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US braces for shutdown
if Congress doesn’t act
Some workers may
face furloughs after
midnight deadline
Joey Garrison
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WASHINGTON – Facing a
down-to-the-wire drama, U.S.
agencies braced for a possible
federal shutdown that would
begin at the end of the day
Thursday if Congress doesn’t
pass a bill to keep the govern-
ment running.
Hundreds of thousands of
nonessential federal employ-
ees could be furloughed begin-
ning Friday – forced to take
time off without pay – if Con-
gress does not avert a shut-
down before funding expires at
the end of the fiscal year, which
occurs at midnight.
The federal workforce has
already been upended for the
past 18 months during the coro-
navirus pandemic, which
forced many government work-
ers, like other Americans, to
stay home.
The National Parks Service,
which has closed some parks
and facilities during past shut-
downs, is among the depart-
ments reviewing contingency
plans. Spokeswoman Jenny
Anzelmo-Sarles said Wednes-
day that “determinations about
specific operations and pro-
grams have not been made.”
Employees deemed neces-
sary to protect life and property
such as air traffic controllers,
law enforcement, public health
officials and firefighters would
continue to work, but they
wouldn’t be paid until Congress
appropriates funding.
“It would be devastating if
there’s a shutdown,” said Max
Stier, president and CEO of the
Partnership for Public Service,
a nonprofit focused on good
governance. He pointed to the
pressures the pandemic placed
on workers and said although
the federal government would
maintain emergency services,
“it does that at a real cost” by
not paying employees.
“I’ve described this as burn-
ing down your house in the
middle of a blizzard,” he said.
“And that’s being kind.”
The last government shut-
Moderates flex their influence
Manchin, Sinema
show limits of
Biden agenda
Ledyard King
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WASHINGTON – “It’s not
possible.”
With three words, Sen. Joe
Manchin Wednesday demon-
strated the constraints facing
President Joe Biden and his al-
lies on Capitol Hill as they try to
push through Congress a far-
reaching expansion of federal
social, economic and climate
programs.
The West Virginia Democrat
was referring to the prospects
that he could reach agreement
with the White House on legis-
lative language or at least the
framework of such a bill by
Thursday, the day when the
House is scheduled to vote on a
bipartisan infrastructure bill
that moderates demand must
pass now. Manchin’s com-
ments put that vote further in
doubt because liberals have
said they will oppose it unless a
deal on the larger bill has been
struck between Biden, Man-
chin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema,
D-Ariz.
Manchin said there was no
chance that he would agree to a
deal on the social spending
package by Thursday – in effect
daring left-leaning lawmakers
Chuck Schumer says the
Senate could work quickly
to extend funding to Dec. 3.
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down lasted 35 days and start-
ed Dec. 21, 2018, when Donald
Trump was president. It fol-
lowed brief shutdowns in Janu-
ary and February 2018.
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said the administra-
tion is focused on getting a bill
to fund the government passed
in Congress but the Office of
Management and Budget has
been working on contingen-
cies. Each federal department
and agency submitted plans to
OMB on what a shutdown
would mean for its workers.
“They are costly, disruptive
and damaging,” Psaki said, not-
ing that the Congressional Bud-
get Office found a partial shut-
down in 2019 cost the economy
$11 billion.
Psaki cited additional
“harmful effects” – more than
6,000 firefighters battling wild-
fires would not receive a pay-
check and about 43% of Health
and Human Service employees
and 60% of IRS employees
would be furloughed. She said
Americans seeking to secure an
Federal Housing Administra-
tion loan could face delays and
veterans could face delays se-
curing services.
Congress hasn’t scheduled
votes to extend funding the
government, but leaders from
both parties said it could take
action Thursday before the
midnight deadline.
Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said
the Senate could work quickly
to extend government funding
to Dec. 3.
“We can approve this mea-
sure quickly and send it to the
House, so it can reach the
to defeat the infrastructure bill,
which has broad bipartisan
support.
“It’s not possible,” Manchin
said Wednesday afternoon out-
side the Capitol. “What’s possi-
ble is to sit down and have a
good, frank negotiation and
pass the infrastructure bill.”
Biden’s agenda lies in his
ability to win over Manchin and
Sinema on a bill that began as a
$3.5 trillion blueprint to ex-
pand safety net programs and
climate resilience but is likely
to be smaller since both sena-
tors will have a large say in
what passes an evenly divided
Senate that Democrats control
by Vice President Kamala Har-
ris’ tiebreaking vote.
The Senate passed the infra-
structure bill in August with
Republican support. It would
provide tens of billions of dol-
lars for new roads, rails and
transit, as well as money for
broadband expansion and elec-
tric vehicle charging stations.
The more costly “human in-
frastructure” bill calls for free
pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-
year-olds, two years of free
community college and paid
family and sick leave. It would
expand Medicare to include
dental, hearing and vision
benefits.
Manchin and Sinema raised
doubts about their ability to
support such a large package
given the spiraling federal debt
president’s desk before fund-
ing expires,” Schumer said.
The House had approved a
combined spending exten-
sion and increase in the na-
tion’s ability to borrow. Sen-
ate Republicans blocked that
measure Monday, arguing
that Democrats should raise
the debt limit on their own.
The stand-alone funding
bill – which would not touch
the debt limit – would operate
the government through Dec.
3, to give lawmakers time to
approve routine spending
measures for the fiscal year
beginning Oct. 1. The bill
would provide $28.6 billion
for disaster assistance and
$6.3 billion for Afghan refu-
gees.
Other government shut-
downs came during Barack
Obama’s presidency, when
the government ceased oper-
ations for 16 days in October
2013. The government shut
down 21 days from December
1995 to January 1996 when Bill
Clinton was president.
OMB spokesman Abdullah
Hasan said that although the
budget office fully expects
Congress to “keep our govern-
ment open, get disaster relief
to the Americans who need it
and avoid a catastrophic de-
fault,” officials are preparing
for a possible funding lapse.
Under OMB guidelines,
federal employees must work
during a shutdown if they
meet legal exceptions such as
work related to the “safety of
human life or the protection of
property.” Mandatory spend-
ing programs – including so-
cial safety net programs such
as Social Security, Medicare
and Medicaid – that don’t re-
quire annual authorization
also would continue.
Psaki said most public
health workers involved in the
efforts to increase COVID-19
vaccinations would be ex-
empted from a shutdown.
“But that doesn’t change
the fact that having services
shut down and staffing cut in
different agencies is not in the
interests of addressing any
crisis we face including the
pandemic,” she said.
Contributing: Bart Jansen
and Rick Rouan
that approaches $28 trillion.
Manchin, a fiscal conser-
vative who represents a state
Donald Trump won in the
presidential election in 2020,
said he was a “hard no” on the
price tag this month. Sinema,
who represents a state Biden
narrowly won last year, has
raised concerns about drug
pricing changes in the pro-
posal.
The deadlock over both
bills comes nearly a year be-
fore the midterm elections in
which Democrats’ majorities
in both houses of Congress
will be at stake. If Biden and
congressional Democrats are
unable to pass the changes
they campaigned on, it could
be disastrous for them next
year, said Elaine Kamarck, an
expert on Congress who di-
rects the Center for Effective
Public Management at the
Brookings Institution in
Washington.
“While I am hopeful that
common ground can be found
that would result in another
historic investment in our na-
tion, I cannot – and will not –
support trillions in spending
or an all or nothing approach
that ignores the brutal fiscal
reality our nation faces,”
Manchin said Wednesday.
“There is a better way and I
believe we can find it if we are
willing to continue to negoti-
ate in good faith.”
House panel gets its
turn with Milley, Austin
Matthew Brown
and Mabinty Quarshie
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – After deli-
vering eye-popping testimo-
nies before senators on Tues-
day, the country’s top military
brass headed to the House of
Representatives for further
grilling by lawmakers over the
U.S. withdrawal from Afghani-
stan, competition with China
and the chain of command.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair-
man Mark Milley, Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin and
U.S. Central Command Gen.
Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie
testified before the Senate
Armed Services Committee
and faced the House Armed
Services Committee on
Wednesday.
House lawmakers scruti-
nized the records of each of
the military leaders and asked
whether punishment should
be levied by President Joe Bi-
den on his top national securi-
ty advisers.
Milley defended himself
against Republican attacks
for dealing with the media,
saying he thought it was im-
portant to speak with journal-
ists.
“I believe that part of my
job is to communicate to the
media,” Milley told Rep. Jim
Banks, R-Ind.
Milley stressed that he was
not a political figure.
“I’ve done my best to re-
main personally apolitical,
and I tried to keep the military
out of actual domestic politics.
And I made a point of that
from the time I became the
chairman, and especially be-
ginning last summer,” he said.
Florida GOP Rep. Matt
Gaetz harangued Milley for
speaking with Washington
Post journalist Bob Wood-
ward for the book “Peril,” writ-
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“You spent more time with
Bob Woodward on this book
than you spent analyzing the
very likely prospect that the Af-
ghanistan government was go-
ing to fall immediately to the Ta-
liban, didn’t you?” Gaetz said.
“Not even close,” Milley re-
plied.
During further questioning
with Banks, Milley said he did
not regret speaking with Wood-
ward.
“I’m concerned that there’s
mischaracterizations of me be-
coming very politicized as an
individual and that it’s my will-
ingness to become politicized,
which is not true,” he said.
In an interview with ABC
News in August, Biden said no
military leaders advised him to
keep 2,500 troops in Afghani-
stan. Lawmakers quizzed the
Pentagon officials on that an-
swer both Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La.,
pressed the officials on wheth-
er they or Biden were lying
about the need to leave troops
in Afghanistan.
McKenzie and Milley de-
clined to share their personal
conversations with the presi-
dent, but they did reiterate they
had wanted 2,500 troops to re-
main behind.
“I cannot share advice I give
the president, and I will not do
that,” McKenzie said.
Milley resisted when pressed
about whether Biden was at
fault for U.S. failures in Afghani-
stan, calling it “the job of the
American people” and Congress
to judge the president.
“This is a 20-year war,” Mil-
ley said, arguing that the out-
come was the result of “a cum-
ulative effect to a series of stra-
tegic decisions that go way
back. ... There’s a whole series
of decisions that take place
over 20 years.”
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Distance adds risks
to fighting terrorists
Experts: Relying on
drones can lead to errors
Tom Vanden Brook
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Civilian casualties,
like the deaths of 10 people in Kabul in a
botched U.S. drone strike, are likely to
continue under the Biden administra-
tion’s “over the horizon” policy of attack-
ing suspected terrorists from a distance,
according to experts and based on a
Pentagon report.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed
in U.S. airstrikes in recent years, accord-
ing to Pentagon figures, in the same re-
gions from Africa to Afghanistan that
will be targeted under the Biden admini-
stration’s “over the horizon” approach,
which will rely on long-range drones and
other aircraft to strike targets in Afghani-
stan and other global hot spots.
Gathering the intelligence to target
those terrorists and avoid killing civil-
ians has become more difficult with the
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghani-
stan and limited deployments of Amer-
ican forces elsewhere, said Seth Jones,
director of the Transnational Threats
Project at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies. U.S. command-
ers previously had been able to tap local
sources for information on suspected
terrorists, developing patterns of life be-
fore striking.
“Ideally you want your own eyes on
the target,” Jones said. “You want to
know what color his underwear is, and
what he brushes his teeth with.”
Afghan residents and family of victims
gather around a vehicle a day after a
US drone airstrike in Kabul in August.
WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
A potential problem with the tactic:
Terrorists will surround themselves with
civilians, knowing that U.S. forces are
loath to kill innocent people.
In testimony to the Senate on Tues-
day, the top commander in the Middle
East acknowledged that targeting ter-
rorists has become more challenging.
“As we go forward in our ability to
create what we call the ecosystem that
allows you to see what’s going on in the
ground ... (it’s) going to get a lot harder
to do that – particularly in places like Af-
ghanistan,” said Marine Gen. Kenneth
McKenzie, chief of U.S. Central Com-
mand.
Dynamic vs. deliberate targets
The problem is particularly acute in
what the military refers to as “dynamic”
targets. Those are suspected terrorists
believed to pose an imminent threat to
U.S. troops or interests. “Deliberate” tar-
gets are those that are struck after a long
period of surveillance and various forms
of intelligence that could include inform-
ants and intercepted communication.
The tragic error in the Kabul strike is
an example of a dynamic target, said
Scott Murray, a retired Air Force intelli-
gence colonel. Murray helped develop
targets for the initial strikes against the
Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria
and had deployments to Afghanistan.
Over-the-horizon targeting can com-
pensate for the lack of informants by
fusing intercepted communications,
high-definition video and other imagery
for deliberate targets, he said.
The 10 people, including seven chil-
dren, killed in Kabul by a Hellfire missile
fired by a Reaper drone proves the limita-
tion of relying on those streams of intelli-
gence for dynamic targets. Military com-
manders who ordered the strike were
outside Afghanistan, according to the
Pentagon. The strike came days after ter-
rorists of a self-proclaimed affiliate of the
Islamic State called ISIS-K killed 13 U.S.
troops and 170 Afghan civilians outside
Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Military officials initially assessed
that the strike had killed at least one
suspected suicide bomber and no ci-
vilians. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hailed
it as “righteous.” Part of the assess-
ment came from an explosion after a
white Toyota Corolla had been struck
by the missile. A second explosion had
been thought to be caused by explo-
sives in the car, but further investiga-
tion determined the explosion had
been caused by a propane tank that
had been on the ground.
“It’s the dynamic targeting that will
suffer the most,” Murray said. “The sit-
uation on the ground is never as it
seems from the air.”
What ‘over the horizon’ may mean
Lacking human sources of intelli-
gence on the ground, the military relies
on video from drones and intercepted
communications to identify targets.
More than 60 pieces of intelligence
and imagery from several Reaper
drones led to the wrong conclusion
and the Kabul strike, according to the
military.
“When you rely on imagery, you can
make huge mistakes,” Jones said.
Those mistakes probably will result
in civilians being killed, he said. It’s
unclear how such mistakes will affect
U.S. standing among its allies and ad-
versaries.
“There’s so little studied on this,”
Jones said. “It’s a problem that I’m not
sure the U.S. government has done any
serious analysis on – what the impact
of the civilian casualties has been.”
Another possibility is that, lacking
good intelligence from human sources,
commanders will take fewer shots at
suspected terrorists, said retired Maj.
Gen. Mark Quantock, who was the top
intelligence officer for Central Com-
mand.
Lethal targeting requires positive
identification of the suspected terror-
ist, he said. Without solid intelligence,
you usually don’t take the shot. Terror-
ists can also be aware that U.S. forces
are reluctant to fire on targets sur-
rounded by children, women and other
bystanders.
Iraq, Syria hit hardest
Pentagon officials said the drone
strike in Afghanistan on Aug. 29 was a
tragic mistake and have launched in-
vestigations to determine what went
wrong. The Pentagon’s own account-
ing shows deaths and injuries to civil-
ians in places like Syria and Iraq have
occurred with alarming frequency in
recent years.
The annual report, released last
month, noted that the toll continues to
change as investigators sort through
claims from years ago. The report cites
2017 as a particularly bloody year for ci-
vilians in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. It
found 200 reports of civilian casualties
in Iraq and Syria that year as “credible.”
The attacks killed 892 civilians and
wounded 232, according to Michael
Howard, a Pentagon spokesman.
Civilian casualties dropped dramat-
ically in 2020, according to the report.
The decline to 23 civilians killed and 10
wounded in U.S. attacks in 2020 came
as the U.S.-led air war and local ground
forces took back virtually all the ground
that Islamic State fighters had seized in
Iraq and Syria beginning in 2014.
Civilian casualty payouts
U.S. commanders also take precau-
tions that routinely go beyond require-
ments in the law of war to protect civil-
ians, Howard said. When civilians
have been killed or wounded, the Pen-
tagon has offered payments to fam-
ilies. In Iraq and Afghanistan, there
have been more than 15,000 payouts.
There were payments of $259,899
during fiscal year 2020 and $858,240
in 2019, Howard said.
Congress in 2020 authorized a fund
that allots $3 million a year to be used
for payments for civilian casualties.
The Pentagon also is developing a
first-of-its-kind policy to address
harm done to civilians by U.S. attacks,
Howard said.
“We recognize that our military op-
erations do result in civilian suffering,”
Howard said in a statement. “It is im-
portant that we have the right policies
and processes in place to appropriate-
ly assess and respond when civilian
harm occurs, and we continue to ac-
tively examine how we can improve
our approaches to doing so.”
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flouts federal laws. Supporters of the
policy claim it’s Abbott’s right to stop
undocumented migrants from stream-
ing into Texas if the federal govern-
ment fails at the task.
Nava and Muñoz remain in custody.
State officials could hand them over to
federal immigration agents, who may
detain or deport them. Or they could
be released into the USA to await an
immigration hearing.
Tuesday, the same judge who pre-
sided over the Nava-Muñoz case or-
dered the release of 243 migrants
arrested under Operation Lone Star on
no-cost bonds after prosecutors
agreed to the releases. Many of the
men had been jailed without charges
for more than two weeks, according to
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, which rep-
resented the migrants.
The Nava-Muñoz case and other
legal challenges could have far-reach-
ing consequences if higher courts take
up the case or other states mimic
Texas’ policy, said Alicia Torres of
Grassroots Leadership, an Austin-
based immigrants advocacy group.
“If we as a nation don’t stand up to
Texas and say, ‘Enough is enough’ …
we will see policies like Operation
Lone Star pop up across the country,”
she said.
Abbott launched Operation Lone
Star in March, deploying hundreds of
state troopers from the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety, agents, rangers
and National Guard soldiers to back up
the Border Patrol, arrest migrants slip-
ping through and combat smugglers.
As of late August, more than 4,600
people had been arrested through the
initiative for charges including crimi-
nal mischief and criminal trespassing,
according to a news release from Ab-
bott’s office.
The number of migrants encoun-
tered by the Border Patrol, especially
at the southwest border, has soared to
numbers not seen in two decades. As
of the end of August, border agents
had encountered more than 1.5 million
migrants this fiscal year, more than the
977,509 encountered during the entire
2019 fiscal year, the last time the
agency saw such high numbers.
The Border Patrol’s Rio Grande
Valley Sector in South Texas has been
the busiest sector along the U.S.-Mex-
ican border, tallying up 493,993
encounters, followed by the Del Rio
Sector, also in Texas, with 214,993,
according to statistics released by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection, which
oversees the Border Patrol.
The migrants have been drawn to
the border to escape the aftermath of
natural disasters and corruption and
violence in their home countries, as
well as by the perception that
President Joe Biden will be more
welcoming to migrants than his pre-
decessor, Donald Trump.
The Biden administration has
struggled this year to stem the flow of
undocumented border crossers while
attempting to roll back Trump-era
policies considered harsh by advo-
cates, such as Title 42, which expels
mostly adult men to Mexico without
due process to prevent the spread of
COVID-19, and the “Remain in Mexico”
policy, which places migrants in
northern Mexico border towns to
await their immigration hearing.
“Because the Biden administration
is refusing to do its duty, to enforce the
laws of the United States,” Abbott told
Fox News on Sunday, “they’ve left Tex-
as with no position other than to step
up and do what we have to do.”
His critics say Operation Lone Star
blatantly disregards the U.S. Constitu-
tion, which assigns immigration
enforcement to the federal government.
Local agencies can still communicate
with federal immigration agents and let
them know they have a person suspect-
ed of crossing the border illegally, said
Geoffrey Hoffman, director of the Uni-
versity of Houston Law Center. But state
agents arresting and processing
migrants who enter the USA without
proper documentation violates the
Constitution and the Immigration and
Nationality Act, he said.
“There’s no gray area – it’s very
clear,” Hoffman said. “What the gover-
nor’s doing here goes beyond what’s
allowed under the law.”
Abbott’s office did not respond to a
request for comment. The Texas De-
partment of Public Safety, which over-
sees Operation Lone Star, did not re-
spond to questions about the initiative.
Thomas Saenz, president and gener-
al counsel of the Mexican American
Legal Defense and Educational Fund,
said he and his organization closely
monitor the legal challenges to Opera-
tion Lone Star. Abbott’s policy not only
leads to racial profiling and infringes on
civil liberties but will dissuade Latino
residents from reporting crimes, mak-
ing communities less safe, especially in
Texas, which is 40% Hispanic, he said.
“Whenever you ask untrained law
enforcement officers to engage in immi-
gration enforcement efforts, they are
going to revert to racial profiling,” Saenz
said. “That’s exactly what an initiative
like this invites.”
“What the governor’s doing
here goes beyond what’s
allowed under the law.”
Geoffrey Hoffman
University of Houston Law Center
State troopers arrested Nava, 29, and
Muñoz, 41, on July 25 as the pair stood
on a public highway in Kinney County,
near the U.S.-Mexican border, accord-
ing to a petition filed with the court by
their attorneys. They were presented
with a pre-filled document in English,
which they didn’t understand, essen-
tially saying they had been informed of
their rights and would waive their right
to an attorney, according to the petition.
The two spent a night in Val Verde
County jail, then were transferred to the
Dolph Briscoe Unit, a state prison that
was emptied this year to make room for
the scores of migrants arrested under
Operation Lone Star. They were charged
with criminal misdemeanor trespassing
on Sept. 8 – 45 days after their arrest.
Civil rights attorneys discovered
them after Muñoz’s sister, who lives in
California, received a phone call from
her brother from the prison and franti-
cally began contacting advocacy
groups, said Torres, the Austin-based
advocate.
“It has been very challenging,” she
said. “These are two men that were
arrested and spent more than 50 days in
jail with minimum access to any outside
news or understanding of their cases.”
Others back Abbott’s decision to
deploy state assets to the border to help
stem the flow of migrants and drugs.
Jessica Vaughn, director of policy
studies at the Washington-based
Center for Immigration Studies, which
promotes stricter control on immigra-
tion, said the state troopers mostly pick
up undocumented migrants trying to
sneak past Border Patrol agents, not the
ones turning themselves in to request
asylum.
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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Vaccination
is lowest
among
pregnant
Rate is even lower
among Black women
Nada Hassanein
USA TODAY
While new data shows overall racial
disparities in COVID-19 vaccinations
are improving, federal numbers show
pregnant Black people are the least
vaccinated compared with those of
other races who are expecting.
In general, vaccination rates among
those who are pregnant have been low,
with only around 20% receiving a dose
during pregnancy, according to Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Preven-
tion data. But the rate is even lower
among those who are Black: Just 15%
are fully vaccinated, and only 13% have
received at least one dose.
Black women experience dispro-
portionate rates of maternal complica-
tions and mortality, and pregnant
women are at risk of severe illness
from COVID-19, leaving them especial-
ly vulnerable without immunization.
Women giving birth while having
COVID-19 had “significantly higher
rates” of ICU admission, intubation,
ventilation and death, according to a
study published in The Journal of the
American Medical Association. In Au-
gust alone, 21 pregnant people died of
COVID-19, according to the CDC.
The CDC says pregnant women with
COVID-19 are more likely to be
hospitalized. GETTY IMAGES
During a COVID-19 White House
briefing Tuesday, CDC Director Dr. Ro-
chelle Walensky noted the statistics
and said the vaccines were safe for
pregnant women.
Across other racial groups, the re-
ported rates of vaccinations among
pregnant people are more promising:
About a quarter of Hispanic or Latinos
have gotten a vaccine, a third of
whites, and 45% of Asians – the high-
est of any racial group. Indigenous,
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
and “other” races made up 30% of vac-
cinated pregnant people.
