marino, Miami, QB
Stewart Cink .....................69-70-70—209 -4 Texas Southern 83, Alabama St. 59 Boston U. 76, Colgate 68 East Carolina 63, Tulane 61 1983 — Joe Theismann, Washington, QB
Matthew Wolff ................. 67-70-72—209 -4 Texas-Arlington 84, Texas State 77, 2OT Jacksonville St. 67, Austin Peay 56 1982 — Mark Moseley, Washington, PK
Bucknell 94, Lafayette 66
Kevin Kisner ......................70-69-70—209 -4 Akron 65, Ohio 53 Louisiana Tech 90, FIU 72 1981 — Ken Anderson, Cincinnati, QB
CCSU 64, Bryant 59
John Huh ............................67-73-69—209 -4 Memphis 59, Tulsa 56
Butler 70, Seton Hall 68 Fairfield 57, Marist 52 1980 — Brian Sipe, Cleveland, QB
Andrew Landry .................67-68-74—209 -4
Cent. Michigan 85, W. Michigan 64 Fairleigh Dickinson 97, Mercer 75, Furman 60 1979 — Earl Campbell, Houston, RB
John Catlin.........................70-71-68—209 -4
Cincinnati 73, SMU 68 Robert Morris 94, 2OT Middle Tennessee 60, UAB 44 1978 — Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
J.J. Spaun ........................... 69-69-72—210 -3
Sam Ryder ..........................72-67-71—210 -3 Dayton 68, Duquesne 64 Harvard 68, Brown 47 Southern Miss. 67, FAU 45 1977 — Walter Payton, Chicago, RB
DePaul 67, Providence 55 Lehigh 75, Army 70 Tennessee St. 62, SE Missouri 59
Kiradech Aphibarnrat ......69-70-71—210 -3 1976 — Bert Jones, Baltimore, QB
Ryan Palmer.......................68-71-71—210 -3 Drake 68, Indiana St. 62 Manhattan 64, St. Peter’s 50 Tennessee Tech 74, Murray St. 65 1975 — Fran Tarkenton, Minnesota, QB
UNC-Asheville 70, Winthrop 36
Cameron Champ .............. 70-69-71—210 -3 Evansville 64, Valparaiso 53 Md.-Eastern Shore 63, SC State 61 1974 — Ken Stabler, Oakland, QB
James Hahn ....................... 68-72-70—210 -3 Illinois 71, Nebraska 64 Monmouth (NJ) 75, Rider 71 Wofford 71, Samford 62
1973 — O.J. Simpson, Buffalo, RB
Grayson Murray ............... 68-72-70—210 -3 Illinois St. 65, Loyola-Chicago 57 Navy 71, Loyola (Md.) 68 Albany (NY) 71, Binghamton 62
Brian Harman ................... 69-72-69—210 -3 1972 — Larry Brown, Washington, RB
Kent St. 83, Ball St. 80, OT Northeastern 75, Hofstra 61 American U. 71, Colgate 66
Alex Noren......................... 69-72-69—210 -3 1971 — Alan Page, Minnesota, DT
Miami (Ohio) 59, E. Michigan 48 Notre Dame 79, Boston College 73 Bucknell 62, Boston U. 58
Chris Kirk ........................... 71-70-69—210 -3 CCSU 66, Bryant 65 1970 — John Brodie, San Francisco, QB
Missouri 77, Vanderbilt 67 Penn 72, Columbia 70
Richy Werenski................. 69-69-73—211 -2 Canisius 78, St. Peter’s 59 1969 — Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles
Morehead St. 84, E. Illinois 78 Princeton 70, Cornell 61, OT
Brandt Snedeker .............. 69-70-72—211 -2 Rams, QB
N. Dakota St. 78, W. Illinois 76 Rhode Island 65, Saint Louis 54 Harvard 100, Brown 83
Brian Stuard .......................71-69-71—211 -2 1968 — Earl Morrall, Baltimore, QB
N. Iowa 64, Missouri St. 59 Sacred Heart 71, St. Francis Brooklyn 62 Holy Cross 56, Lafayette 53
Keegan Bradley ................68-69-75—212 -1 1967 — John Unitas, Baltimore, QB
Billy Horschel.................... 71-68-73—212 -1 Oakland 83, Cleveland St. 68 Saint Joseph’s 64, UMass 62 Lehigh 66, Navy 55
1966 — Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
Freddie Jacobson ............. 68-72-72—212 -1 Ohio St. 76, Rutgers 62 Savannah St. 76, Delaware St. 73 Loyola (Md.) 70, Army 51
Brian Gay ............................67-73-72—212 -1 Rio Grande 75, UMKC 63 Siena 56, Iona 54 Niagara 72, Iona 53 1965 — Jim Brown, Cleveland, RB
Adam Schenk .....................70-71-71—212 -1 S. Illinois 72, Bradley 68 St. Francis (Pa.) 72, Mount St. Mary’s 63 Penn 72, Columbia 60 1964 — John Unitas, Baltimore, QB
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Lakers to go all out to land Davis

Time Event TV, radio
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3:30 p.m. Patriots vs. Rams Ch. 2, 570, 710, 1220, 1330
BOWLING
This just in: A.D. cuts their cap space into
11 a.m. CP3 PBA Celebrity Invitational Ch. 11 dropped the big one on N.O. the $20 million range, less
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Things move fast these than elite free agents com-
9 a.m. Wake Forest at Clemson ESPNU days. By the mand. The Lakers would
9 a.m. Georgetown at Villanova FS1 time Anthony be left with LeBron and
9 a.m. Women: Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Prime
Davis told the Davis, a formidable duo,
New Orleans but one of them would be
9 a.m. Women: Duquesne at Fordham CBSSN
Pelicans he 34, going on 35 in Decem-
9 a.m. Minnesota at Purdue BTN wanted to be ber, in his 16th season.
10 a.m. Xavier at Creighton FSW traded, every- In the meantime, the
10 a.m. Women: Mississippi St. at Alabama SEC one had been Lakers have a coach to put
Mark
10 a.m. Women: South Florida at Central Florida ESPN2 Heisler expecting it out of his misery after ES-
11 a.m. Women: Purdue at Michigan St. BTN Columnist for months. PN’s Jackie MacMullan
11 a.m. Women: Creighton at Villanova FS1 Last week’s noted that “James’ people”
11 a.m. East Carolina at Connecticut ESPNN announce- are now signaling that LeB-
11 a.m. Women: Florida at Kentucky ESPNU ment by Davis’ agent, Rich CHRISTOPHER EVANS — BOSTON HERALD ron wants Walton gone.
11 a.m. Women: George Washington at St. Louis CBSSN Paul, just made it official, The Pelicans’ transcendent big man, Anthony Davis, right, James’ preferences drive
Noon Women: Georgia at Auburn SEC moving up the schedule so is the first player ever cited for tampering by the NBA. everything in Lakerdom
Noon Women: Tennessee at Vanderbilt ESPN2
that a trade could go down these days. In other words,
any time between now and with Irving hurt last ter their Dec. 21 game here. nice knowing you, Luke.
Noon Women: Oklahoma St. at TCU FSW
July 1. spring, leading the Celtics Of course, even if the When Johnson went off
Noon Women: Utah at Oregon St. Pac12N Now watch the purple to Game 7 of the Eastern players and their represen- on Walton at the seven-
1 p.m. Stanford at Cal ESPNU and gold-clad bodies begin Conference finals. tatives are in charge, there’s game mark, James’ people
2 p.m. Women: South Carolina at Arkansas SEC to fly as the Lakers go all- Including Tatum in a a limit to what they can get signaled something dif-
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS out to land Davis sooner deal would probably send away with. Announcing Da- ferent, that LeBron wasn’t
6:30 a.m. Ohio St. at Michigan BTN
rather than later ... oh, and Davis to Boston. vis’ post-Pelicans plans in involved.
as they prepare to dump Of course, the big story the press while under con- Jeanie Buss has since
11 a.m. Nebraska at Michigan ESPN
Coach Luke Walton, who isn’t in yet. tract to them was unprece- tried to protect Walton, but
GOLF was hired to nurture the Where does Davis want dented, suggesting that Da- LeBron apparently realizes
10 a.m. PGA Phoenix Open Golf young guys and will no to go? vis has gone from arch-loyal the obvious: With Johnson
Noon PGA Phoenix Open Ch. 4 longer be needed for that. Is it the Lakers? to frantic to get out before gashing his young coach
Oops. Hold the phone. Is he as open to playing Thursday’s trade deadline. amid reports that he wants
HORSE RACING That’s what Pelicans in Boston? The NBA, which had let someone fiery and char-
11 a.m. Trackside Live: Santa Anita TVG GM Dell Demps did last Is any other team viable? players muse about each ismatic like Magic’s old
NBA
week when Lakers GM Rob With his contract up in other to their heart’s con- coach, Pat Riley, Luke was
Pelinka rang him up, refus- 2020, Davis’ preference tent, fined Davis $50,000, already a goner.
11 a.m. Thunder at Celtics Ch. 7 ing to even return his calls. has driven this all along. making him its first player Fair or not, it’s inevitable
Noon Clippers at Raptors Prime, 570, 1220 The Pelicans also de- Without an indication Ta- ever cited for tampering. and has been for months.
NHL leted Davis from the pre- tum would re-sign in Bos- The fine is nothing com- “We choose this,” Clip-
9:30 a.m. Bruins at Capitals Ch. 4
game video clip on their ton, GM Danny Ainge pared to what the NBA pers coach Doc Rivers
scoreboard, which showed isn’t likely to offer him. will do if it finds out that said of the coaching pro-
SOCCER every other player on the There are no secrets in real tampering — which fession. “That’s what we
6 a.m. Manchester United at Leicester City KVEA, NBCSN roster, before their loss this. The Athletic’s Shams is surely going on — is go- have to live with ...
6:30 a.m. Mainz 05 at FC Augsburg FS1 to Denver on Wednes- Charania reports that ing on. “I think it does make
7:05 a.m. Atletico Madrid at Real Betis beIN day, which dropped them Boston is not a “preferred Happily for all involved your job harder when that
8:25 a.m. Arsenal at Manchester City KVEA, NBCSN to No. 13 in the Western destination” for Davis. in Lakerdom ... and you stuff happens. It’s just not
8:50 a.m. SC Freiburg at VfB Stuttgart FS2
Conference standings. On top of that, Davis’ know who you are ... tam- right. I think he (Wal-
Hey, imagine being in father, Anthony Sr., said pering is almost always ton) is doing a terrific job
8:55 a.m. Bologna at Inter Milan ESPNN, 1220
their place. Fall in love he doesn’t want his son to verbal and all but impos- when you have that many
9:20 a.m. Girona FC at SD Eibar beIN with young Chris Paul. play for Boston because of sible to prove (assum- injuries.
9:30 a.m. Monterrey at UNAM KMEX Lose him to the Clippers. the way it treated Isaiah ing you aren’t caught tex- “At the end of the day,
11:35 a.m. Deportivo Alaves at Real Madrid beIN Pick up the pieces of your Thomas, the Celtics star ting the wrong thing, as we accept it, we know in
TENNIS broken heart with Davis. of two seasons ago who Pelinka was with Paul our job it happens and
Lose him to whomever. was then traded to Cleve- George’s agent). there’s nothing you can do
5:30 a.m. WTA St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, final Tennis
It’s safe to assume the land ... for Irving. The big exception came about it.”
Satellite times might differ. Check with your service provider. Pelicans are convinced “No loyalty,” Davis Sr., in 2000 with a relatively Or, welcome to the rest
LeBron James is stealing told ESPN’s Ramona Shel- minor violation, a cap-skirt- of the Lakers’ season.
Davis in a massive tam- burne. “Guy gives his ing contract between Min- Even more than Wal-
5 games out Home Away pering conspiracy and heart and soul and they nesota and journeyman ton’s peril, the Davis story
will try to send him any- traded him. ... This is just Joe Smith that surfaced in has loomed over them. De-
NBA where but to the Lakers. my opinion, not Antho- a lawsuit between agents. spite the polite things their
Lakers: 710 AM, nba.com/lakers Unfortunately for the ny’s. I’ve just seen things With rare proof of the be- players are obliged to say,
Pelicans, they control noth- over the years with Bos- havior that his owners they’re all worrying about
Tuesday Thursday Feb. 10 Feb. 12 Feb. 21
Pacers Celtics Sixers Hawks Rockets ing in this but the schedule. ton and there’s no loyalty.” claimed to abhor but rou- a post-Lakers future.
4 p.m. 5 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. They are insisting on doing The Davis Saga is now tinely did, Commissioner Some are closer to the
SpecSN SpecSN, TNT Ch. 7 SpecSN TNT this on their timetable, not overflowing into the Celt- David Stern nuked the Tim- blade than others ... start-
Davis’, which means wait- ics’ Irving Saga, with Da- berwolves, taking their next ing with Lonzo Ball,
Clippers: 570 AM, nba.com/clippers ing until summer when the vis’ people reportedly say- five first-round draft picks. whom the Pelicans report-
Today Tuesday Thursday Saturday Feb. 11
Celtics can get in it. ing he doesn’t want to With the Lakers favored edly like ... meaning he’s
Raptors Hornets Pacers Celtics Wolves Boston is now fro- go to Boston because he to land Davis, there’s the likely New Orleans-bound.
Noon 4 p.m. 4 p.m. p.m. 5 p.m. zen out with Kyrie Irving thinks Irving will leave. usual hue and cry about Ball, on the other hand,
Prime Prime Prime Prime Prime on the enhanced “desig- The Knicks, hearing players running every- reportedly hopes to end
nated” extension to his the buzz and dreaming of thing ... which, of course, up in New York or Chi-
NHL rookie contract, as Davis signing Irving and his pal, they are and have been do- cago ... or Phoenix.
Ducks: 830 AM, nhl.com/ducks is, with teams allowed to Kevin Durant, promptly ing increasingly since free Guess again.
have only one at a time. traded Kristaps Porzingis agency arrived in 1988. As nice as Ball is, there’s
Monday Tuesday Thursday Saturday Feb. 13
Maple Leafs Canadiens Senators Flyers Canucks The Celtics can join in to Dallas to create a sec- Even if Davis wants to a price to pay for grow-
4 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 10 a.m. 7:30 p.m. when Kyrie opts out of the ond maximum salary slot be a Laker, Paul had rea- ing up with his father, La-
Prime Ch. 13 Ch. 13 Prime FSW final year of his contract on to make that possible. son not to mention that Var, braying grandiloquent
July 1, and they are trying And we still have five part with everyone al- nonsense in his ear.
Kings: iHeartRadio, nhl.com/kings to get the Pelicans to wait. more days until Thurs- ready sure the fix is in Lonzo’s on a five-year
Monday Tuesday Thursday Saturday Feb. 11
“I think Boston has day’s deadline. and LeBron is behind it ... rookie contract through
Rangers Devils Flyers Bruins Capitals sent a message to the Pel- This story has been on which, I believe, is true. 2021, giving him no con-
4 p.m. 4 p.m. 4 p.m. 10 a.m. 4 p.m. icans,” ESPN’s Adrian rails since fall, tracking Here’s where the Lak- trol of anything. Un-
FSW FSW FSW FSW FSW Wojnarowski said. exactly as it looked like it ers are: less he becomes a better
“ ‘Be patient. Wait for us. would. If Davis really wants player than he is now, free
NFL We are going to be in this, If you started out assum- to join them, they surely agency won’t give him his
Rams: Super Bowl LIII, vs. Patriots, today, 3:30 p.m., Ch. 2 and we’re going to be will- ing that Davis was eyeing know that by now. choice of mega-markets.
ing to talk about essen- the Lakers when he fired If so, the smart option is Wild as last week was,
COLLEGE BASKETBALL tially everyone on our ros- his agent to hire LeBron’s to wait for summer when and this one could be
UCLA: vs. Colorado, Wednesday, 6 p.m., Pac-12 Network ter outside Kyrie Irving.’ ” guy, Paul, you have been they can use their maxi- leading up to Thursday’s
USC: vs. Utah, Wednesday, 8 p.m., Pac-12 Network “Essentially everyone” right on everything that mum salary slot to sign a deadline, it’s a warm-up
means Jayson Tatum, the has happened with plot free agent like Kawhi Leon- for summer when all that
HORSE RACING Celtics’ prize prospect points like Davis and LeB- ard and acquire Davis, too. looms comes down on ev-
Santa Anita: today, 11 a.m. who broke out as a rookie ron going out to dinner af- Trading for Davis now eryone, at last.

