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Is FBI
liable in
Muslim
spying?
An appellate panel
questions the agency’s
tactic in mosque
surveillance lawsuit.
By Maura Dolan
Craig Monteilh told the
imam that he wanted to em-
brace his French and Syrian
heritage and convert to Is-
lam.
Monteilh adopted an Is-
lamic name, donned Muslim
robes and a skull cap, and at-
tended prayers vigilantly.
The Islamic Center of Irvine
embraced him — until he be-
gan talking of violent jihad.
Congregants reported
him to the FBI and Irvine
police, and then obtained a
restraining order against
him. Only later did they dis-
cover Monteilh was working
for the FBI.
A federal appeals court is
now considering whether
the FBI can be held liable for
allegedly indiscriminately
targeting Muslims for sur-
veillance. If the court de-
cides the FBI cannot defend
itself without revealing state
secrets, the court likely
would uphold the dismissal
of a class-action lawsuit
brought by Southern Cali-
fornia Muslims.
The review by the U.S. 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals
comes at a time of height-
ened fear of terrorism and
incidents of backlash
against innocent Muslims.
Judge Marsha Berzon, in
a hearing this month, ac-
knowledged the sensitivity
of the matter as she strug-
gled to understand what
constituted a state secret.
The state secrets doctrine
bars litigation of a case if it
[See FBI, A16]
In China, actors
play role models
Celebrities sign moral
pledges; offenders are
edited out of movies.
By Julie Makinen
BEIJING — Imagine if,
after arresting a wave of ce-
lebrities on narcotics
charges, American govern-
ment officials pressed the
heads of major Hollywood
studios, A-list actors, record
label chiefs and chart-top-
ping singers to sign promis-
es that they’d stay away
from vices including drugs,
JAYCEE CHAN, left, son of Jackie, apologized pub-
licly upon his release after a six-month jail term.
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PARKGOERS enjoy the view next to dying trees on a dry slope at Angels Point in Elysian Park. The
irrigation system that sustained the trees is broken. Some of the park’s forests are 100 years old.
Little life in these limbs
A recovery plan drafted in 2006 lies dormant as the exotic
trees of Los Angeles’ venerable Elysian Park wither and die
AMID a canopy of dying trees, joggers enjoy the
solitude of a dirt path in Elysian Park, which may
be the city’s best known and least known park.
pornography and gambling.
Simultaneously, sub-
stance-abusing performers
found their films shut out of
cinemas, forcing producers
into hasty reshoots and re-
edits. And major news out-
lets began running editorials
criticizing top directors for
failing to narc on associates
they had witnessed smoking
pot or taking Ecstasy.
This parallel universe of
probity is no fanciful fig-
ment: With China develop-
ing a hearty appetite for
marijuana, methamphet-
amine and other illicit sub-
stances, Chinese authorities
[See China, A4]
Zhao Bing Imaginechina
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2015
AT PERSHING SQUARE in downtown L.A., people take part in a lightsaber
battle event Friday to celebrate the opening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
‘The Force’ is wide awake
‘Star Wars’ reboot sets record weekend box office
By Tre’vell Anderson
and Ryan Faughnder
Claudia Colindres had
never seen a “Star Wars”
film, so before her friend
Christian Alvarado would
take her to the franchise’s re-
boot, “Star Wars: The Force
Awakens,” the two binged
for two days on all six of the
earlier films.
“It’s crazy,” said Co-
lindres, 17, of Los Angeles, as
she and Alvarado settled
into the back row of Holly-
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As campaigns turn to
New Hampshire, its
addiction epidemic
draws the focus of
presidential hopefuls.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. —
Zach Brewster had a long
history of addiction and was
dealing drugs after flunking
out of college.
One night he injected a
cocktail of cocaine and hero-
in and stopped breathing.
He was taken by ambulance
to the emergency room of
the suburban hospital that
employed his parents, where
they were told their son
might not survive the night.
By Doug Smith When he pulled through,
his parents thought the
Around the turn of the 20th century, the dedicated scare might make him seri-
stewards of Elysian Park were in an exotic mood. Euca- ous about recovery.
lyptus, deodar cedar and Mexican palm were their fancy. Three days later, he was
Their canvas was the miniature range of ridges and se- back to using heroin.
questered canyons linked to downtown through Chavez Over the last decade,
Ravine, which decades later would became Dodger Sta- families like the Brewsters
dium. have become the face of
With access to federal recovery funds and plentiful la- opioid and heroin addiction
bor during the Great Depression, they laid pipe and that is gripping the North-
planted forests and glens that gave actual meaning to the east. Until recently, the epi-
park’s name, Elysian — the mythical place where the vir- demic received little atten-
tuous went after death. tion.
Now, those forests, some 100 years old, are nearing the But a sharp increase in
end of their life cycles. The irrigation system that sus- heroin overdoses over the
tained them is broken. Drought and pests have acceler- last 18 months and New
ated the effects of age. The trees are dying. Hampshire’s first-in-the-na-
Today’s horticulturists have a new vision for the park: tion presidential primary
Let the nonnative species die out and replant the slopes are placing the issue square-
with saplings of oak and walnut, gradually restoring the ly in front of the country as
hillsides to the natural, and sustainable, ecosystem that candidates barnstorm the
Gaspar de Portola witnessed when he camped beside state.
the Los Angeles River in 1769. At town halls, in diners
But that vision, articulated in a [See Elysian, A13] and at house parties, candi-
dates of both parties are
hearing tales from an-
guished voters about drug
addiction in their families.
And the White House hope-
fuls are repeatedly grilled
about their approach to
fighting drug abuse.
“If they didn’t get it be-
fore they started campaign-
ing, they certainly get it
now,” said Tim Soucy, direc-
tor of Manchester’s Public
Health Department. “We’ve
always had heroin and
opioid addiction issues, but
it has really exploded. It’s so
cheap and so readily avail-
[See Drugs, A12]
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in Las Vegas
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on the edge
out of the stratosphere and A provocative exhibi-
A more-inclusive tion at the California
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male rap group, the duo
known as Y.A.K. sometimes
finds itself at performances
or recording studios along-
side demure, warbly voiced
divas who specialize in more
commercially successful
Myanmar pop music. The
encounters can be awkward:
the nation’s traditional
notions of femininity
smacking into an audacious
new wave.
“They don’t think we’re
pretty. They wonder how we
became singers,” said Aye
Aye, 31, who goes by the
sobriquet Triple-A. “So we
wrote a song about such
women. It’s called ‘Porn
Face.’ ”
The song is a gritty,
occasionally vulgar take-
down of what the pair de-
scribe as a common charac-
ter in the Southeast Asian
country: the pretty young
woman who seeks out a rich
older man to “sponsor” her
designer handbags and
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the Thai capital. They wrote
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beloved 70-year-old democ-
racy activist who just led her
opposition party to a re-
sounding victory in parlia-
mentary elections. Thazin
and Triple-A describe her as
“incomparable,” but ac-
knowledge that her Oxford
education and patrician air
are not attainable stand-
ards for most young women.
“We’re not really into
politics, anyway,” Triple-A
said, polishing off a plate of
rice at a quiet Thai restau-
rant here in Myanmar’s
largest city. “We just want to
stick with the truth.”
Y.A.K. — whose etymolo-
gy is the subject of some
debate, but more on that
later — has been toiling in
Yangon’s small under-
ground hip-hop scene for
more than a decade. The
pair met in 2004 when a
mutual friend gave Thazin,
who was then rapping solo,
one of Triple-A’s CDs. They
discovered they had both
been inspired by a local
collective called the Myan-
mar Hip-Hop Assn., as well
as American rappers Missy
Elliott and MC Lyte.
Back then, Myanmar
was ruled by a military
government that kept Suu
Kyi under house arrest and
that strictly censored writ-
ing and music. The few
nontraditional artists per-
formed at tiny clubs and for
friends, but had to steer
clear of controversial lyrics.
“No politics, no sex,” said
the tall, chatty Thazin, 32,
who hides her dyed brown
hair under backward base-
ball caps. “It was a very
conservative place. It still
is.”
The duo stuck to writing
songs aimed at elevating the
status of women. Although
censorship laws have been
eased, women remain un-
derrepresented in public
life. Suu Kyi, the country’s
most popular politician, is
constitutionally barred
from becoming president
because her late husband
was foreign-born, as were
her sons.
Before the election, a
leader of the pro-military
ruling party told a rally in
Yangon, “The president is
above any other position,
just as in a household, a
husband is in charge.”
A recent Y.A.K. song,
“Myanmar Women,” takes
aim at such views:
We weren’t born to obey
unjust orders
We’re made of flesh and
blood, like the rest of you
Our sight is set on the fu-
ture’s promise
Women, lean on each other,
reach out to each other
Don’t be afraid to go up
against anyone, walk
with conviction
Stop thinking women are
weaker than men
Y.A.K. scored a coup
when its music video for
“Porn Face,” made by a local
producer, became a minor
YouTube sensation in My-
anmar two years ago. But
the duo still performs
mainly at small clubs and
international cultural cen-
ters while trying to raise
enough money to produce
an album.
Local promoters book
them on the B-list, behind
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Thein Than Oo
more traditional singers
who dance and wear fancy
gowns, they said. To pay the
bills, Thazin works as a
sound engineer and Tri-
ple-A has a day job at an
event planning company.
For years, they were told
that to make money, they
should forget writing their
own songs and get into
“copy tracks.” These blatant
rip-offs of international hits,
rewritten with Burmese
lyrics and belted out by local
artists, have long been
Myanmar’s most popular
music genre.
“There is still not a lot of
room for things that are
different or original,” said
Triple-A, who is the quieter
of the two but lets her hair
do the talking, recently
trading in a half-shaved look
for a short, boyish cut that’s
equally daring for Myanmar.
The two hope that as
Myanmar’s political transi-
tion continues, their music
will gain wider acceptance.
The name Y.A.K. came from
the name of a bird that
belonged to Myanmar’s
royal family, but fans later
decided it stood for “Yangon
Always Kingdom” — a rejec-
tion of Naypyidaw, the city
that the military built to
replace Yangon as Myan-
mar’s capital a decade ago.
Triple-A’s family has not
embraced her rap career,
she said with a hint of re-
gret. But Thazin said her
father, a former military
man, supports their music.
“And my mom really likes
‘Porn Face,’ ” she said.
shashank.bengali
@latimes.com
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THE WORLD
Infamous militant killed in Syria
Hezbollah blames an
Israeli strike for the
death of a guerrilla
who fatally attacked a
family in 1979.
By Nabih Bulos,
Patrick J. McDonnell
and Batsheva
Sobelman

BEIRUT — The leader of

a notorious 1979 attack on an
Israeli family — who later be-
came a prominent operative
with the Lebanese militant
group Hezbollah — has been
killed in an airstrike in Syria,
according to official and me-
dia accounts Sunday.
Hezbollah blamed an Is-
raeli rocket barrage for the
death of Samir Kuntar, who
spent almost 30 years in Is-
raeli lockups for his role in
the brazen attack in which a
man and his 4-year-old
daughter were kidnapped
and slain.
Kuntar was freed in 2008
along with four other Leba-
nese prisoners in exchange
for the remains of two Israeli
soldiers.
Kuntar has since played a
high-profile role with Hez-
bollah, a close ally of Iran, Is-
rael’s regional archenemy.
Hezbollah, which is assist-
ing the Syrian government
forces in its ongoing civil war,
is deemed a terrorist organi-
zation by both the U.S. and
Israel.
In a statement issued
Sunday, Hezbollah said Ariel Schalit Associated Press
Kuntar — whom it lauds as RELATIVES in Ein Kinya, a Druze village in the Golan Heights, mourn Hezbollah operative Samir Kantar and Farhan Shaalan, who were
“the dean of Lebanese pris- killed in an Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital, Damascus. Shaalan was a commander with an anti-Israel group.
oners” — was “martyred”
when warplanes of the “Zi- sorry” if accounts of his de- ers, and was embraced by building up Hezbollah’s “ter- cus have accused Israel of the Syrian opposition,
onist enemy” fired missiles mise were accurate. Hezbollah as a symbol, rorist infrastructure in the providing medical and ma- whose ranks are dominated
at a residential building in In1979, Kuntar, a member though the attack long pre- Golan Heights,” according terial support to Syrian reb- by Sunni Islamist factions.
Jaramana, a southern sub- of the Druze sect who was dated the Shiite Muslim to a U.S. State Department els, including Al Qaeda-affil- Hezbollah is hostile to Sunni
urb of Damascus, the Syrian then 16, led a guerrilla squad group’s founding. Israel re- news release last year that iated fighters. Israel count- militants such as Al Qaeda
capital. whose actions remain leased Kuntar in 2008 in an labeled Kuntar a “specially ers that it is only treating the and Islamic State.
There was no direct con- seared in Israeli minds. exchange for the remains of designated global terrorist” wounded, regardless of their In January, an Israeli
firmation from Israel, which Infiltrating northern Is- two Israeli reservists killed subject to financial sanc- affiliation. missile strike killed a top
generally refrains from com- rael by sea, Kuntar and three in a 2006 cross-border inci- tions and other penalties. Israel is one of a number Hezbollah commander and
menting on airstrikes in Syr- others killed a policeman in dent that sparked a month- Kuntar became “a pivot of nations, including the Iranian general while the
ia. the town of Nahariya and en- long war between Hezbollah in the efforts of Hezbollah” United States and Russia, pair were on a reconnais-
Lebanese broadcaster Al tered the apartment of the and Israel. to reshape the Golan that have conducted bomb- sance mission in the Qunei-
Mayadeen reported that the Haran family, seizing Danny “Justice has been done,” Heights as a front against Is- ing runs in war-ravaged Syr- tra area of southern Syria.
attack was conducted by Haran and his 4-year-old Smadar Haran, the only rael, according to Yaakov ia, though the Israeli govern- Hezbollah forces later retali-
two Israeli aircraft that hov- daughter as hostages and family member who sur- Amidror, a researcher with ment has seldom publicly ated with a rocket attack
ered close to the Israeli-Syri- taking them to a nearby vived the 1979 attack, told Is- the BESA Center at Bar-Ilan acknowledged its involve- against Israeli forces, killing
an border area of the Sea of beach. raeli media Sunday. Israel University and Israel’s for- ment. The skies above Syria two Israeli soldiers.
Galilee before firing four Kuntar shot the father to had “settled its debt,” she mer national security advis- have become heavily con- Israel’s targeting of Hez-
missiles toward Jaramana, a death and was also accused added. or. Israel has occupied much gested with foreign fighter bollah reflects Israel’s
stronghold of the govern- of killing the child by smash- Many Israelis were en- of the Golan Heights since jets. broader security stance in
ment of Syrian President ing her skull with his rifle raged when Hezbollah gave 1967. Previous airstrikes in the region. Many Israeli offi-
Bashar Assad. butt, a charge he vehemently the ex-prisoner a hero’s wel- Hezbollah, a dominant Syria attributed to Israel cials regard Iran and Hez-
Syrian state media re- denied. come upon his return to Leb- military, political and social have reportedly targeted bollah as Israel’s gravest ex-
ported that Kuntar was Danny Haran’s wife, anon. force in Lebanon, is deeply weapons convoys and posi- ternal threats.
killed along with “several” Smadar, fled with their Kuntar soon emerged as involved in the war raging in tions of Hezbollah. Israeli of-
others “in a hostile terrorist other daughter, who was 2, an informal spokesman for Syria. Its cadres, working in ficials have said they are patrick.mcdonnell
rocket strike” on a residen- to a crawl space and inad- Hezbollah, making regular concert with Iranian advi- committed to blocking the @latimes.com
tial building in Jaramana. vertently smothered the appearances beside the sors, have bolstered Syrian transfer of advanced, strate- Times staff writer
Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s child to death while trying to group’s leader, Hassan Nas- government forces through- gic weaponry to Hezbollah McDonnell reported from
minister for infrastructure, silence her as the pair hid rallah, and speaking at ral- out the country, especially via Syrian territory. Beirut. Special
would not comment on the from the intruders. lies. near the Lebanese-Syrian Unlike the warplanes of correspondents Bulos and
reports but said Kuntar was Captured after the at- Kuntar also took on an border but also in the Golan Russia and the U.S.-led co- Sobelman reported from
“no small villain” and he tack, Kuntar became one of operational role and was Heights area. alition, Israeli aircraft are Beirut and Jerusalem,
doubted “anyone would be Israel’s longest-held prison- aided by Iran and Syria in Hezbollah and Damas- not known to have attacked respectively.

China landslide buries buildings

Dozens of people are
missing in Shenzhen
after an industrial
park is inundated.
By Jonathan Kaiman

BEIJING — A massive
landslide buried an industri-
al park in the southern Chi-
nese city of Shenzhen on
Sunday morning, according
to Chinese state media re-
ports and online posts.
At least 59 people were
missing, and rescuers pulled
four people alive from col-
lapsed or buried buildings,
the official New China News
Agency reported late Sun-
day. About 1,500 rescue
workers were dispatched to
the scene.
The landslide covered an
area of nearly 650,000 square AFP/Getty Images

feet in Shenzhen’s Guang-
ming New District, including
the Liuxi Industrial Park,
according to a televised
statement by Shenzhen mu-
nicipal official Li Yikang. At
least 900 people were evacu-
ated, he said.
After the landslide, Chi-
nese President Xi Jinping is-
sued an “important direc-
tive” demanding that pro-
vincial and municipal au-
thorities “rapidly organize”
emergency response mea-
sures and “do their utmost
to ensure that casualties are
RESCUE WORKERS look for survivors in the landslide that covered an area of
nearly 650,000 square feet in southern China. Thirty-three buildings collapsed.
minimized.” run People’s Daily. and Resources wrote to its
“The site is quite narrow Pictures posted online official microblog account
and is located on a ramp, so show wrecked tangles of low- that the landslide was
it is very difficult for vehicles slung concrete buildings — caused by a man-made pile
to enter,” the New China both residential complexes of dirt and construction
News Agency quoted Ao and worker dorms — sub- waste, which was stacked
Zhuoqia of the Shenzhen merged in a tide of red dirt. too high at too steep a gradi-
fire department as saying. Others show rescue author- ent. It said that mountains
“We have to go there on foot.” ities in orange jumpsuits in the area “did not slide”
“Several people have and white helmets walking during the disaster. Thirty-
been trapped, and the num- over the dirt with shovels. three buildings collapsed.
ber of casualties cannot be One video shows a three-
estimated,” said an article story building collapsing. jonathan.kaiman
on the website of the state- China’s Ministry of Land @latimes.com
A4 M O N DAY , D E C EM B E R 21, 2 015 L AT I M E S . C OM

Entertainers cast as moral models

[China, from A1]
are training their crosshairs
squarely on stars — even as
they look to celebrities as
front-line soldiers in the na-
tion’s nascent war on drugs.
As of June, China had
listed more than 3 million
people on an official roll of
drug users, up from 1.8 mil-
lion in 2011, according to Li-
ang Ran, a drug-control offi-
cial in the Ministry of Jus-
tice.
Millions more fly below
the radar of police, and
China’s National Narcotics
Control Commission esti-
mates the actual number of
drug users to be more than
14 million, roughly 1% of the
population. In 2014, author-
ities seized 69 tons of illicit
drugs, arrested nearly
890,000 people on posses-
sion-type charges and al-
most 170,000 more on
charges related to produc-
tion and trafficking.
Among the celebrities
who have been busted on
drug charges in the last 18
months are Jackie Chan’s
son, Jaycee, and his fellow
actor friend Kai Ko; the pop
singer Yin Xiangjie; and ac-
tor Wang Xuebing, who had
a major role in “Black Coal,
Thin Ice,” which took top
honors at the 2014 Berlin
Film Festival.
Yin and Chan spent
months in jail; Ko delivered a
tearful public apology but
nevertheless found himself
cut out of films including
“Monster Hunt,” a partly
animated family film that af-
ter hurried reshoots became
the top-grossing Chinese
movie of all time. Wang’s
gritty drama, “A Fool,”
abruptly had its May release
date scrapped and only ar-
rived in theaters in Novem-
ber with some of the sup-
porting actor’s scenes
trimmed.
But in a one-party sys-
tem where even today’s
Communist Party leaders
maintain that art should
“serve the state,” authorities
are not merely setting out to
punish stars who break the
law. They seek, in a time of
rapidly loosening social mo-
res, to turn entertainers into
moral models — and even
model informants.
The rectitude campaign
has caught even the most re-
spected celebrities flat-
footed. Take director Zhang
Yimou. Last month, after
Yin was arrested, the state-
run New China News Agency
interviewed Zhang and
about a dozen major stars
about their attitudes on ce-
lebrity drug use.
“I have seen many actors
using marijuana together
during their breaks…. It’s
terrible that artists are in-
volved in pornography, gam-
bling and drugs,” said the
auteur, who’s helmed films
including “Hero” and “Raise
the Red Lantern” and is cur-
rently in production on the
big-budget “The Great Wall”
starring Matt Damon.
velop a world-class enter- who violate its norms to is-
tainment industry, which of- sue public apologies. It
ficials see as a key to could also disqualify them
advancing its cultural and from awards or “blacklist”
economic influence. them from the industry.
“This is the perfect Last month, the group
‘damned if you do, damned if held a forum in Beijing, tout-
you don’t’ situation. If ing the fact that 50 of its
[Zhang] told, he might be member organizations had
called a rat; if not, then he’d signed on to its “pledge on
be accused of dereliction of professional ethics and self-
duty,” said Ying Zhu, a schol- discipline.” (In addition to
ar of the Chinese entertain- shunning drugs, the pledge
ment industry at the City also obligates signatories to
University of New York. “The “protect the leadership of
nanny state and the media/ the Communist Party.”)
Internet vigilantes need to Actress Fan Bingbing,
be mindful of the conse- who has crossed over into
quences of ratting out Hollywood productions in-
friends, colleagues, and cluding “X-Men: Days of Fu-
neighbors and families.... ture Past” and “Iron Man 3”
There is a chilling price to be said at the forum, “A good
paid for turning people actor must be a good person
against each other while first.”
looking over one’s own Pi said he believed ex-
shoulders.” tracting such public pledges
“Ethically,” commission from celebrities would make
Peng Peng Associated Press Patrik Stollarz AFP/Getty Images advisor Pi said, “Zhang them less likely to trans-
KAI KO delivered a tearful public apology over drug charges, but he was still cut should report drug users, gress and more inclined to
from films. Wang Xuebing, right, also had scenes trimmed after he was busted. but in Chinese culture, it’s think about the financial
hard to put righteousness consequences of breaking
ple tried to persuade me to available online in China and tracizing drug-using celebri- above friends and family.” their word by exposing
try Ecstasy, and even told is popular. ties raises parallels with the Authorities, he added, themselves as untrust-
me, ‘This is the origin of in- “Even President Obama anti-communist witch might have more success in worthy in the public eye.
spiration,’ ” he added. has acknowledged he hunts in Hollywood in the making it commercially “I don’t think the law will
But rather than winning smoked pot,” Pi said. 1940s and ’50s, which forced risky for stars to use (or si- ever [totally] bar these films
plaudits for his propriety, How fans, business asso- many talented and creative lently condone) drug use. from the screen,” Pi said.
Zhang was pummeled in the ciates and law enforcement people to leave the indus- That’s why Chinese officials “But the question is, can
state-run press for failing to should respond to celebrity try. are pressing ahead with a movies featuring repeat
rat out the law-breakers to drug use has been a topic of By pressuring people in host of measures to discour- drug users be profitable? I
police. periodic debate in the U.S., Zhang’s shoes to be inform- age bad behavior. believe audiences will reject
“Instead of protecting his with actor Philip Seymour ants, some observers say, This fall, the China Alli- movies starring repeat drug
actors, he was appeasing Hoffman’s 2014 overdose and Chinese authorities are ance of Radio, Film and offenders.”
and shielding them. This will the recent death of singer walking a thin line that can Television — a state-sanc-
only make these movies Scott Weiland, who long erode social trust and sow a tioned umbrella group of of- julie.makinen@latimes.com
stars more addicted to struggled with addiction. culture of fear, discontent, ficial industry organizations Nicole Liu and Yingzhi Yang
drugs,” said Eastday, a But for some observers, secrecy and creative conser- — formed an ethics commit- of The Times’ Beijing
Shanghai-based news out- the notion of blacklisting, vatism. That could under- tee that it said could order bureau contributed to this
let. “If Zhang considered it sanctioning or otherwise os- mine China’s efforts to de- individuals or organizations report.
disloyal to report his friends
to the police, he has made a
serious mistake, sacrificing
the greater good for the sake
of his self-interest.” WORLD BRIEFING
The Southern Metropolis
Daily penned a similar com-
mentary headlined, “Real
love is informing on friends
to police,” while the Global
Times, a nationalist tabloid
closely affiliated with the
Communist Party, ran a car-
toon of a sad-looking yellow
star shooting up with a
hypodermic needle as
Zhang watched from around
a corner.
“The government wants
celebrities to actively shoul-
der more responsibility” for
spreading anti-drug mes-
sages, said Pi Yijun, an ad-
visor to the Beijing Narcot-
ics Control Commission. “Al-
though celebrities are a
small percentage of China’s
overall drug users, they are
an indicator of the trend. If
more celebrities are taking
drugs, then so are more ordi-
nary people.”
China, Pi noted, is still
much less permissive about
drug use than America. And
censors ensure that drug us-
age very rarely figures in
popular Chinese entertain-
ment; a Chinese TV pro-
gram along the lines of
“Breaking Bad” would al-
most certainly never be ap-
proved by authorities —
though the American show Associated Press

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THE NATION
Democratic, GOP races diverge
It’s not that Sanders has “carpet-bombing” Islamic
Sanders appears given up; he will certainly State territory.
continue to push the issues Clinton, with relatively
unwilling to challenge that have mobilized the little worry about opposition
Clinton as Republican more than 2 million small- from her party’s antiwar left
dollar donors who have fi- wing, has been able to pitch
candidates escalate nanced his campaign. Al- to the less committed voters
their primary fight. ready he can credibly say he who, even in this partisan
has drawn the Democrats to age, can swing key states. In
the left on at least some Saturday’s debate, she ad-
By David Lauter parts of his agenda. But even vocated expanded use of
though his aides have talked special operations forces
WASHINGTON — The to reporters about potential and an intensified air cam-
sharpest contrast between attacks on Clinton, Sanders paign, meeting only limited
Tuesday night’s Republican has made it clear by his ac- opposition from Sanders.
presidential debate and Sat- tions in three successive de- None of that means
urday’s Democratic face-off bates that he has no desire Democrats can stop feeling
was not tone, although the to wage an all-out fight nervous about the fall. Re-
difference was marked, or against the party’s pre- publican disarray in Decem-
the number of candidates. It sumptive nominee. ber does not guarantee divi-
was the time horizon: While On the Republican side, sion in the general election
the GOP anxiously eyes Feb- meantime, the brawling is campaign. Partisans on
ruary’s primaries, the growing only more intense. both sides have a strong
Democrats already have Whether the party will re- tendency to pull together in
shifted focus to November’s main together or split be- the end, no matter what.
general election. tween its establishment And winning a third straight
Their long view could be wing and its Donald Trump presidential election re-
seen Saturday as former faction remains an open mains a difficult challenge.
Secretary of State Hillary question. Jim Cole Associated Press “I still think this cycle is
Clinton, the Democratic “Clinton is now on a glide BERNIE SANDERS and Hillary Clinton during a break at the debate Saturday. tougher for us than many on
front-runner, and Sen. Ber- path to the nomination, but “Clinton is now on a glide path to the nomination,” one GOP strategist says. my side will acknowledge,
nie Sanders of Vermont, her the Republicans are just get- mainly because we have be-
main challenger, passed up ting started,” said Dan Schwarzenegger’s Califor- ter that.” Clinton that opposing Assad come so dependent on a spe-
chances to go on the attack: Schnur, a veteran GOP nia gubernatorial cam- But the candidate’s ac- needs to remain a priority. cific turnout coalition,” said
Sanders apologized for strategist who now directs paigns. tions tell a different tale, Each of them argues that the Steve Schale, who ran Presi-
his aides having raided the USC’s Jesse M. Unruh Insti- But “the process is so un- seen most notably in her Sunni Arabs whose help the dent Obama’s successful
Clinton campaign’s voter tute of Politics. settled” on the GOP side statements about combat- U.S. needs to battle Islamic campaign in Florida in 2008.
files. Clinton said both cam- For months, Republican that multiple candidates re- ing Islamic State militants State will cooperate only if “Take my home state. The
paigns should “move on” to operatives have speculated main possibilities for the in Iraq and Syria, an issue they believe the U.S. is on smallest change in black
other issues. about whether Trump nomination, he said. that cuts across both parties their side in the fight against turnout or Hispanic support
When Martin O’Malley would run an independent “Republicans could be to create odd de facto alli- Assad, who is allied not only changes the math in the
criticized them for inconsis- campaign if he loses the facing unprecedented disas- ances. with Russia but also with wrong way.”
tency on gun control, Clin- nomination. Now some have ter or success,” Stutzman Trump and Cruz, for ex- their enemy Iran. But Schale, who was ac-
ton and Sanders defended begun talking seriously said. “It’s clear as mud.” ample, agree with Sanders Each also supports a tive in the unsuccessful ef-
each other. Clinton, having about the opposite scenario: Despite evidence to the that the U.S. should seek a more vigorous version of the fort this fall to get Vice Presi-
successfully bashed Sand- an establishment Republi- contrary, Clinton campaign deal with Russia to fight Is- Obama administration’s dent Joe Biden to enter the
ers on gun issues for much of can running a third-party ef- officials insist they are not lamic State. To make that policy, combining airstrikes race, joined GOP strategists
October and November, fort if Trump wins. Either taking their attention off the happen, they say, the U.S. and raids by U.S. special op- in saying that the battle on
complimented him for alter- way, the GOP could divide primaries. should stop insisting that erations forces with a long- the Democratic side has
ing his stand. its presidential vote to the “We are totally focused on Syrian President Bashar term effort to help Sunni gone from being a threat to a
And when Clinton, eyes Democrats’ great advan- this primary right now, first Assad, whom Russia sup- groups fight for control of useful warm-up round for
fixed firmly on the general tage. Iowa, then obviously here in ports, must leave. Each also the territory in Syria and the leader.
election audience, talked “Republicans could be in New Hampshire where criticizes U.S. involvement Iraq that Islamic State rules. “Clinton,” he said, “has
tough about Syria, Iraq and a disastrous state if Trump there’s a very tight race,” in past efforts to overthrow But the dynamics of the really upped her game the
Islamic State, Sanders said is nominated — I think un- campaign manager Robby dictators in the Mideast, in- Republican race, especially last few months.”
he worried that she might be likely — and frankly not Mook told reporters Satur- cluding Saddam Hussein in the competition to be as
“too aggressive” but ac- much better off with” Sen. day night after the debate. Iraq and Moammar Kadafi tough-sounding as Trump, david.lauter@latimes.com
knowledged that it was a Ted Cruz of Texas, said Re- “We’re focused on earning in Libya. have led the candidates to Times staff writer Michael
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not hurt their chances of
convicting him in the death
of Freddie Gray.
When juries cannot reach
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prosecutors retry the case
before another jury, they win
about 70% of the time, re-
Nine of the 30 counties Amy Dillard, a University voting to acquit would trig- “When you look at some-
had information on what of Baltimore School of Law ger rioting like that seen in thing like ‘12 Angry Men,’
happened after a mistrial professor, said the idea of de- the city in April. Baltimore what you see in that is the
was declared because of a manding a unanimous ver- Circuit Judge Barry G. Wil- holdout for not guilty ulti-
hung jury. Researchers re- dict is centuries old. liams determined after quiz- mately over time turns the
ported that in a third of “Unanimity gave the as- zing jurors that they could tide,” she said.
those cases, the defendant surance in criminal cases of be impartial, but the issue “The idea is that the peo-
underwent a second jury tri- proof beyond a reasonable could surface again before a ple who are holding out are
al; a few others were retried doubt and the jury was retrial. holding out for a reason, not
before a judge. In the re- speaking the mind of the Dillard pointed to one of because of a bias or hard-
maining cases, charges were populace at large,” she said. the more famous fictional headedness or a personality
dismissed, the defendant Porter’s attorneys have accounts of jury deliber- disorder.” Patrick Semansky AP
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Syrian Christian dad at a loss in Texas

By Molly
Hennessy-Fiske
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would be released Thursday
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said. They did. Then they
were told the release was
postponed to Friday, then
Monday, then indefinitely.
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mas?” he said, noting that
his parents hold green cards.
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cians have voiced suspicions
about Syrian refugees and
have called for added securi-
ty checks and screenings.
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to cause any damage…. We
are not going to cause harm
to America,” he said.
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have Christian first names).
It’s unclear how many
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have arrived at the border
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legally as refugees. the U.S. via Mexico and Cen- ing Santa deliver gifts to the
There were 104 asylum tral America, especially af- children, going to church.
cases filed by Syrians this ter the Paris attacks. “I was hoping to spend it
year as of June, almost twice In detention, the barber with my sister and parents in
as many as in 2010, according has no one to talk to, be- California. After four years
to immigration court re- cause he is being held apart of civil war in Syria, I did not
cords. Last year, Syrians from the other Syrian men. think my children would be
were among the top 25 He spends his days think- in detention on Christmas.
groups granted asylum in ing about what will become Not just that, we are sepa-
the U.S. for the first time in of his family. rated from each other, and
recent years. “I’m thinking, thinking, we don’t know when we will
Those who work with thinking, like my head is go- be released.”
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Greenland ice loss may explain rising sea levels

mates of the shrinkage of the
By Amina Khan Greenland ice reserves and
could help scientists more
The Greenland ice sheet fully account for the world’s
has lost about 10 trillion tons rising sea levels.
(about the weight of 1.7 mil- Researchers have been
lion Giza pyramids) of water using satellite data to track
ice from 1900 to 2010, and it’s the Greenland ice sheet’s
dropping mass today at an mass loss since the 1990s, be-
increasing rate, an interna- cause understanding its be-
tional team of scientists say. havior is key to understand-
From 2003 to 2010, the ice ing the effects of climate
sheet lost mass at a rate change and the conse-
more than twice the rate quences on rising ocean
during the entire 20th cen- levels. But to really grasp
tury, a new study shows. this long-term pattern, re-
The findings, published searchers need a fuller pic-
in the journal Nature, pro- ture of the 20th century.
vide unprecedented esti- “The response of the
Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) given that human industrial didn’t think there was tonnes. And from 2003 to
to changes in temperature activity was significantly enough data,” said lead au- 2010, the ice sheet lost 1,305
during the twentieth cen- ramping up during this pe- thor Kurt Kjaer, a glacial ge- gigatonnes.
tury remains contentious,” riod. The start of the 20th ologist at the Natural His- This process has been
the study authors wrote, century also marks, roughly, tory Museum of Denmark. speeding up in recent years.
“largely owing to difficulties the decline of the Little Ice However, there is a trove Because of the ice sheet’s
in estimating the spatial and Age, an approximately four- of aerial photos from the shrinkage from 1900 to 2010,
temporal distribution of ice century cold snap (about 1980s. Now the researchers sea levels have risen about 1
mass changes before 1992, 1450 to 1850) when the were able to take these inch, the scientists said.
when Greenland-wide ob- Greenland ice expanded. photos and create 3-D re- The researchers were
servations first became So without the kind of di- constructions of the ice also able to show that the
available.” rect satellite data we’ve had sheet over time. mass loss is largely coming
That’s problematic, be- to work with since the 1990s, The scientists found that not from chunks of glacier
cause it means the Green- estimates of the sea level rise from 1900 to 1983, the Green- breaking off but from melt-
land ice sheet’s contribution remain incomplete. land ice sheet lost about ing ice, a clear link to rising
to sea level rise has been Even for a recent U.N. In- 6,233 gigatonnes (about 7 air temperatures.
largely overlooked for most tergovernmental Panel on trillion U.S. tons) of mass.
of the 20th century — a Climate Change report, Then from 1983 to 2003, the amina.khan
yawning gap in the record, “there’s blanks where they sheet lost about 1,475 giga- @latimes.com

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Digging into the dog’s past

DNA study indicates
the split with wolves
took place in eastern
Asia 330 centuries
ago. In human years.
By Deborah Netburn
The love affair between
humans and dogs has been
going on for thousands of
years. But when and where
dogs first branched off from
wolves is the source of scien-
dogs descended from a sin-
gle group of wolves that split
from other members of the
species at that time.
For the paper, research-
ers studied dogs that repre-
sented historical popula-
tions of where they lived.
That included breeds long
associated with specific geo-
graphical locations, such as
the Afghan hound (central
Asia), the Sloughi (North
Africa), the Alaskan mala-
mute and the Siberian
husky (Arctic and Siberia)
and the Chihuahua (the
Americas).
In southern East Asia, re-
searchers looked for dogs in
remote regions whose an-
cestors would have had little
opportunity to breed with
animals from other parts of
the world.
“We think this works
pretty well because if we go
to the Chinese countryside
and sample dogs from there,
we find basically the same
results in the Chinese chow
chow,” Savolainen said.
Although Savolainen
feels confident in the results
of his study, he said his team
has more work to do to on
the natural history of dogs.
The group already is
working on extensively
studying dogs from the east-
ern Asian region to find the
exact birthplace.
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
deborah.netburn THE DOGS we know today initially migrated out of
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Heroin
crisis is
front
and
center
[Drugs, from A1]
able.”
The presidential candi-
dates today have placed a far
greater emphasis on reha-
bilitation than punishment.
This is a departure from
nearly a half-century’s ap-
proach, starting with Presi-
dent Nixon’s “war on drugs”
and through the 1990s, when
the number of people im-
prisoned for nonviolent drug
offenses skyrocketed.
State governments be-
gan turning to rehabilitation
during the first decade of the
new millennium, but the fed-
eral government only re-
cently began shifting its fo-
cus.
Brewster has seen both
approaches. He has been ar-
rested nearly a dozen times
and has spent time in treat-
ment centers that cost tens
of thousands of dollars a
month. None of it worked,
until one day in 2013 when he
woke up in a hotel room sur-
rounded by people doing
drugs and he felt as though a
“concussion grenade” went
off in his head. He acted on
an overwhelming urge to call
his mother and told her he
was serious about getting
straight.
“We were just assuming
every phone call we got after
a hiatus of not hearing from
Zach would be the last,” said
his father, Bill Brewster, a
physician at Harvard Pil-
grim Health Care, where he
works as associate medical
director for New Hampshire.
Zach’s mother, Jo-Ann, is an
emergency room nurse at
the hospital.
The state attorney gen-
eral told a legislative task
force this month that New
Hampshire was on pace this
year to see a record of more
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than 400 overdose deaths re-
lated to heroin and opioids
— double the number two
years ago.
A major cause is people
being prescribed painkillers,
developing an addiction and
then switching to heroin be-
cause a crackdown made it
more difficult to obtain pre-
scription opioids and be-
cause of the cheap and
abundant supply of the il-
legal narcotic. A 30-milli-
gram oxycodone pain pill
can cost $90 to $100 on the
street, money that can buy10
or more doses of heroin, Sou-
cy said.
Heroin addiction is a
nationwide problem. The
rate of heroin use doubled
from 2002 to 2013, and the
number of overdose deaths
nearly quadrupled, accord-
ing to the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Preven-
tion.
Geographically, the
problem is the greatest in
the Midwest and the North-
east, and New Hampshire is
one of the epicenters.
Manchester is the state’s
largest city, with about
110,000 residents. This year,
paramedics have responded
O F F T H E R AI L S I N F LO RI DA
to nearly 700 overdose
calls, with 85 deaths. Mayor
Ted Gatsas raises the crisis
with every candidate he
meets.
“It’s the first thing we
have a conversation about,”
Gatsas said. “If there was
any one item that was killing
people at the rate that this is
doing, people would be out-
raged.”
He added, “If this has not
touched you yet, it will very
soon.”
Indeed, many of the Re-
publican presidential candi-
dates have personal connec-
tions with addiction.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush has spoken about his
daughter, Noelle, who bat-
tled prescription drug abuse
and was jailed for possessing
crack cocaine. Sen. Ted
Cruz’s sister and former
Hewlett-Packard chief Carly
Fiorina’s daughter both
overdosed and died.
The candidates’ candor
reflects a growing move-
ment to increase awareness
by being open about the
cause of such deaths. It’s
seen in the too frequent obit-
uaries of young people in the
New Hampshire Union
Leader; write-ups now
include information pro-
vided by families about their
loved ones’ struggles with
addiction and death by over-
dose, rather than euphe-
misms about “dying sud-
denly.”
At a town hall in Bel-
mont, N.H., this year, New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
described staging an inter-
vention for a close, success-
ful friend from law school
who developed an addiction
to pain pills after a back in-
jury. The man was in and out
of rehab for a decade before
being found dead in a motel
room with an empty bottle of
Percocet and an empty
quart of vodka.
“When I sat there as the
governor of New Jersey at his
funeral and looked across
the pew at his three daugh-
ters sobbing because their
dad is gone, there but for the
grace of God go I. It can hap-
pen to anyone,” Christie
said. “And so we need to
start treating people in this
country, not jailing them. We
need to give them the tools
they need to recover because
every life is precious.”
Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton
hosted a drug forum in
Keene, N.H., where she laid
out a $10-billion proposal
that would send states fed-
eral money to boost treat-
ment programs and urge law
enforcement to focus on re-
habilitation rather than in-
carceration.
Susan McKeown, a nurse
practitioner, was among the
local drug experts Clinton
consulted. After dealing
with addiction in their fami-
ly, McKeown and her hus-
band, Patrick, started a sup-
port group 13 years ago for
parents of addicts in Man-
chester. Back then, the
gatherings attracted par-
ents of teens who were
drinking alcohol or smoking
marijuana, missing curfew
and cutting school.
At a meeting this month,
when asked whether their
child was battling heroin or
opioid addiction, all but two
of the 15 attendees raised
their hands.
The McKeowns were
asked to expand the groups
around the state. There are
now 12, with three more
scheduled to start in Janu-
ary.
L AT I ME S . CO M
Tim Shortt Florida Today
Many obstacles remain:
There is a bed shortage in
residential programs, re-
sulting in waiting lists that
are weeks long. An effort to
create a drug court in Man-
chester failed because of a
lack of funding. And drug
dealers are increasingly cut-
ting heroin with a synthetic
version of the analgesic fen-
tanyl, which is much more
powerful and is leading to
more overdoses.
Zach Brewster, who has
stayed away from drugs for
more than a year, now runs
the learning center at Teen
Challenge, the 26-bed men’s
group home where he lived
for 15 months in downtown
Manchester during his reha-
bilitation. (Despite its name,
the group home treats adult
addicts.)
Brewster, now 29, said he
believes he has a “moral obli-
gation” to share his experi-
ences with others.
“Help is going to come
from success stories, people
who aren’t afraid to talk
about what they’ve come
from.”
seema.mehta@latimes.com
Twitter: @LATSeema
L AT I M ES . C O M M O N DAY, D E C E MB E R 21, 2 015 A13