Scientists say vaccines are safe to
be taken while pregnant or breastfeed-
ing for both mother and baby.
Dr. Pam Oliver, a physician in ob-
stetrics and gynecology and executive
vice president at North Carolina’s No-
vant Health, said the low rate sounds
an alarm to build better health care re-
lationships with Black women.
“As a Black female OB-GYN com-
mitted to reducing disparities, equita-
ble access to care, there’s a little bit of
sadness, and concern,” she said.
“What this says is that we have a sig-
nificant hill to climb.”
Oliver said many women encounter
misinformation surrounding the vac-
cines and pregnancy on social media.
“Pregnancy is a precious time. It’s
also a time that a lot of women have
fear,” she said.
Harvard Medical School professor
Dr. Andrea Edlow said the low rate is
another manifestation of systemic
racism. She also questioned whether
people have barriers to prenatal visits.
But even if they do get to a prenatal
appointment, logistical problems like
vaccine storage could make it difficult
for clinicians to administer the shot on
the spot without wasting what re-
mains in the vial.
Edlow also cited the lack of trust in
maternal health care that could be, in
part, a result of the historic gynecolog-
ical abuses on Black women, as well as
high rates of Black maternal mortality.
“There’s a lot of reasons why Black
women in this country have a compli-
cated relationship with childbirth, and
have some fearfulness of prenatal
care, potentially going to hospitals,”
she said. “It’s definitely something
people bring up.”
Colleges alter COVID strategies
Students to make own
decisions amid change
Chris Quintana
USA TODAY
At the start of its fall semester, the
University of the South tested all its
students for COVID-19 and found just
3% were infected. That seemed like a
promising start, but today’s infection
rate is harder to pin down.
That’s because the Sewanee, Ten-
nessee, liberal arts college stopped its
testing requirements for all students a
few weeks into the semester. And rath-
er than requiring students to quaran-
tine or isolate as in the past, the uni-
versity is letting students make that
decision for themselves. The institu-
tion does require its students be vacci-
nated, with exceptions for medical
reasons or “sincerely held religious be-
lief.” About 94% of the university’s
students are vaccinated.
The institution’s approach has
changed because of the more conta-
gious nature of the delta variant and
the widespread availability of vac-
cines, said Reuben E. Brigety II, presi-
dent of the university.
“COVID-19 is likely to become en-
demic; it will not disappear,” Brigety
said. The university declined USA TO-
DAY’s request for further comment.
Faculty have been pleased with the
vaccine requirement, but not much
else. Andrea Hatcher, a professor of
politics, said a lack of testing makes it
difficult to know how widespread the
virus might be on campus.
Even among college campuses, the
divide across America is widening. A
growing number of universities are
trying to return to normal operations,
eschewing quarantine spaces, corona-
virus tests, flexible online classes and
remote work for staffers, even as the
virus remains on campuses.
Other schools are taking aggressive
stances to reduce case counts. The
University of Illinois Urbana-Cham-
paign is requiring unvaccinated un-
dergraduates to get a coronavirus test
every other day and says it may require
such testing from vaccinated people in
areas of campus with high positive test
rates. (The college requires a COVID-19
vaccine, with exceptions for medical
or religious reasons.)
At the University of the South,
Hatcher says students are missing
class and failing to turn in assign-
ments. Some professors are even con-
ducting private Zoom lessons to help
students stay on track, she said.
“It’s not enough to be told, ‘You’re
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with underlying medical conditions
and people 18 to 64 years who are at
increased risk for exposure and trans-
mission because of occupational or
institutional setting also may receive a
booster.
As per CDC guidance, hospitals and
pharmacies are relying on patients to
“self-attest” their eligibility as defined
by the guidelines to help “reduce bar-
riers to access for these select popula-
tions.”
When scheduling an appointment
with CVS, patients are asked to pro-
vide the manufacturer and date of
their COVID-19 vaccine, according to a
company release. A similar strategy is
being used at Walgreens.
“Ultimately, we are focused on re-
moving barriers and improving access
to potentially life-saving vaccines,”
said Walgreens corporate spokes-
woman Rebekah Pajak.
While it may improve access to vac-
cines, it also leaves room for people to
be dishonest. Experts warn these peo-
ple could be increasing their risk for
severe side effects, especially when
combining the Pfizer-BioNTech, Mo-
derna and Johnson & Johnson vac-
cines.
“The problems that could poten-
tially arise if you start combining vac-
cines are that you could see some side
effects that we haven’t seen before,”
said Mansoor Amiji, university distin-
guished professor of pharmaceutical
sciences at Northeastern University in
Boston. “We’ve seen some rare types
of side effects and when you combine
(the vaccines) you may see some addi-
tional ones.”
One such rare side effect linked to
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unlikely to die, so don’t worry about
transmission,’ ” Hatcher said. “Without
testing, there is no way of knowing
where the virus is on campus, and thus
how to take personal responsibility for
our health and that of our families.”
On one hand, some institutions, like
the University of Wisconsin, are still
providing housing for those who need to
quarantine or isolate. In Madison, those
students may have to travel 35 minutes
to an off-site hotel, according to an
email to students and parents. Students
are also responsible for their own food.
On the other hand, some colleges, such
as the University of Delaware, have
some space for students to isolate.
It’s still too early to know whether
one approach is wrong, with the delta
variant surging and cooler temper-
atures on the way, said Gerri Taylor, a
co-chair of the American College Health
Association’s COVID-19 task force.
But she questioned how universities
expected students, many of them still
teenagers, to handle isolating them-
selves on their own.
“Where are they going to do that?”
she asked. “Are they going home? Who
else are they exposing in that process?”
Recommendations from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention do
not require quarantine if a vaccinated
person is exposed to COVID-19. But
guidelines do require isolating for a con-
firmed COVID-19 infection, whether the
case is a breakthrough or one in an un-
vaccinated person.
At Florida State University, officials
said they lacked room this semester to
provide isolation housing for students
who test positive.
Jonathan Marcus, a senior and mem-
ber of the student government at Florida
the mRNA vaccines and mostly seen in
younger adults is myocarditis, or in-
flammation of the heart muscle. Al-
though there’s no evidence of this so
far, experts worry combining vaccines
and taking extra doses outside of CDC
recommendations could increase risk
of developing the extremely rare condi-
tion.
Severe side effects after vaccination
are normally covered under the Nation-
al Vaccine Injury Compensation
Program, but experts say a vaccine in-
jury resulting from a booster shot taken
outside of official recommendations
may not be covered.
“It violates the PREP Act. … They
may not have coverage if they were to
have a significant side effect from the
vaccine,” Kotton said. “People should be
aware that it’s not just their decision at
CVS but there may be further ramifica-
tions.”
“You don’t have to get all
the vaccines. It’s not
Pokémon, you don’t
have to catch them all.”
Dr. Carl Lambert Jr.
family physician and assistant professor of family
medicine at Rush Medical Center in Chicago
Extra doses may not only carry these
potential risks, but they also do little
good for people already protected by
first doses.
“You’re not going to continually im-
prove the vaccine’s efficacy by giving
yourself multiple doses because at
some point you’re going to reach the
maximum immune response,” Amiji
said. “Once you’ve reached your thresh-
old, that’s it. You’re not going to get
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State, told the Tallahassee Democrat,
part of the USA TODAY Network, that
the development was “absurd.” He men-
tioned the university has no vaccine
mandate – the state of Florida bars
schools from doing so – yet hasn’t pro-
vided the infrastructure for stopping an
outbreak.
Some universities have taken a softer
stance by saying they can’t guarantee
space for isolation or quarantine hous-
ing, without flat-out denying its exis-
tence.
Ohio State University, for example,
said such housing is limited and “cannot
be guaranteed at any time.” Purdue Uni-
versity has said it will help students to
make quarantine or isolation arrange-
ments but stressed they should have
backup plans.
Others, like the University of Albany,
have quarantine housing only for stu-
dents who have already been fully vac-
cinated. Unvaccinated students living
on campus, in contrast, must return
home or book a hotel at their own cost.
The University of Florida said earlier
this year that it would no longer provide
on-campus isolation and quarantine
housing. University leaders acknowl-
edged unvaccinated students are at risk
of catching the virus and spreading it to
others.
“UF cannot be responsible for that
risk,” the statement read, “given the
ready availability of vaccine, and cannot
modify the operation of the entire uni-
versity for a minority of people who may
choose not to be vaccinated.”
The statement also plainly stated
that students in isolation or quarantine
would miss classes and that the institu-
tion was “unable to offer an online ver-
sion of every class.”
The lack of online instruction has
been a sore point for students at other
campuses as well. One student at
Coastal Carolina University even creat-
ed a petition calling on the university to
offer virtual classes for all students. The
university in its fall guidance had stated
students would be unable to pivot from
face-to-face courses to virtual courses
as they pleased.
Hatcher said faculty at the University
of the South, or “Sewanee,” as it’s collo-
quially known, also have less flexibility
in offering classes online or in person.
That change has been especially
problematic for professors with school-
age children who may need to be quar-
antined, or those with immunocompro-
mised family members.
“Vaccination is the only thing that
will approximate pre-pandemic condi-
tions,” Hatcher said. “But I think admin-
istrators have not recognized that we
are not at ‘normal’ yet.”
more and more antibody production.”
The mRNA vaccines, like those made
by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, di-
rect cells to produce a protein from the
virus. The immune system makes anti-
bodies in response to the protein that
will recognize and fight off the real vi-
rus.
Taking multiple vaccines is like rein-
troducing that same protein to the im-
mune system over and over again, said
Dr. Carl Lambert Jr., a family physician
and assistant professor of family medi-
cine at Rush Medical Center in Chicago.
“Your immune system is pretty
smart. It doesn’t really need five differ-
ent vaccines,” he said. “It’s probably
like, ‘OK, we got it. We know what the
virus looks like now.’”
Lambert understands people who
are technically eligible to get a booster
dose but received either the Moderna or
the J&J vaccine may feel frustrated, but
said authorization may come soon.
Booster shots of the J&J or Moderna
vaccines are not yet approved, but Mo-
derna submitted third dose data for the
FDA to review on Sept. 1, according to a
company release.J&J released new da-
ta last week showing a booster dose of
its vaccine given two months after the
one-shot vaccine provides 94% protec-
tion against moderate-to-severe CO-
VID-19 symptoms.
Lambert urges recipients of these
vaccines to follow official recommenda-
tions and avoid getting a Pfizer-BioN-
Tech vaccine unless health agencies is-
sue new guidance.
“You don’t have to get all the vac-
cines," he said. “It’s not Pokémon, you
don’t have to catch them all."
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ren and musty.
Word spread quickly in San Antonio
and beyond. The morning after De Zava-
la’s one-woman standoff began, jour-
nalists and supporters jockeyed to
speak to her through the door.
She didn’t emerge for three days.
The Alamo is one of the most iconic
images in Texas; the site had an average
of 1.7 million visitors per year before the
coronavirus pandemic. More than 70
years after Mexican soldiers overran
Texas rebels at the Alamo in 1836, the
site became the subject of another bat-
tle: how to commemorate its history. It
was waged in large part by De Zavala –
the granddaughter of a Mexican man
who was the first vice president of the
Republic of Texas, a schoolteacher and
author, one of the first preservationists
in the country and, by many accounts, a
sharp-tongued firebrand.
More recently, De Zavala has earned
the moniker, the “Angel of the Alamo.” It
took almost a century for that recogni-
tion to catch on in part because of her
Mexican last name. Yet De Zavala’s
complicated identity as a Tejana, or
Texan of Mexican descent, was her driv-
er in saving the Alamo and its storied
history.
“If it were not for her, we probably
wouldn’t even have an Alamo today,”
said Sharon Skrobarcek, treasurer gen-
eral of the Daughters of the Republic of
Texas and of the organization’s Alamo
Mission Chapter in San Antonio.
Strong will, strong heritage
De Zavala was born in Harris County,
Texas, in 1861. She was the oldest of six
children of Augustine and Julia De Za-
vala. Her father was a Confederate sol-
dier and later worked as a ship caulker.
Adina De Zavala, pale-skinned and
blue-eyed, was one-quarter Mexican. In
a time of deep anti-Mexican racism, the
family’s surname became an “ethnic la-
bel,” according to Suzanne Groves, who
wrote a 2013 master’s thesis on De Zava-
la at the University of Texas at Arling-
ton. The family tried to Anglicize their
name by capitalizing the D. They earned
no special status from their association
with her grandfather, Lorenzo de Zava-
la, a prominent figure of the Texas Re-
public.
Native Americans had lived in what
is now Texas for thousands of years
when Spanish conquistadors settled
there in the 1500s. Despite that early oc-
cupation, the Spanish largely ignored
the area until the French claimed Mata-
gorda Bay on the Texas coast near the
end of the 17th century. That colony last-
ed only two years, stricken by disease
and attacks by Native Americans.
The Spanish took over the region by
founding villages and Catholic mis-
sions, the latter of which were meant to
“civilize” the natives. In 1821, Mexico
won independence from Spain – and
Spanish Texas became part of the new
country.
To grow the population, Mexico
granted land to empresarios, or land
agents, who would recruit Americans to
settle there. With the new settlers, the
population with Mexican heritage
shrank; Anglo influence swelled. The
first attempt to secede from Mexico
came in 1826, with the Fredonian Rebel-
lion that created a short-lived Anglo
state near Nacogdoches in east Texas.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo de Zavala, who
was born in Yucatan, Mexico, had
climbed the ranks of Mexican politics;
he helped write the new country’s con-
stitution and became an ally of politi-
cian and general Antonio López de San-
ta Anna. When Santa Anna took dicta-
torial power in Mexico in 1834, de Zavala
resigned in protest and defected to Tex-
as to join Stephen F. Austin, one of the
principal empresarios, to help start Tex-
as’ revolution.
The most famous battle in Texas’ war
for independence came on March 6,
1836, at the Mission San Antonio de Val-
ero. Now it’s better known as the Alamo.
It was the final assault on the Texas
fortress; Mexican forces had begun a
siege on the site in February. Santa An-
na had about 1,800 soldiers, outnum-
bering the rebels by about 10 to 1. Virtu-
ally all of the Texas defenders were
killed that day.
Texas was vindicated, however, at
the Battle of San Jacinto a month later.
The Texan army battered the Mexican
forces in a surprise attack that lasted 18
minutes, and won.
The Texas Revolution, and specifical-
ly the Alamo battle, became shrouded in
an Anglo-centric myth of heroic white
settlers defending their independence
against barbaric Mexicans. Only recent-
Adina De Zavala spent her life protecting Texas history. “If it were not for her,
we probably wouldn’t even have an Alamo today,” said Sharon Skrobarcek
of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. PHOTOS BY ANNIE RICE/USA TODAY NETWORK
ly has the true history of the revolution
become mainstream – that Texas de-
fenders fought in part to preserve slav-
ery and that Mexican Americans fought
and died alongside the rebels.
Lorenzo de Zavala helped draft the
constitution of the Republic of Texas,
and his fellow delegates elected him as
interim vice president of the new coun-
try. Due to illness, he resigned in Octo-
ber 1836 and died that year. Texas joined
the United States in 1845.
Adina De Zavala grew up in Galves-
ton and later San Antonio. She was a
teacher in the rural north Texas city of
Terrell for two years in her 20s. She then
moved to San Antonio and took another
teaching position to support her family
– her father was in poor health, and her
mother didn’t work. Her father died in
1892.
In the years after the Civil War, his-
torical activism was on the rise around
the country in response to an immigra-
tion boom and industrial growth, said
Groves. Communities cherry-picked
historical figures and sites to build a pa-
triotic narrative during a period of deep
racial divide. Women, mostly upper
class and white, were particularly active
in this movement, eager to wield politi-
cal agency.
In 1889, De Zavala organized a group
of women around a goal of preserving
Texas’ history. A similar group of wives,
daughters and female descendants of
men who’d served the Republic of Texas
formed the Daughters of the Republic of
Texas. De Zavala’s group joined the DRT
and became the De Zavala Chapter,
named for her grandfather.
Her grandfather’s history “gave her
some celebrity, and it also gave her pas-
sion and purpose,” Skrobarcek said.
Though De Zavala’s grandfather was
a source of pride, her relationship to her
Mexican heritage was tenuous.
Her last name, along with her lack of
status, prevented her from fitting in
with Anglo high society, particularly
amid the deep racial divide emerging in
San Antonio at the time. Across Texas,
people of Mexican descent had lost
property, faced segregation in schools,
were relegated to labor jobs and en-
countered other forms of discrimina-
tion. Hundreds of Mexican Americans
in Texas were lynched, sometimes by
law enforcement, over the course of al-
most a century.
In De Zavala’s writings, she did not
refer to herself as part Mexican or Teja-
na; when she wrote about her grandfa-
ther, she described him only as Spanish.
Yet many Texans connect with her
last name and her fervor, even if she was
not explicit about her heritage.
The late Texas historian L. Robert
Ables recounted that when De Zavala
was reprimanded in 1904 for not report-
ing to her teaching job for a month, she
informed the superintendent that she
“had been studying Mexican history in
Mexico.”
“I think she had a lot of pride in being
of Mexican descent, as did her grandfa-
ther, Lorenzo de Zavala,” said Katie Dil-
lard, learning programs manager at the
Alamo. “When he decided to support
Stephen F. Austin, the Texas Revolution,
he’s not forsaking his identity, but he’s
actually (advocating for) his personal
beliefs about his country, his place. And
I think Adina really captures that in her
life, as well.
“It really doesn’t come down to what
you’re called. It’s what you embody. And
I think that Adina embodied her culture
and wanted to propel that into the fu-
ture.”
De Zavala's grave at St. Mary's Catholic
Cemetery in San Antonio is less than a
mile from the Alamo.
Saving the Alamo
De Zavala was a devoted Catholic,
and she soon set her sights on saving
San Antonio’s five Spanish missions,
which dated to the 1700s: San Jose, Con-
cepcion, San Juan Capistrano, Espada
and San Antonio de Valero, or the Ala-
mo. Amid Texas’ rocketing commercial
and industrial growth near the start of
the 20th century, the historical sites
were falling into neglect.
The Alamo was unrecognizable. In
the 1880s, the state of Texas bought the
Alamo chapel from the Roman Catholic
Church; a man named Honore Grenet
owned the rest of the property. After his
death, a wholesale grocery called Hugo
& Schmeltzer Co. bought Grenet’s prop-
erty and converted the two-story mon-
astery – also known as the convento or
the long barrack – into a store and ware-
house. A wooden facade obscured the
historical building.
Because of her Catholic faith, it in-
censed De Zavala to think of any harm
being done to the Alamo’s convento. She
maintained that the long barrack was
where most of the Alamo defenders had
died in battle, making it the most his-
torically significant part of the complex.
She approached Gustav Schmeltzer,
one of the grocery company owners, in
1892 to promise that her chapter would
have the first opportunity to buy the
property.
But about a decade later, a hotel syn-
dicate acquired a lot behind the ware-
house and intended to build a hotel
there and tear down the warehouse to
make way for a park.
When it came to historical preserva-
tion, De Zavala was tenacious – re-
searching, planning, writing manu-
scripts and articles on history, lobbying
lawmakers and other bigwigs. She had
the “vision and passion,” said Univer-
sity of Texas at San Antonio professor
Félix Almaraz, but she didn’t have the
money.
Enter Clara Driscoll, an heiress from
Corpus Christi who had just returned to
Texas after taking the Grand Tour of
Europe, a hallmark of young elites. De
Zavala and Driscoll met through a mutu-
al friend and joined forces to save the
building.
Driscoll was 20 years younger than
De Zavala; she was about 22 when she
became involved with the Daughters of
the Republic of Texas. Her father was a
multimillionaire thanks to his ranches,
banks and commercial developments.
Driscoll put up the money to pur-
chase the building on behalf of the De
Zavala Chapter, which struggled to fun-
draise over the course of a year. Driscoll
lobbied the Texas Legislature to reim-
burse her, and she then transferred pos-
session of the property to the Daughters
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of the Republic of Texas.
De Zavala believed the facade of the
grocery warehouse needed to be re-
moved to restore the barrack to its origi-
nal condition. She hoped to turn the first
floor into a museum and library and
house a hall of fame honoring Texas he-
roes on the second floor.
Driscoll, inspired by the great monu-
ments of Europe, believed the long bar-
rack hiding the Alamo chapel needed to
be torn away altogether to make a park.
Legal battles and infighting ensued.
When the Daughters of the Republic
of Texas gained possession of the Ala-
mo in 1905, De Zavala initially refused to
turn over the keys. The group filed a civil
suit against her, and she surrendered
the keys to Driscoll, who had been ap-
pointed the custodian of the property.
The following year, Driscoll’s sup-
porters broke off to form a new chapter
of the Daughters of the Republic of Tex-
as, according to Ables.
De Zavala sought custody of the Ala-
mo complex for her chapter but the ef-
fort failed.
The grocer’s lease at the warehouse
expired on Feb. 10, 1908. Driscoll’s fac-
tion planned to lease the building to “re-
liable business men of San Antonio,” the
group’s president wrote in a letter.
When Feb. 10 arrived and the grocer
vacated the barrack, De Zavala seized
her chance.
She entered the building, had its
locks changed and barricaded herself
inside.
Journalists rushed to the spot, and
she spoke to them through a 5-inch
porthole. Her stunt made national
headlines.
“For her to barricade herself with the
keys inside that area of the Alamo was
almost her ultimate sacrifice,” Groves
said. “‘Whatever is going to happen to
me, I know that I have fought to the end’
– almost like she was channeling the
men who had fought before her.”
De Zavala surrendered the building
when a state official said Texas Gov.
Thomas M. Campbell would take over
the property while litigation played out.
By 1909, De Zavala’s group was de-
feated in court and appeals failed. But in
1910, Gov. Oscar Colquitt sided with De
Zavala and ordered the long barrack to
be restored.
The state Supreme Court returned
the property to the Daughters of the Re-
public of Texas in 1912.
In 1913, while Colquitt was out of the
country, Lt. Gov. William Harding
Mayes ordered the walls of the second
story to be destroyed.
The first floor survived. But De Zava-
la’s work didn’t end there.
In 1912, she founded the Texas His-
torical and Landmarks Association,
which placed 38 markers at historical
sites around the state.
“Her legacy goes well beyond the Ala-
mo,” Dillard said.
An angel finally honored
De Zavala never married or had chil-
dren. She died alone in 1955.
The year of De Zavala’s death, the
Texas Legislature adopted a resolution
saluting her work and calling for a
plaque in her honor to be placed in the
Alamo. The DRT did not fulfill that re-
quest until about 40 years later; the
plaque at the front of the Alamo com-
plex, near the sidewalk, is dated 1994.
A local archivist challenged the
Daughters of the Republic of Texas in
1996, writing in a letter to the editor of
the San Antonio Express-News that the
group was “racist” and “un-American.”
The following year, the organization
agreed to place a marker near the long
barrack.
Another plaque lauding both De Za-
vala’s and Driscoll’s work was added to
the Alamo in 2008. In 2012, the Alamo
Mission Chapter of the DRT commis-
sioned a portrait of De Zavala, which
was unveiled in a ceremony at the Ala-
mo Hall — a move by the organization to
“try to give Adina her rightful due,”
Skrobarcek said.
The Daughters of the Republic of Tex-
as organization was the caretaker of the
Alamo until 2015, when the Texas Gen-
eral Land Office took over. The Alamo
Mission Chapter retained the portrait,
and it sits in a storage facility while the
chapter is without an office. The portrait
will be hung in the chapter’s new home,
Skrobarcek said.