BEST BET either team falling too far behind in

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this Rams offense is completely dominate on outside zone runs.
this one, and with Tom Brady involved,
decentralized, with numerous, in- This team’s greatest strength – Rams (+2.5) over Patriots: This a late lead-change seems likely.
terchangeable options ready to fill and McVay’s greatest strategic ad- game is a true toss-up. The Patriots Total receiving yards for Patriots
FROM PAGE 1 the offensive void at any moment. vantage – is his ability to counter have more experience. The Rams have RB James White. Over 44.5. Two
Consider the case of Todd Gur- anything thrown at him, before more talent. The Patriots have Tom weeks ago, Alvin Kamara tallied more
rest of the Rams offense got ley. It stands to reason that tak- then countering the next counter. Brady. The Rams have advantages yards on a single drive when matched
everywhere else. Both teams are led by up with Rams linebackers. White is go-
the best of them, fine. But they ing away the defending Offensive “They’re good at everything,” great coaches. Ultimately, this is going ing to be heavily involved in this game.
weren’t going to let Marshall Player of the Year would put sig- Belichick said of the Rams. to come down to how each team per-
Faulk, their all-purpose, All-Pro nificant strain on the Rams of- “They’re good at running the forms situationally, and while the Rams Total receiving yards by Rams tight
back, be the one to beat them. fense. But last week, whether due ball; they’re good at play-actions; are a risk to commit back-breaking end Gerald Everett. Over 23.5. I’ve
turnovers, they’re also more equipped got an inkling about Everett, who’s
“(Belichick) would figure out to injury or ineffectiveness, Gur- they’re good at screens; they’re
what made an offense tick,” for- ley was held to just four carries good on the deep ball; they’re to control the ball and maintain a lead. been much more involved over the past
This feels like a game that will be month. With the Patriots focused on
mer Patriots linebacker and cur- for 10 yards, and the Rams won good on the catch-and-run plays. decided in the trenches, and the Rams taking away other guys, Everett should
rent ESPN analyst Tedy Bruschi anyway. Without an effective Gur- They’re good at everything.” are a much better team in that regard. easily hit at least 24 yards.
said. “He dared you to beat him ley, McVay simply pivoted his of- Even so, to underestimate ar- Season record: 8-12 Total rushing attempts by Rams
another way. Do you have the hu- fense to focus elsewhere, entrust- guably the greatest game-plan- running back C.J. Anderson. Under
Two weeks ago: Chiefs (-3) over 10.5. Another hunch: Two weeks of
mility and the ability to change ing quarterback Jared Goff to ning coach in the history of foot- Patriots — LOSS rest mean Todd Gurley will play a
your entire plan, in-game?” move the ball with a more promi- ball would be unwise. Like he did much larger role. Anderson may fade
The Greatest Show on Turf
failed to adjust accordingly.
nent downfield passing game.
Gurley’s absence at the end
in 2002, Belichick will almost cer-
tainly focus on taking away Gur-
PLACE YOUR (PROP) BETS into the background a bit.
Prop bets have become a Super Bowl
Faulk carried the ball 17 times
for 76 yards and caught four
of the season actually may have
helped the Rams in that regard.
ley and the run game, in order to
force the Rams into third-and-
obsession in recent years. Here’s a
few you can take to the bank today ...
TOP 5 …
passes for 54 yards, but the Patri- While he sat out, the offense turned long situations and put the ball Will a play Tony Romo predicts result COACHING MATCHUPS
IN SUPER BOWL HISTORY
ots swarmed him for most of the to C.J. Anderson, a more tradi- into Goff’s hands. For all their bal- in a touchdown? Yes (+191). Did you
night, throwing the offense just tional between-the-tackles runner ance, the Rams are still at their watch Romo in the AFC championship 5. Tom Coughlin vs. Bill Belichick,
game? He correctly predicted 13 of 15 Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl
enough out of whack. The Rams who has nowhere near the break- most vulnerable when defenses XLVI: Coughlin is the one coach who
plays. If he does that again, it’s a good
managed only 17 points, two away speed of his backfield coun- have taken away the threat of the shot one is a score. How long will it seemed uniquely capable of figuring
touchdowns below their season terpart. With Anderson handling run. In their three losses this sea- take Gladys Knight to sing the national out the Patriots mastermind.
average, and Belichick hoisted his the lion’s share of carries, the Rams son, the Rams ran for 92, 52, and anthem? Over 105 seconds (-140). The 4. Joe Gibbs vs. Don Shula, Super
first of five Lombardi trophies. reinvented their identity as a power 82 yards. Until the NFC title game, average length in recent years has been Bowl XVII: Two Hall of Fame coach-
Belichick’s strategy that day running team. Now, with both they’d yet to win a game this sea- 118 seconds. This is a no-brainer. es in different places in their career
would come to define him as per- healthy, the Rams are capable of son without rushing for 100 yards. Will CBS show replay of missed faced off in one of the better Super
pass interference call on Rams Bowl coaching chess matches.
haps the finest defensive master- seamlessly shifting between those McVay made it clear over the
vs. New Orleans? Yes (-130). We’ve 3. Bill Belichick vs. Sean McVay,
mind the game has ever seen. But offensive styles, based on whatever past two weeks that he plans to talked about this a million times Super Bowl XLIII: Maybe this seems
as his Patriots prepare to take on defense is thrown at them. get Gurley more involved than he in the past two weeks. Of course high, but I think you’ll feel differ-
the Rams again Sunday, the blue- McVay has purposefully built was two weeks ago in New Or- they’re going to show a replay. ently after the game. These are two
print that worked nearly two de- an offense based on this sort of leans. But if Belichick reprises Will the Patriots score a touch- geniuses on their sides of the ball.
cades ago – and several subse- hyper-balance. In this sense, he’s his infamous strategy of taking down in the first quarter? No (-110). 2. Chuck Noll vs. Tom Landry,
quent times after that – isn’t go- a perfect foil to Belichick, capa- away his opponent’s purported One of my favorite quirks of the Patri- Super Bowl X and Super Bowl XIII:
ing to cut it against these Rams. ble of punishing him for whatever best player, McVay and his multi- ots’ Super Bowl history: New England Probably the most iconic coaching
That’s because Sean McVay’s strategic route he takes. If Belich- faceted offense have no shortage has never scored a touchdown in the matchup in the game’s history. Noll’s
first quarter of the big game. defense and Landry’s offense made
offense is built specifically to ick turns up the pass rush on Goff, of options in their quest to over- for quite a showdown.
Will there be a lead change in the
withstand this strategy. Where McVay will turn to the screen come the strategy that, 17 years fourth quarter? Yes (+230). Every 1. Bill Walsh vs. Don Shula, SB XIX:
Faulk was the clear engine of that game. If he loads up defenders earlier, undid another electric Super Bowl the Patriots have played Two men who revolutionized the game,
Greatest Show on Turf offense, between the tackles, Gurley can Rams offense in the Super Bowl. in has been a close game. I don’t see at the height of their powers.
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Joyner could be playing final game with Rams
By Rich Hammond
rhammond@scng.com
@Rich_Hammond on Twitter
ATLANTA» Lamarcus Joyner
has been through hard
knocks, and “Hard Knocks.”
The former? It took him a
while to find a role with the
Rams. The latter? The show
on which he said he’d quit
and work at Walmart.
Joyner has been through
a lot in less than five years
with the Rams. Now, his
time with the team might
be coming to an end, but
what a conclusion it would
be, in today’s Super Bowl
against New England.
The Rams’ second-round
draft pick in 2014, Joyner
endured the team’s reloca-
tion from St. Louis and his
own shifting, from lightly
used cornerback to nickel-
back and then to free safety,
the position at which he has
thrived for the past two
seasons under coordinator
Wade Phillips.
“It’s great,” Joyner said.
“I’ve been here for the good
Rams
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of hard work we did as a
team. A lot of hard work I
did individually. To be at
this stage and be here now,
it’s a blessing, but we’ve
still got one more game to
finish strong and we’ve just
got to do it.”
Donald can be a tough
character to crack. In me-
dia interactions, he’s typ-
ically polite but brief and
clearly uncomfor table
when asked — as regularly
happens – about the way he
dominates games.
There’s been a certain
lightness to Donald this
season, though, evident
since that late-August day
when Donald signed a six-
year, $135-million con-
tract extension. Beyond
the money, the Rams sent
a message. Yes, they have a
high-powered offense, but
the Rams became Donald’s
team that day.
“I remember talking to
him and he was so excited
about it,” defensive line
coach Bill Johnson said.
“It was like, ‘Oh man, they
finally got it done and we
can finally get to work.’
He’s never been a different
guy, whatsoever, but yeah,
I’d say he’s a little more re-
laxed. That was a big or-
deal and a very important
time in his life and for his
family. I’m sure it was a
load off his back.”
It’s been a different Don-
ald. He laughs when asked
if he will attend training
camp next year, a ques-
tion that has been a run-
ning joke with beat writ-
ers. He talked of how he
cried on the team bus after
he set the Rams’ single-sea-
times and the bad times, so
I’ve been on both sides of
the spectrum. It just feels
good to finally have some
success with a lot of these
guys that deserve it.”
It might be his last
chance. After last season,
the Rams applied their one-
year franchise tag to Joyner.
That wasn’t a bad thing. The
tag came with a pre-set con-
tract value of almost $11.3
million. Joyner had made
a total of approximately $5
million in his first four sea-
sons with the Rams.
Still, Joyner had wanted
a long-term contract, and
the tag only gave him one
year, and — because of
league rules — it prevented
him from re-negotiating a
deal with the Rams until
the end of this season.
Joyner played well this
season. He finished third
on the team with 78 total
tackles and even though
he is listed at only 5-foot-8,
Joyner is one of the team’s
most aggressive tacklers.
Asked about playing with
son sack record. He spoke
of his gratitude toward the
Rams, and how “thank you
ain’t enough.”
Donald displayed his
thanks all season with ex-
traordinary play, and that
continued in the playoffs.
Donald did not record a
sack against either Dallas
or New Orleans, but he still
dominated both games.
A persistent backfield
presence in both games,
Donald not only took
away time from quarter-
backs Dak Prescott and
Drew Brees on his own, but
the near-constant double-
teaming he took on freed
up teammates. It’s no co-
incidence tackle Ndamu-
kong Suh, who lines up
next to Donald, and edge
rusher Dante Fowler, who
typically lines out outside
of Donald, received praise
after both playoff victories.
“I think he’s really play-
ing well,” defensive coordi-
nator Wade Phillips said of
Donald. “Whether he gets a
sack or not every play, that
doesn’t define him. It’s how
he plays. Nobody can run
the ball on his side and they
have a tough time blocking
him, so they try to get two
or three guys on him, so
that helps everybody.”
It’s no accident. Every
player works, but Donald
nearly seems obsessive.
This week, the New York
Post ran a shirtless photo
of a flexing Donald. McVay
loves to tell the story of
how one time, last season,
he found Donald alone in
a meeting room, watching
film at 10 p.m. on a Thurs-
day night.
Eyebrows raised last
year when a social-media
video appeared to show
Donald training by fending
off a man holding knives.
an uncertain future this
season, Joyner admitted it
wasn’t always easy.
“I’m an honest person,”
Joyner said, “so I’ll say that
I was disguising it well. It’s
always hanging around,
but it’s not a worry. It’s
good anxiety, if that makes
sense.”
It does. Given the Rams’
salary situation, it seems
somewhat unlikely that he
will return to the Rams, but
Joyner would be popular on
the free-agent market given
his relative youth (28), tal-
ent and versatility.
Joyner reinvented him-
self under Phillips. Before
then, he’d been a part-time
contributor at cornerback, a
role that frustrated him. At
one point during 2016 train-
ing camp, cameras from the
HBO series “Hard Knocks”
captured Joyner in the office
of then-coach Jeff Fisher,
where he said he would quit
and work at WalMart.
That controversy died
down quickly, and since
the start of the 2017 season,
The weapons turned out to
be fake, but it was Donald,
so nobody could be certain.
Donald’s training is relent-
less, and so is his pursuit
of opposing quarterbacks.
“Well, he does every-
thing better than every-
one else,” Patriots quar-
terback Tom Brady said.
“He’s incredibly explosive,
he’s got a great motor, he’s
got a variety of moves. He’s
just an incredibly difficult
matchup. He’s got great
leverage, so he’s got the
power. He’s got the speed.
And he’s got a great burst.”
The Donald vs. Brady
showdown will be high-
lighted in Sunday’s game,
but just as important is
Donald’s run-stopping abil-
ity, given the versatility of
Patriots back James White.
The Rams, with Donald
leading the way, did an ex-
cellent job against Dallas’
Ezekiel Elliott and New Or-
leans’ Alvin Kamara.
A defensive tackle has
never won Super Bowl
MVP honors outright. Dal-
las’ Randy White shared
the honors with defen-
sive end teammate Harvey
Martin 41 years ago, and a
defensive lineman hasn’t
been named MVP since
Chicago end Richard Dent
in 1986.
Nobody would be sur-
prised, though, if Donald
did something special in
the Super Bowl.
“People ask me what
makes him the type of
player he is,” Johnson, the
line coach, said. “I don’t
know if I can put my finger
on it, other than the fact that
he loves the game and he’s
got great instincts. What
makes him Aaron Donald?
I don’t know. If I knew that,
I’d be writing books. He’s
just a special player.”
Joyner has been a full-time
starter at safety and a ma-
jor contributor.
“There’s a lot of different
dynamics in this game,”
Joyner said. “There’s play-
ing, there’s family, there’s
the business side of it. So
you have to be able to man-
age all of them, and all of
them always are going to be
in the back of your head, no
matter what. I’m excited for
the future.”
First, the present. Joyner
knows the main task at
hand for him, which is de-
fending Patriots quarter-
back Tom Brady, his bal-
anced set of pass targets
and an offense, designed
by coordinator Josh Mc-
Daniels, that never is pre-
dictable from week to week.
That’s not easy, partic-
ularly since this is routine
for Brady — in his ninth Su-
per Bowl — but Joyner isn’t
flinching, and he particularly
perked up when reminded
that the Rams faced top
quarterbacks such as Aaron
Rodgers, Drew Brees, Patrick
Whicker
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“Guys ask me about how
I feel and I say, ‘well, if I
didn’t feel bad every now
and then, I wouldn’t know
how it felt to feel really
good,’” Gabriel said.
“To me, the cup is al-
ways three-quarters full.”
Gabriel is 78. He was
6-foot-5, a giant of a Rams
quarterback in many
ways. He threw 201 touch-
down passes, ran for 30
other scores, led the NFL
in yards once and in TD
passes twice.
He was the 1969 MVP,
the league’s Comeback
Player in 1973 for Philadel-
phia when he threw for a
league-leading and career-
high 229 yards per game,
and twice got the Rams
into the playoffs.
There, the Rams’ glass
was frozen.
In 1967 they played in
Green Bay, where the tem-
perature was 13, and lost,
28-7.
In 1969 they played in
Minnesota, where it was
11, and lost 23-20.
“The biggest regret I
had was not playing a
playoff game in L.A.,” Ga-
briel said.
In 1967, the Rams were
11-1-2 and the Packers 9-4-
1, but the game was in
Green Bay because the
Packers had the best re-
cord the year before. Huh?
In 1969, George Allen
took the Rams to Minne-
sota a week early to get ad-
justed. It didn’t quite work.
“We stayed in a hotel
that was so new it hadn’t
opened yet,” Gabriel said.
“They brought food in,
but if you missed dinner
Mahomes, Philip Rivers and
Russell Wilson during the
regular season.
“I’ve been mentioning
that all this week,” Joyner
said, “how playing against
other all-time greats was
able to prep us for an elite
quarterback. Of course, the
strategy New England will
use is different from those
guys. It’s a different dy-
namic, but that helps with
the confidence and compo-
sure of going against an-
other great quarterback.”
Big chance
Return specialist JoJo
Natson, the smallest player
on the Rams’ roster, at
5-foot-7, is enjoying his big
week.
“Honestly, I can tell you
I didn’t think I would be
here, with my journey the
way it popped off,” Nat-
son said. “It’s been a very
unique season for me and a
very blessed season for me.”
The Rams signed Natson,
who previously had been
you didn’t eat, because the
roads were so frozen. We
were stranded there.”
The Rams led by 10
at halftime. The Vikings
led 21-20 when Carl Eller
stopped Gabriel for a safety.
“I got to the 1-yard-line
and he pushed me back,”
Gabriel said. “Today with
replay, it’s not a safety,
and we might have had a
chance.”
Gabriel was a striking
figure. He was called the
World’s Tallest Filipino.
His father, Roman Sr., mi-
grated from the Philip-
pines to Alaska, and some-
how he and three cohorts
wound up in Wilmington,
N.C. They were waiters
and cooks on the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad.
Gabriel played high-level
football and basketball,
too. But when New Ha-
nover High alumnus Sonny
Jurgensen came home one
day and zipped the football
around, Roman knew who
he wanted to be.
Quarterbacks looked
like normal businessmen
back then. John Unitas,
Bart Starr and John Bro-
die were all 6-foot-1. “No-
body in the history of the
game is as strong as Ga-
briel,” Cowboys coach Tom
Landry said.
On the goal line, the
Rams often called 18 Roll,
or 19 Roll on the left side.
They sent Gabriel wide
with a blocker and a re-
ceiver, to great effect.
Time has drained the en-
ergy from campaigns to get
Gabriel into the Pro Foot-
ball Hall of Fame. When he
retired he was among the
NFL’s top six all-time QBs
in yards, touchdowns and
completions.
The numbers would
have been irresistible if
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Rams free safety
Lamarcus Joyner,
right, breaks up
a pass to Chiefs
wide receiver
Tyreek Hill at
the Coliseum on
Nov. 19. Joyner is
looking for a big
contract after this
season and the
Rams may not be
able to re-sign
hm.
SCOTT VARLEY
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
with Indianapolis and the
New York Jets, last July, and
he turned heads in training
camp with his returns but
got released at the end of
camp. Then, when returner
Pharoh Cooper hurt his an-
kle early in the season, the
Rams signed Natson.
Natson thrived, with an
average of more than 10
yards per punt return, and
surprisingly kept the job
even when Cooper, an All-
Pro selection in 2017, re-
turned. Cooper returned
in mid-November and both
players were on the active
roster for a month, but then
the Rams waived Cooper.
Natson retained the job,
and the confidence of Rams
coaches, even after a high-
profile fumble late in the
fourth quarter of a narrow
loss to Philadelphia.
“Pharoh is a heck of a
player, great player,” Nat-
son said, “and I’m glad and
blessed the situation played
out like it did, with both of
us being able to be on the ac-
tive roster at the same time.”
the Rams hadn’t been
hellbent on finding other
quarterbacks. Gabriel was
the second-overall pick
from North Carolina State,
yet he started only 23
games his first four years.
“They had Ron Miller,
then they brought in Terry
Baker, who had won the
Heisman Trophy,” Gabriel
said. “Then there was Jerry
Rhome, Karl Sweetan,
Zeke Bratkowski, Bill Mun-
son. Sometimes I practiced
with the tight ends and the
wide receivers.”
Allen became the coach
in 1966, just as Gabriel
weighed an offer from
Oakland, of the AFL. Allen
came to Gabriel’s house
and promised him the job.
“I trusted him,” Gabriel
said, and away he went.
Jennifer Allen, George’s
daughter, would name her
sons Roman and Deacon.
“And Deacon was mad be-
cause the first one wasn’t
Deacon,” Gabriel said.
Gabriel has raised mil-
lions for charity and, for
a while, was the Carolina
Panthers’ radio analyst. He
coached Cal Poly-Pomona
until it dropped football.
He lives near the beach,
and says the recent hurri-
canes have missed him.
And he watches the
Rams.
“That relationship be-
tween Jared Goff and Sean
McVay is a lot like my rela-
tionship with Ted Marchi-
broda, who was George’s
coordinator,” Gabriel said.
“It was the best thing that
ever happened to me. Goff
has come a long way.”
A victory today will keep
Goff’s cup filled for a ca-
reer. It might cause some
to forget the last great
L.A. quarterback. It might
cause more to remember.
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SUPER BOWL LIII PREVIEW CAPSULE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
RAMS (15-3) just as he did before the in this game, because he
VS. PATRIOTS (13-5) teams met in 2016. Indeed, increasingly has earned
When: today, 3:30 p.m. not only is Hekker an out- Goff’s trust. Otherwise, the
Where: Mercedes-Benz standing punter, but he’s Rams prefer to roll with their
Stadium in Atlanta also a threat to throw the starters, other than some
Line: Patriots by 2 1⁄2 ball in fake situations, as rotation along the defensive
he did against the Saints line. One low-key player to
TV/radio: Ch. 2; 710 AM, for a huge first down. Rams watch on the Patriots is run-
93.1 FM, 1330 AM (Spanish) kicker Greg Zuerlein is com- ning back Rex Burkhead. The
RAMS OFFENSE VS. ing off the game of his life, sixth-year back did not have
PATRIOTS DEFENSE in which he made a 48-yard a rushing touchdown in the
Start here: if the Rams can’t field goal to send the game regular season but had one in
protect quarterback Jared to overtime, followed by a the divisional round against
Goff, the game is over. New 57-yarder to win it. Zuerlein the Chargers and two in the
England’s pass rush has been hurt his left (non-kicking) AFC championship game
increasingly fierce in the foot in that game against against Kansas City.
past three weeks, but after the Saints, but the Rams EDGE: PATRIOTS
an early-December wobble, insist Zuerlein is fine. The
the Rams’ offensive line has Patriots don’t attempt SUPER SECURITY
rebounded and was stellar in many field goals, but kicker Turnovers are huge in the
playoff victories over Dallas Stephen Gostkowski was 21 playoffs, and both of these
and New Orleans. The Rams for 21 inside 40 yards, com- teams excel in that catego-
will want to utilize their pared to 6 for 11 beyond 40 ry. In the regular season, the
play-action passing game yards. Cordarrelle Patterson Rams ranked fourth in turn-
more, because it’s some- is a threat to break a long over margin (plus-11) while
thing that could give the kickoff return. the Patriots ranked fifth
Patriots problems, and the EDGE: RAMS (plus-10). The teams were
Rams shouldn’t be afraid to nearly identical in terms of AP FILE PHOTO
be aggressive and throw the COACHING the numbers of intercep-
ball on first down, because The Rams’ Sean McVay tions thrown and forced, In signature style, Tony Gonzalez dunks a ball over the crossbar after scoring for Atlanta.
recent history shows that is must chop down another and the number of fumbles
a way to beat the New Eng- giant. In the divisional round,
land defense. The Rams also McVay and the Rams beat
will need production from Dallas’ Jason Garrett, the
lost and recovered. It’s been
similar in the playoffs. Goff
has one interception while
Gonzalez, Bailey, Reed head
running back Todd Gurley,
who shockingly vanished in
coach with the fifth-longest
tenure in the NFL. In the NFC
the NFC championship game, title game, New Orleans’
the Rams’ defense has one,
and Brady has two intercep-
tions while the Patriots’
up 8-man Hall of Fame class
with only five touches. C.J. Sean Payton, who has the defense has one.
Anderson has been impor- second-longest tenure fell. 14 Pro Bowls, and his 916 on the way to the win. Eight
EDGE: RAMS By Eddie Pells
catches with the Chiefs set years later, Bailey made his
tant for the Rams, but his Now, McVay must match up The Associated Press
against Belichick, the dean MATCHUP TO WATCH one of 22 franchise records only Super Bowl.
strength is running up the
middle, and that’s also the of NFL coaches, who took Rams defensive tackle ATLANTA » For towering he held upon his retirement. “This is home and tim-
strength of the Patriots’ run over in 2000 when McVay Ndamukong Suh vs. Patriots tight end Tony Gonzalez, “I knew I had a good ing was just right for it,”
defense. The Rams need was 14 years old. Belich- center David Andrews. Suh’s this was a slam dunk. chance, I’m not going to lie said Bailey, who grew up in
Gurley’s ability to bounce ick has a 5-3 record in the stellar play was massive for The 6-foot-5 Gonzalez, about that,” he said. “Still, Folkston and played college
outside and also his pass- Super Bowl and, all week, the Rams in playoff victories who turned the celebratory when you hear the knock, ball at Georgia. “Having
catching skills. The Rams Rams players and coaches over Dallas and New Orleans. post-TD dunk over the cross- your heart drops.” Pat Bowlen go in, I never
also need to work to have marveled at his ability to Not only did Suh disrupt bar into an art form, was As it turns out, Gonzalez expected it to be like this.”
their receivers get space call upon multiple offensive those offenses by getting in voted into the Pro Football isn’t the only one who can Reed won his only title
against the Patriots’ tight- and defensive game plans, the backfield, but he did an Hall of Fame on Saturday. get good air. in the 2012 season, his last
covering cornerbacks. depending on the opponent. excellent job of playing dis- Joining him will be “Threw my phone across with the Ravens. Running
That’s certainly not meant to ciplined run defense. Those two more first-time nomi- the room,” Mawae said, of the defense from his safety
EDGE: RAMS two games, and the Rams’ nees, Champ Bailey and Ed his reaction upon learning he position, he was a standout
diminish McVay, who did an
PATRIOTS OFFENSE VS. extraordinary job of leading December game at Detroit Reed, along with another was in. “I had a higher verti- playmaker on a roster full
RAMS DEFENSE the Rams to victory in the – Suh’s former team – were defensive back, Ty Law, and cal than at the combine.” of them — including Ray
Rams defenders faced NFC title game, in the most his three best of the season, center Kevin Mawae. Law He’ll be donning the yel- Lewis, Terrell Suggs and
countless questions about hostile of environments and by far. Now, Suh must get and Mawae were both in low jacket this summer Peter Boulware. Reed fin-
New England Tom Brady after the Rams faced a 13-0 the better of a player who their third year as finalists. alongside Gonzalez, and ished his career with 64
this week, and the answers first-quarter deficit. has some hometown motiva- The contributor nomi- three players who spent part interceptions, and led the
almost always started with, EDGE: PATRIOTS tion. Andrews grew up in nees, Broncos owner Pat of their careers trying to stop league in picks three times.
“We have to stop the run Peachtree Corners, Ga., 20 Bowlen and Cowboys and the tight end. This marks the Law finished with 53 in-
first.” They’re correct. Not INTANGIBLES miles northeast of Atlanta, NFL executive Gil Brandt, first time more than two de- terceptions and three Super
only do the Patriots have Every NFL team receives its and he played college foot- each made it, as did senior fensive backs have made it in Bowl rings, all with the Pa-
a strong rushing attack, schedule sometime in April, ball at Georgia. Andrews Johnny Robinson, the de- the same class. triots. When New England
with rookie Sony Michel and and every year, someone in is a former undrafted free fensive back who helped the Bailey played 15 years — beat the Rams for its first
James White, but they’re the Patriots’ organization agent who will be playing in Chiefs win Super Bowl IV. five with Washington, then title in 2002, Law returned
also superb when it comes probably writes “Super Bowl” his third consecutive Super Gonzalez started in Kan- 10 more with Denver after a pick 47 yards for a score
to third-down conversions. at the bottom. New Eng- Bowl. sas City and finished in At- Washington swapped him for that gave the Patriots the
The Rams can’t afford to get land is known for its roster lanta, where voters met on Clinton Portis. Like so many lead in the second quarter;
PREDICTION
in third-and-short situa- turnover, but Belichick knows the eve of the Super Bowl great cornerbacks, Bailey did they didn’t trail after that.
tions, because the Patriots how to run Super Bowl week PATRIOTS 35, RAMS 34 to select the Class of 2019. not rewrite the record book, Bowlen goes in after
are deadly. Tight end Rob and deal with the distrac- There’s a clear, reason- They didn’t need much time in part because he was, for a what some believe was
Gronkowski figures to be the tions and anxieties that able path to victory for the to debate his worthiness. huge chunk of his career, con- a longer-than-necessary
biggest challenge for the come with it. The Patriots Rams. It involves stout run In short, Gonzalez had sidered the best cover guy in wait. He is suffering from
Rams, who have had trouble didn’t see anything this week defense, good defending of more than his fair share of the league. So most quarter- Alzheimer’s disease, which
with athletic tight ends this they haven’t before seen. a slot receiver and a heavy chances to dunk. (Maybe backs simply avoided him. has put the future of the
season. They even struggled That’s not the case for the dose of an effective Todd not by accident, the NFL Still, he made three All- Broncos’ franchise on un-
against someone named Rams, who have only a hand- Gurley. The Rams can do banned the practice in 2014, Pro teams, 12 Pro Bowls and certain ground.
Garrett Griffin, from New ful of players with previous all these things. Also, this the year after he retired.) a none-too-shabby 52 inter- Brandt spent 29 years with
Orleans. The Patriots also Super Bowl experience. That moment doesn’t figure to The most prolific pass ceptions. His best-remem- the Cowboys, where his keen
like to throw the ball to White can make a difference. The be too big for them. The catcher at his position over bered pick included a 103- eye for talent helped turn
out of the backfield, so this Rams’ Anderson has played Rams were able to beat the a 17-year career, Gonzalez yard return against Tom Dallas into “America’s Team.”
is a game in which the Rams’ in two, and he said things Saints in the Superdome in caught 1,325 passes (second Brady in the 2006 playoffs He chose eight future Hall of
linebackers will be heavily were much easier the second the playoffs, which had been in NFL history) for 15,127 that did not go for a touch- Famers, including Troy Ai-
challenged in coverage. The time. On the other hand, the impossible for a decade, so yards (sixth) and 111 TDs. He down. Denver did score kman, Roger Staubach, Bob
Rams typically do a solid job Rams seemed excited and even though the Super Bowl was a six-time All-Pro, made shortly afterward, though, Lilly and Bob Hayes.
of covering slot receivers, but loose this week, and the is a different animal, don’t
they face a huge challenge brash comments of corner- expect the Rams to turn into
here in Julian Edelman. Brady back Nickell Robey-Coleman a blue-and-yellow puddle. NFL NOTES
Only one problem: these are