A zombie forest of dead twigs

[Elysian, from A1]
2006 proposed master plan,
is in no better health today
than the exotic trees.
After a decade, the mas-
ter plan has yet to be
adopted. The L.A. Depart-
ment of Recreation and
Parks has no funds to re-
move hundreds of dead and
dying trees and no plan to re-
introduce native vegetation.
As a result, much of Ely-
sian Park is slowly becoming
a zombie forest of angular
dead twigs silhouetted
against blue sky and the
downtown skyline.
Department officials find
it difficult even to talk about
the park’s condition. Asked
to outline a plan, forester
Laura Baurenfeind would
not recommend any sort of
triage to improve the park’s
aesthetics or safety, or esti-
mate the cost.
The department is build-
ing an electronic database of
all the city’s 300,000 park
trees, she said. The Elysian
Park portion has not been
completed.
“We would want to com-
plete the inventory so we
could assess what is here
and prioritize,” Baurenfeind
said.
Tom Gibson, the depart-
ment’s landscape architect,
said installing a reliable irri- Photographs by Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
gation system in critical A FRISBEE player tosses his disc in Elysian Park. Today’s horticulturists have a new vision for the park: Let the nonnative species die out
areas is the highest priority, and gradually restore the hillsides to the sustainable ecosystem that Gaspar de Portola saw when he camped next to the L.A. River in 1769.
followed by removing failed
or failing trees. He would said. paving of the park’s circu-
give no cost estimate. But a study commis- itous roads and the restora-
Elysian Park may be the sioned as part of the 2006 tion of its famed Avenue of
city’s best known and least master plan shows that the the Palms. But as a priority,
known park. It is also the deterioration of the park’s he considered roads much
most complex. Its Gibraltar- nonnative forests long pre- less urgent than clearing the
like palm crested slopes ceded the current drought. dead trees and dangerous
mark the entry to downtown In the draft master plan, limbs.
for hundreds of thousands of Glendale landscape archi- Gibson, who is in charge
motorists on the 5 and 110 tects Withers & Sandgren of the park’s irrigation sys-
freeways. identified dead and dying tem, sees a brighter future
Behind those ramparts, a trees as an immediate con- when a recycled water line
maze of roads connects cern and called for a dedi- from the Glendale treat-
mountain trails, vista cated crew to remove them. ment plant will fill a large
points, a reservoir, quaint It also recommended a long- tank to be built by 2021 at a
avenues of clapboard term plan to let the park high point in the park. The
houses, the Los Angeles Po- transition to native, tank will provide reclaimed
lice Academy, sprawling pic- drought-tolerant species. water to the downtown area
nic grounds and the asphalt No crash program of tree and supply a refurbished ir-
expanse of Dodger Stadium. removal was ever funded, rigation system in the park’s
The park’s crisis remains and the plan, though posted grassy areas, Gibson said.
largely unseen except by the on the parks department’s Hodel and Scow said the
predominantly Eastside website, has not been native reforestation of the
families who flock on week- adopted. park’s dry portions cannot
ends to its cozy glens still Asked via email why the be achieved without a tem-
kept a lush green by the last plan remains on the shelf, porary irrigation system al-
surviving lines of the aging department General Man- lowing saplings a year or two
irrigation system. ager Mark Shull said the de- to become established.
But two experts who partment’s vision is in line Michael O’Brien, a mem-
toured the park with The with the plan and pointed to ber of the citizens committee
Times said they were dis- the economic downturn as and a landscape architect
mayed by its condition. They HIKERS walk along a dirt trail under the canopy of a dying tree in Elysian Park. the reason it wasn’t formally who recently retired from
identified two emergencies A study shows that the park’s problems long preceded the current drought. adopted. the city Planning Depart-
arising from the park’s two The Citizens Committee ment, estimates that the
major environments. the glens and canyons where On separate tours, Hodel forester, said five new tree to Save Elysian Park, a vol- cost to install temporary ir-
On the dry slopes, which city workers struggle daily to and Scow pointed out nu- specialists have recently unteer group that advocates rigation and replant the hill-
haven’t been irrigated for keep the aging irrigation merous trees that had been added to the crew of 25, for the park, faults the de- sides would be at least $2
many years, enough dried- system working. branches ready to fall. but they are spread too thin- partment for not pushing for million.
out wood exists to feed a con- The trees there are large Scow said a tree special- ly to maintain all park trees. adoption of the plan. But for O’Brien, who lives
flagration, they say. and lush but long overdue ist certified in risk assess- A spokeswoman for the “You would think within in nearby Echo Park, the pri-
“You have a lot of dead for pruning. Branches fall by ment by the International Recreation and Parks De- the political area that there ority is removing the fire
trees,” said Donald R. Hodel, the dozens during storms, Society of Arboriculture partment did not respond to would have been a push to hazard.
a Los Angeles-based envi- and whole trees occasionally should examine every tree in a follow-up email from The get it approved,” said archi- “We hope it never hap-
ronmental horticulturist for come down. Many of those the park’s heavily used areas Times asking if the city has a tect Pete Lassen, a commit- pens, but someday some-
the University of California dangerous trees are near to identify those in need of specialist qualified in risk tee member who lives next to body is going to drop a
Cooperative Extension. picnic tables and trash cans, immediate pruning. assessment and when the the park. “Yet it has been match or a cigarette and the
“They probably have to be endangering visitors. “I appreciate that’s a last risk assessment was sent to the Rec and Parks whole thing will explode,” he
removed. I’m not sure they After branches fall, main- matter of budget, but there done. board, and nothing has hap- said.
could be left. It would prob- tenance workers circle them are some safety factors there Baurenfeind attributed pened.” “It’s just really a big pile of
ably be a big fire hazard.” with crime scene tape, then that are significant,” Scow Elysian Park’s condition to Along with other com- kindling right now.”
More urgent, Hodel and leave them on the ground for said. “That’s something the four years of drought. Other mittee members, Lassen ac-
arborist Jan Scow agreed, is days before returning to cut city needs to look at.” city parks and public lands knowledged some recent im- doug.smith@latimes.com
the hazard of falling limbs in them up. Baurenfeind, the city’s are in similar condition, she provements, including the Twitter: @LATDoug

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TECH OUTLOOK FOR 2016
Though facing
challenges,
many firms are
set for fast
growth.
By Times staff
Virtual reality, connected
cars, e-sports, the on-de-
mand economy — all are be-
coming important elements
in the Southland economy,
and all are poised for rapid
growth in 2016 — along with
some challenges. And then
there’s Snapchat Inc., based
in Venice, and one of the
most highly valued compa-
nies currently competing in
the latest venture-capital-
juiced start-up cycle, which
many believe is way over-
heated.
Snapchat
The popular disappear-
ing chat and video app needs
to create predictability for
investors to increase the
odds of going public at a val-
uation exceeding the $16 bil-
lion at which it’s supposedly
valued. That includes
steady growth in sales.
More time spent on
Snapchat means more ad
revenue for the company. So
a string of new features will
certainly be added in 2016.
Some possible new addi-
tions:
Group chats: Snapchat
users must individually se-
lect message recipients.
Snapchat Chief Executive
Evan Spiegel has said es-
chewing group messaging
was intended to make peo-
ple think deeply about who
they are sharing their lives
with. But he’s got to keep
users thirsting for group
chats happy, so expect some
streamlined sharing.
Changing tunes: Spiegel
is big on music, and has a
long-stated interest in help-
ing aspiring musicians and
artists. How that translates
into chat features is unclear,
but expect Snapchat to in-
troduce at least one big
thing around sounds. For
one, Spiegel can’t ignore the
smashing success of Dubs-
mash, an app that dubs sel-
fie videos with popular
sound clips. It’s soared in big
countries including India.
Snapchat’s foray might be a
voice alteration feature.
Growing local: Snapchat
has hired aggressively for a
“Live Stories” team that or-
ganizes user-generated vid-
eos into categories like holi-
day celebrations in London
or summer lake parties. But
the company can hire only so
many “content analysts”
without labor costs running
wild. Expect Snapchat to be-
gin producing videos aimed
at more regional audiences,
like surfacing videos from in-
dividual towns, by using
computer analysis to group
content.
Shopping data: Snap-
chat could better compete
with YouTube by making
publicly shared user posts
searchable, leveraging data
about what users are talking
about to target ads, and just
allowing people to link out to
their websites. It’s unlikely
that any of that is coming
from a company that ex-
presses queasiness about
snooping into too much user
data. But mounting pres-
sure from advertisers is
likely to get Snapchat to cre-
ate some sort of method for
users to buy non-Snapchat
goods and services through
the app, maybe through ce-
lebrity and brand accounts
only.
Camera upgrades: The
camera screen, through
which users can see the
scene they’re about to cap-
ture, is the most-seen fea-
ture on Snapchat. Literally,
the app opens up to the cam-
era every time. Snapchat
now charges users to ani-
mate their faces on the cam-
era. Expect more features
along that line, ranging from
special fonts to object recog-
nition.
— Paresh Dave
Virtual reality
Just this year, Apple, No-
kia, Netflix, the New York
Times, GoPro, the Discov-
ery Channel and even toy
maker Mattel introduced
MONDAY BUSINESS
THE SNAPCHAT OFFICES , just off the Venice boardwalk, present a secretive facade, with little signage. The popular chat and video app
needs to create predictability for investors to increase the odds of going public at a valuation exceeding $16 billion.
THE SAN FRANCISCO on-demand valet service Luxe Valet is among the start-
ups transitioning its workers to employees.
FARADAY FUTURE , a Gardena electric car company, is scheduled to show a
prototype next month. It plans to roll out its first vehicle in 2017.
loads of hardware and con-
tent for immersive technolo-
gy — a burgeoning market
segment that includes virtu-
al reality, augmented reality
and other means of putting
users in an alternate uni-
verse, usually with the aid of
computer-connected gog-
gles.
Expect 2016 to be even
bigger. Right now, Sam-
sung’s Gear VR is the only
major brand with a headset
available to consumers. But
come next year, Sony’s
Playstation VR, Facebook’s
Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive
are expected to be released
and rumored to range in
price from about $300 to
$1,500.
Moviemakers are invest-
ing in more sophisticated
immersive equipment.
Many were rigging cameras
together to capture the 360-
degree view. Now Nokia is in-
troducing a $60,000 camera
called the Ozo specifically
for high-quality virtual reali-
ty content.
The challenge will be
finding enough games, mov-
ies, TV shows and other soft-
AGENDA: TECHNOLOGY
ware to make the technology
compelling. Remember
when 3-D glasses were sup-
posed to be the next big
thing?
On that front are game
makers like Ubisoft Enter-
tainment, which is develop-
ing “Eagle Flight” for Sony
Playstation VR, which al-
lows players to control an
eagle over an abandoned
Paris, overgrown with trees
and vegetation.
German software devel-
oper Crytek is producing a
game for Oculus Rift, “The
Climb,” a harrowing adven-
ture in which users climb
dangerous mountains and
rock faces.
And Samsung’s Gear VR
— the most affordable of the
major headsets at $100
apiece — is amping up exist-
ing mobile games such as
“Temple Run” with the VR
treatment.
Beyond games, the New
York Times’ partnership
with Google Cardboard
demonstrated the medium’s
potential in journalistic
storytelling. Meanwhile, Ap-
ple released a U2 music vid-
Luxe Valet
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
eo in VR.
Kinks remain — namely,
dialing-down the vomit fac-
tor when getting disoriented
wearing one of the headsets.
And here’s hoping there’s a
way to one day look less
dorky strapping a plastic
block to your face.
— David Pierson
E-sports
Great video game players
have competed against oth-
ers for years with money or
trophies at stake. But now
that millions of people are
watching those e-sports
contests in big arenas and
other venues, entrepreneurs
are perking up.
In 2016, the e-sports in-
dustry will see a huge burst
of investment and rapid pro-
fessionalization, analysts
say. Video game competi-
tions will begin running on
cable network TBS on Fri-
day nights, sponsors will in-
crease tournament prizes,
and those scheming entre-
preneurs will try to cash in
quickly just in case e-sports
turn out to be a fad. For now,
industry experts are opti-
mistic that they’re onto the
next $1-billion sport.
Three possible scenarios
for 2016:
1. NBA star LeBron
James just signed a lifetime
endorsement deal with Nike
worth more than $500 mil-
lion. A video game player
won’t be getting a contract
that sweet, but how about a
multiyear deal of at least $10
million? It’s possible, says
Koh Kim, co-head of busi-
ness development at game-
streaming app Mobcrush.
Expect 2016 to provide a
good case study of whether
someone like “League of
Legends” great Sang-hyeok
Lee, known as Faker, can
move U.S. consumers.
2. E-sports will get a lot
more data savvy, says Kevin
Lin, chief operating officer of
Twitch, the leading app for
videos about playing video
games. Event organizers will
understand viewers better
and make data-driven ex-
pansions into markets such
as Latin America. Game
publishers finally will track
how viewership translates to
sales. And they’ll use the
data to innovate marketing,
crowdfunding drives and
other business initiatives.
They’ll maybe even get into
building arcades and arenas
for e-sports.
3. North America’s four
major sports leagues each
has a players union; expect
players in one of the top e-
sports league to unionize to
create fairness in pay and
working conditions, says
Dennis Fong, founder of e-
sports video start-up Raptr
and a former professional
player.
— Paresh Dave
Connected cars
Whether it’s Internet-
connected cars or self-driv-
ing vehicles, the very defini-
tion of an automobile is
changing dramatically. Car
industry analysts portray a
world in which cars trans-
form into entertainment
hubs and people won’t have
to get driver’s licenses any-
more.
It’ll be years before you
can ditch your car and rely
on a fleet of on-demand
driverless vehicles, but the
auto revolution will continue
to make big strides in
2016.
California leads the de-
velopment of autonomous
cars, advanced green vehi-
cles and automotive soft-
ware, including Google’s and
Apple’s growing automotive
operations; it’s also home to
ride-hailing apps Uber and
Lyft. The state’s aggressive
environmental regulation
and generous electric car
subsidies have nurtured
companies such as Tesla
and its emerging rival, Gar-
dena electric car company
Faraday Future.
To kick off the new year,
Faraday is scheduled to
show off a prototype of its
first electric car at the Con-
sumer Electronics Show the
first week of January. The
trade show, historically fo-
L ATI M E S . CO M
The Washington Post/Getty Images
cused on consumer elec-
tronics, in 2016 will devote
more than 200,000 square
feet — up from 150,000 last
year — to automotive tech-
nologies.
Still, for all the buzz and
potential, there are numer-
ous tensions at play.
Detroit, long the auto
capital of the country, for
years resisted the bridging
of the car and tech sectors.
Although it has come
around — it didn’t have
much choice — the conver-
gence of Silicon Valley and
Detroit continues to be a
work in progress.
And Wednesday, Califor-
nia’s Department of Motor
Vehicles introduced draft
rules for public use of driver-
less cars that would require
a licensed driver to be in the
vehicle, among other regula-
tions. Google has already
voiced its disappointment
with the proposed restric-
tions.
— Andrea Chang
The on-demand
economy
If 2015 was the year the
on-demand economy be-
came a mainstay in Califor-
nia, 2016 could be the year
the business model power-
ing services such as Uber,
Lyft, and GrubHub un-
ravels.
Come June 20, 2016, the
business model of using in-
dependent contractors to
fulfill on-demand service
such as taxiing passengers,
cleaning houses and deliver-
ing meals will quite literally
be put on trial when a class-
action lawsuit against Uber
over worker misclassifica-
tion goes before a jury in a
U.S. District Court.
Other businesses, such
as Lyft and DoorDash, face
similar lawsuits.
The class actions argue
that many workers in the on-
demand economy have been
misclassified as independ-
ent contractors, effectively
stripping them of rights to
overtime, expense reim-
bursements and other ben-
efits.
Many workers want to be
recognized as employees —
benefits and all — a proposi-
tion that start-ups are balk-
ing at because, in addition to
the costs involved, it would
require a complete business
model overhaul.
The outcome of the class
actions could determine the
direction in which the on-de-
mand economy heads, al-
though Uber has expressed
confidence that it can win
the lawsuit and the issue will
soon be laid to rest.
Not everyone shares that
confidence, though. A num-
ber of start-ups in Califor-
nia, such as meal delivery
services Munchery and
Sprig, on-demand valet
service Luxe Valet and gro-
cery delivery service Insta-
cart have already transi-
tioned their workers from in-
dependent contractors to
employees.
— Tracey Lien
L AT I M ES . C O M
Numbers bode well for Disney
[‘Star Wars,’ from A1]
Steering the phenome-
non that captivated the na-
tion are J.J. Abrams, who di-
rected the new film, and
George Lucas, the visionary
who in 1977 launched the
franchise distinguished by
highflying heroics, dazzling
special effects and the clas-
sic battle between good and
evil.
“It’s been three years of
preparation for this mo-
ment, and it started with
great storytelling,” said
Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of
distribution. “J.J. and Lucas-
film delivered a true Star
Wars experience.”
The space saga outpaced
previous record holders:
Universal’s “Jurassic World,”
which opened in June with
$208.8 million, and Marvel’s
“The Avengers,” also from
Disney, which debuted in
2012 with $207.4 million.
“Star Wars” also smashed
analysts’ optimistic projec-
tions of $220 million, and has
now positioned the film in-
dustry for a record box-of-
fice year as the winter holi-
day season picks up.
The film wasted no time
in showing its strength:
Early screenings on Thurs-
day brought in $57 million in
ticket sales. That perform-
ance far exceeded the previ-
ous benchmark of $43.5 mil-
lion set by “Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows — Part
2” in July 2011. When Friday
THE VEGAS STRIP is filled with police cars and emergency crews after a driver
plowed into a crowd near the Paris Hotel & Casino early Sunday evening.
Crash kills 1, injures
dozens in Las Vegas
By Matt Hamilton
One person was killed
and six were severely injured
Sunday night after a car
plowed into pedestrians on
the bustling Las Vegas Strip,
authorities said.
The driver was taken into
custody and tested to see
whether she was under the
influence of drugs or alcohol,
police said.
The crash occurred
about 6:30 p.m. near Paris
Hotel & Casino and Planet
Hollywood Las Vegas Re-
sort & Casino on South Las
Vegas Boulevard, according
NATIONAL BRIEFING
TEXAS
Woman dies after bus hits
stalled car; 16 are injured
A woman died after the vehicle she was traveling in
stalled on a North Texas interstate after crashing into a
barrier and then was hit by a Greyhound bus. More than a
dozen people on the bus and the other occupant of the
vehicle were injured, authorities said.
The accident happened on Interstate 30, Arlington
Police spokesman Lt. Christopher Cook said. Greyhound
spokeswoman Lanesha Gipson says there were 40
passengers and a driver aboard the bus, which was headed
west from Dallas to Amarillo. Sixteen people sustained
injuries that were not life-threatening, Cook said.
MISSOURI
St. Louis officer
quits after crash
A St. Louis police officer
who fatally shot VonDerrit
Myers Jr., 18, last fall has re-
signed after being accused of
driving his patrol car while
intoxicated and hitting a
parked vehicle.
Officer Jason Flanery left
the scene before officers ar-
rived, police spokeswoman
Schron Jackson said.
THE DEDICATION of “Star Wars” fans has produced a list of records for the film, including the best Decem-
ber opening; best performing 3-D title; and highest opening weekend per-theater average for a wide release.
numbers were tallied, the of-
ficial first-day total was esti-
mated at $120.5 million from
more than 4,000 theaters.
This gave the film the high-
est single-day gross on
record, and also the record
for the first film to break the
$100-million mark in a single
day.
Other records the film
now holds: the best Decem-
to the Clark County Fire De-
partment.
Fire officials said 36 peo-
ple were injured in the crash.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan
Police Department put the
figure at 37.
The identity of the per-
son who died was not re-
leased.
After the crash, a woman
who was driving the car with
a 3-year-old passenger fled
the scene and later turned
herself in to authorities at
Tuscany Suites & Casino,
about a mile away, KSNV-TV
reported.
Las Vegas Police Officer
Jesse Roybal said the inci-
Investigators, acting on a
tip, found the vehicle at
Flanery’s home, the St. Lou-
is Post-Dispatch reported.
Flanery refused to submit to
a breath test, so police got a
search warrant, and officers
returned to have his blood
drawn, Jackson said.
Flanery was arrested on
suspicion of driving while in-
toxicated and leaving the
scene of an accident, Jack-
son said. The white officer
was off-duty and working an
after-hours security job
when he shot Myers two
ber opening; best perform-
ing 3-D title; highest open-
ing weekend per-theater av-
erage for a wide release
($57,568); and highest De-
cember opening theater
count (4,134).
Mixing stars from the
original “Star Wars” films
such as Harrison Ford and
Carrie Fisher with new cast
members Daisy Ridley, John
John Locher Associated Press
dent did not appear to be a
terrorist act.
At the time of the crash,
the Miss Universe pageant
was being held in the Planet
Hollywood hotel.
Police officers shut down
Las Vegas Boulevard be-
tween Harmon Avenue and
Flamingo Road while inves-
tigators canvassed the scene
and emergency personnel
treated the injured and took
some victims to hospitals.
matthew.hamilton
@latimes.com
Twitter: @MattHjourno
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
months after the fatal shoot-
ing of Michael Brown, 18, in
Ferguson, Mo.
Police said Myers, who is
black, fired several shots at
Flanery and was killed when
the officer returned fire.
Myers’ family has disputed
that version of the events.
NEW YORK
2 slain officers
are honored
Accompanied by the
sounds of bagpipes and
sobs, city officials, relatives
and police honored the lives
of two officers who were shot
a year ago while in their car.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and
Police Commissioner Wil-
liam J. Bratton dedicated
bronze plaques with the
names of Officers Wenjian
Liu and Rafael Ramos at
Brooklyn’s 84th Precinct.
The two officers were
shot through their cruiser
window. The gunman then
killed himself. He had
posted on Instagram that he
wanted to put “wings on
pigs” and referenced Eric
Garner, whose death led to
protests against the NYPD.
— times wire reports
M O N DAY, D E C E M B E R 21, 2 015 A15
box-office numbers, com-
pared with last year, were
lower. Theater owners set
aside huge portions of their
auditoriums for the film,
with some showings as early
as 2 a.m.
It remains to be seen
whether “Star Wars” will
have a halo effect on the in-
dustry and get theatergoers
to also see other movies.
Highly anticipated offerings,
including Sony’s “Concus-
sion,” Paramount’s “Dad-
dy’s Home,” Fox’s “Joy”
and Warner Bros.’ “Point
Break,” will hit theaters this
week.
Though some analysts
worry such films could get
lost in the shadow of “Star
Wars,” others suggest more
films may benefit from that
movie’s huge success as
more people are inspired to
leave their residences and go
to the multiplex. That film’s
performance has brought
Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times out consumers who haven’t
been to a theater in a long
time — welcome news to the-
ater owners who have seen
Boyega and Lupita Nyong’o, fans. “The future of ‘Star attendance stagnate in re-
the new release was well re- Wars’ is looking good.” cent years.
ceived among audiences His comments reflect the “You’ve got people com-
and critics alike. The film re- high stakes for Walt Disney ing out who aren’t frequent
ceived an A grade overall Co., which paid $4.1 billion in moviegoers,” said Will Palm-
from audiences, according 2012 for Lucasfilm, largely for er, chief executive of the film
to polling firm Cinema- the “Star Wars” franchise. marketing analytics firm
Score, and an A-plus among The big numbers for “The Movio. “This is [bringing in]
women and younger audi- Force Awakens,” however, a whole raft of customers
ences. Rotten Tomatoes bode well for the studio, who don’t usually go to the
critics gave it a 95% positive which counts on the movie movies and have disengaged
rating. to kick off years of with the cinema.”
At the TCL Chinese The- sequels and stand-alone The industry is also wait-
atre’s Thursday night show- spinoff films. Burbank- ing to see whether the fan-
ing, fans cheered enthusias- based Disney also stands to tasy film can help push U.S.-
tically for the first bars of generate sizable returns Canada ticket sales to a
John Williams’ opening across other business seg- record $11 billion this year. If
theme and the introduc- ments, including video the film’s performance thus
tions of characters familiar games, merchandise and far is any indication, the
and new. theme parks. force is with them.
“The crowd just went Such a spectacular show-
nuts for everything,” said ing for “Star Wars” is on par trevell.anderson
Sabarish Chandramouli, a with the palpable anticipa- @latimes.com
24-year-old video game engi- tion demonstrated by fans ryan.faughnder
neer. “It was a throwback to and the movie theater indus- @latimes.com
the good old days.” try ahead of the release. Au- Times staff writers Lauren
At downtown’s L.A. Live diences set a number of re- Raab and Meredith
Regal Cinemas the same cords for advance ticket Woerner contributed to this
night, Eric Dermanouelian sales on sites such as Fan- report.
agreed. dango, and the movie racked
“ ‘Star Wars’ is itself again up more than $100 million in
and I think that’s a good pre-sales by its Thursday
thing,” said Dermanouelian, night opening.
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‘The fundamental question is will we be viewed as partners or suspects?
The fear here is that we are being treated publicly as partners and privately as suspects.’
State secrets privilege questioned
[FBI, from A1]
would expose or threaten to
expose matters of national
security.
“I just am having real
trouble seeing where the line
is drawn in this very difficult
situation we are in now,”
Berzon, a Clinton appointee,
told a government lawyer.
The government argued
it could not defend itself
without disclosing state se-
crets. U.S. District Judge
Cormac J. Carney agreed
with the government in 2012,
dismissing the bulk of the
lawsuit on the grounds it
would require disclosure of
matters vital to national se-
curity. Carney reviewed clas-
sified information before his
decision.
The Southern California
Muslim community, repre-
sented by the ACLU of
Southern California, be-
lieves the FBI targeted peo-
ple solely because of their re-
ligion and should be held ac-
countable.
Muslim leaders com-
plained that the spying mis-
sion eroded trust in law en-
forcement at a time when
the government needs help
from the Muslim community
to fight terror.
“The fundamental ques-
tion is will we be viewed as
partners or suspects?” said
Edina Likovic, speaking for
the Los Angeles-based Mus-
lim Public Affairs Council.
“The fear here is that we are
being treated publicly as
partners and privately as
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CRAIG MONTEILH , shown in 2009, secretly videotaped congregants at 12 L.A.-area mosques for the FBI.
The agency is the focus of a class-action lawsuit brought by Southern California Muslims over surveillance.
suspects.” dent, 53. “All the information
About 500,000 Muslims they got came from me.”
live in Southern California, Monteilh said the FBI
with more than120,000 in Or- paid him $177,000 to infiltrate
ange County, the second- about12 mosques in Orange,
largest population of Mus- Los Angeles and San Ber-
lims in the United States. nardino counties over the
Monteilh, who had a fall- course of 14 months, starting
ing out with the FBI, has in June 2006. He said his job
been working with the was to gather as many cell-
ACLU. phone numbers and email
“I am the principal wit- addresses as possible and to
ness,” said the Irvine resi- find Muslims who could be
compromised because of im-
migration, sexual or busi-
ness issues.
Posing as a fitness con-
sultant, Monteilh frequently
worked out with Muslims at
the gym and secretly record-
ed them, he said.
“This surveillance was so
fruitful that Monteilh’s han-
dlers eventually told him
they were seeking approval
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crease, the suit said. His
handlers told him to write
down the license plate num-
bers of the cars in the park-
ing lot, he said.
But at times his devotion
raised eyebrows. He at-
tended lessons in Arabic — a
language he didn’t speak.
He also appeared to be
extremely absent-minded.
Congregants remembered
that he was forever leaving
his keys or his cellphone be-
hind. Monteilh later said his
phone and a fob on his keys
contained recording devic-
es.
During the hearing, a
lawyer for the FBI agents
said Monteilh had signed a
contract saying he would
not leave listening devices
unattended. Monteilh said
he signed no such contract,
and the agents knew what he
was doing.
Monteilh said he secretly
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
videotaped Muslims
through a camera hidden in
a button in the front of his
shirt.
His identity was revealed
during a court hearing. He
had a criminal record, and
the FBI helped him get off
probation early, according
to a court transcript.
Monteilh later accused
the FBI of breaking promis-
es to him. The FBI has said it
does not target people be-
cause of their religion and
that Monteilh signed a confi-
dentiality agreement.
Monteilh, who unsuc-
cessfully sued the FBI, said
he has no regrets about his
undercover work. He
learned about FBI tech-
niques and methods and
policies and now works as a
consultant on counter-ter-
rorism, he said. His mission
unveiled the government’s
scrutiny of Muslims, he said.
“If I didn’t work that case,
L AT I ME S . CO M
they would never know they
were being spied on 24 hours
a day,” Monteilh said.
He said his work identi-
fied terrorists overseas, al-
though it did not lead to con-
victions of local Muslims.
Monteilh also said he under-
stands why the FBI con-
ducted the surveillance.
“Let’s face it, they have
to,” he said. “That is the only
method they can use to be
preemptive.”
It could take several
months before the 9th Cir-
cuit rules.
Berzon was the only
judge on the panel who
asked questions during the
hearing. The other two re-
viewing the case are 9th Cir-
cuit Judge Ronald M. Gould
and Judge George Caram
Steeh III, a district judge
from Michigan, both Clinton
appointees.
Although she was skepti-
cal of both sides, Berzon told
attorneys for the govern-
ment that their arguments
were “circular.”
She also observed that
another circuit court had
found that the government
could not invoke the state
secret privilege in a lawsuit
unless the secrets were an
integral part of the govern-
ment’s “meritorious de-
fense,” not just a possible de-
fense, an issue a court would
have to determine.
“We certainly can’t do
that if you can’t tell us your
defense,” she said.
Monteilh said he has re-
mained a Muslim, though
his conversion initially was a
ruse. He said he prays five
times a day, studies the Ko-
ran and fasts.
But he does not attend a
mosque.
“People would freak out if
they saw me,” he said. “I am a
former FBI informant, and
that will always be with me.”
maura.dolan
@latimes.com
Twitter:
@mauradolan
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Tangling over
reparations
with Cuba Cheap oil’s
downside
Reaching an agreement will be
hard enough, but Congress is
making it nearly impossible.

J
ust over a year ago, President Obama
began thawing the half-century Cold
War chill between the U.S. and Cuba
when he and President Raul Castro
agreed to reestablish diplomatic rela-
tions. More recently, Florida-based Stone-
gate Bank announced it would start issuing
debit cards that American travelers can use
in the island nation, a first for an American
firm. Last week the administration permit-
ted U.S. airlines to resume flights to Cuba,
which will make it easier for approved travel-
ers who have been relying on a complicated
charter system to get to the island. While
rapprochement with Cuba is long overdue, it
will take a significant amount of time and
delicate negotiations before full reconcilia-
tion can be achieved.
One of the thorniest elements is ensuring
that Cuba makes good on the assets it seized Karen Bleier AFP/Getty Images
from Americans and U.S.-based companies
55 years ago. When Fidel Castro’s guerrillas
By Steve Yetiv Saudi Arabia attacks the sup- On the other hand, Ameri-

O
swept dictator Fulgencio Batista from pow-
er in 1959, the new regime quickly converted il prices have fall-
ply side — that is, it cuts pro-
duction to boost prices. But the
The sluggish global can frackers will probably (fi-
nally) cut back production in
the island’s governance to a communist sys-
tem and nationalized billions of dollars in
en dramatically to Saudis have decided (most re- economy and the coming months. But that

private property, from small homes and

the mid-$30s on the
New York Mercan-
cently just two weeks ago) not
to do so, probably because they pessimistic traders alone can only push prices up so
much.
farms to foreign-owned utilities, hotels, sug-
ar cane estates and other corporate assets.
tile Exchange from
more than $105 per barrel in
believe that low oil prices have
still not done enough to under-
are pushing down All this pressure on oil prices
is just fine for the American and
Castro settled property claims with Eng- 2014. Such extraordinarily low mine the North American ener- prices. That’s not global economy, if not for oil
land, Spain, Mexico and others, but negotia-
tions with the U.S. ended in 1960 when Presi-
prices are affecting global stock
markets, big oil exporters and
gy boom and hurt their neme-
sis, oil-rich Iran. good for the producers. But there is a down-
side to this story.
dent John F. Kennedy barred Americans
from buying from or selling to Cuba. The em-
consumers worldwide.
How can we explain this
Meanwhile, U.S. shale oil
producers haven’t cut back as
environment. The negotiators who struck
the recent climate change
bargo came in response to Castro’s seizure of crash and where are oil prices much as expected. In fact, they agreement in Paris want to
refineries owned by U.S. companies that re- headed? are overflowing with oil and are send a message to the markets;
fused, under Kennedy’s order, to process So- The global economy is in the building caverns in which to major oil fields. Sure, the terror- they want to convey that burn-
viet oil. More than 5,900 claims with an initial doldrums, and China, the store hundreds of millions of ist organization is stealing oil, ing fossil fuels is an increasingly
world’s biggest oil importer, ap- barrels for when demand re- but what it pumps from the costly habit. Unfortunately, low
value of $1.9 billion have been certified by the
pears plagued by structural po- turns. Traders see such over- areas it controls is just a drop in oil prices are sending the exact
Justice Department’s Foreign Settlement
litical and economic problems supply as a bearish sign for the global bucket of oil, even opposite message.
Claims Commission, and estimates put their
that it may or may not over- prices. though it makes tens of millions The upshot is that low oil
current value, with interest, at more than $7 come in the next few years. En- Adding to the mix, the U.S. doing it. prices aren’t something to cele-
billion. Notably, those claims do not include ergy agencies have therefore Federal Reserve is likely to raise Can oil prices rebound? brate. Over time, long invest-
losses by Cubans who later fled to the U.S. lowered global oil demand fore- interest rates repeatedly in the China’s economy won’t ment horizons tend to generate
Cuba, meanwhile, argues that the U.S. is casts. coming years, which should bounce back overnight, nor will boom and bust cycles in oil pro-
on the hook for some, if not all, of the $117 bil- These problems have rattled buoy an already strong U.S. dol- that of other countries. The duction and prices. But if prices
lion in damages it claims were caused by the traders on markets such as the lar. Since oil is traded in U.S. Saudis may decide to cut pro- remain low for too long, that will
embargo. While the Cuban responsibility to NYMEX. dollars, its strength translates duction in the coming months, hurt efforts to address climate
compensate for nationalized property is When traders believe that oil into even lower oil prices. but only if they believe that change, especially in the U.S.,
clear, it’s specious for Cuba to argue that the prices will rise, they buy futures Finally, although the Middle other OPEC countries will fol- where citizens largely oppose
U.S. owes damages because it refused to en- in hopes of selling them later for East is a political mess, its oil low suit. raising oil taxes.
gage in trade. Murkier is the validity of a Cu- a profit. Their actions increase supplies are relatively secure. As for the U.S. dollar, it’s
ban court ruling 15 years ago that found the the price of oil and, eventually, The Iran nuclear agreement pretty stable. So long as Ameri- Steve Yetiv is professor of
U.S. was also responsible for damages the price of derivatives, such as has removed, for now, the most ca is seen as a safer bet for for- international relations at Old
caused by the Bay of Pigs fiasco and other gasoline and heating oil. That’s likely chance of the type of war eign investments than most Dominion University. He is the
CIA-backed incursions. How enforceable not happening now because — an attack on Iran — that other places, and so long as the author of “Myths of the Oil
that might be is a question that ought to be traders are pessimistic. could really spook markets. Fed follows through on raising Boom: American National
What usually happens in Even the Islamic State is not interest rates, the dollar will re- Security in a Global Energy
wrapped into the negotiations.
such circumstances is that a significant military threat to main strong. Market.”
It’s a thorny situation, especially since
the U.S.-based claims would consume a sig-
nificant chunk of Cuba’s $77-billion gross do-

Your bleak retirement prospects

mestic product. One compromise worth ex-
ploring would be to compensate smaller
claimants for at least some of their losses
with cash, while paying off larger creditors
by giving them access to Cuban markets and
resources — a deal that also would help
Cuba by pumping some energy into a gener- rapidly, so it was almost cer- There are four main advan- of the annual holdings. By con-
ally low-performing economy. To prevent lower living tainly lower in 2015. tages to this idea. trast, private plans can easily
The biggest obstacle to moving forward, Although many people were Almost half the workforce charge 1.5% or more. The differ-
though, is Congress. Although the Cuban
standards, state-run hopeful that 401(k)s would be does not have the option to en- ence for someone putting $2,000
embargo began with executive orders, Con- plans are necessary. sufficient to support a comfort- roll in a 401(k)-type plan at their a year into an account for 30
gress later added its own stamp, most sig- able day-to-day retirement, this workplace. By creating a state- years would be more than
nificantly with the Cuban Liberty and has proved not to be the case. In run system, many would have $25,000.
Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996, which ef- By Dean Baker 2013, the middle fifth of house- access to such an account for It’s increasingly obvious that

T
fectively bars the president from lifting the holds of people ages 45 to 54 had the first time. there’s a major hole in the
he vast majority of less than $60,000 in total finan- One problem with employer- retirement system, and that the
embargo unilaterally. Better known as the
Americans who ex- cial assets. And most home- managed retirement accounts government can help fill it.
Helms-Burton Act, it precludes U.S. assist-
pect to retire in the owners in this age group still is that when people change That’s why President Obama
ance until there are democratic reforms that
next decade can had less than 40% equity in their jobs, they often cash out their asked the Treasury Depart-
don’t involve the Castro brothers, and it au- count on little in- homes, meaning they could holdings, paying penalties and ment to set up a new low-cost,
thorizes sanctions against corporations and come other than their Social look forward to paying off a losing their savings. But a pub- low-maintenance savings plan
countries that do business with Cuba. It also Security. This is true not only mortgage well into their retire- licly run system would be port- for workers—called myRA for
calls for the very reparations that are under for low-income workers, who ment. able, so that people could keep “my retirement account.” But
discussion now. have struggled most of their In response to this situation, contributing to the same sys- the myRA limits are low and
Unfortunately, the president and influen- lives, but also for millions of Illinois is developing a state-run tem from one job to the next. participants can only invest
tial lawmakers are at odds over the sagacity middle-income workers. Al- retirement program that will Another benefit to the state in low-yielding government
of normalizing relations with Cuba. But though Social Security is a tre- make it easier and cheaper for system is that participation bonds. What Illinois and, per-
Obama is on the right track here. The em- mendously important pro- workers to save. Many other would be the default option. haps soon, other states, pro-
bargo has not only exacerbated the hard- gram, and provides a solid base states, including California, are There is now a considerable pose to try is more ambitious,
ships faced by people living under the Cas- that retirees can depend upon, studying this option. body of research showing that and may ultimately be more
tros’ totalitarian regime, it has harmed its $16,000 average annual bene- Although there are differ- workers will contribute to their effective.
Americans and American companies with- fit doesn’t go very far. Many if ences in proposals, the com- retirement if they’re automati-
out weakening the Castros’ grip on power. not most can expect to see mon goal is to create a publicly cally enrolled, but won’t con- Dean Baker is co-director
With Fidel retired and Raul promising to sharp reductions in living managed system that will auto- tribute otherwise. (The basic of the Center for Economics
step down in 2018, now is an optimal time for standards. matically include workers story is that inertia is powerful. and Policy Research. He is
The reason for such bleak re- whose employers do not enroll Many people may want to take coauthor of “Getting Back to
the U.S. to begin exerting positive influence
tirement prospects is the disap- them in a plan. part in a retirement plan, but Full Employment: A Better
on one of its nearest neighbors.
pearance of traditional defined Workers would have a mod- they have busy lives and never Bargain for Working People.”
The administration should ensure
benefit pensions and the failure est amount (around 2% to 3%) get around to doing the paper-
through these crucial negotiations that of 401(k)-type plans to fill the deducted from each paycheck, work if it requires action.)
Americans who lost property to the Cuban gap. A recent analysis by the although they could opt out if The last advantage is that a
revolution receive some measure of justice. Employee Benefit Research they chose. The money would publicly run plan would have far HOW TO WRITE TO US
Yet the United States’ most pressing inter- Institute found that, in 2011, only then accumulate like a 401(k) lower costs than many privately Please send letters to
est here lies not in making amends for the 14% of private-sector employees during a person’s working run alternatives. The adminis- letters@latimes.com. For
past, but in forging a better future. Congress participated in a defined bene- years, with the option to receive trative fees for a plan in a large submission guidelines, see
should join the Obama administration in fit pension plan. The participa- a lump sum or draw a monthly state such as California would latimes.com/letters or call
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S AN B ERNARDINO SH OOTINGS FIRST & SPRING

Critics
decry
money
tied to
Taser
Englander accepts
$8,400 in campaign
contributions as firm
competes for LAPD
camera contract.
By David Zahniser

L.A. voters went to the

polls in 2011 to crack down on
what some referred to as
“pay to play” practices at
City Hall, passing a measure
to limit the political influ-
ence of companies that seek
government business.
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
Measure H, backed by
OFFICIALS have not uncovered alleged terrorist plots against “soft targets” such as the 91 Freeway, under construction, until now. then-Councilman Eric Gar-

A ‘nightmare’ scenario
cetti and an array of good-
government types, prohibits
firms seeking lucrative city
contracts from making cam-
paign contributions to the
politicians who have final
say over those agreements.
But that law may prove to
be toothless in the case of

Officials begin to weigh response plans to freeway terror attack

There are few places where
Southern Californians feel more
trapped than on a freeway in grid-
locked traffic.
One of the San Bernardino
shooters and his longtime friend
talked about taking advantage of
this vulnerability by launching a
terrorist attack on a clogged free-
way using guns and pipe bombs,
according to court records re-
leased last week.
Syed Rizwan Farook and En-
rique Marquez Jr. mapped out the
attack plan of the 91 Freeway in de-
tail and collected weapons and ex-
plosives in 2011 and 2012, only to
abort the plot, the charges say.
Still, their outlandish alleged
scheme has counterterrorism ex-
perts both alarmed and baffled.
Experts say such an attack would
be feasible, but some questioned
Taser International, the
Scottsdale, Ariz., company
currently up for a $31.2-mil-
lion contract to provide
By Richard Winton thousands of body cameras
to the Los Angeles Police De-
the seriousness of the plot, given partment.
that there are so many easier ways Last year, a dozen donors
Terror in transit? for active shooters to cause mass affiliated with Taser, half of
casualties. them company executives,
An outlandish plot to attack the 91 Freeway is just the latest in
Officials said they had never un- put $8,400 into the reelection
several aborted efforts to commit terrorism at transportation
covered an alleged terrorist plot in- bid of Councilman Mitch
hubs, law enforcement authorities say:
volving freeways until now. But Los Englander. Englander heads
Angeles Police Department Depu- the council’s Public Safety
2000: Plot uncovered to attack Los Angeles International Airport.
ty Chief Michael Downing, who Committee, which recently
2003: Man plots to cut cable supports for the Brooklyn Bridge. oversees the counterterrorism bu- reviewed the effort to buy
reau, said it’s a scenario officials 6,140 cameras and 4,400 Ta-
2006: Group talks of blowing up a train tunnel under the Hudson River, have discussed and tried to ad- sers. Nevertheless, he says
causing massive flooding.
dress with a response plan. the campaign money is not
2006: Men plot to blow up gas storage tanks and lines leading to JFK It is “a nightmare that we worry covered by the ballot meas-
Airport. about,” Downing said. ure’s restrictions.
According to a criminal com- At the time the money
2008: Man talked of using a suitcase bomb in river tunnel on Long plaint filed against Marquez last was given, “Taser was not
Island Railroad. week in federal court, he and subject to Measure H be-
2009: Men plot bombings in New York subway system. Farook planned to target a location cause they were not bidding
on the 91 Freeway during the after- on a contract or responding
2012: Men are accused of plot to blow up a bridge near Cleveland. noon rush hour. to any solicitation by the
Source: Times reports; New York Police Department The complaint does not specify city,” said Englander
[See Freeway, B6] spokeswoman Stephanie
Saporito in an email.
Critics contend Taser
was already in the process of
seeking work from the city

Acting L.A. schools chief

CAPITOL JOURNAL when the donations were

Plenty
made. Englander, who rep-
resents the northwest San
Fernando Valley, accepted
the contributions in June

at home is named as search continues

2014, when Taser and a com-
petitor were already several
months into a field test of
their body camera equip-

for gov.’s ment at the LAPD.