Groves said recognition of De Zava-
la’s work, and her labeling as a Hispanic
hero, began to grow in the late 1980s and
early ’90s, when mainstream media be-
gan to shine “more light on the con-
tinued racial divide in this country.”
In her own research, Groves said, “I
found in her a woman that was so deep-
ly misunderstood but used everything
available to her to have a life that made a
difference.”
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OPINION
Biden can’t say
he wasn’t warned
on Afghanistan
Joint Chiefs chairman testifies that withdrawal
‘was a logistical success but a strategic failure’
Gregg Zoroya
Editorial Board
USA TODAY
President Joe Biden’s rash decision
to quickly pull U.S. troops out of Af-
ghanistan came at a terrible cost. He
was fully apprised of that cost ahead of
time – and in chillingly prescient de-
tail. Yet, he did it anyway.
How do we know?
It was made clear Tuesday in Sen-
ate testimony from Gen. Mark Milley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and Biden’s top military adviser.
Milley declined, as all presidential
advisers do, to share his specific words
to Biden. But the general made it easy
to read between lines.
Milley said his opinion about what
would happen if U.S. forces were too
rapidly pulled out of Afghanistan had
been formed a year ago. He told sena-
tors he never wavered from that opi-
nion, up through and including when
Biden asked for it earlier this year.
Litany of horrors
Milley’s opinion? That a force of at
least 2,500 troops should remain in Af-
ghanistan until the Taliban abided by
promises the group made in February
2020, when they signed the peace
agreement in Doha, Qatar, with the
Trump administration.
Among those promises were imple-
mentation of a cease-fire and a good
faith effort to negotiate peace with the
Afghan government. But the Taliban
failed to honor almost all of their obli-
gations under the agreement, and be-
yond that, refused to renounce al-Qai-
da, which attacked the United States
on 9/11, Milley told senators.
Milley described to senators what
he always believed would flow from a
precipitous withdrawal of American
troops. His list reads like a litany of
horrors:
h The Afghan military and govern-
ment would collapse. There would be
civil war or a Taliban takeover.
h A region where one neighboring
country, Pakistan, has nuclear weap-
ons, would grow unstable. Violent ex-
tremism would be boosted globally.
h And the resulting human misery
in Afghanistan would include “signifi-
cant numbers of refugees, a degrada-
tion in health, schools (and) women’s
rights, and revenge killings.”
Biden evidently listened to all of
this. Yet, he remained unfazed, so
powerful was his urge to fulfill a cam-
paign promise to bring home the rela-
tively small number of troops de-
ployed to Afghanistan.
We all know what happened next.
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Milley’s opinion?
That a force of at least
2,500 troops should remain
in Afghanistan until the
Taliban abided by promises
the group made in February
2020, when they signed the
peace agreement in Doha,
Qatar, with the Trump
administration.
One by one, the Joint Chiefs chairman’s
list of terrible things began to come true,
far faster than anyone – including Mil-
ley himself – predicted.
The Afghan military resistance did,
in fact, evaporate in the face of a Taliban
offensive. The ruling government in Ka-
bul collapsed. The Taliban assumed
power.
The evacuation of American citizens
and at-risk Afghans – while an opera-
tional success with more than 124,000
airlifted out – was dreadfully scarred by
chaos; the slaughter of 13 U.S. service
members and dozens of Afghans in a su-
icide bombing; the killing of 10 innocent
Afghans, including as many as seven
children, in an errant U.S. drone strike;
and the failure to rescue an untold num-
ber of American citizens still stranded in
Afghanistan.
‘Happening right now’
In a striking display of candor from a
top, current presidential adviser, Gen.
Milley told senators that the withdrawal
“was a logistical success but a strategic
failure.”
Asked by Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb.,
about all the tragedies that Milley pre-
dicted would come true, the general
said, “Yes, things I listed are probably
happening right now.”
And when it comes to a refugee and
humanitarian crisis, the crippling of
women’s rights and revenge killings, his
forecast was not only correct but it’s
also all happening much too fast.
However this sad chapter about
American involvement in Afghanistan
stains Biden’s legacy now and forever,
one thing is certain: The president can’t
say he wasn’t warned.
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Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic
Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of
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Yes, fake COVID-19
vaccination cards are
illegal, and dangerous
Please don’t risk your lives – or other people’s
Josh Stein
North Carolina attorney general
Herbert Slatery
Tennessee attorney general
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
officers in Memphis, Tennessee, re-
cently made a strange but increasingly
more common seizure: a package filled
with counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination
cards imported from China. More than
120 similar packages filled with thou-
sands of fake cards, with typos and
misspelled words, have been seized
this year in Memphis alone.
As more municipalities, music ven-
ues, universities and employers insti-
tute vaccine requirements, many un-
vaccinated people are reevaluating
their decision and are getting the CO-
VID-19 vaccine. On the other hand,
some are deciding to violate the law by
creating fraudulent vaccine cards.
As chief legal officers for our states,
we want all our constituents to under-
stand that selling or using fake vacci-
nation cards is illegal and can result in
fines or jail time.
Throughout the country, state at-
torneys general are responsible for en-
forcing consumer protection laws.
Earlier this year, we led a bipartisan
coalition of almost all of our fellow at-
torneys general in asking major e-
commerce and social media compa-
nies, including Twitter and eBay, to
prevent the sale of blank or fraudu-
lently completed COVID-19 vaccina-
tion cards on their platforms.
False and deceptive marketing and
sales of fake COVID-19 vaccination
cards likely violate consumer protec-
tion laws in many states, but more im-
portant, they severely threaten the
health of our residents.
$5,000 fine, up to a year in prison
We’re in a COVID-19 wave caused by
the delta variant that is largely affect-
ing those who are not vaccinated. Peo-
ple who pretend they are vaccinated to
enter businesses, workplaces, schools
and other parts of society are putting
themselves and others at risk of con-
tracting a deadly virus.
As the pandemic continues and
fake vaccination cards become more
commonplace, attorneys general and
other law enforcement agencies
around the country have been forced
to respond.
In Hawaii, the attorney general of-
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Opinion Editor: Kristen DelGuzzi
The fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination
cards recently seized by U.S. Customs
and Border Protection officers have
unfinished words and typos.
U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
fice arrested two travelers who allegedly
violated the state’s COVID-19 mandates
by arriving with falsified vaccination
cards, a crime punishable by a $5,000
fine and/or up to a year in prison under
state law.
In California, a bar owner in San Joa-
quin County was charged with three fel-
onies for allegedly selling fake vaccina-
tion cards to undercover agents from
the state’s Department of Alcoholic
Beverage Control.
Official seals of HHS, CDC
In addition to any state law viola-
tions, individuals forging or using fake
vaccination cards are also violating fed-
eral law. In March, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation released a public service
announcement reminding the public
that in addition to putting the card hold-
er and others at risk of contracting CO-
VID-19, using fake cards violates federal
law prohibiting the unauthorized use of
an official government agency’s seal,
specifically the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and the
Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion seals that appear on every legiti-
mate vaccine card.
As attorneys general, we combat all
types of fraud and scams in order to pro-
tect residents within our jurisdictions
and across the country. Throughout the
pandemic, we have worked to educate
consumers so that they don’t fall victim
to bad actors perpetrating common CO-
VID-related scams. You should file a
complaint with your state attorney gen-
eral if you witness this kind of fraud.
We want our state residents to un-
derstand that selling or using fake vac-
cination cards not only puts other peo-
ple’s health and lives at risk – but it’s
also illegal.
North Carolina Attorney General
Josh Stein and Tennessee Attorney Gen-
eral Herbert Slatery are co-chairs of the
National Association of Attorneys Gen-
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preparing to shut its doors by Nov. 21
and is hiring temporary employees to
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postings and a store associate who
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Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut
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America developing
taste for Vietnamese
craft coffee roasteries
Matthew Korfhage
USA TODAY
On an 88-degree day in August, the lines at
Brooklyn’s Winson Bakery snaked around the
block, from bus stop to bus stop on baking
sidewalks.
The crowds of mostly young, fashionable
New Yorkers were waiting for their fix of some-
thing you couldn’t easily get in America until
quite recently: the blazingly caffeinated, choc-
olate-caramel rush of fresh-roasted Vietnam-
ese craft coffee.
“It was really incredible to see people were
waiting upwards of one hour in line just to get Thu Pham is phin filter that’s like a silvery stepchild of the
their Vietnamese coffee experience,” said Sah- co-founder French press and the pour over. The coffee is
ra Nguyen, who’d put together the two-day of Càphê best known as part of Vietnam’s trademark
coffee pop-up in Brooklyn for her company Roasters, drink of cà phê sua dá, an iced drink that tem-
Nguyen Coffee Supply. Though just 3 years old, which plans pers the coffee’s assertiveness with the sweet-
Nguyen Coffee Supply lays a plausible claim to to open the ness of condensed milk.
being the first importer and roaster of specialty city’s first Over the past few years, Vietnamese roast-
Vietnamese beans in America. Vietnamese eries in America have gone from nearly non-
Vietnamese coffee is like the photo negative roastery existent to a nationwide phenomenon, apply-
of the acidic and fruity Scandinavian-style cafe. ing the techniques and meticulous sourcing of
34,390 light roasts that have dominated third-wave American third-wave coffee to bold Vietnam-
coffee in the United States. ese beans.
It is instead nutty, earthy, dark, dense and
above all intense – brewed using a cylindrical See COFFEE, Page 2B
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Some see danger, others
merely entertainment
Brett Molina
USA TODAY
Not long ago, Robinhood would re-
ward users of its investing app who
made their first trade by dropping con-
fetti.
That experience, critics say, is an
example of how investing apps have
attempted to turn elements of stock
trading into a game, a technique called
gamification.
In March, Robinhood removed the
confetti in favor of “dynamic visual ex-
periences that cheer on customers
through the milestones in their finan-
cial journeys.”
But the worries over gamification
haven’t disappeared. Last month, the
Securities and Exchange Commission
Some may see gamification as adding
fun, while others might view it as a
way to get users hooked on a service
or app. JAVIER ZARRACINA/USA TODAY
announced it was seeking more infor-
mation on digital engagement practices
such as “game-like features” used by
brokers or investment advisers.
In a statement, SEC Chair Gary Gen-
sler said many of these new technol-
ogies such as Robinhood raise questions
about whether investors are adequately
protected.
“In many cases, these features may
encourage investors to trade more of-
ten, invest in different products, or
change their investment strategy,” said
Gensler.
What is gamification?
Gamification involves taking an ac-
tivity, like investing, and adding ele-
ments typically found in video games to
keep users engaged.
Think of a role-playing game, for ex-
ample. You complete a task, you earn a
reward. In the case of Robinhood, you
invite a friend and they join the service,
both of you earn stock as a reward.
How you define gamification de-
pends on your perspective, said James
Angel, an associate professor at George-
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Coffee
Continued from Page 1B
Vietnamese craft coffee roasters
have sprung up in cities from Philadel-
phia to the caffeinated meccas of Seattle
and Austin, Texas, and Portland, Ore-
gon – run mostly by first- and second-
generation immigrants.
“It became this beautiful community
of Vietnamese entrepreneurs wanting
to create a Vietnamese coffee business,”
said Philadelphia’s Thu Pham, who co-
founded Càphê Roasters in Philadelphia
at almost the same time as Nguyen’s
roastery in New York. “And what’s great
is that it’s mostly led by women.”
Pham’s beans are brewed at cafes
and restaurants from Washington, D.C.,
to Denver, and regularly sell out at loca-
tions of Federal Donuts in Philadelphia
– owned by James Beard-awarded chef
Michael Solomonov.
By the end of September, Càphê
Roasters plans to open the city’s first
Vietnamese roastery cafe. It would sell
not only sua dá but also Vietnamese
espresso and condensed-milk ice
cream, and a swirl of Korean and Viet-
namese food mirroring the heritage of
the roastery’s partners.
Nguyen’s roasts, meanwhile, are sold
as far away as San Francisco and Texas,
and at a Kansas City Vietnamese coffee
truck run by a former Broadway actress.
During the pandemic, when many busi-
nesses struggled, mail orders for
Nguyen’s beans blew up exponentially.
“We actually grew by 13 times in
2020,” said Nguyen, who was able to ex-
pand her roasting team from two to five
full-time employees. “There’s some-
thing really special happening here. No
gas: It is the coffee. But when there (are)
lines around the block, it’s about more
than just coffee … It’s also about our
mission to bring diversity, inclusion and
equity to the whole coffee experience.”
Vietnamese coffee not always
as Vietnamese as it appears
Most of the “Vietnamese” coffee you
can find in America doesn’t come from
Vietnam.
That’s not because Vietnam doesn’t
grow it. Vietnam is one of the world’s
great coffee cultures, the globe’s sec-
ond-largest producer of beans and the
keeper of a distinctive 150-year-old tra-
dition. Ho Chi Minh City coffee shops
range from luxe cafes to sidewalk coffee
vendors serving coffee both hot and
iced, and innovations like coffee made
with egg foam or avocado or rose water.
“Every corner in Vietnam there’s a
coffee shop,” said Harvey Tong, who last
year started a company called Phin Cof-
fee Club in Austin to showcase the
wood-fired coffee his family has been
roasting for more than 20 years in Viet-
nam. “Vietnamese lifestyle is slower,
you go to the coffee shop for a few hours
every morning. It’s a big culture there.”
But for decades, Vietnamese coffee
was difficult to procure in the United
States.
At older Vietnamese restaurants in
America, when you order Vietnamese
coffee, it may actually be Cajun.
Through a quirk of history, the most
common coffee brand you find at pho
houses and banh mi spots in the U.S. is
the chicory-laden roast from famed
New Orleans beignet spot Cafe du
Monde.
This came as a bit of a surprise to
Tong when he arrived in Austin.
“With all due respect to Cafe du
Monde, it is not a Vietnamese coffee,” he
said. “It’s from New Orleans.”
But back in the ’70s, Cafe du Monde’s
bitter and bold roast was the closest
thing the recent immigrants could find
to their home cup – even though chicory
was foreign to Vietnamese coffee tradi-
tion.
And so Vietnamese immigrants in
New Orleans began mailing Cafe du
Monde’s trademark orange tins to rela-
tives and friends who’d moved else-
where in the country. By the ’90s, Cafe
Gamification
Continued from Page 1B
town University’s McDonough School
of Business who specializes in market
regulation. Some may see it as adding
fun to an experience, while others might
view it as a way to manipulate users to
stay hooked.
“It’s one of those words we think we
know what it means, but it means dif-
ferent things to different people,” Angel
said.
Its impact on the brain
Apps using gamification tap into
Thu Pham brews Vietnamese style coffee at Càphê Roasters in Philadelphia. JOE LAMBERTI/USA TODAY NETWORK
du Monde’s coffee had become a staple
of Asian grocery stores nationwide.
Though it’s not Vietnamese, Nguyen
at least considers Cafe du Monde part of
the Vietnamese immigrant story in
America. But more recently, she noticed
a pattern she found disturbing.
Riding on the coattails of other Asian
flavor trends such as boba and matcha,
American cafes with no connection to
Vietnam had begun mixing any old
dark-roast coffee with condensed milk
and calling it Vietnamese. Bloggers
posted do-it-yourself hacks to get “Viet-
namese” coffee at Starbucks – perhaps
by larding up quad shots of espresso
with white chocolate mocha.
“This happens often, where main-
stream businesses want to profit off of
the cachet of Asian culture, but they
don’t do it with cultural integrity,”
Nguyen said. “Literally, every time I
would order it, it didn’t taste anything
like coffee that I knew growing up. I
would ask the barista, ‘What’s in this
drink?’ And they’d say, ‘Oh, it’s our
house Ethiopian. We add sweetened,
condensed milk to it.’ ”
Nguyen ordered Vietnamese coffee
everywhere she found it on the menu,
whether old school restaurants or tren-
dy cafes. But none of the coffee came
from Vietnam.
Somehow Vietnamese coffee had be-
come popular – but without Vietnamese
flavor or ingredients, and often without
Vietnamese people. This was part of
what led Nguyen to create her coffee
company in Brooklyn.
“We were in the middle of third-wave
coffee culture,” she said. “But every time
I would go into Whole Foods or cafes, I
could not find a single-origin, fresh-
roasted Vietnamese coffee made with
beans from Vietnam.”
A bum rap for Vietnamese beans
The lack of Vietnamese coffee in
America is partly the result of an unfair,
bad reputation, say Nguyen and Pham.
Coffee beans come in two main varie-
ties. The South American and African
beans used by high-end roasters like
Blue Bottle or La Colombe are made with
a coffee variety called arabica, prized for
its sweetness and acidity and fruity
notes of blueberry or cherry.
But arabica beans don’t grow as well
in Vietnam’s hot, wet climate. Instead,
90% of the Vietnamese coffee crop is a
hardier variety called robusta, which
contains far less sugar and tends toward
earthier and more intense flavors.
It’s loaded with caffeine, nearly twice
as much as is found in arabica. Com-
bined with lower growing costs, this has
made robusta popular among makers of
chemicals in the brain that allow us to
experience pleasure, said Read Monta-
gue, director of The Center for Human
Neuroscience Research at Virginia Tech
University.
Our brains love uncertainty and the
potential rewards that await, like when
you invest in a stock and watch its price
spike, Montague said
“Uncertainty means there’s some-
thing over there that you didn’t know
about,” he said. “It may be hiding some
set of great riches, and you really, really
want to go look at that.”
This is where a potential investor can
find trouble, said Michael Sury, a lectur-
er with the McCombs School of Busi-
ness at the University of Texas at Aus-
tin.
high-volume and instant coffee.
The association with industrial-
grade coffee has given robusta a reputa-
tion for being a lower quality bean –
shredded-rubber rocket fuel. Instant
coffee makers rarely exercise the same
quality control as third-wave craft cof-
fee roasters sourcing single-origin
beans from the south-facing slopes of
Mount Kenya.
But poor quality control is not the
fault of the robusta bean itself, Pham
said.
To prove the point at her soon-to-
open cafe in Philadelphia’s Kensington
neighborhood, Pham prepared a metic-
ulous phin-filter pour over of robusta
beans she sourced from a farm in Viet-
nam’s Central Highlands. She splashed
hot water over the ground coffee, wait-
ing out the effervescent bloom of carbon
dioxide fizz that signals fresh-roasted
beans.
Like most of the new crop of Viet-
namese roasters, Pham has had to
source her direct-trade coffee through
personal connections because the sup-
ply chain between small farmers and
American craft roasters has not yet
been forged.
And so she found her coffee through a
former student. Pham co-founded Cà-
phê while working for a nonprofit called
12Plus that offers college preparation to
students in underserved communities –
including a pair from Vietnam who hap-
pened to know a coffee farmer.
“I was like, ‘No. How do you know a
coffee farmer?’ ” Pham remembers,
laughing. “But their parents owned a
hostel in Ho Chi Minh. And this young
farmer had come to the city looking for
housing because he was searching for a
retail location to open up a cafe for his
family’s coffee.”
The resulting brew at Càphê is round
and rich and aromatic, with an intensity
of chocolate flavor that would shame
Wonka. Made as espresso, it’s no more
bitter than a dark Italian but contains
far less acidity. It also boasts enough
caffeine to stun a racehorse.
“I’ve heard so much feedback from
people who are self-proclaimed coffee
snobs,” Nguyen said, after holding blind
taste tests in New York where robusta
beans performed favorably. “They’ll be
like, ‘I’ve always said that robusta is
gross, but I’ve actually never tried ro-
busta.’ ”
An ever-expanding crop
of Vietnamese coffee
Since Pham and Nguyen started their
roasteries at the end of 2018, Vietnam-
ese specialty coffee has spread in a
linked daisy chain across the country. In
“If you start treating investing or
even trading as a game, then you lose,”
he said. “It becomes an emotional activ-
ity as opposed to a rational activity.”
Is gamification that bad?
Angel argues investing apps like Rob-
inhood aren’t doing anything different
than what other websites have done
since the birth of the internet.
“The notion that you’re somehow
turning investing into an addictive
video game, you could probably say that
about online shopping,” he said. “You
could probably say that about almost
any online experience where people try
really hard to make the customers come
back and keep the customers happy.”
MONEY
a craft coffee world that still hasn’t shed
its reputation as a bastion of bro culture,
most of the young entrepreneurs
who’ve contacted Pham about roasting
coffee have been women.
Nguyen and Pham stress that they
don’t view the sudden wave of Vietnam-
ese roasters as competition. Rather,
they’re partners in changing the percep-
tions of Vietnamese coffee in America,
and in bringing more value to the crops
grown by Vietnamese farmers.
“Interested entrepreneurs were
reaching out to me, telling me, ‘We’re
thinking about doing it. Where do you
source the coffee? How do you roast the
coffee?’ ” Pham said. “I love that it’s
women-led. I love the fact these women
were all talking to each other, asking for
recipes and advice and being really
transparent.”
Pham collaborated with woman-
owned coffee brand Fat Miilk in Chi-
cago. In Seattle, four Vietnamese-cen-
tered coffee shops and roasteries have
opened since 2020. Oregon Vietnamese
roaster Portland Cà Phê expanded so
quickly this year that owner Kimberly
Dam had a hard time sourcing enough
robusta beans to keep up with demand.
Roasters from Vietnam are also get-
ting in on the American market. In Ana-
heim, California, Vietnamese coffee gi-
ant Trung Nguyen opened its first
American cafe this spring under the
name King Coffee. Tong’s Phin Coffee
Club beans, roasted over rambutan
wood and infused with chocolate and
avocado, now sell at every location of
Texas grocer Central Market.
The American Vietnamese roasts
have caught on at a younger generation
of Vietnamese cafes and restaurants,
whether Sandwich Hag in Dallas or Phi-
nista in Boston.
At Pittsburgh coffee shop Ineffable
Cà Phê, Vietnamese-born Phat Nguyen
sells Pham’s Càphê brand alongside
American-style craft coffee. He also
hopes to also get in on the roasting game
himself, as soon as he can navigate the
byzantine bureaucracy of exporting
from his home country: His sister-in-
law is a coffee farmer in Vietnam.
The iced coffee made with robusta
beans from Càphê Roasters is already
his most popular drink, even in a city
without many Vietnamese people.
“It’s amazing the kind of support we
have as a small Vietnamese cafe in
Pittsburgh. This isn’t New York City,” he
said. “To be honest, it’s amazing that
people know what pho is, or what banh
mi is, or cà phê sua dá. Having your cul-
ture passed on to other people is an
amazing feeling. If you don’t pass on
your culture, eventually you stop exist-
ing.”
Those same features maligned for
turning investing into a game have also
helped new users intimidated by stock
trading learn and ease them into build-
ing a portfolio or figuring out basics like
how to trade a stock.
“It gives them an entertaining way to
want to access this information and that
can be really positive,” said Sury.
But Sury warns having a solid finan-
cial plan in place and understanding
your goals can help new investors avoid
the traps of apps like Robinhood.
“There are going to be times when
you happen to be lucky and there’ll be
other times when you aren’t,” he said. “I
think that’s the first step is to under-
stand how much risk you can take and
what you’re trying to achieve.”
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Vagueness hinders international travelers

‘Early November’ news
spurs guessing game
Dawn Gilbertson and Bailey Schulz
USA TODAY
“Early November.” That’s as specific
as the White House was last week when
it announced plans to broadly reopen
U.S. borders to vaccinated international
visitors. It’s been a week since then and
no date has been specified.