Chiefs’ Mahomes named MVP

thrives when he gets rid of indicated the Rams had no
the ball quickly, so Aaron interest simply in being along the Patriots. They’re close to
Donald and Ndamukong Suh for the ride this week. football robots, and they’re
will be challenged to get to EDGE: PATRIOTS in the Super Bowl for a third
him soon after the snap. consecutive season. Who By The Associated Press Comeback Player of the Year,
SUPER SUBS can bet against Brady? following a lost 2017 season
EDGE: PATRIOTS
The Rams start 11 players Expect this to be a high- Patrick Mahomes’ breath- to a shoulder injury with a
SPECIAL TEAMS on offense and really don’t scoring game, and for the taking breakthrough season sensational 2018 campaign.
The Patriots sure do love substitute much, unless they Patriots to play mistake-free, earned him the NFL’s Most Giants running back Sa-
Rams punter Johnny Hek- bring in Gerald Everett for a particularly late in the fourth Valuable Player award. quon Barkley was the top
ker. New England coach Bill two-tight-end set or have quarter, which is when the The Chiefs quarterback offensive rookie, while the
Belichick referred to Hekker him replace Tyler Higbee. game will be won. landed a pair of honors at defensive rookie award
this week as a “weapon,” Everett could be an X-factor — Rich Hammond NFL Honors on Saturday went to Indianapolis line-
night, taking The Associ- backer Darius Leonard.
ated Press 2018 MVP and Barkley rushed for 1,307
SUPER BOWL LIII PREDICTIONS Offensive Player of the Year yards and 11 touchdowns
awards. In his second pro behind a weak New York
The members of our Super Bowl team in best adjustments will win this game. It season, Mahomes led Kan- offensive line. He drew
Atlanta offer their predictions for Sunday’s might be risky to go against Bill Belichick sas City to its first AFC ti- PAUL ABELL — AP 26 votes and edged Baker
Rams vs. Patriots showdown for the Lom- in that regard, but the Rams offense is so tle game since 1993 with QB Patrick Mahomes is the Mayfield. The Cleveland
bardi Trophy: multi-faceted that the options available to some of the most creative first Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, who was se-
COLUMNIST JIM ALEXANDER Sean McVay ultimately give the Rams the and clutch plays the league player to win NFL MVP. lected first overall in the
advantage. Beyond that, in a game that’s has seen in years. draft, one spot in front of
Why the Patriots will win: I’d love to pick likely to be decided in the trenches, the
the Rams, really. But the hill is steep for “I’m so humbled,” he “It may look like a screwball, Barkley, earned 21 votes.
Rams have the better offensive and defen- said. “This is just the be- a slider here or there, but it’ll Barkley also made a team-
first-time Super Bowl participants in handling sive lines, and that should make for their
both the commotion of the previous week and lack of experience. ginning. We’ve got a long get to you eventually.” high 91 receptions for 721
game day itself. The Patriots have that expe- ways to go.” No Kansas City player yards, and his 2,028 yards
rience edge, they have the “nobody believed in Predicted score: Rams 34, Patriots 31 Mahomes received 41 votes had won the award since from scrimmage led the NFL.
us” motivation angle – even if no one else be- MVP: Jared Goff, Rams from a nationwide panel of the Chiefs joined the NFL For his work as defensive
lieves it, they do – and they have Tom Brady media members who regu- in 1970. coordinator of the Chicago
CHARGERS/AFC BEAT WRITER GILBERT
and Bill Belichick. The Rams’ best chance: A MANZANO larly cover the league. New Earlier, he was selected as Bears, Vic Fangio got the
pass rush that gets to Brady often and gets Orleans quarterback Drew the top offensive player, beat- head coaching gig in Den-
Why the Patriots will win: Tom Brady is Brees got the other nine. ing Brees, 30 votes to 16. ver. He also won the AP-
him out of his comfort zone. (Or Belichick called the “G.O.A.T” because he has five
benching a key player. It’s happened.) With only one previous Rams defensive tackle NFL Assistant Coach of the
Super Bowl titles. But the number 5 won’t start, Mahomes entered Aaron Donald, who will Year Award.
Predicted score: Patriots 31, Rams 23 be as glitzy if it’s next to a number 4. With the season as something of play in today’s Super Bowl Eagles defensive end
MVP: Julian Edelman, Patriots a loss, Brady’s Super Bowl record would fall a curiosity in Kansas City against New England, took Chris Long won the Wal-
Rams beat writer Rich Hammond: to 5-4. Don’t expect that to happen, as a after the Chiefs traded vet- his second straight Defen- ter Payton Man of the Year
determined Brady will knife through Wade eran Alex Smith to open up sive Player of the year award. Award for community ser-
Why the Patriots will win: There’s a clear, Phillips’ defense for ring No. 6.
reasonable path to victory for the Rams. It the job. It didn’t take long Chicago’s Matt Nagy, in his vice.
involves stout run defense, good defend- Predicted score: Patriots 34, Rams 27 to erase any doubts as Ma- first season with the Bears,
ing of a slot receiver and a heavy dose of MVP: James White, Patriots homes led the Chiefs to their was voted Coach of the Year. Around the league
an effective Todd Gurley. Only one problem: MARK WHICKER, COLUMNIST first AFC title game since Nagy has overseen the
these are the Patriots. They’re close to the 1993 season, throwing development of quarterback Buffalo promoted Chad
Why the Patriots will win: The Patriots for 50 touchdowns, 5,097 Mitchell Trubisky, who blos- Hall to wide receivers coach
football robots, and they’re in the Super have two things you need to beat the Rams:
Bowl for a third consecutive season. Who yards and had a 113.8 QB somed in his second pro sea- and hired Ken Dorsey as
an outstanding offensive line and a second- rating, trailing only Brees. son, and saw a defense be- quarterbacks coach.
can bet against Brady? Expect this to be a ary. This game will likely be decided right
high-scoring game, and for the Patriots to Mahomes’ ingenuity — fitting the “Monsters of the • Miami receiver Kenny
around the ball, where New England will the guy can throw from all Midway” nickname domi- Stills said he’s donating the
play mistake-free, particularly late in the try to protect Tom Brady. If they do, Brady
fourth quarter, which is when the game will can prosper against the Rams, but Drew angles and make plays in- nate opponents at times. He money he receives from the
be won. side and outside the pocket is the fifth Bears coach to league for being an NFL
Brees felt L.A.’s pressure in New Orleans. — energized the Chiefs’ win the award, joining team Walter Payton Man of the
Predicted score: Patriots 35, Rams 34 Bill Belichick will try to limit the Rams’ run fan base and excited fans founder George Halas (1963, Year award nominee to Co-
MVP: Tom Brady, Patriots game and gum up the midddle of the field across the league. 1965), Mike Ditka (1985, lin Kaepernick’s charity.
NFL COLUMNIST/FEATURES WRITER RYAN against Jared Goff. Lots of points, both “The play is never dead. 1988), Dick Jauron (2001) Each nominee receives up
KARTJE ways, and a conclusive drive at the end. He can find new ways to get and Lovie Smith (2005). to $50,000 from the NFL
Why the Rams will win: In an epic coach- Predicted score: Patriots 41, Rams 34 you the ball,” Chiefs All-Pro Colts quarterback An- Foundation for a charity of
ing chess match, the team that makes the MVP: Tom Brady, Patriots tight end Travis Kelce said. drew Luck was chosen the their choice.
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N.C. State
fails to find
its mark,
all game
By The Associated Press
Miss after miss, they kept
coming for No. 23 North
Carolina State on Saturday.
They never stopped, not
until the Wolfpack had
managed a stunningly low
point total that stood as
the worst for any Atlantic
Coast Conference school
in the shot-clock era. N.C.
State lost 47-24 to No. 12
Virginia Tech in Raleigh,
N.C., a throwback output
to the long-ago days when
teams would hold the ball
and turn games into stand-
around slowdowns.
Only this came from one
of the ACC’s best offenses
with a shot clock rolling.
“It was crazy,” Wolfpack
coach Kevin Keatts said. “It
was almost like there was
something on the rim.”
When it was over, N.C.
State had put up the lowest
point total by a ranked team
in more than three decades of
the shot-clock era, according
to ESPN Stats & Info. It also
flirted with the all-time low
total 20 points by St. Louis
against George Washington
in 2008 since the shot clock
began in the 1985-86 season,
ESPN Stats & Info said.
N.C. State’s 16.7 percent
shooting (9 of 54) also now
stands as the lowest per-
centage in the ACC, a league
founded in 1953.
It was hard to explain,
too. N.C. State (16-6, 4-5)
entered this game ranked
third in the ACC in scoring
(84.4 points), third in shoot-
ing percentage (.484) and
fourth in 3-point percentage
(.378). The Wolfpack made
just 2 of 28 3-pointers.
N.C. State made 1 of 17
shots to start this one and
missed first 11 3-pointers,
and trailed just 20-14 at half-
time with the Hokies (18-3,
7-2) playing a slower pace
with point guard Justin Rob-
inson sidelined by an injury.
After making 6 of 31 field
goals in the first half (.194),
N.C. State made just 3 of 23
(.130) after halftime.
INDIANA 79, NO. 6 MICHIGAN
75 (OT) » Romeo Langford
hit a go-ahead 3-pointer early
in overtime and the Hoosiers
(13-9, 4-7 Big Ten) ended a
seven-game skid by beating
the host Spartans (18-4, 9-2).
NO. 9 NORTH CAROLINA 79,
NO. 15 LOUISVILLE 69 »Luke
Maye had 20 points and 11
rebounds, Cameron John-
son had 19 points and 10
rebounds, and the visiting
Tar Heels (17-4, 7-1 ACC)
avenged an earlier blowout
loss against the Cardinals
(16-6, 7-2).
NO. 11 KANSAS 79, NO. 16
TEXAS TECH 63 » Dedric
Lawson had 25 points and
10 rebounds, Devon Dotson
added 20 points and the
Jayhawks (17-5, 6-3 Big 12)
took out the frustration of a
lousy week on the Red Raid-
ers (17-5, 6-3) in Lawrence,
Kan. Kansas had lost three
of four.
NO. 1 TENNESSEE 93, TEXAS
Grant Williams
A&M 76 »
scored 22 points and the
Volunteers (20-1, 8-0 SEC)
set a school record with its
16th straight win, beating
the host Aggies (8-12, 1-7).
NO. 2 DUKE 91, ST. JOHN’S 61
» Freshman phenom Zion
Williamson scored 29
points and the Blue Devils
(19-2) routed the Red Storm
(16-6) in Durham, N.C.
NO. 3 VIRGINIA 56, MIAMI 46
» De’Andre Hunter scored
14 points, and the host Cav-
aliers (20-1, 8-1 ACC) shut
down the Hurricanes (9-12,
1-8).
NO. 4 GONZAGA 85, SAN DIEGO
69 »Rui Hachimura scored
32 and the Bulldogs (21-2,
8-0) beat San Diego (15-8,
4-4) in Spokane, Wash.
NO. 7 KENTUCKY 65, FLORIDA
54 » Tyler Herro scored 19
points and the Wildcats (18-
3, 7-1 SEC) rallied to beat the
host Gators (12-9, 4-4).
ARKANSAS 90, NO. 19 LSU 89 »
Mason Jones hit a driving
floater with 22 seconds left
and the Razorbacks (13-8,
4-4 SEC) handed the Tigers
(17-4, 7-1) their first home
loss in more than a year.
OREGON STATE 81, UTAH 72 »
Tres Tinkle scored 31 points
as the Beavers (14-7, 6-3
Pac-12) beat the Utes (11-10,
5-4) in Salt Lake City.
UCLA BASKETBALL
TED S. WARREN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington’s Noah Dickerson, right, shoots over UCLA’s David Singleton on Saturday.
Turnover-plagued Bruins
stumble against Huskies
By Thuc Nhi Nguyen THE SCORE guard Prince Ali, who was
thnguyen@scng.com WASHINGTON 69, UCLA 55 UCLA’s only other double-
@thucnhi21 on Twitter Up next: Colorado (11-9, digit scorer with 12 points.
2-6 Pac-12) at UCLA “I think we were looking
SEATTLE » UCLA couldn’t (12-10, 5-4), Wednesday, at it too much and we were
get out before committing 6 p.m., Pac-12 Network trying not to make mis-
one last turnover. With 26 takes and that led to us
seconds left, Washington’s SUMMARY making mistakes, so you
Elijah Hardy picked Prince UCLA (12-10) can’t play like that.”
Ali’s pocket a final time. Hill 1-2 0-0 2, Brown 4-8 1-2 9, Ali 5-8 The Bruins entered the
The UCLA guard glanced 0-0 12, Wilkes 8-19 4-5 20, Hands 3-11 game as the second-most
hopelessly toward the ceil- 0,0-0Singleton
8, Riley 1-2 0-0 2, Olesinski 0-0 0-0
0-1 0-0 0, Bernard 1-3 0-2 2, turnover-prone team in the
ing of Hec Edmundson Pa- Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-54 5-9 55. Pac-12, committing 14.9 per
vilion as the crowd moved WASHINGTON (18-4) game. The Huskies, who ex-
toward the exits. The sec- Dickerson 1-2 1-2 3, Wright 0-1 0-0 0,
Crisp 5-13 1-2 15, Thybulle 4-8 3-5 14,
tended their winning streak
onds couldn’t run off fast Nowell 5-11 4-5 15, Green 3-9 0-0 8, Tim- to 11 and have won their nine
enough. mins 3-5 3-3 9, Carter 2-5 0-0 5, Hardy 0-0
conference games by an av-
0-0 0, Bey 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-54 12-17 69.
The Bruins committed Halftime: Washington 31-23; 3-Point Goals: erage of 13.1 points, forced
23 turnovers in an ugly UCLA 4-15 (Ali 2-3, Hands 2-7, Wilkes 0-5),
the second-most turnovers
Washington 11-24 (Crisp 4-7, Thybulle 3-5,
69-55 loss to Washington Green 2-6, Nowell 1-2, Carter 1-3, Wright per game in the Pac-12.
0-1); Fouled Out: None; Rebounds: UCLA
on Saturday at Hec Ed- 31 (Brown 7), Washington 29 (Nowell 8); It was an imperfect
mundson Pavilion, end- Assists: UCLA 13 (Ali, Hands 4), Washing-
ton 11 (Nowell 4); Total Fouls: UCLA 15,
storm for the Bruins.
ing UCLA’s two-game win- Washington 16; A: 10,000 (10,000). “We knew it was go-
ning streak during which ing to be a hard game,”
it looked like the team was 12) silenced the sellout said Bartow, who could
playing its best basketball crowd of 10,000 early, get- do nothing but chuckle to
of the season. ting off to a 12-4 lead. The try to mask his frustration
A team-high 20 points Bruins used a full-court at the mention of the 18
from Kris Wilkes, a 33- press to fluster the Hus- first-half turnovers. “But
29 rebounding advan- kies (18-4, 9-0 Pac-12) as certainly, we thought we
tage and a third consecu- UCLA scored 10 of its first could win, but we knew we
tive game allowing fewer 14 points off Huskies turn- would have to play a great
than 70 points allowed overs. game. We just didn’t play
didn’t offset UCLA’s turn- Then UCLA’s miscues good enough, just turned
overs, which equaled the piled up, 18 of them in the it over too much.”
team’s number of made first half. UCLA made a 7-0 run
field goals. It was only one The Bruins threw the midway in the second half
turnover shy of a season- ball out of bounds on that cut the lead to seven
high 24 in the 15-point loss lob attempts, recklessly points, but was no match
to Liberty that cost former dribbled into the teeth for Washington’s long-range
head coach Steve Alford of Washington’s 2-3 zone shooting. The Huskies made
his job. only to get trapped, and 10 of their first 19 3-point-
“We fought, we com- got passes picked off by ers, including two in an 8-2
peted, we did enough good defenders. surge that snuffed out any
things defensively to win Guard Matisse Thy- late UCLA hopes.
the game,” interim head bulle, the reigning Pac-12 T he crowd roared
coach Murry Bartow said. defender of the year, had louder with every made
“We did enough — I’m not six steals in the first half as shot and forced turnover.
saying that it’s perfect — the Huskies finished with The Bruins couldn’t slow
but we did enough good 14 total. The Bruins casu- the purple-and-gold tide.
things there to win. But ally passed the ball back “Away games, you get into
we needed 15, 16, 17 more and forth for nearly 30 sec- the crowd, the crowd gets
points and when you turn onds and turned it over on into you a little bit,” Wilkes
it over 23 times, you just a shot-clock violation. said. “I know it shouldn’t,
eliminate all that.” “They play a very good but that happens and you
UCLA (12-10, 5-4 Pac- zone,” said redshirt junior turn it over a little bit.”
BIG WEST BASKETBALL
UCI’s Rutherford hits the late shot
By Adam Grosbard
agrosbard@scng.com
@AdamGrosbard on Twitter
LONG BEACH» With the
chance to avenge its only
Big West loss and a tie game
with seconds rapidly tick-
ing off the clock, UC Irvine
bounced the ball in to for-
ward Tommy Rutherford.
One dribble, then two,
then Rutherford turned
and with a soft touch
pushed a hook shot up and
into the basket with two
seconds remaining.
Long Beach State for-
ward K.J. Byers was off
with his half-court at-
tempt at the buzzer, and
Irvine escaped the Walter
Pyramid with an 82-80 re-
venge win in the Black and
Blue Rivalry rematch.
“We were fortunate that
we were able to win,” UCI
head coach Russell Turner
said. “I’m happy for all of
our guys because every-
one had a positive part in
how that play unfolded.
Our spacing was good and
PHOTO BY TRACEY ROMAN Tommy rose up over a top-
UC Irvine’s Evan Leonard goes up for a shot on Long level defender and deliv-
Beach State at the Walter Pyramid on Saturday. ered it.”
USC BASKETBALL
Trojans bounce
back to earn split
on Washington trip
By Ricky Hester
The Associated Press
PULLMAN, WASH. » The Tro-
jans were able to bounce
back after a disappointing
loss to Washington earlier
in the week by splitting
their two-game trip.
Nick Rakocevic scored
25 points and grabbed 13
rebounds for his 11th dou-
ble-double of the year and
USC never trailed en route
to a 93-84 win over Wash-
ington State.
“We turned the ball over
too many times, and we had
some offensive rebounding
breakdowns when we gave
too many second chance
points up to Washington,”
USC coach Andy Enfield
said. “That was our two big
emphasis in today’s game.”
Jonah Mathews scored 20
points on 6-7 shooting from
3-point range for USC (13-
9, 6-3 Pac-12). Bennie Boat-
wright added 18 points and
five rebounds and Derryck
Thornton scored 12 points
with 6 assists.
Robert Franks scored 25
points for Washington State
(8-14, 1-8). Ahmed Ali added
18 points and seven assists
with Aljaz Kunc scoring a
career high 14 points.
USC exploded to start
the game with a 16-4 run
in the first seven minutes.
Shaqquan Aaron knocked
down a 3-pointer, followed
by a jumper from Thornton
and a big dunk underneath
the basket by Victor Uyae-
lunmo.
“I thought our guys
played with a lot of energy
to start the game, which we
have been. We have won
four out of the last five and
in the four games we won,
we had a lot of energy,” En-
field said.
WSU fought back with
an 8-0 run of their own to
make it a seven-point game
after 3’s from Kunc and
Viont’e Daniels, followed by
a layup from Franks.
“We had just a horren-
dous start to the game
shooting. I didn’t feel like
we were very talkative on
defense either,” WSU coach
Ernie Kent said. “When you
don’t have that kind of en-
ergy on defense, it will af-
fect your offense a little bit.”
USC answered with a
17-2 run over 3:30 to re-
take a 19-point lead. Ra-
kocevic scored the first six
points of the run after a la-
yup and four-point play. Ra-
kocevic was fouled on a la-
yup, missed his free throw
and recovered his own re-
bound for an easy bucket
under the rim completing
the four-point play.
The run was capped by
a jumper from Thornton
and a 3-pointer from Boat-
wright. USC lead at half-
time 47-33 shooting 63 per-
cent from the field.
WSU cut the lead to eight
points at one point in the
second half but USC went on
an 11-2 run over 3:30 with a
STANDINGS
CONF OVERALL
UC Irvine 7-1 19-5
CS Fullerton 5-2 9-12
UCSB 4-2 15-5
Hawaii 4-2 13-7
CSUN 4-3 10-13
UC Davis 2-4 6-14
LBSU 2-5 8-15
UC Riverside 2-6 8-16
Cal Poly 1-6 5-15
Saturday’s results
UC Davis 84, UC Riverside 71
CSUN 83, Cal Poly 65
UC Irvine 82, LBSU 80
UCSB at Hawaii, late
Wednesday’s games
CSUN at UCSB, 7 p.m.
CS Fullerton at UC Irvine, 7 p.m.
When Long Beach State
beat UC Irvine in January,
it seemed that the 49ers
might be a Big West con-
tender.
The three weeks since,
have proved that those as-
sumptions from last month
couldn’t have been further
from the truth.
Irvine (19-5, 7-1 in Big
West) has now won five in
a row to take over the top
spot in the conference and
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019
AP
USC forward Nick Rakocevic
dunks for two of his 25
points in Pullman, Wash.
THE SCORE
USC 93, WASH. ST. 84
Up next: Utah (11-10, 5-4
Pac-12) at USC (13-9, 6-3),
Wednesday, 8 p.m., Pac-12
Network
SUMMARY
USC (13-9)
Rakocevic 9-16 7-9 25, Boatwright 6-12
5-7 18, Thornton 6-10 0-1 12, Mathews 7-9
0-0 20, Aaron 1-2 5-6 8, Uyaelunmo 1-1
0-0 2, Brooks 0-2 0-0 0, Weaver 0-1 0-0 0,
Porter 3-3 0-2 8. Totals 33-56 17-25 93.
WASHINGTON ST. (8-14)
Pollard 1-3 0-0 2, Elleby 3-10 0-0 7, Franks
8-17 6-6 25, Cannon 1-5 0-0 3, Robinson
0-2 0-0 0, Wade 3-3 0-0 6, Kunc 4-5 4-4 14,
Ali 6-15 2-2 18, Daniels 1-3 0-0 3, Skaggs
2-6 0-0 6. Totals 29-69 12-12 84.
Halftime: USC 47-33; 3-Point Goals: USC
10-18 (Mathews 6-7, Porter 2-2, Aaron 1-2,
Boatwright 1-5, Weaver 0-1, Thornton 0-1),
Washington St. 14-41 (Ali 4-12, Franks 3-9,
Kunc 2-3, Skaggs 2-6, Daniels 1-3, Elleby
1-3, Cannon 1-4, Robinson 0-1); Fouled Out:
Wade, Kunc; Rebounds: USC 35 (Rakocevic
13), Washington St. 28 (Franks 6); Assists:
USC 19 (Thornton 6), Washington St. 17 (Ali
7); Total Fouls: USC 15, Washington St. 23;
Technicals: Aaron, Elleby.
PAC-12 STANDINGS
CONF OVERALL
Washington 9-0 18-4
Arizona State 6-3 15-6
USC 6-3 13-9
Oregon State 5-4 14-7
Arizona 5-4 14-8
UCLA 5-4 12-10
Utah 5-4 11-10
Oregon 4-5 13-9
Stanford 3-5 10-10
Colorado 3-6 12-9
Washington St. 1-8 8-14
California 0-8 5-15
Saturday’s results
Washington 69, UCLA 55
Oregon St. 81, Utah 72
USC 93, Washington St. 84
Colorado 73, Oregon 51
Today’s game
Stanford at Cal, 1 p.m.
jumper and 3-pointer from
Kevin Porter Jr. during the
run. The Trojan run gave
them a 16-point lead with
10 minutes left in the game.
T he Cougars got
within single digits after
a 3-pointer from Franks
cut the lead to eight with
22 seconds remaining but
USC would make their free
throws down the stretch to
seal the victory.
“Washington State is an
extremely dangerous team
because they shoot so many
3-point shots. They made 14
tonight, I think they shot 41
total and give them credit,”
Enfield said. “They battled
the entire game and they
made it really tough on us
to pull away, we are fortu-
nate to get a win here.”
has avenged its lone loss in
conference.
“I think our team’s confi-
dent,” Turner said. “We had
a lot of motivation in this
game, they clearly did too
with the way they played.”
Long Beach State (8-15,
2-5) finds itself in the midst
of a five-game losing streak.
“I’m disappointed just
for my guys because I re-
ally was proud of their ef-
fort,” LBSU head coach
Dan Monson said. “We just
need to play better. I know
they’re frustrated but today
we didn’t play frustrated.
They just need to stay to-
gether.”
Not that Long Beach
State didn’t put up a good
fight on Saturday.
LBSU guard Deishuan
Booker, who finished with
a game-high 29 points, hit
a reverse layup to give the
Beach a three-point lead
with 3:42 to play, flexing to
the Long Beach crowd as
Irvine called a timeout.
But Irvine’s Evan Leon-
ard, who had a team high
18, hit a corner 3. Including
that shot, UCI hit its final
four shots.
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COLLEGE
BASKETBALL
N.C. State
fails to find
its mark,
all game
By The Associated Press
Miss after miss, they kept
coming for No. 23 North
Carolina State on Saturday.
They never stopped, not
until the Wolfpack had
managed a stunningly low
point total that stood as
the worst for any Atlantic
Coast Conference school
in the shot-clock era. N.C.
State lost 47-24 to No. 12
Virginia Tech in Raleigh,
N.C., a throwback output
to the long-ago days when
teams would hold the ball
and turn games into stand-
around slowdowns.
Only this came from one
of the ACC’s best offenses
with a shot clock rolling.
“It was crazy,” Wolfpack
coach Kevin Keatts said. “It
was almost like there was
something on the rim.”
When it was over, N.C.
State had put up the lowest
point total by a ranked team
in more than three decades of
the shot-clock era, according
to ESPN Stats & Info. It also
flirted with the all-time low
total 20 points by St. Louis
against George Washington
in 2008 since the shot clock
began in the 1985-86 season,
ESPN Stats & Info said.
N.C. State’s 16.7 percent
shooting (9 of 54) also now
stands as the lowest per-
centage in the ACC, a league
founded in 1953.
It was hard to explain,
too. N.C. State (16-6, 4-5)
entered this game ranked
third in the ACC in scoring
(84.4 points), third in shoot-
ing percentage (.484) and
fourth in 3-point percentage
(.378). The Wolfpack made
just 2 of 28 3-pointers.
N.C. State made 1 of 17
shots to start this one and
missed first 11 3-pointers,
and trailed just 20-14 at half-
time with the Hokies (18-3,
7-2) playing a slower pace
with point guard Justin Rob-
inson sidelined by an injury.
After making 6 of 31 field
goals in the first half (.194),
N.C. State made just 3 of 23
(.130) after halftime.
INDIANA 79, NO. 6 MICHIGAN
75 (OT) » Romeo Langford
hit a go-ahead 3-pointer early
in overtime and the Hoosiers
(13-9, 4-7 Big Ten) ended a
seven-game skid by beating
the host Spartans (18-4, 9-2).
NO. 9 NORTH CAROLINA 79,
NO. 15 LOUISVILLE 69 »Luke
Maye had 20 points and 11
rebounds, Cameron John-
son had 19 points and 10
rebounds, and the visiting
Tar Heels (17-4, 7-1 ACC)
avenged an earlier blowout
loss against the Cardinals
(16-6, 7-2).
NO. 11 KANSAS 79, NO. 16
TEXAS TECH 63 » Dedric
Lawson had 25 points and
10 rebounds, Devon Dotson
added 20 points and the
Jayhawks (17-5, 6-3 Big 12)
took out the frustration of a
lousy week on the Red Raid-
ers (17-5, 6-3) in Lawrence,
Kan. Kansas had lost three
of four.
NO. 1 TENNESSEE 93, TEXAS
Grant Williams
A&M 76 »
scored 22 points and the
Volunteers (20-1, 8-0 SEC)
set a school record with its
16th straight win, beating
the host Aggies (8-12, 1-7).
NO. 2 DUKE 91, ST. JOHN’S 61
» Freshman phenom Zion
Williamson scored 29
points and the Blue Devils
(19-2) routed the Red Storm
(16-6) in Durham, N.C.
NO. 3 VIRGINIA 56, MIAMI 46
» De’Andre Hunter scored
14 points, and the host Cav-
aliers (20-1, 8-1 ACC) shut
down the Hurricanes (9-12,
1-8).
NO. 4 GONZAGA 85, SAN DIEGO
69 »Rui Hachimura scored
32 and the Bulldogs (21-2,
8-0) beat San Diego (15-8,
4-4) in Spokane, Wash.
NO. 7 KENTUCKY 65, FLORIDA
54 » Tyler Herro scored 19
points and the Wildcats (18-
3, 7-1 SEC) rallied to beat the
host Gators (12-9, 4-4).
ARKANSAS 90, NO. 19 LSU 89 »
Mason Jones hit a driving
floater with 22 seconds left
and the Razorbacks (13-8,
4-4 SEC) handed the Tigers
(17-4, 7-1) their first home
loss in more than a year.
OREGON STATE 81, UTAH 72 »
Tres Tinkle scored 31 points
as the Beavers (14-7, 6-3
Pac-12) beat the Utes (11-10,
5-4) in Salt Lake City.
UCLA BASKETBALL
TED S. WARREN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington’s Noah Dickerson, right, shoots over UCLA’s David Singleton on Saturday.
Turnover-plagued Bruins
stumble against Huskies
By Thuc Nhi Nguyen THE SCORE guard Prince Ali, who was
thnguyen@scng.com WASHINGTON 69, UCLA 55 UCLA’s only other double-
@thucnhi21 on Twitter Up next: Colorado (11-9, digit scorer with 12 points.
2-6 Pac-12) at UCLA “I think we were looking
SEATTLE » UCLA couldn’t (12-10, 5-4), Wednesday, at it too much and we were
get out before committing 6 p.m., Pac-12 Network trying not to make mis-
one last turnover. With 26 takes and that led to us
seconds left, Washington’s SUMMARY making mistakes, so you
Elijah Hardy picked Prince UCLA (12-10) can’t play like that.”
Ali’s pocket a final time. Hill 1-2 0-0 2, Brown 4-8 1-2 9, Ali 5-8 The Bruins entered the
The UCLA guard glanced 0-0 12, Wilkes 8-19 4-5 20, Hands 3-11 game as the second-most
hopelessly toward the ceil- 0,0-0Singleton
8, Riley 1-2 0-0 2, Olesinski 0-0 0-0
0-1 0-0 0, Bernard 1-3 0-2 2, turnover-prone team in the
ing of Hec Edmundson Pa- Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-54 5-9 55. Pac-12, committing 14.9 per
vilion as the crowd moved WASHINGTON (18-4) game. The Huskies, who ex-
toward the exits. The sec- Dickerson 1-2 1-2 3, Wright 0-1 0-0 0,
Crisp 5-13 1-2 15, Thybulle 4-8 3-5 14,
tended their winning streak
onds couldn’t run off fast Nowell 5-11 4-5 15, Green 3-9 0-0 8, Tim- to 11 and have won their nine
enough. mins 3-5 3-3 9, Carter 2-5 0-0 5, Hardy 0-0
conference games by an av-
0-0 0, Bey 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-54 12-17 69.
The Bruins committed Halftime: Washington 31-23; 3-Point Goals: erage of 13.1 points, forced
23 turnovers in an ugly UCLA 4-15 (Ali 2-3, Hands 2-7, Wilkes 0-5),
the second-most turnovers
Washington 11-24 (Crisp 4-7, Thybulle 3-5,
69-55 loss to Washington Green 2-6, Nowell 1-2, Carter 1-3, Wright per game in the Pac-12.
0-1); Fouled Out: None; Rebounds: UCLA
on Saturday at Hec Ed- 31 (Brown 7), Washington 29 (Nowell 8); It was an imperfect
mundson Pavilion, end- Assists: UCLA 13 (Ali, Hands 4), Washing-
ton 11 (Nowell 4); Total Fouls: UCLA 15,
storm for the Bruins.
ing UCLA’s two-game win- Washington 16; A: 10,000 (10,000). “We knew it was go-
ning streak during which ing to be a hard game,”
it looked like the team was 12) silenced the sellout said Bartow, who could
playing its best basketball crowd of 10,000 early, get- do nothing but chuckle to
of the season. ting off to a 12-4 lead. The try to mask his frustration
A team-high 20 points Bruins used a full-court at the mention of the 18
from Kris Wilkes, a 33- press to fluster the Hus- first-half turnovers. “But
29 rebounding advan- kies (18-4, 9-0 Pac-12) as certainly, we thought we
tage and a third consecu- UCLA scored 10 of its first could win, but we knew we
tive game allowing fewer 14 points off Huskies turn- would have to play a great
than 70 points allowed overs. game. We just didn’t play
didn’t offset UCLA’s turn- Then UCLA’s miscues good enough, just turned
overs, which equaled the piled up, 18 of them in the it over too much.”
team’s number of made first half. UCLA made a 7-0 run
field goals. It was only one The Bruins threw the midway in the second half
turnover shy of a season- ball out of bounds on that cut the lead to seven
high 24 in the 15-point loss lob attempts, recklessly points, but was no match
to Liberty that cost former dribbled into the teeth for Washington’s long-range
head coach Steve Alford of Washington’s 2-3 zone shooting. The Huskies made
his job. only to get trapped, and 10 of their first 19 3-point-
“We fought, we com- got passes picked off by ers, including two in an 8-2
peted, we did enough good defenders. surge that snuffed out any
things defensively to win Guard Matisse Thy- late UCLA hopes.
the game,” interim head bulle, the reigning Pac-12 T he crowd roared
coach Murry Bartow said. defender of the year, had louder with every made
“We did enough — I’m not six steals in the first half as shot and forced turnover.
saying that it’s perfect — the Huskies finished with The Bruins couldn’t slow
but we did enough good 14 total. The Bruins casu- the purple-and-gold tide.
things there to win. But ally passed the ball back “Away games, you get into
we needed 15, 16, 17 more and forth for nearly 30 sec- the crowd, the crowd gets
points and when you turn onds and turned it over on into you a little bit,” Wilkes
it over 23 times, you just a shot-clock violation. said. “I know it shouldn’t,
eliminate all that.” “They play a very good but that happens and you
UCLA (12-10, 5-4 Pac- zone,” said redshirt junior turn it over a little bit.”
BIG WEST BASKETBALL
UCI’s Rutherford hits the late shot
By Adam Grosbard
agrosbard@scng.com
@AdamGrosbard on Twitter
LONG BEACH» With the
chance to avenge its only
Big West loss and a tie game
with seconds rapidly tick-
ing off the clock, UC Irvine
bounced the ball in to for-
ward Tommy Rutherford.
One dribble, then two,
then Rutherford turned
and with a soft touch
pushed a hook shot up and
into the basket with two
seconds remaining.
Long Beach State for-
ward K.J. Byers was off
with his half-court at-
tempt at the buzzer, and
Irvine escaped the Walter
Pyramid with an 82-80 re-
venge win in the Black and
Blue Rivalry rematch.
“We were fortunate that
we were able to win,” UCI
head coach Russell Turner
said. “I’m happy for all of
our guys because every-
one had a positive part in
how that play unfolded.
Our spacing was good and
PHOTO BY TRACEY ROMAN Tommy rose up over a top-
UC Irvine’s Evan Leonard goes up for a shot on Long level defender and deliv-
Beach State at the Walter Pyramid on Saturday. ered it.”
USC BASKETBALL
Trojans bounce
back to earn split
on Washington trip
By Ricky Hester
The Associated Press
PULLMAN, WASH. » The Tro-
jans were able to bounce
back after a disappointing
loss to Washington earlier
in the week by splitting
their two-game trip.
Nick Rakocevic scored
25 points and grabbed 13
rebounds for his 11th dou-
ble-double of the year and
USC never trailed en route
to a 93-84 win over Wash-
ington State.
“We turned the ball over
too many times, and we had
some offensive rebounding
breakdowns when we gave
too many second chance
points up to Washington,”
USC coach Andy Enfield
said. “That was our two big
emphasis in today’s game.”
Jonah Mathews scored 20
points on 6-7 shooting from
3-point range for USC (13-
9, 6-3 Pac-12). Bennie Boat-
wright added 18 points and
five rebounds and Derryck
Thornton scored 12 points
with 6 assists.
Robert Franks scored 25
points for Washington State
(8-14, 1-8). Ahmed Ali added
18 points and seven assists
with Aljaz Kunc scoring a
career high 14 points.
USC exploded to start
the game with a 16-4 run
in the first seven minutes.
Shaqquan Aaron knocked
down a 3-pointer, followed
by a jumper from Thornton
and a big dunk underneath
the basket by Victor Uyae-
lunmo.
“I thought our guys
played with a lot of energy
to start the game, which we
have been. We have won
four out of the last five and
in the four games we won,
we had a lot of energy,” En-
field said.
WSU fought back with
an 8-0 run of their own to
make it a seven-point game
after 3’s from Kunc and
Viont’e Daniels, followed by
a layup from Franks.
“We had just a horren-
dous start to the game
shooting. I didn’t feel like
we were very talkative on
defense either,” WSU coach
Ernie Kent said. “When you
don’t have that kind of en-
ergy on defense, it will af-
fect your offense a little bit.”
USC answered with a
17-2 run over 3:30 to re-
take a 19-point lead. Ra-
kocevic scored the first six
points of the run after a la-
yup and four-point play. Ra-
kocevic was fouled on a la-
yup, missed his free throw
and recovered his own re-
bound for an easy bucket
under the rim completing
the four-point play.
The run was capped by
a jumper from Thornton
and a 3-pointer from Boat-
wright. USC lead at half-
time 47-33 shooting 63 per-
cent from the field.
WSU cut the lead to eight
points at one point in the
second half but USC went on
an 11-2 run over 3:30 with a
STANDINGS
CONF OVERALL
UC Irvine 7-1 19-5
CS Fullerton 5-2 9-12
UCSB 4-2 15-5
Hawaii 4-2 13-7
CSUN 4-3 10-13
UC Davis 2-4 6-14
LBSU 2-5 8-15
UC Riverside 2-6 8-16
Cal Poly 1-6 5-15
Saturday’s results
UC Davis 84, UC Riverside 71
CSUN 83, Cal Poly 65
UC Irvine 82, LBSU 80
UCSB at Hawaii, late
Wednesday’s games
CSUN at UCSB, 7 p.m.
CS Fullerton at UC Irvine, 7 p.m.
When Long Beach State
beat UC Irvine in January,
it seemed that the 49ers
might be a Big West con-
tender.
The three weeks since,
have proved that those as-
sumptions from last month
couldn’t have been further
from the truth.
Irvine (19-5, 7-1 in Big
West) has now won five in
a row to take over the top
spot in the conference and
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019
AP
USC forward Nick Rakocevic
dunks for two of his 25
points in Pullman, Wash.
THE SCORE
USC 93, WASH. ST. 84
Up next: Utah (11-10, 5-4
Pac-12) at USC (13-9, 6-3),
Wednesday, 8 p.m., Pac-12
Network
SUMMARY
USC (13-9)
Rakocevic 9-16 7-9 25, Boatwright 6-12
5-7 18, Thornton 6-10 0-1 12, Mathews 7-9
0-0 20, Aaron 1-2 5-6 8, Uyaelunmo 1-1
0-0 2, Brooks 0-2 0-0 0, Weaver 0-1 0-0 0,
Porter 3-3 0-2 8. Totals 33-56 17-25 93.
WASHINGTON ST. (8-14)
Pollard 1-3 0-0 2, Elleby 3-10 0-0 7, Franks
8-17 6-6 25, Cannon 1-5 0-0 3, Robinson
0-2 0-0 0, Wade 3-3 0-0 6, Kunc 4-5 4-4 14,
Ali 6-15 2-2 18, Daniels 1-3 0-0 3, Skaggs
2-6 0-0 6. Totals 29-69 12-12 84.
Halftime: USC 47-33; 3-Point Goals: USC
10-18 (Mathews 6-7, Porter 2-2, Aaron 1-2,
Boatwright 1-5, Weaver 0-1, Thornton 0-1),
Washington St. 14-41 (Ali 4-12, Franks 3-9,
Kunc 2-3, Skaggs 2-6, Daniels 1-3, Elleby
1-3, Cannon 1-4, Robinson 0-1); Fouled Out:
Wade, Kunc; Rebounds: USC 35 (Rakocevic
13), Washington St. 28 (Franks 6); Assists:
USC 19 (Thornton 6), Washington St. 17 (Ali
7); Total Fouls: USC 15, Washington St. 23;
Technicals: Aaron, Elleby.
PAC-12 STANDINGS
CONF OVERALL
Washington 9-0 18-4
Arizona State 6-3 15-6
USC 6-3 13-9
Oregon State 5-4 14-7
Arizona 5-4 14-8
UCLA 5-4 12-10
Utah 5-4 11-10
Oregon 4-5 13-9
Stanford 3-5 10-10
Colorado 3-6 12-9
Washington St. 1-8 8-14
California 0-8 5-15
Saturday’s results
Washington 69, UCLA 55
Oregon St. 81, Utah 72
USC 93, Washington St. 84
Colorado 73, Oregon 51
Today’s game
Stanford at Cal, 1 p.m.
jumper and 3-pointer from
Kevin Porter Jr. during the
run. The Trojan run gave
them a 16-point lead with
10 minutes left in the game.
T he Cougars got
within single digits after
a 3-pointer from Franks
cut the lead to eight with
22 seconds remaining but
USC would make their free
throws down the stretch to
seal the victory.
“Washington State is an
extremely dangerous team
because they shoot so many
3-point shots. They made 14
tonight, I think they shot 41
total and give them credit,”
Enfield said. “They battled
the entire game and they
made it really tough on us
to pull away, we are fortu-
nate to get a win here.”
has avenged its lone loss in
conference.
“I think our team’s confi-
dent,” Turner said. “We had
a lot of motivation in this
game, they clearly did too
with the way they played.”
Long Beach State (8-15,
2-5) finds itself in the midst
of a five-game losing streak.
“I’m disappointed just
for my guys because I re-
ally was proud of their ef-
fort,” LBSU head coach
Dan Monson said. “We just
need to play better. I know
they’re frustrated but today
we didn’t play frustrated.
They just need to stay to-
gether.”
Not that Long Beach
State didn’t put up a good
fight on Saturday.
LBSU guard Deishuan
Booker, who finished with
a game-high 29 points, hit
a reverse layup to give the
Beach a three-point lead
with 3:42 to play, flexing to
the Long Beach crowd as
Irvine called a timeout.
But Irvine’s Evan Leon-
ard, who had a team high
18, hit a corner 3. Including
that shot, UCI hit its final
four shots.
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8 B SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Standings LAKERS LAKERS NOTES