That testing period
helped lead to the depart-

to-do list
GEORGE SKELTON
in sacramento
Back from
Paris and
planet-saving,
Gov. Jerry
Brown pre-
sumably has
returned to
his day job.
Let’s hope.
Don’t read
this wrong. Slowing global
warming is noble and neces-
sary. California can help
show how it’s done and be
a role model, even if the
state does emit only 1% of
the world’s greenhouse
gases.
Brown needed to attend
the United Nations summit,
because if for no other rea-
son, global warming is his
obsession. In fact, Brown
always has been fixated on
what he used to call “Space-
ship Earth.”
But there are plenty of
things that need saving
at home. And California’s
governor has more power
than anyone to do it.
Mundane things like
California’s pot-holed
roads.
[See Skelton, B8]
The district’s No. 2
official, Michelle
King, is a candidate
for the top job.
By Howard Blume
Ten days after Los Ange-
les schools Supt. Ramon C.
Cortines quietly slipped out
of the district, his deputy,
Michelle King, is assuming
the role until a permanent
successor is selected, offi-
cials said.
The Board of Education
had hoped to announce a
new superintendent Satur-
day, but emerged from a
closed-door, 13-hour session
with nothing settled.
Although the board took
no official action, King will
serve as superintendent be-
cause she was the No. 2 ad-
ministrator under Cortines,
said district general counsel
David Holmquist.
King is a candidate for
the top job, but there is no in-
dication that her provisional
promotion is either an en-
dorsement or a sign that
she’s out of the running.
Besides King, educators
who are under consider-
ation or who have been re-
cruited include Fremont
Unified Supt. Jim Morris, a
longtime L.A. Unified senior
administrator; San Fran-
L.A. UNIFIED Deputy Supt. Michelle King already has experience serving for
short periods as acting superintendent, especially under Supt. John Deasy.
cisco Supt. Richard Carran-
za; and Miami-Dade County
Supt. Alberto Carvalho, who
has said publicly that he did
not want the L.A. job.
Other individuals have
been under serious consid-
eration as well.
The school board has
scheduled another meeting
on the selection of a superin-
tendent for Jan. 5.
Late Saturday evening,
after the meeting adjourned,
board President Steve Zim-
mer offered an upbeat view
of the search process.
“The board is absolutely
on track, working extremely
hard, and I am confident
that we will be able to reach a
decision within the first
month of the school year,”
Zimmer said. “And the con-
ment’s decision to recom-
mend Taser as its body cam-
era vendor. But under the
city contracting rules, that
test was not considered a
formal bid process.
Kathay Feng, executive
director of the campaign fi-
nance watchdog group Cali-
fornia Common Cause, said
the fact that a competition
was underway — one involv-
ing Taser — shows that the
contributions to Englander
[See Englander, B5]
How state
benefits in
budget deal
Congress’ sweeping
budget includes
drought aid, tax
credits for renewable
Al Seib Los Angeles Times energy and funding
for an earthquake
warning system. B2
versations are absolutely Tanaka backers
appropriate to the weight to get $800,000
and significance of the deci- A jury finds his
sion. supporters faced
“I am very proud of this retaliation from
board. Every one has then-L.A. County
brought their best selves Sheriff Lee Baca. B3
and kept their best selves
even through these mara- Lottery ...................... B2
thon sessions.” Obituaries ................ B7
The board has held four Weather .................... B8
[See L.A. Unified, B7]
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BORDER WATCH

River draws international focus the giant red trucks parked about 27 million gallons a
Officials are urged to outside Tijuana’s main fire day, said Juan Tamayo, the
station. Yet for a quarter of a service commission’s depu-
revamp pump station’s century, it has played an ty director for water treat-
operation to stop important role in keeping ment in Tijuana.
beaches clean on both sides Tamayo said that when-
polluted water flows. of the border. ever his workers turn off the
PB CILA was built after pumps — and when they
SANDRA DIBBLE
Minute 283, a 1990 agree- turn them back on — the
ment between the United state agency notifies Mexi-
TIJUANA — The opera- States and Mexico that says co’s counterpart of the
tion of a small pump station “the government of Mexico IBWC. It is then up to Mex-
near the U.S. border has will assure that there are no ican federal officials to
become a matter of growing discharges of untreated notify the IBWC.
international concern. domestic or industrial The station doubled its
The station, known as wastewaters into waters of capacity more than a dec-
PB CILA, prevents dry- the Tijuana River that cross ade ago — from three
weather water flows in the the international bounda- pumps to six pumps, he said
Tijuana River channel from ry.” in an interview Friday.
crossing to the United The agreement also led “There has been no change.
States. The station shuts to the construction of the On the contrary, we’ve
down when rains that raise South Bay International improved.”
the channel’s volume over- Water Treatment Plant, There has been no mal-
whelm the pumps’ capacity which treats sewage from function of the pump sta-
— and the result is the flow Tijuana and sends it to the Sandra Dibble San Diego Union Tribune tion in recent months, Ta-
of polluted water to the Pacific Ocean. THE PUMP STATION in Tijuana shuts down during heavy rains, resulting in a mayo said. But some unsea-
coastline on both sides of But although these flow of polluted river water to the coastline on both sides of the border. sonal rainstorms over the
the border. measures have largely last year have resulted in the
“It’s the age-old story. served to contain polluted the concrete channel of the discharge their treated gallons a day, according to station’s shutdown at un-
Water’s contaminated and cross-border flows under Tijuana River for discharge water into the channel, the State Public Service usual times, “as a result of
the beaches are closed,” dry weather conditions, the into the Pacific at Punta where it blends with runoff Commission. climate change,” Tamayo
said Steve Smullen, area problem persists when it Bandera, Mexico. This and some untreated waste PB CILA’S pumps are said.
operations manager for the rains. volume has grown in recent water from nearby colonias. turned off when rains raise
U.S. section of the Interna- The issue with PB CILA years, as new sewage treat- In dry weather, the chan- the volume in the channel Sandra Dibble writes for the
tional Boundary and Water involves water sent down ment plants upstream nel’s flow is about 13 million above 1,200 liters a second, San Diego Union Tribune.
Commission, or IBWC.
The subject of polluted
cross-border flows in the
Tijuana River watershed for BUDGET WATCH
decades has been a recur-
ring theme in the San Di-
ego-Tijuana region and the
subject of much binational
collaboration. In October, a
U.S.-Mexico agreement,
Minute 320, established a
new framework for cooper-
ating on the issues of sedi-
ment, trash and polluted
storm water in the water-
shed.
Last month, 18 nonprofit
groups in San Diego cited
the agreement in a letter to
the IBWC’s U.S. commis-
sioner, Edward Drusina,
urging a solution and de-
manding improvement in
the operation and manage-
ment of the station.
The contaminated flows
“pose a threat to public
health of San Diego-Tijuana
border residents,” says the
letter, whose signers in-
cluded the Imperial Beach
environmental group Wild-
coast, the San Diego Audu-
bon Society, the Tijuana
Sloughs Surf Club and the
chambers of commerce of
San Ysidro, Imperial Beach
and Coronado.
In the letter, the groups
call for the establishment of
a new binational agreement
detailing “when the PB
CILA pump station should
be operational and when ...
it should be turned off.” The
letter says that “during past
rain events, the station has Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
been turned off during A HOME near downtown Napa last year after a 6.0-magnitude quake rocked the area. An early-warning system, which has been in devel-
periods longer than opment since 2006, gave a 10-second warning before the temblor struck. The budget deal sets aside $8.2 million in funding for the system.

What the state gains from D.C.

needed.”
Near the U.S. border, PB
CILA is operated by Baja
California’s State Public
Service Commission. The
station is easy to miss, as it
sits behind a chain-link
fence and is often hidden by
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Officer fatally shoots man in ER
Victim, 26, had picked
up a stool and grabbed
for LAPD policeman’s
gun at Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center.
By Kate Mather
A Los Angeles police offi-
cer shot and killed a 26-year-
old man Saturday in Har-
bor-UCLA Medical Center’s
emergency room after he
picked up a metal stool and
grabbed for an officer’s gun,
police said.
The man, identified as
Ruben Jose Herrera of Tor-
rance, was the 20th person
shot and killed by on-duty
LAPD officers this year. Fif-
teen other people have been
wounded in shootings by
LAPD officers.
The events leading to
Saturday’s deadly encoun-
ter began about 8 a.m. in the
1600 block of West 207th
Street, where LAPD officials
said residents called 911 to
report a man throwing bot-
tles at an apartment com-
plex.
The residents “were try-
ing to resolve it themselves,”
Lt. John Jenal said, but ulti-
mately called police.
Officers responded to the
Harbor Gateway neighbor-
hood and tried to talk to
Herrera, Jenal said. Herrera
allegedly took a “fighting
stance” and attacked the of-
ficers, at one point reaching
for an officer’s weapon, Jenal
said.
The officers used a Taser
and a carotid restraint — in
which pressure is applied to
the sides of the neck — to
take Herrera into custody,
Jenal said.
Both Herrera and the of-
ficers — who Jenal said were
injured during the struggle
— were taken to nearby hos-
pitals for treatment.
Herrera was taken to
Harbor-UCLA Medical Cen-
ter in Torrance. There, Jenal
said, “he was cooperative, he
was pleasant.”
“Everything seemed to be
fine,” Jenal said.
Medical staff ultimately
BURBANK has forbidden bicycle riding on the Mariposa Street bridge, which
equestrians desired. But walking bikes across it is OK. Above, a wrangler in 2012.
Bicycling on bridge barred
By Chad Garland
Equestrians argued that
it was a “bridge to nowhere”
for bicyclists and that they
shouldn’t be allowed to ped-
al their way across the Mari-
posa Street bridge into Los
Angeles, where there’s no
outlet for them into Griffith
Park.
Instead, the bridge
should be reserved for pe-
destrians or horses, they
urged the Burbank City
Council last week.
Bike enthusiasts, on the
other hand, said the bridge
gave them access to a route
along the Los Angeles River
to connect to miles of bicycle
paths.
And it has never been
closed to bicyclists in its 70
years of existence, though
some ranchers and eques-
trians have tried to dissuade
them from using it, they
said.
Equestrians said that
they’ve been treated un-
kindly by some bicyclists as
well, pointing out that some-
one has spray-painted over
LOS ANGELES
A LOS ANGELES police officer stands outside Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where a man was fatally shot in the emergency room by an
LAPD officer. Ruben Jose Herrera, 26, of Torrance was the 20th person shot and killed by on-duty L.A. officers this year.
cleared Herrera to be taken
to jail for booking, Jenal said.
About 2:30 p.m., when offi-
cers went to remove his
handcuffs from the hospital
gurney to take him to a pa-
trol car, Jenal said, the man
“suddenly goes on the at-
tack.”
Herrera picked up a met-
al stool and the officers
again tried to use a Taser,
Jenal said, but the device
“did not have any impact.”
The struggle moved from a
treatment room into a hall-
way near the nurse’s station,
Jenal said.
At some point, the lieu-
“no bicycles” signs on and
near the bridge. Mixing cy-
clists and horses is unsafe,
some contend.
To help settle their differ-
ences, the Burbank City
Council unanimously ap-
proved an ordinance that
bars bicycle riding on the
bridge, though that means
pedestrians will still be al-
lowed to push bikes across.
Equestrians had urged ap-
proval of the measure, and
some bike enthusiasts said
later they were happy with
the compromise.
Councilwoman Emily
Gabel-Luddy said the ordi-
nance is “the right step for-
ward,” but she added that
the council could choose to
revisit the issue later when a
bridge across the river at
Bob Hope Drive opens. She
also suggested cyclists could
travel down Riverside Drive
to Victory Boulevard and
across the bridge there to
the L.A. River bike path.
“Looking at the whole of
Burbank, the bridge is
unique,” Gabel-Luddy said,
arguing that the ordinance
was about preserving the
tenant said, Herrera again
reached for one officer’s gun,
prompting an officer to draw
his weapon and fire.
Herrera was struck once
in the torso, Jenal said. Doc-
tors and nurses tried to help
him, he said, but he died at
the scene.
One officer complained
of pain after the struggle at
the hospital, Jenal said, but
the extent of any injuries was
unclear.
Jenal said there were sev-
eral witnesses to the strug-
gle and shooting, which will
also be reviewed by the dis-
trict attorney’s office and
Roger Wilson Glendale News Press
bridge for equestrian use.
“Bike riders have many more
opportunities.”
Gabel-Luddy, along with
Mayor Bob Frutos, sup-
ported an alternative meas-
ure that would have banned
bicycles on the bridge, but
that proposal failed to gain
the support of a majority of
the council.
On the L.A. side of the
bridge, bicyclists are prohib-
ited from riding on a dirt
trail that leads to a tunnel
under the Ventura Freeway,
which is marked as a bridle
trail.
City Manager Mark Scott
said that city staff had rec-
ommended the ban on rid-
ing bikes across the bridge
because there was no place
immediately on the other
side of the 140-foot span
where cyclists can legally
ride under L.A.’s laws. That
doesn’t mean cyclists can’t
walk their bikes across the
bridge, he said.
chad.garland
@latimes.com
Garland writes for Times
Community News.
the Police Commission and
its inspector general.
Jenal said the LAPD de-
layed releasing information
about the shooting until the
man’s family could be noti-
fied of his death.
He said relatives had
gathered at the hospital Sat-
urday after the initial inci-
dent that brought the man
there, but left and couldn’t
initially be found after the
shot was fired.
“We did not want the fam-
ily to find out by watching
the news,” he said.
Herrera’s mother, Gra-
ciel, told KTLA that her son
Backers of ex-lawman
awarded $800,000
Supporters of Paul
Tanaka had faced
retaliation at the
Sheriff’s Department.
By Cindy Chang
Shortly after going on a
fishing trip with then-
Undersheriff Paul Tanaka in
June 2013, Capt. Chuck
Antuna was transferred to a
job that increased his daily
commute by hundreds of
miles.
In the Los Angeles
County Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment, such a transfer is com-
monly known as “freeway
therapy.”
Antuna sued the county
and then-Sheriff Lee Baca,
alleging that Baca trans-
ferred him because of his
support for Tanaka, who
planned to run for sheriff
against Baca.
Last week, Antuna was
among eight sheriff ’s offi-
cials awarded a total of
$800,000 by a federal jury
that agreed they were tar-
geted with retaliation for
supporting Tanaka.
Some of that money,
$45,000 per plaintiff, will
come out of Baca’s own
pocket as punitive damages,
according to Brad Gage,
an attorney for the plaintiffs.
The rest of the judgment
consisted of emotional dis-
tress awards to each plain-
tiff.
No economic damages
were awarded.
“This is a case about pow-
er — about a man who
wanted to keep his power as
sheriff of Los Angeles
County,” Gage said in clos-
ing arguments.
“Absolute power can cor-
rupt.”
Reached by phone after
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was pepper-sprayed and Ta-
sered twice by police during
the initial encounter at the
apartment. “I told him to
stop, my son was bipolar,”
she said.
Graciel Herrera said her
son was cooperative with po-
lice.
“Everything they told
him to do, he did,” she said.
Jenal said investigators
would try to determine what
prompted Ruben Herrera’s
actions.
“He went from very vio-
lent to very calm and cooper-
ative at the hospital and, as
they did the handcuffing to
SOME OF the award money will come from former
Sheriff Lee Baca’s own pocket as punitive damages.
the verdict, Baca said he did
not retaliate against the
plaintiffs and that there
were other reasons for the
transfers.
“That’s the professional
way to do things,” he said.
“All the professional stand-
ards of the department were
met.”
The trial provided a look
back at the Baca-Tanaka
era, where loyalty was prized
and Tanaka bonded with his
inner circle by smoking ci-
gars on a private patio.
Current and former top
officials, including Baca,
Tanaka and Interim Sheriff
John Scott, testified in court
or in recorded statements.
One plaintiff, Capt. Rob-
ert Tubbs, was allegedly the
target of an internal investi-
gation for smoking a cigar on
duty.
Such an investigation
would be “a little childish,”
Baca said in videotaped tes-
timony.
Among the plaintiffs
were three former Aero Bu-
reau officials who were
transferred after a contro-
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make the transition from the
hospital bed to the patrol car
… he went violent again,” he
said.
Harbor–UCLA Medical
Center, a 570-bed public
teaching hospital near Tor-
rance, serves 700,000 resi-
dents in the South Bay. It is
one of only five Level One
trauma centers in Los Ange-
les County.
kate.mather
@latimes.com
Twitter: @katemather
Times staff writers Ben
Poston and Doug Smith
contributed to this report.
Mark Boster Los Angeles Times
versy involving spare heli-
copter parts obtained from
the federal government.
After the new sheriff, Jim
McDonnell, took office,
Antuna was transferred
back downtown and
now works at Men’s Central
Jail.
Another plaintiff, Kevin
Hebert, was recently pro-
moted from captain to com-
mander.
Tanaka was forced into
early retirement by Baca,
who himself stepped down
abruptly in January 2014.
Tanaka then ran against
McDonnell for sheriff, losing
by a wide margin.
In May, Tanaka was hit
with criminal charges in a
case that has resulted in
convictions of eight sheriff ’s
officials for obstructing a
federal investigation into al-
legations of abuse and cor-
ruption by deputies in the
county jails.
He is scheduled to stand
trial in March.
cindy.chang@latimes.com.
Twitter:@cindychangLA
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY Sheriff’s Deputy Barron Noah, left, and Hemmen Karim look for homeless camps.
The expansion of a diversion program will include illegal lodging charges brought against homeless people.
More ‘community court’
San Diego expands
diversion program to
include illegal lodging,
minor drug offenses.
By David Garrick
SAN DIEGO — A city
program focused on pre-
venting early offenders from
becoming career criminals is
expanding to include minor
drug offenses and illegal
lodging charges brought
against homeless people.
The year-old diversion
program lets people avoid
jail time and a criminal
record for low-level misde-
meanors if they complete
two days of community serv-
ice and pay a $120 fine.
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WS C E
THE STATE
Touted as a national
model, it recently received a
$415,000 federal “smart jus-
tice” grant to help fund the
expansion and data track-
ing.
Called “community
court,” the program aims to
steer early offenders onto
the right path by imposing
swift consequences for mi-
nor, nonviolent crimes.
“Early offenders in our
criminal justice system
don’t really get the kind of at-
tention they need, and it
shows up in escalating be-
havior,” said City Atty. Jan
Goldsmith, who launched
the program in November
2014. “When you wait down
the road, it’s too late — it’s
too late when they kill some-
one.”
The program also saves
taxpayers money by keeping
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people out of the crowded
court system, Goldsmith
said.
During a one-year pilot,
the program was limited to
first-time offenders accused
of trespassing, vandalism,
shoplifting and other minor
misdemeanors.
Goldsmith said he’s
ready to include drug of-
fenses and illegal lodging be-
cause he’s adding a screen-
ing system to determine
whether participants need
special help and a case man-
ager to connect them to
whatever support services
might be appropriate.
“We’ve kind of been a lit-
tle bit in the dark about what
the person needs,” Gold-
smith said. “The whole focus
of community court is to get
to them early and get to the
heart of the problem. This
gives us an opportunity to
dig into drug cases and the
homeless issue.”
Because many homeless
people are charged with a
misdemeanor at some point,
Goldsmith said, he’s opti-
mistic the expansion of com-
munity court could help
make a significant dent in
San Diego’s homeless popu-
lation, which a recent survey
found to be the fourth-larg-
est of any city in the nation.
“San Diego has a lot of
fine homeless programs, but
there is not one strategy,” he
said. “There is a lot of differ-
ent strategies and not as
much coordination as you
would like.”
Goldsmith said he won’t
be able to solve the homeless
problem but that an ex-
panded community court
could make a difference.
“We’re going to slowly in-
sert ourselves into the
homeless issue and try to de-
velop a strategy that allows
the first responders to work
with the housing folks and
the providers in a way that
gets these folks off the
streets and into programs
and housing,” he said.
The expansion is possible
partly because of the U.S.
Department of Justice grant
and partly because each of
the program’s original par-
ticipants agreed in late No-
vember to continue beyond
the first year.
“This is a win-win for all,”
said San Diego County Sher-
iff Bill Gore, who has agreed
to help fund preliminary
screening of offenders.
“They realize there are con-
sequences for their actions,
and the communities bene-
fit from their program as-
signments.”
The local chapter of the
American Civil Liberties
Union has also been a sup-
porter. “Through communi-
ty service and connection to
support services, individu-
als are held accountable to
the community without
wasting taxpayer dollars on
unnecessary incarceration,”
said Kellen Russoniello, an
ACLU staff attorney.
So far, 82% of partici-
pants — 602 of 738 — have
completed their community
service, paid their fine and
cleared their record. An ad-
ditional 177 participants are
completing the program,
which they must do within
90 days.
The 915 total participants
represent 66% of the 1,386
people offered community
court by Goldsmith’s staff,
with the other 471 preferring
to pursue their case in the
courts or accept probation
or jail time instead of com-
munity service and a fine.
Goldsmith said he was
initially worried about the
program being perceived as
too soft on crime.
“If too many people par-
ticipated, that would mean
we were giving away the
store and the reputation
would be out there that it’s
easy,” he said. “And if the
numbers were too low, I’d be
worried that we were being
too tough.”
The county public de-
fender’s office has endorsed
the program since its incep-
tion and supports the ex-
pansion.
david.garrick
@sduniontribune.com
Garrick writes for the San
Diego Union Tribune.
5 killed in
single-engine
plane crash
Debris is found
south of Bakersfield.
Authorities say bad
weather may have
been a factor.
By Ben Poston
Five people were killed
Saturday when their single-
engine plane crashed in an
almond orchard south of
Bakersfield, authorities
said.
The victims’ bodies were
recovered from the crash
site in the orchard near Pan-
ama Lane and Buena Vista
Road, said Sgt. Mark King of
the Kern County Sheriff ’s
Department.
The coroner’s office has
not released the victims’
identities.
Authorities found air-
craft debris scattered in the
orchard hours after the
small plane sent out a may-
day call and disappeared
from radar.
A search and rescue crew
found the crash site about
7:30 p.m. Saturday, about
Judge orders 2
to stand trial in
fake DUI case
The pair are accused
of false imprisonment
and conspiracy in the
2012 stop of a Costa
Mesa councilman.
By Jeremiah Dobruck
An Orange County judge
has ordered two private in-
vestigators to stand trial on
charges of false imprison-
ment and conspiracy in con-
nection with a fake drunk
driving report against a
Costa Mesa city councilman
who was detained by
police outside his home in
2012.
Superior Court Judge
Cheri Pham’s decision last
week reverses a magistrate’s
earlier ruling that the offi-
cer’s sobriety test on Coun-
cilman Jim Righeimer didn’t
constitute a detention,
thereby negating prosecu-
tors’ charge of false impris-
onment.
Over objections from de-
fense attorneys, Pham also
said there is enough evi-
dence to suggest that pri-
vate investigators Chris
Lanzillo and Scott Impola
conspired about the fake
DUI report.
Her decision means Lan-
zillo and Impola now face fel-
ony counts of conspiracy
and false imprisonment re-
lated to the DUI stop. They
are also charged with two
additional felony counts of
conspiracy on allegations of
using GPS devices to il-
legally track a lawyer and a
second Costa Mesa council-
man, Steve Mensinger.
Prosecutors allege that
Lanzillo and Impola were
trying to dig up dirt on a
group of City Council candi-
dates who were feuding with
the police union in the run-
up to Costa Mesa’s 2012 elec-
tions. Council members
Mensinger and Gary Mona-
han were up for election, and
Righeimer is their ally.
Authorities believe the
private investigators were
working for the now-defunct
law firm Lackie, Dammeier,
McGill & Ethir, which repre-
sented the Costa Mesa Po-
lice Assn. at the time.
Prosecutors said that as
part of a campaign against
the candidates, the police
association had recently in-
creased the law firm’s re-
tainer with instructions to
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three hours after receiving
an alert from the Federal
Aviation Administration
about a missing plane that
was last detected an esti-
mated 10 miles south of the
city, sheriff ’s Cmdr. Shaun
Beasley told the Associated
Press.
Air traffic controllers lost
contact with the single-en-
gine Piper PA32 about 4 p.m.
as it was flying from Reid-
Hillview Airport in San Jose
to Henderson Executive
Airport near Las Vegas,
a spokesman for the FAA
said.
King said bad weather
may have been a factor. A
meteorologist with the Na-
tional Weather Service in
nearby Hanford said it was
rainy and cloudy in the area
south of Bakersfield around
the time the plane went off
radar.
The National Transpor-
tation Safety Board and the
FAA are investigating the
crash, King said.
ben.poston
@latimes.com
Twitter: @bposton
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
find damaging information.
The police union and the
law firm have not been
charged with any crimes.
Prosecutors have granted
police association members
immunity in exchange for
their testimony.
Much of the case against
Lanzillo and Impola centers
around the night of Aug. 22,
2012. Prosecutors say Impola
and a woman working with
him were surveilling Mona-
han in a restaurant he owns
in Costa Mesa.
After seeing Righeimer
at the restaurant’s bar, Im-
pola contacted Lanzillo,
who tailed Righeimer when
he drove off, prosecutors al-
lege.
According to testimony
at a preliminary hearing,
Lanzillo called 911 to report
that Righeimer was swerv-
ing in and out of lanes.
Soon after, a Costa Mesa
police officer arrived at
Righeimer’s home and ad-
ministered a sobriety test,
which Righeimer quickly
passed. Righeimer later pro-
duced a receipt for two Diet
Cokes from Monahan’s res-
taurant.
Though Righeimer’s
interaction with the officer
lasted less than a minute
and he consented to the
sobriety test, Pham said any
reasonable person in the
same situation would under-
stand that he wasn’t free
to leave until the officer
had finished the investiga-
tion.
Pham also agreed with
prosecutors that a series of
phone calls among Lanzillo,
Impola and law firm partner
Dieter Dammeier before
Lanzillo’s 911 call supported
charging the private investi-
gators with criminal con-
spiracy in the DUI report.
She added, however, that
the evidence was circum-
stantial and may not be
enough to produce a convic-
tion, which requires a higher
standard of proof.
Prosecutor Robert Mest-
man said Pham’s decision
adds a few months to the
possible jail time Lanzillo
and Impola could face.
If convicted, each could
be sentenced to a maximum
of four years and four
months behind bars.
jeremiah.dobruck
@latimes.com
Jeremiah Dobruck writes
for Times Community
News.
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Critics question cash donation
[Englander, from B1]
violate, at a minimum, the
spirit of Measure H.
Englander “should not
have been soliciting cam-
paign contributions … know-
ing there was a process
underway,” said Feng, who
signed the ballot argument
in favor of Measure H.
Taser officials did not re-
spond to requests for com-
ment from The Times. Arnie
Berghoff, a lobbyist for the
company at City Hall, said
Friday that Taser executives
were unavailable because of
the holiday season.
Under Measure H, com-
panies are barred from giv-
ing to elected officials at City
Hall once they turn in a bid
for work valued at more than
$100,000, according to the
city’s campaign finance or-
dinance. The measure pun-
ishes donors, not politicians,
for engaging in such activ-
ities. Companies found to
have broken the law can be
barred from competing for
city work for up to four years,
depending on the number of
violations.
Ethics Commission re-
cords did not show dona-
tions from Taser executives
to any other elected official
at City Hall.
The City Council had
been scheduled to vote last
week on Taser’s body cam-
era contract, which is
backed by Mayor Eric Gar-
cetti and police Chief Charlie
Beck. Council President
Herb Wesson postponed the
meeting after hearing con-
cerns from his colleagues
about the initiative, which is
expected to cost $57.6 million
over five years. Beyond the
$31.2-million Taser contract,
the city anticipates spend-
ing an additional $26.4 mil-
lion to cover other technolo-
gy and expenses for full de-
ployment of the cameras.
Councilman Bob Blu-
menfield said he experi-
enced “sticker shock” after
learning that more than 100
officers may be needed to
oversee the program. Coun-
cilman Mike Bonin an-
nounced he was “totally
freaked” out over the poten-
tial drain on LAPD re-
sources.
Englander, in contrast,
said last week that he would
“fully recommend” the deal
to his colleagues. “I think
you have done a phenom-
enal job,” he told LAPD offi-
Jail protocols aim to cut suicide rate
San Diego County
has enhanced cells,
fencing and other
policies to prevent
in-custody deaths.
By Kelly Davis
SAN DIEGO — Jason
Nishimoto was not sup-
posed to have a sheet in his
jail cell, or anything to hang
it from. But he did.
The 44-year-old, who’d
been diagnosed with
schizoaffective disorder, was
supposed to be in a suicide
watch cell with special safe-
guards under new policies at
the San Diego County Sher-
iff ’s Department for people
whose cases indicate suicide
risks.
When the jail took Nishi-
moto in after a family dis-
turbance in September, his
mother, Rochelle Nishimoto
of Vista, received reassur-
ances in a phone call from a
nurse.
“ ‘OK, don’t worry mom,
we’ll take good care of your
son,’ ” Rochelle Nishimoto
said she was told, shortly be-
fore her son took his own life.
After six suicides last
year, the county instituted
new policies and protocols
this year in an effort to re-
duce such deaths. The effort
is partly to better care for in-
mates and partly to save tax-
payers from multimillion-
dollar legal settlements that
have resulted from jail
deaths.
The protocols seemed to
pay off for the first half of
2015, but a rash of suicides in
the fall have brought the to-
tal to five for 2015 so far.
That number is signifi-
cant compared with the
other five largest jail sys-
tems in California. San Ber-
nardino has had three jail
suicides. Los Angeles and
Santa Clara each has had
one. And Orange and Sacra-
mento counties have had
none.
L.A. CITY COUNCILMAN MITCH Englander, left, accepted campaign donations from Taser International executives.
cials.
Over the last three years,
Englander has repeatedly
pressed for the LAPD to ob-
tain body cameras, describ-
ing the devices as a way to re-
duce costly legal payouts
over allegations of miscon-
duct.
In September 2013, Eng-
lander drafted a proposal to
have Taser test its on-body
camera equipment at the
LAPD, calling the company
“a leader in the field of on-of-
ficer video.” Two months lat-
er, LAPD technology officers
appeared before Eng-
lander’s committee to say
they planned to let both Ta-
ser and a competing com-
pany, Coban Technologies,
offer their cameras for the
study.
In January 2014, Eng-
lander announced his sup-
port for that strategy, saying
in his weekly newsletter that
his committee wanted a re-
ROCHELLE NISHIMOTO of Vista holds a photo of her son Jason, who hanged
himself in a San Diego County jail cell. There have been five suicides this year.
Los Angeles County, with
three times the jail popula-
tion of San Diego, has had
one jail suicide this year af-
ter 10 in 2013.
The drop in L.A. jail sui-
cides is the result of a federal
investigation — and a subse-
quent agreement with the
U.S. Department of Justice
— regarding the treatment
of mentally ill inmates, in-
cluding suicide prevention.
In September, L.A. County
agreed to pay $1.6 million to
the family of 21-year-old Aus-
tin Losorelli, a suicidal in-
mate who was transferred to
a single-person cell where he
hanged himself.
“This is costly for coun-
ties,” said Peter Eliasberg,
legal director at the ACLU of
Southern California. “Where
there’s these warning signs
and basic protective steps
aren’t taken, counties can
get slammed.”
San Diego County start-
ed 2015 with a jail suicide on
Jan. 6, before its new proto-
cols were fully implemented.
Then for seven months,
there were no suicides.
On Aug. 18, Sergio Valen-
port on how to implement
the cameras throughout the
department. “This field
study is the result of my Sep-
tember motion directing the
Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment to work with Taser
International,” he wrote.
Five months later, Eng-
lander flew to Phoenix for a
campaign fundraiser, ac-
cording to campaign re-
cords. He later reported re-
ceiving a dozen donations
on June 7, 2014, during the
time of that trip. Those do-
nations included money
from Taser executives and
their family members, as
well as a contribution from a
manager with Evidence-
.com, the entity that’s ex-
pected to provide storage for
the LAPD’s video footage.
After the test was com-
pleted, LAPD officials con-
cluded that Taser had the
preferred product, said
Maggie Goodrich, the de-
Hayne Palmour IV San Diego Union-Tribune
zuela, 20, was found hanging
in his cell in the Central Jail.
According to the medical ex-
aminer’s report, Valenzuela
struggled with drug addic-
tion and had previously been
hospitalized for a suicide at-
tempt.
On Sept. 29, Martin Do-
zal, 38, killed himself at the
George Bailey Detention Fa-
cility in Otay Mesa. Nicholas
Medel committed suicide
there Nov. 8.
Nishimoto’s trip to jail
started with a suicide at-
tempt. On Sept. 24, he swal-
lowed a bottle of the pre-
scription medication Klono-
pin. His mother, Rochelle
Nishimoto, found the empty
medication bottle and called
Jason’s brother, Adrian, who
lived nearby.
When the brother ar-
rived, Nishimoto was trying
to leave in his car. He picked
up a shovel and threatened
to hit his brother, who called
911.
Family members said
they told the dispatcher —
and the deputies who ar-
rested Nishimoto over the
physical threats — about the
THE CITY plans to buy 6,140 cameras and 4,400
Tasers for its patrol officers at a cost of $31.2 million.
partment’s chief informa-
tion officer. The LAPD de-
cided not to conduct its own
bidding process, relying in-
stead on a procurement
process carried out by Kern
suicide attempt and ongoing
risk.
His mother also told the
jail’s psychiatric nurse, who
called the next day with
questions about medica-
tion.
Nishimoto had never
been to jail nor had been ar-
rested, Rochelle Nishimoto
said. He also had attempted
suicide in August with Klo-
nopin, she said. He was
treated at Tri-City Medical
Center and put on suicide
watch. After he was re-
leased, he seemed to be do-
ing OK, she said.
“We always got through
hard spots before,” Rochelle
Nishimoto said.
The medical examiner’s
report notes that at the time
of his arrest in September,
Nishimoto “made suicidal
statements and stated he
had consumed a large
amount of pills.” Deputies
took him to the emergency
room at Tri-City, where he
was cleared before being
booked into jail.
At the jail, the report
says, Nishimoto was placed
in a single-occupancy cell
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County, which signed an
agreement with Taser for
body cameras in September.
That arrangement
prompted one software
company to accuse Los An-
and allowed out only one
hour a day, “with no other in-
mates allowed out of their
cell at the same time.”
The medical examiner’s
report says Nishimoto was
seen by a psychiatric nurse
Sept. 25 and had an appoint-
ment to see a psychiatrist
Sept. 27, the day he was
found hanging in his cell.
Attorney Chris Morris
said he plans to file a lawsuit
on Rochelle Nishimoto’s be-
half.
“If [Jason Nishimoto’s]
treatment followed the new
suicide matrix, then clearly
the suicide matrix is not ac-
complishing its stated goal,”
Morris told the San Diego
Union-Tribune.
The San Diego County
Sheriff ’s Department intro-
duced its suicide prevention
protocol in February. The
changes were spearheaded
by Dr. Alfred Joshua, who
was hired in November 2013
as the department’s chief
medical officer.
In addition to better com-
munication among jail staff
and those who come into
contact with inmates —
other law enforcement agen-
cies, court staff and medical
providers — the protocol in-
cludes placing inmates
flagged as a suicide risk in
“enhanced observation”
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geles of offering Taser a “no-
bid” contract. But both Eng-
lander and the LAPD dis-
puted that notion, saying
Taser and Coban competed
to show they had the best
product.
“We certainly went
through a competitive proc-
ess early on, before Kern
County” issued its own re-
quest for bids, Goodrich
said.
Studio City resident Eric
Preven, a critic of the body
camera selection process,
said voters should close
loopholes in Measure H to
make sure contributions are
barred during such testing
periods. When Taser execu-
tives contributed to Eng-
lander, they were trying to
get LAPD business, he said.
“They should be pun-
ished,” he added.
david.zahniser
@latimes.com
modules, where cells have
been stripped of any tie-off
points to prevent hanging.
Inmates are given tear-
proof suicide smocks and
blankets, and new protec-
tive fencing prevents them
from jumping off the second
tier of two-tier modules. The
sheriff has hired additional
mental health clinicians,
Joshua said, and is in the
process of hiring more.
In developing the pro-
gram, Joshua said, sheriff ’s
medical staff reviewed past
inmate suicides and toured
jails around the country that
had successfully reduced
their suicide rate, such as
Dallas, which had no inmate
suicides for two years.
Identifying at-risk in-
mates is the most important
part of any suicide preven-
tion program, said Lindsay
Hayes, project director for
the National Center on Insti-
tutions & Alternatives.
“Jails do a very good job of
keeping people alive — once
they’re identified as suicid-
al,” Hayes said. “But that’s
really not what suicide pre-
vention is. Suicide preven-
tion is the identification
process.”
Kelly Davis is a contributor
to San Diego Union
Tribune.
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Alleged plot’s seriousness questioned