With November only a month away,
travelers in Europe, the United Kingdom
and other places the travel ban covers,
are desperately seeking a specific date
so they can make or adjust travel plans
and get time off from work.
Travelers are pleading for informa-
tion on Twitter, regularly singling out
government officials in the United
States and abroad.
“Give us a date,” a woman from Col-
ogne, Germany, said in a Monday tweet
calling out President Joe Biden, press
secretary Jen Psaki and the White
House.
White House officials remain mum
on a date or even when a date will be an-
nounced, and airline and tourism offi-
cials say they have no details.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention says only that it expects to
have an order requiring airlines to col-
lect passenger information for CO-
VID-19 contact tracing – a key part of the
government’s border reopening plan –
by mid-October, spokesperson Scott
Pauley said.
San Francisco photographer Elena
Graham, whose partner lives in Norway,
is frustrated that she can’t get any an-
swers.
“Everyone passes you to another de-
partment,” she said. “The CDC says it’s
the State Department. The State De-
partment says its Health and Human
Services. They say it’s Homeland Secu-
rity. It’s like round-robin.”
Graham and her partner, who has not
been to the United States since 2019,
started shopping for an airline ticket
from Norway to San Francisco after the
Sept. 20 announcement of the border
reopening.
They were initially hesitant to book,
but decided to buy a ticket for Nov. 9
Elena Graham and her partner at the Grand Canyon in 2018. She lives in San
Francisco, he lives in Norway, and they have been separated by the pandemic.
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when they watched prices spike.
“We felt some urgency to book some-
thing,” she said.
They paid $1,000 for a one-way ticket
with more flexibility and have had their
fingers crossed since. Graham’s partner
already took time off in November and
sublet his apartment. They originally
planned to get him to the United States
via another country after quarantining
there for two weeks, a so-called third
country trip.
“It’s just hard to even get your hopes
up or believe that you’ll be together
when there’s nothing definitive,” Gra-
ham said.
The couple already saw travel plans
dashed this year. Graham was able to
visit Norway last year when the country
reopened travel to partners and was
planning to return this year since the
U.S. borders were still closed to her part-
ner. But Norway tightened entry re-
strictions in January, laying out a de-
tailed plan for when they would lift
again.
“They would put out a target date. It
would get to that date (and nothing
changed). It went that way for the entire
year,” she said. “It feels a bit traumatic
and very hard to feel any sort of trust in
something so vague.”
Travelers trying to reunite have be-
come online sleuths, looking for any
sign of a reopening date. Late last week,
a blogger tracking the U.K.-U.S. reopen-
ing for travelers shared a screenshot of a
direct message conversation with Unit-
ed Airlines that said the U.S. plan to “lift
geographic travel ban restrictions” be-
ginning Nov. 1.
United spokesperson Nicole Carriere
said there is no update to the timing be-
yond the government’s announcement
of early November.
However, Austria’s ambassador to
the United States, Martin Weiss, told a
traveler who reached out via Twitter on
Friday that the target date is Nov. 1.
Travel analyst Henry Harteveldt, co-
founder of Atmosphere Research, said
the longer the government goes without
setting a date, the harder it will be for
travelers and airlines.
“There’s literally no time to waste,”
he said. “There will be chaos and confu-
sion the longer they wait.”
If the date isn’t Nov. 1, for example,
some travelers who purchased tickets in
the first week of November will be
scrambling to rebook flights and change
other travel plans, a costly prospect.
And airlines will be inundated with
calls.
“It’s really disappointing to me about
how poorly this has been managed and
communicated,” Harteveldt said. “I ap-
preciate that there are a lot of details
that have to be factored into the process,
but we should know by now what date
in November international visitors will
be permitted to travel to the United
States.”
When US travel ban is lifted,
what will entry requirements be?
h Whatever the November date, trav-
elers will need to show proof of full vac-
cination before boarding U.S.-bound
planes.
h A coronavirus test will also con-
tinue to be required within three days of
departure and proof of negative results
must be shown.
h Enhanced contact tracing and
masking will also be required, but there
will be no quarantine mandate.
h Airlines will ask to see proof of vac-
cination before boarding. The U.S. will
likely accept vaccines approved for
emergency use by the World Health Or-
ganization.
h American citizens won’t have to
show proof of vaccination to board in-
ternational flights home to the United
States, but will still be required to show
proof of a negative coronavirus test tak-
en no more than three days before de-
parture.
h Unvaccinated Americans will be
required to take a coronavirus test one
day before departure – instead of the
three-day requirement today – and pro-
vide proof they have a second test to
take after arrival.

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Lake in the Republican race for gover- rising COVID-19 cases — the Salem
nor. Public Library is set to open Friday
with limited in-person services.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Gov. Asa
Hutchinson on Tuesday said he al- PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: Alleghe-
lowed the state’s public health emer- ny County government employees
gency for the coronavirus pandemic will be required to submit proof of
to end, saying he didn’t need any COVID-19 vaccination by Dec. 1 or
additional powers to respond to it. face termination.
Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama participate in a
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SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A fed-
Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday. former president started his political career on Chicago’s South Side, officially
eral judge suspended South Carolina
began last month.
COLORADO Silverthorne: The resi- from enforcing a rule that banned
dents of several hundred homes have school districts from requiring masks
been evacuated or warned to be ready for students.
to leave because of a wildfire burning
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in Colorado’s north-central moun-
than 150 homeowners in a devel-
tains.
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Senate voted to extend Democratic escaped June 30 from Larned State southwestern Nebraska after being properties after a sinkhole exposed
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ers for the sixth time during the CO- night in Wayne County, Utah. store clerk refused to sell her beer,
TENNESSEE Franklin: A house that
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KENTUCKY Frankfort: State police belonged to the grandparents of
from Republican lawmakers who
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required to be vaccinated against sion that includes a new high-speed
people were injured in an explosion ly stabbing two Houston-area broth-
COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing, chairlift and trail additions to help
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Gov. John Carney said Tuesday. skier traffic patterns.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing- NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: A judge
MAINE Portland: The owner of four UTAH Moab: The police chief in the
ton: The city’s new Planet Word mu- dismissed a lawsuit challenging a
hydroelectric dams on the Kennebec tourist town where officers stopped
seum is being lauded for its lavato- decision by Republican Gov. Chris
River sued two Maine agencies al- Gabby Petito and her boyfriend
ries, WUSA-TV reported. Sununu’s administration to end
leging they improperly cooperated weeks before her death has taken a
unemployment benefits under the
FLORIDA Tallahassee: A group of on fish passage regulations that leave of absence.
federal CARES Act early.
South Florida businessmen sued the impact the future of the dams and
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program with its roots in the early
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MARYLAND Upper Marlboro: Five days of the pandemic is ending after
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed break into a restaurant in a south-
zebras that escaped from a farm distributing tens of thousands of
with the Seminole Tribe. ern New Jersey strip mall died after
nearly a month ago are still on the meals to people across Vermont.
he got trapped in an exhaust fan on
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College athletes will get paid.

It’s just a matter of time.
Dan Wolken
Columnist
USA TODAY
Here’s how college sports change for-
ever.
At some point over the next several
months, a labor union will engage with a
group of football players at a prominent
private school like Notre Dame, South-
ern Cal, Stanford or Boston College and
The NLRB’s general counsel issued a memorandum that says she views college encourage them to rally support for
athletes as employees of their schools under its Act. RICH BARNES/USA TODAY SPORTS unionization within the team. Enough
players will sign union cards to take
them to the nearest National Labor Re-
lations Board regional office.
There will probably be pushback
from the school to the idea of unioniza-
tion, so a hearing will take place. The
NLRB’s regional director will rule in fa-
vor of the athletes’ right to form a union,
designating them as employees.
After the various appeals and chal-
lenges, and a secret ballot vote with
enough players voting for unionization,
the NLRB board in Washington, D.C.,
will ultimately recognize that college
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Quarterback evolution
Joe Burrow versus Trevor Lawrence shows NFL’s new concepts
Charlie Goldsmith
The Cincinnati Enquirer
USA TODAY Network
CINCINNATI – Bengals quarterback
Joe Burrow didn’t follow college football
recruiting during his high school or col-
lege career, so he had never heard the
name Trevor Lawrence until Lawrence
became the starter at Clemson.
Before then, Lawrence was the sec-
ond-highest-rated quarterback in the
history of most of the major recruiting
services. He was the No. 1 player in the
2017 recruiting class because he was an
athletic 6-foot-6 quarterback with a big
arm.
Lawrence looks like the type of player
Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence and LSU’s Joe Burrow
faced off for the national title in January 2020.
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who has historically been taken with the
No. 1 overall pick. But over the last 10
years, No. 1 picks with Lawrence’s style
of play have become the exception and
not the rule.
“I think 10-15 years ago you had to be
6-4, 230 pounds with a rocket arm to be
drafted in the first round,” Burrow said.
“That’s really exciting for the game
moving forward. It’s kind of the Steph
Curry effect in basketball. You cannot be
the biggest guy on the field, but if you
can go make plays you are going to get
picked.”
The evolution of the first-round pick
started when NFL coaches wanted to
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Conference realignment is gripping college sports

Dan Wolken
USA TODAY
When the Big 12 recently invited Cin-
cinnati, UCF, BYU and Houston to re-
configure yet again after Texas and
Oklahoma declared their intent to join
the Southeastern Conference, it brought
an end to the latest round of realign-
ment at the power conference level.
But the landscape of college football,
and all of college sports, isn’t even close
to settled. The Texas/Oklahoma move
didn’t just shake up the SEC’s peer
leagues; the effect is being felt all the
way through the Football Bowl Subdivi-
sion down to the lower levels of Division
I.
Beyond an expected reorganization
of schools in the so-called Group of Five
conferences, there is a renewed urgency
among smaller schools with big football
ambitions to position themselves in the
best possible way for whatever the next
iteration of the NCAA looks like. With
the NCAA announcing a constitutional
convention to dramatically overhaul the
organization’s governance structure –
and, ultimately, hand the major foot-
ball-playing schools more power – ad-
ministrators and school presidents are
concerned that the last ship for any po-
tential upward mobility from FCS to
FBS, or from Division II to Division I,
may be about to set sail.
“A lot of people are nervous,” said one
Division I athletics director. “If you want
to make a move, you’re at the cross-
roads. You have to do it now.”
USA TODAY Sports spoke to 17 people
across college sports who described the
far-reaching impact of Texas and Okla-
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homa’s SEC move and how their school
or conference is positioned for the next
round of realignment. All of them were
granted anonymity in order to discuss a
topic for which they aren’t authorized to
speak publicly.
AAC vs. Mountain West
Nowhere is the uneasiness more evi-
dent than in the American Athletic Con-
ference, which lost three of its most
prominent schools to the Big 12 and will
be down to eight football playing mem-
bers plus Wichita State in basketball
and other sports.
The focus for commissioner Mike
Aresco has been to solidify the AAC’s
status as the No. 6 conference. To do
that, the preferred track would be knee-
capping its most prominent rival in the
Mountain West by adding Boise State,
San Diego State, Air Force and Colorado
State to form a league that would reach
all corners of the country.
The argument from the Mountain
West is that stability and geography fa-
vors staying put rather than moving to
the AAC, where schools like Memphis
and South Florida will be hoping to get
called up if the Big 12 has another round
of expansion in the next few years.
But Aresco is aggressively making
the case that the AAC would preserve its
television contract with ESPN – worth
roughly $7 million annually per school –
by adding those four and particularly
Boise State, which is considered by ana-
lysts the most valuable television prop-
erty not currently in a Power Five
league.
If Aresco is correct that the value of
the AAC’s television contract won’t
change, those Mountain West schools
could roughly double their money by
making the move.
Among the four, Air Force is viewed
as the most eager to make the jump as it
would put them in the same conference
as Navy and give their recruiting efforts
a stronger presence in the East. Colora-
do State is not necessarily tied to Air
Force, but as in-state rivals, it would
make sense for them to move in tandem.
If they make the decision to jump,
Boise State and San Diego State would
have to consider whether it would make
sense to stay in a diminished Mountain
West with schools such as UNLV, Neva-
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athletes have collective bargaining
rights. When that happens, the same
process will take place at other private
schools, which will be forced to negoti-
ate with players on issues like health
care benefits and revenue sharing.
And then, when it becomes clear the
unionized programs have a recruiting
advantage over public schools, state
legislatures even in conservative, anti-
union states will begin to figure out how
to change their laws so that their ath-
letes can be part of the movement.
Eventually, the last wall of amateurism
that the NCAA has tried for decades to
uphold — direct payments to college
athletes — will come tumbling down.
“In general, I’d say we’re in the red
zone finally,” said former University of
Minnesota regent Michael Hsu, who sits
on the volunteer advisory board of the
College Football Players Association, a
group that advocates for unionization as
a pathway to greater rights for college
athletes. “This is kind of the spark we
needed to let the players know they real-
ly do have rights and they should be
thinking bout them.”
The spark came Wednesday in the
form of a memo from Jennifer Abruzzo,
newly appointed by President Biden to
be the NLRB’s lead attorney. In the me-
mo, Abruzzo states that college athletes
are employees, not “student-athletes,”
and makes clear that she will support
any effort by athletes to “act collectively
to improve their terms and conditions of
employment” if brought to the NLRB.
Though the memo itself doesn’t im-
mediately change college sports — it
doesn’t even guarantee that the NLRB
would rule favorably on a unionization
effort — the climate has changed signifi-
cantly since 2015 when the NLRB hand-
ed the NCAA a victory by rejecting ef-
forts to unionize the Northwestern foot-
ball team.
Even then, the NLRB’s decision didn’t
really strike down the merits of union-
izing or say that college athletes aren’t
employees. Instead, the NLRB showed
deference to NCAA rules, reasonably
concluding that a unionized football
team playing non-unionized football
teams would be pretty disruptive for
Boise State is considered by analysts the most valuable television property not
currently in a Power Five league. STEVE CONNER/AP
da, San Jose State, Fresno State and Ha-
waii that have significant budget issues
and questions about institutional com-
mitment.
If the AAC can’t pull off its Western
gambit, or only lures Air Force, the focus
would likely turn to UAB and Charlotte
from Conference USA as well as perhaps
Army, which plays as an independent
and has rejected multiple overtures to
join a league in football.
And then more poaching
Though Mountain West commis-
sioner Craig Thompson cannot be
counted out in keeping his members to-
gether – he’s been there since the
league’s founding in 1998, has reinvent-
ed the league multiple times and staved
off efforts to poach Boise State before –
an AAC raid would force even more
downstream movement likely focused
on UT-San Antonio, North Texas and
Rice, all of which are currently in Con-
ference USA.
If Conference USA loses members,
any replacements would most likely
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college sports.
While the NCAA applauded the deci-
sion, it was a Pyrrhic victory. In reality,
all the NLRB did was punt until the poli-
tics of the moment were different. And
boy have they ever changed in the last
six years.
“Today is just one step in a long Na-
tional Labor Relations Board process,
but it’s indicative of the body politic
shifting,” said Tom McMillen, the presi-
dent and chief executive of the Lead1
Association that represents the 130 FBS
athletics directors. “There are a lot of
ramifications to this that have to be
sorted out, but it fundamentally alters
the landscape of college sports if it goes
to an employee model. Hopefully there’s
a step short of that that can be compro-
mised.”
But for advocates of college athletes
rights, where’s the incentive to compro-
mise? Right now, the NCAA hasn’t just
been stripped of power and moral au-
thority over college sports, it has more
or less abdicated any regulatory respon-
sibility over to the schools.
For all the hue and cry we heard from
NCAA president Mark Emmert and con-
ference commissioners about needing a
come from independents such as Liber-
ty and New Mexico State or perhaps
James Madison, a traditional FCS power
that has expressed interest in moving
up to the FBS.
Though not directly tied to Oklahoma
and Texas, the consolidation of power
and the threat of some kind of football
breakaway from the NCAA structure is
roiling the FCS leagues. In January, the
Western Athletic Conference reinstated
football and added four Texas-based
schools from the Southland Conference.
On Tuesday, the Southland began its
journey to reinvention by announcing
that Texas A&M-Commerce would
move up from Division II.
The Atlantic Sun Conference has also
been aggressive about football-focused
expansion, adding Central Arkansas,
Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville State
and Austin Peay. Three of those schools
were in the Ohio Valley Conference,
which also lost non-football playing
Belmont on Tuesday to the Missouri
Valley Conference. Murray State is also
a candidate to be poached from the
OVC, which would leave the league with
national law to govern name, image and
likeness rights, we’re seeing now that it
isn’t particularly necessary.
For the last few months, college ath-
letes from coast to coast have been mak-
ing deals and earning money without
significant regulations aside from those
imposed by their own campuses. The
doomsday predictions of uncontrollable
chaos haven’t come to fruition. And
based on the strong television ratings
from early in the football season, fans
aren’t turned off in the least because the
quarterback of their team is driving a
nice car or selling chicken fingers on
Twitter.
Amateurism isn’t just over, it should
be obvious by now that it was never
part of what made college sports pop-
ular.
And just like NIL, which started with
a push by the California legislature and
spread like wildfire in states that didn’t
want to get left behind, unions will be-
come a lot more palatable when schools
that have them are able to offer better
deals to recruits.
Obviously, there are a lot of steps
from here to there — and a ton of unan-
swered questions along the way. Would
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just seven members.
In the broader picture, realignment
gravity is pulling schools with big foot-
ball ambitions together while the rest
are more interested in regional-based
competition. There’s concern that some
smaller leagues with hybrids of football
and non-football members might end
up separating.
“Some of these presidents and ADs
and trustees have delusion of grandeur
thinking, ‘We could be the next Appala-
chian State or Coastal Carolina,’ ” said
one administrator in a league that has
lost multiple members recently. “Do I
think it’s fool’s gold? Probably. But
there’s going to be a lot more movement
between now and the end of the calen-
dar year.”
‘There has to be a line’
Part of the reason that’s happening is
the uncertainty of what the NCAA will
look like coming out of the constitution-
al convention. Ultimately, the 57
schools in the SEC, Big Ten, Pac 12 and
ACC plus Notre Dame hold all the cards
in the next iteration of the NCAA. The
only question is whether they form their
own division or whether all 130 schools
in FBS are broken out into a separate
structure of self-governance.
For the other 227 (and growing)
members of Division I, it will be a
scramble to hang onto the financial
coattails of the FBS either through foot-
ball guarantee games or, for those that
don’t play football, the NCAA basketball
tournament.
Money generated by March Madness
is crucial for funding small conferences,
but there has long been a fear that the
FBS schools would gain enough power
to rewrite the rules to either limit or cut
off their automatic access to the tourna-
ment. Any wholesale change to the
democratic nature of the NCAA tourna-
ment would be unpopular, even perhaps
among some power conference admin-
istrators.
But as Division I gets more members
and the disparities grow bigger between
the rich schools, the middle class and
those at the bottom, the voices calling
for change will get louder.
“One thing everybody agrees with is
that Division I is too big,” one athletics
director said. “At some point, there has
to be a line.”
With realignment gripping college
sports from top to bottom, the scramble
to end up on the right side of that line is
more intense than ever.
there be a national college athletes’
union, or would each program have one
that negotiated individually with the
school? Would different sports have dif-
ferent unions, or would they be under
the same umbrella? How would Title IX
factor in when you’re negotiating with
athletes in revenue-generating sports
vs. non-revenue sports?
Nobody can predict exactly how it
will shake out, but the Abruzzo memo
Wednesday can only be read as an in-
vitation for unions and advocacy groups
to start the process of organizing college
football and basketball teams.
“It’s basically a land grab at this
point, starting today,” Hsu said. “It’ll be
a big fight, who’s going to be the union to
represent the first school because it’s a
potential expansion of market for
them.”
The NCAA should have realized long
ago that a lot of its problems could be
solved through collective bargaining.
Instead of bringing athletes to the table
and working out how to share the
wealth just like the NBA and NFL do
with their player unions, the NCAA
spent tens of millions of dollars in legal
fees and wasted a decade on trying to
prevent them from seeing a cent of the
revenue they help generate.
With various lawsuits and legislative
proposals in the works, there could be a
pathway toward some type of collective
bargaining arrangement before any
case ever reaches the NLRB. “Theoret-
ically, they could even get revenue shar-
ing in some way and be codified as not
employees, and that would kind of end
all this,” McMillen said. “The student
rights activists and lawyers pushing
employment won’t be satisfied with
that, but it could be a much more mod-
ern model and preserve college sports
as we know it.”
But is there any leadership left in the
NCAA to steer it toward pragmatic deci-
sions without first getting stomped on
by some arm of the government? Up un-
til now, the NCAA has allowed itself to
be at the mercy of political inertia,
which is no longer interested in prop-
ping up amateurism.
What the NLRB set in motion
Wednesday should make that clear to
everyone in college sports.
Whether they get that message — or
can do anything about it — remains to
be seen.
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Pulisic to miss Cup qualifiers;
suspended McKennie returns
Nancy Armour
USA TODAY
While Weston McKennie deserved
to be punished for breaking team
COVID-19 protocols, U.S. men’s soccer
coach Gregg Berhalter saw no reason to
banish the talented midfielder forever.
Or even for an extended period of time.
After being suspended for the last
two World Cup qualifiers, McKennie
was back on the 27-man roster for the
next round of games.
“As far as I’m concerned, this is
something that’s done,” Berhalter said.
“He’s still going to be held accountable
for his behavior; everybody’s going to
be held accountable.
“But this isn’t something we hold on
guys. That’s not the type of culture we
have in the group, and it won’t be mov-
ing forward.”
McKennie is seen as one of the lead-
ers of this young U.S. squad, both for
his presence and playing time. But the
23-year-old’s behavior off the field has
raised questions about his maturity.
In April, he was benched by Juven-
tus for the Turin derby after having a
party at his house, which violated both
rules against parties and the national
curfew. McKennie’s suspension this
month stemmed from him spending
the night outside the U.S. hotel, ESPN
.com reported, while TUDN’s “Hable-
mos Soccer” podcast said he also had
an unauthorized visitor in his hotel
room on another night.
Berhalter said at the time that he
wasn’t cutting ties with McKennie, and
he seemed troubled Wednesday by the
idea that one mistake could derail a
young player’s career.
“There’s a certain amount of trust
Weston needs to rebuild with the group
and he’s willing to do that. And I think
that’s the important thing,” Berhalter
said. “The one thing I didn’t love how
this whole thing got spun is the lack of
tolerance, the lack of understanding for
a player’s situation. For the fact we
have a young group and this group
needs to learn.
“We’re way too quick to condemn
people and not really understand a
player’s perspective,” Berhalter added.
“Listen, his behavior was unaccept-
able. He took responsibility for it, and
we move on. We really do move on.”
While McKennie is back with the
USMNT, two of the team’s other young
stars are not. Christian Pulisic and Gio
Reyna will miss the next three qualifi-
ers because they are still recovering
from injuries they picked up in the last
round.
Pulisic has not played for Chelsea in
the English Premier League since leav-
Kenny Pickett may be Pitt’s next Marino
Paul Myerberg
USA TODAY
With many of the nation’s top pass-
ers leading teams at or near the top of
the early College Football Playoff power
rankings, no conference has better
quarterbacks or better quarterback play
than the Southeastern Conference.
With Bryce Young, Matt Corral and
JT Daniels, the league dominates this
week’s list of the best quarterbacks in
the Football Bowl Subdivision. Com-
bined, this threesome has thrown for 29
touchdowns and three interceptions
across 10 games, all wins.