WESTERN CONFERENCE

PACIFIC DIVISION A sore

James
W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away
Golden State 37 15 .712 — 9-1 W-1 19-7 18-8
Clippers 29 24 .547 8 1/2 5-5 W-1 15-12 14-12
Sacramento 27 25 .519 10 6-4 W-2 16-10 11-15

sits out
Lakers 27 26 .509 10 1/2 4-6 L-1 16-12 11-14
Phoenix 11 43 .204 27 0-10 L-10 7-20 4-23
SOUTHWEST DIVISION

W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away

San Antonio 32 22 .593 — 7-3 W-5 22-7 10-15
Houston 30 22 .577 1 6-4 W-1 19-8 11-14
Dallas 24 28 .462 7 4-6 W-1 18-7 6-21
New Orleans 23 30 .434 8 1/2 3-7 L-2 15-9 8-21
By Kyle Goon
Memphis 20 33 .377 11 1/2 1-9 L-3 12-14 8-19 kgoon@scng.com
NORTHWEST DIVISION @kylegoon on Twitter
W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away
OAKLAND » L eBron
Denver
Oklahoma City
37
33
15
18
.712
.647
—
3 1/2
8-2
8-2
W-6
W-7
23-4
17-7
14-11
16-11
James said it himself
Portland 32 20 .615 5 7-3 W-3 22-7 10-13 Thursday night. During
Utah 30 24 .556 8 7-3 L-1 16-10 14-14 his recovery, there were
Minnesota 25 27 .481 12 5-5 L-1 17-10 8-17
days he felt great; then
EASTERN CONFERENCE a day or two later, he
wouldn’t feel so good.
ATLANTIC DIVISION That one-step-for-
W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ward, one-step-back
Toronto 37 16 .698 — 6-4 L-1 21-5 16-11 BEN MARGOT — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS process continued this
Philadelphia 34 19 .642 3 7-3 L-1 21-5 13-14 The Warriors’ DeMarcus Cousins, center, glares at the Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma after a dunk. weekend as the Lak-

Shorthanded Lakers
Boston 33 19 .635 3 1/2 8-2 W-3 21-6 12-13
Brooklyn 28 26 .519 9 1/2 7-3 L-2 16-11 12-15 ers decided to hold out
New York 10 41 .196 26 0-10 L-12 4-19 6-22 James from Saturday’s
SOUTHEAST DIVISION marquee game with the
W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Golden State Warriors.
The official designation

no match for champs

Charlotte 26 26 .500 — 7-3 W-2 19-8 7-18
Miami 24 27 .471 1 1/2 3-7 L-3 11-16 13-11 for his absence was “load
Washington 22 30 .423 4 5-5 L-1 16-10 6-20
Orlando 22 31 .415 4 1/2 3-7 W-2 14-15 8-16 management,” but Coach
Atlanta 17 35 .327 9 4-6 W-1 8-13 9-22 Luke Walton said it had
CENTRAL DIVISION much to do with his sore-
W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away ness after playing 40
Milwaukee 38 13 .745 — 9-1 W-3 22-4 16-9
By Kyle Goon THE SCORE poster jam drowned them minutes in a comeback
WARRIORS 115, LAKERS 101 out as the Warriors faithful victory over the Clippers.
Indiana 33 19 .635 5 1/2 5-5 W-1 18-7 15-12
Detroit 22 29 .431 16 4-6 L-1 14-13 8-16 kgoon@scng.com
@kylegoon on Twitter cheered. “It’s more just him be-
Chicago
Cleveland
12
11
41
42
.226
.208
27
28
2-8
3-7
L-1
L-1
5-20
6-20
7-21
5-22
Up next: Lakers at Pacers, From then on, Golden ing sore after five weeks
OAKLAND » Less than an
Tuesday, 4 p.m., SpecSN State outscored the Lakers of him not playing bas-
Saturday’s results Sacramento 115, Philadelphia 108
Clippers 111, Detroit 101 Today’s games
hour and a half before tip- SUMMARY 40-20. A particular fourth- ketball,” he said. “It is a
Charlotte 125, Chicago 118 Memphis at New York, 10 a.m. off, word filtered through the Lakers Min FG FT Reb A PF Pts quarter stint when the Lak- few days from our last
Milwaukee 131, Washington 115 Oklahoma City at Boston, 11 a.m. locker rooms and the tun- Cldwll-Ppe 27:12 5-9 0-3 3-6 0 0 12 ers subbed out Rajon Rondo game till our next one
Orlando 102, Brooklyn 89 Clippers at Toronto, noon
Dallas 111, Cleveland 98 Monday’s games
nels of Oracle Arena: LeB- Kuzma 31:37 4-12 4-4 3-4 2 1 13 went poorly, as the Warriors in Indy, so when me and
Indiana 95, Miami 88 Atlanta at Washington, 4 p.m. ron James, still sore from Zubac
Ingram
25:55 5-11 0-1 3-9 1 3 10
39:09 9-21 2-2 0-4 3 3 20
grew their lead to double fig- him spoke, it’s, ‘As much
Golden State 115, Lakers 101 Denver at Detroit, 4 p.m. his comeback on Thursday Rondo 37:53 5-14 1-2 0-8 11 3 12 ures. as you want to play, let’s
San Antonio 113, New Orleans 108
Atlanta 118, Phoenix 112
Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m. night, would not play against Stephensn 24:05 4-13 0-0 1-6 4 3 10 “Some of their role play- make sure you’re making
Indiana at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Hart 20:37 0-2 0-0 2-5 1 1 0
Denver 107, Minnesota 106 Houston at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Golden State. McGee 10:47 4-5 1-2 1-2 0 2 9 ers got hot down the stretch the smart decision.’ So he
Houston 125, Utah 98 San Antonio at Sacramento, 7 p.m. What followed was a Wagner 10:36 3-3 0-1 0-3 0 1 7 and some of their key guys came over early, and the
somewhat improvised ad- BeasleyBonga
7:53 2-4 2-2 0-1 0 1 6
2:08 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 0 0
got hot making shots,” Bran- decision was made.”
justment: Many of James’ Mykhailiuk 2:08 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 don Ingram said. “Our ro- James was in the
HIGHLIGHTS teammates said later that Totals 240:00 42-96 10-17 13-49 23 18 101 tations were a little bit late building Saturday at Or-

Antetokounmpo posts a
perfect night from FT line
By The Associated Press
Giannis Antetokounmpo
scored 37 points, making
all of his season-high 17 free
throws in a perfect night at
the line for Milwaukee, and
had 10 rebounds to help the
NBA-leading Bucks rout the
Washington Wizards 131-115
on Saturday night.
Two games ahead of To-
ronto for the Eastern Con-
ference lead, the Bucks have
won three straight, nine of 10
and 20 of 24.
Brook Lopez added 21
points, and Khris Middleton
had 20. Starting point guard
Eric Bledsoe sat out to rest a
sore left Achilles.
The Bucks were 24 of 24
from the free-throw line.
They had a 17-2 run late in
the second quarter, led by 23
at halftime and 32 early in
third quarter.
MAGIC 102, NETS 89 » Nikola
Vucevic had 24 points and
12 rebounds, Evan Fournier
added 16 points and Or-
lando beat Brooklyn.
HORNETS 125, BULLS 118 »
Kemba Walker had 15 of
his 37 points in the fourth
quarter and Charlotte
pulled away to beat Chicago
for its fifth straight victory.
MAVERICKS 111, CAVALIERS
98 » Rookie Luka Doncic
matched his season high
with 35 points and did a lit-
tle bit of everything for Dal-
las, and Harrison Barnes
scored 13 points in the
fourth quarter.
PACERS 95, HEAT 88 » Bo-
jan Bogdanovic scored 31
points, Darren Collison
added 20 and Indiana had
a big third quarter to beat
stumbling Miami.
SPURS 113, PELICANS 108 »
LaMarcus Aldridge had 25
points and 14 rebounds and
San Antonio held off de-
pleted New Orleans.
HAWKS 118, SUNS 112 » John
Collins matched his career
high with 35 points and fell
one shy of his career best
with 16 rebounds.
NUGGETS 10 7, TIMBER-
WOLVES 106 » Nikola Jokic
had his 25th career triple-
double with 13 points, 16
rebounds and 10 assists,
including a late full-court
pass that set up a key basket
to help Denver hang on for
a victory over Minnesota.
ROCKETS 125, JAZZ 98 » James
Harden had 43 points for
his 26th straight game with
at least 30 points in Hous-
ton’s victory over Utah.
KINGS 115, 76ERS 108 » Buddy
Hield had 34 points and 13
rebounds to lead Sacra-
mento past Philadelphia.
they didn’t have any inkling Percentages: FG .438, FT .588; 3-Point at times, and they knocked acle Arena — the same
that the 34-year-old might Goals: 7-27, .259 (Caldwell-Pope 2-5,
Stephenson 2-8, Wagner 1-1, Kuzma 1-4, down some key (shots) and venue where he first in-
rest until they arrived to Rondo 1-5, Hart 0-1, McGee 0-1, Ingram gained momentum.” jured the groin that kept
0-2); Team rebounds: 8; Team turnovers:
play. But perhaps the Lakers 15 (18 PTS); Blocked shots: 4 (Zubac 2, Rondo was a major stand- him out for 17 straight
have gotten used to playing Stephenson
Hart, Ingram); Turnovers: 15 (Rondo 4,
4, Kuzma 2, McGee 2, Hart,
out for the Lakers in James’ games — but was not
without James over the last Ingram, Zubac); Steals: 5 (Caldwell-Pope absence, clocking 12 points, seated on the bench.
2, Hart, Rondo, Stephenson); Technical
month-and-a-half, because fouls: coach Lakers (Defensive three 11 assists and eight rebounds About an hour before the
even so, they put a scare into second), 11:33 third, Hart, 3:15 third. in another near triple-dou- tip, when he was already
the defending champs. Golden State Min FG FT Reb A PF Pts ble effort. Ingram scored 20 declared out, he was seen
The clouds opened for just Durant 34:37 8-13 5-5 1-5 11 1 21 points to continue his recent receiving treatment from
Green 27:24 2-5 0-0 2-3 7 5 4
a moment in the third quar- Cousins 24:35 5-15 7-7 1-10 4 3 18 hot run. the Lakers training staff
ter, as the Lakers surged Curry 32:51 5-15 2-3 0-4 2 2 14 It started out as one-sided and wearing an ice pack
ahead, powered by second- Thompson 35:30 10-15 4-4 0-5 2 2 28
Iguodala 26:01 7-9 0-0 1-3 4 1 17
as the match-up looked on on his injured left groin.
chance points and hustle. Looney 18:59 1-4 0-0 1-8 1 2 2 paper: The Warriors led 22-8 Kentavious Caldwell-
But just as swiftly, the mo- Livingston 14:55 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 less than six minutes in, and Pope started in his place.
ment passed as the Warriors McKinnie
Cook
13:41 3-7 0-0 1-3 0 1 7
5:03 1-3 0-0 0-2 0 0 2 the Lakers seemed over- James looked sore
overpowered their visitors, Bell 2:08 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 whelmed. even after his return
115-101. Jerebko 2:08 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Derrickson 2:08 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 0 0
Effort made up a lot of against the Clippers, a
In the end, it wasn’t sur- Totals 240:00 43-92 18-19 8-45 31 17 115 ground. The Lakers had 13 game in which he scored
prising that the Lakers Percentages: FG .467, FT .947; 3-Point Goals: offensive rebounds, leading 24 points, grabbed 14 re-
(27-26) fell on Saturday 11-34, .324 (Thompson 4-7, Iguodala 3-4, to 21 second-chance points bounds and had nine as-
night. Given Klay Thomp- Curry 2-9, McKinnie 1-4, Cousins 1-5, Cook
0-1, Green 0-1, Jerebko 0-1, Durant 0-2); (the Warriors had just four). sists. Walton said the Lak-
son’s shooting (28 points), Team rebounds: 9; Team turnovers: 10 (14
PTS); Blocked shots: 9 (Green 3, Cousins 2,
They also cloistered around ers originally planned to
Andre Iguodala’s shock- Looney 2, Iguodala, McKinnie); Turnovers: Steph Curry, determined to play James between 32
ingly youthful spring (17 Livingston,
10 (Thompson 3, Curry 2, Durant 2, Cousins,
Looney); Steals: 4 (Looney 2,
not let the two-time MVP and 35 minutes.
points) and a double-dou- Green, Iguodala); Technical fouls: Cousins, beat them at the 3-point “But once it got into
5:28 third, Durant, 3:15 third.
ble night from DeMarcus line, where he’s most dan- overtime, there was no
Cousins (18 points, 10 re- Lakers
Golden State
24 34 28 15 — 101
33 30 25 27 — 115
gerous. taking him out at that
bounds), Golden State al- A: 19,596 (19,596); T: 2:14; Officials: Mike That helped lead to a dra- point,” Walton said.
ways had a bigger arsenal Callahan, Tyler Ford, Mitchell Ervin matic swing in which the The Lakers also rested
to launch. Lakers went on a 23-8 run Tyson Chandler, the old-
That talent margin wid- “They have a lot of really to start the second half, tak- est member of the team
ened when the Lakers de- good players that made plays ing their biggest lead on a who has now been a
clared that James would as we kind of fizzled out a lit- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope healthy scratch for three
sit out. All things consid- tle bit,” coach Luke Walton (12 points) 3-pointer in the of the last five games.
ered, the Lakers were even said. third quarter.
somewhat pleased that they While the Lakers led 81- Kevin Durant didn’t have McGee gets ring
scrambled a legitimate ef- 71 in the mid-third, that the loudest scoring night (19
fort together after James began to turn when Cous- points), but made up for it as The Warriors had to
was sidelined. But in the ins stormed down the lane a playmaker with 11 assists. delay it 11/2 months later
end, a scrappy effort was for a thunderous dunk that The problem with the War- than intended, but on Sat-
not enough to overcome the knocked Kyle Kuzma to the riors is that they always have urday night before tip-off,
odds against the Warriors. floor. Moments before, a vo- more wrinkles to add, more JaVale McGee finally got
The Lakers fell to 6-12 with- cal Lakers contingent of fans adjustments to make, given his league championship
out James on the floor this had their chants ringing out how versatile and deep their ring, presented by Andre
season. in Oracle Arena, but the roster is. Iguodala.

CLIPPERS SUMMARY

Williams scores 16 in a row to help beat Detroit

Clippers Min FG FT Reb A PF Pts
Bradley 25:26 2-7 0-0 1-1 2 0 6
Harris 29:25 3-12 0-0 0-8 2 2 7
Gortat 3:42 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Beverley 30:47 1-1 1-2 0-6 3 3 4
Glgs-Alxdr 30:01 4-9 5-8 1-7 5 4 14

THE SCORE
Harrell 36:03 8-13 0-5 2-7 1 4 16
By The Associated Press 16 points and Mike Scott Williams 34:47 13-2611-11 1-3 9 0 39

CLIPPERS 111, PISTONS 101 added 15. Scott 20:47 5-6 2-2 1-4 0 5 15
DETROIT» The Clippers Only one starter was in Marjanovic 16:37 4-6 2-6 5-10 0 3 10

wiped out a 23-point deficit Up next: Clippers at Raptors, double figures, and that
Robinson
Wallace
8:58 0-0 0-0 0-1
2:00 0-0 0-0 0-0
0
0
0
1
0
0
in less than nine minutes. Sunday, noon, Prime was Shai Gilgeous-Alex- Motley 1:27 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0

Then Lou Williams took
over.
Williams scored 16
points in a row during
a torrid fourth-quarter
stretch, and the Clippers
dominated the final period
of a 111-101 victory over the
Detroit Pistons on Satur-
day night.
The Clippers trailed by
25 in the second quarter
and were down 83-60 in
the third before storming
back to tie the game at 89
in the fourth.
It was 91-all before Wil-
liams scored every Los An-
geles point during a deci-
sive run that put the Clip-
pers up 107-96.
“When you’re down big
like that, you try to get it
to 12. Then you try to get it
to eight at a certain point,
try to get it to six and give
yourself an opportunity to
win the game,” Williams
said. “Like clockwork, we
DUANE BURLESON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clippers guard Lou Williams, right, goes to the basket past
Pistons guard Bruce Brown in the second half.
were hitting all of those
spots, and we gave our-
selves an opportunity to go
win the game at about the
eight-minute mark.”
The rally from 25 down
was the largest regular-sea-
son comeback in Clippers
history.
They rallied from 24
down against Chicago in
2004.
Williams finished with
39 points.
Detroit’s Blake Griffin
had 24 points and 11 re-
bounds against his former
team, and Reggie Jackson
added 29 points for the Pis-
tons.
“Devastating is the word
for that game. I thought
we played some of our best
basketball all season in
the first half. We were en-
gaged and we were mov-
ing the ball,” Detroit coach
Dwane Casey said. “In the
ander, who scored 14. Los Totals 240:00 40-82 21-34 11-47 22 24 111
second half, we didn’t send Angeles has had a bigger Percentages: FG .488, FT .618; 3-Point
Goals: 10-20, .500 (Scott 3-3, Bradley 2-4,
Lou Williams the right way comeback than this in the Williams 2-4, Beverley 1-1, Gilgeous-Al-
all half. Everyone in the postseason. exander 1-3, Harris 1-5); Team rebounds:
15; Team turnovers: 12 (14 PTS); Blocked
league knows which way The Clippers rallied from shots: 4 (Beverley 2, Gilgeous-Alexander,
Harrell); Turnovers: 12 (Gilgeous-Alex-
Lou wants to go with the 27 down against Memphis ander 2, Harris 2, Motley 2, Williams 2,
ball, and we let him do it in 2012. Beverley, Gortat, Harrell, Scott); Steals:
5 (Gilgeous-Alexander 3, Harrell, Marja-
every time.” Detroit finished 17 of 42 novic); Technical fouls: coach Clippers
The Pistons led 40-22 af- from 3-point range, going (Defensive three second), 6:21 second,
coach Doc Rivers, 9:07 third.
ter a first quarter in which 6 of 22 in the second half. Detroit Min FG FT Reb A PF Pts
they made eight 3-point- The Pistons gave up To- Bullock 32:52 5-6 4-4 0-4 1 1 19
ers. Los Angeles took three bias Harris, Avery Bradley Griffin 42:22 9-23 3-4 0-11 6 5 24
timeouts in the game’s first and Boban Marjanovic in Drummond 22:40 5-8 2-4 4-11 1 6 12
Brown 21:37 0-5 0-2 0-1 2 4 0
5:25, but that didn’t do the deal for Griffin. Jackson 36:23 11-22 2-2 0-2 7 1 29
much to stem the tide. Those three combined Pachulia 24:49 1-2 3-4 3-8 1 3 5
Detroit led 65-47 at half- for 23 points Saturday. Johnson
Kennard
17:45 1-3
16:41 1-5
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
1
0
2
3
3
3
time. It was still a comfort- Griffin outscored them Galloway 13:14 0-5 0-0 0-1 0 2 0
able margin until the very by one, but didn’t get the Smith 11:37 2-4 0-0 0-0 2 0 6
end of the third, when the win. Totals 240:00 35-83 14-20 7-38 21 27 101
Clippers — who were start- “We just did a poor job Percentages: FG .422, FT .700; 3-Point
Goals: 17-42, .405 (Bullock 5-5, Jackson
ing a six-game road trip — picking it up on defense,” 5-9, Griffin 3-12, Smith 2-2, Johnson 1-3,
began to make a game of it. Griffin said. “Down the Kennard 1-4, Drummond 0-1, Brown 0-3,
Galloway 0-3); Team rebounds: 9; Team
Williams made a pair stretch in the third quarter, turnovers: 14 (19 PTS); Blocked shots: 4
of 3-pointers during his we had some turnovers — (Drummond 3, Galloway); Turnovers: 14
(Griffin 5, Bullock 3, Drummond 3, Brown,
16-point tear in the fourth. I had a turnover — and we Johnson, Pachulia); Steals: 6 (Drummond
2, Pachulia 2, Jackson, Kennard).
Los Angeles outscored the missed some shots. When
Pistons 35-14 in the final that happens, you have to Clippers
Detroit
22
40
25
25
29
22
35 — 111
14 — 101
period. sit down and play defense, A: 17,862 (20,491); T: 2:27; Officials: James
Montrezl Harrell scored and we didn’t do that.” Williams, Brandon Adair, Kevin Scott
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NHL
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP B