[Freeway, from B1]
the exact location but said
the area lacked exits, which
the pair believed would in-
crease the number of tar-
gets. Marquez admitted to
authorities that he would set
up a position in the hills
south of the freeway as
Farook would throw pipe
bombs into the eastbound
lanes to stop traffic, the
court papers said.
Farook would then move
among the stopped vehicles,
shooting motorists.
Marquez said his plan was to
shoot at stopped vehicles
from the hill and watch for
approaching police and
emergency responders,
prosecutors alleged. His pri-
ority, he said, was to shoot at
police before opening fire on
medical personnel.
The document said
Marquez stopped plotting
the attack in 2012 for several
reasons, including the arrest
of a group of men in Chino in
an unrelated terrorism case.
KTLA
ENRIQUE MARQUEZ JR. , left, has been charged
with conspiring with Syed Rizwan Farook in 2011 and
2012 to commit crimes of terrorism.
Downing said that even
staging an accident on a sec-
tion of a freeway with few
exits would give terrorists
the ability to attack motor-
ists stopped in traffic.
The key for law enforce-
ment, he added, would be to
Associated Press
send officers to the scene
quickly to stop the attack.
Ambushes in narrow pas-
sages with no escape routes
have long been a staple of
warcraft. Such tactics have
been used in the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, where U.S.
military convoys have been
hit with improvised explo-
sives, rocket-propelled gre-
nades and gunfire.
Some experts are skepti-
cal about the likelihood of a
freeway terror attack, noting
that there are other “soft
targets” that could likely
yield more casualties.
“It has not been in the ji-
hadists’ playbook,” said Bri-
an Jenkins, a senior advisor
at Rand Corp. and a top offi-
cial with Mineta Transpor-
tation Institute. “Active
shooters look for folks in
confined environments, not
behind metal.”
Farook and his wife,
Tashfeen Malik, killed 14
people Dec. 2 at a holiday
party in San Bernardino.
They were later killed in a
shootout with authorities.
Both are said to have ex-
pressed support for Islamic
radicalism. Marquez was
charged last week with con-
spiring to provide material
support to terrorists related
to the 91Freeway plan as well Hate and Extremism.
as another aborted plot tar- The alleged 91 Freeway
geting Riverside City Col- plan is one of many plots un-
lege. He was also charged covered in the United States
with illegally providing some that targeted transporta-
of the weapons used in the tion. According to the New
massacre. York Police Department,
Both the San Bernardino plans included cutting the
shooting and the ISIS at- support cables of the Brook-
tack in Paris underscored lyn Bridge, exploding bombs
the vulnerabilities of “soft in the New York subway sys-
targets.” Both attacks oc- tem and blowing up train
curred away from land- tubes under the Hudson and
marks that officials have East rivers.
often considered the most “Transportation targets
likely terrorist targets and are fairly common with ter-
instead hit suburban areas rorists, but they usually in-
with much more limited se- volve mass transit, aircraft
curity. or bridges,” Levin said. “A
“Terrorists are con- horrendous operation such
stantly looking for ways of as the one envisioned in the
not only hitting people at complaint not only confines
large symbolic targets and civilians while they would be
events, but also during ev- under vicious attack but ob-
eryday routine activities as structs and places first re-
well, where civilians are sponders at risk from sniper
most vulnerable and least fire as well.”
able to escape,” said Brian
Levin, a Cal State San Ber- richard.winton
nardino professor and direc- @latimes.com
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BEN EDICT ANDERS ON, 1936 - 2015
Expert on roots of nationalism
By Jill Leovy
Y
ou know what you
are doing to this
newspaper; you are
reading it.
But do you know what
this newspaper is doing to
you?
Southeast Asia scholar
Benedict Anderson argued
that reading a newspaper
was not just a pastime. It
was the making of a new or-
der by means of a powerful
technology.
Along with maps,
schools, health services, mu-
seums and other trappings
of modernity, newspapers
lead people to adopt shared
national identities, he said
— even if it means identify-
ing with strangers miles
away. Newspapers, in short,
helped explain nations.
That nations needed ex-
plaining — a novel proposi-
tion in itself — was the kind
of insight for which Ander-
son was known. Nations may
seem normal. But Anderson
saw them as new and weird
— “the shrunken imaginings
of recent history,” he wrote.
Anderson, who spent
part of his childhood in Los
Gatos, Calif., and gained em-
inence for both the range
and quality of his scholar-
ship — as well as his unwa-
vering criticism of the Su-
harto regime in Indonesia —
died Dec. 13 in the city of Ma-
lang, Indonesia. He was 79.
He is best known for his
1983 book “Imagined Com-
munities: Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of Na-
tionalism,” which examines
how nationalism is con-
structed, and why it’s so pas-
sionately embraced.
More than three decades
after its publication, the
book remains a touchstone.
In recent months, analysts
have invoked it to explain
countries as diverse as Ire-
land, Russia, Syria and Ni-
geria, as well as the rise of the
Islamic State.
Anderson also co-wrote a
highly influential paper
critical of Suharto’s brutal
seizure of power in 1965 and
1966 — at least 500,000 peo-
ple were killed. The paper
got him banned from Indo-
nesia for three decades.
But it was seized on by In-
CALIFORNIA BRIEFING
PALMDALE
Deputy kills
man outside
restaurant
A Los Angeles County
sheriff ’s deputy shot and
killed a suspect early Sun-
day during a confrontation
outside a fast-food restau-
rant in Palmdale, according
to a Sheriff ’s Department
spokeswoman.
The shooting occurred
about 3 a.m. outside a Taco
Bell in the 37900 block of 47th
Street East, said Sheriff ’s
Deputy Crystal Hernandez.
The suspect, described
only as a 39-year-old man
from Altadena, was taken to
a local hospital, where he
died, Hernandez said.
The incident began when
employees at the restaurant
reported to the Sheriff ’s De-
partment that a vehicle had
crashed into the restaurant
near the drive-through, and
that the driver appeared to
be unconscious, authorities
said.
When deputies tried to
arrest the driver on suspi-
cion of driving under the in-
fluence, he began to fight
with a deputy, according to a
Sheriff ’s Department state-
ment.
At some point the sus-
pect grabbed a deputy’s
weapon, according to the
statement. Despite a strug-
gle, the suspect refused to let
go as the deputy attempted
to take back his gun.
Fearing the suspect was a
threat, one deputy shot the
man, Hernandez said. The
deputies who responded
sustained cuts, bruises and
abrasions in the altercation.
Sheriff ’s detectives found
a blue-steel pistol and a large
baggie of marijuana inside
the suspect’s vehicle, Her-
OBITUARIES
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SOUTHEAST ASIA SCHOLAR
Benedict Anderson studied how nationalism is
constructed and why it’s so widely embraced.
donesia’s democracy move-
ment, and Suharto was
ousted in 1998. In Indonesia,
Anderson’s death has been
treated by many as a public
loss. “He was one of a few
American scholars who
really just dished it out to the
Suharto regime…and he suf-
fered for it,” said David
Biggs, a Southeast Asia
scholar at UC Riverside.
“People respect him for
that.”
In this country, Anderson
figured large mainly among
scholars. The young profes-
sors he trained at Cornell
University include several
now in California.
Anderson was seen as a
leading scholar of post-colo-
nial theorists on the left, and
his assertions drew fiery re-
buttals.
But the depth and com-
plexity of his arguments,
and his expertise with lan-
guages, made it difficult for
opponents to dismiss him.
“Imagined Communities”
remains a staple text, as-
signed to graduate students
across disciplines.
Anderson drew lofty ide-
as from low places. He
combed obscure govern-
ment registers, shipping
news, songs and poems. He
grounded sweeping theo-
retical assertions in the ar-
cana of everyday life — a
postcard, a piece of class-
room art, a colonial officer’s
nandez said.
— Ben Poston
BERKELEY
Student found
dead near UC
Berkeley police are inves-
tigating the death of a 23-
year-old student who was
found unresponsive near the
UC Berkeley campus early
Saturday.
Police and fire were dis-
patched to the 2900 block of
Channing Way just before
7:30 a.m., Berkeley Police Of-
ficer Jennifer Coats said.
The male victim was found
at the Pi Kappa Phi frater-
nity house, according to Bay
Area TV station KTVU.
— Paloma Esquivel
HUNTINGTON
BEACH
2nd venomous
sea snake found
Wildlife rescuers have a
new problem: For the sec-
ond time in two months, a
rare venomous sea serpent
has washed up on a local
beach hundreds of miles
from its normal haunts.
The dead 27-inch male
yellow-bellied sea snake was
discovered last week during
a Surfrider Foundation
cleanup campaign in Hun-
tington Beach.
A 2-foot yellow-bellied
sea snake was discovered in
October after slithering onto
Silver Strand State Beach in
Ventura County. It died
shortly after being taken to a
local U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service office. The species,
Pelamis platura, was
first seen in Southern Cali-
fornia in San Clemente in
1972.
— Louis Sahagun
collection of relics.
“He was really a Renais-
sance man,” said Geoffrey
Robinson, UCLA history
professor and former Ander-
son student. “If you went to
one of his talks, you never
knew if it would be a straight
academic talk or a reflection
on Thai kung fu.”
Colleagues were as-
tounded by his linguistic
skills, which the New Repub-
lic called “superhuman.” Af-
ter he was blacklisted in In-
donesia, he learned Thai,
Spanish and Tagalog, and
became a respected author-
ity on Thailand and the Phil-
ippines.
“The most brilliant guy I
ever met,” said Peter Zino-
man, UC Berkeley history
professor and another for-
mer Anderson student. He
called Anderson “a magi-
cian.”
Benedict O’Gorman An-
derson was born in 1936 in
Kunming, China, the son of
an Anglo-Irish Chinese Mar-
itime Customs employee
and an English mother. The
family left during World War
ll and settled in Los Gatos.
Anderson became a scholar-
ship student at Eton, gradu-
ated from Cambridge Uni-
versity with a classics degree
and went to Cornell in 1958,
according to his sister, Mela-
nie Anderson.
Anderson first traveled
to Indonesia in 1961 for his
No. 2 official
to act as L.A.
schools chief
[L.A. Unified, from B1]
lengthy meetings over the
last seven days as it tried to
make its most important
hire.
The choice of King, 54, to
step in temporarily was no
surprise; she’d already be-
come acting superintendent
on Dec.11, when Cortines un-
officially stepped aside. Cor-
tines returned to duty three
days later, however, when
district officials received a
terrorist threat. The threat
prompted the cancellation
of school for 640,000 stu-
dents Tuesday, but turned
out to be a false alarm.
Cortines said in an inter-
view last week that King, as
acting superintendent, had
the authority to cancel
schools, but that it also was
reasonable to bring him
back to manage the crisis.
King did not respond to
questions about the han-
dling of the incident, but she
was one of three senior dis-
trict leaders who had dealt
with the situation early on,
along with school district
police chief Steven Zipper-
man and Zimmer, who re-
ceived the email threat at 10
p.m. Monday.
When it became clear
that local and federal law en-
forcement officials were nei-
ther going to take charge nor
give unequivocal guidance,
Cortines was called at 5 a.m.
He said that it would be un-
fair to criticize his L.A. Uni-
fied colleagues, but that he
wished he’d been alerted
sooner or perhaps not at all.
dissertation. Suharto rose
to power just a few years lat-
er, bolstered by claims of an
attempted Communist
coup. Anderson’s famous
Cornell paper, written with
Ruth McVey, sought to de-
bunk those claims.
Despite being blacklisted
in Indonesia, Anderson re-
mained deeply committed to
the country. He said he often
thought in Indonesian. He
adopted two Javanese sons.
The nationalism that
arose from anti-colonial
forces in Indonesia struck
him as puzzling. It didn’t
seem born of ethnic loyalties
or fascist ambition. How had
hundreds of ethnic groups
across thousands of islands
stitched themselves to-
gether?
Anderson came to see
what he called “nation-ness”
as a surprising, distinctly
modern and potentially fa-
vorable turn of events.
Somehow, people took a
kind of collective imagina-
tive leap. Lots of factors
prompted them to do so, not
least the institutional foot-
prints of colonialism — land
surveys, censuses, common
vernacular languages.
Print capitalism, epito-
mized by newspapers, was
especially important. “You
have to understand the nov-
elty of the morning paper. All
these people get up at the
same time … and identify
with the child who fell down
a well,” Zinoman said. At
some point, they become
willing to die for an abstrac-
tion similar to that which
links them to the child.
Nationalism was not an
ideology like fascism, he ar-
gued. It was merely another
kind of community, a twist
on the theme of village or
kinship network. It was a
cultural artifact manufac-
tured by various state and
market processes — some
conscious, some not.
Crucially, he argued that
these processes were “mod-
ular,” meaning they could be
replicated all over the world.
Thus, nation-ness was
catching. And a nation-ized
world would probably have
staying power, he suggested
— which so far it has.
Described as shy and
gruff, Anderson had an am-
biguous accent that re-
Cortines also said he was
comfortable with his actions
even though the threat
proved a hoax.
With his retirement
about to take full effect, the
district needs to establish a
clear chain of command,
said Dan Schnur, director of
the Jesse M. Unruh Institute
of Politics at USC.
“If they’re not ready yet to
name a permanent replace-
ment, the events of Tuesday
morning made it clear that
there is at least a strong
need to put an interim su-
perintendent in place,”
Schnur said.
King has experience
serving for short periods as
acting superintendent, es-
pecially when she worked
under Cortines’ predeces-
sor, John Deasy, who fre-
quently went out of town for
conferences and meetings.
Last week, she oversaw
the staff presentation at a
board meeting over a sensi-
tive topic: the temporary
closing of two schools be-
cause of a natural gas leak in
the northwest San Fer-
nando Valley.
In April 2014, she oversaw
the early hours of the dis-
trict’s emergency response
when a bus carrying stu-
dents on a college visit
crashed in Orland, killing 10,
including one L.A. Unified
student. Other district stu-
dents were injured.
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flected three continents. He seminar, your adrenaline
was an exacting teacher. would be pumping.”
Robinson recalled trying Beneath it, said Robin-
to enlist his help in avoiding son, Anderson was kind. “In-
a statistics course. Ander- donesians would come and
son would have none of it. visit Cornell. They were
“Once you have done that freezing cold. They didn’t
course and gotten an A, you have any friends,” he said.
have earned the right to Anderson “would always
criticize it,” he told Robin- have them stay at his
son. house.”
“He was a model of the Besides his sister, Ander-
idea that class should be son is survived by his broth-
scary,” Zinoman said. er, Perry Anderson, a UCLA
“There is something incred- history professor, sons Yudi
ibly productive about being and Beni, and niece Louisa.
afraid … you would prepare
so much. When you went to jill.leovy@latimes.com
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BARBARA CO. Santa Paula 62/50 Hesperia
Santa Ojai 65/48 LOS ANGELES CO. 58/44
Barbara 63/44 Simi Valley
Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO.
65/51 63/49 Burbank Monrovia
Ventura Camarillo 61/51
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UCLA Fairplex 57/36 High 82 in Edinburg, Texas
Oxnard LA Downtown San Bernardino
Westlake 64/54 Ontario Low –10 in Wisdom, Mont.
63/54 Woodland 64/54 62/47 60/44
Village 62/48
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63/46 Chino
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1-3’ 10 sec W 63/54 64/53 Fullerton 61/44 Albuquerque 52 32 -- 48 27 Su
Torrance 65/52 Amarillo 65 41 -- 59 34 Su
Ventura Co. 64/54 Santa Ana Anchorage 28 15 -- 18 11 Pc
Height Period Direction Long 63/54 ORANGE CO. Hemet Palm Atlanta 55 34 -- 59 55 Pc
2-4’ 12 sec W Beach Newport Irvine 60/43 Springs Atlantic City 44 33 -- 59 53 Pc
65/54 Beach 62/54 66/48 Austin 68 46 Tr 76 50 Cy Taken at 3 p.m. Sunday
Los Angeles Co. Mission Viejo Baltimore 47 21 -- 55 48 Pc
63/55 Temecula Billings 31 26 .05 34 27 Cy
Height Period Direction 61/51 Spokane 33 27 .15 35 25 Sn
Laguna 61/45 Birmingham 57 31 -- 61 58 Sh Springfield, Mo. 55 42 -- 55 31 Pc
2-4’ 10 sec W Beach San Boise 40 26 .01 40 33 Sn Tallahassee 68 31 -- 74 64 Cy
61/54 Boston 41 31 -- 53 47 Pc
Orange Co. Clemente Tampa 76 51 -- 82 70 Pc
Surf and sea Height Period Direction 62/52 SAN DIEGO CO.
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2-4’ 7 sec W Burlington, Vt. 32 24 .06 43 39 Pc Washington, D.C. 46 32 -- 55 49 Pc
Inner waters: West winds increasing to 64/47 Casper 32 23 -- 35 33 Pc
10-20 knots. Wind waves 1-4 feet, west Wichita 59 43 -- 49 31 Pc
swells 1-3 feet.
San Diego Co. Charleston, S.C. 63 30 -- 72 58 Pc Yuma 63 46 -- 66 47 Pc
Height Period Direction Escondido Ramona Charleston, W.Va. 49 22 -- 57 53 Sh
Surf zone: Potential for strong rip 2-4’ 13 sec WNW 62/49 62/46 Charlotte
Chicago
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Cincinnati 48 23 -- 54 46 Sh
County south through San Diego Cleveland 43 21 -- 51 47 R
Amsterdam 54 51 .15 52 50 Sh
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County and low at the Santa Barbara Tides UV index Colo. Springs 56 35 Tr 46 29 Pc
Athens 57 39 -- 58 43 Su
County beaches. L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. Baghdad 63 43 -- 63 42 Su
Minutes to burn for San Diego Columbia, S.C. 58 27 -- 63 53 Pc
Bangkok 86 70 -- 90 76 Hz
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Barbados 85 79 .05 84 78 Pc
Las Vegas, 60
65/57 Concord, N.H. 38 28 -- 46 34 Pc
Morro Bay 4p SSW3 1/12 58/58 6:44p 3.8 Hi 11:51p 1.4 Lo Beijing 40 27 -- 45 18 Pc
Los Angeles, 45 Dallas/Ft.Worth 64 49 -- 72 44 Pc
Santa Barbara 4p W6 3/10 61/63 Tue. 6:18a 6.5 Hi 1:23p -0.7 Lo Phoenix, 45 Berlin 55 43 -- 51 46 R
Denver 48 34 -- 43 27 Pc
7:39p 4.0 Hi ------ Lo San Francisco, 60 Buenos Aires 81 52 -- 85 67 Pc
Ventura 4p WSW6 4/12 61/60 Des Moines 54 32 -- 38 29 Pc
Cabo San Lucas 79 65 -- 81 60 Cy
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Cancun
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High/low 61/44 62/43 64/45 Dec. 25 Fairbanks 4 -8 -- -6-11 Pc
Hunt’n. Beach 4p SW3 1/7 62/60 High/low a year ago 64/50 65/49 66/53 Los Angeles County Dublin 50 45 .07 51 45 R
Fargo 24 21 -- 23 18 Cy
Newport Beach 4p WSW3 1/7 62/60 Normal high/low for date 67/47 67/44 66/44 Sun 6:54a/4:48p Edinburgh 48 47 .45 48 42 R
Flagstaff 33 26 .10 43 21 Pc
Dana Point 4p W3 1/7 62/59 Record high/date 83/1985 80/1999 82/1954 Moon 2:06p/2:42a Last Quarter Frankfurt 48 37 -- 53 48 Pc
Grand Junction 37 17 -- 36 30 Cy
San Clemente 4p SW3 1/13 63/59 Record low/date 35/1887 37/2006 30/1967 Jan. 1 Geneva 50 34 -- 50 37 R
Grand Rapids 46 21 -- 49 39 R
Orange County Havana 79 73 .12 85 69 Pc
Oceanside 4p W3 1/13 62/59 Precipitation Green Bay 41 21 -- 39 28 R
Sun 6:53a/4:47p New Moon Ho Chi Minh City 82 73 .28 83 75 Sh
Solana Beach 4p WNW3 1/13 63/57 24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.25 0.19 0.00 Hartford 42 32 -- 50 43 Pc
Moon 2:05p/2:41a Jan. 9 Hong Kong 64 60 .22 70 66 Cy
Mission Beach 4p WNW3 1/13 62/59 Season total (since Oct. 1) 0.93 0.71 0.93 Helena 25 10 -- 31 26 Cy
Istanbul 54 41 -- 54 44 Su
Avalon 4p WNW4 3/10 63/57 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 4.42 3.75 4.89 Ventura County Honolulu 82 73 .06 82 72 Sh
Jerusalem 57 42 -- 56 39 Su
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 3.00 2.82 3.73 Sun 6:59a/4:51p First Quarter Houston 67 46 -- 74 62 Ts
Johannesburg 88 63 .25 89 63 Cy
Wind speed in knots; wave heights in feet/intervals in seconds;
Humidity (high/low) 92/49 93/40 89/40 Moon 2:10p/2:47a Jan. 16 Indianapolis 50 25 -- 53 38 R
temperatures for sea/air Kabul 47 20 -- 44 25 Su
Jacksonville, Fla. 68 37 -- 77 63 Pc
Kingston 88 79 -- 88 76 Pc
Kansas City 55 45 Tr 42 29 Su
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London
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Mecca 84 69 -- 87 66 Pc
Medford 42 35 .07 48 41 R
Anaheim 59 42 .01 64 52 64 50 Laguna Beach 61 44 .14 61 54 63 53 Sacramento 53 36 .01 53 51 64 45 Mexico City 74 43 -- 75 44 Pc
Memphis 56 37 -- 66 56 Sh
Avalon/Catalina 61 45 .07 56 50 60 51 Lancaster 49 37 .09 59 47 59 44 San Bernardino 59 44 .21 60 44 58 46 Montreal 28 21 .01 39 35 Cy
Miami 77 70 .03 83 75 Pc
Bakersfield 53 42 .13 58 50 62 47 Long Beach 63 43 .19 65 54 69 54 San Clemente Pier 56 49 -- 62 52 63 52 Moscow 39 36 .12 46 40 Cy
Milwaukee 50 23 -- 45 34 R
Barstow 52 39 .15 62 45 67 47 Mammoth Lakes 41 1 -- 42 32 46 24 San Diego 63 57 .11 65 57 66 59 Mumbai 86 75 -- 89 70 Hz
Minneapolis 41 24 -- 34 27 Pc
Beaumont 51 38 .29 55 40 53 44 Mission Viejo 61 42 .23 61 51 62 51 San Francisco 54 42 .01 58 57 59 49 New Delhi 68 43 -- 69 43 Hz
Nashville 57 29 -- 59 55 Sh
Big Bear Lake 39 18 xx 46 27 46 29 Monrovia 60 43 .17 58 47 59 45 San Gabriel 64 44 .23 63 52 64 50 Oslo 48 42 .12 50 43 W
New Orleans 71 41 -- 72 62 R
Bishop 48 14 -- 52 34 57 27 Monterey 56 40 -- 61 55 61 48 San Jose 54 37 Tr 60 55 62 47 Paris 55 50 .10 54 52 Pc
New York 43 35 -- 53 52 Pc
Burbank 59 40 .19 63 52 64 51 Mt. Wilson 42 29 -- 49 37 50 39 San Luis Obispo 61 41 Tr 62 54 63 49 Rio de Janeiro 90 79 -- 88 75 Pc
Oklahoma City 59 48 -- 58 34 Su
Camarillo 52 40 .01 67 54 71 49 Needles 62 43 Tr 63 46 64 48 Santa Ana 59 44 .16 63 54 66 54 Rome 61 37 -- 60 39 Su
Omaha 52 37 -- 38 28 Pc
Chatsworth 61 41 .15 61 51 62 49 Newport Beach 62 49 .10 63 55 64 55 Santa Barbara 63 38 -- 65 51 68 48 Seoul 43 23 .09 43 26 Pc
Orlando 75 50 -- 82 66 Pc
Chino 61 38 .03 64 47 64 48 Northridge 61 42 .11 62 50 64 48 Santa Clarita 54 36 .16 62 50 62 48 Stockholm 55 45 .01 49 39 W
Philadelphia 43 30 -- 57 52 Pc
Dana Point 59 45 .17 62 54 63 53 Oakland 53 39 Tr 58 53 60 45 Santa Monica Pier 60 45 -- 63 54 66 51 Sydney 87 68 -- 79 66 Ts
Phoenix 65 44 -- 65 45 Pc
Death Valley 59 36 -- 57 36 62 37 Oceanside 62 43 .18 64 47 65 51 Santa Paula 65 37 .07 65 48 68 45 Taipei 77 63 .04 75 68 R
Pittsburgh 41 19 -- 50 48 Cy
Del Mar 61 53 .11 61 53 63 58 Ojai 61 31 .01 63 44 66 41 Santa Rosa 50 34 .51 59 51 60 42 Tehran 45 34 .02 44 27 Su
Portland, Maine 38 29 -- 45 35 Pc
Escondido 61 47 .13 62 49 61 53 Ontario 59 44 .17 62 48 62 49 Simi Valley 60 38 .06 63 49 64 46 Tokyo 52 37 -- 55 45 Pc
Portland, Ore. 49 41 .20 49 39 R
Eureka 54 44 .34 57 51 54 44 Oxnard 60 42 -- 63 54 67 52 Tahoe Valley 33 10 Tr 41 36 43 31 Toronto 38 27 -- 46 44 R
Providence 43 28 -- 56 48 Pc
Fallbrook 60 46 .26 61 48 61 51 Palm Springs 63 43 .02 66 48 68 49 Temecula 60 43 .21 61 45 60 49 Vancouver 45 39 -- 45 34 R
Pueblo 61 27 .06 53 27 Pc
Fillmore 60 36 .01 65 50 67 46 Pasadena 59 42 .19 61 50 62 48 Thousand Oaks 54 38 .05 65 46 67 46 Vienna 41 38 -- 43 40 Fg
Raleigh 54 27 -- 58 51 Pc
Fresno 51 40 -- 53 48 58 44 Paso Robles 53 32 .01 57 48 60 42 Torrance 61 47 .19 64 54 68 54 Winnipeg 16 12 .03 17 16 Sn
Rapid City 35 28 -- 35 20 Pc
Fullerton 62 43 .20 65 52 68 51 Pomona/Fairplex 58 43 .31 62 47 61 46 UCLA 60 47 -- 64 54 66 52 Zurich 50 34 -- 47 36 Cy
Reno 49 26 -- 49 43 R
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Idyllwild 39 26 .33 48 37 47 39 Riverside 60 43 .16 61 44 60 45 Woodland Hills 60 36 .16 62 51 65 49 San Antonio 70 52 -- 77 55 Cy Sf snow flurries; I ice; Rs rain/snow; W windy;
Irvine 63 44 .29 62 54 64 52 Wrightwood 37 23 xx 47 35 48 33 San Juan, P.R. 82 73 .17 85 75 Su Tr trace. Notes: National extremes are for NWS
L.A. D’ntown/USC 61 44 .26 64 54 66 52 Forecasts provided by Yorba Linda 62 43 .15 62 50 62 50 Santa Fe 45 24 Tr 42 24 Pc stations; excludes Alaska and Hawaii.
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Plenty at home for Brown’s to-do list

[Skelton, from B1] heavy commodification of Senate leader Kevin de
Also: our entire existence.” León (D-Sacramento) is
8 Our Medi-Cal health- “We’re talking about a preparing a proposal that
care system for the poor different kind of life,” the would tax all managed care
that soon will lose a big governor continued. “A life plans, whether Medi-Cal or
chunk of money. not based on oil, and a life not. That would generate
8 An underfunded pro- not based on so much em- enough money to also re-
gram that serves the devel- phasis on the individual as store recession-era cuts to
opmentally disabled. opposed to the common Medi-Cal doctor fees and
8 School construction good.” services for the develop-
and modernization, a pro- OK, but most people still mentally disabled, such as
gram that has run out of have to drive to work. And in children with cerebral palsy
state money. the Los Angeles Basin, they or autism.
Whether Brown has lost crawl through the second- Republicans still would
interest in these issues — or most-congested traffic in need to be persuaded to
really ever had much — is the country. The San Fran- vote for the managed care
debatable. But they’ve been cisco Bay Area is the third taxes.
high on the Capitol agenda worst. No. 1 is Washington, On school construction,
all year with essentially no D.C. a proposed $9-billion bond
progress being made. Many Capitol hands issue has qualified for the
These nagging problems have pretty much lost hope November ballot. The initia-
will be carried over into 2016. of raising enough money for tive is sponsored by the
They will undoubtedly be road repairs. Beall wants to home building industry.
brought up again when the impose a $100 annual fee on That’s because it would get
Legislature reconvenes Jan. electric cars — because socked for the state’s cost
4 and the governor unveils their drivers don’t pay fuel of building schools if
his proposed new budget a taxes — but Brown’s dead the state kitty remains
few days later. set again that. empty.
“If chatter could be The senator also is ad- This probably would
Michel Euler Associated Press
counted as progress, then vocating a state constitu- result in a lot less home
I’d say we’ve come a long GOV. JERRY BROWN at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris. Deci- tional amendment to pro- building.
way,” says Jim Earp, who sions on state issues on health, roads and schools are pushed into the new year. tect highway funds against But Brown is opposed to
heads a coalition called thievery for other causes. more bond debt. And teach-
California Alliance for Jobs the governor’s help.” billion more was needed question of when.” And he’s proposing clean ers unions don’t want a
that has been pushing for The funding shortage is annually. There’s no greater power locomotives to haul shipped school bond on the Novem-
new highway funding. “But because the gas tax hasn’t Later, he proposed a on this, however, than the cargo away from ports to ber ballot to compete
I’ve never worked on any- been raised since 1994 $3.6-billion package that governor. reduce big-rig congestion against their anticipated
thing where I’ve seen so and inflation has eroded its would cost average motor- He may have mixed and pollution. But that may tax increase proposal.
little progress.” buying power. Moreover, ists $84 extra a year, in- feelings about petroleum- not be enough to coax Re- So Democratic legisla-
One guy who has been motorists are buying less cluding a 6-cent gas tax dependent, greenhouse publicans into raising fuel tors may place a smaller
trying to raise money for gas because cars are more increase. gas-emitting traffic anyway. taxes. school bond on the June
road repairs is Senate trans- fuel efficient. But these But he never expressed And he has always tended to The healthcare funding ballot.
portation committee Chair- vehicles still pound the any real urgency and didn’t look down at the way most problem is because the Nothing will get done —
man Jim Beall (D-San Jo- pavement, doing damage. push. “The roads are going mortals live. Obama administration again — without the gover-
se). The Brown adminis- to get fixed,” he told report- In Paris, Times reporter has ordered Sacramento to nor’s coercion, compromise
“He’s been in Paris,” tration estimates there’s a ers in September. “Whether Chris Megerian wrote that stop taxing Medi-Cal man- and commitment.
Beall says of Brown. “I’ve $137-billion backlog in it takes a week, a month, a Brown called on people “to aged care plans if it doesn’t
been in Turlock, Bakersfield needed repairs for state and year or two, ultimately the live lighter on the planet. also tax other such plans. george.skelton
and Chico talking to people local roads. A year ago, the powers that be [are] going Friendship, beauty, art has That will leave a $1.1-billion @latimes.com
[about a solution]. We need governor said that $5.7 to up the pressure. It’s just a to take the place of this hole. Twitter: @LATimesSkelton

QUARTERBACK Philip Rivers (17) leads a prayer circle after the Chargers’ 30-14 win over Miami. Un-
less a deal is made to replace aging Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego might need a miracle to keep the team.
THE BOLTS AND
THE DUTIFUL
Fans pay fealty to Chargers at what could be the last game in San Diego.
If team moves to Carson, all that will be left are bittersweet memories.
By Nathan Fenno
SAN DIEGO — In the final row of
Qualcomm Stadium’s sprawling
parking lot, Johnathan Case consid-
ered the end.
Music thumped, smoke rose from
charcoal grills and tailgaters sipped
cans of light beer. But an uncomfort-
able question lurked beneath the
pregame rituals. Was Sunday’s game
against the Dolphins the final time
A GAME
CHANGER
Doors in the NFL, NBA, Major League
Baseball and beyond open in landmark ways
By Kevin Baxter
Leave it to the father of
two teenage girls to confront
the presumption that wom-
en are the weaker sex when it
comes to sports.
When President Obama
welcomed the World Cup
champion U.S. women’s soc-
cer team to the White House
this fall by saying “playing
like a girl means you’re a
badass,” his became the
loudest voice in a growing
chorus acknowledging what
has been a breakthrough
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M O N D A Y , D E C E M B E R 2 1 , 2 0 1 5 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S
NFL :: WEEK 15
TONIGHT’S GAME: DETROIT AT NEW ORLEANS, 5:30 PST, E SPN
Panthers
survive a
Giant scare
Gano’s field goal as
time expires wins it,
38-35, and Carolina
goes to 14-0.
SAM FARMER
ON THE NFL
Fate was briefly on the
side of the New York Giants.
But the Carolina Pan-
thers had Cam Newton ...
and karma.
Bolstering his case for
NFL most-valuable-player
honors, Newton threw five
touchdown passes and
directed the winning field-
goal drive inside of two
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times minutes Sunday as the
Panthers held on to beat the
Giants, 38-35, and avoid an
epic upset.
The Panthers are 14-0
and two victories from
matching the 2007 New
England Patriots as the only
teams to win all 16 regular-
season games. Those
Patriots lost the Super Bowl
to the Giants, so they fin-
ished 18-1, meaning the 1972
Miami Dolphins are the only
modern-era team to go
the Chargers will play in the city cooked meat in the parking lot, the
they’ve called home for 55 years? The day felt like a wake. A red-jacketed se-
anxiety seemed to cast a pall over the curity staffer wondered aloud if he’d
acres of asphalt. get to keep his job. Hawkers offered
“It’s like a bad, bad divorce,” said copies of the “final edition” of the
Case, a 30-year-old with a large light- “Tailgate Times” newsletter. Fans
ning bolt tattoo on his biceps. asked each other what they’ll do if the
A “Save Our Bolts” banner hung team isn’t here.
nearby. So did another poster that Behind all of it was a lingering
warned: “Don’t be the grinch who sense of surprise that the quest to re-
stole our Bolts from San Diego.” place the hulking concrete stadium,
Amid wind-whipped “Charger opened in 1967 and considered one of CAROLINA QUARTERBACK Cam Newton tries to
Country” flags and the aroma of [See Chargers, D6] get past New York Giants end Jason Pierre-Paul.
2 015: WOM E N I N S P O RT S
Trying to escape
claws of average
Clippers know they’ve
been underachieving.
So what are they
going to do about it?
Maxx Wolfson Getty Images
By Ben Bolch
JESSICA MENDOZA became the first female ana-
year for women in U.S. lyst to work a big league game for a major network.
sports. The Clippers have lots of
Over the past 12 months, problems. Being in denial
women have beaten down isn’t one of them.
doors once thought impene- They are acutely aware
trable. They’ve joined the they have underachieved
NFL, both as an assistant and are no longer willing to
coach and as an on-field offi- trot out the easy excuses to
cial, while the NBA now has soothe the sting of being
two female assistant coach- only four games over .500 as
es, two female referees and Christmas approaches.
in Michele Roberts, the first It’s true that the Clippers
woman to head the players’ have eight new players. It’s
union in a major men’s pro- also true that learning each
fessional sports league. other’s tendencies and find-
The Oakland Athletics Harry How Getty Images ing which players best fit to-
recently became the first RONDA ROUSEY is the biggest drawing card in gether takes time.
[See Women, D8] mixed martial arts, outshining the men. Another truth: It’s 28
D
Rarefied air
Carolina is hoping to be-
come the second team to
start 14-0 and win the
Super Bowl. The best
starts in NFL history:
Team Yr. Started Finished
Patriots ’07 18-0 18-1
Dolphins ’72 17-0 17-0
Colts ’09 14-0 16-3
Panthers ’15 14-0 TBD
undefeated for a season. A
regular season was 14 games
then, so those Dolphins
finished 17-0 overall.
Carolina is the fourth
team in the Super Bowl era
to start a season 14-0. In
addition to the 1972 Dol-
phins and 2007 Patriots, the
2009 Indianapolis Colts did
it, too. Of those three teams,
only Miami turned that
great start into a Super
Bowl victory.
Carolina, which closes
the season at Atlanta and
home against Tampa Bay,
nearly frittered away Sun-
day’s game after building a
35-7 lead with less than six
minutes remaining in the
[See Farmer, D4]
Jeff Siner Charlotte Observer
TONIGHT’S GAME
Clippers vs.
Oklahoma City
at Staples Center
TV: Prime Ticket, 7:30 p.m.
games into the season and
the breaking-in phase
should be over.
“This is the point in the
season where it’s too late to
keep saying, ‘OK, well, we’ve
got to figure it out,’ ” forward
Blake Griffin said late Satur-
day after the Clippers took
another Texas misstep with
a 107-97 loss to the Houston
Rockets that followed a de-
[See Clippers, D3]
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Great sportsmanship is on display

Football state title
game between
Centennial and De La
Salle is a joy to watch.
ERIC SONDHEIMER
ON HIGH SCHOOLS
It was the final high
school football game of a
season that stretched over
five months of games and 20
weeks of practices. Concord
De La Salle came away with
its seventh state title since
state bowl games began in
2006, defeating Corona
Centennial, 28-21, in a rous-
ing CIF Open Division final
Saturday night at Sacra-
mento State.
Afterward, watching
running back J.J. Taylor of
Centennial shake hands
and receive hugs from the
same De La Salle players
who spent 48 minutes trying
to tackle him offered a
glimpse of why so much
effort and commitment is
put in.
Taylor, 5 feet 6 and 170
pounds, had 169 yards in 29
carries. Twice on fourth
down, he was stopped an
inch or two away from a first
down that could have
changed the outcome of the
game. That’s how evenly
matched these two powerful
programs have become.
When the game was over
and De La Salle players
went to celebrate and Cen-
tennial players stood in
disappointment, everyone
soon lined up to congratu-
late each other in a tradition
that continues to make
sports special at any level.
The fact De La Salle
(13-1) came out ahead of
Centennial (14-1) to take
home the championship
trophy showed that the
panded to 13 and the top five
games were moved from
Carson to Sacramento.
Attendance wasn’t great
(14,626 over two days), but
Hornet Stadium is a good
facility and based on the
many teenagers showing
tears of joy and tears of
sadness after games, it’s
clear the participants truly
care what happens.
It was a season not with-
out controversy. There were
forfeits because of ineligible
players. There were teams
that ended their seasons
prematurely because of
Jose Carlos Fajardo Bay Area News Group injuries and dwindling
CORONA CENTENNIAL’S J.J. Taylor runs past rosters. There were continu-
Concord De La Salle’s Isaia Taotua (76) on Saturday ing concerns raised about
in Open Division state championship game. concussions and whether
playing 16 games in a high
Spartans remain the team ing extraordinary moments school season is too long.
to beat in California prep of scoring, remarkable play Changes are coming. The
football no matter the ven- at the receiver position and Southern Section is ex-
ue, no matter the opponent. plenty of successes and pected to adopt a playoff
There were lots of les- failures. structure in January that
sons from a season featur- The bowl games ex- will result in teams being
put in divisions based on
their last two years of ac-
complishments rather than
based on what league they
play in. That means Mission
Viejo, with a 28-game win-
ning streak, will be moving
to the revamped Pac-5, and
longtime Pac-5 schools will
be moving out.
Most importantly, coach-
es shouldn’t forget why they
are needed. Regardless of a
game’s outcome, their job is
to teach life lessons, and
Coach Matt Logan of Cen-
tennial should be proud
because his top player (Tay-
lor) gets it.
Asked whether he was
frustrated, Taylor said, “Not
really. I did what I tried to do
and the team did what we
tried to do. It didn’t work
out as planned. It’s life. It
happens.”
eric.sondheimer@latimes.com
Twitter: @LATSondheimer

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Lottery-draft position
STANDINGS BOX SCORES
Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be deter-
mined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. Division Timberwolves 100, Nets 85 Hawks 103, Magic 100
standing no longer has any bearing on the rankings. The top eight MINNESOTA ATLANTA

has several variables

teams in each conference make the playoffs, and the top-seeded Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
team would play the eighth-seeded team, the seventh team would Prince .........24 2-3 0-0 0-1 0 1 4 Bazemore ....32 5-9 2-3 0-6 4 1 13
play the second, etc. Head-to-head competition is the first of several Garnett .......10 0-1 0-0 0-7 2 2 0 Millsap........34 5-16 3-4 3-13 3 4 13
tiebreakers, followed by conference record. (Western Conference di-
Towns .........28 10-19 4-4 3-10 1 3 24 Horford .......29 7-15 0-0 2-6 5 3 14
visions: S-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference
divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S-Southeast). Rubio .........27 1-6 6-7 0-2 15 1 8 Teague ........27 4-7 6-8 0-2 1 3 14
Wiggins.......31 6-11 4-6 2-3 0 3 16 Korver.........34 6-8 1-2 0-2 5 2 19
WESTERN CONFERENCE Dieng .........36 9-12 2-2 0-10 3 4 20 Splitter........14 3-6 0-0 2-3 0 1 6
Payne .........16 0-3 0-0 0-7 0 1 0 Sefolosha....15 2-4 1-1 1-2 0 2 6
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. LaVine ........22 4-10 2-2 1-4 4 1 10 Schroder .....20 1-3 1-1 0-1 3 3 3
who can pass like a point 3. Lakers finish with Muhammad .10 0-4 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 Scott ..........17 6-10 0-1 0-2 1 2 15
1. Golden State 26 1 .963 9-1 P1 By Mike Bresnahan guard and rebound like a NBA’s third-worst record Martin.........17 5-9 3-3 0-0 3 2 16 Patterson.....12 0-0 0-0 0-4 3 0 0
2. San Antonio 23 5 .821 31⁄2 9-1 S1 Bjelica ..........3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 Totals 39-78 14-20 8-41 25 21 103
center. He averages 18.7 (15.6% chance at top pick).
3. Oklahoma City 18 9 .667 8 7-3 N1 Miller............9 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 2 Shooting: Field goals, 50.0%; free throws,
DENVER — This might points, 13.9 rebounds and 5.8 This is the risk zone for Rudez ...........1 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 70.0%
4. CLIPPERS 16 12 .571 101⁄2 6-4 P2 be the strangest pause in the assists. He also leads the the Lakers. It would happen Totals 38-80 21-24 7-46 29 21 100 Three-point goals: 11-22 (Korver 6-8, Scott 3-5,
5. Dallas 15 12 .556 11 5-5 S2 Shooting: Field goals, 47.5%; free throws, Bazemore 1-1, Sefolosha 1-2, Schroder 0-1, Mill-
Lakers’ schedule, three full team with 22 steals and 14 only with something stun- 87.5% sap 0-2, Horford 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team
6. Memphis 15 14 .517 12 4-6 S3 days on the road between blocked shots. ning — a winning streak. Three-point goals: 3-12 (Martin 3-4, Rubio 0-1, Turnovers: 20 (24 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Millsap
7. Houston 14 14 .500 121⁄2 7-3 S4 Rudez 0-1, LaVine 0-2, Muhammad 0-2, Wiggins 2, Horford, Patterson, Schroder, Sefolosha, Split-
games. In order, here are the If they pass New Orleans 0-2). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 14 (10 ter). Turnovers: 19 (Teague 6, Schroder 4, Baze-
8. Utah 11 14 .440 14 3-7 N2 They’ll practice twice in three likeliest outcomes for or Brooklyn in the stand- PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Towns 2, Dieng, Payne, more 2, Horford 2, Millsap 2, Korver, Patterson,
Wiggins). Turnovers: 13 (Wiggins 3, Martin 2, Rubio Splitter). Steals: 6 (Millsap 2, Bazemore, Horford,
Denver and finally play the the Lakers the rest of this ings, there’s a two-headed 2, Towns 2, Dieng, LaVine, Payne, Prince). Steals: Korver, Teague). Technical Fouls: None.
9. Phoenix 12 17 .414 1 4-6 P3 Nuggets on Tuesday before season, with an eye toward hit in the percentages. Their 12 (Rubio 4, Garnett 2, Martin 2, Dieng, Miller, ORLANDO
heading home. the lottery. chances drop at getting the Towns, Wiggins). Technical Fouls: None. Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
10. Denver 11 16 .407 1 5-5 N3
BROOKLYN Harris .........30 2-9 0-0 0-6 3 5 4
11. Minnesota 11 16 .407 1 3-7 N4 With so much time be- 1. Lakers finish with top pick and increase to a Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Frye............26 3-4 5-5 0-2 2 3 13
12. Sacramento 11 16 .407 1 5-5 P4 tween box scores and so few NBA’s second-worst record somewhat unsettling 53.11% Johnson ......30 2-10 2-2 2-6 6 3 6 Vucevic .......33 10-19 0-0 4-11 4 2 20
Young .........33 4-11 4-4 1-8 0 1 12 Payton ........30 6-14 2-6 0-2 6 2 14
13. Portland 11 18 .379 2 4-6 N5 accomplishments this sea- (19.9% chance at top pick). that they fall out of the top Lopez .........39 8-11 4-5 2-12 5 3 20 Fournier ......35 5-8 6-6 1-3 4 1 17
14. New Orleans 8 19 .296 4 4-6 S5 son, it seemed reasonable to It’s where the Lakers (4- three on lottery night. Jack ...........29 2-9 0-0 0-3 6 5 4 Gordon .......16 1-5 0-0 2-4 1 0 2
update the odds for their 23) sit and it’ll probably stay That would make this Bogdanovic..37 5-12 0-1 0-3 2 3 13 Nicholson ....17 2-4 7-7 1-6 0 3 12
15. LAKERS 4 23 .148 8 2-8 P5 Ellington......20 4-10 0-0 0-1 2 1 10 Oladipo.......27 2-11 0-0 0-0 6 3 4
most popular event in May that way. season utterly useless be- Bargnani .....19 3-6 5-6 1-3 1 0 11 Smith .........14 5-5 0-0 0-1 1 1 10
the last two years — the NBA They’re not bad enough yond some nice Kobe Bry- Sloan..........19 3-7 0-0 0-3 4 1 6 Hezonja ........6 2-2 0-0 0-1 0 2 4
EASTERN CONFERENCE Reed ............4 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 2 Totals 38-81 20-24 8-36 27 22 100
draft lottery. to finish below Philadelphia ant farewell moments and, Brown...........6 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 2 1 Shooting: Field goals, 46.9%; free throws,
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk.
The Lakers’ 2016 first- (1-28) and not good enough sure, maybe some develop- Totals 32-78 16-20 6-39 26 20 85 83.3%
1. Cleveland 18 7 .720 7-3 C1 Three-point goals: 4-12 (Frye 2-3, Nicholson
round draft pick is top-three to pass New Orleans (8-19) or ment among the young play- Shooting: Field goals, 41.0%; free throws,
1-2, Fournier 1-3, Oladipo 0-1, Payton 0-1, Harris
2. Miami 16 10 .615 21⁄2 6-4 S1 80.0%
protected, so they keep it Brooklyn (7-20) in the stand- ers. Three-point goals: 5-21 (Bogdanovic 3-7, 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 13 (13
3. Indiana 16 10 .615 21⁄2 5-5 C2 only if they finish among the ings. But it’s almost January Ellington 2-6, Johnson 0-1, Lopez 0-1, Sloan 0-1, PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Frye 2, Harris, Nicholson,
Jack 0-5). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 16 Payton). Turnovers: 13 (Frye 4, Nicholson 3, Payton
4. Chicago 15 10 .600 3 5-5 C3 top three after the lottery. If Danger alert: If they fin- and the Lakers have not won 2, Gordon, Oladipo, Smith, Vucevic). Steals: 16
(19 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Lopez 2). Turnovers: 14
5. Toronto 17 12 .586 3 5-5 A1 they don’t, they forfeit the ish second-worst, there’s a consecutive games. Never (Lopez 4, Bogdanovic 3, Jack 3, Johnson 2, Barg- (Payton 5, Frye 3, Fournier 2, Oladipo 2, Harris,
nani, Ellington). Steals: 7 (Bogdanovic 2, Bargna- Hezonja, Nicholson, Vucevic). Technical Fouls:
6. Atlanta 17 12 .586 3 6-4 S2 selection because of the 44.31% chance of falling out has picking up a few games ni, Jack, Lopez, Sloan, Young). Technical Fouls: De- Coach Skiles, 3:31 third
7. Charlotte 15 11 .577 31⁄2 6-4 S3 Steve Nash trade. (Phoenix of the top three when the in the standings seemed like fensive three second, 10:29 second. Atlanta 25 27 25 26— 103
Minnesota 26 26 23 25— 100 Orlando 29 13 36 22— 100
8. Detroit 16 12 .571 31⁄2 7-3 C4 originally acquired the pick pingpong balls are drawn. such a longshot.
Brooklyn 16 27 22 20— 85 A—16,982. T—2:12. O—Bill Spooner, Eric Lewis,
in 2012 but traded it to Phila- 2. Lakers finish with JT Orr.
9. Orlando 15 12 .556 1
⁄2 6-4 S4 delphia earlier this year.) NBA’s worst record (25% Bryant is improving A—14,552. T—2:04. O—Brian Forte, Mark
Ayotte, Leon Wood.
10. Boston 14 13 .519 11⁄2 5-5 A2 If this seems familiar, it is. chance at top pick). Bryant did not practice Kings 104, Raptors 94
11. New York 14 14 .500 2 6-4 A3 The same pick last season It’s unlikely to happen Sunday but was called prob- Heat 116, Trail Blazers 109 SACRAMENTO
PORTLAND Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
12. Washington 11 14 .440 31⁄2 4-6 S5 was top-five protected and simply because Philadel- able by the team for Tues- Casspi ........34 6-8 0-1 0-11 3 2 15
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
13. Milwaukee 11 18 .379 51⁄2 4-6 C5 the Lakers kept it after mov- phia has been so poor. Then day’s game against the Nug- Aminu.........32 6-9 0-0 1-4 2 3 16 Gay ............40 7-17 4-4 1-9 1 2 19
14. Brooklyn 7 20 .259 81⁄2 3-7 A4 ing up to the No. 2 spot on again, the 76ers’ only victory gets. Vonleh ........11 1-4 0-0 1-3 0 3 2 Cousins.......31 5-13 4-8 1-9 5 3 15
Plumlee ......30 3-5 5-7 4-7 2 4 11 Rondo.........38 8-13 2-2 0-2 13 1 19
15. Philadelphia 1 28 .034 151⁄2 0-10 A5
lottery night. was against the Lakers. And He sat out the Lakers’ 40- Lillard .........37 10-18 9-11 1-2 9 3 32 McLemore ...19 5-7 0-1 1-3 0 3 12
This can easily turn into the teams play again Jan. 1. point loss to Oklahoma City McCollum....33 8-19 0-0 0-3 6 1 20 Belinelli.......25 2-5 2-2 0-0 2 0 6
Leonard ......25 3-5 0-0 1-9 1 3 8 Koufos ........23 3-6 1-4 2-7 0 3 7
another awkward season Big night for lottery jockey- on Saturday because of a Collison.......26 4-7 2-2 0-1 2 5 11
Crabbe........30 3-9 2-2 0-4 1 2 8
TODAY’S GAMES where Lakers fans cheer for ing! sore shoulder. Bryant had Davis ..........16 2-4 2-2 1-4 1 5 6 Totals 40-76 15-24 5-42 26 19 104
Favorite Line Underdog Time their team to lose, if it hasn’t If the Lakers finish at the been on a little roll his last Henderson.....8 2-4 0-0 0-2 0 0 4 Shooting: Field goals, 52.6%; free throws,
Harkless......13 1-3 0-0 1-4 1 0 2 62.5%
Oklahoma City 11⁄2 at CLIPPERS 7:30 p.m. already happened. bottom, there’s an addi- three games, averaging 23 Three-point goals: 9-21 (Casspi 3-4, McLemore
Frazier ..........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
at Washington 21⁄2 Sacramento 4 p.m. What’s at stake? tional bonus waiting in May points and shooting 53%. Totals 39-80 18-22 10-42 23 24 109 2-4, Cousins 1-1, Collison 1-2, Rondo 1-4, Gay 1-5,
at Boston 81⁄2 Minnesota 4:30 p.m. Belinelli 0-1). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers:
The prize is Louisiana — a slightly more palatable Shooting: Field goals, 48.8%; free throws, 81.8%
16 (20 PTS). Blocked Shots: 8 (Cousins 4, Gay,
at New York 11⁄2 Orlando 4:30 p.m. Three-point goals: 13-34 (Aminu 4-7, McCollum 4-9,
State freshman Ben Sim- 35.76% chance of falling out mike.bresnahan@latimes.com Lillard 3-9, Leonard 2-3, Harkless 0-1, Henderson 0-1, Koufos, McLemore, Rondo). Turnovers: 15 (Rondo
at Chicago 101⁄2 Brooklyn 5 p.m. 5, Casspi 3, Cousins 2, Gay 2, Belinelli, Collison,
mons, a 6-foot-10 forward of the top three picks. Twitter: @Mike_Bresnahan Plumlee 0-1, Crabbe 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turn-
McLemore). Steals: 8 (Gay 3, Cousins 2, Casspi,
at Atlanta 6 Portland 5 p.m. overs: 19 (29 PTS). Blocked Shots: 0. Turnovers: 19 (Lillard
6, Plumlee 5, Henderson 3, Aminu 2, McCollum 2, Vonleh). Collison, Rondo). Technical Fouls: Cousins, 5:34
at Houston 21⁄2 Charlotte 5 p.m. second
Steals: 7 (Aminu 3, Crabbe 2, Lillard, McCollum). Tech-