After leading No. 2 Georgia past
No. 19 Clemson in the opener and miss-
ing the victory against Alabama-Bir-
mingham with an oblique injury, Dan-
iels has been highly productive in routs
of South Carolina and Vanderbilt.
No. 1 Alabama and No. 12 Ole Miss
meet Saturday with high stakes related
to the SEC West and the playoff. The im-
pact will extend to the Heisman Trophy,
with Young or Corral taking a major lead
in the race for postseason hardware.
1. Bryce Young, Alabama
Young tossed the first interception in
144 career attempts in Alabama’s 63-14
win against Southern Mississippi.
Technically, only one of his 22 throws
wasn’t caught by somebody: Young had
20 completions for 313 yards and a ca-
reer-best five touchdowns. He’s thrown
at least three touchdowns in each of his
four starts.
2. Matt Corral, Ole Miss
After ripping through Alabama’s de-
fense in last year’s meeting, what will
Corral do for an encore? While the Tide
eventually pulled away for a 63-48 win,
U.S. midfielder Weston McKennie,
right, speaks with coach Gregg
Berhalter during practice at Nissan
Stadium in Nashville on Sept. 4.
ANDREW NELLES/THE TENNESSEAN
ing the Sept. 9 qualifier in Honduras
with an ankle injury, including not be-
ing available for Wednesday’s Champi-
ons League match at Juventus. Dort-
mund had already said Reyna’s ham-
string injury will keep him out until at
least the middle of next month.
Asked if Pulisic or Reyna could still
be added to the roster for this window,
Berhalter said it was unlikely: “They’re
not even involved in team training yet.”
The U.S. men host Jamaica on Oct. 7
in Austin, Texas, travel to Panama on
Oct. 10 and close out the window with
an Oct. 13 game against Costa Rica in
Columbus, Ohio.
The top three teams in CONCACAF
qualifying advance to the 2022 World
Cup in Qatar, and the USMNT is cur-
rently tied for second.
The three England-based players –
goalkeeper Zack Steffen and defenders
Tim Ream and Antonee Robinson –
won’t be able to play in the Panama
game because of the United Kingdom’s
protocol restrictions. Berhalter said
when the team goes to Panama, the
three will go to Columbus, accompa-
nied by a trainer and likely a technical
coach.
Other European players will be avail-
able for all three games, including Ser-
gino Dest, who missed the Honduras
game with a sprained ankle. Dest has
played in Barcelona’s last three games
and had an assist in Sunday’s game.
The USMNT also gets Tim Weah
back. The Lille striker was on the initial
roster for the last round of qualifiers but
had to withdraw after he was injured in
training before leaving for the USA.
Yunus Musah and Paul Arriola, who
missed the last round of qualifiers re-
covering from injuries, also were in-
cluded on the roster. This will be the
first World Cup qualifying action for
Musah, who chose the United States
last year over England, Ghana and Italy.
Kenny Pickett is trying to become
Pitt’s most accomplished player at
quarterback since Dan Marino.
CHARLES LECLAIRE/USA TODAY SPORTS
Corral completed 21 of 28 attempts for
365 yards and two touchdowns with an-
other 40 yards on the ground. As a pass-
er and a runner, he’s been just outstand-
ing in the Rebels’ 3-0 start.
3. JT Daniels, Georgia
There’s now enough of a sample size
for Daniels to make this list, even if he
was barely needed in Georgia’s 62-0 win
against Vanderbilt. Through two SEC
games, Daniels has hit on 78.1% of his
throws with five touchdowns as the
Bulldogs continue to join Alabama in
separating themselves from the rest of
the pack.
4. Desmond Ridder, Cincinnati
Saturday will see Ridder and the
No. 8 Bearcats take on No. 7 Notre Dame
in one of the biggest games of the reg-
ular season. In seven career games
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The NCAA’s March Madness logo at center court. KIRBY LEE/USA TODAY SPORTS
‘March Madness’ branding,
phrasing will be used for
women’s NCAA Tournament
Paul Myerberg
USA TODAY
The NCAA will use the “March Mad-
ness” phrasing and branding in con-
junction with the women’s basketball
tournament beginning in 2022, follow-
ing one of the recommendations issued
by a law firm tasked with investigating
gender disparities among the govern-
ing body’s championship events.
“Women’s basketball has grown tre-
mendously over the past several years,
and we remain focused on our priority
of enhancing and growing the game,”
said Lynn Holzman, the NCAA vice
president of women’s basketball.
“The brand recognition that March
Madness carries will broaden market-
ing opportunities as we continue that
work to elevate the women’s basketball
championship.”
Use of the “March Madness” phrase
has historically been reserved for the
men’s tournament.
The move received unanimous sup-
port from the Division I Women’s Bas-
ketball Oversight Committee, the
NCAA said.
“Adding the March Madness trade-
mark to the Division I Women’s Basket-
ball Championship will enhance the
development and public perception of
the sport,” said Texas-San Antonio ath-
letic director and committee chair Lisa
Campos, “and the oversight committee
looks forward to its work to address
other recommendations through the
governance structure to continue those
efforts.”
The NCAA will also use a “zero-
based budgeting method” for the wom-
en’s and men’s championships, a shift
against Power Five competition, includ-
ing this month’s win against Indiana,
Ridder has completed 106 of his 174
throws for 1,105 yards and seven touch-
downs along with 236 rushing yards and
another four scores.
5. Kenny Pickett, Pittsburgh
With 1,342 passing yards and 15
scores through four games, Pickett is set
to challenge a number of Pittsburgh
passing records and cap his career as
the program’s best quarterback since
Dan Marino. He’ll make a run at the sin-
gle-season records for yards (3,679) and
TDs (37). He’s 58 completions, 194 at-
tempts, 25 TDs and 1,941 yards shy of the
Panthers’ career marks. The leap Pickett
has made in his final season has his
team in the mix for the Atlantic Coast
Conference Coastal championship.
6. Dorian Thompson-Robinson,
UCLA
Thompson-Robinson threw for 251
yards and had four total scores, includ-
ing the second game of his career with
multiple touchdowns on the ground, as
the Bruins rebounded to beat Stanford
35-24 in the Pac-12 opener. The senior is
the first UCLA quarterback to throw for
250 or more yards in three straight
games since Josh Rosen in 2017.
7. Jake Haener, Fresno State
Haener’s worst game came in the
No. 21 Bulldogs’ 31-24 loss at No. 3 Ore-
gon, when he completed 69.8% of his
throws for 298 yards and a touchdown
without an interception. It’s been that
kind of year for the former Washington
transfer, who went for 378 yards and
five touchdowns in Saturday’s close call
with UNLV and is developing into a le-
from the traditional approach of ad-
justing budgets for these champion-
ship events from the previous fiscal
year.
This change is geared “toward in-
creasing opportunities for planning
collaboration and cross-promotion, as
well as making the two championships
more financially equitable,” the NCAA
said in a statement.
Issued in August by the firm Kaplan
Hecker & Fink LLP, which specializes in
employment and discrimination mat-
ters, the report on gender inequity
came after a flood of social media posts
highlighting the different treatment of
athletes at the men’s and women’s
NCAA tournaments.
These posts showed how teams at
the men’s tournament were given bet-
ter food, workout areas, recreation
space and gifts compared to their
counterparts in the women’s bracket.
In addition to the recommendation
related to branding, the report conclud-
ed that the NCAA’s model for revenue
distribution “prioritizes and rewards
investment in men’s basketball,” and
the NCAA should “maximize value
through gender equity” by marketing
the women’s tournament as a “stand-
alone property.”
“The primary reason, we believe, is
that the gender inequities at the NCAA
– and specifically within the NCAA Di-
vision I basketball championships –
stem from the structure and systems of
the NCAA itself, which are designed to
maximize the value of and support to
the Division I Men’s Basketball Cham-
pionship as the primary source of fund-
ing for the NCAA and its membership,”
the report found.
gitimate NFL draft prospect. And he’s
been great late: Haener is completing
78.1% of his passes for 816 yards and
eight scores in the second half, with
nine completions of 25 or more yards.
8. Tanner Mordecai, SMU
There’s an issue with turnovers: Mor-
decai already has two games with mul-
tiple interceptions, though that hasn’t
stopped SMU from winning four
straight and making a run at the Top 25.
The former Oklahoma transfer leads the
FBS with 20 touchdowns and is one of
five Group of Five quarterbacks with 10
or more touchdowns while completing
at least 70% of their attempts.
9. Sam Hartman, Wake Forest
Hartman has moved beyond a sour
finish to last season – he had two brutal
games in losses to Louisville and Wis-
consin – to lead No. 25 Wake Forest to an
unbeaten September. He’s been partic-
ularly good in double-digit wins against
Florida State and Virginia, with 529
passing yards on 8.8 yards per attempt
and five scores.
10. Sean Clifford, Penn State
The three-year starter is playing the
best football of his career as the No. 6
Nittany Lions build a case for the top
spot in the Big Ten. Clifford completed
47 of 58 attempts for 685 yards and six
touchdowns in wins against Auburn
and Villanova, giving him 1,162 yards
and eight scores on 9.7 yards per at-
tempt through four games. He is dwarf-
ing his previous career bests in every
major category and playing as well as
any Penn State quarterback since Trace
McSorley in the home stretch of the 2017
season.
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The Jaguars’ Jamal Agnew runs the football back 109 yards for a touchdown
after catching a missed field goal attempt. BOB SELF/THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION
Agnew could emerge
as special offensive
spark for Jaguars
John Reid
The Florida Times-Union
USA TODAY Network
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The most
electrifying player in last weekend’s
Cardinals-Jaguars game wasn’t Trevor
Lawrence, James Robinson, Kyler Mur-
ray or DeAndre Hopkins.
It was Jaguars backup wide receiver
Jamal Agnew. He has not caught a pass
or been targeted this season, but he is a
special talent as a return specialist.
And that was clearly evident in the
Jaguars’ 31-19 loss to Arizona when he
made one of the biggest plays in NFL
history, returning a missed field goal at-
tempt for 109 yards for a touchdown
that tied for the longest ever.
With the Jaguars reeling on an 18-
game losing streak since last season
and dropping to 0-3 under coach Urban
Meyer going into Thursday night’s
game against the Bengals (2-1), it might
be wise for the Jaguars to use Agnew
beyond special teams.
It is not like the Jaguars don’t need
an offensive boost beyond Lawrence
and Robinson, especially with their re-
ceivers still having problems getting
separation.
The Jaguars are averaging 17.7 points
per game, the sixth lowest in the NFL,
and their 315 yards per game average is
the 10th lowest.
Maybe Meyer and offensive coordi-
nator Darrell Bevell should find ways to
utilize Agnew as a big-play receiver or
get the ball in Agnew’s hands on de-
signed plays to take advantage of his
speed and ability to elude tacklers in
the open field.
”That kid is a dynamic guy with the
ball in his hand, Agnew,” Meyer said.
”That’s why we went after him in free
agency. That’s a game-changer, and
he’s an even better guy than he is a
player.”
Desperate to get on track, Agnew’s
return was just the third 109-yard
touchdown in NFL history, tying Anto-
nio Cromartie (interception return) and
Cordarrelle Patterson (kickoff return)
for the league record.
It came after Cardinals kicker Matt
Prater came out to attempt a 68-yarder
that dropped well short of the goal post
and into the waiting hands of Agnew,
who was standing alone in the end
zone.
Sherman to reinforce ailing Bucs secondary
Lorenzo Reyes
USA TODAY
The banged-up Buccaneers are get-
ting reinforcements in the form of a vet-
eran cornerback.
The team announced Wednesday
morning that it had signed former Sea-
hawks and 49ers cornerback Richard
Sherman. The move comes after starter
Sean Murphy-Bunting was placed on
injured reserve following an elbow inju-
ry he suffered in Tampa Bay’s season-
opening victory against the Cowboys.
Cornerback Jamel Dean also suffered a
knee injury in Sunday’s loss against the
Rams, further depleting the depth at the
position.
Sherman, 33, is a three-time All-Pro
selection and a five-time Pro Bowler. His
contract with the 49ers expired after the
2020 season, making him an unrestrict-
ed free agent. He went unsigned as he
JACKSONVILLE (0-3)
AT CINCINNATI (2-1)
TV: 8:20 p.m. ET Thursday, NFL Net-
work
Tipico Sportsbook line: Bengals by 7 1⁄2
Jaguars’ keys: They have to establish
the run with RB James Robinson to
protect QB Trevor Lawrence. Through
the first three games, Lawrence, the
2021 No. 1 overall pick, has been
sacked five times and has thrown sev-
en interceptions. The defense and
CB Shaquill Griffin will need to limit
deep shots by the Bengals.
Bengals’ keys: QB Joe Burrow and
WR Ja’Marr Chase linked had two
touchdown hookups in Week 3, which
proved that threatening to go over the
defense’s head more consistently
should only open things up for one of
the league’s most accurate intermedi-
ate passers, as well as for RB Joe Mix-
on. Defensively, breakout LB Logan
Wilson needs to guarantee the Jag-
uars’ rushing attack can’t carry the
game.
– Chris Roling, Bengals Wire
Following a wedge of blockers, Ag-
new broke through four tackles on his
way to the end zone that brought the
crowd to its feet, cheering in delight.
“I mean, we were juiced,” Agnew
said. ”We always talk about somebody
making that big play, somebody creat-
ing that spark. I’ve been in the league
for five years (and) I haven’t been in the
playoffs. I want to win.”
Agnew appears to be doing all he
can. In Week 2, he returned a kickoff
102 yards for a touchdown in the fourth
quarter. However, the Jaguars still lost
23-13 at TIAA Bank Field.
Other than Lawrence’s five touch-
down passes, Agnew is tied with re-
ceivers DJ Chark and Jones with the
team lead for most TDs with two
apiece.
“He deserves all the hype that he
gets because he’s the best in the league,
I think,” Jones said. “We just need to
continue to feed off stuff like that, and
we’ll be solid.”
The Seahawks’ Richard Sherman
congratulates the Patriots’ Tom Brady
after New England’s Super Bowl 49
triumph. MARK J. REBILAS/USA TODAY SPORTS
waited for the market to settle.
Sherman was then arrested July 14 on
on suspicion of burglary domestic vio-
lence as well as charges of resisting ar-
rest and malicious mischief in Red-
mond, Washington.
Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, this year’s top pick, looks on in the
second quarter against the Broncos. NATHAN RAY SEEBECK/USA TODAY SPORTS
Evolution
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play their No. 1 picks sooner. After the
Bengals drafted Carson Palmer in
2003, Palmer was the backup for his
entire rookie season. Eli Manning, Phil-
ip Rivers and Aaron Rodgers didn’t play
right away. In 2021, Lawrence, Zach
Wilson, Justin Fields and Mac Jones
have all have received playing time as
rookie quarterbacks early in the sea-
son.
As a result, NFL coaching staffs
changed their offenses to include what
the rookie quarterback does best. Then
NFL teams started taking quarterbacks
with different skill sets and changing
their offenses even more.
“People are realizing you can shape
an offense around a lot of different tal-
ent levels regardless of their athleti-
cism, regardless of their size, and peo-
ple are making it work,” Bengals head
coach Zac Taylor said. “Guys are play-
ing fast early and that’s what you’re
seeing from a lot of these young quar-
terbacks.”
Only a few of the No. 1 picks over the
last 10 NFL drafts fit Burrow’s descrip-
tion of Lawrence, as Baker Mayfield,
Kyler Murray, Burrow and Lawrence all
bring strikingly different styles of play.
If NFL teams were still looking for the
6-foot-4, 230-pound quarterback with
a rocket arm, Burrow likely wouldn’t
have been the first-round overall in the
2020 draft.
“You can’t just say, ‘Hey, this guy is a
clone of this guy,’ ” Taylor said. “I think
people are a lot more open-minded
maybe to what they’re looking at in
quarterbacks now, different than 15
years ago, and I’m sure certainly 30
years ago.”
Burrow is one of the best examples
of a coaching staff changing its system
to get a rookie quarterback on the field
right away.
The Bengals drafted Burrow because
of his accuracy, his release, his ability
to extend plays and his winning experi-
ence in college. In the predraft process,
Taylor recognized that Burrow needed
a different structured offense than he
used with another former No. 1 pick, Ja-
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow had a rough outing in Week 2 against the
Bears. SAM GREENE/THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
In 911 calls obtained by USA TODAY
Sports, Sherman’s wife, Ashley Moss,
said Sherman was trying to force entry
into her parents’ home. Per officer nar-
ratives obtained by USA TODAY Sports,
police arrested Sherman with assis-
tance of a K-9 unit.
Sherman was released from jail the
following day and later said he was
“deeply remorseful” in a court hearing in
which he pleaded not guilty.
“I have been dealing with some per-
sonal challenges over the last several
months, but that is not an excuse for
how I acted,” he wrote Friday in a state-
ment posted on social media. “The im-
portance of mental and emotional
health is extremely real and I vow to get
the help I need.”
The Buccaneers rank last in the NFL
in passing defense, allowing an average
of 338.3 yards per game. Sherman’s
most recent Pro Bowl season came in
SPORTS
red Goff, when Taylor coached with the
Rams.
The Bengals coaching staff said they
called Burrow’s rookie season “Year 3 at
LSU.” The Bengals made what Burrow
was comfortable with the focal point of
their offense, including five-wide sets
that create mismatches with outside
receivers.
“Most teams have some semblance
of what those guys did well back in col-
lege and how they did well,” Bengals of-
fensive coordinator Brian Callahan
said. “More people are open minded
enough to allow those conversations to
happen. You don’t have to stick any-
body in a box anymore because there
are a lot more ways to win football
games. It’s always in everyone’s best
interest to make the quarterback as
comfortable as possible.”
Callahan said former Washington
Football Team quarterback Robert Grif-
fin III was the best early example of this
trend to build an offense around the
rookie quarterback’s college system. At
Baylor, Griffin III ran a spread offense
with wide receivers lined up outside
the numbers. The offense created more
space for Griffin to scramble, and that
scheme from offensive coordinator
Kyle Shanahan helped Griffin III win
Rookie of the Year in 2012.
The Bengals have done the same
thing with Burrow, surrounding him
with concepts he was familiar with in
college.
Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray
is the best example as Arizona hired
Kliff Kingsbury, a former Big 12 college
coach, to implement that Big 12 offense.
The Bengals will face Lawrence on
“Thursday Night Football” when they
play the Jaguars. Jaguars head coach
Urban Meyer has incorporated similar
zone-read elements that Lawrence
used at Clemson to help speed up his
transition to the NFL
The only common thread between
these quarterbacks is that they were
drafted early in the first round.
“You see guys like Justin Herbert,
6-6, 230,” Burrow said. “And you see
guys like Kyler Murray, who is 5-9, 5-10,
maybe? Who knows? But then every-
body in between you can really be all
shapes and sizes as a quarterback. As
long as you can play.”
2019 in San Francisco, where he spent
three seasons. He became a premier
cornerback in Seattle, where he was one
of the original members of the “Legion
of Boom” secondary that helped the
Seahawks win Super Bowl 48 against
the Broncos.
Sherman had been visiting the Buc-
caneers headquarters prior to signing
his contract Wednesday morning. He is
eligible to practice right away and could
potentially be available for Sunday’s
game against the Patriots, which is
quarterback Tom Brady’s first against
his former team after spending 20 sea-
sons with New England.
Sherman said Brady helped recruit
him to the Buccaneers.
“He’s the all-time great quarterback
reaching out, and anytime he makes
that call, it’s a very difficult opportunity
to pass up,” Sherman said on his pod-
cast.
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FOR THE RECORD WEEK 5 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

PRO GOLF TOUR PREVIEWS
All times ET Times Eastern; subject to change Arkansas State (1-3) at Georgia Southern (1-3), 4 p.m.
THURSDAY NC Central (2-2) at MVSU (0-3), 4 p.m.
MLB
E. Illinois (1-4) at Murray State (1-2), 5 p.m. European Tour
South Alabama State (2-1) at Florida A&M (1-2), 6 p.m.
Virginia (2-2) at Miami (2-2), 7:30 p.m. Florida (3-1) at Kentucky (4-0), 6 p.m.
Southwest Louisiana Tech (2-2) at NC State (3-1), 6 p.m. Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
AMERICAN LEAGUE Ark.-Pine Bluff (1-2) at Prairie View (3-1), 7:30 p.m. Samford (2-2) at Mercer (2-1), 6 p.m.
East Division Incarnate Word (3-1) at Northwestern State (0-3), 7 p.m.
Courses: Old Course at St Andrews (Yardage:
W L Pct GB FRIDAY Marshall (2-2) at Middle Tennessee (1-3), 7 p.m.
x-Tampa Bay 97 60 .618 — East Campbell (1-2) at North Alabama (0-4), 7 p.m. 7,318. Par: 72); Carnoustie GL (Yardage: 7,394.
New York 90 67 .573 7 Dartmouth (2-0) at Penn (1-1), 7 p.m. Liberty (3-1) at UAB (3-1), 7 p.m.
Boston 88 69 .561 9 Iowa (4-0) at Maryland (4-0), 8 p.m. Uconn (0-5) at Vanderbilt (1-3), 7:30 p.m.
Boston College (4-0) at Clemson (2-2), 7:30 p.m.
Par: 72); Kingsbarns GL (Yardage: 7,227. Par: 72)
Toronto 87 70 .554 10
Baltimore 51 106 .325 46 Southwest Louisiana-Lafayette (3-1) at South Alabama (3-0), 8 p.m. in Scotland.
Central Division Houston (3-1) at Tulsa (1-3), 7:30 p.m. Tennessee State (1-3) at Austin Peay (2-2), 8 p.m.
W L Pct GB Auburn (3-1) at LSU (3-1), 9 p.m.
x-Chicago 90 68 .570 —
Far West
BYU (4-0) at Utah State (3-1), 9 p.m. Midwest
Prize money: $5 million. Winner’s share:
Cleveland
Detroit
77
75
80
82
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.478
12½
14½ SATURDAY Minnesota (2-2) at Purdue (3-1), Noon $833,333.
Charlotte (3-1) at Illinois (1-4), Noon
Kansas City 72 85 .459 17½ East Michigan (4-0) at Wisconsin (1-2), Noon
Minnesota 70 87 .446 19½ Stony Brook (1-3) at Rhode Island (3-0), Noon Tennessee (2-2) at Missouri (2-2), Noon TV (ET): Thursday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-noon (Golf);
West Division W. Michigan (3-1) at Buffalo (2-2), Noon Drake (1-3) at Butler (2-2), Noon
W L Pct GB Memphis (3-1) at Temple (2-2), Noon Marist (0-2) at Valparaiso (1-3), 1 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Golf).
Houston 92 65 .586 — St. Francis (Pa.) (1-3) at Morgan State (0-3), Noon Missouri State (2-1) at Illinois State (2-2), 2 p.m.
Toledo (2-2) at UMass (0-4), Noon E. Michigan (3-1) at N. Illinois (2-2), 2:30 p.m.
Seattle
Oakland
88
85
70
73
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.538
4½
7½ Yale (1-1) at Lehigh (0-4), Noon Cincinnati (3-0) at Notre Dame (4-0), 2:30 p.m. Notes: Kristoffer Broberg won last week’s Dutch
Los Angeles 74 83 .471 18 Sacred Heart (2-2) at Howard (0-4), 1 p.m.
Duquesne (2-1) at Merrimack (3-1), 1 p.m.