Standings DUCKS DUCKS

WESTERN CONFERENCE

PACIFIC DIVISION
Perry
Calgary
San Jose
W
33
29
L
14
16
OT
5
7
Pts
71
65
GF
193
187
GA
149
167
Home
17-4-5
17-4-4
Away
16-10-0
12-12-3
returns
to lineup
Vegas 29 21 4 62 160 148 16-6-3 13-15-1
Vancouver 24 22 6 54 152 162 12-10-3 12-12-3
Ducks 21 22 9 51 123 162 10-8-8 11-14-1
Arizona 23 23 4 50 132 142 9-12-3 14-11-1
Edmonton 23 24 4 50 148 168 12-13-1 11-11-3
Kings 20 27 4 44 116 154 12-13-1 8-14-3
CENTRAL DIVISION By Elliott Teaford
W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away
eteaford@scng.com
@ElliottTeaford on Twitter
Winnipeg 34 16 2 70 185 146 20-6-2 14-10-0
Nashville 31 19 4 66 166 139 16-10-0 15-9-4
Dallas 27 21 4 58 133 130 17-8-2 10-13-2
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA »
Minnesota 26 22 4 56 146 149 13-9-4 13-13-0 Corey Perry said sleep
Colorado
St. Louis
22
23
21
22
8
5
52
51
170
143
167
151
10-9-5
12-13-2
12-12-3
11-9-3
came easily to him Fri-
Chicago 20 24 9 49 167 196 10-10-6 10-14-3 day evening. There was
an early-morning prac-
EASTERN CONFERENCE tice at the Ducks’ Ana-
ATLANTIC DIVISION
heim training facility, a
four-hour flight to Win-
W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away
nipeg and then it was
Tampa Bay 39 11 2 80 205 146 20-5-0 19-6-2
Toronto 31 17 3 65 179 145 15-11-1 16-6-2
time to rest and recover
Montreal 28 18 6 62 156 152 14-10-3 14-8-3 for his season debut Sat-
Boston 27 17 7 61 148 135 17-7-3 10-10-4 urday against the Jets.
Buffalo 25 20 6 56 148 156 14-7-3 11-13-3
Florida 21 21 8 50 156 175 11-7-5 10-14-3 “The two nights be-
Detroit 21 25 7 49 150 174 11-12-4 10-13-3 fore, that was a differ-
Ottawa 19 28 5 43 159 194 12-11-4 7-17-1
ent story, but (Friday)
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
night I did sleep a lit-
W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away tle bit and I feel good,”
N.Y. Islanders 30 15 6 66 151 125 15-7-4 15-8-2 Perry said before ending
Washington 28 17 6 62 175 165 14-8-4 14-9-2
Pittsburgh 28 18 6 62 183 160 15-9-2 13-9-4 a 51-game absence fol-
Columbus 28 20 3 59 163 159 14-11-2 14-9-1 lowing right knee sur-
Carolina
Philadelphia
25
23
20
23
6
6
56
52
145
151
151
176
14-8-4
12-10-3
11-12-2
11-13-3
JOHN WOODS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS gery Sept. 26. “Nervous,
N.Y. Rangers 22 22 7 51 145 171 13-8-5 9-14-2 The Jets’ Tyler Myers, right, and Brendan Lemieux (48) celebrate Myers’ goal past Ducks excited. All of the above.”
New Jersey 20 24 7 47 152 173 13-7-4 7-17-3 sprawling goaltender Chad Johnson, giving Winnipeg a 7-2 lead in the second period. Perry, a right wing,

Ducks follow break

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each
division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. was expected to be
Saturday’s results Vancouver 5, Colorado 1
sidelined for up to five
Philadelphia 5, Edmonton 4, OT Arizona at San Jose, late months initially, which
New Jersey 3, Montreal 2, OT Today’s games would have put his re-
Detroit 2, Ottawa 0 Boston at Washington, 9:30 a.m. turn to the lineup

St. Louis 4, Columbus 2
Florida 3, Vegas 1
N.Y. Islanders 4, Kings 2
Winnipeg 9, Ducks 3
Toronto 3, Pittsburgh 2
Dallas 3, Nashville 1
Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Rangers 2
Chicago 4, Minnesota 3, OT
HIGHLIGHTS
with breakdowns
Edmonton at Montreal, 11 a.m.
Calgary at Carolina, 11 a.m.
roughly a month after
Monday’s games his actual comeback.
Kings at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. But four months was
Vancouver at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. long enough, as far as
Ducks at Toronto, 4 p.m.
Arizona at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. he was concerned. He’d
never played fewer than
By Elliott Teaford THE SCORE “I never expected us to 56 games in a full NHL
eteaford@scng.com JETS 9, DUCKS 3 perform the way we did to- season. And that was
night with the group we during his rookie sea-
@ElliottTeaford on Twitter Up next: Ducks at Maple have coming off a nine-day son of 2005-06, when

Flyers run streak to WINNIPEG, MANITOBA »

Ducks said all the right
The Leafs, Monday, 4 p.m., Prime
SUMMARY
break. I figured we’d have
a little bit of a lull, but we’d
he also played 19 games
in the minors.

season-best 7 games
things Saturday after do- Ducks 0 2 1 — 3
get our feet underneath He’s never had an in-
ing almost nothing right Winnipeg 6 2 1 — 9 us. But we didn’t even ini- jury quite like this one,
on the ice during a 9-3 First Period: 1, Winnipeg, Copp 4 (Apple- tiate enough and get in- although his knee had
ton), 2:07. 2, Winnipeg, Roslovic 5 (Hel-
beatdown suffered at the lebuyck, Trouba), 5:26 (pp). 3, Winnipeg, volved enough in the hockey troubled him from al-
By The Associated Press made 34 saves. hands of the faster, more Wheeler 10 (Connor, Morrissey), 12:04.
4, Winnipeg, Little 12 (Kulikov), 15:18. 5,
game to be satisfied on that most the moment he
MAPLE LEAFS 3, PENGUINS cohesive and more oppor- Winnipeg, Roslovic 6 (Laine, Perreault), point.” made his NHL debut in
Nolan Patrick scored 2:01 2» Zach Hyman snapped tunistic Winnipeg Jets at 16:33 (pp). 6, Winnipeg, Lemieux 7
(Copp), 17:41; Penalties: Silfverberg,
Right wing Corey Perry 2005-06. Finally, during
into overtime and the Phil- a tie late in the second pe- Bell MTS Place, their 15th Ducks, (hooking), 3:34, Ritchie, Ducks, (knee surgery) and defen- the pregame warmup be-
(roughing), 15:18.
adelphia Flyers rallied past riod, Garret Sparks made loss in their past 17 games, Second Period: 7, Ducks, Ritchie 7 seman Korbinian Holzer fore a Sept. 24 exhibition,
the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 on 28 saves and Toronto beat dating to Dec. 18. (Fowler), 1:32. 8, Ducks, Sprong 9 (Hol- (wrist surgery) made their he felt something pop in
zer, Ritchie), 13:54. 9, Winnipeg, Myers 5
Saturday, extending their Pittsburgh. The Ducks gave up one (Appleton, Chiarot), 14:42. 10, Winnipeg, season debuts after sitting his knee. After an MRI,
winning streak to a season- BLUES 4, BLUE JACKETS 2 » goal for every day of their Roslovic 7 (Trouba, Little), 19:39 (pp);
Penalties: Grant, Ducks, (tripping),
out for the first 51 games. surgery was scheduled.
best seven games. Vladimir Tarasenko had a All-Star break and bye 10:22, Sprong, Ducks, (interference), Right wing Patrick Eaves Orr Limpisvasti, the
18:12.
Edmonton has lost four goal and two assists, and St. week. Third Period: 11, Winnipeg, Little 13
(fractured rib) played for Ducks’ medical director
in a row and 13 of 18. Louis beat Columbus. Break? Or breakdown? (Chiarot, Roslovic), 0:54. 12, Ducks, the first time since Nov. 9. and an orthopedic sur-
Shore 6 (Silfverberg, Del Zotto), 12:17;
Patrick won it on the RED WINGS 2, SENATORS 0 » “You don’t give yourself Penalties: Myers, WPG, (roughing), 3:55. Their returns did little to geon, repaired a torn
third opportunity by his Jonathan Bernier stopped a chance if you don’t com- Shots on Goal: Ducks 4-9-16=29. Winni- aid the defenseless Ducks. meniscus and damage to
peg 14-10-7=31; Goalies: Ducks, Johnson
line in OT after Edmonton 35 shots for his first shut- pete and we didn’t com- 2-9-0 (17 shots-14 saves), Gibson 17-17-8 “We had six goals against the MCL in Perry’s right
goalie Cam Talbot made big out of the season as Detroit pete,” Coach Randy Carlyle (14-8). Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 24-14-1
(29-26); A: 15,321 (15,321); T: 2:30; Refer-
in the first period and five knee. It was the wonky
saves on Travis Sanheim blanked Ottawa. said. “They know the mes- ees: Kevin Pollock, Francois St Laurent; came within our crease,” ligament that had both-
and James van Riemsdyk. Danny DeKeyser and sage. I spoke my piece after Linesmen: Brian Mach, Jesse Marquis.
team captain Ryan Getzlaf ered him since he was
DEVILS 3, CANADIENS 2, OT Darren Helm scored for the the first period because af- said. “We’ve got to compete a junior player with the
» Nico Hischier scored at Red Wings, who won their ter that, in my mind, you’re Wheeler, Bryan Little, Ro- harder. If you’re missing London Knights of the
1:56 of overtime after tying third straight and improved not going to have much of slovic (power play) and something, let me know be- Ontario Hockey League.
it midway through the third to 5-2-0 in their last seven an affect on them because Brendan Lemieux scored cause I need answers, too. If Now it’s been re-
period in New Jersey’s vic- games. they’re numb.” for the Central Division- you want to dumb it down paired, and the Ducks
tory over Montreal. STARS 3, PREDATORS 1 » Jack Roslovic scored leading Jets before Carlyle to a level, they had six goals hope the procedure will
Will Butcher also scored, Blake Comeau and Mattias two of his three goals in finally relieved Gibson with and five came in our crease. extend the 33-year-old
and Mackenzie Blackwood Janmark scored late in the the first period and the 2:19 remaining in the first. We’re not competing hard Perry’s career and help
stopped 37 shots for New third period to lift Dallas Jets chased Ducks goal- The Jets outshot the Ducks enough in front of our net him return to the sort
Jersey. over Nashville. tender John Gibson with 14-4 by period’s end. and they are.” of productive player he
Jesperi Kotkaniemi and LIGHTNING 3, RANGERS 2 six goals on 14 shots. The It was the first time the Getzlaf spoke in his cus- was when he was a 50-
Phillip Danault scored for » Steven Stamkos scored Jets played like the poten- Jets had scored six times in tomary even postgame goal scorer and the Hart
Montreal, playing its first in the second period to tial Stanley Cup contend- an opening period in their tone. He declined to raise Trophy winner as the
game in 10 days. Antti Ni- give Tampa Bay a three- ers they are and the Ducks history. his voice despite his obvi- league’s MVP in 2010-11.
emi made 24 saves, with goal lead, Louis Domingue played like a team that’s It was the first time the ous anger and frustration. Perry had 17 goals
Carey Price serving a one- stopped 31 shots and the lost its way. Ducks had given up six “What are you going to and 49 points last sea-
game suspension for declin- Lightning held on to beat Again. goals in any period in their do? I’m not going to yell son, which was down
ing an invitation to the All- New York. The Ducks went into history. and scream in the media,” from 19 goals and 53
Star Game. BLACKHAWKS 4, WILD 3, OT » their break with a disas- “We’ve got to test our he said. “There’s no bene- points in 2016-17, which
PA N T H E R S 3, Erik Gustafsson scored his
GOLDEN trous 5-1 loss Jan. 23 to mettle and our personnel,” fit to that. It’s about show- was down from 34 goals
KNIGHTS 1 » Mike Hoffman’s second goal of the game 1:19 the St. Louis Blues. They Carlyle said. “Our person- ing up to work tomorrow and 62 points in 2015-
third-period goal put Flor- into overtime to give Chi- returned to the ice Satur- nel has to understand what and getting things right 16. He had scored 25
ida ahead to stay and the cago a win over Minnesota. day and topped themselves happened tonight is unac- here and getting things go- goals or more in eight
Panthers defeated Vegas. CANUCKS 5, AVALANCHE 1 » with a brutal first period, ceptable and we’re going to ing the way we want them consecutive full seasons
Aleksander Barkov had Jake Virtanen and Antoine hanging Gibson out to dry hold some people account- to. When you’re in these starting in 2007-08.
a goal and an assist and Roussel each had a goal and repeatedly before Carlyle able to the way they’re play- types of situations, there’s “It’s been a long time,
Frank Vatrano also scored an assist for Vancouver. pulled him and replaced ing. Ice time. They’re going no other way to do it other a lot of hard work, but
a goal for the Panthers, who Goalie Jacob Markstrom him with Chad Johnson. to sit in the stands. There than to show up tomorrow at the same time it’s re-
won for the fourth time in added 34 saves for the Ca- A nd rew C opp, Ro - are various ways of ways to with a better attitude and a warding to get back,”
five games. James Reimer nucks. slovic (power play), Blake do it. better mindset.” Perry said.

KINGS

Dal Colle’s late goal helps Islanders rally past Kings

By Denis P. Gorman
The Associated Press
UNIONDALE, N.Y. » New York
Islanders coach Barry Trotz
believes his team’s success
can be attributed to their
simple and fundamentally
sound play.
Michael Dal Colle got the
tiebreaking goal as the Is-
landers scored three times
in less than five minutes
late in the third period to
rally for a 4-2 win over the
Kings
Casey Cizikas, Mathew
Barzal and Brock Nelson
also scored to help New
York stretch its point streak
to eight games (6-0-2) and
increase their lead atop the
Metropolitan Division to
four points over Washing-
ton and Pittsburgh.
Ryan Pulock had assists
on each of the third-period
goals, and Robin Lehner
stopped 34 shots.
ADAM HUNGER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Islanders goaltender Robin Lehner makes a save in front of
Kings left wing Brendan Leipsic on Saturday.
Dal Colle’s goal was the
second of his career, both
standing as game-winners.
Trotz likes how the fifth
overall pick in the 2014
draft has meshed with and
veteran linemates Leo Kom-
arov and Valtteri Filppula.
“That line is effective,”
Trotz said. “You don’t look
at the numbers. You look at
the intangibles. ... Those are
THE SCORE Dustin Brown had two as- there for a few minutes and
ISLANDERS 4, KINGS 2
sists for Los Angeles. Jon- they found a way to get a go-
athan Quick finished with ahead goal late. (It’s) some-
Up next: Kings at Rangers, 28 saves. thing we just have to take
Monday, 4 p.m., FSW The Kings took a 2-1 lead positives from. (I) think we
SUMMARY with 6:45 left in the third as played really hard for the
Brown’s shot from the slot whole game, but those de-
Kings
Islanders
1
1
0
0
1 —
3 —
2
4 deflected off Kovalchuk’s tails are the difference be-
First Period: 1, Islanders, Cizikas 12
skate and through Lehner’s tween winning and losing.”
(Martin, Boychuk), 6:09. 2, Kings, Kopitar legs. The second meeting of
15 (Brown, Iafallo), 8:07; Penalties: Bar-
zal, NYI, (hooking), 12:53, Kings bench, However, Barzal tied it the regular season between
served by Leipsic (too many men on the
ice), 16:49.
just 31 seconds later as he the two teams had a play-
Second Period: None; Penalties: Beauvil- scored from the right side off feel throughout. Los An-
lier, NYI, (hooking), 2:58, Leipsic, Kings,
(tripping), 7:35.
off a pass from Pulock for geles outshot New York 36-
Third Period: 3, Kings, Kovalchuk 10 his 15th. 32. The Islanders started
(Brown, Kopitar), 13:15. 4, Islanders, Barzal
15 (Bailey, Pulock), 13:46. 5, Islanders, Dal
Dal Colle then put the Is- quickly, outshooting the
Colle 2 (Komarov, Pulock), 17:37. 6, Island- landers ahead when he de- Kings 8-1 in the first 6:24,
ers, Nelson 17 (Pulock, Clutterbuck), 18:29;
Penalties: Lee, NYI, (tripping), 4:50. flected Pulock’s point shot capped off by Cizikas’ re-
Shots on Goal: Kings 8-13-15=36. Islanders past Quick with 2:23 left bound goal, his 12th, at
12-8-12=32; Goalies: Kings, Quick 9-13-3
(31 shots-28 saves). Islanders, Lehner and Nelson’s empty-netter 6:09.
16-7-4 (36-34); A: 13,917 (16,234); T: 2:32;
Referees: Chris Rooney, Justin St Pierre;
52 seconds later sealed the The Kings tied it 1:58
Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Travis Gawryletz. win and ended the Island- later as Kopitar tapped a
ers’ two-game skid (0-0-2). cross-ice feed from Alex
the things analytics can’t “We actually played Iafallo past Lehner for his
describe but only a room (well) for 55 minutes. I 15th.
can.” think that was one of our Lehner and Quick then
Anze Kopitar had a goal better efforts, quite hon- matched each other save-
and an assist, Ilya Kov- estly,” Brown said. “We just for-save until the final 7
alchuk also scored and kind of lost the intensity minutes of the game.
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SPORTSWIRE
Fowler has lead heading
into final day at Phoenix
By The Associated Press
Rickie Fowler had the
lead heading into the final
round last year at the Phoe-
nix Open, only to see the ti-
tle slip through his grip for
a second time.
He will have a big cush-
ion in his third bid to win
the championship following
a stellar display of golf.
Fowler had eight birdies
in a 7-under 64 on Saturday
at TPC Scottsdale to take a
four-shot lead over Matt
Kuchar into the final round.
Fowler opened with four
birdies in six holes and nav-
igated a difficult two-putt
on the par-4 18th hole to
reach 20-under 193.
Now it’s time to finish it
off.
“This one is definitely
high on the list, another
being Torrey Pines,” Fowler
said. “I would say between
here and there, those would
be the two highest on the
list other than a major.”
Kuchar shot a bogey-free
65 to put himself in position
for his third victory of the
wraparound PGA season.
He has been par or better
in all 19 rounds this sea-
son, winning the Mayakoba
Classic and Sony Open.
Justin Thomas, who
started one behind Fowler,
shot 65 and was five back of
his friend and desert room-
mate.
Branden Grace and
Byeong Hun An were at 13
under.
•Sergio Garcia was dis-
qualified from the Saudi
International tournament
on Saturday for damaging
greens in frustration dur-
ing his third round, and the
Spaniard said he has apol-
ogized to fellow players for
his actions.
In an eventful third
round of the new event in
the Middle East, Li Hao-
tong of China made four
eagles, including two in his
last two holes and three of
them on par 4s, to share the
lead with Dustin Johnson.
Just as Li was finishing
his round of 8-under 62,
the European Tour released
a statement saying former
Masters champion Sergio
Garcia was disqualified for
“serious misconduct.”
SKIING
Shiffrin wins her 13th
slalom of season
Mikaela Shiffrin won the
last women’s World Cup sla-
lom before the world cham-
pionships on Saturday for
her personal-best 13th vic-
tory of the season.
“I am really proud of this
whole season. My team has
done a great job. And here
we are,” the two-time over-
all champion said. “It’s hard
to put it into words,”
Shiffrin built on a com-
manding lead of a full sec-
ond after the opening run to
win the race by 0.77 ahead
of Anna Swenn Larsson of
Sweden, who earned her
first podium in her 100th
World Cup start.
Wendy Holdener of Swit-
zerland was 1.15 behind in
third for her 20th career
slalom podium without
winning — a World Cup re-
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ON THE MEND?
DESPITE THE WOUNDED IMAGE FROM CTE RISKS,
FOOTBALL MAY BE BEGINNING TO HEAL ITSELF
ATLANTA » The cultural needle, wielded Todd Ewen, the former enforcer for
by Saturday Night Live, pointed the Anaheim Ducks who took his own
squarely at football last March. life, has become a posthumous light-
The bit was an interview with sport- ning rod. Toronto doctors found no CTE
ing champions. Charles in his brain, but the BU doctors did. It
Barkley and Alex Rodri- turned out that one of the Toronto doc-
guez were joined by cast tors was an expert witness testifying
member Kenan Thompson, for the NHL in concussion cases. Still,
playing D.C. Timmons, that has little to do with what Hoge and
“the hardest-hitting man Cunnings call the “plot to destroy foot-
in football” as a Pittsburgh ball.”
Mark linebacker. The alarms might not be pitch-per-
Whicker Barkley and Rodriguez fect. But they have had an effect. There
Columnist were suave and funny. were 178 targeting calls in college foot-
Timmons was a one-car ball’s top division in both 2018 and 2017,
pileup. He kept calling his which means 178 players were ejected.
fellow guests “Greg.” He talked about In the NFL there were 17 penalties for
how tough football was and said, “If you lowering the head to initiate contact, a
want to run with the big dogs, stay out rule that was largely ridiculed and la-
of the kitchen.” beled as unenforceable. The players ad-
He ridiculed the unmarked face of justed, as they always do.
“pretty boy” Rodriguez and said, “See The game is not safe. It is safer.
these teeth? All of them are fake. And In the NFC Championship Game,
this eye is made of sugar …. But it was Nickell Robey-Coleman of the Rams was
all worth it for these four championship not whistled for pass interference on
rings, baby.” the Saints’ Tommylee Lewis. The furor
He held up three ringless fingers. rages on, with New Orleans car dealer
The host described Barkley’s 16 years Matt Bowers buying billboards through-
of playing and A-Rod’s 22. Timmons? He out Atlanta that say such things as
played seven games. “Cheated, Not Defeated.”
“Spread out over nine years,” Tim- But several commentators noted that
mons said. “But there was a death in the Robey-Coleman could have been flagged
family.” for helmet-to-helmet contact on Lewis.
“I’m so sorry,” the host said. That is an illustration of awareness.
“That’s OK,” Timmons said. “I was Michael Juels’ boys play football. He is
only dead for a little while.” the head of Gamebreaker, which has de-
It was uproarious, for a little while. veloped a soft-shell helmet that received
Then you realized that SNL was just the highest safety rating from the Vir-
turning the mirror on society. ginia Tech researchers and is now a sta-
Football is no longer about the home- ple of flag and youth leagues throughout
coming queen and the campus cachet the nation. The CIF Southern Section
and the letter sweater. It is now con- is a client, as are Texas, Arizona State,
nected with injury and risk. Its play- Texas A&M and a dozen other FBS pro-
ers are known as victims, or dupes. Par- grams. It is another example of scientific
ents quarantine their children from it as rescue.
surely as if it were whooping cough. Juels’ headgear is also used in eight
Junior varsity and freshman teams JONATHAN DANIEL — ALLSPORT other sports, including rugby and soc-
get consolidated for lack of numbers, Former NFL running back Merril Hoge says a link between CTE and football is not established. cer. College women’s soccer has a higher
even at the most fervent high schools. concussion rate than football. U.S. Soc-
Few kids take up the game for fun. It is cer banned heading for players 10 years
a means to an end. looned. Ex-Ohio State quarterback Joe University who allowed his 11-year-old old and younger in 2015. But you can
The risk is real. Chronic traumatic en- Germaine and USC offensive lineman son to play tackle football and has ques- find neuropathy experts who say head-
cephalopathy (CTE) has become an es- Deuce Lutui came from those colleges. tioned the findings of the school’s CTE ing isn’t really the problem.
tablished acronym, a doomsday buzz- Merril Hoge was an NFL running center. This would not be a controversy if
word. The Boston University CTE Center back for eight years. Most were spent “All we can say is that CTE is a pat- football wasn’t worth saving, like cock-
received 202 brains from with the Steelers, the tern,” Cummings said in an interview fighting. But it is. As Hoge says, it is the
deceased players and found first NFL team to provide for a neuropathology blog. “We don’t ultimate team sport, a community in
CTE in 177 of them, includ- “All we can say baseline testing, in the know what causes it and we don’t know which the ego-tripper cannot survive.
ing 110 out of 111 for NFL form of written questions, what it causes.” Even quarterbacks must learn to play
players and seven out of is that CTE is for concussion victims. Cummings suggests that inflamma- with others.
eight for CFL players. a pattern. We When Hoge went to the tion, after an episode of head trauma, A football program, on any level,
The doctors acknowl- don’t know Bears, he suffered a con- could cause CTE, as could opioid abuse, spawns concentric relationships, from
edged there was selection cussion but was cleared to alcohol abuse or obesity. Hoge points the players to the coaches to the fami-
bias, because families only what causes it play without precaution. to a sizeable number of NFL players in lies. There is pain and sacrifice and, yes,
sent the brains of play- and we don’t He then sued the Bears their 70s who show no signs of dementia injury and sometimes worse. In 2017
ers suspected of harboring know what it for malpractice and be- or brain damage, which doesn’t prove there were 13 deaths in all levels of the
CTE. They said genetic fac- came the first NFL player that football isn’t dangerous but may in- game. Three were attributed to brain in-
tors and substance abuse
causes.” to win such a lawsuit. dicate that it isn’t automatically debili- jury. Eight were attributed to heatstroke
could have prompted CTE — Dr. Peter Cummings His book “Brain- tating. or cardiac arrest, tragedies that can
as surely as football did. washed” is a lashing at- “The public should know that there be traced to overzealous coaches and
And the real breakthrough tack against what Hoge exists cases where neuropathologists skimpy medical attention, not the na-
will only come when play- calls “junk science.” He have looked at brains prior to the CTE ture of football itself.
ers can have their CTE measured while says the link between football and CTE Center and failed to find CTE, but when Today, 106 men of various shape, size
they’re still alive. At that point the deci- has not been fully established, and the the brains arrive ... they all have CTE,” and agility will play in front of the larg-
sions to play or not play will get easier. movement to ban youth tackle football Cummings said. “This diagnostic dis- est TV audience of the year and maybe
The wave of concussion lawsuits has ignores new safety measures, and that crepancy is alarming.” of all-time. Super Sunday has become
led to insurance difficulties. Pop Warner correlation doesn’t equal causation. a secular holiday. Some of its fans have
football is down to one insurance car- Actually Hoge doesn’t become severely fatigued over the sight
rier. In Arizona, four of Maricopa Coun- say it alone. He collaborates of Tom Brady. Nevertheless, he remains
ty’s community colleges dropped foot- with Dr. Peter Cummings, a more of a metaphor for football than
ball because insurance costs had bal- neuropathologist at Boston D.C. Timmons.