Newcomers have struggled

at San Antonio 81⁄2 Indiana 5:30 p.m.
at Utah 41⁄2 Phoenix 6 p.m.
RESULTS [Clippers, from D1]
feat against the San Antonio
Spurs the previous night.
“We’ve got to be better than
this. We are better than this
and we’re not showing it, so
we’ve got to figure some-
Irving makes season
thing out.”
The first thing the Clip-
debut in Cavaliers’ win pers need to do is address
their point-guard rotation
after backup Austin Rivers
CLEVELAND 108 suffered a severely sprained
PHILADELPHIA 86 right ankle against the
Rockets. Rivers could be out
for an extended period,
Kyrie Irving played 17 minutes meaning the Clippers prob-
in his season debut and scored 12 ably will rely on a committee
points, and LeBron James had 23 of Pablo Prigioni, Jamal
as the Cleveland Cavaliers rolled to Crawford and Lance Ste-
a 108-86 victory Sunday over the phenson for their ball-han-
visiting Philadelphia 76ers, who dling needs beyond starter
lost their 10th straight and fell to Chris Paul when they face
1-28. the Oklahoma City Thunder
Irving was on the floor for the on Monday night at Staples
first time since breaking his left Center.
kneecap in Game 1 of the NBA Fi- The Clippers still feature
nals against Golden State. The three of the NBA’s top play-
Cavaliers did OK without him, go- ers and a fortified bench.
ing 17-7 to start the season, but But both the starters and re-
they’re a more complete team with serves have underper-
the All-Star point guard healthy. formed, for a variety of rea-
Matthew Dellavedova made sons.
four three-pointers and added 20 Paul has appeared less
points for the Cavs, who improved aggressive while dealing
to 12-1 at home and are eyeing a with injuries to his groin,
Christmas Day game against the ribs, eye and finger. Center
Warriors. James didn’t play in the DeAndre Jordan’s energy
fourth quarter, logging a season- level has inexplicably vacil-
low 26 minutes. lated and shooting guard J.J.
The 76ers are 0-17 in road games Redick has missed a handful
and are on their second double- of games with ankle and
digit losing streak this season. back injuries, depriving him
of consistent rhythm.
at Miami 116, Portland 109: Chris The Clippers (16-12)
Bosh scored 29 points, Hassan somehow have been more in-
Whiteside had 22 points and 11 re- consistent despite returning
bounds, and the Heat finished their core of Paul, Griffin,
strong after trailing by 10 at half- Jordan, Redick and sixth
time. Damian Lillard had 32 points man Crawford for a third
and nine assists for the Trail Blaz- consecutive season. This is
ers. the fourth year Paul, Griffin,
Jordan and Crawford have
Minnesota 100, at Brooklyn 85: played together and the fifth
Karl-Anthony Towns had 24 points year of the Paul-Griffin-Jor-
and 10 rebounds in the building dan era.
where he was taken with the No. 1 A year ago at this time,
pick in the June draft, and the the Clippers were 19-9 de-
Timberwolves continued their spite a notoriously thin
strong play on the road. They are bench.
7-6 in away games but only 4-10 at “Being how our team was
home. last year, I think we’re be-
hind as far as figuring out
Atlanta 103, at Orlando 100: Kyle that trust and stuff like
Korver scored 13 of his 19 points in that,” Paul said. “So we’ve
the fourth quarter and the Hawks just got to keep building.”
got past the Magic for their third Among the newcomers,
straight win. Stephenson, Josh Smith
and Paul Pierce have been
Sacramento 104, at Toronto 94: disappointments. Pierce
Rajon Rondo had 19 points and 13 has acknowledged frustra-
assists, Rudy Gay scored 19 points tion with his career-low
against his former team and the playing time and produc-
Kings ended a four-game road los- tion. Stephenson has been in
ing streak. and out of the lineup, twice
receiving the dreaded Did
New Orleans 130, at Denver 125: Not Play—Coach’s Decision.
Anthony Davis left after the first Smith has developed a mad-
quarter because of an illness but dening over-reliance on
returned in the fourth and finished three-point attempts de-
with 27 points, pushing the Peli- spite shooting only 31.5%
cans to only their third road win of from long range.
the season. Even Griffin’s consistent
production and some bet-
Milwaukee 101, at Phoenix 95: ter-than-expected play from
Khris Middleton scored 11 of his 26 small forwards Luc Mbah a
points in the fourth quarter and Moute and Wesley Johnson
Greg Monroe hit a spinning, go- have not been able to com-
ahead layup with 20.6 seconds left pensate for the short-
to lift the Bucks past the Suns. comings of almost everyone
— associated press else.
THE CLIPPERS’ point-guard depth took a hit when
Austin Rivers sprained an ankle Saturday in Houston.
Clippers
tonight
VS. OKLAHOMA CITY
When: 7:30.
Where: Staples Center.
On the air: TV: Prime
Ticket; Radio: 980, 1330.
Records: Thunder 18-9,
Clippers 16-12.
Record vs. Thunder
(2014-15): 2-1.
Update: Oklahoma City has
solidified its hold on third
place in the Western
Conference by winning
seven of its last eight
games, including a
40-point shellacking of the
Lakers on Saturday. Kevin
Durant and Russell
Westbrook continue to be
the NBA’s top one-two
punch, combining to
average 52.1 points, 14.6
rebounds and 13.6 assists.
Meanwhile, the Clippers
are 0-3 against the top
three teams in the West
and are desperately in
need of a marquee victory
more than a quarter of the
way through the season.
Beating the Thunder
certainly would qualify.
“That’s a great team,”
Clippers forward Blake
Griffin said. “They’re
ahead of us in the
standings, they’re playing
well, they’re healthy. That’s
one of those games that we
have to go get.”
— Ben Bolch
“It’s not like we have a ton
of rookies in here to where
we’re trying to figure out
how to play and find our
way,” Jordan said. “Every-
body knows their job; we’ve
just got to accept our roles
and play.”
The Clippers have been
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routinely outrebounded and
rarely have been able to get
good games from their start-
ers and reserves on the same
night. The starters were so
listless against the Rockets
that Coach Doc Rivers ac-
knowledged he considered
removing them for the rest of
the game in the first half.
Paul was plenty assertive
after the game in his assess-
ment of the Clippers.
“We’re not a team that
anybody needs to be worried
about, I’ll tell you that,” he
said.
Although the Clippers
stand fourth in the strangely
mediocre Western Confer-
ence despite their unimpres-
sive record, they have only
five victories against teams
that currently are over .500,
not nearly enough to make
anyone consider them a
team to beat.
“We haven’t won any big
games and we haven’t won
any games that you go into
them thinking, OK, this is
one we have to get,” Griffin
said. “I feel like we’ve lost all
those games. We’ve won
some games I think we
should have won, but we
have to be better than that if
we expect to be a playoff
team and a team that con-
tends.”
For now, the Clippers are
challenging for only one des-
ignation: flop of the year.
At least they seem to real-
ize it.
“You’ve got to be honest
with yourself as a team,”
Griffin said. “I think this is
the point of the season
where either something’s
got to change or we’re not go-
ing to put ourselves in a good
position come playoff time.”
ben.bolch@latimes.com
Twitter: @latbbolch
nical Fouls: None. TORONTO
MIAMI Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Johnson ......32 7-11 0-0 1-6 1 1 14
Deng ..........32 5-7 2-2 0-2 1 3 17 Scola..........25 1-6 0-0 0-6 0 3 2
Bosh ..........30 11-19 4-5 0-6 4 2 29 Biyombo......25 0-7 2-2 5-13 0 2 2
Whiteside ....37 10-13 2-4 3-11 1 3 22 Lowry..........24 4-13 4-5 3-5 4 2 13
Dragic.........27 4-10 0-0 1-2 8 2 8 DeRozan .....35 10-24 8-8 2-7 1 4 28
Wade..........27 6-11 6-9 1-2 7 3 18 Ross...........32 5-14 0-0 1-3 2 2 13
Joseph ........29 2-7 0-0 0-1 3 0 4
Winslow ......24 1-3 1-1 0-3 1 0 3
Green .........32 6-9 1-3 0-1 1 1 17 Patterson.....33 6-12 2-2 1-8 1 4 18
Udrih ..........20 0-3 2-2 0-1 2 0 2 Totals 35-94 16-17 13-49 12 18 94
Haslem .........7 0-0 0-0 0-2 1 0 0 Shooting: Field goals, 37.2%; free throws,
Totals 43-75 18-26 5-30 26 14 116 94.1%
Three-point goals: 8-29 (Patterson 4-8, Ross 3-
Shooting: Field goals, 57.3%; free throws, 69.2% 10, Lowry 1-6, DeRozan 0-1, Joseph 0-1, Scola 0-1,
Three-point goals: 12-23 (Deng 5-6, Green 4-6, Bosh
3-7, Dragic 0-1, Udrih 0-1, Winslow 0-2). Team Rebounds:
Johnson 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers:
12 (12 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Biyombo, Johnson,
4. Team Turnovers: 12 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (White-
Joseph). Turnovers: 12 (DeRozan 3, Ross 3, John-
side 5, Dragic, Winslow). Turnovers: 11 (Bosh 5, Wade 2,
Whiteside 2, Deng, Udrih). Steals: 11 (Winslow 3, Bosh 2,
son 2, Scola 2, Lowry, Patterson). Steals: 8 (Pat-
terson 3, DeRozan 2, Johnson 2, Lowry). Technical
Dragic 2, Wade 2, Whiteside 2). Technical Fouls: Defensive
three second, 6:05 first Ejections: Dragic, 1:37 third.
Portland 32 30 24 23— 109
Fouls: Lowry, 2, 7:22 third. Ejections: Lowry, 7:22
third.
Miami 23 29 30 34— 116
Sacramento 37 18 23 26— 104
Toronto 18 30 22 24— 94
A—19,600. T—2:15. O—Ed Malloy, Eric Dalen, James
Williams.
A—19,800. T—2:12. O—Derrick Stafford, Marat
Kogut, Scott Wall.
Cavaliers 108, 76ers 86 Pelicans 130, Nuggets 125
PHILADELPHIA NEW ORLEANS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Covington ....20 2-9 0-0 1-3 0 3 5 Gee............16 2-4 0-0 0-2 1 3 4
Noel ...........31 5-10 5-11 4-12 1 3 15 Asik............17 2-2 1-2 2-4 1 3 5
Okafor ........25 3-11 3-4 4-8 0 2 9
Marshall......17 3-7 2-2 0-2 4 1 8
Davis ..........19 9-13 9-9 0-6 1 1 27
Evans .........32 7-13 6-8 1-8 10 3 21
Canaan.......21 2-9 0-0 0-2 0 3 6 Gordon .......31 6-11 4-5 1-3 3 1 20
HThompson .21 2-6 0-0 1-2 0 2 6 Cunningham 19 1-2 0-0 0-3 0 3 3
Wroten........14 2-8 2-2 0-3 3 1 6 Anderson.....31 6-11 2-3 2-5 1 1 16
Grant..........22 2-9 2-2 2-2 1 4 6 Holiday .......24 7-13 5-8 0-3 5 3 21
Sampson ....23 4-7 2-4 1-7 2 1 10 Cole ...........20 3-6 4-4 0-0 1 2 10
Holmes .......13 1-4 3-3 1-2 1 1 5 Perkins........16 0-0 0-0 1-2 1 2 0
McConnell ...15 4-6 2-2 1-5 3 1 10 Smith ...........2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Stauskas .....12 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 Babbitt .........6 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 3
Totals 30-86 21-30 16-49 15 22 86 Totals 44-78 31-39 7-36 24 22 130
Shooting: Field goals, 34.9%; free throws, 70.0% Shooting: Field goals, 56.4%; free throws,
Three-point goals: 5-25 (H.Thompson 2-4, Canaan 2-6, 79.5%
Covington 1-6, Grant 0-1, Holmes 0-2, Marshall 0-2, Wro- Three-point goals: 11-24 (Gordon 4-7, Ander-
ten 0-4). Team Rebounds: 16. Team Turnovers: 21 (28 son 2-3, Holiday 2-5, Cunningham 1-2, Evans 1-2,
PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Grant, Noel). Turnovers: 19 (Mar- Babbitt 1-3, Gee 0-2). Team Rebounds: 12. Team
shall 3, McConnell 3, Wroten 3, Holmes 2, H.Thompson 2, Turnovers: 10 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 11 (Davis 4,
Canaan, Covington, Noel, Okafor, Sampson, Stauskas). Cunningham 2, Anderson, Evans, Gordon, Holiday,
Steals: 6 (Canaan, Covington, Holmes, McConnell, Noel, Perkins). Turnovers: 10 (Anderson 2, Evans 2, Per-
Stauskas). Technical Fouls: None. kins 2, Asik, Davis, Gordon, Holiday). Steals: 4
CLEVELAND (Holiday 2, Evans, Gee). Technical Fouls: None.
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T DENVER
James.........25 10-17 3-4 0-5 4 0 23 Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Love ...........21 2-4 5-6 0-4 1 4 10 Gallinari ......22 3-10 11-12 0-2 3 0 18
Mozgov .......23 3-6 2-2 1-8 1 2 8 Faried .........24 8-14 5-7 9-13 0 5 21
Irving..........17 5-12 0-0 0-1 4 1 12 Lauvergne....12 2-4 0-0 0-2 1 2 5
Smith .........21 3-5 1-1 0-2 4 1 8 Nelson ........36 6-12 0-0 0-2 6 4 15
Dellavedova .22 7-10 2-2 0-0 2 1 20
Shumpert ....15 1-5 1-2 0-2 4 0 3
Harris .........26 1-8 0-0 1-2 1 2 2
Arthur ...........5 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
TThompson..21 2-4 2-2 2-6 1 2 6
Jones..........15 1-5 0-0 0-5 1 1 2
Jokic...........22 6-8 1-2 1-3 2 2 13
Barton ........36 12-25 1-1 2-10 6 2 32
Jefferson .....22 3-6 0-0 0-1 1 3 9 Foye ...........21 6-10 0-0 0-2 3 3 17
Varejao .......12 0-4 0-0 1-3 1 3 0 Papniklaou ..20 0-3 0-0 0-2 2 2 0
Cunningham 12 1-4 1-2 0-1 1 0 3 Miller..........11 0-1 0-0 0-1 2 3 0
Kaun ............5 2-3 0-0 2-2 0 1 4 Totals 45-96 18-22 13-39 26 25 125
Totals 40-85 17-21 6-40 25 19 108 Shooting: Field goals, 46.9%; free throws,
Shooting: Field goals, 47.1%; free throws, 81.0% 81.8%
Three-point goals: 11-25 (Dellavedova 4-6, Jefferson Three-point goals: 17-35 (Barton 7-11, Foye
3-5, Irving 2-2, Smith 1-1, Love 1-2, Mozgov 0-1, Shumpert 5-7, Nelson 3-6, Gallinari 1-2, Lauvergne 1-2, Fa-
0-1, Cunningham 0-2, Jones 0-2, James 0-3). Team Re- ried 0-1, Jokic 0-1, Miller 0-1, Papanikolaou 0-1,
bounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 12 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 Harris 0-3). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 6
(Dellavedova 2, James, Jones, Mozgov, T.Thompson). Turn- (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Harris, Jokic, Lau-
overs: 10 (Dellavedova 4, James 2, Love 2, Irving, Kaun). vergne, Miller). Turnovers: 5 (Nelson 2, Barton, Fa-
Steals: 11 (James 3, Dellavedova 2, Irving 2, Love, Shum- ried, Foye). Steals: 5 (Harris 3, Foye, Miller). Tech-
pert, Smith, Varejao). Technical Fouls: Coach Blatt, 0:40.8 nical Fouls: Defensive three second, 10:02 first.
third.
New Orleans 36 31 32 31— 130
Philadelphia 25 13 22 26— 86 Denver 31 43 22 29— 125
Cleveland 21 34 33 20— 108
A—13,857. T—2:20. O—Marc Davis, Kane Fitz-
A—20,562. T—2:15. O—Sean Wright, Bennie Adams,
gerald, Karl Lane.
Justin Van Duyne.
CLIPPERS, LAKERS STATISTICS
Through Sunday’s games
Bucks 101, Suns 95
MILWAUKEE CLIPPERS PPG RPG APG
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Griffin 23.9 8.6 4.9
Middleton....39 10-17 4-4 0-3 7 4 26
Parker .........27 2-7 3-4 2-6 1 2 7 Paul 16.8 3.2 9.0
Monroe .......25 6-10 1-2 0-2 4 4 13
Cartr-Willms.35 9-16 2-4 1-9 6 3 20
Redick 15.2 1.4 1.6
Mayo ..........41 5-11 1-4 0-5 5 2 12 Crawford 11.5 1.8 2.4
Copeland ......8 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Jordan 11.1 13.3 0.9
Vaughn .......17 2-6 0-0 0-0 0 1 6
Henson .......22 3-4 2-4 2-6 2 2 8 Rivers 7.0 2.0 1.3
Ennis............5 1-1 1-2 0-1 0 0 3
Smith 5.9 4.0 1.4
O’Bryant......17 3-5 0-0 1-4 0 4 6
Totals 41-79 14-24 6-37 25 23 101 Johnson 5.6 2.0 0.3
Shooting: Field goals, 51.9%; free throws, 58.3%
Stephenson 4.4 2.7 1.7
Three-point goals: 5-16 (Vaughn 2-2, Middleton 2-6,
Mayo 1-5, Carter-Williams 0-1, Copeland 0-2). Team Re- Pierce 4.1 2.3 0.8
bounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 14 (15 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6
(Henson 4, Carter-Williams, Mayo). Turnovers: 13 (Carter- Prigioni 2.0 1.3 1.6
Williams 3, Middleton 3, Mayo 2, O’Bryant 2, Ennis, Mon- Mbah a 1.9 1.7 0.2
roe, Vaughn). Steals: 8 (Mayo 2, Middleton 2, Carter-Wil-
liams, Henson, O’Bryant, Parker). Technical Fouls: Mayo, Moute
4:55 first Flagrant Fouls: Mayo, 7:28 fourth. Aldrich 1.2 1.8 0.2
PHOENIX
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Wilcox 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tucker .........24 4-4 2-3 2-7 2 0 12
Leuer..........21 4-6 0-2 2-6 0 3 9 LAKERS PPG RPG APG
Chandler .....27 2-4 0-0 1-5 0 3 4
Bryant 16.7 4.3 3.4
Bledsoe ......33 6-11 5-5 0-1 1 2 18
Knight.........28 3-10 2-2 0-2 4 4 9 Clarkson 14.9 3.6 2.2
Morris.........15 2-5 3-3 0-3 4 1 8
Williams 14.0 2.5 2.3
Booker........18 1-5 5-5 0-2 2 1 7
Len ............19 1-5 0-0 1-7 1 1 2 Russell 11.9 4.4 3.6
Warren........24 7-13 4-4 0-1 0 2 18
Price...........15 2-3 0-0 0-1 3 4 5 Randle 11.6 9.4 1.7
Teletovic ......10 1-8 0-0 0-4 1 1 3 Young 9.2 1.5 0.5
Totals 33-74 21-24 6-39 18 22 95
Shooting: Field goals, 44.6%; free throws, 87.5%
Hibbert 7.4 6.5 1.7
Three-point goals: 8-18 (Tucker 2-2, Knight 1-1, Leuer Bass 5.3 4.0 0.8
1-1, Morris 1-1, Price 1-1, Bledsoe 1-2, Teletovic 1-6, Warren
0-1, Booker 0-3). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 21 World Peace 4.9 2.6 0.9
(21 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Chandler, Len). Turnovers: 20 Nance Jr. 4.3 3.7 0.6
(Morris 5, Bledsoe 4, Chandler 3, Knight 2, Tucker 2,
Booker, Len, Leuer, Teletovic). Steals: 8 (Bledsoe 3, Kelly 3.8 3.6 0.9
Booker 3, Knight, Morris). Technical Fouls: Morris, 4:55
Black 3.8 4.4 0.1
first.
Milwaukee 27 18 25 31— 101 Sacre 3.4 3.0 1.0
Phoenix 26 27 18 24— 95 Huertas 3.3 1.3 2.9
A—16,859. T—2:22. O—Tom Washington, Curtis Blair,
Leroy Richardson.
Brown 1.5 0.2 0.2
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NFL WEEK 15

STANDINGS

West
Denver
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.
10 4 0 .714 308 259 6-4-0 4-0-0 3-2-0
Bengals clinch playoff spot
Kansas City 9 5 0 .643 365 257 8-2-0 1-3-0 4-1-0 [Farmer, from D1]
Oakland 6 8 0 .429 319 356 6-4-0 0-4-0 2-2-0 third quarter. The Giants roared back with
San Diego 4 10 0 .286 280 348 3-7-0 1-3-0 0-4-0 four touchdowns to tie it, 35-35.
North W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div. That’s when Newton mounted an eight-
x-Cincinnati 11 3 0 .786 378 243 8-2-0 3-1-0 4-1-0 play, 49-yard drive in the final 1 minute 46
Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 378 287 6-4-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 seconds, setting up the winning 43-yard
field goal by Graham Gano as time expired.
Baltimore 4 10 0 .286 292 360 3-7-0 1-3-0 2-2-0
That the game went from a laugher to a
Cleveland 3 11 0 .214 253 387 2-8-0 1-3-0 1-4-0
nail-biter was acutely disappointing to
South W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div. Newton.
Houston 7 7 0 .500 275 301 5-5-0 2-2-0 3-1-0 “It shouldn’t have been a thriller, I can
Indianapolis 6 8 0 .429 285 372 4-6-0 2-2-0 3-2-0 tell you that,” he said. “We just had to find
Jacksonville 5 9 0 .357 343 380 5-6-0 0-3-0 2-3-0 ways. It’s great for us to be in a game like
Tennessee 3 11 0 .214 269 359 1-9-0 2-2-0 1-3-0 this, it’s kind of like our first dose of mini-
East W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div. games of what playoff football is going to be
y-New England 12 2 0 .857 435 269 9-1-0 3-1-0 4-0-0 about. We have to create that killer instinct.
New York Jets 9 5 0 .643 344 272 6-4-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 The Giants did an unbelievable job at the
end, but for us we have to do better, and we
Buffalo 6 8 0 .429 341 336 6-5-0 0-3-0 3-2-0
will do better.”
Miami 5 9 0 .357 278 361 3-7-0 2-2-0 0-5-0
As for karma, that came in the heralded
NATIONAL CONFERENCE matchup between two of the most talented
West W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div. players on the field. Giants receiver Odell
y-Arizona 12 2 0 .857 445 269 9-1-0 3-1-0 4-1-0 Beckham Jr. and Carolina cornerback Josh
x-Seattle 9 5 0 .643 370 248 6-4-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 Norman tangled all game, and TV cameras
caught Beckham going out of his way to
St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 241 294 5-5-0 1-3-0 3-1-0
land cheap shots with his fists and by spear-
San Francisco 4 10 0 .286 202 339 3-7-0 1-3-0 0-5-0
ing his helmet into Norman’s.
North W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div. “I really like the battle with him and Josh,
x-Green Bay 10 4 0 .714 347 265 7-3-0 3-1-0 3-2-0 it was like Floyd and Pacquiao,” Giants
Minnesota 9 5 0 .643 296 272 6-4-0 3-1-0 4-1-0 cornerback Prince Amukamara said. “It
Chicago 5 9 0 .357 289 352 2-8-0 3-1-0 1-4-0 was a great matchup.”
Detroit 4 9 0 .308 267 336 3-6-0 1-3-0 2-3-0 There might have been more punches
South W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div. thrown in Beckham-Norman than in that
y-Carolina 14 0 0 1.000 449 278 10-0-0 4-0-0 4-0-0 overblown fight between Floyd Mayweather
Atlanta 7 7 0 .500 302 312 4-6-0 3-1-0 0-4-0 Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
This time, Beckham was flagged for
Tampa Bay 6 8 0 .429 311 353 5-5-0 1-3-0 3-2-0
personal fouls three times.
New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 323 397 4-6-0 1-2-0 2-3-0
“He lost his composure,” Giants Coach
East W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div. Tom Coughlin said of the receiver.
Washington 7 7 0 .500 316 332 6-4-0 1-3-0 2-2-0 Making matters worse for the Panthers,
Philadelphia 6 8 0 .429 318 362 3-7-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 it was Beckham who made a 14-yard touch-
New York Giants 6 8 0 .429 373 358 4-6-0 2-2-0 2-3-0 down catch to forge a 35-35 deadlock. It
Dallas 4 10 0 .286 246 324 3-8-0 1-2-0 3-2-0 looked as if he was going to be the hero, dirty
x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division. play notwithstanding.
That’s when Newton returned to slam
THURSDAY’S RESULT at New England 33, Tennessee 16 the door, completing three passes for a total
at St. Louis 31, Tampa Bay 23 Carolina 38, at N.Y. Giants 35 of 37 yards, and running twice for 12.
SATURDAY’S RESULT at Washington 35, Buffalo 25 “That’s what he’s done all year,” Coach
N.Y. Jets 19, at Dallas 16 Green Bay 30, at Oakland 20 Ron Rivera said of Newton. “When we’ve
SUNDAY’S RESULTS at Seattle 30, Cleveland 13 been in tight ballgames and we’ve had to get
Kansas City 34, at Baltimore 14 at Pittsburgh 34, Denver 27 Michael Conroy Associated Press
something done, he’s been able to do it.
Houston 16, at Indianapolis 10 at San Diego 30, Miami 14
That doesn’t surprise me he made the plays JAELEN STRONG of the Houston Texans dives into the end zone for an eight-
Atlanta 23, at Jacksonville 17 Cincinnati 24, at San Francisco 14
that he did to put us in position to win the yard touchdown reception ahead of D’Qwell Jackson of the Indianapolis Colts.
at Minnesota 38, Chicago 17 Arizona 40, at Philadelphia 17
football game at the end.”
Newton became the first player in league Safety first
history with at least 300 yards passing, 100
yards rushing and five touchdown passes in BEST OF THE WEEK The Tennessee Titans played it safe with
Marcus Mariota after the rookie quarter-
WILD-CARD RACES a game.
PASSING Att Cmp Yds TD back injured his right knee midway through
The outcome was briefly in doubt, but in the second quarter at New England.
In addition to the division champions, the remaining top two the end, New York (or New Jersey, actually) BEN ROETHLISBERGER, Steelers 55 40 380 3
teams in each conference advance to the playoffs as wild-card Even though Mariota said he wanted to
proved to be Newton’s apple. JAMEIS WINSTON, Buccaneers 50 29 363 2 go back in the game right away, Coach Mike
entries (seeds five and six). First tiebreakers are head-to-head
SAM BRADFORD, Eagles 41 28 361 2 Mularkey held him out the rest of the way,
games, division tiebreakers if division teams, best won-lost-tied Playing catch
percentage in conference games, best won-lost-tied percentage CAM NEWTON, Panthers 45 25 340 5 replacing him with Zach Mettenberger.
Seattle’s Russell Wilson is the first “I don’t think it was serious,” Mularkey
in common games (minimum of four), strength of victory, strength quarterback in NFL history to pass for at KIRK COUSINS, Redskins 28 22 319 4
of schedule, best combined ranking among conference teams in said of Mariota’s injury. “I’d rather err on the
least three touchdowns with no intercep- RUSHING Att Yards Avg TD side of caution.”
points scored and points given up. tions in five consecutive games. DAVID JOHNSON, Cardinals 29 187 6.4 3 Mariota, who sat out two games this
Wilson threw for three in the Seahawks’ season because of an injury to his left knee,
AFC NFC 30-13 victory over Cleveland, which secured a
RASHAD JENNINGS, Giants 16 107 6.7 1
ALFRED BLUE, Texans 20 107 5.4 0 said he doesn’t expect to be sidelined for the
Kansas City 9-5 5 Seattle 9-5 playoff spot for Seattle. Titans’ final two games.
A lot of those touchdowns have gone to CAM NEWTON, Panthers 8 100 12.5 0
Pittsburgh 9-5 6 Minnesota 9-5 Doug Baldwin, who has caught 10 in the last DARREN MCFADDEN, Cowboys 16 100 6.3 0
four games. The only other receiver to Quick snaps
New York Jets 9-5 7 Atlanta 7-7 match that during a four-game stretch? RECEIVING No Yards Avg TD 8 Kansas City beat Baltimore to win for
Jerry Rice. ANTONIO BROWNS, Steelers 16 189 11.8 2 the eighth time in a row. The Chiefs are the
EMMANUEL SANDERS, Broncos 10 181 18.1 1 only team in league history to win eight
Texas turnaround games in a row immediately after a five-
JORDAN MATTHEWS, Eagles 8 159 19.9 1
Carolina started the day 13-0. In a sense, game losing streak.
MIKE EVANS, Buccaneers 9 157 17.4 0 8 Antonio Brown had two touchdown
SCHEDULE Houston was 0-13.
In 13 tries since they were formed in 2002, DESEAN JACKSON, Redskins 6 153 25.5 1 catches in Pittsburgh’s 34-27 victory over
San Francisco at Detroit ............10 the Texans had never won a game played in Denver. He leads the AFC with 116 catches
TONIGHT
Cleveland at Kansas City ...........10 Indianapolis. and is one of two players to catch at least 110
Detroit at New Orleans ...........5:30 Indianapolis at Miami ...............10
That came to an end as the Texans beat Roll Tide passes three seasons in a row. The other is
THURSDAY New England at N.Y. Jets............10 the Colts, 16-10, to move into the driver’s seat Wes Welker, who did that with New England
Cincinnati clinched a playoff berth for
Chicago at Tampa Bay...............10 in the AFC South. It was Brandon Weeden, from 2007 to 2009.
San Diego at Oakland .....5:15 p.m. Houston at Tennessee ...............10 the fifth consecutive year when A.J. McCar-
cut loose by Dallas this season, who bailed ron, replacing the injured Andy Dalton, led 8 The Patriots won their 12th game,
SATURDAY Jacksonville at New Orleans ..1 p.m. out the Texans. He replaced the injured T.J. something they have done six years in a row.
the Bengals to a 24-14 victory at San Fran-
Green Bay at Arizona ..............1:15 Yates and threw the go-ahead touchdown in The only other NFL team to accomplish
Wash. at Philadelphia......5:15 p.m. cisco.
St. Louis at Seattle.................1:15 the fourth quarter. that was the Peyton Manning-led Colts, who
McCarron, who won two national cham-
SUNDAY N.Y. Giants at Minnesota.........5:30 At 7-7, Houston is in sole possession of had a seven-year streak from 2003 to 2009.
pionships at Alabama, is the school’s first
Carolina at Atlanta.............10 a.m. first place in the division. The 6-8 Colts have player to win an NFL game as the starting
DEC. 28
Pittsburgh at Baltimore..............10 lost three games in a row and would need quarterback since Jeff Rutledge did that for sam.farmer@latimes.com
Dallas at Buffalo ......................10 Cincinnati at Denver .......5:30 p.m. help to reach the playoffs. the Giants in 1987. Twitter: @LATimesfarmer

WANT A
HAPPY WIFE? Cardinals soar to division title
Johnson runs for three
touchdowns and
Arizona clinches the
NFC West.
ARIZONA 40
PHILADELPHIA 17
associated press
PHILADELPHIA — The
Arizona Cardinals are NFC
West champions. Now, they
have more to accomplish.
David Johnson ran for 187
yards and three touchdowns,
Carson Palmer threw a
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Cardinals 40, Eagles 17
Arizona ..................................7 10 13 10—40
Philadelphia ...........................3 7 0 7—17
First Quarter
Ari—D.Johnson 1 run (Catanzaro kick), 10:44.
Phi—FG Sturgis 36, 6:00.
Second Quarter
Ari—FG Catanzaro 28, 14:08.
Phi—Ertz 22 pass from Bradford (Sturgis kick), 8:26.
Ari—D.Johnson 47 run (Catanzaro kick), 4:00.
Third Quarter
Ari—D.Johnson 1 run (kick failed), 9:48.
Ari—Jo.Brown 16 from Palmer (Catanzaro kick), :40.
Fourth Quarter
Ari—Bucannon 39 int. return (Catanzaro kick), 14:50.
Phi—Matthews 78 from Bradford (Sturgis kick),
14:32.
Ari—FG Catanzaro 38, 2:55.
Attendance—69,596.
TEAM STATISTICS Ari Phi
First downs ...................................28 19
Total Net Yards .............................493 424
Rushes-yards ..........................39-230 20-74
Passing.......................................263 350
Punt Returns ................................1-6 2-12
Kickoff Returns ...........................3-62 5-118
Interceptions Ret. ........................2-42 0-0
Comp-Att-Int..........................20-33-0
Sacked-Yards Lost .......................2-11
28-41-2
2-11
Punts .....................................4-39.0
Fumbles-Lost................................1-0
3-49.0
2-2
Penalties-Yards ...........................1-10 5-38
Michael Perez Associated Press
MICHAEL FLOYD of the Arizona Cardinals reacts
Time of Possession ....................37:28
Individual Leaders
22:32

$99 CONSULTATION! The Cardinals (12-2) will

earn a first-round bye with a
after making a reception in the second half. RUSHING: Arizona, D.Johnson 29-187, K.Williams 6-
34, Taylor 2-11, Stanton 2-(minus 2). Philadelphia, Ma-
thews 11-58, Sproles 6-9, Bradford 1-4, Murray 2-3.