N. Dakota State (3-0) at North Dakota (2-1), 3 p.m.
Indiana State (2-2) at South Dakota (2-2), 3 p.m.
Open. ... The field includes Billy Horschel, who
Texas 58 99 .369 34
x-clinched division Columbia (2-0) at Princeton (2-0), 1 p.m. Ohio (0-4) at Akron (1-3), 3:30 p.m. won the BMW PGA Championship this month at
Gardner-Webb (2-2) at Monmouth (NJ) (2-2), 1 p.m. Cent. Michigan (2-2) at Miami (Ohio) (1-3), 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games Harvard (2-0) at Holy Cross (3-1), 1:30 p.m. Bowling Green (2-2) at Kent State (1-3), 3:30 p.m. Wentworth and is second in the Race to Dubai
Baltimore 4, Boston 2 Colgate (1-3) at Georgetown (1-2), 2 p.m. Oklahoma (4-0) at Kansas State (3-1), 3:30 p.m.
Minnesota 3, Detroit 2 Albany (NY) (0-3) at Delaware (2-1), 3 p.m. S. Illinois (3-1) at W. Illinois (1-3), 4 p.m. behind Collin Morikawa. … Tony Finau intended to
N.Y. Yankees 7, Toronto 2 Ohio State (3-1) at Rutgers (3-1), 3:30 p.m. Youngstown State (1-2) at N. Iowa (2-1), 5 p.m.
Chicago White Sox 7, Cincinnati 1 UCF (2-1) at Navy (0-3), 3:30 p.m. Army (4-0) at Ball State (1-3), 5 p.m. play until withdrawing after a U.S. victory in the
Texas 5, L.A. Angels 2 Texas Tech (3-1) at West Virginia (2-2), 3:30 p.m. Kansas (1-3) at Iowa State (2-2), 7 p.m.
Houston 4, Tampa Bay 3 Cornell (0-2) at Bucknell (0-3), 3:30 p.m. Dixie State (0-3) at S. Dakota State (3-0), 7 p.m. Ryder Cup. … This is the European Tour version of
Kansas City 6, Cleveland 4
Seattle 4, Oakland 2
James Madison (3-0) at New Hampshire (3-1), 3:30 p.m.
Fordham (1-3) at Lafayette (1-3), 3:30 p.m.
Northwestern (2-2) at Nebraska (2-3), 7:30 p.m.
W. Kentucky (1-2) at Michigan State (4-0), 7:30 p.m.
the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, spread over three
Wednesday’s Games Brown (0-2) at Bryant (2-2), 4 p.m. courses. Two of them are on the British Open
Boston at Baltimore Delaware State (1-3) at Wagner (0-4), 5 p.m. Southwest
Texas (3-1) at TCU (2-1), Noon
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto Indiana (2-2) at Penn State (4-0), 7:30 p.m.
North American University (0-1) at Texas Southern (0-3), 3 p.m. rotation. … Padraig Harrington is in the field after
Detroit at Minnesota
L.A. Angels at Texas South
Duke (3-1) at North Carolina (2-2), Noon
South Florida (1-3) at SMU (4-0), 4 p.m.
Sam Houston State (3-0) vs. Stephen F. Austin (3-1) at Houston, 5 p.m.
his Ryder Cup captaincy ended on Sunday. He will
Cincinnati at Chicago White Sox
Cleveland at Kansas City Arkansas (4-0) at Georgia (4-0), Noon UNLV (0-4) at UTSA (4-0), 6 p.m. be joined by three of his players – Tommy Fleet-
Tampa Bay at Houston Pittsburgh (3-1) at Georgia Tech (2-2), Noon Southern Miss. (1-3) at Rice (1-3), 6:30 p.m.
Oakland at Seattle Louisville (3-1) at Wake Forest (4-0), 12:30 p.m. Baylor (4-0) at Oklahoma State (4-0), 7 p.m. wood, Tyrrell Hatton and Shane Lowry.
Robert Morris (1-1) at NC A&T (1-2), 1 p.m. Cent. Arkansas (1-3) at Abilene Christian (3-1), 7 p.m.
Thursday’s Games SE Louisiana (2-1) at McNeese State (1-3), 1 p.m. Mississippi State (2-2) at Texas A&M (3-1), 7 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Cobb 8-3) at Texas (Otto 0-3), Davidson (2-1) at Stetson (2-1), 1 p.m. Old Dominion (1-3) at UTEP (3-1), 9 p.m. LPGA
2:05 p.m. Bethune-Cookman (0-4) at SC State (0-3), 1:30 p.m.
Boston (Pivetta 9-7) at Baltimore (Wells 1-3), W. Carolina (0-4) at Chattanooga (1-2), 1:30 p.m. Far West
7:05 p.m. Appalachian State (3-1) at Georgia State (1-3), 2 p.m. Southern Cal (2-2) at Colorado (1-3), 2 p.m. Shoprite LPGA Classic
N.Y. Yankees (Kluber 5-3) at Toronto (Ray Norfolk State (2-2) at Hampton (2-1), 2 p.m. N. Colorado (2-2) at Montana State (3-1), 3 p.m.
13-6), 7:07 p.m. Nevada (2-1) at Boise State (2-2), 3:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay (TBD) at Houston (McCullers Jr.
VMI (3-1) at The Citadel (1-2), 2 p.m.
Dayton (2-1) at Morehead State (1-2), 2 p.m. Oregon (4-0) at Stanford (2-2), 3:30 p.m. Course: Seaview GC (Bay Course) in Galloway,
12-5), 7:10 p.m. Idaho State (0-3) at N. Arizona (1-3), 4 p.m.
Detroit (Skubal 8-12) at Minnesota (Ryan 2-1),
Elon (1-3) at Richmond (2-2), 2 p.m.
St. Thomas (Minn.) (2-1) at San Diego (0-4), 4 p.m. New Jersey. Yardage: 6,190. Par: 71.
Louisiana-Monroe (2-1) at Coastal Carolina (4-0), 2:30 p.m.
7:40 p.m. SE Missouri (1-3) at Tennessee Tech (0-4), 2:30 p.m. Washington State (1-3) at California (1-3), 5:30 p.m.
Cleveland (Bieber 7-4) at Kansas City (TBD), Jacksonville State (2-2) at Kennesaw State (2-1), 3 p.m. Air Force (3-1) at New Mexico (2-2), 6:30 p.m.
Portland State (1-3) at S. Utah (1-3), 8 p.m.
Prize money: $1.75 million. Winner’s share:
8:10 p.m. Alabama A&M (3-0) at Grambling State (1-3), 3 p.m.
Friday’s Games Tarleton State (2-2) at E. Kentucky (2-2), 3 p.m. Weber State (1-3) at Cal Poly (1-3), 8:35 p.m. $262,500.
Boston at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Wofford (1-2) at ETSU (4-0), 3:30 p.m. Washington (2-2) at Oregon State (3-1), 9 p.m.
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. FIU (1-3) at FAU (2-2), 3:30 p.m. Idaho (1-2) at UC Davis (4-0), 10 p.m.
Baltimore at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Mississippi (3-0) at Alabama (4-0), 3:30 p.m. Arizona State (3-1) at UCLA (3-1), 10:30 p.m. TV (ET): Friday-Sunday, 1-4 p.m. (Golf).
Cleveland at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Tulane (1-3) at East Carolina (2-2), 3:30 p.m. Montana (3-0) at E. Washington (4-0), 10:30 p.m.
New Mexico State (1-4) at San Jose State (2-2), 10:30 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.
Troy (2-2) at South Carolina (2-2), 3:30 p.m.
Fresno State (4-1) at Hawaii (2-3), 11 p.m. Notes: Walmart NW Arkansas Championship win-
Syracuse (3-1) at Florida State (0-4), 3:30 p.m.
Oakland at Houston, 8:10 p.m. Houston Baptist (0-3) at Nicholls (1-2), 4 p.m. ner Nasa Hataoka will try to join Nelly Korda, the
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE Race to CME Globe leader, as the only players to
East Division win in consecutive weeks on the LPGA tour this
W L Pct GB
Atlanta 84 72 .538 — year. … This will be the first all-female broadcast
Philadelphia 81 76 .516 3½ North GROUP F Saturday’s Games
New York 75 82 .478 9½ W L T Pct PF PA GP W D L GF GA Pts Real Salt Lake at Austin FC, 3:30 p.m. in golf, led by producer Beth Hutter. … Korda has
Washington 65 93 .411 20 Green Bay 2 1 0 .667 68 83 Atalanta 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 Atlanta at CF Montréal, 7 p.m.
Miami 64 93 .408 20½ Chicago 1 2 0 .333 40 77 Young Boys 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 D.C. United at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m. not played since the Americans lost the Solheim
Central Division Minnesota 1 2 0 .333 87 78 Man. United 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 New York at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
W L Pct GB Detroit 0 3 0 .000 67 95 Villarreal 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 Minnesota at FC Dallas, 8 p.m. Cup. ... Megha Ganne, who contended at the U.S.
x-Milwaukee 94 63 .599 — West
W L T Pct PF PA
Wednesday’s Games San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Women’s Open as a 17-year-old, is playing on a
y-St. Louis 88 69 .561 6 Atalanta 1, Young Boys 0 Sunday’s Games
Cincinnati 82 76 .519 12½ Arizona
L.A. Rams
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Manchester United 2, Villarreal 1 Nashville at New York City FC, 12 p.m. sponsor exemption. … The field includes three of
Chicago 67 90 .427 27 Wednesday, Oct. 20 Columbus at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
Pittsburgh 59 98 .376 35 San Francisco 2 1 0 .667 86 74
Manchester United vs. Atalanta, 3 p.m. Chicago at Toronto FC, 4 p.m. this year’s five major champions: Patty Tavatana-
Seattle 1 2 0 .333 75 79 Houston at Sporting Kansas City, 4 p.m.
West Division Young Boys vs. Villarreal, 3 p.m. kit, Yuka Saso and Anna Nordqvist.
W L Pct GB Thursday’s Game GROUP G Miami at Portland, 5:30 p.m.
z-San Francisco 103 54 .656 — Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 8:20 p.m. Los Angeles FC at LA Galaxy, 8 p.m. – The Associated Press
GP W D L GF GA Pts Colorado at Seattle, 10 p.m.
z-Los Angeles 101 56 .643 2 Sunday’s Games RB Salzburg 2 1 1 0 3 2 4
San Diego 78 79 .497 25 Carolina at Dallas, 1 p.m.
Colorado 72 85 .459 31 Cleveland at Minnesota, 1 p.m.
Sevilla 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 English Premier League
Wolfsburg 2 0 2 0 1 1 2
Arizona 50 107 .318 53 Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m. Lille 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 GP W D L GF GA Pts
x-clinched division Houston at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Liverpool 6 4 2 0 15 4 14
y-clinched wild card Indianapolis at Miami, 1 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Man City 6 4 1 1 12 1 13
z-clinched playoff berth Kansas City at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 1 p.m.
RB Salzburg 2, Lille 1
Wolfsburg 1, Sevilla 1
Chelsea
Man United
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6 4
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Tulane
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64.5 E. CAROLINA
Tuesday’s Games Wednesday, Oct. 20 Everton 6 4 1 1 12 7 13 FL ATLANTIC 10.5 51.5 fiu
N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 2, 7 innings, 1st game Tennessee at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.
Washington at Atlanta, 1 p.m. RB Salzburg vs. Wolfsburg, 12:45 p.m. Brighton 6 4 1 1 8 5 13 GA SOUTHRN 1.5 65.5 Arkansas St.
Pittsburgh 8, Chicago Cubs 6 West Ham 6 3 2 1 13 8 11
Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 Arizona at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. Lille vs. Sevilla, 3 p.m. Army 7.5 47.5 BALL ST.
Aston Villa 6 3 1 2 9 7 10
N.Y. Mets 2, Miami 1, 2nd game Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. GROUP H Brentford 6 2 3 1 8 5 9 CALIFORNIA 7.5 51.5 Washingtn St.
St. Louis 6, Milwaukee 2 Baltimore at Denver, 4:25 p.m. GP W D L GF GA Pts Florida 8.5 55.5 KENTUCKY
Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. Arsenal 6 3 0 3 5 10 9
Chicago White Sox 7, Cincinnati 1 Juventus 2 2 0 0 4 0 6 NC STATE 20.5 54.5 Louisiana Tch
Tampa Bay at New England, 8:20 p.m. Tottenham 6 3 0 3 4 9 9
Colorado 3, Washington 1 Chelsea 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 UTSA 21.5 56.5 unlv
Watford 6 2 1 3 7 9 7
L.A. Dodgers 2, San Diego 1 Monday’s Game Zenit St. P-burg 2 1 0 1 4 1 3 RICE 2.5 44.5 Southrn Miss
Leicester 6 2 1 3 7 10 7 Odds available as of print deadline
San Francisco 6, Arizona 4 Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers, 8:15 p.m. Malmo 2 0 0 2 0 7 0
Wolverhampton 6 2 0 4 3 5 6 Air Force 10.5 46.5 NEW MEXICO
Wednesday’s Games Wednesday’s Games Crystal Palace 6 1 3 2 6 9 6 TEXAS A&M 7.5 45.5 Mississippi St
Washington at Colorado Zenit St. Petersburg 4, Malmo 0 Southampton 6 0 4 2 4 7 4 OKLA. ST. 3.5 47.5 Baylor
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh SOCCER Juventus 1, Chelsea 0 Newcastle 6 0 3 3 7 14 3 NCAAF Marshall 10.5 66.5 MIDDLE TN
Miami at N.Y. Mets Wednesday, Oct. 20 Leeds 6 0 3 3 6 14 3 Thursday
Burnley 6 0 2 4 5 11 2
UAB 1.5 49.5 Liberty
Philadelphia at Atlanta Chelsea vs. Malmo, 3 p.m. Favorite Spread O/U Underdog
Milwaukee at St. Louis Champions League Norwich 6 0 0 6 2 16 0 IOWA STATE 34.5 57.5 Kansas
Zenit St. Petersburg vs. Juventus, 3 p.m. MIAMI (FL) 5.5 62.5 Virginia CLEMSON 15.5 45.5 Boston Coll.
Cincinnati at Chicago White Sox FIRST ROUND Saturday’s Games
Arizona at San Francisco Home teams listed first NWSL NEBRASKA 12.5 50.5 Northwestern
W L T Pts GF GA Man United vs. Everton, 7:30 a.m. Friday MICHIGAN ST. 11.5 63.5 W. Kentucky
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers Top two in each group advance Burnley vs. Norwich, 10 a.m. Favorite Spread O/U Underdog
Portland 12 5 2 38 29 13 PENN STATE 13.5 53.5 Indiana
Thursday’s Games GROUP A Reign FC 11 7 2 35 30 19 Chelsea vs. Southampton, 10 a.m. TULSA 4.5 54.5 Houston
Milwaukee (Anderson 4-9) at St. Louis (Happ GP W D L GF GA Pts Leeds vs. Watford, 10 a.m. Iowa 3.5 48.5 MARYLAND VANDERBILT 14.5 51.5 Connecticut
North Carolina 8 6 5 29 23 13 UL Lafayette 12.5 53.5 S. ALABAMA
9-8), 1:15 p.m. PSG 2 1 1 0 3 1 4 Chicago 8 7 5 29 22 24 Wolverhampton vs. Newcastle, 10 a.m. byu 8.5 61.5 UTAH ST.
Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-4) at Pittsburgh Club Brugge 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 Orlando 7 6 7 28 24 24 Brighton vs. Arsenal, 12:30 p.m. UTEP 5.5 48.5 Old Dominion
(TBD), 6:35 p.m. Man. City 2 1 0 1 6 5 3 Washington 7 7 5 26 21 25 Sunday’s Games Saturday OREGON ST. 2.5 56.5 Washington
Miami (Cabrera 0-3) at N.Y. Mets (Megill 3-6), RB Leipzig 2 0 0 2 4 8 0 Houston 7 7 5 26 24 23 Crystal Palace vs. Leicester, 9 a.m. Favorite Spread O/U Underdog LSU 3.5 54.5 Auburn
7:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Gotham FC 6 5 7 25 20 16 Tottenham vs. Aston Villa, 9 a.m. WISCONSIN 1.5 43.5 Michigan UCLA 3.5 55.5 Arizona St.
Philadelphia (Gibson 10-8) at Atlanta (Ander- Paris Saint-Germain 2, Manchester City 0 Louisville 4 10 5 17 15 31 West Ham vs. Brentford, 9 a.m. ILLINOIS 11.5 54.5 Charlotte SAN JOSE ST. 27.5 51.5 NM State
son 8-5), 7:20 p.m. RB Leipzig 1, Club Brugge 2 Kansas City 2 12 5 11 10 30 Liverpool vs. Man City, 11:30 a.m. N. CAROLINA 20.5 71.5 Duke Fresno State 10.5 65.5 HAWAII
Arizona (Bumgarner 7-10) at San Francisco
(TBD), 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19 Friday’s Games Texas 5.5 65.5 TCU
Club Brugge vs. Manchester City, 12:45 p.m. PURDUE 2.5 47.5 Minnesota NFL
Washington at North Carolina, 7 p.m.
San Diego (Velasquez 3-8) at L.A. Dodgers
(Gonsolin 4-1), 10:10 p.m. Paris Saint-Germain vs. RB Leipzig, 3 p.m. Gotham FC at Louisville, 7:30 p.m. TENNIS GEORGIA 18.5 48.5 Arkansas Thursday
GROUP B Saturday’s Games Memphis 10.5 60.5 TEMPLE Favorite Spread O/U Underdog
Friday’s Games BENGALS 7.5 46.5 Jaguars
GP W D L GF GA Pts Orlando at Chicago, 8 p.m. MISSOURI 2.5 64.5 Tennessee
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m.
Liverpool 2 2 0 0 8 3 6 Houston at Kansas City, 8 p.m.
WTA Pittsburgh 3.5 58.5 GA. TECH
Boston at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Chicago Fall Tennis Classic Sunday
Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10 p.m. Atletico Madrid 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Reign FC at Portland, 10 p.m. Toledo 27.5 57.5 UMASS
Porto 2 0 1 1 1 5 1 XS Tennis Village, Chicago Favorite Spread O/U Underdog
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m. MLS W. Michigan 6.5 59.5 BUFFALO Titans 7.5 45.5 JETS
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. AC Milan 2 0 0 2 3 5 0 Purse: $565,530 WAKE FOREST 6.5 61.5 Louisville
Tuesday’s Games EASTERN DOLPHINS 2.5 42.5 Colts
Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
W L T Pts GF GA Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Appalachian St. 10.5 55.5 GA. STATE Washington 1.5 47.5 FALCONS
San Diego at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m. AC Milan 1, Atletico Madrid 2 Singles - Round of 32 usc 7.5 50.5 COLORADO
Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Porto 1, Liverpool 5 New England 19 4 5 62 53 33 BEARS 2.5 41.5 Lions
Nashville 11 3 12 45 44 24 Mai Hontama, Japan, def. Anett Kontaveit Cincinnati 1.5 50.5 NOTRE DAME
Tuesday, Oct. 19 (11), Estonia, walkover; Elena Rybakina (5), BILLS 16.5 46.5 Texans
N.Y. City FC 11 9 6 39 44 30 CSTL CAROL. 34.5 56.5 UL Monroe Chiefs 6.5 54.5 EAGLES
Atletico Madrid vs. Liverpool, 3 p.m. Philadelphia 10 7 8 38 32 25 Kazakhstan, def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Bela- N. ILLINOIS 2.5 60.5 E. Michigan
NFL Porto vs. AC Milan, 3 p.m. Orlando City 10 8 8 38 37 38 rus, 6-4, 6-4; Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Romania, Ohio State 14.5 58.5 RUTGERS
SAINTS 7.5 42.5 Giants
GROUP C D.C. United 11 11 4 37 45 38 def. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 7-5, 6-2; Belin- Browns 2.5 51.5 VIKINGS
da Bencic (3), Switzerland, def. Maddison In- W. VIRGINIA 7.5 55.5 Texas Tech COWBOYS 4.5 50.5 Panthers
GP W D L GF GA Pts CF Montréal 10 9 7 37 37 32 ucf 16.5 53.5 NAVY
AMERICAN CONFERENCE Ajax 2 2 0 0 7 1 6 Atlanta 9 8 9 36 35 31 glis, Australia, 5-7, 6-1, 6-0; Tereza Martinco- 49ERS 2.5 51.5 Seahawks
East Columbus 9 11 7 34 32 36 va, Czech Republic, def. Tamara Zidansek (13), Ohio 9.5 55.5 AKRON RAMS 4.5 54.5 Cardinals
Bor. Dortmund 2 2 0 0 3 1 6
W L T Pct PF PA Besiktas 2 0 0 2 1 4 0 Inter Miami CF 9 11 5 32 25 40 Slovenia, 6-2, 7-5; Veronika Kudermetova S. CAROLINA 7.5 44.5 Troy PACKERS 6.5 45.5 Steelers
Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 94 44 S. Lisbon 1 0 0 1 1 6 0 New York 8 11 6 30 31 29 (12), Russia, def. Harriet Dart, Britain, 6-3, 6-4; ALABAMA 14.5 79.5 Ole Miss BRONCOS 0.5 44.5 Ravens
Miami 1 2 0 .333 45 82 Chicago 6 15 6 24 26 43 Jil Teichmann (16), Switzerland, def. Magda Oregon 7.5 57.5 STANFORD Buccaneers 6.5 48.5 PATRIOTS
New England 1 2 0 .333 54 51 Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 4 13 8 20 26 48 Linette, Poland, 6-2, 6-4; Elina Svitolina (1), FLORIDA ST. 4.5 52.5 Syracuse
N.Y. Jets 0 3 0 .000 20 70 Ajax 2, Besiktas 0 Ukraine, def. Amanda Anisimova, United
Borussia Dortmund 1, Sporting Lisbon 0 Toronto FC 4 15 7 19 28 51 BOISE ST. 6.5 59.5 Nevada Monday
South States, 6-4, 6-3; Jessica Pegula (9), United Oklahoma 10.5 52.5 K-STATE Favorite Spread O/U Underdog
W L T Pct PF PA Tuesday, Oct. 19 WESTERN States, def. Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 6-2,
W L T Pts GF GA MIAMI (OH) 0.5 55.5 C. Michigan CHARGERS 3.5 52.5 Raiders
Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 71 84 Besiktas vs. Sporting Lisbon, 12:45 p.m. Seattle 14 5 6 48 38 21 7-5; Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic,
Houston 1 2 0 .333 67 76 Ajax vs. Borussia Dortmund, 3 p.m. Sporting KC 13 6 7 46 44 28 def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (4), Russia,
Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 56 80 GROUP D Colorado 12 4 9 45 35 24 6-3, 6-2; Shelby Rogers, United States, def.
Jacksonville 0 3 0 .000 53 91 GP W D L GF GA Pts Portland 12 10 4 40 42 43 Bianca Andreescu (8), Canada, 6-4, 7-5.