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IMPROBABLY CLOSE
Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo (15), making his eighth NFL start, was 15of 25for 212yards in L.A.’s 31-19loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIV.
THE L.A. RAMS’ FIRST SUPER BOWL CAPPED A TUMULTUOUS ’79 SEASON
By Jim Alexander
jalexander@scng.com
@Jim_Alexander on Twitter
The last Los Angeles Rams team to
play in a Super Bowl was about as un-
likely an entrant as one could imagine,
buffeted by turbulence on and off the
field but staying upright almost to the
end. By the evening of January 20, 1980 0,
the players involved were convinced thaat
not only could they have toppled the dyy-
nasty of the time, but that they’d be
back on the big stage soon.
That only reinforces the idea that it’ss
folly to assume.
The 1979 Rams were 5-6 in Novembeer.
Their fan base was surly, both because o of
the team’s performance and because of
an impending move from the Coliseum
to Anaheim Stadium, a move that would d And there was the one that got away,
set off a chain reaction of events still bee-
ing felt today. Their front office was, to
put it charitably, in an adjustment perio od
after the death of the owner and a subsee-
quent battle for control.
And they’d changed quarterbacks
in midseason, with a broken pinky fin-
ger putting Pat Haden on the sideline
and thrusting Vince Ferragamo into the
spotlight.
Of course, then. why not dream big?
Why shouldn’t they get to the Super
Bowl, which was being played in their
own back yard in Pasadena?
“We stubbed our toe several times,”
Hall of Fame defensive end Jack Young-
blood recalled in a phone conversation.
“Looking forward and thinking, ‘OK,
how do we win the division and how do
we get into the playoffs,’ some of us ...
didn’t really understand and think that
we had that possibility.
“But we kept marching forward, kept
listening to Ray. He was following up
basically what Chuck had been preach-
ing for all those years. And it worked out
to our advantage.”
Ray Malavasi had been an assistant to
Chuck Knox on teams that reached five
straight playoffs and three NFC champi-
onship games but kept falling short. Ma-
lavasi stayed on as defensive coordinator
when owner Carroll Rosenbloom hired
George Allen to replace Knox in 1978,
and he was in the right place at the
right time when Rosenbloom fired Allen
after two exhibition losses, amid player
unrest and the owner’s own exaspera-
tion with Allen’s, um, attention to detail.
Malavasi’s first team in ’78 went 12-4
but, as had happened so often that de-
cade, got within one step of the Super
Bowl and lost, 28-0 to Dallas at home.
His second team? The critics were
howling in early November, 1979, after
the Rams fell to 5-6 with a loss in Chi-
cago. But they won their next four and
clinched a weak NFC West title with a
week to play.
They faced a Cowboys team in the di-
visional round that had beaten them
30-6 in the regular season, and pulled
out a 21-19 victory in Dallas when Fer-
ragamo found Billy Waddy on a 50-yard
touchdown pass play inside the final two
minutes.
In the NFC championship game at
Tampa Bay, they held the Buccaneers to
177 yards total offense even as their de-
fensive leader, Youngblood, played with
a hairline fracture of his left fibula suf-
fered the week before. That time, Frank
Corral provided all the scoring with
three field goals in a 9-0 victory that
brought the Rams home, to face the
three-time (and defending) champion
Pittsburgh Steelers in the Rose Bowl.
It had been a turbulent season well
before it began. Rosenbloom, who had
overseen the deal that would move the
Rams defenders Nolan Cromwell (21) and Pat Thomas (27) couldn’t stop the Steelers’
Lynn Swann from making a leaping catch in the 1980title game at the Rose Bowl.
Rams to Orange County in 1980, died of
a heart attack while swimming off the
coast of Florida in April.
According to his will, his wife Geor-
gia inherited 70 percent of the team but
stepson Steve Rosenbloom, the executive
vice president, was to run the day-to-
day operation. That lasted until August.
Georgia won the power struggle, fired
Steve and installed Don Klosterman as
executive VP.
Fans, especially those in the San Fer-
nando Valley and West L.A., were un-
happy with the move away from the Col-
iseum. They let the team know of their
displeasure more than once, and in fact
had booed them off the field on the fi-
nal day of the regular season, when
the Rams used reserves and lost to the
Saints in dreary fashion with the divi-
sion already clinched.
“You know the L.A. fans as well as I do,”
Youngblood says now. “They don’t love los-
ers ... they weren’t happy with us at all.
And yeah, we felt that. We sensed that.”
Even as the Rams prepared for the
Super Bowl, some of their fans wrote
critical letters to the newspapers, and
players responded in kind. Tackle Doug
France noted during a pre-Super Bowl
media session that “in Orange County,
when the Angels lost their last game (in
the 1979 AL Championship Series), their
fans made them come back on the field.
Our fans couldn’t wait for us to get off
the field.”
Sometimes life imitates art. And
sometimes art — in this case, Warren
Beatty taking the Rams to the Super
Bowl (against the Steelers, no less) in the
1978 remake of “Heaven Can Wait” —
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE
has nothing on real life wackiness.
Amid that backdrop, with the Steelers
favored by 10 1/2 points, the Rams almost
pulled it off.
They led after the first quarter, 7-3, on
Cullen Bryant’s 1-yard run. They led at
halftime, 13-10, with Corral kicking two
field goals after Franco Harris’ touch-
down run for Pittsburgh. They led af-
ter three quarters, 19-17, with Lawrence
McCutcheon’s 24-yard halfback pass to
Ron Smith regaining the lead after Lynn
Swann caught a 45-yard scoring pass
from Terry Bradshaw. (Corral missed
the extra point, which seemed huge at
that moment.)
“The Rams played a great game that
day,” recalled Swann, now USC’s athletic
director, who noted that the Rams had
an edge with three former Steelers assis-
tants on Malavasi’s staff: offensive line
coach Dan Radakovich, receivers coach
Lionel Taylor and defensive coordinator
Bud Carson, who had been the Steelers’
defensive backs coach.
“I saw a team that came out ready to
play, well prepared,” Swann said. “Ob-
viously they knew our team extremely
well ... We had some success against that
secondary, but it took a whole game.
They weren’t giving up much of any-
thing.”
What they did ultimately give up was
too much. On a third-and-8 play from
the Steelers’ 27 early in the fourth quar-
ter, Bradshaw found John Stallworth
down the middle, with Rod Perry left in
one-on-one coverage because safety Ed-
die Brown, who was supposed to provide
help, thought there were six defensive
backs on the field. There were five. Stall-
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JOHN FILO — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE
wo orth got a step on Perry, caught the
baall at the Rams’ 34 and raced to the
ennd zone.
Ferragamo subsequently was inter-
ceepted by Jack Lambert at the Steel-
errs’ 16. Bradshaw found Stallworth
fo
or another 45 yards, this one an even
more acrobatic catch with Perry and
m
Daave Elmendorf defending. A hotly de-
baated pass interference call against
Paat Thomas put the ball on the 1, Har-
riss scored his second touchdown of the
gaame with 1:52 left to make it 31-19 after
M
Matt Bahr’s kick, and the Rams’ improb-
abble journey was about to end.
“I thought John was going to be the
M
MVP of that game,” Swann said. Brad-
sh
haw was, after throwing for 309 yards
annd two touchdowns. But Bradshaw also
waas intercepted three times.
rigght after McCutcheon’s TD pass had
giiven the Rams the lead.
“They called a pass play, and I was
litterally, unfortunately, one step from
Teerry when he threw the ball,” Young-
blood recalled. “It was a check-down.
An
And Nolan Cromwell ... he stepped in
front of it, and when he did the ball hit
him between the two and the one (on
his jersey).
“I went, ‘We’re in.’ I turned and looked
and there was nobody I was going to
have to block to get him in the end zone.
And the ball bounced off his chest ... You
could throw him that ball 10,000 times
and he’d catch every one of them. And it
just so happened he didn’t that day.”
Said Cromwell after the game: “I just
took my eye off of it.”
If he returns that for a score, it’s 26-
17 Rams and who knows how the rest of
the day plays out. As it was, Bradshaw
was intercepted later in that drive any-
way, but the Rams went three-and-out.
The Steelers, as dynastic teams do, ulti-
mately locked things up.
The tone of the day was summed up
by Tom Brookshier, who teamed with
Pat Summerall on CBS’ broadcast: “I’ve
never seen anything like the Rams. I
guess I wasn’t expecting to see this kind
of game. They are tough.”
And Ferragamo, who completed 15 of
25 passes for 212 yards while making
just his eighth NFL start on the game’s
biggest stage, said afterward: “We’ll get
another shot next year. Yeah, we’ll be
back. Next year we’ll win it.”
Those Rams never did, and the whole
landscape of pro football was about to
change. While that Super Bowl week
was unfolding, the Rams-Steelers
buildup shared the local news with the
Coliseum’s talks with Raiders boss Al
Davis. The Rams relocated in Anaheim
for the 1980 season, while the Raid-
ers moved to L.A. in 1982, won Super
Bowl XVIII a season later and cultivated
a Southern California fan base that is
still thriving, two moves later, with the
again-Oakland Raiders headed for Las
Vegas in 2020.
The Rams reached the playoffs seven
times in Anaheim, including six trips in
seven years under John Robinson, but
didn’t get back to a Super Bowl. They
left for St. Louis in 1995, won a Super
Bowl in January 2000 and lost one two
years later to the very team and quar-
terback they’ll face today, New England
and Tom Brady.
With this Super Bowl appearance,
they have a chance to re-expand their
own Southern California fan base.
But the moral of this story? Don’t as-
sume, and don’t take Super Bowl visits
for granted.
jalexander@scng.com
@Jim_Alexander on Twitter
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THE RAMS’ WAY

YOUNG COACH MCVAY CREATED A WINNING CULTURE IN L.A.
By Rich Hammond
rhammond@scng.com
@Rich_Hammond on Twitter
Three years after he relocated the
Rams, two years after he hired the
youngest coach in NFL history, owner
Stan Kroenke stood in the middle of a
celebratory locker room after his team
won the NFC championship.
Kroenke, resplendent in a navy-blue
suit, hair never out of place, looked
ready to party with his players.
“You see them,” Kroenke said. “This
team, really, when you look at it, why
they’ve been successful is, you’ve got
special players and they’re very good
and they’re able to talk about ‘we not
me,’ and players believe that. Sean (Mc-
Vay) has created that special culture.”
It didn’t take long. As General Man-
ager Les Snead said that night, after
the Rams beat New Orleans, the blue-
print for McVay’s January 2017 hiring
never involved a Super Bowl appear-
ance two years later. That would have
seemed, absurd, yet here the Rams are,
ready to play New England in Atlanta.
The expectation, back in early Sep-
tember, was for a special season and,
perhaps, a championship. That path
wasn’t a straight, simple one, but here’s
a look at the 2018 Rams’ road to the Su-
per Bowl:
How they got here
The first half of this season went
like a dream for the Rams, as they
went 8-0 and sparked MVP candida-
cies for Jared Goff, Todd Gurley and
Aaron Donald. A thrilling Nov. 4 loss at
New Orleans, in which the Rams tied
the game in the fourth quarter after a
21-point deficit, was balanced by the
most entertaining game of the NFL’s
entire regular season, when the Rams
beat Kansas City 54-51 on Nov. 19.
Then came the late-season wobble.
After their Thanksgiving bye week, the
Rams looked flat in a narrow victory
against Detroit, then scored a total of
only 32 points in consecutive losses to
Chicago and Philadelphia. They were
able to reset with late-season victories
over Arizona and San Francisco, then
played outstanding defense — particu-
larly against the run — in a divisional-
round playoff victory over Dallas and
the NFC Championship Game against
New Orleans, an overtime victory that
included a controversial non-call late in
the fourth quarter.
Turning point
It actually came in a defeat. On
Dec. 16 at the Coliseum, the Eagles
were dominant and led 30-13 in the
first minute of the fourth quarter. The
Rams looked lost on both sides of the
ball. That’s when Rams cornerback
Aqib Talib intercepted Eagles quarter-
back Nick Foles. The Rams scored 10
points in the next 10 minutes, and had
two chances to tie the game late in the
fourth quarter, but JoJo Natson fum-
bled a punt return and Goff threw in-
complete from the Eagles’ 18-yard
line on the final play of a 30-23 de-
feat. Still, the Rams seemed to exhale.
They smashed the Cardinals and 49ers
to finish the regular season. Goff, af-
Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald led the NFL this season with 20.5sacks.
Robert Woods had 1,219receiving yards and six TDs in a breakthrough season.
ter some struggles against the Lions,
Bears and Eagles, regained most of his
early-season form and the Rams’ de-
fense found a new level, as they held
the Cowboys and Saints to 22 and 23
points, respectively, in playoff victories.
Unsung hero:
Robert Woods, receiver
The Rams’ offense wobbled a bit,
in terms of production, when receiver
Cooper Kupp suffered a season-ending
knee injury in November, but Woods
has been a season-long stabilizing
force. Woods’ skill-set allowed him to
take over Kupp’s slot-receiver duties on
many plays but didn’t decrease his pro-
duction. Woods, who never had totaled
more than 781 receiving yards in a sea-
son, finished with a team-high total of
1,219, plus a career-high six touchdown
catches.
Woods totaled at least 60 receiving
yards in 14 of his 16 games this season.
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A crisp route runner with great hands,
Woods didn’t seem like much of a bar-
gain when the Rams signed him to a
five-year, $34-million contract before
the 2017 season. Now, that deal seems
like a steal. Woods now has proven that
his middling numbers in Buffalo —
which drafted him out of USC — were
more of a product of poor quarterback
play and uninspired offenses. Woods,
a former track standout, even has
thrived with the Rams’ jet-sweep plays,
as he totaled 157 rushing yards and one
touchdown in the regular season.
X-factor player:
Ndamukong Suh, defensive tackle
It took a while, but in the playoffs,
Suh showed why the Rams chose to in-
vest a major chunk of their offseason
budget — $14 million — into a one-year
contract for Suh. He was dominant in
the Rams’ two playoff victories. During
the regular season, Suh recorded only
4.5 sacks in 16 games, even though op-
ponents frequently double-teamed the
guy lining up next to him, Aaron Don-
ald. Suh is aggressive about getting
into the backfield, which is good, but
also can over-pursue and get beat by
run plays. In the playoffs, Suh has been
very disciplined and stout, and that’s a
big reason why neither Dallas’ Ezekiel
Elliott nor New Orleans’ Alvin Kamara
had much running room.
Top newcomer:
Brandin Cooks, receiver
Some eyebrows were raised when
the Rams gave up a first-round pick for
Cooks, then signed him to a massive
contract extension. Why the rush to
lock up someone who had been traded
twice in two years? Cooks proved to be
a great fit for the Rams. Not only did
he, as expected, give the Rams a deep-
ball threat because of his speed, but he
also displayed an underrated ability to
make tough catches.
Offensive player of the year:
Jared Goff, quarterback
This is a tough one. Running back
Todd Gurley put forth another excel-
lent season and, if not for a late-sea-
son knee injury, might have been the
NFL’s leading rusher, but Goff took an-
other big step forward in 2018. Goff im-
proved his yardage total, touchdown
total and yards-per-attempt average
and nearly surpassed Jim Everett’s sin-
gle-season record for passing yards.
Goff surely wasn’t perfect this season,
but he answered every question about
his ability to be a winner, no more so
than when he kept things calm and ral-
lied the Rams back from a 13-point def-
icit in the NFC Championship Game.
Defensive player of the year:
Aaron Donald, defensive end
No mystery or surprise here. Donald
excelled in his first four NFL seasons
but then reached a new level in 2018,
as he recorded 20.5 sacks and came
within two of tying Michael Strahan’s
single-season NFL record. Even as the
complete focal point for every offense
he faced, Donald still impacted the
game every week and completely jus-
tified the $135-million contract exten-
sion the Rams gave him in August.
Shrewd coaching move
In part because of the absence of in-
jured cornerback Aqib Talib, the Rams’
pass defense was flailing midseason,
with a particular penchant for getting
beat by deep balls. Defensive coordina-
tor Wade Phillips, a 42-year veteran of
NFL coaching, long has said it’s his job
to adjust his scheme to fit his players’
skills, and not try to force them into
something uncomfortable. The Rams
transitioned into more zone defense,
rather than press man coverage. That
seemed to be a better fit for cornerback
Marcus Peters, and the consistency
of the Rams’ pass defense improved.
In the NFC Championship Game, the
Saints’ Drew Brees passed for only 249
yards and for an average of 6.2 yards
per attempt.

RAMSDEPTHCHART
Number, name, height, weight and year

Offense Defense
Cornerback
Wide receiver
21 Aqib Talib 6-1 209 11
12 Brandin Cooks 5-10 183 5 32 Troy Hill 5-11 183 3
11 KhaDarel Hodge 6-2 205 R
Tight end
89 Tyler Higbee 6-6 255 3 Outside linebacker
81 Gerald Everett 6-3 240 2 56 Dante Fowler Jr. 6-3 255 4
Running back
96 Matt Longacre 6-3 265 4
30 Todd Gurley 6-1 224 4
35 C.J. Anderson 5-8 225 6 Left tackle
77 Andrew Whitworth 6-7 330 13 Defensive end
70 Joseph Noteboom 6-5 321 R 99 Aaron Donald 6-1 280 5 Free safety
95 Ethan Westbrooks 6-4 287 5 20 Lamarcus Joyner 5-8 191 5
Quarterback
Left guard 24 Blake Countess 5-10 191 3
16 Jared Goff 6-4 222 3 Middle linebacker
76 Rodger Saffold 6-5 330 9
14 Sean Mannion 6-6 223 4 58 Cory Littleton 6-3 228 3
64 Jamil Demby 6-5 321 R
59 Micah Kiser 6-0 244 R
Center
65 John Sullivan 6-4 312 11 Defensive tackle
55 Brian Allen 6-2 303 R 93 Ndamukong Suh 6-4 313 9
92 Tanzel Smart 6-1 295 2
Right guard
SPECIAL TEAMS 66 Austin Blythe 6-3 298 3 Inside linebacker
Kicker 55 Brian Allen 6-2 303 R 26 Mark Barron 6-2 230 7
4 Greg Zuerlein 6-0 191 7 52 Ramik Wilson 6-2 238 4
Punter Right tackle
Outside linebacker
6 Johnny Hekker 6-5 241 7 79 Rob Havenstein 6-8 330 4
Samson Ebukam 6-3 245 2
Long snapper 70 Joseph Noteboom 6-5 321 R
Justin Lawler 6-4 265 R
44 Jake McQuaide 6-2 235 8 Strong safety
Punt returner Defensive end 43 John Johnson 6-0 209 2
19 JoJo Natson 5-7 153 2 Wide receiver 90 Michael Brockers 6-5 305 7 41 Marqui Christian 5-11 207 3
12 Brandin Cooks 5-10 183 5 17 Robert Woods 6-0 195 6 94 John Franklin-Myers 6-4 288 R
Kick returner 19 JoJo Natson 5-7 153 2
19 JoJo Natson 5-7 153 2 Cornerback
24 Blake Countess 5-10 191 3 83 Josh Reynolds 6-3 196 2 22 Marcus Peters 6-0 195 4
11 KhaDarel Hodge 6-2 205 R 23 Nickell Robey-Coleman 5-8 180 6
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SUPER BOWL LIII: RAMS VS. PATRIOTS
THE PATRIOTS’ WAY
BRADY’S AMAZING RUN COMES FULL CIRCLE
By Gilbert Manzano
gmanzano@scng.com
@gmanzano24 on Twitter
It’s no coincidence that Tom Brady
attached popular rap songs from the
early 2000s to his eat-your-words Ins-
tagram videos after each playoff win.
The 41-year-old quarterback was jab-
bing back at the pundits who said his
best days were behind him, and the Pa-
triots’ AFC dynasty was near the end.
With a ninth Super Bowl appearance
today, Brady is still playing at a high
level, and a better version than the
24-year-old with his hands on his head
in disbelief after beating the Rams for
his first of his five Super Bowl titles.
That was in 2002, when 50 Cent and
Diddy had the hit songs that may have
been on Brady’s iPod. Those rappers
are no longer making hit records, but
17 years later, Brady continues to break
NFL records while holding back father
time.
It has come full circle for Brady with
a second Super Bowl matchup against
the Rams. He’s still guided by legend-
ary coach Bill Belichick, but the per-
sonnel around the duo changes every
year. Here’s a look back at the 2018 Pa-
triots’ road to the Super Bowl:
How they got here
A rare two-game losing streak in De-
cember paved a tough Super Bowl road
for the Patriots, who had to play two
AFC West teams with identical records
of 12-4, the best record in the confer-
ence. Fueled by talks of a possible de-
cline, Brady led the Patriots offense to
touchdowns on their first four posses-
sions against the Chargers in the di-
visional round. With the game out of
reach by halftime, the Patriots cruised
to a 41-28 victory.
It wasn’t that easy at Arrowhead
Stadium, where the Patriots entered
as three-point underdogs against the
Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game.
Once again, Brady had no trouble en-
gineering touchdowns, but Chiefs sec-
ond-year star quarterback Patrick Ma-
homes matched him drive-for-drive.
After the Patriots won the overtime
coin toss, Brady made sure Mahomes
wouldn’t get the ball again. The Pa-
triots converted three times on third-
and-10 on the drive that ended with a
37-31 win to send New England to its
ninth Super Bowl in 17 years.
Turning point
Losing to the Miami Dolphins on a
miracle play and falling to the Pitts-
burgh Steelers in back-to-back weeks
late in the regular season hurt the Pa-
triots’ chances of earning the No. 1
seed, but they still clinched a first-
round bye for the ninth consecutive
season. But the Patriots’ true turn-
ing point came way back in Septem-
ber when they were embarrassed by
the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars and De-
troit Lions to fall to 1-2. For the first
time in years, the Patriots looked vul-
nerable, and appeared to lack talent on
both sides of the ball. The offense was
out of sync, the defense couldn’t gener-
ate a pass rush, and drama stories of a
PATRIOTSDEPTHCHART
Number, name, height, weight and year
Offense
Wide receiver
15 Chris Hogan 6-1 210 6
84 Cordarrelle Patterson 6-2 228 6
Running back
26 Sony Michel 5-11 215 R
46 James Develin 6-3 255 6
Quarterback
12 Tom Brady 6-4 225 19
2 Brian Hoyer 6-2 216 10
Running back
28 James White 5-10 205 5
34 Rex Burkhead 5-10 215 6
SPECIAL TEAMS
Kicker
3 Stephen Gostkowski 6-1 215 13
Punter
6 Ryan Allen 6-2 220 6
Long snapper
49 Joe Cardona 6-3 245 4
Punt returner
11 Julian Edelman 5-10 198 10
23 Patrick Chung 5-11 215 10
Kick returner
84 Cordarrelle Patterson 6-2 228 6
18 Matthew Slater 6-0 205 11
Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore developed into a first-team All-Pro pick this season.
Running back James White had 1,176all-purpose yards for New England.
potential Brady-Belichick-management
feud didn’t help. But like they always
do, the Patriots found a way to recover.
New England won six straight games
after the 1-2 start, and was 9-3 before
the two-game skid in December.
Unsung hero:
James White, running back
The Patriots’ offense had multi-
ple makeovers because of injuries and
their lack of a true outside receiver. De-
spite the modifications, one area re-
mained consistent — White’s produc-
tion. The versatile running back of-
ten gets lost behind the star power
of Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Ju-
lian Edelman, but the Patriots know
how important White is to the offense.
When Brady was struggling to find
open receivers in the first few months
of the season, White was often there
to extend plays on dump-offs. When
Tight end
87 Rob Gronkowski 6-6 268 9
83 Dwayne Allen 6-3 265 7
Left tackle
77 Trent Brown 6-8 380 4
68 LaAdrian Waddle 6-6 315 6
Left guard
62 Joe Thuney 6-5 308 3
66 James Ferentz 6-2 300 3
Center
60 David Andrews 6-3 300 4
75 Ted Karras 6-4 305 3
Right guard
69 Shaq Mason 6-1 310 4
75 Ted Karras 6-4 305 3
Right tackle
61 Marcus Cannon 6-6 335 8
68 LaAdrian Waddle 6-6 315 6
Wide receiver
11 Julian Edelman 5-10 198 10
13 Phillip Dorsett 5-10 192 4
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rookie running back Sony Michel was
still working his way back from in-
jury, White was moving the chains on
the ground. When deep-threat receiver
Josh Gordon left the team after a short
stint, guess who was there to pick up
the slack? White recorded 1,176 all-pur-
pose yards in the regular season and is
still coming up clutch in the postsea-
son. White had 15 catches for 97 yards
against the Chargers. Brady didn’t get
sacked once in the AFC playoffs be-
cause White was always around to re-
ceive the quick pass.
X-factor player:
Rob Gronkowski, tight end
It’s strange to call Gronkowski an
“X-factor” because that label often goes
to reliable role players. But Gronkowski
hasn’t been his usual dominant self. He
was slowed by back and ankle injuries
in the regular season, and there are re-
Defense
Cornerback
24 Stephon Gilmore 6-1 202 7
31 Jonathan Jones 5-10 190 3
Linebacker
54 Dont’a Hightower 6-3 260 7
50 Ramon Humber 5-11 232 10
Defensive end
91 Deatrich Wise Jr. 6-5 275 2
95 Derek Rivers 6-5 250 2
Defensive tackle
90 Malcom Brown 6-2 320 4
70 Adam Butler 6-4 300 2
Defensive tackle
93 Lawrence Guy 6-4 315 8
71 Danny Shelton 6-2 345 4
Linebacker
53 Kyle Van Noy
59 Albert McClellan 6-2 235
Defensive end
98 Trey Flowers 6-2 265 4
94 Adrian Clayborn 6-3 280 8
Cornerback
30 Jason McCourty
27 J.C. Jackson
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ports of Gronkowski considering re-
tirement after the Super Bowl. If that’s
the case, the Patriots are hoping he can
turn back the clock once more. “Gronk”
had crucial catches down the stretch
against the Chiefs. He can still make
plays with his size and is a matchup
nightmare for defenses. A produc-
tive Gronkowski would give the short-
handed receiving unit another target
for Brady against the Rams’ star-stud-
ded secondary.
Top newcomer:
Sony Michel, running back
The Patriots used a first-round pick
on Michel in April and didn’t see the
results they wanted early on. But af-
ter overcoming multiple knee injuries,
the rookie running back from Georgia
is producing at the right time. Michel
averaged 121 rushing yards in the two
AFC playoff games and found the end
zone five times. With the Patriots lack-
ing weapons on the outside, Michel’s
rushing yards opened the playbook.
Offensive player of the year:
Tom Brady, quarterback
Yes, Brady is the safe choice, but
without him the Patriots are proba-
bly picking inside the top 10 for the
2019 NFL draft. Year after year, Brady
makes it work by adjusting to the ros-
ter, and this year’s cast doesn’t jump
off the depth chart page. With an in-
experienced offensive line, Brady took
pressure off them by releasing the ball
quicker. Brady’s throwing options were
limited with Edelman and Gronkowski
hobbled. The Patriots were still a top-
five offense with wide receivers Phillip
Dorsett and Cordarrelle Patterson as
Brady’s top two targets for the first half
of the season.
Defensive player of the year:
Stephon Gilmore, cornerback
It was a rough regular season for
the Patriots defense, who allowed 359.1
yards per game, which ranked 21st in
the NFL. They struggled in pass cover-
age and couldn’t put pressure on quar-
terbacks. But the Patriots could at least
count on Gilmore to control one side
of the field. After a down season in his
first year with the Patriots, Gilmore
turned into a first-team All-Pro pick.
Shrewd coaching move
In a year when many passing re-
cords fell, the Patriots transformed into
a run-heavy offense late in the season
to limit the damage in weak areas. It
started on Dec. 23 when the Patriots
ran the ball 47 times for 273 yards to
defeat the Buffalo Bills. It was also the
Patriots’ first game without Gordon,
who was suspended for the remainder
of the season. Brady only recorded 126
passing yards, but that game plan put
Michel in the groove he’s currently in.
The Patriots have recorded at least 131
rushing yards in the past four games.
By successfully running the ball and
controlling the time of possession, it
put less pressure on the Patriots’ bend-
but-don’t-break defense.
Safety
32 Devin McCourty 5-10 195 9
43 Nate Ebner 6-0 215 7
Linebacker
52 Elandon Roberts 6-0 238 3
59 Albert McClellan 6-2 235 8
6-3 250 5
8
Safety
23 Patrick Chung 5-11 215 10
21 Duron Harmon 6-1 205 6
5-11 195 10
6-1 198 R
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SUPER BOWL LIII: RAMS VS. PATRIOTS