This Month Only! victory over Green Bay next

week. They still have a
seed if they win out and Caro-
lina (14-0) loses its last two
no need to talk about the sec-
ond game,” Eagles Coach
PASSING: Arizona, Palmer 20-32-0-274, Stanton 0-
1-0-0. Philadelphia, Bradford 28-41-2-361.
($199 value!) chance to secure the No. 1 games. Chip Kelly said.
RECEIVING: Arizona, Floyd 5-70, D.Johnson 4-42,
Fells 3-54, Fitzgerald 3-43, Jo.Brown 3-38, Ja.Brown
1-15, K.Williams 1-12. Philadelphia, Matthews 8-159,
Guaranteed* positive results from our medication. Afterward, Coach Bruce Johnson, a rookie filling in Ertz 8-78, Huff 4-52, Sproles 3-16, Celek 2-31, Cooper
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NFL WEEK 15

KANSAS CITY 34 HOUSTON 16 ATLANTA 23

BALTIMORE 14
The Chiefs became the first NFL team to follow a five-
game losing streak with eight consecutive wins in the same
season, and the Ravens had a lot to do with that success.
Kansas City’s Tyvon Branch returned a fumble 73 yards
for a touchdown and Marcus Peters clinched the victory
with a 90-yard interception return for a score with 4:36 left.
Kansas City also scored touchdowns following a drive-ex-
tending Baltimore penalty and a failed fake punt.
“To have the three turnovers — and technically, almost a
fourth when they went for the fake — to be able to capitalize
on those, it changed that game,” Chiefs quarterback Alex
Smith said.
Passing ........................................164 273
Kansas City ............................14 10 0 10—34
Baltimore.................................7 7 0 0—14 Punt Returns ................................3-11 2-27
Kickoff Returns .............................1-19 6-153
First Quarter
Interceptions Ret...........................2-93 0-0
KC—West 38 run (Santos kick), 9:13. Comp-Att-Int ...........................21-25-0 26-45-2
Bal—Juszczyk 1 pass from Clausen (Tucker kick), 6:30. Sacked-Yards Lost...........................3-7 2-8
KC—Branch 73 fumble return (Santos kick), 2:49. Punts .......................................5-46.4 5-43.6
Second Quarter Fumbles-Lost .................................1-0 1-1
Penalties-Yards .............................6-55 7-63
KC—Maclin 13 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), Time of Possession......................32:19 27:41
14:56.
KC—FG Santos 53, :50. Individual Leaders
Bal—Aiken 48 pass from Clausen (Tucker kick), :00. RUSHING: Kansas City, West 16-76, A.Smith 4-17, Da-
vis 5-14, A.Wilson 1-8, Daniel 2-(minus 2). Baltimore,
Fourth Quarter
West 7-35, Clausen 5-30, Allen 4-18, Koch 1-7, Magee
KC—FG Santos 32, 6:45.
2-5, Givens 1-(minus 2).
KC—Peters 90 interception return (Santos kick), 4:36. PASSING: Kansas City, A.Smith 21-25-0-171. Balti-
Attendance—70,791.
more, Clausen 26-45-2-281.
TEAM STATISTICS KC Bal RECEIVING: Kansas City, Maclin 7-50, Kelce 6-73,
First downs .....................................15 19 A.Wilson 4-27, Avant 2-12, West 2-9. Baltimore, Aiken
Total Net Yards...............................277 366 8-128, M.Williams 5-31, Juszczyk 5-26, Butler 3-60,
Rushes-yards............................28-113 20-93 West 2-11, Givens 1-17, Matthews 1-6, Magee 1-2.
INDIANAPOLIS 10
Who knew? All the Texans needed to finally win a game in
Indianapolis was third-string quarterback Brandon
Weeden, who started the season with the Dallas Cowboys.
He replaced the injured T.J. Yates (knee) late in the first
half and threw a go-ahead, eight-yard touchdown pass to
Jaelen Strong with 10 minutes 36 seconds to play. It was
Houston’s first victory in Indianapolis in 14 tries.
“He’s a pro, he acts like a pro, he carries himself like a pro,
he is a pro,” Houston Coach Bill O’Brien said of Weeden, who
joined the team Nov. 18. “Look, I’m not sure he has the whole
offense down pat, but I think he has enough that he can go in
there and function.”
Houston ..................................0 3 3 10—16 Interceptions Ret. ...........................1-9 1-6
Comp-Att-Int ...........................17-28-1 18-32-1
Indianapolis .............................0 10 0 0—10
Sacked-Yards Lost.........................3-23 3-20
Second Quarter Punts.......................................4-50.3 7-41.1
Ind—Moncrief 11 pass from Hasselbeck (Vinatieri Fumbles-Lost .................................2-1 1-1
kick), 14:50. Penalties-Yards.............................6-48 8-94
Time of Possession......................33:56 26:04
Ind—FG Vinatieri 29, 6:12.
Hou—FG Novak 22, :00.
Individual Leaders
Third Quarter
RUSHING: Houston, Blue 20-107, Hunt 5-26, Yates
Hou—FG Novak 46, 2:42.
1-7, Weeden 5-6, Polk 4-6, Prosch 1-2, Grimes 1-1. India-
Fourth Quarter
napolis, Gore 16-44, Tipton 1-4, Allen 1-1, Hasselbeck
Hou—Strong 8 pass from Weeden (Novak kick),10:36. 1-1.
Hou—FG Novak 32, 1:56. PASSING: Houston, Yates 6-10-1-68, Weeden 11-18-
Attendance—66,083. 0-105. Indianapolis, Whitehurst 1-2-0-13, Hasselbeck
TEAM STATISTICS Hou Ind 17-30-1-147.
RECEIVING: Houston, Hopkins 8-94, Washington 3-
First downs.....................................20 14
Total Net Yards ..............................305 190 18, Griffin 2-30, Strong 2-23, Hunt 2-8. Indianapolis,
Rushes-yards ...........................37-155 19-50 Moncrief 5-51, Johnson 3-32, Hilton 3-29, Whalen 2-9,
Passing ........................................150 140 Gore 1-15, Fleener 1-12, Herron 1-6, Allen 1-5, Dorsett
Punt Returns................................3-21 4-67 1-1.
Kickoff Returns...............................0-0 3-80 FIELD GOALS MISSED: Houston, Novak 56 (SH).
JACKSONVILLE 17
At first they couldn’t lose. Then they couldn’t win. What’s
next for the Falcons, who started the season 5-0 and just
ended a skid at six games with a victory in Jacksonville?
“It’s very difficult not to allow doubt to happen when we
haven’t had success the last couple of weeks or the last two
months,” quarterback Matt Ryan said. “But I didn’t feel
that from anybody today. The reason you are so proud and
you’re so pumped up for the other guys is we know how easy
it is to doubt yourself in those situations.”
Julius Jones finished with nine receptions for 118 yards
and set the franchise record for catches in a season. He has
118, breaking teammate Roddy White’s mark of 115 set in 2010.
Rushes-yards .............................33-83 20-72
Atlanta ....................................7 10 0 6—23
Jacksonville..............................0 3 14 0—17 Passing ........................................245 285
Punt Returns................................4-21 2-17
First Quarter
Kickoff Returns.............................1-24 3-62
Atl—Freeman 5 run (Graham kick), 10:48. Interceptions Ret. .........................1-84 1-3
Comp-Att-Int ...........................22-35-1 23-38-1
Second Quarter
Sacked-Yards Lost ..........................1-1 2-12
Jax—FG Myers 42, 14:05. Punts.......................................5-43.2 6-42.3
Atl—Jones 11 pass from Ryan (Graham kick), 3:47. Fumbles-Lost .................................0-0 3-0
Atl—FG Graham 34, :00. Penalties-Yards.............................5-43 5-62
Third Quarter Time of Possession......................34:33 25:27
Jax—Bortles 1 run (Myers kick), 10:40.
Jax—A.Robinson 10 pass from Bortles (Myers kick), Individual Leaders
6:15. RUSHING: Atlanta, Freeman 25-56, Coleman 4-23,
Weems 1-4, Ryan 3-0. Jacksonville, Bortles 6-44, D.Ro-
Fourth Quarter
binson 14-28.
Atl—FG Graham 33, 10:28. PASSING: Atlanta, Ryan 22-35-1-246. Jacksonville,
Atl—FG Graham 46, 1:42.
Bortles 23-38-1-297.
Attendance—64,016. RECEIVING: Atlanta, Jones 9-118, Freeman 7-45,
TEAM STATISTICS Atl Jax White 3-47, Hardy 3-36. Jacksonville, D.Robinson 8-46,
First downs.....................................22 21 Thomas 6-79, A.Robinson 3-57, Lee 2-46, Hurns 2-44,
Total Net Yards ..............................328 357 Lewis 1-26, Greene 1-(minus 1).

MINNESOTA 38 SAN DIEGO

CHICAGO 17
Teddy Bridgewater literally deserved a high-five.
The Vikings quarterback threw a career-high four touch-
downs and ran for one as the home side ended a skid at two
games. Minnesota turned a lost fumble and an interception
thrown by Jay Cutler into 14 second-half points.
“It shows that when we do put the ball in the air, we’re
pretty good,” Bridgewater said.
“These last two weeks, I’ve seen a different look in his
eyes,” running back Adrian Peterson said of Bridgewater. “I
really don’t have to say much to him.”
Chicago....................................0 7 3 7—17
Minnesota ................................7 10 7 14—38
First Quarter
Min—Diggs 15 from Bridgewater (Walsh kick), 5:44.
Second Quarter
Min—FG Walsh 53, 14:22.
Chi—Jeffery 10 pass from Cutler (Gould kick), 5:40.
Min—McKinnon 17 from Bridgewater (Walsh kick), :26.
Third Quarter
Min—Diggs 33 from Bridgewater (Walsh kick), 10:40.
Chi—FG Gould 51, 4:23.
Fourth Quarter
Min—Bridgewater 12 run (Walsh kick), 8:45.
Chi—Forte 4 pass from Cutler (Gould kick), 5:13.
Min—Line 4 pass from Bridgewater (Walsh kick), 1:50.
Attendance—52,421.
TEAM STATISTICS Chi Min
First downs......................................21 20
Total Net Yards ...............................293 350
Rushes-yards ..............................20-94 36-129
Passing.........................................199 221
Punt Returns ..................................0-0 0-0
Kickoff Returns............................5-153 1-22
Interceptions Ret. ............................0-0 1-3
Comp-Att-Int ............................26-37-1 17-20-0
Sacked-Yards Lost .........................5-32 1-10
Punts........................................4-40.3 3-43.0
Fumbles-Lost ..................................1-1 1-0
Penalties-Yards..............................6-39 4-45
Time of Possession ......................27:50 32:10
Individual Leaders
RUSHING: Chicago, Forte 8-47, Langford 11-46, Cutler
1-1. Minnesota, Peterson 18-63, Asiata 5-28, Bridgewater
4-17, McKinnon 7-10, Thielen 1-8, Line 1-3.
PASSING: Chicago, Cutler 26-37-1-231. Minnesota,
Bridgewater 17-20-0-231.
RECEIVING: Chicago, Forte 6-57, Miller 6-57, Royal
5-31, Mariani 3-31, Carey 2-18, Langford 1-11, Jeffery 1-
10, Housler 1-9, Bellamy 1-7. Minnesota, McKinnon 4-76,
Diggs 3-55, Wallace 3-37, Wright 3-32, Rudolph 2-21,
Asiata 1-6, Line 1-4.
WINNER XX30
LOSER 14
MIAMI XX (OT)
Danny Woodhead needed to do something to atone for
his drop last week on what could have been a tying touch-
down on the last play of the game. Mission accomplished.
Woodhead had his first career four-touchdown game and
Philip Rivers recovered a fumble on a play that began with
him throwing an interception as the touchdown-starved
Chargers finally tilted the scoreboard in what could be the
club’s last game in San Diego.
“If this is the last one,” Rivers said, “I’ll always be sick
that we didn’t win a championship while we were here.”
Miami ......................................0 0 7 7—14 Punt Returns.................................2-16 6-44
San Diego ................................6 17 0 7—30 Kickoff Returns..............................4-92 0-0
Interceptions Ret. ..........................2-43 0-0
First Quarter
Comp-Att-Int ............................20-34-0 26-36-2
SD—Woodhead 20 pass from Rivers (kick failed), 4:16. Sacked-Yards Lost .........................3-29 1-9
Second Quarter Punts........................................8-45.8 3-36.7
Fumbles-Lost..................................2-1 0-0
SD—FG Lambo 28, 9:05.
Penalties-Yards..............................9-72 7-48
SD—Woodhead 2 run (Lambo kick), 4:18. Time of Possession ......................21:07 38:53
SD—Woodhead 9 pass from Rivers (Lambo kick), :39.
Individual Leaders
Third Quarter
Mia—Ajayi 12 run (Franks kick), 1:30. RUSHING: Miami, Ajayi 6-27, Miller 9-12, Tannehill
3-4, D.Williams 1-1. San Diego, D.Brown 12-90, Gordon
Fourth Quarter
15-41, Woodhead 8-10, Clemens 1-(minus 1).
SD—Woodhead 9 pass from Rivers (Lambo kick), 4:14. PASSING: Miami, Tannehill 20-34-0-216. San Diego,
Mia—Tannehill 1 run (Franks kick), 1:35.
Rivers 26-36-2-311.
Attendance—66,676. RECEIVING: Miami, Landry 8-54, Parker 4-87, Miller
TEAM STATISTICS Mia SD 2-12, D.Williams 2-11, Stills 1-23, Ajayi 1-15, Sims 1-9,
Cameron 1-5. San Diego, Gates 6-88, Woodhead 6-50,
First downs......................................13 26
Total Net Yards ...............................231 442 Herndon 5-35, Inman 3-78, D.Brown 2-14, Green 2-13,
Rushes-yards ..............................19-44 36-140 Floyd 1-27, Gordon 1-6.
Passing.........................................187 302 FIELD GOALS MISSED: San Diego, Lambo 48 (WR).
NEW ENGLAND 33
TENNESSEE 16
The Titans are out of contention but sat their quarter-
back to protect their future. The Patriots have many playing
with injuries, but have no time to rest as they continue to
hold on to the top seed in the AFC playoff picture.
The Patriots knocked out Tennessee quarterback Mar-
cus Mariota (knee) early and cruised to an easy victory.
“I wanted to go in right away,” Mariota said, adding that
he deferred to the wishes of the training staff. “I don’t expect
to be out for the rest of the year.”
Rushes-yards ..............................21-59 26-93
Tennessee ................................0 3 7 6—16
Passing.........................................223 253
New England.............................7 17 3 6—33
Punt Returns ................................2-24 4-36
First Quarter Kickoff Returns .............................2-24 1-75
NE—Gronkowski 5 from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 7:10. Interceptions Ret.............................0-0 2-51
Comp-Att-Int............................23-34-2 23-35-0
Second Quarter
Sacked-Yards Lost .........................5-51 2-14
NE—Hicks fumble recovery in end zone (Gostkowski Punts .......................................5-54.4 4-45.5
kick), 13:48.
Fumbles-Lost..................................2-1 1-1
Ten—FG Succop 49, 9:44. Penalties-Yards .............................3-29 5-35
NE—White 30 from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 9:23. Time of Possession ......................30:23 29:37
NE—FG Gostkowski 43, 1:44.
Individual Leaders
Third Quarter
RUSHING: Tennessee, Andrews 14-45, Cobb 4-9, Met-
Ten—Walker 7 from Mettenberger (Succop kick), 10:05. tenberger 2-5, Fowler 1-0. New England, Iosefa 14-51,
NE—FG Gostkowski 38, 5:09. Bolden 10-36, White 1-6, LaFell 1-0.
Fourth Quarter PASSING: Tennessee, Mettenberger 20-28-2-242,
Mariota 3-6-0-32. New England, Brady 23-35-0-267.
Ten—Walker 57 from Mettenberger (kick failed), 6:52.
RECEIVING: Tennessee, Green-Beckham 6-113, An-
NE—FG Gostkowski 42, 3:30.
NE—FG Gostkowski 32, 1:06. drews 5-25, Sankey 3-23, Fasano 3-21, Walker 2-64,
Douglas 2-15, Fowler 1-8, Stevens 1-5. New England,
Attendance—66,829.
White 7-71, Gronkowski 5-54, LaFell 4-88, Martin 3-26,
TEAM STATISTICS Ten NE Bolden 2-18, Williams 1-7, Amendola 1-3.
First downs .....................................15 17 FIELD GOALS MISSED: New England, Gostkowski 48
Total Net Yards ...............................282 346 (WR).

CAROLINA 38 WASHINGTON 35 GREEN BAY 30

N.Y. GIANTS 35
The Panthers continue to do astounding things this sea-
son.
This time they blew a 28-point lead but came through
with a field goal on the last play of regulation to remain un-
defeated. Carolina needs wins over Atlanta on the road and
Tampa Bay at home to become the third team to finish the
regular season unbeaten, the others being the 1972 Miami
Dolphins and the 2007 New England Patriots.
“These last two games are division opponents, and we’ll
be in a hostile environment in Atlanta,” Carolina quarter-
back Cam Newton said.
Carolina...................................7 14 14 3—38
N.Y. Giants ...............................7 0 7 21—35
First Quarter
Car—Ginn Jr. 3 pass from Newton (Gano kick), 5:33.
NYG—Randle 27 from Manning (Brown kick), 1:24.
Second Quarter
Car—Olsen 37 pass from Newton (Gano kick), 2:14.
Car—Funchess 14 pass from Newton (Gano kick), :15.
Third Quarter
Car—Brown 20 pass from Newton (Gano kick), 10:03.
Car—Ginn Jr. 14 pass from Newton (Gano kick), 5:32.
NYG—Tye 8 pass from Manning (Brown kick), 1:18.
Fourth Quarter
NYG—Jennings 38 run (Brown kick), 13:24.
NYG—Vereen 8 pass from Manning (Brown kick), 5:27.
NYG—Beckham Jr. 14 pass from Manning (Brown
kick), 1:46.
Car—FG Gano 43, :00.
Attendance—79,436.
TEAM STATISTICS Car NYG
First downs .....................................28 21
Total Net Yards...............................480 406
Rushes-yards............................29-171 27-161
Passing ........................................309 245
Punt Returns ................................3-44 4-32
Kickoff Returns .............................5-82 1-19
Interceptions Ret. ...........................1-0 0-0
Comp-Att-Int ...........................25-45-0 29-46-1
Sacked-Yards Lost.........................3-31 0-0
Punts .......................................7-45.4 7-45.0
Fumbles-Lost .................................1-1 2-1
Penalties-Yards .............................7-88 7-47
Time of Possession......................30:52 29:08
Individual Leaders
RUSHING: Carolina, Newton 8-100, Artis-Payne 14-
59, Tolbert 5-10, Whittaker 2-2. N.Y. Giants, Jennings 16-
107, Vereen 4-29, Williams 6-21, Manning 1-4.
PASSING: Carolina, Newton 25-45-0-340. N.Y. Gi-
ants, Manning 29-46-1-245.
RECEIVING: Carolina, Ginn Jr. 6-85, Olsen 6-79,
Cotchery 4-47, Brown 3-51, Artis-Payne 2-34, Funchess
2-30, Whittaker 2-14. N.Y. Giants, Vereen 8-43, Beckham
Jr. 6-76, Tye 5-43, Randle 4-47, D.Harris 2-9, Nicks 1-10,
White 1-10, Cunningham 1-7, Jennings 1-0.
FIELD GOALS MISSED: Carolina, Gano 34 (BK).
BUFFALO 25
In an up-and-down season for the Redskins, they finally
went up twice.
Kirk Cousins equaled his career high with four touch-
down passes and ran 13 yards for another score, helping
Washington win consecutive games for the first time in
more than a year. The Bills were eliminated from playoff
contention.
“Everybody said we couldn’t win back-to-back games,”
said receiver DeSean Jackson. “So this was the first time in
a long time we were able to get accomplished what we
wanted to get accomplished.”
Buffalo ....................................0 0 17 8—25
Washington ..............................7 14 7 7—35
First Quarter
Was—Reed 3 pass from Cousins (Hopkins kick), 9:22.
Second Quarter
Was—Cousins 13 run (Hopkins kick), 12:46.
Was—Reed 18 from Cousins (Hopkins kick), 8:47.
Third Quarter
Buf—FG Carpenter 32, 8:59.
Was—Jackson 77 from Cousins (Hopkins kick), 8:39.
Buf—Gillislee 60 run (Carpenter kick), 6:48.
Buf—Watkins 48 from Taylor (Carpenter kick), 3:48.
Fourth Quarter
Was—Garcon 5 pass from Cousins (Hopkins kick),
11:16.
Buf—Watkins 20 pass from Taylor (Taylor run), 1:26.
Attendance—80,124.
TEAM STATISTICS Buf Was
First downs.....................................21 23
Total Net Yards ..............................452 431
Rushes-yards ...........................31-240 27-123
Passing ........................................212 308
Punt Returns..................................1-0 2-5
Kickoff Returns.............................3-51 3-50
Interceptions Ret. ...........................0-0 0-0
Comp-Att-Int ...........................16-27-0 22-28-0
Sacked-Yards Lost.........................5-23 1-11
Punts.......................................4-35.0 3-46.7
Fumbles-Lost .................................1-0 1-1
Penalties-Yards.............................8-56 5-6
Time of Possession......................30:56 29:04
Individual Leaders
RUSHING: Buffalo, Gillislee 4-81, Taylor 9-79, Ka.Wil-
liams 4-41, McCoy 10-29, Manuel 2-6, Dixon 1-5, Thig-
pen 1-(minus 1). Washington, Morris 14-84, Jones 10-
28, Cousins 3-11.
PASSING: Buffalo, Taylor 16-27-0-235. Washington,
Cousins 22-28-0-319.
RECEIVING: Buffalo, Watkins 5-111, Woods 4-44, Gil-
lislee 2-2, O’Leary 1-37, Gragg 1-16, Hogan 1-13, McCoy
1-8, Dixon 1-4. Washington, Reed 7-84, Jackson 6-153,
Garcon 3-34, Crowder 3-21, Grant 1-13, Jones 1-8, Young
1-6.
OAKLAND 20
It might not have been in typical dominant fashion, but
the Packers are back in the playoffs again.
Aaron Rodgers threw a touchdown pass and Damarious
Randall returned an interception for another score to help
Green Bay clinch a franchise-record seventh straight playoff
berth.
“It’s big, especially when a couple weeks ago everybody
was counting us out,” said defensive back Micah Hyde, who
had an early interception that helped Green Bay get off to a
fast start. “It’s good to clinch, but at the same time, this is
something that’s expected around here.”
Green Bay ..............................14 0 10 6—30
Oakland ...................................0 13 7 0—20
First Quarter
GB—Kuhn 5 run (Crosby kick), 5:08.
GB—Randall 43 int. return (Crosby kick), 4:53.
Second Quarter
Oak—FG Janikowski 23, 14:53.
Oak—FG Janikowski 30, 8:36.
Oak—Cooper 19 pass from Carr (Janikowski kick), :20.
Third Quarter
GB—FG Crosby 24, 10:18.
Oak—Cooper 26 from Carr (Janikowski kick), 6:48.
GB—J.Jones 30 from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 5:46.
Fourth Quarter
GB—FG Crosby 21, 10:01.
GB—FG Crosby 33, 4:25.
Attendance—55,087.
TEAM STATISTICS GB Oak
First downs .....................................18 20
Total Net Yards ...............................293 372
Rushes-yards ............................28-103 25-120
Passing.........................................190 252
Punt Returns ................................2-24 2-(-3)
Kickoff Returns............................5-117 4-92
Interceptions Ret. ..........................2-77 1-1
Comp-Att-Int............................22-39-1 23-47-2
Sacked-Yards Lost .........................2-14 3-24
Punts .......................................4-52.8 5-43.4
Fumbles-Lost..................................1-1 0-0
Penalties-Yards .............................6-75 10-95
Time of Possession ......................29:29 30:31
Individual Leaders
RUSHING: Green Bay, Starks 9-51, Lacy 11-23, Cobb
4-18, Kuhn 3-12, A.Rodgers 1-(minus 1). Oakland, Murray
21-78, Carr 4-42.
PASSING: Green Bay, A.Rodgers 22-39-1-204. Oak-
land, Carr 23-47-2-276.
RECEIVING: Green Bay, J.Jones 6-82, Cobb 5-40, Ad-
ams 5-32, Abbrederis 3-33, R.Rodgers 1-7, Perillo 1-5,
Starks 1-5. Oakland, Cooper 6-120, Crabtree 6-70,
Reece 3-37, Rivera 3-20, A.Holmes 2-17, Walford 2-10,
Murray 1-2.
FIELD GOALS MISSED: Green Bay, Crosby 49 (BK).

SEATTLE 30 CINCINNATI 24 PITTSBURGH 34

CLEVELAND 13
After a slow start to the season, the two-time defending
NFC champions are back in the race to potentially return to
the Super Bowl for a third consecutive season.
Russell Wilson threw three touchdown passes, two to
wide receiver Doug Baldwin, and the Seahawks won their
fifth in a row to clinch a playoff spot for the fourth consecu-
tive season.
“We’re resilient,” Baldwin said. “You can count us out.
You can say what you want to about all of our players, but
we’re going to be consistently efficient at what we do.”
Total Net Yards ...............................230 423
Cleveland .................................7 3 0 3—13
Seattle .....................................7 13 0 10—30 Rushes-yards ..............................17-94 36-182
Passing.........................................136 241
First Quarter Punt Returns ..................................0-0 1-5
Cle—Barnidge 7 pass from Manziel (Coons kick), 8:07. Kickoff Returns............................5-159 4-91
Interceptions Ret. ............................0-0 1-0
Sea—Baldwin 3 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick),
:43. Comp-Att-Int ............................19-32-1 21-30-0
Sacked-Yards Lost .........................3-25 2-8
Second Quarter Punts........................................3-43.0 1-64.0
Sea—Baldwin 6 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), Fumbles-Lost ..................................2-0 0-0
9:56. Penalties-Yards..............................4-40 5-30
Cle—FG Coons 34, 6:31. Time of Possession ......................25:27 34:33
Sea—FG Hauschka 49, :55.
Individual Leaders
Sea—FG Hauschka 27, :00.
RUSHING: Cleveland, Johnson Jr. 4-46, Crowell 9-23,
Fourth Quarter
Manziel 2-17, Benjamin 1-9, Pryor 1-(minus 1). Seattle,
Michael 16-84, Wilson 5-46, Brown 9-43, Coleman 5-10,
Sea—Lockett 27 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick),
14:54. T.Jackson 1-(minus 1).
Cle—FG Coons 37, 9:02. PASSING: Cleveland, Manziel 19-32-1-161. Seattle,
Sea—FG Hauschka 30, 3:34. Wilson 21-30-0-249.
Attendance—69,002. RECEIVING: Cleveland, Johnson Jr. 5-39, Barnidge 3-
29, Benjamin 3-26, Crowell 3-7, Bowe 2-22, Gabriel 2-
TEAM STATISTICS Cle Sea 18, Moore 1-20. Seattle, Kearse 7-110, Lockett 5-55,
First downs......................................15 28 Baldwin 4-45, F.Jackson 2-17, Willson 2-17, Helfet 1-5.
SAN FRANCISCO 14
Yes, the Bengals can win with Alabama’s AJ McCarron at
quarterback in place of injured Andy Dalton.
After a drought of 13 starts without a victory by an Ala-
bama quarterback in the NFL, McCarron threw a touch-
down pass and the Bengals forced three second-quarter
turnovers. The last Alabama quarterback to win an NFL
start was Jeff Rutledge with the New York Giants in 1987.
“I was happy for him,” Dalton said of McCarron. “It’s nev-
er easy to win on the road.”
“They had turnovers, quite a few, and we didn’t,” McCar-
ron said. “That’s the key to the game a lot of times.”
Cincinnati ................................0 21 3 0—24
San Francisco...........................0 0 7 7—14
Second Quarter
Cin—J.Hill 1 run (Nugent kick), 5:16.
Cin—J.Hill 1 run (Nugent kick), 1:17.
Cin—Kroft 20 pass from McCarron (Nugent kick), :53.
Third Quarter
Cin—FG Nugent 22, 8:40.
SF—Miller 1 run (Dawson kick), 3:14.
Fourth Quarter
SF—Boldin 15 pass from Gabbert (Dawson kick),
2:17.
Attendance—70,799.
TEAM STATISTICS Cin SF
First downs.....................................14 17
Total Net Yards ..............................242 318
Rushes-yards .............................36-68 17-55
Passing ........................................174 263
Punt Returns ..............................3-(-1) 6-40
Kickoff Returns.............................2-46 3-87
Interceptions Ret. .........................3-44 0-0
Comp-Att-Int ...........................15-21-0 30-50-3
Sacked-Yards Lost.........................4-18 4-32
Punts.......................................8-51.6 7-40.6
Fumbles-Lost .................................1-1 1-1
Penalties-Yards.............................6-45 11-98
Time of Possession......................30:59 29:01
Individual Leaders
RUSHING: Cincinnati, Bernard 14-33, J.Hill 19-31,
McCarron 2-2, Sanu 1-2. San Francisco, Draughn 9-38,
Gabbert 2-10, Cadet 2-4, Miller 2-3, Gaskins 2-0.
PASSING: Cincinnati, McCarron 15-21-0-192. San
Francisco, Gabbert 30-50-3-295.
RECEIVING: Cincinnati, M.Jones 4-89, Bernard 4-18,
Kroft 3-31, Sanu 2-8, Green 1-37, Hewitt 1-9. San Fran-
cisco, Boldin 8-74, Gaskins 6-52, Bell 4-43, Cadet 4-
32, Patton 3-37, Smith 2-33, McDonald 1-10, Miller 1-
10, Draughn 1-4.
FIELD GOALS MISSED: San Francisco, Dawson 41
(BK).
DENVER 27
Broncos fans might be asking: How long before Peyton
Manning comes back?
Denver blew a 27-10 lead as Brock Osweiler, starting in
place of the injured Manning, was unable to produce any
points in the second half as the Broncos lost their second
game in a row. Denver was shut out in the second half for the
third consecutive week. Ben Roethlisberger passed for 380
yards and Antonio Brown caught 16 passes for 189 yards and
two touchdowns to help rally Pittsburgh.
“If we take care of the ball, we feel like we can go up and
down the field on anyone,” Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin said.
Denver ...................................14 13 0 0—27 Total Net Yards ...............................385 377
Pittsburgh.................................7 6 7 14—34 Rushes-yards ............................25-104 17-23
Passing.........................................281 354
First Quarter
Punt Returns ..................................1-4 3-23
Kickoff Returns .............................4-74 2-49
Pit—D.Williams 2 run (Boswell kick), 10:16.
Den—Thomas 18 from Osweiler (McManus kick), 4:41. Interceptions Ret. ..........................2-13 1-0
Den—Sanders 61 from Osweiler (McManus kick), 3:08. Comp-Att-Int............................21-44-1 40-55-2
Sacked-Yards Lost .........................2-15 3-26
Second Quarter
Punts .......................................6-43.0 6-38.7
Den—Osweiler 7 run (kick failed), 11:30. Fumbles-Lost..................................3-1 0-0
Pit—FG Boswell 24, 7:33. Penalties-Yards..........................12-127 9-63
Den—Thomas 6 from Osweiler (McManus kick), 1:56. Time of Possession ......................28:44 31:16
Pit—FG Boswell 41, :04. Individual Leaders
Third Quarter
RUSHING: Denver, Hillman 14-48, Sanders 1-24, Osweiler
Pit—Brown 9 from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 7:16. 5-19, Anderson 4-14, Siemian 1-(minus 1). Pittsburgh, D.Wil-
Fourth Quarter liams 14-26, Roethlisberger 3-(minus 3).
Pit—Wheaton 9 from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 12:34. PASSING: Denver, Osweiler 21-44-1-296. Pittsburgh,
Pit—Brown 23 from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 3:24. Roethlisberger 40-55-2-380.
Attendance—67,234. RECEIVING: Denver, Sanders 10-181, Thomas 5-61, Nor-
wood 2-29, Daniels 2-14, Anderson 1-6, V.Davis 1-5. Pitts-
TEAM STATISTICS Den Pit burgh, Brown 16-189, Bryant 10-87, Wheaton 6-62, D.Wil-
First downs .....................................20 28 liams 5-30, Miller 3-12.
D6 M O N DAY, D E C E M B E R 21, 2 015 L ATI M E S .C O M / S P O RT S

To fans’ chagrin, team has NHL STANDINGS

WESTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE

become a political football

Pacific W L OL Pts GF GA Metropolitan W L OL Pts GF GA
KINGS 20 10 2 42 81 71 Washington 24 6 2 50 103 70
San Jose 16 15 2 34 88 91 N.Y. Rangers 19 12 4 42 101 91
Vancouver 12 14 9 33 89 102 N.Y. Islanders 18 11 5 41 91 80
Arizona 15 15 2 32 87 102 New Jersey 16 13 5 37 79 84
Calgary 15 16 2 32 87 112 Philadelphia 14 12 7 35 70 89
Edmonton 14 18 2 30 88 105 Pittsburgh 15 14 3 33 71 82
[Chargers, from D1] during a presentation to the
DUCKS 12 14 5 29 58 77 Carolina 13 15 5 31 79 99
the NFL’s worst facilities, Carson City Council that
Central W L OL Pts GF GA Columbus 13 19 3 29 86 107
reached this point. 23% of Chargers fans live in
“I don’t even want to the L.A. area, though he Dallas 24 7 2 50 114 85 Atlantic W L OL Pts GF GA
think about it,” said Chris didn’t provide further detail St. Louis 20 10 4 44 87 81 Montreal 20 11 3 43 103 82
Campos, a 35-year-old with a about the number. Chicago 20 11 4 44 96 83 Boston 19 9 4 42 104 83
plastic lightning bolt dan- Mark Fabiani, the point Minnesota 17 8 6 40 86 73 Detroit 17 9 7 41 86 85
gling from a long necklace. man on stadium issues for Nashville 16 11 6 38 85 85 Florida 18 12 4 40 93 80
“Hopefully they’ll come to the Chargers, declined to Colorado 17 16 1 35 95 90 Ottawa 17 12 5 39 104 102
their senses.” provide specifics about the Winnipeg 15 15 2 32 90 97 Tampa Bay 17 14 3 37 86 80
Ten months ago, the team’s market penetration Note: Overtime or shootout losses Buffalo 14 16 4 32 79 89
Chargers announced plans in L.A. are worth one point.
Toronto 11 13 7 29 77 86
to partner with the Raiders But there’s little sign
to build a privately financed Chargers supporters plan to
RESULTS
stadium for $1.7 billion on an follow the team up Inter- AT FLORIDA 5 Panthers’ Jaromir Jagr scores his 732nd goal to move
old landfill in Carson. Rams state 5. VANCOUVER 4 (SO) past Marcel Dionne for fourth place in NHL history.
owner Stan Kroenke is also “It’s not going to hap- AT TAMPA BAY 5 Steven Stamkos scores twice and Mike Angelidis gets his
pursuing a $1.8-billion sta- pen,” said Donney Cum- OTTAWA 2 first NHL goal in nearly four years for Lightning.
dium in Inglewood. NFL mins, a 38-year-old who is
AT BOSTON 2 Ryan Spooner scores lone shootout goal and Bruins
owners could vote on the doubtful NFL owners will al-
plans as early as next month low the Chargers to move.
NEW JERSEY 1 (SO) improve to 11-1-3 in last 15 games.
during a special meeting in “Maybe, maybe you might AT DETROIT 4 Dylan Larkin, Brad Richards score 45 seconds apart
Houston, though a consen- get 2% of fans going to L.A.” CALGARY 2 midway through the second period for Red Wings.
sus doesn’t appear to have “It’s going to take at least AT CHICAGO 4 Jonathan Toews scores at 2:21 of overtime and
emerged on which project three generations for them SAN JOSE 3 (OT) Blackhawks win for seventh time in nine games.
will move forward. to have a solid L.A. fan base,”
WASHINGTON 7 Justin Williams’ two goals and assist spark Capitals, who
That’s little consolation Campos said. “This genera-
to San Diego. After search- tion is not going to accept
AT N.Y. RANGERS 3 score final six goals of game; Rangers lose third in a row.
ing for a stadium solution in them.” For complete NHL summaries, go to latimes.com/sports/scores
the city for more than a dec- In the Qualcomm Sta-
TODAY’S GAMES
ade, the Chargers have gone dium parking lot, Johnny
all-in on the potential move Abundez and a couple of DUCKS at New York Islanders, 4 p.m. St. Louis at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
to Carson. They broke off ne- other fans held up a large Columbus at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m.
gotiations with San Diego in anti-Carson sign. They have Montreal at Nashville, 5 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
June. Chargers owner Dean no intention of following the Toronto at Colorado, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Edmonton, 6 p.m.
Spanos and San Diego May- Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times Chargers to Carson, either. TUESDAY’S GAMES
or Kevin Faulconer met last AN EMOTIONAL Justin Pellegrin, center, tears up Abundez wore a hard hat DUCKS at New York Rangers, 4 p.m. San Jose at KINGS, 7:30 p.m.
month — Kroenke did the as he and other fans stand for final seconds of per- with lightning bolts on the St. Louis at Boston, 4 p.m. New Jersey at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.
same with Missouri Gov. Jay haps the final Chargers game at Qualcomm Stadium. sides, a No. 55 jersey to hon- Vancouver at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. Ottawa at Florida, 4:30 p.m.
Nixon — but the team’s push or Chargers great Junior Montreal at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Chicago at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.
to L.A. hasn’t slowed. ple looking for other people including that it is much fur- Seau and blue and yellow Winnipeg at Calgary, 6 p.m. Toronto at Arizona, 6 p.m.
The frustration among to blame. I was kind of ther along in terms of proc- camouflage cargo shorts. He HOLIDAY BREAK
Chargers supporters hasn’t shocked at how deeply it ess,” said Craig Gustafson, hands out business cards in- No games.
been helped by the team’s went.” press secretary for Faulcon- troducing himself as SATURDAY’S GAMES
dismal performance on the The city and county have er. “Johnny Bolt Pride.” Even KINGS at Arizona, 6 p.m. Montreal at Washington, 4 p.m.
field this season. Neither did proposed a $1.1-billion sta- Gary Plummer, who his shoelaces are embla- New Jersey at Carolina, 4 p.m. Buffalo at Boston, 4 p.m.
inflammatory comments dium for the Chargers at the played linebacker for the zoned with Chargers logos. Columbus at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Detroit at Nashville, 5 p.m.
last week by Houston Tex- current site in Mission Val- Chargers from 1986 to 1993 “They think if you can Dallas at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
ans owner Bob McNair. A ley. The Chargers believe and still resides in the area, make the people in your Edmonton at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
member of the NFL’s influ- that the project, which calls understands the team’s town and your city hate you,
ential Committee on L.A. for the city and county to frustrations over the years of then it’s easier to say good-
Opportunities, McNair told contribute $350 million, failed efforts to secure a new bye,” Abundez said. “We’ll
the Houston Chronicle that forces the team to assume stadium . . . to a point. see. There’s still a lot that
DUCKS NEXT UP
the efforts to build a stadium the project’s risks. Among “[The city] seems to be can happen.” AT NEW YORK ISLANDERS
in San Diego had been ham- the Chargers’ concerns are a doing everything humanly In the waning moments When: Monday, 4 p.m. PST.
pered because of legal prob- fast-tracked environmental possible, including doing of Sunday’s game — a rare On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 830.
lems involving the city coun- impact report that they be- back flips, to try to get them victory for the Chargers, 30- Update: Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau typically stays with a
cil. lieve is vulnerable to litiga- to stay,” Plummer said. “It 14 over Miami — chants of winning goalie and might go back to Frederik Andersen after
“It’s hard to negotiate tion. seems as if the Chargers “Spanos sucks” and “San Di- he won Saturday in his first game since Nov. 21. Andersen
when you’ve got to go to jail The city wants to put the have flipped them the mid- ego” drifted around the half- ceded the net to John Gibson because of illness but didn’t
to negotiate,” McNair said. stadium funding measure dle finger on both hands. . . . empty stadium. The chants have much rust in a 2-1 victory against New Jersey. He joined
That wasn’t true — one on the ballot in June if the The Chargers’ arrogance turned into a roar as Chris Osgood and Antti Niemi as the only goalies who have
San Diego councilman Chargers agree to a term throughout the process this quarterback Philip Rivers debuted in the last 30 years to win at least 60 of their first 100
served time after being con- sheet by early next year; the year has been disgusting, jogged off the field and games. Boudreau reunited Patrick Maroon on the top line
victed in a 2003 scandal, but team says two polls it con- really. It’s just sad. There’s thrust his left arm in the air. with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry in order to channel some
none has been jailed since. ducted in August show that such a lack of foresight.” The early 1960s hit “Stay” of their spark from last season’s playoffs, and Rickard Rakell
“The last six weeks have about 65% of voters won’t When NFL owners met in floated through the stadium went back to his third-line center role. The Ducks recalled
gotten really weird,” said Jim support the plan. August, Carmen Policy, rep- speakers, asking everyone to left wing Max Friberg. Center Nate Thompson has one game
Steeg, the Chargers’ chief “We have reiterated resenting the Chargers and stay just a little bit longer. left on his three-game suspension and Anaheim did not have
operating officer from 2004 throughout the past year Raiders in their push for the Thousands of fans lined a spare forward. The Islanders have lost three games in a row
to 2010 and a member of that we believe Mission Val- Carson stadium, outlined a the railings. They didn’t and scored two goals in that span after an 8-0-2 run. Scoring
Faulconer’s stadium advi- ley is the best location for the so-called “mega-market” want to leave. leader Kyle Okposo is expected to sit out because of a lower-
sory committee. “It stripped new stadium given the time- the teams would control body injury. The Ducks play again Tuesday at the New York
away all the goodwill and it lines set by the NFL and for a from Santa Barbara to the nathan.fenno@latimes.com Rangers before the NHL’s Christmas break.
really got to the core of peo- variety of other reasons — border. Policy later noted Twitter: @nathanfenno — Curtis Zupke