Sheriff 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 Odds are subject to change. Tipico Sportsbook does not offer lines for
North LA Galaxy 11 10 5 38 37 42
W L T Pct PF PA Real Madrid 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 Minnesota United 10 8 7 37 29 29 New Jersey-based college sports teams. Gannett may earn revenue
Baltimore 2 1 0 .667 82 85 Inter Milan 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 Real Salt Lake 10 10 6 36 42 41 WNBA from audience referrals to betting services. Newsrooms are
Cincinnati 2 1 0 .667 68 54 S. Donetsk 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 Los Angeles FC 9 11 6 33 38 38
Cleveland 2 1 0 .667 86 60 Vancouver 8 8 9 33 31 34 independent of any such relationships and there is no influence on
Tuesday’s Games Semifinals
Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 50 66 Shakhtar Donetsk 0, Inter Milan 0 San Jose 8 9 9 33 34 38 news coverage. Terms and conditions apply, see site for details. 21+
West Real Madrid 1, Sheriff 2 FC Dallas 6 12 9 27 38 44 (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) only. Gambling Problem? Call: 1-800-GAMBLER (NJ, PA, IL, VA),
W L T Pct PF PA Houston 5 11 11 26 31 41 No. 6 Chicago 1,
Tuesday, Oct. 19 Austin FC 6 16 4 22 27 40 1-800-522-4700 (CO, NV, KS), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-9-WITH-IT
Denver 3 0 0 1.000 76 26 Inter Milan vs. Sheriff, 3 p.m. No. 1 Connecticut 0
Las Vegas 3 0 0 1.000 90 72 NOTE: Three points for win, one point for tie. (IN), 1-800-589-9966 (OH), 1-877-770-7867 (LA), 1-888-238-7633
Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Real Madrid, 3 p.m. Tuesday: Chicago 101, Connecticut 95, 2OT
L.A. Chargers 2 1 0 .667 67 60
GROUP E Wednesday’s Games Thursday: Chicago at Connecticut, 8 p.m. (MO), 1-888-777-9696 (MS). Call or text: 1-800-889-9789 (TN).
Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 92 95 Cincinnati at Toronto FC Sunday: Connecticut at Chicago, 1 p.m.
GP W D L GF GA Pts
NATIONAL CONFERENCE Bayern Munich 2 2 0 0 8 0 6 Miami at Atlanta x-Oct. 6: Connecticut at Chicago, TBA For the latest picks and expert analysis, go to sportsbookwire.com
East Benfica 2 1 1 0 3 0 4 New England at CF Montréal x-Oct. 8: Chicago at Connecticut, TBA
W L T Pct PF PA Dynamo Kyiv 2 0 1 1 0 5 1 Minnesota at D.C. United No. 2 Las Vegas 1,
Dallas 2 1 0 .667 90 69 Barcelona 2 0 0 2 0 6 0 Philadelphia at New York
Philadelphia
Washington
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Wednesday’s Games
Sporting Kansas City at FC Dallas
New York City FC at Chicago
No. 5 Phoenix 0
Tuesday: Las Vegas 96, Phoenix 90 Scan for latest odds
Bayern 5, Dynamo Kyiv 0 Orlando City at Nashville Thursday: Phoenix at Las Vegas, 10 p.m.
N.Y. Giants 0 3 0 .000 56 74 Benfica 3, Barcelona 0 Sunday: Las Vegas at Phoenix, 3 p.m.
Austin FC at Colorado
South Wednesday, Oct. 20 Vancouver at Houston x-Oct. 6: Las Vegas at Phoenix, TBA See up-to-the-minute lines and
W L T Pct PF PA x-Oct. 8: Phoenix at Las Vegas, TBA
Carolina 3 0 0 1.000 69 30
Barcelona vs. Dynamo Kyiv, 12:45 p.m. LA Galaxy at Real Salt Lake
New Orleans 2 1 0 .667 73 42
Benfica vs. Bayern Munich, 3 p.m. Portland at Los Angeles FC compete in Daily Ticket free-to-play
Tampa Bay 2 1 0 .667 103 88 Seattle at San Jose
Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 48 94 games

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Garcia’s post-Cup record solid PGA TOUR

Stat
Adam Woodard
Golfweek | USA TODAY Network
19 Strokes under par, which is
the average winning score in
the past five editions of the Sand-
JACKSON, Miss. – History has a way
erson Farms Championship. Par is
of repeating itself, and if it does again
not your friend in Mississippi, so
this week at the Country Club of Jack-
one needs to go low to have a
son, expect Sergio Garcia to be in con-
chance on Sunday.
tention.
And not just because he won last FedExCup points leaders
year.
Max Homa took the lead in the
The 41-year-old Spaniard is back to
FedExCup standings with his vic-
defend his title at the Sanderson Farms
tory in the season-opening Forti-
Championship, the second event of the
net Championship in Napa, Cali-
new PGA Tour season, just days after a
fornia. The FedExCup will consist
blowout 19-9 loss to the United States at
of 48 events – 45 in the regular
the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. But
season and three in the playoffs,
don’t let that result fool you. Garcia went
which culminates Aug. 25-28 at the
3-1-0 in Wisconsin, with his loss coming
Tour Championship at East Lake
to Bryson DeChambeau in Sunday sin-
Golf Club in Atlanta. Patrick Cantlay
gles. He’s the only Ryder Cup partici-
is the defending champion.
pant teeing it up this week, which, be-
lieve it or not, bodes well for his success. 1. Max Homa ............................... 500
When making his first post-Ryder 2. Maverick McNealy ................. 300
Cup start since 2008, Garcia has fin- 3. Mito Pereira ............................. 190
ished runner-up (2008), T-9 (2012), T-2 T4. Talor Gooch ............................ 123
(2014), T-17 (2016) and first (2018). The T4. Marc Leishman ....................... 123
10-time member of Team Europe said he T6. C.T. Pan ...................................... 86
feels good this week and last weekend’s Defending Sanderson Farms champ Sergio Garcia went 3-1-0 in the Ryder Cup, T6. Scott Stallings .......................... 86
result hasn’t quite hit him yet. losing in singles to Bryson DeChambeau, right. MICHAEL MADRID/USA TODAY SPORTS T6. Hideki Matsuyama .................. 86
“The course is in great shape again, T6. Patrick Rodgers ....................... 86
like it was last year. Probably even better T10: Five players are tied for 10th
than it was,” Garcia said Wednesday af- you don’t hit a good shot then you’re go- Sunday night. But Monday and Tuesday Tee times
ter a nine-hole practice round. “So very ing to struggle to make your par. So it’s it’s been good, I was able to rest a little
nice to be back here, obviously defend- just a solid golf course and a great tour- bit in Austin with the family, got here Golf Channel’s coverage Thursday
ing my title after a fun week last week. A nament and I’m excited to be back.” last night and I feel pretty good at the features Sergio Garcia beginning
week that kind of takes a lot of energy, The tournament is continuing to moment,” said Garcia. “I mean you obvi- defense of his title alongside Se-
but at the same time it was amazing. So grow every year, and the 11-time Tour ously think about it a little bit, it’s very bastian Munoz and Peter Malnati
I’m excited about it and just wanted to winner hopes that more players will fresh, but at the same time I’m obvious- (2:06 ET). Past Sanderson Farms
get my season off to a good start and see take notice of the gem in Jackson. ly 41 now and I played, I’ve been fortu- champion Ryan Armour is out with
where we are.” “I think as people come and play and nate to play many Ryder Cups and win Will Zalatoris and Stephan Jaeger
Garcia’s decision to return to Jackson they see the quality of the golf course many and also loss some so, we just got (2:17). Coverage on Friday will
for a second time was “quite simple.” and the quality of the tournament it just out played, it’s as simple as that, they highlight Sam Burns, Sungjae Im,
First, he loves to attempt to defend his goes from mouth-to-mouth and then played better than us and we gave it ev- Corey Conners, Joel Dahmen, Car-
wins, and will look to do so for the first probably more of the top guys want to erything we had. So we can’t really ask los Ortiz and Matthew Wolff.
time in his PGA Tour career this week. come and play,” he said. ourselves for more.” Sanderson Farms
Second, he loves that Southern hospi- “Obviously it’s as simple as that. If The only players to earn more than Championship
tality – and the golf course. the golf course is so-so, then it kind of two points, Garcia and Jon Rahm were
“The way everyone treated us here pushes back some of the guys, but if you the bright spots for Padraig Harrington’s Course: Country Club of Jackson
was just amazing. And the golf course is know the golf course is a great golf squad. The Spanish tandem took down (Mississippi).
just a great golf course,” explained Gar- course and it’s a real nice tournament, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth in Fri- Yardage: 7,461. Par: 72.
cia. “So it’s the kind of golf course that I then people make a little bit more of an day foursomes, Brooks Koepka and Prize money: $7 million.
enjoy coming back to playing and I wish effort to try and come and see it and Daniel Berger in Saturday foursomes
Winner’s share: $1,260,000.
we would play more courses like this on compete in it.” and Koepka and Jordan Spieth in Satur-
Tour. They’re the kind of courses that Garcia didn’t get much sleep Sunday day four-ball. Their lone losses of the TV (ET): Thursday-Sunday, 4-
make you think a little bit and if you hit a night after Team Europe’s loss. week came in singles, with Rahm falling 7 p.m. (Golf).
good shot it’s right there, it’s not like “I mean I feel good. I’m not going to to U.S. rookie Scottie Scheffler and Gar-
tricked up or anything like that, and if lie, obviously didn’t get much sleep on cia to DeChambeau.

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Manny Pacquiao, waving to the fans after his loss to Yordenis Ugas in August,
retired with a record of 62-8-2. ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES
Office-seeker Pacquiao
announces retirement
Josh Peter
USA TODAY
Manny Pacquiao has announced his
retirement from boxing.
In a video released Tuesday, Pac-
quiao, 42, listed some of his greatest
accomplishments – 12 world titles in
eight divisions – and offered a poignant
goodbye to a sport in which he electri-
fied fans while amassing a record of 62-
8-2.
“It is difficult for me to accept that
my time as a boxer is over,” Pacquiao
said. “I never thought this day would
come.”
Pacquiao, one of 12 senators in the
Philippines, announced last week his
candidacy for next year’s presidential
elections. But he had not ruled out
fighting again until this week.
“Goodbye, boxing,” Pacquiao said.
“Thank you for changing my life when
Athletes bravely fight autoimmune disease
‘Alopecia doesn’t have us,
we have alopecia’
Analis Bailey
USA TODAY
When you are a quarterback or an
outside hitter on the volleyball court,
more often than not, all eyes are on you.
That attention you receive is only
amplified when you have an appear-
ance-altering condition such as alope-
cia.
For Deja McClendon, a two-time
NCAA national champion volleyball
player whose skills have taken her
around the globe to play professionally,
the diagnosis of alopecia areata came
when she was 12.
According to the National Alopecia
Areata Foundation, about 6.8 million
people in the U.S. and 147 million people
worldwide have, or will develop, alope-
cia during their lifetime. World-class
athletes like the NBA’s Charlie Villanue-
va, NASCAR’s Joey Logano and NFL’s
Ryan Shazier are among those who live
with the autoimmune disease.
“Around this time, there was not a lot
that we knew about alopecia in general,”
McClendon told USA TODAY Sports.
“They (doctors) told me that it was
stress related or it could have to do with
genetics, but basically I had a couple of
options: topical treatments or injections
– all of which are steroids and chemicals
and stuff you don’t typically want in
your body.”
September is Alopecia Awareness
Month and its impact, while not always
well known, can be felt across many
parts of society, including the sports
world. There are three more well-known
forms of alopecia:
h Areata, which is most common and
causes small hairless patches on the
scalp.
h Totalis, which results in the total
hair loss of the scalp.
h Universalis, which is the complete
loss of hair on the entire body.
While there is no cure for alopecia,
there is about a 50% chance that hair
will grow back at some point.
“At 12, I was basically hiding this con-
dition,” said McClendon. “I had a lot of
curly hair and I was just covering up the
bald spots and trying to reduce stress in
my life using sports.”
While Alopecia does not typically
cause physical pain, emotional and psy-
chological pain can present itself
through depression and anxiety.
Although McClendon used volleyball
and other hobbies as a form of stress re-
lief to manage the physical effects of the
condition, not talking about her condi-
tion publicly ultimately put a strain on
her mental health and hiding her bald
patches from the world was deeply root-
ed in shame that she felt.
my family was desperate. You gave us
hope. You gave me the chance to fight
our way out of poverty. Because of you,
I was able to inspire people all over the
world. Because of you, I have been giv-
en the courage to change more lives.”
His most recent fight likely helped
Pacquiao focus on politics. On Aug. 21,
he lost a unanimous decision to Yorde-
nis Ugas despite entering the fight as a
significant betting favorite. The defeat
was his second in his last five fights.
Against Ugas, Pacquiao did not look
like the fighter who had beaten the likes
of Oscar De La Hoya, Miguel Cotto and
Ricky Hatton among other notable op-
ponents.
In the video, Pacquiao acknowl-
edged a litany of people, including his
family, his trainers and those who
cheered him on.
“To the boxing fans all over the
world,” he said. “thank you very much.”
Steelers quarterback Joshua Dobbs made the life-changing decision to shave his head in college. KEITH SRAKOCIC/AP
“I would say you battle this idea of
femininity because hair equals health
and femininity and being beautiful,” she
said. “I had a lot of long curly hair that
was considered ‘good hair’ and that was
part of my identity. But I was living with
this secret: ‘I have bald spots’ which is
something you never want to talk about.
I held onto that for a really long time and
did not tell anyone except close friends
and family.”
Moving from topical treatments –
which are considered as a less aggres-
sive way to treat alopecia areata – to
steroid injections, McClendon had to
come to terms with the long-term side
effects the painful injections would
cause and the impact it could have on
her athletic career.
“Dealing with sports you have to go
through various processes to make sure
you are still allowed to play while doing
these treatments,” said McClendon.
“When I started to play NCAA volleyball,
there was a crossroad, and I asked my-
self, ‘Do I want to go through all of this
extra stuff in order to play my sport?’ ”
That lingering question turned her
passion for sports and her use of volley-
ball as stress relief to a stressor itself, ul-
timately leading to her decision to shave
her head completely after a few years
playing overseas and attempting to
manage different treatment regulations
as she traveled to different countries.
Joshua Dobbs, a member of the Pitts-
burgh Steelers quarterback room who
was diagnosed with alopecia at 8, also
made the life-changing decision to
USA TODAY ❚ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 ❚ 7C
International fans
won’t be allowed
at Beijing Games
Tom Schad
USA TODAY
The International Olympic Commit-
tee on Wednesday offered a first
glimpse of the COVID-19 protocols at
the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, in-
cluding lengthy quarantines for unvac-
cinated participants, daily testing and
the absence of international specta-
tors.
The countermeasures, which were
proposed by local Beijing organizers
and detailed in an IOC news release,
mirror those at the recent Summer
Games in Tokyo in some respects and
appear more strict in others.
Among the most notable differ-
ences: Unlike in Tokyo, where athletes
mostly competed behind closed doors,
Beijing 2022 organizers have indicated
that some Chinese fans will be permit-
ted to attend their Games, as long as
they follow to-be-determined proto-
cols.
Foreign spectators, including ath-
letes’ family members and friends, will
again be barred.
The IOC and International Paralym-
pic Committee said in the news release
that they support local organizers’ de-
cision to sell tickets to Chinese resi-
dents.
“This will facilitate the growth of
winter sports in China by giving those
spectators a firsthand Olympic and Pa-
shave his head while playing football at
the University of Tennessee.
“What I found throughout my time is
that I had not seen many people that
had alopecia,” Dobbs told USA TODAY
Sports. “A big figure for me growing up
was Ryan Shazier, who played at Ohio
State and was in Pittsburgh before me,
and seeing how confident he was and
how successful he was, was definitely a
great person to look up to.”
With the lifetime risk of being diag-
nosed with alopecia at 2.1%, the visibil-
ity of people worldwide of alopecia is
small.
McClendon and Dobbs have experi-
enced moments in their career when
people with alopecia reach out to them
and thank them for their bravery of liv-
ing confidently without their hair.
“I had a young girl named Riley from
Tennessee write a letter to me during my
time there saying how much she ad-
mired seeing me play football on televi-
sion with alopecia – and it made her feel
more comfortable in her skin,” said
Dobbs. “Those are the types of interac-
tions that allowed me to become more
vocal about having alopecia and overall
become more comfortable in my skin.”
For Dobbs being comfortable in his
own skin was an endeavor that largely
took place in college.
“When you play at the quarterback
position, it is very spotlighted, ” said
Dobbs. “We were very successful in col-
lege so I was very spotlighted and was in
headlines all of the time. Playing in the
SEC the fans are so passionate – and I
ralympic experience of elite winter
sports, as well as bringing a favourable
atmosphere to the venues,” the entities
said.
“However, all parties feel for the ath-
letes and the spectators from around
the world, knowing that the restriction
on spectators from outside mainland
China had to be put in place in order to
ensure the safe holding of the Games
this winter.”
Similar to the Tokyo Games, the
Beijing Olympics and Paralympics will
try to create a bubble-like atmosphere
for participants, dubbing it “the closed-
loop management system.”
Vaccinated participants will be per-
mitted to enter the bubble immediately
upon arrival, while those who are not
vaccinated will have to quarantine in
Beijing for 21 days. The bubble will have
its own transport system, according to
the IOC news release, and all partici-
pants inside will be subject to daily
COVID-19 testing.
Team USA announced this month
that it will require all of its athletes and
staff members to be fully vaccinated in
order to travel to Beijing.
The principles that were unveiled
Wednesday serve as a precursor to the
full COVID-19 countermeasures, which
will be outlined in what organizers call
“playbooks.” The first edition of the
playbooks will be released next month.
The Beijing Games begin Feb. 4.
love that about the SEC – but it can be a
double-edged sword. You become sub-
jected to jokes, memes, ignorance.
Some of them are funny as I look back at
it because I am more mature now. That
was probably the toughest part in this
journey. You are going through such a
volatile time and stressful time in your
life during college. Taking on a heavy
course load in the classroom and trying
to be the best athlete I could be – that is
already pressure enough, and now ev-
ery time you open up Twitter someone is
making a mean-spirited joke just be-
cause I can’t grow hair – as if I could
control that. As I look back, I learned
how to manage that and it strengthened
me mentally.”
Dobbs and McClendon hope that
people find opportunities to connect
with others who have alopecia, as those
moments have been extremely eye
opening for them during their journey,
and to embrace yourself fully no matter
your outward appearance.
“No matter when alopecia hits you, it
is tough,” said Dobbs. “We grow up in a
society where so much is put into how
you look, especially with hair and how it
defines you as a man or a woman. We
grew up with the idea that we need to do
our hair every day because it is just a
part of our routine in life, and then it is
just taken from you. And not to say we
find out identity in it but it is just a part
of life.
“It is a part of our journey. Alopecia
doesn’t have us, we have alopecia. It is a
part of who we are.”
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LIFELINE
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HOW WAS YOUR DAY?
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR
Christiane Amanpour’s chemo-
therapy treatments are coming to
an end. CNN’s chief international
anchor revealed in June she had been
diagnosed with ovarian cancer and
appeared Wednesday on “Good
Morning America” to share an update
on her health. The Emmy Award-
winning journalist told Robin Roberts,
who herself underwent chemothera-
py for breast cancer in 2007 and a
rare blood disorder in 2012, that her
18 weeks of chemo were “grueling,
fatiguing, tiring” and “scary.” Aman-
pour added she’s received care at
some of the top cancer treatment
facilities in the world, and thanked
the “two unbelievable women, a sur-
geon, an oncologist who’ve looked
after me” and her colleagues, family
and friends for their support. “I have
been so lucky,” she said.
MAKING WAVES
JESSE PALMER
Former “Bachelor” star Jesse Palmer,
a NFL alum and TV personality, will
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son of “The Bachelor”
following longtime host
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has announced. When
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Michelle Young’s season
of “The Bachelorette,” former “Bache-
lorette” stars-turned-hosts Tayshia
Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe will again
take the helm. Palmer will join for the
subsequent season of “The Bachelor,”
slated for early next year. The next
Bachelor has not yet been an-
nounced, though it’s rumored to be a
contestant that fans will meet on
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‘Shipping’
favorite
stars blurs
a fine line
Hannah Yasharoff
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Imagine logging on to your Insta-
gram account to find that your latest
post of your significant other is flooded
with comments from people who think
you should be with someone else.
Celebrity couple Justin Bieber and
Hailey Baldwin married in 2018, but
there are still fans who think he be-
longs with ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez
and make it known – to the point of
tagging them in fan account posts or
commenting on Bieber and Baldwin’s
social media posts that they preferred
when the pop star was with Gomez.
“I absolutely loved and love Selena,
she will always hold a place in my
heart, but I am head over heels in love
with my wife and she is absolutely the
BEST THING that has ever happened
to me period,” Bieber wrote in response
to fans’ comments a year after his wed-
ding.
What Bieber and other stars experi-
Artifacts of cinema, from such films as “ET,” are displayed in the Academy ence is called “shipping,” when fans
Museum of Motion Pictures. VALERIE MACON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES obsess over a romantic relationship
between two characters or celebrities.
Cinema has a
Fans have always had these opinions,
but social media has normalized these
conversations and highlighted some of
the pitfalls.
new home for
reel magic
Bryan Alexander USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES – Italian architect Renzo Piano had just one re-
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin’s
quest before allowing a sneak peek of the long-awaited Academy relationship is facing scrutiny online.
Museum of Motion Pictures last week. h “I have one favor to ask THEO WARGO/GETTY IMAGES
you,” Piano, 84, pleaded with a smile from the state-of-the-art
theater housed in the new movie museum’s colossal Sphere Why do some fans take their inter-
est in celebrities’ personal lives so far
Building. “Please don’t call this the Death Star.” h The Pritzker as to ship celebrity couples? And what
Prize-winning architect appealed to think of the 26 million- impact does it have on the stars?
“Fans tend to project a lot on to the
pound concrete and glass structure as a “very well built” soap celebrity relationship: a lot of their
bubble that will never pop, or: “Even better, call it a flying vessel own fantasies about what the relation-
ship is, what it was, what it means,”
ready to land or take off.” says Jenn Mann, a licensed psycho-
It’s unlikely that Piano will Hudson, academy CEO. “We’re cre- therapist known as “Dr. Jenn,” who
squash the nickname that has im- ating a space in which you’re com- has written several books on relation-
mediately stuck to the instant Los pletely immersing yourself in ships and families, including “The Re-
Angeles architectural icon. But movies. It wasn’t a simple equation lationship Fix.” “There’s a lot of fanta-
there’s no denying his belief that the to solve. But we solved it. And it took sy fulfillment for the fan.”
Academy Museum will blast visitors some years.” Shipping isn’t a new idea – the con-
to new worlds with its official open- cept has been around for decades in
ing Thursday, giving a long-overdue ‘Parthenon’ of film museums fan culture. “Star Trek” fans were ship-
and spectacular movie home for the ping Spock and Kirk in the ’60s and
industry town - the film capital that After false starts, the academy ’70s before “The X-Files” fans in the
put the Hollywood in Hollywood. announced plans in 2012 to renovate late ’90s popularized the term “ship-
Thursday’s ribbon-cutting cere- the 1939 May Co. Wilshire building, a ping.”
mony will end the long-sought and stunning Streamline Moderne Yet it’s one thing for fans to root
oft-delayed quest for a movie mu- structure and classic former depart- hard for two characters to get together
seum in Los Angeles, an original ment store, as the museum’s perma- (think Ross and Rachel) but things get
goal for the 94-year-old Academy of nent home. The brand-new, modern messy when it becomes about celebri-
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sphere Building (aka Death Star), ties’ real love lives.
the group that presents the annual which contains two state-of-the-art Fans of “The Office” rooted so hard
Oscar awards. A movie museum was movie theaters and a viewing deck for Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jen-
called for in the academy’s original that provides stunning open-air na Fischer) to get together that many
charter. views of the distant Hollywood sign, wanted the actors to date in real life,
“This is an art form that we’ve was built as a contrasting structure though neither was single.
wanted to celebrate and preserve “If it you makes you feel better,”
from the beginning,” says Dawn See MUSEUM, Page 3D Fischer tweeted in response to a fan, “I
found my Jim and he found his Pam –
they just happened to be named Lee
(Kirk) and Emily (Blunt).”