CHARGERS’
LYNN SIZES
UP FOES
COACH SAYS TEAMS
THAT BEAT HIS OFFER
‘HECK OF A MATCHUP’
By Gilbert Manzano
gmanzano@scng.com
@GManzano24 on Twitter
Chargers coach Anthony
Lynn doesn’t recall the last
time he watched a Super
Bowl live. It’s been at least
10 years, he said.
Lynn will again stay away
from a TV come 3:30 p.m.
today for Super Bowl LIII
between the Rams and Pa-
triots, two teams the Char-
gers played.
Eventually, Lynn will
watch film of the cham-
pionship matchup, and
when that time comes,
he’s intrigued to see how
the “loaded” Rams fared
against “best ever” quar-
terback Tom Brady.
“It’s a heck of a matchup,”
Lynn said. “Both teams are
extremely talented and
we’ve played them both.
The Rams are loaded on
both sides of the ball, and
I think (Rams coach) Sean
McVay has done a heck of a
key veterans,” Lynn said. “I
don’t think the experience
will be too big for either
one of these teams. … Usu-
ally, the team that executes
the best is going to win the
game, that’s the bottom
line. But both teams on any
given day can execute at an
extremely high level, so who
knows?”
The McVay-led Rams av-
eraged 32.9 points per game
in the regular season. Only
the Kansas City Chiefs
scored more.
Even with key players
such as quarterback Jared
Goff and running back
Todd Gurley making their
Super Bowl debuts, Lynn
said he wouldn’t be sur-
prised if the game turns
into a shootout.
The Chargers saw first-
hand how dominant their
crosstown rivals can be on
offense. The Rams racked
up 521 yards to defeat the
Chargers 35-23 on Sept. 23
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job leading that team, but
(Patriots coach) Bill Belich-
ick and Tom Brady, Tom
Brady is probably the best
ever to play the game.
“You just can’t count
those guys out. They’ve
been in this position before
ROMO RISES TO
Lynn doesn’t have a root- Tony Romo, who never reached a Super Bowl as Dallas quarterback, is there this year as a commentator for CBS.
ing interest in today’s game,
but his star running back
Melvin Gordon does.
“Patriots all day,” Gor-
don told SiriusXM NFL
Radio last week at the Pro
Bowl. “Yeah, I don’t want

and they’re pretty good at
it.”
After the Chargers’ 41-28
loss to the Patriots on Jan.
13 that ended their season
in the divisional round,
many players repeatedly
said “they executed better”
to explain why the Patriots
got the best of them.
The reasoning sounds
simplistic, but that’s what
the Patriots have done for
years. They limit mistakes
while getting many players
involved.
Lynn said that comes
from experience — this will
be the Patriots’ third con-
secutive Super Bowl. But
the second-year Chargers
coach doesn’t see that be-
ing an advantage over the
Rams, who are playing in
their first Super Bowl since
falling to the Patriots in
2002, Super Bowl XXXVI.
“The Rams have a lot of
KEITH BIRMINGHAM — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Coach Anthony Lynn’s Chargers lost to the Rams, 35-23,
and the Patriots, 41-28, this season.
the Rams to win. I live in
L.A. ... I’ve got to hear that
all day. Do you know how
many Rams signs I see?
“I need them to lose. I
don’t care where y’all put
me on TV saying this. I need
them to lose.”
Lynn and Gordon led
the AFC to a 26-7 victory
against the NFC in the 2019
Pro Bowl. Lynn said coach-
ing the Pro Bowl was “bit-
tersweet.”
He would rather be
coaching in the Super Bowl,
so it’s hard for him to watch
it live if he’s not participat-
ing in it.
“If you told me I couldn’t
win championships, I’ll go
do something else, I’ll go
build houses,” Lynn said. “I
only do this for one reason
and that’s to win champion-
ships. So it takes awhile for
me to get over it, but I do
eventually watch it.”
TOP OF GAME
FROM COWBOYS QB TO CLAIRVOYANT SUPER BOWL
COMMENTATOR, HE’S ALREADY BEST IN THE BOOTH
By Ryan Kartje
rkartje@scng.com
@Ryan_Kartje on Twitter
It was third-and-10, in overtime
of the AFC Championship Game,
when Tony Romo looked out from
his perch atop Arrowhead Stadium
and saw the future. At least ... it
sure seemed that way.
As the Patriots lined up for a
play that could decide their sea-
son, Romo predicted how the play
would unfold as if it had been pre-
determined. He pointed to Patri-
ots tight end Rob Gronkowski first
on the top of the screen. “Gronk is
out wide,” he said from his place
in the CBS booth. “Watch this
safety!” Then he circled the Chiefs
deep safety in yellow on the teles-
trator. “If he comes down,” Romo
said, “it’s a good chance he’s throw-
ing out there.”
A split second later, Romo’s vi-
sion played out exactly as foretold.
The safety came down. Brady threw
it out wide to Gronkowski for a 15-
yard gain. Three plays later, the Pa-
triots scored, stamping their ticket
to another Super Bowl and cement-
ing the burgeoning legend of what
his CBS booth partner Jim Nantz
has called “Romo-stradamus.”
Clairvoyance isn’t a skill often
associated with football color com-
mentators. Then again, Romo, who
will call his first Super Bowl when
the Rams face the Patriots today,
is not your average color commen-
tator.
Since retiring from his equally
high-profile role as quarterback of
the Dallas Cowboys to join CBS’
top announcing team two seasons
ago, Romo has become America’s
most universally beloved voice in
the booth by subverting the stan-
dards of usual football commen-
tary. Instead of explaining to view-
ers what they just saw, Romo has
come to be known for telling them
what they’re about to see.
“People think Tony is a fortune
teller,” Nantz said, “but this isn’t
guesswork. This isn’t psychic abil-
ity. This is a testimonial to a guy
who obviously in his career spent
a lot of time figuring it out.”
In his 13 years with the Cow-
boys, Romo never quite figured
out how to reach the heights of his
other contemporaries, such as the
one who will quarterback the Pa-
triots today. He certainly never in-
spired universal acclaim in the way
he does now. In the booth, though,
Romo appears to have figured ev-
erything out overnight. Consider-
ing his past experience under cen-
ter, perhaps that shouldn’t come as
much of a surprise.
The best quarterbacks are hyper-
meticulous in their preparation.
They study every schematic nu-
ance of opposing defenses, analyz-
ing patterns and tells and breaking
down situational choices. Standing
at the line of scrimmage, their job,
pre-play, is to use that knowledge
to predict what the defense might
do. Since joining CBS, Romo has ap-
proached his role in the same way.
“He and Tom Brady,” Nantz ex-
plains, “are seeing the same thing
in that moment.”
So much so that Romo’s former
coach Wade Phillips, who now co-
ordinates the Rams defense, joked
this week that he planned to have
Romo’s commentary piped into an
earpiece today to know what the
Patriots were planning on offense.
“Tony remains some sort of sick
film room guru,” Nantz said. “When
we have these key moments late in
the game and we’re all dazzled by
what he’s doing, this is a testament
to years and years of preparation.”
That became abundantly clear to
the entire football world as the Pa-
triots drove the field in overtime of
the AFC Championship Game. On
three consecutive third-and-longs,
Romo predicted exactly what would
happen. He read the Patriots per-
sonnel — “Gronk’s not outside!” —
predicted the defense’s pressure —
“Running backs gotta help so he
has time to throw!” — and called
out specific passes to specific play-
ers — “Find Edelman in the middle
of the field!”
In all, Romo made 15 predictions
over the course of the broadcast, 13
of which proved correct. And the
two times he was wrong, the Patri-
ots probably would have preferred
his version. Those plays ended in an
incompletion and a turnover.
When he first called test games
for the network, Romo found that
leaning on what was natural — in
this case, his past routine as a quar-
terback — lent to a better broad-
cast. That lesson, as you might ex-
pect, was learned through me-
ticulous film study of his own
commentary.
“It’s the same as throwing a foot-
ball,” Romo said. “You can’t get
good until you get reps, and then
you adjust from there. You sit there
and you analyze yourself. It’s not
fun. You’re nitpicking, and you’re
thinking, no one is going to like me.
This is terrible.”
Sean McManus, the chairman of
CBS Sports, knew that wouldn’t be
the case back two years before he
even hired Romo. At a Super Bowl
party in 2015, McManus questioned
Romo about the upcoming Super
Bowl between the Seahawks and
the Patriots. Romo proceeded to
blow him away with several min-
utes of enthusiastic analysis.
When Romo was finally consid-
ering retirement, McManus wasted
no time in pursuing him, even as
the Houston Texans lingered as a
possible landing spot. In spite of his
inexperience, Romo never even re-
corded a formal audition. For CBS,
it was quite a risk. But McManus
was convinced.
Now, the rest of the football
world is just as enamored with CBS’
quarterback-turned-commentator.
Rumors circulated this past week
about Romo receiving coaching of-
fers, but he shook them off, claim-
ing he’s “not thinking about that
right now.” At a press conference
on Tuesday, Romo was asked if he
might join the Weather Channel,
where his predictions might be of
more use.
“I heard they pay more,” Romo
joked.
That question was preceded by
another question asking Romo to
predict a specific play. And another,
asking him for today’s final score.
You didn’t need a clairvoyant to see
the “Romo-stradamus” bit has al-
ready jumped the shark.
But Romo bit on the Super Bowl
prediction, anyway. “28-24,” he
declared. “And I think the team
with 24 has the ball at the end but
doesn’t score.”
He didn’t offer which side of that
score the Rams would occupy. But
if they’re driving late in the fourth
quarter on Sunday, down 28-24 …
well, don’t say Tony Romo didn’t
warn you about the impending
heartbreak.
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SUPER BOWL LIII: RAMS VS. PATRIOTS

FOCUS | SUPER BOWL

ONEFOR
THEAGES
The New England Patriots are
in their ninth Super Bowl since
2001. They face the Los Angeles
Rams, who haven’t been to a
Super Bowl since losing to New
England after the 2001 season.
By KURT SNIBBE and JEFF GOERTZEN
Southern California News Group

THEQUARTERBACKS
Tom Brady: Sixth-round draft pick in 2000 (199th overall).
Age, 41. In 2018, Tom Brady had a 97.7 QB rating, and
surpassed 70,000 yards passing in his 19th year as an NFL
quarterback.
Jared Goff: First overall pick of the 2016 draft. Age, 24. In
2018, Jared Goff had a 101.1 passer rating and the fourth-high-
est total of passing yards of NFL quarterbacks this season.

2018 regular season statistics

Comp. Att. Pct. Yards TDs Int. Sacked
Tom Brady 375 570 65.8 4,355 29 11 21
Jared Goff 364 561 64.9 4,688 32 12 33

PATRIOTS NFLREGULAR-SEASONRANKINGS RAMS

GAMEBYGAME # L. A. Rams # New England
GAMEBYGAME
AFC 2nd seed (13-5) NFC 2nd seed (15-3)
Loss POINTS PER GAME Loss
Opponent Score Record The Rams averaged 32.9 points per game, and the Opponent Score Record
1st Patriots averaged 27.2. 32nd
Houston 27-20 1-0 2 4 @Oakland 33-13 1-0
@Jacksonville 20-31 1-1 RUSHING YARDS PER GAME Arizona 34-0 2-0
1st 32nd
@Detroit 10-26 1-2 3 5 L.A. Chargers 35-23 3-0
Miami 38-7 2-2 PASSING YARDS PER GAME Minnesota 38-31 4-0
1st 32nd
Indianapolis 38-24 3-2 5 8 @Seattle 33-31 5-0
Kansas City 43-40 4-2 TIME OF POSSESSION PER GAME @Denver 23-20 6-0
1st 32nd
@Chicago 38-31 5-2 8 14 @San Fran. 39-10 7-0
@Buffalo 25-6 6-2 POINTS ALLOWED PER GAME Green Bay 29-27 8-0
The Patriots allowed 20.3 points per game and the Rams allowed 24.
Green Bay 31-17 7-2 Fewest Most @New Orleans 35-45 8-1
7 20
@Tennessee 10-34 7-3 Seattle 36-31 9-1
FIELD GOALS MADE
Bye week The Patriots made 27 field goals (2 of 5 at 50+), the Rams made 34 Kansas City 54-51 10-1
field goals (4 of 6 from 50+).
@ N. Y. Jets 27-13 8-3 Bye week
3 11
Minnesota 24-10 9-3 @Detroit 30-16 11-1
INTERCEPTIONS
@Miami 33-34 9-4 The Rams and Patriots had 18 interceptions . @Chicago 6-15 11-2
Most Fewest
@Pittsburgh 10-17 9-5 3 Philadelphia 23-30 11-3
3
Buffalo 24-12 10-5
FUMBLES RECOVERED
@Arizona 31-9 12-3
The Patriots recovered 10 fumbles and the Rams recovered 12.
N. Y. Jets 38-3 11-5 Most Fewest
San Fran. 48-32 13-3
4 11
Playoffs Playoffs
PENALTIES
L.A. Chargers 41-28 12-5 The Patriots had 93 penalties and the Rams had 95. Dallas 30-22 14-3
Fewest Most
Kansas City 37-31 OT 13-5 4 7 New Orleans 26-23 OT 15-3
All five off the Patriots’ losses were on
the road. The Rams’ three losses were to NFC
FRANCHISEDYNAMICS teams that made the playoffs.

Tom Brady is the Patriots’ highest-paid player (average salary) while the Rams’ highest-paid player is a defensive tackle.
Los Angeles Rams
Top 10 highest-paid players in average salary for their contract (in millions)

Aaron Donald Brandin Cooks Todd Gurley Ndamukong LaMarcus Andrew Michael Aquib Mark Rob
(DT) (WR) (RB) Suh (DT) Joyner (FS) Whitworth Brockers Talib (CB) Barron Havenstein
$22.5 $16.2 $14.3 $14 $11.2 (LT) $11.2 (DT) $11 $9.5 (ILB) $9 (RT) $8.1

New England
Top 10 highest-paid players in average salary for their contract (in millions)
Tom Brady Stephon Devin Rob Shaq Dont’a Dwayne Marcus Kyle Van Noy
(QB) $15 Gilmore (CB) McCourty Gronkowski Mason (G) Hightower Allen Cannon (ILB) $5.8
$13 (FS) $9.5 (TE) $9 $9 (ILB) $8.8 (TE) $7.3 (RT) $6.4
Julian Edelman
(WR) $5.5

PLAYOFFHISTORY
Conference Super Bowl Franchise
title winner relocation
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
New England Patriots
All-time playoff record: 36-20, Wild-card round: 4-4, Divisional round: 16-6, Conference Championship: 11-4, Super Bowl: 5-5, Championship (pre-1966): 2-3
1970 merged into NFL
First season: 1960
Boston Patriots
1971 changed name to New England
Los Angeles Rams
All-time playoff record: 21-25, Wild-card round: 3-6, Divisional round: 11-8, Conference Championship: 4-6, Super Bowl: 1-2, Championship (pre-1966): 0-1

To Los Angeles
To Anaheim To St. Louis To Los Angeles
First season: 1937
Cleveland Rams
Sources: Pro Football Reference, NFL, Sportrac.com, National Football League Players Association
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SUPER BOWL LIII: RAMS VS. PATRIOTS

WINNING
FOCUS | SUPER BOWL RAMSFRANCHISEPERFORMANCE Championship Record
Game
Wins 0 3 6 9 12 Playoffs Coach Year (Playoffs)
‘37 11-game Hugo Bezdek 1937-38 1-13

CLEVELAND
seasons Art Lewis 1938 4-4

DESIGN
Dutch Clark 1939-42 16-26-2

‘40

Buff Donelli 1944 4-6

No 1943 season Adam Walsh 1945-46 15-5-1 (1-0)
‘45
The Los Angeles Rams became the first NFL

LOS ANGELES
team to have an emblem on their helmets. A look 12-game seasons
Bob Snyder 1947 6-6
at how the franchise has looked over the years: Clark
Shaughnessy 1948-49 14-7-3 (0-1)
‘50 Joe Stydahar 1950-52 17-8 (2-1)

Hamp Pool 1952-54 23-10-2 (0-1)

‘55 Sid Gillman 1955-59 28-31-1 (0-1)

14-game seasons
‘60 Bob Waterfield 1960-62 9-24-1

A 1948 Rams helmet was bought at auction by SCP

Auctions in January 2017 for more than $9,500. Harland Svare 1962-65 14-31-3
George Allen 1966-70 49-17-4 (0-2)
By KURT SNIBBE | Southern California News Group

DRAWNTODESIGN ‘65
Super Bowl era begins
Los Angeles Rams
halfback Fred Gehrke was
an artist and designer in
the offseason. He took it
upon himself to make the
Rams’ brown leather ‘70 Tommy Prothro 1971-72 14-12-2
helmets a bit more
exciting. He used chalk to Chuck Knox 1973-77 54-15-1 (3-5)
outline the spiral ram’s
horn shape, painted blue
and yellow horns, then Fred Gehrke’s 1948
presented the design to Bowman football card
team owner Dan Reeves. ‘75
The look was approved and Reeves offered to pay
Gehrke $1 per helmet. Gehrke spent the summer
16-game seasons
painting and the new helmets were well-received
when the Rams played their first intrasquad exhibition Ray Malavasi 1978-82 40-33 (3-3)
game in 1948.
The NFL switched to plastic helmets in 1949, and the
‘80
Rams continued to use the emblem, but changed to
ANAHEIM

red and yellow.

Some Rams looks over the years
John Robinson 1983-91 75-68 (4-6)

‘85
1950-
56

‘90

In 1949, the Rams switched to red and yellow

Chuck Knox 1992-94 15-33
with notched horns.
1957-
The team switched back to blue and yellow in 63
1950 for 14 seasons.
Rich Brooks 1995-96 13-19
‘95
ST. LOUIS

Dick Vermeil 1997-99 22-26 (3-0)

Mike Martz 2000-05 53-32 (3-4)

‘00

1964-
72
In 1964, the helmet changed to blue with white
horns. In 1973, it returned to blue and yellow.

‘05 Joe Vitt 2005 4-7

Scott Linehan 2006-08 11-25

1973-
99 Jim Haslett 2008 2-10
Steve Spagnuolo 2009-11 10-38
‘10
In 2000, the Rams went to a more golden horn
color, which they still use, but mixed in
throwback uniforms this season.
Looking super: The Rams are going with the Jeff Fisher 2012-16 31-45-1
original emblem for the Super Bowl.

‘15 Lost
Wild
2000- Card John Fassel 2016 0-3
L.A.

16
Won
NFC Sean McVay 2017- 24-8 (2-1)

Sources: NFL, Pro Football Reference, The

Wins 0 3 6 9 12 Playoffs Associated Press, Pro Football Hall of Fame
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SUPER BOWL LIII: RAMS VS. PATRIOTS

WINNING
FOCUS | SUPER BOWL RAMSFRANCHISEPERFORMANCE Championship Record
Game
Wins 0 3 6 9 12 Playoffs Coach Year (Playoffs)
‘37 11-game Hugo Bezdek 1937-38 1-13

CLEVELAND
seasons Art Lewis 1938 4-4

DESIGN
Dutch Clark 1939-42 16-26-2

‘40

Buff Donelli 1944 4-6

No 1943 season Adam Walsh 1945-46 15-5-1 (1-0)
‘45
The Los Angeles Rams became the first NFL

LOS ANGELES
team to have an emblem on their helmets. A look 12-game seasons
Bob Snyder 1947 6-6
at how the franchise has looked over the years: Clark
Shaughnessy 1948-49 14-7-3 (0-1)
‘50 Joe Stydahar 1950-52 17-8 (2-1)

Hamp Pool 1952-54 23-10-2 (0-1)

‘55 Sid Gillman 1955-59 28-31-1 (0-1)

14-game seasons
‘60 Bob Waterfield 1960-62 9-24-1

A 1948 Rams helmet was bought at auction by SCP

Auctions in January 2017 for more than $9,500. Harland Svare 1962-65 14-31-3
George Allen 1966-70 49-17-4 (0-2)
By KURT SNIBBE | Southern California News Group

DRAWNTODESIGN ‘65
Super Bowl era begins
Los Angeles Rams
halfback Fred Gehrke was
an artist and designer in
the offseason. He took it
upon himself to make the
Rams’ brown leather ‘70 Tommy Prothro 1971-72 14-12-2
helmets a bit more
exciting. He used chalk to Chuck Knox 1973-77 54-15-1 (3-5)
outline the spiral ram’s
horn shape, painted blue
and yellow horns, then Fred Gehrke’s 1948
presented the design to Bowman football card
team owner Dan Reeves. ‘75
The look was approved and Reeves offered to pay
Gehrke $1 per helmet. Gehrke spent the summer
16-game seasons
painting and the new helmets were well-received
when the Rams played their first intrasquad exhibition Ray Malavasi 1978-82 40-33 (3-3)
game in 1948.
The NFL switched to plastic helmets in 1949, and the
‘80
Rams continued to use the emblem, but changed to
ANAHEIM

red and yellow.

Some Rams looks over the years
John Robinson 1983-91 75-68 (4-6)

‘85
1950-
56

‘90

In 1949, the Rams switched to red and yellow

Chuck Knox 1992-94 15-33
with notched horns.
1957-
The team switched back to blue and yellow in 63
1950 for 14 seasons.
Rich Brooks 1995-96 13-19
‘95
ST. LOUIS

Dick Vermeil 1997-99 22-26 (3-0)

Mike Martz 2000-05 53-32 (3-4)

‘00

1964-
72
In 1964, the helmet changed to blue with white
horns. In 1973, it returned to blue and yellow.

‘05 Joe Vitt 2005 4-7

Scott Linehan 2006-08 11-25

1973-
99 Jim Haslett 2008 2-10
Steve Spagnuolo 2009-11 10-38
‘10
In 2000, the Rams went to a more golden horn
color, which they still use, but mixed in
throwback uniforms this season.
Looking super: The Rams are going with the Jeff Fisher 2012-16 31-45-1
original emblem for the Super Bowl.

‘15 Lost
Wild
2000- Card John Fassel 2016 0-3
L.A.