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THE DAY IN SPORTS

Bucks’ Kidd
COLLEGE BASKETBALL WINTER SPORTS In the Bleachers by Steve Moore
SOUTHLAND San Jose St. 79, UC Irvine 58 ALPINE SKIING
Cal St. Northridge 79, Bethesda 49 UC Santa Barbara 89, LaVerne 41 World Cup
Pacific, Ore. 70, Occidental 56 La Sierra 56, Caltech 51 Women’s Giant Slalom
UC Riverside 95, LIFE Pacific 48 Whitworth 64, Chapman 59 At Courchevel, France

to sit out for

WEST WEST 1. Eva-Maria Brem, Austria, 2:01.72 (1:01.29-
Evansville 85, Fresno St. 77 Hawaii 74, Sacramento St. 72 1:00.43). 2. Nina Loeseth, Norway, 2:01.89
Seattle 67, San Jose St. 64 EAST (1:01.59-1:00.30). 2. Lara Gut, Switzerland,
Saturday’s Late Result American U. 52, Manhattan 48 2:01.89 (1:01.38-1:00.51). 4. Viktoria Rebens-
Texas 75, Stanford 73 Auburn 74, Towson 52 burg, Germany, 2:02.10 (1:01.72-1:00.38). 5.
Boston College 66, Mass.-Lowell 55 Maria Pietilae-Holmner, Sweden, 2:02.40
EAST

hip surgery
Bryant 55, New Hampshire 42 (1:02.09-1:00.31). 6. Sofia Goggia, Italy,
Assumption 83, Philadelphia 73
Bucknell 80, Delaware 51 2:02.42 (1:02.88-59.54). 7. Ana Drev, Slovenia,
Chestnut Hill 75, St. Michael’s 63
Fairfield 74, IPFW 62 2:02.52 (1:02.86-59.66). 8. Tina Weirather,
Goldey Beacom 80, Wilmington (Del.) 74
Fairleigh Dickinson 81, Monmouth (NJ) 75 Liechtenstein, 2:02.65 (1:02.56-1:00.09). 9.
Marist 89, Army 83
Fordham 63, CCSU 48 Frida Hansdotter, Sweden, 2:02.76 (1:02.02-
Md. Eastern Shore 79, American U. 64
George Washington 70, Iona 65 1:00.74). 10. Michaela Kirchgasser, Austria,
Monmouth (NJ) 73, Rutgers 67
Hofstra 71, Marist 67 2:03.00 (1:01.82-1:01.18).
NJIT 83, St. John’s 74
Penn St. 83, Sacred Heart 46 Others included: 13. Lindsey Vonn, U.S.,
Pittsburgh 94, Davidson 69
Pittsburgh 75, Rider 44 2:03.35 (1:02.18-1:01.17).
Post (Conn.) 73, New Haven 67
Providence 64, Rhode Island 55, OT OVERALL WC STANDINGS (after 12 events)—1.
St. Francis Brooklyn 64, Liberty 55
Stockton 73, Hood 64, OT Seton Hall 81, St. Peter’s 65 Gut, 558. 2. Vonn, 500. 3. Hansdotter, 344. 4. wire reports
Stony Brook 71, Hofstra 68 UMBC 52, Loyola (Md.) 46 Brem, 317. 5. Mikaela Shiffrin, U.S., 296. 6. Nina
Vermont 54, NJIT 46 Loeseth, Norway, 284. 7. Cornelia Huetter, Aus-
Towson 88, Rio Grande 47
Villanova 67, La Salle 56 tria, 274. 8. Viktoria Rebensburg, Germany, 264.
Connecticut 88, Mass.-Lowell 79 Milwaukee Bucks Coach Jason Kidd is taking
SOUTH 9. Tina Weirather, Liechtenstein, 234. 10. Feder-
SOUTH ica Brignone, Italy, 220.
Austin Peay 92, Lipscomb 84 Alabama 72, Grambling St. 57
Others included: 28. Stacey Cook, U.S., 101.
an indefinite leave to have hip surgery.
Coastal Carolina 68, Alabama St. 65 Appalachian St. 92, Furman 78 Assistant coach Joe Prunty will direct the team
Campbell 66, North Florida 55 37. Laurenne Ross, U.S., 86. 48. Resi Stiegler,
E. Connecticut 66, Berry 60, OT U.S., 55.
Hampden-Sydney 69, Albright 53 Cent. Arkansas 51, S.C. State 38 in Kidd’s absence, General Manager John Ham-
Charlotte 99, Davidson 88 Men’s Giant Slalom
James Madison 67, East Carolina 61 mond said Sunday night after the Bucks’ 101-95 vic-
Florida Gulf Coast 57, Arizona 55 At Alta Badia, Italy
Manhattan 78, Morgan St. 66
Georgia St. 68, Bethune-Cookman 61 Marcel Hirscher, Austria, 2:33.34 (1:16.95- tory over the Phoenix Suns.
Morehead St. 60, W. Carolina 52
Kentucky 71, Duke 61 1:16.39). 2. Henrik Kristoffersen, Norway,
Shaw 80, Fort Valley St. 79 Kidd said in a team statement that he “tried to
Lehigh 63, Hampton 56 2:33.53 (1:17.13-1:16.40). 3. Victor Muffat-
MIDWEST Jeandet, France, 2:34.20 (1:16.90-1:17.30). 4.
Samford 69, Nebraska 58 Louisville 71, Coll. of Charleston 67 put off surgery for as long as I could,” but his doctor
Marshall 81, Norfolk St. 67 Ted Ligety, U.S., 2:34.69 (1:18.34-1:16.35). 5.
Wright St. 83, Bowling Green 47
Maryland 106, Md.-Eastern Shore 30 Mathieu Faivre, France, 2:34.77 (1:18.03- told him he’d be better served having the operation
SOUTHWEST 1:16.74). 6. Alexis Pinturault, France, 2:34.78
TCU 80, Abilene Christian 69
Miami 89, Indiana 75 now. The Bucks are11-18 this season and 52-59 in two
Middle Tennessee 69, Tennessee Tech 53 (1:18.03-1:16.75). 7. Tim Jitloff, U.S., 2:35.20
Texas A&M-CC 80, Cal Poly 74 Mississippi St. 90, W. Michigan 68 (1:18.66-1:16.54). 8. Felix Neureuther, Germany, seasons under Kidd.
UALR 84, N. Arizona 57 2:35.23 (1:17.55-1:17.68). 9. Philipp Schoergh- SOCCER TRANSACTIONS
North Carolina 69, Southern Miss. 62 Prunty has 20 years of NBA coaching experi-
ROCKIES SMU 69, Gardner-Webb 61 ofer, Austria, 2:35.30 (1:17.77-1:17.53). 10.
Boise St. 90, Bradley 70 South Carolina 88, East Carolina 57 Stefan Luitz, Germany, 2:35.41 (1:18.12- INTERNATIONAL BASEBALL ence, including three under Kidd. He served as an
E. Washington 74, Denver 58 1:17.29). (Home team listed first) Cincinnati—Promoted Nick Krall, senior di-
South Florida 68, Oklahoma St. 46
Others included: 12. Tommy Ford, U.S., ENGLAND rector of baseball operations, and Sam Gross- assistant during Kidd’s one season coaching the
BOX SCORES Stetson 79, Georgia Southern 57
Nonconference Wake Forest 43, Richmond 33 2:35.52 (1:19.97-1:15.55). 15. Manfred Premier League man, senior director of baseball analytics, to as- Brooklyn Nets and has been with Kidd in Milwau-
Moelgg, Italy, 2:35.86 (1:18.81-1:17.05). Watford 3, Liverpool 0 sistant general managers.
Cal St. Northridge 79, Bethesda 49 West Virginia 69, James Madison 62
OVERALL WC STANDINGS (after 11 events)—1. Swansea 0, West Ham 0 BASKETBALL
kee the past two seasons. Prunty also is the head
BETHESDA—Wilson 1-2 1-1 3, Jemison 0-7 MIDWEST
2-2 2, Walker 1-4 1-2 4, Leath 0-3 0-0 0, Castro Cincinnati 70, E. Illinois 57 Hirscher, 540. 2. Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway, ITALY Detroit—Called up guard Brandon Jennings coach of Britain’s national team.
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ren 3-6 4-5 10, Richardson 1-4 4-8 6, Dawson Toledo 60, Ill.-Chicago 51 Frosinone 2, AC Milan 4 HOCKEY
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SOUTHWEST IN SPORTS Inter Milan 1, Lazio 2
Fayne from Bakersfield (AHL).
Tampa Bay—Called up center Tanner Richard
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TCU 76, S. Utah 47 1941 — The Chicago Bears win the NFL cham-
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Ligue 1 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Rebels star, who was recently charged with mari-
LIFE PACIFIC—Butler 2-11 0-0 4, Roethler 1-4 Texas A&M 74, Oklahoma 68 Saint-Etienne 1, Angers 0 Georgia Southern—Hired Tyson Summers as
3-4 5, Noble 2-9 4-6 8, Terry 2-6 2-2 7, Broker 1975 — The Buffalo Sabres score eight goals Gazelec Ajaccio 2, Lyon 1 coach.
juana possession after a 15-foot fall at an Atlanta
Texas Rio Grande Valley 55, Houston 45 in the third period of a 14-2 victory over the
2-7 3-4 8, Bowden 0-0 0-0 0, Todd 0-0 0-0 0, Texas Tech 84, Ark.-Pine Bluff 40 Washington Capitals.
Bordeaux 1, Marseille 1 Maryland—Hired Walt Bell as offensive coor- hotel, will not play in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. The
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2-2 5, Morales 2-5 1-2 5, Brummet 0-0 0-1 0.
ROCKIES 1981 — Doug Schloerner’s 15-foot jump shot La Liga Mississippi—Announced that defensive line-
school said he will make himself eligible for the NFL
Abilene Christian 71, Idaho 59, OT with a second remaining in the seventh overtime
Totals 15-55 15-21 48.
Colorado St. 74, Denver 46 gives Cincinnati a 75-73 victory over Bradley. The
Real Madrid 10, Rayo Vallecano 2 man Robert Nkemdiche will enter the NFL draft. draft as a junior. Ole Miss Coach Hugh Freeze said
UC RIVERSIDE—Johns 3-7 2-3 8, Larsson 2-3 Athletic Bilbao 2, Levante 0
3-4 7, Bland 6-9 1-2 17, Johnson 1-3 2-2 5,
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Copyright 2015 by Equibase Co. Final day of 12-day meet. Trainer: John F. Martin. Owner: Bone, Robert, Martin, John F., Platts, 1 Just Kidding Gutierrz 2.60 game against Columbus.
3099 SIXTH RACE. 6 furlongs. Maiden Special Weight.
3094 FIRST RACE. 1 mile. Maiden Claiming. Fillies and Joey and Strauss, William. 2-year olds. Purse $45,000. 8 Also Ran: Verraco, Texas Two Step, Alfa Bird, Fly Lexis Fly, Prime
Mares. 3- year olds and up. Claiming Price $20,000. 8 Scratched: none. Issue.
8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (6-4) paid $76.60, $1 Exacta (4-3) paid P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 8 Time: 23.73, 47.34, 1.12.36, 1.25.56, 1.38.90. Cloudy & Good.
Cyrus Alexander rallied late to win the $50,750
Purse $17,000. 9 Good for It Lezcano 18.40 8.80 6.60
P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show
$86.40, $1 Superfecta (4-3-1-5) paid $676.90, $1 Trifecta (4-3-1) paid
7 Legitimate Gonzalz 8.80 5.80
Trainer: Jerry Hollendorfer. Owner: Spendthrift Farm LLC and Stone- feature by three-quarters of a length on closing day
$220.80, $1 Pick Three (4-6-4) paid $239.00. street Stables LLC.
4 Hayyouwaitforme Perez 10.60 4.00 2.60 3 Basinca Gutierrz 3.80
8 Scratched: none.
of the winter meet at Los Alamitos. Santiago Gon-
1 Bolt Up Gonzalz 3.00 2.20 3097 FOURTH RACE. 51⁄2 furlongs. Claiming. Fillies and 8 Also Ran: Cupid, Enotional, Blue Navy Blue, Redream, Ubettereco-
2 Omorfi Kopella Lopez 2.20 Mares. 3-year olds and up. Claiming Prices nizeson, My Son John, Triple Clown, It’s Just Bob.
8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (6-6) paid $63.60, $1 Exacta (6-3) paid zalez won the jockeys’ title during the 12-day meet.
$68.60, $1 Superfecta (6-3-1-4) paid $1,842.70, $1 Trifecta (6-3-1)
8 Also Ran: Indy Devil’s Arms, Stitch and Rip, My Electra City. $8,000-$7,000. Purse $14,000. 8 Time: 21.67, 45.39, 58.03, 1.11.07. Cloudy & Good. Trainer: Clifford paid $319.10, $1 Pick Three (9-6-6) paid $309.20.
He finished with 14 victories, two more than Mario
8 Time: 24.43, 49.73, 1.15.32, 1.28.39, 1.41.75. Cloudy & Good. W. Sise, Jr.. Owner: Marla Shontere.
Trainer: Philip D’Amato. Owner: D’Amato, Philip, Harris, Donald and
P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show
8 Scratched: One More Orman. 3102 NINTH RACE. 51⁄2 furlongs. Maiden Claiming.
Gutierrez and Edwin Maldonado. Doug O’Neill
5 Tenille Aragon 8.60 3.60 2.40
McCrocklin, Tom F.. 6 Warren’s Dixi Bell Lopez 3.00 2.40 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (7-9) paid $55.40, $1 Exacta (9-7) paid Fillies and Mares. 3-year olds and up. Claiming Price won the trainers’ title with eight victories.
8 Scratched: Midnight Lien. 2 Runningwiththelute Maldndo 2.20 $89.50, $1 Superfecta (9-7-3-4) paid $1,077.10, $1 Trifecta (9-7-3) $20,000. Purse $17,000.
8 Exotics: $1 Exacta (4-1) paid $15.40, $1 Superfecta (4-1-2-7) paid 8 Also Ran: Amounted, Hero’s Marine, Lady Now. paid $389.80, $1 Pick Three (5-7-9) paid $197.30, $1 Consolation Pick P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show
$157.80, $1 Trifecta (4-1-2) paid $25.80. 8 Time: 22.21, 46.20, 58.70, 1.05.42. Cloudy & Good. Trainer: Hum- Three (5-6-9) paid $45.20. 10 Zeekid Malondo 8.60 3.40 2.80 Austrian skier Eva-Maria Brem protected her
3095 SECOND RACE. 6 furlongs. Claiming. 3- year olds berto P. Loma. Owner: Lizardi, Jose M. and Loma, Humberto. 3100 SEVENTH RACE. 6 furlongs. Starter Allowance. 9 Mad Mango Gutierrz 2.40 2.40 lead from the first leg to win a World Cup giant sla-
and up. Claiming Prices $10,000-$9,000. Purse 8 Scratched: none. 3-year olds and up. Claiming Price $25,000. Purse 4 No City Limits Perez 4.20
$17,000. 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (4-5) paid $67.00, $1 Exacta (5-6) paid $27,000. 8 Also Ran: Sheswildnfree, Punk Fever, Wired for Fun, Sarah Bell, lom race at Courchevel, France, denying Swiss rac-
P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show $14.50, $1 Superfecta (5-6-2-4) paid $155.50, $1 Trifecta (5-6-2) paid P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show Girldom. er Lara Gut a third straight race victory. Gut fin-
6 Secret Command Perez 12.40 6.00 4.40 $28.40, $1 Pick Three (6-4-5) paid $216.80. 6 My Secret Affair Kennedy 7.20 4.20 3.00 8 Time: 22.09, 45.98, 58.79, 1.05.87. Cloudy & Good. Trainer: Jorge
1 I Buy Gold Clerisse 5.20 3.20 9 Pray Hard Baze 4.40 3.00 Periban. Owner: Santilli, Frank and Zephyr Racing LLC. ished tied for second place and overtook American
3098 FIFTH RACE. 5 furlongs. Claiming. Fillies and
4 Gnarly Dude Gonzalz 4.20
Mares. 3-year olds and up. Claiming Prices
7 Limited Response Puglisi 6.60 8 Scratched: Amitie Pour La Vie, Daphne’s Day, Sailor’s Cry, Un- Lindsey Vonn for the overall lead with 558 points.
8 Also Ran: Justonemorething, Condiment, Hadfunlastnight. 8 Also Ran: Jonny’s Choice, Apollo Ten, Out of Patience, No Contin- known Summer.
8 Time: 22.28, 45.62, 57.62, 1.10.32. Cloudy & Good. Trainer: Jorge $8,000-$7,000. Purse $15,000.
gency. 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (6-10) paid $62.40, $1 Exacta (10-9) paid Vonn, who has 500 points, finished 13th.
Periban. Owner: Beckner, Twyla and Durand, Howard L.. P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 8 Time: 21.93, 45.00, 57.14, 1.10.14. Cloudy & Good. Trainer: Eddie $8.50, $1 Superfecta (10-9-4-5) paid $156.80, $1 Super High Five
8 Scratched: none. 7 Aloha Ke Akua Baze 6.00 3.20 2.60 Truman. Owner: Featherston, Roger and Miller, Lynne and Tom. (10-9-4-5-12) paid $1,003.00, $1 Trifecta (10-9-4) paid $42.80, $2
8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (4-6) paid $58.00, $1 Exacta (6-1) paid 5 Warrensdollarsigns Maldndo 3.60 2.80 8 Scratched: Bandido Too, Athens. Consolation Double (6-6) paid $9.40, $2 Consolation Double (6-8) Marcel Hirscher of Austria became the first ski-
$24.00, $1 Superfecta (6-1-4-2) paid $254.10, $1 Trifecta (6-1-4) paid 2 Irish and Lucky Guce 4.00 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (9-6) paid $85.80, $1 Exacta (6-9) paid paid $13.20, $1 Pick Three (6-6-10) paid $151.50, $1 Consolation Pick er to win the Alta Badia giant slalom in three con-
$94.20. 8 Also Ran: Tough Annie, Haaay Sexy Lady, Funny Gal. $12.40, $1 Superfecta (6-9-7-4) paid $344.00, $1 Trifecta (6-9-7) paid Three (6-6-6/8) paid $29.20, 50-Cent Pick Four (9-1/6/8-6-10) 4 cor-
3096 THIRD RACE. 1 mile. Maiden Claiming. 2-year 8 Time: 21.90, 46.03, 59.14. Cloudy & Good. Trainer: William Spawr. $84.70, $1 Pick Three (7-9-6) paid $123.10. rect paid $839.85, $2 Pick Six (5-6/7-9-1/6/8-6-10) 91 tickets with 5 secutive years, reclaiming the overall World Cup
olds. Claiming Price $30,000. Purse $19,000. Owner: Ponce, Abraham, Sanford, Thomas C. and Spawr, William. out of 6 paid $301.60, $2 Pick Six (5-6/7-9-1/6/8-6-10) 3 tickets with lead from Aksel Lund Svindal at La Villa, Italy.
8 Scratched: Sugar Spice. 6 correct paid $21,282.80.
P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (5-7) paid $40.20, $1 Exacta (7-5) paid 3101 -EIGHTH RACE. 1 mile. Allowance Optional Erasing a slim first-run deficit, Hirscher finished
4 I Came to Party Gonzalz 11.20 5.00 2.80 Claiming. 3- year olds and up. Claiming Price $62,500. ATTENDANCE/MUTUEL HANDLE
3 Dinner At Trani’s Maldndo 13.80 4.80
$8.60, $1 Superfecta (7-5-2-4) paid $76.30, $1 Trifecta (7-5-2) paid
Purse $50,000. 0.19 seconds ahead of Henrik Kristoffersen of Nor-
$23.80, $2 Consolation Double (5-6) paid $9.20, $1 Pick Three (4-5-7) On-Track Attendance-2,00. Mutuel handle-$461,472
1 Wise Tale Baze 2.10
paid $101.60, $1 Consolation Pick Three (4-5-6) paid $29.70, 50-Cent P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show Inter-Track Attendance-5,059. Mutuel handle-$1,550,497 way. In the overall standings, Hirscher moved 20
8 Also Ran: Palamon, Tribe of Gamblers, Metadago. Pick Four (6-4-5-6/7) 4 correct paid $116.65, 50-Cent Pick Five (4-6-4- 6 Cyrus Alexander Garcia 11.40 6.60 3.80 Out of State Attendance-N/A. Mutuel handle-$3,711,450
8 Time: 24.48, 50.07, 1.14.87, 1.27.25, 1.39.92. Cloudy & Good. 3 Highway Boss Perez 11.20 4.00 points ahead of Norway’s Svindal.
5-6/7) 5 correct paid $960.55. Total Attendance-7,060. Mutuel handle-$5,723,419

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D8 M O NDAY , D E C E M B E R 21, 2 015
USC FOOTBALL REPORT
Olympic rings could be his spring thing
By Gary Klein
Adoree’ Jackson came to
USC with goals of winning
the Heisman Trophy and
the Thorpe Award as college
football’s top defensive
back, and to participate in
the Olympics as a long jump-
er.
Jackson will have the op-
portunity to pursue his
Olympic dream this spring.
Coach Clay Helton said
Sunday that Jackson would
be excused from spring
practice to focus on track
and field, as he was prom-
ised during his recruitment.
“I’ve always believed if
you’re going to be a master
at something, you’ve got to
work at it — and don’t be a
jack of all trades,” Helton
said, adding, “when you get
the opportunity to go work
for the Olympics, you need
Pay equity remains a big issue
[Women, from D1]
major league team to hire a
female coach and, in August,
ESPN made Jessica Mendo-
za the first female analyst to
work a big league game on a
major network.
In mixed martial arts,
perhaps the most masculine
spectator sport, Ronda
Rousey has become the
most popular and bankable
star despite her recent loss
in the octagon. And in July
the Women’s World Cup final
between the U.S. and Japan
was watched by nearly 27
million Americans, the larg-
est U.S. audience ever for a
televised soccer match.
And that does not in-
clude Mo’ne Davis, whose
pitching exploits in the 2014
Little League World Series
turned the phrase “throw
like a girl” from an insult into
a compliment.
“It’s now a part of the
landscape. Every single year
women are doing incredible
things,” says Laura Gentile,
founder of espnW, a multi-
media platform dedicated to
women’s sports. “It’s not an-
other watershed year and
then we all go back to nor-
mal.”
Susan E. Cayleff, a wom-
en’s studies professor at San
Diego State, agrees.
“It’s been a landmark
year. Part of that has to do
with the appeal of certain
personalities,” she says.
“People have found there’s a
fan base for it. People are fi-
nally realizing that women’s
sports is a serious level of
competition and a very fun
thing to watch.”
That growth, in both the
success of and participation
of female athletes, has been
building for years. The num-
ber of women competing in
college sports, for example,
has increased more than
300% since 1981. And more
than half the teams at NCAA
schools are now women’s
teams, says Mark Lewis, an
executive vice president for
the NCAA.
Title IX, the landmark
1972 federal law prohibiting
discrimination on the basis
of sex in any federally funded
education program, led to
equal opportunities for
women in college athletics.
Female athletes and coach-
es took that opportunity and
ran with it.
“At the end of the day it
doesn’t matter. Men, wom-
en, mixed. People like to
watch quality competition,”
says Lewis, who credits the
change to expanded oppor-
tunities for girls at the high
school and youth levels. “Be-
cause of the growth of these
programs, there’s more ath-
letes to recruit. There’s
deeper benches and as a re-
sult the competition’s gotten
a lot better.”
That’s not to suggest the
playing field is level. Parity
remains a long way off in sev-
eral areas, including pay.
In the working world,
women earn, on average,
22% less than men for com-
parable work in the U.S., ac-
cording to Bureau of Labor
Statistics in 2013.
In sports, the gap is much
wider.
For winning the Women’s
World Cup last summer,
FIFA gave the U.S. team $2
million from a total purse of
$15 million. A year earlier
Germany got $35 million
from a $358-million purse for
winning the men’s World
Cup.
In golf, nine women, led
by New Zealand’s Lydia Ko,
earned more than $1 million
on the LPGA Tour this year.
On the men’s side 106 golfers
made that much on the PGA
to go work at that.”
Last year as a freshman,
Jackson participated in
track part time and won the
Pac-12 Conference long-
jump title with a mark of 25
feet 3 inches. He leaped 25-11
at the NCAA champion-
ships and finished fifth.
The qualifying standard
for the 2016 U.S. Olympic
trials is 26-5.
At last summer’s U.S.
track and field champion-
ships, the top three finishers
jumped at least 27 feet 7½
inches. The winner leaped
28-5¾.
This would be the first
time since he arrived at USC
that Jackson completely fo-
cused on track.
“If it was up to me —
where my heart is — I would
want to go out there,” Jack-
son said of forgoing spring
football practice for track.
“I’ll just see what’s best over-
THE U.S. WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM is radiant after winning the 2015 World
Cup final, but the squad got only $2 million of FIFA’s $15-million total purse.
Tour. And in the WNBA the
average salary was about
$72,000 in 2014; in the NBA,
the average was $4.5 million.
There are several reasons
for that disparity — men’s
golf draws nearly 10 times as
many TV viewers as the
LPGA while the men’s World
Cup earned FIFA more than
$4 billion.
TV ratings for the NFL,
NBA and Major League
Baseball continue to swamp
women’s leagues, such as
the WNBA and the National
Women’s Soccer League in
viewership. In the NWSL,
most games are not avail-
able except on YouTube.
As a result, advertising
rates for women’s sports on
TV often sell for a fraction of
the ads shown during men’s
games. When Fox bid for the
broadcast rights for the next
two men’s World Cups, FIFA
insisted it take the 2014 wom-
en’s tournament for free be-
cause soccer’s global body
didn’t see the benefit in try-
ing to sell that event. To its
credit, Fox took the event se-
riously and was rewarded
with record ratings.
Some, however, place the
blame on an old-school ap-
proach that continues to dis-
miss women’s sports as less
important.
“Sports is the last sand-
box,” says Donna de Varona,
a former Olympic swimming
champion and a pioneering
TV commentator. “It’s very
Freudian. ‘It’s challenging
our masculinity. Get out of
our sandbox.’ ”
For ESPN’s Kate Fagan, a
former college basketball
player, that mentality forces
female athletes to be judged
not just on their own abil-
ities but also in comparison
to men, who are inherently
bigger, stronger and faster.
“Why do we need to vali-
date a Ronda Rousey as an
athlete by having her play
against the men? Or why do
we have the conversation of
Brittney Griner, could she
play in the NBA?” Fagan
asks. “The reason women
compare themselves to men
. . . is because the spotlight is
on the men.
“No matter how much
you stand to the side and
wave your arms and you’re
like ‘I’m important too’ the
all for me and for the team.”
USC will have a new de-
fensive coordinator this
spring, but Helton and Jack-
son both said that learning a
new scheme would not be a
problem for a player who has
started at cornerback the
last two seasons.
Jackson had a national
coming-out of sorts in last
year’s Holiday Bowl. He
scored on a kickoff return
and a long catch-and-run
pass play in the Trojans’ 45-
42 victory over Nebraska.
Jackson has scored five
touchdowns this season —
two on kick returns, two on
passes and one on an inter-
ception return.
He said he would not at-
tempt to duplicate last sea-
son’s bowl performance
when USC plays Wisconsin
in the Holiday Bowl on Dec.
30.
“If the opportunity
spotlight is staying where it
is. And you have to go to the
spotlight and kind of jump
into it to actually get some of
the attention that women’s
sports need.”
Fagan says the media is
responsible for much of that.
A recent study by the Insti-
tute for Diversity and Ethics
in Sport found that 90% of
U.S. sports editors are male.
The issue of why the spot-
light has so often been fo-
cused away from female ath-
letes is not just confined to
this country. A 2013 survey
by the Women’s Sport and
Fitness Foundation found
women’s sports in the U.K.
received just 7% of the media
coverage and less than 1% of
the total value of commer-
cial sponsorships compared
to men. Nearly identical fig-
ures were found in studies in
both South Africa and Aus-
tralia.
“The way we cover wom-
en — our tone when we talk
on air about women’s sports
versus men’s sports — is dif-
ferent,” says Fagan, a former
NBA beat writer for the Phil-
adelphia Inquirer. “So all of
that stuff contributes to this
societal thinking that wom-
en’s sports isn’t cool and is
boring.
“The thing that makes
sports interesting are story
lines and stakes. And that’s
not inherent to gender. Why
are we interested in our kid’s
CYO basketball game? Be-
cause we have the story line
— there’s my daughter out
there playing — at the stakes
— this is really important to
her. So we don’t care
whether she can jump 22
inches or three inches. It
doesn’t matter.”
But it doesn’t hurt if the
athletes are as physical as
Rousey or as clutch as U.S.
soccer star Carli Lloyd,
whose hat trick last summer
was the first in a World Cup
final in 49 years. Winning
also helps, which is why the
U.S. women’s soccer team,
with three World Cup titles
and four Olympic gold med-
als, and Serena Williams,
who has more Grand Slam
titles than any active tennis
player on the planet, have
transcended gender.
“If women succeed on
that level, men and women
comes where I can go score a
touchdown . . . then so be it,”
he said. “But just play my
game.”
Wheeler still absent
Left tackle Chad Wheel-
er remained absent after an
incident Saturday that ap-
parently involved an alterca-
tion with police at a resi-
dence near USC. No arrest
was made.
“It’s really a personal and
private issue that I can’t talk
about, but to wish Chad the
best,” Helton said.
Helton said he had not
spoken with the fourth-year
junior. Asked if Wheeler
could participate in the Hol-
iday Bowl, Helton said, “I
don’t have a crystal ball right
now, to be honest with you.
We’re working our way
through it.”
Helton, who was named
USC’s head coach on Nov. 30,
Elaine Thompson Associated Press
watch equally. And they’re
totally inspiring,” says Gen-
tile, the espnW founder, who
hosted a three-day summit
on women’s sports in Dana
Point last October.
Whether that represents
an exemption to the rule or
the rewriting of the rule book
is uncertain.
“On some level, the elite
female athlete is still a bit of
an anomaly because in many
ways she contradicts stereo-
typical ideals of femininity,”
says Cayleff, the San Diego
State professor. “But I would
argue we’re at a time where
these athletes are setting
their own standard.”
The NCAA’s Lewis says
companies that once ig-
nored women’s athletics are
now becoming corporate
sponsors, giving the move-
ment even more momen-
tum.
“They’re finding the deci-
sion-makers are often the
women in the household and
they’re watching women’s
sports,” says Lewis, who
cites Northwestern Mutual,
a Milwaukee-based financial
services giant, as an exam-
ple of an enlightened adver-
tiser. “So they are doing it as
a business decision. They
want to sell more of their
products and they’re finding
they can deliver that mes-
sage at a women’s sporting
event.”
But while women’s
sports and the athletes who
play them have made much
progress in terms of respect
and attention in recent
years, Gentile says it may be
another two decades before
the transformation is com-
plete.
“I’m confident it’s chang-
ing,” says Gentile. “We are
growing our audience. You
think about women, it’s not
this nice little niche. It’s 11.4
million women, just in the
United States alone, who
call themselves sports fans.
But we need more women in
decision-making roles. You
still need more women at the
top of media empires . . . on
the league front and as suc-
cessful commissioners.
“We are going to get
there. It’s all trending in the
right direction.”
kevin.baxter@latimes.com
L ATI M E S . C O M /S P O RT S
said that more than two dec- first-round pick.
ades of experience working “I had a good feeling of
under other head coaches where I’m going to go,” he
prepared him for dealing said.
with off-the-field situations After the Holiday Bowl,
involving players. Cravens will focus on run-
“After 21 years of college ning a fast time in the 40-
football, you’ve kind of seen yard dash. Players are tested
every situation and how dif- at the NFL scouting com-
ferent men handle things,” bine in Indianapolis, pro
he said. “My primary con- days on campus and individ-
cern has always been our ual workouts.
kids and their well-being.” A time of 4.4 seconds
Zach Banner is on track would put him in the discus-
to start at left tackle, Chuma sion to be a top-15 pick, Cra-
Edoga at right tackle. vens said.
“To me, the 40 doesn’t
Cravens to make matter, doesn’t define you as
run at draft a football player,” Cravens
Linebacker Su’a Cra- said, adding, “there are a lot
vens, who announced last of fast guys in the league
week that he would make that don’t play. But teams
himself available for the are investing a lot of money
NFL draft, did not request into you, so they want to see
an evaluation from the how fast you run.”
league but said information
he gleaned from scouts pro- gary.klein@latimes.com
jected him as a mid- to late- Twitter: @latimesklein
BOWL SCHEDULE
BOWL WHEN (PST); TV FAVORITE
Miami Beach: South Fla. vs. Western Kentucky Today, 11:30 a.m.; ESPN W. Kentucky by 21⁄2
Famous Idaho Potato: Akron vs. Utah State Tuesday, 12:30 p.m.; ESPN Utah State by 61⁄2
Boca Raton: Temple vs. Toledo Tuesday, 4 p.m.; ESPN Temple by 11⁄2
Poinsettia: Boise State vs. Northern Illinois Wed., 1:30 p.m.; ESPN Boise State by 81⁄2
GoDaddy.com: Bowling Green vs. Ga. Southern Wed., 5 p.m.; ESPN BGSU by 71⁄2
Bahamas: Middle Tennessee vs. Western Mich. Thu., 9 a.m.; ESPN W. Michigan by 3
Hawaii: Cincinnati vs. San Diego State Thu., 5 p.m.; ESPN Cincinnati by 1
St. Petersburg: Connecticut vs. Marshall Sat., 8 a.m.; ESPN Marshall by 4
Sun: Miami vs. Washington State Sat., 11 a.m.; Ch. 2 Wash. State by 3
Heart of Dallas: Washington vs. Southern Miss. Sat., 11:15 a.m.; ESPN Washington by 9
Pinstripe: Duke vs. Indiana Sat., 12:30 p.m.; Ch. 7 Indiana by 2
Independence: Virginia Tech vs. Tulsa Sat., 2:45 p.m.; ESPN Va. Tech by 13
Foster Farms: Nebraska vs. UCLA Sat., 6:15 p.m.; ESPN UCLA by 61⁄2
Military: Pittsburgh vs. Navy Dec. 28, 11:30 a.m.; ESPN Navy by 3
Quick Lane: Minnesota vs. Central Michigan Dec. 28, 2 p.m.; ESPN2 Minnesota by 6
Armed Forces: Air Force vs. California Dec. 29, 11 a.m.; ESPN California by 7
Russell Athletic: North Carolina vs. Baylor Dec. 29, 2:30 p.m.; ESPN Baylor by 2
Arizona: Nevada vs. Colorado State Dec. 29, 4:30 p.m.; Ch. 5 Colo. State by 3
Texas: Texas Tech vs. Louisiana State Dec. 29, 6 p.m.; ESPN LSU by 7
Birmingham: Auburn vs. Memphis Dec. 30, 9 a.m.; ESPN Auburn by 21⁄2
Belk: North Carolina State vs. Mississippi State Dec. 30, 12:30 p.m.; ESPN Miss. State by 5
Music City: Louisville vs. Texas A&M Dec. 30, 4 p.m.; ESPN Pick
Holiday: Wisconsin vs. USC Dec. 30, 7:30 p.m.; ESPN USC by 3
Peach: Houston vs. Florida State Dec. 31, 9 a.m.; ESPN Florida State by 7
Orange: Clemson vs. Oklahoma Dec. 31, 1 p.m.; ESPN Oklahoma by 31⁄2
Cotton: Alabama vs. Michigan State Dec. 31, 5 p.m.; ESPN Alabama by 9
Outback: Northwestern vs. Tennessee Jan. 1, 9 a.m.; ESPN2 Tennessee by 8
Citrus: Michigan vs. Florida Jan. 1, 10 a.m.; Channel 7 Michigan by 41⁄2
Fiesta: Ohio State vs. Notre Dame Jan. 1, 10 a.m.; ESPN Ohio State by 61⁄2
Rose: Iowa vs. Stanford Jan. 1, 2 p.m.; ESPN Stanford by 61⁄2
Sugar: Mississippi vs. Oklahoma State Jan. 1, 5:30 p.m.; ESPN Mississippi by 7
TaxSlayer: Penn State vs. Georgia Jan. 2, 9 a.m.; ESPN Georgia by 61⁄2
Liberty: Kansas State vs. Arkansas Jan. 2, 12:15 p.m.; ESPN Arkansas by 11
Alamo: Texas Christian vs. Oregon Jan. 2, 3:45 p.m.; ESPN Pick
Cactus: West Virginia vs. Arizona State Jan. 2, 7:15 p.m.; ESPN West Virginia by 1
College Football Championship Jan. 11, 5:30 p.m.; ESPN
Results
New Mexico: Arizona 45, New Mexico 37 Las Vegas: Utah 35, Brigham Young 28
Camellia: Appalachian State 31, Ohio 29 Cure: San Jose State 27, Georgia State 16
New Orleans: La. Tech 47, Arkansas St. 28
TODAY’S BOWL GAME
Miami Beach Bowl
WESTERN KENTUCKY (11-2) vs. SOUTH FLORIDA (8-4)
When: 11:30 a.m. PST (ESPN). Where: Miami.
Line: Western Kentucky by 21⁄2.
Series: South Florida leads, 4-2.
Story line: Western Kentucky’s Brandon Doughty goes into
his college finale with 12,394 yards passing, 991 completions
and 108 touchdown passes. For South Florida, a rebound sea-
son would have to already be considered a success and a bowl
victory would make it that much sweeter.
— associated press
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
MEN’S TOP 25
No. 25 Connecticut 88, Massachusetts Lowell 79: Rodney
Purvis scored 28 points for the Huskies (7-3), who led by as
many as 14 points in the second half. Jahad Thomas led the
River Hawks (4-7) with 19 points.
SOUTHLAND MEN
at Cal State Northridge 79, Bethesda 49: Kendall Smith
scored 22 points, and Tavrion Dawson had 21points and13 re-
bounds for the Matadors (4-7). The Flames (1-11) shot 27.7%
from the field.
at UC Riverside 95, Life Pacific 48: DJ Sylvester had 20
points and seven rebounds for the Highlanders (7-5), who
made 11 of 26 three-point shots. The Warriors (1-14) have lost
12 games in a row.
SOUTHLAND WOMEN
at USC 68, Albany 67: Brianna Barrett and Courtney Jaco
each scored 18 points for the Trojans (11-0) in the final of the
Women of Troy Classic. Jaco’s three-point basket with five
seconds to play was the winner and helped USC to its best
start since 1982-83. Shereesha Richards had 33 points for the
Great Danes (8-3).
SOUTHLAND MEN TODAY
UC Santa Barbara vs. Akron
(South Point Classic, at Las Vegas) ...................................... noon
UC Irvine vs. Sam Houston State
(Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational, at El Paso) .......... 4 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at Portland............................................ 6 p.m.
Pepperdine at Gonzaga........................................................... 6 p.m.
WOMEN
UCLA at California.................................................................... 7 p.m.
USC TONIGHT
VS. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS EDWARDSVILLE
When: 8.
Where: Galen Center.
On the air: TV: Pac-12 Networks; Radio: 710.
Update: USC (9-2) is taking on SIUE (3-7) in men’s basket-
ball for the first time. The Trojans have outscored their last
four opponents by an average of 15.5 points per game. Since
joining the Ohio Valley Conference in 2010, the Cougars have
yet to finish a season with a winning record.
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ART REVIEW

Honed
to a
sharp
point
Provocative ‘Hard
Edged’ exhibit widens
the perception of the
work of black artists.
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT
ART CRITIC

The initial efflorescence

of important African Ameri-
can art in postwar Califor-
nia, especially Los Angeles,
is typically seen as emerging
through assemblage tech-
niques. Found objects were
cobbled together into reso-
nant talismans with social
and spiritual heft.
That was a central focus
of “Now Dig This! Art and
Black Los Angeles, 1960-
1980,” the marvelous 2011
survey at the UCLA Ham-
mer Museum. Now comes a
sprawling show at the Cali-
fornia African American
Museum that seeks to
slightly shift the frame of ref-
erence.
“Hard Edged: Geometri-
cal Abstraction and Be-
yond” is more a sketch than
a finished show, absent a
catalog and a fully devel-
oped thesis. But it is provoc- David James Disney / LucasFilm Ltd.
ative. And the abundance of “STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS” features a diverse cast, including John Boyega as Finn and Daisy Ridley as Rey.