“There’s a level of distance between
the fan and the celebrity that makes
them feel like they’re not as human as
they actually are,” Mann says. “They
come out of their house looking per-
fectly made up, wearing fabulous
clothes and (have) their cool, expen-
sive car. So there’s a lot of aspirational
kind of aspects to it. When we see that
we kind of go like, ‘Oh, they have it bet-
ter than me.’ And it ends up making us
feel like we can comment, and some-
how they’re untouchable.”
On her show, “Couples Therapy,”
Mann has worked with stars who
struggled with the “enormous amount
The Sphere Building has been compared to the Death Star from “Star of stress” put on a relationship when
Wars.” The structure houses the David Geffen Theater and the Dolby
Family Terrace. PROVIDED BY IWAN BAAN/ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION See SHIPPING, Page 3D
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1 — Peril The journalists cover the final days of the Trump White 6 — The Legacy Four novellas that focus on the lives of four couples in the and publisher listed are for
Bob Woodward, House to the early days of the Biden White House, as well Elle Kennedy three years after college; fifth in series (F) (E) EKI the best-selling version of
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Children’s Anthem when we join our voices together (F) (H) Viking Books for Morning Star Standing Bear as backup when his niece Jaya Long re- Barnes & Noble.com,
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4 1 Apples Never Fall When Joy Delaney vanishes, her four grown children 9 — Crazy Faith Subtitle: “It’s Only Crazy Until It Happens” (NF) (H) Wa- Powell's Books (Portland,
Liane Moriarty debate what to tell the police – their father is the most Michael Todd terBrook Press Ore.), Powells.com, R.J.
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11 5 American Marxism/Mark R. Levin The author reasserts his thesis from “Liberty to Tyranny” that Marxist ideology is now pervasive in American society (NF) (H) Threshold
Editions
12 8 The Last Thing He Told Me/Laura Dave Hannah thinks she’s found the love of her life — until he disappears (F) (H) Simon & Schuster
13 — Women, Food, and Hormones/Sara Gottfried Subtitle: “A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again” (NF) (H) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
14 — Under the Whispering Door/TJ Klune Wallace, who is now dead, is given a week to live a full life before he crosses over (F) (H) Tor
15 4 Harlem Shuffle/Colson Whitehead A family saga and crime story set in early 1960s Harlem (F) (H) Doubleday
16 — The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure/ Readers and adventurers are invited to a Witchlight Carnival in the Feywild domain (F) (H) Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast
17 20 Room on the Broom/Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler Children: A witch in search of her hat welcomes myriad creatures onto her broom (F) (P) Puffin
18 15 Atomic Habits/James Clear Subtitle: “An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones” (NF) (H) Avery
19 12 Billy Summers/Stephen King A killer for hire wants out – but his final job complicates everything (F) (H) Scribner
20 — Nantucket News/Pamela M. Kelley Taylor Abbott relocates to Nantucket for her dream job as a junior news reporter; seventh in series (F) (E) Piping Plover Press
21 — Yours Cruelly, Elvira/Cassandra Peterson Subtitle: “Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark” (NF) (H) Hachette,
22 22 Little Blue Truck’s Halloween/Alice Schertle; art by Jill McEl- Children: Little Blue Truck picks up his friends for a Halloween costume party (F) (H) Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
murry
23 16 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo/Taylor Jenkins Reid A legendary film actress discusses her rise to fame with a journalist (F) (P) Washington Square Press
24 26 Dune/Frank Herbert Sci-fi classic: Story of a boy who avenges plot against his noble family; won the first Nebula Award (F) (P) Ace
25 — Bewilderment/Richard Powers Widowed astrobiologist Theo Byrne raises his troubled son Robin hoping to help him with an experimental neurofeedback treatment to
help with his emotional control (F) (H) W. W. Norton
26 24 The Four Agreements/Don Miguel Ruiz Subtitle: “A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom” (NF) (P) Amber-Allen
27 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book/Eric Carle Classic children’s story of a caterpillar that eats all the time and turns into a butterfly (F) (H) Philomel
28 29 The Body Keeps the Score/Bessel van der Kolk Subtitle: “Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” (NF) (P) Penguin
29 30 Dog Man: Mothering Heights/Dav Pilkey Children: While the world seems dark for Dog Man and his friends, they discover love may save the day; 10th in series (F) (H) Scholastic
30 — Uncontrolled Spread/Scott Gottlieb Subtitle: “Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic” (NF) (H) Harper, $28.99
31 18 The Midnight Library/Matt Haig Nora Seed has the opportunity to change her current life to one that could have been (F) (H) Viking
32 35 Verity/Colleen Hoover A struggling writer is hired to complete the works of a permanently injured author (F) (P) Hoover Ink
33 10 Forgotten in Death/J. D. Robb Detective Eve Dallas investigates two murder cases, one of which hits close to home; 53rd in series (F) (H) St. Martin’s Press
34 27 Where the Crawdads Sing/Delia Owens The reclusive Kya Clark is suspected in the death of Chase Andrews (F) (P) Putnam
35 17 A Slow Fire Burning/Paula Hawkins When a young man is murdered in a London houseboat, three unconnected women who knew him are drawn into the mystery (F) (H)
Riverhead
36 13
Beautiful World, Where Are You/Sally Rooney A coming-of-age story about four young adults and the life that’s catching up with them (NF) (H) Farrar, Straus and Giroux
37 28
Ugly Love/Colleen Hoover Tate Collins and Miles Archer have nothing in common but their attraction for each other (F) (P) Atria Books
38 —
It/Stephen King Seven adults return to their small Maine town to battle an evil creature that preys on children (F) (E) Scribner
39 36
Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete/James Dean Children: Pete the Cat goes trick-or-treating from house to house (F) (P) HarperFestival
40 37
I Love You to the Moon and Back/Amelia Hepworth; art by Children: A mama bear and her cub spend the day together (F) (H) Tiger Tales
Tim Warnes
41 38 They Both Die at the End/Adam Silvera Youth: Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio are strangers who become friends on the day they are told they will die (F) (P) Quill Tree Books
42 41 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?/Bill Martin Jr., Children: Animals take turns catching glimpses of each other (F) (H) Henry Holt and Co.
Eric Carle
43 — How to Save a Life/Lynette Rice Subtitle: “The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy” (NF) (H) St. Martin’s Press
44 — How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies/Will Witt Subtitle: “Taking On Liberal Arguments with Logic and Humor” (NF) (H) Center Street
45 34 The Song of Achilles/Madeline Miller In a retelling of the Trojan War, golden child Achilles and his friend, the shamed Patroclus, join the fight when Helen of Sparta is kid-
napped (F) (P) Ecco
46 47 You’re My Little Pumpkin Pie/Natalie Marshall Children: Tale for little ones about a pumpkin along with a black cat, a ghost and a bat (F) (H) Silver Dolphin Books
47 32 People We Meet on Vacation/Emily Henry Years after a falling out, two best friends reunite for one last road trip (F) (P) Berkley
48 46 Goodnight Moon/Margaret Wise Brown; art by Clement Hurd Children: The old lady is still whispering hush in this 1947 children’s book (F) (H) HarperCollins
49 — The Burning/Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman A murder hits close to home for deputy coroner Clay Edison when he discovers a link to his brother (F) (E) Ballantine
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Legal troubles aren’t over yet for R. Kelly
Charles Trepany
USA TODAY
Following weeks of graphic and emotional testimo-
ny, R. Kelly was convicted Monday on all counts in his
New York sex-trafficking trial. But what happens now?
“To the victims in this case, your voices were heard
and justice was finally served,” acting U.S. Attorney
Jacquelyn Kasulis said Monday outside the Brooklyn
courthouse where a jury convicted the 54-year-old
R&B star on all nine counts of sex trafficking and rack-
eteering following less than two days of deliberations.
The verdict “sends a loud message to survivors of
sexual violence,” says Erinn Robinson, press secretary
for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, in a
statement to USA TODAY. “Today’s
verdict was made possible by their
courage and persistence in being
heard, and we thank them for their
resilience during a difficult and very
public process.“
But now that the New York trial
has come to a close, what’s next for
Kelly, who faces similar charges in
R. Kelly three federal and state cases in Illi-
nois and Minnesota?
And what could the verdict mean for the #MeToo
movement, which helped shine a light on decades of
abuse allegations against Kelly?
Kelly, who has been behind bars since his arrest in
July 2019, won’t be sentenced until May 4.
The singer faces the possibility of decades in prison
for crimes including violating the Mann Act, an anti-
sex trafficking law that prohibits taking anyone across
state lines “for any immoral purpose.”
Michael Irving Leonard, one of Kelly’s lawyers in a
similar federal case against him in Chicago, told USA
TODAY that he was surprised by the New York verdict.
“I was optimistic that on the main charges, the rack-
eteering charges, he would be found not guilty,” Leon-
ard said. “The nature of a (Racketeer Influenced and
Corruption Organization) RICO case typically fits that
of mafia or drug kingpins directing their underlings to
do various (illegal) things and this is a far different sce-
nario. I didn’t think the jury would believe that (Kelly)
and the band were a ‘criminal enterprise.’ ”
According to Leonard, the delayed sentencing date
for Kelly is not standard – usually federal judges set
sentencing 90 or 120 days out – but is not unheard of
and may be the result of the judge’s schedule and CO-
VID-19 precautions.
Leonard said Kelly’s sentence will be based on fed-
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for the 300,000-square-foot, seven-story museum
now part of Museum Row in Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile.
There have been building halts and budget overruns
for the $484 million project. Even after Tom Hanks an-
nounced at the February 2020 Oscars that the mu-
seum would open later in the year, the COVID-19 pan-
demic forced additional delays. However, last week,
board of trustees member Hanks, who spearheaded
fundraising efforts with Annette Bening and Walt Dis-
ney Co. executive chairman Bob Iger, proudly heralded
the lauded new building.
“We all know, films are made everywhere in the
world, wonderful films,” Hanks told reporters. “And
there are other cities with film museums, but with all
due respect, created by the Motion Picture Academy in
Los Angeles, this museum has really got to be the Par-
thenon of such places.”
Guarding the grounds is a fearsome introductory
centerpiece – Bruce, the 1,208-pound, 25-foot-long
shark from Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller “Jaws”
hanging over the main escalators, the predator prop
that first made moviegoers fear going into the water 46
years ago.
Spielberg, who donated $10 million toward the
movie museum, also loaned one of his greatest movie
mementos, an original surviving “Rosebud” sled, the
emotional centerpiece from Orson Welles’ classic film
“Citizen Kane.”
The glass-cased balsa wood sled is part of the mu-
seum’s three-level main exhibition, Stories of Cinema,
that features a section highlighting original costumes
– from Dorothy’s sequined ruby slippers in “The Wiz-
ard of Oz” and Evillene’s dress from “The Wiz” to The
Dude’s robe from “The Big Lebowski” and the May
Queen gown from “Midsommar.”
Highlighting Hollywood’s complicated history
The film museum educates and celebrates diverse,
often overlooked filmmakers (including an exhibition
on pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux) and
delves into, rather than ignoring, the unsavory sides of
Hollywood history. One display features Anna May
Wong, the Chinese-American 1920s movie star who
was denied leading roles, while the museum’s makeup
and hairstyling exhibit displays methods of blackface
and yellowface used in the 1930s and 40s.
“They didn’t avoid it. And actually embracing the
conversation of these Hollywood practices opens up
the conversation for everyone to voice their views and
opinions,” says Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth
E. Carter. “This is a welcome place for people to come
and have those conversations and actually see the
work that was done.”
Carter was heartened that the museum’s opening
film presentation Sunday featured director Spike Lee
(whose groundbreaking career is explored in a person-
alized exhibit, including handwritten notes from his
2019 Oscars speech) and Denzel Washington discuss-
ing their film “ Malcolm X,” a film on which Carter col-
laborated.
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U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn Kasulis speaks about the
guilty verdict for R. Kelly at the Brooklyn Federal
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eral sentencing guidelines for the crimes he’s been
convicted of, such as racketeering, which carries a rec-
ommended maximum of 20 years.
The New York case is only part of the legal peril fac-
ing Kelly.
The singer also has pleaded not guilty to similar
charges in Illinois and Minnesota, and it is not yet clear
how the verdict in Brooklyn will affect those cases or
when they might reach a trial.
Ordinarily, the trial in the Northern District of Illi-
nois, in which Kelly has co-defendants, would be up
next. Kelly’s co-defendants want to move forward to a
trial as soon as possible, possibly in January, Leonard
said, and they’re entitled to do so.
“All parties except Kelly want a quick trial date,”
Leonard said. “Those co-defendants are in a quite dif-
ferent position from Kelly, and if he were to get a draco-
nian sentence, it might have some impact on this trial
(in Chicago). The judge is not going to agree to wait
until June to go to trial.”
Leonard raises the question of whether a Minneso-
ta prosecutor needs to take Kelly to trial on one count,
if the star already has been sentenced in New York.
“Is it a good use of resources to try someone already
facing a significant sentence?” Leonard asks.
But Lynn Hecht Schafran, legal director of Legal
Momentum, a legal advocacy organization for women,
said the verdict doesn’t mean other state and federal
prosecutions pending against Kelly will not or should
not go forward.
“Every victim deserves to have their voice heard
Bruce, the animatronic shark from the movie
“Jaws,” now prowls over the Academy Museum of
Motion Pictures. VALERIE MACON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
During a prescreening discussion, Lee recalled
declaring around the 1992 “Malcolm X” release that
school children should be excused from class to see
the film. After all, Lee said, “I had a class trip to see
‘Gone With the (expletive) Wind!”
Marking the museum’s launch week with “Mal-
colm X” was not lost on Carter as “a way of telling the
community that the Academy Museum is poised and
ready to embrace the cultural films that have shaped
communities like mine. It sets the tone for every-
thing that this museum will represent for the film-
making community.”
The nuanced look at Hollywood continues in the
museum’s Academy Awards History section, where
20 Oscars are displayed in a gold chamber, including
the historic best-actor win for Sidney Poitier for
1963’s “Lilies of the Field” (he was the first Black actor
to take the prize) and best actor for Clark Gable 1934’s
“It Happened One Night.”
Hattie McDaniel’s best supporting actress award
for 1939’s “Gone With the Wind,” the historic first for
a Black actor, is honored with an empty case, as the
award has gone missing. The plaque notes that
McDaniel’s role as Mammy “reflected the racial ster-
eotyping that many Black actors had to navigate in
Hollywood during that era.”
You can hold your own Oscar
The museum allows visitors to hold an actual gold
statue in The Oscar Experience (a $15 charge on the
museum’s $25 admission, tickets should be booked
in advance). The immersive simulation puts guests
through the experience of walking onto the Dolby
Theatre stage in front of cheering crowds while hold-
ing the Oscar trophy; each will walk away with a
video ready for social media feeds.
After Hanks glimpsed at moviemaking artifacts
from the 1800s in the museum’s “Paths to the Cine-
ma” section, he, too, pushed back against the Death
Star nickname.
“Yes, it’s a soap bubble, a star,” said Hanks. “But
what this building looks like to me as I drive by and
take in the view – it looks to me like the world’s larg-
est magic lantern that will transport us to amazing
places.”
Contributing: Andrea Mandell
and justice served in their individual case,” she said.
Besides, there’s tremendous political pressure to
pursue sex-abuse cases, among the most underreport-
ed and underprosecuted crimes in the country, says
former federal prosecutor and now Los Angeles civil
attorney Neama Rahmani.
“So when you tell victims R. Kelly is not going to see
justice for acts he committed against (them), it’s not
going to fly both with the public at large and with the
victims,” Rahmani says.
According to advocates for sexual assault survi-
vors, Kelly’s conviction may offer hope to those who
come forward with allegations.
“We hope that today’s verdict empowers survivors
everywhere to feel that they are not alone,” Robinson
said after Kelly was convicted.
For years, the public and news media seemed to be
more amused than horrified by allegations against the
singer of inappropriate relationships with minors,
starting with Kelly’s illegal marriage to the R&B phe-
nom Aaliyah in 1994 when she was just 15.
His records and concert tickets kept selling. Other
artists continued to record his songs, even after he was
arrested in 2002 and accused of making a recording of
himself sexually abusing and urinating on a 14-year-
old girl. He was acquitted in that case in 2008.
Widespread public condemnation didn’t come until
the docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” helped make his
case a signifier of the #MeToo era, and gave voice to
accusers who wondered if their stories were previous-
ly ignored because they were Black women.
Within months of the series being shown on TV in
2019, Kelly was under arrest.
“I don’t think TV producers should be deciding who
gets prosecuted in this country, but we are dealing
with limited government resources and these are the
political realities,” Rahmani said.
Schafran called the verdict a “step toward justice”
and a possible signal that society “has reached a new
stage of unwillingness to ignore the harm” Kelly and
others have caused many young lives.
“The next stage is to hold the enablers accountable
– Kelly did not hold all these young women in thrall,
nor avoid accountability for his actions, by himself,”
she said.
Contributing: Tom Hays, Larry Neumeister, Associ-
ated Press; Cydney Henderson, Alia E. Dastagir, USA
TODAY
If you are a survivor of sexual assault, you can call
the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800.656.HOPE
(4673) or visit hotline.rainn.org/online and receive
confidential support.
Shipping
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fans weigh in on their love life.
More “experienced” celebrities are used to setting
emotional boundaries and not getting sucked in to
the world of online commentary, she says. But for
those newer to the game, “it can definitely influence
them and make them think twice, or have some level
of frustration and dissatisfaction.”
Some stans will create computer-generated im-
ages of their favorite stars together. Others will write
detailed or even sexually graphic fan fiction.
In 2001, Fanfiction.net banned stories about real
people – but that wasn’t enough to keep it from pop-
ping up online. One Direction fans in the early 2010s
were still writing fan fiction on fan sites and Tumblr,
depicting members Harry Styles and Louis Tomlin-
son in a romantic relationship.
Chrislene Accius, a 21-year-old college student
who ran a One Direction fan page during the height of
the group’s fame, now looks back on some of the
more intense parts of the fandom and wonders
whether it went too far.
“(Now) I’m like, what was I watching? What is
this?” Accius says of the One Direction and Justin
Bieber fan fictions she used to read on YouTube. “I
knew it was about a real person. I just knew the story
was fake. ... But it might not be as ethical as we
thought anymore, especially with how far people go.”
There’s been a pushback among fan communities
in the past few years to do away with writing fan fic-
tion about nonexistent or unconfirmed celebrity ro-
mances – particularly in cases when the fan fiction is
explicitly sexual and/or involves minors, as most of
the members of One Direction were when the boy
band began.
Beyond fan fiction, those fans piece together quick
video clips, photos and song lyrics to depict the stars
as a couple. Tomlinson has said recently that the fan
obsession hurt their friendship.
“When it first came around I was with Eleanor, and
it actually felt a little bit disrespectful,” he told The
Sun in 2017. “I’m so protective over things like that,
about the people I love. So it created this atmosphere
between the two of us where everyone was looking
into everything we did. It took away the vibe you get
off anyone. It made everything, I think on both
fences, a little bit more unapproachable. I think it
shows that it was never anything real, if I can use that
word.”
Ultimately, while delving into nonexistent celebri-
ty relationships can be enjoyable and sometimes
even beneficial for fans, it shouldn’t be done in a way
that comes at the expense of the stars in question.
“All relationships are vulnerable. Everyone has
fights,” Mann says. “And I think where it comes into
play is in those vulnerable moments where maybe
that celebrity couples having a fight and maybe they
go, ‘maybe I should be with Selena Gomez.’ But also
keep in mind that … it can be very painful at times, for
fans to bring up that person, not knowing that person
(may have) really hurt the celebrity that they are still
pushing for them to be with.”
4D ❚ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 ❚ USA TODAY LIFE

MUSIC REVIEW

Iglesias and Martin dazzle in Vegas tour opener

Melissa Ruggieri
USA TODAY
LAS VEGAS – One is complete feral
intensity. The other is laid-back,
slouchy cool.
One is a whirlwind of muscular dance
moves set to throbbing percussion. The
other is wiry and catlike as he scales
railings and ramps during a parade of
rhythmic pop.
Yet the pairing of Ricky Martin and
Enrique Iglesias on their first joint tour
isn’t about their differences, but, rather,
how these Latin superstars comple-
ment each other.
The tour – postponed a year because
of COVID-19 – kicked off Saturday at
MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
with lasers, pyro, moving catwalks, con-
fetti and irrepressible smiles from Mar-
tin and Iglesias, both clearly euphoric to
be back onstage.
Given their ample catalogs – they’ve
collectively sold more than 250 million
albums worldwide – culling lean set
lists must have provoked migraines. But
Martin’s and Iglesias’ individual hour-
long performances ideally represented
fan favorites and omnipresent smashes.
Martin and his band stormed on-
stage under a colorful explosion of yel-
low and red lights for “Livin’ La Vida Lo-
ca,” his English-language breakthrough
smash from 1999.
Stylish in a black satin robe with an
“R” emblazoned on the back, panta-
loons and combat boots, Martin travers-
ed the stage, his three-piece horn sec-
tion following their Pied Piper as he
rolled through “La Bomba” and the im-
passioned ballad “Vuelve.”
It didn’t take long for Martin to slink
to the end of the catwalk that jutted
from the stage, sweat trickling down his
face as he raised his hands skyward and
grinned toward the ceiling, soaking in
the long-anticipated applause.
Surrounded by male and female
dancers donning face masks – which
only boosted the sexy-ometer – Martin,
49, was both philosophical (“All I see is a
path filled with light,” he said from the
stage) and seductive.
His songs also are stocked with rich
Latin cadences, showcased on “Lola,
Lola” – its blistering horns a centerpiece
– and “Maria.”
Martin’s voice sounded clean and
pure as he playfully gyrated during “She
Bangs,” still a bundle of goofy fun. He
also engaged in the burlesque setting
that accompanied “Shake Your Bon
Bon,” dancing with women and men
alike as they frolicked across the stage.
Flashing smiles, Martin verified that
his status as an impeccable showman
hasn’t diminished during his encore of
“The Cup of Life,” which included pre-
cise percussion, plumes of dry ice and
showers of confetti.
After a 30-minute set change, Igle-
sias arrived to the feisty chugging
rhythm of “I’m a Freak,” crouching as he
sang in his trademark dark cap and
black shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
The only evidence of an opening-
night glitch came toward the end of the
song, when the sound evaporated. But it
was quickly restored for the electro-
tinged pop of “Chasing the Sun,” from
Iglesias’ “Final Vol. 1” album.
Like Martin, Iglesias could barely
stop beaming , so joyful about the ability
to interact with fans again. He hopped
into the crowd and endured pawing dur-
ing “Bailamos,” his No. 1 hit from 1999,
before heading to the back of the arena
with a few band members to perform
songs on the smaller stage, including
“Cuando” and the sighing “Loco.”
“I know we’re trying to be as safe as
possible, but I’m going to ask for one fa-
vor: Go (expletive) crazy tonight!” Igle-
sias, 46, shouted, raising a shot glass in
a toast to the frenzied fans.

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