16
Won
NFC Sean McVay 2017- 24-8 (2-1)

Sources: NFL, Pro Football Reference, The

Wins 0 3 6 9 12 Playoffs Associated Press, Pro Football Hall of Fame
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SUPER ROLES
11 TIMES THE LOS ANGELES RAMS WENT HOLLYWOOD
By Peter Larsen
plarsen@scng.com
@PeterLarsenBSF on Twitter
The Rams arrived in Los Angeles in 1946,
but you could argue they’d gone Hollywood two
years earlier when they drafted UCLA quarter-
back Bob Waterfield, who married screen star
Jane Russell when the team still played in Cleve-
land.
Or maybe it happened in 1949 with “Easy Liv-
ing,” in which the film’s fictional football players’
roles were filled by Rams such as Kenny Wash-
ington, Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch and Fred Geh-
rke (who created the Rams’ horns logo).
Regardless of the exact moment, Hollywood
and the Rams have long shared an enduring
connection.
Celebrities loved them — Bob Hope and Bing
Crosby owned shares of the team — and players,
who in those early years held day jobs offseason,
used their proximity to the studios to make ends
meet in the years before football paid as much or
more than acting.
Early TV loved to grab a bunch of Rams and
throw them into random plots, as in “The Case
of the 12th Wildcat,” a 1965 “Perry Mason” epi-
sode, in which Rams such as Joe Scibelli, Roman
Gabriel and Bill Munson acted — perhaps that
should be “acted” — as members of the fictional
L.A. Wildcats.
Sharp-eyed fans could spot Rams almost any-
where on TV or film. In Woody Allen’s 1972 film
“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About
Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)” Rams Tom Mack
and Don Chuy appeared in a spoof hair-condi-
tioner commercial set in a locker room.
And Terry Crews, whom the Rams drafted in
1991, played sparingly for a few seasons before
building a career that includes starring TV roles
on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Everybody Hates
Chris” and “Arrested Development,” as well as in
movies such as “The Expendables” and “Dead-
pool 2.”
We dug deep, looked for more Rams who
played dual roles on stadium turf and studio
sound stages, and came up a team of 11 for a
highlight reel of the Rams’ Hollywood history.
BOB WATERFIELD » Sweethearts at Van Nuys
High School, he and Jane Russell stuck together
through much: She signed a film contract with
Howard Hughes, and Waterfield starred as a
quarterback at UCLA, served during World War
II and eventually joined the Cleveland Rams in
1945. Though Waterfield resented the influence
of Hughes and tried to manage Russell’s per-
sonal and professional lives with so-so results,
he wasn’t opposed to giving Hollywood a whirl
himself, appearing in a handful of movies and
forming a production company with his wife.
KENNY WASHINGTON » When the Rams moved
to Los Angeles in 1946, public pressure required
the team to sign a black player as a precondition
of leasing the publicly owned Los Angeles Me-
morial Coliseum. Washington, a 1939 All-Amer-
ican at UCLA, where he shared a backfield with
Jackie Robinson, soon to break the color bar-
rier in pro baseball, became the first black player
in the modern era of the NFL six years after no
NFL team would sign him because of his race.
All of that makes Washington an iconic figure,
but his Hollywood career highlight is his sup-
porting role as a doctor in “Pinky,” a 1949 race-
relations drama that earned three Oscar nom-
inations and was the No. 2 box-office hit of the
year.
WOODY STRODE » Like his UCLA teammate
Washington, Strode was blocked from a de-
served shot at the NFL because of his skin color.
But when Washington joined the Rams, the
team agreed to sign Strode, too. His Hollywood
career is the greatest of any Rams player ever,
with at least 91 film and TV credits from 1941’s
“Sundown” to 1995’s “The Quick and the Dead.”
Cecil B. DeMille hired him to play a slave in
1956’s “The Ten Commandments,” but after not
finding a suitable actor for the film’s Ethiopian
king, auditioned him for that, too. “He said, ‘Son,
may I see your legs?’ ” Strode told writer Dwayne
Epstein in his final interview. “I dipped down,
dropped ’em” — his pants, that is — “pulled them
back up. He said, ‘You’re the king of Ethiopia.’ ”
Strode earned a Golden Globe nomination
in 1960 for best supporting actor for his role in
Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus” as the Ethiopian
gladiator Draba, who defeats Spartacus but re-
fuses to kill him. Famed director John Ford was
one of his closest friends, casting him in multi-
ple films including Strode’s favorite film, “Ser-
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019
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TV or
Rams do some hobnobbing DAVID F. SMITH — THE ASS
Wayne, third from right, stawith a Hollywood big shot in November 1967. Th
OCIATED PRESS
Lundy at far left. nding by Gri er. Next to him is Olsen, with at’s John
Jones and
FILE PHOTO
geant Rutledge,” in which he played the title role.
And then there’s all this: The designer of Dis-
neyland’s Jungle Cruise made body casts of
Strode’s athletic physique for the African warrior
models. The character Woody in “Toy Story” is
at least partly named in his honor. And his name
was also used for the coroner on the soap opera
“Santa Barbara.”
ELROY “CRAZYLEGS” HIRSCH » The charismatic
running back had a name made for stardom —
Crazylegs, not Elroy — and it doubled as the ti-
tle of the 1953 biopic in which Hirsch starred as
himself. “Crazylegs” also features most of the
then-current team as themselves too: star defen-
sive back Dick “Night Train” Lane, quarterback
Norm “The Dutchman” Van Brocklin, fullback
Paul “Tank” Younger, and running backs “Dea-
con” Dan Towler and V.T. “Vitamin T” Smith,
just to name the Rams in the cast who had cool
’50s nicknames.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jane Russell was the homegrown glamour match of Rams LAMAR LUNDY » All four members of the Fear-
quarterback
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Nuys High School. Here they’re at the 1949Oscars. the late ’60s and early ’70s was known, found
their way to showbiz, but Lundy had only a sole
credit, though it’s a good one. In the 1965 pilot
for “Lost In Space,” later retitled “There Were Gi-
ants in the Earth,” he played a giant, boulder-
hurling cyclops. (Bizarrely, this is not the only
time a Rams player filled such a role. In “The
Three Stooges Meet Hercules,” the Rams’ Mar-
lin McKeever and his twin brother, Mike McK-
eever, a football star at USC, appeared as Ajax
and Argo, the Siamese Cyclops.)
DEACON JONES » This Fearsome Foursome fel-
low debuted in an episode of “Bewitched,” played
himself in episodes of “The Brady Bunch” and
“The Odd Couple,” and had a part in the fictional
Rams film “Heaven Can Wait” in which Warren
Beatty starred as Rams quarterback Joe Pend-
leton, who dies before his time, is allowed to re-
turn to earth and tries to find his way back to
the life he had before.
ROSEY GRIER » Grier never played a cyclops, but
like McKeever in the Stooges flick, he played one
half of a thing with two heads when he started
in half of the title role in “The Thing With Two
Heads.” In this odd 1972 movie, Grier’s wrongly
convicted inmate is spared execution by agree-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ing to a scientific experiment that involves trans-
Record-settingg Rams back and end Elroyy “Crazylegs”
y g planting another man’s head onto his body. Oh,
Hirsch acts with Joan Vohs in his biopic, “Crazylegs.” and the other guy is a racist. Even the trailer is
When the photo was shot on set on July 3, 1953, Hirsch weird, starting with the voice-over: “It seemed
said, “I’m not nervous. I’m just scared stiff.” like a good idea at the time. The white bigot was
dying and the black soul brother needed more
time to prove his innocence.”
MERLIN OLSEN » Here’s the star of the Fearsome
Aft
fter retiring Foursome. Olsen started out in small parts like
froom football, his teammates but quickly advanced to substan-
Olssen found tial roles, first as a regular on “Little House on
steeady TV the Prairie,” where his TV son once declared,
woork, including “My pa doesn’t know anything about football”
roles on “Little in response to a suggestion that his very large
House on the pa might coach their team. He later had the ti-
Praairie” and tle roles of “Father Murphy” for two seasons and
“Aaaron’s Way.” “Aaron’s Way” for one.
Here, he takes
a bbreak on the ROMAN GABRIEL » The Rams quarterback of the
sett of “Father ’60s had movie star looks but not a movie star
Muurphy” in career. He made his debut in 1966 playing a
198 81. Polynesian native on “Gilligan’s Island” — ev-
WALLY FONG — THE ery actor has to pay his dues — and his film de-
ASS
SOCIATED PRESS but three years later in the western “The Un-
defeated,” playing the adopted Native Ameri-
can son of John Wayne’s character. And that was
nearly it.
THE EMBRACEABLE EWES » This cringey name
for the Rams cheerleaders squad that the team
launched in the mid-’70s seems like some-
thing Hugh Hefner would have daydreamed
up, though it’s quaint in comparison to “Ram
It,” the 1986 team song player and cheerleader
video. Most of the cheerleaders were also aspir-
ing actresses: After meeting Prince, Patty Kotero
changed her name to Apollonia and starred
in “Purple Rain.” And Jenilee Harrison joined
“Three’s Company” as the new ditzy blonde
roommate in 1980, and later played Jamie Ewing
Barnes for two seasons on “Dallas.”
FRED DRYER » Dryer is another Ram who enjoyed
a long career in film and television. Still is, in
VICTORIA AROCHO — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fact. His biggest role came as the star of NBC’s
Former defensive end Fred Dryer, left — shown during “Hunter” from 1984-1991, though his credits run
the filming of “Highway 395” in 1999— has Hollywood from playing a lifeguard on “Laverne & Shirley”
credits spanning decades, with perhaps his best-known in 1980 to the part of Sheriff Lock in the 2018
work in the NBC action series “Hunter” from 1984-91. Transformers flick “Bumblebee.”
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SUPER BOWL LIII: RAMS VS. PATRIOTS

WHEN HALFTIME
BOBBLED THE BALL
FROM JANET JACKSON’S NIPPLE TO M.I.A.’S FINGER, THE 10 LEAST EXPECTED MOMENTS
By Peter Larsen
plarsen@scng.com
@PeterLarsenBSF on Twitter
This is all Justin Timberlake’s fault,
in more ways than one.
If Timberlake had come out for the
halftime show at Super Bowl LII in
Minneapolis a year ago and killed it
like Beyoncé always does, we might be
reshuffling our annual list of the top 10
Super Bowl halftime shows of all time.
But dressed like he’d just run out to
the Bass Pro Shop down the street for
some quick camouflage gear, about the
only thing J.T. looked like he could kill
was a duck.
So, given that nothing was going to
dislodge Prince from his purple reign
atop the list, nor nudge Beyoncé from
her lofty perch, we decided to mix
things up.
But be forewarned, this is Rams
country, so we’ll be throwing shade at
the Patriots every chance we get.
These are the 10 strangest things
ever to happen during halftime at a Su-
per Bowl, a list in which you’ll see Tim-
berlake truly does deliver.
10) THE STREAKER » Technically, this
wasn’t part of a halftime show, but just
before the start of the second half be-
tween the New England Patriots and
Carolina Panthers in 2004, Mark Rob-
erts ran onto the field, stripped off his
clothes and put the XXX into Super
Bowl XXXVIII.
He’s British, so you’ll want to watch
the YouTube clip that has the “Benny
Hill” theme as its soundtrack. A Patriot
tackled the thong-clad trespasser, prob-
ably the only reason New England won
the game.
9) UP WITH PEOPLE » They scared me
when they performed at my high
school, and they weirded me out each
of the four times they were the half-
time performers at the Super Bowl.
Like, who is that cheerful and whole-
some on the reg? They’re most likely
Cylons — don’t trust them.
They last performed at halftime
when the Patriots lost in 1986, and if
you know their coach, Bill Belichick,
you can imagine he saw the bad mojo
the song-and-dance troupe embodied
and had them deflated like quarterback
Tom Brady’s footballs thereafter.
8) SLACKLINE GUY » Andy Lewis is his
name, and he got his moment in the
spotlight during Madonna’s halftime
show in 2012 when he taught the world
how to bounce your crotch on a slack-
line, to which half the world responded
by wincing and crossing their legs.
He’s actually a world-renowned
line walker, and the, um, fortitude he
showed during Super Bowl XLVI is
probably the only reason the New York
Giants beat the Patriots in the game.
7) MORE LIKE CHILI PARTY POOPERS »
The Red Hot Chili Peppers got a lot
of flak for seeming to care so little for
the charade of “playing” during Super
Bowl XLVIII that they didn’t plug cords
into their instruments, making it obvi-
ous they were rockin’ out to a backing
track. That’s not unusual, according to
the sound guy in charge of the shows
for two decades, though.
The Seattle Seahawks beat the Den-
ver Broncos in the game, putting the
Broncos into a tie with the Patriots as
the biggest losers in Super Bowl history
with five defeats each.
Nicki Minaj, left, and M.I.A. perform during halftime of the 2012Super Bowl. M.I.A. later
made a gesture into the cameras that the NFL found personally foul enough to sue her
over, demanding an apology.
Is this what they mean by a naked
bootleg? No, just a streaker looking for his
moment of fame at the 2004Super Bowl.
The incident that gave us the phrase “wardrobe malfunction” takes place at the 2004
halftime, when Justin Timberlake uncovered Janet Jackson.
6) POOR MICHELLE » Michelle Williams
is like the neglected third child of des-
tiny next to Beyoncé and Kelly Row-
land, her partners in Destiny’s Child,
which reunited with Queen Bey for
halftime of Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.
There, when she popped onstage, pro-
pelled through the floor by some sort
of rocket-elevator tube, it looked for a
minute like she would awkwardly fall.
Or shoot out of the stadium into space.
PHOTOS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In 2013, a careening substage elevator ride
nearly brought Michelle Williams, right,
and a Destiny’s Child reunion to its knees.
Left Shark didn’t know the play or didn’t
care when it began seemingly improvising
behind singer Katy Perry in 2015.
A Tumblr titled Poor Michelle — “A
compilation of all the times Michelle
Williams got the short end of the Desti-
ny’s Child stick” — had launched a few
weeks before the Super Bowl. It took off
after, and the #PoorMichelle hashtag
has resurfaced periodically since. A
blackout in the stadium after the show
delayed the start of the second half
for 34 minutes, during which the New
England Patriots were probably pout-
ing at home and hoping it would get
canceled. No such luck, Pats! The Bal-
timore Ravens beat the San Francisco
49ers once the lights came back on.
5) FREE AS A BIRD » Actually, when
singer M.I.A. flipped her middle finger
at the camera while performing with
Madonna and Nikki Minaj during Su-
per Bowl XLVI in 2012. The league was
not amused and sued M.I.A. and de-
manded an apology.
The point of the finger may have
been to rattle the Patriots. After half-
time, they lost their lead to the Giants
and ended up losing the game, too.
4) A BIG BOSS SLIDE » Speaking of
crotches, did you ever get a good look
at Bruce Springsteen’s? You did if you
were watching the halftime show at
Super Bowl XLIII in 2009, when dur-
ing the segue between “Tenth Avenue
Freeze-Out” and “Born to Run,” Spring-
steen ran, fell to his knees and slid
black-jeans-zipper-first into the camera.
He’d opened the 12-minute set with
a straight-to-camera promise “to bring
righteous and incredible power of the E
Street Band into your beautiful home,”
but he brought a whole lot more. The
Patriots didn’t play in this one — prob-
ably too effete for Springsteen, whose
working-man poetry surely delivered
the Pittsburgh Steelers their victory
over the Arizona Cardinals.
3) INDIANA JONES AND THE FLAMING EX-
TRA » Whenever the Super Bowl let Dis-
ney produce the halftime show, it got
an awesome amount of promotion. For
Disney, not the Super Bowl. Maybe the
wildest Disney halftime came in Su-
per Bowl XXIX in 1995 when, for an In-
diana Jones-themed product, they ac-
tually set a dude on fire. To be fair, he
was a bad guy in a fight with Indy, but
c’mon!
The 49ers defeated the San Diego
Chargers in the game. The Patriots
were still bad back then, a state along
with Massachusetts to which we hope
they soon return.
2) WHICH SHARK? LEFT SHARK! » Katy
Perry’s entire show during Super Bowl
XLIX was a technicolor whirl, with gi-
gantic puppets on which she could ride,
a marching band and dancing sharks.
Particularly the one on the left, whose
seemingly improvised dance moves cap-
tivated the nation, or at least those who
like to make memes on Twitter.
The Patriots beat the Seahawks but
only because Seahawks coach Pete Car-
roll’s end-of-game play-calling was less
Left Shark and more right, i.e. terrible.
1) NIPPLEGATE » What, you thought we
were going to pick Timberlake taking a
selfie with a kid who clearly looked like
he was thinking, “Who is this guy and
why is he in my face?” No! We’re pick-
ing Timberlake in Super Bowl XXXVIII
because when he removed part of Janet
Jackson’s top during a performance of
“Rock Your Body,” he not only exposed
a nipple encircled with some weird
piece of body jewelry, he also exposed
the kind of prudery in which it’s OK to
have scantily clad cheerleaders and sug-
gestive hamburger ads during the Su-
per Bowl, but heaven forbid something
like this should occur.
I mean, sure, it wasn’t ideal, the goof
and the victory by the Patriots, and we
got stuck with the phrase “wardrobe
malfunction” ever after, but to quote
the philosopher Bart Simpson, “Don’t
have a cow, man.”

QUICK FIX

NO-FUSS RIBS FOR YOUR PIGSKIN PIG-OUT

By Cathy Thomas
Correspondent
Come on, grab a pig rib. The juicy meat is handsome-
ly glazed, tender enough to pull apart with your fingers,
but somehow stays on the bone until those bossy pearly-
whites take hold. What better grub to savor on Super
Bowl Sunday?
Take the easy route if you like and simply cook baby
back ribs in the oven. If the membrane is still intact
on the back of the ribs, remove it. To remove, place rib
racks meat side down on baking sheet; remove thin,
papery membrane from back of the rack by inserting a
slender implement, such as a butter knife, under it. The
best place to start is on one side of the middle bones.
Using a dishcloth or paper towel, grip and peel off
membrane.
PHOTO BY CATHY THOMAS
There’s a quick and easy way to make “barbecued” baby back
ribs for Super Bowl Sunday — in your oven.
SIMPLE OVEN ‘BARBECUED’ BABY BACK RIBS
Yield: 5-6servings
INGREDIENTS
2racks baby back pork ribs, membranes removed
33⁄4 cups of your favorite store-bought sauce,
divided use
Coarse salt, such as kosher, to taste
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
PROCEDURE
1. Place ribs in large, shallow roasting pan and
cover with 3cups sauce. Cover with aluminum foil
and refrigerate 2-6hours. Remove from refrigera-
tor and allow to rest at room temperature for 30
minutes. Preheat oven to 350degrees.
2. Leave foil in place and bake 50minutes. Re-
move foil, pour 1⁄2 cup sauce on top of ribs and
bake 45minutes longer. Remove from oven and
drizzle remaining 1⁄4 cup sauce on top. Allow to
cool 5-10minutes. Season with coarse salt and
freshly ground black pepper. Serve cut into por-
tions of 2-3 ribs.
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of 1 to 5, informally
12 President during the
Vietnam War for now. This Week: Try to act like
57 Designer Geoffrey 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 you have a budget, and you will ulti-
13 Straddling
58 “____ Live” (onetime mately be happier. Be reasonable in
cooking show)
14 Surgical tube 45 46 47 48 49 50 your choices of where to meet up
61 ____ tear (sports injury)
15 Suppositions with friends.
62 Jay preceder
16 Like Feburary 51 52 53 54 55 56 Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
63 Unemployed educator?
17 Advertise excessively ★★★ You might have been drag-
57 58 59 60 61 62 ging and feeling as though you
68 Media inits. before One,
18 It’s the truth
21 Used as a role model
can’t complete as much as you’d
Two or Four 63 64 65 66 67 like to. You might want to complete
71 Wall Street order 23 Part of S.O.P.: Abbr. a project right now, but make sure
72 Question after “I’m back” 24 Beauty that’s seldom 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 you have an equal amount of time
seen to enjoy yourself. Tonight: Join
73 Fish in a tank
77 Rubber
30 Suffix with linguist 77 78 79 80 81 82 friends, wherever they may be. This
31 Okinawa port Week: You are on a roll. Don’t let
79 Article in La Repubblica 83 84 85 86 87 88 anyone stop you!
81 Kitty
32 “____ Rhythm”
37 Exec
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20):
82 Port Authority posting: 89 90 91 92 93 ★★★ You might want to settle
Abbr. 38 Spill the beans down and vanish. You have worked
83 Unemployed loan officer? 39 Second 94 95 96 97 98 hard. You have played hard. Allow
88 Watchdog org. 40 Send in a different a new beginning between yourself
established by Nixon direction 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 and a loved one. Take some quiet
89 Salon supply 42 Fast-food sandwiches time to share and be present with
introduced in 1985 107 108 109 110 this person. Tonight: Shhh, don’t
90 “No returns,” e.g. tell all. This Week: Not until
91 43 “Bingo!”
“Extra! Extra!” shouter 111 112 113 114 115 Wednesday do you feel up to snuff.
94 Repeated word in a 1957
44 They go down easily Be easy on yourself.
Harry Belafonte hit 47 “Brave New World” drug 116 117 118
95 Fan noise 48 Responded in court
96 Cote call 49 Dash gauge 119 120 121 Jacqueline Bigar is online
50 AAA suggestion: Abbr. at jacquelinebigar.com.
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Universal Crossword FRUMPY MIDDLE-AGED MOM

ACROSS
1 Get a C, say
5 Newborn
47 Not tickled
50 Soak up
53 ___ Schwab
13 Alexa, on
an iPhone
18 Excursion
43 Timber wolf
44 Rave
rhythms
File it away under baffling
beauty trends: the pedicure
11 Bases, tires 22 “The 48 Cat’s
briefly 54 Soy-based Godfather” “Feed me!”
14 Part of a soup author 49 Post office
foot 56 Escaping 24 World’s letters?
15 Illinois air sound smallest 51 “Yippee ...
River’s 58 City republic not” Somehow, take a stand, and cent of their time in san-
largest city northeast of 26 Enjoy a 52 Weapon in while I wasn’t I’m saying it: Ped- dals and are not by any
16 Yes, to Lincoln Popsicle Westerns
Yvette 62 “Is that true 27 “Hunger 54 Papa’s paying attention, icures are over- means attractive. I re-
17 *Be the first, about me?” Games” partner, pedicures became rated. alize that people choose
fashion-wise 63 *No longer star, to fans perhaps a thing. One day Not only do I to work in nail salons,
(find a pair of sober 28 Shoelace tip 55 Where to I was just moving now need pedi- but certainly many
antonyms in 65 Furious 29 Rejects see the big
each starred 66 Decide in 30 Troll picture? along at my nor- Marla Jo cures in order to must do so out of eco-
answer!) court commenter’s 57 “Get lost!” mal speed, taking Fisher wear sandals, but nomic necessity. I would
19 Scuff up 67 “Game of name, often 59 Taj Mahal’s care of my own Columnist I have to go with be surprised to learn
20 Up and Thrones” 32 Probe (into) home grooming, and my daughter, too. that women — because
about throne metal 35 Make a 60 Owl sound then — POW — Curly Girl has they’re nearly all women
21 Graceful 68 Logging salary 61 Henry VIII
bird show pro- 36 Like Queen wife Boleyn suddenly I had to have made me get mother- — grow up thinking,
22 Mani jectile (var.) Elizabeth’s 63 Conquista- people touching my feet. daughter ones with her. “Gee, I want to clean
partner 69 Like an easy family dor’s quest Apparently, in order Guess who paid the and polish people’s toe-
23 Author meal 37 Thatching 64 Sinus M.D. to be properly groomed bill? I pointed out that nails for a living.” I feel
Anais 70 It’s better plant
25 Temporary than never 39 Double ___ in Southern Califor- we own both a nail file vaguely feudal lying
refuge DOWN (cello’s nia, I now must have and a bottle of polish, there in my luxurious
27 He preceded 1 Italian tower cousin) strangers handling my so we really didn’t have spa chair while someone
Johnny town feet. I’m ticklish, and I to pay people to do it takes care of my feet
Carson 2 Raisins on a Answers to yesterday’s puzzle ANSWER don’t like anyone touch- for us, but she gave me in a way I would never
31 Polo shirt celery “log” PREVIOUS PUZZLE
producer 3 “Get lost!” ing my feet, do myself.
33 Queens hub: 4 Psychiatrist, not even peo- There’s a
Abbr. informally ple I already Not only do I have to pay part of me
34 *Cloak-and- 5 Lagunitas know. Like, that always
dagger beer initials
you know people money to touch my wants to
38 Gore and 6 Shrimpers’
Capone gear how people hideously ticklish feet, but say, “Here,
39 Frat buddy 7 Send along hate spiders? then I have to suppress the I’ll just
40 Perfectly an email Well, I actu- give you
fine 8 Zones ally don’t hate
weird, painful, embarrassing the money.
41 ___ de la Cite
42 *Washing
9 Fool
10 Just a ___ spiders, but giggles. I end up emitting Hand me
machine (barely) that’s how this series of strange grunts the polish
lump 11 Family much I hate instead. “Oh. Eh. Ahh.” When and go get a
45 Forbidden reunion anyone touch- cocktail.”
fruit eater footage
2/2 ing my feet, what I want to do is shout, And, then
46 General ___ 12 Brown © 2019 Andrews McMeel Universal
chicken green? www.upuzzles.com especially ran- “For the love of God, just stop there’s the
dom strangers now and no one will get hurt!” mani-pedi.
at a salon. For those of
2/3
“Opposite Sides” by Wren Schultz I believe you who live
pedicures may on Mars,
be the reason for the de- that look. You know the this means paying for a
mise of pantyhose — look. The one that says, combination of a mani-
one of the great inven- “You’re a pathetic old cure and pedicure at …
tions of the 20th cen- codger and, by the way, wait for it … double the
tury. I can’t really blame you don’t love me.” money. I don’t chew my
pedicures for global So, let’s recap. Not nails, but I also don’t
warming or the end of only do I have to pay take care of them, so
the dinosaurs, but I’m people money to touch having to worry about
pretty sure they killed my hideously ticklish picking a nail polish
off pantyhose because feet, but then I have can — seriously — take
no one can see your ped- to suppress the weird, me all day. Nail salons
icure when you’re wear- painful, embarrass- always have a dizzy-
ing them. ing giggles. I end up ing choice of polishes
I’m bracing myself emitting this series of that you’re supposed
right now for the ava- strange grunts instead. to look at and immedi-
lanche of hate mail I’m “Oh. Eh. Ahh.” When ately know which one
going to get from ped- what I want to do is is “you.” Well, I never
icure enthusiasts, sort shout, “For the love of know, except that I
of like what I got when God, just stop now and know I don’t want black
I suggested there were no one will get hurt!” fingernails, so I usually
too many marijuana It also seems cruel just pick the clear color,
shops all over the place. and unusual punish- on the theory that then,
(Hint: There were. And ment to require some- when they begin to chip,
are.) But sometimes one to work on my feet, I don’t have to rush back
you just have to bravely which spend 90 per- in to get them fixed up.

Sudoku Classic
TM

by David L. Hoyt
How to play: Each row,
2-3-19
column and set of 3-by-3 Use the clues to help unscramble the
four Jumbles, one letter to each square,
boxes must contain the to form four words. It surprised me to learn
he was born in England.
numbers 1through 9 Clue:
without repetition. NRRAEG Cordell W. was one

Answers to last week’s puzzle

REJYES
Clue:
Home to Tony S. ?
Clue:
VAYTRIG “Star Trek” attraction
Clue: This man, who was
born in London, England,
in 1944, said, “I would never
Clue: watch my show. I'm not
RRYPEUJ “Law & Order” possibility interested in it.”
Then arrange the circled letters to form the
answer, as suggested by the above cartoon
and clue.

Answer
Answers to 1/27/19 Jumbles: FAMILY JOKERS GRADES DENTIST
Answer: Early in his career, this person performed at a number of
resorts in the Catskills. JERRY SEINFELD c 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC,
You can e-mail David L. Hoyt at DLHoyt@aol.com. All Rights Reserved

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek TV Crossword
Unscramble these Jumbles,
one letter to each square,
to form six ordinary words.
Download the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

CILPAD

DCIEEV

TAGEEO

TOYFIN

SRAUDB

HLSASP
Now arrange the circled letters
©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC to form the surprise answer, as
All Rights Reserved. suggested by the above cartoon.
PRINT YOUR ANSWER IN THE CIRCLES BELOW

Answers to last week’s puzzle

UNFAIR DOCTOR VANDAL
WISDOM OUTLET HEYDAY
The returning Scrabble champion
guaranteed another victory by
saying —
YOU HAVE MY
WORD ON IT
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