Galactic diversity
compelling work, including a
surprise or two, makes it well
worth seeing.
Near the entry, Daniel
LaRue Johnson’s 1964 paint-
ing “Big Red” starts things
off with a sly challenge.
When included in the Ham-
mer show, it represented the
assemblage strategy. It does
here too, although now the
emphasis is on its use of as-
semblage specifically as a
foil for geometric abstract
painting.
‘Force’ now Finding the
In the center of a large
crimson square, one half sol-
id and the other half almost
reflects our villain behind
imperceptibly striped, a
black square is edged in
screaming yellow and crisp
own world that mask
white. Embedded in the vis-
cous, tar-like pitch of the
black square is a tangled By Rebecca Keegan By Meredith Woerner
cluster of chicken wire and
egg cartons. The first sign that “Star Wars: His identity shielded by a
The roughly 5-foot com- The Force Awakens” is different scuffed-up mask, “Star Wars: The
position recalls contempo- from the six “Star Wars” films that Force Awakens’” villain Kylo Ren
raneous abstract paintings came before it arrives when Rey, the could be mistaken for a DIY cos-
by artists such as Billy Al protagonist played by 23-year-old player if his rage and malevolent
Bengston, in which a sign- English actress Daisy Ridley, ap- powers weren’t so intimidating.
like field of slick color was pears on-screen in a weather-beat- But behind each scar is something
marked with a centralized en tunic, slouchy pants and a pair of more.
emblem. Johnson began to rugged boots perfectly suited to a We spoke with Adam Driver, the
affix ruined objects to his ab- hardscrabble life of scavenging on face behind the eyeless mask of
stract paintings in the after- her desert planet. She wears no Ren, and probed his thoughts on
math of the notorious 16th high-heeled shoes, no copper- digging into the dark side and root-
Street Baptist Church plated bikini, no princess robes. Rey ing out his place in the First Order,
bombing in Birmingham, is costumed as a woman might the new iteration of the Empire.
Ala., a crime so awful that it dress herself, for herself.
galvanized the nation. Find- Rey’s sensible wardrobe is the Did you have any input in what
ing ways to adapt abstrac- first indicator of a change in the gal- the mask would look like? Or do
tion to an aesthetic of dis- axy, and the movie keeps them com- you just show up on set, and they
sent, he made a picture ing like X-wings on the horizon. The said, “This is it”?
whose brash color alone second sign arrives when a Storm- They had a very strong … I hate
shouts an alarm. trooper removes his helmet to re- to say first draft. I think they had a
The CAAM show, organ- veal the face of a black man, English lot already figured out. Then I had
ized by curator Mar Hol- actor John Boyega, whose charac- some input on [the mask] once I
Lucasfilm / TNS
lingsworth, includes paint- ter, Finn, emerges as a conflicted got there. But it was mostly sug-
ings, sculptures, prints, combatant central to the action. ADAM DRIVER portrays Kylo Ren in the J.J. Abrams-directed gestions such as, “Oh, I can’t
[See ‘Hard Edged,’ E6] [See Diversity, E4] blockbuster, the latest entry in the “Star Wars” franchise. [See Driver, E5]

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Los Angeles Times
Next generation
Cristian Macelaru
conducts a stirring
performance at
Disney Hall. E2
High concept
Muse, whose concerns
are geopolitical and
human-scale, plays
Staples Center. E3
TV grid ...................... E7
Comics ................... E8-9
Miley Cyrus’
mojo is back
The singer, post-‘Dead
Petz,’ is in memorable
form in a free-spirited
Wiltern performance.
By Mikael Wood
Miley Cyrus waited until
the end of her concert at the
Wiltern on Saturday to tell
the audience why she was
there, and maybe that was
because she hadn’t wanted
to give anyone the wrong
idea by explaining it earlier.
Seated behind a grand
piano, Cyrus described the
show as her response to a
feeling that developed while
she was on the road last year
behind her album “Bang-
erz.” The singer’s job at that
time was erasing her history
as a Disney Channel star;
“Bangerz” was self-con-
sciously outrageous, full of
in-your-face raunch and
bumptious hip-hop beats.
But partway through
that tour, Cyrus’ dog Floyd
died, and she suddenly
didn’t feel like shaking her
rump anymore, she recalled
Saturday in more vivid lan- Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
[See Cyrus, E3] MILEY CYRUS doesn’t disappoint in a wild show at the Wiltern on Saturday.
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The huge sound from Disney Hall

Conductor Cristian
Macelaru goes for the
bold as the L.A. Phil
plays Rachmaninoff.
MARK SWED
MUSIC CRITIC

Walt Disney Concert Hall

is, as always at this time of
year, decked out for Christ-
mas and Hanukkah and in
glittery expectation of New
Year’s Eve. Meanwhile, on
Friday morning, the ob-
durate Los Angeles Philhar-
monic offered, as it typically
does this time of year, no
overt acknowledgment of
holiday glad tidings or piety.
The first of three perform-
ances of the orchestra’s final
program of the year was a
morning of melancholic
Rachmaninoff.
Melancholy does, of
course, suit the season. We
think back about what we’ve
lost, what went wrong. We
are reminded we’re a year
older. We look forward and
fret, something orchestras
do quite well. World-class
worriers, they agonize over
where the next audiences
will come from and whether
Photographs by Ricardo DeAratanha Los Angeles Times
technology will kill tradi-
tional concerts. For dec- CRISTIAN MACELARU, the impressive conductor in residence of the Philadelphia Orchestra, works with the L.A. Philharmonic.
ades, doom has seemed a
downbeat away. phony debut next month Rachmaninoff ’s orchestra-
The L.A. Phil’s gift this presumably puts him in the tion of his Vocalise, one of
season, however, is other- running for the orchestra’s the world’s more popular
wise. Its stellar music direc- music director search, in melodies and, in fact, the
tor, Gustavo Dudamel, is competition with the L.A. kind of bonbon that would
still only 34. Most of the Phil’s young assistant con- not be out of place on a New
other conductors this fall ductor, Mirga Grazinyte-Ty- Year’s Eve pops concert. Ma-
have been up-and-coming la (the City of Birmingham celaru would have none of
twentysomethings and Symphony, in immediate that. He sought boldness,
thirtysomethings so accom- need of a music director, is as though wrapping the
plished that we might as well also eyeing both). hall in a thick, heavy velvet
just relax. These, along with What makes Macelaru Rachmaninoff bow that im-
several others, offer assur- impressive is the huge sound plied a gift of some extrava-
ance like never before that he gets from the orchestra. It gance and possibly deca-
the next generation of lead- is so big that one might have dence.
ers is in the wings. questioned whether the row The Second Piano Con-
Friday, it was Cristian of small loudspeakers on the certo is more popular (and
Macelaru’s turn. The im- lip of the stage, left over from pop) Rachmaninoff. If
pressive Romanian conduc- a pre-concert talk, had been you’ve been thinking about
tor in residence of the Phila- accidentally left on. They Frank Sinatra lately (what
delphia Orchestra is a year weren’t; were loudspeaker with the attention to his cen-
Dudamel’s senior. Last technology to reproduce tennial), you may have come PIANIST Kirill Gerstein provides power and idiosyncratic phrasing.
month he made his New that kind of sonic magnifi- across his early hit “Full
York Philharmonic debut cence, orchestras really Moon and Empty Arms,” torch song newly fashion- was granitic and gargantu- have had no better instruc-
beginning that orchestra’s would have something to based on a melody from the able, singing it on his recent an. The audience got ex- tor than clarinetist Michele
three-week Rachmaninoff worry about. concerto’s slow movement. album “Shadows in the cited. Zukovsky, who retired Sun-
festival. His San Diego Sym- The concert opened with Bob Dylan has made the Night.” For the Symphonic day after 54 years in the or-
The soloist was Kirill Dances, Rachmaninoff ’s chestra.
Gerstein, a Russian pianist last major work and his A noted musician in the
with a wide perspective who greatest orchestral score, audience Friday told me
has used some of his Gil- Macelaru further increased that he learns something
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MILEY CYRUS is the center of this universe during a two-hour production at the Wiltern theater on Saturday night that also included a fierce plea for animal rights.
She’s a rebel with a clear cause
[Cyrus, from E1]
guage. Instead, she wanted
to be surrounded by people
who understood the pain of
losing a beloved animal, who
shared her conviction that
“nature is always right,” as
she put it, and that the envi-
ronment must be defended
from man’s unfeeling en-
croachments. And so, “Miley
Cyrus & Her Dead Petz,” an
album and accompanying
road show, were born.
You can imagine what
this little speech might’ve
portended if Cyrus had de-
livered it at the beginning of
Saturday’s concert: an In-
digo Girls gig, perhaps. And
that’s definitely not what it
was like at the Wiltern,
where the eye-popping two-
hour production featured
wild costumes, ample drug
talk and one sequence in
which the singer pole-
danced while dressed as an
oversized baby, diaper and
all.
But if Cyrus’ earnest
proclamation seemed out of
sync with her free-spirited
performance, the conviction
behind it provided an energy
and a sense of purpose al-
most entirely lacking from
the “Dead Petz” album,
which she wrote and record-
ed with veteran psych-rock
band the Flaming Lips,
among other collaborators.
Released online after Cyrus’
appearance as the host of
this year’s MTV Video Music
Awards, the record is a
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England’s Muse mingles message, melody
The group’s concerns
fuel a high-concept
stage production at
Staples Center.
By Steve Appleford
The journeymen of Muse
are masters in the art of sub-
version. It can be heard in
their mingling of message
and melody as singer Matt
Bellamy urges, “You can re-
volt!” on the trio’s new al-
bum, “Drones,” within the
most disarmingly sunny vo-
cal imaginable.
Most of the new album is
a lot noisier and just as an-
gry. The band from Devon,
England, is often at its best
while operating in a state of
grand ambition and genera-
tional panic, not unlike Pink
Floyd’s later albums with
DO IT!, Cyrus urges the audience — and the crowd responds with a show of hands and smartphone action.
slackly paced mishmash of
dopey chants and drifting
electronic textures; it sug-
gests a punk’s tragic evolu-
tion into a hippie.
At the Wiltern, though,
songs like “Dooo It!” and “I
Roger Waters. Its concerns
are geopolitical and human-
scale and were enough to
fuel a massive high-concept
stage production Friday at
Staples Center, in the first of
two sold-out nights.
The band’s two-hour set
began in the dark, with the
rising, ethereal voices of the
title song, “Drones,” as sev-
eral large transparent
globes floated above the
crowd like Spielberg UFOs,
both peaceful and vaguely
threatening. The song had
the sound of ancient, sacred
music but on a circular
screen were the lyrics: “Our
lives between your fingers
and your thumb / Can you
feel anything? Are you dead
inside? Now you can kill
from the safety of your home
with drones.”
Muse is clearly uncom-
fortable with the concept of
drone warfare, but the larg-
er themes of its “Drones
Forgive Yiew” sounded
jumpy and forceful, with
some of the brazen intensity
of the “Bangerz” material.
And Cyrus brought real
emotion to ballads such as
“Karen Don’t Be Sad” and
World Tour” are longtime
interests of the band: war
and peace, oppression from
government and technolo-
gy, the coming apocalypse
and what comes after. In
2011, that sociopolitical
angst was enough for Muse
to be invited by Rage
Against the Machine to per-
form at its L.A. Rising festi-
val at the Coliseum. Where
some hear only prog overkill
and pop hysteria in Muse,
fans find meaning and an
ongoing legacy of engaging
hooks.
Before the new album,
we last heard the trio during
repeated airings of “Sur-
vival,” its theme song for the
2012 Summer Olympics,
which soared with eccentric
melodies and images of tri-
umph like a collaboration
between Sparks and Leni
Riefenstahl (“I’ll never lose /
And I choose to survive /
Whatever it takes ...”) It ap-
“The Floyd Song (Sunrise),”
both of which displayed her
strong singing. “Pablow the
Blowfish,” inspired by an-
other of her dearly departed
pets, was uncomfortably in-
timate (in a good way), a
peared on the album “The
2nd Law.”
Things have grown only
bigger for Muse since then.
Its performance at Staples
was marked by multilayered
computer animations and
flying objects, as Bellamy
and bassist Chris Wolsten-
holme sprinted across three
circular stages connected by
a catwalk. Fans surrounded
on all sides, absorbing a col-
lision of modern rock, metal,
electro-pop and ’70s prog.
The concert’s peaceful
hymnal opening song was
shattered by the guitar
crunch of “Psycho,” with a
thumping beat from drum-
mer Dominic Howard, as
Bellamy pushed the mes-
sage further, singing: “Are
you a human drone? Are you
a killing machine?”
The pleading vocal on
“Dead Inside” was con-
trasted by “Hysteria,” the
2007 single that erupted
M O N DAY, D E C E M B E R 21, 2 015
Photographs by
quality Cyrus put to even
more effective use in “BB
Talk,” about being grossed
out by a lover’s public dis-
play of affection.
As her backing band, the
Flaming Lips gave the music
with an operatic wail and an
Aerosmith-style riff played
by Bellamy. “The 2nd Law:
Isolated System” began
with a heartbeat rhythm on
drums, and fans clapping
along, as computer-ani-
mated hands controlled
strings that reached down
to Bellamy and Wolsten-
holme.
Bellamy shifted into
some Hendrix-style feed-
back and falsetto vocals to
open “Supermassive Black
Hole,” as globes returned to
float around the stage. He
sat at a grand piano for
“United States of Eurasia,”
which began almost too qui-
etly for the room, then ex-
ploded with crescendo after
crescendo, far more Queen
than Floyd, before Bellamy
and piano descended into
the stage floor.
The trio was augmented
throughout by keyboardist
Morgan Nicholls. Muse piled
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Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
new shape and heft that
kept it from dissipating the
way it does on “Dead Petz.”
At times, the band pushed
the sound toward pop, as in
“Lighter,” a shimmering
1980s-style love song, and
“Fweaky,” which could’ve
passed for some kind of al-
ternate-universe Cher jam.
Not everything worked so
well. A sub-Pink Floyd dirge,
“Tiger Dreams” was irre-
deemably dreary, while “Evil
Is but a Shadow” felt like bad
Lana Del Rey. But even in
performing those songs, Cy-
rus seemed more driven
than she does in their re-
corded versions, as though
she had a destination in
mind.
The concert ended with
“We Can’t Stop,” one of just a
couple of old tunes she per-
formed. On “Bangerz,” the
song is a cheerful provoca-
tion from a young artist no
longer bound by the restric-
tions of the kiddie-TV com-
plex. Yet here it became a
fierce plea for animal rights
as Cyrus was joined by Pam-
ela Anderson, of all people,
who held a sign reading
“Save the Whales” and had
“No Captivity” scrawled on
her exposed leg.
Often thought of as a
shallow shock artist, Cyrus
on Saturday was a misfit on
a mission, a rebel with a
clearly defined cause.
mikael.wood@latimes.com
Twitter: @mikaelwood
on more career hits late in
the set (“Time Is Running
Out,” “Uprising”) but never
broke character from the
larger themes of the night.
Even President John F. Ken-
nedy made an appearance,
through footage from a 1961
speech that warned of “a
monolithic and ruthless
conspiracy that relies pri-
marily on covert means for
expanding its sphere of in-
fluence ... on intimidation
instead of free choice.”
Near the end, the show
lingered too long on a return
of the floating globes and a
piece of recorded music with
no live musicians onstage.
But the Muse message was
delivered as planned, less a
warning than a statement
on the damage already
done. Welcome to the ma-
chine.
steve.appleford
@latimes.com
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JOHN BOYEGA’S reluctant hero Finn is a force to be reckoned with in “The Force Awakens” and a character the movie’s diverse, modern audience can get behind.
Gigantic leaps for this universe
[Diversity, from E1]
Part of the power of “Star
Wars” movies has been how
they have invited audiences
to imagine themselves as he-
roic characters in the world
George Lucas conceived
nearly 40 years ago. In 2015 —
spoiler alert — it is not only
white males who get to har-
ness the power of the Force.
While director J.J.
Abrams’ “Star Wars: The
Force Awakens” has satis-
fied many fans by returning
to the exuberant spirit of Lu-
cas’ early films, the latest
movie also creates clever,
funny, courageous new char-
acters who reflect our di-
verse, modern world.
“The Force Awakens” fol-
lows on the heels of some of
this year’s biggest hits, from
the final movie in the female-
led “Hunger Games” fran-
chise to the seventh film in
the ethnically diverse “Fast
and Furious” series, which
affirmed that audiences
show up when they see char-
acters on-screen who look
something like them.
With a $200-million pro-
duction budget and satura-
tion marketing by distribu-
tor Disney, “The Force
Awakens” is, financially and
culturally, the largest movie
ever to reflect such an inclu-
sive approach to casting.
The breadth in casting
extends to supporting roles,
including gifted rebel pilot
Poe Dameron, played by
Guatemala-born actor Os-
car Isaac; Maz Kanata, a
computer-generated, thou-
sand-year-old female pirate
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Hathaway. In a world where
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Rooting out a place in First Order

[Driver, from E1] more of a satellite group ago, in a galaxy far away,
move,” or “I can’t see.” than I would say ... This is and has this franchise title,
The eyes were a thing really tricky. it’s really just like working
that J.J. [Abrams, the film’s on anything else. You have
director] and I talked about Is that why everything you to ground it into something
early. I thought what was so have is a bit broken down? real, and make it make
great about the [Darth] No, there’s definitely a sense. And then hopefully
Vader mask was how you history that you see in the tell the story that everyone’s
projected your emotions costume of things in the kind of agreed on, the best
onto him, and you could see past right away. They’re you can.
his eyes. I was kind of nerv- kind of like visible scars, on
ous that in being fully his outfit. In part to intimi- What “Star Wars” charac-
cloaked, you have to really date but also because he’s ter would you say Kylo Ren
rely on the power of carrying along this history is most obsessed with?
thought, and that it’s pow- of people. Darth Vader. He’s a fan
erful enough that it will get of his work. [Kylo Ren] feels
through being concealed. Signing up to be in the new that he was actually onto
Then J.J. actually took out “Star Wars” is such a mas- something, even though in
the eyes out of the mask, to sive undertaking. What was Vader’s final moments
make it a void, which I it like working with the where he kind of relents.
thought was really inter- legacy players? Was it ever That even could be inter-
esting. intimidating? preted as just a moment.
I didn’t find them to be Not to taint an entire life, or
Do you think that void people who would say, “Let career, of doing good work.
relates to your character? David James Disney / Lucasfilm me sit you down and tell you For [Kylo Ren] it’s just a
The costume really says ADAM DRIVER sees Kylo Ren, front, as “a fan” of Darth Vader’s work. what your experience is moment.
a lot about him before he going to be on this.” They
says anything. [Kylo Ren’s] there was something about “Star Wars” be fanatical commit this mass murder. gave you space and let you What does he see in himself
helmet is unpolished and someone who decides to about the Empire or the You have the Death Star find this on your own, very that he sees in Darth Va-
unfinished. It’s not refined. completely hide themselves New Order? [that was destroyed] and all humble and very generous. der?
It’s shiny in parts and re- that I felt was kind of inter- I feel like that’s true to the people that were on I remember being very The commitment. Also,
flects back what it sees. esting, and maybe that’s life. People have such short there, they all had families overwhelmed by the idea of the ambition, and the loy-
These are all metaphors hopefully worked its way memories. How quickly we and things like that. The line doing something on this alty. The self-sacrifice in
that you can’t really play, into the movie. forget what happened just between the light and the scale alone, but then it also him. They’re all huge, epic
but it’s good information. 30 years ago. Even the very dark is very fine, I’d say. being a “Star Wars” movie, things to live up to. Even as
His lightsaber, you got the What does that say about beginning. It’s still called and calling J.J. and talking. an audience member, we
sense that it was home- your character, that he’s “Star Wars,” even though it’s Where does Kylo Ren stand It’s kind of overwhelming, discovered Darth Vader
made, and it could sponta- making his own lightsaber? 30 years later. in the hierarchy of the and I remember him saying, first as someone who’s very
neously combust at any That he’s unfinished? It’s two sides of people Empire? “Well, you know, with any- in control and controlled
minute. It didn’t really seem That he’s ambitious. that think they’re right. That’s difficult to say. I thing, we’ll break it into and didn’t seem to waver
like it was really reliable. That he’s aware of the world That’s just something that think it fluctuates. moments, and we’ll solve whatsoever in his mission.
that has gone before him, as J.J. and I talked about from one moment, and that’ll That kind of dedication is
It cackles. they’re picking up 30 years the very beginning. Just So who are the Knights of lead to this moment, and something my character
Yeah, it works, but may- after the originals, so that’s being evil for the sake of it Ren? that’ll lead to this moment, admires and wants to emu-
be it’s not fully realized. The a reality that happened. didn’t seem interesting to It was a group that ex- and then hopefully at the late.
costume — even putting it play. The idea of two sides isted before him, that he end of it, we’ll have a movie.”
on at first — was very un- Why would someone who’s thinking that they’re both was a part of. Their place And I said, “Oh, of course.” meredith.woerner
comfortable and tight. But aware of the history of right, both sides kind of within everything is maybe Even though it is a long time @latimes.com

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SPECTRE (PG-13) 11:50, 3:15, 6:55, 10:20
SPOTLIGHT (R) 10:55, 2:00, 5:05, 8:10, 11:15
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 12:20, 3:40,
6:55, 10:10
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 10:50, 12:10, 1:25, 2:45, 4:00, 5:20, 6:50,
8:10, 9:30, 10:50, 12:01
THE NIGHT BEFORE (R) 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15
CREED (PG-13) 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 9:00, 10:15, 12:35, 1:45,
4:00, 5:15, 7:35, 8:45, 9:15, 11:00, 12:01
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:35,
10:50, 11:25, 12:00, 2:05, 2:20, 2:55, 3:30, 5:35, 5:50, 6:25, 7:00, 9:20, 9:55,
10:30
BROOKLYN (PG-13) 11:15, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35
4:10, 7:30, 10:50
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 9:30, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30
THE NIGHT BEFORE (R) 9:40, 12:15, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 11:00
CREED (PG-13) 9:10, 10:40, 12:20, 1:55, 3:40, 5:20, 7:00, 8:50, 10:40
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 10:10, 12:55, 3:30, 6:05, 8:35, 11:05
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) RESERVE 9:45, 11:45,
1:05, 3:05, 4:25, 6:25, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 11:05
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE
REALD 3D 10:25, 1:45, 2:25, 5:05, 5:45, 8:25, 9:05
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:05,
12:05, 3:25, 10:05
SISTERS (R) 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 9:00, 11:30,
2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50
9:55, 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:35
CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 10:10, 1:30, 4:35, 7:50, 10:55
CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 10:10, 1:30, 4:35, 7:50, 10:55
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:20, 1:40,
5:00, 8:20
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:20,
12:20, 1:40, 3:40, 5:00, 7:00, 8:20, 10:20
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 9:40,
1:00, 4:20, 7:40, 11:00
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 10:00,
11:00, 1:20, 2:20, 4:40, 5:40, 8:00, 9:00
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE
REALD 3D 10:00, 11:00, 11:40, 1:20, 2:20, 3:00, 4:40, 5:40, 6:20, 8:00, 9:00,
9:40
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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D
(PG-13) XTREME 9:40, 11:00, 1:00, 2:20, 4:20, 5:40,
7:40, 9:00, 10:55
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 10:00, 4:40, 11:00
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:30, 8:10
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 12:40, 3:55,
7:20, 10:40
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 9:50, 11:15, 12:50, 2:10, 3:45, 4:50, 6:40,
7:30, 9:30, 10:15
CREED (PG-13) 9:45, 12:30, 1:15, 3:30, 4:35, 6:45, 7:45, 10:00, 10:45
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:50
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 10:20, 11:40, 1:40, 3:00,
5:00, 6:20, 8:20, 9:40
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 12:20,
3:40, 7:00, 10:20
SISTERS (R) 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

SISTERS (R) 9:00, 10:20, 11:55, 1:15, 2:50, 4:10, 5:45, 7:05, 8:40, 10:05, 11:35
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 10:00, 11:10,
12:30, 1:40, 3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8:00, 9:15, 10:30, 11:45
BAJIRAO MASTANI (Not Rated) 12:25, 4:10, 7:45, 11:20
THANGA MAGAN (Not Rated) 10:05, 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 10:30, 11:30,
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) XD
REALD 3D 10:00, 1:10, 7:50, 11:05 1:20, 1:55, 3:50, 4:30, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15, 10:30
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) XD
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 1:45, 7:35 RESERVE REALD 3D 4:30 P.M.
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:50, 4:40, 10:25
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 11:15, 2:10, 5:15, 8:15, 11:10
SPOTLIGHT (R) 10:45, 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:50, 12:55, 3:45,
CREED (PG-13) 11:55, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 6:35, 9:45 THE POLAR EXPRESS (G) 10:40, 1:25, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 10:40, 1:00, 3:20, 7:00, EIGHT BELOW (PG) 4:00 P.M. INSIDE OUT (PG) 10:55, 1:30, 4:20, 6:55
9:20 IRON WILL (PG) 7:00 P.M. MINIONS (PG) 11:40, 7:25

V
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) XD
REALD 3D 9:00, 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 4:20, 10:25
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:20, 7:20
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 12:35, 3:55,
7:15, 10:15
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 9:30, 10:35, 12:10, 1:25, 2:55, 4:10, 5:30,
6:50, 8:10, 9:40
THE NIGHT BEFORE (R) 11:35, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:40
CREED (PG-13) 10:45, 11:45, 1:50, 3:00, 4:55, 6:30, 8:00, 9:35
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 9:20, 10:30, 12:05, 1:15, 2:35, 3:50, 5:10, 6:25, 7:55,
9:05, 10:35
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 9:50, 1:10, 4:05, 4:30,
6:10, 7:50, 9:30
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:25,
10:40, 11:30, 12:45, 2:00, 2:50, 5:20, 7:25, 8:40
SISTERS (R) 10:50, 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 9:10, 11:40,
2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:30,
11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30
BROOKLYN (PG-13) 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05
SISTERS (R) 10:00, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 11:00, 1:30,
4:00, 6:45, 9:30
TRUMBO (R) 10:50, 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 10:05, 7:20
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:10, 4:20, 10:20
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 11:55, 3:30,
6:45, 8:45, 10:05
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 11:20, 12:30, 2:00, 3:35, 4:40, 6:05, 7:15, 9:55
CREED (PG-13) 9:45, 12:55, 4:10, 7:35, 10:40
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 9:30, 11:50, 12:20, 3:20,
3:50, 7:00, 7:30, 10:30
SPECTRE (PG-13) 9:55, 4:20, 10:35 ANT-MAN (PG-13) 11:00, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25
SPOTLIGHT (R) 10:50, 1:55, 5:00, 8:05, 11:10 PAN (PG) 10:50, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 10:05, 1:20, GOOSEBUMPS (PG) 11:20, 4:40, 9:50
4:35, 7:40, 10:50
GOOSEBUMPS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 2:05, 7:15
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 10:30, 11:45, 1:00, 2:15, 3:30, 4:45, 6:00,
MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS (PG-13) 2:20, 9:45
7:15, 8:30, 10:00
THE NIGHT BEFORE (R) 1:40, 7:55 EVEREST (PG-13) 10:45, 4:35, 10:25
CREED (PG-13) 10:15, 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:55 EVEREST 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:40, 7:30
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 11:00 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 9:45, 12:35, 1:45, 5:05, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 3D (PG) REALD 3D 11:15, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45,
6:15, 8:25, 9:15, 9:35, 10:45, 11:15 9:20
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) RESERVE 4:00, 7:20 SICARIO (R) 11:50, 2:40, 6:15, 9:30
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:25,
CRIMSON PEAK (R) 10:20 P.M.
11:00, 11:35, 12:10, 2:20, 2:50, 3:25, 5:40, 6:45, 9:00, 10:10
SISTERS (R) 10:10, 11:40, 1:00, 2:30, 3:50, 5:20, 6:50, 8:10, 9:40, 11:05 THE LAST WITCH HUNTER (PG-13) 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10:10
THE PEANUTS MOVIE (G) 11:30, 4:30, 9:35
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 10:20, 11:25,
THE PEANUTS MOVIE 3D (G) REALD 3D 2:00, 7:00
12:45, 1:50, 3:10, 4:15, 5:35, 6:40, 8:00, 9:35, 10:30
DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL (PG) 10:30 A.M.
COOL RUNNINGS (PG) 1:15 P.M.
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 8:30, 11:00, 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50, 12:20

THE POLAR EXPRESS (G) 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00
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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:40,
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) XD
1:00, 2:10, 4:30, 5:50, 8:10, 9:20 REALD 3D 9:00, 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20
SISTERS (R) 10:30, 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 11:05, 1:40,
THE MARTIAN (PG-13) 9:30, 12:55, 4:25, 7:45, 11:10
4:15, 6:50, 9:25
SPECTRE (PG-13) 9:15, 12:40, 4:15, 7:50, 11:15
SPOTLIGHT (R) 9:30, 11:10, 12:45, 2:25, 4:00, 5:35, 7:10, 8:45, 10:25
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 9:10, 12:35,
3:55, 7:15, 10:45
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 11:15, 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00
CREED (PG-13) 9:35, 12:50, 4:05, 7:20, 10:50
CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 10:00, 1:10, 4:10, 7:40, 10:45
KRAMPUS (PG-13) RESERVE 9:00, 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) RESERVE 9:30, 11:50,
3:20, 5:50, 10:30, 12:30
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 8:20,
10:40, 1:00, 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 8:10, 9:20, 11:40
SISTERS (R) RESERVE 8:15, 11:10, 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) RESERVE
8:40, 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40, 12:10

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IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) RESERVE 10:00, 4:30, 10:30
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:20, 7:30
SPECTRE (PG-13) RESERVE 12:00, 3:30, 7:45, 11:15
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) RESERVE
12:50, 4:05, 7:20, 10:35
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) RESERVE 10:25, 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30
THE NIGHT BEFORE (R) RESERVE 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50
CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 10:45, 11:45, 1:55, 3:30, 5:05, 7:10, 8:15, 10:20,
11:25
KRAMPUS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:10, 12:45, 3:20, 5:55, 8:30, 11:10
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30,
12:30, 3:45, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:10,
4:25, 7:40, 11:00
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 11:15,
1:45, 2:30, 5:45, 8:20, 11:40
SISTERS (R) RESERVE 10:20, 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) RESERVE
11:00, 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15
ShowtimeS Valid 12/21/15 ONLY
IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG-13) 9:00, 12:15, 3:30,
6:45, 10:00
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 10:00, 4:20, 10:10
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:25, 7:15
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 11:00, 12:35,
2:10, 3:45, 5:20, 6:55, 9:10, 10:05
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 10:30, 11:35, 12:15, 1:00, 2:05, 2:45, 3:30,
4:40, 5:15, 6:15, 7:10, 7:45, 9:00, 9:40, 10:15
THE NIGHT BEFORE (R) 10:45, 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15
CREED (PG-13) 11:30, 12:55, 2:35, 4:05, 5:40, 7:10, 9:25, 10:15
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 10:15, 12:00, 1:10, 2:30, 3:50, 5:00, 6:20, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 9:50, 11:20, 1:05, 2:35,
4:20, 4:50, 5:50, 7:35, 8:05, 9:05, 10:50
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:25,
10:20, 10:50, 12:40, 1:35, 2:05, 3:55, 5:20, 7:10, 8:35, 10:25
SISTERS (R) 9:40, 11:15, 1:35, 2:15, 4:25, 5:10, 7:15, 8:00, 10:05, 10:50
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 9:05, 10:30,
11:25, 12:55, 1:55, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 6:55, 8:10, 9:30, 10:35
BAJIRAO MASTANI (Not Rated) 11:00, 2:30, 6:10, 9:45
THE DANISH GIRL (R) 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 9:40, 11:00, 1:00, 2:20,
4:20, 5:40, 7:40, 9:00, 11:00
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:20,
11:40, 1:40, 3:00, 5:00, 6:20, 8:20, 9:40, 11:40
SISTERS (R) 10:35, 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 10:55, 1:35,
4:10, 6:45, 9:30
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 11:20, 5:30
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 2:20, 8:30
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 11:00, 11:40, 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7:10,
8:00, 9:40, 10:40
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 11:30, 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 11:20, 2:40, 6:00, 9:20
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:40,
1:00, 4:20, 7:40
SISTERS (R) 10:00, 12:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 10:40, 1:20,
3:50, 6:30, 9:10
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG-13) 10:05, 4:05, 10:05
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:05, 7:05
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 (PG-13) 9:50, 11:25,
1:00, 2:35, 4:10, 5:40, 7:20, 9:05, 10:25
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) 10:20, 11:40, 12:55, 2:20, 3:35, 4:55, 6:20,
7:40, 9:10, 10:15
CREED (PG-13) 9:40, 11:15, 12:50, 2:25, 3:55, 5:35, 7:10, 8:50, 10:15
KRAMPUS (PG-13) 11:20, 12:45, 2:05, 3:25, 4:45, 6:05, 7:25, 8:45, 9:55
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG-13) 10:40, 12:20, 2:30, 3:40,
6:10, 7:00, 8:40, 10:20
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:45,
11:00, 11:30, 1:10, 2:00, 2:50, 4:30, 5:20, 5:45, 7:50, 9:00, 9:30
SISTERS (R) 10:35, 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 9:55, 12:25,
2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30
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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG13)
KN 9:45 AM, 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 PM Dolby Vision and
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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D
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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG13)
KN (9:00 AM, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00, 11:40, 12:40, 1:40, 2:05,
2:50, 3:50, 4:50, 5:10), 6:00, 7:00, 7:15, 7:45, 8:00, 8:20, 9:05,
10:10, 10:50, 11:10, 11:30, 11:45 PM
Also Showing At Northridge Fashion Center
DIGITAL 3D
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
3D (PG13) KN (10:00 AM, 10:45, 12:05, 1:10, 1:55, 3:10,
4:15, 5:05), 6:20, 7:20, 8:15, 9:30, 10:30, 11:25 PM
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG)
KN (8:35 AM, 9:15, 9:50, 11:35, 12:20, 1:55, 2:40, 3:10, 4:15, SPECTRE (PG13) (4:05 PM)
5:00), 6:35, 7:15, 9:30, 11:50 PM
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SISTERS (R) KN (8:50 AM, 10:55, 12:05, 1:40, 4:25), 7:45,
8:30, 9:00, 10:30, 11:15, 12:00 AM
Also Showing At Northridge Fashion Center
BRIDGE OF SPIES (PG13) (3:00, 5:05 PM)
BROOKLYN (PG13) (8:40 AM, 9:40, 12:15, 4:30 PM)
CREED (PG13) (9:25 AM, 11:25, 2:50, 5:40), 7:50, 10:40, 11:15 PM
Also Showing At Northridge Fashion Center
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG) (9:20 AM, 11:45, 12:30, 2:10,
5:25), 7:00, 9:25 PM
Also Showing At Northridge Fashion Center
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2
(PG13) (11:30 AM, 2:20, 5:10), 8:05, 11:00 PM
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (PG13) (9:10 AM, 11:50,
2:30, 5:05), 8:00, 10:35 PM
Also Showing At Northridge Fashion Center
KRAMPUS (PG13) (10:15 AM, 12:45, 2:25, 5:55), 8:30, 10:45 PM
Also Showing At Northridge Fashion Center
THE MARTIAN (PG13) (11:10 AM, 2:45), 8:15 PM
THE NIGHT BEFORE (R) 7:50, 10:30 PM
SPECTRE (PG13) (11:15 AM, 4:40), 10:10 PM
SPOTLIGHT (R) (8:40 AM, 2:15, 5:40 PM)
TRUMBO (R) (10:00 AM, 2:15, 5:00 PM)
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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
3D (PG13) KN (8:45 AM, 10:05, 10:45, 12:05, 1:25,
2:05, 3:25, 4:45, 5:25), 6:45, 8:05, 8:45, 10:05 PM
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (PG13)
KN (8:00 AM, 9:25, 10:25, 11:00, 11:20, 12:45, 1:45, 2:25,
2:45, 4:05, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45), 6:05, 7:25, 7:45, 8:25, 9:05, 9:25,
10:45, 11:25, 11:45 PM
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Abstract geometrics
[‘Hard Edged,’ from E1] sion of traditional African,
photographs, video and in- German Expressionist and
stallations by 46 artists. Cubist faceting of forms. ‘Hard Edged:
They range from well-estab- One askew eye stares
lished — Jacob Lawrence, straight out. The other is a
Geometrical
Noah Purifoy, Melvin Ed- blackened lozenge, either Abstraction
wards, David Hammons, blinded or looking inward.
etc. — to midcareer and The little print’s jagged
and Beyond’
younger artists, including black-and-white sharpness
Where: California African
Holly Tempo, June Ed- is the apparent “Hard
American Museum,
monds, Rashid Johnson, Edged” feature heralded in
Exposition Park, 600 State
Brenna Youngblood and Bre the show’s title, which refers Drive, Los Angeles
Gipson. Most works are to the geometric abstraction
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Christmas Day and New
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The earliest is a small, in- “d” to the end of the stand-
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tense 1948 woodcut on rice ard term denotes a certain
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paper by Elizabeth Catlett. brittle toughness. Hard
California African American Museum It shows a head in three- edged underscores a social
quarter view, its sharply jag- and political dimension to
ged features a seamless fu- the exhibition, rather than disk. The meditative pattern
purely an aesthetic one. is part textile, part nod in
Geometry is considered the direction of a notable
quite loosely. Sometimes it is predecessor, painter Alma
even a bit of a stretch — for Thomas.
instance, merely the rectilin- Textiles of a different sort
ear box inside of which an as- — namely, quilts — are con-
semblage might be con- jured by Lisa Soto in a pair of
structed. The show has nu- suspended planes of shim-
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ich; Nick Cannon; Giada
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de Laurentiis; Uniondale
Show Choir performs; Lil-
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Families showcase festive displays, including “star flakes,” (TVPG) (Season finale) The
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Minneapolis. Å tana; the Muppets. (N) Å pany stages a ballet. Dyke. (N) Å
the new HBO documen- the cast of “Disney on Ice:
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tary “Bolshoi Babylon.” 100 Years of Magic” per-
forms. (N) 9 a.m. KABC KLCS Rock N Roll Stories (TVG) Live From the Artists Den
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peek at USA’s upcoming The View 10 a.m. KABC A&E The First 48 (TV14) Å The First 48 (TVPG) Å The First 48 (TV14) The First 48
alien-occupation drama The Meredith Vieira Show AMC Miracle on 34th Street ›››› (1947) Maureen O’Hara. Å Miracle on 34th Street ›››› (1947) (10:15)
starring Josh Hollowly Ana Gasteyer (“Dawn of
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of the famed Russian bal-
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miere) Dick Van Dyke. (N)
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11 p.m. KOCE
Syfy Hellboy ››› (2004) (6:30) Men in Black II ›› (2002) Tommy Lee Jones. (PG-13) Å Attack Block
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Mad Dog and Glory (1993) a.m. KLCS TCM Where… (6:45) Girlfriends ›› (1978) Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner. (PG) Sheila Levine-New York
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phen Colbert Spike Lee.
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(1953) 5 p.m. TCM
The Late Late Show: James HBO A Little Chaos ›› (2014) Kate Bolshoi Babylon (2015) The Bolshoi Theatre Get Hard ›› (2015) Will Fer-
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CBS This Morning Nirav running out. Å Scotty have a dispute. running out. (10:10) Å (11:10)
Tolia, Nextdoor; Damian SPORTS Starz Ghost Rider ›› (2007) Nicolas Cage. A stuntman is a su- Flesh and Bone (TVMA) Kiira Honeymoon in
Lewis and Paul Giamatti. For today’s sports on TV, see pernatural agent of vengeance. (8:05) (PG-13) Å makes a big decision. Å Vegas ›››
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KENKEN
Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6
puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
Each person lives in the real-
ity of his or her feelings. Be-
cause you are sensitive to
this basic human condition
you’ll be included in some-
one’s inner circle.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Your creative efforts will
be well received, but only if
you have the courage to work
them out. The beginning
stages will be rough, but
keep going.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
Unless you’re getting the
story straight from the
source, it will be severely dis-
torted. If you’re getting it
from the source it will be only
somewhat distorted.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
You’ll be careful to steer
clear of anything with the
potential to be sacred,
loaded with extra meaning
or offensive in any way.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): In-
tuition will spark and flame
CROSSWORD
Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Joel Mackerry
ACROSS
1 With 71-Across, seasonal
visitor who’d appreciate
being warned about
the ends of 20-, 37- and
56-Across
6 Shed one’s feathers
10 Pacific island nation
14 In the slightest
15 Arabian ruler
16 Confident words
17 Andean pack animal
18 __ Day vitamins
19 Four-sided fig.
20 Boasting,
metaphorically
23 Gas, to a Brit
26 __City: computer game
27 By way of
28 One who shuns
company
31 Primary pursuit in the
working world
33 Ottawa’s prov.
34 Reformer Jacob
36 They end round
numbers
37 Former lovers
40 __-load: prep for a
marathon
43 Beige shade
44 “Goldfinger” novelist
Fleming
47 “Anchors __”: Navy
fight song
49 Not let go of
52 Eng. majors’ degrees
53 “Of course, Pierre!”
55 Did the tango
56 Accidental attack on
allied forces
60 Computes the total
61 Retro phone feature
62 Purple flower
66 Enlist again
67 Longtime “Tonight
Show” host Jay
68 Words of defeat
69 Blissful place
70 Lawn border
71 See 1-Across
DOWN
1 Actor Mineo
2 Leatherwork tool
3 FDR home loan org.
4 Musical tone color
5 With nowhere to go but
up, as one’s spirits
6 Cat call
in you. When you find that
you know immediately and
without a process of reason,
it’s an impulse to act on.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Just because a tradition or
belief has been handed down
on good authority doesn’t
make it automatically right
or beneficial to all involved.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
Don’t be afraid to ask for a fa-
vor. It won’t put the other
person off; in fact your bene-
factor will like you even more
than before.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
You might open your home
to a new creature. If you’re
already a pet owner, the care
and maintenance of your
animal will play into the day.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): While following
your heart, let your mind
ride shotgun. It will have lots
of insights and probably pro-
tests about the journey.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): When you’re not sure you
can “fake it till you make it,”
try believing instead. Deep-
7 Marriott competitor
8 Claims on property
9 Like “Hamlet”
10 Accounting partnership,
e.g.
11 Become frozen
12 Onassis’ last wife,
familiarly
13 Crying
21 Prayer-opening words
22 Pollution portmanteau
23 West Bank gp.
24 Many millennia
25 Demolition initials
29 The “vie” in “c’est la vie”
30 Swipe
32 Hi-__ monitor
35 “Nobody doesn’t like __
Lee”
37 Geisha’s sash
38 Access Facebook, say
39 World, in a Latin saying
40 Cost of a taxi
41 Gave, as a medal
42 Trace evidence at a
crime scene, e.g.
44 Business abbr.
45 Dined
46 Wordless agreement
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en your commitment.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Two realities can be cor-
rect at the same time. Agree-
ing to disagree is a middle
ground. The best course is to
seek understanding.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): The basics of an upcom-
ing event will be the same as
they were last time and the
time before. This is the ideal
day to plan the details that
will make memories.
Today’s birthday (Dec.
21): The next three weeks
time seems elastic, alter-
nately blurring fast-paced
events and turning the slow-
motion camera on other
days. When you look back
from 2016 you’ll notice much
has changed. Your lucky
numbers: 3, 30, 42, 32 and 47.
Holiday Mathis writes her
column for Creators
Syndicate Inc. The
horoscope should be read
for entertainment. More
horoscopes at
latimes.com/horoscopes.
© 2015 Tribune Content Agency
48 Circle around
a quarterback
50 Appetizing dinnertime
aroma
51 Playwright Eugene
54 Sheepish admission
57 “Monday Night
Football” channel
58 Yin and __
59 Arctic sheet
63 Mauna __
64 Sch. in Tempe
65 Pennies: Abbr.
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
12/21/15
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
Cy the Cynic and I went
to a department store for
Christmas shopping. Cy,
whose food intake over the
holidays is even higher than
usual, had been at a dinner
party the night before.
“They served peppered
salmon,” Cy told me. “I think
I ate too many portions. I
have this urge to run up the
down escalator.”
Cy continues to play by
instinct instead of with care.
He was today’s declarer.
(North’s 2NT was an artifi-
cial forcing spade raise; Cy’s
three hearts showed a sin-
gleton.) West led a high club,
and Cy won and led a trump.
East won and returned a
club, and the Cynic won and
led another trump. When
West won, he led a heart to
ASK AMY
Different ways of giving
Dear Readers: Here is my
annual gift guide for readers
who are looking to give dif-
ferently this year.
International: This is a
tender and treacherous time
for refugees and other vul-
nerable populations around
the world; the following
charities primarily serve
populations outside the
United States.
Save the Children:
Founded in 1919 to aid chil-
dren in war-ravaged Europe,
Save the Children continues
to advocate for the rights of
children worldwide — often
in times of great crisis. They
offer a ”gift catalogue” where
you can buy goats, pigs,
sheep and honeybees for at-
risk families; you can also
sponsor a child, in this coun-
try or overseas. Savethechil-
dren.org
International Rescue
Committee — Founded in
1933 at the suggestion of Al-
bert Einstein to aid Ger-
mans suffering under Hitler,
the IRC responds quickly to
global crises, aiding the
most vulnerable citizens.
Through their gift program
you can donate warm blan-
kets, a year of school or (for
$25), portable solar lights
and chargers for refugee
families on the move. Res-
cue.org
Blinknow: Small-town
New Jersey girl Maggie
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn
BLISS By Harry Bliss
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East and ruffed the club re-
turn. Down one.
To draw trumps may be
instinctive, but here declar-
er must delay. The danger of
an impending club ruff is
clear. At Trick Two, Cy leads
the jack of hearts. East wins
and returns a club, and Cy
wins in dummy and discards
his last club on the king of
hearts. He can then start the
trumps.
Question: You hold: ♠ J
10 8 4 3 ♥ J ♦ A K 7 4 ♣ A J
7.Your partner opens one
heart, you bid one spade and
he raises to three spades.
What do you say?
Answer: Your partner
has a hand worth about 17
points in support of spades,
and unbalanced or semiba-
lanced pattern. Slam is
likely. He may hold A K 7 6, A
K 6 5 4, 3 2, Q 3. To leap
straight to six spades would
Doyne went on an overseas
trip after high school that
changed scores of lives. In re-
mote Surkhet, Nepal, with
help from her neighbors
back home, Doyne founded
a home and school that now
serves hundreds of children
and their parents. You can
buy sandals, medicine or a
year’s supply of diapers for
the babies they take in.
Blinknow.org
Doctors Without Bor-
ders: This international, in-
dependent and politically
impartial humanitarian or-
ganization sends medical
teams and relief supplies to
treat and help people made
vulnerable by war or na-
tional disaster. Ninety per-
cent of their budget comes
from private donations.
Doctorswithoutborders.org
Veterans: According to
Census Bureau statistics,
there are currently 21.8 mil-
lion military veterans in the
United States. Government
statistics estimate that ap-
proximately 47,725 veterans
are homeless on any given
night.
Homes for Our Troops: I
appreciate the simplicity be-
hind the mission of Homes
for Our Troops -- building
specially adapted homes
and giving them, mortgage-
free, to severely injured vet-
erans. This highly rated
charity has granted 190 spe-
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
BALLARD STREET By Jerry Van Amerongen
be reasonable. If you prefer
to go slowly, cue-bid four
clubs, intending to cue-bid
five diamonds later.
South dealer
N-S vulnerable
NORTH
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♦ Q 10
♣ K Q 10 8
WEST EAST
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♦8532 ♦J96
♣93 ♣6542
SOUTH
♠ J 10 8 4 3
♥J
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♣AJ7
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
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3♥ Pass 4♠ All Pass
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cially adapted homes to vet-
erans since its founding in
2004. Hfotusa.org
The Warriors and Quiet
Waters Foundation was
formed by a Vietnam War
veteran who returned to his
hometown of Bozeman,
Montana, in 1969. Their vi-
sion is to help wounded serv-
ice members with traumatic
injuries heal from their
wounds through the experi-
ence of fishing and floating
on the pristine rivers of Mon-
tana. The foundation is now
hoping to build a lodge,
which can accommodate the
physical challenges of the
disabled veterans during
their time on the river. War-
riorsandquietwaters.org
Education: Donors
Choose: Children benefit
when teachers can design
and deliver special supplies
and projects to their class-
rooms. On the Donors
Choose website, teachers
ask for materials and donors
deliver. You can help fund
books, art supplies and
projects in your own com-
munity. Donorschoose.org
Artists for Humanity:
This Boston-based organi-
zation connects young peo-
ple with creative jobs. Afh-
boston.org
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to
askamy@tribune.com.
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